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Harun Yahya

totally irrational to think that these entities were charged with keeping

people alive by chance. We need to realize that it is Allah Who keeps hu-
man beings alive. Allah has created all the systems belonging to a hu-
man, inspires them to carry out their functions at every moment, creates
them at every moment and keeps them under His control at all times.
If a system of yours is interrupted, all you can do is to take the nec-
essary precautions, turn to Allah and seek His assistance. It is Allah, Who
keeps you alive, Who will help you. Allah has revealed this in a verse:
Allah is He to Whom the kingdom of the heavens and earth belongs. He
gives life and causes to die. You have no protector or helper besides
Allah. (Surat at-Tawba: 116)

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Every bite you eat contains important building blocks to be used in
the construction of your body. Food that you eat enters with an even
more important factor that helps digest the food itself: its own enzymes.
Food enzymes are present in every food we can encounter any-
where on Earth, but they are not resistant to heat. When you cook food,
you lose all the enzymes it contains. However, if you eat a raw food, its
own enzymes will digest 75% of it. Digestion of any food by its own en-
zymes makes a very important contribution to the body, since
your system need not become fatigued by manufacturing ex-
tra enzymes, and it has no need to slow down the produc-
tion of metabolic enzymes, so essential to the cells, in order
to produce digestive enzymes.
Excellent examples of the enzymes constantly active
in foods are those present in fruit. In its green state, a ba-
nana is 20% starch. When left in a warm place for a while,
however, the enzyme amylase converts that 20% starch to
20% sugar. Around a quarter of that sugar is glucose,
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