The first steps in producing a healthy body is to stop using all imbalanced detrimental foods, drinks, chemicals and stimulants. This includes separated, revitalized and enriched grains and other food products that have been tampered with. Avoid any cooked, canned or frozen foods, Eliminate foods that have been artificially fertilized, pesticide sprayed and chemically preserved. All animal products and their by-products should be discontinued. All drinks that are unnatural, chemically formulated or stimulants such as coffee, black teas and sodas should be stopped. Sugar, salt, pepper and chocolate along with hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils should also be eliminated. Tap water should not be used for drinking or food preparation unless properly filtered. All recreational drugs, alcoholic beverages, tobacco products and over the counter, chemically formulated drugs should also be avoided.

By eliminating the use of these products and introducing a purer, highly nutritional organic diet to your lifestyle, most ailments will be eliminated.

The human body is made up of all the elements that have been put into it. It builds its cells, tissues, bones and creates the fats that store the unused portions of ingested materials. The blood also contains these products. In the digestive system, the intestinal tract is pact and coated with these materials.

When all inferior foods and toxic substances have been eliminated from the diet, the body will go through a withdrawal period. During this time discomfort, anxiety, nervousness, nausea, weakness, emotional mood swings from anger to hopelessness will be experienced and a desire to return to the old habits that are trying to be broken. This healing crisis should last a few weeks.

To help the body in the process of elimination, you should bath once or twice daily. Saunas and sweat baths are also a plus. Drink plenty of fluids, especially fruit juices (apple, grape, prune, citrus, etc.. organically grown and unfiltered). Laxatives and intestinal cleansers should be used to help move the solid wastes out of the system. Use only natural products without chemical stimulants. Enemas, both high and low volume will also help greatly in this process.

Due to a diet high in oils, fats, cholesterol and other mucous forming foods, the intestinal tract becomes coated with a layer of waste that doesn't allow nutrients to filter into the rest of the body. This causes a feeling to over consume to balance the low energy being experienced. This is a basic factor in being overweight. A high fiber diet is needed to scrape clean the intestinal walls and allow nutrients to be absorbed.

If the intestinal tract is too slow or is blocked in its function, toxic wastes can re-circulate back into the system. This results in the blood becoming toxic and impure. The solid wastes can also compost while in the intestinal walls causing burns, cysts, ulcers, tumors, colitis and eventual cancer.

In the regimen of cleaning out the lower tract, acidophilus or lactobacillus bifidus should be add to the diet. This is a good digestive bacteria used to aid in the breaking down and absorption of nutrients into the system. It also helps to keep the eliminatory system clean and running properly. Its a natural product found in yogurt and sauerkraut. It can be found in a variety of products in the health food industry in concentrated form. Its best to use a plant food based bacillus. Its higher in purity.

A bad diet will cause a lot of waste to accumulate in the system. From this waste, poor hygiene and other causes, microscopic parasites will invade and multiply in the body. They settle in the weak or damaged areas of the body and live off the tissue and surrounding waste it produces. In short, they eat you and then excrete their waste into your system. There are natural Antibiotics and Antiseptics found in the plant kingdom that will eliminate these organisms.

There are also larger parasites that are ingested in poorly cooked and decaying animal flesh, deteriorating plant materials and impure water. These can be eliminated by natural Anthelmintics and Vermifuge. These are found mostly in the hulls of nuts of trees and other plants. They have a strong defense against insect invasion, large and microscopic.

Parasites that invade the body gather and live in its weakest areas. The bodies defense system reacts to their presence and trys to absorb and eliminate them. Packets of white blood cells encircle these parasites and form balls of pus around them. The body then compensates by growing new tissue in the damaged area. When the body is unable to completely heal the weakened area, the infection returns, new damage occurs and the white blood cells go back to work. A continuation of this creation and destruction cycle causes the infected weakened area to grow in size, layer by layer. These become hardened over time if the affliction is unresolved and out of control. These are commonly called cysts, ulcers and tumors. Unchecked they can cause great discomfort and complications. There are natural remedies known as Discutients and Resolvents that break down and remove these problem areas.

To help the body to remove the wastes of putrefied matter, dead blood cells and microorganisms, nature has given us plants that contain Mucilaginous properties. Much like white blood cells, mucilagins work on a larger scale. They trap and absorb large amounts of waste and carry them out of the system. They also coat and soothe the infected areas and aid in its healing process.

