 natural bris tle
brush with a long handle. It is not an expensive brush. DO NOT USE A NYLON BRISTLE BRUSH. Use t his brush dry, first
thing in the morning when you arise before putting clothes on and before any bath. Use it in any direction all over the whole  body
except the face. You can use a special face brush for the face.

DR. JENSEN’S BALANCED DAILY EATING REGI MEN
Make a habit of applying the following General Diet Regimen to your everyday living. This is a healthy way to live because wh en
followed, you do not have to think of vitamins, mineral elements or calories. I will give you more specific instruction for your
troubles after you have made this daily regimen automatic. The best diet, over a period of a day, is two different fruit, at least four
to six vegetables, one protein and one starch, with fruit or vegetable juices between meals. Eat at least two green  leafy vegetables a
day. The foods you eat daily should be 50 -60% raw. Consider this regimen a dietetic law.

RULES OF EATING
1. Do not fry foods or use heated oils.
2. If not entirely comfortable in mind and body from the previous meal time, you should mi ss the next meal.
3. Do not eat unless you have a keen desire for the plainest food.
4. Do not eat beyond your needs.
5. Be sure to thoroughly masticate your food.
6. Miss meals if in pain, emotionally upset, not hungry, chilled, overheated and during acut e illness.

GOOD THOUGHTS, GOOD WORDS, GOOD DEEDS
(The Formula for Healthy Living)
Learn to accept whatever decision is made.
Let the other person make a mistake and learn.
Learn to forgive and forget.
Be thankful and bless people.
Live in harmony —even if it is good for you.
Do not talk about your illness.
Gossip will kill you. Don’t let anyone gossip to you either. Gossip that comes through the grapevine is usually sour grapes.
Be by yourself every day for 10 minutes with the thought of how to make yoursel f a better person. Replace negative thoughts with
uplifting, positive thoughts.
Skin brush daily. Use a slant board daily.
Have citrus fruit in sections only, never in juice form.
Have only a limited amount of bread (with a lot of bowel trouble, no bread).
Exercise daily. Keep your spine limber. Develop abdominal muscles. Do sniff breathing.
Grass and sand walk for happy feet.
No smoking, alcoholic drinking, spitting or cussing. Keep away from unclean people.
Bed at sundown, 9 pm at the latest, if you are at all tired, fatigued or unable to do your work with vim and vigor. If you are sick,
you must rest more. Sleep out of doors, out of the city, in circulating air. Work out problems in the morning, don’t take the m to
bed with you.

FOOD HEALING LAWS
1. Nat ural food - 50-60% of the food eaten should be raw.
2. Your diet should be 80% alkaline and 20% acid. Look at the acid/alkaline chart page 131.
3. Proportions: 6 vegetables daily, 2 fruits daily, 1 starch daily and 1 protein daily.
4. Variety. Vary sugars,  proteins, starches, vegetables and fruits from meal to meal and day to day.
5. Overeating. You can kill yourself with the amount of food you eat.
6. Combinations. Separate starches and proteins. One at lunch and the other at dinner. Have fruits for breakf ast and at 3 pm.
7. Cook without water. Cook without high heat. Cook without air touching hot foods.
8. Bake, broil or roast. If you eat meat, have it lean, no fat, no pork. Use unsprayed vegetables if possible and eat them as soon
after picked as possible.
9. Use stainless steel, low -heat cooking utensils.

BEFORE BREAKFAST. Upon rising and at least 1/2 hour before breakfast, take any natural, unsweetened fruit juice such as
grape, pineapple, prune, fig, apple or black cherry. Liquid chlorophyll can be use d, 1 teaspoon in a glass of tepid water. You can
have a broth and lecithin drink if you desire. Take 1 teaspoonful of vegetable broth powder and 1 tablespoon of lecithin gran ules
and dissolve both in a glass of warm water.

Between fruit juice and breakfas t, follow this program: Skin brushing, exercising, deep breathing or playing. Shower. Start with
warm water and cool off until your breath quickens. Never shower immediately upon rising.

BREAKFAST. Stewed fruit, one starch and health drink or two fruits, one protein and health drink. (Starches and health drinks are
listed with the lunch suggestions.) Soaked fruits, such as unsulphured apricots, prunes, figs. Fruit of any kind: melon, grap es,
peaches, pears, berries or baked apple, which may be sprinkled wi th some ground nuts or nut butter. When possible, use fruit in
season.

SUGGESTED BREAKFAST MENUS
MONDAY
Reconstituted Dried Apricots
Steel -Cut Oatmeal/Supplements
Oat Straw Tea Add Eggs, if desired
OR
Sliced Peaches
Cottage Cheese/Supplements
Herb Tea
TUESDAY
Fresh Figs
Cornmeal Cereal/Supplements
Shave Grass Tea
Add Eggs or Nut Butter, if desired
OR
Raw Applesauce and Blackberries
Coddled Egg/Supplements
Herb Tea
WEDNESDAY
Reconstituted Dried Peaches
Millet Cereal/Supplements
Alfamint Tea
Add Eggs, Che ese or Nut Butter, if desired
OR
Sliced Nectarines and Apple
Yogurt/Supplements
Herb Tea
THURSDAY
Prunes or any reconstituted dried fruit
Whole Wheat Cereal/Supplements
Oat Straw Tea
OR
Grapefruit and Kumquats
Poached Egg/Supplements
Herb Tea

FRIDAY
Slices of fresh Pineapple with shredded Coconut
Buckwheat Cereal/Supplements
Peppermint Tea
OR
Baked Apple, Persimmons
Chopped raw Almonds/Acidophilus Milk/Supplements
Herb Tea
SATURDAY
Muesli with Bananas and Dates
Cream - Supplements
Dandelion Coffee or Herb Tea
SUNDAY
Cooked Applesauce with Raisins
Rye Grits/Supplements
Shave Grass Tea
OR
Cantaloupe and Strawberries
Cottage Cheese/Supplements
Herb Tea
PREPARATION HELPS. Reconstituted Dried Fruit: Cover with cold water, bring to boil and leave to stand ov ernight. Raisins
may just have boiling water poured over them. This kills any insects and eggs. Whole Grain Cereal: To cook properly with as l ittle
heat as possible, use a double boiler or thermos -cook.
Supplements: (Add to cereal or fruit). Sunflower seed  meal, rice polishings, wheat germ, flaxseed meal (about a teaspoon of each).
Even a little dulse may be sprinkled over with some broth powder.
10:30 am. Vegetable broth, vegetable juice or fruit juice.
LUNCH. Raw salad, or as directed, one or two starches, listed, and a health drink. Get salad suggestions from Dr. Jensen’s
cookbook and f ood guide, Vital Foods for Total Health.
NOTE: If following a strict regimen, use only one of the first seven starches daily. Vary the starch from day to day.
RAW SALAD VE GETABLE SUGGESTIONS Tomatoes (citrus), lettuce (green leafy type only, such as romaine), celery,
cucumber, bean sprouts, green peppers, avocado, parsley, water -cress, endive, onion (s) and cabbage (s). (s denotes sulphur foods.)
STARCHES. Yellow cornmeal, baked potato, baked banana (or at least dead ripe), barley (a winter food), steamed brown rice or
wild rice, millet as a cereal), banana or Hubbard squash, steel -cut oatmeal, whole wheat cereal, Dr. Jackson’s meal, whole grain
Roman Meal, shredded wheat br ead (whole wheat, rye, soybean, cornbread, bran muffins, Rye Crisp).
DRINK SUGGESTIONS. Vegetable broth, soup, coffee substitute, 3uttermilk, raw milk, oat straw tea, alfamint tea, huckleberry
tea, papaya tea or any health drink.
SUGGESTED LUNCH MENUS
MOND AY
Vegetable Salad
Baby Lima Beans, Baked Potato
Spearmint Tea
TUESDAY
Vegetable Salad with Health Mayonnaise
Steamed Asparagus
Very ripe Bananas or Steamed Unpolished Rice
Vegetable Broth or Herb Tea
WEDNESDAY
Raw Salad Plate w/Sour Cream dressing
Cooked


