Healing with Nature

Sunshine is an important nutrient for optimal health. A healthy person with healthy skin and who is on a healthy low fat and low toxin diet needs to get solar exposure. The problem lies in having little access to the sun during the long winter.

Most of the world population is currently in winter now and therefore are unable to get enough sunshine on their naked skin. The fortunate few who live in the tropics and the southern hemisphere are still bathing in sunshine every day and they don’t need to worry about this until about mid to late June when the seasons reverse. The ones who live in the tropics actually don’t ever need to worry as they have access to sunshine all year around.

There is no trick to getting sunshine. The body actually can store enough vitamin D in the liver to last the entire winter. If there was enough there at the start of winter there would be no problems. This means that you should get enough sunshine while you have it so you can stay healthy during the winter.

Whenever possible and when the sun is shining, even if the temperature is well below the freezing point, get outside and absorb as much as you can. The angle of the sun greatly reduces the intensity in the winter but at least get some exposure to the face and if possible hands, and arms. The reflection from the snow (if there is any) will actually help with this.

Another suggestion is to take a fews days off and go somewhere that has the sunshine and warm weather that delivers the needed vitamins and cleansing activities that only the sun provides. Find a place that your budget can bear and spend as much time outside with as little covering as possible during the times of day when it is safe to be exposed.

These times are usually from sunrise to about 11AM and from 3PM until sunset. As long as the 11AM to 3PM danger zone is avoided, most people can get benefits from being in the sun the rest of the day. Try to stay out of the sun during the 11AM to 3PM period, if that is not possible then cover as much of your body as possible during that time. Wear a hat, a long sleeve shirt and pants until it is past 3PM.

Do not use artificial forms of sunshine such as tanning beds or any other artificial form of exposure. These forms will always do more harm than good. The only natural form of sunshine is actual sunshine.

Just to repeat the best ways to get enough sunshine:

1. When your part of the world is in summer, get as much sunshine as you can during the safe times of the day.

2. When it is winter try to expose as much of your body as possible to sunshine whenever possible at any time of day.

3. If possible, take a vacation to a location where there is a lot more sunshine and spend as much time in the sun as possible during the safe times of the day.

4. Do not, under any circumstances use any kind of artificial lighting or sunshine to replace the sun. It’s better to get no sunshine than to use an artificial source.

See you at the beach!

Even people who are on death’s doorstep and have been advised by physicians, counselors, nutritionists, friends, relatives and even acquaintances that they need to change diets, will not change it. It seems that we generally adapt to a certain routine of nourishment and it is very difficult to modify it.

One of the reasons for this is that many of the foods that people consume are laced with drugs and these drugs are very addictive. For example as was mentioned in older posts here, animal flesh, dairy and grains are all filled with opioids. Processed foods usually also contain many unnatural and addictive ingredients to keep the customers who consume the products coming back for more. Obviously chocolate, coffee and tea are full of caffeine or caffeine-like substances, which is definitely considered a drug.

I was at a local Whole Foods Market the other day and I noticed that they put up a new raw food section in the store. I looked at the foods that they were offering and every single one, 100% of them had garlic in the list of ingredients. Many also contained salt and other toxins. This just reinforces my point that most every food people eat is full of drugs and toxins.

I also hear every few minutes on the radio an advertisement for a surgical method to lose weight. It’s called the lap band which is a surgery that installs a rubber band around the stomach thereby making it’s size smaller and forcing the person to consume less food. In fact nearly every billboard on the freeways of Los Angeles and Orange County, California have an ad for this same procedure.

It seems that people rather have this very dangerous and risky surgery than to make a simple lifestyle or even just dietary change. Eventhough the people who have had this surgery do not look healthy at all, I still see so many ads for the surgery that there must be a lot of demand for it.

I don’t know what the statistics are for sex or gender changes but I’m quite certain that more people have sex or gender changes than change their diet to a healthier one. Certainly there are people who change to a less healthy diet but there are few that change their diet to one that is acceptable to their body.

