Professor John Yudkin of the University of London, England, one of the world’s leading nutritionists, has given a hard blow to the theory that the amount of fat in a diet is connected with heart disease. Dr. Yudkin has demonstrated by his studies of two groups of heart patients in a London hospital in 1964 that the excessive consumption of sugar, not of fat, is the prime cause of the epidemic increase of heart disease in civilized countries. Quoting studies made by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, he has shown that sugar consumption has increased in countries with the highest prevalence of heart disease even faster than has fat consumption. In 1966 he and his associates repeated the studies under rigid scientific control and came to the same conclusion: “the person taking a lot of sugar has a greatly increased chance of developing myocardial infarction.”

One of the greatest authorities on the sugar vis-a-vis heart topic is M. O. Bruker, M.D., medical director at Eben-Ezers Hospital in Lemgo, Germany. For several decades he has conducted extensive studies on thousands of patients to determine the effect of sugar on their health. He has become convinced that the excessive consumption of white sugar is a major causative factor not only in arteriosclerosis and heart disease, but also in such diseases as caries, digestive disorders, liver and gallbladder diseases, obesity, and even cancer.

Findings of an American physician, Benjamin P. Sandler, M.D., are corroborative to the findings of many European doctors on sugar and heart disease. He also believes that sugar and starches in the diet, not fat, are responsible for the great increase in heart disease. He claims that heart attacks are caused by an oxygen deficiency in the tissues—which is caused by low blood sugar—which is caused by over-consumption of sugar and starches.

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After her last baby was born, Mrs. Andersson didn’t seem to be able to recover her strength. She was always tired and listless. She could hardly lift her hands. Then came the pain in her arms and hands which led to a visit to a doctor and a dreadful diagnosis-rheumatoid arthritis!

The doctor prescribed drugs and ordered her to stay in bed with warm packs around the affected joints. The warm packs seemed to relieve the pain in the hands, but now it moved to the elbows and the shoulders. Then her legs and feet started to ache. The drugs relieved the pain, but as soon as she was without the pills, the pain returned with increased strength.

After four weeks in bed with increasing disability and pain, which became more and mote unbearable, she was sent by her doctor to Spenshults Rheumatic Hospital, one of the most modern medical rheumatic clinics in Sweden. She stayed there six weeks. She didn’t receive many treatments except drugs and rest in bed, plus a typical hospital diet, mostly meat, coffee and desserts.

She felt a little better when she returned home, but soon the stiffness and pain reappeared. She was unable to take care of her home and children. She felt discouraged and hopeless.

One day, her nurse brought her a magazine with an article on the Brandal Clinic and biological medicine. After she had finished reading it, she immediately went to the telephone and made a reservation.

She went to Brandal on October 20, 1957. Her condition on arrival was very bad. She could not go up the stairs to her room. She could not dress or undress herself. She was helpless and felt terrible pain with the slightest movement.

The program of treatments at Brandal started with the traditional fast on vegetable broth and carrot juice. Among the other treatments were alternating hot and cold showers, a dry brush massage, and enemas morning and evening. “After one week of fasting I felt so much better that I wanted to continue,” said Mrs. Andersson. After the first week she could go up and down the stairs and take short walks outside.

After 20 days of fasting, and one week on a special lacto-vege-tarian diet, as described earlier in this chapter, and other biological treatments at Brandal, Mrs. Andersson returned to her home—completely free from her arthritis.

While having a check-up five years later, Mrs. Andersson said, “I am as healthy as anyone could wish to be. I don’t remember feeling so well and being so limber and flexible since I was a young girl.”

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There are many different forms of arthritis. The most common types are rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. Together they are responsible for over 90 percent of all the cases of arthritis.

Osteoarthritis is usually believed to be the result of “wear and tear” on the joints during a long life. It usually affects people past middle age. It is characterized by degenerative processes in the joints, softening and erosion of the cartilage enlargement of the affected joints. The weight-bearing joints are usually affected first, but any joint of the body is vulunerable to osteoarthritis.