At this time, I’m going  to talk  about who I am and  what I am doing. If
that sounds ego  centered, it is. There  have been 66  books written about
who I am. I’m going  to quote some  statements from a  few of those
books. You  have heard  many of these  quotes but didn’t realize that they
were talking  about the  being  that I am. The  first quote  is taken from
the Book of Exodus. Here, Moses is talking  to God  and he said, “When I
go back  to the people, who shall I say has sent me?”  The voice answers,
“Tell them I am has sent me  unto you. That is my name forever and the
name  I shall be  known by throughout all  generations.”  The Ten Command -
ments state,  “Thou  shalt not use  the name  of the  Lord thy God  in vain.”
“Shalt not”  is a command. “Shalt not”  means you  must not. It means that
under  no circumstances must you  do it. That name  is I AM.
Now, first of all, we have  all forgotten His name.  We say, “I am”  hundreds
of times a  day and we don’t know  we are  using  the name  of God. Second -
ly, we  try to break  the Commandment all day long. We  pay no attention to
what we  say following  “I AM.”  When  we say, “I AM”  and follow  it with
something we  would  not like  in our world, we  are using  the Name  of
the Lord – but not in vain. The  Bible states we  cannot use  the Name  in
vain. Nothing  we say preceded  by “I AM”  is in vain. That’s his Name. It is
More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenGod Himself and because  it is God, it is creative.  God gave us Himself. He
is “I AM”  and that is who I am. I can never  forget that I am. I may forget
who I am or where  I am but I can never  forget   that I exist.
Whenever  I say “I AM”,  I AM [is] creating  something. Prayer  is believing
that we  have  already received  that which we  ask. When I say, “I am,”  I
am attaching  my awareness of being  to something. Now, you  can lie and
not believe  what you  are saying, but you  cannot believe  something  about
“I am”  and not create  it. We  are creating  morning, noon, and   night by
our “I am”  statements. If you  say, “I don’t feel well”  and you believe  it,
you are perpetuating  illness in your life.  You must change  those  state-
ments to “I feel wonderful.”   We were taught, “Let the  weak man say, ‘I
am strong.’”  But, you  can’t say it like  a parrot. We  have to pray (say I
am), believing  that it is true,  and then we  will receive.
First, we must be  like the Watchman at the  Gate.  We must watch every
thought that  contains I Am. If you  are observant, you  will see that you
have created  every circumstance and  experience of your life.
Another  important word  to watch is “if.”  The conscious mind  is very subtle
in expressing doubt (Satan or the  Devil). We  may be  able to keep  our
minds focused  on what we  want by using  positive  “I” statements. If we
are not careful, we  may let a  little “If” sneak  in without recognizing  its im -
plication. We  could  say, “I feel wonderful”  but then follow  it with “If the
pain continues, however, I will see a  doctor on Tuesday.”  “If’s” are always
followed  by something  negative  and that is simply doubt creeping  in to
steal the  good seed we have  sown. Remove  the word “if” from your vo -
cabulary, as it is not productive  of that  which you  would  like to reap. “If”
puts everything  in the  past or future  tense, and  I always experience what
I believe  I am. I am is not future  tense. Getting  well is not being  well. I
must believe  that I am already what I want to be.
Remember, “Every word  that goeth forth from my mouth shall not return
unto me  void.”   Do you  believe  it? “In the  beginning  was the  Word, and
the Word was with God, and  the Word  was God.”  What’s his Name? I Am.
So, begin to monitor every word  (I AM) that you  say. Do you  see a  pat-
tern? Don’t the  circumstances of your life  reflect what you  have been say -
ing? You  have been misusing  the creative  power  that is God  (I AM). Now
that you  are aware  of what you  have been doing, watch every word and
make it conform to  what you  wish to bring  into your life.  Eventually, you
will have  faith that what you  are stating, though there  is no outward  evi-
dence to support it, is a  fact in consciousness and  will shortly project itself
so that you  may experience it in the  outer. Knowing  that God actually be -
came  you because  He is I AM, you  must realize that you  are using  your
power  to create  every time  you use that Name.
Choice – Free Will
More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenCreation is finished  and you have free will to choose  the state you will oc -
cupy. Therefore, it is important to determine  the ideas from which you
think. Any concept that is accepted  as true  will externalize itself in your
outer  world. Choice of what you  will focus your attention upon is the  only
free will that you  can exercise. Once a  thought is accepted  and charged
with feeling, the  creative  power  within proceeds to externalize it. Whether
your assumptions are  conscious or unconscious, they direct all action to
their fulfillment. It is a  delusion that, other  than assuming  the feeling  of
the wish fulfilled, you  can do anything  to aid its realization. Your own
wonderful human imagination determines the  means it will  use to bring
your assumptions to fruition.
Each of us is subject to a  sea of ideas. We  listen to the  radio, watch the
news on television, or hear some  gossip. If what we  observe  calls forth an
emotion, we  have reacted  and, thereby, planted  a seed which will sprout
at some  future  time. Thoughts do  not recede into the  past. Rather, they
advance into the  future  to confront us so that we may see that which we
have planted,  either  wisely or unwisely.
It is a  worthwhile  exercise  to awake  in the  morning  and imagine  yourself
at the  end of your day, having  accomplished  all that you  wanted  and feel-
ing happy and  contented. If there  is a situation that you  will encounter
later in the  day that is of concern to you, spend   a few moments imagin -
ing the outcome  you wish to experience. These  imaginal activities will now
advance into your future  to reveal the  harvest you  so wisely planted.
Desire
Desire  is a gift of God. Man is required  to do nothing  more than accept
the gift by simply giving  thanks for the  unseen reality before  he observes
it in his outer  world. Through  desire, God  beckons us to lift our awareness
to higher  and higher  levels of consciousness. During  our journey through
this dream of life,  it is necessary to experience all possible states so that
we may return as God, the  Father, but enhanced  by having experienced
both good  and evil. The  desire  to do more,  to be more,  and to have more
than you  are presently  expressing  is the  urge for expansion.
You may question whether  a desire  to kill or injure  someone  can be  in-
spired  by God. The  answer is that no man actually desires to kill or harm
another. He  may wish to be  free from that seeming  other  and, through his
limited  understanding, he  feels that the  only way he  can achieve  such
freedom is by destroying  the other. Man does not realize that the  desire
for freedom contains within itself the  power  and the means to fulfill itself.
Because  of his lack  of faith, man distorts these  gifts from God. He  does
not realize that God, the  wisdom and  power within him, has ways that
he, as man, knows


 Vegetarian Hygienists",
download here, and "The Ideal Vegetarian Diet by Dr. Cursio" here, for other good ideas for a healthy vegetarian diet.
Warnings signs that you are on a deficient vegetarian diet can be strong cr avings, depression, or start of body disintegration. Note that you
can live on a deficient diet for a long time, but you won't feel perfectly well and you won't function optimally. And one day  you will have
exhausted your reserves.
Another problem area is food quality and toxicity. Organic is better than non -organic. Raw food is better than cooked. And minimize
carbohydrates, of any kind, see this page for reasons why, - instead eat more (vegetable) fats and proteins.
www.drbass.com/mice.html
In Search of t he Ultimate Vegetarian Diet

"After two years of experiments I concluded that the ideal diet is approximately 75 to 85% raw food" "I still
worry about people who attempt to be fruitarians." "Most bodies can handle toxemia for a long time.
Deficiencies damage us much more quickly."
Excerpts from
“In Search of the Ultimate Vegetarian Diet”
Volume I

As a believer in raw food vegetarianism myself, I feel a moral imperative to share the disturbing, surprising results of my
experiments with mice.

OVERVIEW
The following materials represent a four -year project I undertook to answer fundamental questions about nutrition, questions
such as what is the best diet for humans? Which is most conducive to maximum life span, health, happiness, and freedom
from disease? Can it be a diet which includes meats? Seafood? Fruitarian?....
..... I wondered how long I would have to wait to discover relevant information. I felt it could easily take another hundred years. I
felt so frustrated that I started to think about settin g up my own mouse trials.
..... Now, how do most people work out their theories and approaches to diet? From books. If the book is in error, like the o ld
joke says, "Nice fellow, he died of a misprint, you know." It can happen, easily. We need broad studie s on vegetarianism, all the
different types of vegetarianism.

ADVANTAGES OF WORKING WITH MICE
..... Why are mice experiments so good? Well, as the medical man who headed the Longevity Research Institute in California,
Dr. Roy Walford, neatly observes in h is book "Maximum Life Span":
"If mice cannot live on a diet, you can be sure humans can't."
Dr. Walford explains that the metabolism of mice is close to humans. As warm -blooded animals, mice suckle their young. They
require much the same minerals, vitamins, enzymes, proteins, and carbohydrates that we do. Mice need just a little less food
that we do for their size, and their life span is proportionate, a ratio of 30 to 1, thirty days of human life to one day of a mouse.

DIFFICULTIES IN OBTAINING CLINICAL EXPERIENCE WITH PATIENTS
Speaking as a practitioner, there are problems with trying to get answers from clinical experience with human beings. Simply
put, if you put people on a diet, they will cheat much of the time because it's difficult to change from one diet to another. When
your patients come back to you for re -examination, lots of times they're ashamed to admit they've cheated. So they lie to you,
and you can't get a true picture. Let me give you an example.
I'll ask, "Did you follow the diet?"
"Yea h."
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"What do you mean, 'Yeah'? A hundred percent? What percentage?"
"Why, I'd say about 90%."
"What did you eat that was not on the diet?"
"Well, I had a pizza one tim e, and we had a Bar Mitzvah so I had steak there..."
Too often they get tempted to stray from their diet, go on a binge, shrug, and say, "Well, tomorrow I'll start." You can read  about
this in my book "Overcoming Compulsive Habits", which discusses all the  copouts there are.

DIFFICULTIES DUE TO HUMANS' VARYING NUTRITIONAL RESERVES - EXAMPLE B12
..... Unlike mice - whose deficiencies show up immediately - a human can go for many years before he uses up his reserves
and his body begins to deteriorate.
Consider the B12 factor. It's been discovered that human beings can function five or more years without getting B12. They are
living on their reserves. Then, after five years, some people will start to develop symptoms. Others can degenerate and
completely  break down in five years. But many can last for up to ten years.....

DIFFICULTIES DUE TO DECEPTIVE FEELINGS OF WELL -BEING ON CERTAIN DIETS
..... There are other reasons for a deceptive feeling of well -being. Even if you practice a regimen for a year or two you might feel
good simply because you are stimulated from an increased sugar content in the diet, as in fruitarianism. You get on a kind of
high. You say, "Wow, this is a paradise diet. I'm in heaven. This is the way to live!" You follow the diet happ ily and then, wham,
you run into a vitamin deficiency, your health falls apart, and you can't reverse it anymore. This is a danger in fruitariani sm.....

LUIGI CORNARO LIVED L02 YEARS
If you follow a minimal diet you can achieve super nutrition. Let's look at Luigi Cornaro, a man who at age 35 was weak, sick,
and dying. Click here for the continued story.

TEST STARTS
Not surprisingly, I decided to begin with a test of the fruitarian diet. Additionally, a prominent educator was writing that the
fruitari an diet was the ultimate diet of man, that man is a fruitarian by nature, and that we shouldn't even eat vegetables. I said
to myself, "Okay, let's see what the mice have to say.".....

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WITH FRUITARIANISM
Now I had tried to be a fr uitarian myself for two years when I was in my early thirties. I followed the teachings of Arnold Ehret,
and I ran into problems such as inflammation of my gums, some loosened teeth, a noticeable paleness and weight loss from
170 to 140 pounds. I lived as a fruitarian for two years with very little cheating. I had always attributed my failure as a total
fruitarian to the fact that I didn't have enough willpower. It wasn't until my mice experiments thirty years later that I rea lized the
cheating saved my life.

MICE AND THE FRUITARIAN DIET
I put a group of mice on a fruitarian diet. But they didn't seem to be eating very much fruit, and they certainly weren't cra zy
about it......
..... When I returned them to the fruitarian diet, after the second day they  started the cannibalistic behavior again. They grabbed
another young mouse and this time they ate it. The poor thing. I saw it happen. I was shocked. I'd never seen anything like t his.
"What happened here?" I asked myself.
I had given them a fruitarian di et, a diet that some natural health practitioners fervently believe in. Then I added corn, then
avocado, foods that fruitarians are not supposed to include, and still I ran into trouble. It really scared me to witness wha t had
happened to my mice. I worrie d then and still worry about people who attempt to be fruitarians.

