Healing with Nature

This is an old riddle, it’s supposed to confuse us and make us think about the question if a tree falls in a forest without anyone present does it still make a sound.  There are many ways to answer this depending on your viewpoint and philosophy, but logically if a tree falling makes a sound when there are people present to hear there will be a sound when they are not around. This can be proven with electrical equipment like sound recorders or satellite receivers.

What does this have to do with health and natural hygiene? I thought you might ask so here is the answer. Most people do not follow the laws of nature, in fact they have not followed the laws of nature even for one day in their entire life. These people will give the familiar deer in the headlights look on their faces when you speak to them about health and the damage they are performing to themselves.

Don’t try this on too many people but if you know someone who you will not be too worried that they think you are some whacko then catch them consuming some toxic food like coffee. Most coffee drinkers go through the stuff like NH people go through bananas. They drink cup after cup and then they feel nothing. Even with 8 spoons of sugar and a few ounces of cream, they still will feel no different after the coffee than before. As you NH people know, even a couple of drops of low caffeine coffee can cause your body to almost go into a fit. This is how my body reacts. In fact I was at a grocery store a few weeks ago and they were handing out these tiny cups of coffee samples.

I never drink anything like that but I was curious as to what happens when I drink a drop or two of the stuff. I took one black cup with maybe one ounce of coffee in it and I dumped out about 90% of the stuff leaving a couple of drops. I downed this and waited to see what happens. Within a minute or two I felt my head start to hurt, I felt shivers in my body, I was literally shaking from just 2 or 3 drops of coffee. I do not think I am a one in a million or one in a billion unlucky peson who just happens to get strong reactions to coffee, no in fact as little as 3 years ago I used to drink coffee, not every day but at least 2 times a week.

Did I react to the coffee then? No, I don’t remember ever feeling sick or reacting like this from coffee until recently. I really am not that lucky to be that one in a million person to react to coffee. I would confidently say that I react to coffee and most other toxins the same as most people would who were in my condition and who practiced NH.

What is really happening here is that I have regained my senses that warn me of consuming toxins, the same senses that I lost a few years ago are now working once again. Does that mean that these toxins were not causing damage years ago when I didn’t feel anything after consuming them? Sure they were, they were causing the same identical damage that they are now except that I was not being made aware of it. It’s just like the tree falling, it falls and makes a sound nomatter if there is someone to hear or not. It still is lying on the ground even if there was nobody around to hear or see it fall.

The world is full of people who consume so much toxic food and beverage that they no longer get a signal that they are doing severe damage. Oftentimes once it is too late they will find out what they have done to themselves, once this damage is so serious that there is no way to ignore it. Sometimes the result is cancer or some other chronic or acute disease which is so advanced that the body can’t recover from it. It’s no wonder so many people never even felt it coming.

Most people who strictly follow NH are very in touch with their bodies, if there is a problem brewing their body will give them an early warning, a signal that there is something wrong and usually it is at such an early stage that it can be reversed quite easily by making minor changes in their lifestyle or doing a fast. The trees always make a sound even when nobody is there to hear it. It’s much better to be there to hear it.

One of the largest and most successful sectors of the world economy is the restaurant and catering business. Every country in the world has restaurants. You can find almost every style of restaurant in almost every country of the world. I was really amazed when I saw the many types of ethnic foods available in restaurants in so many cities of the world, from Rio, to Shanghai, Bangkok, Paris, Amsterdam, Sydney and everywhere else. What really differentiates one ethnic food from another anyways? When I used to eat in restaurants I remember seeing almost the same foods on the menu in one particular ethnic restaurant as in almost all others. For example if you go to a Mexican restaurant there will be dishes made with flour, corn, cheese, some kind of meat, and maybe a few assorted vegetables and possibly some beans, an example is a burrito.

Go to an Italian restaurant and you will see almost the same ingredients as the burrito on the menu except this time it will be called a pizza or some other pasta dish. Most of the dishes will have flour (pasta), cheeses, vegetables, meat and even beans (often in Italian soup). All of these dishes are extremely difficult to digest as there is no concern for food combining what so ever. They are so complex and so full of so many different sources of ingredients that it is often difficult to even know what you are eating. Your body will not have a chance at all to figure out what is coming in and will just give up and dump everything right into the bowels where it will be left to putrefy and ferment, causing toxins to be created in your body.

Most people get ‘upset stomachs’ after a restaurant meal, the reason is obvious. Really the only thing that makes a difference between one ethnic restaurant meal and another is the choice of condiments that they use to prepare the meal. This is a signal that the food is really tasteless and bland. Good tasting food never needs condiments, the use of condiments always indicates that there is something wrong with the main ingredients. The Mexican food as I mentioned above probably contains loads of salt, pepper, chili peppers, and other spices and flavorings, the Italian food will have salt, pepper, garlic, onions, spices, and other assorted herbs. Really these two food types are basically the same thing, a terrible disastrous combination of inappropriate foods that are heated to high temperatures thus creating toxins and carcinogens which are covered up with many condiments to fool the eater into thinking they have some kind of taste.

I hear people making comments of restaurant food all the time. They say things like ‘the food at -fill in the blank- is so good, it is much better than at -fill in the blank-’. What this means to me is that these people are just comparing how well the chef is able to hide the poor food combining and the relatively low quality food with condiments. These people are simply addicted to these worthless condiments like salt, pepper, spices, garlic, onions, mustard, vinegar, etc. and when they get a hit of their addiction they will remember it and return to get more. They will line up and return to do more serious damage to themselves over and over again. Slowly but surely they will hurt their health and eventually they will find that this habit caused them serious health issues such as a chronic disease like diabetes, high blood pressure, Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis, and many more. Of course sometimes this damage leads to worse things like heart attacks, strokes, cancer and other life threatening illnesses. The person’s health history and lifestyle determines which category they will fall in, the chronic illness or life threatening illness category. Some will get both however. This holds true for even the modern ‘gourmet raw food’ restaurants as was mentioned in a previous post on this blog. 

