Can we get all the nutrition we need from food alone, without taking nutritional supplements?

        Animals in the wild stay healthy without purchasing capsules containing vitamins and minerals. It should be the same for us. Nowadays, however, to think we can receive all our nutritional needs from foods is no less fanciful than Don Quixote's attempt to conquer windmills with his lance! To illustrate this, I'd like to tell you about the work of a dentist.

       In the 1930's, Dr. Weston Price toured the world to discover why members of traditional cultures had excellent teeth and general health compared to modern people. Wherever Dr. Price went, he compared the health of tribes or villages eating their traditional diet to those eating modern food. He found tooth decay and degenerative disease only among the "moderns", and concluded that this was the result of eating "white man's food".

       What nutrient value are we receiving when we consume calories? Although we pay more per loaf for whole wheat bread than for white bread, we get more nutrients for our money.

       The decreased value of modern food is largely due to agricultural methods and food processing. Commercial interests have led our understanding of nutrition astray.

       The chapter lists 14 dietary and lifestyle rules for getting the nutrition necessary for the optimal health from food alone. Not simple? "So follow each rule as best you can and take supplements," says Don Quixote.

       Severe malnutrition, particularly protein deficiency, adversely affects learning ability. This is called "malnutrition of the poor".

       What about less obvious nutritional deficiencies? Children may eat plenty, but still suffer from "malnutrition of the rich"! Strangely, the most blatant sign of this is excess weight! When food is deficient, the switch that shuts off the desire to eat stays open.

       We define malnutrition as "a condition whereby, due to a deficiency in one or more nutrients, an individual does not achieve his optimal physical and/or mental-emotional-spiritual condition."

       How do we get our children to eat "healthy"? While using your parental authority can create opposition, children respond to example and to reason. Speak to them of the cycles of nature, the blessings of water, the natural colors of food. Plant a seed and let them nurture it.

       Speak to them of junk food, too. Explain that the stupid two-cent toy inside a box of sugar-coated cereal is only there to get children to whine at their mothers until they buy the box. Pucker your face in distaste when you tell your children about fake food coloring, empty calories and cigarettes. Speak to them of knights and windmills, about valor and bravery, of the strength to be unique.

       Basic breakfast suggestions include natural grains and bread, eggs, fruit…

 

       Pregnancy, birth and nursing should be a very special time, a connection to the divine. An epidural essentially paralyzes the lower half of a birthing mother's body, detaching her from the natural process. The drug also gets into the baby's blood stream, adversely affecting his alertness and other physiological responses. An epidural should be given only when very necessary.

       Another shocking procedure is clamping the umbilical cord immediately after birth, interrupting the natural infusion of blood into the newborn. In the first minutes, a newborn transforms from being an organ of her mother into an independent being. Her own blood must be plentiful, rich in oxygen and nutrients, and under enough pressure to flow into the farthest reaches of her brain. She NEEDS those first five minutes to get her BLOOD SUPPLY!!!

       Lovemaking, natural birth and nursing all cause the release of oxytocin, the feel good, bonding hormone. Breast milk has a myriad of substances that can never be added to formula. Breast feeding nurses the soul of the child. A collection of studies shows that using formula is risky.
 

 8.   ADHD: The Next Albert Einstein Sits in 4^th Grade and He's Stoned

       We applaud children with special talent for music or sports, but other qualities of genius may scare us. Special children may have no tolerance for classroom routine. The list of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder symptoms sounds very much like the list of qualities that define "child". An ADHD child is simply "extra child"!!!

       ADHD is a subjective diagnosis, having no proven basis in anatomy or physiology. Four categories of conditions mimic or cause ADHD behavior: nutritional deficiencies (FNOBC), exposure to toxins, learning disabilities and various objective problems. Detective work is required.

       The medical world chooses to give stimulant drugs to nearly all ADHD children. These drugs are street cats dressed in evening gowns, indistinguishable from "speed" and cocaine. Although they are often helpful short-term, research has not found positive long-term effects, whereas negative side effects are all too common.

       Nutritional treatment includes dietary improvements, supplements and whatever else a good practitioner recommends, according to an individualized plan. The first and last treatment method – love, patience, understanding, acceptance – is universal medicine.

       "No amount of evidence can persuade someone who is not listening." These are the words of Dr. Abram Hoffer, researcher and psychiatrist, who successfully restored the lives of schizophrenic patients since the 1950's with a 75% success rate. So what if a million psychiatrists, who have never tried vitamins, disagree? One who sees is better than a million who don't.

       Drug therapy for schizophrenia is not very helpful and has horrible side effects. Treatment with vitamins is more successful, and the "side effects" are actually positive, helping other conditions at the same time!

       Does the medical establishment disregard these positive results out of ignorance, or are there other motives? Either way, millions of people are unnecessarily suffering hell on Earth.

       Depression is a true body/soul problem. Nutrition is not always a major factor, but FNOBC must be considered. Depression could be a messenger from the soul, calling for more passionate living, for the use of ingrained talents. A child could be depressed because his soul is boxed inside a classroom, while he dreams of being in the hills with story, song and sheep.

