Be sure to sign up now for an Early Bird special. Seats are extremely limited, so reserve yours before you get shut out!

The Warrior Diet certification includes the following:

Part I Controlled Fatigue Training CFT (10am – 2pm)

- Introduction: concept principles etc.

- Basics: Pre-fatigue exercises, core workout (upside down pyramids) post fatigue exercise.

- Advanced: Introduction to advanced CFT drills including Push-Full- Punch Exercises and Body Brutal Squats

- Workout design “Learn how to combine advanced and basic CFT drills in your workout for max impact”.

- Adjustments to sport specifics and individual needs.

Part II Nutrition (3:30pm – 5pm)

- The human feeding cycle: introduction of concept and principles

- The “Warrior Grocery List: prioritizing food choices - protein, vegetables and fuel foods

- Sport nutrition: recovery meals (composition and timing)

- Main meal design

- Primary fuel adjustments

- Applications for weight loss: food choices, food combining and supplement regimen for weight loss

- The “Anti-Estrogenic” approach

- Adjustments to sport specifics

- Nutritional supplements: Supplement Layout for maintenance, physical training and special conditions.

*The certification courses curriculum is subject to changes

Participant will receive follow up papers

Benefits
Warrior Diet certified trainers are entitled to the following:

- Promotion and client reference via Warrior Diet website.

- A special discount on all Warrior Diet Products and services.

- First access to new E books and special reports.

- Personal follow-ups with Ori.

- Affiliation rights to Warrior Diet/Defense Nutrition products.

NEXT CLASS: October 10, 2008

LOCATION: Woodland Hills, CA (Location subject to change but will be in Los Angeles Metro Area)

Cost: $1500 (non-refundable)

To register for the next class, please click here or call 818-342-1927:

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Can they help restore male power?

As a testosterone driven species, human strength, vigor and youthful appearance positively relates to the balance between the steroid hormones testosterone and estrogen as well as testosterone and cortisol. Testosterone plays a key role in regulating the development of male sexual characteristic and reproduction capacity. Among its numerous functions, big T works as a neuro-chemical inducing vigor, aggression and competitiveness in males and females. It is a most formidable anabolic agent, engaging in the regulation of protein utilization in the muscle, positively promoting tissue recuperation, muscular development and strength gain.

Maintaining a healthy hormonal balance is critically important. Low ratios of testosterone/estrogen or testosterone/cortisol are associated with metabolic disorders, loss of strength, muscle waste, fat gain, lowered libido, lowered virility, a weakened immunity and accelerated aging. We're facing today a serious problem – as a species we are shifting away from our evolutionary trend – from being under testosterone dominance to being under estrogen dominance. This shift is certainly not a secret, neither are the main causes of this phenomenon – excess of estrogen is most prevalent in our society and we pay the consequences with ever growing rates of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

There is a growing public awareness to the fattening, sickening and mortal effects of industrial chemicals on our bodies, particularly xenoestrogens, which have penetrated our food chain and our environment and are now disrupting our ability to regulate our body weight and sustain a strong, vigorous and healthy body. We have been falling victims to hormonal shattering substances, largely man made. Our testosterone driven ancestral program for having a potentially lean and powerful physique has been shattered, softened and weakened by estrogenic substances.

This issue is not just about how we look or perform, but mostly it's about how can we SURVIVE as individuals and as a species, and what can we do to tackle this problem?

In my book The Anti-Estrogenic Diet, I presented the "anti-estrogenic" approach. Its premise:

1) Avoiding estrogenic foods and chemicals

2) Consuming anti-estrogenic foods and herbs

3) Increasing intake of testosterone (and progesterone) promoting foods and herbs

The last element is critically important in view of the fact that our food chain has been FEMINIZED not just chemically but also biologically. Though largely unknown, the fact is that estrogenic chemical have been feminizing not only our animal food (meat, pork, poultry, etc.) but also the plant food that we eat – our last nutritional resource. The lower food chain, mostly plant food – the main source of essential human nutrients – has been now severely compromised and here is how: plants are inherently controlled by steroid-like substances which, like in mammals, dictate their reproduction capacity, rate of growth and structure. There is evidence that estrogens and androgens have different effects on plant development and structure. For instance, while estrogen has shown to promote flowering and inhibit root growth, testosterone has shown to promote root elongation, pollination and germination. Most importantly, chemicals in the soil can manipulate the feminine or masculine qualities in plants. Apparently, an estrogenic environment yields a more estrogenic plant with higher concentrations of naturally occurring estrogens. The existence of plant estrogens is common knowledge. Plant estrogens were first detected in the 1920s and since then, over 2000 phytoestrogens have been found, some out of which have shown to possess potent estrogenic activity.

