Nature Cure The following prospectus outlines Indian naturopath, Dr. Jacob Vadakkanchery’s philosophy, Nature Cure, with support from various authors, revealing the ins and outs of natural hygiene, cellular strength, and physical stamina. Subject matter, including pain, medications, naturally detoxifying the body, nutrition, and overall health and wellness are all interconnected and discussed in this paper.

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Nature Cure By Erica Figueiredo Part I. Disease and Medications

Our Natural Healing Intelligence We are taught to dread the body’s natural cleansing mechanisms and encouraged to fear disease. Conditioned to believe that the body is vulnerable to the constant attack of bacteria, infectious germs, and viruses, we view the body as a hapless victim that must be safeguarded through the use of allopathic medications.

This is a lethal falsehood that fortifies pharmaceutical companies and terminates billions of lives.

Our bodies are healers, not victims. Let us consider common sense: When a bone is broken and the doctor places a cast around the injury, who heals the bone? When a doctor stitches a wound, does he also create a scab and magically put the skin back together? Who is the true healer? Our bodies have instinctive and eternal healing intelligence that is light years beyond human comprehension. Why do we think we know more than our body? Do we tell our heart how to beat? Do we tell our body how to digest our food? First and foremost, it is imperative that we reconsider the aptitude of the human body and recognize that our insignificant brain power cannot possibly ascertain the intelligence of our bodies. Believing that we need to fix our bodies with medication is working against the body’s intelligence and causes nothing but cellular damage. The key to health and longevity, therefore, is to allow the bodies to perform its healing power without uselessly intervening. Consequently, we must aim at listening to our body’s commands and responding accordingly.

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Pain & Discomfort Pain is our body’s way of communicating with us and diseases are the cleansing steps of the body. Pain is your friend, indicating that we need to change our life-styles in order to maintain wellness. If we didn’t have pain, we would die. Dr. Jacob likes to use the example which supposes you are watching a movie and someone sneaks up behind you and stabs you in the back. If you could not feel pain, you would continue to enjoy the movie until all the blood had drained from your body and you died. Pain wakes us up and calls our attention to physical problems, which need to be addressed. Headaches, for example, are the body’s message that we are over-exerting ourselves mentally and physically, and require a dark, tranquil or silent environment that will allow us to relax. Likewise, inflammation warns us not to overwhelm certain parts of the body and necessitates rest. Pain and discomfort, it seems, are the only signs we listen to… and consequently, run away from. Doctors capitalize on our fear of pain and tell us that pain is bad and must be silenced with their costly medications. Be aware that you can never escape the punishment of your body when you violate natural laws. We cannot run away from pain with medications and degenerating food or the consequences will be greater. When a prisoner escapes from jail and is caught, his punishment is double. The same rule of thumb applies to your body. So be humble and accept your punishment of unpleasant or prolonged healing crises.

There is no miracle cure. The only thing that can heal an organic system is itself.

�Sickness,� or rather, The Body�s Natural Cleansing Methods

Only humans suffer from disease. Do we ever hear of wild bears with tonsillitis? Otters with Gastro-Intestinal Disorder? Do tigers have PMS or General Anxiety Disorder? Only domesticated animals receiving vaccinations and medical treatments, or on diets where food was processed from a factory, suffer from cancer and diseases. We bring diseases on ourselves when we eat degenerating foods, live unhealthy lifestyles, and suppress our natural healing systems with poisonous medications. Humans are disconnected from their bodies. Animals understand their bodies’ natural laws and methods of cleansing. Step 1: Our body detoxifies normally everyday using the following Ordinary Cleansing Methods:

1. Exhalation 2. Sweat 3. Urine 4. Stools 5. Menstruation

Obviously, the inability to breathe will lead to death in a matter of minutes; however the inability to breathe properly leads to tiredness, asthma, and oftentimes, cancer. Problems with sweating occur when we block our pores with lotions, powders,

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creams, and cosmetics and leads to kidney damage, liver damage, and allergies. Constipation or problems urinating cause hemorrhoids, heart problems, high blood pressure, liver damage, and blood problems. Lastly, the inability to menstruate causes harm to the hormones and reproductive system. Step 2: When blockages occur and the ability to utilize our Ordinary Cleansing Methods is obstructed, the body must employ Extraordinary Cleansing Methods in order to save the body from permanent damage.

1. Vomit 2. Diarrhea 3. Skin Rashes 4. Cold/Cough 5. Fever

Being sick does not indicate that something is wrong, but rather insinuates that the body’s natural healing process is currently taking place. So what is sickness? Stomach ache, vomiting, fever, sore throat, to name a few, are not indicators that our bodies are weak and under attack, but rather signs that reveal strength and the ability to detoxify our systems. While the body eliminates waste everyday, through sweat, urine, and stools, it occasionally calls for emergency detoxification such as vomiting, diarrhea, skin rashes, colds, or fever. Let’s examine each:

• Vomiting – Toxins collected in the stomach are eliminated • Diarrhea – Toxins collected in the intestines are eliminated • Skin Rashes, irritations, acne – the body eliminating toxins through the pores of

the skin. Itching occurs when there is a need to release toxins and will subside when the toxins are removed. Creams, sunscreens, and medications suppress the removal of toxins and cause liver and kidney damage.

• Cold, Cough, Flu-like symptoms – toxins in the stomach and lungs being eliminated through the mouth and nose in the form of mucus.

• Fever – the body heats itself up to the point where it can burn its toxins. Nobody has ever died strictly from a high fever unless there was a chemical interaction with painkillers or anti-inflammatory medication. The body is too intelligent to burn itself to death.

When experiencing these Extraordinary Cleansing Methods, doctors will tell you to eat as much as possible (especially protein) to build strength and take expensive medications. On the contrary, both suggestions are counter-productive due to the fact that: 1. Digesting food takes the most amount of physical effort. When the body is

cleaning itself, why would we make it work overtime just to stop detoxifying and start digesting our food? Do we want to remain at a standstill in the detoxification process or would we rather give our bodies the opportunity to finish cleansing before giving it another task? If you don’t know the answer, your body will tell you:

• No Appetite = Don’t eat (the most common indicator that the body needs cleansing)

• Sore Throat = Don’t eat • Loss of Taste = Don’t eat • Itchy Tongue = Don’t eat • Indigestion = Don’t eat • Stomach Ache = Don’t eat

Listen to your body – it will tell you how to proceed.

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2. Why would we take medication to stop the detoxifying process? Do our

stomachs want to keep the excess mucus? Is it better to let the vomit and diarrhea settle back down in our system after the body worked so hard to organize the detox?

