| When one begins to understand how the body really | | | | to help clean the bowels and eliminates it. If the body |
| works, it becomes increasingly apparent that a diet | | | | can neither use nor eliminate the food, it will store it in |
| consisting primarily of raw food (at least 80% raw) is | | | | various forms, most typically as fat. This can occur |
| the optimal way to restore and promote health. Most | | | | even with good food if too much is eaten at one |
| doctors will acknowledge that nutrition is important for | | | | sitting. A raw vegetable dish may be very healthful, but |
| good health, even if they haven't had much training, if | | | | eating an entire mixing bowl's worth in one sitting will |
| any, in what good nutrition is. | | | | overload the digestive system and the body will |
| There's more to good nutrition than nutrient content. | | | | convert what it can't use, into fat - stored energy - for |
| Food must be bio-active for those nutrients to be | | | | future use. The body will store non-food substances it |
| available. Heating food over 115 destroys vitamins and | | | | cannot eliminate as cysts, tumors, moles, stones in the |
| changes minerals to crystalline form that our bodies | | | | liver or gallbladder, calcified deposits in the joints, etc. |
| can't utilize. Heating over 106 destroys the enzymes | | | | Cooked and high-heat or chemical processed foods |
| that make the vitamins and minerals bio-available. | | | | are physiologically unusable. When these types of |
| Cooked food is dead food and the body cannot thrive | | | | "foods" are consumed, the body must deal with them |
| on dead food. | | | | in some way. On a very occasional basis, it can usually |
| While there are many intriguing aspects to how our | | | | eliminate them. But, if refined, processed foods are |
| bodies use food and it's nutrients, the basics guidelines | | | | consumed on a regular basis, the body experiences |
| are simple. Our bodies can only do three things with | | | | toxic overload and deals with these toxins in often |
| whatever we put into it: | | | | undesirable uncomfortable ways usually referred to as |
| | | | disease or illness. |
| 1. Use it | | | | It isn't difficult to see that our best chance for health is |
| 2. Eliminate it | | | | to give our bodies what they need most - living |
| 3. Store it | | | | nutrients - raw food. The raw food diet is real health |
| When our body uses food, it assimilates the nutrients | | | | care reform because it actually promotes health. The |
| and converts them to some form of energy. Once the | | | | best part is you don't have to wait for an act of |
| nutrients are extracted from the carrier - take the | | | | congress to get this health care. You can get it today |
| cellulose in vegetables, for instance - it uses that fiber | | | | with raw food. |