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Cooked
food and associated problems
Thousands
of years ago, our ancestors picked up the bad habit of cooking their food which
has been passed down to us ever since. This bad habit, which neither the
scientists nor we ever question, is the true source of most disease –
directly or indirectly.
Experiences have
been done with animals that are isolated from their natural eating habits and
given an eating pattern equal to humans and they suffer the same diseases that
humans do. While observing animals left in the wild, leading their natural diet
the same diseases do not occur.
Consequences of cooked food
- The
body struggles for years to stay healthy, despite the fact we keep
putting devitalised food into our mouths. When the body loses this
struggle we begin to develop disease.
- Many
childhood illnesses are not necessary and can be avoided if parents had only
known the importance of eating vital foods, rich in natural
enzymes.
- Enzymes
are essential in building and maintaining health. Heating food to high
temperatures destroys those living enzymes so they’re unable to function.
(For
more information click on enzymes).
- Cooking
converts digestible food into a substance that is difficult to digest.
No matter how hard our bodies try to break it down, we get very little value
from cooked food.
- Cooked
food places a constant strain on the human digestive system. Instead
of the simple and efficient digestion that occurs with natural food.
- The
body has to deal with food that has been turned into an alien substance. Toxaemia
is the result and it invariably leads to a variety of illnesses and diseases.
- Cancer,
arthritis, rheumatism, heart disease, obesity and most other non-genetic
diseases are symptoms of toxaemia. However, this situation can be reversed
if a raw food diet is followed.
- Disease
is the result of trapped poisons in the tissue of the body. Trouble
normally begins in the colon with an impaction of the tissue walls and a
general clogging of the body’s waste elimination system.
- Corresponding
poisons collected in the human organism stimulate the strong craving for
addictive substances. Going
without bread for a week is difficult for a cooked food eater but going
without a banana is not. This happens because one is addictive and the other
is not.
- Humans
become addicted to substances that contain toxins such as cooked food,
heated tea, coffee, tobacco and alcohol.
- When
food is cooked in high temperatures, its protein becomes coagulated; its
sugar becomes caramelised, it’s natural fibbers are 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.
- When
we treat foods with 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).
- Cooking
causes the inorganic elements to enter the blood, circulate through
the system, settle in the arteries and veins and deaden the nerves.
- The
body loses it’s flexibility, arteries lose their pliability, nerves lose
the power of conveying impressions, the spinal cord becomes hardened, the
tissue through out the body contract, and the human being becomes prematurely
old.
- Matter
is deposited in the various joints of the body, causing enlargement of
the joints. In other cases, it accumulates in one or more of the
internal organs, finally accumulating around the heart valves.
- Heating
changes the lipids. Changed fats are incorporated into the cell wall and
interfere with the respiration of the cell, causing an increase in cancer
and heart disease.
- 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 defence and called “the immune system”.
- This
spontaneous multiplication of white corpuscles always take 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.
Water rich foods
- Drinking
plenty of water is important for many reasons, it is what we are largely
composed of and it is constantly evaporating through our skin. Water is
nature’s best solvent.
- If
enough water is not taken, constipation, headaches and
intoxication-associated symptoms will be experienced.
- When a
piece of bread is put into our mouth the body uses an incredible amount of
energy to break it down, and rarely entirely succeeds in doing so. When
fruit is eaten, this does not happen for the body digests it with ease.
- Water
rich foods are important because they keep the body clean. They are digested quickly, and the water in
them helps to flush toxins out of the body. If water rich foods are not
abundant in a diet it must be compensated with drinking water. But in now
days we know that drinking water is not reliable….
Intestinal clogging and
constipation
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Cooked food eventually leads
to intestinal clogging and constipation and it also clogs and constipates
the body on a cellular level.
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When cooked starch is eaten,
the body absorbs more than it needs. Getting
rid
of the excess starch then becomes another burden to the body.
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Those who defend cooked foods
often make the point that since the body cannot absorb raw starch, this is a
sign the food should be cooked. Another way to look at it, however,
is that the body absorbs just enough of the raw starch for its needs and then
passes out the rest.
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Cellulose – the woody, fibrous part of food- was previously
believed to be unnecessary to the body. Because the body did not absorb it, it
wasn’t considered important. Now people know that this fibber is what keeps
things moving through our body so that we don’t become constipated.
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Raw fibber has the ability to
unclog the intestinal tract and keeps it clean. Cooked fibber has lost the ability to do this for us.
Dirty
arteries
- Arteries
are also clogged by cooked food. It has been demonstrated that saturated
fats triggers the bad cholesterol of the body to rise, which leads to
clogged arteries and eventually to heart disease but not all fats are bad
for the human body.
