Our bodies are programmed to maintain health and to repair and heal themselves. Our responsibility is to supply the body with all the components of health.

Optimal Health – the body is performing 100% of it designed function 100% of the time.

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF NUTRITION?

1) Energy

2) Tissue building - maintenance and repair;

3) Cellular communication

WHAT IS REAL FOOD?

Real food is defined as a food substance which is compatible with the body; that in no way takes from the body, but lends itself to the building up of health and maintaining life. It contains nothing that is harmful, toxic or non-usable by the body.

Disease occurs when one or more of the components of health are missing. Disease is not “caught”, it is a process.

Stress is the only thing that causes “dis-ease”

Stress is defined as any input into the being which is detrimental, whether mental/emotional, physical, sensory, or nutritional/chemical.

Stress “robs” our body of energy. Energy is required by the body to carry out all functions, such as muscular movement, digestion, vision, mental activities, elimination of body waste, maintaining body temperature, production of energy, repair and maintenance of cells, etc, etc. When our body is out of energy a condition arises called death. Our body’s priority is survival – at all costs!

Prolonged stress leads to pathological (disease producing) changes at the cellular level which eventually leads to tissue changes which leads to symptoms of disease.

THE DISEASE PROCESS

One form of stress is toxins. Toxins are defined as any substance which is foreign to the body, which the body cannot use in any way for life maintaining purposes, which in fact are poisonous and detrimental to the body, costing the body energy and nutrition to deal with them. Toxins enter the body in several ways, either by being –

1) Ingested

2) Breathed

3) Absorbed through the skin

The body attempts to reject toxins if it has sufficient energy (energy comes from eating the proper nutrients). Ways of rejecting toxins include: vomiting, diarrhea, elimination through the kidneys, lungs, or bowels, sneezing, coughing, and through the skin or mucus membranes, etc. If the body does not have the energy to eliminate toxins it will store them in various tissues throughout the body. Remember, survival is the priority of the body. Toxins must be removed from the blood stream. Continued intake of toxins without sufficient removal leads to chronic degenerative disease as more and more toxins are stored in various body tissues. This will eventually lead to death.

What Nutrients Do I Need?