 put them on coffee and donuts and nothing but that for 2 or 3 days and they
report no  gas whatsoever. And. when we put them on a natural fiber diet. as prescribed in our diet advice, then we have gas to
contend with. However, they began to say they were passing off the gas easier - their stools became softer; they did not have to
force the  bowel movement; they did not have to cause pressure: the feces moved easier through the bowel and they no longer were
having problems with constipation. However, the gas still persisted, but it seemed to get less and less and, over a period of  three
month s, we found that it came down to a minimal amount.

Once a bowel has diverticula, it will never become totally free of gas. There are very few people who can say they have no ga s
|whatsoever. To get the gas out completely is almost an impossibility in this  day and age because we cannot live the way of life
necessary to accomplish that task, but I do think it can come down to a minimum and will cause no disturbance – no distress.

THE EFFECT OF GRAVITY ON THE BOWEL
An important thing to realize is that we ha ve pressure, both mechanical and chemical, to take care of as far as the bowel is
concerned. On the chemical side, we have the effects of the acidophilus bacteria, acids and putrefactions. On the mechanical side.
we have peristaltic action and the ever -present downward pull of gravity. Gravity, we must realize, brings on more problems than
most people can possibly imagine. Do you remember the historic landings of American astronauts on the moon? Were you
watching television when it showed them on the moon’s  surface, easily jumping 10 -12 feet high? When they walked, you could
see them bounce with each step. They looked like they were bouncing on a trampoline, because gravity on the moon is much less
than here on earth. Gravity on earth is very harsh on our bo dies. When we walk or stand, our body is pulled down toward the earth.
We have to live with this constant tugging on our vital organs. We find that the intervertebral disks are being pressed down.  I’m
sure we would have few disk problems if everyone lived on the moon. Because there wouldn’t be enough pressure from its gravity
to cause disk problems. On earth we have gravity problems, especially when we are tired. I have said before that tiredness is  the
beginning of every disease; that is when gravity has i ts greatest effect on the body. When we are tired, we begin to lose muscle
tone, so we find that internal organs are more easily pulled downward. When gravity takes its effect, our shoulders begin to droop:
we can have scoliosis or we can develop curvature  of the spine. The softest tissue in the body is the transverse colon, and it is the
only tissue in the body that goes completely from the right side to the left side of the body. If it was made of bone, it wou ld stay in
position; but since the colon is ma de of very soft tissue, a prolapsus or dropped transverse colon can happen as a result of
gravitational pull. There is a new disease coming: it’s called gravitosis. The symptoms are as follows.

PROLAPSUS OF THE TRANSVERSE COLON
When we have prolapsus, all  the organs above the transverse colon are going to fall as well and those below it will suffer the
effects of pressure. When the transverse colon comes down, for exam pie, bladder pressure develops. The uterus can develop
flexions and retroflexions and co uld double over the bowel causing constipation. We sometimes find that there is pressure on the
fallopian tubes or the ovaries. Many times the egg from the ovary cannot pass into the uterus properly and this can cause ste rility.
Still further, we find that  women have more cysts on the ovaries than on any other organ in the body. There are more hysterec -
tomies given to women than any other operation; and I believe it is because a good deal of pressure is against the tubes, pre ssure
which does not allow prope r circulation of blood or the removal of toxic material. But women are not the only ones subject to
pressure -caused troubles; a man with a prolapsus experiences prostate gland pressure. The urethra, through which urine flows from
the bladder, passes throug h the center of the prostate gland. When there is pressure on the prostate gland, urination is difficult.
There will be retention of urine, which is one of the liquids we can absorb back into the body. This can mark the beginning o f
arthritis and joint tro ubles, especially as we grow older. So we find we can have prostate gland and bladder troubles, uterine and
ovarian disturbances, all because of prolapsus caused by gravity.

Many doctors and gastro -intestinal specialists are making their living treating  hemorrhoids and other anal, rectal and bowel
problems caused mainly by pressure from the transverse colon and various organs involved while we are eliminating at the toil et. I
think the toilet is the most abominable device ever invented in our civilizatio n. We find that the Indians never had any rectal
troubles; they had no hemorrhoid troubles whatsoever. Why? They squatted to defecate. If you go to France, Italy or South
America, you will find that the toilet is often a hole in the floor and you have to s quat. This is the normal eliminating position, the
one in which all of our internal organs are held in the proper position. When this position is habitually used for eliminatio n, no
veins will protrude from the rectum.
Now to add to the problem, we may hav e gas or we may have a hard stool. There is pressure against the rectum whenever we have
hard fecal material or excessive gas. These problems are aggravated by fatigue and by the gravitational pull. It is well that  you
know this so you can learn to overcom e these things. To overcome the problem of gravity when and if you must sit on the toilet,
one thing to remember is to keep your hands over your head. You’Il find when you push down, the force is really against the r ectal
tissues and the rectal areas, so t o overcome this keep your hands above your head. That’s the way it should be done anyway, if
you’re going to use the regular toilet seat. In fact, in our sanitarium we had a little rope above and off to the side of the  toilet to
hold when there was a bowel  movement, which kept the hands above the head.

IRIDOLOGY AND THE BOWEL
In looking at the bowel from the standpoint of iridology. the first thing we have found is always a black area in that portio n of the
ins corresponding to the bowel. The condition of the transverse colon (which comes across the top of the bowel) is indicated by
signs near the top of the iris at from 10 o’clock to about 12 o’clock, within what is called the autonomic nerve wreath. We s tart
down the descending colon, represented in the i ris from 12 to 5 o’clock, then the sigmoid colon from 5 to 7 o’clock, until we come
to the rectal area about 7 o’clock. This is only one side of the body. I don’t want to give a lesson in iridology but I would  like to
take you on a little learning trip bec ause the ins has much to teach us about the condition of the bowel. In the iris of the eye,
various conditions show up as black areas, which I call “bowel pockets,” where the autonomic wreath makes a definite break. I
have found that the black area represe nts underactivity, an inherent weakness and a toxic material settlement. Over the years, I
went after these three things in my work with patients. I found that an inherent weakness in the bowel quickly leads to probl ems in
bowel function unless the body ha s all the power and energy it needs to work with. When the body is tired, an inherent weakness
in the bowel leads to hypoactivity. So, I had to take care of the energies of my patients. I had to take care of enervation. I had to get
rid of tiredness. I had  to help patients get rid of what I call “vitality wasters.” Every sick person is fatigued and rundown. They are
burned out. They want to lie down. Some of them don’t even have the energy to walk. All they want to do is to go bed. They do n’t
have enough en ergy or spirit to really do things, and I found that while taking care of these people, having them rest and change
their diets, I began to see certain healing signs come into those black areas in the irides. These correlations between bowel
condition and the appearance of the iris were confirmed repeatedly over the years.

There is much cynicism among medical doctors over the value of iridology, but I believe this will change. It takes three mont hs to
demonstrate healing signs in the eye and the average  medical doctor seems to be unwilling to take the time for this kind of
systematic follow -up. I can prove what I have presented here, but


benefit." As I have  said repeatedly, everything  depends upon our attitude
towards ourselves. That which we  will not affirm as true  of ourselves can -
not develop  in our life. Dr. Millikan wrote  his dream of greatness and  se-
curity in the  first person, present tense. He  did not say, "I will be  great; I
will be  secure,"  for that would  have implied  that he  was not great and  se-
cure. Instead, he   made his future  dream a  present  fact. "I have," said
he, "a lavish, steady, dependable  income, consistent with integrity and
mutual benefit."
The future  dream must become  a present fact in the  mind of him who
seeks to realize it. We  must experience in imagination what we  would  ex-
perience in reality in the  event we  achieve  our goal, for the  soul imagin -
ing itself into a  situation takes on the  results of that imaginary act. If it
does not imagine  itself into a  situation, it is ever  free of the  result.
It is the  purpose  of this teaching  to lift us to a  higher  state of conscious -
ness, to stir the  highest in us to confidence and  self assertion, for that
which stirs the  highest in us is our teacher  and healer. The  very first word
of correction or cure  is always, "Arise." If we  are to understand  the reason
for this constant command  of the  Bible to "arise," we  must recognize that
the universe  understood  internally is an infinite  series of levels and  man is
what he  is according  to where  he is in that series. As we  are lifted up in
consciousness, our world  reshapes itself in harmony with the  level to
which we  are lifted. He  who rises from  his prayer  a better  man, his prayer
has been granted.
To change  the present state  we, like  Dr. Millikan, must rise  to a higher
level of consciousness. This rise  is accomplished  by affirming  that we are
already that which we  want to be; by assuming  the feeling  of the  wish ful -
filled. The  drama  of life  is a psychological one  which we  bring to pass by
our attitudes rather  than by our acts. There  is no escape  from our present
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenpredicament except by a  radical psychological transformation. Everything
depends upon our attitude  towards ourselves. That which we  will not af -
firm as true  of ourselves will not develop  in our lives.
We hear much of the  humble  man, the  meek  man –  but what is meant by
a meek  man? He  is not poor and  groveling, the  proverbial doormat, as he
is generally conceived  to be. Men  who make themselves as worms in their
own sight have  lost the  vision of that life  – into the  likeness of which it is
the true purpose  of the  spirit to transform this life. Men should take their
measurements not from life  as they see it but from men like  Dr. Millkan,
who, while  poor and  unproven, dared  to assume,  "I have  a lavish, steady,
dependable  income, consistent with integrity and  mutual benefit." Such
men are  the meek  of the  Gospels, the men who inherit the  earth. Any
concept of self less than the  best robs us of the  earth. The  promise  is,
"Blessed  are the meek, for they shall inherit the  earth."
In the  original text, the  word translated  as meek  is the  opposite  of the
words –  resentful –   angry. It has the  meaning  of becoming  "tamed" as
a wild animal is tamed. After  the mind is tamed, it may be  likened  to a
vine, of which it may be  said, "Behold  this vine. I found  it a wild tree
whose  wanton strength had  swollen into irregular  twigs. But I pruned the
plant, and  it grew temperate  in its vain expense  of useless leaves, and
knotted  as you  see into these  clean, full clusters to repay the  hand that
wisely wounded  it."
A meek  man is a  self disciplined  man. He  is so disciplined  he sees only the
finest, he  thinks only the  best. He is the  one who fulfills the  suggestion,
"Brethren, whatsoever  things are  true, whatsoever  things are  honest,
whatsoever  things are  just, whatsoever  things are  pure, whatsoever
things are  lovely, whatsoever  things are  of good  report; if there  be any
virtue and  if there  be any praise, think  on these  things."
We rise to a higher  level of consciousness, not because we have curbed
our passions, but because  we have  cultivated  our virtues. In truth, a
meek  man is a  man in complete  control  of his moods, and  his moods are
the highest, for he  knows he  must keep  a high mood  if he would walk
with the  highest.
It is my belief that all men can, like  Dr. Millikan, change  the course  of
their lives. I believe that Dr. Millikan’s technique  of making  his desire a
present fact to himself is of great  importance to any seeker after the
"truth." It is also his high purpose  to be of "mutual   benefit" that is in -
evitably the  goal of us all. It is much easier  to imagine  the good of all
than to be  purely selfish in our imagining. By our imagination, by our af -
firmations, we  can change  our world, we can change  our future.  To the
man of high purpose, to the disciplined  man, this is a  natural measure,  so
let us all become  disciplined  men.
More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenNext Sunday morning, July 15th, I am speaking  as the  guest of Dr. Bailes
at 10:30  at the Fox Wilshire  Theater  on Wilshire  Boulevard, near La
Cienega. My subject for next  Sunday is "Changing  Your Future."  It is a
subject near to the  hearts of us all. I hope  you will all come  on Sunday to
learn how  to be the disciplined  man, the  meek  man, who  "changes his fu -
ture" to the  benefit of his fellow  man.
If you  are observant, you  will notice the  swift echo or response  to your
every mood  in this message and  you will be  able to key it to the  circum -
stances of your daily life. When we  are certain of the  relationship  of mood
to circumstance in our lives, we  welcome  what befalls us. We  know  that
all we meet is part of ourselves. In the  creation of a  new life we must be-
gin at the  beginning, with a  change  of mood. Every high mood  of man is
the opening  of the  door to a  higher  level for him. Let us mold  our lives
about a  high mood  or a community of high moods. Individuals, as well as
communities, grow  spiritually in proportion as they rise  to a higher  ideal.
If their ideal is lowered, they sink  to its depths; if their ideal is exalted,
they are  elevated  to heights unimagined.
We must keep  the high mood  if we would  walk with the  highest; the
heights, also, were  meant for habitation. All forms of the  creative  imagi -
nation imply elements of feeling. Feeling  is the  ferment without which no
creation is possible. There  is nothing  wrong  with our desire  to transcend
our present state.  There  would  be no progress in this world  were it not for
man’s dissatisfaction with himself. It is natural for us to seek a more
beautiful  personal life; it is right that we  wish for greater  understanding,
greater  health, greater  security. It is stated  in the  sixteenth chapter of
the Gospel of St. John, "Heretofore  have ye asked  for nothing  in my
name; ask  and ye shall receive, that your joy may be  full."
A spiritual revival is needed  for mankind, but by spiritual revival I mean
a true religious attitude, one  in which each individual, himself, accepts
the challenge  of embodying  a new and higher  value  of himself as Dr. Mil -
likan did. A nation can exhibit no greater  wisdom in  the mass than it gen -
erates in its units. For this reason, I have  always preached  self help,
knowing  that if we strive  passionately after  this kind  of self help, that is,
to


