Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Home Remedy Colon Cleanse
Is It Possible to Clean Your Colon Naturally?
March 17, 2009 by ColonCleanse
Colon cleanse products are extremely popular today, a fact that isn’t surprising at all considering the number of people who die worldwide due to colon cancer. colon cancer is fast becoming one of the most common—and among the most dangerous—types of cancer, with a 600,000 death toll per year. colon cancer only recently became a threat recently, which is a very telling fact. This is because it was only recently that people began experiencing the consequences of their dietary habits. Before, most of the food products people consumed did not have harmful substances and chemicals. Today, even the food products that people consider natural are filled with preservatives, pesticides, and other chemicals. These chemicals—as well as the naturally unhealthy products, like fatty foods and beer—can build up in the large intestine, especially in the colon. Once accumulated, they can produce harmful toxins that can cause a number of negative effects—from fatigue to constipation; from mood swings to more serious diseases, possibly even cancer.
It is possible to clean your colon using home remedy colon cleanse products and practices. After all, the body is equipped with the capacity to eliminate any foreign and harmful products from the body. There are times when the body should be left to its own devices, since doing abrupt procedures can alter its natural processes. However, there are some instances when you should aid your body. This is why home remedy colon cleansing is important.
One of the more natural and most commonly used home remedy colon cleanse practices is the increase of water intake. Water is a natural solvent, and it is no different inside the body. Drinking more than eight glasses of water a day can help flush out these harmful chemicals and substances. Studies have proven, after all, that the insufficient water intake can cause a number of Health problems, such as indigestion, acidity, and other similar ailments. Think of it as a strong gush of water cleaning your house’s gutters, and the leaves and other objects stuck are the harmful chemicals that you take in your body.
But water isn’t always enough. This is why many people are also taking in more fibrous food products as a home remedy for colon cleansing. Fiber, found in wheat bread and many types of fruits and vegetables, can help aid the body in removing waste build-up. Fiber and water can be the perfect tandem—fiber helps loosen the grip of waste to the intestinal wall, while the water flushes it away.
Of course, there are also colon cleanse products in the market. This is a far-cry from the hydrotherapy colon cleanse products that can be inconvenient and difficult to use. Most colon cleanse products are all natural, made from natural herbs and medications that aid in the removal of waste in the body. There are a number of home remedy colon cleanse products—the ones which you create yourself—although buying colon cleansers is safer and more convenient.
March 17, 2009 by ColonCleanse
Colon cleanse products are extremely popular today, a fact that isn’t surprising at all considering the number of people who die worldwide due to colon cancer. colon cancer is fast becoming one of the most common—and among the most dangerous—types of cancer, with a 600,000 death toll per year. colon cancer only recently became a threat recently, which is a very telling fact. This is because it was only recently that people began experiencing the consequences of their dietary habits. Before, most of the food products people consumed did not have harmful substances and chemicals. Today, even the food products that people consider natural are filled with preservatives, pesticides, and other chemicals. These chemicals—as well as the naturally unhealthy products, like fatty foods and beer—can build up in the large intestine, especially in the colon. Once accumulated, they can produce harmful toxins that can cause a number of negative effects—from fatigue to constipation; from mood swings to more serious diseases, possibly even cancer.
It is possible to clean your colon using home remedy colon cleanse products and practices. After all, the body is equipped with the capacity to eliminate any foreign and harmful products from the body. There are times when the body should be left to its own devices, since doing abrupt procedures can alter its natural processes. However, there are some instances when you should aid your body. This is why home remedy colon cleansing is important.
One of the more natural and most commonly used home remedy colon cleanse practices is the increase of water intake. Water is a natural solvent, and it is no different inside the body. Drinking more than eight glasses of water a day can help flush out these harmful chemicals and substances. Studies have proven, after all, that the insufficient water intake can cause a number of Health problems, such as indigestion, acidity, and other similar ailments. Think of it as a strong gush of water cleaning your house’s gutters, and the leaves and other objects stuck are the harmful chemicals that you take in your body.
But water isn’t always enough. This is why many people are also taking in more fibrous food products as a home remedy for colon cleansing. Fiber, found in wheat bread and many types of fruits and vegetables, can help aid the body in removing waste build-up. Fiber and water can be the perfect tandem—fiber helps loosen the grip of waste to the intestinal wall, while the water flushes it away.
Of course, there are also colon cleanse products in the market. This is a far-cry from the hydrotherapy colon cleanse products that can be inconvenient and difficult to use. Most colon cleanse products are all natural, made from natural herbs and medications that aid in the removal of waste in the body. There are a number of home remedy colon cleanse products—the ones which you create yourself—although buying colon cleansers is safer and more convenient.
Monday, October 20, 2008
What Does the Bible Say About Doctors?
Are They a Gift from God?
by Lorraine Day, M.D.
The word “Physician” is not mentioned in the Bible
Neither the word Physician nor the word Doctor is used in the Bible. The word mistranslated as Physician is actually the word healer. It is the translators who have presumptuously – and wrongly – defined a Physician – a present-day Doctor - as a healer.
But the Bible, in the original, says something quite different.
Who claims to be our Healer?
God says, “I am the Lord who heals you.” Exodus 15:26
“I will take away sickness from among you. . .” Exodus 23:25,26
“He forgives all my sins and heals ALL my Diseases.” Psalm 103:3
“I will give you back your health again and heal your wounds.” Jeremiah 30:17
“The Lord will remove from you all sickness. . .” Deuteronomy 7:15
“My counsel shall stand, and I WILL do ALL my pleasure.: Isaiah 46:10
“Yes, I have spoken it. I will also bring it to Pass. I have purposed it. I will also do it.” Isaiah 46:11
“God cannot lie.” Titus 1:2
“I am the Lord: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass. Ezekiel 12:25
When Jesus was on earth, He NEVER referred anyone to a Physician
God needs no middle men. When Jesus was on earth, when someone came to Him for healing, He never referred the person to Luke, the “Physician.” Jesus healed the person directly and personally. And He healed him either with His Word – which we have today, in the form of the Bible – or He healed him with natural methods – clay, water, etc.
Jesus NEVER used drugs, although we know that some types of drugs were available in His time. When Jesus was on the Cross, He was offered a type of drug to ease His pain, but He refused it.
In the Bible, What was the consequence of seeking out anyone else except God for healing?
Asa, King of Israel sought out the physicians INSTEAD of depending on the Lord – and Asa DIED!
“And Asa, in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, was diseased in his feet (probably diabetes), until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought NOT to the Lord, but to the physicians (human “healers”)
“And Asa died . . . and rested with his fathers (ancestors).” 2 Chronicles 16:12,13
Ahaziah, King of Israel, and son of the wicked King Ahab (who was married to Jezebel), was ill and did not seek God, but sought the god of Ekron – sorcerers. And Ahaziah DIED!
“And Ahaziah was sick and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baalzebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this disease.
“But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the King of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is NOT a God in Israel, that you go to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?
“Now, therefore, thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt NOT come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt SURELY DIE.” 2 Kings 1:2-4
God is our Healer and He doesn’t share that job with humanity. The consequence of seeking out anyone except the Lord for healing – is death!
But HOW Does God Heal?
Jesus certainly did miraculous healings when He was on earth, but there was always ONE requirement. The person wanting to be healed HAD TO BELIEVE. He or she had to believe that Jesus WOULD do what He had already PROMISED to do – and that is to heal ALL our diseases. (Psalm 103:3)
If a person BELIEVES in Jesus, then they will follow His ways, and not “man’s” (the doctors’) ways.
Jesus said, “If you LOVE Me, KEEP My Commandments.” John 14:15
Here is the way God heals ALL our diseases:
“Thou shalt therefore keep the Commandments, and the statutes (laws – including God’s Ten Natural Health Laws) and the judgments (decrees) that I command thee this day, to do them.
“Wherefore it shall come to pass, if you hearken to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy that He swore unto your fathers:
“And He will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; He will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, they grain, and they wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy cattle, and they flocks of they sheep, in the land that He swore unto they fathers to give thee.
“Thou shalt be blessed above all people; there shall not be male or female barren among you (the cure for infertility!) or among your cattle.
“And the Lord will take away from thee ALL sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt (symbolic for Sin), which thou knowest, upon thee: but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.” Deuteronomy 7:11-15
Moses:
When God told Moses to build the sanctuary in the wilderness, God gave very specific directions for how it was to be built – down to the last tassel on the robes of the priests. It was up to Moses to follow God’s plans explicitly and NOT to follow his own plans. Moses was NOT ALLOWED to consult with the human “experts” on sanctuary-building. God gave the directions, and Moses carried out EXACTLY what God had told Him to do.
God not only made the PROMISE, God also gave the PROCESS by which His PROMISE was to be accomplished.
The ONLY one who can fulfill a PROMISE, is the ONE who made it.
Noah:
When God promised Noah He would save him and his family from the flood, God gave Noah very explicit instructions on how to build the ark – including what kind of wood, the specific dimensions of the boat, etc. Noah was not allowed to consult the human “experts” on boat-building. It was up to Noah to follow God’s plans explicitly and NOT to follow his own plans. God gave the directions, and Noah carried out EXACTLY what God told Him to do.
It was by following God’s instructions explicitly that Noah and his family would be saved.
God not only made the PROMISE, God also gave the PROCESS by which His PROMISE was to be accomplished.
Disease is a Spiritual Problem
When God PROMISES to “heal ALL our diseases,” God also gives us the PROCESS by which His PROMISE is to be accomplished. We are not allowed to consult human “experts” on healing, such as the orthodox medical doctors, but we must follow ONLY God’s way.
God not only has made the PROMISE, God also gives us the PROCESS by which His PROMISE is to be accomplished.
Disease, virtually ALL disease, BEGINS as a Spiritual problem. It begins in the “heart” because we want to live, eat, think, act, and handle stress our OWN way, rather than GOD’S way. We are in rebellion against God, whether we realize and acknowledge it or not. Only MUCH later do the physical symptoms appear - as a result our OWN bad decisions.
We believe we have Free Will and the right to exercise it, but Jesus said,
“I came NOT to do My OWN will, but the WILL of Him who sent Me.” John 6:38
We give ourselves disease, one day at a time, by following OUR OWN will, rather than following GOD’S WILL for our life.
Shouldn’t I Pray for a Miraculous Healing?
Certainly God can perform a miraculous healing, but what good would that do in your life? It would allow you to continue to live, eat, think, act, and handle stress your OWN way, rather than changing your heart. It would just be another carnal wish for a “Quick Fix” and you would eventually develop your disease again because you would not have CHANGED the way you were living, eating, thinking, acting and handling stress.
Christians, particularly, are looking for a miraculous healing – a Quick Fix, even though miraculous healings do NOT change lives. When Jesus healed the Ten Lepers, how many came back to thank Him? Only one! Their hearts were not changed.
The "Latter Rain" - How will we recognize it? Is it Already Here?
The Christian churches are praising the Lord for what they consider to be the present-day "outpouring of the Holy Spirit" in signs and wonders, including speaking in tongues and miraculous healings just like the events that occurred with the apostles in the Upper Room at Pentecost fifty days after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, 2000 years ago.
Often quoted is the passage in Joel that refers to God's Spirit being poured out on all flesh.
"And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. . . and I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth. . . before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come." Joel 2:28-31
Two specific time periods for the "outpouring of the Holy Spirit" are spoken of in the Bible where they are referred to as the "Early rain" and the "Latter rain," symbolized by the early and latter rains of the harvest season. Leviticus 26:1-14, Deuteronomy 11:14, Proverbs 16:15, Hosea 6:3, Matt 5:45, James 5:7.
As mentioned, the "Early Rain" is considered by most Christians to have been given to the apostles in the Upper Room at Pentecost. In speaking of this occurrence, the Bible says the apostles were together in the upper room with over 100 other Christians. "And they were filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak clearly (literal translation). . . and they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, 'Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? And yet we hear in the dialect in which we were born, Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites. . . in Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the regions of Libya…We hear them speaking in our own language…" Acts 2:7-11
Obviously, the languages (tongues) in which the apostles were speaking were known languages of the time. Their languages were perfectly understood by those from the various respective countries. What they were speaking was NOT an unknown tongue because everyone "understood in his own dialect (dialektos - in Greek)." Acts 2:8
In the subsequent weeks and months, the apostles performed many miraculous healings (See Acts 3:1-13, 6:8) and spoke boldly about the resurrection of Jesus even after they were strongly warned against it, and even after they were imprisoned and beaten.
Characteristics of the "Early Rain" included:
1) Miraculous, instantaneous healings
2) Bold speaking for the Lord
3) Speaking in known languages
4) Preaching of the true Gospel
5) The Spirit fell ONLY on those who had left the organized church. We have NO record that it fell on ANYONE who was IN the organized church of those who considered themselves the "Chosen People."
6) It not only fell ONLY on those who had LEFT that church, but it fell ONLY on those who were being PERSECUTED BY that very same "Church." (The apostles were hiding in the Upper Room "for fear of the Jews.")
We have reason to believe that the "Latter Rain" will have similar manifestations. In fact, many Christians believe that this predicted "Latter Rain" is going on right now in the churches, exemplified by an exciting movement of "Spirit-filled" Christians who are speaking in unknown languages and are being miraculously "healed!"
But we must carefully search the Scriptures to understand the characteristics of the "Latter Rain" and how they relate to the "Early Rain", the apostles Day of Pentecost.
What are the "keys" in the analysis of the "Early Rain"
to unlock the understanding of the "Latter Rain"?
Jesus received a visitor one evening, Nicodemus, a respected religious leader, a Pharisee, inquiring about Jesus' teachings. "You must be born again," Jesus told him. "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?" Nicodemus asked.
Jesus explained that the first birth, is physical, natural, but the second birth is a spiritual birth. "That which is born of flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." John 3:6 He went on to chide Nicodemus saying, "You are a master of Israel and you don't know these things?" In other words, "You are one of the main leaders, one of the Biblical scholars, of the most religious people on earth and you don't understand this basic spiritual principle?"
The key is found in 1 Corinthians 15:44-49. Here Paul speaks of two situations, first the natural or physical, and secondly the spiritual.
"And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul (a physical, natural human being); the last Adam (Christ) was made a life-giving spirit (a spiritual being).
"However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.
"The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven."
This passage gives a very important interpretive rule; the first is ALWAYS natural, or physical, and the second is ALWAYS spiritual.
Jesus was explaining this principle to Nicodemus when He said, "The first birth is physical, but the second birth, being born again, is spiritual.
First birth = physical
Second birth = spiritual
1 Cor 2:14 says, "The unspiritual man (the natural, or "soulish" man) does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him; and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned (understood)."
This text tells us that the natural man, the unspiritual man, cannot understand spiritual things. "They are foolishness to him."
The original Greek word translated as "natural" in the King James Version, is more accurately translated "soulish." The word "soul" is applied in the Bible to any creature that has the five senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch), such as birds, beasts, and man. The word "soul" in the Bible is never used to describe plants and trees, etc. or non-living things, things which do NOT have the five senses.
Therefore, we can see that the "natural" man, also called the "soulish" man, CANNOT understand spiritual things. In other words, spiritual things CANNOT be understood with the five senses. They can only be discerned (understood) spiritually. Spiritual understanding does NOT use the five senses.
We have already learned that the "first" is always natural or physical, such as the "first" birth (it's the natural birth of a child) but the "second" birth, or being "born again" is spiritual. The natural birth of a child can easily be detected by the five senses. It can be seen, heard and felt.
However, the "second" birth, being "born again" CANNOT be detected with the five senses. God changes the heart quietly and slowly which cannot be detected by the senses. Only the result can be seen, just like the working of the wind. The wind itself cannot be seen, only the result of the wind. John 3:8
The Lamb of God
The same principle operates for many things in the Bible. The lamb sacrificed for sin in the temple in the Old Testament was the "first" - the physical. But it looked forward to the "Lamb of God" who by His physical death would give us spiritual salvation. Jesus, the Lamb of God, was the "second" - Spiritual fulfillment of the literal, physical sacrificial lamb in the Old Testament sanctuary service.
Manna - Bread from Heaven
The manna that rained down from heaven when the Israelites were in the wilderness was the "first" bread, looking forward to the "second" - the spiritual bread from heaven, Jesus Christ. (John 6:47-52). But the Jews of Jesus' time ONLY understood it literally. They could not understand the spiritual application because "spiritual things are (ONLY) spiritually discerned."
The Old and New Covenant
The Old Covenant was the Ten Commandments written in stone. They were physical, they could be seen and touched. And most importantly, humanity was unable to keep them under their own power.
The New Covenant is the SAME Ten Commandments, all ten of them, but now they are no longer written in stone, but Jesus says, "I will write my law on the fleshy tables of your heart." (2 Cor 3:3) Now humanity CAN keep them but ONLY through the power of Jesus living in you.
Some say that since Jesus died on the Cross, we're now living under grace, we are NOT under the law because the law was done away at the Cross. However the law was NOT done away with at the Cross, it is still the very same law that is operating, but the NEW Covenant is Jesus' promise to write that very same law in our hearts, so we will do right because it IS right, not just because we are told to do it.
The First and Second Deaths!
The first death is in us when we are born. As soon as a baby is born, its cells begin to die. That is the "first" death. The "second" death according to 1 Cor 15:44-49, MUST be a spiritual death. That's the death Paul talks so much about: "I die daily", (1 Cor 15:31), "I am crucified with Christ" (Gal 2:20), "putting off the old man of sin" (Col 3:9). This is obviously a spiritual, not a physical, death.
In Rev 20:14 we are told that "Death and Hades (the unseen) are thrown into the lake of fire." How can "Death and the Unseen" be thrown into a literal "lake of fire?"
Obviously the "lake of fire" is symbolic. So what does it mean? We are told in Revelation that "waters" mean people and multitudes. (Rev 17:15) The "Beast" comes up out of the "sea" (Rev 13:1,2) which means it rises in a populated area. So "sea", because it is water, means people. A "lake" is also water, so it also must mean peoples and multitudes.
The word "fire" is used symbolically and spiritually repeatedly in the Bible. We go through "fiery trials" (1 Peter 4:12). "Buy of Me gold tried in the fire" (Rev 3:18). "Heap coals of fire on his head. . ." (Romans 12:20).
So the "lake of fire" according to the symbology of Revelation, means fiery trials caused by reaping what we have sown. We are put right back in the midst of the people we have wronged in order to reap what we have sown in order to be spiritually purified.
Faith based on miracles is NOT faith!
Simon (Magus) (Acts 8:9) was amazed at the power of the apostles. His case is an example of "faith" founded on miracles, which is very different from the faith which is based on God's word, apart from the evidence of the senses. Many believed in the Lord when they beheld the signs which He did, yet Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, because He knew what was in humanity (John 2:23-25) (Concordant Commentary pg 190).
Acts 8:19: Among the nations in Paul's later ministries, the spirit is received on believing, without the intervention of apostles, or baptism, or laying on of hands (Eph 1:13). It is no longer manifested by signs and miraculous healings
Signs and Wonders
Paul performs miracles early in his ministry
The need for signs and wonders, in order to believe, is a sign of spiritual immaturity. Early in his ministry Paul performed many miracles. People were healed if they just touched his handkerchief.
"And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them." Acts 19:11,12
Paul raised Eutychus from the dead. Acts 20:9-12
Later in Paul's ministry, NO miracles are seen.
Healings are by NATURAL REMEDIES.
But later in Paul's ministry he tells Timothy to drink (unfermented) wine for his stomach troubles, a natural remedy, rather than sending him a handkerchief so he could be instantly healed (1 Tim 5:23). Also Paul does not miraculously heal his co-worker, Epaphroditus, who almost died. He obviously got well the long, slow way.
"Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
"For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
"For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow." Philippians 2:25-27
Paul obviously did NOT heal Epaphroditus miraculously.
To Summarize:
The Early Rain, the "First of the two "Rains", was characterized by visible miracles, including resurrections and miraculous healings. These could easily be detected by the 5 senses. No one had to be "spiritual" in order to detect and understand these healings. Even pagans were able to detect these signs.
According to 1 Cor 15:44-49, the "First" is always "natural or physical" so the "Early Rain" as we see, is able to be detected by the "natural" or "soulish" man, meaning it can be detected with the five senses.
But the "Second" is ALWAYS "Spiritual." It CANNOT be detected with the five senses.
Some say that means that "healings" will not be a part of the "Latter Rain." But that is NOT the correct conclusion.
Healings WILL be part of the "Latter Rain", but the healings characteristic of the "Latter Rain" will NOT be miraculous, they will occur slowly and imperceptibly, first by a change in the heart, and then by a slow progressive improvement in the disease by following God's totally natural Health Plan. This is in accord with the way the Holy Spirit works in the Second Birth (being born again.)
This PROCESS will NOT be detectable with the five senses, only the result will be detected. The ability of God's Natural Health Plan to heal even the most advanced cancer will NOT be understood by those who are not spiritual, because "Spiritual things are spiritually discerned."
"The natural (soulish or unspiritual) man receiveth NOT the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because spiritual things are spiritually discerned." 1 Cor 2:14
This is the reason that doctors, scientists, Bible scholars, many theologians and most ministers CANNOT understand how people with advanced, life-threatening diseases can get well by following God's Natural Health Plan. They are totally UNABLE to understand it because they can only obtain information through their five senses. They are UNABLE to understand Spiritual things.
"And they preached the GOSPEL" boldly!
The word "gospel" means GOOD NEWS! Is it "Good News" that God will save only a small minority of all those who have ever lived on the earth, maybe 20% or so, and the rest will be doomed to burning forever - or a period of time, (i.e. "as long as they deserve") or they will be permanently annihilated or permanently separated from God in some, as yet unknown, manner?
Saving 20% and destroying 80%! That is NOT Good News no matter how you look at it!
The "Good News" shown throughout the entire Bible is that God is going to save EVERYONE! He's not going to destroy ANYONE by burning or permanent annihilation. Of course, He won't save anyone IN their sins, only FROM their sins.
Look at these examples in the Old Testament.
1) The lamb was brought to the sanctuary by the Israelite. The Israelite symbolically transferred his own sin to the lamb by placing his hands on the lamb.
2) Then the lamb was burned up - NOT the Israelite, showing us that it was the sin that was burned up, NOT the sinner!
This clearly shows us that the "sin" will be burned out of our lives by "fiery trials", we will be "gold tried in the fire." The sinner will NOT be burned up.
3) When Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were thrown into the fiery furnace, what was burned up? Certainly NOT them! It was their bonds that were burned off, the ropes that held them in bondage. The ropes represented the bondage of sin. These were burned off, but the three young men were not touched with the fire. In addition, a fourth person was in the fire with them, "One like the Son of Men" - Jesus.
This episode of the three young men in the fiery furnace is the Old Testament "Physical" representation of the New Testament "Spiritual" application of the Third Angel's Message in Rev. 14:9-12.
Verse 10: Those who take the Mark of the Beast "shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb."
The Greek word for brimstone is theion, which means divine. It comes from the root word Theios which means divinty or the Godhead.
This torment with fire and brimstone occurs "in the presence of the Lamb" meaning that Jesus promises to go through the fire with us, just as He did with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. That is truly Good News! Only this time the fire symbolizes the "fiery trials" that the New Testament speaks about, not literal fire.
If you think it is a "stretch" to interpret this "fire" of Rev 14:10 as the "fiery trials" of purification form sin, then you must explain why the "fire" must be interpreted literally when all the rest of the passage is interpreted symbolically, such as: beast, image, mark, forehead, hand, drinking wrath, pouring indignation into a cup.
ALL of these terms are interpreted symbolically, NOT literally. Then WHY would anyone just pick ONE term from that passage, the term "fire and brimstone" and interpret that literally?
Also remember the rule of "firsts" and "seconds", the first being physical and the second being spiritual. (1 Cor 15:44-49) The wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by literal fire and brimstone. The wicked resurrected in the second resurrection will be spiritually "destroyed" by having the sin purified out of them by going through "fiery trials" - reaping what they have sown.
Other New Testament texts that reveal that God is going to save EVERYONE!
1) How long did the shepherd search for the sheep? (Luke 15:4) Answer: Until he found it. There was NO cutoff time. (text) Note also that at the time he went looking for the sheep, ALL the rest were ALREADY in the fold. Only ONE was missing, and he searched until he found THAT LAST ONE!
2) How long did the woman search for the coin? (Luke 15:8) UNTIL SHE FOUND IT! Again there was NO cutoff time.
3) Jesus said He came to "seek and to save that which was lost." (Luke 19:10) EVERYONE has been "lost" at one time or another. So that means Jesus will save EVERYONE!
For many more texts showing that God will save everyone, see the study entitled "What Happens At The Judgment" at www.goodnewsaboutgod.com
In Conclusion:
The Latter Rain has the following five characteristics:
1) There will be many healings from advanced life-threatening diseases, but they will not be instantaneous, miraculous healings. They will NOT be "Quick-Fix" healings. Miraculous healings do NOT change the heart.
Before Jesus healed the paralyzed man whose friends let him down through the roof, Jesus said, "Your sins be forgiven you." (Mark 2:5) That was the PRELUDE to the man being healed. Forgiveness of his own sins was necessary before his healing could take place.
Notice that Jesus did NOT say that the man was sick because he lived in a sinful world. No, Jesus said, "YOUR sins be forgiven YOU!"
Christians often say that sickness is the inevitable result of living in a sinful world, and that it really has nothing to do with how we specifically live our own lives. They believe that diseases just happen! But they DON'T just happen. Disease is the inevitable result of that individual violating God's ten natural laws of health. Disease, in virtually ALL instances, is a result of our OWN sin. It occurs because we refuse to give up our right to ourselves and we insist on making our own decisions, instead of giving EVERY decision over to the Lord and following HIS directions rather than our own.
Psalm 103:3 reveals the SAME sequence: "He forgives ALL our sins, and (THEN) heals ALL our diseases." The repentance FOR, and forgiveness OF, sins is absolutely necessary before complete healing can occur!
The healings will be the result of true repentance of sins, a change in the heart, and a desire to do God's will by following His Health Plan followed by slow, progressive healing of the physical disease.
