A little food for thought for you today. Now, I talk about this topic in my book, Eating for Energy, but I thought I would bring it up here as well.
When explaining to people the benefits of eating more natural raw foods (as opposed to heavily process garbage) I often ask them to think about wild vs. domesticated animals.
I ask them…
“How many wild animals do you know of that suffer from obesity or any other ‘human-like’ disease?”
“Why is that so many of our domesticated cats and dogs are falling prey to the same conditions that plaguing humans (think diabetes, cancer, obesity, etc…)?”
It’s an idea that many people haven’t spent much time thinking about. But there is a very simple reason that animals, that are taken from the wild and domesticated, begin to demonstrate human-like diseases.
Look the crap they’re being fed. Actually, the owners are the ones to blame. I know many dog owners who feed their dogs donuts, pizza, and other horrific foods!
Come on people!
Where on this earth, since the beginning of time, have animals been able to access processed foods?
Try never.
In one of the best nutrition books that I’ve ever read, Enzyme Nutrition, Dr. Howell discusses several experiments in which the transition of wild animals to a domesticated diet has negative consequences.
In one experiment, wild dogs were taken off their primal raw diet and fed a domesticated “dead” food diet. Now, before this happened, wild dogs did not produce salivary enzymes (like amylase) because they did not need to. Their diet was already enzyme-rich because they ate “raw” flesh.
However, once the dogs began feeding on the domesticated food, they begin producing salivary enzymes within less than 24 hours!
It was their body’s way of compensating for a lack of natural living enzymes in the feed.
Now, this may not seem like a big deal but the problem is that each animal/human has a finite number of enzymes that their bodies can produce. Once this limit is reached, it’s good night Charlie.
That’s just one reason why it’s important to eat more raw foods – so you can spare your body’s inherent enzyme stores.
It’s also interesting to note that wild animals don’t cook their food.
We do.
Who seems to be healthier?
Animals also get more fresh air, exercise much more, and probably have a great social network than most humans.
Nonetheless, the fact remains that animals eat what’s right for their bodies. 95% of humans don’t.
We eat what food companies tell us to eat. Not because it’s good but because it’s what makes them the most money.
Just something to think about.
