Raw Foods and Enzymes

"The totally cooked food, processed food, radiated food, chemicalized food diet is actually the extreme diet, as no other people on the face of the earth have ever before existed on it and there is no scientific evidence that they can." Carolee Bateson-Koch in Allergies, Disease in Disguise.

We're finding out just how easy it is to subsist on a mostly raw foods diet. Bateson-Koch recommends a 70% raw foods diet and supplementation with plant enzymes when cooked food is eaten to improve digestion, strengthen the immune system (the gastro-intestinal tract is an important part of the immune system), and ultimately defeat allergies.

My husband had a gassy stomach this morning and took a couple of enzyme capsules. He experienced immediate relief. Enzymes appear to be the missing ingredient in complete digestion. A lack of enzymes results in indigestion and other digestive difficulties. Antacids only suppress the symptoms and de-acidify our stomachs. I read somewhere that contrary to what most people believe, more people have a problem with not enough stomach acid, than too much.

On the whole, I'm finding that raw foods are easier and quicker to digest than our normal fare of mostly cooked food. The Standard American Diet, or SAD diet, with its fast-food, high-fat, high-sugar, processed foods is killing us. Devoid of the enzymes necessary for adequate digestion, dpeleted of natural nutrients, the results of this kind of diet can be seen in our soaring rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, arthritis, depression, and on and on and on.

I think Bateson-Koch is right. The SAD diet is extreme.

Here's a simple point that is completely overlooked by most of us. Humans were created to thrive on a raw, natural, plant-based diet.

"And God said, 'See I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.'" Genesis 1:29

Sure doughnuts and steaks might be the preferred food choice for many. It's what we're used to. But in the long run, the SAD diet hurts us. The closer we can stick to the original diet, the better off we'll be. I really believe it.

Tammie