What is: Raw Foods?

by Djehuty Ma'at-Ra

Yes, I had to write an article about raw foods because there are many people who do not know what raw foods are or what constitutes raw food. The Matrix has done a superb and successful job in dumb downing the people, the masses as well as the near-do-well (declining middle class) people and many of the elite class. It is very true that the overwhelming majority of people in the United States have successfully been dumb downed, at least to some degree; and because of this successful dumb-downing, most American citizens really can't not think on their own, much less think at all pertaining to thinking in general.

One of the greatest areas of successful dumb-downing has been in the area of diet. Today, most people don't know what to eat to sustain health and well-being. This is the result of trusting outside authority (e.g. scientist, government politicians, corporations, teachers, religious leaders, etc.).

It is amazing to me that the lower animals of the field, the rabbit, the cow, the wolf, the bear, the lion, the tiger, the elephant, the giraffe, the gorilla, the monkey, the various birds; the snake, the fish of the sea, the whale, the shark, the insects of the insect world; etc., all know what to eat, except for God's greatest creation - man!

What is wrong with man that he does not know what to eat or what his food is today? Clearly, man, Western man specifically, is at a lost as to what to eat, or really, how to eat.

I recommend for people performing my 20-day Full Body Detox to eat RAW FOODS only for the 20-day duration. Why? Well, because eating the wrong stuff and too much of the wrong stuff has created the need for people to have to detoxify their bodies in the first place. Eating the wrong things and too much of them are harmful to and for the body.

People in the Western world, especially the United States, eat too much meat (dead, slaughtered animal flesh), dairy products (congealed cow snot/pus/mucus) and refined grains and starches (glue and starch). Coupled with this, they are consuming too many harmful synthetic chemicals (hidden in their so-called foods) in the form of flavor enhancers, hormones, sweeteners, additives, and preservatives.

And I can't forget all those harmful beverages they drink as well, e.g. beer, soda pop, Kool-Aid, milk, coffee, lattes, commercial fruit juices; and alcohol (wine, champagne, gin, whiskey, brandy, etc.).

You see, the majority of what man eats today is ACID-FORMING and thus creates MUCUS in the body, which plagues the human body. Any disease ending with the suffix "itis" is the result of MUCUS, be it pancreatitis, bronchitis, vaginitis, phlebitis, gastritis, tendonitis, arthritis, meningitis, conjunctivitis, hepatitis, dermatitis, appendicitis, urethritis, colits, diverticulitis, prostatitis, nephritis, otitis, laryngitis, tonsillitis, etc., basically MUCUS, MUCUS, MUCUS! Yes, mucus, which is obstructing the mucous membranes of certain organs and glands of the body.

In order to counteract this mucus problem while performing my Full Body Detox, I recommend the eating of ALKALINE foods only for the 20-day period. Alkalinity counteracts acidity; and the greatest alkalizing foods on the planet are fruits, vegetables, sea vegetable (sea weeds), and some nuts, seeds, and grains. These foods when eaten raw, greatly nourishes and builds the tissues of the body.

To get the pure alkaline effect of these real and true foods named above, I instruct or suggest that people eat them RAW!

But it never fails when folks are detoxing that I get a barrage of phone calls or e-mails from people asking me what can they eat on the detox. They don't understand what the term "Raw" means, by itself or in front of or attached to the word "food." Many people are at complete lost.

I figured I'd type an article which folks could read so as to learn what "raw" and "raw foods" mean, well, at least for their own edification, whether they are detoxing or not.

The English word "Raw" means: 1. Uncooked. 2. In a natural condition; not refined or finished. 3. Not subject to adjustment, treatment, or analysis. SOURCE: The American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed., (2001).

Webster's New Encyclopedic Dictionary (1993) gives us, in addition to the definition supra from American Heritage Dictionary, the definition: "not processed or manufactured," "not diluted or blended."

We learn from the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (that defines over 500,000 of the total 1.1 million English words) that the word "Raw" derives from the Greek word "kreas" meaning "flesh." The NSOED defines the word "Raw" as: "Not prepared for use as food by the action of heat, uncooked." Pg. 2485

Okay, to break things down to pabulum for the masses, basically, RAW means "UNCOOKED," "NOT PROCESSED," and/or "IN A NATURAL STATE."

So when you see the word "Raw" in front of the word "food," it means that the food is not cooked, not processed, not refined, not manufactured. The food has not been heated up by the action of heat stemming from fire or electricity.

