Raw Nutrition

Karyn Mitchell

Description

Explains how food addictions are industry inspired and emotionally created. How you can overcome these food addictions and how, by following a raw vegan diet, most people lose at least 10 pounds a month eating all they want.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Diététique
• diététique
• Nutrition
• Fitness
• Health
• Diet

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 15 novembre 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781591203421
• Langue: English

Extrait

The ideas, recipes, procedures, and suggestions contained in this book are not intended as a substitute for consulting with your physician. We are told that all matters regarding health require medical supervision. Neither the author nor the publisher shall be liable or responsible for any loss, injury, or damage allegedly arising from any information or suggestion in this book. The opinions expressed in this book represent the personal views of the author and you should check with your physician, medical professional, nutritionist, or naturopath before changing your diet. The recipes and information are for educational purposes only and the author assumes no responsibility for any adverse reactions to the information or recipes contained in this book.
Basic Health Publications, Inc. 28812 Top of the World Drive Laguna Beach, CA 92651 949-715-7327 www.basichealthpub.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mitchell, Karyn.
Raw nutrition : restore your health by eating raw and eating right! / Karyn Mitchell.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-59120-296-7
1. Nutrition. 2. Health. 3. Raw food diet. 4. Veganism. 5. Detoxification (Health) I. Title.
RA784.M518 2011
613.2'65-dc23
2011044733
ISBN: 978-1-59120-296-7
Copyright 2012 by Karyn Mitchell, N.D., Ph.D.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author.
Editor: Diana Drew Typesetting/Book design: Gary A. Rosenberg Cover design: Mike Stromberg
Printed in the United States of America
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Contents
What You Will Learn in This Book
Chapter Synopsis
Tools for Preparing Raw Foods
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. What to Expect on a Raw Healing Diet
2. Our Illusion of Health: We May Look Good on Paper
3. Plants Provide More Than Adequate Vitamins and Nutrients
4. Emotional Food Addiction
5. Can Food Cause Cancer?
6. Protein Facts and Fallacies
7. Education
8. What Are Good Foods?
9. What Is Not Raw
10. The Green Line and Transitional Diets
11. Raw Juice-Fasting and Fasting with Smoothies
12. The Importance of Organic Raw Juice and Smoothies
13. How to Help Children Eat More Greens
14. Raw Foods to Consider for the Healing of Disease
15. Enzymes Prevent Premature Aging
16. Outline of the 4-3-2-1 Raw Fasting Diet for Intensive Healing
17. The Miracle of Sea Vegetables: Nutrient-Dense Iodine and Trace Minerals
18. Detoxification and Healing Effects
19. Raw Eliminations
20. Beverages
21. Getting Ready to Go Raw
22. A-Z Master Organic Grocery List
23. Simple Recipe Suggestions: Monday Through Sunday
Conclusion: Final Words of Support
References
Resources
About the Author
To my husband, Steve, my dear sous-chef for
over thirty-nine years. Spiritual relationships
are essential to life, like the air we breathe.
Thank you for sharing this journey of life
and for never once asking me,
What is this?
We re spending $147 billion to treat obesity,
$116 billion to treat diabetes and hundreds of billions
to treat cardiovascular disease and the many types of
cancer that have been linked to the so-called Western diet.
One recent study estimated that 30 percent of the increase
in health-care spending over the past twenty years could
be attributed to the soaring rate of obesity, a condition
that now accounts for nearly a tenth of all spending on
health care. The American way of eating has become the
elephant in the room in the debate over health care.
-M ICHAEL P OLLAN , T HE O MNIVORE S D ILEMMA
What You Will Learn in This Book
How food addictions are industry-inspired and emotionally created. How you can heal them by getting your power back and recognizing that stuffed emotions can create weight issues. On a raw vegan diet, most people lose at least ten pounds (4.5 kg) a month eating all they want. It is difficult to remain over-weight on a raw-foods diet.
If you are not eating an enzyme-rich, plant-based diet, your body may be stealing enzymes from your pancreas and heart just to digest. This activity of robbing Peter to pay Paul can cause diabetes and heart disease. Eating a green salad daily can make a healthy difference in how you look and how you feel every day.
Raw plant enzymes reverse aging. Research and patient studies support this fact.
Are you suffering from malnutrition? Are your children failing to thrive? Are you or your loved ones sick often? Inflammatory processes in the small intestine prevent the absorption of vital nutrients. People who eat only processed foods and fail to eat raw fruits and vegetables may be starving and overeating. More people die in the United States from overeating than undereating.
