305 m) or less. Check your altitude and
manufacturer ’ s instructions for variations.
6. T urn of f heat; let pressure return to zero naturally. Once gau ge shows 0
pressure, wait 2 minutes then open the vent. Unlock and remove canner lid.
W ait 10  minutes, then lift jars from canner and place on a clean towel or
rack. Do not re-tighten screw bands. Let the jars cool to room temperature.
This ma y take from 12 to 24 ho urs. Remove and store screw ba nds. Check
lid seals ( Pressure Canner Method ). W ipe and label sealed jars. Store in a
cool, dark place.Use: As a sauce for poached  eggs (as a replacement for Hollandaise
sauce); drizzle over other v egetables such as potatoes and mixed
vegetables; toss  with cooked ric e or noodles for a simple pasta sauce; or
dilute with chicken or vegetable  stock for a light soup, or use cream for a
heavier soup.
r o a s t e d  a s p a r a g u s  s a l s a
This r ec ipe is versatile: use fr e sh or fr ozen blanched, steamed or r oasted
asparagus and it will be just as tasty. (I used fr ozen r oasted asparagus for
this sals a, pictur ed below.) Of course, you can use fr esh r oasted asparagus
in th at ever -so-brief moment in  time when fr esh is available locally. The
salsa do es fr eeze well, although the textur e is softer than when m ade fr esh. I
don’ t r ec ommend fr eezing this salsa if you have used fr ozen asparagus to
make it.  Either way, the asparagus should only be fr ozen once. Having cut
r oasted asparagus pieces in the fr eezer makes this an easy dish for
entertaining later in the year.
MAKES 5 CUPS (1.25 L)
1 head r oasted garlic  grated rind and juice of 1 lime
2 tsp (10 mL) toasted sesame oil
3 cups (750 mL) r oasted asparagus pieces or spears, thawed if fr ozen
2 banana or Cubanelle hot peppers, r oasted and diced
2 cups (500 mL) coarsely chopped
tomatoes 6 gr een onions, thinly sliced
1/2 cup (125) chopped fr esh cilantr o or flat-leaf parsley
sea salt and pepper

1. Into a lar ge bowl, squeeze t he roasted garlic cloves. Mash garlic with
lime juice and sesame oil.2. Coars ely chop  the asparagus, if using whole spears, and add to the bowl.
Stir in peppers, tomatoes, green  onions, cilantro and lime rind. Grind salt
and pepper over top and toss well to combine.
3. Pa ck into pint  (2-cup/500 mL) freezer containers or Mason jars, leaving a
1-inch (2.5 cm) headspace. Seal, label and freeze for up to 8 months.
a s p a r a g u s  a n d  g o a t  c h e e s e  f l a t b r e a d
Whenever you use this delicious flatbr ead for an appetizer or hors d’oeuvr e,
or to accompan y soup, it will be a tasty r eminder of spring. I like the
cr eamy goat cheese and salty pr osciutto combination with that of the nutty
r oasted asparagus.
Rimless baking sheet
Pr eheat oven to 400°F (200°C)
MAKES 4 SER VINGS
1 ball (5 oz/150 g) pizza dough, thawed if fr ozen
olive oil for drizzling
5 oz (150 g) cr eamy goat cheese, crumbled2 tbsp (25 mL) grated lemon rind, optional
2 cups (500 mL) r oasted asparagus pieces or Roasted Asparagus Salsa
(page left), thawed if fr ozen
6 slices pr osciutto, cut into 1-inch (2.5 cm) pieces
1 cup (250 mL) baby arugula or other gr eens
sea salt and fr eshly gr ound pepper
shaved Parmesan cheese

1. On a lightly floured surface,  roll out pizza dough to about 1/4-inch (5
mm) thi ckness. T ransfer to baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle
goat cheese and lemon rind, if using, evenly over the dough. T op with
asparagus and prosciutto pieces. Drizzle with more olive oil and bake in
preheated oven for 15 minutes o r until crust is golden and cheese is bubbly
and lightly golden.
2. Remo ve from oven and top with arugula. Grind salt and pepper over top
and sprinkle evenly with Parmesan cheese shavings.S p r i n g  H e r b s
RURAL AND URBAN MARKETS  are  vibrant an d alive and, m ost
importantly, evolving to meet the sophisticated demands of their customers.
Chefs an d home  cooks alike ha ve come to rely on local farmers’ markets,
farm gate sales and market gard eners to supply them with a wide variety of
fresh gr eens and herbs throughout the seasons. Herbs add depth and
richness to your preserves. I have incorporated both common and not so
well-known herbs into the recipes in each season. Some native  wild plants
are being cultivated in order to meet these growing demands without
denuding the countryside, but to be safe, ask before purchasing “wild”
plants. Poacher s have stripped and continue to strip the n ative plant
colonies, causin g serious damage to wild plant habitat and actua l extinction
in some cases.
Fiddleheads
Fiddleheads (Matteucia strutbiopteris)  are the unfurled  fronds of the ostrich
fern, found growing in the wi ld from the northeastern United States to
Newfoundland and west into Michigan. The season for fresh fiddleheads
varies from region to region and from year to year, but generally they begin
to appear in markets around the beginning of May. I do not recommend
canning fiddlehe ads because the result is soft and brown, but fr eezing them
is an  excellent way to preserv e them. T o freeze fiddleheads, follow the
directions for freezing green beans ( niçoise salad ).
Garlic Gr eens
Just about the t ime your stock of garlic has dwindled to no thing, local
garden garlic is sending up green, grassy leaves that give us the garlic
flavour and a w elcome hit of c hlorophyll. For about two weeks in early
spring, I  use garlic greens in sal ads, egg dishes and everywhere I might be
tempted to snip chives (see Roasted Chicken Thighs, Artich okes and New
Potatoes ).
If you own a drier, you can preserve herbs, keeping their green goodness.
Store fre sh dried herbs in dark airtight containers in a cool, dry place. Store
for only one year, then replace with fresh dried herbs. Right: Gr een garlic is
dried and powdered.
Sorr el
If your local market gardener is growing greens, chances are he or she will
have sorrel (Rumex acetosa)  because  it is a perennial. Often puréed as a
sauce for fish, sorrel can be used wherever spinach is called fo r in recipes.
Sorrel is best preserved by freezing. The sour citrus tang of spinach and
sorrel is  due to o xalic acid in these greens. If you have kidney problems be
careful t o cook sorrel and avoid mature leaves or refrain from e ating sorrel
altogether.
Sweet Cicely
One of my per sonal favourites, delicate and lacy sweet cicely (Myrr his
odorata)  is usually first up in my herb g arden. A perennial herb, you w ill
find it coming through the snow in early spring.
Use the chopped  fresh anise-flavoured leaves with berry jams and preserves
and in chutneys and salsas.
Use the whole fresh sprigs as a  garnish or as lacy doilies for Strawberry
Cappuccino  or Dundee Almond Cake. A piece of the whole sprig can be
suspended in jam or jelly, or set on the top of a sweet pr eserve as a
decoration. If you can get the roots in the fall, they can be candied.
W ild Leeks or Ramps
There ar e many plants that belong to the Allium (Latin for “gar lic”) family,
including onions, garlic and leeks. Allium tricoccam  is native to North
America, found in deciduous forests from eastern Canada to North Carolina
and T ennessee and west as far a s Manitoba, Missouri and Minnesota. Good
with asparagus and artichoke, wild leeks of fer the green tops  and white
onionlike bulb for use in recipes. Use wild leeks in place of cultivated garlic
cloves in the spring recipes in this chapter.
s p r i n g


