Now that we’re at the outer edges of the store, where the produce, meat, and dairy are, let’s cut out anything with a high chemical load (pretty much all soft fruit), genetically altered makeup, and genetically altered ingredients. Now we have just a few items left, including a couple different kinds of nuts (still in the shell) and maybe some eggs. There isn’t much variety in the cart at this point, but we took our measly selection home and then, except for the in-shell walnuts, cooked them in daylight.
We do this because we have been conditioned by the USDA and FDA to believe that raw foods are combined with pathogenic organisms that are waiting to land us in the hospital when, in fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Studies consistently confirm that living organisms must have live raw foods to survive and thrive. Now, before you imagine running through the fields chasing your food and tearing it apart like a hungry wolf, let’s define what living and dead food really are.
Live foods are foods with their full complement of nutrients intact and unaltered, foods the way Mother Nature intended: vitamins, minerals, and active enzymes. Dead food has none of these qualities. So although a vulture may be eating the carcass of an animal that has been dead for days, the meat is not biologically dead. It is still being associated with microorganisms that vultures do very well on. No vulture has ever been known to cook its meat before eating it. In fact, no animal in nature eats anything cooked.
So what is the optimal human diet? There are many studies and opinions based on those studies, however one thing is consistent with very few exceptions. Food must be bioactive and the only way to have that is in raw food. The food contamination panics causing the FDA and USDA to work regulatory overtime are the same foods we eliminated earlier in our virtual trip to the grocery store. Clean, organically produced food from manageable, biodiverse farming operations is the most suitable food for raw consumption; for detox, energy and vibrant health. The raw food kitchen is stocked with fresh, often homegrown fruits and vegetables, raw dairy products, fresh pastured eggs, and meat from grass-fed cattle. A raw food vegan diet will be less dairy, eggs and meat, but that is a personal choice.
A raw food diet is the key to detoxification, weight loss, energy, and vibrant health. Raw food is real food for real people who take their health seriously.