 change a person's life in all of its
aspects - physically, mentally, emotionally a nd spiritually. - Attentive eating.
It seems strange to think that the manner in which one eats, the "how", can have such an important influence in one's
life.
Once I grasped the "big idea", I tested it thoroughly in my own life and then recommended it to more than dozen
patients and friends to compare its effects. Two of them were professional psychotherapists and they both were
profoundly impressed and fascinated with. the results.
The utter simplicity of the technique caused many people to refuse to even  believe that it could lead to important
changes, resulting in the refusal to even try the method.
While the method is so simple in its essence, that even all of the lowliest creatures practice it instinctively, yet, man is
so conditioned in his habits, th at he has to unlearn his present method of eating and relearn what he once knew
thousands of years ago.
Even if a person refuses to change his diet to higher quality foods and insists on remaining with his present
conventional diet, still, he will experience profound changes in all aspects of his life by applying the technique to his or
her life.
So let us not delay any further - let us penetrate this mystery.

ANIMALS EAT WITH FULL ATTENTION
The basic needs and instincts of all living creatures are  air, water and food, clothing and shelter - with food as the
most basic. All life everywhere knows its needs in food to survive and every creature on this earth knows how to eat.
It is an inborn instinct which does not need to be learned and it is present  from the moment of birth onward - in one -
celled life forms (amoeba) up to the largest animal forms in existence.
All of these living creatures, eat in the same manner. They eat with full attention, chew their foods as much as is
necessary for the species  and are fully absorbed in the taste of the food while they are eating it. When the sensual
enjoyment of the taste begins to recede and disappear, they stop eating and walk away from the food fully content.
This enjoyment of the food, closely interlocked w ith the taste of the food, is how the bodily instinct guides the animal
to cease eating when the body's needs are fully provided for. All living creatures have been faithfully guided by this
sense of taste instinct since the beginning of time and there has  never been a problem with it.
Why no problem? - Because they all eat the same way - with full attention, totally immersed in the taste of the food,
even closing their eyes to avoid distraction, and ceasing when the sense of taste begins to lose its enjoym ent. Even
all little insects eat with total attention.

WHY SUCH DIFFICULTY?
Then why do humans have such difficulty in eating, in knowing when to eat and when to stop?
There are several reasons.
•   First, people eat according to the clock, approximately 3 meals a day with in -between meal snacks and rarely
when truly hungry.
•   Secondly, they eat foods which have spices, sugar and salt added which stimulate them to overeat more than the
body requires.
•   And lastly, because they have minds and enjoy mental stimulation, they eat with a divided attention - while
reading a newspaper, or watching TV. Or conversing with someone.
In this booklet, we are going to concern ourselves almost exclusively with the last consideration - that of a divided
attention.
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DIVIDED ATTENTION
When the attention is divided, say for example, watching TV while eating, emotions and feelings are aroused which
conflict with the ideal digestive atmosphere.
This inhibits gastric and digestive secretions needed to digest the food optimally.
The great sensual enjoyment of eating, which is so basically important to the body and emotions necessary to inn er
happiness, is largely bypassed, because the attention is on something different than the taste of the food.
The result is that - since the taste enjoyment is largely reduced or eliminated, the body is unable to signal the eater
when to stop. So the pers on eats, mechanically stuffs himself and stops only when the discomfort of the distended
stomach signals its protest….
Eating without awareness or attention - invariably leads to overeating and dismissing the important role of the taste of
the food in directing us to stop eating when we have had enough to satisfy the body's needs.

FOOD AS SEX
The instinct of eating is so basic, so much more frequent and urgent than the instinct of reproduction (sex), that the
sensual enjoyment of food easily replaces t he urge for sex.
This probably explains why bingeing in eating so frequently replaces the frustration of loneliness, when
companionship of the opposite sex is lacking.

FOOD AS DRUG
It is a known fact that stuffing oneself with food causes most of the bloo d to leave the brain and enter the stomach
area to digest the food. This dulls and drugs the mind and effectively shuts off the thinking process, acts as an
emotional anesthesia, effectively allowing us to escape from thoughts and feelings of inferiority, sorrow, loneliness,
regret, boredom, guilt pressure, fear, low self -esteem, self -hatred, etc.
Unfortunately, using food as an escape mechanism from emotional problems only drives the problems in the
unconscious mind temporarily.
Suppressing these problems causes them to burst forth into the consciousness with increased force, demanding
attention from the conscious mind until they are properly dealt with.
They can be released and eliminated by facing them squarely with full attention and being willing to fee l them totally
without attempting to escape the pain involved. Often within minutes, they begin to weaken and dissipate in intensity.
Persistence, courage and repetition lead to success and freedom.

HOW TO ENHANCE THE ENJOYMENT
To return to our main topic. ----
Now, since the sensual enjoyment of food is the key factor that Nature uses in enticing all living creatures to seek
food for its bodily needs, it is important that we direct our attention to methods of enhancing our enjoyment of food to
its highest  peak. Let us take a look at some of the psychological implications connected to eating.
To begin with, we should eat only when hungry. This insures our maximum enjoyment and relish of the food. We
should first enjoy the sight and aroma of the food and feel gratitude. Then, as we put the food in our mouth, it is good
to close our eyes to help us concentrate our attention - on the taste of the food and to shut out all distractions.
Be total in eating with no other thinking. Do not read while eating, or li sten to TV or converse with anyone. To do so
will withdraw most of your attention from the sensual enjoyment of the food. The attention is drawn to the emotions if
you are watching TV, - to the intellect, memory and reason if you are talking or reading. Wh en eating you should be
totally immersed - - - - in the taste of the food. Nothing else should exist for you at this moment but the taste and
enjoyment of the food.
It should be chewed thoroughly, till every last bit of taste is extracted before being swal lowed in a liquefied form.
SATISFIED WITH 50% LESS
I repeat --
Nothing else should exist for you at this moment but for you to be totally lost and dissolved in - the taste of the food.
You will be so thoroughly satisfied with a much smaller amount of food that you will be content to stop eating long
before you feel any distension in the stomach. When I began to eat with total attention, I stopped totally satisfied with
50 to 40 % less than the amount I used to eat before, and with much greater, contentment.
If you eat unconsciously, without awareness, you will invariably eat too much because you don't know what you're
doing. You stopped only when your stomach felt distended, or even bloated.
Now, eating with attention, you hardly even feel your stomach. It b ecomes difficult to overeat, because your sense of
taste is so satisfied that you are almost impelled to stop long before in comparison to your earlier eating habits.
Remember, the rule is: if you don't enjoy your food, you will have to eat more to compens ate. If you enjoy your food
you will eat less, there will be no need to compensate. Trust your body, because it has a wisdom of its own and will
tell you through your sense of taste when to stop eating. Some days you will need more food and other days less.

