Category: Food & Nutrition

“Let food be thy medicine…”; great and still timely advice penned by Hippocrates.  The real question is, what does this look like in real life? Today I want to offer a few suggestions for using food to rebuild the body.

Let’s start at the foundation and build from there.  Firstly; what is food?

The body will keep us alive and healthy provided that we feed it “Real Food”.  Real food is compatible with the body; it in no way takes from the body, but lends itself to the building up of health and maintaining life.  The food intended for human use 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 from 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:

GLUCOSE, PROTEIN, FATTY ACIDS, MINERALS, ENZYMES,

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 and human 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.

The animal kingdom does not possess the ability to perform photosynthesis, therefore must rely on the plant kingdom to prepare its food.

Any form of processing nature’s foods (such as pasteurization, cooking, adding preservatives, etc.) breaks the bonds between the food components and their attached enzymes as well as destroys the enzyme. The result is inorganic or denatured food components and thus inorganic food.

The enzyme must be alive and attached to the mineral or food component in order for the body to utilize it. The enzyme acts as a “passport” to get the mineral into the cell of the body and aids in the cell’s utilization of that mineral. Raw foods are living and thus produce life in the body; because they have intact enzymes they are organic. Enzymes are catalysts – substances which help the body work more efficiently in utilizing food for life maintaining purposes.

Growing up in a conservative Adventist community no one I knew smoked, or used coffee or black tea of any kind.  From an early age the dangers of caffeine had been drummed into my brain.  That did not stop me from becoming an avid iced tea and coffee drinker as soon as I discovered the pronounced energy pick-up these beverage’s afforded. I main-lined the stuff until in my 23^th year, with a pulse of 160 and my blood pressure off the charts, the emergency room doctor explained I had just over dosed on caffeine.

Young and dumb, I stopped popping the “No-Doze” (caffeine pills) and cut back a bit on my coffee intake.  This kept me out of the emergency room until my love of iced black tea gave me a taste of the worst pain one can experience; Kidney Stones.  Thinking I was doing myself a favor I brought two big 32 ounce sipper bottles of the stuff to work with me each day.   Again the Emergency Room Doctor explained how I had done this to myself; that was enough for me; I never touched black tea again.  Finally I completely gave up Coffee several years later after realizing caffeine was not my friend.

Looking around the net for more information on black tea today I was amazed at the websites devoted to talking about the benefits of black tea.  These sites completely ignore the long understood and proven ill effects of black tea consumption.  I want to share some basic information on the dangers of drinking Iced or hot black tea.  There are excellent substitutes for those who enjoy the cool refreshing glass of iced tea or the comfort of a nice cup of hot tea.

• The peppermint leaf makes an excellent iced tea beverage.
• The detox or Kidney bladder teas are also excellent and tasty substitutes used hot or cold; just to name a few.

FYI: Black Tea

A cup of hot tea can do wonders after a tiring day at office. This soothing hot beverage has been used from many centuries to calm down our mind and relax our body. In various parts of the world, drinking black tea on an everyday basis is quite common. While some like to make their cup of tea very strong, some go with mild, and some take a light dose. No matter how you take it, there are ill effects of consuming black tea.

Camellia sinensis, better known as black tea, is used in dried form to make tea. Due to its properties that are quite similar to caffeine present in coffee, it works well in relaxing muscles and helping the nervous system calm down. Produced extensively in the countries of Sri Lanka and India; black tea shipments travel far and wide to be utilized by numerous people across the globe. However, before you consume your next cup of tea, take a look at the negative effects of black tea.

Increases Toxins

By drinking this tea on a daily basis, you can increase the amount of toxins present in your body. The root cause of the toxicity is Aluminum, an active component found in higher quantity in older tea leaves.

Kidney Stones

One of the ill effects of black tea is that it has the ability to trigger formation of kidney stones due to Oxalate. This compound has the capability to affect the health of the kidneys if consumed on a large scale.

Weakened Digestive System

Filled with tannins, intake of black tea regularly can unbalance the digestive system and lead to health issues such as diarrhea, etc. Constipation can also occur as a result of negative effects of black tea.

Alzheimer’s Disease

Increased intake of Aluminum, in the form of black tea, is one of the causes of Alzheimer’s disease. The disorder has the ability to affect the memory and imagination of people.

