The grim reality is that too many families like yours and mine are facing a serious illness that may have been caused by toxins in our environment; illnesses such as asthma, autism, autoimmune disorders, cancer, diabetes, chronic fatigue, and fertility problems to name just a few. Some researchers believe that the obesity epidemic sweeping our country may be triggered by the toxins that are polluting our environment...our food, our water and our air. I am convinced that this is true since I have reduced my exposure to these toxins and have not had any colds, flu, headaches or any other illness since taking those steps.
As a society, we're allowing the food industry, the chemical industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the cosmetic industry, etc. conduct massive experiments on people's (our) health. Here in the U.S., about 80,000 industrial chemicals are rregistered for use in all the products we eat, touch, put on and sleep in every day...food, toys, household cleaners, body care products (make-up, hair care, soaps and baby wipes for instance), furniture and carpets (which have formaldehyde fumes that last for years). Fewer than 20% of these have been tested for their impact on human health or the environment and most of those tests were inadequate.
Many people have mistaken faith in the government to protect them. They assume that if a product of any type is sold in the U.S. that it must be safe for human health and the environment. Not so.
For instance, most people believe that, since 1976, the EPA has banned use of lead in paints. This is not true. The law just reduced the amount of lead allowed in paint. The law is weak and the inspection and regulation is weaker. It is up to every individual to protect himself/herself and their loved ones
For more information: www.SharetheCause.com/bewellnow and www.coopamerica.org/go/healyourhome
For help in ridding your body/bodies of your loved ones: www.mywaiora.com/461538
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
Pharmaceuticals
Over the past thirty years or so, the medical/pharmaceutical conspiracy became the largest business group in the United States...and maybe the world. It has developed new ways to market their death-insuring products to insure that every American citizen becomes addicted to their toxic drugs and other death-dealing therapies. They want to make us all drug addicts with missing body parts.
That industry bought or enlisted the services of politicians, lawyers, public relations (propaganda), and even governments...e.g. the Texas governor tried to make every teenage girl take the unproven drug, Gardisil. This drug has known serious side effects and has caused the death of, at least, eleven girls. This, in spite of the fact that Gardisil has not been proven to prevent any type of cancer.
The industry's newest disease-mongering campaign is to get everybody involved in their "free" screenings and full-body scans. This public relations scam uses the approaches such as comparing the bone mass of older women to that of younger women, of lowering the "normal" levels of blood pressure and lowering the "normal" levels of cholesterol. So, that when your "free" health screening reveals "abnormal" cholesterol or "abnormal" blood pressure or "abnormal" bone mass, you are told to see your doctor immediately so you can start your very own (addictive) prescription drug regimen for the rest of your life. And to make sure nobody is missed, this drug-pushing industry has seen to it that cholesterol and blood pressure drugs are dished out to children. It isn't enough that powerful, addicting, psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin are handed out like candy to elementary school children because they are over-active because they have been fed too much sugar-containing foods and junk foods. All with agreement from the health(?) officials, teachers and school adminstrators, community leaders, paid-for politicians, physicians and even the unknowing parents. The best laid scam of the medical-pharmaceutical industry.
In order to continue this deceptive movement, the legal drug-pushers initiated Gestapo-like campaigns against any physician who strayed from the establishment's standard of accepted medical therapy. Doctors who disagreed with their profession in order to provide better treatments, via holistic therapies, were persecuted, prosecuted, sued, had their licenses revoked, and had their clinics invaded by steel-booted SWAT teams and, without legal search warrants, these armed security agents harrassed the patients and stole the records and computers from the caring doctor's office.
Upon hearing about these outrages from their constituents, Congress finally passed a law protecting "vitamin and mineral supplements." Slowly, but surely, the tide turned. The persecutors were discredited, losing case after case in court and having their real motives exposed in court. But, during this time, the "supplement" industry exploded. The pharmaceutical companies and other rip-off artists bought cheap raw ingredients for a few cents and, through clever marketing, sold them for thousands of times their cost. Most of these "supplements" were and are useless. However, these unscrupulous "supplement" providers have made billions of dollars off of their trusting customers.
So, how do you get off of this drug/"supplement" merry-go-round? The first step is to change your (and your family's) diet to the Biologically Correct Diet (see the first thirteen blogs). Next, find suppliers of natural, whole-foods. Then, find suppliers of whole-food supplements. All preferably organic in order to avoid the pesticides and other toxins. Also, in order to speed up the de-toxifying of your body, use a good de-toxifier. After almost forty years, I find the best of the bunch to be the following:
De-toxifier: Natural Cellular Defense from Waiora at www.mywaiora.com/461538
Whole foods: FrequenSea from ForeverGreen at www.creatingwhatmatters.org/75920
Many products from WholeFoodFarmacy www.yinyang.wholefoodfarmacy.com
Wholefood Supplements: AmpliFire from ForeverGreen (see above)
Essential Daily Nutrition from Waiora (see above)
Non-toxic skin products: ForeverGreen and Waiora
That industry bought or enlisted the services of politicians, lawyers, public relations (propaganda), and even governments...e.g. the Texas governor tried to make every teenage girl take the unproven drug, Gardisil. This drug has known serious side effects and has caused the death of, at least, eleven girls. This, in spite of the fact that Gardisil has not been proven to prevent any type of cancer.
The industry's newest disease-mongering campaign is to get everybody involved in their "free" screenings and full-body scans. This public relations scam uses the approaches such as comparing the bone mass of older women to that of younger women, of lowering the "normal" levels of blood pressure and lowering the "normal" levels of cholesterol. So, that when your "free" health screening reveals "abnormal" cholesterol or "abnormal" blood pressure or "abnormal" bone mass, you are told to see your doctor immediately so you can start your very own (addictive) prescription drug regimen for the rest of your life. And to make sure nobody is missed, this drug-pushing industry has seen to it that cholesterol and blood pressure drugs are dished out to children. It isn't enough that powerful, addicting, psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin are handed out like candy to elementary school children because they are over-active because they have been fed too much sugar-containing foods and junk foods. All with agreement from the health(?) officials, teachers and school adminstrators, community leaders, paid-for politicians, physicians and even the unknowing parents. The best laid scam of the medical-pharmaceutical industry.
In order to continue this deceptive movement, the legal drug-pushers initiated Gestapo-like campaigns against any physician who strayed from the establishment's standard of accepted medical therapy. Doctors who disagreed with their profession in order to provide better treatments, via holistic therapies, were persecuted, prosecuted, sued, had their licenses revoked, and had their clinics invaded by steel-booted SWAT teams and, without legal search warrants, these armed security agents harrassed the patients and stole the records and computers from the caring doctor's office.
Upon hearing about these outrages from their constituents, Congress finally passed a law protecting "vitamin and mineral supplements." Slowly, but surely, the tide turned. The persecutors were discredited, losing case after case in court and having their real motives exposed in court. But, during this time, the "supplement" industry exploded. The pharmaceutical companies and other rip-off artists bought cheap raw ingredients for a few cents and, through clever marketing, sold them for thousands of times their cost. Most of these "supplements" were and are useless. However, these unscrupulous "supplement" providers have made billions of dollars off of their trusting customers.
So, how do you get off of this drug/"supplement" merry-go-round? The first step is to change your (and your family's) diet to the Biologically Correct Diet (see the first thirteen blogs). Next, find suppliers of natural, whole-foods. Then, find suppliers of whole-food supplements. All preferably organic in order to avoid the pesticides and other toxins. Also, in order to speed up the de-toxifying of your body, use a good de-toxifier. After almost forty years, I find the best of the bunch to be the following:
De-toxifier: Natural Cellular Defense from Waiora at www.mywaiora.com/461538
Whole foods: FrequenSea from ForeverGreen at www.creatingwhatmatters.org/75920
Many products from WholeFoodFarmacy www.yinyang.wholefoodfarmacy.com
Wholefood Supplements: AmpliFire from ForeverGreen (see above)
Essential Daily Nutrition from Waiora (see above)
Non-toxic skin products: ForeverGreen and Waiora
Monday, March 17, 2008
Biologically Correct Diet - 12th Installment
This is the last installment. Have you read all of the previous installments?
Quotes and Comments
The ideal of a healthy life is not a new fad created by "health nuts." Nor is criticism of medicine limited to just a few ungrateful past patients. For instance, in 1750, Voltaire stated: "We put drugs of which we know little into bodies of which we know less to cure diseases of which we know nothing at all." This quote is as apropos today as it was in 1750 since there has been no improvment in the curing of diseases...only more and more potent potions with more serious side effects.
In 1900, Thomas A Edison stated: "The doctor of the future will give no medicine...but will interest his patients in the area of...the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease." (Is this what your doctor does?)
As you can see, health has been important to the great minds for centuries. Unfortunately, greed and/or primitive thinking has controlled health and medicine ever since the days of the medicine men who claimed illnesses were caused by evil spirits. The medicine men used rattles and chants and secret potions and magic spells to chase away those evil spirits. Sometimes they were "successful" and their patients lived; sometimes they were unsuccessful and their patients died. Sound familiar???
Time passed and the medicine men became civilized. During the Middle Ages, diseases were determined to be caused by Satan and his imps. It was also determined that the carrier of all diseases was the blood. So, of course, the cure required removal of the patient's blood. The medicine men used the procedure of blood-letting which was cutting open a vein and allowing a pint or two of blood to bleed out. (This procedure is what killed George Washington.) This procedure was later improved to where the medicine men used leeches to suck out the blood.
More time passed and the medicine men became more civilized and called themselves doctors or physicians. They also identified the evil spirits and called them bacteria or germs. The treatment to eliminate the bacteria was stronger and stronger potions. It follows that the smaller the evil spirits, the stronger the poison, oops, I mean, the medicine had to be.
A little more time passed and they found an even smaller evil spirit which they called a virus. (If a bacterium were an elephant, a virus would be a flea.) These evil spirits were so small that very, very toxic potions were necessary to fight them. It was a choice that had to be made: kill the virus or kill the patient (sometimes both). If the evil spirits get any smaller, the medicine men will have to train friendly viruses to develope microscopes and medicines.
Now-a-days, the fad is to blame diseases on genes - the new evil spirits. (Defective genes are just more evidence that God didn't know what He was doing when He designed the human being. )
It doesn't occur to our current day medicine men (at least not to most of them) that billions of hours of research and the hundreds of billions of dollars (pounds, francs, yen, marks, etc.) spent have produced nothing (but wealth for many). Nor have they proven that these tiny things are actually disease-causing evil spirits. It is only opinion. As Dr. David Scott said in 1973: "A virus may be present in disease, but that doesn't prove that the virus is the cause of the disease. This line of logic is like saying 'Flies cause dirty garbage cans.'" It is also like saying, "Vultures kill their food." The facts are that flies and vultures are scavengers and do not cause or kill anything. Bacteria and viruses are scavengers also and not disease-causing evil spirits they are portrayed to be by the modern medicine men. (It is also possible that bacteria may exacerbate a condition while not causing it.)
The true cause of disease is as Dr. Alan Immerman said in 1983: "Peolple cause their own disease. There are indeed ways to deal with disease that are not destructive to the body. We can choose not to cause our own diseases." Or, as Thomas Moffett said in 1600: "Men dig their own graves with their teeth and die more by those fated instruments than by the weapons of their enemies." Even Florence Nightingale, in 1860, said: "The 'Specific Disease Doctrine' is the grand refuge of the weak, uncultured, unstable minds - such as now rule the medical profession. There are no specific diseases - there are only specific disease conditions." Also, as Dr. Ralph Bircher Bener said in 1900: "The first law of Nutritional Economy is: Every excess of food and calories - and particularly of proteins (such as meat) - works not to a person's advantage, but to a deterioration of his health." The Man of Nature, Henry David Thoreau, said in 1850: "Every man and every woman is the builder of a temple called 'the body. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh, blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine one's features."
So, we can either cause disease by eating the wrong foods or we can build a healthy temple by listening to Mother Nature (God). We can either listen to the multitude of greedy little minds or we can follow the health-promoting advice of great minds. Dr. Ralph Cinque put it well when, in 1981, he said: "Your ability to reason is your most valuable and indispensible tool for achieving your own survival and your own happiness. But, remember, it doesn't come automatically. You can choose 'to think' or 'not to think.' Be firm in your conviction that to consciously and rationally and objectively examine the facts of reality is always the best alternative you have, regardless of the circumstances you face. Be certain that there is no deception more vile and more destructive than self-deception."
To Eat or Not to Eat -
That is the question:
Whether it is better to eat what is healthful or what is popular;
Whether it is better to follow the path of health with a few or to
wade through the swamp of illness with the many;
Whether it is better to live 100 healthy years or 70 sickly years.
