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    Before I tell you what that optimal perfect diet is, let me review once again where we have all come from.

    We were completely developed as humans prior to agriculture and any method of food processing.  That means whatever diet archetypal humans ate was the perfect diet – the diet that is responsible for the existence of the incredibly complex human organism.

    If you compare conservative estimates for the time humans have been on Earth, to the last 200 or so years we have been eating predominantly agricultural products, processing them in various ways and subjecting ourselves to thousands of new biologically foreign chemicals, this modern era is but a speck.    For all practical purposes essentially the entire time organisms have been on Earth, they have been consuming foods exactly as found in nature with no processing whatsoever, except this last two hundred years.

    But look at what we eat today.   Virtually everything comes from agriculture and virtually everything is processed in one way or another.  The majority of calories now consumed by humans are derived from grain carbohydrates that have been refined and fractionated.  Even if the grains are eaten in their whole form, they are at least cooked.  No way is this food an archetypal natural food.

    I could go through a whole list of all the other garbage we eat and munch on, but I've done that litany probably too many times already.

    The diet we are adapted to, the perfect diet, consists only of those foods we can eat and digest just as they are found in nature.  This would include some vegetables, fruits, nuts, eggs and  meats.   I know this latter category, meats, is repugnant (especially raw) to many.  It is tough emotionally to me, since I don't enjoy the thought of the loss of sentient life in order for me to eat.  These feelings nevertheless do not deny the validity of our true natural diet.  (Consider that even true herbivores at some time in their life are carnivorous in that they consume milk from the mother or even prior to that consume flesh nutrients right within the uterus or egg.)

    Now, you can try to eat some raw foods as they might be found in nature such as wheat berries, rice, soybeans, etc., (although they are rarely found in any quantity since they are more of a product of modern standing agriculture) but if you try to consume them without special processing with heat, your health and very life will be threatened.  Food processors know this; that is why they refine the products so they have indefinite shelf life and can be modeled into all kinds of new fabricated "value added" products.  But the end result of these refined starch foods is an unnatural product that is mineral and vitamin deficient, requiring the body to call on reserves in order to even process it.  Once those reserves are gone, as I discussed in the last issue, our inability to adapt will result in malfunction, disease and ultimately death.

    Make no mistake about it.   If we are not eating according to this principle, our bodies are in constant deficiency and are sending continual signals to us to eat more because of the deficiencies and imbalances we are imposing on ourselves.  The result is an epidemic of obesity, chronic diseases and the exhaustion of our digestive processes.

    Why does our food have to be alive?  Because life begets life.  In spite of scientists’ dreams to the contrary, we have never observed life springing from nonlife, nor have we ever even been able to create life from nonlife in a laboratory. (See my book, The Creation – Evolution Controversy)  If we eat living foods, we enhance our own life.  If we eat dead, devitalized foods we become devitalized and dead.  Granted, this will not happen all at once, but as the adaptive reserves are exhausted (see page 1, Vol. 10 , No. 10) we will become just like the food we eat.

    If you are convinced and try to do the same, let me know if you have any specific menu ideas that might be helpful and we can share them with readers.