among	other	things	our	amounts	of	specific	vegetables	to	help
safeguard	our	bodies	against	the	risk	of	certain	forms	of	cancer. These
vegetables	recommended	by	the	[National	Academy	of	Sciencesreport]…	are	the	ones	we	should	increase[:]	cabbages,	Brussels
sprouts,	cauliflower,	broccoli,	carrots	and	spinach…. Mom	was	right! Research	scientists	and	technicians	at	General	Nutrition	Labs,
realizing	the	importance	of	the	research,	instantly	went	to	work	to
harness	all	of	the	vegetables	and	combined	all	of	them	into	a	natural,
easy	to	take	potent	tablet. [T]he	result	is	Health	Greens	[sic],	a	new	potent	breakthrough	in
nutrition	that	millions	of	people	can	now	help	safeguard	their	well-
being	with	…	the	greens	that	the	[National	Academy	of	Sciences
Committee]	recommends	we	eat	more	of! GNC	was	advertising	an	untested	product	and	improperly	using	a
government	document	to	support	its	sensational	claims. So	the	Federal	Trade
Commission	went	to	court	to	bar	the	company	from	making	these	claims. It
was	a	battle	that	lasted	years,	a	battle	that	was	rumored	to	cost	General
Nutrition,	Inc.	about	$7	million. The	National	Academy	of	Sciences
recommended	me	as	their	expert	witness	because	of	my	co-authorship	of	the
report	in	question	and	because	of	my	harping	on	this	point	during	our
committee	deliberations. A	research	associate	in	my	group,	Dr.	Tom	O’Connor,	and	I	spent	three
intellectually	stimulating	years	working	on	this	project,	including	my	three
full	days	on	the	witness	stand. In	1988,	General	Nutrition,	Inc.,	settled	the
false	advertising	charges	relating	to	Healthy	Greens	and	other	food
supplements	by	agreeing	to	pay	$600,000,	divided	equally,	to	three	different
health	organizations. 3
	This	was	a	small	price	for	the	company	to	pay,
considering	the	ultimate	revenues	that	were	generated	by	the	exploding
nutrient	supplement	market.FOCUS	ON	FAT
The	focus	on	individual	nutrients	instead	of	whole	foods	has	become
commonplace	in	the	past	two	decades,	and	part	of	the	blame	can	be	put	on	our
1982	report. As	mentioned	before,	our	committee	organized	the	scientific
information	on	diet	and	cancer	by	nutrients,	with	a	separate	chapter	for	each
nutrient	or	class	of	nutrients. There	were	individual	chapters	for	fat,	protein,
carbohydrate,	vitamins	and	minerals. I	am	convinced	it	was	a	great	mistake
on	our	part. We	did	not	stress	enough	that	our	recommendations	were
concerned	with
whole
	foods	because
many	people	still	regarded	the	report	as
cataloging	the	specific	effects	of	individual	nutrients. The	nutrient	that	our	committee	focused	on	the	most	was	fat. The	first
guideline	in	the	report	explicitly	stated	that	high	fat	consumption	is	linked	to
cancer,	and	recommended	reducing	our	fat	intake	from	40%	to	30%	of
calories,	although	this	goal	of	30%	was	an	arbitrary	cutoff	point. The
accompanying	text	said,	“[T]he	data	could	be	used	to	justify	an	even	greater
reduction. However,	in	the	judgment	of	the	committee,	the	suggested
reduction	is	a	moderate	and	practical	target,	and	is	likely	to	be	beneficial.”
One	of	the	committee	members,	the	director	of	the	United	States	Department
of	Agriculture	(USDA)	Nutrition	Laboratory,	told	us	that	if	we	went	below
30%,	consumers	would	be	required	to	reduce	animal	food	intake	and	that
would	be	the	death	of	the	report. At	the	time	of	this	report,	all	of	the	human-based	studies	showing	fat	to	be
related	to	cancer	(mostly	breast	and	large	bowel)	were	actually	showing	that
the	populations	with	more	cancer	consumed	not	just	more	fat,	but	also	more
animal-based	foods	and	less	plant-based	foods	(see	chapter	four). This	meant
that	these	cancers	could	just	as	easily	be	caused	by	animal	protein,	dietary
cholesterol,	something	else	exclusively	found	in	animal-based	foods,	or	a	lack
of	plant-based	foods	(discussed	in	chapters	four	and	eight). But	rather	than
wagging	the	finger	at	animal-based	foods	in	these	studies,	dietary	fat	was
given	as	the	main	culprit. I	argued	against	putting	the	emphasis	on	specific
nutrients	in	the	committee	meetings,	but	only	with	modest	success. (It	was
this	point	of	view	that	landed	me	the	expert	witness	opportunity	at	the	FTC
hearings.) This	mistake	of	characterizing	whole	foods	by	the	health	effects	of
specific	nutrients	is	what	I	call	reductionism. For	example,	the	health	effect	of
a	hamburger	cannot	be	simply	attributed	to	the	effect	of	a	few	grams	of
saturated	fat	in	the	meat. Saturated	fat	is	merely	one	ingredient. Hamburgers
also	include	other	types	of	fat,	in	addition	to	cholesterol,	protein	and	very
small	amounts	of	vitamins	and	minerals. Even	if	you	change	the	level	ofsaturated	fat	in	the	meat,	all	of	the	other	nutrients	are	still	present	and	may
still	have	harmful	effects	on	health. It	is	a	case	of	the	whole	(the	hamburger)
being	greater	than	the	sum	of	its	parts	(the	saturated	fat,	the	cholesterol,	etc.). One	scientist	especially	took	note
4
	of	our	focused	critique	of	dietary	fat,
and	decided	to	test	the	hypothesis	that	fat	causes	breast	cancer	in	a	large
group	of	American	women. He	was	Dr.	Walter	Willett	of	the
Harvard	School
of	Public	Health,	and	the	study	he	used	is	the	famous	Nurses’	Health	Study. Starting	in	1976,	researchers	at	the	Harvard	School	of	Public	Health	had
enrolled	over	120,000	nurses	from	around	the	country	for	a	study	that	was
intended	to	investigate	the	relationship	between	various	diseases	and	oral
contraceptives,	post-menopausal	hormones,	cigarettes	and	other	factors,	such
as	hair	dyes. 3
	Beginning	in	1980,	Professor	Willett	added	a	dietary
questionnaire	to	the	study	and	four	years	later,	in	1984,	expanded	the	dietary
questionnaire	to	include	more	food	items. This	expanded	dietary
questionnaire	was	mailed	to	nurses	again	in	1986	and	1990. Data	now	have	been	collected	for	over	two	decades. The	Nurses’	Health
Study	is	widely	known	as	the	longest-running,	premier	study	on	women’s
health. 6
	It	has	spawned	three	satellite	studies,	all	together	costing	$4-5	million
per	year. 6
	When	I	give	lectures	to	health	conscious	audiences,	upwards	of
70%	of	the	people	have	heard	of	the	Nurses’	Health	Study. The	scientific	community	has	followed	this	study	closely. The	researchers
in	charge	of	the	study	have	produced	hundreds	of	scientific	articles	in	the	best
peer-reviewed	journals. The	design	of	the	study	makes	it	a	prospective	cohort
study,	which	means	it	follows	a	group	of	people,	a	cohort,	and	records
information	on	diets	before	disease	events	are	diagnosed,	making	the	study
“prospective.”	Many	regard	a	prospective


ness, and various
digestive ailments and sexual disorders. Recoveries were often rapid as well as complete. Recovery from severe
nervous disorders was achieved in ten weeks, from deafness
in eight weeks, from inflammatory rheumatism in nine days, and from incipient dropsy in less than a week. Great
improvement in cases of different forms of consumption was
noted during the first two weeks of treatment. In almost all
cases treated at the "Jungborn" some benefit was reported,
and the general success was attributed largely to the use of
raw foods. During the year, 1897, another great raw food institution
was opened in Europe, this being the famous Bircher-Benner
clinic and sanitarium in Zurich, Switzerland, which continues
operation in the present day. Here extensive use has been
made of raw foods, and some patients have been placed on an
exclusive raw diet for a limited period of time when this was deemed necessary. The late founder of the institution, Dr.
