Obedient Lifestyle

A good salad has all the nutritional components that our body needs, not the cooked main course. A salad should never be skipped at dinner, you could in fact skip the bread or cooked food without creating any nutritional deficiencies. Even though these are two of the four traditional basic food groups, you could skip the meat and dairy products, but if you want all the essential nutrients needed by your body, you cannot skip a good raw salad full of fresh, living vegetables.

Vitamins, minerals, amino acids (protein), enzymes, carbohydrates, fats, water, and fiber are all essential components of a healthy diet, and every one of these essential components can be found in raw fruits and vegetables. This is a claim that can be made for no other types of food other than raw fruit and vegetables. The bottom line is that, based on everything known by modern medical science and nutritionists, not one single substance has been found, manufactured, synthesized or advertised that can even come close to the nutritional value for mankind as the original diet handed down by God in the first chapter of Genesis. As our world suffers painfully and needlessly from disease, malnutrition and premature degeneration, let us not lose sight of the significance of this realization.

God created the vegan diet to nourish our bodies so they function correctly. Eating these living raw fruits and vegetables actually builds cells in our bodies. More and more studies are concluding that processed foods and vitamin supplementation do not offer the same nutritional value as raw foods. It sure doesn’t surprise me that the man made manufactured food would fall woefully short of the nutritional value of what God has created. Heat from cooking destroys all enzymes and most vitamins, while protein and minerals are altered by heat to a form that is NOT usable by the human body.

Raw fruits and vegetables are also a good source of water, considering they are between 70-90 percent water. Our bodies lose up to a gallon a day and must be replaced, and the water from the raw fruits and vegetables should account for a large part of this replacement. Raw vegetables are an ideal source of protein, partly because the protein has not been altered by heat, and because the protein is not an excessive amount. Heat from cooking alters amino acids (protein) into a NON-living form, unusable by our body. For example, if you have every fried an egg, the instant that the protein in the clear, runny (albumen) portion of the egg hits the hot frying pan, its form is immediately changed from clear to white and rubbery. When protein is heated or consumed in excess, it is harmful to the body and must be eliminated. Excess protein feeds cancer cells, burdens the liver, is stored as fat, and causes numerous other problems.

Modern nutritional experts are in near unanimous agreement that a person with a healthy vegetation diet should have no reason to be concerned about a protein deficiency, despite what we have been told in the past about needing meat for protein. The body stores amino acids from food to manufacture its own “complete protein.”

We should pay attention to enzyme deficiencies in our body, because with the lack of raw foods and eating mostly cooked foods in our diets, we are more likely deficient in that. Enzymes are very important to our health, they are the life energy of everything that is living. They are also the first to be destroyed in cooking since they are so fragile. Every living thing, plant or animal has enzymes, and if it didn’t, it wouldn’t be alive. Enzymes are found in every live atom and cell in our body. Every bodily function from moving a muscle to thinking a thought requires enzymes.

Enzymes are also required to digest food, and if you eat dead (cooked) food without enzymes, this means that because the food you are eating does not have enzymes, the process of digestion robs your body of its collected pool of enzymes. In other words, you are robbing your body of enzymes, its vital energy, by eating cooked foods. This makes it all more important to make sure you eat a fresh, raw salad before eating any cooked meal. A raw salad will supply enzymes necessary to help with the body’s more difficult task of digesting the cooked portion of the meal.

It’s that simple, eat the food God originally made us to eat and we will be in good health. Eating a good variety of fresh, raw fruits and vegetables as provided by God in Genesis 1:29 furnishes our body with everything it needs to do everything it does without the unnecessary sickness, degeneration, pain and premature death that has become so prevalent in our world.

Psalms 139:14 “ I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well”

Genesis 1:29 “ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of the tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”

Works Cited:

Malkmus, Rhonda. Recipes Fo Life. Shelby: Hallelujah Acres, 1998. Print.

King James Bible. Mission Publishing.