Galantys Game Plan

Fasting is not some new age hype that all the skinny people talk about.  It is an often ignored, age old custom that is our oldest health remedy.  Fasting is simply taking a break from food…as simple as it is, it can be quite therapeutic.  It takes a lot of energy to digest food.  Those internal organs are hard at work after we ingest a meal.  When we stop taking in food, our digestive system gets a chance to take a rest and our bodies will automatically heal themselves by eliminating toxins and balancing the body’s chemistry.  Health is restored through cleansing.

Years of a diet filled with artificial flavors and dyes, preservatives, pesticides and rancid oils (not to mention the air and water pollution we are exposed to)  takes its toll.  Our systems Read the rest of this entry →

The dreaded morning question…what am I going to put in the kids lunch boxes today?  It has to not only be nutritious and satiating, but it has to be able to withstand the beating it gets en route to school in the backpacks of some fairly rambunctious children.  I stare into the depths of the monster size refrigerator and pantry, both full to the brim with food and think, there’s nothing to eat, despite the fact that a third world nation could live for months on what I have within the confines of those cupboard doors.

Like everything else in my life lately, I am learning to simplify the process of lunch box packing.  I’m sticking mainly to raw fruits and vegetables because they are easy to pack, nutritious and the kids like them.  I round it out with a variety of leftovers such as soup in a thermos, a wrap, sushi, tuna fish on crackers or Read the rest of this entry →

So exactly what is all the hype about raw foods?  Is this just some fashionable new age mumbo jumbo that sounds impressive when chatting up your hot yoga teacher or is there something more to it?  Most of the general population wonders why anyone in their right mind would want to follow such a regime…it sounds like a life based on restriction and deprivation.  Images of people walking around starving half to death munching on raw carrots all day are what jump to mind.

So I’m going to attempt to set the record straight, from my first hand experience with being high raw (eating raw foods about 80% of the time).  A raw foods diet consists of eating living foods only.  This includes uncooked fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouted grains. No food that has been cooked over 112 degrees. Many raw foodists are also vegans meaning they do not consume any animal products whatsoever, but non-vegans can include raw fish, meat and dairy products. 

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