This process will NOT be perceptible to the five senses, nor will it be understood by those who are not spiritual. It will not be perceptible nor understood by doctors, scientists, philosophers, scholars, including most Bible scholars, nor will it be understood by the vast majority of ministers and religious leaders. In fact, they will deny that it can happen, and will even attack those who get well by that method.
Remember that the Pharisees, the religious leaders of the "Chosen people", wanted to kill Lazarus because He exhibited what Christ could do. (John 12:10)
Miraculous healings don't change lives. Look at the story of Jesus healing the Ten Lepers. Only ONE came back to thank Jesus. Obviously the hearts of the other nine were not changed.
In addition, miraculous healings do not bring about a change in diet and lifestyle so the body and mind can repair themselves. Miraculous healings allow the person to eat and live as they did before, so they will just get sick again.
2) The TRUE GOSPEL will be preached. The GOSPEL means "Good News." The knowledge that God is going to save EVERYONE is truly Good News! It is the Gospel of Universal Restoration! God loves EVERYONE the same. He has no favorites that He prefers above others.
3) The Gospel will be preached BOLDLY! Those who know this Good News will share it with everyone who will listen. They will not keep silent in proclaiming the wonderful character of God, and they will preach this Gospel WITHOUT fear!
Look at the difference between Peter's behavior towards the Pharisees BEFORE and AFTER the Day of Pentecost.
BEFORE Jesus was crucified, Peter denied Jesus three times, then later hid in the Upper Room "for fear of the Jews."
AFTER the Day of Pentecost, Peter had NO fear of the Pharisees. Even though they beat him and put him in prison, he went right back to the synagogue boldly preaching the Good News!
4) The Latter Rain will fall ONLY on those OUTSIDE the organized church, NOT those INSIDE the organized church.
5) The Latter Rain will fall on those who are NOT ONLY OUTSIDE the organized church, but it will fall on those who are being PERSECUTED by THAT VERY SAME CHURCH!
The Latter Rain will be silent, hidden and undetected by the vast majority of Christians who will be looking for a repeat of the Day of Pentecost with visible miracles and other obvious manifestations. The Latter Rain will ONLY be received and recognized by those who are spending daily time with the Lord in DILIGENT Bible study and prayer and who understand the spiritual nature of the Latter Rain.
Is the Health Message the “Right Arm” of the Gospel?
Some Christians believe that the Health Message is the “Right Arm” of the Gospel. By this, they mean that it can be used as an evangelistic “tool” – as an “opening wedge” – to attract the attention of the unbeliever who, as he or she develops an illness or is just in poor health, will be interested. Once the person is attracted by the Health Message, then the Christian can witness to the Unbeliever about the Gospel.
But this is all wrong.
In truth, the Health Message IS the Gospel – the FULL Gospel. Jesus said so, Himself. When Jesus performed physical healings, such as the man with the withered hand – and even resurrections from the dead - such as Jairus’ daughter, He used the Greek word sozo, which means, “to make whole.”
Jesus also used the same word, sozo, when he spoke of salvation, because the word means, “to make whole.” Jesus is making clear to us that when the “heart” is right, when we have given up our right to ourself and have given it over to God,
when we have had a CHANGE of heart, when our heart is one with God, THEN we will want to follow GOD’S way of fulfilling HIS PROMISE of healing. We will follow GOD’S PROCESS – His Natural Ten Step Health Plan - and we will abandon completely and permanently, any way that is devised by man – by doctors!
We will trust ONLY the Great Physician, Jesus Christ, who CREATED us, and wants to Re-Create us into His image – into a New Creation in Christ.
Sozo Means – Healed AND Saved!
The word sozo in the Greek was used by Jesus for both physical healing and spiritual salvation. The Lord is sending us a very clear message: When the heart is right - - THEN healing will occur. Disease begins in the heart – in the attitudes and in the disposition. Since that’s where disease begins, that is where it must first be addressed. God does not look on the outward appearance. He looks at the heart. Doctors cannot look there, they cannot heal the spiritual nature, and that is why they cannot heal disease!
SOZO: Strong’s Concordance, #4982
HEALED:
Mark 5:23: And besought Him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray Thee, come and lay Thy hands on her, that she may be healed (sozo), and she shall live.
Luke 8:26: They also which saw it told them by what means he that was possessed of the devils was healed (sozo).
Acts 14:9: The same heard Paul speak, who steadfastly behold him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed (sozo).
SAVE (36 entries)
Matt. 1:21: And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call His name JESUS: for He shall save (sozo) His people from their sins.
Matt 18:11: For the Son of man is come to save (sozo) that which was lost.
Luke 9:56: For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save (sozo) them.
Luke 19:10: For the Son of man is come to seek and to save (sozo) that which was lost.
John 12:47: And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I cam not to judge the world, but to save (sozo) the world.
Romans 10:9 (The text at hand.) That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved (sozo).
1 Tim 1:15: This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save (sozo) sinners, of whom I am chief.
Heb 7:25: Wherefore He is able also to save (sozo) them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.
James 2:14: What does it profit, my brethren, though a man say he has faith, and has not works? Can faith save (sozo) him?
James 4:12: There is one lawgiver, who is able to save (sozo) and to destroy; who art thou that judgest another?
James 5:15: And the prayer of faith shall save (sozo) the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
SAVED(57 entries, all but 4 of them are “SOZO”)
Matt 10:22: And you shall be hated of all men for My name’s sake; but he that endureth to the end shall be saved (sozo).
John 3:17: For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved (sozo).
Acts 2:21: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved (sozo).
Acts 4:12: Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved (sozo).
Romans 10:13: For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved (sozo).
Eph 2:5: Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, by grace ye are saved (sozo).
Eph 2:8: For by grace are ye saved (sozo) through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.
1 Timothy 2:4: Who will have ALL mankind to be saved (sozo), and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
1 Peter 4:17,18: For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved (sozo), where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Revelation 21:24: And the nations of them that are saved (sozo) shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
WHOLE
(In the New Testament, 90 entries: 11 entries are #4982 – sozo)
Matt 9:21,22; Mark 5:28, 34; Luke 8:48,50 the woman who had an issue of blood for twelve years, and merely touched the hem of Christ’s garment was told her faith had made her whole (sozo).
Mark 6:56: And whithersoever He entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought Him that they might touch if it were but the border of His garment: and as many as touched Him were made whole (sozo).
Mark 10:46-52 In Jericho, Jesus healed the Blind man Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, and said, “Go your way; your faith has made you whole (sozo). And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.
Luke 17:12-19: Ten lepers came to Jesus, asking for healing. Jesus healed them all, but only one returned to thank Him. Jesus said to him, Arise, go your way; your faith has made you whole (sozo).
THE OLD TESTAMENT
In the Old Testament, HEAL (in all 21 entries, HEALED and HEALETH are #7495 – the Hebrew equivalent of sozo in the Greek?
HEAL
Hosea 14;4: I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
Jer 30:17: For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord; because they called thee an outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
HEALED
2 Kings 2:21,22: And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land. So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
HEALETH
Psalm 103:3: Who forgives all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.
Is there ANY use for present-day doctors?
There are three different categories of medical problems: 1) Trauma,
2) Congenital Deformities, and 3) Disease.
God’s Promise is to “Heal ALL our DISEASES.” Psalm 103:3. The text says nothing about Trauma or Congenital deformities.
Trauma means “injury” such as when one breaks a leg, or is in a motor vehicle accident, or is the victim of a gunshot wound. Jesus had Trauma. He was beaten before He was crucified and He was injured when a crown of thorns was placed on His head. This is NOT “Disease.”
Trauma is NOT caused by the way one eats, lives, and handles stress. Trauma needs to be treated and repaired surgically by a Trauma Surgeon.
Congenital Deformities or Congenital Anomalies are in the category of Birth Defects. A child may be born with a cleft palate, or an extra digit, or a club foot, or some other anomaly. These are NOT caused by the way the child has been living, eating, and handling stress – although, in certain instances, it MAY have been caused by the way the mother was eating, living, and handling stress while she was pregnant.
This is NOT “Disease.” Congenital Deformities need to be surgically corrected by an appropriately trained Surgeon.
Diseases ARE CAUSED by the way we live, eat, and handle stress. In order to get well, we must CHANGE the way we live, eat and handle stress. We must follow GOD’S way, and NOT the ways of “man” – the ways of doctors! (For more information, see www.drday.com)
Doctors learn only TWO methods of treatment: 1) Give DRUGS, to cover up the symptoms by Poisoning or Burning the patient, or 2) Take out – or cut off – the “problem” organ by mutilating surgery.
Drugs never solve the underlying problem. They only “treat” symptoms, and they ALL have side effects. Drugs only change the form or location of the disease, they NEVER cure the disease. That is why, in many instances, the doctor will tell you that you have to be ON the drugs for the rest of your life.
God tells us in Revelation 18:23 that He abhors the use of drugs, because when a person is sick, and has symptoms, it is supposed to be a Red Flag warning to Turn to the Lord for the answers. Something is wrong with the life of the person who is sick, and ONLY the Lord’s Plan can make the person well.
Only GOD can show us how to live, how to eat, how to think and act, and how to handle stress. “Man’s” ways – the ways of “science and medicine” NEVER work in the long run. They may make a person FEEL better temporarily, they may temporarily appear to “shrink” a tumor, but they NEVER work to REVERSE the underlying disease, because NO doctor can address the problem of the “heart.”
THAT is God’s domain. Only God can reach down into your heart, and open up for you the things you need to CHANGE in your life, who you need to forgive, how to love your enemies, how to get the selfishness out of your life. THAT is where DISEASES begin, and NO doctor can touch that area.
God did not give us an extra supply of organs. And organ donations are certainly NOT God’s way.
God tells us that those who give out Drug Medications are an “Abomination to the Lord” and that the WHOLE WORLD will be DECEIVED by their “sorceries.”
“. . . for by thy (the Beast power’s) sorceries were ALL NATIONS deceived.” Revelation 18:23
The word “sorceries” in this text, is the word pharmakeia in the Greek – pharmacy - DRUGS - in English.
The WHOLE WORLD will be deceived by the DRUG medications prescribed by doctors. God defines them as Sorceries and Witchcraft. Because Drug medications are essentially the same as street drugs. They are given to make a patient FEEL better, or to make the lab test numbers LOOK better, but they are only a temporary “Quick Fix.” They NEVER solve the underlying problem, - the actual CAUSE of the disease, which always begins in the “heart” because we want to live, eat, and handle stress OUR way, rather than GOD’S way.
The English words sorceries and witchcraft are the numbers 3784 and 3785 in Strong’s concordance. These words are found in: Exodus 7:11, 2 Kings 9:22,2 Chronicles 33:6Jeremiah 27:9, Daniel 2:2, Malachi 3:5, Isaiah 47:9,12, Micah 5:12, Nahum 3:4.
The equivalent words in the Greek – sorceries, and witchcraft – are numbers 5331 and 5332 in Strong’s Concordance, as found in Galatians 5:20, Revelation 9:21; 18:23; 21:8; 22:15.
That Greek word is pharmakeia, or pharmacy – drug medications – Sorceries and witchcraft, according to the Bible.
The Bible terms drug medications, prescribed by doctors, as Sorceries and Witchcraft – because disease is a Spiritual problem. It begins in the “heart” – in the attitudes and disposition because we want to live, eat and handle stress our OWN way, rather than learning to trust God.
So ANYTHING – including doctor-prescribed drug medications – that pulls us away from God and HIS wisdom - and towards the world and so-called “worldly wisdom” is anti-Christ. God says, “The wisdom of man is foolishness with God.”
Those who prescribe drug medications – doctors, pharmacologists, and pharmacists, are termed witches and sorcerers and poisoners (pharmakos) in the Bible. God is so much against drug medications, because they lead people away from Him, that in the Old Testament, God told Israel:
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch (#3784) to live.” Exodus 22:18 (According to the Bible, a witch is one who dispenses drug medications.)
“There shall not be found among you anyone that makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch (#3784),
“Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer
“For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord.” Deuteronomy 18:10-12
It is not surprising to see that the Greek root “Phar. . .” is in all of the following words that are associated with the enemies of God and Christ:
Strong’s Concordance number:
#5328 – Pharoah – enslaved and tried to destroy the Israelites, the followers of God.
#5329 – Pharisees – those who murdered Christ
#5331 – Pharmakeia – drug medications – sorceries, also often kill those who take them
#5332 – Pharmakeus – one who drugs or poisons people – druggist (and
physicians who give out drugs. Actual definition – poisoner or sorcerer– one who poisons or kills.
#5333 – Pharmakos – the same as #5332
“By their sorceries (#5332 – drug medications) were ALL nations deceived.” Revelation 18:23
These five Greek words, all beginning with “Phar”, define those who, 1) have tried to enslave and destroy the followers of God, and 2) those who murdered Christ, and 3) those who are attempting to annihilate the rest of the population of the world with drug medications.
God states anyone who gives out Drug Medications (defined as witchcraft in the Bible), should NEVER be allowed to be a part of God’s people. In today’s era, that would mean doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and anyone else who prescribes or administers Drugs.
Witch houses and Drug stores
In the guide book “Visitor’s Guide to Salem, Massachusetts”, written in 1895 about the town where the famous Witch Trials took place, the following quote appears on page 6:
“If a stranger inquires for a “Witch house” he will be directed to a dark scowling building which is set back far enough from the sidewalk for a drug store to stand in front of it.” (Published by Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.,1895)
Witchcraft and Drugs have been associated with each other in America for over a hundred years, and they have been associated in the Bible for thousands of years!
How long have DRUGS been around?
The origin of modern Drug medicine (“Quick Fix” medicine) in “treating” disease is considered to have begun in the 1930’s and 1940’s with the discovery of the first antibiotic, Penicillin, by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928. Subsequently, the Drug industry exploded, and today there are more drugs (ALL of which are harmful) than one can count.
But as long ago as the 17th century, the phrase patent medicine was known, and referred to the marketing of medical elixirs. The “medicines” were not really patented but if a particular product found favor with royalty, a letter patent authorizing the use of the royal endorsement in advertising, was issued.
The name stuck until well after the American Revolution made these endorsements by the crowned heads of Europe obsolete. As noted, few if any of the nostrums were actually patented, as chemical patents came into use in the USA in 1925. And in any case, attempting to monopolize a drug, medical device, or medical procedure was considered unethical by the standards upheld during the era of patent medicine. Furthermore, patenting one of these remedies would have meant publicly disclosing its ingredients, which most promoters wanted to avoid.
Within the English-speaking world, patent medicines are as old as journalism. The use of letters of patent to obtain exclusive marketing rights to certain labeled formulas and their marketing fueled the circulation of early newspapers.
Please note, nothing has changed!
A number of American institutions owe their existence to the patent medicine industry, most notably a number of the older almanacs, which were originally given away as promotional items by patent medicine manufacturers.
Many patent medicines contained herbs, or were composed of Native American recipes, and others invoked the power of electromagnetism to heal ailments. Toward the end of the period, a number of radioactive medicines, containing uranium or radium, (Radiation) were marketed. These apparently actually contained the ingredients promised, and there were a number of tragedies among their devotees: most notoriously, steel heir Eben McBurney Byers was a supporter of the popular radium water “Radithor”. He contracted fatal radium poisoning and had to have his jaw removed in an unsuccessful attempt to save him from bone cancer after drinking the “radium water.” (Cancer is CAUSED by radiation!) Water irradiators were sold that promised to infuse water placed within them with radon, which was thought to be healthy at the time.
Those who, even today, believe that Doctors and Scientists know what they are doing when it comes to treating disease, need only to look back at the last couple of paragraphs. All doctors admit that Radiation CAUSES cancer. Yet, when a patient already HAS Cancer, the doctors give that patient Radiation – a “treatment” that CAUSES Cancer!
This is outrageously stupid on the part of “modern” medicine and the doctors who practice it!
When journalists and physicians began focusing on the narcotic contents of the patent medicines, some of their makers began substituting acetanilide, a particularly toxic non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, discovered in 1886, for the laudanum they used to contain. This ingredient change probably killed more of the nostrum’s users than the narcotics did, since the acetanilide was toxic to the liver and kidneys. This compound has largely been replaced by the use of the supposedly less toxic acetaminophen, a drug that is in the same category.
Those who sold or prescribed acetanilide-containing medicines in the 1800’s are now referred to as “Quacks.” However, acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol (a truly “Patented” medicine), considered by the U.S. government and the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) as a generally safe and effective pain reliever, is responsible for 56,000 injuries, 25,000 hospitalizations, and 450 deaths every year.
The use of acetaminophen for a period of more than 10 days has been shown to cause risk of severe liver damage, according to the FDA’s own advisory panel. The U.S. Acute Liver Failure Study Group found that acetaminophen poisoning is the leading cause of liver failure in the nation. Some of these instances of liver failure occur even when following the dosage recommendations printed on the bottle.
The risk of liver failure is dramatically increased if a person is taking more than one acetaminophen-containing drug at a time, and there are more than 200 over the counter products that contain acetaminophen, including medicines for pain, fever, colds, and coughs.
So WHO are the present-day “Snake Oil Salesmen”?
The present day doctors and pharmacists prescribe and sell drugs that are just as harmful, or even more so, than the supposed “Snake Oil Salesmen” of a hundred years ago.
What is the difference? The only difference is whether Organized Medicine endorses them. If a medicine is not controlled by the pharmaceutical companies or by Organized Medicine, it, by (their) definition, is “Quackery” because it will cut into the profits of those two groups.
If they cannot control it, they will brand it “Quackery”!
Patent medicines were supposedly able to cure just about everything. Nostrums were openly sold that claimed to cure or prevent venereal diseases, tuberculosis, and cancer. Clark Stanley the “Rattlesnake King” produced Stanley’s snake oil, publicly processing rattlesnakes at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. His liniment, when seized and tested by the federal government in 1917, was found to contain mineral oil, 1% fatty oil, red pepper, turpentine and camphor, similar to today’s capsaicin and camphor liniments.
Thus, the term “Snake Oil salesman” was born.
Who are the REAL “Quacks”?
In the late 19th century, a chemical compound named Calomel was frequently prescribed by orthodox physicians as a “tonic” – taken internally - to make one “healthy and energetic.” Calomel is Mercury chloride, a highly toxic compound. All mercury-containing compounds are toxic to the body.
George Washington may have died prematurely at the age of 67 because his physicians treated a respiratory illness with bloodletting and calomel. (Vadakan, M.D. V.V., (Winter/Spring 2005) “A Physician Looks at the Death of Washington.” Early America Review, Archiving Early America.
My paternal grandfather died in 1923 from bone cancer, his body wracked with pain caused by the horrifically toxic, mercury-containing Calomel “tonic” prescribed for him repeatedly by his physician. He died at the age of 38 leaving a young widow and six children, the oldest (my father) was 16, and the youngest was 3 years old.
My father told me many times how he would visit his father in the hospital as he lay dying as a result of the doctor-prescribed death potion, and how, as he walked down the hospital corridor towards his father’s room, he could hear him screaming in pain every time he moved the slightest amount in his bed.
Present-day doctors shake their heads about these supposedly “unintelligent” occurrences by doctors a hundred years ago. They think that today’s science has advanced remarkably. But they are doing the same stupid things today. They give numerous mercury-containing vaccinations to tiny babies and young children and claim that they are good for them, even though they cause autism and other types of brain damage, dentists put mercury-containing amalgam fillings in everyone’s teeth and claim they are harmless in one’s mouth, even though the government demands that the material must be treated as highly toxic “hazardous waste” when the filling is removed from the patient’s mouth, and is in the dentist’s hand.
In 1943, my maternal grandmother was sent to her death by doctors who gave her the poisonous chemotherapy treatments for her cancer, by the “world-renown experts” at Memorial Hospital in New York (now known as the “famous” Memorial-Sloan Kettering Hospital). They continued the “treatments” as she became weaker and weaker, until she and my grandfather (a well-to-do dentist) were broke from the costs. Then they referred her to Kings’ County Hospital for the indigents, to continue the horribly painful and life-destroying chemotherapy and radiation – until they finally were successful in killing her.
So, again, just WHO are the “Snake Oil Salesmen”?
More “Brilliance” in Orthodox Medicine
While working at the Vienna General Hospital in Austria, Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis discovered in 1847 that the incidence of puerperal fever, also known as childbed fever could be drastically reduced by the use of hand washing standards. Up until that time, doctors delivered babies with their bare unwashed hands, having no idea that cleanliness was important to decrease disease. Without the use of hand washing, 5-30 percent of mothers died after giving birth. After the institution of hand washing, that figure was reduced to 1-2 percent.
At that time, diseases were attributed to many different and unrelated causes. Each case was considered unique, but Semmelweis’ hypothesis was that there was only one cause – all that mattered was cleanliness. This was an extreme assumption at the time, and was largely ignored, rejected and ridiculed. Even though his patients’ survival was vastly increased over all the other doctors in the hospital, he was dismissed from the hospital and had difficulty finding employment as a medical doctor.
Semmelweis was outraged by the indifference of the medical profession and began writing open and increasingly angry letters to prominent European obstetricians, at times denouncing them as irresponsible murderers. His contemporaries, including his wife, believed he was losing his mind and he was in 1865 committed to an insane asylum. Semmelweis died there only 14 days later, possibly after being severely beaten by guards.
Semmelweis’ practice only earned widespread acceptance years after his death. He is now, 150 years later, considered a pioneer of antiseptic procedures.
Nothing has changed!
Nothing has changed in modern medicine. Those who do not conform to the corporately-endorsed medical norms of orthodox medicine, even if their modalities of treatment can be proven to be far superior to the establishment’s ways, are ignored, rejected and ridiculed – and their license to practice is often revoked. That is the power of Organized Medicine. Its power – and its practices - approach that of the Mafia!
Do it OUR way, or WE will destroy you!
It is just as true today as it was 150 years ago – a physician is not allowed to vary from the establishment in the treatment of any disease, even if he or she can prove it to be superior. Yet that archaic, contemptible, and stifling attitude is described by those who have it, as “progressive” and “scientific.”
God help us all!
Drugs NEVER Cure Disease
But Drugs NEVER Cure Disease and Diseases DON’T Just Happen. We GIVE them to ourselves by the way we live, eat, and handle stress. This is Satan’s way to take us down. God says to us, “Turn to Me. I want to CHANGE your life in every way.”
But Satan whispers in our ear, “You don’t need to change anything. You can keep living, eating, acting, thinking, and handling stress the way you always have. Here, take a PILL. It will make you FEEL better.” And that it will, but your disease will continue to progress, and will eventually kill you.
That is why doctors Never Have, and Never Will, find a Cure for ANY disease, because they only “treat” symptoms – with innately harmful and poisonous drugs, or by burning radiation, or by cutting out organs, none of which can CURE anything.
And organ donations are NOT the answer, because in order to receive an organ donation, the physician will have to DESTROY what is left of your immune system by giving you POISON – chemotherapy – that, in this instance, they call “Immunosuppressive therapy.” But the drugs used are the identical drugs that are used for “chemotherapy” when you have cancer.
And please notice that they term it a “therapy” when they are DESTROYING the ONLY system in your body that can get you well.
And an organ recipient must stay on these drugs – ALL of which will eventually CAUSE cancer – permanently, or they may reject their donated organ.
That is why it is obvious that God does NOT approve of organ donations. God has given us the way to GET WELL – by HIS Natural Ten Step Plan. He does not want us to have our organs removed. He has given us the way to get our sick organs well. All we have to do is REBUILD our immune system by following GOD’S way.
But How About Alternative – “Holistic” – Doctors?
Many people are realizing that Orthodox Doctors and their use of Drug Medicine do NOT cure disease. On the contrary, they often result in severe pain for the patient, and major damage to the patient’s body. Because of this, many are turning to Alternative therapies and “Holistic” doctors who rarely, if ever, use Drug “medicines.”
Aren’t they the answer to this dilemma?
“Holistic” doctors claim to treat the mind, body, and “spirit.” That certainly sounds good. But what do they mean by that?
They believe that the way a person eats is important – and they are right, but the “diet” they promote is NOT God’s Ideal Diet. In fact, the vast majority of these Alternative, “holistic” practitioners don’t even believe in God. The majority of them don’t believe in God at all, and if they do, it’s a New Age god of Eastern Medicine – a combination of Hinduisum/Budhism/New Ageism. They promote yoga, Eastern meditation – a dangerous emptying of the mind, a “spirit force” that is NOT the God of the Bible. And it is the antithesis of Jesus Christ.
When one develops a disease and experiences symptoms, those are blessings from God and should be recognized as such. They should be generate huge RED FLAG WARNING to you that something is wrong in your life, and that you should turn to the Lord, and that you should follow HIS ways and His ways only – NOT the ways of “man” – whether they are orthodox doctors or alternative practitioners.
Orthodox doctors will prescribe harmful DRUGS to cover up your symptoms or mutilating SURGERY to cut off your body parts or cut out your organs, “therapies” that will NEVER address the root cause of your problem. They will o turn you AWAY from the Lord, from learning what you really need to do to get well. Everything they promote will seduce you AWAY from changing your life – from changing your habits – from learning to know God and HIS ways.
But Alternative doctors will do the same thing, even though what they promote may be less expensive and less damaging to your body. They will prescribe bushel baskets full of man-made vitamins, minerals, and other types of supplements, and machines, devices and black boxes that they claim will measure intermediate end-points, such as pH, and they will try to manipulate those parameters artificially.
But what they are doing is still directing you AWAY from turning to God and HIS ways – AWAY from learning GOD’S totally Natural Health Plan. They, too, are only treating symptoms, rather than the “heart” – the root cause of the problem. They are incapable of treating the “heart” - because that is God’s domain.
So, whether the doctor uses orthodox therapies or alternative therapies, they are treating you in “man’s” way – NOT God’s way. They offer you a “Quick Fix” – a way to feel better fast without having to change your lifestyle, your habits, and your way of handling stress – a way to feel better fast without having to learn to know God, up close and personal.
God wants you to get to know Him – that is the whole purpose of life. God wants to straighten out everything in your life, so you will be healed (sozo) spiritually first – HIS way – and then, when you follow His Health Plan – and HIS Health Plan only, with 100% commitment – you will be healed (sozo) physically as well.
