Terrain Therapy by Dr Ulric Williams : How To Achieve Perfect Health Through Diet, Living Habits & Divine Thinking ( New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath ) 1991185502, 9781991185501

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Story: Williams, Ulric Gaster

Page 1: Biography Williams, Ulric Gaster 1890–1971 Doctor, naturopath This biography, written by Bruce Hamilton, was first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 1998.

Ulric Gaster Williams was born at Putiki, Wanganui, on 22 May 1890, the son of Alfred Owen Williams, an Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Alice Gaster. He was educated at the Wanganui Collegiate School from 1900 to 1909, then at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, graduating MB, ChB from the latter in 1918. In London on 20 April 1914 he married Mary May Thurling. Between 1918 and 1920 Williams served in the New Zealand Medical Corps in England. In 1920 he returned to Wanganui where he established a practice, and where he and his wife enjoyed a very active social life. Williams practised conventional medicine for some years, but in 1933–34 he became interested in naturopathy and in the writing and ideas of L. E. Bassett, a local timber merchant and adherent of the 'science of sevens'. He experienced what he later described as 'a vision of Christ', and was convinced he had been treating symptoms rather than causes. Becoming an ascetic and a teetotaller, he promoted his ideas with evangelical fervour, and often in a confrontational manner. He wrote of 'the enormities that have been…perpetrated in the name of surgery and medicine. Avoidable and mutilating operations, expensive and poisonous drugs, which…can never have any effect upon the cause; while Nature has made provision…for both prevention and cure.' Williams believed that all sickness is the consequence of disobedience of natural law, which is the law of God, and that 'the wages of sin is death'. He advocated healthy habits of living, which included exercise, fresh air, sunlight (a sunbath 'taken as nearly nude as possible'), deep breathing, a daily cold bath, and, above all, a healthy diet. To Williams disease was caused by such poisons as tobacco, alcohol, over-indulgence in meat, refined starch and sugar, and an insufficient use of fresh fruits and uncooked vegetables, unrefined cereals and wholemeal bread, dairy products, nuts and fish. If the cause of the disease was removed, he argued, the symptoms would disappear: 'The best way to get rid of maggots and poisonous odours is to remove garbage and prevent its collection

– not dissipate energy in futile attempts to deal with the flies.' This meant purging the system by enemas and then fasting for up to 100 days, in instalments of from 5 to 21 days. His ideas and methods were stated in his book Hints on healthy living, first published in 1934, and 83 pages long. By 1949 it had gone into a fifth edition of 5,000 copies which ran to 256 pages, the extra material comprising mainly diets and recipes. He also wrote on the problem of human suffering (1935), and a pamphlet, Hospitals and hooey or health (1941). Williams lectured throughout the North Island, and people came from all over New Zealand for consultations or to be treated in his Aramoho nursing home. Patients found his regimen rigorous, but had great faith in him. Marjorie Coates, the wife of Gordon Coates, spent several weeks in Wanganui in 1933 and 1937, seeking help for her arthritis. On both visits Williams prescribed a severe diet and in 1933 she was required to dance outside in the early morning dew. On another occasion, R. O. C. Marks, notable social credit figure and disciple of Williams, though in terrible pain from appendicitis, refused surgery and sent for Williams, who administered cold packs and fruit juice and brought him through safely. Physically, Ulric Williams was an effective advertisement for his methods: tall, lean and fit into old age, he was an accomplished (though temperamental) golfer who went through a routine of callisthenics before each shot. He had played rugby and cricket at university, and was a Wanganui representative cricketer and a fine tennis player. Although he was a compassionate man prepared to take endless trouble with his patients, there was something of the puritanical Savonarola about him, and he seemed to revel in controversy. A local doctor was quoted in his obituary as saying that 'He had proved many of his methods to himself but not to the medical practice in general.' In 1936 Williams was expelled from the New Zealand Branch of the British Medical Association for his advocacy of alternative treatments, particularly his opposition to immunisation. He remained a strong opponent of the BMA for the rest of his life. Ironically, on the day he was informed of his expulsion, Williams was awarded a degree by the president of the American Naturopathic Association. An attempt by the Medical Council to have him deregistered in 1941, following the death of a patient, was unsuccessful. Williams frequently wrote to the newspapers and also conducted a long-running campaign against fluoridation of water supplies. In later years he became something of a recluse. He died in Wanganui on 21 December 1971, survived by a son. Mary Williams had died in 1969. She had given up alcohol at the same time as her husband and had faithfully supported his work. Ulric Williams was an original thinker and a forceful personality and controversialist. Although regarded by many as a crank and fanatic, in his advocacy of a healthy natural way of living, methods of treatment, scepticism about unnecessary surgery, and promotion of a diet of natural foods, he was perhaps ahead of his time.

How to cite this page: Bruce Hamilton. 'Williams, Ulric Gaster', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1998. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4w19/williams-ulric-gaster (accessed 10 August 2023)

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Dr Williams (1890-1971) was considered a playboy surgeon until 1931 when he concluded that there wasn’t a “health service” but a “medical service” whose main goal was making money rather than healing its patients. Subsequently he became a naturopath and published “Healthy Living” in 1934. This is an updated reprint of the 5th edition expounding terrain theory and includes many scriptural references, e.g., using herbs for health.

He believes man to be made of Body, Mind and Spirit and “all disease comes from one of two places, either an unhealthy way of life…or else it comes from unhappiness in the mind and spirit”, he considers all symptoms as warnings of an imbalance and a cue to find and address the cause of the disease.

Williams includes many secondary sources of illness however doesn’t pull any punches and attributes “indulgent living” as a common cause. But he believes man has the power to heal himself and self-healing starts Physically by looking after our bodies with the correct diet, exercise and habits. Back in 1934 he was already calling out the “food-fake” industry and pesticide use etc. Psychologically, he sees thought as a powerful tool in self-healing and that we should think positively and banish negativity. Thirdly, Spiritually. He sees God not as a deity in the sky but God as Life, the Life Force within, the Life Spirit in each of us and our ability to heal depends on our connection to that infinite spirit and healing comes more quickly when we include prayer and fasting in our life. 

This book is a “how to” stay in good health. It discusses the causes of diseases in body, mind and spirit and how to reverse them, it includes dietary advice, not only what to eat (recipes included) but how to eat, the best way to fast, the best forms of exercise, how to practice a positive mental attitude and how to get right with the Life Force that is all around us. I gained an older perspective from reading the book, 90-year-old wisdom saying what has become mainstream in the past 10 years, just a different language, nowadays we might read about quantum physics, quantum faith, meditation, intention and manifestation or spellwork. All point to an energy all around us and that our individual belief system can help us tap into that power, the greatest of which is love.

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TERRAIN THERAPY

How To Achieve Perfect Health Through

Diet, Living Habits & Divine Thinking

from the wisdom of Dr. Ulric Williams

with foreword and updates by

Dr. Samantha Bailey



Copyright © 2022 by Samantha Bailey

www.drsambailey.com

All rights reserved

Terrain Therapy: How To Achieve Perfect Health Through Diet, Living Habits & Divine Thinking

Based on: Hints on Healthy Living (original title)

First published in 1934 by Wanganui Chronicle Print,

New Zealand

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-99-118550-1

Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-99-118551-8

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-99-118552-5





Disclaimer

The information contained herein should NOT be used as a substitute for the advice of an appropriately qualified health care provider. The information and content provided here are for informational purposes only. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself or your dependents, you assume full responsibility for your actions.



"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."

Proverbs XXIII, 7.

"The man that closes his mind to that which is strange

or new is afraid—he dislikes untrodden paths."

Dr. Ulric Williams

Contents & Subchapters

Disclaimer

Contents & Subchapters

Foreword by Dr Samantha Bailey

Foreword to First and Second Editions

Foreword to Third Edition

Introduction to Fourth Edition

Foreword to Fifth Edition

1.  What Disease is, and How it is Brought About Man's Dwelling Place. Sins of Commission.

Symptoms—Their Dual Significance. Costly Blundering. Not Interested. Then and Now. Defective Polarization.

2.  Disease Defined; The Cause of Disease The Primary Causes The Secondary Causes Mineral Deficiency. Toxic Accumulation. "Fifteen Points" of Pollution. The Calcium Thieves.

3.  Orthodox Medical Methods Cause Disease Orthodox Methods Never "Cure" Disease. Symptoms and Diagnosis. The Invariable Mistake. Familiar Suppressive Measures. Vaccines and Sera.

Surgical Operations. The Tonsil and Appendix Racket.

The Cancer Industry: Radium, X-rays, and Cancer Research.

Hospital Folly. Mental Disease. The Last Straw. Misaligned Systems. Orthodox Opposition.

4.  The Problem of Treatment—General Considerations I.  The Dawn of a Better Day Relief, or Reform. A Purpose in Suffering. Only One Way. II.  Right Thinking Spiritual Physics. "Jacob's Trouble." Creative Power.

Penalties Exacted by Misuse. Thoughts are Vibratory Forces. What We Think and Speak of, We Bring into Being. Consider the Lillies.

5.  The Part Man Must Play

6.  Correcting Psychological Causes I.  Wrong Mental and Emotional Thoughts Don’t Fight Disease, but Practice Good Health. Gland Influence and Control. Some Effects of Disturbance. The Valley of Decision. "I Will Bring Evil . . ." "Quietness and Confidence Shall be Thy Strength." "The Kingdom of Good is Within."

"Thou Wilt Keep Him in Perfect Peace Whose Mind is Stayed on Thee."

Practise the Presence of God.

"Perfect Love Casteth out Fear." II.  Wrong Ideas in the Subconscious Mind The Subconscious Trap.

7.  Correcting Physical Causes I.  Misuse of foods Commonsense Foods, not "Diet." The Food Ramp. Scatty Indifference. The "Ape's" Final Fling.

Refined Foods are Dead Foods; and Dead Foods are Death-Dealing.

Suicidal Imbecility. The Real Cause of Poliomyelitis. Why Spoil our Foods? Protective Foods. In Conclusion. One Final Word. II.  Faulty General Habits

III.  Supply Deficiencies and Promote Elimination Promoting Elimination. IV.  Correcting Secondary Causes Mechanical. Economic.

8.  Helping Nature Cure I.  The Healing Crises The Gospel of "Nature Cure." These are Nature's Healing Crises. Nature's Efforts to Cure. Their Onset, and Action. Duration. The Periodicity of Disease. Parenthetically. Procedure. II.  The Part Played by Fasting Caution. Duration of a Fast. Phenomena Commonly Observed During a Fast.

9.  Mental And Spiritual Healing I.  Faith Healing "Can God?" II.  How Faith Works Vital Considerations. "Greater Things than These." Power Unlimited. The Justification for Faith. "Christ in You, the Hope of Glory." III.  Higher Healing Resources Absent Treatment. Prayer. Mediation. IV.  Divine Healing Spiritual Subterfuge. The Real Objective.

10.  Illustrative Examples

11.  The Healing Spirit Made Manifest



12.  The Standard Diet Rules of Eating. Breakfast. Lunch. Suggestions for Workingmen's Lunches and Picnics. Dinner. Suggested Diet for One Week.

13.  Dietary Principles For Children Weaning the Infant. Diet for child aged from 9 to 12 months. From 15 to 18 months. From 18 months to 2 years. From 2 to 3½ years. Diet from 3½  to 4½ years. Diet from 4½  to 5 years. From 5½ to 7 years

14.  Fasting; Eliminative and Special Diets

Types of Eliminative and Special Diets

15.  Directions For Carrying Out A Fast For Acute Illness. For Chronic Disease.

16.  Eliminative and Special Diets 1.  Fruit Diet. 2.  Fruit and Vegetable Diet. 3.  Milk Diet. 4.  Eliminating Diet. 5.  Reducing Diet. 6.  Digestive Diet. 7.  Readjusting Diet. 8.  Heavy Duty Diet.

17.  Breaking The Fast

18.  Suggestions For Hotel Diet

19.  Hints on Preparation and Cooking Sweetening Fruit Measurement Conversions

Recipes Index

About the Authors

Foreword by Dr Samantha Bailey

I first discovered Dr Ulric Williams (1890-1971) in 2021. A dear friend, Simin Williams, (whose husband is distantly related to Dr Williams,) sent me a copy of New Zealand’s Greatest Doctor—Ulric Williams of Wanganui—a Surgeon who became a Naturopath.

The booklet was published in 1998 by Brenda Sampson, who had been a former patient of Dr Williams in the 1940s. Simin met the 83-year-old Brenda in 2000 and described her as, "a picture of health, so bright eyed and sharp in mind…a tall and beautiful lady and very straight up, both physically and in her manner." However, Brenda never mentioned her publication during that meeting and it wasn’t until several years later that Simin came across a copy of New Zealand’s Greatest Doctor and made the connection.

The book instantly struck a chord with me on a number of levels. The first was how concise Dr Williams was with his explanations of health and disease. For example, he would say, "all disease comes from one of two places, either an unhealthy way of life…or else it comes from unhappiness in the mind and spirit."

This was in striking contrast to my allopathic medical training where I was bombarded with the names of hundreds of diseases, many of which appeared to be able to strike unsuspecting victims at will. For most of these disease entities the allopathic system postulates a single cause and a specific treatment protocol. Dr Williams saw the folly of treating people this way: there are no specific 'entities' as such, there are only

the manifested symptoms and conditions of the body. He did not believe in 'Germ theory' and Louis Pasteur's claims; instead Dr Williams lent his support to the 'Terrain' theorist Antoine Béchamp and stated, "it isn't the germs that matter but that upon which they prey."

Dr Williams placed a great deal of importance on the psychological and spiritual realms—he was clear that a healthy body was ultimately dependent on a healthy mind and a resolute connection on the spiritual plain. Deficiencies in this department were not only detrimental to health but sometimes fatal. As he would explain, "if a person is very unhappy and can't find a way out of the unhappiness, the body will create a way out through illness."

Dr Williams had no hubris when it came to the abilities of doctors and once said to Brenda Sampson, "I didn’t cure you, only God can heal. Actually what I did, was to teach you how to cure yourself and that will be useful to you all your life."

He had not always been that way. Earlier in his career the dashing obstetrician/surgeon had a reputation of being a playboy doctor, more interested in sports, women and booze than his patients. As one friend put it, he would, "rush them through the surgery, filling them up with sedatives and drugs just as quickly as he could, so that he might have more time for his pleasures." However, Dr Williams reached a crisis point in 1931 and became horrified with the allopathic "remedies" that he had been dispensing for material profits. (He also described this turning point in the Foreword to Fifth Edition.)

He knew it was time to find a new path and over the next few years, gradually worked out his basis for healthy living—right eating, right

thinking and right living with an appreciation of the relationship between body, mind and spirit. He became appalled at the number of operations being done and resolved to do no more surgery. He made detailed studies on the processing of food, the health and methods of fertilisation of the soil, diet and psychology. He concluded that the excessive use of chemical pesticides and fertilisers were endangering human health. In this regard he was years ahead of even Rachel Carson who blew the whistle on DDT and other environmental chemical contaminants in the 1960s.

In New Zealand’s Greatest Doctor, Brenda Sampson mentioned some of Dr Williams' publications but they had all been out of print for many years. After an extensive search I managed to purchase a 1939 4th edition of Hints on Healthy Living from a Wellington bookshop. The book was another great revelation and I was unable to put it down. His sentences can appear simple and yet they are often powerful aphorisms—for example, "don't fight disease, but practice good health," is one of my guiding principles.

Dr Williams published the 83-page first edition of Hints on Healthy Living in 1934. By the 4th edition, the one I hold, it had reached 300 pages with well over 100 of the pages comprising recipes. There was a 5th edition of the book in 1949, which came with the new title Health and Healing in the New Age. A copy of this can be found in The National Library of New Zealand. It can get confusing when book titles are changed in this way but it was probably more fitting than a title that suggested it contained merely "hints." Although Dr Williams had humbly written in the 1930s that, "the scope of this book is indicated in its title," it is certainly instructive enough to provide the reader with a comprehensive way of living and a profound understanding of health.

When we decided to put this book into print, consideration was given as to whether to modernise the format and style. Dr Williams favoured a great deal of capitalisation in his writing which may seem unusual in the present day as he appears to be shouting at his readers. However, on reflection we elected to maintain his literary style. If he was concerned about unhealthy lifestyles in the 1930s it is almost certain that he would be shouting at us even more loudly in the 2020s. There is also a personal delight in allowing a buried voice to have a platform over 80 years later. By leaving the style as it was, Dr Williams gets to speak again in his unique style while his detractors are long since forgotten. The truth has a habit of surfacing even if it takes time.

While preserving most of his original content there have been some updates to help the modern reader. Some of Dr Williams' classifications and lists have been reorganised to make them clearer. Where more accurate and important information is now available, it has been added. What is most remarkable is how little needed changing, such is his timeless wisdom. His examples of 1930s medical follies have been left in place as they are illustrative of many of the same erroneous "health" models that are still blindly followed today. The laws of God and the nature of biology cannot be changed by man. Dr Williams' genius was in the distillation and communication of these principles to others.

There are a large number of recipes in this book, which is appropriate given the emphasis that Dr Williams placed on achieving health through diet. They are simple to follow, nourishing, and practical with the vital themes being readily apparent. Our diets should consist of foods that are provided by nature with the avoidance of processes that deplete their nutritional value. By simply browsing through the recipes you will see plenty of fruits and vegetables and unadulterated ingredients. It goes without saying that knowing where your food comes from is of the upmost importance.



Dr Williams was not averse to meat in the diet although he would advise restricting its consumption during times of illness. There are no meat dishes amongst the recipes apart from the unexpected appearance of a one 'Savoury Rabbit' in the 'Meat Substitute' section! (Our family consumes meat regularly and I am happy to leave others to work out their best balance.) Raw milk and butter, however, are frequently employed in the recipes. If flour is being used, it should usually be wholemeal, while sweetening is achieved through raw sugar or honey. Puddings can be part of a healthy diet if they consist of such wholesome ingredients. One of my favourite recipes in this book is Welsh Nectar— a natural homemade soft drink with a delicious mouthfeel that cannot be replicated by commercial varieties.

For readers outside the United Kingdom and Australasia there may be a few unfamiliar terms. Marmite and Vegemite are potent food spreads made from yeast extract. They are jet black in colour and rich sources of vitamin B compounds. Weet-bix is a popular breakfast cereal in Australasia, with a similar product in the UK and North America being Weetabix. Granose flakes are now known as Corn flakes, so this was updated in the recipes section. There are a few other 'old' words that have been preserved to remind us of our heritage. Recipe measurements are mostly in the imperial system and brief on instructions—the idea is more about appreciating the principle of natural ingredients and eating minimally manipulated food.

During his practicing career, Dr Williams gave many popular public lectures and wrote to newspapers frequently. He campaigned against fluoridation of water supplies and was opposed to all vaccines—which he described as, "disgusting and disease-producing." Such positions brought him into conflict with the British Medical Association who expelled him as a member in 1936. Subsequently, a similarly outraged Medical Council failed in their attempts to have him struck off the

register in the 1940s. This resonated with me due to the Medical Council's attempts to silence me after I went public in 2020 with regard to the COVID-19 fraud. However, unlike Dr Williams, I had no desire to remain practicing within the medical system once I understood its nature.

Last century Dr Williams wrote that, "the modern medical system, to the extent of perhaps 80%, is nothing but a gigantic, cruel, ludicrous, lucrative, transparent fraud." In my view, nothing has changed except perhaps that 80% is now an underestimate of the fraud taking place. In the same article he went on to state that:

"Doctors do not know what disease is, nor how it is brought about… Doctors, completely unaware of their significance or purpose, are taught that acute illnesses are acute diseases, which they must prevent or cure. With this object they employ a battery of destructive agents, notoriously more dangerous than the ills they are supposed to cure. Poisonous drugs, vaccines, radiation and mutilating surgery are their weapons. Perhaps the worst crime of modern medical, so-called science is the increasingly effective suppression of acute illnesses. Usually, successful suppression has one of four consequences.



The sufferer is killed.



A foundation is laid for chronic and often incurable disease.



Nature (if she can) will after period intervals, stage more of these would-be spring cleanings or Healing Crises.

Nature may effect a cure in spite of treatment, in which case the doctor will claim and probably get full credit for recovery."



While it may seem a harsh critique of our profession, I have come to realise the truth of it. When Dr Barbara Starfield revealed in 2000 that around 225,000 patients were dying annually in US hospitals due to medical errors, it should have been one of the scandals of the century. Keeping in mind that this does not include the iatrogenic deaths (and injuries) happening outside the hospitals, it is clear that the medicopharmaceutical industry has blood all over its hands. It is indeed only a medical system, not a health system.

Dr Williams felt that governments had a role in promoting the health of the population and in his introduction to the 4th edition of Hints on Healthy Living he provides a list of, "What Governments Should Do." I suspect that if he was alive today he may have lost faith in the notion of governments having any positive function in the health and wellbeing of the average person.

Dr Williams' insights into the wider picture were remarkable for his time. He condemned the debt-based financial system and was under no illusion as to who ultimately pulled the strings when he stated, "whosoever controls credit controls most else, it is most vitally urgent that the people as a whole should co-operate to govern themselves." And ultimately, he said, it was individuals who would determine what the ruling class did with them:



"We ourselves are to blame. Give the average man a crust and a corner of blanket, and he's satisfied. 'It is not because tyrants oppress them that the people are slaves,' said a sage, 'it is because they are so abject that the powerful and unprincipled will inevitably exploit them.'"

As his biographer Bruce Hamilton said in 1998: "Ulric Williams was an original thinker and a forceful personality and controversialist. Although regarded by many as a crank and fanatic, in his advocacy of a healthy natural way of living, methods of treatment, scepticism about unnecessary surgery, and promotion of a diet of natural foods, he was perhaps ahead of his time." I would propose that Dr Williams' advocacy is, in fact, timeless. He was informing us that if we simply respect the laws of nature and the laws of God, then health and prosperity will follow.

At times in this book it may seem that Dr Williams is preaching in a puritanical fashion. However, he was not a supporter of organised religion in general, writing in one article that, "doctors are 'diseasemongers' and churches 'sin-factories'." And although in this book the word 'God' appears over 100 times, he was well aware of how easily this could be misinterpreted. That being so, he was known to say,

"people have so many misconceptions about this word that it is a barrier to communication. I try instead to use the words life and the life force. Life will bring you everything good, as long as you trust it."

It is a realisation that we have everything we need and will be blessed when we place our trust in ourselves and our faith in the Divine.



Hints on Healthy Living brought so much wonderful wisdom to my family and now with my best wishes I hope to pass Dr Williams' wisdom on to you with this rekindled version called Terrain Therapy.

Dr. Samantha Annabel Hope Bailey, MB ChB Christchurch, New Zealand, November 2022. drsambailey.com

References

Hamilton, Bruce, "Story: Williams, Ulric Gaster," Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, 1998.

Sampson, Brenda, New Zealand’s Greatest Doctor—Ulric Williams of Wanganui—a Surgeon who became a Naturopath, Zealand Publishing House, 1998.

Starfield, Barbara, "Is US Health Really the Best in the World?," JAMA, 26 Jul 2000.

Foreword to First and Second Editions Hints on Healthy Living

(1st ed. 1934)

It can no longer be denied that the GREAT cause of sickness is disobedience to natural law—wrong manner of living. A very large proportion of disease from which mankind suffers is IMMEDIATELY PREVENTABLE. There is nothing arbitrary or accidental about the incidence of disease. We are sick simply in proportion to the extent of infringement of natural law. Sickness is a natural consequence of disobedience. We are excused by ignorance or incredulity no more than by neglect. Turn from wrong habits of living, comply with the law, and the consequences of deflection tend to disappear.

Adopt healthy habits in regard to exercise, sunlight and fresh air; proper rest and clothing; daily cold bath and deep breathing; instead of cooked and denatured foods in excessive quantity, rely as far as possible on a moderate amount of raw foods in the natural state, and you will find that not only is health maintained at a high level of excellence, with immunity from infection, but that, when this regime is combined with suitable periods of fasting, most of the disorders which were formerly believed to be incurable or amenable only to surgery, will be found to disappear.

The choice is left in the hands of the individual; there will be no coercion; but those who obey, automatically receive their reward. Some

degree of self-denial and self-control is vitally necessary; the peace that comes only of a quiet mind is indispensable; and if it be found that these essentials result only from spiritual harmony, then such finding serves but to confirm the statement that the ultimate cause of almost all disease is error or sin—disobedience to the law of God. "The wages of sin is death." (Romans VI, 23.) Many would have it otherwise, and almost superhuman are the efforts being made to discover a means whereby man may enjoy health, happiness, prosperity and immunity from disease, the fruits of harmony with the Spirit of God, while continuing to violate every one of His commands.

When the rules of health relating to right thinking, exercise, rest, sunlight and fresh air have been complied with, we must familiarise ourselves, if we are to escape the consequences of error, with those relating to diet.

Broadly speaking, besides intemperance in eating and drinking, and indulgence in extraneous poisons such as drugs, tobacco, and alcohol, our fault lies chiefly in overindulgence in meat, refined starch and sugar; and in insufficient use of fresh fruits and vegetables. A system of diet which provides a remedy for these defects will consist, in the order of their importance, of the following foodstuffs; fruits of all varieties, some dried but mostly fresh; vegetables, as many of them as possible uncooked; dairy products; and cereals, which must be unrefined. It is the object of this booklet to outline a method whereby such a system may be effectively carried out.

Foreword to Third Edition Hints on Healthy Living

(1936)

"But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are perishing; in whom the god of this world (human physical wisdom) hath blinded the minds of them that are perishing, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ (the indwelling Life Spirit), who is the image of God, should shine unto them."

2 Corinthians IV, 3 & 4.

What appears in this little book is written not with the object of reviling men whose skill, devotion, and high ethical standard are too well recognized to need further comment; but in the spirit of love to draw the attention, of those who are big enough to take advantage of it, to the reason for the failure of many of our efforts; to indicate a line upon which investigation may usefully proceed; and to outline a principle the practice of which has already provided a happy issue out of many afflictions.

That the orthodox healing system has fallen woefully short must surely be apparent to anyone who considers for a moment the numerous and prosperous private hospitals and homes, the increasing expense upon

sanatoria, the great and growing hospital population, the teeming asylums and gaols, and the rising insanity rate; and realises that these represent but a fraction of all the suffering in the land. But the extent of the failure is even yet not understood. A searching and ruthless indictment of mistaken belief and misaligned methods is overdue, and has begun, and will continue. In contributing to this exposure, let it be SUPERABUNDANTLY CLEAR that the indictment cannot be held to apply to those who still honestly subscribe to these beliefs. Defective methods, not men, stand arraigned.

The orthodox healing system has failed for reasons that can easily be defined, and might, and ultimately will, as easily be corrected. We have failed because from our too narrow and materialistic outlook we have conceived of disease as something attacking us from without, due to germs; whereas disease whether of body, mind, soul, or estate, is mostly a gradual degenerative process going on within, due to failure to comply with the requirements of well-being. We fail because in the zones of physical limit we lock outside ourselves for cause and cure of troubles arising within. We have failed because the whole complicated system of orthodox modern diagnosis and treatment is based upon a misconception that mistakes the symptom for the disease; and tinkering with effects while the cause is ignored and allowed to continue always has been and always will be followed by deplorable consequences.

Medical men are neither fools nor rogues. Like Mahomet, or Buddha, or the African witch-doctor, they interpret the Spirit of God according to their measure of understanding; but like these others, are subject to the limitations of that measure. Man has advanced thus far in his long pilgrimage towards higher consciousness through the operation of the Law, of whose functioning for the most part he has been completely unaware; but further progress will be found possible only through increasing response to the Spirit, of whom the Law is a relative expression.



A thousand of the world's greatest specialists could not hope to cover the ground now traversed by orthodoxy; and their investigation is daily becoming more intricate and involved; the pity of it being that much of our boasted knowledge is not merely useless, but, being built upon a wrong foundation, almost infinitely worse than useless; having become, indeed, the second in importance of the two great causes of disease. And so we are confronted with the position that medical men of the highest integrity, actuated often by the loftiest ideals, have been and are being, though unwittingly, responsible for greater suffering by far than they have ever been able to relieve.

A REMARKABLE PARADOX

The explanation of which is that WE HAVE TRIED TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN SUFFERING FROM THE LIMITED RESOURCES OF HUMAN PHYSICAL WISDOM, WITHOUT SUFFICIENT REFERENCE TO THE SPIRIT AND LAW OF GOD.

"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the (worldly) wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain."

1 Corinthians III, 16 to 20.

Introduction to Fourth Edition Hints on Healthy Living

(1939)

"He that is not with ME is against ME; and he that gathereth not with ME scattereth abroad."

Matthew XII, 30.

Disease is not some mysterious inscrutable entity that attacks healthy people. Those who live healthily seldom become sick. Disease is mostly a fairly obvious consequence of failure to live healthily. We make ourselves ill.

Good health is man's birthright. Yet disease is widespread. People in the street may, to the casual observer, seem passably well. But enter their homes, and look close! There are millions and millions who ought to be happy and well, pining through long years of avoidable, often easily correctable, suffering and decay; children born under the dark shadow of disease and premature death; wretched sufferers subjected, at constantly recurring ruinous expense, to repeated suppressions of Nature's patient efforts to heal—quite simple difficulties being, habitually, complicated and intensified until fear, dejection,

hopelessness, and heart-breaking pain wear a weary course to tragic conclusion.

Wake Up You People!

There are going to be some heart-searchings when the public perceives the enormities that have been and are being perpetrated in the name of surgery and medicine; avoidable, mutilating, and futile operations, disgusting and disease-producing vaccines and sera, expensive and deadly drugs, which often fail even to modify symptoms, and certainly never, under any circumstances, have any beneficial effect upon causes; while Nature—God, through His natural law—has made provision, in perfect and merciful simplicity, for both prevention and cure.

Self-confident, credulous man, deluded by worship of physical wisdom, is blind to the truth.

Worship God in Spirit and in Truth; fill the mind with positive thoughts; eat Nature's foods in accordance only with need; obey the commonsense rules with regard to exercise and rest, sunlight and fresh air (to the skin, not merely to the outside of clothing), breathing, water, clothing, and posture; and disease, which is mostly a result of failure to comply with these requirements, will rapidly disappear.

This Business of Disease.

The Business of Disease has become the second largest in the world today, the greatest being the Financial Business, with which, like the Armament Industry, it is intimately bound up. Capital to the extent of millions, and tens and hundreds of millions, is invested in the Disease Business; and the object is—PROFIT. Let the down-trodden, deluded victims reflect: who provides the bulk of this capital, and who reaps the increase?

One thing is certain: all that "money" will hardly be thrown away! No one can set the people free but the people themselves; and the price of liberation is absolute submission—to the Divine Spirit whose service is perfect freedom.

The people are being decimated, in a large measure due to ignorance, by easily preventable and often easily curable poverty and disease; and those who could enlighten them are carefully kept away.

Those who are making a good thing out of the people's miseries control practically all the avenues of publicity; and by their direction, press, radio, and picture screen are grinding out at high pressure misleading and lying medical and financial propaganda.

This diabolical obstructiveness is authenticated and approved not merely by powerful selfish interests, but also, though mostly unwittingly, by civic authorities, politicians, economists, hospital and asylum boards, educational powers, ministers of religion, Government and Department of Health, by manufacturers, vendors, advertisers, and consumers of death-dealing rubbish, and so ultimately and individually by the benighted sufferers themselves.



And so the public agonies are traded upon with a comprehensiveness the more exasperating because largely unconscious; and thousands of sufferers still wend their weary and ruinous way from hospital to hospital, from one orthodox medical man to another, from one futile expedient to the next

AND NONE OF THEM IS EVER CURED.

Our aim as communities of individuals should be, as with the communities of cells composing our bodies, to associate to mutual advantage. But, individually or collectively, we can govern ourselves successfully ONLY TO THE DEGREE OF RESPONSE TO DIVINE SPIRIT AND LAW.

Governments must be servants, not masters—representatives elected to carry into effect the spiritually aligned will of the people.

Theocracy, via democracy, is the ONLY way; NOT, as in all countries today, dictatorships—either overt as in the totalitarian states, or covert as in the misnamed democracies "where the choice lies between being hung drawn and quartered or boiled in oil."

Warning.

The gravest possible menace threatens countries where control of credit is abused. Even when a "Government"—that is to say, the representatives of a political party—have taken control, it by no means follows that credit will be administered to the greatest advantage. For example, a Government may be dominated by the most powerful and militant section of its supporters. Which is equivalent to saying, by the most ruthless and dominant individuals in that section.

Since it is an axiom that whosoever controls credit controls most else, it is most vitally urgent that the people as a whole should co-operate to govern themselves. Otherwise, it is a certainty that they will be dictated to. The issue lies between spiritual freedom on the one hand, and materialistic capitalism or materialistic communism on the other.

Nimrod set out to build, by physical means, a tower that should reach to heaven; but confusion fell upon his followers. In Babylon, a mighty material empire held sway. But the writing appeared on the wall; and not one trace has survived. Upon the banners of both these great powers appeared the identical device:

a hammer, a sickle, and a sheaf of wheat—symbols of human resource and achievement.

In other countries today, similar attempts are being made—the same Devil, today as ever (human physical wisdom), deluding man with belief in his own ability to achieve, divorced from Divine Spirit and Law. And so in the mass, as in the individual, the struggle resolves itself into a conflict between the higher spiritual and lower physical of Adamic duality.



With "National Health Insurance Schemes" imminent or in force in so many countries, it were well to examine the position in principle, for obviously schemes badly at fault in principle can hardly be expected to produce the best of results, applied.

In order correctly to assess its probable effectiveness, any proposal, undertaking, or plan, will have to be subjected to three crucial tests:—

Is the proposal right in Spirit?

Is it adequate in Functioning?

Does it measure up in Science?

If the proposal can be shown to fall far short under any of these three headings, positive results CANNOT BE ACHIEVED. (L. E. Bassett.)

Applying these tests to the New Zealand Government's 1938-1939 proposals for "National Health Insurance," the proposals are immediately disclosed to be

VERY GRAVELY DEFECTIVE IN SCIENCE.



In Spirit, the proposals are right enough. Few question the Government's sincere desire to improve the health of the people, and make better provision for dealing with disease.

In Functioning, the proposals are adequate. Everyone acknowledges and admires the Government's energy and enthusiasm in prosecuting its objectives.

IN SCIENCE, THE PROPOSALS ARE DANGEROUSLY ADRIFT, because:

(a) They assume orthodox medical methods to be curative; whereas applying the same three tests, orthodox medical methods are at once seen to be (in Spirit, often, as well as in Science), so gravely deficient as to be actually and actively causative.

(b) They have the effect of enslaving the people more helplessly than ever to the second of the two great conscienceless monopolies (the financial being the first) from which it should be the Government's first duty to protect them.

(c) The method of financing them is CONTRARY TO ECONOMIC PRINCIPLE. Further to reduce, by avoidable taxation, the already heavily depleted purchasing power of the steadily diminishing productive section of the people, in order to supply an always increasing non-productive section with their rightful share of goods and services available in superabundance, is not merely oppressive and

unjustifiable—it is just plain stupid. "It is tantamount to pumping the sap from the trunk of a sick tree, and spraying it on to the shrivelling branches." (L. E. B.)

After all, since we can produce much more of the essentials of life than we are able to consume,

WHY NOT GIVE THEM THEIR SHARE?

How?—By giving them the requisite tickets.

(d) Provision is not limited to those genuinely prevented from providing for themselves. Instead, sickness and endless expensive and diseaseproducing "treatment" are made attractive, as well as accessible, to very large numbers who refuse to make any attempt to live healthily. The "Father" (Spirit) "in dealing with the prodigal son did NOT, as the Government proposes to do, go down to the pig-stye with blankets and hot water bottles." He awaited the culprit's repentance and reform before He met him partway.

(e) They are NEGATIVE; they deal with Disease, not with Health.

(f) They IMPOSE a fallacious political theory; whereas the object can be quickly (and cheaply) attained BY CONFORMING TO DIVINE SPIRIT AND LAW.

(g) NEITHER DISEASE NOR ECONOMIC MALFUNCTIONING CAN BE CURED BY DEALING WITH SYMPTOMS. Unless they look deep enough, Governments, exactly as do orthodox medical men, mistake the symptom for the disease; and so confine their efforts to dealing with effects, while the true causes—always ultimately spiritual —are ignored and allowed to continue. And tinkering with effects while causes continue is exactly why a smiling land uniquely equipped for well-being is littered and plastered with the sick, the halt, and the dead.

What Governments Should Do.

Governments' first concern should be—NOT to fight disease—but to INCULCATE HEALTH, and FIGHT THE CAUSES OF DISEASE. To which end they should ENABLE, TEACH, and ENCOURAGE THE PEOPLE to live healthily.

In pursuing this object it is useless looking to orthodoxy for help. In finance, as in medicine, education, and religion, the relentless and uncompromising opposition of orthodoxy to reform will have to be reckoned upon.

In addition, the stranglehold of powerful interests operating in many fields must be openly and decisively challenged. not propitiated; and the people's support mobilised to make the challenge effective.

A SICK MAN RECOVERS RAPIDLY. IN MOST CASES, WHEN THE CAUSES OF HIS MISFORTUNES ARE CORRECTED.

But many eager to know how to do this are being deliberately and systematically misled.

To make effective provision for health, Governments must:

OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE GOD AS LEADER AND HEAD; AND DO THEIR UTMOST TO LEARN AND CONFORM TO HIS WAY, WHICH IS COMPLETE AND READY TO HAND.

INTENSIVELY EDUCATE PARENTS, BY EVERY AVAILABLE CHANNEL, IN NATURAL AND SPIRITUAL METHODS BOTH OF PREVENTION AND TREATMENT.

EDUCATE THE CHILDREN, FROM EARLIEST SCHOOL AGE, IN THE SCIENCE OF RIGHT THINKING AND HEALTHY LIVING.

HAVING TAKEN FULL CONTROL OF CREDIT AND CURRENCY, DO THEIR UTMOST, IN CONTINUAL COOPERATION WITH THE PEOPLE, TO SEE THAT ADMINISTRATION IS IN HARMONY WITH DIVINE SPIRIT AND LAW.

SEE THAT ENOUGH DEFENSIVE FOODS (FRUITS, VEGETABLES, DAIRY PRODUCTS, AND WHOLE GRAINS) OF HIGHEST QUALITY ONLY, ARE AVAILABLE FREE, OR AT THE CHEAPEST RATE, TO ALL.

ABOLISH ALL FOOD REFINING AND ADULTERATION; AND SET UP MACHINERY FOR DETERMINING FOOD VALUES AND PUBLISHING THEM.



ABOLISH ALL HARMFUL DRUGS.



DEAL COSMICALLY (!) WITH HUMUS AND MINERAL DEFICIENCY IN PASTURES, ORCHARDS AND GARDENS.



PROVIDE FOR SCIENTIFIC SEWAGE DISPOSAL; AND PLANTING AND CARE OF FORESTS. (Stone.)



CENSOR ADVERTISEMENTS.



IMMEDIATELY INCREASE, WITHOUT INCREASING TAXATION, FAMILY ALLOWANCE AND PENSIONS; AND MAKE SUPERVISED PROVISION FOR SICKNESS AND ACCIDENT.



PENSION OFF THE LARGE PROPORTION OF MEDICAL MEN, WHOSE SERVICES WOULD NO LONGER BE REQUIRED.



The first Government with vision and faith to become a focal point for the people's good-will, and to challenge hypocrisy and exploitation, however formidable and deep-rooted, need have no misgivings. They will be violently attacked and obstructed; but, with the cards on the table and the people convinced of their sincerity, they will never hack for support. Perhaps we may yet see, in New Zealand, the first real democracy.

Caution!

Reform begins with the individual. There is no lack of those who want the other fellow to change his ways. But there is still a dearth of people determined, at whatever the cost, to subordinate their capabilities, limitations, interests, and beliefs, unreservedly, to the guidance and discipline of Omnipotent Spirit. Yet ONLY so can the NEW AGE be born.

Apology.

This book makes no sort of pretension to finality. It represents merely the elementary glimmerings of life-giving truth perceptible to present spiritual measure, standard, or "time." Nothing herein is original, unless it be the manner of presentation. A Principle is involved, of universal application; and an attempt has been made, in the limited time at disposal, to co-relate the various factors hearing on health and disease, and to reduce to intelligible terms the usual vague misconceptions of what constitutes spiritual healing.



It is consoling to reflect that, through faith and discipleship, with the Spirit of Truth to teach, measure will be increased.

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ (the Spirit within); for it is the power of God (Universal Spirit of GOOD) to every one that believeth."

The "New Way."

Not many years since, during a stage of self-sufficiency of physical wisdom and wide spiritual deflection, there come into the writer's hands a book called The Light of the Sevens, published in 1925 by one L. E. Bassett. This book might, for all the sense it seemed, then, to him to contain, as well have been written in Arabic. So it was dismissed, contemptuously, as the unintelligible wanderings of a disordered mind.

About a year after my change of direction from a course almost wholly physical to one less unspiritual, the author of that book was, by a spiritual apparent coincidence, encountered in person. Against the advice of friends, and not without some trepidation and misgiving, in response to an inward urge, a course of personal instruction at his hands was entered upon.

Throughout the year 1934 my new friend laboured, for hours every Sunday morning, and at many other times, to develop my grasp of new PRINCIPLE. This teaching was not in terms of (still valuable) tuition of college and university days—much of this was invalidated thereby—

but in deeper spiritual cosmic PRINCIPLE; to which such tuition must be aligned and centred.

Pondering, through strenuous days, "how knoweth this man, never having learned?" there were made clear, within the relativity of spiritual cosmic PRINCIPLE, new aspects of truth.

I learned of spiritual plan, process and purpose; of the Adamic Race "World orders"; of the progressive duality of consciousness; of the Adamic "Seven Times"; of the Adamic gamut; of the positive and negative interactions; of the "Seasons" of the "Times"; of the cycles, epochs, crises, chronology, sequence, and the paradoxes of spiritual physics; of the Semitic and Japhetic parallels; of the Adamic spectra; and of much more. I learned something, also, of spiritual, mental, and physical paradoxes in vital relationship to medical science and practice.

Awakened thus to new consciousness, I "press on to the prize of the high calling," in an attempt, according to type of consciousness, to dephase and spread the new aspects of truth; and, though many will "set at naught," others will "follow the gleam."

Passages in my book specially reflecting my friend’s teachings are acknowledged by appending his initials (L.E.B.). A prediction is ventured that, in time perhaps soon to come, as my friend’s teachings are more clearly grasped, the enlightened will understand, gratefully, that not all God's prophets lived yesterday.

Foreword to Fifth Edition Health and Healing in the New Age (1949)

"The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

"The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble."

Proverbs IV, 18 & 19.

God, the "Father", is infinite, divine life. This infinite life is focussed and centred in and radiates through Jesus the Christ, as the first manifestation of the infinite, unmanifest.

These propositions are advanced tentatively, not dogmatically, because, (it is submitted), recognition of them both, alone can provide either adequate incentive, or power, for man to master primitive urges, instincts and conditioned beliefs, and submit himself effectively to direction by Divine intelligence.

Life proceeds from its infinite source. All life's manifestations are vibratory; and vary according to vibratory arrangement, rate, and polarity. Since expression of the infinite in the relative is governed by spiritual science, knowledge of this science is vital. No less vital are conformity and control; otherwise man with his unlimited possibilities, and driven by potentially limitless power, is uncontrolled.

Won't we, or can't we see? Why are leaders and their flocks so inevitably and actively hostile to true science?—is it ignorance, or stupidity; impulse, or conditioning; emotion, or prejudice?

Human, mechanical, natural man, with his emotions, mind, physical body, and animal characteristics, is a product of his environment. His consciousness is limited at first to that very restricted band, low in the vibratory scale, with which his five physical senses make contact.

Human mind, manifesting through a material mechanism, cannot reason intelligently. The human mind records, and can reproduce, vibratory impressions. These, together with the product of their association, are termed "thoughts." In earliest "times," or evolutionary stages of Adamic man, mind is only very slightly, and intermittently, responsive to higher rhythms of intelligence. As man evolves, his original dim fluctuating glimmer of light, or intelligence, gradually brightens.

If spirit, God, could be said to have qualities or attributes, they might be summed as intelligence. Divine intelligence is that infinite faculty, comprising all knowledge, wisdom and understanding, which alone can discriminate between right and wrong, or tell true from false.



Intellect is materialistic. It is almost solely the sum and product of misinterpretations of distorted sense impressions recorded in human mind.

Individually or internationally, only to the degree that natural, human man subordinates intellect, instinct and emotion, to control and illumination by divine intelligence, can man become anything but a disease, or his affairs chaotic.

Mere idealism is not enough. Idealism, misaligned as to science, is destructive in proportion to deflection and motivating energy.

Nor is "religion" necessarily a guide. Intellectual misconceptions of theological science are among the world's worst curses. Religion, as commonly purveyed, is mostly the unconscious hypocrite's excuse for behaving unintelligently.

Men "turn to God"—do we? God, Spirit, expresses through principle, science, and law; knowledge of and obedience to which are the test, and most convincing evidence of sincerity. "He that hath my commandments" (knows my laws) "and keepeth" (obeys) "them, he it is that loveth me," said the Lord Jesus.

The British Commonwealth "prays" fervently, for peace and well being; and persists hitherto unrepentant, in most of the unintelligent urges and beliefs that breed poverty, war, and disease. "Not everyone that saith unto me Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven,"

cautioned Jesus the Christ, "but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven."

Not all alliances are of spiritual affinity; and before this world conflict of the 20th century reaches its zenith, the British Commonwealth will be reduced to genuine repentance: real self-submission to Spirit, God— evidenced by knowledge of, and obedience to, principle, science and law.

Until this happens, chaos is like to become increasingly chaotic, confusion worse confounded.

Meanwhile, the world epoch sweeps on with ever gathering momentum towards its stupendous climax. Aggressive militarism and the Babylonic economic system, mutually dependent and destructive, are being destroyed. (The manner of their destruction, by spiritual superimposure, not many foresee.)

Ruthless, cunning sponsors of unprincipled systems—religious, educational, financial, medical, commercial, agricultural, political— fight frantically to stave off the inevitable. Suggestion and compulsion are their weapons; spiritual intelligence and power must be ours.

God's spirit and law are vindicating themselves. The Gospel of Christ is blazing forth with new light. Wholeness, individual, national, and international, are on offer—God's gift; on His terms.

The world conflict is between Divine intelligence, Christ control—and human impulse and intellect. Be of good cheer—man's deliverance from self-made miseries is part of God's purpose. The victory will be Christ's.

Ten years ago—in 1939—the fourth edition of this book appeared. Already, thousands of wonderful regenerations, by its help, attest the life-giving power of God and His Christ.

Eighteen years ago, the writer was an ordinary medical practitioner, orthodox trained, serving on the honorary surgical staff of a provincial hospital. He led a deflective existence, without the remotest suspicion that medical teaching might be defective, or that anything in this book so much as existed.

Imminence of retribution compelled a turn, away from dissipated living, towards God. A year elapsed before divine intelligence, flickering in the darkness of intellect, began to cause vague disquiet as to adequacy of medical methods and ideas. Gradually light filtered through. Every new realisation meant an inward struggle against instinctive and conditioned objection; but daily it grew clearer that something was radically and fundamentally wrong.

Within four years it was plain beyond doubt that a great percentage of teaching at the world's greatest medical schools, by the greatest "scientists," was not merely not truth—its relationship with truth was distortion, inversion, and negation. Yet youthful minds are still crammed with ever more deluding elaborations of this human, travesty of true science.



The reason is—centring of human consciousness in the physicalintellectual. The inexorable demand of this intensifying "world" epoch is elevation of the centre of consciousness and response to Christ, the spiritually-intelligent. In proportion as this is achieved will upsidedown systems be revolutionised; and poverty, misery, disease, disaster, and death, give place to goodness, health, happiness, peace, security, prosperity, and life.

1.  What Disease is, and How it is Brought About

"There be many that perish in this life, because they despise the Law of God that is set before them. For God hath given straight commandment to such as came, what they should do to live, even as they came, and what they should observe to avoid punishment. Nevertheless they were not obedient unto Him; but spake against Him AND IMAGINED VAIN THINGS; and deceived themselves by their wicked deeds; and said of the most High, that He is not; and knew not His ways; but His Law have they despised, and denied His covenants; in His statutes have they not been faithful, and have not performed His works. AND THEREFORE, for the empty are empty things; and for the full are the full things."

2 Esdras VII, 20-25.

Good Health is not an entity—something to be bought or obtained. Good Health is an outward EXPRESSION of harmony with, and obedience to, the SPIRIT AND LAW OF LIFE.

Both Spirit and Law manifest polarity: they have their positive and negative aspects; so that God (Good) is positive, and evil (devil) is negative. Disease, which is ill-health, is the negative of positive, Good Health. Many people are sick because they are negative; and we are negative because we allow negative thoughts in our minds, and negative foods in our bodies. To be well, we must be or become POSITIVE.

The most important truth for man to comprehend, in fact the only consideration that really matters, is his relationship with Infinite Spirit; for everything else is dependent thereupon.

The purpose of Good Health is to enable Spirit perfectly to manifest, through perfected mental and physical vehicles; so that God's Kingdom may come, and His will be done in earth as it is in the spiritual.

Man's Dwelling Place.

We live in a marvellous house. A drug taken in at the mouth may appear on the skin of the extremities in a few minutes; a tiny quantity of poison absorbed from the intestine may throw a powerful person into convulsions; within limits, we can survive surprising extremes of heat and cold; an emotion can strike us dead, or restore us to activity; and not one atom of our make up is beyond the influence of Spirit. The Power, who designed the miracle of the human body, was not inept and likely to overlook provision for its maintenance in health. Are we to believe that God created this wonder, with its infinite complexity of reaction, and left it at the mercy of the first, or any, hostile germ that happened to cross its path? No. He conditioned that, exclusive of life's evolutionary epochs, health, whether of mind or body, might as a rule be maintained, in obedience to the laws concerned; and that if, through ignorance or perversity, we fail to obey the laws, and health in consequence is impaired, it could, usually, be regained through repentance and conversion to the Law. God's Spirit is our Life Force. "In Him we live and move and have our being." He tends to keep us in health. But if, through error or sin, health is impaired, HE is still our Life Force, still radiating well-being, and so tending powerfully, to restore us to health—when we cease thinking and doing the things that were making us ill.



Sins of Commission.

For too long we have thought like idiots, fed like fools, and acted like knaves; and then swallowed poisons or had pieces cut out of us in the hope of ridding ourselves of the consequences.

But both in the ranks of the medical profession and outside it, there is a growing realization that the phrase "Etiology obscure," is merely the refuge of the ignorant. Sir William Osler, the late world-famous physician, once said: "We put drugs, about which we know little, into our bodies, about which we know less, to cure disease, about which we know nothing at all." What an admission! Man exists out of all mental harmony with the One Source of Life; he makes his body the repository of decaying flesh mid denatured foods; he introduces into it poisons in the form of tobacco, tea, alcohol, sugar, sera, and drugs; he stuffs and gluts it with almost incredible quantities of rubbish, got up to appeal to his senses; he no longer eats to live, he lives to eat; and the temple of the Holy Ghost is befouled, and its existence endangered in order that he may continue to gratify his perverted appetites; and when the Inevitable consequences appear, the devout fold their ignorant hands and murmur, "It is the will of God," and together with the more secular, fly to the modern Medicine Man, and importune him to exorcise, with medicine or knife the mysterious devil which has crossed them!

If there existed—there does not and never will—the man who could cure by medicine or surgery, and immunise by vaccine,

he would be the greatest enemy of man who ever lived.

Symptoms—Their Dual Significance.

Insufficient distinction has been drawn between symptoms and the disease process that gives rise to them. Practically our whole system of diagnosis, prevention, and treatment, has been based upon a misconception that mistakes symptoms for disease.

Symptoms are of dual significance. They are Nature's warnings of deflection from "the Law"; they are also evidence of Nature's method of cure. In either case, the more effectively we suppress them, without adequate attention to the underlying disease process and the causes that brought it about, the more effectually may we prevent Nature from achieving her beneficent purpose of protecting us from the consequences of ignorance and neglect.

The presence of disease is manifested by symptoms. These are Nature's shouted warnings; wig-wags; fog-signals; "LOOK OUT! LOOK OUT!" they warn; "you are heading for trouble!" Along comes a medicine man, misinformed as to the nature of these symptoms, and how they are caused, tears up the wig-wag, muffles the signals, silences the warnings; and so, while the danger still rushes upon him, deludes the victim into a false and frequently fatal sense of security.

Costly Blundering.

But there is worse to follow. When, through relying upon denatured and adulterated foods, long continued over-eating, indulgence in drugs and other extraneous poisons, pandering to perverted appetite, slackness in healthy habits, constipation, and wrong mental outlook, the TOXIC TIDE IS RISING, Nature takes the situation in hand. She makes us ill—too ill to eat (if we are wise)—while she eliminates (if we will let her), through the usually adequate channels she has provided for the purpose, the poisonous accumulations that were endangering life. An outline will be given later of the part played by Fasting, in ignoring which, we deprive ourselves of Nature's most effective therapeutic expedient. Along comes the medicine man again, and insufficiently aware of the significance of these new symptoms, summons all his resources in an effort to suppress them. When he succeeds, which fortunately is not often, he has merely prevented Nature from achieving her beneficent object, and so laid a foundation for the chronic manifestations which are the despair alike of sufferer and physician.

Not Interested.

Professional men are not alone to blame. The public knows and mostly cares much less than they, what is the true explanation of their symptoms. Resentful of inconvenience, and impatient of advice or reproof, if one medical man will not summarily despatch the symptom, they run to another who will; but trying to "get well quick" is as illusory as trying to "get rich quick."

Then and Now.

People sometimes wonder why Christ didn't refer more to food. But the Jews, to whom, in the great Semitic Epoch of nineteen hundred years ago, He specifically came, were people for the most part of exceedingly abstemious habit, living under Mosaic law. They had not invented the vicious practice of food processing. Bodies were sick because souls were sick. Sin was the usual cause. To the devastating effects of soul sickness, we, today, have added a calamitous Accession of wretchedness through running amok with physical Law. As the spiritual challenge of the intensifying Epoch develops, the unhappy consequences of error and Min will be magnified.

Almost all disease begins in the soul. The greater proportion of physical disharmony is but an out-picturing of discord far deeper. Hence the futility of attempting, by attacking the physical symptoms, to deal with the problems of disease.

Do not be unduly concerned with getting rid of your symptoms— SEARCH MIND AND SOUL FOR THEIR CAUSE. Better still, strive to deepen your spiritual consciousness; for full consciousness of higher relationship obliterates every disharmony.

Sick bodies could not be healed of old while souls remained sick (neither can ours); and no earthly power can heal sick souls. ONLY THE REDEMPTIVE EFFECT OF DIVINE LOVE CAN DO THAT, AND THEN ONLY THROUGH OUR REPENTANCE AND WILLING COOPERATION; AND DIVINE LOVE WITHIN IS ALWAYS STRIVING TO HEAL.

Defective Polarization.



Any system of treatment that reckons without all these considerations, is like an ecclesiastic organization that cannot translate its tenets into healing of troubles physical, economic, and international. Both resemble an electrical or engineering plant, which, having at its disposal unlimited power, through defective polarization cannot adequately express it in terms of service. Faith healing by those in whom the Spirit of the Ideal outruns the Law, and mental systems that deny the existence or relativity of matter, or contravene the. Law, must be entered in the same category.

2.  Disease Defined; The Cause of Disease

Disease, when in negative incidence, whether of body, mind, soul, or estate, whether in the individual or the mass, is mostly:

A GRADUAL DEGENERATIVE PROCESS

due to failure to comply with the requirements of wellbeing.

Of this process, ACUTE ILLNESS is commonly NATURE'S METHOD OF CURE. Disease is bodily, mental, or economic DIS-EASE.

The causes of disease may be divided into PRIMARY and SECONDARY causes.

The Primary Causes There are three great fundamental requirements of good health:

A confident, quiet, contented, and health-conscious mind.

Moderation, wise choice, and correct combination of foods.

Healthy general habits.

These are consequent upon and expressive of right relationship with the One Source of Life.

Correspondingly, there are two great Primary Causes of Disease:

PSYCHOLOGICAL, due to Wrong Thinking; and resulting, besides progressive mental deterioration and possible eventual collapse, in endocrine and sympathetic dysfunction, externalizing as discordant physical vibration and physical disease.

PHYSICAL, due to Wrong Feeding, and Wrong Habits and Actions, resulting in:

(a) Toxic accumulation, partly metabolic, partly absorbed from a fermenting and putrefying residue in the intestines, partly the result of pandering to perverted taste, and partly introduced as "specifics" for "treatment" of symptoms.

(b) Vitamin and Mineral Starvation; associated with acidosis and 'infection' by bacteria—scavengers, whose activities are limited largely by the pathogenic material available.



All or any of these are concomitant with and indicative of an insufficiently harmonious relationship with the One Source of Life.

THE ULTIMATE CAUSE OF DISEASE, in almost every instance, is failure, by ourselves and our forbears, to obey the psychological or physical law. The reason for failure to obey the Law is insufficient response to the SPIRIT of Whom the Law is an outward expression. The reason for insufficient response is defective consciousness.

While widespread disorder is due to "spiritual-mental-physical changes manifesting in evolutionary travail, particularly at accelerated speed in this fruitional cycle," the ultimate root of practically all trouble is:

DEFECTIVE SPIRITUAL-COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS, SENSITIVITY, RECEPTIVITY AND RESPONSE.

The Secondary Causes

There are many secondary, subsidiary, or contributory causes, Toxic, Economic, "Accidental," Environmental.

HEREDITY of course plays a part. The individual is one of the mass. Similarly, the single cell is a microcosm of the parent body whence it sprang. Like the individual, it carries within itself the potentialities for

evil or good, differently conditioned in different instances, of the macrocosm of which it is a unit. But few need remain in bondage, indefinitely, to hereditary influence. Innate tendencies and weaknesses, whether of body or mind, may frequently be modified and overcome. Some, at least, are residual infirmities, shirked or insincerely contended with in antecedent cosmic experience. As in the case of acquired defect, the regenerative process may be gradual; but determination, pertinacity, and faith, will often work wonders.

GERMS are frequently associated with the disease process. They may produce or modify symptoms. Normally their function is beneficent, protective. Some are concerned with digestion; others are scavengers, facilitating removal of waste. Germs exhibit a quality strangely reminiscent of their human hosts—they tend to assume the character of their environment. It has been demonstrated repeatedly by experiment that perfectly harmless and even beneficent germs may be metamorphosed, by altering their food, into varieties of the most deadly virulence.

"Behind the microbe there is to be sought the cause of the microbe, and this in every case is the state of the soil which permits him to flourish"—Leonard Williams.

Disease germs are a product of disease, and NEVER, as the Medical Profession still blindly believes, its primary cause.

Attempts at "curing" disease, in bodies blocked with food poisons, by attacks upon the germs which may be complicating the condition, kills many germs; but kills almost as many people, and can never heal disease. People with clean systems are naturally immune; but disease

germs, having appeared in the unhealthy, may disseminate disease among any whom unhealthy living has rendered susceptible. But remove the cause, eliminate the accumulated waste, and germs and symptoms alike disappear.

We must concern ourselves not with the germs, but with the wrong conditions of living that make them a menace. The best way to get rid of maggots and poisonous odours is to remove the garbage and prevent its collection—not dissipate energy in futile attempts to destroy the flies.

"ACCIDENTAL" causes are often seemingly obvious. Frequently, however, the real underlying causes are much less apparent. There is no such thing as accident in the sense usually implied; there is only cause and effect. Right understanding of cause will enable us to prevent the effect.

Most people are familiar with the painful results of dislocation of joints, and the relief that comes with reduction. But too few understand the often easily correctable disabilities resulting from lesser degrees of displacement of vertebrae, particularly the upper few.

Yet, indisputable X-ray proof notwithstanding, orthodoxy derides. But orthodox medical men were ever the last to appreciate the value of discoveries relating to health and disease. They have always resisted new truth; though, when truth has finally forced itself on them, they are not slow to arrogate to themselves full credit for its discovery.

ECONOMIC causes contribute increasingly—largely because orthodox economists, financiers, bankers and statesmen, like orthodox medical men, are profoundly and fundamentally ignorant of principle: in this case, the Spirit and Law of right economics.

Men and their systems are one; for greedy and devilish thoughts make greedy and devilish systems. The Economic system, founded on debt instead of on credit, is not merely mathematically incapable of developing our vast real wealth—it limits access to wealth already produced. Evolved of greed and treachery, in turn it encourages both. Its mate is the animal nature, and their children are poverty and war.

For spiritual man to leave control of his credit in the hands of physical man is entrusting treasure to thieves. But, having altered our thoughts, we must still know how to alter our systems; for Divine Spirit cannot express save through Law, AND IT WAS NEVER THE LAW OF GOD TO CAPITALISE THE PEOPLE'S CREDIT AND MONETISE IT AS A DEBT TO A PRIVATE MONOPOLY.

EDUCATIONAL. It is surely a grave reflection on intellect that, with an educational system costing millions a year, some very few should have to devote all their time to teaching adults the A.B.C. of how to live healthily.

Young minds are strained almost to breaking point, crammed to capacity with materialistic irrelevancies, while latent spiritual attribute and resource are not merely not educated, but aborted and atrophied.

ENVIRONMENTAL causes are associated mainly with massing in towns, and with conditions obtaining there. Not shortage of materials, not shortage of labour or space, not shortage of architectural skill, but lack of vision and lack of "money," condemn men to shabby habitations. How many buildings today are not earthquake proof—and why? What may we not achieve with resource Divinely developed! Economic pressure and stark unawareness consign men to mean tenements. Selfish enslavement to base impulse and false objectives and standards constrain them to sordid pestiferous hovels. Overcrowding, vitiated air, heat, dirt, noise, smoke, tar-dust, and fumes.

Hounded by rush, stress, and anxiety; hurrying, scurrying, hunted poor sheep! Scuttling desperately about the clanging crashing avenues of big business brooded over by sinister structures wherein are enshrined the instruments of their oppression, the Sons of God solicit permission to exist!

Walk in the street of any large town, and note the number of muckshops; drug stores; bars; tobacconists; cake, pastry, sweet, chocolate, ice cream and coloured drink vendors; all scrounging existence by trading on self-indulgence. A vast mountain of disease-causing refuse is greedily gobbled each day by vapid sensualists in search of an illusive sensation.

Primordial instinct is insistent. The ape must stuff his belly with something. The more factitious the lure, the more it seems to entice. Milk bars are the latest craze.

Picture shows supply mental pabulum, with an intellectual standard of the fourth form, and the morals of Hollywood and the Bowery.



For music: crooners and bad jazz, with cacophonous squeals, and the tom-tom thump thump of jungle fear, cruelty, lust.

Papers and periodicals, shop windows, and sky signs. neon lights and loud speakers, shriek and blare forth their lying advertisements.

We are plundered on all sides; but few see through the clumsy deceptions, or are interested enough to try. The sick cannot be induced to live healthily; but the mere mention of Boolswool's Tonic, or Kidomuk, is sufficient to separate them and their fool’s pence.

The while huge sums are squandered in so-called research! Small wonder our world was dubbed, by a satirical Frenchman, the lunatic asylum of an insane universe!

Betrayed? Yes! Deluded, seduced, and corrupted; threatened, not merely with disaster, but with final extinction—by human physical wisdom.

"And thine ears shall hear behind thee a voice saying, This is the way, walk ye in it."

Isaiah, XXX, 21.

VITAMIN AND MINERAL DEFICIENCY, and TOXIC ACCUMULATION, brought about by all the above-mentioned, are the GREAT PHYSICAL, SECONDARY, CAUSE OF DISEASE.

Mineral Deficiency.

Physical life is an electro-chemical process. Not merely is the body built largely of minerals, and not merely are the blood, digestive and tissue fluids solutions of them—minerals are the body's cleansing materials for keeping it clear of waste. Despoiled of supplies, the body deteriorates.

There are seventeen minerals, such as calcium, sodium, potassium, iron, magnesium, iodine, etc., used by Nature in the construction of living tissue. They occur in our bodies in large or appreciable quantities; other trace-elements exist. They are constantly being excreted. Practically the only source of replacement is food. It is a striking reflection upon intelligence that, with good health and immunity absolutely dependent upon an adequate supply, we should go to almost every length of ingenuity to deprive ourselves of as many as we do.

Methods in vogue that partially or completely demineralise are: manufacturing, refining, processing, beautifying, peeling, freezing, canning and bottling.

Their object is mostly gain. Ignorance, stupidity, stubbornness, greed, are the stumbling blocks.



Demineralisation is coupled with unbalanced feeding—acid accumulation leeching valuable stocks, and vitamin shortage preventing absorption. Bad cooking, capricious appetite, restricted choice, parental indulgence, and mulish self-will, diminish reserves.

Foods grown in acid, deficient soil, and forced for quick sale with unnatural manures, yield scanty amounts. Inorganic minerals are no adequate substitute, in men or in soil; to ensure assimilation, minerals must be vitalised by passage through plants, or potentised by trituration.

VITAMINS are the life-element in food. They resemble faith in that very little of either is required; but without them the aliment, however liberal, cannot sustain. Many of them are modified or destroyed by heat or chemicals. Many, sometimes all, are removed by ignorant manufacturers greedy for gain. Short of its vitamins, the body gradually deteriorates; starved of most, it rapidly decays; deprived of them all, it cannot survive.

Refined foods are dead; and dead foods cannot support healthy life. Vitamin deficiency is accompanied by stunted growth, bacterial infection, toxic absorption, deformities, and ulceration; it predisposes to character distortion, mental and moral deterioration, and national and international degradation.

Examples of disease wholly or in part caused by Vitamin and Mineral Deficiency are:

Infantile Paralysis (Poliomyelitis), Tuberculosis, Rickets, Scurvy, Eczema, Anaemia, Glaucoma, Cataract, Blindness, Deafness, Goitre, Rheumatism, Neuritis, some Kidney Stones, and Cancer.

There is one certain protection against the destructive effects of devitalised foods: NEVER USE ANY.

AVOID, LIKE THE PLAGUES THEY GIVE RISE TO, WHITE FLOUR, POLISHED RICE, WHITE SUGAR, CORNFLOUR, AND ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING MADE FROM SUCH THINGS.

Toxic Accumulation.

Normally, when food is completely metabolised, the results are: growth, tissue repair, heat, energy, and waste.

This waste matter is poisonous; and comprehensive provision has been made for extrusion. A most important duty of Skin, Lungs, Liver, Kidneys, and Bowel, is ridding the body of waste. Poisons not oxidised in the tissues are carried by blood and lymph to the Eliminating Organs, strained out by them, and expelled.

Ordinarily the Eliminating System is more than capable of coping completely with waste; but if waste be introduced, or produced, of a kind or in quantity such as the body is not designed to deal with, accumulation occurs. Fermentation products from excess undigested

sugar and starch, and deadly putrefactive alkaloids from rotting flesh foods, are the worst of the physical cancer-producers.

The amount and variety of noxious substances amassed in people's bodies is sometimes fantastic. The harm done ranges from mild discomfort and vague pains, to decrepitude, circulatory or nervous breakdown, vicious or criminal impulse, confusion, insanity, and death.

People, as a rule, are fairly particular about outward cleanliness; but within, the temple of God’s Spirit is a dunghill : a foul and steaming cesspool of indescribable beastliness.

To avert retribution, these feculent sumps are ravaged with surgical violence, riven with drug and germ poisons, and rent with shattering thought forces.

"If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy."

1 Corinthians III, 17.

"Fifteen Points" of Pollution.

Prominent among the everyday causes of Toxic Accumulation are:

Mental tension, such as fear, jealousy, bitterness, hate, resentment, selfpity. In addition to the terrific battery of physical poisons, the body is often flooded, in many continuously, with its own internal secretions. Always toxic in excess, they become particularly so under the influence of dread, hate, rage, or other unrestrained emotion or wrong thought. So poisonous may be emotion that the breath of an angry man, condensed and injected, has killed a rabbit in convulsions.

Overeating, specially of cooked meat, and refined, de-natured, adulterated rubbish masquerading as food.

Muck-eating, swallowing death-dealing refuse in the form of cakes and pastries made from white flour and sugar, sweets, chocolates, ice-creams, milkshakes, and coloured drinks.

Self-poisoning, with alcohol, tobacco, and drugs.

Doping, or administering poisons in the form of vaccines, sera, and "medicines," to "cure" the symptoms of Toxaemia.

Adulteration, the presence in almost everything eaten of a Machiavellian assortment of venom.

Indolence and laziness; with breathing and activity insufficient for complete oxygenation.

Constipation, because lazy habits, overloading, and not enough roughage, reinforced by mental tension and drugs, interfere with right function.

Auto-intoxication, by absorption from the intestines of the reeking emanations from fermentation, decomposition, and putrefaction.

Mechanical, where spinal subluxations cause defective innervation.

Bacterial activity, because disease germs develop in dirt; and, becoming virulent in a toxic environment, themselves evolve matter of high toxicity.

Trade poisoning, where workers in anilin, paraffin, lead, munitions, etc., become cancerous, blinded, or paralysed.

Ergotism, through using meat, milk, butter, and cheese, from cows feeding on ergotised pastures; and, in New Zealand, pastures are riddled with ergot from end to end of the land. This also explains much mysterious stock disease. (A. Kent.)

Aluminium poisoning, an insidious trap for the unwary. Minute portions of aluminium utensils, used in the preparation of foods, are absorbed as hydroxide; and, though apparently innocuous, are deadly in course of time.

Chronic Acid Poisoning: Acidosis, the International Endemic. Meats, starches, sugars, and animal fats are the great acid-producers. That is to say, assimilated and metabolised, the residual waste is acid in character— carbonic acid, uric acid, and a variety of complex organic acids. These are mostly sparingly soluble, and consequently difficult of elimination. Combination with alkaline minerals increases solubility and eliminability.



The Calcium Thieves.

For successful elimination of acid residue from sugar and starch metabolism, CALCIUM is required. If the supply is inadequate, or if this waste is produced in excess, the acids accumulate. To combat this, the body calls up its calcium reserves from teeth and bones, which, gradually or rapidly, become de-calcified, crumble, and rot.

This is one very important reason why New Zealanders, who consume inordinate amounts of meat, sugar, and starch, have the worst teeth and brittlest bones in the world; and, incidentally, one of the highest cancer death-rates. Concomitant upset of calcium-phosphorus ratio results in arteriosclerosis, rheumatism, gout, and a host of degenerative manifestations.

Filching from cereals and other foods the protective alkaline minerals, and throwing them to the pigs, while we attempt the impossible task of living healthily on the acid-forming starch left behind, may, and does, make good pigs; but makes very bad human beings!

Why be uncharitable to the defenceless, small germs?

3.  Orthodox Medical Methods Cause Disease

"And a certain woman . . . had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse."

Mark V, 26.

What follows is an impersonal survey. Neither individuals; nor associations of individuals are arraigned. Methods, not men, are to blame. A vital principle is involved. The charge must be faced that misaligned medical methods, far from solving the disease problem, have become, in fact, the second in importance of its two principal causes.

There are two GREAT REASONS for the existence and persistence of Chronic Disease:

Continuing to think, eat, or do the things that make people ill.

Suppressing Nature's curative efforts.

Those who are ill and wish to get well can do so, most of them, subject to one absolute condition:

That they think, eat, and act aright; and co-operate loyally with Nature’s efforts to heal.

There are five hundred thousand sick people in New Zealand; and five hundred thousand more are not as well as they should be. Of the remainder, hardly a handful even approaches the ideal. The thoughtful may well ask—why don’t the doctors cure them? And the answer is, not only do orthodox methods not CURE disease, but in too many instances they aggravate or actually cause disease and prevent recovery.

THINK! (If "education" has not completely incapacitated.) How can orthodox medical men "cure" disease? They do not even know what disease is, nor how it is caused; still less have they understood the Natural or Spiritual resources for prevention or treatment.

That there is a disease problem, no one need argue. The urgent demand for rapidly expanding hospital and asylum accommodation, and the proposed fantastic expenditure of debt money, sufficiently attest the fact. But if problems are to be solved, they must be considered in principle; otherwise, attempts at solution, however well-intentioned, must fall far short.

The world is in an epoch of cosmic accelerating intensity that DEMANDS a new spiritual alignment; with increasing sensitivity,

receptivity, and response.

"In Whom the God of this World . . ."

No minds are more holden, today, than those still blinded, despite proven futility, by belief in the adequacy of human physical wisdom. In deflection from principle, orthodox methods have failed catastrophically; and this deflection is symptomatic and characteristic of defective spiritual-cosmic consciousness. Both physically and spiritually, man is evolving; but even in this transitional stage of a world order now rapidly drawing to a close, humanity Adamic response is still far too limited to the physical-intellectual. The emerging new order DEMANDS a higher response.

Orthodox Methods Never "Cure" Disease.

Orthodox methods have failed, principally because, insufficiently comprehending Spirit as the one constituent of Life and all matter, we have regarded as physical, problems always ultimately spiritual. Consequently, we have looked without, for cause and cure of troubles arising within.

Looking without, for the cause of disease, there were discovered, not merely associated with the disease process, but capable sometimes even of propagation, minute living organisms or "disease-germs." It was erroneously, though quite naturally, concluded that these were the cause.

Enlightened reflection, however, discloses that "disease-germs" are merely one factor—usually an effect—and NEVER the primary cause. The primary cause of almost all disease is failure to fulfil the requirements of well-being.

Thus the "healing" system, like the financial system founded on debt instead of on credit, begins upside down. Both systems are based on a false premise, upon which vast inverted pyramids have been built. The time has come to kick out the bottom brick, and rebuild.

Symptoms and Diagnosis.

"Symptoms are of dual significance. They are Nature's warnings of deflection from 'the Law'; they are also evidence of Nature's method of cure. In either case, the more effectively we suppress them, without adequate attention to the underlying disease process and the causes that brought it about, the more effectually may we prevent Nature from achieving her beneficent purpose of protecting us from the consequences of ignorance and neglect."

Not understanding, we have feared disease and sought in get rid of it by doping, cutting, and burning its symptoms. The uncured imagine, and are encouraged to believe that they are merely among the unfortunate whose difficulties have not yet been fathomed by medical "science." They certainly are, inasmuch as practically every sick individual has to be included in the same category.

Orthodox "diagnosis" means little more than giving symptoms a name; very often, as experience has demonstrated, a wrong one. It has been proved that the most skilful diagnostician, with all the resources of a modern hospital at his disposal, is correct in only forty-eight per cent of cases in even naming the symptoms; and naming the symptoms does nothing to reveal the true cause.

Unlike those who approach problems in principle, orthodoxy cannot institute "treatment" without "diagnosis"; and much wrong treatment is done to obviate the otherwise monotonous regularity of the too damaging admission—"nothing can be done." "Do zummat," is the motto of the old school.

For such reasons, all manner of disastrous "treatment," including tens of thousands of expensive, painful, and mutilating operations, is undertaken, often on no better pretext than a bad guess.

"Observation" and "investigation" are ingenious (and usually exorbitantly expensive) resources, whose chief usefulness lies in concealing from the sufferer his physician's ignorance of what ails him. Fear and disease-consciousness, "examination" engendered, are among the worst causes of disease. Lacking the principle, the would-be helper is in no better case than his patient; and when the blind lead the blind, both fall into the ditch.

There is no "cure" for disease. Recovery comes through faith and obedience. The struggle for self-mastery may be deferred; but cannot be evaded. One of our crimes has been the proffering of illusory palliatives.



True diagnosis consists in discovering the barriers, both psychological and physical, preventing the divine Life Force within from manifesting perfection. Naming the symptoms is seldom important. Effective treatment consists in helping the afflicted to remove all barriers; and in encouraging a higher consciousness and response. There is a whole world of difference between mechanical treatment of symptoms in the well-to-do; and a protracted and exacting wrestle with sick, weak, ignorant, stubborn, fearful, penurious souls.

The Invariable Mistake.

The first great departure from principle is made when doctors, insufficiently responsive to divine Spirit and Law, look IN SICK BODIES FOR CAUSES. They never discover them; for the primary cause is never in the body, that's where effects appear. The cause will be found in the mind or the manner of living. Error at the very outset has limited us to battling with effects, and the further we have gone the more have we retrogressed.

Familiar Suppressive Measures.

Repeatedly and consistently to thwart Nature's curative efforts is bad enough when one knows no better; to continue to do so, enlightened, is criminal idiocy; to employ means to that end demonstrably destructive and disease-producing in themselves, is surely to plumb the last depths of human futility.

Familiar orthodox expedients for suppressing the symptoms of disease are Drugs; Vaccines and Sera; Surgical Operations; Radium and XRays. Almost invariably these are inherently deadly. Not merely may they bring low the most powerful; their employment conceals the path along which alone deliverance lies.

Almost all drugs are poisonous. Many are venomous. Few are even temporarily admissible. None would be required if natural requirements were complied with. Were we not taught not to "think," the stupidity of swallowing or injecting noxious substances with a view to ridding ourselves of the consequence of wrong thinking and living, would hardly need emphasis.

Agranulocytosis (in plain language, low white blood cell count), is a fatal disorder whose origin had long been a mystery. It is now known to be caused by Pyramidon, a drug taken and widely prescribed by "specialists," for relieving symptoms derived from elementary errors in the manner of living. [Pyramidon is an analgesic now banned in many countries, S.A.H.B.]

Sir William Wilcox, the eminent English toxicologist, in the British Medical Journal in the 1930s, disclosed that this disastrous disease is caused also by the salicylates (e.g. aspirin)—drugs universally taken and prescribed by medical men the world over, for the suppression of symptoms they call "rheumatism." But such symptoms are no more than commonplace consequences of wrong feeding and general habits —not infrequently, of unhappiness merely.

Agranulocytosis may also be caused by the barbiturates (Luminal [phenobarbitone], the great brain paralyser, was the best known),

prescribed literally in tons for suppressing nervous symptoms arising from toxic conditions of body and mind. [Although barbiturates are largely out of favour for this use in the 21st century, toxic psychiatric medications such as the SSRIs are now widely prescribed, S.A.H.B.]

Also, says Sir William, by "Avertin," used as a basal anaesthetic in surgical operations for cutting out symptoms amenable often to simple natural methods.

ALSO BY ASPIRIN! Who dare compute the number of tons of this potent destroyer swallowed annually to relieve the symptoms of stupid living?

One English firm spent £340,000, in one year, in advertisement alone, on one particular futile disease-producer. (Equivalent to £17,000,000 in 2022.)

And the British Medical Journal continues to draw large sums from advertising, to medical men, the poisons its own columns condemn! [Now the columns support the poisons!, S.A.H.B.]

What Sir William Wilcox has yet to discover is, as every Naturopath knows, that agranulocytosis is only one of the killing effects of the above named poisons. Presently it will dawn on him, to his horror and dismay, that deafness, eczema, asthma, blindness, paralysis, criminal degeneracy, delusions, cancer, and insanity, together with numerous other appalling adversities, quite frequently eventuate from a variety of drugs so comprehensive as to include almost the whole range. These are

reckoned already by tens of thousands; and are continually increasing in numbers, futility, and toxicity.

Not long ago, while eulogies appeared of "God's G. men," us a paper was pleased to term us medical men, a paragraph recorded some hundreds of deaths caused by the latest drug advocated to "cure" "blood-poisoning."

Inept in their ignorance, though anxious enough to aid, those who prescribe these compounds know practically nothing of their composition, and less of their action. immediate or remote. Desperate in their helplessness, and beguiled by specious and cunningly worded advertisement, they clutch at the subtle deceptions as a drowning man at a straw; they impose upon public confidence by prescribing on the say-so of salesmen carefully trained to take advantage of ignorance and credulity.

