Live food - Raw food - Heated food - Dead food - Deadly food

What do you eat?
If you find that you are eating mostly from the Deadly food list maybe it is time to think twice about your eating habits.


Live food - this is food which is alive
Examples:
Shoots and Sprouted seeds and nuts
Wild or Organic leaves/fruits/mushrooms/vegetables/flowers/berries/grasses. consumed straight after picking
Insects (eaten by mistake or with purpose as a part of the above)
Eggs (as above, picked from the nest)
Oysters
Living bacterial cultures - sauerkraut/nut or seed cheeses - this can be either raw or dead foods that you make alive with foreign bacteria through, for example fermentation


Raw food - food which has not been heated.
Examples:
Fruits
Vegetables
Dried Fruits
Sashimi

This one is easy, anything that has not been heated. Full of enzymes and fibres (if plant products), vitamins, minerals, good fats etc.


Heated food and/or Dead food - food that has been heated.
The nutritional value has decreased and the water has for the most part been cooked out of it. The molecule structure of the food changes and enzymes are killed. Some foods can have certain compounds released better through cooking, for example due to the fibres breaking down.
Depending on how you prepare the food it will be more or less dead. When I say dead food, it needs to be taken with a pinch of salt, as in some cases you will receive more energy (calories), however you will not come close to the nutritional content in raw or live foods.

Superior ways of heating foods are: steaming, stir-frying in a wok using lime or water (not oil), using the oven on low-heat, and boiling (soups).

Deadly food - food that actively does harm to your health and your organism.
OK, here are the killers, I have more or less put them in the order that I rank them when it comes to damaged caused, particularly the first seven:
Soda - any kind of soda, you know them, Coke and all the rest.
Sugar - refined sugar in particular - sugar is (a) seriously addictive and harmful (drug). Avoid at all cost.
Flour - particularly white flour.
Artificial/Chemicals - Aspartame and all the other scary conservatives and e-numbers, they cause you serious harm.
Fast food - or more appropriately named, Junk food (you are what you eat, junk=trash people)
Ready Meals - same as fast food, it is trash!
Cooked or hydrogenated fats - Deep fried foods, or heated fats in general - seriously a bad idea.
Refined salt - Pure Sodium, if you want salt, change it for a natural salt, with the minerals all intact, a real salt has colour (red, grey, pink, purple, black) any colour but white.
Smoked foods - the smoking process creates carcinogens.   
Dairy- pasteurized dairy, no matter what the add campaigns say, it's bad news. It has puss, blood, hormones, vaccines, the protein casein (which promotes cancer growth), and it causes serious mucus build up in your lungs and sinus. Furthermore, it promotes asthma and allergy, and if you are not white European you will have even bigger problems with dairy. 
Soya - Most likely GM - Full of female hormones and other nasty substances, if you want to eat this your best bet is to eat small amounts and make it yourself (then it is a live food)
Meat - another dark horse to your health, if you really want to eat meat, eat only organic meat and fish from clean water, and do so in small amounts, and infrequently. Wild game is the best meat you can eat - pig (pork), cow (beef) and commercial chicken are some of the worst. And naturally sausages and hot dogs, they are nasty things and don't really deserve to be called meat. 
Alcohol -not a food but it has to be on here, as it does your body serious harm, if you want to drink, do so modestly and infrequently.

Simple tips that will get you away from the Deadly list are:

• Change your products from refined products to unrefined whole products - wholegrain etc
• Substitute your rice/pasta/potatoes etc. for Quinoa
• Change your soda drinks for fresh juice or water 
• Start using a real salt
• Use the cooking tips as given under heated foods
• Stop using your microwave oven
• Stop buying fast food, McDonald's and Co does not serve happy meals, they serve depression.
• Always eat organic. Particularly meat products.
• Start reading the ingredients on the products that you buy, if they have conservatives, sugar, salt, hydrogenated fats and soya lecithin (to just mention a few) just don't buy it.... if you really want cookies, well do like your grandmother, make your own (but use unrefined sugar and wholegrain flour)

Simple tips to improve your health through the diet:

• Eat a fruit before every meal
• Don't drink with your meal
• Drink plenty of water in-between meals
• Drink a fresh juice every day
• Start your day with a Green smoothie
• Chew your food properly and eat in a calm state
• Give thanks for your food
• Leave two hours after eating before going to bed
• Feel no guilt in combination to your food choices, eat and love it.

That's it for now people, Love yourself and treat your body with respect, it deserves it.

PS. at the moment the only animal products I eat are honey, bee pollen and insects (unknowingly).

why not? Innit!

