For example, herbs are used by people all over the world to “cure” people of illnesses. Has anyone thought that the removal of foodstuffs in the diet in order to add the herbs to the diet may have anything to do with it? Have people every wondered why their illnesses return? Has anyone ever questioned that if these are so good, then why do we not simply live off of them and discard the rest? Did you know that there are people around the world that live off bananas for years at a time? Can you live off your tea? There are people that live off other fruits as well; can you do that with your herb?

Medicine, herbs nor food cures the body. The body cures the body.

People do not understand this simple basic concept: once toxicity is reduced substantially and the proper nutrients are added to the diet, only then can the body use those materials it needs in order to function properly.

Enzymes play a very important role in this area. The body creates enzymes for digestion only when the “food” introduced to the body lacks in them which is most probably because they had been destroyed by the cooking process. HEAT KILLS LIFE. If the body is too busy creating enzymes for digestion (totally unnecessary on a raw plant-based diet), its ability to create metabolic enzymes to distribute raw materials to build is dramatically reduced which means that the healing process has to suffer.

Medicine of any kind is not necessary regardless of it being “alternative.” The required fuel the body needs is required by the body. The best source of this comes from raw, low-fat, organic, fresh, ripe fruits and some vegetables.

Drinking herb teas, injecting isolated nutrients into the blood stream, and massages do not cure anything. THEY FOCUS ON THE EFFECTS NOT THE CAUSE. Teas are plants which have had their enzymes destroyed. This classifies them as a refined food because of their void in enzymes and other nutrients. The body does not recognize them and acts upon them as if there were an intruder; white blood cells rush to counter their destructiveness. Whether people want to believe science or not, the nutrients have been destroyed, period.

The cause of illness is the high toxicity and the lack of the nutritional materials for the living organism. This includes all animals (pets) as well as humans. Living organisms need need their respected fuel to perform to it fullest. [Feed your pets raw meat not garbage from the pet store; remember this when they get sick.]

If radiation treatment was so effective, how come so many people (and I mean most of the people that do it) die from it? And if it was so wonderful then why do healthy people not take it as a means of prevention? Why did Dr. Lorraine Day, a Chief medical practitioner at San Fransisco Medical Center (for over 30 years), not use it to cure herself of breast cancer? She thought that fruits and vegetables were better! She was scared of using the technology because she KNEW that it was PURE poison! How can you heal yourself from disease by poisoning yourself, again addressing the effect versus the cause.

In all areas of our life, from politics to health, we address the effect instead of addressing the cause. WAKE UP, is never too late unless you are already dead. We will never progress as a people with such a primitive ability to critically think.

You are fooling yourself if you think that you will make yourself better by adding things to your diet that do not come from nature in their natural state. Anatomy tells us that we were born with or develop everything we need to survive in this world; we were not born with a stove, microwave or kettle which tells us that we should be avoiding foodstuff that require these sort of technology.

Humans are the only species which destroys and degenerates its food before consuming them. Technology does not count as evolution. Just because we can do things with tools, does not mean we were meant to do them at all. We were not designed to withstand a car crash at 100 miles an hour - of course we will result in severe injuries or death.

It is an insult to nature to use these items, and people that ignore the laws of nature die or end up dead sooner than those who follow the rules. Consider the law of gravity, have you successfully broken it lately? Falling from a 30 story roof top will end in death 99.9% of the time. This is the power of the law of nature.

As Dr. Douglas Graham puts it, “It is always better to correct a problem-to remove its cause-than it is to supplement or suppress it.”

Source: 101 Health Steps Magazine

Editor’s comment: The article below discusses the importance of sleep; it links the lack of sleep to early death. 101 Health Steps Magazine has done there own investigative report and found that 9 to 11 hours of sleep a night is what is needed for the average individual.

Due to personal stress, daily activity, and the amount of stress that people put on themselves through from digestion and eating habits. Additionally, athlete’s could need well over 12 hours a night, depending on their level of training and stress to recharge their human battery back to maximum levels. Most people rely on false stimulation such as coffee or worse to achieve this, which only drains their reserve energy causing even more problems.Scientists arrived at the result after analysing data from 16 studies involving more than 1.5 million participants.

They found “unequivocal evidence” of a direct link between sleeping less than six hours a night and dying prematurely.

People who regularly had this little sleep were 12% more likely to die over a period of 25 years or less than those who got the recommended six to eight hours.

An association was also seen between sleeping more than nine hours a night and early death. This was thought to be due to long-sleeping being a marker of serious underlying illness rather than any effect of sleep itself.

Professor Francesco Cappucio, head of the Sleep, Health and Society Programme at the University of Warwick, said: “Whilst short sleep may represent a cause of ill-health, long sleep is believed to represent more an indicator of ill-health.