The Dangers of Medications How does medicine work? Let’s take a patient with arthritis. The joint pain is an indicator, letting the patient know that toxic material has built up in the body, and encourages the individual to rest. Pain also indicates that the body is healing that particular area. However, if the patient takes a deadly painkiller, the focus of the body will immediately rush from healing the injured joints to attacking the foreign poison. Therefore, the natural detoxification procedure must stop in order to fight off the toxic pollutants that have just entered the body. While the body’s focus leaves the joints, physical comfort is experienced. Yet, not only is the build-up of accumulated toxins prohibited from being released, but new toxins from the medication will cause further harm to the cells and organs. There is absolutely no medicine that helps the body, including herbal remedies, homeopathy, and Ayurvedic treatments. All treatments are cheating you. Pharmaceutical companies know it; medical students learn it. In fact, the medical student textbook, Microbiology, published in England, explains that all medical tests and equipment are unreliable and dangerous, including mammography, ultrasound, x-rays, blood tests, etc. and admits that the body only needs air, food, and water. The medical textbook not only warns students against allopathic intervention, but acknowledges that the body can heal on its own. It even states that the common cold is a blessing, which cleans the lungs and sinuses and creates interferons and postaglandis (produced in the mucus) that fight against cancer. The British Medical Association published medical student textbook, Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine 20th ed. which verifies that the popular painkiller, Paracetamol, (other brands known as Tylenol, Acetaminophen, Aspirin, Advil, Panadol, or Ibuprofen) causes death of the liver, increases liver damage in alcoholics, nausea, vomiting, hemorrhage, and death. In fact, if just two tablets of Paracetamol are crushed and mixed with rice and left for a couple of days, the mixture will become a deadly rat poison. The textbook quotes that

"As little as 10-15 g (20-30) tablets or 150mg/kg of Paracetamol taken within 24 hours may cause severe hepatocellular necrosis, and less frequently, renal tubular necrosis. Nausea and vomiting are the only features of poisoning and usually settle within 24 hours. Persistence beyond this time is often associated with the onset of right subcortical pain and tenderness, usually indicating development of Hepatic necrosis. Liver damage is maximal 3-4 days after ingestion and may lead to encephalopathy, hemorrhage, hypoglycemia, cerebral edema, and death" (pg 23, Emergency Treatment of Poisoning, British National Formulary 43, March 2002, Published by the British Medical Association).

Furthermore, Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia explains that “the number of accidental self poisonings and suicides from Paracetamol has grown in recent years.” The Encyclopedia also adds that Paracetamol toxicity is, by far, the most common cause of

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acute liver failure in both the United States and the United Kingdom” and is often used in suicide attempts. Lastly, in addition to Paracetamol, the British Medical Association textbook comments on diagnostic procedures, stating that “many tests are potentially hazardous and none are completely reliable. All diagnostic tests can produce false positives (an abnormal result in the absence of disease) and false negatives (a normal test in a patient with a disease). The diagnostic accuracy of a test can be expressed in terms of its sensitivity and specificity” (pg 7). Drug Data:

• Prescription and over-the-counter drugs increase the toxemia and acidity of the body.

• 2.2 million hospital admissions per year in America are due to the adverse

effects of drugs. 220,000 of these result in death. Many of these reports were investigated and verified by the American Medical Association.

• Suppressing headaches and migraines with pain killers causes brain tumors.

Headaches were the warning sign, forcing its person to rest so that it may correct its inner problems. Conclusively, all pain killers are dangerous to liver and kidney functions and suppress the production of bone marrow.

• Fever medications can cause death. The fever was designed to protect the

overloaded cells from permanent damage; however drug interactions and suppression of fever cause encephalopathy, hemorrhage, brain damage, and death.

• Five years of diabetes medication causes high blood pressure. Five years of

blood pressure medication causes enlarged heart. Heart medication for five years causes and kidney failure. Dialysis performed to correct kidney failure often leads to the need for leg amputation and organ transplants.

• Only five percent of drugs for newborns and infants have been clinically

tested.

• Anger, anxiety, suicidal tendencies, and impulsivity, are a common side-effect of anti-depressant drug interactions. The gunman who killed students at Northern Illinois University was taking Xanax (Anxiety), Ambien (Sleep), and Prozac (Depression) simultaneously.

Antibiotics and immunizations are dangerous and unnecessary. “Bacterial infections” are a medical excuse for selling drugs or explaining a death, when in fact bacteria grows only after the accumulation of toxic matter, providing a favorable atmosphere for their growth. In addition, most bacteria actually clean the body. All doctors receive patients with contaminated bodies, yet proceed to increase the body’s toxicity with medications. Quite often, the increase of dosages is prescribed so that the body cannot possibly eliminate the poison and because new symptoms will appear; thus necessitating more costly visits to the clinic. CBC News Canada reported that more than one million seniors were prescribed atypical antipsychotics, regardless of the known side effects of convulsions, stroke, twice the risk of heart failure, and a 60 percent increase in risk of death. These drugs include Risperidone (Risperdal), Quetiapine (Seroquel), Olanzapine (Zyprexa) and Clozapine (Clozaril), all of which have never been tested on seniors.

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Indeed, doctors are always looking for justifiable reason to prescribe medications or perform unnecessary surgeries. Removing the tonsils and appendix are perfect examples of excuses to profit financially. If truth be told, the tonsils and appendix are the system’s body guards to our two openings, the mouth and anus. Removing either will ensure that the patient permanently remains weak, thus encouraging repeat clientele. In reality, when tonsils are removed, the lungs go into overdrive with the new responsibility of having to transport blood to the brain system. Precisely, the lungs, must assume the exhausting and abnormal responsibility of sending the brain extra-purified blood. Keep in mind that yesterday’s health treatments are today’s poisons. During the 19h century, doctors practiced and swore by electroshock therapy. In the early 20th century, doctors recommended smoking to relieve stress. Thalidomide was prescribed by thousands of pregnant women to cure morning sickness in the 1960s. Conversely, 20-30 percent of children whose mother had taken the drug were born with severe limb and organ defects. If yesterdays remedies are today’s poisons, is it not safe to say that today’s remedies are tomorrow’s poisons?

Our Trusty Pharmaceutical Companies While medical texts warn medical students of the deadly consequences of taking medications, who is paying their student loans and providing them with bonuses and salaries? Each of the 7,500 multinational pharmaceutical companies employ

• Hundreds of thousands of medical students to perform research and devise new medications

• Thousands of researchers to perform drug experiments • Hundreds of scientists to design diseases

Pharmaceutical companies employ “disease designers” to create diagnoses and assign special names to “diseases” that are nothing but normal bodily

functions. Drug designers try to aim for only long-term side effects, so that the lethal consequences are difficult to trace back to the medication. Even “deadly infectious diseases” are often created. While it takes a drug approximately 12 years to become established and approved the by FDA, the vaccination for Bird Flu, for example, was created before the disease. The whole point of broadcasting and advertising infectious diseases is to scare the public into purchasing “protective measures” such as flu shots and vaccinations. The Approval of Medications Step 1: Each year 30 million animals just in the UK are tortured and put to death to carry out lab studies and test new medications. The average length of time to complete the lab studies phase is three to five years. Step 2: Once the lab study is approved, the FDA hands the research team, funded by the pharmaceutical company, a New Drug Application license, or an NDA, to begin three clinical trials: Trial 1: The pharmaceutical companies pay 100 healthy people who are not currently taking any other medications to volunteer as guinea pigs for drugs that have yet to be tested on humans. Once the test is performed, the short-term follow-up of

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three to six months is recorded; however no long-term follow-up on the side-effects is required. Trial 2: After passing the first trial, the medication must be tested on 5,000 healthy participants. This is when the pharmaceutical companies feel generous and donate free vaccinations and medicines to orphanages and children’s foundations.

Trial 3: The third trial calls for 50,000 victims to participate in a blind and double blind study. This research takes place in third world countries and is disguised, again, as an act of help and kindness. Due to the high risk of testing these medications, the pharmaceutical company gives a scholarship to one lucky medical student (the scapegoat, often a minority with poor English speaking skills) to conduct the study. Consequently, the pharmaceutical company is absolved of all deaths and serious side effects if any problems should occur. Indeed, why not blame the student and argue that you’re simply funding the charitable deed? So who judges whether or not the NDA is safe to distribute to the public? The panel is made up of pharmacists, chemists, physicians, and statisticians, as well as employees of the FDA, who have a “deadly partnership,” as Dr. Ray D. Strand puts it, with the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceutical Company Merk & Co. Fun Facts

• Pharmaceutical company, Merck and Co., was punished $630 million in 2007 for concealing the fact that the anti-depressant, Paxil, causes suicidal tendencies. While proven in the clinical trial, the information was withheld and led to the gruesome death of countless individuals.

• Merck and Co. again was charged $651 million in February 2008 for bribing doctors to sell their medications.

