Nutritional healing - wouldn't it be nice if nutrition could prevent or cure everything from overweight to cancer? Well it can. Oh, if you get shot by a dart dipped in curare nutrition won't help you, but there isn't much that will.
Nutrition Diet and Weight Loss
When I said nutrition could cure obesity, I didn't mean lack of nutrition, as in starvation. I'll deal with losing weight elsewhere on this site, but to sum up, your body is designed to build up stores of fat if it thinks you are going to starve. So most diets make you lose a little water while your fat stores build up more. Nutrition is the answer. Just a quick hint - saturated fat helps you to lose weight. You have been scammed by the vegetable oil manufacturers.
Healing With Nutrition
The whole idea of holistic medicine is that you avoid getting sick in the first instance. Healing with nutrition is fine if you've been and gone and let yourself get sick but healthy eating to avoid getting diseases is better still. I'm still adding to my pages about health foods for prevention and healing, but the main theme is that the more processed your food is, the less healing you can expect from it.
You are what you eat
That is the modern idea. Herodotus (supposedly the father of Western medicine) said "Let food be your medicine" which was much more snappy than talking about nutritional medicine.
Old Medicine
Of course the Greeks didn't really invent medicine, with apologies to Herodotus. We keep hearing about ancient Chinese remedies, but there are some old medicines found in the USA, and in South America. The American Indians were using Echinacea angustifolia long before the Pilgrim Fathers landed. Early doctors tried Echinacea purpurea and dismissed it as rubbish. The old medicine used by the natives, Echinacea angustifolia was much more like healthy eating.
Daily Food
Don't let the glamour of herbs distract you. Fruit and vegetables provide powerful nutritional healing and they mostly taste a lot better than Echinacea! Who would choose chemotherapy and be bald and vomiting for months, when they could prevent cancer by eating tomatoes, broccoli, garlic, curry, Brazil nuts, apricot kernels, tempeh, miso - it makes my mouth water - so I think I'll enjoy my healthy eating and avoid the need for spiritual healing.
