	time	one
particle	is	a	penny	poorer,	another	gets	a	penny	richer. ) The	basic	pattern	is
very	simple,	but	when	trillions	of	energy	exchanges	are	involved	every
second,	as	they	are	with	life	on
Earth
,	the	ecosystem’s	ability	to	keep	one
form	separate	from	another,	yet	in	dynamic	relationship,	is	mind-boggling. There	are	other	things	the	mind	can	do	that	are	paralleled	in	the	universe. The	mind	can	keep	track	of	two	events	separated	in	time—this	is	how	we
recognize	a	face	today	that	we	saw	years	ago,	for	example. Similarly,	the
universe	keeps	track	of	any	two	paired	electrons. They	will	be	paired	for	all
time	even	if	they	travel	millions	of	light-years	apart. Uncannily,	if	one	of	the
paired	electrons	should	change	in	position	or	spin,	its	twin	will	change
simultaneously	without	sending	a	signal	that	needs	to	travel	through	space. The	Zero	Point	Field	communicates	without	regard	for	time,	distance,	or	the
speed	of	light. The	very	fact	that	we	use	a	word	like	“communicate”	indicates	how	hard
it	is	not	to	see	parallels	between	our	minds	and	Nature	“out	there. ”	Whichbrings	us	to	a	dangerous	trap. Mind	and	matter	offer	two	ways	of	describing
the	same	thing,	but	they	are	not,	in	themselves,	exactly	the	same. If	one	could
show	that	the	universe	has	a	memory,	for	example,	that	wouldn’t	prove	it	had
a	mind. Remembering	a	face	is	a	mental	act. The	ability	of	two	electrons	to
match	each	other’s	spin	across	a	vast	distance	is	a	material	feat. The	same	trap
works	in	reverse. If	one	could	calculate	every	vibration	of	a	violinist’s	bow
while	playing	a	Beethoven	sonata,	that	wouldn’t	explain	music	or	its	beauty. Those	are	mental	phenomena,	not	material	ones. All	we	can	do	is	draw
parallels	between	two	models	in	an	effort	to	place	them	in	one	reality. I’ve	been	speaking	as	if	the	universe	consciously	knows	what	it	is	doing
when	DNA	creates	an	amoeba,	for	example,	instead	of	a	chimpanzee	or	a
human	being. This	implies	self-awareness	on	the	part	of	molecules,	and	that
in	turn	requires	the	Zero	Point	Field	to	act	like	a	mind	as	it	organizes	every
possible	fluctuation	in	the	cosmos. No	matter	how	closely	one	draws	the
parallels,	this	premise	can’t	be
proven
—or	disproven—because	the	Zero
Point	Field,	by	containing	everything,	contains	us. We	cannot	step	outside	it,
and	so	we	are	in	the	same	position	as	a	fish	trying	to	prove	that	the	ocean	is
wet. Unless	the	fish	jumps	out	of	the	ocean,	water	is	everywhere;	there	is	no
contrast,	and	therefore	no	dryness	that	makes	wetness	possible. We	cannot	prove	that	the	universe	has	a	mind,	because	we	aren’t
mindless. Nobody	has	ever	experienced	mindlessness;	therefore,	we	have
nothing	to	base	it	on. The	Vedic	rishis	were	fortunate	that	they	started	out
believing	that	consciousness	was	real	and	needed	no	proof. Physics	doesn’t
hold	that	consciousness	is	a	given. To	speak	of	a	self-aware	universe	puts	one
at	the	fringes	of	speculative	thinking	in	physics. But	for	our	purposes	in
looking	for	evidence	of	the	afterlife,	it	is	vital	to	show	that	consciousness	is
everywhere,	because	then	there	would	be	nowhere	to	go	after	we	die	that
isn’t
conscious. Mind	over	Matter
What	if	our	minds	could	alter	the	quantum	field. Then	we	would	have	a	link
between	the	two	models,	mind	and	matter. Such	a	link	was	actually	provided
by	Helmut	Schmidt,	a	researcher	working	for	the	Boeing	aerospace	laboratory
in	Seattle. Beginning	in	the	mid-Sixties,	Schmidt	set	up	machines	that	could
emit	random	signals,	with	the	aim	of	seeing	if	ordinary	people	could	alter
those	signals	using	nothing	more	than	their	minds. The	first	machine	detected
radioactive	decay	from	strontium	90;	each	electron	that	was	given	off	lit	up
either	a	red,	blue,	yellow,	or	green	light. Schmidt	asked	ordinary	people	to
predict,	with	the	press	of	a	button,	which	light	would	be	illuminated	next. At	first	no	one	performed	better	than	random,	or	25%,	in	picking	one	of
the	four	lights. Then	Schmidt	hit	on	the	idea	of	using	expert	psychics	as	hissubjects,	and	his	first	results	were	encouraging:	psychics	guessed	the	correct
light	27%	of	the	time. But	he	didn’t
know
	if	this	was	a	matter	of	clairvoyance
—seeing	the	result	before	it	happened—or	something	more	active,	actually
changing	the	random	pattern	of	electrons	being	emitted. So	Schmidt	built	a	second	machine	that	generated	only	two	signals,	call
them	plus	and	minus. A	circle	of	lights	was	set	up,	and	each	time	a	plus	or	a
minus	was	generated,	a	bulb	would	light	up. If	two	pluses	were	generated
consecutively,	the	lights	would	go	on	in	a	clockwise	direction. Two	minuses
would	light	up	in	a	counterclockwise	direction. Left	to	itself,	the	machine
would	light	up	an	equal	number	of	pluses	and	minuses;	what	Schmidt	wanted
his	subjects	to	do	was	to	will	the	lights	to	move	clockwise	only. He	eventually
found	two	subjects	who	had	remarkable	success. One	could	get	the	lights	to
move	clockwise	52. 5%	of	the	time. An	increase	of	2. 5%	over	randomness
doesn’t	sound	dramatic,	but	Schmidt	calculated	that	the	odds	were	10	million
to	1	against	this	occurring	by	chance. The	other	subject	was	just	as	successful,
but	oddly	enough,	his	efforts	to	make	the	lights	move	clockwise	had	the
opposite	result:	they	moved	only	counterclockwise. Later	experiments	with
new	subjects	raised	the	success	rate	to	54%,	although	the	strange	anomaly
that	the	lights	would	sometimes	go	in	the	wrong	direction	persisted. (No
explanation	was	ever	found	for	this. ) Schmidt	showed	that	an	observer	can
change	activity	in	the	quantum	field	using	the	mind	alone,	which	supports	the
case	that	at	some	deep	level	mind	and	matter	are	one. The	rishis’	assertion
that	we	are	embedded	in	the	Akashic	field	seems	more	credible,	which	also
makes	it	more	credible	that	we	do	not	leave	the	field	when	we	die;	if	we	did,
we	would	be	the	only	thing	in	Nature	that	isn’t	part	of	the	field. Inspired	by	Schmidt’s	results,	a	Princeton	engineering	professor	named
Robert	Jahn	developed	much	more	sophisticated	trials,	involving	a	machine
that	could	generate	zeros	and	ones	five	times	a	second. In	the	Princeton
experiments,	each	participant	went	through	three	types	of	tests. First	he	would
will	the	machine	to	produce	more
ones
	than	zeros,	then	more	zeros	than	ones,
and	finally	he	would	try	not	to	influence	the	machine	at	all. Each	test	was
repeated	until	there	were	between	500,000	and	1	million	results,	a	staggering
number	that	in	a	single	day	outstripped	all	the	previous	trials


 And when he died
my eyes were dry
and gods wearing white coats
turned away. NEW  MEANING IN LIFE AND DEA TH
There’ s a story about two businessmen who were driving to an
important meeting. Each was to receive $50,000 tax free, but they had to
get there in one hour. On the way, each had a flat tire. The first businessman
got out, looked in the trunk, and found he had no jack. He looked at his
watch, saw that he had to reach his appointment within ten minutes, and had
a heart attack on the spot. The other businessman looked in the trunk and
also saw he had no jack. He stood by the car. A passerby stopped, changed
his tire for him, and he made his appointment in time. I subscribe to the Jungian idea of synchronicity, or meaningful
coincidence. I believe that there are very few accidents. After one of my
talks a man handed me a card on which was written, “Coincidence is God’ s
way of remaining anonymous.” In a life out of harmony with itself, events
seem to conspire to go wrong, but by the same token they mesh wondrouslywhen you start to live your bliss. Don’ t climb the ladder of success only to
find that when you reach the top it is leaning against the wrong wall. As you
begin living your life, taking risks to do what you really want to do, you
will find things fall into place and you “just happen” to be in the right place
at the right time. Even elevator doors start to open when you arrive. Perhaps this is another way of saying you create your own opportunities
out of the same raw materials from which other people create their defeats. I call these apparent setbacks “spiritual flat tires”—unexpected events that
can have positive or negative outcomes, depending on how we respond to
them. For example, a half-hour delay might save you from being in a traf fic
accident, or someone who stops to help you change a flat tire might turn out
to be someone you needed to meet. Such occurrences teach us to stop
judging events as necessarily good or bad, right or wrong, and instead just
let life flow. A parent with cancer may be worrying about the ef fect on their
child. If an author ’s best source is an unhappy childhood, perhaps a future
best seller will come out of the pain, thus helping others and providing
financial success. We can only decide what to do with our pain. That is our
only option. Let me give you another example of what I mean. One morning Rose, a
student who worked with me, got into her car to come help me in the
operating room. Her car broke down, so she got on her bike, and it broke. At that point she said to herself, “W ell, according to Bernie, I belong back
in my apartment.” She went back, and as she entered her apartment, the
phone rang. It was her brother, a former drug addict, calling from Maine. He said,
“Thank God you’re there. I was just about to head for New York and go
back on drugs.” They talked for about an hour. She calmed him, and he
promised to stay until another family member could go and be with him. She then went out to her car and lifted the hood, saying to herself, “I
don’t know why I’m doing this. I don’ t know anything about engines.” At
that moment her other brother drove up and said, “I was driving down the
parkway, and a voice said to me, ‘Go by your sister ’s house.’” He fixed her
car, and she came to the hospital with her eyes wide open. She will never
need another sermon again. To become an authentic, spiritual person means to open to our intuition,
the part of us that knows. As Elisabeth Kübler -Ross has said, decisions
based on cold reason alone are usually made to satisfy others. Intuitivedecisions make us feel good, even if others think we’re crazy. But, as we
become authentic, we no longer worry about what others think. A woman named Connie, a math teacher at our children’ s school,
developed Hodgkin’ s disease. Her husband divorced her, and she was left
with a mortgage and a teaching position, and was afraid to make any
changes or moves. I talked to her, sent books to her, and tried to get her to
redirect her life. One night at a PT A meeting I decided to get on line to talk
to her, even though she was no longer our children’ s teacher. As I entered
her room, she said, “I was looking for you.” I said, “I know. That’ s why I’m
here.”