Doctors thus become the agents for destroyers more frightful than phosgene.

Vaccines and Sera.

Even if objective evidence, in reaction, sickness and death, were lacking (which it is not), that vaccines and sera can cause disease, no very profound depth of intelligence is needed to envisage the ingenuousness of injecting the filthy products of disease into a healthy person to keep him well. At best, such conduct is a cynical reflection on Divine Spirit and Law.



Again in the British Medical Journal one medical man recorded 16 cases, in his own practice alone, of paralysis following preventive (!) injection of "diphtheria antitoxin," in people who had never suffered from the "disease." The query must be urged—how many cases of paralysis, then, follow its "therapeutic" use in all the hospitals of the "civilised" world? And since paralysis is but one of its possible sequelae, the curious may speculate as to the real extent of the harm.

The cream of the joke is, of course, there's no such disease! "Diphtheria" is the name of a symptom. Acute sore throats are evidence of Nature's healing reaction—certainly preventible by healthy living; and quickly responding to fasting.

If germs are so terrible, why do these acute so-called "infective" disorders yield so dramatically to fasting and simple elimination? If the germ were the relevant factor, fasting would surely be fatal. Appreciation of this point will soon close our "fever-traps."

If germs were the fearful menace the apostles of orthodoxy allege, vaccines and sera might be a logical, if flimsy defence. But, as minds not inaccessible to truth will perceive. the healthy do not succumb. Disease being established, disease germs may appear. Yet in America and England, the medical associations are striving for absolute autocracy; one object being compulsory "immunisation" against "diphtheria" and other "diseases." As if immunisation were possible by inoculation with disease, against the disciplinary consequences of indulgent living!

A number of children were killed in Australia, quite recently, by vaccines; and a larger number in Chicago. These regrettable incidents were hushed up by interested parties; and the vaccines responsible exonerated. [This is in reference to events in the 1930s but the harm of vaccines continues today, S.A.H.B.]

Epidemics of cholera in destitute countries are attributed by orthodoxy to germs. (Many varieties are described; but better counting will equate the varieties with the number of sufferers.) And so the germs are attacked. But the educational, economic, and religious systems, responsible for the filthy living conditions and inadequate diet that cause the disease, are allowed to remain unchallenged.

Great capital has been made, by protagonists of the germ theory, out of the apparent reduction of typhoid incidence in the Great War. True, by suppressive methods, the form of disease may be changed; but that does not arrest the disease process—of which acute illness is curative. Statistics can be made to prove anything; but any reduction was due to improved hygiene, not to anti-typhoid inoculation, which sickened and killed enough. Moreover, "new diseases," labelled "paratyphoid A and B," "trench fever," "P.U.O.," pyrexia (of unknown origin!) etc., were handy designations concealing the fact that the old familiar consequences of unhealthy living had merely altered their name.

Pasteur was the first to misinterpret, commercialise, and exploit, at the expense of ignorant sufferers, the discoveries of wiser and better men— Antoine Béchamp, for example. Today, Pasteur is the great false god of disease.

Pasteur was the fore-runner of modern bug-factories, with millions invested, producing ludicrous and unpredictable dirt differing more in name than in kind from the preposterous concoctions of an age scarce gone. Shiploads are sent out. A vast business of trafficking in human misery has been built up. Behind the medical men and their hospitals is a colossal organization, profit-inspired, for making and marketing drugs, vaccines, surgical supplies, and dead foods. And only too often doctors are the unpaid salesmen!

Who controls all this capital? Who controls any capital? Who really controls banking and vested interests? Those who control money and credit control most else. Is it too fantastic to suggest that the people are victims of a grand-scale conspiracy, among whose dupes are the medical men?

Surgical Operations.

There is still a legitimate, though narrow and rapidly contracting, field for surgery. At best, it is symptom-swatting, concerned exclusively with effects. There can do hardly be a diseased organ in an otherwise healthy body; and permanent good has seldom resulted from excising the unhealthiest portions, and leaving the rest diseased.

When the cause of ill-health is dietetic, "exploratory" operating is turpitude; when psychological, "having a gink" is little better than homicide. Says the surgeon, "there's something wrong somewhere; let's have a look-see"; or, "something's amiss, let's cut it out."

But blundering interference with structure and function, though faultlessly intentioned, must reap a sorry reward. Masking of symptoms deludes. It prevents recognition of error; and, too frequently, delays or aborts Nature's curative purpose.

The vast majority of symptoms are either psychological or dietetic in origin; and readily respond when the cause is corrected. By subjecting them indiscriminately, often by sadly incompetent performers, to painful and useless violence, trivial complaints are converted into serious and intractable disorder. And surgery is by no means the only field of activity where ignorance, ineptitude, and calamitous failure are rewarded with thanks, high honour, and rich fees.

Operations, unfortunately, are among the most lucrative items of the orthodox stock-in-trade. They must be sold, otherwise it is improbable that people will buy. The people, rightly, fear operations. But they can be made to fear sickness more, and the fear-urge is widely employed.

The writer was orthodox trained and served on the honorary surgical staff of a provincial hospital. Following spiritual realignment (of exigency, because of delinquency) new understanding dawned. Gradually he was made aware that something was radically and fundamentally amiss with what he had been taught, practised for fourteen years, and till then never doubted. Hardly a thought in this article but was outside his consciousness four years ago.

Developing experience of Nature's way has convinced that at least eighty per cent of operations could forthwith he dispensed with. Dr Charles Mayo, and other authorities, have put the figure at ninety per cent.



Eighty-five per cent of appendices removed have nothing the matter with them. The remainder do best left alone. Appendicitis, peritonitis, osteomyelitis, hernia, displacements, fibroids, cancer, antrum, sinus and mastoid disease, unhealthy tonsils, pyorrhoea, gall-stones, and inflammation of the gall-bladder, goitre, kidney-stones, abscesses, enlarged prostates and tumours are among the conditions usually regarded as surgical which have been shown to yield, sometimes very easily, to the simplest of natural methods.

There are innumerable instances of people having been operated upon two, three, five, ten, twenty, and even more times. But how many regain or maintain good health thereby?

It's the people's affair. If they like paying through the nose to be slaughtered in battalions—that’s their privilege, of course; but if it is health they are seeking, it is dangerous to look for it at the hands of those who trade mainly in disease.

The Tonsil and Appendix Racket.

Tens of thousands of appendices, and hundreds of thousands of tonsils are removed annually without colour of real excuse.

The cause of unhealthy tonsils is unhealthy living—faulty feeding and general habits. Tonsils and adenoids are accessory eliminating channels. Do not seal them up; correct the unhealthy living and, in course of time, the diseased condition will recover.



Yet we find school health (!) officers, while completely ignoring the causes, actually threatening to exclude children from school unless they are subjected to this useless AND DANGEROUS mutilation.

APPENDICITIS is caused by constipation, and fermentation and putrefaction of excess starch and, or, meat.

APPENDICITIS NEVER OCCURS IN PEOPLE OR NATIONS WHO EAT WISELY. Conservatively treated, like most other Acute Illnesses or Healing Crises, with fasting (absolute in acute attacks); rest; cold packs; and, in acute attacks, not even laxatives or enemata—there is practically no death-rate.

When the surgical treatment of appendicitis has ceased, the death-rate from this condition will cease also. It is the operation that kills—not the disorder.

The Cancer Industry: Radium, X-rays, and Cancer Research.

In no branch of their sorrows are the people being more cruelly and treacherously deceived and imposed upon than where this horrible scourge is concerned. It is almost beyond belief that men so wellintentioned as medical-men can be so blind; but "there are none so blind as they that will not see."

The people are urged to co-operate in exposing the false claims made for orthodox methods of treating this evil. We are continually reassured that early treatment by orthodox methods offers bright hope of cure; and that the proportion of cures is steadily growing.

SUCH STATEMENTS ARE UTTERLY MISLEADING.

THE DEATH-RATE FROM CANCER IS LEAPING AND BOUNDING UP!

Actually, apart from certain small skin sores which are not really cancers, the number of recoveries through orthodox methods is so small as to be almost non-existent. That many cases are caused by these methods, and many many more made much worse—and that at hideous cost in money and pain—is established fact.

THE MORTALITY PER LIVING MILLION FROM CANCER IN ENGLAND AND WALES INCREASED FROM 274 IN THE YEAR 1850 TO 1,563 IN THE YEAR 1934; AND IS STILL SWEEPING UPWARD.

People now suffering from cancer were, ten, twenty, and thirty years ago, exactly as the younger people are today! The disease process that ends as a cancerous growth, or some other of the killing disorders, gives warning throughout its course by symptoms. "Symptoms are Nature’s warnings!"

The tragedy of the orthodox viewpoint is that, regarding the various symptoms as different diseases prevents early recognition and arrest of the disease process that gives rise to them. If the cause of cancer be allowed in every case to continue until the growth appears, the degenerative process will always be permitted to proceed beyond the point at which it is most easily dealt with.

If anything more than the constantly and steeply soaring mortality rate were required to convince of the lamentable futility of the orthodox approach to the "cancer problem," it would be found in the reflection that, without exception, their entire armamentarium is concentrated upon trying to "cure" the growth. But cancer is not a local "disease." The growth is a local manifestation of constitutional disorder; and, like most other evidences of the disease process, can be effectually dealt with only when the cause is corrected.

Also, as with most other symptoms, when the cause is corrected, the effect exhibits an often astonishing tendency to disappear.

Three factors make cancer fatal:

Continuation of the cause.

Orthodox efforts to cure.

Fear, and mistaken belief in incurability.



"Cancer" is but one result of failure to live healthily: psychological turmoil, wrong thinking, vitamin and mineral deficiency, and toxic accumulation, are the causes. Faith and obedience to law are the chief remedy. With this, as with almost all other disharmony, recovery must come from within.

Everyone knows that both radium and X-rays are capable of causing cancer. By what inversion of reasoning, then, have agents known to be causative come to be looked on as curative?

Hundreds of thousands of animals are tortured to death every year, repeatedly with fiendish and inconceivable cruelty, while men search in their pitiful pain-racked bodies for a cause that lies in the human soul! "Cancer research" has become a lucrative industry and is one of the darkest of all blots on a tarnished escutcheon.

Hospital Folly.

Capital expenditure bordering on a million pounds, involving increased annual charges of probably over a hundred and twenty thousand pounds, is contemplated in Wellington alone for extending the local "disease-factory." Yet with better methods of prevention and treatment immediately available, existing accommodation could be reduced, now, by one half, and still further curtailed very soon. Truly, "whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad," and they don’t have to work overtime.

Mental Disease.

"Man is spirit, mind, body; not separate entities but different phases of one constituent—Spirit." Therefore, logically, little understood as both of them are, mental and physical disease are due to exactly the same causes; and respond to similar treatment.

The influence of fear, of negative thought generally, of faulty compensation to major or minor psychological stress, of mental healing crises, of toxaemia, is insignificant to orthodoxy. As much in the dark as with physical disease, and unable to cut out diseased minds, we attach, as to sick bodies, neat but misleading labels. We fill the poor creatures with enough brain and soul paralysing drugs to sink the most powerful, herd them in droves, and leave it at that.

By such means the simplest of psychological mal-adjustments is often steadily, sometimes rapidly, intensified into chaotic breakdown.

Acute illness as a healing reaction is not confined to the body. It is potentially curative likewise—as well as premonitory—in mind, soul, and material circumstance. Mental disease provides no exception to the axiom that, whatever symptoms may be, the causes will almost invariably be found under one or other or both of our two primary headings—Psychological or Physical.

Blind, wilful ignorance of this principle results in diabolical mishandling of mental disorder. Thousands are incarcerated in asylums, like thugs in a dungeon, who should never have gone there.

Thousands whose often quite transitory symptoms were reactions against bodily toxins, drugs, or unhappiness, many of whom, even now, could be redeemed by love and wise help, are allowed to rot, driven at last insane by the appalling conditions in which they are forced to exist.

Almost utterly ignorant of causes and significance, orthodoxy fears mental, like physical, healing crises; and the wretched creatures God is trying to heal are rushed off to the mad-house, the very haunts of devils and horror. They are fed on a diet that would destroy the most powerful, deprived of occupation, kept in a grievous condition of physical toxaemia, soaked and saturated with horrible drugs, looked upon as insane, deprived of their civil rights, and left to a frightful fate.

If ever a monstrous injustice cried to high heaven for redress, this hideous wickedness must be stopped. We are our brother’s keeper! The sum of avoidable suffering is so dreadful, that if there be one iota of pity, one spark of compassion, one vestige of righteous indignation, the revealing and redeeming Light of Divine Love and Truth must be carried into these hells upon earth.

Broken-hearted appeals and cries of despair still fall on deaf ears; and in no domain of fearful affliction is orthodox authority more direly abused to retain its sinister grip and resist reform.

"IS IT NOTHING TO YOU, ALL YE THAT PASS BY?"

The Last Straw.

Appalling as all this is, there is yet worse to come. Ignorant of the miraculous possibilities of positively impressing the subconscious, orthodoxy has little conception of the tragedies wrought by negative suggestion.

Generally of strong and often powerful personality, doctors' reactions are minutely observed by the anxious, suggestible sick. A word, a look, a silence, a gesture, a thought, a belief unexpressed may suffice. The patient will know. His mind will respond. The impression received may deliver him from doom or seal his fate.

Love and confidence are the very essence of the divine healing power; fear is the great destroyer. Finalising judgment, very often in error, from the restricted resources of physical-intellectual limit, medical men are continually betrayed into diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment destructive beyond compute, when an understanding word of reassurance or admonition would work miracles.

A fitting epitaph on the tombstone of orthodoxy will read, before long: "Nothing can be done for you."

Misaligned Systems.

Modern medicine is the most lunatic system ever devised by man to his own undoing, except the financial, of which it is part.

Medical methods don't cure. Their subserviency encourages indolence of body and mind. The whole tendency of orthodox medicine is to create and perpetuate sickness, and make it attractive to those lacking the moral qualities to live healthily.

We labour under paradoxical systems—"a healing system" which only too often causes disease and prevents recovery; a financial system that limits production, development of resource, and access to goods and services available; an "educational" system, that retards the higher unfoldment; and an ecclesiastical system that has become one of the great barriers to truth.

The debt system of finance causes poverty and insecurity; breeds crime and disease; foments international bitterness; and makes war inevitable.

The greatest advance towards abolishing poverty and disease would be to change all these systems. But before we can alter them, we shall have to alter ourselves; for, like physical appearances in general, our systems reflect the consciousness of those they are intended to serve. Defective spiritual-cosmic consciousness is the ultimate root of practically all our troubles.

Orthodox Opposition.

It is useless looking to orthodoxy for reform. Orthodoxy always bitterly and relentlessly opposes reform. In every case, the favourite weapons are:



A conspiracy of silence concerning the truth.

Ridicule and disparagement.

Personal attacks on witnesses of truth.

Hostile and misleading propaganda.

Others more militant as the challenge develops.

The channels of, publicity are mostly in the hands of the enemy. No effort is spared to throw dust in our eyes—the ignorant are easily exploited; the instructed, less readily.

We ourselves are to blame. Give the average man a crust and a corner of blanket, and he's satisfied. "It is not because tyrants oppress them that the people are slaves," said a sage, "it is because they are so abject that the powerful and unprincipled will inevitably exploit them."

Both in economics and health, in the individual and the mass, recovery must come from within. Responsive persons everywhere must rally to the imperious summons. We must learn, as the only genuinely democratic alternative to materialistic dictatorship of one kind or

another, individually and collectively to govern ourselves. This we can do successfully only as we turn, in obedience to His Law, to the one Infinite Source of all wisdom, knowledge, understanding, life, health, prosperity, security, and love, immanent as well as transcendent.

4.  The Problem of Treatment—General Considerations

"When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Mark II, 17.

I.  The Dawn of a Better Day

"And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them ALL."

Matthew XIX, 2.

If our interpretation of the gospel is not healing troubles of body, mind, soul, and estate, in the individual and in the mass, then our interpretation is in urgent need of revision, for THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THE GOSPEL.

A vital part of the gospel of Christ is the Power around and within, able and anxious to take over, as soon as we will and to the degree of our

response, control and direction of every detail of our affairs, whether of body, mind, soul, or estate, whether in the individual or the mass—to heal and sustain, to provide and protect, to counsel and inspire, to unfold our destiny and endue us with power to follow it out.

There is only One Universal Source of matter, energy, Life and GOOD —Omnipresent, Omniscient, Omnipotent, Divine, Living, Loving LIFE SPIRIT.

There is no such thing as matter apart from Spirit, of which matter is a manifestation. Matter is Spirit in relativity.

Man is being made in the image and likeness of God—perfect, whole, glorious. Misapprehension of this radiant truth, through material consciousness insufficiently developed, prevents Divine perfection from manifesting.

Relief, or Reform.

"Wilt thou be made whole," smilingly enquired the Master. Do we sincerely desire, that is, individually and collectively, not merely to have uncomfortable symptoms removed, but inwardly and outwardly to cooperate in being made whole? Most are perfectly willing, and anxious, to have their sufferings abated, if someone will do it for them; but voluntary submission to the change of mental outlook and physical discipline essential to real healing seems too high a price.

By far the greater proportion of ill-health is Psychological in origin, and cannot be cured by physical means. Even dietetic disorder is rooted in ignorance, stupidity, stubbornness, and greed.

There is no such thing as "cure." Disease, is mostly a degenerative process, the consequence, in ourselves or our forebears, of disobedience to spiritual-cosmic Law; healing is a regenerative process, the outcome of repentance and obedience to Law; and obedience is a fruit of harmony with the Spirit of the Law, without which, incentive, due to the weakness of the flesh, eventually proves inadequate.

Motive needs scrutiny. So many desire release from their symptoms in order to be free to indulge, unhampered, the things that are causing them. They want relief not reform. Others seek "treatment" and sympathy; not healing, at any cost. Disease is their hobby; and themselves their sole interest.

Removal or masking of symptoms does little to cure disease; though it is easier, far, and greatly more lucrative, to peddle expensive expedients than to wrestle pertinaciously with individual and mass ignorance, weakness, or viciousness.

Moreover, whatever symptoms may be, the primary cause will almost always be found under one or other, or both, of our two primary headings—Psychological or Physical; and symptoms exhibit, often, a remarkable tendency to disappear of themselves when the cause is corrected.

A Purpose in Suffering.

Why does God allow suffering?—He is doing His utmost to prevent it; but man refuses to conform. Three great purposes of suffering are:

To warn of deflection from the Law.

To make people sick of sinning.

To refine and spiritualise.

Through defective spiritual polarisation and concomitant failure man brings his sufferings on himself. But God, within, uses them, when we react favourably, to draw us into happier relationship with Himself.

Suffering is redemptive. To seek to remove the most potent of stimuli, without promoting a higher response, may be woeful disservice. The true healer will seek to encourage this higher response and obedience. Healing will be incidental.

Only One Way.

There is absolutely no other healing power whatsoever in existence than SPIRIT; and no other means whereby He may heal than repentance, obedience, and increasing polarisation.

All man can do to help in the physical-mental realms is to co-operate by supplying the requisite materials, and by removal or facilitating removal, in body or mind, of whatever may be acting as a barrier in the path of the Life-giving Power.

THERE IS ONLY ONE HEALING POWER—THE LIFE FORCE WITHIN.

WHAT IS THAT FORCE?—THE SPIRIT OF GOD.

WHERE IS THAT SPIRIT?—AROUND EVERY ONE, AND WITHIN.

HOW DOES HE WORK?—BY FAITH, THROUGH REPENTANCE, AND OBEDIENCE TO LAW.

II.  Right Thinking

"Hear, O earth, behold, I will bring evil upon this people, EVEN THE FRUIT OF THEIR THOUGHTS because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it."



Jeremiah VI, 19.

For long ages, as we reckon time, man has been evolving from his primitive origin. The natural, animal man, the first man, "is of the earth, earthy. The second man (the spiritual Self), is the Lord from Heaven." Our bodies and minds have been slowly evolved over long periods of time; "that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual." Their purpose is to serve as increasingly effective instruments for the expression of Spirit.

For millions of years man lived a purely animal existence. Eventually, a stage was reached when as Adamic man, "God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life." Man began, that is to say, for the first time, to be dimly and intermittently aware of some influence for GOOD, apparently apart from himself. His consciousness, at first solely physical, became, as he evolved, intellectual-physical. Gradually, and through unnumbered vicissitudes this awareness unfolded until, during the last few thousand years, the more responsive have become increasingly conscious of the Influence as a Presence. More and more rapidly, in this Epoch of Adamic experience, is consciousness evolving of this Presence as Spirit, First Cause, God; and of ourselves as spiritual beings, continuous with and part of Spirit.

Spiritual Physics.

Corresponding to the seven primary colours of the spectrum of physical light there are seven stages of spiritual consciousness (or "Light") , from the purely animal to the perfectly spiritual; and a

positive constructive and negative destructive of every degree of each stage. In the winter "season" of the fifth, blue, of the seven stages, or "times," the spiritual first becomes the dominating factor. But until spiritual consciousness is fully developed, the conflict is ever between the higher spiritual and the lower physical-intellectual of our duality. (L. E. B.)

At the lower end of the spectrum of spiritual light are the slow, hot, long-wave, red, and infra-red vibrations, intensely destructive in the negative. It is more than coincidence that the Bolshevik flag is red, for might and feat are their driving force. Jacob, symbolizing the responsive section of humanity-Adam in the transition period from spiritual darkness to light, gave his son a coat of many colours. (L. E. B.)

At the higher end of the spectrum are the fine, short wave, purple, and ultra-violet, high vibrations, powerfully healing and constructive in the positive, of spiritual love. (They wrought more spiritually than they suspected who brought forth the purple robe for the King they were mocking.) (L. E. B.)

In the lower stages, or "Times," man is in bondage to the Law; in higher "Times," he becomes "delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God."

Men are at varying stages of physical and spiritual evolution, from the gigantic and animal, towards the finer more ethereal. Those at the red, long-wave, lower end of the Adamic gamut, in whom spiritual consciousness is limited to an intermittent flicker, of dense, heavy texture, and usually gross physical strength, are dependent for their

prospects of recovery from disease upon the great recuperative powers innate within the natural man. These resources will be found inferior to the spiritual regenerative influence, of higher vibration, available to those at the purple end of the spectrum. Thus a weak, physically devitalised individual, of high spiritual potentiality and polarisation, will exhibit powers of recovery far beyond those available to the less responsive. (L. E. B.)

"Jacob's Trouble."

Man is body, mind, spirit; and corresponding to this triune existence, there are three "World" orders: the physical World (order) that was, that in humanity Adamic processing merged through the Flood Epoch into the Japhetic (Gentile) Intellectual World (order) that now is; which in its turn is in an Epoch, merging into the SPIRITUAL WORLD (order) that is to be. We are in the time of "Jacobs' Trouble"—the transitional period in Adamic experience from physical intellectual to spiritual dominance. It is a period of chaos and flux, preparatory to the founding of a new age. The mass Adam is at the critical period encountered sooner or later by each individual—the winter "season" of the fifth stage, or "Time." (L. E. B.)

The significance of this principle, with all its ramifications, must be gripped, and its application studied and understood; because medical men, though not wanting in the spirit of the ideal, fail in that, lacking the spiritual PRINCIPLE, they do not comprehend its application through the Law. It matters little how high the misaligned idealism. The will to do right does not assure the deed; "nor does potentiality necessarily connote eventuality!" Not until physical and intellectual man is definitely and finally subordinated to the Spiritual, will he be able to apprehend Spiritual plan, process and purpose, and the Law through which they are expressed.



HUMAN WISDOM AND GOOD INTENTION, IN ANY SPHERE OF ACTIVITY, ARE SPIRITUALLY EFFECTIVE ONLY TO THE DEGREE OF ALIGNMENT WITH THE SPIRIT AND LAW OF GOD.

Creative Power.

Few seem to realise the power of the human mind, with its almost unlimited potentialities for evil or good. Man is a spiritual being. The Spirit that is the true You, the true Me, that was and is Christ, that is God, is all ONE. Not different spirits, but different phases of one constituent—Spirit, the great invisible Power "in Whom we live and move and have our being," of Whom both physically and spiritually we are phase manifestations. Therefore there are, latent and awaiting development within each one of us, all the resources and attributes of Spirit. The characteristic particularly distinguish-ing Spirit in the absolute, from His relative manifestations, is creative ability. And Spirit creates by thought; He thinks His ideas into materialisation. THOUGHT IS THE CREATIVE INSTRUMENT.

And since we are spiritual beings this faculty is inherent within. Whether consciously or not, all use it to greater or less extent. Negatively directed it leads to disaster and death. Positively aligned it functions constructively to well-being. Therefore the imperative necessity for right thinking, for sooner or later, good, bad, or utterly disastrous, in ourselves, in those we love or dislike, ultimately in the world as a whole, the thoughts we hold in our minds will materialise. In ourselves and our circumstances, individual, community, nation, world, we are what we have made ourselves; and may become what we choose to be.



Penalties Exacted by Misuse.

"Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap."

Galatians VI, 7.

Few stop to consider the destructive influence of negative thoughts. They are pregnant with ruin. They destroy not merely mental happiness and efficiency but actual physical tissue as well. Mental disharmony is reflected through sympathetic and endocrine upset as actual physical disease.

Growths, diabetes, high blood pressure and strokes, skin diseases, heart and kidney disorders, goitre, anaemia, neuritis, paralysis and other organic nervous disease, rheumatism, and rheumatoid, asthma, cancer, as well as broken homes, poverty, wretchedness, suicide, murder, insanity, war, can be and most frequently are a direct result of holding in the mind thoughts of fear, greed, hate, frustration, bitterness, resentment, self-pity, meanness, intolerance, cruelty, lust. Such calamities will cease when the mental habit responsible is reversed.

Thoughts are Vibratory Forces.

Medical men are generally of strong, often powerful, personality. Many still in deflection or sense-sleep are of exceptional potentiality.

Awakened and progressively polarised, they will discover in themselves a new unsuspected POWER TO HEAL, of growing effectiveness.

Meanwhile, befooled by stubborn allegiance to human physical wisdom, such men by misaligned methods and outlook, achieve incalculable harm. The mountains labour, and bring forth—a germ!

". . . . in whom the god of this world (human physical wisdom) hath blinded the minds of them that believe not. . . ."

The thought atmosphere in hospitals and asylums, being almost invariably unspiritual, is disconcertingly negative. Again and again trivial symptoms, or minor or major healing reactions, are misunderstood, magnified through ignorance, FEAR, tradition, and calamitous wrong treatment, and intensified by disease and death thoughts in the minds of all concerned into chronic or fatal disorder.

And so people often with little amiss are consigned in battalions and army corps to their graves.

In war, guides who mislead the army are shot!

Such deadly thought vibrations must be stoutly withstood; and deprived of all power by realising the error, denying its strength, and triumphantly affirming and, knowing the presence and power of good.

What We Think and Speak of, We Bring into Being.

Many vociferate that if they were not so worried, or poor, or sick, they could live a much happier, more spiritual life. That is partly true. But they do not grasp, and are usually reluctant to learn, that commonly it is precisely because they worry and fret that they are poverty-stricken and sick.

Our strongest mental impressions always materialise, sooner or later, in selves and surroundings. Garrulous or moaning obsession with symptoms, operations, sensations, injustices, cancer, poverty, or horrors, is not merely advertising that our mind is a charnel-house—it is setting time working bringing these to us. Christ blasted the fig tree, not because it did not bear figs out of season; but to demonstrate the power of negative vibration.

Never again, whatever befall, allow anything or anyone to beguile us, even for a moment, into working the Creative Power within, to our own or others' undoing.

Worry, gluttony, sex abuse, sour temper, many "fits," and much sickness and poverty, are simply BAD HABITS OF MIND. They can and must be defeated—not by fighting the negative, but by assiduously practising their positive opposites. It is mostly a matter of WILLINGNESS—willingness to have done with the negative: to make the necessary small sacrifice for the sake of GOOD.

Therefore:



RECOGNIZE THE ADVISABILITY.

MAKE UP YOUR MIND.

STAND PORTER AT YOUR MENTAL THRESHOLD.

Indulgence of all kinds is bondage. Spirit redeems, if we will.

If husband, wife, friend, "foe," or acquaintance, be acting unkindly or worse, do not let that perturb. Not what happens, nor what is said about or to us can hurt, but ONLY OUR WRONG REACTION THERETO.

We are seldom responsible for the thoughts or actions of others—we are for our own! Therefore see that, whatever goes on outside us, inside is, never, anything but quiet good humour, sweetness, wise tolerance, patience, tact, imperturbable confidence, and love.

GOD'S POWER WORKS THROUGH OUR FAITH, therefore set that POWER to work by warm FAITH. There is NOTHING it cannot heal in time: nagging, drunkenness, selfishness, vice, MUST give way, if you persevere.

So, now, if in the past you have unthinkingly misdirected this vast force, BEGIN, AT. ONCE, TO USE IT ARIGHT. AND HAVING BEGUN—KEEP IT UP. You will be thrilled, and humbled, and uplifted as you see the results. Life will be LIFE INDEED.

Consider the Lillies.

When the Bible says "Your bodies are the temple of God's Spirit" it is not making a religious assertion merely, it is stating a profound scientific truth.

Everyone knows by experience that cuts will heal in a week or two; and that if they do not, something must be preventing them.

Cuts do not heal accidentally or automatically, but in response to a regenerative process set in operation and controlled by an Inner Directive Intelligence—the Spirit of God—working through the subconscious mind.

The Power that heals a cut or mends a fracture is the same that deals with a toxic condition or psychological disorder. Its Nature is what Christ showed it to be—infinitely loving and perfectly patient, with one great passion and purpose for each of His human children: our highest good.

No unhealthy condition however advanced or depraved is ultimately beyond the redemptive effect of God's Love.



If then we have some disease, whether in body, mind, soul, or estate, not being healed, it is not because the Spirit within has passed us by, or is no longer trying to mend our hurts; but usually because SOMETHING IS PREVENTING HIM ACHIEVING HIS PURPOSE.

5.  The Part Man Must Play

"Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; AND MAKE YOU A NEW HEART AND A NEW SPIRIT: for why will ye die, O house of Israel'? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that saith the Lord God: Wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye."

Ezekiel XVIII, 30.

The causes of Disease, it has been postulated, are:

PRIMARY.

—Psychological:

(a) Wrong Mental and, Emotional Tensions, or thoughts.

(b) Wrong impressions, beliefs, suggestions, or ideas in the conscious or subconscious mind.

—Physical:

(a) Misuse of foods.

(b) Faulty general habits.

SECONDARY.

—Toxic.

—Economic.

—"Accidental."

—Environmental.

There are two main Types of Healing God uses for mending man's hurts.

PHYSICAL: THE NATURAL REGENERATIVE PROCESS, coming into operation, more or less effectively according to circumstances,

when the causes are corrected—whereby the degenerative disease process is arrested and converted into a regenerative healing process. Our object being to heal, we shall have to remember three things. We must:

(A) Correct the Causes —both Primary and Secondary; for we can hardly expect the Power within to heal while causes are allowed to continue. This is frequently one of the worst of our difficulties, since, while few would not willingly part with their symptoms, many would die a dozen times over (and quite likely have), rather than give up the causes.

(B) Supply Deficiencies, and Promote Elimination of Waste —where such is needed; for not even Nature can reconstruct without materials, or heavily hampered by rubbish.

(C) Co-operate with Nature's Curative Efforts —interfering with which has become the great secondary cause of disease.

MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL, whereby the Natural Process can be fortified and expedited, to the degree of spiritual receptivity and response

6.  Correcting Psychological Causes

"My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart; for they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh."

Proverbs IV, 20-22.

I.  Wrong Mental and Emotional Thoughts

These are the Negative destructive mental reactions characteristic of the lower animal nature with its physical consciousness. While perfectly Natural, they were developed as protective reactions during the long ages of physical evolving. Having served their purpose they must be rigorously set aside, for they are directly opposed to the developing Positive constructive attributes of the higher angelic nature, with its spiritual consciousness.

Animal characteristics and spiritual attributes are mutually antagonistic; they represent the negative and positive of the Spirit of Life.

In only one way can the natural-man characteristics be overcome—never by fighting them, but by turning from them resolutely, and steadfastly

cultivating their positive opposites.

Not only is continued development possible on no other terms; but progress already achieved will be sacrificed through neglecting to measure up to new spiritual standards.

Don’t Fight Disease, but Practice Good Health.

Claim it, think it, feel it, believe in it, and dare to manifest it. That is what brings it about.

"Resist not evil; but overcome evil with Good." If you wish to become good, be good; if you wish to become well, begin immediately, to BE WELL.

Fear and Disease-consciousness, and that barbaric embodiment of them both, maternal solicitude, are among the greatest of all causes of disease; and if disease is to go from our bodies, we must let it go from our minds.

After all, man is a spiritual being, part of and continuous with the Universal Life Spirit, whose perfect attributes are those, of the Radiant, Inner, True SELF. Good health, happiness, safety, prosperity, are appurtenances of the spiritual state; and can be attained in no other way.

Gland Influence and Control.

There exists in our body a chain of internal secreting glands, interdependent, producing highly complex substances profoundly influencing bodily structure and functioning. These glands, thyroid, pituitary, ovaries, testicles, prostate, suprarenals, parathyroids, are exceedingly sensitive to emotional stimulus.

For instance, through acute fear an individual may become blanched, pulseless, and unable to move. The pallor and rapid pulse are caused by 'the constricting effect, upon the skin capillary blood vessels, of thyroid and suprarenal secretion, discharged into the circulation by the fear stimulus; and by excitation of relevant nerve control. The blood vessels of the stomach and intestines are similarly affected; deprivation of the supply of blood essential to the elaboration of digestive fluids, completely prevents digestion. A meal taken shortly before a fright or shock may be vomited many hours later, completely undigested. This is why worry, which is fear, and mental tension generally, cause so much indigestion. Blanching of mucous membrane through emotional tension predisposes to auto-digestion, and formation of gastric and duodenal ulcers, the majority of which arise in this way. The remainder are almost all due to misuse of food.

Some Effects of Disturbance.

Interference with functioning of any internal secreting gland disturbs all the others, particularly when the body is in a toxic condition. Poisons of many kinds depress or exaggerate activity of glands, and may damage and even destroy their delicate structure. Food, intestinal,

drug, and bacterial poisons are highly deleterious; and perverted secretion itself becomes toxic.

The parathyroid and thyroid glands are concerned continuously with detoxication. The pituitary, influences growth, metabolism, sex functioning and reproduction. The ovaries regulate development, menstruation, and pregnancy. The male sex glands are intimately engaged with energy and vital control. The suprarenals influence arterial tension and blood pressure. The functions of all glands are inextricably bound up together, and interact. They may wreck or be wrecked by all kinds of activities; and affect, and are directly affected by, thought.

Diabetes and goitre are perversions of structure or function occasioned by fear or other emotion; and, or, by auto-intoxication, as well as deficiency.

Acromegaly develops through pituitary malfunctioning, caused by fear or other upset. Obesity of a special type results from pituitary disorder; and ranks as one of the toxic-deficiency effects.

Prostatic enlargement is frequently caused by sexual over-excitement, with local congestion and toxic accumulation, Naturally, poisons tend to accumulate wherever circulation is interfered with. This partly explains why cancer develops in the site of old inflammations or scars.

Sterility, haemorrhages, abortions, and still births can be caused by glandular aberration; due to negative emotion, acute or chronic

poisoning, or mineral or vitamin deficiency.

Fibroid growths are toxic in origin, and often associated with sex mismanagement and repression.

Stimulation of suprarenal secretion by worry or fret, causes raised arterial tension, high blood pressure, heart and kidney disease, and strokes; so does the "carbon clogging" of Stone, resulting from gluttony.

Resentment and bitterness pervert internal secretion; and some of the most formidable skin disorders, such as "seborrheic dermatitis," may be caused in this way; the skin becoming acutely inflamed by the intensely irritant secretions eliminated.

Many acute illnesses are simply evidence of elimination, through one or other of the regular or subsidiary channels, of effete matter resulting from violent emotion.

Jealousy causes neuritis and rheumatism; meanness desiccates; rage will cause acute catarrhal disorder; irritability may set up tonsillitis; gluttony and laziness produce obesity, gall stones, constipation, and cancer.

Remember, the subconscious mind can imitate or elaborate any disorder; and while Fear destroys; Confidence reconstructs.



The Valley of Decision.

It is as if God, at the back of us, puts at our disposal potentially unlimited power and the means to set it to work; and then leaves it to us, by rightful exercise of our will, to learn to control it aright.

Not merely once in our life, but day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment, we are compelled to make a choice:

Which shall it be—

The destructive, degenerative, NEGATIVE disease producing Wrong Thoughts, the NATURAL, ANIMAL-MAN CHARACTERISTICS? or the constructive, regenerative, POSITIVE, health maintaining, Right Thoughts, the SPIRITUAL, HIGHER-SELF ATTRIBUTES?

The two choices lead in opposite directions—the former downwards, through sickness, unhappiness, poverty, to disease, misery, disaster, destruction, despair. The latter leads upwards to LIGHT and LIFE, to health, and happiness, and general well-being, of body, mind, soul and estate, for ourselves, for those we love, and all we come in contact with; in fact, for the world at large.

"I Will Bring Evil . . ."



Wrong Thoughts are, by far, the greatest of all causes of disease. For instance:

FEAR—of anything, past, present, or future, however impossible or unlikely. Fear of death; fear of disease; fear of poverty; fear of what others may say.

WORRY—its twin brother; the child of ignorance and unbelief: "For if GOD be for us, who can be against us?"

ANXIETY—which can exist no more than either of the preceding in the presence of faith. The little sneaking Doubt that short circuits Spiritual power. It was unbelief that prevented Jesus Christ from doing His mighty works in Nazareth. Its effect is exactly the same today.

DOUBT—the barrier that arises from the intellect—"Why this is Jesus, the carpenter's son."

RESENTMENT—against life, or fate; or something we have suffered at the hands of others; or that has been said, or that we imagine has been or might have been said about us.

SELF-PITY—that hateful, hellish, and inexcusable pandering to weakness, of the repressed undeveloped animal consciousness.



SELFISHNESS—self-centredness having yet to learn that none can find life except those who have lost it for Christ's sake.

THOUGHTS OF WEAKNESS—inferiority, depression, ineffectiveness, shortage or limitation of any kind, while the true US is Spirit—potential might, perfection, and power incarnate.

GRIEF—so often prolonged into selfish yielding to the destructive influences of weakness, resentment, and self-pity; a barbarous denial of the implications of Christ's resurrection.

CRAVING FOR SYMPATHY—that relic of infantile mentality.

INDIFFERENCE—to the rights and sufferings of others.

BAD-TEMPER—and its homologues; bitterness, irritability, touchiness, vindictiveness, impatience, uncharitableness, and intolerance, that exact such a frightful toll in misery of body and mind.

DISCONTENT—that saps all the joy of life.

SELF-INDULGENCE—seeing that self-restraint is the price of selfrespect.



PRIDE, VANITY, JEALOUSY, MEANNESS, CRUELTY, SLOTH, GREED—Avarice, love of money, "THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL.”

GLUTTONY—one of the hardest to subdue.

LUST—the very blight of life. Sex wastage in married or single is not simply unspiritual, it is definitely anti-spiritual. The sex appetite is for many the hardest of all to subdue; but, like a craving for alcohol, tobacco, or other corrosives, will leave us as soon as we really wish. Simply MAKE UP YOUR MIND once and for all, that now and for ever, you will exhibit only the indwelling, purity and sweetness of the inner true spiritual SELF.

A small struggle—truly a minor one—to exercise volition constructively. The reason for failure is ape-self reluctance to yield to the angel-SELF. But the Spirit within WILL redeem, if we acquiesce.

"Quietness and Confidence Shall be Thy Strength."

No individual can indefinitely be healthier than his thoughts; nor his body than the cells it consists of. Neither can any nation be healthier than its thoughts; nor its body than the people composing it. It is a fearridden and sin-sick world, which, like the individuals that compose it, can be healed only through love of God expressing in perfect obedience to His Law. Fear—the medical system is built up on, thrives upon, inculcates, and couldn't exist without, fear. Fear of acute illness—which is Nature's method of cure. Fear of chronic disease, which seldom exists

if we comply with the requirements of health. People proclaim their faith in God; but worry is fear and "FEAR IS FAITH IN EVIL" WHICH IS THE DEAD OPPOSITE OF FAITH IN GOOD WHICH IS FAITH IN GOD.

There are not two powers. Evil—the devil—is merely inverted GOOD. Only when GOOD is disobeyed or misapplied does evil result. There is no power in evil except such as we concede it; and no evil at all if we are conscious only of GOOD.

"The Kingdom of Good is Within."

RIGHT THOUGHTS are, by far, the greatest of all human influences that heal.

FAITH—the developing faculty of the higher spiritual man. Faith, the quiet, rejoicing assurance that the Power behind all these materialseeming appearances is only and always GOOD.

CONFIDENCE—the practical expression of faith.

CERTAINTY—fruit of developing consciousness that dispels misgiving.

SELF-FORGETFULNESS—finding in service that which was fruitlessly sought in indulgence.

EXULTATION IN STRENGTH—because God is our Father, and is the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.

HAPPINESS—because we open our hearts to God's revelation of Himself in Christ, and in Us.

COMPASSION—Love's partner, the harbinger of healing.

SWEET-TEMPER—gentleness, patience, charitableness, tolerance, long-suffering; the very soothing balm.

CONSIDERATION—for the sufferings and rights of others that will not let us rest while there is one sick, one poor, or one oppressed.

CONTENTMENT—because Christ promised "If a man love me, he will keep my commandments; and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him."

SELF-CONTROL—for thus do we keep His commandments.

HUMILITY, GENEROSITY, FRANKNESS, ENERGY, IMPERTURBABILITY.

SELF-SACRIFICE—recognizing "money" for what it should be, a trust-machinery for the distribution of goods and services.

TEMPERANCE—the key to right use and enjoyment.

PURITY—our realisation of the Divine.

LOVE—the VERY HIGHEST ATTRIBUTE OF GOD; THE MOST POWERFUL HEALING VIBRATION; the VERY ESSENCE OF LIFE.

"Thou Wilt Keep Him in Perfect Peace Whose Mind is Stayed on Thee."

People often protest intellectual difficulty; but spiritual difficulties are seldom intellectual, they are almost invariably moral. It is our heart God wants, not merely our head.

Have you finally made your choice? You will follow an increasingly chequered career till you do! Affirmations are good. The POWER is there; and it works through our faith. But we can learn to develop latent potentiality by practice alone. It is actions that count, not what

we say we believe. Actions must be aligned to spiritually instructed perception. No man wins championships by sitting on the side line and affirming potentiality. Nor does he succeed at the first attempt. NO! Affirm the potentiality, then set out in patience, cheerfulness, determination and perseverance to put it to the proof.

And the justification?—that we are spiritual beings, one with the Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father; that God IS what Christ showed Him to be, and therefore the power IS IN US, if we turn in complete surrender to Him, that will unfailingly honour our faith.

Practise the Presence of God.

WE MUST deal with the "old Adam." Crucify him, St Paul advises. Turn from him always and instantly; learn and practise continuously so to live in the higher consciousness of our true Spiritual Self that the attributes of the Spirit are manifest in every thought and action. No life for weaklings! We shall find our highest qualities tested to their utmost limit; and, it may be, far beyond. But what can any man ask better of life than an almost impossible task and an absolutely invincible POWER!

We are offered glorious, magnificent, thrilling LIFE! "Liberation from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God."

"Perfect Love Casteth out Fear."

Well! The choice lies before YOU. Which shall it be? Selfishness, or self-sacrifice? Misery, or happiness? Poverty, or wealth? Sickness, or health? Bondage, or freedom? Darkness, or light? Evil, or Good?

You can't have it both ways. You MUST make a choice.

Do NOT say, "I'll try"—that is merely postponing the decision we have always shirked.

Do not say, "I'm going to"—tomorrow never comes. The decision MUST be made NOW. There are only two possible answers. No middle course. Which shall it be?

YES? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . or . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NO. One little step in faith, from the apparent comparative security of our physical foundation into the unknown—but our foot will come down on rock, and that ROCK is CHRIST.

II.  Wrong Ideas in the Subconscious Mind

Everyone knows that the Conscious Mind controls voluntary function; but it is not so generally recognized that the Subconscious Mind controls involuntary function.

The mind may be likened roughly to a tree, having a conscious visible part above ground, as it were; and a subconscious, invisible, underground.

The Conscious Mind is the critical, reasoning part of our mental makeup; it selects, decides, and discriminates. The Subconscious Mind is non-critical, executive; it acts upon, and carries out to the limit of ability, right or wrong, without attempting to criticise, the impressions, beliefs, suggestions, or ideas implanted into it, whether through the operation of the Conscious Mind, without its intervention, even, maybe, despite disapproval.

And, since the Subconscious Mind controls involuntary functioning,

BEWARE THE IDEA IT IS WORKING UPON.

The Subconscious Trap.

The Subconscious Mind is immensely impressionable; particularly so where (as in childhood), the conscious critical faculty is underdeveloped; or where for any reason, such for example as debility or preoccupation, it is temporarily in abeyance.

In case after case, the outward evidences of disease are surface signs of some fear or belief imprinted upon the infant subconscious, and deepened by passage of time.



Suggestions of weakness or inferiority thoughtlessly or cruelly implanted in a child's subconscious before the critical faculty is sufficiently grown to be a protection, bear ruinous fruit. Children are twanged like piano wires by the thought vibrations around. In homes where selfish passions hold sway, havoc is wrought; and may still be working years later.

A "difficult" child is usually reacting to dread of unwantedness. All crave love and appreciation. Indifference, or menace to self-esteem, evoke, in the under-evolved, negative efforts to compensate.

Much adult illness is a clumsy maladjustment to ill-usage, fancied or real. To elicit a constructive link-up will often demand inexhaustible patience.

Sickness sensitises; and hyperacute perception, craving encouragement, intuitively discerns attendants' subconscious convictions, even disguised. The forebodings of fearful minds, heedlessly reinforced or confirmed, can become lifelong handicaps; but the high vibrations of faith and peace are balm to sick souls. To impress the subconscious mind with death thoughts is equivalent to signing the death warrant. Hope or faith may provide a reprieve.

Expectation of occurrence, or recurrence, of any disorder contrives subconscious fulfilment.

Beliefs in the reality or inevitability of disease, or in the power of the material physical to limit or dominate, confer upon it such powers.

Subconsciously fashioned disease is a favourite artifice of the timid, slothful, or selfish, to evade obligation, protest at "misfortune," or focus sympathy and attention.

"Be careful what you want, for you are sure to get it." So reads a caption; and fulfilment of subconscious wish explains many a "mysterious" tragedy, event, mishap, achievement, or stroke of good fortune. Innumerable diseases and "accidents," subconsciously engineered, are plausible substitutes for deliberate suicide.

"Forgetting" shameful or unworthy actions or reactions is useless, and worse. It is the mechanism whereby guilty or disturbing memories are pushed out of consciousness. But the subconscious never forgets; and, there, the old bane works unrestricted, and tears body and soul into shreds.

Buried repressions of every description must be dug up, faced, and sensibly re-adjusted. Mostly, they aren't far down!

Unrealised fears of misunderstood sex tensions, promptings, or cravings, cause oceans of misery. So out with those peccadilloes into the light of day! They are characteristics of the animal nature; and it is the FEAR, not past acts or shortcomings, that harms. Wrong of all kinds, sincerely repented, is not merely forgiven—the slate is wiped clean.

When the conscience-stricken king called anxiously into the noisome den, to Daniel beset on all sides by ravening beast (forces): "Is the God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?"— the prophet, serene in pure consciousness of sweet spiritual PRESENCE was able to cry . . .

"O king, live for ever! My God hath sent His angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me."

Daniel VI, 21.

The subconscious mind will go on creating disease until the motivating idea, completely mistaken or seemingly justified, is reversed. This may be accomplished in several ways; for example:

By practising the positive opposite: that is, by changing, voluntarily, the mental outlook and habit of mind; and always assiduously practising positive thoughts.

By suggestion: repeating, to oneself or another, affirmations of health and well-being until, from sheer repetition, the subconscious mind is impressed.

By positive superimposure: by one of sufficiently powerful personality and conviction forcibly replacing a disease belief with a new and more powerful mental health belief.



But the best and quickest way—a way Christ habitually employed—is (in those of adequate consciousness or potentiality) to induce and inspire, through compassion and love, and intensity of pellucid perception, overwhelming subconscious (and so presently conscious) recognition of spiritual unity, wholeness, perfection.

This method can be perfected only, as the Lord Jesus put it, "by prayer and fasting"—and then, subject to relativity. Final at-one-ment of self, through spiritual SELF, with the Divine PRESENCE "who is above all, and through all, and IN you ALL," must be our goal; for through us, as progress is made, the afflicted will be lifted by SPIRIT above the mental and physical illusory planes where sickness and sin occur.

7.  Correcting Physical Causes

"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, . . . and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food."

Genesis I, 29.

I.  Misuse of foods

Fruits, vegetables, nuts, and whole grains were the food intended for Adamic man. So long as he kept to this diet, man lived nigh a thousand years. Not till the time of Noah did he revert to pre-Adamic cravings for meat; and invent strong drink. When he did, the length of his days was reduced to one hundred and twenty years. With the advent of foodfouling methods, man's span fell to as little as forty years. With hygiene improved, and wiser counsels in feeding, the length of man's days is gradually growing again. With developing consciousness, and better observance of cosmic law, man's sojourn on earth will rapidly lengthen once more.

People often say "I don't see how diet can cure disease." The answer of course is, it cannot. But wrong feeding can and does cause much disease; and right feeding removes from the path of the Life-giving Power one of the conditions that act as a barrier.



Commonsense Foods, not "Diet."

There are many who say it does not matter what we eat; but a sound building cannot be constructed of defective materials, and since the body is built of what we put into it, better surely use good foods than bad. No one who planted a tree in the hope of enjoying the fruits would think of planting it in soil known to be impoverished and where no sunlight came.

Then why treat our bodies so?

Wrong feeding might almost be defined as living upon the conventional diet. Not even the most ardent "scientist" would maintain that food is still food after it has passed through the body—neither is most of it after it has passed through the machines of the manufacturers.

"Primitive men and animals, living on natural, un-manipulated food, are free from indigestion, free from constipation, free from autointoxication, free from dental decay, and FREE FROM CANCER. Where food is natural and primitive, these troubles are seldom if ever encountered. Where food is 'scientifically' improved, refined, and adulterated, dental decay, pyorrhoea, indigestion, constipation, autointoxication, appendicitis, colitis, diabetes AND CANCER are wide-spread."

—J. Ellis Barker (1870-1948), British naturopath.



The Food Ramp.

Food-faking is perpetrated not to increase nutritive value, which is always dangerously reduced thereby, but with the unmoral object of pandering to perverted taste, and exploiting the people's need. Money, profit, and greed are enthroned, not the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.

Most people live, either from choice or necessity, on cheap, processed, de-vitalised. foods. But dead foods cannot support life or good health. Ignorance of this truth cost the great Captain Scott and his fellowexplorers their lives. It has cost the lives, health, and happiness of millions of others since; and continues to levy toll.

The ideal diet does not exist. Hardly one single article of food but is deficient, denatured, or doped. So savage and pitiless is exploitation that to large numbers an adequate diet is out of reach altogether. In a country that could be carpeted a foot deep in vegetables and fruit, these primary essentials are always in short supply. Prices are forced up on any excuse until necessities of most kinds become rich men's luxuries.

Genuine wholemeal has been hard to get: the death-dealing white flour pays better. Raw sugar is scarce because plant is designed to produce white. Contaminated milk is pasteurised in order to free it from infection rather than organise clean and wholesome supplies.

At the dictates of an iniquitous distributing system, we are forced to export our best food, and content ourselves with second or third grade at exorbitant prices. We market "excess" in foreign countries, while our own people go short.

Scatty Indifference.

The heedless abuse of foods in our schools, hospitals, boarding houses, hotels, Government Institutions, and worst of all in our homes, exemplifies unteachableness. Health camps are monuments not to King George the Fifth, but to blindness and apathy. The proper place for health camps is in the homes of the people.

The "Ape's" Final Fling.

In a dying world order dedicated to grab instead of to service, the major food crimes are connected with: PRODUCTION, PRESERVATION, PREPARATION, DISTRIBUTION, CONSUMPTION.

PRODUCTION OFFENCES include deforestation; shallow cultivation; failure to observe orderly rotation and fallow periods; neglect of correct fertilisation; forcing with artificial fertilisers and manures; exploiting and exporting the mineral wealth of the soil, exhausting humus and mineral content; spraying with dangerous poisons; disposal of sewage into rivers and sea.

Among the consequences are vitamin and mineral deficiency, and toxic accumulation; soil depletion and erosion; pests; floods; dust storms; droughts; human and stock disease; mental and physical decadence and decay; and, in the words of Thomas Stone (1879-1959), "universal race suicide."

PRESERVATION, like production, is inspired primarily by profit, not service. Live foods do not keep well; so the obvious thing is to kill them. This is done by refining and processing. Few have troubled that, in so doing, foods are robbed of the essential life-elements.

Refined Foods are Dead Foods; and Dead Foods are Death-Dealing.

Most of the foods in popular favour are dead. The penalties involved are fantastic. To point out the peril incurs derision and scorn.

We are plundered, despoiled, and robbed; and we ourselves are the thieves.

Suicidal Imbecility.

There would be a riot if, even inadvertently, second-grade benzine were put in our cars; but we indignantly reject the first-grade fuels provided by the Designer for our own infinitely more highly evolved and specialised vehicles, and replenish our tanks with corrosives.

Foods persistently man-handled are often useless, and by no means infrequently dangerous; but of late years the menace has grown still more portentous by the addition as preservative, colouring, and flavouring agents, of a variety of murderous chemicals. So great has this evil grown that in most households NOT ONE ITEM OF FOOD IS CONSUMED THAT IS POISON FREE.

Some of the drugs employed are known to be cancer-producing; all are admittedly harmful; but who can ever compute the full extent of their ravages!

Alum, arsenic, antimony, benzoic acid and benzoates, boracic acid and borax, salicylic acid and salicylates; sulphur, sulphuric acid, sulphurous acid, sulphates, sulphites; chlorine, chlorides, chlorates, hypochlorites; spirits of wine; fluorides; formalin; lead, tin, copper, aluminium, zinc; mercury; a great variety of aniline dyes, and coal tar derivatives generally; and perhaps worst of all an increasing range of synthetic atrocities. All these are added to food.

"WE ARE BOMBARDED WITH CHEMICALS AND POISONS IN SMALL QUANTITIES AND AT ALL MEALS. THE QUANTITY TAKEN AT ANY ONE TIME MAY BE HARMLESS; BUT THE CUMULATIVE EFFECT SPELLS CATASTROPHE"

—thus a famous public analyst.

In aniline works in Belgium it was found that cancer of the bladder occurred in operatives as long as thirty years after a period of work as

short as three months. Yet aniline dyes are taken daily in food! [Aniline is toxic to humans but the more carcinogenic agent in the dye industry was later thought to be 1-naphthylamine, S.A.H.B.]

Arsenic, a known cancer producer, gains entrance to our bodies in a great many ways; and is a most favoured ingredient of ointments, "tonics," and "medicines."

Butter, cream, margarine, bacon, sausages, pies, and meat and fish pastes, contain boric acid, borax, salicylic acid, and other preservatives, besides colouring and flavouring agents. There is no real check on quantities used. As much as 140 grains per pound of boric acid has been found by analysis in marketed butter; and as high as 110 grains in sausages, and meat and fish pastes.

So also with milk. Some of the mysterious infant disorders are due to chemical poisoning.

Meat, even that sold as "fresh," is similarly mishandled; though with different poisons. Some of the newer chemicals have been found to deodorise (though without arresting the putrefactive process and production of ptomaines) . This enables bad meat to be canned, and made into sausages. Hence "Ptomain" poisoning. "Fresh" fish is also "dipped" in poisonous preservatives.

Flour, shorn of its protective vitamin and mineral health elements, is bleached with nitrous gases; and bread has, added, gypsum, acid phosphates, and other "improvers."



Beer and wine barrels have been sulphured. Temperance beverages such as ginger beer, lime juice, etc., often contain salicylic and benzoic acids. So also do wines. Seven grains per pint is the usual amount; but much more is sometimes found.

Dried fruits are de-hydrated with caustics and sulphites. It is practically impossible to obtain genuine sun-dried fruits. Fresh fruits are dangerous through poisonous sprays.

Of the horrors sold as "essences," or added to sweets and coloured drinks, a heavy indictment will one day be penned.

THERE IS NOT ONE SINGLE ITEM OF FOOD IN MOST HOMES THAT IS NOT EITHER DEFICIENT, DENATURED, OR DOPED; OFTEN ALL THREE.

Disastrous ill-health, and the grosser forms of disease result; and no useful purpose is served, though "interests" are duly respected; and further proof furnished that "love of money is the root of all evil."

"Food has nothing whatever to do with it," the self-styled cancer "expert" mechanically repeats—and cannot be told, because he does not want to be told. He is only too shrewdly aware that a single wellplaced torpedo may blow up the medical ship.

IN PREPARATION OF FOODS more iniquities are committed. Heat, and chemicals of all kinds such as soda and salt, modify or even destroy vitamin and mineral content. The days of boiling peeled vegetables to rags in gallons of water, and throwing down the sink what minerals are left after prolonged chemical action with soda and salt (to say nothing of aluminium and antimony) are by no means yet over. It would puzzle a rat to extract nourishment from the watery debris remaining.

The boarding-school diet of meat, sausage, curry, hash, white bread, refined cereals, tea, and mass-production jam, has one advantage over the similar fare served in most hospitals—those condemned to subsist on it get plenty of exercise. Both have the orthodox financial "virtue" of cheapness; and both sow the seeds of disease.

The tubercle bacillus is conveniently debited with the high incidence of Tuberculosis among nurses in hospitals; thus exonerating the bad food and unhealthy living conditions really responsible.

Twice cooking and re-hashing foods destroys their food value. Cooking should be resorted to as seldom as possible. Simplicity should be the keynote, frugality the watchword. The real purpose of food is to nourish and sustain—to satisfy hunger, NOT appetite, which is often insatiable.

DISTRIBUTION has become so lop-sided that, all over the world, production is being artificially restricted and supplies deliberately destroyed while multitudes are actually starving to death. There is one great physical reason for this: fiendish abuse, by a ruthless and diabolical monopoly, of control of THE PEOPLE'S credit and currency.



CONSUMPTION will be examined under the title of RIGHT FEEDING.

The main essentials of RIGHT FEEDING are: MODERATION, WISE CHOICE, and SENSIBLE COMBINATION.

MODERATION means eating only what is required by the body for maintenance of energy, heat and growth, and repair of tissue wastage. Gluttony is one of the "seven deadly sins"—the other six are Pride, Lust, Anger, Usury, Jealousy, Sloth.

Far less food is needed than is popularly supposed. Much of the excess is consumed under the misapprehension that food is the only source of energy, heat, and strength. But to leave out of account as a source of vitality the Spirit who is our Life Force is to identify ourselves with those responsible for the calorie absurdities. To load the system with food it does not require and cannot use is to dissipate energy in coping with overplus. Strength is reduced, not increased; and storage and eliminative mechanism, taxed beyond capacity, become clogged and blocked with masses of waste. The body may struggle on, but such burdens will beat it down.

The body is not an inanimate machine, and can safely survive, and is often better for, prolonged periods with little or no food at all. While as for feeding the acutely ill—it is a further remarkable commentary upon human intelligence that, with all his boasted wisdom, man should be the only animal that hasn't enough sense to stop eating when he is sick.

WISE CHOICE is relying upon the natural foods, as nearly as possible in the form in which they occur, instead of the refined and adulterated substitutes man has devised for the profit he can get out of them.

A good diet should consist, to an extent of about eighty per cent, of vegetables and fruits; the remaining foodstuffs together comprising the other twenty per cent. Eat the whole range, a large proportion raw; each contains something the others lack. Eat, or at least use, the skins and outer coverings whenever you can; much of the vitamin and mineral content is stored therein or thereunder, and heavy penalties have been provided for rejection.

The Real Cause of Poliomyelitis.

"INFANTILE PARALYSIS" (Poliomyelitis) is a deficiency disease due to lack of Vitamin B1 (thiamine). [Polio is now known to be associated with chemical pesticides such as lead arsenate and DDT—see Virus Mania, 2021, S.A.H.B.]

Sir Robert McCarrison, while dietetic investigator to the Indian Government, published among many others the following significant discoveries:

Animals deprived of Vitamin B eventually become paralysed.

In animals with just enough Vitamin B to avoid disaster, paralysis may be precipitated by all sorts of influences.



The danger, from Vitamin B deficiency, is intensified in proportion as the rest of the diet is badly unbalanced.

Because modern food wreckers remove from whole grains the husk and germ which is its most important source, most diets are badly deficient, many dangerously so, in Vitamin B.

This deficiency is the more serious because the rest of the diet is so badly unbalanced.

It is a fact that a considerable section of the people live on the edge of a paralytic breakdown, due to deficiency of Vitamin B.

Paralysis occurs most frequently in children because:

Growing children need more Vitamin B than adults, and are more susceptible than adults to the effects of deficiency (McCarrison).

They often eat more rubbish than adults.

[They are more sensitive to some neurological toxins, S.A.H.B.]

Paralysis occurs most commonly in summer because:

Increased consumption in hot (and holiday) weather of ice-creams, coloured drinks, and refined starchy and sugary rubbish exaggerates dietary unbalance, and increases toxic accumulation.

Hot weather, plus sudden changes of temperature, sets up fermentation of toxic waste, with fever, and development, from cell-microzyma, of bacteria.

[The timing of when pesticides such as DDT were being sprayed in the environment, S.A.H.B.]

Paralysis occurs in "epidemics" because:

With so many Vitamin B deficient, highly toxic individuals living almost exactly alike, those nearest a breakdown naturally exhibit similar reactions under similar conditions. [Now recognized to be the simultaneous exposure to environmental toxins, S.A.H.B.]

And remember:

The periodicity of disease.

All cases of paralysis are not polio-myelitis.

Bacteria, or microzyma, having developed, can disseminate; but the bug-hunters are in for a protracted chase!

The feverish stage being an Acute Illness, should, like any other Healing Crisis, be met by Fasting and Eliminative treatment; and the deficiency of Vitamin B made good by means of Marmite and branwater in quantity. [Along with high-dose Vitamin C treatment, S.A.H.B.]

Distemper in dogs is the same disease, due to similar causes; and the same treatment succeeds.

"SUMMER DIARRHOEA" [A condition that essentially disappeared in first world countries by the middle of the 20th century, S.A.H.B.] is Nature's way of ridding bodies of the extra toxic matter introduced during hot weather.

Why Spoil our Foods?

Bodily functions are carried on in an alkaline medium; and anything that interferes with the alkaline balance predisposes to disease. The acid waste resulting from metabolism of the acid-forming foods needs alkaline minerals for neutralisation and complete elimination; otherwise it collects and corrodes. Any excess of acid-forming foods in the diet, or deficiency of the alkaline, mineral bearing elements, tends

to disturb the alkaline balance; great discrepancy leads to chronic acidpoisoning, or ACIDOSIS, referred to elsewhere.

So to feed, or to maltreat foods, as to reduce mineral intake below the minimum essential to health, is exactly what most people do; and are badly fooled, both by the gradualness of the degenerative disease process; and by the befuddlement of the germ-obsessed, when confronted with admonitory symptoms.

Protective Foods.

Fruits, vegetables, milk, and the husk and germ of whole grains are the great alkaline, acid neutralisers and eliminators. They are the natural protective foods. Shortage of these leads to acid accumulation, gradual deterioration both mental and physical, eventual breakdown, and final decrepitude. Replenishment stimulates renewed activity. This is why people who have long been subsisting on a diet defective in essentials, and who in consequence evince appropriate signs of decay, exhibit, when introduced to healthier foods, numerous evidences of excretory activity, culminating sooner or later in a healing reaction or "crisis."

Hearty eaters are sometimes dismayed for a while at the wide divergence between inclination and need; but, with cultivation, abstemiousness becomes second nature.

The advantages of a low protein diet have been so frequently demonstrated as to need no further argument.

Very little meat is required; indeed, the work of Chittenden goes to show, and experience seems to confirm, that animal proteins are unnecessary. The body soon learns to do better without. "Second-hand proteins," Thomson calls them. A Clydesdale stallion is a mountain of muscle; but he doesn't eat meat, fish, or eggs.

Dairy products and nuts provide us with protein and fat; but unsaturated fats such as olive oil are vitally important. OLIVE OIL is an invaluable anti-acid, a de-hydrator of water-logged tissues. It is Nature's marvellous anti-toxin, protector, and physical saviour.

The principal starchy foods are potatoes, whole grains, and wholemeal. These again must be used in the unrefined state because, particularly in the case of grains, it is in the skins, husk, and "germ," that practically the whole store of valuable vitamins and minerals is concealed—put there by an all-wise Providence to counteract the acidproducing effect of the starch.

Avoid the common mistake of "compensating" for a sacrifice of meat by increasing the starch intake. Nature will have to eject it; and catarrhal conditions result, such as: tonsillitis, appendicitis, cholecystitis, leucorrhoea, colds, antrum and sinus disease, urinary frequency and pain, pyelitis, and cystitis.

SENSIBLE COMBINATION. Meals should be simple. On the island of Tristan da Cunha, where teeth are perfect and disease is almost unknown, refined foods don't exist, and the greatest simplicity holds.

In general, since proteins digest in an acid medium, and starches in an alkaline, these foods are best kept apart. Much flatulence and acidity are avoided thereby. Digestion is a process whereby solid foods are dissolved for absorption. Insoluble starchy foods are changed by digestion into glucose; and absorbed in this form. The first step in this process takes place in the mouth by the action of ptyalin, a ferment in the saliva. Thorough mastication ensures effective insalivation.. The changes thus begun are carried on in the stomach and intestines; but are interfered with, even inhibited, in the presence of acid.

When protein foods—meat, cheese, milk, egg-white, fish, and nuts—are swallowed, hydrochloric acid is poured out into the stomach from the cells provided there for the purpose. The hydrochloric acid dissolves the envelopes of the protein molecules, so that the peptone in the gastric juice may act on them.

Hence the inadvisability of consuming, at the same meal, quantities of protein and starchy food. Fermentation, with acid and gas production, results. True, Nature sometimes combines protein and starch—but in due proportion and form. It is wise to follow her lead.

The major incompatibilities are easily avoidable, because so little protein or starchy food is required; and either combines satisfactorily with vegetable foods. Fresh fruits combine well with milk or with nuts; but apart from this are best used alone.

Minor discrepancies are irrelevant. Don't become cranky. Better feed foolishly than become food-conscious.

Keep four points in mind:

Don't overeat.

Shun refined foods.

Live mainly on vegetables and fruits, as many as possible raw.

Eat simple meals, avoiding obvious major incompatibilities.



DO NOT, for want of a little control, allow the body to become acidpoisoned or carbon-clogged; response, both physical, mental, and spiritual, to the dynamic Life Force around and within, will be lessened and depressed if we do; and Disease will be one result.

In Conclusion.

Do not resent restriction. The primary object is nourishment. As in the case when indulgence in alcohol and tobacco is discontinued, discipline and self-control will be rewarded with a disappearance of desire for much that formerly attracted; and a new and increasing enjoyment, relish, and satisfaction will be derived from simple unspoiled foods.

It is amazing that, with what we eat necessarily figuring so prominently in any rational consideration of well being, its importance, even its relevance, should be still almost completely ignored, even scorned and derided, in orthodox medical schools.

In recommending the system of using foods outlined in this book, originality is disclaimed. It has been copied from that in use by Nature Cure Practitioners the world over; and has been particularly adopted from the teaching of Mr Stanley Lief, N.D., D.O., D.C.

The method has been completely vindicated by the findings of the International Defensive Diet League of America; and, while it is not claimed that food cannot be used in any other way, and a fair level of health maintained, this way is advised as the best.

An attempt has been made to spare the disciple the task of devising suitable food combinations by arranging meals in a section on diet in a manner that gets over the difficulty for him.

No effort has been made to treat the subject exhaustively; the scope of this book is indicated in its title. [When "hints" was in the original title.]

One Final Word.

God's purpose is to evolve spiritual beings, not animals; and the foods He recommends were contrived to that end.



II.  Faulty General Habits

(To be overcome by RIGHT HABITS.)

Brilliant, radiant health may be ours. But it must be earned. It is not for the indolent or self-indulgent. An uncompromising and vital affirmation of the supremacy of the spiritual man will express in discipline and training of the physical vehicle, that it may the more perfectly serve our purpose. A little time must be devoted daily to the care of the body. As it is brought nearer perfection, take a pride in its physical poise and sweet functioning. No longer can there be tolerated the grotesque and flabby caricatures of the glorious instrument God designed to be the temple of His Spirit.

That some old reprobate survives defiance for ninety years is unsound contrary argument. Man should be living, today, not merely existing, for a hundred and fifty years. It simply means that some have inherited, usually from frugal-living progenitors, such exceptional constitutions that many years of abuse are needed to break them down. Their children will not prove so lucky.

So many misuse their health to create disease; and not a few, at present quite well, might be better citizens, sick! Life is mental before it is physical; and spiritual before it is either. Let us keep the objective in view!

EXERCISE.

Regular exercise is essential. Those who follow a sedentary calling, and all whose life is not an active one, will benefit by daily exercises. A few minutes suffice. The ideal is to exercise, lightly clad, or as nude as conditions permit, in the open. When this is impossible, or inconvenient, exercise naked in the bedroom by an open window. Bending and stretching exercises, with deep breathing, are most healthgiving. SELF-MASSAGE, all over, with the bare hands promotes skin activity and healthy function.

A hard walk should be taken every day by all who are prevented from playing games.

After the exercises, have a cold sponge down, dip, or shower; followed by brisk and thorough towelling.

Too little exertion, too much food, choked excretory apparatus, symptoms, wrong treatment, still less exertion, more and worse food, more treatment, eclipse ... and, who will be next!

REST.

Sufficient rest is a necessity; but the popular idea of what is required is generally wrong. Not a few people worry over the loss of a few hour's sleep. But it is the worry that hurts, not loss of sleep. Relax quietly and happily, and leave it to Nature. Here as much as anywhere is Right

Thinking a necessity. If you cannot sleep, use the time thankfully for fellowship with God.

LEARN TO RELAX. Many sorts of malfunctioning are directly due to a chronic mental bad habit of tension. Rest and smile! During acute elimination, and for recuperative purposes, rest is beneficial. Learn to manifest patience and self-possession.

SUN-BATHING.

The exposure of the skin to the sun's rays is one of the essentials of perfect health. If you are not used to it, begin with 5 minutes, about 8 a.m. in the summer, later in winter. Increase by 2 minutes a day up to half an hour. Do NOT sun-bathe in the heat of the day; it is the ultraviolet light rays that do good; the strong heat rays are harmful, and in excessive doses even dangerous.

When conditions do not permit of sun-bathing, have an air-bath quite naked in the bedroom. The skin should be lightly tanned all over, and of a satiny sheen. Grey days are good. SUNLIGHT IS ONE OF THE GREATEST OF ALL THE NATURAL PREVENTIVE AND CURATIVE AGENTS. To deprive children of the protection and invigoration it affords amounts almost to a crime. Let them from their earliest days experience and learn to revel in the daily caress of God's sunshine and air.

FRESH AIR.

Life should be lived as far as possible in the open. Avoid congested areas. Never know the smell of stale air. Let buildings and clothing be designed to permit the freest possible circulation of sweet air. The disgusting and foetid atmosphere of thousands of living and sleeping apartments is of itself sufficient to give rise to anaemic, rickety, and scrofulous conditions. In consumptive, asthmatic, and catarrhal conditions generally, the thorough continuous aeration of the breathing passages is one of the fundamental essentials both of prevention and cure. FLAT NARROW CHESTS OF POOR CAPACITY MUST BE DEVELOPED. Stick to it cheerfully and with determination. It is often marvellous what can be achieved with perseverance.

DEEP BREATHING.

Make a habit of this. Learn to develop and increase chest capacity. Draw deep into the lungs, and so into the blood and whole system, the sweet air and golden sunshine. Greater air-intake means better oxygenation and increased elimination. There are few cases of Asthma (or any other respiratory disorder) that could not have been prevented or cannot completely recover by Right Thinking, Right Food, and methodical TRAINING. I have seen too many recover by perseverance in these simple methods to be deceived as to their efficacy. FAITH, in the outcome; and perseverance!

WATER.

Within and without. It is the solvent of many of our foods, as of poisonous waste. It bathes and enters into the composition of every living tissue. Drink at least three pints daily; always between meals, never at meals. Water is necessary for cleanliness, to remove the large

quantities of dirt excreted through the skin. It is the natural diuretic and diaphoretic. It is a valuable medium for applying heat or cold; and in skilled hands can achieve miracles; as packs and compresses for the relief of pain and localisation and promotion of elimination. As steam it may be inhaled. Diluted with lemon juice it is a valuable antiseptic and dressing for wounds and cavities. To promote elimination, wash the stomach, or encourage bowel activity, drink large quantities.

CLOTHING.

Should at all times, not forgetting night, be as light and airy as possible. The skin is, or should be, our natural protector from variations in temperature. Unwise and uninstructed parents early rob their children of this valuable function by over-clothing. In adults—that is of course "civilised" adults—this is an almost universal error. Let clothing be spare, but beautiful in colour, texture and design. Colour has a pronounced effect upon mental reaction; and is worthy of study.

POSTURE.

It is impossible to conceal tone and poise of body (or mind). Posture expresses them. The light and springy step and perfect balance of harmonious vibration; and frank and open gaze; well-cut features, bronzed, and confident with the joy of life; rhythm and grace in movement; as much can be expressed, or betrayed, by posture as by voice. Adopt the posture of assurance, even (or specially!) if at the moment you don't feel it: chin up, shoulders back, chest out, "tummy" in, back straight. This provides the abdominal organs with their natural support. NEVER be persuaded to wear a harness/brace. Sit and stand, TALL, mentally and spiritually as well as physically.



FASTING.

An occasional short fast is an invaluable prophylactic. Even though we live intelligently, poisons of one kind or another are apt to collect; and it is wise to abstain from food, once in a while, to set the eliminating system free to deal with accumulations. A fast of from three to six days every three months is advised; with a larger one of a week once every year. During these fasts citrus fruit juices, well diluted, and vegetable water should be taken for their eliminative effects; and a daily large enema of two quarts of warm saline should also be used while fasting.

Not only is the physical system cleansed and rejuvenated by this means, but the necessary self-discipline is a valuable moral exercise.

If motive be high enough, what might otherwise be a tiresome penance can become a fascinating pastime: doing our share towards the physical regeneration that will mean new life; and learning the valuable lesson of overcoming sloth, and insincerity of purpose. Many expect "prayer" to restore them to health. It won't. Unless they do their part. We have it within our power to live gloriously, magnificently. Who is willing to manifest his vision!

III.  Supply Deficiencies and Promote Elimination

Merely changing from a wrong way of living to a better one, automatically stimulates elimination. Vitamin and mineral deficiency

and multifarious auto-intoxication are the great Physical Causes of Disease. Under a more rational regime both these causes are remedied; and the balance, formerly in favour of toxic accumulation, is swung in the other direction. Vitamin and Mineral Deficiency may be made good, ideally, by utilizing the alkaline mineral foods. But in systems badly depleted, or with products grown in the usual impoverished soil, extra supplies must be tapped. Preparations of wheat husk and germ, seaweed powdered and dried, extracts of cod—or halibut-liver oil, herbs, and the Homeopathic potentised Cell-salts, all play a part.

To ensure effective supplies while fasting, or if for any good reason whole fruits and vegetables are ineligible, give juices mechanically extracted, or vacuum-packed.

Promoting Elimination.

Nothing but experience is likely to carry conviction as to the vast quantities of effete matter often stored in sick bodies. Masses of it, deposited in all sorts of sites in an endeavour to protect vital centres and organs, can be both seen, felt, and smelt!

Good health obviously cannot exist with tissues soaked and submerged in this foetid tide. Only Nature (God, that is, the Directive Intelligence within) can remove such encumbrance, and then only through the excretory and eliminative channels provided.

In this, Nature will generally succeed, given a reasonable opportunity and suitable materials.



Manipulative treatment, as every Osteopath and many masseurs are aware, is one of the most useful helps for loosening and mobilizing old stores of sludge. Chiropractic has often indirectly a similar tendency. Neither in hospital nor in private practice can great success be expected where such resources are overlooked.

Hydrotherapy is another of the agencies, familiar to Naturopaths, that work seeming miracles. Hot and cold baths, hot and cold packs, enemas, irrigations, douches, and sprays, all play their part. Combined with instructed manual aid, wonders are often performed. Suitable equipment must be part of the armamentarium of any healing establishment conceived on adequate lines.

Herbs, skilfully chosen and prepared, are often of the greatest possible service, for promoting both re-mineralisation and elimination. This is another branch of the healing art despised and scoffed at by know-alls who never cure. In innumerable instances, even the gravest swellings and growths have been completely dispersed by appropriate herbs, specially when combined with simple general methods.

The Internal Bath. It would be surprising indeed if bodies befouled by filth were not benefited by internal bathing. Those who have not seen the results of washing internally, by drinking large quantities of water, and working it through, or of daily rectal injection of quantities as large as five quarts, can have no conception of the condition of many diseaseridden bodies; nor of the regeneration which follows detoxication.

Repeatedly, in medical practice, sick systems soaked beyond saturation point are still further burdened with unusable food and paralysing drugs, while skin eruptions, sewer-like breath, and eliminating systems, generally, in distress, shout aloud what is needed.

The daily enema, when intoxication by retained waste is the cause of the trouble, is perhaps the most effective of all the physical drugless methods of treatment.

Electrical apparatus of many kinds are often of use, as Short wave appliances, Infra-red and Ultra-violet lamps, Diathermy, X-rays, Vibrators, etc.

Dietetic variations, from fasting to full feeding, help powerfully. Make sure, before resorting to eliminative measures, that toxic accumulation is really a factor!

Case-hardened indifference to common-sense feeding comes down heavily on the side of the acid-producers. This trend must be changed by decreasing or even temporarily deleting these foods, and relying largely or solely for a time upon the alkaline elements. Milk is one of the main standbys. Thin toxic people, and sufferers from advanced digestive disorder, frequently benefit from quite prolonged periods on a dietary mainly or solely composed of milk. With others, milk forms a basis, with vegetables and fruits in addition. Examples of Eliminating Dietaries are appended later.

Individuals many stones overweight, mineral deficient, and saturated with corruption, must exercise care. Very severe reactions may supervene; and possible danger from this source can be avoided by:

(1) prolonged fasting in suitable cases;

(2) gradual reform, avoiding too sudden a change;

(3) reverting to wrong feeding for a time to check the reactions.

Do not fall into the error of looking upon Nature's way as a method of treatment; it is not; it is a manner of living. It is a life-sentence. Backsliding exacts appropriate penalties. Criminals cannot live less asocially for a few weeks, then return to their crime, and expect to be looked on as cured!

IV.  Correcting Secondary Causes

Mechanical.

A complete therapeutic system will not ignore the effect upon bodily function of dislocations or subluxations of vertebrae; whether accidental or resulting from toxic conditions.

