Raw Food -- ONE of Your Keys to Outstanding Health

CONSIDER THIS.
The kitchen is a chemical laboratory producing millions of completely new chemical substances that never existed in the wild. Cooking will randomly produce millions of different sugar and protein combinations commonly called Maillard molecules.

Throughout the greater portion of our evolutionary history, the one before food processing began, human beings have never ingested the amount of Maillard molecules we ingest today. The recent introduction of dairy products and grains has equally brought new chemical substances such as new proteins into the dietary spectrum of humans within a very short period of time.

Some relevant issues.

The food's life force consisting of oxygen, H2O2, enzymes and many vitamins are greatly depleted or destroyed when temperatures are raised above 110 degrees. The bioelectrical energy field is altered and greatly depleted, as is graphically demonstrated with Kirlian photography. Live and bioactive raw food is severely diminished.

The biochemical structure and nutrient makeup of the food is altered from its original state. Molecules in the food are deranged, degraded, and broken down. The food is degenerated in many ways. Fiber in plant foods is broken down into a soft, passive substance that loses its broom-like quality in the intestines.

Nutrients, like minerals, and amino acids are depleted, destroyed, and altered. The degree of depletion, destruction, and alteration is simply a matter of temperature and time.

Up to 50% of the protein is coagulated. Much of this is rendered unusable. High temperatures also create cross-links in protein. Cross-linked proteins are implicated in many problems in the body, as well as being a factor in the acceleration of the aging process.

The interrelationship of nutrients is altered from its natural synergistic makeup. For example, with meat, relatively more vitamin B-6 than methionine is destroyed, which fosters atherogenic free radical-initiating homocysteine accumulation that is a factor in heart problems.

The water content of the food is decreased. The natural structure of the water is also changed. Toxic substances and cooked "byproducts" are created. The higher the cooking temperature, the more toxins that are created. Frying and grilling are especially toxin-generating. Various carcinogenic and mutagenic substances and many free radicals are generated in cooked fats and proteins in particular. Barbecuing is relatively disastrous when it comes to producing harmful free radicals.

Heat causes the molecules involved to combine into new substances, to form. “new chemical composites".

Unusable waste material is created, which has a cumulative toxin, mucous creating, congesting and clogging effect on your body and slows down the natural eliminative processes of your body.

All of the enzymes present in raw foods are destroyed at temperatures as low as 118 degrees Fahrenheit. These enzymes, named "food enzymes" are important for optimum digestion. They naturally aid in digestion and become active as soon as eating commences. Cooking destroys 100% of these enzymes.

Eating enzyme-dead food places a burden on your pancreas and other organs and overworks them, which eventually exhausts these organs. The digestion of cooked food uses valuable metabolic enzymes in order to help digest your food. Digestion of cooked food is much more energetically demanding than the digestion of raw food. In general, raw food is so much more easily digested that it passes through the digestive tract in a half to a third of the time it takes for cooked food.

After eating a cooked meal, there is a rush of white blood cells towards the digestive tract, leaving the rest of the body less protected by the immune system. From the point of view of the immune system the body is being invaded by a foreign (toxic) substance when cooked food is eaten.

Putrefactive bacteria, particularly from cooked meat, dominate the natural population of beneficial intestinal flora resulting in dysfunction in your intestine, allowing the absorption of toxins from the bowel. This phenomenon is variously called dysbiosis, or intestinal toxemia.

A buildup of mucoid plaque is created in the intestines. Mucoid plaque is a thick tar-like substance that is the long-term result of undigested, uneliminated cooked food putrefying in the intestines. Cooked starches and fats in particular are a major culprit in constipation and clogging of the intestines.

Cooked foods cause a build-up of toxins and waste material in many parts of the body, including within individual cells. Some of these toxins and wastes are called lipofuscin, which accumulate in the skin and nervous system, including the brain. It can be observed as "liver spots" or "age spots."

Cooked foods cause malnutrition at the cellular level. Because cooked foods are lower in nutrients, in addition to containing wastes and toxins, individual cells don't receive enough of the nutrients they need.

Cooked foods cause a tendency towards obesity through overeating. Because the cells don't get enough nutrients they are so to speak "always hungry" and hence "demand" more food. Cooked food is also less likely to be properly metabolized, which is another factor in excess weight gain.

From time to time the body experiences detoxification crises also called purification or healing crises. This happens when toxins are released through the skin or dumped in your bloodstream for elimination by the liver, kidneys, and other organs. The symptoms may include headaches, fever, nausea, vomiting, colds, bronchitis, sinusitis, pneumonia, and diarrhea.

The immune system, having to handle the massive daily invasions of toxins and toxic by-products, eventually becomes overwhelmed and weakened. A key factor in the aging process.

The wastes, toxins, mutagens, and carcinogens that build up within cells, as well as the daily onslaught of excess free radicals eventually cause some cells to become cancerous - killing an estimated 30% of Americans.

