Whole Grain and Raw Food
Excerpt from the Health Book:
How and When to be Your Own Doctor
There are the raw fooders. Most of them
are raw, Organic fooders who go so far as to eat only
unfired, unground cereals that have been soaked in warm
water (at less than 115 degrees or you'll kill the
enzymes) for many hours to soften the seeds up and start
them sprouting. This diet works and really helps a lot
of people.
Raw organic foodism is especially good for "holy joes,"
a sort of better-than-everyone-else person who enjoys
great self-righteousness by owning this system. But raw
fooding does not help all people nor solve all diseases
because raw food irritates the digestive tracts of some
people and in northern climates it is hard to maintain
body heat on this diet because it is difficult to
consume enough concentrated vegetable food in a raw
state.
And some raw fooders eat far too much fruit. I've seen
them lose their teeth because of fruit's low mineral
content, high sugar level and constant fruit acids in
their mouths.
In my own case, I started out by following the Organic
school, and I was once a raw food vegetarian who ate
nothing but raw food for six years. I also ate
Macrobiotic for about one year until I became violently
allergic to rice.
I have arrived at a point where I understand that each
person's biochemistry is unique and each must work out
their own diet to suit their life goals, life style,
genetic predisposition and current state of health.
There is no single, one, all-encompassing, correct diet.
But, there is a single, basic, underlying Principle of
Nutrition that is universally true. In its most
simplified form, the basic equation of human health
goes: Health = Nutrition / Calories. The equation falls
far short of explaining the origin of each individuals
diseases or how to cure diseases but Health = Nutrition
/ Calories does show the general path toward healthful
eating and proper medicine.
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