What's Wrong With Cooked Food?

Most people assume cooking food is natural and healthy. Why not, that is what they've been eating their whole lives. But if you think about it, we are the only species on the planet that cooks its food.

There are numerous studies and chemical analysis done to cooked food and to people who eat the cooked food to prove these points. Just the boiling of one potato creates 420 new molecules that didn't exist in the raw potato. These new molecules are considered as toxins to the body and that is why our white blood cell count can more than double right after consuming cooked food.

What I've done is recorded an excellent article about this very point for you to listen to. This audio is a little under 11 minutes in length. You can pause, rewind and fastforward if you wish.



Members of http://HowToGoRaw.com have access to a growing list of informative audios, ebooks, special reports and our forum about raw food nutrition, health and fitness by world class experts in the field. Everything you need to learn to succeed at the Optimal Raw Food Diet is provided for you.

The great thing about audios is that you can listen to them whenever you want. When you read an article, the only thing you can do is read. But when you listen, you can do chores around the home, drive or get other work done while listening. It's a real time saver. In our member's only site, you also get access to the mp3 version of the files so you can listen to them in your Ipods.

One of the most vital ingredients to raw food diet success however, is not just the information, but feedback from a coach or mentor who is a 100% raw foodist. Unfortunately reading is not even close to being enough for most people.

I see this every day in my member's only forum. Most of these people have read a lot about the raw food diet. But it's one thing to read and another thing to practice it. There are many pitfalls that come up and it's incredibly helpful to have a supportive, and nonjudgmental community and an experienced coach, expert in motivational psychology to help you get past any sticking points.
There are so many subtle little ideas that have to be right in your belief system before you'll be able to stay raw for the long haul. I call it gaining the mindset of a 100% raw foodist. Reading and doing the diet alone is usually not enough to gain this mindset.

You need supportive people doing the same thing as you and if possible the help of a successful 100% raw foodist. I tried for five years to succeed with just books and I wasn't able to do so. My mindset or belief system was just off. And I read many raw food books. Which in some ways made things worse.

What I really needed was a raw food community and a mentor. When I got that, coupled with the right way to do the raw food diet (Optimal Raw) I was finally able to succeed for the long term.

Consider joining HowToGoRaw.com and you'll learn all the tricks to make staying raw enjoyable as well as being the healthiest thing you can do for yourself. This will save you years of struggle and frustration. Why reinvent the wheel?

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

P.S. Why don't you come in and join our latest 30-Day Raw Food Challenge on the forum. Do this while listening to my audio program, "Your First 30-Days Raw," and reading my ebook, "Think and Go Raw," and you'll be well on your way to succeeding with the Optimal Raw Food Diet.

Factors That Interfere With Vitamin Utilization

Have you ever considered that nutrition is not just about getting more vitamins, minerals and nutrients? What about increasing the bodies ability to utilize and absorb the nutrients it takes in?

Then another factor is simply not destroying those nutrients by the cooking process. Today I've recorded for you an article by the late T.C. Fry on this very subject. It's effective and to the point. The whole recording is shorter than 4 and a half minutes.



To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

You can find audios like this and much more at my Raw Food Coaching and Support Site http://HowToGoRaw.com

Raw Food Skeptic Answered

This is a great article by Dr. Douglas Graham critiquing Dr. Andrew Weil who has criticized the raw food diet.

I've read that article by Dr. Weil and Doug's response to him was magnificent.

http://snipurl.com/12876

This should open your eyes to some of the false propaganda being taught about the raw food diet. It's really just a complete lack of understanding by Dr. Weil. He speaks of what he does not know.

Roger

17 Studies Done on Raw Foodists

So you want to see some actual studies on people who consume a raw food diet. This page by Don Bennett gives you a list of 17 of those studies and you get Don's comments to help you read between the lines.

I haven't read them all yet, but have in the past encountered many of these. You can send you're sceptic friends to this site to help convince them of the benefits of eating a raw food diet.

http://www.health101.org/art_studies.htm#0

Roger

Freedom To Fascism

Hi Folks,

Please, please, please, take the time to watch this movie. You'll thank me for it later, if you haven't already seen it.

I've been talking about "Freedom To Fascism" by Aaron Russo for months. I saw it about 7 times in the theater. Now you can see the whole movie for free on Google.

