| Drinking alcohol leads to a number of degenerative | | | | include: Crone’s, lupus, MS, cancer, heart |
| diseases for one simple reason: dehydration. The | | | | disease, atherosclerosis, stroke, diabetes, |
| severe dehydrating effects of alcohol on the | | | | Alzheimer’s, and dementia. Any illness or |
| human body can and will cause serious problems | | | | disease, though, will be made worse with the use |
| over the long term, and these issues may not be | | | | of alcohol and its associated dehydration. |
| easily reversed. Find out why dehydration is your | | | | |
| body’s worst enemy. | | | | If you want to kick your addiction to alcohol one |
| There is one major reason to stay completely | | | | of the most natural ways to do it (which may |
| away from alcoholic beverages of any sort. | | | | also lead to a spiritual awakening for you) is to |
| Alcohol is incredibly dehydrating. The human body | | | | switch cold turkey to a raw foods diet. Within a |
| requires a high level of hydration to function | | | | couple weeks of switching to eating only raw, |
| properly. Estimates on the percentage of water in | | | | vegan food your body will tell you to stop |
| the human body runs from 60% up to around | | | | drinking, and for the first time you will not only |
| 75%. Most functions in your body rely a great | | | | listen, you will be able to agree and comply with |
| deal on certain elements, such as water and | | | | your body’s request. The raw foods diet |
| minerals, to be present and in perfect balance to | | | | detoxifies the body better than any other diet. It |
| one another. When you drink alcohol chronically, | | | | will rebuild you from the inside out because you |
| you are also chronically dehydrated, unless you | | | | will finally be feeding it the high nutrition that it has |
| are doing an astonishing job of drinking plenty of | | | | been wanting. Interestingly, alcoholism is actually a |
| water every day. And by plenty, for an alcoholic, | | | | sugar addiction. When you balance out your body |
| I would say a gallon of water every day would be | | | | chemistry with the use of raw foods, especially a |
| a minimum. And that has to be counted | | | | lot of dark, leafy greens, your cravings for sugar |
| separately from any water included in your | | | | (and alcohol) will begin to go away. It happens |
| alcoholic beverages. So, if you drink an 8 oz. | | | | pretty quickly too. |
| bourbon and water, the water part doesn’t | | | | |
| count toward your hydration needs. | | | | This is not a diet that you go on to just reduce |
| | | | | weight; this is for the rest of your life. When you |
| If you are drinking a lot of alcohol daily and also | | | | experience the deeply intense affects that eating |
| not drinking a lot of water, you are running a | | | | raw foods have on you, and you stick with it for |
| very high risk of early death from a variety of | | | | more than a few months, you won’t want |
| degenerative diseases. These diseases would | | | | to go back. |