Wellness

What do you think is the greatest single influence on your body?  Is it the stress from your environment?  Is it really your genetic makeup?  How about the weather?  Well, look again.  Consider how much food you are eating every day.  What would happen if some of the food you ate turned out to be harmful to you?

Can you see how devastating it would be to be constantly bombarding the body with something that for whatever reason acted like a poison?  And what if this set off a chain reaction within your body that resulted in such a depletion of nutrients that normal body functions were falling apart left and right, resulting in lung problems, joint problems, stomach problems, back problems, sleep problems, energy problems, etc.  I want you to consider this because this is what is happening!

In our July article we covered the Five Keys to Health:
1.    Having food in your diet that is rich in nutrients, and that you are not sensitive to.
2.    Fully digesting or breaking down the food.
3.    Absorbing the digested nutrients through the intestine into the blood stream.
4.    Correctly supplementing your diet and transporting these nutrients throughout the body so that you have an abundant and balanced pool of nutrient building blocks.
5.    Making sure there is no nerve interference from your brain to your body, especially your digestive system and your intestines

This month I want to elaborate on the first key – Food.

While working with thousands of patients, Dr Gatza learned that if he didn’t make food the highest priority, their results were poor at best.  No matter now many other ideas he tried, one constant remained: if someone was eating the wrong food, the body would be ill.  It did not matter if the person knew it was a bad food.  That food would still have a deteriorating effect on the body.  The key was to find out for sure if any foods were causing a problem, and to do something about it.

Many specialists in the health care field have placed a high priority on the area of food.  Here is what we have drilled down to as the essential basics regarding food:

1.    It has to be a food in the first place.
That may sound obvious, but for something to be considered a food it has to have all of the building blocks that cause it to nourish our bodies – it has to contain vitamins, minerals, enzymes, etc.
Most people have been taught that anything with a label or anything that is served for dinner has all the nutrients the body needs.  This is completely and utterly untrue.  Much of the ‘food’ (we can call it an un-food) does not contain necessary nutrients.

Additionally, these nutrient building blocks need to be digestible, absorbable, and usable in order for the body to actually benefit from them.  Much of the ‘food’ we eat today does not fit this definition and is not really food.  For example, fast food is not really food.  There should be a law requiring fast food restaurants to label what they sell as un-food because people are led to believe that if they put something in their mouth and it tastes good, it is a food and they are getting their recommended daily allowance of vitamins.  That false information causes more health problems that you can count.  These places do not really serve food.  They serve something disguised as food.  They take an animal or grain and process it several ways; they apply chemicals to it and heat it to high temperatures, to kill it again just in case; they preserve it further, and they smash it up and add some other non-food.  Then they package it up, sell it for R26.95 and promote it as food.  Well, why are people so sick?  Because they buy it and eat it.  I know of a company that has a good reputation for having great tasting french fries (I eat them now and again myself).  What they do is take the potato, smash it up, preserve it with chemicals and put this ‘food’ into an artificial skin.  Just before they place it into the skin, they add salt and sugar.  (And then they fry it in oil).  That is why french fries taste so good.  But let me ask you: do you think these french fries replenish the vitamins and minerals you need for everyday life?  Some commercials that say their food is healthy and fortified with vitamins.  People actually believe that!  What a fraud!

Milk is another good example.  It is a food when it comes out of the cow (that hasn’t been dosed with antibiotics and hormones), but what they don’t tell you is that they heat it to such a high temperature that it makes the protein in it unusable.  They don’t tell you that when they pasteurize it and homogenize it, they have basically made it an un-food. 

So, even though milk does fit the category of being a food when it comes out of the cow, once it undergoes ‘normal’ processing it no longer fits into that category and we have found it detrimental to most people’s health.
The key piece of information to know about food is this: A true food will provide nutrients, and when you eat a balance of these kinds of foods, the body can replenish itself with what it needs.  If the ‘food’ doesn’t have the necessary vitamins, minerals, etc. in it, how can you possibly replenish anything?

2.    For a food to be healthy it has to be non-sensitive to the individual.
Many people are totally unaware of the role food sensitivity plays in poor health.  Yet, food sensitivity is possibly the most important factor in all of health care and may be one of the main reasons people have body problems, pain and chronic disease.

