FirstGarden
01-20-2007, 10:51 AM
The 70% Rule - Your Thoughts & Experiences?
Hi Everyone.
There's been a lot of talk about weight loss, plateau experiences and frustration in trying to reduce. This theory - 70% high-water-content foods - addresses that concern, plus a lot about health in general. This is a principle that can coexist with any diet.
Please note: The 70% here is *not* about 70% RAW. You can be 50% or 100% raw and still observe this principle.
Of course I didn't make this up. Many health authorities have advocated a preponderance of fruits & vegetables at about 70%. Paul C. Bragg (Life Extension Specialist) certainly did.
Harvey Diamond (Natural Hygiene scholar) had an entire chapter on it in his book, Fit For Life. It might well be called "FAT For Life," - I read it so much. lol.
The concept is as follows:
Water: How Much Does the Earth Have?
Earth is a watery place, unlike most other planets in our solar system. Water covers over 70 percent of the earth's surface.
The living body is about 70% water and through natural daily movement and evaporation your body loses 2 quarts of water a day. You need to replenish water because your body does not manufacture it on its own. That means 70 percent of your diet should be "high-water-content foods"--fruits and vegetables--which facilitate all body functions.
Suggestion: Consume nothing but fruit or raw fruit juice until noon, then eat salad and vegetables with every meal for the rest of the day.
The Value Of High Water Content Food
Digestion takes probably more energy than anything else. The average meal takes 3 hours and 30 minutes to digest if combined properly. Incorrectly combined food can sometimes take up to 14 hours to digest. This is a very powerful way to conserve energy.
Youve probably heard people say you need to eat more vegetables. I heard that too for a long time. It didn't motivate me to go out and eat it. It wasn't until I understood that food is literally the building blocks of all the substances of your body that I understood the importance of it. What you eat literally becomes your brain, your liver, your kidneys, your skin and your eyes. This is powerful. What you put in to yourself becomes part of your body.
Include in your diet things like tomatoes and watermelons. These things contain 90 to 95% water so that there is nothing that you have to lose by feasting on them. They fill you up without adding to the pounds.
AN INTERESTING READ:
A Living Body Needs Living Water.
Many foods with a high water content are among some of the best foods to help lose weight. They are often low in calories plus increasing water intake has been shown to benefit weight loss.*
Since our bodies are about 70 percent water, it makes sense that 70 percent of the food we eat should be high in water content. People who eat foods with high water content will not need to drink as much water. The living water from the food they eat will perform the function of carrying nutrients to the cells while also cleaning them. In fact, living water is a far superior way of keeping the body hydrated and cleansed so it may carry out its living functions with as little energy expenditure as possible.
What is living water? How do you achieve this diet?
All the vitamins, minerals, proteins, amino acids, enzymes, carbohydrates, and other nutrients that the human body needs to maintain itself can be found in fruits and vegetables.
The nature of all fruits and vegetables is to have a high content of living water. This living water contains nutrients that are specially processed by plants from soils, the atmosphere, and the cosmos. How the plants of Earth perform this feat of transforming ordinary water into water filled with energy from the universe remains somewhat of a mystery.
However, many of the worlds nutritionists, doctors, and scientists are now believers in the age-old wisdom of eating fresh fruits and vegetables. These people, along with many of the worlds governments and health agencies, are now recommending a diet of foods with high water content. More and more people today are buying and eating high-water-content fruits and vegetables that contain the living water necessary for a long and healthy life. As reported by researcher Alexander Leaf in National Geographic (1973 edition), most long lived people ate a diet of approximately 70 percent fresh fruits and vegetables.
For Those Who Drink Water
(I personally don't like drinking lots of water, but others do. I prefer to get the water from the foods I eat. However, I believe the following also applies to the 70% rule):
Drinking water and losing weight!
"Drink 8 glasses of water each day" is what we hear all the time but what weight loss benefits do we get from drinking water?
All functions within the body require the presence of water. A well hydrated body enables these functions to occur quickly and efficiently. All chemical processes involve energy metabolism and drinking plenty of water will make us feel more energetic and boost our metabolic rate.*
Water makes your metabolism burn calories 3% faster.