• Merck and Co. was forced to take arthritis medications, Vioxx and Celebrex off the market for causing heart attack, stroke, blood clots, angina, nonbacterial meningitis, severe intestinal damage, ulcerations, internal bleeding, and kidney damage. Merck’s liability could reach $50 billion.

Medicine Discarded by World Health Organization

Analgin – headache medicine Novalgin – headache medicine Cisapride – Joint medicine Nimesulide – (pain & inflammatory medication created in the US in 1994 but never given authorization to sell) banned in 180 countries for killing hundreds of children

Cancer

Cancer is the end result of years of terminating the body’s natural detoxification process with dangerous poisons – allopathic medications & vaccines. Cancer is also caused by chemically engineered poisons such as processed food, refined sugar, preservatives, and artificial additives that the body can no longer eliminate. The cycle looks something like this: Suppress a cold with cold medicine and six months to a year later, a cough develops (the body’s next attempt to organize a

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detox). Suppress the cough with inhalers and remedies for bronchitis and eventually the patient ends up with symptoms of allergies. Suppress the allergies with medications and the individual develops headaches. Suppress the headaches and migraines follow. Suppress the migraines and the outcome is asthma. The cycle of medical complaints and physical weakness, to allopathic medications, to more dangerous illnesses, eventually ends the with cancer and/or auto-immune diseases. There is no localized health problem. The body is one system - all parts function together. High blood pressure is not a separate problem from chronic fatigue or acne – all physical ailments and irritations are indicators that the body needs to eliminate toxins. Contrary to popular belief, tumors actually indicate strength, given that the body has collected all of the toxic materials and trapped the poisons into one cluster, so as to contend with them more efficiently. In fact, cancer patients are often healthier than individuals with toxins spread throughout their entire body. Thus, chemotherapy and radiation therapy are far more dangerous than the actual tumors.

Part II Achieving and Maintaining Proper Health

Our Fuel: The Five Elements Take a look at nature. What gives us life? How are we physically empowered? What is they key to physical health and wellbeing? It has been understood for centuries that the body derives its energy from the five elements – air, water, fire, vital force, and earth. Air: Without air or the ability to breathe, we cannot live for more than a few minutes. Thus, we can assume then that the health of the body depends largely upon the strength and capacity of the lungs to breathe properly. Millions of people breathe incorrectly. If you’re not guilty of it yourself, you’ve probably heard others with shallow, wheezy, uncontrolled oxygen intake. It has been preached for centuries, the benefits of yoga, meditation, and Pranayama breathing, yet the majority of Westerners turn to inhalers, dehumidifiers, and oxygen tanks, rather than the $10 yoga mat. If people simply scrapped the cigarettes and spent 15-30 minutes per day sitting and focusing on their breath, a large number of respiratory problems would easily be eliminated. Water: While we cannot live for more than a few days without water, proper hydration is essential for maintaining health. However, everyone needs different amounts of water. The body will tell you through “thirst” how much water it needs. The myth that we should drink 50-75 percent of our body weight in ounces of water per day overwhelms the kidneys and hinders its ability to purify the blood. Don’t drown yourself; just listen to your body’s command. Additionally, mineral water is unnatural and difficult to assimilate. Drink clean, regular tap or bottled water.

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Vital Force: Vital force is derived from living foods and cosmic energy that is commonly experienced through meditation and other spiritual and religious practices. The mind-body-spirit connection is extremely important when considering health and wellness and experienced on a personal-individual level. Fire: The fire in our bodies is used to perform digestion and organize a fever when the body is under toxic overload. We derive this power from the sun by absorbing direct sunlight during sunrise and sunset. 30 minutes to one hour per day is sufficient. Earth: Direct from the ground – fruits, vegetables, and whole grains are the only foods the body needs to maintain proper health. Yet, the majority of physical problems are a result of eating incorrectly. If achieving good health is as easy as eating only earth foods, why is it that we have so many degenerative diseases and health issues? We have been given the wrong information regarding health. Indeed, we must familiarize ourselves with ancient knowledge, which we can find everyday by observing nature. The five elements provide us with energy; however, they do not heal the body. Healing is the life force of the body. The quality of your food produces the quality of your blood. The quality of your blood produces the quality of your cells, enzymes, bodily fluids, and hormones, which produce the quality of the organs. The quality of your organs produces the quality of your energy. Therefore, good air, good food, good water = good health. Food, when consumed correctly, can detoxify and act as medicine to the body. So let us examine weight loss, nutrition and detoxification, which undeniably stand as one. Food is your medicine. Medicine is not your food.

Weight Loss

Essentially, fat is the overload of toxic material, which the body can no longer eliminate, that is stored in the fat cells to keep the organs safe. While the discriminatory stigma that individuals with a weight problem lack motivation and willpower, the fact of the matter is that not only are we conditioned to believe myths and lies about nutrition, but much of the food we consume is poisonous and addictive. The additives in food that we find at our friendly grocery store are as deadly as street drugs, encouraging dependence, cravings, and depression. In fact, we only psychologically crave food that degenerates and degrades the body. Additionally, those who eat vegetarian diets, yet are still fatigued and battling unwanted pounds, are perhaps eating the right foods but combining them incorrectly, which will also lead to toxicity and weight gain. Examining Hunger: Hunger is the appestat in the brain believing that the body has not been fed because it does not have sufficient nutrients. Some people always feel hungry or find themselves standing in front of the refrigerator after a meal because their food was devoid of nutritious content. This means that the food was not only unusable, but required a tremendous amount of energy to digest and store that which could not be eliminated in the fat cells (as far away from the organs as possible). Eating incorrectly inevitably leads to cravings, over-eating, exhausting the body’s enzymes, and the build-up of toxins in the system. Indeed, diets high in acidic content will cause hunger only one hour after eating (false hunger). The Friendly Sweet Tooth: Humans naturally have a sweet tooth because the body uses glucose for energy. Refined sugars have manipulated our taste buds into no

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longer craving fruit. However, after several weeks of eating only natural foods, fruit tastes wonderfully sweet again.

Why Detox?

What is the first step before repainting your house? Removing the old chipped paint, dust particles, and corrosion, right? Similarly, we must remove the toxic materials from our body before we can regain strength and acquire a healthy body composition. Yet why is it that we shower and scrub our outer bodies on a regular basis, while never give a thought to cleansing the insides? Instinctively, our bodies attempt to detox in order to rid ourselves of unwanted poisons. We feel like vomiting when taking medication on an empty stomach because the body immediately tries to reject the toxic material. Yet, by taking medications with food, as doctors suggest, we can sneak the drugs into the body while it is focused on digestion. Who vomits more frequently - adults or children? Naturally, the latter – babies and children have stronger cells and are more inclined to regurgitate and vomit, so as to eliminate foreign pollutants through detoxification. In fact, infants scream and fight for their lives when their parents or doctors force medications down their throats or give them injections and vaccinations. Infants understand that nothing, especially poison, should enter their system when their bodies are contending with toxins. Let’s take a look at nature. What does your dog do when it is sick? You feed it, it won’t eat. You try to give it medicine, it refuses. The dog takes total rest and instinctively reduces its food intake so that its body may correct the problem. If it cannot vomit on its own, it will eat some grass to promote vomiting, and once the detoxification is complete, your dog is back to its old self again. Animals understand balance – they rest when tired, eat when hungry, stretch and exercise when feeling stiff, fast when the body is detoxifying, and know how to preserve their energy. Diurnal animals wake up at sunrise, rest at sunset, sunbathe before the sun is too hot or otherwise rest in the shade. Yet the human ego likes to be heroic, enjoys sympathy, thrive on excuses, and escapes discomfort or pain. Doctors and pharmaceutical companies take full advantage of this. Detoxifying is a natural, instinctive healing mechanism that keeps the body alive. However, when taking medications and consuming only degenerating, toxic foods, the body can only try to contend with and store the poisonous material. The key to health and longevity is to allow your body to follow through with its healing power, rather than suppress it, like we are advised by physicians.