“Modern society has seen a gradual reduction in the average amount of sleep people take, and this pattern is more common amongst full-time workers, suggesting that it may be due to societal pressures for longer working hours and more shift-work. On the other hand, the deterioration of our health status is often accompanied by an extension of our sleeping time.”

The research, reported in the journal Sleep, reviewed 16 prospective studies from the UK, US, Europe and Asia which together monitored more than 1.3 people for up to 25 years.

In total, more than 100,000 deaths were recorded during the observation periods.

Pooling together data in this way, known as meta-analysis, can indicate patterns and trends that may not be obvious in individual studies.

Source: Press Association

Published by: 101 Healthsteps.com

#1. Perfect your caloronutrient ratio, directing it towards 80/10/10.

There are only three caloronutrients, protein, fat and carbohydrate. Protein consumption does not vary appreciably from diet to diet. Therefore, the more fat you consume, the less carbohydrates you consume. Worldwide, RDAs for carbohydrate range from 65-75% of total calories. The average raw fooder consumes only about 20% of their total calories as carbohydrates, most of this from fruit. The underconsumption of carbohydrates and overconsumption of fats leads to a host of health problems. Leading the list are candida, diabetes, hypoglycemia, chronic fatigue, heart disease and cancer. Most of the so-called sugar metabolic disorders are actually the symptoms of the overconsumption of fats.

2. More is not better.

Nutrients are found in the body in specific quantitative relationships to other nutrients. Calcium, for example, is present in a 2/1 relationship with phosphorus. Consuming more of a specific nutrient, or consistently eating foods that are overly high in that nutrient will inevitably lead to an imbalance. We are designed like Goldilocks–we thrive when the nutritional ratios are “just right”. When it comes to nutrients, too much is just as much of a problem as too little. The optimum foods for us, nutritionally, are those foods whose nutrient content most closely mimic our nutrient needs. In every category of nutrition, fruits come closest to meeting those needs.

3. Supplements do not supplement – rather, they foster nutritional imbalances.

Except in the instance of severe and specific nutritional deficiency, chemical isolates, generally recognized as pharmaceutical quality drugs, always lead to imbalances and do more harm than good. The approach known as “better living through chemistry” has failed us consistently, every time it has been tried. On a healthy lowfat raw vegan diet, supplements are not necessary. Supplements will not make up for the nutritional insufficiencies we experience when eating a less than optimal diet because those insufficiencies are broad spectrum and supplements are relatively specific. It is always better to correct the diet than it is to attempt to supplement or remedy it.

4. Superfoods are not really super.

Dehydrated foods, especially those that have been powdered, undergo the deleterious impact of extensive oxidation and other heat related nutritive losses, such as the transformation of the viable form of B-12 into its unusable analog form. When minute quantities of any substance result in profound shifts in energy, we are dealing with a stimulant. Stimulants actually result in a release of vital reserves, hence ultimately draining vitality. Foods that are not in scale with human consumption, (the relative size relationship between us and our foods) or that must be packaged in bottles, boxes, cans, or bags, are not really super, but appeal to our superficial consumer mentality. Foods that cannot be eaten as a complete meal should automatically suspect in human nutrition.

5. Ripen fruits fully, do not rush them.

Ripe fruits yield the optimal nutrients per calorie. As many nutrients do not become fully available in fruit until it undergoes the final stages of ripening, the consumption of ripe foods is an important consideration when one aspires to optimum nutrition. Learning about fruit is a pleasant pastime. Learn the names of the various fruit varieties that are available to you. Catalogue when each variety comes into season, which ones ripen after picking, and other interesting facts about each fruit. Become a connoisseur of fruit, and, as the old saying goes, “eat no fruit before its time.”

6. Cooked foods are junk foods and supply only empty calories.

The nutrient losses associated with cooking are so extreme as to be unnecessary to list in this short article. Suffice it to say that proteins, fats and carbohydrates all degrade under the heat of cooking into toxic matter. Enzymes, coenzymes, and most vitamins are destroyed by heat. Antioxidants, phytonutrients, and minerals are damaged, as is fiber. Even water is lost in the cooking process. Nutritionally, there are no benefits to cooking wholesome raw foods. Empty calories are those from protein, fat, or carbohydrates, without their full nutrient package intact. Junk foods are generally thought of as refined foods that are missing vital nutritional elements. Oils and juices (lacking fiber), dehydrated foods (lacking water), as well as other refined foods, certainly fall into these categories.

7. Panic if it isn’t organic.

The nutritional impact of herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, rodenticide, and other “cides” upon food has repeatedly been shown to be negative–deadly, in fact. It has also been shown that the consumption of these “cides” negatively affects our nutritional status. Organic food is always the best choice nutritionally, when all other factors are equal. Scientists tell us that there has been life on earth for six billion years. We have been experimenting with toxic chemicals in our food for about sixty years. If you had to bet your life, and the lives of all people on earth, which would you choose: the system that had succeeded for 99.000,000% of time, or the one that had created such doubt about its efficacy over the last .000,0001% of time?