Bircher-Benner, stated that "raw vegetable food is the most
potent healing factor that exists" which is able "to bring
healin
g to ver y man y widel y spread disorders of health and serious diseases, in quite astonishing fashion, where all other
curative measures have failed." He called raw food "sunlight
food" and referred to his delicious preparations of fruits,
vegetables, nuts, honey, milk, and other foods, all in their raw state, as "sunlight dishes." The success of this sanitarium has
been so phenomenal that it has attracted patients from all over
the world. It is best known for its treatment of digestive
diseases. So astonishing was the recovery, on a strictly raw
diet, of one supposedly incurable patient suffering from the Herter-Heubner disease that it attracted the attention of the
children's hospital in Zurich, which in turn introduced a raw
diet for its coeliac patients. The medical director of the
hospital at the time published a monograph giving an account of the "staggering success" thus achieved. Today Dr. Ralph E. Bircher carries on the important work
of his father at the clinic and sanitarium, with equally satisfactory results. He descri bes raw food in relation to "the
five zones of its influence." In the first zone the effects are
noticeable within a few days, with the "return of appetite,
rapid fading of unnatural thirst" and "much better digestion." In the second zone, embracing weeks of time, the circulatory system responds to the curative effects of raw food. The third
zone "needs months to become effective" though some
improvement may be noticed almost immediately. It covers
the endocrine glands and metabolism. The fourth zone,
embracing the capillary system and secondary effects on all parts of the organism, is repor ted by Dr. Bircher to require
one to three years, sometimes le ss, "to show the effects of its
domain." The entire four-fold action, according to Dr. Bircher, "generally brings about a complete change in
obstinate cases of many chronic conditions such as stomatitis
and ulcers, sprue, amoebic dysentery, lambliosis and malaria,
kidney troubles, jaundice, eczemas and urticaria, headaches,
and schizophrenias, also in cases of varicose, thrombophlebitis and many other conditions." The fifth zone
applies to the constitution itself, from which our diseases and
infections originate. It means a fundamental change in the
physiological efficiency of the entire body, with new vitality and vigorous health. At the First Medical Clinic of the University of Vienna, two
scientists, Eppinger and Kaunitz, tested the Bircher-Benner raw food diet as a means of improving the interchange of
energies and substances between the ends of the blood vessels
(capillaries) and the tissue cells of the body. Under normal
conditions of life, the blood gives up its nutritive substances,
and the cells give up their waste substances in this interchange through two fine membranes and a narrow
dividin
g interstice. Often, however, the cells lose a part of their "selective capacity" because of salt penetrating the cell
wall, distortion and spasms of the capillaries, a sticky coating
of blood globules, waste products being scattered around the
cells, and reduction of the chemical, physical, and electrical tensions which promote the nutritive interchange. When this
happens, cells cannot rejuvenate fast enough; bacteria tend to
multiply too rapidly, and the general cause of many clinical
symptoms of disease is in existence. Eppinger and Kaunitz
studied this condition and tried every possible means of restoring normal selective power in the cells once this had
been lost. Only one measure was found to be successful. This
was the application of an exclusive raw food diet "exactly
according to the prescriptions of Dr. Bircher-Benner." Under
the influence of this diet, the life-giving tensions between capillaries and cells grew and the capillaries were slowly
restored to a normal, vigorous condition. In Denmark an exclusive raw diet consisting of fruits,
vegetables, nuts, cornmeal, sprouted grains and legumes,
honey, and milk is given for all patients who visit the
"Humlegaarden" a sanitarium located near Humlebek. Dr.
Kristine Nolfi, medical director of this sanitarium, was formerly associated in medicine and surgery with the
Communal Hospital in Copenhagen and also with the State
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        Some great
Danes have such weak hindquarters they can hardly stand up,
while the Boston terrier has such narrow hips that normal
birth is often impossible. The dogs are also developing
human-like neuroses and cease to be dependable. Shepherds are easily upset and often become fear biters. The great Dane
was bred to hunt wild boars, but modern specimens
frequently quiver at the approach of a poodle. The cocker
spaniel is losing its reputation for being alert, friendly, and
dependable, and is now described as a shy neurotic. Poor behavior is associated with low resistance to physical
diseases, and indeed the modern dog is in need of the care of
the veterinarian as frequently as man needs the care of his
physician. Many dogs die young, and those that do reach an
advanced state of life are affected by senility in its most
advanced forms. The sad degeneration of our dogs is usually ascribed to
selective breeding practices, which build up undesirable
strains, or to careless breeding practices, which are not
selective enough. While selective breeding can bring out gradual physical deformation in dogs, as well as other
animals, it is extremely doubtful that this is responsible for
most signs of degeneration seen in the canine world. The fact
is that all types of experimental animals in laboratory work
suffer from basically the same physical and neurological defects as do dogs when they are placed upon a diet of heat-
processed foods. The modern dog is usually fed upon cooked
table-scraps or specialized canned pet foods and dog biscuits,
all of which have been thoroughly heat-processed. The stray
mongrel, living upon hand-cuts and garbage, actually has a better chance to secure ade quate nourishment than does the
finest and most expensive show-dog. All evidence points to
the fact that the degeneration seen in the modern canine
world is due, in great measure, to the almost exclusive use of heat-processed foods in feeding practices. Physical deterioration in domestic cats usually manifests
itself in the form of abnormal bone development, impaired
reproductive efficiency, together with bronchitis, distemper,
and other diseases. The cats are so under-developed in the area of the head and neck that few people even know what a
perfectly healthy raw meat-fed cat looks like. The British lay-
scientist, Anthony Ludovici, in making observations of
ordinary house cats, quite accidentally discovered that raw
foods were essential in providing rapid and painless parturition. When he fed the animals exclusively raw meat,
the mother cats actually seemed to enjoy the process of birth
and would purr as the kittens were being born. The cats
which consumed cooked meat and other heat-processed foods
had painful parturition in all cases. They groaned and appeared to undergo great pain throughout the entire period
of labor. Such observations remind us of controlled
laboratory experiments with cats. Certainly this animal is no
more able to attain good health on a heat-processed diet in the home than it is in the laboratory. F
ARM ANIMALS
   Domestic farm animals, including cattle, horses, swine, and
poultry, have at various times been fed cooked foodstuffs, with a noticeable deterioration in physical condition. Reproductive efficiency is severely impaired in these cases. After his observations of cats, Ludovici made a study of the
feeding habits of sheep, cows, and horses. He found that these
animals reproduced without apparent pain or difficulty when they lived upon fresh green feeds during gestation. But when
cows and mares were given heat-processed cottonseed cake
and other artificial winter foods during gestation, labor was
often difficult and attended by death of the young. Present farm practices involve feeding animals mainly or
entirely upon raw foods. The dietary balance is


 of Western countries. Their research
indicates that the increase in disease rates in Westerners were caused by changes occurring in the food makeup that reaches t he
large bowel. In former t imes, ingested food was much coarser, contained more bulk and indigestible fiber. The processing of foods
today makes them mushy, soft, fiberless and bulkless. These researchers claim that this situation is having a detrimental eff ect
upon the American and  British health. In England, Africa and India experiments were conducted to compare eating habits, foods
and bowel waste products. These studies indicated that people living under primitive conditions on diets high in indigestible  fiber
passed from 2 -1/2 to 4-1/2 times as much feces as those in the Western countries, and these people were found to be relatively free
of most of the diseases studied. Those studies concluded that diverticulosis appears to be directly related to a high carbohydrate diet such a s one containing white
flour and sugar. The long retention of feces is also claimed to be a source of heart disorders, as the removal of fiber from the diet
raises serum cholesterol levels and predisposes the body to coronary disease. The accusation is mad e that the removal of fiber from
the diet is also responsible for tumors and cancer due to biochemical changes associated with poor bowel elimination. Constip ation
is often referred to by those who have studied the situation as the “modern plague.” Indeed,  it is the greatest present -day danger to
health. Intestinal toxemia and the resulting autointoxication is a direct result of intestinal constipation. Constipation con tributes
toward the lowering of body resistance, predisposing it to many acute illnesses and the creation of a great many degenerative and
chronic processes. It cripples and kills more people in our country than most any other single morbid condition having to do with
deficient function of life. For a lack of the colon to attend to its normal,  regular and efficient function almost every human ailment
has been attributed. What disturbs proper intestinal function? It involves a major factor in life - abnormal nutrition. Nutrition is of paramount
importance to the general welfare of the body. Un less the individual educates himself in the art of conscious living, acquires
rational habits and lives up to them consistently, nothing but physical and mental catastrophies can be the result. Intestinal constipation causes cellular constipation. It also increases the workload of the other excretory organs - kidney, skin,
liver, lungs and lymph. The functioning of these organs becomes depleted and overworked.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        Metabolic Solutions Report
Terry Chamberlin, B. Sc., C. N. C., Bioanalyst                Nova Scotia, Canada                  msibio@yahoo. com               902-584-3810

TISSUE CLEANSING THROUGH BOWEL MANAGEMENT

By BERNARD JENSEN D.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: Who is the author of this book?,
A: Bernard Jensen, D.C.
Q: What is the primary cause of many diseases and illnesses, according to the author?,
A: Autointoxication
Q: What is the main factor that contributes to the development of chronic diseases?,
A: Poor nutrition and lack of fiber in the diet
Q: What is the author's stance on the use of laxatives?,
A: The author is against the use of laxatives, as they can cause dependence and lead to further health problems.
Q: What is the author's opinion on the importance of proper nutrition for overall health?,
A: The author emphasizes the importance of proper nutrition, stating that it is a major factor in the development of many diseases and that a diet high in fiber and whole, natural foods is essential for overall well-being.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>The cellular metabolism becomes
sluggish, repair and growth are delayed and the ability to elimina te waste materials is lowered. The cells, instead of being alive and
active, become dead and inactive. This process results in a decline in tissue and organ functional ability. Dr. Alexis Carrell, at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, took sm all pieces of heart tissue from a chicken embyro to
produce one of the most remarkable experiments in medical history. He attempted to demonstrate that under suitable conditions,
the living cell could live a very long time, perhaps indefinitely. The heart tissue was immersed in a nutrient solution from which it
obtained its food. Likewise, waste material was secreted by the heart tissue into this same solution. Everyday the solution w as
changed, taking away waste substances and providing fresh nutrients. It  is amazing to report that this chicken heart tissue lived for
29 years in this fashion. It died one day when the assistant forgot to change the metabolized polluted fluid! In other words,
autointoxication claimed this great masterpiece of experimental sci entific investigation. Said Carrell of this experience, “The cell is
immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats which degenerates. Renew this fluid at intervals, give the cell something  upon
which to feed and, so far as we know, the pulsation of l ife may go on forever.”