We sat down, and she said, “Y ou know, I decided to do what you were
telling me to do. One of the things that has interested me is taking flying
lessons. So I started to. One Sunday at two o’clock I went out to the airport,
and this handsome man stepped of f another airplane. I thought, Boy! I could
go for him, and to make a long story short, we’re getting married, and I’m
moving away with him.”
I said, “What got you to the airport at two o’clock on Sunday? Why
didn’ t you take a lesson at one o’clock on Saturday?” And we both laughed. It’s doing what feels right to you that brings your life to fruition. It shows
you all the people who are there to be loved and to love you, people whom
you never saw before even though they were always there. After hearing one of my talks, a man named Aaron came up to me and
said he just couldn’ t believe his life had any spiritual guidance. He didn’ t
have the faith that things would work out if he only had the courage to take
the direction he really wanted. He was very unhappy with his house and his
job. He wanted desperately to change both but was afraid to let go of the
old and seek the new. I promised him, “If you just leave your job, another
one will appear.”
“Okay,” he said, “I’ll see,” and he quit. Sunday he went to church,
something he rarely did, and the man sitting next to him said, “I hear you
left your job.” Aaron said yes and told him the kind of work he did—and
the man said, “I need someone just like you.” Aaron was hired. “Well,” he told me, “you have to admit that could be a coincidence.”
So I told him, “Now sell your house, and you’ll find another one.” He
put the house on the market, but no one bought it. He had scheduled a tag
sale to dispose of some of the furnishings, but he’d decided to cancel it
because no one seemed interested in the house. However, I encouraged himto go ahead and hold the tag sale. One of the customers asked Aaron why he
was holding the sale. “I’m trying to sell this house, but I need another one,” Aaron replied. The customer told him, “W ell, I’m selling a house that you might be
interested in.” It turned out to be exactly what Aaron was looking for. He
bought it and soon sold his. But again, you have to admit, this could be a coincidence. If one has no
faith, then of course these are always coincidences. How do you know if
you have faith? The only way I can explain it is to tell you about the man
who fell over the side of a clif f, grabbed hold of a very small bush, and was
hanging there, watching its roots gradually pull loose. At that moment he
looked up toward heaven and said, “God, you have to save me.” And a
beautiful melodious voice said, “Don’ t worry, my son, I’ll save you. Let
go.” The man looked back up and said, “Is anybody else up there?” If you
don’t have to ask that second question, you have faith. As a healer I’m trying to get people to have faith in their own lives and
in the whole process of life. You can act from that faith and make the rest of
your life simple, or you can keep testing and make the rest of your life
difficult. No matter what good things happen, you’ll always be able to say,
“It could be a coincidence,” and never enjoy the grace. Instead I counsel
you to choose your direction, make the leap of faith, and fly. Let the
occasional spiritual flat tires redirect your life. That’ s what survivors do. They don’ t have failures. They have delays or redirections. Choosing spiritual guidance also helps you to see that people’ s minds
and souls are interconnected in ways normally obscured from our everyday
vision. The separateness most of us experience is illusory, and seeing
through it makes life even more meaningful. Botanist Rupert Sheldrake has
recently proposed “morphogenetic fields” as a means of communication to
explain the otherwise baf fling results of certain experiments. It seems that,
once rats in one laboratory have learned a particular maze, other rats
anywher e in the world, having had no contact with the original rats, learn
that same maze faster. Apparently, once a thought has been thought, it can
be communicated to others. Sheldrake believes this may be the reason why
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Debbie Stailey, Director of Composition ServicesIntroduction
I’m excited to be writing this book, and I’m even more excited
that you’re reading it. I’m delighted to have the chance to share
all that I know about being healthy and preventing disease,
along with my tips and recipes for making great smoothies and
juices. I’m thrilled that you’ve chosen this book to help start
you on an adventure that can take you, your body, and even
your mind and emotions to places you never thought you’d go. And I’m glad to be part of the spark that guides you toward
drinking your way to better health. I call this decision to make juices and smoothies part of your
diet an adventure because, although it may not give you the
breathtaking adrenalin rush of bungee jumping or rock
climbing, you’re starting out on a journey that could change
your life. You’ll be doing something that may be outside your
normal routine, and you’ll likely be exploring options you may
not have considered before. Like any good road trip, this book
offers you a map — but you’re the one behind the wheel. You
call the shots and you determine just how much you’ll beneﬁt
from this trip into health and well-being. Do you want to lose weight? Have more energy? Get stronger? Stop getting colds? Remember more? Have vibrant skin, hair,
and nails? Slow the aging process? It’s all possible by eating the
right foods, exercising, and including fruits and vegetables in
your daily regime. I know this because I haven’t just listened to experts and read
about and researched ongoing medical studies, but actually
experienced the beneﬁts of good food and a healthy diet that
includes juices and smoothies. I’ve experienced the “juice high”
from cleansing and detoxifying, and I’ve come to agree with
dietitians, nutritionists, food scientists, and medical researchersin many ﬁelds when they say that diet, exercise, health and well-
being are inextricably entwined — modern disease is a curse
that is a product of chemical pollutants; high-fat, high-sugar,
highly reﬁned and processed foods; over consumption of
caffeine and alcohol; and a lack of physical exercise. Even though there may seem to be contradictory, complicated,
or even depressing news about food and disease, there is one
constant fact that was expressed over 7,000 years ago by
Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine: “Let food be your
medicine and your medicine be your food.” This is just as true
today as it was then. I’m convinced that eating a wide variety of
colorful fresh fruits and vegetables is key to experiencing
optimum health. Turns out that it’s pretty simple: Eat or drink
more fruits and vegetables to be well. About This Book
Juicing & Smoothies For Dummies is a reference book. You don’t
have to read it straight through, from beginning to end, to get
what you need out of it. Instead, you can use the table of
contents and index to locate the information you need when
you need it. The book is loaded with recipes — 50 juice recipes and 50
smoothie recipes — so you’re bound to ﬁnd a wide variety of
drinks you’ll love. But this isn’t just a recipe book — I also
provide a wealth of information on equipment, fruits and
vegetables, and a healthy lifestyle. Conventions Used in This Book
I don’t use many conventions in this book, but I do use a few
that you should be aware of: When I introduce a new term, I italicize it and deﬁne it
shortly thereafter (often in parentheses). I use monofont  for all web and e-mail addresses. Note: When this book was printed, some web addresses may
have needed to break across two lines of text. If that happened,
rest assured that we haven’t put in any extra characters (such
as hyphens) to indicate the break. So, when using one of these
web addresses, just type in exactly what you see in this book,
pretending as though the line break doesn’t exist. What Y ou’r e Not to Read
You can skip sidebars (that’s the text in gray boxes). Although
the sidebars are interesting, they’re not critical to your
understanding of the subject at hand. You also can skip
anything marked with the Technical Stuff icon (see “Icons Used
in This Book,” later, for more information). Foolish Assumptions
I don’t make a ton of assumptions about you as the reader (after
all, you know what they say about assuming). But I do assume
the following:
 You’re interested in being healthy by replacing meals with
juices and smoothies. You’re interested in trying new juice and smoothie recipes. If this is you, you’ve come to the right book! How This Book is OrganizedThis book’s 20 chapters are divided into ﬁve parts. Here’s a
guide to what each part covers. P a r t  I :  A n  I n t r o d u c t i o n  t o  J u i c i n g  a n d
S m o o t h i e s
Part I gives you the what, how, and why of juicing and
smoothies. This is where you discover the difference between
the two drinks and what each will do for you. This part gives
you tips for buying a juice extractor or a blender and loads you
up with great information on shopping, handling, and storing
fresh fruits and vegetables. Finally, it shows how juices and smoothies can meet the needs
of people at every stage of life, from babies to teenagers to
seniors and people who are pregnant or diabetic. It even gives
you some help with healthy choices for your pet. P a r t  I I :  L i q u i d  G o l d :  T h e  H e a l t h
B e n e f i t s  o f  J u i c i n g  a n d  S m o o t h i e s
In this part, you explore the beneﬁts of smoothies and juices. I’ve researched a wide number of sources in order to give you
up-to-date information on nutrients and where to ﬁnd them in
foods. Part II also shows you how to use these drinks to look
younger and live longer; improve your skin, hair, and nails; lose
weight; increase energy; and boost your memory and immune
function. Part II is also where you ﬁnd the details of cleansing and
detoxiﬁcation. I outline the difference between a cleanse and a
detox program and explain how to safely enjoy one or the other. Finally, I lay out a short, ﬁve-day detoxiﬁcation plan and a
longer, 28-day plan with lots of room for personalization.P a r t  I I I :  G e t t i n g  J u i c e d
Part III gets you going with the ingredients and techniques of
juicing. This is where all the juicing recipes are located. Chapter
11 has fruit juices for every time of day. Vegetables are juiced in