The most serious form of arthritis is, however, rheumatoid arthritis. It is an extremely painful and crippling disease which affects people of all ages, but particularly young adults who are in their most active and productive period of life. Women are afflicted with rheumatoid arthritis three time as often as men. Rheumatoid arthritis usually starts with an inflammation of the synovial membrane which’ eventually leads to deposits in the joints, bone degeneration, deformity, and a subsequent invalidity if proper treatments are not instituted in time.

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In the limited space of one chapter it would be impossible to give all the facts and answers related to the vast and complicated subject of raw juice therapy. I hope, however, that this presentation will serve as a stimulus to use raw juices, this time-proven biological remedy, in the treatment of many disorders where orthodox medical treatments are helpless.

In the case of serious conditions, such as diabetes, low blood pressure, acute conditions and serious infections, etc., it would be advisable to undertake raw juice therapy under expert professional control.

In chronic and less serious conditions, and particularly when used as a prophylactic measure, raw juice therapy can be safely undertaken on your own. The most effective therapeutic way to use raw juices is in conjunction with fasting. Follow the instructions carefully, especially the instructions regarding the breaking of the fast.

In addition to their pure medicinal property in the treatment of practically any disease, raw juices have an extraordinary revitalizing effect on all the vital organs of the body. The miraculous rejuvenating property of a raw juice diet is well known by all beauty farms and rejuvenating clinics, where raw juices are used extensively. The magic beautifying, “youthifying” and rejuvenating effect of raw juices is due to their cleansing and detoxifying properly. Raw juices purify the blood and all the tissues of the body, neutralize the waste products of metabolism, and help in building new tissues. They are indeed rightfully called “the internal bath of health and youth.”

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In addition to the high-protein diet fallacy there are many other protein fads and fallacies, such as:

1.    ”You should eat lots of proteins every day!” The fact is that

your body can exist without any food, and, consequently, without

any protein, for weeks and months, as, for example, in the case of

complete therapeutic fasting. (See Chapter 2.) And this not only is

not harmful but has evident health benefits. It is a general observation that the protein level of the blood (serum albumin reading) of

fasting patients remains constant and normal during the whole fasting period, in spite of the fact that no protein is consumed. The reason for this is that proteins in your body are in the so-called dynamic

state: that means that they are constantly changed from one stage to

another, being decomposed and resynthesized from blood plasma

amino acids. (This phenomenon, which is so little understood as yet,

may help solve some of the protein cult mystery.) Thus, the body is

using and re-using the same proteins again and again where they are

needed.

This proves that you do not need to eat high-protein meals every day, although your body does need protein each day. You will improve your health by eating a low-protein vegetable and fruit diet several days a week. And you can do it safely and without worrying about “where do I get my proteins?”

2.    ”You need meat for proteins!” The most commonly asked

question when meat-eaters talk with vegetarians or lacto-vegetarians

is a “but where do you get your proteins?”

The answer is that since proteins are such vital and important nutritive substances, our Creator in his infinite wisdom has made them a part of virtually every natural food available to man. Every plant, every vegetable, every fruit, every seed or nut contains some protein. It is practically impossible to eat a natural food without eating some protein. The fact is that it is virtually impossible to get too few proteins on any diet, unless you are on a starvation diet. But it is not only possible, but very likely that you will develop a serious deficiency of vitamins and vital substances on the one-sided diet of meat, potatoes and bread so common in the United States. A meatless diet of raw fruits and vegetables, potatoes, whole bread, milk and cheese, nuts and beans will not only supply all the proteins you need, but is also rich in all the vitamins, minerals, and enzymes essential for optimum health.

The protein quality in some of the vegetables sources is even superior to the meat protein, as in the case of protein from soybeans, some nuts (cashews, almonds), potatoes and green vegetables. You may not know it, but plain old potatoes are a good source of complete proteins. You have been made to believe that potatoes are a pure starch food, but they contain large amounts of complete proteins, biologically comparable to the protein in eggs.1 In some experiments, men lived three to six years with potatoes as the only protein source and maintained excellent health and performed hard work. In the average German diet, ten percent of the daily protein requirement is derived from potatoes.

Much recent research shows that your body’s protein requirement is lowered if the protein is obtained from raw vegetable sources. Professor Eimer in Germany showed that athletes, switched from 100 grams of animal proteins a day to 50 grams of raw vegetable proteins, grew stronger and improved their records. Also a Japanese researcher, Dr. M. Kuratsune, has demonstrated that 22-30 grams of raw vegetable protein a day were sufficient to keep him and his wife in good health.

