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  Do You Eat a Lot of Cooked Food? Why Adding More Raw Foods to Your Diet is a Smart Move Asking most people whether they eat a lot of cooked food may sound like a silly question. After all, we’re conditioned to cook all of our meat thoroughly to avoid bacteria and parasites, and even our dairy products and juices are pasteurized. When food is cooked valuable enzymes are destroyed. For many, raw food in their diet consists of an occasional salad or piece of fruit, as even most veggies on Americans’ dinner plates are of the cooked variety. So what’s the problem, you may now be wondering? Raw plant and animal foods (such as raw milk) are loaded with beneficial enzymes for your body. (Enzymes are actually special proteins that act as catalysts for the chemical reactions that occur to keep your body functioning.) However, enzymes begin to be destroyed at temperatures above 110-115 degrees. So if your food is cooked, pasteurized or processed, it will contain no enzymes whatsoever. "When you cook something, you destroy the enzymes," [...]

  Ways To Be In Better Condition Than When You Were in Your Teens and 20s? Could You Achieve a Better Health Condition When You're Over 50? Your body is always in a state of change; you are either improving or declining your current state of health … and what you do and eat on a “daily basis” greatly influences your decline or improved health plus what quality of life you will have in the future. Many doctors and health gurus have shown that you can be in good shape well into your later years – if you are committed to living well (like Jack Lalanne, Dr. Rober Cassar, etc.). We are seeing more and more people in their 50s, 60s and 70s by example showing us how attention to a healthful lifestyle can change your body and your life. What exactly does that entail? Dr. Robert Cassar, a former body builder, chiropractor, naturalist, and raw foodist who has seemingly defied the hands of time while in his early 50s just years after an accident that broke his back --  shared [...]

  Top 10 Worst Foods and 10 Healthier Alternatives As Hippocrates said, “Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.” Fresh, organic fruits and veggies are just about the healthiest foods you can eat. Quite simply, you really are what you eat, but the standard American diet leaves plenty of nutrients lacking while giving you an excess of unhealthy fats, sodium, preservatives and chemical additives. Every day, 7 percent of the U.S. population visits a McDonald's, and 20-25 percent eats fast food of some kind, says Steven Gortmaker, professor of society, human development, and health at the Harvard School of Public Health in Harvard Magazine. As for children, 30 percent between the ages of 4 and 19 eat fast food on any given day. When Morgan Spurlock, the mastermind behind the film Super Size Me, ate only McDonald’s foods for 30 days straight, his body fell apart and he gained 25 pounds! "My body just basically falls apart over the course of this diet," Spurlock told Newsweek. "I start to get tired, I start to get headaches; [...]

Vampire Energy: What is It, How Much is Lost Annually & What Can You Do to Stop It Vampire energy could be nickel-and-diming you into the poor house, while continuously sucking up the planet's natural resources at a disturbing rate. This energy waste, dubbed vampire energy, comes from everyday appliances like your TV, microwave, VCR and video game player, and it happens while they're turned off. A TV with a remote may use more energy during the 20 hours it is turned off than it does for the four hours you watch it in the evening, according to the Department of Energy. "Vampire energy loss" from appliances in passive mode (the clock on your microwave) or standby mode (your VCR scheduled to record something) account for 5-8 percent of your home's total electricity usage per year, according to the Department of Energy, which is equal to about one month's electricity bill -- for every household in the United States. Add that all up, and you get about 68 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity wasted a year. That amounts to the electricity [...]

  How Midlife Heart Disease, the #1 Killer, can be Avoided  It is the size of a clenched fist, beats approximately 72 times a minute and is one of the most important organs in your body it's the human heart. But with incredible endurance and life-sustaining responsibilities comes the likelihood for breakdowns, ranging in severity from transient to chronic and slow developing to sudden or even deadly. Don’t let middle-age heart disease slow you down! Take the steps below to prevent this common illness before it ever begins. And while heart disease is a widely known illness -- and the leading cause of death in the United States -- there are actually several different “types of heart disease” that fall under the classification of heart disease. Heart disease, often referred to as cardiovascular disease, is defined as any condition that affects your heart. It is the number one worldwide killer of both men and women and takes approximately 2,500 American lives each day. Breakdown and Prevalence of Types of Heart Disease High blood pressure: 73,600,000 “Coronary heart disease”: 17,600,000 Myocardial infarction (acute heart attack): 8,500,000 [...]