Last summer I ate two to three watermelons a day. It is easier than you think. They are the perfect ratio of water and sugar with very little insoluble fiber. Perfect. Easy. Convenient. Super nutrition. Even greater energy. The key, like Dr Doug Graham said is to say to yourself when you eat any meal is, "Thous Shalt Not Harm Thyself" That is the first commandment of diet. And if you abide, then you will never EVER SUFFER "cold" or "flu" .. GUARANTEED. Of course, depending on what condition your system is in now it may take a year or even more to get your "house prepped". Here is what I say, "First you have to to demolition before you can do renovation". Those of you with detox symptoms take heed. If you are keen on getting your "house in order" you have some clean up to do first. This applies to everything you want to do in life.
So what happens when people tell you that they are sick? Or that they have a "cold" or "flu"? We know that the virus and germ theory have been disproven for hundreds of years.
We know that viruses are nothing but the dead heads of genomes. They can not harm you.
We know that these "germs" that meds are designed to "kill" are nothing more than dead waste matter caused by eating crap that your body can not eliminate fast enough; that only if you stop putting the crap in will you ever "heal" and feel well.
So what happens when a person "gets sick"?
You never catch anything, unless it is a deliberate chemical weapon God forbid. You can not catch a cold any more than you can catch health. It just does not work that way. Of course when you do not get enough sleep or sunshine or calories from good food (nutrition), then your immune system is weak and you are susceptible to every freaking germ that is out there all the time. So yes, technically you can "catch" a germ, but ONLY when your immune system has been compromised. In other words, germs can not affect a normal person who abides by normal habits. When you see a person suffering from "cold symptoms" or the life, you can be darn sure that they partied too much, or ate crap food, or went to bed super late for several days. They do not get my sympathy. They get my wisdom and experience. But if anyone wants pity for THEIR OWN TRANSGRESSIONS then God help our society lol!
In fact, I think it was one of the old time great health reformers life the "old" Graham, or Tilden, or one of those terrific guys who started the modern natural hygiene movement at the turn of the century (who were in fact responsible for the health turn around in this country before allopathic money power and medicine wizardry ruined everything... but he said, and I paraphrase.."That any man who gets ill or drunk should be treated the same as a person who is lazy..." something like that./I wish I had time to look it up on my huge bookshelves all over the place....but the idea was that health was our responsibility as individuals. Totally.
You do not really "get sick"; you only experience healing crises. I can say, as a 52-year old who has been raw since 1999 and vegan since 1985, and who is super aware of his body over the last three decades at least, and doing this is a professional quantifiable manner, that there is no such thing as suffering any more when you eat a properly nutritionally proportioned high carb low fat raw vegan diet based on fruit and dark greens.
"Or it could be a cold" as Bradbury mentioned, can be easily explained: There is no such thing as a "cold" or a "flu". No such thing as our popular culture, and community standards and practices teach it. It is all just the process of healing and "detox" that the body puts into action when it has had enough. And it is time to "clean house"
99.9% of people eat some version of the standard crap American European diet, even if they call themselves "vegan". Their bodies are not designed to digest and assimilate the crap that they are eating, so they experience the symptoms of suffering- they call it detox-- and that is exactly what it is.
You know you are "healthy" (defined as what nature designed for you to feel) when you NEVER SUFFER from so-called cold, flu, or pimples or farts or bad odor or what-have-you that the TV has a medication for. Mucinex... yada yada yada... and all that jazz.
Genuine BASIC bottom line health is NEVER suffering. I did not say "never experiencing" ...When you are in tune with your body you can feel the effects of a few bites of a food that is not fruit or greens. Even when I eat something that has literally just a half dozen grains of salt in it, I feel a slight reaction.
If I have a cooked meal, even if it is just four cups of steamed sweet potato with nothing on it, I feel my nose start to run a little. I made need a tissue. For sure, if I am doing challenging squats of dead lifts the next day, you had better believe that I feel a decrease in energy for sure! There is no comparison.
The last time I "got sick" was about five years ago. I did not suffer any pain from even the slightest sore throat or congestion for 20 years, but I do sometimes get a little fatigued "for no reason" for perhaps a few hours. The moment I feel this way I make sure to go to sleep as early as possible. Even if it is five o'clock at night. I do not even eat dinner. Then I wake up feeling great again . In the last five years that is the extent of my "worst cold or flu"...
