data on the benefits of eating RAW FOOD . . . part 3 of 3
At Washington University, surgeons put tubes in dogs to drain pancreatic juice enzymes out of the body. Even though the dogs had access to plenty of food, they all died within a week. (I know, what a terrible study!) Another group of researchers duplicated the study, with the same results, in rats. [...]
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Another very old study was the work of Robert McCarrison in the 1920′s and 1930′s, working with rats. A group of 1,000 rats was fed a partially raw diet of carrots, sprouts, cabbage, bread, milk, and meat. Another 2,000 were fed canned food, boiled vegetables, and milk. The rats in the [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →the data on benefits of RAW FOOD . . . part 1 of 3
In the next few blogs, I’ll review for you research on the benefits of raw plant food I found in various sources. Unfortunately, science isn’t too interested in studying the effects of people eating raw food. Who would fund large-scale prevention studies to document what happens when we don’t tax our enzyme production [...]
11 Comments • Continue Reading →what enzymes do to make food digestible . . . part 4
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: How can enzymes and eating raw food be so important when stomach acid would kill any enzymes that came with the food anyway? Good one. Some people think that the low pH of the stomach stops salivary and any other food or supplemental enzymes from working. A number of [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →what enzymes do to make food digestible . . . part 3
We don’t think of our stomach as being two-chambered, but Howell goes to lengths to document all the experts and studies (including Gray’s Anatomy) saying that it does, in fact, have two distinct parts. And in the upper stomach, or “food enzyme stomach,” gastric juices are not released, and peristalsis is not yet churning [...]
5 Comments • Continue Reading →defending that my diet’s not all raw
I read the raw foodists all the time (Patenaude, Wolfe, Boutenko, and lots more). I think their diet is fantastic. Sometimes I go all raw, for a few days, weeks, or even months. I wouldn’t criticize anybody for a minute who wants to do it permanently, as some of my friends do–they [...]
40 Comments • Continue Reading →The Essential GreenSmoothieGirl Library . . . part 4
Two more of my favorite books, with links to obtain them. As you can afford to own these books, you’re building your arsenal of tools to quit or massively reduce refined foods and animal products forever: James and Colleen Simmons’ Original Fast Foods is so pure in its intent, to help others experience the [...]
4 Comments • Continue Reading →Raw food beating cancer is front-page news!
Yesterday my friend Shelley Abegg, a breast cancer five-year survivor, was on the front page. She beat cancer without chemo or radiation with a raw-food vegan diet: http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/286151/17/ This is a four-part series on local women with breast cancer. The first two parts were full of radiation and chemo stories, [...]
15 Comments • Continue Reading →Q&A about raw almonds / group buys
I apologize for this impersonal way to talk to everyone who wrote asking q’s about the almonds. But some of the questions are duplicative, so I’m killing all the birds with one stone. Wait, that’s a bad analogy. No one likes to be compared to dead birds. Point is, I’ve got more emails than I [...]
7 Comments • Continue Reading →High-nutrition items’ price points . . . part 2 of 2
THINGS I BUY AT COSTCO: $25.50 olive oil (two 2-ltr. Bottles) or $13 for 1.5 ltr. bottle of organic $11 34-oz. balsamic vinegar $7.50 for two jars of 28-oz. natural, organic peanut butter $5.70 giant box of Grape Nuts (64 oz.) (for emergency or traveling breakfasts) THINGS I BUY OTHER PLACES: $13 [...]
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