Okay, so before going on, let me break down the word "food," because the truth of the matter is, the majority of people (here in the U.S.) don't know what food is due to successful engineering and mind control/programming by the crap-food engineers and food lobbyists (mainly of the meat and dairy industries) who gave you your food pyramid in elementary school of the public fool system after World War II.

The word "food" is defined as: "Material, usually of plant or animal origin, that contains essential body nutrients, taken in and assimilated by an organism to maintain life and growth; nourishment."

Now let me clarify some things here based upon the above definition of meat from the American Heritage Dictionary.

First or primarily, food is material. Secondly, it is of PLANT or ANIMAL origin. Third, it contains essential body NUTRIENTS. Fourth, those essential body nutrients are taken in and ASSIMILATED by an organism to maintain "life" and "growth." Pretty simple, wouldn't you say so?

I have to break this down to a very basic and elementary science because there are many proud, ignorant, rigid, and dedicated dead animal flesh eaters out there who swear up and down that it is okay to eat animal flesh for purposes of food, especially for protein. The strange thing is, these animal flesh eaters and lovers don't subscribe to the eating of all dead animal flesh, only the flesh of the dead animals (organism) they have been conditioned and programmed (by their master, the Rulers) to eat. For example, in the U.S., the meat-eaters love to eat the flesh of dead cows (beef), sheep (lamb), pigs (pork), chicken, turkey, fish, shrimp, lobster, and crab. Many will also eat the dead flesh of rabbit, squirrel, possum, buffalo, and horse.

They will eat the flesh of these creatures supra including their intestines (e.g., chitterlings), tongue (e.g., cow tongue), stomach (e.g., chicken gizzard), brain (e.g., hog head cheese), booty or back end (e.g., bacon), and neck (e.g., neck bone). However, these same eaters of the flesh of the dead organisms supra, will not dare touch, for the life of themselves, the flesh of dead rats, hamsters, dogs, cats, snakes, lizards, or turtles. Why? Because they have not been programmed or conditioned to do so, but if their Rulers started teaching them via media, schooling, fast food, etc. to eat these meats supra, they would slowly jump on the bandwagon and begin eating these meats.

And for the Christians who are quick to justify eating meat by saying God didn't make anything unclean, I don't see your religious behinds eating rat meat, or skunk meat, or porcupine meat. Hey, after all, God didn't make anything unclean, right? Well, get to eating that good ole skunk meat, damn hypocrite! You see, it has nothing to do with Jesus. The Christian is just as controlled by the Rulers as the non-Christian or atheist. A true Christian would even bend down to eat dog shit off the ground, or a dead bird, because after all, God didn't make ANYTHING unclean, remember?

You see, Americans are no longer thinkers. They are followers and doers. Americans can't think and there's a reason for this. I have always heard that Americans, generally speaking, speak on a third-grade level. Then one day, I met a newspaper editor who considered my articles for his newspaper, who frankly told me to change how I write, which was too collegiate, and to write on a THIRD-GRADE level. I was flabbergasted! It was true! Americans are purposely dumb-downed for commercial and business purposes and thus, control and regulation purposes. And "hell no!" I didn't change my writing style and be a part of the conspiracy to dumb the American people down.

But based upon the people being purposely dumb-downed, no wonder I have difficulty teaching people law and how to understand their basic rights and freedoms. The government damn sure isn't speaking legally, or speaking the law, to the American people on a third-grade level. You can best believe that!

When these bastards in government, your legislators, are purposely dumbing you down to the law of the land that protects your most basic freedoms and rights, they are violating you (your rights and freedoms) in the name of law and with the law (that is supposed to protect you, your rights, and your freedoms). You can best believe that!

If you want to learn and understand law, you had better learn to speak on a collegiate level. You can't understand American law speaking and understanding on a third-grade level. Your ass will end up paying all kinds of taxes that are unconstitutional (e.g. income taxes, state personal income taxes), getting your property confiscated (e.g., liens, levies, seizures, impounds), randomly pulled over to give the local municipality money via traffic tickets (and getting taxed on top of the tax called traffic violation penalty); and getting fined because you didn't perform jury duty, and all kinds of other forms of tyranny.