Chapter 12. Chapter 13 explains how you can deal with all the
pulp you’ll be left with when the juicer extracts the juice from
the fruit or vegetable. P a r t  I V :  S e r v i n g  U p  F r e s h  S m o o t h i e s
Part IV gets you making smoothies. It explores a pantry of
healthy ingredients that can be added to smoothies and gives
you some great recipes for fruit and vegetable smoothies that
will take you from breakfast to lunch, as well as snacks. I


emorial. In raw spinach, Nature has furnished man with the finest organic
material for the cleansing, reconstruction, and regeneration of the
intestinal tract. Raw spinach juice properly prepared, taken at the rate
of about one pint daily, has often corrected the most aggravated case
of constipation within a few days or weeks. Unfortunately, the use of purgatives for the cleansing of the
intestinal tract is practiced without an understanding of exactly what
takes place. Every manufactured chemical, inorganic purgative or
laxative acts as an irritant, stimulating the muscles of the intestines to
expel it. With the expulsion of this irritant, other matter lodged therein
may also be expelled. It is obvious and in practice it is proved to be a
fact, that the habit of taking laxatives necessitates stronger and stronger
irritants. The result is not a cure for constipation, but a chronic
condition of inactivity of the local tissues, muscles, and nerves. Cathartics are merely irritants and while they remove some of the
waste matter, they cannot possibly cause anything other than
progressive degeneration of the intestines. Furthermore, such methods of cleansing the intestinal tract are
solely temporary in their effect and furnish no material for the
regeneration and rebuilding of the weakened or degenerated tissues,
muscles, and nerves. It is imperative that following the lymphatic expulsion of acid,
toxins, or poisons, the system be replaced by an organic alkaline
solution such as natural raw fruit juices to prevent an inevitable water
deficiency in the body. Also, if such a replacement of alkaline is not
taken care of, one runs the risk of repetition. The remaining poisons
in the intestinal track can then be reabsorbed, find their way into the
lymph stream, and again aggravate the condition the individual was
trying to correct. 54 On the other hand, raw spinach juice effectively cleanses and helps
to heal not only the lower bowels but the entire intestinal tract. The spinach works by natural means to repair the most essential
damage first; it is not always apparent to the individual where in his
body the work of regeneration is progressing. Results may not be
noticeable sometimes for as long as six weeks or two months after
daily consumption of this juice. It has been found essential at all times, however, that the bowels
be cleared at least once every twenty-four hours, although the normal,
healthy condition calls for two or three movements a day. The colon
can be washed out with colonic irrigations or enemas, or both if
necessary everyday. This has been found most effective in the long
run. Another valuable feature of raw spinach juice is its effect on the
teeth and gums in helping to prevent pyorrhea. This disease is a mild
form of scurvy and results from a deficiency in the body of the
elements found particularly in the combination of carrot and spinach
juices. Bleeding gums and fibroid degeneration of the pulp of the
teeth has become a common defect due to the habitual use of
devitalized cereals, refined sugar, and other deficiency foods. It is
due to a Vitamin C deficiency. A permanent aid for this affliction has been found in the use of
natural raw foods and, more particularly, by drinking an ample quantity
of carrot and spinach juice. Other derangements of the body such as duodenal and other ulcers,
pernicious anemia, convulsions, degeneration of various nerves,
deficiency in adrenal secretions and those of the thyroid, neuritis,
arthritis, abscesses and boils, pains in the region of 'the gonads,
swelling of limbs, tendency to hemorrhage, loss of vigor, rheumatic
and other pains, impaired functions of the heart, low and high blood
pressure, eye troubles, and headaches, including those of a migraine
character, are due primarily to the cumulative volume of waste matter
in the lower intestine. This is also due to the deficiency of the elements
contained in raw carrot and spinach. The quickest and most effective
way in which the body can obtain and assimilate these elements is by
drinking daily at least one pint of the fresh-raw vegetable juices. Spinach, lettuce, and watercress together with carrots and green
peppers, are among the vegetables containing the best supply of
Vitamins C and E. The lack of a sufficient quantity of Vitamin E in
the system is a contributing factor responsible for miscarriages,
55 impotence and sterility in both sexes. Many forms of paralysis are
due to a lack of Vitamin E which is responsible for general lack of
well-being and impaired metabolism. When spinach is the subject matter of discussion, one generally
associates it with its effectiveness as a laxative. The underlying cause
for this effectiveness is the high oxalic acid content in this vegetable. This is such an important element involved in the activities of our
intestines that it is worthy of very special attention, and we have given
a whole chapter to the subject of oxalic acid. Spinach should never be eaten when cooked unless we are
particularly anxious to accumulate oxalic acid crystals in our kidneys
with the consequent pain and kidney trouble. When spinach is cooked
or canned, the oxalic acid atoms become inorganic as a result of
excessive heat and may form oxalic acid crystals in the kidneys. OXALIC ACID
One of the mysteries of the human anatomy is that function which
is known as peristaltic motion. This motion, or action, takes place in
the alimentary canal, in the circulating and generative tubes, and in
the eliminative channels in successive wavelike motions, forcing
whatever matter is present therein, onward on its course. It is a series
of contracting and relaxing of the nerves and muscles successively—
a function which takes place involuntarily so far as our own voluntary
controlling powers are concerned, and apparently is entirely automatic. The efficiency of this peristaltic action, however, is very naturally
dependent on the tone and healthy vigorous condition of the nerves
and muscles of these channels. Organic oxalic acid is one of the important elements needed to
maintain the tone of, and to stimulate peristalsis. It is perfectly obvious,
of course, that any motion of the body which takes place by the
"involuntary" action of its organs is predicated on there being life in
the cells and tissues of such organs. Life is active, magnetic; whereas
there is no action in death nor in dead matter, and this applies definitely
to cells and tissues of our anatomy. If the important organs comprising the alimentary and eliminative
departments of our system, or any parts of them, are moribund or
dead, the efficiency of their function is impaired, to say the least. This
condition can result only from a lack or deficiency of live atoms in
the food nourishing the cells and tissues concerned. Live food means
56 that food which contains live organic atoms and enzymes found only
in our raw foods. We have in previous chapters, covered this important question of
organic versus inorganic atoms in our food. It is very vital to stress
this matter in regard to oxalic acid. When the food is raw, whether
whole or in the form of juice, every atom in such food is vital
ORGANIC and is replete with enzymes. Therefore, the oxalic acid in
our raw vegetables and their juices is organic, and as such is not only
beneficial but essential for the physiological functions of the body. The oxalic acid in cooked and processed foods, however, is
definitely dead, or INORGANIC, and as such is both pernicious and
destructive. Oxalic acid readily combines with calcium. If these are
both organic, the result is a beneficial constructive combination, as
the former helps the digestive assimilation of the latter, at the same
time stimulating the peristaltic functions in the body. When the oxalic acid has become INORGANIC by cooking or
processing the foods that contain it, then this acid forms an interlocking
compound with the calcium even combining with the calcium in other
foods eaten during the same meal, destroying the nourishing value of
both. This results in such a serious deficiency of calcium that it has
been known to cause decomposition of the bones. This is the reason I
never eat cooked or canned spinach. As to the oxalic acid itself, when converted into an inorganic acid
by cooking or processing the food, it often results in causing inorganic
oxalic acid crystals to form in the kidneys. It is worthy to notice that the minerals in our foods — iron, for
example — frequently cannot be assimilated and used completely if
they have become inorganic through cooking, and often prevent the
utilizing of other elements through chemical and other action. Thus,
the iron in fresh-raw spinach juice may be utilized 100%, but only
one-fifth of that, or less, would be usable in cooked spinach. It is well to bear in mind, therefore, that as the organic oxalic
acid is so vital to our well-being, the fresh-raw juice of the vegetable
containing it should be used daily to supplement the eating of these
raw vegetables included in our daily salads. The most abundant supply of organic oxalic acid is found in fresh-
raw spinach (both the common variety and the New Zealand spinach)
Swiss chard, beet greens, turnip and mustard greens, kale and collards,
and the broad-leafed French sorrel. 57 TOMATO JUICE
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of you at any minute during your twenty-four -hour shift. Every time the alarm goes of f, the following hour could be the most
challenging of your life. And that alarm doesn’ t care if you’re in the middle
of dinner, shampooing your hair, or dead asleep. You have to respond. A few years ago Engine 2 responded to a high-rise fire. Such a situation
requires us to deal with both high population density and a huge fire load—
a recipe for potential disaster. The fire turned out to be on the twenty-third floor of one of the city’ s
tallest buildings. Although the elevators automatically shut down in such
cases, firefighters have a special key to operate them. In this case, however,
