Benefits of Eating Raw Food - Page 2

My word hardeeharhar.. Are we a bit negative in this thread?

I think you are ignorant or refuse to see the truth when it comes to health and what promotes it.

I can tell you it is not hard to see that those who avoid a high sugar and high fat diet are at less risk of the three largest killers in America Heart Disease, Diabetes and Cancer.

Those who consume less sodium chloride and possibly use something like sea salt or Mrs. Dash do better in terms of managing blood pressure etc.

Some foods harm the body some heal the body.

Phytosterols promote healthy cholesterol balance between LDL and HDL.

I would suggest some reading for any and all who have any desire to have better health

Ginger Common Spice and Wonder Drug:

By Paul Schulick

Probiotics: Nature's Internal Healers

By Natasha Trenev

If you read these two books it will spark a new found desire to expand your journey of wellness and health knowledge and action.

Also I personally reject much of the Big Pharma prescriptions given by contemporary medicine. I find that in America we do not have a Health Care System rather a Sick Care System.

If you want health forget "most" doctors as they will only have a surgury or pill to offer you to "hopefully" treat the symptom(s) you are having due to bad choices which have taken your body to a condition of disrepair.

If you want health you have to make some choices and eat right and excercise.

I think the 92 year old Jack LaLanne http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_LaLanne

is living proof of what taking care of your body can do for you if you make an effort.

If you like to stay sick and have pills from your doctor just continue to eat processed foods with MSG, High Fructose Corn Syrup, artificial colors, hydrogenated fats and white flour with nutrients stripped out.

I personally avoid high levels of certain foods which produce uric acid in the body which can trigger the cascade of inflamation.

I eat foods with ingredients such as Turmeric which contains Curcumin which is an anti-inflamitory as well as Ginger and Green tea for the same reason.

Anti-Inflamitory.

Thrombosis, sticky blood and blood clots are helped by cox-2 but NOT VIOXX or Celebrex. Green Tea instead.

There are also three other pathways of inflamation which certain foods can help vastly such as ginger.

But I would tell you to look up information on LEF Life Extension Foundation. http://www.lef.org/magazine/


Do some reading and take your health into your own hands.

Also check out News Target http://www.newstarget.com/

Mike Adams is the next Jack LaLanne

All of the above is my personal opinion. If you have any medical concerns talk with your doctor.

I make no medical claims.

Fellows

Edit: This thread wasn't worth it in the first place...

No scientific evidence of any benefit. No scientific evidence that the supplemental enzymes do anything. Jon Barron is trying to sell you snake oil. You are still failing to learn the science behind digestion and depending upon false experts to provide your arguments.

Well, who is an expert?

I've read articles in mainstream magazines/newspapers that question the long-term effectiveness of antacid pills. That much is well known. The digestive enzyme part, however, I have no idea about. On a personal level, I tried some disgestive enzymes, just to see, and they didn't seem to produce any difference. However, I will admit that I have a perfectly fine and operable digestive system to begin with.

The point of the matter is that there is no BENEFIT to taking suplemental digestive enzymes. The point of the matter is that there is no REASON to do so.
The point of the matter is that perfectly logical arguments built on faulty assumptions are still faulty.
The point of the matter is that there is no evidence that you need extra digestive enzymes. All arguments assume that you do.

Why not just drink vinegar like everyone else.

The digestive system doesn't wear out. Disease states aren't caused by wearing out of the digestive system. Nature doesn't intend anything. Human's have been eating cooked foods for, well, ever.

Unless the enzymes you are consuming with your food are human enzymes, you have a strong chance of developing allergies against them as their dosages are undoubtedly not understood or well calculated. So not only will you waste money, but you have the possibility of causing disease...

The man has a point. We've been eating cooked foods for arguably longer than we've been drinking cow milk. I have trouble with dairy, but most other white people don't. The adaptation that enables dairy digestion took place over only a short period of time, realistically speaking. It seems pretty sensible to consider that we've adapted to consumption of cooked food.

Besides, the cellulose in vegetables prevents mineral uptake unless it's softened. . . by cooking.

Lactose intolerance has NOTHING to do with the pasteurization of milk -- Europeans are more likely to be lactose tolerant because they consumed over many generations milk (indicating that lactose is still present in large quantities in non-pasteurized milk and that there is no effective decrease in the concentration of lactose due to cow lactase) versus other populations.

snoopy, you aren't even providing your own rational for things, you are quite literally talking out of someone else's ass. How do you do that?

As far as I'm concerned, I have no problem if you want to continue eating raw foods. I'll stick with cooked most of the time, and I'll let you know when my digestive tract stops functioning perfectly. (And yes, I crap three times a day). Despite my lactose intolerance, I seem to be part of a line that has adapted to eating cooked food.

sorry snoopy...

I want us all to be better.