Author:Dave MacKenzie
That is a question Shakespeare can't help you with - you must decide for yourself.
If you really want to be healthy, you have to be determined to take positive steps. The first is to acknowledge that a problem exists and that the problem is that you must listen to Mother Nature and not to your parents, your friends, the medicine men, the media, the government, etal. You, then, must have a sustained, burning desire to be healthy even if it is unpopular with everyone you know. It is an important choice - health or popularity. You must decide to take immediate action to achieve the goal of excellent health and, if you trip and fall on the way, to get up and get right back on the right path - the golden path to health and happiness.
In the beginning, it is very difficult to persevere (especially when you have adverse effects as your body is cleansing itself as discussed previously). Be as resolved to fight in the Revolution of Health as our forefathers were resolved to fight the American Revolution. If you fight the tyranny of the medicine men and addiction to the wrong foods, you can win freedom from disease as our forefathers won freedom from the tyranny of a foreign government. As you start to benefit from your efforts, perseverence will become easier and easier. Youthfulness will be restored because of obedience to the Laws of Nature. Mental and emotional problems will shrink and disappear.
The best reward of good health is freedom. Freedom from the diseases, freedom from many physical dependencies, freedom from medication, freedom from financial dependency, and freedom from the tyranny of the medicine men.
In Conclusion
There is an old cliche' that says: the path to hell is paved with good intentions. This keeps coming to mind whenever I think about modern medicine.
Most of its practitioners are not evil people. They try to do what they believe is good and to protect us from what they perceive as the dark forces of illness and disease. Their desire to find a answer, to find a place of safety from the dark forces of illness, is understandable and even commendable --- but it is not science. Even worse, it is dangerous since they are following the wrong path.
A temporary easing of symptoms of an illness or disease is all medicines and drugs can offer. Whereas, the adverse side-effects of the medicines and drugs are cumulative and long-lasting. The longer a drug is used the more serious the effects and the more likely the damage will be permanent or fatal. All physicians know this but they try to balance between the risk and what they perceive as the reward - the temporary easing.
Medical practitioners continue to use toxic drugs, cancer-causing radiation, and knives to cut pieces out of their patients rather than do what many studies have proven --- listen to Mother Nature, co-operate with Mother Nature.
(The current practice of medicine has tried to separate science and spirit...to rupture the interconnectiveness between the body and the soul. For the last century, this had been done quite successfully. But the inevitability of the body/soul attraction is slowly making a comeback into medical practice and the various sciences.)
One of those studies was reported by the Yale University School of Medicine in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (Feb., 1994). The findings were that raw fruits and vegetable rich in beta carotene lowers the risk of lung cancer in both cigarette smokers and non-smokers. This is just one of many studies that prove that the correct diet can cure and, more importantly, prevent serious illness. But has the modern medicine men given up toxic drugs, deadly radiation, and the knife?
No, they just continue on - status quo.
Are you aware that there are now over 10,000 "diseases" recognized by the American Medical Association? Do you believe that every (any) medical practitioner knows the name of all of them, let alone the symptoms and the "correct" treatment? If you do, I'll bet you also believe that Superman is a real person and that the Easter bunny lays colored eggs.
Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine and the author of the Hippocatic Oath (which is no longer used), advised: "Physician, heal thyself." The truth of his advice was that, if the physician was unable to heal himself, he wouldn't be competent to heal others. Also contained in that profound advice is the physician would not be able to do his best if the physician were ailing.
The advice that was given to the individual also applies to the group. So, let's take a look at the medical fraternity to see how well they heal themselves. There were two studies made of professional groups. One showed that physicians have the highest rate of alcoholism, the highest rate of drug addiction, and the highest rate of suicide. The other study showed, not surprisingly, that they also have the lowest life expectancy (58).
Does that seem to you that the physicians are taking the advice of the Father of Medicine? Are they healing themselves? Of course, not! Can we trust them to heal us if they can't heal themselves? Of course, not!
Your health is your responsibility and you are the only one who can do anything substantial about it. Listen to Mother Nature.
As stated previously, diseases are symptoms and symptoms are messages from your body that something is wrong. Whether the symptom is minor (headache, bad breath, cough, etc.) or serious (cancer, arthritis, Alzeimers, etc.) or in between, the symptom should not be treated with a toxic drug or the knife (scalpel) or radiation or any of the other failed collection of treatments used by the anti-Nature medicos.
Co-operation with Mother Nature allows the body to heal itself. So, listen to the messages (symptoms) --- do not kill the messenger.
According to a 1993 survey of the seventy-nine largest nations in the world, the U.S.A. ranked 79th in national health. This in spite of the fact that the U.S.A. has the highest per capita consumption of dairy products and meat products. This in spite of the fact that the U.S. citizen has the most medical care, the largest medicine usage and the highest medical technolgy available.
With this supposedly excellent diet and unsurpassed medical availabilty, we should have had the highest ranking instead of the lowest. So, why the lowest? Could it be that those foods and that medical care actually contribute to poor health?
Heart disease and cancer are not inevitable side effects of aging or genetics. Nor are any of the other so-called degenerative diseases. The facts are that we have not been told the truth. Cancer and all the other "diseases" are not diseases - they are symptoms of the one true disease- - -toxemia (a.k.a. toxicosis). Cancer, etc. are the body's naturally occuring conditions (symptoms) in response to an unhealthfully lived lifestyle, especially diet.
Symptoms, being messengers from your body (and God) and also functions of cleansing, should not be treated with medications since the treatment is the equivalent of killing the messenger and no cure is achieved and the body is further poisoned. That increases the toxicosis.
Nor is surgery the answer since all that surgery does is remove a part of the body that has been damaged by the toxicosis. But the cause (toxemia) remains in the body to show up elsewhere in the body with a different symptom/disease.
The cause must be removed - - - not the symptom (message from Mother Nature). The only way to remove the cause is to co-operate with Nature...healthful living.
Habit is habit, but just because you are conditioned to act or eat in a certain way, don't think you have to be stuck with that behavior. You can change. It will be a difficult struggle...but you can master yourself if you really want to have good health and a happly life.
Decide to choose Health!!! It is far easier to avoid serious illness than to recuperate from one...or two...or more illnesses.
Dr. Herbert M. Sheldon said: "There is a special glow and vibrancy about good health. It is not simply freedom from disease. As you change your way of life, you begin to perceive through your own personal encounters, rather than through what you were taught. You taste, touch, see, smell and hear with greater sensitivity. You begin to realize how very beautiful you are, and you feel and become an integral part of the ecological process and the human experience - a vital part of the universe. Slowly, you evolve into an aware human being."
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Who is strong? He that can conquer bad habits! Ben Franklin, 1770
Most people are about as happly as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln, 1850
Physical, mental, and moral integrity constitute our most precious possessions - a balanced, sound mind in a balanced, sound body. We have the moral obligation to ourselves, our dear ones, our society, our posterity, and our maker to strive for optimum health through obedience to natural laws governing health. The physical, mental and moral health of the people of any nation is more important that its gross national product.
Harry Kaplan
The secret of getting rid of old, destructive habits lies in loving and respecting yourself so much that you do not succumb to the addictive stimulation that is so powerfully projected to make us puppets on the strings of the Madison Avenue manipulators.
Jo Willard, 1982
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Many people are under the mistaken notion that toxins can enter the body only by mouth. This is incorrect to the extreme.
Toxins can enter the body through your nose and through your skin also.
Everything you breathe enters your body, e.g. automobile fumes, tobacco smoke, chemical fumes, air fresheners, perfumes, etc., etc.
Up to 60% of what is applied to your skin is absorbed into your body depending on how long it is on your skin and how strong the substance is.
So, your elimination system is stressed even if you don't ingest toxic substances.
My own rule of thumb is: if I wouldn't eat or drink the substance, I won't apply it to my skin or breathe it intentionally. The only exception being a mild, unscented soap that is rinsed off in a few seconds.
Well, you can breathe a sigh of relief because this is THE END.
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When Will They Meet?
A mathematician, a physicist and an engineer were each given the following problem to solve.
A school dance floor included a straight line down the middle dividing the floor in two equal halves. Boys were lined up against one wall and girls against the opposite wall, each facing the centre line. They were instructed to advance in stages towards the centre line every ten seconds, where the distance from the person to the centre line at each stage is equal to one-half the distance at the past stage.
i.e.: If the starting distance from the wall to centre line was D, the progressive series of distances at t = 0, 10 seconds, 20 seconds...10n seconds to the centre line is (D, D/2, D/4, D/8, .....D/2n)
The question is, when will they meet at the middle?
The mathematician said that they would never meet.
The physicist said they would meet when time equals infinity.
The engineer said that in one minute they would be close enough for all practical purposes.
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God the Parent
Whenever your kids are out of control, you can take comfort from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not extend to God's kids.
After creating heaven and earth, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was: "Don't."
"Don't what?" Adam asked.
"Don't eat the Forbidden Fruit." God replied.
"Forbidden fruit? We got Forbidden Fruit? Hey, Eve..we got Forbidden Fruit!"
"No way!"
"Where?"
"Don't eat that fruit!" said God.
"Why?"
"Because I am your Creator and I said so!" said God, wondering why he hadn't stopped after making the elephants.
A few minutes later God saw the kids having an apple break and was angry.
"Didn't I tell you not to eat that fruit?" the 'First Parent' asked.
"Uh huh," Adam replied.
"Then why did you?"
"I dunno," Eve answered.
"She started it!" Adam said.
"Did not!"
"DID so!"
"DID NOT!"
Having had it with the two of them, God's punishment was that Adam and Eve should have children of their own...thus the pattern was set, and it has never changed.
Quotes and Comments
The ideal of a healthy life is not a new fad created by "health nuts." Nor is criticism of medicine limited to just a few ungrateful past patients. For instance, in 1750, Voltaire stated: "We put drugs of which we know little into bodies of which we know less to cure diseases of which we know nothing at all." This quote is as apropos today as it was in 1750 since there has been no improvment in the curing of diseases...only more and more potent potions with more serious side effects.
In 1900, Thomas A Edison stated: "The doctor of the future will give no medicine...but will interest his patients in the area of...the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease." (Is this what your doctor does?)
As you can see, health has been important to the great minds for centuries. Unfortunately, greed and/or primitive thinking has controlled health and medicine ever since the days of the medicine men who claimed illnesses were caused by evil spirits. The medicine men used rattles and chants and secret potions and magic spells to chase away those evil spirits. Sometimes they were "successful" and their patients lived; sometimes they were unsuccessful and their patients died. Sound familiar???
Time passed and the medicine men became civilized. During the Middle Ages, diseases were determined to be caused by Satan and his imps. It was also determined that the carrier of all diseases was the blood. So, of course, the cure required removal of the patient's blood. The medicine men used the procedure of blood-letting which was cutting open a vein and allowing a pint or two of blood to bleed out. (This procedure is what killed George Washington.) This procedure was later improved to where the medicine men used leeches to suck out the blood.
More time passed and the medicine men became more civilized and called themselves doctors or physicians. They also identified the evil spirits and called them bacteria or germs. The treatment to eliminate the bacteria was stronger and stronger potions. It follows that the smaller the evil spirits, the stronger the poison, oops, I mean, the medicine had to be.
A little more time passed and they found an even smaller evil spirit which they called a virus. (If a bacterium were an elephant, a virus would be a flea.) These evil spirits were so small that very, very toxic potions were necessary to fight them. It was a choice that had to be made: kill the virus or kill the patient (sometimes both). If the evil spirits get any smaller, the medicine men will have to train friendly viruses to develope microscopes and medicines.
Now-a-days, the fad is to blame diseases on genes - the new evil spirits. (Defective genes are just more evidence that God didn't know what He was doing when He designed the human being. )
It doesn't occur to our current day medicine men (at least not to most of them) that billions of hours of research and the hundreds of billions of dollars (pounds, francs, yen, marks, etc.) spent have produced nothing (but wealth for many). Nor have they proven that these tiny things are actually disease-causing evil spirits. It is only opinion. As Dr. David Scott said in 1973: "A virus may be present in disease, but that doesn't prove that the virus is the cause of the disease. This line of logic is like saying 'Flies cause dirty garbage cans.'" It is also like saying, "Vultures kill their food." The facts are that flies and vultures are scavengers and do not cause or kill anything. Bacteria and viruses are scavengers also and not disease-causing evil spirits they are portrayed to be by the modern medicine men. (It is also possible that bacteria may exacerbate a condition while not causing it.)
