What is the raw foods diet? From www.treeoflife.nu - "Living Foods" The Next Evolutionary Step. The Power of live foods for healing is being more & more supported by traditional research. Based on recent journal articles, the power of a calorie restricted diet and of upgrading gene expression (which come automatically with live foods) have become keys to understanding the clinical effectiveness of live foods.
“The essence of understanding living foods is ... if it is not broken, don't fix it.” Living foods or raw foods are those, which have not been cooked, processed, "pesticided" or "herbicided", micro waved, irradiated, or genetically engineered. They represent an unbroken wholeness that is the original creation and nutritional gift of the Divine. The understanding that the food we eat is an energetic whole greater than the sum of the parts reflects a quantum physics view of nutrition.
Research by Dr. Brekhman of the former Soviet Union illustrates a foundational truth about the power of live foods. When he gave whole, live foods to animals, their endurance was 2-3 times greater than if he gave them the same caloric value of food after it had been cooked. Brekhman's results can be explained, however, if we understand the effect of cooking on the whole food. Cooking not only destroys the ecological balance of the food, it makes 50% of the protein unavailable, destroys 60-70% of the vitamins, up to 96% of the B12, and 100% of phytonutrients such as: gibberellins, anthrocyans, polyphenols, nobelitin, and tangeretin which boost the immune system and other body functions. Cooking foods also disrupts the bioelectrical structure, the bioelectricity transfer power, and the bioluminescence. All of these factors are important for building and maintaining our life force energy and health.
The famous European physician, Dr. Bircher-Brenner, who started the first modern live food clinic in 1897, felt that eating raw foods was a way of restoring the diseased body and the mind's ability to heal itself. Many healers have gotten fantastic results using living foods with their clients; Dr. Gerson who healed Dr. Albert Schweitzer of diabetes and Schweitzer's wife of TB, and healed hundreds of documented cancer cases with live foods, and published a book about it in 1958 called A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases; Dr. Szekeley who saw over 133,000 clients at his live food clinic in Mexico over a 30 year period from 1940-1970 with impressive results; Ann Wigmore and her clinics; and then the next generation including the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center (http://www.treeoflife.nu/) which has made the next step by using live foods not only for healing of physical disease, repair mental and emotional imbalances, and as a way to actively enhance spiritual life.
Cooking destroys enzymes in live foods. Enzyme reserve seems to be connected to life force, health, and longevity There are natural enzymes in raw food, which minimize the enzymes that need to be secreted by the body for digestion. The body's enzymes can then be converted and be used for the process of detoxification, repair, and overall healing.
People have been eating live foods for thousands of years. Cultures have eaten primarily live foods such as the Pelegasians (ancient Greeks living in the Peleponesus area in 3000 B.C., were reported by Herodotus to live an average of 200 years). The inner circle Essenes, who were reported to be on live foods seem to have an extended life span, of approximately 120 years and enjoyed higher quality of health, vitality, and joy. In summary Live foods have the highest amount of bioactive food nutrients, phytonutrients, bioelectrical energy, biologically active water, electrons, and most energized and organized SOEF's (subtle organizing energy fields).
The foods that we eat, or don’t eat, communicate with our genes – for better or for worse. What we put into our body do not change the genotype, which is the physical structure of the genes, but the foods we eat do change the way the message in the genes is expressed in the phenotype. In other words, the genetic messages of our genes can be either turned off or turned on by the nature of our diet and our lifestyle. What we eat and how we live directly affects our optimal phenotypic expression. An important corollary to this is: genes do not give rise to disease, but disease rises when lifestyle and diet alters the gene expression in a way that creates disease.
What we eat affects how we think and how we feel because it affects the genes that regulate how we think and how we feel Well documented journal research, for example shows that alcohol decreases the healthy expression and production of endorphins, GABA, dopamine, noradrenaline, acetylcholine receptor sites, and various other central nervous system genes.
The basic principle being that not only what we eat, but how we live, and the stresses that we create, directly affects gene expression. The significance of this is that through proper living, diet, fasting, lifestyle, exercise and emotional, mental, and spiritual development, we have the opportunity to activate our youthing genes.
Diets that are high in fruits and vegetables are very high in phytonutrients which include a variety of anti-oxidants, carotenes, vitamin E, vitamin C, phenolic compounds, and terpenoids that specifically turn on not only anti-cancer genes but anti-aging genes, and anti-inflammation genes.
The optimal nutritional practices that will indeed turn on youthing gene expressions. In the author’s experience there are three main dietary practices that greatly increase the youthing process – undereating (calorie-restriction), veganism and live-food nutrition, (a natural form of calorie restriction) and Spiritual Fasting
Dr. Stephen R. Spindler, professor of biochemistry at the University of California, Riverside did research with calorie restriction and using gene technology. His results give some deep insight into why live foods are such a powerful healing & rejuvenating dietary approach. He studied the expression of eleven thousand genes in the livers of young, normally-fed, and calorie-restricted mice.He found a 400% increase in the activation of anti-aging with 40% calorie restriction. He found that there was a four-fold increase with short-term caloric restriction and a two-point-five-fold increase with long-term caloric restriction in the activation of anti-aging profile. He was able to reproduce this with ninety-five percent reproducibility. Dr. Spindler’s research is perhaps the first to show that caloric restriction could actually turn on the youthing genes and literally reverse the aging process. The research showed calorie restriction seemed to quickly decrease the amount of inflammation and stress, even in older animals and there suggests not only in an increase in anti-aging gene activity, but also anti-cancer, anti-stress, and anti-inflamation. These four points directly apply to the healing rejuvenating effects of live foods.
Calorie restriction happens naturally and safely with a live food diet. When we cook foods, we lose 50% of the protein according to the max plank institute; 70-80% of vitamins & minerals and 95% or more of the phytonutrients are destroyed. By simple mathematics, we only need to eat 50% of the calories on a live food diet versus a cooked diet. Therefore a live food diet is a natural form of calorie restriction which turns on the antiaging, anti-cancer, and anti-inflamation genes. This is a powerful insight and scientific explanation for the youthing and health effect of a properly eaten live food diet which the author has observed in 1000’s of patients since 1983.
Conclusion
The are many levels to understand the healing & rejuvenating power of live foods but the simplest way is to understand raw foods is...If it is not broken, don't fix it.
| What is Energy Medicine ? From www.whitecloudinstitute.com For thousands of years Taoist monks perfected the art of healing with Energy Medicine. They mastered internal alchemy by observing the forces of nature. Cosmic Energy, Universal Energy, and Earth Energy were used to bring more vitality into the physical body and a feeling of security and harmony into their interactions with others and the natural world. It is essential that we remember these secrets for longevity, harmony and accelerated evolution of consciousness.
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You heal the body by activating its natural healing energies; you also heal the body by restoring energies that have become weak, disturbed, or out of balance.
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