8. Plants perfectly meet all our needs: nutritional, spiritual, emotional, environmental, ecological and ethical.

Every nutrient known to be needed by humans is available to us from plants. There are no nutrients necessary to humans that can be obtained from animal foods that cannot also be obtained from plants. Nutritionally, all plant foods contain all nutrients–they simply exist in different proportions in different plants. Have you ever looked at a field of cows and found your mouth watering? Have you ever felt compassion for a helpless animal? Are you aware of the environmental, ecological and ethical nightmares that are perpetrated by the various animal industries? Have you ever felt a closeness to the earth, or a spiritual connection with G-d when you were nurturing plants?

9. Simplicity is the key to good digestion.

Good digestion is critical to ideal nutrition. We can only absorb and assimilate that which we can digest. Simplicity at each mealtime best facilitates optimum digestion. Reduction of the number of courses in the meal, as well as the number of ingredients in each dish, are both conducive to good digestion. If a meal has more than five ingredients, or takes more than five minutes to prepare, you are probably working too hard at creating the meal, and will likely suffer compromised digestion. Start from where you are comfortable (e.g., ten ingredients, ten minutes) and work toward eventually using only one ingredient, one minute.

10. Variety in your diet best ensures optimum nutrition.

Nutritional sufficiency is best guaranteed through the consumption of a wide variety of foods. Fortunately, Nature provides such variety during the course of each year. Over 200 different fruits and over 50 vegetables are readily available at some point during the year in most places. Take advantage of each one as it comes into season, in order to access the most variety, freshness, and lowest cost. Variety throughout the year coupled with simplicity at mealtimes creates the ideal situation for optimum nutrition. We have the ability to store most of our nutrients for long periods of time, and even to recycle many of them. The ebb and flow of the seasons brings foods to us that best satisfy our nutritional needs.

11. Develop the mono meal habit.

Mono (single course) meals provide the obvious ultimate goal for perfect digestion and nutrition. Almost all creatures eat mono meals when living naturally. The concept of eating “one food at a time, when hungry, until full” makes sense on many levels. Simply waiting for hunger to arrive is a wise move in optimizing digestion, absorption, and assimilation–all critical factors in good nutrition. Overeating results in compromised digestion. Variety of food choices is commonly a huge factor in overeating. The easiest way to vanquish the habit of overeating is to avoid stimulating our appetites with an excess of different foods by choosing very simple or even mono-meals. Mono meals provide a satiation that cannot be matched by complex meals. They allow us to fully and realistically get in touch with our hunger, and to finally come to appreciate the healthful reasons for eating. Experiment with the mono meal program by including a few mono meals each week. As you come to like the results, you can gradually increase the number of mono meals you consume. Your nutritional status will improve, and you will develop superior overall health.

12. Fitness matters.

Physical activity is one of the key requirements to good nutrition. Without sufficient physical activity, peristalsis of the intestines is not as efficient. Physical activity utilizes blood sugar, making for healthier blood sugar metabolism. It also greatly accelerates blood circulation and lymphatic flow, enhancing protein and fat metabolism while improving their utilization. The vasodilation that accompanies physical activity also enhances nutrient delivery. There is another aspect of fitness worthy of serious consideration. Athletes consume and utilize considerably more fuel (calories) than the average person, for two reasons. The first is that their higher activity levels require additional fuel. The second is that fit folks usually carry more muscle mass than their sedentary counterparts, and their muscle tissue requires more fuel than any tissue other than nerves. By eating more food, active people consume more calories, and along with those extra calories come additional essential nutrients: enzymes, coenzymes, antioxidants, phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals, fiber, and even water. It is easier for a fit person to be nutritionally sound because they take in more nutrients. This may be one of the most powerful arguments for attaining fitness: we are naturally better nourished than sedentary folks, and are able to eat more food without weight gain.

There Is No Substitute For Healthful Living

Each of these steps is beneficial in the pursuit of health and optimum nutrition. The lowfat raw vegan approach, accomplished by the consumption of whole, fresh, ripe raw organic plants, is the most nutritious method of eating. Couple this with simplicity at mealtimes, diversity in your diet, the implementation of frequent mono meals and a regular fitness program, and you have the makings of a regimen that will bring you to the pinnacle of good health.

Source: foodnsport.com

Published by: 101 Health Steps.com

There are three types of weight: there is fat weight, water weight and muscle weight. Did you know that it takes about a month for the body to gain or lose a pound of fat weight? Did you know that it takes the body a month to build or lose a pound of muscle weight? If you did not know that it takes a month to build or lose fat and muscle, well now you do. So, if you are losing massive amounts of weight, you are losing water weight. So do not worry about losing the muscle weight, and be sure to drink a lot of water. Water is a weight loss ingredient.