If you are past the age of eighteen and yet still speak and understand on a third-grade level, you're a goddamn idiot, retard, dummy, and thus, legally-speaking, a ward of the state and courts, and thus, a person of UNSOUND MIND; and it is not Djehuty saying this, but the legal system. I'm just repeating what your government leaders say about you. Go look up what "ward of the court," "client," or even "employee" means in Black's Law Dictionary, 5th edition. The only reason you hire an attorney in court (which makes you a "client") today is because you are a dummy (one who can't speak the language of statutory law) and thus, can't speak the language of law, which does not operate on a third-grade speaking level, but a collegiate level, of the 1700 and 1800s, that is.

Your Rulers don't hide jack shit from you today (due to successfully dumb-downing the population), and especially since they know most Americans are too busy, tired (from making a living), lazy, and disinterested in reading, especially thought-provoking literature. Who needs to read when you can just watch and listen via the television, computer, i-pod/MP3 player, radio, etc.?

Okay, returning to the gist of this article; the meat-eaters number one reason for devouring dead animal flesh is for purposes of protein. I have yet to meet an enlightened meat eater thus far in my life. I have not met one meat-eater who knew what protein was or how to define it. How can you be after something and you don't even know what it is? How can you be dependent upon protein and you don't even know what protein is, much less where to derive it from? I tell you, SHEER IGNORANCE!

Protein is basically 22 amino acids, and because no one body part or gland of any organism contains all 22 amino acids, to obtain protein, one would have to eat an organism nearly freshly alive (animal has just been killed, like what you see in nature or on the Discovery Channel or something), and RAW (like what you see in nature or on the Discovery Channel).

For protein, from an animal source, the animal must be freshly (very recently) killed and eaten down to the bone, the bloody skeleton. This is what you see in the wild of nature. Animals in the wild don't cook their meat before eating it. They don't refine it, manufacture it, dilute it, process it, etc. They kill the animal and then eat it immediately. Now that's a true carnivore that functions according to the biological law of carnivorism.

NOTE: A human carnivore is not able to devour a whole animal at one serving like what you see with a lion or tiger.

But look at the proud, ignorant ass human being today! He/she is allegedly smarter than the lower animals, but this ignoramus will COOK its dead animal flesh after processing and refining it with chemicals (e.g., sodium nitrate, synthetic growth hormones, antibiotics). On average, he/she doesn't have the heart to kill the animal; de-fin, de-fur, or scale the animal; gut the animal, and bloodily butcher the animal. No, the average person let's someone else (e.g. the butcher) do all the dirty (or bloody) work for them before chowing down on the murdered organism at breakfast. Lunch, or dinner.

Okay, is dead animal flesh "material?" Yes it is! Is it derived from a plant or animal? Yes it is - an animal! Okay, does it contain essential body nutrients? If uncooked and eaten entirely, YES! (but only for a true carnivore). But if COOKED, the answer is "no" as cooking changes or alters the entire molecular structure of the animal flesh (cadaver), for clearly, fire destroys everything in its path, which is common sense, or should be.

Okay, is this cooked animal flesh taken in (to the body, body's digestive system)? Yes! But here comes the key question, is it (cooked animal flesh) ASSIMILATED? The answer is HELL NO!

That's right, the human body cannot assimilate that which is foreign to the body and meat, cooked or raw, is foreign to the human body; especially cooked meat.

What the body cannot assimilate, it rejects, and the only thing the body naturally rejects is POISON. All meat is rejected by the human body, especially cooked meat, and therefore, it stands to reason that meat, cooked or raw, is poison to the human being and human body. But hell, don't Americans consciously consume poison on a daily basis? Hell yes they do! You think they don't? Well, what is medication (over-the-counter drugs)? Read the small fine print, usually on the back or side of the box or bottle, to find out the answer.

If medication is not poison, why are you told to "contact a POISON control center" in case of accidental overdose? You are not instructed to contact a MEDICINE control center, but a POISON control center. The key word is "overdose." Can you overdose on food and die? Of course not! But can you overdose on a foreign substance, e.g. chemical drug, and die? Of course you can! People do it all the time. You don't hear about people trying to commit suicide by eating 50 cherries, or 50 nuts or seeds, or 50 olives. True, an aspirin may knock out a headache (masking the sympton), but take 50 aspirin at once and you won't have to worry about a headache ever again, because you'll be DEAD!

The U.S. government is all about control! They control poison just like they control people. Gun control, pest control, poison control, animal control, substance control, crowd control, disease control, control, control, control!

The American citizens are controlled like a remote controlled toy car. Yes, CONTROLLED!

