We’ll look at several different aspects of healthy eating, including the nutrients, nutrient ratios, caloric need and calorie counting, etc., but first I’d like to explain some of the facts about eating from an energy point of view. Nutrients are made of energy, calories are energy, and we are energy, through and through. Like Einstein and quantum physics indicate, “matter = energy”, and we can make much better food choices if we look at becoming our healthiest, most energetic, with that fact in mind.

Principle #1  Radiant energy eating

Optimally, it is gradually including more and more raw food, till you hit 50-80% raw.

(If this sounds impossible for those with raw food-repelling digestive tracts –indicating a weak stomach and liver– please just keep reading because this is important info and you need and can get some help to make that doable.)

Raw, whole foods as fresh as you can get them (right out of the soil is best) contain an amazing amount of …literally…bright energy. They’ve stored up sunshine. That energy is taken into us as we eat it, and it infuses our body with a high quality energy infusion that satisfies our body’s needs. Processed foods don’t have ANY of this energy, and in digesting them, and the body really suffers for the lack of this bright, light energy.

Pure, radiant energy infuses the upper part of the body on a regular basis –the upper chest including the lungs and heart, the shoulders, neck, jaws and gums, ears, eyes, sinuses and the brain! This is such a rush for the body, to get radiating nutrient energy!! Again, energy moves straight through the cells at the speed of light; not biochemically. The body recognizes this kind of nourishment and it is lifted to a whole other lever of higher function, and is satisfied in a way that cooked or adulterated nutrients can’t provide.

This energy can be measured in part with a Brix meter– a hand-held refractometer people can carry with them to the market to choose higher quality fruits and veggies. How interesting that the organics have much higher energy readings. And also interesting that the samples from normal food today are, sadly, much much lower than 60 years ago.

Principle #2  Enzymes Supply Digestive Energy

Why 50% raw? Because fresh foods also bring in lots of enzymes to contribute to breaking down the food.

Enzymes are little ‘Pac Man’ molecules that break down food to its basic nutrients to be absorbed into the blood through the wall of the gut. The blood carries those tiny nutrients to all the cells for fueling and supplying all the resources needed to live.

The thing to remember about enzymes, is that they are killed if heated above 113-118 degrees. Cooked food and heated food will have nothing in it to help digest it, and there MUST be enzymes or digestion can’t be done.

Without taking in enzymes, how does the body digest cooked and processed food? IT has to make the enzymes. It can, and it does, but in time it can’t keep up with the demand of supplying all of them, all the time. Our average diet of lots of meat, fried foods and chips, refined flours, sugars, sweeteners and all the fake additives require way more enzymes than the body can make, and then you have lots of digestive symptoms, diseases like diabetes, and rapid aging.

If one eats a diet of mostly cooked and processed food (pre-cooked -like dairy, bottled juices, frozen veggies, etc.) their lifespan is reduced by a full third., due to the body being worn down by the burden of having to work that much harder to digest every meal.

Raw foods bring extra enzymes to the table. There are specific enzymes in a raw carrot to digest that carrot, plus some extra carb-digesting enzymes to spare, that help digest the other cooked carbs in that meal, like the grains or beans. So half the meal is raw foods, it will help with most of the cooked food. The body’s task of making enzymes is minimized for that meal.

If a meal is mostly cooked food, even cooked whole natural food, then supplement with 2-3 capsules of a quality enzyme supplement like DIGEST, to make digestion less taxing and to enable the body to break down food more completely.

Raw means a balance of raw fruits, veggies, raw seeds like hemp, chia and sesame, and raw nut butters, sprouted seeds, grains, legumes, soaked nuts, and some of the good cold-pressed oils. Raw fruits and veggies prepared as close to picked as possible have the most of that amazing, radiating energy.

There is a seasonal aspect to eating raw foods:  Eat more raw food in summer and more cooked food in winter. So work up to 50% raw in winter and shift to 70-80% raw in summer. Eat less raw if you live in a climate where your body has to generate warmth for you. Eat more cooling foods in the summer and more warming foods in the winter. (see the Metabolic Temperatures of Foods, below)

Learn about the Metabolic Temperatures of Foods