What's remained largely unclear is the fact that plants inherently contain the male steroid hormones androgens. Extensive studies detected a large variety of androgens including androstenedione, DHEA, testosterone and dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in over 100 plant species out of 130 species investigated. These findings are most revolutionary since they add a critical element to the human diet – plant androgens can potentially serve as an estrogen balancing factors, thus increasing the capacity to fight excess estrogen and restore a prime state of health. Plant androgens could be the MISSING LINK to our nutrition today. The knowledge how to choose testosterone dense plants over estrogen dense plants may make the difference between being lean, powerful and healthy, and being fat, weak and sick.

Researchers have been speculating that human nutrition was primarily BALANCED between male food and female food. Most likely that's how things were millenniums ago. But what about our nutrition today? Have we been losing the gender balance in our food? Interestingly, the activity caused by male plants was several times lower than that caused by the extract from female plants. It is becoming evidently clear that our food chain has lost its ecological balance becoming more and more feminine with less and less testosterone promoting male foods. In other words, our food chain that was once balanced between masculine and feminine properties has been polluted with estrogenic petro-chemicals, and is now becoming biologically FEMINIZED. The farm animals that we eat have been largely feminized by estrogenic chemicals and the plants that we eat have been losing their masculine qualities due to petro fertilizers and pesticides. Our typical variety of vegetables and fruits may NOT be sufficient enough to balance and counteract the excess of estrogen in our food and we certainly need to know what to do to address this problem.

The solution

Increasing intake of male plants

More studies need to be done on plant androgens and how they affect our health, but based on anecdotal evidence, male plants do work. Testosterone boosting foods and herbs such as garlic, onion, celery, radish, almonds, pine nuts, bee pollen, mucuna, ashwaganda and ginseng respectively have shown great impact on sustaining and boosting testosterone, virility, strength and vitality. In future reports I will present male supportive foods, spices and herbs in more details, but for now let me just suggest that any plant food harvested before and right after pollination, is more likely to have higher concentrations of plant androgens than during other seasons. Evidently phytoandrogens reach max concentrations in plants during pollination and then drop rapidly thereafter. Also, there is evidence that young "green" grains are more "male oriented" than old grains (such as with green oats). The germ in grain is a great source of male hormones supportive compounds vitamin E, phytosteroids and nutritional cofactors – naturally occurring in the fat component of the germ. Note that stabilized wheat germ or rice germ could be highly beneficial in this regard.

Increasing intake of anti-estrogenic foods

Certain foods and herbs have shown the capacity to help balance estrogen in the body by inhibiting its formation or by modulating it metabolism. These include broccoli, cabbage, omega 3 oil, flax, hemp or fish oils, nuts, seeds, turmeric, garlic, onion, oranges, berries, and all greens.

Supplement with estrogen inhibitors

Certain compounds in plants have shown to inhibit estrogen by blocking the aromatase enzyme that produces estrogen (converting androgens to estrogens) and by shifting estrogen metabolism to favor the production of the beneficial metabolites 2-hydroxy estrogens over the harmful fattening and sickening metabolites 16-hydroxy estrogens. These include the flavonoids chrysin from passion flower, apigenine from chamomile, and indoles from cabbage. (More information on estrogen inhibitors at http://www.defensenutrition.com/cart/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=63.)

Cleanse your liver, kidneys and digestive tract

The liver and kidneys are the sites for steroid metabolism. There is a positive correlation between liver and kidney's health and testosterone activity. Testosterone's impact on the body depends on the level of free testosterone and what becomes evidently clear is that levels of free testosterone DECLINES when the liver is strained or overwhelmed with toxins. Toxicity promotes a process in the liver that DEACTIVATES testosterone by binding it to certain proteins called sex hormone binding globulins (SHBG). Moreover, toxicity increases the level of estrogen and cortisol over testosterone – a process that further diminishes testosterone's impact on the body. At this point, it doesn't matter whether and how much testosterone was ingested or even rejected – due to high levels of SHBG, or an excess of estrogen and cortisol, much of the testosterone pool will be rendered inactive. To avoid this problem, which also accelerates with aging and stress, it is important to CLEANSE all the body's detoxifying organs on a daily basis. Fruits and greens on empty stomach have a detoxifying effect on the body, nonetheless it is also important to supplement with detoxifying herbs (see www.warriordiet.com/Detox Kit).

