Sunday, July 12, 2009

How Enzymes In Food Boost Health

By Terry Adams

Enzymes have been discovered to be the key component to a healthy lifestyle. Raw food products have been shown to be full of these enzymes which are metabolic catalysts. They are important chemical compounds that help in the digestion or breakdown of food and help with its absorption into the circulatory system.

As well as the gut, they are found all over the body where they are important for the overall body functioning. They can be found everywhere from the muscles, where they control muscle contraction to the brain where they are responsible for the transmission of electrical signals in the neural tissue. Nothing much really can happen in the body without these chemicals.

The more of these enzymes you take in via food groups such as fruit and vegetables the less your own body will be depleted of its own chemical supply, so it can work on many of the other processes that help maximize your own body's potential.

Cooking destroys a lot of the enzymes in food, which are very sensitive to heat, than when eating the food raw. To combat this we often have to eat more of the cooked food to get the same amount of these chemicals which increases the calorie intake and also increases the general demands on the body. Eating food raw puts a lot less demands on the body than cooked food.

Eating raw foods like fruit and vegetables will often satisfy your hunger more quickly than eating the same foods cooked. The less calorie input not only reduced the risk of obesity but, due to the lower demands on the body, systems it also reduces the rate of aging.

Eating salads and drinking fruit juices is a great way to get raw fruit and vegetables into the body. Eating a salad every other day and drinking fruit juices every day will provide you with many enzymes and will be a significant boost to your health.

A quick and delicious way of getting all of your nutrients and enzymes is to consume a daily juice of a combination of fruit and vegetables. Some fish and meat can be eaten in its raw state which will also boost the nutrients and enzymes supplied by them in the same way. Eating a rare steak will, however, not only increase the nutrients supplied but will also be easier to digest. This will, in turn, reduce the risk of complaints such as constipation.

If planning to undertake this dietary advice, rather than just go into it head on, it is often worthwhile slowly building up to it by slowly replacing some of the foods you eat each day with more fruit and vegetables. You can then do this slowly, over time, and before you know it you will be experiencing the benefits.

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