Rule #8 in Dr. Ritchason’s Golden Rules of Health
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Golden Rule 8 says, “Eat as much raw food as possible.” Basically, many of the nutrients in our fruits and vegetables, including enzymes, vitamins, phytonutrients and antioxidants, are destroyed when cooked. If food enzymes are not destroyed, they can aid our own body’s digestive enzymes so we can get more nutrition from what we eat.
There is a growing section of the pet food industry that promotes raw food including raw meat diets for our dogs and cats. A famous experiment involved raising generations of healthy cats on raw milk. When fed pasteurized milk, the cats were much less healthy. As part of my dogs’ diets (I have two rescue dogs – Sam and Petie), I feed them a raw chicken leg everyday. I heard a veterinarian speak at a natural pet conference about the importance of raw meat and raw bones for a healthy pet diet. As long as the chicken bone is raw, it won’t splinter. I wouldn’t recommend raw meat for people, but our pets have much more stomach acid than we do, which will kill all the nasty bacteria and parasites.
Wendy