the key didn’ t work, so we had to take the stairs. Climbing twenty-three flights is never easy, but imagine doing it hauling
100 pounds of supplies. There’ s your bunker gear, which weighs about 20
pounds; an air pack, which weighs 35 pounds; and a high-rise hose, which
weighs around 50 pounds. Then there are the tools and flashlights, and
someone also has to hoist the high-rise pack, which contains wrenches and
other gear. This is what I had to endure with my buddies from Engine 1: Russ, Josh,
Wayne, and JR. By the time we got to the tenth floor, two of them were
gasping for air; they could barely walk. So the remaining three of us took
the high-rise hose and pack and climbed the remaining thirteen flights of
stairs.Luckily, the fire didn’ t turn out to be serious—it was just some smoke
from a burned-out elevator motor—but imagine how the others would have
felt if something tragic had happened on the twenty-third floor. These sorts of physical demands are another reason the firefighters at
Engine 2 took up the plant-strong diet plan with a vengeance. In fact,
physical exercise is a great adjunct to the Engine 2 Diet because, when
taken together, you’ll see your weight, and your cholesterol level, drop even
lower than you ever imagined! There are two components to getting yourself into adequate Engine 2–
quality physical shape. The first is exercising the cardiovascular system (the
heart and lungs), which is worked whenever you do anything aerobic in
nature. You should try to get cardiovascular exercise, which elevates the
heart rate, gets the blood pumping, tones muscles, and burns calories,
twenty to forty minutes a day. This can be achieved by an aggressive walk
or by jogging, running, biking, swimming, rowing, or cross-country skiing. The second is exercising the muscular system, worked whenever you do
some form of strength or resistance training. The beauty of the Engine 2 strength training program is that each round
of exercises works both the cardiovascular system as well as the muscular
system. My recommendation is that you aim to exercise at least five days a
week, whether cardiovascular or strength training, for anywhere from ten to
forty-five minutes. Ten minutes? Yes, even ten minutes counts! If you’re
busy and ten minutes is all you’ve got, use it. Oh, ya! Those ten short
minutes will do wonders. On many days the fifteen-minute bike ride from
my house to the fire station is the only exercise I get—yet it makes me feel
so invigorated, I’m on top of my game. Fun fact: The longest word in the English language with one vowel
happens to be strengths. But for most people, this is where the fun ends, as
the thought of strength training conjures up images of weights and barbells,
muscle heads and gyms, and lots of time and too much money. There is a better way. It’s called Engine 2 Strength Training. By relying
on your own body weight instead of metal weights, you can avoid the
crowds at the gym, instead exercising in the comfort of a park or your own
home, maximizing your time and ener gy, and do it all for zero money. Why is strength/resistance training so important? First, added strength
will allow you to perform better in life—a life that requires you to stand,lunge, bend, twist, and lift on a daily basis. Second, you will be strengthening not only your muscles, but also your
bones. Dropping all animal protein from your diet in conjunction with
strength training is a must for preventing osteoporosis. Third, as we age, our muscles atrophy at an accelerated rate in a process
called sarcopenia. This weakening can be prevented and even reversed with
consistent strength training. Finally, by consuming a calorie-light and nutrient-heavy plant-powered
diet, complemented with a strength training program, you will give your
body a beautiful one-two combination punch that will maximize weight loss
in the healthiest and most ef fective manner. Keep up the exercise and you’ll even burn calories while you’re not
working out! By replacing your body’ s slow-burning fat with fast-burning
muscle, you will be increasing your RMR (resting metabolic rate). This is
the rate at which your body burns calories while you are resting, sitting, and
even sleeping. When you replace fat with muscle, you’ll increase your
RMR many times over. In addition to increasing weight loss and ramping up your RMR,
strength training will also provide your physique with firmness and muscle
tone. You’ll look magnificent! Audr ey Cravotta, 16
Student
Sometimes I hear weird things from other kids, like, “Dude, your
hair’s going to start falling out.” But then I also get things like, “Hey,
your skin looks really great,” and that makes up for it. Because that’ s
true. Also, I’ve lost ten pounds—and actually, my hair ’s never been
healthier. BEFORE GETTING ST ARTED
Looking back over my life, I can’ t remember ever going more than two
days in a row without engaging in some type of exercise. Exercise has
become as much a part of my life as brushing my teeth and eating plant-
based food—it’ s my cup of cof fee in the morning; it’ s my nightcap in the
evening. If I can’ t fit in at least ten minutes of exercise a day, I don’ t feel
centered. And when I do get my exercise, I feel wonderful.Most of you probably don’ t feel the same way—yet. But as these
exercises help tone and strengthen, they’ll flood your body with endorphins,
your brain’ s happy-making chemicals. While some of you may never have attempted anything like this before,
and may struggle a bit, other readers may be fit as a triathlete. So I’ve
designed the following circuit training for all ability levels—I’ve put
everyone from overweight moms and dads to professional athletes through
this program. Please be sure to consult your doctor before beginning any exercise
program. Then, start where you’re comfortable, and as your strength,
coordination, agility, and confidence improve, move up a level. Stay
consistent and stay committed and your body will respond swiftly. As you
progress, know that someone out there is very, very proud of you (me). BEFORE ST ARTING THE E2 EXERCISES,  I suggest warming up with a set of Carl
Sandbur g stretches, invented by the great American poet of the same name,
who did them every morning until the age of ninety-three. His daughter,
Helga Sandbur g (whom my grandfather, Dr. Barney Crile, married after his
first wife died), still performs these exercises every morning herself. She is
now ninety years old. Here are six of the best Sandbur g stretches for you to do every day. These will wake up your nervous system, boost your heart rate and core
temperature, and increase your muscular elasticity. (To see all the Sandbur g
stretches, go to www.theengine2diet.com.) The Carl Sandburg Str etches
1. Sun Salutations
Start in the standing position with your hands by your sides, then
bend over and touch your toes (or as far as you can reach). Now, very
slowly stretch your hands up toward the sky, letting your back bend
slightly. Repeat this ten times. 2. Kicking Toe Touches
Start with your right arm and hand straight out in front of your body,
then kick up your left leg, trying to come as close as possible to touch
your hand. Now, do the reverse: Raise your left arm and hand, then
kick up your right foot to meet your left hand. Do this move ten
times, alternating from side to side. 3. Side Str etches
Start with your left arm straight up in the air, leaving your right arm
hanging by your side. Move your right hand down toward your right
calf, letting your left arm move over your head (your body will curve
to the right). Then, repeat this move to the opposite side, raising the
right arm and stretching to the left. Perform this motion ten times in
each direction. 4. Trunk Twists
Start with your hands on your hips. Twist your torso to the left, then
to the right. Do ten stretches to each side.5. Barr el Rolls
Start with your hands on your hips. Now, bend your torso to the right. Then, in one flowing motion, move it forward to the left, and finally
back to your starting position. Now repeat the roll but reverse your
direction. Roll in each direction (right to left, then left to right)


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this space, you are free from worry, anxiety, and sadness. Y ou go through
life in total acc eptance of the present moment without conc ern for the
future. Y ou live in constant grat itude, awe, and wonder. Y ou are  a vessel of
unconditional love. Spiritual literatu re gives us a road map to acquiring these gifts. In the
Christian scriptu res, for example, the book of Matthew, chapte rs 5 through
7, and the book of John, chapte rs 14 through 16, tell of all th ese spiritual
gifts and  how to attain them. Th e Y oga Sutras of Patanjali and the wisdom
of the Bhagavad Gita can also l ead you to a place of peace and surrender. The T ao  T e Ching of T aoism and the sacred texts of Buddhism  are among
others th at pave  the way towar d enlightenment. All these texts give us a
step-by-step formula to freely attain seventh chakra gifts. Oh, how foolish
we are, those of us who don’ t take these gifts to heart. Consider worry, for example. How much time do you waste worrying
each day? Y ou worry perhaps about things you can’ t control such as the
weather, the state of the world, or the way people around you are acting. Then you probably spend time worrying about things you can  control but
for w hich you c an’ t control the outcome. For example, I know people who
worry co nstantly about losing their job. Y ou can control getting  to work on
time, doing extraordinary work, and being a good team player. But you
can’ t control the potential outcome of your company needing to downsize. When things are not going ac cording to your expectations, you worry.When th ings are going well, you  worry that they might turn bad. All in all,
worry steals you from your life and your bliss. Y et all the spiritual masters and all the spiritual literature tell yo u not to
worry. J esus him self spent three years in his ministry, and we only have a
limited amount of direct teach ing in his words, through th e Christian
Gospels. So you know that if Je sus taught something and said i t more than
once, it must be  pretty important. In the book of Matthew, chapter 6, Jesus
spends no less than ten verses talking about how we shouldn’ t worry. In
verse 25 he says, “That is why I tell you not to worry  about everyday life,”
and he concludes with verse 34: “So don’ t worry about tomorrow, for
tomorrow will bring its own worries. T oday’ s trouble is enough for today.”
