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INHS Hygienic Review 2004 Issue 2
INHS Hygienic Review 2004 Issue 2
Issue # 2
FACTORS OF HEALTH
What
decides how
healthy you
are at birth?
What was the connection Is "stimulation" - e.g. a cup Your genes
between Fritos corn chips and of coffee - really beneficial or the health
Dr. Shelton's Health School? and strengthening? of your
mother - or both?
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President's Column
Since our inception early this year it could well be said, in
aeronautical terms, that we "have been flying by the seat of our
pants", as we have continued in our quest for "the truth" as
enumerated in our banner, "Let us have the truth though the
heavens should fall". In this quest what has become most
obvious is our desire to have defined for us "the truth" with
regard to diet and nutrition.
It can readily be seen then that in our quest for "truth" regarding diet and nutrition, we must, of
necessity look to a much wider paradigm than just that of food to supply our nutritional needs.
If you should feel that I have led you out on a limb, allow me now to take you to the furthest twig
by saying "complete understanding of reality lies beyond the capabilities of rational thought", to
take a further quote from quantum mechanics. Which in its turn brings us to the point that "the
truth" for each of us will be relative, instinctual, and ever changing. Back to flying by the seat of
our pants.
"Simply speaking it
means the taking
So what do I hear you saying? You are not going to leave us out on
this twig are you? And my reply is, "no that was not my intention", for back of our power,
just as much as quantum mechanics may well appear to have done and taking
this to us, it has at the same time given us the answer in-so-far as it responsibility for
tells us that the answer is based upon "us". " And what does that
mean in Hygienic terms", you say?. Simply speaking it means the
our own actions."
taking back of our power which we have been giving away to
systems and tables (fables), and taking responsibility for our own actions. For the answers are
within us if we will but listen.
Before continuing further, let us briefly look at how our brain works. The left side of our brain
perceives the world in a linear manner, it functions logically and rationally. The right hemisphere
by comparison, perceives whole patterns. Both literature and mythology associate the right hand
(left hemisphere), with rational, male and assertive characteristics. Our entire society reflects a
left hemispheric bias (it is rational, masculine and assertive) It gives very little re-enforcement to
those characteristics representative of the right hemisphere (intuitive, feminine, and receptive).
The answer as given in quantum mechanics is therefore to "let the feeling flow freely through
you and do not try to understand it". You will find that you "do understand" but in a way you will
not be able to put into words. And as Gary Zukav said, "Trust the process".
As we have continued to progress in so many ways in spite of, or it could possibly be, because
of "flying by the seat of our pants", and your most invaluable input, each and every one of you, I
would like to send you my very own personal thanks, along with those of the rest of the board,
for enabling this to occur.
John L. Fielder,DO,DC,ND(Adel)
www.iig.com.au/anl
Unaccountably, we refuse to think that man should be as healthy as are wild animals. Yet, why
shouldn't he be? Indeed, since he is a more highly organized animal with a more complex structure
and greater resources at his command, why should his standard of health not be much higher than
that of the healthiest of wild animals?
We marvel at the strength, speed, endurance and agility of lower animals; we even marvel at these
same qualities in exceptional civilized individuals. We marvel at an Indian running a hundred miles a
day; we think that he must be very swift of foot and as enduring as the strongest animal, that be may
thus outrun the swiftest horse. But the obvious fact is that our standard of health is so low that we
have lost the strength and endurance, grace and agility, that we so much admire in others. The Indian
has no special qualities. There is no reason why civilized man may not have the health, strength, and
endurance of the savage.
In the beginning man too was a splendid animal, possessing all the desirable animal qualities of
health, strength, endurance, grace, agility and poise. If civilized man is half dead, even when be
thinks that he is enjoying good health, this is not the fault of his original constitution. Conditions and
factors he has imposed upon himself are inimical to health and life.
The evolution of civilization has taken us away from the sources of vigor and the means of health -
and has brought us to our present state of weakness and sickness.
Unless we can again learn to select our foods, prepare and eat them in ways that provide us
with adequate sustenance, unless we can find ways and means of providing our long-suffering
bodies with sunshine and and fresh air, and unless we can adjust our physical activities to the
normal requirements of healthy existence, we shall never again have the health and vigor that
must have been common among our primeval ancestors.
Here is one interesting key to the worsened health today, from archaeology:
The remarkable thing about this generalized decline in health is that it occurred throughout the world.
From the eastern Mediterranean to Peru, whenever people changed from a high-protein to a high-
carbohydrate diet they became less healthy.
In fact archaeologists consider this health disparity so predictable that when they unearth the skeletal
remains of a prehistoric society they classify the people as hunters or farmers by the state of their
bones and teeth.
If the teeth are excellent and non-decayed and the bones strong, dense and long, the people were
hunter-gatherers;
if the teeth are decayed and the bones frail and deformed, scientists know the remains are those of
agriculturalists.
CULTIVATE POISE AND CHEER. Do not attempt to see the world through the rose-colored
glasses of a sentimental Pollyana but learn to take joy and sorrow, good fortune and
misfortune with the same calmness and equitableness. Avoid worry, fear, anxiety, excitement,
jealousy, anger, self-pity, etc. Control your temper, passions, and emotions.
EXERCISE DAILY. Daily physical exercise, preferably in the fresh air and sunshine, and, as
often as possible, in the form of play, is essential to both mental and physical health. Avoid
the strenuous life, however. Do not make the Rooseveltian mistake and imagine that a
strenuous physical life can offset gluttony.
SECURE PLENTY OF REST AND SLEEP EACH DAY: Learn to retire early. Learn to relax
and let go." Earn your sleep by honest work and avoid stimulants and sleep will come easily
and naturally. Do not turn the night into day. Time is never wasted that is spent in
recuperation. Retire soon after dark, and arise with the first rays of morning light; and this is
equally applicable to all climates and all seasons, at least in all parts of the globe proper for
human habitation, for in the cold season, when the nights are longer, more sleep is required."