That is how it is with all my clients and friends who eat well on high carb low fat raw vegan. They are experiencing health the way nature intended as the Basic Starting Point for your life!
Don't let anyone tell you that there is "something going around" Tell them this phrase (And please be sure to give me credit! Tell them Chris Califano The Protein Myth who started The Best Weigh Longevity Center in New York over 20 years ago: "There is nothing 'going around'. It is just PEOPLE going around the BUFFET table!" Thanks!
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Permalink Reply by Roxanne on But what about stuff like H5N1? My ex-husband's uncle died from complication from H5N1. He had diagnosed avian flu and then got pneumonia and died. He was in his 40s.
While I agree that most colds/flu can just be detox misinterpreted as a cold or flu, I do think there are real diseases out there, that yes, can be contracted by people eating a SAD diet but that a raw vegan's immune system would be strong enough not to contract. But saying colds and flu don't exist? That seems a bit broad :/
Permalink Reply by Chris Califano on Roxanne, H1N1 is one of many "flus" that are made up. I have tons and tons of material I have collected on vaccines, disease, etc etc etc for decades. Here is just a tiny sample for you to read. I think you will enjoy it. Trust me, your ex-husband's uncle died from two things only: 1) Lack of proper lifestyle and 2) mis-handling by the medical industry (drugs, etc.) Did you know that in London in 1978 or so there was a doctors strike that lasted a long time. There were like 60% less deaths from illness that year. Then in the 80s in CA for four months there was a drs strike- 30-40% less deaths from illness. So it goes.
Vaccine mania is caused solely by gross misinformation and fear...
plus motives for profit. If you believe we have been saved by vaccines for polio, diphtheria and more, then you are mistaken. In almost every single case, the vaccines were introduced after the disease had already declined naturally in the population. Giving credit to vaccines is like saying that rainbows are responsible for bringing rain.
For an entire society to submit to, or be forced to be injected with any substance requires more trust than is imaginable within the realm of any form of reason. I don't want to sound paranoid, but consider the many possibilities of purposely contaminating such a vaccine — or consider simply the known margin of error that is always there in any human activity. A simple mistake — if on purpose or done inadvertently — could jeopardize the health or future of our entire population. Absolutely no doctor, no scientist, no vaccine, no science, no medicine, and no government has ever had a pure enough record to merit trust of this great magnitude.
No disease has ever destroyed all life on this planet because in any given population exists natural resistance. This built-in resistance is sustained in healthy bodies that live a healthy lifestyle of proper natural nourishment. Health never was and never will never be something somebody else gives to us by injection or pill; it is something we do to ourselves.
The premise of vaccines, though naive, is scientific: Try to modify an "infectious" agent (bacteria, virus) in the laboratory so it loses its virulent (disease-producing) properties without eliminating its immune stimulating characteristics. Theoretically, when administered, the vaccine is supposed to not produce the disease but instead create immunity to it.
But Germs and microbes are omnipresent. We are in constant contact with them. We cannot escape them by hiding inside or wearing face-masks, nor will we eliminate them with "microbial disinfectants". In spite of propaganda to the contrary (vaccines are a huge money business), vaccines will never be the savior of humankind that they are marketed to be. Their risks outweigh their benefits after all is said and done. For example, the only cases of polio existing today are those caused by the vaccine. Like most diseases, even after polio was introduced into the society, polio was long gone as a threat. See chart. There are inconsistencies with how diseases and vaccines are defined, as history show as well. It is all done to confuse the public, since taken at face value, the research is inconclusive at best, and shows that vaccines have actually caused disease such as ADD, autism and Alzheimer's. In fact, most of the so-called epidemics of polio, typhoid, diphtheria, etc. all came to be after the vaccine was administered, not before.
