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Food Heals
If we wish to sustain our health and well-being, the food we eat must provide us with adequate vitamins, minerals, fiber, and acid/alkaline balance. Food choices you make have tremendous ramifications to your health; you are making a choice every time you put something in your mouth. Be conscious of your choices. It is very possible to eat satisfying, flavorful, great tasting dishes without compromising the best standards for your health.
The health food industry has made it increasingly easy for us to find food products that suit these recipes. Educate yourself to the products available at your local health food store. Read labels, acquaint yourself with ingredients, don't be afraid to try new recipes or techniques, and eat a variety of fresh local whole foods.
Remember that digestion begins with chewing, which breaks down the food into small pieces and mixes with saliva, which contains enzymes that begin the digestive process. If you do not properly chew your food, you're asking your pancreas and its enzymes to do a job they're not prepared to do. If you don't chew, you are wasting valuable access to vitamin and minerals.
The cost of maintaining good health is far less than the cost of treating disesase. Our bodies are designed to maintain health naturally. By choosing to eat well we support our body's wisdom. Certain foods have a gentle cleansing effect on the liver. Since the liver is especially hard hit by various toxic chemicals in our food and environment, synthetic chemical and genetically altered foods have no place in the food chain, period.
Gwynn Palmer
Having it All Without Wheat, Dairy or
Sugar
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