Raw Diet: The Natural Food of Humankind
“No one can improve upon Nature, yet that’s what man attempts to do when he subjects his food to the heat of fire, destroying it vitality and changing its chemical constituents. The product of mother earth, given us for sustenance, are uncooked save by the heat of the sun—the source of all energy.
“The sun is productive of life. Fire is destructive of life.
“Cooking destroys the life cells in food—the cells which make and sustain life in man. Cook a seed thoroughly and see whether it will sprout when planted. Or graft a dead cutting to a live limb and see whether it will grow or whether it will help the growth of the live branch. All live vegetation is capable of either reproducing its own kind or of furnishing life or vitality to other organized living things; take away its life and it can do neither. Life cannot come from death.
“The man who eats cooked food subsists upon the few cells which escape destruction by fire. He is obliged, therefore, to take large quantities of food to secure the required amount of nourishment. He is surfeited with material which his system cannot appropriate—dead matter which must be gotten rid of. The system cannot expel this waste material fast enough, and much of it ferments or decays in the stomach or intestines, furnishing food for the germs and bacilli which daily enter the system.
“The raw-food diet prolongs life. Uric acid is now recognized as one of the chief causes of old age. This poison is present to a greater or less extent in all persons who eat devitalized food, and the accumulation increases with the age of such persons Another cause of sensibility is the presence of an oversupply of earthy salts or mineral matter in the blood and bones, this is also being produced by the eating of emasculated or lifeless food. These foreign substances ossify the bones and obstruct the blood vessels, interfering with the exercise of vital functions and diminishing the vitality more and more
“By natural dieting these calcareous deposits, uric acid and other poisons, are absorbed or dissolved and eliminated, and their further accumulation prevented. Thus juvenility is retained and ‘old age’ warded off.”
