Living Foods Defined
by Ann Wigmore
The Living Foods Lifestyle is based on one
essential principle - Life! Life comes from life. The life of our body is
the totality of the lives of our individual cells. Lively cells make a
lively body. Healthy cells make a healthy body.
How do we cultivate healthy cells? The
principle can be summarized by the "Life and Death Equation", namely:
Better Health" equals "Life In" plus "Death Out". In
other words: Better Health is the result of putting more Life (Living
Nourishment) Into the body and taking Death (Toxic Sludge) Out of the body.
What does it mean to put Life Into
the body? This means that we provide Living Nourishment to our
cells. What is Living Nourishment? Simply speaking, it is
readily digestible food that hasn't been killed (cooked). Thus we
advocate good food served and eaten raw - like crisp colorful salads and fresh
ripe fruits and their juices. Sound appetizing? Yumm.
Then how about raw chickens and raw pigs - complete with feathers, hair, bones,
and blood? Probably not so appetizing. (Unappetizing for us, perhaps, but not for true animals of prey -
true carnivores - with fangs and claws and industrial-strength digestive
juices. For such predators these prey would constitute Live
Nourishment!)
But what about dairy - milk: "nature's most
perfect food"? Well, if it's pasteurized (read: cooked, dead) even a
calf can't survive on it. But even in the live, uncooked state - cow's
milk and mother's milk are quite different - in fact - they are about as
different from each other as calves are from infants! Obviously, one is
ideal for baby cows and the other is ideal for baby humans.
"Yes", you might say, "but does
every food I eat have to be ideal for me?" Valid question...
Straight answer: "Well, no, not really." But, then again,
remember that every choice we make has its consequences. Now, certainly
it is true that most of us can eat almost anything that we like - and not
experience any seriously harmful effects (at least up to age fifty or
so). But, on the other hand - if we knew that making certain diet
modifications could enable us to live healthy and youthful lives - free from
drugs and surgery - well into our eighties, nineties, and beyond - wouldn't it
be worth considering such modifications?
The Living Foods program advocates a variety of
fruits, vegetables, and sprouted seeds - processed in various specific ways -
blended, fermented, dehydrated, or juiced - but not cooked. Furthermore,
we recommend the use of wheatgrass juice (the juice extracted from wheat in its
grass form) as one of the most potent forms of cleansing nourishment on the
planet. All animals instinctively seek out the healing power of grasses -
even domestic pets!
What does it mean to get Death Out of the
body? This means that we seek to make our bodies pollution-free.
Any dead and/or toxic substances in the body should be detected, neutralized,
and eliminated - pronto. This requires that the body's organs of
purification be operating at peak efficiency - in particular, the circulatory, lymphatic,
and immune systems, the lungs, sweat glands, liver, kidneys, and... last but not least, the colon.
"Ugh, do we have to talk about the
colon?" Fairly common question.
Unflinching answer: "You betcha."
In fact, of all the organs in the body, perhaps the most important is the
colon. Let's face it. When the colon slows down, we get polluted
and sick, and none of our other organs, especially the brain, can work very
well. If the colon stops working completely - or God forbid, ruptures -
we get dead - very quickly. Think of it as analogous to the sewer pipe
from your house. When that clogs up - even partially - you know that you
have a serious problem. Right?? Right.
So that's why we advocate colon cleansing -
enemas - colonic irrigations. Fun?
No. Effective in alleviating health problems?
Definitely. Now, granted, we never want to
become dependent on enemas (there is no substitute for adequate dietary fiber)
but when the job needs to be done, we say "Do it."
One more thing - almost nobody thinks that his
or her colon is clogged. Actually, there are various degrees of being
clogged. Consider this: If my health is less than perfect, and/or
I've been eating mostly cooked (read: clogging) food all my life, it's a pretty
good bet that my colon has seen better days and my health and quality of life
might really improve if I did some internal housecleaning. Anyway, what
have I got to lose? (And wouldn't I be better off if I lost all of it?!)
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