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"Another great thing about raw food is that nature has a fantastic way of putting complimentary nutrients together so they can work together on absorption. So you'll find the right amount of magnesium with calcium and vitamin D in a whole, raw food. You can't get that in most supplements. Most supplements can't imitate nature like this. With raw foods, it's what nature intended. Now wait, please don't panic... you can still cook foods, cooking vegetables is much better than eating none at all, but make sure you bring more raw foods into your diet." - Kevin Gianni and Annmarie Colameo, The Busy Person's Fitness Solution (Get the book.)

"Another benefit of raw food is that it is considerably more bulky than its cooked counterpart. A bag of spinach reduces to just a couple of serving spoonfuls when sauteed. All that raw bulk makes you feel satisfyingly full so you naturally eat fewer calories. I find that the idea of eating raw food is more appealing when you think of it as partaking of choices at a giant salad bar. Raw spinach may not appeal, but a More Than Skin Deep Your skin acts as a barometer of what's happening inside your body." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Some raw foodists I met at a raw food boutique in San Diego (including a young man who was eating only raw cacao nibs and feeling "totally epic") snickered that they had recently busted their fruitarian colleague eating avocados. But isn't an avocado a fruit? Absolutely, say a splinter denomination called rockguacamolians who eat only avocados seasoned with powdered asteroid dust. Cooked-fruitarians claim they can eat everything from pasta marinara minus oregano, soy veggieburgers (hold the lettuce and onions), and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"I read about everything: nutrition, raw food, juicing, kombucha tea, herbal medicine, yoga, Hulda Clark and Max Gerson and other alternative healers, ozone therapy, chelation, hypnotism, psychotherapy, the I Ching, and countless other therapies and schools of thought. For the most part, each group presented persuasive arguments to support their point of view. The raw foods people said that because we evolved from apes we should be eating only raw vegetables and fruits. The blood-type people said that your diet should be designed to work with and support the characteristics of your blood group." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"The Detox Diet It is extremely beneficial to incorporate a 2-day raw food and 3-day juice fast into your 5-day cleanse. • Day 1 During the morning (after yout cleansing drink and stopping one hour before lunch), eat all the live fresh fruit or vegetable juice you want. Beet juice is especially good. Do not mix your fruit and vegetable juices together, and feel free to dilute your juices. For lunch you can have more diluted juice, or a raw vegetable or sprout salad. Absolutely do not use bottled dressing." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"These are packed with nutrients (amino acids, carotinoids, etc) and can be considered nearly perfect foods. Eat raw food in the form of juicing or direct consumption of raw carrots, tomatoes, garlic, radishes, onions and olives. Many authorities believe that the ideal diet should contain 70 to 80% raw food. This includes food that has not been heated above 120 degrees F. Enzymes are destroyed by cooking and this contributes to problems with digestion of food. A wonderful tasting juice recipe that provides valuable enzymes can be made from beets, carrots, apples, and ginger." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"According to the raw food Pearamid, fruits should be eaten on an empty stomach. Forget about fruit salads; different kinds of fruit should never be combined. Durette, America's foremost authority on fruitarianism, says the optimum meal should consist of only one kind of fruit eaten to satiety. But with a daily intake of at least ten pounds of fruit, he seems to spend all day eating." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "One fruitarian, posting on a raw food forum, claims that he gets "B12 from performing cunnilingus." Because it lacks a balanced variety of amino acids, the fruitarian diet is especially dangerous for children. In 2001, Britain's Garebet Manuelyan and his wife, Hasmik, were charged with manslaughter in the malnutrition death of their nine-month-old daughter, Areni, who was fed only fruit. Two years later, Hasmik apparently committed suicide; her body was found in the sea near Brighton." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"This taste change most commonly happens when eating raw food. Think about it: It is not usual to overeat a salad. Eating a processed, cooked diet laden with excitotoxins (such as MSG) provides the double insult of low nutrient density combined with the supersensory stimuli of artificial flavorings, driving body and mind to continue to ask for food long after our calorie needs would have been satisfied by a tasty nutrient-dense meal." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"There are many different approaches to raw food, from vegan to primarily carnivorous. The original modern-day raw foodist was Ann Wigmore, who popularized sprouts, wheatgrass juice, and a fermented sprouted-grain beverage called rejuvelac in the 1960s as part of her "living foods" diet. In big cities today a high-priced raw haute cuisine has emerged; some inventive culinary artists have taken prepared raw foods to great heights. Other raw foodists feel that such elaborate concoctions are contrary to the simplicity of food in its raw state." - Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (Get the book.)

