Diet and Nutrition

From The Hygienic Dictionary

Food. [1] Life is a tragedy of nutrition.  In food lies 99.99% of the causes of all diseases and imperfect health of any kind. Prof.  Arnold Ehret, Mucusless Diet Healing System. [2] But elimination will never heal perfectly just so long as you fail to discontinue the supply of inside waste caused by eating and “wrong” eating.  You may clean and continue to clean indefinitely, but never with complete results up to a perfect cleanliness, as long as the intake of wrong or even too much right foods, is not stopped._ Prof.  Arnold Ehret, Mucusless Diet Healing System._ [3] Cooked food favors bacterial, or organized, ferment preponderance, because cooking kills the unorganized and organized ferments, and both are needed to carry on the body’s digestion.  Raw foods—­fruits and vegetables—­favor unorganized ferment digestion, because these foods carry vitamins, which are unorganized ferments—­enzymes. Dr. John.  H. Tilden, Impaired Health:  Its Cause and Cure, 1921.

Recently, my younger (adult) daughter asked my advice choosing between a root canal or having a bridge made.  This led to a discussion of her eating habits in general.  Defending her currently less-than-optimum diet against my gentle criticism, she threw me a tough riposte.  “Why,” she asked, when I was raised so perfectly as a child, “when I ate only Organic food until I was ten and old enough to make you send me to public school where I could eat those lousy school lunches” (her unfeeling, heartless mother home-schooled her), “why even at that young age, (before she spent her adolescent rebellion eating junk food) why at that point did I still have a mouthful of cavities?” And she did.  At age ten my daughter needed about ten fillings.

This beautiful daughter of a practicing naturopath had received what, at the time, I considered virtually perfect nutrition.  She suckled hugely at her mother’s abundant breast until age two.  During this time her mother ate a natural foods diet.  After weaning my daughter got only whole grains, a little fresh goat’s milk from my goat, fruits and lots of Organic vegetables.  I started my spa when my daughter was about five years old and from that point she was, like it or not, a raw fooder.  And all that raw food was Organic and much of it from Great Oaks School’s huge vegetable garden.

For my daughter to develop cavities on this diet is reminiscent of Woody Allen’s joke in his movie “Sleeper.”  Do you recall this one, made about 1973?  The plot is a take off on Rip Van Winkle.  Woody goes into the hospital for minor surgery.  Unexpectedly he expires on the operating table and his body is frozen in hopes that someday he can be revived.  One hundred and fifty years later he is revived.