A diet high in sprouted foods offers one huge benefit to people; you can access the freshest vegetables on the planet, right from inside your home without having to manage a full vegetable garden. Growing sprouts at home can also work well with the acid alkaline diet, as sprouted foods are themsleves quite alkayzing. By growing them right in your own home, your food can travel just a few feet from your kitchen to your plate, instead of travelling hundreds or even thousands of miles with increased transport costs. This reduces your ‘food miles’, lowering the burden heavy vehicle transport places on the environment.

Most diets today tend to have more foods on the acidic side of the scale, as opposed to either neutral or alkalyzing foods. Many researchers have [noted|observed|identified] the negative effects on the body when an [overabundance|excess] of acidic food in a persons diet [forces|triggers|requires] the body to [produce|manufacture] an [overabundance|excess] of digestive enzymes, which outside of the body are only found in raw vegetables, including sprouts. When the body has to produce a huge amount of digestive enzymes to keep up with the acidic food we eat, without some form of replenishment or supplementing from external sources like food, its ability to manufacture the whole host of other enzymes needed by the body to function properly is reduced.

The visible effects of aging such as wrinkling skin, reduced energy, and increasingly fragile bones are largely induced by the bodies decreased ability to create enzymes (there are many other factors of course but this is a big one). Naturally taking as much of the [load|burden] off the body as possible by eating foods [rich|high] in enzymes is going to lighten the bodies load, [increase|boost] the available non-digestive enzymes, and slow down the aging process. Managing this balance can lead to dramatically improved health and productivity in life, for people of all ages.

This is where Growing sprouts at home comes in either to compliment your existing diet or to be a valuable part of an acid alkaline diet. Sprouts themselves are quite alkaline, are very high in enzymes and eating them helps preserve the acid alkaline balance in the body. In doing so, the need for the body to produce abnormal amounts of digestive enzymes is alleviated, allowing the body to produce the other enzymes it requires to promote good all round health and balance. Given that a sprouter can be fast, simple and low cost to set-up, sprouts are the [ideal|perfect] food to compliment your diet with, in order to promote and enhance healthy bodily processes. There are several methods and types of sprouters on the market today and we [recommend|advocate] the Marche Sprouting Method, as it is cheap, simple, requires no daily rinsing and enables you to produce as little or as much sprouted vegetables as you [like|wish|desire].