The Raw Bakery February 2005 Newsletter - The Joy of Eating
Raw Foods AND healthy Cooked Foods !
The Joy of Eating Raw Foods AND Healthy Cooked Foods.
Eating more raw fruits and vegetables is very important for our health and well
being and this amount should be at least 60 % of everyone’s diet, preferably
70-85 % and if you feel balanced about it than you could go 90-100 % raw. This
article wants to explain why it is ideal for most people to stay in the 60-90 %
range of the raw food/cooked food ratio and why it is very difficult for the
average person, including me, to eat a pure 100% raw diet.
100% Raw Food is the Truth, but so is Transition.
It is very important to learn to enjoy the newly found raw dishes comprised of
fruits and vegetables. This needs some time. Intellectually we know raw food is
good for us and raw dishes can taste good too. But are we really happy and feel
the joy of eating an all raw diet?!
For generations we developed the habit of finding sensory satisfaction in
cooked foods and we are told to find the same happiness in an all raw diet
overnight. However this is very difficult. The Body/Mind/Soul connection has to
be gradually accustomed to this change.
It is important to still enjoy the cooked food portion of your diet, which in
my opinion is very much connected to an inner satisfaction that is sometimes
difficult to get from just eating a variety of raw foods. Transition is the
keyword here and you can take time for transition.
Anyone neglecting the important aspect of transition is doomed to end in a
blind alley of “unhappy eating syndrome” or replacing the 100% raw diet
with a form of religion & cult. Instead of promoting the raw diet as a way
of life or lifestyle, I recommend everyone to see it more as a down to earth
approach to physical well being. Also I recommend everyone to detach the raw
diet from TOO MUCH (the stress is on too much) spirituality, esoteric talk etc,
because this is diverting and often misused.
Generational Transition
By transition I suggest several years & decades, even generations. You may
talk about generational transition Our bodies & minds are accustomed over
thousands of years to utilize life force from cooked foods & raw foods.
Though raw foods have the highest amount of life force, it may not all be in
the form our body/mind apparatus is best to use optimally. So I again suggest
to eat both, mostly raw with a percentage of cooked, appealing whole foods.
However Dr. med Bruker, Germany's most renowned health food doctor also knew
the importance of putting people on a temporary all raw diet when necessary to
achieve immediate healing results in very sick people. He healed thousands of
people from severe intestinal diseases and other severe civilization diseases.
After curing people he allowed to bring back in some cooked whole foods or
remain all raw whatever the person
wished.
It is important to listen to yourself and see what is best for you. If you here
people talking about eating only 100% raw foods than yes this is very exciting
to here and contagious and an ideal. Are we personally there yet?! That's where
we have to listen to ourselves. Maybe we still want to eat some cooked foods.
Don’t suppress the desire for cooked foods! If you still desire cooked foods
it's better to eat them than to suppress. This can make sick too, if you force
(subconsciously or consciously) yourself to an all raw diet, just because some
people have catapulted themselves into the limelight and talk about it. However
I can't mention too often, if you eat cooked you have to eat the right kind.
The God/ Goddess of perfect health will not condemn us to eternity for eating
still some whole cooked foods. It is important to be honest to ourselves and
not pretend we are already
perfect raw foodists.
Eating a 70-80 % raw and 20-30 % whole cooked food diet IS A DIET in
itself. You can call it The Natural Diet for our times. This diet is perfectly
suited for our present time, it balances people, does not deprive them,
makes and keeps them healthy. And Dr. Bruker's teachings are living proof
that one does not get sick with this way of eating. Further down the road
the cooked food portion may decrease and the raw food portion may increase
naturally, but it will take time for the majority of the population. How many
people who have ever heard about the raw diet are 100% raw anyway?! 99.9% of
all people ever heard about the raw diet are still eating more or less cooked
foods.
But cooked foods make sick you say and you don't want to get sick! But Dr.
Bruker says not all cooked foods make sick !!
Dr. Bruker, Germany's most renowned health food doctor (a real medical doctor).
analysed very logically that there was a time when people were eating cooked
foods and they didn't get sick from eating them. Statistics show that diseases
such as Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Attacks, Obesity, Allergies, Intestinal
diseases, Tooth Decay etc. started to occur just around 1900, the time when
processed cooked foods were introduced into our diet.
Few people know that white flour (our daily bread and desserts) was invented at
the end of the 19th century. Along with that a mass production of white sugar
started at that time (sugar was invented around 1800, but mass production
started later). Meat consumption today is more than 15 times than what it was a
100 years ago and dairy consumption is about 25 times higher per person
than a 100 years ago.
