| Overeating or bolting down the wrong foods can lead | | | | lightly cooked. Your body will not have to waste |
| to bodily reactions such as excess gas and acid, | | | | energy on producing enough digestive enzyme juices |
| bloating, and grogginess. Do you often find yourself | | | | to turn food into a half way usable form. |
| needing an antacid after eating certain types of food? | | | | Most modern societies eat a truck load of non-foods |
| If you know what I am referring to here, the problem is | | | | that were never intended to produce a healthy body. |
| most likely due to eating a diet of highly processed or | | | | We know that we did not evolve as a species over |
| over cooked food. | | | | the centuries eating stuff like burgers, fries, pizza, |
| This type of food is indigestible, your body simply can | | | | sodas, and beer. Our digestive system simply can not |
| not eliminate it efficiently. Indigestible food is food that | | | | break down these chemical bombshells. This stuff |
| has had all of its naturally occurring enzymes, and | | | | does not get thoroughly digested, and without enzyme |
| other healthy nutrients removed. Lack of enzymes in | | | | activity, it will just sit in the intestines forever, putrefying. |
| food is also known as denatured food. Enzymes are | | | | In time, some of this leaks out of the intestines into the |
| what causes fruit to ripen, spoil, and rot. Ever notice | | | | blood stream taxing the whole body. Body organs that |
| how margarine does not spoil or rot? No enzymes | | | | were never meant to eliminate toxins try to do just |
| present, indigestible, not good for you. | | | | that. Organs such as kidneys, lungs, and skin can |
| Enzymes are necessary catalysts for healthy | | | | become inflamed and diseased trying to eliminate toxic |
| chemical reactions inside the body. Enzymes are, very | | | | residue from a poor diet and an inadequate digestive |
| simply put, protein based substances that bind with | | | | process. The unfortunate consequences of over |
| other nutrients that bring about changes in the body by | | | | cooked whole foods, or fast food diets. |
| speeding up tasks such as digesting food, absorbing | | | | Consciously choosing to eat healthier includes eating |
| nutrients, and maintaining and repairing tissue. More than | | | | more food in its raw form as much as possible, or |
| 2,000 different enzymes play an active role in digestion | | | | lightly cooked. Try eating at least one meal a day with |
| and many other important bodily functions. | | | | this thought in mind, by helping support your body in a |
| Enzymes work together in perfect harmony with other | | | | more productive digestion and elimination process. |
| necessary nutrients called co-factors such as vitamins, | | | | Ideally we should be eating 80 percent of our food this |
| minerals, essential fatty acids, and phytochemicals. | | | | way, but unfortunately that is most likely not going to |
| Nature's perfect complex requires all of the other | | | | happen for most of us. What can you do to further |
| team players to be present or the game does not | | | | support this important process in your body, and get rid |
| happen. That may be the biggest reason why | | | | of possibly large amounts of built up sludge in your |
| supplementing with synthetic vitamins and not whole | | | | intestinal tract? |
| food vitamins, or supplementing with various other | | | | By supplementing with a good digestive enzyme |
| nutrients alone does not work. No single nutrient | | | | supplement product found at any local health food |
| without the others will be the single magic bullet. Nature | | | | store, you will be making a wise decision to improve |
| is more complex than this. So, enzymes without | | | | your overall health. |
| co-factors will have no activity. | | | | Each and everyone of us can benefit from this special |
| The average modern diet consists of too much | | | | knowledge, from the elderly to small children. We have |
| processed, nutrient deficient, and over cooked food. | | | | to put back what is not in our food. This is far cheaper |
| Heating any whole food above 118 degrees F | | | | to do than run to your local M.D., who never studied |
| destroys enzymes, and other important healthy | | | | much about enzymes in medical school, than to treat |
| nutrients. A good rule to follow in getting more | | | | diseases by masking symptoms with drugs. |
| enzymes is; raw before cooked, steamed veggies | | | | Look for a complete enzyme supplement that breaks |
| before boiled, poached before hard-boiled, and cook | | | | down the four main components of a human diet: |
| meats rare before well-done. | | | | 1.fats / Lipase |
| Some experts believe that 80 percent of our | | | | 2.protein / Protase |
| expended energy goes into digesting a typical over | | | | 3.carbohydrates / Amylase |
| cooked and processed meal. Our over burdened | | | | 4.cellulose or fiber / Cellulase |
| digestive system works 24/7 trying to break down | | | | Remember to look for the suffix "-ase" tacked on to |
| food that , for the most part, is indigestible or will only | | | | the name that designates it as an enzyme that breaks |
| be partially digested. This could take days to eliminate | | | | down that specific componet. |
| a meal, or never! | | | | Enzyme supplements are a simple solution to a whole |
| Because of this continual process, only about 20 | | | | variety of health challenges. If you have had a doctor |
| percent of body energy is left to handle other | | | | tell you that your diet is harming you physically, and |
| important functions like thinking, breathing, seeing, and | | | | sacrificing your longevity, should it not make sense |
| immune system support, to name only a few. It goes | | | | then, that the right food and drink would be able be to |
| like this... if you want to stay healthy, or get healthier, | | | | restore your physical condition, if only you knew how? |
| you must free up more of your digestive and | | | | Do not count on most doctors to know how, as they |
| elimination process. | | | | have been trained to use drugs, surgeries, and other |
| No matter how many trans fats, or how much white | | | | intrusive measures. |
| sugar and flour, or any other indigestible substance you | | | | What solvent is nature's perfect element to wash |
| may ingest, your body will try to break it down by | | | | down and carry nutrients to absorb them, plus carry |
| means of enzymes. Foods that are easy on your | | | | away any toxic build up inside you? Why nothing more |
| body to digest and eliminate are natural whole, raw, or | | | | than water of course! |