How to Stay Healthy with Raw Plant Foods, Superfoods and Superherbs

The organic food movement has been gaining momentum as more and more people are opening up to natural health.

Introduction

Fruits, fermented foods, grasses, herbs, nuts, seaweeds, seeds, sprouts, and vegetables are raw food items derived from living plants.  Superfoods are food items with a dozen or more properties. Superherbs are food items with super tonic and adaptogenic properties. Raw plant foods, superfoods and superherbs form the basis of this natural health movement. 

Raw Palnt Foods, Superfoods and Superherbs

The desire to become healthier combined with nutritional awareness has motivated us to add a new class of foods that provide maximum health benefits into our diets. Consumption of raw plant foods, superfoods and superherbs enable us derive nutrition with minimal calories and trans-fatty acids. It is widely believed that the desire to consume less healthy foods will fade as they will no longer be enjoyable.

Superfoods have properties of both food and medicines. Superfoods are the most-potent, super-concentrated and nutrient- rich forming the ideal choice for improving overall health, and cleansing and alkalizing the body. Superfoods include acai; goji berries; cacao; camu camu berries; chlorella; bee products such as honey, bee pollen, royal jelly, and propolis; spirulin; blue-green algae; incan berries; kelp; marine phytoplankton; hempseed; noni; yacon; and coconuts and coconut products.  Superherbs include medicinal mushrooms such as chaga, reishi, maitake, shiitake, lion’s mane, and coriolis; pau d’arco, astragalus, nettles and horsetail. una de gato. Superfoods are a great source of amino acids, antioxidants, good fats, enzymes, nutrients, proteins, minerals, and vitamins. Superfoods help nourish the brain, bones, heart, immune system, kidneys, muscles, lungs, liver, nails, pancreas, and reproductive system. Superfoods have been known to improve conditions including allegies, arthritis, asthma, artherosclerosis, ADD, cancer, chronic fatigue, depression, diabetes, eczema, fibromyalgia, heart disease, hepatitis, herpes, high blood pressure, HIV, hypoglycaemia, insomnia, poor immunity, psoriasis, and skin diseases. Superfoods provide the raw materials necessary to maintain a healthy immune system for mounting healthy immune responses.

Conclusion                                                                      

A well chosen diet comprising of raw plant foods, superherbs and superfoods offer dietary and healing potential when consumed raw by boosting the immune system.

References

Wolfe, D. (2009). Superfoods: The Food and Medicine of the Future. North Atlantic Books. USA. 1-352.