Other sp iritual masters speak about living in the present moment. Y oga
and med itation teach us present-moment awareness. W orry is living in the
past or in the future but not in the present. W orry is a thief who comes to
steal your joy and peace. Just as you would never welcome a robber into
your home to take your things, why welcome worry into your mind? By the time you have awakened to the seventh chakra, your
understanding of oneness with universal consciousness doesn’ t even allow
you to entertain  emotions such as worry. For if you are one with the
universe, there is no lack and therefore no worry. But I hope my example
has provided you with a vision  of where you are today in comparison to
where you would like to be. And whenever you need a reminder, spiritual
literature is there to point the way to the peace of the seventh chakra. Healing Sahaswara
DAIL Y AFFIRMA TION
I am one with the Divine. Healing the Physical Body
Besides the practice of meditation, which we discussed in relation to the
sixth chakra, getting into the se venth chakra zone is best achie ved throughthe practices of silence, reading spiritual and inspirational literature, and
spending time in nature. Some times we spontaneously connect with the
Divine i n mome nts when we don’ t expect it, but most of the time it happens
because we make a conscious ef fort to create an environment in which
connection can happen. That is why people often feel connected to the
Divine w hen the y go to a church or synagogue but then feel d isconnected
for the rest of the week. As you  have seen, the road to spirituality requires
ef fort. What y ou move toward expands, and what you move away from
diminishes. For example, if you r focus is on your work, often your home
life suf fers. When your focus is on your relationships, your work may
suf fer. T he sam e goes for your  spiritual life: when you place  your focus
there, your connection to the D ivine will grow, while other, les s-important
areas will fade into the background. The othe r day I was in the car w ith my twenty-two-year -old, w ho after
fifteen minutes or so turned on the radio and said, “I hate it that you drive
around in silence. What’ s wrong with you? It’ s very disturbin g.” I hadn’ t
even not iced. I love silence. I’ve been practicing silence in everything I do
for years. On m ost occasions I keep the radio and TV of f. While I love
music, I  rarely listen to it now. I just love silence. I love listening to the
noises in the environment: the birds, the crickets, and even the cars passing
by. Silence is a  profound gift, and I believe it’ s God’ s one and only true
voice. W hen you reach the seventh chakra level of consciousnes s, you’re no
longer afraid of your mind and your thoughts. I have noticed that fear of
silence is fear of one’ s own mind. Y our mind is your frien d, not your
enemy. The more you believe that, the more you can sit in silence and not
only be comfortable in it but even crave more of it. Spend ti me read ing spiritual literature, whether it’ s poetry or s cripture. Immerse yourself in nature whenever you can to enjoy everything that
connects you to the heartbeat of the universe. Y OGA  A SANAS AND  P RANA Y AMA  E XERCISES T O  H EAL THE
S EVENTH  C HAKRAT ry these breathing techniques and poses to help open and align the
Sahaswara chakra. T o view a video demo of these exer cises, go to
www.youtube.com/c/MichelleFondinAuthor. Click on the Playlists tab, and select
Chakra Healing Asanas & Pranayamas. Scr oll down the list until you find the one you’r e looking for. Skull Shining Br eath — Kapalabhati :  K apala bhati is done by inhali ng
passively and exhaling forcefully, both through the nose. Exhaling in this
way contracts the lower abdomi nal muscles, so you may feel as if you have
done a lot of sit-ups after doing this breathing technique. Sit w ith your sp ine tall, and clos e your eyes. Inhale deeply throu gh your
nose, an d then exhale completely. Inhale passively through the nose, then
exhale f orcefully. Continue wit h this pattern for about one minute. When
you finish, take a deep breath in, and then exhale completely. W ide-Angle Standing Forward Fold — Prasarita Padottanasana :  For
this pose, stand on a yoga mat and have a couple of yoga blocks or a chair
in fr ont of you. Stand with your feet one leg length’ s distance  apart with
your toe s pointin g forward. Lift your torso tall and bend forward from your
hips, bri nging y our hands to the floor. If you have a dif ficult time bringing
your head close to the floor, bri ng your feet a little wider apart. Bend your
elbows a nd brin g the crown of your head toward the floor. T o assist you,
you can either p lace your head on top of the yoga blocks or on the chair
seat. Stay in the forward fold for at least five breaths. T o come up, bend at
your knees and gently roll up to standing. Fish Po se — Matsyasana :  L yi ng o n your mat, bend both knees with your
feet flat on the  floor. Lift you r hips, bring your arms unde rneath your
buttocks with your palms pressing into the floor, and lower your hips back
down to  the mat so you’re sitting  on your hands. Straighten your  legs on the
floor, an d bring your feet together so your big toes touch. Pre ss down on
your elbows and forearms, and lift your chest and head. T ilt your head back,and place the cro wn of your head on the floor. Hold for five breaths. T o get
out of the pose, press down on y our elbows and lift your head of f the floor. Bring yo ur head gently down i nto alignment with your spine, and release
your arms. As a  counterpose, lie in savasana, or rela


, inertia, inactivity, materiality
Rajas Energy, action, change, movement
Sattva Harmony balance, joy, intelligence
Tamas obscures truth behind illusion. Associated with the muladhara
(base root) chakra, it is the lowest level of consciousness, where a human is
trying to evolve from animal consciousness just to fulfil the needs of the
physical body without discrimination. It represents grossness, inertia,
darkness, dullness and r esistance. Rajas embodies the principle of activity, representing energy, movement
of consciousness, turbulence, power and desire. Rajas is activity at the
conscious level, and involves movement from muladhara to manipura via
swadhisthana; it activates the desire centres of the body, causing
manifesta tions. Sattva, a higher level of consciousness, is light in nature. It is the
principle of sublimation, representing light, truth, perception, intelligence
and harmony. When kundalini moves from manipura to anahata and
upwards we become conscious of our words and actions, and let go of greed
and attachments. This shift of consciousness leads to spiritual a wakening. Tamas and sattva are two opposites of the same coin. In both a person
abandons the world of senses: evolving and merging into light in sattva, and
going down and mer ging into dar kness in tamas.The gunas can be compared to the three states of matter: solid, liquid
and gaseous. Water as an element serves as the best example, as it exists in all
three forms:
◼In its solid state as ice it represents grossness, inertia and immobility,
which is described as being ‘tamasic’. When our consciousness is in
tamas it is eng rossed with fulfilling the needs of the ph ysical bod y. ◼When solid ice starts melting and flowing it is active, or ‘rajasic’; this
is when we start developing a certain amount of discrimina tion and
evolve to fulfil our needs with the rightful means. ◼With a further rise in heat water starts evaporating into steam,
leaving all the impurities behind. This is a process of sublimation
where conscious energy becomes pure, and is called sattva. In this
state we experience a transformation of consciousness, move beyond
greed and ego, feel detached from people and material things and
seek a life of truth. Each of the three gunas is present in us, never becoming separated from
each other; w hen one guna domina tes the other tw o become r ecessive. Like a
three-coloured strand braided together, at one time one colour appears most
dominant on the surface and at other times other colours are more visible. All three are always present, but sometimes one overlaps and hides the others
from view. When sattva dominates, rajas and tamas are pushed into
background; at that time all desires, attachments, confusion and ignorance
disappear, and all that remains is light and bliss. When rajas dominates there
is a great rush of energy and a strong will to undertake work, projects and
activities. When tamas dominates it makes a person self-centred and focused
on fulfilling their own needs by whatever means they can. They also try toimpose their whims, fancies and ideas on other people. Only when they start
thinking beyond themselves for their fellow beings, keeping the greater good
of society in mind, will their consciousness starts e volving. As long as we are embodied all three gunas are necessary, as they are
interdependent and help each other in the process of evolution and self-
development. In the process of bringing each other out, one guna serves as
the stepping stone for another: a thing that is stable and tamas-dominated is
provided motivation and activity by rajas, and that motion and activity help
in the process of realisation. Ultimately, we move to attain our true and
essential na ture, which is light or sa ttva. The natural flow of evolution is from subtle to gross. Ideas exist, first in a
person’s mind and then followed by activity, which will initiate a downward
flow of energy. This downward flow continues until the energy gets
entrapped in gross form. From sattva to rajas to tamas, this is the natural
course of evolution, although rajas can also be used to convert tamas back
into sattva. With the five sense organs and five organs of action —
feet/locomotion, hands/de xterity, rectum/excretion, genitals/r eproduction,
mouth/speec h — a person has the choice to either flow with gravity
downwards to tamas or rise thr ough activity up wards into sattva and light. The five elements
Ayurveda believes that we are the microcosm of the macrocosm, that
everything that exists outside the physical body — flora, fauna, minerals and
metals — also exists inside. The body, which has its oneness with the
universe, is composed of five elements (panch mahabhoot): earth, water, fire,
air and ether (or space). All of the five elements have psychological
correspondences tha t indicate the state of mind and the qualities of emotions.Each of the five elements is associated with our lower five chakras, as the
lower chakras are important for the physical plane of existence. The five
elements represent the finer qualities of matter: solid, liquid, radiant, gaseous
and ethereal. They delineate the five densities of all substances, all visible or
invisible matter in the univ erse. The three gunas are also associated with the five elements. Sattva,
consisting of clarity, is associated with ether; rajas, consisting of energy, with
fire; and tamas, consisting of inertia, with earth. Between sattva and rajas
flows the subtle but mobile element of air, and between rajas and tamas flows
the element of wa ter, combining mobility and inertia. The five elements constitute a continuum of energy, from its densest and
grossest vibrational level to the most subtle. At its lowest level vibrational
energy has substance (solidity), whereby atoms are compactly packed and
cohesively formed; that’s why it’s called dense and gross. This lowest level is
the earth element. When excited to a higher frequency the earth element
loses its solidity; the energy is less dense as the atoms are more dispersed and
free flowing. With a higher frequency the substance becomes fluid and is
called the water element. At this level the molecules of the fluid still retain
cohesiveness and form, although the form is that of the vessel holding the
fluid. As the level of vibrations keep increasing, heat and light are generated by
the accelerated motion; in this state the matter is less cohesive. Energy in this
form is quite radiant and is represented by the fire element. As the speed of
individual particles continues to accelerate all form is lost, heat and light are
no longer produced and any cohesiveness of the matter is dissipated. It is
now represented by air. Finally, when the matter has lost all tactile qualities and is perceptible to
humans only as sound, it has attained the most subtle vibration and isrepresented by ether. In this state the individual particles of the matter no
longer exist, but have rather vibra ted beyond the ma terial plane. Our physical or gross body represents the earth element, as Mother
Earth is a balance of minerals and metals in the same way our physical
bodies contain a balance of mineral and metals. Any imbalance of these
minerals and metals affects our health at the physical level. The source of
minerals and metals in the physical body is the food we eat, irrespective of
whether it is vegetarian or non-vegetarian. The muladhara (base root) chakra
is responsible for the gross/physical body, hence the earth element is
attributed to this c hakra. The universe is two-thirds water, in the same way two-thirds of our
bodies are composed of fluids represented by blood, lymph, saliva and so on. We are aware and it is also visible to us that the lunar cycles or moon phases
affect the water on Earth, causing high tides and low tides; in the same way,
moon phases affect the water in our body, although it is not visible but it can
be felt as emotional imbalance in sensitive people, especially the water signs. Therefore, the swadhisthana (sacral) chakra is responsible for our emotional
balance and is associa ted with our emotional bod y. The manipura (solar plexus) chakra is associated with the element of fire. Our bodies contain the energy of fire in three forms: body temperature,
which fluctuates in a narrow range, mental energy (bhoot agni) and digestive
fire (jathar agni). Solar energy also nourishes our body’s fire element with
vitamin D. Our breath represents the air element, with each breath providing us
with vital oxygen and sustaining us with vital pranas. This element is
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always gotten a certain tonal  quality that my peers hear as gorgeous
but that I now hear as annoyingly shrill. It’s become so annoying
that I can’t stand to play anymore.”
