This is why many people turn back from the raw diet.

But it's a temporary condition that you go through as many have experienced.

Aterhov wrote about this decades ago..

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When a cooked-eater decides to change over to raw-eating, at first he never feels satisfied,
no matter how much he eats. Usually instead of feeling happy, food-addicts feel discontented
with that condition. In their opinion, the reason for their continuous hunger lies in the fact that
the foodstuffs which they consume are of low nutritional value and are worthless as
nourishment. This is a terrible misconception. On the contrary, those foodstuffs are both
nutritious and fully-balanced. The human cells have suffered for years from their absence. The
capacities of the human digestive organs fully correspond to their composition and the
arrangement of their constituents. That is why the stomach gladly welcomes those foodstuffs,
softens them quickly and passes them to the intestines without much delay, while the cells in
their own turn.



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emaciated and weakened as they are with starvation, avidly absorb those valuable
substances and repeatedly demand more and more of them.

The diseased cells are healed, the emaciated ones recuperate, the inactive regain their
vitality. The fat cells, on the other hand, begin to melt away through starvation, the accumulations
of poisons gradually disappear and the superfluous water leaves the body. Then normal, active
cells take the place of those sluggish cells that were fattened with indolence and inaction. The
quick loss in the weight of the body is a sure sign of regained health and vigor.

This fact should fill the heart of a man with joy and happiness. For those nutrients
immediately spread throughout his body and grant him health, strength, vigor and energy. It
is the first time in his life that although all his organs and glands obtain a most copious supply
of nourishment, they are able to work in comfort and ease. Even if on that day, he takes a
greater quantity of raw food than his organism requires, or his intestines and cells are able to
absorb, his stomach will not refuse it, nor will it generate in him a feeling of nausea, causing
him to expel it with violence and force. The foodstuffs in excess of his normal needs will not
stay in the stomach to cause putrefaction; they will not be turned into poisons or bring about
any digestive disorders. Instead, without undergoing digestion they will at once pass form the
stomach into the intestines and will then leave the body with the faeces on that very day, not
having caused the least harm to the organism. Thus, his stomach will always be light, while
his intestines and his blood will be loaded with fully-balanced nutrients.

Then in such a moment, let him just try to eat a few morsels of cooked food. His
stomach will indignantly refuse those strange and unwanted substances. In spite of the
extreme pleasure that his palate feels, those morsels will lie in his stomach for a long time,
they will act as a stopper to close his appetite and will paralyze the normal course of his
digestive activities. But a cooked-eater is quite contented and happy with that condition,
because he has satisfied his passions, he has stuffed his stomach and is now "full." The man
who realizes the value of raw-eating dreads that condition. He fully comprehends that it is the
raw vegetable nutriments that nourish the body, while the dead corpses that come out of the
fire are mere fuels, and sources of various poisons and diseases.



Human Nourishment Should Consist of Living Cells and

Not Corpses of Dead Cells

Fully-balanced foodstuffs consist of living cells. Now vegetable bodies, after leaving the
earth, remain alive for a long time. A rosebud continues to blossom in a vase, while grains
sprout on being planted years after they are gathered. But the cells of animals that are killed or
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from their bodies die at once, and then they begin to disintegrate and tarn into poisons, while
cooking converts them into something really terrible. To regard animal proteins as superior to
vegetable proteins is a most unfortunate error of judgment, a manifest proof of the short-
sightedness of meat-worshipping biologists. If we admit that the animal organism transfers
vegetable proteins and turns them into fully-balanced nutrients, then the flesh of those
animals such as foxes, wolves, dogs, cats and tigers that feed on such "fully-balanced" proteins
should be of the highest nutritive value; whereas the poisonous character of the flesh of such
beasts is so obvious that even the most devoted meat addict does not dare to feed on it.

Those biologists who are urged by their personal predilection to look for special
advantages in meat, in discovering the so-called irreplaceable amino acids have not taken
into consideration the act that those amino acids are formed from the commonest grasses
consumed by animals By what rule of science has the organism of a cow the capacity to make
amino acids from the meanest weeds and grasses, but the organism of a man has not the means
to prepare the same compounds from vegetable foodstuffs of the highest nutritive quality? How
do millions of Buddhists live in the absence of the amino acids provided by meat?