Raw Food Diet

What does a raw food diet provide?

The best way to understand this is to understand what happens when food is cooked. Now, before I get into this, I want to say that I don’t think that it is for everyone and I am not even suggesting that a person should stop eating cooked food. It has its place. I am just pointing out in this page that there is a scale of foods and how they help cells survive or prevent them from surviving.

Cooked foods are simply lower on this scale. There are better choices and worse choices.

It is just that natural weight loss is so unbelievably assisted by simply going raw for a period of time until you meet your target and if you want to return to cooked foods, do so in a transition so that your body can retain its weight loss.

The Basic Tenet of the Raw Food Diet

The basic tenet of most raw food diets is that food should be live. Foods that have been cooked above a certain temperature (debatably something between 92 and 118 degrees farenheit) are considered dead because the enzymes – one of the vital ingredients that enables cells to function, and that also aid in our digestion – change shape when heated and become useless.

Raw foods are rich in water, fiber, easily absorbed vitamins and minerals, and generally make the body more alkali and less acidic, strengthening the immune system. Many people report more energy, strength, endurance, emotional balance and mental clarity on a raw food diet. Some even claim raw dieting has restored their health after debilitating or "terminal" illnesses.

What does Heat do to Raw Food?

Heat changes the molecular structure of foods, rendering nutrients mostly unusable. Cooked and otherwise denatured or processed food is less digestible than raw food. Anything that is consumed that cannot be digested or stored must be eliminated as waste. Eating cooked food produces so much waste in the body that our eliminative organs cannot keep up, and waste accumulates. It is this accumulation that leads to an overall toxemic state in the body and results in disease. Biologically appropriate, raw food is almost entirely usable by the body, and provides all the nutrients that the body requires, as it does for all the other species of animals on the planet.

Cooking is a process of food destruction from the moment heat is applied to the foodstuff. Long before dry ashes result, food values are totally destroyed. If you put your hand for just a moment into boiling water, or on a hot stove, that should forever persuade you just how destructive temperatures for perhaps half an hour or more are! What was living substance becomes totally dead very rapidly with exposure to heat!

Proteins begin coagulating and delaminating, as may be plainly seen in the case of eggs and cheese when their temperature reaches only 118 degrees. At temperatures commonly applied in cooking, they are completely devoid of nutritive values. Worse yet...

Cooked proteins are readily putrefied by bacteria in the digestive tract and give rise to some very potent poisons such as ptomaine's, leukomaines, mercaptans, indoles, skatoles, ammonias, hydrogen sulfide, putrescine, cadaverine and yet more. These are absorbed into the portal blood and cause myriad's of disease conditions.

Cooking renders foods toxic! The toxicity of the deranged debris of cooking is confirmed by the doubling and tripling of the white blood cells after the eating of a cooked food meal. The white blood cells are a first line of defense and are, collectively, popularly called "the immune system."

As confirmed by hundred of researches cited in the prestigious National Academy of Science's National Research Council's book, "Diet, Nutrition and Cancer," all cooking quickly generates mutagens and carcinogens in foods. When you eat cooked carbohydrates, proteins and fats you are eating numerous mutagenic (carcinogenic) products caused by cooking.

Vitamins are Quickly Destroyed by Cooking

Minerals quickly lose their organic context and are returned to their native state as they occur in soil, sea water, rocks, metals and so on. In such a state they are unusable and the body often shunts them aside where they may combine with saturated fats and cholesterol in the circulatory system, thus clogging it up with their cement-like plaque. Over 90% of Americans have plaque in their arteries! Worse yet, inorganic minerals are highly toxic. As an example we know iodine to be an essential nutrient. Yet, in its inorganic state, it bears the skull and crossbones. Take iron as an example. Essential as it is, if taken in the inorganic state it causes hepatitis and hemochromatosis.

Heated fats are especially damaging because they are altered to form acroleins, free radicals, other mutagens and carcinogens as confirmed in the aforementioned publication, "Diet, Nutrition and Cancer. "

Raw Rots Later

Cooked foods not only take longer to digest but often prove to be indigestible and unassailable as in the case of heated proteins. Cooked foods quickly ferment and putrefy in the intestinal tract while living foods are almost totally absorbed before they're oxidized enough for yeast and bacterial ferments and putrefaction.

This evidenced by the fact that the average conventional eater has about two pounds of intestinal bacteria whereas living food eaters have only a few ounces. About 20% of the feces of cooked food eaters is dead bacteria whereas living food eaters give off only a fraction as much dead bacteria.

If you cook a potato and put it on the counter alongside a raw one, the raw potato will last for weeks and even sprout whereas the cooked potato will ferment in one or two days. This gives you some idea about what happens to cooked foods in the intestinal tract where fermentation and putrefaction that may take place in a day or two in the open occurs in an hour or two in the intestinal tract. Again, indigestion is an indication that fermentation and/or putrefaction is talking place.

The raw food diet is the reverse of all the above.

There are two other factors that I feel are of prime importance when understanding a raw food diet.

1) Negative ions. An ion is an atom or molecule or group that has lost or gained one or more electrons. The world we live in, on a molecular level is in constant flux and chaos. Energy moves in and out of masses and in different velocities. These changes in energy are what change the charge of the atom or molecule.

I am sure you know what static electricity is. That is caused by some materials either losing or gaining electrons. And like a magnet when there is a positively charged material in proximity to another negatively charged material they will attract and adhere to each other.

This is actually what holds together all matter. The chair you are sitting on is held together by this magnetic force.

When foods get processed away from their raw state, they become positively charged. That is not a good thing. That means that electrons are lost. The more electrons the more negative the charge.

When your body becomes “acid” it means it is loosing electrons and getting more positively charged.

Raw natural states of foods contain an abundance of negatively charge ions. When you go to a place of nature or a beach you can experience this feeling all around you. What you are feeling are the negative ions floating in the air.

Cooked foods are so stripped of electrons because of the heat energy applied to it. Raw food diets floods the body with these negatively charged electrons.

That is why they cause your blood to become acid. Your blood is losing all its negative ions because they combine with the positive ions to neutralize them.

By eating raw foods and a raw food diet, you add negative ions to your body. This abundance will constantly bind to positive ions and take them out of the body.

2) Raw food contains LIFE! This is more anecdotal because western science has not developed devices to measure this but living foods contain … life! You are ingesting life itself when on a raw food diet. Because this is anecdotal only people who have been on a raw food diet will know what I am referring to. There is a quality that you attain when you go on this that cannot be explained another way or by current modern technology.

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