All ailments and disfunctions of the body have an effect on the blood stream. An unhealthy body will cause an unhealthy blood stream. In retrospect an unhealthy blood stream will cause an unhealthy body. To much waste in the blood will cause poor elimination of cellular waste. If this waste backs up into the cells, cellular disfunction will occur. The blood will also carry the waste to other eliminatory systems, besides the kidneys, when over burdened with too much excess. This excess will then be routed to the lungs and skin for discharge. Too much waste in the lungs will cause an overabundance of mucous and oxygen intake will be decreased. If an infection occurs at this time serious problems can arise. When the excess is eliminated through the skin, acne, pimples, boils, tumors and skin cancer can form.

Bad body odor is a sign that the blood is impure. To help the blood stay clean, nature has provided us with blood purifiers and cleansers known as Depuratives. If the blood is kept clean and pure it can carry off the toxic wastes that the body produces in the eliminatory process.

In our daily lives, we are constantly exposed to various forms of poisons, toxins, petro and chemical, pollutants in our air, water and foods. These are known as free radicals. Free radicals are atoms and groups of atoms that are destructive, foreign invaders to our physical bodies. Once they enter our bodies, they can cause damage to our cellular structures. Through prolonged exposure to these free radicals, poor nutrition, stress, age, etc.. our immune system becomes overtaxed and impaired. This leaves us open to and vulnerable to infections and degenerating diseases- eases. The body itself naturally creates free radical scavengers that eliminate and keep these agents in check when we are healthy. There are also natural anti oxidants in the foods we eat. Unfortunately they are heat sensitive and are destroyed in the cooking process, eliminating their design and purpose.

In our daily diet and over time, we have been unknowingly executing a great injustice to our physical structures. In the habits we've received from our ancestors, we practice cooking nearly all our foods. The origins of cooking originated when flesh foods were fired to make them more palatable and less toxic. In this cooking for taste, many combinations of cooked plant foods were added to the diet. In heating foods, precious living elements that the body needs are destroyed. One of these elements necessary to our overall health and energy are known as enzymes.

Enzymes are essential for maintaining certain functions in the body such as digesting foods and in the repairing of tissues. They also act in the storage of food in the body and then converting these stored foods back to energy. They construct new muscle tissue, nerve cells, bone, skin and glandular tissue. They also aid in the elimination of toxins by the colon, kidneys, lungs and skin. They are the catalysts or activators in the chemical reactions that are continually taking place in the body. Enzymes are essential chemicals that are the foundation of human bodily functions. Raw foods are essential and necessary for the proper levels of enzymes needed to insure good health.

There are thousands of these little workers that perform just as many functions in our bodies. If we restrict our intake of living enzymes, we restrict and over burden the many various phases in the life process. This results in stress, toxemia and an acceleration in the aging process.

Vitamins are necessary for health and life in general. They regulate metabolism and assist the biochemical processes that release energy from digested foods. These micro-nutrients work with the enzymes to control the many different functions of the body that regulate the timely and accurate bio-mechanical processes. Vitamins, much like enzymes, are found naturally in the plant kingdom. Also like enzymes, vitamins are heat sensitive and are destroyed in the cooking process.

When vitamin supplements are used, it is wise to be aware of where they originated, their processing and of any additives used. They should be extracted, from natural sources, unrefined and unfired. The best vitamins are those contained in a food matrix. Nature provides vitamins in complex molecular structures, not isolated nutrients. Its been found that concentrated isolated nutrients are more readily absorbed and used by the body when combined with a natural food base. ( rose hips, citrus with vitamin C, alfalfa with vitamin K, carrot with vitamin A & Beta Carotene, yeasts with B vitamins etc..).

Isolated free state, chemical nutrients found in common vitamin supplements may contain other unnatural ingredients. They may or may not be labeled natural and contain coal tars, artificial coloring, preservatives, sugars, starches, and other additives that are toxic. You should also be aware that misleading advertisement is normal in todays market place. Just because their labeled natural doesn't mean they were extracted from a natural high quality food source.

Another nutritional supplement that is very helpful in the purification process, in healing and in the elderly is M.S.M.,( Methylsulfonylmethan ) Also known as Sulfonium or Nutritional Sulfur this substance creates a flexible pliability in the connective tissues, joints and skin. It keeps the body permeable to fluids and aids in the absorption and elimination cycles of cellular activity. It takes hardened tissues and cells and softens them by creating flexible bonds between proteins.

As an anti-aging and anti-oxidant agent it fortifies and protects cells and membranes. It removes free radicals and foreign proteins from the system.

It has been reported to reverse and clear up skin tumors, liver spots, hardening of the arteries, varicose veins, emphysema, diverticulitis, diabetes, deafness, migraine headaches, bad eyesight, scar tissues, cataracts, and Alzheimer's disease. Its also said to control Candida which causes epilepsy, cronic fatigue syndrome glandular malfunctions, abnormal blood sugar levels and the body's PH balance.

