Raw & Living Foods

Of all the many thousands of species on Earth, only humans cook and process foods, and only humans are so penalised with such poor health and rapid ageing.

Raw and living plant foods are what our bodies were designed for and what we have evolved with over eons of time! It is not difficult to understand that we should be far better adapted physiologically to the diet our ancestors were exposed to during millions of years of hominid evolution than to the ‘modern day’ diet that we have been eating since the agricultural revolution a mere 10,000 years ago, since the industrial revolution only 200 years ago, and since the beginning of the ‘junk food’ era of very recent times. If we represented these changes on a clock face with the movement of the minute hand over one hour representing the span of human evolution then all of these changes would occur within the last minute! In other words………big changes in a very short space of time.

The cooking of food and the utilisation of foodstuffs that we are not fully biologically adapted to is a relatively recent phenomenon largely brought about by repeated ecological catastrophe and our consequent need to adapt and survive in hostile environments. This is a serious step down nutritionally which, quite apart from contributing substantially to the wide range of disease conditions that we see all around us, insidiously degrades our perception of who we truly are; a veil of ‘fog’ is lifted which can bring a remarkable new sense of balance and clarity into the persons life.

Among the many health problems resulting from this mismatch between our genetically determined nutritional requirements and our current diet is the increase in the net systemic acid load imposed by a diet deficient in potassium alkali salts (abundant in plant foods) and high in sodium chloride. New research is showing that contemporary net acid-forming diets do produce a low-grade systemic metabolic acidosis and that the degree of acidosis increases with age, in relation to the typically occurring age-related decline in renal functional capacity. Many researchers are now beginning to realise that contemporary humans are suffering a wide range of adverse health effects as a direct consequence of chronic, diet-induced low-grade systemic metabolic acidosis! The alkaline minerals of raw plant foods support the optimum alkaline pH of the blood and lymph; they are the richest source of the minerals needed by the body to maintain homeostasis.

Food in its raw state has a crystalline structure which carries order and information to the body and brain. Raw food provides the biochemical basis for a great increase in latent function of the brain; increased creativity, enhanced perception, sense of connectedness and well-being. Many people notice over time this deepening connection to nature and other people ……………………….as we become the people we were truly meant to be!