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----- Forwarded Message ----cohensmilk1 <cohensmilk1notmilk Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2008 5:22:44 AMNOTMILK - Raw FoodsStaying Healthy by Eating Raw Foods Most of the foods I eat are raw and uncooked. There are some exceptions, which include one quart of homemade soymilk that I drink each day, and brown rice and cooked beans. Other than that, my diet consists of raw fruits and vegetables, dried fruits, and sprouted seeds and grains. Many doctors consider that which is white to be pure. Such a belief can be deceptive. Got white milk? Physicians recommend that you drink it. Got white flour? The American Dietetic Society suggests you eat harmful foods in moderation. Got white rice? Licensed nutritionists are big fans. Got white sugar? The list

of supporters is endless. By shining white light through a prism, one is instantly blessed with the hidden beauty and complex nature of our universe. A pure white beam of light reveals its inner essence. Most people can name the seven visible colors of the rainbow's spectrum. Violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. Of course, there are two other colors, often forgotten, but always present, ultraviolet and infra- red. Animals and insects feel these colors. Plants sense them, too. While we lack the same receptors and are blind to their existence, our visual limit cannot negate their influence. The ultras and infras of plants are magical substances, indeed! They include plant chemicals, or phyto chemicals, such as isoflavones and bioflavinoids. Science teaches us that plants protect themselves from attack with their own secretions and chemical messengers.

Vegetables repel insects who would eat them, and blossoms attract other insects with a perfume so that their pollens can be spread and their species self-propagate. Plants protect themselves from too much heat, or cold, or wind, or too much moisture, maintaining their own good health with their specialized hormones. Plants can cure their own sicknesses and cancers by secreting and bathing themselves with these enchanted essences. When we eat the plants, we are similarly protected. Modern science has confirmed the centuries-old traditions and lore from cultures that refined the sacred techniques of using foods as medicine. Eat foods of color. The perfect color can be found right in the middle wavelength of our rainbow, the color green. There is a pot of gold and jewels within that rainbow, and these treasures so contained can be cashed in to purchase good health. Eat green

for wellness. In the 1980s, scientists first began to explore how phytochemicals prevent cancers. A great amount of emphasis was placed upon the fruits and vegetables that contain vibrant colors. The best known of these wonder drugs was recognized as beta carotene. That's what gives carrots their bright orange hue. In the 1990s, scientists at the University of Minnesota (Steinmetz, et. al.) categorized different groups of fruits and vegetables demonstrating life giving, disease fighting qualities. In doing so, they defined some of those magic colors, and the phytochemicals so contained within those pigments. The violet, indigo and blues of the plant kingdom include phenols and dithiolthiolnines contained in eggplant, cruciferous vegetables, grapes, plums, and grains. Eat onions and shallots, leeks, scallions and garlic for cancer-fighting alliums. Those green leafy

vegetables contain flavonoids, and inositol is found in beans. Green fruits and veggies contain phenols, and plant sterols, protease inhibitors and saponins. Yellow limonines contained in citrus fruit and squash have also been identified as cancer fighters, as have the orange carotenes in carrots, and my all-time favorite vitamin pill, the cantaloupe. Balancing out the rainbow's spectrum would be the red phenols in peppers, radishes, and tomatoes. Tens of thousands of unique substances have been identified, and there are still plant hormones and enzymes yet to be discovered. Remarkably, the one plant containing the greatest amount of these wonderful phytochemicals is the soybean. Soybeans contain coumarins, flavonoids, inositol, isoflavones, lignans, phenols, plant sterols, protease inhibitors, saponins, and Omega 3 and Omega 6 oils. For many years, it has been said that

"an apple a day keeps the doctor away." Such wisdom! Each day of one's life should reflect a lifestyle that includes this maxim: For the best of health eat a rainbow today! Robert Cohen http://www.notmilk.com ------------------- THE NOTMILK NEWSLETTER:SUBSCRIBE: send an empty Email to- notmilk- UNSUBSCRIBE: send an empty Email to- notmilk- Forward this message to your milk-drinking friends:MILK from A to Z: http://www.notmilk.com/milkatoz.html2O QUESTIONS: http://www.notmilk.com/notmilkfaq.html What is an excellent alternative for NOTMILK? http://www.soytoy.com ... make your own grain and nut milks! SoyToy recipes forum: soytoy-