In conclusion

The incorporation of testosterone boosting foods and anti-estrogenic foods with estrogen inhibitors supplements and liver, kidneys and digestive tract cleansing herbs will most likely grant the means to counteract excess estrogen and restore vigorous health. Note that excess of estrogen is not gender specific and therefore the above information can benefit both men and women.

To see the television clip, see http://www.mandjshow.com/videos/%e2%80%9cmj-investigates%e2%80%9d-new-dieting-trends/. My segment is halfway through the video clip.

• Wrong meal timing
• Wrong food choices
• Wrong food combinations

There is also a CRITICAL need to address the problem of chemicals in our food and environment – which has been inducing a fattening and sickening impact on our society with often mortal consequences. I was unable to present any of these elements in this TV show which after all invited me as a guest. Mike, the host, shook my hand before I was cut off and that was it, just like that…trying to save any more embarrassment to their experts who were not prepared for any substantial argument.

Behind the scene I was approached by the producer of the show, “it was great and I’m so sorry that it was too short”…when I confronted these experts all I got was kind of a nod of the head, like this is business as usual, “more studies need to be done” – this is I guess what “experts” say when they don’t know what to say.

Anyway, this short “face off” just demonstrated how stubbornly have mainstream nutrition experts been resisting any new viable solution to our current health disaster, how cowardly they’re trying to avoid confronting new ideas, persistently holding on to their old redundant and failing routines. And most amazingly, how people today have been okay with this ABSURD phenomenon.

We’ll continue discussing this issue next week in our radio show “The Warrior Within” and at www.warriordiet.com. Until then, thank you all for your passionate support.

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The truth is simple: sex should be treated like exercise. If you do it too often, you may become overtrained/oversexed but if you don't do it at all, you may get out of shape. Note that overtraining is a relative matter - what's considered overtraining to one person may be an optimal regime to another. Other factors that contribute to overtraining are nutrition and sleep. Inadequate nutrition (misincorporation of recovery meals and nutritional deficiencies) as well as sleep deprivation are major contributors to overtraining symptoms. The same holds true for sexual performance, whether you exhaust your virility or not is a relative matter and it depends on your lifestyle, nutrition, sleep and level of stress.

How does all the above relate to your survival? The answer is obvious: the capacity to perform sexually is critical to the survival of the species. Sex hormones regulate multiple survival related functions, including reproduction, build-up of tissues, and physical performance (fight or flight activities). The point is that we are inherently programmed to actively survive - cycle between action and rest - and having sex is an action that plays an important role in actively surviving. Every mechanism in our body is well programmed for activity rather than inactivity. And this, by any means, applies to our reproductive/sexual system. Our semen fluid must be spent and recycled to keep it fresh and healthy. Similarly, our testosterone pool must be recycled (secreted and reproduced) to sustain itself and this important process is enhanced by exercise and sex. Legendary warriors, including King David, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Attila the Hun were known for their high virility and brutality. Evidently sex and aggression go hand in hand.

Manhood is inherent to us. It involves more doing than thinking, and like other things that we possess, it should manifest itself instinctively. Sexuality is part of what we are and we can't deny it. How often and how much? Well, it all comes down to the "art of living" - if you live your life as you have been programmed to, this very question becomes irrelevant.

In our modern society, everything is pathologically measured and accounted. Check and balance, moderation and saving are all terms that relate to matter and money - "if you spend you lose" or "you can't eat the cake and have it ...etc. What people today have been failing to understand is that our bodies are not programmed to do well while saving (saving/storing means getting fat). Unlike cars, our bodies can generate energy without having been fueled. Unlike machines, we have been programmed to renovate and recreate ourselves. Our testosterone pool must be challenged in order to recreate itself and overcompensate, that's why active individuals are in better shape than sedentary people - more resilient to aging and potentially more capable of being virile for life. Do not try to save your testosterone like saving money. It simply doesn't work. Stop counting and stop contemplating, instead live instinctively, eat to your heart, make love passionately - and enjoy this primitive side of yours.

