Heres the bottom line for weight loss: with a healthy digestive system, it is almost impossible to be gain weight on with whole, raw, live foods! Imagine that! You can eat anything you want, as much as you want (as long as it is raw, whole, live food) and not gain an ounce in most cases. Exceptions include people with digestive or glandular disorders - though they will probably do better on raw, live foods. When you first start eating more raw foods, you may need awhile to cleanse, detoxify and rebuild your digestive system before noticing substantial weight loss. A weight problem is not an isolated issue, but is part of your
whole being. An imbalance in one part of the body effects your entire system. Weight is a
symptom of what is going on with your elimination system, glandular system, emotions, sleep patterns, stress levels, liver, colon, skin, lungs, blood, spirit and energy levels.
The enzymes found naturally in whole, live, raw foods help with obesity at the
whole being level. You see, enzymes do much more in your body than help digest food. Enzymes are responsible for every single chemical reaction in every single cell of your body. All your minerals, herbs, vitamins and hormones cannot do their jobs without enzymes. Your cant lift an arm or think one thought without the help of enzymes. In fact, you could say that enzymes are, biologically speaking, the source of life. A diet without a source of live enzymes is removed from the source of life. Things removed from their source of life slowly begin to die. For us, that leads to disease, excessive weight gain, depression - many of the maladies that plague us today.
Though it is true that your body can manufacture the enzymes needed for digestion, believe in the
enzyme bank theory, which says that our bodies have an enzyme
account. Every time we make a withdrawal from the account unnecessarily, the lower the balance. So as we get older, we have less and less ability to make enzymes. So getting as many enzymes as possible in our diet can make it easier for our bodies in the long run, and may make more enzymes available to us if we are running low in our
account.
With weight loss, for example, lipase, a fat splitting enzyme, is found abundantly in raw, live foods. However, few of us eat enough raw foods to get enough lipase to burn even a normal amount of fat, not to mention any excess. Lipase helps your body in digestion, fat distribution and fat burning for energy. Lipase breaks down and dissolves fat throughout the body. Without lipase, fat stagnates and accumulates. You can see it on your hips, thighs, buttocks and the stomach. Protease is another enzyme for maintaining a healthy body. Protease helps break down proteins and eliminate toxins. Eliminating toxins is essential when you are burning fat. Your body stores excess toxins in body fat. As your body begins to burn this fat the toxins are released into your system. This can sometimes cause water retention and bloating. Since Protease attacks and eliminates toxins, it is crucial to have plenty of protease during fat loss.