 worry about the
person. Thus, you’ll hear sentences like, “Of course I’m worried, it’s
only natural when you care about someone” or “I can’t help worry-
ing, it’s because I love you.” Thus, you prove your love by doing an
appropriate amount of worrying at the correct time.106 / Your Erroneous ZonesWorry is endemic to our culture. Almost everyone spends an in-
ordinate amount of present moments worrying about the future.
And all of it is for naught. Not one moment of worry will make
things any better. In fact, worry will very likely help you to be less
effective in dealing with the present. Moreover, worry has nothing
to do with love which predicates a relationship in which each person
has the right to be what he chooses without any necessary conditions
imposed by the other.
Think of yourself as being alive in 1860, at the beginning of the
Civil War. The country is mobilizing for war, and there are approx-
imately thirty-two million people in the United States. Each of those
thirty-two million folks has hundreds of things to worry about and
they spend many present moments agonizing about the future. They
worry about war, the price of food, the draughts, the economy, all
the things that you worry about today. In 1975, some 115 years later,
all of those worriers are dead and all their combined worrying did
not change a moment of what is now history. The same is true of
your own worry times. When the earth is populated by an entirely
new crew, will any of your worry moments have made a difference?
No. And, do any of your worry times make a difference today, in
terms of changing the things you worry about? No, again. Then this
is one zone that you must tidy up, since you are just wasting those
precious present moments on behavior that has absolutely no posit-
ive payoff for you.
Much of your worry concerns things over which you have no
control. You can worry all you want about war, or the economy, or
possible illness, but worry won’t bring peace or prosperity or health.
As an individual you have little control over any of those things.
Moreover the catastrophe you’re worrying about frequently turns
out to be less horrible in reality than it was in your imagination.
I worked with Harold, who was forty-seven years old, for several
months. He was worried about being laid off and not being able to
support his family. He was a compulsive worrier. He began losing
weight, was unable to sleep and was gettingTHE USELESS EMOTIONS—GUILT AND WORRY  / 107sick frequently. In counseling, we talked about the futility of worry
and how he could choose to be content. But Harold was a true
worrier, and he felt that it was his responsibility to worry about
possible impending disaster every day. Finally, after months of
worry, he did receive his pink slip and was unemployed for the first
time in his life. Within three days, he had secured another position,
one which paid more, and gave him a great deal more satisfaction.
He had used his compulsiveness to find the new job. His search was
rapid and relentless. And all of his worry had been useless. His
family had not starved, and Harold had not collapsed. Like most
worry-producing gloom pictures in one’s head, the eventuality res-
ulted in benefits, rather than horror. Harold learned firsthand the
futility of worry, and he has actually begun to adopt a nonworry
stance in his life.
In a clever essay on worry in The New Yorker,  entitled “Look for
the Rusty Lining,” Ralph Schoenstein satirizes worry.
What a list! Something old and something new, something
cosmic yet something trivial too, for the creative worrier must
forever blend the pedestrian with the immemorial. If the sun
burns out, will the Mets be able to play their entire schedule at
night? If cryogenically frozen human beings are ever revived,
will they have to re-register to vote? And if the little toe disap-
pears, will field goals play a smaller part in the National Foot-
ball League? *
You may be in the professional worrier classification, creating
unnecessary stress and anxiety in your life as a result of the choices
you are making to worry about every conceivable kind of activity.
Or you may be a minor league worrier concerned only about your
own personal problems. The following list rep-
*Ralph Schoenstein, “Look for the Rusty Lining,” The New Yorker  (Feb. 3, 1975).108 / Your Erroneous Zonesresents the most common responses to the question, “What do you
worry about?”
Typical Worry Behaviors in our Culture
I gathered the following data from some two hundred adults at
a lecture one evening. I call this your worry sheet, and you can give
yourself “worry points” similar to the “guilt points” discussed above.
They are not listed in any particular sequence of frequency or im-
portance. The parenthetical statements represent the kinds of sen-
tences that justify the worry.
YOUR WORRY SHEET
I worry about…
1. My children  (“Everyone worries about their children, I wouldn’t
be a very good parent if I didn’t, now would I?”)
2. My health  (“If you don’t worry about your health, you could die
at anytime!”)
3. Dying  (“No one wants to die. Everyone worries about death.”)
4. My job  (“If you don’t worry about it, you might lose it.”)
5. The economy  (“Someone ought to worry about it, the President
doesn’t seem to care.”)
6. Having a heart attack  (“Everyone does, don’t they?” “Your heart
could go at any minute.”)
7. Security  (“If you don’t worry about security, you’ll find yourself
in the poorhouse, or on welfare.”)
8. My wife’s/husband’s happiness  (“God knows I spend a lot of time
worrying about him/her being happy, and they still don’t appre-
ciate it.”)THE USELESS EMOTIONS—GUILT AND WORRY  / 1099. Am I doing the right thing?  (“I always worry about doing things
right, that way I know I’m okay.”)
10. Having a healthy child if you’re pregnant  (“Every mother-to-be
worries about that.”)
11. Prices  (“Somebody ought to worry about them before they
skyrocket out of sight.”)
12. Accidents  (“I always worry that my spouse or the children will
have an accident. It’s only natural, isn’t it?”)
13. What others will think  (“I worry about my friends not liking
me.”)
14. My weight  (“No one wants to be fat, so naturally I worry about
not gaining back any of the weight I lost.”)
15. Money  (“We never seem to have enough, and I worry that
someday we’ll be broke and have to go on welfare.”)
16. My car breaking down  (“It’s an old clunker and I drive it on the
expressway, so of course I worry about it and what might happen
if it did.”)
17. My bills  (“Everyone worries about paying their bills. You
wouldn’t be human if you didn’t worry about bills.”)
18. My parents dying  (“I don’t know what I’d do if they died, it
worries me sick. I worry about being alone, I don’t think I could
handle it.”)
19. Getting into heaven or what if there is no God  (“I can’t stand the
idea of there being nothing.”)
20. The weather  (“I plan things like a picnic and maybe it’ll rain. I
worry about having snow for skiing.”)
21. Getting old  (“No one wants to get old, and you can’t kid me,
everyone worries about that one.” “I don’t know what I’ll do when
I retire and I really worry about that.”)
22. Flying  (“You hear about all those plane crashes.”)110 / Your Erroneous Zones23. My daughter’s virginity  (“Every father who loves his daughter
worries that she’ll be hurt, or get into trouble.”)
24. Talking in front of groups  (“I get petrified in front of a crowd
and I worry like crazy before I do it.”)
25. When my spouse doesn’t call  (“It seems normal to me to worry
when you don’t know where some one you love is, or if they’re
in trouble.”)
26. Going into the city  (“Who knows what’ll happen in the jungle.
I worry every time I go in.” “I always worry about whether I’ll
get a parking space.”)
And perhaps the most neurotic of all…
27. Having nothing to worry about  (“I can’t just sit still when
everything seems all right, I worry about not knowing what will
happen next.”)
This is the collective worry sheet of people in our culture. You can
give worry points to each of those that seem most applicable to you,
total it up, and no matter what your score, it still adds up to zero.
The following paragraph illustrates the extent of worry in our world.
It’s taken from a story in Newsday  (May 3, 1975) on hospital malprac-
tice insurance.
West Islip—


ident that medical iodophobia was not justified for the inorganic, non-radioactive forms of this essential nutrient.
The number of publications presenting new research data on the orthoiodosupplementation program has increased markedly
in this short time. As of December 2008, 23 manuscripts have been published. Dr. Brownstein is the sole author or coauthor in
five of these publications. These publications are available on our website at
Optimox.com
, under Iodine Research.
Dr. Brownstein and I coauthored a publication, reporting the positive effect of vitamin C at 3000 mg/day on a defective
cellular transport system for iodine, emphasizing the importance of a complete nutritional program for best results with
orthoiodosupplementation.
2
 In collaboration with Drs. Brownstein and Flechas, I recently published a procedure for assessing the
saliva/serum ratio of inorganic iodide as an index of the efficiency of the iodine/iodide symporter system.
3
 We have established
normal values and have demonstrated a negative effect of elevated serum bromide on this ratio, suggesting that bromide interferes
with cellular uptake of iodide. Iodine intake in daily amounts from 50 to 75mg iodine in the form of Lugol’s tablet (Iodoral®) had
a positive effect on the saliva/serum iodide ratio and decreased serum bromide.
Abnormalities in the cellular uptake of iodine were reported in breast cancer patients with elevated bromide levels.
4
Organification defects in the utilization of cellular iodide were reported in a subject with fibromyalgia.
5
 Iodine alone at
100mg/day
markedly improved the symptom scores. The addition of high dose vitamin B2 and B3 further improved the overall well-being in
FM patients.
6
The iodine project is now eight years old and strong, but not without enemies. Continued research and publications,
education of physicians and consumers, and more widespread utilization of the orthoiodosupplementation program are the most
effective ways to fight iodophobic bioterrorism and medical iodophobia.
The future of the essential element iodine in medical practice looks very promising. We are rediscovering what our medical
predecessors already knew. To quote Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
7
: “When I was a medical student, iodine in the form
of KI was the universal medicine. Nobody knew what it did, but it did something and did something good. We students used to
sum up the situation in this little rhyme…If ye don’t know where, what, and why; prescribe ye then K and I… Our medical
predecessors, possessing very few and crude instruments only, had to make use of two given by nature (the use of which has
since gone out of fashion): eyes and brains. They were keen observers and the universal application of iodide might have been not
without foundation.”
May the most-high God, Creator of heaven and earth, continue to guide us and bring to light what was kept in darkness
for
over 60 years--the safe and effective use of the essential element iodine in the medical practice.

Guy E. Abraham, M.D., FACN.
1
 Brownstein, D.,
Iodine: Why You Need It, Why You Can’t Live Without It.
 Medical Alternatives Press, West Bloomfield,
MI 2004
2
 Abraham, G and Brownstein, D. Evidence that the administration of Vitamin C improves a defective cellular transport
mechanism for iodine: A case report. The original Internist. 12 (3): 125-130, 2005
3
 Abraham, G., Flechas, J., Evidence of defective cellular oxidation and organification of iodide in a female with fibromyalgia
and chronic fatigue; The Original Internist. Vol 14: 2: 77-82. 2007
4
 Abraham, G., Flechas, J. Evidence of defective cellular oxidation and organification of iodide in a female with fibromyalgia
and chronic fatigue. The Original Internist. Vol. 14:2:77-82. 2007
5
 Abraham, G., et al. IBID. The Original Internist. Vol. 142:77-82. 2007.6
 Abraham, G., and J.D. Flechas, MD, The Effect of Daily Ingestion of 100 mg Iodine Combined with High Doses of
Vitamins
B2
 and B3 (ATP Cofactors) in Five Subjects with Fibromyalgia The Original Internist, Vol. 15, No. 1, 8-15, March
2008
7
 Szent-Gyorgyi, Bioenergetics Academic Press, NY. 1957FOREWORD to the 1
st
 Edition
Practicing holistic medicine for over 10 years has brought me into contact with many wonderful teachers. From these people I
have learned a tremendous amount about how to use safe and natural remedies to promote true healing in the body while not
relying on foreign substances (i.e., drugs) that simply treat the symptoms of illness and do little for treatment of the underlying
cause of illness.
There are many physicians that I have learned from. Some of these wonderful physicians who have researched and educated
others about their successes in using natural items to promote true healing include: Jonathan Wright, Majid Ali, Broda Barnes and
William Jeffries. There are many more.
I would like to add one more name to that list. His name is Guy Abraham, M.D. Dr. Abraham has been researching the
benefits of iodine therapy for 6 years. He studied the effects of iodine and looked at the research on iodine therapy. Dr. Abraham
has written numerous articles about the misinformation on iodine and how this misinformation has contributed to the poor health of
many of us.
While reading the
Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
 (May, 2003), I read a letter to the editor that was titled,
“Iodine Supplementation Markedly Increases Urinary Excretion of Fluoride and Bromide”. I was intrigued. I knew of the
deficiency of iodine and the consequences of this deficiency. I was also aware of certain toxic items (i.e., fluoride and bromide) in
our diets that not only inhibited iodine utilization in the body but also accentuated iodine deficiency. After reading Dr. Abraham’s
letter, I phoned him.
I expressed my interest in iodine testing and treatment and Dr. Abraham began to educate me about how to test for iodine
and how to properly use iodine. Since that time, I have tested hundreds of patients and found a significant percentage (>90%)
exhibit laboratory and clinical signs of iodine deficiency. Treatment with the correct amount and correct form of iodine has greatly
contributed to the good health of many of these patients.
Dr. Abraham and I have been collaborating for many months now. He is one physician (amongst many) who is not afraid to
stand up and report what he thinks is true, even if it does not sit well with the establishment. But, Dr. Abraham uses good science
to back up his claims. After pulling hundreds of research articles to educate myself, I realized that Dr. Abraham’s view of iodine
deficiency was 100% correct.
This book certainly would not have been written without the help and research of Dr. Abraham. I have learned a
tremendous
amount from Dr. Abraham and I can’t thank him enough.
David Brownstein, M.D.
April, 2004Foreword to 5
th
 Edition
It has now been ten years since I began working with my mentor on iodine—Dr. Guy Abraham. Dr. Abraham died in
February, 2013. I will miss him terribly.
Dr. Abraham was one of the most brilliant physician/scientists that I have known. He was an interesting man who started his
career as a researcher developing testing methods for measuring hormone levels. Dr. Abraham’s early research, dating back to
the 1950’s, is still used today in testing steroidal hormone levels.
His interest in iodine came about in his quest to search for safe and natural therapies that would help people achieve their
optimal health. When Dr. Abraham began researching iodine, he was amazed that there was no accurate testing to measure the
body’s iodine status. Over the course of a few years, Dr. Abraham developed the 24-hour iodine loading test.
Dr. Abraham reported on his discovery in the
Townsend Letter for Doctor’s and Patients
 (May, 2003). I read a letter to
the editor that was titled, “Iodine Supplementation Markedly Increases Urinary Excretion of Fluoride and Bromide.” I was
intrigued. At that time, I knew of the deficiency of iodine and the consequences of this deficiency. At this time, I was frustrated
because the iodine I was using (iodide versions) was not helping
my patients. It was not harming anyone, but no one was getting
better by using it.
After reading Dr. Abraham’s letter, I phoned him. I expressed my interest in learning about his new test. After an extended
time period (Dr. Abraham takes some time before he “warms” up to someone) we started developing a relationship. Over the
next ten years, Dr. Abraham taught me more than he will know about iodine, how to test for it and how to treat deficiencies of it.
I would fly to California a few times per year to work/study in Dr. Abraham’s lab. Those trips were the most


