Back to the Basics! The key is eating "fresh foods". A lifestyle of natural foods, nothing processed no preservatives, and no refined sugars, flour or processed oils. It’s the latest craze but unlike pop diets of the past, Beyond Health is smiling. This is no different than what Raymond Francis has been saying for years. It’s healthy eating. It’s starting with fresh fruits, vegetables, meats, seafood, and whole grains. They are all allowed if they are natural, organic, and not processed. This type of eating makes our body work the way it’s supposed to work. Shopping on the perimeter of the grocery store is the best way to avoid processed foods. When in doubt, read the nutritional labels to make sure your food is chemical free. Think of label reading as a curiosity to empower you with more information. When you look at a label, you are seeing that food. You are seeing beans, peanut butter. You are seeing dry, roasted peanuts or roasted peanuts. So, remember, anyt…

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…