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HEALTH

To Cook or Not to Cook?


By Zoe Desmond and Chris Carlton

veryone’s now talking about the benefits of eating more fresh fruit and veg and the
E toxic truth about processed food. Eating Purely Raw food has been a superhealth secret for much too
long. Congratulations! You’ve found something that many wish for daily. You are no longer limited by
what doctors, friends and family have told you was inevitable. Whether today is your first Purely Raw day
or not, now that you know, there’s no turning back. So from us at Purely Raw… Welcome to Good Health!

white blood cells, by about 300%. White blood


cells are our body’s soldiers, they are produced
to fight off threats, like poison, trauma or dis-
ease. This reaction to eating was called Diges-
tive Leukocytosis and thought to be normal.
In 1930, Dr Paul Kouchakoff conducted re-
search to compare the effects of cooked food
versus raw food. He discovered that Digestive
Leukocytosis occurred only when cooked or
processed food was eaten. He found that there
is no immune system response when we eat
our food in it’s natural, unheated, unprocessed
state.
Because of Digestive Leukocytosis, eating
cooked food keeps our immune system in a
constant state of emergency. Even what we call
allergies are just our over burdened immune
system literally freaking out when a new irri-
tant is encountered.
Another immune system response to
cooked food is mucus. When cooked food is
eaten, our bodies try to protect us from this
invasion by creating mucus. This mucus makes
a wall between the food and our bodies. As a
raw foodist now, if I eat any cooked food the
first thing I notice is within’ about 7 minutes
my nose will start to run. Then within an hour
I feel just a bit knocked off my raw high (that
I sometimes can forget that I am on). Isn’t it
nice to know that you can get so used to feel-
ing perfect that you take it for granted? You
can!
After years of cooked food, our immune
system literally gets worn out. We become run
COOKING CHANGES FOOD down, and illness becomes a normal part of
life. We think that we are just ageing. We be-
When we heat food above the human body lieve we have no choice other than to be sick.
temperature of 38 degrees, it changes. This When we eat Purely Raw foods, our im-
heated food effects our health much differ- mune system rests and recovers. People who
ently than natural, unchanged foods. switch to eating only raw foods always expe-
© ZOE DESMOND & CHRIS CARLTON, 2009.
Prior to 1930, It was believed that whenever rience the same thing. Lifelong problems, con-
authors’ website: we ate, there was an immune system response ditions and diseases go away, usually within
www.PurelyRaw.com as if we were poisoned. An immediate rise in weeks or months.

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health to cook or not to cook?

People eating Purely Raw have feine, cannabis and cocaine to mimic the feel-
experienced complete reversals of ings of being in an alkaline state. Unfortunately,
cancers, diabetes, heart disease, these drugs throw us into a worse acidic state
arthritis, autism, depression, skin when they wear off, so we require more of them
disease, etc. The list goes on and to get back to the alkaline high we desire.
on. Our immune system can heal When we are in an acidic state, we experi-
anything, if it’s not continually en- ence many health problems. Acidity constricts
gaged in a war against cooked us, causing stiffness and tissue degeneration.
food. Our bodies treat cooked food Alkalinity does the opposite, we let go and our
as poison, this of course means, bodies can release tension and stress, and our
that cooked food is poison. blood and lymph can flow more easily. Being
When food is heated, the en- in an alkaline state is absolutely lovely. Alka-
zymes are also destroyed. Enzymes linity soothes away our heath problems and
are the life force in food, the magic we become balanced, calm and peaceful.
elixir of Life. They merge with our Finally, vitamins are destroyed and de-
bodies and tell us how and where formed by cooking. We all know this one! This
to use the food we eat. It’s the en- is why people steam food, rather than boil or
zymes which tell the vitamin C in bake it. Steaming is a little less damaging for
the orange to go and become part the vitamins, but the enzymes still die, and di-
of our skin. Some believe that en- gestive leukocytosis still occurs. Steaming has
zymes are destroyed by stomach become popular now because it is commonly
acids, but research shows that en- known that the less you have cooked some-
zymes are mainly absorbed in the thing, the better it is for you.
mouth, before our food gets into So, why cook at all?
the stomach.
Our body cannot communicate WHY ONLY PLANT FOODS?
with the food unless the enzymes
are there. Raw food contains its Much of what you are about to read here
own digestive enzymes and liter- may come as a shock. The following informa-
ally digests itself inside you. Raw tion is now commonly accepted in the scien-
food breaks itself down and goes tific and medical community and can easily
where it is needed, and all is well. be verified. We encourage you to research these
Without it’s enzymes, cooked facts for yourself.
food sits in you like a brick. Your Our bodies make all the cholesterol we
body has to use its own digestive need. Eating extra cholesterol has killed more
enzymes to deal with the cooked people than: all the wars, natural disasters and
food. Many now believe that hu- car accidents of the twentieth century added
mans only have enough digestive together. Eating Vegan means eating no animal
A 20 foot tall giraffe can enzymes to last them into their based foods. The only source of cholesterol is
build its entire body, 40’s. When they are gone, everything seems to animal foods. Plant foods contain no choles-
bones, muscle, coat and be harder work physically, many become apa- terol.
mane whilst eating only thetic and lose their zest for life. It’s simple, the extra cholesterol clogs our
a few types of tree leaves. Enzymes also allow Transmutation. We can veins and arteries restricting the flow of blood.
Elephants are raw
eat one raw substance and turn it into some- Restrict blood flow to the brain and you’ll have
vegan too!
thing completely different. This recent discov- a stroke. Restrict blood flow to the heart and
ery shows that when we eat purely raw food we you’ll get heart disease. Restrict blood flow to
can create things that weren’t there before. It’s your cells and you’ll get cancer.
like saying that 1+1=3! This is how a 20 foot Heart disease is the number one cause of
tall giraffe can build its entire body, bones, death in the UK and US. Heart disease kills
muscle, coat and mane whilst eating only a one in five men and one in six women. The
few types of tree leaves. Elephants are Raw number two killer of course is cancer. A re-
Vegan too! cent study of autopsies shows that 80% of
Cooked food changes our pH. It makes us those over 40 have some form of cancer.
acidic, when we are meant to be alkaline. The Many people now avoid red meat or beef,
pH level of our bodily fluids affect every cell in thinking that white meat is better. The truth is
our bodies. We thrive when our bodies are in meat is meat. A 3 ounce piece of beef has 75
an alkaline state. We use alkaloid highs like caf- mg of cholesterol while a 3 ounce skinless