KEEP CLEAN: This refers to both body and mind. Keep clean clothes, clean beds, clean
houses. Keep the mind clean. Avoid lustful thoughts and desires. Do not become covetous,
deceitful or corrupt. Nature penalizes you for all these things with hardening of the arteries
and a shortened life. Keep your body clean but do not indulge in too frequent and prolonged
bathing. Soap should form no part of the average bath.
BREATHE FRESH PURE AIR: Keep your windows open. Have your living room, bed room,
office or workshop well ventilated. Get out of doors as much as possible. If you live in the city
take advantage of every opportunity to get into the country.
SECURE AS MUCH SUNSHINE AS POSSIBLE: This means that your nude body, or as
much of it as circumstances will permit, should be exposed to the direct rays of the sun. To
merely sit by the window, or take a walk in the sunshine heavily clad, or clad in dark clothing
will be of no benefit in so far as the sunshine is concerned. Get your sun-baths in the morning
or evening when it is not excessively hot.
EAT MODERATELY OF WHOLESOME FOODS: What are wholesome foods? All true foods
that are fresh, pure, unadu1terated and that have not been processed, refined, and cooked
until their food value is largely destroyed, are wholesome foods. All foods that, in the process
of refining, manufacturing, pickling, canning, preserving, and cooking, etc., have been
deprived of their mineral elements and vitamins or that have been adulterated and poisoned
by bleaching, coloring, flavoring, seasoning and by preservatives, are more or less
unwholesome.
BE MODERATE IN WEARING CLOTHES: It may be stated that, as a general rule, the less
clothes one wears the healthier he will be. The materials should be light, porous and white or
of light colors. No tight bands, belts, corsets, garters, etc., should be allowed to interfere with
the circulation nor cramp up the organs of the body. Shoe heels should be absent or, at most,
very low. Shoes should fit the feet and the feet not made to fit the shoes. Some day sandals
and a string of beads will be our chief articles of clothing.
GET MARRIED [today = have a loving nurturing relationship]: Build a home. Rear a family. Statistics
show that married people live longer on the average than single people. Childless couples die
before those with children. Home and children stabilize life.
AVOID ALL POISON HABITS: Coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate, tobacco, alcohol, opium,
heroin, soda fountain slops and other drugs. These all weaken, poison and destroy the body.
AVOID ALL EXCESSES: Build your life on the conservation of energy, not upon its
dissipation. Don't waste your forces in useless and needless expenditures. Be moderate and
temperate in all things. If you waste your forces you impair your functions and build toxemia
and impaired nutrition. Avoid sexual excess. Conserve these powers.
Do not get the idea that you are an exception to laws of life. There We must realize that
are no exceptions. The laws that govern life, health, growth, self-control alone leads
development, disease and death in your body are the same laws to strength and
that govern these same processes in the bodies of your neighbors. happiness. Self-
Physiological laws and processes are the same in Jones as in
Smith. Both Jones and his neighbors are injured by the same indulgence leads to
harmful indulgencies, practices, habits, agents and influences. misery and destruction.
Both are helped by the same factors.
Paste this in your hat. YOU ARE NO EXCEPTION.
We must learn to view life as a struggle between self-control and self-indulgence and must come to
realize that self-control alone leads to strength and happiness. Self-indulgence leads to misery and
destruction…. Self-control is the world's greatest need. Self-discipline is the only saving force. Our
pleasure-mad and over-stimulated age is almost wholly lacking in self-control.
SUNSHINE
The influences of the sun on human thought and actions are only
less appreciable than those upon the growth of the melon vine, because it affects man through many
media. …
There would seem to be a very intimate relation between the sun and digestion. Digestion and
assimilation become weak and imperfect if either man or animal is denied sunshine for a lengthy
period. Indeed, these processes are carried out with the highest efficiency only if sunshine is secured.
The body should be exposed to the direct rays of the sun every day. This should be an integral part of
the way of life. Truly did Oswald declare: "Life is a sun-child".
ABOUT SUNLIGHT
SUNBATHING STRENGTHENS MUSCLES
The Romans made use of the sun in training their Gladiators, for they
knew that sunlight seemed to strengthen and enlarge the muscles.
A study of the results of combined sunlight an exercise, showed that a
group that was getting the sunlight treatments with exercise, had
improved almost twice as much as shown by their electrocardiograms,
as had those who only exercised, even though both groups were on a
general health resort treatment program.
SUNBLINKING SUNDIPPING
Gazing towards the sun is beneficial for your The sunlight invigorates every part of your
eyes if practised like this: - only as the sun is retina. As you walk from work to the parking
rising above the horizon and commenced lot, pause for a moment, close your eyes
with one blink - after which it can be slowly and make a short smooth circlet around the
increased to more . It should not be sun. Open your eyes and proceed. Greet the
practised at any other time of the day, nor for sun as you would a dear friend on the street,
more than 3 or 4 blinks. momentarily but thoroughly.
Dr. John Fielder Janet Goodrich, Ph.D., Natural Vision Improvement
EXERCISE
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Life is activity. Sedentary occupations have become a sort of "second nature" to the man and woman
of today. This is particularly true in the higher latitudes, where civilization has reached its greatest
complexity. We are suffering in a variety of ways from our lack of physical activity. When we realize
that the outdoor life is both a prevention and a remedy of respiratory disease, we begin to grasp the
significance of our hot-house existence.
Health and vigor are synonymous. A vigorous people are a healthy people.
The normal condition of creatures of the wilderness and plains is muscular
vigor. We should expect the same to be true of man. Accounts of long-lived
individuals commonly state that they were, to the last, physically active. …
Not only do unused parts atrophy and grow weak, but we lose the support they normally give the rest
of the body. We lose the appearance that normal development provides. We become defective and
deformed as the result of loss of structure. By disuse, muscles become emaciated, bones soften,
blood vessels become obliterated and nerves lose their characteristic structure.
There are no less than 400 muscles in the body, all of them in need of regular exercise. Not only do
unused muscles waste and weaken, but all functions which depend upon the actions of the muscles
are also greatly weakened.
There is need of rest to recover from the exhausting expenditures of the day, and stimulation cannot
substitute for rest. The demand for rest will enforce itself, if stimulants are not taken, as there is an
irresistible desire to lie down and cease activity.
