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"Studies have shown that the average vegetarian has 57% less degenerative diseases and the average vegan has 77% less degenerative diseases. From the clinical evidence, the average person on Living Foods proabably have around 95-99% less degenerative diseases. "

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The term "vegetarian" does not mean "vegetable eater" but it stems from the Latin "vegetus", which means "whole, sound, fresh, and lively." or "to enliven". The emphasis is on live or living foods. Most vegetarians believe that plant foods are life giving, alive and brings health. The word "diet" comes from the Greek work dieta, which means "way of life." A diet needs to be a lifestyle in order to be effective. And this lifestyle needs to come from the heart to be spiritual, real and true.

Thus most of the books and emphasis this century has been working with the wrong definition of vegetarianism and they try to categorize it in relation to animal products! This is only partly true.

Let us look at the various types of vegetarianism or "veggie" diets. And we will use the correct term to vegetarian, meaning "giving life" There are really three major vegetarian diet categories. The cluster that gives the most life is the Raw Vegetarian, then the Vegetarian and last the Partial Vegetarian which gives the lease life. Obviously the more life-giving the better.

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I. Raw Vegetarian

- Raw Healing Vegan: 95-100% raw;

no meat, fish, fowl, eggs, dairy

- Raw Gourmet Vegan: 80/20 to 100% raw;

no meat, fish, fowl, eggs, dairy

- Raw Vegetarian: 80/20 raw,

limited fish, eggs, goat's milk, etc.
II. Vegetarian

- Vegan: no meat, fish, fowl, eggs, dairy

- Standard Vegetarian (basically American):

- strict veggie or ovo-lacto; lacto; ovo

- Cultural Vegetarian (Macrobiotic, Chinese, etc.):

- strict veggie or ovo-lacto; lacto; ovo
III. Partial Vegetarian

White meat vegetarian - poultry & fish, eggs, milk

Cooking kills the foods. When 20% cooked is used for raw veggie it means slightly cooked or heated up but not cooked for a long time which would kill the veggie’s. A dehydrator is usually used in the Raw Vegetarian category. Thus the Superior Diets category is indicating food that is live food, a living foods diet through a raw vegan diet.
I. Superior Healthy Diets

The Raw Veggie Diets are 0% to 20% cooked & processed

The Vegan Diets are 30% to 50% cooked & processed
II. Healthy Diets (Semi-healthy)

The Vegetarian Diets are about 40% to 60% cooked & processed

The Partial Vegetarian Diet is about 60% to 80% cooked & processed
III. Unhealthy Diets

The Food Pyramid Diet is about 70% to 90% cooked & processed

The Standard American Diet, about 80% to 100% cooked & processed

The reason II. first says healthy diets is that these diets are "healthy" in the short term but in the long run, more then several years on the diet they can and usually do become "semi-healthy". This is because of the strong use of grains and beans that can be influential in degenerative diseases and the cooking. Generally anything over 40% cooked is not very healthy.

The ideal diet is 95-100% raw living foods, but not everyone can reach that ideal, and most of the time a transition process is necessary for someone to reach a higher state of dietary health. We encourage people to start off with the 80/20 and then move on to 95/100% raw living foods vegan lifestyle.

Why Raw?
What are Living Foods?

These and many other questions are asked like this, which is good. Let me explain.

Living Foods have been around since the time of Adam and Eve. Throughout history there have always been people that were vegetarian, vegan, raw fooders and those on a living foods diet. The term vegetarian includes a large group of people that do not eat any red meat and most do not eat any white meat (poultry) too. Some vegetarians eat fish, some eat eggs and some drink animal milk. A vegan does not eat any animal products (meat, fish, eggs, milk). Both vegetarian and vegans usually use a lot of grains and cook their foods. But a new generation is rising up of Raw Vegans.

A raw fooder or people eating Living Foods are usually vegan and use little to no grains and little to no cooking. Whenever you cook anything over 118 degrees some of the nutrients are destroyed and the protein is denatured.

By cooking over 150 degrees all the water soluble vitamins such as C and B complex are destroyed and proteins start to denature and become unusable. Thus people in the Living Foods movment use dehyrators. There are those who are 80/20 raw, those who are 95/100% Raw. In Living Foods the foods are living and not dead, the enzymes are still alive and nutrients intack.

