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Eating Raw Zucchini
I want to eat raw more but I'm having such a hard time liking the taste of raw veggies?
I am a vegan right now, I am very interested in raw foods. My mom and I have green smoothies every morning and I love raw zucchini pasta, mmm! However I just don't like raw veggies. Raw peppers, cucumbers, broccoli, peas and carrots just taste terrible to me! I eat them because I'm trying to train my taste buds to appreciate them, but it's not working and I'm getting frustrated. What should I do?
Nicholea - I would but it's march and I live in a cold area
Then don't be a vegan. Eat raw ground beef instead. I've been doing it for years, it's delicious. Just make sure it's from a reliable source.
Woman lives to be 110 yearols old eating RAW Food
Nutrients, the Building Blocks of Immunity
I am going to supply you with knowledge about the essential nutrients needed for optimum health and longevity, several of which are ignored by mainstream nutritionists.
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, 17th edition defines nutrition as, "All the processes involved in the taking in and utilization of food substances by which growth, repair, and maintenance of activities in the body as a whole or in any of its parts are accomplished. Includes ingestion, digestion, absorption, and metabolism (assimilation)..." As you may gather, consuming the needed nutrient does not guarantee that the nutrient will be assimilated by the body.
Many people on this planet are aware that proper nutrition is essential for good health and that inadequate nutrition is associated with poor health and disease. Yet the corporations that control the majority of the food sold in markets are getting away with supplying very low quality products. Corporations routinely package and market foods based on their shelf life and taste rather than their nutritional value. Seed variations are selected for ease of growing, harvesting, transporting, and processing rather than nutrition. Adding chemicals to achieve a longer shelf-life is commonplace and the overrefining of grains is ubiquitous. These practices contribute to inadequate nutrition which leads, intern, to ill health.
Have you ever had someone tell you that they have a chemical imbalance? Consider the idea that they are suffering from an essential nutrient deficiency; do you believe that a pharmaceutical can supply the missing nutrients?
Scientific research proves that many essential nutrients are destroyed in cooking; so are cooked foods still whole foods? This chapter explains why fresh, uncooked and unprocessed whole foods are the most important health guardians available to the human organism.
Phytonutrients
Phytonutrients are nutrients from plant sources. This topic could fill many large books, but I will keep it brief. We should not assume that all the nutritive factors of foods are well known or understood. New nutrients are being discovered all the time. So, when we process or cook the foods that come in perfect form from nature, what else is being destroyed in addition to what is known?
Dr. L. Newman, author of Make Your Juicer Your Drug Store, writes, "One of the major discoveries in nutritional research was that nature never gives us isolated minerals and vitamins. She always gives them to us in combinations. Man [sic] probably does not comprehend one millionth of what still remains unknown in the field. We do know, however, that when we do fair [obtain], these vital elements from the master chemist, we are obtaining, besides the known vitamins, vitamins that have not yet been discovered."
Following are the words on the first page of Prescription For Nutritional Healing, Third Edition, which claims to be America's #1 Guide to Natural Health, and which is probably the most popular and widely used book of its kind in the United States. "One problem most of us have is that we do not get the nutrients we need from our diet because most of the foods we consume are cooked and/or processed. Cooking at high temperatures and processing destroys vital nutrients the body needs to function properly. The organic raw foods that supply these elements are largely missing from today's diet." (Balch and Balch pg. 2)
Many important nutrients exist in plant foods (many of which we have not yet identified) and these nutrients can be destroyed in processing and cooking are two of the many reasons that I believe optimum health requires the consumption of a wide variety of unprocessed and uncooked plant foods.
Protein
According to the Max Planck Institute for Nutritional Research in Germany, protein, when cooked, is only 50 percent bioavailable. In other words, about half the amino acids (the building blocks of protein) are unusable by the body because they are destroyed by cooking.
The World Health Organization recommends that 5 percent of one's total daily calories come from protein. This level is easily reached on a plant-based diet. For example, 9 percent of calories in an orange are derived from protein, from zucchini 17 percent, strawberries 8, broccoli 42, cauliflower 31 and corn 13. The fact is that the commonly consumed plant foods contain 6 to 45 percent of their calories as protein. This research comes from John McDougall, MD. He says, "Protein is so abundant in plant foods that it is impossible for any dietician or scientist to design a diet that is composed of unprocessed plant foods (starches and vegetables) and, at the same time, be deficient in protein. We would not have survived as a species if this were not true."
In the book, Disease-Proof Your Child, Joel Fuhrman, M.D. states, "Protein is ubiquitous; it is contained in all foods, not only animal products. Protein deficiency in not a concern for anyone in the developed world. It is almost impossible to consume too little protein, no matter what you eat…"
All proteins are formed by amino acids joined together in specific sequences. Eight are said to be essential to adults, and 10 essential to infants. The belief that one must eat all essential amino acids at every meal (also called the complete protein theory) in order to maintain health is a myth. The Wendt Doctrine, describing thirty years of research, debunks the complete protein myth. It proves that we have the ability to store these proteins in our cells and to convert them into amino acids that move freely throughout the body to areas that might be deficient. Therefore, combining beans and rice to supply complex protein is unnecessary. The Wendt Doctrine also shows the damaging effects of excess concentrated protein which clogs the system, depleting the cells of oxygen and nutrition and creates an acidic environment, a condition that eventually leads to degenerative diseases.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) states that, "…the average American takes in twice the amount of protein he or she needs. Excess protein has been linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract and some cancers."
In the February 2004 issue of Readers Digest , in an article entitled Kicking Kidney Stones, the author states: "The simplest fix is to avoid high-protein diets." Then the author explains how kidney stones are formed. "Protein from meat and other animal products is broken down into acids. It's your kidney's job to balance acids with bases for elimination from the body. The handiest base is the calcium in your bones. Protein is broken down and stored in the bone, where it binds with calcium. Then the kidneys filter these particles from your blood. And the more meat you eat, the more calcium you'll have in your kidneys. Over time, these particles bind together, forming stones."
According to Leslie and Susannah Kenton, in their book, Raw Energy, grilling a steak at 239 degrees Fahrenheit completely destroys the amino acids
lysine and cystine. Many researchers believe that the reason more people don't get extremely ill from high-protein diets is due to the fact that about 50 percent of the protein is destroyed by cooking.
Because a diet rich in a variety of plant foods can provide all the protein one needs, I see no need to worry about getting enough protein unless poor digestion and absorption is an issue. In that case, thorough chewing, supplemental digestive enzymes and intestinal cleansing can help.
About the Author
I began writing years ago as a child. I went to UCF in Florida and graudated in 1999. Since then I've worked for many different companies in many different roles. My goal is to bring the very best quality information to anyone who needs it.
