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The human body
is made up of the same basic chemical elements
that make up planet earth. Human beings are able
to exist by eating animals and plants. Plants, in
order to exist, require soil, water, carbon
dioxide and sunshine to turn inorganic chemicals
from the soil into living matter. The action of
sunlight transforms these chemicals into a higher
biochemical form in plants, to a point where they
can be absorbed and utilized by higher life forms,
including human beings. We are made of the matter
evolved to the highest vibratory level on this
planet – a magnificent, complex of living,
breathing and thinking matter. In order for living
matter to build up or tear down the body
processes, it requires mineral energy. All the
energy that the human body receives comes from two
sources: 20 percent comes from food substances and
80 percent of the mineral energy comes from the
atmosphere, in which we live and breathe. The
movement of these chemical elements, from the soil
to plant-made compounds and into the human body,
is a phenomenon we call
nutrition.
Nutrition
serves as a source of energy which is produced by
the vibratory motion of positive and negative
ions, as moving forces of the elements. When these
forces collide, the resistance that is created we
call energy. We do not live from the food that we
eat, but from the energy created from the food
that we eat. So is very important to maintain
proper diet control to assure good health.
We are all
aware of nutrition and food. But, if we want to be
healthy, we need to know what each food is made up
of, how it should be used, and the influence of
each food on our body chemistry for better or
worse. In what follows, I will briefly summarize
the basic nutrient groups needed by humans and the
role that they play in sustaining human life.
Carbohydrates
are carbon-based nutrients used inc large
quantities by the human body. They are the body’s
main source of energy, including the simple
carbohydrate sugar and the complex carbohydrate
starch.
Carbohydrate formation involves the process of
photosynthesis.
The body can convert excess carbohydrate into fat,
which is essentially a stored form of fuel. Fats
are our most concentrated energy nutrient. They
are classified into saturated and unsaturated
fats, according to their building blocks, the
fatty acids. Fat influence on the body includes
the production of cholesterol and calories.
Protein, the basic building block of the body, is
essential for growth, tissue building and repair.
It is found in the protoplasm of every cell, where
it serves as an inner skeleton that helps the cell
maintain its integrity. Protein is made up of
amino acids in which nitrogen is the key
ingredient, in combination with carbon, hydrogen,
oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur, and iron. I will
examine the digestion of proteins and their
influence on the human body, especially the
typically high-protein, meat rich American diet
that contributes to major disease. It will also
look at the protein concentration in various food
groups and their impact on the body and mind.
The three basic nutrients – carbohydrates, fats,
and protein – are the fuel and building materials
that are used by the body in bulk. Micronutrients,
vitamins, and minerals, by contrast are analogous
to the screws and bolts necessary for the
construction and operation of the human body. Some
act as catalysts that prompt compounds to
interact. Sixteen vitamins and about sixty
minerals make up the number of essential
micronutrients that are needed to perform very
specific and vital bodily functions. They are
called essential because they cannot be
manufactured by the body, but must be obtained
through the diet on a regular basis. A deficiency
of just one essential micronutrient can cause
major illness. To understand their function and
influence in the human body, micronutrients are
described as a group, and individually.
By having a general knowledge of nutrition,
including the composition of maintaining their state of equilibrium, we can
better understand what makes us sick and how
disease came about. By understanding how the food
we eat can contribute to our health problems, we
can gain control of our health and promote the
body’s intelligence to heal itself.
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Nutrition and Minerals:
Minerals are inorganic substances that originate in the soil and water. The term inorganic means that they are neither animal nor vegetable. Nevertheless, they are incorporated in all plants and animals. There are over sixty minerals known to be present in the human body and well documented that there presence or
absence can mean the difference between good and poor health.
Minerals come from the rocks and stones that have been broken down into tiny fragments by millions of years of weathering. Those small particles are called mineral salts, such as calcium carbonate (limestone), which makes up rock formation. Besides these tiny crystals of mineral salts, the soil is
teaming with tiny microbes. Those microbes participate in the process of changing the mineral vibratory state, in other wards it is a starting point to bring them to life. The process of changing into a higher vibratory state continues when minerals are passed on to plants and culminates when they are offered for
nourishment to human tissues.
