 in the Amazon jungle,
as well as by the coastal tribes.
    Professor Drummond, a British bio-chemist, in discussing the question of the modern decline in
fertility, before the Royal Society of Medicine (4) suggested that the decline in the birth rate in
European countries, during the last fifty years, was due, largely, to the change in national diets
which resulted from the removal of vitamins B and E from grains when the embryo or germ was
removed in the milling process. He called attention to the fact that the decline in the birth rate7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 241/250corresponded directly with the time when the change was made in the milling process so that
refined flour was made available instead of the entire grain product.
    Of the many problems on which the experience of the primitive races can throw light, probably
none is more pressing than practical procedures for improving child life. Since this has been shown
to be largely dependent upon the architectural design, as determined by the health of the parental
germ cells and by the prenatal environment of the child, the program that is to be successful must
begin early enough to obviate these various disturbing forces. The normal determining factors that
are of hereditary origin may be interrupted in a given generation but need not become fixed
characteristics in the future generations. This question of parental nutrition, accordingly, constitutes
a fundamental determining factor in the health and physical perfection of the offspring.
    One of the frequent problems brought to my attention has to do with the responsibility of young
men and women in the matter of the danger of transmitting their personal deformities to their
offspring. Many, indeed, with great reluctance and sense of personal loss decline marriage because
of this fear, a fear growing out of the current teaching that their children will be marked as they
have been.
    On the presumption that all mentally crippled individuals will be in danger of transmitting these
qualities to their offspring there is a strong movement continually in operation toward segregating
such individuals or incapacitating them by sterilization. Several primitive racial stocks have
produced large populations without criminals and defectives by means of an adequate nutritional
program which provided normal development and function. May it not be that even our defectives,
when they have resulted from poisoning of germ cells or interference with an adequate normal
intrauterine environment, may be able to build a society with a high incidence of perfection, that will
progressively return toward Nature's ideal of human beings with normal physical, mental and moral
qualities? Because of its interpretation of the individual's responsibility for his mental and moral
qualities, society has not only undertaken to protect itself from the acts of so-called unsocial
individuals but has proceeded to treat them as though they were responsible for the injury that
society has done to them. Does it not seem inevitable that this apparently false attitude will change
if it be demonstrated that they are the result of a program of inadequate nutrition for the parents.
    As we have seen, the children born in many of the families of primitive racial stocks after the
parents have adopted our modernized dietary, may have marked changes in the facial and dental
arch forms. In our modernized white civilization this change occurs so frequently that in a
considerable percentage of the families there is seen a progressive narrowing of the dental arches
in the succeeding children of the same family. Since the position of the permanent teeth which erupt
at from seven to twelve years of age, can be determined by x-rays early in child life, this procedure
provides an opportunity to anticipate deformities that will make their appearance with the eruption
of the permanent teeth.
    In Fig. 131, may be seen the x-rays of the upper arches of three children. Even under conditions
causing the permanent teeth to develop irregularly the deciduous dental arch will not show the
deformity that will be expressed later in the permanent dental arch. The abnormal placement of the
developing permanent teeth, however, will show the deformity that is later to be produced in the
face even though the deciduous arch is normal in design. Both deciduous and permanent teeth can
be seen at the same time. In Fig. 131 it will be seen that there is a progressive deformity revealed
in the position of the permanent teeth in these three children. (Most severe in the youngest.) This
narrowing of the curve made by the permanent teeth is a condition characteristic of a large number
of individuals, occurring in at least 25 per cent of the families throughout the United States; in some
districts the percentage will reach 50 to 75 per cent.7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 242/250FIG. 131. X-rays of teeth of three children in one family show in the
teeth and upper arch a progressive injury in the younger children as
indicated by the progressive narrowing of the placement of the tooth
buds of the upper permanent teeth. Note the narrowing curve of the
arch.
    Another striking illustration of this progressive injury in the younger members of the family,
detected early by the x-rays, is shown in Fig. 132. Note the breadth of the arch of the permanent
teeth of the oldest child (to the left), and the marked narrowing of the arch of the two younger
children (to the right).
FIG. 132. These x-rays illustrate the progressive injury in the two
younger children in this family. Note the progressive narrowing of the
permanent arch illustrated by the lapping of the laterals over the
centrals in the youngest, and decreasing distance between the
cuspids.
    While the application of orthodontic procedures for the improve- ment of the facial form and
arrangement of the teeth will make a vast improvement in facial expression, that procedure will not
modify disturbances in other parts of the body, such as the abnormal underdevelopment of the hips
and pelvic bones. If an improvement in nutrition for the mothers-to-be is adequately provided in
accordance with the procedures of the primitives, it should be possible to prevent this progressive
lowering of the capacity of our modern women to produce physically fit children.
    Fig. 133 is another illustration. The oldest child, ten years of age, is shown at the upper left. She
has a marked underdevelopment of the width of the face and dental arches. The nostrils are
abnormally narrow and she tends to be a mouth breather. She is very nervous and is becoming
stooped. In the lower left photograph, is shown an x-ray of the narrowed upper arch. At the right
is shown her younger sister, six years of age. It will be seen that the proportions of her face are
much more normal and that she breathes with complete ease through her nose. She has none of the
nervous trouble of her older sister. In the x-rays, below, at the right, it will be seen that her
permanent arch, as indicated by the positions of the permanent teeth, although not so far advanced
as that of her sister, has good design. The history of these pregnancies is of interest. The duration
of labor for the first child was fifty-three hours and for the second three hours. Following the birth
of the first child the mother was a partial invalid for several months. Following that of the second
child the experience of childbirth made but slight impression on the strength and health of the
mother. During the first pregnancy no special effort was made to reinforce the nutrition of the
mother. During the second pregnancy the selection of foods was made on the basis of nutrition of
the successful primitives. This included the use of milk, green vegetables, sea foods, organs of
animals and the reinforcement of the fat-soluble vitamins by very high vitamin butter and high
vitamin natural cod liver oil. It is a usual experience that the difficulties of labor are greatly
decreased and the strength and vitality of the child enhanced where the mother has adequately
reinforced nutrition along these lines during the formative period of the child.7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 243/250FIG. 133. In this family the first child to the left was most
injured in the formative period as shown in the form of the
face and dental arches above and x-rays below. The first
child required fifty-three hours of labor and the second three
hours, preceded by special nutrition of the mother.
    The problem of maternal responsibility with regard to the physical capacity of their offspring to
reproduce a healthy new generation comprises one of the most serious problems confronting
modern degenerating society. In a previous chapter I have discussed the difficulty that zoological
garden directors have had in rearing members of the cat family in captivity. It has been a very
general experience until the modern system of feeding animal organs was instituted, that unless the
mothers-to-be had themselves been born in the jungle the lack of development of the pelvic arch
would frequently prevent normal birth of their young. In the Cleveland Zoo a very valuable tigress,
that had been born in captivity, found it impossible to give birth to her young. Although a Caesarian
operation was performed, she lost her life. The young also died. One of the veterinaries told me
that the pelvic arch was entirely too small to allow the young to pass through the birth canal.
Studies of the facial bones of this animal showed marked abnormality in development.
    The result of disturbance in the growth of the bones of the head and of the development of
general body design is quite regularly a narrowing of the entire body, and


