by
Paul
BenhaimIn her book Be Your Own Doctor, Dr Ann Wigmore states The
most thrilling experience I can recall was to see cancer cells taken
from a human body and thriving on cooked food, but unable to
survive on the same food when it was uncooked.'
Raw foods, otherwise known as 'Living Foods', are quite simply
the most alive foods you can obtain. Raw food has already been
cooked from the original fire of the sun's energy. To cook it again
is simply too much: vegetable comes from the word vegetus,
meaning full of life.
By eating living foods you gain not just the vitamins, minerals and
other nutrients which would ordinarily be cooked out of your foods,
but also their life force, their energy and their enzymes. Raw
foodism, now following hot on the heels of vegetarianism and
veganism, has been quietly but strongly emerging out of the US
for several years and the UK during recent times. No longer seen
as cranky or weird, raw foodism actually makes a lot of sense
when you look at it. There are no additives in natural food, or
excess salt, fat and sugar. Raw fooders eat their food straight - as
nature intended, and consequently feel not just healthier, more
alert and full of energy, but also gain in less tangible ways; feeling
a greater connectedness to nature, more in touch with their own
thoughts, feelings and emotions. Once you try eating only raw
food, you will notice the difference. Quite opposed to today's
society that is often run by greedy, money orientated industries
that see the short-term profit as more ideal than long-term health.
No gimmicks or hidden catches, eating in the most natural way
possible gives us everything we want - namely our health and
happiness. But there are several reasons why people are deterred
from following a raw food diet. As more raw food is eaten, some of
the not-so-good food begins to come out - detoxification begins -