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Dehydrating Nuts – Part of Eating Raw
Do you feel like you could never possibly soak and dehydrate your own nuts and seeds? Do you wonder why it is even important? I want to tell you two things:
- You can do it!
- It is important!
First, soaking and dehydrating your own nuts and seeds requires almost no effort. It does require time, but much less than you think. The time required is not you-working-hard time. It is just a tiny bit of time to get the nuts/seeds soaking, transfer them to the dehydrator, and 
then put them in a jar when they’re dried out.
Second, soaking nuts is important to do because as-is, nuts and seeds contain enzyme inhibitors. God made them this way. Enzymes are unstable and therefore, He locked them up in the seed until such time as they are needed. The time they are needed is at germination and forward into the growth of the new plant. So that’s what you mimic in your kitchen through soaking – a germination. The water tells the seed it is time to soften up and get ready to grow, and voila! The enzyme inhibitors go away and the enzymes are now available for our use. (Though not a scientific explanation for this process, it is a summary of the effect of what happens.)
Dehydrating the nuts is optional. If you do it, your nuts will be raw and rich with enzymes – as long as the dehydrator is kept below 115 degrees F – and the nuts will be returned to the crispy state that so many recipes require. Not to mention that they taste and feel great when they’re crunchy.
According to Dr. Edward Howell in Enzyme Nutrition, germinated, raw nuts and seeds are an excellent source of digestive enzymes. Most people do not consume enough digestive enzymes. This means their bodies must produce these enzymes, but the human body cannot supply a limitless supply of any kind of enzymes. The more digestive enzymes we have to make, the less metabolic enzymes we can make. The metabolic enzymes run all the systems of our bodies. So you can see that if our bodies must manufacture digestive enzymes (which we could get from food) instead of metabolic enzymes, we would lack the necessary metabolic enzymes to keep our bodies functioning well. Dr. Howell claims that this is one of the reasons we tend toward modern diseases.
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Protein and the China Study
The science is clear. The results are unmistakable.
Change your diet and dramatically reduce the risk of cancer, diabetes, heart disease and obesity.
Respected nutrition and health researcher, Dr. T. Colin Campbell reveals the truth behind special interest groups, government entities and scientists that have taken Americans down a deadly path
Even today, as the low-carb craze sweeps the nation, two-thirds of adults are still obese and children are being diagnosed with Type II diabetes, typically an “adult” disease, at an alarming rate. If we’re eating healthier, why are Americans stricken with heart disease as much as we were 30 years ago?
Drawing on the project findings in rural China, but going far beyond those findings, The China Study details the connection between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes and cancer. The report also examines the source of nutritional confusion produced by powerful lobbies, government entities, and opportunistic scientists. The New York Times has recognized the study (China-Oxford-Cornell Diet and Health Project) as the “Grand Prix of epidemiology” and the “most comprehensive large study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease.”
“After a long career in research and policy-making, I have decided to step ‘out of the system’. I have decided to disclose why Americans are so confused,” said Dr. Campbell. “As a taxpayer who foots the bill for research and health policy in America, you deserve to know that many of the common notions you have been told about food, health and disease are wrong.”
“I propose to do nothing less than redefine what we think of as good nutrition. You need to know the truth about food, and why eating the right way can save your life.”
Early in his career as a researcher with MIT and Virginia Tech, Dr. Campbell worked to promote better health by eating more meat, milk and eggs — “high-quality animal protein … It was an obvious sequel to my own life on the farm and I was happy to believe that the American diet was the best in the world.”
He later was a researcher on a project in the Philippines working with malnourished children. The project became an investigation for Dr. Campbell, as to why so many Filipino children were being diagnosed with liver cancer, predominately an adult disease. The primary goal of the project was to ensure that the children were getting as much protein as possible.
“In this project, however, I uncovered a dark secret. Children who ate the highest protein diets were the ones most likely to get liver cancer…” He began to review other reports from around the world that reflected the findings of his research in the Philippines.
Although it was “heretical to say that protein wasn’t healthy,” he started an in-depth study into the role of nutrition, especially protein, in the cause of cancer.
The research project culminated in a 20-year partnership of Cornell University, Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, a survey of diseases and lifestyle factors in rural China and Taiwan. More commonly known as the China Study, “this project eventually produced more than 8000 statistically significant associations between various dietary factors and disease.”
The findings? “People who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease … People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease. These results could not be ignored,” said Dr. Campbell.
In The China Study, Dr. Campbell details the connection between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, and also its ability to reduce or reverse the risk or effects of these deadly illnesses. The China Study also examines the source of nutritional confusion produced by powerful lobbies, government entities, and irresponsible scientists.
The China Study is not a diet book. Consumers are bombarded with conflicting messages regarding health and nutrition; the market is flooded with popular titles like The Atkins Diet and The South Beach Diet. The China Study cuts through the haze of misinformation and delivers an insightful message to anyone living with cancer, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and those concerned with the effects of aging. Additionally, he challenges the validity of these low-carb fad diets and issues a startling warning to their followers.
