NH: Food supplements - Very long!

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Hello all...

 

from LSHS, Part VIII: Harmful Practices to avoid, Lesson Thirty-Nine -

Food Supplements

 

(instructors for the lesson were Robert W. McCarter, Ph.D. and

Elizabeth D. McCarter, D.Sc.

and a quick, interesting historical sidenote: Robert W. McCarter was

one of the assistants at the University of Pittsburgh in the late

1920s, working with Dr. C.G. King when they isolated Vitamin C)

 

Salient Facts:

 

1. The use of supplements in the diet is a new concept in the

history of mankind;

 

2. When he uses supplementary substances, man is participating in

the largest nutritional experiment in the long history of the human

race, the results of which are not in nor ready for evaluation. [bob

note: note that this was written probably 20+ years ago now...]

 

3. Since it takes four or five generations to evaluate the

effectiveness of a particular diet, the value of supplementation is,

lacking the proof, subject to question.

 

4. The great increase in chronic degenative catastrophic diseases in

recent years would appear to negate the well-touted concept that

using supplements is beneficial.

 

5. The manufacture and sale of supplements has replaced the old

patent medicine business and is now one of the ten largest businesses

in the U.S. [bob note: it may be even higher now...]

 

other things I found interesting in this lesson:

 

" Unchanging Principles Govern Life

 

Hygienists unequivocably hold that a general law undegrids life, one

deprived from phsiology and biology and that we cannot escape the

rule of law either in our eating or in our living, if we would retain

our health. If we would escape the degenerative diseases that plague

the vast majority of people, we must learn not only what we should do

by also what we must not do. When the laws of life are ignored and

possibly defied, due accounting will be required of us and, moer

often than not, such accounting will result in the rapid of more

subtle erosion of health according to the inherited constitution and

the extensiveness and intensiveness of the infractions of

physiological and biological order. "

 

" Food is any substance which can be used by the organism, in this

case man, to make blood, formulate secretions, construct bones and

ligaments and build tissues and nerves without adding anything that

might prove overstimulating, exciting, irritataing to the cells or

destructive thereof, or obstructive, to function. "

 

Enzymes: " At about 94 degrees, food enzymes start to lose their

effectiveness, their ability to fulfill their catalytic duties and at

about 118 degrees, they are no longer of any use. At the other end

of the scale, they start to become inactive at about 32 degrees and

seem to be totally destroyed at minus 104 Farenheit. This it is that

baking, boiling, frying, stewing, roasting, heating of any kind,

dehydrating and freezing will either reduce or completely destroy the

enzymatic presence in food. "

 

" One is a real student of health when he understands this one

absolute of life: foods have been prepared for man, but only

certains foods; man's natural food contains all that the requires to

keep him living in full health provided his lifestyle and environment

are also conducive to health. Dr. Shelton reminds us that " nature is

the author and ruler of all health and happiness, no the physician. "

 

it gave decent definitions of toxemia, enervation and irritability.

(if interested, I could post those another time...)

 

" Irritability may be defined as that ability to take self

preservative action in the face of adverse influences. Such actions

are often labelled 'disease'. Therapeutics is the art of altering

the expression of the organism's irritability. We do not die from

disease (our body's functioning) but from toxemia; from the causes of

toxemia. To a large extent the body protects itself - but constant

dripping wears away the stone. Any program of care that does not

remove the causes of toxemia is not rewarded with health, for the

body by virtue of its irritability will not cease to be 'sick', to

be " diseased', to remove, or to accomodate to toxemia until success

or death. If the need for disease is not removed, health will not

ensue. This is another Hygienic principle. To seek, identify, and

remove the causes of toxemia is the constant aim of the Hygienist.

The causes of toxemia and enervation are largely exogenous (i.e.,

from outside the body)... "

 

The Law of Stimulation...

 

which was reprinted from Lesson Four, " Decision for Health, " SUPERIOR

LIFE MANAGEMENT by Drs. Robert and Elizabeth McCarter, 1980.

Bionomics Health Research Institute, Tucson, AZ.

 

..... " We call antthing whic causes this increased action on the part

of the body, a Stimulant " . Of course, the *immediate* effect of the

stimulant is that whic is most evident, that the stimulant is working

and doing " good " . This feeling of well-being is only temporary,

however, since while the stimulant appear to do good, it is actually

doing harm, the extent of the harm done dependent upon, and in a

precise ratio to, the amount of power called into play to produce the

accelerated response, the feeling of well-being, of euphoria.