The hardest part of changing diet to a healthy one is the cravings, in many cases people crave their old diet and some in a big way. The only way to beat cravings is to get enough of the right foods and all of the other requirements such as sleep, exercise, sunshine, and the others. If all habits are good ones the transition will be easier. As one gets closer to their goals they will find it easier and easier to stay on track and the cravings will disappear. 

Coming off a new year and all I had a lot of time on my hands when I was away on holidays. I was in Thailand for a couple of weeks with access to a DVD player. As most people know first run movies can be purchased on the streets of Bangkok for about $1 or so. I suppose the legitamite DVD distributers know this and correspondingly reduce the prices on their legal DVDs.

I was able to pick up many older but still quite good movies for about $2.50 each. I managed to see about 15 movies that were produced in the late 90s to the middle of the last decade. I also saw a couple of the currently showing films in the theaters.

The one thing I noticed about all of these movies was that there is an awful amount of tobacco smoking displayed on screen. In fact, out of about 16 or 17 movies that I saw, only 1 did not have any tobacco smoking scenes in it at all.

In most of the movies the cigarette smokers were the main stars of the movie. Regardless of them being male or female, the likelyhood of the main star of the movie smoking cigarettes was quite high.

In some of the movies the brand of cigarette was very prominent but most of the time the brand was not easy to see. It seemed like the star of the movie would glamorize smoking by lighting up when things started to look up for them. In a few cases the star would smoke when things went wrong to drown their sorrows.

Most of these movies were not rated adult or restricted, in fact none of them were so rated. A couple even were aimed at children and still depicted main characters who lit up cigarettes.

There are many studies that can be found online that link the glamorization of smoking in the movies with an increase in teenage and adolescent smoking. All this is known and still about 99% of the movies show some or even a lot of smoking.

This can only mean one thing, and that is big tobacco owns or has a significant investment in the Hollywood studios.

Many of the popular movie stars support a lot of the public awareness campaigns, yet they still smoke on screen. The only answer I can see is that big tobacco is pulling the strings and nobody else can veto them.

In fact only about 25 to 30% of the population smoke but close to 95% of the Hollywood movies that I saw over the last 2 weeks showed a major role smoking. No, not all of the actors were smoking but enough of the main characters and important characters were.

I already do not spend much money on seeing movies, but now I really feel like any money that goes to the Hollywood studios is going directly into the pockets of big tobacco. I will limit or even totally boycott movies unless I know beforehand that there will not be any glamorization of smoking tobacco in the film. Is anyone with me on this?

I was just thinking back of one of my coworkers and friends from a few years ago who was not all that healthy. In fact his health was so poor at the time I am thinking of, that he has now passed away, actually he passed away in 2008.

I did not know at the time that he had developed cancer and it was spreading throughout his body. I don’t even think he knew about the cancer yet as I later found some evidence of the timing of when he was diagnosed on his computer. I found this when I was tasked with executing some of the software that he used to execute when he was out on sickleave.

I was already on the natural hygiene lifestyle at that time and it is quite obvious to the people who sit near me that I live a very different lifestyle from most people. While others have a burger and fries or pizza for lunch, or at least bring in some leftovers in tupperware and heat them up in the micro-cancer machine, I always have farm fresh ripe organic fruits in quantities that most standard eaters wouldn’t consume in a month’s time.

Of course my diet came up in our conversation once in a while. He was kind of interested and once made the comment that if he would adopt my diet that he would be in the toilet all day long. I did tell him that I too had a similar issue at the very beginning and still do get a day here or there where something I ate caused me to spend a little more time in the toilet than usual, but these periods all passed very quickly and about 99% of the time I have no problems whatsoever with my toilet habits.

In fact when I think back of the days when I was still consuming the standard western style diet, I had a lot more problems than I do now. I used to have difficulty moving my bowels at times and in the late 1980’s I developed a case of ulcerative colitis.