The true cause of disease is as Dr. Alan Immerman said in 1983: "Peolple cause their own disease. There are indeed ways to deal with disease that are not destructive to the body. We can choose not to cause our own diseases." Or, as Thomas Moffett said in 1600: "Men dig their own graves with their teeth and die more by those fated instruments than by the weapons of their enemies." Even Florence Nightingale, in 1860, said: "The 'Specific Disease Doctrine' is the grand refuge of the weak, uncultured, unstable minds - such as now rule the medical profession. There are no specific diseases - there are only specific disease conditions." Also, as Dr. Ralph Bircher Bener said in 1900: "The first law of Nutritional Economy is: Every excess of food and calories - and particularly of proteins (such as meat) - works not to a person's advantage, but to a deterioration of his health." The Man of Nature, Henry David Thoreau, said in 1850: "Every man and every woman is the builder of a temple called 'the body. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh, blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine one's features."
So, we can either cause disease by eating the wrong foods or we can build a healthy temple by listening to Mother Nature (God). We can either listen to the multitude of greedy little minds or we can follow the health-promoting advice of great minds. Dr. Ralph Cinque put it well when, in 1981, he said: "Your ability to reason is your most valuable and indispensible tool for achieving your own survival and your own happiness. But, remember, it doesn't come automatically. You can choose 'to think' or 'not to think.' Be firm in your conviction that to consciously and rationally and objectively examine the facts of reality is always the best alternative you have, regardless of the circumstances you face. Be certain that there is no deception more vile and more destructive than self-deception."
To Eat or Not to Eat -
That is the question:
Whether it is better to eat what is healthful or what is popular;
Whether it is better to follow the path of health with a few or to
wade through the swamp of illness with the many;
Whether it is better to live 100 healthy years or 70 sickly years.
Author:Dave MacKenzie
That is a question Shakespeare can't help you with - you must decide for yourself.
If you really want to be healthy, you have to be determined to take positive steps. The first is to acknowledge that a problem exists and that the problem is that you must listen to Mother Nature and not to your parents, your friends, the medicine men, the media, the government, etal. You, then, must have a sustained, burning desire to be healthy even if it is unpopular with everyone you know. It is an important choice - health or popularity. You must decide to take immediate action to achieve the goal of excellent health and, if you trip and fall on the way, to get up and get right back on the right path - the golden path to health and happiness.
In the beginning, it is very difficult to persevere (especially when you have adverse effects as your body is cleansing itself as discussed previously). Be as resolved to fight in the Revolution of Health as our forefathers were resolved to fight the American Revolution. If you fight the tyranny of the medicine men and addiction to the wrong foods, you can win freedom from disease as our forefathers won freedom from the tyranny of a foreign government. As you start to benefit from your efforts, perseverence will become easier and easier. Youthfulness will be restored because of obedience to the Laws of Nature. Mental and emotional problems will shrink and disappear.
The best reward of good health is freedom. Freedom from the diseases, freedom from many physical dependencies, freedom from medication, freedom from financial dependency, and freedom from the tyranny of the medicine men.
In Conclusion
There is an old cliche' that says: the path to hell is paved with good intentions. This keeps coming to mind whenever I think about modern medicine.
Most of its practitioners are not evil people. They try to do what they believe is good and to protect us from what they perceive as the dark forces of illness and disease. Their desire to find a answer, to find a place of safety from the dark forces of illness, is understandable and even commendable --- but it is not science. Even worse, it is dangerous since they are following the wrong path.
A temporary easing of symptoms of an illness or disease is all medicines and drugs can offer. Whereas, the adverse side-effects of the medicines and drugs are cumulative and long-lasting. The longer a drug is used the more serious the effects and the more likely the damage will be permanent or fatal. All physicians know this but they try to balance between the risk and what they perceive as the reward - the temporary easing.
Medical practitioners continue to use toxic drugs, cancer-causing radiation, and knives to cut pieces out of their patients rather than do what many studies have proven --- listen to Mother Nature, co-operate with Mother Nature.
(The current practice of medicine has tried to separate science and spirit...to rupture the interconnectiveness between the body and the soul. For the last century, this had been done quite successfully. But the inevitability of the body/soul attraction is slowly making a comeback into medical practice and the various sciences.)
One of those studies was reported by the Yale University School of Medicine in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (Feb., 1994). The findings were that raw fruits and vegetable rich in beta carotene lowers the risk of lung cancer in both cigarette smokers and non-smokers. This is just one of many studies that prove that the correct diet can cure and, more importantly, prevent serious illness. But has the modern medicine men given up toxic drugs, deadly radiation, and the knife?
No, they just continue on - status quo.
Are you aware that there are now over 10,000 "diseases" recognized by the American Medical Association? Do you believe that every (any) medical practitioner knows the name of all of them, let alone the symptoms and the "correct" treatment? If you do, I'll bet you also believe that Superman is a real person and that the Easter bunny lays colored eggs.
Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine and the author of the Hippocatic Oath (which is no longer used), advised: "Physician, heal thyself." The truth of his advice was that, if the physician was unable to heal himself, he wouldn't be competent to heal others. Also contained in that profound advice is the physician would not be able to do his best if the physician were ailing.
The advice that was given to the individual also applies to the group. So, let's take a look at the medical fraternity to see how well they heal themselves. There were two studies made of professional groups. One showed that physicians have the highest rate of alcoholism, the highest rate of drug addiction, and the highest rate of suicide. The other study showed, not surprisingly, that they also have the lowest life expectancy (58).
Does that seem to you that the physicians are taking the advice of the Father of Medicine? Are they healing themselves? Of course, not! Can we trust them to heal us if they can't heal themselves? Of course, not!
Your health is your responsibility and you are the only one who can do anything substantial about it. Listen to Mother Nature.
As stated previously, diseases are symptoms and symptoms are messages from your body that something is wrong. Whether the symptom is minor (headache, bad breath, cough, etc.) or serious (cancer, arthritis, Alzeimers, etc.) or in between, the symptom should not be treated with a toxic drug or the knife (scalpel) or radiation or any of the other failed collection of treatments used by the anti-Nature medicos.
Co-operation with Mother Nature allows the body to heal itself. So, listen to the messages (symptoms) --- do not kill the messenger.
According to a 1993 survey of the seventy-nine largest nations in the world, the U.S.A. ranked 79th in national health. This in spite of the fact that the U.S.A. has the highest per capita consumption of dairy products and meat products. This in spite of the fact that the U.S. citizen has the most medical care, the largest medicine usage and the highest medical technolgy available.
With this supposedly excellent diet and unsurpassed medical availabilty, we should have had the highest ranking instead of the lowest. So, why the lowest? Could it be that those foods and that medical care actually contribute to poor health?
Heart disease and cancer are not inevitable side effects of aging or genetics. Nor are any of the other so-called degenerative diseases. The facts are that we have not been told the truth. Cancer and all the other "diseases" are not diseases - they are symptoms of the one true disease- - -toxemia (a.k.a. toxicosis). Cancer, etc. are the body's naturally occuring conditions (symptoms) in response to an unhealthfully lived lifestyle, especially diet.
Symptoms, being messengers from your body (and God) and also functions of cleansing, should not be treated with medications since the treatment is the equivalent of killing the messenger and no cure is achieved and the body is further poisoned. That increases the toxicosis.
Nor is surgery the answer since all that surgery does is remove a part of the body that has been damaged by the toxicosis. But the cause (toxemia) remains in the body to show up elsewhere in the body with a different symptom/disease.
The cause must be removed - - - not the symptom (message from Mother Nature). The only way to remove the cause is to co-operate with Nature...healthful living.
Habit is habit, but just because you are conditioned to act or eat in a certain way, don't think you have to be stuck with that behavior. You can change. It will be a difficult struggle...but you can master yourself if you really want to have good health and a happly life.
Decide to choose Health!!! It is far easier to avoid serious illness than to recuperate from one...or two...or more illnesses.
Dr. Herbert M. Sheldon said: "There is a special glow and vibrancy about good health. It is not simply freedom from disease. As you change your way of life, you begin to perceive through your own personal encounters, rather than through what you were taught. You taste, touch, see, smell and hear with greater sensitivity. You begin to realize how very beautiful you are, and you feel and become an integral part of the ecological process and the human experience - a vital part of the universe. Slowly, you evolve into an aware human being."
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Who is strong? He that can conquer bad habits! Ben Franklin, 1770
Most people are about as happly as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln, 1850
Physical, mental, and moral integrity constitute our most precious possessions - a balanced, sound mind in a balanced, sound body. We have the moral obligation to ourselves, our dear ones, our society, our posterity, and our maker to strive for optimum health through obedience to natural laws governing health. The physical, mental and moral health of the people of any nation is more important that its gross national product.
Harry Kaplan
The secret of getting rid of old, destructive habits lies in loving and respecting yourself so much that you do not succumb to the addictive stimulation that is so powerfully projected to make us puppets on the strings of the Madison Avenue manipulators.
Jo Willard, 1982
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Many people are under the mistaken notion that toxins can enter the body only by mouth. This is incorrect to the extreme.
Toxins can enter the body through your nose and through your skin also.
Everything you breathe enters your body, e.g. automobile fumes, tobacco smoke, chemical fumes, air fresheners, perfumes, etc., etc.
Up to 60% of what is applied to your skin is absorbed into your body depending on how long it is on your skin and how strong the substance is.
So, your elimination system is stressed even if you don't ingest toxic substances.
My own rule of thumb is: if I wouldn't eat or drink the substance, I won't apply it to my skin or breathe it intentionally. The only exception being a mild, unscented soap that is rinsed off in a few seconds.
Well, you can breathe a sigh of relief because this is THE END.
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When Will They Meet?
A mathematician, a physicist and an engineer were each given the following problem to solve.
A school dance floor included a straight line down the middle dividing the floor in two equal halves. Boys were lined up against one wall and girls against the opposite wall, each facing the centre line. They were instructed to advance in stages towards the centre line every ten seconds, where the distance from the person to the centre line at each stage is equal to one-half the distance at the past stage.
i.e.: If the starting distance from the wall to centre line was D, the progressive series of distances at t = 0, 10 seconds, 20 seconds...10n seconds to the centre line is (D, D/2, D/4, D/8, .....D/2n)
The question is, when will they meet at the middle?
The mathematician said that they would never meet.
The physicist said they would meet when time equals infinity.
The engineer said that in one minute they would be close enough for all practical purposes.
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God the Parent
Whenever your kids are out of control, you can take comfort from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not extend to God's kids.
After creating heaven and earth, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was: "Don't."
"Don't what?" Adam asked.
"Don't eat the Forbidden Fruit." God replied.
"Forbidden fruit? We got Forbidden Fruit? Hey, Eve..we got Forbidden Fruit!"
"No way!"
"Where?"
"Don't eat that fruit!" said God.
"Why?"
"Because I am your Creator and I said so!" said God, wondering why he hadn't stopped after making the elephants.
A few minutes later God saw the kids having an apple break and was angry.
"Didn't I tell you not to eat that fruit?" the 'First Parent' asked.
"Uh huh," Adam replied.
"Then why did you?"
"I dunno," Eve answered.
"She started it!" Adam said.
"Did not!"
"DID so!"
"DID NOT!"
Having had it with the two of them, God's punishment was that Adam and Eve should have children of their own...thus the pattern was set, and it has never changed.
Biologically Correct Diet - 11th Installment
Have you read the previous installments?
Previously mentioned was the fact that an acid body was a sick/dead body and an alkaline body was a well/healthy body. Also mentioned was the fact that the objectionable foods were acidic and the fresh fruits/nuts/seeds were alkaline. Here are some source materials that go into more depth on this relationship.
From the Sedona Health Letter:
Have you ever wondered why you can eat like a horse and still feel run down? Why you can get miles of exercise and not drop that extra chunky ten to fifteen pounds? Why most people you know are suffering from some kind of horrible imbalance doctors can't fix? Why, for all our medical breakthroughs, heart disease, cancer, obesity and diabetes are skyrocketing?
The answer is simple.
Most people are suffering from ACID OVERLOAD. What? Here's what we've discovered: Supermarket food is acid-forming. Meats, eggs, bread, cheese, crackers, etc. are ALL ACID in nature. (They should have added all cooked/processed food.)
All that food we crave is acid-forming and over-acidification of body fluids and tissues is linked to every known disease including that dragged-out daily fatigue most of us complain about and the endless list of digestive disorders.
When your body is overly acidic, you become vulnerable to germs, yeast, bacteria, molds, and fungi. These harmful microorganisms thrive in acidity. Most people today live on over-processed, over-cooked food. It's no wonder that "Tums" is America's best-selling drug.
What's the opposite of acid food? In a word, alkaline. What's alkaline? (Fresh) fruits, vegetables, nuts, and a few grains such as rice, spelt, amaranth, and quinoa (not wheat, corn, oats, or rye).
