| Food and diet play an important role in
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| | raw food and fibrous foods, protective
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| health. Every day, research in fields
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| | mucus will form in excess and build-up on
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| such as epidemiology and nutritional
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| | bowel tissue, similar to the age rings we
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| biochemistry teach us more about this
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| | see in the trunks of trees.
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| relationship. Through scientific
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| | As a result of faulty eating, nature's
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| investigation and effective consumer
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| | protective coating -- which was designed
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| communication, functional foods are
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| | for occasional use only -- becomes
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| becoming an important tool in promoting
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| | enraged and inadvertently contributes to
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| health.
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| | ill health.
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| According to Health Canada, a functional
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| | Consequently, the immune system is taxed
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| food is "consumed as part of a usual diet
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| | and the presence of this excess mucus
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| that is similar in appearance to, or may
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| | creates a perfect medium for the
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| be, a conventional food, and is
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| | multiplication of bacteria, viruses,
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| demonstrated to have physiological
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| | parasites and worms. Autoimmune diseases
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| benefits and/or reduce the risk of
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| | may develop due to the fact that the
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| chronic disease beyond basic nutritional
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| | immune system has begun to attack the
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| functions."
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| | body, rather than invading
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| Functional foods may come from plants or
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| | microorganisms.
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| animals. Active ingredients effective in
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| | Continually eating "lifeless" foods --
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| promoting human health include amino
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| | cooked, refined or processed foods devoid
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| acids, fats, dietary fibres,
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| | of fibre and enzymes -- over-stimulate
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| antioxidants, pigments, vitamins and
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| | the immune system in a way that
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| minerals.
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| | compromises its function. As a result,
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| If you follow the studies that document
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| | the animal becomes susceptible to every
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| the stress put upon our digestive tracts
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| | virus and bacteria.
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| when processed and refined foods are
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| | Raw food is living food. It's food that
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| eaten, you will then realize how the body
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| | has not been processed or heated above
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| has to respond in a completely unnatural
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| | 118oC (244oF). It's food that contains
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| way to digest food matter that the body
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| | the enzymes necessary for digestion as
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| does not recognize.
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| | well as all the natural vitamins and
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| Interestingly, when cooked foods are
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| | minerals inherent in the specific
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| eaten, large amounts of mucus are
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| | vegetable or fruit. Raw food is probably
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| secreted. Foods that are particularly
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| | the only basis for optimum nutrition. In
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| mucus forming include all processed and
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| | an article in "Alive" magazine in May of
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| refined foods.
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| | 2000, nutritionist Dr Paavo Airola stated
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| When cooked food is eaten, the T-cells,
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| | that an optimum diet must be at least
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| which are so vital to immune function,
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| | 75-per-cent to 95-per-cent raw. And that
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| increase in the gastrointestinal tissue
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| | was a reference to human diets. That
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| to protect our system from certain foods,
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| | would leave little room to doubt that
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| which are interpreted as foreign matter.
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| | canines and felines should be consuming
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| If we consume cooked and processed food
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| | at least that much raw food.
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| day after day without adequately eating
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