It is common knowledge that that there are three kingdoms in nature: the animal, vegetable, and mineral. Human beings are members of the animal kingdom that consume both animals and vegetables in order to sustain themselves. Rocks belong to the mineral kingdom, and while human beings do not eat
rocks, they cannot survive without the minerals that make up rocks. Humans cannot ingest minerals directly from the earth; they need to take them from higher evolved bio-chemicals. Plants with the help of sunlight, air, and water, a process called photosynthesis, take basic minerals from the soil into the plant. This
sequence of living things that provide food from others is called the food chain. As minerals are passed along the food chain, they become more highly evolved.
It is very clear that the human body is a complex structure that is constantly moving, flowing and changing in a state of dynamic equilibrium. All this is made possible through electrochemical processes, provided the body get’s all the biochemical nutrients it needs from the different parts of the
food chain. Minerals are at the start of the food chain. The body depends on basic chemicals or minerals, the foods that provide them, and the role of foods in maintaining cells and tissues.
Minerals are incorporated in the human tissues and every function within them involves and depends on minerals. Minerals are recognized as essential components of the diet because of their role in maintaining vital functions and body processes. Do to their need in trace amounts, they are classified
as micronutrients. Together with vitamins they make up two percent of what we eat and four percent of total body weight.
When a plant or animal tissue is burned, the nitrogen, sulfur, hydrogen and carbon are released as gases, and the ash that remains consist of minerals primarily sodium, calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium. These minerals are needed in large quantity in the body and are referred to as major elements
or macro minerals. But there are a number of other minerals found in
very tiny amounts, such as zinc, manganese, iodine, copper, chromium, selenium, fluoride, molybdenum, boron, nickel, silicon, lithium, vanadium and even arsenic. ( Arsenic, which we know to be poison, is an essential nutrient in the tiniest amounts, but it is very toxic in large amounts). All
of those elements are needed in trace amounts for physiological functioning and are referred as micro or trace minerals.
It is important to mention that magnesium lies between a macro-and a micro mineral. The principle toxic minerals are aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury. This list continues to grow as sophisticated technology discovers that those we had considered accidentally present in the tissues
actually play a crucial role and are key components of large molecules that we call enzymes.
The Function of Minerals
Each living cell on this planet is dependent on minerals for it’s proper structure and function. Minerals are essential to almost every process that takes place within our body by transporting oxygen to every cell in the body, to regulating the heart beat and maintaining proper fluid and chemical
balance. Minerals are the substances that make possible the operation of the nervous system. All of the electrical impulses of the nerves, moving from the
brain and the spinal cord to the receptor and back to central nervous system, are made possible through these minerals. One of the greatest functions of minerals, especially trace minerals, is their combination with vitamins to produce coenzyme activity. This enables the body to perform its
functions, including energy production, growth, healing, maintenance, repair and to insure overall survival.
Trace minerals are responsible for triggering the enzyme system in the body. Each trace mineral usually helps out in more than one system. Zinc for example, has been identified to be involved in more than twenty enzyme systems. In order for the body to perform its crucial functions, it must maintain its chemical
balance. This balance depends on the level of different minerals in the body and their impact on each other. The body is very adaptable when it comes to regulating proper mineral balance within a rather narrow range. If an individual takes in more than body needs of any particular mineral, it will be absorbed only in
the amount needed and the excess will be excreted. A problem arises if a particular mineral is absent in the diet. If so it can start chain reaction imbalances that lead to illness.
Where We Find Minerals
As stated in the introduction, minerals are naturally occurring elements formed from rocks and stones, which are gradually broken down into fragments by erosion and other weathering factors. These resulting small particles accumulate and settle in valleys and fields, forming the basis of soil. The soil is teaming with
microbes that transform them into mineral salts. Plants absorb these minerals salts through a process called photosynthesis. Photosynthesis converts the mineral salts into a higher vibratory state. Mineral form is also being changed from metallic into the colloidal form and is being stored into plant cells and
tissues. Some soils are mineral-poor due to vagaries of nature and the use of chemical fertilizers.