What's the science behind this theory? The relationship between acid and alkaline is scientificaly quantified on a scale of 1 to 14 known as pH. On that scale, 7 is neutral. Below 7 is acid and above 7 is alkaline.
Most of us eat 80% acid foods and 20% alkaline foods and just the opposite ratio is the one that will guide you to disease-free vibrant health - for life!
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From True Health (Edgar Cayce):
Acid-alkaline balance is extremely important to normal physiology. For example, the blood will maintain a slightly alkaline range of 7.35 to 7.45. Extended pH imbalances of any kind are not tolerated by the body. The management of the pH factor is so important that the body's primary regulatory systems (especially breathing, circulation and eliminations) closely regulate acid-alkaline balance in every cell and system of the organism.
Researchers believe that high acidity can deplete bones because the body has to steal alkalizing minerals (especially calcium) from bones to keep the blood from dropping into the acid range. Thus acid-alkaline balance may be relevant to diseases such as osteoarthritis and osteoporosis.
Alkalinity can be increased by consuming less meat and (man-made) sweets and consuming more fresh, raw fruits and vegetables. Although eating fruit to increase alkalinity may seem to be a contradiction because some fruits are acidic outside the body, digestion uses up their acidic components, leaving an alkaline residue. The the net effect is alkaline-producing in the system. ...just as Nature intended.
Edgar Cayce consistently emphasized the importance of maintaining a proper acid-alkaline balance in the body. For most individuals, Cayce noted that the normal diet is about twenty percent acid to eighty percent alkaline-producing.
According to Cayce, ...eating acid-producing foods or combining foods improperly (even alkaline-producing foods) is said to lead to hyperacidity, even to "superacidity" in some instances.
High systemic acidity was consistently noted by Cayce in conditions such as arthritis. He sometimes observed that infectious agents (such as viruses) do not thrive in an alkaline environment..."cold germs cannot exist in alkalines."
In another instance when asked how to prevent colds, Cayce responded, "Keep the body alkaline! Cold germs do not live in an alkaline system! They do breed in any acid or excess of acid of any character left in the system."
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Tibetan Lama Hanh:
"Maintaining higher energy within oneself is impossible if one consumes dead matter as food.
Most people are full of energy and enthusiasm in their youth, but then during adulthood they lapse into a slow, downhill slide that they pretend not to notice. After all, their friends are slowing down and their kids are active, so they spend more and more time sitting around eating the foods that taste good...(because they have become addicted to those foods.)
Before long, they begin to have nagging complaints and chronic problems such as digestive difficulties or skin irritations that they write off as just age, and then one day they get a serious illness that won't go away. Usually they go to a doctor who does not stress prevention and they begin to take drugs, and sometimes the problem is helped and sometimes it isn't. And then, as the years fly by, they get some disease that progressively gets worse, and they realize they are dying. Their only solace is that they think what is happening to them occurs to everyone --- that it is inevitable.
If we seek higher energy and at the same time consume foods that rob us of this energy, we get nowhere.
All disease is a drop in vibrational energy, and when our energy drops to a certain level, there are natural forces in the world that are designed to disincorporate our bodies.
When anything dies the cells of the body immediately lose their vibration and become very acid in chemistry. That acid state is the signal to the microbes of the world, the viruses, bacteria, and fungi, that it is time to decompose this dead tissue. This is their job in the physical universe...to return a body back to the earth.
When our bodies drop in energy because of the kinds of foods we eat, it makes us susceptible to disease. Here's how that works. When we eat foods, they are metabolized and leave a waste or ash in our bodies. This ash is either acid or alkaline, depending on the food. If it is alkaline, then it can be quickly extracted from our bodies with little energy. However, if these waste products are acid, they are very difficult for the blood and lymph systems to eliminate and they are stored in our organs and tissues as solids...low vibrational crystaline forms that create blocks or disruptions in the vibratory levels of our cells. The more such acid by-products are stored, the more generally acid these tissues become.
Then, a microbe of one type or another appears and senses all this acid and says, 'Oh, this body is ready to be decomposed.'
To repeat: when any organism dies, its body quickly changes to a highly acid environment and is consumed by microbes very quickly. So, if we begin to resemble this very acid, or death, state, then we begin to come under attack from microbes. All human diseases are the result of such an attack."
Now, we know why some people get diseases and why others do not...why some people die young and why others live long lives...why drugs do not cure, only make us sicker.
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Why Men Are Happier...
-- Your last name stays put.
-- The garage is all yours.
-- Wedding plans take care of themselves.
-- Chocolate is just another snack.
-- You can be President.
-- You can never be pregnant.
-- You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park. Actually, You can wear NO shirt to a water park.
-- Car mechanics tell you the truth.
-- You never have to drive to another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky.
-- Same work, more pay.
-- Wrinkles add character.
-- Wedding dress $5000. Tux rental-$100.
-- The occasional well-rendered belch is practically expected.
-- New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet.
-- One mood all the time.
-- Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
-- A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase.
-- You can open all your own jars.
-- You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
-- If someone forgets to invite you, he or she can still be your friend.
-- Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack.
-- You almost never have strap problems in public.
-- You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes.
-- Everything on your face stays its original color.
-- The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades.
-- You only have to shave your face and neck.
-- You can play with toys all your life.
-- Your belly usually hides your big hips.
-- One wallet and one pair of shoes one color for all seasons.
-- You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.
-- You can "do" your nails with a pocket knife.
-- You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache.
-- You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on December 24 in 25 minutes.
No wonder men are happier...
Previously mentioned was the fact that an acid body was a sick/dead body and an alkaline body was a well/healthy body. Also mentioned was the fact that the objectionable foods were acidic and the fresh fruits/nuts/seeds were alkaline. Here are some source materials that go into more depth on this relationship.
From the Sedona Health Letter:
Have you ever wondered why you can eat like a horse and still feel run down? Why you can get miles of exercise and not drop that extra chunky ten to fifteen pounds? Why most people you know are suffering from some kind of horrible imbalance doctors can't fix? Why, for all our medical breakthroughs, heart disease, cancer, obesity and diabetes are skyrocketing?
The answer is simple.
Most people are suffering from ACID OVERLOAD. What? Here's what we've discovered: Supermarket food is acid-forming. Meats, eggs, bread, cheese, crackers, etc. are ALL ACID in nature. (They should have added all cooked/processed food.)
All that food we crave is acid-forming and over-acidification of body fluids and tissues is linked to every known disease including that dragged-out daily fatigue most of us complain about and the endless list of digestive disorders.
When your body is overly acidic, you become vulnerable to germs, yeast, bacteria, molds, and fungi. These harmful microorganisms thrive in acidity. Most people today live on over-processed, over-cooked food. It's no wonder that "Tums" is America's best-selling drug.
What's the opposite of acid food? In a word, alkaline. What's alkaline? (Fresh) fruits, vegetables, nuts, and a few grains such as rice, spelt, amaranth, and quinoa (not wheat, corn, oats, or rye).
What's the science behind this theory? The relationship between acid and alkaline is scientificaly quantified on a scale of 1 to 14 known as pH. On that scale, 7 is neutral. Below 7 is acid and above 7 is alkaline.
Most of us eat 80% acid foods and 20% alkaline foods and just the opposite ratio is the one that will guide you to disease-free vibrant health - for life!
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From True Health (Edgar Cayce):
Acid-alkaline balance is extremely important to normal physiology. For example, the blood will maintain a slightly alkaline range of 7.35 to 7.45. Extended pH imbalances of any kind are not tolerated by the body. The management of the pH factor is so important that the body's primary regulatory systems (especially breathing, circulation and eliminations) closely regulate acid-alkaline balance in every cell and system of the organism.
Researchers believe that high acidity can deplete bones because the body has to steal alkalizing minerals (especially calcium) from bones to keep the blood from dropping into the acid range. Thus acid-alkaline balance may be relevant to diseases such as osteoarthritis and osteoporosis.
Alkalinity can be increased by consuming less meat and (man-made) sweets and consuming more fresh, raw fruits and vegetables. Although eating fruit to increase alkalinity may seem to be a contradiction because some fruits are acidic outside the body, digestion uses up their acidic components, leaving an alkaline residue. The the net effect is alkaline-producing in the system. ...just as Nature intended.
Edgar Cayce consistently emphasized the importance of maintaining a proper acid-alkaline balance in the body. For most individuals, Cayce noted that the normal diet is about twenty percent acid to eighty percent alkaline-producing.
According to Cayce, ...eating acid-producing foods or combining foods improperly (even alkaline-producing foods) is said to lead to hyperacidity, even to "superacidity" in some instances.
High systemic acidity was consistently noted by Cayce in conditions such as arthritis. He sometimes observed that infectious agents (such as viruses) do not thrive in an alkaline environment..."cold germs cannot exist in alkalines."
In another instance when asked how to prevent colds, Cayce responded, "Keep the body alkaline! Cold germs do not live in an alkaline system! They do breed in any acid or excess of acid of any character left in the system."
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Tibetan Lama Hanh:
"Maintaining higher energy within oneself is impossible if one consumes dead matter as food.
Most people are full of energy and enthusiasm in their youth, but then during adulthood they lapse into a slow, downhill slide that they pretend not to notice. After all, their friends are slowing down and their kids are active, so they spend more and more time sitting around eating the foods that taste good...(because they have become addicted to those foods.)
Before long, they begin to have nagging complaints and chronic problems such as digestive difficulties or skin irritations that they write off as just age, and then one day they get a serious illness that won't go away. Usually they go to a doctor who does not stress prevention and they begin to take drugs, and sometimes the problem is helped and sometimes it isn't. And then, as the years fly by, they get some disease that progressively gets worse, and they realize they are dying. Their only solace is that they think what is happening to them occurs to everyone --- that it is inevitable.
If we seek higher energy and at the same time consume foods that rob us of this energy, we get nowhere.
All disease is a drop in vibrational energy, and when our energy drops to a certain level, there are natural forces in the world that are designed to disincorporate our bodies.
When anything dies the cells of the body immediately lose their vibration and become very acid in chemistry. That acid state is the signal to the microbes of the world, the viruses, bacteria, and fungi, that it is time to decompose this dead tissue. This is their job in the physical universe...to return a body back to the earth.
When our bodies drop in energy because of the kinds of foods we eat, it makes us susceptible to disease. Here's how that works. When we eat foods, they are metabolized and leave a waste or ash in our bodies. This ash is either acid or alkaline, depending on the food. If it is alkaline, then it can be quickly extracted from our bodies with little energy. However, if these waste products are acid, they are very difficult for the blood and lymph systems to eliminate and they are stored in our organs and tissues as solids...low vibrational crystaline forms that create blocks or disruptions in the vibratory levels of our cells. The more such acid by-products are stored, the more generally acid these tissues become.
Then, a microbe of one type or another appears and senses all this acid and says, 'Oh, this body is ready to be decomposed.'
To repeat: when any organism dies, its body quickly changes to a highly acid environment and is consumed by microbes very quickly. So, if we begin to resemble this very acid, or death, state, then we begin to come under attack from microbes. All human diseases are the result of such an attack."
Now, we know why some people get diseases and why others do not...why some people die young and why others live long lives...why drugs do not cure, only make us sicker.
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Why Men Are Happier...
-- Your last name stays put.
-- The garage is all yours.
-- Wedding plans take care of themselves.
-- Chocolate is just another snack.
-- You can be President.
-- You can never be pregnant.
-- You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park. Actually, You can wear NO shirt to a water park.
-- Car mechanics tell you the truth.
-- You never have to drive to another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky.
-- Same work, more pay.
-- Wrinkles add character.
-- Wedding dress $5000. Tux rental-$100.
-- The occasional well-rendered belch is practically expected.
-- New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet.
-- One mood all the time.
-- Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
-- A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase.
-- You can open all your own jars.
-- You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
-- If someone forgets to invite you, he or she can still be your friend.
-- Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack.
-- You almost never have strap problems in public.
-- You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes.
-- Everything on your face stays its original color.
-- The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades.
-- You only have to shave your face and neck.
-- You can play with toys all your life.
-- Your belly usually hides your big hips.
-- One wallet and one pair of shoes one color for all seasons.
-- You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.
-- You can "do" your nails with a pocket knife.
-- You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache.
-- You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on December 24 in 25 minutes.
No wonder men are happier...
Biologically Correct Diet - 10th Installment
Here we go again.
Enzymes are a very important part of all life, in general, and to our health, in particular. Let's look at the medical dictionary definition for basic understanding.
According to Blackiston's New Gould Medical Dictionary, an enzyme is a catalytic substance formed by living cells and having a specific action in promoting a chemical change. There are at least 700 different types of enzymes in our bodies and many of them are involved with digestion. There are endogenous enzymes which are produced by our bodies and there are exogenous enzymes which must be ingested in raw foods. Without completion of their purpose, digestion would be incomplete, assimilation of nutrients would not occur, and the undigested "foods" would become toxins. Therefore, plant-derived enzymes are absolutely necessary for health-promoting digestion.
