Why All Should Eat Only Raw Foods Always

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Why All Should Eat Only Raw Foods Always

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Feb 22, 2005 19:03 PST

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Why All Should Eat Only Raw Foods Always

By Dr. Bernarr, D.C., D.D.

http://www.living-foods.com/articles/eatonlyraw.html

 

When food is cooked above 118 degrees F for three minutes or longer, its

protein has become coagulated, its sugar has become caramelized, its

natural fibers have been broken down, which means it will take longer to

move through the intestinal tract, 30% to 50% of its vitamins and

minerals have been destroyed and 100% of its enzymes have been

destroyed.

 

Cooked food depletes our body's enzyme potential and drains the energy

we need to maintain and repair our tissues and organ systems and

shortens our lifespan.

 

Dr. Virginia Vetrano writes about an authority who contends that

irritation from putting extremely hot foods into the stomach, can cause

cancer.

 

Dr. Vetrano also writes that " Heating any food, destroys much of its

vitamin, mineral, and protein content and poisonous inorganic acids are

formed. The all uncooked diet is most healthful. "

 

Marilyn Willison, of Hippocrates Health Institute, writes, " We should

not cook our food.

During this apparently harmless process, " vital enzymes " are destroyed,

proteins are " coagulated " (making them difficult to assimilate),

vitamins are mostly destroyed with the remainder changing into forms

that are difficult for the body to utilize, pesticides are restructured

into even more " toxic " compounds, valuable oxygen is lost, and free

radicals are produced.

 

According to Viktoras Kulvinskas, nutrient losses can be as high as 80%

or more. Other studies suggest that cooked proteins (coagulated) are up

to 50% less likely to be utilized by the body. "

 

Dr. Francis M. PottengerJr., wrote about his experiments with 900 cats

over a period of ten years. Pottenger fed some of the test cats raw meat

and other test cats, he fed cooked meats. Pottenger wrote, " Cooked meat

fed cats were irritable. The females were dangerous to handle,

occasionally biting the keeper... "

 

The cooked meat fed cats suffered with " pneumonia, empyema, diarrhea,

osteomyelitis, cardiac lesions, hyperopia and myopia (eye diseases),

thyroid diseases, nephritis, orchitis, oophoritis (ovarian

inflammation), arthritis and many other degenerative diseases. "

 

No cooked food is benign. Cooked foods act " malignantly " by exhausting

your bodily energies, inhibiting your healing, and decreasing your

alertness, efficiency and productivity.

 

Cooked foods " suppress " the immune system. the heat of cooking destroys

vitamins, enzymes, minerals, nucleic acids, chlorophyll, and damages

fats, making them indigestible.

 

The fatty matter becomes a local irritant. The heat " disorganizes " the

protein structure, leading to deficiency of some of the essential amino

acids.

 

The " fibrous " (fiber) or woody element of food (cellulose) is changed

completely from its natural condition by cooking. When this fibrous

element is cooked, it loses its broomlike quality to sweep the

alimentary canal clean.

The fibrous matter is changed from its natural state to a poison.

 

Raw food has the best balance of water, nutrients and fiber to meet

your body's needs.

 

Cooking causes the " inorganic elements " to enter the blood, circulate

through the system, " settle " in the arteries and veins and " deaden " the

nerves.

 

After cooking, the body loses its flexibility, arteries lose their

pliability, nerves lose the power of conveying impressions, the spinal

cord becomes hardened, the tissues throughout the body contract, and the

human being becomes prematurely old.

 

In many cases this matter is deposited in the various joints of the

body, causing " enlargement " of the joints. In other cases, it

" accumulates " as concretions in one or more of the internal organs,

finally accumulating around the heart valves.

 

Raw foods are easily digested, requiring only 24-36 hours for " transit "

time through the digestive tract, as compared to 40-100 hours for cooked

foods.

This increases the threat of putrefaction and disease.

 

When you eat cooked carbohydrates, proteins and fats, you are eating

numerous " mutagenic " (carcinogenic) products caused by cooking.

 

Dr. Karl Elmer experimented with top athletes in Germany, producing

improvement in their performance by changing to a purely raw food diet.

Raw food provides you with more strength, energy and stamina.

 

On raw foods, the mind (memory and power of concentration) will be

clear. You will be more alert, think sharper and more logically.

 

Raw foods will not leave you with a tired feeling after the meal. There

is a tendency toward sleepiness after a cooked meal.

