The Energy of Food

Expounding on the basis that everything is energy, in 2007,  I decided to explore this with food.  I bought David Wolfe's book, "The Sunfood Diet Success System," and did a raw food cleanse for one month. The premise behind this vegan raw food diet (nothing cooked above 104 degrees) is that when you cook food you are essentially destroying the vitamins and minerals in it.  In addition, when raw food was studied under kirlian photography, it seemed to have a greater energetic resonance.   Therefore, raw food should vibrate at a higher rate than cooked food.  Since humans are bio-electric beings this diet made sense to me.  The results were palpable and here are some of the things that I experienced as a result of doing this cleanse and continuing to primarily eat this way.

• My chronic eczema was cured
• I had a lot more energy
• My blood sugar remained stable
• I never got sick
• I could get into the meditative state almost effortlessly
• I always seemed happy  
• I felt a lot lighter (it takes a great deal of energy for the body to digest food, especially meat and processed foods)

As a result of this I absolutely believe that the statement, "we are what we eat," is 100% true.  Furthermore, I believe so many health problems are caused by inflammation and can be cured with diet.  Fibromyalgia, eczema, allergies, asthma, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, crohn's disease, ADD, and thyroid issues, just to name a few, all have a root issue with inflammation.  Here is a great informative article by Dr. Mercola on inflammation and disease that elaborates on this:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/03/07/inflammation-triggers-disease-symptoms.aspx

Diet is also a huge component in how we feel.  Whole foods are the amino acid dietary precursors for neurotransmitter formation.  When we eat the standard American diet of processed foods we are not receiving these essential amino acids.  In addition, we are not receiving vitamins and minerals so our bodies are continuously hungry. When you eat a diet full of vitamins and minerals your body will be satiated and this will not lead to overeating that is so prevalent in our society.  Below I have listed some resources if you would like to incorporate more raw foods into your diet.

Some of my favorite books for raw food recipes:
The Sunfood Diet Success System -David Wolfe
The Complete Book of Raw Food-Julie Rodwell
Raw The Uncook Book-Juliano

If you are not vegan, Carol Alt has these 4 books out.  She is a raw foodist that eats meat and dairy.
A Healthy You-Carol Alt
Eating in the Raw-Carol Alt
The Raw 50-Carol Alt
Easy Sexy Raw-Carol Alt


My favorite youtube resources are:
dara-I love this channel.  She has some great tonic elixirs that balance out the cold nature of raw food.
Longevity Now
FullyRawKristina

"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food" -Hippocrates

Happy Eating!!!
Jennifer

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