	shop	for	food,	prepare	meals	and	find	high-
quality	vitamin	supplements.	Simple,	essential	and	life-saving.
To	become	healthier,	Elizabeth	began	to	consume	more	nutritious	foods,	eat
more	raw	foods	and	fewer	cooked	ones.	She	was	careful	about	which	foods	to
combine	together.	She	cut	back	on	sugar,	white	flour,	hydrogenated	oils	and
milk	products,	as	well	as	coffee.	These	choices	literally	made	Elizabeth	a
changed	woman;	her	whole	life	and	health	were	turned	around	by	improving	the
chemistry	inside	her	cells.	Her	fatigue	and	arthritis	pain	gradually	disappeared,
and	she	actually	repaired	much	of	the	damaged	bone	tissue	in	her	arthritic
shoulder.
In	various	forms,	Elizabeth’s	story	of	declining	health	is	played	out	millions
of	times	each	day	in	this	country.	Few	Americans	go	to	bed	hungry,	but	almost
all	Americans	go	to	bed	malnourished,	some	severely	so.	This	concept	may	be
difficult	to	accept	because	we	typically	envision	malnourished	third-worldpeople	with	distended	bellies	and	listless	eyes.	In	truth,	“well-fed”	Americans,
including	those—or	perhaps	especially	those—who	are	overweight,	are
“starving”	for	the	kinds	of	food	needed	to	become	and	stay	healthy.
Most	of	us	eat	the	wrong	foods.	I	call	them	“make-believe”	foods	that	do	not
meet	the	needs	of	our	cells.	In	fact,	90	percent	of	the	typical	American	food
budget	is	spent	on	make-believe	foods.	Most	of	us	spend	lots	of	money	and	lots
of	time	shopping	for	and	preparing	meals	that	are,	in	small	and	large	ways,
killing	our	cells,	creating	disease	and	shortening	our	lives.
We	shop	in	supermarkets	full	of	empty-calorie	foods.	We	buy	foods	that	have
been	so	mishandled	that	they	no	longer	offer	the	nutrition	we	think	we	are
buying.	We	prepare	and	cook	our	foods	in	ways	that	destroy	their	nutritional
value.	Nearly	all	of	us—from	junk-food	junkies	to	“health-conscious”
consumers—are	being	misled	into	believing	that	low-fat	products	and	typical
supermarket	meat	and	produce	can	build	a	healthy	diet.	Consider:
•	Too	much	of	our	diet	is	created	from	an	officially	approved	“Big	Four”
list	of	foods	that	fail	to	nurture	our	bodies	and	also	create	toxins	that	sicken
us.	The	Big	Four?	Sugar,	white	flour,	processed	oils	and	milk	products.
Even	foods	touted	as	“healthy,”	such	as	multi-grain	breads,	usually	contain
impoverished	flour.
•	We	eat	the	cells	of	unhealthy	plants	and	animals,	which	cannot	create
healthy	cells	in	our	body.	Pigs	and	other	livestock	are	fed	toxic	diets.
Chemicals	used	during	growing,	harvesting,	processing,	transporting	and
storing	diminish	nutrients	in	produce.	In	no	way	can	such	food	support	our
cell	chemistry.
•	Too	little	of	our	food—virtually	none	for	many	people—is	eaten	raw.
Cooking	damages	foods’	nutritional	values.	Some	cooking	methods,
particularly	those	that	use	high	heat	or	that	char	foods,	create	powerful
mutagens	and	carcinogens.
•	Handling	and	preparation	methods—from	extended	storing	of	foods	in	a
refrigerator	or	freezer	to	chopping	and	mashing—rob	foods	of	many
nutrients	such	as	vitamins	and	minerals	that	we	believe	we	are	consuming.
The	average	person	preparing	a	meal	damages	and	destroys	the	power	of
the	food,	even	food	the	individual	considers	to	be	“fresh.”
•	Commercial	practices	used	to	supply	food	from	farms	to	supermarkets	are
overwhelmingly	destructive.	Produce	is	often	harvested	before	it	is	ripe,
stored	for	long	periods	of	time	and	subjected	to	harmful	methods	to	ripen	or
color	it	artificially	for	presentation	in	the	“fresh”	produce	section	of	the
supermarket.	Some	of	this	produce	has	lost	nearly	all	of	certain	vitaminsand	minerals	by	the	time	it	rolls	down	the	supermarket	checkout	lines,	let
alone	by	the	time	we	eat	it.
•	The	way	we	eat	our	foods—even	how	we	chew—often	prevents	us	from
realizing	the	best	nutrition,	even	from	good	diets.	We	also	eat	the	wrong
combinations	of	foods,	which	interfere	with	effective	digestion.
•	Most	of	the	vitamin	and	mineral	supplements	sold	today	are	of	poor
quality	and	not	worth	what	you	pay	for	them.	They	do	not	provide	us	with
the	nutrients	we	think	we	are	buying.
Starvation	on	a	Full	Stomach
According	to	the
State	of	the	World	2000
report	from	the	Worldwatch
Institute,	the	world	is	in	the	midst	of	a	nutrition	crisis.	In	the	developed
countries,	1.2	billion	people,	including	most	Americans,	are	now	“starving”	and
undernourished	because	they	are	overfed	with	too	much	of	the	wrong	foods.	The
average	American	diet	does	not	support	the	biological	needs	of	human	cells.	We
try	to	achieve	the	impossible:	We	try	to	maintain	health	while	eating	a	diet	that
cannot	provide	health.	Although	our	stomachs	may	be	full	(and	our	bellies	are
fat),	malnutrition	is	our	leading	cause	of	disease.
Ultimately,	any	level	of	malnutrition	creates	susceptibility	to	disease.
However,	when	we	suffer	health	problems	as	a	result	of	poor	nutrition,	almost
always	we	blame	our	illnesses	on	aging	or	on	faulty	genes	rather	than	on	its	true
cause.
We	are,	indeed,	what	we	eat.	That	cliché	should	guide	all	choices	we	make
about	the	foods	we	consume.	The	average	person,	however,	is	poorly	informed
and	confused	about	what	to	eat,	how	to	eat	and	what	to	avoid.	Misinformation
tossed	about	by	food	manufacturers	and	even	by	physicians	overwhelms	the
consumer.	Few	people	truly	understand	how	food	helps	or	fails	to	keep	them
healthy.
Food	manufacturers	nearly	always	favor	qualities	such	as	shelf	life,	taste,
appearance	and	marketability	over	nutrition	and	health.	Physicians,	who
typically	lack	nutrition	education	themselves,	usually	tell	us	that	a	standard	diet
gives	us	all	the	nutrition	we	need.	With	such	misinformation,	we	tend	to	make
irrational	and	harmful	decisions.	A	diet	that	focuses	on	anything	other	than
meeting	the	nutritional	needs	of	cells	allows	your	body	to	get	sick.
The	four	worst	food	choices,	comprising	the	bulk	of	the	average	American	diet
and	disastrous	to	the	health	of	our	population	are:1.	sugar
2.	white	flour
3.	processed	oils
4.	milk	products
Consuming	these	foods,	especially	as	a	large	part	of	the	diet	and	over	time,	is
virtually	guaranteed	to	cause	disease.	They	provide	little	nutrition	and	are	toxic
as	well.	If	every	American	were	to	stop	eating	these	“foods,”	our	epidemic	of
chronic	diseases	would	decline	dramatically.	Problematic	in	their	own	right,	the
real	harm	caused	by	these


