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At Hawaii Raw Detoxification Retreat we combine the best of detoxification methods with psychotherapy, meditation and spiritual ideas. In order to achieve maximal healing in minimal time. Read about our purpose and mission, and our philosophy and medical approach. Food is a convenience today Rather than focusing on what is the best diet for all and look for signs in humans that legitimate our theories, I would prefer to investigate nutritional guidelines. First, let's look at why diet is such a big issue at this time. Food has become a convenience rather than being a physical and spiritual practice. If you remember 50 years ago nobody had a question about it. Why? Because up to after the 2nd world war humans fed themselves with the wisdom of their animalistic self preservation instinct. They ate what grew around them and when nothing grew around them as on the frozen lands of the north, they selectively killed a few animals that lived around them. Generations after generations their digestive systems adapted to each specific local type of nutrition. About 100 years ago, industrialization of agriculture, uniformization of production, processing of the food for shipping and long shelf life has made diversification a reality for everyone and the question arises about what to eat. So instead of fishing and collecting berries in the summer the Inuit villager go to the store and buy a bottle of wine, bread and pasta and the native Hawaiian now can eat cattle in a can and pasta and butter. Food became a merchandise - rather than being the vector of a relationship with the environment Look for a dynamic answer Nowadays, people have a lot of choices because all these foods are available at all time so the question arises: What are the best foods to eat? So we look for an answer in the wrong place: the amount of carbohydrate and protein that we are taking in, because the chocolate coming from South America is mixed with the wheat coming from Russia and the butter coming from Kentucky. We look for a static answer while we should look for a dynamic answer. Eating is part of a dynamic relationship with the environment. Eating entails gardening, hunting, fishing. While searching for food, we used to burn calories and engage in a relationship with the animals or the plants we are seeking and the environment. Instead, nowadays we drive to the store, and many even don't walk through the store but wheel themselves through the store. Although many are going to continue driving to the store for convenience, I would encourage those who can, to be more proactive. Walk or bike to get your food! Grow a few plants in your kitchen, backyard or your window seal! Parsley, chives and other fresh herbs need small amount of soil. Aliveness Another important factor in choosing a food is its aliveness. What feeds us in food, more than protein and carbohydrate, is this invisible strive for life inherent to any being. From that standpoint the life force of a fresh vibrant organic plant is certainly superior to the life energy of a frozen dead animal. But a newly caught wild salmon may be better than mass produced spinach grown with loads of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. So for someone living in Alaska in the summer, it is probably healthier to have a fresh salmon than a piece of beef from the local store. So I would say, let's have some common sense. Learn how to survive from our ancestors! Eat locally from farmer's markets, or what you find around you in nature, in your garden, or what you hunt or fish. Anything that grows wild should give you a strong immune system. If it survived on its own it must have a strong defense system. Some tribes used to eat the brain of their enemy when they captured them hoping to acquire their intelligence. Look & feel Judge food more by the look and feel, than by the taste. Avoid supermarkets, and adopt farmers markets! Reverence Whatever you choose to eat, feel reverence and gratefulness that this plant or this animal is giving its life for you. Guilt, gluttony and anger do not make good company for dinner. Remember that you are more than what you eat. You are what you digest.
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