TO BE HEALTHY OR NOT TO BE?

The blog is created to share the advantages of monoraw eating and ,probably, this will help some people in understanding that they can recreate their impaired healh, including getting rid of cancer and AIDS, not to say about less serious diseases. It will include articles and excerpts of important books on the theme and is intended to give consise info.



TO BE HEALTHY OR NOT TO BE?

KNOWLEDGE IS PROUD THAT
HE HAS LEARNT SO MUCH,
WISDOM IS HUMBLE THAT HE
KNOWS NO MORE!

Being healthy is a wonderful gift. Health is the most welcome guest in the shabby room of the poor man or in the luxurious premises of the wealthy man.
If anyone is asked whether he wants to be healthy, the answer will be definitely “Yes!” Why is it then that the general health of humanity is deteriorated? Why is it that constant rise of expenditures on National Health Service is viewed as a positive move? Why have chronic diseases become the unseparable companion of man, despite his wishes to be healthy?
The answer is simple: because we ourselves, by our own will, based on ignorance and lack of knowledge, have forgotton that we are an integral part of Nature and as such, should follow its laws . But instead we have become the humble slaves of our stomachs.
We forget that we began our evolution as a frugivorous animal and the structure of our organism is geared-up for consumption of plants, fruits and vegetables. Nature has made us pay for eating animal’s albumen with our own health and freedom.
Anatomically and physiologically, a human is different from herbivorous and carnivorous animals. The length of the gastrointestinal tract of man is shorter than that of herbivores, it lacks additional stomachs, where the food is pre-digested by protozoa and bacteria, but it is longer than that of carnivorous animals and not so round. The research undertaken by the famous Russian naturopath Dr. G. Shatalova in the Moscow Zoo, showed that the pH of carnivorous animals is 7,2, of herbivores– 7,6 – 7, 8, and of human – 7,4. The difference between man and herbivorous animals lies in the following: masticating animals eat mainly green parts of plants, relatively poor of proteins and fats and this has predisposed the structure of their gastrointestinal tract, while foods of human species, who is frugivorous, constitute fruits, berries, grains, nuts, seeds and roots – those parts of the plants, where concentration of nutrients is much higher. Some polemize that man is omnivorous and developed this in the process of the evolution. But what can be called meat? Beasts of prey eat raw flesh, which fully preserve all the quality of living food, including that of self-predigestion. A man, on the contrary, consumes just a useless combination of proteins and fats, resulting from its heat-processing . And the ability to eat the flesh of others man discovered only after he had discovered fire, some hundreds thousand years ago. (Let’s bear in mind that Prometeus, who, by legend, had introduced fire to the mankind, has been pecked by the Eagle as a punishment. Appropriate allegory: fire – cooked meat – suffering).Since those ancient times we havn’t got features of the beasts of prey, no claws or fangs have developed, the alkaline reaction in our mouth hasn’t changed.

DANGERS OF COOKED FOODS.
Our body is a perfect self-repairing entity. It can work restlessly for at least 150-200 years if we don’t spoil and damage it, which we persistently do every day of our life. Despite this, our body manages to continue functioning up to 60, 70 and sometimes 80-100 years. So, what is wrong?
And the answer is that we eat food which was not designed by Nature for us, -- actually, no creature on Earth, except a human, is eating heated foods. And eating cooked foods leads to overproducing of all kinds of toxins which block the capillaries, hardens the arteries; the mucus, a by-product of digesting cooked food , in attempt to filtrate the toxins, as well blocks the absorption of nutrients from food. As a result, the work of cells and entire organs is disrupted and distorted. Trying to eliminate the waste, our bodies mobilize all its forces, which we perceive as a disease, -- in fact, the body is desperately fighting for our life. But, after numerous years of valorous efforts, it finally surrender. And we die.
Nature’s rule is that – LIFE SHALL FEED UPON LIFE!