Stan’s haggard, drawn face looked up at me. “And this all
happened out of the blue?” I asked. “Completely.”“Without any warning? Think back,” I urged. “All I can tell you is that everything seemed to be going all right
in my life when a psychiatrist told me that I shouldn’t keep on
taking a certain antidepressant. I had relied on it for a period last
year after I broke up with my old girlfriend. When my psychiatrist
told me to go o it cold turkey, I said, ‘Is that really okay?’ He said,
‘Sure.’ The next morning I woke up with my ears zooming and
ringing, as if someone was playing the ute inside my head.”
Stan’s psychiatrist has carefu lly explained to him that the sudden
change in his hearing could not be blamed on discontinuing his
medication, but Stan is not reassured. He has consulted various
specialists, all of whom are baed by the peculiar mixture of the
physical and the psychological in his symptoms. “Whenever I
swallow,” Stan told me, “I get the sensation that my ears are lling
up with uid. It’s like there are trees in my body with branches, and
as I swallow, they crackle and ll with uid. I went to four ear
specialists. Two said there wasn’t any uid, two said there was. Only one thought he could treat it, but the medicine he gave me
didn’t work. My hearing tests come back normal or above normal,
just like before, but I know I’m not right anymore.”
“Since so much of your life is tied up with your sense of hearing,”
I pointed out, “do you think some kind of emotional problem could
have become localized through this symptom in your ears?”
“I don’t  know, ” he replied. “A few months ago I began to think,
‘Maybe it’s not physical at all. Maybe there’s something I need to
work through.’ People said to me, ‘Go talk to someone,’ so for
months it’s been talk, talk, talk, but the psychologists aren’t telling
me anything I don’t already  know. Let’s assume that my problems
are neurotic. Well, Merry Christmas, we have an answer, but I still
feel like I’m doomed.”
Stan’s audiences apparently hear nothing wrong with his playing. To them, his music sounds the same as before, and his peers still
praise him specically for his sensitive, expressive tone. The fact
that he now hates his own playing has therefore becom e a deep,
dark secret.“Perhaps it’s temporary. No one has complained to you yet,” I
pointed out. “No, but they might,” Stan said anxiously. “I keep dreading that
someone will catch on and begin to hear my sound the way I do. It’s
bound to happen, isn’t it?”
“I don’t know,” I said, feeling as puzzled as he was. As things stand, Stan nds it harder and harder to uphold his
integrity, both as a person and a musician. Palming o his dissonant
sound on others is a constant source of guilt. More than that, he has
depended on the ute for his happiness ever since he was a boy
growing up in Brooklyn and his teachers discovered his musical
talent. I can imagine the small, defenseless thirteen-year-old he must
have been. Today, at thirty-ve, Stan is still small. He wears fragile wire-
rimmed glasses and has a full lower lip that curls outward just so,
making a perfect perch for the edge of a ute. He speaks in a
nervous whirlwind of words, barely touching ground before rushing
o to something new. I can’t help but think that he was lucky to
nd the ute when he did. A boy like Stan could easily have been
trampled on the streets of Brooklyn. Without the pleasure of his ute, he is growing more moody and
isolated every week. “I’m playing a concert on Sunday with an
orchestra that is mostly doctors and lawyers. There’s a cello player
who’s very wonderful. She’s cute, and I think she kind of eyed me. I
would like to get together with her. We could have a lot of fun, both
of us musicians. I am as good a player as she is, if not better. But I’m
afraid to pick up my ute and play duets with her, so I can’t ask her
out.”
For a man who sees dating a woman as basically “playing  a duet,”
not being able to perform has proved catastrophic. One could glibly
point to the sexual overtones in what Stan is saying. He is like a
sharpshooter without his pistol, a policeman without his nightstick,
but I don’t think the sexual overtones are nearly as important as the
drastic loss of purpose that he has suered. “It has never mattered if anyone else liked my playing, so long as
I enjoyed it. You can impress people for ten minutes and get a quickhigh, but those endorphins or whatever they are up here”—Stan
pointed to his head—“they’re just morphine. I want to feel it for
myself. I want fulllment; otherwise my playing has no meaning.”
He sighed wearily. “Maybe it’s like meeting a woman for the rst
time. You’re so elated, but then you learn that she’s just a person. The magic gradually wears o, and your perception shifts. Maybe
the ute is just a ute to me now. I’ve already had my love aair
with it, and now I’m hearing it the way it really is—who knows? “Every day I start to play, hoping it will sound beautiful again,
but then I’ll hear that shrillness. I try to talk myself out of it by
saying, ‘Stan, your sound couldn’t have changed. Your ears are just
plugged up.’ But my symptom s tell me something else. I rationalize
to myself, ‘Look, people are walking around with multiple sclerosis
and things that are much worse,’ but it doesn’t help. I just don’t
want to live this way.” Stan stopped, and his face looked more
morose and baed than ever. Hurled out of paradise like a fallen
angel, he cannot get over the shock of where he has landed. Now and Forever
The dierence  between Stan and a fallen angel is that paradise is
handed to the angels while humans have to create their own. Not
that anyone has ever succeed ed. Stan was privileged just to create a
corner of intense happiness through his music. As every true artist
must, he lived from the creative core of himself, until the sinister
day when the ow of creativity was interrupted. A gap appeared
between the maker and the thing made, and even though the thing
made was still beautiful, it was not his beauty that others admired. In that gap, that emptiness, all his earlier happiness was lost. This problem is not unique to Stan, or to artists as a class. No
matter how gratifying one aspect of life becomes, its satisfaction is
limited. It wears itself out unless one nds a way to remain
connected to the source of renewal. Renewal is one of life’s primary
urges, like love and freedom, but even more important, since all of
life needs renewing to keep ahead of the tireless process of
destruction. There is never pure destruction in nature but creationand destruction together, so closely spliced that they cannot be
separated. We are constantly  dying and being born at the physical
level. Each minute, millions of our cells divide, sacricin g their old
existence in a death that gives birth to two new cells. The impulse of
creation pushe s life ahead even while the past is gobbl ing up life
from behind. We all have a deep psychological drive to keep pace with this
process. Alice Miller puts it with beautiful conciseness: “There are
needs that can and should be satised in the present.… Among
these is every human being ’s central need to express himself—to
show himself to the world as he really is—in word, in gesture, in
behavior, in every genuine utterance from the baby’s cry to the
artist’s creation.”
