Go
raw in the kitchen!
Raw
food expert BERYN DANIEL tells of the benefits of a natural diet
- and provides two recipes for readers. 'The Ascension Times'
will publish two recipes in each edition.
THIS
is what happens to food when you cook it:
• 50% of the B vitamins are lost;
• 70 to 80% of vitamin C is lost;
•
The protein structures in the food are altered;
• The ageing process speeds up;
•
Good fats turn to bad fats; and o
• Mineral absorption is disrupted.
Researchers
have also found that 50 to 80% of the nutritional value of food
is lost through the cooking process. This means that over half
of the food you put into your body just puts strain on the system,
because it serves no nutritional function. That is a lot of time
and energy wasted not only on digestion but food preparation.
A "good" home-cooked meal can take hours to prepare!
It
is common sense that:
•
Nature presents raw plant food to us in abundance;
• Raw plant foods are simple, easy to find, fun to eat and
delicious;
•
Raw plant foods contain thousands of health-giving nutrients;
• Raw plant foods conform to the biological design of the
human digestive system; and
• Raw plant foods represent the purest form of transformed
sun energy with the sun, being the source of all life on this
planet. Eating raw food enhances eco-friendly living:
• When one eats an orange, the wrapper (peel) becomes compost;
and o When one follows a raw-plant-food lifestyle, the amount
of rubbish produced by that individual decreases to almost nothing.
Some more benefits are that:
• Raw plant foods are cleansing and alkalizing;
• Raw plant foods do not create an immune system response
when you eat them;
• Raw plant foods regenerate the cells of the body;
• Raw plant foods add vitamins and minerals to the body;
• Raw plant foods add protein to the body; and
• Raw plant foods add enzymes to your enzyme bank account.
According
to the Sunfood Diet Success System: "Life is designed raw. Out
of trillions of organisms that were alive at the beginning of
time, are alive now and will be alive at the end of time, only
one tampers with its food. "You do not want to bet against those
kind of odds."
