The Truth About "Natural" Healing
Appendix - 3
Fake Food --- Real Food
The Simple, Uncomplicated Basics of Truly "Eating Healthy"
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Mary had a little lamb,
A lobster and some prunes;
A glass of milk, a piece of pie,
And then some macaroons.
It made the naughty waiters grin
To see her order so,
And when they carried Mary out
Her face was white as snow.
Author unknown --- at least to THIS writer. If YOU DO know, please
"wise me up"
so that we can give proper credit.
Modern nutritionists will probably never completely agree on
what is "good for us" OR what food COMBINATIONS are detrimental. The
details are also certain to vary with each unique individual --- which
each of us is. But this little verse seems a powerful reminder that
momentary pleasures can easily lead to future misery --- sometimes
lasting a long, long time. That surely is not the REALLY "good life",
is it?
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You don't need to memorize a bunch of rules
--- or even a bunch of facts ---
When you understand the BASIC PRINCIPLES,
the rest becomes pretty obvious
--- when you really think about it
All too often, we just fail to take time to shut out the noise
and really think and reason --- rationally and logically --- (NOT
RATIONALIZE) --- about REAL life in the REAL world --- instead of
mindlessly taking for granted the purportedly "sophisticated",
self-contradictory pseudo-scientific theories and speculations
we've heard all our lives.
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"Simplicity is the
ultimate sophistication."
--- Leonardo da Vinci
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With that perspective in mind ---- I ask you:
Do you EAT TO LIVE? --- OR --- do you LIVE TO EAT? --- Is there a
difference? The words are exactly the same, but, rearranged, the
values and objectives expressed are exactly opposite. Among the
ancient Greek Philosophers, the Stoics believed, essentially, that
all pleasure was absolutely detrimental to true quality of life. If
that were so, a beautiful, fully ripe and nourishing, freshly
plucked fruit should have absolutely no flavor (or taste terrible)!
If the Epicureans were correct in believing that pleasure is
everything and little else matters, the most deliciously flavored,
absolutely indigestible SAND should produce the best life ever!
Hopefully, those senseless extremes awaken OUR senses to the vital
importance of SOUND values and PROPER balance for the REALLY "good
life". For human-nature-as-we-know-it, however, balance CAN be
deceptive. If we're carrying 5-pounds in one hand and 20-pounds in
the other, we tend to either LEAN toward the lighter side or ELEVATE
the lighter load away from our body in order to FEEL balanced ---
even though our body is not actually IN balance with EITHER method.
Likewise, when we aren't considering the eventual consequences of a
decision (or may not even know about them), our FEELINGS often LEAN
toward convenience or other pleasures; even though the factors that
contribute to long-term TRUE quality of life carry much greater
"weight". When that happens, our "life priorities" are not truly in
balance, and we may never experience REAL health (the FULLNESS of
the biological processes that constitute life); only absence of
dis-ease (distress, discomfort) --- and THAT only if we can find a
medicine that will sufficiently block our AWARENESS of the ACTUAL
illness CAUSING the dis-ease/distress/discomfort ---- essentially
the biological damage or functional deficiency that will still be
there, just waiting to "break loose" in some other way.
We can fool ourselves into IMAGINING that life and health are major
priorities when, actually, our primary PURSUIT may be PLEASURE,
while our real concern for life may be only in the enjoyment of the
moment ---- with, possibly, an OCCASIONAL momentary fear of death or
serious injury ---- which soon passes if we're still able to "have a
good time". We may call ourselves "really living" --- "the good
life" --- but deep inside --- biologically --- we'll actually be
LESS alive than if we were NOT "living it up".
Is it REALLY that serious?
Well, think about this:
Even a HEALTHY body must rebuild or replace worn-out cells ---on a
daily basis--- in order to STAY alive and healthy. And not just our
skin and other "high-wear" areas; internal organs, muscles, nerve cells
and all the rest. Yet, most of us are unaware of the many elements of
our "civilized" lifestyle that SERIOUSLY SIDETRACK or even OBSTRUCT
that internal biological rebuilding process and thus constitute the
PRIMARY controllable, preventable cause of nearly all illness.
---Even the ones popularly considered "contagious"
---the biological relationships of which were explained in
Part 9. "Unconventional Concepts
of Illness & Health" ,
and the Appendix 2. column:
"Medicine Is A Blue Poly Tarp".
Of course, we all acknowledge we have to eat "good" food. But, does
"good" mean something that is MADE FROM an edible living thing but
is now only a DERIVATIVE OF that living thing, just as cardboard is
MADE FROM wood, but is no longer ACTUALLY wood? (And we would
surely NOT want our home built with it!)
