Lifestyle Master Program

Author(s): Ellen Livingston
Publisher: Ellen Livingston

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Lifestyle Master Program
eBook 1.0 by Ellen Livingston
zucchini, etc.), a few other vegetables, and small amounts of fatty fruits (such as avocado), nuts and seeds. 10% or fewer of your total calories will come from fats, and the same for proteins.
This high-fruit, low fat whole fresh produce diet is sustainable because our basic fuel needs are being fully met in their most efficient and digestible form (the simple sugars-glucose and fructose-needed by all your cells and obtained by eating ripe fruits). This lower fat approach keeps the whole body running at optimum efficiency. Learn this diet, and you won't need another diet again! This raw, plantstrong diet of mostly fruit is the biologically dictated, natural diet for humans. If eaten correctly, it is efficiently digested and assimilated, completely satiating on every level (simple carbohydrate fuel, plentiful high-quality nutrients, sweet taste, delicious smell, high volume and water content, soluble fiber, beautiful colors, connection to nature, fits in our hands) and provides the conditions for maximum energy and ultimate health.
There are several viable approaches to adopting this way of eating. One is to simply start increasing the percentage of fresh, ripe, raw, organic, juicy whole plant foods at each meal. Begin each meal with some raw juicy fruits, waiting a little while for them to digest and then continue with your meal, or perhaps begin a meal with some greens or other vegetables. Better yet, eat only fruit for your first meal. Make your second meal all raw, too. Begin your last meal of the day with raw fruits and greens, and eventually you can drop the cooked food portion of this late-day meal altogether. The more fresh produce you eat, the less room and appetite you will have for less natural, cooked and processed foods.
These methods can work. They take time and perseverance, however, and for some it becomes a circuitous, winding, indirect route to the end destination and
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