 puts the person
constantly on the defensive for being 'right', so the
world must be wrong.The energy is dissipated in end
less defensiveness. A reason for pride relates to an underlying fear. Once the person faces the fear, they can let go ofpride. These negative fields tend to reinforce each other;
seldom do they occur alone. One predominates, but all
are really feeding into each other so that one has grief
over one's anger; one has anger over one's pride; one
has fear over one's grief, and so on.They all tend to rein
force each other, so an emotional upset is usually com
posed of a combination of all these negative energy
fields. The techniques and realizations necessary to
overcome the negative energy fields are described in 24 HEALING AND RECOVERY
detail in Transcending the Levels ofConsciousness. By being willing to surrender the ego's narcissistic
emotional payoffs of the negative energy fields, one
then progresses to the first level of true power, called
Courage, at calibration level 200. Something crucial
now happens at thiS level because it has an enormous
amount of power. It is obvious that Courage settled the
United States ofAmerica. Courage created all the great
industries and was the basis for man's getting to the
moon.The Marines start at the level of Pride but really
move up to the more stable level of Courage. Why? It is
not so much in the increment of the twenty-five-point
increase, although that is sizeable.The critical element
is that the energy field is now positive because the per
son values truth rather than falsehood, and integrity
instead of temporary gain. Above level 200, one is no longer the victim
because the energy field is now positive. One might say
that this field is like an antenna, and below the level of
Courage, the antenna is tuned to the negative, thus
pulling adversity into the energy field. At level 200, energy goes positive, so the field stops
pulling negativity from the universe to itself.A person
is now in a different condition as well. One is able to
face, cope with, and handle things, and, for the first
time, able to be appropriate. At the level of Courage, people still experience the
lesser negative feelings, but they now have the power
to handle those energies. The critical process is one of
empowerment. A person becomes re-empowered by
telling the truth.This is obviously critical in the recov
ery from all illnesses. It is very visibly so in the millions A MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS 25
of recoveries of members of Alcoholics Anonymous,
where Step 1 and all the basic steps are admissions of
the truth. When people admit they are powerless over some
thing, instead of going weak with the muscle test, they
suddenly go strong.When they get rid of the arrogance
of pride, they may still have other negative feelings. Persons at the level of Courage who plan to ask their
boss for a raise may still have knots in their stomach, be
angry, and even feel hopeless about getting one. They
might even be arrogant, but now, at the level of
Courage, they have enough power to handle all that
and be appropriate. They are then able to face it, cope
with it, and function in an effective way in the world. The next major level is that ofNeutral at 250,where
the energy field is positive and even more aligned with
.Truth.The emotion ofNeutralis self-trust. Forexample,
it is 'okay' ifone gets the job and 'okay' ifone does not. The process going on in consciousness is detachment. One is not attached to any particular outcome and is
no longer a victim. The person now has a great deal
more power and is not dominated by aversions or crav
ings.The upside of this can be the okayness of life; the
downside of 'unattached' can· be detached or flat. At
Neutral, one is no longer suffering painful emotions
and now feels free. One is therefore in a far more pow
erful state.The way that person sees the world as okay
considers God as granting freedom. The advantage of
the level of Neutral is that one has let go of resisting
things and therefore has a lot more power, but then
one has to introduce a new energy to move up to the
next level ofWillingness. 26 HEALING AND RECOVERY
Willingness, at 310, is far more powerful. The emo
tion of it is accompanied by the thoughts of 'yes', say
ing yes to life, to join, to agree, to commit, and to align
with because there is now the introduction of inten
tion. A person at the level of Neutral, when asked if
they would like to go to a movie tonight, would say,
"Well, it's okay ifwe go, and it's okay ifwe don't. "The
response lacks enthusiasm and aliveness and is still a
long way from abundance, but it is certainly far more
comfortable than being attached and in fear, grief, apa
thy, or anger. The one who becomes willing brings
aliveness and intention to say yes, to commit, and to
agree. Real power begins withWillingness because one
has let go of resistance. The next field above that is called Acceptance, at
350. It is a very powerful energy field, one of being
capable, adequate, and confident. There is the begin
ning oftransformation in consciousness. Transformation
has to do with the person's re-owning that they are the
source of their own happiness, and that the power is
within them.A person on this level is the one whom a
big corporation depends on because they are realistic
and can admit their upside and downside.They are not
dominated by pride, which means denial, so they can
allow for their weaknesses and shortcomings. An exec
utive on this level can say, "You know, I don't do very
well with that guy in Argentina. It would be better if
you sendJake; I'm sure he would get along better." The
executive can indicate where he is limited, accept how
the world works, avoid getting into 'right and wrong'
about it, and therefore deal with it effectively. The
transformation comes from re-owning one's power. A MAP 0 F CONSCI0 USNESS 27
A person on this level knows that· no matter where
they are, they will create a circumstance that will bring
happiness. Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Life rep
resents this level, as do benevolent public-service
organizations. The utilization of opportunities occurring at this
level can turn lemons into lemonade, which comes
from a position or way of being and the re-owning of
one's own power. To do so leads to a general way of
being easygoing, and the people at this level do not ruffle
easily. Constant re-owning of one's power and recy
cling the energy back into the universe (e.g., through
selfless service) moves a person up to the energy field
of Reason at 400. Reason, logic, and the intellect are the prime evolu
tionary characteristics of the human species.They are
the product of intelligence that is capable of symbolic
thinking and abstraction. This level is also,representa
tive of disciplined structure that is in accord with the
observable world and its processes. Thus, emotions,
including desires and aversions, are subordinated as
less relevant in comparison to impersonal facts. The use of reason transcends the limitations of nar
cissistic/emotional distortion that is characteristic of
childishness and the personal emotionality of perva
sive likes, dislikes, and endless wants.The silencing of
the clamor of emotionality allows for cool calculation
and dominance of processing by facts and confirmable
data.Thus emerges the capacity for assimilation, recog
nition, classification, and comprehension of the signifi
cance and meaning of vast amounts of information by
virtue of abstract symbols and their interrelationships. 28 HEALING AND RECOVERY
Intellect and reason are necessary to interpret
meaning, value, and significance, which are subserved
by the term 'philosophy' and its offshoots of meta
physics, epistemology, ontology, theology, and science. The history of the evolution of the intellect is imparted
by The Great Books ofthe Western World from which
we see that the evolution of the intellect reached its
zenith during the classical period of ancient Greece. It
resurged again much later as the appearance and dom
inance of an historical Reformation out of which
emerged modern science. Philosophical dereliction is
termed 'rhetoric', which reflects nonintegrous manipu
lation of reason as demonstrated by the decline of the
level of philosophy in academia of recent decades and
the emergence of the theories of relativism (cal. 190)
and their consequent social discord (see Chapter 12,
Truth vs. Falsehood). At its purest level, reason and the intellect repre
sent increased reality testing and nonemotional respect
for truth and the means of its discernment. This can
evolve even more as the love ofTruth for its own sake. This eventually leads to


 should be simple,
direct, to the point, long lasting in its effect, and cost
nothing. Diets usually do not work in the long run. The usual techniques that people try often bring
about feelings of guilt and recrimination. They may
work, but only temporarily because they do not really
modify the way one is with their body since they do
not change those Pavlovian reflexes that drive one's
eating despite one's best intentions. It was discovered that a shift in the state of con
sciousness occurs in the process of eating, and that a
person can easily overcome it so the weight loss
becomes permanent. The message is to give up trying
will power, give up dieting, and give up resisting eat
ing. Those methods usually do not work; they make us
miserable, and we frequently end up the same as we
329 330 HEALING AND RECOVERY
were anyway. There is a much easier way that is truly
joyful. Through an understanding of some very simple
concepts that have been presented previously in rela
tion to the Map of Consciousness, we are then put in
a place of being able to handle problems that have
been baffling and unsuccessful in the past. Through the use of some techniques based upon
the nature of consciousness itself, we can learn how
to imagine ourself as slim, energize that image, and
then let go of it so that it actually materializes. It is
necessary to learn how to come from the heart
instead of the head, and to come from love instead of
the stomach. The head criticizes us because the stom
ach wants to eat. The only way to handle this problem
is to come from the heart about the whole situation. We are going to be somewhat lighthearted about this
subject that many people get quite distressed about. The lightheartedness comes with the eating; the self
recrimination and guilt appear later. We lie in bed and
wonder, "Why did I eat all that. " and then begin to
attack ourself. There is a way beyond all these prob
lems that will work for all of us. The medical model commonly followed is really
based on the idea of diet and the assumption that the
number of calories one eats determines one's weight. There may be some thought about exercise as well. However, the following information is not necessarily
going to agree with traditional medical thinking. If
traditional medical thinking and counting calories had
