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FlaxSeedOil2 , DaRocksMom@a... wrote:

 

 

Vegetable and Fruit Juices

The premise of Dr. Norman W. Walker in writing Fresh Vegetable &

Fruit Juices

is that the primary cause of nearly every sickness and disease is the

deficiency of vital organic minerals, vitamins and enzymes in our

diet.

 

Then, Dr. Walker asks, " How can we most readily furnish our body

with the

elements needed? " The answer is the book's title itself, Fresh

Vegetable &

Fruit Juices, and you may find it incredible what was known by Dr.

Walker as

early as 1936, when this book was written.

 

The fact that Dr. Walker lived to be over 100 and wrote his last

book

when he was over a century may be considered as evidence that he knew

his

subject matter pretty well. He was seriously ill in his early 40's

when he

was convinced to go the natural health route. He went on to

practically

invent carrot juice and the concept of healing with fresh vegetable

and fruit

juices.

 

" Except for accidents, all the repair and regeneration of our

body must

come from within, " Dr. Walker writes. " If the blood stream, cells and

tissues, organs, glands and all the rest of the body does not contain

these

elements in their proper proportion, or if any of these elements is

deficient, then the body is out of balance and the condition develops

which

is known as Toxemia, and Toxemia means just plain poison.

 

" In order to regain and maintain the proper balance of health,

most of

the food we eat must contain live, vital, organic elements. These

elements

are found in fresh-raw vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds, " he adds.

 

The Earth and its waters are full of minerals, but the only

source we

have of organic minerals and organic water that our body can

assimilate is

plant life. " The rays of the sun send billions of atoms into plant

life,

activating the enzymes and by this force they change inorganic

elements into

organic or life-containing elements for food, " Dr. Walker writes.

 

The advantage in juicing vegetables is that this process

separates the

living, vital, organic minerals, vitamins, and distilled water from

the fiber

(pulp). With the fiber removed, our body can assimilate these vital

nutrients

in liquid form in about 10 to 15 minutes, Dr. Walker writes. Fiber

has no

nutritional content, requires several hours -- and considerable

energy -- for

digestion, and some deterioration of nutrients occurs before food

reaches our

cells.

 

Dr. Walker emphasizes, however, that fiber is an important

element in our

diet, because it acts as an " intestinal broom " as it travels through

our

stomach, duodenum, 25 feet of small intestine and colon. This fiber

should be

obtained by eating a good quantity of raw fruits and vegetables. Once

food is

cooked, this fiber turns to a mush that leaves a coat of slime on the

walls

of our intestines, which can putrefy and cause Toxemia, a sluggish

colon,

constipation, colitis, diverticulosis and other problems, Dr. Walker

writes.

Once food is cooked, its oxygen (a vital element) is lost, enzymes

are

destroyed " and most of the vital force needed for nourishment is

dissipated …

One can eat four or five big meals a day, and yet the body may be

starved

through the lack of the vital elements in the food and the

disturbance of the

enzyme balance. "

 

Dr. Walker notes, " As a rule it will do no great harm to

occasionally eat

a little cooked food, but never fried food, provided that a

sufficient

quantity of raw food is also eaten. " And he recommends a vegetarian,

non-dairy diet. Clearly a physician ahead of his time, Dr. Walker

warned

nearly 60 years ago that hope for finding a cause and cure of

cancer " does

not lie in the field of fantastic speculation and destructive

research by

means of uncontrollable radium experiments, but rather in the

deficiency of

life in the atoms of the food we eat. "

 

In addition to ruling out cooked food as a source of anything

vital for

the body, Dr. Walker notes the limitations of medical drugs: " There

is not a

drug in the world that will supply the blood stream with anything in

a way in

which the body can use it for permanent repair or regeneration. "

 

This regeneration must come from within the body , and Dr. Walker

states

vegetable juices are the best source of the nutrients needed for

regeneration. Even in 1936, Dr. Walker said results of Juice

Therapy " in

helping the body recover from nearly every disturbance or ailment,

have been

almost phenomenal the world over... Today, any person not familiar

with the

nutritional and recuperative value of fresh vegetable and fruit

juices is woef

ully uninformed. "

He notes, " Fruit juices are the cleansers of the human system …

Vegetable

juices are the builders and regenerators of the body. They contain

all the

amino acids, minerals, salts, enzymes, and vitamins needed by the

human body,

provided that they are used fresh, raw, and without preservatives,

and that

they have been properly extracted from the vegetables. "

 

Dr. Walker advises, " Just as long as we include a variety of

vegetables

in our food combinations, we need not fret or worry about obtaining

all the

minerals and Vitamins we are trying to furnish our body. "

Nonetheless, Fresh

Vegetable & Fruit Juices offers an exhaustive listing of fruit and

vegetable

juices, detailing the specific amounts of 21 different elements,

vitamins and

minerals contained by each fruit and vegetable. The book also

includes a list

of 87 different juice formulas, and in cooperation with Dr. R.D.

Pope, M.D.,

Dr. Walker (a Doctor of Science) lists 155 ailments, with one or more

of the

87 juice formulas recommended for the treatment of each ailment.

 

Much information is presented about the specific values of

different

vegetable and fruit juices. For example, carrot juice is referred to

as " the

richest source of Vitamin A which the body can quickly assimilate, "

and it

also offers an ample supply of other vitamins and minerals. Because

of

Vitamin A's benefit to the moist lining of our various membranes,

carrot

juice " helps prevent infections of the eyes and throat as well as the

tonsils

and sinuses and the respiratory organs generally. "

 

Because of its high calcium content, carrot juice is valuable in

the

improvement and maintenance of bones and teeth. " One pint of carrot

juice,

daily, has more constructive body value than 25 pounds of calcium

tablets, "

he notes. Like all minerals, calcium must be in an organic (living)

form to

be assimilable by our body. He warns that a calcium deficiency can

result

from drinking pasteurized cow's milk, and that this form of

calcium " is just

as inorganic as that used in making cement. " It can't be used by the

body,

and ends up forming kidney stones, gall stones, hemorrhoids or

tumors, he

warns.

 

As for " foods " such as candy, soft drinks and ice cream, Dr.

Walker

notes, " The human digestive processes were never intended by Nature

to be

called upon to convert these so-called foods into nourishment for the

cells

and tissues of the body. The result of using them is apparent in the

degeneration of the human system... To consider the brief span of two

or

three score years as constituting old-age is nothing less than a

downright

insult to Nature and to our Creator. It is a shameful admission that

we do

not know how to live and have not taken the trouble to learn the

first

principles of regenerating our body. It is a confession that we eat

ourselves

into the grave by catering to our appetites. "

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