While government appointed agencies in many countries are
charged with TRYING to compel "food" product manufacturers to inform
consumers what is actually IN their FOOD-LIKE PRODUCTS that actually
ARE mostly MANUFACTURED and only MINIMALLY grown (chemically, at that,
from what COULD otherwise be life-giving earth) WE still have to
decide whether we WANT those materials or substances PRETENDING to
nourish and repair our most personal "home" --- our body.
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We tend to thoughtlessly IMAGINE that if it quells our appetite,
we've been fed and nourished. But if a non-living chemical drug can
deaden pain without addressing the ACTUAL CAUSE of the pain, should
we find it surprising that a "dead and embalmed" food-like substance
could "deaden" or pacify our appetite without satisfying our body's
REAL NEED?
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BUT DON'T BE INTIMIDATED! You don't have to be a chemist, a
biologist, or any other "hi-tech" person (or try to evaluate the
qualifications of supposed "experts") to think and reason and make
wise, rational (and, actually, very simple and straightforward)
real-food choices.
For starters, just read a few "food" INGREDIENT labels (not the
eye-catching advertising on the front --- the ACTUAL INGREDIENTS in
the fine print around back or up and down the side of the label ---
(legally, it's supposed to be there somewhere); and see how many
ingredients you recognize as a "living thing" compared to those that
are only DERIVED FROM or MAY never have even been PART OF a living
thing ---
--- and then ask yourself ----
"How can a NON-LIVING material or substance
--- no matter how delightfully flavored ---
impart to us
life that it does not have?"
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(If I don't even have
"two nickels to rub together"
there's no way I can give you
a million dollars, now, is there? :)
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The fundamental concept of
truly-life-giving and healing food
is just that simple and that basic!
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Abundant speculation to the contrary not withstanding, life has
never actually been observed or demonstrated to spring from
non-living matter. Remember Louis PASTEUR's famous "experiment" that
demonstrated just the opposite! Officially government-appointed
"guardians" of health and "food safety" still endorse and often
require PASTEURization (get the connection?) of certain food items
---- in tacit acceptance and acknowledgement of that ultimate
fundamental "fact of life".
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(Of course, pasteurized ANYTHING
is no longer "live food" ---
it is now "dead and embalmed"
like the rest of the fake, so-called "food".)
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Never ASSUME that ANY item that is widely sold as "food"
ACTUALLY measures up to this "real life" criteria. Make your own
investigation. If it isn't worth a quick label-read, how can it be
worth risking your long-term true quality of life on its
very-short-lived (and very questionable) "pleasure"?
How pervasive the problem really is can be seen in
---< this quote in Appendix 2
>--- from New York Times Magazine investigative reporter Michael
Moss. (You really need to see the entire report if you haven't
already. It's quite an expose'. The link to do so follows the
quotation.)
If you've already read and absorbed the above three references,
perhaps you can see why some of us consider natural healing ENTIRELY
SUFFICIENT [---not a cause for panic---] and the only TRUE HEALING
there ever is! Only IT addresses our body's REAL NEEDS ---
hopefully, before the lack of such turns into serious damage
or dire emergency.
Many years ago, a rather widely published (at the time) Nutritional
Medical Doctor (Mainstream Nutrition AND Mainstream Medicine have
largely relegated him to oblivion) had an elegantly simple guiding
"formula" for this concept: "Eat only those foods which [readily]
spoil or rot or decay ...before they do." (Quoted from personal
interview in AWAKE! February 22, 1968 "How Fine are Refined Foods?"
and his own book "Please Doctor, Do Something").
"REAL FOOD for Beginners" by Christy Pooschke ---
Copyright 2014 --- (Highly Recommended! --- Please,
download (AND READ) the FREE book. She did a great job.) ---
expresses the same elegantly simple basic concept this way:
"I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and told I would suffer with pain
and fatigue for the rest of my life... ...I started reading the
ingredient labels on every food I purchased, and I stopped eating
things that I couldn't clearly identify as having come from a plant or
animal in nature... ... And within just a few months ... all of my
symptoms ... completely resolved!"...
Her advice? Yep! The same basic concept--- "...As a general
rule, if you cannot easily identify every ingredient on a label as
having come directly from a plant or an animal in nature, then I do not
recommend you purchase the product." --- [What wise and healthful
reasoning!]
For those who need a little more "hand holding" while
learning to apply the basic principles above (which is probably most
of us in "western" so-called civilization who have never given any
thought to this) the rest of the book contains basic starter recipes
and a grocery shopping guide with examples of what to look for ---
and, even more importantly, what to LOOK OUT for. If you're a
"recipe person", check out her even more extensive additive-free
cookbook (entitled simply and appropriately
"Eating Addidive Free!") with lots more recipes
and more extensive explanations of many "HIDDEN" food additives.