We divide rest into four kinds:
Physical rest, which is procured by ceasing physical activity, going to bed and relaxing;
Sensory rest, which is secured by quiet and by resting the eyes;
Mental rest, which is secured by poising the mind, ceasing to worry and cultivating mental
equilibrium; and
Physiological rest, which is secured by reducing physiological activity.
There is a right way of living, and be who finds and pursues it will not be
made sick by what he calls overwork. When he becomes tired, he will rest. If
he tries to go on, and mental weariness will compel him to rest and sleep.
But if he lashes himself with stimulants, he will overtax himself. … Rest is a
condition necessary for the replenishment of exhausted nutrients.
In football it is the custom to take "time out" for a period of rest. Then play is
resumed. Certainly, such "time out" from work will provide better preparation for more work the coffee
break. …
Invalids who resort to stimulants and tonics instead of taking more rest and sleep, deprive themselves
of all possibility of recovery.
The cure of disease was not the aim of every fast undertaken by these religious devotees. But we
may very properly assume that they were intended to accomplish some great good. Were this not so,
the great self-control and denial a fast entails would have prevented them from resorting to this
procedure so frequently and giving so much prominence to it. ….
Fasting above all other measures can lay claim to being a strictly natural method.
There can be no doubt that it is the oldest of all methods of treating disease. It is
much older than the human race itself since it is resorted to instinctively by sick and
wounded animals.
In the human realm the same rule prevails to the extent that we permit. One of the
first things Nature does to the person with acute disease is to stop all desire for food.
…
Nature indicates both in animals and man that in acute disease no food but water
should be consumed, while, in chronic disease, the amount of food eaten should be much less than
that consumed in normal health. If this rule were adhered to by all, an untold amount of suffering
would be avoided and many would be saved from an untimely death.
Why is it that when we listen to certain types of music we respond with goose-
pimples and others we simply ―turn off'? The elicitation of limbic function by the
abstract sounds of music somehow relates to the human brains capability of
processing operations even if they are of no immediate need or survival value (but
crucial to overall human performance).
Anxiety
Many studies have supported the concept of the effect of music on anxiety and some work has been
done in the dental setting.
A 1989 French study of Electro-physiologic recordings of certain neurovegetative manifestations
produced by a sonic environment in the dental office, demonstrated and evaluated the stressing and
relaxing power of music or noise. The high speed drill and the telephone represent the most stressing
elements in the dental office and show an intense electrodermal activity and respiratory disturbances.
On the contrary, slow, regular, melodious and harmonious music such as J.S. Bach's Aria, induce a
subjective and relaxing climate with neurovegetative reaction characteristic of a state of physiological
relaxation.
Cherry and Pallin used popular classical sections in their dental office and demonstrated decreased
anxiety. Music included Beethoven's Moonlightsonata, Wagner's Evening Star and Debussey's Clair
de la Lune.
Conclusion
There is no doubt that music can have powerful effects on the human body. This literature review has
revealed positive effects of soothing music via the limbic system on many neurophysiological
reactions.
John L. Fielder,DO,DC,ND(Adel)
Osteopath& Lifestyle Consultant
Academy of Natural Living
www.iig.com.au/anl
ENERGY
Finally (d.) there must be sufficient rest and sleep, the indispensable and most important time
wherein the body recharges itself with the eternal undifferentiated energy, as well as the
energy contained in the food consumed earlier. Whatever energy is absorbed from food is
transferred only during the state of sleep, never directly during the act of eating.
Dr. Shelton: "Most people now know that the world is round and not flat, but how many of them know
that "stimulants" take away the power they appear to give?"
The deceptive power of all excitants is the same. They appear to give us strength. In reality they take
away the strength we have. They appear to increase our capacity to perform work. They really
diminish this power. They deteriorate the functional results of the organs they affect. Eggs may be
stimulated so that they hatch earlier than normal but the birds or reptiles thus hatched are short lived
and the earlier they are forced to hatch the shorter lived are they. Both the young of plants and
animals may be stimulated so that they grow faster or larger than normal, but those so stimulated are
short lived and more subject to disease than plants and animals of normal growth. Condiments excite
the stomach, but they impair digestion. Sweat cabinets increase sweating but decrease elimination.
Purgatives and laxatives excite bowl action but build chronic constipation. When one is sick excitants
may hasten the exhaustion of the fund of life.
In those cases where stimulants appear to do the most good they do the most harm. The harm they
actually do is proportioned to the amount of energy they cause to be expended. ... The weaker the
patient the greater the need to do nothing, and yet it is precisely at such times that all cults seek to do
the most.
Herbert M. Shelton: The Science and Fine Art of Natural Hygiene, 1934
WATER
THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE
AMOUNT
It is said that water is the life-supporter and that more should be taken than
thirst demands. But no good reason has yet been offered for the implied
principle that thirst is an unreliable guide as to how much water is needed.
Dr. Trail stated: "Only a very small quantity of water is necessary as a drink,
provided our dietetic and other voluntary habits are physiologically correct.
The vast quantity usually taken into the stomach is called for by the feverish and inflammatory state of
the system produced by concentrated food, flesh, salt, spices etc." There is no fixed quantity of water
that one must drink during the day. The amount needed is determined by a variety of factors. Age,
sex, temperature, activity, and the character of food eaten are the chief factors that determine the
amount of drink required. It is therefore stupid to lay down any hard and fast rule (such as one must
drink six glasses of water a day) about the amount of water needed. When it is hot and we sweat
more, we drink more; when it is cold and we sweat less, we drink less. If we are active and thus
sweating more, we need more water than when we are inactive and sweating less. Thirst guides us in
drinking as hunger guides us (or should) in eating. …
LIQUID FOODS
It should be understood that milk is not a drink, but a food. We get milk from animals who have
prepared it for the nourishment of their young. Fruit and vegetable juices are also foods, not drinks.
Liquid foods should be understood as such, and should not be thought of as drinks. Soups are also
liquid foods. Coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate beverages, soft-drinks and similar beverages should be
understood to be, not drink, but poison.
It is possible to drink too much water and it is possible to take too little. Both
extremes are hurtful.
