BLOOD AND NATURAL FOOD

     Blood is alkaline. Raw food is also alkaline. Raw food maintains the alkaline nature of the blood easily. When food is cooked it becomes acidic. Cooked food taken turns the blood to acidic nature.  Hence the body fights to turn the blood into alkaline to maintain the health. When it fails to do so we become a prey to
diseases.

HOW TO FAST?

              Only water should be taken when thirsty.  Those who can't can take juices. After the sickness has reduced juicy fruits and fleshy fruits can be included little by little for a few days.  Then after recovery nuts can be included.  During fasting taking rest is a must.  If airy places are available rest can be taken there.  Energy losing activities such as watching TV, talking more, listening to music, walking long distances should be avoided.  The body should be helped to divert all its energy to cure the body.  Due to fasting the toxin level in the body gets reduced. Since the toxin level is reduced the diseases also gets reduced.

TO INCREASE DIGESTIVE POWER

             2 spoons of ginger juice daily will help those with weak digestion.  The white colour sediment which settles after the juice is taken should not be eaten. Juice taken should be kept for 15 minutes for the sediment to settle and then taken with a spoonful of honey.  Not advisable for ulcer patients.  They can chew cumin
instead.  Drink warm water made by boiling cumin and pepper in it.

CAN KIDNEY FAILURE PATIENTS DRINK WATER

       Kidney failure patients can drink water when they are thirsty provided they are on complete natural diet (mainly on juicy fruits).  If more juicy fruits are included in the diet the less thirsty he will be.  Acupressure can also be given to the kidney point in hands and legs. Salt and sugar should be avoided completely.

               Kidney stone patients should drink lots and lots of water to dissolve the stone formed.  They are formed because of the lack of body's capacity to absorb the calcium.  Hence they tend to crystallize in the form of stone.  This arises due to the non-functioning of thyroid gland and it can be cured easily by giving
acupressure on kidney and thyroid gland point. (More details in the book Health in your hands Vol I By Devendra Vora ). Following juice diet will give faster results. (Banana stem juice will be helpful).

HOW MUCH WATER TO DRINK?

               There is no minimum and maximum limitation for drinking water in natural food.  One can drink water whenever he feels thirsty.  The concept of drinking 3-5 litres of water daily to purify the body  applies only to those on cooked food.

HOW TO GAIN SELF CONTROL TO CHANGE TO NATURAL FOOD

                    (1) Follow Acupressure and giving pressure on the endocrine glands.
                    (2) Meditation.
                    (3) Reading more and more about natural food. (Daily atleast 2 pages)
                    (4) Having contact with people who take natural food.


PREPARING MENTALLY

One should prepare himself mentally before starting natural food.  This article would have given the reader a general idea of natural food and how it functions in the body.  Interested persons can go in for more reading through books and websites.  The more and more informed he will be able notice and understand
the changes in his body.  He won't get panicked at the elimination process. Persons who take natural food to recover from their illness should be prepared mentally well about the treatment he is to be given. His co-operations play a vital role for recovery.

He should keep his mind away from negative thoughts.  Fill it with positive thoughts like 'I am going to recover' 'I am going to be happy and cheerful'.  Keep away from people who laugh at naturopathy and changing diet.  Laugh a lot. People who laugh a lot rarely get diseases.

SAYINGS REGARDING NATURAL FOOD

                               (1)   Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
                               (2) Health is wealth.
                               (3) Eat to live; don't live to eat.
                               (4) Eat water drink food.(drink water little by little and eat food after chewing well.
                               (5) Medicine and food should be one and the same.
                               (6) Indigestion and Constipation are the basic diseases for all other diseases.
                               (7) God created fruits; Devil created cooking.
                               (8) Bed coffee will make us fall in bed.
                               (9) Eat for the body and not for the tongue.
                              (10) Salt and sugar are poisons.
                              (11) Good air is equal to 100 ounce of medicine. (Japanese Proverb)
                              (12) Doctor is present where sun is absent-Spain proverb
                              (13) Wake at 5 take food at 9 (morning)  Eat  at 5 sleep  at 9 (evening)
                              (14) Where the stomach is big the brain is small - German Proverb.
                              (15) Over eating kills more people than famine and war.
                              (16) Taking food after sunrise and before sunset increases the life span.

NATURAL FRIDGE

Fruits should be eaten when it is fresh itself to avoid loss of nutrition. It is not wise to refrigerate and eat.  Fruits can be kept fresh without keeping in fridge by a simple method.  Take a broad vessel ( size according to need ).  Fill it with sand.  Pour some water on it to wet the sand.  Spread a thin cotton cloth over it.  Keep the vegetables and fruits over this cloth.  This will help to a certain extent to keep them fresh.  Water should be sprinkled over the sand whenever necessary to keep it wet.  Greens can be kept with their stems  immersed in water for a day to keep them fresh.  The best way is to purchase whenever necessary and use as soon as possible.  They can also plant fruit trees grow greens, vegetables in their gardens instead of other decorative plants.