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Featured in the magazine To Your Health
        "If You Think That You Are Eating Right - You May Be Dead Wrong!"- by Dr. Trisha Rossi, Director
      
        The main causes of indigestion and gas are overeating, eating wrong food combinations, eating too fast and not taking the time for proper mastication and salivation.  In older persons, the most common cause of indigestion and flatulence is poorly digested and putrefying food - particularly proteins and carbohydrates - in the intestines due to deficiency of gastric digestive juices.  Taking one or two tablets of "Hydrochloric Acid" and a few "Dolomite" tablets with each meal usually remedies that.

        The colon is primarily an organ of elimination, not storage.  We know that in this country especially, this role has been perverted into that of long term storage, making us Americans the most constipated people in the world.  It was recognized early on that certain foods promote normal elimination and colon health, thereby also contributing to general health.  The magic word now is fiber, which is taken in all forms as an additive, meant to right the wrongs that our usual diet has wrought on our colons.

        Judiciously chosen fiber is certainly important.  Fiber is readily available through fresh fruits and vegetables, which contain most other nutrients essential to good health.  The choice of vegetables and their mode of preparation are crucial.  We know that the fresh juice of organically grown vegetables contains not only nutrients but essential vitamins and enzymes.  These enzymes are the key to the revitalizing and rejuvenating effects of juicing.  Some have called enzymes the essence of the life force itself, the most elementary building blocks of life.  Hence the popular notion that natural foods are the key to getting and staying healthy.
 
        Enzymes begin to lose potency at 102 degrees F and are completely and permanently inactivated at 130 degrees F.  All store bought processed foods are required by law to be pasteurized (i.e. heated to 160 degrees F for a minimum of 20 minutes).  In actual practice this exposure can be much longer, based on the convenience of the manufacturer.  The reason for this is that Louis Pasteur, the father of modern microbiology, proved that the pasteurization process destroyed all living activities.  By definition then, a processed food or juice bought in a legal market must be devoid of all life and lack all rejuvenating properties!  What is left is often not more than flavored and often sugary water.  The number one cause of hyperglycemia in this country today is the massive consumption of bottled or carton orange juice, often "from concentrate".  The pasteurizing or sterilizing system, if you will, is meant to kill off the life force, to kill the enzymes.... for SHELF LIFE!!  Incidentally, ALL vitamin pills and capsules on sale today are either chemically manufactured or derived from pasteurized concentrates.  Obviously, to extract the kind of health benefits locked in fresh fruits and vegetables, we must prepare our own juices fresh.  There is much literature on how this is done.

        To go into what foods to avoid would require an encyclopedia literary undertaking.  We need only mention what is most detrimental.  Carbonated beverages with their high phosphoric acid content produce damage far beyond direct toxic effects.  Phosphoric acid leaches sodium and calcium  from the body, directly aggravating nervous, arthritic and osteoporotic conditions.  Loss of stomach sodium results in impaired digestion and absorption with its numerous deleterious consequences.  High gluten foods, such as BREAD and other starches, simply clog up the body's pathways of elimination.  Refined and artificial sugars wreak havoc with the metabolism and the immune system.  The high fat meats are probably the leading single contributor to colon cancer, the killer of over 70,000 Americans a year.

        Organic flax seed oil as well as fruits help to lubricate the colon wall, creating natural secretions, making it easier for the waste to leave the bowel.  Food fiber provides bulk and promotes movement.  Added fiber may be needed to promote this process.

        Imbalances in bowel function are best treated initially with a series of professionally administered colon treatments, followed by maintenance on a healthy individualized diet and life-style.  At our center the patients are detoxified and managed with individualized combinations of holistic and medical treatments designed to optimize with custom designed nutritional management programs to maintain health.

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