COOKING
There are many cook books whose literary excellence is
not to be questioned; but we cannot regard them as
anything more than promiscuous medleys of dietetic
abominations. In the words of Trail, the greatest effort of
the cookbook writers seems to be to "mix and mingle the
greatest possible amount of seasonings, saltings, spicings,
and greasings into a single dish; and jumble the greatest
possible variety of heterogeneous substances into the
stomach at a single meal."
SUN=GOD, FIRE=DEVIL
Heat destroys the physical structure and chemical arrangements of the food that the sun has been so
useful in building up. There may be more truth than we know in the notion of certain tribes that the
sun represents God, fire the Devil.
CHEMICAL EFFECTS
The chemical effects of cooking have been thoroughly studied, and it is well known that cooking is
destructive of food values. Cooking coagulates proteins, deaminizes some amino acids, caramelizes
sugars, breaks up fats into free fatty acids, destroys vitamins and enzymes, chemically renders
mineral salts non-usable, leeches substances from foods, makes most foods less digestible, and
alters their taste. How repulsive and unpalatable would be such products except for their artificial
flavorings and sweetenings.
Man alone, of all creatures on earth, resorts to the black art of cookery to spoil the products of
nature before he introduces these into his digestive tract.
CONTRARY VIEW:
PRIMITIVE COOKING
While there is a growing consensus today that eating raw food is healthier, the fact is,
throughout history all cultures have modified, "cooked" or altered the energy field of their foods
in some way. This is one of the 11 fundamental Characteristics of Traditional Diets, based on
extensive research on so-called primitive cultures throughout the world by Dr. Weston Price in
the 1930s. Even the most primitive tribe discovered in our time, The Tasaday of the Philippines,
who had no wheel or weapons, did have fire, which they started with wooden sticks and used
to roast wild yams and other foods. ...
Many people with poor digestion don't handle raw foods very well .... The higher proportion of
nutrients in raw food is useless if the food can't be digested, absorbed and assimilated. N.
Bentley & Dr. Mercola mercola.com/2004/apr/28/raw_food_diets.htm
TEMPORARY COOKING
Dr. Bass: In other words, now you're advocating the use of cooked foods, when someone HAS damaged
the flora? [Note: the cooked vegetables act as a very favorable culture media to restore the growth of the flora which have been
damaged.]
Dr. Cursio: That's right. In the cases that had this particular situation.
Dr. Bass: And then once they had restored the flora, they could go back to the raw - with better results?
Dr. Cursio: That's it! With better results. ........ Dr. Bass drbass.com - With 3 Generations
Do not try to get your vitamins and minerals from a jar or bottle - the only reliable source is natural
foods & lifestyle! Dr. Fielder explains why below.
Today more than ever before we are becoming aware of the necessity of making
sure that all the essential elements we need are being supplied to us through
the food we eat In nearly every so-called health magazine we are being told of
the necessity of ensuring that we have adequate supplies of the essential
nutrients required for the efficient functioning and subsequent well being of our
body, be they vitamins, minerals, or whatever. Now all this is well and good and
of vital necessity if we are to attain that high level of health towards which we
are all striving. But to endeavour to achieve this through supplementation, is, so
I believe, fraught with a great deal of danger.
To illustrate this point further we could consider the classic experiment of the
duplication of sea water. The scientists claimed it was chemically equivalent.
Unfortunately, the fish did not agree — they died when placed in it.
We must also consider the chemical law, ―The Law of the Minimum‖, which briefly states that for the
utilization of any element, be it vitamin, mineral, or such like, the presence of certain other variables is
required, which, at the most, we can only guess at. And this symbiosis is only to be found when the
vitamins and minerals are supplied in their natural state, through our foods.
We may go still further and say that even though our bodies may accept these ―food supplements‖
and their effect may appear to be beneficial, in the long term they will be harmful to our well-being, as
is the case with cooked foods. In either case, the major long-term effects will not be observable for
many years to come.
In conclusion, let me say that it is only through placing the emphasis where it should be — on
growing, or obtaining, whole fresh raw food, organically grown at all times, and practicing as natural a
lifestyle as possible, wherever we may be — can we be ensured of that top level health devoid of the
so-called, mineral and vitamin deficiencies.
For those who live in cities who find it hard to purchase fresh supplies on a regular basis, it is well to
remember that we can grow all our needs in the way of greens in boxes (window, if need be) if we live
in a flat or town house, along with sprouts, thus supplying a guaranteed organic source for most, if not
all, of our mineral and vitamin requirements.
John L. Fielder,DO,DC,ND(Adel)
Osteopath& Lifestyle Consultant
Academy of Natural Living
www.iig.com.au/anl
Who, aside from Natural Hygienists, studies health and its conditions? Who,
other than they, considers the normal conditions of healthy life?
The conditions of health are few and simple. They are in accordance with man's
unperverted instincts. They may be learned from our nearest kin in the animal
kingdom. From the beast of the field and the bird of the air we may learn many
valuable lessons. If we study them in their natural state, in the exercise of their
instinctive ways of Life, they will teach us more than we can ever learn from the
experimental productions of pathological conditions in the laboratory. We need to
study life as it is in nature, not as we upon animals in our pens.....
Who, aside from Natural Hygienists, studies health and its conditions? Who, other than they,
considers the normal conditions of healthy life? Who, other than Natural Hygienists goes back of the
abnormal activities of the sick organism and seeks to remove causes that have impaired them? ...
Genuine health is an active vigorous state of the body in which all the structures are sound
and unimpaired, all its functions efficient, and in which, by reason of its own vigor and energy,
the body can wade through all the common emergencies of life with flags flying and banners
streaming.
Germs! Viruses! The healthy body laughs at them! Vaccines and serums! It has no need for these
abominations.
SPRING HUMOR
Sitting with her cat an old woman was polishing a dusty lamp she had found in the attic, when a genie
popped up and offered her three wishes. Thinking quickly she said "I'd like to be rich, I'd like to be
young and I'd like my cat to turn into a handsome prince." There was a puff of smoke and the woman
found herself young and surrounded by riches, the cat had gone and a gorgeous prince stood beside
her holding out his arms, she melted into his embrace. "Now" he whispered "aren't you sorry you had
me neutered".
