Heredity

Most people, including doctors, believe in inherent weaknesses in individuals due to faulty genetic structure passed on to the children by the parents. Is this true?

Heredity is the passing of traits to offspring cells such that the cells become predisposed to the characteristics of the parent cells. But much more than genes is passed on to us by our parents. Religious beliefs, rituals, comfort food, cooking traditions, holiday traditions, anger management (or lack thereof), speech patterns, emotional patterns and much more is emulated by the child.

What if cancer, obesity, heart disease and intestinal problems are not physically linked to our genes but linked instead to unhealthy eating patterns created by our parents? What if the link can be severed and healed?

Case #1
George's mother died of colon cancer when she was 42. George's father had a heart attack when he was 42. George, himself, was diagnosed with colon cancer when he was 42. Refusing to believe that his cancer diagnosis was a death sentence, he decided to refuse conventional therapies that had failed for his mother and father. Instead, he researched the cause and a nutritional cure for cancer. His story is at www.hacres.com.

"Let's ask a few questions to stimulate our
thinking. Why do you eat the way you do...why do you use a fork and spoon,
instead of chop sticks or some other instrument to place food into your
mouth? Why do most Americans eat three major meals a day, while in other
parts of the world two and sometimes only one is the norm? Why is the
majority of food that is consumed in America cooked? Why do many people
not consider a meal complete without a sugar dessert?
I don't think it is necessary to ask any more questions
because the answer will probably be the same to them all: That's just the
way I was brought up. Thus we see that tradition has played a great part
in determining what we put into our body and the manner in which it is
consumed."
Why Christians Get Sick
Rev. George H. Malkmus

Case #2
Tim's mother died of cancer and obesity at 50. Tim's father was the owner of a pest control business. He dealt with highly toxic chemicals and pesticides in closed areas on a daily business. Furthermore, his sons including Tim, helped him. Tim's father died of cancer 10 years later. Tim had "uncureable" skin conditions by the time he was 16. Tim decided that he would try anything to rid himself of his skin conditions. He ended up healing himself with diet and herbs.

"'We just love our French fries and bread,' a family
declares while they stuff their faces with the worst kind of
nonfood.
We love our French fries and bread because everyone in
our families sat around and ate them at the dinner table over good conversation
and a few laughs. It was part of the family culture and training, as we
were all taught to eat and drink in the same way. And so we usually got
sick and died in the same way as well.
My brother and I had the same cravings as my mother and
grandmother. Was this a surprise? It was not only hard on our
pancreases, but all that cooked protein had created an overabundance or uric
acid, which helped trash our kidneys. Then, over the years, accumulated
toxins and kidney stones created blockages until our kidneys were no longer
functioning properly, leaving us with frequent backaches, stiffness, and other
symptoms. This was the family history, and each generation got weaker and
more deficient. Grandma had glandular and organ weaknesses from poor
dietary choices, which were passed down to my mother and finally to us.
What a legacy!"
The Cure - Heal Your Body, Save Your Life
Dr. Timothy Brantley

Experiment

Was water your family's drink-of-choice at mealtimes when you were growing up? Or was it milk, soda pop, maybe even wine? Make water the drink-of-choice at mealtimes for yourself, your children and your family events. If you insist on drinking milk or pop, serve it some other time. Serve distilled water, preferably at room temperature at every meal. Ideally, your family should drink a small glass of 4 oz before eating. This hydrates the digestive system and readies it for better digestion.

"When the gradually dehydrating body begins to
malfunction and manifest its water shortage, we label these symptoms and signs
of the body's regional and local drought as diseases or syndromes of unknown
origin. And since the discovery of DNA structure, we now blame genes for a
patient's health problems - obviously not realizing that when any cell begins to
dry up and get damaged from inside, the nucleus in that cell, and its DNA
structure, are not exempt from the process."
Water Cures: Drugs Kill
Dr. F Batmanghelidj, M.D.

The Healing Crisis

So, you've decided to eat right and it's working! The weird thing about cleaning up your body is that the adjustment time can be uncomfortable. Hopefully you are fierce and will push through knowing that if your body is screaming then something good is happening. Here is some down and dirty info on detox.

Caffeine detox - Getting off caffeine is amazing for your body. Caffeine accelerates the growth of tumors. I have a friend who decreased the mass in her breast 80% by getting off caffeine 6 weeks before surgery to remove the tumor. That said, the detox can be rough. At best you will be sleepy and cranky, at worst you won't be able to keep your eyes open for a month. It all depends on how much caffeine you have consumed. If you are sleepy, sleep. If you are sleepy and unable to take the time to lay down, drink distilled water. It is the weirdest "high" you have ever heard of but hydrating your innards gives you an abundance of energy. There are some people who can ease themselves off caffeine gradually by limiting themselves to one cup of coffee in the morning and then after one month, take themselves off coffee/caffeine entirely. God bless'em. If you are an all or nothing person, do it once for all time and do it right! Go for it. You cannot believe the kind of deep sleep that is possible (and the resulting cleansing) when your body is rid of caffeine.