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Ms. Erlinda N. Suarez
631 Peregrine Drive
Palatine, IL 60067-7005
The specimen w ill be tested immediately upon arrival. Results w ill be sent by email
as soon as they become available to the patient's and/or physician's email address if
they have email addresses. The official report w ill be sent back by air mail.
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M e ta b o lic  M e d icin e's C ancer C ure P rogram  is based on
th e  best s c ie n tific  kno w le dg e a va ila ble and has been
condensed to  a sim ple w e ll-b a la n ce d  system.
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Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Program
"Metabolic" pertains to metabolism: The chemical and physical processes
continuously going on in living organisms and cells, comprising those by which
assimilated food is built up (anabolism) into protoplasm and those by which
protoplasm is used and broken down (catabolism) into simpler substances or waste
matter, with the release of energy for all vital processes.
The person who has the metabolic malfunction should be addressed, not the
disease that has the person. We call our system of addressing cancer "Metabolic"
because the total person and all of his chemical and physical processes must be
considered, and new habits of health developed in order to obtain a reasonable state
of health.
We advise a very comprehensive program. It is extremely effective and inexpensive
when compared to surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Those who are willing to
faithfully and tediously follow it w ill be successful. Those who follow it in part or
haphazardly w ill be completely unsuccessful.
Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Program is based on the best scientific
knowledge available and has been condensed to a simple well-balanced system. It
can be compared to a fine watch; each part must be there and functioning properly,
or it does not work at all. Each step of Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Program
must be followed exactly or there will not be any relief of the symptoms.
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The Five Steps of Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Program
1. Adequate, Proper, Well-Balanced Diet (Chapter V)
2. Neurological Stimulation (Chapter VI)
3. Spiritual Attitude (Chapter VII)
4. Detoxification Of The Body (Chapter VIII)
5. Metabolic Supplementation (Chapter IX)
1. Halting or stopping the malignant growth with the use of supplemental
metabolic nutrition, is relatively simple. The growth is usually stopped from within 3
hours to 12 days of metabolic nutritional supplement support, depending upon the
amount and method of administration. This is usually noted by a sharp elevation of
body temperature lasting about three days.
2. The clinical problem in treating a cancer patient is step two, clearing the body of
accumulated toxins. This takes from 3 weeks to 18 months, depending upon the
location and mass (amount) of growth. Many cancer patients have had their tumors
successfully treated only to die of toxic poisons as the mass is dissolved and excreted
from the body. In a case such as this, the clinician treated the disease and not the
patient, or failed to treat "metabolically."
3. Diet for the cancer victim is as important as diet for the diabetic, and should be
carefully followed during the fist year of the recovery process. Later, diet can be
altered to a more acceptable program. However, for the rest of one's life food intake
and enzymes must be considered to remain "cancer-free."
4. The nerve pathways to the pancreas must remain functional, turning the
pancreas on and off as needed. When this process fails, the pancreas does not know
what to do. Osteopathic and chiropractic adjustments as well as acupuncture and
other newer neurological therapies have also proven helpful to the cancer victim.
5. Spiritual attitude often means the difference between life and death. Many are
not dedicated to the hard work and faith required for success. One patient recovered
by renting funny movies like Abbot and Costello, the Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin
and other noted comedians. He literally laughed himself well!
We find that the rate of recovery is subject to another law — that of blood supply.
If the rate of blood supply to an area is great, recovery is fast. If the blood supply to an
area is inadequate, recovery is very slow. Thus, we find those with leukemia respond
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quickly, while those with bone afflictions have a much slower response. We have
also noted that in tumors of large diameter (three or more inches) the outside
diameter is quickly dissolved, but the interior, where there is a lack of blood supply,
often takes several months to dissolve. This is a very wonderful thing; the body has
time to detoxify, and the death rate from toxemia is greatly reduced.
The prognosis for a cancer patient is very good when the liver, kidney, and lung
functions are at least 50% of normal, and an optimistic spiritual attitude is
maintained. Unfortunately, we have found many people who have lost hope, or their
next of kin have lost hope, to the degree they were resigned to death and refused to
try our Cancer Cure Program.
Metabolic Cancer Defense
There are only two physicians: the Almighty and your own body
The pancreas is a complex organ and has many functions and purposes. We will
briefly mention three here:
A. Carbohydrate (Sugar) Metabolism.
If this pancreatic function fails, the resulting disease process is what we call
diabetes.
B. Production of Digestive Enzymes:
1. Amylase, which digests starches, glycogen and other carbohydrates.
2. Lipase, which digests fats.
3. Protease, which digests proteins. If this pancreatic function fails, the
resulting disease process is called:
a) Cystic Fibrosis (usually in children) and/or;
b) Malnutrition, starvation, cachexia, wasting, or emaciation (usually
in adults).
C. To Digest or Cannibalize:
1. The intercellular metabolic waste and toxic metabolic materials.
2. The intracellular waste products and dead or dysfunctional normal cells.
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3. The normal dormant pre-placenta cells as they become cancer cells.
When this pancreatic function fails we have the resulting disease process we call
cancer.
Metabolic Ignorance
There are many causes for the failure of our pancreatic metabolic function. Often
more than one cause exists simultaneously within the cancer patient. All must be
considered as possible, or ruled out as non-causative, in each cancer patient:
1. The pancreas fails to produce an adequate quantity of enzymes.
2. We take into our bodies such large quantities of foods which require
pancreatic enzymes for their digestion, that there are no enzymes available
for cancer digestion.
3. Diet: incorrect type, amount, and timing of nutritional intake.
4. Nutritional components are not available (vitamins, minerals, amino acids,
etc.) that are necessary for normal metabolism within the pancreas.
5. We may fail to take into our diet enough minerals, which are essential to
release the enzymes into activity.
6. We may produce enough enzymes but we fail to take into our diet enough
coenzymes (vitamins) to make the enzymes work.
7. Failure to make adequate pancreatic activators.
8. Obstruction of pancreatic secretion flow.
9. Often we produce enough enzymes, but the blood supply to a cancer area
is so poor that the enzymes we produce are not carried to the area.
10. Proper ph balance (acid/alkaline balance) within the intestinal tract and/or
within the malignant cancer tumor mass.
11. Infection: bacterial or viral.
12. Chemical poisons within the patient's body from the environment, food
chain, drugs, metabolic wastes or medications.
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13. Man-made biologicals such as viruses or infectious agents.
14. Emotional instability and/or trauma.
15. Non-absorption of pancreatic secretions: pancreatin from the intestines
into the body due to scarring or damage to the small intestine from various
diseases.
16. Our bodies produce anti-enzyme factors. These factors keep the enzymes
from digesting our own bodies. Sometimes we produce an over-abundant
supply of these anti-enzyme factors.
17. Balance: instability and weakness of the autonomic nervous system.
18. Genetic: inheriting a very small, or weak or defective (ineffective)
pancreas.
19. Radiation damage such as from therapeutic procedures, etc. and
20. Spiritual weakness.
Racial Gene Pools
The pure white race, Aryans, and in particular, the Anglo-Saxon, Celtic,
Scandinavian, Germanic, French, Scottish, Irish and British peoples, genetically
appear to have a much higher incidence of cancer than other races. The Jewish race,
as well as Blacks, Asians and mixed races have a much lower incidence of cancer


ness. The open mind now
begins to change that which is stressful. What is stress
ful at the level of Pride perhaps becomes an object of
curiosity and an opportunity for growth to the person
at the level of Courage.
Moving up to the next level called Neutral, the energy
field calibrates at 250 and has much more power than
the positions below, and the power is now being used
in a constructive direction. It is as though at the lower
levels, the antenna is first tuned to the negative; then it
moves to neutral, and finally, to the positive. One then
begins to experience life in a positive direction
because one is the experiencer. The experience is not
out there; it is within one's own consciousness. Ifa per
son is willing to let go of a lot oftheir positionalities, they
no longer need to be defensive, which is a result ofpride93 STRESS
fulness, importance, and the need to always be 'right'.
The positions of the atheist, the bigot, or the zealot
lead to conflict.These are based on the prideful belief
that "my position is 'right'; therefore, your position is
'wrong'." With the willingness to surrender that, the
person becomes somewhat unattached. People begin
to transcend their vulnerability to the world, and the
process occurring in consciousness releases them.The
world begins to look okay, and the God of such a world
is now the God of freedom.
How is that 'okayness' expressed? A person at this
level, when on the way to a job interview, thinks, "If I
get this job, it will be great, and ifI do not, that is okay,
too, because there are other job opportunities I would
really like to look at." As a result, that person is not stuck
because they have not based their survival on anyone
particular thing.
As we move into Willingness, we add intention to
the process of consciousness. It means a 'yesness', a
joining, an alignment, and an agreement with life, and
such a person begins to see the world as friendly. When
these people at the level ofWillingness walk down the
street,the God ofthat kind ofworld appears promising
and hopeful. Now their experience of the newspaper
is one of opening it up and seeing all the evidence of
man's cooperation and struggle to solve his own prob
lems. What another perceives as destruction, they see
as merely the process, or the working out, of the bal
ance of forces. When they walk down the street, they
begin to see a friendlier world and now see people as
friendly. Their perception has changed; and now 'old'
people who no longer have to'make it' in the world are 94 HEALING AND RECOVERY
frequently seen as more open to friendliness. It is now
simple to walk up to most older people and instantly
strike up a conversation.
Those at the level ofWillingness no longer look at
others with a paranoid distrust or size up people to
see where they stand in a prideful world.They begin
to see strangers and older people as friendly, as well
as the friendliness of young children, and find that it
is easy to strike up a relationship with them.
As we move up into Acceptance, we then begin to
accept that we are the source of our own experience
of life. The person who has reached this level of
awareness has taken back the power over their own
life and realizes that no matter where they are put,
they are going to somehow make do. Ifthey were put
on a desert island, a year later, they would have built
a tree house and would be carving coconuts.
If they were put in a jail cell, they would write a
novel or maybe even sit cross-legged and go into
meditation. Others often choose to become jailhouse
lawyers and even get law degrees. The power to cre
ate the experience oflife is within.These people have
reclaimed their own power. Consequently, the God of
that kind of world and universe of experience is now
perceived as promising, hopeful, and merciful, and as
a God no longer to be feared. These people now feel
adequate and confident.
Companies want to hire that kind of person to go
out after the big contracts. That person is able to
accept the ups and downs in the realities of life as
well as their own limitations.A person dominated by
pride is unable to accept limitation. When a company 95 STRESS
says, "We would like you to go to Venezuela and close
a deal," the person at the level of Acceptance feels
adequate and confident and can say,"You know, I really
do not do very well with that company, and I do not
get along with that particular man. I would do much
better in Belgium. I can sell twice as much there.Why
don't you let Jim go down to Venezuela?"
There is the willingness to accept how the world
works and to avoid going into indignation. Even the IRS
has its own way ofbeing in the world. One avoids 'right
and wrong' and just accepts that is how it is in this
world and goes along with it. (Acceptance is different
from passivity.) The beginning of the transformation of
consciousness is the realization that we are the source
of our experiences, and therefore, the world begins to
look more positive, harmonious, hopeful, and benign.
Empowerment moves a person up to the next
energy field of Love. What do we mean by love? It is
not the sentimental emotionalism that emanates from
attachment or what Hollywood depicts as love. That
emotionalism coming out of a possessive ownership
of the other person, the back-and-forth control and
the power struggles that occur, the words of a song
that say,"If you leave me, I will kill myself" are not the
elements of Love. These are all the consequences of
an attachment rather than real love.
Unconditional Love is a way of being with life that
nurtures, supports, and, of its own nature, is forgiving.
It is the beginning of the revelation of some of the
truths of life because, within the brain, there is a
release of endorphins. (See Brain Function and
Physiology chart in Chapter 1.) Endorphins allow a 96 HEALING AND RECOVERY
certain inner state to occur, a way of being with one's
self and one's body in the world. Consequently, the
world starts to appear to be lovable. Such a person
now walks down the street feeling somewhat mellow.
They see the lovingness that really occurs underneath
the apparent trivialities of life and holds all of
mankind together. The person is moving into a higher
energy field.
To see life as harmonious and lOVing reduces stress,
making this person less vulnerable because they are
aligned with forgivingness. The intention of this field
that one chooses is called lovingness, which is experi
enced as being loving towards all things at all times, as
loving mankind and being nurturing towards one's self.
There is a difference in how people view them
selves in contrast to the harshness of the perfectionist
who is always at the level of stress with human nature.
The person who is unforgiving, with a tendency to
judge and condemn, carries self-hatred and guilt, and
for that person to just breathe in and out causes a state
of stress. If they get up late, they already hate them
selves for getting up late.The stress stems from perfec
tionism, inflexibility, and the propensity for self-con
demnation, and it is internally generated. The open
minded persons who start to be easier with themselves
also start to be accepting of their own humanness.
Forgiveness supports the mental attitude of the readi
ness to allow for the humanness of others, which also
allows for one's own humanness.
With progressive inner spiritual work, one moves
up to an even higher energy field of joyfulness, which
approaches the beginning awareness of the reality that 97 STRESS
one really is the experiencer, not the experience. One
is then not at the effect of the world but instead real
izes that one determines the way it is experienced.
Out of inner serenity arises compassion for all of
life. Awareness of its incredible beauty and perfection
increases, along with experiencing the oneness and
unity of it. Then the more evolved person opens the
newspaper and sees and experiences the totality of
man's lovingness. Despite the limitations of human
ness, that which is making all the articles appear in the
newspaper is the expression of the onward movement
and evolution of man's consciousness. When an
evolved person walks down the same street, they expe
rience only the incredible beauty ofit, the beauty oflife
in all its magnificent expressions. One can then see a
rose in the middle ofits perfect unfoldingness.The less
evolved person would look at the half-unfolded rose
and say,"I don't want that, that's an imperfect rose."The
evolved person sees perfection in the evolution of life
itself and sees that half-unfolded rose in the same way.
They then simply project


