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The Power of Raw Foods to Heal
Recipes for raw dairy, fish and meat exist in almost every country. Their power to heal are well known in endemic cultures. Weston Price discovered that isolated groups thrived for centuries eating their local nutrient dense diets, included raw foods. Pottenger proved conclusively the power of raw food diets to ensure the health of generations of cats. Holistic practitioners today recognize the healing ability of raw foods.
Raw foods found in every culture
Recipes abound in every culture for raw meat, fish, and dairy dishes. Kibbeh, steak tartare, carpaccio and laab isaan are ethnic raw meat dishes. International raw fish meals include ceviche and pickled herring. Yoghurt, kefir, koumiss, longfil, dahi, creme fraiche and piima are fermented or soured raw dairy recipes claimed by several countries.
Pottenger’s famous cat studies
Physician Frances Pottenger conducted research on 900 cats, comparing a raw food diet to cooked foods. The cats fed raw milk and meat exhibited perfect health with good bone structure, wide palates with plenty of space for teeth, gentle dispositions, shiny fur, reproductive ease and the absence of parasites and disease. In contrast, the cats fed a diet of cooked meat and milk became increasingly ill with each generation until they died before they were able to reproduce. Their symptoms and illnesses mirrored that of humans, including infestation with parasites, weak bones, personality changes, hypothyroidism, allergies and skin diseases.
Weston Price’s remarkable research
Pottenger’s contemporary, dentist Weston Price, conducted a world-wide study of human cultures and found those eating nutrient dense unprocessed foods exhibited exemplary health, far superior to Americans at that time. Each culture ate some raw, uncooked foods including dairy, meat and/or fish. Price had hoped to find a group thriving on an exclusive vegetarian diet, but did not find one.
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2014/04/the-power-of-raw-foods-to-heal/
