j:
I again wish to thank you for your kindness in  helping my wife and me to better appreciate the importance of water
to our health. We feel the conscious increase in our water consumption contributed greatly to our weight loss — a weight loss
which had been urged upon both of us by our respective physicians for years. My loss of approxim ately forty-five
(45) pounds has resulted in such a lower ing of my b lood pressure that I am no longer taking medicine for my blood
pressur e. My wife's weight loss has alleviated the discomfort she has experienced for years with  her back. In
addition, she believes the weight loss has reduced her discom fort and problems with her allergies. With best wishes, I remain
Sincerely,
E. Michael Paturis
3 August 1994
F. Batmanghelidj, M.D. Foundation For The Simple In Medicine
2146 Kings Ga rden Way
Falls Church, Virginia 22043
Dear Dr. Batmanghelidj:
Since my 24 May 1994 letter, and your consequent telephone call, a physical change of address has absorbed my
time. The new address is LTC Walter F. Burmeister, 118 Casitas del Este, El Paso, Texas 79935. Albeit, much more important than these facts, I am in a position to verify how ta p water effectively lowers
hypertension. Starting in early April 1994, leaving years of diuretics and calcium-blockers behind, in accordance with
your recommendation, for approximately 3 months I drank a minimum of eight 8-ounce glasses of tap water;
occasionally more. The blood pressure, heretofore contained by drugs, gradually dropped from an average around
150-160 systolic/over 95-98 diastolic to an amazing, drug free, 130-135 systolic/over 75-80 diastolic fluctuating
average. My wife makes these measurements at home; each time taking two or three readings. The record shows several
lows of 120s. over 75d. and a rare high of 140s. over 90d. However, the average range, as sta ted above, uniformly
dominates. In addition to vitamins and minerals, this drug-free approach, based essentially on tap water and a pinch of salt, has
relaxed my system end justifies the confidence that you  hold the handles of a truly revolutionary and marvelous
medical concept. Since you are about to publish a book with applicable testimonies of the Hydration System, my personal experience
is gratefully offered as a way of saying thank you. Respectful ly yours,
HIGHER BL OOD CHOL ESTEROL
Higher blood cholesterol is a sign that the cells of the body have developed a defense mechanism against the
osmotic force of the blood that keeps drawing water out through the cell membranes; or the co ncentrated blood can
not release sufficient water to go through the cell membr ane and maintain normal cell functions. Cholesterol is a
natural "clay" that, when poured in the gaps of the cell membrane, will make the cell wall impervious to the passag e
of water (see Figure 14). Its excessive manufactu re and deposition in the cell membrane is part of the natural
design for the protection of living cells against dehydration. In living cells that possess a  nucleus, cholesterol is the
agent that regulates permeability of the cell membrane to water. In living cells that do not possess a nucleus, the
composition of fatty acids employed in the manufactu re of the cell membrane gives it the power to survive
dehydration and drought. Cholesterol production in the cell membrane is a part of the cell survival system. It is a
necessar y substance. Its excess denotes dehydration. Normally, it is water that instantly, repeatedly, and transiently forms into adhesive sheets and binds the hydrocarbon
bricks to gether. In a dehydrated/membrane, this property of water is
lost At the same time that water is binding the solid structure of the membrane, it also diffuses through the gaps into
the cell. Figure 14 has been designed to demonstrate the structure of a bilayer membrane during full hydration and its
possible extreme dehydration. I have presented this researched concept at an international gathering of cancer
researchers. These same scientific sta tements are published and have been discussed by other researchers. Howdoes this phenomenon affect us in our everyday life? The answer is sim ple. Imagine that you are sitting at a table
and food is brought to you. If you, do not drink water before you eat the food, the process of food digestion will take
its toll on the cells of the body. W ater will have to be poured on the food in the stomach for proteins to break and
separate into the basic com position of their amino acids. In the intestine, more water will be required to process the
food ingredients and then send them to the liver. In the liver, the specialized cells will  further process the intestine-digested materials and then pass the resupplied
and composition adjusted blood to the right side of the heart. In th e liver, more water is used to  process the food
ingredients. The blood from the right side of the heart, which has also received some "fat" com ponents from the
lymphatic system that empties into the right side of the heart, will now be pumped into the lungs for oxygenation and
exchange of the dissolved gases in the blood. In the lungs, aeration of the blood further dehydrates it by the process
of evaporation of water—the "winter steam." Now this highly concentrated blood from the lungs is passed  to the left side of the heart and pumped into the arterial
circulation. The first cells that will face  this highly osmotically concentrated blood are the cells lining the larger blood
vessels and capillaries of the heart and the brain. Where the arteries bend, the osmotically damaged cells will also
face the pressure of the oncoming blood. Here, the cells will either need to protect themselves or become
irreversibly damaged. Do not forget that the integrity of their cell membrane is proportionately dependent on the
presence of "water" that is available to them and not that which is being osmotically pulled out. A look at Figure 15,
and then Figure 14, will make the understanding of this process o f "cholesterol adaptation" to dehydration easier. There comes a moment when the brain begins to recognize the further imposed severe shortage of water in the
body, and then in the middle of eating food will compel the person to drink it. It is already to o late, because the
damage is registered by th e cells lining the blood vessels. Ho wever, when this dehydration registers itself by
production of the dyspeptic pain, we most stupidly give the person antacid! Not water, antacids! Not water,
histamine-blocking agents! Unfor tunately, this is the problem with all treatment procedures under the "solutes
paradigm." All treatmen t procedures are "relief o f symptoms" oriented. The y are not geared t o the eliminatio n of the
root cause of the problem. This is why "di seases" are not cured. They are only "tre ated" during the lifetime of the
person. The root cause of degenerative diseases is not known, because a wrong paradigm is being pursued. If we begin to
appreciate that for the process of digestion of food, water is the most essen tial ingredient, most of the battle is won. If we give the necessar y water to the body before we eat food, all the battle against cholesterol formation in the
blood vessels will  be won. After a longer period of regulating daily water intake, so that the cells become fully hydrated, gradually the
cholesterol defense system against the free passage of water through the cell wall will be less required; its
production will decrease. The hormone-sensitive, fat-burning enzymes of the body have been shown to become
active after one hour's walk. They remain active for 12 hours. It also seems that with the lowering of blood
cholesterol and walking to induce the "fat burners'" activity, the deposited cholesterol will also be broken and
passage of blood through the already blocked arteries will become possible (see Mr. Fox's letter). Walking two times a day—every 12 hours—will maintain the activity of the hormone sensitive fat burning enzyme
(hormone sensitive lipase) during day and night and help clear away the excess lipid deposits in the arteries. Testimonials Th at Make You Ponder
Mr. Mohammed Wahby's concern is not unique to him; everyone who has raised blood cholesterol levels is worried. It is com mon knowledge that many diseases are associated with raised cholesterol levels in blood circulation. Different blood cholesterol levels have in the past been considered normal—all the time decreasing the accepted
threshold until around 200 (milligrams per 100 cubic centimeters of blood) is now considered normal. Even this
figure is an arbitrary assessme nt. I personally believe the normal range to be around 100 to 150. My own levels
started around 89 and never went above 130. Why? Because for years and years, my d ay started with two to three
glasses o f water. In any case, a March 28, 1991 New England Journal o f Medicine report, followed  by an edito rial,