Many cultivated soils are depleted of minerals because of over-farming. It usually takes from five to ten years for plants to deplete the soils of minerals unless minerals have been added. If plants are grown in soil with depleted minerals, they will have mineral deficiencies and will affect
the food chain; including the human beings that need to obtain needed minerals. Consequently, building good health means building soil. Of course soil and the human body are not the same; humans are strictly related to soils as a resource for different chemical elements to maintain balance.
Because more and more commercial fertilizers are used to grow our crops, the result is an unhealthy food chain lacking in proper chemical elements. We all know that fertilizer is composed of three minerals: nitrogen phosphorus and potassium. So when a farmer adds only three of the sixty necessary
minerals, the proper array and amount of minerals moving from the food chain into human tissue is not chemically balanced and will not function properly. It is important to note that soils depleted of organically derived chemicals and dosed with fertilizers are acid soils. It is almost impossible to obtain the amount
of minerals needed through diet alone, but mineral supplements can help the deficiency. Supplements are available in tablets, capsules, powder and liquid form.
Grouping the Forms of Minerals
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Minerals can be found in several forms in our daily diet. For example being Inorganic salts, organic salts, a.k.a. esters, chemical minerals that are bounded to another substance (usually an amino acid), and colloidal minerals (liquid form). In order to enhance their absorption by our digestive system, they are
arranged into three major groups:
* Metallic form of minerals: They are tiny elements, which can only be absorbed about 8-10% by our digestive system, and absorption ability decreases with age. Not all minerals can
be taken in metallic form, nor are they able to be absorbed and may be toxic. When ingested into the stomach, they must link up with amino acid or other substances in the digestive system in order to be absorbed into our bloodstream.
* Chelated form of minerals:
They are metallic minerals that are bonded to an amino acid. Amino acids play the role of enzymes by raising the potential of absorption by the digestive system. Chelated minerals speed up the process of absorption and assure a greater amount for the body.
Chelated minerals are also assimilated four to five times more efficiently than other minerals; and they provide the most effective way to absorb minerals.
* Colloidal form of minerals: This form
is about two and half time more available than chelated minerals and ten times more available then metallic form of minerals. Colloidal minerals are liquids and have very minute particles; about 700 times smaller than red blood cell. They also carry electronegative charge. The lining of the stomach and small
intestine have an electropositive charge . An electrical reaction concentrates toward the lining and the body absorption is 89% of minerals in this form. Colloidal minerals are produced by plants. Plants get metallic minerals from the soil convert into colloidal as part of their tissue. It is very important to know
that the photosynthesis process can make carbohydrates and amino acids, but can’t make minerals. Minerals must be present in the soil for absorption by plants and into human beings. Once a mineral is absorbed in the blood stream it is carried to the cell then transported across the membrane for the use by the cell.
When minerals enter the digestive system they compete for absorption. To much of one mineral may affect the absorption of another; therefore, it is important to maintain a balance of minerals in the body for optimal health.
By having a general knowledge of nutrition, including the composition of various foods, how they can affect our health, and the importance of maintaining their state of equilibrium., we can better understand what makes us sick and how the disease came about. By understanding how the
food we eat can contribute to our health problems, we can gain control of our health and promote the body’s intelligence to heal itself. |
REMEMBER ...
1. The human temple is made of the dust of the earth.
2. Vitamins serve as catalyst and run the body, minerals build the body.
3. No therapy can be successful unless we have nutritional art working with it.
KNOW ...
a.) I want you to know that our body’s are as different as every gem found in the earth.
b.) I want you to realize that man lives as much on what he expresses as what he eats.
c.) I want you to look at symptoms in terms of body chemistry, because every symptom can be from chemical shortage and it can be eliminated from the body by taking foods to restore what we have burned out in our bodies. |
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Water and Nutrition:
The largest single and most vital component of
the human life is water. Sixty percent of our
total body weight is water. Cell plasma is 93
percent water, and other body fluids are 97
percent water. The body’s water has two major
components, which are intracellular and extra
cellular water. The differentiation is based
on a differential concentration of two major
minerals, sodium and potassium. Extra
cellular means out of the cell and extra
cellular water contains all extra cellular
fluids, plasma, and other solid components.