"This is the basis for some raw food diets which try to focus on eating foods that do not cause an acidic shift in your blood pH, thus keeping your calcium levels healthy all day long. If you continually use calcium from your bones, you will lose some of your bone mineral density, causing your bones to become weak. Eating healthy foods that help ensure your blood levels of calcium are good is important to bone health. Fruits and vegetables do not pull calcium from your bones. Eat these healthy foods more often and your bones will thank you." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"However, raw food manifests only enough enzymes to digest itself, not enough to be stored in the body for later use or to assist in breaking down other foods consumed with it that may be void of enzymes. When we cook and process food, we denature the enzymes that occur naturally in the living organism, so they are no longer helpful in the digestive process. If we put that same apple in an apple pie or in apple sauce, the enzymes in it would be of no use to us digestively. When we eat cooked apples, the digestive system has to produce all of the enzymes needed to digest the cooked food." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"In order to make sure that won't happen, raw food ingredients are processed at very high heats. This causes grains, fruits, and vegetables to lose most of their vitamins, minerals, and fiber, as well as other nutrients. Preservatives are then added in order to prevent germs from proliferating in the food while it sits in the jar or package on the supermarket shelf. That way, your food won't spoil or be covered with mold when you tear open the plastic packaging a week or a month or even a year down the road." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"The Culture of Life plant-source-only, 80-percent raw food diet is the primary foundation of the program and the herbs and supplements are secondary foundations that accelerate and support the healing. A most important key to the success of the program is its sustain-ability. My clinical results with the use of live foods and green juice fasting leave no doubt that we can rapidly and safely take people off insulin and oral hypoglycemics with very rapid returns to a healthy FBS." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Organic fruits and vegetables contain the most vitamins and minerals and are free of herbicides and pesticides. raw food still has all its enzymes and is in the best form to be eaten. When we combine the two aspects, raw and organic, we have the best food we can give to our bodies. Such food is not only superior for health, it is superior in flavor. If you think raw is boring, think again. A book by Juliano Brotman, entitled RAW: The Uncook Book, is a delight and an inspiration to read and use." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"The concept of taste balancing, shared with the Tree of Life Cafe by our former master chef, Chad Sarno, has been incorporated into our program for making gourmet, multi-cultural raw food. Taste balancing is a major key to preparing delicious food. It supports wholistic food preparation that celebrates the balance of flavors and the balance of feeding each body, from the emotional body to the spiritual body, with intention. When we feed people's physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies with comforting food, it creates balance in a variety of ways." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"If you have trouble eating a raw food meal every day, then you can increase the amount of digestive enzymes, reduce the meal size more than 25 percent and eat more frequently (lessening the intensity of the bursts of energy your body has to use to digest large meals), or fast every two months instead of every three months. The reason the nearly ideal diet is so adjustable is that every recommendation listed above contributes in a slightly different way to resting the digestive system and allowing the body to benefit from the additional energy." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"I find that the idea of eating raw food is more appealing when you think of it as partaking of choices at a giant salad bar. Raw spinach may not appeal, but a More Than Skin Deep Your skin acts as a barometer of what's happening inside your body. As you proceed through Diet Evolution, you'll almost definitely notice a difference in your skin. One of my coronary bypass patients also suffered from diabetes and hypertension, until I convinced him to practice Diet Evolution, which he has now done for the past two years." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Pottenger cats experiment diets Mother cats and their offspring were observed for health changes. Only raw food diet males were used for breeding purposes so as to maintain consistency of fertilization. Study Findings Dr. Pottenger found that only diets containing raw milk and raw meat were adequate for maintaining the optimal health of the cats from generation to generation. Cats on an all-raw diet had good bone structure with wide palates and plenty of space for their teeth, excellent bone density, shiny fur, and freedom from parasites and disease." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "They are an alkaline nutritional storehouse, a raw food goldmine for the body. Sprouts contain live vitamins, minerals, proteins, phytochemicals, and enzymes in surprising amounts, as well as essential fatty acids. They are low in calories. The enzyme count of sprouts is reported to be ten to one hundred times higher than in vegetables or fruits, depending on the enzyme and the seed being sprouted. There is no other food with higher enzyme content. Sprouts are highly regarded for their detoxification, healing, and rejuvenation qualities." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Don't forget the raw foods. raw food diets naturally reduce appetite by replacing unhealthy, processed foods with high-fiber, low-calorie foods. You can lose weight without relying on diet pills. Exercise and food choice are the keys to success with any weight loss effort. Products to consider for Appetite Control Pinolenic Acid (www.LEF.org) <** Baseline Nutritionals Digestive Enzymes, Accelerator and Warp Speed products (www.BaselineNutritionals.com) *¦ LeptiSlim (www.WellnessResources.com) Spirulina (www.Cyanotech.com) Arthritis Arthritis is an inflammation condition." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"This means especially eating a nearly all, if not 100%, raw food diet and getting plenty of rest, sleep and practicing all the other eight energy enhancers. The entire cleansing, renewal and healing process is greatly sped up by a period of fasting. Think of it as fast-mg. The Fatigue Factor Many people going through detoxification complain of feeling "so tired all the time." In the following, Victoria explains this fatigue factor letdown as simply, "What goes up must come down!" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Of course these exercises work best not with cooked food, but with raw food since both the physiological and psychological addictiveness of cooked food reinforces the former overeating behavior. How to Slow Down Your Eating • Take a few minutes or more of silence to relax before the meal. • Take at least 20 minutes to eat the meal. • Eat as a pure activity ?no television, reading or other activity ?light, pleasant conversation when with others. • Put your utensil down between bites ?or your food if no utensil used. or with is being • Take time to chew the bite completely." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The majority of interviewees concurred that more raw food was essential to the good health of cats and dogs. raw food was more nutritious and could be better digested. raw food contributed to the increase of enzymatic activities within the gut and bowels of such animals, making them look and feel healthier. raw food strengthened the immune systems of such animals, enabling them to ward off infectious diseases more easily. Also, raw-food diets prompted animals to eat less." - Dr. John Heinerman, Natural Pet Cures: Dog & Cat Care the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"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 ? Rickets • Curvature of the spine ? Paralysis of the legs Seizures Convulsions Thyroid abscesses Cyanosis of the liver and kidneys ?" - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"The treatments range from natural raw food diets to use of special machines to kill the cancer cells, from special herbs and teas to ozone therapy. Many of these proved to be many times more effective with better remission (the period during which the symptoms of a disease abate or subside). And yet, as we read this article, we see that the Medical Association banned many of the possibly successful treatments. Today a person can be fined by even using the word "cure" in their therapies in regards to cancer. Makes a person wonder, doesn't it?" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (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.)

"No, my gray hair did not turn brown over night (after all, male silver-back gorillas eat raw food and have gray hair), but my skin tone and elasticity changed dramatically. I was so convinced by this experience that for the following year, I ate about 95 percent of my food raw. In developing the recipes for this book, I backed down to 90 percent without any noticeable changes in my skin, energy levels, or blood tests. Will I return to nearly 100 percent? I doubt it." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.) "My most successful patient volunteers, meaning those who permanently change their body and blood chemistry, do so by evolving to a diet that is at least 60 percent raw food. Should you eat mainly raw? That's your decision. Again, do what you can, with what you have, wherever you are. In a typical day, I might eat the following meals: Breakfast A green smoothie made from organic fresh or frozen vegetables that I alternate every few days, using rice, hemp, or whey protein powder, combined with a cup of frozen berries, a whole small apple, flaxseeds, and some cinnamon." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

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