The primary causes of constipation can be summarized as follows: faulty nutrition, ignoring the call to eliminate, lack of ph ysical
activity, emotional and mental distress, extrinsic poisons and medications and lack of adequate amo unts of water. Faulty nutrition,
as we have already seen, is a major underlying factor in constipation. Processed, devitalized foods low in fiber or bulk are not
suitable substances to promote health and well -being. Ignoring the call to eliminate feces or urine contribute greatly to cellular
congestion, autointoxication and eliminative organ distress. The lack of physical exercise makes weak and flaccid muscle tone
incapable of holding up under the demands of poor diets and extra eliminative duty. Emotional  and mental strain and tension
produce unfavorable conditions in the digestive and eliminative organs, causing them to become tense and underactive. These a lso
cause chemical imbalances and abnormal secretions to occur, generally upsetting the whole organi sm. Extrinsic poisons, such as
tobacco, coffee, alcohol, chocolate and sugar, have unfavorable effects upon digestion and elimination by upsetting gastric
secretions and nerve responses. Medications have a very upsetting effect upon these life -giving funct ions. They cause many
afflictions in the bowel. Antibiotics, such as penicillin and sulfa, can completely eliminate the favorable intestinal flora,  leaving the
opportunity for reinfestation by harmful bacteria and virus. Laxatives are irritating to the bow el and are dangerous if used
frequently. Most people also do not drink enough water; they are chronically dehydrated. This causes all body tissues and fluids to becom e
thicker and more viscid. The mucous lining in the colon changes in consistency, failin g to provide a slick lubrication for the
movement of feces. Poor living habits contribute a great deal to poor bowel function. Not following a good program denies the
body regularity and consistency. It never knows what’s coming next and can’t depend upon a regular routine. It is always on the
defensive. This situation results in a depletion of vital nerve force and undermines the body’s ability to set periods of res t and
activity. Today, there are more than 45,000 laxative and cathartic remedies being manu factured and used by Americans alone. Even when used sparingly and in an emergency, these substances should be used with great caution, if at all. The mechanism of
elimination is very delicate and easily upset. Once disturbed, it will often require weeks, maybe months, before it becomes
regular again. These substances, in order to evacuate the colon, are essentially poisons and irritants. They contribute nothi ng to
restore normal or natural processes of defecation. The poisoned colon tries to evacuate the offending substance as quickly as
possible, and pushes everything out including the compacted feces. Oftentimes, these harsh poisonous substances are absorbed
through the lymph and blood vessels and find their way to all parts of the body. This situation c ontributes to addiction and
overuse of these substances. Dependency upon laxative compounds will in time, permanently destroy the normal ability of the
bowel to eliminate naturally on its own accord. Laxatives tire out the bowel muscle by keeping it consta ntly working. Without rest,
it will soon fail and produce some of the conditions I will discuss in the next chapter. The only stimulation that the body s hould
have is through exercise. Any time we artificially stimulate the bowel, there is an opposite effe ct that manifests in which there is a
lack of tone in the muscle producing a weakness in that muscle structure. It is becoming increasingly clear that bowel troubl es
have a reflex effect upon specific organs in the body. For example, Sir Arbuthnot Lane, who was a surgeon for the King of England, spent many years specializing in bowel problems. He was an expert at removing sections of the bowel and stitching it back together. He taught this work to other doctors and g ained
an international reputation for h is efficiency. During the years of this work, he began to notice a peculiar phenomenon. During the
course of recovery from colonic surgery, some of his patients experienced remarkable cures of diseases that had no apparent
connection with his surgery. For instance, a young boy who had arthritis for many years was in a wheel chair at the time


 arises out of one of these three modalities. They may change during the
course of a day,
although one of them may be dominant during a certain stage in your
life. Each modality is appropriate to certain situations. The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and
enthusiasm. Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of
consciousness. Y ou need to be vigilant to make sure that one of them
operates whenever you are engaged in doing anything at all from the
most simple task to the most complex. If you are not in the state of either
acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find
that you are creating suf fering for yourself and others.A New Earth
A C C E P T A N C E
Whatever you cannot enjoy doing, you can at least accept that this is
what you have to do. Acceptance means: For now, this is what this
situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly. W e
already spoke at length about the importance of inner acceptance of what
happens, and acceptance of what you have to do is just another aspect of
it. For example, you probably won't be able to enjoy changing the flat
tire on your car at night in the middle of nowhere and in pouring rain, let
alone be enthusiastic about it, but you can bring acceptance to it. Performing an action in the state of acceptance means you are at peace
while you do it. That peace is a subtle ener gy vibration which then flows
into what you do. On the surface, acceptance looks like a passive state,
but in reality it is active and creative because it brings something entirely
new into this world. That peace, that subtle ener gy vibration, is
consciousness, and one of the ways in which ti enters this world is
through surrendered action, one aspect of which is acceptance. If you can neither enjoy or bring acceptance to what you do stop. Otherwise, you are not taking responsibility for the only thing you can
really take responsibility for, which also happens to be one thing that
really matters: your state of consciousness. And if you are not taking
responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking
responsibility for life.A New Earth
E N J O Y M E N T
The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of
aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing. Enjoyment is the
second modality of awakened doing. On the new earth, enjoyment will
replace wanting as the motivating power behind people's actions. W anting arises from the ego's delusion that you are a separate fragment
that is disconnected from the power that lies behind all creation. Through
enjoyment, you link into that universal creative power itself. When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal
point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do and with it the
quality of your life increases dramatically. Joy is the dynamic aspect of
Being. When the creative power of the universe becomes conscious of
itself, it manifests as joy. Y ou don't have to wait for something
meaningful to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you
do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need. The waiting to
start living syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the
unconscious state. Expansion and positive change on the outer level is
much more likely to come into your life if you can enjoy what you are
doing already, instead of waiting for some change so that you can start
enjoying what you do. Don't ask your mind for permission to enjoy what you do. All you will
get is plenty of reasons why you can't enjoy it. Not now, the mind will
say. Can't you see I'm busy? There's no time. Maybe tomorrow you can
start enjoying.... That tomorrow will never come unless you begin
enjoying what you are doing now. When you say, I enjoy doing this or that, it is really a misperception. It
makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the
case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and
thus into this world from deep within you. The misperception that joy
comes from what you do is normal, and it is also dangerous, because it
creates the belief that joy is something that can be derived formsomething else, such as an activity or thing. Y ou then look to the world
to bring you joy, happiness. But it cannot do that. This is why many
people live in constant frustration. The world is not giving them what
they think they need. Then what is the relationship between something that you do and the
state of joy? Y ou will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present,
any activity that is not just a means to an end. It isn't the action you
perform that you really enjoy, but the deep sense of aliveness that flows
into it. That aliveness is one with who you are. This means that when
you enjoy doing something, you are really experiencing the joy of Being
in its dynamic
aspect. That's why anything you enjoy doing connects you with the
power behind all creation. Here is a spiritual practice that will bring empowerment and creative
expansion into your life. Make a list of a number of everyday routine
activities that you perform frequently. Include activities hat you may
consider uninteresting, boring, tedious, irritating, or stressful. But don't
include anything that you hate or detest doing. That's a case either for
acceptance or for stopping what you do. The list may include traveling to
and from work, buying groceries, doing your laundry, or anything that
you find tedious or stressful in your daily work. Then, whenever you are
engaged in those activities, let hem be a vehicle for alertness. Be
absolutely present in what you do and sense the alert, alive stillness
within you in the background of the activity. Y ou will soon find that what
you do in such a state of heightened awareness, instead of being
stressful, tedious, or irritating, is actually becoming enjoyable. T o be
more precise, what you are enjoying is not really the outward action but
the inner dimension of consciousness hat flows into the action. This is
finding the joy of Being in what you are doing. If you feel your life lacks
significance or is too stressful or tedious, it is because you haven't
brought that dimension into your life yet. Being conscious in what you
