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UNDERSTANDING HEALTH AND DISEASE-2
TURN
AROUND, TURN AROUND, TURN AROUND!
Diet changes since 1900. Fresh fruit and vegetable consumption down 40% Beef up 75% cheese up 400% fats and oil up 150% margarine up 800% corn syrup up 400% soft drinks up 300 % We eat over 150 lb. of sugar per man woman and child as opposed to a few lb. in 1900. (And someone is getting 300 lbs. as I don’t eat any!) FACTORS AFFECTING THE HEALTH OF A CHILD Inherent genetic weakness: The diet and health of the parents when they conceive the child. The diet and health of the mother when she carries the child. What mother eats when she nurses the child and if she nurses the child.
Parents planning to conceive a child should go on at least a 3 month program to nourish and clean out the body prior to conception! You won’t completely cleanse the body this way but you will go a long way towards giving the little one a head start in life. Babies are frequently born with little pimples on their skin—doctor says this is normal. It is not normal but it is common. Already the child’s body is trying to expel toxins before it is even born! The more healthy the body, the more vigorously it will expel toxins. When you start detoxifying, the body is saturated with toxin, the liver is congested. DO NOT go on a fast as the body will drown in its own filth. The body must be prepared, and detoxify gradually—When a fast is to be done for more than a couple days, it should be only with knowledgeable supervision. Its the same with “Blood cleansing” herbs. When toxins are mobilized into the blood stream it can be more than the body can handle! If you build up alkaline and nutrients you will get a cleansing “cold” once the body has enough energy. Other cleansing crisis can be diarrhea, which indicates liver cleansing—chest colds—skin rashes, eruptions and abscesses. You also may have a reactivation of diseases you had before but took drugs to stop. Your body will reactivate them to finish what it started. These things never healed. As the body gains strength, it will seek to heal that condition. During these times fast and let the body handle it. Remember- the body will never take you through a healing crisis unless it has enough energy to do it. The body works in 3 or 7 day cycles- so usually the crisis will be over in that time- rarely it will go to multiples of 7 such as 14 or 21 days. You may encounter an internal healing crisis. This is when the body feels tired and weak and wants to sleep a lot. It is working on something within, so rest as much as you can and be patient. Remember if you take drugs, you will slow down or postpone healing. You can’t poison a body into health! What heals the body? Is it drugs? Is it the diet? Its the body‘s own immune system! So if the body is very sick, it may not be able to use the nutrients and recover fast enough before the disease kills it. But it is worth a try! It is often amazing just how much nature can accomplish once we get out of the way and let the body use its God-given innate intelligence! In the 1940’s a
dentist named Francis Potenger, ran an experiment to find out what effects
processed food had on the body. He
financed his own experiment—this is important to know as the results of many
experiments are influenced by the marketing boards and drug companies who
sponsor them. He used about 800
cats and divided them into 5 groups. Two
groups he fed on real, natural food and the others he fed processed foods. The real food cats
stayed healthy generation after generation—they never got sick and died of old
age rather than illness. The processed food
cats by the end of the 1st generation began to be sick.
They developed colds, flus, arthritis and cancer. The 2nd generation
cats developed diseases near the
middle of their lives and the 3rd generation developed diseases shortly after
birth and many were born diseased or deformed. There was no 4th
generation! Either the cats were
sterile or when they did conceive the young were miscarried. Right now in North
America over 25% of young adults are sterile and there are more miscarriages
than ever before. Now the leading
cause of death in children under 10 is CANCER.
A couple generations ago cancer and heart disease was unknown in the
young—granddad got it. But now
little kids! Each generation the genetic code gets weaker. Are we 3rd
generation cats? What about the
next generation?
