Welcome to the Superfoods Handbook! This area is meant to be a useful guide to learning more about Superfoods and the many nutritional benefits one gains from their use and consumption. Feel free to browse through the many articles listed below.

Because superfoods are whole foods that have not been broken down or created by combination, they provide "synergetic nutrition." Synergy means "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts." Synergetic nutrition is the process of eating whole foods rather than extracts or isolated parts of whole foods. When a food enters the body in the whole form it has all of the "co-factors," or related nutrients, needed to process and assimilate nutrients that the body needs.

A whole food diet can replace a processed food diet very successfully, requiring less calories and providing more nutrition and fiber. Whole foods provide more assimilable nutrition. Refined, processed foods have had most of the nutrition of the whole food removed during heating, extraction, mixing or bleaching (which most of our shelf-stable foods have undergone). In our modern world it is becoming increasingly difficult for us to eat whole food in its natural state. This is where superfoods come in. Superfoods can provide whole food nutrition in a concentrated form, as superfoods contain higher amounts of natural nutrition than most foods.

Superfoods can also help the body digest nutritional foods with minimal enzymes required. Digestive enzymes are needed every time food is ingested. Processed foods require more digestive enzymes, as the starches and bleached sugars and charred meats require extraordinary manipulation before the body can extract any useable nutrition. Enzymatic processes are going on all over the body, and the fewer energy that is required to digest food gives the body more energy to exert in other parts of the body, leading to better overall health.

Most superfoods are alkaline forming, especially green foods. Green foods contain large quantities of chlorophyll, and the alkaline-pH helps balance the acid-pH of many foods, especially processed foods. Our western diet is full of acid-forming foods like sugar and meat.

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