Healing with Nature

Water is a necessity for life on earth. Our body is composed of more than 60% water. Humans can survive without food for a long time but most will be dead within 14 days without water. The mainstream keeps warning us that we need to drink x glasses of water a day. Here is a good example of these warnings: (http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/NU/00283.html).

Ask any doctor, nutritionist or dietitian and they will reaffirm the information in this link. What is the truth however? Do people really need to drink 8 to 10 glasses of water a day? Let’s look at some of the evidence.

Our closest relatives living in the wild are the anthropoid primates (apes and monkeys). They spend most of their day looking for edible food. Their diet is composed mainly of fruits and leafy vegetables. Both of which are full of fresh filtered water from the plants they grew on. A small part of their diet consists of animal food like small vertebrates and invertebrates with some insects but the vast majority is derived from the plant world, over 95% in most cases. They rarely will seek water unless there is an unseasonal drought or they have consumed too much animal foods that day. Once in a while they will drink the water that accumulated on a leaf during or after a rain but the amount of water they consume is trivial.

Humans’ bodies are similar to a primate’s. We have no natural means to consume a lot of water. Carnivores such as dogs have a tongue that is designed to scoop up water from a river or stream. They lap up the water very efficiently. You can see them empty their water bowl in a matter of seconds. Try to emulate that with a soup bowl of water and see how fast you can empty the bowl without using your hands. Not an easy task. We have small hands that can hold a couple of ounces of water at most at a time. Are we expected to scoop up 1 or 2 ounces of water 80 times a day to get our 8 to 10 glasses of water a day? I doubt it. Humans are supposed to get most of their water from  foods just like the other primates.

When carnivores drink they do so to dilute the toxins that their body creates when digesting the meat that they eat. They have the spoon shaped tongue to lap up lots of water very quickly, humans have a tongue that can’t lap up more than a couple of drops at a time. The only liquid that was designed for our use is mother’s milk which of course is only intended for the very youngest of us. The rest of us should be getting nearly all of our liquid from our food selections.

When do we feel the urge to drink water? Most people who eat a good diet that is composed of fresh, raw, ripe fruits and vegetables will rarely get thirsty. People who consume toxic foods will need to drink a lot of water. What happens when you eat a very salty food? You immediately will desire to drink water, the same for a spicy food or a food that contains onions, garlic, vinegar, or other toxins. What is really happening is that your body is asking for water to dilute the toxins that you have consumed. If left undiluted the toxins can cause some problems, diluted toxins are much less of a problem. The body will dilute the toxin and store it in it’s diluted state in the cells of our body until it has the opportunity to remove it through perspiration, the breath or other elimination organs. When you feel thirst you are actually feeling the need to take the antidote for the poison that you ate. Think of it this way when thirsty, ask yourself what poison you ate that is making your body want to unpoison itself. Maybe the next time you will skip the poison and not need the antidote.

This is a common term in the standard medical world. The definition of Idiopathic is: Of unknown cause. Any disease that is of uncertain or unknown origin may be termed idiopathic. I see this term as a complete cop out. It’s a cover-up.

The medical community knows without a doubt the cause of nearly every disease they have a silly name for but will not admit that it is due to the victim’s own doings. I am not sure if they do this to be respectful to the victim or for other reasons but it seems so very convenient to them to use the term idiopathic so that they can throw a bunch of general system neutralizing drugs at you.

I was a victim of this nonsense when I arrived at the doctor’s office with what seemed to me as an endless case of bloody diarrhea. The good doctor told me he was nearly sure that I had colitis and that it was an ‘idiopathic’ disease. Oh come on doc! What kind of a cop out was that? If he had only told me the truth back in 1987, it would have saved me and my body nearly 20 years of suffering and trying all kinds of poisons to try to reverse a condition that was self-imposed by my less than healthful lifestyle. If only he would have said this condition is something that certain people’s bodies do to conteract the terrible food selections and other lifestyle choices that they chose.