Posted this on a Swedish Raw food community website I very recently joined, and thought I would share it with you, don't know why I was writing in English in a Swedish community and on a Swedish site, but since I did, and it's worth reading. I thought, lets repost it here.

Posted a talk by Jane Goodall on my blog you might be interested to see it. About 30 minutes long.


She doesn't talk to much about diet but it might interest you that:


bonobos (dwarf chimps), the closest DNA link to humans, prefers, over all other foods, figs. Fresh figs... oh and figs being very sweet and delicious would probably have maggots and insects in them.

the once who eat meat (rarely), not all of them do you see, are the once who are more aggressive.

my conclusion

meat=aggression

Do you eat meat?

"Animals know when they are going to die. Their body's response to fear is a massive release of adrenaline which, after they are killed, is not removed from the tissue... just think, with every bite you are literally ingesting fear and violence."

My friend posted this on facebook, and she got some defensive meat comments back, funny and nice once, I'll give you the samples:
-buttt dammm gurrrl it tastes goood

- Knowing this makes eating meat all the more awesome.

- and with every bit of that fear and violence i am fed and well!

And to this I felt I wanted to add a few words and this is what I wrote:

it is your fear which is responding guys, you are scared of living life without meat, you know what she is saying is true... but you say it taste so good... but then when you start thinking and doing some serious research in to the matter, you can make a few different realizations and they are:
1. you don't live to eat, you eat to live, so eating what would make you live the longest or best would probably be ideal, fear and meat does not meet those standards.
2. hey other foods taste great too, I don't actually need to eat meat.
3. it is slowly killing me, cancer, heart disease, MS etc. when you think about it doesn't really sound like the rock n roll or ideal way to finish life.
4. you are a conformist that is buying in to the corporate bullshit and eating what they are feeding you... which is poison (and I don't refer to meat, I refer to what you find in the meat,and what the meat was fed.
5. Corporations feed you meat, filled with fear, and fear controls you, which makes you a sheep, which makes you cattle.
6. Animals (living species, with emotions), are being treated as a cash crop.
7. 50% of all fish pulled up from the oceans are fed to animals.
8. 80% of all crops grown goes to feeding animals.
9. Large parts of the world still have a vegetarian or mainly vegetarian diet.
10. Humans are not really meant to eat meat (teeth, intestines, our inability to actually catch with our bare hands/teeth and eat other animals (meat) raw)

There are very many more realizations that one can make, but I gave you a small sample... naturally change is not easy, fear is strong, and meat is what you have always known as being food and good food at that, it takes both curiosity, courage and strength to see what life would be like without meat...

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and then I didn't even talk about the methane gas emitted by cattle. the deforestation which is happening to create gracing land etc.

Well guys as always I invite you to do your own research.

Much Love.

EU, cows, hormones and you!

1988 the EU banned US beef on the grounds that US beef producers made use of growth-promoting hormones that are unapproved in the EU.

The World Trade Organization, the global trade watchdog, ruled 11 years ago that the ban was inconsistent with WTO rules.

WTO stands for: Free Trade – not fair trade, not trade to protect the consumer. Free trade indicates that you are allowed to sell your product anywhere in the world, and if a country decides not to import something, due to it being harmful, or any other reason, they will get penalized (read fined) by the WTO. - or to explain US get to penalize european products etc.

So the EU has been paying money not to import dangerous meat... but now they seem to have grown tired of this, and just decided to accept the hormone fuelled meat. I would say the real reason is that EU no longer looks after the citizens of Europe’s interest. Beef from the states is now accepted.

So on that note, if you do eat meat, look on the label, to stay protected!

Actually, if you do eat meat, you should really only go for organic meat, as you can then be almost certain that this animal has not been fed; GM soy and crops, or worse, dead animals. Ohh yeah, dead animals are great to add to animal feed as the cows fatten up so nicely....

it makes them sick, sure, but there is always antibiotics and other drugs you can pump your animal full with to prevent it from becoming too sick... mind you, all drugs and foods stays in the meat of the animal, so when you eat it, you get it in to your own body....

so to put it in a saying I am sure no one really puts much attention to but we have all heard:

You are what you eat!

So if you eat hormone fuelled meat, you will get some serious hormone imbalances, which in the long and short term will put your health at risk, be it your thyroid, your weight gain, or lack of weight loss, poor sleep, allergy symptoms, low sex drive, depression, aggression, headaches, adult acne, hair loss, well, you name it.... all due to your imbalanced hormones

Your hormones are the regulators of every function in your body... yes that’s right, EVERY function of your body!

A hormone imbalance stems from a poor diet and an unhealthy life style... or medical drugs, cigarettes, lack of exercise etc. but I guess that all really fall under the unhealthy life style column.

Don’t trust the powers to be, because you did not put them there!