Is a Bargain Between You and NATURE

Radio Record, 31 July 1936, Page 6

Is a Bargain Between You and NATURE

How to Achieve Immunity from Disease

(Specially Written by.Dr.

Ulric

Williams

’ "Hor there be many that perish in this life because they despise the Law of God that 7s set before them." 2 Hsdras, ch. 7, v. 20.

higher stages of consciousness through the operation of the Law, of whose working he has been, for the most part, almost entirely ignorant; but he will make further progress only through response to the Spirit. of which that Law is the outward expression. Our failure. to solve the problems of. disease, education, economics and international relationships is due to the fact that we have insufficiently responded to the Spirit of God and His Law. ‘Consequently we have almost completely overlooked the adequacy of His provision for our well-being in these departments. Man seems to think he can ignore these provisions and escape the consequences by some artificial exnedient; to think, in fact, that by means of operations and drugs, he can maintain his health, while he continues to do the things that have made him sick. For long enough man has regarded disease with dread; but, rightly understood, there is little to fear. Disease is not something mysterious attacking us from without, due to germs; it is mostly a degenerative process, going on within, due to wrong living; and, of this, the acute illness is Nature’s method of cure. A conception which is revolutionising accepted methods of has arrived thug far in his pilgrimage towards

prevention and treatment all over the world. There is little to fear. Disease does not attack healthy people; it is the inevitable outcome of failure to fulfil the requirements of health. Germs are an accompaniment, often, of the disease process; but are never the primary cause. In general, we need not fear sickness if we obey the

laws of health; and if, through ignotance Or negiect, we have failed to obey those laws, and so become ill, there are immense recuperative powers in reserve which will assert themselves when we cease to do the things that were making us fl, The requirements of health are, in general, exceedingly simple. They are: 1. Psychological; right thinking. . 2. Physical; right use of foods, and general HM e Not a heavy price to pay for immunity from disease! The two chief consequences of failure to obey these simple requirements are: . . First, a shortage of certain essentials to well-being; namely, vitamins and mineral salts; and Second, an accumulation in the system of uneliminated waste. Dead foods will not support healthy life; ‘and the conventional diet is composed chiefly of denatured and adulterated foods often coloured, flavoured and preserved with poisonous chemicals. . If white flour and white sugar killed the first time we ate any, nobody would be so unwise as to partake of them; but because the degenerative process is slow, and many years may elapse before disastrous consequences appear, we do not seem to relate cause and effect. Scott, Bvans, Oates and Dr, Edward Wilson perished on their return trip from the South Pole because scurvy wore them down. ‘They suffered from scurvy because they did not know that refined foods will not, support healthy

life. It was an expensive lesson by which we have been unduly slow to profit, The conventional diet is still altogether excessive in quantity, and dangerously lacking in the essential vitamins and mineral salts. It is one of the greatest factors in the production of disease. The second great physica] cause of the degenerative process ig the accumulation of waste; and for this there are three chief reasons: _ A sluggish elimination of the waste naturally resulting in the body from tissue activity. The absorption, from the bowel, of wasie matter resulting from the fermentation and putrefaction of excess and unsuitable foods, The indulgence in all manner of rubbish never intended to be used as foods, for dealing with which Nature has made no provision. So comprehensive is God’s provision, through His natural laws, that mechanism has been provided for dealing with all ordinary accumulations of waste. The body is 2 self-cleaning machine; there are five great eliminating chan. nels, and when poison has reached a level in the body likely

to be dangerous to life, Nature makes us ill, too ill to eat (if we are wise), while she throws ont (if we will let her), through the usually adequate channels she has provided for the purpose, the poisonous accumulations that were threatening well-being, . . This is the healing crisis; it is Nature’s attempt at cure.

So blind have we been that, due to our materialistic viewpoint, we have almost completely misunderstood the significance of these phenomena; and conceived of them as something attacking us, and’ threatening life, attributable tc . germs. Consequently, orthodox attempts to deal with disease have been confined mostly to endeavouring, by means of knives and drugs, to suppress the acute illness: and when they have succeeded have merely prevented Nature from protecting us from the consequences of ignorance and neglect. j I have: been consulted several times by men suffering from. advanced cancer of the Stomach. I always ask one question; and I always get the same answer. The question. is:. "How long have you suffered from indigestion?’ And the answer: "Almost all my life." ' Next I ask another question: "Why do you think you have suffered so long from indigestion?’ And the answer, often in the form of a question: "Do you mean, something wrong with my food?" Men try to live upon refined and adulterated foods in excessive quantity; they bolt their meals; they chew hurriedly; they rush off directly the meal is over; they insult their interior with fluids at an almost intolerable heat; they worry and fret; they smoke and drug; and when the inevitable consequences appear, their symptoms are characterised as nervous dyspepsia, and treated with a bottle of medicine. And we.are told by those who presume to advise, that the cause of cancer is not known! Hvidently orthodoxy does not know. We have been too concerned with seeking a cure, while Nature’s purpose is to prevent, since itis Continued’ on page 8.)

This is the first of a special series of articles by Dr. Ulric Williams on "Health by Nature’s Methods."

~ Cost of Flealth-Noth-ing At All (Confinuest from page 8.)

only through obedience to the law that We can have that which is the purpose for us-life morfe abundant, in every department of «ur being. Here we are, most of us bwrn healthy, gradually | drifting into disgsase throngh neglect of the simplest «ommon sense. Heo nomically, the yaosition is the same. Potentially wealtjhy beyond the wildest dreams of awarice, with unlimited resources, and productive capacity nearly as great;, yet grinding out a precarious and pwpnurious existence as if starvation were the imminent alternative. Blind, yes, But ignorant, stupid and obstinate as well, The cost of dis--ease rising by ljaps and bounds till the people groan’ beneath .the burden. The cost of healith-nothing at all. A man who hed run a large and grossly dirty pal through his foot presented himself: two days later, suffering from ee sign of an acute condition of poisoning His foot was swollen, h@t and tender; ted streaks on his legs, and he was. running a very high ittemperature. Now if germs are the rapal cause of such 2 condition, surely if we starve the patient we shal] lower his resistance and the germs wil] wapidly destroy him. Yet with no other treatment than @ fast, daily enema, and cold packs to his foot, the condition completely subsided in one week, This case illustiates a principle of far-reaching possibility. A great many of the cases now wegarded.as surgical emergencies need mever be treated in hospitals at all. Many others can be safely and permaneintly dealt with by the simplest of conservative measures. The colossal expentliture on disease could be halted to-lay; and much of the fearful suffering and wastage averted. Tt is rarely, if ever, necessary to remove tonsils; of to operate upon antra, mastoid, and ‘Sinus disease; or any of the other acute suppurative orders, You boys who iitwe in camps, or worse still, in hoarding-houses or hotels, do you thint that you can escape the fate- that overtook Scott and his companions? Do you think that you can live on spoilt foods, on dead, devitalised food substitutes that are not capable of supporting healthy life? ‘Disease is a dwgenerative process; it is slow and gradual, Because dead foods don’t kill i: an hour, you think they are all right, _~