Protein Powder vs. Protein Rich Food.

Whey protein is now the most popular protein supplement, and is touted for having the highest biological value. This basically means that it is more easily broken down by our bodies than animal or vegetable proteins, and therefore quickly provides your muscle cells with the nutrients it needs after a workout. The reason for this is that whey protein is higher in essential amino acid and BCAA (branch-chain amino acids)s. It can also be a better source of protein for those of you wanting to lose body fat, because it is generally lower in fat and carbs then most whole food counterparts. Furthermore, whey uniquely contains certain aminos, which create a very powerful intracellular anti-oxidant called glutathione.

It is far easier to drink a protein shake than to buy, prepare, cook and eat poultry, fish or egg whites, particularly if you are at work or on the go. We all know that eating small, frequent meals is the best way to eat, whether you are aiming for muscle gain or fat loss, but for many people, eating this frequently is virtually impossible.

Eating and Drinking Don’t Mix.

While eating your meal, for the most part, do not drink with it.

This dilutes the stomach acids and digestive enzymes. It is best to drink 20 minutes before your meal – this helps uptake of nutrients and move bowels.

If you feel your mouth is just so darn dry while eating, that is likely due to being:

• Stressed while you eat,
• Eating in a rush,
• Not being aware that you are eating
• Secretory glands not functioning well due to drinking during meals [conditioned not to secrete]

If any of those explain you while eating, try to adjust. Your secretory glands will regain proper function once you train yourself not to drink during meals.

If you absolutely cannot avoid drinking during meals then:

• Avoid cold drinks
• Drink warm to hot teas
• Avoid milk during meals

Drinking cold mucousy milk during a meal is like spraying foam on a fire. It totally kills it. The Chinese call your digestive system the triple burner. It burns from below and that fire works its way up properly digesting your foods. Cold milk and beverages douse that fire.

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“If you hang your swimsuit, on the refrigerator door,
The goodies inside, will be easier to ignore.”

(The Quote Garden)

Chewing.

Digestion starts in the mouth when food is mixed with ptyalin, an enzyme secreted by the salivary glands. Pylatin converts insoluble starches into simple sugars. If the digestion of starchy foods is impaired, the body is less able to extract the energy contained in our foods, while far worse from the point of view of the genesis of diseases, undigested starches pass through the stomach and into the gut where they ferment and thereby create an additional toxic burden for the liver to process. And fermenting starches also create gas.

As we chew our food it gets mixed with saliva; as we continue to chew the starches in the food are converted into sugar. [There is a very simple experiment you can conduct to prove to yourself how this works. Get a plain piece of bread, no jam, no butter, plain, and without swallowing it or allowing much of it to pass down the throat, begin to chew it until it seems to literally dissolve. Pylatin works fast in our mouths so you may be surprised at how sweet the taste gets.]

Horace Fletcher, whose name has become synonymous with the importance of chewing food well (Fletcherizing), ran an experiment on a military population in Canada. He required half his experimental group to chew thoroughly, and the other half to gulp things down as usual,. His study reports significant improvement in the overall health and performance of the group that persistently chewed. Fletcher’s report recommended that every mouthful be chewed 50 times for half a minute before being swallowed. Try it, you might be very surprised at what a beneficial effect such a simple change in your approach to eating can make. Not only will you have less intestinal gas, if overweight you will probably find yourself getting smaller because your blood sugar will elevate quicker as you are eating and thus your sense of hunger will go away sooner. If you are very thin and have difficulty gaining weight you may find that the pounds go on easier because chewing well makes your body more capable of actually assimilating the calories you are consuming.

A logical conclusion from this data is that anything that would prevent or reduce chewing would be unhealthful. For example, food eaten when too hot tends to be gulped down. The same tends to happen when food is seasoned with fresh Jalapeño or habaneo peppers. People with poor teeth should blend or mash starchy foods and then gum them thoroughly to mix them with saliva. Keep in mind that even so-called protein foods such as beans often contain large quantities of starches and the starch portion of protein foods is also digested in the mouth.

B12 Deficiency.