Many sick individuals—and some well ones too—are benefited by expert Chiropractic and Osteopathic adjustments. In numbers of instances, symptoms can be dispatched by no other means. In others, improvement ensues. Stimulation or inhibition of excretory and secretory action is easily possible. Pain is relieved.

Deformities and disabilities of many kinds are put right by these means. Only the hidebound bigotry of orthodoxy prevents their wider adoption.

Manipulative measures of all kinds, including skilled massage, particularly by responsives who understand something of the operation, through physical contact, of spiritual healing Power, are among the most effective of physical helps.

Discriminating co-relation of all good methods is desirable; for which is worst—trying to reduce displacements by psychological means, or neck-thumping selfish neurotics?

Economic.

This is among the worst of the secondary causes. Perhaps more than ever today the people languish and anguish and die, for want of a little obedience. Self-interest and financial considerations impede, but need not In an age of unprecedented plenty, any struggle for a living should be an anachronism. Good health and prosperity may be ours almost for the mere taking. Natural resource is unlimited. Productive capacity is virtually as great. We are richer than Croesus. The principal reason we

cannot enjoy as much as we like, as well as all that we need, is WE SCRAP FOR IT INSTEAD OF WHACKING IT UP—

"but if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another."

Galatians V, 15.

Natural animal man is selfish, greedy, lustful of power, lazy, thriftless, improvident, stupid, ignorant, apathetic. But the greediest, most ruthless and powerful have usurped control of financial wealth.

Such of our real wealth as they permit us access to is capitalised, and the costless corresponding financial "wealth" issued in the form of interest-bearing debt which continually grows.

When, but never before, sufficient of us are willing to compete for the common good instead of for gain, we can resume effective control of our credit and currency; and, deciding our policy ourselves, vest responsibility for administration in a body appointed for the purpose.

Instead of heart-breaking taxation we should be drawing dividends from the national increment of association. Emancipation and freedom are within our reach. We must strike off the shackles of moral and financial servitude, and enter into our glorious inheritance as sons and daughters of God.



Balking the banditti, however, will not, alone, solve many problems. So many other factors are involved. Malnutrition, for example, is as much a matter of unwise as of under-indulgence; and self-control is a virtue of Spirit.

8.  Helping Nature Cure

I.  The Healing Crises

There has never been a time when it was more imperative to distinguish between Acute Illness and Disease; because the one is so frequently curative of the other. There is no such thing as Acute Disease. There is Acute Illness; but therein is a vital distinction.

Disease, whether of body, mind, soul, or estate, whether in the individual or the mass, is mostly a gradual degenerative process going on within, due to failure to comply with the requirements of well-being; and, of this process, Acute Illness is commonly Nature's (God's) method of cure.

If Acute Illness is to be understood, the dual significance of symptoms must always be borne in mind. Acute illnesses are not diseases. They are Nature's reactions, curative in intent, against existing disease. They are house cleanings—Healing Crises. Their purpose is warning, disciplinary, protective, eliminative. Through their agency, the body seeks to rid itself of the toxic accumulations which, together with vitamin and mineral deficiency, are the great physical cause of the degenerative process which is disease. Acute Illnesses give sick people a chance to get well. Individuals, people, nation, or world, with integrity threatened by disease, are by such means cleansed, and offered an opportunity of co-operating subsequently in reconstruction.

Acute Illnesses are not primarily dependent upon outside agencies, though they may be precipitated by them. Acute Illnesses commonly arise spontaneously. They should be welcomed and co-operated with, not feared. Acute Illnesses are often man's greatest friend; indeed, had it not been for the Acute Illness, mankind would have ceased to exist long ages ago.

Yet the one really impressive achievement of modern medical "science" consists in suppressing Acute Illnesses! And this, usually, by means shatteringly destructive in themselves.

Orthodox medical men have not the remotest idea as to what these reactions portend. They have been taught to believe that Acute Illnesses are Diseases; that there are hundreds of different ones, each having a specific causative organism; that Nature's glorious redemptive efforts on our behalf are the work of malevolent germs, and must be rigorously repressed at all costs.

Such colossal stupidity is bad enough; but the stubborn refusal to admit what is readily apparent to the average child of tender years, can hardly be too sternly pilloried.

It is galling to watch interminable processions of people plainly loaded, bloated, and blocked with debris derived from ignorance, indulgence, and gluttony, being prodded and tapped and thumped, tested and listened to, X-Rayed, and investigated, observed and consulted about, then butchered, or poisoned, or burned; while in Toxic Accumulation, their symptoms have one common origin which Nature will often correct if given a chance.



Being content to earn a living from treating symptoms, and leaving their causes unchallenged and still active, either in the individual or the mass, will soon be labelled dishonest. To keep the mind closed to new truth for fear of possible consequences, economic or otherwise, betrays lack of faith; but may be just as dishonest.

The Gospel of "Nature Cure."

There is little to fear from disease, for those content to live healthily. If people were half as afraid of living unhealthily as they are today of disease, there would be little left of disease.

People are sometimes disturbed and confounded when, at more or less regular intervals after adopting a healthier regime, disturbances still crop up; but, having set yourself to live better, when Nature reacts, either in body, mind, soul, or estate, don't be perturbed! It is a grand and radiant message—the Gospel of Good!

If symptomatic warnings of the presence of disease have been ignored, and measures for dealing with the causes neglected, sooner or later, even though the causes continue, Nature will stage a reaction. The road back to health is frequently punctuated by temporary apparent setbacks, in the form of more or less mild Acute Illnesses; and it is essential to understand their significance, and to know what to do when they occur.

These are Nature's Healing Crises.

Yet, so ingrained is the fear of disease as evil attacking from without that, despite reiterated and most painstaking instruction, the significance of these sudden disturbances is still constantly overlooked, and the customary suppressive measures resorted to.

Often enough, in those grossly burdened with poisons of many varieties, a Healing Crisis may be a formidable experience. But the folly of foiling such purpose by trying to force in food, and paralysing the life-saving cleansing apparatus with vaccines or drugs, must surely be evident. Have nothing to do with such.

Beware of orthodox methods, which, being so frequently wrong in principle, can hardly be expected to work satisfactorily in practice.

When we've got over our fear of Acute Illness, we shall have broken the back of the disease bogey; so drop that insensate fear of disease. Practise confidence. God and Nature are on our side, even if modern medicine is mostly opposed. The body is a self-cleansing "machine," and running to a medical man, after years of indulgence and wrong thinking to have the healing crises suppressed, is little better than suicide.

Nature's Efforts to Cure. Their Onset, and Action.

HEALING CRISES usually develop quite unexpectedly to those who don't understand; often after a spell of most gratifying improvement. They are usually ushered in either by gradually developing "seediness," or more suddenly by shivering, rise of temperature, loss of appetite, furred tongue, rapid breathing and pulse, burning skin, assorted aches and pains, headache, and general malaise.

According to the kind and quantity of poisons, and eliminating organs chosen, appearances vary when reaction sets in. Exaggeration or recurrence of old familiar symptoms is to be expected at such times. The taste of drugs taken or injected long years before may even be identified.

Particular symptoms, such as catarrhal elimination, sore throat, diarrhoea, biliousness, rashes, or cough may appear, according to the channel or channels selected by the inner Directive Intelligence.

Generally, all channels are in action. Fever, caused by fermentation of stored-up waste, is Nature's bonfire. The tongue becomes coated, signifying the condition of inner surfaces and linings, which, like the outer skin, are being used for elimination. The breath becomes foul, because an assortment of putrid material is being thrown out through the lungs and linings of the breathing passages and apparatus. Sputum is sometimes copious, when mucous filth is extruded. Antra and sinuses may become choked for a time. Skin eruptions, boils, rashes, and carbuncles may appear; or deeper seated abscesses, when waste is concentrated in organs, cavities, or connective-tissue planes. Volumes of foetid filth are sometimes thrown out through the liver, or lining of stomach, and ,vomited up. Diarrhoea is the usual mode of ejecting irritant substances excreted through intestinal glands or mucosa. The urinary tract may exhibit signs of disturbance: pain, aching, frequency, burning, urgency, inflammation, in kidneys, ureters, bladder, or

urethra. The urine is likely to be loaded with solid matter in solution or suspension; and, if the poisons are highly toxic in character, there may be temporary damage to tissue. Purulent or mucous discharge from the vagina is common, with accompanying symptoms of deeper discomfort.

Such are the evidences that Nature is now prepared to throw out, in bulk, poisons which hitherto she had been trying to eliminate piecemeal.

Diphtheria, measles, boils, carbuncles, abscesses, bronchitis, pneumonia, scarlet fever, tonsillitis, quinsy, antrum, sinus and mastoid "infection," pyelitis, nephritis, cystitis, colds, salpingitis, are neither Diseases, nor Diagnoses, they are merely the names of everyday examples of Healing Crises.

Duration.

The duration of a Healing Crisis is dependent upon a number of factors; for instance:—the amount and toxicity of collected-up poisons; the degree of bodily strength and vitality; the effectiveness or otherwise of measures adopted; the mental reaction of patient, relatives, and "friends"; the extent of previous orthodox "treatment." Generally, a reaction will last from one to three or four days; but may extend to ten or twelve days; exceptionally, much longer.

When the system has been badly poisoned for years, and specially where orthodox suppressive or "preventive" treatment has been carried out, a considerable period of time is likely to elapse, punctuated

by a succession of healing efforts, before regeneration and reconstruction can become well advanced. It may easily be many years before the process can be complete. Improvement may quite well continue indefinitely, in those who loyally persevere. Nature's methods are deliberate; too much so, often, for impatient humanity (which is one reason for the popularity still enjoyed by those who presume to offer a quick but illusory alternative).

The Periodicity of Disease.

After a period of mistaken living, or, in the case of infants, at varying but often surprisingly regular intervals after their arrival in the world heavily charged with hereditary and maternal toxins, Nature will stage a reaction. Many of the disorders of early life are explained in this way.

As in most other human concerns, critical periods recur, in health and disease, in major and minor cycles of six and seven—days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, and millennia.

FIVE, in spiritual numerics, is the figure of flux. SIX is directional. SEVEN is fruitional; and indicative of Spiritual plan, process, and purpose.

No very extensive experience is needed in Natural Methods of healing before attention is arrested by the almost uncanny recurrence of these significant numbers.

Very frequently, but by no means invariably, Healing Crises occur in the 6th, 13th, or 20th weeks, or in the 6th, 13th, or 20th months, from the commencement of an improved regime, or course of corrective treatment. Further reactions may appear in the 6th, 13th, or 20th years.

Parenthetically.

It is relevant to note that the world is now at the dawning of the millennium—a circumstance directly connected with the present World Epoch of cosmic accelerating intensity. This epoch is moving daily nearer a Crisis. A grand-scale Reaction impends—a mass clean-up, with heavy mortality and discharge of diseased and spiritually dead individuals, or "cells."

As with bodies sick unto death, the Adamic "patient" will be brought desperately low in the process—to the very verge of extinction. It will appear for a time like the end of all law and order: the triumph of anarchy. It is the fluxing of the old evil order, preparatory to the inmoving of the new.

Procedure.

Except in the gravely debilitated, whenever a Healing Crisis supervenes, of more than evanescent proportions, A FAST SHOULD BE UNDERTAKEN IMMEDIATELY, and all relevant measures adopted to facilitate elimination. NO FOOD WHATEVER should be given in most cases, not even milk.



If food is given, elimination may be interfered with, and Nature's beneficent purpose delayed and even prevented. It is for this reason that so many acute symptoms are allowed to become chronic; and so many lives lost which might easily have been saved.

Let no one listen to those who would urge food "for strength to fight the germs (or the disease)"; it is the germs that will use the food, and the patient will suffer.

II.  The Part Played by Fasting

The body may be likened, roughly, to a sponge, which can either absorb, or squeeze out; but cannot reasonably be expected to do both, efficiently, at one and the same time. Remember the animals—they know what to do. But animals follow their instinct; while man's instinct is betrayed by misaligned reason, which deludes him into the belief that Nature's Healing Crises are the work of truculent microbes.

Precipitating causes must be distinguished from primary. Do not be misled, even if acute illness has been precipitated by some external influence. "Chills" do not ordinarily make healthy people diseased, neither do germs.

If Nature, by the sudden onset of illness, signalises her intention of undertaking active remedial measures, it will be the part of wisdom to

do all in our power to further her purpose. And bear in mind that Nature cannot be expected to alter her laws to suit our convenience.

FASTING, in the management of disease, should be limited in the main to two kinds of disorder:

Fasting, usually partial but sometimes complete, will be necessary in most cases of Acute Illness.

Fasting is a rapid promoter of detoxication in those, otherwise sufficiently robust, whose symptoms are predominantly Toxic.



Caution.

Deficiency and accumulation are constantly present together. Where deficiency preponderates, fasting must be conducted discreetly; otherwise existing shortage may be increased, and weakness made worse. Also, in subjects profoundly poisoned, with vitality greatly depressed, the severity of toxaemia evoked and of healing reactions provoked, might prove too great. Remember the purpose of fasting—to facilitate elimination. Fasting is not a "cure." Do not permit the feeble, debilitated, asthenic, or consumptive to fast—except under expert direction.

Fasting should be carried out, always, under supervision of one who understands the procedure. Like the knife, in skilled hands, fasting is

capable of wonderful good; but unskilfully employed becomes a dangerous weapon. Nicest discrimination is needed.

Nearly all acute, and many chronic symptoms, yield to fasting; but to attempt to elaborate directions to cover all types of case would be to venture far beyond the scope of this book.

Children of parents whose MENTAL OUTLOOK IS RIGHT, who are fed correctly and obey the other rules of right living, will seldom be troubled by disease; but if symptoms appear do not be afraid. Confidence is your life-line: don't relinquish your hold when you encounter rapids. That's when we need it most. Put the child to bed, use the enema at once and repeat it each day, begin a fast, apply hot and cold packs alternately to the seat of pain or disturbance, give copious drinks—not milk, of course, which is a food—stimulate skin activity, and parents will be gratified by the rapid disappearance of the trouble.

Duration of a Fast.

In acute illness, the fast must, generally, be continued until the symptoms have completely subsided. This is not invariably the case, because the patient's strength may not be equal to the strain. It may sometimes be necessary to break the fast, and wait for a subsequent reaction to complete the clean up. There is nothing to fear; on the contrary, there is every reason for thankfulness that God, through His natural law, has provided such effective protection from the consequences of wilfulness and stupidity.

The longest fasts personally supervised are, in a child of 10 months, 14 days; in a child of 18 months, 19 days; in a man of 67 years, 63 days. Three other people have fasted over 40 days, and two or more between 30 and 40 days. Fasts of over 20 days even are rare. The usual duration of a fast, either in acute or chronic disorder, is from one or a few, to (occasionally) fourteen days.

Where the system is soaked in accumulated toxins, and Nature has set herself to get rid of them, it will be foolish to break the fast, unless the patient's condition demands it. Do not allow ignorance and fear to deprive the patient of his chances of recovery.

In the chronic manifestations, we must be guided by circumstance. If symptoms are still present, the breath foul, the tongue heavily coated, enema returns still dirty, urine thick on standing, and strength reasonably well maintained, it will generally be wise to continue.

Naturally, weight will be lost; but as those whose systems are badly poisoned are, as a rule much overweight, this is all to the good.

In any case, if we have got ourselves into such a condition, we must be prepared to make some contribution towards reprieve.

Large numbers of people have fasted ninety to one hundred days on water alone. But don't fast foolishly; and do not act at all unless Nature's regenerative purpose is served.

A man, 67 years of age, told by the doctors, and "specialists," in two different towns, that "nothing could be done for him," fasted 63 days on orange juice, water, and vegetable water. The fast was undertaken when, at the end of three weeks on the Standard Diet, a reaction appeared in the form of "tonsillitis," temperature, assorted rheumatic pains, and general malaise. When treatment began he could not even stand without crutches; and could manage only a very short distance with their help. This condition, of rheumatism and thrombosis, had been developing for years; much more rapidly during the last 12 months. After 30 days' fast, the patient was walking a mile every day. After 6 weeks' fast, he was walking 4 miles every day. After 8 weeks' fast, he was walking 6 miles every day. On the 63rd day of his fast, he walked 10 miles; and having completed the distance, smilingly protested his obvious ability to repeat the performance. It was estimated that the quantity of poisonous filth eliminated through the bowel alone was in the neighbourhood of two benzine tins full. The fast was now gradually broken; the formerly hopeless invalid swinging along, the while, with a stride four feet long and grinning from ear to ear.

Ten months later he wrote:

There can't be much wrong with the treatment, for I walked 16 miles on Friday, 12 miles on Saturday, took three services in widely scattered localities on Sunday, walking the whole distance; had a warm bath, and feel as fit as I did 30 years ago and am still steadily improving!

Where disease is of very long standing, do not expect miracles. These happen only under special circumstances, which perhaps is as well. Blessings cheaply obtained are too cheaply valued. Likewise, systems hereditarily sickly, and undermined by long years of misdeeds, cannot

be rejuvenated by five minutes' repentance. But do your best— repentance may be deferred, but can't be evaded;

"except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish"

Jesus Christ.

Phenomena Commonly Observed During a Fast.

If a mud bottomed pool is stirred with a stick, dirt will come to the top. Fasting is such a stick. In the effort to safeguard our health, Nature will deposit all waste which she cannot eliminate, as far as possible in nonvital localities. In grossly toxic systems, poison will be deposited in intercellular spaces and intermuscular planes; in connective tissue and fascial structures; in tendon sheaths and lymphatic system; while every cell will contain its quota. Toxic accumulation in any particular organ, complicated by bacterial action, may have destructive effect; but the damage will generally be repaired when the offending toxins have gone.

During a fast, in the initial stage of increased toxaemia, there is often a feeling of weakness, dizziness, or goneness at the knees; but this is transitory, and after four or five days, is succeeded by a sensation of relief, and an access of energy, that gives assurance of improvement.

Contrary to natural expectation hunger is seldom a feature. If such is in evidence, it is almost certainly due to entertaining longings or

thoughts about food. "Habit hunger" may have to be controlled for a day or two; but does not, as a rule, present any real difficulty.

In general, when Nature has achieved her purpose, the discharge of offensive matter from the bowel will cease; the tongue will gradually clear; and natural hunger return. This is a signal to begin breaking the fast. Where there are massive accumulations of drugs and general waste, no fast, however prolonged, is likely to cleanse the system completely. The clearing of the tongue is only one indication; and fasts are often broken with the tongue still furred.

The Lord Jesus fasted 40 days; not as a meaningless gesture, but for the purpose of cleansing His system to increase sensitivity, receptivity, and response. And "was afterward anhungered." Like any one else on a fast, hunger was not in evidence till His system was clean.

9.  Mental And Spiritual Healing

"Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the proving of things not seen."

Hebrews XI, 1. (RV.)

I.  Faith Healing

The natural regenerative process set in operation by all the foregoing can be intensified and accelerated, potentially to any degree, through FAITH. And faith, in its simplest sense, is the child-like certainty that the Divine Healing POWER, though invisible, is present, adequate, and at work.

Faith is quiet rejoicing assurance of well-being already existing; it is also confidence, courage, cheerfulness, determination, and perseverance; which are faith in action.

Do not mistake, for faith, acquiescence in religious dogma, or profession of belief in a distant but more than half .dreaded deity. The professing are, too often, bigoted, intolerant, uncontrolled; and, not infrequently, less responsive than the average. Belief alone is inadequate. Belief is the starting point; but faith is the venture whereby

belief is transformed into experience. And experience begets understanding; and understanding, spiritual consciousness.

Faith is the faculty that makes contact with the impalpable; that clothes with reality that of which the senses bear no witness.

Faith is the switch that sets in operation the potentially unlimited spiritual Life-Force inherent within. The size of the switch is irrelevant. It is the position that counts—on or off. Faith the size of a mustard seed will remove mountains—if backed up by "works."

Faith is operative to the degree of spiritual sensitivity, receptivity, and response. The law, in relativity, is "According to your faith be it unto you." That is, in measure, according to the direction of faith, negative or positive, it will be unto us—evil or good. Pious protestation cannot counter-balance the effects of negative faith.

The physically-conscious need props for their faith. Faith in medicine, faith in a doctor, faith in a procedure, faith in a chiropractic manoeuvre, faith in a "diet," faith in a piece of the true cross (which may have come from somebody's barn door), faith in one's ability to recover, faith in anything; it matters little so long as the subconscious mind is sufficiently impressed with the recovery concept. But the most powerful and effective incentive to faith must be a consciousness of the nature and source of the Healing Power within.

Most people swallow their food in faith. They know little or nothing of how it works; but it reappears in due course as energy, heat, and waste.

So also with the mind. We should not forbear to accept the power of Spirit to heal because we do not fully or at all understand how He works. Accept the assurance in faith, and in like course it will materialise as healing or other desired objective.

Not faith in some outside "god" is required; but faith in recovery, faith to persist, faith in essential goodness and life; faith that all is well, particularly when most apparently or obviously ill. How many manage quite nicely till faith meets some test, in danger or difficulty? Then physical consciousness lets go the lifebelt, and, striking out on its own, is quickly engulfed.

Everybody adopts one of two alternatives. Either we allow untoward outward appearances to work back through our minds and impress or depress our true spiritual selves; or, realising our spiritual nature and continuity with limitless Power, we set that Power to work, by faith, outwardly through our minds to bring back into harmony whatever in physical selves or circumstances was seeming discordant.

Never let outward appearances impress, no matter how menacing. Know one thing only—His presence, His nature, His instant accessibility, and His absolute unchallengeable Power.

The Faith that heals takes no account of appearances, however imposing. Faith does not reason. Faith KNOWS. The spiritual creative Power must always be greater than material created things:

"Greater is He that is in You, than he that is in the world."



1 John IV, 4.

Faith must be present in the healer; if possible in the sufferer; and is more than helpful in relatives and friends. Its force is stepped up by intensity of desire to be made whole, within and without; by purity of motive; and by clarity of grateful perception. Mighty resources are waiting to honour our faith, but—once again, beware its direction.

It is not merely foolish to worry: it is actively dangerous, and not infrequently fatal. Worry is fear; and "fear is faith in evil"; and according to our faith it will be unto us. Faith is the thought or belief at the back of our inmost mind. To fear disease is to invite and create disease. To fear poverty is to make shortage inevitable. To fear danger or accident is to encounter recurring woe. Fear of failure ensures it. Fear of evil sets in operation the mysterious invisible mind forces that materialise evil. "For the thing which I greatly feared is come unto me," mourned the once greatly-blessed Job, "and that which I was greatly afraid of has come unto me."

To most, the world is disquietingly material: a place of dark foreboding and imminent danger. To clearer perception, life is a state of consciousness in which our conceptions become accurately embodied in circumstances and physical selves.

Mere common sense would urge the advisability of essaying a venture in faith. Either there is, or is not, an omnipotent beneficent Power. We had better decide, and take GOOD for granted—simply act on the

assumption that GOOD will come, in body, mind, soul and estate—that is what brings it to pass!

That which distinguishes human beings, "alive," from their physical bodies, "dead," is the presence, within, of Life Energy. That Life Energy or Life Force, is Spirit. Theologians call that Life Spirit —"GOD"; and we, are part of, and continuous with, not separate from, Eternal, Indestructible, Spirit. We are individualisations of that "GOD," or Spirit of GOOD. He is not merely powerful without limit —"the Power that swings the suns": He is also boundlessly wise and intelligent—the Power that contrived and controls our intricate body chemistry. He is also absolutely benevolent (Christ showed us that) ; infinitely patient, and perfectly loving: longing to take control. And faith (AND obedience) afford Him the sanction He needs. Ponder this therefore: we, and that Spirit, are ONE. St Paul, the greatest healer, save One, of whom we have record, who showed by results that he knew what he did, advised "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your minds."

Paraphrasing for the sake of clearness, Hebrew idiom and old English translation might better be rendered thus "If you want to be transformed, change your mental outlook"—that is, from sickness to health, from poverty to abundance, from doubt and misgiving to confidence and certainty, from selfishness to eager self-forgetfulness, from weakness to strength, from hate to love, from fear to glad faith, from negative to positive, from evil to GOOD, in fact from physical to spiritual.

"Can God?"

For twenty-five years "Lofty" had been a criminal. Fifteen years of that time he had spent in gaol. Coming out for the last time, his evil nature aflame, he swore to avenge himself; and began to drink.

Slouching along the dark streets late one evening, after ten days on cheap liquor and methylated spirits, he stumbled unawares into a little "mission for down and outs."

There, through the efforts of three sincere-minded men, Lofty, soaked to the tips of his dirty hair with vile booze, experienced "conversion"— was induced, that is, to change his mental outlook and habit of mind.

Sickened beyond endurance by his pitiable plight, and by sufferings self-inflicted through long years of vicious indulgence, his stubborn resistance was humbled at last. The Spirit within, fortified through the mediation of others, was able to change his direction; and the regenerative process began. Lofty co-operated willingly and wholeheartedly.

Months later, still financially down and out and a martyr to indigestion, he was given a battered old lorry. Later, he traded this for a better one; and, later again, secured a brand new machine. In less than three years he owned a fine fleet of four vehicles.

Shown the cause of digestive disorder, he had his teeth put to rights, and began to use foods more wisely. His digestion completely recovered. That happened seven years ago, and today, even without opening his

mouth, Lofty preaches a challenging sermon; for everyone knows what he was, and even a fool can see what he is.

Through repentance, faith, and obedience, the degenerative process was arrested and converted into a regenerative process. This will continue "till he comes in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ."

II.  How Faith Works

Faith asks, and receives, and believes it has; spiritual conscious knows IT IS.

The justification for faith is that man is a spiritual being, part of and continuous with, not separate from, the Divine Creative Living Loving Life Force referred to as GOD. That Force is solely and only and always GOOD. In Spirit, He is what the Lord Jesus showed Him to be; and in His Law He is perfect.

One great stumbling block has been the apparent reality, solidity, and permanence of matter. To material sense things look so very dense and convincing. Yet nothing exists that is not Spirit.

Matter, the physicists tell us, is merely a form of electrical energy; and electrical energy is spiritual energy in lower vibration. Reduced to its

ultimate components, matter, whether diamond, wood, water, flesh, bone or blood, is found to consist of atoms; the atoms of molecules; the molecules of positive and negative charges of electricity (and neutrons) revolving round one another as separately as stars in the sky. (Note the polarity!)

Spirit is the source of electrical energy. Mind is the medium through which that energy works. Thought is the instrument that sets it to work, and determines the direction in which it shall work, positive constructive or negative destructive. Matter is the field in which results are produced. Mind is the medium between Spirit and matter; the spoken word is the link.

The different material appearances vary according to the number, arrangement, and rate of vibration of the electrical charges composing them. These variations are mind controlled. Matter is Spirit reduced in vibratory frequency to a point where it becomes sense-perceptible: which frequency is infinitely variable. Matter is Spirit in relativity—is, in fact, very largely, our consciousness, or impression of Spirit.

It is said of Christ, Philippians II, 6, that He was "in the form of God." But God, of course, has no "form." The Greek for "in the form of" is "en morphe," meaning, "the impression made by a person or thing on the vision or senses." Men did not "see" Christ. We do not see, feel, hear, taste, or smell anything; we receive sense impressions of mental conceptions, or misconceptions, of spiritual ideas.

Those who saw the Lord Jesus Christ received a visual (and intuitional) impression of God, Spirit; which is why Jesus said "he that hath seen Me hath seen the Father."



Vital Considerations.

Man's idea of himself as material, weak, sick, sinful and limited (and his animal failings derive therefrom) is man's mistaken conception due to consciousness underdeveloped. God's idea of man is perfect—"made in His image and likeness."

There is only One Source of healing or health. ALL healing is of the Spirit, and comes from within. Usually, indwelling Spirit will make us well, when we stop making ourselves ill. This Natural healing process, universally operating, is fortified strongly by faith—confidence, that is, in wholeness (the inward reality actually existing) ; and faith is steeply increased by developing consciousness of our continuity with the One Divine Source of ALL GOOD.

Grains of dry sand thinly spread on a sheet of metal arrange themselves, under the vibratory influence of music nearby, in geometrical patterns. If discords be struck, the pattern becomes confused; to be correctly disposed once more when harmony reigns again.

Matter is Spirit, and thought links the two. Negative thought is the discordant note. (Even disease originating in the physical, through ignorant infraction of Law, is made worse, many-fold, by fear and disease consciousness.) With obedience restored and natural healing efforts cooperated with on the physical plane, re-harmonising the determining thought vibrations through confidence in wholeness MUST re-arrange disordered electrical charges.



Thought forces thus re-harmonised are raised in vibratory rate by growing consciousness, through spiritual meditation, uplifting influence of people of higher understanding, and the direct drawing power of Spirit.

Wrong appearances or manifestations, in self or surroundings, must be due to a mistaken impression of things as they really are:

"and God SAW everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very GOOD."

Genesis I, 31.

What is needed is to identify the error, and correct the wrong impression by knowing and so "seeing" the Truth.

The physical-minded hope for improvement first, before reversing the destructive thoughts responsible for their miseries. But "the just shall live by faith," not by sight.

Perceiving the self-evident folly of holding between Spirit and matter the kind of thought inevitably materialising sickness and poverty, and realising our identity and heritage as perfect spiritual beings, the greatest service we can render (given repentance, obedience, and co-

operation), must be, by clear inner perception, to hold the hesitant on truth's "ultra-violet," fine-vibrational, carrier wave of love, and faith. Our task, to the degree of sensitivity, receptivity, and response of our "wireless instrument," is to mediate and instruct.

"Greater Things than These."

Man's materialising mechanism is clumsy and crude in the lower "times"; but as sensitivity evolves and consciousness unfolds he gradually transcends material limitation of any kind. Man makes (and bakes), by the sweat of his brow. But methods evolve, as response to Spirit increases and grasp of the Law improves. Ultimately, stones may be made bread, or two loaves a thousand, as understanding develops.

The Lord Jesus, by the power of thought, could materialise His supply direct from invisible Spirit. He could see or heal at any distance. He could walk on the water; and raise or subdue a storm. He could lower or raise His own vibratory rate at will, and appear or vanish from sight as He pleased. Walls could not contain nor death hold dominion over Him. But whatever He thought or did was always in perfect submission of self to the "Father Within."

But remember the Law, which Christ Himself said He came to fulfil, not to destroy. Spirit has no means of expression, except through the Law. Spirit cannot express successfully in defiance of His own Law— His own safeguards of well-being! The Law is inviolable, and spiritual beings, though no longer in bondage thereto, are still under the Law.

But inexorable as is the Law, salvation (well-being) cannot come by the Law, which fails owing to the weakness of the flesh. Right thinking, right feeding; and right acting, while conducive to higher development, do not necessarily ensure it. Redemption is of the Spirit; and expresses as obedience to the Law.

Power Unlimited.

Electrical energy, for all practical purposes unlimited, is carried in wires outside our homes. Inside are lamps, radio, heaters, cleaners and cookers; but if we are ignorant of or misapply the laws which govern its use, instead of light, music, comfort, and food, the power may produce fires and shocks.

So too with our bodies; they are actually composed of, not merely surrounded by spiritual electrical Energy, potentially unlimited. But, exactly as with its lower vibratory homologue, unless we learn and obey the laws which govern right functioning, in place of health, happiness, safety and prosperity—poverty, disease, disaster and death will result.

In neither case is the power at fault. The power is impersonal. Evil is mostly man-made; and can only be man unmade, and then only in perfect accord with Infinite Spirit AND Law.

The limitless secrets of immeasurable Wisdom, Knowledge, and Understanding are progressively revealed to responsive, polarised man through spiritual intuition.

The Justification for Faith.

FEAR is the GREAT cause of disease. Not necessarily fear of anything in particular; just sheer LACK OF CONFIDENCE—settled belief in present or impending mischance.

The one blazing vindication of faith is—IT WORKS! Realising, BY FAITH to begin with, that God is not an individual who lives in the sky, nor yet in some far-away place, called Heaven, that God is everywhere present around and within, that God IS what Christ showed Him to be, that He can and does, to the degree of our response, actually, from within, order our lives for us with infinite wisdom and absolute dependability, ALL FEAR IS BANISHED FOR EVER.

Never again for the rest of eternity need we have one least fleeting qualm. Henceforth, given willingness and co-operation, HE WILL increasingly LIVE HIS LIFE in our thoughts and actions.

There is no such thing as death. Life cannot be destroyed. Its "form" may be changed. But life is eternal—"the gift of God is eternal life"— and the change we call death is merely the somewhat clumsy procedure whereby we enter the next stage of our endless God-guided unfoldment. Deepening consciousness brings realisation that the "Kingdom of Heaven IS at hand." We may dwell there now, and continue our sojourn to the end of unending time with the Spirit of GOOD and His Christ. Thus the best of our life is still to come; and, what is more, THAT WILL ALWAYS BE TRUE.

"Christ in You, the Hope of Glory."

"In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him Who loved us."

You who are sick! Can you be persuaded, NOW, once and for all to drop EVERY fear and wrong thought—all stubborn clinging to belief in the reality and power of disease; in the ability of the material appearances you have created, to dominate the power that created and is maintaining them?

Disease, crime, poverty, are mostly bad habits of mind. The misery arising therefrom can't be got rid of without giving up their cause. If we want Disease to go out of our bodies, or circumstances, we MUST let the thought of or belief in Disease go out of our minds.

GOD IS REAL. PUT HIM TO THE TEST. ACCEPT His assurance. How can we expect to receive that which we do not or will not accept? In Spirit (and therefore in reality), perfection, health, goodness, prosperity, are our true condition NOW. There is nothing that is not GOD! How may that statement be proved?—By taking GOOD for granted, now, henceforth, and for ever: THAT, TOO, IS FAITH IN ACTION.

A small effort of will is required to take the first step: finally to abandon the mulish wrong habit of mind: to "snap out" of that selfish practice of fear, disease, or self-pity. But the reward is commonly so out

of all proportion to the smallness of the contribution demanded, that most are fools to be sick.

Are you willing to be made whole? Then PROVE IT, in the only way possible: by ceasing to make yourself ill!

Do you believe? In Whom; or in what? In GOOD; or in ill? Lord, help thou our unbelief!

Instead of being everlastingly wrapped up in ourselves, and whining about our hard luck, shall we make up our minds to contribute to the sum total of happiness and love by, continually, giving these out? That's how we get them in!

FAITH, REPENTANCE, AND OBEDIENCE. Too high a price? We shall find the cost is only that which was formerly spoiling our life.

So plug in! Switch on! THE POWER IS THERE. But make certain that you have truly let go that last scrap of selfishness, doubt, or wrong thought, at the very back of your mind. (If there's the tiniest doubt or misgiving, then, actually, the thought is unchanged.)

STOP FIGHTING. GIVE IN, NOW! "LET GO, AND LET GOD." And trust HIM, utterly and for ever. But see that, henceforth, we walk, with all the zeal we can summon, the way of the Spirit. Climb; even tho' we slip.



SEEK, FIRST, the Kingdom of GOOD, and His Right-use-ness; everything else (given obedience to the Law) just naturally falls into place.

"Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, BE STRONG."

1 Corinthians XVI, 13.

"WE AND OUR FATHER ARE ONE."

III.  Higher Healing Resources

"Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.”

Jeremiah XXXIII, 6.

Absent Treatment.

Thought transference is an established fact; and in those of high receptivity exerts a potent effect. It is one of the latent resources.



Dense physical texture, negative bias, gross defilement, enfeebled heredity, reduce response.

Thought transference, being a vibrational force, operates best by contact; hence the laying on of hands. Virtue comes through the healer, not the device. But Spirit knows limitation neither of time nor space; and distance is no bar to His working.

Concentration in higher consciousness upon any in need, however far distant, has produced phenomena too familiar to need reiteration. Because of the unity of Spirit, most spiritual-mental methods profitable when sufferers are present, are equally efficacious, quite frequently more so, at a distance. Given co-operation, results are often most gratifying; even without their knowledge, continually holding an individual in the thought of wholeness and spiritual perfection, giving whole-hearted thanks for deliverance, protection, provision, health, already existing, secures their fulfilment. Man cannot receive (or invent), what does not already exist; the only difficulty is in letting consciousness dawn, of that which, within, is already complete. Where the necessitous one's vision is holden, we can "see" for him.

Whether through contact or at a distance, perfect realisation of harmony in the Absolute will manifest in its relative expression; and in those sufficiently evolved expresses as miracle.

Prayer.

Mild surprise is excusable at widespread persistence in supplication for assorted benefits which never materialise. Surface, unthinking pietism, invariably one hundred per cent unproductive, should be hard to defend! But men are not taught to think: they are carefully taught not to think. Not one in a thousand has ever attempted the feat.

Prayer, in the still generally-accepted sense, for the sick, may make them much worse. To hold thoughts of pain and disease about people is sending destructive vibration. Fortunately, those who "pray" thus do not use their mental utensil; and prattling pious good wishes has little effect either way.

Do not pray and pray for a God some look upon, mistakenly, as outside of and separate from ourselves, to relent and reluctantly grant that which, by His Spirit, the Christ within, He is striving His utmost to have us accept.

To a great extent man answers his prayers himself. Prayer is concentration. Prayer is dominant desire, often disguised. But beware the thought or belief deeper down, for, GOOD, BAD, INDIFFERENT, DESIRED, OR FEARED, the idea or impression at the back of our minds will materialise; and not, unless closely identified with it, the more superficial wish many miscall prayer.

TRUE PRAYER IS BRINGING DESIRE INTO CONFORMITY WITH THE DIVINE PURPOSE AND WILL.

"Before they call, I will answer."



Isaiah LXV, 24.

True prayer is receptivity—"picking up," "boosting," and "rebroadcasting," the wireless of the Spiritual Kingdom. Hence the compelling necessity of co-operating to increase sensitivity.

Prayer is a mighty force, perhaps the greatest we have. Rightly understood, it can effect the greatest good; but wrongly applied is capable of almost infinite harm. Any thought strongly and tenaciously held tends to materialise; and, great as is this power, the effect of the spoken word is greater still; sung, it is greatest of all.

For eleven years J. M. had been unemployed and was unemployable on account of "Asthma." The last time he left hospital, the Medical Superintendent said to him: "J., there's always a bed for you if you have to come back; but if the man is living that can ever really do anything for you, I'll agree it's a miracle!"

For weary months this case was laboured upon. Persistently encouraged, in face of almost every conceivable discouragement (much of it deliberate), J. did his best. He gave up poisoning himself with tobacco and alcohol; he subsisted on a tightly restricted diet; he underwent fasts; he exercised, perseveringly; and learned how to breathe. For several months, progress was disappointingly slow. Then he began to improve more quickly.

After a year and a half he was well enough to make a start with some work; and the problem of finding a job presented itself. It was solved by PRAYER—in this way:

His wife, a sincere church goer, was asked: "Mrs. M., why don't you get your husband a job?"

"How do you mean," she queried. "Prayer?" "Of course!" was the reply. "But, Doctor," she objected. "I've prayed every night for over twelve years!" "What! . . . Well, no wonder he's been sick! You can't know much about prayer! . . . What do you do when you pray?"

"I kneel down, and ask God to cure J., and find him a job."

"Excellent! But . . . what thought is in your mind while you do that?”

"Why, the thought that I want him well, and in work."

"Yes," was agreed, "that, no doubt, is the thought in the front of your mind. But think a minute—what is the real thought, right at the very back of your mind?"



The real thought was not so very far back after all, for almost at once Mrs. M. burst out:

"What would be the thought at the back of my mind, with my husband tortured almost to death, and the children half starved, and the rent owing, and no clothes to our backs. . ."

"That" (very gently), "is exactly the point, Mrs. M.! It isn't what we say, with our superficial mind, to something or someone we conceive of, mistakenly, as outside of and separate from ourselves, whom we call ‘God', that will come to us; but, because we are spiritual beings, part of and continuous with Omnipresent, Creative Spirit, and the creative instrument is Mind, the thought we hold at the back of our minds will tend to materialise.

"To-night, and in future, will you, please, pray again? —but differently. You may kneel, if you like; it isn't necessary, but, since we are in His Presence, it is good manners. You will 'ask' for nothing. But, realising His Presence and Nature—as shown by Christ—you will accept, with grateful and radiant certainty, His provision already made. Then, knowing by faith that (Spirit being real), such provision is an actual, already existing fact, you will exultingly look for its materialisation. If you hear the postman . . . run to the door . . . he may have news of the job. If anyone knocks . . . race to see who it is . . . he has probably come to engage your J."

Beginning to grasp, at length, what was required, Mrs. M. promised to do as directed.



Eight days later J. rang up, his voice a-quiver with emotion: "Doctor," he managed to stammer out, "I've got my old job back, in the service!" And he has been in it now for nearly three years.

"Is my ear heavy that it cannot hear; or my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?"

Never give in! And never give way to weakness. God's POWER does work through human FAITH. Faith, qualified by doubt, misgiving, or unbelief, is fear; but fear, qualified by belief, is FAITH. Either is almost certain to be interpreted, correspondingly, in this physical seeming environment.

"To him that believeth, all things are possible."

Mark IX, 23.

Mediation.

Discerning compassion, Divine Love, and faith are of the very substance of wholeness. So bring them to bear. Deny, with unwavering intensity of instructed enlightened conviction, all power or reality in outward apparent disharmonies. Affirm, with exalted thanksgiving, the inward perfection. Inspire trust. Re-assure. Instil conviction of Truth. In high consciousness, speak the word of authority!



Do these persistently. Get others to help—the more batteries in circuit the mightier the Power. Teams must be formed to work in this field. Many already exist, and great victories are won.

Patience, firmness, discretion and tact will be called for to wean from deep-rooted fears and stubborn beliefs those struggling in their earlier "times." But suffering is the refiner's fire, and God and Nature are on our side.

IV.  Divine Healing

It is recorded that, when the Divine, Healing, Health-radiating, Vital, Loving, Life Spirit was perfectly incarnate in the Lord Jesus Christ, "great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them all."

They received their healing on three conditions:

They came to Him for it. There is not one instance on record of any "incurable" sufferer being healed who did not come to Him for it, either themselves or by proxy.

They accepted His healing, by faith, when He gave it them; thenceforward acting on the assumption of wholeness.

They were to go and sin no more. The ingenuousness must surely be selfevident of expecting Divine Spirit to heal, while we continue thinking, eating, or doing the things that make people ill.

No other conditions were imposed. The Divine Indwelling Spirit did not enquire, or care, to what religious or political beliefs they subscribed, or whether they had any or none. Faith and obedience were all that was asked. And the Universal Spirit that healed of old is the same that heals today. "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and for ever."

Spiritual Subterfuge.

"All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye have received them and ye shall have them."

Mark XI, 24.

So taught "the man, Christ Jesus"; and, in so teaching, resorted to subterfuge. Those with whom He had to do knew nought of the workings of mind, and wot not that Spirit existed. So His problem was to inveigle infantile consciousness into productive mental alignment.

To believe we have received is to believe we already have. For example: to believe we have received and therefore already have good health is to know ourselves well and whole. Exultingly to hold in mind the unqualified assurance of already existing perfection, is to set the mental creative thought forces developing it outwardly.



Note that the Lord Jesus did not say when we should have! And so our Lord persuaded apprehension into knowing the truth; and the Truth then, as now, set men free.

He transcendently appraised what is hidden from human eyes—the Oneness of Spirit and the inborn perfection of man's true Spiritual SELF. So ineffable was His consciousness of identity with the Life Spirit, the Father, the Christ within, that He was able to raise the awareness of others into the realm of absolute truth, which was instantly manifest.

What He did, we in degree can do; and what His Spirit achieved in those days, is achieved in measure, today.

The Real Objective.

Since defective spiritual response is the ultimate root of all ill, our true objective must be to help others as well as ourselves to better relationship with the Spirit of "Wholiness" within. Healing will naturally ensue, when relationship is adequate.

Latent within are unlimited Power—Spirit, and the creative instrument —Thought. We may do with them much what we please. Consciousness shades off through the sub- conscious to unity with all mind. And so, veiled but expectant within, are all wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, and the record of every event, past and to come. Limit,

there is none; save such as is set by carnal or mental restriction. We are our consciousness.

PERSEVERING OBEDIENCE, HOLY ASPIRATION, and SILENT MEDITATION, will enable us to become the greater servant.

Ask, seek, knock. Deny oneself, take up one's cross, and follow HIM— CHRIST, the SPIRIT OF GOD in relation to human consciousness.

10.  Illustrative Examples

1. T. J. is a butcher, 65 years of age, pale, flabby, and out of condition. At 4 a.m. one Friday he ran a skewer into his hand. Thirty hours later, hand and arm were swollen to double their size, with livid streaks back and front. Glands at elbow and armpit were tender and swollen; with temperature over 103.

Acute blood poisoning? Certainly. Caused by germs? Certainly. But once again, it isn't the germs that matter but that upon which they prey.

So T. J. was sent home thus to carry out detoxication, as thus:

No food whatever, on peril of his life. Plenty of water with orange juice.

As large an enema as possible, immediately; another that evening. An heroic dose of salts in the morning, followed by another enema.

The patient to rest, hand raised, with cold packs to his arm.

Twenty-four hours later all inflammation had gone; and the following day he returned to his work. Those who have seen doctors "fighting

germs" under similar circumstances will appreciate.

2. Mrs. S. was in bed. Her heart was bad. Two highly competent medical men said her goitre was the cause of the trouble; and the only hope of recovery was operation. Incidentally, though she had been operated upon no less than five times previously for various symptoms, she was still waiting in vain to enjoy good health—not unnaturally, since she continued to live unhealthily.

Searching in the sufferer's mind and her manner of living for the true cause, a violent and consuming resentment was unearthed; while the physical toxaemia consequent upon long-continued over-indulgence in denatured foods, and insufficient outdoor exercise, was obvious.

Mrs. S. is a very fine type. She readily replaced her not unnatural resentment with generous feelings and love; and a fast of nine days was succeeded by another, self-inflicted, on water almost exclusively, of thirty-two days. The goitre gradually disappeared. The heart completely recovered. And today, four years later, Mrs. S. gives authority for stating that she is in better health than ever. The cost was three pounds.

3. Miss S. is 26 years of age. She had recently left hospital, where her appendix and gall-bladder were removed. It was not long before she was admitted again with acute middle-ear suppuration, for which her ear drums were perforated; and she was threatened with the "radical mastoid operation."

Previously she had undergone a double antrum operation four times; and had had her tonsils removed no less than eight times. Her medical adviser, noting her biting her nails, said she was highly strung, and prescribed stout and cigarettes to "steady her nerves."

4. A man complained of his health slipping. His advisers, after the usual fruitless search, in his body, for the cause, told him he was run down, and gave him a "tonic."

This made him worse.

Inquiry disclosed that he had existed on boarding house diet for eight years; and recently, with the object of bettering his position, had been in the habit of studying till late at night.

To pick himself up, he had taken two patent drug "remedies." These, for a while, had seemed to do good. But only for a while.

Unaware, like all orthodox medical men, of the nature and real causes of ill-health, his doctor had prescribed a "tonic" which consisted of:

Bromide, Strychnine, Arsenic, Chloroform, and Luminal. Five deadly poisons, which the victim was expected to swallow to "cure" the effects of overwork, bad food, and drug poisoning. [Most of the current prescription drugs in use today are considered safe and effective of course!, S.A.H.B.]

5. Twelve months ago, Mrs. K. had a "collapse" (due to an emotional upset). Since then, she has drunk ninety-two bottles of "medicine" at 5/6 each. This is not nearly a record. Fear and resentment were written all over her; but half an hour's reasoning sufficed to induce a changed outlook.

6. D. T. had a discharging malodorous cancer on his back. It had twice been treated with radium; and he was now told that "nothing more could be done."

Four months on an eliminating dietary, suitable Herbal remedies, and two consultations, completely healed the cancer; and D. T. is back in his job.

7. Recalling the premise that, whatever our symptoms may be, the cause will almost always be found under one or other or both of two primary headings, the case of E. S. is instructive.

E. S. is a young farmer. A few months ago, a long period of increasing digestive disorder culminated in severe abdominal pain, sleeplessness, and nervous prostration.

True to form, his advisers sought in his body for the cause of his troubles. They did not find it. But after eleven guineas' worth of XRays, they discovered a gastric ulcer or imagined they did), which they said was the cause. An operation, they said, was the only cure.

Applying the tests of our premise, it was found that E. S.'s breakfast consisted of porridge, chop or steak and two eggs, sauce, white toast, marmalade, and tea. Lunch: cold meat, pickles in quantity, white bread and butter, and more tea. Dinner, he "did himself proud": roast, potatoes and vegetables, with starchy puddings, much sugar and cream, and tea. In addition, he had morning and afternoon tea, with toast, hot scones, or cake; and supper of tea and biscuit and cake. He bolted his meals, and lived in a frenzy of anxiety and overwork. AND, he smoked twelve ounces of tobacco a week.

A tentative suggestion that the above might possibly have some bearing, brought almost instant enlightenment. With good humoured contrition, he admitted that ignorance and gluttony were the real cause of his misery. The ulcer was one result.

He loyally co-operated; and revision of outlook, diet, habits, and tobacco consumption, produced an astonishingly rapid, and permanent, recovery.

His X-Ray "examination" was completely unnecessary, as ninety per cent of them are [The situation is no better in the current era with MRI imaging, etc, S.A.H.B.]; and the few shillings his common-sense "treatment" cost, were made good many times over in reduced expenditure on tobacco and food.

8. Mrs. N. was three months pregnant. For two months she had been troubled with vomiting, which had become worse, and worse, and worse, until finally she could not keep down even a sip of water. She had lost two and a half stone in weight. "Hyperemesis gravidarum" is the orthodox cognomen for this mild subconscious aberration.



Half an hour's "positive superimposure" enabled this young mother to eat, the same evening, a supper of hot buttered toast, crayfish, and mashed bananas and cream.

In a letter received two days later, the "patient" stated that her "stomach had completely settled down, and all that was left was a little soreness, which she supposed she must expect after two months' incessant vomiting."

The cause, was a subconscious expectation of sickness, associated in so many minds with pregnancy. Fulfilled, the expectation became foreboding; then fear; then panic, self-pity, and absolute conviction. All that was necessary was to restore confidence in wholeness—which, after all, was only the truth.

Many disordered conditions are due to a mistaken belief in the subconscious mind; and, often, considerable ingenuity will have to be displayed in outwitting the patient's misguided critical faculty.

9. An emotional young lady of nineteen summers had been "treated" for "colitis." That is to say her diet had been carefully deprived of the vitamins and minerals, lack of which is so often a causative factor; while she was being "treated" with poisonous vaccines and drugs. After ten months she was informed by two orthodox doctors and a "specialist" that "nothing more could be done," and that there was absolutely no hope. There isn't, with methods like that. The strongest could not withstand such assaults.



However, six months on unrefined foods, plus a determined healthconsciousness, restored her completely to health.

10. Mrs. R. was sixty-eight. She had gall-stones; and her heart was too bad to allow operation. She was placed in the care of a nurse who has made Nature Cure methods a study. After six weeks on an eliminating dietary, an acute reaction, or "healing crisis" occurred. She was very ill indeed for some days with purging and vomiting. During this period she passed over seven hundred stones.

Seen three months later—for the first time—the lady gave every appearance of very good health.

11. J. J. was diagnosed with "chronic Bright's disease" (an older classification of nephritis or kidney inflammation), and had been told by specialists that he was a "spent force" and that "nothing could be done for him." But in the sixth week after adopting Nature Cure foods he duly staged the predicted "crisis." He became suddenly very ill, and was in considerable pain. He fasted—was far too ill to do otherwise— and began to pass small stones from his waterworks. He got rid of a handful. Six weeks later another "attack" occurred, during which he passed another half handful, including one large one. Following this, his health steadily improved. Seen, for only the second time, after a lapse of seven months, his blood pressure which had been 265, had fallen to 132; and today J. J. is a very active and dynamic force indeed, and likely to remain so for long years to come.

12. A. B. was twenty-three. He was committed to an asylum through losing his grip when his brother died. This was the precipitating, but not the primary cause.

Deterioration was rapid. Brought home twelve months later to die, he was reduced to a skeleton, pale as a ghost, poisoned to death, besprinkled with sores, and not one rational chink of approach remained to the shattered mentality of a now gibbering lunatic.

But "God's Power works through our faith"; and it is "patients who have to be healed, not disease."

An eliminating dietary of milk alone, first, then milk, fruit and vegetables, was adopted. Daily large enemas were administered. And faith, looking past the outward appearance, steadfastly held to the Truth of inward perfection.

The sufferer's subconscious mind was continuously impressed, direct, by the word of authority; and his belief in abnormality was unwaveringly combated.

Improvement was slow to begin with, and fluctuated for a time. But, eight months later, a gain of two and a half stone in weight, and mental grip completely regained, attested the worth of faith and obedience. And the fine soul mainly responsible is laughed at because she is "unqualified."

The cause of the boy's trouble?:—Wrong thinking, wrong feeding, and wrong habits. Fear of the consequences of sex perversion by one in a post of trust; food poisoning, due to ignorance and indifference—made much worse in "hospital"; and constipation.

13 Mrs. P., seventy-four years old, was in a parlous condition of physical ill-health and mental depression. She had swallowed enough "medicines" to stock a small shop; and, after much expensive "treatment," had been told "nothing further could be done."

The true cause of her plight—her aged husband was fretting out the evening of his days in an asylum.

Pathos made compassion easy; a little comfort, teaching, and love, met with ready response and wrought a complete change in mental outlook. Transformation duly followed; and a year later she wrote:

The neighbours marvel as I go swinging by up the hill. I never have ache nor pain; and how thankful I am to God, as I contrast my singing heart of today with my tear-stained pillow of a year ago.

When a doctor says "Nothing can be done for you," bear in mind that his opinion is probably based upon a wrong premise. Many a patient has been cured by Nature after being told that.

You may be unlucky when a doctor says he cannot do anything for you; but it is when he says he can that it is wise to beware.



Many hundreds of examples could be appended; but (by way of tempering unphilosophical optimism), think upon Lindlahr's dictum:

Though there are no diseases that are incurable, there are many patients who are.

Life has its cosmic dependency; and cosmic vibrational polarization is sometimes hereditarily (and for other reasons) so weak as to make metabolism, even with best thought and intent, subnormal or physically inefficient.

"In the case of those unfortunates who are totally or partially incapacitated for life, due to organic, muscular, bone or neural, permanent deficiency or deformity, the true physician can often do much, in the realms of mind and spirit, to develop and relieve; for spiritual evolution is not necessarily delayed or defeated by physical defect; it is, in fact, often intensified through physical restriction permitting and even enforcing greater concentration upon higher spiritual-mental opportunities. "Acceleration of the present epoch—in life speed and greater sensitivity DEMANDS that the more sensitive type now rapidly evolving shall be extra careful in outlook and habit." (L. E. B.)

In canvassing the probable reaction of his colleagues to some of the statements above, the author anticipates a shock to some, a protest from a few, but, dawning on the countenance of the great majority comprising those most worth while, a dry grin matching the twinkle in

his own eye as he envisages a change of ground to include in our armamentarium much that will immensely enhance its effectiveness.

11.  The Healing Spirit Made Manifest

"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being IN THE FORM OF GOD, thought it not robbery to be equal with God."

Philippians II, 5 & 6.

A little over nineteen hundred years ago there came to this earth One in Whom was perfectly individualised and incarnate the attributes and resources of the Divine Creative Life Spirit.

The Lord Jesus Christ made the supreme sacrifice of coming down from His high estate to a world He knew would reject Him and despise His message, in order to show by His life and teaching the relationship between Spirit and Flesh—the Nature of God, and some of the possibilities of man. Having triumphed finally over the weaknesses, failings, and limitations of the human physical nature, the Light of Truth was able to shine in Him in its fullness.

When the time came to begin His task, He had to decide how best to convince the people of His Divine identity. Thrusting aside human promptings, He saw it could be done in only one way:—

By subordinating His individuality to Universal Spirit the Father, God— so completely that the Father's will and purpose might find perfect expression through His individuality.

And so He was able to live without blemish; and went about healing, and teaching, and doing good.

But though He was the very Spirit of Love, He was no weak sentimentalist. While He never resented the vicious threats to Himself, and valued Truth far above physical life, He never failed to challenge and denounce hypocrisy and exploitation by the orthodox pundits of His day. None who read Matthew XXIII can ever forget His blistering invective.

His indignation ever flamed against all who abused their authority to blind the people and batten on their miseries. And how they hated Him for it!

"And the scribes and chief priests sought how they might destroy Him, for they feared Him; because all the people were astonished at His doctrine."

Mark XI, 18.

Contemplating the doings of the money sharks in the temple, rising anger busied itself toying with a piece of cord. Seeing that His hands

had subconsciously fashioned a whip, cold fury leaped into deadly action, and lashed avaricious shanks. . . .

"And when He had made a scourge of small cords, He drove them all out of the temple, and poured out the changers' money; and overthrew the tables.

"And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

"And the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them.

"And when the chief priests saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David, they were sore displeased. And said unto Him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus said unto them, Yea: have ye never read, Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?"

These cruel tyrants, too cowardly to attack in the open, incited the people He came to save, to do their fell work. Forsaken by His friends, betrayed, cursed, reviled, hated, and spat upon, tortured, and doomed to a felon's death, never for an instant did His serenity falter, save when, momentarily, on the cross, He was overwhelmed by the black abyss of human antagonism.

But the Light of Love broke through, transfiguring and eternal, and the triumph of GOOD was writ for all time .. . in letters of blood.

Are we to suppose that HE who went through so much for our sakes has forgotten "His friends"? I trow not.

HE—the very Spirit of comradeship and good fellowship, of compassion and tenderness, of wit and good humour, of fierce loyalty and utter dependability: merry or sad, grieved or gay, the very incarnate soul of wisdom, knowledge, understanding and love—forget us? ... ears attuned may still hear His voice. . . .

"Not every one that saith unto ME, Lord, Lord, shall enter the Kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me. "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in His love. "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

"He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do. . . ."

"I AM WITH YOU ALWAY, EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD."



We who want to help, in this great Japhetic Epoch or Gentile "world" crisis, must reflect upon His way of facing a similar state of affairs in the corresponding Hebrew or Semitic Epoch of nineteen hundred years ago.

And so, if we deny ourself, take up our "cross," and walk with Him, the Father's will and purpose may find expression, in increasing measure, through our individuality also, each in his own particular sphere.

12.  The Standard Diet

If it be true that mind and body are profoundly influenced by what we think, it is no less true that body and mind are greatly affected by what, when, and how we eat.

Gross feeding makes gross people; progressive nicety and simplification in eating cleanses the body, and lightens texture, so increasing spiritual sensitivity. And the more Spiritual we become, the less and the lighter the food we need. With many, eating is mostly another bad habit of mind!

The assorted appetites may be regarded as scratching posts for sharpening our spiritual claws. Where there is positive there is also negative. How should we develop self-control, or any other of the higher attributes, if there were no opportunity for practising them? We learn to master temptation by rightly exercising free will. Right feeding is both consequent upon, and conducive to, higher unfoldment.

In order to avoid long and possibly confusing explanations, which may be studied in works devoted specially to diet, the meals have been set out in such a way as to make suitable combination of foods automatic if directions are obeyed.

The writer desires to acknowledge his great debt to those of the Nature Cure School, in all countries, who for long years have battled for truth

against a weight of ignorance, apathy, and antagonism, that have daunted and still daunt too many.

Rules of Eating.

EAT ONLY WHEN HUNGRY. Never eat simply because it is meal time. If you don’t feel genuinely hungry for a meal, MISS IT OUT.

EAT NO REFINED FOODS.

EAT SLOWLY. Chew thoroughly; specially starchy foods. See that teeth are adequate.

NEVER OVEREAT. Overeating is taking any food not actually needed by the body; and is one of the most prolific of all causes of disease.

NEVER EAT BETWEEN MEALS.

DON'T DRINK WITH MEALS. If thirsty, drink half an hour before, or two hours after meals.

ENSURE QUIET, BOTH OF BODY AND MIND. DIGESTION IS INTERFERED WITH BY ACTIVITY OF EITHER. [No doubt that Dr

Williams would have been horrified by the concept of 'takeaways' and food on the go, S.A.H.B.]



Breakfast.

Fruit is recommended for breakfast not for its food value so much as for its vitamins and neutralising alkalinising qualities. Two kinds of fresh fruit, with one sweet dried fruit, such as dates, prunes, figs, raisins, are advised. A few nuts may be eaten as well if liked. A cup of milk may also be taken, to be SIPPED SLOWLY; but it is not necessary unless heavy manual labour is your lot. In winter the milk may be made into cocoa, or coffee substitute drink.

Occasionally for variety, stewed fresh fruit, or dried fruits, soaked for 24 hours, then raised to a convenient temperature, may be taken with milk.

Children should have milk raw, never boiled, every day.

For those who, owing to the exploitation practised under the iniquitous economic system, cannot afford the luxury of fruit, the best substitute is porridge made from coarse unrefined wheatmeal or oatmeal, and milk. On a specially cold day, it may be served once in a while instead of fruit, for all.

Do not fear under-feeding. Two meals a day have been proved sufficient. Even children are better on two meals a day than three.

Lunch.

At this meal uncooked vegetables of all kinds should form the principal part. There is no need to keep to the general idea of salads; use your ingenuity. Recipes for salads will be found in the book, but these need not limit originality. Besides lettuce, tomatoes, celery, radishes, etc., raw shredded heart of cabbage is often used; or spinach cut finely, as well as silver beet leaves, or dandelion. All the root vegetables should be used frequently. They should be well scrubbed (not peeled or even scraped), finely shredded, and eaten raw. Use shredded carrot, turnip, swede, beetroot, and apple—in fact, any edible vegetable in any combination. They are rich in vitamin and mineral salts, and should be largely used for their purifying properties. A little grated cheese, or milled nuts, may be mixed with the salad; but on account of their fat and protein content should be used sparingly at this meal. A good nut mill may be obtained for about 3s. 6d. at most ironmongers. [Vintage nut mills can be picked up today from around US$25, S.A.H.B.]

Wholemeal bread or scones, wholemeal toast, rusks, oatcake, rye or whole wheat biscuits form the starchy part of the meal. The temptation to eat too much starch must be watched. The equivalent of from one to three slices of a two-pound loaf is enough.

A potato baked in and eaten with its jacket may be served instead of the cereal food.

Bran biscuits, wholemeal cake (very moderately), butter, and a little honey may be used; and the dried sweet fruits occasionally; but the salad should form the bulk of the meal, and starchy food used in moderation.

Suggestions for Workingmen's Lunches and Picnics.

During the winter any of the soup recipes will make a welcome, warming, and healthful addition to lunch. A cereal drink may be taken for variety. Either of these is easily carried in a thermos flask.

A wholemeal pie filled with any left-over vegetables, and flavoured with a little Marmite and seasoned with sage, mint, mixed herbs, curry powder, etc., is useful.

Cheese pasties, made with wholemeal flour and flavoured with onion, with or without vegetables, are also good. A little ingenuity in planning the household meals will help the housewife in preparing these lunches.

Use raisins, dates, figs, etc., freely; they are great heat and energy givers. A great variety of sandwich fillings can be improvised from raw grated vegetables, cheese, eggs, nuts, dried fruits, and combinations of these with salad dressings and mayonnaise. (See sandwich section.)

In warm weather, instead of using soup, set the vegetables into moulds, which are easily handled and carried. Suitable recipes will be found in this book. Plenty of salads should be used, not necessarily cut. Whole

lettuce leaves, radishes, spring onions, carrots, etc., are easily packed and carried in a screw-topped glass jar.

Dinner.

Meat or fish are best taken only once a week. Men engaged in heavy manual work may take it oftener. Proteins in the form of eggs, cheese, or nuts, will be required in the place of meat, and suitable recipes will be found under the headings of Savoury Meat Substitute, and Egg Dishes. A variety of vegetables should be included at this meal. Always serve at least one green vegetable such as spinach, cabbage, silver beet leaves, turnip tops, string beans, leeks. Root vegetables and onions may be freely used. More sparing use should be made of peas, potatoes, dried beans, split peas, and such, on account of their high starch content. Potatoes should be cooked in, and eaten with their jackets.

All vegetables should be cooked conservatively, or steamed. Cabbage, spinach, etc., should be thoroughly washed, broken into small pieces, put into a saucepan and half to one cup of boiling water added; shake the pan frequently and the greens will cook perfectly, absorbing all, or nearly all of the water. All liquid that is left after cooking any vegetables should be taken either as a drink between meals, or used as the base for gravies or soups. This eliminates the waste of dissolved vegetable salts, purifying juices and food values, inseparable from the old method of cooking. Soda is never used, as it destroys the natural mineral salts. Salt is not used during cooking, but may be added sparingly at table. Do not use vinegar; it is a chemical preservative, not a food. Condiments also are best avoided; they are irritants.

If a pudding be included in the meal, use discrimination as to ingredients. For example, if the first part of the meal contains a substantial meat, or meat substitute dish, it is desirable to serve only a light sweet, such as stewed fruit, baked apple, with or without junket. If the first course has been very light, for example, either stuffed tomatoes, turnips, or onions, cauliflower and cheese sauce, etc., etc., something more substantial may be served: a wholemeal pudding either steamed or baked, or an egg custard.

A little cream is allowed occasionally; but white sugar NEVER. Use raw sugar only; and the less the better.

The use of baking powders, cream of tartar, baking soda, and chemical essences for flavouring is not recommended.

While a number of recipes has been included, which it is hoped will prove useful, there is scope for originality. Provided the general principle be adhered to, a great many of your favourite dishes may be adapted. A diet sheet, showing menus for a week, suitable for any ordinary household is included.

Suggested Diet for One Week.

Begin each day with a large, warm lemon drink. The juice of half a lemon in a large tumblerful of hot water. It is better taken unsweetened, but a little honey may be used if necessary.



1st DAY BREAKFAST: Grape-fruit dressed with honey. Apples, and a few dates. LUNCH: Everyday salad, as in recipe section. Plain Mayonnaise dressing. Wholemeal bread or toast, or scone. Bran biscuit. Butter, cheese, a little honey. Fig meat. DINNER: Vegetable Roast. Onion rings; creamed sprouts; grated carrot, just heated through in oven, not cooked. Stewed raisins, junket, a little cream.

2nd DAY BREAKFAST: Stewed prunes, as many as required and a glass of milk; to be slowly sipped. LUNCH: Lentil Soup. Lettuce and celery. Cheese, butter, honey, bran biscuits, wholemeal toast. DINNER : Onion Soufflé. Cauliflower, mashed parsnips. Baked custard and stewed dried apricots.



3rd DAY BREAKFAST: Oranges and pineapple dressed with honey. Milk; to be sipped slowly after the fruit is eaten. LUNCH: Carrot Au Gratin. Winter salad. Wholemeal cake. Raisins. DINNER: Steamed fish. Marrow savoury, Brussels sprouts, or spinach. Maple walnut sponge.

4th DAY BREAKFAST: Plums if in season, or any fresh fruit. Stewed figs. LUNCH: Combination Salad and dressing of oil and lemon juice. Steamed wholemeal pudding. DINNER: Almond cutlets. French beans. Beetroot in butter. Date custard.

5th DAY

BREAKFAST: Any fresh fruit in season. Junket and cream. LUNCH: Radishes, spring onions, celery, lettuce, cheese, butter, bran biscuits, wholemeal rusks, creamed cucumber. DINNER: Roast lamb; green peas, marrow, string beans. Junket, stewed prunes, cream.

6th DAY BREAKFAST: Melon dressed with a little ground ginger and raw sugar. LUNCH: Baked onion and cheese. Lettuce, etc. Wholemeal bread, cheese, butter, honey. Raisins. DINNER: Cauliflower roast. Grated carrots, Brussels sprouts. Eve's pudding and cream.

7th DAY BREAKFAST: Fruit in season. Milk.

LUNCH: Prize tomato soup. Cauliflower and French bean salad. Toast or rusks, raisin munchers, cheese, etc. DINNER: Breadcrumb and onion omelette with cheese sauce, spinach, mashed parsnip, pumpkin. Dried fruit salad and cream. The Plain Mayonnaise dressing should be used with all the salads.

13.  Dietary Principles For Children

So little do women today esteem the privilege of bringing God's children into the world that amenorrhoea, when not causing panic, ranks high in the list of misfortunes. Small wonder that many modern children, unwanted offspring of lust and nurtured in fear and resentment, having escaped the battery of contraceptives, abortifacients and abortionists professional and otherwise, are born deficient, epileptic, or idiot, with debased or criminal instincts.

The sins of the fathers, too (and mothers), are "visited on the children unto the third and fourth generation (of them that hate ME)."

And if fully grown bodies are susceptible to the influence of negative (and positive) thought forces, even more fruitfully so is the foetus, developing. Fret and fear, resentment and discontent, bitterness and self-pity, laziness and lasciviousness, indulgence and indolence, weakness and vile temper, too often form the thought environment of wanted as well as unwelcome children.

Drink, tobacco, and drug-sodden blood streams, defiled with emotional, food, fatigue, metabolic, and bowel poisons, convey the physical nutriment.

Mentally, morally, and physically, growth and development depend to a great extent upon an adequate supply of vitamins and mineral salts. Deficiency produces defects and deformities. When supplies are

inadequate, Nature attempts to safeguard the infant at the mother's expense. If the mother does not receive enough in her food, the baby will filch his supply from her system. Destruction of teeth, obstinate debility, and premature death are outward evidence of the dangerous decay that results.

Maternal mortality has caused much concern. It need not, because appreciation of the influence of wrong thinking, wrong living, and wrong treatment, will lead to correction; and maternal mortality will then be a thing of the past.

Detailed instructions for infant feeding are not within the scope of this volume. The simpler and more natural the food the better. And the simpler and more natural the parents' mode of life, the more constant and dependable will be the natural supply. Malformations and dysfunctions of the mammary gland are among the penalties of wrong living; and inability to feed an infant on the breast must shortly become a burning disgrace.

Many babies are born overnourished, and need a period of underfeeding to compensate. Never force a baby to feed. Many a mother endures tortures at the hands of an over-zealous nurse, who, regarding the baby as a kind of machine, tries to force into him measured amounts at stated times, with little regard to his need. Many a babe who "won't take the breast," and vociferously resents attempts at compulsion, is far wiser than his supervisors.

DON'T BE AFRAID! There is every reason for confidence. Those who think, eat, and act right have little to fear from disease.



Remember the significance of Acute Illnesses. They are housecleanings; and most of baby's untoward symptoms are explained in this way. Offspring of unhealthy parents are often born poisoned; and detoxication is to be anticipated; and is frequently the explanation of apparently untoward symptoms.

Bear in mind, also, the deleterious effect of poisons, emotional or physical, in the mother's blood. Many an infant's mysterious sickness, and even death, is caused in this way. The destructive effect of Negative Thoughts, of any description, is not confined to our bodies and minds; it poisons the mother's blood; it poisons her milk; but, worse still, it poisons the child's subconscious mind. The children of worrying, peevish, irritable parents are never well; and far too commonly it is the parents of sick children who need treatment, and not their unfortunate progeny.

After birth, as before, the infant, for the first few months, derives his essential vitamins and minerals from his mother. Any shortage will mean bad teeth, brittle bones, defective resistance, and generally impaired development. The mother's responsibility, both ante-natal and during lactation, should surely need no further emphasis.

When the natural supply has to be replaced or supplemented, cow's milk must be used. Ayrshire milk is the best, and Holstein next; because fat content in these is comparatively low, and the curd is soft. Milk with high fat and hard curd may need to be modified. Never cook infant's milk. With a pure supply, which could be easily assured, such folly amounts to a crime; while pasteurisation is a fitting monument to the false god of modern medicine.



Few indeed of the childish ailments and illnesses are unavoidable. They are mostly the direct consequence of Wrong Thinking, Wrong Feeding, and mistakes in general supervision; and are therefore a reflection upon the mother's methods. Chicken-pox, measles, whooping-cough, diphtheria, are not diseases of childhood; they are disorders of ignorance and mismanagement. They are not diseases at all. They are acute illnesses; and therefore reactions, curative in intent, against existing disease. If children were brought up sensibly they would never occur. Nor would "Infantile Paralysis," Tuberculosis, or other evidences of mental and food foolishness.

Immunity from disease is among Nature's rewards for obedience to her Laws. It can be had in no other way. Injection of the filthy products of animal disease into healthy bodies, to keep them well or restore them to health, is not merely self-evident folly—it brings in its train grievous retribution in the shape of dire disease. Skin, blood, and glandular disease, cancer, paralysis and insanity are among the results.

Those who refuse to think or cannot be warned deserve to be penalised. But it is hard on the child.,

Much remains to be done. Better understanding and better cooperation, with adequate education in these vital matters, will progressively raise the standard.

Many adults go through a life-time of misery before they learn selfdiscipline. If the babe is to avoid such experience his training cannot begin too soon. We must control and develop ourselves, by cultivating,

assiduously and eagerly, response to the Source of Life, in order to provide our descendants with the seemliest possible vehicles.

Let the child's thought atmosphere, from before his conception, be a glad nidus of happy assurance, joyous obedience, purity, serenity, and radiant love.

He does not, at first, know the Laws; it is for us to initiate.

Ours is the privilege. He is immensely sensitive to mental influences whether for good or ill. He responds rapidly and progressively to confidence and trust. He opens like a flower to love. He revels in happiness, peace, freedom, sunlight and air. Never over-clothe; the nude is his native state. Accustom him to react to heat and cold—his skin is his natural protector from both. Sunbathe him, naked, for a minute or two at first, and as he grows used to it, for longer periods. Sun-bathing should be done quite early in the morning; it is the light rays, not the heat rays he needs.

Feed wisely; but better ill-feed than spoil. Let him live in the open. Never let him know the smell, even at night, of stale air.

Weaning the Infant.

After the ninth month, or thereabouts, babies, whether fed on bottle or breast, should be introduced to solid food once a day. It should not take the form of anything other than fresh fruit or vegetables.



One of the commonest errors at this stage is to give too much starchy food; and many of the catarrhal conditions and skin eruptions are simply Nature's way of ridding the body of resulting irritant waste. The only starchy food which should be allowed at this time is occasionally a little potato. Babies cared for as recommended exhibit a gratifying freedom from fevers and so-called infective disorders.

Let the child's need be your guide. Resist the temptation in yourself and others to give sweets, cake, or unnecessary food. No one should be permitted to indulge their lack of control at the price of the child's health.

Have no misgivings! Adopt these methods for yourself and your children, and you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you are acting in accord with the findings of the most advanced food scientists all over the world.

Diet for child aged from 9 to 12 months.

Twenty-eight ounces of milk, plus 7 to 8 ounces of water, and 6 to 8 teaspoonsful of sugar of milk, should be the total of 4 feeds, to be given in one day.

The milk should be increased gradually, until at 12 months 32 ounces of raw, unpasteurised cow's milk is being taken throughout the day, the 7 to 8 ounces of water having been gradually decreased, until at the twelfth month, the 32 ounces of undiluted, whole milk is being taken.



This is also to be the total of four feeds to be given in one day.

Between meals, throughout the day, give:

Orange juice or carrot juice, for its vitamin and mineral content, to the amount of two to four tablespoons, diluted with a little water.

At the midday meal, as well as the milk, you may give solid food in the form of ONE of the following:

Raw grated apple or pear. See that the fruit is fully matured and sweet. Use the skin also—very finely grated.

Strained tomato pulp—see also that the tomatoes are ripe and in good condition.

Very finely grated raw carrot; scrubbed—not peeled.

Steamed spinach, put through a fine sieve.

The floury pulp of ½ a potato, baked in its jacket.



A tablespoonful of any one of these suggestions is sufficient.

A twice-baked wholemeal crust, or rusk, on which to exercise the gums, may also be given—not for its food value, but for the help it will be to gums and teeth.

Thus, from 9 to 12 months the child will have four meals a day—three meals of plain milk, and one of milk with the addition of one or other of the suggestions given above.

Young children are better without the cereal starches so frequently advised at this time. Barley jelly, cornflour, porridge, bread and milk, mutton broth, and so on are far better left alone.

From 15 to 18 months.

A balanced dietary would now be three meals a day, mainly of milk, in much the same quantity, or a little more if the child shows a need for it, with two tablespoonful of either the fruit or vegetable suggestions given previously.

Additionally, at the evening meal, a little wholemeal bread and butter, or wholemeal toast and butter, with either a little Marmite or honey, or occasionally a little soaked dried fruit—raisins, figs, or prunes (soaked for 24 hours)—minced, and put through a sieve, is permissible.



Occasionally half a dozen dates, steamed slowly in a little milk, for a few minutes, mashed down, make a palatable spread for bread and butter; but use these dried fruits sparingly.

Later, Weet-Bix, or a similar whole grain preparation may take the place of the wholemeal bread or toast; but see that all starchy foods, all cereals, or flour foods are taken crisp and dry, never soaked in milk or gravy.

From 18 months to 2 years.

BREAKFAST: One kind of fresh fruit using any seasonable variety but not bananas (not cooked, tinned, or preserved fruit) ; and one of the sweet varieties such as a few figs, dates, or raisins.

A cup of milk may be slowly sipped after the fruit is eaten.

NO BREAD, WEET-BIX, etc., at this meal.

DINNER: Various conservatively cooked vegetables, with the addition, two or three times a week, of a small potato, baked or steamed and eaten in its jacket.

On the days when the potato is not used, a little Cottage Cheese, or grated mild cheese may be used in addition to the vegetables.

Occasionally, instead of the cheese or potato, a lightly coddled egg may be used with the vegetables.

As an alternative suggestion, instead of the cooked vegetables, etc., one of the thick vegetable soups with whole, brown, unpolished rice may be used.

TEA: Tomato pulp or grated raw carrot as before, with either Weet-Bix, crisped in the oven and eaten cold, with a little butter, or crisp, cold, wholemeal toast, or twice-baked wholemeal bread.

The carrot, can sometimes be given as sandwiches made with wholemeal bread; and a little finely chopped lettuce and celery or other suitable vegetables may also be used.

A cup of milk may be slowly sipped after the food is eaten.

From 2 to 3½ years.

On waking, the juice of an orange.

BREAKFAST: This meal should be confined mainly to fresh uncooked fruits, with the addition of a little dried fruit and milk. Always see that fruit is ripe, thoroughly washed, and all edible skins eaten. It may be grated to ensure thoroughly mastication.

The milk must always be slowly sipped after the fruit is eaten.

Suggestions:

An orange, an apple, and a few dates, and milk.

Fresh ripe pears, and 3 or 4 figs (cooked or uncooked), and the milk.

Apples, and a dozen raisins or so (cooked or uncooked), and the milk.

Give sufficient of the fruit—mostly fresh—to satisfy hunger.

Occasionally, certainly not more than twice a week, since the object is to keep the starch content of the diet moderate, the child may have ONE of the following:

A little crisp, cold, wholemeal toast, and butter, with either stewed prunes, raisins, or figs; and milk.



Weet-Bix crisped in the oven and eaten cold, with butter and a little honey. (Do not soak the Weet-Bix in milk or other liquid). A small baked apple or a really ripe mashed banana, and milk may complete the meal.

Nothing whatever is to be taken to eat between meals (not even milk, which is a food) ; but as much water may be taken as desired. It may be flavoured with orange, lemon, or grapefruit juice. The vegetable water left over from the cooking of vegetables is an excellent drink between meals.

LUNCH: Always give at least two conservatively cooked vegetables—one green and one root; and a potato, baked or steamed and eaten in its jacket. These may be dressed with a little butter; but not made a sloppy mess with gravy, etc.

Two or three times a week, give, in addition to the vegetables, ONE of the following:

A little finely flaked, steamed fish.

An egg, very lightly boiled, poached, or coddled.

A tablespoonful or so of grated cheese, or Cottage Cheese.



