Nature’s Remedy: Raw Love for Raw Eating

Help Strengthen Your Immune System, Thereby Helping You to Overcome Nagging Ailments

Raw foods energize our body and feed our soul in a very special way. The recipes one can prepare are delicious … that to me (and my family) is very important. When you make a meal that is 100% nutritious and tastes good too, you have achieved a higher level of nourishment for your body. The vibrant flavors and colors you are able to combine are fabulous.

Raw foods offer many more nutrients and fibers than cooked foods do. The enzymes are active and present because there is no heat applied. The life force that fresh vegetables, fruits, seeds and nuts offer is invaluable.

Amazing changes have been experienced by people who have followed a Raw Food diet - from weight loss to increased energy to the disappearance of their diabetes. Your life can truly change for the best.

Briggitte Mars, author of Rawsome! says, “Raw foods are digested easily and quickly, in 24-36 hours as opposed to 48-100 hours for cooked food. Your body’s vitality won’t be sapped from breaking down hard-to-digest foods. A raw food diet strengthens the immune system, thereby preventing illness and helping you overcome nagging ailments.”

I love the fact that eating raw meals may consistently help to improve the health of those suffering with inflammatory unbalances like arthritis, asthma, high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, menstrual problems, digestive ailments, allergies, obesity, psoriasis, skin conditions, heart disease, diverticulitis, weakened immunity, depression and hormonal balance. Brigitte points out that your eyes will become brighter and your voice more clear. Skin and muscle tone will improve. Memory and concentration may become sharper. You will feel better and have more energy.

Raw food eating is great for weight loss, why? Because you can melt away those extra pounds without being hungry or making hard-to-adjust changes. You can maintain your weight optimally for as long as you wish while eating raw.

One more thing I like about raw foods: the fact that you don’t have to use the stove! No gas, no packaging, no pollution … you never have to clean the oven again!

Raw foods are living foods; their nutrients and enzymes are intact, more so if they are organic. They may be dehydrated, frozen or fermented, but not heated to a temperature over 110 F. Steamed vegetables are usually cooked at 212 F. Unfortunately, many vitamins lose potency at about 130 F. Vitamins A, D, E, and K are destroyed in cooking. Cooking disrupts the structure of indoles, which may have anticancer compounds found in vegetables like broccoli and cabbage.

In his book, Eating for Beauty, Dave Wolf, an advocate of natural health and raw foods says, “ Raw plant-food is beautiful. Preparing and eating this type of food is an art. Every ingredient is a new color. Each meal is a cloud, a stream, or a flower - a piece of the magnificent painting you are becoming. We can see the intense, vibrant, electromagnetic, and luminescent patterns found in raw foods.” To me Wolf states: “The raw-food ideal represents not only a way to live in peace, love, and harmony with nature and the animals, it also represents the highest aspirations of beauty in the human spirit.”

I agree with Dave. I personally love making these meals, juicing and teaching others. My advise to you would be to start adding one meal at a time. Come to our classes and learn to prepare these simple, delicious and amazing meals and start feeling the incredible benefits. Our Fall Classes start Tuesday Aug. 28 at 5:30pm. For more information contact Nature’s Remedy in Ellicottville, NY, 716-699-4372 or e-mail me at ldirito@gmail.com.