       Standard treatment drugs act mainly by increasing serotonin. Is depression caused by low levels of serotonin or the opposite? Although it is not proven that these "medicines" work beyond the placebo effect, children are given more and more of them. Do we throw drugs at depression, or search for its roots? Life is deep.

       Nowhere in medical websites are nutritional factors given consideration as contributing to soul syndromes or their treatment. Drugs act on biochemistry; don't nutrients do the same? This is conventional medicine's core mistake. "Pfeiffer's law states: "If we know how a drug works, we can use nutrients to accomplish the same thing."

       Deep within the unfathomable mysteries of human development, an extra, third copy of a chromosome sometimes appears – a trisomy. This is the case in Down syndrome. Can special nutritional protocols help the mind of a Down syndrome child?

       Dr. Ruth Harrell and thousands of parents have significantly improved the I.Q. of Down syndrome children with supplements. A gluten-free, casein-free diets also helps. Physical changes towards normal have been observed! On the other hand, several controlled trials have not shown such results. Bias against vitamins may have influenced the conduct and interpretation of these trials. Doctors caution against raising false hopes. Yet hope will encourage parents to keep trying.

       Most pediatricians still do not recognize the nutritional protocols that have helped thousands of autistic children recover; therefore, most autistic children remain untreated. Words cannot express the outrage.

       Autistic children are not broken; they are sick. Autism is a complex syndrome, the main cause of which seems to be poisoning from vaccines and other sources. Many parents have dutifully brought their healthy children in for vaccination, and immediately witnessed the beginning of deterioration into autistic hell.

       Nutritional protocols – a gluten-free, casein-free diet and numerous supplements – have proven to be very effective, saving the children. "Some of our families have been told to put their child in institutions. We're hoping for Harvard!"

 

       Certain foods are considered "super foods". Seaweeds and algae are important sources of trace elements. The RDA levels of iodine are designed to prevent goiter, but are insufficient for optimal health. Lecithin granules are cheap and easy to use as "brain food", a concept children understand.

       Water is the health drink given to all life on Earth.

       That’s the number of mercury atoms in one half gram, the weight of mercury in one amalgam filling. Mercury is one of the most poisonous substances in the world. Although dentists prefer to believe that amalgam is stable, a few minutes' search in an online medical library would teach them that mercury vapor is constantly released from fillings.

       Mercury from new fillings in pregnant women's teeth reaches fetal blood within two days. It also enters into breast milk. Other sources of exposure are vaccines, fish, pesticides and various home products.

       What to do? First, avoid exposure. Vitamin C changes mercury to less toxic compounds. Certain foods remove mercury. Chelation therapy – oral or intravenous – "grabs" mercury and removes it from the body.

       Dumping fluoride into public water to prevent tooth decay is considered one of the major medical triumphs of the 20^th century. However, objective research has proven that tooth decay decreased equally in non-fluoridated areas.

       Fluoride is a poison. It was once used to treat overactive thyroids, because it replaces iodine and slows thyroid function. And we wonder why so many today have underactive thyroids!?!?

       Do not buy toothpastes containing fluoride for your children. There are strict warnings on the label about swallowing, but these toothpastes are flavored for your child's enjoyment.

       So don't let those smiling, beautiful, toothy (etc.) ladies in commercials convince you to use fluoride toothpaste. They don't know what they're talking about. Unfortunately, neither does your dentist, as hard as that is to believe.

       Reading food labels has become an important skill. Actually, it would be better just to buy unlabeled products: fruit, vegetables, fresh meat and eggs…

       Too many human-designed chemicals are in our food: colors, flavors, preservatives, etc. Artificial sweeteners may be worse than sugar. Aspartame is a toxic nerve stimulator, and may actually cause weight gain.

        The debate about vaccination is rightfully heated and emotional, because, for both sides, lives are at stake. Since the medical world is one-sidedly positive about vaccine benefits, we will present the opposition.

There are three major illusions about vaccines:

1.   Vaccines are responsible for the elimination of infectious disease: false. Infection and death from every disease for which a vaccine was developed dropped drastically, as much as 90%, before the vaccines were introduced. Graphs prove this.

2.     Vaccines provide immunity: somewhat false. The only permanent immunity is natural immunity. (Why do children need booster shots?) Vaccines sometimes cause more, not less, of the diseases they are intended to prevent.

3.     Vaccines are safe: false. The modern vaccine schedule is an onslaught on a child's immune system. The results may be delayed, but many serious scientists suspect that they may cause autoimmune diseases, juvenile diabetes, autism and more. Vaccine preparations also contain poisonous substances.
 

       Does a microbe cause a disease by uninvited attack, or is disease a side effect of the life-cycle of a microbe, as it lives on diseased terrain? We do not need to fight disease –the doctrine embraced by drug companies – so much as we need to cultivate health. To do this, we must give our children proper nutrition, a healthy environment and vitamin L.