God’s Way is the ONLY Way
We are on this earth for one reason only – to learn to Know God and to learn to Trust Him – for everything, including our health, our life, and the lives of our family. That’s why Disease is such a blessing. It is meant to show us that we are incapable of running our own life, to make us realize our need for God to run every aspect of our life, to turn us to God to learn HIS ways, to teach us that God’s ways are true and right and that man’s ways, including the ways of the doctors, can never solve the problems of humanity.
“There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is death.” Proverbs 14:12
God says to us, “Turn to Me and LIVE!”
“And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.” Deuteronomy 30:6
“In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.” Deuteronomy 30:16
“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:” Deuteronomy 30:19
God’s way to physical and spiritual health has been around for 6,000 years. It is available to everyone on the face of the earth, rich or poor, educated or uneducated. It consists ONLY of the things that God has made, in the exact form that God has made them. It has NO harmful side effects and it is virtually FREE. And it will make you completely WELL. God GUARANTEES it!
Man’s ways (the ways of “modern” medicine) have only been available for the last 70 years, or so. They do terrible harm to the body God has given you, they are excruciatingly painful in most instances, and they are exorbitantly expensive. And they will NEVER make you well, they will only make you worse – much worse – in the long term, and NO doctor will ever guarantee that their “therapies” will make you completely well.
So why do the vast majority of people – including “Christians – choose MAN’S way over God’s way? Because they do NOT trust in God. They trust in “man” – they trust in “science” – instead of trusting in God and His Word.
But the Bible tells us, “We Ought to Obey GOD – rather than man.” Acts 5:29 We ought to Obey GOD – rather than Doctors – and science (which is constantly changing) – and medicine (which is in total darkness) – and DRUGS (that cannot cure ANY disease)!
God has promised – “I am the Lord who HEALS YOU!” Exodus 15:26
God has promised to “heal ALL our Diseases.” (Psalm 103:3) And He doesn’t need any help from “modern” medicine, drugs, or the doctors who use them. In fact, God refers to all of them as an “abomination.”
God needs NO help from “man” when it comes to healing disease!
The Greek word meaning both Saved and Healed is sozo. God tells us that when our heart is truly and permanently changed so we want to follow Jesus and HIS ways, instead of following the world’s way – the way of the worldly “experts” (doctors, ministers, government leaders) - when we truly receive salvation, THEN our physical healing will begin.
Choosing your treatment is a matter of allegiance, “Will you serve God, or will you serve man (doctors)?”
God instructs us to, “Turn to Me and be Saved/Healed.” Isaiah 45:22
Turn to God – and Choose Life!
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by Lorraine Day, M.D.
The word “Physician” is not mentioned in the Bible
Neither the word Physician nor the word Doctor is used in the Bible. The word mistranslated as Physician is actually the word healer. It is the translators who have presumptuously – and wrongly – defined a Physician – a present-day Doctor - as a healer.
But the Bible, in the original, says something quite different.
Who claims to be our Healer?
God says, “I am the Lord who heals you.” Exodus 15:26
“I will take away sickness from among you. . .” Exodus 23:25,26
“He forgives all my sins and heals ALL my Diseases.” Psalm 103:3
“I will give you back your health again and heal your wounds.” Jeremiah 30:17
“The Lord will remove from you all sickness. . .” Deuteronomy 7:15
“My counsel shall stand, and I WILL do ALL my pleasure.: Isaiah 46:10
“Yes, I have spoken it. I will also bring it to Pass. I have purposed it. I will also do it.” Isaiah 46:11
“God cannot lie.” Titus 1:2
“I am the Lord: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass. Ezekiel 12:25
When Jesus was on earth, He NEVER referred anyone to a Physician
God needs no middle men. When Jesus was on earth, when someone came to Him for healing, He never referred the person to Luke, the “Physician.” Jesus healed the person directly and personally. And He healed him either with His Word – which we have today, in the form of the Bible – or He healed him with natural methods – clay, water, etc.
Jesus NEVER used drugs, although we know that some types of drugs were available in His time. When Jesus was on the Cross, He was offered a type of drug to ease His pain, but He refused it.
In the Bible, What was the consequence of seeking out anyone else except God for healing?
Asa, King of Israel sought out the physicians INSTEAD of depending on the Lord – and Asa DIED!
“And Asa, in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, was diseased in his feet (probably diabetes), until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought NOT to the Lord, but to the physicians (human “healers”)
“And Asa died . . . and rested with his fathers (ancestors).” 2 Chronicles 16:12,13
Ahaziah, King of Israel, and son of the wicked King Ahab (who was married to Jezebel), was ill and did not seek God, but sought the god of Ekron – sorcerers. And Ahaziah DIED!
“And Ahaziah was sick and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baalzebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this disease.
“But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the King of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is NOT a God in Israel, that you go to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?
“Now, therefore, thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt NOT come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt SURELY DIE.” 2 Kings 1:2-4
God is our Healer and He doesn’t share that job with humanity. The consequence of seeking out anyone except the Lord for healing – is death!
But HOW Does God Heal?
Jesus certainly did miraculous healings when He was on earth, but there was always ONE requirement. The person wanting to be healed HAD TO BELIEVE. He or she had to believe that Jesus WOULD do what He had already PROMISED to do – and that is to heal ALL our diseases. (Psalm 103:3)
If a person BELIEVES in Jesus, then they will follow His ways, and not “man’s” (the doctors’) ways.
Jesus said, “If you LOVE Me, KEEP My Commandments.” John 14:15
Here is the way God heals ALL our diseases:
“Thou shalt therefore keep the Commandments, and the statutes (laws – including God’s Ten Natural Health Laws) and the judgments (decrees) that I command thee this day, to do them.
“Wherefore it shall come to pass, if you hearken to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy that He swore unto your fathers:
“And He will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; He will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, they grain, and they wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy cattle, and they flocks of they sheep, in the land that He swore unto they fathers to give thee.
“Thou shalt be blessed above all people; there shall not be male or female barren among you (the cure for infertility!) or among your cattle.
“And the Lord will take away from thee ALL sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt (symbolic for Sin), which thou knowest, upon thee: but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.” Deuteronomy 7:11-15
Moses:
When God told Moses to build the sanctuary in the wilderness, God gave very specific directions for how it was to be built – down to the last tassel on the robes of the priests. It was up to Moses to follow God’s plans explicitly and NOT to follow his own plans. Moses was NOT ALLOWED to consult with the human “experts” on sanctuary-building. God gave the directions, and Moses carried out EXACTLY what God had told Him to do.
God not only made the PROMISE, God also gave the PROCESS by which His PROMISE was to be accomplished.
The ONLY one who can fulfill a PROMISE, is the ONE who made it.
Noah:
When God promised Noah He would save him and his family from the flood, God gave Noah very explicit instructions on how to build the ark – including what kind of wood, the specific dimensions of the boat, etc. Noah was not allowed to consult the human “experts” on boat-building. It was up to Noah to follow God’s plans explicitly and NOT to follow his own plans. God gave the directions, and Noah carried out EXACTLY what God told Him to do.
It was by following God’s instructions explicitly that Noah and his family would be saved.
God not only made the PROMISE, God also gave the PROCESS by which His PROMISE was to be accomplished.
Disease is a Spiritual Problem
When God PROMISES to “heal ALL our diseases,” God also gives us the PROCESS by which His PROMISE is to be accomplished. We are not allowed to consult human “experts” on healing, such as the orthodox medical doctors, but we must follow ONLY God’s way.
God not only has made the PROMISE, God also gives us the PROCESS by which His PROMISE is to be accomplished.
Disease, virtually ALL disease, BEGINS as a Spiritual problem. It begins in the “heart” because we want to live, eat, think, act, and handle stress our OWN way, rather than GOD’S way. We are in rebellion against God, whether we realize and acknowledge it or not. Only MUCH later do the physical symptoms appear - as a result our OWN bad decisions.
We believe we have Free Will and the right to exercise it, but Jesus said,
“I came NOT to do My OWN will, but the WILL of Him who sent Me.” John 6:38
We give ourselves disease, one day at a time, by following OUR OWN will, rather than following GOD’S WILL for our life.
Shouldn’t I Pray for a Miraculous Healing?
Certainly God can perform a miraculous healing, but what good would that do in your life? It would allow you to continue to live, eat, think, act, and handle stress your OWN way, rather than changing your heart. It would just be another carnal wish for a “Quick Fix” and you would eventually develop your disease again because you would not have CHANGED the way you were living, eating, thinking, acting and handling stress.
Christians, particularly, are looking for a miraculous healing – a Quick Fix, even though miraculous healings do NOT change lives. When Jesus healed the Ten Lepers, how many came back to thank Him? Only one! Their hearts were not changed.
The "Latter Rain" - How will we recognize it? Is it Already Here?
The Christian churches are praising the Lord for what they consider to be the present-day "outpouring of the Holy Spirit" in signs and wonders, including speaking in tongues and miraculous healings just like the events that occurred with the apostles in the Upper Room at Pentecost fifty days after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, 2000 years ago.
Often quoted is the passage in Joel that refers to God's Spirit being poured out on all flesh.
"And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. . . and I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth. . . before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come." Joel 2:28-31
Two specific time periods for the "outpouring of the Holy Spirit" are spoken of in the Bible where they are referred to as the "Early rain" and the "Latter rain," symbolized by the early and latter rains of the harvest season. Leviticus 26:1-14, Deuteronomy 11:14, Proverbs 16:15, Hosea 6:3, Matt 5:45, James 5:7.
As mentioned, the "Early Rain" is considered by most Christians to have been given to the apostles in the Upper Room at Pentecost. In speaking of this occurrence, the Bible says the apostles were together in the upper room with over 100 other Christians. "And they were filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak clearly (literal translation). . . and they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, 'Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? And yet we hear in the dialect in which we were born, Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites. . . in Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the regions of Libya…We hear them speaking in our own language…" Acts 2:7-11
Obviously, the languages (tongues) in which the apostles were speaking were known languages of the time. Their languages were perfectly understood by those from the various respective countries. What they were speaking was NOT an unknown tongue because everyone "understood in his own dialect (dialektos - in Greek)." Acts 2:8
In the subsequent weeks and months, the apostles performed many miraculous healings (See Acts 3:1-13, 6:8) and spoke boldly about the resurrection of Jesus even after they were strongly warned against it, and even after they were imprisoned and beaten.
Characteristics of the "Early Rain" included:
1) Miraculous, instantaneous healings
2) Bold speaking for the Lord
3) Speaking in known languages
4) Preaching of the true Gospel
5) The Spirit fell ONLY on those who had left the organized church. We have NO record that it fell on ANYONE who was IN the organized church of those who considered themselves the "Chosen People."
6) It not only fell ONLY on those who had LEFT that church, but it fell ONLY on those who were being PERSECUTED BY that very same "Church." (The apostles were hiding in the Upper Room "for fear of the Jews.")
We have reason to believe that the "Latter Rain" will have similar manifestations. In fact, many Christians believe that this predicted "Latter Rain" is going on right now in the churches, exemplified by an exciting movement of "Spirit-filled" Christians who are speaking in unknown languages and are being miraculously "healed!"
But we must carefully search the Scriptures to understand the characteristics of the "Latter Rain" and how they relate to the "Early Rain", the apostles Day of Pentecost.
What are the "keys" in the analysis of the "Early Rain"
to unlock the understanding of the "Latter Rain"?
Jesus received a visitor one evening, Nicodemus, a respected religious leader, a Pharisee, inquiring about Jesus' teachings. "You must be born again," Jesus told him. "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?" Nicodemus asked.
Jesus explained that the first birth, is physical, natural, but the second birth is a spiritual birth. "That which is born of flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." John 3:6 He went on to chide Nicodemus saying, "You are a master of Israel and you don't know these things?" In other words, "You are one of the main leaders, one of the Biblical scholars, of the most religious people on earth and you don't understand this basic spiritual principle?"
The key is found in 1 Corinthians 15:44-49. Here Paul speaks of two situations, first the natural or physical, and secondly the spiritual.
"And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul (a physical, natural human being); the last Adam (Christ) was made a life-giving spirit (a spiritual being).
"However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.
"The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven."
This passage gives a very important interpretive rule; the first is ALWAYS natural, or physical, and the second is ALWAYS spiritual.
Jesus was explaining this principle to Nicodemus when He said, "The first birth is physical, but the second birth, being born again, is spiritual.
First birth = physical
Second birth = spiritual
1 Cor 2:14 says, "The unspiritual man (the natural, or "soulish" man) does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him; and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned (understood)."
This text tells us that the natural man, the unspiritual man, cannot understand spiritual things. "They are foolishness to him."
The original Greek word translated as "natural" in the King James Version, is more accurately translated "soulish." The word "soul" is applied in the Bible to any creature that has the five senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch), such as birds, beasts, and man. The word "soul" in the Bible is never used to describe plants and trees, etc. or non-living things, things which do NOT have the five senses.
Therefore, we can see that the "natural" man, also called the "soulish" man, CANNOT understand spiritual things. In other words, spiritual things CANNOT be understood with the five senses. They can only be discerned (understood) spiritually. Spiritual understanding does NOT use the five senses.
We have already learned that the "first" is always natural or physical, such as the "first" birth (it's the natural birth of a child) but the "second" birth, or being "born again" is spiritual. The natural birth of a child can easily be detected by the five senses. It can be seen, heard and felt.
However, the "second" birth, being "born again" CANNOT be detected with the five senses. God changes the heart quietly and slowly which cannot be detected by the senses. Only the result can be seen, just like the working of the wind. The wind itself cannot be seen, only the result of the wind. John 3:8
The Lamb of God
The same principle operates for many things in the Bible. The lamb sacrificed for sin in the temple in the Old Testament was the "first" - the physical. But it looked forward to the "Lamb of God" who by His physical death would give us spiritual salvation. Jesus, the Lamb of God, was the "second" - Spiritual fulfillment of the literal, physical sacrificial lamb in the Old Testament sanctuary service.
Manna - Bread from Heaven
The manna that rained down from heaven when the Israelites were in the wilderness was the "first" bread, looking forward to the "second" - the spiritual bread from heaven, Jesus Christ. (John 6:47-52). But the Jews of Jesus' time ONLY understood it literally. They could not understand the spiritual application because "spiritual things are (ONLY) spiritually discerned."
The Old and New Covenant
The Old Covenant was the Ten Commandments written in stone. They were physical, they could be seen and touched. And most importantly, humanity was unable to keep them under their own power.
The New Covenant is the SAME Ten Commandments, all ten of them, but now they are no longer written in stone, but Jesus says, "I will write my law on the fleshy tables of your heart." (2 Cor 3:3) Now humanity CAN keep them but ONLY through the power of Jesus living in you.
Some say that since Jesus died on the Cross, we're now living under grace, we are NOT under the law because the law was done away at the Cross. However the law was NOT done away with at the Cross, it is still the very same law that is operating, but the NEW Covenant is Jesus' promise to write that very same law in our hearts, so we will do right because it IS right, not just because we are told to do it.
The First and Second Deaths!
The first death is in us when we are born. As soon as a baby is born, its cells begin to die. That is the "first" death. The "second" death according to 1 Cor 15:44-49, MUST be a spiritual death. That's the death Paul talks so much about: "I die daily", (1 Cor 15:31), "I am crucified with Christ" (Gal 2:20), "putting off the old man of sin" (Col 3:9). This is obviously a spiritual, not a physical, death.
In Rev 20:14 we are told that "Death and Hades (the unseen) are thrown into the lake of fire." How can "Death and the Unseen" be thrown into a literal "lake of fire?"
Obviously the "lake of fire" is symbolic. So what does it mean? We are told in Revelation that "waters" mean people and multitudes. (Rev 17:15) The "Beast" comes up out of the "sea" (Rev 13:1,2) which means it rises in a populated area. So "sea", because it is water, means people. A "lake" is also water, so it also must mean peoples and multitudes.
The word "fire" is used symbolically and spiritually repeatedly in the Bible. We go through "fiery trials" (1 Peter 4:12). "Buy of Me gold tried in the fire" (Rev 3:18). "Heap coals of fire on his head. . ." (Romans 12:20).
So the "lake of fire" according to the symbology of Revelation, means fiery trials caused by reaping what we have sown. We are put right back in the midst of the people we have wronged in order to reap what we have sown in order to be spiritually purified.
Faith based on miracles is NOT faith!
Simon (Magus) (Acts 8:9) was amazed at the power of the apostles. His case is an example of "faith" founded on miracles, which is very different from the faith which is based on God's word, apart from the evidence of the senses. Many believed in the Lord when they beheld the signs which He did, yet Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, because He knew what was in humanity (John 2:23-25) (Concordant Commentary pg 190).
Acts 8:19: Among the nations in Paul's later ministries, the spirit is received on believing, without the intervention of apostles, or baptism, or laying on of hands (Eph 1:13). It is no longer manifested by signs and miraculous healings
Signs and Wonders
Paul performs miracles early in his ministry
The need for signs and wonders, in order to believe, is a sign of spiritual immaturity. Early in his ministry Paul performed many miracles. People were healed if they just touched his handkerchief.
"And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them." Acts 19:11,12
Paul raised Eutychus from the dead. Acts 20:9-12
Later in Paul's ministry, NO miracles are seen.
Healings are by NATURAL REMEDIES.
But later in Paul's ministry he tells Timothy to drink (unfermented) wine for his stomach troubles, a natural remedy, rather than sending him a handkerchief so he could be instantly healed (1 Tim 5:23). Also Paul does not miraculously heal his co-worker, Epaphroditus, who almost died. He obviously got well the long, slow way.
"Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
"For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
"For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow." Philippians 2:25-27
Paul obviously did NOT heal Epaphroditus miraculously.
To Summarize:
The Early Rain, the "First of the two "Rains", was characterized by visible miracles, including resurrections and miraculous healings. These could easily be detected by the 5 senses. No one had to be "spiritual" in order to detect and understand these healings. Even pagans were able to detect these signs.
According to 1 Cor 15:44-49, the "First" is always "natural or physical" so the "Early Rain" as we see, is able to be detected by the "natural" or "soulish" man, meaning it can be detected with the five senses.
But the "Second" is ALWAYS "Spiritual." It CANNOT be detected with the five senses.
Some say that means that "healings" will not be a part of the "Latter Rain." But that is NOT the correct conclusion.
Healings WILL be part of the "Latter Rain", but the healings characteristic of the "Latter Rain" will NOT be miraculous, they will occur slowly and imperceptibly, first by a change in the heart, and then by a slow progressive improvement in the disease by following God's totally natural Health Plan. This is in accord with the way the Holy Spirit works in the Second Birth (being born again.)
This PROCESS will NOT be detectable with the five senses, only the result will be detected. The ability of God's Natural Health Plan to heal even the most advanced cancer will NOT be understood by those who are not spiritual, because "Spiritual things are spiritually discerned."
"The natural (soulish or unspiritual) man receiveth NOT the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because spiritual things are spiritually discerned." 1 Cor 2:14
This is the reason that doctors, scientists, Bible scholars, many theologians and most ministers CANNOT understand how people with advanced, life-threatening diseases can get well by following God's Natural Health Plan. They are totally UNABLE to understand it because they can only obtain information through their five senses. They are UNABLE to understand Spiritual things.
"And they preached the GOSPEL" boldly!
The word "gospel" means GOOD NEWS! Is it "Good News" that God will save only a small minority of all those who have ever lived on the earth, maybe 20% or so, and the rest will be doomed to burning forever - or a period of time, (i.e. "as long as they deserve") or they will be permanently annihilated or permanently separated from God in some, as yet unknown, manner?
Saving 20% and destroying 80%! That is NOT Good News no matter how you look at it!
The "Good News" shown throughout the entire Bible is that God is going to save EVERYONE! He's not going to destroy ANYONE by burning or permanent annihilation. Of course, He won't save anyone IN their sins, only FROM their sins.
Look at these examples in the Old Testament.
1) The lamb was brought to the sanctuary by the Israelite. The Israelite symbolically transferred his own sin to the lamb by placing his hands on the lamb.
2) Then the lamb was burned up - NOT the Israelite, showing us that it was the sin that was burned up, NOT the sinner!
This clearly shows us that the "sin" will be burned out of our lives by "fiery trials", we will be "gold tried in the fire." The sinner will NOT be burned up.
3) When Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were thrown into the fiery furnace, what was burned up? Certainly NOT them! It was their bonds that were burned off, the ropes that held them in bondage. The ropes represented the bondage of sin. These were burned off, but the three young men were not touched with the fire. In addition, a fourth person was in the fire with them, "One like the Son of Men" - Jesus.
This episode of the three young men in the fiery furnace is the Old Testament "Physical" representation of the New Testament "Spiritual" application of the Third Angel's Message in Rev. 14:9-12.
Verse 10: Those who take the Mark of the Beast "shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb."
The Greek word for brimstone is theion, which means divine. It comes from the root word Theios which means divinty or the Godhead.
This torment with fire and brimstone occurs "in the presence of the Lamb" meaning that Jesus promises to go through the fire with us, just as He did with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. That is truly Good News! Only this time the fire symbolizes the "fiery trials" that the New Testament speaks about, not literal fire.
If you think it is a "stretch" to interpret this "fire" of Rev 14:10 as the "fiery trials" of purification form sin, then you must explain why the "fire" must be interpreted literally when all the rest of the passage is interpreted symbolically, such as: beast, image, mark, forehead, hand, drinking wrath, pouring indignation into a cup.
ALL of these terms are interpreted symbolically, NOT literally. Then WHY would anyone just pick ONE term from that passage, the term "fire and brimstone" and interpret that literally?
Also remember the rule of "firsts" and "seconds", the first being physical and the second being spiritual. (1 Cor 15:44-49) The wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by literal fire and brimstone. The wicked resurrected in the second resurrection will be spiritually "destroyed" by having the sin purified out of them by going through "fiery trials" - reaping what they have sown.
Other New Testament texts that reveal that God is going to save EVERYONE!
1) How long did the shepherd search for the sheep? (Luke 15:4) Answer: Until he found it. There was NO cutoff time. (text) Note also that at the time he went looking for the sheep, ALL the rest were ALREADY in the fold. Only ONE was missing, and he searched until he found THAT LAST ONE!
2) How long did the woman search for the coin? (Luke 15:8) UNTIL SHE FOUND IT! Again there was NO cutoff time.
3) Jesus said He came to "seek and to save that which was lost." (Luke 19:10) EVERYONE has been "lost" at one time or another. So that means Jesus will save EVERYONE!
For many more texts showing that God will save everyone, see the study entitled "What Happens At The Judgment" at www.goodnewsaboutgod.com
In Conclusion:
The Latter Rain has the following five characteristics:
1) There will be many healings from advanced life-threatening diseases, but they will not be instantaneous, miraculous healings. They will NOT be "Quick-Fix" healings. Miraculous healings do NOT change the heart.
Before Jesus healed the paralyzed man whose friends let him down through the roof, Jesus said, "Your sins be forgiven you." (Mark 2:5) That was the PRELUDE to the man being healed. Forgiveness of his own sins was necessary before his healing could take place.
Notice that Jesus did NOT say that the man was sick because he lived in a sinful world. No, Jesus said, "YOUR sins be forgiven YOU!"
Christians often say that sickness is the inevitable result of living in a sinful world, and that it really has nothing to do with how we specifically live our own lives. They believe that diseases just happen! But they DON'T just happen. Disease is the inevitable result of that individual violating God's ten natural laws of health. Disease, in virtually ALL instances, is a result of our OWN sin. It occurs because we refuse to give up our right to ourselves and we insist on making our own decisions, instead of giving EVERY decision over to the Lord and following HIS directions rather than our own.
Psalm 103:3 reveals the SAME sequence: "He forgives ALL our sins, and (THEN) heals ALL our diseases." The repentance FOR, and forgiveness OF, sins is absolutely necessary before complete healing can occur!
The healings will be the result of true repentance of sins, a change in the heart, and a desire to do God's will by following His Health Plan followed by slow, progressive healing of the physical disease.
This process will NOT be perceptible to the five senses, nor will it be understood by those who are not spiritual. It will not be perceptible nor understood by doctors, scientists, philosophers, scholars, including most Bible scholars, nor will it be understood by the vast majority of ministers and religious leaders. In fact, they will deny that it can happen, and will even attack those who get well by that method.
Remember that the Pharisees, the religious leaders of the "Chosen people", wanted to kill Lazarus because He exhibited what Christ could do. (John 12:10)
Miraculous healings don't change lives. Look at the story of Jesus healing the Ten Lepers. Only ONE came back to thank Jesus. Obviously the hearts of the other nine were not changed.
In addition, miraculous healings do not bring about a change in diet and lifestyle so the body and mind can repair themselves. Miraculous healings allow the person to eat and live as they did before, so they will just get sick again.
2) The TRUE GOSPEL will be preached. The GOSPEL means "Good News." The knowledge that God is going to save EVERYONE is truly Good News! It is the Gospel of Universal Restoration! God loves EVERYONE the same. He has no favorites that He prefers above others.
3) The Gospel will be preached BOLDLY! Those who know this Good News will share it with everyone who will listen. They will not keep silent in proclaiming the wonderful character of God, and they will preach this Gospel WITHOUT fear!
Look at the difference between Peter's behavior towards the Pharisees BEFORE and AFTER the Day of Pentecost.
BEFORE Jesus was crucified, Peter denied Jesus three times, then later hid in the Upper Room "for fear of the Jews."
AFTER the Day of Pentecost, Peter had NO fear of the Pharisees. Even though they beat him and put him in prison, he went right back to the synagogue boldly preaching the Good News!
4) The Latter Rain will fall ONLY on those OUTSIDE the organized church, NOT those INSIDE the organized church.
5) The Latter Rain will fall on those who are NOT ONLY OUTSIDE the organized church, but it will fall on those who are being PERSECUTED by THAT VERY SAME CHURCH!
The Latter Rain will be silent, hidden and undetected by the vast majority of Christians who will be looking for a repeat of the Day of Pentecost with visible miracles and other obvious manifestations. The Latter Rain will ONLY be received and recognized by those who are spending daily time with the Lord in DILIGENT Bible study and prayer and who understand the spiritual nature of the Latter Rain.
Is the Health Message the “Right Arm” of the Gospel?
