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When searching for how to get the most energy from common foods, remember that it is not so much what food you eat as it is how it was grown, processed and prepared. We are constantly bombarded with both visible and verbal images of food. The food industry as a whole uses the media to persuade us to buy their over processed, calorie laden, delicious tasting products. However, the one word missing here is nutritional.

Almost all foods in their natural state are healthy choices. However, how many of these natural foods do we have access to? Large corporate farming conglomerates have genetically altered many foods to improve their bottom line. Food producing animals are pumped full of antibiotics, steroids and other growth enhancing drugs to produce bulk instead of quality.

Little of what we buy at the grocery store today is natural, unless, we buy organically grown foods and those that come from organically raised animals. Fields are sprayed with chemical pesticides and the soil is full of chemical fertilizers. Organic means that no drugs or chemicals were used in the raising and producing of that food.

While buying foods labeled USDA Organic or finding a local farmer, who uses the organic method, to buy your produce from, are two ways of obtaining the best nature has to offer, growing your own is the best. This will eliminate the chemicals as well as the over processing and removal of natural goodness.

The next step is how you process your fresh foods. Freezing and canning are both viable options for building a pantry. Drying is also an option but usually requires the use of salt or smoking, neither of which is good for you. Natural drying of fruits and vegetables is healthy.

One general rule to remember about preparing your food for consumption is that the less done to the food, the better it is for you. There are a few exceptions to this rule such as some foods, which the body can better digest if precooked a little. Broccoli and carrots are examples of this.

We must learn to change our thinking and unlearn bad habits we have learned about food. Some of the first foods a dieter will eliminate are potatoes and breads. Neither of which is bad for you. It is what we do to them that make them void of goodness or energy production in our body.

Most bread today is highly processed. This removes the nutritional value, so the manufacturers add in artificial nutrition and write across the package front; Fortified with vitamins and minerals. Man cannot make it like nature

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