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Some Clinical Studies and Findings Regarding the Raw Food Diet/Lifestyle
Eating Raw Foods "Uncooked fruits and vegetables pack more of a nutritional punch than their cooked counterparts. But how much of a difference can an all-raw diet really make? .... Researchers have found that a diet rich in raw vegetables can lower your risk of breast cancer, while eating lots of fruit can reduce your risk for developing colon cancer, according to a study published in the May 1998 issue of the journal Epidemiology. And including fresh fruit as part of your daily diet has been associated with fewer deaths from heart attacks and related problems (by as much as 24%, according to a study published in the September 1996 issue of the British Medical Journal)."
Antioxidant status in long-term adherents to a strict uncooked vegan diet.
Research article: Fibromyalgia syndrome improved using a mostly raw vegetarian diet: An observational study
Metabolic vitamin B12 status on a mostly raw vegan diet with follow-up using tablets, nutritional yeast, or probiotic supplements.
Effects of Raw Food Diet on Hypertension and Obesity
Raw Food Eaters: Health Habits and Nutrient Intake
Effects of eating an uncooked vegetable diet for 1 week.
Dental erosions in subjects living on a raw food diet.
Food and nutrient intake of Hallelujah vegetarians
Uncooked, lactobacilli-rich, vegan food and rheumatoid arthritis.
An uncooked vegan diet shifts the profile of human fecal microflora: computerized analysis of direct stool sample gas-liquid chromatography profiles of bacterial cellular fatty acids.
Consequences of a long-term raw food diet on body weight and menstruation: results of a questionnaire survey.
Divergent changes in serum sterols during a strict uncooked vegan diet in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
Some Observations and Experiences of Persons in the Medical and Nutrion Professions in Regard to Raw Food and Healing
"Living Foods For The Future"
An Exclusive Interview With Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
Q: How close is the Living Foods Movement to getting the monetary support it needs to fund greater amounts of scientific research to further prove its viability? And, do you think this is necessary for the conversion of the masses or is there something else that would motivate greater participation in this lifestyle?
A: The clinical results over the past 100 years on the benefits of living foods simply can no longer be denied, and my personal interest is to fund my own research into answering some of the finer points of live foods that aren't yet scientifically clarified.
Dr. Cousen's Medical Biography
Gabriel Cousens, M.D., M.D. (H) is an internationally celebrated healer, spiritual facilitator, peace-worker, author and lecturer. Founder/director of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia, Arizona, Dr. Cousens is a holistic medical doctor, a psychiatrist and family therapist, and a licensed homeopathic physician in the state of Arizona. Dr. Cousens uses the modalities of live-food nutrition, naturopathy, Ayurveda, homeopathy and acupuncture, blended with spiritual awareness, in the healing of body, mind and spirit.
Dr. Cousens is a best-selling author, titles include Conscious Eating, Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet, Depression-Free for Life, Sevenfold Peace, and Tachyon Energy: A New Paradigm in Holistic Healing, co-authored with David Wagner, the creator of the Tachyon process. As an author, healer and spiritual facilitator, he presents seminars on many topics including health and nutrition, psycho-spiritual healing, meditation and spiritual awareness throughout the United States, Central America, Africa, Canada and Europe. He is a frequent guest on popular radio talk shows and has published articles in health journals and popular magazines in the areas of live-food nutrition, depression, biochemistry, school health, clinical pharmacology, hypoglycemia and Alzheimers disease.
A cum laude graduate of Amherst College, where he was captain of an undefeated football team, Dr. Cousens was selected as an All New England lineman and one of eleven National Scholar Athletes inducted into the National Football Hall of Fame. He received his M.D. degree from Columbia Medical School in 1969 and completed his psychiatry residency in 1973.
Dr. Cousens was the Chief Mental Health Consultant for the Sonoma County Operation Head Start and a consultant for the California State Department of Mental Health. He is listed in the Whos Who in California, Whos Who Among Top Executives, Strathmores Whos Who and National Registers Whos Who and is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the American Holistic Medical Association (AHMA).
Dr. Cousens currently consults with clients at the Tree of Life to create individualized programs for vibrant wellness. He is the worlds foremost physician promoting live-food nutrition for physical health and spiritual growth. As a leading researcher and practitioner in the field of rejuvenation, he specializes in the healing of many chronic degenerative diseases including: depression, the addictive brain, chronic fatigue, candida, hypoglycemia, diabetes, hypertension, and arthritis. Dr. Cousens supports clients in integrating a holistic lifestyle that includes an individualized optimal health diet emphasizing live-foods, exercise, meditation and nutritional and medicinal supplements. He also facilitates numerous self-healing programs at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center that empower participants to take transformational responsibility for their healing and awakened living. |
The Raw Deal A WebMD article with nutrionist's observations on the benefits of raw and living foods.