Nature Cure Detoxification -- Dietary Options

Losing weight and cleansing the body, as previously stated, occur simultaneously. In fact weight loss is one of the first symptoms of cellular purification, given that fat is essentially toxic build-up. Again, the elimination of pollutants must take place before the cells can be rejuvenated. Therefore, following Nature Cure’s nutritional guidelines, ordered from intense (requiring one to three months) to gradual cleansing (requiring one to three years), ensures weight loss while simultaneously promoting health and vitality.

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No matter how many years you have of polluting your body, as long as you are still alive, you may reverse the damage by adhering to these dietary

guidelines:

I. One Month Intense Detoxification Program (For severe patients or individuals with strong willpower and light work schedules)

• Days 1-3: eat only fruit, 3-4 times per day • Day 4: only coconut water (if you don’t have fresh coconuts, split the day into

50% fruit juice and 50% water) 3-4 times per day • Day 5-10 or 13: water fasting. (By the 3rd, 4th, and 5th day of fasting, you will no

longer feel hunger. By the 6th day, you will develop an abundance of power and gain back your appetite. This is also the period in which healing crises may occur.)

• For the following one or two days, only drink coconut water • Next, the number of days you fasted should be the number of days you take

only fruit. • For the following week, have only one cooked meal, and two meals of fruit or

raw vegetables per day. **False hunger is a heavy, painful, empty sensation due to the acidity in the stomach. Eat only fresh natural fruit juice or coconut water when experiencing false hunger.

II. Become a Fruitarian or eat only raw fruits and vegetables – a fast and effective way to cleanse the inside of the body. That’s right - eat fruit. Eat only fruit for as long as possible – two weeks, two months, or longer – consume ONLY fresh natural fruit and REAL fruit juices (that you’ve squeezed yourself) and take total rest. Your body will contend with any physical ailments and imbalances on its own. Eating only fruit (which is 90% water) will cleanse the system and flood the body with vitamins and minerals, allowing the liver and other organs to relax and rejuvenate. This method essentially washes out accumulated waste in the digestive track. Fructose (natural sugar from fruit) does not require digestion and is absorbed naturally, thus giving rest to the digestive system. Feeling tired occurs only when the body needs to shut its person down in order to focus on internal problems and clean out its toxins. Healthy individuals do not feel tired on a fruit diet because they have adequate vitamins to keep them going strong throughout their day. FYI: Quite contrary to popular thinking, a fruit diet does in fact cure hypoglycemia as well as thrush, and does not cause diabetes. Patients with diabetes should take a one to three month raw vegetable diet and then slowly introduce sour fruits. Subsequently, according to the patient’s blood sugar levels, he/she may have sweet fruits as an alternative. Fruit has a relationship with the tongue in which it knows how to select the fruits it needs. There are times when pineapple or kiwi leaves the tongue with a burning or itching sensation, as well as times when bananas for some reason taste like heaven. The tongue selects the fruit the body needs. While it is advised not to mix sweet fruits with sour fruits and to eat melon and cantaloupe separately, it is best to leave the fruit selecting to your taste buds! On the contrary, the tongue does not have this relationship with meat, and people have no indication that they are eating incorrectly until indigestion kicks in.

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For patients on extended fruit diets, it is imperative that the individual gradually eases his/her way back onto a regular vegan diet by slowly introducing raw vegetables and subsequently, cooked food. The process should be as follows: From extended fruit diet to ! 3-5 days of fruit for breakfast & dinner, raw vegetables for lunch ! 2-3 days of fruit for breakfast, raw vegetables for lunch and dinner ! 2-3 days of fruit for breakfast, cooked meal for lunch, either fruit or raw vegetables for dinner * Healthy individuals may occasionally take two cooked meals per day, provided the meals are consumed with raw vegetables or a fresh salad. III. Strict Food Combinations – a less intense, yet detoxifying diet

Unquestionably, the key to health and longevity is fundamentally the constant, uninterrupted flow of energy in the body. While the energy we use originates from the five elements, a large amount of what fuels our body derives from food consumption. Thus, the uninterrupted flow of absorption, utilization, and elimination of food, or in other words, digestion, are the foundation for physical health and well-being. Whenever that flow of energy is disturbed, imbalance results and illness occurs.

In order to achieve digestive health, it is imperative that food is consumed and combined properly.

To begin with, proteins and carbohydrates should not be eaten together, due to the fact that the enzymes used to digest each group neutralize when working concurrently in the stomach and prolong the digestion process. More accurately, digesting protein uses acid based enzymes and takes approximately three hours, however digesting carbohydrates, employing alkaline based enzymes, requires about two to three hours to leave the body. In addition, protein is digested in the intestines, unlike carbohydrates, which are digested in the stomach. Suppose you consume rice with almonds, both of which are healthy and nutritious. However, once the acid-based enzymes encounter the alkaline-based enzymes, the result is often physical discomfort (indigestion, heartburn, flatulence, etc.), and calls for 8-24 hours to digest one meal. Thus, the nutritious food will have gone rancid in the stomach, and rather than being beneficial to the body, the food becomes toxic to the system and is accordingly stored in the fat cells. Furthermore, when eating three incorrectly combined meals per day, the food is constantly entering the stomach before the digestion process is finished. The outcome is added confusion, discomfort, and digestive disorders. Combing food correctly preserves energy and prevents digestive disorders as well as diseases of the stomach, intestines, pancreas, liver, kidneys, thyroid,

blood, bones, and muscles. Additionally, fruit must be eaten alone, given that fruit is 90% water and requires only 20-30 minutes to digest. When eaten with protein or carbohydrates, necessitating 2-3 hours to digest, the food will again be useless to the body as a result of digestive chaos. For this reason, choose to eat fruit 20-30 minutes before a meal or 2-3 hours after. To sum up:

• Mix carbohydrate with vegetables • Mix protein with vegetables

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• Eat fruit alone. Try not to mix sour fruits with sweet fruits and eat melons and cantaloupe separately.

• Wait 5 hours after eating protein & vegetables OR 2 hours after eating carbohydrates & vegetables before eating fruit. Wait 30 minutes after eating fruit or fruit juice before eating a meal.

Consume ONLY natural, fresh, unprocessed food. Do not eat refined sugar or artificial sweeteners, white flour, salt, or animal products (including dairy). Be natural, follow your instincts - there is no set diet other than the recommended one cooked and two raw meals per day. Do what works best for you. IV. Regular Nature Cure Diet

Same as above, however, you may mix your fruit with the rest of your food, as long as you eat your fruit first.

***Apart from taking complete rest during the detoxification process, patients should also perform intestinal enema once or twice daily, as well as nasal wash using a neti pot with lukewarm water (add a very small pinch of salt and lemon or lime), throat wash (use the same mixture as the nasal wash liquid, but make it slightly stronger), and eye wash. It is also important to get 30 minutes to one hour of sunlight daily and to perform yoga regularly. Enema should be performed after your morning bowel movement and before bed during the detoxification process. Avoid liver and colon cleanses, as the machines kill the off good bacteria, causing more problems than constipation.

Healing Crises

Oftentimes, when the body is highly toxic, healing crises will occur during the detoxification process. Essentially, many of our old ailments and health problems come back to haunt us when we finally allow our body to rid itself of the toxic material. Healing crises, such as vomiting, diarrhea, stomach or intestinal pain, skin irritation and ulcers, vertigo, headache, body aches, fever, etc, vary depending upon the age, amount of cellular strength, and severity of the disease of each patient. Healing crises are, in fact, a blessing and indicate inner strength as well as the elimination of toxic materials. Normally the healing crises during Nature Cure practice will be mild and last a short period of time. It is extremely important, that if healing crises should occur, the patient does

not suppress the body’s natural and safe detoxification process with medications or food.

