Eat well stay young

I have been doing much thinking about aging and the effects of food on aging. And if you have not read any books on raw foods, I will tell you what it is that I am thinking.

I am thinking that if cooked food is heated to high temps (in this case, anything over 115 degrees F is considered “high”.);

and if the heat kills ‘most’ of the enzymes(I guess the hardy ones survive?);

and if the heat also denatures some or most of the vitamins and minerals-meaning that vitamins and minerals are changed fundamentally in their chemical makeup so that they are less able to be absorbed by the body;

and if the heating of food effects the PH of the food- changing it from alkaline to acid;

Then the question I have been pondering is: does changing our food this way by cooking it, age the body?

The only conclusion I have come up with is that, yes, it must age the body-it has to; and it probably changes it a lot!

Ok, so again, I am not a doctor, nor a scientist. I am just a woman who is concerned about the effects of aging on her career, life and body. So I, too, am looking for “The Fountain of Youth”. The question is: Is there one and if so, where?

Come on, who isn’t concerned about the effects of aging? Who isn’t concerned about the effects of the ‘degeneration ‘of the body? I think degeneration even effects how susceptible we are to disease in the body. I think as we age, disease has more opportunity to attack our weaker and weaker bodies.

But even so, disease aside, it is such a “young” society and it seems everything is geared toward the young and sexy in this society. Magazines, books, music, movies advertisements- all cater to the younger generation or the desire to be or feel young.

The older I get, the more I notice this: the young have no idea how great it is to be young. I mean, as I got older, every spot, pimple, ache, or pain becomes cause for a call to the doctor.

Your hair, skin and body all change daily-and most times for the worse.

But I don’t mean to be morbid here, what I am getting to is my ‘beacon of light’. I am trying to paint the picture for you: If you don’t know you are in the darkness, how do you know when the light is shone?

Ok? So we are in the darkness of aging and disease.

The light that I shine is raw food and good nutrition.

Ok hand off the clicker!!!

This is really not boring-believe me, and it is not scary or confusing.

Let’s go back to the top of this blog where I said the following:

I am thinking that:

• if cooked food is heated to high temps (in this case, anything over 115 degrees F is considered “high”);
• if the heat kills most of the enzymes(I some of the hardy ones survive, I suppose?);
• if the heat also denatures some or most of the vitamins and minerals-meaning that vitamins and minerals are changed fundamentally in their chemical makeup so that they are less able to be absorbed by the body;
• and if the heating of food effects the PH of the food- changing it from alkaline to acid;

If all this is happening to our food when we cook it, then does eating this food affect our aging process?

And, if we find out the answer to this, will we be better able to control some of the effects of aging?

My opinion is absolutely “yes”!

Here is why I think that:

Let’s start with the last point on the list: PH of food.

First of all, if the body only produces acid (like lactic acid in muscles that make us sore after a work out or hydrochloric acid in our stomach to digest food) and if food gets more acid if you cook it, and acid eats things up-like rust can disintegrate a car or nail polish remover can eat away nail hard tough nail polish- and if our body needs to stay pretty neutral because our organs like to sit in neutral PH, then all that acid running in our blood and being stored in our tissues HAS GOT TO BE EATING THE BODY!

How long can something sit in acid and not basically melt away?

I mean, just in terms of a natural occurrence and common sense, acid on soft tissue has got to be damaging.

So go ahead, drink your ‘acid’ coffee, and eat your ‘acid’ cooked food and pile the acid into your system.

You will give yourself indigestion-yeah.

But you will also wear away at your body. And hey, when the body wears down more and more, then you know what? You may end up looking like what you eat.

Eat acid-look ‘eaten’ up and worn down!

I think that is pretty simple idea- or am I wrong in my thought process?

Think about it yourself and come up with your own conclusions.

Anyway, since this blog has turned out to be so long, and I want to go into more effects of food on aging and what we can do about it, you will have to wait until next time I blog-as I am doing two movies at the same time in Europe, I am blogging around my shooting schedule. So the next time I will go into molecular structure and why when you cook food changing the structure of it can age you

But for now:

Eat well-stay young!