Telos Journal Edition Four November 2013 | Página 18

of myriad illnesses, Gerson spoke with the aplomb of Hippocratic incontrovertibility. With
Mother Nature’s time-honored wisdom, he said: “The fundamental damage starts with
the use of artificial fertilizer for vegetables and fruits as well as for fodder. Thus, the
chemically transformed vegetarian and meat nourishment, increasing through
generations, transforms the organs and
functions of the human body in the wrong
direction.” As a result, he was politically
ignored,

slandered

in

social

and

professional spheres, and left to labor-on
through his own unadorned devices.
Gerson planted a seed, but the seed
sprung between oligarchic behemoths. He had to wait for his sunny space,
posthumously, for the behemoths to grow beyond their means and fall naturally and
unwaveringly.
What we can control apropos of cancer prevention and treatment works to the extent
of our lack of indifference to the effects of our internal and external environments. The
food you put in your body is not a choice that you can disregard beyond your
grandma’s dinner table, even though the dog may wait patiently for scraps. Of course,
the external environment is harder to transform since our communities have changed
from the simple notion of healthful preservation to the nearly monomaniacal acquisition
of wealth and property. And when we opt for the former, we suffer the serendipitous
possibilities that can arise from our ‘inconvenient’ hassles.
“Admitting that there’s a strong relationship between what we eat and getting cancer
or some other sickness, points the finger at two groups,” says C. Gerson and Walker, “(a)
the food processors who sell us malnourishing synthetic or otherwise unnatural
unpackaged edibles and (b) ourselves as the source of our own illness.” And as the cost
of living keeps rising, the expediency in cutting healthy corners has settled into the
population’s lifestyles. We use more plastic, less banana leaves, for example, offerings
are bought instead of made by the offerers, we shop once or twice a week at the