What about minerals?

   The best organic minerals that come from plants. Plants absorb inorganic mineral from soil, water and air and convert them into live organic colloidal minerals. Minerals are best consumed in organic, colloidal form, in whole foods or raw food supplements. If you cook your vegetables youre going to need at least five times as much minerals to replace the minerals lost in cooking. Cooking foods or processing food converts the minerals into inorganic form that cant readily supply nourishment for the cells. Whole natural foods and food supplements are enzymatically alive. Synthetic supplements are dead chemicals, which the body may treat as toxic and which can cause deficiencies, imbalances or other bad reactions. They will not build health. Health requires live biochemicals that are readily accepted and used for maintenance, repair, energy and function. Your body know the difference.

Is it healthy to be a vegetarian?

   Whether you can be healthy if you are a vegetarian, even though a lot of research point to the fact that a live food vegetarian diet is an ideal diet for people. Vegetarianism, however, has gotten a bad rep, because many people try it then dont feel well, have less energy and maybe even get sick. This is not because its unhealthy. It because of the large amount of tissue destruction which most of us have within our body long before we started out on a vegetarian diet, plus dietary habits that dont provide complete nutrition that even vegetarians need.
   But you can make the transition and very successfully, if you decide thats what you want to do. It just takes some time and education. It begins with a first step that requires some work. The work of means the removal of a lifetime of your bodys accumulated toxins, heavy metals, chemicals, dead tissue cells and metabolic waste.

  If you are a vegetarian, its important that you have complete proteins at your meals. You can mix a combination of soaked seeds such as sunflower, flax, pumpkin, sesame, its best to have your proteins during the early part of the day before 4:00 pm, Digestion works best from 7:00 am till about 4:00 pm. thats why overweight people are told not to eat after 6:00 pm. To make sure you are getting adequate nutrition and assimilation, its best to take whole food raw supplements with your meals.
 
   The main theme to being and staying healthy is eating as much whole foods as you can enjoy and assimilate. Every opportunity the body has, it will attempt to cleanse itself, especially when you eat whole foods. The mode of cleansing is to release chemicals, metals, accumulated undigested food residues and old body waste into the bloodstream. The bodys job is to carry the toxic material to the organs of elimination for removal of the poisons from the body. Unfortunately in most people bodies, the organs of elimination are already overworked and are unable to successfully remove this waste fast enough. For the most part the waste will remain in the blood and lymph until it is reabsorbed among the tissues. Thats why during the transition period it may be beneficial if indicated, to check for heavy metal toxicity or for chemical poisonings. A purification program will support your body when it is triggered into a cleansing mode from eating tissue cleansing food such as fruits and vegetables. One way to make sure the body is utilizing whole foods is by using tasty recipes with condiments to make the digestive juices flow.
   Only drink 1/2 glass of water with your meal, when taking your whole food supplements, so as to not dilute the hydrochloric acid in your digestive system thats needed to digest. Again the best way to decrease the tissue destruction from within the body is through a detoxification purification program. Once the body is cleaned out you will get less tissue destruction, so you will feel better physically and mentally. Supplementation with whole, organic foods and herbs is the best way to handle problems that are present due to insufficient nutrition. Once you get the body cleaned up there will be less tissue destruction and less demand for the nutrients to replace destroyed tissue cells. Eventually you may be able to reduce or even eliminate a lot of the nutritional supplements you need at first.

How to find out if we get real raw whole food supplements?

   The word natural on a vitamin has little value. What you want to know is whether a supplement is a whole raw food complex or a combination of chemical substances. Most vitamin supplements are synthetic. Most so-called whole food supplements are a mix of synthetic or isolated vitamins, minerals, proteins and a little bit of dehydrated foods.

   Nature doesnt produce vitamins, minerals, or any other food parts in an isolated state. Everything is merged and blended for the bodys need. If you think that more is better in vitamins, youll soon be taking mega doses, or high potency refined separated nutrients which are artificially manufactured chemical supplements. These supplements are disassembled and unbalanced. This may appear work for a short period of time. It will stimulate or suppress your system just like a drug. Eventually this method will backfire and cause complications and imbalances. Your body will work to eliminate the excess and what it perceives as nonfood. Synthetic vitamins, herbs and isolated nutrients have drug effects on the body. The body strives to eliminate as much as possible as soon as it can. The liver works to render the product less toxic. The rate of circulation increases to get rid of the substance through blood vessels and the kidney tries to eliminate it in the urine. Properly taken, whole, food-based nutritional supplements improve the dietary deficiencies, aid the body in allowing additional opportunities to build, maintain and improve the function of the bodys deficient areas. Nutritional supplements help to compensate for poor dietary habits and nutrients lost in cooking or the processing of food, low food values due to chemical fertilizers, and nutrients lost as a result of poor digestion or absorption.
   Food based, whole supplements contain natural sources of nutrients in their original form - as mart of a whole food matrix that are always found together in nature. For example, you probably know that d-alpha tocopherol is the natural form of vitamin E and believe it is better than dl-alpha tocopherol, the synthetic E. Natural d-alpha is produced from refined vegetable oil - so is removed from its natural matrix. So neither form of vitamin E contains all the normal ingredients is has when found in nature. Taking alpha-tocopherol in its natural form still is a tiny, isolated portion of the whole complex and can create imbalances. At the very least, it can increases the need for other tocopherols. So I prefer using a whole raw food supplement to get my vitamin E. The same thing occurs with vitamin A and vitamin D. Fractionated or synthetic vitamins can be toxic. But its almost impossible to get too much from foods or raw whole food supplementation. Some B vitamins are produced through bacterial synthesis. These are bacteria that are cultivated to excrete large amounts of chemicals. While this bacteria is a natural source it is not really food for humans.
   Not suggesting that you throw the baby out with the bath water. After decades of making ourselves sick before discovering raw food, your body many need time to adapt - and what you do during this transitional period may be very different from what is ideal down the road. Also, there are times when our bodies need crisis intervention to reverse a chronic illness or even save a life. Thats when a doctor or health professional may prescribe medications or supplements in their most concentrated forms. Always tell people to follow their health professionals advice in these situations. After you are back on your feet, there are many things you can do to help your body recover.