Individuals experiencing healing crises should take complete rest and fast on water or coconut water until the symptoms subside. Diarrhea may last from 12-24 hours. (High acidic content in the body causes mouth, stomach, and intestinal ulcers.) During the water fasting, a patient might vomit acidic water or yellow toxic waste, depending on the severity of his/her physical condition. A common healing crisis, false hunger, is a burning, empty sensation due to the acidity in the stomach. True hunger should be a light, pleasant feeling. When the healing crises pass, the mouth will feel clean, the body light, and the stomach will feel settled.

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Additional Nature Cure treatments, which alleviate symptoms, but again, do not cure physical problems, are mud pack, hip bath, spinal bath, wet pack, sea-salt bath, head-rinsing, and self-massage.

Fasting Have you ever been told to eat bland starchy foods on an upset stomach? When feeling nauseous, people stay far away from fruits and vegetables (so as to avoid vomiting) and fill their stomachs with toast and crackers. Eating starch, however, puts the body back to work on digestion, when it was already in the process of organizing a detox. The truth of the matter is that it is wise to fast on an upset stomach, however uncomfortable it may be. Indeed, when “sick” or rather, when the body is detoxifying via fever, cold, vomiting, diarrhea, etc., it is best to fast completely – drinking only water or fresh coconut water until the symptoms subside. When feeling hungry (which is usually psychological or “false/acidic hunger”), the patient may take fruit juice. This provides the body with the opportunity to fully cleanse the system and allow the cells to rejuvenate. The first thing that happens during fasting is that the body will neutralize its pH and begin cleansing the cells and eliminating fat. We feel less energized because the body shuts us down, forcing us to rest, in order to finish its work. When the detoxifying process is over, however, the body will experience an abundance of energy. Fasting is a spiritual practice, which promotes healing. During food intake, the mind focuses on chewing and digesting, which in fact is the most exhausting and difficult process for the body. When food enters the mouth, blood rushes to the salivary glands to produce the first stage of digestive juices (there are over 500 types of digestive juices). Clearly, digestion is not a simple process. Giving the body a holiday from digestion, frees the mind and allows the Self to be active. All spiritual leaders and yogis practice and encourage fasting. Jesus Christ fasted for 40 days and became enlightened, due to elevated atomic power of the body.

Additional Nutritional Info The Three Food Groups

Dr. Jacob breaks down food into three categories:

1. Food that is Alive: Raw fruits and vegetables, brown rice, nuts, legumes fresh uncooked whole grains & oats.

2. Food that is Dead: Cooked vegetables, dried fruits, whole grain bread & pasta, unprocessed whole foods.

3. Ghost Food: Refined sugars, refined salt and flour, animal products, deep fried or processed food, coffee, tea, colas, alcohol, canned or concentrated fruit drinks.

The first category, food with life, revitalizes, cleanses, and strengthens the body. The second group, food that is dead, is not bad for the body, yet not particularly good either. This is due to the fact that the body must use its own energy and enzymes in order to break down and utilize its nutrients. Lastly, Ghost Food attacks the body’s cells and organs and exhausts enzymes and vital nutrients. Pepsi and Coca Cola, for example, cause liver, kidney, and skin damage. What happens when you throw a tomato out the window? It germinates! Overwhelmingly, the food has life properties that prosper in the body. If you put

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white rice in a glass of water, it rots. However, if you leave brown rice in a glass of water, it will sprout. Essentially, if you want to be lively, eat living foods Nutrition Tips

• Drink beetroot juice to purify the blood and sunbathe to purify the skin. Carrot juice, tomato juice, and other vegetable juices are just as effective in cleansing the body.

• Avoid drinking hot and cold drinks. Using a straw hinders the signal in the mouth to release enzymes and the individual drinks more than the body wants, causing bloating.

• Avoid eating too much lemon due to its acidic content. This is apparent when biting into a lemon – an excessive blast of saliva and enzymes rush to the tongue to begin digestion and require more physical effort than necessary.

• Avoid spicy foods – spicy foods are NOT good for you and do not clean out the body. The sweat and mucus that is generated when trying to break down spicy foods is the emergency detoxification process trying to rid the body of the toxins through the pores of the skin and through the nose.

o Listen to your tongue – tastes that are too strong (including garlic & onion) are warning signs that the body can’t handle its content.

All “acquired tastes” are harmful to the body (coffee, alcohol, spicy food, etc).

• Thirst after eating insinuates that the food was toxic to the body, given that it’s asking for water to flush out the poison.

Under all circumstances, avoid the Five White Poisons

1. Medications 2. White Sugar 3. White Flour 4. Milk 5. Salt

Raw vs. Cooked Foods As our body’s pH is made up of 80% alkaline and 20% acidic content, our food intake should be consistent with the inside of our bodies - 80% raw fruits and vegetables and only 20% cooked foods (considered acidic to the body).

Food must satisfy the needs of the cells. The body’s cells are designed to cook raw food and are not meant to handle food which, to the body, has already been digested. While a cooked meal may still have some vitamins and minerals, it is devoid of enzymes and therefore, requires that the body use its own enzymes, produced in the liver, to digest the cooked food. Seasonal changes should not influence the amount of cooked food we eat. Dr. Brian Clements provides evidence in support of the raw fruits and vegetable diet, concluding that when we eat a cooked meal,

• Vital enzymes and vitamins are destroyed. That which survives exists in an altered form and cannot be utilized by the body.

• Proteins are coagulated and become difficult to digest. • Pesticides become more toxic. • Free radicals are generated.

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• Proteins are half as likely to be utilized. • Hormones, oxygen, and phytonutrients, are destroyed.

Lastly, “cooking food above 200 degrees F causes a pathogenic response in the body called leukocytosis, whereby white blood cells are used to digest food as much as they wood attack a foreign substance.”

-2007, Brian R. Clement, PhD, NMD, LNC. Ever hear people complain, “I can’t eat cooked food because I get stomach aches.” Or, “I can’t eat broccoli because I’ll get diarrhea.” Exactly! That’s the whole point!!! Eating life foods encourages the body to clean and detoxify the system. Any doctor who tells you otherwise is looking out for your money, not for your health. Pain in any organ insinuates cleansing, and does not mean that something is wrong. Accept your punishment and eat to clean your cells, not to avoid pain. Thus, a healthy diet should consist of two meals that are alive (breakfast and dinner) and one meal that or cooked (lunch). In addition, when consuming a cooked meal, always have a fresh vegetable salad. Completely eliminate all ghost foods.

Vegetarianism

When closely observing human anatomy, it is apparent that we are physically designed as herbivores. Resembling apes and gorillas, our strength derives not from flesh, but rather from plants. Our intestines are the same size as a cow’s. What do cows eat? Grass. Examining nature, a carnivore’s intestines are three to six feet the length of its body, whereas human intestines, like other herbivores, are 10-12 times the length of its body. Categorically, from facial muscles, jaw type, jaw joint location, jaw motion, jaw muscles, mouth opening vs. head size, to incisors, molars, and canine teeth, chewing, saliva, stomach type, stomach acidity, stomach capacity, length of small intestines, colon, liver, kidneys, and nails, human beings are not carnivores – not even omnivores, but distinctly herbivores. “Human beings have the gastrointestinal tract structure of a "committed" herbivore. Humankind does not show the mixed structural features one expects and finds in anatomical omnivores such as bears and raccoons. Thus, from comparing the gastrointestinal tract of humans to that of carnivores, herbivores and omnivores we must conclude that humankind's GI tract is designed for a purely plant-food diet.”