about an 88-year-old man who eats 25 eggs daily and has normal blood cholesterol levels, reveals one fact. The
cholesterol we eat seems to have little to do with the high level of


Fellatio, 98, 196, 199
Playing the Flute (Jove game),
211-13
soixante-neuf (69), 211
First Em peror of Chin, 6, 48, 76
Fish Eye-to-Eye (intercourse posi
tion), 109, 222
Fish Linkin g Scales (interco urse
position), 107, 110, 222
Five-M ineral Mix, 131
Foot-bindi ng, 28-30
Forepl ay. See Love-play
Freud, Sigmund, 165, 169, 233
Fu Yin, 31
G spot, 169-70, 198
Galen, 168 Games. Sec Love-play
GcnirH <! ( Clritlcl, Tlrt' (Temple),
11-12
Gingko, 143-44
Ginseng, 139-41
Goat Hugging the Tree (inter
course position), 112, 224
Gobbling Fish (intercourse posi
tion), 110
Gold �asc Plum (Chi11 Pitr.l! Mci ),
66-69, 70, 71
Grafenberg, Ernst, 169-70
Groin Massage (exercise), 178
Han dynasty
aphrodisiacs/sexual nutrients,
usc ot� 133, 141
consorts, 41-43, 49, 52, 133,
157, 188
emperors/empresses, 6, 41-43,
49, 52, 96, 141, 157, 188
erotica, 75
eunuchs, 40
sexology, 82, 84, 85
Hanfei Tzu, 13
"Harvesting Mulberry Leaves"
(song), 73-74
Harvey, William, 162
Hearing, sense of, 186, 188-89
Heavenly Fountain (love game),
210-11
Heh-teh, 49
Hinduism, 17, 150
Hip Swivel (exercise), 181
HIV, 197·
Homosex uality
in China, 27-28
Kinsey on, 164
Horse Shaking Its Hoof (inter
course position), 111, 221
Hsi Hsiang Chi (The Story of the
Western Chamber ; Wang
Shih-fu), 64-66
Hsi Shih, 52
Hsia Chi, 49, 157
Hsia dynasty
consorts, 41
emperors/empresses, 41, 45
Hsiao, 50
Hsien (imm ortals), 15-16
Hsu Fu, 6
Hsu Ling, 97-98 Hsuan Nu. Sa Arcane Maid
Hsuan Tsung, 4.\ 47-48
Hua Fou, 1 36
Huang Ti. Sa Ydlow Emperor
Hu,m.�?-dri (yellow vetch), 143
Hui Tsung, 32-33
Hui-yiu, 170, 196,204-5,210,218
Hum ming Ape Embracing the
Trel' (imer cour se position),
112, 223
Hrm.l! Lou Mm,l! (The Drea m of tire
Red Chmnbcr; Tsao H�ueh
chin), 66-67, 71-73
I Chi11.f! (The Book of Chan.ec),
10, 18
I Shim Po (I ShinJ! Fat�g; The
Essetlce of A1cdica l Prescrip
tions; Yasuyori), 83-84
I To Mix, 136-37
Ideal Marriage (Van de Vcldc),
4, 168
Immortality
chi (life-energy) and, 16, 119,
126, 127, 146-58
Taoist search for, 6-7, 15-16,
85, 121, 124, 162
Imperial School of Medicine, 84
Incest taboos, 25
Institute for Advanced Study of
Human Sexuality, 138-39
Institute for Sex Research, 164
Intercourse positions. See Posi
tions, intercourse
Interpretation of the Cultivation of
Truth by the Great Immortal
of the Purple-Gold Glory,
118
Iridescent Maid (Tsai Nu), 82,
95-96, 116-17
Jade Fountain (love game), 211-12
Johnson, Virginia. See Masters
and Johnson
Jou Pu Tuan (The Prayer Cush ion of
Flesh ), 70-71
Jou-tsun.f?-Yun g (broom rape),
132, 135
Journal of Urology, The, 144
Jung le Fowl Appr oach ing the
Arena (intercourse
position), 112 Kmtl ll Sutrcr, 81. 85
Kao Tsung. SO "�ao-tang Fu" (Sung Yu). 56
1\.arc;: �'' (Stockham), 16H
Kt:g cl, Arn old, 16(!-(17
Kegd exer cise, Hl(l-67, 231
Kingf ishers Uniting (intercourSl'
posi tion). 1m. 221
Kinse� Al& ed, 164, 1 65, 167, 169
on ljacu lation, 1H5
on femaleorgasm, 167,169
on homo sexuali ty, Hl4
on love-play. 164
on masturbation, 164
on oral sex, 164
Kissing. Sec also Oral sex
in Chinese cultur e, 3-4, 191
erotic, 193-95, 203. 210-11
Kitten Stretch (exercise). 1H2
Ko Hung, 96
Kolodny. Robert, 166
Krafft-Ebing, Richar d von,
165, 166
Kuan Tsung, 7
Kuang Hsu, 40
Kublai Khan, 63
Kuhn, Franz, 70
Ladas, Alice K.. 170
Ladas, Har old, 170
Lamaism, 6, 7. 18, 125. 150
Lao Ai, 48
Lao Tzu,l3, 14
Lasciviousne ss versus prudishness. �4-26
Later Shu dynasty, 46
Lesbianism, 28
Li Licn- ying. 40
Li Shih-chen, 137
Li Sze-szc, 32-33
Li Tsung-hsuan, 84-85
Li Tzu-che ng. 53
Li Yu. �9. 46-47
Liao dynasty, 188.. Liflg-d1ih ("divine mushroom ). 141-42
Liu Ching. 117
Liu Tsu ng-yu an. 89-90
Love-play, I 15
bridgi ng the sexual gap. 184-8h
danci ng. 192 Index
Four Attain men ts, Nine
Essences, Five Des ires. 98-99
gen ital caressin g, 195-99
genital secr etions. 197
heari ng, sense of, 186, 188-89
Heavenly Fou ntain, 210-11
import ance of. 93-95, 165-66
Jade Fountain, 211-12
Kinsey on, 164
kissi ng, 3-4, 191, 193-95, 203,
210-11
love points, 157-58, 179, 194,
196, 204-10. 218
Mas ters and Johnson on, 166,
171, 184
oral sex, 96-98, 164, 195-97. 199, 211-13
Peacock Tease, 202
Playing the Flute, 211-13
positions, 100-101
prelude to, 191-93
pressing on at, 193-95
sight, sense of, 186
Silk Tease, 203
smel l, sense ot� 186-88, 191,
1lJ3-94
Sniff- Kissing, 203
soixat�t£·-m·uf (69), 211
Spid er's Legs, 203
Spring Butterfly, 201-2
taste, sense of, 186, 188,
1lJ2, 194
Three Fou ntains, 210-12
three peaks, lJ5-lJ8
Tongue: Sweep, 203
touch, sense: of, 1M6-87, llJ2-lJ6
Twin Fou ntains, 211
as two-way game, 18lJ-lJI,


ill	soon	dissipate	and	you	will	feel	better. Chapter	5

Further	stilling	the	mind

Meditation	is	the	simply	stilling
and	relaxing	the	mind

Focusing	on	the	breath,	feeling
the	inner	body	and	occupying
the	sense	is	meditation.Connect	with	the	inner	body
P
lacing	attention	on	the	inner	body	is	a	truly	wonderful	thing	to	do. Western
man	rarely	places	attention	on	the	inner	body	unless	he	is	in	pain. Seldom
does	he	have	his	attention	on	the	body	when	it	is	free	from	pain. Seldom	does
he	experience	the	vibration	of	energy	that	resonates	there. The	body	is	your
connection	with	life	itself. Your	body	is	life. If	you	have	never	placed	attention	on	your	body	before,	start	off	slowly. If
you	have	already	been	following	and	reducing	your	breath,	you	will	find	this
relatively	easy	to	do. Close	your	eyes	and	bring	attention	to	one	of	your	hands. Feel	your	hand	from
within. Stay	with	the	energy	field	of	your	hand	for	a	little	while. When	you
have	a	good	feeling	of	the	inner	energy	field	of	your	hand,	move	your
attention	to	include	your	arm. Now	feel	the	energy	field	of	your	hand	and	arm
together. Don’t	analyze	or	think	about	it,	just	feel	it. Next,	bring	attention	to	your	chest	and	feel	it	from	within	for	a	couple	of
minutes. Then	bring	attention	to	your	stomach. Feel	whether	there	is	any
tension	here. If	your	stomach	is	tense,	imagine	it	gradually	relaxing. Feel	the
area	around	your	tummy	relaxing	by	itself. Feel	the	tension	dissolving. The
more	active	your	mind,	the	greater	the	tendency	for	your	stomach	to	be	in	a
knot. Relax	this	area	using	your	imagination. Now	feel	the	energy	field	of	both	hands,	both	arms,	your	chest	and	your
tummy	at	the	same	time. Keep	your	attention	there. Your	body	will	rejoice	in
the	attention	that	you	are	giving	it. As	long	as	your	attention	is	on	your	body,
it	is	not	on	your	mind. The	incessant	thought	activity	of	your	mind	has
stopped.When	you	are	focusing	on	reducing
your	breathing,	you	are	out	of	your
mind. You	are	giving	your	chatter
a	rest. Wonderful! When	you	have	attention	on	your	inner
body,	you	are	out	of	your	mind. You	are	taking	back	ownership
of	your	mind. When	your	complete	attention	is	on
your	senses,	you	are	out	of	your	mind. You	did	this	naturally	as	a	child.You	cannot	have	complete	attention	on	your	inner	body	and	at	the	same	time
have	mental	noise. With	a	little	practise,	you	will	be	able	to	feel	your	entire
body	from	head	to	toe. During	the	day	as	you	do	go	about	your	daily	affairs,	bring	attention	to	your
breathing	and	your	inner	body. As	you	drive	your	car,	have	70%	of	your
attention	on	driving	and	30%	in	your	inner	body. As	you	walk,	feel	your	body
relax	throughout. As	you	watch	TV,	don’t	surrender	all	of	your	attention	to	the	TV,	but	immerse
yourself	in	your	inner	body. If	there	is	confrontation	on	TV,	bring	attention
immediately	to	your	inner	body. Don’t	become	absorbed	with	the	tension,
stress,	anger	and	fighting	that	takes	place	on	popular	soap	operas. Better	still,
don’t	watch	them	at	all. The	popularity	of	such	soaps	is	an	indication	of	our
mad	world. As	you	relate	to	your	children,	friends,	family	or	any	person,
listen	to	them	with	your	entire	body. Feel	your	body	as	you	listen. This	is	real
listening. As	you	brush	your	teeth,	feel	your	inner	body. As	you	sit	on	the	toilet,	feel
your	inner	body. As	you	queue	up	at	the	post	office,	feel	your	inner	body. If
you	are	stressed,	feel	your	inner	body. As	you	do	a	boring	job,	take	attention
into	your	body	and	don’t	just	think	about	how	much	you	hate	your	job. As
you	walk,	feel	your	inner	body. As	you	empty	the	dishwasher,	feel	your	inner
body. As	you	eat,	taste	the	food	and	feel	your	inner	body. Stay	in	your	body. As	you
lie	in	bed	at	night,	feel	your	inner	body. This	is	not	just	something	that	you	do
every	now	and	again. This	is	something	that	you	reside	in	permanently. Every
minute,	every	hour,	every	day,	take	attention	out	of	your	head	and	your	story
and	merge	yourself	with	the	body. You	still	have	use	of	your	mind	whenever	you	need	it	for	a	practical	situation. However,	you	will	have	reduced	the	meaningless	and	devastating	habit	of
repetitive	thinking. The	inner	body	has	and		intelligence	far	greater	than	just	a
collection	of	thoughts. Merge	with	that	intelligence. Don’t	avoid	it	all	the	time