 

Raw foods require less total sleep and achieve a more restful sleep.

 

When we treat foods with " thermal fire " , we lose up to 97% of the water

soluble vitamins (Vitamins B and C)

and up to 40% of the " lipid soluble " vitamins (Vitamins A, D, E and K).

We need only one-half the amount of protein in the diet if raw protein

foods are eaten rather than protein foods which are cooked.

 

Heating also changes the " lipids " .

 

These changed fats are incorporated into the cell wall and interfere

with the " respiration " of the cell, causing an increase in cancer and

heart disease.

 

When grasses are separately covered with fertilizers that are both raw

and cooked, the grass grown with the raw fertilizer grows 400% more

tonnage over that grown with the same amount per acre of cooked food

fertilizer.

 

After eating cooked foods, the blood immediately shows an enormous

increase of " leukocytes " of white blood cells-corpuscles.

 

The white blood cells are a first line of defense and are,

collectively, popularly called " the immune system " .

 

This spontaneous multiplication of white corpuscles always takes place

in normal blood immediately after the introduction of any virulent

infection or " poison " into the body since the white corpuscles are the

fighting organisms of the blood.

 

There is no " multiplication " of white corpuscles when uncooked food is

eaten.

 

The constant daily fight against the toxic effects of cooked food

unnecessarily " exhausts " the body's strength and vitality, thus causing

disease and the modern shortness of life.

 

Cooked foods quickly ferment and putrefy in the intestinal tract.

 

On a raw food diet you will experience the elimination of body odor and

halitosis. Cooked food causes allergies.

 

If you consult the ancient scriptures and sacred writings, you will read

that in Eden, people did not eat cooked food with " burning fire " . In

fact, Chinese, Egyptian, Indian and Hebrew accounts, indicate that

people were expelled from Paradise for using fire to cook food.

 

Methuselah, it is contended, because he ate only raw foods, lived to an

old age (900).

 

The Bhagavad Gita says, " Pious men eat what the brilliant forces of

nature leave over them after the offering. But those ungodly, cooking

good food, sin as they eat it. " They're speaking of the ill health to

the individual, our race and the world caused by fire-cooked food.

 

In the Essene Gospel of Peace, a third century Aramaic Essene

manuscript, Jesus is described as saying, " Cook not your food with the

fire of death, which is the fire that blazed outside you that is hotter

than your blood. Cook only with the fire of life, " that is, the natural

heat of the day.

 

Raw foods are delectable and have more flavor than cooked foods. There

is no need to jazz up its flatness with unhealthful additives.

 

These flavor-enhancing additives can irritate your digestive system or

over-stimulate other organs.

 

Avoid these harmful additives: sugar, salt, pepper, spices, condiments,

ketchup, mayonnaise, dressing and toppings.

 

Hannah Allen wrote, " Raw foods contain live enzymes, which influence

digestive efficiency-cooking destroys all enzymes.

Moreover, the consumption of raw foods " stimulates " gastric enzyme

secretion, necessary to initiate good digestion.

 

Besides, the more raw foods you eat as your first course, the less

cooked foods you will be able to eat. Ideally, we should never cook any

foods. "

 

Arthur M. Baker in " Awakening Our Self Healing Body " , writes, " Overly

cooked foods literally wreck our body. They deny needed nutrients to the

system since heat alters foodstuffs such that they are partially,

mostly, or wholly destroyed.

 

Nutrients are coagulated, deaminized, caramelized and rendered

inorganic and become " toxic " and " pathogenic " in the body. "

 

Baker adds, " Virulent bacteria find soil in dead food substances only

and cannot exist on living cells.

 

Cooked food spoils rapidly, both inside and outside our body, whereas

living foods are slow to lose their vital qualities and do not as

readily become soil for bacterial decay. "

 

Professor Edmund Szekeley wrote concerning the Essene scrolls, " Eat

nothing, therefore, which a stronger fire than the fire of life has

killed... Cook not, neigher mis all things one with another, lest your

bowels become as steaming bogs. "

 

I have been a 100% raw food eater, for over 50 years. To get more

information, motivation and discipline so as to always eat 100% raw

foods, contact me. I will help you. Or come to our FREE Raw Food

Potluck-Lectures held every month, year-round.

 

Dr. Bernarr, D.C., D.D.

God Healing, Inc.

Http://www.HealSelf.org

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