Date: April 20th 2001

Online Health & Nutrition Newsletter Vol. 5 Issue 4c
Spirit of Health


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THE REGENERATIVE DIET - Part 5

by Dr. John Christopher

Dr John Christopher practiced for a number of decades healing
thousands of people by getting them to change their diet choices
and using herbal combinations. The following thoughts by him
on the Regenerative Diet, impart the wisdow of what worked to
heal each of his patients.

"CLEANSING
Pg. 550 Cleansing crisis:

"At this crisis and cleansing time, a person has his hardest
job of not letting the taste buds rule again, because at this
period of the physical cycle, the patient will have intensely
strong cravings for the wrong kinds of food--the very ones
which have been his or her favorites in the past and have,
in turn, led to a degenerative downfall. When nature is
doing this eliminating through the circulatory system,
as the wastes from these prior intakes come back into the system,
"like calls for like".

"Therefore, it can be readily seen that this is the most
important of all times to see that these wastes
(causing the cravings) are eliminated quickly
and not allowed to remain in the body.

Pg. 551 Keep the bowels clean:

"As has been said already, "What's one man's meat is another
man's poison," and so it is with adopting the best dietary
program for yourself. Use any food on the positive, live,
and non-mucus side which acts as a laxative for you.
This same food might not have the same effect on someone
else. With many people, a few dried prunes just before their
other fruit does a very effective job, but with others, it does not.
We suggest prune or fig juice as a starter for your meals,
drinking it a few minutes before eating any other food.
We have found this is best for most of the patients we have
worked with, but if raspberries (as with some) does the job better,
or something else, then use these other nutritive aids.
And don't forget the lower bowel tonic. Before this formula was
made available to you, people (on tour) have written from foreign
countries to have this herbal aid sent to them (at great expense)
when their supply had run out, and they needed it especially
while traveling. This one prescription alone will be worth more
to you, many times over, than the price you have paid for this
entire volume itself.

"Do not let other people's opinions sway you in your new program.
If you are earnest and seek God's counsel, you will have the
strength to carry on with it no matter what people say.

FASTING
Pg. 551 Fast once a week:

"This procedure of eight weeks that we have just outlined is
the "No breakfast, mucusless diet plan." After a time,
if you want to speed up your healing and you have a good,
solid footing in what you are doing (in that you feel that your
cycles are such that you can take a bit heavier load waste
dumping without panic), you may slip in a one-day fast each
week to hurry your health-building or regenerative procedure along.

"Always remember, for the best results when you are using a
special addition to your diet routine (as the one-day fast,
one-day juice therapy, or two, three, or more days of fast),
be positive to have this day or days fall on the same starting
day of the week, so that you can keep up a smooth rhythm.
A good rhythm is just as important in this program as it is in
good music. If you have your 24-hour fast on Monday, keep
it on Mondays; or if on Saturday, always keep it on that day
each week. Before starting, think out which day is your least
rushed and frustrating day, then choose that one for your fast,
as some people will need to rest or at least not work so hard
during the fast period.

"After your evening (or late afternoon) dinner, eat nothing until
the same time the next day. If this is a 24-hour fast once a week,
try not only to have it on the same day of the week, but also
the same hour of the day, when possible. During this day of
fasting 24 hours (or longer), all that you will have will be your
water, as much as desired. Cayenne and lemonade,
apple cider vinegar, or other liquids that will be further specified
hereafter, are for children, the febrile, and rare cases.

"When breaking your fast at mealtime, start your dinner with
fruit (such as was given previously in some of the menus);
then, after 15 or 20 minutes, eat the salad or vegetables.
Remember not to overeat or to side-step from the
recommended course.

Pg. 552 Fasting is like fire:

"There are numerous places throughout the scriptures where
the Lord advises to fast and pray. Fasting has been a must
with all of the great prophets from the beginning of time.
And, through prayer and being close to the Maker,
they were guided in how to fast. Most of them lived the simple
life in the first place, and they were not contaminated with
the toxins, wastes, and man-made concoctions that we today
call "food" and "medicine." Thus, we are mortal, so very
mortal that we are mostly incapable in our present conditions
of walking and talking with God and being led directly by
Him as were the leaders of old. This is where we are given
the blessed way of compassion, shown in the patience of
the Lord, such as: "For those who cannot be healed by faith,
heal them with herbs and mild food." Also, He tells us to
use fasting and prayer. But first things first, of course,
as fasting improperly can be a killer as well as a savior.
It is like fire, it can either gently warm you, or, if not understood
and kept under control, it can kill you.

"Long fasting--use with prudence and skill:
Should a person take a long fast without first cleaning out a lot
of the waste matter that has been stored and deposited in
the body for years, the fast will break this loose--so fast
that the avenues of elimination will completely clog up,
and the well-meaning person will strangle and suffocate
in his own filth and poison. Bowel movements are usually
hard to come by while fasting. This is such a powerful
cleansing aid, that it will break loose mucus, poisons,
and drugs, from years ago, but because of the glue-like
stickiness of this unleashed slime, the natural bowel
movements will be ineffectual in bringing it out, so you
must pave the way to such drastic cleansing with a
modulated or transition diet. After much of this waste is
removed in a gradual process, then is the time to have a fast,
short ones at first, then gradually working up to longer ones.

