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"Even though raw nuts, seeds, and grains have high nutritional values, they have limitations. The inhibitors keep the enzymes dormant until they have been activated by water. When dry nuts, seeds, and grains are consumed, the body has to secrete extra enzymes to neutralize the inhibitors before the foods can be digested. However, when raw nuts, seeds, or grains are soaked in water, the enzymes within them become active. This causes them to start growing, and in the process, increases their nutritional content. Most sprouts are ready to eat in four or five days." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Alternatively, I'll have a handful of raw nuts and an apple or handful of berries. In a pinch, I'll have a high-protein, low-carb bar. Lunch A huge dinner plate of romaine or other lettuces, cherry tomatoes, whatever other veggies or mushrooms I can find, olive oil, vinegar or lemon juice, and crushed red pepper flakes, plus a handful of mixed raw nuts, primarily walnuts." - 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.)

"In our clients put on a 100-percent living and raw foods diet with 15-20 percent raw plant fat, including raw nuts, seeds, and avocado, we saw an average 44-percent drop in LDL with an average drop to an LDL of 82. We saw relief from all diabetic degenerative symptoms, including improved mental function. The improved mental function suggests an increase in blood flow to the brain. These results support the large studies cited about the beneficial use of whole raw nuts and seeds such as walnuts and almonds." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Take one cup of water, preferably living water, and add about V4 cup of raw nuts or seeds. Blend at high speed for 2 or 3 minutes, until thick white milk is formed. It is best used as it is, but may also be poured through a sieve, gauze, or nut milk bag to remove the pulp. HEMP SEED MILK Hemp seeds, being high in protein and essential fatty acids, make an excellent milk substitute. Make it using the same recipe as Nut Milk. Vary the amounts of water and hemp seeds according to your preference." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Keep lots of raw nuts, seeds, flaxseed, and avocados on hand because they are your preferred fatty food and should be used in salad dressings and other recipes. These foods are higher in calories, so if you are trying to lose weight it is helpful not to use more than half an avocado per day and limit the quantity of seeds and nuts to a one ounce serving per day for a female and less than two ounces (1/4 cup) a day for a male." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.)

"Vitamin E is plentiful in raw nuts and seeds, especially sunflower seeds. Alpha-tocopherol is the main form of vitamin E. There are four tocopherols with proven antioxidant activity. There are also four tocotrienols in the vitamin E family with even stronger antioxidant activity. These natural forms of vitamin E neutralize free radicals in the fatty areas of the body. Vitamin E reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease by protecting artery walls. Vitamin E is vitally important for the protection of the cell membranes from free radical damage." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Be sure to choose unsalted, dry roasted, or raw nuts. Nuts can go rancid so make sure you buy nuts from a store with a rapid turnover. Breakfast Cereals. If you are choosing a SuperFoods breakfast that features a cereal, put that cereal on your list. If you're going to choose oatmeal I'd suggest in order of preference: steel-cut oatmeal, long-cooking oatmeal, instant oatmeal. Avoid any oatmeal varieties that have added fruit, flavoring, or sugar. You'll be adding your own. Do buy some 1-ounce instant oatmeal packets." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"However, when raw nuts, seeds, or grains are soaked in water, the enzymes within them become active. This causes them to start growing, and in the process, increases their nutritional content. Most sprouts are ready to eat in four or five days. At this time, they are at their peak in terms of nutritional and enzyme content. Eating fresh sprouts at that time in their development is an excellent way of introducing a large quantity of enzymes into our diets. After the fifth day, the enzyme content diminishes significantly as the sprout starts to grow longer." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Essential fatty acids are contained in raw nuts and seeds, fish, fish oils, and cold pressed oils from flax and hemp seeds. These are the building blocks for the liver to make hormones and hormone precursors for the brain and glands of the endocrine system. Anti-Aging Supplements Many companies have jumped on the anti-aging bandwagon after it was discovered that the pituitary gland can actually be fed the necessary precursors that allow it to increase its natural production of hgh." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"How many men, women, and children consume the recommended five or more servings of fresh fruits and vegetables daily, along with whole grains, raw nuts, and high-quality protein sources or consume an optimal ratio of less than 4 to 1 of omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids daily? The unfortunate truth is that most people tend to eat too many foods that are nutritionally deficient (for example, foods that are refined, commercially processed, or overloaded with saturated fat and omega-6 fats)." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Replacement: Buy fresh, raw nuts, preferably in packages, and make up your own nut mixes. Suggestion #2: Avoid roasted and salted nuts sold in packages at the grocery store. Replacement: Buy raw nuts that you can soak in good quality sea salt and then dehydrate them yourself. (See Table 16 on page 81) Meal Ideas Fresh nuts provide a wealth of nutrients for the body. Nuts can provide a source of quick energy before exercise. Furthermore, we suggest that nuts be added to the diet as a healthy snack alternative that both children and adults will learn to love." - M.D. David Brownstein, The Guide to Healthy Eating (Get the book.)