worked for you, you would not be interested in this
information. We are going to present things that we 331 LOSING WEIGHT
have clinically observed as being true experientially. Consciousness work has to do with the truth of
our inner experience. It does not have anything to do
with theory, hypotheses, scientific reasoning, or logic. It
has to do with the experiencing of the truth within us. The first thing to do is to begin to cancel some
beliefs about diets and food that have contributed to
our problem. To begin With, we have beliefs and
thoughts, such as, "Well, being overweight runs in our
family-it's in the genes. " Or, "It's due to my thyroid,"
or, "It's due to the fact that as an infant, I was over
weight, and that caused too many fat cells. "These are
all popular medical theories, and if holding those in
mind works for you, then that is very good. However,
we have found experientially that this really is not so. As an example, two people can eat an identical diet,
and one will gain weight and the other will lose it. How can that be explained inasmuch as the activity
levels and everything else are about the same. This
brings about the questioning of some of the basic
medical hypotheses, a few ofwhich are very simple to
understand. First, why assume that the body fully absorbs all
the calories it consumes. Why think that the gastroin
testinal tracts of two different people are exactly the
same. I may eat a 1,OOO-calorie piece ofpie and absorb
only 500 calories, with the other 500 running right on
through. There are other factors, such. as the rate of
movement in the gastrointestinal tract. We know that
the faster things move through the tract, the less it
absorbs. There are factors other than calories to consider,
and in doing so, we will arrive at a way of handling 332 HEALING AND RECOVERY
this problem that will not involve counting calories. There are some dietary tricks that are helpful to
use in the beginning until the results of working on
ourself have adjusted our appestat, which is located
in a portion of the brain called the hypothalamus. It
takes a day or two to reset the appestat, which con
trols our feeling of satiety. The adjusted appestat will
control our weight. As we hold a certain weight in
mind, it begins to materialize on the physical plane. It
is helpful to understand the power of mind over body
and that what is held in mind creates the body's being
what it is, rather than the other way around. It is necessary to reverse the conventional, so
called 'common sense' of the left-brain logic that says
it is the body that creates the mind. Instead, we have
to look at the opposite, which is that what is held in
mind manifests within the body. Our thoughts and
beliefs about weight, activity, calories, and all the phec
nomena surrounding this have been affecting our
weight. For example, the following· is known from
cases of patients with multiple personalities. One
personality appears in the patient and takes over the
consciousness named Richard, who does not have any
eating or weight problems at all. In fact, he eats very
little, is spry and active, and while Richard is in the
body, the person is loses weight and becomes slim. Then the person goes into a trance state or
becomes intoxicated, and William comes into the
body. Williamloves to eat,gorging himselfonallkit;lds
of things, and the body's weight suddenly increases
dramatically. Now we can see that the response of the
body is therefore to the mind-the mindset, the 333 LOSING WEIGHT
mind's belief and attitude, and the way the person
holds the relationship to their body in their mind. It is
the mind that sets the appestat. It is using conscious
ness techniques within the mind that release the
weight problems, and one can let go of the weight
almost automatically. We will review the nature of consciousness itself
and the relationship between body, mind, and spirit,
with spirit being the energy field of consciousness
that is all pervasive throughout life itself. It is impor
tant to understand that the body has no capacity to
experience itself. At first this seems amazing because
most of us, unless we are enlightened, assume that we
are the physical body. We must realize that the body
has no way to experience itself. The arm cannot expe
rience the arm nor can the leg experience the leg. Instead, they have to be experienced in something
greater than themselves. We experience the body via
the senses, which tell us what is going on within it. As
the senses of the body have no capacity to experi
ence themselves, they have to be experienced in
something greater than what they are, which is in
mind itself, so the mind is the place where the sensa
tions in the body are experienced. Mind itself is incapable of experiencing itself. A
thought cannot experience its own thoughtness, nor
can a memory experience its own memoryness. A fan
tasy of the future cannot experience itself, nor can an
emotion experience itself. What goes on in the mind
has to be experienced in something that is greater
than the mind, that is, in consciousness itself. There is
the body's experience via sensation. Sensation is 334 HEALING AND RECOVERY
experienced in the mind, and the mind is experi
enced in consciousness. This can be seen very easily,
for example, when something happens to a portion of
the brain, and the person is unable to experience the
opposite side of the body. Without mind, the body cannot be experienced. The whole pOint of anesthesia illustrates that without
consciousness, one is not aware ofwhat is going on in
mind. If consciousness is deleted via the anesthetic,
there is no knowledge of the experience that is going
on in either mind or body, so consciousness is higher
than both of them. There is a state beyond conscious
ness itself that is still, unmoving, and allows us to be
aware ofwhat is going on in consciousness; it is called
the state of awareness. The state of awareness is an
aspect of the greater, powerful energy field behind
consciousness, which is the energy of life itself. This
is necessary to know in order to become aware of
where all experience takes place. All human experience is taking place within con
sciousness itself. Consequently, we cannot experience
the wall, the floor, or someone else. Instead, what we
experience is within our own consciousness of the
wall, the floor, or another person. This gives an under
standing of an area in which we can work that is less
restricted by commonly held belief systems. If the entire weight problem is a phenomenon


 serum ALT
indicates acute hepatocellular damage before jaundice appears. The ALT/SGPT laboratory test
makes use of spectrophotometric or colorimetric methods which detect and evaluate treatment
progress for hepatitis, cirrhosis without jaundice, liver toxicity, and acute liver disease. It also
distinguishes between myocardial and hepatic tissue damage. ALT values range from 10 to 32 U/L in men; from 9 to 24 U/L in women; twice those levels
in infants. When they are very high—up to 50 times normal—viral or drug-induced hepatitis must
be suspected. Or there may be other liver disease with extensive necrosis. Moderate-to-high levels of ALT may indicate infectious mononucleosis, chronic hepatitis,
intrahepatic cholestasis, early or improving acute viral hepatitis, or severe hepatic congestion due
to heart failure. Slight-to-moderate ALT elevations may appear with any condition that produces acute
cellular injury in the liver such as active cirrhosis and drug-induced or alcoholic hepatitis. Marginal elevations possibly show acute myocardial infarction or secondary hepatic
congestion. An interfering factor for the alanine transaminase, serum glutamicpyruvic transaminase
laboratory test is the taking of opiate analgesics such as morphine, codeine, and meperidine,
The Total Serum Cholesterol Laboratory Test
This quantitative serum analysis measures the circulating levels of free cholesterol and
cholesterol esters and reflects the amount of cholesterol compound appearing in the body tissues. Both absorbed from the diet and synthesized in the liver and other body tissues, cholesterol is a
structural component in cell membranes and plasma lipoproteins. It contributes to the formation
of adrenocorticoid steroids, bile salts, androgens, and estrogens. A diet high in saturated fat raises
cholesterol levels by stimulating absorption of lipids, including cholesterol, from the intestine;
a diet low in saturated fat lowers them. Elevated total serum cholesterol is associated with an
increased risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Thus, the total serum cholesterol laboratory test assesses the risk of coronary artery disease
(CAD), evaluates fat metabolism, and aids in diagnosing kidney disease, pancreatitis, liver
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www.thegersonway.comand sex. Its common range is from 150 to 200 mg/dL. A desirable blood cholesterol is below 200
mg/dL, and levels from 200 to 240 mg/dL are considered borderline or at high risk for CAD. A
level in excess of 250 mg/dL (hypercholesterolemia) indicates high risk of cardiovascuar disease,
incipient hepatitis, lipid disorders, bile duct blockage, nephrotic syndrome, obstructive jaundice,
pancreatitis, and hypothyroidism. They require treatment. Hypercholesterolemia from high dietary
intake requires modification of eating habits and possibly medication to retard absorption. Hypercholesterolemia can occur from taking adrenocorticotropic hormone, corticosteroids,
androgens, bile salts, epinephrine, chlorpromazine, trifluoperazine, oral contraceptives, salicylates,
thiouracils, and trimethadione. Low serum cholesterol (hypocholesterolemia) is associated with malnutrition, cellular
necrosis of the liver, and hyperthyroidism. Cholesterol often drops below normal in the Gerson
program, because patients are eating an extremely low-fat diet. The Lipoprotein/Cholesterol
Fractionation Laboratory Test
To assess the risk of coronary artery disease, the lipoprotein/cholesterol fractionation
laboratory test is conducted. By centrifugation or electrophoresis, it isolates and measures
the cholesterol in blood, which appears as low-density lipoproteins (LDL) and high-density
lipoproteins (HDL). It’s known that a lower HDL level in the population gives rise to a higher
incidence of CAD. Conversely, higher HDL levels produce a lesser amount of CAD. Note: Since the Gerson Therapy offers a minimal amount of fat, it often lowers the risk
of coronary artery disease; but it does provide an adequate supply of certain polyunsaturated
essential fatty acids and fat-soluble vitamins that cannot be synthesized in adequate amounts for
optima[ body function. Normal HDL cholesterol ranges from 29 to 77 mg/100 mL of blood, and normal LDL
cholesterol ranges from 62 to 185 mg/100 mL. Too-high LDL levels increases the risk of CAD,
while elevated HDL generally reflects a healthy state. Or it might indicate chronic hepatitis, early-
