Diet & Health -- Part 1

2003-2-7 13:20:00

A number of people on the list have health problems and my heart goes out to them. It is also of extreme importance that those of us seeking to serve, who presently have good health, maintain this vitality, for poor health is indeed a great handicap to many.

We could spend years on this subject, but the class goal at present is to cover the most important and useful information. Wholeness (holiness) in health covers many areas including the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.

Let us start with the physical and move up.

What are four (or more) things we can do on the physical plane to improve health?

Xavier is entirely right when he asks:

"But JJ, all these physical functions are heavily influenced by our emotions and thoughts."

JJ:

True and we shall get to this, but let us cover this subject methodically and start with the physical.

So, items of importance for health from the aspect of the physical that have been named are: Diet, exercise, breathing, sleep (I need more of this one), a good marriage, beautiful surroundings, avoiding toxins, healthy sex life, proper elimination, and living in a healthy environment. There is one important one that has not been named and that is sunshine. The sun has been much maligned lately, but the right amount of sun does have a very beneficial effect.

Again we realize there are many factors beyond the physical plane that effect good health such as positive thinking mentioned by Claire and we shall get into these type of thoughts later, but for now let us talk about one of the most important things we can do with physical plane activity and that is diet.

Many health enthusiasts see diet alone as almost a cure all for all diseases. While it is not true that diet is all we need, we must surely acknowledge that the food we eat does play an important role. Included in diet we shall place water which is also extremely important.

Question:  What are the three most important things to consider when deciding on a food to eat?

The key word behind this principle is LIFE as in the life force or vitality that is present in the food.

There are four categories of food having this vital energy and I will list them in order of importance:

  1. Foods that are yet alive such as sprouts or freshly picked or well preserved fruits and vegetables. These are not only have powerful vital energy but also have enzymes that are lacking in other foods.
  2. Foods having dormant life such as grains, beans, nuts and seeds.
  3. Foods having a preserved life force. This would include foods such as honey, real maple syrup, bee pollen, some teas and dried foods.
  4. Foods that are in the process of decomposition with only residual life force. This would include most of the foods in the regular grocery store including many of the fruits and vegetables. Fruit will tend to keep the life energy for the longest period after it is picked followed by below ground vegetables. Above ground vegetables that receive the rays of the sun will disintegrate quickly, but will have powerful life force when eaten fresh.

We should make an attempt to eat as many foods as possible from category one. If you are eating category one with other categories, eat category one first.

The second consideration has to do with the condition of the soil the various plants are grown in. In the United States for instance, the farm ground is missing about 85% of trace minerals. Many other countries have a similar problem. Australia fares about the best with only about 55% depletion. Europe averages 72%.

What effect do you suppose this mineral depletion has on us and what can we do to correct it?

Many people think that they get a lot of benefit from minerals in water and many non-plant derived mineral supplements but what is not realized is what happens to minerals that are processed by plants. After processing they become colloidal.

Let us enlarge the smallest particle that a mineral in its normal state is divided into and magnify it up to the size of a good sized rock. Now, let us give that rock to a plant and see what it does with it. What the plant then does is to take that rock and divide it up still into many more particles that are like grains of sand, many times smaller than a rock. In addition to this, the plant changes the charge of the particles from positive to negative.

Thus the plant creates two very positive effects on the minerals as they are prepared for human consumption. First the negative magnetic charge causes the particles to be drawn into the human tissue as if by a magnetic force rather than being repelled as are regular minerals.

The second benefit is quite logical when you ask this question. Which would be easier for my body to absorb, rocks or fine particles? The answer is obvious. When the body receives metal in chunks then it just wants to get rid of them, but when it receives them as fine magnetic particles, it embraces them.

Think of this. When a plant finishes the processing of a mineral, the particles are so small (as small as .01 millionths of an inch) that one teaspoon of the material could cover 127 acres of a completely smooth surface.

Dr. Joel Wallach did some research into various people who live in remote areas and are said to have life spans up to 150 years and here is what he found in common among them. Interestingly it was not a vegetarian diet or even low fat. In fact some of them seemed to have diets that we consider unhealthy. The one thing that they had in common was that they raised their plants in highly mineralized soil. The healthiest among them used water from nearby glaciers which was very highly mineralized.

Thus the best solution for this is to put the minerals back into our farm ground. This is possible to a degree for those who have the time to raise their own gardens, but for those of us who do not what is the alternative?

One answer is to get colloidal mineral supplements. There are several available that are leached from ancient plant beds that are now 70 million year old humic shale.

My wife tried some of this and we both developed a lot of joint pain and she swelled up like a balloon and got quite ill for a period of time. It took me about six months to get rid of whatever poison was in the product and my wife about a year. I think it was quite possible that the product we consumed had some regular lead or other toxic substance in it.

After this experience we concluded the safest way to get colloidal minerals was from the food itself, and I also concluded that highly mineralized food is a much better and powerful source than eating depleted foods along with mineralized liquid. Even if you are supplying the body with colloidal minerals through supplements it puts a strain on the body to handle all the depleted foods.

Now, the interesting point here is that many of the so-called health foods and organic foods are also grown in mineral depleted soil so many of the foods sold as being healthy may be just as mineral deficient as regular commercial foods.

The answer is to eat as much food as possible that was not grown in regular depleted farm ground, but was derived from highly mineralized areas.

Let us make a list of such foods that are now available to all of us -- some of them in the local supermarket. What are they?

  

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