That is a factor that has been overlooked (or ignored) by the medical fraternity, the dieticians, most nutritionists, and, of course, by the various government agencies. Overlooked, that is, until just recently.
....enzymes are completely destroyed by manufacturing or culinary operations. Enzymes can withstand no cooking, boiling, frying, roasting, stewing, broiling, or pasteurizing. Cookery destroys them to the extent of...100%.
Dr. Edward Howell
Is Your Body Demanding Food Enzymes?
The length of one's life is inversely proportional to the rate of exhaustion of the enzyme potential of an organism. But the increased use of food enzymes promotes a decreased rate of exhaustion of the enzyme potential, and thus results in a longer, healthier and more vital life. (Isn't this what we all want?)
Dr. Edward Howell
Enzyme Nutrition
These studies show that plant derived enzymes are the missing link between good health and nutrition. Raw fruits and vegetables contain these enzymes. Cooked and processed foods do not contain live enzymes and, therefore, digestion is incomplete or difficult and good health denied.
What do enzymes do for us...nutritionally speaking? Enzymes break down proteins into various amino acids. They break down carbohydrates into (natural) glucose. They break down fats into fatty acids. The body is then able to use these simpler components for energy or to build new tissue. Each kind of enzyme performs one job only. And it is located in only one of the three cavities of digestion: mouth, stomach, small intestine. So, in order to have efficient and complete digestion, all of the correct enzymes must be present in the proper digestive cavity at the proper time and in sufficient amount.
Synthetic enzymes are being packaged and sold. But, why pay a high price for an inferior substitute when the real thing is available free in the BCD as Mother Nature intended?
Like all engines, enzymes need their starters. Phytochemicals are those starters. Not surprisingly, those plant-derived enzyme-triggers are found in fruits and vegetables.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Cancer Institute have stated that, if we would all eat just five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, we could cut the risk of cancer by over 50%. (Notice they forgot to say raw fruits and vegetables.) (Of course, if we cut out all objectionable foods and all medications also, we could cut the risk of cancer by 99.7%.)
The American Cancer Society told us that by the year 2000,(this statement was made in 1993) one in every two of us will acquire cancer sometime in our lives. (Not me. How about you?) Sadly, statistics show that only one in ten of us are actually eating the amount of fruits and vegetables we should be.
Phytochemicals have been shown to have the ability to remove cancer-causing substances from the body even at the cellular level.
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Enzymes Are Your Friends
Enzymes are the protein molecules that catalyze every function in our bodies - from the generation of new tissue, to healing, to digestion, to breathing. Life as we know it could not exist without enzymes.
There are three different types of enzymes, but we are concerned with only those involved in the digestive process at present. These enzymes break down the foods we eat into particles small enough to pass through the cell membranes of the digestive track and then into the blood stream. This is how each of the billions of cells in the body is nourished. If the enzymes are not present to break down the food, the cells in our bodies are not nourished...ergo, without enzymes we would slowly starve even if we ate sufficient food.
Fruits and vegetables (raw) also have these enzymes which keep them alive in much the same way ours keep us alive. When we eat raw fruits and vegetables, we ingest those enzymes and utilize them in our own digestive process. But when we cook those foods, we kill all their natural enzymes and our pancreas is forced to produce enzymes of its own. Over time, the pancreas becomes exhausted which in turn causes the immune system to grow weaker and leaves us more and more susceptible to chronic disease and the degeneration of old age...actually slow starvation.
Eating anything but fresh, raw foods actually weakens the immune system.
Yes, indeed. Enzyme production is a primary function of the pancreas and the harder the pancreas works, the weaker the immune system becomes.
It's hard to believe, but studies show that when people eat cooked food, the number of white blood cells (immune system "defender cells") actually rises. This is a clear indication that the body is on the defensive, which over a long period of time takes its toll on the immune system. People who ate raw foods exhibited no such increase in defensive activity.
Sunshine Health Group
466 W. Oak Ridge Rd.
Orlando, FL 32809-4041
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Enzyme therapy has been used to successfully treat several diseases - cancer, arthritis, rheumatism, shingles, obesity, circulatory and heart diseases, and sexual problems. These scientific tests have shown that enzymes strengthen the immune system and other operations of the body.
Sports medicine doctors have used enzymes to help injured players heal more quickly.
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"It is whole foods - especially fruits and vegetables - that pack the disease-preventing wallop. That's because they harbor a whole mixture of compounds that have never seen the inside of a vitamin bottle for the simple reason that scientists have not, until very recently, even known they existed, let alone made them into pills."
Newsweek 4/25/94
Well, that's enough for now. More later.
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Cooking Dictionary
Yogurt: Semi-solid dairy product made from partially evaporated and fermented milk. Yogurt is one of only three foods that taste exactly the same as they sound. The other two are goulash and squid.
Recipe: A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog won't eat.
Porridge: Thick oatmeal rarely found on American tables since children were granted the right to sue their parents. The name is an amalgamation of the words "Putrid," "hORRId," and "sluDGE."
Preheat: To turn on the heat in an oven for a period of time before cooking a dish, so that the fingers may be burned when the food is put in, as well as when it is removed.
Oven: Compact home incinerator used for disposing of bulky pieces of meat and poultry.
Microwave Oven: Space-age kitchen appliance that uses the principle of radar to locate and immediately destroy any food placed within the cooking compartment.
Calorie: Basic measure of the amount of rationalization offered by the average individual prior to taking a second helping of a particular food.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Longtime Health Sciences Institute members know which nutrients provide the most
effective means to help prevent colon cancer; the second-
leading cause of cancer deaths.
In 2002, I told you how a daily folate supplement may
significantly cut the risk of colon cancer for those who
have a family history of the disease. And later that same
year I examined a study that showed how a diet containing
ample amounts of fruits and vegetables may be a key factor
in preventing precancerous polyps from developing into
cancer.
I've also told you how calcium intake has been shown to help
reduce the risk of developing colon polyps. Now a new
calcium study is even more specific and more promising. The
question is: Are you getting enough of this mineral - in the
right forms - to provide adequate protection for yourself?
--------------------------------------------------------------
Encouraging news
--------------------------------------------------------------
In the most recent issue of the Journal of the National
Cancer Institute, researchers from the Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, published an analysis of data
collected from 930 patients enrolled in the Calcium Polyp
Prevention Study.
All of the study subjects had been diagnosed with colorectal
polyps. Divided into two groups, participants received
either a 1,200 mg daily supplement of calcium carbonate, or
a placebo. Two colonoscopies were conducted approximately
one year and four years after each subject's initial exams.
The researchers found that while calcium supplements may
provide some protection against the development of polyps,
the supplements proved most effective against advanced
polyps. Subjects who received calcium supplements had
generally fewer polyps compared to the placebo group. But as
the lead author of the study, Dr. John A. Baron told Health
Day News, calcium may help lower the risk of advanced polyps
by as much as 45 percent.
The subjects who experienced the greatest benefits were
those who also had high intakes of calcium in their diets,
as well as high fiber and low fat intakes (although these
other dietary interactions were described as "not
statistically significant").
According to Dr. Baron, this study expands on what we
already know about calcium's ability to prevent polyps with
the encouraging news that calcium seems to also offer
protection against polyps developing into cancer.
--------------------------------------------------------------
A note on calcium
--------------------------------------------------------------
As the Dartmouth-Hitchcock study suggests, one obvious way
to support the effectiveness of calcium supplements is to
make sure you include plenty of calcium-rich foods in your
diet, such as salmon, cabbage, kale, carrots, and yellow, green, or
waxed beans.
As I mentioned above, the type of supplement used in the
study was calcium carbonate. And as HSI Panelist Allan
Spreen, M.D., told us in the e-Alert "Absorbing it All"
(4/19/04), calcium carbonate is the most common, most
readily available and least expensive type of calcium
supplement. But the carbonate form does have two drawbacks:
It's not as well absorbed as some other inorganic forms of
calcium, and it binds the most acid.
The latter problem presents both a potential plus, as well
as a minus. Some scientists believe that calcium's ability
to bind acids may be the very reason it protects against
cancer. But binding digestive acids may also result in poor
absorption of nutrients and indigestion. So if a 1,200 mg
supplement of calcium is taken daily, along with good
sources of calcium in the diet, keep an eye out for
digestive problems that may be managed by adjusting the
dosage of the supplement.
In addition, Dr. Spreen notes that, "Calcium is not found in
nature (in edible form) without magnesium, and they
therefore should always be given together."
Foods that are high in magnesium include leafy green
vegetables, whole grains, bananas, apricots, beans,
and nuts.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Added prevention
--------------------------------------------------------------
In the opening of this e-Alert I mentioned folate, which
deserves a little elaboration.
A 2002 study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers,
and Prevention showed that those with a family history of
colon cancer may cut their risk by as much as 50 percent
with a supplement of 400 micrograms of folate daily. In
addition to supplements, spinach and asparagus provide good
sources of folate.
And if you do decide to supplement with folate and calcium,
consider taking one more important preventive step: Ask your
doctor about arranging for a colonoscopy, which is
recommended every three to five years for everyone over the
age of 50; especially those with a family history of colon
cancer.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
These days, it's much easier to avoid carbohydrates in your
diet than it is to avoid actually HEARING about low-carb
diets. Last week I watched a sitcom that used a low-carb
diet as a plot device! Arggh! Sometimes I want to
shout, "Enough already with the low carbs!"
That said... Today I'm going to take a look at
carbohydrates. And before you shout, "Jenny! Enough already
with the low carbs!" let me just say that the information I
have for you today isn't about low-carb diets, per se; it's
about recognizing the difference between good carbs and bad
carbs. Because there are certain carbohydrates that are
useful in our diets, and then there are the carbs we should
avoid at all costs.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Carbohydrates 101
--------------------------------------------------------------
The topic of carbohydrate types was prompted by an e-mail
from an HSI member named John who wrote, "You should be
educating the people about the difference between refined
carbohydrates and complex carbohydrates. Refined
carbohydrates are bad and complex carbohydrates are good."
John is on the right track here, but we need to tweak the
terminology a little bit. I asked our nutrition specialist,
HSI Panelist Allan Spreen, M.D., to elaborate on John's e-
mail, and he started out by noting that carbohydrate foods
are basically broken down into two groups: "simple"
and "complex" carbohydrates. And both of these groups can be
further broken down into "refined" and "unrefined."
--------------------------------------------------------------
Nutrient needs
--------------------------------------------------------------
Let's start with the "refined simple" carbohydrates - what
Dr. Spreen calls "the sweet stuff" - which includes "all the
sugars of one form or another." And as he points out, the
key word is "refined" because it represents the removal of
nutrients required for the metabolism of the contained
sugar. Without those nutrients, Dr. Spreen says, "Your body
must draw from body stores of nutrients to metabolize the
sugar. And draw it will. Once those stores are overtaxed
disease sets in, or at least undesirable symptoms that hit
wherever your body's weakest link happens to be. This
removal of nutrients is the key to our demise, in my
opinion.
"But, it gets worse. Not only does the refining process
remove nutrients, but it also concentrates the sugar within
the simple carb food. This causes overstress on the
pancreas, the organ responsible for removing sugar (glucose)
from the bloodstream and shoving it into muscle cells to be
burned as fuel. This overstress manifests as insulin over-
secretion, causing (for a while, anyway, until it gives up)
low blood sugar swings with a subsequent vicious cycle of
blood sugar over-shooting and under-shooting as the body
tries to auto-regulate.
"Ah, but it gets even worse. Another problem in most
refining processes of simple carbs is the fact that nearly
all fiber is removed. The fiber slows the release of the
sugar into the system, easing the signal to the pancreas to
release too much insulin too fast."
And it's the fiber in fruits - which are unrefined simple
carbohydrates - that helps make the sugar in fruit so much
healthier than the sugar in refined carbs. That's why, as
Dr. Spreen points out, the same healthy benefits are not
found in fruit juice, "which is concentrated almost
universally, and processed in other ways. It's better to eat
your fruit, with clean edible skins. That way you've lowered
the amount of sugar taken in, along with the fact that the
natural fiber is still on board and the sugars are not as
concentrated as they would be otherwise."
--------------------------------------------------------------
The good and the bad
--------------------------------------------------------------
As John stated in his e-mail, "complex carbohydrates are
good." And generally speaking, there is some truth in that.
But Dr. Spreen points out that, 'going complex' may not be
all it's cracked up to be.