People need to focus on losing fat weight, and bringing their fat percentage down weekly. Forget about “weight” that should not be the main concern; the concern must be percentage of fat weight of the body. Keeping your water weight up is most important. A good water percentage should be around 60-70 percent, and a little over 70 might be a better goal.

If you lose fat weight and ignore your muscle weight, then you will look like an under fed beggar. For this reason, it is vital that you exercise every day!

Raw food weight loss: The best way to lose weight is by eating raw. Specifically, eating fresh, ripe, raw, organic, whole, low-fat fruits and vegetables. A day of predominantly eating fruit with a final meal of specific vegetables: celery, tomatoes, leafy greens, and red peppers is the key. The only other thing that should be permitted in the body is water, a lot of it.

Fruits are high in water, so they will not take water out of you while consuming. Fruits so happen to be the number one source of vitamins and the number two source of minerals. They also contain phytonutrients, fiber, enzymes, co-enzymes, and millions of other nutrients which have yet to be discovered. Fruits are low in fat; less than 10% on average, calorie per calorie.

The most common mistake people make is not combining properly. When it comes to fruit, people should eat a mono fruit meal. If they must combine, they must keep acid fruits away from sweet fruits and both of them away from melons. Combining these will create issues in the digestive system turning all the food to toxins and debris.

Another vital combination mess up is when people eat fruit before vegetables. Vegetables  digest in the stomach, and fruits digest in the intestine; if fruits are eaten second, they get trapped in the stomach and start to ferment creating alcohol, carbon dioxide and acetic acid which are very dangerous to the well-being of the body.

A great resource for raw food weight loss is “How To Do The Raw Food Diet With Joy.”

Source: 101healthsteps.com

Could TV and modern forms of entertainment be injuring us by keeping us away from physical exercise? Could using our own body weight be enough to keep us fit? Exercises such as sprinting, climbing, hikes and swimming be enough? Do you need a gym to do push up, squats, and sit ups? Can you do 100 of each a day? Would that be considered sufficient exercise? Can you do those exercises in less than ten minutes? Is that too much time for your 24 hour day? Do we not have 10 minutes of a 24 hour day? I challenge anyone to do 100 of each of the 3 exercises just mentioned; seeing a difference is inevitable. If you cannot see your abs does that mean that you are over-weight or under-muscled? It is suggested that if you cannot see your abdominal muscles the answer is yes to both suggested causes. A good source for abdominal exercises can be found in a book entitled, “The Truth About Six Pack Abs.” Regarding the book, take what you need, the exercises are excellent because most of the exercises support the following article which focus on at-home exercises.

When you think of weight training, you probably picture a big guy pushing big weights. But you don’t need to go big to pack on muscle. In fact, for the average Joe and Jill who want strength without an Arnold Schwarzenegger-type physique, the only weight they need to pump is their own.

Body-weight training is undergoing a resurgence in popularity. More and more high intensity training programs like boot camp and CrossFit rely heavily on bodyweight exercises to build muscle. Even yoga uses body weight to increase the intensity of its postures. Retailers, too, have jumped on the bandwagon, hawking products like the Perfect Push Up and the TRX Suspension Trainer to fitness clubs and fitness fanatics.

Working against the pull of gravity and the reaction of ground forces, the body provides the necessary stimulus to challenge muscles and increase strength. Because these exercises work multiple muscles at the same time, you get great return on every repetition.

Often referred to as callisthenics, today’s body-weight exercises look very different from the ones you sweated through in gym class. Pushups, sit ups and squats remain staples of a basic body-weight program but only slightly resemble the originals. Pushups are rolled on their side, squats are done on one leg, and lunges are performed on unstable discs. The only thing that limits the potential of body-weight exercises is a lack of imagination.

Unlike weight training machines that can’t always be adapted to the size of the exerciser, body-weight exercises can be performed by exercisers of all shapes, sizes and ages. And the ability to modify body-weight exercises to suit individual goals not only ensures their popularity, but also makes them functional, practical and effective. Novices can stick to the basics, while those who want more can modify the movement pattern, narrow the base of support or vary the speed to crank up their workouts a notch or two.

Another benefit of bodyweight training is the potential to build strength without adding unwanted bulk. If desired, you can even add an aerobic component to bodyweight exercises. Old-fashioned burpees (moving from standing to the push-up position to standing again) can get the heart pumping. So can mountain climbers (push ups that bring the knees toward the chest in a running-type of motion) and jumping jacks.

Perhaps the best advantage of body-weight exercises is their ability to be done anywhere. With no equipment necessary, living rooms, hotel rooms, the beach and the park all can double as a gym. This kind of portability has kept body-weight exercises from going out of style.

But before you throw out your dumbbells and barbells, keep in mind that bodyweight training has its limitations. If you are looking to improve absolute strength, which is defined as the ability to lift or move a given load (think of a weightlifter), then body-weight training isn’t for you. And if you are looking for a muscle-bound physique, you need to move more weight that just your body mass.