stage primary biliary cirrhosis, or too much alcohol consumption. The Serum Triglycerides Laboratory Test
Being the body’s main storage form of lipids (constituting 95 percent of fatty tissue), the serum
triglycerides laboratory test provides a quantitative analysis of them. It identifies hyerlipemia in
kidney disease and CAD. The triglyceride values vary according to age: 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 187Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comAge            Trigyceride Values
                                                                 Mg/dL     nmol/L
0-29              10-140    0.1-1.55
30-39          10-150    0.1-1.65
40-49          10-160    0.1-1.75
50-59          10-190    0.1-2.10
Test abnormality suggests that other measurements are needed. High triglycerides indicate the
risk of atherosclerosis or CAD. Mild-to-moderate levels advise of biliary obstruction, diabetes,
kidney disease, endocrinopathies, or too much consumption of alcohol. Decreased levels are rare
but may show malnutrition or a betalipoproteinemia. Note: On the Gerson diet, flare-ups and healing reactions are shown by elevated tri-
glycerides. The Serum Protein Electrophoresis Laboratory Test
The major blood proteins of the body, albumin and four globulins, are measured in an electric
field by separating them into patterns according to size, shape, and electric charge at pH 8.6. Comprising more than 50 the serum creatinine level (see the test description which immediately
follows). With normal values ranging from 8 to 20 mg/dL, the BUN test helps to evaluate kidney
function, aids in the diagnosis of kidney illness, and assesses the body’s hydration. An elevated
BUN happens in reduced renal blood flow from dehydration, renal disease, urinary tract
obstruction, and ‘increased protein catabolism as in burns. Depressed BUN levels occur in severe
liver damage, malnutrition, and overhydration. Note: Due to  initial decreased dietary protein intake, a person following the Gerson Therapy
will likely show a slightly reduced level of BUN. The Serum Creatinine Laboratory Test
Providing a more sensitive measure of kidney damage than the BUN, the serum creatinine
laboratory test is a quantitative analysis of the nonprotein end product of metabolism, creatinine. Kidney impairment is virtually the only cause of creatinine elevation in the blood; therefore,
creatinine levels are directly related to the glomerular filtration rate. They assess renal glomerular
function and screen for kidney damage. Creatinine concentration in males normally ranges from 0.8 to 1.2 mg/dL; in females it ranges
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www.thegersonway.comwith 50 percent damaged nephrons as in gigantism and acromegaly. Interfering factors are too
much absorption of ascorbic acid, barbiturates, diuretics, and sulfobromophthalein. Also, athletes
may have above-average creatinine levels, even with normal kidney function. The Serum Uric Acid Laboratory Test
Used mainly to detect gout, the serum uric acid laboratory test measures levels of uric acid,
a metabolite of purine in the blood. Glomerular filtration and tubular secretion gets rid of uric
acid, but it’s less soluble at a pH of 7.4 or lower which occurs in certain diseases such as gout,
excessive cellular generation and destruction as in leukemia, and kidney dysfunction. Uric acid concentrations in men range from 4.3 to 8 mg/dL; in women they range from 2.3
to 6 mg/dL. Although elevated levels of serum uric acid don’t correlate with severity of disease,
they do rise in congestive heart failure,


comprise the body depend upon the absorption from the bowels for their
nutrition. As previously stated, proper nutrition can be blocked from the cells
by retained waste in the colon. This leads to a toxic buildup and the
accumulation of a gluey substance throughout the intestines called “mucoid
plaque. ” This plaque causes inflammation and the breakdown of the tissues of
the intestinal walls. Mucoid plaque is mostly a by-product of refined starches, sugars anddairy products. When the walls of the intestines are coated with layers of
sticky plaque, the nutrients the body needs to properly function and perform
to its highest potential cannot be absorbed. In addition, the sticky mucoid
plaque is a breeding ground for parasitic infestation. These destructive
parasites consume any remaining nutrients left in the GI tract. We require certain intestinal parasites (known as intestinal flora) for
positive and beneficial breakdown of various by-products of digestion. A
great example of this is B-vitamins, which are created by intestinal flora
action upon starches. Generally your intestines are colonized by nonharmful
organisms which aid digestion and the breakdown of foodstuffs into other
nutrients. However, there are many destructive parasites that can flourish in
the intestines. This is especially true in the case of meat consumption, which
can perpetrate the formation and growth of all types of worms (pin, hook,
tape, etc. ) and proteolytic (protein-splitting) microorganisms. It is important
to clean the intestinal walls and heal the inflammation at the same time that the
elimination of toxic substances is taking place. A healthy diet will create a bowel movement approximately thirty
minutes after you eat. It is important to move your bowels two-to-three times
per day. If your bowels become sluggish, this will cause additional
fermentation and putrefaction of your foods. We absorb these toxins and gas
particles directly into our blood stream. This can cause headaches, cloudy or
foggy thinking, bloating, abdominal pain, and even heart arrhythmias. I’ve
known people to go thirty days without moving their bowels. Don’t miss
even one day. Diarrhea is just as bad as constipation— moving your foods too quickly
through the GI tract is just as bad as holding your foods too long. Some say
diarrhea is just another form of constipation. The former creates lack of
proper breakdown of your foods, yielding poor absorption; and the latter
causes fermentation and putrefaction of your foods yielding alcohol, acidosis,
gas and inflammation. Both create starvation within the body. FOUR WAYS TO CLEANSE THE BOWELS

Herbal Bowel Formulas
A good bowel formula (a preparation of herbs that you take on a daily basisduring your cleanse) will help break down mucoid plaque, kill only the
destructive parasites, remove the inflammation and strengthen intestinal walls. When I designed my stomach and bowel formulas, I wanted ones that
would gently move you. A formula that would be anti-inflammatory
(removing the inflammation), and would clean the mucoid plaque off the
walls, as well. My formulas would also clean out the pockets (diverticulum)
that were formed from impactions. I wanted a formula that would also
strengthen the GI tract, eliminating these pockets, as well as the ballooning
and/or the spastic conditions that we all suffer with. The problem with most
bowel formulas is that they have heavy Cayenne Pepper, Aloes, Buckthorn or
other stimulating and habit-forming herbs that cause gripping, cramping, or
excessive mucus production. These types of formulas can cause a great deal
of abdominal discomfort and are oftentimes hard to regulate. Many intestinal
formulas can become addicting; that is to say, the body becomes dependent
upon these as it does with other stimulants, leaving the opposite effect when
you stop taking them—constipation. A good bowel formula will not be addicting. It will gently move you,
clean you, remove the inflammation, and strengthen—all at the same time. Additionally, it will stimulate lymph flow and circulation within the intestinal
wall tissues themselves. (See
Chapter 8
,
Module 8. 3
 for herbal formulas for
the stomach and bowels; also see Resource Guide for companies that make
good bowel formulas. ) Colonics
Colonic therapy may also be used to assist the cleansing of the colon (large
intestine). However, the small intestine must be cleaned and cared for as well
—which is why an herbal bowel formula is also recommended. Colonics are
like a “high” enema, but have a “washing” effect upon tissue. Colon
therapists, who are generally licensed massage therapists, perform colonics. (In my opinion, every Emergency Room should have a colonic machine and
a trained colon therapist on staff. ) Colonics are great at removing impactions
of the large bowel, aiding in relief of acidosis, distention of the abdomen,
lower back pain, sciatic pain, kidney pain, headaches and fevers, to name a
few conditions. They can also help clean out diverticula or bowel pockets. Colon therapy is a gentle procedure, yet it can have aggressive results, as
it can break loose plaque that has been impacted upon the colon wall for
years. I’ve seen impactions removed by colonics that have been in the bodyfor fifty years or more. Many years ago, a chiropractor-friend of mine had a registered nurse on
his staff, who performed colonics. One of the nurse’s patients, who had gone
home when the colonic was finished, started feeling pain in her sigmoid
bowel a short while later. The patient waited several hours until she felt she
needed to determine what was causing her discomfort, and finally went to the
Emergency Room. There they discovered that she had cancer of the sigmoid
bowel. The colonic did not cause this, of course, her lifestyle did. However,
the colonic did expose the cancer. This was a good thing because the woman
then could do something about it. If she had not had the colonic the cancer
could have spread throughout her body without her knowing it, until it was
too late to achieve an effective cure. Exposing inflammation, such as happened in this case, can be painful and
yield some discomfort. Generally, this is why I prefer to recommend a good
intestinal (bowel) herbal formula that is designed to be anti-inflammatory and
restorative, not laxative. Herbal restorative bowel formulas will slowly loosen
and remove the plaque that has impacted upon the walls. They will also
reduce the inflammation behind this plaque and heal the bowel wall. In this
way, your healing experience becomes much smoother and less traumatic. Colonics are great for colon obstructions, as long as they’re not tumors
or adhesions. Colonics are good for the large bowel. My preference in terms
of the administering of colonics. I personally recommend Dr. Jensen’s
Colema Board® concept as the best option. I’ve seen some real success
through this process with eliminating the mucoid plaque build-up in the GI
tract. The Colema Board is designed to fit over your toilet at one end, with the
other end resting on a
chair or stool. By lying on this board (while at the
same time using a five-gallon bucket of skin temperature water), you give
yourself a high enema. However, this procedure is much more relaxing than
an ordinary enema, because you just lay there and allow the water to slowly
and gently clean you out. Dr. Jensen has created a whole bowel management program that can’t be
