Food as medicine - part 1

"Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food." Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.)

Hippocrates laid down the foundations for modern medicine. He believed the human body had an innate capacoty for self-healing. His 'Hippocratic Oath' is still recited by medical doctors today. Since Hippocrates' time however our approach to treating illness has changed... Today's doctors receive little, if any, training in nutrition. Modern medicine resolves around 'a pill for every ill'. And thet's the way the sickness industry wants to keep it.

Heart disease and cancer are the top two killers in the US annually. Additionally each year 39,000 people die due to unnecessary surgery and other errors in hospitals, 80,000 people die due to other infections in hospitals and a staggering 106,000 people die due to adverse drug reactions.

1. Heart disease 652,486 deaths
2. Cancer 553,888 deaths
3. Modern medicine 225,000 deaths

Everyone in the world, in all cultures in each country knows it - you are what you eat.



How old is your food? If you think about it: your food, at best, overcomes the distance 2500-3000 km before you buy it and have at least a week. Therefore, this raises a further question: how much nutritional value is in food, which is at least 5 days old? With a little luck it may be 40% of what you need. Almost all the food we can buy in large stores of big cities is processed. Often nutrients are broken or disappear already, before the food hits the plate.

It seems that the solution of all problems with food is to use pesticides, herbicides etc. or genetic modifications. But one of the main problems is the soil, what we do with soil, air, water and everything that we take in our food. The soil is used and the nutrients are draw out the soil, making the desert. This happens all over the world. We must pay attention to our agricultural system, what we eat and how we producing food. The so-called fertilizer is made up of three minerals: nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. The problem is that soil needs about 52 different minerals: calcium, magnesium, manganese, zinc, iron, etc. When the soil is poor, the plants are weakened and poor. They lose their defences. The bugs and diseases attacks them. Farmers turn to chemical companies that sell them willingly pesticides etc.



Research shows that even when lightly cook food, you lose it in the enzymes. The food is full of live enzymes that help in digestion and utilization of acquired components. Raw food should be part of any diet. When you cook the food the immune system reacts to them as toxins. Most people do not know about it. The blood passes into the digestive leukocytosis, which activates white blood cells against eaten cooked food. Probably because the process of cooking distort the structure of food in such a way that the body does not recognize it and treat it as a toxin. Former Swiss Doctor Paul Kouchakoff, who first showed in the 30', that if your diet consists of more than 51% of cooked food, the body reacts to them as if they were attacked by a foreign organism. Kouchakoff first showed that if the diet is made up of over 51% raw food, it does not occur leukocytosis, which means that there will be the reaction of white blood cells. Immune system will therefore not be activated by a false alarm. As currently facing so many problems with the immune system, we should ensure that at least 51% of each meal was raw, we do not have to overtax the immune system.

Some plants have very large amounts of vitamins, minerals, enzymes and other components, for example:

A) Spirulina - mainly consumed in Mexico as the main source of protein (highest protein content in the world).
B) Cocoa - contain a high level of flavonoids, the largest natural source of iron, the world's best source of magnesium, chromium, manganese, zinc, copper and vitamin C, however none chocolate contains it, because the high temperature in the production destroys it; contains a high dose of antioxidants.

Over the last century, the vitamins have become readily available. Most people still do not know how they are important. Taking the appropriate dose can prevent chronic diseases, taking a sufficiently large, you can cure the disease. Often we hear in the news, that you should not take them too much, but do not have any evidence. Over the past 23 years, according to the American Institute of Toxicology has been 10 cases of death caused by vitamins.

Doctors usually treat the diet as irrelevant. Less than 6% of graduating physicians in the USA receive any formal training in nutrition. 26% of patients going out of the hospitals are more malnourished than when hit there. The reason for which they went there, is 80-90% of the poor diet.

Frederick R. Klenner and William J. McCormick are the pioneers of the use of high doses of vitamin C. They heal diseases by high doses of vitamin C in 40'.

Linus Pauling first suggested that vitamin C may be effective for a cold. He said so on the basis of numerous studies, not conjecture. Pauling was Albert Einstein's colleague, and then several other well-known intellectuals. He received two Nobel prizes: Chemistry and Peace. He was a brilliant man. The problem was that he immersed in clinical medicine without certification. He was therefore very vulnerable to criticism. His suggestion that vitamin C can cure a cold has been ridiculed by the medical world.

The main problem is the nutrients that one component works on too many illness, for example:

1) Vitamin E: good for heart disease, healing burns, epilepsy.
2) Vitamin C: anti-toxin, anti-histamine, anti-viral, blood sugar regulation, mood elevator.

The reason for which a vitamin can cure so many diseases is that the lack of one vitamin can cause so many diseases. This is just a few nutrients, but in the body is many thousands of chemical reactions. In an obvious way, we can expect that a vitamin will participate in a variety of reactions. This also applies to minerals.
We have a concept of one medicine for one disease, an old medical concept that does not comply with the dietitian. You can not cure selectively.

1. http://www.iep.utm.edu/h/hippocra.htm
2. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/data/LCOD_04_STATE.htm
3. http://getwellsolutions.org/therapies-nutrition-1.html
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme
5. http://www.rawguru.com/rawvscook.html
6. http://www.beyondveg.com/tu-j-l/raw-cooked/raw-cooked-1i.shtml
7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirulina_(dietary_supplement)
8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa
9. http://www.doctoryourself.com/mccormick.html
10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling
11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_E
12. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C