For a food to be healthy it has to be a food that is acceptable to the person who is eating it.  If you have a sensitivity, reaction or allergy to a food, the result is a tremendous depletion of nutrients.  For example, wheat is definitely a food.  It has many nutrients in it.  It definitely fits this first definition that I give food.  Once eaten it should replenish the body with some of the nutrients it needs.  However, wheat might not be good for some people.  It is often a sensitive food and therefore some people have trouble with it.  Either they can’t digest it, or they are allergic to it, or it creates some chain reaction that results in the body being worse off than before.  Because of these things, wheat actually creates a problem for that person who is sensitive to it.  Regardless of the fact that wheat has some of the nutrient building blocks that the body needs, eating it is simply not workable until the sensitivity has been eliminated.  A sensitive food creates a negative reaction, which increases depletion and reduces replenishment.  This is the opposite of what we are looking for.  So, once again, on paper it looks as though wheat should always be good for you.  But that is definitely not the case, because if you have sensitivity to wheat then it is the worst thing you can eat.

Another excellent example of this is milk.  You see advertisements saying great things about milk. You see celebrities promoting milk as the right thing for your children.  But how do they know whether or not your child is sensitive to milk?  They don’t.  People are blindly led to believe that milk is good for the body, good for the bones and high in calcium, but that doesn’t mean it is good for you or your child.  If a person is sensitive to milk, is it still healthy?  No.  Food sensitivity is one of the most devastatingly harmful things there is when it comes to health.
In Dr Gatza’s opinion, based on many years of research, food sensitivities is one of the single largest cause of chronic disease.  The reason sensitivities are such a problem is that they increase nutrient depletion more than anything he has ever seen in a patient.  These sensitivities strip the body of its nutrient building blocks and that is the worst thing that can happen.

The biggest problem with food sensitivities is that often people don’t know they have them.  They are ignorant as to why they have health problems and search and search for answers but come up empty.  The truth of the matter is that whether they know it or not, food sensitivity still affects them with nutrient depletion and stress and can drain on their health.  During more than ten years in his practice, through testing Dr Gatza discovered that close to 100 percent of his patients had a sensitivity to a food that they didn’t know about.  I’m talking about a major food, not brussels sprouts or something obscure.  In most cases it was a very common food such as corn, wheat, milk or yeast – something they eat every day.  So they are unknowingly depleting their body’s nutrients day in and day out and have no idea it is harming them in any way.

In addition, food sensitivity reduces nutrient replenishment because the body can’t process the food correctly.  So, a sensitive food hits you from both sides – poor nutrient replenishment and a tremendously large amount of nutrient depletion.

If you consider that those two factors are the most important to good health, then you will see how overwhelming a food sensitivity is.  Therefore, this is the first and foremost problem to correct, because whether a food sensitivity is known or unknown, it will cause the body to go downhill faster than any other factor.

Here is the most important point of all this: If you are putting food into your system that you are sensitive to, there is no program – including the other Four Keys of this program – that will solve your health problems.  If you don’t address the food sensitivity issue, you will not achieve long-term results with any program and will be wasting time and money trying other solutions to health.

Dr Gatza tried many things to get around this with his patients, and found that if he didn’t address and correct the food sensitivities completely, his patient’s health problems would return and their health went downhill every time.
Imagine trying to fix a car engine when the owner is putting sugar in the gas tank.  You can probably think of many scientific methods to solve the problem but let’s face it – if the owner keeps putting sugar in the gas tank, the engine is finished.  Putting a sensitive food into the body is just like putting sugar in the gas tank of an automobile.  Big trouble!

Once you have distinguished foods from un-foods and handled your food sensitivities, you are well on your way to being healthy.

Total Shake is completely natural and contains no food allergens or stimulants.  It contains a very high quality rice protein and no dairy, lactose, gluten, wheat, yeast, soy protein, corn protein, egg or artificial colourants, flavourants or sweeteners.  The Total Shake program gives you a chance to eliminate the sensitive foods from your diet while replenishing you with all the nutrient building blocks your body needs to completely rejuvenate your health.

Here’s to your Total Health!
Leila
082 809 1024
www.totalshake.co.za