- The Comparative Anatomy of Eating by Milton R. Mills, M.D. Taking a look at nature’s meat eaters, it is apparent that a carnivore’s body is designed for violence. A tiger, for example, has muscles designed to jump from trees and for explosive movement to chase down its prey. Its claws can slice through an animal’s body and tear apart its flesh. Lastly, the tiger’s razor-sharp teeth can rip through bone and hide, and its stomach can digest skin, hair, bones, and raw flesh of another animal. When we see a baby deer, is our first instinct to jump out of a tree, pounce on the deer, and bite it? Can we claw at it with our fingernails and tear its skin with our teeth? Can we chase it down when it runs away?

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Humans are instinctively non-violent creatures with hands designed to stroke and pet baby animals. However, the degree of animal cruelty that takes place in labs and slaughter houses for the pockets of pharmaceutical companies and the Meat and Dairy Industry is of immeasurable injustice.

The Protein Myth Meat, dairy, and egg industries have done a fabulous job brainwashing the public into believing that we need to consume a large portion of animal protein. They even got their hands on the creators of the Food Pyramid before publishing their original study, revealing that the body can only handle a moderate consumption of protein. Today the pyramid stands ashamed with its meat and dairy groups presented equally important as the fruits and vegetable groups. Protein produces energy! Carbohydrates produce fat! A plan fit for everyone! Meat, dairy, and egg industries become rich! Pharmaceutical companies have reason to create and sell drugs for all of the countless side effects of a high protein diet! More patients for the doctors! More clientele for health insurance companies! Gyms and athletic centers, weight loss solutions, weight machines, and supplements, protein drinks, powders, and patches, Low Carb diets, diet pills, cookbooks, etc. can all join the game and everybody profits! Yet, while corrupt businesses live happily ever after, what happens to the rest of the world? Billions of innocent animals are tortured and slaughtered, while billions of innocent people are ill with degenerative diseases. The truth of the matter is that animal protein takes the hardest toll on our bodies, overwhelming us with an abundance of unusable protein. Whilst the misperception that animal flesh builds muscles, the truth of the matter is that amino acids build protein and amino acids are derived from fruits and vegetables.

Our bodies cannot assimilate the muscles of another organism into our own muscles.

In addition, meat is devoid of fiber and enzymes because they are lost during the cooking process. As a result, the body must exhaust its own enzymes, produced in the liver, to digest the animal protein. Again, the outcome is increased acidity in the body and toxic overload, stored in the fat cells. Accordingly, our diet should consist of approximately 2.5% protein per day. This Includes Athletes. Not only does digestion need to flow properly, uninterrupted, but digestion should also be as easy as possible, given that digestion requires an extraordinary amount of physical output. Eating 5-10 nuts per day (or according to your digestive power), in addition to fruits and raw vegetables, will provide the body with adequate protein for the day. Tofu is processed and unusable to the body. If you find tofu tree in the forest, then you may eat its fruit. Otherwise, leave it out of your diet! While eating protein, we often feel a surge of false energy, which is our body’s desperate attempt to rid ourselves of the unusable food. Similar to Coke, Pepsi, Redbull, coffee, and refined sugar, we feel a rush of power after consuming meat because the body is in overdrive, trying to eliminate the toxins. Additionally, animal protein actually causes osteoporosis because it increases the body’s uric acid and utilizes the body’s storage of calcium to maintain balance.

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Feeling lethargic when beginning a vegetarian diets is entirely due to the fact that the body is not being forced to remove waste from the system; therefore, the artificial stimulation does not occur. On the contrary, fruits and vegetables cleanse the body of toxins, which results in the body devoting more energy to cleaning the cells and organs (making as much use of the revitalizing food as possible) and giving less energy to your muscles and outer body. Furthermore, when an animal is slaughtered, it experiences an immeasurable amount of fear and anxiety. The animal naturally releases toxic adrenaline, which travels throughout the body before its death and is preserved in its muscles and organs. Successively, this adrenaline is directly transferred to our bodies when we consume animal flesh, causing hormonal imbalances and an elevated predisposition to anxiety, anger, and irritation. Other facts supporting vegetarianism found in Lifelong Health & Vitality Through Food: Intuitive Eating by Humbart “Smokey” Santillo;

1. Animal products contain chemicals that act like estrogen in the body, causing hormonal imbalances and increasing the risk of cancer.

2. Meat has age-accelerating effects and is toxic to the digestive system o The result is constipation, gas, bloating, cramps, and skin rashes

3. Meat produces free radicals, which increases plaque in the blood vessels, leading to heart attack or stroke.

4. Animal protein causes poor assimilation of nutrients, insomnia, depression, impotence, CHRON’S Disease, MS, rheumatoid arthritis, leukemia, TB, and cancer.

5. Animal protein burdens the kidneys and increases the body’s acidity, disrupting the liver, neuro-muscular, heart, and respiratory functions.

6. Toxicity in the blood creates physical imbalances such as anemia, which is not a result of eating too little red meat. This lie was funded by the meat & dairy industry researchers. Millions of vegans do not suffer from anemia. The condition can be ameliorated by taking gooseberries.

Circadian Rhythms

When referring back to nutrition, the body functions in circadian rhythms, or in 8-hour cycles, explained more thoroughly in Fit For Life: A New Beginning, by Harvey Diamond. From 4am-12 noon, the body is in its elimination process and the lymphatic system is busy collecting waste from the cells to be eliminated by the digestive organs. Therefore, one should not eat a heavy breakfast, so as not to interfere with the elimination process. Breakfast is not the most important meal of the day. Taking only fruit or fruit juice for breakfast will help the body eliminate as much waste as possible and make a tremendous difference in the weight loss / detox process. Consequently, fruit tastes extra delicious in the morning, given that fruit is the most nourishing breakfast. The next 8-hour cycle is from 12 noon to 8pm, in which the body is in the assimilation process, taking in food and absorbing and contending with what enters the body. Clearly, this is the 8 hours of the day when we should consume food. Lastly, from 8pm to 4am the body is in its utilization process, working on correcting problems and employing the nutrients it was given that day. Thus, this is the period

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we should be taking complete rest and getting a proper night’s sleep. No food should be consumed, although water and natural, fresh fruit juice may be taken. To summarize: 4am-12 noon - Elimination - Take only fruit & fruit juice 12 noon- 8pm - Assimilation - Take food 8pm – 4am - Utilization - Sleep & rest, no food In addition, Dr. Jacob explains that sun directly influences digestion, while the moon directly influences our mood. This is why we are not very hungry when we first wake up because the sun has just risen. Therefore, we should eat our heaviest meal (or cooked meal) during lunch hours because the sun’s strength is very powerful, increasing the fire in our bodies and causing the greatest appetite. At 6pm, the body begins to tire, as the sun sets. Eating lightly or fasting at this time gives rest to the digestive organs before bed. It is best not to eat after 8pm and to sleep before 10pm. At 10:30 we get a rush of energy in order to repair the brain and organs. It is imperative that we do not use this energy for physical or mental work. As previously stated, you will have more energy if you eat less. The myth that you need to eat large meals to build strength has laid up countless individuals. Be aware that digestion requires the most energy and takes more out of the body in a lifetime than any other activity. Those who eat three heavy meals per day and snack in between will be drained of energy and suffer serious health consequences. Contrary to the myth that eating more food produces more energy, it’s eating less that’s the key to health and longevity. Again, when the body is cleansing and detoxifying, it is best to fast completely. When you wash the floors in your home and a group of people come to the door and asked to be let in, wouldn’t you rather they waited until the floor is dry? Ok, perhaps you can let family in if they promise to walk on the wet floor wearing only their socks. The same theory applies to your body. When cleaning the cells, your body does not want food to enter. Allowing fruit or fruit juice to come in is acceptable but having no visitors at all is best.