No one teaches us what we need to eat every day to achieve optimum health and prevent disease. This book gives you an easy-to-remember formula.
Animal foods are not essential forms of vitamins, protein, calcium, amino acids, or essential fats. Most heart-protecting, cancer-fighting, and immune-enhancing substances come from the phytochemicals in plants. Citrus fruits and apples are high in pectin, which helps to lower cholesterol naturally. According to the U.S. Department of Environmental Health:
Children who ate conventional diets had mean pesticide concentrations in their urine nine times higher than the children who ate organic. Their levels indicated that they had exceeded safe exposure levels set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and were at increased risk to their health. By contrast, those children who ate organic foods were well within the EPA levels deemed to cause negligible risk.
Could cancer lose its grip on modern societies if they turned to a balanced vegetarian diet? The answer is yes, according to two major reports, one by the World Cancer Research Fund and the other by the Committee on the Medical Aspects of Food and Nutrition Policy in the United Kingdom.
The McDougall Diet notes: The truth is that Americans consume six to ten times as much protein as they need. That excess protein overworks the liver and kidneys, causing both these organs to become enlarged and injured. Excess protein consumption causes the kidneys to pull large quantities of calcium from the body, causing bones to weaken and kidney stones to form.
In 1914, an apple contained almost half the daily requirements of iron, but today you would have to eat twenty-six apples to get the same amount of iron. In just under one hundred years, apples have declined in the following: calcium 48 percent, phosphorus 84 percent, iron 96 percent, and magnesium, the heart-helping nutrient, has dropped 82 percent. The amount of calcium in vegetables has also declined: 81 percent in cabbage, 92 percent in lettuce, and 56 percent in spinach. There is little or no iodine or zinc in our produce unless the soils are fed iodine or zinc.
Undiagnosed food allergies create many diseases. Processed foods are the worst offenders. Eating organic, raw vegetables and fruit eliminates many of the antigens that cause allergic reactions and subsequent disease.
Chapter Synopsis
Chapter 1: I have found that many people are afraid to begin a new diet and their concerns range from ensuring their nutritional needs to actually undergoing change. Growing, buying, and storing produce.
Chapter 2: People may look as if they re healthy, based on blood tests, but feel horrible and anxious. I explain how a very simple, raw alkaline diet can help them feel better than they ever imagined. Why organic foods are essential.
Chapter 3: Plant foods provide all that we need in terms of enzymes and nutrition. Vitamin content is given. An explanation of how enzymes are not killed in the stomach only deactivated until later.
Chapter 4: It is not always easy to change old eating habits. Emotional and spiritual ideas to inspire change.
Chapter 5: Research concerning dead, processed foods and their relationship to diseases like cancer. Raw fruits and vegetables contain antioxidants and nutrients that prevent cancer.
Chapter 6: Plant foods contain quality and adequate protein for our daily requirements. A list of protein content of plant-based foods and a comparison to animal protein.
Chapter 7: Learn about conflicts of interest in the food industry: 85 percent of nutrition information taught to school-aged children comes directly from the Dairy Association. Harvard research and the FDA s SAD food pyramid.
Chapter 8: Great foods-a list of nine vital vegetables and fruits to rotate daily and weekly.
Chapter 9: A list of what makes a food raw. Fresher is better. No cans, jars, or processed foods.
Chapter 10: Transitional diets from your current diet. The Green Line theory about dietary change.
Chapter 11: Juice fasting and smoothies can promote health and may even save your life.
Chapter 12: Raw research since 1955. Juice fasting and healing; specific foods needed.
Chapter 13: Positive outcomes when children incorporate more greens in their diet.
Chapter 14: Diseases and the foods that may reverse them.
Chapter 15: Different types of enzymes and how the body uses enzymes to digest and heal. Learn how enzymes are the workhorses of the body and are involved in nearly every bodily function.
Chapter 16: Most people will commit to one month of change. In one month, an alkaline healing diet consists of four servings of greens, three cruciferous or crunchy vegetables, two fruits that you alternate daily, and one serving of soaked nuts, seeds, or grains. Outline of Dr. Mitchell s 4-3-2-1 Raw Fast Healing Diet.
Chapter 17: Japanese people eat one hundred times the amount of sea vegetables as we do. With so many endocrine diseases in our country, we need to examine a healthy, iodine-rich addition to the raw diet.
Chapter 18: An often-ignored issue with a switch to raw diet is Herxheimer s reaction an