do has not yet become your main aim. The new earth arises as more and more people discover that their main
purpose in life is to bring the light of consciousness into this world and
so use whatever they do as a vehicle for consciousness. The joy of Being is the joy of being conscious.A wakened consciousness then takes over from ego and begins to run
your life. Y ou may then find that an activity that you have been engaged
in for a long time naturally begins to expand into something much bigger
when it becomes empowered by consciousness. Some of those people who, through creative action, enrich the lives of
many others simply do what they enjoy doing most without wanting to
achieve or become anything through that activity. They may be
musicians, artists, writers, scientists, teachers, or builders, or they may
bring into manifestation new social or business structures (enlightened
businesses). Sometimes for a few years their sphere of influence remains
small; and then
it can happen that suddenly or gradually a wave of creative
empowerment flows into what they do, and their activity expands
beyond anything they could have imagined and touches countless others. In addition to enjoyment, an intensity is now added to what they do and
with it comes a creativity that goes beyond anything an ordinary human
could accomplish. But don't let it go to your head, because up there is where a remnant of
ego may be hiding. Y ou are still an ordinary human. What is
extraordinary is what comes through you into this world. But that
essence you share with all beings. The fourteenth?century Persian poet
and Sufi master Hafiz expresses this truth beautifully: I am a hole in a
flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.A New Earth
E N T H U S I A S M
Then there is another way of creative manifestation that may come to
those who remain true to their inner purpose of awakening. Suddenly one
day they know what their outer purpose is. They have a great vision, a
goal, and from then on they work toward implementing that goal. Their
goal or vision is usually connected in some way to something that on a
smaller scale they are doing and enjoy doing already. This is where the
third modality of awakened doing arises: enthusiasm. Enthusiasm mans there is deep enjoyment in what you do plus the added
element of a goal or a vision that you work toward. When you add a goal
to the enjoyment of what you do, the ener gy?field or vibrational
frequency changes. A certain degree of what we might call structural
tension is now added to enjoyment, and so it turns into enthusiasm. At
the height of creative activity fueled by enthusiasm, there will be
enormous intensity and ener gy behind what you do. Y ou will feel like an
arrow hat is moving toward the tar get and enjoying the journey. T o an onlooker, it may appear that you are under stress, but the intensity
of enthusiasm has nothing to do with stress. When you want


 years. The lactobacillus
count was found to be exceptionally low. To test the effects of
refined sugar upon dental caries, fifty-one of these children were
then given three pounds of candy a week over a period of five
months. In eighty per cent of the cases, the lactobacillus count
rapidly rose, and forty-six of the children developed active dental
caries, compared to an incidence of only seven cases prior to the
dietary change. When the candy was again omitted from the diet,
the lactobacillus count returned to its former low level, and three
months after the discontinuance of sugar feeding, there was no
extension of dental caries seen in any case. Schour and Massler studied people of various age groups in
Italy during 1945, and found the incidence of dental decay to
be two to seven times lower than observed in the United States. This was considered due in part to the reduced sugar intake dur-
ing a period of general scarcity of food. Guttrom Toverud made
similar observations while studying 8,000 Norwegian children
during the years 1940-47. Toverud noted a 35 to 60 per cent
reduction in decayed and missing teeth during the period of
[ 28 I REFINED SUGAR
wartime occupation, when the intake of refined sugars and other
refined carbohydrate foods was severely restricted. Similar reduc-
tions in caries incidence were reported for other Scandinavian
countries, with the percentage of reduction varying in direct
relationship with the severity of wartime dietary restrictions and
intake of refined sugars. The rate of dental decay among primitive racial groups having
no access to refined sugar or refined sugar products has always
been extremely low. For some groups, several hundred teeth have
to be examined in order to find a single sign of dental caries. Many
of the primitive people live from birth to death without ever hav-
ing a single decayed tooth. Such conclusions have been established
by studying thousands of skulls from natives living in a pre-
civilized era, and by contemporary studies of primitive people
living today or in a recent era..Yet, the primitive teeth decay
every bit as rapidly as do those of civilized man when refined sugar
and refined sugar products are introduced into the diet. This does
not mean that the absence of refined sugar was the sole reason
for the presence of good primitive teeth, or that the presence of
refined sugar is the sole reason for poor primitive teeth. A number
of dietary factors enter the picture, but the absence or presence
of refined sugar is the most important of these. If the adverse effects of refined sugar upon the teeth were all
that we had to contend with, we would still have sufficient reason
for discarding this food from our diet. But there is evidence that
refined sugar harms much more than the teeth. Many dentists
believe that the food causes gingivitis as well as dental decay,
and medical authorities have long known that it tends to produce
acne and other skin diseases in sensitive individuals. Sugar which
is not utilized as energy is turned into fat in the body, which
accounts for the fact that people who are especially fond of
candy and other sweet foods tend to be obese. As obesity is
associated with the high incidence of heart disease and other
pathological conditions, and results in a mortality rate fully 74
per cent above normal, this reaction from refined sugar may be
even more important than that concerning dental decay. It is
[ 29 1 DANGERS IN MODERN FOODS
well known that refined sugar is the most dangerous of all foods
for the diabetic patient. According to Drs. Hutchinson and
Mottram, sugar is a very strong irritant which causes abnormal
production of mucus "and the pouring out of a highly acid gas-
tric juice:' Accordingly, many people are forced to reduce or
eliminate their use of sugar in order to avoid digestive disturb-
ances. Dr. Otto Meyerhof, of the University of Pennsylvania Med-
ical School, has called attention to "the appetite of tumors for
sugar:' and Dr. Fisher-Wesels, of the University of Frankfort,
reported that "Cancer may be linked to the food you eat, partic-
ularly sweet foods that produce high blood sugar levels17
Dr. Melvin E. Page has studied the relationship of refined
sugar consunlption to the calcium-phosphorus ratio of the blood. When no refined sugar is consumed, the normal ratio is two and
one-half to one, or two and one-half times as much calcium as
phosphorus. With the intake of refined sugar, this ratio was
found to be greatly distorted. This could affect the health in
various ways, and one of these is by making the body more liable
to insect bites. J. I. Rodale, after following Dr. Page's advice
on eliminating all refined sugars from his diet, found that he
was practically immune to mosquito bites during the following
summer. E. S. Bayard noted in Peru that the native Indian
women were rarely bitten by mosquitos, which also was attributed
to the fact that they ate no sugar. It is known that different dietary
habits of racial groups in various parts of the earth are associated
with marked differences in the liability to be bitten by blood-
sucking insects. While this is a subject on which much additional
research is needed, some of the evidence does apparently indicate
that the changes produced in the blood as a result of refined sugar
consumption render the body more subject to insect bites. Do all of these facts mean that we must live upon a sugar-free
diet in order to have good health? Most assuredly not. A sugar-
free diet would not be desirable even if it were possible. The
culprit is not sugar, as such, but only refined sugar which is too
highly concentrated and deprived of all traces of minerals and
vitamins. Natural sugar-containing foods have been used with
[ 30 I REFINED SUGAR
success by racial groups throughout the earth. The ancient
Samoans, and many other Polynesian groups in the South Seas,
! were very fond of raw sugar cane, and they had some of the finest
pearly-white teeth in the world. The Indians in all of New
England were fond of maple syrup and maple sugar, and though
! their teeth were not quite equal to those of the Great Plains
Indians, they were remarkably sound by modern standards. Many
of the pastoral nomads of the Near East and North Africa have
been known to include liberal amounts of sugar-rich dates in
their diet, but they possess teeth far superior to those of people
in Western countries. Honey is perhaps the most universal sweet-
ening agent of the entire primitive world, and its use has been
associated with fine teeth and excellent physique and health. In modern life, it has been used with remarkable success for
therapeutic purposes and is very well tolerated under normal I conditions. Even many diabetic patients, who cannot handle
refined sugar at all, tolerate moderate quantities of honey with-
out difficulty. The desire for sweet foods is a natural craving which can be
utilized to supply the body with an easily assimilable source of
I energy and a valuable source of minerals, vitamins, and other
nutrients. This does not mean that no natural sugars can be
taken to excess. Most primitive people had a single important
source of sugar -honey, or maple sugar, or dates, or sun-dried
I fruits - rather than a combination of all of these sources. With
I many kinds of sweets in modern life, we have to go easier on
each one, particularly if these are heat-processed. But we do not
have to follow the advice of those who recommend a sugar-free
diet for good teeth and good health. We can have our sweeten-
ing agents and we can still have good teeth and good health. All
we need do is choose our sweets with care and discretion and