CONTENTMENT AND BLISS

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You are able to leave the table feeling such profound contentment and bliss that it carries over into your emotions for
hours after eating. You will find your disposition to be one of great contentment, peace and kindness when talking to
others. You will find yourself happy for almost no special reason you can think of. You will not find yourself impelled or
driven into social relationships du e to a feeling of emptiness, because your intense sensual enjoyment of your food
has brought you into a state of utter tranquility.
Since you have not overeaten, you do not feel sleepy and your mind feels fresh and capable of thought and work, if
necessary.


 so frequently give the cows a ration that will produce less of these
qualities. One of the principal foods used for accomplishing this is made of cotton seed meal and
cereals.
   There are many illustrations of the low efficiency of this type of fodder for providing vitamins
essential for dairy products. In one of the recent severe droughts in the Mississippi Valley several
thousand cattle were shipped to Ohio for water and green pasture as a means of saving their lives.
They were fed enroute on concentrates said to consist of cotton seed meal and grain. Professor
Oscar Erf of the Department of Dairying of Ohio State University has given me the following
detailed information:
   With reference to the cattle from the south-western and central-northern states of the drought
area which were brought into Ohio in the fall of 1935 on a 600 acre farm north of Delaware, will
say that I had the privilege of viewing some of these cattle previous to the time that they were
brought to Ohio in 1935. Because of the extreme drought period and the hot sun, it was rare to
see green grass on the prairies. The sedges were nearly all dried up. The tumbleweed was about
the only thing that was available for the cattle in some instances. The corn was dried up and
very little green was in evidence. In the particular location that I was in we found the cattle
suffering terribly. Many had infected eyes.
   There were a good many deaths on the plains which were literally dried up. Sometimes there
was even a small amount of decomposition after death. In the fall, those that survived on the
plains, were loaded up and driven to the corrals, loaded into cars and sent east. Only the good
ones were loaded and even a large number of these passed out in transit.
   I was informed that the crop of grass the year before was very scant. Consequently, a large
number of calves were born with weak eyes and these were the early ones to pass out on the7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 176/250plains. The low vitality of the individuals which I considered was due to the lack of vitamin A or
the green grass factors was the cause of the serious infection, however their being secondary to
the primary cause.
   The first train load of the twenty-eight hundred cattle that were brought to this ranch were fed
on green corn stalks. There was a nine acre patch of corn in this area. The fences were taken
down one afternoon at 3 o'clock and by 9 o'clock there was no evidence of stubbles or roots.
This had all been eaten in a very short space of time. We had quite a time getting hays and
green stuff which we demanded because of its carotin content and its green grass factor. There
was not enough grass available in the beginning so we had to buy about 400 tons of hay a day
to keep the animals fed. They got no grain of any kind because it was a question of bringing the
cattle to a more or less normal condition with no intention of fattening the animals.
   After they had made arrangements for feeding operations and made feed racks in sufficient
numbers, we went over the herd to estimate the numbers that were blind and had sore eyes,
which I assume from past experience, was due to a vitamin A deficiency. As near as we can
estimate, nearly 8 12 animals were affected (29 per cent). There were 157 calves born and
approximately 50 per cent were deformed and not normal. We did not get the complete figures
but they probably ranged a little higher than that. The worst infected cows were calves and
animals that were 18 to 20 months old. I could not get the story of these individuals but they
must have been in the area of dry grass for 2 years. There was a slight improvement in those
that were not seriously infected after they were fed here. They improved decidedly in October
and November and were practically all slaughtered before the middle of December.
The milk of these vitamin deficient cows would not properly nourish either their calves or human
beings.
   Many children have tooth decay even while using whole milk, in part because the milk is too low
in vitamin content, due to the inadequacy of the food given the cows. The means for improving this
condition have been discussed in Chapter 15.
   Some of the current theories of the chemistry of tooth decay place the responsibility on the local
condition in the mouth as affected by the contributing factors provided by sugars and starches
which enhance the growth of acid producing organisms. A phase of this has been closely related to
the slogan that a clean tooth cannot decay. Among the difficulties in applying this interpretation is
the physical impossibility of keeping teeth bacteriologically clean in the environment of the mouth.
Another difficulty is the fact that many primitive races have their teeth smeared with starchy foods
almost constantly and make no effort whatsoever to clean their teeth. In spite of this they have no
tooth decay. In many of the primitive groups that I have studied the process of modernization
includes teaching oral hygiene and prophylaxis. Yet, even with the addition of this important
adjunct to health, they have in most cases lost their immunity to tooth decay and dental caries has
become active. This will be seen in many of the illustrations of the primitive races in the preceding
chapters. Of course everyone should clean his teeth, even the primitives, in the interest of and out
of consideration for others.
   In my clinical work I have sought for extreme cases of active tooth decay in order to test the
primitive wisdom. Many of these cases have been furnished by members of the dental profession in
other cities and states. By the simple procedure of studying the nutrition of the individual, obtaining
a sample of saliva for analysis, seeing x-rays of the individual's teeth and supporting bone, and
getting a history of the systemic overloads, I have been able to outline a nutritional program which,
in well above 90 per cent of the cases has controlled the dental caries. Improvement in the
condition of the teeth has been confirmed by later x-rays and reports by the patients' dentists. In a
few cases where I had contact with the patients only through correspondence the cooperation was
not adequate for accomplishing complete improvement. While it is true that there is a marked
difference in the susceptibility of different individuals to dental caries, even those who would
ordinarily be classed as highly susceptible, have generally received permanent benefit from the
treatment.
   These principles of treatment have now been applied to many hundreds of patients as indicated
by the fact that over 2,800 chemical analyses of the saliva have been made. The dietary programs
that have been recommended have been determined on the basis of a study of the nutrition used by7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 177/250the patient, the data provided by the x-rays, from the saliva analysis and case history. The diets
have been found to be deficient in minerals, chiefly phosphorus. Fat-soluble vitamins have been
deficient in practically every case of active tooth decay. The foods selected for reinforcing the
deficient nutritions have always included additional fatsoluble vitamins and a liberal source of
minerals in the form of natural food. Human beings cannot absorb minerals satisfactorily from
inorganic chemicals. Great harm is done, in my judgment, by the sale and use of substitutes for
natural foods.
   One of our greatest difficulties in undertaking to apply the wisdom of the primitives to our
modern problems involves a character factor. The Indians of the high Andes were willing to go
hundreds of miles to the sea to get kelp and fish eggs for the use of their people. Yet many of our
modern people are unwilling to take sufficient trouble to obtain foods that are competent to
accomplish the desired results.
   Jobbers and middlemen as well as supply depot managers want butter sold in accordance with
its label rather than in accordance with its vitamin content. One large distributor whom I asked to
cooperate by maintaining a stock of high-vitamin butter to which I could refer people, told me
frankly that he wished I would stop telling people about the difference in the vitamins in butter. He
did not wish them to think of butter in terms of its vitamin content. Another large concern told me
that when I had worked up a sufficiently large market they would become interested in supplying
the demand. I counsel people to put in storage some of that butter which has the grassy flavor and
which melts easily and is produced when the cows go onto the rapidly growing young grass.
Unfortunately, cows that have been on a stable fodder low in carotene and under the stress of
gestation often are so depleted in their own body vitamins that it takes them three or four weeks to
replenish their own bodies when they get on good pasture. Then the vitamins will appear in liberal
quantity in their milk. This has made it necessary for me to assist many patients in obtaining a
supply by analyzing butter for its vitamin content and then putting this material in storage and
making it available for special cases as needed.
   The program that I have found most efficient has been one which includes the use of small
quantities of very high vitamin butter mixed in equal parts with a very high vitamin cod liver oil. A
simple method of preparing the butter is by melting it and allowing it to cool for twenty-four hours
at a temperature of about 70° F., then centrifugalizing it which provides an oil that remains liquid at
room temperature. When this butter oil is mixed in equal parts with a


 of heat, right? There is no such thing as coldness.We can do the same thing with light. Light and darkness are not
opposites. There is only one variable. Light is either present or not. Light is
either intensely present—less and less light, we begin to say it’ s getting
dimmer; now we can say it’ s semidark; now we can say it’ s dark; now we
can say it’ s pitch-black. There’ s not two variables called “light” and
“darkness.” Therein lies the resolution of the problems of the ego. To
realize that one thing: there is only one variable. It’ s present to varying
degrees, that’ s all; or experienceable by varying degrees.
So, on this scale of consciousness, then, the light which shines forth is
first described in Genesis—the Unmanifest becomes manifest in the
nonlinear world of non-form as the ener gy field of light, representing the
infinite potentiality of that which becomes the universe. As the infinite
potentiality, the Radiance of God shines forth as creation. It does so first in
the nonlinear domain. Only way down the whole process does it begin to
appear in form and materiality. That’ s way along the process by the time it
reaches physicality. Then the light interacts with physicality, and life
originates and then evolves from the bottom up.
There’ s no conflict between evolution and creation, because evolution is
creation. So as the hand of God unfolds, perception witnesses it as a
sequence in what it thinks is “time.” But all we’re seeing is the unfoldment
of creation, and therefore creation is what is responsible for what is
happening this instant, because the unfoldingness of creation is what we
call “now.”
All we see, then, is the infinite potentiality of the power of God,
manifesting not only as this universe but as an infinite sequence of
universes, because the essence of God includes, as a quality, creation,
creativity. That which is created by God then has the essence of God within
it and consequently also has the power of creation. So, as we speak of it
linguistically, out of the universe arises an infinite universe of infinite
universes of infinite universes which, every instant, faster than the speed of
light, are creating further universes, which—because they are innately
creative—are creating other universes. You understand what I am saying?
Out of power like that, we have to scale down the power so that it’ s
compatible with protoplasmic life. This kind of ener gy, then, would fry an
ordinary piece of protoplasm, wouldn’ t it? It even boils solid rock into lava.
So, Infinite Power gets scaled down. This is a scale of Love. At the top is
Infinite, Unconditional Love, and this lower level represents less and lessLove. When we get down to the level of the dinosaur, Love is sorely absent.
The dinosaur does not really care about another as he gobbles him up. You
see, maybe the most advanced dinosaur, she lays an egg and maybe passes
back a longing glance at it at the beginning. But she goes on, because there
are other things to do.
So, we see consciousness then can be calibrated as to the presence of
Love. This lower section denotes the absence of Love. As we note the
absence of Love, we notice that instead of Love, we have egocentricity. We
have a narcissistic, megalomanic self-aggrandizement in which the self
(with a small s) of the ego becomes God; and out of that, to maintain that
illusion, that which is really God has to be refused. And that’ s why the
lower astral realm arises. The lower astral realm is constituted by that
consciousness which refuses the Divinity of God as Creator and says no.
“I’m Milošević and greater than all of mankind, and the International
Tribunal has no right to question my actions; nor do these judges have any
authority, nor does this court have any existing authority, because I am
greater than all of mankind.” Right? “I can therefore with impunity
slaughter 34 million people. And it’ s my business, not yours.” It allows
Hitler to say that the Germans don’ t deserve to live, because they lost the
war; and he wanted all of Germany destroyed, right? He wanted all of Paris
destroyed.
Throughout history, that which is totally devoid of Divine Love, and
refuses it, presents itself on the planet as evil. “What I’m thinking is correct:
resist” (T rue). “It’ s okay to say it right here” (T rue). The dinosaurs, as much
as they’re cute and we give them away with hambur gers and all, are the
ultimate—the killers of mankind, the opposite way of the herbivore. Love
appears within evolution first as maternal love; that’ s its first breakthrough.
So, the evolution into Love—choosing would be the Love, choosing God;
or choosing the negative god and choosing the ener gy of the dinosaur—is
like two alternate ways to go.
The degree to which Love is present, then, and the unconditionality of it,
the willingness to totally surrender anything and everything to God, is the
one variable on that scale. It does not mean that anybody is better than
anybody else. That’ s why I like the other scale. It’ s mathematically correct,
but it doesn’ t infer what we’re saying.
The Presence of God is infinite potentiality. It’s a reality of the Self
unfolding. This is the persistence, you might say, of the animal world, thepersistence of the animal domain. There’ s two ways to go: the way of hatred
and the dinosaur, where your survival is always at the cost of the life of
someone else, or the way of the herbivore in which life is sustained in the
mammalian world by Love. So, you choose either Love or non-Love.
The freedom of our own nature as we are created is to choose God or not.
I spent many years as an atheist. I was a devout atheist. I didn’ t fool around
with it as an intellectual position because it was cute and stylish. As I’ve
spoken before, I was walking in the woods one day, and I was a devout—in
fact, a scrupulous—Christian. I was a boy soprano, and I still adore church
and great cathedrals. I don’ t speak in great cathedrals, because the minute I
walk in, I break out in tears at the incredible beauty of it. Anyway, one day I
was walking through the woods, and all of a sudden, the totality of man’ s
suffering was revealed. It was almost like the opposite side of the infinite
light that came to me when I was, like, 37 or whatever. It was almost like
the opposite of it—the totality of the suf fering of all mankind throughout all
of time. I can’ t explain to you how I knew it, but it was. In that instant I
became an atheist. I hated any god that could allow the sheer dimension, as
well as qualities, of what I saw. I became a rabid  atheist. I went to Jesuit
universities, and when you hit the bar on Friday night—I mean I could beat
’em, beat their socks of f with theology. I got a straight A in theology, and
thought it was all BS. Hahaha, so here’ s this atheist getting straight As in
theology. I could tell you everything that’ s wrong with Thomas Aquinas’ s
proof for the existence of God as primary cause. In fact, I can tell you today,
if I remember. And I would always go there for the free beer. Those
drinking days are gone.
Because I held a confusion which the ego commonly makes. It holds God
responsible for that which is the consequence of the ego. The totality of
human suf fering is a consequence of all those ego positions. It’ s not a
consequence of God. God doesn’ t create anything like that, but the ego does
create it. So I held God responsible for that which is really the consequence
of the functioning of the ego.
But I was integrously atheist. Let’ s see what happens to the atheist,
calibration-wise. “At the level of the atheist, the integrity was over 200”
(True); “210” (T rue); “280” (True); “300” (Not true). All right. So, the
atheist can be integrous. Integrous, if it is not an intellectual position of
pridefulness and vanity and ego. But if one’ s commitment to truth is
profound and you are a religionist, there’ s going to be a moment whenyou’re going to go through a violent convulsion, because a lot of what one
holds dear is going to run smack up against commitment to absolute truth.
And that’ s what happened with me.
At the time I was in psychoanalysis and Lionel Ovesey was a professor at
Columbia University, and he was an atheist too, so we took a dim view of
religion. He called it “foxhole fear,” and I said, “Y ou’re right! Regress to
childhood, and you want Daddy God to save you.”