beat (see his book,
Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management,
 1981). His procedures help to clean the small bowel as well as the large bowel,
whereas professional colonics only affect the large bowel. With some self-
discipline, the Colema System can be done at home with the purchase of a
Colema Board. For information about his program, and for purchasing and
using a Colema Board, see
www. colema-boards. com. I’m not against professional colonics. To maximize the benefits, change
your diet to a 100 percent raw food program and add intestinal restoratives
for a month or so before your start your colonic regime. Three to five
colonics should be sufficient. Enemas
Enemas are another great way to help yourself out in time of need, or to assist
in colon-rectal conditions such as hemorrhoids or cancer. There are many
types of enemas that one can use to help clean and open this channel. LOW ENEMAS
 — These generally clean and strengthen the descending,
sigmoid and rectal areas of the large intestine (colon). They require about
one-half to one quart of skin temperature water in an enema bag (these are
available in most pharmacies; oftentimes they are labeled as “enema/hot-water
bottle,” or “enema/douche/ hot water bottle” combination). Any number of the following herbs can be made into tea, strained, and
used in place of plain water in the enema bag. These herbs will clean and
strengthen the colon walls: Cascara Sagrada, Marshmallow Root, Slippery
Elm Bark, Plantain Leaf, Comfrey Root, Burdock Root, Gentian, etc. See,
How To Do An Enema,
 instructions below. HIGH ENEMAS
 — A high enema is necessary to achieve results higher up
in the colon, e. g. in the transverse, ascending and cecum portions of the large
int


 I often add avocado to my salad – veggies
and avocados are excellent lubricant s in promoting
healthy elimination for  the gastrointestinal tract. I make it a hard and fast rule to always eat my salad
first. I do this for several reasons. First I think we musteducate our
260 taste buds to accept only natural foods. Therefore when you have raw foods, either a raw vegetable
salad or a fruit salad to start the meal, you educate your
taste buds to enjoy and want clean, live, healthy foods. Most people start a meal with a broth or soup with
sandwiches or bread. This is wrong in my opinion. Tomake the taste buds keen, sharp and alive – having yourraw health salad or fresh fruits first starts the digestivejuices flowing for raw foods are rich in natural healthyenzymes. All this contributes to good nutrition. I urgeyou to always eat something raw at the beginning ofeach meal. You will find in time your taste buds willbegin to reject devitalized, unhealthy foods that you maybe tempted to eat. As you re-educate the taste buds toenjoy more fruits and salads, you will find that you canand should increase the daily amount of raw, live foodsyou eat to
60% to 70%  of your total intake – it’s the healthiest. Healthy, healing dietary fibers are organic fresh vegetables, fruits, salads
and whole grains and their products. These health builders help normalizeyour blood pressure, cholesterol and also promotes healthy elimination. 92The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle
Promotes Super Health & Longevity
Remember that raw foods are the live, vital foods. They are as Mother Nature made them. They’re whole,natural, live foods – vibrating with enzymes and solar
energy. Most people want food that stimulates them –
the sugars, fats, salt, heavy, overcooked and refined foods
that have little food value. They want fast foods and
most of them have been stripped of their goodness. The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle consists of eating a diet
of
60% to 70% fresh, live, organically grown foods; raw
vegetables, salads, fresh fruits and juices; sprouts, rawseeds and nuts; all-natural
100%  whole grained breads,
pastas, cereals and nutritious beans and legumes. These
are the no cholesterol, no fat, no salt, “live foods” thatproduce the body fuel that helps produce healthy, lively
people. Healthy “live foods” and fasting are the main
reasons people become revitalized and reborn into a freshnew life filled with youthfulness, health, vitality, joy andlongevity. There are millions of healthy Bragg followers
worldwide proving this lifestyle works miracles. Vegetarianism Versus Meat Eating
Over the  long years that I have been a Nutritionist,
the controversy of “Vegetarianism versus Meat Eating”
has raged furiously. Both sides present the most scientificreasons for their side of the story. I am not going to try
to persuade you to be either a vegetarian or a meat eater. There are hundreds of books written on both subjects. Cabbage (raw) has amazing properties. It stimulates the immune system, kills
bacteria and viruses, heals ulcers, and according to Dr. James Balch in Prescription
for Cooking and Dietary Wellness, your chances of contracting colon cancer can bereduced by up to 60% by eating cabbage weekly. Dr. Saxon-Graham states that
those who never consumed cabbage were three times more likely to develop colon
cancer. A Japanese study shows that people who ate cabbage had the lowestfatality rate from any cancer. Therapeutic benefits have also been attributed to
cabbage in relation to scurvy, gout, rheumatism (arthritis), eye diseases, asthma,
pyorrhea, and gangrene. See our Bragg Salad Recipe (page
 231). Cooking destroys
the cabbages healing  properties. We love cabbage and also we make a variety of
sandwiches wrapped in cabbage leaves instead of bread. Try this – so delicious. Eat Plenty of Cabbage – The Miracle Cleanser and Healer93I Prefer the Healthier Vegetarian Diet
Over the years of following a program of fasting and
eating a diet containing an abundance of raw organic
fruit and vegetables, my body has become so keen that
it practically tells me what to eat at every meal. Afteryears on this healthy vegetarian diet, my body has lost
the desire for meat, fowl and fish. My diet is composed
of organic raw fruits and vegetables, cooked vegetables,beans, legumes, brown rice, etc. with raw nuts and seeds
and their butters, raw wheat germ and Brewer’s yeast. This is what my body seems to thrive on. But
occasionally there were times when my body told me to
eat a piece of meat or a piece of fish, or to have some
natural cheese or a few fertile eggs. In other words, mybody developed an instinct for the selection of foods. Sometimes I go 4 or
 5 years without tasting eggs, etc.,
then my body will telegraph that I need some. Listeningto my inner voice has helped me enormously. Basically I have been a vegetarian by nature most of
my life. I was reared on a large farm in Virginia wherehundreds of hogs and cattle were slaughtered regularly,so killing has always been repulsive to me. I have never
been a hunter or a fisherman because I do not like to
take another life. I have made
 13 expeditions to distant
lands and I have found many robust, healthy people
living on a vegetarian diet. On the other hand, I have
found people in other cultures who also enjoyed higherhealth and yet included animal products in their diets. I roamed the South Seas for over a year at one time and
in those far flung islands I found supermen and wonderwomen. They not only lived on an abundance of fresh
fruit and vegetables, but they included fish, fowl and
some meat in their diet. So you see I have tried to be asfair as I could about this question of Vegetarianism versus
Meat Eating. I feel that as we cleanse and purify our
bodies we develop a keen sense of what is healthiest
and best for us to eat. Keep a daily journal and see. Nutrition directly affects growth, development, reproduction, well-being
and an individual’s physical and mental condition. Health depends uponnutrition more than on any other single factor. –  Dr. Wm. H. Sebrell, Jr. 94Eliminating Meat is Safer and Healthier
Most uninformed nutritionists call meat the #1 source
of protein. Those proteins coming from the vegetable
kingdom are referred to as the #2 proteins. This is a sad
and terrible mistake. It should be the other way around. In this day and age, almost all meat is laden with
herbicides, fungicides, pesticides and other chemicals
that are sprayed on or poured into the feed which theseanimals consume. They are also pumped full of
hormones, antibiotics, growth stimulators and all kinds
of drugs to fatten them up and keep them from dyingfrom the extremely unhealthy conditions most of them
live in. This is not to mention the admitted fact that
many of them are fed the dead, ground up carcasses ofother feed lot animals who, for a variety of reasons, didn’t
make it to the slaughterhouse. Speaking of the slaughterhouse, what kind of
chemical reaction do you suppose would occur in your
body if somebody put a choke chain around your neck
to keep you in line, shoved you onto a conveyor belt,and made you watch in horror as all of those in line infront of you were beheaded one by one. Well, your body
would be pumped so full of adrenaline from all that fear
you wouldn’t know what hit you. Unused adrenaline isextremely toxic. If you think for a minute that most of
the meat that you consume is not packed with this toxic
substance, you’re sadly mistaken. Also, consider the fact that cattle, sheep, chickens,
etc., are all vegetarians. When you eat them, you are
just eating polluted vegetables. Why not skip all thewaste and toxins and just eat healthy, organic vegetables. And what about that myth that you have to eat  meat
to get your protein. If that were so true, where do yousuppose farm animals, especially horses, get all their
protein. They are vegetarians. They get their protein
from the grains and grasses that they eat. You are nodifferent. You can get the proteins you need from the
large variety of whole grains, tofu, raw nuts, seeds, beans,
fruits and vegetables that God put on this planet for
your health. See Vegetable Protein
% Chart, page 233. 95Meat Has Toxic Uric Acid and Cholesterol
Meat is the major source of toxic uric acid and
cholesterol, both harmful to your health. If you insiston eating meat, it should be an organically fed sourceand not eaten more than 2 to 3 times weekly. Fresh fishcan be the least toxic of the flesh proteins, but bewareof fish from polluted waters. They can be loaded withmercury, lead, cadmium,
DDT  and other toxic
substances. If you are unsure of the waters the fish comefrom, don’t risk eating it. Avoid shellfish – shrimp, lobsterand crayfish. They are garbage-eating bottom-feeders(the rats and flies of the water world). They eat decayingscum and refuse off the bottoms of the oceans, lakesand rivers. Chickens and turkeys are a sick


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in his airicr!lights of fancy,  but when  he says  quite
simply,  "Something  unknown  is doing  we don't
know  what." THE  WISDOM  OF INSECURITY
In such a confession thought has moved full
circle,  and we are again as children. To those