"The basic complex carbs are the edible starches. That's
flour, bread, cereals, grains and the like, along with most
vegetables. Most of this group makes up the huge 'base' of
the so-called Food Pyramid; that moronic image from
government bureaucrats, which is in large part responsible
for the unimaginable amount of obesity rampant in this
country.
"Starches are simple carb molecules (sugars) that are linked
together by special bonds before they can be used by the
body as sugar. That can be a good thing, since the enzyme
process needed for that breakdown takes time to work, and
that delay slows the release of the sugars into our system
(the same problem caused by refined simple carbs).
"Unfortunately, the same principles apply in the case of
refined complex carbs as to the simple ones: the sugars can
be concentrated; they can have the necessary nutrients as
well as the fiber removed.
"As soon as a starch hits enzymes in your mouth, the
starches begin the digestion process, and breaks down to
(you guessed it) sugar. If those starches start without the
nutrients and especially the fiber they originally
contained, they are not only inferior foods, but they're
also inferior foods with automatically concentrated
starches, because the fiber's gone. As soon as the starch
breaks down to sugar, you're back to a refined simple carb."
--------------------------------------------------------------
Hot potato
--------------------------------------------------------------
Nearly all our starches today are refined. And according to
Dr. Spreen, it's extremely difficult (if not impossible) to
find 100% unrefined pastas, breads or cereals. Yet we've
historically been told that pasta and bagels are
excellent "diet foods"!
And then there's the baked potato. Writing about this third
food item thrown into the daily "diet" lunch, Dr. Spreen
says, "The baked potato is as close to a pure, refined
starch as you can get without actually refining it. I'd tell
patients, if they felt obliged to eat a baked potato, to
shell out most of it, add some butter, and eat the
remainder, including the skin. That's not only where the
fiber is, but also where much of the nutrition is, too.
"So be careful when you dig into a load of pasta or bagels.
In terms of trying to lose weight, you're literally playing
with a 'hot potato.'"
**************************************************************
... and another thing
In the 17th century, noted herbalist Nicholas Culpeper wrote
that the herb sage could "heal" the memory, while, "warming
and quickening the senses."
Warm AND quicken my senses? Sign me up!
Culpeper wasn't the only herbalist (and certainly not the
first) to recognize that sage can help improve memory. Now -
centuries later - scientists believe they know why.
An enzyme called acetylcholinesterase (AChE) breaks down a
chemical called acetylcholine that is typically deficient in
Alzheimer's patients. Researchers from the Medical Plant
Research Centre (MPRC) at the Universities of Newcastle and
Northumbria in the UK have shown that sage inhibits AChE.
A study conducted last year by researchers at MPRC
demonstrates the possible results of inhibiting AChE.
Researchers gave 44 subjects either sage oil capsules or
placebo capsules containing sunflower oil, and then
conducted word recall tests. The group that received sage
oil turned in significantly better test results than
subjects that took placebo. However, researchers say that
further tests are needed to fully determine just how far-
reaching sage's effect may be on memory.
Sage can be found in health food stores and from many
Internet sites. And although sage oil has no known side
effects, it would be wise to discuss this supplement with
your doctor or health care provider before using it on a
regular basis.
To Your Good Health,
Jenny Thompson, Health Sciences Institute
Enzymes are a very important part of all life, in general, and to our health, in particular. Let's look at the medical dictionary definition for basic understanding.
According to Blackiston's New Gould Medical Dictionary, an enzyme is a catalytic substance formed by living cells and having a specific action in promoting a chemical change. There are at least 700 different types of enzymes in our bodies and many of them are involved with digestion. There are endogenous enzymes which are produced by our bodies and there are exogenous enzymes which must be ingested in raw foods. Without completion of their purpose, digestion would be incomplete, assimilation of nutrients would not occur, and the undigested "foods" would become toxins. Therefore, plant-derived enzymes are absolutely necessary for health-promoting digestion.
That is a factor that has been overlooked (or ignored) by the medical fraternity, the dieticians, most nutritionists, and, of course, by the various government agencies. Overlooked, that is, until just recently.
....enzymes are completely destroyed by manufacturing or culinary operations. Enzymes can withstand no cooking, boiling, frying, roasting, stewing, broiling, or pasteurizing. Cookery destroys them to the extent of...100%.
Dr. Edward Howell
Is Your Body Demanding Food Enzymes?
The length of one's life is inversely proportional to the rate of exhaustion of the enzyme potential of an organism. But the increased use of food enzymes promotes a decreased rate of exhaustion of the enzyme potential, and thus results in a longer, healthier and more vital life. (Isn't this what we all want?)
Dr. Edward Howell
Enzyme Nutrition
These studies show that plant derived enzymes are the missing link between good health and nutrition. Raw fruits and vegetables contain these enzymes. Cooked and processed foods do not contain live enzymes and, therefore, digestion is incomplete or difficult and good health denied.
What do enzymes do for us...nutritionally speaking? Enzymes break down proteins into various amino acids. They break down carbohydrates into (natural) glucose. They break down fats into fatty acids. The body is then able to use these simpler components for energy or to build new tissue. Each kind of enzyme performs one job only. And it is located in only one of the three cavities of digestion: mouth, stomach, small intestine. So, in order to have efficient and complete digestion, all of the correct enzymes must be present in the proper digestive cavity at the proper time and in sufficient amount.
Synthetic enzymes are being packaged and sold. But, why pay a high price for an inferior substitute when the real thing is available free in the BCD as Mother Nature intended?
Like all engines, enzymes need their starters. Phytochemicals are those starters. Not surprisingly, those plant-derived enzyme-triggers are found in fruits and vegetables.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Cancer Institute have stated that, if we would all eat just five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, we could cut the risk of cancer by over 50%. (Notice they forgot to say raw fruits and vegetables.) (Of course, if we cut out all objectionable foods and all medications also, we could cut the risk of cancer by 99.7%.)
The American Cancer Society told us that by the year 2000,(this statement was made in 1993) one in every two of us will acquire cancer sometime in our lives. (Not me. How about you?) Sadly, statistics show that only one in ten of us are actually eating the amount of fruits and vegetables we should be.
Phytochemicals have been shown to have the ability to remove cancer-causing substances from the body even at the cellular level.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Enzymes Are Your Friends
Enzymes are the protein molecules that catalyze every function in our bodies - from the generation of new tissue, to healing, to digestion, to breathing. Life as we know it could not exist without enzymes.
There are three different types of enzymes, but we are concerned with only those involved in the digestive process at present. These enzymes break down the foods we eat into particles small enough to pass through the cell membranes of the digestive track and then into the blood stream. This is how each of the billions of cells in the body is nourished. If the enzymes are not present to break down the food, the cells in our bodies are not nourished...ergo, without enzymes we would slowly starve even if we ate sufficient food.
Fruits and vegetables (raw) also have these enzymes which keep them alive in much the same way ours keep us alive. When we eat raw fruits and vegetables, we ingest those enzymes and utilize them in our own digestive process. But when we cook those foods, we kill all their natural enzymes and our pancreas is forced to produce enzymes of its own. Over time, the pancreas becomes exhausted which in turn causes the immune system to grow weaker and leaves us more and more susceptible to chronic disease and the degeneration of old age...actually slow starvation.
Eating anything but fresh, raw foods actually weakens the immune system.
Yes, indeed. Enzyme production is a primary function of the pancreas and the harder the pancreas works, the weaker the immune system becomes.
It's hard to believe, but studies show that when people eat cooked food, the number of white blood cells (immune system "defender cells") actually rises. This is a clear indication that the body is on the defensive, which over a long period of time takes its toll on the immune system. People who ate raw foods exhibited no such increase in defensive activity.
Sunshine Health Group
466 W. Oak Ridge Rd.
Orlando, FL 32809-4041
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Enzyme therapy has been used to successfully treat several diseases - cancer, arthritis, rheumatism, shingles, obesity, circulatory and heart diseases, and sexual problems. These scientific tests have shown that enzymes strengthen the immune system and other operations of the body.
Sports medicine doctors have used enzymes to help injured players heal more quickly.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"It is whole foods - especially fruits and vegetables - that pack the disease-preventing wallop. That's because they harbor a whole mixture of compounds that have never seen the inside of a vitamin bottle for the simple reason that scientists have not, until very recently, even known they existed, let alone made them into pills."
Newsweek 4/25/94
Well, that's enough for now. More later.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cooking Dictionary
Yogurt: Semi-solid dairy product made from partially evaporated and fermented milk. Yogurt is one of only three foods that taste exactly the same as they sound. The other two are goulash and squid.
Recipe: A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog won't eat.
Porridge: Thick oatmeal rarely found on American tables since children were granted the right to sue their parents. The name is an amalgamation of the words "Putrid," "hORRId," and "sluDGE."
Preheat: To turn on the heat in an oven for a period of time before cooking a dish, so that the fingers may be burned when the food is put in, as well as when it is removed.
Oven: Compact home incinerator used for disposing of bulky pieces of meat and poultry.
Microwave Oven: Space-age kitchen appliance that uses the principle of radar to locate and immediately destroy any food placed within the cooking compartment.
Calorie: Basic measure of the amount of rationalization offered by the average individual prior to taking a second helping of a particular food.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Longtime Health Sciences Institute members know which nutrients provide the most
effective means to help prevent colon cancer; the second-
leading cause of cancer deaths.
In 2002, I told you how a daily folate supplement may
significantly cut the risk of colon cancer for those who
have a family history of the disease. And later that same
year I examined a study that showed how a diet containing
ample amounts of fruits and vegetables may be a key factor
in preventing precancerous polyps from developing into
cancer.
I've also told you how calcium intake has been shown to help
reduce the risk of developing colon polyps. Now a new
calcium study is even more specific and more promising. The
question is: Are you getting enough of this mineral - in the
right forms - to provide adequate protection for yourself?
--------------------------------------------------------------
Encouraging news
--------------------------------------------------------------
In the most recent issue of the Journal of the National
Cancer Institute, researchers from the Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, published an analysis of data
collected from 930 patients enrolled in the Calcium Polyp
Prevention Study.
All of the study subjects had been diagnosed with colorectal
polyps. Divided into two groups, participants received
either a 1,200 mg daily supplement of calcium carbonate, or
a placebo. Two colonoscopies were conducted approximately
one year and four years after each subject's initial exams.
The researchers found that while calcium supplements may
provide some protection against the development of polyps,
the supplements proved most effective against advanced
polyps. Subjects who received calcium supplements had
generally fewer polyps compared to the placebo group. But as
the lead author of the study, Dr. John A. Baron told Health
Day News, calcium may help lower the risk of advanced polyps
by as much as 45 percent.
The subjects who experienced the greatest benefits were
those who also had high intakes of calcium in their diets,
as well as high fiber and low fat intakes (although these
other dietary interactions were described as "not
statistically significant").
According to Dr. Baron, this study expands on what we
already know about calcium's ability to prevent polyps with
the encouraging news that calcium seems to also offer
protection against polyps developing into cancer.
--------------------------------------------------------------
A note on calcium
--------------------------------------------------------------
As the Dartmouth-Hitchcock study suggests, one obvious way
to support the effectiveness of calcium supplements is to
make sure you include plenty of calcium-rich foods in your
diet, such as salmon, cabbage, kale, carrots, and yellow, green, or
waxed beans.
As I mentioned above, the type of supplement used in the
study was calcium carbonate. And as HSI Panelist Allan
Spreen, M.D., told us in the e-Alert "Absorbing it All"
(4/19/04), calcium carbonate is the most common, most
readily available and least expensive type of calcium
supplement. But the carbonate form does have two drawbacks:
It's not as well absorbed as some other inorganic forms of
calcium, and it binds the most acid.
The latter problem presents both a potential plus, as well
as a minus. Some scientists believe that calcium's ability
to bind acids may be the very reason it protects against
cancer. But binding digestive acids may also result in poor
absorption of nutrients and indigestion. So if a 1,200 mg
supplement of calcium is taken daily, along with good
sources of calcium in the diet, keep an eye out for
digestive problems that may be managed by adjusting the
dosage of the supplement.
In addition, Dr. Spreen notes that, "Calcium is not found in
nature (in edible form) without magnesium, and they
therefore should always be given together."
Foods that are high in magnesium include leafy green
vegetables, whole grains, bananas, apricots, beans,
and nuts.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Added prevention
--------------------------------------------------------------
In the opening of this e-Alert I mentioned folate, which
deserves a little elaboration.
A 2002 study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers,
and Prevention showed that those with a family history of
colon cancer may cut their risk by as much as 50 percent
with a supplement of 400 micrograms of folate daily. In
addition to supplements, spinach and asparagus provide good
sources of folate.