Osteofluorosis

Drinking large quantities of this tea can hinder the fluoride tolerance level of the human body. Fluoride ill effects of black tea increase the susceptibility of bone fracture as fluorine weakens bones.

Stained Teeth

Among the ill effects of black tea consumption, stained teeth is one. If you consume this tea frequently, then there are high chances that your teeth are stained and gums are injured. It also increases the formation of plaques.

Urinary Trouble

Disruption to the urinary system of the body can occur as a result of ill effects of black tea. The urinary bladder becomes heavy, thereby triggering a sensation of frequent urination.

Slowdown of Clotting

Regular consumption of black tea can actually slow the formation of blood clots upon an injury. This is one of the negative effects of black tea that should be kept a note of.

Esophagus Cancer

There is an increased risk of developing esophagus cancer with black tea. This canal that connects the stomach with the oral section is sensitive to sudden temperature changes, and also tannins, present extensively in black tea.

Super Nutritional Morning Drink or Meal Replacement

1.) How do I prepare or use my Superfood?

There is any number of ways to fix Superfood; The most common way is to mix 2 tablespoons in juice and drink. I enjoy making mine in the morning using the following plan: Blend together 1 frozen Banana, 4 or 5 frozen Strawberries, 8 oz of Apple or Orange juice, 8 oz water, and one tablespoon flaxseed oil.**  This combines to make a thick shake type breakfast drink.  Very good, and very satisfying.

**Try using a table spoon of Flax seed oil for every 100 pounds you weight.

Some of our Members tell us they mix it with plain water and find that to be just fine also.

2.) How much Superfood should I be using a day?

This depends completely on your personal needs.  If you are doing major disease work or cleansing you might want to be using as much as 2 tablespoonfuls 3 times a day.  I have known of members who have use 3 or 4 times this much in a day while they were healing their diseases.  Allow your body to tell you how much to use.  Use as much as you feel you need, there is no reason to be concerned with overdosing on Superfood, it is just Food; (GOOD FOOD).

3.) Superfood for children, pets & husbands?

Click on the link to find the correct amount of Superfood to give children & pets. Use the formula provided to determine how much of the herbals to give a child or animal.

This is a very good food for Children, pets, and Husbands.  We have heard that many children and husbands don’t want to drink something that is green.  (They will try that new Green Ketchup but not a green drink.) This problem can be remedied by blending fresh or thawed strawberries, blueberries etc… into the mix.  The berry juice will make the drink an acceptable Red or Blue Color.

For your favorite 4 legged friend try sprinkling a bit of the Superfood over his food, most pets love this and it is so good for them.

People seem to be allergic to so many different foods these days.  Some of the more common are to corn, wheat, nuts and strawberries (to name only a few).  Unprocessed, natural foods right from nature are where most allergy foods come from.  So what is going on?  The idea that a food created to sustain life can cease to feed and actually destroy life does not seem right.

Over the years I have come to understand food allergies in a different light.  These foods are not a poison to the body but the nutrition they provide is too detoxifying.  Instead of being the enemy these foods are actually trying to clear toxic waste from the body.   Think of what happens when allergy foods are eaten.  A few examples would be:

• Anaphylaxis, causes an itchy rash, throat swelling, ect… (massive movement of toxins) or
• Hives break out over the skin, (backed-up liver trying to push waste out through the skin), or
• Bowels turn to liquid, (body flushing toxic waste through the bowels)

With a food capable of doing such a powerful detoxing work in your body it is important to support this food in the work it is capable of doing.  Many years ago a friend shared her story with me.

Jackie’s Experiment

Jackie was dangerously allergic to strawberries.  One little bit would bring on Anaphylaxis, causing her throat to swell shut.  Trusting the natural healer’s wisdom she had studied she decided to put it to the test.  After several months deep cleansing with the liver flushes and kidney flushing she decided to take a small nibble of strawberry.

She was in the middle of a week of liver flushing when she began her experiment.  She described what happened over the next few days.

The first day after ingesting a little nibble of strawberry she broke out in a hive over her heart.  Continuing her liver flushing program the hive cleared from the heart area and reappeared over her stomach.  To make a long story short she continued consuming a small nibble of strawberry each day for the next week or so.  The hive worked its way down her trunk breaking out over every major organ.  When the process was over and the strawberry had done the extreme work of detoxing it needed to do she was able to eat strawberries like anyone else.

