You Really Are What You Eat

Beans (legumes), berries (especially blueberries), broccoli, green tea, nuts (especially walnuts), oranges, pumpkin, salmon. soy, spinach, tomatoes, turkey, whole grains and oats, and yogurt can all help stop and even reverse diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and some forms of cancer. And where one might have an effect on a certain part of the body, it can also affect the health of other body functions and performance, since the whole body is connected.  With these 14 foods as the base of a balanced, solid diet, weight loss gimmicks and other fly-by-night programs can become a thing of the past in your life.

Conversely, the ill-effects of an unbalanced diet are several and varied. Low energy levels, mood swings, tired all the time, weight change, uncomfortable with body are just a few signs that your diet is unbalanced.  An unbalanced diet can cause problems with maintenance of body tissues, growth and development, brain and nervous system function, as well as problems with bone and muscle systems.

Symptoms of malnutrition include lack of energy, irritability, a weakened immune system leading to frequent colds or allergies, and mineral depletion that can trigger a variety of health concerns including anemia.

And since the body is connected, realizing that an unhealthy body will result in an unhealthy spirit only makes sense.  When we nourish our body with these superfoods and complement them with other nutrient-dense and healthy fresh foods, our spirit will be vitalized and healthy as a direct result.

Many modern diets based on prepackaged convenience foods are sorely lacking in many vitamins and minerals, which can affect our mental capacities as well, and cause irritability, confusion, and the feeling of ‘being in a fog’ all the time.

Superfoods can be the basis of a sound, healthy, nutritious solution to curing many of these ailments and more.

How to increase the nutritional value of foods

The sprouts have a higher nutritional value than those from seed. To increase the nutritional value of foods, vegetarians have a very interesting series of tricks, as their diets may lack essential nutrients.

Seeds germinate, develop new basic food and other energy-rich soy (milk, cheese) or mix food to encourage the assimilation of nutrients are some of the tricks that vegetarians have to take into account a complete diet.

One of the chemical processes used to add value nutricial is fermentation of foods, which improves its digestibility and nutritional value, because the microorganisms responsible for this process (yeast, mold, bacteria) transform complex food compounds into more easily to assimilate. In addition, microbes synthesize vitamins.

In this way, a real bread made with yeast, it has the demineralizing effect of yeast bread made with industrial.

On the other hand, germination increases the essential amino acid content between 10% and 30%, and does the same with the assimilable iron content. Furthermore, there is the predigestion of carbohydrates and vitamins are synthesized.

You can also substitute commonly used foods for that diet more complete and healthy while enriching culinary: food refined by integrals; wine vinegar for cider vinegar, lemon juice, olive oil refined virgin salt sea salt and other seasonings from algae conventional sauces soy sauce or algae, brown sugar white sugar, fructose or honey, coffee in grain (malt …) Amasake cocoa (fermented sour rice …) or candy for dessert cereal and fresh or dried fruit, or jams.