 kinds of sweets (high sugar and fats, no nutritional value)
Cheese
Cocoa
Coffee for drinking (except as used in the castor oil treatment)
Cosmetics, hair dyes, permanents (see Chapter 5, pg. 26 )
Cream
Cucumber (poorly digestible)
Dried fruit if sulphured or glazed with oil
Drinking water (see Chapter 9, pg. 80 )
Epsom salts (also for foot baths)
Fats and oils (sole exception: Flax Seed Oil, as prescribed)
Flour (white, wholemeal, also flour products, e.g. pasta)
Fluoride, in water and toothpaste (see Chapter 5, pg. 24 )
Herbs (except permitted ones, see Chapter 12, pg. 94 )
Ice cream, sherbet (artificial flavours, sweeteners, cream)
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www.thegersonway.comMilk (also defatted or low fat)
Mushrooms (fungi, not vegetable)
Nuts (high in fats, wrong configuration of proteins)
Orange and lemon rind (contain aromatic oils)
Pickles
Pineapples (high in aromatics)
Salt and all salt substitutes
Soy and all soy products—tofu, soy milk, flour, etc.
Spices (high in aromatics)
Sugar (refined white)
Tea (black and green if containing caffeine; black tea is high in natural fluoride)
Dr. Gerson’s total ban on soy and all soy products may sound surprising at first,  since soy has
the much-publicized reputation of being an ideal vegetarian food, high in protein, low in fat and
cholesterol, moreover much consumed in the Far East, where cancer incidence is considerably
lower than in the West.
However, the truth behind this commercially motivated publicity is very different (soy is very
big business in the US, where 60% of supermarket foods contain some form of it). In fact soy
is high in oil and contains at least 30 allergy-causing proteins, which can cause severe damage
to susceptible individuals. Soy also contains phytic acid, which blocks the uptake of important
minerals; enzyme inhibitors, which annul the healing power of the vital oxidizing enzymes
contained in the juices, and a clot-promoting substance, which causes red blood cells to clump
together—ample justification for the total exclusion of soy from the Gerson protocol.
PLEASE NOTE: Two “home-grown” foods, which became fashionable some twenty years
ago and are considered wholesome and nutritious, must not be used by Gerson patients. They are
sprouted seeds and wheatgrass juice, and our experience has shown that unfortunately both have
harmful side effects.
Sprouts were  eaten in large amounts by two Gerson patients at our hospital instead of the
usual salads at lunch and dinner; within a short time both developed recurrences of their primary
diseases, i.e., lupus, viz. cervical cancer, after being symptom-free for months. Other lupus
patients, getting sprouts from the hospital kitchen in their salads and juices, stopped responding
to the treatment and even got worse.
Shortly afterwards researchers discovered that sprouts contain immature proteins, called I-
canavanine, which suppress the immune system. At the Gerson hospital sprouts were immediately
banned, and the earlier problems disappeared at once. All past patients were also advised to stop
using sprouts in their diet.
Wheatgrass juice contains many valuable nutrients, but it is difficult to digest, tends to
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www.thegersonway.comUsed as a rectal implant it can cause serious irritation. Besides, the Gerson green juice, consisting
of salad greens, chard, a little green pepper, some red cabbage and an apple per 8 ounce glass
(see Chapter 12, pg. 90 ) is highly digestible, contains similar nutrients, and can be enjoyed in
four 8 ounce portions a day, without unpleasant side effects—an excellent reason for not using
wheatgrass juice.
Temporarily Forbidden until permitted by Gerson practitioner
Butter, eggs, fish, salt-free defatted cottage cheese, meat, yogurt and other fermented milk
products.
Forbidden Personal & Household Items
Cosmetics (see Chapter 5, pg. 26 ), pesticide sprays, aerosols of all types, fresh paint, new
carpeting, chlorine bleach, ointments, perfumes, wood preservatives, all chemical cleansers (see
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www.thegersonway.comCHAPTER 11
Happy Foods
“Even the highest medicine can cure
only eight or nine out of ten sicknesses.
The sicknesses that medicine cannot cure can be cured only by foods.”
   The Yellow Emperor’ s Classic of Internal Medicine (Chinese, circa 400 B.C.)
“Food is better medicine than drugs.”
    Title of book by leading British nutritionist Patrick Holfor
So what IS there to eat?—asks the startled newcomer to the Gerson way of life, after reading
the list of forbidden foods in the preceding chapter. That is an important question to ponder,
because it shows how alienated one can become from a natural way of eating, and above all from
the huge range of available plant foods, rightly called the Vegetable Kingdom (which in this
instance includes fruits, too.) It is a fair guess that the majority of people in the so-called developed
world regard vegetables as no more than incidentals that accompany a main course of fish or
meat, while fruits are only considered if there is no dessert on of fer.
Well, this is the moment to think again—and to make some delightful discoveries.
The fact is that the plant foods that are the basis of the Gerson regime are much superior to
animal-based ones. Besides being lighter, more pure, and easier to digest and absorb, each one
contains a subtle mixture of vitamins, enzymes, minerals, and trace elements, which work in
synergy, i.e., in cooperation, and supply the depleted organism with valuable nutrients. It is only
when the non-healing—in fact harmful—food items are excluded that the wide range and variety
of plant foods becomes clear. And it is not just their usefulness but also their beauty that needs to
be acknowledged. Try to look at a display of fresh organic fruits and vegetables with the eyes of
an artist, note the glowing colors and varied shapes of golden carrots, deep red cabbages, creamy
cauliflowers with their light green collars, beige pears, multicolored apples, translucent green
grapes—the range is vast, and eye appeal adds a great deal to the enjoyment of the produce.
There is another happy surprise that awaits the novice explorer of the Vegetable Kingdom:
the discovery of the true flavor of vegetables and fruits. At first, without salt and pepper, plant
foods taste bland and, frankly, boring. Yet they are neither. But a lifetime of excessive use of salt
deadens the taste buds of the tongue, until they are unable to convey the true taste of any food,
and even the salt intake has to be increased all the time to have any effect. On the salt-free Gerson
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www.thegersonway.comand vegetables suddenly begin to taste more interesting. At the same time one’s sense of smell
also becomes more acute and contributes to the enjoyment of every meal.
“Let your food be your medicine, and let your medicine be your food,” said Hippocrates, the
father of modern medicine some 2500 years ago. We might add: and let your medicine consist of
happy foods only.
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Preparing Food and Juices –the Basic Rules
“A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.”
Abraham Maslow
 Assuming that your kitchen is now fully equipped for your healing Gerson routine and that
you have banished from your home all forbidden foods and substances, the moment has come to
find out about the all-important task of food preparation. The rules are simple, but they must be
observed faithfully to secure the best results.
 All food must be organic and as fresh as possible. Ideally we should be able to gather fresh