And if you do decide to supplement with folate and calcium,
consider taking one more important preventive step: Ask your
doctor about arranging for a colonoscopy, which is
recommended every three to five years for everyone over the
age of 50; especially those with a family history of colon
cancer.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
These days, it's much easier to avoid carbohydrates in your
diet than it is to avoid actually HEARING about low-carb
diets. Last week I watched a sitcom that used a low-carb
diet as a plot device! Arggh! Sometimes I want to
shout, "Enough already with the low carbs!"
That said... Today I'm going to take a look at
carbohydrates. And before you shout, "Jenny! Enough already
with the low carbs!" let me just say that the information I
have for you today isn't about low-carb diets, per se; it's
about recognizing the difference between good carbs and bad
carbs. Because there are certain carbohydrates that are
useful in our diets, and then there are the carbs we should
avoid at all costs.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Carbohydrates 101
--------------------------------------------------------------
The topic of carbohydrate types was prompted by an e-mail
from an HSI member named John who wrote, "You should be
educating the people about the difference between refined
carbohydrates and complex carbohydrates. Refined
carbohydrates are bad and complex carbohydrates are good."
John is on the right track here, but we need to tweak the
terminology a little bit. I asked our nutrition specialist,
HSI Panelist Allan Spreen, M.D., to elaborate on John's e-
mail, and he started out by noting that carbohydrate foods
are basically broken down into two groups: "simple"
and "complex" carbohydrates. And both of these groups can be
further broken down into "refined" and "unrefined."
--------------------------------------------------------------
Nutrient needs
--------------------------------------------------------------
Let's start with the "refined simple" carbohydrates - what
Dr. Spreen calls "the sweet stuff" - which includes "all the
sugars of one form or another." And as he points out, the
key word is "refined" because it represents the removal of
nutrients required for the metabolism of the contained
sugar. Without those nutrients, Dr. Spreen says, "Your body
must draw from body stores of nutrients to metabolize the
sugar. And draw it will. Once those stores are overtaxed
disease sets in, or at least undesirable symptoms that hit
wherever your body's weakest link happens to be. This
removal of nutrients is the key to our demise, in my
opinion.
"But, it gets worse. Not only does the refining process
remove nutrients, but it also concentrates the sugar within
the simple carb food. This causes overstress on the
pancreas, the organ responsible for removing sugar (glucose)
from the bloodstream and shoving it into muscle cells to be
burned as fuel. This overstress manifests as insulin over-
secretion, causing (for a while, anyway, until it gives up)
low blood sugar swings with a subsequent vicious cycle of
blood sugar over-shooting and under-shooting as the body
tries to auto-regulate.
"Ah, but it gets even worse. Another problem in most
refining processes of simple carbs is the fact that nearly
all fiber is removed. The fiber slows the release of the
sugar into the system, easing the signal to the pancreas to
release too much insulin too fast."
And it's the fiber in fruits - which are unrefined simple
carbohydrates - that helps make the sugar in fruit so much
healthier than the sugar in refined carbs. That's why, as
Dr. Spreen points out, the same healthy benefits are not
found in fruit juice, "which is concentrated almost
universally, and processed in other ways. It's better to eat
your fruit, with clean edible skins. That way you've lowered
the amount of sugar taken in, along with the fact that the
natural fiber is still on board and the sugars are not as
concentrated as they would be otherwise."
--------------------------------------------------------------
The good and the bad
--------------------------------------------------------------
As John stated in his e-mail, "complex carbohydrates are
good." And generally speaking, there is some truth in that.
But Dr. Spreen points out that, 'going complex' may not be
all it's cracked up to be.
"The basic complex carbs are the edible starches. That's
flour, bread, cereals, grains and the like, along with most
vegetables. Most of this group makes up the huge 'base' of
the so-called Food Pyramid; that moronic image from
government bureaucrats, which is in large part responsible
for the unimaginable amount of obesity rampant in this
country.
"Starches are simple carb molecules (sugars) that are linked
together by special bonds before they can be used by the
body as sugar. That can be a good thing, since the enzyme
process needed for that breakdown takes time to work, and
that delay slows the release of the sugars into our system
(the same problem caused by refined simple carbs).
"Unfortunately, the same principles apply in the case of
refined complex carbs as to the simple ones: the sugars can
be concentrated; they can have the necessary nutrients as
well as the fiber removed.
"As soon as a starch hits enzymes in your mouth, the
starches begin the digestion process, and breaks down to
(you guessed it) sugar. If those starches start without the
nutrients and especially the fiber they originally
contained, they are not only inferior foods, but they're
also inferior foods with automatically concentrated
starches, because the fiber's gone. As soon as the starch
breaks down to sugar, you're back to a refined simple carb."
--------------------------------------------------------------
Hot potato
--------------------------------------------------------------
Nearly all our starches today are refined. And according to
Dr. Spreen, it's extremely difficult (if not impossible) to
find 100% unrefined pastas, breads or cereals. Yet we've
historically been told that pasta and bagels are
excellent "diet foods"!
And then there's the baked potato. Writing about this third
food item thrown into the daily "diet" lunch, Dr. Spreen
says, "The baked potato is as close to a pure, refined
starch as you can get without actually refining it. I'd tell
patients, if they felt obliged to eat a baked potato, to
shell out most of it, add some butter, and eat the
remainder, including the skin. That's not only where the
fiber is, but also where much of the nutrition is, too.
"So be careful when you dig into a load of pasta or bagels.
In terms of trying to lose weight, you're literally playing
with a 'hot potato.'"
**************************************************************
... and another thing
In the 17th century, noted herbalist Nicholas Culpeper wrote
that the herb sage could "heal" the memory, while, "warming
and quickening the senses."
Warm AND quicken my senses? Sign me up!
Culpeper wasn't the only herbalist (and certainly not the
first) to recognize that sage can help improve memory. Now -
centuries later - scientists believe they know why.
An enzyme called acetylcholinesterase (AChE) breaks down a
chemical called acetylcholine that is typically deficient in
Alzheimer's patients. Researchers from the Medical Plant
Research Centre (MPRC) at the Universities of Newcastle and
Northumbria in the UK have shown that sage inhibits AChE.
A study conducted last year by researchers at MPRC
demonstrates the possible results of inhibiting AChE.
Researchers gave 44 subjects either sage oil capsules or
placebo capsules containing sunflower oil, and then
conducted word recall tests. The group that received sage
oil turned in significantly better test results than
subjects that took placebo. However, researchers say that
further tests are needed to fully determine just how far-
reaching sage's effect may be on memory.
Sage can be found in health food stores and from many
Internet sites. And although sage oil has no known side
effects, it would be wise to discuss this supplement with
your doctor or health care provider before using it on a
regular basis.
To Your Good Health,
Jenny Thompson, Health Sciences Institute
Biologically Correct Diet - 9th Installment
Have you read all of the previous installments?
What should a person expect after switching to the BCD?
In our society, we have been conditioned to expect immediate results. Have a problem? Well, just pop a pill and fifteen minutes later the problem disappears. That works for minor problems (maybe), but it does not cure anything and only adds to the long-term problem.
Patience is the key ingredient necessary for health improvement. If you have been poisoning your body for many years (20, 40, 60), it would be unreasonable to expect a complete cure in 20 minutes or even 20 days. The longer you have been polluting your body, the longer it will take to cleanse it. The more toxins you have forced your body to handle, the harder your body will have to work to remove them...and the weaker it will be to begin with. (There is an excellent product available to help you eliminate the toxins and heavy metals in your body. It is Natural Cellular Defense (NCD). Go to: www.mywaiora.com/461538 )
To understand what will happen when you start working with your body rather than against it, you must first know what happens when you put toxic substances into your body. Your body can process a limited amount of toxins without any adverse effect on you. But, when you overwhelm your body's elimination system, it must remove the excess toxins from your bloodstream or you would die from toxemia/acidosis.
So, when the toxin processor is over-loaded but there are still more toxins in the bloodstream, the body protects itself by removing those toxins from the bloodstream by first encapsulating them and then storing them in various parts of the body. Thus, the toxins are removed from the bloodstream preventing death from poisoning. These stored toxins remain stored until the body's elimination system has the capacity to eliminate them.
If you continue to put excess toxins into your body, it not only cannot remove the stored toxins but it must also store more and more. This accumulation of toxins is what causes the symptoms that are then designated diseases. As long as the toxin intake continues, the more often and the more severe the symptoms/diseases become. Colds, flu, heartburn take a short time to develop. Ulcers, allergies, kidney stones and high blood pressure take longer. Cancer, arthritis and other serious/fatal diseases take a longer time. How long each takes depends on your overall diet and the toxic medications you've taken.
How long your body takes to cleanse itself depends on your age and how toxic you are. The older you are, the longer your elimination system has been abused and the longer it will take to get it operating efficiently. The more toxic you are, the more your body will have to eliminate to become healthy and the less vital it will be to begin with. So, there is no way to predict how long the cure will take. Patience and determination are requirements for success. The main thing to remember is that this is the only road to real health...the only successful method to achieve a longer, healthier, happier life.
The road to recapturing physical, emotional, and mental health is not short nor is it easy. The body is intelligent. It will not do anything that will harm you, but there will be times that you will seriously doubt that. It is those times when it is absolutely necessary that you understand and remember what is said here so that you will not be misled and so you will have the resolve to continue.
In order for your body to cleanse itself, it must dispose of the toxins that have been stored in your body. To do that, the toxins must be re-introduced into the bloodstream (transportation system) to take the toxins to the point of elimination. While this is happening, you will be subjected to various uncomfortable, painful, or embarrassing symptoms. It is important that you do not try to medicate those symptoms since that would reverse what you are trying to accomplish. That is, you would be adding toxins to those your body is trying to eliminate.
There will be periods when you feel good followed by periods when you will feel sick. If you keep in mind that the body is disposing of toxins during the "sick periods," it will be easier to endure. The "well periods" are resting periods when the intelligent body is storing up strength for another period of disposal. Co-operate with Mother Nature.
One thing that will not happen is repair of permanent damage. For instance, blindness caused by diabetes will not be reversed. But, if you are losing your sight to diabetes, the loss will stop and you will save what sight remains. This applies to all degeneration caused by disease. Temporary (repairable) damage will be reversed.
Withdrawal from medications has to be done in a reasonable manner since many medications are addictive. Sudden withdrawal could lead to severe symptoms. So, draw up a reasonable plan to, first, change your diet to the BCD over a time (maybe a month), then to slowly withdraw (over a month) from the medication. This is an individual, trial-and-error program.
The benefits of these changes are so many that you couldn't even imagine what good health really means until you actually experience it. Not only will you be able to do more, you'll also want to do more and you'll enjoy whatever you do more. In fact, you'll have more time to do it all since you won't be sick. And, you'll have more money to do it with because of all the money you'll save on food and no medication. You will also reach your ideal weight with relative ease. Things that are stressful for you now will become non-stressful and maybe even enjoyable. Good health is a miraculous revelation.
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It is a mistake to take a medication to temporarily relieve a symptom - aches and pains, coughs, headaches, etc. Symtoms are messages from your body telling you something is wrong and that you should rest to allow your body to heal itself. To take a medicine assumes that Mother Nature (God) made some mistakes in physiology of the human body and that these "mistakes" require a little toxic chemical fix from the laboratory. These manipulations will exact a price - possibly a terrible price.
Symptoms are also evidence that the body is trying to dispose of those toxins in your body. The body disposes of toxins in many ways:
a.) through the skin, e.g. acne, body odor;
b.) through the membranes, e.g. bad breath, body odor;
c.) through the organs, e.g. bowels and bladder.
Trying to stop these symptoms (e.g. diarrhea) with drugs or chemicals only sets the stage for the next "disease" - usually a more serious problem.
More later.
What should a person expect after switching to the BCD?
In our society, we have been conditioned to expect immediate results. Have a problem? Well, just pop a pill and fifteen minutes later the problem disappears. That works for minor problems (maybe), but it does not cure anything and only adds to the long-term problem.
Patience is the key ingredient necessary for health improvement. If you have been poisoning your body for many years (20, 40, 60), it would be unreasonable to expect a complete cure in 20 minutes or even 20 days. The longer you have been polluting your body, the longer it will take to cleanse it. The more toxins you have forced your body to handle, the harder your body will have to work to remove them...and the weaker it will be to begin with. (There is an excellent product available to help you eliminate the toxins and heavy metals in your body. It is Natural Cellular Defense (NCD). Go to: www.mywaiora.com/461538 )
To understand what will happen when you start working with your body rather than against it, you must first know what happens when you put toxic substances into your body. Your body can process a limited amount of toxins without any adverse effect on you. But, when you overwhelm your body's elimination system, it must remove the excess toxins from your bloodstream or you would die from toxemia/acidosis.