Phthalates have shown to cause reproductive disorders - sterility, birth defects, deformed sex organs and cancer in animals. These same chemicals are now abundantly found in the products that we use, in the water that we drink and in the food that we eat. There is growing evidence that phthalates are major contributors to female disorders, male reproductive disorders and cancer in men and women. Called hormonal disruptive chemicals, phthalates belong to a large family of manmade chemicals that have shown to disrupt the endocrine/ hormonal system, shatteringthe health and development of newborn animals and humans who were exposed to these chemicals through breast milk.

Phthalates are potent estrogen mimicking substances adding to the overall estrogenic impact of chemicals on our bodies and in particular our children's bodies - which are smaller and therefore pound-for-pound more vulnerable to this chemical onslaught.

Yet in spite of the growing evidence to the devastating effects of industrial chemicals on our society and particularly on our children, government officials dismiss the findings with the same old same old statement: "Should new data emerge, we will inform the public..."

Meanwhile, no one is doing anything besides some environmental advocacy groups and activists, all good people who adamantly protest but apparently with no solution. What can we do to protect our lives and our children's future?

First, we can't overlook this problem any more. Our society is getting fatter and sicker than ever, largely due to these chemicals which have been penetrating our bodies and persistently accumulating in our tissues. Second, since it's virtually impossible to avoid chemicals in our mechanized and industrialized lifestyle, it's critically important to take action now to lower the collateral damage of chemicals on our bodies. Here are a few things you can do to protect yourself and your family:

• Avoid plastic packed foods if you can. Drink water from glass bottles, buy sauces, oils and juices packed in glass rather than plastic. Note that frozen food or juices packed in plastic are safer than non-frozen ones (freezing lowers the rate of chemical leakage).
• Eat organic, avoid conventional meat, dairy or produce if possible. Note that fruits or vegetables with peels are safer (after peeling) than non-peeling ones.
• Avoid conventional chemical-loaded cosmetics, shampoos, lotions and soaps - use instead natural products - available in health stores or online.
• Detoxify your body on a daily basis with natural cleansing herbs and detox programs. Natural detox is the most effective way to neutralize/remove toxins and thus counteract the chemical impact.
• Ban all insect sprays, gardening pesticides and housekeeping chemical deodorants.
• Remember, our bodies have never adapted to chemicals and all chemicals cause side effects; these include synthetic vitamins, chemical food additives, artificial sweeteners and synthetic sugar alcohol - therefore avoid all synthetic vitamins and all diet products drenched with synthetic additives, even if they're labeled as health items.
• Learn how to use hormonal balancing herbs and foods to naturally counteract the hormonal shattering effects of chemicals.

The Warrior Within debuts its first season with a secret that host, Ori Hofmekler can't keep any longer!!! Tune in as Ori and guests reveal the three most hidden yet formidable obstacles to weight loss that, unknowingly to many, have been prohibiting people from ever losing weight - even if they have been dieting and exercising. The show will expose common diet fallacies and misconceptions associated with mainstream nutrition - to presenting astonishing evidence as to how true facts about human nutrition have been kept virtually hidden from the public. Episode #1 will conclude with Q&A and practical advice - how to remove these hidden diet obstacles to finally regain the ability to lose weight, get leaner, stronger and healthier.

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Recent studies on the impact of meal frequency on middle aged men and women raise serious questions to their relevant real life conditions. The studies were conducted by Dr. Mark Mattson, a pioneer researcher in the area of human feeding, is known for his ground breaking studies on intermittent fasting. Dr. Mark Mattson and myself have been corresponding regarding the benefits of the one main meal per day approach, and about a year ago he shared with me over the phone some information regarding the studies of which results were published recently. To avoid falsely driven conclusions, lets examine the facts behind these studies and clarify some key points:

• The subjects in the group of one meal per day were force fed to consume all their daily calories in one meal. This calorie intake was far higher than what they would have naturally consumed, according to their own reports.
• The subjects in the study had no ability to choose or prioritize food. Unlike WD followers who prioritize their foods, the subjects of these studies were forced to eat whatever was there (to comply with the studies' terms).
• Apparently, fasting morning glucose was higher in the group of one meal/day, but here is the catch: if blood glucose and insulin response had been checked in the afternoon, the results could have been quite different. Evidently, subjects on one meal/day have a different daily metabolic cycle than people on three meals per day. If the researchers had checked blood glucose of subjects on three meals/day in the afternoon, they would most likely find elevated glucose and a slower insulin response – compared to the subjects on one meal/day – during the afternoon (after sufficient post meal fasting time), their blood glucose would most likely be lower with a faster insulin response.
• Most importantly, there was no guidance as to how to separate between a.m. food and p.m. food, and no guidance whatsoever about food combinations, etc. Unlike the WD followers who carefully separate between a.m. foods and p.m. foods and use proper food combinations with clear principles (low glycemic, low on the food chain, etc.), the subjects in this study were fed like lab animals with no serious regard to nothing but overall calorie intake.

Let me put it this way – if the name of the game is "fixed calories only" regardless to their source, then you rather divide your food intake to small servings to avoid shocking your body with empty calories. But if the name of the game is "eating healthy" and prioritizing accordingly your food choices then you better separate between a.m. foods and p.m. foods to nourish your body in sync with your innate circadian clock and your overall metabolic system, such as with The Warrior Diet. As I wrote previously, it will take researchers another 15 years to dissect, isolate and combine all the multiple nutritional elements of the human diet if they will ever understand what we have been experiencing in real life when following The Warrior Diet.

I believe that Dr. Mattson knows the limitations of these studies and how misleading the conclusions may seem to be. In an article in the medical journal Lancet 2005, Dr. Mattson indicated that humans indeed are inherently programmed (all through the evolutionary process) to better survive on one main meal per day. With references to The Warrior Diet, Dr. Mattson presented the adverse consequences of overfeeding via frequent feeding. Other scientists worldwide have also been realizing that the human body is not programmed for frequent feeding. The facts speak for themselves – in spite of dieting more than ever, people today are getting fatter and sicker than ever. Obesity has reached an epidemic proportion of 30%, diabetes 12%, pre-diabetes 25%, blood sugar disorders, roughly 50%, Syndrome X 20%, male impotence about 15%, estrogen disorders are virtually 100%, and prostate disorders will eventually occur to virtually 100% of males. And all these maladies occur when the vast majority of people have been eating 3 – 4 meals per day. How much more do we need to suffer before realizing that something is very wrong with our diet routines and particularly with the frequency upon which we have been shoving food into our bodies?

Previous studies on intermittent fasting in lab animals revealed the amazing benefits of lower meal frequency on increasing life span, improving blood glucose, enhancing neuro protective capacity and improving body composition. More studies need to be done on human feeding but with more care towards real life conditions – how, for instance, the reduction of meal frequency affects calorie intake and food choices – naturally (rather than artificially by force feeding the subjects).

Finally, what you eat, when you eat and how much you eat are all important factors that are inseparably bound together to form your diet. Isolating one element over the others is a futile experiment that will always fail to indicate how things really work in real life. Things simply don't work in isolation. For instance, lowering calorie intake to merely 1000 calories per day will theoretically lead to weight loss and improve insulin sensitivity – but if the 1000 calories will come from pure sugar, the results will most likely be the opposite – weight gain and insulin resistance. Here is another example: combine some of the healthiest foods together – nuts, raisins, and whole grains – and you may gain undesirable weight just because the food combination was wrong and nuts do not combine well with raisins or grains. In conclusion, you can experience undesirable weight gain in spite of reducing calorie intake, or in spite of eating healthy foods – if you ignore other factors that influence your diet.

The Warrior Diet takes into account all the factors that constitute the human diet, and the evidence to its awesome benefits on people's lives are already here and now. We're currently stuck in the dark ages of dieting. We live today in an era that may be considered in the future as a turning point in history, in which humans have become an overweight/obese species with diminished capacity to survive and multiple. A real change is needed now, a renaissance in our routines. Being "normal" today means being overweight and unhealthy. Ask yourself whether you still wish to follow the same old normal routines.

Iron deficiencies are common in our society particularly among infants, adolescences, pregnant women and the elderly. Inadequate intake of iron is common among vegetarians particularly vegans. Physically active individuals require more iron than sedentary people. A positive correlation between iron intake and physical performance has been established. Evidence indicates that even a slight iron deficiency can adversely affect physical performance.

