Introducing the Basic Elimination Concept 53Vitiation of foods
Vitiation means weakening or reducing the worth of. Food which has
undergone this process of degradation we call junk food. Ironically, some
people with pronounced allergies or intolerance can get away with eating
junk foods. That’s a sign of just how little real food there is present.
But such foods do nothing to build real health and combat disease.
Today we are seeing a new kind of malnutrition in the West. It isn’t caused
by low calorie intake, as in the old days, but by lack of nutritious ingredients.
People are eating bulk and not quality. The present epidemic of obesity
seen in the USA is as much about eating the wrong food as eating too much
food. Those of you who have trouble relating to what you read in a book
should rent a copy of Milton Spurlock’s movie Super Size Me and watch it.
Spurlock conducted an experiment on himself, which he
documented with film footage, to measure the health impact of eating three
meals a day for thirty days at McDonald’s. He gained twenty-five pounds.
Worse than that: within a few days of beginning his diet of cheeseburgers,
fried and chocolate shakes, Spurlock, a healthy thirty-three-year old, was
vomiting out the window of his car, and doctors who examined him were
shocked at how rapidly Spurlock’s entire body deteriorated. His liver became
toxic, his cholesterol shot up from a low 165 to 230, his libido flagged and
he suffered headaches and depression.
“It was really crazy – my body basically fell apart over the course of
thirty days,” Spurlock reported to the press.
Predictably, no one from Macdonald’s would comment.
A frightening experiment on the effects of vitiated food
In the first edition of this book I reported on a far earlier study of the
effects of vitiated foodstuffs. This time it was on animals, cats actually; so
there was no possibility of human reactions and emotions clouding the
picture.
Between 1932 and 1942 Dr. Francis M. Pottenger conducted a
number of nutritional experiments on domestic cats. Certain animals were
put on diets consisting only of pasteurized milk and cooked meats, equivalent
to our processed or junk foods and quite unlike the normal, healthy cat diet
of raw meat. Predictably, the animals became ill, antisocial, aggressive and
exhibited deviant sexual behavior. By the third generation these cats were
so effete as to be sterile, so that those particular strains died out. Even soy
beans planted in the floor of the cages housing the affected animals failed