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Foods to combat Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome
"Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food”
Hippocrates(460-377 B.C.)
Never have truer words been uttered. Food is an amazing healer and
preventer of disease. In fact most disease is a result of faulty use of
food. It has been seen time and time again in history that when
traditional cultures of people have eaten natural, whole, organic foods
they had excellent health, endless energy and near total freedom from
disease. But when exposed to modern diet in the “developed” world which
included processed, chemically treated, devitalised junk foods they
started to develop endless degenerative diseases including chronic
fatigue syndrome.
A land where disease is unknown
Would you believe me if I told you there is a land of people on earth
where there are no traces of cancer? Where men and women aged 80 years
and older having endless energy and freedom from disease. A land where
everyone has perfect vision, no heart disease, no obesity, no mental
illness, no ulcers and no degenerative disease. Well I am here to tell
you that such a land exists. The Hunzakut people enjoy this utopian
lifestyle. They are an amazing people unknown to the public at large
that live in the mountain peaks of the Himalayas in northwest Pakistan.
In Hunza men father children at ninety. Centenarians are a common
occurrence and it is not unusual for elderly people to reach the age of
130 years of age in perfect mental and physical health! In fact a
significant number have been reported to live to age 145!
But their greatest achievement is the fact that sickness is rare, that
cancer, heart disease, heart attacks, high or low blood pressure and
childhood diseases are virtually unknown. There is no juvenile
delinquency in Hunza and divorce is a rarity. There are no jails, police
or army and there is no need for them, as there hasn't been a crime
reported for the last one hundred and thirty years.
Food secrets of the healthiest culture on
earth
Hunza diet secret #1
So what do the hunza eat?
They eat a diet of fresh, natural, organic, unprocessed food. Everything
is fresh. Their food contains no chemical additives whatsoever. The only
processing consists of drying some fresh fruits in the sun. No chemicals
or fertilizers are used in the growing process.
They eat a variety of organic, mineral rich, fruits and vegetables. For
protein they eat organic milk, yogurt, paneer, eggs, nuts, mung beans,
and small amounts of organic white meat. For carbohydrates they eat a
variety of organic unrefined whole grains. For fats they consume ghee,
butter and almond oil. They consume rock salt which contains 83 minerals
and nutrients.
Hunza longevity bread
The Hunza’s make a bread which accompanies each meal and is quite
different from any bread that we are used to. The grain is kept intact
as long as possible, and is ground at the very last moment, the
housewife grinds only as much as she needs for the next meal, and kneads
again and again with water; not with yeast. She then beats it into very
thin, flat pancakes similar to the tortillas of the Mexican Indians.
The dough is then simply placed on the grill for hardly more than a
moment, in fact just long enough to grow warm and no longer taste raw
and it is finished.
Dr. Ralph Bircher noted in his book on the Hunzas “No more effective
method of preserving the health value of the grain exists and the taste
is excellent even without butter or jam.”
Hunza bread can be made from a variety of whole grains. But the best
grain to use for chronic fatigue syndrome is Atta flour. This can be
brought from any Indian or Asian grocery store or health food store.
I have explained in full detail in my e-book
“Cure your chronic fatigue
syndrome” at my website
www.CureChronicFatigue.com exactly how to make
hunza bread plus 144 pages of health knowledge on healing CHRONIC
FATIGUE SYNDROME naturally.
Apricots
Of all their organically grown food, perhaps the hunzas favourite, and
one of their dietary mainstays, is the apricot. Apricot orchards are
seen everywhere in Hunza and a family's economic stability is measured
by the number of trees they have under cultivation.
They eat their apricots fresh in season. Fresh sweet apricots are a very
rejuvenating, energy enhancing food. Excellent for people who suffer
chronic fatigue.
Hunza diet secret #2
The health and endurance of the Hunzakuts is credited as much to what
they don't eat as to what they eat.
Frugality of food.
Hunzas eat more quality food and less quantity of food. The most
important aspect of the hunza diet is to eat frugally. The higher the
quality of food the less food you need to eat because the minerals and
vitamins supply all the bodily needs which satisfy the appetite and
energy requirements.
The hunzakuts eat according to their energy output, appetite and work
requirements. Where as we in the west over eat out of sheer gluttony or
habit which results in digestive disease and obesity.