Symptoms of B12 deficiency

If you don’t get enough b12, you might become anemic. You don’t carry enough oxygen to your blood. You look pale and your immune system might become weak.

But there are be many other signs of B12 deficiency:

• Tender or sore muscles;
• Lack of energy, anxiety;
• Irritability;
• Poor hair condition;
• Eczema;
• Depression;
• Numbness and tingling in the hands and feet;
• Impaired memory;
• Infertility;
• Impotence.

In babies or toddlers, the child may start to look pale, fail to thrive or have weak muscles.

There can also be many “slow” symptoms. Symptoms that you don’t notice immediately, but show only over time.

Actually, it might be a reason why some people don’t feel well on raw, vegetarian or vegan diets.

Causes of B12 Deficiency

The main causes of b12 deficiency is age. As you get older, it becomes harder for your body to absorb B12.

This may be due to low stomach acid that comes with age or intestinal problems such as ulcers or having part of the intestine removed or taking medications such as antacids and laxatives on a regular basis.

Other causes of B12 deficiency: when you don’t eat meat, fish or dairy. Because these are vitamin b12 foods and you don’t find this vitamin in fruits or plants. That’s why 80% of all vegans – who don’t supplement – are deficient in this vitamin.

What does vitamin B12 do?

Why is vitamin B12 so important? What does this vitamin do? It supports our nerves, energy production and red blood cells. It helps to decrease our homocysteine and thereby the risk of heart disease and weakening of the arteries and nerves.

Best B12 supplements

If you’re on a raw vegan diet causes of b12 deficiency can be prevented by taking supplements. You don’t need much vitamin B12. David Wolfe eats ants occasionally. This provides him with sufficient B12!

If you don’t wish to eat ants like he does, methylcobalamin – 1000 mcg (sublingual) is a great source (i.e. from Natural Factors). Nano B-12 is another good source. This is the best B12 supplement because they are absorbed easily.

Rejuvenac (fermented wheat drink) is also a good source of vitamin B12. However, though this is a natural and vegan drink, you should know that the Hippocrates Health Institute (Raw food institute in Florida) advises not to drink this because of the high amount of fermentation.

If you prefer to get it from (raw) food: the best food sources are:

• Oysters (15 mcg)
• Sardines (28 mcg)
• Tuna (5 mcg)
• Salmon (6 mcg)
• Lamb (trace)
• Eggs (1.5 mcg)
• Milk (0.3 mcg)
• Turkey and chicken (2 mcg)
• Cheese (1.5 mcg)
• Ants.

Some people believe see vegetables are a good source of B12, but there is not sufficient research that shows sea greens contain b12. Especially if you are breasfeeding or are pregnant, I wouldn’t take the change. Take supplements.

Raw Uncooked Food in Winter.

It’s one thing to be a raw foodist on Hawaii, but eating raw food in a cold climate in winter time is a completely different story.

Gabriel Cousens did research in Alaska and found that 95% of the raw foodist were successful. He asked them what they did and I’m sure these tips might help you to stay warm in the winter. I’ll write their suggestions down below.

Why do you feel cold?

When starting a raw food diet, many people release toxins. This might give you a uncomfortable cold feeling. But it’s temporary. Further when you’re raw, you’re body temperature drops. It takes some time to get used to the new body temperature. This too, should be temporary and you will feel warmer over time.

When you’re eating raw food, your arteries clear up and your circulation improves. Actually, most people that have been eating raw uncooked food for a while say that they’re never cold! They even swim in ice cold water in the winter. So feeling cold when eating raw seems to be a transitional issue.

But there are things you can do to stay warm in winter. First of all, it’s a misconception that you can only eat COLD foods when you’re on a raw food diet. YOU CAN EAT WARM FOODS, just don’t heat them above 120F (water 160F). Most people cook their food and then let it cool off until about 110F before they eat it anyway. So you may heat your raw uncooked foods. Just not above 110F, the right temperature for eating them anyway… Think of soups or warm apple cider…

Top 8 tips from Alaskan raw foodists

• More exercise.
• Cayenne pepper in socks and cloves.
• Add more heating spices to food (cayenne, ginger, peppercorn, garlic).
• Raw doesn’t mean your food has to be cold. You can warm food up to 120 for 2 minutes. (just stir and when it becomes to warm to touch.)
• Warm up plates.
• Put a cold salad from the fridge in dehydrator/oven for few minutes to make it room temperature.
• Put warm sauces/salad dressings over your salad.
• Drink warm apple cider.

