Foods that Heal by Dr Bernard Jensen

[Southern California Secret Diet Club]

Okay. I admit it. Like most people I've ever known, I have a library full of books in my home that I have not read from cover to cover. With the best intentions, I buy a book and read the first several chapters totally engaged. Then, life diverts my attentions to more pressing details and the book that would have been the end-all-be-all has been shelved, with all the others.

A few years ago, I bought a book from Jamba Juice ( I think) by Dr. Bernard Jensen who IS the end-all-be-all when it comes to nutrition and how to feel and look great the natural way. I have read his book on colon cleansing, which is amazing, and I know that anyone I respect as an expert worships this man. Just looking at his photo in the book puts me to shame because he obviously walks his talk and looks radiant and sexy at seventy, and this ain't no new book!!

I read several chapters when I bought it, as is my m.o., then something happened on the road to everlasting youth and vitality, and it got shelved...until now. Through a course of events, I've been led back to this book and it is changing my life.

I have always known that the book I wrote was not a nutritional guide, but rather a metabolic one. I state it in my book, even, and the information within it's pages was found in and restated in every book I've read by respected experts in the field.

However, the past two or more years I've felt like total crap compared to how I knew I could feel, and should feel. I've been run down and rightly so. But given my challenges, I wasn't taking good care of myself, which makes it worse. I started hiking again, but didn't have the energy to continue. I wasn't eating any fruits or veggies and drinking very little water. I wasn't sleeping well and was always stressed out, big time.

I knew something had to change. I knew a switch needed to be flipped, I just couldn't pin point it. As I said, through a course of events I began reading the book again. I realized I was very sodium deficient, which I'd been told before by a nice kinesiologist (not available in spell check) who also just so happened to channel Jesus, named Dr. Peggy. I read in the book all the foods I needed to be eating to help balance the most important nutrients, as well as my pH, which I'd only heard of but never taken seriously...until now.

Also, I stumbled upon a woman named Blythe Metz (www.thesolutionsdoc.com) who has awesome little video clips of how to prepare raw foods using a Vita-mix. She prepared something that had kale in it and it looked so good to me that I went right out and bought a bunch of it. I don't have a blender, let alone a Vita-mix, so I did what Jensen said and steamed it, ate it and then drank the juice, which contains the most sodium.

It so happens that I am now working with Blythe on her project and she taught me how to make raw kale soft and edible by massaging it with olive oil and sea salt. I add fresh lime juice and a hint of toasted sesame oil and OMG!!!!

In the past four days since she told me, I have eaten four or five bunches of kale nearly single handedly, because now my son love it, too, so I have to share : )) gladly!

I quit drinking coffee in the morning as well, which may or may not be related, but I am starting to feel amazing and strong and sharp and alive again.

In addition to what I'm learning in Foods That Heal, such as Black Mission Fig is among the highest source of natural sodium and it builds up the acidophilus in the bowl as well as having a mild laxative effect. It's the perfect food for me.

Check this out. Acidopilus is a probiotic which, if you have enough in your diet, you will not catch bacterial infections. If you do catch a bacterial infection, perhaps a chest cold, you can take massive doses of acidophilus to get rid of it, rather than antibiotics which completely throw you off balance in every way.

Bottom line is, this has been a great week for my health and I wish the same for you.