| Eating fast food takes a toll on your body, and no | | | | body uses less energy digesting food you'll have |
| where is this more rapidly obvious than in your blood | | | | more energy for work, play and exercise. You'll see a |
| plasma. It's been shown that the blood plasma | | | | noticeable improvement in your life. |
| becomes viscous and cloudy after a meal high in | | | | The idea that your diet can affect the way you feel |
| sodium and fat, and that the vessels feeding blood | | | | isn't a new concept, and you don't have to make |
| to the heart have trouble maintaining sufficient blood | | | | hugely drastic changes to your lifestyle. Just stop and |
| flow. Besides high fat and sodium content, fast food | | | | take a good hard look at what you eat when you |
| meals often contain a lot of highly processed foods, | | | | aren't even paying attention. We get hungry and |
| including white flour. All that fat and processed wheat | | | | reach for something from the snack machine; we |
| makes you feel tired and sluggish as your body | | | | feel a hunger pang in the car and pull over for some |
| struggles to digest it. | | | | fries or a shake to eat on the road... then get home |
| So clearly, a change in our way of eating is | | | | and have dinner! |
| necessary - and one of the healthiest diets is one | | | | Instead, be prepared for these moments of |
| that's at least 75% raw, living foods. By eating a diet | | | | weakness. Have snacks ready, where you need |
| high in raw foods, you'll be eliminating high-fat, high | | | | them. Keep fresh and dried fruits at the office - a |
| sodium and highly processed foods. You can eat a lot | | | | handful of raisins will go a long way towards holding |
| more, because the foods are naturally low in calories | | | | you over until lunch time. Keep a container of |
| - no more 'fake' chemical sweeteners to lower calorie | | | | peanuts or sunflower seeds in the car so you have |
| counts. Eating more raw vegetables and fruits, along | | | | something to nosh on during the drive. By eating |
| with drinking plenty of water, will help you have more | | | | more raw foods and keeping healthy snack |
| energy and feel less tired. All those processed, high | | | | alternatives at arm's reach, you'll find yourself feeling |
| fat foods take so much energy to digest; they leave | | | | healthier, looking healthier, and having more energy. |
| you feeling tired and sluggish. You'll find that as your | | | | |