You need to learn not only what to leave out of your diet … but just as important, what to put into your diet. Once you understand the basic principles of proper nourishment, the elements your body must have to build, develop and live as it was meant to do naturally … you will find that you can nourish your body without sacrificing meal-time enjoyment Combinations of healthful foods packed with vital nutrients are almost limitless.
The first step, of course, is to get into the habit of eating for health. Such a habit is not difficult to form. Although the instinctive sense of food selection has been submerged be-cause of the artificial character of most foods in popular use today, this natural sense can be restored to a great degree by proper eating. Like any other ability or skill, it must be kept constantly in practice or its powers will deteriorate. Only by exercising these powers can we revive and strengthen them.
Degenerative diseases stem from breakdowns from within, not from attacks from without … although the latter may occur secondarily as a result of weakened defenses.
Since degenerative diseases arise within our bodies because of some lack of vital substance or substances, our safest course is to reinforce our defenses with those elements which will give them the power to moist.
One’s body is like a fortress. Many persons appear alike on the outside—but inside there may be conditions which make one person strong and another weak. Well-marshaled forces within a fortress can repel the enemy … poorly organized forces succumb.
Let us build our inner strength so that we will he impervious to all deadly enemies of the body. Let me quote again from the eminent heart specialist,
Dr. Lester Morrison, who states: “Is the degenerative diseases of the heart and blood vessels, diet is the key; it is the difference between active good health and dangerous illness.”
