Why Do People Get Sick?

God put man in a garden not in a chemist's laboratory.

The colon is a most important part of our body. Everything we eat goes through our colon. It should only take 16 to 24 hours to eliminate the waste. It takes the average American 96 hours!

It takes only five days for the cells on the inner walls of the colon to be replaced with new ones, unless the walls of your colon are impacted with years of putrefied toxic fecal matter. Some of which has been in there 20 to 30 years. What's a dead animal on the road like after 3 or 4 days in the hot sun? Don't cringe, we all have eaten cooked dead meat that takes 3 or 4 days to be eliminated from our bodies which operate at 98.6 degrees.

Approximately every two months practically every cell in our heart muscle is replaced with a new cell. Every four weeks or so, the entire layer of our skin is replaced with new cells. Within a year, our entire bone structure replaces. Scientists have confirmed that 98% of the atoms in our body were not there a year ago. The question is, will that body be stronger or weaker than it is today?

It won't be if we continue to "feed" our bodies things that were never intended to be put into them. A host of the things we ingest are extremely toxic or poisonous to our systems. We don't notice right away because our bodies don't respond to very slow poisoning or starvation.

Why didn't someone tell me before? The answer to that is two fold. First, there are major corporations making a lot of money selling garbage and secondly we don't ask! We always figure the government or our doctor will tell us what we need to know.

Did you ever stop to realize that some of the richest companies on earth deal legally in poisons; pharmaceutical companies (our nation's largest industry takes in over $55 billion a year), hospital corporations, fast food companies, soft drink companies, tobacco, alcohol and candy companies? Just because it's legal to sell poison doesn't mean it's alright to ingest it.

National health reform is a farce. In 1994, over $1,000,000,000,000 (that's one trillion dollars) was spent on health care in the United States alone. How much is spent on weight loss programs, fast foods, and sugar drinks? How much is spent on tobacco, alcohol and caffeine? Add all these together, eliminate them and we could theoretically eradicate sickness, hunger, poverty, weight problems and most premature deaths caused by sickness and disease worldwide overnight. How do you eliminate them? By finding out they're harmful. By boycotting them. By not buying them.

Think this is crazy? Think this is radical? If you will take the time to read the articles on this web site it could change your life. If you're already suffering it could save or prolong your life.

Almost all sickness and disease is caused by improper diet and lifestyle and NOT by bacteria, viruses or gene inheritance as we have been led to believe by the medical industry.

There are only four substances that nourish our bodies. They are: pure air, pure water, moderate amounts of sunlight and RAW food. Anything else is a contaminate and has an adverse effect on our bodies.

Switching to a diet of raw vegetables, fruits and distilled water have cured problems including cancers of the colon, prostate, breast and uterus, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, arthritis, diverticulitis, hemorroids, osteoporosis (calcium deficiency), hardening of the arteries and more.

God told Adam, "Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." (Genesis 1:29)

It is interesting to note that before the flood the average life span was 900 years. After the flood, when cooked food and meat were introduced, the average age was 100 years.

If you're a Christian you may know that in the Bible, (Isaiah 53:4,5, Matthew 8:17 and 1 Peter 2:24) it says that Jesus not only bore our sins but carried our diseases on the cross and by His stripes we were healed. I for one, believe that with all my heart. I have experienced God's healing myself. First I had to do two things; (1) believe that Jesus could and did do it and, (2) believe that I received what He did for me. I did both and was instantly healed. But then the problem came back. I said, "God, what's going on here? You healed me and what's this? He said, "quit drinking coffee". I did and it went away.

Then it came to me. I know God is in the healing business. I know healing always comes, and becomes a reality if I receive it, but what then? Without knowledge, I just kept putting the poison that was hurting me back in my system, because I didn't know.

The American Dietetic Association (ADA) and the American Medical Association (AMA) tell us we are innocent victims of germs, bacteria and viruses or that we inherited the problem through our genes. Hogwash! The truth is we are poisoning our bodies with garbage that God never intended for us to put in them. Lack of knowledge of what to eat and what not to eat is by far the major cause of sickness and disease and is killing the human race. "My people are destroyed from a lack of knowledge." (Hosea 4:6)

We blindly accept the medical profession's teaching. We run to the doctors but they're not healing us. We accept their drugs, radiation, chemotherapy and surgery as the only means of dealing with sickness. Even though this allopathic medical approach (prescribing drugs to alleviate symptoms while doing nothing to find the root cause) is making us sicker and sicker, exhausting our savings and even killing people, we never seem to question the validity of these teachings. Health care reform is a farce unless people are told how to alter their diet and lifestyle so that disease is not created in the first place. Wisdom is the application of good information.