by	living	in	your	head. As	long	as	attention	is	on	your	inner	body,	your	mind	is	calm. If	for	a	moment
you	forget	about	keeping	attention	on	your	inner	body,	then	you	are	back	in
your	mind. This	will	happen	quite	often	at	the	start. Don’t	start	giving	out	toyourself	if	you	find	it	difficult	to	place	your	attention	on	your	inner	body	for
more	than	a	few	minutes. This	is	your	mind’s	habit. To	change	this	habit,	keep
bringing	attention	to	your	inner	body. If	your	mind	wanders	again,	keep
bringing	it	back. The	more	you	practise	this,	the	better	and	easier	it	gets. Your	mind	activity	is	your	choice. Do	you	want	to	keep	repeating	the	insane
nonsense	running	through	your	head	or	do	you	want	to	connect	with	life? Bring	attention	home	to	your	body. As	you	become	proficient	with	awareness	of	your	inner	body,	incorporate
gentle,	reduced	breathing	through	relaxation. While	relaxed,	allow	your
breathing	to	calm	by	itself. Feel	a	tolerable	but	comfortable	need	for	air. Feel
your	inner	body. Feel	your	tummy	gently	move	with	each	breath.Are	you	connected	to	the	wonders	of	life? M
ost	of	us	are	blessed	with	the	traditional	five	senses	of
sight,	hearing,
touch,	smell	and	taste
. A	sixth	sense	is	intuition,	which	is	to	sense	something
in	advance	or	to	know	what	course	of	action	to	take	based	on	a	feeling	or	a
hunch	instead	of	logical	processing. Our	five	senses	enable	us	to	directly	experience	life	on	earth. How	often	do
you	use	your	five	senses	with	an	undivided	mind? When	we	put	our	total	attention	on	our	five	senses,	we	are	out	of	our	mind
and	are	connecting	with	reality. When	you	look,	look. When	you	touch,	touch. When	you	taste,	taste. When	you	smell,	smell. While	using	your	senses,	have
nothing	else	running	through	your	mind. Just	be	there	with	your	full	attention. Set	aside	the	activity	of	your	mind	and	merge	with	your	surroundings. The	question	is	how	much	time	do	you	spend	using	your	five	senses	without
the	mental	commentary


	fat	can	we	have	in	our	diets? What	kind	of	fat? Is
polyunsaturated	fat	better	than	saturated	fat? Is	monounsaturated	fat	better
than	either? What	about	those	special	fats	like	omega-3,	omega-6,	trans	fats
and	DHA? Should	we	avoid	coconut	fat? What	about	fish	oil? Is	there
something	special	about	flaxseed	oil? What’s	a	high-fat	diet	anyway? A	low-
fat	diet? This	can	be	confusing,	even	for	trained	scientists. The	details	that	underlie
these	questions,
when	considered	in	isolation,
	are	very	misleading. As	you
shall	see,	considering	how	networks	of	chemicals	behave	instead	of	isolated
single	chemicals	is	far	more	meaningful. In	some	ways,	however,	it	is	this	foolish	mania	regarding	isolated	aspects
of	fat	consumption	that	teaches	us	the	best	lessons. Therefore,	let’s	look	a
little	more	closely	at	this	story	of	fat	as	it	has	emerged	during	the	past	forty
years. It	illustrates	why	the	public	is	so	confused	both	about	fat	and	about	diet
in	general. On	average,	we	consume	35-40%	of	our	total	calories	as	fat. 19
	We	have
been	consuming	high-fat	diets	like	this	since	the	late	nineteenth	century,	at	the
onset	of	our	industrial	revolution. Because	we	had	more	money,	we	began
consuming	more	meat	and	dairy,	which	are	relatively	high	in	fat. We	weredemonstrating	our	affluence	by	consuming	such	foods. Then	came	the	mid	to	late	twentieth	century	when	scientists	began	to
question	the	advisability	of	consuming	diets	so	high	in	fat. National	and
international	dietary	recommendations
20–23
	emerged	to	suggest	that	we	should
decrease	our	fat	intake	below	30%	of	calories. That	lasted	for	a	couple
decades,	but	now,	the	fears	surrounding	high-fat	diets	are	abating. Some
authors	of	popular	books	even	advocate	increased	fat	intake! Some
experienced	researchers	have	suggested	that	it	is	not	necessary	to	go	below
30%	fat,	as	long	as	we	consume	the	right	kind	of	fat. The	level	of	30%	fat	has	become	a	benchmark,	even	though	there	is	no
evidence	to	suggest	that	this	is	a	vital	threshold. Let’s	get	some	perspective	on
this	figure	by	considering	the	fat	contents	of	a	few	foods,	as	seen	in
Chart	4.6
. CHART	4.6:	FAT	CONTENT	OF	SAMPLE	FOODS
Food
Percent	of	calories	derived	from	fat
Butter
100%
McDonald’s	Double	Cheeseburger
67%
Whole	Cow’s	Milk
64%
Ham
61%
Hotdog
54%
Soybeans
42%
“Low-Fat”	(or	2%)	Milk
35%
Chicken
26%
Spinach
14%
Wheaties	Breakfast	Cereal
8%
Skim	Milk
5%
Peas
5%
Carrots
4%
Green	Beans
3.5%
Whole	Baked	Potatoes
1%
With	a	few	exceptions,	animal-based	foods	contain	considerably	more	fat
than	plant-based	foods. 24
	This	is	well	illustrated	by	comparing	the	amount	of
fat	in	the	diets	of	different	countries. The	correlation	between	fat	intake	and
animal	protein	intake	is	more	than	90%. 25
	This	means	that	fat	intake	increases
in	parallel	with	animal	protein	intake. In	other	words,	dietary	fat	is	an
indicator	of	how	much	animal-based	food	is	in	the	diet. It	is	almost	a	perfectmatch.FAT	AND	A	FOCUS	ON	CANCER
The	1982	National	Academy	of	Sciences	(NAS)	report	on	Diet,	Nutrition	and
Cancer,	of	which	I	was	a	co-author,	was	the	first	expert	panel	report	that
deliberated	on	the	association	of	dietary	fat	with	cancer. This	report	was	the
first	to	recommend	a	maximum	fat	intake	of	30%	of	calories	for	cancer
prevention. Previously,	the	U.S.	Senate	Select	Committee	on	Nutrition
chaired	by	Senator	George	McGovern
26
	held	widely	publicized	hearings	on
diet	and	heart	disease	and	recommended	a	maximum	intake	of	30%	dietary
fat. Although	the	McGovern	report
generated	a	public	discourse	on	diet	and
disease,	it	was	the	1982	NAS	report	that	gave	momentum	to	this	debate. Its
focus	on	cancer,	as	opposed	to	heart	disease,	increased	public	interest	and
concern. It	spurred	additional	research	activity	and	public	awareness	of	the
importance	of	diet	in	disease	prevention. Many	of	the	reports	at	the	time
20,	27,	28
	were	centered	on	the	question	of
how	much	dietary	fat	was	appropriate	for	good	health. The	unique	attention
given	to	fat	was	motivated	by	international	studies	showing	that	the	amount
of	dietary	fat	consumed	was	closely	associated	with	the	incidence	of	breast
cancer,	large	bowel	cancer	and	heart	disease. These	were	the	diseases	that	kill
the	majority	of	people	in	Western	countries	before	their	time. Clearly,	this
correlation	was	destined	to	attract	great	public	attention. The	China	Study	was
begun	in	the	midst	of	this	environment. The	best	known	study,
29
	in	my	view,	was	that	of	the	late	Ken	Carroll,
professor	at	the	University	of	Western	Ontario	in	Canada. His	findings
showed	a	very	impressive	relationship	between	dietary	fat	and	breast	cancer
(
Chart	4.7
).CHART	4.7:	TOTAL	FAT	INTAKE	AND	BREAST	CANCER
This	finding,	which	corresponded	to	the	earlier	reports	of	others,
3,	30
became	especially	intriguing	when	compared	with	migrant	studies. 31,	32
	These
studies	showed	that	people	who	migrated	from	one	area	to	another	and	who
started	eating	the	typical	diet	of	their	new	residency	assumed	the	disease	risk
of	the	area	to	which	they	moved. This	strongly
implied	that	diet	and	lifestyle
were	the	principle	causes	of	these	diseases. It	also	suggested	that	genes	are
not	necessarily	that	important. As	noted	earlier,	a	very	prominent	report	by	Sir
Richard	Doll	and	Sir	Richard	Peto	of	the	University	of	Oxford	(U.K.)
submitted	to	the	U.S.	Congress	summarized	many	of	these	studies	and
concluded	that	only	2-3%	of	all	cancers	could	be	attributed	to	genes. 4
Do	the	data	from	these	international	and	migrant	studies	mean	that	we	can
lower	our	rate	of	breast	cancer	to	almost	zero	if	we	make	perfect	lifestyle
choices? The	information	certainly	suggests	that	this	could	be	the	case. Concerning	the	evidence	in
Chart	4.7
,	the	solution	seems	obvious:	if	we	eat
less	fat,	then	we’ll	lower	our	breast	cancer	risk. Most	scientists	made	this
conclusion	and	some	surmised	that	dietary	fat	caused	breast	cancer. But	that
interpretation	was	too	simple. Other	charts	prepared	by	Professor	Carroll	were
largely,	almost	totally,	ignored	(
Charts	4.8
	and
4.9
). They	show	that	breast
cancer	was	associated	with	animal	fat	intake	but	not	with	plant	fat. In	rural	China,	dietary	fat	intake	(at


ir	attitude	was
born	out	of	the	fact	that	scientific	research	showing	effective	dietary
intervention	of	heart	disease	in	humans	wasn’t	yet	strong	enough. But	later,
scientific	results	of	unparalleled	success,	including	Esselstyn’s,	were
published. The	data	have	been	strong,	consistent	and	deep,	yet	Ess	still
encountered	reluctance	to	embrace	this	idea:
You	take	a	cardiologist	and	he’s	learned	all	about	beta	blockers,	he’s
learned	about	calcium	antagonists,	he’s	learned	about	how	to	run	this
catheter	up	into	your	heart	and	blow	up	balloons	or	laser	it	or	stent	it
without	killing	you	and	it’s	very	sophisticated. And	there’s	all	these
nurses	and	there’s	lights	out	and	there’s	drama. I	mean	it’s	just,	oh	my
god,	the	doctor	blows	up	the	balloon	in	his	head. The	ego	of	thesepeople	is	enormous. And	then	someone	comes	along	and	says,	“You
know,	I	think	we	can	cure	this	with	brussels	sprouts	and	broccoli.”