Water III

What’s The Best Drinking Water

The quality of the fluids we drink is imperative to good health, and the health benefit of water is directly related to it’s quality.

When you’re on a healthy diet, you know the health benefit of water. Clean, pure, alkaline water, with the right pH and structure.

So clean, alkaline waters is best. This still leaves many options. Distilled water? Spring Water? Rain Water? A water filter? And then, not all experts agree.

Here are some of the world’s leading experts on raw food and clean water and their opinions of what they found is the best water for consumption: David Wolfe, Gabriel Cousens, and Briant Clement.

• David Wolfe, world’s no 1 raw food teacher, uses spring water.

• Brian Clement, leader of the Hypocrates Health Institute, is in favor of the living water system and distilled water.

• Gabriel Cousens uses distilled water, and reveals his secret tricks to make this the best drinking water.

Gabriel’s Water Recipe

Given the pollution in the world, use distilled water. But distilled water by itself is aggressive and immature. To solve this you take a gallon of distilled water, add a pinch of salt or 12 drops of active ionic alkaline minerals, so that you get about 50 parts per million. This way you create H3O, the best water there is. With 50 parts per million, you don’t have the aggressive pulling out of minerals out of the body.

Then you structure your liquid by putting it out in the moonlight overnight. The moon structures water, not the sun. Then you bless it and you have good quality. Crystal energy from micro crystals is another alternative to structure it.

So first you heat the fluid and take out all the herbicides and pesticides, and destroy all the homeopathic pattern of the herbicides and pesticides. Then you restructure it with salt, crystal energy, moonlight and by blessing it.

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“Tell me what you eat, I’ll tell you who you are. ”

(Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)

Water II

The health benefit of water is key to a healthier and longer life. Drinking water is important for:

• The elimination of toxins.
• Keeping your blood thin and flow well.
• Cellular and bodily functions such as digestion.
• Relieving constipation.
• Suppressing appetite, and
• Metabolizing stored fat, thus helps with weight loss.

Some quick facts:

• You can live 40 days without food, but only 3 without water.
• You can loose 50% of your glucose, body fat or protein and survive, but if you loose 20% water, you’ll die of dehydration.
• Babies are 90% water, adults about 70%, elderly about 60%.

Most cooked food doesn’t contain much water:

• Bread 30%,
• Butter 16%
• Cheese 40%
• Cereal 5%.

But raw vegetables have a lot:

• Cucumbers, celery and lettuce 95%.
• Broccoli, cabbage, carrots, peaches, strawberries 90%.

Signs of dehydration:

• Dark-colored, pungent urine.
• Allergies.
• Hard stool, constipation.
• Low energy and weakness.
• Dry mouth or lips.
• Dry skin.

Fasting I

During the years it takes for a body to degenerate enough to prompt a fast, the body has been storing up large quantities of unprocessed toxins in the cells, tissues, fat deposits, and organs. The body in its wisdom will always choose to temporarily deposit overwhelming amounts of toxins somewhere harmless rather than permit the blood supply to become polluted or to use secondary elimination routes.

A body will use times when the liver is less burdened (for example, when you fast!) to eliminate these stored toxic debris. The hygienists’ paradigm asserts that the manifestation of symptoms or illness are all by themselves, absolute, unassailable proof that further storage of toxic wastes in the cells, tissues, fat deposits, and organs is not possible and that an effort toward elimination is absolutely necessary. Thus the first time a person fasts a great quantity of toxins will normally be released. Being the resident of a body when this is happening can be quite uncomfortable.

Each time you fast, even if it is only one day, you allow your body to go through a partial detox, and each time it becomes easier and more comfortable than the last time. The body learns how to fast. Each time you fast it, your body slips into a cleansing mode more quickly, and each time you fast you lighten the load of stored toxins.