	seems	to	me	that	I
think
	more	deeply.	It’s
like	I	understand	things	in	the	round.
I
WOKE	UP	ONCE	TO	A	LATE-NIGHT	EPIPHANY	THAT	SHONE
	like	a	neon	pronouncement:	that
the	key	to	human	salvation	lies	in	our	living	for	each	other.	I	know,	I	know.
Hardly	new.	But	at	the	moment	it	came	to	me,	it	seemed	big	and	profound.
Obviously	we’ve	all	heard	the	concept	before,	but	aren’t	we	stymied	by
what	it	actually	means?	Does	it	mean	that	we’re	supposed	to	give	all	of	our
possessions	to	the	poor?	How	does	that	work	in	terms	of	our	worldly
responsibilities?	Are	we	not	supposed	to	have	a	home	for	our	children?	Aren’t
we	supposed	to	provide	for	them?	And	is	it	bad	to	enjoy	nice	things?
In
A	Course	in	Miracles,
	it	says:	“To	have,	give	all	to	all.”	But	sometimes
you	look	at	the	material	world	and	think,
Well,	surely	it	can’t	mean	that…	.
The	line	I	heard	in	my	head	that	night	was	not	“Give	away	everything	you
own.”	It	was	“Live	for	others.”	And	I’ve	wondered	what	the	world	would
look	like	if	we	did.
We’ve	been	so	thoroughly	programmed	to	look	out	for	number	one,	asthough	“me”	is	so	much	more	important	than	“we.”	But	the	shift	from	living
for	ourselves	to	living	for	others	is	clearly	the	spiritual	imperative	calling
humanity	back	to	the	garden.
What,	then,	about	healthy	boundaries?	Does	living	for	others	mean	I’m	to
give	everyone	everything—as	in	my	time,	my	energy,	my	money,	my	heart?
I’ve	tried	to	do	that	…	be	the	paragon	of	self-sacrifice	…	never	having	time
for	myself,	making	myself	wrong	for	wanting	to	take	care	of	me,	always
running	around	trying	to	please	or	do	for	others.	And	it	got	me	nowhere.	If
anything,	it	left	me	angry,	resentful,	vulnerable	to	thieves,	and	feeling	much
more	stuck	in	a	rut	on	my	spiritual	path	as	opposed	to	being	sped	up	on	it.
Wrecked	half	the	time,	I	rarely	showed	up	as	my	best	for	anyone.
Healthy	boundaries
are
	loving;	they	show	respect	both	to	the	person	who
sets	them	and	to	the	person	who’s	asked	to	honor	them.	I	think	it’s	best	to
seek	a	balanced	life,	at	peace	with	ourselves	and	our	own	loved	ones;	then
when	we	do	turn	our	attention	to	the	world,	we	can	bring	so	much	more	to	it.
We	bring	a	higher	version	of	ourselves.
According	to
A	Course	in	Miracles,
	sacrifice	has	no	place	in	God’s
universe.	Taking	care	of	ourselves	in	a	righteous	way
is
	meaningful	service	to
a	greater	task	because	we	cannot	give	what	we	cannot	be.	From	that	space	of
peace,	and	the	moderate	behavior	it	produces,	comes	more	than	enough
money	and	time	and	energy	to	give	to	the	world.	Service	is	very	serious	work,
but	codependency	it	is	not.
So	how,	then,	do	we	live	for	others?	The	best	I	can	come	up	with	is	that
service	is	a	way	of	being.	It	means	I	can	make	the	person	who	just	carried	my
bags	into	the	hotel	room	feel	how	much	I	truly	appreciate	what	he	did	for	me.
Tip	him	generously	as	well,	of	course,	but	match	the	tip	with	an	attitude	of
honor	for	what	he	does.	Both	are	important.	It	means	that	in	any	moment,	as
part	of	my	spiritual	practice,	I	can	do	what	I	can	to	show	love	and	respect	for
the	person	in	front	of	me,	or	on	the	phone	with	me,	or	whatever.
Most	of	us	have	more	contact	with	other	human	beings	each	day	than	we
might	realize,	and	with	every	encounter,	there’s	a	chance	for	a	miracle.
There’s	the	person	behind	the	counter	when	you	bought	your	coffee.	The
person	on	the	phone	when	you	made	that	call	about	getting	your	dryer
serviced.	The	person	who	washes	the	windows	in	your	office	building.	It
might	not	seem	like	much,	this	tiny	little	droplet	of	compassion	added	to	the
universe	when	you	show	up	more	kindly,	but	the	important	point	is	not	what	it
did	for	the	universe.	The	point	is	what	it	did	for
you
—it	changed
you
—and
that	is	how	it	shifts	your	world.Holiness	is	determined	by	a	shift	in	purpose.	Anything	we	do	that	honors
only	ourselves	is	simply	a	spiritual	dead	end.	There’s	no	cosmic	blessing
supporting	it.	But	anything	done	with	others	in	mind—even	if	it	involves
caring	for	ourselves	so	we	can	be	more	prepared	and	available	for	service	to
others—carries	the	blessing	of	a	loving	universe.
Consider	a	vacation,	for	instance.	It	betters	you	to	give	your	body	and	mind
a	rest	every	once	in	a	while.	A	holiday	increases	the	healthy	bonds	among
partners,	mates,	friends,	and	family.	The	principle	of	service	doesn’t	require
you	to	avoid	joyous	opportunities;	if	anything,	joyous	people	are	more
productive.	The	more	you	care	for	the	world	around	you,	the	more	the
universe	is	likely	to	provide	the	rest	that	feeds	your	soul	and	keeps	you	going.
There’s	time	for	fun,	and	there’s	time	for	work.	The	relationship	between
the	two	seems	to	be	a	pattern	within	all	natural	systems;	you	can	feel	it	in
your	gut	whether	you’re	on	or	off	track.	When	your	life	is	all	fun	and	no
work,	you	feel	unclean	somehow.	When	it’s	all	work	and	no	fun,	you’re	out	of
balance	and	hardly	of	use	to	anyone.	In	fact,	it’s	because	the	problems	of	the
world
are
	so	serious	that	we	need	to	do	whatever	it	takes	to	lighten	up
sometimes.	One	of	the	ways	you	know	you’re	in	the	flow	is	if	you’re
seriously	of	service	and	seriously	enjoying	yourself	at	the	same	time.	It	feels
right	because	it
is
	right.	At	the	deepest	level,	our	needs	are	all	one.
I
N	THE	LAST	FEW	YEARS	WE’VE	SEEN	AN	INTERESTING	TREND
:	The	“second	career”	has
become	a	new	buzz.	People	who	have	spent	20,	30,	or	40	years	achieving	one
thing	then	take	up	something	else.	What	used	to	be	seen	as	retirement	age	is
now	seen,	if	the	person	wishes,	as	simply	career	Phase	Two.	Rather	than
thinking	of	the	second	career	as	an	anticlimax	or	“just	a	little	something	I	do
to	stay	busy,”	people	end	up	seeing	the	first,	perhaps	more	flashy	work	as	a
prelude	to	something	more	important	that	they’re	meant	to	be	doing	with	their
lives.	They	view	achievements	that	were	the	height	of	their	material	success
to	have	been	preparation	for	an	even	greater	success—the	means	by	which
they	learned	the	skills	they’d	ultimately	need	to	make	their	biggest
contribution	to	the	world.
The	new	midlife	becomes	a	time


