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Recipes for Raw Food Health
"Eat your vegetables"We’ve all heard we should eat our vegetables. When we hear that, sometimes we think of slimy peas from a can or chewing endlessly on carrot sticks. Vegetables in some homes may just be a small salad with iceburg lettuce, not quite ripe gassed tomatoes and a couple cucumbers slivers drenched in Thousand Island dressing. It wasn’t until after we changed our diet that we began to learn all kinds of creative ways to prepare tasty vegetables, both cooked and raw. Enzymes - the spark of lifeWe learned that raw vegetables still had enzymes in them. Enzymes are the life spark of plants. Live enzymes allow the sliced-off top of a carrot to continue to grow in a dish of water. If you take that same carrot and bake it, microwave it, steam it, broil it, or boil it and then cut the top off, all you will get is a rotten carrot after a few days.As we consume living food, we make a deposit of enzymes that helps digest the other food in the stomach. This saves energy as the body doesn’t have to work as much to draw from reserves to produce those digestive enzymes. You don't have to be sleepy after mealsI’ve noticed that it is easy to stay alert and awake in a boring afternoon meeting if I’ve eaten an all raw lunch. Most people get sleepy after lunch as the body diverts blood flow and oxygen from the brain to the digestive track. A raw lunch is easy for the body to digest and does not divert as much brain power.To help you gain some raw food benefits, I’ve got some delicious healthy recipes to share:
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