Most people think that adult bodies are built once and for all and that food is just a fuel. This is far from true, because our bodies are composed of individual cells like the bricks of a building, each cell having its own life and death. These cells are constantly wearing out a few at a time, dying and being replaced by new cells, utilizing mostly new material taken from our food. Nature has given us glorious ability to rebuild ourselves day by day from food we eat. So,, if we improve our food our bodies gradually become finer, stronger and better looking. Surely, younger people react faster and have a greater range of potential improvement, but it is never too late to make a worthwhile betterment, while life remains. Experimental feeding of animals and humans has shown that dramatic improvements even in old debilitated individuals can be made in a few month by feeding fresh living food.
Let’s see what unharnessed scientists of medicine think and what are the scientific results, proving that raw food is our natural food, not cooked one.
Dr. Roy Walford, a well-respected medical research gerontologist, scientifically demonstrated that a qualitative life span up to at least 115 years of age is reasonably attainable by the average person if he starts working on it no later than being 50 years old(raw nutrition, water fasts, exercises).
Dr. G.T. Wrench, who studied the people of Hunza, famous for the longitude and perfect health back in 1930’s, emphasized: “ Of all factors which make for human health the greatest single factor is adequate nutrition. This simply means that however excellent housing, clothing, sanitation, exercise performance, inadequate nutrition such as still prevails in Britain will continue to cause widespread disease.”
EXPERIMENTAL DATA.
Among the first scientists to study cooking in its application to animal nutrition were Weill and Mouriquant of France. In 1912 they conducted experiments with pigeons to determine effects of cooked food. Pigeons fed on raw grains showed great activity and vigour, those given cooked grains developed beriberi and all died paralyzed within 90 days.
The celebrated British scientist, Sir Robert McCarrison, while Director of Nutritional Research in India in 1920’-30’s, confirmed in a long programme of research on 2000 rats, that those fed on healthy diet of Sikhs and Hunza (raw cabbage, carrots, milk, meat, unleavened bread and sprouted legumes) showed all the signs of vibrant health, were gentle and affectionate. While those given food, identical to that typical for poor class British (tinned meat, boiled potato and cabbage, white bread, margarine, jam, much sweetened tea) – resulted in poor physique, widespread respiratory infections and gastrointestinal degeneration in rat colonies. Rats given uncooked food for 2 and a quarter years (which is corresponding to 55 years in man), showed after autopsy no disease whatsoever. Those fed on cooked one developed practically every ailment found in any medical textbook, and in addition they seemed to be affected mentally, became ill-tempered and vicious, they would bite the attendant, killed each other and were in a state of continuous nervous irritability!
Dr. McCarrison’s other experiments with monkeys showed similar results, with those on cooked diet developing troubles from the very start and dying within 43 to 100 days.
Experiments with guinea pigs, fed with cooked food, conducted by Dr. O. Stiner from Swiss Board of Health in Berne, showed that large number of diseases appeared (softening of teeth and jaws, goitre, anaemia etc.) and when pasteurized milk was added, guinea pigs developed arthritis; most of them died of scurvy and some of cancer.
Perhaps the most important of all the animal experiments with raw and cooked foods are those of Dr. Francis Pottenger, Jr., one of the world’s great physicians and food scientist. At his sanatorium in Monrovia, California, he conducted experiments with white rats and cats covering 10-years period. In a group of 900 cats studied, the following results were obtained: those fed on raw food(meat and milk) remained in excellent health from one generation to the next, physical development was perfect, abortion occurred very seldom, all mother cats nursed their young in a normal manner, death resulted only from old age or injuries sustained in fighting, NONE died from disease. Cats fed on cooked meat and pasteurized milk didn’t reproduce in homogeneity, each kitten being of a different skeletal pattern, dental conditions deteriorated from one generation to next, severe impairment of bone composition was observed, reproductive efficiency was greatly lowered, abortion ran from 25% in the first generation to 70% in the second, deliveries were very difficult and many cats died in labour, often mother was unable to lactate, some failed to become pregnant; in males there was disturbance of genital development, sterility was so common that raw-food males had to be used for breeding purposes. Development of the secondary sexual characteristics was incomplete. The degree of masculinity and femininity was lessened and cats of both sexes tended to become more neutral in appearance, sex interest was very slack, in many cases it was perverted, with some cats developing in true homosexuals. Most were very irritable and occasionally viciously bite the keeper, skin lesions and allergies became worse from one generation to the next. No cats survived the sixth month of life in the third generation. Those fed on sweetened condensed milk produced the most marked deficiencies of all. (Do you notice any signs of resemblance concerning modern life?)
