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causing grains makes some individuals crave the alcoholic form of the
grain because the acidic waste from the undigested grains in bread and
cereals make them nervous and jumpy. Alcohol does away with these
feelings by relaxing the nerves. Alcoholics are mistaken in thinking
they’re driven to drink only because they like the way it tastes and the
feeling of relaxation and euphoria it gives them. All of this is true, but the
root cause of their need to relax and enjoy the taste of alcohol is due to
the “jitters” they get from the acidic waste by-products of the grains or
other foods that they don’t digest well or are allergic to. Dr. Theron G.
Randolph, author of the four-day rotation diet, found that among forty
drinkers, each one was allergic to the food product—corn, wheat, rye,
grapes, or potatoes—from which the alcoholic beverage they preferred
was made.
While meat eaters are more likely to become alcoholics if they eat a
lot of foods made from grains, grain eaters are more vulnerable to alco-
holism if they give up their ancestral dietary grain staple for red meat
and cow’s milk. This is because each cultural group has protein-
digesting enzymes that have been shaped by the kinds of protein that
served as their ancestors’ dietary staple. I came across an example of
this in a special education course I taught a few years ago. During a
class discussion, Isabel, a teacher of handicapped children, talked about
parental alcoholism as the cause of learning disabilities in children. She
said that most of the parents of her students whom she had met had
alcohol on their breath. This reminded her of her own battle with alco-
holism, and she stayed after class to tell me her story.
Isabel came from Colombia, South America, and described herself
as an indigenous person, a descendent of the ancient Inca Indians. She
told me that among Indian families today in Colombia all the family
members, even the small children, drink alcoholic beverages, with the
result that most Indians are already alcoholics in childhood. Isabel, her
second husband, and her two sons were all alcoholics, but, determined
to give up drinking, they moved to the United States to get away from
the alcoholic environment in which they were living. This didn’t work,
so they returned to Colombia and put themselves under the care of a
healer, referred to by Isabel as a bio-energetic doctor. This doctor pre-
scribed a number of herbs and outlined a diet designed to heal their
body tissues, which the toxic by-products of alcohol had infl amed.