| I believe good health is the most important thing in life - | | | | raw or minimally processed foods which sustained us, |
| because it gives you freedom. Freedom to pursue | | | | and our predecessors, for millions of years: fruits, |
| your dreams and do all the things that poor health | | | | vegetables, meats, nuts and seeds. A good diet is |
| won't permit. Any significant health problem, chronic or | | | | based on natural, whole or minimally processed foods. |
| acute, will bring your life balance out of order. Not just | | | | A large portion of it should consist of foods that can |
| your own bodily balance but everything and anybody | | | | be eaten raw, such as fruits and vegetables. |
| you normally interact with will be affected. Many of | | | | Fermented or cultured, unpasteurized foods such as |
| your relationships and activities will suffer in some way. | | | | kefir, yogurt, cheeses, miso, sauerkraut and pickles are |
| I think anybody who seriously tried living healthier | | | | considered highly beneficial in many cultures. Cooking |
| through a better diet, proper physical activity, adequate | | | | should be minimal and only applied to foods that must |
| rest, and by addressing mental and spiritual factors | | | | be cooked in order to be edible. Ancestral heritage |
| have experienced a vast range of natural health | | | | also plays an important role as certain foods may |
| benefits. Common benefits are overall better health | | | | need to be excluded or emphasized. Maintaining |
| and a sense of well being, better sleep, improved | | | | healthy routined diet can make enormous |
| physical endurance and strength, sharper mental | | | | improvements to ones health, it's only one essential |
| abilities and lower sleep requirements. | | | | part of healthy living. The other parts are proper and |
| What constitutes a healthy diet? | | | | adeqaute physical activity, mental and spiritual well |
| Unfortunately, there are more opinions about this than | | | | being, and adequate rest. All need to be addressed in |
| there are health experts. To further complicate the | | | | order to achieve better health. An important thing I |
| matter, dietary concepts change over time, leaving | | | | learned while experimenting with diets and other health |
| most people confused and uncertain about what or | | | | related approaches is to always pay attention to the |
| whom to trust. Along with personal experimentation, | | | | signals from the body. It's essential to do this - in order |
| such approach will enable you to establish proper | | | | to maintain good health - and adjust accordingly. As |
| eating habits that work especially well for your body. | | | | one gets better at reading the body, it becomes |
| This takes time and energy, but considering the long | | | | natural to self diagnose a lot of minor problems (which |
| lasting benefits a healthy diet can provide, the effort is | | | | can become major if not paid attention to) and |
| more then well worth it. For 99.9% of human | | | | remedy them by simply adjusting the diet or other |
| existence, our species lived on foods that were either | | | | aspects of life. Finally, we are all different - what |
| raw or minimally processed. The technology needed to | | | | works for one person may not work for another - |
| increase food processing did not exist until very | | | | thus it's important to learn about and experiment with |
| recently. It is therefore reasonable to assume that our | | | | nutrition to find out what works and what does not. |
| bodies are best adapted at utilizing and dealing with the | | | | |