Nature gives us everything we need to regain and maintain great health and fitness. Only when people deviate from simple eating habits and whole foods for a length of time do they find themselves in a health crisis.

Often people get the message to make better food choices when they become ill. Perhaps they buy healthy chips, crackers, maybe healthy frozen foods; and while those changes are alright, they won’t restore healthy mineral and enzyme levels in the body.

The basic foods to regain great health are fruits and vegetables. When a person is truly ill and wants to get healthy again, these are the foods that will replenish minerals and enzymes and restore good health. Minerals and enzymes assist the body digest food, and do not deplete the pancreas, and other enzyme producing organs. For humans that is truly the bottom line because bad digestion is the root cause for bad health.

The good news is that there doesn’t have to be deprivation to be well. And once health gets balanced you can incorporate a healthy treat every now and again.

Most chronic disease starts when the body doesn’t have enough minerals and enzymes to assist the digestion process. From that sad state of affairs, undigested food that is, food ferments and poor health sets in.

What will change bad health and overweight conditions back to great health, positive ways of thinking and freedom from unhealthy cravings? Eat as many fruits and vegetables as you care to: lightly steamed and with garlic, sea salt; eat them raw; juice, juice, juice. Carry on with this cleansing and rebuilding diet for a month and let your body regain health.

This kind of nutritional choice is not a “diet”. This is a “live it” and it prompts you to want more of what is healthy and want more of that feel good feeling. Changing to food choices that create an alkaline condition also create a place where illness and imbalance, yeast and parasites cannot exist, and allergies disappear.

Certain foods do not support you as you cleanse and rebalance the body: dairy, bread, sugars, alcohol, red meat (and for awhile chicken and fish) fast food, and snack foods. Those are choices that do not re-mineralize the body, and give organs a chance to heal, regenerate. After balance is created and maintained for a time, certain foods can be re-introduced like healthy bread, yogurt, grains, free range and organic eggs, fish and chicken.

Re-introduction of foods would be determined by blood type or dosha diet, and then testing for allergies.

Building muscle does not mean the consumption of a lot of red meat or animal proteins.

Usually when people think of proteins they think of animal protein. Every food contains protein because all cell growth requires protein. The foods highest in protein are vegetables. That’s right! Chlorella and spirulina, blue green algae contain 60% protein. Barley grass and nutritional yeast are 35% protein. Wheatgrass powder, and sea vegetables like dulse, nori kelp, peanuts,  are 25% protein. Other high protein vegetables are soybeans, olives, nuts,wheat germ, beans and peas.

With all of these great foods to choose from it’s easy to maintain great muscle tone with vegetable choices.

After a cleanse it is a good idea to use a reputable excipient-free digestive enzyme and HCL with all cooked meals.

Drinking pure water, eating mineral-rich food, enjoyable exercise, positive and hopeful thinking, supportive environments and rest all work together to create a healthier more balanced and successful you. My thought is that you deserve it.