There is a lot said in the media these days about the pros and cons of the Raw Food Diet for children and the elderly.
A lot of it is nonsense, such as " youngsters and seniors are not able to digest raw foods as easily as the rest of us..." Some of it is just nutritional ignorance..."where will they get the protein they need"? and so on.
Well, as a healthy Senior myself, and having raised a child mainly fed on a plant based diet(now a healthy 36 year old Mother of five) 1can tell you categorically that the above is untrue in my experience!
Also, as a nutritional educator, I have also come to understand that the medical profession, drug companies and the like, have somewhat of a vested interest too, which might account for much of the criticism against a natural plant-based diet.
There is, after all, not a great deal of money to be made in simply advocating people eat a simpler mostly raw fruit and vegetable diet is there?
Some of the problems the elderly face, caused by eating mainly cooked foods is a propensity for indigestion. Many use laxatives on a regular basis, (often drug based) causing even more toxicity; that is on top of the poisoning effects of their cooked food regime!
The problem is often that we elderly folk have a tendency to not drink enough water (for reasons we all know!) and as a result are often dehydrated. On a mainly Raw Food Diet, however, we are consuming large amounts of organic pure water from the fruits and vegetables themselves.
There is also the problem of low energy levels, again a result of consuming years and years of nutritionally depleted foods, that rob the body of living enzymes. These life -giving elements are crucial for digestion and overall good health and energy.
Our bodies are made up of cells that are constantly dying and being replaced.
These cells must have the correct building materials to sustain life. They must have adequate nutrition.
It's a fact that the cooking process kills most of the living enzymes in the food, changing the chemical structure adversely.
Let me conclude this article with a wonderful and encouraging testimony to the power of a raw food based diet, from the pen of Rev. George Malkmus of Halleluyah Acres fame (www. hacres. com) a man who has done much for the health of the world via his ministry as a leading nutritionist, as well as being a Christian minister:
"It was in 1976, at age 42, that the doctor told me I had colon cancer. I had just watched my mother die a slow, torturous death after her colon cancer was treated with chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. Rather than subjecting my body to the medical treatments that contributed to my mother's death, I sought an alternative.
An evangelist from Texas named Lestor Roloff advised me to simply change my diet to raw fruits and vegetables, with lots of freshly-extracted carrot juice. It sounded too simple, but I made this change, and almost immediately started to get well.
After one year on a diet of nothing but raw fruits and vegetables, not only was my colon cancer healed, but so was every other physical problem.
This included high blood pressure, severe sinus and allergy problems, hemorrhoids, fatigue, hypoglycemia, pimples, and even body odor and dandruff!
After that full year on a totally raw diet, I have since maintained a diet of about 85 percent raw fruits and vegetables for the past 25 years.
On this diet, I have not suffered any sickness, not even a cold or sore throat. I haven't been to a doctor or even taken an aspirin in 25 years! And there are many others who have converted to this diet with similar results. "
Ken Eden is a (retired )Church Minister ,based in England.
His background is fairly diverse: Prior to entering Ministry, he worked as an advertising executive for the magazine division of Associated Newspapers in Fleet Street, London ,England, in a middle management capacity. After about 17 years of this,and seeking a less stressful life, he and his wife moved to the countryside and became more active in their Christian faith,eventuating in Ken seeking and being ordained into the ministry, and eventually pastoring local churches. He continued up to "retirement" 2 years ago. He and his wife Paula have been students and practitioners of health fitness and nutrition for decades with emphasis on Raw Foods and Jogging (running in 10k /to Marathons) and these are the subjects Ken likes to write upon. They have both experienced massive health benefits over the years not to mention gained lots of knowledge to share with others.
For more go to my sites: http://rawfoodsforever.blogspot.com, http://mastermemory.blogspot.com
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