Here's the link:

http://snipurl.com/10kc8

It's important for everyone around the world, not just American's to know the information in this movie. In the final analysis it's not about Income Taxes but the New World Order that is most definitely forming. I have no doubt about that whatsoever. There are too many facts to prove it.

What does the New World Order or the Globalist Agenda mean to you? It means a gradual lowering of your freedoms. This has already been going on since at least 1913 in the United States. Actually at least since the Civil War. Of course African Americans gained freedom because of that war, but States Rights in the United States were drastically reduced because of that war.

What about 9/11, who was really behind that? Read this link below to find out how a member of the Rockefeller family admitted to knowing about a major event that would enable the United States to enter Afghanistan and Iraq. This was quite a bit prior to 9/11.
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/281006rockefellerpredicted.htm

The average American back then had much more freedom to do with his life as he wished. The members of the New World Order want one government controlling the whole world. When you have just one locus of control it's much cheaper and easier to have things your way. And trust me you don't want these people running your lives.

They are truly the most evil people on the planet. They are the people behind the drug companies. They will do anything to stifle what would get in the way of their profits.

Did you know that John Rockefeller was the person responsible for our current medical system monopoly in the United States. It's all designed to sell drugs. The ironic thing is he never used his own drugs, but instead did Homeopathy.

Read this page to get just a little bit of insight into the dangers of this medical monopoly.
http://health.benabraham.com/html/fountain_of_youth_-_nature_s_h.html

I highly recommend you read this book for yourself. You'll soon realize that the drug cartel is responsible for the deaths of millions of people because of their stifling of inexpensive and non-toxic treatments for a whole range of diseases, including cancer.

My mother would still be alive if the people behind the FDA, AMA etc, were actually altruistic. But it's all about profit. You can say they are actually committing genocide for profit.

And this is just the tip of the iceburg of the New World Order.

Did you know that in the United States each state used to have it's own currency and own militia. The idea was to have as small a federal government as possible. Our founding fathers knew that it was important to spread the power. The states used to have many more rights and freedoms.

The problem is people have no idea how much their liberty has been circumscribed already.

It's like the story of the frog in the boiling pot of water. Stick the frog into a boiling pot of water and he'll jump out right away. But put the frog into the pot with the water at room temperature and gradually raise it to the boiling point and he will die in the pot.

The change is too gradual for him to notice and it kills him. This is the same thing that is happening to Americans and people around the world.

The ultimate goal of the New World Order is control of the whole planet and part of that is the reduction of the world's population to about 500 million people. An obvious example of how they are actually profiting and reducing the world population at the same time is with the whole AIDS Hoax.

Check out my forum posts for more detailed information about that.

http://rogerhaeske.com/talk/index.php?topic=37.0

http://rogerhaeske.com/talk/index.php?topic=39.0

In Truth, Health and Liberty, Roger

A Safe Alternative To Colonics & Cleanses

*** Superbeing Secrets ***
Raw Food, Fitness & Self-Mastery

There is a totally safe, natural and inexpensive alternative to doing colonics and using intestinal cleansing products. I explain further below in my response.

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I received the question below via email from one of my subscribers and thought I'd share my answer with you. I answer a question about too much fruit consumption and about the need for doing colonics.

This is a very important email for you to read. It could actually save your life and keep you from serious health problems.

I'll respond in the body of her email. You'll see my commentary preceded by * Roger H: and ending with +++++++. Then I'll continue on after getting into more detail her second question.

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Dear Roger,

I am grateful for your emails; they are all extremely helpful. I feel remarkably better having cut back on raw fats. I think they were accounting for over 25% of my caloric intake. I relied on them in large part because I was restricting my intake of fruits. Having put on unwanted excess weight, I was trying to keep carbohydrates to a minimum and thought I should limit/eliminate fruit.

* Roger H: Thank you for your nice comments. Firstly I'd like to say that I am giving generic advice. I don't know you or your health condition personally. Therefore what I say may not exactly apply to your individual situation. However, I will give you generic advice.

Unfortunately, you've been deceived by unsound nutritional advice. This is another example of extreme misinformation from all the so-called raw food and nutrition books out there.

I used to erroneously believe the same thing because of all the false nutrition propaganda I was reading. There is a lot of bad science and nutrition advice in the world today. People, (even extremely smart people) are easily fooled because it's quite a complex subject.

Eating fruit or even eating carbohydrates is not going to make you gain weight. It has more to do with the kind of carbohydrates you eat, what other foods you eat with those carbohydrates, how often you eat and also how much of these carbohydrates you eat.

