FOOD

Greetings Fellow 'Apsensers',

I have to confess, I am really a novice at this and as you can see, I don't  post much.  I don't think I have the hang of it yet, but I am  learning.   Anyway, once in a while I come across stories or articles that I think might be of interest to everyone and this one, I think, fits the bill.

It deals with something that no one can seem to live without.....FOOD.  Following is a copy of the article.

-----How not to prepare food-----

Food is a subject I discuss very infrequently because I know it is
a subject that people are very passion about, and therefore
often do not like others suggesting what they should and should not
eat.

I have previously discussed the fact that aside from the profound
and very important ethical, moral and Spiritual growth issues, all
of which I discuss at length in my book, meat and dairy products
are unquestiobaly toxic to the human system, and directly
responsible for many debilitating diseases as well as decreased life
expectancy.

I would however like to add a further "dimension" to the whole
subject of nutrition which you should know about and understand,
because I love and care about each and every one of you and do not
wish you to become ill or worse if I can help you to avoid it.

"Cooking" food generally has numerous side-effects that most seem
oblivious to due to lack of information from a food industry that
only wishes to sell as much as possible, regarldless of the health
of "consumers" and in all probbaility even worse long term
consequences.

The most immediate of these is that cooking any food, including the
vegetation based foods that we should be eating, destroys almost
all of the important enzymes in the food as well as the vast
majority of the available nutrition. Eating a vegetable based diet
is a wonderful thing, but in cooking vegetables, pulses, grains etc
- all the foods we should be eating - they are almost totally
destroyed, and indeed one might as well eat soggy paper for all the
benefit, or lack of cooked vegetables contain.

Another danger is the use of cooking oils and fats.

We are told by adverts on the TV, designed to impress consumers by
the use of scientific terminology, that "polyunsaturated fats" are
the best because they do not body fat when consumed. What they
conveniently fail to mention is that cooking with unsaturated fats
is potentially and usually adverse for our health. Why is this?

In organic chemistry terms, "unsaturated" means that there "double"
bonds between atoms of meolecules, e.g Carbon atoms, that have the
potential to react further with other atoms or molecules under
the appropriate conditions including heat. So if you cook your food
of fry your chips in most vegetable oils or other unsaturated fats,
the molecules of those fats can and will further react under the
influence of heat to become different chemical compounds, many of
which are toxic to the human system. So by frying or cooking things
in unsaturated or "polyunsaturated" fats and oils, more damage is
likely being done to the body than the risk of adding weight by
using saturated fats due to the chemical reactions taking place
under the action of heating producing further toxic compounds.
Saturated fats are almost always animal fats which, aside from the
Spiritual aspects, are toxic to the human anyway, as well as
causing weight gain by depositing as body fat.

Polyunsaturated oils in their natural form, for example olive oil,
sunflower oil, maize oil, are all potentially beneficial to our
health, especially for example when used in a salad, but heating
them causes them to become soemthing different and undesirable.

Another very serious consideration from a body chemistry
perspective is the "pH" or acidity and alkalinity of food and
drinks.

Acid foods and drinks are very harmful to the body for numerous
reasons. It has been demonstrated for example that cancers can only
form and grow in an acidic environment, and this certainly applies
to other human-caused diseases as well. Also acid promotes the
environment for "free radicals" in the body which then cause and
accelerate premature and excessive ageing due to their chemical
reactions. The defence of the body against these fee radicals are
antioxidants, which, in high enough concentrations, can, in turn,
react with and damage DNA resulting in all sorts of side-effects,
of which ageing and degenerative diseases are primary examples.

There are many such sources of acid. For example, the drink "Coke"
is pH2 which is extremely acidic and therefore potentially damaging,
notwithstanding any sugars and other deadly toxins included such as
"aspartame" - the artificial sweetener. Airline pilots are not
permitted to drink any soft drink 24 hours prior to flying due to
the effects on the nervous system and brain of this substance.

Virtually all "ready meals" and most other "food" packaged in
lurid, psychologist designed packaging are unhealthy at best, toxic
at worst, notwithstanding the "E" chemicals, preservatives and other
substances added to increase shelf life and artificially improve the
otherwise bland "taste". Food manufacture today seems to be about
appealing to and gratifying the senses of the consumer, at the
expense of any consideration for health. Of course this by no means
only applies to the food industry, it also applies to all of the
big cabals.

Unfortunately, most people today still eat for enjoyment, to
gratify the sense of taste instead of for bodily nutrition. The
consequences of eating meat and dairy products, notwithstanding the
Spiritual, ethical and moral considerations are becoming more well
known, but fewer people understand the consequences of the chemical
reactions attributable to heating fats and oils and consuming
acidic food, as well as the practice generally of cooking food, all
of which are unnatural and un-beneficial at best, and harmful and
potentially deadly in the long term at worst.

It is my hope that you will  soon come to realise that our natural
food, as provided by The Source from the beginning is raw,
harvestable whole foods from the natural and abundant storehouse of
nature.