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at breakfast time, after school and then in the evening? Sweets, chocolate, ice creams and cans of drink. What is it that toddlers in buggies want in the shops? Sweets, chocolates, often with bright coloured sugars, and attractive shapes. These children can become hyperactive, depressed, moody, with frequent colds and runny noses. Teenagers can become angry and violent.
Dr John Knowles of the Rockefeller Foundation said, “What you do hour by hour, day by day, more than anything else, determines what will kill you and when.” Dr Michael Murray: “The quality of your life begins with quality of the foods that sustain it.” What kind of diet does he recommend? “A diet rich in natural foods like whole grains, beans and pulses, fruits and vegetables.”
The National Cancer Institute says. “Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables.”
What are the benefits? Increased energy, reduced risks of disease and surgery, strong bones and a complexion with the glow of health. To function fully our bodies need a diet of complex carbohydrates, which are the whole grain products. This results in a diet high in fibre, low in fat and low in refined sugars.
- Studies of diet carried out in various population groups have been shown that the further a group is from our everyday Western diet, the fewer degenerative diseases are found, e.g. very few cases of osteo-arthritis, heart disease, cancer or diabetes.
As soon as a group has access to some of our foods, obesity and diabetes are the first problems to appear.
- Then, as more Western food stuffs become easily available, constipation, appendicitis, piles and varicose veins appear and become common problems. In an interview a doctor from Nigeria a few years back had only rarely seen a case of appendicitis and had never seen a case of MS until he came to the UK for further study.
- If a group adopts a full Western lifestyle, soon all the degenerative diseases appear with heart disease and cancer being prevalent.
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What is the primitive diet that gives so much protection? Vegetables, fruits, beans, whole grains, nuts and seeds. All foods from plants only. These are rich in fibre, very low in fat and sugars and provide the complex carbohydrates that our body needs. Simple carbohydrates are the sugars, complex carbohydrates are the starches found in whole grains – whole wheat, brown rice, etc. Fresh fruits and vegetables provide very high fibre for healthy bowel action, and include soluble fibres which reduce cholesterol. |
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Many of our health problems are reversible. We do not have to just see our bodies deteriorate day by day, with increased risk of surgery and medications. There is a better option. It is not with a pill or a diet but in discovering a new way of living – the better way.
You CAN turn the clock back. This is what is so positive. Of course the problems have built up year by year, so it is not like taking a pill where the pain is gone in a few minutes, but just as soon as we start to make changes, the body mechanism goes into action to make things right.
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