Category: Food & Nutrition

Every so often someone asks me to leave the yeast out of their superfood. They have been told that yeast is bad for them, especially if they are fighting Candida. I understand the worry, but it comes from mixing up two very different things. The yeast in a good superfood blend is not the yeast that raises your bread, and it is not the yeast that overgrows in the body. It is a food, and one of the most nourishing foods we have.

Three Kinds of Yeast

• Baker’s yeast is alive. It is sold active, so it can feed on sugar and give off the gas that makes bread rise. This is the yeast people picture when they hear the word.
• Brewer’s yeast is left over from brewing beer. It is usually deactivated too, but it often tastes bitter from the hops.
• Nutritional yeast is grown on purpose as a food, usually on beet molasses or cane sugar. When it is ready, it is heated enough to stop all yeast activity, then dried into golden flakes. It cannot grow, multiply or ferment anything. It is no longer a living yeast at all.

Why It Is Not a Candida Problem

Candida is a different organism altogether, one that overgrows in the body when the diet is full of sugar and refined foods and the bowel is sluggish. Nutritional yeast is not Candida, and because it has been deactivated, it cannot feed Candida, join it or start an overgrowth of its own. Eating it is no different from eating any other cooked, dried food. What feeds Candida is sugar and white flour, not a spoonful of golden flakes.

A true allergy to yeast is a different matter, and it is rare. Someone who truly reacts to yeast proteins should leave it out. But that is not the same as being afraid of yeast because of Candida.

What Nutritional Yeast Gives You

• Complete protein. About half of it is protein, with all the essential amino acids the body needs to rebuild itself.
• B vitamins. It is one of the richest sources of B vitamins we have, the vitamins the nerves, the brain and the energy of every cell depend on. We use a fortified flake, which adds B12 as well.
• Minerals. Iron, zinc, selenium and many others.
• Beta-glucans. A special fiber in the yeast cell wall that supports the immune system.

That is why nutritional yeast is the largest part of our superfood blend. Leave it out, and what is left is mostly green herbs and peels, good in themselves but missing the protein and B vitamins that make the blend a real food. See Superfood: Raw Material for Healing.

A Warm Flush

A fortified yeast is rich in niacin, one of the B vitamins. At a larger serving, some people feel a warm, tingling flush in the skin for a little while. It is harmless and passes on its own; if it bothers you, use a smaller amount and build up.

How to Enjoy It

Stir it into your superfood drink, or sprinkle the flakes on popcorn, salads, potatoes, soups and steamed vegetables. It has a rich, cheesy, nutty flavor, which is why so many people who avoid dairy love it.

This is shared for educational purposes, from my own study and experience. It is not medical advice.

The purpose of this article is to provide an Understanding the Natural Laws of Health; How we earn our dis-ease and how to clear dis-ease from the body.

Introduction:

If we take an honest look at nature, we will observe that three things are present:

1) Nature follows definite laws which are not subject to opinion or variance; and
2) Every aspect of life is reflected by nature.
3) Nature is governed by the law of CAUSE and EFFECT.

If we have violated a natural law, we have created a Cause, for which we will suffer an Effect.
Our ignorance of the laws of Nature does not change these laws.

There are two reasons for disease, or lack of health: 1) Ignorance or 2) Laziness

In the field of health, there are a few good rules to follow to achieve health.
1) Follow the laws of Nature
2) Let Truth be your authority, not authority your truth.

One of the Laws of Nature is that the innate intelligence of the body strives to keep the body alive, regardless of the cost. The “cost” is what we call “disease”. Disease is the effort of the body to keep us alive.

WHAT IS REAL FOOD?

The body will keep us alive and healthy provided that we feed it “Real Food”. Real food is a food which is compatible with the body; that in no way takes from the body, but lends itself to the building up of health and maintaining life. It contains nothing that is harmful, toxic or non usable by the body. Real Food is defined for us by Nature as follows:

1) Something edible grown by Nature of the Plant Kingdom
2) Food which can be eaten without processing in any way.
3) Food which comes to us from Nature as “complete packages”, that is, they contain naturally everything in them necessary for the body to process and assimilate that food.

WHY DO WE EAT FOOD?

The only qualities of food which the body requires in a complete package are the following: If all of these components are in the food, the food is complete. If any of these are missing, the food is not “Real Food”.

Real Food is provided by Nature in this form as raw fruits and vegetables. Raw fruits and vegetables contain all of the parts mentioned above. If food has been processed, cooked or altered in any way so as to change or eliminate any of the above ingredients, it is no longer “Real Food” as far as the Human Body is concerned.

