The milk of a diseased cow must be affected in some way, even though the animal might not be tubercular. This is not difficult to understand because it is the same with humans. If a mother is sick, suffering from mineral and vitamin deficiencies, she will be unable to pass on these vital elements to her baby because she lacks them herself. Only a healthy mother can transmit healthy nutrients.
What do we learn from these considerations? That certain basic principles must be put into practice. We have to go full circle if we want to eradicate any mistakes. We have to provide healthy conditions before we can successfully combat today’s nutritional problems. First, we must see to it that the soil is healthy and provides healthy food for the animals. Then we must make sure that their housing is adequate if we want them to produce safe milk. By observing these requirements we can be more certain of better health for the consumer.
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Since natural food is indispensable for good health we can count on its benefits. Even if the vitamin content of cherries is relatively low, it is still important, because it is easily absorbed by the body. Cherries contain 0.05 mg per 100 g (2 oz) of vitamin B. This anti-beriberi substance, also known as thiamine, is good for vascular problems, circulation disorders and heart trouble, as well as for low blood pressure. This makes even small quantities of these vitamins welcome. Another of the  complex vitamins, known as nicotinamide, which is used in the treatment of pellagra, is also present in cherries at 0.01 mg per 100 g. If a person’s gums often bleed or are inflamed, or the teeth are loose, natural food rich in vitamin Ñ is needed. In this case we should eat unsprayed, fully ripe cherries. Sour cherries contain more vitamin Ñ than the sweet kind, but they have 1 per cent less sugar. In spite of their sour taste, these cherries are alkaline-forming. They contain less sodium than sweet cherries, but in comparison they have more potassium and sulphur, and are very rich in malic and citric acids.
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A low-protein diet is of paramount importance in treating all metabolic and digestive disturbances, high blood pressure, arthritis, rheumatism and gout, and should be adopted for some time. Protein is found chiefly in meat, eggs, cheese, milk and milk products, peas, beans and lentils, so vegetarians should reduce the intake of milk products and pulses (legumes). People who have previously enjoyed a mixed diet ought to refrain from eating pork, sausages and cold meats and restrict the diet to veal, beef, lamb and mutton.
Eggs and cheese and dishes prepared from them should also be avoided. But if you must eat eggs, have a limited amount and eat them raw. They can be beaten and added to cooked soup. Since eggs produce a great amount of uric acid, sufferers from arthritis are better off without them. Women troubled by insufficiency of the ovaries may eat raw eggs in moderate quantities.
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What conclusion about the liver can we draw from what has been said above? No doubt we are more aware of the need to protect it and if some disorder should arise, we can treat it properly if we are well informed about the right kind of food to eat. For if we ignore the question of diet, we should not be surprised if deficiencies and weaknesses will not respond to treatment. Furthermore, we must be willing to continue observing the basic requirements of a sensible liver diet even after having achieved a significant improvement in our condition. It must be remembered that the liver, despite having recovered from the disorder, is usually still quite sensitive and not immediately as strong as it was previously. That is why it is advisable to be sensible. After all, it should not be all that difficult to keep up a good habit rather than give it up and have a relapse.
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After the bowels have been cleaned out, the patient should fast for a time. If the heart is not in good condition, take a natural heart tonic. When you feel ready to ear again, start with light cereal gruels. In case the liver is still a bit sensitive, sip raw carrot juice. After two or three days clay mixed with water should be taken; then fast a second time for a little while, providing your
heart can stand it. As soon as the feeling of hunger returns, proper meals can be enjoyed once more.
Such a case of poisoning is similar to the common children’s diseases; when properly treated they promote better health. A fever and strong reactions in the stomach and bowels both help to eliminate wastes from the body, resulting in greater vitality. Even a case of poisoning can thus provide an opportunity for a thorough cleansing. The intestinal mucous membranes and the stomach lining will be cleansed, benefiting the whole body.
Never take chemical medicines which suppress the symptoms and impede the natural functions, for such a course would prove detrimental in the end. Rather, do everything you can to support the functions of the body. If you cooperate with nature you will not make any mistakes in treating illness, because nature is our best teacher. It is only we humans who tend to make mistakes.
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Since prevention is better than cure, the laudable quality of self-control should help us to overcome unexpected anxieties and problems as quickly as possible, to conquer difficulties rather than letting them conquer us. Of course, this is often a question of experience and practice, for even if we know how to react in difficult situations, old habits may prevail and prevent us from making correct decisions in a calm and collected state of mind. People with a placid nature find it much easier to remain composed when facing unpleasant and distressing events than those who are prone to making split-second decisions without giving sufficient thought to the outcome. The sympathetic nervous system, unfortunately, is not subject to control or reason, but rather to our feelings and emotions. That is why it is always important to remain composed, so that unforeseen situations may be taken in our stride. When the wise King Solomon advised us to take better care of our hearts than of anything else he made a valid and valuable point. We should heed his advice, since ‘out of the heart are the sources of life’, as he said. By keeping our emotions under proper control we are able to reap many benefits, not least with regard to our health. Of the utmost importance is the fact that we thus will be rendering a service to our sympathetic nervous system.
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Example goes to show that not everything that is meant to be good for us is necessarily good or safe for everyone. Indeed, it is incomprehensible how this salt can be offered as something that is wholesome for everyone without distinction. It should be recommended only for those whose complaint has been diagnosed as hypothyroidism, never for people with an excessive secretion of thyroid hormones, who cannot tolerate iodine.
