Haven't humans adapted to cooked food?
David: We have, but not in the way that most people think. How is it that an animal such as a field mouse, that has never eaten cooked food in its genetic history, can be captured, fed cooked food, and still live. Did it instantaneously adapt to cooked food? Just because you can chew up something, swallow it, and live long enough to tell others about it does not mean you've adapted to it. White bread, for example, has only been around for the last 100 years. People eat white bread en masse and they are still alive, does that mean they've adapted to it? Cooked food has a cumulative effect on the body. It builds up over time and prematurely wears out your body and severely damages your internal organs. Just because its dangerous effects are not felt immediately does not mean it is not damaging.
But I feel healthy right now, why do I need to get into a raw-food diet?
David: Do you ever suffer from any colds, fevers, headaches, body pains, allergies, etc? These symptoms, which are considered normal by civilization's standards, are actually dangerous, pathological conditions caused by eating cooked food. How many animals do you see blowing their noses? How many primates do you see coughing their lungs out? People think they are healthy, but they have never experienced real health.
What is a raw-food diet?
David: A raw-food or fruitarian diet is a natural diet. Every single natural organism on the planet eats exclusively raw foods. No free-living creature ever tampers with its food. Some people consider this diet the next step past a vegetarian or vegan diet, but it really transcends all diets. It is simply the natural way to nourish your body.
Why would anyone want to follow such a diet?
David: This diet is the most incredible discovery in human history. Again, every natural creature feeds exclusively on raw foods. When you follow this diet you reach a level of success, health, and vitality you never before thought possible. I know one gentleman who has been a raw-foods enthusiast for 37 years. He became the number one insurance salesman for his company out of a field of 13,000 -- simply nobody could compete with him. Remember: cooked food is dead food. Anything that is cooked or denatured becomes a lifeless substance. You cannot revitalize living cells with dead materials.
You use the terms raw-food and fruitarian interchangeably. Do they mean the same thing?
David: Once you start on a program of raw nutrition and begin to get cooked food out of your body, you immediately gravitate towards eating more fruit. This diet at first cleanses you of all harmful poisons and then builds you up to an exhilarating level of health. That is what fruit is, it is a cleanser. Fresh, ripe fruits stand out as our best food source. Humans are not omnivores. That idea is civilization's gravest error. If you think humans are meat-eaters then try eating the animal raw like every other meat-eater on the planet. If something is not palatable in its raw state then you probably shouldn't be eating it. Humans are frugivores. That means we are naturally designed for a diet of mostly fruits and some vegetables.
What about meat? Do you eat raw meat?
David: No. Humans do not have it in their physiological ability to take down a wild animal, kill it, and rip out its guts with their teeth like a carnivore. Humans are not biologically carnivorous nor are they omnivorous. Could you imagine yourself nude, barefoot, with no tools or fire, trying to tackle a wild animal, kill it, and eat its guts out?! Eating animals is not in our biology. Think about it, if you gave a child a banana and a rabbit, it would eat the banana and play with the rabbit every time.
What do you do for protein?
David: We get asked this question all the time! Protein is no more important than any other element in our food. When people have a craving for protein, it is really an addictive craving for cooked protein. Cooked protein does not feed the body. You can get all the protein you need from raw plant food -- yes, even fruit has protein. How is it that a cow can grow hundreds of pound of protein flesh from simple grass which hardly contains any protein at all? It is not protein that is necessary to develop proteins in your body, but the essential amino acids which are present in raw fruits and vegetables. The mass frenzy on the subject of protein is the product of an elaborate media campaign by the meat and dairy industries to push their products. The truth is no one ever suffers from a protein deficiency -- and certainly no one ever dies from one. But people die of protein poisoning en masse every day. Heart attacks, strokes, cancer, etc. are all the inevitable results of overburdening the body with cooked animal proteins.
