What is ‘Pure Energy’? The answer is that nutrients are taken in from an outside source and this source energizes our body system. Nutrients should be pure and natural without causing any side effects such as acidity, indigestion, toxins, unwanted fat and all other things that are bad for our health.

The food we intake is the fuel we use for our energy for movements. The simple theory for giving your body ‘pure energy’ is to give it what is good and avoid what is harmful now or in the longer run.

If you honestly analyze what you send into our digestive system every day, you will understand immediately how many things you eat is hard and strenuous for your digestive organs. Fried, grilled, toasted and churned delicacies of meat, vegetables, potato and banana chips, vinegar soaked condiments, pickles, sauces, ketch-ups, snacks, buttered and cheese smeared white bread, eggs, coffee, tea and so on, washed down with yeast-filled wine, beer and other liquor brands.

Instead of eating to energize our body cells for movements and functions, we are destroying the system by overloading it with filth. Consequently our digestive organs struggle to neutralize the alkaline and acidic effects of these foul-foods and convert them into glucose for energy. Over a period of continuously working overtime, they are fatigued and stop their normal functions. Viruses and bacteria are waiting for such a chance and start their grand debut.

The body cells are grown, developed and destroyed to make way for new cells known as metabolism. For enabling the body system to do this without hassle, we should help our body by constantly giving it only pure and non intoxicated energy through raw foods. Vegetables (preferably organic), fresh Fruits, Nuts, Seeds, tender coconut juice and pure natural Honey are some of the top most raw foods.

But prior to this, the sediments and deposits stocked over the years in the body cells as impurities and toxins should be cleansed first. For this, the best cleansing agents are fresh lime juice, apple juice, and orange juice taken on empty stomach in the morning, ginger is the best antibiotic and can be added in lime juice by crushing or grating. Massaging the body and doing exercises to sweat out toxins as well as drinking lots of purified water will be very effective in make cleansing successful. On the day of cleansing and thereafter, no other contaminants like coffee, tea, alcohol and other processed beverages should be taken. (Please consult a health professional before undertaking any fast).

Then you can commence the building operation of pure energy by raw food diets by eating these items:

• Fresh vegetables such as carrots, beets, cucumber, celery, broccoli, asparagus, spinach, lettuce, greens, cabbage etc.
• Salads prepared with vegetables
• Fruits – grapefruit, lime, lemons watermelon, Papaya, Avocado and Tomato are recommended.
• Sprouts, Grasses, Almonds, Pumpkin seeds (soaked in pure water for hours if need be)

Each of the above have an abundance of Vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, starch, glucose, proteins, amino acids, fiber, chlorophyll and so on.

As of today, millions of people have started taking these raw foods to energize their body & mind. What are you waiting for?

On this topic, the basis for scholars and researchers flashing arguments and counter-arguments is – what are Nature's first foods and how human being can derive the best out of them? They are ‘Vegetables and fruits’ and ‘Colostrums’. The first one needs no explanation as most of us are eating them daily. The second one is the special liquid that all mammals including humans ‘give’ as a gift to their offspring.

Undoubtedly, vegetables are nature's creation on this Planet and they have been around for millions of years for the consumption of animals and human beings. The primitive mankind was living in the caves and dense forests, eating whatever Nature had to offer – vegetables, fruits, leaves, and herbs.

Prior to the invention of fire, all vegetables and fruits had to be eaten raw, in their natural state. But once fire came into being, humans started ‘cooking’ the vegetables into different dishes, by adding everything the taste buds desired into it. This continues even today and has proliferated into a mammoth industry of fine dining with multiple cuisines and with it has also brought multi-various diseases and disorders plaguing humanity. Simultaneously, medical science has grown into magnanimous proportions to invent new medicines and drugs every other day, helping the industrialists to flourish in trillions of dollars.

The advocates of ‘vegetables and fruits’ as the Nature's first food are unanimous in one thing, that is these Nature's first food items should be eaten as fresh and raw as we get them. They support this by evidences tendered by consecutive researches that ‘cooking’ spoils almost 83% of the nutrients inherent in it and therefore it should be avoided to derive 100% benefits from them.

Our body system is so designed to generate energy from what we eat and unless we jeopardize the harmony of this natural functioning by sending in the wrong food – processed junk food, cooked, fried, toasted, and churned delicacies with fats, tallow, oils and ghee, flesh and meat of animals, milk, cheese, chocolates etc.

Taking into consideration the arguments in favor of ‘colostrums’, there is no denying that it is also a nature's gift to mammals. They are pure when they come out of their mother's milking organs. But the question is how to supply them in large quantities so that everyone can benefit from it? Once milk is processed for packaging, by pasteurizing and filling in containers, it tends to lose its original properties.

Milk, in our days, due to health industry regulations cannot be consumed raw without these essential processing methods for distribution. Further, the period of secretion of this liquid, before the actual ‘milk’, is very limited in all mammals including humans. So they have to be collected only during this short period to confirm they are ‘colostrums’.

Therefore, even though for argument sake ‘colostrums’ are accepted as Nature's First Food, they fail miserably when it comes for human consumption criterion.

Many people have lingering doubts about eating raw foods – the vegetables and fruits as they come about garden fresh simply because they cannot think of any tasty and taste bud satisfying recipes. But they are in for a surprise. There are a lot of palatable recipes and dishes that can be made from the raw vegetables and fruits – salads, mixtures, juices, crushes and so on. Vegetables (preferably organic), fresh Fruits, Nuts, Seeds, tender coconut juice and pure natural Honey are some of the best raw foods for your health.

By TTS Cofounder Botanical Chef Omid Jaffari