Dr. Bruker himself ate 80-90% raw for most of his life, with a little butter, a
little cream in his diet until his passing 3 years ago at age 92 (Regarding
veganism Dr. Bruker says that an all vegan diet with no animal products is
possible without health risks). He had all his original teeth and he died a
very natural and peaceful death. The institute for Health Advice in Lahnstein,
Germany which he founded trained over 2200 certified health specialists under
his supervision. Dr. Bruker's work continues under Dr. med Biermanns
teaching a diet of mostly eating raw foods and for enjoyment still eating
some whole natural cooked foods as they were eaten before the invention of
processed foods. You can visit their site by going to our link on our website
under Dr. Bruker.
Keep the balance
My message is to please not feel guilty about eating cooked foods in these busy
times of raw food promotion in the news and books etc. Start eating more
raw fruits and vegetable salads and have your cooked whole food portion with
great fun. Please enjoy it. Eat your cooked foods preferably after the raw food
portion of your meal. Make it a habit to have a larger vegetable salad. A nice
juicy dressing helps to eat more chopped and shredded vegetables. Spinach and
beets are very nutrient rich. It is quite easy to have mainly raw foods only
for breakfast and lunch. A nice cooked whole food meal is a good idea for the
evening. Or if you are retired or a stay home person you could have a larger
cooked food portion during lunch time. Your desserts should always be healthy
etc, with no processed sugars and processed flours. If you still consume bread
make it a habit to read the ingredient
labels in your health food store and make sure it is 100% whole grain bread. I
suggest breads from the company Food for Life/sprouted baked breads. Please
read the second topic for menu suggestions.
2. Menu suggestions by Ibrahim Gencay
Just recently I had so much fun with eating cooked foods that I want to talk
about it.
For dinner after a hard long day of work we had a large vegetable salad made
with fresh spinach leaves, tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, carrots etc. with
Extra Virgin Olive Oil and fresh lemon juice, sea salt and a pinch of
black pepper. By large I mean really large, something for King Kong.
What came next was so simple, yet so delicious and satisfying it just blew my
mind away. Homemade burritos. We bought those sprouted grain tortillas from
Food for Health, 100% organic whole grain, warmed them up in the oven, filled
it with a little bit of warm brown rice, organic yellow corn and a little
bit of organic cheese. The cheese melted by itself in the burrito.
Both my salad and the burrito/s were incredibly satisfying. This dinner was
probably 65 % raw and 35 % cooked, because I had 2 medium sized burritos.
Just recently I prepared dinner at home. The menu comprised first of a large
mixed vegetable salad (a variety of greens and root vegetables mixed together).
I prepared two very simple dips for the salad and for the upcoming cooked
dish. Number one was a very simple guacamole and the other a raw sour cream
dressing made from soaked sunflower seeds, onion and lemon juice. So far
everything was raw. And then we had brown rice, hmmm with guacamole again and
alternatively with the “sour cream. It was rather festive and then finally I
had a delicious piece of 100% sprouted whole grain English muffins from Food
for Life again with organic pasteurized butter. Well this is not usual
everyday. Variety of food is very important too. This dinner was probably 80 %
raw and 20% cooked.
I hope this is inspiration for you. It is important to get healthier and heal
ourselves with raw foods. Cooked foods are still a welcome addition to a
balanced diet.
If you have any questions regarding these articles please feel free to e-mail
us at info@rawbakery.com .
Additional Raw Foods Info From the Newsletter:
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Learning about health & eating healthy must be always fun is my opinion. So
that's why we create a monthly health quiz for you. You can win raw organic
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manually send us the answers to the questions. SEND THEM TO:
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First the correct answers for the previous health quiz.
Question 1: Approximately what percent of women over 50 in the western
world suffer from constipation?
A) 20%
B) 50%
C) 80% C) is the correct answer
Question 2: What is the difference between white flour and whole grain flour?
B) is the correct answer.
A) White flour is bleached whole grain flour (whole grain flour is unbleached)
B) Whole grain flour contains all vital substances from the whole grain, white
flour does not.
C) White flour contains more vitamin B1 than whole grain flour
New health quiz:
How much protein does the human mother milk contain?
A) 1.4 - 2.5 %
B) 9.5 - 12 %
C) 30 %
Please send us the answer/s to info@rawbakery.com. There will be guaranteed a
winner, no matter if the answers are correct or not. We will raffle among those
who have the most correct answers. In our next Newsletter we will present the
correct answers and an explanation. Of course there will a new health quiz and
prices to win.
THANK YOU !!
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