Decreased absorption of Iron can occur due to a lack of hydrochloric acid secretions in the stomach, a condition that is associated with frequent over feeding, chronic stress and aging. Iron deficiencies can lead to anemia, cognitive disabilities, impaired immunity, fatigue and loss of strength. Serum ferritin is the best test/indicator for determining iron status.

It is generally recommended to take iron supplementation in accordance with the RDA – 10mg-12mg for men and 15mg for women. Pregnant and lactating women may need to adjust iron supplementation according to blood test.

Food rich in iron include meats, liver, nuts, seeds, parsley, dried prunes, raisins and blackstrap molasses. Nonetheless, plant derived iron has a lower bioavailability compared to animal derived iron (that is bound to hemoglobin). Since high meat consumption is associated with increased cardiovascular risk, it is not recommended to rely on meat as a healthy source of iron. Therefore, for the educated healthy consumer and particularly the physically active one, iron supplementation is recommended to "cover the bases." Nonetheless, in case of high consumption of iron fortified nutritional products (cereals, shakes or bars) it is recommended to adjust iron supplementation as to avoid iron overload. An elevated level of iron may lead to an increased oxidative stress and increased levels of free radicals, thus increasing the risk for infections and vascular damage.

In conclusion, though iron deficiencies are more prevalent than iron overload, it is important to carefully monitor iron intake so as to avoid both. Note that naturally occurring iron in food does not cause an excess but rather it is the isolated iron supplements, (if taken on the top of a multivitamins and minerals) that may cause this problem. For that matter, Vitamin C supplementation can help increase iron absorption and protect against potential side effects.

The recent surge in child and adult overweight and obesity rates is most likely due to the failure of mainstream health care programs to address the above combined factors. A viable solution to this current epidemic requires more than just eat less and exercise more". This redundant doctor advice has failed to translate into real life positive results. The data shows that people today do not consume more calories than ten years ago, and physical activity among adults in the U.S. and the U.K. actually has increased in the past decade. Yet, there has been a rapid acceleration in weight gain and obesity in the U.S. and the U.K. during the past ten years with a prediction of getting worse in the future. Something drastic must be done now to stop this adverse trend.

The Warrior Diet is designed to help people do just that - based on survival science and anthropological research, The Warrior Diet proposes a radical yet effective solution to our current health crisis. Its premise: eat one main meal a day, avoid chemicals, and exercise properly. The Warrior Diet approach is controversial, but nonetheless, it has been endorsed by scientists and researchers and has been gaining increased recognition by virtue of its simplicity and effectiveness to help people reset their biological clock, support the SNS during the day, get leaner, stronger and healthier.

The Warrior Diet newly revised and expanded edition is available now in book stores and at Amazon.com. To learn more about The Warrior Diet browse our website at www.WarriorDiet.com.

As for enzymes, certainly enzyme loading from raw, sprouted or fermented foods is highly beneficial but let's put things in proportion.

First, plant enzymes are not digestive enzymes. They work on a different pH than the body's digestive enzymes and therefore cannot support digestion directly.

Second, while some enzymes inhibitors may be harmful (premature sprouts or uncooked legumes), other enzyme inhibitors can be highly beneficial, such as some protease inhibitors (phytates) or aromatase inhibitors which have been found to be potentially anti-cancerous. The notion that nuts and seeds must be sprouted before ingestion is preposterous. Raw nuts and seeds are perfectly fine to nourish the human body whether in a sprouted form or not. There are no harmful inhibitors in mature nuts and seeds and any rancidity or inadequacy in these foods can be instantly detected via smell or taste.

Third, eating raw meat may seem "Paleolithic and healthy" but nowadays it can be detrimental. Besides hosting pathological bacterium, meat is a host substrate for harmful viruses, most notable of which is the toxoplasma virus that has shown to cause serious neuro damaging effects on animals and potentially on humans. Eating raw meat today does not make sense, to say the least.

Fourth, note that the article at Weston A. Price was written by two ladies to promote the sales of their cooking book.

In conclusion, raw, sprouted and fermented foods are great but it doesn't make sense to commit to eating these foods only. You can certainly benefit from eating cooked foods as well with a big bonus of pleasing your palate with a larger variety of meals.