So which foods are truly healthy that can help combat diseases especially at the early stages?
This is not an attempt to do away with professional medical or health care services when needed. This is to ensure that people can heal completely, even after seeking medical care.
It is also to reduce or if possible totally prevent instances of people dying before they are able to get the medical treatment. It is to prevent living perpetually in pains or minimise instances of lives tied perpetually to medications for survival – what if something happens and they cannot get the needed medication when needed?
Currently many people have to manage body pains for very prolong period. Some still die as a result in spite of spending so much on getting reputably advanced medical care.
The human body is not a car or any other automobile that usually breaks down due to usage. Automobiles were produced by humans, so it’s understandable that they constantly break down especially after few years of usage.
But the human body was designed by an Almighty, All-wise God to live for very very many years in good working condition. If it is not working well, something has been done or is being done to it - the cause may not be the fault of the carrier of the body.
As constantly reiterated, what causes most diseases are toxic substances that get in or on the body. Those substances are things never intended by God, the Creator of that body to get into that body. The various means those things get in have been mentioned in previous parts and series.
The damaging effects of those toxic substances become even more pronounced when absorbed into the bloodstream. Even if the liver purifies the blood and separates those substances, if they are too toxic or stony - hard inorganic toxic substances, the kidneys may not be able to pass them out of the body through urination. Their attempts at passage could damage the kidneys.
If the toxic substances are such that the kidneys can pass out, if a person constantly takes in too much toxins through food or medications or substance abuses or body care products or air pollution, the kidneys would be overworked. Some of those toxic substances would have to wait for expulsion – so the organic and inorganic toxins will remain in the bloodstream.
As the blood circulates, they will be taken by the blood to different parts of the body- internal organs, tissues, cells causing aches and pains. They may even be deposited in some parts of the body such as in the breasts, the cervix, in the prostrate area.
When such constantly get to the brain, you can imagine what they’ll do – disrupt normal functioning – such a person would likely have mental blocks when toxins are visiting/passing by the brain. If it happens constantly, especially if some toxins get deposited around the brain, even if they don't amass to form a tumor, wouldn’t it affect the brain's functioning?
Before calling any child dullard, why not find out what the child is constantly being fed or feeding on?
I had Dyslexia as a child – from what I can recollect, I would completely forget some things I had been taught. It was such that I couldn’t write letter A at age 5years – I was flogged by a teacher at an afternoon lesson as a result.
When I cast back my mind to what was happening about four and half decades ago, I remembered something – my mother did not allow it so I was doing it secretly. – I used to have lots of coins at my disposal so I would leave our apartment making older family members believe I was going to play – partly true. I would go and buy very sweet candies – my favourite then was called ‘ekona Gowon’ – Gowon’s fingernail and very sweet chewy chocolate - Goody-Goody which I called Kudi-Kudi. I would buy as much as the money with me and chewed them fast instead of licking so I wouldn’t be discovered.
I did that almost everyday and would often have low appetite for nutritious meals – I disliked that ‘eba’ made from cassava and the ‘ewedu’ – vegetable soup with stew that we often ate for lunch.
If I could escape eating the meal, I would – but I struggled academically such that I repeated Primary 1. I was then more closely-monitored, so my secret childhood indulgence on extra sweet treats was on and off.
When I was in Primary 5 , my family condition changed. By then there were no longer extra money for such treats. For some years afterwards, my grandmother would often bring foodstuffs from the village grown under her supervision. You may think it is coincidence but it was around that period that the mental blocks I often suffered which had been on and off from Primary 1 to Primary 4 cleared.
It was in Primary 5 that I was actually able to read clearly and simultaneously started writing stories that got attention of the teacher. In Primary 6, I wrote my first novel on a 2A exercise book. I also graduated with a Distinction from Prinary school
Also when I was teaching children as a private teacher in their homes, I noticed something similar. There’s this particular boy in a wealthy home. He has siblings, some of which I also taught. The boy had attended the best private schools but was struggling academically. He had a very sweet tooth - he loved frizzy sugared drinks so much then. Two of his younger ones that I also taught whose mouths were not so wide, learnt faster and improved remarkably academically.
