All mammals eat raw food. Unfortunately for us, humans have departed from what nature intended, and we are paying a heavy price for this foolishness. One of the most egregious assaults on the nutritional quality of our food is cooking. Heat damages nutrients, makes food more difficult to digest, and high heat even creates carcinogenic (cancer-causing) toxins.Cooked foods will not support healthy life in animals or humans. Accordingly, some researchers have suggested a diet of at least 50% raw foods. Others have suggested at least 80%. The long-lived Hunza people ate about 80% of their diet fresh and raw. What is the ideal percentage? Nobody really knows. It may be 100%.As I was researching the effects of food processing, I came across some shocking experiments. I found that a calf would die from its own mother’s milk, if that milk had been cooked (pasteurized). As a chemist, I knew that heat altered the chemical properties of food, but I had never considered that pasteurized cow’s milk…

Back to the Basics: Why Fresh Food Still Wins The foundation of real health has never changed. It starts with fresh, natural food—not trends, not gimmicks, not “latest breakthroughs,” but the way humans have eaten for generations. A truly health-supportive lifestyle is built on: Fresh fruits and vegetables Clean meats and seafood Whole, intact grains Natural, unprocessed foods No refined sugars.No refined flours.No processed oils.No preservatives or chemical additives. This way of eating may be the “latest craze” in popular culture—but at Beyond Health, we simply smile.It’s exactly what Raymond Francis has been teaching for years. This isn’t a diet.It’s how the body is designed to function. Eat Foods the Body Recognizes When food is fresh and minimally processed, the body knows what to do with it: Digest it efficiently Extract nutrients properly Maintain stable energy and metabolism Support detoxification and repa…