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chicken breast has 72 mg of cholesterol. The


two are mostly the same.
Many today have given up eating animals
and become vegetarian. Little do they know
that a glass of milk is the same as 7 strips of
bacon. Cheese, eggs, yogurt, it’s all the same.
It all contains cholesterol and animal protein,
and that is what’s killing us.
We’ve been taught that we desperately need
animal protein, but nothing could be further
from the truth. Protein deficiency caused by
diet is only found in cases of severe starvation.
Many plant foods have protein, and plant pro-
tein won’t kill you. Both spinach and broccoli
have near twice the protein of beef. A diet of
nothing but potatoes will give you enough pro-
tein.
In the west our health problems are caused
by excess not deficiency. Don’t worry about
what you are not eating, beware of what you feed animals. Pesticides, herbicides, fungicides,
are eating. and nitrate fertilizers pollute our fresh water.
There has never been a single case of cal- Fertilizers cause algae growth in rivers, which
cium deficiency from diet in human history. kills water life.
We’ve been taught we need the calcium in Today’s farm animals are neither happy nor
dairy products to build strong bones. The op- healthy. They are drugged up, disease ridden
posite is actually true. The animal protein in shadows of the animals our grandparents ate.
dairy products makes our blood pH acidic. 80% of dairy cows and pigs have pneumonia.
Our bodies then draw calcium from our bones 90% of chickens have cancer. Farm animals
to balance our blood pH. Yes, that means that live a fraction of their potential life span and
milk actually causes bone loss. Osteoporosis many would die soon from disease, if not
is most common in cultures that consume the slaughtered on time.
most animal foods. To keep them alive in their unnatural con-
Never before have we eaten so much animal ditions, farm animals are fed antibiotics. Much
fats and protein. Animal foods like meat, dairy stronger ones than we use. These antibiotics re-
and fish only became affordable in the 20th main in the food we eat. Increasing our resist-
century. In the last half of the century we’ve ance to them, and annihilating out ability to
doubled our meat consumption to an average absorb essential nutrients like vitamin B12 by
of 105 kilos per person per year. destroying intrinsic factor.
We’ve switched from a plant-based diet to Finally, we just aren’t carnivores. We’re not
an animal based one. This was the biggest diet even omnivores. All carnivores have short guts,
change in human history and was followed by through which meat is eliminated before it pu-
a huge increase in cancer, heart disease and di- trefies. Human intestines are three times the
abetes. These were previously the diseases of length of carnivores. Our guts are even much
the rich, who could afford to eat a lot of ani- longer than an omnivore’s intestines, but
mal foods. they’re the same length as other frugivores.
We now grow far more food to feed farm Carnivores and even omnivores have higher
animals than we eat ourselves. 87% of agri- levels of hydrochloric acid in their stomachs
cultural land is used to raise the animals we eat. used to digest meat. They also have the en-
Farm animals consume 80% of our corn, 80% zyme uricase to digest uric acid found in meat.
of our grain and 95% of our oats. We spend Humans don’t, and this means we cannot di-
more time, money and resources fattening the gest meat as carnivores and omnivores do. Our
animals we eat than we do feeding humans blood is alkaline in its optimum state. Carni-
that are actually starving. vores and omnivores blood is acidic. We have Victoria Boutenko.
12 Steps to Raw Foods:
Half the fresh water in the West is used to no teeth or claws to kill with and no snout to
How to End Your Dependency
grow crops to feed farm animals. Half of the rip out internal organs. Physically, we are fru- on Cooked Food.
fresh water wells are contaminated by agricul- givores, animals meant to eat mainly fruit and – North Atlantic, 2007.
ture, by growing food that is mainly used to leaves. ■ ISBN: 1556436513.

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