If you eat 50% more calories than your body needs, then on any diet, you're likely going to gain weight, although less so on a raw food diet.

I only have about 5% body fat and in my cooked food days I was much higher, about 12%. Yet I eat more carbohydrates in my diet than I ever did while eating cooked food and I eat loads of fruit.

I have clients losing over 50 and 70 pounds eating the high fruit Optimal Raw Food Diet. I have a friend whose lost 100 pounds eating this way.
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I began to eat fruit again. However, I have a tendency to binge, and in the last few days I feel like I may be overdoing it with the fruit. How much is too much? I am concerned about the sugar/carbohydrate intake and also feel quite bloated. Today we picked strawberries and I must have eaten 2 pounds of them. Also, should I be sticking to certain fruits and limiting others? I love all fruit so I have trouble in this regard.

* Roger H: Yes we can eat too much of anything, even fruit. But if you eat enough greens each day and eat within your caloric needs, then you won't be overdoing fruit. We can eat lots of fruit and I know many people who eat the majority of their calories coming from fruit and they are in the best health they've ever been in.

I'd stay away from dried fruit and not overdo fatty fruit, like avocados or even durians. But in most cases it's next to impossible to overeat fruit. This is simply not a concern in most situations.

Also when you eat mostly raw fruits and greens you are going to feel bloated compared to your cooked food days or high fat raw days. That is natural because there are less calories per bite. You have to eat much more weight and volume to get enough calories. So this bloating you are experiencing is likely normal unless you are doing poor food combining and or eating lots of dehydrated foods.

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Is there a good resource which outlines what would be an ideal daily diet? For example, how many servings of fruit vs. leafy vegetables, amounts and frequency of each?

* Roger H: I simply suggest you join my raw food coaching, information and support website. You'll get all the psychological, dietary and support information you need to easily succeed at going raw. It's the quickest, easiest and most inexpensive way to succeed at going raw.

http://HowToGoRaw.com/success.html

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Finally, your email re: Dr. Douglas Graham's view of laxatives/colonics was helpful. Should I avoid colonics entirely? I am currently doing them about 4-5 times a week.

* Roger H: Short answer: Yes almost certainly if you value your health, you should stop doing colonics immediately. This is only generic advice. However, I don't really know any good or safe reasons to do colonics. I was once a believer in colonics, but that was before I had a better education. I'll elaborate more below.
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Please forgive me if I am asking for too much advice here. I know you are incredibly busy and understand if you do not have time to reply.

Thank you again for the wonderful work that you do.

All the best,

Gina

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Thanks for your great questions Gina. It has sparked a lot in me and I believe my responses will help you and many of my subscribers as this is very important information.


** More on the Dangers of Colonics:

Let me state here that I've done quite a bit of research on colonics and I have personally met some people that have had serious health problems as a result of doing them. I've read, I've talked to colon Hydrotherapists and even found out what surgeons actually see when they operate on colons. So I'm not lightly throwing out these ideas.

Someone I know had two hernia operations after getting regular colonics. These were using the so-called safe type of colonics.

We don't know for sure if the colonics caused his hernias but I do know he stopped doing colonics because of these hernias. Nevertheless, I'll share more examples of what has happened to people doing colonics.

Unfortunately for some, one of the side effects of colonics is death. Death is not a good side effect.

** The Natural Alternative To A Colonic:

The point is, we don't need colonics to clean out our intestines. Especially if you are eating an all raw food diet. The raw diet is super high in fiber, the fiber from fruits and vegetables act like an intestinal broom and in no time, you're colon will be as clean as it possibly can be.

Also the fibers from fruits and vegetables are much safer to eat than the sharp and harsh fibers that are found in the colon cleansing products and supplements you can buy in a health food store. These fibers can actually cut your intestinal wall.

** There Are No Colonics in Nature:

You don't see a bear going to a waterfall and sticking up his butt. In my opinion colonics are not only unnecessary in almost all situations, but they are also dangerous.

Did you know that at least 7 people have died as a direct result of doing colonics? It's probably a much higher number as the study I read that from was done a long time ago. Did you know that some people as a result of doing colonics can no longer go to the bathroom without doing a colonic?