Of the 129 state-accredited medical schools in America only 29 require a course in nutrition. Doctors incredibly receive an average of less than three hours of nutritional training in medical school. Doctors practice allopathic medicine the very same way a medicine man or a witch doctor does.

Heart disease (50% of all deaths), stroke, hypertension, circulatory problems, diabetes (8% of all deaths), arthritis, osteoporosis (calcium deficiency), colon, breast, prostrate, uterine and most other cancers (33% of all deaths) are caused primarily by animal products, excessive protein and fats in the diet.

If we would eliminate the causes and give the body the proper building materials most cancers would disappear as the body's own self-healing mechanism would kick in. Just as a cut on the surface of the skin will heal itself, the rest of our body - from the cellular level to vital organs - is also designed to heal itself. Healing will occur when we quit feeding poisons into our bodies and give it the nourishment it was intended to live on.

The definition of POISON is this: "Any agent which, introduced into an organism, may chemically produce an injurious or deadly effect. That which taints or destroys purity; to exert a baneful (threatening, doomful) influence, to corrupt."

Everything you eat goes through the colon. The colon is designed to be a sewage waste pipe. Most colons have become stagnant cesspools, collecting layers and pockets of toxic and impacted putrid fecal matter and mucous (which is the perfect media for propagating germs, microbes and bacteria) that poisons the blood stream and every cell and organ in the body. Mucous, which is secreted by all intestinal cells, can collect on the colon wall, accumulate and hold fecal matter. If your colon is clogged and coated with mucous your body cannot function properly. A sluggish and toxic colon effects every part of your body.

It is vital to remember that animal products - meat, dairy and eggs - have zero fiber and lots of fat. Fiber acts as the colon broom to sweep things along in the colon while fat clogs it up. In addition to constipation and increased risk of colon cancer, a meat-based, high-fat, low-fiber diet can cause a host of other colon-related problems including diverticulosis, hemorrhoids, irritable bowel syndrome, spastic colon and appendicitis. These are all problems that can be caused by slow-moving, hard, dry feces and can be cured by something as simple as a predominately raw food, vegetarian diet which is high in fiber, low in fat and produces soft, moist feces that are easily eliminated.

The average American colon carries up to five pounds of putrid, partially-digested meat and another five pounds of toxic fecal matter that has been packed with mucous for years to form a hard lining in the deformed folds of the colon. People who eat mucous-producing foods every day create a toxic build-up of layers and pockets of mucous and decayed fecal matter, remnants of which can stay in the colon for 20 to 30 years or longer!

Short-term afflictions resulting from the absorption of mucous and toxic waste from the colon into the blood stream and into the rest of the body include pimples, sore throats, colds, hay fever, sinus, eye and ear problems. Afflictions of a more long-term nature, caused by a constant influx of toxemia into the body from the colon, include degeneration or cancer in vital organs.

Problems with the colon and constipation is the number one affliction underlying nearly every ailment. It can be imputed to be the initial, primary cause of nearly every disturbance of the human system interfering over a period of time with the functioning of EVERY cell, organ and gland.

We humans are so smart we feed billions of tons of very nutritious grain, which has loads of fiber and is low in fat, to animals and get back much less tonnage of meat which is not even remotely as nutritious as the grain we fed them in the first place. If all the grain we gave animals were given to humans we could theoretically eradicate hunger and sickness all over the world. The worst that could happen is we'd feel better, have more energy, live longer and save more money at the grocery store, doctor's office and drug store.

Companies cut down the rain forests in South America to make room to raise cattle for North American fast food restaurants. Rain forests help increase the oxygen supply in our atmosphere. It is said that it takes 55 square feet of rain forest to be cut down for every hamburger. I'd rather eat fruits and vegetables and have quality air to breathe than eat a hamburger and have poor air. Wouldn't you?

Did you ever stop to think that the biggest, stongest creatures on earth; the gorilla, the horse and the elephant are all vegetarians?

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