 eat fruits, all we need do is savor their goodness.  The fruit portions, that is, mesocarps, were specifically compounded to attract biological symbionts.  Fruits meet their nutrient needs rather ideally with predigested nutrients. For humans, no other food compares with fruits in satisfying all needs including, of course, our requirement for deli -
61
Fruiticultureciously vibrant soul-exalting fare.
I’m sure that you will agree through your own senses that fruits would be your primary
food in a state of nature.
Are We Vegetarian?The average American understands the term vegetarian to mean an “eater of vegetables. ”
But, in reality a vegetarian is someone who eats only plant-derived foods.  This may in -
clude a preponderance of fruits but, in practice, it means anything and everything be -
sides animal products.
The word v egetable der
ives from the Latin vegetus, meaning lively, exciting or animated.
It does not mean specific types of foods other than those which enliven or sustain us in
an energetic mode.  Necessarily, by this definition, fruits are high-energy foods whereas vegetables are either low-energy foods or have drawbacks.  Typical present-day vegetari -
an fare includes grains, tubers, root, stalks, stems, leaves, nuts, seeds, fruits, legumes and about ev erything else that does not mo v
e, bleed, cry or resist acquisition.
Even though those who eat all fruits or a preponderance of them can correctly be called fruitarians, they may also be correctly called vegetarians.  Personally, my intake is mostly fruit.  I prefer to be called a fruitarian, though I do not object to being called a vegetar -
ian.  Do you agree that, naturally, we are fruit-eaters?
Are W e Nut and S
eed Eaters?
In nature there is no doubt but that humans did consume some nuts.  Even so, our ability
to derive nuts from their hard shells is limited. We do not have razor sharp teeth and tons of pressure per bite or jaw-power as have squirrels.  Humans can crack certain nuts with their teeth.  Very few of today’s degenerated version of humans can do it, but most nuts
can be cracked with strong jaws and good teeth.  Even strong hands can crush nuts if at least two are taken and pressed against each other.
Most nuts are delicious to us in their raw state.
Unfortunately, our ability to handle nuts is rather poor—we’d need pointed, durable teeth, as rodents have, to gnaw through nut shells.  Nuts that we savor are in a storage form,
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Fruiticulturethat is, as fats, proteins and invert sugars or starches.  Digestion of nuts into fatty acids,
amino acids, and glucose is a long drawn out process, most often taking hours.  Whether we did or did not consume nuts in nature makes little difference to us today.  Most of us do consume nuts but disadvantageously as cooked fare.  Heated fats and proteins are quite pathogenic, yes, even carcinogenic.  Nuts should be eaten raw or not at all.
Technically and botanically nuts are fruits.  I do not buy that because the word fruit re -
ally means product or result.  Fruits are really the mesocarps of seed packages which
plants creat ed specifically as a pr
oduct to be consumed by a biological symbiont who
would incidentally discard and distribute the seeds.  Nuts and seeds were created by plants for broadcast and reproduction by other methods.  All nuts are seeds.  Most seeds are in a storage form to survive the vagaries of climatic and consuming elements so that they may be instrumental in reproducing and perpetuating their kind.  Nuts, however, have extra protection in that they have hard woody shells.  Seeds usually have only fi -
brous coatings as their protection.  Both seeds and nuts are heavily endowed with nutri-ents sufficient to initiate and sustain a certain minimum growth of their plants.  We can benefit from these nutrients.  But if w
e eat more than two or three ounces, we’re likely to
get more protein and fats than we can readily handle.
Certainly nuts and seeds were not created by plants for consumption but, rather, for
reproduction.  That some animals have adapted to their consumption has not been a two-sided affair as it has been with fruits where the love affair has been and still is mu -
tual.  There are many types of seeds: legumes, grains, weeds, nuts, and fruit seeds being among the most prominent.  I n their na
tural state humans can handle very few of these
seeds.  Nuts can be digested and used in very small amounts. Likewise, sesame, pump -
kin, squash, sunflower, pignolias, and some other seeds can be used.
We are primar ily car
bohydrate eaters, not fat and protein eaters.  I dare say you agree
with my assessment of nuts and seeds as human fare.Are We Fat Eaters?In nature there are very few fats we can get in any quantity without violating our biolog -
ical disposition.  Avocados, durians, olives, coconuts, nuts and seeds are heavy on fats.
Avocados and durians fur nish fa
ts in a predigested state when ripe.  Coconuts furnish
fats as monoglycerides/glycerols before they set their fats as triglycerides in a storage 63
Fruiticultureform.  Coconuts are, therefore, in the jelly-like state, easily digested. When matured and
hardened, it is almost impossible to digest them.
Broccoli and cauliflower have con -
siderable fatty acids in an easily us-
able state when eaten in the raw fresh condition.  How ev
er, they give
some unwanted toxic sulfur com -
pounds.  We get predigested fats ad-equate to meet our fatty acid needs from fruits. An oc casional a
vocado or
seeds and nuts are quite satisfying.  Those who subsist substantially on fats do not do well.  Eskimos are very short-lived.  They consume about 200 grams, about 1,800 calories, dai -
ly.  Their short-lived condition is probably more attributable to their heavy protein con-sumption than fats. They consume about 200 grams of protein daily incidental to their fat-ea ting and this plac
es a great burden upon their organs, especially liver and kidneys.
Because of the acid-forming properties of metabolized proteins, Eskimos lose their teeth at an early age and suffer severe osteoporosis.  Eskimos are eaters of animal fats and pro -
teins, primarily as derived from fish.  Be it noted that, during the berry-picking season, Eskimos are said to ea t only ber
ries during the short season they are ripening.
Biologically we are not a species of fat eaters, but incidental eaters of fats.  We do not need to store great quanties of fat, as do bears and sea lions.  Ripe fruits contain ad -
equate quantities of predigested fats in the form of fatty acids that are easily handled. Other forms of fa t r
equire hours for their digestion, quite atypical of fruits to which we
are most favorably disposed.  Fats may lie in the small intestine several hours before bile is secreted into it with which to emulsify them, thus exposing them to lipases which re -
duce them to monoglycerides (fatty acids) and glycerols.
I adjudge tha t we are not a species of fa t ea
ters except incidental to our fruitarian
disposition.
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FruiticultureAre We Protein Eaters?
To hear the exponents of the meat trust, you’d think we’re in imminent danger of disease
and death if we fail to eat meat three times a day.   The truth is that eating meat three times daily will cause the very conditions we’re taught to fear. We’re in no danger of pro -
tein deficiency unless we’re eating a 100% cooked food diet.  On the other hand, there are gra v
e dangers in eating cooked proteins.  At normal cooking temperatures, proteins
are coagulated, deaminated and largely oxidized.  The nitrogenous materials are soil for putrefactive bacteria.  The carbohydrate portions of cooked proteins are usable for ca -
loric values but still present the problems that cooked carbohydrates pose.
If we must eat pr ot
eins, we must eat them raw to
derive their full benefit.  But proteins, per se, are
not created as food.  They are created by plant and animal life as components of organisms, seeds, en -
zymes, ova, etc.  Most proteins of this nature have toxic prot ec
tive compounds.  The bean family have
anti-enzyme factors.  Eggs have avidin.  Nuts also have anti-enzyme factors.  Seeds of peaches, apples and many other fruits have hydrocyanide.  Humans do not secrete the enzymes to ne -
gate or break down these toxic substances.
From fruits we der iv
e as much protein as is present in mother’s milk for a growing baby!
Moreover, fruit proteins come to us predigested as do other ripened fruit components.
There are many alarmists who warn us about protein deficiencies of fruits and many other presumed deficiencies. If we developed in nature on fruits to our high state as an -
thropologists have found, then the real deficiencies are in the thinking of those who pro -
claim deficiencies.  Their evidence is usually based on research