DEFICIENCIES FROM FRUITARIAN DIET
..... To relate the results to humans, this trial seemed to indicate that after being a fruitarian for the human equivalent o f three
months, humans would show deficiencies and imbalances and health problems. My results suggested that if a fruitarian lived
strictly without cheating he would be able to do so for three months before deficiencies began to show. But since the average
fruitarian cheats, he doesn' t know the diet doesn't work. If he didn't cheat, after three months his body would start breaking
down. He wouldn't necessarily die, but problems would start to develop.
I immediately added greens, lettuce leaves, and carrot tops. I was stunned by this ex perience. I determined that the cause of
death was due to protein deficiencies, mineral deficiencies, and possible sugar poisoning from the excess fruit. This shocked
me. I became so disillusioned that I stopped fruit in all the cages. I had about five cag es at the time with about 150 mice. From
there on no mice got fruit anymore. Only later, after many months, equivalent of several human years, did I gradually re -
introduce a little fruit

LOOKING FOR A CANCER DIET
Then I began another diet. At the time I was looking for a nutritional approach to cancer. I was also looking for a diet that had
everything the body needed but was close to a fast for those people who couldn't fast. For example, people who were
emaciated, people who had a fear of fasting, or wha tever.


 percentage of the total gross deformities
ever develop to menace society. Harris quotes Mall: (14)
   He estimated from the records of 100,000 pregnancies that there were 80,572 normal births,
11,765 abortions of normal embryos and early monsters, and 615 monsters born at term. Thus at
term 1 child in 132 is born with some anatomical defect. For each such case appearing at term, 12
others died and were aborted during pregnancy.
    These data deal with gross defects involving physical deficiencies in the infant and indicate that
the defects that are produced in the formative period, which are less severe than the above, are not
recognizable at birth and may not be until long afterwards. According to Harris, "During the fourth
week of embryonic life the head, brain and spinal cord are most susceptible to adverse
conditions." He traces the sensitive areas of the various structures through the various weeks in the
embryonic history. The deformities of the face among the primitive races which I have illustrated
extensively frequently are not revealed until the eruption of the permanent dentition and the
development of the adult features. While it is true that many children show deformity in facial7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 226/250development even in babyhood and childhood, those individuals are usually much more seriously
injured when the adult face is developed.
    Bloom (15)  has presented the anatomical and histological characteristics of a defective born to a
mother fifty-one years of age, whose general health was reported as good. The infant's facial
pattern was markedly divergent from normal and practically no brain tissues had been formed. This
expression of an extreme injury was entirely beyond that with which we are concerned in the study
of the mental and the moral cripples who constitute an increasing part of our society. This is
presented to emphasize Nature's inexorable requirement that each parent shall be individually
physically fit for the responsibility of producing the next generation. Several primitive races studied
have realized this responsibility.
    There are some phases of modern physical degeneration in which most of us take part with
remarkable complacency. We would consider it a great misfortune and disgrace to burn up the
furniture in our homes to provide warmth, if fuel were available for the collection. This is precisely
what we are doing with our skeletons by a process of borrowing, simply because we fail to
provide new body repairing material each day in the food. You are all familiar with the tragic
misfortune that overtakes so many elderly people through the accident of a broken hip or other
fractured bone. Statistics show that approximately 50 per cent of fractured hips occurring in
people beyond 65 years of age never unite. We look upon this as one of the inevitable
consequences of advancing age. In Chapter 15 I have referred to the small boy whose leg was
broken when he fell in a convulsion while walking across the kitchen floor. That bone did not
break because the blow was hard but because the minerals had been borrowed from the inside by
the blood stream in order to maintain an adequate amount of the minerals, chiefly calcium and
phosphorus in the blood and body fluids. He had been borrowing from his skeleton for months
because due to a lack of vitamins he could not absorb even the minerals that were present in the
inadequate food that he was eating. The calcium and the phosphorus of the milk were in the
skimmed milk that he was using but he needed the activators of the butter-fat in order to use the
minerals. Simply replacing white bread with these activators and the normal minerals and vitamins
of wheat immediately checked the convulsions.
    We have many other expressions of this borrowing process. Much of what we have thought of
as so-called pyorrhea in which the bone is progressively lost from around the teeth thus allowing
them to loosen, constitutes one of the most common phases of the borrowing process. This tissue
with its lowered defense rapidly becomes infected and we think of the process largely in terms of
that infection. A part of the local process includes the deposit of so-called calculus and tartar about
the teeth. These contain toxic substances which greatly irritate the flesh starting an inflammatory
reaction. Many primitive peoples not only retain all of their teeth, many of them to an old age, but
also have a healthy flesh supporting these teeth. This has occurred in spite of the fact that the
primitives have not had dentists to remove the deposits and no means for doing so for themselves.
Note particularly the teeth of the Eskimos. The teeth are often worn nearly to the gum line and yet
the gum tissue has not receded. Many of these primitive groups were practically free from the
affection which we have included in the general term of pyorrhea or gingivitis. Pyorrhea in the light
of our newer knowledge is largely a nutritional problem. While nutrition alone often will not be
adequate for correcting it, when established practically no treatment will be completely adequate
without reinforcing the nutrition in so far as deficient nutrition has been a contributing factor.
Nutrition plus the frequent removal of deposits, plus suitable medication will check and prevent
pyorrhea but not correct the damage that has already been done. The elements that are chiefly
needed in our nutrition are those that I have outlined as being particularly abundant in the menus as
used by several of the primitive races. These are discussed in detail in Chapter 15.
    Another important aspect of this problem of borrowing has to do with the progressive shrinking
of the skeleton as evidenced by the shortening of the stature. I have measured many individuals
who have lost from two to six inches in height in a decade or two. I have seen a few individuals
who have lost as much as ten inches of their height by this process of borrowing from the skeleton.
Our bodies need a certain amount of fresh minerals every day with which to manufacture blood.7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 227/250The days that these minerals are not provided in the foods they will be taken from our storage
depots, the skeleton.
    A particularly tragic phase of this problem of borrowing from the bone is seen in growing girls
and is chiefly due to their ambition to avoid enlargement of their bodies to keep down their weight.
The girls deprive themselves of body building material at a time when their bodies are growing and
are requiring considerable new mineral. Forming bone has a prior claim on minerals, which is
sufficiently commanding to induce the individual to borrow from bones that are already formed to
provide for the necessary lengthening and growth. By this process many of the bones of the body
are softened, particularly the bones of the spine. Curvatures develop, one of the expressions of
which may be round or stooped shoulders.
    Among primitive races this type of girl, so commonly seen in our modern civilization, is absent.
Probably not one of these girls has ever suspected the suffering and sorrow that is being stored up
for future life as a result of this bad management at a critical time in her development. Fig. 134
illustrates one of the tragedies of this borrowing process. Practically all of these physical evidences
of degeneration can be prevented and fortunately many of them can be relieved in large part with
an adequate nutrition. Even ununited fractures often can be induced to unite by an adequate
reinforcement of the nutrition. This is true not only for young people but for elderly people as well.
    In addition to the problems growing out of physical injuries through lack of development before
birth, which express themselves as facial and other deformities, there is increasing need for concern
for physical handicaps entailed in underdevelopment of the hips. The difficulty encountered at
childbirth in our modern civilization has been emphasized by Dr. Kathleen Vaughan (16)  of London.
In her book, "Safe Childbirth," she states that faults of development more than race modify pelvic
shape. In the Foreword to her book, Dr. Howard A. Kelly, Professor Emeritus of Gynaecological
Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, says:
    Dr. Vaughan presents such an array of facts and data that the book must impress every
reader. It is of vital importance that her conclusions be considered, for in my opinion our
methods of bringing up our girls and the habits of our women with many of the customs of
'civilized' life must be radically readjusted.
This important work should be made available for reference in the school libraries of the United
States. Further data from it are presented in Chapter 21.
    The great contrast in discomfort and length of time of the labor of modern mothers is to be
contrasted with ease of childbirth among primitive mothers. Many workers among the primitive
races have emphasized the vigorous health and excellence of the infant at birth. We have here,
therefore, emphasis on the need in the interest of the infant that the mother shall have an easy and
short labor. Both of these factors are directly influenced by the vitamin content of the mother's
body as supplied by her nutrition and also by the physical development of her body if her mother
at the time of gestation and prior to conception had adequate vitamins in her food to insure perfect
germ cells.
    The sensitivity of the brain to injury resulting from medication given the mother has been
emphasized by Dr. Frederic Schreiber of Detroit. In his paper before the American Medical
Association meeting in San Francisco, June, 1938, he was quoted as saying (17) that the analysis
showed that 72 per cent of the children had shown difficulty in breathing at the time of birth or in
the first