The
doctor’s	response	is,	“WHAT? I	learned	all	this	crap,	I’m	making	a
freakin’	fortune,	and	you	want	to	take	it	all	away?”
Then	when	that	person	comes	along	and	actually	cures	patients	with
brussels	sprouts	and	broccoli,	as	Esselstyn	did,	and	gets	better	results	than	any
other	pill	or	procedure	known,	you’ve	suddenly	announced	that	something
works,	hands	down,	better	than	what	99%	of	the	profession	is	doing. Summarizing	his	point,	Ess	says:
Cardiologists	are	supposed	to	be	expert	in	diseases	of	the	heart—and
yet	they	have	no	expertise	in	treating	heart	disease,	and	when	that
awareness	strikes	them,	they	get	very	defensive. They	can	treat	the
symptoms,	they	can	take	care	of	arrythmias,	they	can	get	you
interventions,	but	they	don’t	know	how	to	treat	the	disease,	which	is	a
nutritional	treatment.…	Imagine	a	dietitian	training	a	heart	surgeon! Esselstyn	has	found	that	merely	saying	that	patients	can	have	control	over
their	own	health	is	a	challenge	to	many. These	experts,	after	all,	are	built	up	to
be	the	dispensers	of	health	and	healing. “Intellectually	it’s	very	challenging	to
think	that	the	patient	can	do	this	with	greater	alacrity,	dispatch,	safety,	and	it’s
something	that’s	going	to	endure.”	With	all	of	the	doctor’s	gadgets,
technologies,	training	and	knowledge,	nothing	is	more	effective	than	guiding
the	patient	to	make	the	right	lifestyle	choices. But	Ess	is	quick	to	point	out	that	doctors	are	not	malicious	people	engaged
in	a	conspiracy:
The	only	person	that	likes	change	is	a	newborn,	and	it’s	natural,	it’s
human	nature. Anywhere	you	go,	99%	of	the	people	are	eating
incorrectly. The	numbers	are	against	you,	and	it’s	very	hard	for	those
99%	to	look	at	you	in	the	1%	and	say,	“Yes,	he’s	right,	we	are	all
wrong.”
Another	obstacle:	lack	of	nutrition	knowledge	amongst	physicians. Ess	has
had	his	share	of	interaction	with	ignorant	doctors,	and	his	impression	is	that
“it’s	absolutely	daunting,	the	lack	of	physician	knowledge	that	there	is	about
the	fact	that	disease	can	be	reversed. You	wonder,	what	is	the	literature	that
these	guys	read?”
Physician	knowledge	often	involves	only	the	standard	treatments:	pills	and
procedures. “What	does	the	twentieth	century	of	medicine
have	to	offer? Wehave	pills	and	we	have	procedures. Right?”	Esselstyn	leans	forward	and,	with
a	slight	grin,	as	if	he’s	about	to	tell	us	the	emperor	has	no	clothes,	he	says,
“
But	who	ever	says,	‘Maybe	we	ought	to	stop	disease’? ”	In	Dr.	Esselstyn’s
experience,	stopping	disease	does	not	figure	prominently	into	the	status	quo.LACK	OF	TRAINING
The	medical	status	quo	relies	heavily	on	medication	and	surgery,	at	the
exclusion	of	nutrition	and	lifestyle. Doctors	have	virtually
no	training	in
nutrition	and	how	it	relates	to	health. In	1985	the	United	States	National
Research	Council	funded	an	expert	panel	report	that	investigated	the	quantity
and	quality	of	nutrition	education	in	U.S.	medical	schools. 4
	The	committee’s
findings	were	clear:	“The	committee	concluded	that	nutrition	education
programs	in	U.S.	medical	schools	are	largely	inadequate	to	meet	the	present
and	future	demands	of	the	medical	profession.”
4
	But	this	finding	was	nothing
new. The	committee	noted	that	in	1961	the	“American	Medical	Association
Council	on	Foods	and	Nutrition	reported	that	nutrition	in	the	U.S.	medical
schools	received	‘inadequate	recognition,	support	and	attention.’”
4,	5
	In	other
words,	over	forty	years	ago,	the	doctors	themselves	said	that	their	nutrition
training	was	inadequate. Nothing	had	changed	by	1985,	and	up	to	the	present
time,	articles	continue	to	be	written	documenting	the	lack	of	nutrition	training
in	medical	schools. 6,	7
This	situation	is	dangerous. Nutrition	training	of	doctors	is	not	merely
inadequate;	it	is	practically	nonexistent. In	1985,	the	National	Research
Council	report	found	that	physicians	receive,	on	average,	only	twenty-one
classroom	hours	(about	two	credits)	of	nutrition	training	during	their	four
years	of	medical	school. 4
	The	majority	of	the	schools	surveyed	actually
taught	less	than	twenty	contact	hours	of	nutrition,	or	one	to	two	credit	hours. By	comparison,	an	undergraduate	nutrition	major	at	Cornell	will	receive
twenty-five	to	forty	credit	hours	of	instruction,	or	about	250–500	contact
hours;	registered	dietitians	will	have	more	than	500	contact	hours. It	gets	worse. The	bulk	of	these	nutrition	hours	are	taught	in	the	first	year
of	medical	school,	as	part	of	other	basic	science	courses. Topics	covered	in	a
basic	biochemistry	course	may	include	nutrient	metabolism	and/or
biochemical	reactions	involving	certain	vitamins	or	minerals. In	other	words,
nutrition	is	often	not	taught	in	relation	to	public	health	problems,	like	obesity,
cancer,	diabetes,	etc. In	conjunction	with	the	1985
government	report,	the
president	of	the	American	Medical	Students	Association,	William	Kassler,
writes
8
:
Most	nutrition	in	the	formal	curriculum	is	incorporated	into	other
courses. Biochemistry,	physiology	and	pharmacology	are	the	courses
most	often	alleged	to	contain	some	nutrition	instruction. Too	often	in
such	courses,	nutrition	is	touched	on	briefly,	with	the	primary	emphasison	the	major	discipline. It	is	quite	possible	to	finish	such	a	course	and
not	even	realize	that	nutrition	was	covered
	[my	emphasis]. Nutrition
taught	by	those	whose	interest	and	expertise	lie	elsewhere	simply
doesn’t	work. It	gets	even	worse! When	nutrition	education	is	provided	in	relation	to
public	health	problems,	guess


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 m a
bowel pocket holding a mass of putrid material wh ich is being reabsorbed into the body. We dilute the God -given power of our
body when the bowel does not eliminate eighteen hours after each meal. BACKGROUND STUDIES —MY PREVIOUS WORK
Rather than restating work that I have written in the past it would be b eneficial for the reader to study four of my previous books. These give a good background for the work that is presented here. For instance, if you really want to know how to take care of colitis, you should know about the liquified salads. They allow bulk to
get into the bowel in a liquefied form that is more easily digestible. Unfortunately people do not chew well enough - some have
dentures or missing teeth that make mastication difficult - others are just lazy. Liquefied salads are a way to get the food
reduced to an easily -assimilable size. The book Blending Magic tells how to prepare delicious foods that retain their full enzyme
and nutrient values. Doctor/Patient Handbook describes the reversal process and the ways of taking care of the colon through  that process. Nature Has
A Remedy is a book that covers the ways of building the body wholistically through the use of herbs, sunshine, fresh air, wat er and
the right mental attitude. When we take care of the “whole” body with these natural, God -given rem edies, every tissue and system
is revitalized. A New Lifestyle for Health and Happiness gives a complete program for aligning the body, mind and spirit to the good life. Complete with menus, diet control and comprehensive, self -check analysis. In an effec tive bowel management program, you will
need to drink at least three glasses of liquid before breakfast every morning. Keep in mind that cold water will stop at the stomach,
but warm or hot water will go directly to the bowel. If you want to go on an elimi nation program, you can use the Veico 77 or 79
bulk and clay water. Follow directions, and use it three times a day with meals over a period of 30 days. You can add more ju ice to
your diet during that time, and you should always take juice after the bulk a nd clay water. If it is possible, get into some extra
bowel elimination through enemas, perhaps using clay water and coffee instead of plain water. This is a kind of elimination
program you can use while still working at your regular job. There are other w ays to help the bowel, and I have mentioned taking
care of the mental attitudes as well as conditions in the body. Both are very important. THE BENEFITS OF ALFALFA TABLETS
The second thing I emphasize in the bowel management program is the taking of four alfalfa tablets with each meal. As far as I am
concerned, this is almost a panacea. Some health professionals may think I’m going a bit overboard, but I want to tell you th at
alfalfa tablets provide an excellent natural fiber bulk, and by stimulating the b owel to work against the fiber, we begin to
compensate for inherent weakness, by building better tone. Juice is not suitable for this purpose because pulp or bulk is nec essary. Some will say that you should take the alfalfa tablets along with additional ch lorophyll; I don’t find this necessary, because there is
chlorophyll in the alfalfa tablets as well. Chlorophyll is a great deodorizer, a great builder, a great acid neutralizer and one of the
greatest foods for feeding acidophilus bacteria. I use alfalfa tablets mainly to get into the bowel pockets. I am sure this approach is
right, because since beginning to use it, I have observed more healing signs associated with the bowel from my iridology anal yses
than anything I have ever used. Of course, I’m kickin g a lazy dog; I’m kicking a lazy colon. Now, we may encounter a few minor
problems. There may be more gas, more disturbance and when we have more gas, what can we do. We have to neutralize the gas,
so I suggest adding a good digestant. The digestant should  be a whole digestant that takes care of starches, sugars and proteins. It is
made of pancreatic substance and a little betaine hydrochloric acid. It is an all -around good digestant, but vegetarians might prefer
to use the herbal digestants available. For  vegetarians we recommend a substance called D&F, short for digestion and flatulence
(gas), because we may begin to stir these up when we get into the bowel pockets. I know of patients who began their diets and
reported they had more gas than ever before. This is sometimes to be expected. Some people practically live on coffee and donuts,
and they find they don’t have gas, but they are worn out. They have no energy. You have to “rough it out” through this initia l
period of regeneration —this period of making  new tissue - before your digestive system will normalize. A certain amount of gas is normal for the average person. I don’t believe anybody has a perfect bowel. I think a little gas w ill be
produced by anyone, and every farmer knows that when you give a lot of fresh alfalfa to a horse he has more gas than usual. Is that
horse getting worse. No, it is in better condition. We find that it has a better bowel. So I believe alfalfa tablets and the digestant are
very important. We find that the acidophilus cult ure, given morning and evening, is an excellent way of developing good bacteria
in the bowel. At the Battle Creek Sanitarium, researchers found that meat was very detrimental to the bowel because it is ver y
putrefactive. It is best to cut meat to a minimum  in the diet and to upgrade the intake of vegetables. More greens will help to
develop acidophilus bacteria. Chocolate, tea (not herb teas), white sugar and coffee break down acidophilus bacteria so we mu st
eliminate or minimize the use of such substances. A successful bowel management program requires that we go a different way. In following a program for the bowel, there are some excellent corrective exercises. There is an exercise to use on the slant  board
which involves vigorous tapping of the abdomen w hile stretching the upper torso from side to side. This exercise gently pulls the
