Healing FoodsHealing Foods. The human body is a complex system. Everything affects our health and our health. Our thoughts, water, air, environment, clothing, electronics, mood - everything we put in our bodies and that our bodies come into contact with. Food and water are essential to life. We’ve all heard and we all know we should eat well and exercise. What we eat and drink can help us heal ourselves and our lives. Healing Foods fall into many categories they include: The Basics,Energy Drinks,Vitamins and Supplements and Fasts and while it shouldn’t need to be said what to avoid. Energy DrinksI, like most people, enjoy feeling energized. I usually drink a cup of coffee in the morning or sometimes a cup of tea. I’ve always checked out energy drinks because I’ve been looking for a more healthy alternative to coffee for years. But so many energy drinks are bogus. They are not healing foods and they are simply sugary sodas in disguise. If they have lots of white sugar or high fructose corn syrup they aren’t healthy no matter what anyone says. I’ve tried lots of things over the years but I’ve only found one that I REALLY like. Actually it’s a line of energy drinks called Vemma and Verve. I’ve been drinking Verve for about four to five months. And I love it! One lady did a blood test before drinking this healing food and after and her bloodwork had improved dramatically.
I really never thought I’d be drinking Verve every day. I bought them because a friend recommended them to me. But now, I drink at least one every day, in addition to all my water. And when I feel I need extra energy, I reach for something healthy instead of a cup of coffee. Basic Healing Foods
You could easily LIVE on the above. And I have. I even cut out fruit for a while when I was trying to control the sugar in my bloodstream. Now eating only the above can be boring but you can do it and live. And you can add the additional good foods including:
What To AvoidFirstly, AVOID OVER DOING. Too much of ANYTHING is bad for you - including healing foods, water and oxygen . And while I probably don’t need to say it. Avoid the following:
Use in moderation those things you enjoy that you know aren’t healing foods and aren’t great for you including:
FastingOften before someone uses healing foods, they fast. I’m not a huge fan of fasting. It’s very extreme and can be shocking to your system. But as there is a time and place for everything - here are my thoughts. If you are determined to fast for some reason be it physical or spiritual, please consider the following:
Two fasts I’m familiar with are:
Vitamins and Supplements are Healing FoodsVitamins and Supplements. If you were eating raw and properly cooked organic food from a garden you knew had rich soil, you wouldn’t need supplements. You’d get all the vitamins, minerals and nutrients you needed to be healthy, survive and thrive from your food, unless of course you had some genetic chemical imbalance, but I digress, I’ll speak more on food and mood later. So unless you have your own organic garden where you grow everything you ever eat and drink you are probably eating some things that you bought from a grocery store, health food store, co-op, restaurant, deli, fast food joint or some other venue. In other words, you have little to no idea how the food was grown, harvested and what happened to it along it’s journey to your mouth. That’s ok. That’s why doctors and health professionals talk about vitamins and supplements. It’s a long topic and I’ll add more to this later but suffice to say, you need supplements, depending on your age and health condition. Some essential ones include: B-Vitamins: This can lead to fatigue, depression, irritability, anxiety, and even thoughts of suicide. Memory problems, loss of appetite, insomnia, and gastrointestinal disorders are some of the problems caused by a deficiency of B1. Eating refined carbohydrates, like simple sugars, drains the body's B1 supply. B vitamins do their best job when we take them all together. Avoiding any insufficiency of the B complex vitamins is a fundamental prerequisite for fighting with depressions, panic attacks and all kinds of stress. All of them are water soluble so our bodies don’t maintain a store of them. Coffee, alcohol and other forms of stress delete our body of B vitamins so it’s truly essential to take them every day. Vitamin CEssential for healing, energy, immune system and stress. This is another water soluble vitamin so consequently you take really take too much of it. When your body have excess quantities of C & B it simply eliminates them with the rest of your bodies waste. Citrus fruits are one of the common ways we can get our vitamin C but I also like the supplement Emergen-C as it give you a boost of energy and gets into the bloodstream quickly. Omega 3 fish oils. The American Heart Association advises everyone to eat at least two 3-ounce servings of fatty fish every week. Omega 3s seem to be the key to many Whenever I need advise about healing foods, I check two places. The First is: Prescriptions for Nutritional Healing. I think at this point, we have two copies of this book at home. It's a book I like to give to people because it shows things by ailment and gives healing foods to eat for that ailment as well as vitamins and lifestyle changes you can make. This is a very down to earth, practical guide for whatever ails you. An invaluable reference guide. The Second is: Healing Foods Resource - The Earth Clinic Online The Earth Clinic is an invaluable resource for inexpensive holistic home cures and healing foods. One short example. I was having horrible pain in my teeth before a root canal procedure. No normal pain medications would take away the pain, then I read on earth clinic about clove oil which kills bacteria and is a natural anesthetic. It wasn’t expensive and it helped immediately
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