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