Some Christians believe that the Health Message is the “Right Arm” of the Gospel. By this, they mean that it can be used as an evangelistic “tool” – as an “opening wedge” – to attract the attention of the unbeliever who, as he or she develops an illness or is just in poor health, will be interested. Once the person is attracted by the Health Message, then the Christian can witness to the Unbeliever about the Gospel.
But this is all wrong.
In truth, the Health Message IS the Gospel – the FULL Gospel. Jesus said so, Himself. When Jesus performed physical healings, such as the man with the withered hand – and even resurrections from the dead - such as Jairus’ daughter, He used the Greek word sozo, which means, “to make whole.”
Jesus also used the same word, sozo, when he spoke of salvation, because the word means, “to make whole.” Jesus is making clear to us that when the “heart” is right, when we have given up our right to ourself and have given it over to God,
when we have had a CHANGE of heart, when our heart is one with God, THEN we will want to follow GOD’S way of fulfilling HIS PROMISE of healing. We will follow GOD’S PROCESS – His Natural Ten Step Health Plan - and we will abandon completely and permanently, any way that is devised by man – by doctors!
We will trust ONLY the Great Physician, Jesus Christ, who CREATED us, and wants to Re-Create us into His image – into a New Creation in Christ.
Sozo Means – Healed AND Saved!
The word sozo in the Greek was used by Jesus for both physical healing and spiritual salvation. The Lord is sending us a very clear message: When the heart is right - - THEN healing will occur. Disease begins in the heart – in the attitudes and in the disposition. Since that’s where disease begins, that is where it must first be addressed. God does not look on the outward appearance. He looks at the heart. Doctors cannot look there, they cannot heal the spiritual nature, and that is why they cannot heal disease!
SOZO: Strong’s Concordance, #4982
HEALED:
Mark 5:23: And besought Him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray Thee, come and lay Thy hands on her, that she may be healed (sozo), and she shall live.
Luke 8:26: They also which saw it told them by what means he that was possessed of the devils was healed (sozo).
Acts 14:9: The same heard Paul speak, who steadfastly behold him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed (sozo).
SAVE (36 entries)
Matt. 1:21: And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call His name JESUS: for He shall save (sozo) His people from their sins.
Matt 18:11: For the Son of man is come to save (sozo) that which was lost.
Luke 9:56: For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save (sozo) them.
Luke 19:10: For the Son of man is come to seek and to save (sozo) that which was lost.
John 12:47: And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I cam not to judge the world, but to save (sozo) the world.
Romans 10:9 (The text at hand.) That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved (sozo).
1 Tim 1:15: This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save (sozo) sinners, of whom I am chief.
Heb 7:25: Wherefore He is able also to save (sozo) them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.
James 2:14: What does it profit, my brethren, though a man say he has faith, and has not works? Can faith save (sozo) him?
James 4:12: There is one lawgiver, who is able to save (sozo) and to destroy; who art thou that judgest another?
James 5:15: And the prayer of faith shall save (sozo) the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
SAVED(57 entries, all but 4 of them are “SOZO”)
Matt 10:22: And you shall be hated of all men for My name’s sake; but he that endureth to the end shall be saved (sozo).
John 3:17: For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved (sozo).
Acts 2:21: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved (sozo).
Acts 4:12: Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved (sozo).
Romans 10:13: For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved (sozo).
Eph 2:5: Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, by grace ye are saved (sozo).
Eph 2:8: For by grace are ye saved (sozo) through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.
1 Timothy 2:4: Who will have ALL mankind to be saved (sozo), and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
1 Peter 4:17,18: For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved (sozo), where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Revelation 21:24: And the nations of them that are saved (sozo) shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
WHOLE
(In the New Testament, 90 entries: 11 entries are #4982 – sozo)
Matt 9:21,22; Mark 5:28, 34; Luke 8:48,50 the woman who had an issue of blood for twelve years, and merely touched the hem of Christ’s garment was told her faith had made her whole (sozo).
Mark 6:56: And whithersoever He entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought Him that they might touch if it were but the border of His garment: and as many as touched Him were made whole (sozo).
Mark 10:46-52 In Jericho, Jesus healed the Blind man Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, and said, “Go your way; your faith has made you whole (sozo). And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.
Luke 17:12-19: Ten lepers came to Jesus, asking for healing. Jesus healed them all, but only one returned to thank Him. Jesus said to him, Arise, go your way; your faith has made you whole (sozo).
THE OLD TESTAMENT
In the Old Testament, HEAL (in all 21 entries, HEALED and HEALETH are #7495 – the Hebrew equivalent of sozo in the Greek?
HEAL
Hosea 14;4: I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
Jer 30:17: For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord; because they called thee an outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
HEALED
2 Kings 2:21,22: And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land. So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
HEALETH
Psalm 103:3: Who forgives all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.
Is there ANY use for present-day doctors?
There are three different categories of medical problems: 1) Trauma,
2) Congenital Deformities, and 3) Disease.
God’s Promise is to “Heal ALL our DISEASES.” Psalm 103:3. The text says nothing about Trauma or Congenital deformities.
Trauma means “injury” such as when one breaks a leg, or is in a motor vehicle accident, or is the victim of a gunshot wound. Jesus had Trauma. He was beaten before He was crucified and He was injured when a crown of thorns was placed on His head. This is NOT “Disease.”
Trauma is NOT caused by the way one eats, lives, and handles stress. Trauma needs to be treated and repaired surgically by a Trauma Surgeon.
Congenital Deformities or Congenital Anomalies are in the category of Birth Defects. A child may be born with a cleft palate, or an extra digit, or a club foot, or some other anomaly. These are NOT caused by the way the child has been living, eating, and handling stress – although, in certain instances, it MAY have been caused by the way the mother was eating, living, and handling stress while she was pregnant.
This is NOT “Disease.” Congenital Deformities need to be surgically corrected by an appropriately trained Surgeon.
Diseases ARE CAUSED by the way we live, eat, and handle stress. In order to get well, we must CHANGE the way we live, eat and handle stress. We must follow GOD’S way, and NOT the ways of “man” – the ways of doctors! (For more information, see www.drday.com)
Doctors learn only TWO methods of treatment: 1) Give DRUGS, to cover up the symptoms by Poisoning or Burning the patient, or 2) Take out – or cut off – the “problem” organ by mutilating surgery.
Drugs never solve the underlying problem. They only “treat” symptoms, and they ALL have side effects. Drugs only change the form or location of the disease, they NEVER cure the disease. That is why, in many instances, the doctor will tell you that you have to be ON the drugs for the rest of your life.
God tells us in Revelation 18:23 that He abhors the use of drugs, because when a person is sick, and has symptoms, it is supposed to be a Red Flag warning to Turn to the Lord for the answers. Something is wrong with the life of the person who is sick, and ONLY the Lord’s Plan can make the person well.
Only GOD can show us how to live, how to eat, how to think and act, and how to handle stress. “Man’s” ways – the ways of “science and medicine” NEVER work in the long run. They may make a person FEEL better temporarily, they may temporarily appear to “shrink” a tumor, but they NEVER work to REVERSE the underlying disease, because NO doctor can address the problem of the “heart.”
THAT is God’s domain. Only God can reach down into your heart, and open up for you the things you need to CHANGE in your life, who you need to forgive, how to love your enemies, how to get the selfishness out of your life. THAT is where DISEASES begin, and NO doctor can touch that area.
God did not give us an extra supply of organs. And organ donations are certainly NOT God’s way.
God tells us that those who give out Drug Medications are an “Abomination to the Lord” and that the WHOLE WORLD will be DECEIVED by their “sorceries.”
“. . . for by thy (the Beast power’s) sorceries were ALL NATIONS deceived.” Revelation 18:23
The word “sorceries” in this text, is the word pharmakeia in the Greek – pharmacy - DRUGS - in English.
The WHOLE WORLD will be deceived by the DRUG medications prescribed by doctors. God defines them as Sorceries and Witchcraft. Because Drug medications are essentially the same as street drugs. They are given to make a patient FEEL better, or to make the lab test numbers LOOK better, but they are only a temporary “Quick Fix.” They NEVER solve the underlying problem, - the actual CAUSE of the disease, which always begins in the “heart” because we want to live, eat, and handle stress OUR way, rather than GOD’S way.
The English words sorceries and witchcraft are the numbers 3784 and 3785 in Strong’s concordance. These words are found in: Exodus 7:11, 2 Kings 9:22,2 Chronicles 33:6Jeremiah 27:9, Daniel 2:2, Malachi 3:5, Isaiah 47:9,12, Micah 5:12, Nahum 3:4.
The equivalent words in the Greek – sorceries, and witchcraft – are numbers 5331 and 5332 in Strong’s Concordance, as found in Galatians 5:20, Revelation 9:21; 18:23; 21:8; 22:15.
That Greek word is pharmakeia, or pharmacy – drug medications – Sorceries and witchcraft, according to the Bible.
The Bible terms drug medications, prescribed by doctors, as Sorceries and Witchcraft – because disease is a Spiritual problem. It begins in the “heart” – in the attitudes and disposition because we want to live, eat and handle stress our OWN way, rather than learning to trust God.
So ANYTHING – including doctor-prescribed drug medications – that pulls us away from God and HIS wisdom - and towards the world and so-called “worldly wisdom” is anti-Christ. God says, “The wisdom of man is foolishness with God.”
Those who prescribe drug medications – doctors, pharmacologists, and pharmacists, are termed witches and sorcerers and poisoners (pharmakos) in the Bible. God is so much against drug medications, because they lead people away from Him, that in the Old Testament, God told Israel:
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch (#3784) to live.” Exodus 22:18 (According to the Bible, a witch is one who dispenses drug medications.)
“There shall not be found among you anyone that makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch (#3784),
“Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer
“For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord.” Deuteronomy 18:10-12
It is not surprising to see that the Greek root “Phar. . .” is in all of the following words that are associated with the enemies of God and Christ:
Strong’s Concordance number:
#5328 – Pharoah – enslaved and tried to destroy the Israelites, the followers of God.
#5329 – Pharisees – those who murdered Christ
#5331 – Pharmakeia – drug medications – sorceries, also often kill those who take them
#5332 – Pharmakeus – one who drugs or poisons people – druggist (and
physicians who give out drugs. Actual definition – poisoner or sorcerer– one who poisons or kills.
#5333 – Pharmakos – the same as #5332
“By their sorceries (#5332 – drug medications) were ALL nations deceived.” Revelation 18:23
These five Greek words, all beginning with “Phar”, define those who, 1) have tried to enslave and destroy the followers of God, and 2) those who murdered Christ, and 3) those who are attempting to annihilate the rest of the population of the world with drug medications.
God states anyone who gives out Drug Medications (defined as witchcraft in the Bible), should NEVER be allowed to be a part of God’s people. In today’s era, that would mean doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and anyone else who prescribes or administers Drugs.
Witch houses and Drug stores
In the guide book “Visitor’s Guide to Salem, Massachusetts”, written in 1895 about the town where the famous Witch Trials took place, the following quote appears on page 6:
“If a stranger inquires for a “Witch house” he will be directed to a dark scowling building which is set back far enough from the sidewalk for a drug store to stand in front of it.” (Published by Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.,1895)
Witchcraft and Drugs have been associated with each other in America for over a hundred years, and they have been associated in the Bible for thousands of years!
How long have DRUGS been around?
The origin of modern Drug medicine (“Quick Fix” medicine) in “treating” disease is considered to have begun in the 1930’s and 1940’s with the discovery of the first antibiotic, Penicillin, by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928. Subsequently, the Drug industry exploded, and today there are more drugs (ALL of which are harmful) than one can count.
But as long ago as the 17th century, the phrase patent medicine was known, and referred to the marketing of medical elixirs. The “medicines” were not really patented but if a particular product found favor with royalty, a letter patent authorizing the use of the royal endorsement in advertising, was issued.
The name stuck until well after the American Revolution made these endorsements by the crowned heads of Europe obsolete. As noted, few if any of the nostrums were actually patented, as chemical patents came into use in the USA in 1925. And in any case, attempting to monopolize a drug, medical device, or medical procedure was considered unethical by the standards upheld during the era of patent medicine. Furthermore, patenting one of these remedies would have meant publicly disclosing its ingredients, which most promoters wanted to avoid.
Within the English-speaking world, patent medicines are as old as journalism. The use of letters of patent to obtain exclusive marketing rights to certain labeled formulas and their marketing fueled the circulation of early newspapers.
Please note, nothing has changed!
A number of American institutions owe their existence to the patent medicine industry, most notably a number of the older almanacs, which were originally given away as promotional items by patent medicine manufacturers.
Many patent medicines contained herbs, or were composed of Native American recipes, and others invoked the power of electromagnetism to heal ailments. Toward the end of the period, a number of radioactive medicines, containing uranium or radium, (Radiation) were marketed. These apparently actually contained the ingredients promised, and there were a number of tragedies among their devotees: most notoriously, steel heir Eben McBurney Byers was a supporter of the popular radium water “Radithor”. He contracted fatal radium poisoning and had to have his jaw removed in an unsuccessful attempt to save him from bone cancer after drinking the “radium water.” (Cancer is CAUSED by radiation!) Water irradiators were sold that promised to infuse water placed within them with radon, which was thought to be healthy at the time.
Those who, even today, believe that Doctors and Scientists know what they are doing when it comes to treating disease, need only to look back at the last couple of paragraphs. All doctors admit that Radiation CAUSES cancer. Yet, when a patient already HAS Cancer, the doctors give that patient Radiation – a “treatment” that CAUSES Cancer!
This is outrageously stupid on the part of “modern” medicine and the doctors who practice it!
When journalists and physicians began focusing on the narcotic contents of the patent medicines, some of their makers began substituting acetanilide, a particularly toxic non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, discovered in 1886, for the laudanum they used to contain. This ingredient change probably killed more of the nostrum’s users than the narcotics did, since the acetanilide was toxic to the liver and kidneys. This compound has largely been replaced by the use of the supposedly less toxic acetaminophen, a drug that is in the same category.
Those who sold or prescribed acetanilide-containing medicines in the 1800’s are now referred to as “Quacks.” However, acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol (a truly “Patented” medicine), considered by the U.S. government and the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) as a generally safe and effective pain reliever, is responsible for 56,000 injuries, 25,000 hospitalizations, and 450 deaths every year.
The use of acetaminophen for a period of more than 10 days has been shown to cause risk of severe liver damage, according to the FDA’s own advisory panel. The U.S. Acute Liver Failure Study Group found that acetaminophen poisoning is the leading cause of liver failure in the nation. Some of these instances of liver failure occur even when following the dosage recommendations printed on the bottle.
The risk of liver failure is dramatically increased if a person is taking more than one acetaminophen-containing drug at a time, and there are more than 200 over the counter products that contain acetaminophen, including medicines for pain, fever, colds, and coughs.
So WHO are the present-day “Snake Oil Salesmen”?
The present day doctors and pharmacists prescribe and sell drugs that are just as harmful, or even more so, than the supposed “Snake Oil Salesmen” of a hundred years ago.
What is the difference? The only difference is whether Organized Medicine endorses them. If a medicine is not controlled by the pharmaceutical companies or by Organized Medicine, it, by (their) definition, is “Quackery” because it will cut into the profits of those two groups.
If they cannot control it, they will brand it “Quackery”!
Patent medicines were supposedly able to cure just about everything. Nostrums were openly sold that claimed to cure or prevent venereal diseases, tuberculosis, and cancer. Clark Stanley the “Rattlesnake King” produced Stanley’s snake oil, publicly processing rattlesnakes at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. His liniment, when seized and tested by the federal government in 1917, was found to contain mineral oil, 1% fatty oil, red pepper, turpentine and camphor, similar to today’s capsaicin and camphor liniments.
Thus, the term “Snake Oil salesman” was born.
Who are the REAL “Quacks”?
In the late 19th century, a chemical compound named Calomel was frequently prescribed by orthodox physicians as a “tonic” – taken internally - to make one “healthy and energetic.” Calomel is Mercury chloride, a highly toxic compound. All mercury-containing compounds are toxic to the body.
George Washington may have died prematurely at the age of 67 because his physicians treated a respiratory illness with bloodletting and calomel. (Vadakan, M.D. V.V., (Winter/Spring 2005) “A Physician Looks at the Death of Washington.” Early America Review, Archiving Early America.
My paternal grandfather died in 1923 from bone cancer, his body wracked with pain caused by the horrifically toxic, mercury-containing Calomel “tonic” prescribed for him repeatedly by his physician. He died at the age of 38 leaving a young widow and six children, the oldest (my father) was 16, and the youngest was 3 years old.
My father told me many times how he would visit his father in the hospital as he lay dying as a result of the doctor-prescribed death potion, and how, as he walked down the hospital corridor towards his father’s room, he could hear him screaming in pain every time he moved the slightest amount in his bed.
Present-day doctors shake their heads about these supposedly “unintelligent” occurrences by doctors a hundred years ago. They think that today’s science has advanced remarkably. But they are doing the same stupid things today. They give numerous mercury-containing vaccinations to tiny babies and young children and claim that they are good for them, even though they cause autism and other types of brain damage, dentists put mercury-containing amalgam fillings in everyone’s teeth and claim they are harmless in one’s mouth, even though the government demands that the material must be treated as highly toxic “hazardous waste” when the filling is removed from the patient’s mouth, and is in the dentist’s hand.
In 1943, my maternal grandmother was sent to her death by doctors who gave her the poisonous chemotherapy treatments for her cancer, by the “world-renown experts” at Memorial Hospital in New York (now known as the “famous” Memorial-Sloan Kettering Hospital). They continued the “treatments” as she became weaker and weaker, until she and my grandfather (a well-to-do dentist) were broke from the costs. Then they referred her to Kings’ County Hospital for the indigents, to continue the horribly painful and life-destroying chemotherapy and radiation – until they finally were successful in killing her.
So, again, just WHO are the “Snake Oil Salesmen”?
More “Brilliance” in Orthodox Medicine
While working at the Vienna General Hospital in Austria, Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis discovered in 1847 that the incidence of puerperal fever, also known as childbed fever could be drastically reduced by the use of hand washing standards. Up until that time, doctors delivered babies with their bare unwashed hands, having no idea that cleanliness was important to decrease disease. Without the use of hand washing, 5-30 percent of mothers died after giving birth. After the institution of hand washing, that figure was reduced to 1-2 percent.
At that time, diseases were attributed to many different and unrelated causes. Each case was considered unique, but Semmelweis’ hypothesis was that there was only one cause – all that mattered was cleanliness. This was an extreme assumption at the time, and was largely ignored, rejected and ridiculed. Even though his patients’ survival was vastly increased over all the other doctors in the hospital, he was dismissed from the hospital and had difficulty finding employment as a medical doctor.
Semmelweis was outraged by the indifference of the medical profession and began writing open and increasingly angry letters to prominent European obstetricians, at times denouncing them as irresponsible murderers. His contemporaries, including his wife, believed he was losing his mind and he was in 1865 committed to an insane asylum. Semmelweis died there only 14 days later, possibly after being severely beaten by guards.
Semmelweis’ practice only earned widespread acceptance years after his death. He is now, 150 years later, considered a pioneer of antiseptic procedures.
Nothing has changed!
Nothing has changed in modern medicine. Those who do not conform to the corporately-endorsed medical norms of orthodox medicine, even if their modalities of treatment can be proven to be far superior to the establishment’s ways, are ignored, rejected and ridiculed – and their license to practice is often revoked. That is the power of Organized Medicine. Its power – and its practices - approach that of the Mafia!
Do it OUR way, or WE will destroy you!
It is just as true today as it was 150 years ago – a physician is not allowed to vary from the establishment in the treatment of any disease, even if he or she can prove it to be superior. Yet that archaic, contemptible, and stifling attitude is described by those who have it, as “progressive” and “scientific.”
God help us all!
Drugs NEVER Cure Disease
But Drugs NEVER Cure Disease and Diseases DON’T Just Happen. We GIVE them to ourselves by the way we live, eat, and handle stress. This is Satan’s way to take us down. God says to us, “Turn to Me. I want to CHANGE your life in every way.”
But Satan whispers in our ear, “You don’t need to change anything. You can keep living, eating, acting, thinking, and handling stress the way you always have. Here, take a PILL. It will make you FEEL better.” And that it will, but your disease will continue to progress, and will eventually kill you.
That is why doctors Never Have, and Never Will, find a Cure for ANY disease, because they only “treat” symptoms – with innately harmful and poisonous drugs, or by burning radiation, or by cutting out organs, none of which can CURE anything.
And organ donations are NOT the answer, because in order to receive an organ donation, the physician will have to DESTROY what is left of your immune system by giving you POISON – chemotherapy – that, in this instance, they call “Immunosuppressive therapy.” But the drugs used are the identical drugs that are used for “chemotherapy” when you have cancer.
And please notice that they term it a “therapy” when they are DESTROYING the ONLY system in your body that can get you well.
And an organ recipient must stay on these drugs – ALL of which will eventually CAUSE cancer – permanently, or they may reject their donated organ.
That is why it is obvious that God does NOT approve of organ donations. God has given us the way to GET WELL – by HIS Natural Ten Step Plan. He does not want us to have our organs removed. He has given us the way to get our sick organs well. All we have to do is REBUILD our immune system by following GOD’S way.
But How About Alternative – “Holistic” – Doctors?
Many people are realizing that Orthodox Doctors and their use of Drug Medicine do NOT cure disease. On the contrary, they often result in severe pain for the patient, and major damage to the patient’s body. Because of this, many are turning to Alternative therapies and “Holistic” doctors who rarely, if ever, use Drug “medicines.”
Aren’t they the answer to this dilemma?
“Holistic” doctors claim to treat the mind, body, and “spirit.” That certainly sounds good. But what do they mean by that?
They believe that the way a person eats is important – and they are right, but the “diet” they promote is NOT God’s Ideal Diet. In fact, the vast majority of these Alternative, “holistic” practitioners don’t even believe in God. The majority of them don’t believe in God at all, and if they do, it’s a New Age god of Eastern Medicine – a combination of Hinduisum/Budhism/New Ageism. They promote yoga, Eastern meditation – a dangerous emptying of the mind, a “spirit force” that is NOT the God of the Bible. And it is the antithesis of Jesus Christ.
When one develops a disease and experiences symptoms, those are blessings from God and should be recognized as such. They should be generate huge RED FLAG WARNING to you that something is wrong in your life, and that you should turn to the Lord, and that you should follow HIS ways and His ways only – NOT the ways of “man” – whether they are orthodox doctors or alternative practitioners.
Orthodox doctors will prescribe harmful DRUGS to cover up your symptoms or mutilating SURGERY to cut off your body parts or cut out your organs, “therapies” that will NEVER address the root cause of your problem. They will o turn you AWAY from the Lord, from learning what you really need to do to get well. Everything they promote will seduce you AWAY from changing your life – from changing your habits – from learning to know God and HIS ways.
But Alternative doctors will do the same thing, even though what they promote may be less expensive and less damaging to your body. They will prescribe bushel baskets full of man-made vitamins, minerals, and other types of supplements, and machines, devices and black boxes that they claim will measure intermediate end-points, such as pH, and they will try to manipulate those parameters artificially.
But what they are doing is still directing you AWAY from turning to God and HIS ways – AWAY from learning GOD’S totally Natural Health Plan. They, too, are only treating symptoms, rather than the “heart” – the root cause of the problem. They are incapable of treating the “heart” - because that is God’s domain.
So, whether the doctor uses orthodox therapies or alternative therapies, they are treating you in “man’s” way – NOT God’s way. They offer you a “Quick Fix” – a way to feel better fast without having to change your lifestyle, your habits, and your way of handling stress – a way to feel better fast without having to learn to know God, up close and personal.
God wants you to get to know Him – that is the whole purpose of life. God wants to straighten out everything in your life, so you will be healed (sozo) spiritually first – HIS way – and then, when you follow His Health Plan – and HIS Health Plan only, with 100% commitment – you will be healed (sozo) physically as well.
God’s Way is the ONLY Way
We are on this earth for one reason only – to learn to Know God and to learn to Trust Him – for everything, including our health, our life, and the lives of our family. That’s why Disease is such a blessing. It is meant to show us that we are incapable of running our own life, to make us realize our need for God to run every aspect of our life, to turn us to God to learn HIS ways, to teach us that God’s ways are true and right and that man’s ways, including the ways of the doctors, can never solve the problems of humanity.
“There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is death.” Proverbs 14:12
God says to us, “Turn to Me and LIVE!”
“And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.” Deuteronomy 30:6
“In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.” Deuteronomy 30:16
“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:” Deuteronomy 30:19
God’s way to physical and spiritual health has been around for 6,000 years. It is available to everyone on the face of the earth, rich or poor, educated or uneducated. It consists ONLY of the things that God has made, in the exact form that God has made them. It has NO harmful side effects and it is virtually FREE. And it will make you completely WELL. God GUARANTEES it!
Man’s ways (the ways of “modern” medicine) have only been available for the last 70 years, or so. They do terrible harm to the body God has given you, they are excruciatingly painful in most instances, and they are exorbitantly expensive. And they will NEVER make you well, they will only make you worse – much worse – in the long term, and NO doctor will ever guarantee that their “therapies” will make you completely well.
So why do the vast majority of people – including “Christians – choose MAN’S way over God’s way? Because they do NOT trust in God. They trust in “man” – they trust in “science” – instead of trusting in God and His Word.
But the Bible tells us, “We Ought to Obey GOD – rather than man.” Acts 5:29 We ought to Obey GOD – rather than Doctors – and science (which is constantly changing) – and medicine (which is in total darkness) – and DRUGS (that cannot cure ANY disease)!
God has promised – “I am the Lord who HEALS YOU!” Exodus 15:26
God has promised to “heal ALL our Diseases.” (Psalm 103:3) And He doesn’t need any help from “modern” medicine, drugs, or the doctors who use them. In fact, God refers to all of them as an “abomination.”
God needs NO help from “man” when it comes to healing disease!
The Greek word meaning both Saved and Healed is sozo. God tells us that when our heart is truly and permanently changed so we want to follow Jesus and HIS ways, instead of following the world’s way – the way of the worldly “experts” (doctors, ministers, government leaders) - when we truly receive salvation, THEN our physical healing will begin.