Some cats, which were fed cooked food, would be placed upon a completely raw diet, continued in subsequent generations: improvements in resistance to disease was noticed in the first and the second generation in the “regenerating” animals, though there were still allergic manifestation and reproduction was erratic. In the third generation there was considerable further improvements and by the fourth generation some of the animals returned to completely normal skeletal and tissue form.
From these experiments, as well as all other*, results of feeding raw and cooked foods become apparent: almost without exception, animals thrive well upon an exclusive doet of raw foods. And with general uniformity they immediately suffer from various forms of deterioration – physical,sexual, and mental –when given cooked foods The degree of damage varies with different animals, but in no instance have large quantities of heat-processed foods been consumed over a long period of time without some harm being observed. The contrast is clearly seen in ALL cases, with different animals used, and shows that the result may be accepted as a general principle.
And the consequences of eating cooked food are that not only excessive toxaemia and all kinds of diseases develop as its result – these toxins and poisons, stacked in our tissues, crave for other stimulants and that is why when we consume heat-processed meal, we as well readily absorb tea, coffee and alcohol.
Dr. Roger Williams states that those who stick to natural nutrition don’t become alcoholics. He made series of experiments with rats and proved that processed meal make them alcoholics, when rats prefer alcohol to water, but when the diet returned to raw food the craving for alcohol disappeared..
The similar results were obtained by researchers of University of L Linda in California – rats became mad for alcohol when fed cooked foods. Other data prove this as well.
Man is a part of Nature and the same results were obtained concerning raw and cooked food in relation with its effect on human’s health.
Minerals and vitamins must be found in an organic combination with other food nutrients if they are to be used efficiently by the body. We must rely on the plants to synthesize the minerals of the earth into combinations, which are entirely non-toxic. In the presence of heat certain nutrients are destroyed and hence the delicate chemical balance is altered. Evidence of this is seen by the fact that leukocytosis, an increase in the number of white corpuscules of the blood, follows the exclusive consumption of cooked foods, which means lowering of immunity. Dr.Paul Kouchakoff of the Institute of Clinical Chemistry in Lausanne, conducted some 300 detailed experiments which indicated that leukocytosis was the specific effect of eating heat-processed food and never occurred after a meal of raw food.
All cooked foods undergo important changes, they lose a part of their mineral and vitamin content, their proteins are partly destroyed and rendered less digestible and nutritious, their fats become toxic, the starches and sugars are altered and food lose all of their enzymes and become toxic.
Dr. MacDonald, medical Officer to Dr. Barnardo’s Homes in England, reported that among 750 children who were given pasteurized milk for a period of 5 years, 14 cases of tuberculosis developed, another 750 boys, given raw milk with the same other conditions – only 1 case was registered.
From letter signed by 8 Members of Parliament, concerning report of Medical Officer of Health for Hertfordshire, we read: ”During 1932 there were 45 deaths in all from surgical tuberculosis…In 13 rural districts where the whole supply is in the hands of small retailers of raw milk. There were no deaths at all during the year from surgical tuberculosis.”
Prof. Jaffa of the University of South California, made a study of a number of families, who, for religious, ethical or scientific reasons, subsisted almost entirely upon raw fruits and nuts. He found them to be in excellent health, with unusual freedom from colds and other ailments. Subsequent observations of families living upon raw foods have indicated much the same. Many have reported a rapid improvement in health after adopting the raw diet, with the remedy of severe and long-standing diseases.
The famous adherent of healthy food Dr. Sylvester Graham and his many thousands of followers survived the epidemic of cholera in America in 1830’s with no cases of disease reported among them.
There are many more data clearly showing that raw food not only prolong very considerably human’s life but as well cure man from practically all diseases.
