6 REASONS TO AVOID
COOKED FOODS
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1. LOSS OF NUTRITION
If you touch a hot stove with your finger (even for just one second) you are going to have a burn on that finger for
several days or even weeks, and the nutritional value in food also suffers when it touches a stove...
Baking, Boiling, Frying, Grilling, Roasting, Toasting, Barbecuing, and Microwaving foods exposes them to high enough
temperatures that the following nutritional problems occur...
- Heated Enzymes Get Killed.
- Heated Fats Become Trans Fats.
- Heated Carbohydrates Will Caramelize.
- Heated Proteins Will Become Free Radicals.
- Heated Vitamins Become Completely Useless To Us.
- Heated Water In Food Become Steam And Evaporate Away.
Fruits and vegetables are a lot like us in the sense that they are alive and they will become unhealthy and die if their
temperature goes up much more than 100° F.
If you go to the grocery store and fill your shopping cart with organic fruits and vegetables, that's great, but if you take
them home and put them in a microwave, or a pot of boiling water, or inside of an oven that is 350° F. before you eat
them they will not be as nutritious for you as they would be if you simply ate them raw.
One of the worst foods you could eat in my opinion is a frozen mircowave dinner because think about it, "First it was
cooked, then it was frozen, and then it was microwaved!" After going through all of that what's left that hasn't been
effected in a negative way?
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2. YOU'LL HAVE A LOT MORE ENERGY
- It only takes about 00 minutes to digest water!
- It only takes about 15 minutes to digest fresh juices!
- It only takes about 30 minutes to digest most kinds of fruit!
- It only takes about 60 minutes to digest most kinds of vegetables!
A cheeseburger on the other hand can take days to digest! (You've probably seen pictures or videos of McDonald's
cheeseburgers that are several years old but that still look the same as they did the day they were purchased.)
The simple definition of "Food" is "Fuel for the body", but many cooked meals will leave you feeling more tired than you
were before you ate them...
- If I eat a bowl of fruit I will feel like running up a hill.
- If I eat a bowl of spaghetti and meatballs I will feel like I just ran up a hill.
On the "Standard American Diet" (S.A.D.) almost every meal is cooked and almost every meal includes meat and dairy.
If you eat a S.A.D. diet it is estimated that about 60% of your daily energy will go to digesting the foods that you eat, and
when you eat a really large S.A.D. meal (like Thanksgiving dinner) it will require so much energy to digest that you will
probably either fall asleep or have to sit still in-front of a TV for the next several hours because you simply won't have
the available energy to do much else.
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3. YOU'LL SPEND LESS TIME IN THE KITCHEN
If you want to eat a banana you simply take a banana and pull down on it's natural "pull tab", and it is ready to eat.
If you want to make "meatloaf" you first have to preheat your oven to 350°, then you need to take 1 table spoon of
butter and put it into a nonstick pan over medium heat. Then you need to finely chop up half an onion, 2 cloves of
garlic, 1 celery stick, 1 oz of scallions, 1 carrot, and 1 green bell pepper and then add all of the chopped vegetables to
the butter and stir well and then let it sauté for 7 minutes. Then you need to pour the butter and vegetable mix into a
large mixing bowl, and add 2 pounds of ground beef, 1 tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce, 1/2 cup of ketchup, 2 eggs
(beaten), 1/2 cup of bread crumbs,2 teaspoons of salt, 1 pinch of pepper, 1 package of meatloaf seasoning mix, and 4
ounces of mushrooms, and mix all of the ingredients well. Then you need to use your hands to shape the mixture into a
loaf and place it into a 13 X 9 X 2 inch loaf pan. Then you need to pour ketchup over the top of the loaf and spread
evenly. Then you need to place the loaf in the preheated oven and let it cook for 1 hour. Then you need to remove the
cooked meatloaf from the oven and let it cool for 10 minutes before serving...
(PLEASE DON'T TRY THIS RECIPE AT HOME)
When you're a raw foodist there is no having to "slave over a hot oven" to feed your family, no having to spend 30
minutes trying to clean grease off of a frying pan, no having to clean the inside of your microwave because something
exploded in it, and it will only take you a matter of seconds to wash dirty dishes. (If you eat a bowl of fresh fruit or a bowl
of salad you can clean the empty bowl simply by running some water over it, but when you cook foods they become so
sticky that they will cling to the dishes that they touch and in order to clean them off you will need to use really hot water,
abrasive scrubbing tools, and toxic chemicals.)
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4. WHAT YOU DON'T EAT IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS WHAT YOU DO EAT
The reason that so many people have been able to overcome major health problems by switching to a raw food diet isn't
just because raw fruits and vegetables are so rich in the nutrition that they desperately need, but also just as importantly
is the fact that by limiting their diet to only raw plant foods they are eliminating all the harmful things from their diet...
- For some people just eliminating caffeine from their diet would make a HUGE difference.
- For some people just eliminating fast food from their diet would make a HUGE difference.
