I would like to add some insights on why we should fruitify and veggify our meals. I could give scientific basis but it would be too long and people will get bored and would not be interested of reading it. I would like to give two powerful insights that I am hoping that will help you not just try but really change your meal on a healthier way.
First, fruits and veggies are the source of foods for our body’s great defence against all sickness. I mean, our body can heal all sickness including cancer and HIV. Is that amazing? It is really amazing knowing that but only a few knows how it works. God, give us everything including a body that has its own doctor. We are like “Wolverine” that can heal itself when damage or get sick. But most of us don’t have any idea of who and what this Doctor inside us. This so called Doctor inside us has been known but kept silent by modern and western medicine. Our own Doctor that will fight against any sickness in our body is, our “IMMUNE SYSTEM”. Our immune system is our greatest ally to fight against any sickness that we will. It consists of 9 organs in our body (Tonsils, Adenoids, Thymus, Lymph nodes, Spleen, Appendix, Peyer’s patches, Bone Marrow, and Lympahtic vessels) that if these organs are healthy then no sickness can bother us. This is a gift from God for us for over centuries since the beginning. This is the very reason why people that came before us have lived for more than a hundred years and until now people who lives in the boondocks and provinces where fruits and veggies are so available have lived longer than us living in the cities. Know immunology, know how to take good care of our immune system, and know how to make it strong so that you will know from yourself and from your own body that it really works and that is all that we need for us to be healthy and no sickness. If you want to know more about the importance of our immune system read more to learn more: http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/immuneresponses/overview/
Second, do you know that the pH of our body should be alkaline? When our body is more alkaline, our immune system is strong, our body is bursting with energy, our body rapidly disposes of fat, our skins, bone and cell regenerates keeping it young. Any cancer cells won’t survive if our body is alkaline. But here’s a big problem, most us nowadays we are acidic. Why? There are a lot of reasons why we acidic nowadays and here some of the reasons that I would like to present:
1. Air pollution
2. Stress
3. Radiation
4. Drugs
5. Soft drinks
6. Alcohol
7. Chemicals
8. Pesticide
9. Energy drinks
10. Burgers
11. Sugar
12. Tobacco
13. Fried Foods
14. Artificial Sweeteners
15. Un-natural Fruit Juices
16. Processed Foods
17. Imitation Foods
To get all the alkaline benefits, our body needs to be at pH 7.4. A quick fact, it takes 33 glasses of water to neutralize 1 glass of cola. When we’re too acidic, our body tries everything to get more alkaline. Sounds good, but this is where the trouble starts. The good and bad points are as follows: Good point 1, it stores some acid in your fat to keep it from harms way. Bad point 1, then our body holds onto fat for protection. Hence, it becomes our weight loss problem. Good point 2, it finds alkaline elsewhere from our bones and teeth. Bad point 2, our bones and teeth get the life sucked out of them and they became frail and decay. Arthritis coming in, and this why people shrink as they age. Good point 3, the acid settles away from healthier organs. Bad point 3, instead it hits your weakest organs that are already prone to disease or hereditary cancer (Cancer cells become dormant if you are at pH 7.4). On top all that, it contaminates something else our blood. Our body is like a car. Running a car on dirty oil would cause the engine parts to wear quickly, not operate like it was designed to. It becomes reliable and loses its power. Engine oils are to cars, what the blood is to humans. But our blood is more vital. Our red blood cells deliver oxygen to the tissues, collect carbon dioxide, and conveys sugar, vitamins and amino acids. Each red blood cell is surrounded by a negative charge, so they can frantically repel/bounce off each other, delivering their goodness at high speed. But! When we are too acidic, they lose their negative charge as they stick together. They sludge to the body at low speed. Struggling to absorb water, nutrients and oxygen, and can’t expel unhealthy toxins. Poisoning starts, we feel loss of energy. Even though you’re getting enough sleep. Our blood does this after drinking alcohol. Question, how is it possible to get alkalized nowadays? My answer is by in-taking more alkaline foods and drinks. See the pictures below on some charts that will help to be alkalized… God bless… :)