Instead of changing the way I ate and lived which would have reversed the condition right then and there, I stuck with my bad food selections and took more toxins in the form of ‘medicine’ to try to help reverse the condition. I now see why he wouldn’t tell me the truth as it was in his best interest as a doctor to have a lifetime patient who will continue to return for more ‘toxins’ or medicine and office visits. Not to forget the annual colonoscopies which earn him a month’s salary for 10 minutes of work.

For the rest of you out there I hope that you can learn from other’s mistakes instead of from your own mistakes and do not blindly listen to the explanation of a lying doctor telling you that your condition is idiopathic, I say it is pathetic to hear that and instead go read about your condition from sources where people have succeeded in curing themselves instead of the medical establishment who will love to add you to their supply of income.

Do the research, find out the truth, get with the program and be a shining example of a non-idiot-pathetic loser but a leader who can show the world the reality of the sitaution. There are no idiopathic diseases only idiots who are pathetic.

One of the categories on this blog is rest. Most people do not know what rest is, if asked they will say something like it’s the time after you do a workout when you sit down and relax. This is partially true but rest is a much greater subject than simply the rest of your body after a strenuous exercise session.

The body will recognize it is in a state of rest fully only when all of the organs are truly being rested. This means that all organs, which includes the digestive organs like the stomach and bowels, are at complete rest. The only time these organs are at rest is when there is nothing in them for them to digest. Most people who eat a complex diet will rarely have a moment in the day when their digestive organs are at rest.

They are constantly digesting the last meal or the last snack. Something is always there for them to keep busy. In order to get them to be in a true state of rest the diet must be simple. The more simple the diet, the less work the digestive organs need to do to digest the food. The simplest foods are mono-foods. Mono-foods are single foods. For example a bowl of cherries is a mono-food because it is only 1 food, if you add strawberries to the bowl then you do not have a mono-food.

One simple food should be eaten at a time and no other food should be eaten for at least one or two hours after the food was eaten to maintain a fast and efficient digestive system. To get your body to be in a true state of rest you need to make sure your digestive organs have completly stopped processing the food you ate.

This can be done by eating mono meals such as only eating one type of food over several hours of the day. After the meal was digested and you are not engaged in any other activity you can start the rest period. Resting can be done on a comfortable chair, on a couch, or on a bed. It is best to close your eyes and do not think about any problems or allow any negative thoughts into your mind.

Generally this period should last between 30 minutes and 90 minutes a day. If you are in a very stressful situation then the more rest you get the better. Your body will thank you for the time and if treated correctly you will see your health improve.

This is an article from AP (associated press). This blog has no relationship whatsoever with AP. 

Ordinance would stop new restaurants from opening in area for two years

LOS ANGELES - A city councilwoman is proposing a moratorium on fast-food restaurants in south Los Angeles, which has more such eateries than any other part of the county.

The ordinance proposed by Councilwoman Jan Perry would stop new fast-food restaurants from opening in the area for up to two years while the city establishes a long-term plan to deal with the restaurants that have been linked to health problems.

“The people don’t want them, but when they don’t have any other options, they may gravitate to what’s there,” Perry said in Monday’s Los Angeles Times.

The ordinance is a response to suspicions that obesity and related illnesses — including high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease — are connected to the high-fat foods that dominate fast-food restaurant menus.

An analysis by the Times found that south Los Angeles has the county’s highest concentration of fast-food restaurants.

The area also has higher rates of obesity than the rest of the county, according to a county Department of Public Health study that found 30 percent of adults in south Los Angeles are obese, compared with 20.9 percent in the county overall. For children, the obesity rate was 29 percent in south Los Angeles, compared with 23.3 percent in the county.

Some public health experts cheered the proposal.

“While limiting fast-food restaurants isn’t a solution in itself, it’s an important piece of the puzzle,” said Mark Vallianatos, director of the Center for Food and Justice at Occidental College.

But some in the restaurant industry criticized the moratorium proposal, which would only permit full-service, sit-down restaurants to open, as misguided.

Dennis Lombardi, foodservice strategies chief at restaurant consulting firm WD Partners, said the restriction was “like saying we’re not going to allow anybody to sell Chevrolets anymore because we want people to buy nothing but Mercedes-Benzes.”