 was one of the 150,000
individuals lucky enough to find Dr. Kelley's book, Winning the Cancer War,  and
one of the only 33,000 to actually go on the program. Today, in 1997, he is healthy,
cancer-free and living in California with his wife and three children. Scott's
experience changed the lives of each member of our family.
For me, the effect appeared when I  was older. Around the age of 19, I  began to
experiment with various diets. I  would cross-reference my overall sense of energy
and my performances in running 10 kilometers to the diets I  used, always allowing at
least 90 days between any changes. What I  found should come as no surprise to
anyone: When I  consumed a largely uncooked vegetarian diet, eliminated alcohol
consumption and drank plenty of fresh squeezed juices, my 10K running times and
subsequent recovery periods were shorter than when I  used a diet of more meat and
cooked foods. In other words, my body worked better on simple fuels from nature.
For the greatest majority of us, we are born in perfect health. Our health and
aging process after birth is largely influenced by genetics, culture, geography and, of
course, the foods and liquids we consume. These things are all that distinguish who
will grow to be strong and who will grow weak. Why is it some people can live lives
of smoking and poor diet and live to be 90 and others are susceptible to ill health
and disease while living a relatively healthy lifestyle? The fact is, regardless of
outward physical appearance some people w ill become cancer victims and some
apparently likely candidates won't. It is simply human nature that some bodies are
innately stronger and more resistant than others are. As adult individuals, we have
only one variable, which is in our total control: Our diets.
The difference in lifestyle that you have led and your ancestry three generations
removed is remarkable. We live in a world where air pollution is a daily occurrence;
we work in jobs that are demanding in time, tolerance and ability to change and
adapt. We struggle to balance our career, family, spiritual, emotional and social lives,
and, yet as a society we have largely failed to intelligently consider the fuel, which
runs this remarkable human body. Fuels that provide peak performance and keep our
internal operating systems running properly.
When we are young, we feel invincible, immortal. Some of us develop habits
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and patterns in early adult life that prove detrimental later on. We eat too much dead
food, drink too much alcohol, smoke cigarettes and take prescription drugs for any
little perceived ill — all the while wrongly trusting that the regulatory bodies of
society will look out for our health.
Well, let me tell you, in the words of a great songwriter: "I read the news today
— oh boy."
Against the advice of leading doctors and scientists across the country, FDA
commissioner Dr. Kessler approved the fat substitute 'Olestra' for public
consumption. Doctors across the country from John Hopkins to Harvard Medical
warned against the possible fall-out from introducing this synthetic fat into the
American diet for reasons which have been well published in the media, (see
Appendix II). Interestingly most of the warning comes from the academic side of the
medical science community. Why do you suppose that is? I'll tell you...
I  have believed for a long time that the American Medical Complex and the
Consumer Food and Beverage Industrial Complex have little interest in the prevention
of disease. It makes far better business sense to let the population eat, drink and
smoke to their heart's content and then offer seemingly high tech and expensive
methods for cleaning up the aftermath. In the United States, the food industry alone
generates 500 billion dollars in sales: Bacon, eggs, milk, fast food franchises, soft
drinks, fried food, dead food, overcooked food, sweets, treats and canned goods. We
have gotten away from simple diets and become human garbage disposals. Sixty
percent of the American public is overweight. Clearly the large food conglomerates
are successfully marketing to an oblivious public.
After feeding your body with dead and processed foods for 20, 30, 40 or more
years, things begin to run less perfectly. We have overlooked the processing energy
required to digest bacon and eggs each morning, that steak in the evening and the
cocktails in between. The result is the current health crisis where one in three will
have cancer in their lifetimes — not to mention heart disease.
But instead of educating the public on how our bodies function best, the medical
establishment chooses instead to clean out those arteries with drugs and catheters,
perform by-pass surgery or cut the problem out (or off) altogether. To be fair, the
American medical community has done some wonderful things and made
outstanding progress in the last 45 years. But it is simply not in their best interest to
prevent disease. They are in the business of treating disease. This is where the money
is: Surgery, MRI, radiation, chemotherapy, research and examinations. The doctors
don't want a disease-fee society any more than lawyers want a perfectly honest one.
This booklet is intended to provide an alternative view to conventional medicine
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in regard to 20th Century disease — to profess prevention in healthy people and
educate those who are ill. The human body is the most incredible of discoveries.
Perhaps it receives so little consideration because we all get one upon entering into
this life. We take it for granted until it cries out to us. Read this book and incorporate
everything in it you can into your lifestyle. Listen to your heart and the voice within
you and seek the advice of a trusted physician. On that note, a word of caution:
There are doctors who hold Dr. Kelley in high esteem and those who see him as a
threat. Be prepared to encounter one or the other. The open-minded ones tend to be
the former.
Finally Dr. Kelley was aggressively persecuted and oppressed during his years of
treating cancer patients. His success was unparalleled in conventional medicine.
Personally, both my brother and my chiropractor went to him; both were resolved of
their disease. Dr. Kelley has been forbidden to advise cancer victims and this book
must carry with it a warning to all, that it is not intended to be a cure, but rather a
program to be used in conjunction with the guidance of your own physician for the
resolution of degenerative disease. As the writer of this preface, I  can say that the
truth of Dr. Kelley's paradigm is both preventive and healing. I  wish you God's speed
and hope that the truth w ill set you free.
Greg Stirling,
Vancouver, British Columbia
March 1997
viii
Foreword
Health is a wonderful possession. It does not last forever, although most of
us assume it will. It is not until we lose our health that we seek diligently to
regain it. Often it is too late, and always too expensive.
It is the purpose of Dr. Kelley is to help those who desire and are willing to work
for their better health. It is ever the objective of Dr. Kelley to point out the metabolic
deficiencies in the metabolism of each person who has the malfunction, not to treat
the disease that has the person.
It is our desire to advise, teach, and counsel a person in such a way that he and
he alone is responsible for his or her health. A doctor cannot "cure" you of anything.
If you have a broken arm, the physician may set it — but only you — your own body
— may "cure" or heal the break. Of course, during your lifetime you w ill need the
help of many in the healing professions: The dentist, the osteopath, the chiropractor,
the naturopath, the biochemist, the nutritionist, and last but not least, the spiritual
counselor. Although these experts may give you aid, you must assume the
responsibility of accepting and following their advice.
In researching some of the more complex disease processes, it became more and
more evident to us that cancer is a simple deficiency condition. We have proven this
to our own satisfaction, and to the satisfaction of many counselees.
This publication is a simplified, condensed, practical application of our
investigations and findings. We present these findings because there have been so
many prayers unto God for a solution to this simple problem.
To successfully resolve cancer, however simple, is a tedious and lengthy
metabolic process. It is not expensive as compared to the "accepted" surgical,
radiological, or chemotherapy methods, and has proven very effective.
It is our desire that this booklet be a helpful aid to many who are themselves or
have lost loved ones afflicted with malignancy.
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In tro d u c tio n
A comprehensive defense program must recognize the existence of more than one
potential enemy. Metabolic Medicine can handle other enemies besides cancer. It is,
in fact, a lifestyle for peace or war — one that can keep you in an ideal state of
readiness.
Over the last 42 years or so, the medical profession and the medical community
have progressed to unprecedented heights and achievements in areas of
reconstruction and surgical procedure. They have worked hard and deserve every bit
of the respect and honor they receive. They have done remarkably well in applying
technological advances to their profession.
The medical community has centered its energies and advancement on the
infectious and traumatic cases. It has


 starches. So, in addition
to all the allergies, the ulcer, diverticulitis, other gas
trointestinal problems, pancreatitis, and occasional gall
bladder attacks, there were actually very few things I
could eat.When I occasionally went to a restaurant, the
only thing I could safely eat was lettuce in a salad. I
could not eat the tomatoes because the seeds might 57 ASSISTING HEALING
aggravate the diverticulitis, which had required hospi
talization and blood transfusions in the past. I was also
fIfty pounds overweight. (I will later describe how I.
handled that problem.)
From one end to the other, things were wrong with
the gastrointestinal tract; the circulatory system; the
digestive system; the hormonal balance; the blood
chemistries, including elevated blood cholesterol and
uric acid levels; and migraine headaches. All these
things indicated stress and pressure within the central
nervous system and impairment of the autonomic
nervous system. Additionally, I had a pilonidal cystic
tumor, which normally would require surgery, but it
slowly disappeared spontaneously.
Later, I went into severe heart failure from undiag
nosed Grave's disease (hyperthyroidism) for which sur
gery or radiation was prescribed, but I refused. Chest x
rays revealed a tumor in the apex of the right lung.The
lung was biopsied, resulting in its collapse and pneu
mothorax (the collection of air or gas in the space sur
rounding the lungs). The biopsy revealed that the
lesion was a form of aviary (bird) tuberculosis (non
communicable to humans). I refused to take the recom
mended $10,OOo-per-month's worth of five antibiotics,
which had a low cure rate anyway. The lung lesion
slowly disappeared with no physical treatment. The
heart failure cleared up, as did the pneumothorax. The
thyroid function eventually returned to normal with
out surgery or radiation. In addition to the above, the
left thumb was amputated while I was doing carpentry
work and was repaired in surgery without anesthesia,
as was a recurrent right inguinal hernia, also without 58 HEALING AND RECOVERY
anesthesia. The chronic recurrent, intractable duodenal
ulcers disappeared after three acupuncture treatments.
All the above illnesses and surgeries were
processed and handled as described by letting go of
resisting in every instant, canceling the belief systems,
and totally surrendering to Divine Will. All healing was
accomplished without narcotics or anesthesia. The
whole series of illnesses was consequent to karmic
proclivities that were surfaced by intense inner spiritual
work, which speeded up their emergence initially but
later facilitated their seemingly miraculous healing and
disappearance.
Mental systems had to be questioned to fmd out
what was going on because it was obvious that a per
son with so many illnesses could hardly be said to be
free of conflict. I began to study my perfectionism and
see how this tendency, which allowed me to forgive
others but did not allow me to forgive myself, was cre
ating an intolerance ofmy own humanness.As you can
see, to be intolerant and condemn and attack all these
things within oneself produces unconscious guilt
about one's own human limitations.
The origin of this mental proclivity began in child
hood in the form of moral scrupulosity and fear of sin.
I had to move to a willingness to accept, love, and for
give my own humanness, acknowledge that it was only
human to have imperfect feelings, and to let go of
attacking myself for being human. Therefore, I had to
look into the essence of seeing what is the inner core
and essence of one's humanness. This took me to the
awareness of the intrinsic innocence within conscious
ness itself. I then had to look at the nature of conscious59 ASSISTING HEALING
ness. How does the child, in its innocence and lack of
negativity, end up with so many programs within the
mind to create all these illnesses?
We can find the answer when we look at the nature
of innocence and track what happens to it in the child.
The child's innocence might also be compared to the
hardware of a computer. The hardware is innocent, and
it is the software that goes through the hardware, cre
ating the output. However, the hardware is not affected
by the software itself.We look at the child and see the
innocence of its consciousness. How does all the nega
tive programming come in to the innocent child? It
comes in because of innocence; the child believes any
thing it is told.
It is out of its lovingness and trust of its parents, its
teachers, and the world of television, commercials, and
society that the child becomes programmed. The inno
cence ofthe child becomes progressively less apparent
because it is now displaying all the programs it has
picked up out of that primary innocence. It starts to
believe the prejudices of its parents and playmates,
such as little sly remarks like, "We don't play with cer
tain kinds ofpeople."What buys that negative program?
It is the innocence of the child, which remains within
our consciousness throughout our life. It is always
going on. It is out of that innocence that we buy into
error, but the inner innocence itself is unsullied. We
have to go back into the recognition of that inner inno
cence in order to forgive ourselves as well as others.
That inner innocence allows us to learn anything
new:The innocence ofthe child never changes; in fact, it
is the innocence of the child within you that is reading 60 HEALING AND RECOVERY
these words this very second. It never changes; it is that
same trusting, believing, and 'hoping to hear the truth
and be open to it' innocence that continues. Even ifyou
do not believe what you are reading now, it is because
some opposite program within your mind says, "Don't
trust."And it was your innocence that bought the pro
gram of"Don't trust anybody:'
Even the mistrusting person is doing so out oftrust.
They are trusting the truth of that statement. Maybe
one day their father said, "Don't trust anybody out
there," and it was their innocence that bought the dis
trust. Yet the innocence itself is unsullied and
untouched because it never changes. It is the inherent
nature of consciousness itself. It is the hardware of the
computer, and no matter how many negative thoughts
were heard, the programs that are played through the
mind do not affect the hardware, leaving it untouched,
unsullied, pristine, and pure.That inner pristine purity
is still within all of us.
That bring us to compassion because we now see
how we picked up programs as we grew up in youth
or adolescence. For example, we do not want to admit
that we have negative thoughts, feelings, or even fear,
or that we have desire or feelings of loss, regret, or
hopelessness. These are not acceptable.The self-hatred
and guilt then accumulate from the constant rejection
. ofour own humanness. As a result,we have to move to a
better, healing way of being with ourself. It is easy to do
by merely choosing to be compassionate and forgiving.
The decision came to me to be that way about
myself, the same as I was about others, because ifI am
that way about myself, then automatically I am that way 61 ASSISTING HEALING
about others.That which I forgive in others I automat
ically forgive in myself because all I am seeing out
there is myself projected into the world.
With the undoing of all this negativity and the
replacement of the low negative energies by a positive
energy, we begin to experience the world, ourselves,
and our relationship to life in a different way.We begin
to experience an inner joyfulness as a result ofour will
ingness to let go of condemning ourself and others.
This then becomes a habit and the way we are in the
world. Intention to be a source of healing to ourself
and others sets up a context.
What does context mean? Intention sets up con
text. Our intention to be this kind of person then sets
up the whole energy of our consciousness and aligns it
so that we begin to see things that way. In other words,
there is an actual alteration of perception. We literally
begin to see the world through forgiving, healing, and
compassionate eyes. We are not talking about sympa
thy, which is in the lower energy fields; we are talking
about a lovingness as an inner decision to be that kind
of human being towards ourself and others. There is
the willingness to let go of being critical, along with
our moraliZing 'right and wrong' attitude that occurs
when we polarize ourselves with others by saying,"My
position is right and your position is wrong."
Because the body expresses what the mind
believes, this decision then begins to affect the body.
We can track down the mechanics of that with muscle
testing.When we hold a loving thought in mind or pic
ture somebody in a loving way, our arm is strong when