Here's some information about this from Dr. Douglas Graham on CD number 10 of The Perfect Health Program, entitled "The Surprising Truth About Cleanses, Flushes, Colonics and Detoxification.

http://www.howtogoraw.com/PerfectHealth.html

According to Dr. Graham in his over 25 years as a health practitioner, he has run into a woman who after just one colonic could never again have a bowel movement on her own, without the aid of a colonic. Imagine being forced to have daily colonics for the rest of your life, just so you can go to the bathroom?

He also met a man that had the same exact problem after just three colonics. And also another man that had it happen to him after six or so colonics.

All I can say is that this CD is amazing; in it you'll learn what is really going on when it comes to detoxification. All sorts of false concepts that most people believe are factually disputed and you'll save your health and a lot of money because you'll never need to do a colonic or to purchase any expensive and dangerous cleansing program ever again.

http://www.howtogoraw.com/PerfectHealth.html

** Why Take A Chance With Your Health?

Why take such a chance. Even if only 1 in 1,000 or even 10,000 people ever gets injured by doing colonics, do you want to take that chance? It's an unnecessary risk if you eat a clean raw food diet.

The fruit acids and all the fibers in the diet will help your body to clean itself out naturally. I don't know any raw foodist eating an Optimal Raw Food Diet who needs a colonic.

** Everyone Has An Agenda: Determine It To Steer You Clear of Scams

Most people who are aware of alternative healing methods believe it's only the Dr.'s and drug companies that are financially biased in their recommendations.

But they aren't the only ones who are unduly influenced by money. People promoting colonics have a lot of money to gain for each customer they get. Some people do 4 or 5 colonics a week. That can be a fantastic source of income.

So just beware that people promoting, supplements, colonics and cleanses may have more than your best health in mind when they make their recommendations.

Keep in mind I feel all people have an agenda and are biased, even if money isn't the reason for the bias. Always keep that in mind, whether in communications from me or anyone else.

** What is My Bias?

Yes I am biased. In this case, of not recommending colonics, it's not likely to help me financially. In fact, it may hurt me to state the truth. You see many of my subscribers use colonics regularly, some of them I know are Colon Hydrotherapists.

I know because I've gotten many angry emails in the past. These people assume I am ignorant about colonics, but I feel they are the ones who need to learn more.

These people are not going to like what I have to say, unless they are interested in the truth and their health. Many of these people are likely to unsubscribe after reading just a little bit of my message.

My agenda is to help you unleash your infinite potential via any safe and natural means possible. An Optimal Raw Food Diet is just one of the ways to achieve that goal.

I also want to earn a living while doing so. So I show you the products and services I have tried and believe in the most. This is my agenda and keep it in mind with any recommendations I make.

Raw foodists are famous for doing colonics and if I were devious, I could convince you to do colonics and I could make a ton of profit. But the fact of the matter is that raw foodists are the people least in need of a colonic and colonics simply aren't safe.

Doing colonics is invasive and quite risky. Why do colonics when you can get perfectly cleaned out with nature's methods.

** The Colon Isn't Designed For Sending Things Back Up:

Nothing is supposed to go in the colon. The colon is designed to send waste material out, not back in.

If you want to do a cleansing correctly, you have to pick the right bodily entrance and direction. And the best way to clean out is by putting raw foods into your mouth or the beginning of the digestive tract.

The average American gets only 5 grams of fiber a day, and has a food transit time of four days. That means that the waste products from what they eat, stay in their bodies for four days. Most Americans are constipated, poisoned and acidic and this seems to make colonics such a great solution at first glance.

On average, I get 90 grams of fiber per day and I have 2 to 6 bowel movements per day. That's 18 times more fiber than people on the Standard American/Western Diet. The last day I tracked, May 30, 2006 I ate 96 grams of fiber.

With that much fiber naturally occurring in the Optimal Raw Food Diet, I have no need to take any psyllium seeds, or Ejuva or any other colon cleansing product. Not to mention that I have zero need for colonics.

If you are a raw foodist, eating an Optimal Raw Food Diet, there simply is no need for colonics or colon cleanses.

Beware that eating a lot of dehydrated crackers and foods isn't optimal for keeping your colon clean. But then again, those foods are not part of a natural diet and certainly not part of the Optimal Raw Food Diet.

http://HowToGoRaw.com/success.html

Once you eat this way, stop eating dairy and grains and use proper food combining and you'll have a crystal clear colon. Some people might need to water fast for a few days before they go all raw, but they certainly shouldn't risk the dangers of colonic irrigation.