The healthiest and longest lived people in the world are the Hunza's in northern Pakistan, the Vilcabamba in Ecuador, and the Georgia in Russia. Many studies have been done on the Hunza's and the average life expectancy is 90 years old and many live to be over a 100 and some to a healthy 110 to 125. One doctor who lived with them for seven years concluded that their diet more than anything else is responsible for their extrordinary health and longevity. Their diet is mostly a raw vegan diet with only 1% of the protein coming from animal sources (milk, cheeze).

These are some reasons why a "Living Foods" or a "Raw Vegan" dietary lifestyle is Superior over the Standard American; cooked and processed foods the meat and potatoes diet. Some more reasons include the following.
1. Raw Vegans would eat less food naturally

On a living foods diet 15 to 30% less food is needed after several years. This is because the food is more nutritious, less energy is needed to break it down and less food is desired. Cooked and highly processed foods destroys the nutrient content of the foods and creates a greater desire for more cooked food.
2. Raw Fooders usually need only two meals a day.

Most people on a raw foods diet only eat two meals a day because that's all they need and desire, sometimes a light snack or juice drink is in between the two meals. Thus not only is the food time cut down but also the amount of time preparing food is cut down and the food digests quicker and gets into their metabolism quicker.

3. Living Raw Fooders usually need less sleep.

It takes a year to two years on a raw foods diet to reduce the amount of time needed for sleep. In two years people on a living foods diet can reduce the amount of sleep needed by 1 to 2 hours a night. After several years some people only need 4 to 5 hours sleep a night. Some people on a living foods lifestyle get down to 3 hours a night that they sleep. This is because between 30% to 70% of the body's energy is used to break down food and living, raw foods digest quicker, easier and use less energy, thus less sleep is needed. Stop and think about it if you slept two hours less a night that's 14 hours a week extra you would have!
4. Raw Vegans often have less gas, body odor and bad breath.

Living foods break down naturally and there's less gas given off, less body odor and less bad breath. Meat eaters give off considerably more gas, body odor and bad breath.
5. Raw Vegetarians will have more Physical endurance, energy and mental alertness.

This is often thought to be a subjective quality but some of the greatest athletes have been vegetarian. Anyone eating living foods will tell you they have more energy. Most cooked foods, starchy and grain foods are heavy and take a lot of energy to break down and often times make a person tired and drowsy. Furthermore, Living raw foods such as fruits and vegetables do not have these highs and lows in blood sugar.
6. Raw Fooders have more Peace and less Stress

It goes back throughout history that claims have been made that eating meat creates more negative emotions like lust, anger, gluttony, etc. Today most strict vegetarians and raw veggie’s would make the same claim that meat causes or excites these negative emotions and that they have more Peace on a raw vegetarian lifestyle. The stress of the animals is also in the meat and the acidity of meat and cooked food creates acidity in the body causing stress and only supports and perhaps increases the stress.
7. Raw Vegans would have 90-99% less illnesses and diseases.

Studies have shown that the average vegetarian has 57% less degenerative diseases and the average vegan has 77% less degenerative diseases. From the clinical evidence, the average person on Living Foods proabably have around 95-99% less degenerative diseases. In health and healing centers around the world, a raw vegan diet is used to heal degenerative diseases like: arthritis, diabetites, osteoporosis, cancer.

Studies have consistently shown, over the last 30 years, that vegetarians have far less degenerative diseases (such as: cancer, arthritis, diabetic's, osteoporosis, etc.) and illness (such as: colds, flu's, rashes, etc.). Raw Vegans have less illness and diseases then vegetarians who have less then meat eaters. Virus and bacteria are scavengers who live off of garbage, and when people are clean inside, like raw vegans who eat living foods, there's no garbage in their blood and body and little place for virus and bacteria to settle into. It has been found that most long term raw fooders never get sick or have any major illnesses.
8. Raw Fooders do not get bite by mosquitoes

People whose nutritional physiology is balanced through a raw foods diet do not get bit by mosquitoes. The B-complex are a natural repellent to mosquitoes and a healthy balanced living foods diet allows the body to give off what it needs to naturally keep mosquitoes away on its own. This has been noted by many raw fooders who are 95-100% raw.
9. And finally people on raw living foods have a longer lifespan. Oftentimes living to be well over a hundred healthy years old.

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