PLANTS ARE THE SOURCE OF REAL FOOD FOR ALL LIFE FORMS

The plant kingdom utilizes sunshine, carbon dioxide, oxygen, water and organic minerals in the process of photosynthesis to feed itself and grow. The result is a living plant (food for animal consumption) containing:

• glucose
• protein
• fatty acids
• organic minerals
• organic enzymes (vitamins)
• water (pure)

Inorganic Mineral from the Earth + Photosynthesis = Organic Minerals from Plants which provide Protein and Enzymes for animals and humans.

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How many people who are taking cortisone–all those several million of them–are aware that the drug can cause brittle bones? And how many doctors are going to tell their patients that it is a good idea to get substantially more calcium and Vitamin D into their diets before they begin splintering their bones?

It does seem that many doctors pay scant attention to the possible side effects of drug therapy, particularly when those side effects are intimately linked to nutrition. This attitude seems to be reflected even in the Merck Manual, a standard reference book for physicians. In the section on adrenocortical steroids, which includes cortisone and its derivatives, the medical text says under the subheading “Management during Long-Term Treatment”:

If back pain occurs, X-ray of the spine should be made for possible osteoporosis…If Pathologic fractures occur but the patient’s condition warrants continuation of hormonal therapy; additional calcium and protein probably are more effective than the anabolic steroids.” No advice about giving more calcium as a preventive measure is offered. Presumably, the doctor is not expected to do anything until the patient begins complaining of back pain or comes in with a fracture that results from a slight bump.

For the plant-calcium formula, with the herbs, proportions and how to make it, see Calcium You Can Actually Absorb.

Inorganic minerals are the ones that can be accepted into the body, but not assimilated. The inorganic minerals are accumulative, lie in deposits in weakened or injured parts of the body, to later give side effects or after effects.

Often times in purchasing calcium, potassium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, etc., we buy minerals of the inorganic type that has not gone through plant life and by osmosis made organic and given life so it can be assimilated. The type that can be assimilated is from herbs, fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts and seeds.

These are non-toxic, non-poisonous and non-habit forming, if chosen by one who knows assimilable herbs. We have been using a calcium formula for years to aid our patients and students in regaining a more perfect body structure.

The one way we can change the condition of the bowel structure is to treat it like we would a sick plant, and we do not want to be guilty of “casting seeds out on barren soil.” The bone must be fed, must be given exercise, and must also be accompanied by faith–in knowing it will improve.

1. Hard Water.  This is saturated with calcium, iron, magnesium, and many other inorganic minerals.  All water in lakes, rivers, on the ground, in deep wells, is classified as hard water. (Many city systems take water from rivers or lakes, or reservoirs supplied with mountain water; they erroneously call their supplies “soft water” but it is soft only in comparison with water which is harder.)

 2.  Boiled Water.  Boiling helps remove some of the germs, but concentrates the inorganic minerals.  Other germs are carried into a fertile element for rapid and lusty propagation of germs and viruses already in the body.

 3. Raw Water.  This has not been boiled.  Raw water may be hard (as calcium hardened water) or soft as rain water.  It contains millions of germs and viruses.  In every densely inhabited drop.  Some of these viruses and bacteria may adversely affect the thyroid gland, the liver and other vital body organs.

 4. Rain Water.  This has been condensed from the clouds.  The first drop is distilled water.  But when it falls as rain, it picks up germs, dust, smoke, minerals, strontium 90, lead and many other atmospheric chemicals.  By the time rain water reaches the earth it is so saturated with dust and pollutants it may be yellowish in color.  Water is supposed to act as an atmosphere purifier.  If we had no air pollution, we would have far less pollution in our drinking water.

  5. Snow Water.  This is frozen rain.  Freezing does not eliminate any germs.  All snowflakes have hardened mineral deposits.  Melt the cleanest snow and you will find it saturated with dirt, inorganic minerals, germs and viruses.

 6. Filtered Water.  This water has passed through a fine strainer, called a filter.  Some calcium and other solid substances are kept in the filter; there is no filter made which can prevent germs from passing through its fine meshes.  Each pore of the finest filter is large enough for a million viruses to seep through in a few moments.  A home filter usually only picks up suspended solids and is effective for the time, maybe only for hours, until it is filled up.  Then it is ineffective even for removing suspended solids, and at the same time becomes a breeding ground for bacteria.

 7. Soft Water.  This water is soft in comparison with water which is harder.  It may contain many trace minerals and chemicals, viruses and bacteria.  It is not to be confused with “softened water.”  Soft water may be classified as water which is harder than distilled water.

