TLC for your Body

First, we need to make clear Living Cuisine is delicious! It is not just salads and fruits. It is a culinary art full of creative, colorful, delicious entrees. Focus on all the deliciousness you can eat!

Fruits and Vegetables are loaded with real vitamins and minerals. Not the man made vitamins in a pill. This is the real thing that beautifully assimilates in our bodies as nature intended. Real vitamins - like the calcium in broccoli, the iron in asparagus, and the magnesium in strawberries, cantaloupe, and mangos to name just a few. All Green Leafy Vegetables contain most of the vitamins and minerals out there. A well balanced diet of raw plant foods contains the full assortment of vitamins and minerals necessary for good nutrition. Cooking destroys over 80% of a food's nutritional value and up to 100% of the enzymes in your food.

The following is courtesy of Roxanne's Raw Restaurant, Larkspur, California. "There are two main problems with enzyme destruction. First, our bodies cannot produce enzymes in the perfect mix to metabolize our food as completely as the food enzymes nature creates. This results in partially digested fats, proteins, and starches that will clog up our body's intestinal tract and arteries. More importantly, it has been demonstrated that our bodies produce a finite lifetime supply of enzymes. Every cooked meal we eat causes enzyme production that draws on our finite reserve." Once our finite reserve is used up the body starts pulling from our organs - heart, liver, kidneys, etc. It is a domino effect from there, and not to our benefit.

There is a wonderful perk to eating living foods. The effortless weight loss that will happen. The greatest part is there is no counting calories or watching fat intake. Just eating clean, living foods. Looking in the mirror just got sexier!

TLC for your Mind

Eating the clean foods will give your mind clarity. You will start to see the world and the people around you in a different way. You become more compassionate, understanding and patient. This is a whole body cleansing - not just your physical body. You become balanced!

TLC for your Spirit

Matt Amsden, the author of Rawvolution, speaks to our spirit transformation beautifully. The next bit is from him.

"Your body is your temple. Once your temple is clean and pure, there is space for divinity, insight, and virtue to reside."

"A temple so full of waste is unreceptive to the subtleties of existence itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and the control of one's appetite is a true hallmark of enlightenment and immortality."