Week Three - Online Raw Certifications
Raw Nutrition Specialist Segment: Healing-Gourmet Raw Food
Introduction
Healing
"Do not eat unless you have a keen desire for the plainest foods" - Dr.
Bernard Jensen
Overeating demands heavy energy loss. In this day and age of toxins and
depleted foods we can not afford this inefficiency if true health is our
aim!
In our society we have an 80% chance of death from cancer, heart
disease, and stroke. This is ample evidence that cooking does not
support life. We obtain nourishment from proteins, carbohydrates, and
fats. Fruits and vegetables all contain these essential nutrients, in
small amounts, but small amounts are all we need. An excess of protein
is the cause of most of our diseases that stem from toxins in the cells.
Protein is important. It is the building block of all cells. However,
everything that has cells has protein! Therefore all plants have
protein. Our protein needs are highest as an infant, the only time at
which we double in size in one year. Mother's milk has 2.2% protein.
Fruit has 1.7 - 2.4% protein, the perfect amount for an average person's
needs.
All nutrients are heat sensitive. Proteins are denatured at 160 degrees
of heat. Fats are not usable by our bodies when heated as they form
trans-fatty acids which we can't break down. When carbohydrates are
heated they form carcinogens and toxins such as acrylamide, which has
been shown to cause cancer in scientific experiments. And enzymes are
the most heat-sensitive nutrients.
Other carcinogens and mutagens that have been identified in cooked food:
5-hydroxymethyl furfural in breakfast cereal; furfural in bread, coffee
and potatoes; the 20 rodent carcinogens in coffee (it used to be 19
until acrylamide was recently found); nitrosamines 67 in bacon and cold
cuts; amino acid pyrolysates and polycyclic aro-matic hydrocarbons 68 in
grilled beef, fish and chicken; imidazole heterocyclic amines in cooked
beef, fish and chicken. According to the scientific agency that compiled
this research they could not recommend that these carcinogens were
harmful because: "If we were to make a list of foods that do not contain
something that has been shown to cause cancer there would be very little
left for humans to eat". The researchers merely overlooked all the foods
that naturally occur on this planet! This is illustrative of the
scientific mind-set of our times!
Healing with foods is one of the most complex and controversial aspects
of the Raw Diet. We have all heard cases of miracle cures from people
who the doctors had written off. Are there any scientific explanations
behind some of the Raw Food Cures that we have all heard about? Let's
take drugs for a start. Many of the drugs that we now see as scientific
wonder drugs are in fact derived from herbs. There are major
pharmaceutical companies who have researchers combing the tropical
rainforests the world over looking for new herbs that can bring about
wonder cures. They go to indigenous villages and talk with local
medicine men and bring back herb samples which they then examine in the
lab to find the active ingredients. They then find a way to synthesize
it and then produce it in mass quantities. They have found that birch
bark reduces tumor growth for instance. There was a recent article in
the LA Times stating that broccoli reduces estrogen-fed tumors in
certain types of cancers. The list goes on and it is far too large to
name here. The theory behind treating diseases through the Raw Diet is
that nature's cures are more perfect than our synthesized ones. Due to
our limited vision we always seem to run into unpredictable side effects
when we try to improve upon nature. There is always the unknown factor
that we are dealing with. When we deal with food naturally then the
unknown factor is on our side. But when we try to improve upon nature
then we often get distorted results.
For instance when we have a cancer growing within our bodies the cancer
cells are weak and not as strong as the healthy cells. So the common
practice is to use chemotherapy radiation to kill the weaker cancer
cells. But of course when we do this the radiation also damages the
healthy cells so that the person becomes sick through the cure and the
body has to fight twice as hard to regain its balance.
On the other hand when we fast the body first rids itself of waste that
it didn't have time to process when we were eating five times the amount
of food that we could actually deal with. Then the body rids itself of
fat cells. Then it looks around and tries to see what it can burn off
next and it finds and locates the cancer cells because they are weaker.
While the body is doing this it is not starving. It does not start to
starve until it has burned off everything that it can do without. So now
at this point you have achieved the same results as chemotherapy without
damaging the healthy surrounding cells. At the same time you have
eliminated all of the direct causes that created the cancer to begin
with. And if at this time you institute a raw diet based mostly on
living green juice you can totally heal cancers that the doctors had
written off.
Of course it is much more complex than this. Because each person is
different and there are many reasons why we experience a breakdown in
our bodies before our time. But one of the main benefits of dealing with
cancer this way is that you can fast and cleanse your system before you
get cancer. And not only that. When you deal with preventive medicine in
this manner you are dealing with 20 other debilitating diseases at the
same time. When your diet is really bad then three people might be
eating the same way but they will develop three different diseases which
will require three different treatments. But all of them stemmed from
the same source. And the saddest part of this whole modern medicine
paradigm is that once the person has undergone some horrible surgery and
had actual body parts removed, they go back to eating the same foods
that caused the disease in the first place.
