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I'M SICK! WHAT CAN I DO?
"And said,
If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and
wilt do that which is right in His sight, and wilt give ear to His
commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of
these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I
am the LORD that healeth thee." Exodus 15:26
"Disease is an effort of
Nature to free the system from conditions that result from a violation
of the Laws of health. " Ellen White, Ministry of Healing, Pg. 127
There are certain changes in diet and
habit that benefit all conditions of ill-health, and for some, the
improvement may even be dramatic. They are harmful to none, although they
often require a positive choice and determination to carry them out. Here is a
basic list of 10 steps that can surprise you with the improvement they
deliver. The proof is in testing it out for yourself.
1: Kick your sweet Aspartame!
IF you are using any DIET drinks or any soft
drinks--stop immediately!!Make sure you are not using any
artificial sweeteners, Aspartame, diet drinks, sugarless gum,
or diet foods with artificial sweeteners in it. By the way, one
of the worse products for problems with artificial sweeteners is
'Crystal Lite'. Some poor folk actually take seizures from it and get
labeled as epileptic--unless someone clues into to the real
cause! Things like sugarless Kool-aid and Crystal Lite are deadly!
I have found that many folk use Diet
Drinks and other diet foods that contain Aspartame, Nutra-sweet or
the same chemical or artificial sweetener by a dozen other names.
They often also use sugarless gum. They do this thinking it is a
health choice, even feeding it to their children! But sadly--it is a health disaster!!
("Look Mom! No cavities! Look Mom! I'm on Dilantin for
seizures!")
You may not think
that something with such effects can actually be on the market--but
it is, and I won't bother you with the details. Document are
included in this collection giving the facts about it, but--just to be brief--it
messes up the nervous system, the hormonal system and other things,
for some it can even cause seizures.
The amazing thing is that diet drinks and
sugarless gum actually cause weight gain--and many folk lose weight
once they get clear of those! My heart aches for the myriads of
people struggling with weight, and trying to help themselves by using
the very things that are causing it. It takes about 60 days to
really get clear of the effects of the diet sweeteners--you will no
doubt have some pleasant surprises as it gets out of your system.
Improvements though, are often reported in just a few days!
SO # 1 -- Ditch the diet drinks, ALL artificial
sweeteners, and sugarless gum.
2: Rehydrate your body!
Get some good water--Distilled is
best, or reverse Osmosis. Avoid Mineral water, Flavored water,
(which often contains aspartame and other chemicals) Sparkling
water, or Re-mineralized water. If Spring or Tap is all you
have, use that, BUT as quickly as possible acquire the good
stuff!First
thing in the morning drink a pint, then drink another pint an hour, or
at least, half hour before each meal. You will not need to drink with your
meals then, and so your digestion will improve. You can later increase
the morning drink to a quart. Putting the juice of a fresh lemon
in part of it in the AM is a wonderful aid to health!
Most modern folk are chronically
dehydrated, because the fluids they put into the body, actually pull
water from the body rather than add to it. We need a minimum of 1
1/2 - 2 quarts to even hold our own in hydration. Once the body has
more of what it needs, it does some housework and many irritating
toxins get washed away and the nerves feel so much better! Do not
give up if you find yourself peeing a lot for a while. Many
'diseases' are actually brought on by a lack of sufficient water for
the body to function properly.
Coffee, Tea, soft drinks and Cola take more out
than they put in because the poisons in them have to be flushed. It
takes 3 cups of water to flush a cup of coffee, and can take up to 3
days to do it! Soft drinks are the same idea. So ditch the coffee/tea/cola bit and do the
pure water bit; your body
and nerves will love you for it! (Yes I know it is rough for a few
days because of the addiction, but the water soothes the symptoms
and the withdrawal is not so bad. And it is well worth it!) Although
Caffeine hypes one up, studies have shown it actually decreases mental acuity.
Plainly put, caffeine and stimulants hype you up and dumb you down.
You can use herbal teas for a hot drink-- but not
'green tea' or anything that contains tea--Celestial Seasonings make
a 'Sleepy Time Tea' that is great to relax with and plain lemon,
chamomile or mint is OK too. It is best to avoid any teas with
cinnamon or spices though, as they irritate the nerves. Plain is the
key. Sweeten with a little natural honey if desired.
3: Can the Caffeine and Chemicals!