MSM keeps the intestinal walls soft and permeable which allows for the absorption of nutrients into the blood. Old age and death occur when the body can no longer complete this function.

MSM is a naturally occurring non-toxic nutritional substance found in rainwater, wheat grass, aloevera and most of the living plants and fruits we eat. it is heat sensitive and is destroyed in the cooking process.

MSM is greatly needed by vegetarians especially Vegans.

Minerals are natural elements found in the earth. Rock formations are made up of mineral salts. Through time rocks erode and are broken down into dust, sand and dirt. This forms the basis for soil. Plants absorb these minerals as they grow in the soil. Animals and man then eat these plants, absorbing and assimilating these minerals of a more refined state.

Like vitamins, minerals function as coenzymes. They enable the body to quickly and accurately perform its activities. They are needed for the compositions of body fluids, the formation of blood and bone and the maintenance of healthy nerve functions.

Minerals are classified as macro (bulk) minerals and micro (trace) minerals. Bulk minerals are needed in larger amounts than trace minerals. Both are important to good health.

The best mineral supplements come in a chelated form. This means that the minerals are attached to a protein molecule that transports them to the blood stream in order to enhance their absorption.

The body is made up of many different types of cells. All cells have an exterior structure that provides the inner mechanism with protection and stability. When the outer cell wall is weak or damaged, the cell can't function to its fullest capacity or is invaded, damaged or destroyed by exterior forces. In order for a cell to be its healthiest, its outer wall must be given the proper materials to build and reinforce its containing structure.

There are twelve basic salts or minerals that the bodies cell walls contain. When one or more of these elements are missing, weak cells occur.

The vitamins and minerals that nature gives us from the plant kingdom are best suited for our nutrition and growth. They are of a higher quality with less toxic residue. Supplements should be used to catch up or help us in our healing processes. Once a good level of health is achieved you can discontinue their everyday use and take them only in a periodic maintenance program, when deemed necessary.

Amino acids are the chemical units or 'building blocks' that make up proteins. Proteins are essential to life. They provide the structure for all living things. Proteins make up the muscles, ligaments, tendons, organs, glands, skin, hair, nails, bone and body fluids. Next to water, protein makes up the greatest portion of our body weight.

In the nervous system, amino acids act as neurotransmitters or as precursors to the neurotransmitters. They are necessary to the brain in transmitting and receiving messages. A diet high in quality protein will increase mental alertness.

There are twenty nine known amino acids. These account for the hundreds of different types of protein complexes present in all living things. In the human body the liver produces eighty percent of the amino acids needed. The other twenty percent must be obtained from outside sources-in the diet. This twenty percent are called the 'essential amino acids'. If there is an imbalance in these eight essential amino acids the rest of the absorbed nutrients will not effectively perform their functions and physical disorders will start to complicate life.

Protein supplements should contain all the essential amino acids, be in a free form state and of plant origin. This type is absorbed more rapidly, of a purer quality, without any toxic residue. There are two types of carbohydrates, simple and complex. Simple carbohydrates are sugar in its many forms. Sugar intake is the cause for many physical problems. It causes the pancreas to be over active, producing too much insulin. A high intake of sugar can cause the over stimulation of this organ and wear it out. When the pancreas can no longer handle this sugar intake, diabetes and hypoglycemia is the result. When the pancreas no longer functions properly, fatigue, dizziness, confusion, restlessness and headaches are experienced. Ultimately, this leads to other diseases such as the collapse of the adrenal glands.

When fats are combined with simple carbohydrates, nutrients and oxygen being delivered to the many cells and tissues become reduced. When these two are combined, blood cells become cohesive and clump together making it difficult for them to enter the small capillaries that feed the tissue cells. When no food or oxygen can get through to these cells, disease is sure to follow. Simple carbohydrates (sugar) also creates an excellent breeding ground for bad bacteria to multiply in.

Complex carbohydrates on the other hand are beneficial and necessary for a constant flow of energy and body heat. The foods that contain these carbohydrates have the fiber necessary to keep the intestinal tract clean and free of toxic, morbid and digested foods. They also provide the body with vital vitamins and minerals that are important to good health. Complex carbohydrates are found in fresh fruits and vegetables, beans, nuts, seeds and natural whole grains.

Recent studies in complex carbohydrates have revealed that there are eight glyco-nutrients necessary to provide the body with optimal health. From these eight are the many strains of carbohydrate complexes created in the body. Classified as polysaccharides, these eight basic carbohydrates create, communication network necessary for all of the different cells of the body to 'talk' to each other. When the body is able to transmit information freely and unhindered, the autoimmune system works at its peak performance.

