Natural Foods

      There is confusion among people today regarding natural and healthy foods. We are unable to identify and eat healthy foods. This is because of our strong likes and dislikes. This ignorance among people has been very well exploited by the food companies. Adding a drop of some fruit or vegetable extract to unhealthy foods enables the food companies to fool the public.

       To give an example, we found our friend often complaining about his children suffering from severe constipation. When we visited them, we found his children ate a lot of candy labeled "Fruit Concentrates". He thought these were healthy because they contained fruit. It is sad that our friend, and many others like him, do not understand  that the fruit concentrates mentioned on the label are chemical flavors which imitate the taste of fruits and not real fruits. This is how the public gets fooled by words and labels like "Natural", "Fresh", "Healthy" etc.

       We also found the candy contained a lot of corn starch and corn syrup which has no fiber and causes poor bowel movement when eaten with other refined foods, resulting in constipation.

Natural Foods are Unrefined Foods

      The word "unrefined" can help us check whether a food is natural or not. We have shown how, in the health section, when we eat refined foods we introduce stress to our body. Any time you have doubts about good food, ask yourself the question whether the food has been refined in any form. The juices obtained in the market are refined because the fiber has been removed and also additives in the form of vitamins or supplements have been added. The food ceases to be natural the moment an ingredient is added or altered.  

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Vitamin Supplements

Vitamins and Mineral Supplements 
       It is a common belief that taking vitamins and mineral pills will keep one healthy. Now evidence is slowly accumulating that fruits and vegetables, nature's pills, can not be substituted by any other form. Nature's pills are packed with different nutrients in the right proportions, the natural recommended dose for a healthy body. No natural food is too good or too bad. Each food has its own importance in what they supply to our bodies. The only danger lies in eating only a few natural food items repeatedly.

       More and more research is showing harmful side effects resulting from the use of health food supplements. Dosages are causing more damage than benefit. Even Vitamin E which is considered the super-vitamin anti-oxidant was recently shown in many scientific studies to cause severe side effects. Health specialists argue about correct doses, but that argument comes crashing down when we observe scientific flaws in determining the dosage based on starved animals.

      In 1960, based on scientific research, the NIH recommended smokers to use vitamin A supplements to prevent the harmful effects of tobacco causing cancer. In late 1990s the NIH conducted a study to determine what percentage of smokers were able to prevent cancer by using Vitamin A supplements. They were shocked by what they found. The cancer incidence in smokers was significantly higher in those who took vitamin A supplements than in smokers who did not take the supplements!

       The above incidence is still unexplained; how Vitamin A supplements worked to cause cancer in the study with smokers is still a mystery.

The message we convey to you is not to depend on fragmented and isolated scientific research which may show how something good in theory turns out to be bad for health in the course of time. But we have to carry the burden of that error by damaging our bodies and genes and putting our future generations at risk.

    We recommend you to consume whole foods that are unrefined, instead of taking toxic supplements. The vitamin and supplement industry is a billion-dollar profiting concern. People are being influenced by them to prescribe to these supplements as getting vitamins and nutrients from food is impossible, or that is what they profess, anyway. These are myths and marketing strategies.

What a joke!

     We refine foods and deplete nutrients and then consume doses of vitamins in the form of pills. What a joke! Man alone has the power to be able to use his intellect; instead man, alone, has managed to create foods that cause disease! The emotional mind, not the intellect, has reigned supreme here. Taste and convenience have won over health.

Supplements or not?

Supplements have the advantage of delivering a suitably active dose but also have several drawbacks. Often polyphenols act with other nutrients and a key example is where polyphenols already present in food slow down the rate of carbohydrate digestion to blunt post‐prandial glucose spikes (Williamson 2013). If taken without food, a supplement would be unable to have any effect on this parameter and so the ideal situation would be to consume the polyphenol with food (i.e. in its natural state). In addition, supplements may have modified bioavailability and can also discourage the consumption of a ‘healthy’ diet in favour of supplementing a poor diet. The use of plant food supplements (botanical supplements) in Europe has been reviewed (Vargas‐Murga et al. 2011), and in a survey of people from six countries (Finland, Germany, Italy, Romania, Spain and the UK), almost 20% of those asked consumed plant food supplements, containing a total of more than 490 different ingredients, with the most common ones being Ginkgo biloba, Oenothera biennis (Evening primrose) and Cynara scolymus (Artichoke) (Garcia‐Alvarez et al. 2014). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5601283/

Dangerous effects of food supplements - probiotics, polyphenols, antioxidants,  minerals, vitamins etc.

The current trend is to ingest food supplements, extracts of foods, herbs at increased levels antioxidants, polyphenols that are high in ORAC values. This is unscientific because it ignores the very homeostasis or balance of the body. In Energy concepts, when we build a hill, we are creating a valley simultaneously. Traditional medicinal methods like Ayurveda and Siddha strike this very balance.