use them in moderate quantities. MEAT PRODUCTS
V. Meat Products
A SERIOUS IMPAIRMENT IN THE QUALITY
of meat results from the current practice of injecting hormones
into food animals with the object of fattening them more rapidly
and rendering their flesh more tender. After the hormone injec-
tions, the weight of a chicken shoots up from 25 per cent to
50 per cent at about a tenth of the cost of the feed normally
necessary to achieve the same gain. A steer will rise from 600 to
900 pounds within a month after the injections begin. As early
as 1950, approximately 30 million chickens in this country
received implantations of silbestrol, a synthetically produced
hormone having activity similar to the natural female sex hor-
mone. Today the practice continues on an even wider scale. Half of the beef cattle in this country have already been given
silbestrol. The result has been an increment of hormones and
hormone-like substances in the diets of those who consume meat
products. The human body produces both male and female sex hor-
mones. The action of these hormones determines the sex char-
acteristics of the individual and affects, among other things, sex
drive, development of the sex organs, breast development, growth
of hair on the face and body, pitch of voice, and height. When
hormone pellets are implanted in chickens, the results are similar
to those obtained by castrating the male bird. When the hormone
substances are then consumed as part of the animal flesh by
humans


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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Nutrition and
Physical Degeneration
A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets
and Their Effects
7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 2/250BY
WESTON A. PRICE, MS., D.D.S., F.A.G.D. Member Research Commission, American Dental Association
Member American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Author, "Dental Infections, Oral and Systemic"
WITH 134 FIGURES
TO THAT KINDRED SOUL
My Wife
who has assisted me so greatly
on these difficult expeditions,
this book is lovingly dedicated. CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
I. Why Seek Wisdom from Primitive Races
II. The Progressive Decline of Modern Civilization
III. Isolated and Modernized Swiss
IV. Isolated and Modernized Gaelics
V. Isolated and Modernized Eskimos
VI. Primitive and Modernized North American Indians
VII. Isolated and Modernized Melanesian s
VIII. Isolated and Modernized Polynesians
IX. Isolated and Modernized African Tribes
X. Isolated and Modernized Australian Aborigines
XI. Isolated and Modernized Torres Strait Islanders
XII. Isolated and Modernized New Zealand Maori
XIII. Ancient Civilizations of Peru
XIV. Isolated and Modernized Peruvian Indians
XV. Characteristics of Primitive and Modernized Dietaries
XVI. Primitive Control of Dental Caries
XVII. One Origin of Physical Deformities
XVIII. Prenatal Nutritional Deformities and Disease Types
XIX. Physical, Mental and Moral Deterioration
XX. Soil Depletion and Plant and Animal Deterioration
XXI. Practical Applications of Primitive Wisdom

TABLE OF CONTENTS    7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1. LOENTSCHENTAL VALLEY IN SWITZERLAND
2. HAND-MILL USED BY NATIVES IN LOENTSCHENTAL VALLEY
3. NATIVES OF MODERN SWISS VALLEY SHOWING NORMAL DESIGN OF FACE AND
DENTAL ARCHES WHEN ADEQUATE NUTRITION IS PROVIDED
4. NATIVES OF LOENTSCHENTAL VALLEY SHOWING TOOTH DECAY AND
DEFORMED DENTAL ARCHES TYPICAL OF THOSE LIVING ON MODERN FOODS
5. A TYPICAL BLACK-HOUSE" ON THE ISLE OF LEWIS. NATIVES OF THE ISLE OF
LEWIS
6. TOOTH DECAY IN NATIVE OF ISLE OF HARRIS LIVING ON MODERN FOODS AND
EXCELLENT TEETH OF NATIVES LIVING ON PRIMITIVE FOODS
7. GAELIC CHILDREN LIVING ON NATIVE FOODS. GAELIC CHILDREN LIVING ON
MODERN FOODS
8. VARIATIONS IN GROWTH OF OATS FERTILIZED WITH VARYING QUANTITIES OF
SMOKE-THATCH
9. PRIMITIVE ALASKAN ESKIMOS SHOWING EXCELLENT FACIAL AND DENTAL
ARCH FORMATION
10. PRIMITIVE ALASKAN MOTHERS
11. ALASKAN ESKIMOS SHOWING EFFECT ON TEETH OF MODERN FOODS
12. DEFECTIVE TEETH AND DENTAL ARCHES IN ESKIMO CHILDREN LIVING ON
MODERN FOODS
13. DRIED EGGS OF SALMON ARE AN IMPORTANT ITEM OF NUTRITION
14. FACIAL AND DENTAL ARCH DEFORMITY IN WHITE BOY BORN IN ALASKA AND
LIVING ON MODERN FOODS
15. FAMILY OF FOREST INDIANS OF NORTHERN CANADA
16. MODERNIZED INDIAN CHILDREN WITH TUBERCULOSIS
17. INDIAN WOMEN AND GIRLS TYPICAL OF THOSE LIVING ON PRIMITIVE FOODS
18. INDIAN WOMEN TYPICAL OF THOSE LIVING ON MODERN FOODS
19. DEFORMED FACIAL FORMATION IN CHILDREN OF FIRST GENERATION AFTER
ADOPTION OF MODERN FOODS BY PARENTS
20. PRIMITIVE INDIANS OF CENTRAL CANADA: PARENTS DEVELOPED ON NATIVE
FOODS, CHILDREN ON MODERN FOODS
21. TYPICAL CRIPPLED CHILDREN FOUND AMONG INDIANS LIVING ON MODERN
FOODS
22. SKULLS OF PRIMITIVE INDIANS SHOWING SUPERB DENTAL ARCHES
23. SKULLS OF PRIMITIVE INDIANS SHOWING EXCELLENT BONE FORMATION
24. SEMINOLE INDIANS, TYPICAL OF THOSE LIVING ON NATIVE FOODS
25. DENTAL CARIES IN SEMINOLE INDIANS LIVING ON MODERN FOODS
26. SEMINOLE INDIAN CHILDREN SHOWING CHANGES IN FACIAL AND DENTAL
ARCH FORM WHICH RESULT FROM MODERN FOODS
27. SKULLS OF PRE-COLUMBIAN INDIANS OF FLORIDA
28. MELANESIANS TYPICAL OF THOSE LIVING UNDER NATIVE CONDITIONS
29. FACIAL BONE FORMATION IN MELANESIANS LIVING ON NATIVE FOODS
30. FIJI COUNCIL HOUSE AND HEREDITARY FIJI MONARCH
31. TOOTH DECAY IN NATIVES OF FIJI ISLANDS LIVING ON IMPORTED FOOD
32. TOOTH DECAY AND CHANGES IN ARCH FORMATION IN FIRST GENERATION
AFTER ADOPTION OF MODERN FOODS
33. PERFECT DENTAL ARCHES OF POLYNESIANS LIVING UNDER NATIVE
CONDITIONS
34. TAHITIANS SHOWING DENTAL CARIES DUE TO IMPORTED FOODS
35. CHANGES IN TEETH AND IN DENTAL ARCH FORMATION OF POLYNESIANS
LIVING ON MODERN FOODS
36. SAMOANS TYPICAL OF EXCELLENT FACIAL AND DENTAL ARCH FORMATION
WHEN LIVING ON NATIVE FOODS. CHILDREN WITH FORMATION TYPICAL OF
THOSE BORN OF UNDER-NOURISHED PARENTS
37. HAWAIIAN FAMILY SHOWING CHANGES IN FACIAL FORM IN YOUNGER
CHILDREN OF SAME FAMILY
38. TOOTH DECAY AND TUBERCULOSIS AS A RESULT OF UNDER-NUTRITION IN A
POLYNESIAN GIRL
39. MEMBERS OF MASAI TRIBE ILLUSTRATING EXCELLENT RESULTS OF DIET OF
MEAT, MILK AND BLOOD
40. METHOD BY WHICH BLOOD IS DRAWN FROM STEER7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 4/25041. FACIAL AND DENTAL ARCH DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICAN TRIBES LIVING ON
NATIVE FOODS
42. FACIAL AND DENTAL ARCH DEVELOPMENT IN MEMBERS OF BELGIAN CONGO
TRIBE LIVING ON NATIVE FOODS
43. PYGMIES OF BELGIAN CONGO
44. DENTAL CARIES IN AFRICANS WHO HAVE ADOPTED MODERN FOODS
45. CHANGES IN FACIAL AND DENTAL ARCH DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN OF
FIRST GENERATION AFTER ADOPTION BY PARENTS OF MODERN FOODS
46. AFRICANS SHOWING FACIAL DEFORMITIES DUE TO DIET OF MODERN FOODS
47. AFRICANS SHOWING FACIAL DEFORMITIES IN FIRST GENERATION AFTER
ADOPTION BY PARENTS OF MODERN FOODS
48. AFRICAN CHILDREN SHOWING A MARKED DEPRESSION OF MIDDLE THIRD OF
FACE DUE TO MALNUTRITION OF PARENTS
49. CAMELS' MILK IS AN IMPORTANT ITEM OF NUTRITION IN ASIA AND AFRICA
50. FACIAL DEFORMITIES FOUND IN BOYS AND GIRLS LIVING IN CAIRO UNDER
MODERN CONDITIONS
51. AFRICAN CHILDREN WALKING ON "ALL FOURS"
52. TYPICAL ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA
53. MAGNIFICENT DENTAL ARCHES AND TEETH FOUND IN ABORIGINES
54. DENTAL CARIES IN ABORIGINES LIVING ON MODERN FOODS
55. CHANGES IN TEETH AND ARCH FORMATION IN


 pre
cise definition. Measurement of such fields indicates that forces
exist not only in but also otltside of the nerve dmill g exci tatio n.
Thus, to the study of steady state parameters of these fields
that have been recorded in amphibia and-as we shall see
plants, must be added these records of the changing properties
of electrical fields in association with biologic activity. To be sure,
the EEG and the EKG are instances of the same phenomenon
66 THE UBIQUIT OUS FIEL D
and in a sense the observations recorded here are no more than
might be expected. All of them are the direct consequenc es of
field properties of living systems. None of this implies that the field is conceived of as some
mysterious property of living things. It is not another name for
elan vital or entelechy. It is a definable concept capable of pre
cise measurement and is to be thought of in the same terms as
fields in the non-living Universe. Electric fields in physics are not only widely accepted, but
technologie s based upon them have been extraordinarily pro
ductive. In non-living matter, fields are definable in terms of
forces between charges. They are, in part, a measure of the re
lationships between entities. In living systems, therefore, since
the entities of which they are composed are the same entities as
are to be found in non-living matter, the same forces between
the units may be presumed. The basic difference between the two
lies in the enormously increased complexity of the necessary re
latednesses in living organisms. It would seem reasonable to assume, therefore, that the rela
tionship of entities in living organisms may be measured by field
properties just as successfully as in atoms or between atoms. It should be noted that the electro-static fields do not exist
in the absence of charges nor charges in the absence of fields. They are both fundamental properties of matter. In living
organisms it can be said that chemical components, wherever they
possess charges, cannot exist without fields nor can fields be
found except in the presence of charges. It is equally dear that the business of living is not a static
affair; it is a moving, dynamic process. For this energy is required
and it is the chemistry of biological systems which provides it. But energy is a scalar property and is. itself, indifferent to the
direction in which it flows. In general, it is the second law of
thermodynamics which directs the flow in such a manner as to
increase the entropy of the system. It seems from our observations that this direction is also
characterized by electrical gradien ts, much as though the second
law was augmented by electrical signposts. Moreover, these
electrical signs have an astonishing constancy in spite of the
67 THE UBI QU ITOUS FIELD
enormously complex chemical flux. Such constancy of directional
control, in fact, is one of the s triking attributes of the developing
organism. Quas i-electro- static fields, although changing slowly,
persist in time and can, perhaps to some approximation, be con
ceived as providing the necessary direction. The experiments reported by us in collaboration with Dr.
