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WHY WE NEED SUNRIDER Healthy citizens are the greatest assets any country can have. – Winston Churchill There is no doubt that malnutrition is the most important problem confronting mankind at the present time. – Dr. Melchior Dikkers, Professor of Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry at Loyola University Americans are malnourished. Even when we succeed at eating a balanced diet, our systems still suffer from the actual lack of nutrients in foods. For example, raw carrots differ widely in beta carotene content, often showing variances from 18,000 IU to 70 IU per 3 ½ ounce sample. Produce and natural foods such as whole grains, on the other hand, are robbed of fertilizers. Wheat from the U.S. has been rejected at China’s ports because the protein content was so low. U.S. Agriculture Department figures show that today’s wheat often contains only 20% of the protein it used to have. – Dr. Michael Colgan, author of “Your Personal Vitamin Profile” and founder of the Colgan Institute of Nutritional Science based in La Jolla, CA The Congress of the United States is also aware of this problem of our depleted soil. The following excerpts on mineral deficient soils, plants and foods, are part of Senate Document #264 as adopted and ordered reprinted by the second session of the 74th Congress of the United States of America:
Our country is afflicted with earth disease … as the matter now stands, and with continuance of the manner in which soil is now being squandered, this country of ours has less than one hundred years of virile national existence. If that represents a reasonably accurate statement, it is vastly more significant that we have probably twenty years in which to build up the technique (soil building) … and most difficult of all, to change the attitude of millions of people who hold that ownership of land carries with it the right to mistreat and even destroy, their land, regardless of the effect on the total national state. – Morris L. Cook, Engineer of the U.S. National Research Board – Sworn testimony before a Senate committee in 1936 One of the biggest tragedies of human civilization is the precedence of chemical therapy over nutrition. It’s a substitution of artificial therapy over natural, of poisons over food, in which we are feeding people poisons (drugs), trying to correct the reactions of starvation. – Dr. Royal Lee There is a nutritional basis for modern physical, mental, and moral degeneration. – “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration,” Dr. Weston A. Price, 1945 Depleted soils produce deficient foods and deficient foods being us ill health … Two food items may look alike, but one may have everything such a food should have because it was grown on healthy soil while the other while the other is worth no more than a glass of water if grown on sick soil. – Dr. William A. Albrecht Nowhere in the world is food treated so badly before it is eaten as in the United States. Here it is raised by the use of artificial chemicals. In an all-out effort aimed at quantity, rather than quality, we do everything possible to destroy the original character that the Creator provided and intended for the yield of the earth. Moreover, by the time most of our food reaches the consumer, it is too highly processed, refined, and improperly preserved. – Dr. L. M. Morrison Since large-scale spraying of pesticides began, the amount of poison being sprayed on your food every year is ten times what it used to be and rising every year. Yet with all this expense and ingenuity, crop damage from insects is now double what it was before pesticides were ever invented. – “The End,” Larry Ephron, PHD A recent USDA study found that the majority of Americans – supposedly the best fed people in the world – are getting less than 70% of the recommended daily allowances of calcium, iron, and magnesium. And if a deficiency in any one nutrient is a sign of inadequate nutrition, more than 80% of Americans are suffering from malnutrition. – “The End,” Larry Ephron, PHD Depleted soils and increasingly empty food may be partly responsible for the increases in all the major degenerative diseases in our time: arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, heart disease and cancer. In a recent review of the literature relating to cancer, the National Academy of Sciences found that deficiencies of one form or another of various trace minerals – iron, copper, selenium, iodine, and so on (not to mention deficiencies in several) – are directly associated in laboratory studies with an increased likelihood of cancer. – “The End,” Larry Ephron, PHD There is another pathway from depleted soils and food to degenerative illnesses of all kinds. Increasingly empty food may be one reason why Americans and other people in the overdeveloped countries eat too much: trying to get enough real nutrients. This along may be partly responsible for our common tendency to be overweight. And unfortunately, many of the foods people turn to in their cravings are very unhealthy. – “The End,” Larry Ephron, PHD We rely on regular diet for enjoyment and satisfaction. We take pleasure in the appearance, smell, and taste of our daily meals. But regular foods do not provide enough nutrients to maintain a continuous state of health. They must be supplemented with stronger foods, or herbal foods. The food we buy in the supermarket is the weakest food available. The selection there is very limited if one considers the variety of food actually available in the world. God created leaves, branches, trunks, and roots for our consumption, but they were completely overlooked by most people. Called “forgotten foods” by Taoists, herbs were forgotten because they were eliminated from our ancestor’s diets through a process of selection which, over the course of thousands of years, rejected foods that were unappealing to the eyes, nose, or mouth. When man learned to cultivate his own food, he naturally chose to cultivate only those foods that appealed to his senses. As the saying goes, “we are what we eat.” If we eat better foods, our health improves. But if we eat weak foods, we become more vulnerable to diseases. A carrot grows only in temperate climates and the life span is about three months. If you do not unearth it within three months, it will decay and disappear. Herbs give everlasting strength, whereas regular foods give only temporary strength. The foods we commonly eat and love are also eaten and loved by the germs in our bodies. They utilize this food to maintain their lives just as we do. Fortunately, herbs do not nourish germs and humans beings equally. Human beings, exercising their will power, are able to ingest sometimes distasteful herbs. Germs, not being blessed with will power, are simply repelled by herbs. When human blood is permeated with herbal nutrients, the germs in the body will starve to death, and the human body will be naturally cleansed and purified. The cleansing and purifying qualities that allow herbs to last for years without rotting are the greatest benefits to be gained from herbal diets. - “The Complete System of Healing,” Dr. Stephen Chang, Internationally known scholar trained in both Chinese and Western medicine. In addition to a medical degree, he has doctoral degrees in law, philosophy, and theology. A hundred years ago, coronary heart disease was virtually unknown in Europe and America. The first case described in medical literature surfaced in 1910. Today it is the leading cause of death. Cancer, which today is responsible for 3.4 percent of all deaths in Europe and America, was responsible for only 1 percent a hundred years ago. Today, even newborn, and very young children are victims of cancer and leukemia. Diabetes, the third most common cause of death, once struck only one in fifty thousand Americans; now it strikes one in twenty. – “Secrets of the Soil,” Peter Tompkins & Christopher Bird The agricultural practices of the Orient have passed the supreme test – they are almost as permanent as those of the primeval forest, of the prairie, or of the ocean. The small holdings of China, for example, are still maintaining a steady output after 40 centuries of management. – Sir Albert Howard I had sinned against the wisdom of the Creator, and received my righteous punishment. I wished to improve his work, and in my blindness believed that, in the marvelous chain of laws binding life on earth’s surface and keeping it always new, a link had been forgotten which I, weak and powerless worm, must supply. – Justus Von Leibig (late in life), considered the father of chemical agriculture. The quote was printed in the 1899 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica but was removed from subsequent editions. The staple foods may not contain the same nutritive substances as in former times. Chemical fertilizers, by increasing the abundance of the crops without replacing all the exhausted elements of the soil, have indirectly contributed to change the nutritive value of cereal gains and vegetables. – Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Alexis Carrel Other Articles: To Purchase Sunrider Products: laurabeth@cheerfulhearts.org
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