The balance between oxidation and antioxidation is believed to be critical in maintaining healthy biological systems. However, our endogenous antioxidant defense systems are incomplete without exogenous originating reducing compounds such as vitamin C, vitamin E, carotenoids and polyphenols, playing an essential role in many antioxidant mechanisms in living organisms. Therefore, there is a continuous demand for exogenous antioxidants in order to prevent oxidative stress, representing a disequilibrium redox state in favor of oxidation. However, high doses of isolated compounds may be toxic, owing to prooxidative effects at high concentrations or their potential to react with beneficial concentrations of ROS normally present at physiological conditions that are required for optimal cellular functioning. This review aims to examine the double-edged effects of dietary originating antioxidants with a focus on synthetic antioxidants and taking supplements that will be reviewed highlighting that antioxidants at physiological doses are generally safe,.

Exogenous antioxidants—Double-edged swords in cellular redox state

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Food Likes & Dislikes

         One of the reasons for the popularity of supplements is that we are lazy to cook and eat a variety of foods providing the nourishment our body requires.  Food supplements help to keep the lazy happy!

        Another cause for taking supplements is our strong likes and dislikes for food. We are fond of some fruits and only some vegetables ;we dislike other fruits and vegetables. Ultimately, our list of vegetables limits itself, mostly, only to the favorite starchy potatoes and carrots. Fruits mean only bananas and apples for many of us. Different fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, seeds have a plethora of phyto-nutrients that serve many medicinal and physiological functions in the body.

            There is no single plant on Earth without any medicinal value

                                                       -Charaka -Ayurvedic Physician 5 B.C

    Our strong likes and dislikes while eating, deprives the body of vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, fibers and other medically important phyto-chemicals from different sources. The best way to be healthy and free from all diseases is to eat all different kinds of fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts etc.

      Allergic foods should be avoided. If parents take care to eat good, natural foods and keep a healthy mind during pregnancy, many allergic diseases can be avoided in the children. 

Do not deprive your body's need  by your strong likes and dislikes. 
                           

Why should the one inch tongue enjoy while the rest of the six foot  body suffers?

        We give much importance to our mind and very little to the intellect. We do not suggest that you should not eat tasty foods.  Foods eaten should be tasty, but should not compromise health. Only humans have the freedom to chose foods that we can eat and we alone suffer from a never ending list of diseases.

Wild animals, birds and other living beings are healthy 
         All the living beings in the wild do not have diseases like humans because they eat natural foods. Only pets or domesticated animals and humans eat processed food and suffer from various diseases. In the wild, if living beings suffer from diseases, they are caused by pollution. The key message is that we have gone too far away from nature and from being healthy.

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Healing With Diet

The importance of diet in healing
         When our healing energy plays its role in restoring the balance, essential elements are required for it to do so. The healing energy helps the body to use the deficient elements it needs and give away ones that are surplus. This can be defined as an unbalance of elements. Healing is the restoration of balance and is weakly understood as the repair system of the body in the medical field. "Homeostasis” is the scientific term used commonly. Thus, "loss of homeostasis" is disease and "restoration of homeostasis" is healing.

The difference between healing and using medication
        Drugs or medication aid in this healing process, no doubt, but they do not always restore balance or homeostasis. When external chemicals restore the balance in one part of the body, they mostly create imbalances in other parts of the body, which are called "side effects" of the drug or medication used. However, healing energy restores correct balance as a whole (holistic). The end result is a holistic restoration of balance.

Diet and Healing
       We need to eat all  kinds of fruits, seeds, nuts and vegetables. Only recently has modern medical science identified important chemical constituents in food. Our body is the best doctor to judge what it needs. So, the wise way is to supply the body with all different foods and give the choice to the body. The body gets the option of choosing from whatever is given. It takes the needed nutrients and leaves the rest. Just like in the shopping mall. Different items are displayed and the customers get the choice of picking what they need. There, the most healthy practice is to eat all different kinds of food in the natural way and give the body the choice to heal.

Diet Regimen
        All foods are good for general health; however, some foods are specifically good for specific disease. We will help you to eat specific foods based on your individual nature. Write to us and then we will work out for you the most suitable diet regimen.

Nutrient Rich Food
       We need to eat food that is rich in nutrients and in balance. The nutrients in a particular food should be natural and not a variant or mutated in a particular quality. Our mind or intellect may wish a particular quality in a food, but it may not be desirable for the body. Any grain or fruit or vegetable should have all qualities of the five elements of nature and not imbalanced or mutated (changed) or transformed. These changed foods also cause an imbalance in our body as well as the mind. Genetically Damaged foods (GDF), Genetically modified food (GMO), Genetically Poisoned Food (GPF) are therefore good at business levels but not practically good for health. Heirloom grains, fruits and vegetables have a natural balance and not grown for a business purpose but for health. 

http://nature-food-cure.blogspot.com/2010/08/living-food.html

http://www.sustainableamerica.org/blog/heirloom-foods-saving-variety-may-be-a-key-to-food-security/

http://longnow.org/seminars/02012/feb/22/heirlooms-saving-humanitys-10000-year-legacy-food/

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