Good Health is …

Good health is …

What is good health, and why is what we eat and drink so important to good health? Everyone knows the answer to the first part of the question. Good health is 100 per cent perfect functioning of every organ and tissue of the body, and this entails complete co-operation of body and mind.

Good health is the result of a clean slightly alkaline blood-stream, and this is conditional upon, and the result of:
1. Eating less of the acid forming foods than of the alkaline forming foods.
2. Eating incompatible foods at different times, not together at the same meal.
3. Efficient elimination of wastes and toxic substances.
4. An absence of fear, worry, hate, and other harmful emotions.

Apart from the bad effects of living unnatural, sedentary lives in fume-laden cities and of taking little or no exercise, health  depends upon correct feeding, upon efficient elimination of waste products, and upon one’s mental and emotional life.

Let us first deal with correct feeding. It is no exaggeration to say that the vast majority of present-day people in the Western hemisphere are overfed but under-nourished, chiefly because they lack a knowledge of a balanced diet and, as a consequence, feed on foodless foods.

To maintain good health is something no one can do for you. Your doctor can advise you about food (though he seldom does, except sometimes to tell you what not to eat) and he can give you medicines when you are ill (these usually suppress the symptoms without removing the cause of the trouble). But, if you want to feel 100 per cent fit, you have to make a personal effort — more effort than is entailed in getting a bottle of medicine from your doctor.

You have to take the trouble to find out (from books) the basic principles of body-chemistry which will indicate to you what substances the body needs (and must have) for its building and its maintenance.

Then you have to be painstaking enough to go out of your way to find the right substances (natural whole foods), and strong-minded enough to reject the wrong substances (the devitalized processed foods) simply because they are all too often easier to obtain and quicker to prepare. There is probably a health foods shop in your nearest town where the right foods are obtainable.

It is a public duty to keep as fit as possible so that (in the words of the song) we can — ‘spread a little happiness’ and so help others.
No one can do this who is not in good health. Our happiness, our success, our efficiency, and of course our life-span, all depend upon good health. This (our genetic constitution) we inherit to a very great extent from healthy parents and ancestors, but far more do we create it by right eating, right living, and right thinking.