Special Note To Newcomers To Raw

[Guest guest]

The idea that some raw fruits and veggies " have poisons, stimulants or

irritants " is speculation. It is an extreme viewpoint that is followed

by a minority raw foods sector, so please explore all of raw foods as a

whole to find out what works for you. This observation is not supported

scientifically and is widely ignored due to this as well as the fact

that so many experience such profound healing from some of these foods

that have been deemed " dangerous " .

[Guest guest]

I believe you're talking about condiments, which are added to food to

cover up the flavor of food, or to add a stimulating effect (peppers),

but has little or no nutritive value. To a natural hygienist, if a

food cannot be eaten as an entire meal, then it is not considered a

food. The body will attempt to expel the substance in the form of

sweat (b.o., salt), bad breath (garlic), runny nose (peppers), or

other means. Rather than see this as an " extreme viewpoint " , consider

that many patients with heart dis-ease and other maladies are asked to

withdraw spices and other condiments such as salt from their diet.

So, even the medical model has not turned a blind eye to the effects

of condiments on the body.

 

Below is an excerpt taken from Dr. Herbert Shelton's " Man's Pristine

Way of Life " which can be found for free at www.soilandhealth.org. ~Janet:

 

Hygienists also eschewed the eating of condiments. Their position

was a simple one: namely, wholesome foods are agreeable to the normal

(undepraved or unperverted) taste. But so habituated are our people to

the practice of concealing the taste of proper and pure food with some

" more tasty garb, " such as spices, salt, sugar and other seasonings,

that they do not know the taste of foods. The ethereal and delicate

flavors of foods pall upon the tongue and palate that is capable of

sensing only the pungent and austere, so that one may have an aversion

to those foods best designed to provide him with superior nutriment.

The irritating qualities of ginger, nutmeg, pepper and various spices,

anise seed, caraway seed and similar substances that are often added

to food are a perfect outrage to the taste of the unitiated, although

demanded by condiment addicts. In condiments as well as in drinkables,

chewables and snuffables, what diabolism has not been committed in

this country, no less than in other parts of the world, all in the

name of the god of titillated sense.

 

Unfortunately, we find few people with a normal sense of taste.

Watch them put salt on tomatoes, water-melons, cantaloups, sugar on

oranges and grapefruit, sugar and cream on berries and other

substances (vinegar, pepper, cinnamon, cloves, horseradish, catsup,

sauces, etc.) on other foods. They eat few foods without the addition

of seasonings, sweetenings, condiments, etc. They do not like the

taste of food, but of condiments, of vinegar or other foodless

substance. Perhaps they like sugar and cream with a berry flavor, but

few of them like berries. They eat cream on bananas, sugar and cream

on peaches, sugar and spice on their apple (baked); but they do not

relish the apple. I doubt if we realize the extent to which we have

depraved our sense of taste.

 

Almost everyone spoils a nice dish of vegetable salad by salting it

down or by the addition of a salad dressing that has an abominable

taste. Few relish the natural savors of their salad. The vinegar in

the dressing appeals more to their depraved taste. Few of these people

realize that the addition of such substances to their foods retards

the process of digestion and is a common cause of indigestion and all

the ultimate consequences that flow from chronic indigestion.

 

Man is provided by nature with instinctive protections against the

intake of injurious substances, but under the misguidance of shaman,

priest, physician and trader, he deliberately beats down his

instinctive protests against the ingestion of hurtful substances and

acquires a fictional liking for them. Only some strong psychological

influence, such as that provided by the shaman, priest and physician,

could have induced man originally to disregard the persistent protest

of his instinct and acquire false habits.

 

In the very nature of things, it is highly essential that man's

gustatory sense shall be a strong one, for on it rests the selection

of those substances necessary to the preservation of the individual.

On it, also, rests the rejection of inimical substances. A strong

gustatory sense excludes the possibility of carelessness and

forgetfulness in the matter of duly maintaining all the organic wants,

so far as the materials of nutrition are concerned. It exercises a

becoming foresight and insures provision for future needs. The sense

of taste is one of a sisterhood of senses, each of which is a string

of the human harp, the vibrations of which are sweet music to the

mind. Taste is thus much more than that of a purveyor or a sentinel.

 

Enjoyment is a consciousness of the normal performance of

functional activity. Substances that cause suffering are instinctively

rejected and repelled. Non-nutritious sensorial excitants, in the

enticing forms of beverages and ganglionic excitants and irritants, in

the form of condimentary spices, share largely in the work of

overturning gustatory judgment. Sharp, biting, pungent spices and

seasonings irritate and goad the whole digestive tract as they do the

mouth and tongue; they may even occasion smarting and burning of the

rectum in passing. Such buses of the digestive system lowers its tone

and energy and cripples its functions.

 

There are many substances in common use as articles of diet, such

as spices, cayenne pepper, salt, old cheese, etc., which are

indigestible, irritating and injurious. They serve no physiological

purposes and are best omitted from the diet.

 

Our position is a simple one. It is this: whatever is foreign to a

natural healthy organism and cannot be digested and assimilated to its

essential structure, whatever undergoes no physiological or vital

synthesis and is not capable of being processed by the normal

metabolic activities of the body is inimical to it and will or does

occasion disease. Conforming to this principle, it is observed that

within each of us is the natural or normal disrelish of all substances

that are non-usable, when these are brought in contact with the senses

of taste and smell and with the natural, undepraved appetite; even

such articles that are stronger and sharper than the gastric juice,

though they may not be absolutely poisonous, are indigestible and

unassimilable. Nothing more reveals the fitness of man for life in the

earth than the higher offices of taste and smell, without whose

safeguards against the introduction of indigestible and poisonous

substances into the stomach, confusion and mischief would reign.

 

 

rawfood , " Erica " <schoolofrawk wrote:

>

> The idea that some raw fruits and veggies " have poisons, stimulants or

> irritants " is speculation. It is an extreme viewpoint that is followed

> by a minority raw foods sector, so please explore all of raw foods as a

> whole to find out what works for you. This observation is not supported

> scientifically and is widely ignored due to this as well as the fact

> that so many experience such profound healing from some of these foods

> that have been deemed " dangerous " .

>

[Guest guest]

Salt is one of the worst. Just this last week I meet a family that was

told that the dh sould have sea salt and he just got out of the

hospital with heart problems. I just thought what kind of dr was that.

 

Theresa \o/

[Guest guest]

rawfood , " trills4u " <potato wrote:

>

> Salt is one of the worst. Just this last week I meet a family that

was

> told that the dh sould have sea salt and he just got out of the

> hospital with heart problems. I just thought what kind of dr was

that.

>

> Theresa \o/

 

Actually, while table salt is one of the worst, sea salt is very

different and has many great properties. Please pick up a copy of

YOUR BODIES MANY CRIES FOR WATER for more on how sea salt and water

have been known ALONE to cure many ailments (it is written by a MD

and is widely-respected in the raw foods community. I know people

personally who cut out " all " salt, including sea salt, for many

years, and no matter how great they ate, something was missing.

Reintroducing SEA salt finally helped them reclaim their health. All

salts are not equal, so be sure to look into these things. Table

Salt = Deadly, Sea Salt = Positive. A minor sect disagrees with

this, of course, but so many obtain their health using it and only

by using it. Our body REQUIRES salt.