Dr. Keki R. Sidhwa, 1995 ANHS Convention
CONTINUED INTERVIEW WITH DR. VIRGINIA VETRANO - 2
(continued from issue #1)
So I got on the plane from Paris and I got to New York, but I didn't
know where to go, so I went straight to the Pennsylvania station
and got a ticket to go home to Texas. But we had to wait about 11
hours. So we waited in the ladies restroom, where there happened
to be a cot. Tosca slept all day til the train left. Because we were
all night on the plane, she hadn't gotten much sleep.
It took two days to get home on the train. Nobody knew I was
coming home, I didn't tell anyone, since I just had to run. When I
got to Houston, mother wasn't home, so I called my aunt and she
came to pick me up. It was a joyous meeting. She was so happy.
She cried and took me home and by that time mother was back.
So anyway, I got home with my little baby girl, it was 1953 – Tosca
was about 2 ½ years old. And then she was introduced to her cousins, my sister's four children and
she tried to talk French to them. So she said "poupet" and stamped her
foot, and they didn't know what she was talking about. Poupet is a doll.
And this made her so mad, so she refused to talk French anymore to
me, and she just started listening to them and before long she was
speaking English.
I had to take her out of that public school and instead put her in a private school that Dr. Shelton told
me about, and was close to where he used to have his first health school. And he knew these people
and they knew about hygiene, so they didn't force anything on her, and they understood her diet, so
she ate properly.
Dr. Herbert Shelton lived inside the city of San Antonio where he
had his health school. Over the years he had several. He had this
place on Woodlawn, that I remember – but now he was already out
of there and on North Loop Road, which was out Highway 281, 5 or
10 minutes outside
of San Antonio.
That was perhaps
his 3rd place. He
moved them because he wanted to get a better
location out in the country-side. Also, if a place started
growing and got too big, he moved.
The last health school he had was big pretty white building that I helped him with the design of. Some
of the money to build it came from Elmer Charles Doolin, the man who started the Frito company.
Elmer C. Doolin invented Fritos corn chips. He fasted at Dr. Shelton's Health School, and while he
was fasting he thought up the idea of making and marketing Fritos. He bought the recipe from some
little Mexican man who was making them for his bar and restaurant, and who would have Fritos there
for people who came in.
After he had fasted Doolin bought the recipe and started making them and packaging them in his own
home in San Antonio (in 1932). And he became wealthy with his Frito idea, and he was grateful, so
years later he was instrumental in Dr. Shelton having enough money to build his big health school. He
gave him 50,000 dollars. But the Frito-Lay people don't have that in their history, and they don't want
to have it. Tosca emailed them once saying: "did you know that this happened?" And they said: "no
we think you have your history wrong. Mr Doolin did this and this and this – we'll send you a whole
packet on the Frito-Lay company."
However the movie about Natural Hygiene that was made by Jack Dunn Trop – the Greatest
Adventure – has a picture of Mr and Mrs Doolin sitting at an ANHS convention, eating all these fruits
and vegetables on a plate with everybody else, so we know that he was into Natural Hygiene. But
Jack didn't put much of Shelton in the film because he didn't approve of it. Too bad, Jack should have
done it anyway. Jack Dunn Trop was a hygienist who was in the movie business in Hollywood, he
produced e.g. movies about Hopalong Cassidy.
Dr. Shelton's book Rubies in the Sand is dedicated to Elmer C. Doolin. Also, it is now being re-
printed in French, I sent them the book recently.
(to be continued)
Food may be the most powerful drug you will ever come in contact with.
(barry sears: enter the zone)
The insulin mechanism has been touched on several times on the discussion board.
Here is a quick introduction.
Dr. Bernstein, one of the world's foremost experts on blood sugar and insulin, started
his research in 1969, and published his first book in 1980. Being a diabetic he
measured his own blood sugar 5 times a day for decades (www.diabetes-normalsugars.com).
In Natural Hygiene, Dr. Stanley Bass initiated study of the insulin mechanism
(www.drbass.com).
Our dietary sources of blood sugar (glucose) are carbohydrates and proteins.
One reason the taste of sugar - a simple form of carbohydrate - delights us is
that it fosters production of neurotransmitters in the brain that relieve anxiety
and can create a sense of well-being, or even euphoria. This makes
carbohydrate quite addictive to certain people whose brains may have
inadequate levels of these neurotransmitters, the chemical messengers with
which the brain communicates with itself and the rest of the body, or
peripheral nervous system.
When blood sugar levels are low, the liver can, through a process we will
discuss shortly, convert proteins into glucose, but very slowly and inefficiently.
The body can not convert glucose back into protein, nor can it convert fat into sugar. Fat cells,
however, with the help of insulin, do transform glucose into fat.
The taste of protein doesn't excite us as much as that of carbohydrate - it would be the very unusual
child who'd jump up and down in the grocery store and beg his mother for a steak instead of cookies.
Protein gives us a much slower and smaller blood sugar effect, which, as you will see, we diabetics
can use to our advantage in normalizing blood sugars. ...
INSULIN RELEASE
Let's take a look at how the average nondiabetic body
makes and uses insulin. Suppose that Jane, a nondiabetic,
arises in the morning and has a mixed breakfast, that is, one
that contains both carbohydrate and protein. On the
carbohydrate side, she has toast with jelly and a glass of
orange juice; on the protein side, she has a boiled egg. Her
basal (i.e., before-meals) insulin secretion has kept her
blood sugar level steady during the night, inhibiting
gluconeogenesis.
Shortly after the sugar in the juice or jelly hits her mouth,
or the starchy carbohydrates in the toast reach her saliva,
glucose begins to enter her bloodstream. The rise in Jane's
blood sugar is a chemical signal to her pancreas to release
the granules of insulin it has stored in order to prevent a
jump in blood sugar (see figure). This rapid release of stored insulin is called phase I insulin
response. It quickly corrects the initial blood sugar increase and can prevent further increase from the
ingested carbohydrate.
As the pancreas runs out of stored insulin, it manufactures more, but it has to do so from scratch.
