All Fruits and Vegetables Are Not Created Equal

By James Sikes

When you eat your fruits and vegetables, you want the best, most nutritious, most power packed foods you can get. Do we agree on this?

Because of the lack of good minerals in the earth that foods are grown in, all plant foods are much less nutritious than they were just a few decades ago.

"The alarming fact is that foods... now being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contain enough of certain needed nutrients, are starving us - no matter how much we eat of them."
U S Senate Document 264 1936

Are fruits and vegetables really as powerful a healer and health builder as is claimed by so many?

As an example of just how powerful they really are, I'll give you just one example of the value of eating fresh produce in your life.

Framingham Study 1,000 patients for over 20 years
under the direction of the National Heart Institute and Boston University. It is the most sophisticated epidemiological study ever done.

They found that if the patient had:

3 servings of fresh fruits and vegetables daily and they had 22% fewer strokes.
6 servings and they had 44% fewer strokes.
9 servings and they had 66% fewer strokes.

Here are some of the things to consider when choosing your fruits and veggies:

Sun ripened foods are best, because the nutrition stays in the roots until it ripens, and there's no better place to ripen a food than in the good ol' sunshine. It has worked for millions of years, and it still works today. Most of the foods found in the local grocery store are ripened on the store's shelf, or in the truck or ship that delivered it to the store.

Nutrient dense foods are best. For instance, kale is a nutrient dense food, where as celery is not. That does not mean celery is not a good food, it is, it's just not a nutrient dense food, and is not as power packed as kale.

Fresh, raw food is full of what I call "Life Force"; these are enzymes. Nothing happens in a person's body without enzymes. Raw food is full of enzymes, and the more you put them into your body, the better you'll feel, and the more energy you'll have.

Chemical and pesticide free is just plain ol' common sense. Why eat poisons in your food? Now "organic" foods are more expensive; so it's a trade off, unless you grow your own, of course.

Note: if you'd like to get some very powerful chemical and pesticide free nutrition, very inexpensively, sprouts are second to none. Simply get the seeds, sprout them and eat. The nutrition in a sprout is many times more than that in the fully grown food.

James Sikes is an author, humanitarian and expert in the field of health and healing. Now get the benefits of eating 17-25 fresh, raw, sun ripened, nutrient dense, certified chemical and pesticide free fruits, vegetables, grains and heart healthy berries daily, in superfood concentrated capsule form, for about the cost of a cup of coffee a day. http://www.17Benefits.com

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