All that I meant was that if he did switch to a natural hygienic style lifestyle and diet that the time where he had issues with toilet habits would quickly pass. In fact many people do not even have any issues with it at all and the ones who do find that they resolve quite quickly. In fact a couple of days to maybe a week is the average time that someone who switches to a natural hygienic style diet will have any such issues.

In his case the alternative to surviving a couple of days ‘in the toilet’ to where he is now, in his grave for eternity, I think I would prefer the former. What about you?

… if they stopped after the first 3 letters (die soda). The majority of these fantastic money making drinks contain artificial sweeteners which have been linked to as many as 100 different diseases from cancer to skin lesions and neurological problems.

I think more people are addicted to the diet versions of these drinks than the original sugar laced versions. One of the reasons for this is that many people believe that the word diet on the name of the product indicates that they will not gain weight from using them. The facts are the opposite however because the chemicals used to sweeten these products actually cause the person who uses them to crave more and more calories and they therefore gain a lot more weight than someone who consumes the regular sugar filled product from the same company.

The chemicals contained in these products are more habit forming than the known street drugs such as opium, heroin, and cocaine. At least when people use these street drugs they are known to have an illness and society provides help for them so they can withdraw from them. People who consume diet beverages are generally not considered ill and therefore their addiction goes on undetected, at least undetected by most of the world. Nobody ever was admitted to a detox facility for diet soda use.

These consumers will just continue their habit of using these legal chemicals until they get really sick and are finally forced to do something about it. By this time many of their organs and tissues will have irreversible damage and they might have a number of tumors and other illnesses that are known to be caused by these products.

Some of the most common symptoms from consumption of diet soda, which have been reported to the FDA (food and drug administration in the US) are: headaches/migraines, dizziness, seizures, nausea, numbness, muscle spasms, weight gain, rashes, depression, fatigue, irritability, tachycardia, insomnia, vision problems, hearing loss, heart palpitations, breathing difficulties, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, loss of taste, tinnitus, vertigo, memory loss, and joint pain.

A few of the illnesses that have been known to be caused by diet soda are: brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, parkinson’s disease, alzheimer’s, mental retardation, lymphoma, birth defects, fibromyalgia, and diabetes.

The sweeteners used in these products are known as excitotoxins. This term means that they cause the cells of the brain to fire incontrollably and eventually cause the cells to die prematurely due to overusage. This causes millions of brain and nervous system cells to die. Eventually the consumer will exhibit neurological symptoms that can not be reversed.

A few years ago a woman whose family was consuming a large amount of these diet sodas did a simple experiment on two groups of rats. One of the groups was fed their normal diet with water and the other group was fed the same food but the water was mixed with the sweetener used in diet sodas. After several months of the experiment she found that the group of rats that were consuming the sweetener with the water had many more times the number of health problems than the non sweetener consuming group. Many had huge visible tumors and most of them did not survive as long as the non-sweetener consuming counterparts.

As promised in a post a little while ago, here is the continuation of the theme. In the previous post I just touched on the fact that most if not all of the serious illnesses (both acute and chronic) that people eventually get inflicted with are not genetic but are actually due to the patient’s lifestyle. A partial list of the most common illnesses includes heart attacks, strokes, cancer, diabetes, gout, obesity, Alzheimer’s, digestive disorders, almost all of the newly named diseases such as ADHD, bi-polar disorder etc.

A recent discovery that links most of the known illnesses that people become afflicted with is inflammation. Inflammation is a condition where tissue or organs become swollen, filled with blood or other fluids, and the tissue becomes less capable of doing it’s designated function.

The known cause of inflammation is from irritation. The irritation is caused by substances that have been introduced to the body which are not compatible with the human body. These substances include the usual foods that most of the world population eat on a daily basis. The types of food which cause inflammation are all cooked foods, animal derived foods such as meats, dairy products and eggs, grain based foods such as breads, cereals, rice, beans, condiments such as vinegar, salt, pepper, spices, processed foods like white or brown sugars and trans fats, pasteurized foods, etc.