"We need again to distinguish between cooked, saturated, and animal fats, versus raw fats with their natural high lipase content, such as we see in the indigenous Eskimo diet, along with cold-pressed unrefined olive oil, avocado, as well as predigested raw nuts and seeds soaked overnight, and even sprouted grains, which are healthy sources of fat. Even raw animal fat did not seem as strongly associated with the onset of chronic disease, but eating the same diet cooked and without enzymes because they were destroyed with cooking could be associated with the enzyme deficiency that cooking creates." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "In our Tree of Life program, which includes the moderate use of healthy, raw nuts and seeds and a 100 percent live-food diet, we had dramatic drops in 21-30 days in LDL cholesterol. For example, one person went from 148 to 86, another from 86 to 46, a third from 216 to 88, a fourth from 153 to 105, and a fifth from 142 to 85, for an average 67-point drop in LDL cholesterol on a plant-sourced live cuisine including nuts and seeds in just 21-30 days. This is an average drop of 44 percent of LDL in one month." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Eighty percent of the time eat foods that you know are going to nourish your body: fresh fruit, veggies, lean proteins, wild fish, raw nuts, seeds, yogurt, and salads. Then once in a while treat yourself with something that you know is not on your list of good things. I say this because you have to make the lifestyle doable! Try shopping the perimeter of a grocery store, as this is where the fresh produce, meats, and dairy will be. You will be avoiding most of the processed and refined products that are generally located in interior aisles of grocery stores." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Lunch A huge dinner plate of romaine or other lettuces, cherry tomatoes, whatever other veggies or mushrooms I can find, olive oil, vinegar or lemon juice, and crushed red pepper flakes, plus a handful of mixed raw nuts, primarily walnuts. Dinner A typical meal at our favorite Italian restaurant in Palm Desert recently included sliced raw artichokes with olive oil, fresh lemon juice, and shaved Parmigiano-Regianno cheese, followed by a plate of thinly sliced beef carpaccio topped with arugula, olive oil, lemon juice, and capers." - 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 patients are shocked by the remarkable hunger-erasing effect of raw nuts and seeds, which blunt the pre-meal rise of ghrelin, the chief hunger hormone. Don't use roasted or salted nuts or seeds, with the exception of peanuts. (Raw peanuts can contain aflatoxin, a dangerous mold.) Because the omega fats that nuts contain oxidize rapidly, processors roast nuts to keep them "fresh," but doing so destroys any antioxidant benefits. And salt, as anyone who has had a close encounter with a bowl of salted cashews will attest, makes you want another handful, then another." - 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.)

