Date: November 3rd 2001

Online Health & Nutrition Newsletter Vol. 5 Issue 11b
"Spirit of Health"

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This is the One Hundredth and Twenty Sixth Issue
of our online Newsletter, "Spirit of Health."

We bring you information that is outside the conventional
medical school of thought, and is routinely effective in the hands
of the independent minded individual in taking responsibility
for their own health and the well being of others.


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This Newsletter features a continuing article by Dr. Joel Robbins:

"HEALTH THROUGH NUTRITION" - Part 2 of 3

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This article was originally issued as one of our Newsletters
in August 2000.

**IMPORTANT NOTE**
In this material one can come to understand how and why raw
food works to create healing and optimum health in the body,
and how other food choices bring about deterioration.
The concepts in this article are so true and workable that I
view the basic ones with the status of "Natural Law" ( In other
words they always work). The entire article is dense with
useful wisdom. Read it over well (more than once, even) with
an intention to use it to improve your life and the lives of those
around you. You will be much happier for it.

HEALTH THROUGH NUTRITION - Part 2 of 3


-DISEASE AND ITS CAUSE

-THE DISEASE PROCESS

-THE DETERMINING FACTORS OF DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY


DISEASE AND ITS CAUSE

Disease or "dis-ease" is defined as a lack of health. Disease
results when any cell is not functioning 100% of its designed
duty whether due to trauma, toxicity, lack of communication
or a combination thereof. Disease is due to stress; either on
a physical level, or as a consequence of acute or chronic
emotional and spiritual discord (psychosomatic illness).

Whether due to ignorance or laziness, exposing the body to
stress will produce a diseased state of the body. Stress is
the only means of tearing down health resulting in disease,
our bodies paying the price for violating the laws of nature
(our wrong doings). We do not "catch" a disease or illness,
we earn it. We must "work" for disease.

Disease is nothing more than the body responding to the wrong
we have done to it. It is the body's attempt at keeping us alive in
response to the wrongs we have inflicted on our bodies.
Pathological changes are the cell's response to stress. These
changes or compensations allow the body to survive - maintain
homeostasis - as long as the stress continues. These tissue changes
which result in disease, are the outward manifestation of internal
compensation to stress. Until the cause is removed, the condition
will remain in one form or another.

SYMPTOMS

Medically speaking a symptom is defined as a sign or indication of a
disease or illness. It is thought that if the symptom is treated and
eradicated, then the disease or illness has been cured. Symptoms are
viewed somewhat differently from a natural healing perspective in that:
Symptoms are indicators that there is an abnormal condition within the
body which is producing a state of "dis-ease". A symptom or a group of
symptoms are given a specific name depending on the type and location
of the symptom(s). Medically this name is known as a "disease" or "illness".
From a natural healing standpoint, a named disease or illness is
interchangeable with the word "symptom".

A symptom (disease/illness) is the body's effort to eliminate toxins from
the body; to return the body to a state of health when stimulated; to
heal any damage that has been done to the body.

A symptom is the body's effort to stay alive while coping with anything
detrimental that has been done or is being done to the body. Diseases/
illnesses/symptoms are the body's attempt to restore health
and maintain life.

THE DISEASE PROCESS

The two primary ways that toxins enter the blood stream and thus
the body are:

1) THAT WHICH IS TAKEN IN BY THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM (eaten or drunk)
2) THAT WHICH IS TAKEN IN BY THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM (breathed)

Initially, due to cell irritability, the body will reject toxins being
introduced via these two avenues. This is done via: non-palatable
foods - burning sensation of mouth, throat, tongue, esophagus,
stomach coughing, sneezing - irritation or burning sensation of
mucus membranes of air passage. These defenses can be over-ridden
by: continued toxic input disguising toxins (with use of sugar)
conditioned response or learned (educated) override. The digestive
system is now responsible for keeping toxins out of the body. This is
initially done by vomiting or diarrhea. As the toxic abuse continues,
the digestive system becomes less efficient at ridding toxic input via
the above mentioned methods. The result is that toxins now begin to be
absorbed into the body.

The liver now takes on the responsibility of keeping the body clear of
toxins. This is done by the liver neutralizing the toxic acids with its
alkaline minerals before they enter the blood stream on their way
to the other organs of elimination-kidneys, lungs, bowel. The acids
must be neutralized prior to entering the blood stream, otherwise
the blood would become too acid and death would rapidly ensue.
It quickly becomes apparent to the liver that if it continues burning
its alkaline supplies it would be too acid to continue to survive and
the liver would be sacrificed, which would result in death of the body.
In order to slow down the liver's loss of alkaline, the liver will begin
to store toxins within itself. Thus the liver becomes congested.
The more congested it becomes the less efficient it is at carrying out
its normal metabolic functions for maintaining health of the body,
and the overall health level begins its downward turn. Even so,
the liver, and thus the body, will be able to survive many years longer
than if the liver had depleted its alkaline supplies.