Choosing your treatment is a matter of allegiance, “Will you serve God, or will you serve man (doctors)?”
God instructs us to, “Turn to Me and be Saved/Healed.” Isaiah 45:22
Turn to God – and Choose Life!
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Monday, October 13, 2008
About Probiotics
Beneficial Bacteria: An Army of Trillions
When you are healthy, over 100 trillion microorganisms, from some 400 different species, flourish in your intestinal tract, aiding in digestion, absorption, and the production of significant amounts of B vitamins and enzymes. But more importantly, they crowd out all harmful bacteria -- allowing them no place to gain a foothold.
Unfortunately, the levels of beneficial bacteria decline dramatically as the human body ages. Some of the reasons for this decline include:
Over time, the colonies of friendly bacteria just naturally age and lose their vitality.
Disruptions and changes in the acid/alkaline balance of the bowels can play a major role in reducing the growth of beneficial bacteria. In addition, these changes tend to favor the growth of harmful viral and fungal organisms as well as putrefactive, disease-causing bacteria.
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) like Advil, Motrin, Midol, etc. are destructive to intestinal flora.
Chlorine in the drinking water not only serves to kill bacteria in the water; it is equally devastating to the colonies of beneficial bacteria living in the intestines.
Radiation and chemotherapy are devastating to your inner bacterial environment.
Virtually all meat and chicken and dairy that you eat (other than organic) is loaded with antibiotics, which destroy ALL of the beneficial bacteria in your gastrointestinal tract.
A diet high in meats and fats, because they take so long to break down in the human body, promotes the growth of the harmful, putrefying bacteria.
Constipation, of course, allows harmful bacteria to hang around longer, which allows them to proliferate.
Cigarettes, alcohol, and stress are also major culprits -- as are some antibiotic herbs, such as goldenseal (if taken in sufficient quantity).
And if you've ever been subjected to a round of "medicinal" antibiotics, you can kiss your beneficial bacteria good-bye. The problem is that antibiotics indiscriminately destroy both bad and GOOD bacteria -- allowing virulent, mutant strains of harmful microorganisms to emerge and run rampant inside the body. Antibiotics (both medicinal and in our food supply) are the #1 culprit in the overgrowth of HARMFUL pathogens in the gastrointestinal tract (a condition called dysbiosis) that may be at the root of many autoimmune disorders and certain cancers.
The Bottom Line to Immunity
A properly functioning intestinal tract is one of your body's first lines of defense against invaders and a healthy immune system. In a healthy colon there are, on average, anywhere from 100 billion to 1,000 billion beneficial bacteria per milliliter (about 1/5 of a teaspoon) that literally consume harmful bacteria and other invaders. In the typical American, because of poor diet and neglect of the colon, the beneficial bacteria count may be as low as 4 or 5 per milliliter. Just compare 1,000 billion to 4, and you'll have an understanding of the scope of the problem. Many researchers now believe that declining levels of friendly bacteria in the intestinal tract may actually mark the onset of chronic degenerative disease and a suppressed immune system.
The Benefits of a Healthy Intestinal Tract
The benefits of a probiotically optimized intestinal tract include:
Lowered cholesterol
Inhibition of cancer
Protection against food poisoning
Protection against stomach ulcers
Protection against lactose intolerance and casein intolerance
Enhanced immunity
Protection against many harmful bacteria, viruses, and fungi
Protection against candida overgrowth and vaginal yeast infections
Prevention and correction of constipation and diarrhea, ileitis and colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, and a whole range of other digestive tract dysfunctions
Improvement in the health and appearance of the skin
Better nutrition from improved absorption and the internal generation of B vitamins.
Protection against vaginosis and yeast infections
A Key to Good Health: Probiotics
There can be no true health or recovery from disease unless you have colonies of over 100 trillion beneficial microorganisms flourishing in your intestinal tract, from your mouth to your anus, aiding in digestion, absorption, the production of significant amounts of vitamins and enzymes, and working to crowd out all harmful bacteria -- allowing them no place to gain a foothold. SUPPLEMENTATION WITH A GOOD PROBIOTIC IS MANDATORY TO RAISE YOUR BASELINE OF HEALTH.
Probiotics is the 21st century ANSWER to the problems associated with the overuse of antibiotics in the 20th century!
When you are healthy, over 100 trillion microorganisms, from some 400 different species, flourish in your intestinal tract, aiding in digestion, absorption, and the production of significant amounts of B vitamins and enzymes. But more importantly, they crowd out all harmful bacteria -- allowing them no place to gain a foothold.
Unfortunately, the levels of beneficial bacteria decline dramatically as the human body ages. Some of the reasons for this decline include:
Over time, the colonies of friendly bacteria just naturally age and lose their vitality.
Disruptions and changes in the acid/alkaline balance of the bowels can play a major role in reducing the growth of beneficial bacteria. In addition, these changes tend to favor the growth of harmful viral and fungal organisms as well as putrefactive, disease-causing bacteria.
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) like Advil, Motrin, Midol, etc. are destructive to intestinal flora.
Chlorine in the drinking water not only serves to kill bacteria in the water; it is equally devastating to the colonies of beneficial bacteria living in the intestines.
Radiation and chemotherapy are devastating to your inner bacterial environment.
Virtually all meat and chicken and dairy that you eat (other than organic) is loaded with antibiotics, which destroy ALL of the beneficial bacteria in your gastrointestinal tract.
A diet high in meats and fats, because they take so long to break down in the human body, promotes the growth of the harmful, putrefying bacteria.
Constipation, of course, allows harmful bacteria to hang around longer, which allows them to proliferate.
Cigarettes, alcohol, and stress are also major culprits -- as are some antibiotic herbs, such as goldenseal (if taken in sufficient quantity).
And if you've ever been subjected to a round of "medicinal" antibiotics, you can kiss your beneficial bacteria good-bye. The problem is that antibiotics indiscriminately destroy both bad and GOOD bacteria -- allowing virulent, mutant strains of harmful microorganisms to emerge and run rampant inside the body. Antibiotics (both medicinal and in our food supply) are the #1 culprit in the overgrowth of HARMFUL pathogens in the gastrointestinal tract (a condition called dysbiosis) that may be at the root of many autoimmune disorders and certain cancers.
The Bottom Line to Immunity
A properly functioning intestinal tract is one of your body's first lines of defense against invaders and a healthy immune system. In a healthy colon there are, on average, anywhere from 100 billion to 1,000 billion beneficial bacteria per milliliter (about 1/5 of a teaspoon) that literally consume harmful bacteria and other invaders. In the typical American, because of poor diet and neglect of the colon, the beneficial bacteria count may be as low as 4 or 5 per milliliter. Just compare 1,000 billion to 4, and you'll have an understanding of the scope of the problem. Many researchers now believe that declining levels of friendly bacteria in the intestinal tract may actually mark the onset of chronic degenerative disease and a suppressed immune system.
The Benefits of a Healthy Intestinal Tract
The benefits of a probiotically optimized intestinal tract include:
Lowered cholesterol
Inhibition of cancer
Protection against food poisoning
Protection against stomach ulcers
Protection against lactose intolerance and casein intolerance
Enhanced immunity
Protection against many harmful bacteria, viruses, and fungi
Protection against candida overgrowth and vaginal yeast infections
Prevention and correction of constipation and diarrhea, ileitis and colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, and a whole range of other digestive tract dysfunctions
Improvement in the health and appearance of the skin
Better nutrition from improved absorption and the internal generation of B vitamins.
Protection against vaginosis and yeast infections
A Key to Good Health: Probiotics
There can be no true health or recovery from disease unless you have colonies of over 100 trillion beneficial microorganisms flourishing in your intestinal tract, from your mouth to your anus, aiding in digestion, absorption, the production of significant amounts of vitamins and enzymes, and working to crowd out all harmful bacteria -- allowing them no place to gain a foothold. SUPPLEMENTATION WITH A GOOD PROBIOTIC IS MANDATORY TO RAISE YOUR BASELINE OF HEALTH.
Probiotics is the 21st century ANSWER to the problems associated with the overuse of antibiotics in the 20th century!
Thursday, August 28, 2008
The Sugar Blues - Why Sugar Is Toxic To The Body
This is lengthy but worth the read.
In 1957, Dr. William Coda Martin tried to answer the question: When is a food a food and when is it a poison? His working definition of "poison" was: "Medically: Any substance applied to the body, ingested or developed within the body, which causes or may cause disease. Physically: Any substance which inhibits the activity of a catalyst which is a minor substance, chemical or enzyme that activates a reaction." The dictionary gives an even broader definition for "poison": "to exert a harmful influence on, or to pervert".
Dr. Martin classified refined sugar as a poison because it has been depleted of its life forces, vitamins and minerals. "What is left consists of pure, refined carbohydrates. The body cannot utilize this refined starch and carbohydrate unless the depleted proteins, vitamins and minerals are present. Nature supplies these elements in each plant in quantities sufficient to metabolize the carbohydrate in that particular plant. There is no excess for other added carbohydrates. Incomplete carbohydrate metabolism results in the formation of 'toxic metabolite' such as pyruvic acid and abnormal sugars containing five carbon atoms. Pyruvic acid accumulates in the brain and nervous system and the abnormal sugars in the red blood cells. These toxic metabolites interfere with the respiration of the cells. They cannot get sufficient oxygen to survive and function normally. In time, some of the cells die. This interferes with the function of a part of the body and is the beginning of degenerative disease."
Refined sugar is lethal when ingested by humans because it provides only that which nutritionists describe as "empty" or "naked" calories. It lacks the natural minerals which are present in the sugar beet or cane. In addition, sugar is worse than nothing because it drains and leaches the body of precious vitamins and minerals through the demand its digestion, detoxification and elimination makes upon one's entire system. So essential is balance to our bodies that we have many ways to provide against the sudden shock of a heavy intake of sugar. Minerals such as sodium (from salt), potassium and magnesium (from vegetables), and calcium (from the bones) are mobilized and used in chemical transmutation; neutral acids are produced which attempt to return the acid-alkaline balance factor of the blood to a more normal state.
Sugar taken every day produces a continuously over-acid condition, and more and more minerals are required from deep in the body in the attempt to rectify the imbalance. Finally, in order to protect the blood, so much calcium is taken from the bones and teeth that decay and general weakening begin. Excess sugar eventually affects every organ in the body. Initially, it is stored in the liver in the form of glucose (glycogen). Since the liver's capacity is limited, a daily intake of refined sugar (above the required amount of natural sugar) soon makes the liver expand like a balloon. When the liver is filled to its maximum capacity, the excess glycogen is returned to the blood in the form of fatty acids. These are taken to every part of the body and stored in the most inactive areas: the belly, the buttocks, the breasts and the thighs.
When these comparatively harmless places are completely filled, fatty acids are then distributed among active organs, such as the heart and kidneys. These begin to slow down; finally their tissues degenerate and turn to fat. The whole body is affected by their reduced ability, and abnormal blood pressure is created. The parasympathetic nervous system is affected; and organs governed by it, such as the small brain, become inactive or paralyzed. The circulatory and lymphatic systems are invaded, and the quality of the red corpuscles starts to change. An overabundance of white cells occurs, and the creation of tissue becomes slower. Our body's tolerance and immunizing power becomes more limited, so we cannot respond properly to extreme attacks, whether they be cold, heat, mosquitoes or microbes.
Excessive sugar has a strong mal-effect on the functioning of the brain. The key to orderly brain function is glutamic acid, a vital compound found in many vegetables. The B vitamins play a major role in dividing glutamic acid into antagonistic-complementary compounds which produce a "proceed" or "control" response in the brain. B vitamins are also manufactured by symbiotic bacteria which live in our intestines. When refined sugar is taken daily, these bacteria wither and die, and our stock of B vitamins gets very low. Too much sugar makes one sleepy; our ability to calculate and remember is lost.
Sugar: Harmful to Humans and Animals
Shipwrecked sailors who ate and drank nothing but sugar and rum for nine days surely went through some of this trauma; the tales they had to tell created a big public relations problem for the sugar pushers. This incident occurred when a vessel carrying a cargo of sugar was shipwrecked in 1793. The five surviving sailors were finally rescued after being marooned for nine days. They were in a wasted condition due to starvation, having consumed nothing but sugar and rum. The eminent French physiologist F. Magendie was inspired by that incident to conduct a series of experiments with animals, the results of which he published in 1816. In the experiments, he fed dogs a diet of sugar or olive oil and water. All the dogs wasted and died.
The shipwrecked sailors and the French physiologist's experimental dogs proved the same point. As a steady diet, sugar is worse than nothing. Plain water can keep you alive for quite some time. Sugar and water can kill you. Humans [and animals] are "unable to subsist on a diet of sugar". The dead dogs in Professor Magendie's laboratory alerted the sugar industry to the hazards of free scientific inquiry. From that day to this, the sugar industry has invested millions of dollars in behind-the-scenes, subsidized science. The best scientific names that money could buy have been hired, in the hope that they could one day come up with something at least pseudoscientific in the way of glad tidings about sugar.
It has been proved, however, that (1) sugar is a major factor in dental decay; (2) sugar in a person's diet does cause overweight; (3) removal of sugar from diets has cured symptoms of crippling, worldwide diseases such as diabetes, cancer and heart illnesses. Sir Frederick Banting, the co-discoverer of insulin, noticed in 1929 in Panama that, among sugar plantation owners who ate large amounts of their refined stuff, diabetes was common. Among native cane-cutters, who only got to chew the raw cane, he saw no diabetes. However, the story of the public relations attempts on the part of the sugar manufacturers began in Britain in 1808 when the Committee of West India reported to the House of Commons that a prize of twenty-five guineas had been offered to anyone who could come up with the most "satisfactory" experiments to prove that unrefined sugar was good for feeding and fattening oxen, cows, hogs and sheep.
Food for animals is often seasonal, always expensive. Sugar, by then, was dirt cheap. People weren't eating it fast enough. Naturally, the attempt to feed livestock with sugar and molasses in England in 1808 was a disaster. When the Committee on West India made its fourth report to the House of Commons, one Member of Parliament, John Curwin, reported that he had tried to feed sugar and molasses to calves without success. He suggested that perhaps someone should try again by sneaking sugar and molasses into skimmed milk. Had anything come of that, you can be sure the West Indian sugar merchants would have spread the news around the world. After this singular lack of success in pushing sugar in cow pastures, the West Indian sugar merchants gave up.
With undaunted zeal for increasing the market demand for the most important agricultural product of the West Indies, the Committee of West India was reduced to a tactic that has served the sugar pushers for almost 200 years: irrelevant and transparently silly testimonials from faraway, inaccessible people with some kind of "scientific" credentials. While preparing his epochal volume, A History of Nutrition, published in 1957, Professor E. V. McCollum (Johns Hopkins University), sometimes called America's foremost nutritionist and certainly a pioneer in the field, reviewed approximately 200,000 published scientific papers, recording experiments with food, their properties, their utilization and their effects on animals and men. The material covered the period from the mid-18th century to 1940. From this great repository of scientific inquiry, McCollum selected those experiments which he regarded as significant "to relate the story of progress in discovering human error in this segment of Science [of nutrition]".
Professor McCollum failed to record a single controlled scientific experiment with sugar between 1816 and 1940. Unhappily, we must remind ourselves that scientists today, and always, accomplish little without a sponsor. The protocols of modern science have compounded the costs of scientific inquiry. We have no right to be surprised when we read the introduction to McCollum's A History of Nutrition and find that "The author and publishers are indebted to The Nutrition Foundation, Inc., for a grant provided to meet a portion of the cost of publication of this book". What, you might ask, is The Nutrition Foundation, Inc.? The author and the publishers don't tell you. It happens to be a front organization for the leading sugar-pushing conglomerates in the food business, including the American Sugar Refining Company, Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Curtis Candy Co., General Foods, General Mills, Nestlé Co., Pet Milk Co. and Sunshine Biscuits--about 45 such companies in all. Perhaps the most significant thing about McCollum's 1957 history was what he left out: a monumental earlier work described by an eminent Harvard professor as "one of those epochal pieces of research which makes every other investigator desirous of kicking himself because he never thought of doing the same thing".
In the 1930s, a research dentist from Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Weston A. Price, traveled all over the world--from the lands of the Eskimos to the South Sea Islands, from Africa to New Zealand. His Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects, which is illustrated with hundreds of photographs, was first published in 1939. Dr. Price took the whole world as his laboratory. His devastating conclusion, recorded in horrifying detail in area after area, was simple. People who live under so-called backward primitive conditions had excellent teeth and wonderful general health. They ate natural, unrefined food from their own locale. As soon as refined, sugared foods were imported as a result of contact with "civilization," physical degeneration began in a way that was definitely observable within a single generation. Any credibility the sugar pushers have is based on our ignorance of works like that of Dr. Price.
Sugar manufacturers keep trying, hoping and contributing generous research grants to colleges and universities; but the research laboratories never come up with anything solid the manufacturers can use. Invariably, the research results are bad news. "Let us go to the ignorant savage, consider his way of eating and be wise," Harvard professor Ernest Hooten said in Apes, Men, and Morons. "Let us cease pretending that toothbrushes and toothpaste are any more important than shoe brushes and shoe polish. It is store food that has given us store teeth." When the researchers bite the hands that feed them, and the news gets out, it's embarrassing all around. In 1958, Time magazine reported that a Harvard biochemist and his assistants had worked with myriads of mice for more than ten years, bankrolled by the Sugar Research Foundation, Inc. to the tune of $57,000, to find out how sugar causes dental cavities and how to prevent this. It took them ten years to discover that there was no way to prevent sugar causing dental decay. When the researchers reported their findings in the Dental Association Journal, their source of money dried up. The Sugar Research Foundation withdrew its support. The more that the scientists disappointed them, the more the sugar pushers had to rely on the ad men.
Sucrose: "Pure Energy at a Price"
When calories became the big thing in the 1920s, and everybody was learning to count them, the sugar pushers turned up with a new pitch. They boasted there were 2,500 calories in a pound of sugar. A little over a quarter-pound of sugar would produce 20 per cent of the total daily quota. "If you could buy all your food energy as cheaply as you buy calories in sugar," they told us, "your board bill for the year would be very low. If sugar were seven cents a pound, it would cost less than $35 for a whole year." A very inexpensive way to kill yourself. "Of course, we don't live on any such unbalanced diet," they admitted later. "But that figure serves to point out how inexpensive sugar is as an energy-building food. What was once a luxury only a privileged few could enjoy is now a food for the poorest of people."
Later, the sugar pushers advertised that sugar was chemically pure, topping Ivory soap in that department, being 99.9 per cent pure against Ivory's vaunted 99.44 per cent. "No food of our everyday diet is purer," we were assured. What was meant by purity, besides the unarguable fact that all vitamins, minerals, salts, fibers and proteins had been removed in the refining process? Well, the sugar pushers came up with a new slant on purity. "You don't have to sort it like beans, wash it like rice. Every grain is like every other. No waste attends its use. No useless bones like in meat, no grounds like coffee." "Pure" is a favorite adjective of the sugar pushers because it means one thing to the chemists and another thing to the ordinary mortals. When honey is labeled pure, this means that it is in its natural state (stolen directly from the bees who made it), with no adulteration with sucrose to stretch it and no harmful chemical residues which may have been sprayed on the flowers. It does not mean that the honey is free from minerals like iodine, iron, calcium, phosphorus or multiple vitamins. So effective is the purification process which sugar cane and beets undergo in the refineries that sugar ends up as chemically pure as the morphine or the heroin a chemist has on the laboratory shelves.
What nutritional virtue this abstract chemical purity represents, the sugar pushers never tell us. Beginning with World War I, the sugar pushers coated their propaganda with a preparedness pitch. "Dietitians have known the high food value of sugar for a long time," said an industry tract of the 1920s. "But it took World War I to bring this home. The energy-building power of sugar reaches the muscles in minutes and it was of value to soldiers as a ration given them just before an attack was launched." The sugar pushers have been harping on the energy-building power of sucrose for years because it contains nothing else. Caloric energy and habit-forming taste: that's what sucrose has, and nothing else. All other foods contain energy plus. All foods contain some nutrients in the way of proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins or minerals, or all of these. Sucrose contains caloric energy, period.
The "quick" energy claim the sugar pushers talk about, which drives reluctant doughboys over the top and drives children up the wall, is based on the fact that refined sucrose is not digested in the mouth or the stomach but passes directly to the lower intestines and thence to the bloodstream. The extra speed with which sucrose enters the bloodstream does more harm than good. Much of the public confusion about refined sugar is compounded by language. Sugars are classified by chemists as "carbohydrates". This manufactured word means "a substance containing carbon with oxygen and hydrogen". If chemists want to use these hermetic terms in their laboratories when they talk to one another, fine. The use of the word "carbohydrate" outside the laboratory-especially in food labeling and advertising lingo--to describe both natural, complete cereal grains (which have been a principal food of mankind for thousands of years) and man-refined sugar (which is a manufactured drug and principal poison of mankind for only a few hundred years) is demonstrably wicked. This kind of confusion makes possible the flimflam practiced by sugar pushers to confound anxious mothers into thinking kiddies need sugar to survive.
The use of the word "carbohydrate" to describe sugar is deliberately misleading. Since the improved labeling of nutritional properties was required on packages and cans, refined carbohydrates like sugar are lumped together with those carbohydrates which may or may not be refined. The several types of carbohydrates are added together for an overall carbohydrate total. Thus, the effect of the label is to hide the sugar content from the unwary buyer. Chemists add to the confusion by using the word "sugar" to describe an entire group of substances that are similar but not identical. Glucose is a sugar found usually with other sugars, in fruits and vegetables. It is a key material in the metabolism of all plants and animals. Many of our principal foods are converted into glucose in our bodies. Glucose is always present in our bloodstream, and it is often called "blood sugar". Dextrose, also called "corn sugar", is derived synthetically from starch. Fructose is fruit sugar. Maltose is malt sugar. Lactose is milk sugar. Sucrose is refined sugar made from sugar cane and sugar beet. Glucose has always been an essential element in the human bloodstream. Sucrose addiction is something new in the history of the human animal.
To use the word "sugar" to describe two substances which are far from being identical, which have different chemical structures and which affect the body in profoundly different ways compounds confusion. It makes possible more flimflam from the sugar pushers who tell us how important sugar is as an essential component of the human body, how it is oxidized to produce energy, how it is metabolized to produce warmth, and so on. They're talking about glucose, of course, which is manufactured in our bodies. However, one is led to believe that the manufacturers are talking about the sucrose which is made in their refineries. When the word "sugar" can mean the glucose in your blood as well as the sucrose in your Coca-Cola, it's great for the sugar pushers but it's rough on everybody else.
People have been bamboozled into thinking of their bodies the way they think of their checking accounts. If they suspect they have low blood sugar, they are programmed to snack on vending machine candies and sodas in order to raise their blood sugar level. Actually, this is the worst thing to do. The level of glucose in their blood is apt to be low because they are addicted to sucrose. People who kick sucrose addiction and stay off sucrose find that the glucose level of their blood returns to normal and stays there. Since the late 1960s, millions of Americans have returned to natural food. A new type of store, the natural food store, has encouraged many to become dropouts from the supermarket. Natural food can be instrumental in restoring health. Many people, therefore, have come to equate the word "natural" with "healthy". So the sugar pushers have begun to pervert the word "natural" in order to mislead the public. "Made from natural ingredients", the television sugar-pushers tell us about product after product. The word "from" is not accented on television. It should be. Even refined sugar is made from natural ingredients. There is nothing new about that. The natural ingredients are cane and beets. But that four-letter word "from" hardly suggests that 90 per cent of the cane and beet have been removed. Heroin, too, could be advertised as being made from natural ingredients. The opium poppy is as natural as the sugar beet. It's what man does with it that tells the story. If you want to avoid sugar in the supermarket, there is only one sure way. Don't buy anything unless it says on the label prominently, in plain English: "No sugar added". Use of the word "carbohydrate" as a "scientific" word for sugar has become a standard defense strategy with sugar pushers and many of their medical apologists. It's their security blanket.
Correct Food Combining
Whether it's sugared cereal or pastry and black coffee for breakfast, whether it's hamburgers and Coca-Cola for lunch or the full "gourmet" dinner in the evening, chemically the average American diet is a formula that guarantees bubble, bubble, stomach trouble. Unless you've taken too much insulin and, in a state of insulin shock, need sugar as an antidote, hardly anyone ever has cause to take sugar alone. Humans need sugar as much as they need the nicotine in tobacco. Crave it is one thing--need it is another. From the days of the Persian Empire to our own, sugar has usually been used to hop up the flavor of other food and drink, as an ingredient in the kitchen or as a condiment at the table. Let us leave aside for the moment the known effect of sugar (long-term and short-term) on the entire system and concentrate on the effect of sugar taken in combination with other daily foods.
When Grandma warned that sugared cookies before meals "will spoil your supper", she knew what she was talking about. Her explanation might not have satisfied a chemist but, as with many traditional axioms from the Mosaic law on kosher food and separation in the kitchen, such rules are based on years of trial and error and are apt to be right on the button. Most modern research in combining food is a labored discovery of the things Grandma took for granted. Any diet or regimen undertaken for the single purpose of losing weight is dangerous, by definition. Obesity is talked about and treated as a disease in 20th-century America. Obesity is not a disease. It is only a symptom, a sign, a warning that your body is out of order. Dieting to lose weight is as silly and dangerous as taking aspirin to relieve a headache before you know the reason for the headache.
Getting rid of a symptom is like turning off an alarm. It leaves the basic cause untouched. Any diet or regimen undertaken with any objective short of restoration of total health of your body is dangerous. Many overweight people are undernourished. (Dr. H. Curtis Wood stresses this point in his 1971 book, Overfed But Undernourished.) Eating less can aggravate this condition, unless one is concerned with the quality of the food instead of just its quantity. Many people--doctors included--assume that if weight is lost, fat is lost. This is not necessarily so. Any diet which lumps all carbohydrates together is dangerous. Any diet which does not consider the quality of carbohydrates and makes the crucial life-and-death distinction between natural, unrefined carbohydrates like whole grains and vegetables and man-refined carbohydrates like sugar and white flour is dangerous. Any diet which includes refined sugar and white flour, no matter what "scientific" name is applied to them, is dangerous.
