Raw foods contain enzymes which are essential for the proper digestion and assimilation of food. Cooking destroys all the enzymes, 100 per cent. In addition, cooking destroys many of the vitamins. Vitamins B and C are particularly vulnerable to the effects of heat. Minerals are depleted by cooking and are usually thrown away with the cooking water.

Freezing, canning, drying, salting, preserving, and prolonged storage are all more or less destructive to the nutritive quality of the food.

Contrary to popular notion, foods in their raw state are more easily digestible than in the cooked state. This is particularly true with fruits and most vegetables.

Furthermore, raw foods act as a cleansing agent of the digestive and eliminative systems and are the best preventive measures against constipation.

Dr. Robert Bell hit the nail on the head when he said, “Man is the only creature upon this earth who spoils his food before he eats it.” Cooked food is dead food. Only living foods can build healthy bodies.

According to famous nutritionist Dr. Royal Lee, D.D.S., arthritis in animals could be experimentally caused by feeding them cooked foods exclusively.

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“What is your experience in Vita Nova with arthritis, and how effective are biological methods in the treatment of arthritis?”

“First, we must acknowledge that the conventional, symptomatic drug approach to arthritis has failed to show positive results. Accordingly, patients are left without any alternative. In fact, they are told that there is no alternative.

“But there is an alternative, and sometimes a very effective one, without toxic drugs. This alternative is biological medicine.

“Biological medicine is very adaptable for treating diseases of the rheumatic type because of their systemic and metabolic nature. The biological treatments help restore the normal metabolic rate, normalize the functions of the vital organs, assist the body in elimination of toxic wastes from the system—in short, rebuild and restore the patient’s general health. Although I believe that dependable scientific conclusions must be made first after ten years of observation (our clinical work here started only seven years ago), our preliminary impression is that biological methods are of supreme importance in the management of arthritis. As you know, we do not specialize in arthritis only—patients come here with all imaginable ills. But we have treated a sufficient number of patients with arthritis already to be able to make the statement that biological treatment will give them a chance either for a complete recovery or, in most cases, a definite improvement in their condition.”

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