On the days when either fish, or cheese, etc., are taken, the child will not need a second course. When vegetables and potatoes only are given, a cup of milk may be taken; and, if appetite warrants it, either a little fresh or cooked fruit; but NO CEREAL MILK PUDDINGS such as rice, sago, tapioca, macaroni, etc.

Drinks may be given throughput the afternoon if desired, as advised for the morning.

DINNER: Suggestions:

Any of the vegetable soups recommended; but do not use meat stock. After the soup is eaten, give either wholemeal bread and butter with Marmite (the bread must be at least 24 hours old, preferably 48) ; or twice-baked wholemeal bread; or crisp, cold, wholemeal toast; or WeetBix, with butter and Marmite. A cup of milk may be given if appetite warrants it.

Finely shredded lettuce and carrot, and perhaps a little shredded beetroot, or finely chopped celery—in fact, any available salad vegetables. A little grated cheese, or Cottage Cheese may also be given. A potato, or part of a potato, baked or steamed and eaten in its jacket, with a little butter. A cup of milk at this meal also.

Stewed fruit, junket and cream.

A banana, and wholemeal bread and butter; a cup of milk.

Dried fruits, minced if necessary; and if liked, they can be spread on the wholemeal bread and butter. A cup of milk.



Diet from 3½ to 4½ years.

On waking, and at least half an hour before breakfast, the juice of either half a lemon, orange, or grapefruit, in a large cupful of warm water. A little honey may be added for sweetening, if necessary; but no sugar.

OR

Give a cup of water, either hot or cold.

BREAKFAST:

Each of the following suggestions constitutes a meal in itself. Do not mix them, or make any alterations or additions to them. Use the suggestions in rotation.

An orange, or grapefruit (which may be dressed with a little honey or golden syrup, not sugar) ; or mandarins and apple; a few dates, and a cup of milk.

Crisp wholemeal toast, eaten cold, with butter; stewed prunes, raisins, or figs; and a cup of milk.

Fresh ripe pears; three or four uncooked figs; and and cup of milk.

Crisp, cold Weet-Bix with butter; and a really ripe banana.

Baked apple, or apples according to size, stuffed with dates; and some junket. No milk to drink.

Coarse oatmeal or wheatmeal porridge, with milk; and if sweetening is given, use a little honey or golden syrup, not sugar. A few dessert prunes may also be given.

No bread, porridge, or starch (cereal) of any kind is to be given at the meals which contain fresh fruit, i.e. Numbers 1, 3, and 5.

LUNCH: Always give PLENTY of conservatively cooked vegetables as before, using one green leaf variety, and two root kinds.

Every other day, with the vegetables, give ONE of the following:

An egg, lightly boiled, or coddled, or poached, or scrambled.

A little fresh fish, baked, boiled, or steamed. (No tinned or smoked fish).

A helping of Cottage Cheese.

Two or three tablespoonfuls of grated mild cheese.

On the days when either fish, egg, or cheese is given, do not use potatoes. Starches and proteins are best kept apart.

NO made pudding should be given.

Fresh fruit, or cooked fresh fruit may be given for dessert, if appetite warrants it; but no milk puddings, or even milk to drink, are necessary.

On the alternate days to those when the cheese, fish, egg, etc., are taken, give the vegetables as before, with the addition of a potato, baked and eaten in its jacket, dressed with a little butter.



On these days, junket and cooked dried fruit may be given. Do not use steamed puddings or cereal milk puddings meanwhile.

DINNER (or Lunch) : A salad made of shredded lettuce (or, if lettuce is scarce, young raw cabbage, or other greens such as spinach, silverbeet, watercress, etc.), celery, finely grated raw carrot, and a little white turnip and beetroot, and a few raisins. Use a dressing of cream, lemon juice, and honey, but NO VINEGAR, PICKLES, etc.

Cottage Cheese, or finely milled Brazil or freshly shelled walnuts may be given with the salad.

A potato, baked or steamed in its jacket, should also be given with the salad.

When salad vegetables are plentiful, sometimes give uncut lettuce, tomato, celery, radish, etc.

Use the salad or salad vegetables, with cheese, potato, etc. on the days when potato is not given at the dinner meal.

The salad should be used three times a week, at least; and on the alternate days, use one or other of the following suggestions, taking them in rotation:



Vegetable Soup—not meat stock.

After the soup is eaten, but not with it, give either wholemeal bread with butter; or Twice-baked wholemeal bread; or Crisp, cold, wholemeal toast; or Weet-Bix crisped in the oven and eaten cold, with butter and Marmite.

A baked apple may also be taken.

Stewed fruit, junket, and cream. No bread, etc.

A banana, and wholemeal bread and butter; and a cup of milk. A piece of plain wholemeal cake, and one or two bran biscuits.

Dried fruits, wholemeal bread and butter; and a cup of milk.

A cup of milk may be given after any of the above suggestions if appetite warrants it, but not otherwise.

Throughout the day, between meals, give the drinks of plain water, or flavoured with lemon, orange, or grapefruit juice as before.

Diet from 4½ to 5 years.

At least half an hour before breakfast, the juice of half a lemon, orange, or grapefruit in a cup of water, as before.

BREAKFAST: Use the following breakfasts in rotation. Do not mix them or make additions to them. Each constitutes a meal in itself.

One or two apples, which may be grated, if desired; one orange, and 4 to 6 dates. A glass of milk. Occasionally, the apple may be baked and stuffed with dates. This will give variety.

Porridge made from coarse whole wheatmeal or oatmeal. Also a really ripe banana, and a glass of milk.

An orange or grapefruit (dressed with honey if liked), and a dish of stewed prunes, hot or cold. A glass of milk.

Wholemeal toast, crisp and cold, with a little butter; 4 or 5 figs; a few dates. A glass of milk.

Apples, pears, and a glass of milk.

Weet-Bix, with butter; raisins and a glass of milk.

Grapes, or other seasonable fresh fruit, stewed prunes or figs; and half to one ounce of Brazil nuts, which must be well masticated. If proper mastication is not certain, grate the nuts. NO MILK.



LUNCH (or Dinner) : The following suggestions should be used in rotation:

Lettuce and tomato salad, baked or steamed potato, in its skin. Bran Biscuits and butter; a little honey. Use a salad dressing of cream, lemon juice and honey.

Wholemeal bread and butter, whole young carrots, if very well chewed, otherwise grate them; a few dates.

Vegetable soup, or Scotch Broth.

Some lettuce and tomato; crisp, cold, wholemeal toast, lightly buttered, a little honey; and a really ripe banana may also be given.

Sandwiches of wholemeal bread and butter, with a filling of Marmite, lettuce, and mild cheese. A piece of plain wholemeal cake.



A baked or steamed potato, in its skin, lettuce, tomato, and celery, or other raw salad vegetables. Stewed prunes.

Raw vegetable salad as before, dressed with cream, lemon juice and honey. Twice-baked wholemeal bread, crisp and cold, with a little butter. (Use grated raw roots such as carrot, parsnip, turnip, beetroot, etc., in the salad as well as the lettuce and tomato.) Junket, and apple or pear, stuffed with dates. No bread.



DINNER:

Onions stewed in milk, and the liquid made into wholemeal cheese sauce. Mashed pumpkin, silver-beet, or string beans when seasonable. A light wholemeal pudding, baked or steamed. One containing dried fruit, for preference.

Meat such as mutton or lamb (no fried foods); and at least two vegetables, conservatively cooked.

An egg, scrambled, poached or lightly boiled, with at least two kinds of vegetables as before. Stewed raisins, junket and a little cream.

Steamed fish, creamed carrots, spinach or cabbage. A plain baked apple. Cauliflower and cheese sauce made with wholemeal, and other

seasonable vegetables such as one root and one green. Some fresh or dried fruit.

Casseroled poultry, cooked with plenty of suitable vegetables, and served with one green leaf kind.

A large raw vegetable salad, as mentioned previously, and one potato, baked or steamed and eaten in its jacket. A small helping of steamed or baked wholemeal pudding.

Throughout the day, between meals, give water, plain, or flavoured with lemon, orange, or grapefruit juice, for drinks, as before.

From 5½ to 7 years

the above dietetic instructions may be used with the following amendments:

BREAKFAST:

Fresh and dried fruit and milk as above; but the yolk only of one egg may be beaten into the milk.

As before.

Fresh fruit, and stewed prunes as above; but instead of the milk, half to one ounce of freshly shelled Brazils or walnuts may be used—not peanuts or chestnuts.

As before.

Fresh fruit, with Brazil or walnuts instead of the milk.

Weet-Bix, raisins, and milk as above; with the addition of a baked apple, stuffed with dates.



LUNCH (or Dinner) : This meal to remain as set out above.

DINNER:

Onions and wholemeal cheese sauce, and other vegetables as before, with the addition of a potato, baked and eaten in its jacket. The light wholemeal pudding as above.

Meat such as mutton or lamb, with vegetables as above; and a baked stuffed apple.

This meal to remain as above.

Steamed fish, with vegetables; and instead of the baked apple mentioned above, give either uncooked fresh fruit, or stewed dried fruit, or one of the simple fruit salad suggestions given in the recipe section.

Vegetables, etc., with the addition of a potato, baked or steamed, and eaten in its jacket; and some fresh or dried fruit as above.

Occasionally, instead of the casseroled poultry as mentioned above, liver may be given, with suitable vegetables, etc., as advised.



Plain water, or water flavoured with lemon, orange, or grapefruit juice to be given for drinks as required throughout the day, as before.

14.  Fasting; Eliminative and Special Diets

Important! All these diets are accompanied by:

1. VITAMIN B COMPOUNDS

2. SEAWEED POWDER

and

3. OLIVE OIL

to promote Re-mineralisation and Detoxication.

Vitamin B compounds can be obtained from preparations of wheat-germ; the vital, life-giving part of wheat discarded by "civilization" as "offals," till dead starch diet has caused disease; then brought back for sale. Other good sources are yeast extracts such as Marmite, Vegemite and Vitam-R. As long as food-massacre is allowed to continue, just so long will it be necessary to buy Vitamin B preparations, to avert the consequences.

Seaweed powder is advised because it contains, in assimilable form, minerals which the modern dead diet lacks. It is NOT a substitute for right production or selection of food. It is purely a temporary expedient.

Olive Oil is the most powerful natural detoxicating agent we possess. It is demulcent, and anti-acid. Olive Oil is Nature's anti-toxin. It should be freely used, both as food and medicine.

Because Calcium is not metabolised in absence of Vitamin D, Ostelin® (Vitamin D3) is often given, specially in the winter months when sunlight is less accessible.

Types of Eliminative and Special Diets

In presenting the following modifications of the Nature Cure method of using foods, Fasting, and Numbers One and Two, are used mainly either during Healing Crises, or, in the robust but heavily toxic, to promote and facilitate elimination.

The Milk Diet, Number Three, serves a similar purpose in weak or asthenic people, or tuberculous subjects.

Numbers Four and Five are for more prolonged use in those with systems heavily burdened with acid waste. Their good effect will be much increased by vigorous exercise.

Number Six is for patients with digestive disorder. With thorough mastication, excellent results are obtained.

Number Seven is for prolonged use by those whose toxic troubles make animal proteins inadvisable.

Number Eight is a heavy dietary, sometimes used for labourers, or those temporarily requiring a building dietary.

With all these variations, faithful observance of the directions outlined for Right Thinking and Healthy Habits is essential. Never let it be forgotten, however, that our ultimate purpose should be to grow in spiritual consciousness; to develop receptivity, responsiveness, and sensitivity; so that decreasing density and resistance may express in increasingly effective action and results.

15.  Directions For Carrying Out A Fast

It must be understood that accurate directions cannot be given which could cover all types of case. The following directions will be found of general application:

For Acute Illness.

Give no food whatever, not even milk.

Give copious drinks; weak citrus fruit drinks are best; or plain water, if preferred, and plenty of it. (In cases of abdominal emergency do not even give drinks.)

Give a hot bath immediately.

Promote perspiration for half an hour, subsequently, by means of cold and hot packs or hot bottles. Then sponge the patient, and clothe in clean garments.

Use the enema, running in as much warm saline as the patient can contain. (Saline is water with a level teaspoonful of ordinary salt to each pint.) Let the return be made into a bed-pan. Repeat the enema

every day; two or three times a day if necessary. (Do not use the enema in peritonitis.)

Apply a hot pack for five minutes, followed by a cold pack for one minute, to the seat of inflammation or pain. Repeat the packs two or three times, as required.

Whatever else is done, see that FAITH never falters, even, or specially, when the outlook seems most untoward. Miracles are worked through Faith today as 1900 years ago. Sufferers can often be brought back from the jaws of death, exceptionally even from beyond.

For Chronic Disease.

Give copious drinks: orange or lemon or grapefruit juice, well diluted with water. Vegetable water is valuable, either derived from cooking in the ordinary way, or made by simmering together for three hours, in plenty of water, as many varieties as possible of chopped vegetables (not potatoes). Bran and raisin water may be given. Soak together for six hours, in a pint of cold water, and then strain, a teacupful of bran, and a small handful of raisins. All these supply vitamins and minerals; and promote elimination.

Use the enema every day; run in, for an adult, two quarts, or more, of warm saline, at each administration. Let the patient lie flat, with hips on a higher level than shoulders. If returns are very profuse, use the enema twice daily. An alternative position is with the patient lying on the left side, with knees drawn up.



Tepid or cold bath daily; preceded by friction rub, and followed by brisk towelling.

Morning exercises, and deep breathing. Daily walk, as far as possible without undue fatigue.

Manipulative treatment, and massage, when needed.

A positive mental attitude is absolutely essential.

16.  Eliminative and Special Diets

See Chapter 14 for guidance on which diet to use.

1. Fruit Diet.

(For healing crises, etc)

Consists of three meals a day, of fresh, ripe, mature fruit, one kind only at each meal. Eat enough to satisfy hunger.

Between meals, vegetable water, with or without Marmite, may be taken.

2. Fruit and Vegetable Diet.

(For healing crises, etc)

BREAKFAST: Fresh fruit only, one kind.

LUNCH: A large salad, as suggested for the Standard Diet; dressing. NO STARCH WHATEVER.

DINNER: Cooked vegetables only.

3. Milk Diet.

(When weak or asthenic.)

On waking, and at least half an hour before the first milk is taken, drink a large glass of hot water into which has been squeezed the juice of half a lemon. It may be sweetened with a little honey.

At 8 a.m. (or earlier to suit individual convenience), and at regular two hourly intervals throughout the day, finishing at 8 p.m., take 5 ounces (150 ml) of milk. Each day, increase the amount by one ounce (30 ml) each drink (i.e. 5 ounces every two hours for the first day, 6 ounces every two hours for the second day, etc.) until one pint (20 ounces/600ml) of milk is being taken every two hours.

If the full pint is a little too much, take the amount most easily managed. Anything over 14 ounces (400ml) will do; though most people manage the pint easily. The milk should be beaten well with an eggbeater to ensure aeration.

The milk may be warmed, but not heated.

The milk must be sipped slowly always. It is a food, not a drink; and if swallowed in large mouthfuls will form large curds in the stomach and may cause discomfort.

Throughout the day, water may be taken to drink, according to need, between the amounts of milk.

When fruit is prescribed in addition to milk, eat one kind, three times a day, with the milk, at ordinary meal hours.

Any seasonable fruit, such as oranges, grapes, grapefruit, mandarins, pineapple, etc., may be used for variety; and, provided they are ripe and sweet, others may be added as they come into season. Use fresh fruit only. No tinned, cooked, or preserved fruit. See that the fruit is fully matured. Be sure to masticate well. The fruit should be washed carefully to remove poisonous spray; and all edible skins eaten.

Before each of these meals, a dessertspoonful of olive oil should be taken.

On going to bed, a citrus fruit drink as advised for the morning should be taken.

4. Eliminating Diet.

(For acid waste burden, combine diet with vigorous exercise.)

At least half an hour before breakfast, a weak, warm, unsweetened lemon drink—the juice of half a lemon in a large tumblerful of hot water.

BREAKFAST: Two varieties of fresh fruit—any seasonable kinds but not bananas. Eat sufficient to satisfy hunger. NOTHING ELSE AT ALL. No bread, porridge, etc.

Throughout the day, between meals, drink according to need, of plain water, either hot or cold, or flavoured with orange, lemon, or grapefruit juice, or Marmite, or vegetable water, with or without Marmite.

LUNCH (or dinner) : Always a LARGE salad, using a good variety of grated raw vegetables as mentioned in "Everyday Salad." (If lettuce is scarce, young raw cabbage, spinach, silverbeet, watercress, etc., make excellent substitutes.)

Dress the salad liberally with an olive oil and lemon juice dressing. The one recommended is either Plain or Special Mayonnaise. NO VINEGAR, PICKLES OR CONDIMENTS.

Occasionally, instead of a dressed salad, you may take uncut salad vegetables, such as lettuce, tomato, celery, radish, spring onion, etc.

These raw vegetables are very necessary. They supply the vitamins and minerals which the system lacks. Therefore they should form the largest part of the meal.

Take also one or two Weet-Bix, crisped in the oven and eaten cold, with a little butter; OR Ryvita Biscuits; OR a decent-sized potato, baked and eaten in its jacket, with a little butter.

DINNER: Take PLENTY of conservatively cooked vegetables, using always one green leaf variety and at least two other kinds each day; but do not use potatoes at this meal.

NO MEAT, etc. NOTHING ELSE.

5. Reducing Diet.

(For acid waste burden, combine diet with vigorous exercise.)

BREAKFAST: Ripe juicy fruits—two or three varieties—choosing from those in season. Use plums sparingly, and bananas not at all. Watermelon, without sugar. may be taken when seasonable.



Eat sufficient fruit to satisfy hunger. The fruit must be ripe and fully matured. Wash the fruit well and eat all edible skins.

Take also one ounce of freshly shelled nuts—walnuts, Brazils, or pecans.

NOTHING ELSE AT ALL. No bread, no dried fruit; no porridge, no tinned, preserved, or bottled fruit.

Throughout the day, between meals, drink according to need only of plain water, hot or cold, or flavoured with either lemon, orange, or grapefruit juice, or Marmite, or vegetable water, with or without Marmite.

LUNCH (or dinner): Take a LARGE leafy salad, or tomatoes when seasonable. Do not use root vegetables in the salad meanwhile; but variety may be given by using young heart of cabbage, spinach, watercress, dandelion, endive, spring onion, sorrel, or sea kale.

Dress the salad with an olive oil and lemon juice dressing—either the Plain or Special Mayonnaise is recommended.

Take also one piece of twice-baked wholemeal bread, crisp and cold, with a little butter.



NOTHING ELSE AT ALL. No cake, pastry, meat, fish, egg, etc.

DINNER: Two or three varieties of conservatively cooked vegetables, using at least one green leaf kind each day, as well as one or two others, choosing from those in season,—not potatoes.

In addition to the vegetables, take either: A little lean meat (roasted, grilled, or braised) ; fresh fish (baked, boiled, or steamed, not tinned or smoked) ; OR an ounce of freshly shelled Brazils or walnuts may be either eaten whole or milled and sprinkled on the vegetables,

NOTHING ELSE; NOT EVEN BREAD, OR MILK. NO PUDDINGS.

6. Digestive Diet.

(For digestive disorders.)

At least half an hour before breakfast, a weak, warm, unsweetened lemon drink should be taken—the juice of half a lemon in a large tumblerful of hot water.

BREAKFAST: Take the juice of one orange, and half to one pint of milk. The orange juice may be added to the milk if desired. It will not curdle; or,

if preferred, the orange may be eaten whole.

The milk may be warmed; not boiled, and it must be slowly sipped. NOTHING ELSE AT ALL. NO bread, porridge, etc.

Throughout the day, between meals, drink according to need of plain water, either hot or cold, or flavoured with orange, lemon, or grapefruit juice; or Marmite, or vegetable water with or without Marmite.

LUNCH: Use the following suggestions in rotation—one each day. Each one constitutes a meal in itself, so do not mix them or make alterations or additions to them.

A large potato, or two smaller ones, baked or steamed and eaten in the jacket, with a little butter, followed by a well-baked apple stuffed with dates; and half a pint of junket, with a little cream.

A moderate amount of wholemeal bread, which must be at least twenty-four hours old; and butter; and Marmite, with lettuce leaves.

One pint of milk, with the yolks only of two eggs beaten into it, with a little honey for sweetening, if necessary. Sip this slowly. No sugar; no essence. NOTHING ELSE AT ALL. No bread, no Weet-Bix, etc.

Weet-Bix crisped in the oven and eaten cold, with butter; and some dried fruit—dates, raisins, or figs.



DINNER: Two or three kinds of conservatively cooked vegetables, using always one or two green leaf varieties and one or two others, if possible, each day; but do not use potatoes at this meal.

In addition to the vegetables, take every other day, either:

Meat (roasted, grilled, or braised).

Fish (baked, boiled, or steamed. No tinned or smoked fish).

Egg or Egg Dish.

Use these in rotation.

NO BREAD, NO PUDDINGS. NOTHING ELSE.

A dessertspoon of pure olive oil should be taken a few minutes before each of these meals.



7. Readjusting Diet.

(For toxic troubles, when animal proteins inadvisable.)

On waking, and at least half an hour before breakfast, take a weak, warm, unsweetened lemon drink—the juice of half a lemon in a large tumblerful of hot water.

BREAKFAST: Fresh fruit, two or three varieties, choosing from those in season. Use plums sparingly; and do not use bananas.

Eat sufficient fruit to satisfy hunger, making sure that it is ripe and sweet. Do not take cooked, tinned, bottled or preserved fruit. Wash the fruit well and eat edible skins.

And, in addition, take alternately, either:

Half a pint of milk, slowly sipped after the fruit is eaten.

About an ounce of freshly shelled Brazils or walnuts.

NOTHING ELSE. NO BREAD. NO PORRIDGE. NO EGG. NO TEA, etc.

Throughout the day, between meals, drink to need of water, hot or cold, plain, or flavoured with lemon, orange, or grapefruit juice, or Marmite; or vegetable water with or without Marmite.

LUNCH (or dinner) : Take a LARGE salad, using a good variety of grated raw vegetables as mentioned in "Everyday Salad." If lettuce is scarce, young raw cabbage, spinach, silverbeet, or other green may be used instead, as the base of the salad, with the raw roots as suggested.

Dress the salad liberally with an olive oil, honey, and lemon juice dressing. Either the Plain or Special Mayonnaise is recommended.

A little grated cheese, or Cottage Cheese, or milled nuts may be used with the salad.

Sometimes, instead of a dressed salad, uncut salad vegetables such as lettuce, tomato, celery, radish, spring onion, etc. may be taken. These raw vegetables are very necessary to supply essential vitamins and minerals. Therefore let the salad or salad vegetables form the largest part of the meal.

Occasionally, for variety, one of the cooked Vegetable Dishes may be taken. Some uncut lettuce and tomato should also be used at this meal.

In addition to the salad, raw vegetables, or Vegetable Dish, as above, take a moderate amount of ONE of the following:

A decent-sized potato, baked or boiled and eaten in the skin, with a little butter.

Wholemeal toast, crisp and cold, with butter.

Twice-baked, stale wholemeal bread, and butter.

One or two Weet-Bix, crisped in the oven and eaten cold, with butter.

Crispbread or Ryvita, or other rye or whole wheat biscuit.

Take only one of the foregoing starch suggestions each day. Do not mix them.

One or two bran biscuits, lightly buttered, may also be taken at this meal.

NOTHING ELSE AT ALL. No meat, fish, egg, tea, etc.

DINNER: Plenty of conservatively cooked vegetables, using always one green leaf variety and at least two other kinds; but no potatoes at this meal. Use any seasonable vegetables.

In addition to the vegetables, take either:

A glass of milk, slowly sipped, or Cottage Cheese; or Cheese Sauce; or grated mild cheese.

Cooked lima or haricot beans (well soaked—at least 24 hours beforehand), or lentils. These may sometimes be embraced in a Meat Substitute Dish.

Freshly shelled nuts, using either Brazils or walnuts (not peanuts or chestnuts). These must be well masticated, or if desired, they may be milled.

The yolks only of 2 eggs, either poached or beaten raw in half to one pint of milk. No sugar; no essence.

If occasionally, a Meat Substitute Dish containing either beans, lentils, or nuts is taken, an egg for binding may be used if necessary.

Occasionally, too, Omelette or Soufflé is permissible in place of the above suggestions. In this case, of course, the whole egg may be used.



The diet is to be kept entirely free of meat or fish meanwhile. Animal proteins may putrefy. This applies also to eggs; and is the reason for their somewhat restricted use. The protein content of the diet consists of natural foods, and is in sufficient quantity for present needs in the suggestions given above.

NO MADE PUDDINGS AT ALL. Use only raw or cooked fresh fruit, and junket for dessert.

Fresh fruit for stewing must be ripe and sweet so that added sugar is not required. If a little sweetening is really necessary, use honey; not sugar.

NO BREAD. NO TEA. NO CEREAL of any sort at this meal.

8. Heavy Duty Diet.

(For labourers, a building up diet.)

At least half an hour before breakfast, the juice of half a lemon in a large tumblerful of hot water, unsweetened, should be taken.

BREAKFAST: The following suggestions to be used in rotation. Each one constitutes a meal in itself, and should not be altered or added to. Do not mix the suggestions.

Two or three varieties of fresh fruit, using any seasonable varieties, but not bananas. The fruit must be fully matured and sufficient should be taken to satisfy hunger. It should be washed but not peeled; and all edible skins should be eaten. One ounce of freshly shelled Brazil nuts or walnuts also. Masticate well. NOTHING ELSE WHATEVER. NO BREAD. NO PORRIDGE, etc.

EITHER wholemeal bread, at least 24 hours old; or wholemeal toast; crisp and cold; or Weet-Bix, crisped in the oven and eaten cold, with butter (do not soak these in liquid) ; and one variety of uncooked dried fruit, i.e. either 4 to 6 figs; 8 to 10 dates; or about two dozen raisins. A little honey or Marmite may also be used; and a really ripe banana may be taken. Half a pint of milk may be slowly sipped after the the food is eaten. NOTHING ELSE WHATEVER.

Junket—up to half a pint; and EITHER a baked apple stuffed with dates (no sugar) , or a plate of stewed prunes, raisins, or figs. One variety of fresh fruit may be eaten if necessary to satisfy hunger. If all the milk is not taken in junket form, the remainder may be drunk after the food is eaten. NOTHING ELSE. NO NUTS, or starch at this meal.

Throughout the day, if thirsty, drink between meals either plain water, hot or cold, or vegetable water with or without Marmite, or Marmite and water, or bran water, or water flavoured with either lemon, orange, or grapefruit juice.



LUNCH (or dinner) : A LARGE salad, using a good variety of grated raw vegetables as mentioned in "Everyday Salad." If lettuce is not always procurable, young cabbage, spinach, silverbeet or other green may be used, with grated roots.

Dress the salad liberally with an olive oil, honey, and lemon juice dressing—Plain or Special Mayonnaise.

A little grated cheese, or Cottage Cheese, or milled nuts may be taken with the salad.

Occasionally, instead of a dressed salad, uncut salad vegetables may be taken, such as celery, radish, spring onion, lettuce, tomato, etc., with either Vegetable Soup or a Vegetable Dish, as advised below.

The salad should be used every second day, with one of the starches (cereals) mentioned below. Do not mix these suggestions; but be content to take only one kind of starch at a meal, i.e. ONE of the following:

Wholemeal toast, eaten cold, with butter.

Twice-baked wholemeal bread, at least 24 hours old, and butter.

Wholemeal bread and butter.

Wholemeal scone, not new or hot, and butter.

A large potato or two smaller ones, baked or steamed in the skin with a little butter. (Eat the skin also.)

Weet-Bix, crisped in the oven and eaten cold, with butter.

One or two bran biscuits, or bran muffins may be used in addition to the above starch suggestions.

For variety use:

One of the Vegetable Soups, with one of the above starch suggestions. (Do not take bread, etc., with the soup; though it may be eaten afterwards.) Take also salad or salad vegetables;

OR

A savoury Vegetable Dish, with one of the above starch suggestions, and salad or uncut salad vegetables;



OR

Savoury whole brown rice in moderate quantity—natural rice cooked with sliced onion; or savoury rice and tomato.

Sweet rice such as Raisin Rice may occasionally be used for variety.

If the rice is taken, no other starch should be used; though salad or salad vegetables may be used freely at this meal.

DINNER: Always PLENTY of conservatively cooked vegetables, using two greens and one or two root kinds if possible. Any seasonable vegetables may be used.

Potatoes though fairly low in starch content, are best kept apart from animal proteins, which are meat, fish, etc.

In addition to the vegetables, as above…

Once a week take:

Meat (roasted, grilled, or braised) may be used.

Butcher's small-goods, i.e. tripe, brains, liver or kidneys, are admissible; but not sausages, saveloys, rissoles, or brawn.

Fish, baked, boiled, steamed, or fried in olive oil.

Nuts, walnuts or Brazils; or one of the Meat Substitute Dishes.

Egg or Egg Dish.

Grated mild cheese, Cheese Dish, Cottage Cheese, or Cheese Sauce.

On the remaining day, either cooked vegetables, as mentioned above should be taken, with a potato, or instead of the cooked vegetables, a salad as mentioned for lunch, with a potato, baked or steamed and eaten in its jacket.

When taking meat or the butcher's small goods, only fresh raw fruit, or cooked fresh or dried fruit, with a little cream, should be used for dessert.

On the days when fish, or an egg or egg dish are taken, junket or baked custard, or one of the light puddings of the Spanish Cream variety, with cooked fresh fruit and a little cream, or raw fruit, may be taken.

Puddings containing rice, sago, etc., should not be used with any of the above suggestions; though a light steamed wholemeal pudding, or a rice pudding made with natural, whole brown unpolished rice may be used on the day when the vegetable meal, with either grated cheese, Cheese Sauce, Cottage Cheese, or nuts or a potato is taken, as suggested.

17.  Breaking The Fast

After fasting, fruit meals should be given for a day, or days, according to the length of the fast. For example: fruit meals for one day when breaking a short fast of eight to ten days. Three days on fruit meals after fasting for fourteen to twenty days; and so on. Eat one kind of fresh ripe fruit, not bananas, at each meal. After short fasts of two or three days, feeding is then resumed—eating less to begin with. After the necessary fruit days, proceed as follows:

1st Day:

BREAKFAST: Fresh fruit, one or two kinds.

LUNCH: Cut lettuce and tomato, with a little shredded raw carrot.

DINNER: One cooked green vegetable (spinach, string beans, etc.).

Begin and end the day with a weak warm lemon drink. Between meals, drinks as while fasting.

2nd Day:



BREAKFAST: Two kinds of fresh fruit.

LUNCH: Salad of lettuce and tomato, with raw shredded carrot, turnip, and beetroot. Oil, or cream and lemon dressing.

DINNER: Two cooked green vegetables (spinach, beans, silver beet, asparagus, etc.).

3rd Day:

BREAKFAST: Two kinds of fresh fruit; and one dried, such as figs, dates, muscatels, raisins.

LUNCH: Salad as before, with other grated raw vegetables, pieces of banana, sultanas, etc. A potato baked and eaten with its jacket; a little butter.

DINNER: Three cooked vegetables.

4th Day:

BREAKFAST: As before.

LUNCH: Salad as before. Three or four Weet-Bix, and butter.

DINNER: Poached egg on spinach. Stewed prunes and cream.

5th Day:

BREAKFAST: Fruit as before.

LUNCH: Salad of any variety. Two or three pieces of twice baked bread, and butter. Two or three bran biscuits, with butter and honey.

DINNER: Steamed fish, or roast mutton, with two or three vegetables, not potato. Baked apple, with date filling; a little cream.

6th Day:

BREAKFAST: As before; a few walnuts, or brazil nuts may be added.

LUNCH: A cooked salad, with dressing, and Cottage Cheese; two pieces of wholemeal toast and butter.

DINNER: One of the Meat-Substitute Dishes, three vegetables; a date custard.

From now on, follow the Standard Diet. Stick to the principle, but use your imagination. Don't fuss over food; it would be better to eat much rubbish than to be continually concerned about what you have.

The effect upon the acute suppurative conditions of fasting and general eliminative procedures is often dramatic. Whitlows (inflammatory reactions of the fingers) disappear; abscesses often absorb; poisoned hands, limbs, or feet, with acute lymphangitis and lymphadenitis, recover as if by magic. Suppurative conditions of antrum, sinus, and mastoid, respond more gradually, but almost equally satisfactorily. Osteomyelitis, both acute and chronic, recovers in a way never dreamed of by orthodoxy. Appendicitis, salpingitis, peritonitis, and almost every other "itis," the same.

18.  Suggestions For Hotel Diet

Progressive managers everywhere are beginning to cater for those reluctant to destroy themselves with wrong food. Seek such, and encourage them. Meanwhile, even where meals follow most orthodox lines, much may be done to minimise punishment.

ON RISING IN THE MORNING, take a large weak citrus fruit drink; or simply two or three glasses of plain water. No biscuits or tea.

BREAKFAST: One or more kinds of fresh fruit, eaten with skins if edible. In addition, one kind of dried fruit; either a few nuts, or a glass of milk, slowly sipped. If fresh fruit is unobtainable, dried fruits are usually, to be had, either cooked or uncooked; and these, together with nuts or junket or milk, are quite enough.

An orange or two, almost always available, and half a pint of milk, slowly sipped, make an admirable breakfast.

DO NOT EAT ANYTHING ELSE WHATEVER.

LUNCH: Most hotels, and restaurants, will provide Salad Vegetables; but few have any idea of the quantity required. With a little good-humoured explanation, this difficulty may usually be overcome.



If salad vegetables are not forthcoming, buy them and eat them elsewhere, in variety and quantity. DO NOT USE VINEGAR, OR CUCUMBER, etc. FLOATING IN VINEGAR.

Insist upon wholemeal bread, toasted if desired; or Weet-Bix, or other whole-wheat or rye biscuit.

Butter, cheese and Marmite, are desirable. A few dried fruits are permissible, as well as honey.

In the winter, soup may be taken as well.

DINNER: Remembering that vegetables should form the bulk of our diet, bargain for all you can get.

For protein, eat meat, fish, poultry, or egg dish (omelette, etc.)

Sweets would be best left alone; but if you insist, junket, baked custard, or one of the usually available light puddings of the Spanish Cream or Fruit Shape order should be selected.

Avoid bread, pastry, floury puddings, cakes, rich or spicy sauces and gravies, condiments, etc.



Don't be afraid of being half starved. Learn to accommodate consumption to need.

WHEN THE PEOPLE DEMAND SENSIBLE FEEDING THE DEMAND WILL BE MET.

19.  Hints on Preparation and Cooking

Vegetables should be fresh. They should be well washed and scrubbed, not peeled or even scraped, for it is in the skin and very near the surface that most of the minerals are found.

The best method of cooking is to steam them; otherwise cook in as little water as possible and save whatever is left of the water after the cooking process is completed, and use either to drink, or as the base for soups, sauces, gravies, etc.

Soda should never be used in the cooking of any vegetable, and salt should only be added during the last minute of the cooking process; better still, cook without using salt and add a little at table. Vegetables take very much less time to cook if salt is not used. In any case 15 minutes is sufficient for almost all vegetables.

Green vegetables such as cabbage are best shredded somewhat finely, and then plunged into about a cupful of boiling water, cooked for 10 to 15 minutes, drained, and chopped, and served with a little butter. Reserve the water.

Root vegetables are best put into cold water, brought to boiling point, and then gently simmered for 15 minutes. The water left over may be turned into sauce (only very little should be used, and with a tablespoonful of butter added, the vegetables will not burn) , and served with them.



Two or three root vegetables, diced and cooked together make a pleasant change.

Vegetables such as lettuce, string beans, cabbage, cauliflower, if wrapped closely in paper will keep fresher.

Vegetables should not be soaked in water for any longer than is absolutely necessary to draw out small insects and grubs. Too many of the mineral salts are wasted if care is not taken about this.

Aluminium cooking utensils should not be used. The salts which come from these, though when taken in small quantities are not harmful, if taken over a long period become definitely so. Aluminium should be replaced with heavy quality enamel ware; or if this is not possible, the vegetables should be cooked in Patapar Papers (vegetable cooking parchment). If the Patapar Papers are used, the instructions given on the packet re the use of salt, soda, pepper, and butter etc. in the cooking process, should be disregarded.

Wholemeal flour and raw sugar are used exclusively in all the recipes in this book.

Use fine wholemeal flour. A little more liquid is needed than in cooking with white flour; but this must be added carefully, and only a little worked in at a time, as wholemeal is inclined to clog rather quickly, if care is not taken in mixing. It is quite easy to handle if properly mixed.

Stickiness or crumbling in pastry, biscuits, scones, etc., is a sign that the quantities have not been correctly measured.

Raw sugar will mix easily and well if beaten properly. Sponges, etc., are light and fluffy if this is observed. They do not sink so readily as those made with white flour.

Puff, or flaky pastries are not so easily made with wholemeal as with white flour, but a rich short crust is easily made.

Cakes, biscuits, scones, etc., made with wholemeal flour are much fuller flavoured than those made with white; quite apart from the improved nutritive value.

A little water placed in the oven when it is turned on for baking cakes, and kept there during the cooking process, will keep them from getting too hard a crust and prevent them from burning. This does not apply to sponges.

Biscuits, or crisp cakes should not have the water placed in the oven.

Where coarse wheatmeal or oatmeal porridge has been recommended, take particular care with the cooking of this. The cooking process may need to be started at night, as some time is required to cook the coarse grains. Do not use any of the quickly-prepared, so-called "breakfast foods" on the market, as most of the goodness may have been extracted from them.



Sweetening Fruit

Avoid the use of sugar wherever possible for sweetening fruit. If the fruit is really ripe it should not need further sweetening. Honey is better than sugar for the purpose, but if either honey or sugar is to be added, put it in at the end of the cooking process.

Dried fruits for cooking should first be thoroughly washed, then soaked for 24 hours in water. Then cook them, at just below boiling point, in the same water in which they were soaked, until tender. They do not need long cooking, or any added sweetening, as dried fruits contain natural sugars.

Properly dried fruits are difficult to obtain. Commercially, it is easier to put fruits through a caustic and sulphuring preparation which tends to quicken the drying process and enhance the appearance of the fruit. Both processes have the effect of destroying food value. Fruits which have been subjected to no process other than drying in sun and air should be used whenever possible.

Measurement Conversions

¼ cup = 60 mL ⅓ cup = 80 ml

½ cup = 125 ml ⅔ cup = 160 ml 1 cup = 250 ml

Teacup = 150 ml Breakfast cup = 235 ml 1 gill (¼ pint) = 140 ml ½ pint = 285 ml 1 pint = 570 ml Quart = 950 ml Gallon = 3800ml

½ ounce = 15g

1 ounce = 30g

¼ lb. = 115 g

½ lb. = 225 g

¾ lb. = 340 g

1 lb. = 450 g

Low oven = 150°C = 300°F = Gas Mark 2

Moderate oven = 180°C = 360°F = Gas Mark 4

Hot oven = 220°C = 430°F = Gas Mark 7

Recipes Index

Soups Bran Stock Tomato Soup Celery Soup Spring soup Parsnip Soup Barley Broth Green Pea Soup Lentil Soup Brown Soup Curried Soup Lentil Puree Asparagus Soup Bean Soup Vegetable Bouillon or Cleansing Soup Potato Soup Scotch Broth

Beetroot Soup Victoria Soup Cauliflower Soup Lettuce Soup Artichoke Soup Cabbage Soup Vegetable Marrow Soup Almond Soup Vegetable Soup Prize Tomato Soup Mock Kidney Soup Cream of Celery White Swiss Soup Cream of Pumpkin Soup Cream of Cucumber Soup

Gravies and Savoury Sauces Brown Gravy Wholemeal Gravy Sauce Tomato Sauce

Onion Sauce Cheese Sauce Cream and Onion Sauce Tomato and Cheese Sauce—1 Tomato and Cheese Sauce—2 Celery, Tomato and Onion Sauce Mint Sauce Peas and Onion Sauce

Salads Everyday Salad Cabbage Salad Lettuce and Onion Salad Savoy and Leek Salad Apple and Carrot Mustard, Cress and Spinach Cucumber and Lettuce Lettuce and Green Peas New Potatoes and Spinach Watercress Salad

Spinach and Carrot Potato and Celery Delicious Salad Watercress and Walnut Cauliflower and French Beans Winter Salad Banana and Nut Date, Nut and Orange Apple, Celery and Nut Celery, Sprouts and Apple Russian Salad

Unfired Savouries to Serve with Salads Egg Nut—1 Nut—2 Cheese Fruit Savoury Novelty (Not Unfired)

Salad Dressings

Orange Cream Almond Cream Plain Mayonnaise That Will Keep Special Mayonnaise Dressing Plain Mayonnaise Dressing Plain Dressings French Fruit Dressing Cream Salad Dressing

Hors d'Oeuvres Stuffed Tomato Hors d’Oeuvres Lattice Hors d’Oeuvres Prune Hors d’Oeuvres Lettuce Rolls Hors d’Oeuvres Tip-Top Hors d’Oeuvres Basket Hors d’Oeuvres Vegetable and Egg Hors d’Oeuvres Grapefruit and Lettuce Hors d’Oeuvres Stuffed Prune Hors d’Oeuvres Bird’s Nest Hors d’Oeuvres



Vegetable Dishes Stuffed Turnips Creamed Broad Beans Carrots Stewed In Butter Asparagus and Peas Creamed Peas and Carrots Stuffed Baked Tomatoes Marrow En Casserole Curried Marrow Cabbage Dutch Steamed Broad Bean Tops Baked Parsnip Creamed Cucumber Baked Onion and Cheese Carrot Au Gratin Baked Onion and Apple En Casserole Braised Lettuce Celery Au Gratin Baked Beetroot

Beetroot In Butter Pumpkin Or Marrow In Butter Leeks Au Gratin Onion Rings Beetroot In Butter Stuffed Onions Savoury Marrow Creamed Sprouts

Savoury Vegetable and Meat Substitute Dishes Savoury Mixed Grill Haricot Dumplings Haricot Savoury Risotto Savoury Rice Celery Pie Cheese Cutlets Nut Roast Almond Cutlets Rice Loaf

Nut and Vegetable Rissoles Nut Croquettes Stuffed Nut Roast Nut Cutlets Rice Cheese Savoury Summer Stew Cauliflower, Tomato and Cheese Casserole Nut and Vegetable Roast Compote Vegetables and Forcemeat Vegetable Roast Summer Vegetables Medley Potatoes with Cheese Cauliflower Roast Potatoes Au Gratin Onion Tart Celery Loaf Cheese and Potato Roast Macaroni and Nut Cutlets Mushroom Cutlets Nut Meat

Cauliflower and Nut Pie Macaroni Cheese Broad Bean Pie Granose Cheese Savoury Steamed Nut Savoury Tokyo Savoury Sicilian Savoury Nut Meat Supreme Vegetable Savoury Granose Globes Dutch Pie Nut Surprise Home-made Cheese Savoury Rabbit* Vegetable Curry Nut and Vegetable Pie Cabbage and Cheese Pie Cottage Cheese Bean, Carrot and Peanut Loaf

Savoury Moulds and Jellies Gelazone Galantine Savoury Tomato Jelly Cheese Mould Lentil and Rice Mould Savoury Jelly Savoury Brawn

Egg Dishes, Soufflés, Omelettes, Savoury Batters, and Pancakes Cheese Tart Spinach Soufflé Cheese and Tomato Soufflé Onion Soufflé Green Pea Soufflé French Bean Soufflé Cauliflower Soufflé Carrot Shape with Great Peas Swiss Eggs Vegetable Soufflé Spinach Entree

Eggs and Granose Spinach Omelette Walnut Omelette Vegetable Omelette Sylvan Eggs Breadcrumb and Onion Omelette with Cheese Sauce Fricasse of Eggs Bombay Eggs Curried Egg Rissoles Egg Cutlets Tomato Eggs Baked Eggs Egg and Potato Pie Egg and Lentil Savoury Savoury Batter (3 to 4 people) Savoury Eggs

Fish Dishes Savoury Fish Flan Fish With Lemon Sauce

Fish Salad Filleted Fish with Mushrooms Fish Soufflé Groper Rarebit Fish Curry Savoury Fish Baked Fish Fish Savoury Fish Pie

Fruit Salads and Compotes Apple, Orange and Banana Salad Summer Fruit Salad Fig and Apple Salad Mixed Fruit Salad Spring Fruit Salad Winter Fruit Salad Winter Fruit Salad—2 Fruit Mousse Dried Fruit Salad

Fruit Compote Fresh Fruit Compote Fruit Salad Peach Delicacy

Jellies, Trifles and Cold Sweets Date Dessert Fruit Moulds Almond Rice Mould Rice Cream Apple Jelly Eden Pudding Peach Pudding Prune Whip Apple Delight Apricot and Boiled Custard Jelly Plum Pudding Blackberry Fool Fruit Gelatine Apple and Almond Cream

Raisin Maple Blanc-Mange Pineapple Junket Maple Walnut Sponge Moorish Pudding Spanish Cream

Baked, Boiled or Steamed Puddings, Tarts, Custards, etc. Novelty Dried Fruit Pudding Health Pudding Short Crust Plain Short Pastry Rich Pastry Date and Apple Charlotte Plum Pudding Apple Crisp Raisin Rice Apple Roll Eve’s Pudding Fig Bran Pudding Favourite Pudding

Prune Delicacy Rhubarb Granose Date Soufflé Raisin Pudding Date and Fig Pie with Chocolate Sauce Cottage Pudding Apple Goody Prune, Apricot or Apple Betty Prune Roll Apple Puff Carrot Pudding Fig Pudding Potato Pudding Fig and Raisin Pudding Prune and Fig Shape Raisin or Sultana Pudding Patricia Pudding Steamed Date Pudding Steamed Chocolate Pudding Spanish Pudding

Steamed Treacle Sponge Steamed Treacle Pudding Stuffed Pears or Apples Canary Pudding Almond and Raisin Tart Fig Roll Sweet Wholemeal Pastry Wholemeal Pastry—1 Wholemeal Pastry—2 Date or Fig Custard Bananas in Lemon Syrup Banana Flakes Baked Bananas Prune Meringue Golden Custard

Fruit Sauces, etc. and Fillings for Tarts and Cakes Lemon Curd Swiss Jelly Muscat Jelly

Banana Mincemeat Fruit Sauce Raisin Sauce Lemon Sauce Prune and Apple Sauce Berry Sauce Raw Berry Sauce Honey Sauce Orange Curd Home Candied Peel Fruit Filling—1 Fruit Filling—2 Fruit Filling—3 Fruit Filling—4 Raisin Cream Filling Raisin Caramel Frosting

Wholemeal Breads, Scones, Loaves, Slices Treacle Bread Wholemeal Bread

Excellent Wholemeal Bread Family Wholemeal Bread Wholemeal Scones Potato Scones Pumpkin Scones Bran Scones Spice Scones Raisin Scones Love Knots Oatmeal Slices Muscatel Bread Wholemeal Nut Loaf Currant Bread Bran Muffins Nut and Date Loaf Wholemeal Honey Scones Oatcakes Wholemeal Fruit Loaf Rusks

Biscuits: Plain, Savoury and Sweet Rolled Oat Biscuits Plain Wholemeal Biscuits Savoury Cheese Biscuits Wholemeal Cheese Straws Cheese and Potato Biscuits Lunchies Nut Biscuits Fruit Biscuits Three-A-Penny Biscuits Lemon Rings Sponge Biscuits Golden Syrup Biscuits Butter Biscuits Honey Biscuits Lunch Squares Date Crackers Bran Biscuits

Fruit, Sponge, and Small Cakes

Sultana Lunch Cake Ginger Bran Cake Peace Cake Bran Parkins Wholemeal Walnut Cake Nut Cake Caramel Cake Topsy Turvy Cake Economical Wholemeal Cake Short Cake Orange Cake Coconut Meringue Shortcake Wholemeal Cake (No Eggs) Iced Wholemeal Cake Sponge Cake Chester Cake Nutties Walnut Brownies Walnut Crisps Date Caramel Cake

Fruit Snaps Lemon Drop Cookies Crunchies Light Wholemeal Cake Chocolate Afghans Lunch Rock Buns Shortcake Almond Macaroons Bran Cake De Luxe Raisin Munchers Prune Cake Good Fruit Cake Choice Christmas Cake Madeira Cake Plain Wholemeal Raisin Cake Wigmore Cake Wholemeal Sponge Cake Honey Short Cake Date Surprises Cheese Cakes

Peanut Cookies Rolled Oats Shortbread Wholemeal Fruit Cake Trilby Cakes

Sandwiches Pastes For Sandwich Fillings Plain Bread and Butter Sandwiches Biscuit Sandwiches Cheese Sandwiches (Various)

Beverages Welsh Nectar Cereal Drinks Lemon Delight Grapefruit and Apricot

Soups

Bran Stock

Ingredients.—A handful of bran to 2 pints of water or vegetable stock.

Method.—Simmer gently 2 hours; then strain. Use as a base for soups or for moistening savouries. This stock abounds in mineral salts.

Tomato Soup

Ingredients.—1 pint bran or vegetable stock, 2 large onions, 1 breakfast cup of milk, 2 tablespoons brown sago, 2 lbs. skinned tomatoes.

Method.—Simmer 1 hour without milk. Strain, add milk and parsley. Serve at once.

Celery Soup

Ingredients.—1 quart bran or vegetable stock. Coarse outside lettuce leaves, chopped celery, teaspoon celery salt, wholemeal flour to thicken.



Method.—Simmer 1½ hours, put through sieve and thicken.

Spring soup

Ingredients.—½ pint stock, ½ pint milk, 1 lb. spinach, 1 lb. coarse lettuce, ½ lb. young dandelion leaves, a few sorrel leaves, 2 or 3 bay leaves if obtainable, 1 ounce butter, 2 egg yolks.

Method.—Cook leaves gently in stock till tender. Add milk and butter, and heat. Beat eggs in bowl in which soup is to be served, adding a little warm soup, then gradually add the remainder of the hot soup (the leaves to be strained from the stock).

Parsnip Soup

Ingredients.—2 lb. parsnips, 1 large grated carrot, 3 onions, 1 quart bran or vegetable stock.

Method.—Cut parsnips and onions small, add carrot. Simmer 2 hours and rub through sieve. Add 1 tablespoon chopped mint just before serving.

Barley Broth



Ingredients.—1 teacup unpolished barley, 1 large bunch leeks, 1 large grated carrot, 2 bay leaves if obtainable, I dessertspoonful of vegetable or olive oil.

Method.—Simmer all for 2 hours, adding the oil 10 minutes before serving.

Green Pea Soup

Ingredients.—1 breakfast cup dried green peas soaked overnight, ½ cabbage, 3 onions, 2 tablespoons seedless raisins, sprig of mint, 1 quart stock.

Method.—Chop cabbage, onions and raisins fine. Simmer all for 2 hours and rub through sieve.

Lentil Soup

Ingredients.—½ lb. lentils, 2 ounces brown rice, 3 quarts stock, ½ teaspoon celery salt, 2 large turnips, 2 carrots, 2 onions, thyme, 1 teaspoon Marmite.

Method.—Grate all vegetables and simmer with lentils and rice for 2 hours. Add Marmite just before serving.



Brown Soup

Ingredients.—½ packet soaked butter beans, 1 swede, 1 onion, 2 carrots, ½ lb. spinach. Few celery tops and outside stalks, ½ teaspoon herbs, 1 quart stock.

Method.—Simmer all together for 3 hours, rub through sieve.

Curried Soup

Ingredients.—1 lb. potatoes, ½ lb. each carrots, onions, sweet apples, ¼ lb. seedless raisins, 1 tablespoon brown sago, ½ teaspoon cinnamon, 1 level tablespoon curry powder, rather less than 2 pints stock.

Method.—Chop vegetables, raisins and apples and simmer all ingredients 3 hours. Rub through sieve.

Lentil Puree

Ingredients.—1 lb. lentils, 1 sliced onion, few cloves, 1 teaspoon mixed herbs, ½ teaspoon celery salt, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, 1 ounce butter.

Method.—Cook all except butter and parsley in 1 quart of water until mushed. Put through a sieve. Cream butter and add, then add parsley. Serve hot with dry toast or cheese biscuits.

Asparagus Soup

Ingredients and Method.—One large bunch of asparagus. Place in 1 pint slightly salted water and cook until soft. Rub through sieve. Reheat with about ½ pint milk, taking care that milk does not quite boil. Add a little butter.

Bean Soup

Ingredients.—2 cups lima or haricot beans soaked overnight, 1 large onion, 1 green pepper, 1 clove garlic, large piece butter, juice of 1 lemon.

Method.—Add 2 quarts of water and more as becomes necessary, and cook slowly 2 to 4 hours.

Vegetable Bouillon or Cleansing Soup

Ingredients.—Spinach, carrots, turnips, parsnips, sprouts, onions, etc.

Method.—Grate and put into a large saucepan and well cover with water. Simmer 2 or 3 hours. A little Marmite may be added just before serving and after the soup has been strained. Excellent to take during a fast.

Potato Soup

Ingredients.—2 lb. potatoes, 2 onions, ½ pint water, ½ pint milk, 2 ounces butter, salt to taste, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, 1 ounce grated cheese.

Method.—Grate potatoes and onions and boil gently with water. Add milk but do not boil. Five minutes before serving add butter, cheese and parsley.

Scotch Broth

Ingredients.—1 large carrot, 1 leek, 1 onion, ½ cauliflower, ¼ large turnip, 1 or 2 celery stalks, spinach, a few green cabbage leaves, 1 lb. fresh peas or ½ lb. dried ones soaked overnight.

Method.—Wash vegetables and chop. Melt 1 ounce butter and add onion, brown, and add 2 quarts water and vegetables. Cook gently 2 hours.

Beetroot Soup

Ingredients.—1 lb. beetroot, 1 large carrot, 1 large onion, 1 lemon, parsley, cream.

Method.—Put 2 ounces butter and onion in covered pan. Grate beetroot and carrot and add to onion with 1½ pints water. Simmer 1½ hours. Then add teaspoon Marmite, juice of lemon, salt, and pinch of sugar, parsley. Thicken with a dessertspoon wholemeal flour and a beaten egg. Serve with fresh cream.

Victoria Soup

Ingredients.—1 cupful each of grated onion and carrot, ½ cupful celery, 2 tablespoons butter, 2 teaspoons flour, 2 quarts water.

Method.—Brown the chopped vegetables in butter; then add boiling water. Cook till tender, then thicken with the wholemeal flour.

Cauliflower Soup

Ingredients.—1 cauliflower, 2 sticks celery, 1 onion, 2 ounces butter, 2 ounces wholemeal flour.

Method.—Cut cauliflower in quarters and after soaking in slightly salted water, boil for 10 minutes; add chopped onion and chopped celery and cook till tender. Strain, saving water. Reserve a few flowerets and rub the rest of

the vegetables through a sieve. Melt butter and stir in flour. Add ½ pint milk and 1½ pints water in which vegetables were cooked. Stir till boiling. Add puree and simmer 10 minutes. Put flowerets in a well heated tureen and pour soup over them.

Lettuce Soup

Ingredients.—lettuce, 1 quart stock (1 pint milk and 1 pint water), 2 tablespoons wholemeal flour, 2 tablespoons butter, 2 tablespoons lemon juice.

Method.—Melt butter and add flour, add half hot stock and bring to boil and season. Cook lettuce in other half stock and rub through sieve when tender. Mix well with other sauce, beat well; add lemon juice and serve very hot.

Artichoke Soup

Ingredients.—1 lb. artichokes, 1 large onion, 1 gill (140 ml) cream, 1 pint milk.

Method.—Wash artichokes and rub skin with a cloth and a little salt. Steam till tender. Chop onion and stew in a little milk. Add to the artichokes and put through sieve. Reheat with milk and cream. Thicken slightly with wholemeal flour if necessary.

Cabbage Soup

Ingredients.—2 cabbages, 1½ pints water, 1 pint milk, 1 onion, 1 ounce butter, 2 ounces brown sago, parsley, a little salt and pepper.

Method.—Shred cabbage finely and soak in salted water half hour. Gently stew the onion and butter and parsley 5 minutes. Add cabbage and stir well. Add the water and simmer 15 minutes. Stir in sago; cook 10 minutes. Add milk and bring to just below Boiling point.

Vegetable Marrow Soup

Ingredients.—1 lb. vegetable marrow, 1½ pints stock, 1 onion, 1 ounce butter, 1 ounce flour, ½ pint milk.

Method.—Peel and slice marrow and use 1 lb. to 1 quart soup. Simmer gently with onion for half hour and put through a sieve. Mix flour smoothly with milk and butter and add to the marrow puree. Reheat and sprinkle with parsley before serving.

Almond Soup

Ingredients.—2 ounces ground almonds, 1 onion, 1½ pints stock, 1 pint milk, 3 or 4 young carrots, 1 gill (140 ml) cream.

Method.—Cook onions in butter; add carrots cut up and cook a few minutes. Add hot stock and simmer 1 hour. Rub through a sieve, add the ground almonds and just before serving, the milk and cream.

Vegetable Soup

Ingredients.—3 each carrots, potatoes, onions, turnips, 2 parsnips, celery stalks, 3 pints milk, a good-sized piece of butter, chopped parsley. Method.—Bring chopped vegetables to boil in water, cook till tender and rub through a coarse sieve, to make in all about 3 pints. Add the 3 pints of milk and butter and reheat. Sprinkle with parsley before serving.

Prize Tomato Soup

Ingredients.—Green leaves of cabbage, stick of celery, 1 grated swede turnip, 1 grated carrot, 1 grated unpeeled potato, 1 large onion, ½ lb. tomatoes, 1 gill (140 ml) peas and beans, sprig of thyme, 1 bay leaf, 1 tablespoon each of lentils and unpolished barley.

Method.—Soak peas and beans overnight, cut cabbage and celery and cook slowly 1½ hours. Strain. Fry onions and tomatoes in butter 15 minutes and add to cabbage and celery stock, together with the potato, carrot, turnip, peas, beans, lentils and barley. Simmer slowly 1½ hours and then add 1 gill (140 ml) of milk and 1 dessertspoon of Marmite.

Mock Kidney Soup

Ingredients and Method.—Soak 1 lb. lentils overnight in plenty of water. Cut up any available vegetables such as carrot, turnip, onion, celery, etc., and fry them in butter until brown. Add 1 cup of brown breadcrumbs. Pour all into the steeped lentils and bring to the boil. Then simmer till tender. Force through sieve with a wooden spoon. If possible add pieces of chopped mushroom fried in a little butter.

Cream of Celery

Ingredients.—2 cups of diced celery, 3 tablespoons of butter, 4 cups of milk, 4 tablespoons wholemeal flour, 4 cups cold water.

Method.—Cook celery in water till tender, rub butter and flour together. Add half of this to water left on celery when done. Heat milk and add remaining flour and butter, combine with celery, etc., and season to taste.

White Swiss Soup

Ingredients.—½ cup of brown rice, 1½ cups of milk, a little wholemeal flour, 1 small onion, 1 egg yolk, 2 cups of water, 1 potato.

Method.—Boil rice in water and add onion and potato; when these are cooked add milk and bring to just below boiling point. Beat well the egg

yolk and the flour (about a teaspoonful) and stir into the soup. Season to taste, rub through sieve, reheat and serve.

Cream of Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients.—1 lb. pumpkin, 1 tablespoon of butter, ½ pint of boiling water, 1½ pints of milk, 2 tablespoons of flour.

Method.—PeeI pumpkin and cut into slices. Put into a saucepan with water and cook until mashed. Rub through a sieve and add the milk, butter and flour, rubbing the flour smooth with a little milk. Reheat, season to taste, serve very hot.

(Cream of carrot or parsnip may be made the same way.)

Cream of Cucumber Soup

Ingredients.—2 cups of milk, 1 cup of water, not stock, 1½ cups of diced cucumber, 1 onion, grated, 2 tablespoons of flour, salt. Method.—Put the cucumber on to cook in the water. Add the grated onion and milk and bring to boil. Then blend flour with a little milk and stir in. Add a fair-sized piece of butter and cook very gently for 5 minutes.

Gravies and Savoury Sauces

Brown Gravy

Ingredients.—2 ounces browned wholemeal flour, 2 ounces butter, 1 onion, ¾ pint stock or water, a little Marmite.

Method.—Brown butter in pan, add and cook onions until quite brown, add browned flour, stirring gently, then stock. Cook well and keep well stirred. Season and strain.

Wholemeal Gravy Sauce

Ingredients and Method.—Half pint strong vegetable stock. Two tablespoons wholemeal flour; seasoning. Cook 5 minutes.

Tomato Sauce

Ingredients and Method.—Cut up tomatoes to make 1 pint. Cook with very finely chopped onion about 10 minutes. Add 1 tablespoon flour blended with same amount of butter; allow to boil for a few minutes. A little salt if desired. May be strained if liked.



Onion Sauce

Ingredients and Method.—Slice onions and brown them in butter. Add a little flour and enough stock or milk to make the right consistency. Cook and season.

Cheese Sauce

Ingredients.—Half pint vegetable stock, 2 tablespoons wholemeal flour, 3 ounces grated cheese.

Method.—Blend and cook stock and flour for a few minutes; add grated cheese. Milk may be substituted for the vegetable stock.

Cream and Onion Sauce

Ingredients and Method.—Cook 1 cup of grated onion in a little water. Blend 2 tablespoons melted butter with 2 of flour. Add to onions, stirring well, and add ½ cup of cream or milk.

Tomato and Cheese Sauce—1

Ingredients and Method.—Cook 1 cup of grated onion in a little water. Blend 2 tablespoons each of butter and flour; add 1 cup tomato to the cooked onion, then the butter and flour. Cook together for a few minutes. Season and add a little cream or milk before serving.

Tomato and Cheese Sauce—2

Ingredients and Method.—Mash ¼ lb. cheese to a paste with a little milk or water. Add 1 cup of hot tomato sauce and mix well. Reheat before serving.

Celery, Tomato and Onion Sauce

Ingredients and Method.—Cook half an onion, 1 cup celery and 1 cup tomatoes in water till tender, then mash through colander. Blend 1 tablespoon butter with 1 table- spoon wholemeal flour. Mix with other ingredients and stir together for a few minutes till cooked.

Mint Sauce

Ingredients and Method.—One cup finely chopped mint, ¼ cup raw sugar, ½ cup lemon juice. Stand 1 hour, warm, but do not boil.

Peas and Onion Sauce



Ingredients and Method.—Simmer 2 finely chopped onions in a little water. When tender add ½ cupful cooked peas and 2 diced tomatoes. Season with a little celery salt and butter.

Salads

Everyday Salad

Ingredients and Method.—Finely grated raw vegetables in any combination with either lettuce, spinach, dandelion leaves, silver-beet leaves, turnip tops, etc., for the green element. For example: An excellent and inexpensive salad may be made of grated carrot, turnip, beetroot, apple, a few raisins, and heart of white cabbage.

Cabbage Salad

Ingredients and Method.—One small heart of cabbage, small heart celery, 2 tomatoes. Cut up cabbage and celery finely, skin and quarter tomatoes. (Diced apple may replace tomato.)

Lettuce and Onion Salad

Method.—Shred lettuce and chop onion finely. Mix well together and sprinkle with grated cheese.

Savoy and Leek Salad



Ingredients and Method.—One heart of savoy, 1 leek, 1 parsnip, a few dandelion leaves. Scrape and grate parsnip, thinly shred leeks, savoy and dandelion leaves. Mix together.

Apple and Carrot

Method.—Grate the carrot and chop the apple. Sprinkle with grated nut.

Mustard, Cress and Spinach

Method.—Chop all, mix well, and serve with either grated cheese or nuts.

Cucumber and Lettuce

Ingredients and Method.—One good sized lettuce, cucumber. Wash and arrange lettuce on dish. Dice unpeeled cucumber and place among lettuce leaves. Dress with lemon juice and olive oil.

Lettuce and Green Peas

Method.—Use lettuce leaves as cups and fill with green peas, cooked or raw, sprinkled with finely chopped mint and dressed with cream dressing.

New Potatoes and Spinach

Method.—Cook and dice potatoes. Chop up spinach and mix well. Serve with curd cheese.

Watercress Salad

Ingredients and Method.—Watercress, hard boiled eggs. Wash and chop watercress; cut garlic into very tiny pieces; mix well and put sliced egg on top.

Spinach and Carrot

Ingredients and Method.—Quantity of perpetual spinach, grated carrot, 1 level teaspoon chopped garlic. Mix well and serve with grated cheese.

Potato and Celery

Ingredients and Method.—Two heads celery, 2 steamed cold potatoes. Dice and dress with lemon juice and oil.

Delicious Salad

Ingredients and Method.—Mix grated raw cauliflower, apple, celeriac or chopped celery, and heap on lettuce. Add a sprinkling of seeded raisins and decorate with slices of hard boiled egg or thinly sliced cheese.

Watercress and Walnut

Ingredients.—Watercress, radishes, carrot, cucumber, walnuts. Method.—Make a centre of grated raw carrots and arrange cress round it. Decorate with chopped radishes and cubes of unpeeled cucumber. Sprinkle with walnuts.

Cauliflower and French Beans

Method.—Line a bowl with lettuce leaves and pile sprigs of cold cooked cauliflower in centre. Make a dressing of 6 tablespoons of olive oil, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, and a little chopped parsley, and pour half of this over the cauliflower. Beat up the yolk of an egg and add rest of dressing gradually to it. Toss cold cooked beans in this and arrange round cauliflower. Sprinkle with parsley and serve.



Winter Salad

Ingredients and Method.—Grated carrots, parsnips, turnips, a little horseradish, shredded cabbage, or Brussels sprouts and chopped onion. Mix.

Banana and Nut

Method.—Slice a banana very thinly and mix with 2 tablespoons chopped nuts and 1 tablespoon salad dressing. Serve with lettuce or watercress on bed of cooked rice.

Date, Nut and Orange

Method.—Mix stoned chopped dates with chopped nuts and blend with an orange cut into bits. Serve on lettuce leaves and dress with oil.

Apple, Celery and Nut

Method.—Chop apple and celery finely and bind with cream salad dressing. Sprinkle generously with chopped nuts and serve with lettuce or watercress.

Celery, Sprouts and Apple

Method.—Chop celery into ½-inch pieces. Mix in about half the quantity of finely shredded sprouts and of grated apple. Arrange on lettuce leaves and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons nut oil.

Russian Salad

Ingredients and Method.—Lettuce shredded finely. A mixture of any and every kind of cooked vegetable, e.g. peas, beans, beetroot, carrot, turnip, asparagus, potato, tomato. Dress with cream dressing.

Unfired Savouries to Serve with Salads

Egg

Ingredients and Method.—2 cups finely chopped cabbage or sea kale. 1 dessertspoon finely chopped mint. tablespoon melted butter, in which has been dissolved 1 scant teaspoon Marmite. Add beaten egg to butter and Marmite; stir in cabbage and mint; shape, and roll in Corn flakes.

Nut—1

Ingredients.—2 cups raw, finely chopped cabbage, 2 ounces milled nuts, 1 tablespoon finely grated onion, 1 teaspoon savoury herbs, 2 tablespoons grated raw swede.

Method.—Mix these ingredients with vegetable stock, flavoured with Marmite. Shape and roll in dextrinised wholemeal bread crumbs.

Nut—2

Ingredients.—½ teacup milled nuts, 1 teacup crushed Corn flakes, 1 teaspoon celery salt, 1 teacup finely minced onions, 1 tablespoon raw cucumber juice or pulp.



Method.—Mix and shape into little balls; roll in milled nuts.

Cheese

Ingredients.—1 cup mashed potatoes, 2 ounces grated cheese, little melted butter, 1 cup grated raw beetroot, ½ cup finely diced celery.

Method.—Mix together, and roll in finely grated cheese.

Fruit Savoury Novelty (Not Unfired)

Ingredients.—12 ounces wholemeal flour, 6 ounces grated cheese, 3 bananas, ½ teaspoon cinnamon, 4 ounces butter, 6 ounces seeded raisins, 1 dessertspoon gelatine, 1½ pints boiling water.

Method.—Soak raisins over night in the water; strain and make quantity of liquid up to 1 pint. Sprinkle in cinnamon, and stir in gelatine which has been previously mixed in a little of the cold water. Heat, but do not boil. Pour this over raisins and sliced bananas. Set. Make a paste of butter, flour and cheese mixed with a little water. Roll lightly and line patty pans. Fill with fruit mixture, cover with pastry, and bake 15 minutes in moderate oven.

Salad Dressings

Orange Cream

Ingredients.—About 2 ounces cottage cheese, 1 level dessertspoon honey, 2 ounces ground sweet almonds, juice 1½ large oranges.

Method.—Thoroughly mix honey and cheese; add very gradually the orange juice till all is smooth and creamy. Stir in ground almonds last.

Almond Cream

Ingredients.—About 2 ounces cottage cheese, 1 ounce ground almonds, 1 tablespoon cream, 2 tablespoons raw carrot juice.

Method.—Make carrot juice by grating and squeezing pulp in muslin bag. Mix cheese, almonds and cream lightly together, adding carrot juice gradually.

Plain Mayonnaise That Will Keep

Ingredients.—3 tablespoons wholemeal flour, fine, 2 tablespoons butter, 2 egg yolks, 1 teaspoon salt, a little pepper, 1 cup olive oil, 1½ to 2 cups lukewarm water, juice of one or two lemons, according to taste, about a dessertspoon made mustard.

Method.—Melt butter, add flour, mix well, add luke warm water, stirring till thick over a slow heat. Remove from fire and add lemon juice. Put egg yolks and seasonings into a basin, beat well. Add this to flour and butter, beating continuously. Add gradually olive oil, about o f a cup at a time, and beat thoroughly. Will keep a long time.

Special Mayonnaise Dressing

Ingredients.—1 cup of whipped cream, juice of 1 lemon, 1 teaspoon honey, 3 tablespoons vegetable oil.

Method.—Beat the oil, honey and lemon juice till thoroughly mixed. Slowly add whipped cream. This will keep in covered jar.

Plain Mayonnaise Dressing

Ingredients.—1 yolk of egg, 1 gill (140 ml) salad oil, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, pinch salt.

Method.—Stir the yolk of egg with the salt and add oil drop by drop. As it begins to thicken beat well and add oil in larger quantities. Add lemon juice carefully last of all.

Plain Dressings

No. 1—

Ingredients and Method.—3 spoonfuls of lemon juice to 5 of oil. Add gradually, stirring all the time.

No. 2—

Ingredients.—2 eggs, 4 tablespoons cream, 3 tablespoons lemon juice, ½ teaspoon celery salt, a little mustard if desired, a little grated onion.

Method.—Beat yolks well, add onion, then cream, lemon juice, celery salt, and mustard. Beat all thoroughly.

No. 3— Ingredients and Method.—Mix 1 teaspoon mustard, ½ teaspoon celery salt, 1 teaspoon chopped garlic, 1½ dessertspoons olive or nut oil. Beat all thoroughly together.



No. 4— Ingredients and Method.—1 teacup rich milk, 1 well beaten egg yolk, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, a little mustard and ½ teaspoon celery salt if liked. Mix and beat well.

No. 5— Ingredients and Method.—Mix till creamy 1 cup raw sugar and 2 tablespoons butter. Add unbeaten white of an egg a little at a time, stir for 10 minutes, then add juice of half lemon.

No. 6— Ingredients and Method.—2 tablespoons raw sugar to 1 cup of sour milk. Add lemon juice to taste and mix well.

No. 7— Ingredients and Method.—Beat very lightly 2 egg yolks, add ½ cup thin honey, juice ½ lemon, pinch salt. Cook in double saucepan, stirring all the time till mixture thickens. Cool slightly and fold in stiffly beaten egg whites.

No. 8— Ingredients and Method.—Cook together 3 tablespoons finely chopped onion, the same of finely chopped celery, and 1 cup of tomato sauce, till soft. Rub through coarse sieve.



French Fruit Dressing

Ingredients and Method.—Mix with egg beater the following: 4 tablespoons olive oil, 3 tablespoons orange juice, 3 tablespoons lemon juice, 1 tablespoon honey.

Cream Salad Dressing

Ingredients.—3 tablespoons olive oil, 2½ tablespoons lemon juice, 3 tablespoons cream, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, onion, chives, tarragon, ½ teaspoon salt.

Method.—Beat yolks well, add onion, then cream, lemon juice, celery salt, and mustard. Beat all thoroughly.

Hors d'Oeuvres

Stuffed Tomato Hors d’Oeuvres

Method.—Cut a thin slice from the top of each tomato. Scoop out centre carefully. Chop cucumber and season with a little onion and mix with pulp. Fill tomato cases with this mixture. Pour over French dressing and serve on large lettuce leaf. Substitute finely diced celery for cucumber.

Lattice Hors d’Oeuvres

Method.—Some flat pieces of lettuce leaf. Cut strips of cucumber and put in lattice design on lettuce leaf. Surround with ring of grated carrot. Put a little grated beetroot in centre of cucumber and place a blanched almond on top.

Prune Hors d’Oeuvres

Method.—Remove stone and fill cavity with mixture of chopped cucumber, chopped apple and cream cheese. Serve on lettuce leaf.

Lettuce Rolls Hors d’Oeuvres



Method.—Spread a crisp piece of lettuce with cream cheese, roll up and tie with nasturtium leaf.

Tip-Top Hors d’Oeuvres

Ingredients and Method.—Tomatoes, asparagus, lettuce, a little sour cream. Slice tomatoes about ½-inch thick, cut out small rounds from centre of each and insert 4 or 5 asparagus tips. Serve with sour cream dotted round lettuce.

Basket Hors d’Oeuvres

Ingredients and Method.—Hard boiled eggs, chopped parsley, mustard and cress, olives. Cut eggs lengthwise, mix yolk with chopped parsley, replace and put a slice of stuffed olive in centre. Select a piece of cress stalk to form handle, surround with mustard and cress.

Vegetable and Egg Hors d’Oeuvres

Ingredients and Method.—One large carrot, 1 large potato, green peas. Steam all. Raw beetroot, celery and tomato. Hard boiled eggs. Dice carrot and potato and mix in peas, pour over this a mayonnaise. Shred the beetroot and soak in lemon juice a little while, slice tomato and chop celery. Halve eggs and lightly cover with mayonnaise. Serve on

individual dishes with lettuce leaf foundation, arranging the ingredients in little heaps.

Grapefruit and Lettuce Hors d’Oeuvres

Method.—Peel grapefruit and peel each section without breaking. Arrange about 6 sections on a lettuce leaf. Lightly sprinkle with shredded carrot, mix a little olive oil and lemon juice and pour 1 teaspoon over each helping before serving.

Stuffed Prune Hors d’Oeuvres

Method.—Soak some prunes in lemon juice until swollen and soft. Remove stones and fill with cream cheese and chopped nuts. Surround prunes with sliced tomato and cucumber on lettuce leaf.

Bird’s Nest Hors d’Oeuvres

Method.—Allow 1 slice cooked beetroot per person and on it arrange a nest of mustard and cress. Drop in "eggs" of cream cheese dipped in milled nuts.

Vegetable Dishes

Stuffed Turnips

Ingredients and Method.—6 large turnips. Scoop out centres and peel, leaving ½-inch cup. Simmer till tender and strain. To ½ lb. chopped onion add 2 teaspoons chopped sage and some turnip centres. Cook these in 1 gill (140 ml) of milk 20 minutes. Add 3 ounces brown breadcrumbs. Stuff turnips with this mixture and grate over butter and cheese. Brown in oven for 15 minutes.

Creamed Broad Beans

Ingredients.—To 2 pints broad beans allow ½ pint vegetable stock, 1 egg yolk, 1 gill (140 ml) cream, mint, parsley.

Method.—Partly cook beans and put into a casserole dish with stock and seasoning. Simmer till stock is reduced, add yolk and cream, reheat and serve at once.

Carrots Stewed In Butter

Ingredients.—2 lb. carrots, 1 chopped onion, juice of ½ lemon, 3 tablespoons flour. Method.—Cut carrots into rounds and stew with butter and onion. Add lemon juice, simmer for 40 minutes. Add thickening of wholemeal flour and chopped parsley.

Asparagus and Peas

Method.—Cook equal quantities of asparagus and peas together, the asparagus cut into ½-inch pieces. Serve with butter sauce.

Creamed Peas and Carrots

Method.—Cook equal parts of cubed carrots and peas in as small amount of water as possible till tender, cover with milk and thicken with butter and wholemeal flour.

Stuffed Baked Tomatoes

Method.—Cut slice off top of tomatoes, scoop out centre and fill with mixture of wholemeal breadcrumbs, cheese and chopped parsley. Replace tops and bake in moderate oven.

Marrow En Casserole



Method.—Prepare tender young marrow. Put thinly sliced onion in bottom of a casserole dish; then marrow cut in two. Cover with slices of blanched tomatoes. Mix dessertspoon flour with tablespoon butter and dot in little balls over marrow. Cover closely and simmer till tender. May be served on dry toast as a savoury.

Curried Marrow

Method.—Slice a large onion; add marrow cut into cubes. Sprinkle over 1 dessertspoon wholemeal flour, 1 teaspoon curry powder, 1 tablespoon butter. Simmer till tender.

Cabbage Dutch

Ingredients and Method.—Cut up finely equal quantities of cabbage and unpeeled apples. Add half as much chopped onion as cabbage. Cook with very little water in a closely covered saucepan. Stir frequently. Cook 1 to 1½ hours over slow heat. When half done add 1 tablespoon butter.

Steamed Broad Bean Tops

Method.—Wash and steam without adding any water for half-hour. Chop with a little butter.



Baked Parsnip

Method.—Split parsnips in two and boil in small amount of water until tender. Place in baking dish, add a piece of butter and any water that may be left. Brown lightly, basting 2 or 3 times.

Creamed Cucumber

Ingredients.—2 lbs. cucumber, ½ pint wholemeal sauce, 1 chopped onion, 1 tablespoon wholemeal flour, 1 grated carrot, teaspoon chopped parsley, 2 ounces butter, 1 gill (140 ml) water, a little milk, 1 gill cream.

Method.—Cut cucumber into ½-inch slices and simmer 10 to 15 minutes. Sauce: Stew chopped onion, carrot and parsley in butter. Add 1 gill (140 ml) of water in which cucumber was cooked; mix flour with milk, add and simmer 5 Minutes. Add the cream, mix in strained cucumber, and serve sprinkled with parsley.

Baked Onion and Cheese

Ingredients.—4 large onions, 4 ounces cheese, wholemeal breadcrumbs.

Method.—Partly steam onions and chop them roughly and put into well buttered dish with a very little vegetable stock. Season and cover with an equal mixture of breadcrumbs and cheese. Bake until nicely browned.

Carrot Au Gratin

Ingredients.—1½ lb. grated carrot, 5 ounces cheese, 1 ounce butter, wholemeal bread crumbs.

Method.—Steam carrots and mash; add butter and grated cheese. Put in buttered pie-dish, cover with breadcrumbs and bake until lightly brown.

Baked Onion and Apple En Casserole

Ingredients.—4 medium-sized apples, 6 onions, ⅔ cup of water, 1 tablespoon butter.

Method.—Slice onions thinly. Peel, core and slice apples. Arrange in a buttered casserole dish, add water, dot butter over and bake in moderate oven with lid on for 30 minutes. Remove cover and brown about another fifteen minute

Braised Lettuce

Ingredients.—6 cabbage lettuce, 1 onion, 1 tablespoon cream, 1 tablespoon chopped herbs, 1 tablespoon wholemeal flour.