However, if your goal is to develop the kind of strength you need for everyday functioning, then body-weight training gets the job done. Start with a modest number of repetitions (six to eight) per set and slowly work up to more reps (up to 25) and sets (two or more). Vary the speed, explosiveness, stability and repetitions per exercise. A partner adding resistance through his/her body weight can ramp up a workout.

Like any weight training workout, the best results come from an every-other-day routine.

Also important is the correct technique. Just because you’re not lifting heavy weight does not mean that you can’t get injured. Poor form and too little rest between workouts will hamper your fitness goals and increase your risk of injury.

Substituting some traditional weighted exercises with body-weight training can spice up your workout and add an additional challenge to your routine.

So go ahead and give bodyweight training the respect it deserves – try a burpee today.

A great source for bodyweight exercises can be found on the FlowFit DVD. If anyone followed those exercises, they can be guaranteed success in fitness.

If we used those enzymes to also digest our food versus using the enzymes in food to digest the food, we quickly spend the reserves we are given at birth and arrive at the final destination of death sooner. Could destroying the enzymes through the process of cooking (burning) lead us to the end of our life sooner?Enzymes wear out! Dr. Edward Howell states, “Boiled down, these definitions of life means that each child is born with a definite amount of enzyme potential. It can be either saved or wasted; used up rapidly by living a fast tempo, or used sparingly at a slower pace. The enzyme potential can be made to last longer when outside enzyme reinforcements (supplements or raw foods) are taken in.”

“In the animal kingdom enzymes reinforcements are coming in continuously through the food. But in man, the trillions of cells in the whole body are called upon to supply the entire enzyme requirements, since our enzyme intake is practically nil. This is because almost no uncooked food that is high in calories is used. Foods low in calories, such as raw salad, vegetables, and juicy fruits, are also low in enzymes content… Let us say that a certain diet has a value of 2,500 calories each day. If it included a lettuce salad, an apple, and an orange, that would break down into about 200 calories of raw food that supplies enzymes. The calories in the salad dressing must be counted amongst the cooked calories. The result: 2,300 cooked calories that have had all of their enzymes taken from them, and only 200 calories supplying some enzymes. But I doubt that very many people take in as much as 200 raw calories a day. Ready-made orange juice would count with cooked calories.

It should not be hard to see how the enzyme bank account of the body can get out of balance; heavy withdrawals, skimpy deposits… if people spend their enzymes rapidly, their life does not last as long as it would if they used enzymes more frugally. Like an indulgent parent who caters unstintingly to demanding offspring, the body responds generously to calls for digestive enzymes. The remarkable thing about the eventual bankruptcy of the enzyme account is that it can proceed quite painlessly, without immediate symptoms.

Digestion of food takes a high priority and acts as a powerful stimulus in the demand for enzymes. If this function takes more than its rightful share, the other organs and tissues must try to get along with the remaining capacity. The only warning maybe a belated malfunction or breakdown in some organ far removed from the digestive tract. But the diagnostician unaware of the importance of enzyme nutrition would have difficulty in connecting such a referred process to the true, underlying cause. This is how an assortment of human ailments may get started.

What does this mean? Shortened lifespan, inferior health of the organs, and nagging illnesses; and all due to an enzyme-deficient diet.”

Professor Pearl, of Johns Hopkins University, states, “In general, duration of life varies inversely with the rate of energy expenditure during its continuance. In short, the length of life depends inversely on the rate of living.”

MacArthur and Baille of the University of Toronto states, “The organism appears to receive a specific sum total of vitality” rather than a definite allotment of days. Life runs out its course to its natural term with a velocity directly proportional to the catabolic rate, or, as commonly expressed, according to rapidity of “wear and tear.”

The conclusion and solution must be for us to eat raw, low-fat, easily digested food, and live as long as we were designed to.

In addition, getting sick is a sign of an unbalanced body. The only way any animal (The human included) gets sick is if the pH is not balanced, and this only occurs if the body has more toxins and acid versus nutrition, enzymes included, to keep us well and balanced. Being sick is not normal, unless we include obesity, cancer, disease to also be normal, and a sign for us to make changes because the message is clear: we are not acting the way we are designed to. Listen to your body when it sends you messages. The messages become clearer when you are clean inside. If you are still not completely healthy in your journey to successful health, you are not doing something right. Only the animals in captivity under human supervision become ill; the wild animals in nature do not.