still fever - ishly intent upon explaining ali
things, upon secur - ing the water of life firmly in
paper and string, this  confession says nothing
and means nothing but de - feat. To others, che
fact that thought has completed  a circle is a
revelation of what man has been doing,  noc only
in philosophy, religion, and speculative  science,
but also in psychology and morals, in every - day
feeling and living. His mind has bccn in a whirl  to
be away  írom  itself  and to catch  itsclf. Ye su[Jer  from  yourselves,  nonc  elsc
comfJels,  Nonc other holds you  that ye livc
and die  And  whir  upon  the wheel,  and
lwg and  kiss
its spokes  o/ agony,
lls tire o/ tears,  its nave  o/ nothing11ess. Discovcring this the mind becomes whole: the
split  between I and me, man and the world, the
ideal and  the real, comes to an cnd. Paranoia, the
mind beside  itself, becomes metanoia, thc mind
with itself and so  free from itself. Free from
clutching at themselves  the hands can handle;
free from looking after them - selves the eyes can
see; free from trying to undt:rstand  itself thought
can think. In such feeling, seeing, and  thinking
life requires no future to complete itsel f nor
explanation to justify itself. In this moment it is
finished. ALAN W. WATTS, who holds,both a mastcr·s dcgree
in  thcolo  y   ami  a <locLOratc   of divi11ity,   is bcst  known
as an i11tcrprc1cr of Z.en Buddhism in panicular, a11d
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original and "unruttcd''  philosophcrs of thc century. He is the author of sorne scventccn  books on  the
philosophy and psychology of rcligion, including (in
Vi111.1gc  Books)  The lll ay nf 21"11,  The Joyous  Cos-
1 1 1 0 / o g y. : 1 1 1 d N11ture,  1\1! 1 1 1, 1 1 / l l l  J l'o 1 1 1 r 1 1 1. He has been a
guest  lccwrcr  at most  of the principal  univcrsities  in
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l l R O W N,  NORMAN  Love's  IJody
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izing conditions applied, a disturbed environment led to a disturbed way of life. It was not a
big step unfortunately for the minimal amounts of alcohol in natural
foods to give way to the higher amounts made available in especially fermented fruits, in accord with the rising subhuman arousals of a disturbed existence. So the fermented juices of fruits became linked to the Dionysian cults; as innocence was lost, so
these evidently became more orgias tic and lascivious. Quite early in
human history alas, alcohol became an active agent in dehumanization, as it still is. To say that beauty goes with h ealth, and that health is the
reward of wholeness, requires a defi nition of beauty distinct from its
usual sexy involvements. Necessarily natural beauty is designed to
enshrine sexual love, but this is different from the beauty, which is
no more than a veiled invitation to licence, evident in entertainment, in fashion, in the novel, in a romanticized sexuality not so far from embellished pornography. Natural b eauty demands purity, and is
inseparable from love. In the eyes of love, provided there is no
untoward blemish, what could be seen as sexually plain could
appear as of great beauty, a matter of internal light rather than of outward provocation, of wholeness rather than surface. That the human being, when truly human, is particularly attuned to this definition of beauty is made eviden t in art. Indeed, when it is the
'sexy' kind of beauty that prevails, one has not to do with art, but
with pornography. It is a fact, which anyone can put to the test, that a return to a
natural dietary not only restores health, but beauty as just defined. The foul breath, and humiliating body odours, supporting a vast artificial industry, give way to a na tural sweetness. It is remarkable
how fragrant the skin becomes on such a diet. The common greasy
patches on forehead and nose, the dilated pores and psoriasis, the crinkly piggy fat and sagging which deform give way to a clarity, a firmness and a harmony of movement even in long abused bodies,
and the eyes, those true portals to the soul, become bright and alive. There is enough evidence to sustain hope, that even advanced so
called incurable disease can yield to a natural restoration,
particularly when this is accompanied by a supporting restoration in human faith. But sadly, in some of the most terrible ills against which all the
skills of medicine and science remain largely powerless, the cancers and mutilations of ageing, mostly the results of human mischief and
misunderstanding of nature, the body has no experience of reaction
and defence. Death must then come, and be faced, as it must anyway, however joyful and wonderful life has been. In a civilization geared to the worship of material power, death is a most terrifying, utterly humiliating event. As nothing but an animal,
knowing only material things, death is totally unacceptable, and
those who say that they have resigned themselves to it on such terms, have in truth only shut their eyes to its ultimately humiliating power. Contemplating the wholeness and progressive achievements of life, it would be a contradiction of the entire enterprise of
Creation to produce a creature aware of itself, and so of death,
without some compensatory adaptation. Such compensations have perennially come in the form of a transcendental belief that the human being is not entirely in bo ndage to time and space, a belief
lost in the present crisis of materialism. It will have to be restored, if human beings are to recover a dignified and meaningful place in the
Creation. There is no reason why it should not be a perfectly natural
restoration. There are pointers today even in science that so called material reality is much more than space, time and substance. But while this is at present a challenge  for the individual to face for
himself, nature has equipped the human to face death, in making
death itself the culminating 'high' to living. Even following the
terrible and prolonged torments of disease, there is abounding evidence that death can come as an ecstasy, although it would seem
that the 'high' of dying is more likely to be the reward for a life lived wholely and in respect of natural law. Just as there is a natural way to living, so there is a natural way
to dying, one completely ignored by the modern age, one in fact
actively rejected by the medical profession. It is a simple way, practised by all other cultures. At the end of a long life humanly lived, the intimation of death comes with a kindness that robs it of fear. On the contrary, there is a welcome and a reassurance about it. When death comes sooner, shortcutting the natural span, death can
still be met by a letting go, when a ll hope is gone, by simply fasting
out. For those who have regularly practised the fast in the course of living, there will be the reassurance that this simple act brings with it intimations of transcendence, of purity and glory which thoroughly defy the apparent finalit y of material things. Fasting out
implies abandoning the sacrament of eating for the sacramental act
of dying. The same hallowing, reverential, grateful approach is needed, the same envelopment in  beauty, joy and purity. The
timeless association of the human and the floral should not follow, but precede death; flowers should be for the dying, not for the dead,
the reminder in such wonderful things, that nature is profoundly
humanly attuned, and that wherever the Creation goes, there will its chosen creatures, in rapturous joy and fulfilment, go also. 16. Hints for the Millennium

In happier times, fruits and salads feature more predominately
in the dietary, just as they go out in darker times. The head gardener
of James II, was of the opinion that an ordinary salad should have at least 30 ingredients (mentioned in the Popular Encyclopaedia of
Gardening, by H. H. Thomas and G. Forsyth). The tender roots of
daisy, of fennel, of angelica and campion, as well as of carrot and parsnip were used. Leaves of wild and cultivated plants, whose names are likely to sound foreign to many a city-dweller but which abound, were also popular—dandelion, cowthistle, primrose, violet, tarragon, rocket, sage, hyssop, marigold, marjoram, leek tops,
purslane, cowslip, basil, borage, chevil, daisy, vine and marrow
tendrils, sorrel, scurvy grass, broom  and elder buds and many other
things, procurable without cost by the diligent. Flowers were also added liberally, those of dandelion, angelica, nasturtium, rose, primroses, etc. The happy Elizabethans were especially fond of
salads, and seldom had a meal without one. Just as fruits should be available at all times, the humanizing
decoration in every room, in ev ery office, and eaten whenever
desired, so the salad should form the artistic focus of every meal. As John Evelyn, the salad authority of the seventeenth century remarked, the picking and preparing of salads is a great and
legitimate art, giving much pl easure and healthfulness in its
practice. If one has no back garden, many things can be grown from
seeds in boxes, from the common'mustard and cress' to the
germinating shoots of cereals, of wheat, barley, maize. If you buy or
are given roses, eat one. If you are lucky in having something of a
garden, or access to a growable patch, there is no limit to your contribution to health and joy. Ma ny vegetables allowed to flower
make beautiful flowers, e. g., the Jerusalem Artichoke, which,
incidentally, is delicious grated raw with olive oil, giving very much
less wind than when cooked. This is true regarding the artichoke as
well. There are few more beautiful flowers than the enormous nettle
of the artichoke. Cardoons are easier to grow in England than artichokes proper. The hearts are delicious raw, and the leaves can be wrapped with newspaper and blanched, the tips eaten raw and the rest cooked as a delicious vegetable. To extend the role of fruits, when they are scarce or expensive,
the 'rawcost' of the Scandinavians and the Swiss can be resorted to. The principle is to batter the fibres of the harder parts of roots and leaves so as to make them approach  the softer consistency of fruits,
enabling them thereby to be eaten in the larger quantities needed for
meeting the needs of vitamin C and bulk generally. Although this
can be done by hand chopping and macerating, there are many mechanical gadgets which save much time. As earlier mentioned, one should not become geared to a fixed
pattern of eating in a family; even  in entertaining, spontaneity can be left greater opportunities, and meals should be joyfully prolonged
with long intermittences—many courses need be no more than attractive snippets. It is however usually more convenient to prepare
the day's eating after a breakfast of cereal, fruit and light tea or
herbal. The main meal is best taken during the day, not late at night. For those working, fruits and bread and spread can be taken during the day, and the main meal taken on returning, followed by exercise and recreation.


