- Raw Foods
- Half-cooked Foods, Worms as a cause of colitis
- Ice Cold Foods
- Food Fads
- The Mixer Craze
- Unwashed vegetables and fruits (spray chemicals)
Raw Foods
Under the category colitis disease, and starting with the post “How Did I Ever Get Colitis Disease” and the posts that follow you have had an opportunity to learn in what poor regard I hold raw foods. My remarks are particularly addressed to those who have, or have a tendency towards, colitis. They are also worthy of consideration by people who consider themselves in the best of health. One way to stay that way is to avoid taking chances with raw foods. Anybody who eats raw beefÂsteak, or half cooked pork, or salad from which the metallic insecticides have not yet been washed off is asking for trouble.
Half-cooked Foods
Almost as bad as the eating of raw food is to indulge in the illusion of cooking. In these days of haste, all too often the steak is given only a token bath of fire. The surface may be singed a little, given the appearance of having been cooked, but the interior is as innocent of fire as a piece of ice. In other words, a person who eats this kind of food eats raw food while suffering from the delusion that he is eating cooked food. Many people dislike being fussy while in a restaurant. But I assure you it is much easier on your health to call the cook to account than to pay expensive doctors’ bills to get rid of a trichina or a tapeworm.
Moreover, foods that are half-cooked are far more difficult to digest. Take for instance potatoes. When properly cooked, the starch granules are readily available for digestion. When half-cooked, the digestive time is increased many-fold. The result is that more undigested food is passed on down to the colon than can be tolerated, and trouble results from putrefaction.
In this way, worms find their way into the intestinal tract. Their presence and their activities, produce colitis.
Food Fads
Perhaps one of the greatest causes of disordered digestion and crippled colons is the ready acceptance by the public in general of every successive food fad. While many people would thoroughly investigate a doctor before they would allow him to operate on them, or inquire into the qualifications of a lawyer who is to represent them in court, they unhesitantly accept the advice (and accept as gospel truth) the opinions and instructions of anybody who can, by devious means, have an article printed or a book published.
Once a certain number of people have adopted a fad, the great public, in ape-like manner, hysterically imitates this fashion in food. They do not inquire as to whether there is any virtue in the fad, much less whether it is suited to their needs. No, they blindly swallow yogurt or raw cabbage or blackstrap molasses simply because some other people are taking it and claim an increase in their overall virility.
Sooner or later, these poor misguided people wake up to find that they have had a belly full of the fad both literally and figuratively. Then some prosaic doctor of medicine is supposed to prescribe the magic medicine to fix it, all in one dose. Can you wonder why doctors are noted for their sense of humor. Look at the material they have to work on.
Mixer Craze
Much of the same applies to the mixer craze. Instead of chewing food in the manner in which Nature intended, all one has to do is buy one of these mixers and park his dentures on the window-sill. The mixer beats it all so fine that concrete and excelsior go down equally well.
Needless to say, this interference with the normal process of mastication or chewing, and contraction of the intestines (peristalsis) all result in a disorder of the digestive regime. Flatulence, indigestion and other troubles soon follow. Colitis might well be the end result.
Unwashed Vegetables and Fruits
Unwashed vegetables and fruits, both raw and cooked, often contain poisons and irritant chemicals which have been spread upon the vegetables and fruits to prevent their being eaten by insects. Anyone who is so unwise, careless or lazy as not to wash vegetables and fruits before using them makes himself a candidate for a chemical irritation of the colon, in short a colitis.