- For some people just eliminating red meats from their diet would make a HUGE difference.
So imagine the healing that could take place if a person eliminated EVERYTHING that is unnatural and unhealthy from
their diet and if every bite of food that they ate was providing them with true nourishment.
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5. YOU'LL HAVE A MORE NATURAL BODY
Have you ever seen a herd of zebras in the wild? If so you know that it can be difficult to tell them apart from one
another individually because they all basically weigh the same and they all have that classic zebra body composition that
we instantly picture in our heads whenever we hear the word "zebra". This is because zebras eat the one diet that they
were designed to eat. ("Zebra Food") Now look at a herd of humans standing in line at a movie theater and notice that
it's hard not to notice that some people are much bigger than others. (Maybe even 2 or 3 times bigger despite being
the same age, height, and gender.) This is because humans have strayed so far from their natural diet that now
everyone is pretty much doing their own unique diet, so whenever you see a large group of people you are likely to see
lots of different body sizes.
Natural beauty is something that almost everyone wishes that they could have more of and every year people spend
billions of dollars on products that are designed to make them look younger and more beautiful, but they won't simply
eat more raw fruits and vegetables. (Sure, they'll take cucumber slices and put them over their eyes, or they'll take
avocados, bananas, and strawberries and mash them up and spread them over their faces, but they won't simply add
these amazing foods to their diet, which would eventually give them the same benefits plus a whole lot more!)
Living on foods that came directly from nature instead of foods that came from factories will strengthen your connection
with nature and will greatly sharpen your natural instincts, and every time you consume a bag of "M&M's", or a bowl of
"Fruit Loops", or a can of "Mountain Dew" you are disconnecting yourself from nature and dulling your natural instincts.
I know that cooked food can be a hard addiction to break, (Most of us grew up eating over 1,000 cooked meals a year!)
but believe me when I say that it gets easier and easier as you become more and more used to feeling better than you
did back when you were eating cooked foods, and I guess that the best way to describe what I mean is by saying that if
your body is your temple and if the foods that you eat are the offerings that you bring to your temple, the longer you eat
a raw food diet the more you will start to hear the message from your body that it doesn't want your "burnt offerings" any
more.
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6. WE ARE THE ONLY SPECIES ON THE PLANET THAT AREN'T RAW FOODISTS
Some people believe that we need cooked foods in our diet and that we can't live on raw foods alone, but the fact that
we are the only species on the planet that aren't raw foodists (With the exception of the animals that we raise.) and the
fact that we are the only species on the planet that are experiencing an epidemic of diet related health problems such as
obesity, heart disease, and diabetes (With the exception of the animals that we raise.) and the fact that so many people
out there have reversed these life-threatening health problems by going on a raw food diet really makes you wonder.
Think about it, there are millions of different life forms on this planet and the diversity is amazing... Some life forms are
so small that a million of them could be living in your eyeball right now without you even realizing it, and then there are
giant creatures like whales that are over 100 foot long and that have a tongue that weighs a few tons, and some of the
life forms on Earth have an average life span of less than an hour while others can live for over 1,000 years, so with all
of the different and diverse life forms that are living on this planet why would we humans be the only species that can't
simply live on foods that are the way they are found in nature?
One of the most common beliefs that people have is that the world was created by a God and that it was all created
specifically for the human race, so if that were true than why would we be the one and only species that Mother Nature
isn't providing for? Why would we have to rely on man-made inventions like cooking, processing, and supplementation
to be healthy when every single one of the other species goes their entire life from birth to death eating a 100% raw
food diet?
Below is a list of the current 15 most eaten foods on the planet. Notice that almost all of these foods need to be cooked
before they can actually be eaten, which means that if we had never invented cooking we wouldn't be eating most of
these foods because they either aren't edible to us when they are raw or they are dangerous for us to eat when they
are in their raw and natural state. Also notice that the foods that our bodies are perfectly capable of eating raw like fruits
and vegetables are almost non-existent on this list now...
THE CURRENT 15 MOST CONSUMED FOODS ON THE PLANET
Don't get me wrong, some of these foods can be life-saving "survival foods" for those who don't have access to any
fruits and vegetables at this time and it may be a very good idea to have some grains stored in your house just in case
of an emergency food shortage, but unless you are currently in a situation where you are merely trying to survive and
not go hungry it makes no sense to live on "survival foods" when there are far healthier options available.
Some believe that the switch to cooked foods was a huge step in our evolution as a species, and there are even some
theories out there that claim that adding cooked foods to our diet made our brains grow bigger. (It definitely made our
stomachs get a lot bigger, but I don't think that it gave us a bigger brain to match.)
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1. Rice
2. Corn
3. Wheat
4. Potatoes
5. Goat Meat
6. White Sugar
7. Pork
8. Beef
9. Beans
10. Fish
11. Soy
12. Eggs
13. Chicken
14. Cow Milk
15. Goat Milk