  conversations coincide  with your wish
fulfilled.  If you  become  aware  that these  inner talks contradict what you
would  like to achieve,  revise  them so that they follow  along  the track that
would  indicate  that you  already have  what you  desire  or are  already the
person you  wish to be.
Revision
Your present world  reflects the  sum total of all that you  believe  to be true
of yourself and  others. That which you  imagine  yourself to be  today goes
forward  and will confront you  in the future. If you  have forgotten your
imaginal activities of the  past, that which you  see appearing  in your world
indicates the  kind of seeds you  have previously sown.
Assuming  the feeling  of your wish fulfilled  is using  your imagination cre -
atively to bring  into your world  that which you  desire  to experience. You
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havencan use  the art of revision to  change  the effects of prior thoughts and  be-
liefs.
If, for instance, you  had gone to an interview  for a job you  truly wanted
but later  learned  that someone  else was hired,  you can revise  that news
to make it conform to what you wish you  had heard. If you  react by feel -
ing depressed  or assume  any other  negative  attitude, you  will then expe -
rience the  same  type of rejection in the  future. Your reactions, whether
positive  or negative,  are creative  of future  circumstances. In your imagi -
nation, you  can hear words congratulating  you on getting  a wonderful
new job. That imaginal act  now goes forward  and you will encounter  this
pleasant experience in the  future.
As you  review  your day, it is important to revise  each negative  reaction so
that you  can remember  it as what you  wished  had happened  rather  than
storing  that memory as it did   occur. What you  think of with feeling  or
emotion is an actual fact. That which you   experience in the  physical
world  is merely a  shadow, reflecting  the reality of your imaginal  activity.
Therefore,  when you  revise  a conversation, an unhappy experience, or
a quality about yourself, you  are literally experiencing  it in reality (your
consciousness). The  outer  world  is a delayed  reflection of the  inner and is
confined  to a dimension of space  where  events occur in a  time sequence.
Revision, then, literally changes the  past. It replaces what  occurred  in the
outer  world  with the  revised  version. The  revised  scene  then gives off its
effect by going  forth to change  future  events.
Dwelling  on past irritations or hurts perpetuates them and  creates a vi -
cious circle  that serves to confirm these  negative  emotions. The  circle can
be broken by starting  now to revise  anything  that you  no longer  wish to
sustain in your world. By revising  the past, you  rid yourself of any effect it
may have  on your future. Revision is truly the  key, which can  be used to
unlock  the doors that have  kept you  trapped  in a particular  state. “Be  ye
transformed  by the  renewing  of your mind.”
States of Consciousness
All states exist and  are a fixed part of creation. Anyone  can enter a state
consciously or fall  into a  state inadvertently. You  may move  into different
states throughout your lifetime  or you  may occupy a  single  state.  Desire
is what usually motivates us to move  from one  state to a  higher  level.
Since a  state is total and  complete  in itself, when we  enter  a state we are
compelled  to behave  in a manner  dictated  by that state. For instance, in
the state of poverty, we would  find ourselves constantly in need  of funds.
We would  have difficulty  making  ends meet and  have no way to enjoy lux -
uries. Should  we be given a  large sum of money, if we remain in the state
of poverty (filling  our mind  with thoughts of lack  and  limitation,) we
would  soon find  ourselves without funds and  again experiencing the same
difficulties. The  reverse  would  be true if we occupied  a state of wealth.
More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenWhen we are  in a state we see only the  contents of that state and are
compelled  to act in  accordance with all that the  state entails. While  in
a particular  state, you  believe  certain  things are  true and would  find it dif-
ficult to understand  another  point of view.  In the  state of poverty, it is
easy to focus your thoughts on the  problems of providing  food, shelter
and clothing. When you  succeed  in moving  out of this state, you  no longer
find it difficult  to acquire  these  things. Most people  attribute  this change
of fortune  to a change  in circumstances. However, unless you have moved
from the  state of poverty, no change  in circumstance would  be perma -
nent. Rather, moving  out of one  state and into another  in your imagina -
tion automatically creates a  change  in your outer  world.
The Bible has personified  every type  of state  and calls these  states by
names known to us as Moses, Noah, Job, Peter, Andrew,  and Jesus.
Throughout our journey, we  enter  these  states and  experience all that
they offer. The  last state  we will enter  is the  state of Jesus Christ. In this
state,  we become  aware  that we  are God, the  Father, and  that we have a
symbolized  as David, who personifies the  sum total of all humanity. The
journey begins with Adam, who fell asleep  and dreamed  the dream of life,
and then entered  the myriad states to gain the  experiences necessary be -
fore awakening. When you  enter  the state of Jesus you  know  yourself to
be God, and  your journey into this world  of death is then  complete.
The Play
As Shakespeare  said, “All the  world’s a  stage and  all the  men and  women
merely players.  They have  their exits and  their entrances…and  each man
in his time  plays many parts.”  This world, which seems so real, is as much
a dream as the  dreams we  encounter  while asleep. Our  waking  dream
seems so real because  it has continuity while  our dreams at night appear
to be random sequences, taking  place in unfamiliar  surroundings and situ -
ations.
God is the  dreamer, dreaming  the play into existence, and  God plays all
the parts. Everyone  who appears in your world  is God  playing  that part for
you, the  author. “No man comes unto me,  save I call him.”  Each of us is
writing  his or her  own script. If you are  dissatisfied  with the  play, it is up
to you  to rewrite  the script to make it conform to your idea of what the
play should  be. You cannot demand  that the  actors in your play  change
the character  they are  portraying. All changes must take place  in the mind
of the  author.
If there  is someone  in your world  who is the  source of annoyance or irrita -
tion to you, that  person has no choice but to play the  part called  for in
your script. There  is nothing  you can do on the  outside  to bring  about
changes in another. You  can use  the art of revision to change  a line of dia -
logue,  to replace  a certain character  with another, and  to write  happy
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenendings to the  subplots of the  play.
When you  begin to view this waking  dream objectively, you  will be  able to
verify that you  have been the  author of both the  pleasant and  unhappy
acts in your play. You  can radically  change  the play by using  your imagi -
nation creatively, by assuming  your wish fulfilled. You   can change the
script on a  daily basis by revising  the scene  that did  not please  you. The
character  who disturbed  you today will not do so tomorrow  if you write
the dialogue  you wish to hear and  alter that role  in your imagination.
When you  awaken to know  that you  are God, the  Father  and author of
this magnificent  play, you  will understand  that: “each man in his time
plays many parts.”
Your Real Purpose
God became  you so completely that he  forgot that he  was God. In becom -
ing man, God reached  the limit of contraction and  opacity. God  totally for -
gets that he  is God  in order


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drag me down, rather than pick me up. Our daughter Sarah had no stamina or energy, and her food cravings had become almost
unbearable. Our sons had problems too: Tim had no desire to do physical work any more, and Terry was beginning to suffer cons tantly from
anxiety and depression. Worse yet, we were beginning to see the same pr oblems in others outside our family who were on the Genesis
1:29 Diet.
By the spring of 2001, it began to dawn on us that we had better take another look at our diet.
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At the same website  www.chetday.com you can read about Chet Day's own vegan experience.
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How to Live on a 100% Raw (Vegetarian) Diet Healthfully

"My aim here was to try to find a diet of 100% raw foods that would provide all the factors needed for
excellent health, free from any deficiencies which invariably seemed to arise in almost all of the most
popular recommended raw food regimens."

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INTRODUCTION
This article has been prepared from Volume II of "In Search of the Ultimate (Vegetarian) Diet", also called "Discovery of the
Ultimate (Vegetarian) Diet". [See BOOKS list.] In preparing the table of contents, I was surprised to find that on fo ur separate
occasions, I had tested the 100% raw food diet successfully on the mice I include in this article all of these diets and the
conclusions reached and am pleased that the results were verified four different times, which only strengthens and vali dates the
conclusions.

MICE EXPERIMENTS - 35 DAY RAW DIET
On 1/9/83 through 2/15/83, I put six mice for a total of 35 days on a 100 % raw vegetarian diet consisting of raw fruits, gre en
vegetables, nuts, seeds (sunflower and occasional hulled sesame), dried lentils, grains (mostly wheat and millet), plus raw
tubers (potatoes and occasional yam). Nothing else was added. One of the mice gave birth to thirteen healthy babies. There
were no deformities and no cannibalism, which at the time I attributed to t he fresh greens (outer iceberg lettuce leaves and
occasional carrot leaves).
I concluded that humans could safely live on this unfired diet for almost three years - the 30:1 ratio of 35 days for mice being
equivalent to 35 months for humans.

15 DAY RAW DI ET
On 4/2/84 through 4/17/84, I put one cage of mice on a 100% raw vegetarian diet for a total of fifteen days consisting of
legumes (mung beans and lentils, soaked and sprouted), alfalfa sprouts, sunflower seeds, fresh corn on the cob, and
vegetables (Sav oy cabbage, Romaine lettuce, and carrot tops).
They love all of the sprouts. They discard the skins of the sprout shoots. Their first preference is the mung, then the lenti ls
which they love, and the sunflower. The alfalfa sprouts they like least.
The mice  are strong, happy, and have a ravenous appetite. All the mice seem to be in excellent health with excellent spirits and
energy. I gave them some frozen corn on the cob. When I gave them wheat grass two times (seven inches) long, they didn't
appear to be i nterested, since only two of them nibbled a little on it. Many mice look pregnant and most seem to be gaining
more weight and getting plump. One mouse gave birth.

