Rawlicious Recipes

I wanted more. I knew I was on something big. I was gaining energy, feeling better, thinking more clearly and feeling young again. This is what I had been looking for. My introduction to super-foods was when I began studying David Wolfe and his teachings about raw food. He opened my eyes to the amazing properties of food and what eating it in its natural state can do for the body.

The first thing I learned was cooked food is addictive. Think of all the crazy things we do to get it. The cooking procedure changes the properties of the food and makes it damaging to your body. We are able to adapt to the cooked food – that is one of the wonderful things about our bodies. Even eating things that aren’t good for us – we manage to live on it. We get used to it. This is part of nature and the way of survival. That doesn’t mean it is the best way to eat. Man can smoke, drink and consume other poisons and still survive.

One of the other things I learned is that we are designed to be Fruigivores. This means that we are designed to primarily eat foods that come from flowering plants. Fruits, nuts, melons, cu­cumbers, etc. are the main stay. We also should consume a good amount of greens. Our digestive system is very similar to the great apes. They are the strongest mammal pound for pound and eat a 100% raw vegan diet. They con­sume a very large amount of greens and fruits. On this raw diet they grow big and live long lives. They get all the protein, vitamins and minerals from their food.

Here are some of the things I have learned on this amazing journey. Man was born to eat food in its natural living state – pe­riod. Not cooked, not processed with artificial ingredients – raw like every other living spe­cies on this planet does.

We are the only species that cooks its food. Look at nature; do you see birds, chimps, bears, deer or any other creature in na­ture cooking its food?

Early man that lived be­tween 5 and 2 1/2 million years ago were very similar to modern man and were fruit and nut eaters. Early man was not designed to eat meat so why would they? They wouldn’t hunt for prey but search out fruits and nuts.

Man could not eat large amounts of meat until he controlled fire. Evidence of fire was found as early as 800,000 years ago and most paleontologists feel it was as recent as 60,000 years ago.

That is a very short time in the total span of human history that humans controlled fire. Not long enough for us to completely adapt to food being cooked. Look at all the health problems that hu­mans (and pets that we are feeding cooked food to) are having with their health. Obesity, heart condi­tions, cancer… the list is long. These diseases have increased greatly since man has been eating more artificial and processed foods. There are many things that people call food but really aren’t. Do candies grow on trees? Can you find a cake, cookie, soda, instant TV dinner or any of the other proc­essed foods in nature? I don’t think so! Nature cre­ated the best foods for us. Nature designed our bod­ies and the food to fuel it.

Milk is another subject entirely. Look at na­ture again. Man is the only species that drinks milk or uses milk products after it has been weaned. We are also the only species that drinks another species milk. We were intended to drink human mother’s milk only while we were infants. Not as an adult. Many health conditions can be traced back to milk. It is media advertising and a strong milk lobby that per­petuates the myth that milk is good for you. I rec­ommend getting it out of your life. I have. You can get calcium from vegetables like broccoli, kale, chard and many leafy greens. They have more cal­cium than milk and are much better for you.

Vitamin D only can be produced in your skin when you are exposed to natural sunlight, not from fortified milk as we are led to believe. When you ask anybody “what are the healthiest foods in the world?” they will answer –“fresh fruits and vegetables”.  Then ask them how much do they eat and most will say not many or none. The majority of Americans are eating the standard American diet (S.A.D.).  The sad diet includes way too many processed and junk foods.  Fast foods, processed foods, candies, imitation foods as well as fatty meats are the standard table fare for most Americans.  No wonder there are so many health related issues.  Even with the govt. recommending 5 – 8 servings of fruit and vegetables daily, many people get their vegetables from the lettuce, onions and pickles on the top of a slab of meat.  Not the best way to get your vegetables and certainly not enough. So why not eat more fruits and vegetables?  

If you look at nature and see who are the closest to us in body type (gorillas, chimps, bondos) and study what they eat you will get a better idea of what we were intended to consume.  These large animals consume a raw vegan diet.  Mainly fruits, leaves, stems, shoots and other raw plant matter. Their digestive systems are similar to ours.  They have the same teeth structure.  They have hands very similar to ours.  Hands that are designed to pick fruit and grab other plant matter.  Man and these large apes are all Fruigivores.  Fruigivores eat mainly fruit and vegetables.