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Diet and Nutrition, Vegan Diet
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GO VEGAN!
How I wish we had a cheerleading group chanting this at an All-Stars game. Its a way of wining at the game of securing health. In my experience and past commercial propaganda, this lifestyle can yield greater strength and endurance than a standard diet built around animal protein foods.This is not to say that a vegan diet alone secures health. Are you whole, organic, fresh or processed and devitalized vegan food? If you have a candida or fungus flareup you may need to avoid fruit. One of the greatest proponents of a vegan diet, Dr. Gabriel Cousens was captain of a football team. You can find several websites with vegan athletes and body-builders.
WHAT IS S VEGAN LIFESTYLE?
A vegan lifestyle involves eating, of course, no animal products at all. It consists of just fruits and vegetables plus nuts, seeds, grains and legumes. It therefore avoids meat, dairy, eggs and even fish. A pure vegan will not even consume honey as it too is an animal product. The reasons for going vegan are, however, really multiple. Among the top five are the following:
BETTER HEALTH
Research studies have shown that vegans tend to have substantially less chronic ailments than the rest of the population. The landmark China Study (as well as prior animal research) showed that small additions or subtractions to a low threshold of animal proteins will turn major chronic ailments on and off . The threshold is usually 5% of the caloric intake. Protein digestion tends to give off a number a acids, and past this threshold it affects the body fluids. If one is young with great alkaline reserves the impact may be minimal. As one ages or has a compromised condition, this can change. Impacted are the primary health challenges of our times (cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes).
HELP THE ENVIRONMENT
The way animals are bred represents a direct threat to our planet as a whole. Factory animal farming tends to pollute our environment – our soil, groundwater and air. It is a major contributor to global warming.
SUPPORT NON-VIOLENCE
Life is grounded in our consciousness – the latter being what I call the universal relationship of connection in all of nature. When we are aware of something we connect to it. Consciousness thus involves compassion and love. Violence, on the other hand, breaks such connective ties. Violence toward any living organism can violates our innate consciousness. Ghandi-like non-violence can supports it. To be peaceful and nurturing towards all of life is thus to live in a most conscious way.
EXPRESS COMPASSION
To be compassionate is to feel the pain of another, to sense a connection of our lives with that of all other life forms on earth. Because our essence is connective consciousness, this brings out the best within us or again – to live in a most conscious way.
MAKE ECONOMIC SENSE
It is less costly to eat in a vegan way because this does not involve the more expensive animal protein meals and avoids the overall potentials for health, environmental, and spiritual costs.
Diet and Nutrition, GM Food, HEALING US
Committing yourself to a raw vegan diet is one way to ensure you are getting enough fiber in your diet. A vegan diet will ensure that you are getting the proper nutrition and not ingesting any genetically modified foods. Not only does fiber help stabilize a healthy weight, but it also increases your metabolism and flushes fats from the body. Including fiber in your daily diet can help maintain proper health and ensure that your digestive system is functioning properly. Fiber-rich foods should be eaten throughout the day to provide the body with the slow-release energy and maintain serotonin levels.
If you’re wondering what fruits and vegetables are good sources of raw fiber, here are a few: kiwis, berries, melons, peaches, apples, bananas, oranges, artichokes, beets, asparagus, corn, parsnips, spinach, squash and turnips.
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The China Study began in the 1980’s and set out to find out, among other things, why such vast disease disparities existed between the US and China – and if they might somehow be correlated to regional and national diet differences. To look at this in more detail, what really prompted T. Colin Campbell and his associates in England and China to pursue The China Study, consider was the following:
HEART DISEASE
Death rates for heart disease for males was 17x higher in the US than in China.
BREAST CANCER
Breast cancer death rates were 5x higher in the US than in China.
FOLLOW UP TO ANIMAL STUDIES
Campbell’s animal studies and that of others indicated that tumor growth was turned on and off by animal protein intake, chiefly casein – and at all stages of cancer etiology. He and other researchers wondered: could cancer and other degenerative diseases be as turned on and off by the level of human animal protein intake?
