Article: The Raw Food Diet

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The Raw Food Diet

 

By Susan Schenck, LAc

Apr 5, 2009 - 7:26:43 AM

 

Susan Schenck, LAc, author of the 2-time award winning book, The Live

Food Factor, The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body,

Mind, Spirit & Planet has this to say about healthful eating (adapted

from her book):

 

(HealthNewsDigest.com) - I have been a health seeker since the age of

16 when I developed asthma and an eating disorder. Doctors could do

nothing for me so I sought to heal myself, which I did. Constantly

looking for ways to maintain my health, I experimented with dozens of

healing modalities and even got a master’s degree in acupuncture and

herbs. But by far the greatest health secret I discovered was the raw

food diet!

 

First, let it be made clear that nothing, no outside object, “cures”

or “heals” the body. The body always heals itself, and it alone has

the wisdom to do so. As French philosopher Voltaire (1694-1778) once

observed, “The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while

nature cures the disease.”

 

But in order for nature to do the healing, it must be aided by the

right nutrients, or building blocks. It must also not be burdened by

the toxic byproducts (such as acrylamides, heterocyclic amines, and

lipid peroxides) which numerous studies have shown are produced by

cooking.

 

Thousands of modern-day people have enabled their bodies to heal

themselves from all kinds of degenerative diseases using raw food

diets. Many have written books (or have been written about) describing

their journeys to health and full recovery from cancer, diabetes,

heart disease, AIDS and other ailments.

 

It is very common, on a 90-100% raw diet, for the body to heal itself

of supposedly “incurable” ailments and no longer need medications. I

personally have met several people who had to take the drug Valtrex

every

 

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