100% RAW DIET AND ADDED GRAINS
Since I was concerned that the mice might be overeating of pr otein in order to get enough of the carbohydrates on this diet
without grains (without counting the fresh corn, a diluted form of grains), and also because of their ravenous appetite which
indicated to me that perhaps they needed more carbohydrates, to the  above cage I added a grain for the first time, wheat
soaked overnight and very slightly sprouted. The fifteen days on this raw diet indicated that a human could safely live on th is in
an excellent weight loss diet and one that very possibly could reverse cancer (some cancer cases reversed on a 100% raw diet
- see "Alternative Cancer Therapies" organization located in New York).
I also gave them raw, soaked, hulled buckwheat groats (kasha), which they enjoyed. The mice are very alert, moving faster
than bef ore. Many males are chasing females, many of whom am now pregnant. I feed the mice two meals a day as follows:
(a) Beginning with Savoy cabbage, Romaine, carrot tops (alfalfa sprouts occasionally) followed by 1/2 plum tomato. Fifteen
minutes later I give o ne handful each of both mung and lentil sprouts for about forty mice.

b) In the evening, I give the same vegetables again, followed by sunflower and wheat sprouts (two handfuls). Occasionally, I
give them plain popcorn as a treat, which I make myself (the y are wild about popcorn). The mice go wild for washed, granulated
kelp, but seem disinterested in wheatgrass. I gave washed dulse leaves to two cages, but they liked the kelp better.
The man in the pet shop said that mice needed salt in their diet and if they didn't get it, they would cannibalize the others to get
the salt from their blood. I gave kelp to avoid this. I gave raw, new white potato, which they wouldn't eat, but they like ra w yams.
The mice are very alert and move faster than those in the othe r cages. Some take flying leaps across the cage now. They have
a tremendous appetite for sprouted or soaked legumes and grains, and they eat less vegetables.

A DIET OF RAW SOAKED GRAINS, LENTILS AND VEGETABLES
On July 20, 1985, a fire was caused in my kit chen by a faulty appliance. When the firemen finished hosing the kitchen and
cutting a hole in the roof; everything was in complete disorder. Fortunately, the heavy smoke was largely stopped by a wall
which prevented it from killing the mice in an adjoinin g living room. I was happy to discover that no deaths had occured. Since
my kitchen was out of order, I stopped all cooking and put all cages that were eating grains on a 100% raw diet consisting of
raw grains (mostly wheat, etc.) which had been soaked ove rnight, and soaked or sprouted lentils, along with lettuce leaves and
occasional carrot leaves - basically three to four foods. Now, it's almost three months later and all the cages getting the raw
grains and lentils thrived very nicely. These three months  or ninety days would equal ninety months or seven and a half years in
a human equivalent. Therefore, it seems likely that humans should be able to live on raw, soaked overnight (24 hours) grains
and legumes. Two mice in two of the cages are very fat and obese. At first I thought they were pregnant, but it's been too long
this way. It's just plain obesity and this on a 100% raw diet almost exclusively for approximately seven and a half years in
human equivalency.
(For further discussion on the effects on s uccessive generations of the 100% vegetarian diet, see In search of the Ultimate Diet
by Stanley Bass, p.23 -24.)

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TESTING A 100 % RAW VEGETARIAN DIET OF LENTIL SPROUTS, SUNFLOWER SPROUTS, FRESH CORN, AND
GREENS (LETTUCE, CARROT LEAVES, ETC.)
My aim here was to try to find a diet of 100% raw foods that the mice and equally humans could live on that would provide all
the factors needed for excellent health, free fr om any deficiencies which invariably seemed to arise in almost all of the most
popular recommended raw food regimens.
Also, since most of the books written by alternative health practitioners recommended the use of 100% raw vegetarian diet as
the initial p hase in attempting to reverse cancer, it seemed to be the best way to begin the search for an ideal raw food
program.
I began this diet by providing this cage of about twenty mice with fresh lettuce leaves (mostly outer iceberg and occasionall y
Romaine) an d occasional carrot leaves, soaked overnight lentils, and unroasted sunflower seeds as well as corn on the cob.
These foods were given twice a day in two meals.
10th day: Mice are doing well and are very lively. No fatalities so far.
20th day: So far, the mice are doing very well and are full of great energy. No deaths at all. I added raw yams (which they didn't
eat much of).
26th day: All are still doing fine. I tried soaked soy beans three days ago, but discontinued them because they like the lent ils
better. The mice in this cage (No. 1) looked


 approximately 40 per cent of the cash income of salaries
and wages of the people in the United States, is used for the purchase of foods. When we add to
this the expenditure of energy by the people living on the land, it represents a total, probably
exceeding fifty billion dollars a year that is spent for the chemicals that are provided in the foods, a
large amount of which, perhaps 50 per cent, will have been expended for calcium and phosphorus,
perhaps 25 per cent for other chemicals, and 25 per cent for special vitamin or activator carrying
foods. Of this enormous transportation of minerals from the soil an exceedingly small proportion
gets back to the tillable land in this country. Orr (2)  states that "Consumption in the United Kingdom
of live stock products mostly derived from grass lands has been estimated at about four hundred
million pounds sterling per annum (nearly two billion dollars)." This includes dairy products,
meats and hides. Never in the history of the world has there been such a large scale depletion of
the soil by transportation away from the tilled and pasturage areas. Sickness in the United States
has been calculated to cost nearly half as much as food, and is increasing.
    An important discovery has been made with regard to the feeding of dairy cattle and other live
stock: the nutritive value of young grass, when in a state of rapid growth, carries not only a very
large quantity of minerals, but also digestible proteins in amounts that are approximately equivalent
to those provided by the concentrated cereal cattle foods, such as linseed cake. It is observed also
that not only do the milk products of such cows remain at a high level while the cows are on the
rapidly growing young grass, particularly a rapidly growing young wheat grass or young rye grass,
but the animals themselves are in better physical condition than when on grain concentrates.
Further, that calves fed on the milk of those cows grow much more rapidly than they do when the
cows are on other fodder and have a much higher resistance to disease. Grass, to provide these
nutritional factors, must be grown on a very rich, well-balanced soil. A young plant, of necessity,
produces a rapid depletion of soil. Minerals and other chemicals are removed and therefore there
is need for adequate replacement.
    In Chapter 18 I have reported investigations made by Professors Meigs and Converse at the
Beltsville Experimental Station, in which they have shown that feeding cattle on a grade of dried
hay that was low in chlorophyll resulted in the development of dead or blind calves, and further
that when the milk of these cows was fed to three normal calves they died in fifty-seven, sixty-two
and seventy-one days respectively. These calves had been fed on whole milk until twenty days of
age. They show that the main deficiency in this ration was vitamin A.
    Since mammals require milk in infancy and since it is the most efficient single food known, I have
made a special study of milk and its products. The role of the vitamins and other activating
substances in foods is quite as important and essential as that of minerals. These activating
substances, in general, can be divided into two groups, those that are water-soluble and those that
are fat-soluble, the former being much more readily obtained in most communities, than the latter.
Since the fat-soluble and also the water-soluble vitamins are essential for mineral utilization and
particularly since the fat-soluble activators are so frequently found to be inadequately supplied in
diet and are usually more difficult to obtain, a special effort has been made to determine the level of
these in dairy products in many different places for different seasons of the year. To accomplish
this, I have obtained each year since 1927 samples of cream and butter, mostly butter, for analysis
for their activator content. The work has rapidly extended so that for the eleventh year we are
receiving now (1939) samples from several hundred places distributed throughout the world,
usually once or twice a month throughout the year. Methods used for these studies are both
biologic and chemical. These data are used in connection with morbidity and mortality statistics for
the same districts.
    The progressive changing of the levels of life is shown by the morbidity and mortality statistics of
the various areas of the United States and Canada. The American Heart Association publishes,
from time to time, very important data relative to the number of deaths from heart disease in the
various states of the Union. It is of interest to note that the highest mortality levels that are obtained
are found in those states, in general, that have been longest occupied by modern civilizations,7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 231/250namely, the Atlantic States, the New England States, the Great Lakes States and the Pacific
States. Their data published in their booklet ~tHeart Disease Mortality Statistics" and based on the
United States Registration area reveal that the death rate per 100,000 population was 123 in
1900. The data sent me in November 1937 from the United States Census Bureau, Department of
Commerce, in Washington, report the death rate from heart per 100,000 for 1934 as 239.9, in
other words an increase of 86.9 per cent in thirty-four years. Figures provided by the Bureau of
Census for England and Wales show the death rate per 100,000 to be 269.3; and for Scotland,
232. While the average figure for the United States Registration area of 224 deaths per 100,000
seems very high, it is exceedingly important to note that the New England States were much
higher, leading the entire country. Massachusetts reported 307.3; New Hampshire, 323.1;
Vermont, 310.8; New York, 302.1; Maine, 297.5. The rate of increase in the decade of 1921 to
1930 was 51.3 per cent for Delaware; 52 per cent for Connecticut, 51 per cent for Pennsylvania,
59.4 per cent for Missouri, 60.0 per cent for Washington; 55 per cent for Wisconsin; 64 per cent
for Louisiana; 71 per cent for Florida; 63 per cent for South Carolina; 81 per cent for Montana;
61 per cent for Kentucky; and 51.9 per cent for North Carolina. Such rates of increase as these
are cause for alarm.
    Sir Arnold Theiler, who spent a quarter of a decade studying the problems of nutritional
deficiency diseases among pasture animals in South Africa, has discussed at length the reduction of
phosphorus in available quantities for plant development as constituting, by far, the most important
mineral deficiency. He reported data obtained from many countries through the world, indicating
that the deterioration of cattle and sheep can be directly traced to an inadequate amount of
phosphorus in the soil. He states, in discussing the relation of this problem to the conditions as they
obtain in Australia, that: (3)
   Amongst the Australian data the figures showing depletion of phosphorus as a result of sale
of products off the farm without adequate replacement by manuring, are interesting. Thus
Richardson estimates that it would take two million tons of superphosphate to replace the
phosphorus removed in the form of milk, mutton and wool. In the "ranching stage" of the
development of a country the fact is often forgotten that the balance of Nature is frequently
disturbed to the detriment of generations to come.
    It is important to keep in mind that morbidity and mortality data for many diseases follow a
relatively regular course from year to year, with large increases in the late winter and spring and a
marked decrease in summer and early autumn. The rise and fall of the level of morbidity with the
changing season produces curves that are exceedingly regular for the same place from year to
year. The distribution, however, is distinctly different for different latitudes and altitudes. It is further
of special importance to note that the curves for the Southern Hemisphere, with its opposite
seasons, are in reverse of those of the Northern Hemisphere, and have very similar levels for the
same seasonal periods. I have obtained the figures for the levels of morbidity for several diseases
in several countries, including the United States and Canada. I find that the distribution of the rise
and fall in morbidity and mortality does not follow the sunshine curve but does follow the curve of
vegetable growth. Accordingly, I have made studies by dividing the United States and Canada into
sixteen districts, four from East to West and four from North to South. I have plotted by months
the levels of mortality for heart disease and pneumonia in these various districts, from figures
obtained from the governments of these two countries. Similarly, I have plotted curves for the
vitamin content found in butter and cream samples obtained from these sixteen districts. When
these are arranged in accordance with the levels by months they are found, in each case, to be
opposite to the mortality from heart disease and pneumonia. It is also important to note that while
these curves show a higher midsummer level of vitamins in dairy products in the northern tier of
districts, the period of high level is shorter than in the more southern division. Two peaks tend to
appear in the summer cycle of curves for the vitamins, one representing the spring period of active
growth and the other, the fall period. These peaks are closer together in the north than in the south.
    A particularly important phase of this study is the finding of a lower level of vitamins throughout