 coauthor Mark Victor Hansen, and actress Demi Moore. Dr. Graham is the author of several books on raw food and health, including The High Energy Diet Recipe Guide, Nutrition
and Athletic Performance, and the forthcoming Prevention and Care of Athletic Injuries. He has shared his strategies for
success with audiences at more than 4,000 presentations worldwide. Recogni zed as one of the fathers of the modern raw
movement, Dr. Graham is the only lecturer to have attended and given key note presentations at all of the major raw events in the
world, from 1997 through 2005. Dr. Graham is a founder of and is currently serving his third term as president of Healthful Living International, the world’s
premier Natural Hygiene organization. He is on the board of advisors of Voic e for a Viable Future, the Vegetarian Union of North
America, Living Light Films, and EarthSave International. He ser ves as nutrition advisor to the magazine Exercise, for Men Only
and authors a column for Get Fresh! and Living Nutrition magazines. Dr. Graham is the creator of “Simply Delicious” cuisine and director  of Health & Fitness W eeks, which provide Olympic-
class training and nutritional guidance to people of all fitness leve ls in beautiful settings around the world. He is living proof that eatin g
whole, fresh, ripe, raw, organic food is the nutritional way to vibrant heal th and vitality. Endnotes
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February 6, 2004, pp. 80–82. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers  for Disease Control and Prevention. Accessed
at www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/
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2. U.C. Berkeley News  press release by Sarah Yang, June 1, 2004, as quoted in U.C. Berkeley News, accessed at
www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/06/01_usdiet.shtml. Reprinted by  permission. ♠
3. A widely publicized report from the Centers for Disease Control an d Prevention lists obesity as the nation’s second leading cause
of preventable death, responsible for 320,000 to 400,000 annual deaths and predicted to soon overt ake tobacco as the number-
one cause. The number is being adjusted due to a statistical error, but reg ardless of the actual number, there is no doubt that obesity
is a devastating health issue in our nation. See “CDC: Obesity Dea ths Overstated,” by the Center for Consumer Freedom, dated
November 23, 2004, available online at www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm?headline=2691. ♠
4. Tanner, Lindsey. “Americans Eat Themselves to Death,” Associate d Press: March 9, 2004. Accessed at
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/09/health/main604956.shtml. ♠
5. “American Heart Disease,” from the Franklin Institute Online w ebsite: http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/healthy/stats.html. ♠
6. Arias, Elizabeth and Smith, Betty L. “Deaths: Preliminary Data  for 2001,” National Vital Statistics Reports. V ol. 51, No. 5,
March 14, 2003. Accessed at www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr51/nvsr51_05.pdf. ♠
7. “Cancer Basics: What Is Cancer and Why Does It Occur?” May 13, 2004. Acce ssed at The Mayo Clinic website:
www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=CA00003. ♠
8. “Diabetes: Disabling, Deadly, and on the Rise,” April 7, 2004. Centers for D isease Control and Prevention. Accessed at
www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/aag/aag_ddt.htm. ♠
9. Saxe, John Godfrey (1816–1887). “The Blind Men and the Elephant.” This version  of the famous Indian legend is in the public
domain. ♠
10. Greger, Michael. Atkins Facts. This 47-page eBook, which contains 487 source references, is available onlin e at
www.atkinsfacts.org. Quoted with permission. ♠
11. For information on canine caloronutrient requirements, visit  www.m ercola.com/2005/feb/5/pets_grains.htm. ♠
12. Visit www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/dairy.html for a tremendous amoun t of information about the toxicity of animal milk for
humans of any age. ♠
13. If you wish to learn more about glycemic index versus glycemic load, vis it www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm. The creator of this
website, David Mendosa, is coauthor of What Makes My Blood Glucose Go Up...And Down? (New York: Marlowe & Co.,
August 2003). ♠
14. “Evidence-Based Nutrition Principles and Recommendations for the  Treatment and Prevention of Diabetes and Related
Complications,” Diabetes Care  25:202–212, 2002. Accessed at http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/
content/full/25/1/202. In addition to making a clear statement in favor of wh ole-fruit sugar for diabetics, this article from the
American Diabetes Association recommends that Type 2 diabetics c onsume a “very large” amount of fiber—so much, in fact, that
they predict most people will not enjoy consuming it. The 80/10/10  diet, which consists of essentially 100% high-fiber foods, aligns
with this guideline perfectly. Here is the quote: “In subjects with type 2 diabetes, it appears that ingestion of very l arge amounts of
fiber are necessary to confer metabolic benefits on glycemic control, h yperinsulinemia, and plasma lipids. It is not clear whether the
palatability and the gastro-intestinal side effects of fiber in  this amount would be acceptable to most people.” ♠
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is now available only on the Web, at www.soilandhealth.org/02/02
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, a country with beaches, a warm climate and nice, inexpensive accommodation. However, there is no access to distilled water, so I chose to buy the best quality mineral water I could buy, and I used that for the duration of my water fast.In my case, I bought a glass pitcher and I ﬁlled the bottom of the pitcher with a few pieces of rose quartz, amethyst and clear quartz. I would then transfer the mineral water into the pitcher, and I would drink the water from there. The crystals help to energize the water with the natural frequencies of Mother Earth. Particularly those crystals help to amplify a sense of calm, peace, clarity and love.HOW LONG TO WATER FASTThe length of your water fast really depends on your personal goals for what you are trying to achieve with your health and your spirit. Initially I would recommend that anyone new to water fasting just try to do 3 days and 3 nights on pure water. This is a gentle introduction and will give you an idea of what to expect. 3 days is very safe for the body and you really cannot do any damage even if you break the fast incorrectly.Next time, you may plan to try for 7-10 days of only water to experience a slightly longer fast. Remember, you have have plenty of time to achieve a long fast. It is better to prepare slowly and gently and really be ready for Introduction to Water Fasting
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!11a long fast. Rushing into the deep end is not going to help you in the long run.The goal of doing shorter fasts is to train yourself mentally and physically for a positive experience. Also it gives you an opportunity to break the fast properly - believe me, that is equally as important as the fast itself. When you feel conﬁdent with your skills and knowledge, you will be ready to try a fast of 14 days or more.WEIGHT LOSSClearly you will experience weight loss during a water fast, and at a much faster rate than during a juice fast. On average, a person will lose 1/2 pound or 1/4 kilogram per day. You can expect to gain some of that weight back as soon as you start eating again, but if you break your fast well and maintain a healthy diet after the fast, you can keep at least 40% of the lost weight off.HUNGERMany people worry about hunger during a water fast, and they fear that they would be far too hungry to ever get past one day. Usually a person may feel some mild hunger pains in the ﬁrst 24-36 hours of the fast, and after that the hunger subsides. True! At that point, the body will turn to it’s natural fat reserves and start metabolizing and feeding from it’s own fat. This is completely natural and is how the body is meant to perform! Fat is not supposed to be stored in Introduction to Water Fasting
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!12huge excess on the body, weighing down the structure, putting stress on the organs and muscles. It is there as a fuel, a food that the body can use when in need. When the body goes into this mode, all hunger subsides. Do you really think bears hibernate all winter feeling hungry?The human body can safely exist for 40 days without any food. THE ULTIMATE FASTWater fasting is the purest type of fast for the body and the only type of cleanse where the body is not getting any food at all. For that reason, it can go deeper and is more powerful for healing.I believe water fasting is the best way to release toxins from the mind, body and spirit. It’s that simple. The body knows how to heal itself, it just needs a chance to do it. When you fast, you are directing the body to takes it’s energy inward. It can then start cleansing and healing itself. Through the industrialization of the world, we have decided as a species that we know what’s better for us than what nature provided. We have man-handled our foods to the point where they are poisonous to us and we have lived a more chemical-based life than ever before. No wonder why with all that ‘progress,’ we are sicker than ever before!The path to good health is so simple – trust that the body knows. Feed it well, think positive thoughts, bring love into your heart, and cleanse and detoxify your body and you will begin to feel superior states of consciousness and well-being that you never even knew existed!Introduction to Water Fasting
