NBC News: Raw Food Diet
Posted by admin on Nov 4, 2009
What are the benefits of eating a living and raw food diet?
The benefits of eating a raw and living food diet are too numerous to mention in entirety. The living and raw food diet has helped many people feel better when nothing else has worked. Many people have healed themselves of diseases and ailments such as diabetes, fibromyalgia, acne, migraines, back pain, neck and joint pain, asthma, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, hypoglycemia, colitis, diverticulitis, Candida, arthritis, serious allergies, depression, anxiety, mood swings, heartburn, gas, bloating, skin diseases, obesity, chronic fatigue, cancers and many more. Excess weight seems to just melt off your body when you eat a raw and living food diet!
To easily understand why raw and living foods can rebalance and restore optimum health, we must focus on one key area; that is how digestion really works. Digestive enzymes are destroyed by heat. Beginning at a cooking temperature of 118 degrees the complete enzymatic content of food begins to rapidly decrease to 0% by 120 degrees. Cooking foods can also destroy other nutrients, and render natural oils indigestible.
Compromised digestion, resulting from highly refined and overcooked foods, creates a ripple effect through toxic-accumulation and immune over-stimulation that detrimentally affects the physical, emotional and spiritual levels of our being. The ingestion of a high percentage of organically grown raw and living foods is a critical foundation for the reversal of these conditions, along with the continuous gifts of health, vitality and elevated quality of life.
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thanks good …
thanks good informations!
No cheesburgers?
No cheesburgers?
What primates are …
What primates are herbivores? Where to orangutans fit in?
Raw food in a …
Raw food in a positive light? When was this?
Awesome!
Why waste the time. …
Why waste the time. All that matters is that humans do great on a herbivore diet …… for whoever wants that greatness.
Go RV’n !!!………811 style
Bottom line is …
Bottom line is there is no nutritional need for things from OTHER animals. Everything originates from the ground anyway. And animals only started eating each other during times when there wasn’t enough food.
BTW – nice play you two put on.
Google “chimpanzee …
Google “chimpanzee spear” and you should get a link to the National Geographic article from 2007.
Really? Have any …
Really? Have any sources you can point to so I can read further about this?
Great thanks! I’ll …
Great thanks! I’ll definitely look this up.
Actually, I learnt …
Actually, I learnt in my anatomy and physiology class at UBC that we do not have teeth for meat. Meat eaters have large canines that are significantly longer than the rest of the teeth. We do not have canines suited for tearing meats. We have our molars for grinding grains nuts and vegetables. And our front teeth are for biting into our foods. We do not have teeth for meat eating. I was taught this by my professor who has a PHD in this field.
Yes but we actually …
Yes but we actually do have Canine teeth. Even if they aren’t as prominent as other animals, they are there. One explanation in evolutionary theory is that we were once scavengers. The carnivores that have significantly longer canines that you mention need them as weapons and not simply eating. They’re predatory animals.
We definitely do have a LOT of features of herbivore anatomy, but there is a lot of evidence that our recent intake of bone marrow is responsible for our fast development.
Thats BS bro! …
Thats BS bro! Humans we never intended to eat meat! I dare you to challenge me!
We have teeth …
We have teeth designed to process both types of foods. We also do not have the ability to digest cellulose in plants the way other herbivores do. We have eyes in the front of our heads and remnants of canine teeth typical of predatory and/or scavenging animals.
Let’s see…Oh. We’re apes. Apes do in fact eat plants and animals.
We can exchange private messages with evidence to support our claims if you actually do want a challenge.
i have the ability …
i have the ability to walk out onto the highway and stand there and wait for a car to hit me. Does that mean i should go do it? Saying you are “designed” to eat meat doesn’t mean it is the best choice for your health, does it? Just as i am designed to walk out onto the highway and get run over, i avoid it because it would not be healthy.
These teeth allow …
These teeth allow us to eat more varieties of vegetation beyond greens or grass, unlike bovines. Gorillas have canine teeth as well, but are vegan.They need such teeth to be able to eat bamboo, something giraffes, elk, etc. cannot do I understand your pt., but I think at the end of the day, we’d agree we eat WAY too much meat, and perhaps we need it only a few times a month, if that.Try eating meat w/o condiments & I think you’ll look at this “affinity” from a different perspective.
So at the end of …
So at the end of the day, is a 100% raw food infeasible, unnatural and dangerous?
baboons eat …
baboons eat gazelle’s all the time. thier a lot like dogs or wolves the way they hunt
Well sure people …
Well sure people can consume too much of anything. Moderation is certainly key to any diet and staying healthy in general.
I don’t question people’s tendency to eat TOO much meat especially in today’s culture, but the original argument was about how people are trying to prove based on superficial anatomical observations that we’re plant eaters ONLY. This is clearly not the case as we do have the biology to digest animal meat.
It should be noted though that gorillas do also eat invertebrates.
Raw food diet is …
Raw food diet is the diet for weight loss! Think about it – if you don’t intake any fat, then you body uses what is stored!!!
That last point is …
That last point is quite interesting. What kinds of invertabrea do they eat? Surely, not shellfish. I think one could make the argument for humans being essentially herbivorous, again, the teeth we have could prove we are more than leaf and fruit eaters, that we can eat bamboo and shoots. But tell me more about the gorilla.
If you do some …
If you do some quick research, you’ll find that in fact there’s only a few primates that are strictly carnivores or herbivores. The majority of them are omnivores. Baboons for example have been known to take down animals such as antelope.
As for gorillas, the diets range very widely but many of them eat insects. Chimps have also been known to crack open clam shells to eat what’s on the inside.
I’m all for eating much more fruits and veggies but clearly we’re omnivores too.
Silly me, I’m …
Silly me, I’m forgetting the insects are invertabrae. But I thought it was chimps and not gorillas that eat them. How about orangutans? How can a baboon take down an antelope, unless it’s a baby? This is all news to me!
Chimps hunt …
Chimps hunt bushbabies with homemade spears, and they’re much more closely related to us than gorillas are.
Really pretty …
Really pretty interesting. I just wish I knew where on Earth this idea that people are purely vegetarian by nature.
It’s pretty neat. …
It’s pretty neat. One of the things I find most fascinating is that in every instance they’ve seen it, it’s the females that figure out the tool use and teach it to the young of both sexes. They’re starting to re-examine their ideas of how tool use evolved in humans.