- The
fats found in avocados, olives, flax seeds and other nuts have been shown to
reduce the amount of bad cholesterol in the body.
Cancer
- Another
common cause of death and pain in the industrialized societies is cancer.
Although a lot of research has been done over the years a solution has not
yet been withdrawn.
- One
thing that has been found is that cancer is strongly related to nutrition
and lifestyle.
- On the
other hand, it is in raw fruits and vegetables that we find the higher
concentration of cancer fighting components, such as antioxidants like
vitamin C. Many studies have shown that diets that include plenty of
raw foods and vegetables are associated with a lower risk of cancer.
- Eating
a diet of raw foods lowers cancer risks in two ways. By not ingesting
most of the food substances that cause it and by eating the foods that help
prevent it. (For further information click on Why should we eat
raw foods?)
Stress
- Fast
releasing sugars create a state of stress in the body, stimulating the
release of cortisol. Slow releasing carbohydrates, on the other hand,
provide energy.
Depression
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There
are many nutritional related causes of depression, the most common being bad
nutrition habits resulting in poor mental and physical energy. Disturbed
bloods sugar balance can result in periods of depression.
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Adrenal
exhaustion is usually brought on by stress and over-use of stimulants can
have this effect.
Headaches
Caffeine
- Caffeine
has a powerful effect on both mind and body. This drug is found in coffee
and tea and in lesser amounts in chocolate, coca-cola and cola drinks.
- Excess
caffeine can produce anxiety, mood swings, tremors, insomnia, abnormal
heart rhythms, and sweating and weight loss. Hyperventilation sometimes
accompanies these symptoms, producing breathlessness, chest pains,
tingling in the toes and fingers, dizziness and fainting.
Sugar
- All
forms of concentrated sugar – white sugar, brown sugar, malt glucose,
honey and syrup are fast releasing, causing a rapid increase in bloods sugar
levels.
- If
this sugar is not required by the body it is put into storage and may emerge
as fat. Most concentrated forms of sugar are also devoid of vitamins and
minerals, unlike the natural sources such as Fruit.
- Fruit
contains a simple sugar called fructose, which needs no digesting and can therefore enter
the blood stream quickly like glucose or sucrose. However fruit is
considered slow releasing. This is because the body cannot use fructose as
it is, since cells only run on glucose. As a result the fructose first has
to be converted by the body into glucose, which effectively slows down this
sugar’s effect on the metabolism.
Bread
Bread is made of cereals,
largely of denatured cereals, mixed with salt, soda, yeast, lard and often other
ingredients and subjected to a high degree of temperature and then eaten
three or four times a day in considerable quantities, mixed indiscriminately
with all classes of foods and taken in addition to much other starch food. This
exhausts the digesting system terribly.
Cooking takes time…
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Cooking
wastes preparation and clean up time as well as cooking fuel. Many hours are
spent around the stove preparing meals as well as washing greasy dishes and
pots in the sink….
Are
Human beings vegetarian?…
The
question has arisen, but there are not any conclusive answers because scientists
have not yet reached an agreement….so read this article and withdraw your own
conclusions…..
“
I
am a stronger follower of veganism by principle, not just because of moral and
aesthetic reasons. I truly believe in a vegetarian lifestyle and I have my faith
and hopes in a change of human destiny, thanks to the physical effects and
benefits of a healthier diet and its influence on the character of the people.
It will bring about some benefit and improvement to human society.”
Albert Einstein
There are several theories about the correct nutrition system for human
beings, some researches point out that man is omnivores, as other defend that
man fed himself on plants and fruit, but some strongly defend that man was
exclusively fruitarian, eating fruits, nuts and seeds...
Their studies are essentially based on the observation of our ancestors
eating habits, the comparison of the digestive tract of animals and human beings
as well as their teeth.
Carnivorous
animals
Some
researches explain that carnivorous animals, including the lion, dog, wolf, and
cat, etc., have many unique characteristics, which set them apart from all other
members of the animal kingdom. They have a very simple and short digestive
system - only three times the length of their bodies. They tell us that this
happens because flesh decays very rapidly, and the products of this decay
quickly poison the bloodstream if they remain for a long time in the body. They
affirm that a short digestive tract was evolved for rapid expulsion of
putrefactive bacteria from decomposing flesh, as well as stomachs with ten
times as much hydrochloric acid as non- carnivorous animals to digest fibrous
tissue and bones. Carnivores do not transpire by their skins.
Vegetarian animals
They explain that vegetarian animals, such as the cow, horse, zebra, deer,
spend much of their time in the sun gathering their food, and they freely
perspire through their skin to cool their bodies. One of the most significant
differences between the natural meat eaters and other animals is their teeth.