"Viruses" are merely dead genomes. They have as much ability to attack you as a piece of wood lying on the ground. In fact, so-called bacteria, viruses and funguses are actually morphed white blood cells (from your own immune system battalion) that have changed in order to be more suited to fight whatever "foreign" invader that comes your way in your blood stream. This is still a bit "fairy-tale" explanation. To be specific, these "foreign invaders" themselves are actually dead material in you body that needs to be cleaned up, and the "disease organisms and microbes and germs, etc" are simply the warrior while blood cells adapting to the clean-up job. That is what your immune system was designed to do- clean up dead waste material. A certain amount of waste is due to normal metabolism from the normal diet that we were designed to eat. But take away fruits and vegetables, greens and some whole fats and substitute animal products, processed, refined and cooked foods and you have broken your allowable bank deposit of exogenous waste. In protest, the body tries to eliminate this waste, which you experience through watery eyes, runny nose, nausea, and more intense symptoms. Unless the diet is cleaned up, then the symptoms will only get more and more uncomfortable until they become chronic, leading eventually to chronic disease. Even at this point, the organism can be healed from the inside out through proper diet, but habits and brainwashing have usually taken over, and unless they meet the right individual or become enlightened, AND decide to leave their comfort zone of wrong eating long enough to get back on a natural healing track, then there is little hope.
Death caused directly by the flu virus is extremely rare. Most so-called ‘flu deaths’ are caused by bacterial pneumonia – due to your immune system being too weak. The conventional treatment for bacterial pneumonia is an antibiotic, not a viral flu drug. The best way to strengthen your immune system (to make it normal) is to eat properly, get sufficient rest and sunshine, remain hydrated and avoid de-vitalizing stress.
Flu vaccines don't work. They do more harm than good in many cases. History proves that all vaccines, even for polio, typhoid, diphtheria, etc. for example, were brought into being AFTER the so-called diseases were almost gone. Even in 2003, just after children aged five and under started getting vaccinated, the number of flu deaths went up significantly. The death toll was huge compared to the previous year - when the flu vaccine was not administered en masse to children. A strategy that calls a higher death toll a "success" is the epitome of modern pharmaceutical salesmanship.
Ingredients in the flu vaccine. In addition to mercury, flu vaccines contain many other toxic and hazardous ingredients such as: Aluminum (neurotoxin linked to Alzheimer’s); Triton X-100 (detergent); Phenol (carbolic acid); Ethylene Glycol (antifreeze); Betapropioloctone (a disinfectant); Notoxynol (used to kill STDs); Octoxinol 9 (a vaginal spermicide); Sodium Phosphate.
Here are the contents of the H1N1 vaccine:
aluminum hydroxide, aluminum phosphate, ammonium sulfate, amphotericin B, pig blood, horse blood, rabbit brain, dog kidney, monkey kidney, chicken embryo, chicken egg, duck egg, calf (bovine) serum, betapropiolactone, fetal bovine serum, formaldehyde, formalin, gelatin, glycerol, squalene, human diploid cells (from human aborted fetal tissue), hydrolyzed gelatin, mercury thimerosol, (thimerosal, Merthiolate(r), monosodium glutamate, neomycin, neomycin sulfate, phenol red indicator, phenoxyethanol (antifreeze), potassium diphosphate, potassium mono-phosphate, polymyxin B, polysorbate 20, polysorbate 80, porcine (pig) pancreatic hydrolysate of casein, residual MRC5 proteins, sorbitol tri(n)butylphosphate, VERO cells, monkey kidney cells, and washed sheep blood.
The mercury found in the flu vaccine is a "proven neuro-toxin", having 25,000 times the level of mercury that would be considered toxic if it were a food or water. This according to Dr. Kent Holtorf, Infections Disease Expert.
Is the flu vaccine Safe? Reactions to the flu vaccine are serious. Here are a few of them: Life-threatening allergies; Guillain-Barre Syndrome (severe paralytic disease that is fatal in 5% of cases); Encephalitis (brain inflammation); neurological disorders; Thrombocytopenia (a serious blood disorder). When we take vaccines, we are volunteering for an experiment.
Is the flu vaccine effective? The Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine study found that vaccinating young children against the flu had zero impact on flu-related hospitalizations or doctor-related visits during two recent flu seasons; A 2008 study published by the Lancet found that influenza vaccines were not linked with a reduced risk of pneumonia. A total of 51 studies, published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews in 2006 did not find any evidence that flu vaccinations are any more effective than placebos. The studies were conducted with 260,000 children, ages 5 months to 23 months old.
Clients of The Best Weigh Center For Ultimate Health know that Chris has been educating them on the dangers of vaccines for many years, especially about the large body of evidence implicating vaccines as the main cause of Autism and ADD among children, Alzheimer’s in adults, and death? The continuing ignorance of the powers that be in this country, which brainwashes the populace into taking substances that significantly lower their body's ability to combat disease, while destroying their immune systems or at best, weakens them considerably from birth, is a violent assault of epidemic proportion. Why would anyone want to poison the blood?