So, when the toxin processor is over-loaded but there are still more toxins in the bloodstream, the body protects itself by removing those toxins from the bloodstream by first encapsulating them and then storing them in various parts of the body. Thus, the toxins are removed from the bloodstream preventing death from poisoning. These stored toxins remain stored until the body's elimination system has the capacity to eliminate them.
If you continue to put excess toxins into your body, it not only cannot remove the stored toxins but it must also store more and more. This accumulation of toxins is what causes the symptoms that are then designated diseases. As long as the toxin intake continues, the more often and the more severe the symptoms/diseases become. Colds, flu, heartburn take a short time to develop. Ulcers, allergies, kidney stones and high blood pressure take longer. Cancer, arthritis and other serious/fatal diseases take a longer time. How long each takes depends on your overall diet and the toxic medications you've taken.
How long your body takes to cleanse itself depends on your age and how toxic you are. The older you are, the longer your elimination system has been abused and the longer it will take to get it operating efficiently. The more toxic you are, the more your body will have to eliminate to become healthy and the less vital it will be to begin with. So, there is no way to predict how long the cure will take. Patience and determination are requirements for success. The main thing to remember is that this is the only road to real health...the only successful method to achieve a longer, healthier, happier life.
The road to recapturing physical, emotional, and mental health is not short nor is it easy. The body is intelligent. It will not do anything that will harm you, but there will be times that you will seriously doubt that. It is those times when it is absolutely necessary that you understand and remember what is said here so that you will not be misled and so you will have the resolve to continue.
In order for your body to cleanse itself, it must dispose of the toxins that have been stored in your body. To do that, the toxins must be re-introduced into the bloodstream (transportation system) to take the toxins to the point of elimination. While this is happening, you will be subjected to various uncomfortable, painful, or embarrassing symptoms. It is important that you do not try to medicate those symptoms since that would reverse what you are trying to accomplish. That is, you would be adding toxins to those your body is trying to eliminate.
There will be periods when you feel good followed by periods when you will feel sick. If you keep in mind that the body is disposing of toxins during the "sick periods," it will be easier to endure. The "well periods" are resting periods when the intelligent body is storing up strength for another period of disposal. Co-operate with Mother Nature.
One thing that will not happen is repair of permanent damage. For instance, blindness caused by diabetes will not be reversed. But, if you are losing your sight to diabetes, the loss will stop and you will save what sight remains. This applies to all degeneration caused by disease. Temporary (repairable) damage will be reversed.
Withdrawal from medications has to be done in a reasonable manner since many medications are addictive. Sudden withdrawal could lead to severe symptoms. So, draw up a reasonable plan to, first, change your diet to the BCD over a time (maybe a month), then to slowly withdraw (over a month) from the medication. This is an individual, trial-and-error program.
The benefits of these changes are so many that you couldn't even imagine what good health really means until you actually experience it. Not only will you be able to do more, you'll also want to do more and you'll enjoy whatever you do more. In fact, you'll have more time to do it all since you won't be sick. And, you'll have more money to do it with because of all the money you'll save on food and no medication. You will also reach your ideal weight with relative ease. Things that are stressful for you now will become non-stressful and maybe even enjoyable. Good health is a miraculous revelation.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It is a mistake to take a medication to temporarily relieve a symptom - aches and pains, coughs, headaches, etc. Symtoms are messages from your body telling you something is wrong and that you should rest to allow your body to heal itself. To take a medicine assumes that Mother Nature (God) made some mistakes in physiology of the human body and that these "mistakes" require a little toxic chemical fix from the laboratory. These manipulations will exact a price - possibly a terrible price.
Symptoms are also evidence that the body is trying to dispose of those toxins in your body. The body disposes of toxins in many ways:
a.) through the skin, e.g. acne, body odor;
b.) through the membranes, e.g. bad breath, body odor;
c.) through the organs, e.g. bowels and bladder.
Trying to stop these symptoms (e.g. diarrhea) with drugs or chemicals only sets the stage for the next "disease" - usually a more serious problem.
More later.
Biologically Correct Diet - 8th Installment
Be sure to read all of the predecessor installments.
I'm going to start out with a quote this time.
"Human design has emerged from the highest currents of a Supreme Intelligence. It's worthy of your trust." Ken Carey
I like this quote because it says in few words much of what I've been saying. Well, onward and upward.
The ideal food should be easy to obtain (for the original humans who had no weapons, tools or traps), it should be simple to prepare (for the original humans who had no knives or other implements and didn't know how to use fire), it should be easy to digest and assimilate (without the use of digestive aids which the original humans did not have), it's wastes should be alkaline (so as to avoid using up calcium) and easy to eliminate (so as to obviate the need for additional fiber). AND the ideal food should NOT be hazardous to your health (as sugar, grains, and animal-based foods are). AND it should provide all the energy and nutrition needed.
Raw fruit is the only food available that fits those logical criteria for humans in a natural setting...and which follow God's laws a/k/a natural sciences. Fruit, in a natural setting, can be obtained easily just by reaching with arms and hands (Nature-provided tools). It is easy to prepare (no cooking) since some fruits need no preparation while others need only to be peeled. Ingestion is only a matter of biting into the fruit and chewing a few times (no thorough mixing with saliva is necessary) before swallowing. Digestion occurs in 30-40 minutes (not the 2-4 hours for starches, meat, and dairy). The wastes are eliminated with ease, because of the high fiber content, in 12-18 hours (not the 2-3 days for grains and animal-based foods). Fruit is not hazardous to human health as are meat, eggs, dairy, grains, and refined sugars.
The sugar in raw fruit (natural fructose) is chemically different from refined sugars and is much easier to digest needing little or no insulin...which is why diabetics can eat raw fruit without concern. Refined sugars require large amounts of insulin for digestion leading to a breakdown of the pancreas and...diabetes. Raw fruit is the BCD for humans as it is for the larger and stronger apes.
The ideal food also means eating as much as you want whenever you want without worrying about overeating or adverse effects (overweight and diseases). Remember, the original humans didn't have scales or calorie counters to guide their eating habits. Yet they were all healthier than the average U.S. citizen and they lived longer (Adam 930 years, Methuseleh 940 years, etc.). Why? Better, more natural diet and no medications. Disease did not appear until humans began eating grains and animal products...and later using chemicals.
The secret of good health is, and always has been, co-operation with Mother Nature.
Frugitarians do not have a need to drink liquids. Since raw fruit is 85% - 95% liquid, fruit eaters obtain all of their necessary liquids from the food they eat. This explains why humans and apes are not physiologically constructed to drink water under natural conditions. Current humans need to drink liquids only because they eat cooked foods. Cooking causes evaporation of the liquids and those evaporated liquids need to be replaced.
The BCD not only improves your health, it simplifies your life. No cooking, no dishwashing.
Since 1985, there have been more than 200 studies reported in well-respected medical journals that correlate dramatic reductions in chronic degenerative and autoimmune disease in those populations whose diets are high in fruits and vegetables. In fact, those individuals who consumed the largest amounts of vegetables and fruits were shown to be only half as likely to develop cancer as people who ate the smallest amount. An exclusive use of fruits would have produced even better results.
Health = BCD + pure water + pure air + sunshine + adequate exercise + adequate sleep.
More next time.
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Changing Times
A big mouth college student challenged a senior citizen saying it was impossible for their generation to understand his world. "You grew up in a different world," the student said.
"Today we have television, jet planes, space travel, nuclear energy, computers, the internet..."
Taking advantage of a pause in the student's litany, the senior said,
"You're right sonny . We didn't have those things when we were young... so we invented them!"
Old Sayings...Different Twist
See if you can translate the following into the familiar sayings we've all heard? See answers below.
1. Scintillate, Scintillate, asteroid exiguous.
2. Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate.
3. Surveillance should precede salutations
4. Pulchritude poses possesses solely cutaneous profundity
5. It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately departed lacteal fluid.
6. Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
7. The stylus is more potent then the claymore.
8. It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.
9. Eschew the implement of correction of vitiate the scion.
10. The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled saucepan does not does reach 212 F'.
11. All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
12. Where there are visible vapors in ignited carbonaceous material, there is conflagration.
Answers:
1. Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
2. Birds of a feather, flock together.
3. Think before you speak.
4. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
5. Don't cry over spilled milk.
6. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
7. The pen is mightier than the sword.
8. You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
9. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
10. A watched pot doesn't boil.
11. All that glitters is not gold.
12. Where there's smoke, there's fire.
I'm going to start out with a quote this time.
"Human design has emerged from the highest currents of a Supreme Intelligence. It's worthy of your trust." Ken Carey
I like this quote because it says in few words much of what I've been saying. Well, onward and upward.
The ideal food should be easy to obtain (for the original humans who had no weapons, tools or traps), it should be simple to prepare (for the original humans who had no knives or other implements and didn't know how to use fire), it should be easy to digest and assimilate (without the use of digestive aids which the original humans did not have), it's wastes should be alkaline (so as to avoid using up calcium) and easy to eliminate (so as to obviate the need for additional fiber). AND the ideal food should NOT be hazardous to your health (as sugar, grains, and animal-based foods are). AND it should provide all the energy and nutrition needed.
Raw fruit is the only food available that fits those logical criteria for humans in a natural setting...and which follow God's laws a/k/a natural sciences. Fruit, in a natural setting, can be obtained easily just by reaching with arms and hands (Nature-provided tools). It is easy to prepare (no cooking) since some fruits need no preparation while others need only to be peeled. Ingestion is only a matter of biting into the fruit and chewing a few times (no thorough mixing with saliva is necessary) before swallowing. Digestion occurs in 30-40 minutes (not the 2-4 hours for starches, meat, and dairy). The wastes are eliminated with ease, because of the high fiber content, in 12-18 hours (not the 2-3 days for grains and animal-based foods). Fruit is not hazardous to human health as are meat, eggs, dairy, grains, and refined sugars.
The sugar in raw fruit (natural fructose) is chemically different from refined sugars and is much easier to digest needing little or no insulin...which is why diabetics can eat raw fruit without concern. Refined sugars require large amounts of insulin for digestion leading to a breakdown of the pancreas and...diabetes. Raw fruit is the BCD for humans as it is for the larger and stronger apes.
The ideal food also means eating as much as you want whenever you want without worrying about overeating or adverse effects (overweight and diseases). Remember, the original humans didn't have scales or calorie counters to guide their eating habits. Yet they were all healthier than the average U.S. citizen and they lived longer (Adam 930 years, Methuseleh 940 years, etc.). Why? Better, more natural diet and no medications. Disease did not appear until humans began eating grains and animal products...and later using chemicals.
The secret of good health is, and always has been, co-operation with Mother Nature.
Frugitarians do not have a need to drink liquids. Since raw fruit is 85% - 95% liquid, fruit eaters obtain all of their necessary liquids from the food they eat. This explains why humans and apes are not physiologically constructed to drink water under natural conditions. Current humans need to drink liquids only because they eat cooked foods. Cooking causes evaporation of the liquids and those evaporated liquids need to be replaced.
The BCD not only improves your health, it simplifies your life. No cooking, no dishwashing.
Since 1985, there have been more than 200 studies reported in well-respected medical journals that correlate dramatic reductions in chronic degenerative and autoimmune disease in those populations whose diets are high in fruits and vegetables. In fact, those individuals who consumed the largest amounts of vegetables and fruits were shown to be only half as likely to develop cancer as people who ate the smallest amount. An exclusive use of fruits would have produced even better results.
Health = BCD + pure water + pure air + sunshine + adequate exercise + adequate sleep.
More next time.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Changing Times
A big mouth college student challenged a senior citizen saying it was impossible for their generation to understand his world. "You grew up in a different world," the student said.
"Today we have television, jet planes, space travel, nuclear energy, computers, the internet..."
Taking advantage of a pause in the student's litany, the senior said,
"You're right sonny . We didn't have those things when we were young... so we invented them!"
Old Sayings...Different Twist
See if you can translate the following into the familiar sayings we've all heard? See answers below.
1. Scintillate, Scintillate, asteroid exiguous.
2. Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate.
3. Surveillance should precede salutations
4. Pulchritude poses possesses solely cutaneous profundity
5. It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately departed lacteal fluid.
6. Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
7. The stylus is more potent then the claymore.
8. It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.
9. Eschew the implement of correction of vitiate the scion.
10. The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled saucepan does not does reach 212 F'.
11. All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
12. Where there are visible vapors in ignited carbonaceous material, there is conflagration.
Answers:
1. Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
2. Birds of a feather, flock together.
3. Think before you speak.
4. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
5. Don't cry over spilled milk.
6. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
7. The pen is mightier than the sword.
8. You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
9. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
10. A watched pot doesn't boil.
11. All that glitters is not gold.
12. Where there's smoke, there's fire.
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