 body.
Over millennia the human body has become a ‘potassium animal,’ needing some 90%
potassium vs. 10% sodium in its diet—the approximate percentage found in natural, fresh, organic
vegetarian foods. Yet these days the average modern diet is far removed from these proportions;
instead, it is overloaded with sodium, which the body must excrete. Excess sodium is an enzyme
inhibitor, as described by Dixon & Webb3.It has also been shown to stimulate tumor growth and
produce edema, as the body ties it up with water to reduce its toxicity.
To remedy this situation, Dr. Gerson introduced large amounts of potassium to the patient’s
diet, in addition to the naturally potassium-rich food: up to 40 teaspoonfuls a day of a 10%
solution for the first two to three weeks, in addition to the naturally potassium-rich diet.  This
resulted in an immediate reduction of edema, ascites, and pain. He also noticed that adding any
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www.thegersonway.comand caused damage. His main warning was against adding calcium to the diet. Calcium, he
discovered with his close friend, top biochemist Rudolf Keller, belonged to the sodium group of
minerals and stimulated tumor growth.4 Even in cases of severe bone destruction by tumor tissue,
or in osteoporosis, the Gerson treatment with its high level of well-balanced minerals is capable
of achieving bone restoration.  In the light of all this, it is easy to see why mineral balance is an
important component of the body’s defenses.
References:
1. Taber’ s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, F.A.Davis Company, 1993
2. Enzymes, Malcolm Dixon & Edwin C.Webb, Academic Press, Inc. N.Y.1964
3. Ibid.
4. Dr. Max Gerson, A Cancer Therapy—Results of 50 Cases, P.210. Gerson Institute, San
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www.thegersonway.comChapter 5
Breakdown of the
Body’s Defenses
In the previous chapter we explored the body’s multiple defenses, which under ideal
circumstances enable it to maintain its dynamic equilibrium known as homeostasis. However,
if we consider today’s high level of ill health in the developed world, it becomes clear that those
sophisticated defense systems are unable to do their work and homeostasis can no longer be taken
for granted. To understand why this has happened, we need to consider the problem from a wide
perspective.
 As mentioned before, the human organism evolved over millions of years as part of Nature,
alongside plants and animals. It was only exposed to natural substances: environment, food,
shelter contained nothing artificial or alien. Not that our remotest ancestors enjoyed a Golden
Age. Their lives were undoubtedly hard and short, but their slow evolution was totally natural,
well adapted to the world they lived in.
Changes set in with civilization, but they only became drastic and rapid after the arrival of
the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century. A second wave of even more drastic innovations
followed in the developed world after World War II in the mid-20th century, changing people’s
daily lives, working routine, living conditions, and, above all, their diet, the most important factor
affecting us all. The huge development of commercial agriculture and the apparently limitless
expansion of the food industry changed our “daily bread” almost beyond recognition. However—
and this is the main point—the infinitely complex human organism hasn’t had time to adapt
and adjust to these fundamental changes and therefore its defenses can’t cope with the multiple
challenges facing them. They fight to keep functioning normally, but undermined by polluted air,
water and wrong food they break down sooner or later. Unfortunately for each new generation the
breakdown now comes sooner.
In this chapter we shall examine the causes of the breakdown in more detail.
Chemical Agriculture
 Artificial fertilizers have been in increasing use for well over 150 years, damaging and
impoverishing the soil and the micro-organisms on which the health of the soil and of all plant life
depends. Plants, in turn, are the food of animals and humans, and their reduced nutritional value
has far-reaching effects. Dr. Gerson was one of the few visionary scientists who realized early on
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www.thegersonway.comand a sick, depleted soil. He wrote: “There is an external and an internal metabolism upon which
all life depends; both are closely and inextricably connected with each other; furthermore, the
reserves of both are not inexhaustible.”1
 Once the reserves of the soil were exhausted, the plants also began to sicken. Having become
deficient, they lost much of their defenses against pests, rust, fungi and a multitude of other
invaders. Hence fungicides, pesticides, and other toxic chemicals were developed to overcome
the attackers.  Of course it was assumed that these agrochemicals were harmless if applied ‘as
directed.’ Unfortunately this was not the case.
 The heavy pesticides, specifically DDT, were first distributed halfway through World War II,
around 1943. As Dr. Gerson reports in his book, this and other toxic materials were found in meat,
butter, milk, and even mother’s milk within 18 months!
Subsequently it became clear that the toxic agrochemicals were also penetrating into the soil
and the water table. What this meant can be seen today in several areas of California, heavily
treated with huge amounts of pesticides every year, where the water and the soil are so toxic that
an epidemic of primary liver cancer has hit children who played outdoors.
 But the situation has gone from bad to worse. After DDT had been used for some time, the
insect pests became resistant to it, so that heavier, even more toxic materials, such as Dieldrin,
had to be produced.  At the same time it transpired that the human body was not able to develop
a resistance to those poisons. Their effect on adults is bad enough; tragically embryos, tiny babies
and small children with their delicate constitutions suffer more serious damage to their developing
bodies. That is one of the reasons why the cancer mortality of children has risen greatly, so that
cancer is now the No.1 Killer of children under 17 (some ten years ago it was accidents). It is
a sobering thought that cancer, formerly a degenerative disease of the elderly, is now afflicting
children. Needless to say, the cancer incidence among the general public is increasing at a much
faster rate.
 To illustrate the extent and speed of the increase, it is worth recalling that in 1937, when the
Gerson family had just settled in the U.S., posters at street corners proclaimed that one person in
14 died of cancer. In 1971, President Nixon declared “War on Cancer,” and assured the public that
if enough money were spent on research, a cancer cure would be found. In that year some 220,000
people died of cancer.  25 years later, in 1996, USA Today  published the result of the research.
That year, after 39 billion dollars were spent, 560,000 people died of cancer. The research had
been done on chemicals, more and more toxic chemotherapy drugs, not nutrition. As a matter
of interest, today one in three people are expected to develop cancer and, according to British
estimates, that proportion is moving towards one in two.
 Over the years the harmful effects of agrochemicals in food have become better understood.
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www.thegersonway.comto pesticides. (An earlier study in 1981 specified phenoxy herbicides as the culprit).  Another
herbicide implicated in the increased incidence of NHL is glyphosate, marketed by Monsanto
under the trade name of Roundup. Rather alarmingly this poison is now incorporated in the
genetically altered seed produced by Monsanto, allegedly “to save the spreading of pesticides.” An
earlier study by the same Swedish group has implicated Roundup in causing hairy cell leukemia,
while animal studies have shown that Roundup can cause gene mutation and chromosomal
aberrations.
The pesticide DDE, a breakdown by-product of DDT, is known to interfere with male sexual
development by de


romeliads (Cryp tan thus spp.)
Chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum spp.)
House-type Palms
Ficus TreeGolden Pothos (Epipremnum aureum)
3
.
Always wash your fruits and vegetables before you eat them. Use a
vegetable wash or fresh lemon juice with hydrogen peroxide.
4
.
Eat an 80 to 100 percent raw food diet. Eat fruits even more so than
vegetables. Fruits are full of antioxidant and astringent properties. They
will keep your lymphatic (immune) system clean and moving. They also
enhance the strength of a cell, especially brain and nerve cells.
5
.
In traffic, keep your car’s outside air vent closed. Make sure your car’s
exhaust system is not leaking and in good order.
6
.
Use 100 percent natural hygiene products (soaps, shampoos, etc.). Read
the labels. If they have chemicals in them, don’t use them. (If you can’t
pronounce it—you probably don’t want it.) What you put on your skin
absorbs into your blood stream and circulates throughout your body.
This can damage your brain, heart, kidneys and especially your liver.
7
.
Avoid dry cleaning, as the chemicals used are extremely toxic.
8
.
Use common sense with everything you do and use. It’s your body and it
carries you around this world, as any vehicle would. If it fails—you’re
stuck. Chemicals can be extremely dangerous.
9
.
Avoid cooking. If you must cook, steam your food in stainless steel.
Always use stainless steel cookware.
10
.
Use and clean your air conditioners and air filters. Use the natural, high-
filtration-type that removes 1-micron to 3-micron size particles.
11
.
Use R/O (reverse-osmosis) or steam-distilled water. Note: Avoid storing
distilled water in plastic containers. Distilled water will leach some of the
chemicals from the plastic into itself.
12
.
Drink from and use glass as much as possible. Plastic can be toxic to
you.
13
.
Avoid walking for exercise near high traffic areas. Walk in a safe park or
wooded area instead.
14
.
Avoid florescent lighting as much as possible. Be aware of what you eat,
drink, breathe and what you put on your skin, as this is how you bring
the outside world in.
 MODULE 4.7
Poison Control Centers

Here are the telephone numbers for local Poison Control Centers in the
United States. You may want to program the numbers for your area into your
automatic dialing feature, if you have one. Please note that all phone numbers
are subject to change. Check your state’s Poison Control Center number for
accuracy.
UNITED STATES

