Cleansings and Healthy Diets.
No matter what we eat we are always on a diet. Our choice of diet, then, should be appropriate to our individual needs based on the nature of daily activity and the general state of mind and body.
Cleansing Diets
As a person accumulates fat the organs of the body deposit waste material and toxins in the fatty tissue. The liver is the great manufacturing unit of the body. It takes from the bloodstream foodstuffs that have been eaten and reassembles them to make molecular structures needed by the body. This process was essential in earlier times when the range of our diet was limited and more suitable to our way of life.
When we regularly eat foods from all over the world as well as an enormous array of prepared foods our liver does not have to synthesise new molecules but finds them in our diet without effort. The liver becomes lazy and we often become sluggish and fat.
A cleansing diet provides an opportunity for the liver to go to work again, as it should. The liver must draw on body accumulation of fat and synthesize molecules for its needs from fruit and vegetables in a cleansing diet.
The one day a week fruit and vegetable diet.
On this diet a person eats as much as they wish of their selection of fruit and vegetables for the day. The diet starts on going to bed, continues through the whole of the next day until bed time and ends the following morning with a normal breakfast.
No bread, pastry, biscuits, milk, meat, alcohol etc to be taken. Drinks can be chosen from Lemon barley water, carrot juice, or cabbage water and taken liberally for the day of the diet. Cooked vegetables for supper, especially cabbage provide a warm meal.
The diet will help you to gain better control over appetite and weight control.
Diet for Obese people. The Cabbage Water Diet.
This consists only of boiled cabbage water (no salt). Simply chop up the cabbage and boil it in water. Serve the chopped cabbage to family and friends. As much cabbage water as one can drink is consumed for several weeks as often as one has the urge to eat. The cabbage water provides many needed supplementary body minerals. It also gives a feeling of well-being whilst on a drastic weight reduction diet.
Lemon Barley Water
Lemon barley water with honey is the mainstay of any short term cleansing diet, or as a supplement to a healthy regular diet. The lemon juice provides a cleanser to remove the secretions, deposits and products of anger, harmful thoughts and activities which are not harmonious to the unfolding of the indwelling spirit. The barley acts as a diuretic causing the kidneys to remove additional fluid from the blood stream. This is particularly helpful in high blood pressure or kidney malfunction. The honey serves to make it all the more palatable and provides for balancing body needs on a spring or autumn cleansing diet.
How To Make Lemon Barley Water
Place a tablespoon of whole barley in a bowl with two cups of water, boil this for 5 minutes. Pour off the water for use and boil the same barley with two cups of water for 20 minutes, you now have 2 cups of barley water. Add the juice of a quarter of a lemon to each cup and add honey to taste.
Carrot Juice is an excellent cleanser. It can be made in a vegetable juicer.
Grapefruit. Serves not only as a solvent but as an inhibitor of appetite due to its traces of magnesium phosphate.
Red Currant Tea. An excellent winter cleansing tea, filled with vitamin C.
Freeze red currants in a small plastic bag when in season. During the winter months pour out a bag of frozen currents into a pan of very hot water, allowing to simmer. More water can be added to the currants until they produce no more tea.