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WHY CLEANSE?

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This is the One Hundredth and Thirty First Issue

of our online Newsletter, " Spirit of Health. "

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of the independent minded individual in taking responsibility

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WHY CLEANSE?

By Ron Radstrom

DISEASE IS AN UNNATURAL CONDITION

.. . . but it's increasing at an alarming rate!

Due to poor eating habits, it has become increasingly clear that almost

every person in this country over six years old is developing serious

problems in the intestinal tract, which in later years may contribute to

the development of various acute, chronic and degenerative diseases.

Such diseases include cancer, heart trouble and diabetes; as well as lack

of energy, premature aging, poor eyesight, memory loss, a poor complexion,

constipation and wrinkles. It is estimated that over 98% of disease can be

contributed directly or indirectly to a compromised digestive tract. As Dr.

Bernard Jensen says, " It is the bowel that invariably has to be cared for

first before any effective healing can take place. "

LOW ENERGY LEVEL?

People suffer from malnutrition and auto-intoxication (self-poisoning),

which result in disease, parasites and filth, all because of a gradual

buildup

of many pockets of uneliminated waste matter.The healthy colon weighs

about four pounds, an unhealthy one can weigh more than twice as much.

Few people realize that the same unhealthy substances found in the colon

can also abound in the stomach, duodenum and small intestine.

A POLLUTED INTESTINAL TRACT

.. . . means dirty blood, poor digestion and low energy.

When the intestines have too much waste matter, parasites, fungus and

harmful bacteria, there results a serious interference with the digestive

process. Even if a person's intestinal tract were polluted with just a mild

amount of this undesireable filth, he or she could have sluggish peristaltic

action, which is constipational. How does the body adjust to cooked food,

processed food and refined food - dead foods? Boutenko in her

book, " 12 Steps to Raw Food " , explains it this way: " The body creates

mucus and uses this mucus as a filter. All the surfaces of the digestive

tract that are designed to absorb the nutrients from food become

covered with mucus film that protects blood from toxins. The mucus film

begins at the tongue and continues all the way through the intestines.

Many people can see this mucus on their tongue. People who have a thick

mucus coating on their intestines usually have white tongues as if they

just ate sour cream. The body creates a little mucus, to begin with, to

filter out the toxins from the dead food. The more dead food we consume,

the more mucus the body produces as a protection. The more harmful

the food substances are to the body, the more this mucous film builds up.

As the years go by it becomes thicker and harder. Portions of this thick

mucus get pushed into pockets called deverticuli as we cram through

more and more dead food into the digestive tract in an effort to squeeze

some nutritional value out of it.

You may ask: What is the mucus made of? The human body, brilliant as

always, creates the mucus from the dead food itself! This mucus covers our

entire digestive tract, to prevent us from absorbing the toxins in dead food

that would make the body too sick. Because of the mucoid plaque, our

nutrient assimilation becomes low. The mucoid plaque protects us from

absorbing toxins, but at the same time we cannot absorb nutrients.

The more mucus we have, the fewer nutrients we can receive. After a

number of years of eating too much dead food, we develop severe

nutritional deficiencies, become less energetic and finally sick with

diseases. "

When we go on raw-live food and if we stay on raw-live food, this mucoid

plaque can be dissolved. With the aid of herbal preparations and exercise,

the body will eliminate it faster. The longer we eat raw-live food, the more

plaque gets dissolved.

WHERE HAS MY PEP GONE?

Any build-up of old pockets of waste matter (diverticulitis) produces

fermentation, putrefaction and stagnant packets of poisons and harmful

bacteria (a condition of auto-intoxication or self-poisoning). These toxins

constantly seep into the bloodstream and lymph. They eventually settle into

the weakest areas of the body, then various symptoms develop and are

given names according to those areas and the degree of cell degeneration.

Unfortunately the symptoms found elsewhere in the body resulting from

the toxic overload in the bowel, are generally treated rather than the

cause in the bowel. Even if one succeeds in strengthening the weak area

or suppressing the symptom, the toxic flow from the bowel will simply

find another weak area to break through. As Dr. Jensen puts it, " Every

tissue is fed by the blood, which is supplied by the bowel. When the

bowel is dirty, the blood is dirty and so on to the organs and tissues. "

PARASITE'S HEAVEN

....a dirty, unhealthy intestinal tract.

This is the ideal environment for worms and parasites. There are over 300

varieties that can live in the human body. World-wide, worms outrank cancer

as our deadliest enemy. It has been estimated that 150 million people in

America have intestinal parasite infestation. Medical textbooks have revealed

that over 55 million American children have worms. Parasite infestation is

growing rapidly, due to a lack of raw fruits and vegetables in the diet and

an

increased consumption of cooked and acid-forming foods, i.e., processed

foods of all kinds, refined sugars, meat, dairy, poultry and coffee. Once in

the intestinal tract, parasites have easy access to other parts of the body

where they bring on various symptoms and diseases.

HOW CAN I GET BACK MY " GET UP AND GO? "

It is important to realize the importance of removing unhealthy bacteria,

mold and fungus from the intestinal tract and re-establishing the beneficial

bacteria. This flora is essential to a strong immune system, assimilation of

vitamins, proteins, fats, carbohydrates and the manufacturing of Vitamin

B-12, K and amino acids. It helps reduce cholesterol in the blood, control

the pH in the intestines and detoxify the poisonous materials in our diets,

while producing cancer-suppressing compounds that strengthen

the immune system, increase calcium assimilation and help retard candida,

excess gas and bad breath. When unhealthy bacteria overrun the healthy

bacteria,

outside pathogens penetrate the immune barriers and feed the blood and lymph

with further toxic substance. Proper implantation of healthy bacteria begins

with

cleansing and removing the harmful bacteria/fungus from the digestive system.

A Complete Colon Cleanse/Nutritional Program can prepare the intestinal

environment for beneficial bacteria. Water, juice-fasts or colonics by

themselves

are unable to remove all these substances. There are various preparations

that can

remove easily excessible build-ups from the colon alone, but for best results

it is

necessary to cleanse and restore the strong function of the the stomach and

entire

digestive tract. This can only be accomplished by restoring the beneficial

flora

balance, ridding the system of accumulated waste pockets and introducing

highly nutritious raw-live food sources to replace the over abundance of

processed/

refined foods, meat, dairy, poultry and excessively cooked foods.This is a

crucial

change for those who are determined to have better health and sustain it for

the rest of their life.

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