What's Wrong With Cooking?

Cooking food destroys almost all (up to 83%) of the nutrients in it. In some cases it changes the molecular structure of the proteins, minerals and other nutrients into inorganic materials the body cannot assimilate.

After a meal of a cooked meat, cooked potato, cooked vegetable, a piece of cooked bread, followed by a cooked sugar dessert you push yourself away from the table, stomach full and satisfied, you head to your easy chair.

In reality, you have given your body no practical nourishment and you're slowly starving your body's living cells. The body needs nutrition. When it doesn't get it, it starts to feed on itself. But it knows it can get no nourishment from the fat so it begins to feed on the muscle. Begin right now to eat live raw food, not cooked dead food.

Of course you'll want to bake a potato, but if you do cook or steam your vegetables, wait until the water is rapidly boiling to help lock in the nutrients. Use only stainless steel or iron cookware. Do not use aluminum! The aluminum will come off in the food. Also, do not store food in aluminum containers and don't buy food in aluminum containers. Try to buy only fresh food.

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