A lot of how we deal with Raw Food Healing is based upon the Chinese
concept of balance. For instance if you have too much calcium in your
system from eating dairy products then a lot of the time the calcium
will come out of solution and crystallize around the ends of your
joints, which is what we call arthritis. If we add sodium which we can
get in abundance from raw celery juice then it will over time cause the
excess calcium to go back into solution and the symptoms of arthritis
will vanish. But if we have too much sodium in our systems and not
enough calcium then in effect the sodium will strip the calcium from our
bodies and we will have a major deficiency which will result in bone
loss, loose teeth, etc...
So the main purpose of this course is to give you some of the principles
involved in Raw Food Healing. We will cover some of the major
debilitating diseases and why raw food can be so helpful in either
preventing them or curing them and we will cover some of the major raw
juice formulas and why they are so beneficial as our front line of
defense in treating and healing debilitating diseases.
In this money-driven world we can't blame our fellow humans for this,
but it is a sad and true fact that very little research has been done on
the healing properties of foods because one can not make money through
selling healing foods to the great extent that one can selling vitamins
and pharmaceuticals. There have been billions of dollars invested in
researching what science can do to heal illnesses, but only a relative
pittance to researching what foods can do. Therefore there is not much
information available, and much of it is slanted in favor of
supplementation and medication. Therefore it is very important and good
to cultivate in yourself and your clients an intuitive knowing, being in
tune with the body and learning to listen to its nutritional needs, its
cravings. It is like tuning in to a baby who can not yet talk. And yet
you have a deep connection with your infant and you can sense its needs.
Or you use trial and error. But you are attentive and caring, and deeply
loving. That is the key.
You have a wonderful and immediate proof of success - your state of
health! If you are thriving, then you are doing fine. You can not feel
better today and actually be doing something wrong in the long term, as
some anti-raw propaganda would have you believe. Not on the true health
plane. Not unless drugs are a part of the picture. Then you can feel
better on one plane while in reality you are actually damaging the
system further.
This week we hope to give you further faith in the raw vegan diet with
more scientific facts and evidence of its seemingly miraculous ability
to prevent and heal many different kinds of diseases. We will give you
examples of ways in which others have been healed. We will give you our
ideas of what it is to be a Nutrition Specialist. We will more deeply
explore food combining as it relates to the raw vegan diet. We will look
at specific illnesses and the foods that can cure them. We will
recommend recipes for overall health, optimum absorption of nutrients,
and healing specific illnesses. We will cover healing with juices,
specific juice remedies, herbs and herbal remedies, and the low-down on
fasting and enemas. We will find out what is in food and why it is
healing. We will outline a balanced raw diet. And we will look at
rejuvenation through raw living foods. We will also provide a list of
recommended reading for further study if desired.
"Isn't there something that tells us to choose the cleanest material -
the material that comes from plant life?"
Being a Raw Nutrition Specialist
Being a Raw Nutrition Specialist is being a perennial student, a detective.
It is ground-breaking research. It is courageous work. It means going
out on a limb. It means having a very pure intent. If you are drawn to
this field then you probably have a true desire to help, and you will
protect that pure intent and it will help you to become a true Nutrition
Specialist. It means having and always building your knowledge of the
healing foods, the body, the soul, the spirit, and how they work
together. It means being an example through your own ever-improving
health. And it means being a guide in helping the person to be healed
get out of their own way so that nature can do its work.
To be a Raw Nutrition Specialist, you must learn how to study and
research. There are innumerable books on health and healing by all sorts
of alternative methods. You will be drawn to the ones that will work
best for you. Browse the alternative health sections in libraries and
book stores, book sections in health food stores, and online at
Amazon.com using keywords like raw food, nutritional healing, etc...
In reading various books and hearing people's stories and through your
own experiences you will collect cures for various ailments. Some of
these are valuable dying folklore. Read all you can get your hands on
and collect these cures. You can share them online, as well as read
others being shared at curezone.com online. In doing this, do not be
distracted from your path as a raw food nutritionist. Collect and adapt
the cures to the truths that you hold fast to in your heart.
Many of the authors who's books used in researching this section
on healing with raw foods were pioneers in this field. Many were not
100% raw themselves, believed it was the right way to eat, but did not
feel that it was viable in this world due to social and other
implications. I think the world has changed since then and that now it
is not only viable, but absolutely essential.
You may have all kinds of clients, from the terminally ill who the
medical profession has written off, to people who simply want to know
how to maintain good health and prevent disease.
How this certification works together with the other three
You can choose to be a Raw Nutrition Specialist only. Or you can combine
this with other services, such as Raw Lifestyle Coach, Raw Personal
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