 available to help cancer
patients." Yet nothing ever comes out of it, their promises fading into the same
parallel universe that socks go to in the dryer. What a Fraud!
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Table o f Contents
Copyright............................................................................................................................. ii
Dedication..........................................................................................................................iii
Preface............................................................................................................................... vi
Foreword............................................................................................................................ ix
Introduction.......................................................................................................................10
Warning & Disclaimer.....................................................................................................12
Table of Contents..............................................................................................................16
What is Cancer?................................................................................................................19
Do I  Have Cancer?........................................................................................................... 34
Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Program................................................................ 44
The Pancreatic Study.......................................................................................................54
Dietary Recommendations.............................................................................................. 60
Structural & Neurological Stimulation............................................................................76
Spiritual Attitude...............................................................................................................81
Body Detoxification......................................................................................................... 84
Metabolic Supplementation..........................................................................................102
Cancer Heroes' Testimonials.........................................................................................119
Medical Professionals Evaluations................................................................................ 174
For Doctors O nly............................................................................................................182
Acknowledgments......................................................................................................... 189
Index............................................................................................................................... 191
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Winning The Cancer War
CANCER RESPONSIBILITY
by
William  Donald  Kelley, D.D.S., M.S.
A lecture before the
CONSUMER HEALTH ORGANIZATION OF CANADA
Ms. Libby Gardon, Chairwoman, Moderator.
Responsibility for getting well from the very simple disease process "CANCER"
is your own privilege.
Each on of us have been trained and brainwashed for our entire life to, "let the
experts do this or that!" This is well and good if you have a very bad infection, if you
are bleeding, if you have a broken bone or if you are trying to get a ride to the moon.
However, if you have cancer, only you can cure your cancer. A physician can cure
only one person of cancer — himself. He could not cure your cancer if he wanted to
— or knew how. You yourself are the only one who can treat and cure your cancer.
Without question, cancer is one of the simplest degenerative diseases to
properly treat. Cancer's simplicity is the cloak it hides under — right out in plain
sight. You certainly do not need a college degree to figure that out. It takes a little
common sense.
Most patients put their trust in the Medical Community. We are overly
impressed with the white coats, stethoscopes, surgical masks, MRI scans and lab
reports. While we want to put our trust and life in their hands — we are paying our
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all for it, and in many cases our life.
When we finally become disillusioned and bored with the orthodox theater we
take the remaining few breaths and turn to alternative methods.
A few, a very few, those of you who discern what cancer is and is not, w ill live
a long and healthy life, — hopefully succumbing to natural causes.
This is our wish for all and especially for you.
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W hat is  C ancer?
Cancer is the most normal function o f one's body.
If  it were not for cancer, you would not be here.
In The Beginning
Cancer is the most normal function of one's body. If it were not for cancer, you
would not be here. You would not have been born if your mother did not have
cancer. Cancer is the normal necessary metabolic function to form life and continue
the human species. You actually had cancer a very long time before you started
breathing and a long time before your heart started beating!
Yahweh, God Almighty, in his wisdom has assured the continuation of our human
species by establishing two cycles of physical life. Every day, every one of us
develops and digests normal cancer cells known as Trophoblast cells. We go about
the activities of our lives oblivious to the cancer process going on within our bodies.
Cancer is a normal, necessary part of life. When your father's sperm invaded your
mother's egg, your physical life began. If you did not grow from that point into an
embryo, you would not have lived and would have fallen out of your mother's
uterus.
The scientific explanation of cancer appeared in medical literature over
100 years ago!
What is Cancer?
Cancer is a term used in error by the medical community to classify a fast growing
malignant tumor, which, if allowed to grow unchecked, w ill cause death. Many
clinicians have the mistaken belief that cancer is complex and are any number of
different diseases, each having its own cause. Nothing could be further from the
truth.
Most doctors, even the research scientists, suppose such things as viruses, X-rays
cigarette smoking, chemicals, sunlight, trauma, etc. cause cancer. These, sometimes,
are an indirect stimulation of a normal TROPHOBLAST CELL into making a false
placenta, a malignant tumor mass, which the medical community in total error call
"cancer".
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Cancer is a deficiency disease - a deficiency condition, a failure of the body to
produce adequate pancreatic enzymes, delivered uninhibited to the site of stimulated,
active Trophoblast cells.
Why then do some (many) people have MALIGNANT TUMOR MASSES? A large
placenta, a false placenta, is big enough to cause the malfunction of normal body
activities and large enough for physicians to observe. This is a malignant tumor,
which in total error is misdiagnosed as "CANCER". Other causes of cancer can (but
are not limited to) include:
A. Your pancreas does not produce enough pancreatic enzymes to digest (clean
up) the formed, activated Trophoblast cells Thus the placenta, the false
placenta, continues to grow until observed, properly or improperly treated or
until death results.
B. Your body is contaminated with enzyme inhibitors or blockers preventing the
normal self-regulation clean-up, repair, and rebuilding of the body to function
normally.
C. You have to face the fact that cancer is nothing more than the failure of your
pancreas to produce adequate pancreatin and your body to deliver it to the site
of an injury or stimulated normal Trophoblast (pre-placenta) malignant cells.
D. Cancer is basically a deficiency disease — a deficiency of the pancreatic
enzymes. This is a deficiency of the free active pancreatic enzymes in the
tissues of the body. From two to eleven years later, malignant tumors evolve.
What Cancer is Not!
Cancer is not those lumps and bumps that we have been so programmed to fear
and freak-out over. Cancer is not a malignant tumor mass, which doctors in error call
cancer. This is one of the reasons we have so much "cancer". The physician does not
know what cancer is so how can he properly treat it? Physicians, both orthodox and
alternative, only know how to mistreat malignant tumor masses, blood and lymph
abnormalities, which are not even cancer.
The Proper Treatment of Cancer
We have three billion Trophoblast cells scattered throughout our entire body
from the brain to little toe - everywhere in your body the size of a pinhead are two
Trophoblast cells waiting to be stimulated to form a placenta in preparation for the
next generation of the species. This process takes place in everyone every day. These
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Trophoblast cells are stimulated by ESTROGEN, to start growing in preparation for the
next generation of the species. Since there is no egg or sperm present, a fetus never
develops - no baby is forth coming. This happens every day in everyone. Thus, a
malignant tumor begins to form a placenta, a false placenta. This is a very normal
necessary part of life.
Why then does not everyone develop malignant tumors? They do! Why then are
we not aware of these tumor masses? They are normal and much too small to be
noticed. When these small tumor masses (false placentas) form, our body, being
aware of it, signals the normal defenses to attack, digesting these normal Trophoblast
cells and the white blood cells carrying them to the liver for processing and
elimination from the body. The normal body defense system is the production and
distribution of PANCREATIC ENZYMES.
What are Malignant Tumors?
We must understand and comprehend what CANCER is and what MALIGNANT
TUMORS are and discern the difference between them. Malignant tumors are masses
of TROPHOBLAST cells, PLACENTAS, attempting to make ready the next generation
of mammals - human or otherwise.
The Treatment of Malignant Tumors
There are several ways to address malignant tumors and resolve the destructive
condition associated with them.
A. M etabolic  normal  way. Yahweh, I  AM that I  AM, Almighty has designed our
bodies to resolve CANCER That is, the failure of the pancreas to produce
adequate pancreatic and enzyme activators. This occurs every day in everyone.
Generally the body adapts to this condition and produces more enzymes,
activators, white blood cells and increased circulation to accommodate this
normal metabolic condition-CANCER. This is why some people never develop
Malignant  Tumors. Should interference of this normal metabolic process
occur, M alignant  Tumors  w ill develop which the medical communities, both
orthodox and alternative, in total error call cancer. Proper treatment