This is the Law of Stimulation. It reveals the physiological

consequences of false deception. It pertains to all stimulants:

drugs (vitamins, etc.), coffee, tea, cocoa, alcohol, nicotine, ...the

effect of many of these stimulants being extremely exciting; and also

to lesser ones such as the various herbs, onions, garlic and the

like. All *appear* to do good, but all perform a disservice to the

body in that they do lasting harm, the harm being due to the fact

that they reach into the body's energy reserves to accomplish the

good they appear to do and *offer nothing in return which is of

lasting value*. Their efforts are cumulative and remain with the

person who employs them. The sense of euphoria occasioned by their

use is *always* followed, in time, by a depression due to the

expenditure of power required, as we have seen, to bring about the

exhilaration in the first instance. [bob note: all asterisked

sections were italicized in the original]

 

Certain stimulants are said to 'act' on certain parts of the body as,

for example, digitalis is said to 'act' on the heart. The exact

opposite is true. In this case, the heart is already weak and the

digitalis only serves to weaken it further. All stimulants are

useless to the body. They cannot become part of the body; they

cannot be turned into blood, flesh, or bone. They present an

encumberance to body action and, for this reason, a threat to

effieiency and a hindrance to perfection. "

 

" ...The constant use of coffee, drugs, vitamins, even herbs, will

slowly, or rapidly, destroy the essence of life as they are used and

according to the inherited constitution of the user. "

 

" ..sleep restores the energy bank "

 

" Herbert M. Shelton states the Law of Stimulation as follows: 'Under

all circumstances, vitality of energy of any character whatever is

invariably minifested or noticed by us, as energy, in it expenditure,

never in its accumulation. "

 

This lesson was helpful to me in better understanding any

supplements/stimulations, and how their effects are exactly opposite

from what they seem!! and I hope some of these extractions provide

some insight to others.

 

all the best,

 

Bob

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rawfood , " Bob Farrell " <rjf2@t...> wrote:

> Hello all...

>

> from LSHS, Part VIII: Harmful Practices to avoid, Lesson Thirty-

Nine -

> Food Supplements

>

> (instructors for the lesson were Robert W. McCarter, Ph.D. and

> Elizabeth D. McCarter, D.Sc.

> and a quick, interesting historical sidenote: Robert W. McCarter was

> one of the assistants at the University of Pittsburgh in the late

> 1920s, working with Dr. C.G. King when they isolated Vitamin C)

>

Bob,

 

This was fascinating. I was thinking about posting on Fuhrmann or

McDougall's vegsource sites and asking for their take on grains.

Thought it would be a good idea to get " the other side of the story "

and compare.

 

But after reading your post (which I realize has nothing to do with

grains), I thought: This just " rings true " . There is no sense

wasting my time with " the other side " , getting confused, etc. It just

makes sense that herbs, vitamins, coffee, etc. can NOT heal. They can

UNDO what's been done.

 

Thanks for your many wonderful posts.

 

Glenda

[Guest guest]

Thanks for your very kind words, Glenda. I'm glad that the info is

as interesting to some others as it is to me.

 

yes, it also " rings true " to me! I think that's because it is;

because it's based in Nature.

 

one short " correction " in your last sentence, I hope you meant that

they " CANNOT " undue (vs. the CAN listed...)what has been done. No,

they can't: only the body can.

 

all the best,

 

Bob (fellow journeyman)

 

rawfood , " gmroberson1 " <gmroberson1>

wrote:

> rawfood , " Bob Farrell " <rjf2@t...> wrote:

> > Hello all...

> >

> > from LSHS, Part VIII: Harmful Practices to avoid, Lesson Thirty-

> Nine -

> > Food Supplements

> >

> > (instructors for the lesson were Robert W. McCarter, Ph.D. and

> > Elizabeth D. McCarter, D.Sc.

> > and a quick, interesting historical sidenote: Robert W. McCarter

was

> > one of the assistants at the University of Pittsburgh in the late

> > 1920s, working with Dr. C.G. King when they isolated Vitamin C)

> >

> Bob,

>

> This was fascinating. I was thinking about posting on Fuhrmann or

> McDougall's vegsource sites and asking for their take on grains.

> Thought it would be a good idea to get " the other side of the

story "

> and compare.

>

> But after reading your post (which I realize has nothing to do with

> grains), I thought: This just " rings true " . There is no sense

> wasting my time with " the other side " , getting confused, etc. It

just

> makes sense that herbs, vitamins, coffee, etc. can NOT heal. They

can

> UNDO what's been done.

>

> Thanks for your many wonderful posts.

>

> Glenda

[Guest guest]

rawfood , " Bob Farrell " <rjf2@t...> wrote:

>

> one short " correction " in your last sentence, I hope you meant

that

> they " CANNOT " undue (vs. the CAN listed...)what has been done. No,

> they can't: only the body can.

>

> all the best,

>

> Bob (fellow journeyman)

>

It

> just

> > makes sense that herbs, vitamins, coffee, etc. can NOT heal.

They

> can

> > UNDO what's been done.

> >

> > Thanks for your many wonderful posts.

> >

> > Glenda

 

Yes, that is what I meant CANNOT UNDO. Thanks for pointing out.

 

Glenda

[Guest guest]

geesh....can and cannot...

 

undue and undo....

 

what a team we make: lol!

 

and thanks for correcting mine!

 

Bob (fellow journeyman)