Thursday, January 29, 2009

DIGESTIVE ENZYMES

I just finished having a burger for my dinner, it was made out of carrot pulp, flaxseed, sunflower seeds etc and dehydrated for 4-8 hours...placed on a bed of lettuce and pakchoy with an Asian sauce (as I can`t eat tomato, so no 'faux ketchup' for me ) I can`t tell you just how good it tastes and how good for me it is.
When you eat, you need enzymes to help digest the food, so some form of raw food needs to be eaten with all your meals. Eating predominantly cooked food puts a tremendous strain on your body, so although its good to eat 80% COOKED AND 20% RAW, our goal should be to eat 20% COOKED AND 80% RAW.
We need to understand the role that enzymes play. Enzymes are in the cells of every plant and animal. All biological movements from thinking to blinking to raising your hand comes from enzyme activity.
To receive the benefits of eating raw food and achieve optimal health you have to make sure that you eat a high enzyme diet consisting of raw fruits and vegetables, sprouted seeds, nuts, grains and some seaweed.
If you eat raw food like carrot or a banana the enzymes are right there ready to work for you immediately.
If your food is cooked beyond 118F /48C, your body has to manufacture its own digestive enzymes to do the job. The enzymes that occur naturally are killed by the heat, so that's why you feel so tired after eating a big plate of food as your body has to work extra hard to digest the meal.
The major problem though is that while your body is busy working to digest this food it is unable to to make the type of metabolic enzymes that are necessary to do other tasks like building, cleaning and healing. Therefore all kinds of health issues creep in......sinusitis,indigestion, constipation, bad skin, cysts and tumours, lethargy, allergies and on and on, because the body is too tired it has no energy to build.
Then you say you are getting old and tired.......THAT'S NOT THE CASE.....you are just not manufacturing enough enzymes, as when you are in your 20`s and 30`s you have far more enzymes than when you are in your 60`s,and as your body is using them up digesting instead of healing you won`t have enough enzymes to take care of your basic needs of life. If this happens you are going to die.
The solution along with eating all the fruit and vegetables you can is to take digestive enzymes in tablet form. We didn`t hear about this before. We just thought we had digestive problems, or the food is 'hard to digest' or we musn`t eat this or that late in the night..you name it we have an excuse for it.
Digestive enzymes would make us stop having those ugly stink belches and repeating our food. When you eat a certain way you don`t stink as your food has been digested properly, unless you have eaten too much garlic.
Talk to raw food scientists, the things they will tell you will blow your mind. Then let a raw food chef prepare a meal for you and you will realize the difference after you finish eating,U WILL FEEL LIGHT. You also won`t crave more food which is what most people do - they crave it's not hunger.
TRY IT, START SMALL, END UP HEALTHY!

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