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Article #8: Functional Food: Preventing Diseases and Promoting Pet Health

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






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