nutrition
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ish that is gastronomically perfect may be a disaster as real food.
The most attractive dishes are often the ones that make us the most ill … We do not get sick out of coincidence, rather, the state of our health at any moment is a faithful reflection of our daily actions. Every excess in food or drink, any transgression of the natural laws, has repercussions sooner or later on our health. "-Dr. Rafael Lezaeta Perez Cotapos.
Even though it is possible that we do not worry about the location of many of our internal organs, they keep on working without a break, day and night, year after year For example, the heart, which is a muscle, pumps life-giving blood every day through 90,000 kilometers of blood vessels, equivalent to filling a 16,000-liter tank every single day If you are a 45-year-old adult, your heart has already pumped about 300,000 tons of blood.
What is more, your heart generates its own electricity, to keep itself going steady and uninterrupted. Have you ever thought about where your heart gets the energy it needs to carry out such a formidable task?
Your body is made up of important organs such as the brain, heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, pancreas, and others. It is also composed of different types of tissue, such as conjunctive tissue, which is the means of support for the organs and other parts of the body; muscle tissue; bone tissue, of which is composed the skeleton; and other tissues. Your body also has a multitude of other components that maintain life, such as glands, nerves, and blood vessels.
The Fuel That Produces Energy
In order to carry out such a formidable and constant task as we have already mentioned, the heart and all the other organs in your body need a constant supply of energy.
Where does this energy come from? It comes solely from the foods that you ingest several times during the day Unfortunately, most people do not consider any relationship between what they eat and the good or bad functioning of their bodies Are you one of them? Have you thought about the fact that you are what you eat?
Dr. Jethro Kloss mentions a case that exemplifies what we have just stated. He was called to attend to a baby almost one year old that had been affected by paralysis. Let us allow him to tell us about it himself.
"When I entered the house I met the mother, who had a fat child, under a year of age, in her arms. The mother was corpulent as well. She had fed her little daughter only breast milk. When I asked about the mother's diet, I found out that she practically lived on white bread, cookies made from white flour and baking soda, pork, peeled potatoes and gravy made from white flour. For breakfast she ate pancakes with syrup and occasionally drank a little milk. "Apart from this, she ate very few vegetables All of these foods produced a lot of calories, but had very little vitalizing properties That had caused the paralysis in the baby, because she did not receive the vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients indispensable for the formation and maintenance of nerves. The mother's terrible diet had produced milk with a lot of calories that fattened her daughter but did not nourish her adequately
"We immediately gave the mother a dish prepared with oat flour, bran water to drink, and fresh fruit.
My wife cooked a pot of vegetable soup with carrots, onions, potatoes, and brown rice. We gave the baby oatmeal water and tomato juice. We did several hot and cold treatments, rubbed her down well, and repeated the whole process several times within a few days all the symptoms of paralysis had disappeared and the little girl was well. Of course, we carefully instructed her mother about the healthy, nutritious diet she should adopt in order to avoid disease and keep her baby daughter healthy" Every day there is more evidence that many people have good health even if they do not drink milk or eat other milk products; if a mother maintains a healthy balance in her diet; her milk constitutes the perfect food for her baby_
This CASE demonstrates that we really are what we eat.
The well known Chilean doctor, Rafael Lezaeta Perez Cotapos, expressed it like this: "Man is not nourished by what he eats, but rather by what he digests. It is possible to eat a lot, but digest very little" Health researchers have widely proven that when humans stray from nature and transgress natural laws, they inevitably get sick. If humans took advantage of natural foods (fruits, vegetables, grains, tubers, nuts, almonds), just as they are offered in nature at different seasons of the year, they would not have health problems because these products would be refreshing, purifying digestive aids, revitalizing and healthy.
Dr. Lezaeta makes this appropriate comment about this sub- ject: "Unfortunately, man has lost his instinct, bewildered his mind, erred in his judgment and degenerated his primitive customs to the point of eating anything he has at hand, without limits or measure, guided only by his own capriciousness.
We hear him say: 'I like this so I eat it, I don't like this so I don't eat it.' He forgets, in the meantime, to eat what he needs and what is best for his health" "Taste, as a guiding reference, that is far from the natural taste, is cultivated, or we could say, deformed, corrupted, degenerated: It all starts with an ignorant mother who avoids giving her child fruit, because she fears it may make him sick. Later, with a constancy that would be worthwhile for a better cause, she sacrifices herself teaching him to drink coffee with milk and beef broth-after all that is what's in style! To eat meat-don't want him to be weak I To eat candy-poor little guy couldn't go without dessert! Sometimes even to taste wine- he has to become a man! If the child rebels, the poor thing will be spanked to make him eat"
nutrition and the Human Body
Tastes and preferences for certain foods only interfere in the process of nourishing the body. It is necessary to know what the body needs to build and maintain its tissues and obtain the necessary energy to perform all the multiple indispensable functions to keep itself alive. It is also necessary to know the best manner for preparing foods, in order for them to be tasty, without destroying their vital properties.
Article from Magazine: Healthy Eating