ALABAMA
205-939-9201
205-933-4050
800-292-6678 (AL only)
ALASKA
907-261-3193
ARIZONA
Statewide
800-362-0101 (AZ only)
Phoenix Area
602-253-3334
Tucson Area
602-626-6016
ARKANSAS
501-686-6161
CALIFORNIA
Davis Area
916-734-3692800-342-9293 (Northern CA only)
Fresno Area
209-445-1222
800-346-5922 (CA only)
Orange County Area
714-634-5988
800-544-4404 (Southern CA only)
San Diego Area
619-543-6000
800-876-4766 (619 area code)
San Francisco/Bay Area
415-476-6600
San Jose/Santa Clara Valley
408-299-5112
800-662-9886 (CA only)
COLORADO
303-629-1123
CONNECTICUT
203-679-1000
800-343-277 (CT only)
DELAWARE
302-655-3389
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
202-625-3333
202-784-4660 (TTY)
*
FLORIDA
813-253-4444
800-282-3171 (FL only)
GEORGIA404-589-4400
800-282-5846 (GA only)
HAWAII
808-941-4411
IDAHO
208-378-2707
800-632-8000
ILLINOIS
217-753-3330
800-543-2022 (IL only)
800-942-5969
INDIANA
317-929-2323
800-382-9097(IN only)
IOWA
800-272-6477 (IA only)
800-362-2327 (IA only)
KANSAS
Topeka/Northern KS
913-354-6100
Wichita/Southern KS
316-263-9999
KENTUCKY
502-629-7275
800-722-5725 (KY only)
LOUISIANA
800-256-9822 (LA only)
MAINE
800-442-6305 (ME only)MARY LAND
Statewide
410-528-7701
800-492-2414 (MD only)
D.C.
Suburbs
202-625-3333
202-784-4660 (TTY)
*
MASSACHUSETTS
617-232-2120
800-682-9211
MICHIGAN
Statewide
800-632-2727 (MI only)
800-356-3232 (TTY)
*
Detroit Area
313-745-5711
MINNESOTA
Statewide
800-222-1222
Duluth/Northern MN
218-726-5466
Minneapolis/St. Paul Area
612-347-3141
612-337-7474 (TDD)
612-221-2113
MISSISSIPPI
601-354-7660
MISSOURI
314-772-5200800-366-8888
MONTANA
303-629-1123
NEBRASKA
Statewide
800-955-9119 (NE only)
Omaha Area
402-390-5555
NEVADA
702-732-4989
NEW HAMPSHIRE
603-650-5000
800-562-8236 (NH only)
NEW JERSEY
800-962-1253
MARY LAND
NEW MEXICO
505-843-2551
800-432-6866 (NM only)
NEW YORK
Albany Area
800-336-6997
Binghamton/Southern Tier
800-252-5655
Buffalo/Western
 NY
716-878-7654
800-888-7655
Long Island
516-542-2323516-542-2324
516-542-2325
Nyack/Hudson Valley
914-353-1000
New
York City
212-340-4494
212-POISONS
212-689-9014 (TDD)
**
Syracuse/Central
 NY
315-476-4766
NORTH CAROLINA
Statewide
800-672-1697
Charlotte Area
704-355-4000
NORTH DAKOTA
800-732-2200 (ND only)
OHIO
Statewide
800-682-7625
Columbus/Central OH
614-228-1323
614-461-2012
614-228-2272 (TTY)
*
Cincinnati Area
513-558-5111
800-872-5111 (OH only)
OKLAHOMA
800-522-4611 (OK only)OREGON
503-494-8968
800-452-7165 (OR only)
PENNSYLV ANIA
Philadelphia/Eastern PA
215-386-2100
Pittsburgh/Western PA
412-681-6669
Hershey/Central PA
800-521-6110
PUERTO RICO
809-754-8535
RHODE ISLAND
401-277-5727
SOUTH CAROLINA
800-777-1117
SOUTH DAKOTA
803-952-0123 (SD only)
TENNESSEE
Memphis/Western
 TN
901-528-6048
Nashville/Eastern
 TN
615-322-6435
TEXAS
214-590-5000
800-441-0040 (TX only)
UTAH
801-581-2151
800-456-7707 (UT only)VERMONT
800-562-8236 (VT only)
VIRGINIA
Statewide
800-451-1428
Charlottesville/Blue Ridge
804-925-5543
D.C. Suburbs
202-625-3333
202-784-4660 (TTY)
*
WASHINGTON
800-732-6985 (WA only)
WEST VIRGINIA
304-348-4211
800-642-3625 (WV only)
WISCONSIN
Madison/Southwestern and Northern WI
608-262-3702
Milwaukee/Southeastern WI
414-255-2222
WYOMING
800-955-9119 (WY only)
CANADA

ALBERTA


 find, then, more of the involvement is in the nervous systems,
the energies of the body, the activities of the body having been  such as
to break down that proper coordination between the nervous systems;
that is, the cerebrospinal and the sympathetic (or vegetative) systems,
as indicated.
Because there have been those disturbances that weakened the
centers or ganglia along spinal areas, where the activities between the
superficial and deeper circulation were involved, the effects produced
are in the locom otories that were and are controlled by the energies that
are controlling from the centr al nervous system, the central blood
supply, and the superficial blood supply.
Thus we find these conditions existing through this body:
The brain forces  and their reflex es are active. These are near normal,
save as they are disturbed by pressures that exist in the areas of the 5th
and 6th dorsal, as through the sympathetic control, the activities in the
locomotion to the left upper portion of the body. And there we have an
inflammatory condition that causes pressures which preven t nerve
impulse that flows with the blood supply through that portion of the
arm, as to cause the lack of the activity of coordinating usage of same.
We have in the 2nd lumbar that which prevents coordination of that
flow to the right side in the lower extremities. These are not so
inflamed, but are of the nature that causes the lack of the reflexe s in the
use of the nerve and muscular forces of this limb.
By the activities of the body that brought about these conditions,
there has been the lack of that assimilated from that digested, through
the activ ity of glands, to supply sufficient of the elements for producing
the stamina—or  the impulse in the nerve body itself, the impulse for the
retraction, or reaction, or reflex from the brain; the gray and the white
matter in nerve itself.
As indic ated, these do not extend to the spinal cord nor into those
areas that would  direct the impu lses to activity of the organs—either the
kidneys or the liver. While both come into reflex reaction, and at times
become involved, these are not cut off. Neither is there caused thatwhich would bring about atrophy; indicating then that this involvement
is more to the sympathetic conn ections with the cerebrospinal system,
at centers or ganglia indicated in the body.
The lack of this element, with the overuse of the energies of the body,
both as to locomotion in the lower and upper portion, causes these areas
to suf fer under this stress and strain.
To be sure, there are involvements—from the long period of
inactivity—to the heart, the lungs, the liver and the kidneys. But these
as yet are secondary to the disturbance in the superficial, the lymph and
the emunctory circulation, that is involved through the activity  of the
sympathetic nerve reflexes; which control not only secondarily the
organic activity but that as related to the imagination, the sensory
reaction, and the impressions that go to make up those reflexes in the
responses to impulses from activity of the sensory centers.
These, as we find, may be materially aided—if those element s are
added to the system that are the basic effect of activity of nerve,  muscle
and impulses that go to supply sufficient activity in the vibrations of the
body force itself.
For, all activity is of an electrical nature. (3056-1)
Cayce indeed gave an anatomical-physiological monologue worthy of a
professor of anatomy. He met the challenge by using the same method of
approach we have seen him already use. His diagnoses seem to be a lack of
proper assimilation of elements needed for nervous tissue regeneration,
incoordination between the cerebrospinal and vegetative nervo us systems,
improper function and “weakening” of the sympathetic ganglia, and a vague
glandular imbalance which affected the assimilation of foodstuf fs. One
might add to this a neuritis, if the inflammation he mentions can be
assumed to involve sympathetic connections to the spinal nerves.
Apparently Cayce saw these conditions as being the underlying causes of
what the professor ’s attending physician called mitral insuf ficiency and
auricular fibrillation from rheumatic fever, anasarca (severe edema or
swelling of dependent portions of the body due to accumulation of fluid in
the intercellular spaces—lymph), left hemiplegia (or paralysis), and a
neuralgia of the right shoulder and arm.It is certainly difficult to draw conclusions from this reading which
would carry any note of finality. However, certain comments are worthy of
consideration at this point.
Let’s try to analyze it in a language that is more comprehensible to the
professional and to the lay mind. There seems to be a continuity of concepts
which have already been discussed and which persist in designing a
physiology of the human body that has all the earmarks of being  different in
philosophy and function from what is presently considered valid. Yet it is
only in subtle ways that there appears a diver gence of ideas.
To review Cayce’ s “diagnosis” of this man’ s illness, we find that there is
first mentioned that incoordination between the cerebrospinal and the
vegetative nervo us systems. This is the primary disturbance. Then Cayce
describes an inflammation of the sympathetic ganglia which correspond to
the 5th and 6th dorsal spinal nerves. His description leads one to believe
that the inflammation perhaps involves not only the ganglia, but the rami
communicantes—these on the left side of the spine in the thoracic cage. He
indicates that this inflammato ry process prevents the normal flow of
impulses through the vegetative nerve supply to the blood vessels and that
which goes with the blood vessels to the entire left arm.
Starling has shown that all the vasoconstrictor fibers of the body have
their connection with the cerebrospinal nervous system through the ventral
roots of the spinal nerves from the first dorsal to the third or fourth lumbar
inclusive.39 These centrally derived nerves connect with the sympathetic
system in the ganglia of the sympathetic trunk. He has shown likewise that
in dogs, the central vasoconstrictor nerves to the forelimbs leave the spinal
cord and enter the ganglia by the fourth to the tenth thoracic nerves.
There are fibers which also cause dilation of the vessels, these being
parasympathetic and sympathetic in origin. Thus, in many parts of the body,
the sympathetic nerve supply produces both actions usually attributed to the
sympathetic on the one hand and the parasympathetic on the other.
Cayce implies that the inflammation in the 5th and 6th dorsal
sympathetic area brings about a lack of sympathetic nerve impulse through
this just-describ ed vasomotor system to the left arm, and that this lack
produces in some strange way an inability to coordinate the use of the arm
musculature. This type of end result is not described to my knowledge inthe medical textbooks, althou gh it can be seen from what has been
discussed in the past few paragra phs that the sympathetic disturbance which
Cayce describes  could have a basis in anatomic and physiologic  fact. What
is not understood is that such a disturbance could bring about any sort of
incoordination between the autonomic and the cerebrospinal nervous
systems, or that it could bring about an inability to coordinate the muscles
of an arm into coherent activity.
Related to the above is Cayce’ s next diagnosis, which points out a similar
difficulty—although not strictly the same—in the right leg. Trouble in the
2nd lumbar sympathetic ganglio n causes difficulty in the use of the right leg
as it deals with the nervous control and the muscular activity. There is no
inflammation here, however.
Cayce’ s next comment relative to the professor ’s physical ailments points
out that there has been faulty assimilation of the foodstuf fs due to improper
endocrine functi on. This deficiency brings a weakness of the impulse in the
nerve pathways between the brain and the body areas. This doesn’ t occur in
the spinal cord, but in the autonomic nervous system, which again brings us
back to the sympathetic ganglia and the rami communicantes.  This is the
anatomical location of what we might call “the sympathetic connections
with the cerebrospinal system.” He points out that since this is not in the
spinal system itself, there will not be atrophy in the tissues; that the liver
and the kidneys will not be involved because the sympathetic supply to
these organs is not cut off or severely disturbed. Rather, he points out, they
are only occasionally involve d in the patient’ s symptoms and bodily
dysfunction.
Cayce’ s insight of the professor ’s body next indicates that there is
involvement of the heart, the liver, lungs, and kidneys of a strictly
functional nature, secondary to inactivity and not really of importance yet.
Rather, he points out that the disturbance in the ganglia with their associated
(disturbed) sympathetic nerve reflexes have produced (1) a faulty
superficial circu lation to the muscles of locomotion in the trunk and
extremities; (2) a lymphatic circulation that is not functioning properly; and
(3) an upset “emunctory circu lation,” or blood supply