225,231-233
Organs (Motor), 110-111
Pancha Karma, 203
Paramatman, 135
Perception, 67-68
Pingala, 274-276
Pitta, 11-15, 18-19, 22-25
Planets, 211-213, 244
Prakriti, 128, 171
Prana, 25-28, 100-101, 111-112, 298-299,314
Vayus
Apana, 131, 314, 316
Prana, 314, 315
Samana 314, 316
Udana, 314, 316
Vyana, 314, 316
Pranamaya Kosha, 309-310
Pratipaksha-Bhavana, 165
Pratyahara, 176, 272, 280-283
Prayer, 251
Psychoanalysis, 5, 300
Puja, 250
Pungent Taste, 196
Rahu, 213
Rajas, 30-36, 38-41
Rama, 184, 253
Reason, 63, 67 A344 Ayurveda and the Mind
Rejuventatives, 199
Relationships, 245-246
Rituals, 250-251
Rudra, 186, 253
Salty Taste, 197
Samadhi, 88-89
Samskaras, 86
Samyama, 264
Sarasvati, 234
Satsanga, 153
Sattva, 30-36, 38-42
Sattvic Diet, 190-192, 194
Prana, 100, 299
Samskara, 301
Saturn, 212-214
Sedatives, 199
Self
Discipline, 122
Esteem, 214
Higher, 66, 136-137
Inquiry, 142, 257
Realization, 5
Sense, 131
Study, 268
Sense Mind, 66-69, 109, 112, 119
Sesame Oil, 201-202
Sex, 265-266
Shakti, 244, 274
Shiva, 6, 185, 233
Soul, 65-66, 132-137
Sound, 227-228, 288
Sour, 198
Speech, 105,223-224
Surrender, 247
Sushumna, 273-274 Index 345
Sweating, 175-176, 198
Tai Chi, 184
Tamas, 30-36, 38-41
Tantra, 4-6
Tara, 184, 250
Taste, 192-193, 195-198
Tejas, 25-28, 85, 100
Therapy
Balancing, 71, 150, 165
Spiritual, 243-263, 291-305
Sublte, 205-221
Therapists, 149-168
Three Doshas, 175, 183, 203
Three Humors, 22, 194, 215, 217
Three Vital Essences, 25-27, 85, 217
Tibetan Buddhism, 253
Tinctures, 198, 200, 212, 219
Tonics, 196, 198-199
Vata, 11-16, 22-25 (see Prana)
Vata-Kapha, 22, 164
Vata-Pitta, 22, 162-163
Vedanta, 4, 135-136
Vedic Astrology, 211
Venus, 212, 214
Vijnanamaya Kosha, 99, 309
Vishnu, 185, 321, 329, 333
Vision, 121-122
Vrittis, 309-310
Water Element, 13-14, 63-64
Water Types, 20-22
Will, 85, 101-103, 122,247
Yamas, 264-265, 274, 302
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10. • Where There Is Doubt, Faith
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12. • Where There Is Darkness, Light
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. Never give
your child an enema with salt or anything else apart from clean boiled water,
water with probiotic, home-made yoghurt or pure weak camomile tea. With an adult the whole procedure can be much simpler. The amount of
water in the enema for an adult should be 1-2 litres.
After performing the enema you need to clean the enema kit by flushing
it through with water. After that sterilise it by pouring 20-30 ml of 3%-6%
Hydrogen Peroxide through it and hang it to dry with the enema tap open.
You can get Hydrogen Peroxide in any pharmacy without prescription. If
you cannot find it use any sterilising solution, suitable for baby bottles or
other children's plastic equipment. You will need to wash and sterilise the
nozzle separately.
A patient with persistent constipation should have a daily enema every
night before bed, followed by a warm bath with one of the following: V2-1
cup of Epsom Salt, sea weed powder, cider vinegar or sea salt. After the
bath rub some Udo's oil, hemp oil, cold pressed sunflower oil, castor oil or
cold pressed virgin olive oil on the skin of the abdominal area. These oils
absorb quite well through skin and will help to relieve constipation in the
long run. The whole procedure should be repeated every bedtime until the
patient starts producing a regular stool on his/her own.
Of course, the diet, which we have discussed, is very important in re
establishing normal gut flora and normalising all functions of your
patient's digestive system, including elimination.
I do not support the use of any laxatives, drug or herbal, particularly in
children. They are designed to work on fairly healthy digestive systems. For
a person with abnormal gut flora they usually are inappropriate. A combi
nation of the diet and supplementation, which we have discussed, would
relieve constipation in most cases. In those cases when it is not enough the
enemas would do the job very effectively.
In conclusion I would like to say that GAPS patients whether it is a child
or an adult should never be left constipated! Constipation is extremely
harmful for the whole body. It lays the ground for all sorts of digestive dis
orders, including bowel cancer, and it produces a huge amount of various
toxins, which poison the whole body. Diet and probiotics as a long-term
treatment and an enema as an immediate remedy would effectively put
constipation in the past for your patient. 5. GENETICS
The word genetics is mentioned a lot in connection with the GAPS condi
tions. Now and then we see articles in various journals where some part of
some gene has been found, which may have something to do with autism,
or schizophrenia, or ADHD/ADD, or dyslexia, or dyspraxia or depression.
We are assured that scientists are working on it and that the genetic cause
of these conditions will be found! Not that it will help the patients or their
families, but it will put our minds at rest that our children were meant to be
disabled and there was nothing we could do about it!
In our modern world genetics is a popular concept. Almost every health
problem is commonly blamed on genetics. We pollute the water we drink,
the food we eat, the air we breathe with industrial and nuclear wastes and
when we get ill we blame it all on genetics. We deplete our soils of minerals
and other nutrients and replace them with pesticides, organophosphates,
weedkillers and lots of other chemicals, we grow our crops on these soils,
we eat these crops, we get ill and blame it all on genetics. We damage our
children's immune systems with vaccinations and antibiotics and blame it
all on genetics. We regularly consume processed foods with virtually no
nourishment for the body andfull of chemicals, detrimental to health, and
when we get ill we blame it all on genetics. We regularly intoxicate our
selves with alcohol, tobacco and drugs and when we get ill we blame it all
on genetics.
If we look at all the epidemics of degenerative disease we have in our
modern times, which are blamed on genetics, it is easy to come to the con
clusion that we all must have very poor genetics indeed! In fact I don't
know how human kind survived for millennia with such poor genetics!
According to the scientific establishment genetics are to blame pretty
much for every misery we suffer. We have epidemics of cancer, heart dis
ease, diabetes, psychological and psychiatric maladies, learning disabili
ties, autoimmune disorders, obesity, etc. etc., the list is very long. These are
all conditions which doctors very rarely encountered too years ago. Have
our genetics changed so quickly to cause these epidemics? Well, for the last few decades genetic research or molecular biology has
received the most money in the western world. A lot of laboratories, which
used to do basic science, have been converted into genetic research.
Billions have been poured into this area in every western country. So, if
every other scientist works in genetics then that is what they know and that
is what they are going to think about when it comes to identifying the
course of any disease. As the old English proverb states: "If the only tool
you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail." Obesity? Don't
worry about your eating habits. Just wait, we will find a gene to blame for
it!... Cancer? Do not torment yourself with questions about your life
style, we will pinpoint a gene which caused it!... Learning disabilities? Oh,
definitely must be genetic!
Before the discovery of Helicobacter pylori the medical professionals
talked a lot about genetics causing stomach ulcers, gastritis and stomach
cancer. When the H. pylori was discovered and it was proven to cause
stomach ulcers, gastritis and stomach cancer, nobody talks about genetics
anymore in connection with these disorders, because the real cause has
been found. This example shows just how easy it is for us to blame things
on genetics in order to fill a gap in our knowledge.
Genetics are a very convenient scapegoat. It is something we are born
with, there is nothing we can do about it at the moment. So, wouldn't it be
wonderful not to worry about our food, environment or our life-styles?
Wouldn't it be so convenient to just put all the responsibility for our state of
health on our genetics?
Fortunately, life is not that simple!
Of course there are clearly identified genetic conditions, like phenylke
tonuria, haemophilia and many others, where specific faulty genes have
been discovered. However, these conditions are relatively rare, their inci
dence is fairly stable and they are not the main concern in the modern
world. The real problem in our modern world are the epidemics men
tioned before of cancer, heart disease, autoimmune and psychiatric condi
tions, learning disabilities, diabetes, obesity and many other modern mal
adies, where the numbers of sufferers are growing at a rapid pace. Despite
huge amounts of money spent on genetic research, none of these condi
tions had any clear genetic causes allocated to them. A number of different
genes are thought to have something to do with them, and the more
research is done the clearer it becomes how unclear it all is. GAPS condi
tions are not an exception. Number of research studies have been pub
lished here and there, where scientists suspect different genes, but there is no conclusive evidence for any specific gene or combination of genes
which we can blame for these disorders.
As with other modern epidemics, there is a conclusion that there may be
a genetic predisposition to the disorder rather than a genetic cause. This
predisposition can be made of tens or even hundreds of various genes, how
many and in what combinations - nobody knows yet. But what we do
know is that any predisposition to materialise into a disease has to have
certain environmental conditions, in other words things that happen to us
after we are conceived. Diet is a major part of this environmental condi
tioning.
Let us have a look at studies on identical twins. Identical twins are two
people who have the same genetics and consequently they should have the
same predisposition to the same diseases. However, there are many studies
showing that when identical twins are separated at an early age and live in
different environments with different diets and life-styles, they do not
develop the same health problems at all. Even in schizophrenia, which is
commonly perceived as a "genetic" disease in 50-60% of identical twins,
only one twin develops schizophrenia.
Studies on ethnic emigration also confirm the fact that in the majority of
cases environment, specifically diet, is more important than genetics. For
example, Chinese people, who live in China, are generally shorter than the
western population. However, Chinese people who were bom and grew up
in western countries are generally as tall as westerners. Western diet is
obviously a more important factor here than genetics.
To make the matter even more interesting, there is a large body of
research showing that maternal diet during pregnancy and the diet of a
baby have a major impact on the genetics of that baby. Apparently there
are many genes in a child,


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forgotten.
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wouldthinkshediditforthesakeofmakingthepatientspeak.
Now,whatthepatientmostwantsis,nevertobecalleduponto
speakaboutsuchthings.
“MINDINGBABY.”io:j
tlemeniber,everynurseshouldbeonewhoistobedepended
uf)on;inotherwords,capableofbeinga“confidential”nurse.
Shedoesnotknowhowsoonshemayfindherselfplacedinsuch
asituation;shemustbenogossip,novaintalker;sheshould
neveranswerquestionsabouthersickexcepttothosewdiohave
arighttoaskthem;shemust,Ineednotsay,bestrictlysobei
and°honest;butmorethanthis,shemustbeareligiousand
devotedwoman;shemusthavearespectforherowncalling,
becauseGod’spreciousgiftoflifeisoftenliterallyplacedinher
hands;shemustbeasound,andclose,andquickobserver;and
shemustbeawomanofdelicateanddecentfeeling.
XVI.-‘‘MINDINGBABY.”
Andnow,girls,Ihaveawordforyou.YouandIhaveall
hadagreatdealtodowith“mindingbaby,”though“baby”was
notourownbaby.Andwewouldallofusdoagreatdealfor
baby,w'hichwewouldnotdoforourselves.
Now,allthatIhavesaidaboutnursinggrown-uppeople
appliesagreatdealmoretonursingbaby.Forinstance,baby
willsufferfromacloseroomwhenyoudon’tfeelthatitisclose.
Ifbabysleepsevenforafewhours,muchmoreifitisfornights
andnights—infoulair,babywill,withoutanydoubtwhatever,
liepunyandsickly,andmostlikelyhavemeaslesorscarlatina,
audnotgetthroughitwell.
Babywillfeelwantoffreshairmorethanyou.Babywill
feelcoldmuchsoonerthanyou.Aboveall,babywillsuffermore
fromnotbeingkeptclean(onlyseehowitenjoysbeingwashed
inniceluke-warmwater).Babywillwantitsclothesandits
bedclotheschangedoftenerthanyou.Babywillsuffermore
fromadirtyhousethanyou.Babyvivsthaveacottoitself;
elseitruustheriskofbeingover-laidoruiffocated.Babymust
notbecovereduptoomuchinbed,nortoolittle.Thesame
whenitisup.Audyoumustlookafterthesethings.Mother
isperhapstoobusytoseewhetherbabyistoomuchmulffedup
ortoolittle.
Youmusttakecarethatbabyisnotstartledbyloudsudden
noises;allthemoreyoumustnotwakeitinthiswayoutofits
sleep.Noiseswhichwouldnotfrightenyou,frightenbaby.
Andmanyasickbabyhasbeenkilledinthisway.
Youmustbeverycarefulaboutitsfood;aboutbeingstrictto
U)4 NOTESONNURSINO.
themir,uteforfeedingit;notgivingittoomuchatatime(if
babyissickafteritsfood,youhavegivenittoomuch).Neither
mustitbeunderfed.Aboveall,nevergiveitanyunwholesome
food,noranythingatalltomakeitsleep,unlessthedoctor
ordersit.
Ifyouknewhowmany,evenwell-to-do,babiesIhavekno^vn
whohavediedfromhavinghadsomethinggiventomakethem
sleep,and“keepthemquiet,”—notthefirsttime,northesecond,
northetenthtime[jerhaps,—butatlast.
Icouldtellyoumanytruestories,whichhaveallhappened
withinmyownknowledge,ofmischieftobabiesfromtheirnurses
neglectingthesethings.
Hereareafew.
1.Baby,whoisweaned,requirestobefedoften,regularly,ami
nottoomuchatatime.
Iknewamotherwhosebabywasingreatdangeronedayfrom
convulsions. Itwasaboutayearold.Shesaidshehadwished
togotochurch;andso,beforegoing,h.adgivenititstlirco
mealsinone.Wasitanywonderthatthepoorlittlethinghad
convulsions?
Ihaveknown(inScotland)alittlegirl,notmorethanfive
yearsold,whosemotherhadtogogi-eatdistanceseveryday,aui
whowastrustedtofeedandtakecareofherlittlebi'other,under
ayearold.Andshe.alwaysdiditright.Shealwaysdidwhat
mothertoldher.Astr.anger,comingintothehutoneday(itwas
nobetterthanahut),said“Youwillbumbaby’smoutln”“Ob
no,”shesaid,“Ialwaysburnmyownmouthfirst.”
2.WhenIsay,bec.arefulofb.aby,Idon'tmeanhaveitalwa3’s
inyourarms.Ifthebabyisoldenough,andtheweatherw.arm
enoughforittohavesomeheatinitself,itismuchbetterfora
childtobecrawling.aboutthantobealw.aj’sinitslittlenui-se’s
.arms.Anditismuchbetterforittoamuseitselfthantohave
heralwa^'sm.akingnoisestoit.
Thehealthiest,happiest,liveliest,mostbeautifulb.abyIever
sawwastheonlychildofabusylaundress.Shewashedalld.ay
inaroomwiththedooro])enuponalargerroom,wheresheput
thechild.Itsatorcrawledupontheflooralldaywithnoother
|>lay-fellowth.anakitten,whichitusedtohug.Itsmotherkept
itbe.autifullyclean,andfeditwithperfectregularity.Thechild
W.OSneverfrightenedatanything.Theroomwhereitsatwasthe
house-place;anditalwaysgavenoticetoitsmotherwhenany
MINDINGBABY. 105 u
Lodycamein,notbyaciy,butbyacrow.Ilivedformirny
monthswithinheai’ingofthatchild,andneverhearditcryday
ornight.
IthinkthereisagreatdealtoomuchofamusingchildreQ
now;andnotenoughoflettingthemamusethemselves.
Neverdistractachild’sattention.Ifitislookingatone
thing,don’tshowitanother;andsoon.
3.Atthesametime,dulnessandespeciallywantoflight,is
worseforchildrenthanitisforyou.
Achildwasoncebroughtupquitealoneinadarkroom,by
personswhowishedtoconcealitsbeingalive.Itneversawany
one,exceptwhenitwasfed;andthoughitwastreatedperfectly
kindly,itgrewupanidiot.Thisyouwilleasilyguess.
Plentyoflight,andsun-lightparticularly, isnecessarytomake
achildactive,andmerry,andclever.But,ofallthings,don’t
burnbaby’sbrainsoutbylettingthesunbakeitsheadwhen
out,especiallyinitslittlecart,onahotsummer’sday.
Neverleaveachildinthedark;andlettheroomitlivesinbe
alwaysaslightaspossible,andassunny.Except,ofcourse,
whenthedoctortellsyoutodarkentheroom,whichhewilldO'
insomecluldren’sillnesses.
4.Doyouknowthatone-halfofallthenursesinserviceare
girlsoffromfivetotwentyyearsold?Youseeyouarevery
importantlittlepeople.Thenthereareallthegirlswhoare
nursingmother’sbabyathome;and,inallthesecases,itseems
prettyn


