Two Important Points on Diet & Health

I want to emphasise two often forgotten points on diet and health. In fact, applying them are two of the most important steps to rejuvenation and anti-ageing.

I. Eat Too Little

Studies on rats have shown that if they were allowed to eat only every second day, and were not given more on those days than rats which ate every day, they lived up to twice as long. They were also biologically "younger" longer and had a remaining interest in sex and reproduction up to twice as long as the regularly eating rats.

Studies on humans show that a diet very low in energy promotes health and prolongs life. The energy level we are talking about here is something in the range of 1200 calories per day. If you are very active physically, the amount must be adjusted accordingly. Given that mainstream medicine considers 2000 calories or more as normal, this is a noticeable reduction.

As a matter of fact, protein plays an important role here. The need for protein is very small, far from common recommendations, and protein accelerates ageing. It is also very straining for the body to handle, and the metabolic trash it produces is extremely acidic and harmful. It has been proved that people who live on a diet low in protein live longer and have better health.

Animal protein is worse than vegetable protein. From a health point of view, the protein amount should be low and from a vegetarian source. But don't exaggerate, we do need some protein. The point is not to get more than we need. But you should never use it as a source of energy. If you do, you get too much.

Another effect of a low calorie diet is that the body is not overstrained with digestion, but gets time to cleanse out trash and waste continuously in the same speed in which it is produced. That prevents degenerative processes caused by trash blocking normal functions, a main factor for the development of, for instance, cancer and cardiovascular disease.

A body that is used to work in a state bordering scarcity of energy will become more effective. It has to be so in order to subsist on very little fuel. Weak and defunct cells are consumed in the competition for cellular survival and what remains is younger and stronger than without that scarcity. In an overfed body, there is even enough for the defunct cells to survive; ageing and degeneration are allowed to continue unhampered.

II. Living Food

Living food is food which has not been killed by heat, radiation, chemicals or other means. Fresh fruit and vegetables are the most powerful. In some cases dried foodstuffs qualify here, especially dried fruit. Nothing that has been cooked or baked is alive.

When you "kill" a vegetable by cooking it, much of its nutritional value is lost. Certain vitamins are totally destroyed and no longer exist at all after heating, at least not in a biologically active form. B1 and Folic Acid are good examples. Enzymes are destroyed, which negatively affects the metabolic process so the bioactivity of the remaining nutritional compounds is diminished. The food loses much of its healing, cleansing, and life-giving properties and declines to become a vehicle of energy and waste; energy of which most of us get too much, and waste that gradually contaminates the body and blocks normal cellular function. In short: killed food triggers the development of unhealth and ultimately ageing and death.

The great cancer researcher P. G. Seeger identified substances that helped to restore a damaged cellular respiration to normal. All were from plants, which had to be raw to have maximal healing power. Studies were done on this and showed that cooked vegetables have no or very little positive effect on health. Raw, however, they do.

When you eat cooked food you get digestive leucocytosis, an increase of the number of leucocytes, white blood cells. In plain language: your immune system begins to defend you against alien substance, an intrusion. This does not happen when you eat raw food. This, if anything, is proof that cooked food is not only unnatural but harmful. It provides you with energy, but apart from that it breaks you down. Raw food, however, provides genuine nourishment, it facilitates cleansing, healing, and growth. A diet rich in fresh fruit and vegetables supplies essential high-quality nutrients without giving too much energy.

The use of fire which made cooking possible was of help when the great threat was starvation, lack of energy. It made it possible to eat previously inedible things, but it came at a price. This price, however, was of little importance if you couldn't get a sufficient amount of energy to live long enough to be harmed by the bad quality of food. Today, on the other hand, getting energy is not a problem. Logically, cooked food has totally lost its justification, except in the poorest areas of the world.

But let's not be fanatic. Cooked food is an important part of human culture, but if health means anything to you, you need to compose your diet with at least 70% living food. That is, 70% of the energy should be derived from living food, which is more than 70% if you count weight or volume. (As a comparison: 100 g of chocolate contain as much energy as 1.5 kg of oranges.) With these 70% you can expect yourself to at least break even; that is, you will not get worse off because of your diet.

If you really want to cleanse your body from old trash or if you need to heal yourself from illness, a diet of close to 100% living food is justified.

Related article: Some Thoughts on a Palaeolithic Diet

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