Andreas Moritz
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 If salad is part of your meal, eat it at the beginning, before eating any cooked food. Since raw foods require different digestive enzymes than those needed for digesting cooked foods, eating these food items separately, i.e., one after the other, makes it easier on the digestive system. Eating raw food items after having eaten cooked foods will leave them mostly undigested and subject to fermentation. Avoid cooked foods items in your salad, especially protein foods. (More information on this follows. |
Tom Bohager
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 It is here that enzymes found in raw food pre-digest what has been consumed. When cooked food is eaten, enzymes are supplied from other organs to digest the cooked food. This produces a constant drain of enzymes from the immune system and other important organs. ţAny organ or gland will grow more cells and become larger if the demand placed on it exceeds its ability to function, much the same as a person's muscles will grow if they lift weights. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 Our sense is that one should have at best a minimum of soy in the diet if including any cooked food as part of an 80-percent-live, 20-percent-cooked food cuisine. The following chart shows how pervasive soy is in our so-called health foods. The 40-gram level of IGF-1-creating soy protein from the study, as you will see in the chart, is easy to achieve.
EATING PROCESSED SOY EASILY ADDS 40 GRAMS OF HARMFUL PROTEIN CONCENTRATE TO YOUR DIET
ITEM SERVING GRAMS OF PROTEIN
Desserts and Snacks:
Cliff?Builder's Bar 1 bar 20
Cliff?Bar (Oatmeal, Raisin Walnut) 1 bar 10
Revival Soy Bars? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Otherwise, in the evenings you could have a salad, but also have your cooked food meal then – things like grains, brown rice and kasha. Kasha is the only cooked grain that's alkalizing. You know, have more of these foods and less of the processed foods, but try and minimize your cooked food meal. Have that either at dinnertime, or otherwise in the evening, and also if you're going to eat cooked food, be sure to eat your raw foods first. There's actually a study, I think it's on the Harvard School of Public Health's web site right now, which talks about chemicals that are found in cabbage. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 During a ten-year period, he found that the cats on the raw diet thrived, while those on the cooked food diet showed all the degenerative diseases common in man. By the third generation, all the cats on the processed diet were sterile or congenitally malformed. Not only do we have more energy (life force) from raw foods in our diet, but our bodies are more thoroughly hydrated due to their high water content.
A diet of exclusively cooked foods forces the body to use its own fluids to moisten the ingested food, and therefore has a dehydrating effect. |
| Add raw foods gradually to your diet, especially if your current diet is composed largely of cooked food and/ or you suffer from digestive disorders. Some people with inflammatory conditions can't process raw foods or, in some extreme cases, even cooked vegetables. Each person is different and must do what is best for his or her unique body chemistry. The simplest way to add raw foods is to alter cooking methods. As healing of the digestive tract occurs and as tolerance permits, fewer and fewer cooked foods are required. |
Tom Bohager
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| When cooked food is eaten, enzymes are supplied from other organs to digest the cooked food. This produces a constant drain of enzymes from the immune system and other important organs. ţAny organ or gland will grow more cells and become larger if the demand placed on it exceeds its ability to function, much the same as a person's muscles will grow if they lift weights. Howell found that, in particular, human pancreases are two to three times heavier and larger in proportion to body weight compared to the pancreases of other mammals. |
Ron Garner
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 It must be noted however, that after years of eating mostly cooked food, it may take the body's digestive system a little time to adjust to a raw food diet. The following story, told by Michael O'Brien, illustrates the rejuvenating effects of a totally raw food diet beautifully.1
The Japanese Army Officer
Perhaps the best story I could tell illustrates how the human body is capable of responding when it is fed as nature intended it to be. It is able to reverse its condition to one of youthful vigor and achieve a state of sensitive oneness with its environment. |
Andreas Moritz
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| In general, raw foods, dried foods and juices contain higher concentrations of salicylates than cooked food. To avoid the natural poisons contained in many raw foods, all major ancient civilizations traditionally prepared their foods.
Why Prepare Foods?
The populations of the High Andes were the first ones to introduce the potato to their cultures. But the potatoes had to undergo vigorous cleansing procedures before they were considered edible. First, they were spread on the ground to freeze them overnight. This ensured that the cells burst open. |
| Raw foods can only be digested at the beginning of a meal, not once you have eaten cooked food.
