This article examines several steps that can have an extraordinary effect on the body’s total health and healing ability. In addition to summarizing the importance of whole foods to our health, this article will list several additional strategies that can take your health to a new level for greater mental and physical performance.

Sixteen Steps for Living Longer and Healthier:

1. Eat as if your life depended upon it! Eating is a very intimate process. Consider each food before you eat it. Analyze carefully what’s in the food you are eating and ask yourself this question, “Do I want to make this food part of my 100 trillion cells?”

2. Chew foods well to begin the process of digestion. Your stomach has no teeth. Enjoy eating, take a few minutes longer to chew your foods well and help in the process of digestion.

3. Drink 6 to 12, 8-ounce glasses of pure water a day. The most important nutrient you can utilize daily is clean water. Having plenty of water helps your body get rid of waste. Never allow yourself to become dehydrated. Rehydrate by drinking your water throughout the day.

4. Eat a diet of 70 to 80 percent alkalizing and 20 to 30 percent acidifying foods. This will guarantee robust energy and optimal potential for beneficial self-healing. Your body chemistry will be in balance (homeostasis) and operate at peak performance.

5. Leave your stomach 20 percent empty for complete digestion. Practice portion control at each of your meals. Never “top off” your stomach. Digestive enzymes in the stomach need to “mix and tumble” to accelerate digestion. Leave a little room to complete digestion.

6. Don’t eat cooked or processed foods without supplementing with enzymes. If you eat cooked foods, you should take food enzyme supplements to compensate for the destroyed, naturally occurring food enzymes that were previously in the food.

7. Eat organically grown fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Try as much as possible to purchase foods that have not been exposed to pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, ripening-retardant chemicals or genetic modification.

8. Eat 10 servings of vegetables and 3 servings of fruits daily. Be creative and utilize a wide selection of colorful, organically grown vegetables and fruits. Use raw foods daily in your meals and salads.

9. Eat marine and fresh water algae daily. Virtually all of the sea is rich in minerals which our bodies receive when we eat sea vegetables. One of the richest sea vegetables is marine red algae. Blue green algae from Klamath Lake is also a mineral rich food. Algae is uniquely high in chlorophyll. The high chlorophyll and mineral content are two of the primary reasons for algae being powerful foods effective in maintaining our health.

10. Superfoods must be part of your dietary strategy. Why fuel yourself with low-octane fuels that are guaranteed to give you fewer miles per gallon and predictable, poorer performance. Incorporate into your daily diet some of the most nutrient rich foods on the planet: blue green and red algae, bee pollen and wheat grass. Your superfood dietary strategy is a natural preventive approach for health and healing.

11. Take care of your inner ecology. You need to replenish the beneficial “healthy” bacteria in your intestinal tract to maintain intestinal hygiene. “Friendly” bacteria aid in the digestion of foods and the manufacture of the vitamin B family.

12. Keep the colon clean. Maintain your intestinal hygiene by consuming 35 to 40 grams of different fiber sources (bran, gum, lignin, pectin...etc.) daily to thoroughly cleanse the intestines and restore normal bowel transit.

13. Protect yourself from premature aging. Eat sprouted grains and grasses daily to protect your body from the damage of oxidative stress. Sprouted grains and grasses from a green drink powder are ideal to become your daily source of antioxidants and phytonutrients..

14. Exercise daily. Exercise is life-supporting. Our bodies were meant to move in a natural and neurologically coordinated way. Walking is a high-quality movement we should engage in each day.

15. Breathe deeply and reduce stress. Conscientious breathing revitalizes the body with both oxygen and energy. Shallow breathing is our response to tension, fear, worry, anxiety, depression, or pain. Deep, full breathing is our response to joy and happiness. Each morning and each evening take five minutes to breathe calmly and perform deep breathing exercises.

16. Get sufficient sleep. Go to sleep early and arise at the same time each day. Determine the number of hours of sound sleep you require to regenerate yourself every day.

We cannot escape time, but regardless of what your age is at the moment, what you can do is add health to your years. The older you are, the more crucial it is to approach the ideas contained in this article with an open mind. It is vital to realize that whatever you are on your life’s journey, you can make a difference in your quality of life and health right now!

Premature aging, debility , and illness are not inevitable. If you learn to listen to your body, you can significantly, predictably, and measurably invigorate your health and healing with nature’s superfoods.

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