Eating food is a necessity, a social pastime and a pleasurable activity for most people. This was not always the case. The Rig-Veda, the most ancient religious texts recorded on Earth, human beings in prehistory did not eat food at all. People began eating food as a source of energy much later on the time track. In that long distant past, it is written that people who ate food were looked down upon with pity! Any being who is in good spiritual condition should be able to create plenty of energy to run a body without any external energy source.
In the The First Book of Moses, named Genesis(1:29-30), the Israelite god YHWH handed down the following instruction to his people: "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food".
According to these same texts, the average age of men and women before the Flood was more than 900 years! YHWH apparently changed his mind AFTER the Flood and told Noah that Man could eat the flesh of animals: (Genesis 9:3-4) "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything". After that the average age of Man dropped from 900 to only 120 years and less!
Scientific studies sighted by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond in their best-selling book, "Fit For Life", reveal some very interesting information about the effects of diet on health and longevity.
They report that the LA Times and Weekly World News printed articles about a man living in China named Wu Yunging. Mr. Yungying was 142 years old in 1980. The article includes a photo of him riding his bicycle! When he was interviewed about his diet, he answered, "I eat corn, rice, sweet potatoes, and other fruits and vegetables."
Dr. Alexander Leaf published the findings of his research about the oldest people in the world in the January, 1973 edition of National Geographic Magazine.
He found that the three most consistently disease-free and long-lived people on Earth are the Abkhazians of Russia, the Vilacabambans of Ecuador and the Hunzukuts of Pakistan. None of these peoples suffer from Western diseases: NO obesity, NO cancer, NO heart disease! On the average these people live to be over 100 years old. The men are physically active and still fathering children at 100 years of age.
The diet of all of these people consists of 70-80 percent high-water-content foods such as raw, uncooked fruits and vegetables. These people eat very little or no animal products. Their lifestyle includes lots of exercise in a chemical-free, natural environment with clean air and fresh, uncontaminated water.
What about eating meat would reduce the life expectancy of Man so drastically? Many people around the world do not eat meat as they believe that eating animals for food is like killing one's brother or sister. The simple logic is that the spirit inhabits every life form and therefore should be treated as you yourself would like to be treated -- as a member of the family of living beings.
Numerous nutritional studies have demonstrated conclusively that THE BODY WILL CURE ITSELF OF DISEASE PROVIDED THAT THE CELLS OF THE BODY ARE PROVIDED WITH THE FOLLOWING SIX CONDITIONS:
POSITIVE SPIRITUAL/EMOTIONAL ENVIRONMENT
LIVING FUEL
TOXIN-FREE WATER
OXYGEN
CIRCULATION TO CARRY NUTRIENTS IN THE BLOOD TO ALL PARTS OF THE BODY.
EFFECTIVE WASTE ELIMINATION
"Living Food" is defined as any food in which the "life force" or
enzymes have not been destroyed (by heat, chemicals, radiation, decay,
freezing, refinement, etc.).
Enzymes are the "life force" in "Living Food". Every cell of any living organism begins to die when heated to a temperature of 107 degrees Fahrenheit. Observably, the vast majority of foods consumed by Western Man have been COOKED TO DEATH! Since cells die at 107 degrees, anything which has been boiled, broiled, baked, steamed or fried is dead. This includes baked goods, pasteurized milk products, anything in a can or bottle -- just about everything in the typical grocery store!
No animal in Nature consumes "dead" foods, that is, foods which have been cooked or processed. None of the highly evolved species of animals lives on inorganic (dead, lifeless) material, such as dirt or rocks. All foods are eaten with all of the life force or enzymes intact. In other words, raw food.
During the 1920s, an experiment was undertaken by zoo keepers in an attempt to save money on food bills. Carnivorous zoo animals were fed cooked meat. All of the animals who were fed cooked meat died within 30 days. In the wild, carnivorous animals prefer to eat freshly killed meat whenever possible. Further experiments have proven that a baby cow, fed only pastuerized milk instead of raw milk from it's mother, will die within 30 to 60 days. (John Robbins Video)
During the 1930s, Dr. Pottenger, a dentist in Washington DC, did experiments with 600 cats, feeding one half of them processed food and the other half, raw foods. The 300 cats who ate processed food developed degenerative diseases such as cancer, heart disease and arthritis. The other half remained healthy to the end of their lives. The second generation of cats eating processed food developed the same diseases in mid-life. The third generation developed the diseases early in life and the fourth generation were not able to reproduce at all. The cats eating processed food literally became extinct as a species within 4 generations!
