only serve to stimulate these tissues, eventually causing extreme enervation
and severe constipation. Use “good” herbal bowel regenerators that are non-
addicting, and will clean and restore good bowel function. (See Resource
Guide at the back of this book for recommendations of herb companies that
make good formulas.)
Chocolate is another stimulant that men, women and children love to
consume. Chocolate is highly acidic and has a high oxalic acid content. When
your body is acidic and you consume foods that are high in oxalates, these
oxa-lates bind with ionic calcium causing calcium oxalate stones, such as
kidney stones.
Alcohol and refined sugars are other stimulants that are highly consumed
by people today. These are highly acidic and mucus-forming. Beer adds to
the yeast overgrowth in people, which creates the desire for more refined
sugars, keeping this wheel ever-turning. In diabetes, alcohol keeps the blood
sugar elevated and stimulates the adrenal glands, causing further weaknesses.
Of course, fermentation of food sugars in the stomach also causes alcohol.
Organic wine would be the only alcohol I would recommend, and very little
of that.
Refined sugars are acid-forming and cause a great deal of mucus
production by the body. As previously stated, mucus becomes congestive
leading to allergies, bronchitis, pneumonia, colds, flu, mumps, sinusitis, and
all the “congestive” type conditions. Refined sugars, being acid-forming, also
add to the inflammation of tissue.
Meat is also a well-known stimulant that is irritating and inflammatory to
our tissues. As we noted in the last section, meat is full of antibiotics,
hormones, nuclear wastes, steroids, adrenaline, pesticides, herbicides, and
several other toxic chemicals. These substances are all stimulants, irritants and
suppressors, all mixed together and found in the tissue of the meat. These
chemicals (and adrenaline) can give you a temporary feeling of energy, only
to make you more fatigued afterwards. Meat, being high in nitrogen, also
pushes out calcium. Calcium and phosphorus need to be kept in balance. In
meat, one finds a high phosphorus-to-calcium ratio, whereas vegetables have
a balanced ratio between these two essential minerals.
The human intestinal tract is four times as long as that of a carnivore
(cats, etc.) with a thousand times more absorption ability. Since meat (flesh)
protein putrefies very quickly, and since our intestinal tract is so long, meat
putre- fies inside the body before we have a chance to eliminate it.