Kicking sugar and white flour and substituting whole grains, vegetables and natural fruits in season, is the core of any sensible natural regimen. Changing the quality of your carbohydrates can change the quality of your health and life. If you eat natural food of good quality, quantity tends to take care of itself. Nobody is going to eat a half-dozen sugar beets or a whole case of sugar cane. Even if they do, it will be less dangerous than a few ounces of refined sugar. Sugar of all kinds--natural sugars, such as those in honey and fruit (fructose), as well as the refined white stuff (sucrose)--tends to arrest the secretion of gastric juices and have an inhibiting effect on the stomach's natural ability to move. Sugars are not digested in the mouth, like cereals, or in the stomach, like animal flesh. When taken alone, they pass quickly through the stomach into the small intestine. When sugars are eaten with other foods--perhaps meat and bread in a sandwich-they are held up in the stomach for a while.
The sugar in the bread and the Coke sit there with the hamburger and the bun waiting for them to be digested. While the stomach is working on the animal protein and the refined starch in the bread, the addition of the sugar practically guarantees rapid acid fermentation under the conditions of warmth and moisture existing in the stomach. One lump of sugar in your coffee after a sandwich is enough to turn your stomach into a fermenter. One soda with a hamburger is enough to turn your stomach into a still. Sugar on cereal--whether you buy it already sugared in a box or add it yourself--almost guarantees acid fermentation.
Since the beginning of time, natural laws were observed, in both senses of that word, when it came to eating foods in combination. Birds have been observed eating insects at one period in the day and seeds at another. Other animals tend to eat one food at a time. Flesh-eating animals take their protein raw and straight. In the Orient, it is traditional to eat yang before yin. Miso soup (fermented soybean protein, yang) for breakfast; raw fish (more yang protein) at the beginning of the meal; afterwards comes the rice (which is less yang than the miso and fish); and then the vegetables which are yin. If you ever eat with a traditional Japanese family and you violate this order, the Orientals (if your friends) will correct you courteously but firmly. The law observed by Orthodox Jews prohibits many combinations at the same meal, especially flesh and dairy products. Special utensils for the dairy meal and different utensils for the flesh meal reinforce that taboo at the food's source in the kitchen.
Man learned very early in the game what improper combinations of food could do to the human system. When he got a stomach ache from combining raw fruit with grain, or honey with porridge, he didn't reach for an antacid tablet. He learned not to eat that way. When gluttony and excess became widespread, religious codes and commandments were invoked against it. Gluttony is a capital sin in most religions; but there are no specific religious warnings or commandments against refined sugar because sugar abuse-like drug abuse-did not appear on the world scene until centuries after holy books had gone to press.
"Why must we accept as normal what we find in a race of sick and weakened human beings?" Dr. Herbert M. Shelton asks. "Must we always take it for granted that the present eating practices of civilized men are normal?... Foul stools, loose stools, impacted stools, pebbly stools, much foul gas, colitis, hemorrhoids, bleeding with stools, the need for toilet paper are swept into the orbit of the normal."
When starches and complex sugars (like those in honey and fruits) are digested, they are broken down into simple sugars called "monosaccharides", which are usable substances-nutriments. When starches and sugars are taken together and undergo fermentation, they are broken down into carbon dioxide, acetic acid, alcohol and water. With the exception of the water, all these are unusable substances-poisons. When proteins are digested, they are broken down into amino acids, which are usable substances-nutriments. When proteins are taken with sugar, they putrefy; they are broken down into a variety of ptomaines and leucomaines, which are nonusable substances-poisons. Enzymic digestion of foods prepares them for use by our body. Bacterial decomposition makes them unfit for use by our body. The first process gives us nutriments; the second gives us poisons.
Much that passes for modern nutrition is obsessed with a mania for quantitative counting. The body is treated like a check account. Deposit calories (like dollars) and withdraw energy. Deposit proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals-balanced quantitatively-and the result, theoretically, is a healthy body. People qualify as healthy today if they can crawl out of bed, get to the office and sign in. If they can't make it, call the doctor to qualify for sick pay, hospitalization, rest cure-anything from a day's pay without working to an artificial kidney, courtesy of the taxpayers. But what does it profit someone if the theoretically required calories and nutrients are consumed daily, yet this random eat-on-the-run, snack-time collection of foods ferments and putrefies in the digestive tract? What good is it if the body is fed protein, only to have it putrefy in the gastrointestinal canal? Carbohydrates that ferment in the digestive tract are converted into alcohol and acetic acid, not digestible monosaccharides. "To derive sustenance from foods eaten, they must be digested," Shelton warned years ago. "They must not rot." Sure, the body can get rid of poisons through the urine and the pores; the amount of poisons in the urine is taken as an index to what's going on in the intestine. The body does establish a tolerance for these poisons, just as it adjusts gradually to an intake of heroin. But, says Shelton, "the discomfort from accumulation of gas, the bad breath, and foul and unpleasant odors are as undesirable as are the poisons".
Sugar and Mental Health
In the Dark Ages, troubled souls were rarely locked up for going off their rocker. Such confinement began in the Age of Enlightenment, after sugar made the transition from apothecary's prescription to candy maker's confection. "The great confinement of the insane", as one historian calls it,10 began in the late 17th century, after sugar consumption in Britain had zoomed in 200 years from a pinch or two in a barrel of beer, here and there, to more than two million pounds per year. By that time, physicians in London had begun to observe and record terminal physical signs and symptoms of the "sugar blues".
Meanwhile, when sugar eaters did not manifest obvious terminal physical symptoms and the physicians were professionally bewildered, patients were no longer pronounced bewitched, but mad, insane, emotionally disturbed. Laziness, fatigue, debauchery, parental displeasure--any one problem was sufficient cause for people under twenty-five to be locked up in the first Parisian mental hospitals. All it took to be incarcerated was a complaint from parents, relatives or the omnipotent parish priest. Wet nurses with their babies, pregnant youngsters, retarded or defective children, senior citizens, paralytics, epileptics, prostitutes or raving lunatics--anyone wanted off the streets and out of sight was put away. The mental hospital succeeded witch-hunting and heresy-hounding as a more enlightened and humane method of social control. The physician and priest handled the dirty work of street sweeping in return for royal favors.
Initially, when the General Hospital was established in Paris by royal decree, one per cent of the city's population was locked up. From that time until the 20th century, as the consumption of sugar went up and up--especially in the cities--so did the number of people who were put away in the General Hospital. Three hundred years later, the "emotionally disturbed" can be turned into walking automatons, their brains controlled with psychoactive drugs. Today, pioneers of orthomolecular psychiatry, such as Dr. Abram Hoffer, Dr. Allan Cott, Dr. A. Cherkin as well as Dr. Linus Pauling, have confirmed that mental illness is a myth and that emotional disturbance can be merely the first symptom of the obvious inability of the human system to handle the stress of sugar dependency. In Orthomolecular Psychiatry, Dr. Pauling writes: "The functioning of the brain and nervous tissue is more sensitively dependent on the rate of chemical reactions than the functioning of other organs and tissues. I believe that mental disease is for the most part caused by abnormal reaction rates, as determined by genetic constitution and diet, and by abnormal molecular concentrations of essential substances. Selection of food (and drugs) in a world that is undergoing rapid scientific and technological change may often be far from the best."
In Megavitamin B3 Therapy for Schizophrenia, Dr. Abram Hoffer notes: "Patients are also advised to follow a good nutritional program with restriction of sucrose and sucrose-rich foods." Clinical research with hyperactive and psychotic children, as well as those with brain injuries and learning disabilities, has shown: "An abnormally high family history of diabetes--that is, parents and grandparents who cannot handle sugar; an abnormally high incidence of low blood glucose, or functional hypoglycemia in the children themselves, which indicates that their systems cannot handle sugar; dependence on a high level of sugar in the diets of the very children who cannot handle it. "Inquiry into the dietary history of patients diagnosed as schizophrenic reveals the diet of their choice is rich in sweets, candy, cakes, coffee, caffeinated beverages, and foods prepared with sugar. These foods, which stimulate the adrenals, should be eliminated or severely restricted."
The avant-garde of modern medicine has rediscovered what the lowly sorceress learned long ago through painstaking study of nature. "In more than twenty years of psychiatric work," writes Dr. Thomas Szasz, "I have never known a clinical psychologist to report, on the basis of a projective test, that the subject is a normal, mentally healthy person. While some witches may have survived dunking, no 'madman' survives psychological testing...there is no behavior or person that a modern psychiatrist cannot plausibly diagnose as abnormal or ill." So it was in the 17th century. Once the doctor or the exorcist had been called in, he was under pressure to do something. When he tried and failed, the poor patient had to be put away. It is often said that surgeons bury their mistakes. Physicians and psychiatrists put them away; lock 'em up.
In the 1940s, Dr. John Tintera rediscovered the vital importance of the endocrine system, especially the adrenal glands, in "pathological mentation"-or "brain boggling". In 200 cases under treatment for hypoadrenocorticism (the lack of adequate adrenal cortical hormone production or imbalance among these hormones), he discovered that the chief complaints of his patients were often similar to those found in persons whose systems were unable to handle sugar: fatigue, nervousness, depression, apprehension, craving for sweets, inability to handle alcohol, inability to concentrate, allergies, low blood pressure. Sugar blues!
Dr. Tintera finally insisted that all his patients submit to a four-hour glucose tolerance test (GTT) to find out whether or not they could handle sugar. The results were so startling that the laboratories double-checked their techniques, then apologized for what they believed to be incorrect readings. What mystified them was the low, flat curves derived from disturbed, early adolescents. This laboratory procedure had been previously carried out only for patients with physical findings presumptive of diabetes. Dorland's definition of schizophrenia (Bleuler's dementia praecox) includes the phrase, "often recognized during or shortly after adolescence", and further, in reference to hebephrenia and catatonia, "coming on soon after the onset of puberty". These conditions might seem to arise or become aggravated at puberty, but probing into the patient's past will frequently reveal indications which were present at birth, during the first year of life, and through the preschool and grammar school years. Each of these periods has its own characteristic clinical picture.
This picture becomes more marked at pubescence and often causes school officials to complain of juvenile delinquency or underachievement. A glucose tolerance test at any of these periods could alert parents and physicians and could save innumerable hours and small fortunes spent in looking into the child's psyche and home environment for maladjustments of questionable significance in the emotional development of the average child. The negativism, hyperactivity and obstinate resentment of discipline are absolute indications for at least the minimum laboratory tests: urinalysis, complete blood count, PBI determination, and the five-hour glucose tolerance test. A GTT can be performed on a young child by the micro-method without undue trauma to the patient. As a matter of fact, I have been urging that these four tests be routine for all patients, even before a history or physical examination is undertaken. In almost all discussions on drug addiction, alcoholism and schizophrenia, it is claimed that there is no definite constitutional type that falls prey to these afflictions.
Almost universally, the statement is made that all of these individuals are emotionally immature. It has long been our goal to persuade every physician, whether oriented toward psychiatry, genetics or physiology, to recognize that one type of endocrine individual is involved in the majority of these cases: the hypoadrenocortic.15 Tintera published several epochal medical papers. Over and over, he emphasized that improvement, alleviation, palliation or cure was "dependent upon the restoration of the normal function of the total organism". His first prescribed item of treatment was diet. Over and over again, he said that "the importance of diet cannot be overemphasized". He laid out a sweeping permanent injunction against sugar in all forms and guises.
While Egas Moniz of Portugal was receiving a Nobel Prize for devising the lobotomy operation for the treatment of schizophrenia, Tintera's reward was to be harassment and hounding by the pundits of organized medicine. While Tintera's sweeping implication of sugar as a cause of what was called "schizophrenia" could be confined to medical journals, he was let alone, ignored. He could be tolerated-if he stayed in his assigned territory, endocrinology. Even when he suggested that alcoholism was related to adrenals that had been whipped by sugar abuse, they let him alone; because the medicos had decided there was nothing in alcoholism for them except aggravation, they were satisfied to abandon it to Alcoholics Anonymous.
However, when Tintera dared to suggest in a magazine of general circulation that "it is ridiculous to talk of kinds of allergies when there is only one kind, which is adrenal glands impaired...by sugar", he could no longer be ignored. The allergists had a great racket going for themselves. Allergic souls had been entertaining each other for years with tall tales of exotic allergies-everything from horse feathers to lobster tails. Along comes someone who says none of this matters: take them off sugar, and keep them off it.
Perhaps Tintera's untimely death in 1969 at the age of fifty-seven made it easier for the medical profession to accept discoveries that had once seemed as far out as the simple oriental medical thesis of genetics and diet, yin and yang. Today, doctors all over the world are repeating what Tintera announced years ago: nobody, but nobody, should ever be allowed to begin what is called "psychiatric treatment", anyplace, anywhere, unless and until they have had a glucose tolerance test to discover if they can handle sugar. So-called preventive medicine goes further and suggests that since we only think we can handle sugar because we initially have strong adrenals, why wait until they give us signs and signals that they're worn out? Take the load off now by eliminating sugar in all forms and guises, starting with that soda pop you have in your hand. The mind truly boggles when one glances over what passes for medical history. Through the centuries, troubled souls have been barbecued for bewitchment, exorcised for possession, locked up for insanity, tortured for masturbatory madness, psychiatrised for psychosis, lobotomized for schizophrenia. How many patients would have listened if the local healer had told them that the only thing ailing them was sugar blues?
In 1957, Dr. William Coda Martin tried to answer the question: When is a food a food and when is it a poison? His working definition of "poison" was: "Medically: Any substance applied to the body, ingested or developed within the body, which causes or may cause disease. Physically: Any substance which inhibits the activity of a catalyst which is a minor substance, chemical or enzyme that activates a reaction." The dictionary gives an even broader definition for "poison": "to exert a harmful influence on, or to pervert".
Dr. Martin classified refined sugar as a poison because it has been depleted of its life forces, vitamins and minerals. "What is left consists of pure, refined carbohydrates. The body cannot utilize this refined starch and carbohydrate unless the depleted proteins, vitamins and minerals are present. Nature supplies these elements in each plant in quantities sufficient to metabolize the carbohydrate in that particular plant. There is no excess for other added carbohydrates. Incomplete carbohydrate metabolism results in the formation of 'toxic metabolite' such as pyruvic acid and abnormal sugars containing five carbon atoms. Pyruvic acid accumulates in the brain and nervous system and the abnormal sugars in the red blood cells. These toxic metabolites interfere with the respiration of the cells. They cannot get sufficient oxygen to survive and function normally. In time, some of the cells die. This interferes with the function of a part of the body and is the beginning of degenerative disease."
Refined sugar is lethal when ingested by humans because it provides only that which nutritionists describe as "empty" or "naked" calories. It lacks the natural minerals which are present in the sugar beet or cane. In addition, sugar is worse than nothing because it drains and leaches the body of precious vitamins and minerals through the demand its digestion, detoxification and elimination makes upon one's entire system. So essential is balance to our bodies that we have many ways to provide against the sudden shock of a heavy intake of sugar. Minerals such as sodium (from salt), potassium and magnesium (from vegetables), and calcium (from the bones) are mobilized and used in chemical transmutation; neutral acids are produced which attempt to return the acid-alkaline balance factor of the blood to a more normal state.
Sugar taken every day produces a continuously over-acid condition, and more and more minerals are required from deep in the body in the attempt to rectify the imbalance. Finally, in order to protect the blood, so much calcium is taken from the bones and teeth that decay and general weakening begin. Excess sugar eventually affects every organ in the body. Initially, it is stored in the liver in the form of glucose (glycogen). Since the liver's capacity is limited, a daily intake of refined sugar (above the required amount of natural sugar) soon makes the liver expand like a balloon. When the liver is filled to its maximum capacity, the excess glycogen is returned to the blood in the form of fatty acids. These are taken to every part of the body and stored in the most inactive areas: the belly, the buttocks, the breasts and the thighs.
When these comparatively harmless places are completely filled, fatty acids are then distributed among active organs, such as the heart and kidneys. These begin to slow down; finally their tissues degenerate and turn to fat. The whole body is affected by their reduced ability, and abnormal blood pressure is created. The parasympathetic nervous system is affected; and organs governed by it, such as the small brain, become inactive or paralyzed. The circulatory and lymphatic systems are invaded, and the quality of the red corpuscles starts to change. An overabundance of white cells occurs, and the creation of tissue becomes slower. Our body's tolerance and immunizing power becomes more limited, so we cannot respond properly to extreme attacks, whether they be cold, heat, mosquitoes or microbes.
Excessive sugar has a strong mal-effect on the functioning of the brain. The key to orderly brain function is glutamic acid, a vital compound found in many vegetables. The B vitamins play a major role in dividing glutamic acid into antagonistic-complementary compounds which produce a "proceed" or "control" response in the brain. B vitamins are also manufactured by symbiotic bacteria which live in our intestines. When refined sugar is taken daily, these bacteria wither and die, and our stock of B vitamins gets very low. Too much sugar makes one sleepy; our ability to calculate and remember is lost.
Sugar: Harmful to Humans and Animals
Shipwrecked sailors who ate and drank nothing but sugar and rum for nine days surely went through some of this trauma; the tales they had to tell created a big public relations problem for the sugar pushers. This incident occurred when a vessel carrying a cargo of sugar was shipwrecked in 1793. The five surviving sailors were finally rescued after being marooned for nine days. They were in a wasted condition due to starvation, having consumed nothing but sugar and rum. The eminent French physiologist F. Magendie was inspired by that incident to conduct a series of experiments with animals, the results of which he published in 1816. In the experiments, he fed dogs a diet of sugar or olive oil and water. All the dogs wasted and died.
The shipwrecked sailors and the French physiologist's experimental dogs proved the same point. As a steady diet, sugar is worse than nothing. Plain water can keep you alive for quite some time. Sugar and water can kill you. Humans [and animals] are "unable to subsist on a diet of sugar". The dead dogs in Professor Magendie's laboratory alerted the sugar industry to the hazards of free scientific inquiry. From that day to this, the sugar industry has invested millions of dollars in behind-the-scenes, subsidized science. The best scientific names that money could buy have been hired, in the hope that they could one day come up with something at least pseudoscientific in the way of glad tidings about sugar.
It has been proved, however, that (1) sugar is a major factor in dental decay; (2) sugar in a person's diet does cause overweight; (3) removal of sugar from diets has cured symptoms of crippling, worldwide diseases such as diabetes, cancer and heart illnesses. Sir Frederick Banting, the co-discoverer of insulin, noticed in 1929 in Panama that, among sugar plantation owners who ate large amounts of their refined stuff, diabetes was common. Among native cane-cutters, who only got to chew the raw cane, he saw no diabetes. However, the story of the public relations attempts on the part of the sugar manufacturers began in Britain in 1808 when the Committee of West India reported to the House of Commons that a prize of twenty-five guineas had been offered to anyone who could come up with the most "satisfactory" experiments to prove that unrefined sugar was good for feeding and fattening oxen, cows, hogs and sheep.
Food for animals is often seasonal, always expensive. Sugar, by then, was dirt cheap. People weren't eating it fast enough. Naturally, the attempt to feed livestock with sugar and molasses in England in 1808 was a disaster. When the Committee on West India made its fourth report to the House of Commons, one Member of Parliament, John Curwin, reported that he had tried to feed sugar and molasses to calves without success. He suggested that perhaps someone should try again by sneaking sugar and molasses into skimmed milk. Had anything come of that, you can be sure the West Indian sugar merchants would have spread the news around the world. After this singular lack of success in pushing sugar in cow pastures, the West Indian sugar merchants gave up.
With undaunted zeal for increasing the market demand for the most important agricultural product of the West Indies, the Committee of West India was reduced to a tactic that has served the sugar pushers for almost 200 years: irrelevant and transparently silly testimonials from faraway, inaccessible people with some kind of "scientific" credentials. While preparing his epochal volume, A History of Nutrition, published in 1957, Professor E. V. McCollum (Johns Hopkins University), sometimes called America's foremost nutritionist and certainly a pioneer in the field, reviewed approximately 200,000 published scientific papers, recording experiments with food, their properties, their utilization and their effects on animals and men. The material covered the period from the mid-18th century to 1940. From this great repository of scientific inquiry, McCollum selected those experiments which he regarded as significant "to relate the story of progress in discovering human error in this segment of Science [of nutrition]".
Professor McCollum failed to record a single controlled scientific experiment with sugar between 1816 and 1940. Unhappily, we must remind ourselves that scientists today, and always, accomplish little without a sponsor. The protocols of modern science have compounded the costs of scientific inquiry. We have no right to be surprised when we read the introduction to McCollum's A History of Nutrition and find that "The author and publishers are indebted to The Nutrition Foundation, Inc., for a grant provided to meet a portion of the cost of publication of this book". What, you might ask, is The Nutrition Foundation, Inc.? The author and the publishers don't tell you. It happens to be a front organization for the leading sugar-pushing conglomerates in the food business, including the American Sugar Refining Company, Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Curtis Candy Co., General Foods, General Mills, Nestlé Co., Pet Milk Co. and Sunshine Biscuits--about 45 such companies in all. Perhaps the most significant thing about McCollum's 1957 history was what he left out: a monumental earlier work described by an eminent Harvard professor as "one of those epochal pieces of research which makes every other investigator desirous of kicking himself because he never thought of doing the same thing".
In the 1930s, a research dentist from Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Weston A. Price, traveled all over the world--from the lands of the Eskimos to the South Sea Islands, from Africa to New Zealand. His Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects, which is illustrated with hundreds of photographs, was first published in 1939. Dr. Price took the whole world as his laboratory. His devastating conclusion, recorded in horrifying detail in area after area, was simple. People who live under so-called backward primitive conditions had excellent teeth and wonderful general health. They ate natural, unrefined food from their own locale. As soon as refined, sugared foods were imported as a result of contact with "civilization," physical degeneration began in a way that was definitely observable within a single generation. Any credibility the sugar pushers have is based on our ignorance of works like that of Dr. Price.
Sugar manufacturers keep trying, hoping and contributing generous research grants to colleges and universities; but the research laboratories never come up with anything solid the manufacturers can use. Invariably, the research results are bad news. "Let us go to the ignorant savage, consider his way of eating and be wise," Harvard professor Ernest Hooten said in Apes, Men, and Morons. "Let us cease pretending that toothbrushes and toothpaste are any more important than shoe brushes and shoe polish. It is store food that has given us store teeth." When the researchers bite the hands that feed them, and the news gets out, it's embarrassing all around. In 1958, Time magazine reported that a Harvard biochemist and his assistants had worked with myriads of mice for more than ten years, bankrolled by the Sugar Research Foundation, Inc. to the tune of $57,000, to find out how sugar causes dental cavities and how to prevent this. It took them ten years to discover that there was no way to prevent sugar causing dental decay. When the researchers reported their findings in the Dental Association Journal, their source of money dried up. The Sugar Research Foundation withdrew its support. The more that the scientists disappointed them, the more the sugar pushers had to rely on the ad men.
Sucrose: "Pure Energy at a Price"
When calories became the big thing in the 1920s, and everybody was learning to count them, the sugar pushers turned up with a new pitch. They boasted there were 2,500 calories in a pound of sugar. A little over a quarter-pound of sugar would produce 20 per cent of the total daily quota. "If you could buy all your food energy as cheaply as you buy calories in sugar," they told us, "your board bill for the year would be very low. If sugar were seven cents a pound, it would cost less than $35 for a whole year." A very inexpensive way to kill yourself. "Of course, we don't live on any such unbalanced diet," they admitted later. "But that figure serves to point out how inexpensive sugar is as an energy-building food. What was once a luxury only a privileged few could enjoy is now a food for the poorest of people."
Later, the sugar pushers advertised that sugar was chemically pure, topping Ivory soap in that department, being 99.9 per cent pure against Ivory's vaunted 99.44 per cent. "No food of our everyday diet is purer," we were assured. What was meant by purity, besides the unarguable fact that all vitamins, minerals, salts, fibers and proteins had been removed in the refining process? Well, the sugar pushers came up with a new slant on purity. "You don't have to sort it like beans, wash it like rice. Every grain is like every other. No waste attends its use. No useless bones like in meat, no grounds like coffee." "Pure" is a favorite adjective of the sugar pushers because it means one thing to the chemists and another thing to the ordinary mortals. When honey is labeled pure, this means that it is in its natural state (stolen directly from the bees who made it), with no adulteration with sucrose to stretch it and no harmful chemical residues which may have been sprayed on the flowers. It does not mean that the honey is free from minerals like iodine, iron, calcium, phosphorus or multiple vitamins. So effective is the purification process which sugar cane and beets undergo in the refineries that sugar ends up as chemically pure as the morphine or the heroin a chemist has on the laboratory shelves.
What nutritional virtue this abstract chemical purity represents, the sugar pushers never tell us. Beginning with World War I, the sugar pushers coated their propaganda with a preparedness pitch. "Dietitians have known the high food value of sugar for a long time," said an industry tract of the 1920s. "But it took World War I to bring this home. The energy-building power of sugar reaches the muscles in minutes and it was of value to soldiers as a ration given them just before an attack was launched." The sugar pushers have been harping on the energy-building power of sucrose for years because it contains nothing else. Caloric energy and habit-forming taste: that's what sucrose has, and nothing else. All other foods contain energy plus. All foods contain some nutrients in the way of proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins or minerals, or all of these. Sucrose contains caloric energy, period.
The "quick" energy claim the sugar pushers talk about, which drives reluctant doughboys over the top and drives children up the wall, is based on the fact that refined sucrose is not digested in the mouth or the stomach but passes directly to the lower intestines and thence to the bloodstream. The extra speed with which sucrose enters the bloodstream does more harm than good. Much of the public confusion about refined sugar is compounded by language. Sugars are classified by chemists as "carbohydrates". This manufactured word means "a substance containing carbon with oxygen and hydrogen". If chemists want to use these hermetic terms in their laboratories when they talk to one another, fine. The use of the word "carbohydrate" outside the laboratory-especially in food labeling and advertising lingo--to describe both natural, complete cereal grains (which have been a principal food of mankind for thousands of years) and man-refined sugar (which is a manufactured drug and principal poison of mankind for only a few hundred years) is demonstrably wicked. This kind of confusion makes possible the flimflam practiced by sugar pushers to confound anxious mothers into thinking kiddies need sugar to survive.
