Conference rocks::weight_control

    
    
    Thou shalt consider the dictates of thy conscience no less than
    thy body in the joy of eating and devote thyself as much as possible
    to the selection of natural, health-imparting food.
    
    
    	If you can grow it in your own garden, prepare it in your own
    	kitchen, eat it at your own table or in the open air, you are
    	of all people most fortunate. If you are aware that more than
    	50% of your daily diet should be raw fresh vegetables and fruit,
    	you are well on your way to a nutritional path in total living.

    
    
    Thou shalt not eat refined sugar or any product made with refined
    sugar, remembering that the purest and most natural sugar is found
    in fruits and vegetables.
    
    	Use honey in moderation. Sugar tends to lower vital minerals
    	such as potassium and magnesium in the blood serum. Sugar-rich
    	diets are linked to coronary diseases, ulcers, tooth decay,
    	obesity, malnutrition, diabetes and hypoglycemia.

    
    
    Thou shalt lay off bread or pastries made with white refined flour.
    
    	Products made with white flour lack the B-complex vitamins needed
    	by the body. White bread advertises vitamin additives and
    	restoration fortification factors, but the U.S. Public Health
    	Service says, "There are so many unknown factors involved in
    	what is added and how much of each is used in fortifying a food
    	that it would be best not to undertake the process at this time
    	as a public health measure."

     
    
    Thou shalt cut down on salt and eliminate it from the diet as soon
    as possible. Get the salt your body needs from vegetables.
        
    
    	Salt is an inorganic mineral which the body cannot handle. Dr.
    	Herbert M. Shelton calls it "a poison." It inhibits the digestion
    	of food, injures the capillaries and kidneys and is excreted
    	with difficulty. To dilute the salt the body overworks to tetain
    	water in order to protect the vital organs from the destructive
    	chemical union of salt with cell constiuents. This water or
    	brine is held in the connective tissues, giving rise to edemas,
    	conditions of excessive fluid.

    
    
    Thou shalt abstain from coffee, tea (excepting herb teas) and alcohol.
    
    	They are all stimulants. Stimulation is irritation. Addiction
    	to stimulants lowers energy and destroys health. Stimulants
    	are subtle and pernicious. Their use creeps up on you, justifying
    	themselves because they whi up the endocrine glands, create
    	temorary stimulation and eventually result in deterioration
    	with wide-spread side effects.

    
    
    Thou shalt not use hydrogenated fats and oils.
    
    	Hydrogenation is the process that makes a naturally unsaturated
        fat saturated. The process amkes the fat last longer and sell
    	more readily, but it also makes it chemically inert and the
    	body will simply add it as so much excess fat. When buying oils
    	be sure they are labeled "cold pressed."

    
    
    Thou shalt avoid pepper, mustard, hot spices, pickles and salad
    dressings containing additives.
    
    	These slow up the natural digestive process of other foods with
    	which they are used. Season your foods with tasty, tangy herbs
    	such as thyme, marjoram, bay leaves, mint, garlic, ginger. Garlic
    	gives the heart a double assist because it is rich in sulfur,
    	which acts as an antitoxidant.

    
    
    Thou shalt give u poultry and meats produced with hormones intended
    to stimulate growth and weight or to preserve the color of meat.
    
    	If meat is of an unusually bright red color, it is reasonable
    	to assume that it has been doped and doctored with sulfurous
    	acid or sodium sulfite. Ask your butcher about additives and
    	chemicals and hear what he has to say. The list of chemicals
    	used in curing and preserving meats is long and often concealed
    	because of the poisonous effects. Both sodium nitrate and sodium
    	nitrite have dangerous side effects. Poisons used in the food-line
    	of animals such as DDT and insecticides get into the flesh of
    	animals and poultry. Let the buyer beware.

    
    
    Thou shalt not be taken in by hard-sell commercials of breakfast
    cereals which are mere confections or of foods made artificially
    attractive through the use of dyes or chemical colorings added to
    cake mixes and fruits.
    
    	Many of these sugar-sweetened products are deceptive, and many
    	of the cosmetically camoflaged products lead to chronic illnesses
    	and gradual degeneration in our bodies.

    
    
    Thou shalt not get neurotic about your eating, but make it an adventure
    in the art of total dynamic living.
    
    	You are the laboratory. It's your life to live. Begin by wisely
    	comparing the nonnutritional, unnatural, doctored-up foods with
    	natural, unadulterated, living products in the same category.
    	Check the label as to the ingredients, the additives, the
  	chemicals. If, because of the fine, deceptive print and the
    	abundance of chemical terma, you can't read it, don't eat it!

         These are great, thanks for entering them.  I would like
         to make one correction; I know you didn't write them,
         but I feel that this is important.  Alcohol is *not* a
         stimulant, it is a DEPRESSANT.  It slows down all of your
         smooth muscle, e.g., your heart, diaphragm, intercostals,
         etc.  
    
    E Grace

	Those "commandments" are not entirely accurate.

	Not only is alcohol not a stimulant, but this is wrong :

.4>    	Salt is an inorganic mineral which the body cannot handle. Dr.
.4>    	Herbert M. Shelton calls it "a poison." It inhibits the digestion

	Salt is a necessary constituent of our body fluids.

	Without any salt at all, you will die, since nerve impulses,
    including those for involuntary actions like breathing and heartbeat
    will cease.

	Yes, reduce salt intake if you are sensitive to it. or suffer
    hypertension, but it is NOT a poison!

-mike z

    Well, like many things, too much salt can be real bad for you. Kill you
    in fact. What he may have meant is that the average person gets enough
    salt from their everyday diet that there is no need to take on extra
    from the salt cellar.
    
    
    /andy/