The insulin released now is known as the phase II insulin response, and it's secreted much more
slowly. As she eats her boiled egg, the insulin of phase II can cover the sugar that's slowly produced
from the protein of the egg.
1. Insulin acts in the nondiabetic as the means to admit glucose fuel - into the cells. It does this
by activating the production of glucose "transporters" within the cells. These specialized
protein molecules emerge from the nuclei of the cells to grab glucose from the blood and
bring it to the interiors of the cells. Once inside the cell, glucose can be utilized to power
energy-requiring functions. Without insulin, the cells can absorb only a very small amount of
sugar, not enough to sustain the body.
2. As Jane's blood continues to accumulate sugar, and the beta cells in her pancreas continue
to release insulin, some of her blood sugar is transformed to glycogen, a starchy substance
stored in the muscles and liver.
3. Once glycogen storage sites in the muscles and liver are filled, excess glucose remaining in
the bloodstream is converted to and stored as fat.
GLUCAGON RELEASE
Later, as lunchtime nears but before Jane eats, if
her blood sugar drops too low, the alpha cells of
her pancreas will release another pancreatic
hormone, glucagon, which will "instruct" her liver
and muscles to begin converting glycogen to
glucose, to raise blood sugar. When she eats
again, her store of glycogen will be replenished.
This pattern of basal, phase I, then phase II insulin secretion is perfect for keeping Jane's blood
glucose levels in a healthy range. Her body is nourished, and things work according to design. Her
mixed meal is handled beautifully.
Superstition that is The men who founded the Hygienic System attempted to build upon
so old, honored & the bedrock of natural law and their success in doing so attests to
well organized as their good judgement. Superstition that is so old, honored, well
medicine does not organized and that had become a vested interest, as was medicine, is
not, however, easily destroyed and it does not willingly lie down and
willingly lie down die. Rather, it fights for its existence with every weapon at its
and die. command. The fact, therefore, that the old system still exists and still
retains a firm grip on the public is not half so surprising as are the
efforts of its professionals and theoreticians to prove that it is established upon a physiological basis.
It is always a dangerous thing to serve as midwife at the birth of a new truth or a new movement.
Courageous men who defied the gibes and jeers of the mob; honest men who spoke and lived the
truth as far as they understood it; determined men who let nothing stand in the way of their efforts to
bring new life to the world; sincere men who knew no compromise with ancient error; self-sacrificing
men who worked themselves to death for the truths they had discovered; brilliant men who would
have been classed as genuises had they devoted their powers to popular causes, brought the
Hygienic System into being. Such were the men and women who labored that the world might have
light and life, that the people might have health and happiness and be freed from the fear of disease.
So successful were their labors that today millions profit by practising part of the things they
acvocated without ever having heard of them and their labors. They did not labor in vain and someday
the world will confer upon their names the honors they so richly deserve.
....
MEDICINE ADOPTS HYGIENE TO DESTROY
The adoption by the people (in the 1800's), in the face of dogged opposition by the medical profession, of
exercise, sunbathing, ventilated homes and offices, better modes of clothing, fruits and vegetables in
greater abundance, raw vegetables in the face of the medical threat of typhoid, has gained for
hygiene a leading place in the lives of our people. Hygiene became so popular and the popular
distrust of drugs became so great that as Shyrock says, allopathy adopted enough Hygiene to save
itself. When it became no longer safe to ignore or despise Hygiene, they adopted it in part, although
perverting it and mixing it with their drugs and serums. They not only succeeded in fooling the people,
most of whom now think that the medical profession promoted hygienic living, but in fooling the
Hygienists, themselves.
Shortly after the death of Trall the story ran through Hygienic
Hygiene became so publications that the medical profession had reformed. It had
popular and the accepted Hygiene. There seemed to be no longer any reason for
them to carry on their fight. They rested on their oars. This was
popular distrust of an almost fatal blunder. Medicine can never reform. It first
drugs became so great denounces everything and then claims everything, but it adopts
that medicine adopted only to destroy. It seeks always and only to preserve itself.
enough Hygiene to
save itself. I shall permit Shryock to testify further to the influence the
Hygienists have had in changing the mode of living and the
entire outlook of the people of America. He says: "A century after
Graham first made his appeal, his preachments have begun to be practiced and today, at least part of
the population, apparently eat less and select their food with greater care than did their fathers.
People nowadays are seekers after roughage and the whole grain in cereals. They worship fresh air,
and sun-tan, and the bath-room has become the very symbol of American civilization. Verily
Americans have become physiologically reformed."
Herbert M. Shelton, The Science and Fine Art of Natural Hygiene, 1934
When you become physicians, you will be continually teaching the people how to do without you. You
must, therefore, continually extend your field of practice by making new converts, or your occupation
will soon be gone.
And whenever the world becomes so intelligent as to adopt our system in all of its parts, to the
exclusion of all others, they will be their own doctors.
They will not need us; indeed, there will then be no practitioners of medicine in demand, or in
existence, except male surgeons and female midwives."
If this power within stopped its automatic labors, it would be the end of all
surgery, because all healing would stop, and all accidents involving bleeding
would terminate fatally.
The power that made you has the power to heal you! It is the only power
that exists and it is divinely guided by the Creator, who, working through the
laws of Nature, inhabits every cell in your body at every moment, creating
new cells, maintaining order and removing wastes interminably. The body
indeed is a holy temple, maintaining a God within, and we are put in charge
of its destiny. We have the power to cooperate with its needs, as outlined by
the Creator in accordance with the laws which govern human life, or to defile
its machinery by giving it harmful, excessive, or obstructive materials.
Our most urgent duty is to learn what its requirements are and live in
accordance with the laws governing its optimal function, so that we can get on with the business of life
in the most efficient manner possible and thus fulfill our destiny on this earth, while in a state of joyous
health. For, without health, nothing is worthwhile, life is a drudge and all earthly possessions pale into
insignificant bonds, which only seem to increase our problems.
Health is the true wealth and cornerstone of our happiness. It should be preserved at all costs
and pursued above all other goals, when once lost.
