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4. THE NATURE OF DISEASE
First lets a look at what disease is, what health is, and how we name diseases.


WHAT IS DISEASE?
 The word disease
DISEASE, as a word, means very simply NOT AT EASE - a person is uncomfortable or suffering difficulties in maintaining energies for the functions he wishes to discharge and in keeping operative those faculties he wishes to exercise.




Deviation from normal
In physiological terminology, disease means deviation from normal. That means that the body has deviated from regular functions.





ENERGY-WISE --- WHAT IS DISEASE?
 Redirection of energy
In a state of disease the body has rechanneled or redirected its energies so that it has less than usual energy for functions normally engaged in. (TC Fry)

NORMALLY the body feels relatively strong & energetic, because its available energy is directed to muscles & brain



  • Minimal energy to healing
  • Maximal energy to muscles & brain
    • In (acute) DISEASE the body feels weak, because its energy is directed to healing



  • Minimal energy to muscles & brain
  • Maximal energy to healing & disease-symptoms (sneezing, fever, etc.)



    • WHAT IS HEALTH?
     How healthy are we?
    Is there any human living today who is truly healthy?
    Is there any human today, who is perfectly healthy AND whose ancestors, at least 3 generations back, all have been truly healthy?
    Who knows? ---- But probably not... unless there are some undiscovered tribes, who do NOT have access to modern foods .....



    THE OPPOSITE OF "HEALTHY" IS "UNHEALTHY"
    Most humans today are chronically unhealthy - with a chronic low-grade toxicity - even if it doesn't show as "disease" symptoms. Some also suffer from deficiencies.
    E.g. almost every newborn infant is toxic, because most mothers are toxic.
    Here is what Herbert Shelton writes in Human Life Human Life - Its Philosophy and Laws
    Herbert Shelton: "STRONG" MEN ARE NOT STRONG
    Our strong men do not live any longer than the run-of-the-mill specimens of humanity. Many explanations for this have been devised. Actually, there is very little excuse for these mental meanderings. Athletes and strong men are often toxemic to the point of collapse.
    They are so vulnerable from the effects of self-poisoning that all they need to bring them down with a "fatal malady" is some slight unusual enervating influence, or some slightly unusual amount of an accustomed influence. As unreasonable as it may appear, the average medical man as well as the average layman, recognizes those - who are on the verge of apoplexy, "heart failure," kidney disease, or other diseases resulting from the degeneration brought on from chronic toxemia, arterial tension and fat pressure - as ideal types of health.
    They are commonly referred to as "pictures of health." In the early days of the recent war a young man was called before his local board for examination. The physicians found him fit and told him to go home and await his call for induction. He dropped dead on the way out. http://drbass.com/disease-cure.html




    WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT HEALTHY HUMANS?
    What are the characteristics of truly healthy humans? What do we know?
    First - they need to have several generations of ancestors who also were truly healthy. We know from Pottenger's cat-studies that if degeneration has occurred, it takes several generations to regain health, if at all possible ....
    There are examples of healthy humans among hunter-gatherer tribes in North America, described by the early explorers - obviously extreme stamina & high energy is typical:

    EXAMPLE: THE COAHUILTECANS
    The famous Spaniard Cabeza de Vaca lived with the Coahuiltecans for eight years from 1538.
    Of all Texas natives the Coahuiltecans lived the harshest, most difficult life. They led a roving life, starved in winter, and there seems to be very little they failed to eat that could be eaten. ....
    " The men could run after a deer for an entire day without resting and without apparent fatigue." "De Vaca was impressed by the fact that they were so difficult to kill .... traversed by an arrow ... he does not die but recovers from his wound."
    (After Spanish missions were established from the 1670's diseases rapidly diminished the native population. In 1800 most had disappeared.)
    Read more here.



