Raw for LIFE!
80 years is not an acceptable life-span!
We’ve all heard the Biblical records of people living hundreds of years. We like to tell ourselves it’s not true. In doing that, we have to patronise the writers – perhaps they were deluded, perhaps they couldn’t count. But what if it were true? What might those patriarchs not have been doing that we are doing today? Any mention of Methuselah stir-frying his vegetables? Whether you believe the old accounts or not, scientists today are constantly telling us that there is a link between longevity and diet.
People say ‘You’ve got to die of something’. How about simply dying of ‘old age’ – withering like a plant, then expiring gently and peacefully, rather than being tube-fed and incontinent for a few years, racked with pain, fed with drugs with 100+ side-effects, before succumbing to the ‘inevitable’ stroke or cancer. Your choice.
People say, ‘I don’t think I want to live to be 120’. This is because they equate being very old to dribbling in a bath-chair. What if the choice was between ‘living healthily to 80’ or ‘living healthily to 120+’? There is a choice, and it’s your choice.
If you want LIFE, stop cooking your food
By life, I don’t mean coughs, colds, stomach-aches, irritable bowel syndrome, skin problems, migraines, allergies, diabetes, high blood pressure, rheumatism, and all those ‘old age’ things that are considered ‘normal’ life for human beings. I mean life.
The Law
When you are ‘ill’, your wonderful, precious body - the hardware of your soul - is manifesting your breaking of the law that can be seen in the animal and plant life all around us. When animals live naturally they eat the raw materials designed for them and generally live long, healthy lives. How often do you see a squirrel shuffling along because it can’t move like it used to - wheezing, coughing….you never do! The only animals you see suffering like that are the ones we feed!! Unlike animals, men are free to make choices. When we break the law (or try to rewrite it to fit in with our own lusts and laziness) we pay the price, with pain, suffering and premature death of our bodies.
It’s not easy taking the path less travelled
The world in general worships at the ‘god’ of cooked food, and doesn’t much like those who question it. There are many pressures that operate to keep us on cooked food diets. We have programmed into us associations between cooked food and love, caring, nurturing, from the meals our parents and grandparents gave us as children. We have happy shared memories of food experiences with partners, children, at home, on holiday…we feel unhappy at the thought of jeopardising our relationships, causing problems with our families…I cannot tell you that it is easy to switch to raw. However, I believe that, if you make the decision to look after yourself first, that is, put your own house in order before worrying about others, you will find great strength which will then equip you to help those close to you, while at the same time providing them with a good example of the benefits of raw.