Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food is a famous quote.
And it is a fact that the right choice of food and the right way of taking it is the mantra for a healthy living.
No disease that can be cured by food can be cured by medicine. Changing the food changes the life...
We can classify food into five types depending upon their value.
1. Natural raw vegan food : they are whole foods, which come with delicious taste (like apples, carrots) and balanced nutrients and enzymes within them. Easily assimilated by the body, as the enzymes in them help digestion and absorption.
2. Value added vegan food : like sprouts. Nutritive but less tastier.
3. Cooked vegan food : tasty but less nutritive.
4. Meat food : Tasty and assumed to be rich in protein, which is a myth. Where do the animals that we slaughter for food get their protein from? They get it only from the plants they eat. Similarly we can get all the proteins that we need from the plant based food, the water we drink and the air around us.
5. Refined food : Full of sugar and salts. The body is left with a big question mark about how to digest the food. It has to rob the energy stored already in the cells (especially the liver and kidneys) to help in digesting.
We feel refreshed and energetic immediately after we take a cup of coffee, isn't it? It gives us an instant high, followed by a terrible crash. This is because, all the energy stored in the liver and kidneys are poured into our bloodstream to enable the organs in the digestive system to digest the coffee. The feeling of refreshment is only temporary and our body actually loses the stored energy that can be used incase of emergencies.
We feel refreshed and energetic immediately after we take a cup of coffee, isn't it? It gives us an instant high, followed by a terrible crash. This is because, all the energy stored in the liver and kidneys are poured into our bloodstream to enable the organs in the digestive system to digest the coffee. The feeling of refreshment is only temporary and our body actually loses the stored energy that can be used incase of emergencies.
Most of the food that we take today would not be familiar to our grand mothers. Now a days, we are very much concerned about health and its relationship to what we eat, but we have handed over the responsibility to the faceless corporations...
About 90% of food that we see in the shelves of the supermarket today were not available 100 years ago, when people lived more healthy. Now the markets are flooded with a variety of mouth watering food items and the people are gifted with various diseases.
When hungry, the body longs for nutrition. If we are going to simply satisfy our taste buds, the body will be deprived of vital nutrients and become sick in due course. We can live a life free of diseases that are associated with our lifestyle if we set a priority to what we eat every time we are hungry.
Eating a plant based diet and avoiding processed food make us light. Nature has blessed us with fruits and vegetables with all the minerals and vitamins that are needed for us to thrive in.