Slowly the medical community is finding that inflammation is the underlying cause of more and more known diseases. Eventually the facts will be known that nearly all of the diseases known to man will have some sort of inflammation associated with them. Once this is accepted by the medical community, then and finally then the stupidity of genetics being the cause of disease will be dropped and the real cause of inflammation (which in turn is caused by diet and lifestyle) will be accepted as the cause.

For those of you who are interested in this important topic, there are many articles available to be read online about this subject. I will not display the links here, I will leave it to you to do your own searches. If you need some guidance, please leave me a comment and I can help guide your searches.

What do people who are adhering to a natural hygienic lifestyle do when there are festivals that revolve around toxic foods and beverages? This is a very common question. It’s not quite as popular as the “Where do you get your protein?” question, but still high up there on the FAQ list.

If you are following a lifestyle where you avoid all of the foods that are commonly included in a festival dinner and it’s now time for the festival, the best thing to do is to stick with your chosen lifestyle. You know that it has helped you in many ways to stick to this lifestyle, so there should be no excuses to go and poison oneself just this one time. Often that one time will cause someone who is relatively clean inside to start to feel ill.

When your body has the energy to heal itself and purge the toxins it will do so. Introducing these toxins into your body will trigger the detoxification response from your body and probably you will get some symptoms from even a very simple excursion onto the wild (toxic) side. You might be tempted to try one thing or another but the serious consequences of doing so will surely overrule the pleasures you receive from indulging.

In fact most of the toxic food that someone who has converted to a hygienic lifestyle eats will no longer even taste good. These foods will start to show their real worth even to those who used to consume them on a regular basis before cleaning their body out and recovering their taste buds. They just won’t be so appealing any longer.

Most people who follow the natural hygienic lifestyle have many friends and relatives who do not practice natural hygiene. These people might offer an invitation to one of the festivities that includes the toxic food and beverages. There are many choices to make before a decision to show up at one of these festivities is made. The choices are whether or not to accept the invitation, if the choice was acceptance then the other choices concerning what will be done at the event need to be made as well.

Will the food and beverages be consumed or will they all be declined and instead the proper human body compatible foods will be taken to the event for consumption. Will the invitee ask for a special menu as a condition of their acceptance or will they just decline the invitation. These are all possible choices to make.

I can not advise anyone here but I can tell you what I would do. In a situation where it would be rude of me to decline an invitation, I will accept it and make sure that I have eaten a good meal before I go to the event. At the event if there is anything that I might be able to eat and enjoy, I would make sure I let the host and hostess know that I would prefer to only have that selection.

If there is just nothing whatseoever to eat or drink, I would simply explain that I have been on a special diet and that I could not consume the food that they have to offer and I would simply enjoy the company of the rest of the guests. Most people would understand that others might have a special diet. If possible I would not like to discuss the diet that I am on unless the audience includes people who are very open minded and who have a tolerance for different points of view.

Most people have been brought up in the usual standard ways and could never understand anything to do with natural hygiene. These people would be difficult to discuss diet and lifestyle with as they do not have an open mind at all. I would quicky change the topic of conversation in this case.

The main problem with the way most of society works is that food and beverages are nearly always involved in a social event. Weddings, funerals, births, religious ceremonies, courting, festivals, business meetings, and most every other event that involves people usually included food and / or beverages. This is a fact of life that will not change in the near term.

All we can do is adapt to these and make up our minds about what to do in each situation as it arises. Having a game plan is a good place to start. Make up your own game plan and test it out. See if it goes down easily and works the way you expected it to work. If it did not work as well as expected then modify it a little and tweak it until you are happy with the way it works.

Just enjoy the celebration and enjoy being unique and informative, if you decide to be so. If you decide to skip the events and just stay home that might work out well for you as well. Whatever it is you decide, just have fun and keep enjoying the natural hygienic lifestyle.

Most of you have tried drinks such as coffee. When I did drink the stuff I was one of the few brave people who consumed it black. I never was much into sugar and especially not milk or cream. I started to get used to the bitter and horrible taste of coffee when I started my very first job back in 1987. In time I was capable of drinking the toxic junk in quite large quantities and in very strong dosages such as those from the gourmet suppliers such as Starbucks.