The foremost scientific authority on nutrition today is the International Society for Research on Nutrition and Vital Substances. Their recommendation in regard to protein reads: “The conception of the classical and late-classical nutrition theory that animal proteins are more valuable than plant proteins, can no longer be accepted. Today we know that the order of rank of proteins is generally dependent on their amino-gram and not on their origin.” They also state: “Each plant protein contains all the exogenous-essential amino acids.”

3. “Only complete proteins can satisfy your protein needs.” This is another common but fallacious statement made in support of “complete” meat proteins. Such foods as soybeans, sesame seeds, many nuts, millet, potatoes, and green vegetables all contain complete proteins, as good or better than meat proteins, without meat’s undesirable side effects.

Furthermore, it is a proven physiological fact that several foods with incomplete proteins will complement one another if eaten at the same time, and thus render their total protein biologically complete. For example: although wheat protein is lacking in some of the essential amino acids, a cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread will be a complete protein meal, with the cheese complementing the wheat and supplying the missing amino acids. Beans and tortillas, eaten with some vegetables, also make a complete protein meal, although beans and corn are not complete separately. The Journal of the American Medical Association reported that protein, which is derived in proportion up to two-thirds from plant origin, adequately supplies all the protein needed for normal growth and sustenance of health.

Thus the notion that only foods with all the essential amino acids can satisfy your protein-need is fallacious.

4. “You need animal proteins for strength!” This fallacy will be difficult to disprove, because steak lovers just love to think that meat gives them strength. The truth is, however, exactly the opposite. And this is proven in scientific experiments over and over again.

Professor Irving Fisher made comparative studies of meat-eating Yale athletes with non-meat-eating vegetarians, doctors and assistants from the Battle Creek Sanatorium. The following tests were given to two groups. First, the men were to hold their arms outstretched as long as possible. Only two of the meat-eaters reached 15 minutes, while 22 of the 32 vegetarians were able to achieve this. None of the meat-eaters, but 15 vegetarians, reached a half-hour. Nine of these reached one hour, four two hours, and one three hours and 20 minutes. The second test was deep knee bends. Only a few of the meat-eaters were able to make more than 300-400 knee bends. One vegetarian made 1,800, one 2,400, and one 5,000. Dr. Fisher concluded that the protein content in the diet was responsible for the difference in endurance and stamina. In his continuous experiments, he further lowered the protein intake of the persons under study and noticed that a 20 percent reduction in protein increased their endurance 33 percent.

Even studies made by Dr. R. Chittenden of Yale University have shown that endurance increases with a lower protein intake. His experiments with professors, students, soldiers and athletes proved that muscle strength and endurance reaches its peak on about one-third of the usual protein intake. His explanation of this phenomenon was that the protein metabolism results in the higher blood content of uric acid, urea, and purines, and that these have a toxic, paralyzing effect on muscles and nerves. This may explain the observation made by westerners in Hong Kong harbour, where the little Chinese coolies carry 200-pound rice bags all day long, eating nothing but rice and vegetables. Asked why don’t they eat meat, one of them said, “If I ate meat I would not be able to carry these bags all day long.” The great Australian swimming champion, Murray Rose, Olympic Gold Medal winner for several years, has never tasted meat in his life—he has been a 100 percent vegetarian since birth. Most of the Japanese endurance swimmers eat little or no meat. You may also remember Horace Braby, a young South African athlete who won over all his meat-eating competitors on a meatless diet; or the remarkable victories of New Zealander John Marshall in 1956 in the long-distance swimming contest; or Bill Pickering “who crossed the English Channel and on his arrival was able to run up the beach”— all on diets without meat but rich in raw vegetable foods.

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In contrast to most health systems which are limited in scope and which one-sidedly stress certain health-promoting factors—diet, exercise, yoga, baths, etc., (all important and vital factors, of course) —the Waerland system is a complete health system which takes all the factors related to man’s physical and emotional health into consideration. It is a health system based on an idea of “wholeness,” which embraces all health factors, both of the mind and the body.

