Note: This post contains helpful dietary information for all health-conscious readers, but be forewarned that it's not all pretty!
Let's consider, for a moment, Newton's first law of motion: A body persists its state of rest or of uniform motion unless acted upon by an external unbalanced force.
Now, when you launch into a diet high in living foods, primarily fresh fruits and vegetables, you will discover that they create motion. Meanwhile, non-living foods -- such as cooked proteins, cooked starches, nuts, and all manner of processed substances -- keep the intestines mostly stagnant.
Most people consume copious amounts of mainstream food or "gym-head health food" -- such as protein bars, lean meats, soy, and peanut butter. This food is dead; it has no kinetic energy. Living foods are alive; they have a lot of kinetic energy.
When living foods suddenly enter your stagnant, waste-impacted intestine, you may feel like you've swallowed a bunch of expanding jumping beans! If, like most people, you've embarked on a diet of living foods for the weight loss and digestive benefits, you may be perplexed when your midsection suddenly starts moving and expanding.
But don't be too quick to cry confusion in the face of all the conflicting information circulating in health and raw food circles. Simply put on your scientific thinking cap. Take a moment to sit with the common scientific sense of chemical reactions and the laws of motion. In this way, you can find all the dietary answers you need without opening a single book or visiting a nutritionist, spa, doctor, or raw food guru.
Pay close attention now. Here's a scenario that illustrates an important concept that will serve you well in the living-foods lifestyle:
Imagine taking the remains of dinner and tossing it into a garbage can. Seal the lid. The next morning when you wake up, go to the garbage can and open it. The stench that assaults you is noxious carbonic gas that has started to grow rogue bacteria. This is what happens in your body -- but your body is much warmer, so the chemical reaction and resulting bacteria are much more pernicious.
Now imagine what would happen if you took fruit -- the cleanest, healthiest food known to humankind -- and added it to the garbage at this moment of chemical decomposition. Would that be healthy? Even though fruit is wonderful, it is not going to generate immediate health in this scenario. Consider the kinetic motions and chemical properties of foods. When you place fruit sugar on top of acidic waste and gas, the result is more gas, fermentation, and putrefaction -- ultimately endangering the bacterial balance of the intestine and constipating the bowel.
Therefore, if you were a scientifically minded live-foods enthusiast, you would take one of the following steps:
(a)wait for your body to remove the waste and gas that supports the proliferation of bad bacteria;
(b)have a vegetable juice or vegetables, which will have a neutral effect at worst and a beneficial effect at best by hydrating the waste and contributing good microbes to fend off the bad bacteria; or
(c)just wait a few hours before eating or drinking to give the body a chance to clear up this digestive upset (commonly caused by poor food combining, poor food order, overeating, eating while stressed, etc.).
Remember, living food is only health-generating if it has an advantageous chemical reaction with everything else going on in the great petri dish of the body.
If after eating your first living-foods meal, don't be surprised if you experience a ballooning midsection! Remember Newton's first law of motion. Dead food piled on top of dead food keeps the intestine pretty dead. But living foods -- with all their live enzymes kickin' around - -will act upon the body in a state of rest.
Most people assume this means that cleaner meals don't agree with them, but what's happening will ultimately be a very good thing if you continue to incorporate more living foods in your diet. The raw hydrating substances are just reacting to the acidic waste and helping to eliminate it. This is a temporary state of awakening. The only way to clean out the old matter is to introduce these ultra-clean living foods (imagine soap for the intestine) and allow them to do their work.
If you seek to minimize the development of new carbonic gas, you will eventually have clean, contracted, healthy cells. This will correlate to a lean body with tremendous vitality. So don't misunderstand the changes your body undergoes as you introduce more living foods to your diet.
Let's all keep our thinking caps on and consider the laws of motion as we make our meal choices. It's actually really fun getting to know our bodies in this new way. Here's to the kinetic energy of living foods and harnessing the laws of science to improve our life experience!