Phytochemicals are some of the most recent discoveries made in natural healing. Their discovery and isolation, and what they achieve in the human body is yet another land mark in unveiling optimal health, elimination of degenerative diseases and the suffering it causes. These micro nutrients assist the body to heal and repair cellular tissue, reinforce and support the auto immune system. A healthy immune system is perhaps one of the most important factors in maintaining optimal health.

Phytochemicals are non-toxic complex nutrients. They can be thought of as the biochemical information carriers and communication system. They link up the cellular communication network whereby, cells, tissues, glands, organs and cellular fluids can relay information to one another. They are the lines of broadcast in the neuropathways and the receptors on the cellular walls of all the various tissues. They are like the code keys that unlock the various functions of the body.

Free radicals, toxins and poisons hinder and block the transmission and reception of the messages sent through out the body. In this degenerative process, the communications between cells become garbled and confused. Partial or no information is transmitted and bio-chaos results. If the cells become weak or damaged and their transmissions are blocked, they are isolated and vulnerable to outside destructive elements. If the cells could continue to release the information that it was weak, damaged or under attack, the body would respond by giving it what it needs for repair or protection.

Phytochemicals have an anti viral effect, an anti cancer action, promotes a reduction in allergies, a prevention of infections, aids rapid healing and adds to the actions of medications.

To reinforce the body with phytochemicals insures that the auto immune system will function to its fullest capacity.

Unfortunately as with vitamins and enzymes, phytochemicals are heat sensitive and destroyed in the cooking process. They are available in their highest quantity only in vine ripened fruits and vegetables. Phytochemicals are found in short supply in inferior fruits and vegetables grown in artificial chemically fertilized soils and out of season foods. They are not essential to life, but when added to the diet you receive a higher level of optimum health.

Foods in their basic structures have different chemical compositions. When mixed, some of these natural chemicals are compatible and some are not. Mixing the wrong combinations together with the stomach acids can cause indigestion, gas, poor digestion and inferior nutrition absorption. The proper combinations of foods eaten within certain time periods aids digestion and keeps the bodies chemistry balanced.

When foods are properly combined, less energy is used in the digestion process. More nutrients are absorbed because chemically opposing elements don't cancel each other out. There is also less toxicity created in the digestion and intestinal tract. The operation is smoother, quicker and without interference. In short, it eliminates excess stress on the over all body.

The bodies digestive chemistry is made up and formulated by what its nutritional intake is. An imbalance in these fluids will cause either Acidosis or Alkalosis. The bodies chemical PH factor should range from 6.3 to 6.8. The values below 6.3 is considered too acidic. The values above 6.8 is considered too alkaline. The bodies PH values will fluctuate according to diet and can be adjusted by the same means. Foods are either acid forming or alkaline forming. They should be consumed in such a manner to achieve a balance.

To test the bodies PH, nitrizine paper can be found at drugstores.

Fasting has been one of mankind's rituals throughout recorded history. Primarily used in the spiritual sense, fasting frees the individual from earthly ties and releases the thoughts to travel to a higher plateau of awareness. As a result, the inspirations and visions of the physical and spiritual world, past, present and future are realized from a more refined and transcendent point of understanding.

Physically we find that during a fast, the body uses less time and energy in the assimilation cycle. This gives the body a break from these activities and lets it's organs rest. The body just maintains itself. During this time what the body has stored is used and eliminated. What's stored in the fat cells and fluids of the body is released into the blood stream. The longer the fast, the more stored materials are eliminated. This also includes the toxins and poisons that have been accumulated. The less pollutants one has in their body, the purer they become. The purer one becomes, the less resistance one has to life's energy. The more life energy one has, the healthier one becomes. The healthier one is, the stronger one is and more pronounced is the feeling of well being. This feeling leads one into the higher joys of life and the realities of spiritual awareness. Spiritual buoyancy is the result of a pure nature. To achieve such a state, a balance of the inner spirit and the physical world is a necessity.

There are many ways to fast. In many religious cultures its standard to fast one day in seven. Some find that a three day fast once a month is sufficient. Some fast five to seven days every six months. For others, longer periods at different intervals of time. The fast should suit the individual. There's no set way that can include everyone.

The only advise I could give you is to start slow and increase how long you fast. Vacate the bowels with unfiltered juices and or gentle laxatives. Enemas of warm water, coffee or lemon juice can also be beneficial. This will remove the solid wastes that may recirculate back into the body. Avoid dehydration and toxic shock during the fast. Drink fruit juices, vegetable juices and broths. Never fast with just water.

Shortly after the fast, a higher level of energy will be experienced. Your immune system will increase and keep you healthier. When freed from the discomfort of toxins and poisons you should become happier. The quality of life will increase and longevity should be realized. The spirit in all things will become more pronounced and a higher level in awareness should be achieved.