Salt. There is much talk about salt these days and much of it is negative. The truth is that salt is very important to young athletes or anyone who sweats a lot. Most salt that we consume today is refined salt in which all of the trace minerals have been removed during processing. Unrefined salt (in many varieties from many parts of the world) is loaded with trace minerals that are essential to heart health and counterbalance the ill effects of refined salt. My favorite is Himalayan pink salt with 84 trace minerals. Use unrefined salt and use it guilt free.
Water is the most elemental of all things you can do for your health yet city water can be polluted with chlorine and fluoride. Fluoride can be a combination of up to 350 toxic chemicals and NO, fluoride does not prevent cavities but it does increase the risk of bone cancer. Why don’t we hear this more often? I refer you to the first paragraph…. If you have city water, be sure to get a system that filters out fluoride and use the filtered water for everything you ingest including boiling pasta. I avoid bottled water, as it leaches chemicals from the plastic bottle. If you use fluoridated toothpaste make sure you rinse well with water or a non-fluoridated mouthwash. And please don’t let toddlers or young children use fluoridated toothpaste. Did you know that if an adult swallows a pea-sized morsel of toothpaste they should call poison control? It is a heavy metal and just imagine how easy it would be for a young child to swallow that amount. So once you have a good source of water, be sure to drink enough since your body doesn’t function well in a dehydrated state.
Avoid all GMO (genetically modified organism) and GE (genetically engineered) foods. These are not hybrids; they insert genes from other species. To learn more, read my newsletter on this subject. Many countries have banned GMOs yet in America we don’t even list them on the label. But here is the short version: if you eat corn, soy, cottonseed oil, canola oil, tomatoes (from the store), sugar beets or non-organic milk there’s a 90% chance they are GMOs. So please educate yourself in this area. Also limit your intake of white flour and refined sugar.
Give your body what it needs and it will serve you well. Start to train yourself to think differently about your health. We are trained to take aspirin (or whatever) for pain. But if you think about it we don’t get arthritis because we have an aspirin deficiency! Every illness is either a deficiency or toxicity. So be your own detective and as my father always said, “Question Everything”
Over 700,000 Americans die each year at the hands of government-sanctioned medicine, while the FDA and other government agencies pretend to protect the public by harassing those who offer safe alternatives.
~ Gary Null, PhD~
Love and Light, Lori Jacobs
PO Box 381 Brodheadsville, Pa 18322 610-381-8999 www.myhealingpath.com