The Wellsville Diet emphasizes providing the body with its
natural foods, in as natural a state as possible, to maintain
abundant health. Just like bugs don't attack truly healthy plants or
trees, a truly healthy person will not provide "germs" an
atmosphere in which they can thrive and wreck havoc on the body.
To the extent a person is already afflicted with disease or sickness
before they go on the Wellsville Diet, it should be noted that the
body is self-healing and that healing takes place either by removing
the cause of the disease so that the body can heal itself, or, in
the case of a deficiency problem, by providing the body with proper
nutrition so that it meets its nutritional requirements. With years
of mainstream and alternative medicine pushing "magic
bullets" and miracle drugs, most people believe their problems
come from outside of them and the solution to their problem lies in
some substance that is going to make their problems vanish. The
Wellsville Diet emphasizes that healing comes from within and there
are no magic substances outside of the body that will provide a
"cure" for anything.
Raw
vegetable and fruit juices
The Wellsville
Diet recognizes certain deficiencies in our modern produce that can
be overcome by drinking the juice of fresh vegetables and fruit.
Since much of our farm lands are depleted of minerals, the produce
growing on this land is lacking in minerals. By juicing organic
vegetables and fruit, it is possible to not only increase the volume
of vegetables or fruit eaten at one sitting, thus increasing the
intake of vitamins and minerals, but to put these vitamins and
minerals into a more readily digestible form. It should be
emphasized that the benefits of raw vegetable and fruit juices come
only when taken in their fresh, raw state. All canned or bottled
vegetable and fruit juices have been pasteurized and are devoid of
life and should be strictly avoided on the Wellsville Diet.
Water
The
Wellsville Diet places a strong emphasis on drinking either pure,
distilled water or a high quality bottled water. While chloride
added to public water may have helped eliminate certain diseases in
times past, it is a culprit in the mire of degenerative diseases we
have fallen into today. Furthermore, the addition of fluoride, an
industrial-waste byproduct, to our water supply has only added to
our problems. The dead, inorganic chemicals added to water to kill
germs continue to kill life after they enter the human body. Not
only are these chemicals not useable by the human body, but they
force the body to waste vital energy in their elimination, diverting
energy in the process that could be better utilized in bodily repair
and normal maintenance.
Regular
exercise
The Wellsville Diet takes into account that there are
more factors than diet that influence health. Outside of diet,
nothing is more important than daily exercise to achieve radiant
health. Ideally, the exercise portion of the program should
alternate strength training with cardio training, and include a
stretching regime, as well. Working from the principle that any
exercise is better than none, however, at the very minimum a daily
walk or a simple stretching routine will be a step in the right
direction. Exercise lifts the spirits and helps deal with stress
better than any man-made drug.
Weight
control
It has been proven that being overweight is just as
much a detriment to health as smoking. Extra weight burdens the body
and leads to high blood pressure, clogged arteries, and a host of
other health problems. In addition, weight carried around the waist
can push on the intestinal tract and actually hamper proper
digestion of food. In an age where our foods contain less vitamins
and minerals than in times past, getting the most nutrition out of
the food we do eat is critical to good health. With the diet and
exercise portion of the Wellsville Diet, weight control should come
naturally. Weight control falls only below diet and exercise as a
critical step toward radiant health.
The
elimination of unhealthy products l
Since the body is
self-healing, disease is eliminated by removing the cause of
disease. The majority of our modern degenerative diseases are
unknown in third world countries where diets do not contain the
processed, devitalized foods and sugars, unhealthy fats, high
amounts of animal protein and dairy that we consume on a daily basis
in America. The Wellsville Diet maintains that if one eliminates
these foods and other unhealthy products, reduces exposure to
environmental toxins, and gets plenty of exercise, fresh air and
sunshine, the body will heal itself of disease.
Alcohol and
tobacco is also to be eliminated if sickness and disease are to be
avoided. While most people know of the dangers of smoking, many
people underestimate the toll the continued inhalation of
multiple toxins directly into the body takes on the body both
physically and mentally. To compound matters, while eating
unhealthy only effects the person eating unhealthy, smoking is a
danger to family and friends in close contact with the smoker.
Alcohol is a
concentrated sugar that is very hard for the body to metabolize. In
excess amounts it damages the liver, contributes to degeneration of
the kidneys and causes bladder problems. Even in moderation, the
toll it takes in bodily energy to metabolize it should not be
underestimated. Because of the soil conditions of our farm lands,
staying mineralized in today's world is harder than ever. Do you
really want to waste vital energy, enzymes and minerals to
metabolize something that your body had no nutritional need for to
begin with?
Spiritual
and emotional health
The
Wellsville Diet acknowledges that we were created and did not
evolve. And while we may have been created in the image of our
Creator, we are, until redeemed, in a fallen state of sin, which
effects us not only physically but mentally as well. In addition,
our bodies are only temporary and no amount of health is worth
spending an eternity away from our Creator. In this regards, nothing
should be considered less important than a personal relationship and
saving faith in Jesus Christ, because it is only through His
redemption that true happiness is possible.
The cornerstone of the Wellsville Diet is based on
God's original diet, Genesis 1:29: Then God
said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that
is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit
yielding seed; it shall be food for you."
The Wellsville Diet, while being vegan-leaning in
practice, acknowledges that God does permit the eating of animal
products and is designed to be more flexible than other popular
raw-food diets or natural hygiene programs.
Barbara Stitt's book, Food
and Behavior, is dedicated to the children and
adults who have been mis-led and mis-fed. In other words, it
is dedicated to America. In fact, even though Barbara became
intimately involved with the relationship between food and
behavior mainly through her work as a probation officer, most
Americans could read this book and relate it to problems of
their own or those of some friend or family member — even
though these problems didn't necessarily lead to run-ins with
the law.
Healthy
Living / Nutritional Healing
All trademarks and copyrights on
this page are owned by their respective owners. The Rest © 1997-2003
www.roadtowellsville.com