10 reasons to Eat more Sprouts
Sprouts truly are the best
locally-grown food, yet not enough people eat or grow them. Considering there
many health and environmental benefits, it’s time to consider adding sprouts to
your diet.
Here are 10 reasons to eat more
sprouts:
1. Experts estimate that there can
be up to 100 times more enzymes in sprouts than uncooked fruits and vegetables.
Enzymes are special types of proteins that act as catalysts for all your body’s
functions. Extracting more vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and essential fatty
acids from the foods you eat ensures that your body has the nutritional
building blocks of life to ensure every process works more effectively.
2. The quality of the protein in
the beans, nuts, seeds, or grains improves when it is sprouted. Proteins change
during the soaking and sprouting process, improving its nutritional value. The
amino acid lysine, for example, which is needed to prevent cold sores and to
maintain a healthy immune system increases significantly during the sprouting process.
3. The fiber content of the beans,
nuts, seeds, or grains increases substantially. Fiber is critical to weight
loss. It not only binds to fats and toxins in our body to escort them out, it
ensures that any fat our body breaks down is moved quickly out of the body
before it can resorb through the walls of the intestines (which is the main
place for nutrient absorption into the blood).
4. Vitamin content increases
dramatically. This is especially true of vitamins A, B-complex, C, and E. The
vitamin content of some seeds, grains, beans, or nuts increases by up to 20
times the original value with in only a few days of sprouting. Research shows
that during the sprouting process mung beansprouts (or just beansprouts, as
they are often called) increase in vitamin B1 by up to 285 percent, vitamin B2
by up to 515 percent, and niacin by up to 256 percent.
5. Essential fatty acid content
increases during the sprouting process. Most of us are deficient in these
fat-burning essential fats because they are not common in our diet. Eating more
sprouts is an excellent way to get more of these important nutrients.
6. During sprouting, minerals bind
to protein in the seed, grain, nut, or bean, making them more usable in the
body. This is true of alkaline minerals like calcium, magnesium, and others
than help us to balance our body chemistry for weight loss and better health.
7. Sprouts are the ultimate
locally-grown food. When you grow them yourself you are helping the environment
and ensuring that you are not getting unwanted pesticides, food additives, and
other harmful fat-bolstering chemicals that thwart your weight loss efforts.
8. The energy contained in the
seed, grain, nut, or legume is ignited through soaking and sprouting.
9. Sprouts are alkalizing to your
body. Many illnesses including cancer have been linked to excess acidity in the
body.
10. Sprouts are inexpensive. People
frequently use the cost of healthy foods as an excuse for not eating healthy.
But, with sprouts being so cheap, there really is no excuse for not eating
healthier.
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