Immune System Exhaustion. Take a few different vaccines, repeating them every several years or so and the immune system can easily become exhausted. Like enzymes, an organism's immune system has finite, not infinite healing capacity. The ultimate result can be much increased vulnerability to cancer, autoimmune diseases and other infectious agents that the body would normally be able to defeat easily.
Could it be that through the "mandated legalization" of vaccines plus the high monetary cost of treating vaccine created ailments, the demand for National Health Care is increased? This seemingly "legal" trick pushes the likelihood of national Health Care legislation. Health Care, once it becomes law, makes it so that if you refuse to get vaccinated, then you may become arrested, or lose your Social Security benefits, your driver’s license or even lose your health care
Some believe that vaccinations are used for population control. They want to eliminate citizens with weak immune systems, who if continued to live would drain the resources of a National Health Care program. Some opponents actually believe that vaccines are designed to reduce the size of the population, thus reducing Social Security benefit and Health Care costs.
The best way to protect oneself from diseases of any kind, including the so-called flu, is a good diet. The First Supper and The Qui Si Sana Program, the most result- oriented wellness program ever- has been proven to work by Chris, his close friends, family and clients, who have not suffered colds or flu even without becoming vaccinated.
CHILDHOOD VACCINE DANGERS
(Taken from Dr. Wysong- highly recommended reading)
Please note: The following medical caveat was taken from an issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Dishonest reporting of the dangers of vaccines, of diagnostic testing for breast cancer, and from doctor and hospital ICU care is from the horse's mouth, the premier mainline medical journal and not from some far-out anti-medical action group. The bottom line is that medical care is dangerous and any honest medical scientist will admit this. Unfortunately this information will not filter out into practice for many years since having things continue as they are, even if it creates danger to the public, is profitable.
The Institute of Medicine has examined evidence relating various diseases to childhood vaccines. Their results show the following:
Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoid
Guillaine-Barre Syndrome
Brachial neuritis
Measles Vaccine
Anaphylaxis (allergic reaction)
Death
Strain viral infection
Oral Polio Vaccine
Poliomyelitis
Death
Strain viral infection
Guillaine-Barre Syndrome
Uncongugated Hib Vaccine
Susceptibility to Hib Disease
Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccine
Thrombocytopenia
Anaphylaxis
Hepatitis B Vaccine
Anaphylaxis
For further information regarding the dangers of vaccines see the Immunology section in the Wysong Library Catalog of books (Resource A).
Reference:
A) See selection of books in the Wysong Library catalog, 1880 North Eastman, Midland, MI 48640
Ibid, 1602
There exist many views and opinions when it comes to what works and what doesn't. the Best Weigh diet and lifestyle program was created to solve the problem of what to eat and how to prepare food for maximum benefit. Our testimonials speak for themselves. Of course, there are those who dispute everything without trying it or putting forth the effort of change. For that reason we suggest that everyone consult with their physician (hopefully several) to determine if they are ready for genuine health practices before embarking on any change in diet or lifestyle.
Mercola.com
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, October 2008
The Lancet, December 2008
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, January 25, 2006
60 Minutes, 1979
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Permalink Reply by Roxanne on Wow. The doctor strike info was pretty cool.
I stay away from doctors. And medicine. Gotta figure if you have a fever, you should let your body have the damn fever, not try to suppress it. Fever itself is a healing mechanism. It's amazing how people go against their body's natural instinct.
I knew most of the stuff about vaccines - never took the flu shot. The only vaccine I took willingly were 2 out of the 3 shots of Gardasil. First shot was fine, second shot nearly made me pass out, so I skipped the third.
I don't know what kind of meds they stuffed my exh's uncle with, but I will agree with you on the lifestyle. He was overweight, ate LOTS of meat/cheese/fried stuff, and counted his veggies as corn and potatoes. I don't think he ate fruit at all.
Permalink Reply by elena on good info, Chris! thanks for the post!
thanks God I've escaped from getting any flu vaccine. and wow I never knew they put animals's blood and various cells into vaccines!!!! madness!!! actually I was laughing while reading the "ingredients" of H1N1 ( suppose with all this we are intended to be prevented from an illness lol). in fact I think if more people have known WHAT are in their vaccines, many would think twice before getting vaccinated.