The older boy also did improve academically but it was a whole lot of struggle for him and I had to take very painstaking measures in teaching him. If I had known what I know now, I may have insisted that he cut off or reduce his excessive intake of those processed foods. I did discover that one of the younger ones I taught didn’t like processed foods – he even wanted to give away the processed foods they had at home.
Also with depression, unhealthy foods which may or may not be expensive affect moods. Circumstances of life can and does make people unhappy but unhealthy foods aid the slip into depression. I also have traced periods of depression to consumption of certain foods.
Substance abuse, side effects of some medications and exposure to certain pollutants in the air can also affect moods and the slip into depression.
Just remember this as a formula- for most diseases, depression and mental blocks, some things have got into your system, get them out as fast as possible.
Formula:
Toxins in – Toxins out = Relief or Good Health + S.M.E = Total Healing
Healing is of course holistic- you also have to take care of your Spiritual, Mental and Emotional health through what you do, listen to and relationships.
In those periods of examples I cited, to minimise toxins through food, people who were aware, simply avoided processed foods as much as possible – the processes such as whitening of some processed foods, making them have certain qualities or use of some preservatives to extend their shelf-life often introduce substances that are not ideal, even harmful to the human body.
These then become toxic to the body if unable to pass through the kidneys or if taking longer than normal to pass out. It can result in insulin resistance leading to Diabetes, Hypertension, Blood Clotting, Stroke etc or even Chronic Kidney failure or Disease.
But in recent times, apart from processed foods, use of certain harmful growth boosters in growing plants or rearing animals for human consumption have also increased.
They gradually damage the body – they are slow poisons and should be No – No.
While we wait for a change that prohibit/ eliminate the use of harmful substances in farming and food processing, let’s consciously remove toxins from our bodies using about the safest means – truly healthy foods – at least edible leaves, seeds, fruits, other vegetables. Even some carbs, proteins and oils produced without the use of toxic substances can help soak up, reduce the effects and/or eliminate toxins from the body.
All such foods cannot be mentioned in this write--up but know that most foods grown or produced without toxic substances have healing effects - find out more.
To specifically remove toxic substances from the body so that they can pass through the kidneys or be flushed out, I’ll mention a few.
1. Pawpaw leaves taken as tea help soak up and remove toxins.
2. Seeds of crops such as Pawpaw can remove toxins from the body – they can be blended and taken as tea or used in spicing food.
Some toxins are so hard they get stuck in the kidney(s), described as kidney stones. 3.Avocado seeds – grated and soaked in water to drink or boiled as tea. They can also be dried and blended into powder. Swallow about a teaspoonful of the powder and drink water or hoil and drink as tea. You may sieve but it’s also safe without sieving.
4. African cherry leaves – agbalumo leaves I have found to be a kidney stone breaker. I boil with other leaves and use in making soft drink. When the mixture leaves drink ferments a little, it tastes like wine.
5. If you soak locally-well-made gari in water and drink the water, it can help calm the body – the tummy in particular.
6. If rice has not been grown or processed with chemicals, the parboiled water can have some healing effects but DONT TRY IT. Why? Because you can hardly get rice produced without chemical boosters.
As much as possible try to get organic-grown ones of any food being used for healing effects.
How do you know when toxins get into your body?
There will be inflammation - a sort of burning sensation in your body minutes or hours after eating or drinking or taking the medication or substance or inhaling.
If you constantly ignore this inflammation, most or all the toxins may get absorbes by the blood. Even with detoxification by the liver, thry msy pose challenges to the kidney(s) and flow through the blood as explained watlier.
Part 2 of this series explains how to reduce the amount of toxins absorbed by the blood.
Afterwards you can eat foods or drink teas of leaves that remove the toxins. Plant edible leaves, for instance pawpaw in buckets if you don’t have the land. At least you can harvest the leaves to make drinks.
Note: since the leaves remove toxins from the body, they also remove fat – toxins that have stayed in the body would likely be deposited in fatty areas of the body. So they can result in weight loss. For someone who does not want to lose so much weight, ensure to eat well.
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