Vegetable and Fruit Juices
How can we most readily furnish our body with
the elements needed?
The premise of Dr. Norman W. Walker in writing Fresh
Vegetable & Fruit Juices is that the primary cause of nearly
every sickness and disease is the deficiency of vital organic minerals,
vitamins and enzymes in our diet.
Then, Dr. Walker asks, "How can we most readily furnish our body
with the elements needed?" The answer is the book's title itself, Fresh
Vegetable & Fruit Juices, and you may find it incredible what
was known by Dr. Walker as early as 1936, when this book was written.
The fact that Dr. Walker lived to be over 100 and wrote his last book
when he was over a century may be considered as evidence that he knew
his subject matter pretty well. He was seriously ill in his early 40’s
when he was convinced to go the natural health route. He went on to
practically invent carrot juice and the concept of healing with fresh
vegetable and fruit juices.
"Except for accidents, all the repair and regeneration of our
body must come from within," Dr. Walker writes. "If the blood
stream, cells and tissues, organs, glands and all the rest of the body
does not contain these elements in their proper proportion, or if any of
these elements is deficient, then the body is out of balance and the
condition develops which is known as Toxemia, and Toxemia means just
plain poison.
"In order to regain and maintain the proper balance of health,
most of the food we eat must contain live, vital, organic elements.
These elements are found in fresh-raw vegetables, fruits, nuts and
seeds," he adds.
The Earth and its waters are full of minerals, but the only source we
have of organic minerals and organic water that our body can assimilate
is plant life. "The rays of the sun send billions of atoms into
plant life, activating the enzymes and by this force they change
inorganic elements into organic or life-containing elements for
food," Dr. Walker writes.
The advantage in juicing vegetables is that this process separates
the living, vital, organic minerals, vitamins, and distilled water from
the fiber (pulp). With the fiber removed, our body can assimilate these
vital nutrients in liquid form in about 10 to 15 minutes, Dr. Walker
writes. Fiber has no nutritional content, requires several hours -- and
considerable energy -- for digestion, and some deterioration of
nutrients occurs before food reaches our cells.
Dr. Walker emphasizes, however, that fiber is an important element in
our diet, because it acts as an "intestinal broom" as it
travels through our stomach, duodenum, 25 feet of small intestine and
colon. This fiber should be obtained by eating a good quantity of raw
fruits and vegetables. Once food is cooked, this fiber turns to a mush
that leaves a coat of slime on the walls of our intestines, which can
putrefy and cause Toxemia, a sluggish colon, constipation, colitis,
diverticulosis and other problems, Dr. Walker writes. Once food is
cooked, its oxygen (a vital element) is lost, enzymes are destroyed
"and most of the vital force needed for nourishment is dissipated
… One can eat four or five big meals a day, and yet the body may be
starved through the lack of the vital elements in the food and the
disturbance of the enzyme balance."
Dr. Walker notes, "As a rule it will do no great harm to
occasionally eat a little cooked food, but never fried food, provided
that a sufficient quantity of raw food is also eaten." And he
recommends a vegetarian, non-dairy diet. Clearly a physician ahead of
his time, Dr. Walker warned nearly 60 years ago that hope for finding a
cause and cure of cancer "does not lie in the field of fantastic
speculation and destructive research by means of uncontrollable radium
experiments, but rather in the deficiency of life in the atoms of the
food we eat."
In addition to ruling out cooked food as a source of anything vital
for the body, Dr. Walker notes the limitations of medical drugs:
"There is not a drug in the world that will supply the blood stream
with anything in a way in which the body can use it for permanent repair
or regeneration."
This regeneration must come from within the body , and Dr. Walker
states vegetable juices are the best source of the nutrients needed for
regeneration. Even in 1936, Dr. Walker said results of Juice Therapy
"in helping the body recover from nearly every disturbance or
ailment, have been almost phenomenal the world over... Today, any person
not familiar with the nutritional and recuperative value of fresh
vegetable and fruit juices is woefully uninformed."
He notes, "Fruit juices are the cleansers of the human system
…Vegetable juices are the builders and regenerators of the body. They
contain all the amino acids, minerals, salts, enzymes, and vitamins
needed by the human body, provided that they are used fresh, raw, and
without preservatives, and that they have been properly extracted from
the vegetables."
Dr. Walker advises, "Just as long as we include a variety of
vegetables in our food combinations, we need not fret or worry about
obtaining all the minerals and Vitamins we are trying to furnish our
body." Nonetheless, Fresh Vegetable & Fruit Juices offers an
exhaustive listing of fruit and vegetable juices, detailing the specific
amounts of 21 different elements, vitamins and minerals contained by
each fruit and vegetable. The book also includes a list of 87 different
juice formulas, and in cooperation with Dr. R.D. Pope, M.D., Dr. Walker
(a Doctor of Science) lists 155 ailments, with one or more of the 87
juice formulas recommended for the treatment of each ailment.
Much information is presented about the specific values of different
vegetable and fruit juices. For example, carrot juice is referred to as
"the richest source of Vitamin A which the body can quickly
assimilate," and it also offers an ample supply of other vitamins
and minerals. Because of Vitamin A's benefit to the moist lining of our
various membranes, carrot juice "helps prevent infections of the
eyes and throat as well as the tonsils and sinuses and the respiratory
organs generally."
Because of its high calcium content, carrot juice is valuable in the
improvement and maintenance of bones and teeth. "One pint of carrot
juice, daily, has more constructive body value than 25 pounds of calcium
tablets," he notes. Like all minerals, calcium must be in an
organic (living) form to be assimilable by our body. He warns that a
calcium deficiency can result from drinking pasteurized cow's milk, and
that this form of calcium "is just as inorganic as that used in
making cement." It can't be used by the body, and ends up forming
kidney stones, gall stones, hemorrhoids or tumors, he warns.
As for "foods" such as candy, soft drinks and ice cream,
Dr. Walker notes, "The human digestive processes were never
intended by Nature to be called upon to convert these so-called foods
into nourishment for the cells and tissues of the body. The result of
using them is apparent in the degeneration of the human system... To
consider the brief span of two or three score years as constituting
old-age is nothing less than a downright insult to Nature and to our
Creator. It is a shameful admission that we do not know how to live and
have not taken the trouble to learn the first principles of regenerating
our body. It is a confession that we eat ourselves into the grave by
catering to our appetites."
Fresh
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