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Growing Sprouts and Eating Raw Foods

February 26, 2010 by  
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As people all over the world look for new methods to take ownership of their health and their environment, alternative diets abundant in living and raw foods are becoming increasingly popular. These include the raw vegan diet, acid alkaline diet, raw foods diet and living foods, all made up of fresh, nutritious and low processed ingredients that work in harmony with healthy bodily functions. Eating raw foods and growing sprouts is commonly a part of these diets for the convenience, nutrition and versatility that makes them a highly valued dietary component.

Many individuals are growing disillusioned and distrustful of the information they have for so long believed about the benefits of western medicine, and are looking more towards wholesome methods to use their foods and lifestyles as preventative medicine. And why wouldn’t they, as the cost of healthcare blows out along with the amount of people that are ineligible for health insurance, many responsive human beings are searching for alternatives.

Many health experts concur that the best medicine is preventative medicine, and that taking a look at lifestyles and daily habits is a huge deciding factor in ones total health. In the United States and spreading around the world at a disturbing rate, fresh vegetables and living foods are being substituted with fast, fried and over processed foods. These types of foods that are making up far too high a portion of the general American diet, regularly consist of large amounts of bleached wheat flour, corn syrup, processed meats and a huge array of deep fried foods, often utilizing harmful (but profitable) oils like Canola.These factors have combined to triple the obesity rate among young and middle aged Americans in the past 25 years. As increasing numbers of people become aware of this problem, the interest is increasing rapidly to find simple ways to integrate more simple living foods into their diet, which is why growing sprouts is growing in popularity.

One of the challenges that face those looking to consume a healthier diet is that a lot of the most outspoken individuals and groups that support the healthier choices are very extreme in their views, sometimes rallying against the people who make these “unwise” nutrition decisions, rather than looking at the overall societal factors that have created the situation as it is. The team over at Seeds of Sustainability believes that human beings are naturally intelligent, adaptable creatures that will over time make progressively better decisions as those options become available, and that focusing too much on the problems tends to enhance them. So based on this, we recommend to people who are planning to transition to a healthier, oxygen rich diet to do so at a comfortable rate. If the reasoning driving the transition is to make decisions that are more respectful to our bodies, it makes sense to do so in a way that is not in and of itself another trauma. It is very common when individuals try to transition too hastily from a typical western diet to a vegan, vegetarian or raw foods diet to go into an intense and undesirable detoxification process, commonly referred to as a “healing crisis.”

Rather than taking away from your current diet, we believe in gradually adding living foods to your diet over a period of time. Using this approach you will draw your own conclusions of what you want to keep eating and what you will transition away from, without feeling like you are sacrificing something. The body is far more intelligent and self regulating than many of us give it credit for, and it is important to keep this in mind as we review our lifestyles and decisions. If you are looking for a simple way to start this transition, growing sprouts offers a fast and affordable option to access highly nutritious and versatile foods, to supplement your current diet. Using the Marche Sprouting Method makes this process even easier, as it requires no daily rinsing of your sprouts and enables you to grow as little or as much sprouted foods as you would like in just 72 hours.

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