In conclusion, our true food as humans is PLANT-derived. We are frugavores (or fruitarian) by nature. Our true food grows on plants (and trees), e.g., FRUIT. This is even substantiated in the Bible, in the Book of Genesis, Chapter 1, and Verse 26, whereby God instructs man that his food should have a seed within it. Well, what has a seed in it? An animal or a fruit? Of course, fruit does!

Genesis 1:29 is clear in what man's original food (or flesh) was and is. The flesh of fruit (and vegetables, seeds, and some nuts and grains) is material that contain serious nutrients or nutrition (minerals, trace elements, vitamins, B-vitamins, amino acids) that can be assimilated 100% by the human digestive track and therefore can maintain life and growth. Meat-eating only comes into play in the Bible after the great deluge or Fall of Man (commission of sin), Genesis, Chapter 6. In numerical sequence, one comes before six.

Did you know the word "vegetable" derives from the word "vegetate," which means "growth?" Clearly, eating vegetables would have to sustain and support growth. When you are eating vegetables, you are eating growth.

Did you know that the word "enzyme" is associated with and synonymous with the word "life force?"

Only fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, and grains have enzymes or "life (force)" in them and only when they are in their RAW state, which means their "natural," "unrefined," and "undiluted" state.

Basically, real food has "enzymes" (life force) in it, and thus, the proper term for real food would be "live food." Now ask yourself, does DEAD, cooked animal flesh has life force in it? Of course not! Kirlian photography can easily prove this because every living organism has an aura around it. Dead animals, cooked or uncooked, do not have an aura simply because the life force is gone once the animal is killed. It's a real basic concept. But remember, most Americans can't or are unable to think (formulate in the mind) or reason (ability to think, understand, and draw conclusions).

When you put the action of fire in effect to food, you change the molecular structure of the food and hence change it from it's natural state and thus make it refined, processed, and manufactured. When you put fire to a thing, you refine it, change it. Cooking makes a thing not raw. Cooking also destroys the vital life force in the food.

So, if cooking destroys the nutrients of a food, and it does; and also destroys the enzymes (life force) of a food, and it does; then how can dead, cooked animal flesh be a food when it (1) lacks nutrients (or nutrition), (2) cannot be assimilated (by the body), and thus, (3) cannot maintain the life and growth of the human organism?

The protease (protein-digesting enzyme) in the human body is designed to strictly digest the proteins from plant sources, not animal sources.

Meat is DEAD! Life renders life and death renders death!

So now do you know and understand what RAW means? If your food is PROCESSED, DILUTED, REFINED, HEATED (COOKED via BOILING, FRYING, SAUTEING, BARBEQUING, TOASTING, BAKING, AIR FRIED, etc.), it is not raw!

However, dried fruit (e.g. dried fruit) and/or food that has been dehydrated (via a food dehydrator) are technically processed, but can be eaten during the detox. Dehydrated foods simply lack water so they can last longer. Also, a dehydrator uses heat under 118 degrees which does not destroy or kill the enzymes (vital life force).

And technically, dried fruit (or anything else) that has oil and/or salt added to it, e.g. nuts and seeds (or trail mix), has been refined; but these too still can be eaten during the Full Body Detox or any of the other Dherbs.Com cleanses, e.g Anti-Viral Cleanse and Regimen, Weight Release (Loss) Formula, Pancreas Cleanse and Regimen, etc.

Before you e-mail me or hit up "Ask the Herbalist" to ask me if you can eat a certain food or thing during the Full Body Detox, ask yourself the questions:

Has the food/thing been cooked?

Is/was heat applied to the food/thing?

Was the food/thing manufactured?

Was the food/thing processed (e.g. pasteurized)?

Is the food/thing alive?

If I cut the food/thing in half, will it still grow (like what an onion does)?

If I heat the food/thing up (e.g. stove, oven, microwave oven), will it still grow?

Think before you ask is all I ask of you!

I trust that everyone who reads this article now knows what RAW means.