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

P.S. Get detailed information about how the body detoxifies itself and why colonics, cleanses and flushes are not the answer on CD # 10 of The Perfect Health Program.

http://www.howtogoraw.com/PerfectHealth.html

The Importance of Being Accurate and Objective

Hey Folks,

This is a great article I received via email. He's hitting on the
exact same points I've been trying to emphasize to you guys. This
applies to not only losing weight but succeeding with your raw diet.
You don't want to leave this to guesswork.

If something isn't working with your program you'll need to tweek it
and fine tune it. But you can't do that unless you are very precise
and objective with what you are doing. You have to know how many
calories you're consuming on average. You have to know precisely
which foods you are eating and if you have a reaction after a certain
kind or even certain food combination.

You end up becoming like a scientist. Like Thomas Edison doing over
10,000 experiments before he made a working electric lightbulb.
Sometimes it takes a very high level of diligence to make a diet and
or weight loss program work for you. People are all different and
come in with differing levels of health. So what one person can do
right away, won't be the same for everyone.

I'll let Craig Ballantyne make the point with his great article
below. Just use your imagination and you can apply the same ideas to
succeeding with your raw food diet. I'm not recommending his diet
plan, because I don't know it, but simply the principles he states
in his article below.

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Fat loss is easy once you understand how hard it is.

Once you realize that fat loss is hard work, and not just as easy as
eating some celery, drinking really cold water, and slamming down
some "metabolism boosters", that's when you'll really start to get
results.

When you accept sticking to your nutrition program will take effort,
only then will you start planning and preparing your nutrition to
meet your fat loss goals.

Same with exercise. When you understand that harder workouts are
more effective, then you'll start to plan your workouts accordingly.

Over the past year I've interviewed over a dozen fitness models (men
and women) for Oxygen and Maximum Fitness magazines, and their
secrets to success are as plain as day.

They know it is going to be hard work to get ready for a photoshoot,
but what do they know that you don't know?

First, they've got their nutrition plans down perfectly. And when I
say planned out, I don't just mean they have a meal plan torn out of
a magazine. Instead, they have their shopping lists prepared. They
have time set aside for cooking, cutting, and chopping. These men and
women have more than enough tupperware to store and freeze their food
for the week.

Fitness models take their meals with them and aren't so naive as to
believe that they will be able to find something "healthy" at work or
on the road. They are not willing to sacrifice results for
convenience. They have accepted the hard work that comes with eating
for fat loss. Have you?

Second, fitness models know what works - not only in the kitchen,
but also in the gym. They've recorded their workouts, studied the
effects of various exercises, rep ranges, and workout frequencies.

They have accepted that their can be NO guesswork in a fat loss
workout program. That's why fitness models plan their workouts in
advance, and write down the results in a training log for analysis.
If you aren't doing that, then you're doing nothing more than playing
a workout "lottery" and hoping you'll come up lucky.

Third, and perhaps most importantly (because its hard to have the
first two factors without this one), fitness models surround
themselves with a supportive environment and social support groups.

How many fitness models do you think are married to sedentary,
overweight smokers? How many fitness models do you think hang around
men and women that start drinking at 4pm every Friday?

Having the right social support group and supportive environment can
make or break your fat loss program in less than a minute.

Research shows this. Experience proves this.

All it takes is a bunch of co-workers to surround you at your desk
with a box of doughnuts and pressure you into "having just one". The
next thing you know its 3 days later and you haven't had a decent
meal since.

According to the research on social support for fat loss, there are
at least 2 proven ways to harness the powers of others for your fat
loss goals.

First, include a health professional in your social support group.
This could be your doctor, a nutritionist, or a trainer that you see
on a regular basis. But you need to be accountable to someone. This
will work best for those of you that can't find support among your
family, friends, or co-workers.

Second, if a member of your social support group also loses weight,
you'll have a greater chance of succeeding. So try and get family
members, friends, and co-workers directly involved. Get them from
cheerleaders to active participants in the fight against fat.

I hope these tips help you out. If you don't have any social support
right now, by all means, send me an email on your progress and at
least hold yourself accountable to me.

If you need help planning a workout, please visit:
http://www.superbeing.net/turbulence.html

I promise you Turbulence Training will give you to the fat loss you
deserve and desire.

Sincerely,

Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS Author, Turbulence Training

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