bowel down in the direction of the shoulders while upside -down on the board. I’m interested in getting the bowel in the prefer
position. I believe we have been crowding the b owel. So we must go to work on it. Doing the bicycle pedaling exercise while up -side down on the slant board is a wonderful exercise. For another type of exercise,
lie down and take a rubber bailor tennis ball and rub it around in a circle on your abdomen. The round surface of the ball gets right
down into the bowel and gives it an internal exercise, more so than rubbing on the outside. There are other exercises to lift  the
bowel and manipulate the prolapsus back into position. SLANT BOARD EXERCISES
(For Prolapsus and Regenerating the Vital Nerve Centers of the Brain) When there is a lack of tone in the muscles, we can expect
prolapsus of the abdominal organs. The heart, lacking tone, cannot circulate blood properly throughout the body. Likewise,
arteries  and veins cannot contract to help the blood fight gravity and get into the brain tissues. There are some people who
apparently have tried everything to get well, who still find all organs working under par. Many people do not realize that th e
quickening f orce for every organ of the body comes from the brain. People whose occupations require them to sit or stand
continually are unable to get the blood into the brain tissues because the tired organs cannot force the blood uphill. If we deny the
brain tissues  good blood in the proper amount, eventually every organ in our body will suffer. The heart gets its start from the
brain and continues its everlasting pumping because of it. No organ can do without the brain. I attribute the success of my h ealing
work to the very fact that I definitely recognize that the brain must be fed properly. Slanting board exercises are absolutely
necessary to regain perfect health. CAUTIONARY NOTE
There are many cases where the board is contra -indicated. It is best in most cases to get professional advice, for some people have
had unhappy experiences due to the very fact they started too strenuous a program to begin with. If you haven’t done much
exercising of the abdominal muscles, it is best to take these exercises slowly and gr adually increase them as you get stronger. Do not use the board in cases of high blood pressure, hemorrhages, some tubercular conditions, cancer in the pelvic cavity,
appendicitis, ulcers of the stomach or intestines or pregnancy, unless under the care of a physician. The slanting board exercises
are practically the same as any other lying -down exercises. The most important exercise is to hold on to the sides of the board bringing the knees up to the chest. This forces all the a bdominal
organs up toward th e shoulders. While in this position, twist the head from side to side and in all directions, thus utilizing the extra
force to circulate blood to congested areas of the head, especially bringing the stomach and abdominal organs up toward the c hest
while ho lding the breath. Slanting board exercises are especially good in cases of inflammations and congestions above the
should


lovely. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenLesson III: Thinking Fourth-Dimensionally
There are two actual outlooks on the world possessed by every man, and
the ancient story tellers were fully conscious of these two outlooks. They
called one “the carnal mind,” and the other “the mind of Christ.”
We recognize these two centers of thought in the statement: “The natural
man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness
unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually dis -
cerned.” (1 Cor 2:14). To the natural mind, reality is confined to the instant called now; this very
moment seems to contain the whole of reality, everything else is unreal. The the natural mind, the past and the future are purely imaginary. In
other words my past, when I use the natural mind, is only a memory im -
age of things that were. And to the limited focus of the carnal or natural
mind the future does not exist. The natural mind does not believe that it
could revisit the past and see it as something that is present, something
that is objective and concrete to itself, neither does it believe that the fu -
ture exists. To the Christ mind, the spiritual mind, which in our language we will call
the fourth-dimensional focus, the past, the present, and the future of the
natural mind are a present whole. It takes in the entire array of sensory
impressions that man has encountered, is encountering and will en -
counter. The only reason you and I are functioning as we are today, and are not
aware of the greater outlook, is simply because we are creatures of habit,
and habit renders us totally blind to what otherwise we should see; but
habit is not law. It acts as though it were the most compelling force in the
world, yet it is not law. We can create a new approach to life. If you and I would spend a few
minutes every day in withdrawing our attention from the region of sensa -
tion and concentrating it on an invisible state and remain faithful to this
contemplation, feeling and sensing the reality of an invisible state, we
would in time become aware of this greater world, this dimensionally larg -
er world. The state contemplated is now a concrete reality, displaced in
time. Tonight as we turn to our Bible you be the judge as to where you stand in
your present unfoldment. *****
Our first story for tonight is from the 5th chapter of the Gospel of Mark. In
More Free Books Law of Attraction Haventhis chapter there are three stories told as though they were separate ex -
periences of the dominant characters. In the first story we are told that Jesus came upon an insane man, a
naked man who lived in the cemetery and hid himself behind the tombs. This man appealed to Jesus not to cast out the devils that bedeviled him. But Jesus said unto him, “Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.”
(Mark 5:8). Thus Jesus cast out the devils that they may now destroy themselves,
and we find this man, for the first time, clothed and in his right mind and
seated at the feet of the Master. We will get the psychological sense of
this chapter by changing the name Jesus to that of enlightened reason or
fourth-dimensional thinking. As we progress in this chapter we are told that Jesus now comes upon the
High Priest whose name is Jairus, and Jairus the High Priest of the Syna -
gogue has a child who is dying. She is 12 years old, and he appeals to Je -
sus to come and heal the child. Jesus consents, and as he starts toward the home of the High Priest a
woman in the market place touched his garment. “And Jesus, immediately
knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned about in the
press and said, Who touched my clothes?” (Mark 5:30). The woman who was healed of an issue of blood that she had had for 12
years confessed that she had touched him. “And he said unto her, Daugh -
ter, Thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.” (Mark 5:34). As he continues toward the home of the High Priest he is told that the
chld is dead and there is no need to go to resurrect her. She is no longer
asleep, but is now dead. “As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler
of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe.” (Mark 5:36). “And when he was come in, he saith unto them. Why make ye this ado,
and weep? The damsel is not dead, but sleepth.” (Mark 5:39). With this the entire crowd mocked and laughed, but Jesus, closing the
doors against the mocking crowd, took with him into the household of
Jairus, his disciples and the father and mother of the dead child. They entered into the room where the damsel was lying. “And he took the
damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.”
(Mark 5:41). More Free Books Law of Attraction Haven“From this deep sleep she awoke and arose and walked, and the High
Priest and all the others were astonished. And he changed them straightly
that no man should know it; and he commanded that something should
be given her to eat.” (Mark 5:43). You are this very night, as you are seated here, pictured in this 5th chap -
ter of Mark. A cemetery is for one purpose: it is simply a record of the
dead. Are you living in the dead past? If you are living among the dead, your prejudices, your superstitions, and
your false beliefs that you keep alive are the tombstones behind which
you hide. If you refuse to let them go you are just as mad as the mad
man of the Bible who pleaded with enlightened reason not to cast them
out. There is no difference. But enlightened reason is incapable of protect -
ing prejudice and superstition against the inroads of reason. There is not a man in this world who has a prejudice, regardless of the
nature of the prejudice, who can hold it up to the light of reason. Tell me
you are against a certain nation, a certain race, a certain “ism,” a certain
anything – I do not care what it is – you cannot expose that belief of
yours to the light of reason and have it live. In order that it may be kept
alive in your world you must hide it from reason. You cannot analyze it in
the light of reason and have it live. When this fourth-dimensional focus
comes and shows you a new approach to life and casts out of your own
mind all these things that bedeviled you, you are then cleansed and
clothed in your right mind. And you sit at the foot of understanding, called
the feet of the Master. Now clothed and in your right mind you can resurrect the dead. What
dead? The child in the story is not a child. The child is your ambition, your
desire, the unfulfilled dreams of your heart. This is the child housed within
the mind of man. For as I have stated before, the entire drama of the
Bible is a psychological one. The Bible has no reference at all to any per -
son who ever existed, or any event that ever occurred upon earth. All the
stories of the Bible unfold in the minds of the individual man. In this story Jesus is the awakened intellect of man. When your mind
functions outside of the range of your present senses, when your mind is
healed of all the former limitations, then you are no longer the insane
man; but you are this presence personified as Jesus, the power that can
resurrect the longings of the heart of man. You are now the woman with the issue of blood. What is this issue of
blood? A running womb is not a productive womb. She held it for 12
years, she was incapable of conceiving. She could not give form to her
longing because of the running of the issue of blood. You are told her faith
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenclosed it. As the womb closes it can give form to the seed or idea. As your mind is cleansed of your former concept of self, you assume you
are what you want to be, and remaining faithful to this assumption, you
give form to your assumption or resurrect your child. You are the woman
cleansed of the issue of blood, and you move towards the house of the
dead child. The child or state you desired is now your fixed concept of yourself. But
now having assumed that I am what formerly I desired to be, I cannot
continue desiring what I am conscious of being. So I do not discuss it. I
talk to no one concerning what I am. It is so obvious to me that I am
what I wanted to be that I walk as though I were. Walking as though I am what I formerly wanted to be, my world of limited
focus does not see it and thinks I no longer desire it. The child is dead
within their world; but I, who know the law, say, “The child is not dead.”