Dr. Kristine Nolfi of Denmark, who developed cancer and recovered excellent health after treating herself with an exclusive raw diet, opened sanatorium “Humlegaarten” and treated around 1000 patients annually with phenomenal success on a diet of raw foods. Patients recovered from all manner of disease, including cancer, sterility, obesity, diabetes, heart debilitation, high blood pressure, rheumatism, epilepsy, asthma and many others. Dr. Nolfi stated:” Raw diet cures not only diseases contracted during our life but also those determined by hereditary predisposition.”
Similar results were achieved by Dr.K.Eimer, of University Medical Clinic at Marburg-Lahn, Dr.Joseph Evers in Germany, who reported 42% improvements or complete recovery in 600 cases of multiple sclerosis. German physicians Friedrich and Peters treated many very severe cases of liver cirrhosis. Dr. Hare of the Royal Free Hospital in England, placed arthritis patients on an exclusive raw diet and most of them began to feel better within one to four weeks, with marked improvements continuing thereafter. Dr. Kinderheilk found that raw diet helped in avotaminosis, nephrites, diabetes, chronic constipation. Dr. Heupe, of the University Medical Polyclinic in Frankfurt, reported the diet to aid in diarrhea, heart and kidney diseases, obesity and diabetes. Dr. Kuratsune, of the Kyushu University, Japan, reported curing by raw diet anaemia and other diseases, which failed to yield to conventional medical care.
Even much more better results in curing diseases are achieved when raw diet is combined with fasting.
Dr. Henry G. Bieler in his book ‘Food is your best medicine” very well expressed his view on the subject: “ As a practising physician for over 50 years, I have reached 3 basic conclusions as to the cause and cure of disease. The first – it is caused by a toxemia which results in cellular impairment and breakdown, second – is that in almost all cases the use of drugs is harmful. My third conclusion is that disease can be cured through the proper use of correct food. These conclusions are based on experimental results, gathered through years of successfully treating patients. Today we are not only in the Atomic Age but also the Antibiotic Age, and this is, unhappily, the Dark Age of Medicine – when many of my colleagues, confronted with a patient, consult a big volume containing thousands of drugs to decide which one to choose. I disagree with doctors who stuff the sick, exhausted man with powerful toxic drugs and then are forced to use other drugs to ‘remedy the remedy”, instead I “fast” the patient on simple vegetables or fruit juices to discharge their waste products and allow the nature heal them. Improper foods cause disease, proper ones cure it”.
Sir William Osler, one of the most brilliant physicians of recent times said:” The young physician starts life with 20 drug for each disease and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases” and this drug is correct nutrition and fasting, we see this in Hippocrates’ precept that ‘”Nature heals; the physician is only nature’s assistant”.
Dr. Arnold Ehret in his book “Rational Fasting” wrote: “ After a 2-years strict fruit-diet with intercalated fasting cures, I had attained a degree of health which is simply not imaginable nowadays: With the knife I made an incision in my lower arm, -- there was no flow of blood as it thickened instantaneously, closing up of the wound, no inflammation, no pain, no mucus and pus, it healed up in 3 days; later, with vegetaric food, including mucus-forments(starch) – the wound bled a little, some pain and pus, little inflammation, pain; after the same wound, with meat-food and some alcohol – long bleeding, inflammation, pain, pus for several days, healing only after 2 days’ fast. I was no longer in need of a handkerchief, a chronic inflammation of the kidneys, considered deadly wasn’t only healed but I enjoyed the immense degree of health – I could run for 150 minutes non-stop or make endurance march of 56 hours duration.”
Dr. Henry S. Tanner, who called himself the father of fasting in USA, treated himself with long fasts(40, 42 days) after collapsing, with all symptoms of illness disappearing after 10 days of fast and regained excellent health after finishing it. He practised “natural methods” for 42 years.
It is interesting to know how Dr. E.H.Dewey ,who practised fasting in treating patients and himself, became aware of the fasting cure. He was called to treat a patient with typhoid fever. The patient couldn’t eat anything, so Dr. Dewey just supervised him and determined that on the 34th day of forced fast the patient began to eat and fully recovered. (Actually, in wild nature all animals which get sick or injured immediately stop eating to allow their bodies to heal themselves).