Use no coffee, cocoa, cola, soft drinks, or tea as
they contain caffeine and other chemicals and your nerves don't need
that! Sometimes there is more to stress than just the overwork
part. When you keep whipping up your body with poisons you cannot
have good health. You may seem to get away with it, you may feel you are
not bothered by it--but sooner or later the pay-back time comes and
sometimes deadly illness strikes and there is no recovery. You will
never regret learning and practicing good health habits.
Most people are aware of how dangerous alcohol and
nicotine are to the body, but fail to realize that the caffeine in
coffee, tea and soft drinks is also an extremely dangerous substance!
Caffeine is called a stimulant because it excites all of the nerve
endings in an effort to rid the body of this poisonous substance. If a
person drinks over two or three cups of coffee a day on a regular basis,
they will usually develop severe drug withdrawal headaches if they
suddenly stop drinking it. Alcohol, nicotine and caffeine are dangerous
drugs!
Addicted to Alcohol or Tobacco? As your body is
relieved of toxins and receives hydration and some living food, you will
be able to also break free from addictions. Replace bad habits with good
and remember--no addiction is stronger than the mighty Power of God
available thorough the name of Jesus Christ! You can be set free! Make
the choice today!
Get away from MSG and related chemicals in food
and eat more simply prepared fruits and vegetables. READ LABELS!! Canned
and package soups, fast foods, and most pre-prepared frozen entrees,
are chemical bombs.
4: Break Free from the Sweet-Sweet Sugar Blues!
SUGAR AND SWEET craving is because we were
meant to live mostly on fruit but we have got bent out of shape and
use sugar. As you use lots of fruit you will loose the craving for
sugar but it is a battle for a while. You can use dried fruits and a
little honey for sweetening but no sucrose sugar of any type, white
or brown, or other refined sweeteners.
One serious problem is that it works the other way
too, when a person is using sugary foods, their taste does not relish
plain fruits. Children love and thrive on fruit but as soon as sugary
foods are introduced, the interest in eating fruit fades away and you
have instead children that clamor for more and more sweets. Sugar is an
addictive drug, not a nourishing food. Dieticians deny that there is any
difference in effect from refined sugar compared to fruit or natural
honey, but careful observation of cause and effect verifies this fact.
Sugar is so changed and concentrated from its
original plant form... that it is actually a drug! Just 10 teaspoons
(approximately the amount found in one soft drink) will immobilize the
immune system by about 33 percent. Approximately 30 teaspoons of sugar
(One Banana-split) will shut down the immune system for a whole day.
5: Replace Junk with Living Food!
Think of it this way: if you build your house of fine
quality bricks--you will have a good, brick house. But if you build your
house of mud--you will have only a mud house. Wholesome, natural, good
quality food will build a healthy body; but artificial, chemical-ridden,
poor nutrition, junk food can only build a sickly, junky body.
As our bodies get damaged by unwise eating choices, it
becomes harder to choose the good food because it seems boring to us;
however, if we will persist for a few months, the addictions will be broken
and we will relish the good food far more than we ever did the bad. The
taste for junk will disappear and a hearty appetite for what the body needs
will take its place. To gain this though, one must kick the junk entirely
and not just cut down on it--as long as we use these things at all, we will
continue to have a perverted taste.
6: No more than Three Meals a Day and only Water
Between!
Keeping to a meal schedule, and not eating or drinking
anything but water between meals, is a wonderful shortcut to better health.
Stomach problems and digestive distresses often seem to disappear as if by
magic once the plan has been followed for a few weeks. This, along with the
use of water before meals even clears up ulcers for many folk.
Cravings are easier to manage as the body gets used to
only being fed at certain times. there really is no such thing as a 'healthy
snack' because eating between meal is a pernicious habit that actually
interferes with proper digestion and assimilation of nutrients.
The problem is that many are hypoglycemic and it can be a
struggle for a while to overcome the 'eating every 2 hours' pattern. There
is information in articles in this collection to help with this almost
universal problem.
DON'T LIMIT the quantity at your meals, eat ALL YOU
WANT of vegetables, Fruits and Whole Grains and good bread
but don't stuff.
As your body fights through and gets rid of the junk you will be
hungry, so eat all you want, but NOT between meals.
Starving between meals? Drink WATER and make that positive decision
to the Lord and you will have strength to get through to next
meal-time.
7: Lower the Animal and Increase Vegetables, Fruits and
Grains!
Focus on addition and not just subtraction. Increase the
use of fresh fruit and raw veggies, adding some to each meal and at the same
time reduce serving size of animal products.
