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Nutrition and Health
As humans, we are chemical beings who require constant
replenishment of our bodily chemicals to maintain our existence. That is why
we must eat, drink and breathe in order to survive. This is the means by which
we replenish our essential chemicals of life. But not all food is good food, not all water is pure water and not all air is fresh air. To maintain a healthy existence we must eat, drink and breathe from the pure foods, water and air of nature,
earth and the universe. It is in nature, earth and the universe that we find
all we need to live a very healthy and happy life as human beings. These are
our tools for survival. By eating, drinking and breathing these pure chemical
elements we ensure a healthy body and mind that operate with total efficiency.
In our modern day, scientifically and technologically
focused society, we have lost our basic understanding of our inter-dependent relationship with nature, earth and the universe
as our survival. In our ignorance, we are quickly destroying the very key to
our continued existence as a human species. We continue to stray further away
from nature as we try to “perfect” nature with our genetically modified
food processes, the use of pesticides and herbicides, the additional adulteration of our natural food sources with growth
hormones and antibiotics and a host of other equally harmful synthetic chemical food additives. Added to this, we have polluted our air and water to the point of gross toxicity levels. We have succeeded in turning the source of our health and healing into the cause of our disease and dying.
Many
foods of today consist of processed convenience foods, foods that have been depleted of all nutritional value, foods that
have been genetically altered and foods with synthetic chemical preservatives and growth hormones. In choosing to eat these foods we are starving our body of the healthy, natural chemicals and nutrients
it requires to maintain normal healthy function and a strong immune system, as our body’s natural defense system. At the same time, we are introducing harmful chemicals into our body, which destroy
the natural and essential on-going cellular regeneration of healthy cells. This
adds insult to injury, and the result is the development of disease and dis-ease, which our body is no longer strong enough
to resist.
Earth
is our Garden of Eden. When we choose to eat, drink and breathe from the bounty
of nature we give ourselves all that we need to replenish and rejuvenate our chemical cellular structure and nurture our whole
being as a physical body, intellectual mind, loving emotions and spirit senses. This
provides us with a healthy body, a positive and loving thinking mind, an abundance of emotions of happiness and joy, and a
sensory response to life that fills us with passion and excitement for each new day.
Nutrition and Weight LossWeight loss will occur more easily and effectively when we are eating
the foods that come right fom nature. These foods are chemically structured in such a way that our body will naturally
metabolize and utilize them to our best advantage. Because of added synthetic chemicals, "diet" foods actually
can cause us to gain weight. When we are eating the foods that contain the nutrients and minerals our body needs to
maintain health, drink plenty of pure water and avoid the synthetic chemicals that are found in "conventional" and "diet"
foods our body will naturally gravitate to the perfect weight to support our body in a state of health.
Nutrition and Depression
It is becoming increasingly understood by medical and mental health professionals that nutrition plays
a key role in our state of mental health. Proper nutrition can not only prevent
depression and other forms of mental illness it can also help to relieve existing conditions.
French psychiatrist David Servan-Schreiber now treats his patients with alternative therapies and nutrition instead
of medication and says they are not only less expensive but much more effective. And
in her book “Depression: Our Normal Transitional Emotions”, Kathy Oddenino, R.N. lists the first step toward healing
depression as “Changing our nutrition to the organic and unadulterated foods of nature”. By eating the pure foods of nature we can bring the internal chemical imbalance that causes depression
into a state of balance that creates health on every level.
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