titled The Root Canal Cover-Up,8 exposing the facts originally discovered and recorded by Dr.
Weston Price.
Dr. Meinig explains that there are two factors behind the actual damage caused by root canal
fillings. One is that removing the nerve of a tooth leaves that tooth dead. No nutrients can enter
it via the canules ( the equivalents of capillaries in other tissues), nor can metabolic residues
be released from it. However, the now empty canules fill with germs and viruses, which then
penetrate the jawbone and can in time cause severe infectious bone damage. Toxins from these
infections are released into the blood stream, causing an almost permanent poisoning.
Unfortunately even deep bone infections with resulting cavitations (hollowed out bone)  do
not cause pain, so that frequently the patient is not aware of having a problem. Even a standard
dental X-ray doesn’t show the bone damage; only the new ‘panoramic’ dental X-rays are able to
do that. The only solution is to remove the offending tooth and clear infectious material from the
cavitation, which allows the hollowed-out bone to heal.
If a dentist discovers an abscess at the tip of the root of a tooth, he or she will urge the patient
to have a root canal treatment done. DO NOT AGREE. The filling used in the canal eventually
shrinks a tiny bit, allowing germs and viruses to enter via the canules, which become conduits for
the invaders, causing much trouble. The dentist will assure you that the filling material currently
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www.thegersonway.comof the dead tooth, the germ-filled canules, and a constant focus of infection active within the
organism. So, rather than having the root canal treated, regretfully that tooth has to be extracted.
Beside root canals there are many other dental problems, such as receding gums, gum
infections, cavities, etc., that are easily detected and corrected. These should be cleared, so that no
oral infections can interfere with the healing process. Once we have understood the unbreakable
unity of the organism, it becomes clear how an unresolved and ignored dental problem can cause
serious damage in some other part of the body.
Mercury fillings should never be used. There is much information and research material
proving the damage caused by releasing small amounts of mercury into the system by chewing,
drinking, swallowing. These small but continuously released amounts of what is a potent nerve
toxin are also absorbed by the lungs and the linings of the digestive system into the bloodstream,
leading to severe harm. Despite the mass of scientific research material confirming this risk, some
dentists and the American Dental Association (ADA) vociferously claim that mercury is perfectly
safe once installed in the tooth. It is not. These days there are various minimally toxic inert filling
materials available to deal with cavities.
Crowns are another problem. A crown must never be fitted over a mercury filling, nor should
gold be used if there is any mercury—also known as silver amalgam—present in other parts of
the mouth. Between those two metals a tiny mild electric current is generated, which is capable
of interfering with the enzymes and other factors of pre-digestion that are active in the mouth. If
a crown is necessary, it should be made from other materials, such as plastic or porcelain.
Dental anesthesia needs to be handled with care. When the body is well detoxified, it becomes
more sensitive to any toxins, including anesthesia used by dentists to overcome the pain of dental
work. It is extremely important that a Gerson patient should tell his/her dentist the following,
prior to the use of anesthesia drugs:
  •  To use no more than one third to one half of the normal dose,
  •  To use no epinephrine in compounding the drug,
  •  To start the treatment immediately (the effect wears off quickly.)
Upon returning from the dentist’s office, the patient should take a coffee enema, whether or
not one is scheduled for that time. Any additional pain is likely to be cleared by another coffee
enema.
NOTE: If the dentist avises the patient to take a dose of antibiotics, this must not be refused.
A dental infection can be very serious and even become life-threatening.
Case Histories: We have several patient reports of dramatic improvements after the removal
of root canal treated teeth. One breast cancer patient using the Gerson Therapy was making slow
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www.thegersonway.comprocess, he had her examined by a dentist. Indeed, a cavitation was found and cleared, and the
infected tooth removed. Subsequently the remaining breast tumor tissue was rapidly absorbed,
she recovered and remained well for many years.
In another case a young woman, married to an athlete and hoping for children, conceived
readily but suffered three miscarriages in a row. A full examination of her teeth disclosed a far
advanced cavitation in her jawbone. When the offending tooth was extracted and the infection in
her jawbone was cleaned up, shortly afterwards she had three normal pregnancies.
A father wrote to us to say that he was impressed by the report, published in our Newsletter,
on the damage caused by root canal treated teeth. It caused him to arrange a dental examination
for his son who had been suffering from schizophrenia for several years, without being helped by
the drug treatment he had received. When the young man’s teeth were checked and a root canal
filled tooth was removed, he gradually recovered and needed no further medication.
Fibromyalgia
This chronic condition is another eloquent example of the many kinds of ill-health caused
by the toxic condition of the body. Fibromyalgia causes severe chronic pain in muscles and
soft tissues surrounding joints. Efforts to control it with anti-inflammatories, including cortico-
steroids, have not been helpful, nor has any effective treatment been found for it so far. Pain
relieving drugs are used to help the patients sleep.
According to the conservative estimate of the National Fibromyalgia Research Association,
6 million people in the U.S. suffer from this disease.
In our experience, fibromyalgia is basically a toxic condition, caused by the combined impact
of polluted air and water, poisonous chemical residues in agricultural produce, and food additives
used in processed foods. There comes a point where the body can no longer excrete these harmful
substances; in order not to overload the liver and to keep the toxins ( enzyme inhibitors)  from
interfering with the functions of the essential organs, it releases them into the muscles and soft
tissues. Once there, the toxic irritants cause pain, which eventually becomes almost unbearable.
Like all conditions resulting from a high degree of toxicity in the body, fibromyalgia yields
very promptly to the organic, vegetarian, toxin-free diet of the Gerson Therapy, combined with
intensive detoxification via the coffee enemas. We have seen some cases in which it took only a
few days to ease and then banish the pain, enabling the patient to resume normal activity. In more
advanced cases, aggravated by the use of many pain relieving drugs, and also with bedridden
patients, it takes possibly several weeks to obtain lasting pain relief and healing.
We recall with wry amusement the experience of a seriously ill, mostly bedridden lady, who
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www.thegersonway.comseveral years and had eventually found the physician who was regarded as the top authority of
that condition. However, he himself was suffering from an advanced case of fibromyalgia and
was unable to help her. On the contrary: on one occasion, when she called him after a particularly
painful, miserable night, he replied to her complaint by saying, “Y ou are telling me!”
Part III
It must be remembered that despite its great healing potential in so many areas of ill health,
the Gerson Therapy is no panacea, and that there are conditions in which it can heal only partially
or not at all. There are sound reasons why the high-powered twin Gerson methods of hyper-
alimentation and detoxification don’t work under some circumstances, and in this chapter we set
them out briefly in two sections.
Diseases Difficult to Cure with the Gerson Therapy:
Brain Cancer:  We have seen total long-term recoveries of brain cancer cases—but also
failures. The problem is not the cancer itself, but the location of the tumor. In the course of a
healing reaction the body almost always produces an inflammation, which in itself is desirable,
since inflammation fluid usually destroys tumor tissue. However, it also causes swelling in regular
tissue. But a


 or failure of cells, tissues, organs
and glands. Let your foods be your health and medicine, not the cause of
your disease. Now let’s discuss the differences between these two food types.
ALKALINE-FORMING FOODS

I compare alkaline foods to winter. They cool and soothe inflamed tissues,
heal ulcerations and enhance cellular functions. These foods leave mainlycalcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium ash after they have been
digested, yielding mainly an alkaline reaction and condition.
The human is predominately an alkaline species. Most of our bodily
fluids are (or should
be) alkaline, including the blood, saliva, urine, synovial
fluids, cerebral fluids and the digestive enzymes (except those in the
stomach). If these fluids become acidic, deterioration and death can result.
We have only one acid chamber in the body, the stomach. Here proteins are
initially broken apart. Your mouth, pancreatic and intestinal enzymes are used
for alkaline digestion.
It is vital to consume alkaline-forming foods if you want the
detoxification process to take place. Alkalization is the key to your success at
regenerating yourself and getting healthy. A good example of the importance
of alkalization is found in emergency medicine. In hospital Emergency
Rooms, or with other on-the-spot emergency treatments, one is almost always
given an IV with normal saline, which is a sodium solution. Sodium is called
“the great alkalizer.” This helps reverse acidosis, the main reason we get into
trouble in the first place. Acidosis equals pain, swelling and inflammation.
Raw fruits and vegetables act the same way that normal saline works, but
are much more energizing and nutritional. You cannot alkalize yourself
properly if you do not consume raw, ripe, living foods. Alkaline foods, like
fresh fruits and vegetables, are the natural food of humans. You should eat at
least 80-90 percent alkaline-forming foods.
ACID-FORMING FOODS

