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Homemade Sauerkraut in 3 Days

You can make sauerkraut in your own kitchen with little effort.

Start by shredding the cabbage and placing it in an earthenware crock. Pack it down tightly and cover the cabbage with boiling water.

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Once the water has cooled add a tablespoon of salt and place it on top, then place a slice of rye bread on top of the mass. Cover the crock with a towel and keep it in a warm place at room temperature.

At the end of three days uncover the crock and remove the salt which stays on top and the slice of bread. You can substitute a large glass jar if a crock is not available. After three days you will have your own delicious, nutritious, healthy, homemade sauerkraut, which is superior to the store-bought, mass-produced variety. Once complete move the sauerkraut to a cool location.

The Raw Food Diet

Raw Food Diet

The original diet of humans was only raw food, before the discovery of fire and unnatural processing. A raw food diet is more powerful than most medicines, since natural nutrition is full of powerful nutrients and free of chemical additives or preservatives.

The Caveman diet is a version of the raw food diet, named for ancient humans in extreme conditions, who consumed raw food of their local environment. Grains were not part of their diet and today, they are still not part of a raw food diet. Meat, eggs, vegetables, nuts, seeds, beneficial oils and limited fruits or berries are included.

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Because cooking destroys or weakens the most potent nutrients, a raw food diet is considered an alternative medicine approach to strengthen the immune system and obtain optimal levels of nutrition. Organic and chemical-free options are the best choices.

To adapt to the Caveman, or Paleolithic diet, meat may be cooked medium-rare, eggs may be served with a runny yolk and vegetables may be juiced, for easier digestion. Butter, milk and two servings of fruit may be consumed, daily. Unlike a vegetarian diet, plenty of protein is included.

By definition, raw food should be unheated and uncooked, non-homogenized and unprocessed, in order to preserve enzymes, vitamins and minerals. Other alternative treatments, such as parasitic cleansing or heavy metal detoxification, are also beneficial. A raw food diet can cure disorders where other remedies have failed-including prescription medicines.

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Ayurvedic Nutrition

Colorful healthy meal on white plate

In the ancient medical system of India we find use of the oldest and most time-tested approaches to nutrition. Its science of food and diet is an integral part of philosophy of man, of his consciousness and of his relationship to the universe. The result is an approach to diet that is unsurpassed both in its profundity and sophistication as well as in its practicality and simplicity. Here the selection and preparation of food is seen as inseparable from the treatment of disease and the cultivation of vibrant health.

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Through its long history, it would appear that Ayurveda witnessed the rise and fall of many schools of therapy ranging from herbal medicine to physical therapy and massage, surgery, psychiatry, the use of medication, mantra and many other treatment modalities. Each of these were integrated into physicians practice, and the conceptual scheme expanded to accommodate them. As a result the school of Ayurveda has a breadth and a depth that could be unparalleled in the history of medical science.

This also made it possible for the Ayurvedic physician to develop, over thousands of years, an extremely complex and complete science of herbology and pharmacology. The science of nutrition is vast and comprehensive and is not separated from pharmacology and no distinction is made between foods and drugs, herbal and mineral substances.

The world of nature and the predominance of wild fruits, vegetables, herbs and game provided the Ayurvedic physicians with a rich store of foods having a wide variety of very specific effects. Our western analytical science of nutrition may have attained greater precision at the expense of a decline and loss of appreciation of the richness and versatility  of natural resources, both in the world of foods and in the world of human physiology.

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What is Health?

What is health

To be healthy is to live in harmony with the environment, to be able to think clearly, feel and act alert, to be normally in a cheerful mood, sometimes feel appropriately depressed and sometimes ecstatic, perform physical activity with adequate energy and enthusiasm and naturally incorporate physical activity.

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Good health can be reached through the application of proper nutrition, by ingesting the right amount of nutrients for each individual. This concept is founded upon the recognition that no living organism lives within a perfect environment. For example a perfect environment for one individual is not only impossible, but would be intolerable for another.

One does not have to have extensive knowledge to obtain a good balanced diet. Humans have evolved and adopted to a small number of foods including grains, vegetables, fruits, fish, meat and poultry. As long as these foods are not tampered with and a variety of these natural foods are eaten, our diet with some additional supplements will be balanced.

Malnutrition and the need for supplements, resulting from excessive consumption of processed foods, especially in the form of refined carbohydrates, and exposure to toxins are major causes of nutritional imbalances and physical illnesses. The range of variation for each individual is enormous and is determined by: age, sex, physical and mental/emotional stress, diseases (whether acute or chronic), the use of pharmaceutical drugs and the general state of health.

We are all different and have different nutritional requirements. Some people become violantly ill by ingesting foods that are nutritious for others and with declining health the need for nutritional supplementation is many times greater.

Through the use of proper nutrition and the addition of supplements we can become masters of our own health.  Read more…

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