Do I need supplements when I eat raw, organic foods?

   Yes ... and no. In an ideal world, everything you eat would be packed with nutrition and provide no toxins. Also, the food you eat would be free not only of chemical toxins, but antibiotics. So the natural flora or probiotics, in your guts would flourish, helping your body digest and absorb nutrition optimally. So there would be no need to take probiotics or digestive aids. That diet would be in total harmony with your environment, too. There would be no air pollution, increasing the need for nutrients that aid in detoxifying the pollution you breath. The water would be pure and clean. There would be no need to drink bottled water or invest in expensive filtration systems and your body wouldnt need to cleanse itself from the many toxins we drink in regardless. Finally, the home you live in would have no electromagnetic radiation coursing through its walls. There would be no need for your body to repair cells damaged by microwaves, radio waves, EM fields and geopathic stress.

   In this ideal world, you would be enjoying optimal health every day, and getting everything you need from whole, raw, organic fruits, nuts, seeds and vegetables. But that world doesnt exist any more. Instead, we live in toxic environments floating in a sea of pollution, nutritionally deficient foods, stressful lifestyles and more. There is no escape, even if you choose to live in the most remote areas. Our bodies have been bombarded by toxins and disease for decades, and it wont stop soon. So now we have to bend over backwards to get healthy and stay that way. What was once natural and effortless for our ancestors is now inconvenient at best, and often down right difficult to do. Today we have to go out of our way to eat healthy. We may have to do colonics, liver cleanses, kidney cleanses and who knows what else just to counter the results of being on the planet. So we need to give our bodies as much support as possible. The first thing we can do is not put anything in our mouth that adds to the problem. Once we start on that, we need to help our bodies cope with getting healthy and staying that way. It isnt easy for a sick body to get well. It doesnt happen over night.
   Properly taken, nutritional supplements aid the body in allowing additional opportunities to build, maintain and improve the functions of the bodys deficient areas. With whole food supplementation you are compensating for years of poor dietary habits, low food values, nutrients lost in cooking and food processing as well as nutrients not absorbed by the body due to poor digestion. Its easy to believe that degenerative disease is inevitable and the result of living in our polluted world. But theres still more to trying to figure out this puzzle of wellness than that. The reason that its easy to believe this is because pollution does play such an obvious role in the breakdown of health. But the truth is that most degenerative diseases are in the blood, lymph, tissues and right down to the cells and began many years before symptoms appeared. The good news is that it isnt too late. A healthy raw food diet, natural cleansing aids and appropriate whole food supplements when needed will turn you around!

What can we do to prevent this?

   The liver works to filter the blood. What happens when the livers filter becomes congested with an excessive amount of waste? The liver must perform some 500 different valuable functions to keep the body well. When the liver becomes congested with waste from undigested, unusable food residue, especially refined fats, it can cause an excess of cholesterol which than forms on the arterial walls. As this cholesterol thickens on the arterial wall, small pieces flake and join the circulating blood. When these small particles contact each other, they stick together forming larger masses that the liver has to filter. This cholesterol will, over time, fill the gallbladder and clog the liver. Your gallbladder is an emulsifier, it acts like a detergent, breaking down fats and oils by turning them into a liquid. Once you have cholesterol build up on the arterial walls, it will eventually turn into plaque material. In time, in the gallbladder itself, these cholesterol crystals form little green balls of cholesterol in the gall bladder. This will start causing a backing up of the same material into the liver, creating a fatty liver, which again reduces the livers filtering capabilities. When the liver cant keep up with filtering enough of the cholesterol crystals from the blood, the blood starts to get saturated with a heavier concentration of the cholesterol crystals which increases the levels that show up in blood serum cholesterol test. The way to remove waste material from the body and help support the liver is to begin with a Purification Program. That way youre starting with a clean slate and you can get the most benefit out of your healthy diet.

How does a person gets a degenerative disease?

   Many degenerative diseases can be the result waste materials or toxins that have accumulated in your body over a lifetime. These toxins build up and begin to block vital processes in the body, creating chemical and energetic imbalances.
   Having a body filled with "garbage" then becomes an invitation for those critters thrive on garbage. If you left garbage in your backyard you can expect that you would have ants, roaches, rats and other creepy crawlies eating it up. The bugs are obviously there because of the presence of waste matter. Its the same in your body. Viruses and bacteria that your immune system may normally handle begin to thrive. Their presence causes the body to shift into a certain "red alert" reaction in the presence of accumulated waste. These reactions might be call infections, inflammations and allergies. So many, if not all, of these diseases are the result of a body that is out of balance, in disharmony or disease.