 have a negative effect upon the nervous systemcreating hyper- or hypoactivity of this system. This then will have a residual
effect upon the whole body in numerous ways including nerve disorders,
severe constipation, diarrhea, bloating, edema, and acidosis.
HOW TO DO AN ENEMA
1
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Purchase an enema-bag / “hot water bottle” combination from a
pharmacy.
2
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Fill the bag with 1/2 quart to 2 quarts of skin temperature water or herb-
water mixture. Always use skin temperature water no matter what you
mix it with.
3
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Hang the hot water bottle at least two feet above you.
4
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Lay on your left side as you start your enema.
5
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Use a healing herbal salve to lubricate the tip for easy insertion.
6
.
Let the water (or herbal mixture) flow slowly into your colon; stopping
the flow periodically while you rest and do some deep breathing.
7
.
After a few minutes, move from your left side to lying on your back, and
continue to let the water flow into your colon; then turn over to your
right side.
8
.
You may wish to massage the region of your colon as it is being filled
with the mixture. This will help loosen impacted “plaque” for removal.
9
.
Retain this water (mixture) somewhat, then allow elimination.
10
.
Repeat until the bag/hot water bottle is empty.
Use enemas wisely and when needed. There is no need to over use them.
A diet of raw fruits and vegetables along with a good intestinal rejuvenator
will work much better in the long run at reestablishing the health of the GI
tract.
Healing Clay
A fourth method of cleansing the bowels involves the use of clays. These are
not used as much in America as in Europe. In many countries, like Portugal,
health professionals use clay packs over the abdomen to accomplish the same
results we get with colonics. The late Dr. John Christopher has a great
intestinal powder
(Intestinal Corrective
 #2®) that includes bentonite clay and
charcoal. This has a highly cleansing and absorbing effect within the
intestines. This formula is beneficial in cases of irritable bowel syndrome and
with uncontrolled diarrhea.Summary

Our intestines (GI tract) are so vital that God made them one of the first
things formed when a cell initially becomes an embryo. In this early stage, the
spinal column and “gut” tissue is formed, and the gut tissue later becomes the
GI tract. Your very survival depends upon its proper functioning. Nutrients,
building materials, and fuels are absorbed from its walls, and the GI tract also
creates white blood cells, various vitamins, and amino acids. The synergistic
role of the GI system with the lymphatic system is not totally understood. But
its essential relationship to every cell in your body (via the lymphatic system)
should give you an indication of just how vital it is to keep it functioning
properly. You should “feed it” only alive, easy-to-digest foods with
electrically alive fiber so it can maintain its health.
Physicians pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which
they know less, into humans of which they know nothing.
— Voltaire, French satirist (1694-1778)

CHAPTER SEVEN
Eating for Vitality
U
p to this point we have looked at how the body works, the processes of
disease, detoxification and regeneration. We have examined our species and
the types of foods that best suit us. We have also looked at foods and their
effects on tissue.
In this chapter we will discover what to eat and how to eat it. It is
important not only to know what to eat, but
how to mix
 these foods properly
to get the optimum benefit from them—the art of food combining.
Here, too, we will offer a series of menus that you can begin to use
immediately to start yourself in the direction of detoxification and
regeneration. These menus will address your needs, whether you consider
yourself a timid beginner or a bold adventurer.
Further topics covered will include the amazing health value of raw fruit
and vegetable juices, and the subject of beans, soybeans and grains as they
relate to detoxification and regeneration.
In the concluding pages of this chapter you will find a number of
excellent recipes for both raw and steamed foods that will strengthen you on
your journey and make your meals more varied and delightful.
MODULE 7.1
What Foods to Eat

The following is a list of acceptable raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds.
Always buy organic if possible.
Most Fruits and Berries

GrapesBananas
Strawberries
Mangoes
Oranges
Grapefruit
Apples
Peaches
Pears
Pineapple
Dried fruits of all kinds (unsulphured)
Flowers are acceptable
Avoid
–Cranberries, Prunes and unripe fruits
VEGETABLES

Romaine Lettuce
Spinach
Carrots
Celery
Green Peppers
Cucumbers
Sprouts
Avocados
Green Leafy Vegetables
Squash
Green Beans
Peas
Raw Tomatoes
Kelp, Dulse and other Sea VegetablesOTHER RAW FOODS

Pecans
Almonds
Sunflower Seeds
Sesame Seeds
Pumpkin Seeds
Coconuts
Pine Nuts
Note
–Eat moderately of this category. Too many of these foods can be acid-
forming, energy robbing, and will slow or stop the cleansing process.

MODULE 7.2
Acid/Alkaline Food Chart

All foods contain both acid-forming and alkaline-forming elements. It is not
the organic matter of foods that leave these acid or alkaline residues in your
body. It is the inorganic matter or minerals that determine the acidity or
alkalinity of the body fluids and tissues. Potassium, sodium, magnesium and
calcium are considered the alkaline-forming electrolytes. Phosphorus, sulfur
and manganese are the acid-forming elements.
Several processes can be used to determine whether a food is more acid-
forming or alkaline-forming. Generally, if a food has dominant acid-forming
elements over alkaline-forming elements it’s considered acid-forming. Thereverse is also true. If a food has dominant alkaline-forming elements, then
the food is considered to be alkaline-forming.
Titration
 is the laboratory method used to measure acidity vs. alkalinity.
There are two stages to this process. First, the appropriate amount of food is
burned to ashes. This takes the place of digestion. Secondly, we add
approximately one liter of distilled water to 100 grams of these ashes, which
now makes a solution. The solution is then tested for its acidity or alkalinity.
Another method of determining the acidity or alkalinity of a food is its
nitrogen or proteid (chemical compounds comprising a protein structure)
content. Since nitrogen has an acidic influence, all protein-rich (nitrogen-rich)
foods are considered acid-forming. This, however, is an older method and is
not as accurate because it has been determined that vegetable matter supplies
more available nitrogen and proteid material than meats do.
The following Acid/Alkaline Food Chart is based upon a combination of
the above methods, and will help you on your journey toward alkalization.
Remember, a diet of 80 percent alkaline and 20 percent acid-forming food is
essential for greater health. A diet of 90 percent or more of alkaline-forming
foods means vibrant health.
Keep it simple. People always ask me: “What can I
add
 to my diet?” My
response is: “What can I take away?” Believe it or not, the simpler you eat the
healthier you’ll be. This statement drives nutritional scientists nuts. That is
because the focus has been on deficiencies, leading to the use of high dosages
of amino acids, vitamins and minerals. Mega-dosing like this can make some
symptoms disappear, but they will only reappear when these supplements are
stopped. This is not true regeneration or healing, but treating symptoms while
ignoring the causes. It is not the high level of nutrients consumed that is the
key. It is the power and syner-gistic action of ripe, raw, whole food. The
power of raw food to clean and rebuild the physical body is little understood
in our pharmaceutical scientific communities.
Look at the diets of most wild herbivores, e.g., elephants, horses, or
cows. They eat predominantly grass and leaves. Look at the wild silver-back
apes. Their diet is very simple as well, consisting of sweet things including
fruits, sweet tubers, berries and flowers. Seventy percent or more of the diet
of a grizzly bear is grass. These are among the strongest animals on this
planet.
I can tell you from my own personal experience that when I fasted for six
months on organic navel oranges, I never felt better and more in tune withGod and nature. Always trust nature, God and your inner intuition to know
the truth.
The Alkaline/Acid Food Chart shows what foods are alkaline-forming
and what foods are acid-forming. It is best during detoxification to eat ALL
raw fruits and vegetables only.
Alkaline Forming Foods

FRUITS
Apples
Apricots
Bananas
Berries
Cherries
Coconut,


 to eliminate the superfluities.
And also after engaging in th ese five activities he should
examine himself well. It is part of the care of health to investigate the quality
of food and this is very useful. One must know the nature
of all foods of every kin d. And the physicians have
already written many detaile d books about it, and they
were justified in doing so b ecause it is very necessary.
We will therefore state helpful rules in the spirit of this
chapter and according to the many foods that are accepted
by us. The good foods that are to be prepared by those
who want good health are: wheat bread well prepared, the
meat of a goat and a one-year lamb, the meat of a chicken
and pheasant and pigeons and turtle doves, and the yolk
of a chicken's egg.