The hormones, antibiotics and other toxins in meat and dairy are worse these days then ever
before. We were told that the time would come when there was no
safety in animal products and that is certainly true today. So what
about all the protein hype? Even doctors and dieticians can make it sound as if
you will quickly perish on the spot if you don't devour a great slab of flesh
with each meal. However the most reliable research has shown quite the opposite.
Any combination of legumes and grains has
complete protein. A High percentage of the people of the world
live on various grain-legume combinations and hardly ever get any
animal products. Good, whole-grain bread eaten with vegetables or
legumes gives
enough protein. Baked Potatoes are a food that we can live on and
no, they are not fattening unless fried or smothered in fatty
dressings. Baked Sweet potatoes are a
wonderful staple, a complete food.
You see, we don't need so much protein as is
commonly believed. The time
when the human grows the fastest is the new-born, and mom's milk is
only something like 2% protein. It is a fact that the high levels of
animal protein is what is behind MOST of our terrible diseases today
and also the overweight epidemic. When you add on top of that,
the hormones naturally occurring in animal products and the HORMONES they feed
the animals to grow them fast; those hormones grow us fast too! You
can't help but be overweight!
Plain whole-grain breads, some peanut or nut
butter, and a big raw fruit salad makes a
great meal in the evening. Children like fruit too, once they get
the chance to have it. Fruit is soothing and cleansing.
FOR the transition use poultry and fish, but no beef,
pork or other red meat
as the hormones in beef is very high. Also use the poultry and
fish only as a condiment; a tiny bit cut up and sprinkled on your
salad or vegetables. You'll get free of it altogether later. Artificial meat analogues,
sadly are not the way to go, as they are too high in chemicals.
You will learn how to make your own simple patties and roasts.
8: Hunt Down Other Hazards!
Avoid using aluminum cooking utensils,
foods or drinks in aluminum tins or packages, and all foods made
with baking powder, (which contains aluminum) or alum, and any
chemical that has aluminum or alum in its name. They are often used to keep
foods crisp or as a lightening agent in biscuits, pancakes, quiche,
some pizza and cookies.
Avoid fried and oily, greasy food,
canola oil, snack foods like chips and cheezies.
Animal fats are definitely harmful but sad to
say, so are most of the products people use to substitute for them.
Our bodies need some fat but it is better if we get it from natural
foods such as nuts, seeds, olives, avocadoes and such. In its
natural state these items are in balance but when the oils are taken
out and refined, they become harmful and clog the body?s functions.
There is a very common oil, lately become
popular, that is not good: CANOLA oil. It is really Rape Seed oil,
taken from a plant long recognized by farmers as harmful. It has
become big business and so people are given false information to
protect the industry. Farmers like it because few bugs will touch
it! It has to go through a complicated refining process so the
advertising that dubs it as ?natural? is an out and out lie! Look
for it on labels and avoid it. Also avoid hydrogenated oils and
shortening.
The best oil to use in moderate amounts is
Extra Virgin Olive Oil imported from Italy. I haven?t found any
healthy margarine but in the recipes there are some tasty spreads
that can take its place.
Flax oil is a good source of valuable
essential oils needed for your nerves and body functions. It should
be used only on salads or such and never heated or used in cooking.
It must be bought in health food stores and make sure its date is
not expired and that is kept in refrigerator. A tablespoon of this
daily is a good thing to use.
It is of great benefit to move away from the
use of strong chemical cleaners and aerosols in cleaning and use
simpler more natural things like vinegar and hydrogen peroxide and
of course, old-fashioned soap.
The same thing applies to personal grooming
items, toothpaste, deodorants and cosmetics.
9: Keep it Simple Silly! KISS
Keep meals simple and natural,
using more fresh and raw fruits and vegetables. Avoid using a great many
foods at one meal; or complicated dishes with many different foods combined.
One to Three dishes, containing approximately three main ingredients or
less, is a good rule to follow
to avoid digestive complications which can cause irritability, dizziness and
sluggishness. However, raw fruit or vegetable salads can contain several
items with no problem.
Avoid using a combination of fruit and vegetables at the
same meal, have fruits and grains at one and vegetables and grains at
another. It is also better to avoid using more than one high protein food in
a recipe or at a meal.
Increase the use of fresh fruit and fresh and raw
veggies. Plain whole-grain breads and a big raw fruit salad makes a
refreshing meal in the evening. Children like fruit meals too, once given
the chance. Fruit is easy to digest, soothing and cleansing and a fruit and
grain meal in the evening allows for better sleep at night.
A Veggie salad and whole grain bread along with a baked
potato is a simple but good meal. Eat your salad with generous slices of
good, healthy, whole grain bread, buns, pita or something good like that.
