B io ph ile Issu e 18 - Biophile Magazine

aw food lifeEnergetic Eating by Beryn DanielEnergy. We use this term in 101different contexts: potential energy,kinetic energy, energy healing, freeenergy, new energy, ‘I don’t haveenough energy’ or ‘my kids have toomuch of it!’.What about energetic eating?are incredibly high in vitamins, minerals,trace elements and phytonutrients, makingthem some of the most nutrient densefoods on the planet. They are alive withenergy and naturally that energy becomesyour energy when you eat these foods.Most importantly superfoods are foods– wholefoods with different inherent abilitiesto absorb different minerals. They arenot man-made supplements.four of my favouritesuperfoodsThe dictionary definition of energy is ‘thecapacity of a body or system to do work’,which simply means the ability to move.We usually define energy by how muchGET UP AND GO we have. The truth iseverything is energy. Everything moves,vibrates and resonates at different speedsand frequencies, but it is all energy.And our food is no different.On a food level –Every food we eat has a different energy,resonance and vibration.What’s more is that once you put that foodinto your mouth and start to digest it – itsenergy becomes your energy. When youstart to understand food at this vibrationallevel it becomes obvious that you donot want to put the energy vibration of abattery-bred, hormone-pumped chickeninto your body. The energetic value of thatfood is oppression and fear – it’s beencaged its entire life. Do you really wantthose stressed molecules floating aroundin your system? Would you put milk intoyour petrol cap?Of course not! Why not? Because itwouldn’t move – it would have no energyto take you from point A to point B. So whyroutinely day after day choose to put thelowest quality food fuel into your body?Here’s the flipside reality open to you. Thepicture looks quite different when youimagine putting Superfoods into yourbody. Again, I’m sure I need to qualifywhat I mean by superfoods.Superfoods are mineral rich, nutrientdense, energetic raw and living foods. Asuperfood can be a home grown livingsprout or a raw cacao bean from thejungles of South America. The energeticvalues of these foods are spectacular. Theenergetic value is held within the factthat they are 1. raw, meaning they havenot been destroyed by heat and 2. theyOn Day 3 of our Elements of Health rawfood course we look at over 15 differentsuperfoods in detail.Here are justfour of my favourite foods:super-Aloe FeroxI love this one because it is native to SouthAfrica and if you go hiking in certainplaces you can pick it yourself. Itstimulates the production of collagenwhich keeps the flexibility inyour skin, bones, joints and tissues.It’s also an excellent overall detoxifier. It’santi-parasitic and good for the digestivesystem.goji BerriesThis is a superfood that hails from Chinaand has been revered in Chinese medicinefor hundreds of years. It is routinely usedin cases of obesity and diabetes. It is a lowsugar dried fruit and is exceptionally highin vitamin C. It has 50 x more vitamin Cthan oranges and 2000% more antioxidants.They are also rich in trace minerals,proteins and omega oils just to get started.WheatgrassA healthy diet is very much based on ratio.It’s not so much about counting caloriesand eating x amount of this or that foodit’s about what proportion they are eatenin, in relation to one another. For exampleif you eat a diet of solely Goji berries, eventhough they are a fantastic superfood,your diet will eventually become unbalanced.It’s easy to go for high fatty foods,even foods that contain good fats such asnuts and overdo it, but no-one ever seemsto overdo it on the greens. Almost everyoneoverlooks their greens and there’ssimply no way of getting around it – eatinggreen foods is fundamental.Grasses in particular have the ability toabsorb all 92 trace minerals, so if you wantAloe ferox is indigenous to SouthAfrica and is an excellent detoxifierTiny, red goji Berries areregarded as one of the earth’s mostnutritionally rich foodsRaw cacao comes in three forms:whole beans, cacao powder or cacaonibs (crushed beans)A tot glass of freshly juicedwheatgrass is said to be equivalentto two plates of veggies40 Biophile Issue 18