Mauro provide additional evidence of the validity of the original
assumption. 4
Pursuing our exploration of fields in widely-differen t living
forms, we made a study of the voltage-gradients in the marine
animal, Obelia, a polyp. These experiments were carried out
through the courtesy of the late Dr. F. S. Hammett, of the
Marine Experimental Station of the Lankenau Hospital Research
Institute. They were made on animals collected at the experi
mental station at Truro on Cape Cod. A series of measurements of the voltage gradients of definitive
stages in the life cycle of an Obelia hybrid was carried out. These
trace a rising curve of graded intensity parallel with the growth
from the anlagen to the complete functioning animal. The values
reach their peak in the feeding animal and then drop off as re
gression to the senile state begins. With the attainment of
senility and its consequent catabolic dissolution the direction
of the voltage gradient is reversed. Fluctuations in voltage gradient parallel the fluctuations in
developmen tal growth, as it progresses from an undifferentiated
to the differentiated state. The conclusion was made that the
growth and life cycle of an Obelia is characterized by definitive
and progressive changes in voltage gradient correlated with the
morphogen esis of the animal. There are a number of implications
cf this study which deserve further examination. In the extremely short life-cycle of Obelia it is possible to
cover the entire life span of the living organism in a relatively
short time. During the early growth and differen tiatio n of the
animal, increasing voltage gradients were recorded until a peak
68 THE UBIQUITOUS FIELD
was reached at the time when the animal was fully developed and
feeding. As is well-known, after this the activity of the animal begins
to decline and a regression occurs with senility until the so
called death of the particular hydranth. The electro-metric
correlates of this regression were clearly evident. This tends to confirm some observations made in the study of
mice that there is a fairly regular pattern of growth and de
velopment up to the eventual death of the living system. During
the first third of the animal's life, voltage gradients increase fairly
steadily. During the middle third, voltage gradients tend to
level off and form a plateau. The last third of an animal's life
shows evidence of regression with a consequent falling off of
voltage gradients until death itself ensues. All of these experiments show a relationship between the
growth and development of a living system and its electro-metric
correlates. One of the important consequences of the field theory,
however, is that the electro-metric characteristics of the system
in some way control the pattern of organization or, if you like,
the design of the system. 5
With the generous co-operation of the late Professor Edmund
W. Sinnott, a study was made of the electrical patterns in cucur
hits. In this field, Dr. Sinnott, an expert, has called attention to
the fact that the shape of gourds is not a function of the morpho
logical characteristics of the cellular components. The cucur bits
all have a characteristic building block, and yet the shape of the
gourd made with these building blocks differs. Just as one can
build a house with bricks of a uniform size and shape, the design
of the whole results in quite different external characteristics. Using cucurbit fruits, provided by Dr. Sinnott, electro-metrics
were made. In this study, potential differences were measured
along the axial and the equitorial diameters of young ovaries
and developing fruits of three races of wcurbita pe:po, differing
markedly in shape and designated as elongated, round, and flat. 69 THE UBI QUI TOUS FIELD
The size of the potential differences bears little relation to the
absolute size of the dimensions along which they occur, but the
ratio of the potential differences is closely correlated with
the ratio of the dimensions. As the fruit grow larger, the potential gradients tcnd in all
races to decrease, but the ratios between the gradients and the
true dimensions tend to increase in the elongate, to decrease in
the flat, and to be unchange d in the round race. To explain these various facts, it is tempting to suggest that
the pattern of potential differences here described may have some
causal relation to the morphological pattern which appears as the
fruit develops. The evidence here presented is in entire agree
ment with that obtained in animal material and may be inter
preted in the same way. The data offers for the consideration of
students of plant morphogenesis a series of new facts from a
field which, if well cultivated, may become very fruitful. The association with Professor Sinnott was extraordinarily
fruitful. Many suggestions were made as to the kind of electro
metric studies which could be made on growing systems. Two of
these were furthered. The first of these, following Professor
Sinnott, was carried out with the help of Oliver Nelson, at that
time a student in the Graduate School of Yale University, De
partment of Botany, and closely associated with the Connecticut
Agricultural Experiment Station. The suggestion was made that
electro-metric studies be made of a single seed. The choice was
necessitated largely by practical considerations and fell on corn
kernels-sweet corn kernels. With the co-opera tion of the Connecticut Agricultural Experi
ment Station, it became possible to study the electrical patterns
in several pure and hybrid strains of sweet corn. These seeds had
been under study for some time. The strains differ considerably
in genetic constitution and in the degree of hybrid vigour shown
in crosses between them. Four inbred strains were studied and
three hybrids. One of these was a mid-season yellow sweet corn,
an inbred of unknown orig in. Another was a semi-dwarf mutant
of P-39; it is normal in appearance but much reduced in size. It
has been shown by Singleton that they differ by only one gene. In this material, therefore, we had four stable pure strains of
70 THE UBIQU ITOUS FIELD
significantly different properties with which to correlate electrical
patterns. The three hybrids show a gradation of hybrid v;g


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as you go through your day:
On the calibrated Map of Consciousness®, from 1 to 1,000, level 200
is the critical level. Above 200 is that which is pro-life, supports life, and that which is
true. Below 200 is that which is not true, does not support life;
everything that is venomous, hateful, selfish, greedy, and destructive to
others. The Map of Consciousness®, is not showing a duality of good and evil. There are gradations of Love. What we call evil is merely totally
unloving. There is only one variable. The only variable between light and
darkness is there is only light. There isn’ t light and darkness. Light is
either there, or it’ s not there. The light can be very bright, or it can be
very, very dim. When it gets very, very dim, we say it’ s darkness. Certain bits of information have an immense value. Just to have heard
it, to get it, jumps you ahead enormously. Causality is a major roadblock because it blocks the awareness of the
Presence of God, and the purpose of consciousness work is to discover
the Presence of God within.To see through the illusion of causality, there’ s nothing causing
anything out there. Nothing is causing anything else. What you see are
conditions. What holds up spiritual progress is resistance. The main resistance is
the narcissistic core of the ego and its belief in its own sovereignty. Becoming enlightened is really overcoming the claim and the
domination of the ego to maintain its sovereignty. How do you surrender the ego? First, contextualize what ego really is,
that it’ s not evil and that it’ s the persistence of the animal; but
persistence of the animal deters one’ s spiritual evolution and therefore,
the object is to transcend it. The best way to transcend it is to describe
in some detail the actual mechanisms of the ego. For example, the
ego’s attraction and addiction is to the juice it gets out of suf fering and
being mistreated. Radical truth means you’ve got to take the mask of f everything and be
willing to see it for what it is, and now handle it from the viewpoint of
emotional honesty. The way to reach enlightenment is quite simple. First, one chooses it. The subjective reality about which we’re speaking, is in the split
instant of now, the split instant of now is the source of the joy of your
own existence. Because of your Love of God your consciousness grows. As your
consciousness grows, it benefits all of mankind. Every living entity on
this planet benefits from every single degree that your consciousness
advances. Dr. Hawkins often told us that through the repetition of the information
given through reading and listening, a deeper understanding can occur. Read this book over and over again, or watch or listen to the lectures that
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        Yes, I think that’ s specifically what we were saying this morning. The
soul automatically, because of what it has become, is like a cork in water
and automatically gravitates in the field of consciousness to that with which
it identifies. And therefore, destiny is ultimately perfect. “That’ s correct:
resist” (T rue). That’ s correct, yep. Automatically. So, the soul automatically
gravitates to what it’ s attracted to, to that with which it is compatible. Just
like the dog ran to love—if I hated dogs, I don’ t know, he might have
shrunk of f, or he might have tried. I don’ t know what he would have
done. I should ask him. OceanofPDF. comCHAPTER 10
Aim for the Highest Level of
Compassion
Two hundred is the dividing line between force and power; 540—is that the
difference between ego and one’ s higher calling. Well, don’ t forget, these
points are arbitrary—200 was not arbitrary; the calling it 200 was arbitrary. It was obvious that the world could be divided into that which makes you
go strong and that which makes you go weak. There is an interesting book called Red W orld/Gr een W orld by a lady
named Mar garet Chaney, and she said that there’ s Red people and Green
people, and there’ s Red foods and Green foods. Well, she was just using
that as a way of speaking. She’ s saying that people divide up into those
which react positively to certain kinds of food and those which react
negatively, and she grouped out two groups. There are the Red people—
they respond with kinesiology positively to the following foods, and there’ s
the Green people, and they respond positively to the following foods and
they react negatively to the other foods. So her thesis was that Green people
will get sick if they


. People	need	to	know	that	the	world	is	on	their	side,	and	for	a
younger	person,	the	“world”	is	often	represented	by	whatever	adult	he	or	she
is	speaking	to	at	the	time. Celebration	isn’t	passive;	it’s	an	active	energy	mover. I’ve	heard	young
people	denigrate	something	I	know	in	their	hearts	represents	a	dream	come
true,	saying	something	like,	“Oh,	it’s	not	that	big	a	deal. ”	But	if	I	say	with
determination,	“Oh,
yes
	it	is. ”	then	their	entire	attitude	shifts. I	do	this	for	them,	and	I	do	it	for	myself. Once	you’ve	lived	enough,	once
you’re	cried	enough	tears,	you	know	how	blessed	it	is	to	have	something	to
