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Living Foods and A Raw Diet
By Suzi Franks
’Raw’ or ‘Living Food’ diets are really coming to the forefront of the health scene as individuals are beginning to really take their health seriously and more importantly take responsibility back for what the put into their bodies and the realization of You ARE What You EAT.
The Raw and Living Food movement is BIG and sustaining this type of diet requires imagination, a good organic vegetable source and a will to change your life, because a raw, living food diet will transform you inside and out. Living Foods are Not a New concept
It may surprise you, that the idea of eating raw is not a new concept and a an elite section of the population have been eating this type of diet as long ago as the 1920’s. It all began when Oliver Cabana established his ‘Sunshine - Diet Sanatorium’ in New York in 1920 after being increasingly concerned about poor eating habits and their effect on the health of individuals and the movement quickly grew from there. Oliver Cabana appointed a Dr William Hay who stamped his own raw food style on the diet at the sanatorium, known as the ‘Hay Diet’ and his food combining methods are still religiously followed today by some dedicated raw foodies.
It was a Dr Max Bircher-Benner in 1926, who coined the phrase ‘Sunshine Dishes’ encapsulating the healthy part raw diet dishes of the day and their association with the successful treatment of TB patents. The Role of Ann Wigmore - A Legacy
Dr Ann, as she is affectionally referred to, was a sickly child who was raised on ‘weeds, herbs and other wild plants’ as a child in Lithuania. On arriving in the United States in the 1920’s her diet could not have changed more drastically if she had been taken to the moon. Already having a disposition for a weak immune system the change in diet did not fit well with her, however,it was not until a near fatal car accident which left her with horrific injuries and the prospect of loosing her legs to gangrene did she revert back to her childhood diet of weeds, herbs and wild plants. The change in diet and the use of natural healing plants and herbs for her internal and external injuries certainly saved her life and her legs, so much so, that to prove she was ‘fully recovered’ she ran the Boston Marathon! But, Dr Ann left the World of living foods so much more than a healing success story, she left us the innovative legacy of growing wheat grass and other grasses in containers inside our homes, however small and she taught hundreds of others just how to transform their lives by eating living foods under her expert tutelage, and we Thank You for this powerful knowledge which is continuing to be passed from one generation to the next. What is Living Food?
In the simplest definition ‘living foods are foods that still have their natural living enzymes intact’ To begin to get more complex, these foods have been protected from heat, from ever wilting and most importantly from ever being stored in commercial enterprises meaning fridges or on shelves. In reality, it is food at its most basic, freshly harvested on the day of consumption, preferably within an hour of it leaving the ground. The power of this type of food lies within the plants and fruits themselves, its living enzymes that they contain which have the power to heal, fuel and strengthen our bodies, just as Mother Nature intended.
A former ER Nurse with over 15 years experience is now a healer of The Earth. I have now dedicated my life to tending my peice of paradise and returning the chemical torn landscape back to its former glory with lovingly applied organic principles and tender loving care. I am on a quest to help share my knowledge of organic vegetable growing, so you and others may feel the goodness of Mother Nature and eat her bountiful gifts.
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Nice job Suzi. I love raw carrots, cucumbers and tomatoes, along with lettuce. I hate 'em cooked.
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Have you tried some heirloom varieties?? I grow white, purple, red and yellow carrots and BOY they taste SO delicious it astounds me how we ever accepted the offerings shops call carrots!! Thank you for your kind words,they mean a lot. :) Off to mulch and feed my sweetcorn!!
Wonderful intel, Suzi! I used to sneak raw food out of the garden and also out of the wild when I was a kid, too. Then as an apartment dwelling adult, long before I got involved with hydroponic indoor gardening I grew wheat grass on the kitchen counter and juiced it by hand. My favorite living food, though, is fenugreek sprouts, which I make from the seeds in the spice department. I buy them by the pound and grow some of them for the greens as well.
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