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6 - Keep a Proper Balance of Carbohydrates, AminoAcids and Good Fats Eat a wide variety of foods. Chew all your food until it is as smooth as apple sauce. Digestion begins in your mouth. When you chew your food until it is smooth and well-mixed with saliva, you save your other digestive organs from doing extra work. The saliva in your mouth contains ingredients that make the nutrients in food available to your body. Foods and Juices that Detoxify the Body Best Your body will heal with whatever foods grow near you, so you don’t need to go to the Himalayas to find healing foods. After all, God provides healing for the rich and the poor. But some foreign import foods have such exceptional health- Choose Brain Healthy Foods giving properties, that if you can afford it, they will be a great Incorporate brain-boosing foods into a diet plan to ensure benefit for you: that you include them in your diet regularly. Foods that boost • Beet juice. Fresh or powdered beet juice provides your brain health supply the brain with antioxidants, glucose, and body with the ingredients for creating good blood. If you essential fatty acids. Some of these foods are: blueberries, have a food dehydrator, you can slice beets thinly, dehycherries, apples, nuts & seeds, carrots, edamame, spinach, drate them and grind the dehydrated beet slices to powder. and avocados. You can sprinkle beet powder on salads or add it to meals. Drying only destroys 2-5% of the nutrients if you set the - Avoid Snacking heat between 116 and 119 degrees. Having Drink fresh vegetable/fruit juice combinadried beet juice on hand ensures that you have tions instead of snacking. Juices are not solid beet juice when you want it. foods and won’t stretch the stomach. You can have • Powdered chlorella. It doesn’t smell great 4-5 cups of freshly made juice per day. or taste great, but you’ll hardly notice it in a smoothie and it provides super-potent nutrition Remember, there is a difference between juice and for your body. a smoothie. Juice is made in a juicer which re• Acai berries. Your body Stem cells moves the pulpy fiber from the fruit or vegetable. can use the nutrients in acai A smoothie is made in a blender and is a whole berries to build new stem cells. (You can are needed food. Juices can be drunk between meals. Smoothies learn more about this in the DVD, Your for repairing are part of a meal and should be included with your meal. Body’s External Thermometer.) Stem cells tissue cells are needed for repairing tissue cells in - Increase Consumption of Dietary your body. So, if you’re going to do some in your body. Antioxidants repairing over those three fast days, get Antioxidants clean up free radicals. Normal, unheated food acai berries. molecules have pairs of electrons. When heat destroys some of • Wheatgrass juice. Use either fresh or powdered wheatgrass the paired electrons, these food molecules become unstable, juice. It is 70% chlorophyll, which is considered to be the free radicals. When free radicals steal electrons from cells in blood of plants. Chlorophyll closely resembles human red your body, they cause tissue damage. Antioxidants provide blood cells and supplies enzymes which do the work of remissing electrons to free radicals thus preventing further tissue building and repair in our cells. Wheatgrass juice can be an damage. important addition to your diet if you’re concerned about building healthy blood. Numerous studies have shown that increasing antioxidants • Spirulina is a blue-green algae that contains from fruit and vegetables significantly reduces the risk of de4000 nutrients. It smells like fish, but it supplies green veloping cognitive impairment. chlorophyll to your body which can stimulate the creation of new blood cells. Here are some excellent sources of antioxidants: • Chlorophyll. You can make your own chlorophyll drink simply by juicing a variety of fresh greens. Fill a quart jar • Berries, with the juice and sip it for supper. Swish it around in your • Spinach, mouth, chew it and swallow it and by morning you’ll feel • Broccoli, like you’ve given your body a whole blood transfusion. • Beets, • Blueberries are very high in antioxidants and are great for • Cherries, promoting bowel health and protecting your body from • Oranges, free-radicals. • Avocadoes, • Dried apricots help the body to retain and redistribute • Red grapes. moisture to all your different cellular networks. Unless the moisture remains in the cells, your body will not have cells that are functioning optimally. Use organic dried apricots. 7 8 a2 Answer: 6 (John 2:6) 9 Continued on next page 29