Don’t Live to Eat – Eat to Live & Be Healthy

The hotel guests did absolutely nothing to earn all
these meals, but they paid for them and felt they should
be there to eat them. The same thing happens on cruise
ships. There is always a crowd waiting for the dining
room to open so they can eat what they paid for.
Food! It can be a blessing to man, but also a curse!
The body can take a lot of abuse from wrong food and
overfeeding. But there comes a day when the body’s
digestive system becomes over-stuffed, overworked and
overwhelmed – it’s then that health problems begin!
Digestive troubles plague modern man. Constipation
heads the list of his miseries. Tons upon tons of pills,
powders and liquids are sold to try and flush out the
waste packed into people’s intestines and colon. Modern
man packs food into himself faster than the functions
of digestion and elimination can handle it! This is very
much like trying to race your car with the brakes on.
There is scientific reasoning that constipation is the
foundation of many other body ailments. The reasoning
behind this conclusion is sound. If constipation means
retention of waste, here’s a simple test you can take.
Prepare your next meal, made up of everything you
would ordinarily eat, but don’t eat a mouthful of it.
Instead, put it in a pot; then place the container with
the food in a temperature around 100 degrees, the same
as inside the body. See that there is a liberal quantity of
moisture. Now watch what occurs over the next 8 hours.
The very first things you will notice are the bad odors
and rancidity. Then the food will mold, ferment and
bubble with gas. This gas pressure causes many miseries
in the body. If the gas presses upward against the
diaphragm you may even have stimulated a heart attack.
As it presses against the back muscles, it can cause terrible
backaches. This fermenting mass of putrefaction is
always throwing off toxins which can cause pounding
headaches, mysterious aches and pains all over the body.
Elementary microbiology tells us that, to produce
germs in quantity, keep food fermenting in the colon
and the bacteria will obligingly multiply. So, right in
our bodies, we breed all kinds of “bugs” that can cause
trouble. If you are prone to viruses such as colds, chronic
sinusitis and other ailments, a constipated condition
creates a favorable environment for the presence and
growth of unfriendly “bugs” involved in such ailments.
The toxic poisons generated by overeating or too
much of the wrong foods, can damage one of the body’s
most important organs – the liver. Few people realize
how important their liver is to life. It’s a great chemical
laboratory with many functions. It not only gives forth
bile, but it is the body’s greatest garbage disposal.
The liver and intestines are partners in the whole entire
digestive process! If one is sick, the other tries to come to
its aid until it too, breaks down. When the liver and the
digestive systems break down you are in serious trouble!
This is why you often find a swollen sensitive liver, a pasty
complexion and many times, jaundice and chronic
fatigue in conjunction with ongoing constipation.