Welcome to the section on different diets and what works for you. Firstly, we're going to attach on green foods. Now it's been known for millennia that green foods and really, really healthy for us. We always say to our children that we make sure you eat the greens. And there's a reason behind that because green foods are packed full of nutrients. They give us a lot of energy and vitality.

And that's why we need to take onboard a lot of green foods if we want to start feeling rejuvenated after we eat meat. Now, let's be honest, many of us have been to those restaurants and we were we'd have like a very big slap up meal with them. Maybe there's meat on them and cheese, bread, all of the stodgy heavy foods which do make us feel satisfied afterwards. And we really do know that we've had a good meal. But when we leave that restaurant or just after we've eaten up We could do a 20 minute nap. Because we're feeling so tired though the ingestion just can't cope with all of that food.

So instead, we want to be trying to eat a lighter, more nutritious diet, it's going to be easier than the digestion. And it's going to be a lot easier for us in order for us to get more energy out of the food and vitality of the food because when we don't look burden in our digestion like that, then it's actually having the adverse effect. So we may be getting a lot of nutrients on board, but actually, well first of all the good nutrients and a lot of the time they're not there hydrogenated fats and salt, etc. So all you want to be doing is aiming for nutritious, delicious, but also like small meals, which give us lots of energy, but don't take that much energy to digest. That's the key, and I need a lot more greens to food. So Maybe we could go for the green and every meal time, even a breakfast you can get a green by having a smoothie or a juice.

So there's no excuses. So enjoy incorporating green foods into your life. Gluten Free grains, another rejuvenated food. We can also find gluten free grain seeds, we can't live with the grains but the seeds things like quinoa, buckwheat, Midland, etc. Those are very, very light foods compared with I mean rice is okay. But things like wheat and your processed flowers, they can be very difficult on the digestion because they've been highly processed.

And also they're quite hard to break down. Whereas the ones like the quinoa, buckwheat, millet, the very light in the system. They're good for blood sugars, the highest protein. So if you needed more of a plant based diet, then these had to give you that protein that you're looking for also And then they're fairly nice and versatile. You can use them in standard verb things like rice. You can add them.

You can use like Kenworth, for example, with your cubbies. You can use milette instead of porridge for example. There's so many different things you can even have porridge but go for the gluten free porridge because that gives less burden into the digestion. You may have noticed when you have things with gluten in them, that afterwards you may feel a little bit bloated. Or maybe you can't eat for a good few hours later, or maybe even for the rest of the day because you you feel really burdened in your digestion. This is because the gluten is very difficult to break down.

It's like clear when it goes into the system. It can clog that and then prevent us from digesting foods later on in the day. And it just causes a big clogger and then all the other food goes on top for men. And then we're getting a lot of nasty bacteria and stuff in our stomach. So the idea is to eat lightly so that the fire digestion can burn it up very fast. And then you can get utilize the energy out of it, rather than it sitting on our digestion as us in lots of lot of our energy to print down the food instead of gaining the energy out to the food.

So gluten free grains is a really good one for that. Especially like I said, the quinoa, buckwheat and millet. They've really worked for us and they really work for our clients as well. We find that they get a lot from them. Moving on then we use things like sprouted sprouted seeds. These are fantastic and they are so rejuvenating.

You have sprouted seeds solid for example during the summer. Even during the Windex as your body temperature starts to increase. You can start To take on more raw foods all year round, there's a lot of people have suggested that when they take on raw foods, actually their body temperature increases. So it has the opposite effect to what people say. Because in Chinese traditional medicine, especially if you've got a cold body type, and generally you'd be advised to have hot food, which we would also advise. But what some raw foodist have experienced is that when they've gone on to a raw food diet, and they've had to go cold body type, actually, their body temperature started to increase.

So it has the opposite effect. I mean, it doesn't work for everybody. And like I said, When clients come into us with a cold body, we generally tend to advise hot foods as well, just to get the body temperature up a little and then start incorporating. It doesn't have to be a full raw food diet, but incorporate in raw foods with every meal. And then this helps to get the enzymes that we need in order to digest our food. So raw foods, especially sprouted raw foods, like pulses and seeds, then you start to get so much nutrition from them but not only the nutrition, the vitality, because that seed is just about to grow, then within that seed is all of the nutrients that we need to grow also.

So when we take that on, we gain maximum benefit from a nutritional standpoint, but also from an energy standpoint. So that's a top tip in order to gain vitality from our foods is sprouted using sprouted seeds, grains. plant based proteins, maybe another way that you can start to get more vitality and energy of the foods is so many athletes these days, which have turned to a plant based diet actually realize this strength, stamina and energy levels have increased instead of decreasing like they will expect in or like what people prefer Did for many years. So now it's been proven not only proven scientifically but proven by athletes that have walked the talk, they started putting a plant based diet rather than the conventional meat, white fish, white meat, fish, proteins, etc. And they've actually realized that their energy levels have increased. So through experience, they realize that maybe this what we've been talking about proteins isn't actually true.

And animal based proteins are actually more difficult to digest than plant based proteins, because plant based proteins, naturally like the nature, so in the nature, so there's less density within them. So when we design them, it's much easier for the body to digest and get the nutrients it needs in order to grow, repair and build the strength that we need from the proteins. So that could be a nice little tip. Not to say that you have to go ahead and represent vegetarian overnight. But if you start introducing plant based proteins on maybe two, three meals a week, some people who meet every Monday for example, and then they start realizing that when they go down to the meat on the Monday that they feel so good and then they start to extend it into another couple of days a week. just test it for yourself and see how you feel.

If you start to feel like then then why not give it a try for another few days. And see how you get on without when there's a lot like there is easier than digestion and it helps to increase the alkalinity of the body. One way of introducing greens like we spoke about earlier, is you can steam them, you don't have to necessarily eat them raw. You can steam the greens or lightly cook them but not overcooking them because in the West I mean, a Sunday dinner is a prime example of this when we have a Sunday dinner last night home cooked wenzer severely overcooked, we boil vegetables, and we boil them for so long and high temperatures that we lose a lot of nutrients. That's why a lot of chefs to authentic because when they cook in our venting, they know the nutrients are still locked within the food.

We if we're not used to it, it might be a little bit difficult to get used to the texture initially. But the the longer you're cooking food for in general, the longer you're cooking your food for, the more nutrients that you're going to be losing. So you can start to just steam for maybe five minutes for your vegetables, depending on what they are, of course, and that it cooks them but it doesn't take away the nutrients. So that's a good way to add the greens. And you can also use greens like I mentioned earlier in smoothies and juices, and that's a great way especially for kids, because kids sometimes will see green foods and they'll be averse and black. If you can get them to taste it and it tastes quite sweet because perhaps you've got like an apple or something in the smoothie or in the juice, it tastes weak but it looks cream so that can get the psychology work on, you know, they can start getting used to green foods like that.

And then gradually taking more of the sweetness out of it sort of it just can the benefits of the green foods. Because it can be a bit of a psychological thing if we look at a green food, especially as a child, if we look at a green food, then think, oh god, you know, it doesn't look too appetizing compared with all of these things that be marketed well, etc, especially sweets, different flavor and colors and they are looking at something green maybe not attractive, especially if we're not into health initially. But if we introduce it and study it and realize actually it's pretty tasty, then we'd be enticed to do it again and again and again. So that's just a little tip on how we can introduce more green foods into layer.