WHEAT IS GOOD FOR BREAD
And by bread well prepared I mean that it should be
made of wheat that is fully ripened, after its superfluous
moistures become dry and it is not old enough to begin
deterioration. The bread must  not be made of refined
flour, but after it is sifted  in the sieve its sourness-
producing parts should be made visible and enough salt
added to make it suitable. The bread should be made of
rough grain unchafed and unpolished and its leavened
part should become visible.  Its dough should be plentiful
while it is being kneaded in order to be baked in the oven. This is the improved bread of the physicians. And this is
the best of food.

BUT FOR NOTHING ELSE
And it is important that you should know that
everything prepared from wheat aside from this bread is
by all means not a proper food. But the following dishes
prepared from it are especially bad: unleavened bread,
boiled dough, such as noodles, macaroni, dumplings and
fried dough balls, fried pancakes covered with honey, and
bread soaked in olive oil or in  other oils. All these are bad
foods for every man. White bread or bread made of
refined flour and boiled wheat are not good foods either.
Only a stomach with great power to digest them can
derive much nourishment and good from them.
The types of meat which we  mentioned above are not
all of one nature and are not  of equally good quality. But
the best of quadruped meat is that of sheep in pasture one
year old and castrated steer of  average fatness. The best
part of their meat is in th e anterior of their bodies and
what is connected to bone. FAT MEAT IS BAD
Everything that is within the abdomen is bad and the
fat parts are all bad; they sa tiate but they are hard to
digest as they diminish th e appetite and produce white
moisture. And the heads of cattle have more superfluities
than the other organs, and the extremities of animals, i.e.,
their legs, lack superfluities  and their nourishment is not
bad. And the sheep is full of s uperfluities; there is nothing
good in it. But a suckling kid is good food and easily
digestible. The meat of fowl is  in general lighter than the
meat of cattle and is digested more rapidly. And the best
of the fowl meat are those we mentioned.
Milk, immediately after it is milked, is a good food,
provided it does not become sour in the stomach. It does
not absorb fumes and does not develop flatulence in the
lower abdomen. And it should be  taken with a little honey
and a grain of salt, as Galen suggested, in order that it
should not congeal in the st omach. And the best of the
milks and the most rarefied is the milk of a goat or a cow.
This offers good nourishment.
 AVOID MILK PRODUCTS
And any dairy product or additi ons to milk are bad; for
example, when it is curdled or boiled or when it has
something boiled in it, it is very bad. All types of cheese
are very bad and heavy, but cheese one day old, which is
white and sweet and not fat, is good. So states Galen who
recommends it as good to eat. But everything resembling
it is not good, especially old cheese with a lot of fat.
Butter, raw or boiled, is not at all bad as human food.
Honey is good nourishment for the old and bad for the
young and especially for those whose temper is warm,
because it turns rapidly into red bile.
And fish are mostly bad nourishment, particularly for
those who are phlegmatic and for the old, and especially
large-bodied fish and the salt ed kind. Those that come out
of polluted waters and the very fat are very bad and
increase the fluids. But small fish whose flesh is white,
hard and tasty and which come either from the sea or
from large bodies of fresh water, such as the salmon, is
not a bad food, but one should eat very little of it.
 WINE IS NUTRITIOUS
It is well known among physicians that the best of the
nourishing foods is one that the Moslem religion forbids,
i.e., wine. It contains much  good and light nourishment. It
is rapidly digested and helps to  digest other foods. It also
removes the superfluities from the pores of the flesh and
excretes urine and perspira tion. It has other virtues
besides these and is very usef ul, as the physicians tell us.
But this concerns something that we are not allowed to
make [from the relig ious viewpoint], which makes talking
of it superfluous and unnecessa ry, and therefore we will
not mention the various kinds and how they could be used
in the upkeep of health.

CHOICE OF VEGETABLES
But the vegetables that are bad for all men are garlic,
onions, cress, horse-radish, cabbage, and mad-apples. All
of these are poor food for one  who wants to be in good
health, but cucumbers and green melons are not so bad.
As to the yellow melon, if one  will eat it early in the day,
when the stomach is empty and without a bad fluid, and
the person is the possessor of a disposition that is not bad,
it will be well digested, cool  off the body a little, increase the output of urine, purify the [blood] vessels and provide
some nourishment that is not bad. We mention it, because
it is extensively eaten by many people.
Fresh fruits that grow on trees are bad nourishment for
men in general. Some of them are worse than others.
Among those that are bad ar e carob, nespole and sorb
apple, and some are less ba d and almost good, like figs
and grapes.

GALEN ACCEPTS FIGS AND GRAPES —
Galen said that figs and grap es are the princes of fruits
and are less injurious. But the blood that is formed from
those fruits is not good. And let people not mistake my
statement that "all that  grows on trees has poor
nourishment," for fruit honeys and their ripe wines, their
juices and candies made from them help in special
diseases, because their value as food is different from
their value as medicaments. This is clearly known to
those who are versed in pharmacology. Galen said that
from the viewpoint of morality  and divine tr uth, it was his
intention to warn people not to eat fruit.
 BUT DISFAVORS OTHER FRUITS —
He further said that it was his habit to be smitten by
fever once a year and when his father commanded him to
abstain from eating fruit, he was protected from fever that
year. From that time he made it a rule never to eat fruit
and he swore that he never ha d fever after that, except for
one day. And one can mention this as an item of truth
because the moisture of fru it contains materials from
which fevers are formed. And let it not seem strange to us
that many people eat fruit w ithout developing fevers, for
habits and regulations bri ng various results. If a Hindu
should eat refined bread and sheep's meat he would surely
get sick and if one of us s hould eat rice and fish, as the
Hindus do always, he would doubtless also get sick. It is
not the intention of this work to declare it a special cause
[of sickness], but it is the intention to declare that fruits
are generally not good to eat and one should eat little of
them. One must never combine them with a meal, but one
may eat pears, grapes and figs before meals as they soften
and moisten the stool. One may eat after them, provided
they have left the stomach. And the binding plants such
as quince and plums should be  eaten sparingly and after a
meal, in order that they should contract and close the
opening of the stomach. PARTICULARLY PEACHES AND APRICOTS
And just as grapes and figs are considered the best of
all fruits, so are peaches a nd apricots considered the
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Really Are —suddenly your whole relationship to your occupation will
change dramatically. And so, too, will the way that the people you
serve receive what it is that you are of fering.
So whether you’re a doctor walking into a patient’ s room, or a
gas station attendant walking  up to a car, it doesn’t really matter. The
process is the same and the ef fect is the same: helping and healing.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, who I had the great joy of working with
for a period of time in my life as one of her staff assistants, used to
say this. She would respond to people who asked her how she was
able to be such  a wonderful presence in the life of her patients such
that she would walk into the room and people would immediately feel
better, just because of her presence.
She once made this comment, in front of a large room full of
medical studen ts: “Oh, I see. You think it’s because I’m a doctor. But
I want to tell you,” she went on in her Swiss accent, “that the lady
who comes in behind me to clean the toilet and mop up the floor has
an equal effect on the patients. And I can’t tell you how many
patients have gotten better because of the lady who’s cleaning the
bathroom. So if you think it’s my occupation that creates that effect,
you do not understand what’ s happening here.”So it is important to see that we are all in the helping
professions.
There’ s nobody who’ s not.
Everything we do helps someone else.
And to that degree we are rewarded internally and, as well,
often, externally. That is, people give us stuff (money, etc.) for the
help we’ve given them. Everybody on the planet is in the helping
profession, and everybody can feel like a doctor or a minister
walking into a room. Everyon e can feel that sense of self-fulfillment
and full expression of the most wondrous part of themselves,
whether they’re a doctor or a minister or a person with flowers at the
flower store, or candy at the sweetshop, or magazines and papers at
the news stand, or legal advice in a lawyer ’s office—or a mommy or
daddy at home, offering humankind the greatest gift it could ever
receive: the love and nurturing of its of fspring.
It doesn’t really matter what you do, only how you are helping
and what you are being  while you are doing it.

DR. COOPER: I love how you transform “work,” which I perhaps
previously would have considered an “obligation,” a “social
responsibility,” or a “less than fun thing to do,” and make it into what
seems like a very exciting and “soul-serving” thing to do.
You make me very excited to wake up and to serve in that kind
of a way!