Once the liver reaches a level of approximately 70% congestion,
it can no longer afford to retain poisons at the same rate, otherwise
death of the liver would shortly result once it reached a level of 100%
congestion.
To offset this, the liver begins to allow some toxins to enter the blood
stream. These are not neutralized, the cellular buffer system goes to
work in less than a second to neutralize them keeping the blood from
becoming acid. This is done at the expense of the cells alkaline supplies.
The cells of the body realize very quickly what the liver realized some
time back: They would not survive long should they continue to give up
their alkaline minerals at such a rate. As a result, the cells employ
the same method of survival the liver did, ie. to allow acid toxins to
leave the blood stream and enter the tissues. This does two things:

1) Keeps the cells from having to expend great quantities of alkaline
reserves, thus prolonging their life.
2) Keeps the blood pH within normal limits, thus life (though not in health)
continues

NOTE: The cells still continue to give up alkaline for neutralization
of toxins in the blood, and for buffering of normal metabolic waste
products, thus their over-all health level is continually declining,
but at a much slower rate than if this "exchange program" were not
enacted.

The storage of toxins in the tissues of the body -temporary or not- is
known as a toxic state. More specifically, a toxic state is defined as: an
accumulation of toxins, poisons, mucus and/or pus in any tissue of
the body a localized area of constipation. In a healthy condition, no toxins
are to be found in any tissue at any time.

As the tissues take in toxins from the blood, they will initially attempt to
eliminate the toxins from the body. This elimination of toxins is not
through the normal channels of elimination, because this would require
the toxins to pass through the blood stream. Rather an alternate avenue
is used which is not designed for elimination. This is called vicarious
elimination.

The more vitality (the higher the health level) the tissues have, the more
irritability they possess, thus the more vigorous will be the eliminative
reaction of the tissues, or the more intense will be the symptoms of
elimination. These symptoms of elimination are known as either an acute
illness or a sub acute illness.

The toxins eliminated from the body via acute and sub acute illnesses are
generally through a tissue that is on the surface of the body; e.g..: skin,
mucus membranes. Acute and sub acute illnesses are carried out with
the aid of the endocrine system - mainly thyroid and adrenal glands.
As the toxic input continues, combined with suppression of acute cleansing
reactions (via drugs, herbs, etc.) the cells continue to become more toxic,
more acid, and have a lowered vitality. Desensitized, the tissues can no
longer afford the energy or nutrient resources required for an acute
cleansing response, and must resort to a less efficient mode of vicarious
elimination. This is known as chronic disease. While chronic diseases
generally utilize the various surfaces of the body, the main differentiating
factor between acute/sub acute illnesses and chronic diseases, is that
chronic diseases are not carried out at the expense of the endocrine system,
or at least, not to the degree of the acute/sub acute illness.

With continued wrong living and eating habits, the continued suppression
of eliminative processes, the continued depletion of alkaline supplies,
the continued toxicity of the tissues, the vitality of the cells decreases
to the level that the cells can no longer afford the energy required to
produce even minimal vicarious elimination (as in chronic diseases).
All the body can afford to do is simply store the toxins in the tissues
where they remain. This at least keeps the blood stream from becoming
acid, negating immediate death. As a result of this long term storage of
toxins, the tissues involved begin to degenerate, meaning the tissues
are altered from their normal or designed structure. This is known as
a chronic degenerative disease. The functioning of the cells, and thus
tissues, is therefore altered greatly. The tissues, in essence, are mutated
from their normal state.

Death of the body results when one or a combination of the following is true:
The vitality of the body is so low that it can no longer mobilize toxins out of
the blood stream into the tissues, resulting in acid/toxic blood.
The cells of the body no longer possess adequate alkaline to neutralize acids
in the blood stream, resulting in acid blood.
The cells of the body (may be a localized area, e.g..: heart) become so acid
and toxic that they can no longer function efficiently enough to carry on
their part of the life process, resulting in death of the entire body.
If illness is stopped through unnatural interference (drugs, surgery, etc.),
and wrong living habits continue, the toxins which the body was attempting
to eliminate via the illness or disease will be driven deeper into the body,
setting the stage for a more toxic, more serious, more chronic disease.

THE DETERMINING FACTORS OF DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY

Diseases and illness are not "caught" or acquired by fate. They are earned,
some out of ignorance and some laziness, but nonetheless, earned.
There are several questions which arise when the above concept of
"working" for diseases is discussed. Such questions as: If we don't catch
diseases, how come when the flu is going around everyone seems to get it?
How come not every one catches a cold when colds are going around?
How come two people eating basically the same diet, living the same
lifestyle will develop different diseases?
If disease is caused by violating the laws of nature, how come a man in
his 90's who has violated these laws all of his life is in relatively good
health, and his two year old grandson is dying of cancer - a chronic
degenerative disease?