Seasonal Changes

Food habits should change according to the season and the fruits and vegetables that are available. Plain and simple - eat less when it’s cold and dark (mainly dried fruits and nuts). Observe animals during the winter months. What do they do? They hibernate! Naturally, with less sunshine, our digestive power will decrease and our bodies sort of shift into neutral. But when we’re bored of the darkness and sick of the weather, we find ourselves eating more in the winter than during any other season. This is exactly why weight gain is so common in colder climates. Are you wondering why people also get sick with colds during the winter months? Precisely because mucus is directly linked to the stomach! When we eat incorrectly, an abundance of mucus is created in order to remove the toxic material and is eliminated through the mouth and nose. The most notorious mucus maker – bakery items! Yes, bakery items are responsible for colds and sinus problems.

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Vitamins and Dietary Supplements

Another Booming Business

All vitamins and dietary supplements, including vitamin B-12, are worthless, as the body cannot absorb them. In fact, they are even dangerous because they damage the kidneys and liver by overwhelming the organs with eliminatory work. Labels will tell you not to overdose on supplements or to take them for an extended period of time. In addition the labels often advise people to inform their doctors before taking the supplement so as not to dangerously interact with other supplements or medications. Lastly, herbal “remedies” often come from fruit extracts which are highly dangerous, as they are refined (similar to white sugar) and will unavoidably cause side effects Feeling any sort of physical jolt after consuming supplements is the body’s frantic attempt to rid itself of the toxic waste (often occurring with Spirulina or Blue-Green Algae). The overall “I feel better” impression after taking supplements is almost always psychological. Go to the natural source – fruits and vegetables. Have you ever felt compelled to buy foods like strawberry-banana flavored yoghurt with colorful advertisements stating, “Extra Calcium! Added Vitamin C!” or the weight loss drinks with supplementary carrots and beetroot! Athletes must have sports drinks to replenish electrolytes! Let’s consider evolution – if we needed supplementary vitamins, why would humans have evolved thousands of years without them? Did cavemen drink Powerade or Gatorade? Let’s get back to the proclaimed origins of vitamins and supplements – eat fruits and vegetables! For electrolytes, drink freshly squeezed prune juice or grape juice (no sugar added!). Doctors and researchers like to pretend they have the answers as far as which fruits and vegetables have which vitamins and minerals. This is another mechanism to push the sales of their supplements. For example, “Vitamin D is difficult to come by in cloudy climates.” Or, “those who do not get enough iodized salt in their diets should take iodine supplements to support their thyroid function.” The body knows what nutrients to extract from the food it is given in order to

maintain proper health. There is also the seasonal-climate excuse, “Buy pomegranate and mangosteen juice or powder!” Remember, if it’s not fresh, don’t buy it. What’s more, those who sell supplements employ fear as a mechanism for selling their products. “Pregnant women need extra folic acid to reduce homocysteine levels and reduce the risk of heart disease!” “Post-menopausal women need extra calcium to avoid osteoporosis!” Ignore the fear tactics. Also, ignore the rumors that revitalizing fruits and vegetables, such as coconuts, olives, and avocadoes are fattening. The only fruit we should avoid is durian, as it increases the temperature of the body. Consequently, the foul odor of durian should be enough to keep us away. Fruits and vegetables which contain ALL amino acids that are not produced in the body are: carrots, bananas, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, corn, cucumbers, eggplant, kale, okra, peas, potatoes, summer squash, sweet potatoes, & tomatoes. The

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nuts with all amino acids are sunflower and sesame seeds, peanuts, and beans. Take these as your vitamins!

Calcium/Sugar/Milk

Calcium and magnesium supplements are unnecessary. The key to increasing calcium is to eliminate refined sugars from the diet – this includes all labels from sucrose, fructose, dextrose, brown sugar, molasses, corn syrup, raw sugar, and turbinado, as well as all sugar substitutes. Sugar: From Fresh to Refined: Fresh, raw sugar cane is wonderful life food for the body. When we cook the sugar cane, however, we turn it into a dead food. Next, if industrial processing refines the sugar cane, it turns into a ghost food. Devoid of calcium, phosphorous, and vitamin B complex, it robs the body of its vital force, extracting calcium from the teeth and bones. More accurately, refining sugar is a process that removes all vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats, nutrients, and enzymes from its source, destroying 64 elements, and is subsequently bleached to achieve its white color. (At Nature Life Hospital in India, white sugar is referred to as “white poison.”) When digesting the sugar, the body recognizes it as an incomplete food, and therefore must use the body’s vital nutrients from healthy cells (sodium, potassium, magnesium, & calcium) in order to break down the poison. This not only leads to tooth decay and osteoporosis, but to a weakened physical state. By eliminating refined sugars from the diet, one may lose around 20 lbs in one month; however, this includes giving up yogurt, sugary cereal, crackers, biscuits, cough-drops, white bread, white pasta, ice cream, etc.) Milk: Does the Body Good?? Milk is extremely toxic for the human body. Cows’ milk is meant to fatten calves with fast growing steroids and hormones to become full-sized cows in two years. Are two year old humans full-sized? No? Then why do we consider cows’ milk suitable for humans? Oversized people with abnormal hormones, emotional symptoms, and aggressive, uncontrollable tempers are just about how “good” milk does the body. Excess calcium in milk creates acidity in the mouth, causing dental decay, and is vitamin deficient for humans. The excess protein in milk brings about digestion problems and stores calcium deposits in the bones, organs, and arteries. The following diseases are attributed to drinking milk: colic pain and gas, insomnia, constipation, diarrhea, vomiting, cold, cough, cholera, pneumonia, bronchitis, measles, poliomyelitis, asthma, arthritis, diabetes, obesity, cancer, heart problems, renal stones, eczema, convulsions, scarlet fever, whooping cough, mumps, diphtheria, allergies, and typhoid fever. Soy milk is too acidic and vitamin deficient and is known to cause flatulence, rickets, allergies, and enlarge the thyroid gland. In fact all soy products have absolutely no benefits to the human body. Nut milk and butters are best.

Diuretics Avoid soft drinks and caffeine under all circumstances. Even decaffeinated teas and coffees stain the inside of the body and lead to cellular dehydration (all diuretics cause cellular dehydration, initiating sickness of the cells, producing free radicals, increasing

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cellular acidity and oxygen starvation, accelerating ageing, and DNA damage.). When cells are properly hydrated, the body’s healing mechanisms are triggered, which burns fat and repairs DNA. But herbal teas and coffee beans are natural! Yes, herbal teas and the coffee bean (and cocoa bean) are natural, yet simply being natural does not automatically classify something as being fit for human consumption. Even the natural form is beset with caffeine. The Chinese and Japanese consumed tea for centuries and look at how healthy they are! Yes, tea traditionally originated from Asia and became a popular drink. When examining the Asian diet, however, it is clear by their intake of fresh fruits, vegetables, and rice that such healthy eating habits would somewhat offset their overestimation of tea drinking. Other Drinks:

• For every glass of carbonated soda, we must drink 24 glasses of water to flush out the poison.

• The reason alcohol causes drowsiness is because the body needs to shut its person down in order to contend with the overwhelming toxicity. Being “drunk” is when the body can no longer give energy to the individual because the poisonous content is too high, often resulting in deep sleep, vomiting, or diarrhea.

• Never buy juice from your grocery store as 1. The juice is most likely polluted with refined sugar

and possibly additives and preservatives. 2. Juice goes rancid 20 minutes after it is prepared

(whereas food goes rancid three hours after cooking). Storing juice in cans, plastic containers, and boxes only increases the juice’s toxicity. Buy a juicer and make juice yourself.

