Lose Weight, Have More Energy and Be Happier in 10 Days. Peter Glickman

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      What keeps your liver strong and healthy? Blood from the colon is fed directly to the liver to nourish it. However, the body accumulates uneliminated toxins especially in the large intestine (colon), where blood has to filter through these toxins and poisons to get to the liver. At this point, the whole body is being fed “dirty blood.” This is like trying to wash your hands in paint to get them clean. This is also what medicine refers to as “autointoxication”: not “intoxication” as in happily relaxed, but as in self-poisoned.³

      Symptoms of autointoxication include headaches, nausea, mental depression, irritability, stress, tension, tiredness, sluggishness, mental fogginess, indecision, insomnia, and susceptibility to other illnesses.

      It is the toxins that Americans are eating and drinking that ares causing the epidemic of overweight. Our bodies cannot handle the volume of toxins we consume on a daily basis.

      Think processed food does not have toxins? In the article “Why McDonald’s Fries Taste So Good,”⁴ the author, Eric Schlosser, says “About 90 percent of the money that Americans now spend on food goes to buy processed food.” He goes on to say that the flavor is replaced with chemicals to add flavor. For example, there are approximately 350 different chemicals in high-quality artificial strawberry flavor.

      Further in his article, he says, “One of the most widely used color additives …, cochineal [pronounced koash-a-neil] extract ... is made from the [dried] bodies of [a small] female ... insect harvested mainly in Peru and the Canary Islands. The bug feeds on red cactus berries, and color from the berries accumulates in the females and their unhatched [young]. The insects are collected, dried, and ground into a pigment. It takes about 70,000 of them to produce a pound of carmine, which is used to make processed foods look pink, red, or purple. Dannon strawberry yogurt gets its color from carmine, and so do many frozen fruit bars, candies, and fruit fillings, and Ocean Spray pink-grapefruit juice drink.”⁵

      The artificial sweetener Aspartame, also sold as NutraSweet, Equal, Equal Measure, and Spoonful, is another good example. The Food and Drug Administration has a system that permits people to report bad health reactions to food and drugs. According to David Rietz’s website (www.dorway.com), in February of 1994, Aspartame accounted for more than 75 percent of all bad reactions reported!

      A Plane and Pilot magazine article from January 1990 on food additives explained that diet soft drinks are sweetened artificially by Aspartame (NutraSweet and Equal). Aspartame contains ten percent methanol, a poison, that is released at temperatures above 86º or if left on the shelf for a long time.

      The article goes on to say that methanol destroys the brain a little at a time. Immediate effects can either be severe (epileptic seizures, blindness, or chest palpitations) or less noticeable (blurred vision, bright flashes, tunnel vision, ringing or buzzing in ears, migraine headaches, dizziness, loss of equilibrium, or lip and mouth reactions). It reports on an Air Force pilot who directly traced the patterns of tremors and seizures he suffered for two years to his consuming NutraSweet in beverages. His medical problems ceased when he quit drinking NutraSweet.

      By the way, on 27 June 1996, without public notice, the FDA removed all restrictions from Aspartame, allowing it to be used in everything, including all heated and baked goods.⁶

      Even when you go on a diet and eat less, forcing the body to burn fat, as soon as you go off the diet, the fat returns. The body must create more fat cells to protect itself from the toxins. The only effective way to eliminate the fat is to eliminate the toxins. This is why the Master Cleanse is so effective for not only losing weight, but also increasing energy and making people happier. In the informal survey of 141 people who have done or are on the Master Cleanse, about 80 percent of them report having more energy and more than 90 percent report being happier! This should be no surprise since toxins give you headaches, make you fell tired and irritable, and cause aches and pains. And the Master Cleanse, according to its developer, Stanley Burroughs, not only cleanses the colon, but also the liver, kidneys and other organs and glands.

      A raw vegetable, fruit, seed and nut diet will also detoxify you, although more slowly. But in my experience, very, very few people can simply switch to eating 100 percent raw because their cravings overwhelm them and cause them to go off the raw food. However, a great many people can do the Master Cleanse and, having eliminated some cravings, eat a greater percentage of raw food than before. This is supported by the above survey, which showed that people on average rated their diet after the Master Cleanse as being somewhat healthier than before the Master Cleanse.

      How did I learn about the Master Cleanse and the raw food diet? Well, in the fall of 1998, I was a successful executive of a small local software company. I was coming home at 6:30 pm and dropping into bed, so tired I did not even eat dinner. I would not get up until it was 8 a.m. and time to go to work again. No one at work, except my wife, knew I was not doing well. At home, however, my excessive tiredness and short temper were inescapable. Worse, food had become my enemy. No matter what I ate, I felt sick afterward.

      About a year and a half before, I had been tested and discovered I had enough mercury in my body to interfere with normal system function. Apparently, it was finally getting to me. I sought a local doctor to do a mercury detoxification program on me and before he put me on that program, he gave me a thorough checkup.

      The blood test came back with alarming numbers. My fasting blood sugar was in the range of diabetics (157), the fats that circulate in the bloodstream and are stored in the fat tissue (triglycerides) were really, really high (1160) and my cholesterol was in the same scary place (482). The doctor scared me badly enough that I radically changed my diet. I eliminated any sweet food including sweet fruits, sweet vegetables, etc. and added the vitamins and minerals that Adele Davis recommended for diabetics in her book, Let’s Get Well. This was in addition to the mercury detoxification program, which included super greens (a combination of spirulina, blue green algae, alfalfa, wheatgrass and other greens).

      Fortunately, in the next four months, my tests all returned to normal levels and I could go back to eating the standard American diet of too many fats, too much sugar, very few raw vegetables or fruits, and lots of processed food. Three years later in May 2002, I had another checkup and this time, although my fasting blood sugar was fine (108), my blood fats were the second highest the doctor had ever seen (1921) and my cholesterol was so scary (525) that he had his office call me in immediately to be put on a prescription. I listened to him, filled it immediately and tried it for three days. It gave me a headache and bad dreams. I figured I had licked the blood sugar problem with nutrition, why could I not lick the cholesterol problem the same way?

      By May 2002, my wife had been eating a 100 percent raw fruit, vegetable, nuts and seeds diet for more than two months. She was looking healthy and radiant, had lost weight, had plenty СКАЧАТЬ