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seems, realize that Fooo has any
connection with health or sickness.
The FACTS are appalling!
Let me give you sorne important
facts!
First, just what
are
we? Of what
are we composed?
God Himself ought to know–
and He says, "Dust thou art, and
unto dust shalt thou return." And
again, "The Lord God formed roan
of the dust of the ground" (Gen.
3:19; 2:7). Dust-ground- is mat–
ter- material substance. In the
ground are approximately 103 ele–
ments. But the human body is basi–
cally composed of 16 of them. And
these are the 16 that grow in
food.
So it is literally true that "we are
just what we eat." Each of our bod–
ies s tarted from a small ovum, no
larger than the period at the end of
this sentence- and even that was
developed through food that grew
in the ground. And that ovum had
to be fertilized by a sperm cell only
one-fiftieth as large. But what
caused that tiny embryo to GROW
until you were born? It was devel–
oped from food that grew out of
soil-out of dust. But you are now
much larger and heavier than when
you were born. Where did all the
rest ofyou
come from? From FOOO
ANO WATER which carne from the
ground-from ousT!
ls it not plain that whatever
FOOD you put into your mouth has
a very great deal to do with WHAT
you are- and WITH YOUR HEALTH
or lack of it?
God made organic substances,
grown through food , to be naturally
absorbed into the bloodstream to
replenish broken-down cells and
supply tissue, healthy flesh and
blood .
Now here is a MOST IMPORTANT
FACT! Nearly all of us, today,
because of what our food factories
have done to our foods, are eating
severa! times more carboilydrates
in food than we should for .normal
good health. So WHAT HAPPENS?
lf
this carbon in the blood supplies
not only energy but also our bodily
heat, WHY does it not raise our
bodily temperature up to two or
three times the normal 98.6
degrees?
January
1982
The answer to that is IMPOR–
TANT!
That is something OOCTORS
OUGHT TO BE TELLING US. Why
don't they?
J
guess you'll have to
ask
them- 1
can't answer for them.
Perhaps they are just so busy
TREATING the PENALTY you have
incurred by BREAKING NATURE'S
LA
ws,
eating an over-abundance of
the carbohydrates.
But I will tell you what happens.
And YOU had better HEEO!
If
eating twice as much of the
carbohydrates as you shou ld
actually
doubled
your bodily tem–
perature, you'd die of high fever
before the doctor could get to you.
But YOUR CREATOR provided a
preventive, so it does not react
quite that way. Just as sorne taxi-
Eat
only
those
natural foods
that will spoil- and
eat them before
they do.
' '
cab companies put a governor on
the accelerators of their cars, so
that the driver can only push it
down far enough to reach the con–
trolled speed the company has
predetermined, even so your Mak–
er designed the bloodstream of
your body to absorb no more car–
bohydrates than one-half of 1 per–
cent approximately of the volume
of blood.
What, THEN, happens to the
excess óf the carbohydrates? They
do
supply a certa'in unnatural arti–
ficial energy-but they are pri–
marily eliminated in an unnatural
way, contrary to nature' s laws,
through the kidneys. And this
process in time builds up and
causes a whole string of these
modero diseases of a law-breaking
civilization! But SOME of it
is
car–
ried as a toxin or poison by the
blood into muscles and joints. And
after so long a time, you "catch a
cold" or "a fever"- so you think,
not realizing that you actually ATE
that cold or fever befare you
caught it. It may go into pneumo–
nia! A cold or fever is merely a
sudden violent elimination of tox–
ins and poisons you have injected
Ínto your body by WRONG OIET
which has BROKEN ÜOO'S PHYSI–
CAL LAWS!
Or, this accumulation of toxins
may result in rheumatism or other
disease.
And
what are
the carbohy–
drates?
They are the starches, sugars,
fats and oils.
Today nearly everything we eat
passes through man's hands-or his
factories-before it comes to the
consumer. In the interests of bigger
profits the gígantic food industry is
giving
US
a diet of FOOOLESS
"foods."
Take wheat. Wheat is almost a
perfect food. It contains all 16
major food elements, in near per–
fectly balanced proportion. But
they take that perfect grain of
wheat apart, rob it of the 12 miner–
al elements, and turn it into white
flour-containing the four carbo–
hydrate elements.
Why?
Well , if they were to give you
real WHOLE wheat flour, it would
spoíl after so long a time. And in
the BIG BUSINESS distribution SyS–
tem, the flour may not reach the
consumer until after it spoils.
That
would mean a loss to the food
industry.
One dietician gave this advice,
"My BASIC RULE in diet is: Eat
on/y
those natural foods that will spoil–
and eat them before they do."
There is another area in whicb
people ruin their own health. They
take a beef steak, or a mixed green
salad of uncooked leafy green vege–
tables or other fruit or vegetables,
and then RUIN then with sauces,
gravies or dressings that will wreck
any stomach- at least in time!
People think they must mix foods
into conglomerations of meat with
starch, sugars, condiments, artifi–
cial flavors, preservatives, sea–
"foods," and unhealthful mix-
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