Healing Foods

The Healing Power of Foods…..

“Let your food be your medicine and let your medicine be your food.” –Hippocrates

Leading scientist are now proving that fruits, vegetables, beans, and whole grains make us healthy.

It wasn’t until modern drug industry arose that we placed the obvious behind us and became enamored with synthetic manufactured “medicines.” Harmful side effects are becoming more apparent, not to mention the cost of medical care. Whole foods, nutritional supplements, and lifestyle are fast becoming the low-cost approach to healing and happiness.

The vital oils/fats in uncooked fruits and vegetables contain sterols, sterolins, carvones, b-carotene, tocopherols, flavonoids to name a few. These oils / fats and photonutrients are immune boosters. “ The re-establishment of these immune parameters may be of help in numerous disease processes relating to chronic immune-mediated abnormalities, including chronic viral infections, tuberculosis, rheumatoid arthritis, allergies, cancer, and auto-immune diseases. ( Altern. Med Rev. 1999; 4(3):170-177)

In other words, the more raw you eat, the healthier you will be. Eating processed foods and cooked foods destroys the vitamins, minerals, essential oils, and photo-nutrients.

A diet must be well balanced to enable an individual to function at their best. No one food should be eaten at the exclusion of others for the purpose of preventing or treating a specific disease or maintaining health. Foods contain many components which work together synergistically to provide optimum health.

The importance of a good diet is nothing new. What is new is the affirmation that the incidence of most chronic disease has a dietary link and that a good diet can help prevent as well as treat disease.

Only the most practical and essential hints are given; information one needs to refer daily to achieve a healthy life style..

Enjoy the Power of Healing Foods!