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When cooked the heat causes vitamins and enzymes present in food to denature. This means that the vitamins and enzymes loose their molecular shape and are far less able to effectively provide for the body’s metabolic nutritional requirements for smooth running. The same can be said about frozen, irradiated and microwave foods. As you’d expect, the degree or severity to which the food is temperature or radiation treated; be it from cooking or freezing, or through industrial manufacturing processes, the less healthy it becomes. However, poaching or steaming without being excessive is okay, since it does not denature the food. Getting the balance between vitamins and enzymes When a good healthy, wholesome natural diet, such as that found in raw food is eaten, the vitamins and enzymes present generally split themselves up into performing two different vital tasks. The first task is for one lot of vitamins and enzymes to handle the digestion of the food. The second task for the remaining vitamins and enzymes is to provide for the body’s metabolic requirements, that being growth, maintenance, repair and replacement. –This, in effect, is the overall balance between vitamins and enzymes in metabolism. Junk food has very little or no active vitamins and enzymes. When eaten, the body has to find vitamins and enzymes from somewhere in order to deal with digestion. How does the body deal with this situation? It does it by using vitamins and enzymes from previously eaten food. However, this causes a deficiency and an out-of-balance between vitamins and enzymes. This situation cannot go on indefinitely. If an individual continues to eat meal after meal of nutritionally deficient junk food, then the body will run out of reserves of vitamins and enzymes. Then what happens? Digestion doesn’t take place. The food is not broken down. Consequently, the food matter just stays in clumps and clings to the gut while continuing to rot. As this situation continually happens month after month, year after year, the gut inflates like a balloon with more clumps of rotting matter, more blocks to the gut while the body degenerates. Leaky gut syndrome soon occurs, where undigested food debris finds its way from the intestines and into the blood. The debris can lodge itself in muscles, joints or a number of organs… This causes inflammatory responses and is capable in a chronic state of causing some serious damage to the body’s cells or organs. The trick here is to detoxify the body and start eating some good natural wholesome nutrition. If you don't already, then how about a salad a day?
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