Source: 101healthsteps.com

Ref.: Dr. Edward Howell: Enzyme Nutrition (1985)

“When I was in active medical practice, I developed a special electrothermo therapy immersion apparatus to apply high temperature treatment to specific parts of the body to stimulate local enzyme activity. This activity increases two to three times for every 10 degrees Fahrenheit increase in local temperature. I modified some of this apparatus to permit experiments to determine the thermal death point of protoplasm (living matter [cells]), and found that immersion in water at 118 degrees Fahrenheit destroyed enzymes in a half-hour. The temperature of 118F also blistered the skin, and prevented subsequent germination of seeds when they were immersed for a half-hour. Comparing 118F with any of the cooking temperatures, you can see that the enzymes in foods have not the slightest chance of escaping destruction under any kind of kitchen heat exposure. “

“In 1937, Kohman, Eddy, White, and Sanborn, Columbia University, published a paper entitled “Comparative Experiments With Canned, Home Cooked and Raw Food Diets,” Journal of Nutrition 14:9-19 (1937). It turned out that the canned food eaters were the heavyweights. Canned food, which must be cooked at high heat to preserve it, exerted a powerful stimulating effect on the endocrine chain, promoting a large body weight increase. (The endocrine chain is a system of glands that help to regulate body function.) I believe this is the proper way to interpret the results of this experiment, although I am aware that another interpretation is usually employed. To say that cooking improves utilization and absorption missed the point. Is anyone so naïve as to insist that we can improve on a process that has kept a vast population of organisms living out their lives for millions of years without the aid of the cook stove? If utilization of raw foodstuffs proceeded at a normal rate for these millions of years and we step in and do something to food, such as cooking it, which increases its utilization and absorption beyond the normal, this amounts to a perversion. If obesity is the result, it certainly is not wholesome. And if does not require deep insight to perceive that the evil consequences of such an assault on the endocrine balance may later hand us a legacy of many apparently unrelated pathological entities.”

People disagreeing with the scientifically proven facts based on well established studies that heat destroys enzymes must do their own research, so they can prove it to themselves. Nutrition research must not be judged based on hearsay (Information from unreliable sources: parents, friends, family, TV, doctors of medicine, fitness ads, health shops selling products, and teachers of other subjects besides health); however, opinions may be given in disagreement, even though it would be based on obvious bigotry and ignorance.  This is usually the case when people are in denial and trying to protect their ignorance, so that they can protect themselves from the realization that they have been fooled their whole life.

Another reason is that individuals simply do not want to let go of their addiction of cooked foods (cooked foods have been proven to be addictive over and over), so they create excuses in order to permit themselves to do things that are wrong. We like to fool ourselves; i.e., life insurance (in actuality death insurance).

The Science of Anatomy identifies that humans are born with or physically develop everything they need to survive; humans were not born with steamers, juicers or the like.

Humans will never improve on nature, regardless – it is too complex for the simple human mind.

And for those interested, the garden of Eden was just that, a garden. It was not called the farm of Eden; there was no mention of killing animals to exist. Adam and Eve were not supplied with knives or the secret of creating fire. THEY HAD A GARDEN FOR A REASON!

Source: Enzyme Nutrition by Edward Howell

Published by: 101 Health Steps Magazine

Editor’s comments: The following article comes from The Guardian newspaper in the UK. Basically it states that people that care about their health may need drugs in order to correct this mental condition. It is now considered a mental condition to care about your health, officially.

Can caring about your health really be a health problem? How far could this really go? Could people that care about their health eventually be imprisoned in a mental institute? Could drugs really help this so called mental condition?

Could vitamins, minerals, enzymes, co-enzymes, phyto-nutrients, and fiber from a low-fat, raw plant based diet cause the same addictions as heated oils and starches cause? How could caring about your health be a disease? Could this be another way of the shrinks to make more money? Could you really be obsessed about doing the right things and making the right dietary choices? Could fast food addicts possibly have these same addictions?

Could avoiding drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, and using recreational drugs also be a mentally related issue? We would not want to spend too much time of our lives worrying about that, would we? Could that be wrong too?

Could you be flagged by airline companies and other companies that know your diet preference? 101healthsteps.com had scheduled an article  on this very topic a year ago, but decided not to publish it because it sounded so outrageous; it does not sound so outrageous any longer and that article will be published very soon.

As a preview of the upcoming article on this subject: be sure to plan ahead, and do not wait until it is too late. Keep your diet and lifestyle to yourself for your own safety. This is only the beginning. Sure, some readers will not believe it. Those readers must research to find out how far things that start out small get, or just wait for these predictions to come true.

Protect your diet and lifestyle especially when filling out forms. Information is collected, this is public knowledge; the question is where does this information go, and what will it be used for?

Could it be possible that it is the masses that have the disorder? Could the marketing departments of all the big corporations be the ones in behind this disorder of the masses? Watch the film The Corporation, maybe it could help you to answer that question.

Could this be an attack on the health movement? Do something about it and make a difference; contact your local government official and make yourself heard. This is outrageous; let them know!

Eating disorder charities are reporting a rise in the number of people suffering from a serious psychological condition characterised by an obsession with healthy eating.

The condition, orthorexia nervosa, affects equal numbers of men and women, but sufferers tend to be aged over 30, middle-class and well-educated.