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!13Chapter 2Preparation for a Water FastPRE-FAST INTESTINAL CLEANSINGBefore you even consider a water fast, it is very important to have done some colon cleansing in the past. And by that I don’t mean having an occasional colonic! Personally, I recommend the Dr. Richard Anderson Arise and Shine 7-day cleanse as an absolute minimum. It is important to have done several intestinal cleanses to ensure that your body has had a chance to release any substantial build-up of toxins, otherwise going straight into a water fast could make you feel quite unwell. It would be a good idea for you to experience a 7-day juice fast as well. Ideally, I would recommend a 7-day intestinal program with twice daily enemas, then 5-7 days of juice fasting as a way to gently ease into a water fast. If done in this way, the body will have a much easier transition and any initial cleansing reactions will be greatly reduced.In my case, I had been doing the Arise and Shine cleansing program and juice fasting for 12 years before I ever did my ﬁrst water fast! Your body will know when it has experienced all it can from intestinal cleansing and you will naturally be drawn to the idea of water fast when it’s ready.FINDING THE RIGHT LOCATIONOnce you have made the decision to do a water fast, the next step is to create the time and space in your life to do it. Water fasting is more gentle on the body in a warm climate where you can expose your body to the sun every day and enjoy nice, clean fresh air. I could not even imagine doing a water fast in the middle of winter in a city! Think about these things in advance and perhaps even plan a holiday around doing your fast. After all, it is the best gift you can give yourself, so ﬁnd a place where you will enjoy the experience the most.Keep in mind that if this is your ﬁrst water fast and if you do not have a lot of experience in cleansing and detoxing, you may want to consider joining a retreat that specializes in water fasting. Of course you don’t need anyone to explain how to drink water, but what is important is to feel safe and supported during your fast. Especially on an emotional level, it is very good to have others to talk to who understand what you are going through and who can guide you through your experience.If you are doing the water fast on your own, tell at least one person who is close to you what you are doing. Ask them to check in with you every day just to make sure you are ok. Explain to them, that if need be, they may need to bring you a juice or some fresh fruit, and make sure they can commit to that for the duration of your fast. If it’s a good friend, they should be more than happy to provide support.Preparation For a Water Fast
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!15SETTING ASIDE THE TIMETry to completely eliminate all work responsibilities during your fast or at least greatly reduce them. You will need all of your energy for the healing process, and if you externalize that energy you will only be taking away from yourself. Be mentally prepared to do as little as possible during your fast. Resting, meditation, deep breathing, some time in the sun and more resting should be as busy as your days get!BE HUMBLE!Be careful not to tell the whole world what you are doing before you start your fast – for one, most people will think you are crazy and try to talk you out of it, and second, you will be setting yourself to live up to an expectation. If you do break your fast early, you will surely get a lot of ‘See I told you it was bad for you,’ and really, that’s the last that you need to hear! Be sure that this fast is for you, for your healing, not for your ego!PREPARING THE BODY NUTRITIONALLYIt is important to have a full reserve of vitamins and minerals in your body before starting a water fast. If you have been eating de-vitalized foods and been under a lot of stress, it is likely you are deﬁcient in some essential minerals. In the weeks before your water fast, drink plenty of fresh juices, eat as much raw food or lightly steamed veggies as possible and stay away from Preparation For a Water Fast
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!16processed foods, meats, dairy and alcohol. Personally I have a liquid mineral supplement that I also take during the pre-fast. It is a full spectrum of colloidal minerals which is easily absorbed into the body. I also take a lot of raw apple cider vinegar during that time to speciﬁcally increase potassium levels and start the process of gentle cleansing (1 Tbsp mixed with water, 3-4 times/day). I think it is one of the best things to take in preparation for a water fast. WATER – WHAT KIND, HOW MUCH & TEMPERATUREWater is the key element of your water fast, so take some time to get the best that is available to you. As I mentioned in Chapter 1, many people will recommend distilled water for


 of factors that the respiratory tract of healthy people
not affected. Narrowing can be caused by pollen, mites
house dust, animal dander, smoke, cold air
and physical activity. During an attack of bronchial smooth muscle
spazmiruyutsya and tissues lining the airways swell
due to inflammation and produce excessive amounts of mucus. The diameter of the airways is decreased (a condition
is called bronchospasm), and a person needs more effort
to inhale and exhale. Some cells in the respiratory tract, especially the so-called
mast cells play a direct role in the development restrictions
respiratory tract. Mast cells secrete histamine bronchial
and leukotrienes - substances that cause contraction of smooth
muscles, increased mucus production and migration of some species
leukocytes. Mast cells can produce these substances,
response to foreign agents (allergens) such as pollen,
house dust mites or animal fur. However, bronchial
Asthma occurs in a rather severe form, many people do not
allergies. When a patient with asthma performs the physical
work or inhale cold air, it appears similar
reaction. Stress and anxiety can also provoke
mast cells release histamine and leukotrienes. Eosinophils - a different type of cells that appear in the airways
people with asthma - also secrete substances that
including leukotrienes and others contributing to narrowing
respiratory tract. 205
205Most of the effective action of fasting I have encountered in
treating patients with asthma when he worked at the resort
"Goryachinsk" Lake Baikal. Back when I was on the study with Professor
YS Nikolayev, he said to me: to begin treatment with bronchial
Asthma, the most important - not hormone-dependent, and rack up experience,
and good treatment results you see. To me at the reception came to a mother and daughter. My daughter was very
thin, stooped, looked about eleven, when in fact it
was fourteen years old, she has continuously kept in the hands of an inhaler. Of course, by this time I've had enough
patients with asthma, but these young and skinny I was not there,
and I certainly doubt in his heart, to take or not take. But when the mother
in tears she told the story: "My daughter went
a disco in the school with her friends, and there she had a stroke
asthma. I am on this day for some reason could not find a place for the soul as-
it was restless and anxious, and I'm off work and run
home. When I opened the apartment, she saw her little girl hanging
on the clothesline. Thank God everything worked out and were rescued. " When I asked the girl why she did it, she told me: "And
Why me such a life, because I'm even afraid to leave the apartment. " The mother said to me: "As soon as we heard that we had to resort
"Goryachinsk" treat asthma starvation, we will not hesitate to come
to you. " Of course, hearing this story, I could not refuse. The girl was very strong-willed and patient, in general, I noticed
that almost all patients with asthma are very strong-willed and have a great
desire to recover, perhaps the disease itself, and attacks of breathlessness,
give the impression of death, have an impact on
traits of their character. Took her first wet famine 14 days
weight after fasting was 36 kg and I decided to remove it from the
starvation. After the first fasting, it is not completely abandoned
inhaler, but asthma attacks were much less frequent and lighter. She consistently made fasting days and a year later came back to
starvation. After the second year of starvation, it is completely healed
from asthma, she had gone all gynecological problems, she scored
normal weight, she had two children. I met with her on
All-Russian Conference on fasting passing
in Ulan-Ude. I did not recognize her at first - in front of me was
pretty, feminine girl. When I asked her how things were going, she
told me that had forgotten what asthma. My friend the patient told me that with me to the consultation
wants to come to his friend with asthma. Came to me
"Grandfather" in their 1964 look almost 80 years - twisted,
hunched, tortured by severe attacks of breathlessness. But how
Once they have passed it, panting and gasping, began glibly
talk about her illness: "He attacks it with me, damn. Especially in spring when the work is necessary, - the gardener because I'm a she
begins to strangle me, so right in the garden and valyus. For more than
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20635 years of torment. True, must die. No matter how much treated me -
nothing helps. " Most importantly, it is time for never
taking hormones. Hence, the chances he has, I thought to myself. I told him about our method of treatment and how to prepare. Exactly a month later he came to us in Altai. Most interestingly,
that during training (he was sitting on a vegetarian diet and cleaning
liver), he lost 10 kg. Previously, he ate meat three times a day, and when
declined it, he was very much to decrease the weight. Dry hunger he
very well tolerated, even at 4-day dropped the inhaler. Of course,
We in the Altai Mountains unique therapeutic microclimate, which is very
greatly enhances the effect of fasting. Every day he walked for five
kilometers (first passed this distance in the last twenty
years), admiring our nature. Every morning he would get up early
and walked through the dew. The second hunger he was 9 days. When he left,
We somehow found his inhaler, which lay behind the couch. But I
feared most of all - come now in its polluting
city, and asthma will be back. Exactly one year later, we met with him,
he said to me at the meeting came to a complete package of inhalers
out of habit and received in a pharmacy. "There must be at the flea market
go and sell "- he said in jest. Late one evening I called my patient's constant,
who said that her brother found an abscess in the lung and was offered
operation. Lung abscess - a purulent fusion of the lung tissue,
demarcated capsule from the surrounding tissue. The reason for his
is the microbial flora, most staph. Given the powerful
anti-inflammatory effect of SG and that the body can not at this
time afford the presence of any abnormal fluid
I agreed to do it. He immediately took nine days, a relatively
easily, with such intoxication he did not want to eat. and that surprised me was that all the nine days he quietly read a book
Although almost all patients say that there is no desire
read books and watch TV. After the fifth day of the SG in his left
low-grade fever and symptoms of intoxication. When he
came home and took x-rays, and then went to the reception
to the surgeon, he carefully studied the picture and said: "What a fool
You sent for surgery, you have a light there is nothing. " Recently, we have to come from the former