Stephen: People always ask us how we are able to have great strength without eating any animal products, taking any pills or drugs, or eating any cooked foods whatsoever. The truth is, no natural animal ever tampers with its food. The strongest, most powerful creatures are the herbivores. A gorilla can benchpress 4000 lbs. A gorilla never eats anything except raw plant foods. A chimpanzee looks skinny but it can rip a car door off of its hinges. It's just logic. 99% of human DNA is identical to the chimpanzee. The tribes of chimps that hunt and eat meat are much weaker and don't live nearly as long as all other chimps. Simply put -- Nothing unnatural can ever have any good effect on the human body. Cooked foods such as meats, breads, pastas, steamed veggies, etc. are totally unnatural and have massive harmful effects on the human organism.
David: Our idea is not extreme at all when you consider that every single natural creature without exception eats exclusively raw foods. It is the vast majority of humanity that is acting extreme by eating cooked food, smoking, and swallowing poisonous medicines. There was a time when everyone who thought the world was round was thought to be extreme -- even insane. Thirty-five years ago, vegetarianism was thought to be fanatical. There are many more raw-foodists in the world than you might imagine -- I am continually surprised. Our numbers are growing all the time.
But isn't this diet primitive?
David: At present, humanity is in an even less than primitive state. People are drowning in their own addictions, pollutions, and diseases. The entire human race is enslaved to cooked food and is at the beckon call of countless, uncontrollable vices. Humans were once a higher, superior type of being.
What kind of water do you drink, or do you?
Stephen: The purest water in the world is the living water in raw plant foods, especially fruit. A raw-foodist has no need to ever drink water as long as there is adequate raw plant food available. We only drink water if we are in the mountains (where fruit doesn't grow). We eat snow, and drink snow run-off in the spring. The only reason that people need to drink exorbitant amounts of water (the 5-7 glasses that doctors recommend) is because of the cooked-food extracts they eat, which are massively dehydrated. As far as distilled water goes, it is an unnatural human-made creation, and again only serves to dilute denatured food. You want an absolute abundance of the most pure water on the planet? Eat a melon.
The truth that you touched on in your book that really impressed me was that people reproduce so much because the body knows it is dying.
Stephen: This is also why we are seeing so much teenage pregnancy. These kids' sexual and reproductive organs are being constantly irritated by not only cooked food, but the most toxic cooked food at that! Teenagers are notoriously known for fast-food, candy, drugs, etc. It's no wonder that they have bad acne, violent tempers, seemingly blank minds, no motivation, etc.
How do you address that women who go on a raw or fruitarian diet usually lose their menstruation? I have read that it is because the woman's period is, in reality, a release of toxins.
Stephen: In my opinion, it's the same thing as a runny nose. Like you said, the body is simply purging foreign and waste material.
Is juicing okay?
Stephen: Extreme situations require extreme measures. Though juicing is unnatural, understand that people have gone decades polluting their bodies -- sometimes you have got to use every bit of technology that is at your disposal. Juicing is excellent for the transition period to the raw-food diet. Drink juice to get the raw plant food into your body. Make sure it is freshly made. Many juices are pasteurized; in other words -- they are cooked -- dead. Juicing is great to get the raw food in and "flush out" your system, but it is better to eat your fruits or vegetables whole and intact.
But how can you survive cold weather without warm food and drinks?
David: Warm food gives one a false sense of security. One is warmed up or stimulated for a few minutes only to be left cold a short while later. It's like taking a hot shower: Are you more resistant to cold weather if you take hot showers or cold showers? One feels warm after a cold shower, and weak and depleted after a hot shower which drains one's vital energy. I am much more resistant to cold weather now.
Isn't a diet of raw fruits and vegetables unbalanced? Isn't fruit too alkaline? Don't we need a balance?
David: When a lion stalks a zebra it doesn't think about getting certain grams of fat, carbohydrates, or protein. When a gorilla rips into a piece of bamboo it is not worrying about balancing yin and yang foods or eating foods which correspond to its ayurvedic body type. Animals are guided by their food instinct, not by cooked-food human ideas and charts. Humanity's food instinct is corrupted by cooked-food. Once you cleanse the body of cooked food and other toxins, your instinct returns -- and that instinct is for raw fruits and vegetables (mostly fruit). Every raw, whole fruit or vegetable is perfectly balanced and is not devoid or lacking in any way.
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