Of course, it is an undisputed fact that a deficiency of iodine plays a part in the development of goitre, for the thyroid needs iodine for its normal function and development. But it can be found in sufficient quantity and an easily assimilated form in the food we eat, provided our diet consists of wholefoods. Such foods cause no disturbances or damage. However, if you throw away the edible skins from fruits, and vegetables, apple cores, the outer layer of cereals, such as bran, in short, anything that is part of the naturally grown whole, then you will sooner or later have a mineral deficiency. This includes, of course, a lack of iodine, which ultimately will encourage the development of goitre. Instead of recommending the use of iodised salt, it would be far better to educate people to give up eating white flour, refined sugar, canned foods and all other products of our ‘civilised’ way of feeding, and eat only nutritive natural wholefoods.
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If you reflect on the significance of the blood vessels and the blood, you can benefit from the Bible’s statement that ‘the soul of every sort of flesh is in the blood.’ Goethe’s words in Faust, ‘blood is a unique fluid’, express a similar thought. Everything in the body, its development and functions, depends on our blood and its quality, even our perceptions and feelings. If the blood is sound, our feelings and attitudes will also be healthy. We often hear about hormones, the glandular secretions present in the blood in minute concentrations, and how they influence the functions of the body and its physical activities. But this is not their only influence. They also affect our mental and emotional state and even have a bearing on our character and personality. Hormonal disturbances have been known to cause changes in character. Such thoughts make us feel very uncomfortable about taking another person’s blood through a blood transfusion. Not without reason did God strictly forbid the ancient Jews to take in blood in any form.
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The three main classes of drug used are nitrates, beta-blockers, and calcium antagonists:
Nitrates
The main effect of nitrates is on the large veins, causing blood to pool in them. Less blood returns to the heart at one time so the pressure created inside the heart as it fills is less. This reduces wall tension in the heart, lowering the “preload.” The muscle does less work and therefore needs less oxygen.
Nitrates also open up the smaller arteries in the periphery of the body, the arms and legs for instance; the heart muscles can pump blood more easily through wider bore vessels. By decreasing the “afterload,” the heart muscle again does less work and needs less oxygen.
By dilating collateral channels, nitrates appear to distribute the blood that enters the coronary circulation to areas that may have been deprived during angina attacks. In all three ways, these medicines help return the supply-demand equation normal.
Nitrates can be fast-acting or long-acting. Fast-acting ones such as sublingual nitroglycerine are used to stop angina attacks once they have begun. As soon as the attack begins, stop what you’re doing, sit down, place one fresh tablet under your tongue, and allow it to dissolve unswallowed. If the pain is not relieved in three to five minutes, repeat the medicine. The strength of the tablets and the number used before seeking medical help is determined by your doctor. Your doctor might order the medicine in the form of a spray rather than a tablet.
If you are able to anticipate an angina attack because you know that a particular level of activity leads to pain, you may be able to premedicate yourself with a tablet or spray before you start and avoid an attack altogether. You can make such a plan with your doctor.
Long-acting nitrates are used to prevent attacks throughout the day. These include isosorbide dinitrate, isosorbide mononitrate, and sustained-release nitroglycerine preparations in the form of an ointment or a transdermal patch. These avoid the side effects of headache, dizziness, or nausea that you might encounter with short-acting nitrates, but they also can lead to reduction of the beneficial effects as well. A period of eight to ten hours a day without these medicines is necessary to maintain their effectiveness. Remember that if you begin to need more and more nitrates to control your angina, your condition may be getting worse and you need to consult your doctor.
You will probably want to change the location of ointment or patch each day to avoid skin irritation. The medicine works just as well on hairless skin of the arm, side, or abdomen as it does on the chest.
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If you don’t want to stop, and you have angina, then you may as well give this book away and put your affairs in order. If you continue to smoke, your chances of surviving for any length of time are reduced. No matter what else you do to protect your heart, it is being overwhelmed by your suicidal habit of smoking.
If you could invent something that in every way was guaranteed to give you angina and a heart attack, then smoking would be it. It reduces the oxygen levels in your blood, it narrows further your already narrowed coronary arteries, it poisons your heart muscle with carbon monoxide and your brain with nicotine, it makes your blood much more likely to clot, and it directly damages your most delicate blood vessels.
Yet I have known many patients who continue to smoke after a coronary bypass or a heart attack. I’m sure that they do not wish to kill themselves, but that is exactly what they are doing. It is so unfair to their families, and even to nonsmokers who are waiting for their own bypass operations, and who will benefit far more from the skill and devotion of their surgeons.
Smoking gives people a sallow, unhealthy look, and wrinkles. By the time they are forty, women smokers look ten years older than their nonsmoking counterparts. By the time they are sixty, many of them are already dead. Cancer of the lung and heart attacks, both of them directly due to smoking, cause far more early deaths in women than anything else.
Most smokers lit their first cigarette as teenagers, when they were far too immature to think about the long-term risk. If you are a non-smoker at twenty, it is odds on that you will remain so for the rest of your life. By this time, most people have learned sense!
If you have angina and still smoke, it is not too late to learn sense. To a doctor like myself, who has had to comfort so many families in which smoking has directly led to the deaths of men and women in their forties and fifties, it is frankly incredible that anyone should ever wish to light up a single cigarette. For a smoker who mulls over the facts about his or her habit, continuing to smoke means that cigarettes are worth more than life itself, yet 25 percent of the population continue to smoke them.
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