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The Most Frequently Asked Health Questions
Question: I suffer from an inflamed colon. Raw fruits and
vegetables give me gas pains when I eat them. How can I go
on this diet since I haven’t eaten them in years, how can I
eat them now?
Answer: Of course you can’t eat a lot of coarse raw fruits
and vegetables at first! You will have to slowly start your
program by using soft, mashed, cooked vegetables,
stewed fruit such as apple sauce and then gradually add
some soft, young, fresh lettuce to the diet. Then a small
sliced tomato. Your one day a week water cure fast will
help rest and heal your inflamed colon. No food will
pass through your digestive tract for 24 hours. This gives
your Vital Force a chance to do its healing work. It took
you a long time to get into this miserable condition! You
must be patient and give your body a chance to heal this
raw, inflamed digestive tract. Then have a day where you
eat nothing but apple sauce or grated fresh apples. Also
use aloe gel (drink 1 – 2 Tbsps 3 times daily in juice or
distilled water) and enjoy the Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar
drink (page 114) to soothe the digestive tract and colon.
Question: Can a five-year-old child go on this program?
Answer: Yes, in a modified way. A five-year-old child is a
growing human and therefore must have the growth foods,
such as soybeans, brown rice, beans, lentils and tofu, etc..
Some fertile eggs, goat’s milk and natural cheese are
optional. Teach the child to enjoy raw and cooked
vegetables, raw vegetable salads and raw fresh fruits along
with the nourishing growth foods (see recipes page 115 ).
The child of five should have whole grain breads, cereals
and pastas. Natural organic nut butters are the perfect foods
for the growing child, so is raw wheat germ, spirulina and
green barley powders. A child can easily fast one 24 hour
period weekly. The Bragg children fasted one day a week
from age five years on. Fast days allowed more time for
play, reading and they hardly thought of food on their
fast/detox cleansing days. They always had their Bragg
Apple Cider Vinegar drink cold or warm, which they loved.Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food!Fasting is the greatest remedy – the physician within! – Paracelsus,
15th century physician who established role of chemistry in medicine.