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Is Eating Raw Safe?
What about e-coli on spinach, salmonella, parasites? Aren’t these potential hazards of a raw food diet? There must have been a reason why people started cooking their food?”
Before people had a refridgerator, cooking their food was the best way to kill parasites and bacteria. Louis 
Pasteur “invented” pasteurization to ensure that food was safe to eat for everyone. However, today this method is obsolete and actually hazardous. It doesn’t just kill the bad bacteria, it also kills the good ones, as well as the enzymes, makes the food acidic, takes away vitamins and minerals, etc.
Today, we have much better methods for keeping our food safe. Some methods are:
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Refridgerating;
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Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide;
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Vacuum Sealing.
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Getting Calcium and Iron while Eating Raw
Most of us grew up believing that meat and dairy are the best and highest source of calcium and iron.
So, what if you are on a raw food diet and are vegan – thus don’t eat any cheese and meat?
Or, what if you are thinking about eating more raw foods – where will you get your calcium and iron?
Victoria Boutenko, Gabriel Cousens and Brian Clemens have done some great studies on this very thing. They found that the best source of minerals is in green leafy vegetables, sprouts, seaweeds and germinated seeds & nuts.
Ah – the very ingredients of a successful raw routine.
The best vegan source of calcium is sesame seeds. But also almonds, broccoli, cabbage, collards, dandelion greens, dulse (a seaweed), kale, prunes. All of these are much easier to absorb if they are uncooked.
The best vegan sources of iron are spinach, swisschard, prune juice, beet greens, sesame seeds, cashews, raisins, apricots, water melon, kale, sunflower seeds, broccoli, pumpkin seeds, sun dried tomatoes, seaweeds, flax seed. Once again, staples when one is eating raw.
Drinking fresh vegetable juices on a raw vegan diet is very important. Vegetable juices are concentrated mineral juices.
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Getting enough Protein while Eating Raw
Where do you get your protein when eating raw? Here are some thoughts that may help you understand:
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Based on 700 studies, the chief one being by Dr. Campbell, “The China Study” – a diet consisting of about 7% protein is more than enough for most
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Since raw food has much more usable protein and of higher quality than cooked food. you’ll need less.
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Studies show that eating vegan protein is much healthier for you than dairy and meat (protein from animals).
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Green leafy vegetables, nuts & seeds, (wheat)
grasses, sprouts, grains are the best source of non-animal protein.
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Eating Raw is Good for the Planet
Eating raw is good for the planet because:
“Assembly-line meat factories consume enormous amounts of energy, pollute water supplies, generate significant greenhouse gases and require ever-increasing amounts of corn, soy and other grains, a dependency that has led to the destruction of vast swaths of the world s tropical rain forests.” NY Times, 2008
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Raw foodists choose food that is not processed, sprayed with herbicides, pesticides and that is not genetically modified. Today, even a polar bear baby is born with over 200 chemicals in his blood. If you eat raw you contribute to a cleaner world.
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Most raw foodists are vegan/vegetarian. Marianne Thieme, member of the Dutch parliament since 2996, estimated in 2010 that eating a vegetarian diet will reduce the world s CO2 emission by 58%.
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You need hundreds of pounds of soy, corn and other grains, to feed the animas until they are ready to be killed. Food necessary to feed the animals until they can be slaughtered. For cows it is estimated that you need 60 pounds of animal feed to get 1 pound of beef.
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People in Africa die from hunger. Rain forests are cut to make place for soy and corn fields to feed the animals. Soy and corn is heavily sprayed with tremendous amounts of chemicals and genetically modified. These chemicals pollute the earth and what is eaten by the animals is stored their fat.
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If everyone in the world would stop eating meat, there would be enough grain available to feed the world population (at least) 7 times! If every person in the world would stop eating meat just one day a week, i.e. every Mondayk they would save grains equivalent to feed our world population of 7 billion, ONE time. Just imagine.
If meat would be of the past. Pollution would decrease tremendously, rain forest would be saved, Assembly-line meat factories would be of the past. Aggressive behavior would disappear largely, as well as obesity and many illnesses. The Dutch government has been talking about a tax on meat. I’m all in for it. World wide a tax on meat with a rate of 1000%!
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What to eat when Eating Raw?
What can you eat on a raw food diet?
Generally raw foodists eat at least 75% of raw fruits, vegetables, (germinated) seeds, (germinated) nuts and super foods and sprouts
You can eat them plain or you can juice or blend them for easier absorption.
If you like gourmet foods, there are many raw food cook books telling you how to make gourmet raw food and there are some fantastic raw food restaurants. (Look for ours coming soon.)
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Health Benefits of Eating Raw
What are the (health) benefits of eating a raw food diet?
The raw food diet benefits are endless. The major benefits are weight loss and better overall health.
When your diet consist of more than 75% raw foods, here are just some of the improvements likely to happen to you.
- More energy
- Up to 3 hours less sleep
- Weight loss
- More beautiful skin
- Clarity of mind and better memory
- Improved immune system
- Improved fertility
- Prevent or even reverse diabetes
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