Dietary Treatments

Over the past 100 years our diets have changed dramatically. Introduction of industrial processes profoundly changed what we eat. In our industrial zeal for more, better, and different, we started altering food we produce and eat. We add preservatives and remove vital components of foods for faster processing and longer shelf life. This, for example, is the case with cereals. When you see, on the ingredients of the bread you buy, that it is made of enriched flour, it means the husk (one of the 3 parts of the grain which has the majority of vitamins, the other parts called germ and endosperm) of the grain was removed during processing. Then the flour made of such grain needs to be enriched to partially replace some of the lost nutrients.

Another example is processing of oils. Partially hydrogenated oil is now almost ubiquitous in supermarket foods. This oil does not exist in nature. By taking a cheap vegetable oil and heating it up to very high temperatures, the oil is permanently altered making it solid at room temperatures. This substitute of the more expensive animal fats is known to increase inflammatory processes in the body and contribute to cardiovascular deterioration.

The cows producing milk in non-organic way are kept in a small confined space and fed a special feed mixture, non-existent in nature, to make them produce greater amounts of milk. They are not taken to the fields to graze on naturally grown grass. They are given hormones to further increase milk production. Due to their weakened state, living this sort of life, they have to be given antibiotics and multiple vaccines. The composition of the milk produced by the industrial process differs in important ways. The fat in the milk of a cow grazing in an open field, uncontaminated by pesticides and herbicides, is different from one that gets the special feed, spending her entire life nearly immobile.

These are only some of the examples of the factors contributing to our health troubles. Dietary treatments that I offer are based on the ideas of Johanna Budwig and Catherine Kousmine. These methods reverse the damage and deficiencies brought about by being conceived, carried during pregnancy, and raised on a nutrient deficient and often pollution rich industrial diet.

Diet is not everything, and our bodies, when in balance, can take in junk or almost no food at all and transform it into life-giving nectar. One extreme, but well documented example is a catholic saint Theresa Neuman, who lived in Germany in the beginning of the 20th century and, among many other miracles, spent the last 35 years of her life without food and drink, only taking the daily communion. Few of us are able to reach that degree of balance and evolvement, so it is prudent to pay attention to our diet and environmental toxins.