Fighting Illness with Raw Foods June 27, 2007
Posted by Spirit in : raw foods, wellness , trackbackWe live in a world today where taking prescription medications is commonplace. It’s not unusual to be watching television in the evening with your family only to be greeted with a commercial advertising one of the new arthritis or cholesterol drugs.
Granted that there are times when medication appears to be the only thing that seems able to cure what ails you, but it might be worth considering looking at the source of the health problem as opposed to simply treating the symptoms.
One way to do this is to introduce more raw foods into your diet. Raw foods are obviously rich in vitamins, minerals and nutrients but there is much more to them than that. Raw foods can actually help to treat many different, even chronic conditions.
Diabetes is an illness that affects millions of people each year. It can lead to days missed from work, sick days at school and in some severe cases, hospitalization and even death. Treating diabetes has long involved the use of insulin. Many people now believe that a diet rich in raw foods could also help to control the severity of the disease.
Arthritis is another ailment that a vast majority of Americans, especially the elderly, suffer from. There are different types of arthritis but the symptoms are generally very similar regardless of the type. The person suffers with pain from inflamed joints. Arthritis can affect a person’s life so deeply that they are unable to get out of bed in the morning. Many people are missing the best things in life because they are immobile due to their arthritis. With a raw food diet this can drastically change. Researchers have concluded that diet can have a direct impact on arthritis. With the damaging side-effects of the medications used to treat the disease it’s easy to see why finding an alternate therapy is so important.
When you do decide to eat more raw foods in an effort to treat an illness, you do need to do your research. In the case of diabetes, it’s simply not enough to be eating more apples and peaches. Those foods have a high natural sugar content, which can actually lead to a more serious case of diabetes. Instead, the diabetic will want to focus on other raw food.
With the arthritis patient, they too will need to do a bit of homework to see what will work best for them. Some foods can aggravate arthritic joints more, regardless of whether or not they are raw foods. A quick visit to the doctor or some time spent on a few online medical sites should garner enough information for the patient to begin adopting new eating habits that include raw foods.
Your health is more important than anything else is, because without it you truly have nothing. If you can eat better and feel the benefits in your health that’s something you certainly should be pursuing. Add raw foods to your diet and feel the difference it can make in the way you feel.
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hi, thanks for this.
i have to say that i think that even as people might find it obvious that raw food has more vitamins and nutrients, there’s a radical mental disconnect between what the body needs and what happens when we don’t give it what it needs. (not to mention the disconnent between feeling our bodies and what they can tell us about our lives - modern food is designed to leave you unaware of what you actually feel like.)
i don’t think that people truly understand that they’re not supposed to be unhealthy - obese, diabetic, etc. - especially the latter, as people think that since it’s genetic, they can’t avoid it. it’s in truth a condition, which is reversable (until organ failure), not a disease.
i’ve been eating mostly raw for over a year, but am relaxing my rules quite a bit these days. but i value tremendously the opportunities i had to get more in touch with my body during the time eating raw.
keep the posts coming!