Use lots of Baked
Potatoes, sweet potatoes, all the vegetables you want. Greens are
very high in excellent quality protein and other nutrients.
Cooked cereals
eaten with fruit and seed or nuts on them are good for breakfast.
But you can eat what you want: I usually eat vegetables and bread
for breakfast; unusual, but I like it.
Cut down on Fast Foods as they are chemical bombs and
spicy foods which are irritating to stomach and nerves.
10: Heavenly Help.
It takes real
courage to make changes which require breaking free from media and
cultural brainwashing that is often the source of our sufferings. You
will need to address the SPIRITUAL side big-time or you will
frustrate and fail. BUT GOD will carry you through IF you surrender
to HIM and put HIM first in your life.
The secret of making changes, overcoming habits and
breaking free of addictions lies in the Power of God made available to us by
Jesus Christ. Many know that forgiveness for past sins was provided by
Christ's death for us on the cruel cross; but fewer realize that victory
over sin is available because of Christ's LIFE of obedience to His Father's
laws--including the natural laws of our bodies. The power Christ used to
live a sinless life is willingly given to us for the asking--but the asking
requires us to make a positive choice.
God has given us free choice; that is all
we have to work with. He gives the Power BUT only when we make that
determined, positive choice and cry to Him to back it up with His Grace and
Power. When tempted, frustrated or discouraged, say firmly "Lord, I CHOOSE
to do what I know You want me to do. I am weak but I believe, Help THOU my
unbelief and empower me to break free!"
The POWER of God, that created the world is
available to re-create you and set you free. It comes from the Holy
Spirit, and He is accessed through the WORD of God.
Lay aside all other reading and get into the
old-fashioned, Authorized, King James Bible and the Spirit of
Prophecy writings. Pray first before reading and ask God in the name
of Jesus, for the aid of the Holy Spirit and holy angels. Tell the
Lord you are making a positive CHOICE to obey Him and have Him set
you free and lead you into a new life in harmony with His will.
Prayer without the WORD, and without a
positive choice to believe and obey, is a waste of time. God only
hears US when we are hearkening to HIM!
God's true Word has power to Create! He spake and
it was done. When you read something in the Inspired Word, it is
there for
YOU. If God tells you to do something, the POWER is already there in
the word
to do it, just ask for it.
FOR NOW until you get yourself past these
first steps--don't try and force your whole family to change at
once; work with yourself and later you can invite them to join you.
It is best not to go telling
everyone what you are doing, as you will get a lot of flack, and you
don't need that right now. The less said, the more done, and time
will provide the evidence. If you are the meal provider you
can just add some extra fruits and fresh things to the menu, and, if
it is not made into a 'crisis situation', you family will no doubt
cheerfully welcome the additions.
You may have a real battle on your
hands if you make a big issue of what you are trying to accomplish, as friends and family will say you are crazy and will harm
yourself, but Don't try to convince them; you do not need their permission
to obey your Creator. You can politely and cheerfully ignore
them. When YOU succeed in His strength then, they
will have evidence that speaks louder than words.
You may run into a lot of craving and even
feeling weak at first, as you move away from harmful and addictive
substances. Cling to the promises and pray as often as you need.
Never forget that Jesus said He came to set the captives free; claim
His promises and cling to HIM. The power to overcome is assured if
the decision is made solidly!! I know by experience; I am not
quoting a book. By the way, you don't need to go to a church to
talk with Him.
Precious Promises:
John 8:32 "And ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free."
John 8:36 "If the Son therefore shall make you
free, ye shall be free indeed."
Isaiah 41:10 "Fear thou not; for I am
with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen
thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right
hand of my righteousness."
Psalm 41:3 "The LORD will strengthen him
upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his
sickness."
Luke 6:19 "Jesus Christ the same yesterday,
and to-day, and for ever." Hebrews 13:8
1 Peter 2:24 "Who his own self bare our sins
in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should
live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed."
Psalm 103:3 "Who forgiveth all thine
iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;"
Isaiah 53:5 "But he was wounded for our
transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement
of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."
Jeremiah 17:14 "Heal me, 0 Lord, and I shall
be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise."
Jeremiah 30:17a "For I will restore health
unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord."
Here is my favorite promise from Jesus:
Matthew 11:28-30 "Come unto me, all ye that labour
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon
you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall
find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is
light."
This is just a quick glance to get you started on
the road to better health. You should work on putting these things into
practice while you get the details by studying the rest of the
material in this collection.
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