Soviet Union. Came from Moldavia, Belarus and Ukraine. I phoned a man with an Oriental accent from Azerbaijan. He told me an interesting story. Ill with bronchial
asthma for 8 years. Accidentally found my site went completely on the
vegetarian diet, cleaned the liver and intestines and gradually
at home has reached five days of dry fasting. Told
me, as he threw an inhaler after fasting: "After the dry
fasting I felt much better, but I intuitively feel that
pulls me to him is purely psychological. I was thinking all night
and decided - I now know what to do, dry hunger now I do not care
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207help, all I have to tomorrow's more to it not touch or
I'm no longer a peasant. Sausages me five days, cool, scrap,
bronchi are compressed, but I said to myself - and if I do not inhaler
or was I lost it, is somewhere in the woods. All this, of course,
really helped me, and then every day became
it gets easier and easier. " He came to us without using an inhaler, but
with a great desire to recover fully. Hunger, he held
on the east rested. After the last of the nine dry
fasting, I said to him: "Enough shlangovat, it's time the young cells
accustomed to the cold. Now every day you have to swim in our
icy pond. Our pond - it's just staged a dam on a mountain
rivulet, water ledyanuschaya. For eight years this man was afraid of drafts
and during that time had never bathed. He is probably tuned minutes
thirty, but then plunged to the runway. You should have seen his eyes full of
joy and happiness. Now every day he went swimming several times
per day. About inhaler he did forget, and most interestingly, he
fully recovered sense of smell, which was not within
five years. Going to come to us after a year on prevention. Why limotherapy effective in the treatment of
respiratory pathology? Asthma attack - a toxic storm that
occurs when the mechanism of selection is no longer corresponds to the
entrusted to him the burden. -


 full of putrefying wastes and
overgrown with harmful microbes. This environmen t allows toxins to be
re-absorbed into the blood, and pathogenic microbes to demolish our
immune system and invade various parts of the body. To sanitize our digestive tract,  we need first to clean out the bowels and
remove years of accumulated wastes sta gnating in bowel pockets and
covering the intestinal walls with hard crusts. Such cleansing kills most
of the harmful microbes and allows the gastro -intestinal tract to be
repopulated with probiotic bacteria. Finally,  we avoid being constipated
ever again. BOWEL CLEANSING
Commonly used methods to clean out accumulated wastes are colonics,
flushes and laxative foods. To remove hard crusts that may coat the
bowel walls and clean out bowel pockets, the bowels should repeatedly
be flushed out with water. You may start experimenting with flushes
before trying colonics, and for maintenance use suitable laxative food. With colonics, short for "colonic irrigations", the bowels or large intestines
are filled with a larger amount of water, commonly introduced furth er
inside, while with enemas only a small amount of water is inserted near
the entrance. Enemas are used to induce bowel movements but do not
clean the bowel. Flushes: A large glass of water with a tablespoon of Epsom salts
(magnesium sulphate), magnesium chloride, or Glaubers  salts (sodium  50
 sulphate) on an empty stomach is usually sufficient to flush out the
intestinal tract. Drink more water afterwards. If underweight, use
somewhat less and if overweight, somewhat more. To make it taste not
so bitter you may keep it refrigerated overnight. Less strong, and only suitable if one is not constipated, is an isotonic
flush : dissolve 9 grams or a heaped teaspoon of salt in one litre of warm
water. Drink within 5 - 10 minutes on an empty stomach. Use no
additional liquid afterwards. As alternatives to a saline flush,  you may
also use castor oil, aloe vera or senna. Flushes may also be alternated
with colonics. Colonics
Colonics are most helpful for individuals who are or have been
constipated or overweight or with a chronic disease. Here is how it wo rks. Start with having a bowel movement. To administer a colonic, add
1 heaped teaspoon of salt and 1 level teaspoon of baking soda to 2 -3
litres of moderately warm water. Use a bucket enema or enema bag. To
avoid mess,  you may do this in a shower recess or bathtub. Hang the
enema bucket about two to three feet above the bod y on a hook or
convenient place on the wall. A good position is to kneel on the floor with
the head down and rectum elevated. Or if bedridden you may lie in bed
in a similar position or on the right side; use a plastic sheet underneath. Lubricate the recta l tube and insert it slowly up to a depth of about 20 –
30 cm. If there is any pain or discomfort, do not insert any further. Expel
the first lot of water when increasing pressure is felt. After that, you
should be able to hold much more water. When renewe d pressure is felt,
stop the inflow of water and assume different positions, especially lying
on the right side for a while to fill the ascending colon. Repeat the
expulsion and intake of water until all of it has been used. The addition of baking soda neu tralizes over -acid bowel conditions while the
salt acts as a drawing agent and prevents demineralization of the blood. 51
 This is important for people with low blood pressure and a poor
circulation. With high blood pressure or weak kidneys add very diluted
lemon juice instead. If unable to do this at home, you may have a series
of colonics at a hydrotherapy centre. Laxative Food: Aim to have three easy bowel movements daily. Use
laxative food as required, such as fresh fruit and raw vegetables,
fermented food, ground linseed, prunes, aloe vera gel, psyllium hulls, or
drink a larger amount of water within a short period. Our bowel b acteria
need the right amount of food, mainly soluble fibre from legumes,
fresh vegetables and fruit, to  produce low -level fermentation. Too little
is constipating, too much causes diarrhoea. Highly recommended are ground linseed or chia seeds added to me als,
and also psyllium hulls : stir a teaspoonful in a large glass of water and
drink immediately about 30 minutes before a meal, one to three times
daily. Drink more water afterwards. Use linseed freshly ground in a
blender or coffee grinder, and store frozen or refrigerated. Squattin g: Ordinary toilets encourage a sitting rather than a squatting
position. This is not conducive to complete emptying of the lower bowels
and a cause of various health problems. A squatting position is preferable
to keep your bowels healthy. To imitate this  at home support your feet
with a footstool and bend forward to exert more pressure on the bowels. Hydrochloric Acid
As a result of Candida overgrowth,  the body may lose its ability to produce
an adequate amount of hydrochloric acid in the stomach. This i s especially
noticeable in the elderly, with chronic degenerative diseases, and even
young asthmatics. This leads to incomplete digestion of proteins, and
poor absorption of vitamins B1 and B12 as well as minerals. Another
frequent outcome is gastric reflu x and possibly hiatus hernia. The resulting mineral deficiency usually causes fingernails to be soft;
also,  the hair may be unhealthy. Hydrochloric acid is also needed to
activate pepsin and kill microbes in food. A lack of hydrochloric acid is
associated with overgrowth of the digestive tract with harmful parasites 52
 and microbes, malabsorption, intestinal distress, allergies, and a weak
immune system. Related symptoms are b elching, bloating, anaemia,
discomfort after eating, or food lying heavily in the stomach. As a digestive aid you may drink diluted lemon juice or diluted cider
vinegar with up to half a level teaspoon of magnesium chloride during
cooked meals, especially  protein meals. Magnesium chloride reacts with
organic acids to form magnesium citrate or acetate and hydrochloric
acid. You may also use with protein meals hydrochloric acid -pepsin tablets or
betaine -hydrochloric acid. Take these items mid-meal, as they may leave
the stomach undissolved if taken before or at the beginning of the meal. More cheaply, diluted hydrochloric aci d may be used. To make a safe
2% solution mix 1 part of 20% acid with 9 parts, or 1 part of concentrated
35% acid ( e.g., from a hardware store) with 16 parts of water. You may
then dilute 1 -2 (plastic) teaspoons of 2% acid with ½ cup of liquid and
drink it mid-meal. You may protect your teeth by drinking through a straw
and rinsing thoroughly afterwards. However, habitually taking hydrochloric acid makes the body overacid,
and not enough sodium bicarbonate is available to neutralize the acid in
the duodenum. While the stomach content needs to be acid, the small
intestine needs to be alkaline otherwise nutrients are not properly
absorbed. Therefore, when using hydrochloric acid with a meal, take also
half a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate in liquid 2 to 3 hours  after a small
meal, and 3 to 4 hours after a large meal with flesh food or other proteins. Bitter herb tea before or after meals can stimulate digestive juices, and
a teaspoon of slippery elm powder in warm water before meals can ease
discomfort due to g astro -intestinal inflammations. Warning:  Candida overgrowth may also cause overproduction of gastric
acid, causing gastric or duodenal ulcers and inflammation of the
intestinal wall. Therefore, observe and experiment to find out if you have
too much or too little gastric acid. 53
 MICROBIAL SANITA TION
Microbial sanitation or restoring a healthy gastro -intestinal flora is the
next important step. Without this most of our incurable diseases will
indeed remain incurable due to the Leaky Gut Syndrome which wears
down the immune system and lets Candida,  mycoplasmas and other
microbes invade the blood and various organs. Microbial sanitation consists of a combination of antimicrobial and
especially antifungal remedies, diet, as well as probiotics and prebiotics. Probiotics are cultures of suitable live m icrobes to repopulate the
intestines, while prebiotics are the food on which these beneficial
microbes grow best. First you prepare for intestinal sanitation by improving your diet as
outlined in the previous chapters. Then you start with the psyllium -garlic
cleanse but if you find that you cannot tolerate garlic or cannot use it for
social reasons then try hydrogen p eroxide or experiment with other
microbicides to find a suitable replacement. Very good are turmeric paste
and ginger. Preferably use also psyllium and bicarbonate for one to two
weeks before starting the systemic antimicrobial therapy. When taking high d oses of antim