Enzymes
In a book called Enzyme Nutrition, a Dr. Edward Howell wrote, “The human race is at least half sick… there are no completely healthy people living on the conventional diet. Even young adults who feel fit have health defects.”
He blames this national state of disease on malnutrition due to the consumption of cooked and processed food. This food destroys all enzymes and therefore makes it impossible for the body to metabolize nutrients.
There are three classes of enzymes: metabolic enzymes, which run our bodies; digestive enzymes, which digest our food; and food enzymes in the raw food itself, which start food digestion.
All of our organs and tissues are run by metabolic “worker” enzymes. These enzymes take proteins, fats and carbohydrates (starches and sugars) and structure them to make healthy bodies, keeping everything functioning in order. Nothing must interfere with the body making enough metabolic enzymes. Good health depends on it. A shortage means trouble!
The digestive enzyme group includes proteases (to digest protein), amylases (to digest carbohydrates) and lipases (to digest fat). Our Creator gives us these enzymes at birth, but in a limited supply. So His master plan is that we do not exhaust that supply by forcing the body’s digestive enzymes to carry the whole load of digestion. When food enzymes do some of the work, your enzyme potential can allot less activity to digestion and have more energy to give to the hundreds of metabolic enzymes that run the entire organism, which is you!
According to Dr. Howell, the enzyme potential of almost all North Americans is facing bankruptcy. We are on a minus diet-food minus its enzymes. This is a strain on all organs, especially the pancreas. No wonder there is an. epidemic of diabetes! ! !
The proponents of a LIVING-FOOD lifestyle introduces a new way of looking at disease.
Digestion begins in the mouth.’ Human saliva is loaded with enzyme activity: (that’s why we’re told to chew each mouthful 35 times!) The pancreas is designed to supply the rest. But it’s the enzymes in raw food that begin the process of digestion, thus lowering the drain on the body’s own enzyme supply.
ENZYMES tolerate no heat at all. If water is uncomfortably hot in yom hand. it will destroy the enzymes in your food!
A LIVING-FOOD LWESTYLE means eating food that contains all of its acpve ingredients: enzymes, vitamins, minerals, bioflavonoids, vitamin c-factors and fiber. That includes nuts and seeds.
Nuts should be consumed raw, because heat damages their natural oils and makes them carcinogenic. But nuts and grains are protected with a coating that prevents germination and inhibits enzyme action. That coating must be washed or soaked away to make them digestible. When nuts, seeds and grains are sprouted they are good, good food, and provide the necessary protein for optimum nutrition. Enzyme activity in the seed is generally at its height when the sprout is approximately 1 centimeter long.
“In germinated tree nuts and cereal grains we have all of the protein, carbohydrate, fat and calories we will ever need, “says Dr. Howell. “Complete enzyme nutrition, which the germinated nuts and cereals provide, can put a damper on the basic, if unrecognized, cause of many diseases and solve food shortages at the same time.”