Junk Food - So you started cooking whole foods for yourself. You've even mastered the trick of making "junk food" at home: whole grain non-dairy pizza, "fried" Brussels sprouts. You are a goddess! But you might not be feeling like the champion you are. You might have headaches, diarrhea, constipation, sleeplessness, skin breakouts or even something that feels like the flu. Stay the course. That just means you are on the right track. It will take 10 days to flush your small intestine and up to 30 days to flush your large intestine. Be diligent about staying away from white flour and white sugar. This too shall pass.

Blood-Type Foods - Some of you are "eating right for your blood-type". This can be the oddest detox. When I eliminated corn, avocados, black beans and tomatoes from my daily diet (they're OK for blood type B if eaten once a week) I had a case of what appeared to be gout. I had excess uric acid in my kidneys that manifested itself in razor sharp pains in my right big toe. It was simultaneously fascinating and debilitating. I placed a raw potato in my sock and the pain numbed to a gentle throb for the next 24 hours. I was walking normally again the next day. My kidneys were spewing out uric acid stored from years of eating wrong for my blood type even though I was eating vegan.

Meat - Getting "off" meat can change your body within 3 days. Meat binds muscle. After 3 days without meat, muscles will relax due to the release of toxins and acids. No night cramps or charlie horses, no tight Achilles tendon, no TMJ, no night sweats. When you are off animal protein for 7 days, you sleep deeper and your breath is sweeter. Sweats do not contain as much salt and therefore stink - perhaps none. After a month, ground beef smells like cow dung when cooked. It is strange but, the less animal flesh you have in your system, the more offensive the smell of animal flesh becomes. You will drop weight quickly (perhaps too quickly) and your body will have better muscle tone (sans exercise). Your body will become light and lithe.

Sugar - Sugar detox comes with headaches, mind games, irritability and sleepiness. Thankfully, this is the easiest fastest substance to glean from your system due to it's fast transit time. Substitute 100% raw maple syrup, local honey and stevia. But don't get crazy with the sugar substitutes. Just use them to transition. God intended for you to have a sweet tooth - breast milk tastes sweet! But use fruit as your sugar fix - fruit is God's candy.

Bread - Getting off wheat/gluten is, in my opinion, the most important thing you can do for your health. Your body will thank you a million ways: you will lose weight fast, you will poop 3-4 times a day, you will stop having allergy symptoms, you will stop getting your "annual" cold/sinus infection, you will have spectacular energy, you will be reducing your preservative intake by 90%!!! The benefits are worth all the pain of detox. That said, the pain of abstaining from all flour products is actually not physical so much as social - it will be really difficult to find something to eat in a restaurant or at your friend's home. Therefore, start at the grocery store with a very detailed list. Try to stay away from the packaged "gluten-free" food because packaged foods contain preservatives. Learn to eat off the "side items" menu. Sweet potato fries, red pepper olive oil and steamed spinach at Cafe Express. Loads of salad and grilled veggies when at home.

"The discharges from healing reactions involve several
common types of excesses and toxins; each has specific remedies.
Chlorophyll foods and others which counteract toxins are very helpful general
remedies, especially when coupled with a grain-and-vegetable diet that includes
seaweeds and enzyme-rich products such as sprouts and miso. Sufficient
regular exercise is essential for processing and "burning up" excesses.
When reactions and discharges are especially severe or numerous, it may mean
that the pace of dietary change is too fast.
In some cases, strong reactions will be difficult to
avoid, regardless. Also, chronically ill people will often (wisely)
venture into a more healthful dietary plan, and it is their disease symptoms
rather than their healing reactions that must first be overcome."

Healing With Whole Foods
Paul Pitchford

Vitamins

God gave you all the vitamins you need in the form of raw whole vegetables, fruits, beans and grains. It's stupid to take a pill.

Your body needs approximately 12 vitamins. These vitamins are contained in whole foods. Spinach does not merely contain iron. In God's wisdom, spinach contains both iron and calcium which are symbiotic but must be ingested in proper proportions to each other. Spinach contains other necessary elements:

"Spinach is a rich source of vitamin A (and lutein), vitamin C, vitamin E,
vitamin K, magnesium, manganese, folate, iron, vitamin B2, calcium, potassium,
vitamin B6, folic acid, copper, protein, phosphorus, zinc, niacin, selenium and
omega-3 fatty acids. Recently, opioid peptides called rubiscolins have
also bee found in spinach. To benefit from the folate in spinach, it is
better to steam it than to boil it."
Wikipedia

Too many people start the day with a handful of supplements and consider themselves healthy regardless of their food choices throughout the day. You cannot cover your nutritional sins by ingesting pills and choosing to drink Starbucks and Diet Coke.