I compare acid foods to fire. Acid foods are high in sulfur, phosphorus and
nitrogen. They are mainly protein (amino-acid-rich) foods. These foods
include all meats, eggs, grains, beans, nuts, seeds, pasteurized dairy products
and cooked tomatoes, to name a few.
Most animal protein foods are irritants to the mucosa and cells of the
body, invoking an immune response. This causes your lymphatic system and
mucosa to respond with mucus and lymph cells. Foreign proteins cause
mucus production all through the body, creating congestive issues. The more
we consume, the more congestion we create, and the more we create, the
more we store, until our lungs, sinus cavities, ear canals, and throat become
saturated. The intestines also become saturated with this mucus. This bringsparasites, increases white blood cells, and creates inflammation, all of which
affect the body’s ability to function properly. This congestion and
inflammation eventually leads to cellular death.
The clearest example of this congestion and inflammation problem is
seen with dairy products. These proteins are so abrasive to body tissues that
many people can feel their lungs, sinuses, ears and throat becoming
congested as they drink or eat these foods. Congestion will impair the
function of the tissues in these areas as the mucus is stored or pushed deeper
within the body. Much of this mucus and these toxins are stored or filtered
through the lymphatic system, especially in the lymph nodes. (Lymphatic
cancers are extremely high in the U.S.) The body is constantly trying to
eliminate this congestion through processes like colds and flus, bronchitis,
sneezing, and coughing. The conventional medical profession sees this effort
by the body to eliminate these toxins and mucus as “diseases” and tries to
stop this effect with toxic-chemical pharmaceuticals which only add to the
problem. These preparations suppress the body’s elimination of the mucus
and/or poisons. The immune system becomes suppressed and overworked as
it battles this tremendous insult to the body. Remember: what you don’t
eliminate, you accumulate. This eventually leads to chronic and degenerative
issues, not to mention simple boils or tumor masses.
Many people eat predominantly acid foods. Consequently, notice how
many types of inflammation (itis’s), ulcerations, congestive disorders, and of
course cancers dominate our world today. Because of the high nitrogen or
phosphorus content of these foods, we lose our calcium and other
electrolytes, as our body uses these alkaline minerals to buffer acid elements.
It is best to only have 10-20 percent of acid foods in your diet. Alkaline
foods should especially be eaten in the spring, summer and fall when
temperatures are warmer. In the cold alkaline winter, one should increase acid
foods somewhat. Remember, opposites attract, creating harmony. When it’s
hot (acid) outside, you need to consume cold (alkaline) foods, and vice versa.
You may wish to look ahead at the Alkaline/ Acid Food Chart now (see
Chapter 7
,
Module 7.2
).
 This chart will help you to know which foods are
which. This section also explains how the alkaline or acid nature of foods is
determined. Remember, because homo sapiens are an alkaline species, our
bodies are biologically suited for predominately alkaline-forming foods.
These foods will bring health and vitality, whereas acid-forming foods will
bring disease and despair. The choice is yours.
MODULE 6.5
What to Expect During Detox

It is not uncommon to experience many side effects during detoxification.
These include cold and flu-like symptoms, changes in bowel movements,
pains of various types, fevers, heartburn, lung congestion, energy loss,
swelling and itching, and even vomiting. In this section we will examine each
of these possible side effects. Sometimes we will suggest ways to help the
cleansing process along, or ways to alleviate the discomfort of this “healing
crisis” as it is called. In general, we encourage you to continue on through
these side effects in the direction of regeneration.
COLD AND FLU-LIKE SYMPTOMS

As the body begins to clean its lymphatic system, the sinus cavities, lungs and
most other body tissues will become active in the cleansing process.
Do not
stop this natural
 process. This is the only true way to increase the function
of your cells and to start your body on the path to regeneration.
You will begin to see a lot of mucus being discharged from the body.
This mucus can be clear, yellow, green, and even brown or black.
Occasionally you might find blood in the mucus. Don’t panic. This blood has
been there a while. Congestion is acidic and can cause inflammation and
bleeding of tissue. The throat can get very sore. This is just mucus and toxins
in the tissues trying to get out. It is best not to use cough drops. However, if
you must, use only natural cough drops, like those made with Slippery Elm.The effects of the cleansing process can range from very light (with just a
runny nose and minor coughing), to heavy, with deep bronchial and lung
expectoration. These deep-cleansing processes can become uncomfortable
and sometimes scary. Trust that the body knows what it is doing.
The body will eliminate through any orifice that will be beneficial to it,
including skin, ears, nose, mouth, kidneys and bowels. If you detoxify too
fast and you’re extremely toxic, the body
may even open (split) the skin and
push toxins out through the opening. An example of this was a patient who
detoxified so fast that her skin above the “belly button” opened up and a
small tumor popped out. I’ve seen quadriplegics, who develop a tremendous
amount of toxicity because of inactivity, go through the same experience. The
skin would open and pour toxins out.
The body can also feel achy all over. Relax. Conserve your energy so
your body will do a thorough job of cleaning itself. Welcome these “healing”
or “purging” processes. They are essential to well being. Sometimes it can
take several months to get your body to have such a response. Keep your
detoxification going.
Many people have accumulated sulfur from sulfa drugs, which are a
major inhibitor of the lymphatic system. This sulfur must come out of your
tissues before your lymphatic system can effectively and freely flow
properly. Since your lymph is the vehicle for your immune cells and the
sewer system for each cell in your body, you can see how important it is to
keep this system moving. Be patient and persevere. It will all be worth it as
you feel the life force surge through your body when it is clean.
The detoxification process will always take place as you increase energy
and alkalize your body. Allow the body to clean itself out.
CHANGES IN BOWEL MOVEMENTS

It is vital that you have at least one bowel movement per day; however, two
or three would be much better. Optimum bowel health means having a bowel
movement thirty minutes after you eat. Many people move unnaturally three
to six times or more per day from what is called IBS (irritable bowel
syndrome), a catch phrase for inflammation within the GI tract.
If you have stools that are too loose


 foot the day prior to her visit in our office. Overnigh t, the initial
pain grew worse and the foot became discolored and swollen. The patient
could walk only with difficulty. No fractures were present, but examination
revealed a two-plus edema, with tenderness and purpuric discoloration and
swelling over the dorsum of the foot. She had taken one fifteen-minute
Epsom salt bath treatment to the extremity.
Treatment consisted of castor oil packs to the foot twice daily for one
hour for the next four days. She was to use an elastic bandage on the foot
during this time. Examination on the fourth day revealed absence of all
tenderness, purpura nearly gone, and the swelling markedly decreased. She
had no more pain in the foot and she could walk without limp or dif ficulty.
Response was rated excellent to single therapy.
Case No. 63. A forty-one-yea r-old housewife  was seen in our office with
a compl aint of heaviness in the pelvis and a somewhat increased vaginal
dischar ge of several weeks’  duration. She gave the history of surgery for a
teratoma at age twenty and of passing a renal calculus three months prior to
her present visit. She stated that she frequently had episodes of vaginal
dischar ge, whitish in nature and not severe. Examination showed a normal
blood pressure and temperature. Pelvic examination revealed a yellowish-
white vaginal dischar ge to be present; the uterus was enlar ged and boggy
and tender on palpation. Diagnosis was chronic low-grade endometritis.
Hot sitz baths were suggested to be taken three times a week, at bedtime,
for twenty to thirty minutes. On alternate nights, the patient was instructed
to apply castor oil packs to her lower abdomen for a one-hour period before
retiring. This was to be continued for a four-week period. Cooperation by
the patie nt was excellent and the course of therapy was finished. She was
seen at the end of the four weeks and all the sensation of heaviness and
aching were gone. She no longer had the vaginal dischar ge. Examination
confirmed this; it also showed the uterus to be still just slightly enlarged and
slightly tender, but decreased in size and firm to palpation.
Response was rated excellent to combined therapy.Case No. 65. A twenty-five-year -old electrician presented himself with
complaints of pain in the right hand in the area of a puncture wound. Five
days prior a sliver of steel, lodged in the lateral aspect of the palm of the
right hand, had been removed. Pain began about three days after that.
Examination of the hand reveale d an infected puncture wound with an area
eight mm. in diameter of surrounding cellulitis. Diagnosis was infected
puncture wound of the right hand.
A soft flannel cloth soaked in castor oil was applied to the inflamed area
after being folde d once or twice. Then a plastic covering was placed over
this and then an elastic bandage was used with light tension around the
hand. The patien t was instructed to leave it in place for seventy -two hours.
When he was examined, all pain had stopped and the inflammation was
gone. The puncture wound had healed completely and the patient was
dischar ged. There was no recurrence. No other therapy was used.
Response was rated excellent to single therapy.
Case No. 68. A sixty-four -year-old railroad worker developed a swelling,
associated with tenderness, behind his left ear which grew gradually worse
until, after a week, he came to our office for treatment. Examination
revealed that a sebaceous cyst which had become inflamed and infected had
started to drain spontaneously. The adjacent tissues had also become
inflamed.
Treatment was a local castor oil pack applied over the involved area
behind the ear and instructions were to leave the pack on all night long
every night. He was seen two days later, and all tenderness and
inflammation were gone and no further treatment was needed.
Response was rated excellent to single therapy.
Case No. 71. A five-year -old boy, just about ready to start kinder garten,
was playing barefoot outside his home when he ran across an old plank of
wood and drove a four-inch-long sliver through the sole of his left foot. It
broke off and was removed by his parents who brought him into our office.
He was unable to put weight on his foot and complained of pain.
Examination revealed a through and through stab wound on the plantar
aspect of the left foot, with two puncture wounds identified. They were
bleeding only minimally. Examination showed no foreign bodies remaining
in the wound. Diagnosis was through and through puncture wound of left
foot.Aside from routine tetanus protection given to such injuries, the only
therapy used was castor oil packs, which were applied over the entire
plantar aspect of the left foot and used continuously—without the heating
pad most of the time—for forty-eight hours. All pain subsided rapidly, the
patient became completely ambulatory and complained of no difficulty of
any sort, and the wounds need ed no further care after the two days of
treatment.
Response was rated excellent to single therapy.
Case No. 74. A sixty-four -year -old pool maintenance man dropped a
sixty-seven-pound drum on the toes of his right foot. X-ray showed a
fracture of the tuft of the great toe and a fracture of the distal phalanx of the
second toe. There was much pain associated with the injury and any motion
or pressure to either toe was painful. Examination showed swelling of both
toes with rednes s and a subung ual (under the nail) hematoma on the great
toe. The nail was not removed because of the trauma and fracture already
present. The tissues of the great toe were markedly injured with much
swelling. Diagn osis was subungual hematoma secondary to fracture of tuft
of great toe.
Treatment consisted of castor oil pack to the great toe and to the second
toe twice daily for an hour and a half to be continued for two weeks. He
was given a soft slipper to wear on the affected foot and told not to bear
weight on it. The tenderness subsided rapidly; the hematoma was gone in
seven days; the patient was wearing his own shoes in ten days, at which
time all tenderness was gone; and he was dischar ged in fourteen days,
asymptomatic and with all swelling and tenderness gone.
Response was rated excellent to single therapy.
Case No. 76. A seventeen-yea r-old female high school senior was seen in
the office complaining of pain in her left arm as a result of injuring it during
physical education class earlier that day. She explained that she was doing
pull-ups when she suddenly experienced a sharp pain with rapid appearance
of swelling in the left forearm. Examination revealed swelling and marked
tenderness in the left forearm just distal to the antecubital space—the area
of the insertion of the biceps muscle at the tubercle of the radius and the
deep fascia of the forearm. Diagnosis was made of sprain of the left biceps
muscle at its radial insertion.The only treatment suggested was daily application of a castor  oil pack
over the entire proximal half of the left forearm and the elbow to be left on
all night  long and worn as much during the day as possible. She was seen in
three days and she stated that there had been a gradual disappearance of the
swelling and pain. Examination  showed all tenderness to be gone and all
swelling
OceanofPDF.comFootnotes
Chapter 1
  1. Tierra, Michael, The W ay of Herbs, Unity Press, Santa Cruz, Calif., 1980.
  2. McG arey, William A., Acupunctur e and Body Ener gies, Gabriel Press, Phoenix, Ariz., 1974,
p. 8.
Chapter 3
  3. Sugrue, Thomas, There Is a River, 3rd ed., Dell Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1964.
  4. Stearn, Jess, Edgar Cayce — The Sleeping Prophet,  Doubleday and Co., Garden City, N.Y.,
1967.
  5. All extrac ts from the Edgar Cayce readings are identified by number (e.g., 1836-1, the first
number representing  the individual for whom the reading was given and the second number
representing the number in the series given for that individual). The readings are available to the
public in the A.R.E. Library in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
  6. Millard, Joseph, Edgar Cayce: Man of Miracles, Neville Spearman, London, 1961.
Chapter 5
  7. Lee, Richard Y., The Singul ar Sadness  of Numerical Madness, Continuin g Educatio n, Sept.
1983.
Chapter 6
  8. McGarey, William A., Edgar Cayce and the Palma Christi, A.R.E. Press, Virginia Beach, Va.,
1967.
  9. McGarey, William A., The Edgar Cayce Remedies, Bantam Books, New York, N.Y., 1983.
10. A Sear ch for God, Book I, A.R.E. Press, Virginia Beach, Va., 1942, 1970.
11. New