DIETARY DIFFERENCES
Chinese diet was 10% protein-based with on average about 6-24% fat and 90% from plant sources. American diet was 15% protein-based with much more fat, the majority from animal sources. The Chinese diet also had 3x more fiber and 2x more iron.
CONCLUSION
The most powerful link between lifestyle habits and chronic disease in the China Study was the type of diet. The degree of animal fat and protein was the strongest correlate to disease rates. A one percent reduction in flesh foods was systematically tied to a 2-3% reduction in chronic ailments.
AVOIDING CHRONIC DISEASES
Study the results of the single most comprehensive nutritional study ever conducted. See our other posts in the category The China Study. Don’t listen to the pervasive and misleading industry (dairy, meat, egg conglomerate) propaganda and explore a transition to a vegetarian and ultimately vegan diet.
FREE SUMMARY OF THE STUDY
For a free summary of entire The China Study visit www.raw-wisdom.com/chinastudy
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Steve Pavlina is a famous life coach. He makes some great points about The China Study book on his popular blog. Like a retweet, I want to share some of his thoughts, all the while giving credit. Lets get the gist.
IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY
The China Study, authored by T. Colin Campbell and his son, is according to Steve Pavina “one of the most important books on diet ever written.” I wholeheartedly agree. Because of this importance, everyone should read the groundbreaking text about this study. However the classic book entitled The China Study runs over 400 pages long. This prompted me to create a practical and abridged CHINA STUDY SYNOPSIS. I offer this important synopsis free to my followers at this underlined link.
ITS CORE THESIS
Steve also states that, thanks to The China Study, there is now overwhelming evidence that the best diet on the planet for either general health, weight control, or disease prevention is simply a whole foods plant-based diet.”
EVEN SMALL AMOUNTS MATTER
The Chinese eat only a fraction as much meat products as compared to Americans. Yet the study showed that reducing their animal food intake to from 10% to 5% (or less) had a most significant effect in reducing chronic diseases such as cardiovascular conditions, cancers, arthritis and diabetes.
SIMPLICITY
The China Studies‘ conclusions are extremely profound. They made me change my own diet. You don’t necessarily have to go to huge lengths to count calories. Nor do you have to worry very much about carbohydrates vs. protein percentages. What is more critical is that you take in little or no animal proteins or fats plus avoid highly processed and refined foods (junk foods).
EFFECT OF JUNK FOODS
Few realize that synthetic vitamins and processed oils are as refined as any flour product. What happens with most refined foods and animal proteins/fats is that their digestion releases acids into our bloodstream. I have explain why acids are harmful to life in my philosophy of raw-wisdom. The bloodstream also can handle only a small amount of acidity. After that, it starts to cause the leaching of alkaline minerals like calcium from our bones causing arthritis. As body fluids become more acid, a number of metabolic breakdowns proceed, including cancer. It is really as simple as that.
TRANSFORMATIVE
Lastly, Steve Pavlina shares very openly how his life was transformed via switching to a whole foods plant-based diet. Kudos. The powerful media-influencing meat and dairy industries do not what you to know any of this.
EVIDENCE
Physicians like Dean Ornish and Caldwell Esselstyne have spent a life-time of clinically corroborating The China Study’s revolutionary conclusions. I myself have seen profound changes in patients who are willing to alter their diet mindset. What is so convincing is before and after pictures of heart patients’ arteries, at first constricted and then opened after as little as a few months changing to a vegan diet with little or processed foods, including oil.
Thus The China Study, or at least the synopsis, is a must.
I have great respect for Ann Wigmore, one of the founders of the raw food movement. Among the things she advocated was that we should eat a living foods diet primarily for their life-enhancing enzymes. Get your daily dose of enzymes was the rallying cry. These enzymes aide digestion. They also speed up countless chemical reactions in our body. If you heat a food over 110 degrees, most of the enzymes tend to die.
Here I will argue that what is “life” in our food is not reducible to any chemical formula of elements, reactions, principles or enhancers. The reason why is explained below.
In my opinion and contrary to what we are all taught, math symbols are not infallible and objective tools for discovering the core essence of nature – which represents a 17th century ideology that has fervently taken root . Why?