What they don’t eat
What the Hunzakuts do not eat or drink, should be of great concern to us
and we should think seriously of eliminating the following items from
our diet: refined salt, margarine, white sugar, white bread, white
flour, refined cereals, sodas, cold drinks, flavourings, colourings,
preservatives, red meat, tinned foods, non-organic meat and non-organic
eggs,
Hunza diet secret #3
Hunza water
It is generally accepted that the water the hunzas drink plays a major
role in their great health and longevity. This water comes from the
melting of the glaciers from the nearby mountains. These glaciers are
hundreds of thousand years old and grind the mountainous rock into
extremely fine particles. In turn the fine particles of rock are
suspended in this water and is called glacial milk because of its cloudy
appearance by being so loaded with these minerals.
Coming from glacial mountain streams and waterfalls this water carries a
negative charge or negative ions and is called “living water.” This
results in the water having an oxygen reduction potential and acts as an
antioxidant in the body with the ability to mop up free radicals. Also
the minerals in the water carry a negative charge, which make the
minerals easily absorbable.
In this way, by drinking this water the Hunzakuts bodies are saturated
with minerals which provides them with extraordinary vitality.
Another major factor is that their crops are also irrigated with this
colloidal mineral water and thus unlike Western soils, hunza soils are
not depleted of minerals. Plants are unable to manufacture one single
mineral, so that when soils are depleted, the plants we eat will also be
depleted of minerals. Insufficiencies of essential minerals in our diet
will lead to sickness and premature aging.
If you visit my website
www.CureChronicFatigue.com I will provide you
with a link to where you can purchase this mineral saturated hunza
water.
Experiments on rats using hunza diet and modern processed diet
In 1927 Dr. McCarrison was appointed Director of Nutrition Research in
India under the Research Fund Association. For his work and experiments
he chose albino rats.
For the first phase of his experiment Dr. McCarrison chose healthy rats.
He placed the rats in good conditions, with fresh air, sunlight, comfort
and cleanliness. He chose their diet from foods eaten regularly by the
Hunza people. This included hunza bread made of wholemeal flour, lightly
smeared with fresh butter; organic vegetables, milk; a small ration of
organic meat with bones once a week and an abundance of water.
In this experiment almost 1,200 rats were watched from birth to the
twenty-seventh month, an age in the rat which corresponds to that of
about fifty years in a man. At this stage the Hunza-diet-fed rats were
killed and carefully examined. McCarrison's report was remarkable:
"During the past two and a quarter years there has been no case of
illness in this 'universe' of albino rats, no death from natural causes
in the adult stock, and but for a few accidental deaths no infantile
mortality. Both clinically and at post-mortem, examination of this stock
has been shown to be remarkably free from disease. It may be that some
of them have cryptic disease of one kind or another, but if so, I have
failed to find either clinical or microscopical evidence of it."
His experiment did not, however, stop there. Next he took DISEASED rats
and placed them, too, on the Hunza diet. They all became well. Then he
took batches of rats and placed them in clean, comfortable surroundings
and fed them the food of modern processed western diet. The rats were
soon plagued with diseases and miseries of many kinds (much like so many
people are today). Over two thousand rats fed on modern processed diet
developed eye ailments, ulcers, boils, bad teeth, crooked spines, loss
of hair, amenia, skin disorders, heart, kidney and glandular weaknesses
and a multitude of gastrointestinal disorders.
In later experiments, McCarrison gave a set of rats the diet of the
poorer classes of England that consisted of white bread, margarine,
sweetened tea, white sugar, tinned meats and inexpensive jams and
jellies. On this diet, not only did the rats develop all kinds of
disease conditions, but they became nervous wrecks: "They were nervous
and apt to bite their attendants; they lived unhappily together and by
the sixteenth day of the experiment they began to kill and eat the
weaker ones amongst them."
These experiments clearly show that diet has a huge impact on mental,
emotional and physical health.
Final thoughts
Clearly we can see that diet is of paramount importance in preventing
illness and treating disease.
By saturating our body with organic, mineral and vitamin rich foods we
can not only reverse disease but totally avoid future illness. This is
clearly proven by the diet of the hunza people and the experiments of
the albino rats.
Even though it isn’t possible for us to go live in the Himalayan
Mountains, what we can do it is invest our money into organic healthy
foods similar in principle to the hunzas.
Author of this article
Jeremy Carew-Reid is a natural healer in the 5000-year-old health
science known as ayurvedic medicine. On his website
www.CureChronicFatigue.com you can learn how he cured himself from
chronic fatigue syndrome and how he can show you in his e-book
“Cure
Your Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” how you can heal Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
too. His website contains a wealth of free health articles and knowledge
on everything you need to know about curing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Please feel free to publish this article on your web site and/or in your
e-book with the author’s resource box included and without any changes
to the article.
Copyright © 2004 by Jeremy Carew-Reid.
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