smile	about. People	who	are	passionate	about	life	don’t	have	a	positive
attitude	because	they	don’t	know	any	better. They’re	often	positive	because
they
do
	know	better. They	know	that	heartbreak	could	happen	any	day. If	it’s
not	happening	today,	let’s	give	thanks. I	used	to	have	a	bottle	of	good	champagne	in	my	refrigerator. It	remained
there	for	months,	as	I	kept	waiting	for	something	to	“celebrate. ”	Finally,
someone	stole	it. I	got	the	point. I	had	waited	too	long. Dear	God,
I	give	You
praise	and	thanks
for	the	blessings	in	my	life. May	they	not	be	diminished
by	my	lack	of	appreciation. Teach	me	how	to	receive	my	good,
and	support	others	in	claiming	theirs. Amen
ONCE
	I
WAS	RIDING	ON	A	TRAIN	IN	ENGLAND
,	having	just	left	my	daughter	at	a	high
school	program	in	Oxford. Before	I	left,	she	showed	me	her	favorite	spots
from	her	trip	there	the	summer	before:	the	crêperie	where	she	and	her	friends
stayed	up	late	at	night	to	discuss	capitalism	and	Marxism
(“Yes,	darling,	your
mother	was	young	once,	too—I	have
so
	been	there	and	done	that. ”);	the
Christ	Church	rebuilt	by	Henry	VIII	in	1532	(my	daughter	and	I	have	an
ongoing	conversation	about	Anne	Boleyn,	in	which	I	insist	that	whichever
way	you	view	it,	beheading
is
	spousal	abuse);	and	our	conversations	that
morning	about	philosophy	and	love	were	mixed	with	my	reminders	to	do
things	like	remember	to	floss. As	I	rode	back	to	London,	I	cried	a	bit. My	little	baby	wasn’t	a	baby
anymore. She’s	not	even	a	little	girl	anymore. She’s	in	that	age	group	Louisa
May	Alcott	so	exquisitely	termed	“little	women. ”	Soon	enough,	“Mommy,
may	I. ”	will	disappear	completely,	replaced	more	often,	I	suppose,	by	“Mom,
please	send	money. ”
This	transitional	time	is	as	profound	for	me	as	it	is	for	her. I’ve	been	good
at	some	aspects	of	mothering,	average	at	others,	and	probably	rotten	at	some. I’ve	never	baked	a	brownie	in	my	life. I	keep	buying	cookbooks,	but	I	just
read	them	and	then	say,	“Nah. ”	Yet	we	all	have	our	gifts,	and	the	ones	I	do
have,	I’m	eager	to	pass	on	to	her. Our	children	are	more	than	our	charges;	once	past	puberty,	they	should	be
our	students	in	life’s	deeper	lessons,	our	apprentices	at	living	life	well. I	don’t
want	my	daughter	to	feel	that	she	has	to	leave	my	side	in	order	to	learn
anything
truly
	important. I	want	to	be	more	than	the
cleavage
	police,	for
God’s	sake. I	want	to	be	her	mystical	mentor. Raising	children	is	an	advanced	spiritual	practice. Holding	them	close	when
you’re	all	the	world	to	them	is	sometimes	emotionally	overwhelming;	letting
them	go	when	they’re	ready	to	move	away	from	you	is	overwhelming	as	well. And	keeping	the	lines	of	communication	open	is	often	much	easier	said	than
done. It’s	very	different	than	it	was	when	they	were	just	cute	little	kids	in	their
cute	little	outfits	playing	on	cute	little	playdates. I	see	people	with	adorablebabies,	blissfully	unaware	that	the	day	will	come	when	they’re	so	not	in
control,	and	I	think,
Oh,	honey,	you	wait. But	I	say	nothing. I	just	smile. Let
them	enjoy	this	while	it	lasts. Sooner	than	they	think,	they’ll	lose	the
unconditional	adoration	to	which	they’ve	become	accustomed. Every	parent	meets	the	moment	when	a	look	in	their	child’s	eyes	says,
“Now	I	get	it. I’ve	figured	you	out. ”	They’ll	have	to	learn	to	respect	the
unfolding	life	of	a	child	whose	ultimate	destiny	is	his	or	hers	alone. A	fiery
life	force	moves	from	us	into	our	children	at	a	certain	point,	and	it’s	only
when	we	allow	this	to	happen	that	a	new	fire	begins	to	burn	within	us. We
can’t	hold	on	to	the	fire	that	used	to	be	ours	when	it	no	longer	is. We	have	to
let	go	and	watch	with	mixed	emotions	as	it	ignites	within	our	sons	and
daughters. Still,	that	doesn’t	mean	that	they	gain	something	but	we	lose. On	that	day,
as	I	rode	away	from	Oxford,	I	was	crying	but	I	was	smiling	as	well. My
daughter	was	free	now	in	that	way	that	only	the	young	can	be	free. But	I	was
free,	too,	in	a	way	only	someone	who	has	raised	his	or	her	children	to	a
certain	age	and	watched	them	grow	up	can	be. She
and
	I	had	earned	new
wings. We	both	need	to	go	on	to	the	next	stage	of	our	lives	and	enter	a	new	set	of
magic	years. Everyone	must	follow	the	trajectory	of	his	or	her	own	soul
growth. On	the	one	hand,	I	can’t	imagine	how	I’ll	feel	when	I	don’t	get	to
look	at	the	clock	at	3:15	in	the	afternoon	and	say	excitedly,	“Oh,	she’ll	be
home	soon. ”	(There’s	such	a	fantastic	way	teenagers	slam	the	door	behind
them	when	they	come	home	from	school,	bellowing	“I’m	home. ”	with	such
confidence	that	it’s	the	biggest	news	anybody’s	going	to	hear	all	day. ) On	the
other	hand,	I	know	there	will	be	new	experiences	in	the	future	when	we’re	no
longer	based	in	the	same	city,	different	from	the	ones	we	have	now	but	just	as
wonderful. Only	when	you	allow	someone	else	to	grow	do	you	get	to	grow,	too. And
sometimes,	of	course,	that	means	they	grow	away	from	you. Counterintuitively,	the	more	you	allow	people	to	take	the	distance	they	need,
the	closer	your	bond	with	them	becomes. The	more	I	let	my	daughter	go,	the
more	she	lets	me	in. I	will	never	forget	when	my	little	girl	was	so	tiny	that	I	propped	her	up
between	pillows	on	my	bed	as	I	sat	next	to	her	and	wrote. I	think	of	that	often
when	she’s	lying	across	the	same	bed	now,	chattering	on


 give us
a glimpse ofit is a whole field ofstudy in itself.The sage
Ramana Maharshi taught that the world you see (per
ception) does not even exist and is illusory (the
Buddha's "Maya"). On the Map of Consciousness, let us compare the
level of consciousness with its emotion, our view of
the world, and how this would give us a view of God. At the bottom of the Map is a negative energy field WORRY, FEAR, AND ANXIETY 289
called Guilt that calibrates at a power of 30. It is the
world of self-hatred, self-destruction, and a person
who is guilt-ridden.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        Spiritual work is pictured as
studying a textbook, looking at a picture of a guru, and
singing songs. Then an acute catastrophe occurs, and
the spiritual work is bypassed. It then resumes after all
the various emergencies and tasks in one's life have
been handled. It is as though we do not really see the essence of
spiritual work. We do not see that the spiritual work
brings up these acute crises, brings us into them, and
that they are an opportimity. This is where the spiritual
work is happening. The other was preparation, gathering
of information and experience, deciding on direction,
and accumulating spiritual knowledge. Then suddenly 250 HEALING AND RECOVERY
comes the moment of truth, the time to do it. There are people who have been in spiritual work
and around metaphysical circles for many years, and
nothing changes in their lives. They have the same ill
nesses and problems; their personal life is the same. They have not had any of the experiences of inner
truth that they hear about, and why is that. When life
brings the golden opportunity to them, that is the time
to make the spiritual knowledge real. It is the time for
transformation, the time to take that leap in conscious
ness. These are golden moments. Acute catastrophes are the times when we make
great leaps,when we face them directly and ftxedly say,
"I will not veer from this spiritual work. " Now we are
really confronted with truly spiritual work. It is not
reading some pleasant-sounding phrases in a book or
looking at some happy picture. Instead, we are right in
the thick of it, in the teeth of it. The teeth of spiritual
work occur when we are confronted with that which
we cannot avoid. It is the direct confrontation that
requires a leap in consciousness. These are the golden opportunities that are price
less ifwe see themthatway,ifwe arewilling to bewith
them and say,"Okay. "The willingness to go with them,
no matter how painful it may be, enables a giant leap in
consciousness, a real advance in wisdom, knowledge,
and awareness. That which we read about in the books
then becomes our own inner experience. There is something below the emotionality that is
experiencing this energy out for a person. It is literally
being handled by something far greater than one's
personal self. If only the small personal self were HANDLING MAJOR CRISES 251
present, one would be totally swamped and obliterated
by the energy released during these experiences. One survives the experiences because there is some
thing greater than the personal self that is more than
capable of handling them. The trick of the mind is to not see that. It tries to
change what goes on 'out there', tries to figure it out,
and then falls back on the intellect and fmds that the
intellect is not going to resolve this kind of problem. When we have dropped a big oak log on our foot and
broken all the bones across the front of the foot, what
is needed at that moment is our readiness and willing
ness to handle what life presents. Having the tools and
the willingness brings about very rapid healing. There is the awareness in acute overwhelm that we
really can handle the experiences. Part of the panic
comes from the realization that what we think we
are-our powerless, limited self-is no match for the
power of this experience. That is precisely what is
going on-the limited, individual, personal self cannot
handle the overwhelm. This is the precise spiritual
value of it. What do we really want to change about the
experience. We will see that what we want to do is
change how we feel about it. What we can know is that
the feeling will come and go. The event is not going to
bother us after the feeling state. All that we have to
experience through is the acute upsurge and energy of
the emotion. The events will take care of themselves. The desire to change what occurred and how we
feel about it have to be surrendered. The confrontation
is there, and all we can do is say yes to experiencing it
through, no matter what the nature is, such as the 252 HEALING AND RECOVERY
death of a loved one, divorce, separation, an acute
emergency, or a catastrophic injury. All bring about a
state of shock that is the same, no matter what is the
precipitating event. The shock is the sudden realization
of our powerlessness, the fact that the will has met a
brick wall, that we are stoppable and have been
stopped, and that the personal will cannot have its way. Therefore, the shock and realization of all this is the
same in all the experiences, along with the fact that it
is unchangeable and permanent. That is the shock. It is
as though we come up full speed against a brick wall,
and every time in life when we do this, it releases the
same energy field. If you have been through more than one of these
experiences in your life, you can look back and realize
that this is so, and that each time the state ofshock was
the same. The experience and sequence were the
same. There was the experience with the feeling of sud
den numbness, the state of disbelief, and then the
unleashing of all the negative feelings. When we look at the negative feelings precisely
and at some of the experiences we have had, we real
ize thatwe experienced all ofthis. We experienced the
totality of that negative energy field. In the morning it
would be present, and in the afternoon it would still be
present. In fact, within a minute's time, we fluctuated
back and forth. It is like a scintillating energy field in
which the form of the emotionality is flickering from
anger to resentment, to self-pity, to jealousy, to getting
even, to revenge, to hate, to hating God, to hating one
