Lifestyle Master Program

Author(s): Ellen Livingston
Publisher: Ellen Livingston

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Lifestyle Master Program
eBook 1.0 by Ellen Livingston
other people can simply switch to an all raw fruit-based diet overnight, and rocket themselves to vibrant health in a matter of months.
Here are three important factors to examine regarding a dietary transition:
1. What level of health do you truly want to achieve?
2. What are you willing to trade for this?
3. What speed of transition and what end goal will best support your overall health?
It is very helpful to study and build your knowledge base before making major changes in your diet. As your knowledge grows, so too will your confidence in what you are undertaking. This is especially important when you are doing something that goes "against the grain" of societal norms. You will need to be able to remain steady on your new path even as others (quite possibly including your medical doctor) may criticize and even ridicule your decision to eat so differently from the majority. You might doubt yourself at this point, if you do not have sufficient confidence in the nutritional soundness of your new eating plan.
To help inspire you toward a fresher, more natural diet, let's take a look at some of the downsides to many of the foods most commonly eaten today. Then we can take a look at the very different characteristics of our natural diet. Grains, even when eaten raw (soaked and sprouted), are difficult for us to digest, acid-forming, irritating to the digestive tract due to their large amounts of harsh insoluble fiber, contain harmful properties such as phytates and lectins (these interfere with nutrient absorption), and contain naturally occurring addictive opioid chemicals which encourage over-eating. Grains are also deficient or devoid of many critical nutrients, another factor which causes overeating in a futile attempt to fulfill this
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