 8. Reverse Osmosis.  This is a system of water purification which allows pre-filtered water to be forced through a semi-permeable membrane to separate impurities from our drinking water.  However, this membrane allows only certain molecules to pass through providing the water pressure is exactly constant.  The matter of water pressure is a problem still to be solved.  Furthermore, the membrane also allows some iron and nitrate molecules to pass through.  Another problem to be solved.

But it now seems promising that we can look forward to tremendous strides in this system of water purification.  Gulf Oil, Culligan and Eastman Kodak are sponsoring vast research in this area.  High purity water between 90 and 97 percent of the dissolved mineral (and organic solutions), and over 99 percent of the suspended and colloidal particles are rejected by, the special membrane which has been developed for this process by these companies in their research. The product water, from this new research, is ultra-clear, low in dissolved solids, practically free from hardness components and essentially sterile as produced.  This makes a close second to distilled water.

 9. De-ionized Water.  A process of exchanging “hard” ions for “soft.”  The total ions are still present.  The end result is the same.  But the water has the appearance of being distilled. (Nature recognizes transformation but not extinction!)  Since water leaving the sodium-cation exchanger has little hardness, it contains sodium salts.

 10. Distilled Water.  This is water that has first been turned into steam so that all of its impurities are left behind.  Then through condensation, it is turned back into pure water.  It is the only pure water.  The only water free from all contamination.  Distilled water may well be considered the only pure water on earth.

By Dr. John Christopher

Natural food should be eaten in moderation and in simplicity. The fruits are especially good for cleansing the system after your night’s fast during sleep and it will satisfy the need and craving for sweetness. The green herbs of the garden, used fresh and tender in salads and chewed well, will build strength and vitality into the body tissues. The bulbs, roots, and starches in grains will provide fire and heat for the body, but these should be eaten only as needed for the more strenuous physical labors. The sprouted seeds are nourishing tonics to restore the body constitution and in resisting ill health. The nuts of the trees will provide the nutrient “meat” (protein) for man and will season other foods. The culinary herbs will provide variety, flavor, and seasoning as nutritional agents. And in the whole of your daily activities, you must achieve a varied and harmoniously-blended whole: fresh air, sunshine, exercise, work play, song, prayer, reading, meditation, recreation, etc.

FASTING

The “no breakfast” procedure:

So many times you will hear people say, “But breakfast is my main meal; start the day with a big breakfast and you start the day off right.” This “big breakfast” idea is pushed hard by the breakfast-food, egg, milk, and coffee merchants, and some of their advertising plays on emotional fears. But this is so wrong, as better health is found in countries where people have the custom of not eating breakfast, except maybe a warm cup of liquid, and the first meal of the day is eaten at noon. And there are places where the evening meal is the first and only one, as the partaking of food is considered a privilege only after the work has been done and the right to eat is earned. So as you try the “no breakfast” experiment, the first few days may be a little rough, with headaches, light-headedness, grumpiness, etc.  This will only last a few days and you will see great improvement in health. There are many that champion the fast as a cure for anything and everything, or that fruit alone will answer your health problems, or juice therapy alone, or all raw fruits and vegetables. But in your properly-balanced program, some of the food will be raw, while some of it will be steamed, baked or low-heated.

A bodily famine is not required:

Periodic fasting is good to cleanse the body, but a bodily famine is not required as a sacrifice for cleansing. A cross-country runner would be committing suicide to make a grueling competitive twenty or thirty mile run without preparation and so it is with the fast; a person must work up gradually to the longer fasts.

MEAT AND ANIMAL PROTEIN

All animated life can only live in health on vegetation of some type. Some of the birds, animals and men live on the carcasses of other higher animal life, but these carcasses are ones that have received their health and vitality from vegetation. This is second-hand or secondary food that has lost a lot of its value, but it still has some nutrient value in it that can be traced back to the original or primary food source in the vegetation. The bird that eats the insect gets its real food value from the tree, plant or shrub that the insect has fed on, and not from the insect itself.

You are culturally conditioned to believe that meat and milk are an absolute dietary necessity, and you react almost without thought: “Yes, but what about protein? We need the protein so badly, and we will wither up and die without sufficient amounts of it.” And where do most of our people go to get their main source of protein? From the lower animal kingdom, steaks from the carcasses of slaughtered animals. And where does the meat-providing cow obtain its protein? From eating grass. The only value in meat is what the particular animal has received from eating green herbs.