In general, the natural aging process is accelerated by cooked food. People who switch to raw food often become biologically and visibly younger.

After eating a cooked meal there is a general increase in the white blood cells in the blood and a change in the relative proportions of different blood cells occurs. This phenomenon is called "digestive leukocytosis".

Leukocytosis and Cooked Food
In 1930, research was conducted at the Institute of Clinical Chemistry in Lausanne, Switzerland, under the direction of Dr. Paul Kouchakoff. The effect of food (cooked/processed vs. raw/natural) on the immune system was tested and documented.

Dr. Kouchakoff's discovery concerned the leukocytes, the white blood cells.

It was found that after a person eats cooked food, his/her blood responds immediately by increasing the number of white blood cells. This is a well-known reaction called "digestive leukocytosis", which means that there is a rise in the number of leukocytes, or white blood cells, after eating.

Since digestive leukocytosis was always observed after eating, it was considered to be a normal physiological response to eating. No one knew why the number of white cells would rise after eating, since this appeared to be a stress response, as if the body was reacting to something harmful, such as infection, trauma, or exposure to toxic chemicals.

Back in 1930, Swiss researchers of the institute of Chemical Chemistry studied the influence of food on human blood and made a remarkable discovery. They found that eating unaltered, raw food or food heated at low temperatures did not cause a reaction in the blood. In addition, if a food had been heated beyond a certain temperature (unique to each food), or if the food was processed (refined, added chemicals, etc.), this always caused a rise in the number of white cells in the blood.

The researchers renamed this reaction "pathological leukocytosis", since the body was reacting to highly altered food. They tested many different kinds of foods and found that if the foods were not overheated or refined, they caused no reaction. The body saw them as "friendly foods". However, these same foods, if heated at too high a temperature, caused a negative reaction in the blood, a reaction that is found only when the body is invaded by a dangerous pathogen or trauma.

The worst offenders of all, whether heated or not, were processed foods that had been refined (such as white flour or white rice), or homogenized (a process in which the fat in milk is subjected to artificial suspension), or pasteurized (also seen in milk, flash-heated to high temperatures to kill bacteria), or preserved (chemicals added to food to retard spoilage or to enhance taste or texture).

In other words, foods that were changed from their original God-given state. Good examples of these harmful foods are: pasteurized milk, chocolate, margarine, sugar, candy, white flour, and regular salt. The researchers found that if these altered, chemical foods were chewed very thoroughly, the harm to the blood could be lessened. In addition, another amazing finding was that if some of the same food in its raw state was eaten with the cooked counterpart, the pathological reaction in the blood was minimized. However, avoid these unnatural, processed foods; replace them with delicious whole foods for optimal health.

Raw Extremism?
An old expression goes like " When you are hammer everything is a nail" Some "rawfooders" have had their lives saved from raw foods. They see raw foods as the all to be all and believe EVERYONE must eat that way to be healthy and whole.  This  "overkill" often confuses people and makes them stressed out and odds with what they eat. That in itself is going to destroy digestion, even if the food is raw.
 
For many, stress for is probably a bigger killer then denatured foods but if we had more energy from raw foods then stress would not affect us nearly as much. Raw food of course does not make anyone impervious to stress including asthma.  For many, peace of mind is almost or more important then what we eat. It all depends on where they fit in on the Natural Hygiene ladder at the time. So when you earn raw fooder espouse a 100% approach, do not get turned off. Give a listen and you will most likely learn a few things that apply to you.   

Clearly to me a 75-80% raw majority of food is best for almost everyone. AND for some is MANDATORY due to poor digestion and or energy needs. But I have seen exceptions. Microbiotics which cooks almost EVERYTHING and I personally can not stand very much of, had its creator/leader die in his sixties. However his widow lived beyond age 100. Go figure. Paul Bragg ate some fish and chicken (otherwise about 80% raw) and lived to 96 and was vital up to a few months before he died. Then he died not from poor nutrition but from a near fatal swimming accident that stressed him so he had a heart attack 3 months later.  If I had to choose between the two I would choose raw almost every time. I get more energy that way.  I am more and more eating to live instead of living to eat.

Breathing and its relationship to raw living foods.
Bad breathing is like dragging a ball and chain while waiting for the raw to do its magic. The sad thing is that even after years of raw the bad breathing pattern can still exist. I've seen it MANY, MANY  times. This means that with better breathing the person could have had it SO MUCH easier to transition and with a much higher degree of potential success.

How many are lost to the lifestyle that never learned to breathe right?  How much of their being distracted away from the movement  is occurring moment to moment due to a hidden breathing dysfunction?  When you integrate the realities of the rebalanced breathing the entire body becomes more under natural hygienic function and rational control.  I believe there  is NO rational alternative to living nutrition but hidden or obvious breathing dysfunction distorts or confuses ALL biofeedback systems, regardless of what you eat. 

Optimal breathing is part of natural hygiene. You can't separate breathing any more than you can separate mind or spirit.
Develop your breathing now.