Should We Eat Living Foods or Dead Foods? Why should this question arise? Because the peoples of America and the world suffer grievously from widespread disease. Recent research has revealed that the quality of nutrients we put into our bodies determines the quality of our lives. We are all aware that engines perform. well or poorly, depending upon the quality of the fuel used. Few of us realize that food quality directly determines our physical and mental performance abilities. I frequently receive phone calls and letters that go like this: Is it okay to eat corn? Potatoes? Bread? Prepared cereals? Beans? Tofu? And many other substances which must be cooked in order to be eaten. What questioners really meant was why these foods aren't okay? I must then tell them of the many evils and curses that result from the eating of foods that have been heat deranged(扰乱). I tell them: 'If you can't relish(享受) it in the fresh raw state, you shouldn't be eating it at all. ' To save myself a lot of letters and communications, I will, in this article, spell out many of the salient reasons why 'dead' foods should never enter the human mouth. The First thing I do with writers and callers is present the benefits of the living food enormous diet. For instance I might say: Living food eaters have more energy and stamina. Then I get the inevitable 'why' which is a way of saying 'prove it.' I proceed to heighten their curiosity with further statements like: Those who live on living foods are better rested and better slept in less time. Those who eat most living foods are more alert, think clearer, sharper and more logically. Those who undertake the eating of live foods, especially in conjunction with an exercise regime(生活方式), experience drastic weight loss. This is great for those people who need to lose weight. Those who rely upon living foods become more active and precise in their motions and actions as well as their thoughts. Hence they perform. much better and with more competence. Living food eaters are less subject to stresses and nervous tensions than conventional eaters. Moreover, if an exercise regime of 15 to 30 minutes a day is followed, they are even less subject to stress. Living food eaters become virtually sickness-free! Of course a great deal of skepticism is often expressed after all, they need dispensation(特赦) as well as justification for their love affairs with pizza, bread, potatoes and so on. They may even tell me that this is all just anecdotal, that is, just like old wives tales. I then tell them: 'Why not try it yourself and experience the wonderful results. Then you can tell your own experiences anecdotally just as you are now anecdotally expressing your skepticism.' Then I proceed to start putting the clinchers(关键性的话) on my case as follows: In nature all animals eat living foods as yielded up by nature. Only humans cook their foods and only humans suffer widespread sicknesses and ailments. Only humans regularly and .consistently suffer premature death. Natural death in humans is so rare that it isn't even listed as a cause of death in our almanacs or statistics. Then the question often arises: 'What's so terrible about cooking foods? Everybody does it.' To which I respond: 'Just about everybody has cavities, poor eyesight that requires glasses, colds and other sicknesses, don't they?' Then I answer further with some statements and citations that are obviously true: Cooking is a process of food destruction from the moment heat is applied to the foodstuff. Long before dry ashes result, food values are totally destroyed. If you put your hand for just a moment into boiling water, or on a hot stove, that should forever persuade you just