  OF LIFE
to be dccidedly on  its way to a future climax.  But
whcn it gcts thcrc, it does not know what to do with
itself. Beethoven, I3rahms, and ·wagncr werc particu -
larly  guilty of working up to colossal climaxcs and
conclusions,  and then  blasting  away  at thc samc
chord over and ovcr again, ruining the moment by
bcing  rcluCLant  to lea ve it.
When each  momcnt bccomes ;rn  cxpectation  lifc
is dcprived  of fulfillment,  and dcath  is dreaded  for
it sccms that herc cxpectation must come to an end.
Whilc thcre is lifc thcrc is hopc -and i( onc lives on
hope, dcath is indeed thc encl. But to thc undivicled
mind, dcath is another momcnt, complete like evcry
mom ent, and cannot yicld its sccrct unlcss lived to
the full -

A11d  l laitl  me <1011111  with  a will.

Dcath is che epit0me of thc truth thac in cach mo-
ment wc are thrust into the unknown. Herc ali cling -
ing to security is compclled to ceasc, and wherever
thc past is dropped away and safety abandoned, life
is rencwed. Dcath is the unknown in which all of us
livcd  bcfore  birth.
Nothing is more crcativc than dcath, since it is the
whole  sccret  of li(e. I t mea ns that the pase must  be
abandoncd,  that  the unknown  cannot  be avoidcd,
that  "l" cannot continue, and  that  nothing can  be
ultimatcly  fixed.  \o\fhen  a man  knows  this,  he lives  for
117  THE  WISDOM  OF INSEClJRITY
the first  time  in his life. By holding  his breath,
he loses  it. By letting  it go he finds  it.
U11d so  lang tiu  das nichl
hast,  Dieses:  stírb  und
werde,
Bisl clu 11ur  ein trübcr  Gasl
Auf der dtmklen  Erde.  1

1 Gocthc,  We,t -ostlicher  1Jiva11.  "As long  as you do not know
huw  10 die and come to life again. you are but a sorry travcler
on this  dark  canh."
118

V I 11. C RE A T I V E f  O R AL 1T Y

IT IS PERHAPS  A l'ARAOOX  TO TALK  ABOUT  CREATIVE
morality.  For "morality"  is derived  from a word
meaning custom and convemion, and the
regulation  of life by rules. But morality has also
come to mean  the working of lovc in human
rclations, and in this  sensc wc can speak of a
morality which is creative.  St. Augustinc
describcd itas, "Love, and do what you  will." Dut
the problem has always bcen how to!ove  what
you do not like.
lf morality is che art of living togcther, it is
clear  that rules, or rathcr techniques, have a
place in ic.  For many of the problems o[ a
community are tech - nical problems -the
distribution of wcalth and popu - lation, the
proper managemcnt of natural rcsourccs,  thc
organization of family life, the carc o[ the sick
and disablcd, and the harmonious adaptation of
in- dividual  differences.
The moralist is therefore a technician who is
con- sultcd on thesc problems as one consults an
architect  on building a house or an enginecr on
erec1ing a  bridge. Likc medicine, shoe -making,
cookery, tailor - ing, farming, and carpentry, living
together rcquires  a ccrtain "know -how." le
demands the acquisition  and  use of certain
skills.
Dut the moralisc  has,  in practice,  bccomc
much
119 THE  WISDOM  OF INSECURITY
more than a technical consultant. He has become
a scold. From his pulpit or his slUdy he
harangues the  human  racc,  issuing  praise  and
blame -mostly blame
-likc fire from thc mouth of a dragon. For people
do not take his advicc. Thcy ask how it is best to
act under such -and-such circumstances. He tells
them,  and they secm to agree that he is right. But
then they  go away and do something different, for
thcy find his  advice too difficult or have a strong
desire to do the  oppositc. This happens so
regularly that the moralist  loses his temper and
begins to cal! them bad names.  Whcn this has no
effect, he resons to physical vio- lence,
implcmenting his ad vice with policemen, pun -
ishmencs,  and prisons.  For the community  is i L S own
moralist. lt elccts and pays judges, policemen,
and preachers, as if to say, ··when I am difficult,
please  kick  me."
At first sight the problem seems to boíl down
to this: Morals are for avoiding an unfair
distribution  of pleasure and pain. This means
that  sorne indi - viduals must get less pleasure
and more pain. As a rule, these individuals will
only submil to the sacri - f-ice under the thrcat of
still more pain if they do not  co-operate. This is
based on the assumption that  cvery man is for
himsclf, and observes the interests  of che
community only to the extent that thcse are
obviously  his own  intereses.
From  this,  moralists  have  evolved  the theory
that
man  is basically  selfish,  or that he has an inherent
bias
120  CREATIVE  MORALlTY
towards evil. The "natural" man lives for one
motive:  to protect his body from pain and to
associate it with  pleasure. I3ecause he can only feel
with bis own body,  he has littlc interest in the
feelings of other bodies.  Thercforc he will only
take intercst in olhcr bodies  under the stimulus
of rewards and punishments, that  is, by an
exploitation of his self-interesc in rhe inter - ese
of the community.
Happily, thc problem is not quite so simple.
For among thc things that give man pleasure
are rela - tions with othcr human beings -
convcrsalion, eating  wgecher, singing, dancing,
having children, and co - operation in work
which "many hands make light."  lndeed, one of
the highest pleasures is to be more or less
unconscious of one's own existence, to be ab -
sorbed in interesting sights, sounds, places, and
peo- ple. Conversely, one of the greatest pains is
lo be  self-conscious, to feel unabsorbed and cut
off from  che community  and thc surrounding
world.
But chis  whole  problem  has no solUlion  whíle
we
think abouc ic in cerms of the pleasure -pain
motiva - tion, or, indeed, in terms of any
"motivation" at all. For man has a moral problcm,
which other commu - nity -living animals do not
have, for the very rcason  lhat he is so much
concerned with motives. lf it is  true thac man is
ncccssarily motivated by the pleas - ure-pain
principie, there is no point whatsoever in
discussing human conduce. Motivate<l conduce is
dc- termincd  conduct;  it will be what  it will be,
no mat -
1 Z 1 Tf-lE WISOOM  OF INSECURITY
ter what anyone has to say about it. There can be
no creative morality unless man has the
possibility of  freedom.
This is where the moralists make their
mistake. H they want man to change his way of
life, they must  assume that he is free, for if he is
not, ali the raging  and protesting in the world will
make no difference.  On the other hand, a man
who is acting from the  fear of a moralist's
threats or from the lure of his  promises  is not
making


