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Q & A - My Herbs Advice
I decided to go on the “raw” diet. What
can I expect from it?
Cooked food fills your stomach, and you
digests it slowly. If you start eating raw,
uncooked foods, you will always feel hungry
at first. This diet contains enzymes
that are digested quickly. It is important
to realize how your body had been set up
before you change your diet. Raw food
does not warm the body as we are accustomed
to with cooked food.
Therefore, we have the feeling of being
cold. This is why we should eat foods according
to the seasons. Summer is the season
when fresh food is grown, and when
the weather cools down in autumn, we
need food that warms us. Cooked food
does not clean the body, because it lacks enzymes,
as opposed to raw food, where
the body is cleansed very quickly.
For many years I have suffered from
rheumatic pain. Recently I heard that
a raw diet can serve as a treatment.
How does it work, and will it harm me?
Rheumatic pains are associated with the
accumulation of acid in the body. In
many languages, raw food itself translates
as "to live." It is exactly as nature
intended. We were not born with a pot to
cook food, but were designed to eat it as it
grows. So if this primordial philosophy
has returned, understand it and accept it
into your life, and your reward will be
perfect health.
A raw diet works in the way that it nourishes
the body. Although we normally eat
a lot of food, it has all been somehow modified,
and it lacks life-giving enzymes. It is
full of preservatives, chemicals and substances
that are foreign to the human body.
The body cannot process it, meaning it
needs to store it somewhere. These foods
are acidic for the body; they create a number
of acids, and the body starts to experience
hyperacidity. Raw foods, on the contrary,
alkalize food, and therefore, allow the
re-dissolving of the acids.
What can be cured by the transition to
raw food?
Though it may sound unbelievable transitioning
to a raw food diet will take you on
a path toward perfect health. Healing depends
on the length of time you have been
suffering from an illness, and so it can take
the same amount of time (and sometimes
even longer) to be totally cured. Therefore,
you can not expect that in a month you
will be healthy, but expect very pleasant
changes: the reduction of blood pressure,
changes in blood sugar levels or the subsiding
of various pains. The body ceases to
bloat because it no longer needs water to
dilute built-up acid (if it were not diluted,
it would poison you). It restores the organs
and thus, adjusts hormonal activity, even
the thyroid function. You can also cure
problems of the liver, kidneys, pancreas and
stomach and even third degree arthritis.
Half a year ago I started to eat only raw
food. Before that I was a vegetarian for
eight years and a raw foodie for two
years, but the latter was temporary. But
I feel that this diet isn't so good for me.
I often feel hungry and suffer from flatulence.
Am I making a mistake somewhere,
or is this lifestyle not suitable for
me?
Hunger is caused by the fact that raw
foods contain live enzymes that speed up
the digestive process. Initially, it is necessary
to eat more. Today, due to cooked
food, we have enlarged organs, including
the stomach. After some time, the organ
size changes back to its former size, and
the body (progressively) no longer requires
such a high food intake.
Flatulence can be caused by insufficient
biting and chewing of food in your
mouth, but it can also be a combination
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