This is simply because math symbols point (all symbols are but pointing tools) to universal relationships of separation in our consciousness. When we count two objects they must be separate to be able to count them. However, we cannot effectively connect a vision of nature with these penultimate symbols of separation because that represents a cosmic-in-scope contradiction. It is a contradiction at the core of our vision of nature.
Who is logical and who is illogical
It is absolutely not logical or logically possible. It is not a wise vision as a result – and universal acceptance and teaching of that vision doesn’t make it wise or true. It just shows how foolish we remain. It shows how absorbed we are in a cultural illusion that is thousands of years old. The math-bound vision is no doubt profoundly powerful for technological constructs, but on a deeper level is, in my opinion, a very failed and failing view of nature’s core. Now imagine that the essence of what indeed forms “life” in nature is the presence of what we experience every day as consciousness – and that consciousness rather forms this universal connective relationship in nature. It is what subliminally math-bound philosophers sought to discover, but with the wrong symbolism, Math symbols are a poor choice for this purpose because they abstract consciousness separations.
What I am trying to convey, to those whose minds are not closed to new and paradigm-busting ideas, is that our dominant vision of a nature’s essence is a false view (as to nature’s depths and not its surface appearance). It is also a hazardous cultural construct. The fruits of that construct, in my experience, ultimately harm nature’s essence in ourselves and around us. I know these are shocking statements and either I am completely whacked out (as some will believe), or as a former math prodigy I am trying to convey something much more advanced – whether the general public is as yet ready to hear it or not. In fact, our whole ideological focus in the modern world about nature ‘s essence is really clashing and threatening to unravel the whole web of life.
Again this is precisely what is happening in our modern world, and many of my blog posts go into details. The global and growing pollution of our soil, air, water, food supply, interior fluids – all within just a hundred years of the mass application of this vision – is the mounting reality-evidence. Something is obviously going very wrong and we must stop thinking that we are just victims when in fact we are the real creators of what we reap.
So imagine that math symbols should not be used to form a dominant guide to our consciousness of nature but rather subserviently – that is subservient to an integrally connective (right-brain-dominant) orientation to all of nature. It is again impossible to have an integrally connective or integrally conscious view using the most separative of all symbols as revered inner idols or symbolic God-like guides. For example, let us take the use of a phone number in daily life. It helps us to target (separate-out), focus towards, tag or find someone to then connect with them. This is different than using math symbols in the more dominantly “separative ways” – which physics and chemistry routinely and supremely masters. An extreme result – virtually predictable as the materialization of Descartes’ 17th century vision, is the designing and bringing into being of atomic or nuclear weapons.
What we visualize inside of us we then “materialize” or create in the outer world.
Underlying the formulas of Dr. Fehmi for creating atomic bombs were Cartesian coordinates – the radical mathematization or separation (and therefore explosion) of space.
Another consequence is the growing pollution and harm to all of life on earth due to the proliferation of what has been math-designed or brought-into-being synthetic chemicals. Of course we are taught that following the math-bound trail is just a matter of objectivity rather than ideology. It supposedly liberates us to discover nature’s “true objective” laws and we look then at the creation of math-designed, mechanical technologies as undeniable proof. But let us look instead at all of nature, mechanical and non-mechanical, including the overall impact on life!
To test the underlying entirely of the math-stuck view (rather than one chemical in isolation so as to later market a profitable product) let us take a very random and large mix of chemicals to test the whole of the philosophy/ideology of chemistry and throw them into a living environment (such as a garden or compost heap) and what happens?
All of life, yes all of life dies and for a predictable, knowable and even stupidly obvious reasons.
The underlying order, the mathematical, clashes with the very essence of what is life and consciousness in nature. That is why life considers anything mechanical as anathema. We innately hate doing mechanical chores or creations. We loath working in mechanical, assembly-line factories if indeed we have a choice about it.
Species going extinct
Math-designed things are usually made of separate parts (interchangeable machine parts). Organic life does not function in a mechanical or separate-parts way. Life operates on opposite principles and thus violates everyone one of Newton’s mechanical, so-called universal laws of nature. Cut a living organism apart and try to put the pieces of an organism back together (like a machine) and the living organism dies! Progressively apply such principles and species all over the planet begin to become extinct.
