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| The Yabba Pot Café Presents The 21 DAY RAW FOOD CHALLENGE Spring Equinox - March 1st-21st Summer Solstice -June 1st-21st Fall Equinox -September 1st-21st Winter Solstice - December 1st-21st EACH YEAR! |
WHY RAW…… Imagine jumping out of bed in the morning feeling totally awake, vibrantly alive and healthier than you have ever felt before. No pains, no ailments, boundless energy for every moment of the day with a clear mind and a feeling of inner peace and calm. Imagine that you are in the best shape of your life, with a healthy body, and free of any excess weight. This is the promise of the raw food diet. Much of the information contained in the basic raw food questions and answers below was extracted from Alissa Cohen, Living on Live Foods. What is raw and living food? Raw and Living food is uncooked fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouted grains. There are also some other foods that fall within this category, such as seaweeds, raw carob powder, cold pressed olive oil, and certain spices and seasonings. Whole, ripe, raw, organic foods in their natural state are what help to keep us healthy, vibrant and free of sickness and disease. Why is raw and living food healthier than cooked food? Fasting on a raw and living food diet has helped so many people feel well for the first time in a long time. One of the most amazing things is how quickly this can happen. Feeling healthier, losing weight and healing doesn’t take years or months or even weeks on this diet. We will notice changes within days. When we eat a raw and living food diet we are feeding the body and the cells live foods filled with vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and other life giving substances that cooking destroys. When food is cooked at over 112 degrees (this temperature can be felt as warm to the touch) we destroy all of its enzymes. This is a problem because we need enzymes for every function in our body -- to walk, to talk, to breathe, and to move; life itself depends on them. As we age our body’s natural source of enzymes becomes depleted and we need to replenish this source through the foods we eat. Cooking makes it harder for our bodies to break up and digest the foods that we eat. This food then begins to get stored in our bodies as toxins, which can lead to all kinds of diseases and illness. The enzymes that are destroyed in cooking food are detrimental in so many ways. Not only do they affect our immune system but also our brain function, and our energy levels. Sadly, the typical American diet of high protein flesh foods, high sugar, high fat, and low complex carbohydrates is acid forming. Meat, fish, poultry, eggs, dairy, white sugars, flour products, pasta, breads, most cooked grains, most beans, most nuts, candy, soda, coffee, tobacco, alcohol, chemical additives, preservatives, drugs, and synthetic vitamins are all acid forming. An over acid body is found in most people with acute or chronic diseases. Some common symptoms of an overly acid body are: arthritis, depression, headaches, lethargy, gastritis, dulled mentality, canker sores, fatigue, muscle stiffness, stomach aches, chest pain, constipation, irritability, sinus problems, restless sleep, and so much more. But an overly acid body can lead to many more serious health problems. For example, cancer cells are able to live better then normal cells in an acid environment. So how do we get our bodies at the right ph balance and create an internal environment that is slightly alkaline? We can do this by eliminating acid producing foods, and eating a diet that is high in raw fruits and vegetables. We say raw because when we cook food it becomes more acidic. When we eat a diet that is made up of raw fruits, vegetables, sprouted nuts, seeds and grains we will begin to shift that acid state to a more alkaline state. What does someone's daily diet look like when eating raw and living food? The diet of someone eating a raw diet varies according to the person, just as no two people who eat cooked food eat the same. For many, whole fruits, smoothies, fruit juice and vegetable juices are a great way to start the day. For lunch and dinner there are so many raw food dishes that you could make. Just as it is impossible to list all of the cooked food entree's that people eat, so too would it be impossible to list all of the options available for lunches and dinners. The choices for desserts are so numerous and delicious, and when made from raw and living food, there is no guilt and no need to abstain. There are a range of excellent raw books with practical information and hundreds of yummy recipes (see Raw Online Resources at the end of your packet). Why don't we have to count calories or fat grams on the raw fast? How can we eat avocados, nuts and other high fat foods on this