NEALE: It’ s the most exciting thing that anybody could do!
It’s what gets me jumping out of bed in the morning! Exac tly, at
71 going on 72, hopping out of bed nevertheless with the sameamount of excitement that I had when I was 21 and imag ined that I
was doing it for a dif ferent reason.
But now at 71 going on 72, I jump out of bed at five o’clock in
the morning, unable to wait to get started with the day, with another
chance to self-express and to demonstrate to myself the highest
notion I ever had about Who I Really Am. And to do so in such a way
that I wind up loving myself, loving life, and loving all the conditions
of life that have allowed me to do that.
If that doesn’t make one fall in love with God, then nothing will.Chapter Two

DISSECTING THE TRUTH:
A Look at the Human Body

DR. COOPER: That was beautiful.

NEALE: Life is beautiful. It’ s just a matter of seeing it that way.

DR. COOPER: Yes, I get that. I really do. And I really want to
embrace this optimistic viewpoint you have. It all seems so
magnificent, so wonderful, so freeing!
And I do agree— that the point of life is what we make it. That
we have the immense privilege to select in every golden moment of
Now who we next choose to be, and how we next choos e to “show
up.”
But I do have a few more questions for you.

NEALE: Y es... How may I serve you?

DR. COOPER: Well, it’s all very nice to understand conceptually that
we are Spiritual Beings, here to fulfill the Agenda of the Soul. And to
understand that all struggle can turn to celebration when we dare to
ask ourselves, and to create the answers to, the Seven Simple
Questions and the Four Fundamental Questions of Life.And I really “get” that this is possible.
I mean, your stories from the people of Ouagadougou are living
proof that it’s possible to live in this sort of a way—w ith peace,
harmony, joy, and unity among people, despite being among what
we would clearly call “the disadvantaged people of this world.”
I mean, it is remarkable —living with one light bulb that has to
be traded with the rare appliances they may use during the daytime
when light is not needed. Living in dried mud huts or concrete
dwellings, with no such things as professional careers or financial
success or exotic vacations as we have it here in North America.
And still these people argua bly have more love and happiness in
their hearts than could be bought with all of the wealth on the planet!
So clearly it illustrates that there is “something more” going on
here—another reason for being on the planet—and that it is this
“spiritual journey” we have come here to continue. A spiritual journey
that has much more to do with how we are being than what we are
doing.
But Neale, as I sit here listening, I still feel somewhat shocked
at how this is all possible...
Because even as you’re telling me that it’s true that we can live
this way—and you have visited 26 nations on the planet, some of
which have clearly demonstrated this way of living—I still find myself
not quite sure how to apply this wisdom in my everyday 9-to-5 life
here in the Western World. As you said yourself, it goes against all we
have been taught and trained to do. So many of us do not understand
how to “survive” within this new way of holding life. Even myself, who
has been practically “raised by Neale Donald Walsch,” find myself
struggling with it at times!
NEALE: And why are you struggling with it? Why aren’t you
celebrating it?

DR. COOPER : Because at times it feels like I have to make a
choice. A choice between serving the Agenda of Physical Life—
everything from the perceived “needs of my family,” to my job and
income, to how I’m going to pay the next rent bill and get food on the
table—and serving the Agenda of my Soul. And I’m not quite sure
how the two can co-exist in a way where one complements the other.
So I think some clarification would be helpful here. Because
I’ve noticed that people, myself included, often experience spirituality
and physicality as if they were two separate aspects of life, rather
than seeing them as linked at the most fundamental level (which, of
course, they are).
But it is nevertheless hard to truly live that way.

NEALE: I think we have a very powerful point to make here—this
business of the Intersection between physicality and spirituality  that
not so many people really experience. They may think of them
together conceptually, but in terms of their actual on-the-ground
experience  they may hold them entirely dif ferently, thinking that one’ s
physical expre ssions and experiences are other  than, or different
from, one’ s spiritual expressions and experiences.
And maybe the purpose of this whole dialogue that we’re
having might be to impress upon people not only the significance of
the fact that there is no separation between our physical and spiritual
experience, but that the co-mingling of the two is exactl y what lifewas intended to produce, it is our reason for existing —and that when
we understand this, our whole lives will change.

DR. COOPER: Yes! It is an important concept to touch on. And it’s
absolutely been my observation that, even among people who would
consider themselves to be “very spiritual”—I’ve been to a number of
your retreats, and a lot of the people there would consider themselves
to have spirituality as an integral component of their lives—I’ve still
observed, as I mentioned before, people going home and returning to
their lives and still living as if there is separation between the physical
and the spiritual.
Perhaps they wake up in the morning and meditate for a while,
which appears to be a spirit ual aspect of life, and then they go to
work, and that appears to be a physical aspect of life.
I’ve observed this in friends I have met at your retreats, as well
as in spiritual coaching clients who have come to me for the very
reason that they want help implementing spirituality in an ongoing
way in their lives. And I think it’s a


 than in the standard
American diet, as it replaces many of the animal fats. Vegans often i ncrease their use of nuts, seeds, avocados, and olives, as well.
Essentially, vegans eat their own version of the standard America n diet, with vegan versions of all the same foods that they ate
before. It should then come as no surprise that when we analyze the ca loronutrient ratio of the vegan diet, we find that it doesn’t
change much.
If anything, vegans often allow their dietary fat intake to swell ev en higher than the mainstream. Vegans think that they do not
need to limit their fat intake, because they believe that the an imal products were the only “offenders” in their old program. Even if
their fat intake remains the same, overall calorie intake often drops w hen vegans replace animal foods with plant foods (which
provide fewer calories per bite). Thus, the percentage of the vegan diet t hat comes from fat rises.
The average, however, remains close to 42%, because a good number of vegan s follow “low-fat” programs, as well.
Nonetheless, the vegan diet, with its increased use of fruits and veg etables, and its superior S/P ratio, is overall a far healthier diet
than the standard American diet or vegetarian options. Still, too much f at is too much fat.

Eating Fat: Good or Bad for Us?
More fat than we require is not an asset but a detriment to good nutrition. T he more fat we eat, the further we stray from
meeting our nutritional needs. A steady flow of research comes out reg ularly relating high-fat diets to almost every type of digestive
disturbance, blood disorder, and degenerative disease. Much of this is cau sed by the body’s reduced ability to uptake, transport,
and deliver oxygen to our trillions of cells. (We discussed this at lengt h in Chapter 2. In addition, too much fat reduces the actual
number of viable red blood cells. Excessive fat consumption may be commonplace, but it is nothing short of nutritional disaster.
A high-fat diet not only destroys our health, but it ages us, as well. Due t o our inability to taste fat, we tend to dress our fatty
foods with stimulants and irritating condiments, to give them flavor. T hese very stimulants and condiments accelerate the aging
process. W e pay for every “up” with a subsequent down. All isolated su bstances extracted from whole foods have this effect upon
the body, even if they are promoted as supplements, beauty or rejuvenation ai ds, or other types of health builders. Combine the
influence of these food additives with the extra work the body performs to proce ss high-fat meals, as well as the compromises in
blood function that plague people in the habit of eating heavy, fatty diets, a nd you have the perfect recipe for the early onset of aging
and health decline.

Oil Is Not Health Food
While we have learned and repeatedly demonstrated that whole foods are th e only source of balanced nutrition, many health
advisors tell us that refined, isolated fats and oils should be considere d “health foods.” They almost all sell some type of “food-
grade” oil, which seems like a fairly strong endorsement. Are we jus t supposed to ignore the obvious contradiction?
Some  vendors promote the consumption of oil as part of an internal “cleans e” program. I have even heard oil referred to as
“juice,” with the suggestion that we drink it as a daily health pra ctice. This is the stuff that draws ridicule from mainstream scie ntists
and nutritionists, and, at least according to many health experts, is wh y the raw movement is being laughed out of the scientific
community.

Oils … Empty Calories at Best, Carcinogenic Junk Fo od at Worst
Across the board, refined oils (including coconut, flax, olive, hemp, almon d, borage, and the like, which are touted as “pure”
or “special” because of their source or careful processing meth ods) are essentially empty calories, not fit for human consumption.
They are stripped of the fiber, protein, and carbohydrates that accompanied th e whole foods from which they were derived, leaving
an imbalanced fractional product that is 100% fat.
In contrast, whole-food  fats eaten sparingly  (fresh nuts, seeds, avocados, or young coconut flesh) provide some useful
nutrition and are not automatically detrimental to health. Using su ch intact sources of fat in salad dressings and other dishes with thei r
full complement of macro and micronutrients is by far preferable to usin g refined oils.
Although oil vendors tout a wide variety of health benefits to be gained fr om the phytochemicals contained within cold
expeller-pressed oils, there can be no doubt that these delicate micronut rients are more potent when left untouched within the whole
foods. Maximum nutrition occurs when our teeth  are the first thing to break Nature’s package … rather than a ma chine, an
appliance, or even a knife.
Further, the fiber contained in whole plant foods helps keep fats from going r ancid. Shortly after extracting any oil from its source and discarding the fiber, early-stage rancidity (and therefor e potential carcinogenicity) ensues, even if we cannot detect it. A s
rancidity begins to set in, micronutrients become deranged.
If calling refined oil “empty calories” doesn’t sit well with you, ch alk it up to good marketing—because oil (pure fat) fits the
description of empty calories perfectly, as do protein powder (pure protein) and t able sugar (pure carbohydrate). These include
commodities popular among raw fooders such as evaporated cane sugar (Rapadur a) and hemp protein. Empty calories invariably
provide less nutritional value than their whole-food counterparts.
If we think only in terms of symptoms, we may indeed perceive some benefits  from consuming oil. But when we extract the oil
from nuts and seeds in a vain attempt to maximize their anticancer pr operties and concentrate other nutrients, we create (often
undetectable) imbalances within the body that inevitably produce unin tended health problems. Adding oils into the diet to treat
symptoms such as dry skin, eczema, dandruff, candida, joint aches, etc., which  were not caused by a lack of oils (no known
symptom is actually caused by a lack of oil), is totally nonsensical.
Rather than treat or suppress the symptoms of any condition, it is always  a healthier strategy to remove the causes of the
condition. True health is created from the inside out, not through lotions, pot ions, or other aids. Increasing the amount of high-water-
content fruits and vegetables while reducing fat consumption to a hea lthful range is the foundation for creating a healthful life.
Eating for health requires a shift in thinking, from “is this good for me ” to “what am I designed for?” No matter how we look at
it, oil is simply not necessary in our diet and should never be considered a he alth food (or even a food, in my opinion).

