Live Good with Live Food

aThe health and wellness world is opening up to an old lifestyle known to man, eating raw food. In many years preceding civilization, before and after the invention of fire, man ate mostly fruits and vegetables, all in their raw form.

Raw food is the latest wave among health connoisseurs’ quest for clean living and healthy lifestyle. Raw food has been one of the greatest miracles of my life; someone once said. Many people says, have healed themselves of diseases and ailments such as diabetes, migraine, back pain, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, etc., by resorting to raw food.

Raw and living food, she shares, is uncooked fruits. Vegetables, nuts, seeds, sprouted and grains. Other foods that fall under this category are seaweeds, raw carob powder, cold pressed olive oil, and certain spices and seasonings. Without the benefit and high cost of cooking, raw food provides the body with vitamins, enzymes, and other nutrients that get lost when food goes through fire. When food cooked at over 12 degrees (warm to the touch), it loses all its enzymes.

Citing studies and research on the subject, switching to a raw living food diet has helped many people feel well for the first time in their lives. “One of the most amazing things that I have witnessed is how quickly this can happen, like in matter of days or weeks only.”

Eating raw food, like fruit and vegetable juices, allows the smooth assimilation into the bloodstream of food nutrients, says Dr. Samuel P. Dizon of the Institute for Natural Healing in Pasig City. “Raw foods provide the nutrients which heal the body, including the digestive system,” he explains. To heal the body, we must supply it with enormous amount of nutrients above and beyond daily living requirements. Excess energy can inject rapidly into the body through juicing, which, according, to Dizon, is the body’s take-off point to detoxification or cleansing.

Long life isn’t just the result of smart genes and dumb luck.