"Liquid intake during a fast:
The dictionary defines "fast" as; "To abstain from all or certain foods.
" Many theologians believe that in a spiritual fast you can use
only water, and this is very good. But for a healing procedure,
it is permissible to use some various forms of liquid, but no
solid food. This is not a strict fast but a liquid diet. You may
use any cleansing herbal tea, such as alfalfa, mint, yarrow,
desert or Brigham tea, sassafras, etc., and sweeten with honey.
Or, you may use over 2-3 quarts a day. There is one more type
of drink that is permissible, and that is vegetable broth. Drink it
warm and do not exceed the 2-3 quart limit. When using any
of these drinks, do not gulp them down, but sip them slowly,
rolling the liquid around the mouth, swishing it and chewing it
like you would solid food. With drinking (even with water alone),
learn to be at ease; take your time and enjoy your beverage.

Pg. 553 JUICE

Pg. 553 Quenching the thirst:

"The roots of the plant go down into the earth and take in food
and minerals in solution via osmosis into the plant.
Here these ingredients are processed and changed from
inorganic to organic, and if properly selected as to juice type,
this natural "blood" or "life-line" in the plant is a perfect food
and liquid for man, both for the required nourishment
and liquid used by the systems. During summertime,
for instance, drinking celery juice not only quenches the thirst,
but also supplies the natural organic salts in proper quantities
so that the heat is not noticed (this should be used instead
of the inorganic salt tablets). While others are in misery
and sweltering with the heat, you are enjoying life.
You have, in this simple procedure, properly thinned down
a sluggish and heavy blood stream so that it flows rapidly
and with ease through the body to carry off the poisons
and wastes. And this is the reason why a heavy meat
and starch eater will suffer apoplexy and strokes long before
the heat even bothers the vegetarian or fruitarian.

"Energy without stress:
Juices will supply energy without overworking the body.
This is because nearly all fresh juice from fruits
and vegetables is partly assimilated immediately upon
entering the mouth, going directly into the blood stream
as an oral transfusion. The juice will not wear out
the digestive organs with a lot of excess materials that
are difficult to digest and burdensome to eliminate.

"Juice therapy:
Though we have had years of experience in juice therapy
and have seen amazing numbers of miraculous healings
with it alone, nevertheless problems continually arose with
patients from time to time that juice therapy could not handle.
We found the reason for the distress, and after accepting
the program introduced so ably by Professor Arnold Ehret
in his mucusless diet healing system, it was here that we
saw our mistake with using a straight juice therapy.
With fruit juice especially--but with almost any type
vegetable juice also--the sticky mucus and waste materials
would break loose from the tissues and be carried out to be
eliminated, but there it stayed, in large, gluey deposits.
Use liquids only to clean out the accumulated filth from the body.
So with all of your cleansing aids, these should be used
"in moderation" and "with prudence and skill"! We highly
recommend the use of fruit and vegetable juices--and for them
to be used copiously--but as they were intended to nourish
the tissue and break loose the waste, these should always
be coupled with raw and cooked (low heated) fruits
and vegetables as aids in elimination. After a person's body
is completely cleaned of all waste (up to 7 years on the program),
and during the long cleansing process, more and more juice can
be used; but the roughage will always be needed.

Pg. 554 A transition program:

"After eating the way most of us are accustomed to, we cannot
change to a mono-diet overnight. This is to be expected,
and this is why we recommend a modulation process
or transition program. This is the reason in the following menus
that you will see that some of the combinations-are slightly
more complex than the mono-diet. These may serve you for a start,
or can be used for entertaining, but after you are firmly on the path,
your own intuitive desires will lead you naturally in the regenerative
way to happiness with a simplicity in diet.

"One cooked food:
As a general rule, build your meals around one cooked food.
This gives a wonderful variety and something different each day.
The principle of one cooked vegetable will make digestion simple
and easy, and it will eliminate the kitchen burdens of planning,
preparing, and cleaning. This vegetable may be eaten warm or cold,
and mixed with raw vegetables and green salads, or it may be eaten
as a separate dish by itself. If you choose one of the following--carrots,
cabbage, beets, cauliflower, onions, or turnips--they become sweet
when low-heated, steamed or carefully baked, which proves that
the carbohydrates are changed and developed into sugars
(and herein the mineral salts are not extracted). This type of
preparation will not create an inorganic waste as with high-heat
boiling and baking but it is, in fact, an improvement.

"Enjoy the change:
Here in our program, we differ from the "raw food faddist" because
in this transitional program of cleansing and healing, the food value
at first is not of main importance, although this may be your
ultimate and regenerative end, but the immediate goal at this
time is that the patient should enjoy his change of diet during
the transition period, until his conditions and tastes have improved.
In this way, it will be a pleasurable experience and not a dreaded
hardship."

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