 to watch it carefully within ourself.
There is really no order of difftculty in the healing
of these various illnesses. This means that what the
world considers to be a severe disease is just as easy to
let go of as a minor illness.
Among friends, co-workers, acquaintances, patients,
and other people I have worked with, there is a group
of people who have recovered from many serious 67 ASSISTING HEALING
illnesses totally and completely. They were given up as
hopeless, as almost dead, and yet those people who
have become my friends are extremely alive and well,
with no traces of their illnesses at all. It does not make
any difference because the truth is the truth, and that
which is false is false. It does not depend on the form
offalsehood; all that is false is false, just as all that is true
is true. Ifyour mind can create it, then your mind can
cancel it. We thereby begin to use the power of the
mind on our own behalf.
The process of self-healing is handled on the level
of the specific by letting go of our resistance to experi
encing it and then canceling the thought forms. The
healing is going on in general, more powerful ways due
to our willingness to let go of all criticism and attack,
along with beginning to love the humanness in ourself
and others, and the reawakening of our awareness of
its innocence.
What about the third level, that of traditional med
ical treatment? What part does it play in this kind of
self-healing? Traditional medical treatments now sur
prisingly become very effective. As we let go of our
guiltiness, which came about through our lack of com
passion for our own humanness, medical measures that
were once fruitless now begin to be effective. In other
words, during all the illnesses I had, such as migraine
headaches, ulcers, and diverticulitis, I received tradi
tional medical treatment for twenty years or more. I
was on the diets, medications, antispasmodics, and.
antacids, and I did all the traditional medical things, but
they were not working; however, they perhaps kept
things from getting worse. After all, I did not have my 68 HEALING AND RECOVERY
stomach or colon removed, so the treatments were
working, but they were working against all the nega
tive programming going on within the mind.
When we start to let go of all the negative pro
grams, all the previously relatively ineffective medical
treatments now become effective. In my case, the anti
spasmodic that once barely kept the symptoms under
control then totally relieved the symptoms. A healing
came about. The antispasmodic, the antacids, and the
diet that was considered necessary (in addition to
acupuncture treatments) then brought about a healing
of the ulcer; the medications were very powerfully
effective. The medications for relieving the allergies
then worked wondrously well.We found that the need
for the medication dwindled off.The need for all these
ameliorative measures finally disappeared, and I
resumed eating a normal diet. You might imagine the
kind of diet I had had to live on, with an elevated cho
lesterol level, hypoglycemia, diverticulitis, an active
ulcer, migraine, and most of all, the allergies.
I remember walking into a restaurant and looking
at.the menu. The only thing I could eat was the salad
and the spinach because the seeds in the other foods
would aggravate the diverticulitis, and the acids would
aggravate the ulcer. I could not eat tomatoes or any
thing of that nature, and of course, nothing containing
sugar. I could not eat pasta, any ofthe bakery offerings,
the desserts, or the meats; I had to avoid them because
of the elevated uric acid levels of gout. Frankly, there
were very few things left on this planet for me to eat.
As those things relieved themselves, however, I
then found that diet was also a belief system.That is the 69 ASSISTING HEALING
downside of holistic health-the belief system that all
these things are injurious to us.They are injurious to us
because we are holding in mind that they are. No such
thing exists in the world of the'real'.As a result, I am
not on a low-sugar, low-cholesterol, low-fat diet. My
cholesterol and blood sugar are normal. I am on a reg
ular diet and never get a gout attack. All those things
turned out to be corollary to the belief systems.
Ifwe have a belief system about gout, then we will
have all that goes with it, including the beliefs about the
various meats that supposedly bring it on, such as pick
led herring, which I love (and now eat almost daily). I
used to have gout so severely that if I ate just a small
amount of liver pate on a cracker, it would bring on a
gout attack.
I always tell the story of how one day I cooked a
, frying pan full of liver and kidneys for my kitty, think
ing she would love them. Instead she stuck her nose up
and would not eat them.There was a big pan of them,
and they smelled delicious as they were cooking with
onions and a little bit of bacon. I even put a little catnip
in some of it, but Kitty just was not interested. All of a
sudden, I saw that my whole dietary limitation was just
a crazy belief system that I was holding in mind, and I
said, "I am an infInite being. I am not subject to this. I
mean this is absurd." So I sat down and ate almost the
whole pan of kidney and liver, and needless to say, I did
not have a gout attack nor have I ever had one since. I
just canceled it as a belief system. It was a joke-a sad
joke, but still a joke. We are subject only to what we
hold in mind-consciously or unconsciously.
When we re-own the source of our power and stop 70 HEALING AND RECOVERY
giving it away to the world, we fmd that the cause of
gout is not in kidneys and liver; it is not in stress; it is
not in uric acid levels or purine metabolism. It has to
do with what we hold in mind. When we re-own and
stop denying the power of our own mind, we begin to
realize that we are the source ofeither health or illness.
What do I mean when I say, "I am the source?" I mean
my consciousness, my infmite being.
Let us now consider the energy fields that explain
how this works. What are the intrinsic physics, the
energy fields, and the levels? Instead of owning our
selves at a level below the level ofTruth at 200 and put
ting power that is a lie out into the world, we begin to
re-own the truth about ourselves. Our willingness to
look into this brings about the experience and realiza
tion of the truth of it.That is the experiential purity of
what we are discussing. We, ourselves, can reduplicate
the truth of this through our own experimentation. We
are our own individual self.
As we re-own ourselves as the source and move up
in the levels of consciousness, we begin to realize that
we are subject to anything that we hold in mind, and
that the belief systems and thought forms we bought
into have been the source or 'cause' of what we have
been experiencing. The world has no power to create
any such thing. Does a piece of kidney have power in
it? Of course not. Do our minds have the power to cre
ate illnesses? Yes, indeed.
Now we will begin to undo the syndrome of the
'bubble' person. What happens to the bubble person?
Its innocent, childlike mind enthusiastically buys the
whole idea of holistic health and nutrition, for example. 71 ASSISTING HEALING
It begins to read all the literature. Well, let me tell you
that ifwe continue to read that literature long enough,
we will fmd that everything in our world, everything in
our experience, everything in our environment, and
everything in this universe will kill us.That is the mes
sage we will get. Magnesium will kill us; calcium will
kill us. The energy given off by rugs, paint, and every
thing in the air will kill us. If we walk by somebody
who is smoking a cigarette-"Aha! I'm going to get
lung cancer."We unWittingly buy into all these power
fully negative thought systems. However, we can begin
to cancel them, one by one. I did it.
I had a friend who said eggs would kill me. Goodbye,
eggs. Cholesterol will kill me. Good-bye, cholesterol.
Water will kill me; dairy products will kill me; meat will
kill me.Well, eatfruit. Okay.And fruit is full ofpesticides.
Holy smokes! I was into fruit. Fruit did not last long at all
because the


