Why All Should Eat Only Raw Foods Always
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 delecand 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