Food is a subject I discuss very infrequently because I know it is a subject that people are very passion about, and therefore often do not like others suggesting what they should and should not eat.
I have previously discussed the fact that aside from the profound and very important ethical, moral and Spiritual growth issues, all of which I discuss at length in my book, meat and dairy products are unquestiobaly toxic to the human system, and directly responsible for many debilitating diseases as well as decreased life expectancy.
I would however like to add a further "dimension" to the whole subject of nutrition which you should know about and understand, because I love and care about each and every one of you and do not wish you to become ill or worse if I can help you to avoid it.
"Cooking" food generally has numerous side-effects that most seem oblivious to due to lack of information from a food industry that only wishes to sell as much as possible, regarldless of the health of "consumers" and in all probbaility even worse long term consequences.
The most immediate of these is that cooking any food, including the vegetation based foods that we should be eating, destroys almost all of the important enzymes in the food as well as the vast majority of the available nutrition. Eating a vegetable based diet is a wonderful thing, but in cooking vegetables, pulses, grains etc - all the foods we should be eating - they are almost totally destroyed, and indeed one might as well eat soggy paper for all the benefit, or lack of cooked vegetables contain.
Another danger is the use of cooking oils and fats.
We are told by adverts on the TV, designed to impress consumers by the use of scientific terminology, that "polyunsaturated fats" are the best because they do not body fat when consumed. What they conveniently fail to mention is that cooking with unsaturated fats is potentially and usually adverse for our health. Why is this?
In organic chemistry terms, "unsaturated" means that there "double" bonds between atoms of meolecules, e.g Carbon atoms, that have the potential to react further with other atoms or molecules under the appropriate conditions including heat. So if you cook your food of fry your chips in most vegetable oils or other unsaturated fats, the molecules of those fats can and will further react under the influence of heat to become different chemical compounds, many of which are toxic to the human system. So by frying or cooking things in unsaturated or "polyunsaturated" fats and oils, more damage is likely being done to the body than the risk of adding weight by using saturated fats due to the chemical reactions taking place under the action of heating producing further toxic compounds. Saturated fats are almost always animal fats which, aside from the Spiritual aspects, are toxic to the human anyway, as well as causing weight gain by depositing as body fat.
Polyunsaturated oils in their natural form, for example olive oil, sunflower oil, maize oil, are all potentially beneficial to our health, especially for example when used in a salad, but heating them causes them to become soemthing different and undesirable.
Another very serious consideration from a body chemistry perspective is the "pH" or acidity and alkalinity of food and drinks.
Acid foods and drinks are very harmful to the body for numerous reasons. It has been demonstrated for example that cancers can only form and grow in an acidic environment, and this certainly applies to other human-caused diseases as well. Also acid promotes the environment for "free radicals" in the body which then cause and accelerate premature and excessive ageing due to their chemical reactions. The defence of the body against these fee radicals are antioxidants, which, in high enough concentrations, can, in turn, react with and damage DNA resulting in all sorts of side-effects, of which ageing and degenerative diseases are primary examples.
There are many such sources of acid. For example, the drink "Coke" is pH2 which is extremely acidic and therefore potentially damaging, notwithstanding any sugars and other deadly toxins included such as "aspartame" - the artificial sweetener. Airline pilots are not permitted to drink any soft drink 24 hours prior to flying due to the effects on the nervous system and brain of this substance.
Virtually all "ready meals" and most other "food" packaged in lurid, psychologist designed packaging are unhealthy at best, toxic at worst, notwithstanding the "E" chemicals, preservatives and other substances added to increase shelf life and artificially improve the otherwise bland "taste". Food manufacture today seems to be about appealing to and gratifying the senses of the consumer, at the expense of any consideration for health. Of course this by no means only applies to the food industry, it also applies to all of the big cabals.
Unfortunately, most people today still eat for enjoyment, to gratify the sense of taste instead of for bodily nutrition. The consequences of eating meat and dairy products, notwithstanding the Spiritual, ethical and moral considerations are becoming more well known, but fewer people understand the consequences of the chemical reactions attributable to heating fats and oils and consuming acidic food, as well as the practice generally of cooking food, all of which are unnatural and un-beneficial at best, and harmful and potentially deadly in the long term at worst.
It is my hope that you will soon come to realise that our natural food, as provided by The Source from the beginning is raw, harvestable whole foods from the natural and abundant storehouse of nature.
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