Breaking out in a hive while doing a liver flush indicates a huge amount of toxins are being moved out. The liver uses the skin to detox when it is unable to move the waste out through regular channels. The small amount of strawberry she consumed each day did a massive amount of detoxing.  Some nutrient in the strawberry was exactly what her body needed to accomplish the detox necessary for her to be truly well.

Proceed with Caution

This was a very serious step for her to take.  I would never suggest someone do a program such as Jackie did unless they have been doing a serious cleansing program for 3 to 6 months or longer.  If the immune system is not equipped to handle the huge amount of toxins released for removal by the allergy food the situation could become serious.

On that word of caution I will also add that lesser food allergies could be cleared more quickly and without much concern. You have found a food that has a work to do in your body.  Prepare your system to handle this work with a few weeks of good liver and kidney flushing.  God’s creation is not our enemy but at times it can be too friendly.  Learn how to allow the nutrition we have been given for our food to do the work it needs to do in your body.

Nature is loaded with Super foods that provide nutrition naturally. We have combined the best nature had to offer into a green drink we like to call “Nature’s Superfood” You can use as much as you feel you need of this powder. We suggest you try two tablespoons three times a day or three tablespoons twice a day, morning and evening.

The ingredients are: Spirulina, Chlorella, Alfalfa Grass, Barley Grass, Wheat Grass, Purple Dulse Seaweed, Beet Root, Spinach Leaf, Rose Hips, Orange and Lemon Peels and Non-Active Nutritional Yeast Flakes.

Make the following nutritional drink:

• 8 to 16 ounces freshly squeezed fruit juice diluted as needed with distilled water.
• ½ to one cup of fresh or frozen seasonal fruit
• 2 tablespoons Superfood powder mix.

If using fruit with your Superfood mixture gives you too much sugar, you can mix the Superfood in water, or in carrot or other juices.

If you are under a great amount of stress, you can increase the amount of Superfood per dosage, and you can take the increased dose four to six times daily. The food yeast in the Superfood will give a lot of energy that can lift depression and often reverse symptoms of neurological damage.

Some members have noticed their skin becomes too dry on the vegetarian program, so we suggest adding two tablespoons of flaxseed oil to the Superfood drink. This should effectively take care of any onset of dry skin due to a change in your food program. You can also rub castor oil into your dry hands and feet.

One minor problem with adding any oil to Superfood is that it can make some people sluggish. You may have to take the flaxseed oil in the evening, when any energy loss wouldn’t matter as much. Another possibility is to add ground-up flaxseed to your Superfood drink, instead of flax oil.

Excerpt from article by Dr. Robbins, Health Through Nutrition

 If you have a headache, the doctor prescribes aspirin. The headache disappears and everyone is happy. No one ever asked the question, “What caused the headache?” Based on the treatment prescribed and the resultant “cure”, we can conclude that the headache was caused by an “aspirin deficiency”.

However, a little research will tell us that aspirin is composed of salicylic acid – an absolute poison to the body, thus an “aspirin deficiency” is out of the question. In fact, any drug on the market, we will find, is composed of chemical toxins, which are poisonous to humans. How then can drugs alleviate symptoms, cure ills, wipe out disease and generally make us feel better if they are poisonous?

To understand how drugs “cure” symptoms, let us look a little deeper into how aspirin takes away a pain.

Did you know that aspirin will relieve any pain in the body, whether it be a headache or a toe ache? The only exception to this is stomach pain. Aspirin will not help stomach pain. Ask the pharmacist how aspirin works, he will tell you that it has some sort of numbing effect over the entire body, so regardless of where the pain is, it is relieved. But isn’t the stomach part of the body? Why doesn’t aspirin take care of stomach pain? He will reply that this is one of the great mysteries of aspirin.

Let’s say you are out on the farm hunting and you get a thorn in your finger. It is quite sore, so you decide to head back to your truck to get some tweezers to take care of the problem. As you pass through the barnyard you step on a nail. Do you still feel the pain of the thorn in your finger; in fact do you even remember it is there? Was it suddenly cured when you stepped on the nail? No, not at all. Then why is the thorn no longer a concern? Simply because your body now has a higher priority – something more life threatening to worry about – the nail in the foot.