Method.—Shred lettuce, chop onion and brown in butter; add lettuce, sprinkle in flour and stew gently for 20 minutes. Before serving add herbs and cream.

Celery Au Gratin

Ingredients.—3 large heads of celery, 8 ounces grated cheese, milk, wholemeal breadcrumbs.

Method.—Cut celery into pieces and cook till tender. Mix cheese with milk. Place celery in a greased baking dish, pour mixture over, cover thickly with breadcrumbs, add a few bits of butter and bake until lightly browned.

Baked Beetroot

Ingredients and Method.—Wash and prepare in the same way as potatoes that are to be baked in their jackets. They will take a little longer to cook.

Beetroot In Butter

Ingredients and Method.—Choose medium-sized beetroot. Scrub well and cut into ¼ inch slices. Put into saucepan with 2 ounces butter and cook for ¾ to 1 hour, shaking well from time to time. Serve with the juices and butter with a sprinkling of parsley.

Pumpkin Or Marrow In Butter

Ingredients and Method.—Cook as above for beetroot in butter. Leave pumpkin in its shell if it is not a very old one; otherwise peel it.

Leeks Au Gratin

Ingredients.—6 leeks, ½ ounce wholemeal flour, 1 ounce butter, ½ pint stock, 1½ ounces grated cheese, a little salt, breadcrumbs.

Method.—Trim roots of leeks to within 1 inch of white part. Wash well in salt water and drain. Cook until tender but not soft. Put butter in saucepan and stir in flour, add stock and stir until it boils. Cook for a few minutes and add a little of the cheese. Place leeks in fireproof dish, cover well with sauce, sprinkle over the remainder of cheese mixed with breadcrumbs. Dot small pieces of butter over the top and bake until browned. Serve very hot. This recipe may be used for fritters: Proceed as before, covering leeks with sauce and leaving to cool and set. Dip each piece in egg and breadcrumbs and fry in butter.

Onion Rings



Ingredients and Method.—Peel Spanish onions, cut into thin rings, dip in milk, then wholemeal flour. Drop into smoking hot fat to brown.

Beetroot In Butter

Ingredients and Method.—Carefully wash beetroot, taking care not to bruise skin; cook until tender, about 1 hour if fair size. Cut into cubes, melt butter and reheat in this, adding the juice of a lemon.

Stuffed Onions

Ingredients and Method.—Choose large onions and cook in a very little water and some fat. Scoop out same of the centre and finely chop it, adding 1 dessertspoon breadcrumbs, ½ teaspoon chopped parsley or mint, and 1 dessertspoon grated cheese or nuts for each onion. Mix these ingredients with a little vegetable stock flavoured with Marmite. Blend well and stuff onions firmly, having the mixture rounding well over the top of the onions. Return to oven and bake till tender. Serve with baked potato and steamed spinach.

Savoury Marrow

Ingredients and Method.—Some pieces of marrow. Mince a large raw Spanish onion. Put into saucepan 1 ounce fat. Add onion. Cook for a few minutes to brown them. Grate 1 lb. of young turnips and add. Pour

over these a small teacup of milk. Add sliced marrow. Cook all together gently about 45 to 50 minutes. Serve hot.

Creamed Sprouts

Ingredients.—1 lb. washed Brussels sprouts, 1 pint of fresh milk, 2 ounces grated cheese.

Method.—Butter well a large pudding basin, cut sprouts in half and press them into basin. Beat egg and add to milk, then grated cheese. Pour over sprouts, cover basin and steam 1 hour.

Savoury Vegetable and Meat Substitute Dishes

Savoury Mixed Grill

Ingredients and Method.—Take equal parts of milled nuts, brown breadcrumbs and mashed potatoes. Add a little Marmite and powdered thyme for flavouring. Mix together to a stiff paste with beaten egg. Shape into cutlets and place in a well buttered tin together with some whole tomatoes, whole partly cooked carrots, onions and parsnips. Put plenty of butter on the vegetables and brown well. Serve with thick brown gravy.

Haricot Dumplings

Ingredients and Method.—Soak overnight and cook ½ lb. haricot beans, ½ lb. diced carrots, ½ lb. sliced onions. Use 2 quarts water to this amount and simmer together till tender. Add Marmite to flavour. Prepare some small dumplings by mixing ½ lb. of flour, 3 ounces butter, 2 ounces cheese or ground nuts, a little thyme or mixed herbs and chopped parsley to a stiff paste with a little milk. Cook in the soup for 20 minutes, adding more liquid if necessary.

Haricot Savoury

Ingredients.—½ lb. soaked haricot beans, 2 ounces cheese, 2 hard boiled eggs, 1 teaspoon, parsley, 1 small finely chopped onion, 1 teacup Marmite gravy.

Method.—Cook beans till tender, strain and place a layer in a buttered dish. Sprinkle with minced parsley and onion. Add half the grated cheese and a little seasoning of sage. Cut one of the eggs into thin slices and arrange over the cheese. Add remainder of the beans. Pour Marmite gravy over all. Add remainder of cheese and bake in moderate oven half hour. When cold arrange alternate slices of the other egg with sprigs of parsley.

Risotto

Ingredients.—½ lb. brown unpolished rice, 3 ounces cheese, 3 ounces pine kernels (Brazil or walnuts will do), 4 teaspoons chopped onion, 1 pint stock, 2 ounces butter, large teacup tomato puree, a little seasoning if desired.

Method.—Fry onion in butter. Put in rice and toss for 4 minutes; add pine kernels, put in stock and cook slowly for about 20 minutes or until rice is tender. Add 2 ounces cheese and let pan remain on side of fire, uncovered, for 10 minutes. Pour heated puree into buttered dish, lay rice over smoothly, pour on remaining puree, and sprinkle over the rest of the cheese. Bake until slightly brown.

Savoury Rice

Ingredients and Method.—Slice into a saucepan with a small nut of butter, two or three large, absolutely ripe, skinned tomatoes. Add a little—one quite small—chopped or grated onion. Let this simmer for a few minutes until moist, when add one to one and a half tablespoonfuls of washed, natural brown unpolished rice. See that there is sufficient moisture to cook the rice. Simmer together, stirring occasionally, until cooked—about ¾ to one hour—not less. A change is possible by cooking the rice first with a very little sliced onion; and adding, just before serving, one or two tablespoonfuls of minced parsley.

Celery Pie

Ingredients.—2 heads celery, 1 dessertspoonful butter, mashed potatoes, 1 pint milk, 2 heaped teaspoons of wholemeal flour.

Method.—Cook celery till tender—cook and mash potatoes with a little hot milk. Make a sauce of the milk, butter and flour. Put cooked celery into a greased pie-dish, and pour over it the sauce. Cover with mashed potato decorated with chopped parsley or grated onion. Put dabs of butter on top, and bake in oven a nice brown, for about ¾ to 1 hour.

Cheese Cutlets

Ingredients.—6 ounces grated cheese, teaspoon mixed mustard, 3 ounces butter, 2 egg yolks.

Method.—Mix the cheese, butter, mustard and egg yolks together into a smooth paste. Add salt and cayenne to taste, and stir over the fire until well blended. Put the mixture on a plate to cool, then divide into equal portions, and form into small cutlet shapes.

Whip the whites of the eggs, dip each cutlet in, then coat thickly with breadcrumbs. Insert a small stick of macaroni to take the place of a bone and fry gently in deep fat until nicely browned. Serve very hot.

Nut Roast

Method.—Put 2 large cups of hazels and almonds through mill, add 1½ cups wholemeal breadcrumbs, 1 teaspoon celery salt, mix and allow to stand 10 minutes. Add 1 to ½ cups hot water, mix again and bake in well greased dish 1 to ½ hours in moderate oven.

Almond Cutlets

Ingredients.—¼ lb. butter beans, 2 ounces almonds, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon butter. Method.—Rub soaked and cooked beans through sieve and add almonds blanched and put through mill. Add one of the eggs, beaten, and pinch salt; mix thoroughly. Add cited butter and enough wholemeal breadcrumbs to make it possible to mould into cutlets. Shape into about six cutlets, dip each in egg and breadcrumbs and bake in oven.

Rice Loaf

Ingredients.—2 cups cooked brown rice, 2 cups milled nuts, 4 cups cottage cheese, 4 tablespoons melted butter, 2 teaspoons celery salt.

Method.—Mix well, mould into loaf and bake 35-40 minutes.

Nut and Vegetable Rissoles

Ingredients.—1 large breakfast cup mixed milled nuts, 1 breakfast cup each grated raw carrot, turnip, celeriac, 1½ breakfast cups, cold, well mashed potato, 2 finely chopped onions, ½ teaspoon dried mixed herbs, ½ teaspoon celery salt.

Method.—Mix well and bind with an egg. Form into rissoles, roll in breadcrumbs or oatmeal and bake in medium oven until brown.

Nut Croquettes

Ingredients and Method.—Mix well 1 cup milled nuts (walnuts, almonds, filberts or Brazils), 1 cup wholemeal breadcrumbs soaked in ½ cup of milk, 1 egg, seasoning to taste. Shape and brown in oven.

Stuffed Nut Roast

Ingredients.—4 steamed onions, 6 ounces wholemeal breadcrumbs, 2 ounces fat, ½ teaspoon Marmite, 1 dessertspoon hot stock, 1 dessertspoon powdered sage, ½ cup milled nuts, 1 well beaten egg. 2 ounces onion cream, 3 ounces Soyolk (soya flour).

Method.—Chop onions very fine and beat in other ingredients, dust board with milled nuts, stir together the dry ingredients, make a hole and pour in beaten egg and stock. Mix to a stiff paste. Roll out and fill with the stuffing, like a sandwich. Brush each side before stuffing and before adding top layer, with egg, brush outside also to prevent loss of moisture. Bake well 20-30 minutes.

Stuffing: Chop onions well and beat in other seasonings; work to right consistency with small amount of stock.

Nut Cutlets

Ingredients.—4 breakfast cups wholemeal breadcrumbs, 3 cups milled nuts, ½ cup minced onion, ½ cup parsley, 2 eggs.

Method.—Shape and bake 1 hour. Serve with tomato sauce.

Rice Cheese Savoury



Ingredients.—4 ounces rice, 4 ounces cheese, butter, 2 beaten eggs, ½ pint milk, nutmeg.

Method.—Soak rice overnight in boiling water; then wash well. Cook, butter it, then mix in ⅔ cheese, half quantity of egg and any herbs or seasoning that is liked. Pour rest of egg, cheese and milk over top and dust with nutmeg. Bake till lightly browned.

Summer Stew

Ingredients.—1 bunch of young carrots, 3 or 4 young turnips, 1 large minced onion, 2 tablespoons of seedless raisins or sultanas, water or vegetable stock, 1 lb. shelled peas,.1 large sweet ripe apple, 1 large tablespoon of brown gage, 1½ ounces nut fat, chopped mint.

Method.—Melt fat in a casserole dish, add stock and cook minced onions 10 minutes. Now add carrots cut in long thin strips, the turnips (grated), then raisins and sago. Just cover with stock. When it comes to the boil add peas and chopped apple. Cook gently half to one hour.

Cauliflower, Tomato and Cheese Casserole

Ingredients.—1 large cauliflower, 1 cup grated cheese; 4 large tomatoes, butter, wholemeal breadcrumbs, minced onion, ¾ pint milk, flour.



Method.—Steam cauliflower and break into sprigs, slice tomatoes. Make a sauce of flour, butter, milk and seasoning and add onions, which have been cooked in a little butter. Put alternate layers of cauliflower, tomato, cheese, breadcrumbs and sauce into a casserole dish, finishing with breadcrumbs, and bake in moderate oven 35 to 40 minutes.

Nut and Vegetable Roast

Ingredients.—1 cup grated carrot, 1 cup bread crumbs, 1 egg, ½ cup milled nuts, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 cup strained tomato, onion to taste.

Method.—Mix, shape into loaf and steam 1 hour, then brown in oven.

Compote Vegetables and Forcemeat

Ingredients.—1 lb. new potatoes, 1 lb. young peas (shelled), 1½ lb. new turnips and carrots (mixed), 2 Spanish onions or large bunch spring onions, 2 tablespoons wholemeal flour, mint. Method.—Dice turnips and carrots, shell peas, leave potatoes whole. Place all in saucepan, just cover with vegetable stock and bring to boil. Throw in mint. Turn gas very low and simmer for ¼ hour.

Prepare forcemeat balls as follows:



Ingredients.—3 ounces nuts (walnuts), 3 ounces brown breadcrumbs, 1 dessertspoon of oil, 1 egg.

Method.—Mix nuts, herbs, breadcrumbs and onions together, stir in oil and bind with beaten egg. Roll into little balls with plenty of wholemeal flour. When vegetables have cooked, stir in one teaspoon of Marmite. Drop in forcemeat balls and cook gently another 25 to 30 minutes.. When done take out forcemeat balls and potatoes and arrange round dish and keep hot. Sprinkle flour into saucepan, stir a few minutes. When compote is thick, dish in centre of potatoes, etc. Forcemeat balls can be cooked separately in deep fat and served with any conservatively cooked vegetables.

Vegetable Roast

Ingredients.—¼ cup melted butter, 1½ cups milled nuts, 3 eggs, 2 tablespoons minced onions, ½ cup of milk, or enough to moisten sufficiently, 1 cup celery cut fine, 3 cups wholemeal breadcrumbs, 1 tablespoon minced parsley, little salt and Marmite.

Method.—Mix all well together, form into loaf, bake in moderate oven about an hour. Baste with melted butter and water mixed.

Summer Vegetables Medley

Ingredients.—1 cauliflower (small), 1 bunch young carrots, 3 or 4 young turnips, 1 lb. new peas (shelled), 3 or 4 new potatoes, 1 tablespoon of pot barley, finely chopped mint to taste.

Method.—Divide cauliflower into small pieces, leave carrots whole if small, if not cut lengthwise, turnips cut in circles, potatoes in cubes, shelled peas, chopped mint. Place all vegetables in a casserole dish, cauliflower at the bottom, then carrots, turnips, peas, potatoes, with the barley on top and lastly the mint. Pour in sufficient boiling water to barely cover the vegetables, put on lid, and cook very gently until all moisture is absorbed. Look from time to time to make sure water has not cooked away too soon. Add more as required. Serve with coddled eggs, cream cheese or any of the simple egg or cheese dishes. Dry toasted bread, or or baked bread, or RyeVita biscuits make the hard food.

Potatoes with Cheese

Ingredients and Method.—Boil in their jackets one pound of potatoes. Mash them and add 2 tablespoonfuls of butter, a little wholemeal breadcrumbs soaked in milk, and three tablespoonfuls of grated cheese. Beat to a smooth, fairly stiff consistency. Add the lightly whisked yolks of 2 eggs, a dessertspoon of chopped parsley and a little pepper and salt. Lastly add the egg whites stiffly whisked. Put into a greased piedish, smooth the top and brush over with melted butter. Do not fill dish too full as the mixture rises. Bake in a moderate oven for an hour and a quarter. It should be light, nicely set and golden.

Cauliflower Roast

Ingredients.—1 large cauliflower, ½ lb. of milled Brazil nuts, 1 meagre cupful of wholemeal breadcrumbs, 1 ounce butter, 3 or 4 tablespoons of strong onion stock.

Method.—Partly cook cauliflower, break into small pieces and pile on to a greased dish (baking dish). Melt fat, mix with breadcrumbs, stock and nuts to make a stiff paste. Cover the cauliflower with this mixture and cover again with a layer of toasted crumbs or Corn flakes. Dot with butter. Bake quickly to brown.

Potatoes Au Gratin

Ingredients.—2 lb. potatoes, 1 tablespoon breadcrumbs, 1½ teaspoons wholemeal flour, 4 tablespoons grated cheese, 1 tablespoon finely minced onion, a little butter.

Method.—Wash and boil potatoes in their jackets. Peel and cut into slices. Butter a pie-dish, put in a layer of potatoes, sprinkle with a little onion and cheese, then another layer of potatoes and so on. Mix the flour with 1 gill (140 ml) of milk or vegetable stock and pour over all. Sprinkle top with breadcrumbs and dot with butter. Bake half an hour.

Onion Tart

Ingredients and Method.—Line a shallow dish with short crust. Cut up a bunch or two of spring onions, or ordinary onions, brown in butter and add a pinch of salt. Remove from fire and stir in 3 eggs and 3 large

tablespoons thick cream, and when well mixed pour into the pastry. Cook in hot oven for half an hour.

Celery Loaf

Ingredients.—1 small cup wholemeal breadcrumbs, cup minced parsley, 1 large minced onion, 2 eggs, well beaten, pinch of whole spice, 1½ cups diced celery, ¾ cup walnuts, ground finely, 4 small mushrooms (if in season) , 1 teaspoon butter, 1½ cups milk.

Method.—Mix well, stand 20 minutes. Bake in moderate oven for half an hour.

Cheese and Potato Roast

Ingredients.—1 cupful grated cheese, ½ lb. potatoes cooked in jackets, then finely mashed, 2 cupfuls wholemeal breadcrumbs, 1 egg, onion flavouring.

Method.—Mix well together, bind with egg, press firmly together, sprinkle with flour and bake for half an hour.

Macaroni and Nut Cutlets

Ingredients.—¼ lb. wholemeal macaroni, ¼ lb. milled walnuts, 1 egg, 1 onion, 1 dessertspoon finely chopped parsley, ½ cup Marmite stock.

Method.—Put macaroni into boiling water and cook. Then mince it. Add nuts, the minced and browned onion, beaten egg, parsley, etc. Mix all together well. Form into cutlets, brush with a little of the beaten egg and breadcrumbs (dextrinised) and bake in oven, or fry in butter.

Mushroom Cutlets

Ingredients.—2 lb. mushrooms, 2 ounces wholemeal flour, 2 eggs, 4 ounces wholemeal breadcrumbs.

Method.—Peel and chop mushrooms and mix the flour and breadcrumbs well together. Add the mushrooms to these with a little salt. Add beaten eggs and a little milk if necessary. Form into cutlets and dip in egg and baked breadcrumbs, and fry in olive oil until golden brown. Serve very hot with slices of lemon.

Nut Meat

Ingredients.—½ cup each of walnuts, Brazils, and almonds minced, ½ cup peanut butter, 2 cups wholemeal flour, 1 onion, enough boiling water to moisten the whole.

Method.—Let stand for 10 minutes and then add 1 cup of cold water with 1 egg beaten into it and mix. well. Flavour with a little celery salt, put into an oiled dish and bake for 1 hour in moderate oven. Serve either hot or cold. If hot, serve with brown gravy.

Cauliflower and Nut Pie

Ingredients.—1 large cauliflower, ½ teacup grated cheese, ½ teacup minced nuts, ½ pint thick sauce made with wholemeal flour, butter and milk.

Method.—For potato crust: ½ lb. potatoes cooked in their jackets and mashed after peeling, 4 ounces wholemeal flour, 2 ounces butter, little milk. Wash the cauliflower and boil it gently until tender, then break into neat flowerettes and place in a greased casserole dish or pie-dish. Cover with the nuts and grated cheese, and pour over all the lettuce.

Mix the flour with the mashed potato; rub in butter; add seasoning to taste and enough cold milk to make easily handled and formed into a paste. Roll out on floured board about ½-inch thick; cover the cauliflower, etc., and bake in moderate oven about half an hour.

Macaroni Cheese

Ingredients and Method.—Boil 3 ounces macaroni in quickly boiling water, slightly salted. Drain well. Make sauce of ½ pint of milk, 1 gill (140 ml) of water in which the wholemeal macaroni was cooked, 1 ounce wholemeal flour, and 2 ounces butter. Add the macaroni, a

teaspoon of made mustard, a little finely minced onion, 4 ounces grated cheese and seasonings. When well mixed pour into a well greased fireproof dish, sprinkle with a little cheese (about an ounce), some breadcrumbs, and pour over a little melted butter. Brown in oven.

Broad Bean Pie

Ingredients.—2lb. young beans, 1 large Spanish onion, shredded, a little fresh sage or half a teaspoon of dried sage. Method.—Cook all together, allowing just enough water to make a little gravy when done. When nearly cooked turn into pie-dish and add ¼ teaspoon of Marmite to the juice. Make following mixture and place on top of beans, adding a finishing layer of Corn flakes or breadcrumbs, and bake for half an hour.

Mixture: 3 tablespoons of wholemeal flour, yolks of 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons of grated cheese. Mix flour with milk and egg yolks well beaten, and lastly cheese. Make this of a creamy consistency.

Granose Cheese Savoury

Ingredients.—2 breakfast cups of Corn flakes, 2 eggs, 4 ounces grated cheese, ¾ pint of milk.

Method.—Mix flakes and cheese together, beat eggs and add milk, stir in flakes, place in buttered dish and bake till brown.



Steamed Nut Savoury

Ingredients.—1 shredded wheat biscuit, 2 ounces milled Brazils, 2 ounces milled walnuts or peanuts, 1 small egg to bind mixture, 5 tablespoons of strong vegetable stock, flavoured with ¼ teaspoon of Marmite if liked.

Method.—Break up shredded wheat into fine crumbs and cover with the heated stock. When the crumbs are softened stir in the nuts. Bind with whisked egg. Place in buttered dish and steam 30 minutes. Can be eaten hot or cold.

Tokyo Savoury

Ingredients.—½ cup of brown rice, 1 large onion, 1 breakfast cup grated Cheddar cheese, 1 egg, 1 shredded Wheat Biscuit or toast crumbs, water.

Method.—Wash rice very well, place in double boiler, cover with boiling water, add raw onion chopped very small, and cook till grains separate and onion is quite tender. Turn into bowl, add cheese, and mix with well beaten egg. Sprinkle crumbs over mixture. Bake in hot oven 20 minutes.

Sicilian Savoury

Ingredients.—1 dessertspoon of nut oil, 3 large Spanish onions, 4 ounces of egg vermicelli, 4 ounces grated cheese, 1 tablespoon of brown breadcrumbs, 3 medium-sized tomatoes, 3 tablespoons of vegetable stock.

Method.—Mince onions, skin tomatoes, break up vermicelli. Pour oil and stock into saucepan, add onions, etc., and cook gently until soft. Add breadcrumbs and cheese. Stir a few minutes merely to heat through. Serve on very hot dish, sprinkle with parsley and rest of cheese.

Nut Meat Supreme

Ingredients.—6 ounces of milled mixed nuts, 2 ounces toasted brown breadcrumbs, 1 teaspoon of mixed herbs, ½ ounce nut fat, ½ gill (70m ml) of vegetable stock, 2 ounces cooked mashed potatoes, 2 ounces cooked brown rice, ½ teaspoon of powdered sage, 1 minced raw onion, 1 egg.

Method.—Mix herbs and celery salt into nuts, add breadcrumbs and onions, work potato in smoothly, warm fat and mix in. Beat egg and mix in the stock and mix all to a firm paste. Be careful not to make it too wet. Put into greased basin and steam 30 minutes. Leave in basin to cool. Turn out. Use next day if possible as it cuts better.

Vegetable Savoury

Ingredients.—2 large parsnips, 2 ounces cottage cheese (home made), chopped parsley, wholemeal breadcrumbs, ½ pint vegetable stock, a little grated Cheddar cheese.



Method.—Cook and mash parsnips, add cottage cheese, sprinkle wholemeal flour or crumbs on board, lay mixture on and shape into cakes about an inch thick. Roll thickly in grated cheese and grill on both sides. Serve with vegetable stock boiled up with diced carrot or beetroot flavoured with minced onion; or with brown sauce.

Granose Globes

Ingredients.—1 breakfast cup of strained mashed potatoes, 1 teacup of Corn flakes, 1 teacup of dry Cheddar cheese, 1 egg.

Method.—Mix all together, add beaten egg, and if necessary a little milk. Form into balls in plenty of oatmeal, fry in deep fat or bake in hot oven till slightly brown.

Dutch Pie

Ingredients.—6 potatoes, 1 onion, 4 ounces of cheese, teacup of breadcrumbs, 1 breakfast cup of milk, 1 dessertspoon of butter, seasoning.

Method.—Grease dish, dust over with breadcrumbs and cheese. Mix rest of crumbs and cheese, onion and salt. Slice potatoes finely and fill dish with alternate layers. Dot over with butter, pour milk over, steam or bake 1 hour.

Nut Surprise

Ingredients.—2 cupsful of breadcrumbs, ¼ cupful of walnuts, ¼ cupful of Barcelonas, cupful of peanuts, ¼ cupsful of boiled rice, ¼ cupful of almonds, 6 hard-boiled eggs, 3 raw eggs, 1 teaspoon of grated onion, seasoning.

Method.—Put breadcrumbs into saucepan, cover with water and boil 5 minutes. Remove from fire and add nuts which have been milled or minced. Then add rice, hard boiled eggs chopped fine, seasoning, etc. Stir well, add raw eggs well beaten. Shape into loaf. Brush with butter and bake in moderate oven 1 hour. Serve very hot.

Home-made Cheese

To 1 pint milk, preferably from the day before, add 2 teaspoons lemon juice. Stir with wooden spoon. Heat very gently in enamel saucepan. Strain through muslin. Break up curd and if possible add a little cream. A little finely grated onion, or tomato pulp, finely grated cheese, parsley or mint make a variety of flavours. This is specially suitable to serve with vegetables and salads.

Savoury Rabbit*

Ingredients and Method.—Soak rabbits in salted water 1 hour. Dry well, cut into neat joints and coat with wholemeal flour and seasoning. Place in a casserole dish with sliced onions. Cover with milk; put on lid

and gently bake in oven 1½ hours. Prepare a forcemeat, remove lid from casserole dish and pour off a little of the milk, cover rabbit with forcemeat and bake in oven 1 hour more without lid.

Forcemeat: 4 ounces wholemeal breadcrumbs, 2 ounces butter, 1 teaspoon parsley, ½ teaspoon mixed dried herbs, a little salt and 1 beaten egg. This may be varied by substituting 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind, or 1 teaspoon chopped onion, 3 or 4 sage leaves or tomato sauce.

Vegetable Curry

Ingredients and Method.—Fry 1 large apple and onion finely sliced. Cook till tender and add about 1½ cups milk or stock, a little salt and seasoning, 1 teaspoon sugar and small piece butter and 1 dessertspoon curry powder. Stir well and bring to the boil. Now add any left over vegetables—cooked peas, beans, parsnips, celery, cabbage, etc.—or one kind alone makes a very savoury dish. Mix in a little wholemeal flour. Heat vegetables through thoroughly and serve very hot. If liked a border of boiled brown rice may be served round the curry.

Nut and Vegetable Pie

Ingredients and Method.—One cup dried beans which have been soaked and partly cooked (lima, haricot, or navy beans will do), 2 turnips, 1 head of celery, 6 mushrooms, if obtainable, 2 carrots, 1 large onion, 1 cup milk, mashed potato and ½ lb. finely chopped nuts. Put partly cooked beans, carrots, turnips, celery and onion into milk and stew gently until tender. Prepare mushrooms and place them on top of

vegetables in a pie-dish. Sprinkle over a little chopped parsley and add a small piece of butter. Cover with a thick covering of mashed potatoes dotted with butter. Cover with chopped or milled nuts and bake till brown. Serve very hot with melted butter sauce.

Cabbage and Cheese Pie

Ingredients.—1 lb. shredded cabbage, 4 tablespoons butter, 4 tablespoons wholemeal flour, 2 cups milk, 1 teaspoon salt, ½ lb. Cheddar cheese, 1½ cups broken spaghetti.

Method.—Cook spaghetti in boiling salted water till tender. Drain well. Melt butter in saucepan, stir in flour and when frothy stir in milk. Keep stirring till smooth; then season and add cheese. Place cabbage, spaghetti and sauce in layers in a buttered dish; cover with wholemeal breadcrumbs and dot with butter. Bake from ¾ hour in moderate oven.

Cottage Cheese

Ingredients and Method.—Set 1 quart of milk, and skim off the cream. Save cream. Make an ordinary junket without sweetening, with the skimmed milk. When junket has set break up with a fork and heat slowly over a low gas. Stir with fork until the whey separates from the curd—this takes only a few minutes; remove from gas, and drain off the whey. Leave to stand for a few hours, then mash curd up with a fork, and add some of the cream which was saved. This curd gives a generous helping for four people.

Bean, Carrot and Peanut Loaf

Ingredients.—1 cup each grated raw carrot and thick bean pulp, ¼ cup peanut butter, 1 cup wholemeal breadcrumbs, 1 cup tomatoes, 1 cup boiled brown rice, 2 tablespoons butter, ¼ teaspoon mustard, ½ small onion, minced; a little minced celery, seasoning according to taste.

Method.—Mix in given order and shape into loaf. Bake about 45 minutes.

Savoury Moulds and Jellies

Gelazone Galantine

Ingredients.—6 ounces milled walnuts, 3 ounces wholemeal breadcrumbs, 1 egg, 1 gill (140 ml) milk, medium minced onion.

Method.—Mix and steam 1 hour in greased basin. Cut into cubes when cold. For Jelly: Pint strong vegetable stock, gelo or gelatine or agar agar, 1 teaspoon sage tied in muslin, Marmite. Pour this over alternate layers of cubed peas, carrots or any other suitable cooked vegetable. Decorate with parsley and serve with green salad.

Savoury Tomato Jelly

Ingredients.—1 lb. fresh tomatoes, 1 teaspoon agar agar, small minced onion, 2 ounces sago, ½ pint strong vegetable stock, ½ gill (70 ml) cold water, 6 ounces ground walnuts, 1 ounce butter.

Method.—Cook skinned tomatoes, sago, butter and stock. Then beat well with fork over pot of boiling water with the agar. Remove, add onion and nuts, set, decorate, and serve with salad.

Cheese Mould

Ingredients.—4 medium-sized tomatoes, 1½ ounces breadcrumbs, 3 ounces cheese, 1 tablespoon agar agar, ½ pint strong vegetable stock, minced onion or leek.

Method.—Mash skinned tomatoes and gradually add cheese, then breadcrumbs. Dissolve the agar or gelatine in the stock, add all ingredients. Set and serve with salad.

Lentil and Rice Mould

Ingredients.—1½ cups lentils, 1 cup rice, 1 grated onion, 1 teaspoon mixed herbs, 2 tablespoons butter, 1 teaspoon salt.

Method.—Cook rice and lentils together, add other ingredients, steam in buttered basin 1½ hours, turn out when cold, garnish and serve with salad.

Savoury Jelly

Ingredients and Method.—Make a strong soup by simmering onions, carrots, parsnips, etc. Add a little parsley or sage, dissolve sufficient gelatine and add to strained stock. Serve cold.

Savoury Brawn

Ingredients.—1 pint strong vegetable stock, 2 ounces steamed carrots cut into tiny dice, 2 ounces wholemeal macaroni, good teaspoon Marmite, Nut Meat Supreme as given in this book, sufficient gelatine to set.

Method.—Prepare macaroni by breaking up into small pieces and cooking in barely 1 gill (140 ml) water 10 to 15 minutes. Pour stock into double boiler, add Marmite and gelatine and cook gently till dissolved. Wet a mould and put in alternate layers of carrots, macaroni and nut meat; continue till basin is three parts filled. Pour jelly liquid over all, cover closely and set aside to cool. Green peas and broad beans may be used with advantage instead of macaroni.

Egg Dishes, Soufflés, Omelettes, Savoury Batters, and Pancakes

Cheese Tart

Ingredients.—1 ounce butter, 2 eggs, ¾ ounce wholemeal flour, ¼ pint milk, 2 ounces grated cheese. Salt, pepper and a little mustard or cayenne.

Method.—Melt the butter in a pan, mix well with the flour, then add the milk and boil. Add the grated cheese, egg yolks, and seasonings. Lastly stir in the egg whites beaten stiffly, one at a time. Line a shallow tin with short crust made with wholemeal flour and butter, pour in mixture and bake till set and brown.

Spinach Soufflé

Ingredients.—1 lb. cooked spinach, 3 eggs, ½ ounce butter, 2 tablespoons cream.

Method.—Steam spinach and rub through sieve, add yolks and cream, then stiffly beaten whites. Sprinkle with a few wholemeal breadcrumbs and bake ¼ hour.

Cheese and Tomato Soufflé

Ingredients.—¼ lb. butter, 4 eggs, ¼ lb. wholemeal flour, ¼ lb. cheese, ½ pint milk, 4 tomatoes.

Method.—Skin and chop tomatoes. Make sauce of butter, flour and milk. Mix in yolks and cheese, add beaten whites, pour over tomatoes and bake in hot oven 15 to 20 minutes.

Onion Soufflé

Ingredients.—2 tablespoons of flour (wholemeal), 3 tablespoons butter, 3 tablespoons cheese (finely grated), 3 eggs, ¾ pint of milk, 2 pounds onions.

Method.—Peel and chop onions fairly fine and stew for 10 minutes in the butter, add a little salt. Make the cheese, milk and flour into a sauce, using some of the milk to mix the flour with. Cook for a few minutes. Take off the fire and stir in the egg yolks and when quite cold and just before putting into the oven, the stiffly beaten white. Put the onions into a deep dish or casserole dish and pour over the sauce. Bake 25 to 35 minutes.

Green Pea Soufflé

Same as Onion Soufflé.



French Bean Soufflé

Same as Onion Soufflé.

Cauliflower Soufflé

Same as Onion Soufflé.

Carrot Shape with Great Peas

Ingredients and Method.—2 cups cooked and finely mashed carrot, add a little seasoning to taste and some finely shredded onion and three eggs beaten with a cup of rich milk. Put into a well buttered pyrex dish, and push a small basin down the middle, and bake gently until the egg mixture is set. Lift out the basin and fill hollow with freshly cooked green peas, sprinkled with finely chopped mint.

Swiss Eggs

Ingredients and Method.—Line a shallow dish with grated cheese, and pour in a mixture of 1 cup of milk, 1 beaten egg, salt, pepper, mustard to taste. Break in as many eggs as required and bake for 10 minutes or so in hot oven.



Vegetable Soufflé

Ingredients.—1 or 2 cauliflowers, 2 lb. potatoes, 2½ ounces butter, 2½ ounces flour, 2 pints vegetable stock and milk, 4 ounces cheese, little cream, 3 eggs.

Method.—Steam cauliflower till only just soft. Cook potatoes in jackets and peel. Slice thinly and put in dish. Sprinkle with half the cheese. Break cauliflower, and put on potatoes, cover with sauce of butter, flour, milk stock, cream and beaten eggs. Sprinkle with cheese and butter. Cook in hot oven ½ to ¾ hour till brown crust is formed.

Spinach Entree

Ingredients.—1 lb. spinach, 4 ounces wholemeal breadcrumbs, 2 tomatoes, 1 large onion, 4 ounces grated cheese, ½ pint stock and milk, 2 eggs.

Method.—Steam spinach and chop finely, skin and chop tomatoes, mince onions. Mix these with the breadcrumbs, stock and cheese. Add yolks and mix well. Whisk whites very stiff and fold in. Bake in greased dish till firmly set.

Eggs and Granose

Ingredients and Method.—Two tablespoons Corn flakes and a little butter. Break egg on to this; set in oven; serve with greens and carrots.

Spinach Omelette

Ingredients.—2 tablespoons cooked spinach for each person, 1 ounce butter, 2 eggs.

Method.—Before folding omelette over place spinach as hot and dry as possible on top, fold and finish cooking about another minute.

Walnut Omelette

Ingredients.—2 eggs, 2 tablespoons milk, 2 dessertspoons chopped walnuts, 1 dessertspoon seedless raisins.

Method.—Beat eggs very thoroughly, add milk and beat again. Melt some butter in pan. Mix nuts into eggs and milk lightly and quickly. Pour in pan and stir till cooked. Toss out, sprinkle with raisins, fold over and serve with spinach or other green vegetable.

Vegetable Omelette

Ingredients.—2 eggs, butter, 2 or 3 tomatoes, sliced and grilled, green peas (about a cupful), 2 carrots, cooked and diced.

Method.—Beat white and yolks separately and mix together. Heat butter and pour in eggs; cook till set. Place some of the peas, carrots and tomato on top, fold over, and serve with rest of vegetables.

Sylvan Eggs

Ingredients and Method.—Line a greased pie-dish with hot mashed potatoes, add a layer of hot mashed carrot, then one of hot minced onion. Break in 1 egg for each person, sprinkle with butter and chopped parsley and breadcrumbs, cover with another pie-dish and bake till eggs are set.

Breadcrumb and Onion Omelette with Cheese Sauce

Ingredients.—4 eggs, 1 cup wholemeal breadcrumbs, 1 onion, ½ pint milk, 1 ounce cheese, ½ ounce butter.

Method.—Sauce: Melt the butter and stir in flour, 1 tablespoonful. Add slowly ½ pint milk. Stir till smooth and cooked; then add cheese. Soak the breadcrumbs in equal quantities of milk and water and then drain them. Brown finely chopped onion in butter. Mix breadcrumbs and yolks and lightly fold in well beaten whites. Pour the mixture over onions, cover and cook gently. Serve folded over with sauce poured round. If mushrooms are procurable they may be chopped, fried and added to the sauce.



Fricasse of Eggs

Ingredients.—4 eggs, 4 tomatoes, 1 pint white sauce, 2 tablespoons wholemeal breadcrumbs, 1 teaspoon chopped parsley, 1 ounce butter, seasoning.

Method.—Hard boil eggs and cut into quarters; add to sauce and heat through gently. Cut tomatoes in halves, sprinkle with salt and crumbs, put a little butter on each and bake till tender. Put eggs on dish, sprinkle parsley over, arrange tomatoes round and serve very hot.

Bombay Eggs

Ingredients.—1 egg, a pinch of curry powder, 3 tablespoons cooked rice, spinach.

Method.—Break egg into basin and stand in bowl of hot water half-way up. When egg begins to set stir in curry powder quickly, but gently. Put the hot rice surrounded with spinach on to plate, turn egg on top. Have egg just creamy.

Curried Egg Rissoles

Ingredients.—4 hard boiled eggs, 4 ounces breadcrumbs, 2 ounces Soyolk (soya flour), 1 grated raw apple, 1 beaten egg, ¾ teaspoon Marmite, 1 dessertspoon curry powder, hot vegetable stock to mix.

Method.—Grate in to the breadcrumbs the eggs; add all other ingredients and bind with egg. Shape into rissoles, brush with egg, fry in deep fat.

Egg Cutlets

Ingredients.—3 eggs, ½ pint of milk, 1 ounce butter, 2 ounces flour, breadcrumbs.

Method.—Boil eggs well until just hard, and put through sieve. Make a sauce with other ingredients, sufficiently thick to stand in balls when mixed with eggs. Allow to get cold. Shape into cutlets, dip in egg and breadcrumbs, Cook in very hot fat 2 minutes.

Tomato Eggs

Ingredients and Method.—1 large tomato, cut in half and cooked gently in a casserole dish. Take from casserole dish and scoop out pulp, drop raw egg inside. Return to casserole dish and cook till egg is set. Make sauce of pulp with stock, flour, etc. Serve with spinach and carrots.

Baked Eggs

Ingredients and Method.—Butter individual dishes, add 1 tablespoon milk to each, sprinkle with chopped chives, parsley or onion; break in egg; sprinkle with wholemeal breadcrumbs and bake.

Egg and Potato Pie

Ingredients.—1 lb. potatoes, 2 ounces grated cheese, 6 hard boiled eggs, ½ pint wholemeal flour sauce.

Method.—Leave boiled potatoes till quite cold. Fill a dish with alternate layers sliced potatoes and sliced egg. Sprinkle cheese between layers and season. Pour over sauce, sprinkle with thin layer of cheese and brown in oven.

Egg and Lentil Savoury

Ingredients.—4 ounces lentils, 2 roast onions, 1 grated hard boiled egg, 1 tomato, butter, casserole vegetables.

Method.—Cook lentils quickly in stock. When vegetables and lentils are ready place vegetables in pie-dish. Make a crust of egg and lentils. Chop tomato and onion finely, add a little butter and a little Marmite dissolved in

hot water, mix with tomato and onion and add these to vegetables, in dish. Cover with lentil crust, brush with egg and bake.

Savoury Batter (3 to 4 people)

Ingredients.—¼ lb. wholemeal flour, 1 pint of milk, 3 new laid eggs, 2 raw and minced Spanish onions, ½ teaspoon of Marmite.

Method.—Pour flour into bowl, make well in middle and break the eggs into the hollow. Beat with fork thoroughly. Melt Marmite in just a little of the milk, then add to cold milk, gradually working it into the batter until all is smooth. Mix in minced onion. If mixture can stand for an hour or even 30 minutes the result will be better. Pour mixture into well greased dish and bake in moderate oven 10 to 50 minutes.

Savoury Eggs

Ingredients and Method.—Eggs poached in small moulds with parsley and cheese sprinkled at bottom. Serve with spinach or chopped buttered cabbage, or turnip, but if turnips are used serve also some green or juicy vegetable or marrow, runner beans, onions, cabbage, etc.

Fish Dishes

Savoury Fish Flan

Ingredients and Method.—Butter a pie-dish and put in fillets of fish; season and sprinkle with lemon juice. Melt I ounce butter, mix in 2 tablespoons wholemeal flour, 1 teaspoon chopped parsley, 1 teaspoon curry powder. Work in 2 beaten eggs and ½ pint milk. Pour over fish. Stand pie-dish in a tin of water and bake in moderate oven for half hour.

Fish With Lemon Sauce

Ingredients and Method.—2 lb. white fish. Put 1½ breakfast cups milk and small onion in a pan and when almost boiling add fish cut in pieces. Simmer till fish is lender, about 10 minutes. Remove fish and onion, add beaten egg with juice and rind of half a lemon. Stir till it thickens. Pour over fish and decorate with parsley. May be eaten hot or cold.

Fish Salad

Ingredients and Method.—2 lb. cold steamed fish in small pieces. Line salad bowl with lettuce leaves, pile fish In centre. Cover with

mayonnaise and decorate with parsley. Round base of fish arrange water cress, diced cooked beetroot, sliced tomato and cucumber.

Filleted Fish with Mushrooms

Ingredients and Method.—Cook mushrooms in butter till tender. Rub fillets with lemon juice. Cool and chop mushrooms; spread on fillets, roll up, cook 20 minutes in a well buttered casserole dish.

Fish Soufflé

Ingredients.—2 ounces cooked fish, 1 gill (140 ml) milk, 1 teaspoon flour, 1 teaspoon parsley, 1 egg.

Method.—Flake fish finely, make sauce of butter, flour and milk. Cook and remove from fire, add seasonings and yolk; add fish, lastly fold in well beaten white. Bake till brown and serve at once. Quantity for one person.

Groper Rarebit

Ingredients and Method.—Cut 1 lb. groper into fillets; sprinkle with lemon juice. Bake with dots of butter 15 minutes in moderate oven. When nearly done sprinkle over 3 ounces grated cheese and some chopped parsley. Put another once butter into dish and cook till slightly browned.



Fish Curry

Ingredients.—1 lb. white fish, such as blue cod or groper, 2 ounces butter, 1 small onion, 12 sultanas, 1 tomato, ½ pint milk, 1 large dessertspoon wholemeal flour, salt to taste, teacupful brown rice, 1 teaspoon curry powder.

Method.—Wash fish and strip from bone, put into a saucepan with the milk, grated onion, tomato, and a sprinkling of salt. Simmer gently for 20 minutes, then remove from pan, flake. Heat butter and mix flour in smoothly, strain into this the milk in which fish was cooked and stir over gentle heat till it thickens. Mix the curry powder with the fish and stir into sauce; add sultanas.

Boil rice in salted water 20 minutes, drain well and shake, the grains separate; make into a ring on hot dish and pour curry mixture into centre. Garnish lemon and parsley.

Savoury Fish

Ingredients and Method.—Sprinkle any kind of white fish with a little salt and pepper and place in earthenware dish. Pour over ½ pint milk and ½ pint water. Cover dish, cook slowly in oven till fish is tender. Lift out fish and keep hot. Add 2 tablespoons wholemeal breadcrumbs and 1 ounce of butter to liquid and cook till crumbs swell and sauce thickens. Then add chopped parsley and 3 teaspoons lemon juice, return fish to sauce and serve at once.



Baked Fish

Ingredients.—1 fish such as cod or trevally, 1 cup wholemeal breadcrumbs, 1 dessertspoon chopped parsley, 1½ ounces butter, teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon pepper, 1 teaspoon chopped thyme or grated lemon rind, 1 egg.

Method.—Rub butter into breadcrumbs and add all other ingredients, bind with beaten egg. Place this in the prepared fish, sew up or fasten with skewer. Brush a baking dish with melted butter, lay fish on, brush over with remainder of beaten egg, and dust with browned breadcrumbs. Cover with buttered paper and cook in moderate oven about 1 hour. Test thick part of fish with skewer. Serve hot.

Fish Savoury

Ingredients.—1 lb. sliced uncooked fish, 1 pint wholemeal sauce, 2 tablespoons grated cheese, 1 breakfast cup wholemeal breadcrumbs, 1 teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon pepper, 2 teaspoons chopped parsley.

Method.—Place fish in a buttered casserole dish, cover with sauce, add grated cheese, sprinkle over the breadcrumbs, dot with butter and bake half an hour in moderate oven.

Fish Pie



Ingredients.—5 slices of cooked flaked fish, 2 hard boiled eggs, ½ pint sauce, 1 dessertspoon chopped parsley, seasoning, 1 breakfast cup wholemeal breadcrumbs.

Method.—Mix together sauce, fish, parsley and seasoning. Place in a greased pie-dish alternate layers of hard boiled eggs, fish mixture, sprinkle breadcrumbs on top, dot with butter. Bake in moderate oven.

Fruit Salads and Compotes

Apple, Orange and Banana Salad

Ingredients.—3 apples, 2 sweet oranges, 3 or 4 ripe bananas.

Method.—Peel, core and slice apples finely, quarter the oranges and slice the bananas. Pile apples in centre of dish, arrange orange round, banana on outside.

Summer Fruit Salad

Ingredients.—1 teacup red currants, ½ teacup white currants, 1 teacup gooseberry pulp.

Method.—Arrange white currants over gooseberry pulp, surround with red currants. Serve with whipped cream.

Fig and Apple Salad

Ingredients.—4 ounces figs, 1 lb. apples, 3 tablespoons seeded raisins, cinnamon, ½ pint cream.

Method.—Soak figs and raisins overnight. Mince apples quickly, mix with other fruit, add cinnamon if desired, mix with cream and serve at once.

Mixed Fruit Salad

Ingredients and Method.—Mix together a few stewed figs, seedless raisins, sliced or grated apple, ripe bananas and grape-fruit pulp.

Spring Fruit Salad

Ingredients.—1 ripe pineapple, ½ lb. grapes, 2 juicy oranges.

Winter Fruit Salad

Ingredients.—2 juicy oranges, 2 bananas, 2 large ripe apples, ½ lb. large prunes, 4 ounces walnuts, 2 egg whites, 1 tablespoon raw sugar and lemon juice.

Method.—Peel, core and quarter the apples, also oranges; slice bananas, chop nuts, melt sugar in lemon juice. Mix all well together. Beat whites

stiffly and pile over all. Whipped cream may be used instead.

Winter Fruit Salad—2

Ingredients and Method.—Take 1 lb. of picked dates, cook with the juice of half a lemon and a little boiling water, till they begin to swell. (Do not cook too much or dates will break up.) Pour dates and juice into dish, divide up 2 sweet oranges and arrange over dates. Allow to get quite cold. Sprinkle grated orange peel on top.

Fruit Mousse

Ingredients.—1 cup of grated apple, 1 cup of mashed banana, ½ cup of chopped Brazil nuts, 2 oranges, cut fine, 1 dozen chopped dates.

Dried Fruit Salad

Ingredients.—4 ounces figs, 4 ounces stoned dates, 4 ounces stoned prunes, juice of 1 lemon, 6 tablespoons of nuts, 4 ounces of Sunmaid raisins.

Method.—Soak prunes and figs and raisins overnight, put through mincer with other ingredients. Mix well with lemon juice, serve with cream. With the addition of a little crystallised lemon peel and currants this mixture can be used for fruit fingers if baked between wholemeal pastry.



Fruit Compote

Ingredients and Method.—Steam some figs, prunes and dates with a little preserved ginger, with a strip of lemon peel.

Fresh Fruit Compote

Ingredients and Method.—Use black or red currants, raspberries, etc. Crush fruit and add sufficient cereals, such as Corn flakes, to thicken. Add 1 tablespoon of grated nuts to ½ pint of fruit and sweeten with honey if necessary. Beat together and serve with cream.

Fruit Salad

Ingredients and Method.—Dice 2 large bananas, 2 apples, 2 oranges, add 10 stoned dates and figs cut into small pieces, ¼ cup of raisins, and juice of 1 lemon and sugar to taste. Whipped cream and a sprinkling of chopped nuts if desired.

Peach Delicacy

Ingredients and Method.—Arrange a layer of sliced peaches at the bottom of the dish, and sprinkle with grated coconut, cover with layer

of figs and dates chopped, then chopped pineapple and a layer of peaches to finish, sprinkled with chopped nuts and cream.

Jellies, Trifles and Cold Sweets

Date Dessert

Ingredients and Method.—Wash 1 lb. of dates and simmer gently in 1 pint of milk until dates are thick and the colour of chocolate. Add juice and grated rind of 1 lemon. Cool and serve with whipped cream and decorate with nuts.

Fruit Moulds

Ingredients and Method.—Equal quantities of raisins, sultanas, chopped finely, milled nuts and grated carrot. Bind to stiff paste with 2 crushed bananas and a teaspoon of honey. Press into individual moulds, turn out and serve with honey and whipped cream or custard.

Almond Rice Mould

Ingredients.—2 pints of milk, 4 level tablespoons brown rice, 3 drops essence of almonds, 2 ounces ground almonds, ¼ lb. raw sugar, rind of 3 a lemon.

Method.—Wash the rice thoroughly. Add milk, sugar, lemon peel and essence. Cook in double saucepan till dry. Add the ground almonds and cook for 6 minutes. Cool and put into glass dish. Sprinkle with ground cinnamon. Serve alone or with cream.

Rice Cream

Ingredients.—2 dessertspoons Davis gelatine, 1½ cups milk, 1 cup cooked brown rice, 4 dessertspoons raw sugar, ½ cup hot water, 2 eggs, salt, vanilla.

Method.—Dissolve gelatine in hot water. Beat egg yolks and sugar together. Boil milk; pour gradually on to egg yolks. Place in double boiler and cook until mixture thickens. Add salt and vanilla. Leave to cool. Add gelatine, rice and stiffly whipped egg whites; pour into mould. Chopped dates or raisins may be added before the whites are stirred in.

Apple Jelly

Ingredients.—½ lb. apples, a little ginger, 2 tablespoons brown sugar, ⅓ ounce agar or necessary amount gelatine, 1 pint water.

Method.—Boil apples to a pulp, cut the agar small and simmer half hour in water; add ginger. Remove ginger when agar is dissolved and add the liquid to the apple pulp. Cool, turn into mould.

Eden Pudding

Ingredients.—6 very ripe bananas, 1 lb. peeled and cored apples, ½ pint milk, 2 teaspoons gelatine, little honey, rind 2 lemons.

Method.—Simmer the cut up apples with honey and a little water. Add mashed bananas to apple when cold and mix. Prepare gelatine and lemon rind and add to the fruit.

Peach Pudding

Ingredients and Method.—½ lb. simmered peaches or nectarines cut in small pieces, a little raw sugar, 4 ounces ground almonds, 1 pint milk and juice mixed, gelatine or agar agar. Mix the fruit and nuts, pour on the dissolved gelatine and juice, etc. Sprinkle with grated nutmeg when set.

Prune Whip

Ingredients.—1 cup cooked prunes, 3 egg whites, teaspoon vanilla essence, ¼ cup raw sugar.

Method.—Sieve the prunes and heat in a double boiler with the sugar 10 minutes. Remove, cool somewhat; stir in egg whites and vanilla. Serve cold with whipped cream.



Apple Delight

Ingredients.—6 apples, 1 dessertspoon honey, 3 egg whites, 1 dessertspoon gelatine, ½ pint milk, juice of 3 oranges and grated rind of two. Hot water.

Method.—Peel, core and grate apples. Dissolve gelatine in hot water and add to half amount of heated milk. Heat the remainder and melt honey in it, add orange rind and gradually stir in the juice. Mix together. Beat whites and mix with apples. Add the milk, etc., lightly to this. Set and use cold.

Apricot and Boiled Custard

Ingredients and Method.—Simmer equal quantities dried soaked apricots with sweet cooking apples, washed and cut up, but not peeled or cored. When tender rub through sieve. Serve in individual glasses with custard on top and a sprinkling of chopped nuts. A little honey may be used for sweetening fruit.

Jelly Plum Pudding

Ingredients.—1 pint lemon jelly, 6 soaked prunes chopped small, 1 shredded apple, ½ cup roasted pine kernels, ¾ cup seedless raisins, grated rind of 1 orange.

Method.—Stir all ingredients into the lemon jelly while it is hot.

Blackberry Fool

Ingredients.—1 lb. blackberries, 3 tablespoons milled nuts, 4 tablespoons honey, 2 tablespoons crisped Corn flakes.

Method.—Crush berries and mix well with other ingredients.

Fruit Gelatine

Ingredients.—1 large dessertspoon gelatine, 1 cup hot water, 1 cup shredded apple, 2 sliced oranges, 3 sliced bananas, ½ cup nut meats.

Method.—Dissolve gelatine in hot water and allow to cool. When slightly thickened beat with egg beater until consistency of whipped cream. Add the fruit and nuts. Set in mould and chill.

Apple and Almond Cream

Ingredients.—5 apples, 4 ounces ground almonds, 2 ounces sugar, juice 2 lemons, 1 pint cream.



Method.—Whip cream with sugar. Grate apples and add lemon juice and ground almonds; leave for an hour. Then beat in lightly with the whipped cream.

Raisin Maple Blanc-Mange

Ingredients.—1 cup seedless raisins, 3 cups boiling water, 1 cup raw sugar, a little cold water, sufficient to mix 3 small tablespoons cornflour, pinch salt, vanilla essence, a few chopped nuts.

Method.—Cook raisins in boiling water. Add sugar, then other ingredients and cook for 15 minutes. Serve cold.

Pineapple Junket

Ingredients.—1 pint fresh milk, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 teaspoon rennet, few slices pineapple.

Method.—Heat milk till blood heat, add sugar, stir in rennet and pour into wet dish. When set put grated pineapple on top.

Maple Walnut Sponge



Ingredients.—2 cups raw sugar, ½ cup boiling water, 1¼ cups cold water, ½ cup chopped walnuts, 2 dessertspoons gelatine, pinch salt, 2 whites of eggs stiffly beaten.

Method.—Put sugar, salt and ¼ cup of boiling water in pan and boil for 10 minutes. Add gelatine dissolved in hot water. Stir in the cold water. When mixture begins to set whip till foamy and fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites and walnuts. Make custard with egg yolks.

Moorish Pudding

Ingredients.—4 eggs, 1 teacup milk, 2 dessertspoons gelatine, 2 tablespoons raw sugar.

Method.—Dissolve the gelatine in a little water (hot), heat milk over pan of boiling water and add the gelatine. Beat the egg yolks very well with the sugar, add milk and gelatine to this, then fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites flavoured with a little vanilla. Put into glass dish to set and add any kind of suitable fruit such as strawberries or raspberries when in season, quartered oranges free from pith and pips, bananas, etc., or a mixture of chopped dates, figs, ginger and crystallised cherries. Cover with whipped cream.

Spanish Cream

Ingredients.—2 dessertspoons gelatine, 1 pint milk, 2 dessertspoons sugar, ¼ cup hot water, 2 eggs, essence of vanilla.

Method.—Beat yolks of eggs and sugar together; add to milk; stir over fire until mixture just comes to the boil and will coat the spoon. Remove from fire and stir in gelatine dissolved in hot water; add essence. Beat egg white until stiff and pour into mould. This mixture may be varied by lining a mould with either figs, dates or prunes. If some of the juice from these fruits is used, moderate the amount of milk or use more gelatine.

Baked, Boiled or Steamed Puddings, Tarts, Custards, etc.

Novelty Dried Fruit Pudding

Ingredients.—½ cup sifted flour, ¼ cup butter, 1 teaspoon Baking Powder, 1 cup rolled oats, 1 cup raw sugar, sufficient soaked, cooked, and stoned prunes.

Method.—Melt butter. Add sugar, beat; add egg, and then dry ingredients. Mix well. Grease pie tin or plate and press half mixture into it. Add prunes, and cover with remainder of mixture. Bake half an hour.

Health Pudding

Ingredients.—4 ounces wholemeal breadcrumbs, ¼ lb. figs, ¼ lb. raw sugar, ¼ lb. candied peel, ½ cup Golden Syrup, 4 ounces shredded suet, ¼ lb. prunes, ¼ lb. currants, 2 eggs.

Method.—Steam three hours. Serve with lemon sauce.

Short Crust



(Good for pastries containing dates, raisins, nut mixtures, etc.)

Ingredients.—1 heaped breakfast cup wholemeal flour. 1 tablespoon raw sugar, 1 egg, 1 heaped teaspoon baking powder, ¼ lb. butter.

Method.—Rub butter into flour and baking powder; add sugar. Mix with the eggs well beaten and a little milk.

Plain Short Pastry

Ingredients.—2 cups wholemeal flour, ½ lb. butter, milk or water to mix, ½ teaspoon baking powder, pinch salt.

Method.—Rub butter into flour, salt, powder, etc. Mix in enough milk to make a firm paste. Roll and fold 3 or 4 times. Bake in hot oven 10 to 15 minutes.

Rich Pastry

Ingredients.—1 cup wholemeal flour, ½ lb. butter, salt, water (about ¼ cup).

Method.—Mix flour and salt with water, using only enough water to make a soft paste. Roll it out. Cut up some of the butter into small pieces and roll it into the paste. Continue with butter until all is used. Set on one side in cool place for half an hour or more. Roll and fold again several times.

Date and Apple Charlotte

Ingredients.—3 ounces wholemeal breadcrumbs, 1 ounce sugar, 1 beaten egg, grated rind of 1 lemon, 1 ounce butter, 2 tablespoons cream or milk, or more; 2 grated sweet apples, 1½ ounces stoned dates.

Method.—Mix butter, breadcrumbs, and sugar together; bind with beaten egg and milk. Add grated lemon rind and apples and dates cut into small pieces. Put in well greased dish, brush with beaten egg. Bake till nicely brown. These quantities may be used for any other dried fruit, which should be soaked overnight if necessary.

Plum Pudding

Ingredients.—1 large grated apple, 2 ounces raw sugar, 2 cups Corn flakes crushed, 3 ounces butter, a little salt, nutmeg, dates, raisins, nuts, peel, etc., 1 egg, 1 dessertspoon golden syrup.

Method.—Prepare as usual, heating the butter and syrup before adding to dry ingredients. Steam 3 hours.

Apple Crisp

Ingredients.—4 apples, ¾ cup wholemeal flour, 2½ tablespoons butter, ½ cup sugar, ¾ cup water.

Method.—Slice apples into pie dish. Pour over cold water. Sprinkle with cinnamon. Rub butter into flour and sugar till crumbly, put on top of apples and bake. No sugar is required on apples as it soaks through from the crust.

Raisin Rice

Ingredients.—½ cup natural rice, 1 cup seedless raisins, 3 cups hot water.

Method.—Wash rice and put in a casserole dish. Mix in raisins, add hot water. Cover and put in slow oven. Cook very gently till fruit is swelled and rice grains are soft. Nutmeg added when partly cooked improves the flavour.

Apple Roll

Ingredients.—4 medium sized apples, 1 cup raw sugar, 1 pint of water.

Biscuit Dough.—2 cups wholemeal flour, 2 tablespoons sugar, 4 teaspoons baking powder, 3 tablespoons butter, ½ teaspoon salt, ½ cup milk and water.

Method.—Peel, core and cut fine suitable apples. Put sugar and water into deep baking pan over slow fire. While syrup is cooking slowly, make the dough. Roll out about ½ inch thick, spread with chopped apples and roll into long roll. Cut into pieces about 2 inches long, place with cut side down in the hot syrup, put small piece of butter on top, sprinkle with cinnamon and a little sugar. Bake about ¾ of an hour in moderate oven.

Eve’s Pudding

Ingredients.—2 eggs, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 4 ounces butter, 6 ounces sugar, 8 ounces wholemeal flour, little milk if necessary.

Method.—Cream butter and sugar, beat in eggs, add flour and milk if necessary, so that mixture resembles a sponge consistency. Pour this over prepared fruit. Apples, peaches, or stewed dried fruits may be used. Have this ready in deep pie dish and pour mixture over it. Bake in moderate oven.

Fig Bran Pudding

Ingredients.—1 ounce of wholemeal bread broken into small pieces, 1 ounce bran, 4 ounces chopped figs, 4 ounces seeded raisins, 2 ounces chopped lemon peel, 2½ ounces butter, 1 dessertspoon sugar, 1 gill (140 ml) of milk, 1 egg.



Method.—Heat milk and pour on to broken bread. Cover and allow to soak ½ an hour. Beat well and add bran and sugar. Shred butter and work in with a fork. Add fruit and peel. Beat egg and bind mixture. Put in greased basin and steam 3 hours or longer; or bake in very slow oven for 1½ hours. Other dried fruit may be used instead of figs.

Favourite Pudding

Ingredients.—2 lb. juicy red cooking apples, 2 tablespoons of raisins, 1 tablespoon sugar, milled nuts, 2 tablespoons of grated lemon or orange peel.

Method.—Wash apples and grate with skin. Add sugar, soaked raisins, peel and mix. Sprinkle liberally with nuts. Place casserole or baking dish in moderate oven and bake till quite hot, but only slightly brown.

Prune Delicacy

Ingredients.—1 lb. prunes, 2 grated apples, 1 tablespoon raw sugar, white 1 egg.

Method.—Soak and cook prunes, mash well with grated apple and sugar. Well whip egg white and add very gradually. Bake for a few minutes to brown.

Rhubarb Granose

Ingredients and Method.—Butter a pie-dish thickly and sprinkle with sugar and coat with a thick layer of Corn flakes. Put in a good layer of stewed sweetened rhubarb, cover with more Corn flakes and sugar. Dot with butter and bake for 20 minutes.

Date Soufflé

Ingredients.—¾ lb. dates or ½ lb. stoned dates, 1 cup water, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 3 egg whites.

Method.—Cover stoned dates with water and stand 5 hours. Then cook slowly in some of the water and rub through coarse sieve. Add lemon juice and stir in stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour into a buttered dish and stand in a pan of.hot water and bake till firm. May be eaten either hot or cold.

Raisin Pudding

Ingredients and Method.—Soak one cup of wholemeal breadcrumbs in water. Beat up with fork and add 1 cup raisins, ½ cup bran, 1 tablespoon raw sugar, a little spice or nutmeg. Steam in buttered basin about 2 hours or bake in slow oven 1 hour.

Date and Fig Pie with Chocolate Sauce



Ingredients.—½ lb. stoned dates, 2 tablespoons flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, ½ lb. figs, 1 ounce sugar, 1 egg, 1 cup wholemeal breadcrumbs, 1 cup milk, 3 ounces butter.

Method.—Stew figs till tender (first soaking overnight) in as little water as possible, drain and take out; then cut up in small pieces. Chop the dates, rub the butter into the flour and breadcrumbs, add baking powder, sugar, figs and dates. Beat egg in milk and add to mixture. Beat all well. Put in well greased dish and bake about hour. Serve with sauce.

Sauce: ½ pint milk, 1 egg yoke, small dessertspoon cocoa, sugar to taste, vanilla. Beat yolk of egg well with sugar. Boil milk with cocoa and pour over the egg yolk. Stir over slow fire until it thickens. Add essence and serve.

Cottage Pudding

Ingredients.—1 quart milk, 1 tablespoon sugar, grated lemon rind, 1 pint wholemeal breadcrumbs, 4 egg yolks, 1 large tablespoon butter.

Method.—Mix and bake till set. Beat a small cup sugar and juice of lemon together and spread over pudding. Beat egg whites and pile on top. Lightly brown in oven.

Apple Goody



Ingredients and Method.—Slice ripe apples to fill a deep buttered dish; squeeze over them the juice of a large orange and grate over some of the peel. To a quart of apple add cup raw sugar. Mix lightly, dot with butter and bake till rich and soft but not too dry; when nearly finished sprinkle with chopped almonds. Eat either cold or hot, preferably cold.

Prune, Apricot or Apple Betty

Ingredients and Method.—Cover the bottom of a buttered dish with coarse wholemeal breadcrumbs. Add a layer of cooked stewed prunes (or other fruit), dust with cinnamon, nutmeg and raw sugar. Fill dish with these layers, finishing with breadcrumbs. Cover with hot milk and bake 30 minutes.

Prune Roll

Ingredients.—½ lb. soaked prunes, 1 dessertspoon raw sugar, 3 ounces each wholemeal flour, chopped candied peel, wholemeal breadcrumbs.

Method.—Mix all together and bake in buttered dish 1 hour in moderate oven.

Apple Puff

Ingredients and Method.—Two cups peeled grated apples. Beat 4 egg whites and sweeten. Stir into apples with the juice of 1 lemon. Bake for 25 minutes, moderate oven. Use egg yolks for custard and serve with it.

Carrot Pudding

Ingredients.—¼ lb. carrots, ¾ lb. wholemeal breadcrumbs, ¼ lb. butter, 1 egg, 2 ounces each raw sugar and cherries, ½ teaspoon cinnamon.

Method.—Put cooked carrots through sieve. Cream butter and sugar. Beat egg white stiff. Add crumbs, carrot, yolk, cinnamon and cherries to butter and sugar. Mix in egg white and steam 2½ hours in buttered basin.

Fig Pudding

Ingredients.—½ lb. figs, 2 ounces butter, ½ lb. wholemeal bread, ¾ pint milk, 2 eggs.

Method.—Soak figs in hot water 24 hours. Stew in same water till tender, then cut into small pieces. Dice bread. Warm milk and butter and mix well, and pour over the bread. Stand for 10 minutes and then mix in the figs and lemon juice. Beat eggs, add and steam 3 hours.

Potato Pudding



Ingredients.—3 cooked potatoes, 2 ounces ground almonds, 3 eggs, ½ lb. raw sugar, ½ teacup wholemeal breadcrumbs, grated rind and juice of a lemon.

Method.—Mash potatoes and add almonds, sugar, breadcrumbs and then rind and juice. Beat eggs thoroughly and add. Mix and stand for ¼ hour. Bake or steam 1 hour.

Fig and Raisin Pudding

Ingredients.—½ lb. chopped figs, ¼ lb. chopped raisins, ½ lb. breadcrumbs, 1 egg, milk, vanilla.

Method.—Stir all together to make a rather damp mixture. Let stand 1 hour. Put into well buttered mould and steam 2 hours. Turn out carefully, serve with sauce.

Prune and Fig Shape

Ingredients and Method.—Line a buttered basin with soaked stoned prunes or figs split in half, seeded side to mould. Soak 2 ounces stale breadcrumbs in ½ pint milk. Add 4 ounces raw sugar and 2 beaten eggs. Add this carefully to mould. Tie over buttered paper and steam 1 hour.



Raisin or Sultana Pudding

Ingredients.—¼ lb. each wholemeal flour, butter and breadcrumbs, 1 egg, ½ lb. seeded raisins, 1 tablespoon raw sugar, mixed peel to taste.

Method.—Work butter into flour and crumbs, add fruit, etc., and egg last, also a little milk. Steam 2 hours.

Patricia Pudding

Ingredients.—½ lb. grated carrots, ½ lb. Corn flakes, ¼ lb. currants, ½ nutmeg, teaspoon ground cloves, apple, banana, yolk of egg and a little prune juice.

Method.—Mix dry ingredients and bind with prune juice to which has been added a few drops lemon juice and beaten egg yolk. Steam 3 hours.

Steamed Date Pudding

Ingredients and Method.—Four ounces wholemeal pastry, 6 ounces chopped dates, grated lemon rind and juice. Line a basin with pastry, fill with date mixture, top with pastry and steam 2½ hours.



Steamed Chocolate Pudding

Ingredients.—3 ounces sugar, 5 ounces of wheaten breadcrumbs, ¾ pint of milk, ¼ lb. of Mexican chocolate, 3 yolks, 3 whites of eggs, vanilla flavouring.

Method.—Grate chocolate and dissolve in milk with sugar. Put bread crumbs into basin and pour chocolate mixture over. Add beaten up yolks. Whisk whites stiffly and stir in lightly. Turn into buttered mould and steam 1 hour.

Spanish Pudding

Ingredients.—3 ounces sultanas, 2 ounces of ground almonds, 2 ounces of butter, 2 ounces of citron peel, 4 ounces of breadcrumbs, 3 eggs.

Method.—Melt butter and mix with breadcrumbs, add ground almonds, sultanas, chopped peel, and eggs well beaten. Use a little milk if necessary. Steam 40 to 60 minutes.

Steamed Treacle Sponge

Ingredients.—½ lb. of butter, ½ lb. of treacle, ½ lb. of wholemeal flour, ¼ lb. of sugar, ½ pint of milk, 2 eggs.

Method.—Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add eggs and beat for 20 minutes. Add milk and treacle and lastly flour, put in a greased basin and steam 1½ hours.

Steamed Treacle Pudding

Ingredients.—6 ounces of wholemeal flour, 3 ounces of butter, ½ a gill (70 ml) of water, treacle.

Method.—Rub butter into flour with finger tips, make into stiff dough, roll out on to board and cut into 4 or 5 pieces. Line greased basin with 1 large piece of pastry, and put treacle in bottom, then another piece of pastry, more treacle, and so on till basin is full. Cover with greased paper and then tie over a cloth. Steam 1½ to 2 hours.

Stuffed Pears or Apples

Ingredients and Method.—Core large fruits, stuff with nuts, raisins, dates, etc., and sweeten with honey and bake.

Canary Pudding



Ingredients.—6 ripe bananas, 3 ounces Corn Flakes, 1 egg, ½ pint of milk, 4 ounces of sultanas.

Method.—Beat egg thoroughly and add it to the milk, adding a little sugar if desired. Pour this over the Corn flakes and sultanas, and let them soak for ½ hour. Mash the bananas and add to mixture. Pour into greased dish and bake 30 to 40 minutes until just brown. Oven not very hot.

Almond and Raisin Tart

Ingredients.—4 ounces seedless raisins, 2 ounces ground almonds, 1 ounce raw sugar, 1 egg white, 1 dessertspoon orange juice, a few whole almonds, wholemeal pastry.

Method.—Line a shallow dish or tin with pastry. Put raisins in (they should be soaked overnight and the water strained off ), mix ground almonds with orange juice and sugar and water from the raisins, stir in beaten white, spread lightly over the raisins and decorate with blanched almonds. Bake about 1½ hours in moderate oven.

Fig Roll

Ingredients.—1 breakfast cup each Corn flakes and wholemeal flour, 3 ounces butter, 2 ounces finely grated coconut, ¾ lb. chopped figs, some sweet grated apple.



Method.—Mix flour, Corn flakes and coconut; work in butter, mix to a stiff paste with water and roll out into a long thin strip. Damp all over and spread the chopped figs evenly, then sprinkle raw grated apple over, wet edges and roll over. Put 2 pieces of grease-proof paper or tie in cloth. Steam 2½ hours or bake ¾ hour.

Sweet Wholemeal Pastry

Ingredients.—3 ounces butter, 2 tablespoons sugar, egg, heaped breakfast cup wholemeal flour, 1 teaspoon cream tartar, ½ teaspoon baking soda.

Method.—Cream butter and sugar, add beaten egg, mix cream of tartar and soda with flour and add to mixture (this may be used occasionally for mince pies, apple or dried fruit shortcake, marmalade tarts, etc.).

Wholemeal Pastry—1

Ingredients.—4 ounces wholemeal flour, 2 ounces butter, 1 ounce Soyolk (soya flour), ½ gill (70ml) water, lemon juice.

Method.—Put flour on board and add Soyolk and chop in butter with a knife. Lift the flour a good deal and chop lightly. Mix a few drops of lemon juice with the water. Chop water in also, just a little at a time and hardly touch with hands. Roll out in small quantities at a time, roll away from you and do not fold.



Wholemeal Pastry—2

Ingredients.—1½ cups wholemeal flour, ½ cup water, ¼ lb. butter.

Method.—Shave butter into flour, mix with water and roll out ready for use.

Date or Fig Custard

Ingredients and Method.—Well butter a dish and press halved stoned dates or cooked figs to bottom and sides so that whole dish is well covered. Pour in custard and bake in pan of water in moderate oven.

Bananas in Lemon Syrup

Ingredients and Method.—Skin about ½ dozen bananas and either slice them or leave whole. Make a syrup of 1 large cup of water and 1½ cups raw sugar, boil until reduced to half this quantity. Add the grated rind of a lemon and the juice (do not boil these or the syrup will be bitter), pour very hot over the bananas and cover. Serve cold with cream.

Banana Flakes

Ingredients and Method.—Peel as many bananas as wanted and lay in flat dish. Pour over the juice of 1 or 2 oranges sweetened with raw sugar. Let these soak for an hour or longer. Lift from dish and drain. Beat up an egg, roll bananas in this, then roll thoroughly in Corn flakes. Dip in egg once more and fry until crisp and brown. (These may be baked in oven until crisp if preferred.) The orange juice left over after bananas have been soaked may be used for sauce.

Baked Bananas

Ingredients and Method.—Peel bananas, lie side by side it a shallow dish, which has been well buttered and covered with sugar. Sprinkle more sugar over bananas, and squeeze juice of 1 lemon. Add a little water, cover and bake 20 minutes.

Prune Meringue

Ingredients and Method.—Cook gently 1 lb. of prunes, remove stones and chop up. Add juice of half a lemon, and a large cup full of breadcrumbs. Butter pie-dish and fill it with alternate layers of prunes and breadcrumbs. Pour over half pint of custard, put whipped white of egg on top. Bake 20 minutes.

Golden Custard

Ingredients.—3 eggs, 1 pint of milk, 3 tablespoons of cream, 1 good teaspoon of honey.



Method.—Warm milk and dissolve honey in it. Whisk eggs and pour in milk. Stand basin in hot water over slow gas, stir until creamy. Remove from fire, add a few drops of essence and add cream, letting it cool a little first. Put a thick layer of lemon or orange curd in fancy dish, pour over custard and decorate.

Fruit Sauces, etc. and Fillings for Tarts and Cakes

Lemon Curd

Ingredients.—1 lb. thick honey, 4 large eggs or 3 duck eggs, 3 ounces butter, juice of 3 large lemons, grated rind of 1 or 2 oranges.

Method.—Beat honey and work in butter. Beat eggs and thoroughly mix into honey and butter. Add grated rinds and lemon juice and beat again. Cook in double boiler until it thickens. Keep in covered jars.

Swiss Jelly

Ingredients.—2 eggs, 3 gills (420 ml) milk, 1 tablespoon honey, vanilla essence, nuts, 1½ dessertspoons gelatine, a little hot water.

Method.—Dissolve gelatine in water and add to the heated milk. Add honey and vanilla and cool. Then add well beaten egg yolks, and stir well. Set. Use in small tartlets with egg whites sweetened and set in meringue.

Muscat Jelly

Ingredients.—1 dessertspoon raw sugar, ½ packet seeded raisins, strained juice 1 lemon, 2 dessertspoons gelatine.

Method.—Soak raisins over night. Strain off liquor and make up to 1 pint. Add the gelatine previously dissolved in a little hot water and cook very gently for 20 minutes. Put soaked raisins in dish and pour over liquid and lemon juice. Allow to cool.

Banana Mincemeat

Ingredients.—½ lb. skinned bananas, ½ lb. soft candied peel, ¼ lb. seeded raisins, ¼ lb. raw sugar, 1 ounce almonds, ¼ grated nutmeg, ½ lemon rind and juice, ¼ lb. each currants, sultanas, peeled apples, a little almond essence.

Method.—Chop the peel, fruit and nuts and mix with the bananas and essence. Tie in air-tight jar, when it will keep indefinitely.

Fruit Sauce

Ingredients and Method.—Simmer together lemon and orange rind, also the pairings of apples. Strain and thicken with a little cornflour.

Raisin Sauce



Ingredients and Method.—Mix wholemeal flour, sugar and butter into paste with milk and cook to a creamy consistency. Press 1 ounce soaked cooked raisins through a sieve and add.

Lemon Sauce

Ingredients and Method.—Cream ½ cup butter and 1 heaped cup raw sugar, add grated rind of a lemon and 4 tablespoons lemon juice. Beat thoroughly and cook for a few moments over low heat, stirring all the time.

Prune and Apple Sauce

Ingredients and Method.—Stone and mash cooked prunes through a sieve. Grate 1 pound sweet apples. Steam together about 10 minutes with a little raw sugar.

Berry Sauce

Ingredients and Method.—2 cups berries (strawberries, raspberries, loganberries, etc.). Steam in a little water until tender; add raw sugar.

Raw Berry Sauce



Crush berries and sweeten with honey or raw sugar. Do not cook.

Honey Sauce

Ingredients and Method.—One-third cupful whipped cream to half cup honey. Add the melted honey slowly to whipped cream, beating constantly.

Orange Curd

Proceed as for lemon curd substituting 2 oranges and 1 lemon.

Home Candied Peel

Ingredients.—Peel of 6 tangerines, 3 tablespoons honey, ½ breakfast cup hot water.

Method.—Melt honey in hot water in small jar, add peel and cook gently until soft and syrupy. Turn out of jar to cool, then cover and keep till needed. If this natural conserve is cut into thin strips and used in any wholemeal cakes or puddings it gives a delicious flavour to them. The peel of ordinary lemons or oranges can also be utilised in the same way, but it is

first necessary to cook the peel in a little water and scrape out the pith. Then proceed as above. Lemon and grapefruit need rather more honey.

Fruit Filling—1

Ingredients.—1 tablespoon wholemeal flour, ½ breakfast cup water, 2 ounces raw sugar, ½ lemon rind and juice, ½ cup each seeded raisins and chopped walnuts.

Method.—Boil sugar and water. Mix flour and lemon juice and add to liquid. Stir till it boils and boil 3 minutes. Add minced fruit and nuts. Cool and use between pastry or cake.

Fruit Filling—2

Ingredients and Method.—Half packet seeded raisins, 2 ounces almonds. Put through mincer and mix in 1 tablespoon lemon juice.

Fruit Filling—3

As above, but using dates and walnuts instead of other ingredients.

Fruit Filling—4



Ingredients and Method.—Half cup each chopped figs, dates, raisins, nuts and preserved ginger, 3 tablespoons each lemon juice and boiling water, 1 tablespoon sugar. Mix ingredients, cook in double saucepan till thick. Use warm.

Raisin Cream Filling

Ingredients.—½ cup cream stiffly beaten, ½ cup seeded raisins and 2 tablespoons nuts put through mincer, ½ teaspoon gelatine dissolved in 2 tablespoons milk, 1 ounce castor sugar.

Method.—Soak gelatine in milk for 5 minutes. Heat gently. Cool and add to other ingredients. Mix well and use before it becomes too set.

Raisin Caramel Frosting

Ingredients.—1 cup raw sugar, ¼ cup water, 1 stiffly beaten egg white, ¾ cup raisins, vanilla essence.

Method.—Cook sugar and water 5 minutes. Remove and when bubbling ceases stir in egg white. Beat till thick enough to spread. Add raisins.

Wholemeal Breads, Scones, Loaves, Slices

Treacle Bread

Ingredients.—1 lb. wholemeal flour, 6 ounces butter, 1 heaped teaspoon caraway seeds, ½ teaspoon mixed spice, 1 teacup black treacle, about 1 gill (140 ml) sour milk.

