Be Of Service To Yourself

Be Of Service To Yourself

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Service is the rent you pay for room on this planet.
-Shirley Chisholm

I personally havent eaten any food from boxes or cans for several years, and was 99% raw and vegan for one year; I prepare fresh food from scratch twice a day and yet I still wear glasses and have pains here and there. Nothing major, and yet The worst part is that I am a health consultant and help others recover from cancer, diabetes, arthritis. Talking about doctor heal yourself first!

Have you ever wondered why it takes so much effort to be healthy? Have you ever been in the situation, when you seemed to do a lot of right things for your body and soul, tried all supplements in the world and yet felt depressed and tired?

There are many health conscious people: vegan, raw foodists etc. who strive for better health. Yet most of them struggle. It can be low body weight, B12 deficiency, overgrowth of Candida, or something else. The truth is that very few people are truly free of dis-ease, and can boast with huge energy resources and ideal weight. Many have been searching for a secret of perfect health. Some became vegan, some stopped being so. Some started eating raw meat; others got disappointed in the whole concept of going raw. Why does that happen? Why those who apply so much effort to remain healthy cannot reach their ideal and have to compromise it?

Recently I was doing research on several particular diseases, and was just shocked with the facts. To help you understand till what point, here are some of them:

1) Every 3rd or 4th American dies of heart disease[1].

2) 39% of Canadian women and 44% (close to every 2nd!!!) men will develop cancer during their lifetimes, and 1 out of 4 Canadians will die of cancer[2].

3) Half the American population suffers one or more symptoms of diabetes. [3]One in every three children now being born in the U.S. ultimately will become diabetic.[4]

4) Based, on current statistics [ 5], in 158 years every Canadian woman will have at least one of her breasts removed because of breast cancer, even if all Canadian women had their breasts today!

There is usually more than one risk factor in development of a disease. However, what a hell is going on here? Why are we on the verge of extinction? And mainly: why those who chose to avoid junk food are not perfectly healthy either?

While continuing doing research, I think I found the answer. And my discovery is this:

The primary and most important factor in our ill health is nutritional deficiencies due to changes in our agricultural practices. Because of poor quality of foods we eat, no matter what we do we still are not feeling good. Small variety of foods, poor quality of the air we breathe, sedentary lifestyle, stress, occasional eating of convenient foods (most of us still do it) among other things contribute to our ill health, too.

Dr. Max Gerson described soil factor as a connection between an external and internal metabolism [6]. External metabolism is related to the health of plants themselves. As long as the soil they are grown on is healthy, they remain disease free and produce superior fruit and leaves.

Internal metabolism relates to what happens when animals and people consume the plants, or when people consume the animals that had eaten plants.

External and internal metabolism is closely interrelated. Healthier the soil, healthier the plant. Healthier the plant, healthier will be those who eat it. So by depleting our soils with pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers, we make plants and microorganisms sick; and by treating animals with hormones and antibiotics we inject them into ourselves.

In 1940 and again in 1991, RA McCance and EM Widowson tested various fruits, vegetables (including carrots, broccoli, spinach and potatoes) and meats for mineral content [7]. They found that the amounts of calcium, magnesium, iron and copper in our vegetables had declined during those 51 years by as much as 75 percent or even 96 percent, while meats had lost 41 percent of their calcium and 54 percent of their iron, fruits had lost 27 percent of their zinc, and apples and oranges had lost 67 percent of their iron. The tests were repeated in 2002 with similar results. It is not only mineral content that has declined over the past half century. Levels of vitamins A and C have also dropped dramatically [8]. Wheat has lost much of its protein since 1900. Nitrogen fertilization in conventional farming was found to decrease vitamin C concentrations in many fruits and vegetables. [9], [10]

If the spinach we eat, contains only 4% of calcium it is supposed to, and then we diminish what is left by food processing, is it wonder that 80% of those of us who are 50 get osteoporosis?

How Can We Improve The Quality of Foods We Eat?

We have 2 options:

1. Buy organic. Organic food was not treated with pesticides or insecticides, and is much better than conventional. Yet it might be quite expensive and is not always fresh and ripe, because it takes sometimes many days for the produce to arrive to the consumer. Organic produce is usually grown with artificial fertilizers, which deplete soil of nutrients.

2. Grow food yourself. Do you remember the smell and flavor of grandmas cucs and tomatoes? I bet you can almost feel their taste in your mouth. It is so different from the produce we buy: substances that do not have smell, do not have taste, do not feed. You rarely can buy anything like your grandma had. Growing food is much cheaper than to buy organic; you can consume your produce fresh and ripe. What is more important, you can choose, what you feed your plant with.

A Few Practical Tips: Even those who live in cities can grow their own food in flower pots on balcony or to do simple sprouting in jars. Those who have little space for growing might consider doing a square foot gardening [11]. It is important to add nutrients to the soil, especially natural minerals, like for example ground mineral rock.

In order to get we need first to invest into our soils. Remember: if 4% of iron, this is all your soil will get from your table scraps, this is all it is going to give you, when you harvest. You get what you give.

By robbing the Earth during the past century, we hoped to gain. Yet we lost. Only by giving it back what we took we will get back the superior food and health we all are crying for.

We always thought that it should be done by somebody else, and we would do a higher and a better paid job. Yet we did not know that by letting others grow our food we gave them also the right to control our health.

It came time to touch the Mother Earth with love. By doing so we would give a great favor to the nature, humanity and ultimately to ourselves. There is no higher privilege than to kneel down and to reverently kiss a little seed the symbol of life. And who knows, maybe by this simple act of consciousness well save the world. There is a loftier ambition than merely stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher (Henry Van Duke).

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