ored; dead tissue is gone. The patient can probably function normally with only about 50% of
functioning lung tissue, but he or she cannot be fully restored.
Muscular Dystrophy:  Thought to be a familial (genetic) disease, this condition causes
progressive atrophy (wasting away) of muscles and usually starts in childhood, more frequently in
boys than in girls. The underlying cause is described as “A disorder caused by defective nutrition
or metabolism” (Taber). In Dr. Gerson’s day it responded favorably to his treatment, but more
recently we have not seen good results and have to consider it incurable. In one case, diagnosed
as Duchenne’s Disease, which usually results in death at an early age, we have seen a more than
twenty year long survival.
TO SUM UP:
The Gerson Therapy would be useless and could even cause harm to the following, who should
not undertake it under any circumstances:
 •  Patients on dialysis
 •  Patients with organ transplants (the therapy would cause a rejection)
 •  Patients with melanoma that has spread to the brain (the only case in which
     melanoma, eminently curable in any other body part, does not respond)
 •  Patients with pancreatic cancer if chemotherapy has been administered.
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www.thegersonway.comReferences:
1. Budwig, J.  Flax Oil as a True Aid Against Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer and
Other Diseases, Apple Publishing, 1994.
2. Taber’ s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, F.A.Davis Company, Philadelphia, 1993.
3.  Ibid.
4.  Booth, F. boothf@missouri.edu
5.  Robbins, J. Diet for a New America, New World Library, 1998.
6. McDougall, J. The McDougall Program for Women,  Plume, 2000.
7.  Price, W.A. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Keats Pub., 15th edition, 2003.
8.  Meinig, G. Root Canal Cover-Up, Bion Publishing, Ojai, CA, 1994.Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007.  All rights reserved.
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www.thegersonway.comCHAPTER 7
Restoring the Body’s Defenses
“I look forward optimistically to a healthy,
happy world as soon as its children are taught
the principles of simple and rational living.
We must return to nature and nature’s God.”
          Luther Burbank (1849-1926)
“Physicians and the public have exclusively
focused on drug therapy to the detriment
of at least one of the foundations
of good health—appropriate nutrition.”
       Dr. Mary Keith, St.Michael’ s Hospital, Toronto
By now, two basic facts will have become clear to the reader:
1) Everybody’s health and well-being is under constant attack from those factors of modern life
that undermine the body’s natural defenses and self-healing ability, leading to a multitude of
diseases;
2) The complex, precision-built nutritional program of the Gerson Therapy is able to undo the
harm, restore the organism’s damaged defenses and enable the body to heal itself.
In his thinking Dr. Gerson always made a close connection between the body’s defenses and its
healing mechanism. Indeed, he invariably saw in his patients that the healing mechanism had
been disturbed or severely damaged before the body succumbed to disease. Moreover, he was
convinced that the appearance of malignant disease, i.e., cancer, represented the ultimate, most
severe kind of breakdown, and that it needed the best expert care and effort to reverse the
destructive process and achieve healing.
Perhaps the greatest of Dr. Gerson’s many revolutionary insights was his realization that the
underlying causes of chronic disease were deficiency and toxicity. This approach differs greatly
from that of conventional medicine, which prefers to assign a clear-cut cause to each individual
disease, but omits to look for the truly basic problems that are common to many. And this
difference in approach is one of many factors that separate the Gerson protocol from orthodox
treatments.Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007.  All rights reserved.
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www.thegersonway.comOnce the underlying problems are recognized, they can be treated: the deficiency  is eliminated
with hyper-alimentation, the toxicity with systematic detoxification. Despite their vital importance
these methods are simple, straightforward and transparent. Above all, they make sense.
We have already touched on this subject in general terms (see Chapter 2, Knowing the
Enemy), but now we need to take a closer look at its practical application.
Hyper-alimentation : The answer to deficiency is to give the patient maximum amounts of
the best possible foodstuffs. However, seriously ill patients are usually unable to eat much. Their
appetite and digestion are poor, and their elimination is inadequate. Under the circumstances the
only way forward is juicing, since almost every patient is able—and normally willing—to drink
a freshly prepared glass of organic juice every hour. Once that routine is established, the nutrients
the body so desperately needs are in constant supply.
A few extremely debilitated patients, who cannot cope with the usual hourly 8-ounce glass of
juice, are given 4- or 6-ounce portions at the beginning of the treatment. To their surprise, after
only a few days of juicing and intensive detoxification they are able to eat three full vegetarian
meals a day, prepared from fresh organic produce, and drink 13 standard size glasses of juice,
besides snacking on fruit. Once they reach that stage of hyper-alimentation, each patient consumes
approximately 20 pounds of food a day.
Critics of the Gerson Therapy, who find the hourly preparation of fresh juices onerous, (which
it certainly is!) often suggest the use of vitamin and mineral supplements instead. What they
don’t realize is that the sick body is unable to assimilate and utilize pharmaceutically prepared
substances; which would simply pass through the organism without doing any good. Only live,
fresh, raw vegetables and fruits are absorbed, and exclusively in the form of juice, which bypasses
the digestive process and is immediately assimilated.
Detoxification : As soon as the body is being flooded with live nutrients, these are rapidly
absorbed and force accumulated toxins from the cells into the blood stream, which in turn
transports them to the liver, the body’s chief organ of detoxification. However, the patient who
embarks on the Gerson Therapy after a lifetime of living on a so-called normal modern diet has
already accumulated considerable amounts of food additives, residues of pesticides and other
agrochemicals, plus toxins from many sources that block his or her liver. As a result the liver is
unable to deal with the newly arriving toxins, driven from the tissues by the live nutrients.
Unless quickly shifted, this logjam of toxins could lead to life-threatening self intoxication
and liver coma; hence the vital role of the rapidly detoxifying frequent coffee enemas which
are a cornerstone of the Gerson treatment. There are several cancer therapies which use various
methods to kill tumor tissue, but without removing dead toxic material from the liver. In order to
allow the liver to discard its toxic load slowly and gradually, the treatment has to be interrupted,
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www.thegersonway.comis able to work continuously, which explains its effectiveness—and also why the coffee enemas
are an indispensable part of the protocol. Without them, the additional load of newly released
toxins could even cause new liver damage. Whoever wants to embark on the Gerson Therapy
must include the required practice of coffee enemas.Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007.  All rights reserved.
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www.thegersonway.comCHAPTER 8
Why Does The Gerson Therapy Work?
So far so good. The basic principles of the Gerson protocol are simple and clear and
obviously its practice has been yielding remarkable results over more than sixty years. But the
question remains: is there any current scientific research to confirm the methods Dr. Gerson
developed partly intuitively, partly through constant study and clinical observation, but without
sophisticated research facilities, all those decades ago? Putting it simply: has anyone discovered
just why this therapy works?
The answer is yes. Since Dr. G


ATION
Acidosis leads to dehydration, and dehydration leads to acidosis.
Eating predominately cooked food leads to dehydration.
Dehydration leads to hypoactivity of tissue, eventually leading to tissue
death.

HEARTBURN

Heartburn is a result of acidosis of the stomach and intestinal tract. Wrong
food combinations cause fermentation and putrefaction, bringing on this
acidosis or over-acid condition. Eating too much acid-forming food also
creates heartburn. This is especially true in meat eaters where hydrochloric
acid is over-produced. Eating too many grain products and/or cooked
tomatoes can cause severe heartburn. A lack of pancreatic enzymes causes
poor digestion, which can also create heartburn and gas.
Poor production of sodium of bicarbonate from the pancreas, as well as
poor bile flow or production from the liver/gallbladder also causes acid
reflux. Many times, gallstones block the bile duct so that the bile flow is
restricted. Additionally, a weak sphincter muscle (like a door) between the
esophagus and stomach allows stomach acids to regurgitate back up the
esophagus yielding acid reflux.
The detoxification and regeneration program recommended in this book
does not cause heartburn. However, because the nature of raw foods is
“energy,” you may experience some stimulation of these conditions
temporarily.
Working with Heartburn During Detoxification
Ginger tea is excellent for heartburn. In this situation, food combinations
must be scrutinized. If improper eating, including improper food combining,
has occurred, an apple will help. Apples contain strong digestive enzymes
and will aid digestion greatly. You can also make a tea from other soothing
herbs: Chamomile flowers, Gentian Root, Slippery Elm Bark, or
Marshmallow Root to help heal the gastric walls. Alkalize, alkalize, alkalize!
It’s the only true way to health.LUNG CONGESTION

The lungs will attempt to clean themselves out of mucus and toxins. In
asthma, emphysema, and C.O.RD. (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
where the adrenal glands are also involved, tissue spasms can be a problem.
This can block or inhibit one’s ability to breathe. This is when an herbal
antispasmodic is invaluable. It will stop the spasms, but allow your lungs to
expectorate the congestion.
If one really wants to cure lung condition and he or she is using an
inhaler, success will be moderate. I recommend the use of an herbal
antispasmodic in place of an inhaler. However, if you are advanced in your
condition, you may need to use your inhaler periodically. Some people are on
four or more different inhalers, which is potentially a very dangerous
situation. Some current research has even indicated that inhalers may be
carcinogenic.
The main problem with inhalers is their lymphatic-inhibiting properties.
They not only dilate your breathing passages, but they do so by inhibiting
expectoration. On the other hand, herbal antispasmodics dilate and allow for
proper breathing, but they also allow for expectoration. Expectoration is the
removal or elimination of congestion within the tissues of the lungs. This is
vital for greater oxygen exchange. Many herbs, like Comfrey Root,
Chickweed, Marshmallow Root and Yerba Santa Leaf, can help rebuild lung
tissue.
Chronic asthmatics and those who have chronic lung problems must be
careful as they approach detoxification. Better to start out with
70 percent raw
foods and 30 percent cooked, which will allow cleansing to proceed slowly
and gently.

Remember your adrenal glands. They play a vital role in why your lungs
spasm. Underactive adrenal glands can create low neurotransmitterproduction, which weakens the nervous system to the lungs. This can result
in sensitivity and irritability of the nervous system. Add to this a
hypofunction of the thyroid, which causes low calcium utilization, and you
have spastic conditions of your tissues. Clean your lungs out. Enhance the
function of your adrenal glands, and check the basal temperatures of your
body to determine thyroid involvement (calcium utilization). It is highly
suggested that a health care professional closely monitor this process in
advanced lung conditions.
Working with Asthma and Lung Congestion During Detoxification
Asthmatics and people with lung congestion may use a castor oil pack with
hot cayenne compresses placed over the lung area on the chest. (Directions
for making and administering a castor oil pack are given in
Chapter 10
.)
Drinking a cup of Peppermint tea followed every ten minutes with a teaspoon
of the tincture of Lobelia (up to 6 teaspoons). Lobelia is an antispasmodic at
low doses and an emetic at higher doses. This might induce vomiting in some
individuals. Vomiting will compress the lungs and expel the phlegm.
Alternating hot and cold compresses are also good—apply a hot
compress for 2 minutes, followed by cold compress for 2 minutes, then
another round or two of each. You may wish to use an antispasmodic herbal
formula. This will control the spasms allowing you to breathe and to
expectorate the mucus.
LOSS OF ENERGY OR EXHAUSTION