The damsel is not dead, she but sleepeth. I now awaken her, I by my as -
sumption, awaken and make visible in my world what I assume, for as


 soon as you start to feel different about what you already
have, you will start to attract more of the good things. More
of the things you can he grateful for. You could look around
and say, "Well, I don't have the car I want. I don't have the
house I want. I don't have the spouse I want. I don't have the
health I want" Whoah! Back up, back up! Those are all the
things you don't want. Focus on what you already have that
you're grateful for. And it might be that you have the eyes
to read this. It might be the clothes that you have. Yes, you
might prefer something else and you might get something
else pretty soon, if you start feeling grateful for what you
have. "Many people who order their lives rightly in all
other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of
gratitude." It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling un-
grateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and
feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions. Whether it is jealousy, resentment, dissatisfaction, or feelings of
"not enough" those feelings cannot bring you what you want. 78 The Secret
They can only return to you more of what you do not want. Those
negative emotions are blocking your own good coming to you. If
you want a new car but you are not grateful for the car you have,
that will be the dominant frequency you are sending out. Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all
the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at
the never-ending thoughts that come back to you of more things
to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of at-
traction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just
like them. You will have locked into the frequency of gratitude and
all good things will be yours. "The daily practice of gratitude is one of the
conduits by which your wealth will come to
you." LEE BROWER
WEALTH TRAINER AND SPECIALIST,
AUTHOR. AN D TEACH ER
I think everybody goes through times when
they say, "Things aren 't working right," or,
"Things are going had." Once, when there were some
things going on in my family, I found a rock, and I just sat
holding it. I took this rock, I stuck it in my pocket, and I said,
"Every time I touch this rock I'm going to think of something Powerful Processes 79
that I'm grateful for." So every morning when I get up in the
morning, I pick it up off the dresser, I put it in my pocket, and
I go through the things that I'm grateful for. At night, what
do I do? I empty my pocket, and there it is again. I've had some amazing experiences with this idea. A guy from
South Africa saw me drop it. He asked, "What is that?" I
explained it to him, and he started calling it a gratitude rock. Two weeks later I got an email from him, in South Africa. And he said, "My son is dying from a rare disease. It's a
type of hepatitis. Would you send me three gratitude rocks?" They were just ordinary rocks I found off the street, so I said,
"Sure." I had to make sure that the rocks were very special, so
I went out to the stream, picked out the right rocks, and sent
them off to him. Four or five months later I get an email from him. He said,
"My son's better, he's doing terrific." And he said, "But you
need to know something. We've sold over a thousand rocks at
ten dollars apiece as gratitude rocks, and we've raised all this
money for charity. Thank you very much." So it's very important to have an "attitude of gratitude." The great scientist Albert Einstein revolutionized the way we view
time, space, and gravity. From his poor background and poor be-
ginnings, you would have thought it impossible for him to achieve
all that he did. Einstein knew a great deal of The Secret, and he
said, "Thank you" hundreds of times each day. He thanked all 80 The Secret
the great scientists who had preceded him for their contributions,
which had enabled him to learn and achieve even more in his
work, and eventually become one of the greatest scientists who
has ever lived. One of the most powerful uses of gratitude can be incorporated in
the Creative Process to turbo-charge what you want. As Bob Proc-
tor advised in the first step of the Creative Process, Ask, start by
writing down what you want. "Begin each sentence with, I am so
happy and grateful now that..." (and you fill in the rest). When you give thanks as though you have already received what
you want, you are emitting a powerful signal to the Universe. That
signal is saying that you have it already because you are feeling
gratitude for it now. Each morning before you get out of bed, make
it a habit to feel the feelings of gratitude in advance for the great day
ahead, as though it is done. From the moment I discovered The Secret and formulated the vi-
sion to share this knowledge with the world, I gave thanks every
day for the film The Secret, which would bring joy to the world. I
had no idea how we would bring this knowledge to the screen, but
trusted that we would attract the way. I stayed focused and held
to the outcome. I felt deep feelings of gratitude in advance. As that
became my state of being, the floodgates opened and all the magic
flowed into our lives. For the magnificent team of The Secret, and
for me, our deep, heartfelt feelings of gratitude continue to this
day. We have become a team that resonates gratitude with every
moment, and it has become our way of life. Powerful Processes 81
Visualization is a process that has been taught by all the great
teachers and avatars throughout the centuries, as well as by all the
great teachers living today. In Charles Haanel's book, The Master
Key System, written in 1912, he gives twenty-four weekly exercises
to master visualization. (More important, his complete Master Key
System will also help you become the master of your thoughts.) The reason visualization is so powerful is because as you create
pictures in your mind of seeing yourself with what it is you want,
you are generating thoughts and feelings of having it now. Visu-
alization is simply powerfully focused thought in pictures, and it
causes equally powerful feelings. When you are visualizing, you
are emitting that powerful frequency out into the Universe. The
law of attraction will take hold of that powerful signal and return
those pictures back to you, just as you saw them in your mind. DR. DENIS WAITLEY
I took the visualization process from the Apollo program,
and instituted it during the 1980s and '90s into the Olympic
program. It was called Visual Motor Rehearsal. When you visualize then you materialize. Here's an
interesting thing about the mind: we took Olympic athletes 82 The Secret
and had them run their event only in their mind, and then
hooked them up to sophisticated biofeedback equipment. Incredibly, the same muscles fired in the same sequence when
they were running the race in their mind as when they were
running it on the track. How could this be? Because the mind
can't distinguish whether you're really doing it or whether it's
just a practice. If you've been there in the mind you'll go there
in the body. Think about the inventors and their inventions: The Wright
Brothers and the plane. George Eastman and film. Thomas
Edison and the light bulb. Alexander Graham Bell and the tele-
phone. The only way anything has ever been invented or cre-
ated is because one person saw a picture in his mind. He saw it
clearly, and by holding that picture of the end result in his mind,
all the forces of the Universe brought his invention into the
world, through him. These men knew The Secret. These were men who had utter faith
in the invisible, and who knew the power within them to leverage
the Universe and bring the invention into the visible. Their faith
and their imagination have been the cause of the evolution of hu-
mankind, and we reap the benefits of their creative minds every
single day. You may be thinking, "I do not have a mind like these great in-
ventors." You may be thinking, "They could imagine those things,
but I can't." You could not be further from the truth, and as you
continue on this great discovery of the knowledge of The Secret, Powerful Processes 83
you will learn that you not only have the mind they had, but
much more. MIKE DOOLEY
When you're visualizing, token you've got that picture
playing out in your mind, always and only dwell upon the
end result. Here's an example. Look at the back of your hands, right now. Really look at the back of your hands: the color of your skin,
the freckles, the blood vessels, the rings, the fingernails. Take
in all those details. Right before you close your eyes, see those
hands, your fingers, wrapping around the steering wheel of
your brand new car.


