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Shifting to eating raw foods can be quite expensive. The ultimate is to grow your own garden. If you have a back yard you can grow a pretty decent sized one. Otherwise, get a few planters and grow a couple of tomato plants along the patio wall, and put a couple of eggplants inside the porch door with one large circular planter. Make each vegetable plant its own design with imminent works of art. I put a little garden here of one type of veggies and then another one on the south side of the yard. The sky is the limit what you can do.
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read comments (0)Introduction to Some Super Foods
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Wheatgrass is the young grass of wheat, picked immediately following sprouting. Wheatgrass can be pressed and dehydrated and grounded into powder for human consumption. Scientists has published several books regarding wheatgrass since she regarded it can be used for killing tumors. Majortiy of wheatgrass content is chlorophyll. which is the foundation of all plant life, and is presumbly the most health promoting nutrient. Scientific studies have discovered that chlorophyll arrests growth and development of malicious bacteria. Wheatgrass also contains a number of , several hundred various enzymes which can not be obtained in other foods. Wheatgarss is a nice healthy drink for people watching their weight, for elderly, and for people trying to keep a healthy immune mechanism.
Maca is an popular plant in Peru. Maca lives on tall mountains, and grows well only in bitterly code weather condition and in poor soil. It has been found that hypocotyls is one of the major compoents of wildcrafted and healthy maca root on mountaineous area. Since hypocotyls can not form in greenhouses or in hot environment, cultivated maca in different areas than Andean high lands have no same content of hypocotyles and other nutrients because the naturally grown and green maca root. Maca root is usually used as food or herbal medicine. Additionally maca root contains uridine and glucosinolates and so on. Maca has been cultivated and eaten by South Americans for generation after generation. It can boost our immune mechanism. It can also be used to treat women’s hormonal problems.
Spirulina are floating dark green plant with round trichomes in left-hand spiral. Spirulina grows wildly in warm ponds with alkaline and high content of carbonate and bicarbonate. It is frequently used as food . For thousands of years human beings have been eating it. The earliest history indicates that spirulina live in Lake Superior, and was collected and traded as food. The first Spirulina manufacturing factory was built in 1972. Recently spirulina has become a popular supplements in the world, and has been approved by the FDA, WHO and other medical authourities as healthy supplements.
You Really Are What You Eat
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Recent dietary research has uncovered 14 different nutrient-dense foods that time and again promote good overall health. Coined “superfoods,” they tend to have fewer calories, higher levels of vitamins and minerals, and many disease-fighting antioxidants.
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Don’t Eat Canned, Eat Fresh
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Buying canned goods lack in nourishment and are usually loaded with salt and preservatives in today’s markets. The process of freshness goes from fresh fruits and vegetables, to frozen foods, and down to canned goods. Being last on this list, these canned items are slowly becoming obsolete.
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