The key to this inspiring armation is that life needs to be
satisfying in the present. It is not that easy to den e “the present,”
however. From  one perspective the present is the thinnest possible
slice of time, the eeting instant that allows the future to ip-op
into the past. From the oppo site perspective, the present is eternal,
because it is ever-renewing, like a river that is never the same twice. “The present is the only thing that has no end,” Schrödinger once
declared. To create paradise could mean nothing more or less than living in
the present, enjoying the happiness that is both now and forever—
but who can manage that? The boundaries that the human mind
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 kernels, and some sprouted grains and legumes. I drank diluted carrot juice, and a chlorophyll drink
made up of wheat grass and barley green and aloe vera juice. I took echinaechia, red clover, and fenugreek seeds. I worked all  the
acupuncture points on my body that strengthen the immune system, including the thymus gland, lymph nodes, and spleen. I also
worked the meridians, and reflex points for the liver, and large intestine. I massaged the breast along the natural lines of l ymphatic
drainage from the area. Last, and of great importance, I knew that the treatment would work, and that the tumor would  quickly disappear. It did vanish
totally in three months. It would have gone away quicker if I had water fasted, but I was unable to do this because I needed
physical strength to care for my resident patients and family. Eighteen years have passed si nce that episode, and I have had no further reappearance of breast tumors. At age 55 I still have all
my body parts, and have had no surgery except the original lumpectomy. Many, viewing my muscles and athletic performance,
would say my health is exception al but I know my own frailties and make sure I do not aggravate them. I still have exactly the
same organ deficiencies as other cancer patients and must keep a very short leash on my lifestyle. If for some reason I wanted to make my life very short, al l I would have to do would be to abandon my diet, stop taking
supplements, eat red meat and ice cream every day and be unhappy about something. Incidentally, I have had many residential
clients with breast cancer since then, and have not taken on their sym ptoms, so I can assume that I have safely passed that hurdle. I've helped dozens of cases of simple breast cancer where my treatment began before the cancer broadly spread. Kelly's case
was not the easiest of this group, nor the hardest. Sometimes ther e was lymphatic involvement that the medical doctors had not yet
treated in any way. All but one of my early -onset breast cancer cases recovered. I believe those are far better results than achieved
by AMA treatment. Before I crow too much, let me str ess that every one of these women was a good candidate for recovery –under 40 years old,
ambulatory and did not feel very sick. And most importantly, every one of them had received no other debilitating medical
treatment except a needle biopsy or simple lum pectomy. None of these women had old tumors (known about for more than six
months) and none of the tumors were enormous (nothing larger than a walnut). Clearly, this group is not representative of the average breast cancer case. Hygienic therapy for c ancer is a radical idea these
days and tends to attract younger people, or older, desperate people who have already been through the works. In every one of  my
simple cases the tumors were reabsorbed by the body during the thirty days of water fasting and t he client left happy. Except one. I think I should describe this unsuccessful case, this "dirty case," so my readers get a more balanced idea of ho w
fearsome cancer really isn't if the sick person can clearly resolve to get better and has no problem ab out achieving wellness. Marie was an artisan and musician from Seattle who grew up back East in an upper -middle class dysfunctional family. She was
in her late twenties. She had been sexually abused by an older brother, was highly reactive, and had nev er been able to
communicate honestly with anyone except her lesbian lover (maybe, about some things). Three years prior to coming to see me Marie had been medically diagnosed as having breast cancer and had been advised to
have immediate surgery. She ignored this advice; Marie never told her friends, said nothing to her family and tried to conceal it
from her lover because she did not want to disrupt their life together. On her own, she did begin eating a Macrobiotic diet. In spite of this diet, t he tumor grew, but grew very slowly. After two years
the tumor was discovered by her lover, who after a year of exhausting and upsetting arguments, forced Marie to seek treatment. Since Marie adamantly refused to go the conventional medical route, she ende d up on my doorstep as a compromise. By this time the tumor was the size of a fist and had broken through the skin of the left breast. It was very ugly, very hard. Biokinesiology showed the usual deadly triangle and other associated organ weakneses typ ical of cancer. Marie began fasting on
water with colonics and poultices and bodywork and counseling and supplements. At the end of the water fast, Marie looked muc h
healthier, with clear eyes and clear skin and had a sort of shine about her, but the tumor  had only receded enough for the skin to
close over it; it was still large, and very hard. To fully heal, Marie probably needed at least two more water fasts of equal  length
interspersed with a few months on a raw food diet. But she lacked the personal tou ghness to confront another fast in the near
future. Nor was she emotionally up to what she regarded as the deprivation of a long -term raw foods healing diet. So I advised her to seek other treatment. Still unwilling to accept standard medical management of her case, Marie chose to g o
to the Philippines to have "psychic surgery." She was excited and optimistic about this; I was interested myself because I wa s
dubious about this magical procedure; if Marie went I would have a chance to see the results (if any) on a person I was very
familiar with. Marie had her tickets and was due to leave in days when her lover, against Marie's directly -stated wishes, called her
parents and informed them of what was happening. The parents had known nothing of Marie's cancer and were shocked, upset, outraged!<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        If you
compare my suggested formulation to another one, keep in mind that variations of 25 percent one way or another won't make a
significant difference, and adding other beneficial substances to my recommendations probably is only helpful. However, I wou ld
not want to eliminate anything in the list below, it is the minimum:

Beta-Carotene  25,000 iu  Selenium  100 mcg
Vitamin A  5,000 iu  Taurine  500 mg
B-1 250 mg  Cyctine  200 mg
B-2 50 mg  Gluthaianone  15 mg
B-3 niacinamid  850 mg  Choline  650 mg
B-5 750 mg  Inositol  250 mg
B-6 200 mg  Flavanoids  500 mg
B-12 100 mcg  Zinc 35 mg
PABA  50 mg  Chromium  100 mcg
Folic Acid  500 mcg  Molybdenum  123 mg
Biotin  200 mcg  Manganese  5 mg
Vitamin C  3,000mg  Iodine (as kelp)  10 mg
Vitamin E  600 iu  Co-Enzyme Q -10 60 mg
Magnesium  1,000 mg  DMAE  100 mg
Potassium  100 mg  Ginko biloba  120 mg
Calcium  1,000 mg  Vitamin D -3 200 iu

Please also keep in mind that there are many other useful substances not listed above. For example, every day I have a "green
drink," an herbal preparation containing numerous tonic substances like ginseng and also various forms of algae and chlorophy ll
extracts. My green drink makes my body feel very peppy all day, so it certainly enhances my life and may extend it. It costs ab out
$25,00 a month to enjoy that. I also use various pure amino acids at times. Phenylalyanine will make me get more aggressive
whenever I am feeling a little lackluster; this nutrient has also been used as an effective therapy against depression. Melatoni n
taken at bedtime really does help me get to sleep and may have remarkable life -extending properties. Other amino acids help my
body manufacture growth hormones and I use them from the time I begin training seriously in spring through the end of the
summer triathlon competition season. Pearson and Shaw's book (see Bibliography) is a good starting point to begin learning ab out
this re markably useful subject. The Future Of Life Extension
    I beg the readers indulgence for a bit of futurology about what things may look like if the life extension movement continues  to
develop. Right now, a full vitamin and vitamin -like substance life extension program costs between $50 and $100 dollars per month. However, pharmaceutical researchers occasionally notice that drugs meant to treat and cure diseases, when tested on lab anima ls
for safety, make these animals live quite a bit longer and function better. Though the FDA doesn't allow any word of this to be
printed in official prescribing data, the word does get around to other researchers, to gerontologists and eventually to that  part of
the public that is eagerly looking for longer life. T oday there are numerous people who routinely take prescription medicines
meant to cure a disease they do not have and plan to take those medicines for the rest of their


80
,
119
,
161
,
165
infants and young children
81–85
insane patients,
93
instinctive (See Animals, Infants, Insane)
interruptions,
53
,
54
,
55
,
64
long fasts,
53
,
106
,
132
misunderstood,
13
,
56
,
70
muscle atrophy,
31
nature at work,
109
absorption, of infections,
94
autolysis,
29
,
37
,
162
 (See Autolysis)
economy,
29
,
30
emphasis changed,
28
,
58
,
94
nine basic steps
preparation,
52
,
59
rest,
59
,
60
,
129
152activity,
60
warmth,
60
water,
60
,
61
bathing,
61
sunbathing,
61
,
62
purges,
62
suffering,
62
opposition,
21
,
52
,
58
,
94
plants and food scarcity,
27
preventive,
50
,
76
,
91
,
93
,
141
rally and relapse,
41
reasons for
four reasons,
35–36
,
71–72
,
80
physical,
19
,
23
,
30–31
political,
18
,
76
religious,
17
,
18
,
19
role,
21
,
46
,
49
,
54
,
75
,
76
safe,
23
,
24
,
25
,
51
,
53
,
167
short fasts,
50
,
51
,
53
,
54
,
64
,
80
,
106
,
122
when? 49
,
50
,
84
,
92
,
98
where? 51
,
52
Fear,
105
,
118
,
156
Feeding plan,
65–67
Fermentation,
84
,
85
Feverishness,
83
Flores, Ralph,
26
,
28
Food and Feeding,
50
,
67–70
,
77–79
,
81–83
acute disease into chronicity,
50
,
91–92
after fasting,
65–70
carbohydrates,
80
,
127
cooked food,
69
dangers of,
89
dying patient,
44
food vs. nutrition,
77–79
forced feeding,
50
,
90
fragmented,
68–69
fruits,
82
hydrocarbons,
69
minerals,
30
,
69
not a palliative,
117
overeating,
67
,
70
,
77
,
80
processed,
68
-70,
80
153proteins,
68
,
69
,
70
,
79–80
,
110
raw foods,
68
,
69
,
80
refined,
68
,
69–70
synthetic,
68
underfeeding,
29
vegetables,
66
,
68–69
,
82
vitamins,
30
,
70
,
82
Frigidity,
21
Fruit,
65–66
,
69
,
82
Fungation (Cancer),
116
Funk,
77
Gallstones, (Cholelithiasis),
157
cause,
157
,
158
fasting,
159
surgery,
159
,
160
Gastric Acidity,
118
Gastric irritation,
118
