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What do you get from raw organic food?
Vitamins and Minerals
The human body requires various vitamins
and minerals in order to thrive. Most of these nutritional
necessities can be found in whole, non-processed foods such as
fruits and vegetables.
However, the modern diet of processed,
over-cooked and fatty foods is lacking in essential nutrients.
Vitamins are made up of several different components - enzymes,
co-enzymes, and co-factors - that must work together to produce
their intended biologic effects.
Unfortunately many over-the-counter
supplements do not easily cross from the intestines into the
blood stream, but are instead eliminated from the body. It is
important to select supplements that work as a team and that are
easily absorbed at the cellular level.
You need vitamins and minerals to reach our
70-trillion body cells to promote chemical reactions that are
needed for good health.
Antioxidants
Antioxidants protect the cells in our body
from oxidative damage. As the body uses oxygen, there are
by-products known as free radicals that can cause damage to
cells. Antioxidants are known to repair these free radicals and
are associated with a decreased risk of many chronic diseases.
You need antioxidants for anti-aging,
protect our cardio-vascular systems and our healthy cells to
avoid chronic diseases.
Prebiotics and Probiotics
Prebiotics and probiotics can restore the
balance of bacteria in your digestive tract. Probiotics are good
bacteria that can be found in various foods. When you eat
probiotics, you will add these healthy bacteria to your
intestinal tract. Common strains include Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium families of bacteria.
Prebiotics are non-digestible in foods that
make their way through our digestive systems and help good
bacteria grow and flourish.
You need prebiotics and probiotics to
revitalize your intestinal tract for better nutrients from your
food.
Dietary Fiber
Dietary fiber is only found in plants and
absent in meat. Humans eat plants but we cannot digest the
fiber, so it passes through the small-intestine into the colon.
The fiber helps to keep the colon healthy.
Insoluble fiber is the type of dietary
fiber found in high-fiber foods like whole grains, nuts, wheat
bran and vegetables. Insoluble fiber does not dissolve in water
so it helps to move material through the colon faster by
increasing the bulk of the stool.
Soluble fiber is also found in many
high-fiber foods like oats, citrus fruits, apples, barley, psyllium, flax seeds and beans. Soluble fiber absorbs water,
which helps to soften stools making them easier to eliminate
from the body.
You
need dietary fiber to maintain a healthy intestine and colon to
avoid intoxication that normally progresses to fatal diseases.
Digestive Enzymes
Digestion begins in the mouth where we
physically break down foods with our tongue and teeth. The food
particles then travel to the stomach where they are further
digested by acidic stomach juices. As food leaves the stomach and
enters the small intestine, several digestive fluids are added.
These fluids contain enzymes, which aid in the digestive
process.
We also get
important enzymes from the foods we eat. However, modern cooking
practices and food processing kills many of these enzymes before
we ingest them. This lowers the amount of enzymes in our
digestive system and slows the digestive process.
Digestive enzymes catalyze or stimulate the
digestion process and help take some of the work away from
organs like the pancreas, which may be under undue stress due to
modern eating habits.
You need digestive enzymes to break down
our food for better absorption of nutrients.
