Keep yourself well: recipes for healthy eating with fresh, natural ingredients, fun and creative cuisine with living foods

After all the diets, pills and machines, have you resigned yourself
to wondering why you're still holding on to those few extra pounds,
don't have any pep in your step and why it's beginning to
show on the outside how you feel on the inside?

What's The Secret? . . . What's The Answer?

Believe It Or Not . . . Everyone Has The Answer . . .

The best kept health secret . . .

Cooking with and consuming
fresh, raw, living foods
in their natural state.

                                If you want to feel alive, you want to consume foods that are living -
                    fresh, raw fruits and vegetables in the form of delicious meals, juices, smoothies
                    and soups become power foods.

            Recipes using living foods, (foods in their fresh, most natural, raw state
including milk, cheese, grains, raw nuts and seeds) are easy and fun to prepare as
well as colorful and creative sources for vitamins, minerals, trace minerals, enzymes
and anti-oxidants . . . the secret to building the foundation of balanced nutrition,
health and vitality.

            Ask any cell . . . using fresh, living food is the secret to building gladiator
muscles, iron-clad hearts and warrior immune systems, as well as lean, graceful
bodies. Smoothies, juices, soups, meals and snacks prepared with fresh, natural
ingredients become a powerful, efficient, easy solution to fulfilling the food
pyramid requirements of five servings of fruits and vegetables daily.

            Every day, every time you eat, you have the choice to feed the zombie
with denatured, chemical, processed, packaged food or deliberately create a
vibrant, shining star using fresh foods in their most natural, living state.

It's Not A Secret Anymore That . . .
Preston Maring, M.D., the physician-in-chief at Kaiser Permanente's Oakland hospital promotes eating more fresh fruits and vegetables as a way to really impact a person's health. "Shopping at your farmers' market is a great way to eat vegetables from all colors of the rainbow, get more of the five to seven servings of vegetables you need each day, and help support your local economy and community." (Look for their new book, EatingWell in Season: A Farmers' Market Cookbook at www.eatingwell.com)

Cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage are known protectors against breast cancer containing compounds called isothilocyanates. An estimated 192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer will occur among women in the United States during 2009. And an estimated 40,170 women will die from breast cancer. Also, about 1,910 men will be diagnosed and 440 men will die of breast cancer during 2009.(ww5.Komen.org/Breast Cancer)

Carrots, tomatoes, lettuce, leeks, parsley, red grapefruit and watermelon contain anti-cancer agents for the prostate gland.
Prostate cancer was one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in the U.S. in 2005. 185,895 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer - 28,905 men died. (www.cdc.gov/cancer/prostate/statistics)

Red, yellow and orange fruits contain carotenoids, terpenes,
flavonoids, vitamin C and fiber . . . useful anti-oxidants for protecting vision, preventing degenerative diseases like arthritis, heart disease and diabetes. Today, chronic diseases - such as cardiovascular disease (primarily heart disease and stroke), cancer and diabetes - are among the most prevalent, costly, and preventable of all health problems. 7 out of 10 Americans who die each year, or more than 1.7 million people, die of a chronic disease...Chronic, disabling conditions cause major limitations in activity for more than 1 out of every 10 Americans, or 25 million people. (www.cdc/gov/nccdphp/nchs)

Juicing a mixture of carrots, cabbage, celery and garlic cloves is a potent tonic for anti-aging and promoter of longevity. More than one-third of U.S. adults - over 72 million people - were obese in 2005-2006. This includes 33.3% of men and 35.3% of women. (www.cdc.gov/nchs)

Life experience teaches us that a diet
of fresh, living foods, prepared well,
consumed daily is one of the simplest,
most cost effective, immediate and
reliable 'tools of retaliation' we have
against chronic diseases like diabetes,
arthritis, obesity - - all types of cancer -
breast, prostate, colon and lung - -
chemical imbalances of the brain,
gland and hormones - food sensitivities
and allergies.

Today, the choice is yours . . .
Health preservation is a worthy destination. Make it yours.

Ode to the Standard American Diet

Pizza, pies and soda pop,
burgers, fries and sirloin chops,
chips and cake and chocolate mints . . .

Deep fried, frozen, charred and salted,
bless this food that we have altered.
Steroids, dyes and BHT,
bless the additives we cannot see.

If I should die before I wake,
read the label, there's no mistake.
I ate what was put in front of me
and told that I should try it . . .

I did not die of natural causes
but from the Standard American Diet.
by Maxine Eldon

Just One Book Can Change Your Mind -
What You Learn May Save Your Life.
"Increasingly, Americans are becoming 'flexitarians', a recently invented
word that describes both vegetarians who aren't that strict and meat-eaters
who are striving for a more health-conscious, planet friendly diet" says Mark
Bittman, author of the 'Minimalist' column weekly in the NY Times.
(More on Mark Bittman - www.markbittman.com)
Eat, Drink & Think
to
Keep Yourself Well

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