Permalink Reply by ednshell on For an entire society to submit to, or be forced to be injected with any substance requires more trust than is imaginable within the realm of any form of reason. I don't want to sound paranoid, but consider the many possibilities of purposely contaminating such a vaccine — or consider simply the known margin of error that is always there in any human activity. A simple mistake — if on purpose or done inadvertently — could jeopardize the health or future of our entire population. Absolutely no doctor, no scientist, no vaccine, no science, no medicine, and no government has ever had a pure enough record to merit trust of this great magnitude.
-This is just excellent!!!
We had a neighbor who had bacterial pneumonia and they gave him antibiotics which killed all of the good bacteria which almost killed him. Long story but I could not understand why the Docs would give antibiotics for a virus, makes no sense.
Depopulation program indeed, just one interesting clue here:
Permalink Reply by Chris Califano on Good question Adam, one that I discovered not too long ago as it applied to THIS diet. Insusable fiber is good to clean you out, but it makes the foods harder to eat in a way, from a physical and practical standpoint. (They also don't smooth out or blend well, as water-soluable and creamy fiber foods like bananas do.)
The reason I said that watermelon was so easy for me to eat is because of it's high water content AND its relatively high carb (sugar) content. I get a good amount of calories for the little bit of work (chewing) that I have to do. Grapes, on the other hand (at least the grapes here) require so much more mastication for me to get a meal of 1000 calories! It is not worth it on a regular basis, unless that is all there was to eat. That's also why I juice my Tangerines (baby!!!!) and Valencias! For me to eat a dozen of them gives me way too much fiber -- why fill up my stomach so much?
Most SAD people have a shortage of fiber in their diets. I have an ABUNDANCE of fiber in my diet. Since I need 4000 - 5000 calories and even more sometimes, I want to make my diet more efficient. Just because fiber is "good" does not mean that we need LOADS AND LOADS of it. This is a perfect example of "Too Much Of A Good Thing" !
Permalink Reply by Richie Fruitbat on Wow Chris, Thanks for this post, it's really informative.
I can absolutely agree with what you are saying. Even before I was HCRV, and was simply a cooked food vegan trying to eat as healthily as I knew how, I just did not 'catch' colds, even when my workmates were dropping like flies. I haven't had a cold in years and for that I'm truly grateful. Very occasionally, most likely during winter when there is less sunshine, I will feel more tired than usual for a day. Every time this happens I expect a sore throat/runny nose/headache etc, but it never comes to that. I wake up the next day feeling fine.
Just one question: What are your thoughts on the fact that people who live or work together tend to all experience colds at roughly the same time? Is it that their lack of health leaves them open to being affected by a virus which would pass by unnoticed if they were healthier? Or is it something else, ie they are all exposed to the same food and environment, or even something psychosomatic? I'm curious to know what you think.
Permalink Reply by Chris Califano on In my experience, those people and families that live together usually eat the same foods and have pretty much the same basic lifestyles, Check out my website, I will never forget one client, Dina V, who went 98% raw while living in a huge family. They used to have barbecues of 35 to 50 people every weekend in the summer for example. Always people in an out of the house, miilling around the kitchen stove which was on all day with their traditional ethnic foods, mostly meat and some veg. Dina's favorite line was "Everyone around me is always sick, but not me" In fact I have her picture here with that headline.
Permalink Reply by Ian Bradbury on To me that would explain why they get colds, but not why they get them at the same time and with the same symptoms?
Permalink Reply by Henrik on That's exactly what I'm wondering too — of course it could be detox, because I'm in the transitioning phase of going to 100% LFRV, but astonishing to say is that I get sick ONLY when my girlfriend gets sick (she's on SAD), and I get similar symptoms then.
Permalink Reply by Fruity Jules on Hey Richie!
I heard Nora Lenz address this question at the Fruit Festival. She also does not believe in the germ theory of sickness. She said that if you observe closely any group over time (like a family or a work group) you will see that there are a lot more times that people do NOT get sick simultaneously. So it is actually rare when this happens and it could be partly coincidence and partly lifestyle similarities. For example, a family all getting sick around Xmas when it is wintertime and peeps not getting fresh air and sunlight, stressful indoor time, not enough sleep and lots of junk food. So they are all setting themselves up to be toxic and overloaded at the same time.
It is generally known that people get colds/flus/viruses more often in winter so it might seem like they are catching from each other when it's not really happening that way.
It makes sense to me!
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