Drinking water is important if you're trying to lose weight. Some studies have shown that thirst and hunger sensations are triggered together. If there is a slight dehydration the thirst mechanism may be mistaken for hunger and one may eat when the body is actually craving fluid. As most food contains some water, if one doesn't drink much they may be subconsciously driven to eat more to gain the necessary water supply. However, you also gain the undesired effects of increased calorie consumption. Drinking more water can help to prevent overeating and benefit weight loss.
How Much do I need to drink to benefit losing weight?
For the average person, experts suggest getting at least 64 ounces of water daily or eight 8-ounce glasses. If you are on a diet to lose weight, it is more important to consume more water and keep drinking throughout the day, unless you have any medical condition that doesn't allow much water intake. A good guide for daily intake is to drink 1 ounce of water for every 2 pounds of body weight. A 200 pound person should be drinking around 100 ounces (12.5 cups) of water in order the gain the benefits of increased energy and metabolism.
If exercising is part of a weight loss program, a bit more water should be included to account for water loss from sweating. Drinking water before, during and after exercise will keep energy levels high and help recovery after training.
Many people don't like drinking pure water. Gaining water from eating fruit high in water content is a great way to boost water consumption without drinking it directly. Fruit will also help fill up the stomach with low calories and gain tons of vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients to increase vitality.
Fruit is one of the most healthy and natural foods in existence. There are thousands of different types of fruit available to eat, all of which provide us with strong health benefits. Fruit contains a large number of naturally occurring vitamins, minerals and plant phytochemicals that help benefit health. It has also been shown that eating the whole fruit or juice is best to gain the benefits rather than taking supplements to provide each nutrient separately.
It has been recommended that we should be eating at least 5 pieces of fruit every day in order to gain the full health benefits of eating fruit.
Fruit can also benefit many people wanting to lose weight. Energy consumption is thought to be mainly influenced by the palatability, fiber content, density of energy and the variety of foods. Eating fruit has the benefit of affecting some of these factors. Fruit is also low in sodium so they help reduce the chance of gaining water weight.
You should notice rapid weight loss because the ample fruit consumption helps fill the stomach faster, encouraging less high calorie foods to be consumed. The total calorie consumption will automatically reduce even if we are eating plenty of fruit and vegetables. There is such a variety of fruits available that many can be freely eaten without consuming too many calories thereby controlling weight more effectively.
Hi Everyone.
There's been a lot of talk about weight loss, plateau experiences and frustration in trying to reduce. This theory - 70% high-water-content foods - addresses that concern, plus a lot about health in general. This is a principle that can coexist with any diet.
Please note: The 70% here is *not* about 70% RAW. You can be 50% or 100% raw and still observe this principle.
Of course I didn't make this up. Many health authorities have advocated a preponderance of fruits & vegetables at about 70%. Paul C. Bragg (Life Extension Specialist) certainly did.
Harvey Diamond (Natural Hygiene scholar) had an entire chapter on it in his book, Fit For Life. It might well be called "FAT For Life," - I read it so much. lol.
The concept is as follows:
Water: How Much Does the Earth Have?
Earth is a watery place, unlike most other planets in our solar system. Water covers over 70 percent of the earth's surface.
The living body is about 70% water and through natural daily movement and evaporation your body loses 2 quarts of water a day. You need to replenish water because your body does not manufacture it on its own. That means 70 percent of your diet should be "high-water-content foods"--fruits and vegetables--which facilitate all body functions.
Suggestion: Consume nothing but fruit or raw fruit juice until noon, then eat salad and vegetables with every meal for the rest of the day.
The Value Of High Water Content Food
Digestion takes probably more energy than anything else. The average meal takes 3 hours and 30 minutes to digest if combined properly. Incorrectly combined food can sometimes take up to 14 hours to digest. This is a very powerful way to conserve energy.
Youve probably heard people say you need to eat more vegetables. I heard that too for a long time. It didn't motivate me to go out and eat it. It wasn't until I understood that food is literally the building blocks of all the substances of your body that I understood the importance of it. What you eat literally becomes your brain, your liver, your kidneys, your skin and your eyes. This is powerful. What you put in to yourself becomes part of your body.
Include in your diet things like tomatoes and watermelons. These things contain 90 to 95% water so that there is nothing that you have to lose by feasting on them. They fill you up without adding to the pounds.
AN INTERESTING READ:
A Living Body Needs Living Water.