"The most ideal concentrated proteins for humans, however, are found, not in grains or cereals, but in the raw nuts and seeds. A Case History of Protein Deficiency A perfect example of how a protein deficiency can arise in a hygienist follows: This woman patient was going through a divorce; hence, she had emotional problems, one of the conditions which create a need for more protein. She had taken a thirty-day fast the same year, which depleted her reserve proteins. These were only partially replenished due to absence of appetite because of her emotionally draining situation." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "When I ate raw meat alone, it was actually easier for my body to digest than raw nuts, raw vegetables, raw sprouts or raw seeds. I even slept better, with no disturbances, on the days that I had meat instead of the usual raw vegan food. I know a raw fooder who claims that eating raw fish soon after breaking a long fast enables him to recover his strength much more quickly than on plant foods alone. It seems hard for me to believe that we as humans are not capable of digesting raw meat when so many other people I know have reported the same." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Shelton's recommendation that vegan diets should include two to four ounces of raw nuts and/or seeds daily. The following section is a condensation of a much longer essay written by Dr. Vetrano, the full version of which can be found in the second part of The Health Seekers' Year-Book with The Best of Common Health Sense. Dr. Vetrano's "Genuine Fruitarianism ?Eat Your Veggies, Nuts and Seeds, Too!" A common pitfall of those who have chosen "nature's way" is to eat only fruit and few or no nuts or seeds, with few vegetables." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "In fact you may wish to leave some dried fruit, raw nuts or flaxseed crackers in your car for such cases, rotating the unused ones every few weeks or so. When worse comes to worst, always carry handy bottled water to live on until you can get to your closest live food supply. How to Avoid Backsliding While still experiencing frequent and intense cooked food cravings during detoxification and transition to a raw diet, avoid putting yourself in temptation zones: restaurants, parties, potlucks, dinner invitations and so on." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, raw nuts, and other unprocessed, unrefined foods have low levels of glycotoxins. Be on the lookout for foods that are broiled, barbecued, grilled, fried, or oven roasted—these cooking methods employ high temperatures and dry cooking conditions, which generate high levels of dietary glycotoxins. High-temperature cooking methods should be used sparingly—certainly not every day and only a few times a week if possible. Instead, prepare your foods at temperatures less than 250°F to avoid the formation of dietary glycotoxins." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Many diabetics, and those with insulin resistance and hypoglycemia, have expressed concern over including fresh fruit in their diet; I have found that it is then best to eat acid and/or sub-acid fruit (see the food-combining chart on page 266) during the fruit meal with a quarter to half a cup of raw nuts or seeds. The nuts and seeds help slow down the absorption of the fruit sugar even more because the essential fats and protein in the nuts have a very stabilizing effect on blood sugar." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"In the diet, essential fatty acids are found in fish, raw nuts and seeds, and salad oils. Try to eat more of those if you can. Also, dty skin could be an indicator of a weak thyroid. "But before we get to supplements, about the rest of your diet ..." "I think I know what you're going to say. After all, my mother's been coming here for years. She brought me here 10 years ago, and she totally doesn't have any sugar or caffeine in the house; she uses only like whole grains and mass vegetables and soy and stuff like that." "It's very possible you'll have withdrawal symptoms," I said. " - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"Focus on raw nuts and seeds. Definitely avoid nuts and seeds roasted in oils or coated with sugar. Nuts and seeds are great to add to salads and sauteed greens. Try to mix it up a bit by eating a variety of nuts and seeds, such as almonds, brazil nuts, walnuts, pecans, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, and pumpkin seeds. Use olive, macadamia, flaxseed, or canola oil to replace the butter, margarine, and shortening that you use for cooking or as a salad dressing. We also recommend using flaxseed oil in homemade salad dressings, so we provide some recipes in Appendix A." - Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.)

"Eating a piece of fruit is a great stopgap between meals, as are small portions of packaged organic raw nuts and dried fruit or other items where you can clearly see how many calories you are eating. You do not need to count calories, but you do want to be aware of them. Meal replacement bars can be a good alternative, but read the label for the ingredients. Many of these products are loaded with unnatural compounds including preservatives, fillers, artificial sweeteners, artificial colors, artificial flavors, stabilizers and some even have partially hydrogenated oils (trans fats)." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"Use only raw nuts that have been in a tightly sealed container. Do not buy nuts that have been exposed to light and air, like those in bins and in heated showcases. The good oils in raw nuts rapidly become rancid in this type of environment, and rancid fats are a source of toxic free radicals. Consume only raw nuts or those tightly sealed in bags. Avoid nuts that are processed with added oil, sugar, or artificial flavors. than those who ate no nuts at all." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Dietary Wellness: Using Foods to Heal (Get the book.)

"Eat more foods rich in zinc, including shellfish, soybeans, whole grains, sunflower seeds, and a small amount of raw nuts daily. Zinc is an antibacterial agent and a necessary element in the oil-producing glands of the skin. A diet low in zinc may promote flare-ups. Q Be sure your diet contains vitamins A, C, E, and essential fatty acids. Supplements of these vitamins can prove to be beneficial for acne sufferers. Although vitamin A is important in fighting acne, you must be sure not to take too much. Vitamin E can help regulate vitamin A levels and can also aid in scar prevention." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.) "The diet should consist mostly of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, plus raw nuts, seeds, skinless turkey, and some deepwater fish. These quality foods supply nutrients that renew energy and build immunity. Q Add some form of acidophilus to your diet, and regularly consume soured products such as yogurt and kefir. Many people with chronic fatigue syndrome also are infected with Candida. Acidophilus helps to keep Candida under control. 'i o ~\ Q Consume plenty of water—at least ten 8-ounce glasses a day—plus juices, preferably freshly made vegetable juices." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.) "Add raw nuts (except peanuts), olive oil, pink salmon, trout, tuna, Atlantic herring, and mackerel to your diet. These foods contain essential omega-3 fatty acids. Q Do not consume stimulants, such as coffee and black tea, that contain caffeine. Studies show that coffee increases stress hormones in the body, putting coffee drinkers at greater risk of heart disease." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

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