Dr. Kelley’s Do-it-Yourself Book one answer to cancer by Dr. William Donald Kelley, D.D.S., M.S. Dr. Kelley was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, and reversed this typically fatal condition with a diet of mostly raw fruits and vegetables and carrot and celery juices... along with some animal protein from raw liver, raw and soft-boiled eggs, some cooked beans.
100% Cure Rate in Terminal Pancreatic Cancer. Provided patients follow this protocol to the letter, William D. Kelley DDS has developed a cancer healing protocol which claims a 100% cure rate for supposedly incurable Pancreatic cancer... and 97% for other types of cancer. Involves an almost 100% raw diet for at least 6 months.
Dr. Lorraine Day was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer and reversed the diagnosis with a diet of mostly raw fruits and vegetables and juices. Dr. Day, an internationally acclaimed orthopedic trauma surgeon and best selling author was for 15 years on the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine as Associate Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Orthopedics. She was also Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at San Francisco General Hospital and is recognized world-wide as an AIDS expert.
The Gerson Institute, founded by Dr. Max Gerson, M.D., employs, as part of its healing regimen, a diet consisting of mostly raw fruits and vegetables and much juicing of same. Here are a number of case studies of various conditions which were mitigated using their therapy.
Some books by and about medical doctors who have used raw foods as part of a healing therapy.
Conscious Eating by Gabriel Cousens "A Brilliant Combination of different Sciences of Health... This book is one of the best health books I've ever read, no question about it. It combines pretty much every diet fad you've ever heard about into a raw, living food diet... In this book, Cousens teaches us how to follow the Ayurvedic principles through a 80-90% raw food diet. He also teaches us how to individualize our diets for our metabolic body types. This is one of the only books I know that teaches how to individualize diet for a vegetarian." Callmedoug, Islip, NY
Dr. Max Gerson Healing the Hopeless Howard Straus, the grandson of Dr. Max Gerson, discusses the struggles this medical pioneer faced as he challenged orthodox medicine with his nutritional protocol. The biography follows Dr. Gerson through Nazi persecution, then persecution in the United States from the medical establishment, the continuation of his work despite the opposition, his questionable death and finally the present, where daughter Charlotte Gerson and the Gerson Institute work to continue his legacy and vision.
"A GREAT BOOK... This book is a wonderful and informative read. I found the storyline portions to be riveting, especially the story of Dr. Max's escape from the Nazis. Additionally fascinating were the historical facts of Dr. Max's discoveries and disease-curing results and how they were received by the mainstream medical establishments in Europe and USA.... I think that all readers will .... enjoy learning Dr. Max's scientific & personal history and will recognize the repeated chord the AMA strikes with regard to Dr. Max & the Gerson diet. Also if readers follow recent health news & studies, they have already seen many scie ntific studies converging on the basic truths of Dr. Max's discoveries. I strongly recommend this book and have bought copies for many friends and relatives, and my primary-care MD... " Reviewed by elias8040 from Boston, MA
The Gerson Therapy: The Amazing Nutritional Program for Cancer and Other Illnesses
"....I feel qualified to make these statements about this book because three years ago I was diagnosed with cancer and after much research and discussions with conventional and alternative practitioners, I chose to first start with the Gerson Therapy. The results have been wonderful with the cancer having gone in remission after about 18 months and numerous other problems have responded to the therapy as well. I have not had to revert to my back up plan of conventional medicine. Yes the therapy can be difficult to follow particularly because it is highly restrictive on food, requires time to make fresh vegetable juices several times every day, and requires time to do the detoxification procedures. And yes, the diet has different taste due to the salt and fat restrictions, but one quickly get use to the different tasee However, to be healed without permanent side effects is well worth the effort and the required life style changes. While I had excellent support materials available, this book is still a significant improvement to the available literature. I found nothing in this book that I had a problem with and with the improvements that have been made, the book deserves the five star rating
The process of natural healing is not easy, requires attention to detail, and continued study to avoid setbacks through the process. This new book on the Gerson Therapy will provide information that can assist the decision process and will provide up to date information on the therapy's application." Reviewed by William Brazier from Northville, MI
Censured for Curing Cancer: The American The American Experience of Dr. Max Gerson