Intracellular water is within the cell, and
the major components are about 73 percent of
the total weight of the muscles and viscera.
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Water distribution in the body is based on the
levels of potassium and sodium, and proper
acid or alkaline balance. The importance is
incomparable. Every single function of the
body is dependent on the efficient flow of
water, and so it is the primary substance and
leading agent in all events that water is in
human body.
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Every one of us knows that water is “good” for
the body, but we seem unaware of just how
essential it is. Often times we can scurry
through the day without the slightest
remembrance of our need to take in water. Our
body is reminding us, like the time we sought
to have a bowel movement and we ended up
laboring to do so. This is a clear signal that
water is absorbed through the stomach lining
but reabsorbed back into the system in the
large intestine to help move unabsorbed matter
through. Tiredness we feel during the day is
another signal of the body telling us that our
oxygen carrying capacity of our blood was
diminished because our blood stream was
beginning to resemble drought like conditions
as a result of water shortage which results
into not enough supply of oxygen to the brain
and other tissues, so we begin to feel tired.
Among body organs, brain function takes
priority in water consumption. The brain is
Of the total body weight, but it receives 20
percent of blood circulation. Another good
example how the body seeks to inform us is the
blemishes appearance on our skin. Our body is
saying that there is inadequate plain old
natural water intake. We also make matters
worse by making a catastrophic mistake and
substituting pure natural water with
manufactured beverages such as cola, coffee,
tea, and alcohol. It is true that those
beverages contain water, but they also contain
substances that are dehydrating.
The maintenance of a constant volume of water
is key to good health, imbalance will create
an imbalance in distribution of fluids between
cellular walls and in the transportation of
elements and chemicals messengers and
nutrients through cellular walls. Water
shortage in different areas of the body will
manifest itself in symptoms and complications
that we simply call disease.
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Have in
mind that the key to abundant health always
revolves around working in harmony with our
body’s needs rather than working against it.
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understanding the vitality of water in one
side, and knowing that our body is continually
losing fluids throughout the day on the other
hand, then we will have good sense in taking
our regular fluids consumption.
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can be done by following simple principles of
taking fluids regularly.
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First
– Start your day by drinking one or two
glasses of pure natural water 15-20 minutes
before you eat anything. This will serve the
body as a wake up call to clean prior
impurities. To get optimal results I will
recommend for your wake up drink to be
distilled water with fresh lemon juice. You
want those impurities (toxins) to be
eliminated from your body. Distilled water is
nature’s perfect agent for doing so. It is the
simplest pure water, without any minerals
chemical or other impurities.
- Many
recommend that we drink about eight glasses of
water a day, but the best way of knowing your
water intake quantity is by taking your body
weight, divide it in half and whatever number
you get match it with that many ounces of
water intake each day. For example if your
weight is 150 pounds then your water
consumption should be 75 ounces per day.
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maintenance of a constant volume of water is
key to good health, imbalance will create an
imbalance in distribution of fluids between
cellular walls and in the transportation of
elements and chemicals messengers and
nutrients through cellular walls. Water
shortage in different areas of the body will
manifest itself in symptoms and complications
that we simply call disease.
- It is
very important to know that drink with meals
should be avoided. Because of dilution of
digestive enzymes, this slows down the
digestive process. You want the stomach acids
and digestive juice to remain concentrated
enough in order to digest your food
completely. If you have to drink with meals,
limit the quantity of liquids to four ounces
or less of room temperature or warm liquids.
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Wait for an
hour before drinking ice cold large quantities
of liquids.
Drinking warm liquids is highly recommended in
situations of being upset or angry or after a
hard workout. Doing so will help you become
calm faster.
By following the simple principles of regular
fluid intake, we can see and feel the
difference in building health, by making our
body more efficient by metabolizing digesting
and eliminating foods properly. You surely
will see results on energy levels.
Drink
to your vibrant health, take your pure water
of life freely to rejuvenate and feel great
again!
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