diet and still lose weight? There is a huge difference between cooked fats and raw fats. The studies that have been done linking fats to high cancer rates, heart attacks, kidney failure, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, angina, cardiovascular disease, and all of the other diseases that clog up the blood and the arteries have been done with cooked fats. Obesity is linked to a high cooked fat diet. Raw plant fats on the other hand, have exactly the opposite effect. Raw fats, such as avocadoes, olives, coconuts, nuts and seeds are imperative in a healthy diet. These fats contain antioxidants. They contain oils that help the joints, nerves, and bones. These raw plant fats do not cause the body to gain excess weight because they still contain the enzyme lipase; this is the enzyme that is needed to digest fat. Cooking fats destroy lipase, along with other important enzymes and minerals. The fat digesting enzyme, lipase, brakes up the raw plant foods as they are eaten and helps to digest the oils in these foods. Because this food is getting assimilated and digested properly, it is not clogging up the blood and arteries, and causing all kinds of chronic and degenerative diseases, and it is not getting stored as excess weight in the body. What about my protein? The WHO (World Health Organization) says humans need about 5% of their daily calories to come from protein in order to be healthy. The USDA puts this figure at 6.5%. On average, fruits have about 5% of their calories from protein. Vegetables have from 20-50% of their calories from protein. Sprouted seeds, beans, and grains contain from 10-25% of their calories from protein. So if we are eating any variety of living plant foods, we are getting more than adequate protein. Numerous studies have shown the daily need for protein to be about 25-35 grams per day. So if we ate 2,000 calories per day, and ate raw plant foods that had an average of 10% of their calories from protein, we would get 200 calories worth of protein, or 50 grams. This is more than adequate to support optimal well-being. “Other studies have shown that heat treating a protein (such as with cooking) makes about half of it unusable to the human body. So raw plant food protein is even a better source than cooked plant foods or animal foods. There is still a huge, foolish, misguided idea that plant protein is not ‘complete’. This is based on studies done on rats in the 1940's. This false conclusion was drawn before we discovered the body’s protein recycling mechanism and its ability to ‘complete any amino acid mix from the body’s amino acid pool, no matter what the amino acid composition of a meal consumed. This false idea is still perpetuated by the meat and dairy industries, in an attempt to influence people to continue consuming their truly health destroying products”. from Live and Living Raw, www.living-foods.com The human body is self-cleansing, self-healing and self-regenerating, given the proper conditions, and it can maintain itself in a superb state of health. A large and growing community of people are discovering that eating vegetarian foods in their natural, uncooked state, as nature provides makes them feel vibrantly alive. Rhio, author of Hooked on Raw Music Video Codes By Music Jesus.com |
| We could truly be healthy? We could actually lose that weight? We could feel energized? We could finally get off that medication? We could really curb our addictions to food, sugar and other chemical substances? We could cure ourselves of dis-ease? We could actually apply what we already know about diet and nutrition and see results? We stopped having our important organs removed....because they are not working properly? We stopped having our stomachs stapled... to lose weight? Doctors did only well-care check-ups? Hospitals became Wellness Centers? Pharmaceutical companies went out of business? Healthier foods were more accessible? If this ponders any thoughts in your mind, then get with the program. We are a product of what we create. The Yabba Pot features THE 21 DAY RAW FOOD CHALLENGE, a program bringing you closer to what you need to be truly ALIVE!! Baltimore City...a city that has the worlds number #1 Hospitals. Yet, we live in a city that is possibly one of the worlds most sickest as well. Rampant with Drug Addiction (legal and illegal), Obesity, Cancer, Sugar Diabetes, High Blood Pressure and more. We are what we consume! It is time to take the information that is so readily accessible and apply it to our own lives. Join the forum that makes a difference. This challenge is considered a "Retreat in the City". Participants will join others in challenging themselves to eating a 100% Live Food Diet for 21 Days. Any questions please call 410-662-8638 or email us at:theyabbapot@earthlink.net |
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