About what we eat

I do hope that the information presented in this page will inspire you to take just the first step towards a lifestyle that can promote optimal health and well being.

The choices we make about the food we eat, the product we buy can make a great difference in our personal evolution.

Another part of the picture is, understanding our choices according to the need they satisfy within our complex body-mind.

My purpose is not to promote a rigid diet to adhere to. Rather, it is a way to stimulate your curiosity and your interest, to give you some understanding and inspiration in setting you onto a good eating path and lifestyle that evolves as you evolve.

You can just simply start from where you are, at this moment, introducing small changes to your routine as you feel appropriate.

Raw food - what is it?

It is plant based foods in their original, uncooked state, sprouted, or dehydrated at low temperatures to preserve the natural occurring enzymes and nutrients. Raw food may include fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, grain and legumes in sprouted form, seaweeds and fresh juices.

These living foods contain a wide range of vital life force nutrients (i.e. vitamins, minerals, amino acids, oxygen) and live enzymes, which nutritional properties are essential to the proper maintenance of human bodily functions.

We cook food for many different reasons, but the most relevant is to change its form (e.g. for storage, for conservation purpose etc).

However for that change to happen at visual level, much more has to change at molecular level.

The body is expecting certain ‘organic’ shapes in food (such as amino acids chains etc) which are lost during the cooking process and even worse, often new structures are formed, which the body doesn’t recognize and view as toxic.

Foods that have been heated over 46C (115F) have lost most of their life force, and their beneficial enzymes are destroyed. The digestive system has to work harder and longer to process cooked foods to get the nutrition and energy out from it.

Once cooked, food can lose up to 85 percent of its nutritional value.

Since we are essentially what we eat, consuming the dead energy of dead foods make our bodies feel heavy and stagnant.

The benefits of a raw-vegan diet are vast. Raw foods are easy to digest, and they provide the maximum amount of energy with minimal bodily effort. Studies have shown that living foods have healing powers that can alleviate many illnesses such as low energy, allergies, digestive disorders, weak immune system, high cholesterol, candida, obesity and weight problems (weight normalization), etc..

Biological digestion and food combining

It is commonly believed that the human stomach should be able to digest any number of different foods at the same time.

However, digestion is governed by physiological chemistry. How we digest and assimilate is more crucial than what we eat.

Different food types require different digestive secretions.

• Mouth – chewing produces ptyalin to digest starches. Ptyalin it is destroyed even by a mild acid
• Stomach – is a highly acidic environment to digest proteins
• Small intestine – is an alkaline environment filled with bacteria, designed for absorption and assimilation of sugars, minerals and vitamins
• Colon (Large intestine) - is the organ for the true assimilation of nutrients trough the bowel’s walls

In the presence of stomach hyperacidity, there is great difficulty digesting starches. Fermentation and poisoning of the body occurs along with much discomfort.

This is because the digestion of carbohydrates (starches and sugars) and of protein is so different, that when they are mixed in the stomach they interfere with the digestion of each other.

Starches and sugars should not be eaten with proteins and acid fruits at the same meal.

Vegetables, salads and fruits (whether acid or sweet) if correctly combined should form the major part of the diet.