Enzymes found in the intestines can break up a million times their weight of sugar and fat molecules. One molecule of the enzyme found in blood will split five million molecules of hydrogen peroxide into molecules of water and oxygen in sixty seconds!
- Raw foods are particularly important in providing essential enzymes for good health
- Enzymes found in the intestines can break up a million times their weight of sugar and fat molecules
- Despite incredible advances in modern medicine, people still contract and spread diseases at an alarming rate. Although we accept this as one of life's unfortunate realities, it doesn't have to be this way. Most symptoms can be directly related to digestive problems caused by inappropriate diet
ENZYMES:
Enzymes are Proteins that accelerate the rate of a biological reaction without themselves being used up in the reaction. Our ingestion and production within the body of active enzymes is vital to good health and a lack of enzymes contributes to health problems ranging from the common cold to cancer and AIDS.
Enzyme-producing organs continue to function over our lifetimes but decrease in activity with age, quite significantly
- Digestive Enzymes: The primary ones are protease, lipase and amylase, which digest, respectively, protein, fat, and carbohydrates (including sugars)
- Pancreatic Enzymes: Describes a sub-group of digestive enzymes contained in pancreatic juice
- Enzymes are sensitive to heat, and are destroyed by temperatures between 105-118 degrees, which suggests that we need to be careful even with light steaming
- In the naturopathic community, the "standard American diet" is often referred to as SAD!
- In one of the most extensive studies ever undertaken by the US government concluded that “that the average American diet is responsible for the development of chronic degenerative diseases such as heart disease, atherosclerosis, cancer, diabetes, stroke, etc”.
DIET AND WEIGHT PROBLEMS:
- If you lose one pound or gain one, it is because of enzymes. People who are either overweight or underweight are mostly suffering from a lack of enzymes. Once the body receives Living Foods it produces changes that work miraculously in overcoming weight problems. When the body is given and abundance of enzymes it can stop exhausting its own supply for the sole purpose of digestion, allowing the body’s enzymes to break down excess fat, protein and clogged arteries and produce remarkable results for overweight people
COOKED FOODSTUFFS:
- Cooking foods destroys more than 90% of its nutritional value and natural enzymes that the body needs to digest the food
- Top Tip: Try to eat 20% of your diet as Raw Food