The Alternative Health Gazette

Staying young with food

Food is life for humans. Unfortunately, we’ve bastardized what we call food these days, and now instead of giving us life, it’s often giving us chronic illnesses and diseases instead. And it’s making many of us old way before our times.

The effects of time and age can be reversed though, and food is one of the easiest ways to do it. Food - chosen properly - can nourish our bodies, revitalize them, give us more energy, and make us look younger in the process too. Choosing the right foods is vitally important to this process though.

Much of the foods eaten today are highly processed. They contain chemicals, pollutants, toxins, and other things which are simply bad for our bodies. And when we eat these foods as our primary source of nourishment, we are continuously poisoning our bodies, and making them work that much harder to get rid of all the bad stuff we’re putting into them.

By simply changing what we’re eating most of the time though, we can start an amazing process which not only helps us start looking younger, it makes us feel younger too. The right foods can give us tons of energy, because they provide the vitamins and nutrients our bodies need to function at full capacity. These foods also have much less toxins, chemicals, and other pollutants in them too, so we’re helping our bodies to not wear out as quickly since they’re not having to work so hard at getting rid of all that stuff.

The best foods to eat for keeping ourselves looking and feeling younger naturally, are of course natural foods. Now this doesn’t mean we have to turn into rabbits and eat only salad greens. Humans need the nutrients which are only found in meat sources too, so high quality protein must be a part of our daily diet.

Besides protien though, our bodies are sorely lacking in basic vitamins which usually come from the foods we eat. And many of us try to supplement those foods by taking synthetic vitamins, not knowing that those don’t work nearly as well for us. Synthetic vitamins only contain certain things. They cannot mimic the true and complete balance of vitamins that we get from foods, because man hasn’t discovered all of the vitamins that are out there yet.

In fact, back in 1977 we only knew about 15 essential vitamins. By 1980 though, there were at least 20 vitamins “discovered”. So there’s no telling how many more vitamins and minerals are out there naturally in Nature, that we simply don’t know about yet. By taking synthetic vitamin supplements, you’re most likely depriving your body of other unknown nutrients that are needed daily.

Another reason to use food for nutrition instead of vitamins, is because of something that’s becoming more and more clear with every new research project and scientific study: Isolating just one aspect of a healthy vegetable or fruit does not give you the same health benefits as eating that entire vegetable or fruit does. There are other things at work in the natural substance, that cannot be duplicated with synthetic vitamins.

So to start looking and feeling younger using foods, you must start eating a diet rich in fresh fruits, vegetables, and high quality proteins.

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