There are four main factors which determine the diseases or illnesses
one will develop when they violate nature's laws. These are:

1) ATTITUDE
2) TYPES AND SEVERITY OF STRESS
3) VITALITY OF THE BODY
4) GENETIC POTENTIAL

1) ATTITUDE AND ITS RELATION TO DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY
There is no question now that attitudes and emotions play a major
role in the health of the body. Science has always suspected this;
the mechanism is now beginning to be understood - there is a
definite cause-and-effect relationship between food, attitudes
and health, as well as wrong attitudes and disease.

2) TYPES AND SEVERITY OF STRESS
Different stresses will affect the body in different ways, thus different
ailments will be manifest in different parts of the body. This factor is
only minimally influenced by genetic tendency, but may establish new
genetic weaknesses for offspring. Eg.: A cigarette smoker will obviously
store much of the noxious toxins of this habit in his lung tissue, whether
he has genetically weak lung tissue or not. However if he does happen
to have genetic weaknesses of the lungs, the symptoms resultant from
smoking will manifest much earlier than one who does not have
genetically inferior lung tissue. The body, in some cases at least,
attempts to eliminate or store specific toxins through certain avenues.
Some examples:
salt via the skin (perspiration tastes salty)
uric acid stored in the big toe, feet (gout)
Also, the more severe or toxic the stress engaged, the greater the toll
it will take on the health of the body.

3) VITALITY OF THE BODY

By definition, the vitality of the body refers to the overall energy level
of the body, how much irritability the cells possess, the closeness of cell
pH to 7.0, how free the tissues are of toxins, etc. The greater the vitality,
the more energy the cells will have, therefore the greater will be the vicarious
elimination efforts by the tissues. This vicarious elimination will be directed
towards the surface of the body - to get it out of the body. Thus the mucus
membranes and skin will generally be the avenues of exit where symptoms
will arise when the body's vitality is high. Eg.: sinusitis, ear infections, measles,
chicken pox, etc. As the vitality lowers, due to continued toxic input, stress
and suppressing cleansing reactions, the body, not being able to afford
the energy to perform vicarious elimination, must simply store the toxins
in its tissues, in deeper layers of the body. Eg.: Arthritis, cancer, senility,
diabetes, etc.

4) GENETIC POTENTIAL

Diseases are not inherited; rather the tendency or potential of a disease is
passed on from parents to offspring. The disease tendency is transferee
via the genetic code. A genetic tendency is just that: a potential for disease.
A genetic weakness does not have to manifest as a disease unless the laws
of nature are violated. Only then will the weakness manifest. E.g.: The father
has a heart problem. He will pass on to his child(ren) genetically weak heart
tissue. This does not necessarily mean the child is born with a heart problem.
Nor does it mean the child ever has to have a heart problem; however, should
the child violate the laws of nature, the violations will take their toll in
the weakest tissue(s) of the body - in this case the heart.

Genetic weaknesses or tendencies grow with each succeeding
generation if the parents are engaged in a stressful lifestyle, including
toxic diet. Thus the amount of wrong doing that is required for a genetic
weakness to become clinical (manifest) grows less and less as the genetic
tendencies become weaker. As a result, a child on a toxic diet may manifest
a heart condition passed on to him genetically at a very early age as compared
to the age of his father developing a heart condition in his middle years.
Likewise, a grandparent may live all of his life, violating the laws of nature
and never manifest a problem in the particular area that his offspring do.
This is because either: The grand parent's weakness was so minor that he died
of other causes because these weaknesses became clinical first; or the grandparent did
not actually have a genetic weakness, but due to his stressful lifestyle, started to create
one and passed on the genetic weakness to his offspring.

The Pottinger Cat Experiments illustrate the genetic tendency principles.
In the 1940's, a medical doctor, Francis M. Pottinger, made an experiment
using 900 cats to determine what effects processed foods have on the body.
The cats were divided into five groups. Two of the groups were fed whole
foods-raw milk and meat - real foods for cats. The other three groups were
given denatured foods pasteurized, evaporated and condensed milk. All
the groups were fed the same minimal basic diet to sustain life. However,
the predominant portion of the diets were either real foods or denatured
foods as listed above. The cats were observed over a four generation period
and the following results were documented by Dr. Pottinger:

POTTINGER CAT EXPERIMENT SUMMARY

GROUP A B C D E
FOOD FED raw meat raw milk pasteurized milk evaporated/condensed milk

1st Generation remained healthy remained healthy developed diseases and illnesses near end of life
2nd Generation remained healthy remained healthy developed diseases and illnesses in middle of life
3rd Generation remained healthy remained healthy developed diseases and illnessess in beginning of life; many died before six months of age;

4th Generation remained healthy remained healthy no fourth generation was produced: either third
generation parents were sterile, or fourth generation cats were spontaneously aborted before birth;

Source: Pottinger's Cats, a Study in Nutrition


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