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"If salad is part of your meal, eat it at the beginning, before eating any cooked food. Since raw foods require different digestive enzymes than those needed for digesting cooked foods, eating these food items separately, i.e., one after the other, makes it easier on the digestive system. Eating raw food items after having eaten cooked foods will leave them mostly undigested and subject to fermentation. Avoid cooked foods items in your salad, especially protein foods. (More information on this follows." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"During a ten-year period, he found that the cats on the raw diet thrived, while those on the cooked food diet showed all the degenerative diseases common in man. By the third generation, all the cats on the processed diet were sterile or congenitally malformed. Not only do we have more energy (life force) from raw foods in our diet, but our bodies are more thoroughly hydrated due to their high water content. A diet of exclusively cooked foods forces the body to use its own fluids to moisten the ingested food, and therefore has a dehydrating effect." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Our sense is that one should have at best a minimum of soy in the diet if including any cooked food as part of an 80-percent-live, 20-percent-cooked food cuisine. The following chart shows how pervasive soy is in our so-called health foods. The 40-gram level of IGF-1-creating soy protein from the study, as you will see in the chart, is easy to achieve. EATING PROCESSED SOY EASILY ADDS 40 GRAMS OF HARMFUL PROTEIN CONCENTRATE TO YOUR DIET ITEM SERVING GRAMS OF PROTEIN Desserts and Snacks: Cliff?Builder's Bar 1 bar 20 Cliff?Bar (Oatmeal, Raisin Walnut) 1 bar 10 Revival Soy Bars?" - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Add raw foods gradually to your diet, especially if your current diet is composed largely of cooked food and/ or you suffer from digestive disorders. Some people with inflammatory conditions can't process raw foods or, in some extreme cases, even cooked vegetables. Each person is different and must do what is best for his or her unique body chemistry. The simplest way to add raw foods is to alter cooking methods. As healing of the digestive tract occurs and as tolerance permits, fewer and fewer cooked foods are required." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"When cooked food is eaten, enzymes are supplied from other organs to digest the cooked food. This produces a constant drain of enzymes from the immune system and other important organs. þAny organ or gland will grow more cells and become larger if the demand placed on it exceeds its ability to function, much the same as a person's muscles will grow if they lift weights. Howell found that, in particular, human pancreases are two to three times heavier and larger in proportion to body weight compared to the pancreases of other mammals." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) "It is here that enzymes found in raw food pre-digest what has been consumed. When cooked food is eaten, enzymes are supplied from other organs to digest the cooked food. This produces a constant drain of enzymes from the immune system and other important organs. þAny organ or gland will grow more cells and become larger if the demand placed on it exceeds its ability to function, much the same as a person's muscles will grow if they lift weights." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Can you recall a time, such as Thanksgiving, or a feast of celebration, when you ate a meal of cooked food until you felt "stuffed"? You couldn't eat another bite, yet after an hour or so, you were back poking around the kitchen looking for something more to eat. Why was your body turning on the hunger signal again? You had eaten more than enough food. Or had you? What your body was telling you was, "In all that cooked and processed food you ate, you didn't give me the supplies I need to do my job. I need usable nutrition." Dr." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Dead food, including cooked food that has no electrical vibrancy, plays a significant role in lowering the body's electrical reserve. The electrical configurations for our cells come from the food we eat, as the processes within the bodies break it down into its atomic parts. Food is transformed by digestive processes for use in our bodies as electricity.4 Food properties change form depending on what is done to it." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "While we are removing stimulants from our diet, we should also begin eating more raw fruits and vegetables, and reducing the amount of cooked food we eat. SMOKING If you are a smoker, the first and most important step you can take in your health program, without exception, is to quit smoking. Easy to say, but for most people, very hard to do. Nicotine was discussed briefly in chapter 8, "What Are We Doing Wrong?" It is extremely toxic to the body and, as any smoker or former smoker will tell you, very addictive. I have been told that it is even more addictive than hard drugs." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"All life and health depends upon enzymes to digest food, assimilate it into tissue and to clean up afterwards. When cooked food is eaten, digestive enzymes must be taken to compensate. Failure will lead to enzyme dysfunction and, therefore, health failure.Take digestive enzymes with any cooked foods. 2. Too many starchy carbohydrates in the diet." - Robert Redfern, The Miracle Enzyme Is Serrapeptase (Get the book.)

