Inflammation causes pain and by changing your eating habits you can start reducing your pain.  Julie Hoffenberg and Sarah Woodward are the authors of the Healing Patch Cookbook and I had the pleasure of interviewing them today on Pain Relief Radio.

Your body is trying to protect you with the inflammatory response.

Your diet, however, can cause more inflammation and that creates more pain.  Pain (which causes inflammation) plus diet (which causes inflammation) equals too much inflammation! And THAT causes more pain.

Sarah and Julie explained that cooked foods are missing natural enzymes which die during cooking.  Since the enzymes are no longer in the food, they aren’t available to help you digest your food.  The enzymes that are naturally in your body must then be used.  Now your own enzymes are no longer available to help reduce your pain.  Instead they are busy digesting the cooked food you ate.

Julie and Sarah will guide you gently into the world of raw foods without guilt or pressure.  They each have a great success story about gaining health by changing their diets.  I hope you have the chance to listen.

Healing Patch Cookbook

You can find Sarah and Julie and order their book at http://RawHealingPatch.com

You can also find out more about Julie and Sarah at http://YouTube.com/RawHealingPatch

Remember, your body is really smart and wants to be well but there are certain things it needs from you to function best.  Even if you don’t want to be a vegetarian or vegan (absolutely no animal protein) you can improve your health and reduce your pain by getting back to eating more fruits and veggies and getting rid of some of the foods that cause inflammation.

Update:  When I talked with Julie and Sarah several months later, they had resumed a more ‘normal’ way of eating.  They would sometimes eat cooked food but still eliminated junk foods.  These women had a whole lot of health benefits from switching to a much healthier diet!