 by this very
collapse of the  bcliefs  in which  we have  sought
security.  From  a point  of view  strictly,  if
strangely,  in accord  with  certain  religious
traditions,  this disappearance  of the old rocks
and absol utes is no calamity, bue rather  a
blessing. It almost compels us to face reality with
open minds, and you can only know God through
an open mind justas you can only see the sky
through a  clear window. You will not sec the sky if
you have  covered  che glass  with  blue  paint.
But "religious"  people  who  resise  the scraping
of
the paint from  the glass,  who regard the scientific
attitude  with  fear  and mistrust,  and confuse  faith
with clinging to certain ideas, are curiously
ignorant  of laws of the spiritual life which they
might find in  their  own  tradicional  records.  A
careful  study  of comparative  religion  and spiritual
philosophy  re- veals  thac  abandonment  of belief,
of any clinging  to a future  life far one's  own,  and
of any attempt  to escape from finitude and
mortality, is a regular and  normal stage in the way
of thc spirit. Indced, this is actually such a "first
principie''  of che spiricual  life that it should have
been obvious from the beginning,  and ic seems,
after ali, surprising that lcarncd theo - logians
should adopt anything but a cooperative at - titude
towards  the critical  philosophy  of science.
Surely  it is old news  that  salvation  comes  only
25 TIIE  WISDOM  OF INSECURITY
through the death of the human form of God. Bm
it was not, perhaps, so easy to see that God's
human  form  is not sim pi y the historie  Ch rist, bu t
also the images, ideas, and beliefs in the Absolute
to which  man clings in his mind. Hcrc is the full
sense o( the  commandment, "Thou shalt not
make to thyself any  graven image, nor the
likencss of anything that is in  heaven above;...
tl10u shalt not bow clown to them,  nor worship
them."
To discovcr Lhe ultimate Realily of life -the
Ab- solute,  thc eternal,  God -you 1 1 1 1 1 s t  ccase  LO L r y
lo grnsp it in the forms o( idols. Thesc idols are
not just crude images, such as the mental picwre
of Cod as an old gentleman on a golclen throne.
They are our beliefs, our cherished
preconceptions of the truth,  which block the
unreserved opening of mind and  heart to
reality. The legitimale use o[ images is to
express  tite Lruth,  not to posscss  it.
This  was  alw:iys  recognized  in the greal
Oriental
traditions such as Buddhism, Vedanta, and
Taoism.  The principie has not been unknown to
Christians,  for it was  implicit  in the whole  story
and teaching  of Christ. His life was from the
bcginning a complete  acceptance ancl cmbracing
of insccurity. ''The foxes  have holcs, and thc
birds of thc air havc ncsts, but the Son of l\fan
hath  not where  to lay his hcad."
The principie is yet more to che point if Christ
is regarded as divine in che most onhodox sense -
as the unique  and spccial  incarnaLion  of God.  For
the basic
2G THE  ACE  OF ANXIETY
theme of the Christ -story is that this "cxpress image"
of God becomes the source of life in the very act of
being dcstroyed. To che disciples who tried to cling
tO his divinity in  the form of his human  individu -
ality he cxplained,  "Unlcss a grain of corn  fall iuto
the ground and die, it remains alonc. l3ut iE it dies, it
brings forth much fruir." In rhe same vein he warned
them,  "It is expedient  for you  that  I go away,  for if
I go not away thc Paraclete (the Holy Spirit) cannot
come  unto  you."
These  words  are more  than  ever  applicable  to
Christians, ancl spcak exactly to thc wholc condition
of our times. For we have never actually understood
the revolutionary sense beneath them -the incredible
truth  that whac rcligion calls  the vision  of God  is
found in giving up any belief in thc idea of God.  By
thc samc law of rcvcrscd e[ort, wc discover thc "in -
finitc" and the "absolutc," not by straining to escape
from the finitc and relativc worlcl, but by the most
complete acccpcancc o( its limitations. Paradox as il
may  seem,  we likewise  find  lifc meaningful  only
when we have sccn chat it is without purpose, and
know the "mystery o( thc universc"  only when wc
are convinced that we know nothing about it at ali.
Thc ordinary agnostic, rclativist, or rnatcrialist fails
to reach Lhis point becausc he clocs not follow his
line of thought consistcntly to its cnd -an end which
woulrl be the surprisc of his life. All too soon  he
abandons  faith,  opcnness to  rcality,  and lcts his mincl
27 TIIE  WISDOM  OF INSECURlTY
harden into doctrine. The discovery of the
mystery,  che wonder beyond all wondcrs, needs
no belief, for  we can only belicve in what wc havc
already known,  prcconccived, and imagincd. But
this is beyond any  imagination.  Wc have  but to
open  the cyes of the  mind  widc  enough,  and "che
truth  will out."
II. P AI N  AND  T I M E

AT TIMES  ALMOST  ALL  OF  US  ENVY  THE  ANIMALS.
They suffer and die, but thcy do not sccm to
makc  a "problem" of it. Their lives seem to have
so few  complications. They eat when they are
hungry anrl  sleep when they are tired, and
instinct rather than  anxiety seems to govern
thcir few preparations for  the future. As far as
we can judge, every animal is so busy with what
he is doing at the moment that it  ncver enters bis
hcad to ask whether life has a mean - ing or a
future. For the animal, happiness consists  in
enjoying life in the immediate prcsent -not in the
assurance that there is a wholc futurc o( joys
ahead  of him.
This  is not just  becausc  thc animal  is a
rclatively
insensitive clod. Often enough bis eyesight, his
sense  of hearing and smell, are far more acute
than ours,  and one can hardly doubt that he
enjoys his food  and sleep immensely. Despite
his acute senses, he  has, however, a somewhat
insensitive brain. It is  more specialized than
ours, for which reason he is a  creature of habit;
he is unable to reason and make  abstractions,
and has extremely limited powers of  memory
and  prediction.
Unquestionably the sensitive human brain
adds  immeasurably  to the richness  of life. Yet
far this
29 THE  WISDOM  OF INSECURITY
we pay dearly, because the increase in over -all
sen- silivity makes us peculiarly vulnerable. One
can be  lcss vulnerable by  becoming less
sensitive -more of  a stonc and lcss of a man -ancl
so lcss capable of en - joymcnt. Scnsitivity
rcquircs a high degree o( soft- ness and
fragility -cyeballs, eardrums,  taste  buds,  and
nerve ends culminaling in che highly dclicate
orga nism of the brain. Thcse are not only soft
and fragile, but also pcrishable. There sccms to
be no  effectivc way of decreasing thc delicacy
and pcrish - abilily of living tissuc without also
decreasing its vilality  and sensitivity.
If we are to have intense pleasures, we must
also


seventy-ninewomen
withthreatened,previousspontaneous,orhabitualabortionJavertand
Standerhad91percentsuccesswiththirty-threepatientswhoreceived
vitaminC,togetherwithbioflavonoidsandvitaminK(onlythreeabor-
tions),whereasalloftheforty-sixpatientswhodidnotreceivethevitamin
THESIDEEFFECTSOFVITAMINS 267
aborted.InhisanalysisofthemanagementofhabitualabortionGreenblatt
(1955)concludedthatvitaminCwithbioflavonoidsandvitaminKisthe
besttreatment,thenextbestbeingprogesterone,vitaminE,andthyroid
extract.
Duringthelastsevenyearsvariousauthoritiesinthefieldofnutrition
whowritenewspapercolumnshaverepeatedlystatedthathighintakeof
vitaminCcancauseabortions.Thebasisforthisstatementseemstobea
briefpaperbytwophysiciansintheSovietUnion,Samborskayaand
Ferdman(1966).Theyreportedthattwentywomenintheagerangeof
twentytofortyyearswhosemenstruationwasdelayedbytentofifteendays
weregiven6gofascorbicacidbymouthoneachofthreesuccessivedays,
andthatsixteenofthemthenmenstruated. IwrotetoSamborskayaand
Ferdman,askingifanytestofpregnancyhadbeencarriedout.Inreply
theysentmeonlyanothercopyoftheirpaper.
AbramHoffer(1971)hasstatedthathehasusedmegadosesofascorbic
acid,3to30gperday,withmorethanathousandpatientssince1953and
hasnotseenonecaseofkidney-stoneformation,miscarriage,excessivede-
hydration,oranyotherserioustoxicity.
Itseemsunlikelythatascorbicacidcausesabortions,although itmay
helptocontroldifficultieswithmenstruation.Lahann(1970)hasreviewed
theliterature,especiallythatinGermanandAustrianjournals.Hecon-
cludedthatnoticeableimprovement inmenstruationhadbeenobserved
throughtheoralintakeof200to1000mgofascorbicacidperday.More-
over,theutilizationofascorbicacidincreasessharplyinthecourseofthe
menstrualcycle,especiallyatthetimeofovulation,andmeasurement of
thisutilizationcanbeusedfordeterminingtheendofovulationandaccord-
inglyfordeterminingthetimeofoptimumconceptioninrelationtothe
problemofovercomingsterility(PaeschkeandVasterling,1968).
Theprophylacticvalueofvitaminsupplements,eveninthesmall
amountsrecommendedbytheFoodandNutritionBoard,isindicatedbya
reportfromEnglandofastudyofvitaminsupplementsasawayofpre-
ventingthedevelopmentofneuraltubedefects,suchasspinabifida,inthe
developingembryo(Smithells,Sheppard,andSchorah,1976).Neuraltube
defectsoccurintheNorthAmericanwhitepopulationwithanincidenceof
abouttwoperthousandlivebirths.Theincidenceismuchhigherfora
secondchildofparentswhoseprecedingchildhassuchadefect.Thestudy
inEnglandwasmadewithwomenwhohadgivenbirthtoachildwith
neuraltubedefect,byinvolving448suchmothers,ofwhomabouthalf
receivedamultiplevitaminandironpreparationandtheotherhalfre-
ceivedaplacebo.Therewasnearlycompletepreventionofneuraltube
defects,inthattheincidencewasonly0.6percentfortheinfantsofmothers
whoreceivedthesupplement,ascomparedwith5.0percentfortheinfants
ofunsupplemented mothers.
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V
HOWTOLIVELONGERANDFEELBETTER
^
29
AHappyLifeandaBetterWorld
Fromunderstandingdevelopedduringthelasttwentyyearsbythenew
scienceofnutrition,thisbookhasshownhowyoucanlivelongerandfeel
better.Forthisrewardyouneednotfollowaburdensomeanddisagreeable
regimen.Onthecontrary,theregimenyouaretofollowisthesensibleand
pleasantonespecifiedinthesecondchapterofthisbook,onwhichcon-
temporariesofyoursarealreadyleadinglongerandhealthierlives.You
willmultiplythebenefitsofthatregimenbymakingahabitofthemost
importantrecommendation fromthenewscienceofnutrition;thatis,
TAKETHEOPTIMUMSUPPLEMENTARYAMOUNTOF
EACHOFTHEESSENTIALVITAMINSEVERYDAY.
Nomatterwhatyourpresentageis,youcanachievesignificantbenefit
bystartingtheregimennow.Olderpeoplecanbenefitgreatly,becausethey
havespecialneedforoptimumnutrition.Steadfastadherence isessential.It
isfortunatethattheregimenimposesfewrestrictionsonthediet,sothat
forthemostpartyoucanaddtothequalityofyourlifebyeatingfoodsthat
youenjoy.Whatismore,youcan,anditisevenrecommended thatyoudo,
enjoythemoderateintakeofalcoholicbeverages.
272 CHAPTER29
Infact,astoeatinganddrinkingthereisinthisbookonlyonerealdon't;
thatissugar.Likethecigarette,thesugarsucroseisanoveltyofindustrial
civilization.Together,theyhavebroughtpandemicsofcancerandcardio-
vasculardiseasetotheotherwisefortunatepopulationsofthedeveloped
countries.Sugarinbreakfastfoods(asmuch,sometimes,asthecereal)is
especiallyharmfultoinfantsandchildren,andtheproblemofagoodbev-
erage,freeofsugarorofthechemicalsweetenersthataresubstitutedforit,
remainstobesolved.Thecigarettehazardcanbeeliminatedbyquitting
thesmokinghabit.Sucrosecannotbeavoided,butalargedecreaseinthe
intakeofthissugarisessential.
Thisbookhasexplainedthenecessityforthesupplementaryvitaminsin
humannutrition.Itwasasignificantevolutionaryadvantageoftheearly
vertebratesthattheycouldleavetotheplantstheyatethetaskofsynthesiz-
ingthevitaminsandevensomeoftheaminoacids.Asthenewunderstand-
ingoflifeatitsmolecularlevelhasshown,thelatestgeneticdeletionofthis
kinddeprivedtheprimatesofthecapacitytomanufacturetheirownvita-
minC.Thanksinparttotheadaptiveadvantageconferredbythatdeletion,
theprimatelinegaverisetohumans.Thenewscienceofnutritionnow
instructsustotakeadvantageoftherationalfacultythatisthesupreme
adaptiveadvantageofthehumanspeciestocircumventwhateverdisadvan-
tagewesufferfromthosegeneticdeletions.Wecanandwemustdosoby
supplementary intakesofthevitamins,especiallyvitaminC.
Inthisbookwehaveseen,further,thatbykeepinginthebestofhealth,
inparticularbymaintainingoptimumintakeofthevitamins,wecanresist
theentirelonglistofillnessesthatafflictmankind.Thelistbeginswiththe
afflictionslaiduponusbydeficienciesofthevitamins,deficienciessoeasily
curedbyrestoringthefunctionsinthebiochemistryofthebody;thevita-
minshelpustofendoffinfectionandfortifyourtissuesagainsttheself-
assaultofcancerandtheauto-immune diseases.Withthebestunderstood
vitamin,vitaminC,asourexample,wehavebeenabletoenvisionanew
kindofmedicine,theorthomolecularmedicinethatusessubstancesnatural
tothebodybothtoprotectitfrom,andtocure,illness.Already,ortho-
molecularmedicinehasshownhowvitaminCcanpreventandcureand
mayyeteliminatefromhumanexperiencetheillnessmostfamiliarand
mostbafflingtotheoldmedicine,thecommoncold.
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thesisthatcomefrommanyphysiciansandfromold-fashioned nutrition-
ists.IhavehadtodosobecauseIhavenotalwaysbeenabletoanswerthem
inthepublicationsandotherforumswheretheyhavemadetheircriticisms.
Itismorelikelythatyouhaveheardfromthemthanfromme.Inthese
pagesyouhaveheardbothsides.
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compromise our nutrition and, over time, our health. To be sure, we are capable of  swallowing vegetation that contains cellulose and
other rough, insoluble fibers, but such foods put a great load on our organs of diges tion and elimination.
Where health is concerned, we want to derive the greatest benefits w hile minimizing the detriments or outright harm. When we
apply this idea to nutrition, we are looking for “enough” of the nutrients  we need, not necessarily the most we can get. The
indigestible fibers in the harder-textured vegetables are very dif ficult for our bodies to digest, relative to the soft, soluble fibers in
fruits and tender leafy greens. Thus, they are not among our ideal foods.