Menstruation Menstruation, as women like to complain about, actually provides an advantage over men, affording them an extra ordinary cleansing method. Each month women eliminate toxins through menstrual blood. The heavier the flow and the blacker the blood, the more poisons are being expelled from the body. Suppressing and restricting menstruation with hormone replacement and birth control pills is extremely dangerous and leads to reproductive problems and infertility. In addition, without the fifth ordinary cleansing method, women are at higher risks for degenerative diseases and cancer. FYI

• Do not use tampons. Keeping the toxins inside the body with tampons, which are often bleached and contain dangerous chemicals, further irritation is added to the body.

• It is helpful to perform enema twice daily during menstruation. • The best diet during menstruation is as follows:

o Two days before menstruating, have only fruits

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o Day One: have only three to four glasses of coconut water or fresh fruit juice. Women naturally lose their appetite during the week of their period, so as to focus the body’s energy on flushing the system clean of toxins.

o The following three days have only fruit o Continue with one meal of fruit for breakfast and dinner and one

cooked vegetarian meal for lunch. The aim of this diet is to encourage as much elimination of toxic material, or blood flow, as possible, and symptoms of pain and mood disturbances will subside after three menstrual cycles. Do not take any pain medications or use hot or cold packs on the abdomen, as this will suppress the flow of blood. PMS is psychological and any mood disturbances are a result of physical irritation due to toxic overload. Pain indicates that the body is focusing on cleansing that particular location.

Pregnancy What kind of diet should women take while pregnant? First and foremost, do not eat double!! Do women get an extra stomach when pregnant? Do they receive extra digestive juices? No. So why should pregnant women twice as much? We’ve all seen the results – massive weight gain after childbirth, followed by depression. However, doctors encourage women to eat as much as possible, in order to double the size of the child so that the doctors can make money on performing cesarean sections. Doctors even have the nerve to tell women that if their first baby was removed by cesarean section, all children to follow will also have to be unnaturally ripped from their mother’s womb – the birth date of each child decided by the doctor. The baby should always decide its own date of birth. During pregnancy, the mother should eat only living foods to ensure that her child will grow and develop properly. During delivery, it is best that the mother consumes only fruit. Otherwise, one cooked meal per day and two fruit or raw vegetable meals is also beneficial. The mother should also consume several glasses of coconut water.

All infertility treatments are dangerous to mother and child.

Frequently Asked Questions

• What about an accident or broken bone? Shouldn’t we go to the hospital?

Most accidents do not necessitate hospital visits. In the past, people who were attacked by animals or had fallen from trees went to specialists who set the bones back into place and the body healed its injury. Clearly, however, as naturopaths are not equipped to handle serious life-threatening accidents, following through with medical procedures can sometimes be unavoidable. What is important to remember, however is that medicine DOES NOT CURE patients. Once the allopathic intervention

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is complete and the patient discharged, the individual must also discharge the toxins from his/her system. In other words, all medications must be stopped and the body detoxified.

• Ok, what about Eskimos? They live without fruit and sunlight and consume high protein diets.

Yes, they do live – but only a third of the life-span when compared to people living in climates where fresh fruit, vegetables, and sunlight are abundant. In fact, the life expectancy of American Eskimos is under 35 years old.

• If illness isn’t contagious, why to people catch colds from each other?

They don’t catch colds from each other. People living and working in the same environment are often eating the same poisonous foods and experiencing the same stress and climate changes. Therefore, their bodies react accordingly and often in the same way.

• How long do I have to tolerate the Nature Cure diet?

Nature Cure is not a diet, but rather a lifestyle. Those who exercise willpower and adhere to the dietary guidelines will undeniably reap excellent results after only one or two months. As far as how long it may take to actually heal the body, patients must multiply every year of damage the body has suffered by 1.5 in order to derive the number of months it will take to repair all physical problems. However, once your health goal is reached, it is imperative to continue eating correctly, so as to avoid relapses. Moreover, the body heals according to mindset as well as the medical and drug history of each patient.

• Why do I feel so tired when I eat this way?

You feel tired because the body is putting all if its energy into cleansing your organs. Keeping you alive, quite frankly, is more important then giving you energy to run off and attend to your personal business. Because fruits and vegetables have all of the enzymes and nutrients you could possibly need to feel strong and active, the only reason you should be feeling tired is because a large amount of energy is required internally. Blackouts and dizziness when standing occur when the body is concentrating solely on cleaning its organs and was not ready to respond to the sudden standing position. Can you fix a car while it’s running? Can you pull into the parking lot of your mechanic’s shop with the car running and say, “Hey, I don’t have time to turn my car off – I’m on my way to work. Can you just fix my car within the next couple of minutes?” Obviously your mechanic would call you crazy. So why do we do this with our bodies? The body needs to basically turn off so that the healing process can begin. We must respect this fact. When healing, the body shuts you down in order to

fix the problems you imposed on yourself. Moreover, the organs must be strong before considering your muscles and outer body. Yet pharmaceutical companies have us believing that a lack of energy insinuates disease, physical problems, and catastrophe that only medication can remedy.

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• So Nature Cure is basically a “one size fits all” way of examining health. What about differences in blood type or body build? Why should we all eat the same?

Blood type, Ayurvedic doshas, Yin & Yang are theories designed by doctors for authority, respect, importance, and fame. Cows have different blood type and yet they all eat grass. It’s none of your business what your inner structure is like – that is up to your body to handle and you will acquire a taste for the natural foods you need accordingly. Why do some people prefer broccoli instead of carrots? Because your body is letting you know what it needs. Let me repeat – this theory does not apply to the taste-bud manipulation of refined sugars and unnatural food. Indeed, the individual must listen to his or her own body, understand what it is asking for and eat correspondingly. However, we are all human beings with the same organs, circulatory system, respiratory system, digestive system, etc. and should therefore follow the same nutritional guidelines, devoid of animal products and degenerating foods.

• What about autism, down syndrome, or genetic diseases?

Considering natural selection and the intelligence of the life itself, the body would eliminate faulty offspring via miscarriages and stillbirths before reproducing offspring with problems. All birth defects are a result of exposure to toxins or drugs taken by the mother during pregnancy, as well as complications during birth. The push for unnatural births through caesarian section, often result in the child being mishandled by doctors and tools and causes the baby emotional and psychological distress.

Miscellaneous Facts & Tips

• Sleep on a hard surface and without a pillow, so as to promote healthy breath

and blood circulation. • Hair Loss is remedied by reducing body heat, eating fruit, and taking in

sunlight • Showering when “sick” is not advised, as it alters the body’s temperature and

slows the healing process. Cells have their own cleaning mechanism. • When you cool down the body, the cells will live longer. Hot showers, hot

drinks, acidic foods, chili, and intense exercise cause the body to overheat. • When changing time zones, it is better to fast. Ask for fruits on your flight

(with the skin). Otherwise your fruit will have come from a two week stay in the refrigerator (which Dr. Jacob nicknames, “the morgue,” for preserving dead bodies). All living food dies in the refrigerator.

• You can improve your sight with sunlight, eye exercises, and by rinsing your eyes with lukewarm water, rain water, coconut water, or carrot juice with eye wash cups.

• Diabetes is a result of toxicity in the body overloading the pancreas and producing diluted, low-grade, polluted insulin.

• Depression and anxiety are often a result of cellular irritation. Distress is a result of poor digestion and cellular sickness.

• Green gram, or mung bean, when dried and crushed into a powder is the best soap. Boiled Kaffir fruit is the best shampoo. If you don’t have 100% natural organic soap, use only water to wash your body.

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