Is Eating Raw/Vegan Expensive?
I eat predominantly organic raw/vegan. And I can tell you, compared to the alternatives (packaged and fast food) eating healthy can be expensive. Corporations have tricked us into believing that we should be able to feed ourselves healthy food for dollars a day. This is just not the truth. Look around, especially if you are living in America. We are the most unhealthy nation on earth, and also the nation most addicted to fast food and cheap, processed food. It is our food that is killing us early, but we have become so brainwashed by the news that we believe it is normal to hit 40 or 50 yrs old and start sliding downhill fast. We have been lead to believe that aging is supposed to involve aches and pains, sickness, disease, disability, and the eventual wasting into a painful, sorry state of health that leads to our premature death. Nothing can be further from the truth. If you stand me up against many of my peers, the difference in our health and appearance has only to do with the difference in what we are putting in our bodies.
I don’t have health insurance. Health insurance is a misnomer – it ought to be called ‘Disease Treatment Reimbursement’ because it does nothing to ensure my health. If you want real health insurance start looking carefully at what you put into your body. Look at everything you drink, everything you eat, all the medications that you take, and even the air that your breathe. This is your health insurance.
The Bible says that we are supposed to live into the hundreds. Now I don’t know if the Bible is right or not, but I have heard the same thing from many experts on health. Our bodies are programmed to be vibrant and healthy up until the time that we die at a ripe, old age. Our bodies are not supposed to break down to disease over time. They are programmed to heal from illness by using the amazing immune system. The problem comes into play when you don’t feed your body the proper nutrition. When you create an imbalance in your body due to malnutrition (if you aren’t eating right, you are malnourished) your body will develop some sort of degenerative disease. Our immune systems were not designed to heal us from disease caused by nutritional deficiencies. Only proper nutrition can do that.
One of the most reliable, holistic therapies for healing from most diseases is a raw vegan diet.* Add to that a healthy dose of positive attitude, and the ability to forgive and let go, and it will lead to healing just about every time. There are more and more great books on the market on raw foods.
*What do raw vegans eat? Any fruit, vegetable, nut, seed, or grain that has not been heated above about 115 degrees. Raw foodists sometimes will dehydrate their foods, but mostly, they eat lots of fresh fruits, vegetables, smoothies, and soaked and sprouted nuts and seeds. Raw foodists typically do not eat any animal products, that means no cheese, eggs, milk, or any kind of meat. For more free information about a raw diet, google ‘raws foods diet’ or ‘raw foods lifestyle’.
July 1st, 2010 at 6:18 pm
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