The use of the word "carbohydrate" to describe sugar is deliberately misleading. Since the improved labeling of nutritional properties was required on packages and cans, refined carbohydrates like sugar are lumped together with those carbohydrates which may or may not be refined. The several types of carbohydrates are added together for an overall carbohydrate total. Thus, the effect of the label is to hide the sugar content from the unwary buyer. Chemists add to the confusion by using the word "sugar" to describe an entire group of substances that are similar but not identical. Glucose is a sugar found usually with other sugars, in fruits and vegetables. It is a key material in the metabolism of all plants and animals. Many of our principal foods are converted into glucose in our bodies. Glucose is always present in our bloodstream, and it is often called "blood sugar". Dextrose, also called "corn sugar", is derived synthetically from starch. Fructose is fruit sugar. Maltose is malt sugar. Lactose is milk sugar. Sucrose is refined sugar made from sugar cane and sugar beet. Glucose has always been an essential element in the human bloodstream. Sucrose addiction is something new in the history of the human animal.
To use the word "sugar" to describe two substances which are far from being identical, which have different chemical structures and which affect the body in profoundly different ways compounds confusion. It makes possible more flimflam from the sugar pushers who tell us how important sugar is as an essential component of the human body, how it is oxidized to produce energy, how it is metabolized to produce warmth, and so on. They're talking about glucose, of course, which is manufactured in our bodies. However, one is led to believe that the manufacturers are talking about the sucrose which is made in their refineries. When the word "sugar" can mean the glucose in your blood as well as the sucrose in your Coca-Cola, it's great for the sugar pushers but it's rough on everybody else.
People have been bamboozled into thinking of their bodies the way they think of their checking accounts. If they suspect they have low blood sugar, they are programmed to snack on vending machine candies and sodas in order to raise their blood sugar level. Actually, this is the worst thing to do. The level of glucose in their blood is apt to be low because they are addicted to sucrose. People who kick sucrose addiction and stay off sucrose find that the glucose level of their blood returns to normal and stays there. Since the late 1960s, millions of Americans have returned to natural food. A new type of store, the natural food store, has encouraged many to become dropouts from the supermarket. Natural food can be instrumental in restoring health. Many people, therefore, have come to equate the word "natural" with "healthy". So the sugar pushers have begun to pervert the word "natural" in order to mislead the public. "Made from natural ingredients", the television sugar-pushers tell us about product after product. The word "from" is not accented on television. It should be. Even refined sugar is made from natural ingredients. There is nothing new about that. The natural ingredients are cane and beets. But that four-letter word "from" hardly suggests that 90 per cent of the cane and beet have been removed. Heroin, too, could be advertised as being made from natural ingredients. The opium poppy is as natural as the sugar beet. It's what man does with it that tells the story. If you want to avoid sugar in the supermarket, there is only one sure way. Don't buy anything unless it says on the label prominently, in plain English: "No sugar added". Use of the word "carbohydrate" as a "scientific" word for sugar has become a standard defense strategy with sugar pushers and many of their medical apologists. It's their security blanket.
Correct Food Combining
Whether it's sugared cereal or pastry and black coffee for breakfast, whether it's hamburgers and Coca-Cola for lunch or the full "gourmet" dinner in the evening, chemically the average American diet is a formula that guarantees bubble, bubble, stomach trouble. Unless you've taken too much insulin and, in a state of insulin shock, need sugar as an antidote, hardly anyone ever has cause to take sugar alone. Humans need sugar as much as they need the nicotine in tobacco. Crave it is one thing--need it is another. From the days of the Persian Empire to our own, sugar has usually been used to hop up the flavor of other food and drink, as an ingredient in the kitchen or as a condiment at the table. Let us leave aside for the moment the known effect of sugar (long-term and short-term) on the entire system and concentrate on the effect of sugar taken in combination with other daily foods.
When Grandma warned that sugared cookies before meals "will spoil your supper", she knew what she was talking about. Her explanation might not have satisfied a chemist but, as with many traditional axioms from the Mosaic law on kosher food and separation in the kitchen, such rules are based on years of trial and error and are apt to be right on the button. Most modern research in combining food is a labored discovery of the things Grandma took for granted. Any diet or regimen undertaken for the single purpose of losing weight is dangerous, by definition. Obesity is talked about and treated as a disease in 20th-century America. Obesity is not a disease. It is only a symptom, a sign, a warning that your body is out of order. Dieting to lose weight is as silly and dangerous as taking aspirin to relieve a headache before you know the reason for the headache.
Getting rid of a symptom is like turning off an alarm. It leaves the basic cause untouched. Any diet or regimen undertaken with any objective short of restoration of total health of your body is dangerous. Many overweight people are undernourished. (Dr. H. Curtis Wood stresses this point in his 1971 book, Overfed But Undernourished.) Eating less can aggravate this condition, unless one is concerned with the quality of the food instead of just its quantity. Many people--doctors included--assume that if weight is lost, fat is lost. This is not necessarily so. Any diet which lumps all carbohydrates together is dangerous. Any diet which does not consider the quality of carbohydrates and makes the crucial life-and-death distinction between natural, unrefined carbohydrates like whole grains and vegetables and man-refined carbohydrates like sugar and white flour is dangerous. Any diet which includes refined sugar and white flour, no matter what "scientific" name is applied to them, is dangerous.
Kicking sugar and white flour and substituting whole grains, vegetables and natural fruits in season, is the core of any sensible natural regimen. Changing the quality of your carbohydrates can change the quality of your health and life. If you eat natural food of good quality, quantity tends to take care of itself. Nobody is going to eat a half-dozen sugar beets or a whole case of sugar cane. Even if they do, it will be less dangerous than a few ounces of refined sugar. Sugar of all kinds--natural sugars, such as those in honey and fruit (fructose), as well as the refined white stuff (sucrose)--tends to arrest the secretion of gastric juices and have an inhibiting effect on the stomach's natural ability to move. Sugars are not digested in the mouth, like cereals, or in the stomach, like animal flesh. When taken alone, they pass quickly through the stomach into the small intestine. When sugars are eaten with other foods--perhaps meat and bread in a sandwich-they are held up in the stomach for a while.
The sugar in the bread and the Coke sit there with the hamburger and the bun waiting for them to be digested. While the stomach is working on the animal protein and the refined starch in the bread, the addition of the sugar practically guarantees rapid acid fermentation under the conditions of warmth and moisture existing in the stomach. One lump of sugar in your coffee after a sandwich is enough to turn your stomach into a fermenter. One soda with a hamburger is enough to turn your stomach into a still. Sugar on cereal--whether you buy it already sugared in a box or add it yourself--almost guarantees acid fermentation.
Since the beginning of time, natural laws were observed, in both senses of that word, when it came to eating foods in combination. Birds have been observed eating insects at one period in the day and seeds at another. Other animals tend to eat one food at a time. Flesh-eating animals take their protein raw and straight. In the Orient, it is traditional to eat yang before yin. Miso soup (fermented soybean protein, yang) for breakfast; raw fish (more yang protein) at the beginning of the meal; afterwards comes the rice (which is less yang than the miso and fish); and then the vegetables which are yin. If you ever eat with a traditional Japanese family and you violate this order, the Orientals (if your friends) will correct you courteously but firmly. The law observed by Orthodox Jews prohibits many combinations at the same meal, especially flesh and dairy products. Special utensils for the dairy meal and different utensils for the flesh meal reinforce that taboo at the food's source in the kitchen.
Man learned very early in the game what improper combinations of food could do to the human system. When he got a stomach ache from combining raw fruit with grain, or honey with porridge, he didn't reach for an antacid tablet. He learned not to eat that way. When gluttony and excess became widespread, religious codes and commandments were invoked against it. Gluttony is a capital sin in most religions; but there are no specific religious warnings or commandments against refined sugar because sugar abuse-like drug abuse-did not appear on the world scene until centuries after holy books had gone to press.
"Why must we accept as normal what we find in a race of sick and weakened human beings?" Dr. Herbert M. Shelton asks. "Must we always take it for granted that the present eating practices of civilized men are normal?... Foul stools, loose stools, impacted stools, pebbly stools, much foul gas, colitis, hemorrhoids, bleeding with stools, the need for toilet paper are swept into the orbit of the normal."
When starches and complex sugars (like those in honey and fruits) are digested, they are broken down into simple sugars called "monosaccharides", which are usable substances-nutriments. When starches and sugars are taken together and undergo fermentation, they are broken down into carbon dioxide, acetic acid, alcohol and water. With the exception of the water, all these are unusable substances-poisons. When proteins are digested, they are broken down into amino acids, which are usable substances-nutriments. When proteins are taken with sugar, they putrefy; they are broken down into a variety of ptomaines and leucomaines, which are nonusable substances-poisons. Enzymic digestion of foods prepares them for use by our body. Bacterial decomposition makes them unfit for use by our body. The first process gives us nutriments; the second gives us poisons.
Much that passes for modern nutrition is obsessed with a mania for quantitative counting. The body is treated like a check account. Deposit calories (like dollars) and withdraw energy. Deposit proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals-balanced quantitatively-and the result, theoretically, is a healthy body. People qualify as healthy today if they can crawl out of bed, get to the office and sign in. If they can't make it, call the doctor to qualify for sick pay, hospitalization, rest cure-anything from a day's pay without working to an artificial kidney, courtesy of the taxpayers. But what does it profit someone if the theoretically required calories and nutrients are consumed daily, yet this random eat-on-the-run, snack-time collection of foods ferments and putrefies in the digestive tract? What good is it if the body is fed protein, only to have it putrefy in the gastrointestinal canal? Carbohydrates that ferment in the digestive tract are converted into alcohol and acetic acid, not digestible monosaccharides. "To derive sustenance from foods eaten, they must be digested," Shelton warned years ago. "They must not rot." Sure, the body can get rid of poisons through the urine and the pores; the amount of poisons in the urine is taken as an index to what's going on in the intestine. The body does establish a tolerance for these poisons, just as it adjusts gradually to an intake of heroin. But, says Shelton, "the discomfort from accumulation of gas, the bad breath, and foul and unpleasant odors are as undesirable as are the poisons".
Sugar and Mental Health
In the Dark Ages, troubled souls were rarely locked up for going off their rocker. Such confinement began in the Age of Enlightenment, after sugar made the transition from apothecary's prescription to candy maker's confection. "The great confinement of the insane", as one historian calls it,10 began in the late 17th century, after sugar consumption in Britain had zoomed in 200 years from a pinch or two in a barrel of beer, here and there, to more than two million pounds per year. By that time, physicians in London had begun to observe and record terminal physical signs and symptoms of the "sugar blues".
Meanwhile, when sugar eaters did not manifest obvious terminal physical symptoms and the physicians were professionally bewildered, patients were no longer pronounced bewitched, but mad, insane, emotionally disturbed. Laziness, fatigue, debauchery, parental displeasure--any one problem was sufficient cause for people under twenty-five to be locked up in the first Parisian mental hospitals. All it took to be incarcerated was a complaint from parents, relatives or the omnipotent parish priest. Wet nurses with their babies, pregnant youngsters, retarded or defective children, senior citizens, paralytics, epileptics, prostitutes or raving lunatics--anyone wanted off the streets and out of sight was put away. The mental hospital succeeded witch-hunting and heresy-hounding as a more enlightened and humane method of social control. The physician and priest handled the dirty work of street sweeping in return for royal favors.
Initially, when the General Hospital was established in Paris by royal decree, one per cent of the city's population was locked up. From that time until the 20th century, as the consumption of sugar went up and up--especially in the cities--so did the number of people who were put away in the General Hospital. Three hundred years later, the "emotionally disturbed" can be turned into walking automatons, their brains controlled with psychoactive drugs. Today, pioneers of orthomolecular psychiatry, such as Dr. Abram Hoffer, Dr. Allan Cott, Dr. A. Cherkin as well as Dr. Linus Pauling, have confirmed that mental illness is a myth and that emotional disturbance can be merely the first symptom of the obvious inability of the human system to handle the stress of sugar dependency. In Orthomolecular Psychiatry, Dr. Pauling writes: "The functioning of the brain and nervous tissue is more sensitively dependent on the rate of chemical reactions than the functioning of other organs and tissues. I believe that mental disease is for the most part caused by abnormal reaction rates, as determined by genetic constitution and diet, and by abnormal molecular concentrations of essential substances. Selection of food (and drugs) in a world that is undergoing rapid scientific and technological change may often be far from the best."
In Megavitamin B3 Therapy for Schizophrenia, Dr. Abram Hoffer notes: "Patients are also advised to follow a good nutritional program with restriction of sucrose and sucrose-rich foods." Clinical research with hyperactive and psychotic children, as well as those with brain injuries and learning disabilities, has shown: "An abnormally high family history of diabetes--that is, parents and grandparents who cannot handle sugar; an abnormally high incidence of low blood glucose, or functional hypoglycemia in the children themselves, which indicates that their systems cannot handle sugar; dependence on a high level of sugar in the diets of the very children who cannot handle it. "Inquiry into the dietary history of patients diagnosed as schizophrenic reveals the diet of their choice is rich in sweets, candy, cakes, coffee, caffeinated beverages, and foods prepared with sugar. These foods, which stimulate the adrenals, should be eliminated or severely restricted."
The avant-garde of modern medicine has rediscovered what the lowly sorceress learned long ago through painstaking study of nature. "In more than twenty years of psychiatric work," writes Dr. Thomas Szasz, "I have never known a clinical psychologist to report, on the basis of a projective test, that the subject is a normal, mentally healthy person. While some witches may have survived dunking, no 'madman' survives psychological testing...there is no behavior or person that a modern psychiatrist cannot plausibly diagnose as abnormal or ill." So it was in the 17th century. Once the doctor or the exorcist had been called in, he was under pressure to do something. When he tried and failed, the poor patient had to be put away. It is often said that surgeons bury their mistakes. Physicians and psychiatrists put them away; lock 'em up.
In the 1940s, Dr. John Tintera rediscovered the vital importance of the endocrine system, especially the adrenal glands, in "pathological mentation"-or "brain boggling". In 200 cases under treatment for hypoadrenocorticism (the lack of adequate adrenal cortical hormone production or imbalance among these hormones), he discovered that the chief complaints of his patients were often similar to those found in persons whose systems were unable to handle sugar: fatigue, nervousness, depression, apprehension, craving for sweets, inability to handle alcohol, inability to concentrate, allergies, low blood pressure. Sugar blues!
Dr. Tintera finally insisted that all his patients submit to a four-hour glucose tolerance test (GTT) to find out whether or not they could handle sugar. The results were so startling that the laboratories double-checked their techniques, then apologized for what they believed to be incorrect readings. What mystified them was the low, flat curves derived from disturbed, early adolescents. This laboratory procedure had been previously carried out only for patients with physical findings presumptive of diabetes. Dorland's definition of schizophrenia (Bleuler's dementia praecox) includes the phrase, "often recognized during or shortly after adolescence", and further, in reference to hebephrenia and catatonia, "coming on soon after the onset of puberty". These conditions might seem to arise or become aggravated at puberty, but probing into the patient's past will frequently reveal indications which were present at birth, during the first year of life, and through the preschool and grammar school years. Each of these periods has its own characteristic clinical picture.
This picture becomes more marked at pubescence and often causes school officials to complain of juvenile delinquency or underachievement. A glucose tolerance test at any of these periods could alert parents and physicians and could save innumerable hours and small fortunes spent in looking into the child's psyche and home environment for maladjustments of questionable significance in the emotional development of the average child. The negativism, hyperactivity and obstinate resentment of discipline are absolute indications for at least the minimum laboratory tests: urinalysis, complete blood count, PBI determination, and the five-hour glucose tolerance test. A GTT can be performed on a young child by the micro-method without undue trauma to the patient. As a matter of fact, I have been urging that these four tests be routine for all patients, even before a history or physical examination is undertaken. In almost all discussions on drug addiction, alcoholism and schizophrenia, it is claimed that there is no definite constitutional type that falls prey to these afflictions.
Almost universally, the statement is made that all of these individuals are emotionally immature. It has long been our goal to persuade every physician, whether oriented toward psychiatry, genetics or physiology, to recognize that one type of endocrine individual is involved in the majority of these cases: the hypoadrenocortic.15 Tintera published several epochal medical papers. Over and over, he emphasized that improvement, alleviation, palliation or cure was "dependent upon the restoration of the normal function of the total organism". His first prescribed item of treatment was diet. Over and over again, he said that "the importance of diet cannot be overemphasized". He laid out a sweeping permanent injunction against sugar in all forms and guises.
While Egas Moniz of Portugal was receiving a Nobel Prize for devising the lobotomy operation for the treatment of schizophrenia, Tintera's reward was to be harassment and hounding by the pundits of organized medicine. While Tintera's sweeping implication of sugar as a cause of what was called "schizophrenia" could be confined to medical journals, he was let alone, ignored. He could be tolerated-if he stayed in his assigned territory, endocrinology. Even when he suggested that alcoholism was related to adrenals that had been whipped by sugar abuse, they let him alone; because the medicos had decided there was nothing in alcoholism for them except aggravation, they were satisfied to abandon it to Alcoholics Anonymous.
However, when Tintera dared to suggest in a magazine of general circulation that "it is ridiculous to talk of kinds of allergies when there is only one kind, which is adrenal glands impaired...by sugar", he could no longer be ignored. The allergists had a great racket going for themselves. Allergic souls had been entertaining each other for years with tall tales of exotic allergies-everything from horse feathers to lobster tails. Along comes someone who says none of this matters: take them off sugar, and keep them off it.
Perhaps Tintera's untimely death in 1969 at the age of fifty-seven made it easier for the medical profession to accept discoveries that had once seemed as far out as the simple oriental medical thesis of genetics and diet, yin and yang. Today, doctors all over the world are repeating what Tintera announced years ago: nobody, but nobody, should ever be allowed to begin what is called "psychiatric treatment", anyplace, anywhere, unless and until they have had a glucose tolerance test to discover if they can handle sugar. So-called preventive medicine goes further and suggests that since we only think we can handle sugar because we initially have strong adrenals, why wait until they give us signs and signals that they're worn out? Take the load off now by eliminating sugar in all forms and guises, starting with that soda pop you have in your hand. The mind truly boggles when one glances over what passes for medical history. Through the centuries, troubled souls have been barbecued for bewitchment, exorcised for possession, locked up for insanity, tortured for masturbatory madness, psychiatrised for psychosis, lobotomized for schizophrenia. How many patients would have listened if the local healer had told them that the only thing ailing them was sugar blues?
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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The prime reason for this, is that just about everyone either wants to have more energy, or lose weight...or BOTH.
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Each bottle of EPIC NRG contains 45 individual 2 capsule packages, or a total of 90 capsules.
While the recommended daily is 2 capsules, most people who weigh less than 250lbs will only need to take 1 capsule per day.
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
Herbal Klenz Tea
HERBAL KLENZ TEA – is a synergistic blend of safe, all-natural ingredients designed to gently cleanse the digestive tract and detoxify the body.
HERBAL KLENZ TEA is based on an amazing medicinal herb called Holy Thistle, known to have been used with phenomenal effect worldwide by healers for more than 2000 years.
HERBAL KLENZ TEA has been formulated to be as beneficial for you as Holy Thistle has been for over 60 generations of people around the world.
HERBAL KLENZ TEA may be used as a detoxifying, cleansing tea, or as an adjunct to any Weight Loss Program and is more effective than Chinese Green Tea.
Many happy HERBAL KLENZ TEA drinkers report that drinking HERBAL KLENZ TEA regularly often results in a reduction in the amount of stored fat in the body.
Simply by drinking two 8-ounce cups per day, tens of thousands of folks just like you have successfully taken inches off their belly and reduced body fat. (Without dieting or giving up any of their favorite foods).
Other Reported Herbal Klenz Tea Benefits Include:
Experience more energy*
Restore mental clarity and improve memory*
Achieve relief from allergies and hay fever*
Clean out pharmaceutical drug residues and heavy metals*
Cleanse the colon, kidneys, liver, and lungs*
Improve digestion and the absorption of nutrients*
Detoxify chemicals created by parasites, fungi, yeast, and bad bacteria in the colon and digestive tract*
Remove toxins from the blood, organs, and entire digestive system*
Restore regularity*
Ease constipation, hard stools, and hemorrhoids*
Relieve digestive ailments such as Acid Reflux (GERD), Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Crohn's Disease, Diverticulitis, Colitis*
Clear up skin conditions caused by internal toxins being excreted through sweat glands*
Have skin which is healthy, soft, and younger-looking*
Aid in reducing high LDL cholesterol and hypertension*
HERBAL KLENZ Tea Usage Instructions:
HERBAL KLENZ Tea is a unique blend of beneficial natural herbal ingredients: Holy Thistle, Blessed Thistle, Senna Leaf, Althea / Marshmallow Root, Peppermint Leaf, Chamomile, Uva Ursi, Chickweed, Rose Hips, Caa Inhem (Stevia Rebaudiana), Orange Peel, and Honeysuckle.
HERBAL KLENZ Tea, depending on how it is prepared, is actually a product that performs two totally different functions.
Function one is a relaxing herbal tea that may be used on a daily basis, and is best consumed either hot or cold last thing at night.
Function two is a detoxifying, cleansing tea that may be used to help rid the body of toxins.
Daily usage (Function one):
To prepare the tea for this function, bring 8oz of pure water to a boil and the let it cool slightly (until it stops bubbling).
Place a single tea bag into the water and let it steep for no more than a two minutes.
Although it tastes great without the addition of sweeteners, you may add raw sugar or honey if desired to further sweeten the taste.
Then, depending on how you like you tea, either drink the tea hot, or let it cool first.
Use as a Detoxing Tea (Function two):
To prepare the tea for this function bring one gallon of pure water in a stainless steel of glass saucepan to a boil and the let it cool slightly (until it stops bubbling).
Then add 4 tea bags, cover with a lid and let it steep for eight hours or more (overnight works fine).
Then pour the entire mixture into a container with an airtight lid (such as a Tupperware jug) and refrigerate your new batch of tea.
While you can drink your tea hot or as an iced tea, drinking your tea at body temperature is actually the most beneficial.
It has been suggested that it is best to drink your tea while eating food. Drink about 8 ounces with breakfast and/or dinner, and drink about 4 ounces with a snack or a light lunch. A standard teacup holds about 6 ounces.
If you feel a need to drink more or less of your tea, feel free. Just remember that it is a cathartic and detoxifying tea...it is likely you may experience slight discomfort during the first few days as you go through the initial cleansing and elimination of accumulated toxins and old waste material.
It is not unusual to be going to the bathroom more frequently for a few days, so plan ahead if you are not at home. You should start to "go" more frequently, two or three times a day...which is actually more natural than the once or less a day most of us "go" now. You will rapidly notice that your "movements" are less strained, more natural.
As a natural cleanser, this tea will help remove the old, decayed, impacted fecal matter in your colon without stressful enemas or colonics. As you continue to drink your tea every day, you will be removing more and more toxins. You will start to feel better and have more energy as you become cleaner inside.
As an extra benefit, as the junk is being removed from your colon, you may notice your abdomen start to shrink. Many users report losing pounds of excess weight and inches from their waistline.
IMPORTANT NOTE 1: The human body is NOT designed to undergo the stress of this type of "Detox" on a permanent basis.
We strongly suggest that users do not initially use the tea at this strength for more than 2 weeks and then give their body a 4 week break before starting the two week detox a second time.
Then after the second cycle, a simple 1 week on and 4 weeks off should be most effective for most people.
Naturally you may continue to enjoy a cup of the tea at normal strength whenever you wish during the weeks you are not using the detox function.
IMPORTANT NOTE 2: When used as a detox, this is a very potent mixture containing natural herbs which act as a cathartic.
Women who are pregnant or nursing and children under 12 should not use this product.
Elderly persons, young children, and individuals suffering from any illness or health condition should consult with their personal physician prior to using this or any other herbal supplement.
IMPORTANT NOTE 3: When detoxing your body, it is especially important to drink lots of water to help your kidneys, sweat glands, lymphatic system, lungs, and digestive tract flush out the toxins and waste material.
We strongly recommended that users should drink at least 8 cups (64 oz.) of pure water every day.
IMPORTANT NOTE 4: DO NOT MICROWAVE the tea!
Microwaves will destroy the natural enzymes and also render other important ingredients totally ineffective.
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*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
HERBAL KLENZ TEA is based on an amazing medicinal herb called Holy Thistle, known to have been used with phenomenal effect worldwide by healers for more than 2000 years.
HERBAL KLENZ TEA has been formulated to be as beneficial for you as Holy Thistle has been for over 60 generations of people around the world.
HERBAL KLENZ TEA may be used as a detoxifying, cleansing tea, or as an adjunct to any Weight Loss Program and is more effective than Chinese Green Tea.
Many happy HERBAL KLENZ TEA drinkers report that drinking HERBAL KLENZ TEA regularly often results in a reduction in the amount of stored fat in the body.
Simply by drinking two 8-ounce cups per day, tens of thousands of folks just like you have successfully taken inches off their belly and reduced body fat. (Without dieting or giving up any of their favorite foods).
Other Reported Herbal Klenz Tea Benefits Include:
Experience more energy*
Restore mental clarity and improve memory*
Achieve relief from allergies and hay fever*
Clean out pharmaceutical drug residues and heavy metals*
Cleanse the colon, kidneys, liver, and lungs*
Improve digestion and the absorption of nutrients*
Detoxify chemicals created by parasites, fungi, yeast, and bad bacteria in the colon and digestive tract*
Remove toxins from the blood, organs, and entire digestive system*
Restore regularity*
Ease constipation, hard stools, and hemorrhoids*
Relieve digestive ailments such as Acid Reflux (GERD), Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Crohn's Disease, Diverticulitis, Colitis*
Clear up skin conditions caused by internal toxins being excreted through sweat glands*
Have skin which is healthy, soft, and younger-looking*
Aid in reducing high LDL cholesterol and hypertension*
HERBAL KLENZ Tea Usage Instructions:
HERBAL KLENZ Tea is a unique blend of beneficial natural herbal ingredients: Holy Thistle, Blessed Thistle, Senna Leaf, Althea / Marshmallow Root, Peppermint Leaf, Chamomile, Uva Ursi, Chickweed, Rose Hips, Caa Inhem (Stevia Rebaudiana), Orange Peel, and Honeysuckle.