self, to blaming the family and society, to blaming the
government and laws. The mind wildly races around in HANDLING MAJOR CRISES 253
this negative energy field. We can see the diffuseness
and formlessness of it. It is like a basketful of negative
energy, and we only have to handle the basket, not all
the little things that are flickering around in it. We only
have to handle the 'all' of it. When we see that it is
decompressing the 'all' of it, it moves us rapidly
through it and out the other side. We see that it is an
inescapable experience,·and we must have the willing
ness to surrender to the work that has to be done now. How can we tell when that work is finished. When we
suddenly come out into that inner state of peace. We know that years later people continue to have
resentment and anger and are still caught in some
aspect ofthat negative energy field because the events
were not handled in the first place. The person was
unwilling to sit down and handle them until completed. People are unwilling to do this because of the pain
involved and because they do not know the techniques
to use. Every time they go at it, they again start trying
to change the events in the world and handle the
thoughts. The intellect and the mind try to figure it out,
and the person runs into the same impasse. By not hav
ing an effective tool with which to handle the events,
the work remains incomplete. What happens with the incomplete work and the
emotions that were not released. That which is left
undone begins to express itself in emotional attitudes
and in the body inthe form ofillness. The unconscious
guilt that was not let go of over the catastrophe that
happened many' years ago comes forth through the
autonomic nervous system and the acupuncture energy
system and connects with something from the mind. 254 HEALING AND RECOVERY
The energy field of the intellect of thinkingness is in
the 400s. The energy field of guilt, fear, or anger then
couples with some belief system in the mind about a
particular illness that results in a physical illness. In psy
choanalysis, it would be called psychosomatic, and in
this case, the contribution of the psychological ele
ment is on the surface and quite visible. The end result
of the unresolved emotional handling of a catastrophic
experience is often an illness that may occur many
years later. The grief that was left


ental X-ray doesn’t show the bone damage; only the new ‘panoramic’ dental X-rays are able to
do that. The only solution is to remove the offending tooth and clear infectious material from the
cavitation, which allows the hollowed-out bone to heal. If a dentist discovers an abscess at the tip of the root of a tooth, he or she will urge the patient
to have a root canal treatment done. DO NOT AGREE. The filling used in the canal eventually
shrinks a tiny bit, allowing germs and viruses to enter via the canules, which become conduits for
the invaders, causing much trouble. The dentist will assure you that the filling material currently
used in the root canal doesn’t shrink. However, even if this were true, there remains the problem Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 7 7Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comof the dead tooth, the germ-filled canules, and a constant focus of infection active within the
organism. So, rather than having the root canal treated, regretfully that tooth has to be extracted. Beside root canals there are many other dental problems, such as receding gums, gum
infections, cavities, etc., that are easily detected and corrected. These should be cleared, so that no
oral infections can interfere with the healing process. Once we have understood the unbreakable
unity of the organism, it becomes clear how an unresolved and ignored dental problem can cause
serious damage in some other part of the body. Mercury fillings should never be used. There is much information and research material
proving the damage caused by releasing small amounts of mercury into the system by chewing,
drinking, swallowing. These small but continuously released amounts of what is a potent nerve
toxin are also absorbed by the lungs and the linings of the digestive system into the bloodstream,
leading to severe harm. Despite the mass of scientific research material confirming this risk, some
dentists and the American Dental Association (ADA) vociferously claim that mercury is perfectly
safe once installed in the tooth. It is not. These days there are various minimally toxic inert filling
materials available to deal with cavities. Crowns are another problem. A crown must never be fitted over a mercury filling, nor should
gold be used if there is any mercury—also known as silver amalgam—present in other parts of
the mouth. Between those two metals a tiny mild electric current is generated, which is capable
of interfering with the enzymes and other factors of pre-digestion that are active in the mouth. If
a crown is necessary, it should be made from other materials, such as plastic or porcelain. Dental anesthesia needs to be handled with care. When the body is well detoxified, it becomes
more sensitive to any toxins, including anesthesia used by dentists to overcome the pain of dental
work. It is extremely important that a Gerson patient should tell his/her dentist the following,
prior to the use of anesthesia drugs:
  •  To use no more than one third to one half of the normal dose,
  •  To use no epinephrine in compounding the drug,
  •  To start the treatment immediately (the effect wears off quickly.) Upon returning from the dentist’s office, the patient should take a coffee enema, whether or
not one is scheduled for that time. Any additional pain is likely to be cleared by another coffee
enema. NOTE: If the dentist avises the patient to take a dose of antibiotics, this must not be refused. A dental infection can be very serious and even become life-threatening. Case Histories: We have several patient reports of dramatic improvements after the removal
of root canal treated teeth. One breast cancer patient using the Gerson Therapy was making slow
progress. When her husband began to suspect some dental problem slowing down the healing Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 7 8Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comprocess, he had her examined by a dentist. Indeed, a cavitation was found and cleared, and the
infected tooth removed. Subsequently the remaining breast tumor tissue was rapidly absorbed,
she recovered and remained well for many years. In another case a young woman, married to an athlete and hoping for children, conceived
readily but suffered three miscarriages in a row. A full examination of her teeth disclosed a far
advanced cavitation in her jawbone. When the offending tooth was extracted and the infection in
her jawbone was cleaned up, shortly afterwards she had three normal pregnancies. A father wrote to us to say that he was impressed by the report, published in our Newsletter,
on the damage caused by root canal treated teeth. It caused him to arrange a dental examination
for his son who had been suffering from schizophrenia for several years, without being helped by
the drug treatment he had received. When the young man’s teeth were checked and a root canal
filled tooth was removed, he gradually recovered and needed no further medication. Fibromyalgia
This chronic condition is another eloquent example of the many kinds of ill-health caused
by the toxic condition of the body. Fibromyalgia causes severe chronic pain in muscles and
soft tissues surrounding joints. Efforts to control it with anti-inflammatories, including cortico-
steroids, have not been helpful, nor has any effective treatment been found for it so far. Pain
relieving drugs are used to help the patients sleep. According to the conservative estimate of the National Fibromyalgia Research Association,
6 million people in the U.S. suffer from this disease. In our experience, fibromyalgia is basically a toxic condition, caused by the combined impact
of polluted air and water, poisonous chemical residues in agricultural produce, and food additives
used in processed foods. There comes a point where the body can no longer excrete these harmful
substances; in order not to overload the liver and to keep the toxins ( enzyme inhibitors)  from
interfering with the functions of the essential organs, it releases them into the muscles and soft
tissues. Once there, the toxic irritants cause pain, which eventually becomes almost unbearable. Like all conditions resulting from a high degree of toxicity in the body, fibromyalgia yields
very promptly to the organic, vegetarian, toxin-free diet of the Gerson Therapy, combined with
intensive detoxification via the coffee enemas. We have seen some cases in which it took only a
few days to ease and then banish the pain, enabling the patient to resume normal activity. In more
advanced cases, aggravated by the use of many pain relieving drugs, and also with bedridden
patients, it takes possibly several weeks to obtain lasting pain relief and healing. We recall with wry amusement the experience of a seriously ill, mostly bedridden lady, who
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www.thegersonway.comseveral years and had eventually found the physician who was regarded as the top authority of
that condition. However, he himself was suffering from an advanced case of fibromyalgia and
was unable to help her. On the contrary: on one occasion, when she called him after a particularly
painful, miserable night, he replied to her complaint by saying, “Y ou are telling me!”
Part III
It must be remembered that despite its great healing potential in so many areas of ill health,
the Gerson Therapy is no panacea, and that there are conditions in which it can heal only partially
or not at all. There are sound reasons why the high-powered twin Gerson methods of hyper-
alimentation and detoxification don’t work under some circumstances, and in this chapter we set
them out briefly in two sections. Diseases Difficult to Cure with the Gerson Therapy:
Brain Cancer:  We have seen total long-term recoveries of brain cancer cases—but also
failures. The problem is not the cancer itself, but the location of the tumor. In the course of a
healing reaction the body almost always produces an inflammation, which in itself is desirable,
since inflammation fluid usually destroys tumor tissue. However, it also causes swelling in regular
tissue. But a brain tumor is enclosed within the skull, where there is no room to accommodate  the
swelling.. Instead, the ‘healing inflammation’ with its swelling causes serious pressure, which is
likely to bring on seizures. These have to be handled carefully, reducing the swelling to decrease
the seizure activity—thus blocking the healing process! It is hard to find a middle way between
allowing inflammation, yet relieving severe headaches and seizures. Understandably the dilemma
also worries the patient. There have been several who gave up on the Gerson Therapy and returned
to orthodox treatment. Bone Metastases:   Certain cancers can be counted on to produce metastases ( spreading of
malignancy)  into specific tissues. Thus a majority of prostate and breast cancers, if they spread,
are found to have migrated to the bone(s). Bone tissue is difficult to heal. While a regular tissue lesion, sewed up, can be relied on to
heal within