"How a cure for cancer was suppressed for 50 years... Mr. Haught, an investigative journalist, started out to do an expose on a "quack", and soon found himself writing about a grand conspiracy to suppress a holistic cure for cancer. He details the coverup of Dr. Gerson's work with documentary evidence from books, newspapers and even the Congressional Record. This book is inspiring for patients with advanced cancer, since there are many stories of patients alive years after their physicians sent them home to die, including five presented by Dr. Gerson to the Pepper-Neely Subcommittee of the Senate in 1946. It is also maddening and frustrating to realize that millions of people have died unnecessarily of cancer because the AMA does not consider the therapy "scientific". The book will make you want to cry, after you are finished screaming in frustration at big medicine." Reviewed by a reader from Carmel, California
A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases and the Cure of Advanced Cancer by Dr. Max Gerson
"A Must-Read!... Dr. Gerson's book is a must-read for anyone with cancer (particularly if you've been given a "hopeless" prognosis). It proves once and for all that there IS and HAS BEEN a cure for cancer in America for many, many years." Reviewed by Len from Central Florida
Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny "Gearin-Tosh, a tutor at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, was diagnosed with myeloma (cancer of the bone marrow) and told that if he did not begin chemotherapy immediately, he would be dead in less than a year. The recommended treatment, while probably extending his life somewhat, would not cure the condition. A second specialist confirmed the original prognosis, but the author rejected the proposed treatment after a former Oxford pupil consulted a cancer statistician who warned, "If your friend touches chemotherapy, he's a goner." Interwoven with engaging anecdotes from his professional life, Gearin-Tosh details his research into the world of alternative medicine, a journey that led him to Chinese breathing exercises and acupuncture. The treatment that he credits with saving his life he found in A Cancer Therapy, by Max Gerson, a doctor who died in 1958. Based on the daily drinking of freshly made juices and taking several coffee enemas a day, the Gerson Diet also includes a variety of supplements. Despite the time-consuming nature of this restrictive regime, eight years later Gearin-Tosh is alive and pursuing an active professional life...."
Cancer: Curing the Incurable by William Donald Kelley DDS. A book with 30 years of planning for 33,000 patients and developing the scientific paradigm for the proper cure and treatment of cancer without surgery, chemotherapy or radiation. This book is not about remission. It is about a cure. This book will teach one how to beat cancer and other age related diseases so you can heal your body now and live a longer and healthier life.
See the CNN article Unusual Dietary Treatment May Fight Pancreatic Cancer. See Dr. Tate's review of CNN Article.
How Cancer Politics Have Kept You in the Dark Regarding Successful Alternatives
Food Enzymes for Health and Longevity by Dr. Edward Howell "This book takes the view that the human body is totally dependant on Enzymes for health and longevity. Whilst not rejecting orthodox nutritional principles it concludes that the body utilizes food enzymes for digestion and converts spare enzymes for the 1001 other metabolic processes our body undergoes each day. Dr Howell establishes through copious(!) references to the literature that our body has a limited capacity to store and produce enzymes and that cooking food effectively destroys the enzyme content of foods. He reaches the conclusion that the Western Diet of cooked and processed food sustains us for only so long and begins to poison us from a fairly early age...."
Enzyme Nutrition by Dr. Edward Howell "This book turned my conceptions of food, nutrition, disease, disorder, and digestion up-side-down. If you have doubts about *why* a raw food diet is a good idea, and why in many cases it can save a person's life, then this is the book to start with. "Enzyme Nutrition" is pretty much a scientific book. It is not a manifesto, or a how-to book, but rather a presentation of one man's life-long research into the role that food enzymes play in human digestion. Don't let that scare you away, however, because the language is very easy to understand, and the book is easy to read. In fact, this book is a condensation of the author's unpublished 700 page book, a book that supposedly took him 20 years to write." Daniel Read, Atlanta, GA "... For all the cynics who think a raw food diet is a silly fad, they might have difficulty arguing the facts present in this book. For those who follow a diet such as the Hippocrates Diet, or who realize the value of adding fresh and uncooked or minimally-cooked foods to their meals, this book will be a valuable source of information as to precisely why, in a scientific sense, your endeavor to eat living foods is not only justifiable, but very wise. " Ratmausse, reviewer.
Some Lay Observations and Anecdotal Stories on the Healing Powers of the Raw and Living Food Lifestyle
My husband's full recovery from lung tumor and massive heart attack without drugs/chemo/surgery
My experience with breast cancer and my lifestyle change After detoxifying for 7 years on fruits and vegetables has added in some animal protein.