Waerland himself has expressed his philosophy in a nutshell in the following sentence:

We do not deal with disease—only with mistakes in our way of living; eliminate the mistakes and the diseases will disappear of their own accord.

Waerland’s advice to the members of the healing professions was not to cure a disease, but to cure a sick body. And the sick body can be cured not by seeking to get rid of the symptoms by means of drugs, but by correcting man’s faulty living habits and restoring his original biological rhythm of working and living. Thus the Waerland health system incorporates the following health-promoting factors:

Natural, health-giving foods.

Plenty of fresh air day and night, and sufficient exposure to sun.

Sufficient physical work and exercise.

A clean body through baths and dry brushing.

Efficient bowel elimination through a lacto-vegetarian diet and plenty of raw vegetables and fruits.

Positive mental attitude based on belief in man’s divinely designed calling as a human being.

Those who are in good health will be able to prevent ill health and disease by following this total health program. To those who are suffering ill health, the application of these health-restoring factors will bring them back into harmony with their natural environment, “eliminate the mistakes in their way of living” and restore and build their health.

“Man’s health is his birthright,” says Are Waerland. Man brought disease upon himself by disobeying the God-given laws of nature. Eliminate the mistakes in your way of living and attune yourself with the laws of health and all diseases will disappear.

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If they didn’t, it would be unlikely that over three million people in West Germany alone would visit spas every year, year after year.

I have talked to doctors in Bad Pyrmont and their reaction to my question was something like this:

The modern inquiry into balneology and the medicinal value of mineral waters is recent and as yet incomplete. But what is already known indicates that mineral waters do indeed have curative powers. And they should, inasmuch as disordered mineral metabolism and biochemical derangement are at the root of many diseases. But what is even more important is the fact that these waters here in Bad Pyrmont have been used for healing purposes’ for almost two thousand years; and millions of sick people have been benefited by them—patients and doctors see examples of it every day!

I have asked some patients for the reasons for coming to Bad Pyrmont, and here are a few of the answers I received:

“I have high blood pressure,” said a stout, executive-looking gentleman. “Medication does not help me at all. Also, I have a weight problem. So my doctors advised me to come here. I come each summer and take the water cure for six weeks. In that time my blood pressure usually goes down to normal and I lose some weight. By the next spring my blood pressure probably will go up again, so I’ll make another visit here. These mineral waters keep me alive!”

“I have been suffering from arthritis for three years,” said a young-looking blonde lady of approximately 30. “I am staying at the sanatorium here and taking a cure under my doctor’s supervision. I have been fasting three weeks and drinking mineral waters. I have also taken many different kinds of baths and water treatments. My arthritis is almost gone. All the pain disappeared after the first week here. I hardly could bend my knees before; now I walk all day long without any discomfort.”

I stopped a little girl of about seven, who was on the way to the bath appointment with her mother. “My girl had a disfiguring eczema for several months. Our doctor didn’t know the cause of it and was unable to help her with drugs, so he sent us here. Now she has been taking baths, packs, and drinking cures for six weeks and her eczema is almost gone. Only a very few small spots are left on her elbows.”

On a bench in the beautiful spa park I talked to a group of elderly people, the patients at the state-operated rehabilitation clinic for heart diseases. They all had long records of cardiac insufficiency, circulatory problems and blood pressure disorders. They were sent there by their medical insurance government each year to improve their health and particularly to improve their heart condition. They all assured me that they felt “so much better” after staying one month at their clinic and taking all the recommended water cures.

