| To nourish means to make sure that your body gets | | | | energy. Every cell in our body relies on the proper |
| all the necessary nutrients. Now, before anything else, | | | | absorption of nutrients and without them you can |
| let's take a quick tour through Biology 101 just to get | | | | develop a whole train load of illnesses. Food itself is |
| a clearer take on what goes on inside us. | | | | essentially just a mixture of chemicals that are |
| Did you know that education is necessary for proper | | | | broken down by enzymes which will unlock all the |
| digestion? Digestion begins in the mouth with the | | | | benefits of vitamins, minerals, proteins, and hormones |
| chewing and grinding of food, which mixes the food | | | | in this food and put them to work in our body. Not |
| with saliva, which moistens the food and signals the | | | | much happens in the body without enzymes. |
| body to begin the digestion process in alerting the | | | | Raw foods, such as fresh fruits and vegetables carry |
| stomach to prepare to make acid and enzymes. Your | | | | their own enzymes. Canned, cooked or processed |
| stomach begins to respond to these signals even | | | | food (which is almost all commercially produced |
| before any food leaves your mouth. When you gulp | | | | foods) need enzymes to help digest them as they |
| food, the digestive enzymes can not break the large | | | | have zilch. Like money, enzymes are a form of |
| mass of food down and the result is incomplete | | | | power. You can't get enough of them. The eater's |
| digestion, unabsorbed nutrients, extra bacteria in the | | | | task is to provide a positive physical atmosphere for |
| colon which produces bacterial overgrowth, gas and | | | | digestion. When you have a choice, pick the foods |
| the symptoms of indigestion. Simply put, digestion is | | | | that have NOT been refined or processed, or as little |
| the changing of food into a form that the body can | | | | as possible. |
| use, called nutrition. Many people eat without thinking | | | | Something else for you to consider while we are on |
| about it, completely unaware that food is the input | | | | the subject of digestion and nutrition. It would be |
| to life, the source of quality health and energy. Please | | | | food combining and no, it is not a fad diet. It just |
| remember that the way you eat today is a result of | | | | means that some foods go well together and some |
| learned patterns of behavior called habits which were | | | | are incompatible. Different foods require different |
| developed over a long period of time, repeated over | | | | enzymes and different time schedules to digest and |
| and over again. They can be un-done. All habits can, if | | | | if mixed together they will cancel each other out, |
| you find the reason to make it worth the effort and | | | | with some of them digesting while others lie and rot |
| time to do it. | | | | in the digestive tract. Now, this kind of action will give |
| As we age, we lose the ability to produce the | | | | off toxins that are absorbed in the blood that travels |
| necessary digestive enzymes needed for effective | | | | all through your body feeding your cells and organs |
| digestion. By the age of forty, people are only able | | | | causing a sick body over time. Some quick notes: Eat |
| to produce sixty-five percent of the normal levels | | | | similar foods together. No starches or carbos with |
| needed and by sixty-five it reduces to fifteen | | | | flesh protein. Eat fruit alone, especially melons. Do not |
| percent. Enzymes run every function in our entire | | | | drink beverages during meals. So, how about the all |
| body starting with breaking down the food we eat | | | | American hamburger, fries and soda? |
| so it can be used as nutrients and as our source of | | | | |