Raw foods also contain digestive enzymes that cooked and processed foods lack. The digestive enzymes that nature provides with the raw fruit, vegetable, or meat is the perfect match for that particular food. If you don't get the digestive enzymes in the foods that you eat, your body has to make them. That requires energy and nutrients that's depleting of your energy resources. Many researchers who study those elements that contribute to longevity feel that the human body has a limited capacity and store of enzyme production over a lifetime. When your enzyme producing capacity expires, you expire!
Vitamins and minerals are much more bio-available (absorbed into a living system) if they are in the form provided by nature (raw, unprocessed, unextracted). Once you process food and strip away the vitamins, for example; merely adding denatured vitamins back into the food through fortification or supplementation will not give you the equivalent quality or bioactivity of vitamins as originally provided by nature. Thus it is not as important of what you take or swallow, but what your body absorbs.
"Medical professionals of today do not understand the vital roles of water in the human body. Medications are palliatives (process of easing symptoms without curing the underlying disease). They are not designed to cure the degenerative diseases of the human body." - Dr. F. Batmanghelidj - taken from his book Your Body's Many Cries for Water
Pure and simple, water is an essential part of a healthy diet; and to a much greater extent than most would imagine. While unknown to the orthodox medical community, dehydration is an extraordinarily common cause of an astounding number of diseases. Everyone knows that water is 'good' for the body. They seem not to know how essential it is to one's well-being. They do not know what happens to the body if it does not receive its daily need of water. Dr. Batmanghelidj's recommendation is drinking 8 - 10 glasses of water daily, and more if you are suffering from an illness.
Furthermore, it should be known that Dr. Batmanghelidj points out, "In advanced societies, thinking that tea, coffee, alcohol, and manufactured beverages are desirable substitutes for the purely natural water needs of the daily 'stressed' body is an elementary but catastrophic mistake. It is true that these beverages contain water, but what else they contain are dehydrating agents. They get rid of the water they are dissolved in plus some more water from the reserves of the body!"
"Currently, practitioners of conventional medicine are unaware of the many chemical roles of water in the body. Because dehydration eventually causes loss of some functions, the various sophisticated signals given by operators of the body's water rationing program during severe and lasting dehydration have been translated as indicators of unknown disease conditions of the body. This is the most basic mistake that has deviated clinical medicine. It has prevented medical practitioners from being able to advise preventive measures or offer simple physiologic cures for some major diseases in humans."
There will be more on the effects of a poor diet and what to do about it this week. Stay tuned ...
Daniel then said to the guard whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, "Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see." So he agreed to this and tested them for ten days.
At the end of the ten days they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead. Daniel 1:11-16 (NIV)
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