Dr. Linda Hazzard started fasting, being ill from mercury pills, given in her childhood, and then applied fasting in treating her patients with excellent results. And cases, incurable by medical physicians, were full success.
Dr. W A. Evans stated:” Fasting is a remedial agent of enormous power”.
There are many more doctors and researchers all over the world who in their practice in clinics and sanatoria ,as well as on themselves, proved that raw food diet and fasting is the most powerful tool eliminating all kinds of diseases( A.Aterov, Prof. G.Shatalova, Prof. Y.Nicolaev, prof. Stoleshnikov, Dr.K.Sidhwa, Dr. Moser, etc., not to mention well-publicised Paul Bragg and Dr. Herbert Shelton ).
All these facts are published. But the general public is still mostly unaware of. Why? Because they are being silenced or ignored. And what should millions of GPs, farmers, all food-processing, catering industries etc. do without those they “care for”? I remember how a few years ago I visited a hospital suffering from arthritis. The only doctor’s advice was – take painkillers. Every day, year after year, from TV screens and advertising boards we hear – take this pill and pain will be gone, take that pill and you will be slim, take the new wonder-pill and you will be healthy. Unfortunately, they can sometimes only alleviate the symptoms and suppress the disease but not cure it. We need to take responsibility for our life into our own hands.
The reality is simple: money rule the world. In the incessant race for profit we forgot that we are supposed to eat to live, not live to eat. Until a serious disease forces us to understand that whatever material we gain in social life is nothing compared with health and life itself!
Most definitely, the abovementioned may seem strange, curious, stunning or just fairy-tale and very shortly will be forgotten. New days, new problems, new emotions, new deeds. And health – well, probably some other time…
The aim of this article was to give this information to peruse and ponder upon for those seriously ill, who having exhausted all the traditional methods of curing diseases, used by the official medicine, was left hopeless and desperate.
Natural Hygiene, Naturopathy or Natural Cure – is the name of this method. And certainly, fasting and raw nutrition must be accompanied by other means: special exercises and physical activity,, fresh air, water procedures etc. and probably the main – the change in one’s world’s perception, the change in one’s thoughts.
You may try it if you really want to live. Only remember that it is not so easy to change one’s life-style, eating habits. It requires a very huge effort, as we are deadly stuck in our habits and customs! ( And I do know it myself, as I managed to switch to fasting and raw food with immense difficulty, in order to cure my arthritis).The head of a clinic specialising on fasting and raw diet admitted sadly that even facing death, only about 2% of patients who underwent the treatment continued to follow it after getting better. And if you don’t continue the disease will quickly returns back.
But if you think you are strong in your will and desire to live – find a naturopathic doctor nearby, as fasting is not that simple as it seems, it requires huge knowledge and experience.
I’ve spent hundreds of hours to write this concise abridge in the hope that it will help cure at least a few of you. I, as many thousands, managed to become healthy again. So can you! Remember, even AIDS and cancer ARE curable, even at the very advanced stages(AIDS may be cured in 6 months, cancer – in 1,5 – 2 years; read “Roger’s recovery from AIDS” by Bob Owen, 1987,about curing cancer -http://www.creativehealthinstitute.com/articles/Open%20Letter%20from%20Dr_%20Lorraine%20Day.htm , http://www.drday.com/crs.htm ).

• (Dr.R.Wulzen & A.Bahrs of Oregon State College, Dr. E. Scott & Prof. L. Erf of Ohio State Univ-ty, English scientists Mattick & Golding, investigators S. Schmidt-Nielson, Daniels & Loughlin, Kitchin & McFarland, Russel, Abeline, Dr.Renius of Finland, McCandlish & Black, W.Catel, Dr.J.E.Muller of Indiana Univ-ty, McClure & Folk, Kraft & Morgan of Univ-ty of California, Fink & Schlie from Germany, Wilson & Cowel, Marine, M.J.Morris, Dr.C.McCay, Koehn, E.C. Foust, Magendie, Dr. C. Semford, Dr.M.Mellanby, Ragu & Rajagopalau of India, Sir S.S Sokhey, Dr. Lane, Dr. A. Roffo of Argentina and many others)

GOOD LUCK!