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Hey! Yes Mama, couldn't have said it better... and each food in it's raw form has much more than enzymes going for it but even just the enzymes cannot be unerestimated and can't simply be supplemented with a papaya enzyme because each individual raw food has exactly the specific enzymes needed to digest it (much more complicated than popping a pill).
That all said so well above, may a say something about placebos? The placebo is the only medication that has indisputable scientific proof that it works over many decades of constant trials. One of my teachers, the founder of NLP, actually applied to sell the placebo but was denied. Listen, if the way I feel when I eat raw (lasting long periods over the last 20 years) compared to eating cooked food is just a placebo affect and it is with all the other people that have experience tremendous health benefits from raw food, well, then I say Yippeeee for this fabulous placebo!!!
Who really cares if it's a placebo affect or not, or if it's perhaps partly placebo affect. The mind is incredibly powerful. If I believe I am going to get healthy eating this way (which to tell you the truth, I am one of the most skeptical people I know and really didn't believe it until I experienced it), but if my belief is what is making me feel this strong and healthy and happy, so be it. I'll take it.
There is little scientific proof that raw foods do anything because proper scientific studies cost money and someone has tob put up that money and usually will not do so unless they have something to gain. No one has anything to gain financially (in any significant way) from proving that raw foods do what I know that they do from my own experience. That is why I suggest that each of us here treat our own bodies as our own private experiments.
If I have been doing nothing but taking a placebo that transforms me each time I take it over the last 20 years I would be utterly shocked....... and then I would keep on taking it.
Greenbunny
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