10% Fat for Health
If you are relatively new to the idea of monitoring your caloronutrient  ratio, bringing your total fat consumption down to the
teens (under 20%) is an excellent initial goal. You can accomplish th is by just calculating the fat in your nuts/seeds/avocados/etc.,
without factoring in the covert fats in your low-fat fruits and vege tables. These foods add only a negligible amount of fat to the daily
intake—just a few percentage points total.
As eating a greater volume of fruits and vegetables gets easier, you  may decide that it is worth your effort to track the covert
as well as the overt fats for a short time, in order to get a more realisti c view of your total fat consumption. You may find that you
need to be vigilant in monitoring fat intake, at least at first, because  fat calories are more concentrated than carbohydrate or protein
calories and therefore, are easy to miss.

The Caloronutrient Seesaw
A truly healthy diet is well balanced in nutrients, but the balance i s not the one we have been taught. Eating 80% + of calories
from carbohydrates, with fat and protein in the upper single digits, a ctually balances what I term “the caloronutrient seesaw” quit e
nicely.

In the graphic above, protein is the fulcrum, and fat weighs so heavy on our  system that just a little bit goes a very long way. A
balanced caloronutrient seesaw would be 80% + carbs, with single-digit (less than 10%) protein and fats.  When this ratio comes from
whole, fresh, ripe, raw, organic, plants, all the rest of your food-related nut rients will be consumed in the optimum quantities for
human health.

Chapter 8. The Big Surprise: Raw Fooders Average 60 %+ Fat!

As is true of new vegetarians or vegans, when people initially begin i ncorporating raw foods into their diets, they almost
automatically gravitate toward foods of similar composition to the ones th ey are used to, in order to feel satisfied. With delight and
abandon, they eat their fill of luscious raw concoctions that are treme ndously rich and difficult to digest, certain that they have
reached “nutrition nirvana.”


 relationsh ips. The test
space for the d etermination o f the data is the totality of the human
experience throughout all time.
Mentally, test subjects ranged from what the world calls “normal” to
severely ill psychiatric patients. Subjects were tested in Canada, the United
States, a nd Mexico and throughout South America and Northern Europe.
They were of all  nationalities, ethnic backgrounds, and religions, ranging in
age from children to elders in their 90s, and covered a wide spectrum of
physical and emotional health.  Subjects were tested individually and in
groups by many dif ferent testers and groups of testers. In general, the
results were identical and reproducible, fulfilling the fundamental
requirement of the scientific method: perfect experimental replicability.
Subjects were selected at rando m and tested in a wide array of  physical
and behavioral settings: on top of mountains and at the seashore, at holiday
parties a nd duri ng the course o f everyday work, in moments of joy and
moments of sorrow. None of th ese circumstances af fected the test results,
which were found to be univer sally consistent irrespective of extraneousfactors, with the singular exception of the methodology of the testing
procedure itself. Because of the significance of this factor, the testing
method will be described in detail below.
THE TESTING TECHNIQUE
T wo per sons are required. One a cts as test subject by holding out one arm
laterally, parallel to the ground. The second person then presses  down with
two fing ers on the wrist of the e xtended arm and says, “Resist.” The subject
then resi sts the downward pressure with all his strength. That is all there is
to it.
A statem ent may be made by either party. While the subject holds it in
mind, hi s arm’ s strength is tested by the tester ’ s downward pressure. If the
statement is negative, false, or r eflects a calibration below 200 ( see Chapter
3 ), the test subject will “go weak.” If the answer is yes or calib rates over
200, he will “go strong.”
T o demo nstrate the procedure, one might have the subject hold an image
of Abraham Lincoln in mind while being tested, and then, for contrast, an
image o f Adolf Hitler. The same ef fect can be demonstrated by holding in
mind someone who is loved in contrast to someone who is feared or hated,
or about whom there is some strong regret.
Once a numeric scale is elicited  (see below), calibrations can b e arrived
at by stating, “This item [such as this book, or ganization, this person’ s
motive, and so on] calibrates over 100,” then “over 200,” then “over 300,”
until a negative response is obtained. The calibration can then  be refined:
“It i s over 220? 225? 230?” and so on. T ester and testee can trade places,
and the same results will be obtained. Once one is familiar with the
technique, it can be used to evaluate companies, movies, ind ividuals, or
events in history; it can also be used to diagnose current life problems.
The test procedure, the reader will note, is to use the muscle test to verify
the truth or falsi ty of a declarat ive statement. Unreliable respo nses will be
obtained if the question has not  been put into this form. Nor ca n a reliable
result be obtained from inquiry  into the future; only statemen ts regarding
existent conditio ns or events in the past or present will produce consistent
answers.It is necessary  to be imper sonal during the procedure to avoid
transmitting positive or negative  feelings. Accuracy is increased by having
the test subject close his eyes, a nd there should be no music or distractions
in the background.
Because the test is so deceptively simple, inquirers do well to first verify
its accur acy to their own satisfaction. Responses can be checked by cross-
questioning, and everyone who becomes acquainted with the technique
thinks o f tricks to satisfy themse lves that it is reliable. It will so on be found
that the same res ponse is observed in all subjects, that it is not necessary for
the subject to have any knowle dge of the matter in question, and that the
response will always be indepen dent of the test subject’ s person al opinions
about the question.
Before p resenting an inquiry, we have found it useful to first test the
statement “I have permission to ask this question.” This is analogous to an
entry req uisite o n a computer te rminal, and will occasionally return a “no”
answer. This indicates that one should leave that question alon e or inquire
carefully into the reason for the “no.” Perhaps the questioner might have
experienced psy chological distress from the answer or its implications at
that time, or for other unknown reasons.
In this study, test subjects were asked to focus on a specified  thought,
feeling, attitude, memory, relationship, or life circumstance. T he test was
frequently done in lar ge groups of people; for demonstration purposes, we
first established a baseline by asking the subjects, eyes closed, to hold in
mind th e memory of a time when they were angry, upset, jealous,
depressed, guilty, or fearful; at t hat point, everyone universally went weak.
W e would then ask them to hol d in mind a loving person or life situation,
and everyone would go strong; typically a murmur of surprise would ripple
through the audience at the implications of what they had just discovered.
The next phenomenon demon strated was that the mere im age of a
substance held in the mind produced the same response as if th e substance
itself were in physical contact with the body. As an example, we would hold
up an apple grow n with pesticides and ask the audience to look directly at it
while being tested; all would go weak. W e would then hold up an
or ganically grow n apple, free of contaminants, and as the audie nce focused
on it, they would instantly go strong. Inasmuch as no one in the audience
knew which apple was which—nor, for that matter, had any anticipation ofthe test at all—the reliability of the method was demonstrated to everyone’ s
satisfaction.
For reliable results, it should  be remembered that people process
experience dif fe rently: some people primarily adopt a feeling m ode, others
are m ore auditory, and still othe rs are more visual. Therefore, te st questions
should avoid such phrasing as “How do you feel?” abou t a person,
situation, or experience; or “How does it look?” or “How does it sound?”
Customarily, if one says, “Hold the situation [or person, plac e, thing, or
feeling] in mind,” the subjects w ill instinctively select their own appropriate
mode.
Occasionally, in an ef fort, perhaps even unconscious, to disguise their
response, subjec ts will select a mode that is not their customary mode of
processing and give a false response. When the tester elicits a paradoxical
response, the question should be rephrased. For example, a patient who
feels guilty about his anger toward his mother may hold in mind a
photograph of her and test strong. However, if the tester were to rephrase
the question by asking this subject to hold in mind his present attitude
toward his mother, the subject would instantly go weak.
Other pr ecautions to maintain the accuracy of the test include removing
eyeglasses, especially if they have metal frames, and hats (synthetic
materials on top of the head m ake everyone go weak). The testing arm
should a lso be free of jewelry,  especially quartz wristwatches. When an
anomalous response does occur, further investigation will eventually reveal
the c ause—the tester, for instanc e, might be wearing a perfume to which the
patient has an adverse reaction, producing false-negative responses. If a
tester experienc es repeated failures while attempting to elicit an accurate
response, the ef fect of his voice on other subjects should be evaluated; some
testers, at least at certain times,  may express suf ficient negative ener gy in
their voices to af fect test results.
Another factor to be considered  in the face of a paradoxical re sponse is
the time frame o f the memory o r image involved. If a test subject is holding
in m ind a given  person and the ir relationship, the response will depend on
the period the memory or im age represents. If he is remem bering his
relationship with his brother from childhood, he may have a dif ferent
response than if he is holding in  mind an image of the relationship as it is
today. Questioning always has to be narrowed down specifically.One other cause for paradoxical test results is a physical condition of the
test subject resulting from st ress, or depression of the th ymus-gland
function, which occurs from encountering a very negative ener gy field. The
thymus gland is the central co ntroller of the body’ s acupuncture ener gy
system, and when its ener gy is low, test results are unpredictable. This can
be easily  remed ied in a few seconds by a simple technique discovered by
Dr. J ohn Diamond, which he


