Fruits and Veggies Everyone knows to eat fruits and vegetables. This goes uncontested. But how many fruits and vegetables do we actually consume? How about you? Why are we encouraged to eat 5 - 9 a day? It is because we do not eat enough! In America today, the average individual only consumes this amount in a week, if that. We are not getting enough fruits and veggies in our diet, and worse, most of what we do eat is old, pesticide and wax laden, potentially irradiated, or improperly prepared. Fresh and steamed vegetables should be eaten on a daily basis, they are one of our best protections against heart disease and cancer. They should not be eaten out of cans because the commercial preparation destroys the nutirents, and they certainly should not be cooked for hours on end and never microwaved! Microwaving any food rips, distorts, and mutilates the molecular stucture of the food turning it into a freakish dead substance the body can't use (it is best to hurl your microwave over a cliff). The best fruits and vegetables are organic, of course, and are available at grocery stores, farmer's markets and your own back yard (unless you are a Comfort Inn employee, in which case you can stock 3 freezers full just from a plot of weedy ground along the highway -- Dawn and Deanna's co-workers at the hotel have done this very successfully -- and with forks as garden tools, mind you)! In addition to fresh and steamed vegetables, we need to include lacto-fermented veggies (and fruits) in our diets. What is that? you ask. Well, let me ask you this first: true or false, in earlier times, people knew how to preserve vegetables fresh for long periods without drying, freezing or canning. Answer: true. Lacto-fermentation is the process by which fruits and veggies are preserved using lactobacilli which comes from whey in milk! You can't get whey from storebought milk because it putrifies instead of separates naturally, the way God intended. The most well known of these preserved foods are saurkraut and pickles, but many others can be made. They enhance digestion, increase vit and min content, supply healthy flora and enzymes, and are antibiotic as well as anticarcinogenic. Best of all, they are easy and fun to make!
Did you know? Raw cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprouts block thyroid hormones, beet greens, spinach and chard block calcium and iron. Steaming these foods remedies this problem. Nightshade veggies (tomatoes, eggplant, peppers)can cause arthritis, painful joints. Onions, leeks, and garlic stimulate glands and should be avoided by those who are weak and suffering adrenal fatigue. Commercially raised dark green leafy veggies and canned veggies contain cancer forming nitrates and nitrites.
What to do: Purchase organic fruits and veggies from farmer's markets, buy from gardeners, or grow your own. Be careful to cook vegetables lightly by steaming or quick frying to preserve the nutrients and radiant color. Do not microwave. Fresh is best, frozen is okay, commercially canned is worthless, lacto-fermented is priceless. Only make enough for each meal, and don't keep cooked leftovers more than an extra day.