Eating-Veggies.com: High Alkaline Diet blog

Springtimes usually brings about a renewal of dietary vows as people want to look good in their summer swimwear. After a long winter of eating warm home cooked meals, it may be time to focus on eating cool, raw fresh alkaline veggies and fruits. For me that means more salads. I am extremely imaginative when creating my fruit and veggie salads. I feel more energetic and light on my feet when i have been eating a lot of salads over the course of a few days.

I don't personally endorse a totally raw foods diet but if it works for you then so be it. There is a strong argument that cooking destroys foods and makes them toxic.Between 50 and 80 percent of the vitamins and minerals are destroyed when some foods are cooked. Pesticides and oils break down into even more toxic compounds, which are more easily absorbed into our bodies. Free radicals are produced and cancers are formed.


With all the research available, i still have trouble embracing a totally raw food diet. It is well known from scientific research that heat breaks down vitamins, amino acids and changes proteins to the point where it is NOT usable by the body. This is found particularly in meat and meat products. When food is cooked above 117 degrees F for three minutes... or longer, it becomes becomes less and less nutritious to us.

Disease is caused by toxicity and deficiency of needed nutrients. This is caused by the choice we make to eat foods that are unnatural and missing essential nutrients. The problem is easily solved by removing the toxic and deficient conditions from the body so that the body can heal itself, fight off illnesses, and remain in optimum health. Eating more whole plant foods and taking quality supplements with your meals could help your body rejuvenate itself and become healthier.


With all of that being said, i still continue to eat cooked meals and love the flavor of good cooked food. I will compromise and try to fit more raw veggie salads into my meal plans and i will snack on more raw fruits during the day. Eating cooked vegetables is better then not eating any at all but a real effort must be made to eat them in their natural form. But the truth is that the modern world was raised on hot meals and it will be a hard habit to break. If we can stick to eating a high alkaline food diet and eat a large raw salad everyday then for most of us this is progress. Learn more at EATING-VEGGIES.COM

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