 are due
to Professor Sims Woodhead. Details have been given of the success of
this approach in the case of Italian troops during their shockingonslaught on the Abyssinians. Simple precautions must not be pushedout of sight because of the great monetary returns that can be derived
from the use of inoculation.
This has not been without its unnecessary tragedies. For example,
at a training centre at Neepawa, Manitoba, Reuben W. Carlier, an airman
from Essex in England, died on 11th May, 1943, from a streptococcus
infection ‘introduced into the bloodstream at the time of inoculation,’according to the verdict of the jury as reported in the Victoria Daily
Times  of the 10th June, 1943. Other airmen were made ill by the
injection, including ten whose serum sickness obliged them to be takento hospital.
The terms ‘serum sickness’ and ‘anaphylaxis’ point to the dangers
incurred by the stab of the syringe. Happily, most constitutions can endurefairly heavy doses of poison. Immediate discomfort and pain are in case
after case glossed over, while malignant aftereffects, more likely to be
suffered by those who do not react at the time of the operation, areusually too far removed for the realisation of any connection.
We may be certain that World War II has been fought not only
against human enemies, but also against subhuman nuisances. In the
Some Lessons from World War I...
333334   Béchamp or Pasteur?case of such an unpleasant creation as the louse, it seems superfluous
to act as counsel for the defence and insinuate that its share in outbreaks
of typhus may possibly be overrated.
We may well rejoice in the discovery of such an effective insecticide
as DDT and the earlier methods of louse control that are said to have
been relatively effective among our troops before the introduction ofmass immunisation during civilian epidemics of typhus in 1942 and
1943 in Egypt and North Africa. For the control of the Naples epidemic,
after the landing in Italy of the Allied Forces, DDT is apparently giventhe credit. Two British soldiers went down with the complaint, and
one died. So he certainly had no help from the anti-typhus vaccine
with which he had been ‘immunised’ nine months previously ( Lancet,
9th May, 1945).
No one can be particularly anxious to act as advocate for the noisy
and voracious mosquito; nevertheless, there is danger in the shiftingof responsibilities from human beings to insects. ‘Kill the mosquito
and you will kill malaria,’ crowed Sir Ronald Ross.
As a reply comes the report of the Malaria Commission of the Health
Organisation of the late League of Nations, in which, on page 13, it is
stated that belief in the causation of malaria by anopheline mosquitoes
has been a big obstacle to the control of malaria. According to theAnnual Report of the Medical Council in 1933:
“the total number of sufferers from malaria has increased
rather than diminished.”
In spite of incontrovertible evidence on all sides that the mysteries
of malaria are profound, highly involved and still largely unfathomed,
the childish accusation continues against an insect that, being fastidious
about her meals, feasts for the most part on the healthy blood of thosewho never go down with malaria! So trying is the complaint that a
welcome must be given to mepacrine if it has really worked the wonders
ascribed to it during the campaign in Burma. But as it appears to be asuppressive drug, its aftereffects, whether for weal or woe, seem yet to
have to be recorded.
In the United States, the authorities apparently feel at liberty to
trumpet the success of the Medical Department of the American Army.
On page 26 of The Lancet  of July 7th, 1945, we find reference to a
press conference on May 24th at which the United States ActingSecretary of War stated that 97 out of every 100 men who reach a
hospital have their lives saved, as compared with 92 in the last war.
During the past three years, the U.S. Army had less than one deathfrom disease per 1,000 men per year, compared with 19 in the last
war. Malaria had been reduced from hundreds of cases per 1,000 men
per year to less than 50; and
“the incidence of dysenteries, which once put entire regiments
and armies out of action, has been less than 9% per annum.”
It all sounds splendid! Until we read that
“...the Army Medical Department during 1944 took care of
4,435,000 patients in hospitals – 2,315,000 in the UnitedStates and 2,120,000 overseas.”
Do 4,435,000 hospital patients – more than half the number in
arms – signify a glow of health irradiating the American fighting forces?
We merely put the query.
One answer may well be that much of the sickness was deliberately
induced by fatal procedures for which Louis Pasteur must bear theprimary onus. For instance, in Newsweek  of the 3rd August, 1942,
reference is made to a statement by Secretary Stimson of 28,000 cases
of jaundice in American soldiers’ camps, with 68 deaths. It wasacknowledged that a serum supposed to combat yellow fever was
probably responsible for this victimisation and slaughter.
Newsweek, trying to whitewash this Virus 17D, comments:
“Jaundice usually occurs when the liver gets out of kilter and
discharges too much bile into the bloodstream. Could themany inoculations given soldiers to protect them from variousdiseases have overtaxed their livers?”
You cannot tamper with the body without risking disaster. Yes, Louis
Pasteur, the revelations of time, to which you yourself appealed, haveproved you to be stupendous as a business man, but the worst of meddlers
in medical methods. For there is a body of evidence that no monetary
returns can obscure, no prevarication and prejudice blot out – theevidence of the facts, the danger signals of experience.
Though the careless may pass them by, to the observant they stand
out in warning, like the ominous hand that startled the roysterers inancient Babylon; and, happily, there are still Daniels in our midst with
the gift of interpretation.
We shall consider this ‘writing on the wall’ in the next chapter.
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335336   Béchamp or Pasteur?20.
The Writing on the Wall
The whole subject of injecting into the body foreign matters associated
with disease conditions must he considered broadly from every aspect.
Perhaps no better opinion can be quoted than that of Herbert Spencer,
for what applies to one injection must also have some application toall others. In the chapter on vaccination in his book Facts and Comments,
the philosopher quotes the following remark of a distinguished biologist:
“When once you interfere with the order of Nature, there is
no knowing where the results will end.”
Mr. Spencer continues:
“Jenner and his disciples have assumed that when a vaccine
has passed through a patient’s system he is safe, orcomparatively safe, against smallpox, and there the matterends. I will say nothing for or against this assumption.”
He does, however, say something in a footnote, and it is decidedly
against the assumption. He proceeds:
“I merely propose to show that there the matter does not end.
The interference with the order of Nature has varioussequences other than those counted upon and expected. Somehave been made known.
A Parliamentary Return issued in 1880 (No. 392) shows
that comparing the five year periods 1847–51 and 1874–78,there was in the latter a lessening in the deaths from all causesof infants (under one year old) of 6,600 per million birthsper year; while the mortality caused by eight specifieddiseases, either directly communicable or exacerbated by theeffects of vaccination, increased from 20,524 to 41,353 permillion births per year – more than double. It seems that farmore were killed by these other diseases than were savedfrom smallpox.”
There is another footnote, which is worth quoting:
“This was in the days of arm-to-arm vaccination, when medical
men were certain that other diseases (syphilis, for instance)could not be communicated through the vaccine virus.Anyone who looks into the transactions of the
Epidemiological Society of some 30 years ago will find thatthey were suddenly convinced to the contrary by a dreadfulcase of wholesale syphilisation. In these days of calf lymphvaccination, such dangers are excluded; not that of bovinetuberculosis, however.
But I name the fact as showing what amount of faith is to
be placed in medical opinion.”
Once more, he continues:
“To the communication of diseases thus demonstrated must
be added accompanying effects. It is held that the immunityproduced by vaccination implies some change in thecomponents of the body; this is a necessary assumption.
But now if the substances composing the body – solid
or liquid or both – have been so modified as to leave themno longer susceptible to smallpox, is the modificationotherwise inoperative? Can anyone dare to say it producesno further effect than that of shielding the patient from aparticular disease?
You cannot change the constitution in relation to one
invading agent, and leave it unchanged in regard to all otherinvading agents.”
We may ask here: how much