Dr. Stanley S. Bass, from Introduction to Selected Talks of Dr. Gian-Cursio, 2003
www.drbass.com
This need not be the case. The wise individual takes appropriate measures to
safeguard health, and prolong vitality, while maintaining balance in their lives. They focus on service,
spiritual development, and intellectual growth. By achieving a balance, the transition into middle and
old age can be a smooth one. What is lost in physical strength and appearance is gained in inner
strength, wisdom, love, and the satisfaction of making a positive contribution to the earth and its
inhabitants.
The best motivation for achieving good health and building a strong, healthy, disease
resistant, body is to allow us to better serve others and pave the path for spiritual growth. We
should never wait until the day that we have good health to get started serving others.... the time is
now.
A body racked with pain has difficulty pursuing life's higher callings for service and personal
development. Freedom from disease allows us to better pursue perfection of our spirits which are not
tied to physical decay. When efforts to improve physical health are appropriately focused, they
contribute to fulfillment in our lives and make us capable of being of greater service to others.
Our most urgent duty is to live in accordance with the laws governing its
optimal function.
For without health, nothing is worthwhile, life is a drudge and earthly
possessions
only seem to increase our problems.
(Stanley S. Bass)
by clay harrison
Why poems in a health magazine? Many have asked this question of me. My answer -
creativity is good for your health.
Poems are expressions of the life force within.
Dr. Keki R. Sidhwa, The Hygienist, Spring 2004
GARDEN CORNER
Saving money: In 1980 I did a thorough study of the monetary value of my garden. I
measured (roughly) the amounts harvested during an entire year and then valued my
vegetables at the prices of those same industrially-grown items in the supermarket at the
time I harvested them. Supermarket prices generally were at their lowest point for the year at
the same time I was harvesting because my garden was more or less in synchronization with
the local market-gardeners. So what follows is a lowest-possible estimate of my garden’s
apparent monetary worth.
The average supermarket value of my garden’s output in 1980 US dollars was $1.00/square
foot of growing bed. Now, translate that sum to current adjusted-for-inflation dollars and I
reckon it comes to a minimum of $3/square foot for a full year’s intensive production on
raised beds—if you don’t include low-economic-value space-wasters like sweet corn or
winter squash. Thus the average family’s average size 1,000-square-foot backyard vegie
garden may have a gross production of as much as $3,000. Deduct from that figure
something for the cost of irrigation water and also deduct a generous $300 for supplies like
seed and fertilizer and the occasional replacement of a tool or accessory.
Reckoned purely on obvious economic terms, your home-garden vegies are actually worth a
great deal more than that sum. The gardener doesn’t first have to earn a salary or create
business or investment profits, and then pay income and social insurance taxes, and then,
finally, spend after-tax dollars to buy food. For many, not deducting tax off the top makes
your own garden vegies worth at least 1/3 more. Then, if you wish to be really precise,
include the many costs of driving to the supermarket and back—twenty five to thirty cents a
mile is a typical business deduction for car expenses.
Health from the garden: You’ve probably seen so much pro-organic-food propaganda that
you’re stifling a big yawn right now and preparing to skip this section. Please don’t! What I
have to say is quite a bit different from what you may have learned about organic food from
those who cling to the idea of organic like a religion.
Vegetables (and all foods for that matter, including meats) will have a lot more nutrition in
them if raised on soil that is in
(1) good heart, meaning it has a reasonable amount of humus in it; and
(2) if that soil also offers the plants close to an ideal balance of mineral nutrients (which does
not necessarily happen simply because some ―right-thinking‖ organic grower has put a lot of
compost and/or manure in their soil). How much more nutrition? Perhaps three or four times
more; certainly double what is commonly found in supermaket offerings. If you’ll grant that
this figure is more or less correct, then home-garden vegetables grown with nutrition in mind
can be worth far more than the denatured foods found at the supermarket.
If you can accept my contention, then I reckon comparing garden vegetables equally, pound-
for-pound, with supermarket vegetables is not quite fair. The garden’s output might really be
worth quite a bit more than double $3/sq. ft. Or maybe treble.
The most basic difference between your
garden food and supermarket food is
very elementary—freshness. Even if
hydrochilled within minutes after cutting,
the majority of vegetables still lose
around half their vitamin content (and
other highly important food values
connected with living enzymes) within 48
hours of harvest. And these losses can
happen even more rapidly if chilling is
not started immediately upon harvest.
How many days after harvest does the
food arrive on your supermarket’s
produce counter? Don’t you know? I
don’t know either, but I assume that on
the average three or four days if not a
week must pass between harvest and
sale at the supermarket. But I can know
with absolute certainty that the home-
garden salad I am eating for lunch today
was cut during the early morning’s
coolness and still contains virtually
everything nutritious it started out with
when that salad was living, growing
plants just a few hours before.
Well, would this difference really matter? Doesn’t it all average out in your stomach over a
year’s time? No! Sorry. The creation of health or disease doesn’t work quite like that.
Intaking ―average‖ levels won’t cut it. To be superbly healthy you need to eat the highly
nutritious sorts of samples and shun the poorer ones.
All bodies—human, bovine, rabbit, bird—all, have the same nutritional problem. The
nutrients a living organism has to acquire and assimilate are packaged with calories that they
need to burn off. It is very easy for nature to create calories, even on depleted soil, perhaps
especially easy on depleted soil. Foods low in vital nutrients are usually calorie-rich foods.
That’s because calories are carbohydrates, mainly comprised of carbon (from carbon dioxide
gas, which is available in unlimited quantities in the air) and hydrogen (which is available in
unlimited quantities from water.) As far as a growing plant is concerned, there are never any
shortages of carbon or hydrogen. But there are often major shortages of some of the soil
nutrients needed to build plant proteins and vitamins and enzymes—the very same
nutritional factors we need to intake in huge quantities if we are to be healthy.
When plants suffer shortages of vital soil nutrients, then instead of making proteins, vitamins
and enzymes, they will switch over to making calories. The two areas tend to work in
opposition. When nutrition goes up, then calories tend to go down accordingly.
Take for example two potatoes of exactly the same size, very similar in weight and
appearance, but one grown so as to contain maximum nutrition, the other grown for profit.
