Superfood Diets and the Top 10 Superfoods
Superfood is a term used to describe food with high phytonutrient content and other power-packed nutrient values that are massively abundant and bio-available to the human organism. For example, blueberries are often considered a superfood (or superfruit) because they contain significant amounts of antioxidants, anthocyanins, vitamin C, manganese and dietary fiber. For more information on raw superfoods, get David Wolfe's new book Superfoods: The Food and Medicine of the Future, which was released April, 2009 on Random House. 
 Corin's favorite superfoods for your brain are: Walnuts, Figs, Apricots, Raw Cacao, and Colloidial Gold. Scroll down to see a much larger list of all the most powerful superfoods on a living foods diet! Raw, living food lifestyles take the superfood concept to the next level because none of the food has been denatured by heat, storage, or other alteration. Not only is basically everything you eat on living food diets a "superfood," making your entire diet truly a superfood diet, but the raw food lifestyle has brought onto the market exotic superfoods from all over the world and created awareness about the most important superfoods on the planet. For example, without the work of raw food pioneer David Wolfe, we would not even know about raw cacao, nor have a powerful Blue Mangosteen supplement, nor would so many people have as much awareness about other exotic superfoods like goji berries as they do now. While a good hearty bunch of organic lettuce contains a lot of health giving nutrition, foods like mangosteen and cacao pack a lot more punch per serving, hence some people like to call them "superfoods." Understandably, many do not think of cacao as a superfood, but as a stimulant or special treat. To read more about this go here. Nevertheless, cacao is powerpacked with antioxidants and minerals, even if one does not consider it a food, and is a precious condiment to enjoy occasionally. SuperFoods Library eBook
Click the Book for more info.! Eat Yourself Healthy With The Best of the Best Nature Has to Offer The SuperFoods RX SystemThe traditional Superfoods diets out there, including The SuperFoods RX system by Steven Pratt, are still based on a cooked-food diet and do not have awareness about hybridized/wild foods , even suggesting hybridized kiwis and cooked dark chocolate. Now, cooked dark chocolate is definitely high in antioxidants, but the medicinal, phytonutrient, nutritional, and antioxidant value of raw cacao (raw chocolate straight from the bean) is dramatically more impressive than cooked dark chocolate, and you won't be consuming "the white man's" white sugar nor dairy by using it either. A major bonus! Furthermore, all cooked and processed chocolate contains rancid omega 6 fatty acids (trans-fat) that can cause an inflammatory reaction when one eats cooked chocolate and works against any of the remaining free radicals within the cooked chocolate. Randid fats means free radicals, and free radicals mean increased risk for heart disease and other diseases of inflammation! Raw chocolate is just so much better :-). His diet also suggest eating turkey, wild salmon, soy, oats, and beans, none of which many nutritional experts would consider to be superfoods, considering that many would never consider any kind of meat or fish a superfood due to the level of toxins contained in animal tissues and the fact that you are making your body work extra hard to detox these, also that many people are allergic to soy and oats. Additionally, commercial beans (especially the soy bean) are all quite hybridized and very starchy foods. Oats are a grain with gluten, basically glue, and not in any way an optimal food. You will definitely not find these foods on a top 10 superfoods list, nor on most people's superfoods list at all. Dr. Pratt also recommends kiwi as a superfood, but he
must not know how hybridized kiwis are, that they are too high in sugar, they have non-viable seeds from hybridization and will not reproduce on their own in nature, and there are many, many better substitutes for this less-than
high quality fruit. Finally, Dr. Pratt recommends yogurt, which many Despite these non-superfood items (in my opinion), Dr. Pratt recommends many "superfoods" that actually show up in living food diets daily. This includes apples with the skin, avocado, blueberries, broccoli, cinnamon, dried superfruits, extra virgin olive oil, garlic, honey, onion, oranges, pomegranates, pumpkin, spinach, tea, tomatoes, and walnuts.
The Raw, Living Foods SuperFood Diet!In addition to the superfoods recommended by Dr. Pratt in his SuperFoods RX plan, the entire raw food diet is
essentially entirely superfoods! To begin with, on a living food, raw food diet, one can create powerful superfoods on their own by making coconut kefir quite easily and get even better effects than from yogurt, as well as making sauerkraut and seed cheeses. Both would be examples of live food items that have a lot more benefit than dairy yogurt, because coconut and cabbage are also both excellent superfoods! If you want to maximize the superfoods in your diet, there is no better way to do so then to start transitioning to having more raw and living food recipes in your diet routine. For example, by weight, raw cacao (raw chocolate) has more antioxidants than red wine, blueberries, acai, pomegranates, and goji berries COMBINED!
Some of the most powerful superfoods on a raw, living food diet, that aren't already mentioned by Dr.Pratt in his SuperFoods RX system   Return from Superfood diets and the top 10 Superfoods to raw-living-food-success Home Page...
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experts would also not recommend due to dairy
allergies and the many toxins in dairy today. He recommends yogurt for a good reason, because people do need to be eating foods with lactic acid bacteria and taking probiotic (healthy bacteria) supplements, but in line with many
other nutritional experts, I do not suggest eating dairy yogurt for an optimal diet. Instead of mucus forming, pus-filled dairy, make your own delicious vegan yogurt out of raw macadamia nuts, brazil nuts, or cacao nuts. Yum! If
I were to remove Chia Seed from my Top 10 Superfoods List, then I would replace it with a fermented food like sauerkraut or vegan nut yogurt.
(Check out this raw living food pumpkin cheesecake to the right! The first time I had a living pumkin pie I couldn't believe how amazing it was to be eating real pumpkin, totally different then what you get in a can; it was delicous, who would have known!) Furthermore, as mentioned above, the raw diet goes above and beyond these wonderful recommendations by Dr. Pratt, to include the most powerful superfoods know to man, none of which he even mentions. This makes since though because doctors get next to no nutritional training in medical school, but I'm sure he is very helpful to those still eating a standard american diet (S.A.D.) diet, so his work is important and valid still for those people!