3. Normally, the stomach processes and removes liquids before it can attempt the digestion of the more solid and concentrated food items. Therefore, drinking a lot of liquid with your meals will greatly hinder digestion and also dilute the concentrated digestive juices, rendering them less effective.
4. It is helpful to realize that the stomach does not operate like a washing machine, but stores the ingested foods in layers, one on top of the other. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 The idea of using chocolate as a flavoring in cooked food would have been horrifying to the Aztecs—just as Christians could not conceive of using communion wine to make, say, coq au vin. In all of the pages of Sahagun that deal with Aztec cuisine and with chocolate, there is not a hint that it ever entered into an Aztec dish. Yet today many food writers and gourmets consider one particular dish, the famous pavo in mole poblano, which contains chocolate, to represent the pinnacle of the Mexican cooking tradition. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So instead of eating cooked food, processed food or "instant" foods for breakfast, lunch and dinner, you drink delicious raw juices throughout the day. There's no deprivation, no fasting and no starvation. You can drink unlimited quantities of all the fresh, delicious juice you want!
This provides every nutritional element needed for human consumption, including plenty of protein. (Raw vegetables are loaded with protein. It's only when you cook them that the protein is destroyed. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They were more flavorful and nourishing than any cooked food I've ever eaten (no kidding). The fact that they were able to serve this food to 2,000+ people was absolutely amazing. Sure, the food was a bit late, but who cares? This was worth every minute standing in line. I became an instant fan of Bruce's cuisine, and I've made a note to make sure I invite him for a future interview. Bruce trains raw foods chefs at culinary institutes throughout Oregon and California. He's a young living legend in the raw foods community.
What did we learn? |
Ron Garner
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| California, wanted to determine the effects of eating raw or cooked food. Experiments were conducted with 900 cats over a ten-year period. The results were profound, because they clearly demonstrated why diseases and structural abnormalities develop. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Because we have the technology of refrigeration and the ability to transport great fruits and vegetables and all kinds of different superfoods and exotic foods, we don't really need to be consuming all this cooked food anymore. It's become more of an excess than something that's necessary, and it actually degrades flavor. People are really into food. But they think, “Raw food? It's just going to be carrots and celery.”
Actually, it exposes you to a massive amount of flavor sensations. It's caused a literal epidemic of raw food restaurants to open across America. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Juice Feasting doesn't replace your supplements; it replaces your unhealthy cooked food with nature's most delicious, drinkable food!
You can learn more about how Juice Feasting works by visiting David Rain's website, www.JuiceFeasting.com where you'll find an enormous amount of information about how Juice Feasting works, how to do it, and how to follow the 92-day timeline for a complete Juice Feast.
David and I have also recorded a six-CD audio program entitled The Secret of Juice Feasting that you can find at http://www.truthpublishing.com/product_p/cd-cat21485. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Have that either at dinnertime, or otherwise in the evening, and also if you're going to eat cooked food, be sure to eat your raw foods first. There's actually a study, I think it's on the Harvard School of Public Health's web site right now, which talks about chemicals that are found in cabbage. If you eat the raw cabbage before eating the cooked cabbage, the raw chemicals will actually mitigate the effect of the cooked food cabbage. Anyway, I know we're running out of time. There's so much more to say. People are welcome to contact me. |
| We can sight something like the leukocytosis study that was done, in which subjects ingested cooked food. This is a real study I'm citing, by the way. When people were eating cooked food – it didn't matter what it was, vegetables, french fries or meat, for that matter – the white blood cell count in the test subjects went up. Okay, white blood cells are a component of the immune system, (so) that's the immune system being triggered, signifying that there's an invader, or something that's a threat to health that's coming in. |
Marshall Editions
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Separate raw food from cooked food, and store raw food at the bottom of the fridge to avoid juices dripping down and contaminating other food. Make sure that the temperature of your fridge is below 41 °F and your freezer below 5°F. Cover all food with lids, tin foil, or plastic wrap. Do not store food in opened tin cans.
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Diet: Drink 8-12 glasses of water throughout the day to prevent dehydration. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Garlic experts advise crushing a little raw garlic and combining it with the cooked food shortly before serving. Eating it raw isn't recommended because it can be irritating to the stomach.
