Enzymes are essential to the human body. We have a matter of enzymes that we are both with and that are already present in our body. However, these enzymes can't break down the foods that we eat all on our own. For this purpose, it is important that humans eat an enzyme-rich diet.
Digestive enzymes are obtained from plants. Animal derived enzymes are derived from the pancreas of slaughtered pigs or cows. Unlike plant enzymes that function in both the acidic environment of the stomach and the alkaline environment of the small intestine, pancreatic enzymes function in just the alkaline environment of your small intestine. Further, pancreatic enzymes typically will be destroyed by the acids in your stomach, and therefore, they are not nearly as effective as plant enzymes. The good news is that protease, amylase, lipase, lactase,
cellulase and more can be derived from plant enzymes.
Eating raw foods helps to prevent depletion of the body's own enzyme stores and thus helps to reduce the stress on the body. Food cooking, milling, processing, canning. dehydrating, microwaving and irradiating are detrimental processes that render our foods enzyme-less.
Thousand of years ago, our ancestors ate their food raw. As they became more resourceful, they began grilling meat, steaming vegetables, and baking bread. Today, almost everything we consume is cooked, with the exception of an occasional piece of fruit or small side salad.
Unfortunately, enzymes are extremely sensitive to heat. Dairy products, including butter, have no enzymes because they are pasteurized. Baked breads have their enzymes "baked" out of them. Breakfast cereals are devoid of digestive enzymes because they have been roasted. However, cooking is absolutely necessary for many foods. Imagine eating uncooked rice or wheat kernels.
Cooking food breaks down the resilient fibers in many foods, which makes vitamins and minerals more accessible. Without cooking meat, you are exposed to the serious risk of bacterial presence, such as Salmonella and E. coli. Therefore, it is not only impractical but can be downright dangerous to eat some foods in their raw enzyme-rich state. Virtually all the foods we consume lack enzymes that are naturally inherent in their raw state. Even low to moderate heat (18° F or above) destroys most enzymes in food, so to obtain enzymes from the diet, one must eat raw foods. It is a fact that a cooked food diet causes a large outpouring of enzymes from our digestive organs.
Although it is one of the most common ways that enzymes are destroyed, cooking isn't the only way that our foods lose their enzymes. Certain processing procedures strip away enzymes and leave nothing but dead food. Examples include the milling and refining of grains and rice. Most Americans spent their early childhood eating white bread. During the milling and refining process, wheat bread becomes white bread because it is stripped of everything healthy in order to make it white. Whole wheat bread is full of wheat germ and wheat bran, both of which contain vitamins, minerals, protein, fat, fiber, and enzymes found naturally in the wheat berry. Milling removes the nutrient-rich wheat berry, and the remainder is ground into minuscule particles, bleached with harsh chemicals, and then aged. The few enzymes that do remain are destroyed during the baking process.
"Enriched" white bread isn't much better, either. Bread that is labeled "enriched" contains 75% less fiber than whole wheat bread and also lacks the minerals zinc and copper. The process of enriching or fortifying bread does put back a lot of the enzymes that are lost, but it does not replenish the original enzyme content.
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