Vitamins consist of two parts: the gelatinous capsule and the powdered vitamin. The gelatin capsule must enter your stomach, be broken down by stomach acids, then the vitamin must be released into the stomach, and used properly for supposed vitamin absorption to occur.

How about this instead: eat nutritionally dense foods which contain the essential elements your body needs according to how God wanted them ingested. God created dark green vegetables to include a miraculous combination of vitamins and oxygen. We are still finding out all the benefits of dark green vegetables. How does kale provide oxygen? Apart from the iron, protein (4 grams) and antioxidants, kale contains chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is what makes kale green. When you eat kale that is properly cooked to maximum enzyme capacity, the chlorophyll goes directly from your stomach into your bloodstream. Chlorophyll in the blood stream supplies oxygen to the blood and, therefore, your vital organs. A well oxygenated body cannot grow cancer.

"Antioxidants occur together naturally in foods and
evidently there is a good reason for it...One member of the natural vitamin E
family that was left out of the synthetic formulation, gamma-tocopherol, happens
to be a particularly good protector of DNA, the cell genetic code, and it has
additional cardiovascular benefits that alpha-tocopherol left out in the
synthetic formulations, but what's worse is that when one takes in large doses
of alpha-tocopherol (like 400 IU or more), it is very difficult for the body to
absorb the other natural tocopherols that are contained in the diet, because
they compete with each other. Alpha-tocopherol acts kind of like a bully
pushing around its brothers, the other natural tocopherols, so they have a very
hard time getting in the bloodstream."
Cristiana Paul, M.S.
Knockout
Suzanne Somers

There is a theory that veggies are grown in soil that has been depleted of its vitamins and therefore we must supplement our vegetable intake with vitamins in pill form. Silly! First of all, I bet the people who are worried about their vegetables being grown in weak soil are skipping the veggies entirely. Secondly, eat vegetables. What do you think? Do you feel depleted? Cucumbers make my hair grow, beets make me poop. I find no deficiencies in the vegetables I'm choosing at Whole Foods.

"But not only do antioxidant supplements fail to
protect against heart disease, stroke and cancer; they actually increase the
risk of death, according to a 2007 analysis of research on more than 232,000
people, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, as well as
other studies."
dallasnews.com

• Eggplant
• Kale
• Sweet yellow onion
• Brussels sprouts
• Red pepper
• Mango
• Grapefruit
• Beets

When was the last time you had your vitamins?

Feed The Beast

Your cravings are the devil! They will get you in trouble every time. Here's why: it is much more complicated than just lack of personal discipline or weakness of character.

Your cravings are your body's cries for drugs. Everyone has their "drug of choice": caffeine, sugar, salt, fried foods, beer, wine, bread, tobacco, fast food, candy, soda pop. Indulging year after year in feeding your addiction has altered your DNA. Here's how:

If your drug of choice is alcohol then you are basically a sugar addict. Alcohol turns to sugar in your system. When sugar enters your stomach your pancreas produces insulin which metabolizes the sugar. Your body is smart; if your body predicts that every evening around 6pm there will be an influx of sugar, like a good butler, it releases the insulin. The problem becomes when you are trying to abstain from alcohol and your body continues to release the insulin. When your system has too much insulin, it sends a message to your mind to EAT SUGAR! This is to absorb the excess insulin that has been released in your body. Because the mind is easily sated with these "foods", it cannot hear the bodies cries for nourishment.

Nutritional healers have used

• honey to treat alcoholism
• chromium and brewer's yeast to treat sugar cravings
• spicy peppers to induce water craving and thus curb appetite
• aromatherapy and cooking with fresh herbs to aid in weight reduction
• psyllium seed to kill cravings for large amounts of food
• exercise and yoga to curb cravings for fatty foods
• extra virgin olive oil in cooking and rubbed on the body to satiate fried food cravings

How do you kill the beast?