. This he stated was largely due
to the very high child mortality rate, of which the most frequent cause is tuberculosis. While it does
not take many decades to record a distinct physical deterioration, a deteriorating parenthood
greatly speeds up this process. While physical defects acquired by the parent will not be
transmitted as such, prenatal deficiencies may be established because of the physical defects of the
mother resulting from her faulty nutrition, and these deficiencies, together with disturbed nutrition of
infancy and early childhood will go far in determining whether there will be for the child a physical
breakdown or whether the normal defense of the body will be adequate to protect it from various
infections to which it may later be exposed. Sitka has furnished the longest history of contact with white men of almost any community on
the Pacific Coast. Indeed, it was a famous seaport long before any United States Pacific Coast
communities had been established. It is of much interest that it was a shipbuilding center for vessels
in the Russian trade. Its foundries were developed so efficiently that the bells of the early
monasteries of California were cast in this town by the Russians. It contains some of the best
examples of the early Russian architecture, particularly in its cathedral. Anchorage is the principal city of western Alaska, since it is not only a base for the railroad
running north to Fairbanks, but a base for aeroplane companies operating throughout various parts
of Alaska. It is accordingly a combination of a coast city with its retail activities and a wholesale
base for outfitters for the interior. It has an excellent government hospital which probably has been
built around the life of one man whom many people told us was the most beloved man in all
Alaska. He is Dr. Josef Romig, a surgeon of great skill and with an experience among the Eskimos
and Indians, both the primitives and modernized, extending over thirty-six years. I am deeply
indebted to him for much information and for assistance in making contacts. He took me, for
example, to several typically modernized Indian homes in the city. In one, the grandmother, who
had come from the northern shore of Cook Inlet to visit her daughter, was sixty-three years of age,
and was entirely free from tooth decay and had lost only one of her teeth. Her son, who had
accompanied her, was twenty-four years of age. He had only one tooth that had ever been
attacked by tooth decay. Their diet had been principally moose and deer meat, fresh and dried
fish, a few vegetables and at time some cranberries. Recently the son had been obtaining some
modern foods. Her daughter, twenty-nine years of age, had married a white man and had had eight
children. She and they were living on modern foods entirely. Twenty-one of her thirty-two teeth
had been wrecked by dental caries. Their diet consisted largely of white bread, syrup and
potatoes. Her children whom we examined ranged from five to twelve years of age, and in that
family 37 per cent of all the teeth have already been attacked by dental caries, notwithstanding the
young age of the children. The mother of this family is shown in Fig. 18 (upper, left). It is of great
importance that not only was dental caries rampant, but that there were marked deformity of the
dental arches and irregularity of teeth in the cases of the children.7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 60/250    Among the many items of information of great interest furnished by Dr. Romig were facts that
fitted well into the modern picture of association of modern degenerative processes with
modernization. He stated that in his thirty-six years of contact with these people he had never seen
a case of malignant disease among the truly primitive Eskimos and Indians, although it frequently
occurs when they become modernized. He found similarly that the acute surgical problems
requiring operation on internal organs such as the gall bladder, kidney, stomach, and appendix do
not tend to occur among the primitive, but are very common problems among the modernized
Eskimos and Indians. Growing out of his experience, in which he had seen large numbers of the
modernized Eskimos and Indians attacked with tuberculosis, which tended to be progressive and
ultimately fatal as long as the patients stayed under modernized living conditions, he now sends
them back when possible to primitive conditions and to a primitive diet, under which the death rate
is very much lower than under modernized conditions. Indeed, he reported that a great majority of
the afflicted recover under the primitive type of living and nutrition. The institutions that have been organized for the care of orphans and for the education of
Eskimo and Indian boys and girls provide an opportunity to study conditions. A particularly
favorable institution is located at Eklutna on the railroad north of Anchorage. Many of the
individuals in the school had come from districts so remote from transportation facilities that their
isolation had compelled them to live mostly on native foods, at least during their early childhood. They had come from districts very widely distributed throughout the Alaskan peninsula. Credit is
due to the management of this institution for preparing and storing dried salmon for use throughout
the winter. The beneficial effects of their good nutritional program were evident. The percentage of
teeth attacked by dental caries was 14.6. A large percentage of these pupils were of mixed blood
of native Eskimos or Indians with whites. The white parent had probably been largely responsible
for their attendance at this training school. There were several full-blooded Eskimos and Indians
from modernized communities where they had been living on modern foods throughout their entire
lifetime. This gave an opportunity to study the rôle of nutritional deficiencies in the development of
deformities and irregularities in the facial features, in the arrangement of the teeth, and in the inter-
relationship between the dental arches. The typical irregularities and divergencies from normal
were present in the full-blooded Eskimo and Indian boys and girls in as high percentage as in the
mixed bloods. Some of the young people with parentage of mixed blood have beautiful features. Another important institutional group was studied at Seward in the Jesse Lee Home which had
first been established at Nome and had been moved to Seward to avoid the extreme isolation of
that district. This institution is located at Resurrection Bay which is one of the most beautiful
harbors in the world. It gives shelter and educational opportunities to Eskimos and Indians, chiefly
of mixed blood, from a large area of Alaska, and particularly from the Aleutian Peninsula, the
Aleutian Islands and the Bering Sea. These individuals, whether of mixed or pure blood, had come
chiefly from homes that were in large part modernized. The incidence of dental caries found here
was 27.5 per cent for all teeth examined. Here again all individuals were affected. Notwithstanding
the unusually fine hygienic conditions and highly trained dietitians of this institution, a medical ward
and trained nurses, tuberculosis was reaping a heavy toll. I was told that 60 per cent of all those
students who had moved with the school from Nome to this location were already dead from
tuberculosis. It is common knowledge that tuberculosis has played a very important rôle in
decimating the Indian and Eskimo population in the Pacific Coast towns and villages. A very
important phase of these investigations is the development of new light on the rôle of nutrition in
lowering the defense of these individuals so that with their low inheritance of defensive factors they
rapidly become susceptible to tuberculosis. The problem of evaluating the influence of a particular environment on racial and tribal
development is relatively simple when studying contemporary remnants of primitive racial stocks. However, groups that have lived and disappeared in the past do not permit of so simple a
procedure for making physical estimates. Fortunately, we have in the burial grounds not only the
skeletons, but also many of the implements used in daily life. Sometimes these contain samples of
the foods. We may find also their art ware and hunting equipment. While the period may not be
definitely recorded, the knowledge of the history of the pottery of the tribe often gives an important7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 61/250clue to the dates as will also the method of burial. Burials made before the advent of the Christian
era will in many groups show the bodies in a flexed position with the arms in the lap, whereas in the
Christian burials the bodies have been laid prone and the arms crossed on the chest. By this sign
the pre-Columbian burials can readily be separated from the post-Columbian. Using these guides, a study of the Indians of Florida, past and present, permits of comparing the
pre-Columbians with those living today in that same territory. We will, accordingly, consider the
dental caries problem and that of facial and dental arch form in the Florida Indians by comparing
three groups: namely, the pre-Columbian, as evidenced from a study of the skull material in the
museums; the tribes of Indians living in as much isolation as is possible in the Everglades and
Cypress Swamps; and the Indians of the same stock that are living in contact with the foods of
modern civilization. This latter group lives along the Tamiami trail and near Miami. In a study of
several hundred skulls taken from the burial mounds of southern Florida, the incidence of tooth
decay was so low as to constitute an immunity of apparently one hundred per


ists to realize that they cannot
make a silk purse out of a sow's ear-that they cannot make a
Beethoven or an Einstein out of a sow's-ear type of nervous
system. The basic problem is to find out the capabilities of a par
ticular nervous system and, by practice and experience, help it to
develop into the most efficient apparatus possible for that par
tindar and unique type. 6
All this is also relevant to the current demand-or hope-for
a unified religion. Those who think this is possible are doomed to
disappointment because we are all different and respond differ
ently to the ideas which others suggest to us. Religion can never be an organized set of regulations. It is a
purely personal matter, depending on the human individual's re
actions to his religious upbringing or teaching and to the ideas
which may originate in his own mind about his relationship to
what he believes to be the Designer, Organizer or Operator of the
Universe. It makes little difference what you call this qnalitative attribute
of the Universe -whether YOll call it God. or the Universal Mind
or something else. The fact is that your relationship and mine
with this thing outside ourselves- something which is greater
than ourselves-is a purely personal matter between us and it,
123 THE CONTINUING ADVENTURE
which cannot be organized or legislated by religious groups or
in courts of law. Since nobody knows the origin of the Universe, an infinite
variety of opinions about its Originator is inevitable. Hence
the enormous number of religious faiths and groups around the
world, some of which appeal to vast numbers of individuals and
some to a mere handful. It is often djfficult to get general agree
ment on the interpretation of a set of facts. When there are no
facts-in the accepted sense of the word-to interpret, it is obvi
ous that general agreement among large numbers of different
individuals is impossible. Each individual, then, has to solve the problem of his relation
ship with the Originator for himself in order to reach a con
clusion which is satisfying to him. There may be others who
reach the same conclusions and also find them satisfying. But
these should not be imposed on those who do not because, in the
long run, each individual has to solve his own problems. Nature revels in infinite variety. Far from trying to impose uni
formity on mankind-or on anything else-she makes every
thing different. Our brains and bodies are all a little different
from every other brain and body in the world. Even our finger
prints are different; among the many millions of fingerprints on
file around the world, no two identical ones have ever been found
-even among the many thousands of prints of 'identical' twins. *
L·fields are the tools which Nature uses to indulge her zest for
variety; and we know no way to blunt them. In dealing with
human nature, therefore, we should temper our idealism with
realism and-like the wisest politicians-should confine our
selves to 'the art of the possible'. In our modern civilization, of course, a certain amount of
uniformity-in laws, regulations, procedures, printed forms and
so on-is both necessary and unavoidable. But if we are to har
monize man-made laws with Nature's, we should neither seek
-nor hope for-greater uni formity in regulating human con
duct but should do our utmost to keep it to tbe minimum and,
where possible, to reduce it. It is the aim of some of the theorists and most of the dictators
* Confirmed by the F.B.1. 124 THE CONTINUIN G ADVENTUR E
of this age to regulate the human race down to a dreary con
dition of mediocre uniformity. Perhaps, then, one of the most
important things we can learn from the fields of life is that in
Nature precise organization and infinite variety can and do go
together. We are likely to get further faster in the solution of our
problems if we strive to imitate Nature, however difficult that
may be. 7
Nobody knows what those early Vikings really expected to
find when they set sail across the Atlantic. Perhaps they dreamed
of fabulous and mysterious territory to conquer. But when they
landed they found nothing too mysterious or unfamilia r-just
a large and obvious continent to explore. It has been much the same with our voyage of discovery. What
ever we expected to find out when we started, we have found
nothing myst erious-nothing that need surprise us. We knew before we started that, in the non-living world, fields
