Eat Living Food

It may come as a surprise to you but a classification can be made of living food and dead food. What is living food, one might ask? I think we all know it by instinct: fruits in raw state as well as vegetables. Perhaps also most grains. And what about dead food? If you agree, a steak on a plate with a fried egg and potato chips. All ideas you are about to find in this article were inspired by the reading of the book “Fit for Life, Not Fat for Life”, by Harvey Diamond.

The benefits of raw, living food, are innumerable and generally lead to proper overall health. Yet, most people insist in cooking their food. Why do we, humans, cook our food? I wonder. No animal in nature does the same and we, at some stage in evolution, perhaps when we were still tree Chimpanzees, must naturally not have been cooking our food. What is it about cooked food? Personally, I think it’s just the taste which is more appealing. But with regards to vitamins and enzymes, after 40 degrees Celsius cooking they are gone. Cooked food is in fact dead food. And people who eat dead food, as we can abundantly observe, suffer from all kinds of diseases. Did you ever noticed that animals in nature do not suffer of any diseases, but the ones we tame and make our pets and give our food to end up suffering from the same diseases we suffer?

Apart from eating mostly dead food, we also insist in eating meat for the purpose of assimilating protein. It is trumpeted in our contemporary civilization that we need large quantities of protein in order to have enough energy for the day. Nothing could be more misleading: carbohydrates provide for energy; protein is for growth and repairing damaged tissue. Protein has to be broken down hard in order to be used for energy – something which requires the use of large amounts of energy during digestion. No wonder all meat eaters feel so tired and sleepy after a steak.

I like looking into nature to learn lessons. Did you ever reflected on the fact that the animals that display the greatest amounts of energy, like the buffalo, oxen, elephant, horse, etc, all animals that can, when tamed, work intensively for whole days and weeks ploughing the land and lifting logs, are also all vegetarians? All they eat is just tender green grass and yet energy in them runs in incredible amounts. In comparison, carnivorous animals such as the lion, the leopard and the tiger sleep for twenty hours a day and only get up to do some hunting at the end of which they return to the den to do some more napping. It’s also interesting to notice that carnivorous animals always eat vegetarian animals, which are full of vegetable originated protein, and never other carnivorous, just because they would end up intoxicated. How funny this is for the protein concept.

Interesting is also the fact that we drink cow’s milk which is said to provide calcium for both our teeth and our bones. It’s a fact, though, that the peptide of calcium in cow’s milk is different from what would be the appropriate type for humans. And it’s also a fact that, it’s precisely in the societies that consume high quantities of cow’s milk, like the ones of America, Europe and Australia, that high levels of osteoporosis and teeth decay are registered. In stark contrast, in China, where cow’s milk consumption is negligible, there are no such health hazards at all. So much for the power of milk to deliver calcium for our bones and teeth.

Be the reader honest and answer this question: who, really, is supposed to drink milk? We all know, I think, that it’s children who are supposed to drink milk – not quite adults. Again, in nature, which mammal animals drink milk past their grown up stage? None. So why do we do it? It’s funny that, when some adult cannot take milk at all, he is said to be “milk-intolerant” which to me implies that we are supposed, as a rule, to be milk-tolerant.

Another question would be why we drink the milk of cows and not, for example, the one of dogs, cats, elephants, sheep, etc? I imagine that the obvious answer is: we don’t know; we are just doing what our forefathers did before us. Did it ever happen to you to reflect on the fact that the milk of cows is tailor-made for calves and not for children? A calf is born twenty-five kilos heavy and in two years grows to be two hundred. Did you ever reflected on the fact that the powerful hormones existing in cow’s milk, though optimal for calf, may not be the most appropriate for our children who have different requirements? On the other hand, and perversely, did you ever observed all the gastro-intestinal problems that babies drinking formula have, which the ones drinking their mother’s milk do not have? How tragically funny all this is.

If you want to become healthy and have inexhaustible amounts of energy and a clear mind go for living food and avoid the dead one. To risk using a cliché, but not without reason, stay with nature and you will be all right.