Eat less, live longer! (68)

The first thing to realize when wanting to change one's eating habits is that less food is better. In a study with rats the group that lived the longest & was the healthiest had their food intake cut by forty percent. Whales have the largest brains on the Planet & usually spend weeks at a time fasting. Perhaps 40% would be a bit too drastic for most people but cutting our calorie intake is the first step in cleansing our bodies. I read somewhere that the average American (German,etc) has up to 5 pounds of toxic waste stuck in their colon. We are literally 'full of shit!'
Eating less & doing a 'master cleanse' or some other colon cleanse is well known to have incredible health benefits.
In eating it is important to realize that the more natural or raw the food is then it will have more bio-energy or life-force. Vegetables(& fruits) that are eaten raw, or lightly steamed, are far healthier than something that has been cooked too much. Eating 'fried' food is perhaps the worst choice one can make as frying changes the molecular structure of the food to something like plastic someone once told me.
I've written previously about the spiritual, ethical, & health benefits of vegetarianism(post 62) so I won't go into detail on that. Suffice to say that eating a plant-centered diet vs. a meat-centered diet is far healthier. When you buy dead animal corpses(meat) from a store it has probably come from a 'factory farm' & you are not being aware of the hormone injections & other toxic materials that the animal has been forced to consume. You only think you need 'meat' everyday!
Vegans are even healthier than vegetarians. A vegan is someone who does not any animal products, like dairy products from cows. Are adults really supposed to drink cow's milk? Children would be much healthier too if they were given rice or soy milk instead of cow's milk.
Of course, drastically cutting back on sugar & processed food is important for health. Stop buying sugar-laced soft drinks & drink more filtered water or tea. Stop eating 'fast food' because we really don't know what we are consuming. Of course, that is the key to it all. Know what you are consuming/eating! The body is the 'temple' of the soul/spirit so give it good 'fuel'. Give it a tune-up(cleanse) & 'change the oil'(olive oil!) every few months or so. You will be glad you did!

ps. for my Asian friends who eat white rice with everything...I was told by someone (who eats a 90% raw diet) that white rice is basically 'empty' calories with hardly any nutritional value...anyone to defend white rice?