Many foods with a high water content are among some of the best foods to help lose weight. They are often low in calories plus increasing water intake has been shown to benefit weight loss.*
Since our bodies are about 70 percent water, it makes sense that 70 percent of the food we eat should be high in water content. People who eat foods with high water content will not need to drink as much water. The living water from the food they eat will perform the function of carrying nutrients to the cells while also cleaning them. In fact, living water is a far superior way of keeping the body hydrated and cleansed so it may carry out its living functions with as little energy expenditure as possible.
What is living water? How do you achieve this diet?
All the vitamins, minerals, proteins, amino acids, enzymes, carbohydrates, and other nutrients that the human body needs to maintain itself can be found in fruits and vegetables.
The nature of all fruits and vegetables is to have a high content of living water. This living water contains nutrients that are specially processed by plants from soils, the atmosphere, and the cosmos. How the plants of Earth perform this feat of transforming ordinary water into water filled with energy from the universe remains somewhat of a mystery.
However, many of the worlds nutritionists, doctors, and scientists are now believers in the age-old wisdom of eating fresh fruits and vegetables. These people, along with many of the worlds governments and health agencies, are now recommending a diet of foods with high water content. More and more people today are buying and eating high-water-content fruits and vegetables that contain the living water necessary for a long and healthy life. As reported by researcher Alexander Leaf in National Geographic (1973 edition), most long lived people ate a diet of approximately 70 percent fresh fruits and vegetables.
For Those Who Drink Water
(I personally don't like drinking lots of water, but others do. I prefer to get the water from the foods I eat. However, I believe the following also applies to the 70% rule):
Drinking water and losing weight!
"Drink 8 glasses of water each day" is what we hear all the time but what weight loss benefits do we get from drinking water?
All functions within the body require the presence of water. A well hydrated body enables these functions to occur quickly and efficiently. All chemical processes involve energy metabolism and drinking plenty of water will make us feel more energetic and boost our metabolic rate.*
Water makes your metabolism burn calories 3% faster.
Drinking water is important if you're trying to lose weight. Some studies have shown that thirst and hunger sensations are triggered together. If there is a slight dehydration the thirst mechanism may be mistaken for hunger and one may eat when the body is actually craving fluid. As most food contains some water, if one doesn't drink much they may be subconsciously driven to eat more to gain the necessary water supply. However, you also gain the undesired effects of increased calorie consumption. Drinking more water can help to prevent overeating and benefit weight loss.
How Much do I need to drink to benefit losing weight?
For the average person, experts suggest getting at least 64 ounces of water daily or eight 8-ounce glasses. If you are on a diet to lose weight, it is more important to consume more water and keep drinking throughout the day, unless you have any medical condition that doesn't allow much water intake. A good guide for daily intake is to drink 1 ounce of water for every 2 pounds of body weight. A 200 pound person should be drinking around 100 ounces (12.5 cups) of water in order the gain the benefits of increased energy and metabolism.
If exercising is part of a weight loss program, a bit more water should be included to account for water loss from sweating. Drinking water before, during and after exercise will keep energy levels high and help recovery after training.
Many people don't like drinking pure water. Gaining water from eating fruit high in water content is a great way to boost water consumption without drinking it directly. Fruit will also help fill up the stomach with low calories and gain tons of vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients to increase vitality.
Fruit is one of the most healthy and natural foods in existence. There are thousands of different types of fruit available to eat, all of which provide us with strong health benefits. Fruit contains a large number of naturally occurring vitamins, minerals and plant phytochemicals that help benefit health. It has also been shown that eating the whole fruit or juice is best to gain the benefits rather than taking supplements to provide each nutrient separately.
It has been recommended that we should be eating at least 5 pieces of fruit every day in order to gain the full health benefits of eating fruit.
Fruit can also benefit many people wanting to lose weight. Energy consumption is thought to be mainly influenced by the palatability, fiber content, density of energy and the variety of foods. Eating fruit has the benefit of affecting some of these factors. Fruit is also low in sodium so they help reduce the chance of gaining water weight.
You should notice rapid weight loss because the ample fruit consumption helps fill the stomach faster, encouraging less high calorie foods to be consumed. The total calorie consumption will automatically reduce even if we are eating plenty of fruit and vegetables. There is such a variety of fruits available that many can be freely eaten without consuming too many calories thereby controlling weight more effectively.