The condition was named by a Californian doctor, Steven Bratman, in 1997, and is described as a “fixation on righteous eating”. Until a few years ago, there were so few sufferers that doctors usually included them under the catch-all label of “Ednos” – eating disorders not otherwise recognised. Now, experts say, orthorexics take up such a significant proportion of the Ednos group that they should be treated separately.

“I am definitely seeing significantly more orthorexics than just a few years ago,” said Ursula Philpot, chair of the British Dietetic Association’s mental health group. “Other eating disorders focus on quantity of food but orthorexics can be overweight or look normal. They are solely concerned with the quality of the food they put in their bodies, refining and restricting their diets according to their personal understanding of which foods are truly ‘pure’.”

Orthorexics commonly have rigid rules around eating. Refusing to touch sugar, salt, caffeine, alcohol, wheat, gluten, yeast, soya, corn and dairy foods is just the start of their diet restrictions. Any foods that have come into contact with pesticides, herbicides or contain artificial additives are also out.

The obsession about which foods are “good” and which are “bad” means orthorexics can end up malnourished. Their dietary restrictions commonly cause sufferers to feel proud of their “virtuous” behaviour even if it means that eating becomes so stressful their personal relationships can come under pressure and they become socially isolated.

“The issues underlying orthorexia are often the same as anorexia and the two conditions can overlap but orthorexia is very definitely a distinct disorder,” said Philpot. “Those most susceptible are middle-class, well-educated people who read about food scares in the papers, research them on the internet, and have the time and money to source what they believe to be purer alternatives.”

Deanne Jade, founder of the National Centre for Eating Disorders, said: “There is a fine line between people who think they are taking care of themselves by manipulating their diet and those who have orthorexia. I see people around me who have no idea they have this disorder. I see it in my practice and I see it among my friends and colleagues.”

Jade believes the condition is on the increase because “modern society has lost its way with food”. She said: “It’s everywhere, from the people who think it’s normal if their friends stop eating entire food groups, to the trainers in the gym who [promote] certain foods to enhance performance, to the proliferation of nutritionists, dieticians and naturopaths [who believe in curing problems through entirely natural methods such as sunlight and massage].

“And just look in the bookshops – all the diets that advise eating according to your blood type or metabolic rate. This is all grist for the mill to those looking for proof to confirm or encourage their anxieties around food.”

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN

When oil is heated, it becomes rancid and poisonous to the human body. It is refined; it does not contain any other nutrient. It is 100% fat. This toxic abuse stresses the nervous system and takes away the nervous systems ability to heal the every day damage that is received uncontrollably such as pollution.

Oil is 100% fat; it is refined: stripped of macro- and micro-nutrients (Vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants, enzymes, co-enzymes, phytonutrients,  essential fatty acids, protein and carbohydrates).

The following article and study support the believe this editor has that most people that are fat definitely have some stage of heart disease, and they must do something to prevent a heart attack before it is too late.

Building heart disease by eating fried food is a self-affliction more dangerous than most peoples simple mind can understand. It is suggested that those people change before it is too late. If you eat oily food, fatty food, junk food, and cannot see your abdomen muscles, you are fat and well on your way to heart disease (Not to mention under-muscled).

Over the next twenty-four hours, 3,000 Americans will have heart attacks, roughly the same number of people who perished in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

The heart is the centerpiece of life and, more often than not in America; it is the centerpiece of death. Malfunction of the heart and/ or circulation system will kill 40% of Americans, more than those killed by any other injury or ailment, including cancer. Heart disease has been our number one cause of death for almost one hundred years. This disease does not recognize gender or race boundaries; all are affected. If you were to ask most women what disease poses the greatest risk to them, heart disease or breast cancer, many women would undoubtedly say breast cancer. But they would be wrong. Women’s death rate from heart disease is eight times higher than their death rate from breast cancer.