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Now here's the deal with garlic supplements: In a laboratory, dried garlic powder gets added to water so that the alliin and allinase can quickly react to make allicin. The amount of allicin produced is the measure of "allicin potential." But when such garlic supplements are swallowed, the enzyme is destroyed by stomach acid. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Eventually, it reached the point where he couldn't stand to eat anymore cooked food, the more he ate, the more bloated and sick he felt. Now he's gone completely raw and shares his knowledge of fitness with camps and talks.
Special Guest! - Shazzie: Raw Chocolate Revolutionary and Entrepreneur
Author and Founder of Detox Your World
Listen in as Shazzie explains what it's like to live in "ecstatic bliss", how to detox your environment and relationships and how she cares for her raw child. Shazzie is an raw chocolate revolutionary, author and entrepreneur. |
Gabriel Cousens
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| Being empowered by the message of this book to eat organic, whole, live foods, of which you only need to eat half as much to get the nutrients as compared with cooked food, can prevent and reverse diabetes. I have yet to find a person, no matter how difficult their economic status, who could not switch over to this Culture of Life diet and lifestyle. And the exciting thing about this in our advanced Western culture is that we are able to acquire foods and food concentrates that are allowing us to access more powerful forms of nutrition than our ancestors ever dreamed possible. |
Ron Garner
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| If solid food (especially cooked food) is taken soon after the fast, it is quite a shock to the body and can cause serious problems with digestion. The body's system needs to be gently encouraged back into action. Starting with diluted fruit juices and vegetable broth soups does this best. Thereafter, small amounts of solid foods can be reintroduced, starting with the more easily digested ones. Protein foods, especially meats, should be reintroduced last and in small quantities, until the system has adapted and feels normal again. |
Gabriel Cousens
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| Taken in this context, because on a live-foods cuisine you can eat half as much with the same nutritional benefit, this is actually healthier and theoretically superior to having 10-15 percent of calories from fat in a cooked food diet.
The best oils to use in salad dressings are those high in omega-3 such as walnuts, flax, and hemp, as well as sesame oil, which is very high in antioxidants. We recommend in our recipes that one can try substituting these oils for olive oil. |
Ron Garner
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| While we are removing stimulants from our diet, we should also begin eating more raw fruits and vegetables, and reducing the amount of cooked food we eat.
SMOKING
If you are a smoker, the first and most important step you can take in your health program, without exception, is to quit smoking. Easy to say, but for most people, very hard to do.
Nicotine was discussed briefly in chapter 8, "What Are We Doing Wrong?" It is extremely toxic to the body and, as any smoker or former smoker will tell you, very addictive. I have been told that it is even more addictive than hard drugs. |
Tom Bohager
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| When we eat cooked apples, the digestive system has to produce all of the enzymes needed to digest the cooked food.
THE DIETARY KEYS TO UNLOCKING GOOD HEALTH
So to lessen the burden on the digestive system and release potential energy for optimal functioning of all of the other systems, what is the ideal diet? Ideally, we would eat nutritionally healthy raw foods frequently and in small quantities. We would also limit calorie intake to under two thousand calories a day. Additionally, we would fast regularly to cleanse our digestive system and simultaneously give it a break. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Phillip the raw foods Jedi that you'll forget all about the cooked food you left behind!).
I will, of course, be present at the event next year, and in the next few weeks, I'll be posting a way you can sign up for the event at a discount. We'll bring together a large NewsTarget group of participants who can share this fun, yet incredibly important experience in 2008. Mark your calendars: The event is on Sep. 12 - 14, 2008 in Sedona, Arizona.
I'll keep you posted on the sign-up process and schedule. Hope to see you at next year's festival! |
Ron Garner
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| The Influence of cooked food on the Blood of Man
In 1930, Dr. Paul Kouchakoff directed a study at the Institute of Clinical Chemistry in Lausanne, Switzerland, to determine the effects of cooked and processed foods versus raw and natural foods on the immune system of man, as evidenced in blood analysis after eating these foods. The research findings were remarkable. They found that eating food in its raw and natural state, or eating foods that were not overheated or refined, caused no changes in the blood composition of subjects tested. |
| Caution: When switching from a very acidic, predominantly cooked food diet, the transition to a healthier diet should he done gradually to allow the body time to adjust its production of enzymes required to process more raw food. Otherwise, considerable discomfort could be experienced. life
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Figure 10.2 Composting and disease progression COMPOSTING AND DISEASE
Some disease-causing bacteria, viruses, and parasites thrive and multiply in an anaerobic environment. |
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