I have not given a simple solution, just a head's up to refine the diet, supplement thing. So far I have no way out of taking way too many pills to accomplish the therapy I need. It should be simplified down to 5 pills a day and some powders to spinkle on the old health food. I will get there. Take me about one year or more and some research. I am still dedicated to finding the bioflavonoid vitamin mix the Eskimo has in his blood that defeats 90% of cancers and HD. When I find that, the rest will be easy.
Think about this if you think the pill route is overkill or phony. How many foods do you eat? Do you know what to eat to promote health for your lifestyle, exactly what is good and bad in what amounts? Is it 50 foods? 100? What do they do? Are they making you sicker or weller? How? If you think that is hard to answer, then take the substances out of them that are what you are trying to get, put them in a bottle and try to balance that. Should it be easier? or harder? Fewer substances? Or more..
It will be more, harder to balance etc.. sure.. but think on this.. I know there are balances of good/bad in our food now. Sure meat has 5 grams arginine for every lb (beef) and valine, isoleucine, leucine, ornithine, lysine and proline.. and CLA to fight cancer. But it comes at a price.. once down the road and over the hill, to get the goodies the price is too high. You want well, and the science is too complex for a magic one pill solution... so follow the path of what we do know, and see where it gets you. Not easy or cheap, but I will testify, it turned me around.. and it may be the reason I am typing this and not looking at the sky with the same expression on my face, night and day...
I remember the 280 lbs and constantly gaining weight, the heavy feeling in my heart, the sleepless nights, the weakness, sweats, palpitation, bloating, malaise and "feeling of doom" of the pre-heart attack. Some mornings a 6 ounce kitten could have beat the crap out of me. Now I walk briskly 3 miles and can stand the heat. 60 lbs lighter. Far from out of the woods. I would say my areterial blockage is still major, but I am no longer on the ropes. I read and built my own solution, threw the doctor's drugs out the window. ND took my BP yesterday and its 130/80. At times before it was 198 over 120 former average 165/95.
This ain't hooey. talked to doctors, some of my customers are heart specialist, talked to 75 year olds who are in the peak of health. How was it done, how did they do it? I was amazed, everything I read, they already knew. The yogurt, the niacin, the fiber, the bioflavonoids. When you consider some of them had the C and diabetes, ailing hearts and parents that died in their 50's, you had to step back. They were lifting weights, sharp as tacks. No palpitations, no malaise. Even old ladies can be fit. I was one who had one stroke and she was 80. I saw her working in the garden, fit as a fiddle, driving a car, whip shape. She knew this stuff too. Why didn't you tell me about this stuff and the family condition I wailed! She laughed.. and said you young guys know it all too.. ha ha ha.. well it ain't funny and it is fact..
Want to be 80, one stroke behind you and you can still run the phone when it rings, busy in the garden, have a million things to do.. ok..? then step up to the knowledge base and swing brother.. see you outside the old folks home, we will be the ones contracting the landscaping, and looking at plans to refinance and build a new one for the kids who did not hew to the advice when it was theirs for the taking...
I know it sounds like blarney. It is the gospel according to St. Organic.
Dr. Colbert on Ancient food:
"Comb your memory and you might come up with Luke 24:42, where the post-resurrection Jesus shows his disciples he's not a ghost by eating broiled fish and honeycomb.
Other passages infer that Jesus either ate or would have permitted eating certain foods: bread and wine at the Lord's Supper; wine at the wedding at Cana; bread and fish at the feedings of the multitudes.
But Colbert goes further with his inferences.
Because Jesus was a Jew, Colbert says, he would have followed Old Testament dietary laws -- for instance, laws governing clean and unclean animals and fish. These laws were specific: cattle, sheep and goats were allowed; hogs were not. Fish with fins and scales were allowed; catfish, crustaceans (crabs, lobsters, shrimp), mollusks (clams, mussels) and others were not.
As Colbert says, Jesus would not have eaten an Easter ham.
Colbert also assesses Jesus' culture and decides what he would have eaten based on what was available. Fish was widely available; beef was saved for special occasions, such as the prodigal son's return. So, Colbert says, Jesus probably ate fish on a daily basis but beef not more than once a month.
Other staples in Jesus' diet, according to Colbert's assessment of the culture, would have been bread and other whole grains, vegetables, fruits and olive oil.
And Colbert believes Jesus taught diet by example, so he says we should eat the same foods today.
Colbert's WWJE diet
Not that Colbert takes a hard line on all "bad-for-you" foods. (Yes, it's OK to have a slice of cake on your birthday, he'd say.)
His goal, he said in a telephone interview, is to get people to make more healthful choices, even if it's only one step at a time.
In his practice, he tells people that if they don't think they can implement the whole diet plan, "they should start with one thing -- drink water instead of Cokes, or use extra-virgin olive oil instead of butter."
He wants people to see that health is based largely on choices.
"You can't always blame it on 'my genetics' or 'my thyroid,' " he said. "That little thyroid has been unfairly criticized for years.
"Christians nowadays need to take responsibility for their health. So many people go to healing meetings and so on when they need to realize they get a lot of diseases because of making the wrong choices."
The medical evidence he uses to back up his stances is probably the book's most convincing material. Colbert cites myriad studies showing that people who eat a Mediterranean diet -- as Jesus would have -- suffer less heart disease, cancer and other diseases.
To encourage good food choices, such as the Mediterranean diet's "living foods" (fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts), Colbert starts his first chapter by telling readers to ask themselves two questions before putting anything in their mouths: "Why do I eat this?" and "Would Jesus eat this?" For the first, he cites such reasons as nostalgia for childhood favorites to answer why people make poor food choices.
The remainder of the book attempts to answer the second question. That one is tougher, in part because Jesus didn't live in modern-day America. Colbert is forced to speculate, concluding that Jesus wouldn't eat Twinkies but would eat soybeans." |