As stored toxins are broken up and released from the tissues into the blood
system, the side effects of that particular toxin or poison may be re-
experienced. Generally speaking, the older the individual, the greater the
accumulated toxins. Glandular weaknesses, lowered immune system
functioning, unhappiness, chronic lung involvement, thyroid and adrenal
weakness, and malabsorption are all factors that can cause serious energy
loss. Sugar imbalances can also cause energy changes. More rest is needed at
different times, especially when all stimulants (like coffee, tea, and refined
sugars) are removed from the diet.
We are a society that relies on stimulants for energy. This eventually
weakens our true energy centers, the glands. When we stop our intake ofstimulants, we can experience a whiplash effect and feel quite fatigued. This
will soon pass with the ingestion of living foods and juices. It is important to
understand that the S.A.D. (Standard American Diet) is weakening your
physical body, not strengthening it. Those foods create a lot of inflammation
and toxicity in tissues. When you add stimulation to this package you can
begin to see why we develop tissue failure.
Most cases of “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”
are not
 the Epstein-Barr
virus. This virus can cause fatigue. However, it is an easy virus to kill. (If, in
fact, a virus is an organism. Because viruses are so small, an electron
microscope must be used to see them. “Viruses” are considered by many
scientists to be more of a protein, which involves an immune response,
instead of a single-celled living organism, like bacteria.)
The real cause of so much fatigue in our society is thyroid and adrenal
weaknesses. When these two endocrine glands are weak, the results can be
fatigue, depression and anxiety. These glands must be regenerated if you
truly wish to overcome chronic fatigue. This will not happen overnight, but if
you persist you will be successful. A raw food diet and herbal formulas are
the secret.
Working with Lack of Energy or Fatigue During Detox
The stoppage of all stimulating foods can cause a large energy loss. This is
especially true if a person has hypoactive thyroid or adrenal glands. These are
your energy glands, which become weakened from acidosis and toxicity.
Stimulating foods actually have a negative effect on these glands making
them weaker instead of stronger. The constant stimulation from coffee, tea,
etc., hides this fact from you. Most of our energy throughout our lives comes
from stimulated cellular activity.
Energy should be dynamic, not stimulated. Drinking 3–6,10-ounce
glasses of carrot, spinach and celery juice per day will help increase energy
levels. Eating as much fresh, ripe fruit as possible will help. Panax Ginseng
extract, Royal Jelly, Alfalfa, Barley Green Complex, and/or a well-balanced
super-food complex, will also aid in increasing energy levels. (See the
Resource Guide for where to find the finest super-food blends.) Rest and time
are also great healers.
SWELLING AND ITCHING
There can be many swellings that erupt from the skin during detox. Tumors
can even become larger before they are dissolved. Most swellings are short-
lived, however, so it is important to keep up the fruit during these times.
Itching is another factor in detoxification. This is mostly caused by a
fungal or Candida involvement. An individual can develop itching and
redness of the skin anywhere.
Remedies for Itching During Detoxification
Angelica Root, Aloe Vera, or Chickweed applied topically can ease the
itching. If itching continues, the fungal infestation needs to be killed and the
lymph they live in must be cleaned. This requires herbal lymphatic and
parasite formulas and a raw food diet.
OTHER SIDE EFFECTS DURING DETOXIFICATION

Other side effects may include, but are not limited to: excessive
menstruation; frequent or deep coughing; frequent urination; headaches;
diarrhea; numbness; tingling of the arms, legs, hands and feet; skin eruptions
and gas


 77
Blood pressure, 82, 210-212, 214
Blood supply, 93, 110, 128, 155, 183
Body
awakening of consciousness in, 17-18
awareness, 111-112
force in, 12
homeostasis and, 30
peace to, 168
self-knowledge and, 169-170
uncontrolled functions, 130-141
See also  Physiology
Boils, 205
Bone fracture, 217-218
Bowel impaction, 29-30, 80, 172, 180
Bowel movements, 28, 29, 173
Bowel tumor, 13
Brain, frontal areas of, 131
Breast cancer, 103-104
Breast milk, 68
Breathing adjustments, 83
Building agent, 2
Bursitis, 204B vitamins, 91
C
Caecum, 57, 77, 109
Caesarian section, 28
Calluses, 69
Cancer, 58, 103-104
abdominal cavity, 80-81
skin, 41-43
Cannon, W. B., 59
Capillaries, 40
Caput, 59, 61
Case studies, 169-219
Castor oil
body physiology and, 70-96
chemical composition of, 62-63
for chronic problems, 23-26
colon ef fects, 59-61
creating vibration, 30, 65, 167, 179
effects of, 157-158
in folk medicine, 67-69
as a healing force, 19-34
historical uses, 58-59
hydroxyl groups in, 62-63
oral ingestion, 16, 70
plant, 38, 58-59
Castor oil consciousness, 16-18, 21, 33
Castor oil packs, XVIII, 13-14
case-by-case response to, 190-199
cleansing after, 27, 219
current application, 171-187
effects of, 26-34
frequency of use, 27, 84
incoordination and, 108-1 12
instructions for use, 26-27, 219
lymph and, 93
receptivity to, 167-168
Catharsis, 83
Cayce, Edgar, XVI, XVIII, 10, 16, 57, 71, 201
on attitudes, 98
attunement and, 65
autonomic system and, 140
clairvoyance, 12
on coccyx, 94
on constipation, 72-73
on electricity, 140-141, 144-146
on fear, 161gall bladder and, 98
ganglia and, 142-143
on headaches, 77-78
on healing, 22-23, 95-96
Hodgkin’ s disease and, 117-118, 120
immune system and, 64
incoordination and, 105-106
karma and, 99-100
lacteals and, 82, 87
on life purpose, 20-21
liver function and, 85
on love, 104-105
lymphitis and, 108
mental illness and, 151-153
on mystery, 29
nature of the body and, 101-103
on nausea, 106
nervous system and, 65, 75-76, 78-79
perception of body, 81
Peyer ’s patches and, 89-91
on physiology, 83-84
on pregnancy, 73
radiations and, 101-102
on snoring, 53
sympathetic nervous system and, 150-151
on vaginitis, 79
on vibrations, 32
view of illness, 56
Cayce, Hugh L ynn, 11
Cells consciousness of, 158-160
drainage system of, 87
Central nervous system, 131, 132
Cerebral cortex, 131
Cerebral palsy, 58
Cerebrospinal nervous system, 133, 150
autonomic nervous system and, 109-1 14, 117, 127
conscious mind and, 164
sympathetic nervous system and, 91, 119, 123-125, 128, 151-156
Change, 23, 45
Chemical reactions, 63
Chest, packs over, 49
Chiropractic, 119
Cholecystalgia, 58
Cholecystitis, 58, 173, 182-184, 214
Choliner gic supply, 139
Christ Consciousness, 66
Chronic illness, 23-26, 64
Circulatory system, 110, 111, 200-201Cleansing functions, 21, 184-185, 187
Coccyx, 94, 118-119, 152-153
Cocoa butter, 14, 78
Colds, 52
Colitis, 58, 207, 212-213
Colon, 57, 59-61, 83, 180-181, 190, 212
Colonics, 83
Communication, with body, 4-5
Conscious mind, 135, 154, 163, 164
Consciousness, 19-21, 131, 141
adventure in, 104
of cells, 111-112, 158-160
healing as an awakening in, 16-18
peace and, 168
purification in, 184-185
Constipation, 24, 58, 72-73, 159, 204
Contraceptive pills, 210-212
Coordination, 105-120, 145
Corns, 69
Courage, 161
Cranial nerves, 165
Creative activity, 45
Creative Forces, 3, 21, 23, 66, 102-103, 158, 201
Creative functions, 184
Cyst, 162, 209, 217
Cystitis, 206, 214
D
Dandelion, 2
Depression, 206-207
Dermatitis, 61-62
Detoxifier, 85
Diet, 95, 95, 107, 204. See also  Food
Digestion, 82, 138
Dihydroxystearic acid, 62
Disease, 45
beginning stages of, 7
incoordination in, 105-1 14
Dizziness, 212
Doctors, see Physicians
Dorsal root, 118, 119
Dorsal spinal nerves, 124, 126-127
Dreaming, XVII-XVIII, 53, 95
communicating with body through, 5
Jesus in, 55
physiological activity during, 154
Duodenum, 58, 87Dyslexia, 45
E
Ear problems, 49-52
Edema, 159, 172, 181, 212, 215
Edgar Cayce, see Cayce, Edgar
Edgar Cayce Remedies, The, 50
Efferent nerves, 132-133
Eicosanoic acid, 62
Electrical being, 102
Electrical vibration, 144-146
Electricity, 141
Electromagnetic radiation, 95, 102
Elimination
autonomic nervous system and, 180
castor oil and, 57, 189
channels of, 39-40, 108
emotions and, 200
herb for, 2
lymph and, 87, 93
Emollient properties, 63
Emotions, 53, 160-163, 200
autonomic function and, 135
disease and, 147
disturbances of, 75-76
effect on body, 7
endocrine glands and, 137
healing and, 96-120
incoordination and, 114-120
Endocrine system, 85, 99, 127, 137, 160-161
Endometritis, 215-216
Energy being, 102
Energy impulses, 130-131
Epigastric distress, 203
Epilepsy, 13-14, 58, 64, 90, 94
Esophageal spasm, 49
Exercises, 83
Eyes, irritation of, 68, 69
F
Faith, 17, 97, 142, 161
Fats
lymph system and, 86
in meals, 86
Fear, 161
Fecal impaction, 29-30, 80, 172, 180Feet, 78
aching, 44-45, 69
stab wound, 217
toenail fungus, 41
Fibrohematoma