Then as you are passing through the barbed wire fence to finally reach your truck, you shoot your toe off with the shotgun (the other foot of course). Are you now aware of the thorn? No. How about the hole in your foot from the rusty nail. I don’t think so. Why not? Once again the body shifted its focus to the most life-threatening situation. There is only x amount of energy in the body. If we create a crisis in one part of the body, energy must be “borrowed” from other parts of the body to cope with the crisis.

Every aspirin (buffered or not) causes a teaspoon worth of bleeding in the stomach.

If you have a headache, which is generally caused by toxic blood from something we’ve eaten which is harmful to us, and you take an aspirin causing internal bleeding, which do you think would be more life threatening? In most cases the internal bleeding. The body must now shift its attention to the higher priority problem (stomach), and the headache disappears. Did the aspirin remove the toxins from the blood stream? Not at all, just created a more life-threatening situation.

If the aspirin does not take away the headache, it simply means that the internal bleeding is not more life threatening than the toxic blood. So now take six aspirin, and a more life threatening situation will take place in the stomach and the headache dissipates.

 Why doesn’t aspirin take care of stomach pain?

If you have stomach pain then your body’s attention is already focused on the stomach. Additional stress there will not force the body to shift its attention elsewhere in the body. Tylenol, however, will alleviate stomach pain because it plays havoc with the liver, causing the body to move its attention from stomach to liver.

Thus all drugs produce symptomatic relief without actually removing the cause.

 A drug “cures” your complaint by creating a disease of its own.

If the poison of the drug, whatever drug you want to name, is more life threatening to the body than the symptom for which you took the drug (or the doctor’s prescription for such), then your symptoms will disappear. If the drug is not more life threatening, then it will not produce symptomatic relief and the doctor will prescribe a stronger, more poisonous, more life threatening drug. Now the body will be forced to focus on the drug so that the drug literally doesn’t kill the body. You become symptom free.

Yet the cause of the disease was not eliminated, and true healing did not take place. Since there is no such thing as a drug deficiency, the body simply put the disease process on hold to eliminate the drug. How many children do you know that take antibiotics for infections? The antibiotic stops the symptoms. As soon as the antibiotic is stopped, the infection returns.

It is because the antibiotic does not kill the infection, rather the antibiotic is so toxic to the liver and rest of the body, that the body must wall off, or put on “hold” the infective process to deal with the drug before it kills the body. Once the drug is dealt with, the body will, as soon as it has built up adequate nutrients and energies, resume the cleansing process via the infection. If the taking of the antibiotic was so devitalizing to the body, lowering its frequency, the infection may not return, only a more serious chronic disease at a later date.

One of the great laws of nature is the law of cause and effect.

We do not gain anything without working for it. Diseases are not “caught”, they are earned by not taking care of our bodies. How then can we not stop doing the wrong that made us sick, take a drug and get well? It is the same as the drunk saying, “Sober me up with a pill, but let me keep drinking”. This is Impossible to do. Disease is no exception.

When an anesthetic is administered to knock one out for surgery, the same principle applies. The anesthetic is so poisonous to the body that the body must put itself to sleep to free up the tremendous amount of energy that is used for consciousness. This energy is then utilized to eliminate the toxic anesthetic from the body before it causes death.

Why do you think people are so sick and groggy after surgery? Why do something like 2% of people who undergo surgery die from the anesthetic if it weren’t a poison? Different drugs rob energy from different parts of the body, thus they have various effects or “cure” different symptoms.

The bottom line is that they rob energy from the body and change the body’s priorities to focus on the drug – a more life threatening situation – and the cause is not eliminated. We are actually still sick, just as some must stay on drugs a lifetime to stay symptom free, constantly increasing the dose as they become sicker and sicker. Others are “cured” by the drug and can stop taking it, only to face another more serious disease down the road. If we would just listen to the body when we become ill, and let the illness tell us our symptoms are due to something wrong (wrong diet or life style), and stop doing it, then the illness as well as the need for drugs would be eliminated and a more healthy life would result.

Side-Effects

“Side-effects” which often result when drugs are administered are the body’s effort at eliminating the drug. ie: breaking out in a skin rash – body pushing drug out through skin, getting drowsy – body conserving conscious energy in order to stay alive while eliminating the drug.

The Logic of Drug Therapy

Drug therapy defies all logic when we consider that any drug administered to a healthy person will make him sick, and yet the doctor prescribes these very poisons to a sick person and expects him to get well. How can a body be poisoned back to health?