The high-nutrient spuds may contain around 11% protein; the other sort, the supermarket
sort, the mass market frozen chip by the 50 pound bag processor sort, offers the consumer
around 8% protein. The 11% protein spud is also going to contain far more of all the
important minerals, vitamins and so forth we need to build health compared to the 8%
potato. The 8% protein spud is also going to contain about 25% more calories by weight
than the 11% protein one will provide.
And the overall yield of low-nutrient high-calorie spuds will be about 25% more bushels to
sell at market, making the grower even more than 25% more profit, because the fertilizers
needed to produce those high-carbohydrate low-protein spuds are the cheaper ones.
Average mass health of a whole people equals the total of all the nutrition they can obtain
from the entire dietary intake divided by the total number of calories that have to be eaten to
obtain it.
If we can get 2,000 units of nutrition contained within our daily 2,000 calories, then our health
comes out to be ―1‖ but if we get only 1,000 units of nutrition in our 2,000 calories/day, then
our health comes out as ―one-half.‖
Perhaps this seems too simplified to be true, but it is true. And it is that simple. This simple
viewpoint may not serve as the explanation of your particular health problem; it is however
the explanation for overall social health versus overall degeneration. If a group of people ate
such that their nutritional intake was high compared to the calories they were consuming,
then that group would be incredibly healthier if compared to what people consider ―normal‖
health these days.
In the 1930s an American research dentist named Weston Price did some
amazing studies in nutritional anthropology. He found groups of
extraordinarily healthy people [still] in fairly large numbers on Earth. All of
them lived in such isolation that they had to eat only the natural foods they
produced, hunted or gathered themselves and had no access at all to
common foods of our then-developing industrial food system. In their
homes one could not find marmalade, sugar, white flour or any tinned food,
etc.
This whole idea might seem clearer if you will consider how a few particular foods fit the
formula for health. Take white sugar. It is comprised of nothing but calories and offers no
nutrition at all. None! Every single calorie we eat as refined sugar reduces our total
nutritional intake because it prevents us from eating foods that do contain the nutrition we
need.
Eat very much sugar and you start losing teeth and having other health problems. The teeth
aren’t lost because sugar rots the teeth; the teeth are lost because the sugar doesn’t allow
the body to obtain enough nutrients to maintain proper body chemistry, so the whole
chemistry of the mouth and jaw goes array and then decay organisms begin to flourish there.
Caries is the first result, and then loss of teeth through bone recession follows.
Aren’t natural forms of sugar healthy? No way. Honey and less-refined forms of cane sugar
do contain small amounts of nutrients, but their ratio of nutrition to calories is nearly as poor
as white sugar.
Next up on the list of ―baddies‖ come most sorts of fats. Fats are very high in calories but
only a few of the better sorts contain a bit of essential nutrition. Every calorie of refined fat
we intake reduces our ability to consume foods that do contain the nutrients we need. And I
am not at all certain about how much unrefined high-quality fats should be included in a
health-producing diet—but I suspect not very much.
Ask yourself, please, what proportion of the total caloric intake of most people these days
comes in the forms of processed fat and/or sugar. Half? More than half? For most people a
generation ago it would have been less than 25%. I am sad to report here that American
agrifood-business led the way down this path. This industrial food system virtually took over
the USA a few decades ago and is now conquering the rest of the planet.
And what is the worldwide reputation of American health? Everyone immediately associates
the word ―fat‖ with the word ―American.‖ When I first came to Australia in the mid-90’s, I
almost never saw a very obese Australian. A bit of beer belly yes, here and there, but
nothing nearly as obese as is commonly seen on the streets of America. But these days I
see many ―big‖ Australians, and its getting to be more so every year as international fast-
food operations open in our larger towns and cities. That’s what today’s kids mostly eat.
So if sugar and fat are the ―baddies,‖ then what’s at the healthy end of the food spectrum?
The best single food I know of, the one that offers the most nutrients for the number of
calories it provides is a raw, green leaf grown on highly fertile soil. Why, it would seem that
you would have to spend half your entire day chewing in order to achieve your caloric limit
from a diet of only raw dark green leaves (lettuce, kale, spinach, escarole, chard, etc). You
would have to chew until your jaw got sore and still you might lose weight. But you would
certainly become a well-nourished long-lived scarecrow.
Yes, it is true that occasional people are gifted with such a strong constitution that they can
live long and be healthy on a diet of whisky, over-cooked red-meat and white bread. But for
most of us to have a long, enjoyable life we must eat a broad mixture of whole, fresh foods
that have not been devitalized (some nutritional elements removed). Our foods must not be
adulterated (mixed with other things that are not desirable). And most importantly, our foods
must be grown on soil we have intentionally made properly fertile so that the produce from
those soils comes out to be maximally nutritious.
Unfortunately, having a social life involves social eating. Which means one is almost forced
to compromise one’s dietary aspirations. But the Universe is kind in this respect and does
not require absolute obedience to its health laws. In other words, we are allowed to sin a little
bit without paying the piper. But only a little bit.
I believe that I (and most others too) can enjoy quite good
health if the combined nutrition in all the foods I eat amounts to "I believe that I can
at least 75% of ideal. But this small amount of slack can only
be taken by people whose good diet began early enough in a
enjoy quite good
lifetime to fully shape the overall body into its proper structure. health if the
Correct eating best begins with our mother’s nutrition long combined nutrition
before our conception. Then, barring traumatic injuries or in all the foods I eat
gross spiritual disorders that snap back on the body’s health, amounts to at least
or just plain bad luck, a reasonably well-nourished person can
have a lifetime of perfect teeth, will likely experience little or no
75% of ideal."
degenerative disease, and can look forward to a long and
physically pleasant lifespan exceeding four score years. In old age we can still possess
intelligence. We can die of plain old age, all accomplished without great pain or suffering.
That’s why I am virtually forced to grow a big food garden. There have been times when I’ve
wished to give up my garden, to travel, to adventure, to be irresponsible about my nutrition in
the way I see most of my fellow humans behave, to eat and drink what I want when I want it
and as much of it as I fancy because its flavor or appearance or drug-effect appeals to me,
but every time I’ve tried it my health has soon suffered.
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