By Dr. Bernarr, D.C., D.D.
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
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 causes 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.
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
Living and Raw Foods FAQ
The Living and Raw Foods discussed in
this web site includes all plant based (vegetarian/vegan) foods.
What are Living and Raw
Foods?
Raw and Living Foods are foods that contain enzymes. The act of heating food
over 116 degrees F destroys all the enzymes in food. (Enzymes start to degrade in as
little as 106 degrees F). All cooked food is devoid of enzymes, furthermore cooking
food changes the molecular structure of the food and renders it toxic.What are Enzymes?
Enzymes assist in the digestion of foods. They are known to be the
"Life-Force" and or "energy" of food.
From the dictionary:
Noun: Any of the various complex organic substances, as pepsin originating
from living cells and capable of producing certain chemical
changes in organic substances by catalytic action, as in
digestion.
Why are Enzymes Important?
Enzymes are important because they assist in the digestion and absorption of food.
If you eat food that is enzyme-less, your body will not get maximum utilization of
the food. This causes toxicity in the body. (Can you guess why over 75% of
Americans are overweight?)
Doesn't the acidic ph of the stomach destoy enzymes?
Viktorus Kulvinskas, one of the world's foremost and most
experienced active researchers into enzyme nutrition has information showing then stomach
acid merely deactivates food enzymes. The enzymes are then reactivated in the more
alkaline small intestine. Many people who eat all raw foods, sense a world of
healthful difference in our energy, digestion and connectedness with nature by eating
enzyme-rich living foods. When we stopped eating cooked protein foods which require large
secretions of stomach acid (which is not healthful for several reasons) our stomach
doesn't produce much stomach acid. Many people who eat raw foods eat a low
protein diet and are free from the stomach acid secretions and have much more energy and a
lighter disposition.
Is there a difference between living foods and raw
foods?
Living and Raw foods both contain enzymes. In living foods, the enzyme
content is much higher. Raw, unsprouted nuts contain enzymes in a "dormant"
state. To activate the enzymes contained in almonds, for example, soak them
in water for as just 24 hours. Once the almonds begin to sprout, the enzymes become
"active" and are then considered living. In the context of this web site,
the terms are used loosely.
Why eat only Organic Foods?
When juicing or eating foods, it is very important to choose to consume only
organically grown produce. "Conventional" or "industrial" produce are
grown with pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, and other chemicals that are
toxic and/or harmful to your body. Organic foods are grown without the use of these
harmful substances, taste better, and are more nutritious.
Will rinsing wash off the pesticide from industrially
grown produce?
Rinsing with cool water will remove some surface pesticide residue, but not the pesticide
that was absorbed into the produce as it was grown. Some of the most severely tainted
types of produce are strawberries and bell peppers. Some of the least tainted: carrots and
avocados.
Is this a "new" fad diet or something?
Not at all! Consider the following: during the vast majority of our existence on
this planet, what choices did we have for food? What COULD we have eaten during the first
10-50,000 years (or more) before we discovered fire, tools and implements to kill animals?
The original diet of homo-sapiens MUST have been vegetables, fruits, and nuts! What other
choices did we have? Clearly, a raw, plant based diet is the main food staple throughout
the vast majority of the history of Humankind! Before Humans started killing and eating
dead animal carcass, we ate fruits, leaves, nuts, berries, etc...
Is this just another vegetarian or vegan diet?
Yes and NO! This is the ULTIMATE vegetarian/vegan diet. It should be the goal of all
vegetarians, vegans and SAD - [Standard American Diet] eaters to eat raw.
The benefits are out of this world! Once you embrace an all-raw and living food diet, you
are more living, have more energy, better health, think more clearly, and become more in
tune with your body! This type of diet even gives you a "competitive edge" over
people that eat life-less food.
What is the difference between a raw/living foods
diet and a vegetarian one?
Vegetarians and vegans believe in only eating a plant based diet.
Living and Raw Foodists believe in eating only an UNCOOKED, UNHEATED,
UNPROCESSED and ORGANIC plant based diet.
What is a Living Foodist or Raw Foodist?
A person who eats 75% or more living/raw food.. The more, the better.
Optimally one should eat 100% raw and living foods if it feels right for them.
Is there just one type of living/raw foodist?
There are many subcategories of living/raw foodists. Some include:
- Fruitarian - People who consume mostly fruits.
- Sproutarian - People who consume mostly sprouts.
- Juicearian - People who consume mostly fresh juice.
Why would someone want to eat a raw and living foods
diet?
There are many reasons why people eat a raw and living foods diet.
- Health: Persons embracing this type of diet invariably
experience improvements in their general physical and mental status, including more
energy, better health, more energy <smile>, weight loss, detoxification, and a
sturdier immune system that better resists and recovers from just about any kind of
disease... and the list goes on...
- Energy efficiency: Since you no longer have to cook, you don't
waste electricity, and save the environment.
- Since you eat organic agriculture, you help to save the
planet. Most become more in-tune with their body; many report definite spiritual
improvements.
- No animal products are used, so the animals appreciate it.
What do raw/living foodists eat?
Raw and Living Foodist eat all fruits, vegetables, sprouts, nuts, seeds,
grains, sea vegetables, and other organic/natural foods that have not been processed.
In some instances, there are special ways to prepare the foods (example: most raw
and living foodists soak/sprout nuts, seeds and grains before consuming them).
How can you tell if something is a raw/living food?
Most foods that have not been processed in any way, shape or form are raw and
living foods (until cooked). Processed foods (canned, bottled or prepackaged) are most
often adulterated, (changed from their original state) by heating, additives,
preservatives, colorings, salt, and sugar. Don't think this is all for your benefit; the
benefactor is the manufacturer's profit margin, NOT YOU. Try to purchase foods that are in
their natural state.
What do raw and living foodists drink?
Water (purified water - never tap water), Freshly made juices (made with your own
juicer - and consumed immediately), coconut milk (from a young coconut), are some of the
liquids living and raw foodists drink. Most all drinks purchased at the
store have been processed (Including: soda, bottled juices, coffee, alcohol, and most
others) and are not included in a living / raw foodist diet.
Where do raw and living foodist get their protein?
The WHO (World Health Organization) says humans need about 5% of their daily
calories to come from protein to be healthy. The USDA puts this figure at 6.5%. On
average, fruits have about 5% of their calories from protein. Vegetables have from 20-50%
of their calories from protein. Sprouted seeds, beans, and grains contain from 10-25% of
their calories from protein. So if you are eating any variety of living plant foods, you
are getting more than adequate protein. Numerous scientific studies have shown the daily
need for protein to be about 25-35 grams per day. So if you ate 2,000 calories per day,
and ate raw plant foods that had an average of 10% of their calories from protein, you
would get 200 calories worth of protein, or 50 grams. This is more than adequate to
support optimal well-being. Other studies have shown that heat treating a protein (such as
with cooking) makes about half of it unusable to the human body. So raw plant food protein
is even a better source than cooked plant foods or animal foods. There is still a huge,
foolish, misguided idea that plant protein is not "complete". This is based on
studies done on rats in the 1940's. This false conclusion was drawn before we discovered
the bodies protein recycling mechanism and its ability to "complete" any amino
acid mix from our bodies amino acid pool, no matter what the amino acid composition of a
meal consumed. This false idea is still perpetuated by the meat and dairy industries, in
an attempt to influence people to continue consuming their truly health destroying
products.
What should I eat to overcome my illness or disease?
Please see our disclaimer. We know of
many people who have overcome their illness/disease by changing their lifestyle and diet.
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