What organizes a machine (principles that are mechanical/mathematical/unconscious/separative) and what organizes a living things(principles that re non-mechanical, non-mathematical, non-separative) is very much not the same – and to reduce one to the other can be and is devastating to nature. In fact the two core principles are exact polar opposites. Exact polar opposites! To again force the world of nature to fit the mechanical model is pretty insanely stupid and yet commonplace. It is worse than stupid. It is essentially unconscious, especially of what are headed towards globally. It has disastrous consequences both within our being and without in our environment. A “within consequence” is growing consciousness ailments like cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s all going rampant.
A root vision of nature that so very foolishly is bond to a dangerous vision undercuts our collective evolution. If we only understand the machine-like order in nature, rather than life and consciousness, there has to be huge consequences. Ultimately a vision of nature whose essence is in direct opposition to the core principles of life will undermine, destroy, or annihilate life – and the compost heap is a microcosm of the potential macro-effect. This again is exactly what is, in my understanding, happening in our very, very challenged world. This is why we have a reacting environmental movement. This is why we have a reacting natural healing movement.
Again this is why we are experiencing alarming extinction rates that are unprecedented and in every corner of the planet.
There are profoundly and deep reasons why all of this is happening non-accidentally. Consciousness, at the root of life, forms a distinctly and potentially universal relationship of connection. This is again the exact opposite of what math principles point to via the culturally-learned doctrines of physics, chemistry, and biotechnology of our times.
Living organisms bring out of nature its life and consciousness. Machines bring out an opposite order of dead and unconsciousness. Machines rather model the mathematical perspective or represent its bias-ideology creations. The two can compliment each other, but not when the math-bound view is dominant. What is most separative has the potential to destroy what is most connective in nature, life. When we thus cut any whole food or living thing apart , aliveness and consciousness is lost. For that reason it is a HUGE and bungling intellectual goof to reduce life to just mechanical principles as physics and chemistry, and more recently biotechnology does. These are the very principles whose universal applications are again what is most threatening life on earth.
The resulting advent of atomic weapons are but a single example. There are many more
It is not accidental, for example, that Alzheimer’s patients (those who receive multiple drugs that are math-designed) routinely walk the halls of nursing homes like unconscious, consciousness-depleted zombies. We are told that some new chemical wonder cure is just around the corner! We really fool ourselves tremendously in believing this, derivative of the same core ideology of nature, underlying allopathic medicine. We need a completely different, more enlightened understanding of nature and guidance for the healing of ourselves. We need to know exactly how to raise the consciousness of those who have fallen – and ingesting math-designed pills will predictably lower, damage, or expunge consciousness.
Detoxification is more in order, taking out and not putting in synthetic chemicals. Tell that to the chief physician at a nursing home! More importantly we need to crow-bar ourselves out of the entrenched and underlying root ideology that creates all such a vast mismanagement of the healing processes of life. When also our inner visions are detoxed and healed, then physical healing will manifest more integrally – and surface manifestations of pollution will disappear in tandem.
The deeper pollution is always in our mind’s visions, understanding, spirits, souls, or consciousness. It is the non-physical pollution of awareness within that creates the surface manifestations.
As part of a revolutionary life-centered vision of nature we can thus turn to some new means to bring living forces out of latency in our bodies. We also want to bring life out of nature’s bosom all around us as well. One way to do this within, or for ourselves, is via learning to adopt a living and whole-organic food diet. It is a royal and wonderful and reliable means to heal.
With due respects to Ann Wigmore, this offers a non-reductionist and a life and consciousness-centered reason for adopting the raw or living food lifestyle.
Enzymes speed chemical reactions. Tying this chemical perspective to the chief rationale for adopting a living foods diet is a huge mistake that is part of the larger insanity of look at the cosmos mechanically. This is similar to explaining why the same raw food diet reverses diabetes due to enhancing genetic expressions. The gene model is actually at the heart of the mechanical worldview applied to biology or to all of life’s organic manifestations.
We turn to the raw food diet in order to elicit life and consciousness, and thus connective healing.
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