Some of us do it for beauty, some for health reasons – healing mind and body with raw foods it’s proven over and over. It is the life force that feeds all our cells and helps us to heal.
Ecologically, it makes so much sense to eat raw living foods because we are not consuming processed goods or contributing to the accumulation of garbage on this planet by requiring a lot of packaging. All the waste from my kitchen end up in the compost, so I am actually giving back to the Earth.
The most nutritious of raw foods are the living raw foods, these are still growing like sprouts and germinated nuts and seeds. Raw foods are full of enzymes, plant hormones, oxygen, vitamins and minerals.
Nature’s abundance is limitless, not only in different textures, but in variety of colors and tastes.
According to David Wolfe, the world’s most renowned raw food lecturer and author, eighty percent of all species on this planet enjoy optimum heath, and not one of them is cooking their food. Think of it – man is the only one. Another fact to consider is that humans have only had fire and the ability to cook food for a small percentage of time that we have existed on Earth. What did people do before that?
And human digestive system is designed to eat the raw foods that nature provides and is very similar to gorilla which is mainly vegetarian. Eating cooked foods consisting of animal proteins, fats, starches and sugar not only robs our body of vital nutrients and enzymes, but causes fermentation all kinds of degenerative diseases. It may take 30 – 40 years for the degeneration to manifest, but eventually the major organs and systems of the body will brake down.
Awareness is growing about enzymes in our foods and how they contribute to our overall health.
What is enzyme? It’ s an electrically charged protein molecule necessary for every process in our body. There are three different kinds of enzymes. The food enzymes that occur naturally in our raw and living foods; digestive enzymes produced by the human body to help break down food, and metabolic enzymes that are responsible for every chemical process in our cells.
We will not find one enzyme in cooked food because they are destroyed when heated above 115 degrees. Researchers have found out that we have a certain amount of these enzymes – an enzyme pool, so to speak – in our cells. Imagine your enzyme pool like a bank account with a set amount deposited there. If we keep withdrawing these enzymes because we eat enzyme deficient foods, the body will use up its reserves.
Pretty soon we are overdrawn and that means big trouble. Our digestive processes will rob enzymes from other systems in the body, wearing down the body and making us vulnerable to disease. However, when we introduce enzyme rich foods we are making a deposit to our account, and that additional deposits will be reflected in the vitality of our body and mind. These enzyme rich living foods can then assist the body to digest the foods lessening the burden on the digestive tract and replenishing the metabolic enzymes as well.
Oxygen
Oxygen is essential to human survival. We find it in the air we breath, the water we drink and the foods we eat. Raw, unprocessed, organic foods have the highest amount of oxygen in them. When our body is oxygen-rich we feel energized and our mind is clear. We don’t feel heavy like you would after eating pizza or other cooked meal. Because those foods have much less oxygen.
Another positive thing about growing our own living foods like sprouts is that we improve the indoor air. Especially if you live in the city where the quality of air is poor.
Hormones
These are phytochemicals and nutrients that exist in plants to strengthen their immunity to diseases and external stresses. Phytoetrogen are one example found in abundance in soy products. They are known to help women in balancing their hormones during the menopause. The growing tips of sprouts and young shoots contain growth hormones that are both rejuvenating and regenerating to our bodies. When we consume these we can notice the difference in our glowing appearance and vitality.
Vitamins and Minerals
These components are found in all foods but are specially abundant in raw living foods. When we cook our foods much of the water and fat-soluble vitamin are destroyed, leaving very little true nutrition. The minerals are still there but without the enzymes to transport them into our cells. The body will then the minerals from the bones, this is how we get osteoporosis.
Raw and living foods are the best source of vitamins and minerals for our body. Eating plenty of raw food we will end up being mineral-rich rather than mineral – depleted.