Method.—Mix flour, caraway seeds and spice. Rub in butter, warm the treacle by standing in hot water for a little while; mix into other ingredients; add milk last. Make rather on the wet side but not too moist. Bake 45 to 60 minutes in a well greased rather shallow tin.

Wholemeal Bread

Ingredients.—2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons yeast, 1 teaspoon sugar, little salt, less than 1 teacup tepid water.

Method.—Cream yeast and sugar, add water. Make a well in the middle of the warmed flour, pour in liquid and mix with wooden spoon. Beat well. Turn on to floured board and knead lightly. Place in greased tins and allow loaves to rise till double their original size. Bake 30 minutes in hot oven.

Excellent Wholemeal Bread

Ingredients.—4 cups flour, 8 teaspoons Soyolk (soya flour), ¼ ounce compressed yeast, 1 or 2 teaspoons raw sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 cups warm water.

Method.—Mix the yeast and sugar, add warm water and pour into the warmed flour. Leave 10 minutes. Mix, set and then knead in the usual way. Set only once.

Family Wholemeal Bread

Ingredients and Method.—Mix ¾ ounce compressed yeast with 1 tablespoon raw sugar, and when creamy add 1 cupful of lukewarm water. Heat another cup of water and mix in it 1 or 2 tablespoons treacle. Add this to 1 pint of potato water (without salt) and mix yeast, etc., to this, making sure the liquid is only luke warm, otherwise heat will kill the yeast. Sift in 2 cups white flour and make into a batter with the liquid; using a warmed basin. To this stir in 1 cup of bran and 7 cups wholemeal flour which has been warmed and 1 tablespoon salt added to it. Knead lightly and leave to rise for 4 or 5 hours. Divide and knead again. Put into greased tins and leave another ½ hour in warm place. Bake in a good oven 1 hour.

Wholemeal Scones

Ingredients.—3 cups wholemeal flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 tablespoon butter, 2 teaspoons cream of tartar.

Method.—Heat the butter, but do not make it runny and rub into the flour. Mix all with 2 tablespoons melted treacle and enough milk to make into a soft dough. Roll out and bake 15 to 25 minutes.

Potato Scones

Ingredients and Method.—Pass a cupful of cooked boiled potatoes through a sieve and warm in saucepan with 2 tablespoons raw sugar, and 1 tablespoon butter until smooth and creamy. Beat an egg and add to potato mixture, and stir in a salt-spoon of salt and 2 cupfuls of wheatmeal flour into which has been sifted 1½ teaspoons baking powder. Work to a smooth scone consistency with a little milk. Roll out and bake in fairly hot oven.

Pumpkin Scones

Same quantities and method as for Potato Scones.

Bran Scones

Ingredients.—3 cups bran, ¼ lb. butter, 1 cup fine wholemeal, raisins if liked, 1 cup coarse wholemeal.



Method.—Rub butter into dry ingredients, sift in 2 teaspoons baking powder, beat up 1 egg in a breakfast cup of milk. Roll out and bake in low oven for 1 hour.

Spice Scones

Ingredients.—½ lb. wholemeal, 1 ounce butter, 1 tablespoon golden syrup, 1 tablespoon raw sugar, I teaspoon each bicarbonate of soda, ground cinnamon, mixed spice, pinch of salt, sour milk to mix.

Method.—Rub butter into flour, add sugar, spices, soda and salt. Mix thoroughly. Add to the syrup and use sufficient sour milk or buttermilk, about 1 gill (140ml), to mix into a light dough. Roll out ½ inch thick and bake in a hot scone oven.

Raisin Scones

Ingredients.—3 cups wholemeal flour, 1 ounce butter, a little salt, 1¾ cups milk, 1 cup seeded raisins, 2 teaspoons baking powder.

Method.—Rub butter into flour, add raisins, then milk to make a soft dough. Brush over with milk and bake in hot oven.

Love Knots

Ingredients and Method.—To 1 lb. wholemeal flour rub in a little butter, add 1 cup sour cream (thick). Roll out, cut into strips and fold like figure 8. Bake in moderate oven.

Oatmeal Slices

Ingredients and Method.—Make some thick porridge of coarse oatmeal. Turn into a flat dish and cover to prevent a crust forming. When cold and required for use, cut into slices less than 1 inch thick, pass through seasoned flour, then egg and breadcrumbs. Fry a golden brown in boiling fat, and serve piping hot. These slices may be made more savoury by the addition of a little finely grated onion, a salt-spoon or more of dried herbs, and a little pepper and salt added while the porridge is being cooked.

Muscatel Bread

Ingredients.—½ pint milk, sour or sweet, 1 lb. wholemeal flour, 6 ounces butter, 1 packet seeded raisins.

Method.—Rub butter into flour lightly, add raisins and mix to a moderately stiff paste with milk. Cook 15 minutes in a greased shallow tin (uncovered), then cover with another tin and cook in a fairly swift oven 40 minutes. Very good eaten with nut butter.



Wholemeal Nut Loaf

Ingredients.—3 cups wholemeal flour, 2 tablespoons butter, a little salt, 1 small teaspoon baking powder, 2 cups sultanas, 1 large cup chopped nuts, 1 tablespoon raw sugar, enough milk to make a stiffish dough.

Method.—Rub butter into dry ingredients, and mix together with as little milk as will make a very stiff dough. Press into a greased tin and bake slowly for 1 hour. The loaf should turn out very solid. Do not cut until quite cold.

Currant Bread

Ingredients.—½ lb. wholemeal flour, 2 ounces butter, 6 ounces currants, 1½ ounces raw sugar, 1 teaspoon baking powder, pinch of salt, milk.

Method.—Mix dry ingredients, rub in butter. Mix to stiff dough with milk. Knead into a light round loaf, place in well greased tin and bake in hot oven ¾ hour, reducing heat after 20 minutes.

Bran Muffins

Ingredients.—1 teacup each wholemeal flour, golden syrup and milk, 2 teacups bran, 1 level teaspoon baking soda dissolved in milk, ½ teaspoon baking powder.

Method.—Mix well and half fill greased patty pans; bake moderate oven about 15 minutes.

Nut and Date Loaf

Ingredients.—2 cups wholemeal flour, 1 cup each chopped dates, walnuts and milk, 1 egg, 2 teaspoons baking powder, ½ teaspoon salt.

Method.—Mix all dry ingredients; add egg and milk. Bake in tin 1 hour.

Wholemeal Honey Scones

Ingredients.—2 cups wholemeal flour, 1 cup white flour, 1 tablespoon butter, 2 tablespoons honey, 1 egg, ½ cup chopped dates, 2 teaspoons baking powder.

Method.—Rub butter into flour, add other ingredients, then make a soft dough. Brush over with milk and bake in hot oven.

Oatcakes

Ingredients.—6 ounces coarse oatmeal, ½ teacup raw sugar, 6 ounces fine wholemeal flour, ¼ lb. butter, milk to mix.

Method.—Rub butter into wholemeal flour and oatmeal, add sugar, stir well. Mix to a very stiff dough with a little milk. Roll out thinly, cut into squares, and bake in a moderate-hot oven till slightly browned.

Wholemeal Fruit Loaf

Ingredients.—1 lb. wholemeal flour, ¼ lb. each sultanas and currants, 5 ounces raw sugar, 2 ounces butter, 2 teaspoons baking powder, ½ to 1 teaspoon mixed spice according to taste.

Method.—Beat butter and sugar to a cream, stir in other ingredients, and add about ½ breakfast cupful cold water or milk. A little more liquid if the mixture seems too stiff. Form into flat loaf, coat with flour, and bake 1¼ hours on baking slide.

Rusks

Ingredients.—2 breakfast cups wholemeal flour, 2 small tablespoons butter, 1 ounce raw sugar, 1 egg, milk to mix.



Method.—Rub butter lightly into flour; add sugar, beaten egg and mix with milk. Knead lightly, roll ¼-inch thick and cut. Bake in a quick oven until risen but not brown. Split open, return to oven (cool) until golden brown and crisp.

Biscuits: Plain, Savoury and Sweet

Rolled Oat Biscuits

Ingredients.—3 cups rolled oats, 1½ cups wholemeal flour, ¼ lb. butter, 3 tablespoons syrup, 1 egg.

Method.—Work together butter, syrup and egg; add oats and flour. Roll out, cut in suitable shape and bake in moderate oven.

Plain Wholemeal Biscuits

Ingredients.—4 ounces butter, 1 cup milk, 1 egg, 12 ounces wholemeal flour, 1 teaspoon lemon juice.

Method.—Rub butter into flour, add egg and lemon juice and enough milk to make a stiff paste. Roll out thin and bake in moderate oven.

Savoury Cheese Biscuits

Ingredients.—1 teacup wholemeal flour, 4 ounces grated cheese, 2 ounces butter, 1 teaspoon Marmite.

Method.—Rub butter into flour, add cheese. Dissolve Marmite in a little warm milk and water; stir into mixture but keep rather dry. Roll out thinly, cut in small rounds, prick well and bake in sharp oven.

Wholemeal Cheese Straws

Ingredients.—2 ounces wholemeal flour, 2 ounces grated cheese, 1½ ounces butter, a small egg.

Method.—Mix flour, cheese and butter; add beaten egg. Roll out in thin strips, and bake in very moderate oven 8 to 10 minutes.

Cheese and Potato Biscuits

Ingredients.—½ lb. freshly mashed potatoes, ¼ lb. wholemeal flour, ¼ lb. fine oatmeal, ¼ lb. butter, 3 ounces grated cheese, ½ to 1 teaspoon celery salt.

Method.—Mix all dry ingredients; beat in the potato. Melt butter and work in. Mix to a paste with milk (sour preferred). Roll out on well floured board. Cut, dip in medium oatmeal and bake on well greased tins 15 to 20 minutes in a sharp oven. Eat with salad or vegetable stew.



Lunchies

Ingredients.—1 cup wholemeal flour, ½ teaspoon ginger, ½ cup raw sugar, 1 cup coconut, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 egg, ½ teaspoon cinnamon, 4 ounces butter.

Method.—Rub butter into wholemeal flour, add all dry ingredients, mix in beaten egg, roll out thinly, cut into squares. Bake in moderate oven.

Nut Biscuits

Ingredients.—1 large cup wholemeal flour, 1 egg, 1 cup chopped nuts, ¼ lb. butter, 1 cup raw sugar.

Method.—Cream the butter and sugar; add egg well beaten; then the flour; a little essence of vanilla and the nuts. Break off pieces; put on a greased slide and bake slowly till golden brown.

Fruit Biscuits

Ingredients.—1 cup coconut, ½ cup walnuts, ½ cup dates, ½ cup seeded raisins, 1 cup figs, 1 small tin condensed milk.



Method.—Chop fruit and nuts, add coconut and mix well. Bind with milk. Put in spoonfuls on cold tray and cook in slow oven.

Three-A-Penny Biscuits

Ingredients.—½ lb. wholemeal, ¼ lb. sugar, ¼ lb. butter, small ½ cup new milk, vanilla, pinch salt.

Method.—Rub butter into meal, sugar and salt. Add vanilla and milk. Roll out thin, cut into shapes and bake in medium oven about 10 minutes.

Lemon Rings

Ingredients.—¾ lb. wholemeal flour, ¼ lb. each butter and sugar, ½ gill (70ml) milk, 2 eggs, grated rind 2 lemons, a little lemon essence.

Method.—Cream butter and sugar; add well beaten eggs, milk, flour, rind, etc. Roll out ¼-inch thick, cut with round cutter stamped with a small round inside. Bake in moderate oven.

Sponge Biscuits

Ingredients.—1 cup sugar, 3 eggs, ¼ lb. butter, 1½ cups wholemeal flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, a little lemon honey (any filling will do such as cream or minced dates, etc.).

Method.—Beat butter and sugar to a cream; add egg yolks and beat well. Stir in baking powder and flour, and lastly egg whites beaten stiff. Put in half teaspoonfuls on a cold slide and bake in hot oven about 5 minutes. Put together with the desired filling.

Golden Syrup Biscuits

Ingredients.—½ lb. wholemeal flour, ½ teaspoon baking powder, 2 tablespoons golden syrup, 4 ounces butter, 2 ounces sugar, pinch salt.

Method.—Cream butter, sugar and golden syrup. Stir in flour, salt and baking powder. Knead well and bake in a moderate oven about 15 minutes.

Butter Biscuits

Ingredients.—½ lb. each butter and wholemeal flour, 3 ounces raw sugar, ½ ounce cinnamon, a little ground ginger and spice, 1 egg.

Method.—Cream butter and sugar, add well beaten egg and dry ingredients. Roll out very thin, decorate top with sliced peel, and bake in moderate oven.



Honey Biscuits

Ingredients.—4 ounces honey, 8 ounces butter, ¾ lb. wholemeal flour, 1 egg, grated rind 2 oranges.

Method.—Beat butter and honey to a cream; add orange rind and flour. Mix with egg (but do not use this if mixture already seems thin); roll out quickly and cut into squares. Put on floured trays and bake slowly 20 to 30 minutes.

Lunch Squares

Ingredients.—8 ounces wholemeal our, 6 ounces butter, 3 ounces honey.

Method.—Cream butter and honey; add flour. Roll out on grease-proof paper, cut in two. Spread one half with following mixture: 1 cup raisins, a little grated lemon or orange peel, 1 tablespoon raw sugar, 2 tablespoons warm milk, and a little melted butter. Add just sufficient wholemeal breadcrumbs to firm the mixture. Flavour with cinnamon, cover with the other half pastry and bake 20 to 30 minutes in moderate oven. Cut into squares when cold.

Date Crackers

Ingredients and Method.—Cook 1 lb. dates with cup cold water until dates are soft. Allow to cool and spread between layers of the following mixture: 2½ cups wholemeal flour, 2½ cups rolled oats, 1 cup butter, small cup raw sugar, ½ cup hot water. Rub butter in lightly; add other ingredients and mix well. Roll out thin in rolled oats, spread with date mixture and cover with same. Cut into squares and bake.

Bran Biscuits

Ingredients.—3 cups of bran, 1 cup of wholemeal flour, 4 ounces of butter, ½ cup of brown sugar, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 1 egg, milk to mix.

Method.—Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add egg and milk to make a stiff dough, roll out thin. Bake till brown, about ¼ hour. Eggs may be omitted.

Fruit, Sponge, and Small Cakes

Sultana Lunch Cake

Ingredients.—3 ounces each butter and sugar, 1 egg, ¾ teacup milk, ½ lb. wholemeal flour, nutmeg, 1 ounce grated lemon peel, 1 teacup sultanas.

Method.—Cream butter and sugar; add well beaten egg, flour and fruit. Cook in shallow greased tin in good oven 40 minutes.

Ginger Bran Cake

Ingredients.—½ lb. wholemeal flour, 3 ounces bran, 1 ounce raw sugar, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon each ground ginger, mixed spice, 4 ounces butter, 6 ounces seedless raisins, 1 small teacup black treacle, 2 tablespoons thick sour milk, 4 ounces lemon peel, 2 ounces chopped ginger.

Method.—Mix flour, ginger, spice and sugar thoroughly; add raisins and peel. Warm treacle (not hot) and add sour milk to it; then add the beaten egg. Warm butter and add first to dry goods, then the treacle, egg, milk. Mix well, pour into shallow tin and bake in slow oven 1¼ to 1½ hours. Leave in tin until cold.

Peace Cake

Ingredients.—2 cups raw sugar, 2 tablespoons butter, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 2 cups hot water, 1 teaspoon clove, 1 packet seeded raisins.

Method.—Boil all together for 5 minutes after it bubbles. When cool, add 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in 1 tablespoon hot water, and 3 cups flour, bake in moderate oven 45 minutes.

Bran Parkins

Ingredients.—4 ounces oatmeal, 2 ounces bran, 1 ounce wholemeal flour, 4 ounces butter, 1 egg, 1 teacup black treacle, 4 ounces seedless raisins, 2 ounces chopped mixed peel, ¼ teaspoon each cinnamon, mixed spice and ground ginger, 1 ounce raw sugar.

Method.—Mix oatmeal, bran, wholemeal flour, sugar, peel and fruit. Warm butter and treacle (not too hot), add beaten egg to them, and work into dry ingredients. Bake in shallow greased tin 1½ hours in very slow oven. Turn off oven and leave another half hour.

Wholemeal Walnut Cake

Ingredients.—2 ounces butter, 2 ounces Soyolk (soya flour), 2 ounces wholemeal flour, 2 ounces raw sugar, 2 eggs, 6 ounces milled walnuts, 2

ounces chopped walnuts, 1 egg to bind chopped walnuts.

Method.—Cream butter and sugar; add Soyolk, and beat. Add beaten eggs. Beat in flour and milled walnuts. Beat the extra egg, stir in the chopped walnuts, add some to mixture. Put mixture in a greased tin, brush with egg. Pour over remainder of egg and walnuts to decorate. Bake in moderate oven for 1 hour (for shallow cake). Free edge of cake from tin before putting in oven—it gives room for expansion.

Nut Cake

Ingredients.—4 eggs, 6 ounces raw sugar, ¾ lb. milled nuts (Brazil, or hazel, or use 1 lb. walnuts).

Method.—Beat these and add 1 teaspoon baking powder. Bake in greased tin ¾ hour.

Caramel Cake

Ingredients.—1 cup raw sugar, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoons baking powder, pinch salt, ¼ lb. butter, 2 cups wholemeal flour, 1 teaspoon vanilla.

Method.—The day before making, put ¼ cup raw sugar in a small saucepan with 2 teaspoons water, and stir till sugar is melted, and the whole is a rich brown. Then pour ½ cup hot water over it. Cream butter and sugar, add egg

yolks, flour and caramel alternately, and lastly fold in stiffly beaten whites. Bake in 2 tins.

Topsy Turvy Cake

Ingredients.—1 egg, 1 cup wholemeal flour, 2 tablespoons butter, vanilla, 1 teacup sugar, 1 teaspoon baking powder, / cup milk or a little more.

Method.—Cream egg and sugar well, add melted butter and milk, flour, baking powder and essence. Give mixture a good beating. Melt 2 tablespoons butter in bottom of deep sandwich tin; spread evenly ½ teacup raw sugar, then ½ teacup chopped dates, and 1 teacup chopped walnuts. Pour cake mixture over the top of this, spread evenly and bake in moderate oven about 30 minutes.

Economical Wholemeal Cake

Ingredients.—1 tablespoon golden syrup, 1 cup cold water, ¼ lb. butter, ½ cup raw sugar, I cup raisins, 1 teaspoon each cinnamon and ginger.

Method.—Boil all ingredients together for 3 minutes. Stand aside to cool. Add 2 cups wholemeal flour, with 1 teaspoon baking soda sifted in. Bake for 1 hour.

Short Cake

Ingredients.—1 heaped breakfast cup wholemeal flour, 1 tablespoon raw sugar, 1 egg, 1 heaped teaspoon baking powder, ¼ lb. butter, a little milk.

Method.—Mix dry ingredients, rub in butter, mix with egg and milk. Roll and cut into squares. (This recipe may be used rolled thin for sweet pastries, such as dates, raisins, etc.)

Orange Cake Ingredients.—¼ lb. each butter, raw sugar and flour, grated rind of orange, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 2 tablespoons coconut, 1 tablespoon orange juice, 2 eggs.

Method.—Cream butter and sugar, add egg, then flour and baking powder, coconut, orange rind and juice. Cook about 20 minutes.

Coconut Meringue Shortcake Ingredients.—1 cup wholemeal flour (fine), ¼ lb. raw sugar, 1 egg, ¼ lb. butter, 1 teaspoon baking powder, pinch salt.

Method.—Cream butter and sugar, add egg, then dry ingredients. Spread in bottom of greased tin. Cover with a little raspberry jam or marmalade.

Meringue: ½ breakfast cup raw sugar, 1½ cups coconut, 1 egg. Beat all together. Spread on top of jam. Bake in slow oven about 1 hour.



Wholemeal Cake (No Eggs)

Ingredients.—4 cups wholemeal flour, 1 cup butter, ¼ teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons cream of tartar, 1 cup raw sugar, 1 cup sultanas, 1½ cups milk, 1 teaspoon soda.

Method.—Mix in usual way, creaming butter and sugar, then adding other ingredients. Bake for about 1 hour.

Iced Wholemeal Cake

Ingredients.—¼ lb. butter, 3 tablespoons golden syrup, 1½ cups wholemeal flour, ½ cup chopped walnuts, ¾ lb. raw sugar, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon spice, ½ teaspoon soda dissolved in ¼ cup milk.

Method.—Cream butter and sugar, add syrup and eggs, then dry ingredients, milk and soda last.

Icing: 1 cup raw sugar, 2 tablespoons butter, 2 tablespoons milk. Boil together for 2 minutes. Cook till thick.

Sponge Cake



Ingredients.—3 eggs, 3 tablespoons milk, 1 level breakfast cup wholemeal flour, 1 level teaspoon baking soda, 2 level teaspoons cream of tartar, small cup sugar, pinch salt, 2 tablespoons butter.

Method.—Beat eggs well, one at a time and adding the sugar gradually. Then add flour and baking soda, milk and butter melted together and lastly stir in cream of tartar. Hot oven 20 minutes.

Chester Cake

Ingredients.—6 ounces butter, 4 tablespoons raw sugar, 2 tablespoons cream of tartar, 2 heaped breakfast cups wholemeal flour, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda.

Method.—Cream butter and sugar, add beaten eggs, then dry ingredients. Press half this mixture into large meat tin and cover with the following: Cut up dates, sultanas, raisins, spice, stale cake or biscuit crumbs mixed with water to moisten. Place other half of mixture on top, and cook in fairly quick oven.

Nutties

Ingredients.—¼ lb. butter, ½ cup walnuts, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 small cup sugar, 1¾ cups wholemeal flour, 2 eggs, 1½ teaspoons spice, 1 cup dates.



Method.—Beat butter and sugar together; add eggs, then dates and walnuts; add dry ingredients. Place on cold buttered tray in spoonfuls and bake in fairly hot oven.

Walnut Brownies

Ingredients and Method.—Beat together ¼ lb. butter, and 1 teacup of sugar, add one egg and beat again. Mix together and add 1 breakfast cup of wholemeal flour, 4 teaspoons of cocoa, 1 teaspoon baking powder, ½ cup chopped walnuts. Roll out on greased tray and bake in moderate oven. Cut while warm and still on the tray.

Walnut Crisps

Ingredients.—3 ounces butter, 3 ounces sugar, 6 ounces flour, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon ground ginger, ½ teaspoon baking powder, 2 tablespoons golden syrup, chopped nuts, essence to taste.

Method.—Cream the butter and sugar, add egg and dry ingredients as usual. Shape as a macaroon, decorate with halved walnut.

Date Caramel Cake

Ingredients.—2 eggs, 1 cup raw sugar, 1½ cups dates, 3 cups wholemeal flour, 1 teaspoon vanilla essence, 2 tablespoons butter, 1½ teaspoons baking powder.

Method.—Cover dates with boiling water and stand for 3 hours or overnight. Beat sugar, eggs and butter; add dates, vanilla essence and flour. Bake 1½ hours in hot oven.

Fruit Snaps

Ingredients.—3 cups wholemeal flour, ½ cup golden syrup, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon spice, 1½ cups raw sugar, 1 cup raisins, 1 teaspoon ground cloves, 1 cup butter, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoon cinnamon.

Method.—Cream butter and sugar, add eggs singly, then syrup and fruit. Add flour, spices, and a teaspoon baking soda well sifted. Drop in teaspoonfuls on greased tray; flatten and put nut, cherry, or ginger on top. Bake in moderate oven 10 to 15 minutes. They keep quite well.

Lemon Drop Cookies

Ingredients.—⅔ cup butter, 2 eggs, 4 tablespoons hot water, 1 cup sugar, ½ teaspoon soda, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, a heaped breakfast cup wholemeal flour, grated rind 1 lemon.

Method.—Cream butter and add sugar gradually; then eggs beaten till thick and light, then soda dissolved in hot water, lemon juice, rind and flour. Mix well. Drop from teaspoon on buttered baking sheet. Bake in quick oven.

Crunchies

Ingredients.—1 cup coconut, ¼ lb. butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 cup wholemeal flour, 2 tablespoons hot water, 3 tablespoons treacle melted.

Method.—Put all dry ingredients in basin. Melt butter and add to melted treacle. Add soda and hot water and stir all into the dry ingredients. Mix well, roll into balls and flatten. Bake 10 minutes in a hot oven.

Light Wholemeal Cake

Ingredients.—¼ lb. butter, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoon cream of tartar, ½ cup milk, 1 cup raw sugar, 1½ cups wholemeal flour, ½ teaspoon soda.

Method.—Cream butter and sugar, add beaten eggs, then flour and cream of tartar, lastly soda dissolved in milk. Bake in meat tin in moderate oven.

Chocolate Afghans

Ingredients.—6 ounces butter, 6 ounces flour, 1 tablespoon chocolate or cocoa, 2 ounces cornflakes, 3 ounces sugar, vanilla.

Method.—Cream butter and sugar; add dry ingredients, etc. Bake in moderate oven. Ice with a little chocolate icing and press on a ½ walnut.

Lunch Rock Buns

Ingredients.—1 lb. flour, 1 cup milk, ½ lb. raw sugar, 1 cup mixed fruit, ¼ lb. butter, 1 teaspoon spice, 2 eggs, 1½ teaspoons baking powder.

Method.—Cream the butter and sugar. Add eggs well beaten and milk. Mix spice with the flour; add fruit and then the flour. Bake in spoonsful on oven tray or paper cases.

Shortcake

Ingredients and Method.—Cream ½ lb. butter with ¼ lb. raw sugar. With the hands work in 1 lb. wholemeal flour until dough is firm. Press into square tin which has been well greased. Prick well. Bake in very slow oven 1 hour. Cut into pieces before removing from tin.

Almond Macaroons

Ingredients.—½ lb. butter, 1 level teaspoon baking powder, ½ lb. raw sugar, 1 egg, 13 to 14 ounces wholemeal flour, almond essence.

Method.—Cream butter and sugar, add egg and flour and baking powder and essence. Press an almond into top of small piece of mixture. Bake in moderate oven.

Bran Cake De Luxe

Ingredients.—4 ounces bran, 6 ounces each wholemeal flour, butter, seedless raisins, 2 ounces ground Barcelonas, 4 ounces candied peel, sour milk, 1 egg, ½ teaspoon cinnamon or spice.

Method.—Mix dry ingredients well. Add fruit and peel. Cream butter thoroughly. Beat the egg and add it gently to the butter. Sift in nuts. Melt treacle in some hot milk and cool by adding sour milk. Work butter into flour, bran, etc. Mix well and add treacle, etc., until mixture is creamy but not too wet. Place in rather shallow tins and bake in moderate oven 40 minutes. Leave in tin till cold.

Raisin Munchers

Ingredients.—2 ounces rolled oats, 8 ounces butter, 8 ounces sugar, 4 ounces coconut, 8 ounces wholemeal flour, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons milk, ½ cup each raisins and almonds, juice ½ lemon.

Method.—Beat butter and sugar together to a cream, add eggs, then mix in dry ingredients. Break off small pieces a little larger than a walnut; place on cold slide and bake 15 minutes in moderate oven.

Prune Cake

Ingredients.—1½ breakfast cups wholemeal flour, 1 cup sugar, ¼ lb. butter, 3 eggs, 4 tablespoons prune juice, 1 teaspoon each cinnamon and spice, 1 breakfast cup cooked chopped prunes.

Method.—Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and beat thoroughly. Add flour and spices, then prune juice. Put prunes in last. Bake in moderate oven ¾ to 1 hour.

Good Fruit Cake

Ingredients.—1¼ lb. wholemeal flour, ½ lb. each butter, raisins, currants, ginger and chopped figs, 3 eggs, ¼ lb. peel, ¼ lb. raw sugar, 5 tablespoons black treacle, 1 cup sour milk.

Method.—Cream butter and sugar; add beaten eggs, flour and fruit. Warm the treacle and add; stir in milk and mix well. Bake slowly 2½ hours. Keep 14 days before using.

Choice Christmas Cake



Ingredients.—6 ounces wholemeal flour, 4 ounces sugar or honey, ½ lb. butter, 4 eggs, a little sour milk, 8 ounces ground almonds, 4 ounces ground walnuts, 1 lb. currants, 8 ounces seedless raisins, 6 ounces cherries, 6 ounces mixed peel, 1 teaspoon mixed spice.

Method.—Cream butter, add sugar and beat again. Beat eggs and add one by one to mixture of butter and sugar. Sift in dry ingredients and add fruit and peel. Mix with sour milk fairly moist. Put into greased tin and stand on 2 or 3 sandwich tins one above the other, having a thick layer of salt in the top one. Cook in slow oven 4 hours. Very slow the last hour.

Madeira Cake

Ingredients.—½ lb. of butter, ½ lb. of brown sugar, ¾ lb. of wholemeal flour, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons of marmalade, ¼ lb. of walnuts if liked.

Method.—Cream butter and sugar, then add eggs and marmalade, then flour and 4. walnuts chopped up. Decorate top with the remainder. Bake 1½ to 2 hours.

Plain Wholemeal Raisin Cake

Ingredients.—6 ounces of wholemeal flour, 4 ounces of butter, 4 ounces of seedless raisins, 1 egg, 1 tablespoon of brown sugar, 1 teaspoon ground cloves, 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon, ½ teacup of sour milk.



Method.—Mix flour, cinnamon, cloves, sugar, and rub in fat, and add raisins. Beat egg, add sour milk and mix thoroughly with other ingredients. Moderate oven 40 to 50 minutes.

Wigmore Cake

Ingredients.—½ lb. of wholemeal flour, ½ lb. of sweet ground almonds, ½ lb. of butter, ¼ lb. of chopped citron, 1 lb. of currants, ¼ lb. of brown sugar, 1 whole nutmeg grated, 2 eggs, a little milk.

Method.—Mix dry ingredients thoroughly, melt fat and stir into the beaten eggs, add a little warm milk. Pour into dry ingredients and stir well. Make mixture moist but not too wet. Put into tin thickly lined with paper, stand tin on 2 or 3 sandwich tins to stop burning, cook in very slow oven 2½ to 3 hours. The success of this cake depends on the slow cooking and no other flavouring than the nutmeg.

Wholemeal Sponge Cake

Ingredients and Method.—4 eggs, with their weight in butter, honey and fine wholemeal flour. Cream butter and work in honey; dredge in flour. Add eggs thoroughly beaten. Beat for 10 minutes at least, longer is better. Cook 20 minutes. When cool, but not cold, spread one half with sliced home candied peel, the other half with lemon or tangerine curd. Put together.

Honey Short Cake

Ingredients.—4 ounces honey, 8 ounces butter, ¾ lb. wholemeal flour, 1 egg, grated rind 2 oranges.

Method.—Beat butter and honey to a cream; add the orange rind and flour. Mix with egg, using a little more flour if mixture is not firm enough. Roll out quickly and cut into squares. Place on floured trays and bake slowly 20 to 30 minutes.

Date Surprises

Ingredients.—8 ounces wholemeal flour, 4 ounces butter, 3 tablespoons raw sugar, 1 egg, dates, nuts.

Method.—Cream butter and sugar, add beaten egg and flour. Roll out and cut into oblongs. Put a date stuffed with either a Brazil or walnut kernel on each oblong, fold over and bake.

Cheese Cakes

Ingredients and Method—Use recipe as above for pastry. Line patty pans with it and put 1 teaspoon raspberry jam at bottom of each. To this add the following mixture (about a teaspoon for each); Cream together 2 tablespoons butter and 2 of raw sugar, add 1 well beaten egg,

sift in 3 tablespoons wholemeal flour and a little baking powder. Mix well.

Peanut Cookies

Ingredients.—1 breakfast cup wholemeal flour, 4 ounces butter, 1 teacup raw sugar, 1 egg, 1 cup shelled skinned peanuts, vanilla to flavour, 2 teaspoons cocoa.

Method.—Cream butter and sugar; add beaten egg. Stir in dry ingredients. Put in small lumps on a greased tray and bake 10 to 15 minutes in moderate oven.

Rolled Oats Shortbread

Ingredients.—2 cups rolled oats, 1 cup raw sugar, 1 cup coconut, ¼ cup butter.

Method.—Place rolled oats, raw sugar, and coconut into a mixing bowl. Soften the butter and mix in with dry ingredients until the whole consistency is a crumbly mixture.

Grease a flat cake tin and press the mixture firmly into place. Bake in a moderate oven for 25 to 30 minutes. Becomes a golden brown and is

crisp to eat. Keep in tin with Zwieback to keep hard. Cut in fingers for use.

Wholemeal Fruit Cake

Ingredients.—½ lb. butter, 4 ounces sugar or honey, ¼ lb. walnuts, ¼ lb. mixed peel, 1 teaspoon mixed spice, ½ lb. wholemeal flour, 4 eggs, ¼ lb. almonds, 1 lb. each currants and raisins, ¼ lb. cherries, pinch salt, sour milk.

Method.—Cream butter and sugar, add eggs one by one, sift in dry ingredients, add fruit, nuts (chopped), and peel. Mix with sour milk to which has been added ½ teaspoon baking soda, make fairly moist. Put in greased tin and bake in slow oven with slide underneath for 4 hours.

Trilby Cakes

Ingredients.—8 ounces fine wholemeal flour, 4 ounces butter, 4 ounces raw sugar, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 1 teaspoon baking powder, ½ teaspoon baking soda, ¼ teaspoon salt, 1 egg, ½ cup chopped dates, ¼ cup each chopped walnuts and ginger.

Method.—Cream butter and sugar, add egg (a little milk may be used if necessary); add other ingredients and bake on cold greased trays 15 to 20 minutes.

Sandwiches

Pastes For Sandwich Fillings

Fruit Paste: Ingredients and Method.—Soak overnight some dates, figs and raisins in a small quantity of water. Mince and mix with half quantity minced apple, sprinkling cinnamon, dash of cloves.

Egg Cream: Ingredients and Method.—Lightly boil an egg, add finely chopped lettuce, chives and parsley, seasoning, mix well.

Nut Paste: Ingredients and Method.—1 ounce butter, 1 small teaspoon tomato paste, 1 dessertspoon Soyolk (Soya flour), 1 teaspoon Marmite, 2 ounces milled walnuts or almonds. Beat butter, Marmite and tomato paste, add Soyolk and mix well; then add nuts and pack into jars for future use.

Mock Crab: Ingredients and Method.—2 ounces butter, ½ lb. skinned tomatoes, a little minced onion, 1 egg, 1 teacup bread crumbs, dash mace. Melt butter, add tomatoes, onion and mace and cook till soft. Beat well. Add eggs and breadcrumbs, and cook, stirring all the time. Pot and cover. (It will not keep very long.)

Plain Bread and Butter Sandwiches



Use the following for fillings:—Thin slices of cucumber and grated radish. Seeded raisins and lettuce. Fruit paste. Egg cream. Mock crab paste. Nut paste. Savoury butter. Curried egg.

Note—Sometimes use sultana or raisin bread to vary these. (Fillings given in book.)

Biscuit Sandwiches

Ingredients and Method.—Savoury cheese biscuits spread with milled nuts and cheese mixed to a paste and sprinkled with cinnamon.

Savoury cheese biscuits spread with grated raw carrot and cheese.

Weet-Bix, sliced, and covered with finely sliced figs, grated lemon peel.

Cheese Sandwiches (Various)

Ingredients and Method.—Use wholemeal bread and butter for the base of these: grated cheese either plain or mixed with a little salad dressing and with one of the following mixtures:—Marmite, finely chopped spring onions, water cress; chopped parsley or sage; finely chopped dandelion leaves or spinach; finely chopped dates.

Beverages

Welsh Nectar

Ingredients and Method.—2 lb. raw sugar, 1½ packets seeded raisins, 4 lemons, 2 gallons water. Boil water and pour into large bowl to cool. Drop in the sugar. When quite cold add raisins and lemon rind, thinly pared, also juice. Stir and keep in cool place four days, stirring frequently. Strain through muslin and bottle. It is nice if kept 2 weeks before using.

[Note—we store our Welsh Nectar in robust swing top bottles and find that it is nicely fizzed after only a week. Keep an eye on the fermentation to avoid bottle explosions! Refrigeration will help to slow things down, S.A.H.B.]

Cereal Drinks

(To take the place of tea, coffee, and cocoa.)

There are several brands of cereal drinks on the market, but the two given here make a very good coffee substitute.

1. Ingredients and Method.—Parsnips cut into thin rings, placed on oven tray and dried in oven until brown and crisp. Crush with rollingpin and keep in air-tight tins. A little salt is an improvement.

2. Ingredients and Method.—Four cups bran, 1 cup oatmeal, 1 cup golden syrup. Mix all ingredients, and bake brown in slow oven. Care must be taken that the cereal is thoroughly mixed with syrup. Use a deep baking tin and turn constantly while baking. Use 1 dessertspoon to each cup of water, simmer, strain and add hot milk.

Lemon Delight

Ingredients and Method.—4 or 5 sprigs fresh mint, 1½ lemons sliced very thin, 2 tablespoons raw sugar, ½ cup any fruit juice. Pour over all 1 quart of freshly boiling water. Serve cold.

Grapefruit and Apricot

Ingredients and Method.— Wash and chop ½ lb. sun-dried apricots, soak in 1 pint water for 24 hours. Add more water if necessary to keep them covered. Strain through muslin and add juice of 1 grape-fruit. Sweeten with juice of soaked raisins or dates or honey. Dilute as desired.

About the Authors

Dr Ulric Williams (1890-1971) has been called ‘New Zealand's Greatest Doctor’ and yet the medical establishment made attempts to expel him from their ranks. Halfway through his career he rejected his surgical practices and allopathic prescriptions to become a naturopathic physician. Following an intensive period of reflection and scientific research he devised a complete outline of healthy living that cured patients through natural healing methods. As he once said, "I never became a real doctor until I forgot 95% of what I was taught at Edinburgh [Medical School].”

Dr Samantha Bailey trained and worked as a conventional doctor over two decades before a new understanding of health compelled her to leave the medical system. In 2020 she started what was to become New Zealand’s largest Youtube health channel with her videos gaining millions of views and an international following. She is a co-author of

Virus Mania: How the Medical Industry Continually Invents Epidemics, Making Billion-Dollar Profits at Our Expense. With her husband, Dr Mark Bailey, the couple have made their extensive collection of medical and health information freely available through their website www.drsambailey.com

New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson This book is copyright to the Allergy &Hyperactivity/ADD Association Inc. Material may be reproduced in any form, in whole, or part, provided that credit is given to Brenda Sampson and the Allergy &Hyperactivity/ADD Association Inc. CONTENTS • By way of introduction ♦ The budget, medical services and health. (An article by BS published 1990) ♦ New Zealands greatest doctor, Ulric Williams of Wanganui ♦ Explaining natural therapy • An autobiographical account of my contacts with Ulric Williams ♦ My own story ♦ Creating health • Biographical information ♦ A letter to BS from U.W.s niece, Sybil Woods ♦ A few biographical details • Memories of Ulric Williams from ex−patients and friends, 1973 ♦ An interview with Joy Bignell ♦ Two letters from an anonymous patient ♦ A letter from Col. Harry Goffin ♦ Two letters from Joyce Lake ♦ A letter from Dorothy Hurst ♦ An interview with Collet Saunders ♦ An interview with Newton Carnell ♦ Shorter letters, notes, extracts from Pat Grieg, B. Gardiner, Lily Elliott, M. Seidric, three anonymous patients, Maire Tidey and Fan Oborn • Ulric Williams in his own words ♦ His teachings and sayings • 10 articles reprinted from Collet Saunders Truth Seeker &2 from the Wanganui Herald ♦ A medical doctor has his eyes opened ♦ Organised opposition to truth ♦ Recovery through faith ♦ Uncommon sense ♦ None so blind or deaf ♦ Dangerous knowledge ♦ Mysophobia: fear of germs ♦ Explosive healing ♦ Implosive healing ♦ Blinded by science ♦ The power that heals is within ourselves ♦ Uncommon sense • An interview with Mrs Weir, Matron of the Hikurangi old peoples home where Dr and Mrs Williams spent their last years 1

♦ The Interview • Thoughts on medical practice and medicinal drugs ♦ Thoughts on medical practice and medicinal drugs • Ulric Williams' views on screening tests ♦ Ulric Williams' views on screening tests • In Conclusion ♦ In Conclusion • Bibliography of Dr Williams books and published articles ♦ Bibliography

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson By way of introduction • The budget, medical services and health. (An article by BS published 1990) • New Zealands greatest doctor, Ulric Williams of Wanganui • Explaining natural therapy

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson The Budget, Medical Services and Health; (An article written by B.S. written in 1990)A most significant event in the history of modern medicine, was the 1910 Flexner report on medical education. Abraham Flexner, sponsored by the American Medical Association who were funded by the Carnegie and Rockefeller families, (both investors in the pharmaceutical industry), recommended that pharmaceutical medicine be taught in medical schools. (Thus excluding preventive medicine, nutrition, alternative therapies, natural healing, etc), and that all health care practitioners should be “scientists, rigorously trained” in these schools. Scientific medicine was drug therapy, and since then Western medical schools have concentrated on drug therapy, backed up by surgery; and preventive medicine, nutrition and natural therapies have been ignored. The result over 80 years has been escalating disease rates. In 1936, the first Labour Government introduced free medical service for the first time in New Zealand. They thought it would lead to an ideal society with perfect health. But a medical service wedded to drugs and surgery has produced the opposite; steadily increasing disease rates. Increasing disease rates and escalating wage rates over the past 40 years, have now bankrupted the free medical service and the government that provided it. Medical service as we have known it since 1936 is being dismantled; from now on, middle−class New Zealanders will have to pay for medical care, i.e. pay as much as they can afford, and beyond that, go without. But do we really need medical care that helps to increase disease rates? Dr Ulric Williams, who worked as a surgeon in Wanganui Hospital, thought otherwise. He said, “Hospitals are disease factories”. He told me, “I never became a real doctor till I forgot 95% of what I learned at Edinburgh”. He received his medical education at Edinburgh University, then considered the best medical school in the world. For the past 50 years, people have eaten themselves into a state of affluent malnutrition on the tempting, addictive, sweet tasting non−foods provided by food manufacturers, and then turned to an obliging medical service to take away their pains with drugs and surgery. This is coming to an end. Being sick will soon be a luxury only the wealthy can afford. The onus will be on ordinary people to keep themselves well, as it used to be. I have a letter written to England by a Wellington settler in the 1840’s. He says, “This must be the healthiest country in the whole world. I have never even had a cold since I have been here, in spite of having been wet to the skin countless times, with both fresh and salt water”. Dr Ulric Williams said, “Doctor means teacher. A doctor’s chief duty is to teach people how to be well”. I went to him with arthritis in 1942. I stayed 2 months in his residential clinic, and came home in perfect health, better than I had ever known. When I thanked him, he said, “I did not cure you. Only God can heal. Actually what I did, was to teach you how to cure yourself; this will be useful to you for all your life.” And so it has been. One doesn’t need medical training to learn how to get well and stay well. It is a simple secret; Dr Williams summed it up in a few basic rules. The first rule of health is, never eat when you are not hungry. Man is the only animal that hasn’t enough sense to stop eating when he is sick. If you get an infection, treat it as a healing crisis. Fast for 1 to 3 days, drink plenty of water, take some form of vitamin C. Your body will use the fever to burn up toxic wastes and cleanse itself. 4

The other rules concern life−style; foods need to be fresh, natural, whole and simple; food as God made it, not as man mucks about with it. Water to drink. Every other creature on earth is satisfied with water to quench its thirst. The most important food is oxygen; without it we die in 3 minutes, whereas we can live without water for a day and without other food for weeks. The best way to increase oxygen intake is to exercise in fresh air. Our whole self needs peace. Peace comes from thoughts of love, faith, and forgiveness. Faith means expecting good to happen, instead of expecting bad. Love means seeing good in all things, even ones we don’t like. To see good is the attitude of love. Forgiveness means saying, “It doesn’t matter!” Forgiveness means saying to oneself, “If I forgive this person, God can use my forgiveness to put things right.” Forgiveness means saying to oneself, “This person did the best she could, with the knowledge, and awareness and understanding she had at the time, I set her free from my condemnation” (or him). Summed up, the secret of health lies in what we put in our mouths, the exercise we give our legs, and the thoughts we hold in our minds. The human body is an incredibly marvellous instrument; if we give it the respect it deserves in these areas, it will repay us with good health; and hip replacements and artificial hearts will be unnecessary; also hospitalisation for both mental and physical disease, medication, surgery, shock treatment.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson NEW ZEALAND'S GREATEST DOCTOR : ULRIC WILLIAMS OF WANGANUI He was born at Putiki near Wanganui in 1890, a great grandson of the Henry Williams who came to New Zealand as a missionary in 1823. Ulric's father was an Anglican minister employed in the Maori Mission at Putiki near Wanganui. Maybe it was a stern upbringing? I met Ulric's sister about 1973 when she was in her nineties, and she said, "We were never allowed to go to birthday parties." She also told me that he was always a good athlete. She watched him play rugby at a secondary school match, and he kicked a goal from his own 25 yard line; a distance of 75 yards. As an adult he was a Christian, but not a churchgoer. He thought that orthodox Christianity concentrated too much on sin; not enough on the lovingness of God, and the loving−kindness of God. Perhaps this was more true in his youth than it is today? My own thought is that God is Love. He doesn't want us to serve Him. He wants us to USE Him. When we do this, He is able to repair and heal every trouble. Dr Williams was a compassionate and intuitive man. A woman told me, "He was our family doctor in the Great Depression. My mother had tuberculosis. My father was unemployed, and was using his time to train as a Presbyterian minister. We had very little money. Dr Williams used to come every week to see my mother, with both arms loaded with fresh fruit and vegetables." (In the Great Depression from 1928 to 1936, the only benefit was a widow's benefit. There was no unemployment benefit. Men were paid ten shillings a week if they would leave home to go into road−making camps. There were no bulldozers; it was hard labour with shovels, and a sledge hammer to break stones. Men would live in these camps and each week send their 10/− to their families.) Ulric Williams trained as a doctor at Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities. He graduated in 1918, and after serving in the NZ Medical Corps, he returned to Wanganui, where he worked as a honorary surgeon at the Wanganui Hospital. In the early 1930's, in the depth of the Great Depression, there was a mass meeting of the unemployed in Wanganui, and an archdeacon came from Wellington to address the meeting. He said, "This depression is not God's will. If everyone here would go home, and kneel down, and offer his life to God, the depression would be over in a fortnight!" Dr Williams did just that, and said he had a vision of Jesus in the room with him, accepting his offer. It came at a time of crisis in his life. He was dissatisfied with surgery as a means of healing. He saw the human body as a marvellous creation, and surgery seemed like mutilating it. He asked God to show him a better way of healing, and the answer came in a strange way. He was at a picnic on the Wanganui River, and sat next to an attractive woman, who asked how he liked the picnic? "Very nice, except that I don't like the food much!" The food was all health foods: fresh fruit, salads, sandwiches of wholemeal bread, etc. She said, "I'm sorry; I arranged the food"; and told her story. Her name was Reid; she had a little daughter aged nine with a tubercular hip. Before antibiotics were invented about 1939, tuberculosis was usually fatal. Mrs Reid took her daughter all over Europe looking for a cure, and the search ended at a health farm in England run by Stanley Lief, where the child recovered on a diet of raw fruit and vegetables (a diet of living foods). Ulric Williams said, "Do you know, a fortnight ago I was asking God to lead me to someone who could teach me about diet." Mrs Reid said, "A fortnight ago I was on my knees asking God to lead me to a doctor who would be interested in diet." So they joined forces. He opened a convalescent home; there were 6

three in Wanganui eventually. I went to one of these homes in 1942.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Explaining Natural Therapy Part of a letter written by BS to a doctor interested in diet and nutrition, who asked for information about Ulric Williams and about Nature Cure. The basis of natural therapy is that germs don’t harm us if we are well. I heard this on the radio once in a talk called “Why does food go bad?” The speaker, a scientist, began by saying that all living organisms have a symbiotic arrangement with smaller organisms such as bacteria. The bacteria do no harm to the larger creatures, because as long as the latter are alive, they have defence mechanisms against the germs. After death the defence mechanisms no longer operate; the corpse becomes food, and the bacteria eat it. Their excreta are stinking and sometimes poisonous and this is what we call “gone bad”. The reason why meat goes bad more quickly than fruit is that fruit takes longer to die; it does not die immediately it is picked off the tree. When I heard this I thought, “If a germ is harmless to a person who is fully alive(i.e. healthy) we must be in the process of gradually dying, like a fruit, before we catch a contagious disease. It is not (as we think) that when we have flu we are sick. We catch flu because we are sick, i.e. not fully alive. Natural therapy and diet therapy believe that this “not−fully−aliveness” is caused by toxins accumulating in the body. In his book “Health and Healing in the New Age”, Dr Williams described the sources of these toxins. He believed very strongly in the Life Force and the body’s power to heal itself. When the conditions that are making the person sick are removed, the body grows back to health, as surely as a plant that has had a plank over it grows upright to the light when the plank is removed. Natural therapy does not believe in germs as the cause of disease. The basic principal is that the body makes use of germs to clean itself. When a toxic state occurs, germs multiply, temperature rises. Heat is therapeutic if the person follows the nature cure procedure for cleansing the body, by fasting, drinking water and citrus juices copiously, using an enema, and taking exercise in fresh air. I have used Dr Williams’ method of dealing with infections since 1942 and can testify that it works. An infectious disease is a healing crisis, and should not be suppressed with antibiotics. A person who treats an infection with nature cure methods, comes out of it with a feeling of well−being, quite different from the jaded state of those treated with antibiotics, who tend to say to their friends, “I’ve had flu and it has left me with this awful bronchitis”,or “I’ve had flu and I can’t shake off this cough”. This is because the conditions that the body was trying to clean up are still there, and if the person continues to suppress nature’s attempts to remove them, the body will eventually succumb to a chronic disease.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson An autobiographical account of my contacts with Ulric Williams • My own story • Creating health

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF MY CONTACTS WITH ULRIC WILLIAMS My own story In 1940/41 I was a student at Wellington Teachers College, now called the College of Education. In 1942 after graduating, I taught Standard 2 at Kilbirnie Primary School near my home in Hataitai. They weren't happy years. As a child I had been shy and timid, useless at sports, but intelligent and capable in other ways. As a teacher I felt incapable. (For decades afterwards I had nightmares of finding myself in front of a class and not knowing what to say). There was no unemployment in the forties and in normal times I would have found more congenial work. But we were in the middle of the Second World War and the Manpower Regulations made it illegal to leave the teaching profession while the war lasted. One could leave to get married, or to join the forces. But no one asked me to marry, and I was a pacifist at heart. I remember crying myself to sleep because I felt trapped in a job I hated and didn't know how long the war would last. While I was at Training College I visited a student friend and spent the evening in her tiny bed−sitting room, sitting on her low bed with a window behind me, in a cold draught from a southerly wind leaking through the window. When I came to stand up, I couldn't stand straight. The hollow in my back had disappeared; I was locked in a leaning forward position; in the small of my back were two muscles standing out like taut, inch thick ropes. There was acute lower back pain, and sciatica. The first doctor I consulted said I had muscular adhesions, and recommended manipulation under general anaesthetic, to break down the adhesions. This I distrusted and refused. So he referred me to the physiotherapy department at the Wellington hospital. For months I attended there daily after 4 pm. They gave me deep heat treatment which felt heavenly, but it was followed by exercises of the touch−your−toes type, which made the pain worse than ever. I caught a tram home and bought a threepenny bar of Sante chocolate every day to cheer me up as I hobbled up the steep hill home. In the summer of 1941/42 I caught measles; a light dose. With the fever, the pain left, except for a tiny twinge in the right hip that seemed to say, "You haven't finished with me yet; I'll be back next winter." With such a negative expectation, it did come back as bad as ever. This time we consulted Dr Alexander Gillies, the orthopaedic specialist at the public hospital, later knighted. He had my back X−rayed and diagnosed arthritis in the sacro−iliac joint. My mother went with me to the appointment. She asked, "Could it be psychological? Brenda always has a lot of pain when she does the washing". (In 1942 we didn't have a washing machine; washing meant boiling the clothes in a copper, lifting the heavy wet clothes out with a copper stick, wringing them with a hand−ringer, and carrying the heavy load up steps to a clothes line.) In reply to my mother's question, Dr Gillies picked up the X−ray plate by the corner and waved it in front of her face. He said, "Oh, no, Mrs Pownall; this is a genuine disease". She asked whether it could be cured. He replied in a gloomy, pontificating kind of voice, "Well, we'll see; she's young. We'll try gold injections". But we didn't try them. I was learning singing at the time, and my teacher said, "Go to Ulric Williams; he cured my sister when she was dying". (Her sister was my age. She had very acute colitis. She lived on a diet of nothing but strained orange juice for ten months, and got better.) By this time I was teaching at Kilbirnie School. It was August and I had two weeks holiday. Dr Williams lived at Wanganui. I rang and arranged to go there for a fortnight to stay in one of his convalescent homes. But I stayed two months. 10

The home was In Aramoho, on the banks of the Wanganui river, and was run by two sisters, Maisie and Bess Westwood. I arrived there about 5.30, after a gruelling trip in the train. It was a bitterly cold day with southerly wind and rain. The vibration of the train made my back ache. We stopped for 20 minutes at Palmerston North, where I sat in the waiting room beside a smoking coal fire that gave out no heat, and listened to two other women talking about a friend with arthritis who was now in a wheelchair. When I arrived at the home, Sister Maisie welcomed me and showed me my room, where I dropped and broke a small mirror. It seemed a bad omen! Afterwards I waited in the sitting room for Dr Williams, who would see me at six o'clock. I sat beside another sulky fire feeling tired and depressed. When the Doctor came, his first words were, "The world is a beautiful and wonderful place. If you don't see it that way, you are looking at it upside−down!". I was very surprised at such an unmedical remark, and hadn't the least idea what he meant. As it turned out, the home proved to be an extremely pleasant place. It was a big wooden house facing the river with a beautiful garden, and the two sisters who ran it were kind and friendly in every way. We were always welcome in the big old−fashioned kitchen which was warmed by a large glowing coal range. I remember a patient with bowel cancer who made carrot juice in the kitchen every day. The routine at the home was simple and natural. The day began with a drink of hot water and lemon juice served at 7 am. Breakfast was served in one's room at 8 o'clock; a tray with two or three pieces of raw fruit, a glass of milk, and a tiny dish with a tablespoon of wheat germ moistened with milk and some nuts and dried fruit added. Midday dinner was a cooked meal of vegetables and a protein dish; meat twice a week, other days a dish made from eggs, fish, legumes or nuts. Sister Maisie's nut roast was superb. The evening meal always included a raw vegetable salad and with it home−made biscuits or scones. These were made with wholemeal flour and without sugar. The scones were broken open and rebaked till the new tops were light brown, crusty and delicious. Drinks, after the early morning lemon drink, were: mid morning, hot water flavoured with Vegemite, mid afternoon, a cup of weak tea for those who wanted it, but most were out walking; and evenings, hot water with lemon juice and a little honey, At other times water was available in the kitchen. Bedtime was at 9 o'clock. A woman came at 10 am each day to give us physical exercises. There is a story attached to this physiotherapy that is told in the following article "Creating Health". On weekdays, the Doctor came at 11 am and talked to the patients for an hour about healing. On sunny days we sat in the garden. A few times when it was cold, we gathered in the kitchen where I warmed my back against the coal range. In these talks the Doctor expressed his philosophy of healing. He said, "All disease comes from one of two places; either an unhealthy way of life, with poor diet, drinking and smoking, lack of exercise. Or else it comes from unhappiness in the mind and spirit. As I grow older, I have come to see that the second is more basic; because when people are unhappy they tend to live in an unhealthy way". Because he thought that happiness is a basic essential for health, he tried to teach people how to live happily, by throwing out fear and expecting good. He taught us that belief is a very powerful force which tends to produce the thing believed. If we expect bad things to happen, we are afraid, and our fear tends to produce the thing feared. If we expect good things to happen, this is faith, and our faith helps to produce the good we expect. Jesus said, "It shall be to you according to your faith". Ulric Williams defined faith as "expecting good".

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Another of his sayings, which proved important in my case was, "You cannot hope to be healed unless you throw out all fear and all resentment. These cause hormones to be secreted in the brain which are very potent, and very toxic in excess". Now over fifty years later, it is being realised that the brain, as well as being the seat of the mind and the organ of thought, is also the most important gland in the body. Ulric Williams' way of throwing out fear was to believe in a loving heavenly Father who loves us and protects us in every situation, as long as we believe this enough to trust Him. The only thing that blocks us from receiving this protection is our own fear, He always emphasised that God is good, and wrote the word like this − GO (o) D. But one day he said, "I try not to use the word God. People have so many misconceptions about this word, that it is a barrier to communication. I try instead to use the words "Life" and "the Life Force". He said often, "Life will bring you everything good, as long as you trust it." A good way of throwing out resentment is forgiveness. I once asked a group of six year olds what forgiveness means. A bright eyed little girl said, "Forgiveness means saying it doesn't matter". Ulric Williams said, "We have so much! How can we be resentful?" Another day he said, "You must believe in healing and expect healing. Believe that God loves you and wants to heal you, and can heal you. He taught that there is natural healing power in the body, known to ancient doctors, who called it "vis mediatrix". Mediatrix means healing, vis means power. Another very important saying was: "All disease comes from fear. A doctor's first duty is to allay fear". He wrote to the Wellington Hospital and asked them to send the X−ray plate of my back. When he examined it, he said to me, "There is only a little arthritis there. It can easily get better". This eased my mind and comforted me. He didn't mention arthritis again, but one day he said, "Do you know why you have backache?" I said, "No". He said that if a person is very unhappy and can't find a way out of the unhappiness, the body will create a way out through illness. I thought, "The pain is worse than the school teaching. If that is the only way out, I would rather stay in". So when I was better, I went back to teaching quite happily until the war was over. I had never mentioned that I disliked teaching; it was a hunch on his part. But he did say that in his experience the two professions that cause the most illness are teaching and the Church. Maybe because they are the most stressful professions. I knew about the stress of school teaching, though I must say that in the 1940's teaching was easier than it is today. Children were docile and teachable. They sat quietly at their desks from 9 am to 3 pm. In seven years I never met a hyperactive child, the word didn't exist then. Though I did hear of one such child, from another teacher who was astonished at his behaviour. Also in seven years, I never met a dyslexic child, or one who couldn't read by the age of seven. And in seven years I only met one asthmatic child. Today 30% of children are asthmatic or wheezy. I was warned about Janet's asthma, but it was mild; she never had an attack at school in the year that I taught her. I was surprised at the stress of being a clergyman, and so curious that subsequently, I asked one, "Are you a happy man?" He got very angry with me. Shortly after I came to the Home, the Doctor put me on a special diet. I had two apples and two glasses of milk at each meal, three times a day, for nearly two months. No tea or grain foods, which were my addictions, and probably allergic. He told me to take a teaspoon of cascara before bed, and a teaspoon of Epsom salts in water every morning. I was so hungry that I enjoyed the apples and milk very much. Eaten together they tasted delicious.

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No one in the Home stayed in bed. We were encouraged to walk in the afternoon, for as far as we were able. Sometimes I walked to Wanganui and back, or often along one of the ridges parallel to the river; sometimes with another patient, but often alone. I enjoyed these walks. Sometimes while walking I would have a clear insight which seemed to help healing. I felt they came from God, and was a bit conceited at being so honoured. Now, I think they also came from the good food I was eating which cleared my mind and made it work better. At the convalescent home, I shared a room with another young woman, May Lee. In 1942, rubber and plastic mattresses had not been invented. Making a bed consisted of stripping it, turning over the mattress, and replacing the sheets and blankets. The mattress was heavy. Lifting it would set my back aching and it would ache all day. One morning I lay in bed watching May make her bed. She flipped her mattress over lightly, so lightly! I thought enviously, "I would give anything to be able to turn my mattress so easily, without pain!" Another thought followed, "Perhaps if I make a mental picture of myself doing this, I will be able to?" So I did, and it was easy and painless. Then I thought, "I will never envy another person again. Envy means one has a mental picture of oneself lacking the thing desired. This belief in lack perpetuates the lack. If I picture myself having the good thing I desire, my belief will help it to happen!" I learnt something else about belief at the Wanganui convalescent home. When I had arthritis, my bedtime practice for many months had been to fill a hot water bottle, take a painkiller and go to bed. About 2 am I would wake in pain, crawl out of bed to reheat the bottle, take another pill, and go back to bed, hoping to go to sleep again. In the convalescent home, this continued; until the matron, Sister Maisie, gave me a small book to read. It was "Your word is your wand" by Florence Shinn. It claimed that anything you say with belief and conviction will come true. I decided to use it to cure the habit of waking in pain during the night. I said, "Tonight, I will go to sleep and wake at 7 am". This was so hard to believe that I seemed to feel my brain stretch physically when I did it. To prove my belief I put the pills in the rubbish bin outside, and left my slippers and dressing−gown in the wardrobe ten feet away across a wooden floor with no carpet. Then I went to bed. I had the worst night ever. I woke at 2 am as usual and refilled the hottie, but had no painkillers. I finally went to sleep at 6.30 am and woke on the tick of seven. The book had said, "Sometimes the first result may be disappointing; but regard even the tiniest success as a leaf on the water, indicating that full success is near. I thought, "My faith worked. I said I would awake at 7 am, and I did. Only I said the wrong thing. I should have said that I would sleep all night and wake at seven". So the next night I said that, and I did it. I never awoke in pain at 2 am again. In later years I interviewed some of Ulric Williams' ex−patients. They said, "He didn't only cure me; he changed my whole life!" He did this for me too. One day when I was out walking, I suddenly saw what was meant by his first words to me, "The world is a beautiful and wonderful place. If you don't see it that way you are looking at it upside down". As a child I had no social skills and no school friends. My only playmate was a cousin who lived opposite. Ours was the only old shabby house in a fairly new suburb, and I avoided telling anyone where I lived. With no skills at sports, reading was my chief pastime. But in the 1920's, the excellent children's libraries to be provided by the Labour Government, did not exist. I read comics and books like "The Bumper book of school stories for girls". I longed to be like one heroine, "the most popular girl in school", but I felt the least popular.

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One day, walking along the ridge road. I began to think of the people who loved me, my mother and father and two brothers and two sisters. Our neighbour, Mrs Fielding, and my mother's cousin Aileen Stace thought the sun shone out of me; so did my mother's sister Lisa, and her daughter Jean Muir. Ten people loved me very much! It is said that for emotional health, people need to know that they are important to at least one person in the whole world. But many don't have even one person to love them! And I had ten! Suddenly I realised that I was lucky. I wasn't unpopular, I was very much beloved. With this realisation came the corollary, that happiness depends on what we look at. If I look at and notice all the people who don't know or care whether I exist or not, I feel lonely and neglected. If I notice my warm hearted family, and others who care very much for me, I feel loved and happy. Years later I had a dream so vivid that I remember it today. I was sitting in a little grassy park in Roseneath, overlooking Wellington harbour. It was a dazzlingly beautiful night, the harbour still and smooth as glass, and the city lights reflected in it, as in a mirror. A young woman drove up and came towards me saying, "I am desperate. Is there anyone I can ring up or talk to, who can help me?" There was such a contrast between her despair, and the beauty of the night, spread out unnoticed before her unseeing eyes, that in my dream, I remembered Ulric Williams' words, "The world is a beautiful and wonderful place. If you don't see it that way, you are looking at it upside down!" I wanted to say, "It's your eyes! Change your eyes! Change your way of looking!" But instead I woke up. People used to write whole books on "The art of happiness". It seems to me that the whole art lies in this: choose what you will look at and pay attention to. The world is full of things both good and bad, beautiful and ugly. If we look at the good things that make us happy, we will be happy. If we look at the bad things that make us unhappy, we will be unhappy. The choice is ours; we are free to be happy or unhappy whichever we choose. There a number of clear advantages in choosing to see good and be happy: −Unhappiness weakens the immune system and the whole body, whereas happiness heals both oneself and the people about one. −Thoughts are a creative force. What we pay attention to grows and develops. If we pay attention to good, we are creating good. If we pay attention to bad, we are increasing it. −There was an old lady in her eighties, her son−in−law admired and respected her wisdom so much that he spent an hour a day talking to her, so that he could record her conversation in a book. I don't remember her name or the title of the book, but I remember one remark from it: "To see good is the attitude of love". When I had been on the apples and milk diet for about six weeks, I came home from a walk and looked in the mirror to comb my hair. My cheeks were pink, my eyes, hair and teeth were all shining. I looked a picture of health, I thought with surprise, "I'm beautiful!" When I went in to tea, the men looked at me as if they were surprised too. But I was still in pain, sometimes severe pain. A few days afterwards, the Doctor, passing me in a car, saw me hobbling along, clutching the bridge rail. The next time he spoke to me, he said, "You'll have to pull up your socks". I had been there nearly two months; I suppose he thought I should be improving. I thought, "I keep pulling them up, but every time the pain is bad, I get frightened and they fall down again. What I need is a suspender."

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The Doctor was still trying to help me throw out the idea of backache. He said, "It's only a mental habit. All chronic disease is only a mental habit − a disgusting mental habit!" I said, I'll try". He said, "I don't want you to try! You are going down hill. I want you to turn around and go up hill and you say "I'll try". I don't want you to try, I want you to do it!" It was obvious that I was a slow learner. In his first morning talks he had told the group that we must do two things. We must believe in healing; we must believe that God loves us, that he wants to heal us, and that he can heal us. The only thing that can block this is our own fear. I had gone to Wanganui without any belief, one way or the other; merely in a spirit of enquiry to see if I would get better. I suddenly saw that curiosity is not the same thing as belief. Why, that very day I had been wondering if I should go back to Wellington and have gold injections. The second requirement was to throw out all fear and resentment. I had thrown out resentment (see Creative Health, page 18). But fear? No! I was very afraid of the backache, afraid of the pain, afraid of it growing worse with age, afraid of finishing up in a wheelchair. What was I going to do about fear? The answer came a few mornings later in the toilet. In spite of aperients, the morning evacuation was acutely painful. Here was my opportunity to prove my faith. I thought, "I believe that God loves me. I believe that He wants to heal me. I believe that he can heal me. So what is there to worry about? Every time I am in pain, I will say, 'All is well'. That will be my suspender." I only had to say it twice. The same day the pain was much less. I walked on air. I didn't even crave the nut roast; I didn't even ask if I could scrape the baking dish as I had done previously. I said, "All is well" again the next day, and at 10 am the taut ropes in the small of my back had vanished, and the pain had totally disappeared. I was better, and I went home. When I said goodbye, I thanked the Doctor for curing me. He said, "I didn't cure you; only God can heal. Actually what I did was to teach you how to cure yourself; and that will be useful to you all your life". And so it has been. For the next fourteen years, I had no pain anywhere in my body, and no other illness at all. The Years Since Then I was so happy to be relieved of pain, and so grateful to the Doctor, that I vowed I would live to be a hundred, and when the Evening Post reporter asked me to what I owed my longevity, I would say I owed it to Ulric Williams. He was not a dangerous crank, as the medical profession called him. What he taught was true. In 1942, I was 25, a long way from 100. I am now 80. What of the intervening years? There is a story of a mentally handicapped man who worked for a fisherman, and ate a lot of fish. A visitor said to him, "I thought fish was good for the brain!" He replied, "Look what I might have been like, if I'd never had no fish!" My life has been varied. I have made serious mistakes, but I think, "Look what I might have been like if I had never known Dr Williams!" Looking back, I believe that having arthritis in 1942 was the most fortunate thing that ever happened to me, because without it I would never have met him. After my recovery, I went back to teaching till the end of 1945, and then applied for a job in the Wellington public library, where I worked happily till I retired in 1972. In 1956 I had a return of back pain, due I think to emotional problems. I didn't go back to the Doctor, because of his words, "I have taught you how to cure yourself". I felt I had failed and was ashamed. By this time, slipped discs had been invented. I went to a physiotherapist who gave me heat treatment and spinal traction. In 15

about three weeks the pain was gone. I found that remembering to "walk tall" was as good as traction. A few years later, in the 1960's, I had another brief bout of back pain. This time my mother came to my rescue. She was reading a book entitled "Your mind can heal you" by Frederick Bailes. His advice was "Whenever you feel a pain anywhere in your body, say to yourself 'God is right in the middle of the pain healing it' and it will be better in three days". I was so angry with myself for having the pain, that I said scornfully "What good would that do?". But the pain was so bad that I thought it was worth trying, and it worked! In this I was lucky. It gave me confidence. Ever since, if in pain, I have said these words and I have never been troubled by extended pain since. However I did visit Ulric Williams once again. In January 1957, the Health Department was hoping to wipe out TB with antibiotic drugs. They had a mobile X−ray unit in Wellington and asked employers to let all staff have chest X−rays. The library staff had them and I was the only one found to have a scar on the lung, dating from 1924 when I had pleurisy as a child. I had to see the doctor in charge of the X−ray unit. As I came into her room, she looked up from her desk and said, "Well, I can see you haven't got TB". Then questions; "Do you cough? Do you spit?" Answer "No". But there had been no X−rays since 1924, and she could not tell from the recent one whether the scar was still active. So she told me to have another one in six months time. I thought, "That will be in July, the coldest month of the year. What if I catch a cold? If I go back coughing and spitting, she will think I have got TB". So what happened? "I feared a fear, and it came upon me". This is what happened. During Easter, I decided to repaint our shabby old bathroom. I hired an electric sander to remove the old white paint, not knowing that old white paint is made of lead and very poisonous. It was a windless day and the two tiny windows did not provide any ventilation. Soon the air was thick with paint dust and I worked in this all day long. The next and subsequent days, I felt very ill, as if I had an acute bout of flu. This feeling of unwellness continued through the winter. In July my sister went to the Trentham races on a day of pelting rain. She came home soaked, and developed a cold, which I caught. So I didn't go for another X−ray, thinking I could wait till the cold was better. In August while staying at our bach in Paekakariki, I thought I might be able to sweat out my problems with exercise, so I spent the day pulling out lupins and lupin roots. Far from helping, this made me worse than ever. I didn't have enough strength to stand for ten minutes washing dishes. Feeling desperate, I rang Dr Williams, and went back to see him. He was very kind, and said I didn't need to feel ashamed of being sick again. "Anyone can fall down in the mud; the main thing is not to lie there." He arranged for a chest X−ray, and said my lungs were so full of fluid that they could not see anything else. He could not accept me in a home because by now regulations required TB patients to be treated in isolation hospitals. He advised me to go home and admit myself to Wellington Hospital, which I did. Within a day or two, they stuck a needle in my back and drew off a lot of fluid, after which I felt wonderful. I was kept there for six months with monthly X−rays and antibiotic drugs for the suspected TB, and had a pleasant holiday. My friend, Margaret Ferguson, visited me every week and brought me interesting books to read. After six months I went home with instructions to attend the chest clinic for an X−ray every month, and to continue to take the antibiotic medication. I took these pills for about four months, till one day I had a stomach haemorrhage and vomited a large amount of blood. After that I stopped taking the pills. The chief librarian asked for a certificate that I was not contagious. The certificate said, "Miss Pownall is not contagious, and never has been. She has never had a positive sputum". When I went back to work, I found that 16

my memory, previously good, had become erratic and unreliable. I wondered if the months on a heavy dose of toxic medication, had damaged my brain in some way. In 1968 I married a New Plymouth man who liked to go back to visit his family each year. When we drove through Wanganui, I would ring Dr Williams, just to keep in touch with him. About this time he and his wife sold their house and moved into Hikurangi old people's home, where his wife died. After this he sounded more and more lonely and unhappy. In the library I had seen a book called a "Festschrift" (celebration writing). A famous man had turned eighty and his friends compiled a book in his honour, as a birthday present, each writing a chapter. I thought it would cheer up the Doctor if I could produce a Festschrift for his eightieth birthday. I could write a chapter about what he did for me, and ask other ex−patients to do the same. I knew his age because he was born the same year as my mother. My younger brother, then aged five, commented one day, "I've got two minds". "What do you mean?" "Coming home from school today, I saw two big boys teasing a little boy. They pulled off his cap and threw it over a hedge. He was crying. One of my minds wanted to go and help him. The other mind wanted to have fun laughing with the big boys." "What did you do?" "I just came home". In the same way, I was double−minded about the Festschrift. I didn't know how to make a book. (This was before computers.) Finally I plucked up courage to ask the Evening Post to put an ad. in the public notices requesting ex−patients of Ulric Williams to contact me. The assistant said in a shocked voice, "We can't accept this! It would be advertising a doctor! That's illegal!" My first mind was disappointed; my timid mind relieved. I dropped the project. In December 1971, Dr Williams died. The next year I retired from the library. About the same time, I met Sister Hannah. I think she may have been Jewish; maybe a refugee from Hitler's Germany. She had been a students' health nurse in Christchurch, but now lived alone in Wellington. Her only relative was a daughter in England. She was lonely and unhappy, and in pain with arthritis. I tried to tell her some of the things Ulric Williams had taught me, but she scoffed, "Jesus and vegetable juice! That's not my line!" So she continued to suffer from arthritis. One day she said to me, "You've got a crush on Ulric Williams. Why don't you write his biography?" I thought maybe I could now, with time on my hands. This time I rang the editor of the New Zealand Listener. He said, "Just write us a letter. We will publish it and people will contact you." About twenty did. I bought a tape recorder and set out to interview them, going as far as New Plymouth and Gisborne. I collected so much information that I was baffled by the quantity that had to be transcribed, sorted, collated. In the next few years, life became busier. First the Wellington toy library asked me to be their librarian. I accepted, thinking it would help my Down's Syndrome sister, Alison. Then the IHC Society asked me to take over their library. This was a bigger and more difficult task. All the work was by mail. People would write from all over New Zealand asking for help to rear and educate their handicapped children. At that time these children were not admitted to any school or kindergarten for normal children, and there were only a few special schools for them. One of the first letters described a seven year old child, severely brain injured at birth. She was almost totally blind and deaf, and hyperactive. The hyperactivity was the worst. Could I help? In 1976 I could not find anything helpful. But in 1977 I heard of a hyperactivity association formed in Sydney. They were using the Feingold Diet, and found it amazingly helpful. Feingold was an American allergist who thought that toxic food additives, especially artificial colours, flavours and preservatives, contributed to hyperactivity. In 1978, the Sydney association invited him to come to Australia on a lecture tour. I invited him to visit New Zealand 17

too, and advertised for people who would like to hear him. Those who answered formed the Wellington Hyperactivity Association. I have worked for the association for twenty years. Once I kept an account of the work involved, it totalled 43 hours in a week. In 1981 I resigned from the IHC library to give full time to the Hyperactivity Association. This year I have taken advantage of a month's holiday in January to finish Ulric Williams' book. It follows the original plan, just a collection of memories from people who were grateful to him. It is not a biography, as I did not have enough biographical information. He is not mentioned in NZ Who's Who, or our Dictionary of National Biography. The medical profession of the day dismissed him as a dangerous crank. This wiped out his memory except amongst those who knew him. I have written this book so that people today may have some knowledge and understanding of true healing. Note: A new edition of the New Zealand Dictionary of National Biography was published in October 1998. It contains a page about Ulric Williams.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Creating Health (An article written in the 1980s) In my childhood there was no TV, and bedtime for primary school children was usually 8 o’clock. But when in 1930 when I turned thirteen, my mother said, “I think you are old enough to come out with me sometimes in the evening” and she took me to hear a touring American lecturer speaking about creative thinking. The evening made a strong impression on my mind. I can still see this radiant woman; her snow−white hair piled in curls above a glowing face; her long evening gown of sparkling, shining azure−blue brocade, and her diamond ring. There was a spotlight, and when she moved her hand in it, the facets of the diamond broke up the light into rainbow colours. This kaleidoscope of blues and purples and every colour of the rainbow, was reflected on the wall at the back of the hall, and I spent most of the evening watching it in sheer delight. I missed most of what she said, but I remember this. She believed thoughts and words are creative. By saying something, we begin to bring it into existence. So it is important to say only what is good. She illustrated her theory by referring to the story of Moses. Moses spent many years between youth and old age, working as a shepherd. At the end of this period, God asked him to go back to Egypt and set free the Hebrew people enslaved there. Moses, who had been educated as an Egyptian prince, didn’t know them, or their God. He said, “Who shall I say sent me?” God answered, “I am! Say that I AM sent you”. The Hebrew words for I am, are Jaweh, corrupted into Jehovah, which is accepted as the name of God. But to Moses, the name of God was I am, and he said later when his work of liberation was achieved, “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain”. The lecturer said, “God is all might, majesty, dominion and power. His name is I am and you must not use this name with words that have nothing to do with God; words like sick, tired, afraid, a failure, inferior, ugly. To say “I am sick” is to take the name of God in vain. So say, ”I am well”. Every time you say it, you remind your subconscious mind that God is health, and since he lives in you, you must be healthy”. In 1940 I developed a painful backache that lasted for about two years. (It seemed longer than that.) In 1942 I went to a convalescent home in Wanganui run by Dr. Ulric Williams. Each morning a physiotherapist arrived to give the patients an hour’s physical exercises. She was purposefully bright and when asked “How are you?” we all had to answer with an equally bright, “Very well thank you”. I resented the exercises, which were painful to do, and I resented having to say “I am well”, when I was in pain. I said to myself, “I am NOT well; I am SICK; otherwise, I would not be here.” But the word sick seemed to ring false in my mind. Even while I was emphasising it, something in me knew I was not sick. An analogy occurred to me between cleanliness and health. I regarded myself as a clean person; and I wouldn’t change this opinion of myself just because I got mud on my hands when gardening. Couldn’t I regard myself as a well person even though I had a pain? So I said “I am well” and immediately the pain changed from being the centre of my life, dreadful and threatening, to being peripheral and unimportant. That was the point at which I began to get well.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Biographical information • A letter to BS from U.W.s niece, Sybil Woods • A few biographical details

