Making Food

In the last 250 years we are eating food for taste, pleasure, convenience, habit, information, culture, peer pressure, etc. The body feels hungry because through food our body makes energy to function. We are no longer eating to make energy for the body.

In our last article, we spoke about enzymes. Enzymes are the ‘workers’ in the body i.e. all functions within the body from talking to walking, sleeping to waking up, sugar regulation to temperature regulation, balancing and filtering of blood, cell division and repair, breathing, thinking, movement, ALL FUNCTIONS IN THE BODY REQUIRE AN ENZYME TO CARRY IT OUT. Foods that contains enzymes (are raw and living) give energy to the body. Foods that do not contain enzymes (dead) do not provide the body any energy rather they are a load on the body’s reserves.

Cooking, processing, breaking food down into its components, microwaving, adding chemicals in the form of preservatives, additives, colours, flavours, fertilizers and so on, genetically modifying foods, altering the temperature of the food as in pasteurization or deep freezing, we alter the structure and nature of the enzymes within the food making it un-usable by the human body. That means the food becomes dead.

Instead of cooking foods it is important to ‘make’ food i.e. prepare it in such a way that we do not alter or kill the enzymes within the food. Making food means we maintain its nutritional content (of known and unknown nutrients) allowing the body to create energy from the food.

If we consider food which is a source of energy for the body as ‘income’ we can divide the food we eat into 3 categories viz. CASH, BEARER CHEQUES AND POST-DATED CHEQUES THAT BOUNCE.

1. CASH: These foods are full of living enzymes and provide the body with instant and abundant energy when consumed. Since these foods are palatable in their natural state (raw) they do not need cooking or processing. E.g. fruits, raw vegetables, nuts and sprouts.
2. BEARER CHEQUES: When consumed the body needs to spend time and energy from its reserves to break down or digest them. On digestion these foods do give the body some energy. These include all seeds in their sprouted form and all steamed vegetables.
3. POST DATED CHEQUES THAT BOUNCE: When consumed the body has to spend a lot of time and energy to digest these foods. On digestion they provide no energy to the body rather they deplete the reserves of the body. These foods also tend to leave behind residues that are highly acidic and corrosive to the body, damaging the body. The high amount of time taken to digest these foods means that the body has not enough time left to clean, repair and maintain itself leading to degeneration and dis-ease.

Culturally and habitually we have grown up eating foods that deplete health and energy rather than preserving and enhancing it. We always make money and then spend it, similarly we need to enhance the energy that we add into the body, conserve by not wastefully spending body energy on foods that do not contribute to health and only spend body energy when for entertainment which is once in a while.

• Make 50% of your daily consumption raw.
• Always start your cooked meals with a salad ( as it provides digestive enzyme to break down the cooked food which conserves body reserves).
• Eat cooked meals (only twice) between 12:00PM and 8:00PM as at this time the digestive enzymes within the body are at their peak.

The key is to balance foods that we have for our 2 inch tongue (taste) with the foods that we should have for the rest of our body (health).