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Summary: Digestion is very important in a raw food diet. Learn more about the process of digestion with tips from an organic gardener in this free raw food video.
Jeff Belli heads his own business, Chi of Me, located in middle Tennessee. Coming from a family with a long tradition in gardening, Jeff is passionate about having a positive impact on...read more
"Alright now, we talked about combining foods. Let's now talk about digestion, because that's what really part of the raw live food is about is ease of digestion. If you don't have the enzymes with the vegetables or the foods that you're eating, then your digestion is going to be poor. What happens is, if the enzymes aren't with the food, it's going to go down to your cellular level and rob your enzymes that make up your body. Each time that you eat cooked food and your body has to rob your cells to digest that food. That's the process we call aging. One of the main goals here is to communicate to you all that when you eat things like any kind of nuts. These nuts are indigestible; they have enzyme inhibitors on them. So these nuts need to be soaked for at least an hour before they're readily available for the nutrients to go into you. A lot of times people eat nuts and they get a belly ache. That belly ache is because the enzyme inhibitors are all over this and your body can't digest it. So, anytime that you have indigestion or you burp or you fart or you have gas or anything uncomfortable, you could even have headaches. These are all results of not being able to digest because the enzymes were destroyed and not eating the food properly. Combing them wrong, which creates a lot of work for your body. Which ends up aging you."
eHow Article: Raw Food Diet Digestion