Fresh is best for taste and health
Fresh fruits and vegetables are the best weapon you have against illnesses (like colds and flu) and disease (like cancer and diabetes).
1. Raw fruits and vegetables are essential for daily detoxification.
Your body was created to detoxify on a daily basis, to eliminate toxins from environment, food and bacteria, thus subverting illness, disease and degeneration that comes from toxicity. According Dr. Slaga, scientific director for American Medical Center Cancer Research, your body cannot detoxify without phytochemicals, which come from plants and enzymes that come from raw foods.
2. Raw fruits and vegetables allow your body to put more energy towards healing, rebuilding strong cells and immunity.
Raw fruits and vegetables contain food enzymes that allow the food to virtually digest themselves, reducing the amount of energy the body requires for digestion. According to Dr. Dici Fuller in The Healing Power of Enzymes, 80% of your body’s energy goes towards digestion, if your body is working correctly and you are eating a high percentage of raw foods. When you eat processed food that number goes up accordingly. So, if more energy is going to digestion, less is available for healing, rebuilding strong cells and immunity.
3. Raw fruits and vegetables are alkaline, reducing acidity in the body which is responsible for disease and degeneration.
Your body is 95% alkaline, it was created to maintain a proper alkaline/acid balance by keeping a mineral reserve. That mineral reserve comes from fruits and vegetables. When you eat a high-acid diet and/or you have high stress, which is also acid forming, your body uses it’s mineral reserve more quickly.
Replenish your mineral reserve with raw fruits and vegetables. According to Dr. Ted Morter in “Fell’s Know-it-all Guide to Health & Wellness”, you cannot take mineral supplements to replenish that reserve. The minerals in supplements do not break down for storage. The minerals in fruits and vegetables do.
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