How to Stay Healthy and Energetic in Summer

Summer is the best season to recover your vital energy and health. Sun provides generously the earth with light and heat, and an abundant variety of fruits, vegetables and herbs is available. Summer is the season of raw foods that can provide for you active enzymes, vitamins and minerals. Sunbeams will additionally enrich your blood and will boost your health, vitality and energy.

To take advantage of this extremely favorable season Vita Rama Health Center recommends you the following:

• Drink more water. Always start the day with a glass or two of pure warm water. It is advisable to drink 1 glass of water 15 minutes before each meal.
• Consume more raw fresh seasonal foods (fruits and vegetables) to load your body with enzymes and vital energy. Fruits and vegetables contain a variety of nutrients essential to human health.
• Eat more seasonal fruits traditional for Bulgaria, such as strawberries, cherries, peaches, apricots, melons, watermelons, figs, grapes, persimmons. They are an excellent replacement for sweets such as chocolate, waffles and other refined products. Remember that glucose is the main propulsion fuel for every single body cell. It is available in fruits in an easily absorbable form. Here's why you should not miss the opportunity to recharge your body by consuming large quantities of them in the summer. To fully absorb the fruit sugar, cut fats to 10 percent out of your total amount of calories. You should be aware that any product, whether it's fruit, vegetable, seeds or other, contains certain amounts of fats.
• Replace canned juice with а freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juice.
• Stop consuming concentrated fats such as oils, butter, and olive oil. Replace them with a lot of green leafy vegetables and minimal consumption of olives, avocados, seeds and nuts (no more than 20 to 30 grams per day).
• Cleanse your body switching for a few days to a fruits or fruits and salads diet only.
• The best option for a summer diet is fruits and salads consumption during the daytime, and in the evening eat cooked food, focusing on the gluten-free cereals and legumes at a 3:1 ratio.
• Avoid heavy and fatty foodssuch as meat, dairy and refined products and replace them with gluten-free grains and legumes such as brown rice, millet, buckwheat, corn, quinoa, amaranth, chickpeas, beans, lentils.
• However, if you consume animal products, domestic raw milk of up to 80 ml is recommended, two to three times a week.
• Expose more to sunlight to get adequate amounts of vitamin D.

If you want to improve your health and vitality, you can join our special healthy summer programs:

• Vitality
• Health
• Weight Loss
• Detox
• Healthy vacation