Along with sharp claws, all meat eaters, since they have to kill mainly with
their teeth, possess powerful jaws and pointed, elongated, “canine” teeth to
pierce, to spear and tear flesh. They do not have molars (flat back teeth)
which vegetarian animals need for grinding their food. Unlike grains, flesh
does not need to be chewed in the mouth to predigest it; it is digested
mostly in the stomach and the intestines.
Fruitarian
animals
They say that fruit eaters include mainly the anthropoid apes, humanity’s
immediate animal ancestors. They explain that the diet of these apes
consists mostly of fruits and nuts. Their skin has millions of pores for
sweating and they also have molars to grind and chew their food; their saliva
is alkaline, and like the grass – and leaf eaters, it contains ptyalin
to predigest food. Their intestines are extremely convoluted and are twelve
times the length of their body, for the slow digestion of fruits and vegetables.
Human
characteristics
Some researches strongly believe that human characteristics are in every
way like the fruit
eaters, very similar to the grass –eater, and very unlike the
meat eaters: The human digestive system, tooth and jaw structure, and bodily
functions are completely different from carnivorous animals. As in the case
of the anthropoid ape, the human digestive system is twelve times the length
of the body; human skin has millions of tiny pores to evaporate water and cool
the body by sweating; man drinks water by suction like all other vegetarian
animals; humans tooth and jaw structure is vegetarian; and mans saliva is
alkaline and contains ptyalin to predigest grains.
They defend that human beings are clearly not carnivores by physiology or
anatomy and the digestive system shows that humans must have evolved from millions
of years living on fruits, nuts, grains and vegetables.
In their opinion it is obvious that our natural instincts are
non-carnivorous. They base their conclusions on the following facts.
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Most people have other
people kill their meat for them and would be sickened if they had to do the
killing themselves.
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Instead of eating raw meat as
all flesh-eating animals do, humans boil, bake or fry it and disguise it
with all kinds of sauces and spices so that it bears no resemblance to its
raw state.
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One scientist explains that a
cat will salivate with hungry desire at the smell of a piece of raw
flesh but not at the smell of fruit. Man does not delight in pouncing upon a
bird, tear its living limbs apart with his teeth, and suck the warm blood.
One might conclude that nature did not provide him with a meat-eating
instinct.
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Fruit makes mans mouth water, and even in absence of hunger
he will eat fruit because it tastes so good.
The importance of roughage
Researchers defend that the lack of vegetable fibres in human diets
triggers constipation.
Constipation is more dangerous than doctors believe. Should this condition get
worse, the patient would need to take immediate action (enemas) or else could
develop severe haemorrhoids, headaches, blood poisoning through
re-circulation, bad mood crisis- anger, panic depression, hysteria sore eyes,
pain located in several eliminative organs and appendicitis.
Meat, eggs, cheese, white bread, cakes and chocolates do not contain any
roughage at all. Roughage not only helps
the bowel circulation but also acts as a tonic for the stomach and intestine
walls, which benefit highly from the corresponding massage and cleaning
effects. Roughage helps to keep a clean colon and a clear mind.
Researches opinion
Several scientists and naturalists, including Charles Darwin who gave
the theory of evolution, agree that early humans were fruit and vegetables
eaters and that throughout history our anatomy has not changed. The great
Swedish scientist Von Linné states: “Man’s structure, external
and internal, compared with that of the other animals, shows that fruit and
succulent vegetables, constitute his natural food”.
Many defend that it is possible to spend an entire life living just on
vegetables and fruit, as many people do. On the contrary, no one can stand a
single week (not even five days) on just meat, without the aid of a piece of
bread, or chips, or some other vegetable food that enables better ingestion
and digestion.
They say that humans mix meat with some roughage in order to allow a
quicker evacuation, because meat contains certain poisonous substances like
creatine, leaukomine, xanthine, sarcina, uric acid and some more which are
highly toxic, for us- but not for carnivores, for which these substances
are necessary, in order to keep them healthy. We do not need the help of
meat to ease the digestion of vegetables though.
They
point out that medical science tries to demonstrate that since the dawn of
origins, humans have been omnivorous. But they strongly believe that people
became omnivorous by accident, or better, by degeneration rather than by
original design. It is a common mistake to think that just because we were
brought up in an omnivorous way, it does not mean it has always been like that.
Yoga Teachers believe that meat and fish are not healthy foods, they
say that all kind of dead meat (includes fish, shellfish, white meat, red meat,
poultry) clogs and poisons the human system, preventing the passage and
circulation of positive energies essential to the body in order to progress in
Yoga.
“ Stop desecrating your sacred body with such an abnormal diet. The
land around us grows the most exquisite and delicious fruits in plenty. The
earth gives enough nourishment from just its vegetable realm, without the need
for torture or violence.”
Pythagoras
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