The quickest way to learn the mechanics of a car is to own one that
repeatedly breaks down. Few people discover the complexity of their bodies
until they get sick. Looking for the answer to illness can be overwhelming.
We are bombarded with information on health and nutrition. Your local health
food store displays walls of vitamin and mineral supplements, tree bark
extracts, antioxidants, even love potions, all claiming to be the answer to
your problem. Some work, but no amount of pills and poisons can replace a
healthy diet. The problem with any pill is that it comes from a fix it
mentality. You cannot fix the North American Diet, there has to be complete
change.
The government has spent billions of dollars in research
into disease, yet very little is spent on prevention. There is more money
spent on advertising aspirin than nutritional education.
THE PATH OF MODERN
MEDICINE
North America has
ignored all the statistics that clearly define the modern diet as being
destructive to health. Having one of the highest standards of living has
resulted in a nation with the greatest rates of heart attacks and cancer.
Due to medical care, people are living longer, but seniors are taking an
average of eight to twelve prescription drugs daily for multiple, health
problems. We have prolonged life, which tragically often translates into
prolonged suffering.
Until recently, modern medicine has ignored diet as a
preventive measure against disease. Did you ever stop and wonder why?
About 90 years ago, there were two men, Pasteur and
Beachamp, who were at the forefront in their fields of science. Two men who
would forever define our understanding of health and medicine in very
distinct ways. Pasteur believed that we lived in a hostile environment where
disease was always trying to invade our bodies in the form of harmful
bacteria. Pasteur’s attitude towards sickness was to protect the body from
these harmful bacteria.
In contrast, Beachamp believed that a healthy body would
be immune to harmful bacteria. Only when the cells became weak and sick did
bacteria have a destructive effect on the body. But Pasteur insisted that
healthy tissue is sterile of bacteria.
Beachamp disagreed. He discovered that healthy tissue was
constantly being exposed to bacteria but as the body started to deteriorate,
the bacteria changed due to alterations in the cell's bio-chemistry.
Beauchamp’s and Pasteur's research seemed in conflict.
In the end, Pasture's theory was adopted and Beachamp's was ignored. This
resulted in a prejudice towards preventative treatment of disease that is
still present today in our medical communities.
When cells are healthy and vibrant, the immune system is
effective in fighting and controlling bacteria. However, through poor eating
habits, cells become weak and sick, and harmful bacteria are able to
multiply. Beauchamp’s and Pasteur's theories are equally important for a
healthy life. Unfortunately, medications for killing bacteria had become a
large industry. It is convenient to have germs to blame rather than being
responsible for one’s eating habits.
For example, candida is a bacteria that exist in two
forms. The form, usually found in the intestine, is harmless and does not
migrate to other tissues. In the event of the colon becoming toxic, candida
changes into its fungal form. It then penetrates the intestine wall and
infiltrates other body tissues, causing a multitude of metabolic
disturbances.
Beachamp discovered that germs are opportunists, waiting
for the right conditions. Otherwise most are harmless to the body. Bacteria
are in the air that we breathe, the water that we drink and the food that we
eat. For the majority of the time, bacteria do not affect the body. The
stomach secretes hydrochloric acid to kill harmful bacteria. The large
intestine has beneficial lactic acid-secreting bacteria which fend off
harmful bacteria. However, when the body is not being fed correctly, harmful
bacteria are able to multiply.
Medicines powerfully adjust the body's metabolism in an
attempt to stimulate healing. The symptoms can disappear, but the cause of
the imbalance is ignored which is mostly an impoverished diet. The effect
lasts only for so long until the imbalance sets off a new set of symptoms.
If you are tired, stressed out, and living on junk food, the immune system,
your God-given defense system, will break down. Medicine may keep you
breathing, but will not supply the vibrant zeal of life so few experience.
Antibodies travel throughout the blood and lymph to
identify foreign molecules, and guide the body's vast defense system. They
latch onto and neutralize foreign invaders, even coating microbes to make
them palatable for the scavenger cells. Antibodies respond swiftly to toxins
and enable us to fight and resist infections. The immune system has the
unimaginable ability of creating 1,920,000 different types of antibody
constructions.
Experiments have shown that white blood cells, called
lymphocytes, can attack cancer cells and hold them in check. Our immune
system is a powerful mechanism. One B lymphocyte can pump out more than 10
million antibody molecules an hour.
Compared with a lymphocyte, modern medicine is like using
a sledge hammer to kill a fly. For instance, nitroglycerine is prescribed to
relieve chest pains. This explosive drug works to relieve the pain but does
nothing to improve the disease.
Our hospitals are far from being a haven of healing. More
than one out of twenty hospital deaths occur due to an adverse drug
reaction. If you break an arm or a leg, medical technology is helpful. But,
when it comes to internally adjusting the intricate working of the human
body, most times, medicines fail.
Medical cures are not a solution to disease. We
need to take personal responsibility in how and what we eat.
Sickness resulting from neglect and a foolish diet is not God’s will.
God has gone to such great trouble in creating the human body with the
capacity for good health and vibrancy. He has created foods which, in their
natural state, are full of life-giving properties. It is up to us to take
these wonderful resources and show the world that God is the Author of Life.
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