I have noticed through the years that most coffee drinkers do not consume their poison black. They would never even consider a cup of joe unless the stuff was flavored with sugar and some form of fat such as cream, milk or some artificial whitener made with concentrated plant or animal fat. They can now get the hit that they crave, a huge amount of a very toxic substance known as caffeine and the fatty sweet adiction they also crave at the same time.

Stop for a minute and think about it and you will see that most of the cravings that people have are based on these two ingredients, fat and sugar. A partial list of foods that people crave are, chocolate (usually containing tons of sugar and already containing a load of fat from the cocoa bean itself, some even contain added dairy ingredients to add to the fat content), doughnuts and other assorted baked goodies, which are all deep fried or baked with fats and oils and have massive amounts of sugars, these include all cookies, danish, cinnamon rolls, muffins, pies, cakes, etc., alcoholic beverages such as the popular Bailey’s Irish Cream, Kalua and milk, etc., who hasn’t been addicted to sugar coated nuts like the honey roasted peanuts or almonds? Even foods(?) such as french fries are deep fried in oils but instead of the sugars they contain a replacement for sugar known as starch, starches inside the body act the same way that sugar does so really they are fats and sugars also.

Probably the most addictive and most consumed product on the planet is ice cream, which contains a truckload of sugar and an equivalently massive amount of fat. I’m sure that most of you reading this are feeling their mouth water right now just by reading about these foods.

When people eat these foods they are just trying to answer the addiction that their body has, their body is whispering to them, feed me sugar and fat as these are the two foods that in combination or not contribute the most calories to our body. Next time you get this craving however there are good substitutes to the list of toxic foods above.

Instead of the baked goods, the ice cream, and the fancy alcoholic beverages, try to tame the craving with something that your body can use more efficiently and create little toxic waste. Give your body something very sweet or fat from the plant world.

Examples of the sweet stuff are bananas, fresh dates, watermelon, examples of the fats are fresh and raw nuts or avocados, which should be eaten sparingly but if they are to replace the processed junk food they sure do a lot less damage to your one and only body.

For the more adventurous there is a popular southeast Asian fruit known as the durian, it can serve as both a sweet and fat food as it has up to 20 to 25% of it’s calories as fat. This fruit is a great way to transition to a whole raw food diet without having to give up the sweet fatty foods.

As most of you know the human species is accelerating towards extinction. Many well known scientists have written about this subject,  and most concur that there will be a mass extinction which will be mostly caused by human activities within the next several hundred years.

No other species on the planet does as much damage to their own life support systems or cause as much irreversible harm to their environment as humans are currently doing. The list of things we do goes on for much more space than I have for this entire blog so I won’t even begin to list them.

One of the ways we can as a species stop this imminent collapse of our biological support system is to adapt a more natural lifestyle. Natural Hygiene is the lifestyle that humans are here on this planet to live. It is a symbiotic lifestyle that gives back to the planet as much or more than it takes out of it.

If for example we as a species all started to consume only plant based natural and uncooked foods, this would reduce the extreme stress we place on the environment by a very large percentage. In fact most of the irreversible damage we do to the planet is to feed the large population of hungry mouths. The poor choice in food and agricultural methods are destroying the very important and life sustaining resources that were here to keep us alive.

Almost all of the topsoil of the world is now found in the seas and oceans of the world. With less than 1% of the original forests that used to cover the entire earth left, there is nothing to keep the soil from eroding. There is nothing to reabsorb the tremendous amounts of carbon dioxide that we create because there are so few trees and more are being cut and burned every minute of every day.

If massive numbers of humans started to demand a more natural lifestyle thus creating new opportunities to replant forests with fruit and nut bearing trees, the erosion would eventually stop. There would be more of the species that add the nutrients we need to the environment. There also would be more opportunities for recovery of the oceans fish stocks because there won’t be anyone fishing them. There will be less air pollution because there wouldn’t be any fuel wasted on cooking. There would still be a fair amount of transportation needed but less than there is today.