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Biographical Information Relating to Ulric Williams A letter sent to me in 1973 by Sybil Woods I was grateful to receive this long biographical letter from Ulric Williams' niece, Sybil Woods, daughter of his oldest brother, Wilfred. She wrote: Ulric Williams was born at Wanganui on May 22 1890, the third son and fourth child of the Rev and Mrs Alfred Owen Williams. His parents were living at the Mission Station at Putiki, the Maori pa on the south bank of the river. His father who had previously been vice−principal of Te Rau Maori Theological College, Gisborne, had moved to Putiki in 1885 to become superintendent of the Maori Mission in the Wellington Diocese. The three elder members of the family were born within three years of each other, 1882−1885, and were a closely knit group. Five years separated Ulric from the youngest of these three, and another four were to elapse before the birth of the youngest, Garth. Inevitably this made Ulric something of an odd man out, a 'loner' in the family circle. This was aggravated by the quite understandable reluctance of his older brothers and sister to have their games spoilt by having to include their little brother. My father, Wilfred, the eldest of the family used to tell me with shame how they would 'lose' Ulric on purpose, so that they could get on with their daring exploits. It was quite easy to give him the slip, because the garden included quite an extensive patch of native bush. Here Wilfred, Olive and Keith would build their secret hideouts and stalk one another through the undergrowth. One can only guess at the loneliness and even at times terror, of a toddler deserted in the narrow winding bush tracks. Another dread he had to face and overcome was the journey to the outside toilet. This was some little way from the house down a tree shaded track. In the daytime it was not so bad but at night time the path was beset by 'bogies' of every description. All too often the older brother or sister would see him safely to his destination and then abandon him there to make his own way back to the house. Small wonder that he grew up to be a rather solitary, reserved individual used to going−it−alone. This was offset to some extent by his prowess at games. He grew into a fine specimen of young manhood, tall (6'2"), handsome, and with an unusually well−knit frame. He played football and cricket for Wanganui Collegiate School and later for his college at Cambridge University. He continued to play cricket for Wanganui into his late thirties. But it is probably for his golfing play that he will be remembered by his contemporaries. At one time he held the amateur record for several major golf courses − Belmont, Seafield and Manawatu among them. I used to caddie for him in open championship matches and I shall never forget the deceptively easy, smooth−flowing swing which would send the ball skimming 280 yards down the fairways. But in spite of his sporting contacts and his academic successes he remained conscious of an inner loneliness, from which he suffered at times acutely. One of these periods came when he left Cambridge University to further his medical studies at Edinburgh University. Looking for comfort and strength he attended church services regularly for almost a year in St Giles Cathedral. It seems incredible that throughout the whole of that time, and in spite of the fact that he sat in the same seat Sunday by Sunday, not one member of the congregation ever spoke to him. Finally in desperation he phoned the dean and made an appointment to see him. It required some courage for him to break through his natural reserve to arrange this. So you can imagine his disillusionment when he confronted a man who all too obviously gave him only a quarter of his attention and several times interrupted 21

a surface conversation to make telephone calls. He went out from that unsatisfactory interview feeling so let down that he seldom darkened the doors of a church during the next twenty or more years. It was in an effort to escape from his intolerable loneliness that he next, while still a student, entered into a marriage with a young and attractive nurse who came from a very different social level. His parents, though apprehensive of the wisdom of his choice, came over to England for the wedding and subsequently took his young wife and baby son back to their New Zealand home, until the First World War was over. Ulric then came back to Wanganui and built up a flourishing practice as an obstetrician and surgeon. During the depression years many of his poorer patients received the kindest and most skilled attention with never a thought on his part of sending in an account. On free evenings in school holidays he, an expert bridge player, would forego his evening's pleasure at the club to play endless games of Rummy or Racing Demon with us. Then he would take us off to a nearby dairy where he would command the assistant to fill up a 2 lb. preserving jar with ice−cream liberally laced with strawberry or chocolate flavouring and no one enjoyed this form of supper more than he. On Christmas Eves when Victoria Avenue used to be closed to traffic and seemingly the whole populace paraded up and down the gaily lit shopping area, he would take us three children down, buy us mouth organs or tooters or some other noisy means of giving vent to our joyous feelings, and frolic up and down the street with us, with at least two pauses during the evening to dive into the Rendezvous or Willow Pattern restaurants for the largest ice−cream sundaes I have ever seen. I think it was in 1931 that Ulric's domestic life reached the stage where he felt it was scarcely worth living. He seriously contemplated suicide but hearing that Archdeacon Young was to address an open air meeting of unemployed men in Cook's Gardens, he decided, on some inner prompting, to go and hear what he had to say before doing anything desperate. At the conclusion of a remarkable address, Jim Young said, "If there is any man here who feels absolutely at the end of his tether and does not know what to do to make his life tolerable, my advice to him is 'Go home, go into your room, shut the door, kneel down and simply put your hand into the hand of Jesus Christ and ask Him to direct your life from now on'." Ulric went home and did this, and long afterwards he told me that he felt his hand taken and looked up and saw Jesus Christ beside him. This was a turning point in his life . All the teaching of his childhood about the love of God and the compassion of Christ came flooding back into his life transformed by his inner experience. He read his New Testament avidly and then began to go out onto the street corners of Ridgway Street and Taupo Quay, where all the down and outs and methylated spirits addicts congregated, to tell of the new love and power which had come into his life. His seventeen year old son sensed the change in him and sometimes joined him in his witnessing. One night a man called Jack Howell came up to him and asked for his help in beginning a new life. Jack was then in his late forties. He had been in and out of borstals and gaol, since he was fifteen years old, for drunkenness and petty theft. At this stage of his life he was a confirmed methylated spirits addict. Molly was beginning to respond to the change in Ulric and gave her rather grudging consent to the suggestion that Jack should be given hospitality under their roof while he sorted himself out. Three times Ulric found him employment, three times he lost it through drunkenness, but Ulric refused to give up. Eventually by his friendship and trust, and his ability to make the companionship of the living Christ real to Jack, he became a new person. Ulric lent him enough money to buy a truck and he set himself up in a private carrying and contracting business. I shall never forget the impression left on me at the age of eighteen by this radiantly 22

happy man. I can see him now, fishing a dog−eared New Testament out of his pocket to quote some passage which had helped to convince him that it was never too late to make a fresh start if you knew where to turn to for help and strength. From this direct personal evangelism, which dumbfounded his fellow doctors, and which led to his being invited to speak all over the North Island in churches, in Salvation Army citadels, in town halls and cinemas, Ulric began to turn his attention to the relationship between his new−found faith and the medicine he practised. He found it increasingly difficult to reconcile his conviction in the beneficence and loving−kindness of the Creator revealed in Jesus Christ, with the sickness and disease he ministered to every day. He had long discussions with my father, a clergyman, over this and kindred questions. He was driven to the conclusion that as sickness could not conceivably be willed or 'sent' by a loving Creator, it must be the result of human folly and ignorance in the use of natural resources. Over the course of the next several years he made a detailed study of the processing of natural foodstuffs, methods of fertilising the soil, diet and over eating, psychology and the effect of mental states on bodily health. He gradually evolved his basis for healthy living; − right eating, right thinking and right living. It sounds simple but it involved a thoroughgoing knowledge and appreciation of the closely interwoven network of relationships between body, mind and spirit. Appalled at the number of patients who undergo operation after operation with no apparent improvement in health, he resolved to do no more surgery but to rely entirely on methods of fasting and diet. In the latter he stressed the value of unrefined foods − raw sugar, wholemeal flour, brown rice, etc., the plentiful use of fresh fruit and raw salads and the conservative cooking of all other food (e.g. by steaming), to preserve the maximum amount of vitamins and minerals. He believed that excessive use of chemical pesticides and fertilisers was endangering human health and in this was years ahead of the discoveries publicised by Rachel Carson in "Silent Spring". He believed that most of us eat far more than we need, and especially he queried the amount of animal protein eaten by people in sedentary occupations. As more people became convinced of the good sense of his methods and experienced their validity in the marked improvement in their own health, he began to be in demand as a lecturer up and down the country. Nursing sisters opened private nursing homes for him in Wanganui, Hawkes Bay, Wellington, and other centres where they offered to treat patients by his methods. This involved a huge correspondence, as he had to keep in close touch with patients' progress and write lengthy instructions for their treatment. This frequently involved very personal letters to the patients themselves, many of whom were suffering from psychological disabilities. It was a matter of great joy to them both that Molly gradually found herself to be wholly in sympathy with Ulric's new approach to life. She became his inseparable companion in all that he did, not only accompanying him on his lecture tours, but taking on a great deal of his secretarial work. She took a course in typing and spent long hours dealing with his correspondence. Many a lonely patient experienced the kindness of their hospitality, some staying with them for several months while they learned to grapple with their problems and rebuild their lives. I don't think he ever courted publicity, but he inevitably became a controversial figure. His 'avant garde' theories brought him more than once into open conflict with his more orthodox medical colleagues. Here his early childhood had its effect. There was a sense in which he rather expected to be a 'loner' and almost enjoyed it. He did not go out of his way to alienate his colleagues but I believe there were many occasions when a more conciliatory approach would have won him many allies. Instead they felt rebuffed by his uncompromising stand. Till the end of his days, he remained suspicious of orthodoxy both in matters of 23

Christian belief and worship and in medical practice. Maybe he had to stand alone to get his message across with its full challenge and its cutting edge. But in the process he met sharp opposition and knew the bitterness of isolation. I remember what a joy it was to him when King's College, Auckland, decided to follow his dietary principles for a trial period of several years in their boarding school. The boys ate wholemeal bread and raw sugar and plenty of fresh fruit and their vegetables were steamed. The boys' health showed a marked improvement and there was a sharp decline over the years in the number of limb fractures. Whether the school maintained these sensible practices, I do not know. I rather fear that changes of domestic staff and the war years may have seen a reversion to a less healthy diet. But at the time Ulric was greatly encouraged.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION relating to Dr Ulric G Williams He was descended from Henry Williams who came to New Zealandf as a missionary in 1823. Henry Williams was a dynamic man who influenced the Maori chiefs to relinquish their habits of inter−tribal warfare, slaughter, cannibalism, and slavery of women. He had the courage to stand (literally) between two tribes, armed and at war, and persuade them successfully to make peace. Ulric’s parents were Alfred Owen Williams and Alice Gaster (b. 12.11.1850) They married 27.12.1881 Children of Alfred and Alice Williams Wilfred Owen Gaster Williams b 19.9.1882 at Nelson Olive Gaster Williams b 18.5.1884 at Gisborne Keith Gaster Williams b 23.7.1885 at Putiki near Wanganui Ulric Gaster Williams b 22.5.1890 at Putiki near Wanganui Garth Gaster Williams b 15.3.1894 at Putiki near Wanganui Ulric Gaster Williams married Mary May Thurling. Their son Owen Neville Williams (known as Peter) was born 2.6.1914. The following information came from the Wanganui Collegiate School Register, ed. 4, 1854 to 1963, published by the Old Boys Association, 1964. Ulric Gaster Williams, 45 Wicksteed Street, Wanganui Prefect 1907/09 Rugby XV 1907/08 Cricket XI 1907/09 Educated at Cambridge &Edinburgh Universities, MB ChB Captain NZ Medical Corps in World War I Health consultant, medical practitioner and author of “Hints on Healthy Living”.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Memories of Ulric Williams from ex−patients and friends, 1973 • An interview with Joy Bignell • Two letters from an anonymous patient • A letter from Col. Harry Goffin • Two letters from Joyce Lake • A letter from Dorothy Hurst • An interview with Collet Saunders • An interview with Newton Carnell • Shorter letters, notes, extracts from Pat Grieg, B. Gardiner, Lily Elliott, M. Seidric, three anonymous patients, Maire Tidey and Fan Oborn

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson An interview with Joy BignellJoy worked for Ulric Williams for several years as a secretary. In the 30’s there were three secretaries, Mrs Williams, Joy, and Betty Davis. Joy said, “I was brought up very strictly in a Salvation Army family. I was a rebel; kicking against the rules. When I first went to work for the Doctor, I wasn’t a happy girl. I was still living at home. There were many things wrong with me, including headaches. He taught me how to think; positive thinking. He said, “You are what you think; you become what you think. To be healthy, you must think in the right way; you have to think healthy. You don’t look for wrong things to happen; you expect right things to happen. Thoughts have a way of attracting what you think about, to you”. It took me a long time to learn this. I used to be sick in the stomach at times. It happened whenever I had problems. When my son had a bad car accident it happened; that was nerves. When I was young it happened frequently. Dr Williams said it was because I worried about things that didn’t even matter. I thought along the wrong lines; things I wanted to do, things I wasn’t allowed to do, and stupid things that young people worry about. He taught me to think positively; to accept the fact that I was brought up that way; to impress on my parents that I was grown up now and to gradually go my own way. So I did, and I didn’t go far astray. When I learned to think positively, I got over that sickness and the headaches too. I had terrible headaches for years. I think the physical symptoms are brought on by one’s attitude and way of thinking. I remember a lady who came to the doctor with severe stomach trouble; very bad pains, maybe ulcers, maybe she was worried she had cancer. She came back several times. I used to type his letters following these interviews. He would prescribe a diet sheet and would put a letter on the dictaphone. I would type the letter and I learnt a lot in this way. The second time this woman came, he found what was at the root of the trouble. Her husband was one of two brothers with a wealthy father. She expected her husband would inherit half his father’s wealth; but the other son was responsible for the whole fortune being lost through unwise investments. She was full of resentment and hatred for the brother, and said she would never forgive him. Dr Williams wrote her a very straight letter. She was a religious woman and a woman in her position should have known better than to bear hatred and resentment like that. He said to me afterwards, “Either she’ll come back, or I won’t see her again”. But she did come back. She said, “I had the guts to take what he told me”. She was new woman; she gradually came right; her pains disappeared. I saw her three months after her first visit; she looked radiant, a different woman. She found that the resentment was not worth carrying; it would not bring the money back. It was amazing how he could see into your mind. With me he could see that I resented the things I wasn’t allowed to do. I wasn’t allowed to go to dances or to the pictures. He could see that was in the back of my mind. He was a great man. The last time I saw him was shortly before he died. I was driving past Hikurangi and saw him sitting on a seat by himself. After Mrs Williams died, he was very lonely, so I stopped the car and spoke to him. He said, “Joy, you don’t look any older.” He always used to say that to me every time he saw me. He and his wife were wonderful people. I was with them for over four years and they were very good to me, and I’ve never forgotten how he taught me to think. I had a brother−in−law who used to tease me unmercifully. I was thirteen and he would tease, tease, tease. I used to get so upset that I would cry, and try to bite back, and he would still tease me. I learnt from the doctor that the best way to combat teasing is not to let it worry you. This new attitude made all the difference; he never teased me after that, we were the best of friends.

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I find the same thing in my work; I work for the Education Board; I am the head typist and the Boss’s secretary. I have a lot of men to deal with; some are not so nice. The girls say, “You’re patient, I don’t know how you put up with them.” Well that’s another thing the Doctor taught me; I don’t get in a flap or get flustered; I won’t let myself. I’ve got so used to doing it that it’s automatic. He made a wonderful difference to me. I have been very lucky; I’ve had a good husband and a good marriage. We’ve had problems with our children; our youngest son is a mad−head in a car. He was almost killed one night; he was in the river for twelve hours and we didn’t know whether he was dead or alive; but as for our marriage, it’s been a good one. Things like the accident will upset me and I will get a bit sick in the stomach, but next morning, I think, “I can’t undo anything that’s happened. I have to face up to it.” The way I face it is to get on with doing something. (I asked Joy if she remembered any of Dr Williams’ sayings?) She said, “I keep thinking of this one. He used it a lot, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he”. I enquired about Mrs Williams. “She was a wonderful person, a real lady. She never did a thing wrong. I never saw her upset except once, when their son, Peter, got married without letting them know. He had been studying in Scotland and met a girl on the boat coming home. He brought her home and they stayed with Mr and Mrs Williams. That would be 1938, I think. One day they went off and got married. Mrs Williams said, “I thought he would have asked his father and me to go along.” That day was the only time I saw her give way to her feelings. She cried that day. She was lovely person. It didn’t matter if you were the gardener or the woman who did the washing. She would talk to you as if you were her best friend. She had a rather high pitched voice and some used to think she was la−di−da, but she wasn’t. She was very kind, and very good to me. I remembered that Dr Williams had once said his wife was insecure. Joy said, ”Before the Doctor took on this nature cure, and changed his way of life, their marriage was unhappy, with drink and high living. But they both changed completely; an amazing change. It was as though they both had the same vision at the same time, and it saved their marriage; and saved everything. I’m sure it was God’s way, (if you like to put it like that), of bringing him to the place where he had to do this work. There is no doubt that he did a tremendous amount of good in Wanganui and other places. Some people in Wanganui were opposed to him, but those who were for him were wholeheartedly for him. My mother thought he was mad. I remember having a row with my boy friend. The next day I went to work feeling ill. At lunch time I cycled home against a head wind and fainted. Mother put me to bed and called the Doctor, thinking he would give me some pills or medicine. Instead he said, “Get up out of that bed. There is nothing wrong with you. I told you this morning to stop worrying about that stupid boy!” And there was nothing wrong with me really. Both my husband and I have been healthy. We ate wholemeal bread and lots of fruit and vegetables in summer. I brought my children up that way and they never had the infections that most children get. I am 55, but I can keep pace with the younger girls at work, and run rings round them energy−wise. I tell them, “You are what you eat”. That was one of the Doctor’s sayings. Another was, “If you put kerosene in you car, you wouldn’t expect it to run properly and you can’t expect your body to run well if you put rubbish into it. Did you hear about the minister who had arthritis? When he first came to the surgery, he could not walk from his taxi to the verandah without the aid of two sticks, just shuffling. He was put in Sister Burson’s Home, where he fasted for weeks on water and fruit juice. When he left, he was walking six miles a day. I myself saw the letter he wrote to the Doctor. He went back to his parish up Te Kuiti way. He used to preach at three churches, thirteen miles apart, each Sunday, and walk to them all. I had seen him come into the Doctor’s 28

surgery, hardly able to walk at all. He wasn’t a young man either; he was about sixty at the time. Dr Williams had wonderful results with ulcer patients. He used to put them on a diet of nothing but raw milk for up to three months, and if they ate correctly they would not come back (thought correctly too, of course). You could get raw milk in those days. He thought milk was ruined by pasteurising and treating it. Tuberculosis was another thing he had a great success with. These patients didn’t have to go into isolation then, as long as everything was kept separate; dishes, etc washed separately. You had to notify the authorities, and people in the house had to be examined periodically. The Doctor used to billet them privately. I remember one girl. I travelled to Christchurch with her on the ferry. I was seasick and she was as fit as a fiddle.” Lastly she spoke of cancer patients. She said that most of them were too far gone. They had left it too late for the Doctor to do anything. (But I remember seeing a private letter written by Dr Williams. One sentence stuck in my mind, “This is the forty−third case of cancer that has responded to our treatment”.)

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Two letters from a patient who asked to be anonymous She wrote:− "When I was 16, I developed an abscess at the base of my spine. This was caused by bruising when I had been accidentally pushed onto a blackberry stump during a bit of tomfoolery. The abscess took 12 months to develop, but then it necessitated minor surgery, after which I was confined to bed for two weeks. At the end of those two weeks, my appendix burst and due to unforeseen circumstances, I was not operated on until seven hours later, which meant that the poison had spread widely through my system, and I was not expected to recover. However, I did survive, and after seven weeks in hospital I was allowed home, in spite of the fact that the wound, where a large tube had been inserted for drainage, was still not properly healed. I had to attend outpatients for about three months, when it did finally seal over, and I slowly regained strength. After a while I had a return of soreness on the tail bone, and in time this had to be lanced again. Then for a period of six years, this 'sinus' as my doctor called it, kept erupting and required lancing at frequent intervals, especially after travelling in a car for even a thirty mile distance. It became frustrating, and I was drained of energy. I could not take part in sport for fear of knocking it and causing another eruption. The doctor was puzzled and admitted he did not know why it should repeatedly break out. He decided to open it right to the bone and pack the cavity to allow it to heal only slowly, and I went to him every day for dressings and repacking. This necessitated giving up my job. Positions were not easy to find in those days. I was fairly depressed about the whole thing, especially when my doctor suggested that if this slow healing trial did not work, he would cut out an area of flesh and try that! This really shook my confidence in him, and months later when it did erupt again, I decided to go to Wanganui to Dr Ulric Williams and seek his advice. By this time, six years had gone by, and you can imagine what I was afraid of by this time. My mind was made up that something that would not permanently heal in six years, could only mean one thing. I was a little in awe of that fine specimen of manhood as I was ushered into his consulting room. He seated me and asked me the nature of my visit. I told him I had an abscess on my tailbone that would not heal. To my amazement, he was not the least bit interested in looking at it. Instead he made himself comfortable and asked me to tell him of any past illnesses, so I told him about the peritonitis and how long it took for the drain spot to heal, and then of the continued outbreaks of the sinus. He took notes unhurriedly, then studied them for some time. He asked me, "If you had a balloon with a weak spot, and with water inside, where would you expect the water to leak from?" I said, "From the weak spot." He thumped his fist on the table and said, "That is exactly what has happened to your body. The peritonitis poison was never properly drained, so it has to find the weak spot." Silence reigned for some time, before he looked at me and said, "I cannot cure you." Imagine the shock! I imagined he was confirming my worst fears! He gave this time to scare me before continuing, "Until you clear your blood stream of the poisons, the abscess will never be able to heal. I can tell you how to do this, but I cannot do it for you. It will mean a strict diet for possibly two years, and it depends upon your own willpower whether you cure yourself or not." I left his rooms walking on air with relief after the fright he had given me, but I guess that was 'tactics' and it certainly made me determined to stick strictly to his instructions. He wrote me friendly and encouraging letters periodically, gradually changing the restrictions of the diet, and not only did the abscess heal, but my energy returned and I had a new lease of life altogether.

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That was 33 years ago, and over the years I have visited Dr Williams on several occasions for his help and advice, and always found him so willing to give of his time, without the slightest thought of financial repayment. He spoke to me for many hours on subjects I considered unrelated to my health at that time. But on reflecting I realised it was all a part of his psychology to relax me, and to convince me that I really did have the courage to carry it through." The second letter "I do not seem to have a copy of the diet sheets, but I can tell you roughly what the diet was. To begin with, I was on fruit and vegetable juices, and raw fruit for breakfasts, salads for lunch and also the evening meal. Then gradually I was allowed a potato in its jacket, then wholemeal bread and meat substitute dishes. I was a whole year without any meat, and then gradually allowed poultry and fish occasionally, also brains and liver, etc. The second year I still had fruit breakfasts with dates and nuts, and always a salad lunch, but more meat with the evening meal. Vegetables, mainly steamed of course, or dry baked. I remember taking my vegetable water and Marmite broth to work in a thermos for morning tea, and being chaffed by the staff, but I had to learn to take the teasing, and tell them jealousy would get them nowhere. It was certainly worthwhile, and during that second year I was married. Fortunately my husband was most helpful and understanding and was willing to eat the same way. He says to this day that he was never fitter (and he was an athlete). You asked what kind of diet I had been accustomed to prior to my troubles? Well, I was one of a family of six children, and during the depression years, things were not easy for my parents, but my mother was a wonderful manager. We seldom had fried foods or pastries, because she knew better than that. But looking back maybe we went a little short of protein during those worst years. Though really I feel our diet was not wholly to blame. I have come to realise that unhappiness and stress can be a worse enemy than diet; and we really did have our share of stresses during those early years. My father was a man who was forever striving to seek a better position, and after a very unfortunate misunderstanding on the family orchard, he was forced to leave and find employment where he could earn enough to keep a growing family. He kept changing to something better as he thought, and we were shifted from one town to another where he thought he was bettering himself, but in fact the cost of all this shifting was getting him nowhere. He also was a devoted father, and wanted us to have things Mother felt we could ill afford. There were frequent arguments about finance in the home. These upsets were more damaging to us children than our parents ever realised, because we were so fond of both parents, and could not stand any tensions between them. But most of all, the fact that after my two primer years I had a change of school every other year of my schooling because of these shifts. I was a fairly shy child, and it seemed I just made friends, and then had to leave them. We seemed to be always struggling and Mother took in sewing to help out. This meant that my older sister and I had to become very domesticated at an early age. I don't think this hurts as long as you also have enough time to have a little fun, but we missed out a lot in this respect, especially with four other younger children to help cope with. Why have I told you all this, when I have bottled it up for years, I wonder. Perhaps it will do me good. I agree with Ulric Williams that peace of mind is of the utmost importance to good health, and through all these years I resented my father's lack of stability. Though he did honestly believe he was doing it for our good, I am certain." (Later she sent the following diet in Dr Williams' beautiful handwriting, dated April 1967. This was some years after her recovery and the diet sheet allows meat. Swiss Breakfast 2 grated apples, a level tablespoon each of honey and raw oatmeal, juice of half a lemon or an orange, 3 tablespoons of top milk, a handful of chopped raisins and walnuts. If too much, use less of each.

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Or, for variety: oranges, grapes and milk Or, three kinds of fresh fruit, dried fruits and walnuts Mid morning nothing Lunch or Tea Wholemeal bread, butter, honey, vegemite, peanut butter, uncut salad veges, with hard boiled egg, cheese, walnuts. Or, a large mixed salad. For variety, besides lettuce, use cabbage or silver beet cut fine; celery, cress, onion, small leaves of dandelion and sowthistle, spring onion, radish, tomato, grated root veges, and bits of fresh and dried fruits and banana. Salad dressing (honey, olive oil and lemon juice in proportion of 1,2,3. Make a bottleful. Shake before using.) Potatoes cooked in their skins, a little butter, salt and pepper if liked. There are other salad recipes in my books. Or, on cold days, home−made soup, and thin wholemeal toast and "scrape" Mid afternoon Carrot juice, sipped. Dinner Lean meat or fish. Plenty of vegetables, conservatively cooked (steamed is best) without salt or soda. You can add a little salt at the table. No puddings with this; have fresh fruit instead. Or, an egg dish or a cheese dish, perhaps with a rasher of bacon for flavour. Then stewed fruit, or ripe fresh fruit or dried fruit. Baked or boiled custard or junket or home made Spanish cream. Brown sugar, a spot of cream. Occasionally, instead, a steamed pudding. With lunch and dinner every day One vitamin capsule (they are free on Social Security) and 2 Vikelp tablets (they are not free) for essential minerals. (The Swiss breakfast was the original muesli, invented by the Swiss doctor Max Bircher Benner, born 1867, a pioneer in nutritional science. He believed in raw fruit and vegetables as a cure for disease and wanted to persuade people that even grain foods can be eaten raw. I remember in the thirties, my father cut an article from the Evening Post entitled "Swiss health breakfast". The recipe was 2 tablespoons of rolled oats, soaked in water overnight, 1 or 2 grated apples, some sultanas, lemon juice, honey and cream. B.S.)

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson From Col. Harry Goffin of the Salvation Army, Sydney, October 1973 I owe him a debt I can never repay. In 1939 I was suffering from a chronic eczema condition on both legs, which had broken out into four large ulcers. For two years I had been in the care of leading dermatologists; with orthodox treatment of lotions, ointments, drugs to help me sleep, etc. My condition was worse rather than better. I was almost at the point of despair. My work and family life were suffering. I was recommended to see Dr Williams by my divisional commander who made arrangements for me to go up from Miramar where I was stationed, to Wanganui. I had only one interview with Dr Williams. He began by taking me to task for my self−pity. He said that as a Christian I should be ashamed to be in the condition I was, which he said was due to my breaking the law of God. He said that if the poisons in my body had not broken out through the skin I could well have been crippled up with arthritis. I should be thanking God rather than being sorry for myself. He told me that if I co−operated with God’s laws and followed the treatment he suggested I would surely recover quite speedily. He gave me hope. He then went on to tell me about himself − his own wonderful conversion to a Christian sense of values, from being a playboy doctor with little real concern for his patients; filling them up with sedatives and drugs and rushing them through his surgery as quickly as he could, so that he could have more time for his own pleasures. He said that God had spoken to him one night, when he was in his surgery, just having finished pushing patients through, with the words, “Aren’t you ashamed of yourself?” He said it was as clear as a human voice, but he knew it was from God. It was the turning point of his life and drove him to his knees in penitence and complete amendment of life. Before I left his surgery he prayed with me. Later that week I received through the post my first instructions regarding treatment − an eliminative diet − exercise − daily enema − no drugs or lotions, etc. I kept strictly to his advice and in a fortnight the ulcers were drying up and healing was beginning to be rapid. I wrote to him to report progress and I received a letter in which he thanked God for what was happening and gave further advice regarding diet and mental attitudes. Within six weeks the eczema was completely cured − my mind was at peace − my work and family life was renewed and I was a new man. I have never had a recurrence although I served as a chaplain with the Third Division on Guadacanal where many suffered from skin complaints. When I wrote asking the doctor for his account he replied again, thanking God for my recovery and saying that I could pay him by serving others with my recovered health. I have filled important posts in the Salvation Army in New Zealand, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney with excellent health and vigour and will always be grateful to Dr Ulric Williams for what he did for me. I am now 63 years of age and retire in about 18 months time.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Two letters from Joyce LakePrior to going to the Health Home in Aramoho I was under the doctors for many years with my heart. At school I could not partake in any active sport. After leaving school I took an office job in Invercargill and I suffered a lot with swollen legs and ankles. I was off work a lot resting, but after going to several doctors and specialists I was told to give up work as nothing more could be done. They advised me to rest as much as possible as I would never work again, and they told me I could never marry or have children as this would kill me. After being in bed for many weeks and getting more down in the dumps each day, the sun looked as though it might shine at last. My mother had read Dr Williams’ book and wondered if he would be able to help me. I wrote to Dr Williams, only to be told his “Home” was full and I would have to wait some time. I had hopes that this man could help me. The first thing he told me, was that he would have to rid the system of all the poisons that the doctors had given me over the years. Firstly I was put on a diet of juices, with an enema each morning; then a milk diet for a week. Later I went on to a normal diet; eg: Lemon drink on rising, fruit of all kinds and dates for breakfast, soup at mid morning, vegetables and pudding for lunch and mixed salads at night. We had Milo before retiring. On Sunday we had meat for lunch, a cake and a cup of tea in the afternoon. Dr Williams would come each day and lecture us. I found these talks very enlightening. Many described in general how to improve and maintain a higher level. The results of these lectures have stood me in good stead down through the years. He also told us how to think positively, and believe God is Love. We had to take walks each day and do exercises each morning, on the dewy grass in bare feet if possible. I was amazed one day (after I had been there a while) when he told me to hire a bike and take a ride each day and go a little further each day. To me who could not sweep a floor without my ankles swelling, that seemed too good to be true. I rode the bike a little way the first day, and not a sign of swelling. By the time I finished there (which was four months) I was riding fifteen miles and enjoying every minute of it. The scenery was beautiful and life was just wonderful. The most impressive case I witnessed while I was there, was to see a lady walk home after being confined to a wheel chair for twelve years. There was another lady there with cancer. After dieting and fasting for a long time all the poisons broke out like a boil on her neck. This poured from her and she had to have the dressings changed a lot and the smell was terrible. She was confined to her room for quite some time. I felt really thrilled for her when she could come out without her dressings and without the terrible smell that was coming from the rubbish within. I feel really honoured to have had the opportunity of living in a home such as the Aramoho Health Home. The staff were wonderful. They had suffered ill health and had been under doctors. One lady had been a registered nurse and had gone to Dr Williams for help and she was so grateful she stayed on with him. When I returned home from Dr Williams, I went to see the doctor and he just could not believe it. He said a miracle has happened. Another one said he wanted to know what I had done. When I told him where I had been, he just gave me a prescription which I did not take to the chemist to be made up. I now have three teenage daughters and I am so grateful to Dr Williams. The girls are healthy, much to the disappointment of the district nurse and teachers, who were always pestering me about giving them injections for everything. One even told me I would never forgive myself when one died of whooping cough or diphtheria. One stormed out saying what a terrible mother I was. I was so confident in all Dr Williams told me, I was not a bit afraid of that happening. To this day people, lots of people, think I am a bit queer, but I hope my girls will realise right from wrong and stick to it. It isn’t easy but it is certainly best in the long run.

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A Swiss doctor, Max Bircher Benner, said, “It’s a tragedy when a short cut is invented. Afterwards most people will use the short way and often the long way is better.” Her Second Letter I didn’t tell you that I am the manager of a health and herbal shop. I work from 10 to 3 and my days are very full. I can remember Dr Williams saying to “think positively”. He said our thoughts have a lot to do with the way we live and feel. He was always reminding us “God is Love”. Love him and trust in him and only good and lovely things will happen to us. I also remember him telling another girl and myself (we were the only young ones there at the time) never to have our children injected for whooping cough, etc. These poisons injected will only cause other complaints. You can imagine the time I had, when the children were small, right through to secondary school age. The Plunket nurse was always at me. I even had a district nurse call and tell me what a terrible mother I was, and how I would never forgive myself when I lost some or all my children. Just for a second I nearly gave in, but Dr Williams’ words came to me. I knew he would be right. I had such great faith in all he said, that I was able to give a definite “No” to the district nurse. The teachers have told the girls how foolish their parents are but I have talked to them often about Dr Williams, and now they are older I am sure they realise why we didn’t want them to have poisons put into their systems. Regarding the doctor who just gave me the prescription. He wasn’t interested in hearing it was Dr Williams who had cured me. He admitted my heart was good, but as soon as I told him where I had been, he just gave me the prescription, as much as to say I would most likely need it before long. The doctors didn’t like to give in to the fact that he was doing wonderful work and having lots of cures.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Dorothy HurstWhile I was in the rest home at 296 Somme Parade, Wanganui in 1958, Dr Ulric Williams came every day to massage me. I had been in a motor accident and suffered a slipped disc which had developed into arthritis. I had been in a public hospital for three months and was feeling quite desperate when I went into the rest home, hardly able to walk for the pain in my back and knees. Dr Williams put me on a rigid diet and massaged me every day except Sunday, even coming on a Saturday because he did not want me to go two days without the massage. After six weeks, I was able to return to my work, and get about with a great deal more comfort. In fact I was sufficiently well enough to remarry in October 1958. My then husband had had previous experience of Dr Williams and it was through his instigation that I eventually went to see the doctor. Another patient at the home was cured of diabetes. We used to send each other Xmas cards for many years afterwards and she still kept well. Also my husband met a young girl who had been taken into the doctor’s own home suffering from tuberculosis. The hospital had wanted to operate and remove her left lung, but after living at the doctor’s house for some time, she was well enough to chop up logs of wood for the house fire, before leaving for her home cured. Another patient who was there at the same time as I was, left cured of cancer, after being on a very strict diet. He believed in asking, by silent prayer, for whatever he wanted at the time, and expected the immediate granting of the request. Like going to play a game of golf on an off day and requesting that a partner be there with whom he could play. On arriving at the course, no one in sight and then just coming along someone who said he had a sudden urge to go and play and could not account for it. He told us it always worked for him. He was a descendant of the Williams family who settled in Paihia. He himself did not mention it until questioned by a patient from Christchurch, who asked him whether he was descended from them. She said she was and thought he might be also. He said that he was; they decided they must be cousins. But he did not elaborate on his connection. I have visited the Bay of Islands and the Waitangi Treaty House where photos and records of the Williams family are stored. Ulric Williams was a descendent of the Rev. Henry Williams. The Bay of Islands book that I brought home mentions Henry Williams at Paihia. It also had a bibliography of the early days, which includes “Through Ninety Years” by F.W. Williams and “Life of Henry Williams” by Carleton. I was at Paihia before I met Dr Williams, or I would have taken more notice, while there. There is an article about the Williams family in the Listener, May 21−27, 1973 but I cannot trace any mention of Dr Ulric. The convalescent home at 296 Somme Parade was very well run. Nurse Burson was in charge with Mrs Motley. There was a sister who had previously been a patient and returned after doing her nursing training, and Olive Roscoe who gave us exercises every morning, was also a previous patient. We were given a lemon drink at 7 am, then a fruit breakfast at 8 am of rolled oats for those unable to take fruit. (I was one as I also had colitis.) Rich soup at 10 am, then dinner at noon. We had meat twice a week, fish once a week and made up dishes of egg, lentils, nuts, etc. A light tea at 5 pm, was followed by a lemon or hot milk drink before retiring at 9 pm. I had to have slippery elm food 2 or 3 times daily and only strained rolled oats for breakfast. However after six weeks I had improved considerably; and when I left I was not troubled with colitis. Dr Williams came every day to talk to patients individually, and then while we sat and ate our dinner from trays on our knees in the lounge, he talked to us on various subjects.

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I still have a few of his letters, chiefly to do with personal items of health. One recipe which I found most useful for arthritis was to put one pound each of baking soda and Epsom salts in the bath water at night just before retiring. I kept a box in the bathroom with a seven pound bag of each in it and used one cupful of each in the bath when necessary. You must go to bed afterwards as it is inclined to make you perspire, (perhaps that is part of the treatment). You have to be careful not to go outside and catch a chill. He advised vitamin capsules for deficiency. He also very grudgingly gave me a prescription for thyroid tablets. He was very much against taking drugs.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson An interview with Collet SaundersCollet Saunders was a pastor in a non−conformist church, who lived in New Plymouth. He had severe back pain; the chiropractors had not been able to fix it. He could not bend down to tie his shoes or wash his face. He was returning from a trip south and decided to get off the bus at Wanganui to consult Ulric Williams. He had limited time before the next bus. He told his story and asked for help. “Why should you ask me for help?” “I thought that was your job, helping people like me.” “What did you say your occupation is?” “I am a minister.” “And you come to me for help? Who do you think heals? Where does healing come from?” “Well, all healing has to come from the Lord; basically; though he does use doctors and so on.” “Yes, but where IS the Lord?” “Well, the Bible says our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit.” “You’re getting on fine. So the healing you want, must be right inside the body you want healing for?” “Yes, I suppose so.” He said, “What the devil do you want me to do for you? Look, boy, I was far worse than you with my back. I couldn’t get round the block. My back was getting worse and worse. I couldn’t dig the garden. I couldn’t dress myself to go and see my patients. I couldn’t walk around the block without sitting in the gutter or hanging on to the fence several times. I thought, “This is terrible, this is the end of everything.” I could see myself in a wheelchair and wondered who was going to wheel it. Then my wife came to me one day and said, “Do you know what the trouble is?” “Of course, I don’t. If I did, I would fix it.” She said, “It’s all in your mind!” I wouldn’t like to tell you what I called her for saying that to me. But she came back later and said, “You know you have got it in your mind that you have a bad back, and you’re going to be in a wheelchair, and that is colouring everything. In spite of all you know, and all you teach other people, you’ve got it in your mind that you are going to be in a wheelchair.” She rubbed that in, and I told her what I thought of her. I churned it over and over. I said, “You cannot catch me out on that.” But I was caught. Collet said to the doctor, “ So what did you do? I’m very interested to hear.” “Well, I threw it out; the thought of my bad back, and so on, the wheelchair and every other blooming thing.”

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“What happened?” “Well, my back was all right then, from then on!” Collet was still thinking of his own back, and looking at the time. He said, ”My bus goes in quarter of an hour. Have you got anything for me? A diet or anything?’ “You don’t need a diet. Come here, stand up for a minute.” I stood up, he put his hand on my shoulder and said, “Lord, help this young fellow to get his eyes open and see that he is all right.” Then, “Good day! Off you go!” I grabbed my bag and began to tear down the road, watching for the bus. When I got to the stop, I realised I had been running, and the pain was gone! His testimony, and realising he had come the same way, shifted my mind about. His wife had given him shock treatment, and he gave me shock treatment. It’s the shock treatment that moves your mind from one mental picture to a new one, and puts you into a new gear. I just went on from there, and later on he wrote to me and we corresponded. I used to call in every time I went down to Wellington. Later I brought him back to New Plymouth with me and we had a mass meeting with quite a lot of correspondence. When I moved out of the church, he wrote, “Congratulations on being turned out of the synagogue. Now we have a fellow feeling. Now you will begin to learn!” Then he began to write little bits for me to publish in the Truth Seeker. For about 25 years he has written two or three different series. We’ve kept in touch, and he shared some of his experiences, to help me understand how people are dealt with. One case made an impression on me. I don’t know any names, but it was a woman diagnosed with double breast cancers. She was due for surgery within a week, and before she went into hospital, a friend brought her to Ulric to see what he could do. He said, “I asked her to let me have a look, and there they were, two beauties. Having been a surgeon, I knew one or two years would be her limit, though they are doing better now. My challenge was how to get at the cause of it. I said, “What are you hiding? I don’t want any lies.” “I am not hiding anything. I am a Christian. I go to church every Sunday.” “You must be hiding something. You don’t get those for nothing. Go back to the beginning. Go back a few years. Tell me something in your life that should not be there.” Oh well, about fifteen years ago I had a love affair. I really wanted this man and I thought he wanted me. I told him there was a baby on the way. He said, “I will marry you, but I am not going to live with you. I will give the baby a name, and then I am going to disappear. That was the best I could get out of him. We went through the marriage ceremony, legally married, and he disappeared, leaving me to have the baby on my own. I’ve never seen him since. She is fifteen now. She is a nice girl. We have a quiet life, living together.” Ulric said, “And all this time, spiritually speaking, you’ve been beating your breasts in remorse. What have you been saying to yourself?” “I have been saying what any woman would have said, “I’ve spoilt my life, spoilt his life, spoilt my child’s life.”

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He said, “Right, it’s been bang, bang, bang, on your breasts, spiritually and mentally speaking. Yet you say you have been living a quiet life.” “I never go out anywhere except to church on Sunday.” “When you do go to church, you are a hypocrite.” “Oh no, I try to be sincere.” “Look,” he said, “I suppose you believe in the forgiveness of sins? And you keep repeating ‘washed in the blood of the lamb’? But you have not believed it; otherwise you wouldn’t have had this reaction. What you have to do, is to believe it when you go to church. Do you believe that the Lord has forgiven you?” “Oh yes, of course, of course!” “Well, forgive yourself, and stop beating your breasts and saying I have spoilt my life, etc. Accept forgiveness from now on. Throw the whole thing out. There is no sin left; it is washed away. Say to yourself, “It is OK. Everything is good now.” Go back to your own home. Postpone this trip to the doctor and the hospital. Go through these words in your mind, ‘I am cleansed in the blood of the lamb. I do receive pardon in the name of the Lord. I am accepting forgiveness. I am condemned no more.’ Keep it up! Cleanse your mind and come back to see me in a fortnight.” You know that was a challenge! She came back in a fortnight, and one was almost completely gone; the other took a bit longer. She escaped both operations and both came away perfectly clean. Just by cleansing her mind and accepting forgiveness deep down in her mind.” There were other cases along the same lines. Ulric realised that his main job after he changed from surgery was to get to the cause of the troubles. He had been working for 14 years as a surgeon at the Wanganui Hospital, day after day, tearing out appendices and other things, and feeling it was not the right thing to do, to be mutilating the bodies God had given these people. But he did not know anything else. It was the way he was taught. He began to be convicted about this constant surgery; constant handing out of medicine. He felt there was no real help in it. He gave up his practice. He said, “Several times the Lord met me at the door and said, ‘How long are you going to go on doing this, Williams?’, and I began to get convicted more and more.” You know, he was a wild man in his way. A fine youth in his earliest days. A very rugged man, very forthright. It took drastic dealings to bring him to repentance. He was a great drinker and boozer. Liked the girls. He told me how he pulled up on that. “The Lord put his fist in my face, and said, ’Once more, Williams, and you are cut off!’ and I stopped in my tracks.” He was drastic man, and a good servant of the devil. When he became converted, he was just as much the other way. He was that type of man. He would not have got his message over if he had not been. He had to have a deep experience on the negative side before he could be strong on the positive side. He was still very rugged when he dealt with some of his patients. He called it explosive healing. One day I was in his waiting room. The man beside me went through before me, and in five minutes, I heard unprintable language coming through the door. Soon the man bounced out of the other door. He crossed the passage and went out like a thunderstorm. I went in next and commented on what I had heard. “You can’t talk to patients like that!”

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If people were living righteously and happily, in tune with the Infinite, there would be no need to support thousands of ministers and priests and all their paraphernalia. But these have stepped in between the people and the Lord. They imply that if you want to touch the Lord and become righteous, you must come to us, we use instruments. I can see that now. I see it more strongly than ever. B.S. interrupted saying, “I sometimes listen to Faith for Today (a programme on the National Programme in the 70’s). I think young ministers are more in touch with God than the old ministers, that I used to hear when I was young.” Collet replied, ”Changes must come in every direction. Changes are coming. People are broadening out. Eventually they will see that there is no need for established churches. People only have to tune in and live righteously. In a town the size of New Plymouth there are dozens of denominations, each with a few paid representatives. All vying for the same people to enter their church to keep it alive and give them a living.” B.S. “Don’t you think they only want to introduce people to Jesus. It does not matter about it being in their church?” Collet, “If that was so they would go out among the people more. I have been 25 years in the church and out of it for 25 years. At present, I have a job that keeps me in touch with hundreds of people all the time. It is far easier for me now to speak the truth to people, in the measure that they need it, than when I was a minister. Then I was shut up in my group. I had to show loyalty to those above me, and show a kind of balance sheet of people and finances every half year. How many new members have you made? How are your finances going up? I always felt those at the top were watching how I got on. I was not free to move in and out among the people. I could not say what I wanted to say. There were a set of tenets to uphold and be faithful to. After I had been in it for a while I found that I was being hindered by the very thing I had thought was going to help me. I went into it in all sincerity. I went wild for a while, but then I came back and got into the work again.”

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson An interview with Newton Carnell, a golfing friend, younger than the doctorHe had no time for orthodox religion, even till the day of his death. His whole heart and soul was in Christianity. I feel that today, religion and Christianity have less and less affinity as time goes on. His analysis of the Bible, would have more in common with the average man than with orthodox religion. Religiously ‘Doc’ was quite hopeless, wasn’t with it, didn’t want it, and did not enjoy it; but in a Christian spirit he was way ahead of most people I have ever known. As a sinner he was also ‘tops’. He liked his physical things, like his golf. He was probably one of the best golfers I have ever seen; but spoilt it by being upset, unless he played a shot perfectly. The end−result (winning) didn’t worry him, but the actual function to provide that result, worried him a lot. He taught me to play golf; about the psychology of the game, and something about the ethics of the game. He taught me that it doesn’t matter a damn if you win or lose; and some of his own ardent desire for perfection rather than the result, may have lost me matches. He was a fantastic athlete. When he went into Hikurangi Home, he gave away more cups, and bits and pieces than anybody ever did, from away back in his Collegiate days, with cricket and athletics. He had golf cups by the mile almost. I think he gave a cup to somebody for re−entry into competitions. I know at his height he was plus 3, which is quite remarkable. I think he probably won everything to be won in Wanganui. He was a very good cricketer and quite a good footballer. I can remember Molly, his wife, but I just cannot describe her, and my wife thinks the same. She was a delightful person, not only charming but she had an integrity of her own. Not a soft person and not a hard one; a very common sense down−to−earth person. I think she had a lot to do with Doc’s success in life, because he was too much of a mystic. He had all the drive and everything else but probably not the stability which was required, and Molly brought him back to earth and provided the stability. I personally think that she was a fantastic woman. They played golf together a lot. At the age of 80, he would meet her in Victoria Avenue, take her up in his arms and kiss her. He looked over his shoulder once and saw me, and said, “Do you mind if we have a cup of coffee?” I often wagged work just to meet him and go down and have this cup of coffee. Of the very few people I can count among my friends we had this simple affinity. That man had more to do with my life and my direction than any other I have ever known. Not in trying to make me a better man, more moral and more Christian. He tried to make me think and do the things he considered were right and good for me, and showed infinite patience in doing this. Since he has gone, I have sat back and thought about his infinite patience and it still astounds me. I came out of the army and I was totally different in many ways. I had it rough and had grown up in a more physical and rough way than he had. Although he had been a good athlete, he had never done the things that I had done in the army. I would tell him what happened in the war. He realised that things leave a scar. It is very hard to describe the effect that one man can have on another without bearing down. He would let you collapse only to pick you up again and then tell you about it, just to teach you. That is what he did to me. The kindness and patience that he showed! He knew my daughter was dying before I did and he kept it to himself. He wrote many letters to her and he gave her comfort that even we could not give her. My son−in−law recognises this. What we did know, was the comfort and the kindness that he gave us. It was something you do appreciate. When he was getting old and could not do things for himself, it was my turn to talk to him and help him. He was not a man who grew old with patience. He could not forgive himself for not being able to do the things he thought he ought to be able to do. I was able, I hope, to provide some of the things that he had given me during the time I had known him. It became my turn to be patient and argue and try to talk him out of the naughty little ways that you get into when you get old. He was horribly impatient at times. It distressed him, like it distresses me now I am getting old, not to be able to do things that we ought to be capable of. I thought the day he sold his motorcar, he would die; I firmly believed that. That little car was not so much a possession as a sort of symbol. When he could not drive it and control it and no longer control himself, then he did not want to live. This was right, he just turned his face to the wall and did not want to live. That is my story as far as ‘Doc’ is concerned. 43

The things he did for people; and I know quite a few. I can only tell one story about this, and ‘Doc’ told it in a much more bawdy way than I do. They carried an elderly gentleman into his Home when he was down at Aramoho. He either had rheumatoid arthritis or some sort of rheumatics. Anyway he was completely incapacitated and was carried in on a stretcher. Doc’s remark was, “When everybody else has finished with them and can do nothing more for them, they send them to me. I am not a bloody miracle worker.” He told this old gentleman, “I might be able to get you to stand up again.” The old boy said, “Alright” but it was many, many weeks with a sort of almost Christian Science attitude and complete faith in himself that he went about this. A glass of milk, juice of three oranges and 3 enemas a day; that is all he got, until he got to such a stage that ‘Doc’ got worried and he said, “How much more can you stand?” The old boy was as game as Ned Kelly and he said, “”I can stand what you can give.” Finally they sat him on the end of the bed and they got him to stand up. I can’t remember how long it took, but he walked out that gate, and the proof of this was not in what Dr Williams told me, but he showed me a letter that the old man wrote. He lived up Auckland way. I have forgotten his name and I vaguely remember the date and his age, “Dear Dr W. This is to tell you how grateful I am. I am now 75 and I still walk my five miles every day.” B.S. said “I might have met that old man. When I was in Dr Williams convalescent home I used to play golf with a man who had been there for nine months. He had fallen off a horse and broken his back. He had been in a plaster cast for a year. When they got the plaster off he was like a plaster cast of himself, just rigid. He was a farmer, aged 70. He went home 3 or 4 weeks later. There was a paddock at the back of the Home where we both used to go out and play golf.” Mr C. There was another friend of mine. I cannot remember whether it was a burst appendix or appendicitis, but the orthodox decision was that Rowley had to be operated on. I don’t remember all the details but at this stage the ambulance had been sent for, and then he decided to ring Ulric and told him all about it. He said “I can fix that.” When the ambulance got to the gate he cancelled it and sent it back. Dr Williams told me that this business of pulling out appendices is simply shocking. He just sat the patients up in bed and gave them boiled water and nothing else and when it was gone it was finished. I personally think he had a marvellous knowledge. He kept Molly alive far beyond her time. She was so very frail, almost ethereal. You would not believe it. You could have lifted her up with one hand. He forced her and willed her to stay alive and at this particular point she waited on him. He was drying the dishes, but she still cooked and made the meals and gained in health. She was a dominant personality in her own right. They were both dominant personalities and neither would ever give in so they would call a truce. Those card evenings we used to have. I don’t think he did it on purpose, but if he was losing, he would start an argument and Molly would not give in, definitely not. I have never been so interested in two people. They had almost antipathy for each other in one way and a complete affinity if another way. Can you work that one out? I never could. B. S. I only saw her one day for a brief moment, when I visited the surgery. She was in the rose garden and she just said, “Good morning” but I still see her quite clearly. Mr C. She was a person you could never forget, very dignified. I can remember once a young friend of hers came up in a very humble car (a bomb) and offered her a lift. At the same time a lady friend said, ”I will drive you home,” but she said, “No thank you, I am going home with John.” She always looked so beautiful and I did not think she would go with him, but sure enough she did. They rattled along the driveway and I can still see her now sitting up there looking almost royal. I used to lift her up and carry her up the steps and set her down and she would say, “Thank you darling”, and she always asked me to have a little drink which I did. Frankly I think I loved her. I never in my life met someone so strong and yet so tender. Actually I got a bit intense about my job, and I was overworking, and drinking too much, and doing everything that was wrong, and he told afterwards that he could see a mental aberration. He said, “What’s the use of you trying to play 44

golf; you are not even thinking about it. Other times, you line it up and your mind goes blank and it’s gone.” I said, “Oh well, things are a bit awkward at the moment.” Doc said, “Just let things sort themselves out. Don’t worry about it. Stop being too intense and worried.” But I wouldn’t take any notice of this. Finally I collapsed and crawled around the floor one night in awful agony; and I said to my wife Thelma, “Ring him up for God’s sake!” He comes out and takes one look, and he made the most coarse remark I have ever heard. He said, “It’s chop, chop, for you, my boy!” I said, “What, chop, chop?” He said, “You have got to go and get operated on.” I said, ”Good God! I thought you were a naturopath! I don’t want to get chopped.” He said, “This is what you are going to do, boy, unless you want to lie here for 6 to 8 months. If you would play ball then we could probably heal it. But I will go and arrange the op.” I said, “Like hell you will. I’ve had you.” He replied “You just lie there and I will fix it up.” In the end, I still smoked, I couldn’t stop that. He stopped me for twelve months. Any way he went down to the hospital and they took me in. Of course, he was on the wrong side of the medical barrier. If you are not an orthodox medic, you are not a medic at all. The medicine man of today does not like new tricks. He does not want anything that smacks of faith healing, chiropractic or manipulators of any sort. ‘Doc’ stepped out of this world and into his own, a long, long time before I met him.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Shorter letters, notes, extracts from Pat Grieg, B. Gardiner, Lily Elliott, M. Seidric, three anonymous patients, Maire Tidey and Fan Oborn Pat Grieg I did not meet Dr Williams personally, but knew him very well by letter writing. I was in bed for quite a number of years and wrote to him to ask if he could help a friend of mine in America, which he did, and then asked me if he could help me. He was a wonderful person. I found him so very kind and understanding. With his diet I slowly built up my nervous system and blood, and for years now I have walked, and get around enjoying life. He must have been wonderful to know and I have always regretted not meeting him in person − those who did meet him were privileged. Mrs Bracy Gardiner My memories of the Mr &Mrs Williams go back to January 1940. I remember them both as so kind and understanding to me. They were extremely busy at that time as Mrs Mary helped the Doctor with typing and with his extensive letter writing. We had many discussions and arguments about health and what it entailed. Looking back I feel that the Doctor needed this, and lacked it as the years went by. He needed the stimulation of discussions − adverse discussions − to keep him thinking along positive lines, and to keep his mind open and receptive. But really everyone needs this. The Doctor was positive and sensitive in his approach to people who responded, but could be harsh in his efforts to break through a crust of apathy or indifference. He was before his time and encountered much resistance from his colleagues, and this caused him much loneliness, though I felt more tact on his part would have been helpful in this situation. Today his beliefs are common knowledge and cause no comment. There has been rapid change in medical and scientific research. A balanced diet is accepted without question. Ulric Williams was not interested in making money, and was generous to a fault. I saw many instances of this. He was a good bridge player, a good golfer, and had many silver cups for swimming and other athletic pursuits. I loved Ulric and Mary Williams and regretted that we lived so far apart. They taught me much and wrote regularly to me but unfortunately I am not a letter hoarder. I doubt if Ulric Williams could have accomplished what he did without the help and support of his wife. She was gracious, long−suffering, intelligent and a very charming woman. I am grateful to them for the love, teaching and understanding which they so willingly and graciously gave me. Lily Elliott Dr Williams was interested in the ideas and work of the Unity movement. The staff at Aramoho also found Unity helpful, and their booklets were available in the Homes. I still find them helpful. At the time of my contacts with the Doctor (1950), he was subjected to much opposition.

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He often had patients living in his own house, (special and often serious cases). He was willing to help others even at some risk to himself. He was not concerned about material supply, believing that all would be well. I don’t think he ever sent a bill to patients. (Unity was an American Christian movement in the 1920’s, and still is. It emphasises the healing power and loving−kindness of God, and encourages positive spiritual attitudes. There is a branch in Auckland, which has links in Wellington. The address is Box 52 088 Kingsland Auckland 1030 Phone (09) 828 1679 Mon to Thurs, Fax (09) 828 1672). M Seidric Dr Williams treated me for a run−of−the−mill disease due to faulty diet. His regime was a tough one, and after doing my morning farm chores lasting over three hours, I was to have a cold plunge before breakfast, which seemed the last straw − I was hungry. I assure you I used to cuss him at this point, but as soon as I started cussing and feeling it was just too much, I immediately felt an invincible beam of support which could only have come from him. And after a few mornings of this, I noticed that this beam seemed to be coming through a south−facing window − and he was about 400 miles away, due south. I am convinced that this beam from him was available all the time, but I was on the wave length to receive it only below a certain “low”. I assure you I was in a most unreceptive mood, so I think “invincible” is the right word. After a month or two of his treatment, even walking up hills, I felt that I didn’t even have a body; movement was so light and effortless. Anonymous During the early days of the war, my little daughter was taken ill in a small house in Aramoho, Wanganui. Being a traveller, I knew no one in Wanganui, but her rasping cough at two o’clock in the morning really alarmed me. With the usual maternal forebodings, I thought − pneumonia at the least! What to do? Suddenly I remembered; the doctor−writer of a book I had read recently, lived in Wanganui. Dare I ring him, Dr Ulric Williams? I dared, standing shivering in the hall of the boarding house. A reassuring voice said: “Don’t worry, I’ll be there in about a quarter of an hour,” and he was. I let him in the front door and he sat on my small daughter’s bed and talked. She watched him between coughs. He said, “She has a bit of laryngitis; keep her on fruit and I’ll be out to see her tomorrow.” He was as good as his word, and at 10 am on Easter Saturday he came back, this time on his bicycle with a splendid big dog sitting up behind! The landlady said, “He got his stethoscope out of that dog basket”, and looked at me in horror, but I never knew whether he did or not, and certainly didn’t care. I had complete faith in him and from that day always consulted him on ANY health problems, though it usually meant a journey from New Plymouth to Wanganui, or a consultation by telephone. But we never failed to get well under his guidance. The little girl is now married and has a little girl of her own that she put under his care from Auckland. She had a letter from him not long before his death with the same reassuring messages that have made him one of our great men of all time. Yet I read his book in the first place, only out of admiration for its flawless prose. Of all that it really meant, I was not aware till quite some time later. Anonymous I went to Wanganui in 1965 and spent almost a month there staying with Miss McDougall in Parsons Road. I had many long talks with him in the course of treatment and grew to know, honour and respect this man who I think was ‘born before his time’. He came under much criticism especially from the medical profession who 47

did not understand the true nature of his healing. Of course he made mistakes, but who does not? I think he was a great man, frustrated and thwarted many times in his attempts to help mankind. I contracted arthritis when my son was born in 1950 and became partially crippled in the hands and a foot as well as signs of it elsewhere. I had treatment with aspirin and gold injections, etc. All these drugs, and inability to get at the cause, instead of just treating the effect, led me to contact Dr Williams. I am glad I did. He taught me to look at life in a different way and I have never looked back. Arthritis is still with me but now not many of my friends know I ever had it. What I have remains static. I can go tramping, cycle, dig the garden, do yoga and use my hands for anything where once I had difficulty in putting on my baby’s nappies. Life is good to me and I enjoy every minute of it. My son recently married and after getting his degree last year, is now at Secondary Teachers’ College in Christchurch. My daughter just 16 is in the sixth form. Anonymous I had seen a photograph of Dr Williams, yet did not realise it was he to whom I was introduced half an hour after arriving at Nurse Burson’s house. He was tall, with a pleasant and kindly manner. He seemed to sense my nervous state quickly when we shook hands, but at no time did he ask for any information regarding my reason for wanting to see him. We were all guests and NOT patients. I loved the way he would recline in a chair, completely relaxed, ‘letting go and letting God’. Then quietly chatting to us, either individually or in a small group, about the importance of right thinking, right living and right eating; (lack of these is so often the cause of our sicknesses). To be unforgiving, resentful, jealous, etc, hinders the healing which we may be seeking. The peace of Christ is always with us. We have the power to turn our thoughts from the situations around us, to become inwardly quiet and calm. Miss Carson, who came to the home daily to help with our exercises, had herself been a very sick person, suffering from asthma and bronchitis. I saw a photo of her taken during that time. She wore heavy spectacles and looked unhealthy. It was hard to believe that she was the same person. She asked if she could take these daily classes after she herself had been restored to full health. One little old lady of sixty who had been in the Wellington hospital for some time, was sent to Wanganui to see Dr Williams. I have never seen such a pathetic looking person; exactly like a little withered apple; bed−ridden and so very frail, She told Dr Williams that the Lord had taken away her fiancé forty years previously, and she had been full of resentment ever since. An unmarried accountant was partly paralysed in both legs. He lived with his widowed mother. He was in love with a desirable lady, but was afraid to risk marriage when he was so comfortably cared for by his mother. We must use our creative instincts in some way, not necessarily by being married. Teaching, nursing, etc help to satisfy these instincts. This man was much improved when I left, but I don’t know the end of his story. Nurse Burson’s Home was at Somme Parade, Aramoho. I was there for six weeks in 1941. She was assisted by Mrs Motley. The Rev Lionel Richards, an Anglican minister from Christchurch, benefited considerably from the period he spent in Wanganui. Although I did not know him, it helped me in my decision to go there too. I had been told that Dr Williams was against orthodox religion, because the churches were filled with people who did not practise what they preached. They prayed, but were still full of fear. A widowed wife of a clergyman said to me once, “I was at my lowest ebb when my husband died and I was left with five young children. A friend asked, “Do you pray about it? If so, why worry? And if you worry, why pray?”

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After all this time, I look back on those six weeks as the most worthwhile period in my life. I am now seventy, and acknowledge that I do not always keep rigidly to the wisest eating habits. However, I do know that my so called incurable skin trouble, for which I had all sorts of treatment over a period of years and also my inward goitre, were finally cured. Maire Tidey I think the following is part of a letter from Maire Tidey, a naturopath in Otago. I had asked if she remembered any of Dr Williams’ sayings. She said, “I am sure you’ll find many quotable sayings in Ulric’s book. Our conversations tended towards more personal matters − scoldings, exhortations, praise (very seldom, and not always deserved at that!) squabbling, arguing, exasperation (on both sides),tempered by respect and affection. However here are one or two. “If you want to become good, be good; if you want to become well, be well.” “All you have to do is to stand out of your own light, and let the blessings pour in on you.” “Everything you want or need is waiting for you − not even waiting to be taken; just waiting for you to allow it to happen to you.” Healing comes to those who want health, to use it aright − not just for their own selfish ends.” “Don’t say ‘please God’; say ‘thank you, Father’.” Incidentally, the last one is an echo of my own thoughts, habits and exhortations to others! I do not agree with the people who said that Ulric would not want a biography. He loved and welcomed appreciation (not adulation) of himself as a channel for healing and help. He resented often bitterly, the neglect and abuse which fell to him from time to time. He allowed himself to be more moved and shaken by it that I felt he should. I have learnt to shrug it off. It comes to all healers or ‘channels’, but it seemed to hurt him more as he got older. Also Ulric would certainly not disapprove of an unbiased biography, if it could help in any way to spread his gospel of health and well−being. His great gifts were loving−kindness and enthusiasm; his great faults intolerance and a closed mind that couldn’t see merit in what he didn’t believe in. His enthusiasm, convictions and loving kindness functioned through whatever form of treatment he happened to be using at the time. Mr Christie, a surgeon and his great friend, called him a saint. He was a saint − with the failings as well as the virtues of many better known saints. Fan E Oborn I always admired Dr Williams for continuing to live in Wanganui after his ‘conversion’. He was much criticised, but I felt that just as St Paul was ‘arrested’ on the road to Damascus, so Dr Williams was called for a special purpose. His so−called new−fangled ideas are now being carried out by psychiatrists and doctors. Mrs Sybil Woods, his niece, is a marvellous person, and if you have not already met her, I hope you will eventually be able to do so. Her husband was vicar of St Mary’s Church and we were extremely sorry to lose them when they visited England two years ago. They will be relieving in the Methven parish for a short period, before retiring. I know that she thought the world of her uncle.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson ULRIC WILLIAMS IN HIS OWN WORDS “The tongue of the wise heals” (Proverbs 12;18) Ulric Williams was a popular speaker and writer. Some people were cured by reading his books, without ever consulting him in person. This could still happen today. He wrote five books. They are out of print, but some are still available in public libraries or by inter−library loan. For a list of his books, pamphlets, articles) Teachings and sayings of Ulric Williams (bracketed notes are by B.S.) He said “Everyone comes to me seeking health. Health is not a thing to be sought for its own sake. Health is one of the rewards for living in the right relationship with God.” What is this right relationship? Most days when I was at the Home, the weather was fine and the Doctor would come for his morning talks on a bicycle, with his dog, a golden spaniel. One hot day he pointed to his dog asleep in the shade of a tree, and said, “I love him and he loves me, and trusts me. He is delighted if I invite him to come with me. He is happy to wait for me, and goes peacefully to sleep until I am ready to leave. We should have this same loving, trusting relationship with God.” \ He believed intensely in the goodness and loving−kindness of God. Also his idea of the right relationship with God, was to respect Nature and the laws of Nature. He said that disease comes from breaking these laws, and that not knowing them is no protection against the ill effects of breaking them. About Doctors “Doctor means teacher. A doctor’s chief duty us to teach people how to be well.” He used his morning talks to do this. “Most disease comes from fear. A doctor’s first duty is to allay fear.” (A Nelson chiropractor, Earl Conroy, said, “50% of our life is fear. This is what pays for the livelihood of all the chiropractors, doctors and psychologists and psychiatrists in the world.”) Although he was a medical doctor, trained in diagnosis, Dr Williams didn’t think naming the diagnosis helpful to the patient. He said, “When you tell a patient the name of his disease, this fixes his mind on it, and that is the worst thing that can happen.” He respected doctors, many of whom are dedicated people. But he did not respect medical training. “I never became a real doctor till I forgot 95% of what I learnt at Edinburgh.” About Diet “If you are well and want to stay that way, half your food should be eaten raw. If you are sick and want to get better, three quarters of your food should be eaten raw.” (Helpful books are − Leslie Kenton’s Raw Energy and Raw Energy Recipes, and Julie Stafford’s Taste of Life, and Taste of Life for Children.)

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About Fasting “Man is the only animal that hasn’t got enough sense to stop eating when he is sick.” He told me a story of a butcher who cut his upper arm badly with his butcher’s knife. It became infected and swelled out as big as a football. The butcher was frightened, but the Doctor said, “Don’t be afraid. If you do what I tell you, it will be better in three days”. And so it was. The treatment was to fast, to drink lots of water and take lots of lemon juice and vitamin C with the water. This will alleviate most acute infections. About Faith “Faith means expecting good!” (Faith is an old fashioned word for optimism.) (An old rhyme says, ‘Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone; kindness in another’s trouble, courage in your own.’ Courage is what faith looks like to other people. If you know there is something in the future that is so good it is worth waiting for, this gives you the courage to keep going. If you have faith in a good outcome it gives you courage to keep going in the face of difficulties. He taught me about the power of belief; that by believing or expecting that a thing will happen, we help to create it. Fear is expecting a bad thing to happen, and our fear helps it to happen. Faith is expecting a good thing to happen, and by expecting good we help to create it. He taught people to throw out fear by trusting in God’s loving care and protection; and to throw out resentment by forgiving people who annoy us. Forgiveness means saying, “It doesn’t matter!”) He said “Faith means to expect a good outcome. Our faith must be so strong that nothing can upset us. Our aim must be to become imperturbable.” “Expect to be healed! Know that God can heal you, and that he loves you and wants to heal you. Don't watch and measure your symptoms while waiting. A watched pot never boils.” He said, “Faith is like posting a letter. You expect it to be delivered, and forget about it. You don’t sit and worry whether it will be delivered.” About Prayer “When you pray, don’t say please, say thank you.” (If it is a good thing, God has already given it to you. Like a loving human father, He wants his children to have every good thing. Our job is to say thank you and wait happily for it to appear. He said, “Everything begins first on the spiritual plane, then becomes mental, then becomes physical”. (People think physical things are more real than mental and spiritual ideas. Perhaps it is difficult to believe you are healed when you aren’t aware of it, and may be still in pain. But things can be real when they are coming to you. Sunlight is real from the time it leaves the sun, before it is felt as warmth on the skin.)

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About Disease “The body can mimic ANY disease that has ever made a strong and frightening impression on the person’s mind.” “Disease is nothing but a mental habit, a disgusting mental habit.” (Collet Saunders said in his interview that Dr Williams’ shock treatment moved his mind from one mental picture to a new one. When his mental habit changed, he recovered.) A boy working in an office was asked what his job was. “I’m the doer.” “What do you mean?” “Well, the boss tells the accountant what he wants done; and the accountant tells the chief clerk, and he tells me, and I do it.” In the same way the subconscious mind is the body’s doer. It overhears everything that we think or say, and does it. If a person says, “I have arthritis”, this is what the subconscious does. It maintains the arthritis. Dr Williams called this habit, “a disease consciousness”. Because Ulric Williams thought happiness is such an important ingredient in health, he used to come for an hour each morning and talk to his patients in a group, about how to use one’s mind to create happiness and health. He used a projection box in a cinema as an example. It has a light, and a film, and throws a picture onto a screen. The light is the Life Force. The film is one’s thoughts. The picture on the screen represents all our experiences. He said, “If the operator wants to change the picture, he changes the film. If we want to change our circumstances, or our experiences, or our environment, or our health, we have to change our thoughts”. About Change He was trying to get me to make changes in my life and thinking. I said, “I’ll try.” He said, “I don’t want you to try, I want you to do it. You are going down hill. I want you to turn around and go up hill, and you say, ‘I’ll try!”. He spoke about people’s unwillingness to change, and their resistance to change. “There are no incurable diseases, but there are some incurable people; incurable because they don’t want to change.” He said, “The thoughts in our minds, fight like the citizens of a besieged city, to keep new thoughts out!” He said, “No disease is incurable; but some patients are, because they don’t want to change. They go down to death like sheep in a slaughter race; just because they will not change!” The matron of one of Dr WIlliams’ convalescent homes was a Sister Agnes MacDougall. I visited her years later; probably in the late 1970’s, and asked her while there, how many of the Doctor’s patients were cured. She said, “Not everyone could stay long enough for a complete cure. But I think almost all improved while they were here. I only remember one man who didn't; he was so angry about the whole treatment that he went home in a week!” About Healing “You don’t have to do anything to get better; all you need is to stop doing what is wrong. If you really want to know what that is, your divine intelligence will tell you. Your body has a healing power that will heal you when you stop making yourself sick.”

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson 10 articles reprinted from Collet Saunders Truth Seeker &2 from the Wanganui Herald • A medical doctor has his eyes opened • Organised opposition to truth • Recovery through faith • Uncommon sense • None so blind or deaf • Dangerous knowledge • Mysophobia: fear of germs • Explosive healing • Implosive healing • Blinded by science • The power that heals is within ourselves • Uncommon sense

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson A medical doctor has his eyes opened I have often been asked what made me change from being just an orthodox medico. I had been born with a sentimental nature, sympathetic towards unhappiness and suffering. For two years I studied at Cambridge University, and in 1918 graduated from Edinburgh in medicine and surgery. For 14 years I practised what I had been taught. Then in 1929 came the Great Slump. By 1932 the plight of those out of employment, and their families, had become desperate. Conditions were tough all right; children sleeping on the floor, with newspapers for covering. No firing. No light. Precious little to eat and, worst of all, no hope. Bankruptcies and suicides increasing. I had been doing my best to alleviate some of these heart−rending miseries, and getting nowhere. I did not know what I was to discover later − that they had been deliberately inflicted by those who controlled world finance. They still do. We could, and should, control it ourselves. Late in 1932 a meeting of intercession, sponsored by the local Ministers Association was held in Cook’s Gardens in Wanganui. A friend and I went. Proceedings opened dramatically with 1200 unemployed men, in columns of four, marching onto the ground. Together with their dependants this represented perhaps five thousand people deprived of the necessities of life. In his introductory address at the meeting, Archdeacon J K Young maintained that the ultimate root of this tribulation was individual, and therefore collective, defective regard for the Spirit of Life (or God), and His relevant conditions or laws. My missionary brother said the same. I agree. “If anyone here would like to know more of God,” said Mr Young in the course of his talk, “I suggest you do this when you get home. Go into a room by yourself, shut the door, kneel down, close your eyes, put out your hands, take your Saviour’s hands in your own; and say to Him, ‘From now on I am your man’.” I don’t know what else Mr Young said, but he had certainly spoken to me. On the way home I thought to myself, “What a proposition! Suppose Jesus is real, and heard what you said. You don’t know what you might be letting yourself in for. You could not fool Him, and there is no point in fooling yourself. You’d be definitely committed . . .” Arrived home, I was still undecided. One part of me wanted to do as the minister advised, but the other side hung back. So I argued with myself, (or was it with Him?). “You are always protesting how sincere you are. What’s wrong? Are you scared?” So on an impulse I did as Mr Young had suggested. I went to my consulting room, shut the door, knelt down by my big leather chair, closed my eyes, and put out my hands. Though my eyes were shut, I clearly saw, standing beside me, palms outward, a man, dressed in a long white robe. Taken by surprise I involuntarily drew back, and the vision (was it?) disappeared. During the next few months I was becoming steadily more uneasy about my medical practice. Something was obviously terribly wrong, (it still is). How was I to know then, that what I had been taught at two of the world’s great medical schools, by some of the most distinguished scientists of the day, was to the extent of 80, perhaps, 90 percent, nothing but human misinterpretation of distorted sense impressions? Why, I kept asking myself, all this disease?