 lengthy to describe in book
format. Recordings are available that end with questions and answers, thus
providing additional clarification.
The overall design of this lifetime work is to recontextualize the human
experience in terms of the evolution of consciousness and to integrate a
comprehension of both mind and spirit as expressions of the innate Divinity
that is the substrate and ongoing source of life and Existence. This
dedication is signified by the statement “ Gloria in Excelsis Deo!” with
which his published works begin and end.
Biographic Summary
Dr. Hawkins has practiced psychiatry since 1952 and is a life member of the
American Psychiatric Association and numerous other professional
or ganizations. His national television appearance schedule has included The
McNeil/Leher News Hour, The Barbara W alters Show, The T oday Show,
science documentaries, and many others. He was also interviewed by Oprah
W infrey.
Dr. Hawkins is the author of numerous scientific and spiritual
publications, books, CDs, DVDs, and lecture series. He co-edited the
landmark book, Orthomolecular Psychiatry, with Nobelist Linus Pauling.
Dr. Hawkins was a consultant for many years to Episcopal and Catholic
Dioceses, monastic orders, and other religious or ganizations.
Dr. Hawkins has lectured widely, with appearances at the Oxford
Forum and W estminster Abbey, the Universities of Ar gentina, Notre Dame,
and Michigan, Fordham University, and Harvard University. He gave the
annual Landsber g Lecture at the University of California Medical School at
San Francisco. He is also a consultant to foreign governments on
international diplomacy and was instrumental in resolving longstanding
conflicts that were major threats to world peace.
In recognition of his contributions to humanity, in 1995, Dr. Hawkins
became a knight of the Sovereign Order of the Hospitaliers of St. John of
Jerusalem, which was founded in 1077.Autobiographic Note
While the truths reported in this book were scientifically derived and
objectively or ganized, like all truths, they were first experienced personally.
A lifelong sequence of intense states of awareness beginning at a young age
first inspired and then gave direction to the process of subjective realization
that has finally taken form in this series of books.
At age three, there occurred a sudden full consciousness of existence, a
nonverbal but complete understanding of the meaning of “I Am,” followed
immediately by the frightening realization that “I” might not have come
into existence at all. This was an instant awakening from oblivion into a
conscious awareness, and in that moment, the personal self was born and
the duality of “Is” and “Is Not” entered my subjective awareness.
Throughout childhood and early adolescence, the paradox of existence
and the question of the reality of the self remained a repeated concern. The
personal self would sometimes begin slipping back into a greater
impersonal Self, and the initial fear of non-existence—the fundamental fear
of nothingness—would recur.
In 1939, as a paperboy with a seventeen-mile bicycle route in rural
W isconsin, on a dark winter ’ s night I was caught miles from home in a
twenty-below-zero blizzard. The bicycle fell over on the ice and the fierce
wind ripped the newspapers out of the handlebar basket, blowing them
across the ice-covered, snowy field. There were tears of frustration and
exhaustion and my clothes were frozen stif f. T o get out of the wind, I broke
through the icy crust of a high snow bank, dug out a space, and crawled into
it. Soon the shivering stopped and there was a delicious warmth, and then a
state of peace beyond all description. This was accompanied by a suf fusion
of light and a presence of infinite love that had no beginning and no end and
was undif ferentiated from my own essence. The physical body and
surroundings faded as my awareness was fused with this all-present,
illuminated state. The mind grew silent; all thought stopped. An infinite
Presence was all that was or could be, beyond all time or description.
After that timelessness, there was suddenly an awareness of someone
shaking my knee; then my father ’ s anxious face appeared. There was great
reluctance to return to the body and all that that entailed, but because of my
father ’ s love and anguish, the Spirit nurtured and reactivated the body.
There was compassion for his fear of death, although, at the same time, the
concept of death seemed absurd.This subjective experience was not discussed with anyone since there
was no context available from which to describe it. It was not common to
hear of spiritual experiences other than those reported in the lives of the
saints. But after this experience, the accepted reality of the world began to
seem only provisional; traditional religious teachings lost significance and,
paradoxically, I became an agnostic. Compared to the light of Divinity that
had illuminated all existence, the god of traditional religion shone dully
indeed; thus spirituality replaced religion.
During W orld W ar II, hazardous duty on a minesweeper often brought
close brushes with death, but there was no fear of it. It was as though death
had lost its authenticity. After the war, fascinated by the complexities of the
mind and wanting to study psychiatry, I worked my way through medical
school. My training psychoanalyst, a professor at Columbia University, was
also an agnostic; we both took a dim view of religion. The analysis went
well, as did my career, and success followed.
I did not, however, settle quietly into professional life. I fell ill with a
progressive, fatal illness that did not respond to any treatments available.
By age 38, I was in extr emis  and knew I was about to die. I didn’ t care
about the body, but my spirit was in a state of extreme anguish and despair.
As the final moment approached, the thought flashed through my mind,
“What if there is a God?” So I called out in prayer, “If there is a God, I ask
him to help me now.” I surrendered to whatever God there might be and
went into oblivion. When I awoke, a transformation of such enormity had
taken place that I was struck dumb with awe.
The person I had been no longer existed. There was no personal self or
ego, only an Infinite Presence of such unlimited power that it was all that
was. This Presence had replaced what had been “me,” and the body and its
actions were controlled solely by the Infinite W ill of the Presence. The
world was illuminated by the clarity of an Infinite Oneness that expressed
itself as all things revealed in their infinite beauty and perfection.
As life went on, this stillness persisted. There was no personal will; the
physical body went about its business under the direction of the infinitely
powerful but exquisitely gentle W ill of the Presence. In that state, there was
no need to think about anything. All truth was self-evident and no
conceptualization was necessary or even possible. At the same time, the
physical nervous system felt extremely overtaxed, as though it were
carrying far more ener gy than its circuits had been designed for.It was not possible to function ef fectively in the world. All ordinary
motivations had disappeared, along with all fear and anxiety. There was
nothing to seek, as all was perfect. Fame, success, and money were
meaningless. Friends ur ged the pragmatic return to clinical practice, but
there was no ordinary motivation to do so.
There was now the ability to perceive the reality that underlay
personalities: the origin of emotional sickness lay in people’ s belief that
they wer e  their personalities. And so, as though of its own, a clinical
practice resumed and eventually became huge. People came from all over
the United States. The practice had two thousand outpatients, which
required more than fifty therapists and other employees, a suite of twenty-
five of fices, and research and electroencephalic laboratories. There were a
thousand new patients a year. In addition, there were appearances on radio
and network television shows, as previously mentioned. In 1973, the
clinical research was documented in a traditional format in the book,
Orthomolecular Psychiatry. This work was ten years ahead of its time and
created something of a stir.
The overall condition of the nervous system improved slowly, and then
another phenomenon commenced. There was a sweet, delicious band of
ener gy continuously flowing up the spine and into the brain where it created
an intense sensation of continuous pleasure. Everything in life happened by
synchronicity, evolving in perfect harmony; the miraculous was
commonplace. The origin of what the world would call miracles was the
Presence, not the personal self. What remained of the personal “me” was
only a witness to these phenomena. The greater “I,” deeper than my former
self or thoughts, determined all that happened.
The states that were present had been reported by others throughout
history and led to the investigation of spiritual teachings, including those of
the Buddha, enlightened sages, Huang Po, and more recent teachers such as
Ramana Maharshi and Nisar gadatta Maharaj. It was thus confirmed that
these experiences were not unique. The Bhagavad-Gita  now made complete
sense. At times, the same spiritual ecstasy reported by Sri Ramakrishna and
the Christian saints occurred.
Everything and everyone in the world was luminous and exquisitely
beautiful