Many of the redundant industries such as the pharmaceutical industry and the medical establishment would vanish and instead the people who once worked in these industries would learn the laws of nature and teach them to their clients instead of producing worthless toxic substances.

People who live within the laws of nature have a greater respect for the beauty of nature and therefore there would be a lot less criminal activity. Also many of the socially unacceptable behaviours would cease to exist because many are totally caused by maintaining a poor lifestyle.

Whatever area you look at, following Natural Hygiene can offer healing and nurturing where now there is destruction and damage. Will this turn around the inevitable extinction of the human species? I think it can at least save it from occuring by a few hundred thousand or even million years. 

This is something I have heard from a few people who I consider SAD or at least traditional eaters who consume the usual toxic load of junk such as highly processed foods eaten in poorly combined meals with a drink to dilute the toxins. Some have made comments about my diet and just insist that the purpose of food is just to stop hunger.

If someone who is hungry just ate one food with nearly no nutrients in it such as white sugar they would stop hunger quite easily. If they continued on this type of diet for a substantial amount of time they would very quicky start to become deficient in many nutrients.

When the feelings of hunger start it is not to make the person just eat but the hunger feelings we get are because the body is in need of nutrition. The nutrition it requires is the kind that was available to us when there were no processed foods. The same time when there was a huge abundance of fresh, ripe and whole fruits and vegetables all over the area where humans lived.

What the body is demanding when it creates the feeling that we call hunger is whole, ripe, raw, and freshly picked fruits and vegetables. These foods are the natural food of man and contain the most valuable nutrients available. The body needs to receive this nutrient rich food and not a substitute food that doesn’t contain the same rich assortment of nutrients.

Another side effect of this hunger feeling was exercise. Not too many people can relate to this today because getting food today requires simply picking up the telephone and calling a pizza delivery restaurant. Believe it or not before the unfortunate invention of processed food and telephones, people had to actually find food, climb trees to access it, pick it, gather it together, and then peel the fruit and eat. This task actually takes a lot of energy.

Most of the readers of this blog, even the ones who follow natural hygiene, rarely go out to forage for food. Most will simply go to a market to purchase the food or have it delivered. I encourage you to try to forage for food just a few times and see how much energy needs to be used to find, get to and pick enough food for a meal. You will get an idea of how our ancestors used to live.

This energy exertion is what probably preceded nearly every one of the meals early humans ate. Doing exercise just before consumption of food does many positive things. It creates a greater demand for food as we use up more of the nutrients that are stored in our muscles. It causes the heart to work harder and therefore causes a better blood flow to the organs that are used for digestion. This in turn helps better digest the food. Hormones and enzymes are secreted when we exercise and they also help in digestion of the food.

As you can see, when we put ourselves back into a natural world, everything falls into place and our body, health and satisfaction all reach their peaks. At the same time that we are out foraging for food there likely would have been a lot of sunshine. This is how we were able to get vitamin D as well as cleanse the blood close to the skin from the sunshine, which is a disinfectant. There was no such thing as sunscreen nor sunblock, and there likely were no cases of skin cancer either.

As the food supply started to come from the agriculture sector of the ecomony and less and less from foraging, the entire cycle of hunger, exercise, sunshine, and healthy food rich in nutrients, suddenly stopped. Now especially in large urban areas, we have removed ourselves so far from nature that it’s nearly impossible to get close to nature and a natural habitat where we can forage for food and regain our health. In fact there are so many toxins and unnatural chemicals and pollutants in the environment, even if we tried to forage for food today we would end up being exposed to lots of dangerous substances that didn’t even exist in those natural days way back when.

People who eat to stop hunger are often the ones to get the acute and chronic diseases and who age the fastest. Unless we consume a good variety of nutrients such as those found in ripe, raw, fresh fruits and vegetables in correct combinations, we are just cheating our own body of the necessities it needs to keep us thriving and healthy. Anything less will stop hunger but will definitely not give us the health that our bodies are designed to give us.