Give it Up! Top 3 Gross Vices

By Monica D. Siembor

If you want to be skinny and healthy, you need to let go of your gross vices. While there are many gross vices to eliminate, coffee, cheese, and refined sugar are certainly on the top of the list. These “foods” are highly cooked and processed. They are extremely addictive, and you’re complicating your life by letting them get a hold of you.
When you let go of your addictions to cooked and processed foods, you will fully experience and truly enjoy the scrumptious flavors raw fruits and greens have to offer. When we eat these perfect foods, we function optimally—no more nagging cravings, mood swings, sugar imbalances, or fatty globules that set us off on the path of self loathing. Tender raw fruits and leafy greens will bring you way more satisfaction than any cooked food you think you can’t live without. What’s more, you’ll finally be skinny and healthy, focusing on living your life instead of living for your next cooked-food fix.

Let’s examine these top 3 gross vices:

COFFEE

Face it—coffee makes your breath stink like a sewer. Aside from its offensive effects on your breath, it’s also highly acidic. High acidity in the body causes you to become fat as you produce more fat cells to protect your organs from the acidity. If this isn’t a good enough reason to give up coffee, how about this one . . . it’s laden with chemical pesticides as the beans are imported from countries that use pesticides to grow their crops. Plus, the sugar and milk you add to your daily brew only exacerbate the problem as they are highly acidic and addictive as well. It’s time to trade in your cup of Joe for a banana mango smoothie.

CHEESE

Don’t panic. I know this is going to be a tough one for most of you, but it has to go. You will never be skinny and healthy if you continue to eat cheese or any diary products for that matter. Cheese is one of the worst foods for you as it is one of the most putrefied foods. It is made by the process of rotting the casein in milk with bacteria. The result is a putrefied, fermented, highly addictive, highly acidic product—cheese. It is also pasteurized, a fancy word for cooked. Because dairy products are pasteurized, they cause acidity and excess mucus in the body that lead to allergies, colds, and eventually more serious illnesses. According to Dr. Douglas N. Graham, if dairy products were eliminated from our diets, “hospitals would virtually empty out and physicians’ waiting rooms would be mostly vacated.” Cheese is also extremely hard to digest and ferments in the digestive tract, resulting in toxic residue and excess fat. Since 70% - 80% of the calories in cheese come from fat, you’ll be amazed at the amount of weight you will lose by giving it up.

REFINED SUGAR

It’s everywhere, in cereals, condiments, junk food, restaurant food, “health” foods, etc. Eventually, it ends up on your hips and thighs in dimply fatty globules. Food manufactures know how highly addictive this substance is, so they add it to everything so you’ll keep coming back for more. Don’t let the sugar industry push this drug on you anymore. It causes severe imbalances in your blood sugar level and leads to mood swings, poor concentration, depression, and exhaustion. When eaten with a high fat diet, diabetes is often the result. It also contributes to an overproduction of yeast—nasty! And don’t even think about sugar-free foods or sugar substitutes, such as Sweet-N-Low, NutraSweet, and Equal. These dangerous chemical concoctions are even more acidic and addictive than refined sugar, so you’ll gain even more weight and create even more fat cells by consuming these little devils. Break free from the sugar blues—opt for fruit instead.

Of course you will have cravings for these foods at first. Once your body detoxifies, however, and you are clean and pure, the cravings will diminish. Trade all of these gross vices in for fruit—fruit, fruit, and more fruit. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have luscious fruit than pesticide laden coffee, putrid fermenting cheese, and fat producing refined sugar.

Remember to transition at your own pace. Depending on where you are in your raw journey, you may choose to give up these gross vices all at once, give them up over time, or just limit them in you diet. Always, the key is: increase your consumption of tender fruits and leafy greens, and decrease your consumption of cooked and processed foods.