Some of you may have seen this piece before, from me. But such a small percent of you, I decided I would share it again, for it’s very shocking message.
There probably isn’t a more important subject in medicine than nutrition. Yet conventional colleagues continue to declaim that it’s a waste of time and all you need is in a “balanced diet”. A balance of what? Junk food, which has been vitiated and all the goodness removed? Aw, come on! The trouble is with doctors (some doctors) is that it’s got to be really gross before they can see it. Beri-beri or Pellagra they can remember from text books. But the common degrees of malnutrition you see in the streets and homes of London, New York, Paris, on anywhere in the Western world escapes them. Apparently the person is not “unhealthy” until they just about drop dead.
That’s not what we want. We want vibrant, toned, supple, healthy bodies that are a joy to occupy and sing our lives with. Healthy isn’t “not malfunctioning” but “the best we can get”.
Even if the dopes don’t accept that 98% is healthy but that 88% is unhealthy, there’s another important angle on this that all who tend the sick must know. As I say constantly in my public lectures: you cannot heal anybody of anything if there is a deficiency of the basic nutritional buildings blocks. I’m sorry if this offends people, even alternative practitioners, but it’s all a waste of time doing Reiki, reflexology, Chi Gung, scenar, massage, homeopathy or anything else if the body hasn’t got the basic materials for health!
I’m not talking about gross nutritional deficiency or malnourishment. That’s a problem for the Third World and unless you are working in that environment, the malnutrition you will meet is lack of enough of the basic health vitamins, key minerals, enzymes, co-factors and all the other stuff. And I don’t care WHAT the homeopaths and other enthusiasts say about “potentized magnesium, D10, C200 etc.” – forget it – give them the magnesium, for goodness sake (magnesium is just an example, but we are all threatened with severe magnesium deficiency with modern farming and food manufacturing methods).
The best people at nutrition are the veterinary experts. They would not dream of letting an animal go to stud in the pathetic nutritionally compromised state of most humans. Veterinarians learned long ago that the right balance of nutrients is essential for vitality and longevity in anything from a cockatoo to a pedigree horse. Why is it that what is good for animals is unimportant for humans? It’s just another case of specialist isolation; knowledge from one field is ignored completely in another. If you think I’m overstating it, take a look at a can of pet food. My friend Lynne McTaggart did. She found that dog food contained the equivalent of 8000 IU of vitamin A, 464 mgm of vitamin E and 812 mgm of vitamin D (Source: What Doctors Don’t Tell You, Vol 13 no 9, Dec 2002). That’s way over the recommended daily allowance for humans and far more than the European Parliament intends to allow its citizens in the Codex laws. What — dogs deserve better than voters? It doesn’t even make sense for politicians, does it?
You’ll have to educate yourself about nutrition, there’s really no choice. Fight for your own health. Don’t expect any help from the medical profession or government advisors. Ignorance in doctors can kill you. For example vitamin A is known to protect against cancerous changes in cells (hundreds of studies support this), yet standard medical advice is now to severely limit the intake of vitamin A. Why? Because it can be toxic if you take it at idiot levels. Well aspirin at idiot levels will kill you for sure, but we don’t hear any calls for its removal.
There are lots of books to advize you and thousands of websites to supply you through your letter box, even without the FDA’s consent! Live healthy, live long!