NOTE: I do not and did not mean to make anyone feel bad by my words within this article. It is not my goal to make anyone feel dumb or stupid, especially for having a question. I don't mind questions, but I dislike it when people ask another (whom they deem an authority) without first trying to think on their own. You'll never learn anything in this life if you always go outside of Self and ask someone else. If you would just truly learn to think, a whole new world would open up to you. A whole new world awaits you if you start thinking. I'm not talking about the typical type of thinking, the thinking you do in school or on a job; but the thinking that you do when you are in nature and are in awe of something (e.g. natural beauty of nature); the thinking you do when you look up into the dark sky of the Universe and see the stars and wonder who created the heavens, stars, and everything else in the Universe; the thinking a young child does which makes them always ask "why?" Why is this red? Why do you do that, mommy? Why do we say grace before we eat, daddy?

I have realized that before we Americans lost our basic rights and freedoms, we were first dumb-downed. In order to reclaim our basic rights and freedoms, we must be truly educated, informed, and enlightened. Enlightenment is the key.

And by no means is Djehuty Ma'at-Ra all that and a bag of chips! I barely graduated from high school, and in all due honesty, for the life of me, I don't know how I graduated from high school, because I was truly a dummy. My speaking was very sub-standard; I spoke a lot of slang. But being inspired by Malcolm X, I educated myself. I improved and enhanced my vocabulary; I began to buy and read books and to study every single day of my life, and still do.

I studied and study every subject that is of vital importance to my survival, growth, safety, success, well-being, health, happiness, personal freedom and sovereignty, and spiritual evolution. To this very day, I thank the Nation of Islam for inspiring me to educate myself and to be a lover of knowledge, especially self-knowledge, the basis of all knowledge. You wouldn't dare catch me in that organization today, but at one point in my past, it was of great help to me. Today, I advocate that people stay away from organizations, which serve no purpose in the New Age (of Aquarius).

Though I never went to college, I can hold my own with any person who attended and graduated from college. I have learned that college can never make a person wise, just degreed; but there's so much more to life than having a piece of paper called a degree. A degree is solely for purposes of making a living within a structured society; but wisdom, understanding, and knowledge (and enlightenment) is for living one's making, following his/her own heart, dreams, and desires.

Intelligence can be measured because it is based upon data; that's why there exists such a thing as I.Q. (intelligence quotient). But there is no W.Q. (wisdom quotient). There's no U.Q. (understanding quotient). There's no E.Q. (enlightenment quotient).

I don't want to be intelligent, or only intelligent. I deal with a lot of intelligent SICK people; a lot of smart SICK people! Intelligence, smartness, educated, knowledgeable, and informed, etc. are not safeguards for sickness and disease. But enlightenment is!

An intelligent and smart man or woman will smoke cigarettes, but not an enlightened man or woman. I have met a lot of smart, educated, intelligent, knowledgeable, and informed people who were very sick (diseased) and who also violated numerous laws of human biology, Nature, the Universe, God, etc. I learned from seeing all of this to pursue enlightenment via higher consciousness.

But to get here where I am today, I had to do something so basic as THINKING! I had something in me that directed me to think for myself, not a job, a school, a system or government, an organization, or another person. But for ME! You must learn to think for your self. You must learn and know that your mind is your property and belongs to you and was given to you for you. If you don't use your mind, then you lose your mind. Do you want to know why so many people in America are losing their minds (going crazy)? It's simple: because they are not using them (their minds) for the RIGHT purpose and reasons. There is a thing called RIGHT THINKING that corresponds to and leads to RIGHT ACTION. It's one of the eight principles of Buddhism. And NO! I'm not a Buddhist!

The present state of our planet is a sign that the majority of people on it have not been using their minds for the right purpose and reasons. They have been using their minds to develop life-threatening weapons, harmful chemicals, mind-numbing technologies, devices of mass destruction; to cheat and rob people, to manipulate and to exploit, to get rich quick; to get something for nothing, to achieve worldly success, fortune, and fame to the neglect of the soul, humanity, and the planet; to satisfy the ego (false Self), and so many more things that have negatively impacted humanity and the planet.

All I'm saying is, learn to think for yourself, especially to free your mind. Thought is better than prayer! The thinking man rules over the praying man; but not so for the thinking man who prays or the praying man who thinks.

To think means you must question, and to question, you must have freedom. Freedom comes from consciousness and the ability to think which goes right back around to freedom itself. Why do you think the African slaves were forbidden to read? Because reading stimulates thought! A thinking man cannot remain a slave or a happy slave. He will eventually end up at thoughts of freedom, especially if he is not free. The White slave masters knew this.

Today, 95% of Americans are enslaved, just like the Africans who were enslaved in this country. Now ask your self this question: where you born to be a slave?

Thank you for reading.

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