How do Americans know they are full? When their belly hurts. You see your body sets the appetite to obtain a certain amount of nutrients, and if these are not present in the food we are eating, we eat and eat and don’t feel satisfied. We only know we’ve had enough when our belly hurts. But the stomach can only process so much food at a time- more than that and the food breaks down by rotting and fermenting which creates toxins. These do not just pass on out but are absorbed and increase the body’s toxic load. Too much rotting food and our stomach may cause vomiting or diarrhea to get it out before the toxins are all absorbed. But we run to the doctor or take drugs to keep those poisons in! Where did the energy for the diarrhea come from? Not from the rotting food- from our reserves. If we take a cow with a new calf and we take her milk everyday and pasteurize it and feed it to her calf—its own mother’s milk—but pasteurized, in about 6 months the calf will be dead. Why? If we see an X-ray of a person with osteoporosis we will see calcium missing from the bones—but in the joints we will see calcium deposits! Why is the calcium being deposited outside the bones and not in the bones where it belongs? It is because the calcium deposits are inorganic calcium and the body can’t use it. Calcium in processed milk is inorganic. Plants take inorganic minerals from the soil, and combine them with a protein in one molecule—only plants can do this—that is an organic mineral. It is the only kind our body can use! Back to the calf—it only lived on the glucose in the milk and its own reserves—once its reserves were gone it died. The more we process a food the less value is in it. HIERARCHY OF
FOODS 1.
whole- RAW—Most life 2.
fresh- raw juice—drink within an hour as it oxidizes rapidly 3.
Dehydrated- no additives—2-5%
nutrient loss 4.
Frozen—15-30% nutrient loss 5.
lightly steamed-crispy
15-60%
nutrient loss 6.
left-over raw salad—once cut, foods oxidize rapidly. 7.
cooked 40-100% nutrient loss (depending how cooked) 8.
cooked leftovers—little nutrients 9.
microwaved—90-100% nutrient loss 10. Less than
0%—(Robs
the body’s resources) commercial
canned; fried-foods with additives; no nutrient value and lots of
toxins.
UNDERSTANDING HEALTH AND
DISEASE 2
-pHHow does food begin to cause illness? In this lesson we will explore this question. pH- is a measurement of how acid something is. 1 is extreme acid and 15 is extreme alkaline- 7 is neutral. Water is neutral. Our system is designed to run at 7-8 but our blood must be more exact- 7.4. If it goes down to 7.2 we die! Even at 7.35 we will turn blue and need emergency care. Our body has no ability to manufacture alkaline. And yet we run on the alkaline side of the scale- But our daily metabolism is acid producing! Where do we get alkaline? Nature provided a way- from fruits and vegetables. You say, “What about oranges, isn’t that an acid?” Oranges contain citric acid which is an organic acid and it can be broken down by the body and every part used. When burnt the ash left of an orange is alkaline and that's what counts. Cooked meats, when reduced to an ash are acid. And they contain inorganic acids— phosphoric and sulfuric acid—our body cannot process these. In order to neutralize the acid in one steak in the body it would require 9 meals of pure raw vegetables and fruits—Just to neutralize the acid in one serving of meat! Here is a list of acid foods listed from least to most acid that are also the main foods in the American diet.
ACID FOODS MEATS- FISH- POULTRY COFFEE SUGAR TEA- COLA MOST GRAINS DAIRY SALT ALCOHOL DRUGS TOBACCO Now—how does the body keep your blood at 7.4? And if you are alive it is 7.4! There are 2 main diets that most Americans are on—The Junk and Fast Food Diet and the S.A.D. Standard American Diet. One man was asked how long since he had eaten any vegetables and fruits. He replied “What do you mean by vegetables and fruits?” “Well bananas, apples, oranges, salads, stuff like that.” “Well, two years ago I had a can of green beans.” The average American goes 7-14 days without eating any vegetables or fruit! How does the body stay alive? Simple—The body pulls on its own tissues to bring out alkaline from cells and bones—to keep your blood at 7.4 and keep you alive. The cell pH can drop much lower than the blood and not kill you, and so alkaline is brought out of the cells—The cell is not healthy but it will still function down to as low as 3.5 before it dies. Disease starts anywhere below 7—The cells slow down- we call it aging. Cancer cannot exist in a cell pH 5.8 or higher! It can exist at 5.7 or lower. The average cell pH in USA- 5- 5.5! No wonder we are on an express train to chronic degenerative disease, cancer etc.! 70% of people over 40 have some chronic disease. The more acid a cell is the less efficient it is—If it is a heart cell—it doesn’t ‘heart’ as well if it is a kidney cell—it doesn't ‘kidney’ as well and we call that—disease. The taste buds are not immune—they also become acid and can’t tell us what foods are good and so these foods begin to taste good to us. The first time one drinks coffee—it tastes bad! We have to put sugar in it to get it down! But as we get sicker and more sluggish, the body says, “I need the stimulation.” and we want to drink more and more coffee and the cell pH goes lower and lower. Ever wonder why when you feel sick and go to the doctor and he takes blood and sends it to the lab—everything is “normal”? Doctor says, “it must be your nerves—Here's some Valium.” Valium or similar drugs are the #2 most prescribed drug in this country. What is #1? Ulcer medications! Why is the blood normal, when the patient feels sick and is sick? Because the cells will not only give up alkaline but will give up other nutrients—trying to keep that blood as healthy as possible—because when the blood gets too sick—we die! Even people dying of cancer can have “normal” blood tests even a few weeks before death. Innate intelligence does the best it can to keep the body alive regardless of the cost. In my emergency career, I have seen people come in with heart attacks—that had been given a clear bill of health from their doctor the day before! What is the
Answer to Health? ADD ALKALINE
BACK TO THE BODY An
ideal diet should contain 80% or more alkaline & 20% or less acid
Get that cell pH back up to 7-8 and have health! We do not recommend that you immediately give up all the acid foods you are on as you probably won’t be able to get out of bed without all that toxic stimulation. Your body runs on the stimulation! You would find out right quick what your true level of health is. Rather—you should begin to add fresh fruits and vegetables to your diet—so the emphasis is on adding more—We all like to eat more! Add fresh fruit for breakfast—have a salad before each meal and eat the salad first . If you begin getting more nutrients, you will be satisfied with less food—it is the amount of nutrients you body is after, not the amount of food. Each month increase by 10% the amount of alkaline foods. More fruits and vegetables and automatically you will eat less acid foods. After a while you will loose the craving for meat, coffee, tobacco and such as your body gets healthier. You see, it no longer needs the toxic stimulation and these things become offensive. It is the toxins in meat that give it its flavor and aroma. A healthy, grass fed cow doesn’t have much taste. Liver is the most toxic part of any animal—Don’t Eat Liver!! As the body returns to pH 7 and you get healthier, you will find that sugar gives you a headache, dairy gives you mucous, alcohol burns all the way down, you don’t like hot, spicy foods anymore -your desire for acid foods will get less and less! Concentrate on
increasing fruits and vegetables and the change will gradually happen!
As your body chemistry improves, your taste will dictate what your body
wants and habits will change gradually.
DO CALORIES COUNT?? What is a calorie? It is a unit of energy. Calories are not the true cause of over weight. There are 2 kinds of calories—acid, toxic ones and alkaline ones. If a calorie is an acid-toxic one and the body doesn’t need it—and it never does, it stores that away as fat. But if it is an alkaline calorie the body will use it to do work in the body. Alkaline calories are used by the body to cleanse. If you eat a diet of 1,000 calories a day- toxic, acid calories- you will gain weight. But if you eat 5,000 calories a day of alkaline- raw fruits and vegetables, you will loose excess weight. And you will gain in health. Remember a severely overweight body is a severely toxic, acid body. If you put such a person on severely limiting diets and fasts forcing the body to loose weight in this way, toxins will be activated and severe illness and disease can follow. Do it the right way—eat more fresh & raw fruits and vegetables and let the body melt that toxic fat away. To get high amounts of alkaline foods it is good to use a juicer and drink a lot of fresh, raw vegetable juices. Carrot, celery tomato is a very alkaline mix and will be a great help in turning illness around. How long does it take to get healthy? How long did it take to get sick? It did not happen overnight and neither will one get well from chronic disease overnight. If you go on a pure, mostly raw, fruit and vegetable diet with lots of juices it will take about 3 years—if you choose to go slower because you have to keep working and such, it will take 5-10 years. It is up to you—but it is better to be gradually improving then to be getting worse and worse! Remember—its up to you. We can teach you the knowledge but only you can put it to work for yourself. We are grateful to the lectures of Dr. Joel Robbins for the valuable information in these last few pages.
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