Our Senses Confirm
Imagine for a moment that you are about to eat some delicious piece of fr uit—perhaps a grape, peach, melon, banana, apple, plum,
orange, mango, fig, or berry … you choose the variety. Picture holding the f ruit in your hand, admiring its beauty. Y ou hold it to your
nose and smell its sweet and distinctive fragrance. It tempts you to ta ke a bite, but first you appreciate the fruit in your mind just a
little more, increasing the pleasure. At this point, your mouth should be  watering. The fruit requires no preparation; it is a finished product, ready to be consumed exactly as Nature prepared it. For humans, fruit s attract the eye, tantalize the sense of smell, and
taste divine in their raw, natural, ripe state.
Now, try the same thing again, this time imagining a field of wheat, or  a herd of cattle, or a flock of birds in flight. Does your
mouth water? When pressed to imagine themselves foraging for food in na ture, even those who vehemently question the frugivorous
disposition of man have to admit that they would choose little other than fr uits. This does not mean we should eat fruits totally and
exclusively in our present circumstances, but it does mean that, in n ature, they would comprise the overwhelming majority of our
food choices.
Allowing fruit to predominate in your diet makes succeeding on the 80/10/10  plan easier than any other approach to eating,
raw or cooked. To develop the healthiest and sanest relationship with food, and in  order to stick with a dietary plan that will work
for you for the rest of your life, have all the fruit you care for to take you t hrough your breakfast and lunch meals. Even your
vegetable meals should begin with fruit, as much as you like, until you a re certain that you will not crave sweets at the end of the
meal.

Chapter 2. Meeting Fruit Concerns Head-On

Do you know anybody whose candida was caused by eating fruit?
Do you know anybody whose diabetes was caused by eating fruit?
Do you know anybody whose cancer was caused by eating fruit?

If eating fruit didn’t cause these maladies,
why would you believe that avoiding fruit would correct them?

In spite of the fact that fruit has been treated as health food throughou t history, condemning fruit has come into vogue in many
circles of late. Invariably, when people hear me espousing a diet that is  exceptionally high in fruit, they respond with a well-rehearsed
litany of questions—the supposed “facts” about the many hazards of fru it eating.
Is there any truth to the allegations about the supposed evils of fruit?  Let us take some time to look at a few of them.

Fruit and Blood Sugar
The mistaken notion that eating fruit causes blood-sugar problems under lies most admonitions to steer clear of fruit, especially
sweet fruit. Granted, high blood sugar does lead to candida outbreaks, chronic fa tigue, hyper- and hypoglycemia, diabetes, and a
host of other conditions and diseases, even cancer. “Too much” sugar is inde ed bad for you, though it is almost impossible to get too
much sugar from the consumption of fresh fruit. Eating fruit is not t he cause of blood sugar problems … it’s just not that simple.
I know what I am saying sounds counterintuitive. It is something like t elling people that osteoporosis is not a calcium problem
(see “The Dangers of Eating More Than 10% Protein”). Nevertheless, both are true: taking in more calcium cannot alone shore up
brittle, osteoporotic bones … and fruit sugar alone does not cause high blood sugar. Stick with me, if you will, while I explain the
real cause.
Eating a diet of mostly fruit, including generous amounts of fresh swe et fruit, does not create high blood sugar … not when you
are eating a low-fat diet, that is. When the system is not gummed up wi th excess fat, the sugar from even “high-glycemic” fruit moves
easily in and then out of the blood. Blood-sugar levels in a healthy individual  do not vary much in spite of changes in the diet.

Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load
The glycemic index ranks carbohydrate foods based on how quickly they break down du ring digestion and thus how quickly
their sugars enter the blood. Essentially, the glycemic index tells  you how quickly carbohydrates turn into blood sugar. However, it
doesn’t tell you how much of that carbohydrate is in a serving of any food. Bot h items of information are essential in order to
understand a food’s effect on blood sugar.
That is where the concept of “glycemic load” comes in. Used in conjunct ion with the glycemic index, glycemic load information
more accurately predicts the extent to which a food elevates blood glucose  than does the glycemic index by itself. This is because by
definition, the glycemic index measures carbohydrate quality  but not quantity.
The glycemic load is calculated by multiplying a food’s glycemic i ndex value by the amount of available carbohydrate per
serving (grams of carbohydrates less fiber), then dividing by 100. 13  Thus, fruits, which are mostly water, have a low glycemic load
even though they rate high on the glycemic index. For example, bananas  rate 52 on the glycemic index (where glucose = 100). But
because water accounts for 75% of the weight of a banana, its glycemic loa d is only 12 (52  24 grams of carbs, divided by 100 =
12; based on a 118-gram medium-sized banana). All fruits fall into the low or medium categories on glycemic load/glycemic
index charts  (with the exception of watermelon, whose GI ranks barely high).
It is best to eat fruit fresh, as drying and dehydrating both concentrate  fruit sugars to an unnatural level that the body is not
designed to handle. It is also important to eat fruit whole, not juiced, as the  fiber in fruit slows sugar absorption to its natural speed.
In all cases and with all foods, whole, fresh, ripe, raw, and unprocessed is the  way to go.
As you will see in the upcoming pages, the speed at which sugar enters t he blood is not really the most important factor. When
fruits are eaten whole, with their fiber intact, as part of a low-fat di et, their sugars do indeed enter the bloodstream relatively quickly.
But then they also exit just as quickly, making them the ideal food, one tha t provides the perfect fuel for human consumption.
The American Diabetes Association says, “The use of added fructose  as a sweetening agent is not recommended; however, there is no reason to recommend that people with diabetes avoid naturally oc curring fructose in fruits, vegetables, and other
foods.” 14

Fat, Not Fruit, Causes Blood-Sugar Problems
The raw food movement is renowned for its use of great quantities of nuts, s eeds, avocados, olives, flax and olive oil, coconuts, and
other high-fat foods. On a high-fat diet, whether cooked or raw, people experien ce nutritional deficiencies, plummeting energy,
hormone imbalances, intense cravings, and mood swings … everything goe s haywire, not the least of which is blood sugar.
The mechanism that causes blood sugar to rise out of control is actual ly very easy to understand. Let’s begin with a highly simplified description of how our bodies process sugar.

Sugar’s Three-Stage Journey Through the Body
To be used as fuel for our cells, the sugars we eat travel a three-stag e journey through our bodies:

Stage 1: Sugars start out in the digestive tract when we eat them.
Stage 2: They pass through the intestinal wall, into the bloodstream.
Stage 3: They then move smoothly and easily out of the bloodstream and into our  cells. This occurs rapidly, often in minutes.

When we eat a high-fat diet, the sugar gets trapped in stage 2, and the body w orks overtime, sometimes to the point of exhaustion
and disease, in an effort to move the sugar out of the bloodstream. 15  Meanwhile, the sugar backs up in the blood, creating sustained,
elevated blood sugar that wreaks havoc on the body in the form of candida, fatigu e, diabetes, etc.

The Role of Insulin
What happens in the presence of fat that causes sugar to pile up in our bloods tream? It has to do with the pancreas. Under the
direction of the