HERBAL KLENZ Tea, depending on how it is prepared, is actually a product that performs two totally different functions.
Function one is a relaxing herbal tea that may be used on a daily basis, and is best consumed either hot or cold last thing at night.
Function two is a detoxifying, cleansing tea that may be used to help rid the body of toxins.
Daily usage (Function one):
To prepare the tea for this function, bring 8oz of pure water to a boil and the let it cool slightly (until it stops bubbling).
Place a single tea bag into the water and let it steep for no more than a two minutes.
Although it tastes great without the addition of sweeteners, you may add raw sugar or honey if desired to further sweeten the taste.
Then, depending on how you like you tea, either drink the tea hot, or let it cool first.
Use as a Detoxing Tea (Function two):
To prepare the tea for this function bring one gallon of pure water in a stainless steel of glass saucepan to a boil and the let it cool slightly (until it stops bubbling).
Then add 4 tea bags, cover with a lid and let it steep for eight hours or more (overnight works fine).
Then pour the entire mixture into a container with an airtight lid (such as a Tupperware jug) and refrigerate your new batch of tea.
While you can drink your tea hot or as an iced tea, drinking your tea at body temperature is actually the most beneficial.
It has been suggested that it is best to drink your tea while eating food. Drink about 8 ounces with breakfast and/or dinner, and drink about 4 ounces with a snack or a light lunch. A standard teacup holds about 6 ounces.
If you feel a need to drink more or less of your tea, feel free. Just remember that it is a cathartic and detoxifying tea...it is likely you may experience slight discomfort during the first few days as you go through the initial cleansing and elimination of accumulated toxins and old waste material.
It is not unusual to be going to the bathroom more frequently for a few days, so plan ahead if you are not at home. You should start to "go" more frequently, two or three times a day...which is actually more natural than the once or less a day most of us "go" now. You will rapidly notice that your "movements" are less strained, more natural.
As a natural cleanser, this tea will help remove the old, decayed, impacted fecal matter in your colon without stressful enemas or colonics. As you continue to drink your tea every day, you will be removing more and more toxins. You will start to feel better and have more energy as you become cleaner inside.
As an extra benefit, as the junk is being removed from your colon, you may notice your abdomen start to shrink. Many users report losing pounds of excess weight and inches from their waistline.
IMPORTANT NOTE 1: The human body is NOT designed to undergo the stress of this type of "Detox" on a permanent basis.
We strongly suggest that users do not initially use the tea at this strength for more than 2 weeks and then give their body a 4 week break before starting the two week detox a second time.
Then after the second cycle, a simple 1 week on and 4 weeks off should be most effective for most people.
Naturally you may continue to enjoy a cup of the tea at normal strength whenever you wish during the weeks you are not using the detox function.
IMPORTANT NOTE 2: When used as a detox, this is a very potent mixture containing natural herbs which act as a cathartic.
Women who are pregnant or nursing and children under 12 should not use this product.
Elderly persons, young children, and individuals suffering from any illness or health condition should consult with their personal physician prior to using this or any other herbal supplement.
IMPORTANT NOTE 3: When detoxing your body, it is especially important to drink lots of water to help your kidneys, sweat glands, lymphatic system, lungs, and digestive tract flush out the toxins and waste material.
We strongly recommended that users should drink at least 8 cups (64 oz.) of pure water every day.
IMPORTANT NOTE 4: DO NOT MICROWAVE the tea!
Microwaves will destroy the natural enzymes and also render other important ingredients totally ineffective.
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*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The Ten Natural Laws of Health
What Causes Disease?
The underlying cause of ALL disease is diet and lifestyle. Malnutrition, dehydration, and stress compromises the immune system to the point that it can no longer function properly. To reverse disease requires a change in diet and lifestyle that most people don't know about, or are unwilling to make the necessary changes...opting instead for the quick-fix of modern medicine.
If you read the article Why Are So Many Sick, you understand that the 'sickness industry' has a vested interest in keeping you just well enough to return for more treatment and more drugs and/or surgery. There is very little profit in teaching you how to cure disease using The Ten Natural Laws of Health. These ten laws are discussed in detail by Dr. Lorraine Day, a medical doctor, in her video, You Can't Improve on God. Here's a preview:
1) Nutrition
This is the main section of her tape. In it she goes into great detail about what a cancer patient should and should not eat. She also goes into specific drinks (e.g. carrot juice) that help rebuild your immune system.
She also has many warnings, such as to not microwave your foods, don't have dental amalgam put in your mouth, don't consume too much protein, etc.
2) Exercise
She gives a lot of good reasons to exercise, such as reducing stress, reducing blood pressure, etc. In later items she also gives very good reasons to exercise outdoors.
3) Water
In this section she discusses all the physical and emotional problems that can result from not drinking enough water. To compound these problems, the symptoms of dehydration (read our article about coconut water) frequently lead a person to misdiagnose their problem.
4) Sunlight
She does a good job explaining why sunlight prevents cancer rather than causes cancer. The importance of sunlight is far more significant than most people realize. An item below is fresh air, thus she mentions that three items can be accomplished at the same time if you exercise outdoors (exercise, sunlight and fresh air).
5) Temperance (i.e. Abstinence)
In this section she gives a long list of things to avoid. These include coffee, sugar (read our article on sugar), alcohol, caffeine in general, etc. She notes that 70 cups of coffee is a fatal dose of coffee.
6) Air (i.e. Being Outdoors)
While this item is more than just being outdoors, the general direction is to get people outdoors or at least to open windows when you can. Her main discussion is about positive and negative ions.
7) Rest (i.e. Sleep)
She makes some good points that a person should go to bed with the sun. While this might be impossible in some cases, her point is to not stay up too late because the body follows the sun's cycles.
8) Trust in God
This discussion is in trusting God's wisdom (i.e. His foods, and His healing) rather than man's wisdom. She also discusses prayer and its importance.
9) An Attitude of Gratitude
In this section she talks about the problems of being exposed to negative situations, such as watching the always depressing T.V. news. She talks about giving up anger, thinking good thoughts, and so on. (be thankful for your illness...it forced you to seek God's solution)
10) Benevolence
She talks about helping others and praying for others.
If you would like to help others (Health Law number 10) become healthy and wealthy, join Healh Seekers
How to Get Paid to Advertise Your Business
The underlying cause of ALL disease is diet and lifestyle. Malnutrition, dehydration, and stress compromises the immune system to the point that it can no longer function properly. To reverse disease requires a change in diet and lifestyle that most people don't know about, or are unwilling to make the necessary changes...opting instead for the quick-fix of modern medicine.
If you read the article Why Are So Many Sick, you understand that the 'sickness industry' has a vested interest in keeping you just well enough to return for more treatment and more drugs and/or surgery. There is very little profit in teaching you how to cure disease using The Ten Natural Laws of Health. These ten laws are discussed in detail by Dr. Lorraine Day, a medical doctor, in her video, You Can't Improve on God. Here's a preview:
1) Nutrition
This is the main section of her tape. In it she goes into great detail about what a cancer patient should and should not eat. She also goes into specific drinks (e.g. carrot juice) that help rebuild your immune system.
She also has many warnings, such as to not microwave your foods, don't have dental amalgam put in your mouth, don't consume too much protein, etc.
2) Exercise
She gives a lot of good reasons to exercise, such as reducing stress, reducing blood pressure, etc. In later items she also gives very good reasons to exercise outdoors.
3) Water
In this section she discusses all the physical and emotional problems that can result from not drinking enough water. To compound these problems, the symptoms of dehydration (read our article about coconut water) frequently lead a person to misdiagnose their problem.
4) Sunlight
She does a good job explaining why sunlight prevents cancer rather than causes cancer. The importance of sunlight is far more significant than most people realize. An item below is fresh air, thus she mentions that three items can be accomplished at the same time if you exercise outdoors (exercise, sunlight and fresh air).
5) Temperance (i.e. Abstinence)
In this section she gives a long list of things to avoid. These include coffee, sugar (read our article on sugar), alcohol, caffeine in general, etc. She notes that 70 cups of coffee is a fatal dose of coffee.
6) Air (i.e. Being Outdoors)
While this item is more than just being outdoors, the general direction is to get people outdoors or at least to open windows when you can. Her main discussion is about positive and negative ions.
7) Rest (i.e. Sleep)
She makes some good points that a person should go to bed with the sun. While this might be impossible in some cases, her point is to not stay up too late because the body follows the sun's cycles.
8) Trust in God
This discussion is in trusting God's wisdom (i.e. His foods, and His healing) rather than man's wisdom. She also discusses prayer and its importance.
9) An Attitude of Gratitude
In this section she talks about the problems of being exposed to negative situations, such as watching the always depressing T.V. news. She talks about giving up anger, thinking good thoughts, and so on. (be thankful for your illness...it forced you to seek God's solution)
10) Benevolence
She talks about helping others and praying for others.
If you would like to help others (Health Law number 10) become healthy and wealthy, join Healh Seekers
How to Get Paid to Advertise Your Business
Monday, July 21, 2008
Essential Nutrients for Good Health
List of essential nutrients
Essential substances often not considered to be nutrients:
* Oxygen
* Water - click on M-Powerment Water
* Sunlight
Essential fatty acids:
* Linolenic acid (the shortest chain omega-3 fatty acid)
* Linoleic acid (the shortest chain omega-6 fatty acid)
Essential amino acids necessary for all humans:
* Histidine
* Isoleucine
* Lysine
* Leucine
* Methionine
* Phenylalanine
* Threonine
* Tryptophan
* Valine
Essential amino acids necessary for human children and not adults:
* Arginine
Vitamins:
* Biotin (vitamin B7, vitamin H)
* Choline (vitamin Bp)
* Folate (folic acid, vitamin B9, vitamin M)
* Niacin (vitamin B3, vitamin P, vitamin PP)
* Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5)
* Riboflavin (vitamin B2, vitamin G)
* Thiamine (vitamin B1)
* Vitamin A (retinol)
* Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine, pyridoxamine, or pyridoxal)
* Vitamin B12 (cobalamin)
* Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)
* Vitamin E (tocopherol)
* Vitamin K (naphthoquinoids)
Dietary minerals: Biochemical studies reported in 2006 indicate that the following elements (aside from constituent elements of other essential nutrients) are required for human health:[2]
* Calcium (Ca)
* Chloride (Cl-)
* Copper (Cu) [3]
* Iodine (I)
* Iron (Fe)
* Magnesium (Mg)
* Manganese (Mn) [4]
* Molybdenum (Mo)
* Nickel (Ni)[5]
* Phosphorus (P) (as phosphate)[6]
* Potassium (K)
* Selenium (Se) [7]
* Sodium (Na)
* Sulfur (S)
* Zinc (Zn) [8]
The body's requirements vary widely. At one extreme a 70 kg human contains 1.0 kg of calcium but only 3 mg of cobalt.[9]
Elements with speculated role in human health.
Many elements have been implicated at various times to have a role in human health. For none of these elements has a specific protein or complex been identified:
* Boron (B)
* Chromium (Cr)[5]
* Fluorine (F) (necessity unknown in humans)
* Silicon (Si)[5] (also present in rice husk)
If you purchased all these essential nutrients separately, it would cost over $300. And, you would have to take most of them in pill form which is the least effective way for your body to process nutrients.
Now look at the list of ingredients in a 32 ounce bottle of EPIC ULTRA All-in One liquid supplement... the best way to absorb nutrients in a balanced formula.
Order here.
Eat Healthy... Stay Healthy
Apples
Protects your heart
prevents constipation
Blocks diarrhea
Improves lung capacity
Cushions joints
Apricots
Combats cancer
Controls blood pressure
Saves your eyesight
Shields against Alzheimer's
Slows aging process
Artichokes
Aids digestion
Lowers cho les terol
Protects your heart
Stabilizes blood sugar
Guards against liver disease
Avocados
Batt les diabetes
Lowers cho les terol
Helps stops strokes
Controls blood pressure
Smoothes skin
Bananas
Protects your heart
Quiets a cough
Strengthens bones
Controls blood pressure
Blocks diarrhea
Beans
Prevents constipation
Helps hemorrhoids
Lowers cholesterol
Combats cancer
Stabilizes blood sugar
Beets
Controls blood pressure
Combats cancer
Strengthens bones
Protects your heart
Aids weight loss
Blueberries
Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Stabilizes blood sugar
Boosts memory
Prevents constipation
Broccoli
Strengthens bones
Saves eyesight
Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Controls blood pressure
Cabbage
Combats cancer
Prevents constipation
Promotes weight loss
Protects your heart
Helps hemorrhoids
Cantaloupe
Saves eyesight
Controls blood pressure
Lowers cholesterol
Combats cancer
Supports immune system
Carrots
Saves eyesight
Protects your heart
Prevents constipation
Combats cancer
Promotes weight loss
Cauliflower
Protects against Prostate Cancer
Combats Breast Cancer
Strengthens bones
Banishes bruises
Guards against heart disease
Cherries
Protects your heart
Combats Cancer
Ends insomnia
Slows aging process
Shields against Alzheimer's
Chestnuts
Promotes weight loss
Protects your heart
Lowers cholesterol
Combats Cancer
Controls blood pressure
Chili peppers
Aids digestion
Soothes sore throat
Clears sinuses
Combats Cancer
Boosts immune system
Figs
Promotes weight loss
Helps stops strokes
Lowers cholesterol
Combats Cancer
Controls blood pressure
Fish
Protects your heart
Boosts memory
Protects your heart
Combats Cancer
Supports immune system
Flax
Aids digestion
Batt les diabetes
Protects your heart
Improves mental health
Boosts immune system
Garlic
Lowers cho les terol
Controls blood pressure
Combats cancer
kills bacteria
Fights fungus
Grapefruit
Protects against heart attacks
Promotes Weight loss
Helps stops strokes
Combats Prostate Cancer
Lowers cho les terol
Grapes
saves eyesight
Conquers kidney stones
Combats cancer
Enhances blood flow
Protects your heart
Green tea
Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Helps stops strokes
Promotes Weight loss
Kills bacteria
Honey
Heals wounds
Aids digestion
Guards against ulcers
Increases energy
Fights allergies
Lemons
Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Controls blood pressure
Smoothes skin
Stops scurvy
Limes
Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Controls blood pressure
Smoothes skin
Stops scurvy
Mangoes
Combats cancer
Boosts memory
Regulates thyroid
aids digestion
Shields against Alzheimer's
Mushrooms
Controls blood pressure
Lowers cholesterol
Kills bacteria
Combats cancer
Strengthens bones
Oats
Lowers cho les terol
Combats cancer
Battles diabetes
prevents constipation
Smoothes skin
Olive oil
Protects your heart
Promotes Weight loss
Combats cancer
Battles diabetes
Smoothes skin
Onions
Reduce risk of heart attack
Combats cancer
Kills bacteria
Lowers cholesterol
Fights fungus
Oranges
Supports immune systems
Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Straightens respiration
Peaches
prevents constipation
Combats cancer
Helps stops strokes
aids digestion
Helps hemorrhoids
Peanuts
Protects against heart disease
Promotes Weight loss
Combats Prostate Cancer
Lowers cho les terol
Aggravates
Diverticulitis
Pineapple
Strengthens bones
Relieves colds
Aids digestion
Dissolves warts
Blocks diarrhea
Prunes
Slows aging process
prevents constipation
boosts memory
Lowers cho les terol
Protects against heart disease
Rice
Protects your heart
Battles diabetes
Conquers kidney stones
Combats cancer
Helps stops strokes
Strawberries
Combats cancer
Protects your heart
boosts memory
Calms stress
Sweet potatoes
Saves your eyesight
Lifts mood
Combats cancer
Strengthens bones
Tomatoes
Protects prostate
Combats cancer
Lowers cho les terol
Protects your heart
Walnuts
Lowers cho les terol
Combats cancer
boosts memory
Lifts mood
Protects against heart disease
Water
Promotes Weight loss
Combats cancer
Conquers kidney stones
Smoothes skin
Watermelon
Protects prostate
Promotes Weight loss
Lowers cholesterol
Helps stops strokes
Controls blood pressure
Wheat germ
Combats Colon Cancer
prevents constipation
Lowers cholesterol
Helps stops strokes
improves digestion
Wheat bran
Combats Colon Cancer
prevents constipation
Lowers cholesterol
Helps stops strokes
improves digestion
Yogurt
Guards against ulcers
Strengthens bones
Lowers cholesterol
Supports immune systems
Aids digestion
7 don'ts after a meal
* Don't smoke - Experiment from experts proves that smoking a cigarette after meal is comparable to smoking 10 cigarettes (chances of cancer is higher).
* Don't eat fruits immediately - Immediately eating fruits after meals will cause stomach to be bloated with air. Therefore take fruit 1-2 hr after meal or 1 hr before meal.
* Don't drink iced tea with meals - Because tea leaves contain a high content of acid this will cause the Protein content in the food we consume to be hardened thus difficult to digest.
* Don't loosen your belt - Loosening the belt after a meal will easily cause the intestine to be twisted &blocked.
* Don't bathe or swim - Bathing or swimming will cause the increase of blood flow to the hands, legs & body thus the amount of blood around the stomach will therefore decrease. This will weaken the digestive system in our
stomach.
* Don't walk about - People always say that after a meal walk a hundred steps and you will live till 99. In actual fact this is not true. Walking will cause the digestive system to be unable to absorb the nutrition from the food we intake. Wait an hour before walking or exercise.
* Don't sleep immediately - The food we intake will not be able to digest properly... thus will lead to gastric infection in our intestine.
Share this blog with everyone.
Essential substances often not considered to be nutrients:
* Oxygen
* Water - click on M-Powerment Water
* Sunlight
Essential fatty acids:
* Linolenic acid (the shortest chain omega-3 fatty acid)
* Linoleic acid (the shortest chain omega-6 fatty acid)
Essential amino acids necessary for all humans:
* Histidine
* Isoleucine
* Lysine
* Leucine
* Methionine
* Phenylalanine
* Threonine
* Tryptophan
* Valine
Essential amino acids necessary for human children and not adults:
* Arginine
Vitamins:
* Biotin (vitamin B7, vitamin H)
* Choline (vitamin Bp)
* Folate (folic acid, vitamin B9, vitamin M)
* Niacin (vitamin B3, vitamin P, vitamin PP)
* Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5)
* Riboflavin (vitamin B2, vitamin G)
* Thiamine (vitamin B1)
* Vitamin A (retinol)
* Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine, pyridoxamine, or pyridoxal)
* Vitamin B12 (cobalamin)
* Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)
* Vitamin E (tocopherol)
* Vitamin K (naphthoquinoids)
Dietary minerals: Biochemical studies reported in 2006 indicate that the following elements (aside from constituent elements of other essential nutrients) are required for human health:[2]
* Calcium (Ca)
* Chloride (Cl-)
* Copper (Cu) [3]
* Iodine (I)
* Iron (Fe)
* Magnesium (Mg)
* Manganese (Mn) [4]
* Molybdenum (Mo)
* Nickel (Ni)[5]
* Phosphorus (P) (as phosphate)[6]
* Potassium (K)
* Selenium (Se) [7]
* Sodium (Na)
* Sulfur (S)
* Zinc (Zn) [8]
The body's requirements vary widely. At one extreme a 70 kg human contains 1.0 kg of calcium but only 3 mg of cobalt.[9]
Elements with speculated role in human health.
Many elements have been implicated at various times to have a role in human health. For none of these elements has a specific protein or complex been identified:
* Boron (B)
* Chromium (Cr)[5]
* Fluorine (F) (necessity unknown in humans)
* Silicon (Si)[5] (also present in rice husk)
If you purchased all these essential nutrients separately, it would cost over $300. And, you would have to take most of them in pill form which is the least effective way for your body to process nutrients.
Now look at the list of ingredients in a 32 ounce bottle of EPIC ULTRA All-in One liquid supplement... the best way to absorb nutrients in a balanced formula.
Order here.
Eat Healthy... Stay Healthy
Apples
Protects your heart
prevents constipation
Blocks diarrhea
Improves lung capacity
Cushions joints
Apricots
Combats cancer
Controls blood pressure
Saves your eyesight
Shields against Alzheimer's
Slows aging process
Artichokes
Aids digestion
Lowers cho les terol
Protects your heart
Stabilizes blood sugar
Guards against liver disease
Avocados
Batt les diabetes
Lowers cho les terol
Helps stops strokes
Controls blood pressure
Smoothes skin
Bananas
Protects your heart
Quiets a cough
Strengthens bones
Controls blood pressure
Blocks diarrhea
Beans
Prevents constipation
Helps hemorrhoids
Lowers cholesterol
Combats cancer
Stabilizes blood sugar
Beets
Controls blood pressure
Combats cancer
Strengthens bones
Protects your heart
Aids weight loss
Blueberries
Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Stabilizes blood sugar
Boosts memory
Prevents constipation
Broccoli
Strengthens bones
Saves eyesight
Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Controls blood pressure
Cabbage
Combats cancer
Prevents constipation
Promotes weight loss
Protects your heart
Helps hemorrhoids
Cantaloupe
Saves eyesight
Controls blood pressure
Lowers cholesterol
Combats cancer
Supports immune system
Carrots
Saves eyesight
Protects your heart
Prevents constipation
Combats cancer
Promotes weight loss
Cauliflower
Protects against Prostate Cancer
Combats Breast Cancer
Strengthens bones
Banishes bruises
Guards against heart disease
Cherries
Protects your heart
Combats Cancer
Ends insomnia
Slows aging process
Shields against Alzheimer's
Chestnuts
Promotes weight loss
Protects your heart
Lowers cholesterol
Combats Cancer
Controls blood pressure
Chili peppers
Aids digestion
Soothes sore throat
Clears sinuses
Combats Cancer
Boosts immune system
Figs
Promotes weight loss
Helps stops strokes
Lowers cholesterol
Combats Cancer
Controls blood pressure
Fish
Protects your heart
Boosts memory
Protects your heart
Combats Cancer
Supports immune system
Flax
Aids digestion
Batt les diabetes
Protects your heart
Improves mental health
Boosts immune system
Garlic
Lowers cho les terol
Controls blood pressure
Combats cancer
kills bacteria
Fights fungus
Grapefruit
Protects against heart attacks
Promotes Weight loss
Helps stops strokes
Combats Prostate Cancer
Lowers cho les terol
Grapes
saves eyesight
Conquers kidney stones
Combats cancer
Enhances blood flow
Protects your heart
Green tea
Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Helps stops strokes
Promotes Weight loss
Kills bacteria
Honey
Heals wounds
Aids digestion
Guards against ulcers
Increases energy
Fights allergies
Lemons
Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Controls blood pressure
Smoothes skin
Stops scurvy
Limes
Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Controls blood pressure
Smoothes skin
Stops scurvy
Mangoes
Combats cancer
Boosts memory
Regulates thyroid
aids digestion
Shields against Alzheimer's
Mushrooms
Controls blood pressure
Lowers cholesterol
Kills bacteria
Combats cancer
Strengthens bones
Oats
Lowers cho les terol
Combats cancer
Battles diabetes
prevents constipation
Smoothes skin
Olive oil
Protects your heart
Promotes Weight loss
Combats cancer
Battles diabetes
Smoothes skin
Onions
Reduce risk of heart attack
Combats cancer
Kills bacteria
Lowers cholesterol
Fights fungus
Oranges
Supports immune systems
Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Straightens respiration
Peaches
prevents constipation
Combats cancer
Helps stops strokes
aids digestion
Helps hemorrhoids
Peanuts
Protects against heart disease
Promotes Weight loss
Combats Prostate Cancer
Lowers cho les terol
Aggravates
Diverticulitis
Pineapple
Strengthens bones
Relieves colds
Aids digestion
Dissolves warts
Blocks diarrhea
Prunes
Slows aging process
prevents constipation
boosts memory
Lowers cho les terol
Protects against heart disease
Rice
Protects your heart
Battles diabetes
Conquers kidney stones
Combats cancer
Helps stops strokes
Strawberries
Combats cancer
Protects your heart
boosts memory
Calms stress
Sweet potatoes
Saves your eyesight
Lifts mood
Combats cancer
Strengthens bones
Tomatoes
Protects prostate
Combats cancer
Lowers cho les terol
Protects your heart
Walnuts
Lowers cho les terol
Combats cancer
boosts memory
Lifts mood
Protects against heart disease
Water
Promotes Weight loss
Combats cancer
Conquers kidney stones
Smoothes skin
Watermelon
Protects prostate
Promotes Weight loss
Lowers cholesterol
Helps stops strokes
Controls blood pressure
Wheat germ
Combats Colon Cancer
prevents constipation
Lowers cholesterol
Helps stops strokes
improves digestion
Wheat bran
Combats Colon Cancer
prevents constipation
Lowers cholesterol
Helps stops strokes
improves digestion
Yogurt
Guards against ulcers
Strengthens bones
Lowers cholesterol
Supports immune systems
Aids digestion
7 don'ts after a meal
* Don't smoke - Experiment from experts proves that smoking a cigarette after meal is comparable to smoking 10 cigarettes (chances of cancer is higher).
* Don't eat fruits immediately - Immediately eating fruits after meals will cause stomach to be bloated with air. Therefore take fruit 1-2 hr after meal or 1 hr before meal.
* Don't drink iced tea with meals - Because tea leaves contain a high content of acid this will cause the Protein content in the food we consume to be hardened thus difficult to digest.
* Don't loosen your belt - Loosening the belt after a meal will easily cause the intestine to be twisted &blocked.
* Don't bathe or swim - Bathing or swimming will cause the increase of blood flow to the hands, legs & body thus the amount of blood around the stomach will therefore decrease. This will weaken the digestive system in our
stomach.
* Don't walk about - People always say that after a meal walk a hundred steps and you will live till 99. In actual fact this is not true. Walking will cause the digestive system to be unable to absorb the nutrition from the food we intake. Wait an hour before walking or exercise.
* Don't sleep immediately - The food we intake will not be able to digest properly... thus will lead to gastric infection in our intestine.
Share this blog with everyone.
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