Today, 25% of young people in America are infertile... you do the math. (Dr. Joel Robbins lecture on "Children & The Hallelujah Diet")
The Live Food Diet is not a "diet" in the traditional sense. It is really a lifestyle change which is a program of nutrition, exercise and detoxification through colon cleansing. The "diet" was developed by Dr. George Malkmus as a means to rid himself of colon cancer. The program not only rid Dr. Malkmus of a cancer tumor the size of a baseball in his colon, but handled many other unwanted symptoms too. Since 1976 nearly a million people have started to follow the Live Food Diet created by Dr. Malkmus. Tens of thousands of people have provided testimonials stating that they have been relieved of nearly every conceivable unwanted body condition, not the least of which are cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, and arthritis.
The program is simple. Consume only raw, organic, uncooked fruits and vegetables AND freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juices, especially carrot juice. Get daily exercise, fresh air and sunshine, and drink only distilled water. Try it for 21 days and see for yourself the difference that living fuel makes in your engine!
BUT, IT TASTES SO GOOD...
There are some of us who can have some difficulty stopping our old habits of eating dead "junk" food. These old habits are based on learned behavior and agreements we've been taught since we were little kids. For example, we were taught by our parents and teachers to "eat your meat and drink your milk so you'll grow up to be big and strong". We were taught that "Wonderbread" builds strong bodies 12 ways!"
Factually, The Meat Industry, The Dairy Industry, The Poultry Industry, and the Baked Goods Industry have bought and paid for most of the "nutritional" training in our public school systems for the past 70 years or more. We were taught about the "4 Basic Food Groups" -- of course, THREE of those groups were products represented by those commercial vested interests.
Most of our "nutritional" education has come from very expensive television and magazine advertisements that teach you to want to eat the charred flesh of a dead cow smoldering on a white flour bun which has had every speck of life and nutritional value ground and bleached out of it which will cause your cells to mutate into cancerous tumors which will eat your body alive until you die in excruciating pain! Now we're supposed to follow this up with potatoes that have been frozen to death and then boiled alive in scalding, rancid oil which will make your veins clog up with sludge and cause you to die of an agonizingly painful heart attack! The final touch is a glass of carbonated tap water filled with toxic chlorine and fluorine gas which has been mixed with 11 teaspoons or more of dead, nutrition-free, refined white sugar and artificial flavoring. Now, they tell us with a happy, smiling clown face that we're supposed to believe that this is a "balanced diet" and that it TASTES GOOD!! (John Robbins, "Diet For A New America" Video)
If you're looking for somebody to blame for all this "nutritional" nonsense, try looking in the bathroom mirror first. In the immortal words of W.C. Fields, "there's a sucker born every minute".
It's time we stop believing the sales pitch of the muti-billion dollar a year commercial vested interests and start taking control of our own minds! That means taking control of our own eating choices, our own bodies and our own lives! The more healthy your body becomes, the more you will find joy in the delightful flavor and fragrance of "living foods".
The Standard American Diet (abbreviated as "SAD") is nearly the EXACT OPPOSITE of the diet found among the people of the planet which live the longest, healthiest lives. The SAD diet is composed primarily of DEAD food, i.e. processed, refined, cooked. It has literally been cooked to DEATH. There is no LIFE left in it.
When medical doctors diagnose the health of the "Average American", their prognosis for the treatment of the disease and your ability to recover from the disease is based on the following statistics:
In the LIFETIME of the average American, each person will chew up and swallow the following quantities of DEAD foods and toxic chemicals:
22500 SOFTDRINKS
12750 lbs. WHITE REFINED SUGAR
30000 CANDY BARS
37500 DOUGHNUTS
12 WHOLE 3,000 LB COWS
6 WHOLE PIGS
3,000 CHICKENS
3,000 FISH
30,000 quarts MILK
30,000 ASPIRIN & PAIN KILLERS
20,000 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
2,000 GALLONS ALCOHOL
(Dr. Richard Schulze, Natural Healing Crusade Course, 1997)
According the John Robbins, in his video, "Diet For A New America", the average American meat eater pours 100 pounds of ANIMAL FAT into their veins and arteries EVERY YEAR! The average American gets very little exercise, is 25 lbs. overweight, has high cholesterol (average level is 200) and will have high blood pressure. Consequently, the leading cause of death in the US is heart disease and stroke. Nearly ONE HALF of all deaths in the US are caused by heart disease! In addition, another 20 percent, which amounts to 500,000 Americans, die of Cancer every year! This number is increasing.
According to Dr. Matthias Rath, Director of the Cardiovascular Research Unit at Linus Pauling Institute, HEART DISEASE, STROKES, CANCERS, DIABETES, LIVER DISEASE and ARTERIAL SCLEROSIS CAUSE 70 PERCENT OF ALL DEATHS IN THE United States EVERY YEAR!