  be decided,  thc
undivided  mind  cenainly  has the feeling  of
freedom,  and cer- tainly  brings  into  the moral
sphere  a way  of life which  has all  che marks of
free and  creative  action.  It is easy  to see  that
most  of the acts  which,  in con- vencional  morals,
are called  cvil can be traced  to the divided  mind.
By far the greater  part  of thesc  acts
126    CREATIVE  MORALITY
come  from  exaggerated  desires,  desires  for chings
which are not even remotely necessary for che
health  of mincl and bocly, granting that "healch " is
a rela - tive term.  Such  outlandish  ancl  insaciable
desires  come into bcing because man is exploiting
his appe - rites  to give  thc ·'J" a sense  of security.
I am depressed, and want to get 'T' out of this
de- pression. The opposite of clepression is
elation, but  because depression is not elation, I
cannot force my - self to be elated.  l can,  however,
get drunk.  This  makes me wonderfully elatccl, and
so when rhe next  depression arrives,  I have a
quick cure. The subse - quent deprcssions have a
way of getting deeper and  blacker,  because  I am
not digesting  the depressed  state ancl  eliminaling
its poisons.  So I nced  ta ger  even drunker to
drown them. Very soon I begin ro  hate  mysclf for
getting so drunk,  which  makes me  still more
deprcssccl -and so it gocs.
Or pcrhaps  l have  a largc  family,  and am living
in
a mortgagcd housc on which I have spent ali my
sav- ings. I have to work hard at a job in which I
am not  particularly  imerested  in arder  to pay the
bilis.  I don't mind working so much, but l keep
wondering  what  will happen  if I get sick,  or if a
war  comes  and I am draftecl. I would rather not
think about these  things, so I walll  to gct  "l" out
of this worry.  For I  am surc that I shall get sick if it
goes on. Bue it's so  hard to stop, and as this makes
sickness more certain,  the worrying  digs  deeper.
I must  fincl  relief  from
127 THE  \\I ISDOM  OF INSECURITY
Lhis, and so in dcspernlion  I begin  Lo "play the  po-
nies,"  trying to offset  the worry  with  the daily  hope
thaL  my horse  may  win.  And  so il goes.
The  conventional  moralisl  has nothing  LO con-
tribute  to these  problcms.  He can point  out thc
frighcf ul  effects of alcoholism anc!  gamb!ing,  bul
that  is simp!y  more  fue! for depression  and worry.
He can promise  rewards  in hcaven  for suffering  pa-
ciencly endured, but thal, LOO, is a gamble of a kind.
He can attribuce the c!epression or Lhe worry to the
social sysLem, and urge Lhc unfonunates LOjoin Lhc
revoluLion.
In short,  he can eiLher frighten  the "I" or encour -
agc it, in one case  making  Lhe individual  run away
from himself, and  in the other making him run after
hirnsc!f.  He can paint  glowing  pictures  of the vir-
Lues and encourage oLhers  LO find sLrcngth  in the ex -
arnplcs  of great  men.  He can succeed  to the
extcnt  of arousing the most vigorous eífons Lo
imitate saim - liness, to curb che passions,  and LO
practice rescraint  and charity in action.  Yel none of
this brings anyone  LOfreedom, for behind ali  thc
imitation and the dis- cipline  there  is still motive.
lf I am  afraid,  my effons  lo feel and act bravcly
are moved by che fear,  for I am afraid  of fear,
which  is sirnply ro say that my e[ons to escape from
what  I am are moving  in a circle.  Beside  the
examples  of saints  and heroes  I fecl ashamed  that  I
amount  ro nothing,  and so I begin  co practice
humility  because
128 CREATIVE  MORALITY
of my wounded pride, and charity beca use of my
self- love. The urge is ever lo make 'T' amounl to
some - lhing.  I must be right, good, a real  person,
heroic,  loving, sclf•effacing. I efface myself in
order LO assert  myself,  and give  myself  away  in
order  LO keep  my- self.  The  whole  thing  is a
contradiclion.
The Christian mind has always been haunted
by the feeling that the sins of the saints are worse
than  the sins of the sinners, that in sorne
mystcrious way  the one who  is struggling  for
salvation  is nearer  to
hell and to the heart of evil than Lhe unashnmed
har- lot or thief.  It has recognized  that the De vil  is
an an - gel, and as pure spirit is not really
interested in the  sins of che  flesh. The sins after
the Devil's heart are the intricacies of spiritual
pride,  the mazes of self - deception,  and che subtle
mockeries  of hypocrisy  where  mask  hides  behind
mask  behind  mask  and reality  is lost altogethcr.
The would -be saint walks straight into thc
meshes  of this web because he would become a
saint. His "I" finds the deepest security in a
satisfaction  which is  the more  intense  for being so
cleverly  hidden -the satisfaction of being contrite
for his sins, and con - trile for taking pridc in  his
contrition.  In such an involved vicious circlc the
masks behind masks are  infinite. Or, to put it in
anothcr way, he who,vould  stand outside himself
to kick himself, must then kick  the self that  stands
outside.  And  so forever.
So long  as there  is the motive  lo  becomc
somc -
129 THE  WISOOM  OF INSECURITY
thing, so long as the mind believes in  the
possibility  of escape from  what it is at this
momenc,  there can  be no freedom.  Virtue will be
pursued  for exactly  Lhe same reason as vice, and
good and cvil will alter - naLc  as che opposice
poles  of a ingle  circle.  The  "saine" who appcars
LOhave conquercd his self-love  by spiricual
violence has only concealed it. His ap - parent
success convinces  others  that  he has found  the
"true  way,"  and they  follow  his example  long
enough for the course to swing to its oppositc
pole,  when license becorncs Lhc inevitable
reacLion to pu - ritanism.
Of course it sounds as if it were the most abject
fatalism to have to admit that I am what I am, and
that  no escape or division  is possible.  lt seems
that  if I am afraid, then  I am "stuck"  with  fcar.
But in  fact I am chained LOthe fear only so long as
I am try - ing LOget away from iL. On the other
hand, when I do noL try to get away I discover
thaL there is noth - ing "stuck" or fixed about the
reality of the moment.  When I am aware of this
feeling without naming it, without  calling  it "fear,"
"bad,"  "negative,"  etc.,  it changes instantly in Lo
something else, and life moves  freely ahead. The
fceling no longer perpetuates  it- self by creating
the feeler  behind  it.
Wc can perhaps see now why the undivided
mind  is not moved  into  those escapes  from  the
present  which  are usually  called  "evil."  The
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ed my
understanding from being merely conceptual to transformative. The
material began to have a noticeable impact on my day-to -day life. I
began to walk through the world in a brand new way, almost as if my
glasses had been cleaned and I could at last see the world through
clear lenses. That is, through the lenses of what is really going on
and what we’re really “up to” on the planet, and on this journey of
being human.
So I would love to chat about this today, Neale.
I think it’ s a powerful place to start.
 NEALE: Great. There are really seven  simple questions about Life
that I think are important for people to ask themselves... yet my
observation is that 98 percent of the world’ s people have never
asked themselves those questions. Most go from birth to death,
actually, and never even consider  askin g themselves those
questions. The questions never even occur to them, except,
perhaps, in the most fleeting, passing way—if at all. I have
categorized these seven simple questions as: (A) the Three
Persistent Questions, and (B) the Four Fundamental Questions of
Life.
The first three questions  are important because they
contextualize, or provide a reason, for asking the next four. Or, to put
it another way, if everything  was beautiful and wonderful on the
Earth, and the people of this planet were both collectively and
individually experiencing the lives that they wished and had hoped to
experience, then the Four Fundamental Questions would almost be
needless. There would be no real purpose in asking them, and
certainly no urgency around the answers.
What creates  an urgency around the Four Fundamental
Questions of Life are the three questions that precede them in my list
of Seven Simple Questions. The first question is:
How is it possible for over seven billion people on the Earth to
all say they want the same thing and to be unable to get it? That’ s
the contextual basis for the Four Fundamental Questions of Life. As I
said, if everyone was living the life they wish they could experience,
there would be no point in asking those final four questions.
The only reason to even get into self-examination is not for the
spiritual or intellectual exercise of it, but because something is notworking.
One doesn’t walk into a room where the lights are all on and
say, “Do you think we should check the fuse box?” Everyone would
say, “Why bother? Everything is working fine.” But if you walk into
the kitchen and the lights aren’t on and the toaster doesn ’t work and
nothing else is operating, you’d better check the breaker box.
So the Three Persistent Questions are not unimportant. That
first question again: How in the world is it possible for 7.3 billion
people on this planet to all say, including you and me and all the rest
of us, that we all want the same thing, but are unable to get it, except
for the tiniest percentage of us?
The second question: Is it possible that there is something we
don’t fully understand about God and about Life, the understanding
of which could change everything?
And the third question: Is it possible there is something we
don’t understand about ourselves, the understan ding of which would
change how we experience ourselves, and how we relate to all of
Life?

DR. COOPER : It’s a mind-boggling concept that over seven billion
people could all claim to want the same things—pe ace, love,
opportunity, joy, abundance—and be utterly unable to achieve it. I’d
never quite thought of it in those terms before.
It certainly puts the truth right in front of our eyes, when it
comes to examining the state of our world. And to pondering how a
presumably intelligent specie s—one that can send man to the moon,
uncover the mysteries of our ever-expanding universe, unlock the
genetic code, and discover miraculous medical miracles—could finditself at such a seeming “impasse” when it comes to the basics of
life. Simple things like joy, love, food, and shelter.
And not only do we seem incapable of experiencing these
things to the degree that we would like to, we seem to struggle to
experience them in even the smallest degree.
Speaking of eye-opening things, it certainly wakes us up to the
state of the world reading the statistics in your book God’ s Message
To The World: You’ve Got Me All Wrong. To quote from it, over 650
children die per hour of starvation. Almost 21 million women and
children are bought and sold into commercial sexual servitude every
year. About 2.6 billion are without basic sanitation, and 1.6 without
electricity. And the list goes on. So it certainly provides the context
for self-examination, both individually and collectively, for all of
humanity.

NEALE: And 1.5 billion do not even have access to clean water.
Imagine that.

DR. COOPER: It’s unbelievab le. And Neale, I really want to ask you,
Why?  How is it possible that such circumstances could  be
“accepted” in our world, almost without a second thought? Are
people not shocked that such a phenomenon is possible?

NEALE: Peopl e live in a bubble. Especially, and probably primarily,
people who “have it good.” Which is just about 5-to-8 percent of the
world’ s people.
They live in a bubble. They  think that because they have it
good, everybody has it good. Because they’re doing well,everybody’ s doing well. It doesn’t even occur to them —it’s not even
a part of our thinking—that billions of people might not even have
access to clean water. Or, that billions of people—not a few hundred
thousand, or even a few million, in outlying areas, but billions around
the world—need to relieve themselves out-of-doors. It doesn’t seem
feasible or possible, because  it’s simply not part of our experience,
and it’s hard for us to imagi ne that this is even going on; that any
race of compassionate sentient beings would allow  it to go on.
I spent some time in the Seventies in Central West Africa, and
in South America as well, and in other places on the planet where
what I’m saying to you is—or  at least it was in 1976—the way things
are. It was just how things were.  I visited families in places like
Ouagadougou and other locations in Africa where such conditions
were rather common.