, and you won't
include it in your life.
Ther e Is Only Y es for the Law of
Attraction
T urn away from the things you don't love and don't give them any feeling.
Don't say no to  the  things you don't love, because saying no brings them to
you. Wh en you say no to the thi ngs you don't love, you're feelin g bad aboutthem, you're giving bad feelings, and you will receive those feelings back as
negative circumstances in your life.
Y ou can't say no  to anything, because when you say, "No I don't want that,"
you are saying yes to th e law of attraction. When you say, "The traf fic is
terrible," "The service is really bad," "They're always late," "It's so noisy in
here," "That driver is a lunatic," "I've been on hold for so long," you are
saying yes.'. to th ese thing s and you are including more of all of them in
your life.
 T ur n aw ay from the things you don't love and don't give them any feeling,
because they are fine as they are but they have no place in your life.
"See no evil -  hear no evil -  speak no evil.” (17th Century maxim)

Instead say yes when you see something you love. Say yes when you hear
something you love. Say yes when you taste something you love. Say yes
when you smell something you love. Say yes when you touch something
you love. It doesn't matter if you have it or not, say yes to it, bec ause th en
you are choosing it by giving love.
There are no limits, and everything is possible if you really want it, if you
really desi re it. There is no lack anywhere in the universe. When people see
a lack of anything, it's simply a  lack of love. There isn't a lack of health,
money, resources o r happiness. The supply is equal to the demand. Give
love, and you will receivel

Y our Life - Y our Story
Y ou are creating the story of your life, so w hat story ar e you telling about
yourself? Do you believe there are things you can and cannot do ) Is that the
story you are telling about yourself? Because that story is not true.Don't lis ten if someone says yo u are less than  anyone  else. Don't lis ten if
someone says you are limited in any way. Don't listen if someone says you
can't do what you love to do and earn a living from it. Don't listen if
someone says you are not as v aluable and worthy as the grea test human
beings w ho've li ved. Don't listen if someone says you are not g ood enough
now and you have to prove yo urself in life. Don't listen if someone says you
can't have wh at you love or do what  you love or be what you love. If you
believe it, you put limit s on yourself, b ut more importantly, it is not true!
There is not a single thing that is too good for you, or too good to be true.
The forc e of love says, "Whatever you give, you receive back." Does that
say you're not good enough) The force of love says, "Give love for
whatever you want to be, do, or have and you will receive it." Does that
say you're not g ood enough? Y ou are worthy and deserving just  as you are.
Y ou ar e good en ough now. If you feel you have done something that wasn't
right, understand that your r ealization and acceptance of it is absolution for
the law of attraction.

The Real W orld
"In the beginning ther e wer e only pr obabilities. The universe could only
come into existence if someon e observed it. It does not matter that the
observers turned up several billion years later. The universe exists because
we ar e awar e of it." (Matin Rees Astr o physicist B. 1942)

I want to take you behind the sc enes of the world you see, because much of
what you see is not as real as you may think it is. A few adventurous steps
into the invisible will change t he way you look at the world, and it will set
you free to receive an unlimited life.
Most of  the things you may currently believe about the real world are not
true. Y ou are m uch more than you may realize. Life and the universe are
much more than you may rea lize. Y ou  may think the re is a limited amountof things in the world. Y ou may think there's a limited amount of money,
health, and resources, but it isn't true. There is no lack of anything.
Quantum physi cs tell us t here are infinite planet E arths and infinite
universes that exist, and we mo ve from one reality of planet Earth and a
universe to another, every fraction of a second. This is the real world
emer ging through science.

"In our universe we ar e tune d into the fr equency that corr esponds to
physical r eality. But ther e ar e an infinite number of parallel r ealities
coexisting with us in the same r oom, although we cannot tune into them."
(Steven W einber g Nobel Prize W inning Quantum Physicist b. 1933)

Y ou may think there's a shortag e of time in the real world, and because of
that you may liv e your life rushing aga inst time, but the great scient ist
Albert Einstein told us that time is an illusion.
"The distinction between past, pr esent, and futur e is only a stubbornly
persistent illusion." (Albert Einstein 1879-1955)

Y ou may think that the real w orld is made up of living things and dead
things. But in t he universe everything is alive and nothing is dead. The
stars, su n, planets, earth, air, water, fire, and every object you see is
seething with life. This is the real world that is emer ging.

"Ther e is a sense in the tr ee which feels your love and r esponds to it. It does
not r espond or show its pleasu r e in our way or in any way we can now
understand." (Pr entice Mulfor d 1834- 1891)

Y ou may believe the real world is everything you can see, and that
everything you can't see isn't rea l. And yet the color you see wh en you lookat so mething is in fact not its r eal color. Each thing absorbs al l the colors
that it really is, and reflects the color it is not, and that's the color you see.
So the sky is actually every color but blue!
There ar e many sounds you can't hear because their frequencies are beyond
what yo u can hear, but they are real. Y ou can't see ultraviolet or infrared
light, because their frequencies are beyond what your eye can see, but they
are real. If you imagine all the known frequencies of light as the size of
Mount Everest, then all that you can see is smaller than a golf ball!
Y ou may  believe the real world is made up of all the solid things you can
see and touch. But actually nothing is solid! Th e chair you're sitting on right
now is a for ce o f movin g ener gy, and it's most ly space. So how real is your
chair?

“A wise  man, r ecognizing that t he world is but an illusion, does not act
as if it is r eal, so (ther efor e) he escapes the suffering." (Buddha 563-483
BC)

Y ou may bel ieve that your imagination is just thoughts and dreams and has
no p ower in the  real world. And yet one of the hurdles for scientists in
proving things to be true or not is removing the scientist's beliefs from
scientific experi ments, because what the scientist believes or im agines will
be t he outcome of an experime nt af fects the outcome of the experiment.
This is the p ower of hu man imagination and beli efs! Just as the scientist's
beliefs a f fect th e outcome of an  experiment, so do your belief s af fect the
outcome of your life.
Y our beliefs, true or untrue, form your world. What you imagine and feel to
be true creates your life, because that is what you're giving to the law of
attraction, and that is what will be returned to yo u. Y our imagination is
more rea  l than the world you s ee, because the world you see comes from
what yo u imagine and believe! What you believe and feel to be true is what
will be your life. If  you beli eve you can't have the life you dream of, thenthe l aw of attraction must follo w what you say, and that will b e your real
world.
"T o believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all; but to
believe i n the unseen is a triumph and a blessing." (Abraham Lincoln 1809
1865)

A st ory of limit ation has been passed on from one generation to the


 of physical inability in the ultimate processes, and finally exhaustion and dea th
occur.

Dr. E. H. Dewey said, "The body may be well fed but still be starving to death." This statement may be made more striking and
perhaps more lucid by saying that in reality it is the overfed body that is continuously in a starving condition, and this by  a process
that is much more distressing in effect than is that by which death is caused when food is indefinitely denied. And starving of this
sort, starving from overfeeding, is well nigh the universal manner in which the individual existence of man is ter minated, for every
symptom of disease, every disease epidemic, owes its development to food wrongly combined, and ingested always in excess, and
usually far in excess, of body requirement, with malnutrition as its consequence.

Each cell that enters the s tructure of the human organism may be regarded as an entity, as an individual life center, with power to
select and to appropriate for its maintenance suitable constructive material from the blood current, and with power to elimin ate its
own waste. This be ing true, the life of the body as a whole is reflected in miniature in each of its cells, the infinitesimal particles
that go to form its structure. In health, when equilibrium is sustained between nutrition and elimination, every cell capably
performs its  function, receives its needful quota of pabulum, and discharges its waste. In disease the condition changes. Material
then absorbed is the product of ill -digested or non -digested food, elimination is also at fault, and the cell finds its source of
mainten ance, the blood stream, vitiated. For a time the small body is supported by its inherent vitality and by its stored food
reserve, but, if proper nourishment is denied, if the condition of toxemia persists, it atrophies and eventually dies. The de ath of
Page 10 of  72 cells sufficient in number to cause a vital organ to fail in function causes the death of the body. And thus, in a sense, it may  be said
that all animal dissolution, exclusive of that caused by accident, is brought about through starvation

The usual concept  of starvation is that the body perishes for some reason or other because it is not supplied with food for its
maintenance and growth. But elements and conditions other than those caused by deprivation of food enter into starving to dea th,
for the latter c annot occur in ordinary circumstances, as the text demonstrates, within a few days or weeks, or even months, when
the resources of the body have been in any degree conserved.

In a scientifically conducted fast death from starvation cannot take place when  organic disease is absent. In every animate body a
reserve supply of nourishment is held in the interstices of tissue. Brain and nerves are at all times directly supported by t his stored
food, and, when wounds, sores, or fractures of bone call for repair,  a healthy surplus furnishes the demand. Not until this reserve is
exhausted or prevented from being appropriated by nerve structure can death intervene.

When disease is manifest, there is no hunger --there cannot be, for the body then indicates through p hysical distress first, that it
desires functional rest, and next, that it is in process of relieving itself of the cause of its distress. And, until its pur poses are
accomplished, vitality is more weakly expressed, since the paths for the transfer of ener gy are largely obstructed. But the vehicle
of vitality, the organism itself, is conserved for a time by means of its sinking -fund of nourishment. If by continued feeding --and
any feeding in disease is pernicious --the avenues for the expression of life forc e are further obstructed, strength finally may be no
longer manifested, and death will occur. On the other hand, when nature is permitted full scope, the cause of disease is elim inated,
and true hunger appears. Then, with food supplied, rebuilding and grow th are resumed in a system purified and functionally equal
to its appointed tasks.

The law of hunger, the primal rule of being in animal existence, is reserved for discussion later in the text. It is the safe guard of
bodily resource, and its claims may n ever be ignored.

Disease may be induced through the action of mental states upon physical function, and in accidental conditions that compel
abstinence from food, such as shipwreck, mine disasters, and the like, digestive function is paralyzed by mental apprehension. If
death should occur in these circumstances, within a comparatively short time, it must be attributed, not to lack of nourishme nt, but
to the effect of fear, of general emotional exhaustion, upon physical forces.

It is an error to associat e the terms, fasting and starvation. Fasting conduces to systemic purlfication; starvation is actual systemic
poisoning. One may and often does starve on three full daily meals. And it may be added that it requires great skill to fast an
individual properl y, but that any tyro can starve a man to death.