and atoms are related attributes of matter and that neither can
exist without the other. It was reasonable to suppose, then, that
living systems-composed as they are of atoms and their fields
-should contain electrical fields capable of determining the
pattern of the structure and of maintaining it through constant
changes of chemical flux. This seemed the more likely because the electro-encephalo
graph and the electro-cardiograph had established the existence
of electrical phenomena in living systems. And physicists know
that wherever potential di fferences exist in conducting media
currents flow and fields are the inevitable result. The existence of L-fields, then, seemed as logical and probable
as the existence of new lands across the ocean must have seemed
to the Vikings. But, as with them, the problem was how to find
the hoped-for goal. As with them, too, the goal was invisible. But
here we had an advantage over the Vikings: we are accustomed
in this age to dealing with the invisible. THE CONTINUING ADVENTURE
We cannot see electro-magnetic fields but we not only know
they exist but also put them to work for us in various ways. We
have never seen electrons but we know how to use them. We
know, too, that they are present in the nucleus of the atom; and
it is perfectly clear that the properties of the atom are, in part
interaction between the electrons and the whole atom and, in
part, the contact which the atom has with other atoms. So, in
contrast to the Vikings, we expected the result of our quest to
be invisible. Like them, however, we had to devise suitable equipment
for our voyage of discovery. They had to build new ships to
plough through stormy seas. We had to find new means to ex
plore an ocean without causing any ripples on its surface-in
strument s which would draw no current from the organisms
measured. As related earlier, this took three years; and it would
be interesting to know if the Vikings were able to equip them
selves more rapidly! Though our goal seemed reasonable and attainable, it should
be stressed that, when we started out we had no certainty of
reaching it. However logical an hypothesis may seem, one can
never be sure that it can be validated by experiment. The ships
of scientific exploration can founder in the seas of experimental
problems as easily as longboats can sink in the North Atlantic. But it is this element of uncertainty that gives zest to any voyage
of discovery because, without it, there could be no hope of find
ing the unexpected. Though, in any exploration, the unexpected is always wel
come and exciting, the more clearly one can visualize in advance
what one hopes to find, the easier it is to devise the right kind
of experiment to validate the hypothes is. If one knows what one
is looking for, too, there is less risk of wasting time down blind
alleys. We were fortunate, then, that our original hypothesis was
sufficiently close to experimentally-demonstrable fact to save us
from much wasted time and effort. We were lucky in the fact
that science had reached a stage which justified the belief that
electrical measurement s of living forms could be made, that they
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would exhibit pattern and would serve as at least one measure of
a controlling electrical field. Over the years-as related in these pages-this belief has been
justified by experiment. Wherever we made electrical measure
ments of living systems we found voltage gradients; and in all our
experiments we found that the voltage gradients in living systems
without any exception are organized in patterns. And the re
sults of these many years of experimentation leave no reason
able doubt tha t the �eld characteristic of a living system is a basic
property of life. Moreover, since the field of a living system is an ordered pat
tern, it must be a part of the overall or general pattern which
represents the Universe. It can be argued, therefore, that the
Universe is an electrical field and that everything that exists in
it is a subsidiary or component part of the total field. This, of course, is not new. 'Vlhat is new is that it is now pos
.sible to make valid, repeatable measurements of the subsidiary
fields which are associated with living forms. This shows that
living systems are not some special creation-introduced into the
Universe at some particular time or place-but are an integral
part cf the pattern-that is, of the law and order-of the
Universe. Someone once asked the question: 'What is this electricity
which constitutes a field?' A distinguished physicist gave the best answer that the author
knows: 'Electricity is the way Nature behaves.' This electricity, then, which can be measured and shown to
have order and pattern, is not some strange and


 attain
that balance which creates a healthy physical being. As stated in previous chapters, half measures w ill avail you nothing. You are at the
point where you must ask God for guidance. These are the steps, which are suggested
as a method of spiritual recovery:
1. Accept the fact that you are afflicted with a symptom (malignant cancer) and
that recovery is possible. 2. Establish a faith in a power greater than yourself and know that with His help
you can regain health and harmony. 3. Make the decision to turn your w ill and your life over to the care of God. 4. Conduct a complete self-analysis to better understand your own emotions. 5. Admit to God, to yourself, and to others the exact nature of what you find to
be your shortcomings. 6. Be willing to give up what you are doing wrong. 7. Seek through prayer to improve your conscious contact with God. Pray only
for knowledge of His w ill for you and the strength to carry that out. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of this action, practice these principles
in your every thought. Just as the body must be purged and cleansed, so must the
emotions and spirit be purified. This is a comparatively simple task to accomplish, but
do not lull yourself into believing that it is an easy task. Rigorous self-discipline and
the ability to grasp and develop a manner of living with complete honesty in all of
your actions and thought are necessary. You must become strong willed to be a
winner in accomplishing that which you set out to do for yourself. You w ill look for
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STOP! LISTEN! Listen with your heart
He's been knocking softly
Just ask Him to come in
He made you
He loves you
He's always been there
He is the truth
He not only has
The answers He is the
Answer for you
The Lord is the Light
Through Him you'll
see the Father
He's knocking
He's knocking
Just let Him come in
and His gift to you
Will be Heaven
Mrs. John Mark (Dei) Kelley
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B ody Detoxification
Before any disease can be cured,
th e  w aste p ro d u cts and im p u ritie s  m ust be cleansed fro m  th e  body. The sooner th is is done, th e  sooner th e  b o dy can begin re p a irin g  itself. Body Detoxification
In reality, a person very rarely dies of cancer. It is always starvation and toxicity. As
the malignant tumor grows it gives off waste products, which must be eliminated
through the colon, liver, kidneys, lungs and skin. These waste products accumulate
and gradually overburden the body. Most persons then die of toxemia. Before any disease can be cured, the waste products and impurities must be
cleansed from the body. The sooner this is done, the sooner the body can begin
repairing itself. Dr. Kelley recommends that you begin the detoxification process even before you
have the nutritional supplements in your possession. It is absolutely imperative that
the patient carefully follows the detoxification process after the supplements begin
stimulating the release of wastes and debris. Scientists have calculated that a person has between 70 and 100 trillion cells in his
or her body. This means we have over 70 trillion "garbage cans" needing to be
emptied. In our culture we have not made allowances for, nor taught ourselves, the
proper techniques of emptying these waste receptacles. It is no wonder that the
people of our nation are so sick! Proper and thorough detoxification is just as
important as good nutrition for anyone who has lived in the mainstream of a modern
technological civilization for 10 or more years, and especially for anyone who has
developed symptoms of a chronic degenerative disease. The intensive program of concentrated nutrients outlined in this book w ill begin to
make nutritional factors available to the cells, which they may not have had for many
years. Consequently, cellular metabolism will speed up and an increased amount of
metabolic waste will be dumped into the bloodstream. Most people's organs of
elimination do not function well enough to handle this increase in waste. If it
accumulates in the bloodstream, one w ill not feel well and the cells will not be able
to utilize the fresh nutrients being provided by the nutritional program. 84
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When one eats food, it is digested in the mouth, stomach, and intestinal tract. In
the intestinal tract, the digested food is absorbed into the bloodstream, which takes it
close to each individual cell. The food, along with oxygen, is transferred into the cell. In the cell, nutrients are metabolized into energy, carbon dioxide, water, and waste
products of metabolism. It is the accumulation of these wastes, which frequently
interferes with normal functions of the cells. Principal factors necessary for a pure bloodstream are pure air, pure water, pure
food, and the presence of oxygen brought in by exercise appropriate to your
cardiovascular capacity. As the cells produce metabolic debris, the blood carries it to the organs of
detoxification. These organs are the liver, kidneys, lungs, skin, many of the mucous
membranes, and the colon. If these organs of detoxification are themselves filled with
debris, they of course cannot accept any more toxins. In such a case, the blood
cannot accept further debris from the cells and, before long, there are 70 to 100
trillion garbage cans completely full. It is like the city dump being filled to capacity and not accepting any more garbage
trucks. Then one's home becomes overloaded with garbage, which shortly interferes
with normal functions of one's household. Before long, the entire community has
become bogged down. "Clean blood" then, acting as a highway for the garbage
trucks, is dependent upon the organs of detoxification. The Master Gland of Detoxification
The liver is the major organ of detoxification, and also the most stressed by our
modern lifestyle. One cannot live long without the heart, brain, kidneys, or pancreas,
yet it is proper liver function, which prevents these organs from becoming diseased. Here, in addition to metabolic wastes, is where environmental contamination, food
additives, and all other chemical pollutants are removed from the body. You should be just as much or more concerned about the condition of your liver as
about the condition of your heart. If you have had hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver,
infectious mononucleosis, or other liver damage, you should become very protective
of this vital organ. The intake of anything that places undue stress on the liver should
be eliminated entirely. Such a list would include: chemicals of any kind; drugs; synthetic foods; artificial
food additives, such as flavorings, colorings, preservatives, emulsifiers, stabilizers,
sweeteners; alcoholic beverages; carbonated beverages; hair sprays; chemical
deodorants; and reheated vegetable oils used in frying, commercial pastries, and most
fast foods. (Unrefined oils, or butter for sauteing, can be used without creating
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peroxides and free radicals, which are toxic to the liver.) Major functions of this incredibly complex organ include:
• Metabolizing essential fats (cholesterol, triglycerides, lipoproteins) and thus
preventing their accumulation in the bloodstream where they often form
deposits on blood vessel walls (atherosclerosis). • Synthesizing the bulk of necessary blood proteins. • Breaking down and eliminating most drugs and environmental poisons. • Secreting a fluid (bile) which stores in the gall bladder or the enlarged bile duct
and empties into the small intestine. The bile acts as a carrier for all liver wastes. It is also essential for the proper
digestion and assimilation of fats and all fat-soluble nutrients such as vitamins A, D, E,
K, lecithin, and essential fatty acids. The gall bladder is a hollow muscular organ
which stores and concentrates bile and is attached to the undersurface of the liver. When a meal is eaten, especially if it contains some fats or oils, the gall bladder is
stimulated to contract and should freely expel its contents into the small intestine to
emulsify fatty nutrients for proper absorption, and to allow poisonous wastes which
the liver has removed from the body to be eliminated through the intestines. Liver Congestion
Many people living in our society today, even those in their teens, fail to have free,
unobstructed flow of bile from the liver and gall bladder in response to food entering
the small intestine. Eating refined or processed foods, eating fresh food which is
mineral deficient because it is grown on depleted or chemically treated soil, lack of
regular vigorous exercise, stress, multiple distractions during meals, and many other
unnatural aspects of our lifestyle have combined to alter the chemistry of bile so that
formation of solid particles from bile components is a commonplace occurrence
among Americans. These solid particles remain in the gall bladder or the base of the liver for many
years and become progressively harder, sometimes calcifying into "gallstones." Long
before this occurs, however, metabolic problems are under way. When a significant
number of solid bile particles accumulate, the free flow of the gallbladder is
diminished, causing progressive stagnation and congestion of the liver. The