sof,66
teeth,effecton,210
vitaminsand,7,47-50,150
Shock,anaphylactic,199
Sicklecellanemia,Pauling'sworkon,233
Skin,25,218
Sleep,14
Smoking,9,23,268-9,214-6,272
Sodiumascorbate,12,15,256
SeealsoVitaminC
Starch,29,33
Starvation,27,93
Sucrose,31,149
Sugar
andcholesterol,42
consumption of,9,13
energyvalueof,33
hazardsof,272
andheartdiseases,39-43
Sugar(editedbyYudkin,Edelman,and
Hough),39
Sunlight,andvitaminD,47
Surgery,vitaminCfollowing,137,138
SweetandDangerous(Yudkin),39
Sweeteners, artificial,44
Swineflu.SeeInfluenza,porcine
Teeth,24,210
Thyroidmedication,187,188,189
Tonsillitis,112-14,228
ATreatiseonScurvy(Lind),48-49
Tryptophan,57-58
Ulcers,112,113
U.S.ConsumerProtectionAgency,209
U.S.FoodandDrugAdministration(FDA),
12,13,161,190,229,255
U.S.FoodandNutritionBoard,4,10,18,27,
60,76,78,185,267
U.S.HealthResourcesAdministration,80
U.S.NationalAcademyofSciences,4,11,18
U.S.PublicHealthService,122
Urea,27,85-86,261
Varicoseveins,vitaminEfor,157
Vegetables,14,23,31,62-63
Vegetarians,28,31
VirusesandColds(Adams),20
VitaminA,58,151,252-3
VitaminB
contentinplantfoods,61(table)
historyof,52-54
sideeffectsof,253-4
VitaminB,(thiamine)
andberiberi,47,56
historyof,54
VitaminB2(riboflavin),58
322 SUBJECTINDEX
VitaminB3(niacin),58,217
ascoenzyme,65-66
historyof,54,203-4
forjointdysfunction,242-3
mentalillnessand,19,96,193
forpellagra,183
RDAfor,183
sideeffectsof,253
andvitaminC,84-85
VitaminB6(pyridoxine),20,143
forautism,191
forcarpaltunnelsyndrome,204-5,206-7
ascoenzyme,66
formusculardystrophy,160
toxicityof,254
VitaminB12(cobalamin),12,58,182-4,261-3
foranemia,47,255
enzymesand,65
andfolacin,255
andvitaminC,230,261-3
VitaminC(ascorbicacid)
adrenalinand,60,75-76,130
allergicreactionto,14-15
animalneedfor,76,77-78
animalstudieswith,82,101-2,166-7
asantioxidant,160
boweltolerancelevelof,130,258-9
andcancerpain,170,240.SeealsoCancer
andcarcinogens,168
chiralityof,73-74
andcholesterol,44
andcollagen,69-73,75,136
costsof,13
defined,66
depletionof,130-1
anddepression,19
destroyedbycooking,79
discontinuation effectof,12,118,265-6
dosage,3,11,78-80,83-89,97,121,
255,259
vs.drugs,122,240-2
functioninbodyof,87
historyof,18,53-54,112
andhumanevolution,59
andimmunesystem,11
andincidenceofdisease,83-84
byinjection,85,88
laxativeeffectof,258-9
andlongevity,20,83-84,111,151
molecularstructureof,68(illus.)
andopponentsofPaulingtheory,20-21,156,
173-6,226-36inplants,61(table)
inprimates,58
RDAfor,76,87,97,156
sideeffectsof,180,231,260
toxicityof,19,22,78-79,93,152,255-5,
257-62,267
twinsstudieswith,114-15
urinaryexcretionof,86-87,88
andvitaminB,2,58,182-4m,230,261-3
Seealsospecificdisease
VitaminCandtheCommonCold(Pauling),13,
20,110,114,225,229,230,233,260
TheVitaminCConnection(Cheraskin,
Ringsdorf,andSisley),50,97
VitaminD,47,206,252
VitaminE,74,151
forangina,160
animalstudieswith,155
asantioxidant,155,160,256
andburns,140
fordiabetes,157,158
andheartdiseases,153-160
historyof,153
andlongevity,159
RDAfor,153
theShutes'workon,154
tocopherals of,154
toxicityof,156,256
andvitaminC,256
Vitamins
fortheaging,4,274
andalcoholintake,39
animalstudieswith,4
dosages,8-9,11(table)
vs.drugs,99,122,240-2
historyof,18,47-54
andhumanevolution,57-59,81
individualneedsfor,81-85
megadosesof,8-9,11,18,194,217,233,
249,258
nomenclature of,157-9,247,258
opponentsoftaking,157-8,247,258
RDA'sfor,4,10,12,60,76-78,80,153,258
sideeffectsof,207,252-4,257-67
toxicityof,238,251-6
Water,intakeof,9,30
WhatYouShouldKnowaboutHealthCare
beforeYouCallaDoctor(Johnson),20
Wheatgermoil,154
WilliamsFortifiedInsuranceFormula,12
WorldHealthOrganization(WHO),7
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undergone. When people add such empty calories to other ingredients t o create a dish, I refer to the finished product as “junk
food.”
Consumers have come to mentally lump all sugars—in fact all carb ohydrates—into one group, to which they attribute mostly
negative connotations. Along with complex carbohydrates, refined sw eets and fruits are commonly considered nothing but “another
source of sugar.”
The meat and dairy industries like to point fingers at sugars, declarin g them synonymous with empty calories. They have done
such a good job of marketing that to this day most people do not understand the differ ences between refined simple sugars (empty-
calorie junk foods) and the simple sugars in fruit (health food), thinki ng that “sugar is sugar.”
The empty calories in refined simple carbohydrates are so devoid of food value  as to bankrupt you nutritionally while they also
function as stimulants. Both the stimulation and the nutritional de ficit accelerate aging.

Fruits: Whole-Food Simple Carbohydrates
Whole, fresh fruit is the third and most overlooked source of carbohydrates. Fr uit comes in an intricate, highly nutritious
package that matches our nutritional needs better than any other cat egory of food. I recommend that virtually our entire
carbohydrate intake—80% of calories or more—come from the simple sugars  in whole, fresh fruit. These sugars are the optimal fuel
source for humans. The soft, water-soluble fiber in whole fruits allows  their sugars to absorb slowly and gradually, so high blood
sugar is not an issue (as long as your diet is low in fat … see Chapter 2.)
Fruits are the obvious choice for obtaining our carbohydrates, as they provi de the only substantial and healthful whole-food
source of simple sugar. Many classically trained nutritionists, an d most doctors, still erroneously refer to fruits as complex
carbohydrates, because some of their fiber (such as the skins, pith, etc.) i s composed of complex carbohydrates. Though these indigestible fibers are complex carbohydrate in nature, virtually al l of the carbohydrate calories in ripe fruit are simple mono- and
disaccharides. This misunderstanding has long been pointed out by sports phy siologists, who rely on the fact that the sugars in fruit
are simple in design and hence work extremely well before, during, and aft er all physical exertions.
Fruits never require cooking in order to be delicious and nutritious, and our bodi es digest them quickly and easily. (Some
vegetables with a slightly sweet taste—like some lettuces, gar den-fresh baby peas and corn, and young roots—also contain simple
carbohydrates, but they are so low in calories that chewing them may ut ilize more fuel than they provide.)

Think Fruit Meals for Health
Fruit is considered “health food” by almost everyone in the health fi eld. A director of nutrition for the U.S. Olympic teams
once called fruit “magic food.” All the major organizations of health a nd disease, from the government to private businesses, from the
National Heart Foundation to the American Cancer Society, agree th at we should increase our consumption of fruit.
As a category, fruits are our least toxic food choice. They digest cleanl y, leaving only water as residue, which is easily expelled
from the body. I see no healthful reason to look anywhere else for the vast ma jority of our calories. The health, nutrition, energy, and
human performance results available on a high-fruit, low-fat, raw v egan program eclipse even the proven, consistent benefits of low-
fat, starch-based diets.

Fruit As a Staple: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
The practice of eating enough fruit to make complete meals of it is alie n to most of us. Yet it is an idea whose time has come.
Fruits are designed to be our staple; they contain everything require d to be the source and mainstay of our nutritional sustenance.
We have been trained to think of fruit as a treat, something to eat at the  end of a meal, or perhaps as a snack between meals
when nothing else looks good. But I invite you to begin thinking of fruit as re al food, and even as a meal unto itself.
If fruit is to become a primary food source for us, we must be willing to explore  new avenues, think new thoughts, and ask
new questions like the ones below. The consumer has a lot to learn—as we  literally have no frame of reference for such a concept
—and now is the time to get started. In this book, I answer some of these ques tions and many others:

How do we know when fruit is fresh?
How many blueberries (or oranges, or mangos, or bananas) does it take to make a me al?
How can I tell if I ate enough fruit?
Is there such a thing as eating too much fruit?
Which fruits provide us with the most carbohydrates per bite?
Which fruits provide the least?
Which fruits are best at the different seasons of the year?
Where does each fruit come from?

Eating 80% of our calories in the form of uncooked simple carbohydrates can becom e easy and natural once we learn to eat a
moderate amount of nuts and seeds, all the green leafy vegetables we ca re for, and great quantities of whole, fresh, ripe, in-season
fruit.

We Are Designed for Tropical Fruit
As a species, humans originated in a warm climate and eventually s pread throughout the “tropical belt,” the warm zone that
extends through most of the thousand-mile range above and below the equator. This is the environment where tropical fruits
abound.
Some folks suggest that wherever they live, they should eat food that is  locally grown, as “logically” that must be the best for
them, at least, that is what they have heard. In the U.S. and Europe, people oft en argue that since they live in a northern climate, it is
only appropriate that they should eat foods of northern origin.
Think about this: If you have a goldfish, cat, or dog, do you change the very natu re of their diet every time you move? Do zoo
animals get entirely different classes of food, depending on the latitu de of the zoo that houses them? Viewed in this way, it becomes
obvious that we must honor the unique dietary requirements of each speci es, based on its particular digestive physiology.
Further, many people live in climates that only produce food for a few months  of the year. What should they eat the rest of the
year? Humans are anatomically and physiologically adapted to the food of th e tropics, predominantly fruit, as are almost all of the
tropical creatures. In Central America, for example, all mammals w ith the exception of the river otter and the jaguar are known to
eat fruit, as are most of the birds, many of the amphibians, and quite a few of t he reptiles.
No logical or scientific reason exists to conclude that simply because  we have moved away from the tropics, we should therefore change what has been our natural food for the great majority  of our time on Earth. Regardless of where we go on this
planet (or even whether we ever venture off of the planet to other worlds ), tropical fruits remain our natural foods, the only cuisine
for which we are perfectly designed.

Our Own Private Tropics
Historically, it was only the population explosion caused by the advent of tool s and hunting, and exacerbated by the introduction of
farming, that resulted in humans being forced to move into what would othe rwise have been considered inhospitable and even
uninhabitable areas. We effectively took the tropics with us, though, as  we had no other choice.
Every one of us lives almost every minute of our lives in a miniature  tropical environment, keeping ourselves in the tropics by
the judicious use of clothing, bedding, and heat. Even the Eskimos surround th emselves with enough clothing and keep their homes
warm enough so that they can spend almost all of their time “in the tr opics.”
We have been trained from early childhood, and have learned through repeat ed experience, that it is extremely uncomfortable
and can be potentially dangerous, even lethal, for us to leave the safety  of our own private tropics, and early in life accepted the
wisdom and seriousness of this warning. We go through the rest of our live s without ever questioning that we must maintain
ourselves in the warmth of a tropical environment.

Fruit Is a Natural
Fortunately, most people love fruit. Children are naturally inclined t o eat it. Our ever-present sweet tooth is a signal from nature that
drives us to eat enough fruit to provide the simple carbohydrates that fue l every cell of our bodies. Whenever I introduce someone
to a delicious tropical fruit that they have never tried, it is met w ith delight. It doesn’t seem to make any difference what the fruit is,
people almost always “connect” with it immediately. Almost inva riably, I hear something like:

“W ow, this is the best thing I have ever tasted!”
“I just found my new favorite food!”
“I could live on this!”
“Where can I get this at home?”
“Do you know of any mail-order catalogs that can ship some to me?”
“Is this expensive? I want to buy lots of it!”
“How do I learn more about other fruits like this?”

The entire conversation points to the fact that people not only love fruit,