What really is the difference between eating at say a Chinese restaurant versus a Korean restaurant or a Polish restaurant? The analogy that I always use is that it is like choosing the color or the material of the bullet you will use to blow your brains out. For example one can use a brass colored bullet or a silver colored bullet or a copper colored bullet, all will ultimately do the job but to make a big fuss over the color of the bullet just doesn’t make any sense to me. If you really want to do yourself harm then it really doesn’t matter on the ethnicity of the food or the style or the fact that it is cooked, raw or anything else. If you really want to do damage to yourself then go ahead and use the bullet because it is quicker and less painful than slowly destroying your body with toxic foods for many years.

I recommend to forget about restaurants altogether as they only reinforce all the negatives about food that we need to unlearn like treating food as entertainment, cooking food, poorly combining food, using inappropriate ingredients, consumption of alcohol, using condiments, and overeating. Instead of wasting your money on restaurants why not have a fruit and salad potluck using no condiments and all well combined ripe fresh and organic fruits and vegetables. 

This might be a controversial topic for some of you readers but it really needs to be understood. The world contains so many different people, some of whom are popular or famous for certain skills, some of whom are lucky, some of whom are infamous for something they said or have done, but no matter who they are, in all likeliness they are not following the rules of nature (except in a few cases) and therefore no matter what their accomplishments in life were or are they can all go away in one fatal second.

What do I mean by this? Let’s take the wealthiest man on earth as recognized by Forbes magazine, Mr. Warren Buffett. Most people, especially stock market investors believe that he is a genious. In fact many people equate material wealth with intelligence. I will not comment on this as we all know there are some very stupid people who are extremely wealthy on this earth. Wealth is not at all correlated to intelligence. In the case of the wealthiest man on the planet, Mr. Buffett, I know for a fact that he enjoys his toxins and is probably addicted to more than the average person. I have seen his photo with his cans and bottles of Coca-Cola and other highly toxic foods and beverages.

He is addicted to these poisons as much as the homeless people who we see on the street. He probably is like the 95 to 98% of the population who have enough plaque covering their internal blood vessels that he is like a living time bomb ready to explode at any moment. Mr. Buffett is now 77 years old and as people age the probability of a serious or fatal sudden illness gets higher, especially if they ignore the laws of nature. What I am trying to say is that even with his billions of dollars he is so ignorant of the laws of nature that he is risking sudden death every second that he is alive.

How much good will these billions of dollars do him when he is lying in a velvet lined box in a funeral home? Sure the box might be made of gold, or titanium, or whatever he wishes, but still he has no ability to even know about that at that point in time. Wouldn’t it be better to have a healthy body and even have a small amount of money and not be living with the same risks that the majority of the population live with?

Isn’t it better to be alive and able to earn money than to have all the money in the world but being dead? This is why I no longer respect those people who are wealthy, who are famous, who have acheived their life long goals unless they also live according to the laws of nature. What is the value of making it to the top in any human activity if you are abusing your only attachment to life, your own body.

Even if you are the top student of the top university of the world you will lose everything when the time bomb goes off. When and where it goes off is unknown but the fact is that it will go off and it is almost always preventable by living according to the laws of nature.

There are so many examples of this that I find it a moot point to even list any. Just look around and you’ll see so many obese people who seem to be so passionate about their hobby, craft, skill, whatever. Maybe they received a nobel prize, maybe they climbed the corporate ladder to be the CEO in large corporation, whatever their acheivement, still it will all disappear in a puff of smoke when their internal time bomb goes off.

My respect is now all saved for the people who live within the laws of nature each and every day. They are the strong and intelligent breed, regardless of their financial or creative acheivements. They understand life more than any of these so called social heros. Don’t you agree?

If you have seen the movie “The Killing Fields” which is concerning the Khmer Rouge’s defeat of the Cambodian army in 1975 and the subsequent genocide, you probably already know who Dith Pran is. I have been to Cambodia and saw with my own eyes the tremendous atrocities that were done to the people of Cambodia by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. I saw the skulls, the prison cells, the photographs of the victims, no words can ever describe the scenes that these people were witnessing every day for nearly 5 years. Dith Pran was a photographer for the New York Times. He was forced to remain in Cambodia because he was captured by the Khmer Rouge and not allowed to leave. He spent nearly 5 years pretending to be an uneducated peasant so that he wouldn’t be killed. He finally escaped and eventually found his way to the Thai border. Few Cambodians survived and escaped the genocide. Estimates of 2 million Cambodians were killed. Most every educated Cambodian over 17 years old was killed.

Last Sunday, March 30th, Dith Pran died from pancreatic cancer. He was only 65 years old. I can not do more than speculate that he was consuming a diet that is similar to the standard western diet. He was living in the New York City area for most of the time that he lived in the US. Even if he maintained his Cambodian diet, still it is not in any way a healthy diet for a human being. One of the biggest risks for pancreatic cancer are chemicals called nitrosamines, these chemicals are often found in processed meats and cooked foods. In any case, Dith Pran is a hero in my eyes for his braveness during a very dangerous time. Unfortunately his lifestyle caused his premature death.
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