DR. COOPER: How did it feel to see that?

NEALE: Y ou know, it changed my whole point of view about Life.
I never again allowed myself to become upset or furious
because I couldn’t get a long-distance phone call through  from Los
Angeles to New York in seven seconds, and I wanted to know the
reason why. I can remember those days when I was so impatient
that the modern conveniences of life were not functioning properly
for me. You know, “Waiter, waiter!”, or whatever. That kind of an
attitude.
When I came back from spending two and a half months in
Central W est Africa, I never again held those attitudes.I remember being in a so-called hotel in Upper Volta (now
known as Burkina Faso) that was actually just a brick shell of a
building without any windows. They simply had knockout holes in the
wall for windows. If you didn’t have a sleeping net—and I did not—
you were attacked by mosquitoes, and woke up the next morning
with your face swollen. I had to be given medical care at the
American Embassy, with all sorts of shots to counteract the effect of
being hit with fifty or sixty mosquito bites.
And we’re talking about mosquitoes the size of a Volksw agen.
Very large creatures.
And in Upper Volta I recall I wanted to call back to the United
States. I went to the front desk to ask if there was a lobby phone I
could use to call home. (There was no phone in my room.) They
said, “Yes, sir, but you’ll have to request a long-distance line—and
there’ s a queue, so you’ll have to get in the queue.”
I had to wait three-and-a-half hours to get a line to the United
States, and I was given fifteen minutes to use the line! I recall that
vividly—that you had to wait in line and then they would call your
name. “Mr. Walsch, your line is available now.” And you’d rush to the
phone in the lobby and pick it up, and you’d be able to make your
call to the United States.
I recall,  when I came back to the U.S., thinking of how many
times I’d tapped the phone impatiently (this was way before the
appearance of cell phones the size of a playing card), and I’d be
demanding, “Operator, opera tor!”, wanting to know why I couldn’t get
a trans-continental call across the country in the blink of an eye.
So I came back from Central West Africa with an acute
awareness of all that I had been taking for granted—not just thetelephone service. And that was a great deal. Not a little bit, but a
great deal.
I recall going to the home of a family living on the outsk irts of
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 the 80/10/10  diet, gleaning a growth spurt the likes of which none of her trainers ha d ever seen.

All Plant Foods Contain Protein
Consuming approximately 5% of calories from protein is difficult to avoid if  you are eating enough food to meet your daily
calorie needs. All plant foods contain protein, and even if you ate a diet of onl y white rice, (not recommended) you would still end
up with 8% protein for the day! But would it be the “right kind” of prote in?
Proteins are complicated molecules made by assembling simple b uilding blocks (amino acids) together in a “polypeptide”
chain. Some 20 different amino acids are used to synthesize proteins, eigh t or nine of which are designated essential (depending
upon whose information you read). The term “essential” in nutrition m eans that the nutrient in question must be eaten or otherwise
consumed, as the body cannot synthesize it.

The Complete Protein Myth
In the 1970s, people often concerned themselves with combining proteins so tha t all of the essential amino acids were available at
each meal. Later research has determined that this is not necessa ry, and in fact the author of the “incomplete protein theory,”
Frances Moore Lappe, recanted 20 years later, saying that she was utter ly mistaken. We do  need all of the essential amino acids,
but we do not have to eat them together, or even each day.

Sources of Protein
Dietary protein is not the only source for building the proteins we need. In stead, our bodies efficiently recycle between 100 and 300 grams of our own protein every day. We have an amino acid pool from which to build n ew proteins. We add amino acids to the
pool by breaking down the proteins we eat and the proteins in our bodies.
We can easily meet our protein requirements on a vegan diet, with no part icular attention focused on combining proteins or
selecting certain foods for each meal.
The table below shows the percentage of calories from protein in twenty- one common fruits and vegetables and in five animal
foods, for comparison.

Another chart more specific to the 80/10/10  diet can be found in the back of this book. This chart shows values not only for
protein but also for calories, carbohydrates, fat, water, and fiber for select ed whole plant foods. In them, you will see that fruits
generally contain 4 to 8% protein, and a few contain more. Surprisingly, the  vegetables we commonly eat raw range from about 10
to 30% protein. (V egetables are so low in calories, however, that even hu ge quantities add very little overall to one’s daily protein
percentage.) Nonetheless, when we calculate the caloronutrien t ratio of a week’s worth of food consisting strictly of a variety of raw
fruits and vegetables, it generally weighs in just shy of 5% of calori es as top-quality protein. A few ounces of nuts or seeds puts us at
around 8% protein, well into the adequate and healthful range.
Mainstream nutritional science defines protein quality in terms  of how efficiently the protein promotes body growth, rather than
whether it produces health. Thus, milk and egg protein are considered the h ighest quality. However, in the words of T. Colin
Campbell, “There is a mountain of compelling research showing that  ‘low-quality’ plant protein … is the healthiest type of
protein.” 44
Although many people are surprised to hear it, they understand the logic of  this line of thought when they stop to consider
what anthropoid primates in the wild eat: a diet that is made up primarily  of fruits and vegetables. We have never heard that
chimpanzees or orangutans—which are typically five times str onger than humans, pound for pound—need more protein than the
amount they get from their plant-based diet.
 Americans Eat 16% Protein
As a percentage of calories consumed, the standard American diet, reple te with meat, dairy, and eggs, runs in the teens. As
stated above, the bell curve that describes protein consumption for the vast  majority of the population ranges from 11 to 21% of
calories from protein. Outliers on the low end include the small population  of people who eat low-fat vegan fare, who can easily and
healthfully reduce that number to single digits. At the high end, peopl e who intentionally consume high-protein diets can approach
30%, but only bodybuilders and athletes who eat massive quantities of egg whi tes and isolated protein powders are likely to reach
40 or 50 + percent protein.
People are generally doubtful that protein could comprise such a small per centage of their diets, but I am not making these
numbers up. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, average U.S. protein consumption was 15.5% for men
and 15.1% for women in 2000. These numbers have been consistent for decades; in 1970 the y were 16.5% and 16.9%. 45
The U.S. Recommended Dietary Allowances, 10th Edition (1989) says, “Food consump tion data from the U.S. USDA ’s
1977–1978 and 1985 surveys indicate that 14 to 18% of the total food energy intake is derive d from protein. Despite wide
variations in food energy intake, this proportion remains similar for both s exes and all age groups except infants. There is also little
change as a function of household income, urbanization, or race. Food items li kely to be underreported in surveys (e.g., alcoholic
beverages, confections) would provide energy but little protein; hence, t he percentage of energy from protein may be
overestimated. 46
How can it be that as a nation we gorge on “high-protein” foods, yet we en d up with less than 20% of our calories from
protein? The answer is that the vast majority of our commonly consume d “protein” foods—meat, egg, and dairy products, as well as
all nuts and seeds, contain such an overwhelming amount of fat that th e protein numbers go way down as a percentage of total
calories consumed. For example:

Eggs contain more than 60% fat.
“70% lean” ground beef also weighs in at 60% fat.
Cheddar cheese contains 72% fat; cream cheese 88%.
Almonds and sunflower seeds each contain 73% fat.

In truth, there really is no such thing as a “high-protein” diet—a t least not one in which protein comprises the majority of a
person’s calories. Typical quantities of high-protein “superfoods”  increase protein consumption as a percentage of daily calories
very little. For example, 10 grams of spirulina provides about 7 grams of  protein, which might increase one’s protein percentage
from 16 to 17.2%. In other words, without serious powdered protein supplementation, most pe ople would find it extremely difficult
to consume even a third of their total calories from protein on a sustaine d basis.
This is good news, indeed, for even the 10% of calories from protein that I recomm end is in truth the maximum that can
reasonably be considered healthful, in my opinion.

The Dangers of Eating More Than 10% Protein
To listen to the proponents of the meat industry, one would think we are in imm inent danger of disease and death if we fail to
eat meat three times a day. The truth is that eating meat this ofte n causes the very conditions we’re taught to fear. This is a surpris e
to most people, who have been taught, incorrectly, that they need large amou nts of protein to be healthy. Actually, the reverse is
true: Most people suffer from an overdose of protein each day, and this account s for a great deal of our ill health.
Too much protein in our diets is associated with all manner of health impa irments, including such symptoms as constipation and
other digestive disorders that often lead to toxemia (toxic blood and tissues ) and, eventually, cancer. Autoimmune dysfunction,
arthritis, and all other autoimmune conditions, premature aging, impai red liver function, kidney failure, osteoporosis, and many other
degenerative and pathogenic conditions result from eating more protein  than we need.
In general, protein-based foods are highly acid forming in the human body (e ven the high-protein plants, such as legumes).
This is because their predominant minerals are the acidic min erals—chlorine, phosphorus, and sulfur. To maintain homeostasis, the
body must counterbalance the acidity caused by excess protein consumption. Unfortunately, it does so in part by taking a precious
alkaline mineral—calcium—from our bloodstream. The body replaces  calcium into the bloodstream, where calcium levels must
remain relatively constant, by removing it from our bones and teeth, set ting the stage for osteoporosis and tooth decay.
It is no coincidence that fruits and vegetables contain just the rig ht amounts of protein to build and maintain the human body.
Nor is it a coincidence that the minerals they supply are predominantl y the alkaline ones: calcium, sodium, magnesium, and
potassium.

Calculating Your Protein Intake The following examples show how a to calculate protein intake and how to conv ert gram measurements to percentage of
cal