    FIRST REQUIREMENT FOR TRUE HEALTH = WIDE & PERFECT DENTAL ARCHES
    Typical for chronic lack of health (from birth) are deformed bodies, e.g. deformed teeth.
    During the 1920's and 30's we know from dental researcher Weston Price's travels that there were still healthy humans with perfect dental arches, due to healthy living conditions. See the following pictures, from his Nutrition and Physical Degeneration :


    HEALTHY: FIG. 17. Wherever the Indians were living on their native foods, chiefly moose and caribou meat, their physical development including facial and dental arch form was superb with nearly complete immunity to dental caries. These two women and two girls are typical. (Nutrition and Physical Degeneration)


    UNHEALTHY: FIG. 19. The blight of the white man's commerce is seen everywhere in the distorted countenances of even the first generation after the adpotion by the parents of the foods of modern commerce. These young people with their deformed dental arches are typical. Note the faulty development of the facial bones as evidenced by the narrow nostrils and crowded teeth. (Nutrition and Physical Degeneration)
    Find more pictures from the book at soilandhealth.org



    THE PROGRESSIVE DETERIORATION OF THE HUMAN RACE

    Primitive Man - His Food and His Health
    by Stanley S. Bass

    ....The average nutritionist feels that any race lacking access to the wide variety of foods available, which modern agriculture and transportation now permit, could not be in good health.

    Beauty, white teeth, long life
    But the facts are known, and they indicate that, when living under near-isolated conditions, apart from civilization and without access to the foods of civilization, primitive man lives in much better physical condition and health than does the usual member of civilized society. When his own nutrition is adequate and complete, as it most often is, his teeth are white without brushing, they are formed in perfect alignment and the dental arch is broad. The face is finely formed, well-set and broad; the body development is also good, free from deformity, and desirably proportioned in beauty and symmetry. The respective members of the racial group reproduce in homogeneity from one generation to the next, with few deviations from the standard anthropological prototype.
    Reproductive efficiency permits parturition (birth) with no difficulty and little or no pain. There are no prenatal deformities. Resistance to infectious disease is high, few individuals are sick, and these usually rapidly recovering. The degenerative diseases are rare, even in advanced life, some of them being completely unknown and unheard of by the primitive. Mental complaints are equally rare, and the usual state of happiness and contentment is one scarcely known by civilized man. The duration of life is long, the people being yet strong and vigorous as they pass the three score and ten mark, and living in many cases beyond a century.
    These are the characteristics of the finest and healthiest primitive races living under the most ideal climatic and nutritional conditions. Even primitive races less favored by environment have better teeth and skeletal development than civilized man. We note that people living today, under the culture and environment of the Stone Age, have far surpassed civilized man in strength, physical development and immunity to disease. This fact poses an important question to modern medicine and should arouse serious thought and consideration.

    Contact with civilization - new diet
    The good health of the primitive has been possible only under conditions of relative isolation. As soon as his contact with civilization is sufficient to alter his dieting habits - with the introduction of refined white flour and white sugar, canned food, jams, marmalades, polished rice, etc. - within one generation of their use of these foods deficient in minerals and vitamins, he succumbs to disease very readily and loses all of the unique immunity of the past. The teeth decay; facial forms cease to be uniform; deformities become common; reproductive efficiency is lowered; mental deficiency develops, and the duration of life is sharply lowered.
    It is the nutritional habits of primitive man that are responsible for the state of his health, and as long as his native foods remain in use, as important physical changes occur, and the bacterial scourges are absent - even though a complete lack of sanitation would indicate that pathogenic bacteria might be present. When the native foods are displaced for those of modern commerce, the situation changes completely. And the finest sanitation, that the white man can provide, together with the best in medical services, is of no avail in preventing the epidemics that take thousands of lives.

    Lessons to learn
    What is needed is the proper education of children in healthy nutrition, beginning in grade schools. And for those aspiring to become mothers education in pre-parental, parental nutrition and proper feeding of children. The direction should be in education and prevention, rather than in the treatment of disease symptoms with drugs and surgery, if we are to reverse the increasing of degenerative disease and the progressive deterioration of the human race.

    Read the article here:
    http://drbass.com/primitive.html







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