"Taken in this context, because on a live-foods cuisine you can eat half as much with the same nutritional benefit, this is actually healthier and theoretically superior to having 10-15 percent of calories from fat in a cooked food diet. The best oils to use in salad dressings are those high in omega-3 such as walnuts, flax, and hemp, as well as sesame oil, which is very high in antioxidants. We recommend in our recipes that one can try substituting these oils for olive oil." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Foods that are high in cellulose will wilt slightly, creating a texture similar to cooked food. Green leafy vegetables can be "massaged" by using the hands directly to rub the salt into the greens. This effect is further enhanced by adding a small amount of an acid, such as lemon juice or apple cider vinegar. It is recommended that only Celtic sea salt or Himalayan salt be used for all food preparation. SOAKING AND SPROUTING Many nuts, seeds, and grains must be soaked or sprouted before they can be used in live-food cuisine." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) lower than cooked food eaters.2 How to Change Over This is very important. Depending on how toxic your present diet is and how quickly you make the change over to healthy eating practices, the reaction symptoms your body manifests as it eliminates toxins can vary from mild to quite severe. For example, as poisons are eliminated, they are dumped into the blood and circulated through the brain. As a result, nerve endings are irritated and react, causing the pain of a headache." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Being empowered by the message of this book to eat organic, whole, live foods, of which you only need to eat half as much to get the nutrients as compared with cooked food, can prevent and reverse diabetes. I have yet to find a person, no matter how difficult their economic status, who could not switch over to this Culture of Life diet and lifestyle. And the exciting thing about this in our advanced Western culture is that we are able to acquire foods and food concentrates that are allowing us to access more powerful forms of nutrition than our ancestors ever dreamed possible." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Eating cooked foods stresses the body, which must manufacture extra enzymes in order to digest food and compensate for enzymes lost in cooked food. By eating cooked foods, you can actually lose more nutrients than you gain. Consuming sufficient enzymes is one reason that eating raw foods is so important. Cooked foods contribute to our epidemic of chronic disease. Although the health benefits of raw foods need emphasis, a few words of caution are important about raw animal products (such as eggs, meat, fish and poultry). Even though nature intended us to eat raw foods—animal products included?" - Raymond Francis, Never Be Sick Again: Health is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It (Get the book.)

"When we eat cooked apples, the digestive system has to produce all of the enzymes needed to digest the cooked food. THE DIETARY KEYS TO UNLOCKING GOOD HEALTH So to lessen the burden on the digestive system and release potential energy for optimal functioning of all of the other systems, what is the ideal diet? Ideally, we would eat nutritionally healthy raw foods frequently and in small quantities. We would also limit calorie intake to under two thousand calories a day. Additionally, we would fast regularly to cleanse our digestive system and simultaneously give it a break." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"She has witnessed in her clients the additive allure of cooked food to pull one back. Her children, Sergei and Valya, also went raw perforce and improved in both their schoolwork and their physical health. But being children, they would fantasize about how they would celebrate their 18th birthday independence by going out to eat pizza, nachos and corndogs. Those SAD foods had been declared taboo since that auspicious day the family went raw. Gradually such desires faded. Their love for raw food and its life-improving effects grew." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"At a minimum, you must use a good enzyme supplement with each and every meal you eat—particularly any meal that contains either processed or cooked food. General Recommendations • But which enzymes should you use? The fact is you'll benefit from any good vegetarian-based enzyme supplement." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Having discovered what's wrong with cooked food, let's next take a look at what's right about raw food. 10 The Raw Ingredients So many people spend their health gaining wealth and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health. —A. J. Reb Materi, Our Family It was once believed that the only concern with food was getting sufficient calories. The calorie paradigm, originated in 1789, is completely outdated, although conventional nutritional science is still influenced by it. Calories are the body's fuel supply, and they are not altered that much by cooking." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "His previous children, who were raised on conventional cooked food, were frequently sick, noisy and messy, with emotional tantrums, while the raw child was never sick and remained quiet and happy. Arshavir also mentions in his book that in certain Asian countries, condemned prisoners were executed by giving them nothing to eat except cooked meat! They usually died within 30 days. Ann Wigmore (1909-1993) founded the Hippocrates Health Institute in Boston in 1958 with Viktoras Kulvinskas, who is still active in the raw food movement. Dr." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Eliminate as much of the processed and cooked food from your diet as possible. Instead of canned or frozen, eat fresh. Eliminate as much of the refined flours, grains, and sugars as possible. Instead of white bread, eat real whole wheat. Instead of cake and ice cream for dessert, eat fruit. Replace low-value foods such as potatoes and iceberg lettuce with high value foods such as sweet potatoes and almost any of the richly colored vegetables (particularly, spinach, brussels sprouts, broccoli, and beets).' As much as possible, eliminate all snack foods and fast foods." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "Of course, if someone is in an advanced state of illness, they better clean up their act totally, and eat no meat and no cooked food. In fact, ideally, they should go on a raw juice fast"—at least, until they get well. Once you're well, you can bake up a potato, or grill yourself a nice piece of organic beef (if that's your bent). • The bottom line is that the worse you eat, the more often you will need to cleanse and detox and make use of supplements. So After All That, What Do I Eat? At one time, I was totally vegetarian, primarily for ethical reasons." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "Simonsen conducted a series of studies to determine what, if any, impact cooked food had on health. They put two groups of cats on controlled diets, identical except that in one group the food was raw, and in the second group the food was cooked. The results were astounding. The group on raw food maintained normal good health throughout the experiments and showed no sign of degenerative diseases, but the group on cooked meat showed an astonishing breakdown of health in all the animals, including: Incomplete development of the skull and other bones ? Bowed legs ?" - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"We do put a bit of butter on our cooked food, although I do find that if I'm eating avocado, I do not need the butter. I find olive oil far more palatable than butter, and as it is cold-pressed, unsaturated, and cholesterol-free, it is a far healthier choice (it is less fattening, too!). If avocado is not freely available, especially in summer, we might have a meal of just salad and half a cup of nuts each. Remember that if you are a vegetarian, a quarter to half a cup of nuts or seeds should be included in your diet at least three times a week." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"Raw foods can only be digested at the beginning of a meal, not once you have eaten cooked food. 3. Normally, the stomach processes and removes liquids before it can attempt the digestion of the more solid and concentrated food items. Therefore, drinking a lot of liquid with your meals will greatly hinder digestion and also dilute the concentrated digestive juices, rendering them less effective. 4. It is helpful to realize that the stomach does not operate like a washing machine, but stores the ingested foods in layers, one on top of the other." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"The idea of using chocolate as a flavoring in cooked food would have been horrifying to the Aztecs—just as Christians could not conceive of using communion wine to make, say, coq au vin. In all of the pages of Sahagun that deal with Aztec cuisine and with chocolate, there is not a hint that it ever entered into an Aztec dish. Yet today many food writers and gourmets consider one particular dish, the famous pavo in mole poblano, which contains chocolate, to represent the pinnacle of the Mexican cooking tradition." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.)

"This is because cooked food can be swallowed so easily without chewing, whereas thorough mastication is essential to good health." — Dugald Semple, The Sunfood Way To Health "Your food determines in a large measure how long you shall live — how much you shall enjoy life, and how successful your life shall be." — Dr. Kirschner, Live Food Juices What we eat deeply and radically affects the way we think, feel and behave. We are what we eat, and we eat what we are. Food affects every aspect of our being. Food is the foundation of our physical body." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.) "Paul Kouchakoff, the Swiss scientist who discovered that eating cooked food causes a white blood cell immune system reaction in the blood also discovered that water "corrupts" due to heat somewhere around 159° Fahrenheit (61° Celsius). This is valuable information for tea makers! We can eat certain types of food to warm the system, Fats warm the system. Fats contain the same elements as the carbohydrates, but the hydrogen is present in a much larger quantity, and this results in more heat being produced by its breakdown and digestion." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"It's suicide on the installment plan. Furthermore, these raw fooders didn't hit me over the head with missionary zeal. Perhaps that is why 1 can often be zealous to the point of being obnoxious. And that is also why I put so much science into this book, so that the diet would make sense to the left-brained people like me. Take heed, those of you who want to put this off until you are older or sicker: / wish I had started sooner! And I have never met a raw fooder who has not expressed that same wish! I am told that people who start young maintain their youth well into middle age." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

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