Building Health - Not Disease

The sole purpose of nutrition is to build and maintain good health. It is not concerned with the treatment of disease. Unfortunately, most people become interested in building health - hence in nutrition - only after they are ill.

Medical dictionaries list multitudes of words to describe different diseases, syndromes and combinations of symptoms to describe multiple diseases. In literally most of these conditions, the cause is still unknown yet, in every case the same nutrients are required to repair the body.

The Cause Need Not Be Known. If all nutrients are supplied in generous amounts and no defects have been inherited or irreparable damage already done, the body will in time repair itself without the cause of the abnormality being known.

The only advantage of knowing that a lack of certain nutrients may cause an abnormality is that taking these specific nutrients in larger than normal amounts often speeds recovery. Any nutrient relieves the symptoms its lack causes. For example, a sore tongue which occurs when the B vitamin niacin is undersupplied is said to heal in three or four hours if an enzyme containing this vitamin is given.

General Rules To Follow. When the causes of an illness are unkown, the first step is to plan a diet so completely adequate that no nutrient is overlooked. Since all disease is stress, generous amounts of the antistress factors should be included, together with extra nutrients to prevent scarring and to detoxify medications. When the illness in question is similar to a well known disease, nutrients that help the latter may well be emphasized.

For example, partial or complete deafness, which affects millions of people in the United States, is usually accepted without the slightest attempt to improve nutrition. Yet deafness caused by neuritis or inflammation of the nerves of the ear has been corrected by giving the B vitamins; and partial deafness has disappeared after yeast and liver were taken.

The calcification that causes otosclerosis is not unlike arthritis or that which which can be prevented by vitamin E. Deafness caused by cholesterol deposits in the arteries of the ears is said to clear up when the blood cholesterol is kept in a normal range. Persons who are hard of hearing have particularly low blood iodine, and a lack of iodine during pregnancy can cause deafness in the infant.

Numerous medications that increase body requirements often cause impaired hearing and ringing, roaring, and hissing sounds in the ears, and other forms of severe stress have a similar effect. Excerpted from Let's Get Well by Adelle Davis

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