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Then the sandwich is served and you take your first bite and drink your milk. As soon as food enters the mouth, several vital enzymes are released by the salivary glands into saliva which will start the digestion of the food even before it enters the stomach. An enzyme called ptyalin starts the preliminary work of digestion by attacking immediately the carbohydrates of the bread and breaks them down into maltose, the predigested form of starch, or energy-producing sugar.<неиAfter it is chewed, the food is swallowed with the help of saliva and enters the stomach. There it is met by various new enzymes which stomach glands were pouring out in anticipation of the food.<неиEnzyme rennin takes care of the milk, causing it to coagulate and changing milk protein, casein, into amino acids, a form that your body can use. Rennin also breaks down the minerals of milk and cheese and makes them available for assimilation by the system. These minerals—calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, etc.— are then transported by the blood stream to become a part of your bones, your teeth, your nerves, and so forth.<неиTwo other enzymes, pepsin and lipase, help to convert your milk and cheese in the stomach. Pepsin is a foremost digestive enzyme for protein. lipase works on the fat part of milk and cheese by splitting it into forms which the body uses to nourish its various cells and organs.<неиBut perhaps the most important enzyme in the stomach is hydrochloric acid. In addition to its enzymatic action on protein foods and the tough fibrous vegetable cells (in this case on the bran part of the wheat to release wheat proteins, minerals and vitamins), hydrochloric acid also has other vital functions to perform. By its strong acid nature it destroys bacteria in the stomach, thus acting as a defensive measure against disease-causing bacteria entering your stomach with foods. It also participates in the regulation of the vital acid-alkaline balance in the system. Another important job of hydrochloric acid is to liberate iron from the food and convert it to a form that the body can use.

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Should you discontinue with your work and rest or stay in bed during fasting? Not at all! It is advisable to continue with your usual activities, but perhaps avoid too strenuous physical or mental work.

Daily walks, even long ones for an hour or more, twice a day, are recommended; likewise all suitable exercises. Take a bath two or three times a week, but avoid water too cold or too hot. Dry brushing is recommended morning and evening followed by a shower or wet-towel rub. Plenty of fresh air is extremely important for the healing processes during the fast. For this reason the best time of the year to fast is spring or summer, when you can spend a great deal of time outdoors. Always sleep with an open window.

Fasting will bring about many physiological changes in your body. Increased elimination of toxins through urine, skin and lungs will take place. The body’s own healing forces will initiate great repair and health-restoring activity in many ways. These physiological changes may occasionally manifest themselves in certain discomforts such as headache, coated tongue, foul breath, dizziness, or even skin eruptions. These reactions should give no cause for concern. They are common symptoms of fasting and properly understood should not discourage anybody from continuing with the fast.

The first three or four days you will feel hungry, of course. But after that the hunger usually disappears. As a matter of fact, the unbelievable will happen: the longer you fast the less hungry you will feel! When finally the body has completed its repairing and restorative work, it will signal to you by a sudden and definite feeling of hunger that it needs food. This is the physiologically right time to start eating. Of course, in the case of juice fasts even during the first three or four days the patient hardly feels any hunger at all.

Your mental attitude during fasting is of paramount importance. Avoid negative influences. Do not listen to terrified relatives and friends who will warn you that you will pass out any moment. As I said before, nobody has ever died as a result of a few weeks of intentional fasting. Have confidence in what you are doing. Remember, you are not the first to try it—millions of people have done it successfully before you. Even animals fast instinctively when they are sick. But if you do not have complete faith in fasting and are not absolutely convinced of. its safety, you should not undertake fasting at all, at least not on your own.

If it makes you feel better do not call this measure a fast. Call it a liquid diet. After all, that is exactly what it is. I know you will be surprised at the results; so will your friends be, especially if you do not tell them you are fasting, but keep it secret. As for myself, I will never stop being amazed at the miraculous prophylactic and healing effects of this, the oldest—and, I dare say, most effective—therapeutic method known to man.

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Exactly ten years later, in August 1964, Dr. Lennart Edren organized a second 300-mile fast march. This time there were 19 participants. While in 1954 all the participants were vegetarians with many years of healthful living and many previous experiences with fasting behind them, the 1964 group was deliberately put together of more varied types; there were vegetarians as well as meat-eaters, smokers and non-smokers, fat men and thin men, etc. In addition, the strict condition of 1954 that all must be in perfect health was not enforced in 1964. Furthermore, the 1954 fasting was a strict water fast, while in 1964 the participants received a small amount of juices in addition to water. All these changes were made with the specific purpose of making the experiment more comprehensive and scientific.

Whereas in 1954 official medicine took the position of disinterest and disapproval, the situation in 1964 was totally reversed. The whole experiment was extensively controlled and supervised by a large staff of doctors. First, all participants were given a thorough examination and various tests. Not less than five doctors were present at the start to make the final checkup. During the entire march of ten days, doctors followed the group and made daily controls and tests on the participants. This was truly a scientific experiment under the most scrupulous and careful control.

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