1. Flood your body with nutrients. The average American is deficient in Chromium (brown rice, molasses, eggs and potatoes). Calcium must be present in your body in order to process Iron; but you cannot take Iron and Calcium supplements together. Zinc and Selenium are common deficiencies. (fish, kelp, legumes, pecans, edamame, sunflower seeds)
2. Plan every meal and snack. You will eat crap if you don't have a meal planned, prepared and waiting for you. You will not choose an apple, a handful of walnuts and a liter of distilled water when you go to a restaurant to eat. Get a pen and paper and plan your attack on your food choices. Go to the grocery store with a detailed list and make whole, healthy foods easily available to you 5 times a day in the form of meals and snacks.
3. Go 30 days without soda pop. Drink water.
4. Go 30 days without caffeine. Drink water.
5. Go 30 days without alcohol. Remember, those AA guys do it all the time. They come to your company happy hours and swill a glass of tonic water and lime and smile that knowing smile as everyone around them becomes fat-tongued. See the world from the other side. Nobody, I mean NOBODY, has ever noticed I was drinking non-alcoholic beverages at a party. Trust me, they are only thinking about themselves.
6. Go 30 days without eating in a restaurant. This is such a quick easy fix for a lot of things: overeating, abstaining from salt and fat, budget management.
7. Keep a diary. List everything about your current health and weight. Make a note of your emotional/mental state. Keep a list of every morsel that crosses your lips. Note how detoxing from sugar/fat/salt feels. Write down how many days it takes to get over it. Write down how it feels to be clean.

"If you change to a vegan diet, and do it very
vigorously, you have enormous power... You can, I believe, prevent most
cases of cancer if you combine dietary changes with avoiding tobacco. You
could prevent probably 70% or 80% of cancers, just by those steps alone.
And, obviously, there's a whole host of other diseases that you would be able to
live without."

Neal Barnard, M.D.

Turn Off the Fat Genes

I Hate TV

I hate TV. I believe there is zero benefit from sitting in front of a TV.

TV wastes time. I hear mothers complain that there is "not enough time in the day." I cannot imagine what they are talking about. How many hours did they watch TV? You would get back that time and more. I hear people say "I just have it on for the noise". Yikes! Learn to bask in the wisdom of silence. Listen to your own thoughts, feelings, fears, prayers. You will be so much saner than allowing Oprah into your psyche.

TV impairs sleep. I see sleepy children on their way to school. Have they stayed up late watching American Idol? Why?

TV makes you fat. It makes you fat several ways. First of all, you are just sitting there for all those hours. Secondly, you are watching commercials for sugar, fat and salt. Are there any commercials for broccoli? I think there is one for avocados. The rest of the commercials encourage you to eat chips, pizza, soda pop and beer. Speaking of which, you are probably snacking while you are watching TV. Are you kidding me? This is time well spent?

TV is not relaxing. TV is a barage of messages all telling you your life is dull, inadequate, underfunded and sexually impaired. TV advertises 2 out of every 10 minutes. There is less than 1 hour of playing time in a football game. All those advertisements subtly or not-so-subtly tell you that something is missing in your life. This is meant to lead you to buy their product. Buying their product will not make you happy. It will make you spend money on something useless. When the useless product does not make you happy you will go to the doctor for a happy pill.

TV does not make you happy. Spending your time lazily watching other people have a (supposed) happy, athletic, trim, beautiful life will not enhance your life. It will make you depressed. Americans take more anti-depressants and start taking them at younger ages each year. We are stupid to think that happiness is the point of this life. But that is all TV preaches. And you are buying it.

TV is a crappy babysitter. You would not allow a big fat slob drinking a beer saying "Stupid" to babysit your kids, or would you? And yet, you allow them to watch the shows and commercials that contain TV's sad sarcastic slobs. When my kids have friends over, I can tell the kids who have been raised on TV - they are sarcastic, they have horribly short attention spans and are always asking for a snack. I call it TV-itis. Be your children's babysitter 24/7. It will wear you out; you will lose weight; and then your precious angels will get their driver's license and you will never see them again. Trust me on this one.

Get a life. Turn off the tube.

Get rid of the TV. Sell it or give it to a school. If you are the only sane person in the home who understands the long term destruction of TV then cut the plug with wire cutters. Claim you have no idea how it happened. Then watch what happens.

• there will be silence
• the silence will become filled with life. Raw life. Happy life. Sad life. Loud life.
• you will have loads of time
• you will not crave salt/sugar/fat as much
• you will cook meals instead of order pizza
• you will play board games and read books
• you will be different from other people. Your conversation will revolve around your personal activities and experiences, not those of athletes and movie stars whom you do not know.
• you will start thinking weird thoughts.
• you might start a blog, get a hobby, go for a run, pick up knitting, throw the ball in the front yard.

"A new study from Australia suggests that couch potatoes live shorter
lives.

The study followed 8,800 adults ages 25 and older for 6 1/2 years and found
that each daily hour of television viewing was associated with an 18 % increase
in deaths from heart disease and an 11 % increase in overall mortality.

Those who watched television 4 or more hours a day were 80 % more likely to
die of cardiovascular disease than those who watched two hours or less, and 46 %
more likely to die of any cause. It did not matter whether they were
overweight."

Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association

Jan 11 online

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