If there is an American game, it is baseball; an American dessert, apple pie. If there is an American disease, it is heart disease.
At the end of the Korean War, a landmark scientific study was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Military medical investigators had examined the hearts of 300 male soldiers killed in action in Korea. The soldiers, at an average age of twenty-two years, had never been diagnosed with heart problems. In dissecting these hearts, researchers found startling evidence of disease in an exceptional number of cases. Fully 77.3% of the heats they examined had gross Evidence of heart disease. (In this instance, gross means large.)
That number, 77.3%, is startling. Coming at a time when our number one killer was still shrouded in mystery, the research clearly demonstrated that heart disease develops over an entire lifetime. Furthermore, almost everyone was susceptible! These soldiers were not couch- potato slouches; they were in top condition in the prime of their physical lives. Since that time, several other studies have confirmed that heart disease is pervasive in young Americans.
But what is heart disease? One of the key components is plaque. One out of twenty diseased men had so much plaque that 90% of an artery was blocked. Why hadn’t these soldiers had a heart attack already? After all, only 10% of the artery was open. How could that be enough? It turns out that if the plaque on the inner wall of the artery accumulates slowly, over several years, blood flow has time to adjust. Think of blood flowing through your artery as a raging river. If you put a few stones on the sides of a river every day over a period of years, like plaque accumulating on the walls of the artery, the water will find another way to get to where it wants to be. Maybe the river will form smaller streams over the stones.
When the artery becomes blocked over such a short period of time, there is little chance for collateral blood flow to develop. When this happens, blood flow downstream of the rupture is severely reduced and the heart muscles don’t get the oxygen they require. At this point, as heart muscles cells start to die, heart pumping mechanisms begin to fail, and the person may feel a crushing pain in the chest or a searing pain down into an arm and up into the neck and jaw. In short, the victim starts to die. This is the process behind most of the 1.1 million heart attacks that occur in America every year. One out of three people who have a heart attack will die from it.
We now know that the small to medium accumulation of plaque, the plaque that blocks less than 50% of the artery, is the most deadly.
Section 2
No study has been more influential than that of the Framingham Heart Study. After World War I, the National Heart Institute was created with a modest budget and a difficult mission. They didn’t know why these lesions developed or how they led to heart attacks. In search for these answers, the National Heart Institute decided to follow a population in the population and to see who got heart disease and who didn’t.
Over 5,000 residents of Framingham, both male and female, agreed to be poked and prodded by scientists over the years so that we might learn something about heart disease.
The Framingham Heart Study developed the concept of risk factors such as cholesterol, blood pressure, physical activity, cigarette smoking and obesity. Because of the Framingham Study, we now know that these risk factors play a prominent role in the causation of heart disease. Over 1,000 scientific papers have been published from this study, and the study continues to this day, having now studied four generations of Framingham residents.
The shining jewel of the Framingham Study is its findings on blood cholesterol. When this study was started, most doctors believed that heart disease was an inevitable wearing down of the body, and we could do little about it. Our hearts were like car engines. As we got older, the parts didn’t work as well and sometimes gave out. By demonstrating that we could see the disease in advance by measuring risk factors, the idea of preventing heart disease suddenly had validity. Researchers wrote, it appears that a prevention program is clearly necessary. We spend over 30 billion dollars a year on drugs to control these risk factors and other aspects of cardiovascular disease.
Early research led to the alarming conclusion that we have some of the highest rates of heart disease in the world. The Papua New Guinea Highlanders, for example, pop up in research quite a bit because heart disease is rare in their society. American men died from heart disease at a rate almost seventeen times higher than their Chinese counterparts. Why were we succumbing to heart disease in the sixties and seventies, when much of the world was relatively unaffected?
Quite simply, it was a case of death by food. The cultures that have lower heart disease rates eat less saturated fat and animal protein and more whole grains, fruit and vegetables. In other words, they subsist mostly on plant foods while we subsist mostly on animal foods. For example, Japanese men who live in Hawaii or California have a much higher living in Japan.
Smoking habits are not the cause because men in Japan, who were more likely to smoke, still had less coronary heart disease than the Japanese Americans. In simple terms, animal foods were linked to higher blood cholesterol; plant foods were linked to lower blood cholesterol.
Research ahead of its time
One of the most progressive doctors was Dr. Lester Morrison of Angeles. He started a study in 1946 (two years before the Framingham Study) to determine the relationship to dietary fat intake to the incidence of atherosclerosis. In his study he instructed fifty heart attack survivors to maintain their normal diet and fifty different heart attack survivors to consume an experimental diet.
After eight years, only twelve of fifty people eating their normal American Diet were alive (24%). In the diet group, twenty-eight people were still alive (56%), almost two and one-half times the amount of survivors in the control group. After twelve years, every single patient in the control group was dead. In the diet group, however, nineteen people were still alive, a survival rate of 38%.
Today, this epic battle between defenders of the status quo and advocates of diet is as strong as ever. Mostly, the status quo has been protected. Despite the potential of diet and disease prevention, most of the attention given to heart disease has been on mechanical and chemical intervention for those people who have advanced disease. Diet has been pushed aside. Surgery, drugs, electronics devices and new diagnostic tools have stolen the spotlight.
We now have coronary bypass surgery, where a healthy artery is pasted over a diseased artery, thereby bypassing the most dangerous plaque on the artery. The ultimate surgery, of course, is the heart transplant, which even utilizes an artificial heart on occasion. We also have a procedure that doesn’t require cracking the chest plate open, called coronary angioplasty, where a small balloon is inflated in a narrowed, diseased artery, squishing the plaque back against the wall, opening up the passage for increased blood flow. We have defibrillators so that few can observe individual arteries without having to expose the heart. The past fifty years have truly been a celebration of chemicals and technology (as opposed to diet and prevention).

Source: The China Study