Calorie Intake: Limit or not?
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
A Calorie seem to be a tricky thing or has mass marketing and confusion led people down the wrong path when deciding what is a proper diet or lifestyle to follow. Extreme calorie consumption seemed to have come about when the big corporations decided to make cost cheap and add more High Fructose Corn Syrup and highly processed items to our already increasing waist lines.
CALORIE CONSUMPTION IN THE WEST
The ever increasing calorie induced Western diet and way of living has increased Diabetes and Heart Attack/Stroke risk ten fold. Bill Clinton, after having numerous stents and heart procedures finally went the way of the plant based diet where calorie consumption is a non issue because of the highly nutritious generous portions he has been able to consume, not to mention he looks amazing and has lost a tremendous amount of weight. When your body is living off of McDonalds and cookies, cakes, red meat, the calorie amounts you are consuming have zero nutrition so your body needs more and more to satisfy your hunger.
It also seems that the calorie consumption from all the refined sugar we are consuming and highly acidic processed foods are wreaking havoc in our bodies, which we can control and change though alkalizing our bodies. I do not claim to be a doctor by any means, but when I stopped eating all of these foods my body completely started to repair and heal itself, literally thanking me for putting the live foods in it. Now I am NO freak that is going to tell you what to do at the dinner table, but for the amount of terrible and highly acidic forming foods I used to eat, compared to the foods I eat now has completely made me realize that when you are eating highly nutritious foods, calorie consumption does not matter in the least bit, period.
CALORIE RESTRICTION
In the movie “Forks Over Knives” they consistently showed study after study that a plant based diet with zero calorie restriction and virtually no bad fat, only good fat, can help heal your body and prevent a multitude of chronic illnesses that will halt any dream you EVER planned on achieving.
Do you calorie count? Calorie and reading labels can change your life as far as knowing what you are putting into your body. Why not read labels? Do you want to be putting down a 1/4 lb McDonalds cheeseburger that can easily add over 400-500 exra calorie consumption to your daily routine? Do you exercise? Do you get your blood flowing daily? These calorie reducing are very key elements to making sure that your heart is working well and you are not letting food build up and store as fat.
Here is the bottom line and I have been researching this plenty lately, calorie consumption does not seem to matter if you eat a plant based raw diet and have plenty of exercise on a daily basis.
Not many can even sustain a vegan or raw diet because of the lack of knowledge requiring your attention. Most people eat a deficit of calories although they are eating a pure plant based diet and this is not good. When eliminating dairy and the need for meat, you need to sustain your nutritional needs by increasing your calorie intake through eating fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds more or less