(Some are "hiding in plain sight"; we just need to adjust our focus)
IT'S a free download, too. So go for it! Even if you're not a
"recipe person", the "food"/chemical explanations alone are
priceless.
One last note--- If you find nutritional supplements to be a
necessary addition to ---not a substitute for--- "live food", read
THEIR labels carefully, too. Some individuals do appear to have
acquired metabolic impairments that cause them to need a bit more of
certain nutritional elements than the live-food available to them
can provide. But you need THAT nutrition to come from living
sources, also; not from some dead chemical that RESEMBLES a vitamin
or other biological element. This includes mineral supplements, as
well. The Medical Doctor/Nutritionist quoted above also used to say,
"Don't eat any rocks" --- meaning "ground", "powdered", capsules,
pressed into tablets or otherwise --- which is supremely logical
advice, because PLANTS are designed to digest the minerals of the
earth, but humans and animals are NOT.
Hopefully this will give you a "leg up" as you continue your
research and self-analysis. You'll surely come across much
conflicting nutritional and other health advice. Weigh it carefully
and logically --- on the basis of the FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES of life
described above and on the other pages of this website.
Here's wishing you all the health and wellness you can cultivate!
--- NATURALLY!
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Education is what you get when you read the fine print.
Experience is what you get when you don't.
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"The problem is we are not eating food anymore, we are
eating food-like products!" ---- Dr. Alejandro Junger
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Interesting Statistics from -----
https://www.UN.org/sustainabledevelopment/hunger/
---> https://unstats.UN.org/sdgs/report/2023/
"Despite global efforts, in 2022, an estimated 45 million children
under the age of 5 suffered from wasting, 148 million had stunted
growth AND 37 MILLION WERE OVERWEIGHT."
---- [ Make no mistake; that 3rd group was EQUALLY MAL-NOURISHED,
just in a different way. ---ed.]
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Hungry ? ?
Which would you prefer?
LIVE Food? ---
You know, as in "LIVE MUSIC"?
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"The Shifting, Whispering Sands"?
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A Word About Fresh Produce
---Three words, actually---
IT'S LIVE FOOD
The non-profit Environmental Working Group regularly tests a broad
cross-section of produce items and generally publishes two special
lists at least once a year of the twelve found with the most pesticide
residue and the fifteen with the least. (Dubbed "The Dirty Dozen" and
"The Clean Fifteen")
https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/dirty-dozen.php
https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/clean-fifteen.php
Theoretically, "organic" produce SHOULD bypass the
pesticide problem completely. But it sometimes has it's own
problems. For example, when producing a "cash crop" becomes too
"urgent"(even "organic" farmers need money to live), the compost that's
used as "live food" for plants (instead of dead chemical "fertilizers")
may not have time to decay thoroughly enough for its beneficial
microorganisms to completely recycle and naturally "sanitize" all the
biological waste that goes into it. Thus the occasional recalls you
may sometimes hear for SOME organic produce items. Don't obsess over
it, but do exercise good sense.
Many of the specialty products sold to clean produce items
contain an edible form of alcohol to kill surface microorganisms. (IF
it is concentrated ENOUGH, it should also "cut the grease" of oil-based
pesticides) But if you keep 90- to 180-proof spirits in the house
already, you probably don't need anything else (except a spray bottle,
perhaps) --- just give it a few minutes to "work" after you spray it
thoroughly and before you scrub it gently with a soft nylon or other
very-slightly abrasive pad. ---- Actually, people in many countries
routinely wash their fruits and vegetables in water with a little
chlorine bleach added, as a "normal" part of their life. Personally,
I'd feel safer with a "shot of bourbon" (and would much prefer to use
it this way than to drink it:). But that's just me. You need to do
your own research for your own life.
One other thing you should research, if you want really LIVE food,
is "sprouting". The Orient used to be "famous" for it's bean
sprouts; but, you can sprout and eat almost any seeds (or grains ---
they're seeds, too) and most sprouts don't really need cooking (which
de-activates their enzymes and then they're less alive --- and is also
true of fresh produce --- the less cooking; the more life). Your
research may turn up paranoid-sounding concerns for "microbes", but if
seeds are clean and edible to begin with (not toxic garden or other
agricultural seeds) and you KEEP them clean as they sprout ---- Well
--- I've eaten home-sprouted seeds for decades with no problems unless
they're accidentally left in direct sunlight trying to green-up their
new little leaves and started to wilt and decay --- which is SO readily
discernible you won't even THINK about eating them. (For most, just
rinse in clean water twice a day and leave in a well-ventilated
draining position.)
Sometimes, we just need to exercise our uncommon common
sense; and learn to be more afraid of toxic chemicals and less afraid
of LIFE!
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