CHAPTER IV
WHEN AND WHY TO FAST

THE TIME TO FAST IS WHEN ONE IS ILL:
THE BODY GETS SICK AS A WHOLE:
GENERAL HINTS ABOUT FASTING

FASTING is indicated only when illness impends or is in actual evidence. No need exists in health for the employment of
measures for the alleviation of pain and distress for these signs are non -evident when physical balance is the rule. Remedial means
are necessary only in illness, impending or actual, and then alone should t he fast and its accessories be applied.

In disease nature is in process of purifying the body --is casting out its waste, thus cleansing the system in preparation for active,
healthy rebuilding. The fast as an eliminative measure is comparable to no other  agency known, but before entering upon a period
of abstinence from food, the subject, whether under guidance or conducting his own case, should fully comprehend the details of
the truth that physical lack of balance is due to a single cause. The symptoms that then are present, or that may arise thereafter
during the fast or upon a dietary regimen, need occasion no alarm, for their source is understood and their meaning is rightl y
conceived as therapeutic in character. Omission of food permits the eliminati ve organs to act unhampered by intake, and in this
omission and in the employment the essential hygienic accessories is discovered the sole means of assistance that will assure
permanent relief. Alleviation of symptomatic distress may, however, be accompli shed locally through simple measures --dry heat,
hot fomentations, cold applications, sunlight, fresh air, body manipulation, vertebral adjustment, and the baths and the enem a.

Illness never occurs at the convenient moment. Its warnings may develop in any  season of the year, and they should promptly be
heeded regardless of personal inconvenience or of climatic situation. To wait until disease develops locally is always disast rous,
and in the therapeutics of nature diagnosis is unnecessary, for natural meas ures for relief in any and all illness are identical in
essence, varying only in minor details. During a fast, because of the absence of food stimulation, of the heat -producing chemical
reactions normal to health, the body is easily chilled, hence it is at  times suggested that the fast wait for the warm weather of
summer. But, again, the time to fast is when ill, and one should never be deterred from undergoing treatment because the seas on is
Page 11 of  72 not propitious. Artificial means of maintaining indoor temperatur e are always available, and the needful hygienic requirements
may be utilized with equal facility and success whether outer air be warm or cold.

It is to be noted that the winter season is nature's time of rest and recuperation. Then trees and plants are  dormant, many animals
hibernate, and all nature prepares for the growing period, the resurrection of the spring. Man, because of artificial environ ment and
custom, and with the thought that the body heat is derived solely from fuel consumed, from food ing ested, eats more heavily in
winter and approaches spring with a system overloaded with waste. Spring fever and spring tonic are reciprocating terms, and
epidemic disease is more prevalent then than at any other season.

The symptoms by which disease is ex hibited may be specifically named and classified --it may be said that the subject suffers from
Bright's disease, from eczema, from diphtheria, or from small -pox, but behind the symptom lies the cause, and, as before stated,
the body is not to be thought of  as ill in a specific locality or in an individualized organ. It is sick as a whole, though the signs of
physical unbalance are more visible, more severely expressed, in one part or another. Illness results when equilibrium no lon ger
exists between nutriti on and elimination, resulting in a blood current vitiated at its source, powers of resistance lowered, and soil
for germs produced. One remedy alone may cope with this condition, and it is that which nature indicates and employs --
elimination of the toxins that cause disease, and rest for organs that have been functioning under stress.

Nature inevitably focuses her efforts at cure upon the point or points of least resistance, upon those outlets of the body th at are
least able to withstand the


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OceanofPDF.com<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Distilled Water
and
 Its
    Relationship to Health...

   Change Your Water

- Change Your Life

      Distillation Station- Aquamedia Group Companies- Copyright 2013- All
Rights Reserved

Douglas Clayton Hoover
Author

 Douglas is a retired contractor, author, freelance writer, inventor, designer,
architect and lives in San Diego, CA with his wife Alice.

He is the founder and developer of
the “
Distillation Station,” the
very “first bottled water vending machines in the United States.”

The original station was placed in Bill's IGA Store, Brooklyn, Michigan, in
1976. Douglas Hoover has been studying water and its relationship to
health for over 40 years.

He rarely debates with the distilled water naysayers, because, “A man with
an experience is not at the mercy of a man with an argument.”
Douglas is a living example of the miraculous health benefits of a “
fasting
lifestyle
” and drinking plenty of distilled water.

In the year 1976, just a
stone's throw from the
Michigan International
 Speedway, in Bill's IGA
(Independent Grocers Association
) distilled
 water was being installed by
Doug Hoover of the Aquamedia Corporation. Nine years later, in June of
1985, the owner of Bill's IGA store reported sales
of Crystal
 Distilled
drinking water was in excess of 2500 gallons per week in addition to over
1,500 pounds
of Crystal

Distilled ice
 cubes. Brooklyn has a population of
1,300! He was excited to add
that the Crystal

Distilled drinking
 water from
the Distillation
 Station produced the highest profit margin of any item in his
store." Crystal Distilled water and ice is produced by steam vapor
compression distillation which kills all bacteria and cysts, removing
everything from the water, resulting in the purest, healthiest water
available, distilled!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
………………...............................….….…....   6

1
   What Is Distilled Water? ………………....................   7

2
   Distilled Water – Simple Yet Misunderstood …......  16

3
   Why Do I Need to Drink Distilled Water?  ….........  22

4
  What's In Your Water?  …........
............................  32

5
   The Fluoridation of Drinking Water ....................  39

6
   Drinking Water and Cancer  ……….…….......
..........  42

7
   Does Bottled Water Pr
ovide Health Benefits? …....  47

8
   America – Overweight, Sick & Dying Earlier?
      Simple Solution: H
2
O …...........
............................. 61

TABLE OF CONTENTS

(Cont'd)

9
   Dis
tilled Water Helps Burn Fat   .
.................. 66

10
Cooking With Distilled Water
   .
................... 70
11
  Comparing Orga
nic & Inorganic Minerals …... 78

12
  Mineral Chelates
 Are Not Created Equal …..... 82

13
  Carbon Filters: “Cheapest
” Water Treatment

...  But Are They Effective?
 …......................... 86

14
40 Years of Fasting With Distilled Water
.
…
…
.. 92

15

Fasting – Distilled Water – Exercise
............... 10
3

Preface

This book will expose the myths and falsehoods while
revealing the
 truths
about water quality and its relationship to health
and longevity
.

Think of what you need to merely survive. Food? Water? Air? Cell
phones? Obviously, by the book
’
s title, I
’
m going to
concentrate on
 water.
Water is of major importance to all living things;
in some
 organisms, up to
90% of their body weight comes
from water
. Up to 60-70% of the human
body is
water;
 the brain
is composed
 of over 70-72% water, and the lungs
nearly 90%.
Lean muscle
 tissue contains about 75% water by weight, as
is the brain
; body
 fat contains 10-12% water and bone has 20-22% water.
About 83% of our blood is water, which helps digest our food
, transport
waste, and control body temperature. Each day
humans must
 replace 2.5
to 3
quarts of
 water lost through the excretory  system,  with most of it
replaced through drinking, and the rest  from our foods.

So it only stands to reason that the quality and quantity of
water we
replace daily has a direct bearing on our health and longevity.
I will be sharing many statistics and facts in this book while reiterating
some of what I already said in several chapters. We all learn from
repetition, therefore it has been said that the best speakers, teachers and
preachers will tell you what they
’
re going to tell you, then they will tell you,
and then they will tell you what they told you. So you hear it three times!

CHAPTER 1
What Is Distilled Water?

Why is it that water (H
2
O), which is the second
simplest

substance

next to
oxygen (O), seems to be much too complicated for some medical doctors
to
figure out? Not only is water number two in importance,
 it also happens
to be the most important next to oxygen for our survival. For the survival
of the Earth, for that matter. All living things require water to survive and
without a continuous supply, the average human will perish in only a few
days.

Water is required for our bodies to produce blood, lymph, digestive
juices,
lubric
ants, bile, extracellular fluid
 and cytoplasm, the fluid inside the plasma
membrane. It is common knowledge that most municipal and private water
supplies are severely polluted with everything from chlorine,
trihalomethanes, nitrates, pesticides, herbicides, heavy metals and
chemicals of every kind, to jet fuel
and pharmaceuticals. Consider
 the factthat since the government established
“
the priority pollutant list
”
 of 126
known cancer-causing chemicals:

Each year the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reviews an
average of 1,700 new compounds that industry is seeking to
introduce. Yet the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act requires
that they be tested for any ill effects before approval only if
evidence of potential harm exists—which is seldom the case for
new chemicals. The Agency approves about 90 percent of the
new compounds without restrictions. Only a quarter of the
82,000 chemicals in use in the U.S. have ever been tested for
toxicity. And there are no guidelines for so called “safe” levels in
drinking water established for any of these pollutants.

Some of
these pollutants can be found in every water supply
in
America
,
including rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, wells,
and municipal
water supplies.
David Ewing Duncan, National Geographic
 As a consequence of this alarming condition of America
’
s drinking water
sources, the bottled water industry has developed into a $15 billion profit
industry, including bottled waters, sports drinks, water purifiers such as
reverse osmosis (RO)
,
 distillation, filtration, plus the current fad of ionizers
that produce “alkaline” water.

ONE OUT OF 4 DRINKS CONSUMED
IN AMERICA IS A SOFT DRINK!Let’s talk about filtration and distillation.

FILTERS:
  Regardless of the process or the technology behind it,
the
main
 purpose of these devices is to produce the cleanest, purest
,
healthiest
 water possible. The most commonly used method
for cleaning
up tap water is the carbon block filter which removes
the water’s
 bad
taste, smell, chlorine, nitrates and many chemicals.  It is
,
 indeed
,
 the most
economical form of water treatment available
; however
, it comes with
several serious drawbacks:



It does not remove all chemicals present;


Chemicals can build up in the filter to dangerous concentrations
which end up in your body if you don
’
t change the  filter
regularly;


A carbon filter is a breeding ground for bacteria and germs;


The filter can develop channeling from water taking the path of
least resistance.
Therefore, unfiltered water can pass
straight through the
filter, unobstructed.

The second most popular and effective filter system is reverse osmosis.
The RO process involves a special membrane which most pollutants
cannot pass through, in addition to prefiltering and post-filtering, to ensure
that 99% of the pollutants are removed.

The most effective process of rem
oving everything from the water,
including bacteria and cysts
,
 is steam distillation – along with
a post
-
carbon filter to catch any resid
ual volatile gases that escape
with the
steam. Because distilled