Why are digestive enzymes important?
There are many references to raw fat and blubber-eating Eskimos not having cardiovascular related health problems which can be attributed to the enzyme activity that is available in their almost exclusive raw meat diet. As civilization has encroached on their society, many Eskimos have adopted a lifestyle inconsistent with their Eskimo name that means “he eats it raw.” The result is the sudden appearance of a number of diseases that were not previously observed in their culture, including artiosclerosis. There are other primitive cultures, who have also abandoned their traditional eating habits for today’s supposedly healthier, contaminant free, enzyme-depleted, cooked and processed food diets, and they have seen their health decline as well. Enzymes are essential for proper digestion and absorption of nutrients from our food into our bodies. Many of the foods we eat today are enzyme depleted, due to the cooking and preserving process the food undergoes prior to consumption. While the