Gastric juices (HCL and Pepsin),
114
,
115
Gastric ulcer,
115
 (See Peptic ulcer)
Gastritis,
83
,
84
,
94
,
134
Gastrocolic reflex,
65
Gastroenterostomy,
118
Gastrointestinal putrefaction,
111
Gastrourinary tract,
94
Genitourinary disease,
144
Glaucoma,
46
Glycogen,
28
Gonorrhea,
148
cleanliness,
148–150
fasting,
148
,
150
good behavior,
149
water, internally and externally,
150
Gourmandizing,
67
Gout,
111
Graham, Sylvester,
37
Gross. Robert,
47
Gruel,
50
Habit,
68
devitalizing,
80
Hay Fever,
94
,
122
,
123
,
124
Headache,
32
,
55
,
120
154Healing,
47
,
48
,
49
,
60
,
140
broken bones,
47
histogenesis,
48
spontaneous,
45
,
48
Hearing, restoration,
71
Heart, the,
71
,
105
,
130
,
131
decompensation,
129
,
130
diseases,
63
,
127
,
131
drugging,
41
,
131
fasting,
36
,
127
,
128–129
supervisory care,
132
valves,
128
Hepatic Colic,
157
High Blood Pressure,
124–126
drugging,
125
explained,
124
fasting,
126
prevalence,
124
Hoelzel, Frederick,
75
Hunger,
absence,
34
acute disease,
33
,
89
basic rule,
33
chronic disease,
63
not appetite,
32
not irritation,
34
where felt,
31–32
Hunger Strike (Cork),
127
Hunzas,
82
Hydrochloric acid,
114–115
Hygienic Concepts,
33–34
,
36
,
45
,
48
,
50
,
53
,
54
,
56
,
58
,
60–61
,
67–70
,
77
,
80
,
90
,
91
,
95
,
96
,
97
,
98
,
105
,
111
,
116
,
123
,
126
,
134–135
,
141
,
158
,
165–166
Hygienic responsibility,
67
Hygienists,
21
,
22
,
50
,
55
,
89
,
97
Hyperacidity,
116–117
Hyperplasia,
99
Hypertension, essential,
124
,
125
Hypertrophy,
146
Ileitis,
94
Immunization,
67
Impotence,
21
Indigestion,
83–85
,
135
155Induration,
116
 (See Definitions)
Inflammation,
84
,
108
,
112
,
115
,
115–117
,
122
,
133
,
134
,
139
,
141–142
,
144
,
158
need for rest in,
112
Ingelfinger,
140
Ingenuity of nature,
30
Inoculation,
83
Insects,
18
,
74
 (See Animals)
Instinctive procedures,
34
,
64
,
70
,
93
Insulin,
95
Internal reserve stores,
28
,
29
,
30
,
128
 (See also Fasting)
Irreducible activity,
28
Irritation,
34
,
37
,
105
,
115
,
116
,
117
,
118
,
139
,
142
,
144
Jaundice,
158
Jeferson, Joseph,
41
Kidneys,
155–157
Kirsner,
140
Klaben, Helen,
26
,
28
Lindlahr, Henry,
65
Lithemic diathesis,
157
Liver,
158
,
159
Locomotor Ataxia,
46
Low, Gilman,
42
Lumbago,
109
,
147
Lymph,
37
,
38
Macfadden, Bernarr,
42
,
161
MacSwiney, Terence,
127
Maintenance, of weight,
67
Malaise,
34
,
91
Malignancy,
140
Manipulation,
110
Manganese poisoning,
153
Marrow, bone,
28
Maxims,
34
,
83
,
103
,
120
,
127
,
165
,
166
Mayo,


little, will create a healthy body. The wrong foods, which do not build
or repair cells and tissues, clog up the bodily functions and cause
disease. Frequently, people say that something they ate made them sick. More often than otherwise, the actual cause of their trouble is
something they did not eat. The bodily functions may suffer as
severely from lack of the food elements, or vitamins which serve as
catalysts, to keep them going, as they would suffer from poison. The
healthful diet is a perfectly balanced diet. CHAPTER 26. ON THE CHEMISTRY OF DEAF SMITH
COUNTY FOODS

In his search for the secret of Deaf Smith County people's
immunity to tooth decay, Dr. Edward Taylor took samples of flour milled at Hereford from home grown wheat to the Texas State Laboratories in Austin for analysis. For a long time previously, our
millers had publicized "the extremely high protein content," of the
native flour? The State analysis (says Dr. Taylor's bulletin) showed that the
Hereford flour contained 0.199 per cent of phosphorus, as compared
with 0.037 per cent for standard flour. That is, the Hereford breadstuff
was found to be more than five times as rich in phosphorus as general
run of flour produced elsewhere. On the other hand, the Hereford sample showed 0.0274 per cent
of calcium, as against 0.0370 per cent in the standard product. Observe, reader, that what Dr. Taylor had analyzed was the
refined white flour. Most of the life-giving mineral elements to be
found in Deaf Smith County wheat had been taken out of that flour in
the bran and shorts. Laboratory tests with white rats—b y Dr. C. A. Pierle of Canyon
and other research scientists—demon strated that even the Hereford
flour, when fed exclusively would eventually starve the animal. It
takes the whole grain unrefined to supply the minerals essential to
life—inorganic, and hence, assimilable, form. Contrast the State lab findings as to the Hereford mills' white
flour with the list of elements, including trace minerals, which The Twining Laboratories of Fresno, California only recently found in
Deaf Smith County wheat grains by spectograph methods:
Phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, calcium, sodium, sulphur,
silicon, chlorine, fluorine, iodine, manganese, iron, copper, aluminum,
strontium, molybdenum, zirconium, nickel, chromium, boron. Now, reader, where the State lab's analysis shows but 2.2. to 2.7
parts per million of inorganic fluorine in our drinking water, the
spectograph analysis shows almost 400 parts per million of organic
fluorine in our wheat grains. This analysis from The Twining Lab of
Fresno, California. It stands to reason that the other food crops grown in our
mineralized soil—Irish potatoes, beans, carrots, turnips, mustard
greens or anything—if analyzed by spectograph would be found as
rich in fluorine, as well as calcium, iron, magnesium and the other
minerals which our soil contains. In the foodstuff those minerals ar e organic and assimilable. In
water, they are inorganic and of doubtful value. If it is fluorine that prevents decay, it is not the inorganic fluorine
in the water but the organic fluorine  in the wheat, green vegetables
and milk, that does it. But it is my theory that the calcium in our wheat and potatoes—but mostly in our milk—has more to do than fluorine
with preventing rickets and tooth decay in children and preventing
pyorrhea (a bone disease) in adults. Dr. Taylor surmises that the heavy calcium content of our wheat,
native grass and other deep-rooted plants is taken from the caliche sub
soil. Analysis by Texas Highway Department Laboratories shows that
this subsoil does contain 71 to 88 per cent calcium carbonate that
plants can assimilate. Too, the Federal soil scientist working in this area (with the U. S.
Soil Conservation Service) found that  Deaf Smith County top soil is
particularly rich in organic matter, nitrogen, phosphate, potash, iron,
magnesium, calcium and most of the trace elements required for plant
growth. Those Government field men—H. F. Clearman, Deaf Smith
county agent tells me—have spotte d numerous saucer like basins
scattered over this area, that catch a nd hold most of the rain that falls
on them. Thus practically all the rainwater either seeps into the ground
or evaporates. In those basins, run-off is practically non-existent. That fact at least partially acco unts for all those trace minerals
which the spectograph shows in our wheat. For hundreds of years, what rainwater fell on those basins ha s trickled down into the subsoil. None has run off, carrying the magnesium, calcium, chlorine, fluorine
and other minerals which rainfall normally leaches out of the soil. No. 1—Dr. Heard appraises Deaf Smith County potatoes grown on his farm. No. 2—The doctor inspects Mr. John Paetzold's carrots. CHAPTER 27. ON FOOD THERAPY AND SOIL
FERTILITY

Man is made of earth, the Bible tells us, and all the elements in
his body are found in soil. As man is forever on the go, he wears out. He must replace worn-out cells and tissue with food. If the replacement is done right, so as to put back the lost elements in the
right proportion—if a person is fe d on a well-balanced diet—then the
bodily health is maintained. That is all there is to food therapy. As man is a living organism, the elements of the earth which his
body needs must be changed from inorganic to organic form before
his cells and tissues can feed upon them. It is true, there are bodily
glands, such as the thyroid, which work that change on certain
elements—but the most efficient machine for the manufacture of
organic food elements are the plants. It is true that the animals which supply man with beef, pork and
mutton, with milk and butterfat, with eggs and so on, perform that function also, at second hand but for most people quite satisfactorily. The prophet Isaiah says that "All flesh is grass." One could go
one step further and say as logically that all flesh is earth. In his informative pamphlet, "Soil, a Foundation of Health,"
Arnold P. Yerkes lists the chemical elements of which the human
body is made: calcium, nitrogen (protein), phosphorus and potassium. Those four, together with water—hydrogen and oxygen (H2-0)—were
thought before the days of modern chemical analysis to constitute the
human body. In addition to those basic elements, modern chemical analysis by
means of the spectroscope and other detection instruments reveals that
the normal healthy human body contains at least 17 minerals as shown
in the accompanying table—but in  the form of various salts, the
sulphates, nitrat es and so on. Observe that all those minerals are organic in the body. In the
soil, all are inorganic. The change in form has taken place in the food plants. Now, as chemical analysis further shows, by far the most
effective factory for changing inorganic minerals taken up from the
soil, into organic minerals for the body's use is wheat. If the reader now will compare the list of minerals in his body
with the list which Twining Laboratori es (Fresno, California) found in
Deaf Smith County wheat, he can see for himself how near wheat—
particularly that grown in our mi neralized soil— comes to being a
perfect food in itself. We are inde bted to the Pitman Grain Company
for this analysis. Out of 21 minerals (not counting water or the vitamins) which
the chemists have detected in the human body the Twining
Laboratories found 16 in our High Plains wheat. Of the elements
which Twining omitted, only nitrogen and carbon are important. But
the feed experts say that green wheat plant is a well nigh perfect
protein feed for dairy cows. One would say, then, that Deaf Smith County wheat, the whole
grain, not white flour from our mills, together with milk and butterfat
from cows grazed on our wheatfields, would abundantly supply all the
elements which the body needs for balanced nutrition, hence for
bodily health. A few years ago, as I have related Dr. Weston A. Price
proved that by feeding the sick patients on cream from Bonnie
Brumley's Deaf Smith County herd. Most other food crops grown in our mineralized area, I do
believe, say potatoes, cabbage, ca rrots, beets, turnip greens or
onions—were they put through the Twining Laboratories for a
complete analysis, would show as varied and as high a mineral content
as Deaf Smith County wheat showed. That is why I tell inquirers concerning diet:
Eat what you like, but first make certain that it comes from
mineralized, which means completely fertile, soil. Then, consume the
foodstuff unrefined, say, the whole wheat grain freshly ground or Irish
potatoes baked with their jackets on. So far as that is practicable, eat


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