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Why are raw/living foods better than cooked food? |
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Cooking destroys the food's nutrients and enzymes. Your body needs nutrients to repair and make new cells. Enzymes are needed to help digest the food.
Cooking also damages proteins (there is protein in all food). When the body doesn't recognize a damaged protein, an "immune" response occurs, and this can damage healthy cells (auto immune response).
Cooking causes minerals to lose their organic form, and they're returned to their native state as they occur in soil, sea water and rocks. In this form, they are unusable, and may combine with saturated fats and cholesterol in the circulatory system, clogging it up with cement-like plaque.
Heated fats are especially damaging to the body, because they are altered to form acroleins, free radicals, and other mutagens and carcinogens.
Bottom line: Uncooked (undamaged) food has more vitality... and the more vitality your food has, the more you'll have. |
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What is the difference between "raw food" and "live food"? |
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Basically, the level of freshness, and the nutritional quality. Because they're both uncooked, they're both technically "raw," but the longer a food is "off the vine" the less its nutrient content. A tomato fresh-picked from your garden is more nutritious than a tomato bought at a store.
Living foods are about as fresh as you can get, and have optimal vitality. Sprouted foods are considered living foods, and are superior in nutrition compared to their unsprouted state.
Bottom line: The fresher and more nutritious your uncooked food is, the better it tastes and the better it is for your body. |
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What improvements can I expect from eating more raw/living food and eating less cooked food? |
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Digestion is an energy intensive process. The "lighter" your meals, the easier they are to digest and the less energy is required for digestion. The better your meals digest, the less energy is used to deal with the downside of incomplete digestion.
The body has a finite amount of "nerve" energy (not to be confused with the caloric energy that the muscles use). The less energy that's used, the more there is available for other tasks. And a pressing task for most people is cellular housecleaning! It is the lack of this housecleaning that contributes to degenerative diseases such as cancer.
As your cells become healthier, they experience improved functionality. If it's the cells of your eyes, your vision improves; if it's the cells of your nose, your sense of smell improves; if it's the cells of your taste buds, your sense of taste will improve
(normalize). And the improved functioning of the cells of your immune system will improve your chances of living a disease-free life.
Many bodily functions will eventually change. People usually find their disagreeable body odor goes away; they no longer need to wear glasses; they don't need as much sleep; they have more energy and their disposition improves. The more uncooked and the less cooked food in your diet, the more pronounced these changes. But just a relatively small improvement from 90% to 100% makes a HUGE difference.
Bottom line: The more uncooked food you eat, the more your body will repair and renew. But you didn't get into the shape you're
currently in overnight, so to undo any damage done will take some time. This is a very individual thing, but everyone will benefit from eating the way nature intended. |
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When I replace cooked food with raw/living food, I feel worse! And when I go back to eating mostly cooked food, I feel better. Doesn't this mean I'm better off eating cooked food? |
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It is easy to misinterpret the scenario you described. It's very common. Here's what's happening: Eating a diet rich in uncooked food will free up energy for healing. And if you've been eating cooked food
for any length of time, you have some healing to do. When your body begins the long overdue task of cellular housecleaning, it can be unpleasant... sometimes very unpleasant! But don't let that deter you
from becoming healthy.
Understanding that you are purging toxic wastes that were burdening/damaging your body may help you to have the resolve to see it through. Some people who experience very unpleasant "detox" symptoms add a bit of cooked food back into their diet in order to slow the process down to make it tolerable. But if you can tolerate it, stick it out, get it out and get well.
Bottom line: No one is better off eating cooked food (the folks that sell it disagree with this however). |
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If I eat uncooked food, how will I get enough protein? |
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All foods have protein in them. True, animal food has more protein than plant food (before cooking), but how much protein do you really need? At what point during your entire life, from the moment of birth up until you die, do you need the most protein?
Answer: The first few years. That's when you're doing the most growing. New growth requires more protein than "maintenance growth." So your protein requirements during those first few years of life are higher than they are as an adult. Now, how much protein do you consume as a baby? If you're being fed the diet nature intended, you're drinking milk from your mom. How much protein is in the diet? About eight percent! So if you need about eight percent during the time of your life when you need the most protein, why would you need more than that as an adult?
Also, your body recycles proteins. Proteins are made of amino acids. When an amino acid "breaks," the protein is disassembled and the still functioning amino acids are put in their respective cubbyholes for use in making new proteins as the body needs them. The damaged amino acid is eliminated (hopefully).
Bottom line: It's very difficult to not get enough protein. Most people get way too much. And it's too much protein that contributes to degenerative disease. For a good article on the dangers of high protein diets, read "Fact or Fiction: High Protein Diets are Great for Losing Weight." |
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I could never eat just fruits and vegetables... How do people do it? |
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Everyone who now loves to eat the diet nature intended (fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds) said the same thing in the beginning. "I could never eat just fruits and vegetables..." It's a mind set. It's how you've been conditioned to think. If you ask any of those people who today love eating a natural, plant based, uncooked diet why they love it, they will tell you they enjoy it as much as or more than the diet they used to eat. They feel better, have more energy, sleep better, look better, have a better outlook on life, or some other reason that makes it well worth it.
Even if today you can't imagine eating just fruits and veggies, you should ask yourself, "If I could get to a point where I would love it, don't I owe it to myself to try?"
And remember, there is a transition diet, and "treat foods" that help get you there. (See "What's There to
Eat?") |
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Why did you open this center? |
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When people find their health improving from eating living foods, they very often feel compelled to share this with "the world." It is a wonderful feeling when someone is helped by being introduced to this way of living. We, here at Shinui, want to make this available to our community. Helping people to help themselves heal and renew is what we're about. |
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