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At last I began writing down things I could see were causing disease − smoking, abuse of liquor, overeating, lack of exercise and fresh air. Then I wondered whether food might have something to do with it. Just imagine; I had always said to my patients (many doctors still do), “food has nothing to do with your trouble. Just eat plenty of good nourishing food.” And then proceeded, myself, like my patients, to subsist on the refined, adulterated, dead, disease−and−death−dealing muck that most people still believe is “good nourishing food.” Where, I wondered, was I to find out about food? There was nothing about it in my medical books. Then I recalled a text, “If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God.” So, standing in my consulting room, I asked God, “Can you show me where I can find out about food?” He could. And did. Strange that my wife had just been telling me about a woman recently back from England, who said that impurities in the blood had a lot to do with disease, and that these impurities were mostly due to ignorant or wilful, misuse of foods. “Well, well, does she indeed?” I exploded, “Just wait till I meet the fat old washerwoman. I’ll show her where she gets off.” A couple of weeks after my prayer, my wife and I were invited by people we hardly knew, to a river picnic. The launch tied up beside a wooden jetty. The first item on the programme was a swim. I loved swimming, so was soon in my togs. One of the party was a young lady, perhaps in her 30s, also in togs, and especially easy on the eye. Perhaps it was by accident that I found myself sitting beside her when it was time for lunch. “What do you think of the picnic?” she asked. “Quite something,” I replied, “but, confidentially, the grub is a bit crook.” There was dark brown bread, wholemeal, I was told, but being a doctor I always ate white, masses of salad, (cow food I called it), wholemeal cake and cookies; and queer drinks, which she said were vegetable and fruit juices, ugh! On the way home I found myself again (was it by chance?) sitting next to the charming lady. Presently the talk turned to food; and it was quickly apparent that she knew not just something, but a whole lot about it. I asked whether she might be good enough to tell me more. “Bring your wife round after tea,” she suggested, “I’ll be happy to.” When we were thanking her hours later, “It might interest you to know, “ I told her, “that a fortnight ago I was praying to be shown where I could find out about food.” “Strange indeed,” she smiled, “it might interest you to hear that a fortnight ago my friend and I were on our knees praying to be sent to a doctor we could talk to about it.” So I had met my “fat old washerwoman,” but instead of “telling her where she could get off,” I found myself sitting humbly at her feet while she generously gave me my first lesson in Nature Cure. From the day in 1932, when I had first been turned back towards God, my wife and I began going to the church in which I had been born and brought up. We attended services regularly, including the communion services. We read our Bibles, even prayed a bit; but in religion as in medicine, I was still orthodox, and could not heal a soul of a thing. My missionary brother, we reckoned, must have partaken of communion some thousands of times; and he could not heal anyone of anything either. At church I had vague aspirations towards ‘spiritual healing’ − laying my hands on the sick and praying, whereupon they would get up and stroll off cured. But that was not what happened at all. I was to undergo some four years of intensive instruction in the theory and practice of Nature Cure first; diet reform, fasting, chiropractic and osteopathic adjustments, massage, exercises and exercise. By the way, how can anyone expect to get, or keep FIT, if they won’t TRAIN? Beyond a hazy idea of the power of suggestion, I did not even know the mind was involved. Within the next couple of years I found that gratifying recoveries were often due far more to physical methods used. Not 56

perhaps till six years had passed since my original ‘conversion’ did healings occur in which neither physical nor psychological methods were possible. There was a vast amount to learn; for instance, something of both physical and spiritual relativity; of the seven stages of consciousness, with their times and seasons, of fluctuating positive and negative polarisation; of the significance and management of acute as well as chronic illnesses, both mental and physical; why some patients and not others may be expected to respond; why most recoveries are so disconcertingly gradual and often fluctuate; why disappointing relapses occur; why ‘beautiful Christians’ suffer so much and are so hard to help; why the apparently wilful blindness of orthodox religion and medicine; and why the public indifference to even the most spectacular recoveries. Take just one of our thousands of dramatic ‘Nature Cure’ recoveries, any of which might have been expected to turn a hemisphere downside up. The Rev. Mr Porter was 68 when he came for help. He was crippled with rheumatism, blood pressure and thrombosis, and was in constant pain. Several doctors in his home town were agreed on the diagnosis, and all were satisfied that nothing could be done. Unconvinced, he tried again in one of the principal cities. After every possible examination and test the verdict was the same. “You probably won’t see the year out,” he was told, “and there is just nothing anyone can do.” How many sufferers who might easily recover are still told that? “Why, you must expect to be like that at your age,” one expert had indignantly protested. When he came to see us, Mr Porter could hardly struggle, on two crutches, from a car at the door, to my room. When it was time to leave he had to be heaved to his feet, a crutch propped under one arm to steady him, then the other crutch, till he could painfully make his way to the door and the car. Treatment was neither possible nor required. But nature given a chance and the materials she needs, can often work seeming miracles. Specially if backed up by confidence, courage, cheerfulness, determination and perseverance. So Mr Porter was put on a strict Nature Cure diet, mainly vegetables and fruit, much of it raw. On such a regime, sooner or later a reaction in the shape of a sudden feverish upset, with flare−up of symptoms, is likely to occur. If it does, a fast is generally indicated. Acute illnesses are so frequently a vital part of Nature’s provision for averting or healing chronic disease. Medical doctors know nothing of this. They are taught the acute illnesses are acute diseases, which they must ‘cure’, by poisons or violence. Unfortunately for the victims, the more effectually these natural ‘Healing Crises’ are suppressed, the more inevitably are the foundations likely to be laid for chronic and sooner or later, fatal disease. Three weeks after Mr Porter’s new regime began, the expected reaction occurred. He developed a sore throat, high fever, general malaise, and exaggeration of his usual symptoms. So a fast was advised. No food whatever; instead, orange juice and water every two hours or so, and a large enema every day. After three days I thought we had better discontinue the fast. Mr Porter was in a perilous plight; and if he died, it would be too bad for me. Orthodoxy can and does, with impunity, slay its victims in battalions and army corps. But if a naturopath’s patient cannot make it, there is a hue and cry. However, Mr Porter protested that he felt a bit better and would like to continue. So I agreed to another two days. Then another two days. Then two more. When he had fasted a month he was walking a mile every day, and had sent his crutches and sticks home. After six weeks on nothing but orange juice and water he was walking 4 miles a day. On the sixty−third day of his fast he walked ten miles; “and I could do ten more as easily now, “he assured me. So gradually I broke his fast. During the nine weeks it had lasted he lost nearly fifty pounds weight of collected up poisonous waste and useless fat. We calculated that he must have got rid of a 4 gallon kerosine tin full of solid filth from his bowel alone. And all the other poison eliminators − lungs, liver, skin, kidneys, lymphatic system and oxygenation − had been in active operation as well. 57

Four years later, then aged 72, Mr Porter wrote from his new parish in the north. “There cannot be much wrong with Nature’s methods; on Friday I walked 16 miles; 12 miles on Saturday; took three services on Sunday at widely scattered localities, and walked every yard of the way, and I am still getting fitter every day. Yes ‘they’ know. But they know, too, that one well directed torpedo can send a crazy piratical junk to Davy Jones. So it is Action Stations; torpedo nets out; guns trained and manned. Never if anything ‘they’ can do will prevent it, is the public to be allowed to find out. Can you bear to hear more examples of noteworthy recoveries? Mr Turner called, as a last resort, to see whether anything could possibly be done for his wife. She had recently returned home after six months in hospital. Paget’s disease, he had been told. She would be completely bedridden for the rest of her life, which would not be long; and there was just nothing anyone could do. When I first saw Mrs Turner, she was squatting on her bed looking like some enormous Buddha. X−rays had showed her bones de−mineralised, like chicken bones that had been steeped in acid. Her thigh bones were bent like bows, quite unable to support her colossal weight. I explained to them that our bodies need minerals, not only for building strong bones, but also for the elimination of waste products. If the diet is deficient in minerals, the body would leech its essential supplies from teeth and bones. But make good the deficiency, and weakened tissues may be strengthened again. “Do as I say”, I promised Mrs Turner, “and one day you will walk to Castlecliff and back,” a 12 mile hike! I wrote out a diet of roughly three quarters vegetable and fruit, and one quarter meat, starchy foods, sugar and fat; plus seaweed tablets and vitamin capsules. Regular light exercises in bed to begin with. For a few weeks I called every day or two, then twice a week. People so far down, need encouragement and advice. Soon, we helped the lady onto a chair. Then standing, with support. Presently, walking a step or two, with one hand on the table and the other on the back of a chair. Very busy at the time, I left them with instructions to gradually increase her exercise. Some months later my bell rang one evening, and there stood Mr and Mrs Turner. “Good heavens,” I gasped, “how did you get here?” “Walked,” she replied with a grin. When I had got over my surprise, “When are you going to walk to Castlecliff and back?” I jokingly asked. “I have just done it,” she answered. I get tears in my eyes when I recall it even now. At Christmas, Mrs Turner went to stay with a married daughter who lived about a mile from the sea. Every morning before breakfast, she took the kids to the beach for a dip., Again after breakfast and again in the afternoon. Miles a day there and back, and more miles in the sea and on the sand. When Mrs Turner came home, more tears in our eyes. With her snappy figure and sparkling eyes, down five stone in weight and with a zest for living she had never dreamed of, anyone could have been excused for mistaking her for a teenage girl. Ann was a widow. Her husband, a fighter pilot in the last world war, had been shot down over the English Channel and lost. Ann came to New Zealand, because she thought that prospects would be better for her and her two small daughters, aged 5 and 6. But she had not been in New Zealand long, in a most uncongenial job, before her health began to fail. Eventually double cystic kidneys were diagnosed. Now she was in a fix! Not 58

only was there no hope for her, but whatever would happen to her two little girls? Ann weighed over 14 stone when someone sent her to me; and altogether she was in a bad way. Her kidneys reached down to her navel − and were covered with knobs, easily felt, even through the thick overlay of fat. Ann’s most pressing need was for a glimmer of hope. Then confidence, a much more meaningful word than ‘faith’. It was not hard to feel compassionate towards a poor girl in such a plight. But there was something besides compassion to inspire faith. She was given a strict Nature Cure diet; and deprived of tobacco and tea. Every interview involved a journey for her of 100 miles each way. But it was as thrilling to me as to her to note her steady improvement. Not only was pound after pound of disfiguring ‘upholstery’ melting away, but she knew she was getting well. The last time I saw Ann she weighed just under ten stone; had a smashing figure, with masses of burnished gold for hair, and not a kidney to be felt. I had assured her too − God does not heal sick bodies and leave minds or circumstances in Queer Street. And so it proved, because a well−to−do young farmer became interested, fell in love, and presently married our regenerated and rejuvenated Ann. Nine years later, the two girls, now 15 and 16 years old, called in. I have never seen two more beautiful youngsters. Dressed in the pleated skirts and knitted pullovers of the day, they were bubbling over with the excitement of living, full of stories of the farm, and of the wonderful father they had. And when they left, first one and then the other, just as their mother had nine years before, put their arms around my neck, looked me straight in the eye, and gave me a kiss that surely came straight from heaven. Remarkable? That so many such wonderful recoveries took place, yet for all the effect on public thinking, they might as well not have occurred? But look back 1900 years! How was that possible? There were only a couple of million people in Palestine, and He healed them by the thousand. Three and a half years later, a brief moment of triumph as He entered Jerusalem, then the frenzied mob screaming for His murder. How could it happen? Final defeat of “the man born to be king?” Remember General McArthur’s inspired promise? In 1941, when he was driven from Corregidor by the Japanese avalanche, he said, “I shall return.” Just what Our Lord said. And what a return McArthur accomplished! But what when the Lord returns? Almost any day? Till 1939 this gospel of healing and health was sweeping New Zealand. The biggest halls were packed to the doors. Sometimes hundreds were turned away. Then the war came. Almost at once interest fell off by half. It has been going down ever since. But the day of His return is close at hand; accompanied by a thousand legions of angels, and armed with “all power in heaven and earth.” (Another event about 1939 was the invention of the first antibiotic. When I visited the doctor in 1942, he said that as a result, the bottom fell out of his work. He said “Who would change his way of life, if he thought that his illness could be cured by taking a pill?”). The earliest example, to my knowledge, of orthodox medical ‘reaction’ was, long ago, when an Austrian physician named Semmelweiss lowered the death rate in a Vienna lying−in hospital from a fantastic figure to under two percent, by insisting on simple cleanliness. Germs had not been heard of then. As a reward for his novel methods he was sacked, persecuted and finally driven out of his mind. The next concerned Sir Angus Forbes, I have forgotten his real name. Sir Angus was a leading surgeon at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and one of the original seven of the British Empire Cancer Campaign. Becoming dissatisfied with contemporary methods of treating cancer, he cast about for improvements, and becoming 59

seized with the significance of diet, he experimented with what we know as Nature Cure. He had twelve cases of proven cancer, all of which had been subjected to conventional treatment, and all finally given up as hopeless. When they were demonstrably and incontestably restored to full health, he laid his findings and facts before the B.E.C.C. Result: he was sacked from the B.E.C.C. and died, two years later, from a broken heart. I have read his book. (His real name was Sir William Arbothnot Lane. He was the King’s Physician in the early 20th century. His book was “New Health for Everyman”.) Very early in my experience, and with as yet very limited knowledge of them. I began publicly to advocate similar ideas. Promptly a meeting was called of the local division of the B.M.A., fully attended for the first time. Twenty−two doctors were present, and each in turn had something derogatory to say about me personally. No mention of the offending ideas. When my objectionable conduct still continued, on urgent instructions from headquarters in Wellington, another meeting was summoned, with imperative instructions to contain me. When these, too, failed I was summoned to Wellington to appear before the New Zealand Council of the B.M.A. At the meeting I reminded my aggressors that little David when confronted by the Philistine giant, laid him low with one smooth pebble from the brook of truth, and cut off the giant’s head with his own sword. This did not prevent my being shot out of the B.M.A. Soon after this I was rung by two Wellington businessmen, independently, warning me that I was to be ‘framed’ by the B.M.A. A good way of discrediting inconvenient teachings is to discredit the teacher. Presently, a charge was preferred against me of ‘infamous conduct in a professional respect’. A patient I had been attending a while before, had died. I had to appear before a court of medical men in Wellington, all members of the B.M.A. − judge, prosecuting council, jury and executioner, all bitterly hostile. Inevitably, I was convicted and sentenced to be struck off the rolls. This would prevent my practising as a medical man. The only fly in their ointment was that before their sentence became law, it had to have the signature of the Attorney General, who at this time was Mr Mason. The Labour Party was in power. Members of the cabinet knew me. I had been invited to give evidence before both their Parliamentary Committees appointed to cast the pending Social Security legislation. Cabinet Ministers were readily accessible, sympathetic and friendly. So in spite of extreme pressure by my opponents, the required signature was not forthcoming. The day my wife and I set sail for the ‘trial’ in Wellington, I called at the post office for my mail. The only item was a cardboard cylinder from America. In it was a parchment scroll, set out in old style lettering and embellished in gold, conferring on me ‘in honour of my services to drugless healing’, honorary membership of the American Naturopathic Association. Half an hour later, on the way, I turned on the car radio, and this is the first thing that came through “The Lord loves the man who is prepared to suffer for Him and not count the cost.” A week or two earlier, invited to take a ‘promise’ on leaving one of our Nature Cure Homes. I accidentally secured three. Each one stressed the efficacy of trust. The third stated simply, “Because thou hast trusted me, I have delivered thee.” One of our early successes concerned a railway employee, on his way home to die, after six months in hospital. He had once weighed sixteen stone, but was now down to nine. Stooped nearly double with huge cancerous growth in the middle of his back, he was a picture of misery. You could have put a fist in the gaping hole in the growth, which was running with pus. He had been given three months to live. I could only assure him and his unhappy little wife, who had brought him, that if you give nature a chance and the materials she needs, she can sometimes work miracles. I wrote out a strict Nature Cure diet, with seaweed tablets and vitamin capsules. For dressings, layers of plain surgical gauze squeezed out of cold tap water, and covered with a thin piece of cotton wool − to be changed when soiled or getting dry. And a daily large enema. 60

A month later he returned. As soon as I saw him. “Why”, I exclaimed, “you look a different man.” “Thank you”. he grinned, “I am a different man.” When I looked at the ugly growth it was half healed, and there was almost no discharge. Two months later, he came again. The growth had disappeared and healing was complete. So I gave him a certificate of fitness to return to work. This was laughed at by his employers. “Get a certificate from the cancer clinic,” they said, “and you can begin.” This he did, and four months after they had sent him home with three months to live, the same clinic gave him a certificate of “fit to return to work.” That was shortly before my ‘trial’. Eventually this patient died at the age of 84. Not long after that case a council employee wrote an urgent appeal. His face had been burnt with boiling tar, and refused to heal. He had nineteen treatments, including excision, skin grafts and radiation. Finally he had been sent home. He wrote to me, not for treatment − he knew none was possible − but to seek relief from pain. The large ulcer was eating away his face − and though he had three kinds of drugs, he got no relief day or night, and he might linger on for months. I sent him the same instructions and diet that had been so successful in Dellow’s case. At the same time, I wrote to an ex−hospital matron, who I knew was sympathetic, asking her to supervise. In two days all pain had ceased. In a week signs of healing appeared. In a few months, healing was complete. Such a stir did his recovery make, that the editor of a city newspaper sent a reporter to investigate. As a result, the editor organised a committee, and bought a large house, (setting up my ex−matron in charge) for the treatment of hopeless cancer cases, along these lines. Her first patient was an elderly man dying of cancer of the prostate. He was suffering severely. So the first evening nurse rang a doctor for help. Rather abruptly, he said he could not come. She tried another doctor. He could not come either. She tried one more. Same result. Next morning a representative of the B.M.A. called, who informed her that in no circumstances would any of their members attend any of her patients. Furthermore, should any of her patients die, she would face a charge of manslaughter. I am sorry to say that nurse got such a terrible shock that she left the home and fled the country. In 1938 my wife and I crossed to Australia to help the Nature Cure people defend themselves from an all out attack by the B.M.A. To begin with, we gave three lectures in the Lady Margaret Hall. At the first there were 1400 present. At the second 1800. At the third the hall was full − 2300 attended and numbers were turned away. Our hosts decided to risk a final venture in the Sydney Town Hall. The only available date was a Friday, Sydney’s bad day. And there was no time for advertising. There was not a vacant seat. Just then I heard that the Speaker of the House of Representatives had had a brush with the B.M.A. So I rang him up. Graciously he invited me to call next morning at his office. Tall and distinguished looking, he reminded me of pictures of Gladstone. Claiming, he said, to be something of an idealist, he had always felt an urge to do something to promote the people’s health. That was why when the Stevens party came to power, Mr Weaver was assigned the portfolio of health. He had hardly taken office, he told me, when he saw abuses of a number and magnitude that appalled him. He began by instituting one or two very minor reforms. Whereupon he received a call from Sir Joseph Lyons, (I have forgotten his real name), president of the B.M.A. “What is all this?” enquired Sir Joseph. Mr Weaver replied, “You should know, Sir Joseph.” “Perhaps I do,” said Sir Joseph, “but I have just come to warn you − either you will behave or you will be disciplined.” Under the misapprehension that a minister of the crown had some sort of authority, and incensed at the noble knight’s attitude, he ordered Sir Joseph from the office. “Oh well,” observed Sir Joseph, “if that is your decision, it’s OK by me.” Next day there was a meeting of the cabinet to which Mr Weaver was not invited, 61

and the following day, Mr Weaver found himself without a portfolio. Stunned, I could hardly believe my ears. “Can I repeat that story in New Zealand?” I asked, “You can do as you like,” said Mr Weaver, “ I have already published it in Smith’s Weekly”, (the popular Australian journal). Years after this I was on a week’s campaign in Auckland when the Rotary Club’s representative rang to ask whether I would be prepared to give the talk to their members at the following Monday lunch. I jumped at the chance. But on Monday morning, another ring, a brief one, “Sorry, the talk is off. Doctors you know.” Recently, I asked a friend who arranges the local Rotary talks. “Not the remotest chance,” he told me, “I know.” I said, “don’t tell me − two doctor members.” “Worse.” he chuckled, “three.” Oh well − ‘Service before Self.’ True minds open to truth attract it. Minds not open, snap shut at its remotest approach, like giant clams.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Organised Opposition to Truth In 1936, I think it was, I met Mr C.G. Scrimgeour (Uncle Scrim to most New Zealanders), Director of Commercial Broadcasting. Scrim was an ardent health and monetary reformer. So was I. Still am. By his arrangement I was allowed on the four ZB commercial stations, Sunday evening link up, to broadcast to the people of New Zealand the amazing success of Nature Cure. Scrim estimated the session’s audience at a quarter of a million listeners. Though my experience and grasp of Nature Cure at that time were still limited, the talk made quite a stir. For example, the Hon. Peter Fraser, then Minister of Health in the Labour Government, who had been listening, rang and requested an interview. Like all the Labour Ministers at that time, Mr Fraser was kindly sympathetic and accessible. At his office in Parliament House, he cross examined me for more than two hours, making frequent notes. Finally summing up, “I’m satisfied,” said Mr Fraser, “that what you are trying to tell us is true; but in my position I have no alternative to doing as my Department experts direct”. A few months later, a second Sunday evening broadcast was arranged and advertised. “What about a script?” I asked Uncle Scrim. “Don’t be silly,” he replied, “I know I can rely on your discretion.” But on Thursday less than three days before the broadcast, there came a telegram from the Director of Broadcasting: “Please submit your script.” I did. But on Saturday evening there was another wire: “Script unsuitable, broadcast cancelled.” And at the “Man in the Street” session on Sunday evening they played records right through the hour. No mention of my broadcast, or why it was off. When Scrim returned from America, he showed me his latest directive: “To the Director of Commercial Broadcasting: Under no circumstances whatsoever is Ulric Williams to speak on the air.” Signed F. Jones, Minister of Broadcasting. All this was not the only, or by any means the worst of the organised opposition encountered in the next thirty years. Because of it, tens of thousands in New Zealand alone, who need and should not, have suffered damnably, and died pitiful deaths. Tens of thousands are suffering now. And hundreds of thousands more are doomed to the same fate. It looks bad; but may not be as bad as it looks; because not till people have been plundered and massacred enough will they consent to think, and they are being comprehensively plundered and massacred today. Not by the medical system only. While hospitals are colossal, ever expanding glass and chromium disease factories, banks are debt factories, and churches sin factories. The only church I know of that makes a serious attempt to teach and insist on healthy as well as happy living is the Mormon Church. The explanation is that, in his age−long climb from an animal consciousness towards the spiritual, human man is controlled, not as he supposes, by intelligence, but by his primary urges, and by the impressions, or suggestions that get or are put into his unconscious mind during this lifetime. Human man does not think; he acts and reacts, automatically and instinctively, in terms of conditioning, to the impulses that arise in himself or his environment. He is impervious to reason and inaccessible to intelligence. Intelligence is a faculty of spirit, not to be found in the natural man. Only to the degree that we become influenced, enlightened and controlled by the spiritual are we any better than savage beasts. Even after the spiritual has become the dominant factor in our makeup, under pressure there is often an overwhelming tendency to revert to the animal. Human man is compounded of tiger, pig, sheep, gorilla, mule, snake and worm; with a dash of fox terrier thrown in. Making people religious does not necessarily make them spiritual. Too often, the reverse. It is said that, in the middle ages something like fifty million were burnt or tortured to death in the name of Jesus Christ. 63

Our world is at the critical point in its history. Hitherto human consciousness has been centred in the physical−intellectual, whereas the insistent, inexorable demand of the present spiritual world epoch is elevation of the centre of consciousness and response to the spiritually intelligent. The power that animates the universe of which everyone and everything is constructed, and by which everyone is actuated, is intensifying and accelerating at an unprecedented momentum. But, like electricity which is a phase manifestation, it has two opposite potentials, negative and positive, evil and good. And according to our relationship with the power do men tend to become fiends incarnate, or filled with the fullness of Christ. This is the reason for today’s erupting savagery. Futile, blaming the collapse of our materialistic systems on medical men, bankers or clergy. They act as taught. This world order is in a state of frenzied upheaval and flux that explodes momentarily more hopelessly out of control. But before humanity finally exterminates itself and burns the earth to a cinder, there is coming a Divine intervention or superimposure. Then will emerge the new order wherein disease, disaster, brutality and violence progressively give place to dependable health, prosperity, security and deliverance from evil.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Recovery through Faith What is faith? One thing it certainly is not, is subscribing to some abstruse theological formula which neither the purveyor nor his victims understand or can apply. Perhaps the shortest definition of faith is − expectation. According to our faith (expectation) it is likely to be unto us. Made in the image and likeness of God, man is creative. Mind is our creative mechanism; thought is its instrument, the unconscious part of our mind is the executive. The thoughts, beliefs, impressions, suggestions and ideas that get, or are put, into our unconscious minds, tend powerfully to materialise. “I feared a fear,” Job confessed, “and it came upon me.” Well do the arch−exploiters, (medical, financial and ecclesiastic) understand this. Fear is faith in evil. “I believe in God the Father almighty”, church people mechanically repeat; then demonstrate by their actions that, in fact, their one fundamental abiding conviction is in the reality and power of evil. Children of their father the devil? Easy to say ‘I believe’ (something or other); but it takes guts to live by faith. Gethsemane, Golgotha! Faith in God is confidence in good. The faith that works, is living as if, not withstanding all appearances to the contrary, everything is, already and eternally, all right. Actually living that way, now. How else could it be proved? God is spirit, not matter. We and our Father are one. “For what is GOD but LIFE?” Psalm 18, verse 32 (Ferrar Fenton translation). To regain lost health by faith, we must first stop making ourselves sick. The reasons for most ill health are: wrong feeding and wrong habits of body and mind. Disease is mostly a more or less gradual degenerative process, a consequence of failure to comply with the requirements of well−being. Recovery is mostly a more or less gradual regenerative process, a reward for recognising and conforming to those requirements. Of these processes, acute illnesses are a vital part of nature’s (God’s, that is) provision for averting or healing disease. Acute illnesses are “spring cleaning”; most of them. Suppressing them by surgery or poisonous drugs, too often is merely laying a foundation for recurring, or chronic, and sooner or later fatal disease. Through people receptive and dedicated enough, and in the sufficiently responsive, the recovery process may sometimes be speeded up to a point where it becomes instantaneous. Why, all this dis−ease? All most people need, to get or keep well is: − refrain or desist from what makes people sick. To get, or keep FIT we must TRAIN? (Horrible thought! So much easier to swallow shopfuls of poison pills!!). One lady is presently eating eighteen pills a day. And expects to continue for the rest of her life. It may not be long. Why, suffering? Because, when we’ve suffered (and spent) enough, the barriers to common sense are undermined, and eventually, if we live long enough, broken down. Why do the sick want to get well? To be free to go on doing or thinking what has been making them sick? Why do they remain sick? To focus attention on themselves? To feel important? To dominate? For an easy life? For revenge? Or because the whole economy is organised to make and keep people ignorant, sick, terrified and exploitable? Rush to doctors for health; to churches for heaven. No, to become good, be good. To become well, start, now, to be well. Janet Mason was dying of cancer. Her fifth operation showed it had gone wild; and there was no hope. It was then that she read an article I’d written in the New Zealand Mirror called “Master or Slave?” (of,or to, the 65

unconscious). Said Janet to herself, “If what this article says is true, you don’t have to die. There is a power that can heal; and there’s nothing it can’t heal.” Lying there and thinking it over, at last Janet reached a decision: “Very good, I’m on my way.” That was the turning point. Gradually strength returned. I didn’t meet her till a year after her recovery was complete. Such a stir did it make in Hamilton, where she lived, that a community was formed, a large house with eight acres of ground bought, and the Masons installed, to help other seemingly hopeless sufferers. Mrs Mason administered that Home for twelve years; and till long after increasing age compelled her retirement. Her faith had made her whole. Rogers, in Westport, was dying of cancer too. He had a growth the size of baby’s head in the bowel. You could see it from across the room. Secondaries were everywhere. “One month to live,” he had just been told, after his fifth operation. His tummy was scarred like a five barred gate; and he wore a leather covered plate, to keep his insides from falling out. I could only tell him what I’d told Dellow, not long before: “Give nature a chance, and the materials she needs, and she can sometimes work miracles.” He was supplied with a simple diet, mainly vegetables and fruit, mostly raw, and a little wholemeal bread, cheese and nuts. Away he went; and I heard no more of him. But, exactly a year later, he called again. The growth had gone down by perhaps two−thirds. He had put on weight, and looked and felt, a different man. “Well,” he grinned “what’s so surprising? I knew if I got to Wanganui, I’d be O.K.” Isn’t that faith? Every year for seven years he called again. “No need to,” he said, “I haven’t missed a day at work since my second visit to you. I just felt like coming. And I have a free railway pass.” He lived fifteen years. Then, I was told later, he relapsed into his former careless habits, and paid the penalty. Benoni White wrote from hospital; “I’m ninety years old. I’ve got cancer. They are going to operate. I can’t stand it. I know it will kill me. Please save me.” It didn’t sound promising; but such an appeal couldn’t be ignored. So with the Ward Sister’s permission I saw the old man. A massive growth where the small intestine joins the large. I saw his X−ray films. Cancer all right. Astonishing that anything could get through. Benoni was a tiny scrap of a man; an artist, highly sensitive, and a lithograph expert. He lived alone in a rented room. Poor food. No fire. In winter, sat huddled on his bed, with a blanket round him, trying to keep warm. To make the story short, I took him to one of our Homes. Put him in a room with a bright outlook and a fire that was kept going day and night. He was given milk and oranges; and an enema every day. This he loathed. So seeing he was ninety, and sure to die anyway, we gave him a restricted diet on Nature Cure lines. But he longed for what the other patients had. So − oh well, poor boy! I examined him from time to time, and after a few days I wondered whether the hard mass was a little smaller. In three weeks there was no doubt. In three months it had gone. “You will never go back to those digs,” I assured him. God doesn’t heal sick people, and forget about their comfort. Something will turn up.” Soon after that, a farmer and his wife who had lost touch with Benoni for years, got on his track again. They said they had a spare room with a fireplace, cords of firewood they needed help to burn, a sunny verandah, all the food he could eat − would he PLEASE come and live with them? Whose faith saved Benoni? Certainly not mine.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Uncommon Sense It is generally accepted now that matter, divided into the smallest possible particles, can be still further broken down, by physicists, into molecules. For a long time molecules were supposed to be the ultimate pieces of matter. Then a method was devised of resolving the molecules into still more minute components called atoms. Finally, Sir Ernest Rutherford succeeded in splitting the atom, demonstrating that these atoms consist of nothing but positive and negative charges of electricity revolving round a neutral centre as separately as stars in the sky. Thus all matter whatever its form, is composed of nothing but electrical energy which is only another name for spiritual energy or spirit. And God is spirit. The link between spirit and its material appearance is mind and thought. God, creative spirit, thinks his thoughts into manifestation. So, in degree do we. Most people think we are human beings, with minds and souls. That we are here. (Where’s here?) A few decades since Sir James Jeans, famous British physicist wrote: “We scientists know now there is nothing but mind.” He might, more accurately have put it “there is nothing but God.” We are our present degree of apprehension and expression of eternal, unchanging, divine Spirit. We are wireless stations, continually, (albeit mostly unaware of the fact,) sending and receiving messages and impressions of all sorts. “Can’st thou send lightnings, that they may go and say to thee, here we are?” Jehovah asked Job. Indeed we can. Everyone does. And receive them, day and night; evil and good. We can tune into either. Or switch, as we all do, from one to the other. In the end, individuals, communities, nations, the world become the sum of our thoughts. For example, in a city, or nation, evenly balanced between evil and good, a single individual transferring from a negative to a positive centre, might turn the scale. If there had been ten (possibly five, perhaps even two?) “just men” in Sodom and Gomorrah, the cities would not have been destroyed. Not doing heroic deeds. Just being there. Sobering thought! One day on my rounds in my car, I suddenly thought: Mrs James. (They had been patients from time to time, but not for some time). I took no notice. Then I got her name, more urgently. Wondering whether it might, possibly, be a call, I turned out of my way, and rang the bell. Almost at once the door was snatched open by a frantic Mrs James, “Oh doctor, thank God you've come,” she sobbed, “It’s Pat; she’s desperately ill; I couldn’t leave her to get help; I didn’t know what to do.” “I know,” I said, “I got your message.” Examining the small Pat, there wasn’t anything dangerously wrong. But to an anxious mother, bred, born and brought up in fear, and knowing less than nothing about anything, a convulsion can be a devastating experience. Seldom very dangerous really. With Pat presently relaxed, Mrs James wanted to know, “How did you get my message?” “E.S.P.”, I smiled. (Extra Sensory Perception). Though still mystified, Mrs James was reassured. All she needed was a little knowledge, such as all young marrieds should have been taught at school. Early one evening, a phone call from Auckland: “That you Doctor? Gray here, John Gray. You don’t know me, but I’ve heard about you. It’s my boy. He’s two. He’s just been sent home from hospital. He’s dying of leukaemia. They say they can do no more; and as he has only a short time to live I may as well have him home.” Oh help, I thought, groping round in my mind for something to say; total stranger; long distance phone barely audible . . . then I had an idea: “Mum” Dowsett lived in Auckland. She had a Home of Healing, “Elim” in Remuera. She was a woman who used prayer, often to great effect. I advised Mr Gray to call and see her. He 67

did, promptly. But for some reason Mum didn’t like the case, and turned him down. After all, people using unorthodox methods have to be mighty careful what they take on. Should even their most impossible case fail to make the grade, it’s look out! Half past nine next morning, a ring at my door. John Gray! His heavy lorry (he was a carrier) being unsuitable for a long drive, he had borrowed a car and driven all night. Powerfully built, nice open face. “I’m not going to just let the kid die,” he said, “but I want your help.” Then I remembered, “Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.” Thus the centurion. He hadn’t seen such faith, no not in Israel, observed our Lord. So He spoke the word. That’s the sort of faith, John Gray had. So I spoke the word. “Your son will recover,” I promised, “and when he is well you will look back and recall that the turning point came at ten this morning.” But the more batteries in circuit the greater the power. So I asked John to go back to Mrs Dowsett. I would ring her meanwhile. Knowing now where she stood, Mum was ready when he called and went with him to his home in Brown's Bay. Poor little boy − pale as a ghost, masses of swollen glands, unable to eat or drink, and fighting for breath. Mum wasted no time. Full of compassion and faith; she laid her hands on him, and silently prayed. Next morning the glandular swellings had gone. He was even able to take a little nourishment. He never looked back. Months later, John took him to the hospital to show them. Five doctors saw him. Three were cynical, and talked of remissions, and inevitable recurrence, but two were sympathetic. “There’s something here we don’t understand,” they acknowledged. Wondering what could have caused the leukaemia, before Mr Gray took off for home, I asked how long his son had been ill. “Never been ill,” he told me, “went down suddenly.” “Must have been poisoned,” I concluded. “No,” John maintained, “hadn’t been anything unusual. Oh,” he recalled presently, “the doctor did give him some stuff when he had worms. That was just before he got sick.” “What was the name of the stuff?” I enquired. “Don’t remember the name, something like Sunt or Sant or . . .”Not Santonin to children with worms!” Indeed they did, and when some child dies, or goes blind, or paralysed, they never connect cause with effect. “The patient must have picked up a germ,” parents are told. Santonin is a known blood poison. But so are many of the “medicines” prescribed today. Thalidomide, for example, sleeping pills, A.P.C.’s, phenobarbs, prescribed and consumed by the shipload, yet taken for as short a period as two weeks may cause a fatal anaemia or drive people mad. Every year, millions of dollars for poisonous chemicals; 6000 listed in the Health Department’s recent catalogue of free or partly free drugs. Thousands more not free. Hundreds of new ones every year. Those who prescribe them know nothing of their composition, and little of possibly deadly effects, immediate or remote. Desperate in their helplessness doctors prescribe them on the say−so of travelling agents even more ignorant, but dressed to look the part, and coached in a line of glib sales talk. The public has become a race of brain washed drug addicts, with doctors acting as unpaid salesmen for gigantic drug combines. Their victims pay the salesmen. And neither salesmen nor victims will listen.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson None So Blind or Deaf It does seem a pity. All over the world people are being born (or going), blind or deaf. All have been treated by specialists. Yet for several decades methods have been available and screaming for recognition that could have prevented, and even cured most of these terrible tragedies. So could most of the other evidences, no two of which are ever the same, of the more or less gradual degenerative process that is the real disease. Unfortunately, Authority deliberately shuts its eyes and stops its ears; which wouldn’t matter a scrap, if their victims weren’t blinded and deafened at the same time. Harry Benjamin, author of the book “Better sight without glasses,” was the first example I encountered of recovery from blindness after specialists had finally pronounced his case hopeless. Another was our Norah Brown. She was thirty−eight when she came to one of our homes. She was steadily going blind. “Optic Atrophy” the specialists said, and that was that. But beside losing her sight Norah was waiting to enter hospital for her fifth gallstone operation. After each of the previous four she had been assured, “You are O.K. now; you can go and eat what you like.” Experts still don't seem to realise that gall “stones” are made from food. (They aren’t stones at all. Most are very easily broken concretions of cholesterol, that got there dissolved or suspended in bile; and when they are not passed, can often be got rid of by radically changing the diet.) Besides these tribulations, Norah’s blood pressure was over the top of the scale; and her greying hair was coming out in handfuls, leaving patches as bald as an egg. Alopecia was the label for that. Just then it was a custom in that Home, for the eight patients to read aloud from some book, passing it from hand to hand. And that was when Norah got her first profound shock. Unable to read at all, even with glasses, when her turn came she suddenly, without realising what she was doing, found herself reading her stint − no glasses at all. As we have repeatedly tried to point out, it is not usually what is wrong that matters, (still less what label Authority decides to apply) so much as WHY is anything wrong? To answer that question, look in the emotions, mind, or manner of life. In one or other, or all three, most times the answer will be found. Emotion, the e−moving force, is often the cause; the form it takes, outwardly, being determined by some vivid impression, registered maybe years before, in adolescence, in infancy, even in the womb. Self pity, fear, hate, bitterness, just misery, can be killers. Knowing where to look, in Norah’s case we looked. All her life she has been massively unhappy. Inevitably, since there was no one to tell her how to avoid, or cope with, the many stresses most people meet with, self pity and misery had been her reactions. But why blind? Because she had lived near the Blind Institute; and when she was ten used to take a blind old man out for walks; the long forgotten formative impression. Unconscious “Imps” I have termed them. To make matters worse, she had been brought up, and still lived on, the refined, adulterated, dead, disease and death dealing muck the experts still tell us is “good nourishing food”. The trouble with so many “Norahs” (and “Norms”), is that their ideas of Life are all to pot. Utterly unaware that LIFE is GOD, and that LIFE therefore is GOOD (not evil, or any mixture of GOOD and evil), people have for generations been saturated in doctrines of sin, devil, hell, suffering, punishment, and (worst of all), 69

“God”. If he gets his eye on you, you’ve had it! So Norah’s whole idea of life needed re−orientation. Reassuring compassion is easy, with sufferers tangled in non−existent nets of their own contriving, specially when the captive is young, feminine, attractive and responsive; and Norah was all four. And that was Norah’s second profound shock − her first glimpse of LIFE as it really is − secure, gay, joyous, radiant, eternal, bright with endless vistas of opportunity, achievement and beauty. Evil is only a temporary appearance, due to misapprehension or misapplication of GOOD and, (GOOD being the only reality), tends powerfully to disappear when we stop causing it. The food at our Health Homes was on Nature Cure lines, predominantly vegetable and fruit, much of it raw; wholemeal bread; raw sugar; honey; meat once a week, vegetarian dishes the other six. No tea, coff, tobac. or alch. Also we employed to visit our Homes, six mornings a week, an attractive young lady, Norah’s age, trained in Bernard McFadden’s method. Beryl taught deportment and physical education out of doors in the sun, as lightly clad as might be. And, on pain of being shot at dawn, no one was allowed even to mention dis−ease. How many patients, after only three weeks in one of our Homes, remarked, surprised, “I’ve a completely new outlook on life.” You had only to look at their faces (and figures), to see that. Not long after Norah returned home she had a third happy shock. She was on the harbour ferry when her regular doctor took the next seat. With her sight restored, blood pressure normal, face and hair glowing, liver troubles a thing of the past, and sparks flying out of her, she guessed she mightn’t be recognised. At last, “Don’t you know me, doctor?” “No, madam, I’m afraid I don’t.” “You don’t know Norah Brown?” And that’s when the doctor got his profound shock. At first he couldn't believe her. Then he invited her to his rooms to explain the “miracle”. Do you see? Or have you been blinded too? At our busiest we had four homes with accommodation for thirty patients, and a waiting list a yard long. To cope with correspondence there was a dictaphone, and, each with her typewriter, two shorthand typists, managed, with her portable, by my wife. We handled some 15,000 letters a year. Now I have no homes; no patients, and I answer the occasional letter myself by longhand. Stuck to one of the letters, years ago, was a paragraph heading cut from a newspaper. Written beside it was “I can see this now; and if you let me wear glasses I think I could read the paper.” The letter was signed Dorothy Barnes. “What’s this?” I asked my wife. “Oh that’s Dorothy.” she replied, “I’ve been dealing with her.” “Well you’d better go on,” I said. (To save me, my wife used to sort out the cases she could deal with; leaving the rest for me). Dorothy was in her middle fifties. For years she had been gradually going blind. Finally the specialists could do no more. “We are terribly sorry,” they advised her, “but darkness is your lot for the rest of your life.” (Their actual words). Then Dorothy wrote to us; and two and a half years later, with my wife’s unaided supervision alone, solely by letter, using what I’d been able to teach her of what others had been able to teach me, Dorothy could read the whole paper, without glasses. Norman was ten when his father brought him. He was going deaf. He had been moved to the front of the class, but no use. “Nerve deafness,” the specialist said, “and there’s nothing we can do. He will just get steadily worse.” 70

But I know something no specialist would even have thought of looking for. I knew Norm’s papa. Well known businessman. Irreproachable character. Valued member of the community. Stern, just, but a Baptist; steeped in his church’s teaching, and determined to bring Norm up in the way he should go. Norm had got sick of being “picked on”, and, quite unconsciously, just naturally, stopped listening to what he didn’t want to hear. Half an hour’s simple explanation to them both did the trick; and when I saw Norm fifteen years later his hearing was still 100 percent. Lead, kindly light; driving may make your child a neurotic, an invalid, a vandal, even a criminal. Which reminds me of Del. Her father was a Brethren. Big, coarse individual, stones overweight, and tough. Did he put his ten kids through the hoops! When Del was eighteen she went to Wellington and got a job till she got what she wanted. She was nineteen when she called. “I think I’m preggo”, she said. “but I want to be sure.” She was entitled to know; so, the brief examination over, “Yes,” I told her, “about two and a half months, I’d say.” “Goodee,” she chuckled, “now I can take the bloody little bastard home as a present to Pop.” He that hath ears, let him hear.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Dangerous Knowledge? A little knowledge, it has been said, is dangerous; but to whom, or what? Because even a tiny bit of real knowledge can be a help sometimes. As for example when ex−private T. Atkins was brought to us. But to acquire such knowledge we may have to get down on our knees and offer our lives to Christ. That is because as we come more under spiritual control and redirection, what till then we had supposed was knowledge is discovered, to the extent of probably 80 percent, to be not knowledge at all, but merely human misinterpretation of distorted sense impressions. This choking smog is known today, among other things, as medical science, as sound finance, and as true religion. Tom was out of the army on a permanent, full military pension. Paralysed in his left arm and leg, he was violently epileptic as well, with many fits every day. But the nursing sister in charge of the home, formerly sub matron at a mental hospital, was not in the least impressed by fits. (Disconcerting to patients when unconsciously contrived alibis no longer “alibi”!) And remember? It isn’t usually what is wrong (still less what label is attached), that matters, so much as WHY is anything wrong? To answer that, look in the emotions, mind and manner of life; in one or another, or all three, the answer will generally be found. Probing Tom’s mind we discovered a deep−rooted belief that he was a coward. When conscription turned him into a soldier, he was terrified, not so much of the enemy, as of how he might react in face of the enemy. He got as far as Egypt, and there his unconscious came to the rescue. Remember − the unconscious can imitate or perpetuate any disease! Soon Tom began to have fits. Then, though he was only 26, a stroke. His unconscious prevented him from ever getting near the firing line. Tom’s father had been a hard, though not intentionally cruel man. He had resented Tom’s arrival in the world, and from his infancy up continually taunted him with fickleness and futility. “You’ll never be any good,” Tom was told; “you’ll never be able to get a job; and if you did you’d never hold it.” Lord, how many parents do this to their kids! “Poor little Sue,” people say, “She was born delicate; they never expected to rear her; she’ll always be weak,” and so on. Plant ideas like that in young minds, and what to expect − heroes? Eighty years ago Eugene Sandow, as a youth, was such a pitiful weakling that he was ashamed to be seen out. Till he thought up his famous spring dumbbells. In eight years he had made himself the mightiest man on earth. Given the urge, and dedication, there’s little man cannot achieve. High science, outwitting an unconscious, hitherto unchallenged control, is now having its authority threatened. Millions of chronic invalids, like Tom too scared to live, resort to disease. It isn’t life’s fault. Life, being GOD, seems evil only because somewhere along the line, uncomfortable experiences or negative suggestions have given a wrong conception of Life. It is this conception that must be corrected. It may take time; materially centred beings do not hold their beliefs, they are held, bound and enslaved by their beliefs. False ideas or devils may be cast out by patient logical explanation; sometimes by suddenly blasting them out. Most effectively, in the receptive, by compassionate high voltage superimposure of truer ideas. Unconscious hypocrites say all the expected, acceptable things, but still hide behind their accustomed defences. Tom did. In spite of seemingly genuine protestations of understanding and co−operation, developing consciousness not having achieved the necessary degree of authority, the fits and paralysis continued.

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Tom was with us eight months. Only after about five months did we really begin to get through. Then authority accused us of holding Tom for profit. So for his last two months neither the sisters nor I made any further charge on Social Security. We hadn’t been charging Tom anyway. And that was when the breakthrough came; his paralysed arm and leg were picking up; fits were fewer and milder, and then ceased. Just before he left us Tom wrote to Military Headquarters surrendering his military pension. The surrender was not accepted. Only when he journeyed to Wellington for a two hour encounter with top brass was it agreed to. Tom went home and took over the poultry farm. “What would I want a pension for” he wrote months later, “the chooks are doing fine; I haven’t had a fit or any dope since leaving your Home; and I don’t open gates any more, I just fly them.” Yes, but the mass unconscious is not so easily defeated. It is too ruthlessly controlled and misdirected, by prejudice and for profit, and power. Very little knowledge was needed when a letter came from a distracted Mum in Hawke’s Bay. Their son, twelve years old, had become surly and disobedient, savage tempered, and utterly unmanageable. He was vicious, had threatened to murder his three young sisters; and had twice been found with an open blade razor under his pillow. He had twice been for long spells in the Provincial Hospital, and was soaked in drugs. This in an attempt to control his fits − sometimes twenty in a day. His father had been killed in the Napier ‘quake, and after a year Mum had married again. Her husband was a kind steady man, and had done his best; but attempts at correction only made matters worse. They were at their wits end. Obvious, wasn’t it? Plain jealousy. By letter or phone! But an interview was essential. So a month later the three of them called − Dad, Mum and the “Brute Beast”. What a fine looking boy he was. Till after the three Hated Rivals (sisters) appeared he had always held the centre of the stage. Now he felt he was being pushed into the background. He wasn’t going to stand for that. This called, he felt, for more steps to regain the limelight. So stricter control, and more unbearable frustration for Ted. He had been getting his fair share of appreciation. But the undeveloped human being is not content with a fair share − he must be first. Finally the whole situation had got completely out of hand. Briefly, the parents were counselled to meet the situation with love. Not to pour it all over the boy; just to have it in their hearts; he would soon know. Next, if he did anything to incur disapproval, they were to ignore it. But whenever he earned appreciation, to be sure to provide it. Then to Ted: You have only been trying to get the love and appreciation you are entitled to; but you went the wrong way about it. The only way to get love and appreciation is to give them, never mind what we get, or don’t seem to get in return. Get it, Ted? You’ll have no end of fun helping Mum and Dad; but nothing to the kick you’ll get from looking after those three little brats. The young devil; he not only got it − he was a jump ahead. He could hardly wait to get home, and start the new game. One interview and off they went. Months later a letter from Mum; “you will be pleased to hear that Ted hasn’t had a fit or any drug since we came to see you. He is helping in the house, and doing chores outside; and he is marvellous with the little girls. In fact he is completely transformed. It seems like a miracle.”

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Mysophobia : Fear of Germs It is over thirty years since I first wrote that our modern medical system, to the extent of perhaps 80 percent, is nothing but a colossal, cruel, ludicrous, lucrative fraud. Only the money system, because it is even more inevitably enslaving and fatally destructive, and far more transparent, is worse. The reason people don’t see through these systems is because they don’t look − prejudice, profit, urge to power and propaganda prevent them. But when they’ve been plundered and massacred enough, they look. Some are looking already. For example, the official anti−tuberculosis campaign, based on the false belief that the cause of TB is the tubercle bacillus, is being challenged. The bacillus, when present at all, is an accompaniment, usually an effect, and never the primary cause of TB. Healthy people do not suffer from, and cannot be infected with TB (or cancer). The real causes of TB are: dead food, stale air and negative emotional states. Once developed, bugs may spread − in congenial soil. Some years ago, when a Lay Tuberculosis Association was being started in Wanganui, Dr Taylor, then TB officer in the Department of Health, in the course of an address said: “There are ten thousand notified cases of tuberculosis in New Zealand, but in only 30 percent of cases has the tubercle bacillus been demonstrated.” He did not see that this is because in only 30 percent of cases is the bacillus present. The following example shows how wide of the mark self−appointed bug−wallahs can be. Others as striking could be provided. When Trix wrote to us she was suffering from tuberculosis of the lower three vertebrae of her spine. Months before, she had undergone an “Albee” operation, in which a segment of bone is cut from a shin bone, and transplanted along the spine in the hope of keeping it straight. Six months later a massive abscess had been evacuated from under one buttock. Now she was worse than ever. The lower vertebrae were eroded and tumbled out of alignment. “There is only one thing for it,” the Dominion’s foremost specialist declared, “you will have to be put in a plaster of Paris case from your neck to your knees. For how long? Twelve months at least, probably eighteen months, and quite likely two years.” And then the shattering pronouncement: “AND THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE.” In despair Trix appealed to us. But having no means of telling how she might react to us or our ideas we could offer no firm undertaking. Following our suggestion she came to one of our homes. Would we have let her, if we’d known how she was? Her X−rays showed the lower three vertebrae eroded and tumbled out of alignment. Her pelvis was twisted on her spine. Her back was bent. Her walk was a shuffle of a few inches at a time. And her face was drawn with pain. When she had been put to bed, I came to investigate. After a while, she raised herself on one elbow, looked straight at me, and “Are you trying to tell me that something in my mind could do that to my body?” she demanded. “No dear,” I replied, “I’m trying to convince you that that is what has happened.” Long silence. Then, “Very well, I’ll tell you something I’ve never told anyone.”

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Her people had been small farmers, and she was their only child. She had been her father’s special pet, and mother was jealous. This had thrown father and daughter still closer together. At last when Trix was seventeen, mother’s hate worked as hate often does (beware of violent emotions!). Her father was attacked by a bull, in his daughter’s presence; knocked down, gored, and trampled on. Trix put up a brave show. She beat the bull off with a hay fork. But not in time. Her father died from his injuries. There was little equity in the farm; and mother and daughter moved to the city, where Trix had to do sewing to help out. Instead of growing more tolerant, mother became more bitter and vindictive than ever. At last, Trix could stand it no longer. She prayed that God would send her some illness that would take her out of it all. And that, she remembered, was when the trouble in her spine began. “Yes,” she reflected, “but what am I to do?” “Write to your mother,” I advised, “and tell her you know how the family unhappiness came about. That you realise you were partly to blame. But that when you get home you mean to make up for your share.” Trix could hardly wait to begin her letter. And next day she was walking as straight as I. She picked up quickly; and before long was walking five miles a day. At the end of six weeks I had her examined by another surgical specialist. After complete investigation, including X−rays, his verdict: “There has been some trouble at the base of her spine; but it is perfectly healed. She can do as she likes.” So for her last two weeks in our Home she did as she liked − press−ups, cartwheels; and hand springs. Plainly, she was wearing silk (not plaster), from well below her neck to a long way above her knees. She was warned, when she went home, to keep away from doctors and “friends”. They can be dangerous. Eight years later my wife and I were outside the Post Office in Rotorua when a young woman came charging across the road and bailed us up. “Do you know who I am?” she asked; “I’m Trix.” When I’d got my breath back, “And how have you been all this time?” I asked. “Doctor,” she exulted, “I’ve never had ache or pain since the day I entered your Home.” URGENT WARNING: The bug wallahs in the Department of Disease are out to compel everyone in New Zealand to submit to periodic X−rays for TB − they to rule on the films; order treatment, and, at their pleasure, take and keep you (and yours) out of circulation. Worse than compulsory fluoridation.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Explosive Healing When Mrs Dawson arrived from the south, she was certainly ill. She was 53 and looked a sick 75. “I’ve got cancer,” she groaned, “they were going to operate and I couldn’t stand it. I know it will kill me.” “Where is the growth?” I asked, “In my breast,” she replied. “Well, better let me see it.” Slowly she undid her garments. Thin to the point of emaciation she had no breast, only a fold of skin with, sticking out half way down a lump the size of half a lemon and as hard as a green pear. It has been stressed in these articles that the real disease is often a powerful negative emotion, the form it takes outwardly being determined by some impression that has got or been put into the unconscious (creative) mind. Knowing this and noting her miserable appearance, “Have you been afraid of such a trouble?” I enquired. “I’ve lived in horror of it,” she replied, “ever since my mother and my elder sister died of it.” So there you have it − a violent destructive emotion of fear given form by vivid visual impressions. “I feared a fear,” confessed Job, “and it came upon me.” But that wasn’t all: her house had been burnt to the ground with every stick and sliver she possessed; and her only son had been smashed to a pulp in a motorbike accident. “I always knew that would happen,” Mrs Dawson had been in the habit of predicting: “Thou shalt decree a thing, “ warned Eliphaz to Job, “and it shall be established unto thee.” Beware! Individually and nationally we are pretty much what our primary impulses and unconscious recorded impressions have made us, modified, that is, to the degree that developing intelligence (which is a faculty of Spirit) has been able to take over control. Meanwhile the Cancer Campaign, and authority in general, squander endless time and vast sums of money saturating the mass mind with terrifying emotions and pictures of disease. Mrs Dawson’s problem was obvious enough: her palsied fear must be overcome. But panic stricken victims cannot “not fear”. They must learn to trust: induced actually to live as if the God Power, of which we are all constructed, and by which we are all actuated, can be relied on, literally to control and direct; to keep us well; to supply our needs; to replace disease with ease, and restore order instead of disorder. Mrs Dawson could stay in our Rest Home only three weeks. Twenty−one days, to effect a revolutionary change in a spiritually unborn babe. Had she any ideas on religion I asked. “Oh yes,” she claimed, “I’m a Christian,and I have perfect faith in God.” Well, well! Here she is tearing herself to shreds and tatters with fear, and supposing that because she attends some church and makes the appropriate noises she has faith! While wherever she goes she broadcasts pessimism and hopeless despondency. After a fortnight of futile striving, the problem was still how to implant a positive conception of Life. She was a wet blanket in the Home; and the other patients were being affected. (We all are, by one another, for good or ill.) At last, in some trepidation, I decided to try dynamite, to open a road for truth by blasting out her seemingly immovable fears. Next morning I went straight to her; and with a menacing expression; “Please go to your room. I have something to say to you.” In her room I shut the door sharply. “Sit there,” I ordered, and drew up a chair opposite her. 77

"Now,” I blazed, “you are going to get what’s been coming to you this last thirty years. You rotten old hypocrite, creeping round this lovely world spreading gloom and despair. Calling yourself a Christian and bringing the name of Christ into stinking disrepute wherever you go. People look at you and shudder. “If that’s a Christian,” they say, “thank God I’m a pagan.” For several minutes I roasted her, till it was evident she’d had enough. Then I left, slamming the door behind me, BANG. “If that doesn’t fix her,” I said to myself, “she has probably had it.” I was even feeling a bit shaken myself. Next morning at the Home, I could see her fifty yards away across the lawn. What a transformation! The difference between a gathering storm on a winter’s night and a glorious spring morning. “I see you’ve given in,” I ventured quietly. “I couldn’t help it,” she confessed, “ I never slept a wink all night.” (No, I thought, I didn’t mean you to.) “At five o’clock,” she continued, “I couldn’t stand it any longer. I got up, knelt by my bed; and gave up all my fears to God.” “God bless you, Darling,” I said, “then you are healed” I could have kissed her shoes. It had been a calculated risk. If she had not responded she might have gone to pieces altogether. This method is to be resorted to only with discrimination. But it is a fact that some of our most conspicuous successes have come about through its use. For the remaining week Mrs Dawson was the life and light of the Home. She was a different person. The day before she left I asked about the growth. “Don’t know,” she admitted, “I haven’t given it a thought.” At my request, in her room, she let me examine the breast. There was no sign of the growth. It had gone completely. Twelve months later she wrote: “I have just completed the happiest year I have ever known.” And further down, underlined right across the page, “and I know now that for me disease can never exist.”

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Implosive Healing Mrs Benson had claims to being one of the most miserable women in New Zealand when she came to us. A widow in her late fifties she had a lump the size of a hen’s egg in her right breast. Her doctor had automatically reached for a knife. But preliminary examination disclosed that she had pulmonary TB as well. So they couldn’t operate. She was of full figure with big heavy breasts, and this great hard menacing lump in one. She had been living alone since her husband died, and her life had held little (less, she felt, than nothing) to make it attractive. She knew nothing about how to use foods, took little exercise, was badly constipated, and generally in a depressed and toxic condition. Our first task, then, was to get her poison laden body detoxicated and meanwhile to present to her a conception of life more like it is, and less as unhappy experiences had led her to believe. Because of her lung condition, and because of her toxic state she was put on a solely milk and orange diet to begin with, plus large daily enemas. In a few days an area of skin above the lump began to change colour, and Mrs Benson was naturally apprehensive. But we explained that nature, (or God), not we, was doing the healing, and would do the job in its own time and way. Not only would she be healed, we promised her, but life, being God, is good, not evil, or any mixture of good and evil. It works for those who work with it. Before long she would find it opening up for her in all sorts of unexpected ways. Confidence is induced, not by preaching theological doctrines, but by kindness, and by inspiration derived from our own personal experience. The discoloured area got darker, and finally black; and serous fluid began to leak out round the edges. To absorb it, Sister had to apply thick wads of cotton wool. At the end of three weeks, when the wad was removed in the morning, the whole black mass with the lump in the middle of it, was sticking to the wool, leaving a hole you could have put your fist in, right down to the chest wall. No pain, no discomfort whatever. The gap was drawn together with strips of sticking plaster, and gauze to absorb the now scanty discharge. Six weeks from the day Mrs Benson came, the place was healed; and all that was left was a linear scar such as a surgeon might have made. Just as remarkable was the rapid clearing up of the lung condition. She was in our Home ten weeks. A year later she wrote: “I am amazingly well, and the neighbours marvel as I go swinging up the hill, my happy heart singing for joy.” What, or who healed her? Not three weeks on milk! And certainly not we. I have never seen a comparable happening. I do not know how it was done. But when the Life Spirit, the Christ, was on earth in human form, He did hundreds of such healings; and later, many more even, often using His human followers to work through. That’s who did it. And I am privileged that, in this case, and hundreds of others, I was privileged to play a part.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Blinded by Science The modern medical system, to the extent of perhaps 80%, is nothing but a gigantic, cruel, ludicrous, lucrative, transparent fraud. Doctors do not know what disease is nor how it is brought about. They know little of the natural, and nothing at all of the spiritual provisions, either for maintaining or regaining good health. Disease is mostly a more or less gradual degenerative process, due, first, to failure to fulfil the requirements of well being; and, second, to conventional attempts at prevention and cure. Healing is mostly a more or less gradual regenerative process − a reward for fulfilling the requirements. Of these processes, acute illnesses are commonly a vital part of Nature’s (God’s, that is) devices for averting or healing disease. Doctors, completely unaware of their significance or purpose, are taught that acute illnesses are acute diseases, which they must prevent or cure. With this object, they employ a battery of destructive agents notoriously more dangerous than the ills they are supposed to cure. Poisonous drugs and vaccines, irradiation and mutilating surgery are their weapons. Perhaps the worst “crime” of modern medical so−called science is the increasingly effective suppression of acute illnesses. Usually successful suppression has one of four consequences. Either: the sufferer is killed, or a foundation is laid for chronic and often incurable disease, or Nature, if she can, will after periodic intervals, stage more of these would−be spring cleanings or Healing Crises, or Nature may effect a cure in spite of treatment, in which case the doctor will claim, and probably get, full credit for recovery. Disease is a toxicity and deficiency condition with poisons, either produced in the body, or introduced from without, or both; and deficiency of vitamins and minerals, which are such an indispensable part of the body’s building, cleaning and repairing materials. The body is a self−healing machine, but before it can heal, it must clean itself. Our bodies have seven in−built detoxicating mechanisms; lungs, liver, skin, kidneys, bowels, lymphatic system and oxygenation, with fever as an eighth, an E.P.S. or Emergency Precautions Scheme. When the body sets out to detoxicate itself, any or all of these mechanisms maybe called into action, with symptoms to correspond. There is little danger. The patient will not die, unless he is so heavily poisoned by wrong living that death will supervene anyway. Management, not treatment, of acute illnesses is called for. And it is typical of human befuddlement that homo sapiens is the only animal that hasn’t enough sense to stop eating when he is sick. Three illustrative examples are appended. Mrs Adkins wrote in despair from the South Island. A cancer had been removed from her colon, but had recurred. Later it had been pronounced untreatable. Three days later, I 80

was to visit the city where she lived. My first appointment was at a church opposite her home. At the end of a short service I called on the lady. Investigation disclosed that her husband, who for a long time had been drinking to excess had, about the time the growth was discovered, been detected in unfaithfulness. It was explained to the lady that if she would put and keep herself right and whatever any other person might do, or not do, or say, that she might not approve, she took no notice whatsoever, she could expect a miracle. Examining the growth, one did not need to be a doctor to appreciate its hopelessness. But, I reminded her, we had both just attended a church service, so why not seek divine help? With fingertips just touching her skin over the growth I asked, aloud, for the gift of faith to accept, at God’s hand, what the hand of man could not do. That was all. No diet. Nothing else. But later Mrs Adkins wrote of the miraculous change in her husband, as well as of steady improvement in her own condition. Fifteen years later she was still working as a valued helper with a well known psychiatrist. Hazel Rountree had undergone removal of a growth from the bowel; but it had recurred: and when I was asked to see her the end was near. But a Nature Cure diet, enemas, and encouragement brought about a dramatic improvement. So much so that people were coming from far and wide to see the miracle woman. Then the Healing Crisis began: fever, pain, swelling and constipation. It looked as if an abscess was developing. (This is one of Nature’s favourite ways of effectively “spring cleaning”.) I was visiting the patient twice a day (without charge). On Sunday morning I was met at the door by the daughter. Her attitude seemed strange; and then the secret was out. “Mum’s not here; she’s in Auckland Hospital.” Two weeks later she was dead. That often happens when a Healing Crisis is reacted to with panic, and suppressive mismanagement. Ursula had untreatable cancer of the bladder. It had begun as occasional blood in the urine. This came from wart−like growths, which, at intervals, were burnt off through a cystoscope. But the growths had become malignant. At last Ursula was told that no further treatment was possible. Then she came to us. After three weeks on a Nature Cure diet she went home, warned that, sooner or later Nature might stage a Healing Crisis − sudden worsening of all her symptoms, with fever, urgency, pain, and possibly vomiting and diarrhoea. Ursula was given strict instructions that if this happened she was to leave food alone, take nothing but citrus juices and water, to rest and have a large enema every day. Some months later this massive Spring Cleaning developed. She was passing a lot of blood, with pain, uncontrollable urgency and frequency, fever, and solid lumps. Remembering our instructions, Ursula did as we had said. For six weeks, alone and with no help or supervision, she stuck it out. The upheaval subsided and she was ready for food. To recuperate, she went to stay with a married daughter. Then she called on the specialist who had finally passed her death sentence. He was staggered to see her; and so evidently happy and well. At his request she entered hospital for examination under anaesthetic. Next day, the bewildered gentleman told our Ursula that whereas, some eighteen months ago she had untreatable cancer of the bladder, there was now nothing whatever wrong. So there it is. Principles and methods are available and crying for recognition, so simple and effective that, within months of their adoption, perhaps eighty percent of medicos would find themselves out of a job. That is what they are frightened of; so the entire propaganda machine is operated full blast to make and keep their victims ignorant, sick, terrified and exploitable.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson The power that heals us is within ourselvesRarely indeed − far more rarely than most suppose − does it need any help. All He wants, in the great majority of cases, is a fair chance, and the necessary materials. There are probably five hundred thousand people in New Zealand today who have been told “nothing can be done for them”; or who (in the interim until they are told that), are having things done to them that are expensive, and useless, or worse. Possibly 400,000 of those could get well without either trouble, pain, expense, danger, or much delay. All they would have to do would be to live obediently, and HAND OVER CONTROL UNCONDITIONALLY TO THE POWER WITHIN. In most cases, the first sign of improvement would be noticeable almost immediately. With occasional fluctuations (and, in some cases, periodic, apparent setbacks which are in the nature of a spring cleaning), improvements might be expected to continue almost indefinitely. HAPPY, UNQUESTIONING ASSURANCE in the ability of the POWER WITHIN to handle the situation, is the key to success. Then, sensible living and perseverance. (Of course, the sick must stop causing disease!). “A” was a sufferer from “Rheumatoid Arthritis”. At least, that was the name his symptoms were given. Funny how tickled people are if only someone will give the symptoms a name. They call it (silly duffers), “diagnosis”. “C’s” symptoms had received the name “Thrombocytopenicpurpuric Anaemia”. His real trouble was domestic unhappiness; so his symptoms, too, received a fancy name, while he took his place among the half million! “A” was just about crippled. He was definitely one of the half million. Then he was “converted” and presently, reading in his Bible of the sick regaining their health, he “prayed” to be “healed” Nothing happened. But his “prayer” though uninstructed, was sincere. He really wanted to be whole! So the POWER WITHIN got to work . . . One morning, at breakfast, it occurred to “A” that cups of sweet, strong coffee with milk couldn’t be good. So he cut them out. Almost immediately he noticed an improvement in his joints, So he pondered some more. “If sweet coffee is bad”, he ruminated, “perhaps all this rich food is, too.” So away that went. A further improvement was quickly observed. All eagerness now, he got into training, on right foods. But after a time, improvement came to a standstill. He was puzzled as to why. Sitting by himself one evening, wondering about it, he suddenly sat up with a jerk. He had heard an inaudible whisper within . . “Your attitude to your wife”, it prompted. Yes, “A” knew well enough his attitude was all wrong. But he did not know that a wrong mental outlook would cause these joints to swell and get stiff. (Neither do lots of other people.) But “A” was sincere. So he did as he was told. He put his own house in order, then made it up with his wife. Today “A” is as free from “Rheumatoid” as I am. I saw him at his worst; and I know him today. I was one of the three who told him, about twelve years ago, that “nothing could be done for him”. But that was before I began to wake up!

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Uncommon sense!! If you have tried every conceivable kind of advertised rubbish; and if you have tried operations, probably several times; and if you have tried dope by the gallon and box; and if, like everyone else who has done the same, you are worse in the end . . . Try uncommon sense for a change! Hardly anyone would be ill if they hadn’t made themselves ill (or been made ill by parents or guardians). The Life Force within is the ONLY power that can make us or keep us well. It is always striving to restore us to health and keep us well. It will almost always succeed − if we give it a chance. All we need to do, is withdraw these barriers, psychological and physical, which consciously or unconsciously, we hold in the way. What are those barriers? The chief, physical barriers are: Overeating, specially of the wrong kinds of food. Undereating of the right kinds. Insufficient outdoor exercise. Indulging in poisons, like tobacco and alcohol. All these physical barriers can be overcome by sticking to a diet of three parts vegetable and fruit, nearly all raw, to one part of starchy, sugary and fatty foods. Do ten minutes planned exercises, every morning on rising, followed by a cold dip or shower and brisk rub down. Bicycle or walk every day, regularly at weekends. You don’t like the sound of it? Well what of it − you can learn! After all, you’ve learned to abuse food. The whole thing is mental, anyway. And our physical vehicle was designed to run on exactly such fuel. If you want body and mind to do their best, then give them the fuel the inventor designed, in the quantities planned. Now, those psychological barriers; these comprise the emotions and impulses arising from the human, animal aspect of ourselves − such as fear, resentment, worrying, self−pity, jealousy, pride, avarice, gluttony, lust; together with the negative thoughts, beliefs, suggestions, impressions or ideas, that the subconscious mind may be acting upon. Of all the causes of disease, and of all the reasons for not getting well, the psychological barriers are far and away the worst. “Diseases” in nearly every case, are merely the effect upon our bodies, or minds, of psychological or physical barriers to health. The “diseases” will go, when we ourselves take the barriers down. By the way, the theological name of that Life Force within is “The Spirit of God”. Leading attributes of the Life Force are: Infinite POWER − it made and swings the planets and suns. Unlimited INTELLIGENCE − it devised and controls all knowledge, understanding, natural phenomena, the intricacies of body chemistry, growth, healing and repairs. Ineffable LOVE − we saw that in Christ.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson An interview with Mrs Weir, Matron of the Hikurangi old peoples home where Dr and Mrs Williams spent their last years • The Interview

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson AN INTERVIEW WITH MRS WEIR MATRON OF THE HIKURANGI OLD PEOPLES HOME WHERE DR AND MRS WILLIAMS LIVED IN THEIR LAST YEARS I asked Mrs Weir if she had any memories of Dr Williams that she could share with me. She said, When they had to give up their home in Wicksteed Street, and came to live at Hikurangi, it was a terrible step. They had to give up their fine old home and almost live in one room. I gave Mrs Williams a bigger room than the others. Dr Williams had to have a room at the end of the wing. I tried to get the lady in the next room to swap with Mrs Williams, but she wouldnt. When I apologised that I couldnt give her an adjoining room, she was quite pleased, because U.G. snores. She called him U.G. (his initials). He always called her, My pretty lady. They used to go out every day; down town, perhaps for a cup of coffee. He would drive his car; this went on for a long time. When they came, we thought meals would be a problem. We couldnt give them special food. There were forty residents and they had to be treated like the others. I believe in trying to provide the right foods, and we did try to help them in that way. He used his own bread, a wholemeal loaf made to his recipe by a baker. Apart from that he used the foods we provided and never complained. As far as the food was concerned, he used to say to me, I am a failure; just a failure. The day she died, he was in bed with the flu. She went to town and came home terribly tired. During dinner, she got up and left the room, which was rare for her. I didnt want to appear over−anxious, so I went out by another door and asked the cook if she had seen her. She had taken a glass of milk and gone to the doctors room. I followed to get his tray, but mainly because I was concerned about her. The milk in the glass was spilling, and being ill, he was getting agitated. I said, Put it on the tallboy, dear. She said, I am so tired. I am worrying everybody; I think Ill go and have a sleep, and did so. At three oclock, I went to see if she was awake, and could see that she had gone. It was a terrible shock to the Doctor. When I had got her fixed up nicely, he said, I want to go and see her. I took his arm; he was unsteady on his feet; he was getting past everything by this time. He took one peep at her and told me nearly all his life story; how they had perhaps disagreed sometimes. I said, Its wonderful that you can remember all that. But dont worry about that; go back to bed now. He wouldnt allow anyone at her funeral; there were only four there; he wasnt able to go. Afterwards the first thing he asked was to move to her room. He was happy there and bought himself a desk, and there he would write letters, and occasionally a letter to the paper. But he worried after a while, and became uneasy about things. I said, If you dont feel well, spend a day in bed. I used to go to him myself in the morning, to make his bed, and give him a wash and put him back to bed. The two Christmases I was there, he sent me a Christmas card with a donation in it, and wouldnt let me refuse. The first card said, To the best matron in New Zealand. The next year it said, Still the best matron in New Zealand or Aussie. I thought perhaps next year it will be the best in the world; but he gradually got worse, and a bit difficult. I left before he died; I had an accident and had to give up. When I turned seventy, I thought it was time to go; but I grieved about leaving. He loved his Bible and loved reading it. One day, he was looking for a quotation and couldnt find it for a long time. I wish you could have seen the look on his face the day he found it; it was lovely to behold. In 1971, one 87

of our old ladies, Mrs Knowles, compiled a booklet called Faith. It had a photo of Hikurangi on the cover. She asked everyone (including me, though I had left by that time) to give a quotation from the Bible, and then wrote a poem underneath. Dr Williams quotation was Fear not, little flock; it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you the kingdom. I wondered if the quotation was the one he had searched so long for, and was so happy to find. Before he died, he left instructions that his ashes should be sprinkled where hers were, along Kowhai Park, where they always went for a walk. They were both delightful people; he was a darling. There was something lovely about him; he could give out of himself. We had to try not to show preference for anyone in the home, but we all loved him dearly. I thought it was wonderful that he could adapt so well to the big change in his life. He kept himself beautifully dressed, and so did she; everything perfect. B.S. I mentioned hearing that he did not talk to other residents much, except to say good morning or good afternoon. Well, yes, he didnt mix much with others. But there was a Mrs Sheppard who was very fond of Mrs Williams, and they would take her to town with them when they went. When Mrs Williams died, she kept him company, and would go for walks with him. She was the only one really. Still, he was gracious and nice to everybody; but he kept to himself. I asked if she had known Dr Williams in the Depression years. My sister was having her baby in her early forties, and she had Dr Williams to deliver it, and always speaks well of him. I know several women whose babies he delivered, and they never forgot him; they speak highly of him. This was before he became a health doctor; but I think he always had that in mind. B.S. I was told that though previously he had a reputation for leading a wild life in Wanganui, he had another reputation for being extraordinarily kind to poor people. She said, I thought you would hear that he had a reputation. When his wife died, this is what he told me about. But I said, just forget all about that part. You were lovely to her afterwards. I was thinking of the way he always called her my pretty lady. They were a lovely pair really. Whatever happened, he put it right afterwards. Someone said his son Peter had taken up his work now. Peter came over to New Zealand before he died, and I am glad he came when he did, because they could chat away, and he could tell Peter of all his wishes. Peter said to me, If he passes away in the near future, I wont come again. It was wise that he came when the Doctor was able to talk to him and he passed away very quietly. In running the Home, my policy was three things; good food, warmth and love; these are the essentials for old people. I have never worried about getting up at night, sometimes to the Doctor. He didnt say much but he would have it in his face. He could alter that face; if he was annoyed you could see it; but if he was pleased, his face was brilliant. There was something about him; I dont know what it was. He could give out to anybody; but if anyone didnt please him, he could tell them straight. He had a stroke, and they put him in hospital. I visited him there and he begged me to take him home to Hikurangi. I asked the doctor, who said he wasnt well enough; he might even die that day. He didnt; he came back again. But he had to sell his car. In the end, I think he just gradually faded away. We all held him in the highest regard in the home. I think he was before his time; he will be talked about long after he has gone. I said to him, Your time is coming. A note by B.S. : Re U.W.s habit of telling people straight, I heard the following story.

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A woman came from New Plymouth to consult him. She couldnt stop coughing; she coughed incessantly. Probably she was worried that she had tuberculosis. Until antibiotics were invented, TB was usually fatal. People feared it as they do cancer today. When she sat down opposite him, the doctor told her abruptly to stop coughing. She was so angry that she took the consultation fee, (a ten shilling note) out of her purse, put it on the table, marched out, and drove home to New Plymouth. When she was telling her husband her story, she suddenly laughed and said, But do you know, I havent coughed since!

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson THOUGHTS ON MEDICAL PRACTICE AND MEDICAL DRUGSAt the close of the 20th century, most people regard orthodox medical doctors as the fount of wisdom and knowledge. This hasn’t always been so. Louis XIV lived in the 17th century. A biography entitled “The Sun King” refers to the doctors at his court. They were so bad that children referred to them usually died. If children of courtiers became ill, their mothers tried to keep it a secret, in case the King sent one of his doctors to treat the child! Dr Williams did not condemn medical doctors. Many are dedicated people only doing what they have been taught. He condemned the medical system and medical education, both dominated by the drug industry. A Wellington mother said, “The trouble with the medical profession is that they are so stuck in one line, that if it doesn’t work, they don’t know anything else”. A medical doctor joined our Allergy/Hyperactivity/ADD association because she had two little daughters both allergic to milk. She said, “All through my medical training, I felt there was something missing, but I didn’t know what it was. After contacting you, I now know what it was. Ulric Williams believed that medications are toxic to the body, unnecessary, and lead to chronic diseases, which are now the curse of our country A British allergist, John Mansfield, in a recent book, “The asthma epidemic” quotes a 19th century doctor, Constantine Hering, who taught that “suppression of acute symptoms causes symptomatology of chronic diseases”. A doctor at Wellington Medical School said, “Biochemistry is a new science. What we know about human biochemistry is only a scratch on the surface compared with what we don’t know”. A doctor at Dunedin Medical School said, “Only about 3% of human biochemistry is understood. Most medical drugs are chemicals foreign to the body. One assumes that the body needs the chemicals it is made of, for repair and maintenance. If so little is known about its operations, how can any foreign chemical be regarded as non−toxic? A mother said, “My son works as a drug detailer, (sales representative). He has to know all the side effects of every drug, and have them at his fingertips. He would not take any drug himself, not even an aspirin!” The journal “Pharmacy today”, March 1995, published a chart provided by the Roche drug company. It is entitled “Medication that depletes vitamin and mineral levels”. The chart lists various types of medication, and the vitamins and minerals that are depleted by the medications and should therefore be replaced by supplements. A body that is struggling to excrete poisons, uses up vitamins and minerals in the process. Could it be that medical drugs deplete vitamins and minerals because the medications are toxic and harmful? There is a modern American doctor, Patch Adams, who agrees with Ulric Williams that happiness is essential to health. He regards humour and clowning and laughter as important medical tools! He is the author of a book entitled “Gesundheit”, (meaning health); Healing Arts Press, 1993. Hoping to work in a field where he could serve the community, Adams studied medicine, but was so shocked by examples of greed and selfishness that he saw during his training, that when he graduated he and some friends opened a hospital in a large old house, where they offered free medical service to anyone who requested it. What did they use for money? They each contributed funds from part−time work elsewhere. Adams worked for a month each year as a specialist doctor in a psychiatric hospital, and was very well paid 91

for this. They lived frugally and did not need to spend money on insurance against malpractice because no one ever accused them of it. If they were ever desperate for funds, Adams would ring a local millionaire and ask for a donation. They ran the hospital for eleven years without charging anyone a penny. Adams is now raising funds to build his ideal hospital in West Virginia, where they have already purchased 650 acres in a beautiful valley, and put up two buildings. Another three will follow. He thinks that most human beings are lonely, frightened, or bored, and this unhappiness is the cause of most disease. Besides offering free medical service, the hospital will have facilities for enjoying singing, music, dance, drama, art, crafts, sports, organic gardening, humour and fun and laughter and companionship. Their address is Gesundheit Institute, 6855 Washington Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22213.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Ulric Williams' views on screening tests • Ulric Williams' views on screening tests

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Ulric Williams’ views on screening tests to reduce disease. About 1970 I read that for ten years Sweden had been giving free screening tests for cervical cancer to every woman in Sweden, but they had now stopped doing so because the death rate had not declined; it had increased! Ulric Williams believed that fear is a major cause of disease. It is very frightening to be told that one has cancer. Stress damages the immune system, and probably the worst stress is fear. Dr. Williams also thought that screening is dangerous because it focuses the mind on disease and not on health. It would help if people with a positive test were told, “Don’t be frightened. This is very small, but it is a warning sign that your lifestyle is unhealthy, and some changes are needed. Your diet needs to be at least half organic raw vegetables and fruit. You need to exercise in fresh air instead of exercising a motor car. You need to reduce stress by learning to meditate, and to use positive thoughts to throw out fear. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if instead of disease oriented hospitals, there were health homes like Ulric Williams’ ones, that would help people to learn to do these things?

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson In Conclusion • In Conclusion

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson IN CONCLUSION The most important thing I have gained from Ulric Williams, is his concept of the loving−KINDNESS of God; that God’s help is always available; that God wants us to be happy. God does not want us to make ourselves sick and miserable with fear and resentment; God wants us to enjoy our life. I am happy to have at last completed this book honouring a wise and honourable doctor, and to be making the pioneering work of Ulric Williams more widely known. My hope is that readers will benefit from his insight that they may cure themselves without medical drugs which may be poisoning them, and that they may pass on this idea to others.

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Bibliography of Dr Williams books and published articles • Bibliography

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New Zealand's Greatest Doctor: Ulric Williams of Wanganui A Surgeon who became a Naturopath By Brenda Sampson Books, Pamphlets and Articles by Ulric Williams His first book was “Hints on Healthy Living”. This was first published in 1934. This was followed by three further editions with the same title, each one revised and enlarged. These appeared between 1935 and 1939. His last book was “Health and Healing in the New Age; a fifth revised and enlarged edition of “Hints on healthy living”. This was published by AH &AW Reed in 1949. The titles above are held in the Turnbull Library in Wellington. They also hold three pamphlets: New light on the problem of human suffering, (1935). Hospitals and hooey or health, (1941). Health talks: addresses and articles by Ulric Williams, reprinted from articles published in “Democracy”, the newspaper of the NZ Social Credit party, (1948). Ulric Williams gave public lectures in Auckland and Wellington. They were advertised in the main newspapers, and the halls were packed, but the meetings were boycotted by the press. No Wellington reporters attended. In Auckland, reporters from the Star and the Herald attended, but no report appeared in either paper. Dr Ulric Williams had been writing articles for Democracy. Those in the pamphlet “Health Talks” were reprinted as a protest against this boycott of a man whom Democracy considered a courageous and outstanding leader. Ulric Williams was a prolific writer of articles for the public, and it seems that newspapers and journals in the thirties and forties were eager to publish them. Series of articles appeared in the NZ Radio Times, NZ Mirror, Wanganui Herald, Democracy. Some of the periodicals containing Ulric Williams’ articles are held in the Turnbull Library. Many photocopies are held by the Wanganui Regional Library, Queens Park, Wanganui, in their Heritage

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson CONTENTS • Dedication • SECTION 1: INTRODUCTORY ♦ How we began ♦ Understanding allergy ♦ Effects of food dyes and other additives • SECTION 2: DIET CONTROL AND THE FEINGOLD PROGRAMME ♦ Summer school for Keri and me By Hellyn Jordan ♦ Chemically sensitive children ♦ What is wrong with our food ♦ The Feingold good temper &behaviour nutrition programme ♦ Foods to avoid ♦ Good and bad food ♦ Safe, low−allergen foods ♦ Baking hints for low−allergen cooks ♦ Pure water is the best drink ♦ Fluoride ♦ Benefits of the Feingold programme ♦ 107 symptoms that improve with diet control • SECTION 3: THE YEAST CONNECTION ♦ Sugar and thrush (Candida yeast infection) ♦ Low blood sugar (hypoglycaemia) ♦ Case histories showing the effects of thrush • SECTION 4: MANAGING ALLERGIC DISEASES ♦ Managing Allergic Conditions ♦ Ways of reducing the body's stress load to reduce allergies • SECTION 5: RECIPES ♦ Simple low−allergy recipes • SECTION 6: HAVING A BABY EASILY ♦ How to have an easy baby (a non−allergic baby) • SECTION 7: SUPPLEMENTS TO HELP ALLERGIES &HYPERACTIVITY ♦ Beneficial vitamins, minerals, EFA's, enzymes • SECTION 8: APPENDICES ♦ Reading List ♦ Papers available on topics related to allergy ♦ Information about salicylate ♦ Overcoming alcohol/tobacco addiction and craving ♦ Additives to avoid ♦ Understanding Allergy Part 2 ♦ Classifying Allergies and Allergy Treatment ♦ Acknowledgements

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson DEDICATION The work that has gone into this book, is offered to all young people entering a marriage or a partnership; but especially to young women. If read and used, it will hopefully give you a good−tempered partner, and well−behaved children. Whether adult or child, a well person is a well−behaved person. For yourself the book offers health, happiness and a clear head for solving problems. Published by: Allergy &Hyperactivity/ADD Association Inc Wellington New Zealand First edition ISBN 0−473−02363−6, 1994 Revised, updated edition ISBN 0−473−04060−3 1996 All information on this site, including the books, are copyright to the Allergy &Hyperactivity/ADD Association Inc. Material may be reproduced in any form, in whole, or part, provided that credit is given to the late Brenda Sampson and the Allergy &Hyperactivity/ADD Association Inc.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson SECTION 1: INTRODUCTORY • How we began • Understanding allergy • Effects of food dyes and other additives

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson HOW WE BEGAN The articles in this book have been written one at a time over a period of fifteen years. Some first saw the light as items in our newsletters. They have been put together to make a booklet to help families with health, learning, or behaviour problems. There is some repetition; I hope this will help the information to be absorbed; because the information is important. People sometimes wonder how it was that a senior citizen with no children should start a hyperactivity association. After I retired from the Wellington Public Library in 1972, I was asked to take charge of the library of the I.H.C. Society. Parents would write from all over New Zealand, asking for help in educating intellectually handicapped children. One mother wrote that she had a severely brain injured daughter. She was almost totally blind and deaf; also hyperactive; the hyperactivity was the worst; could I help her? In 1976 I could find nothing; but a year later I read that a Hyperactivity Association had been formed in Sydney; the parents were using the Feingold programme, and found it a wonderful help. I wrote and asked for information. A year later they invited Feingold to come to Australia on a lecture tour. I wrote and asked if he could come to New Zealand too. In the end he did not come, but we formed an association anyway; beginning with about twelve women who met in our home. One had been using the Feingold programme for three months with her son of four and a half years. She said, "After three days, I wept tears of joy, there was such a change in him. He sat still for an hour, and drew a picture and finished it. We hung it on the wall. Before, he would have lost his temper with it in three minutes, screwed it up, and thrown it on the floor." I asked, "Is he your only child?" "Oh, yes; he was so awful that we took damned good care not to have another. My husband was on the point of leaving me; he blamed me, and I blamed him." "Do you all use the same programme?" "Yes, and after two months, my husband realised that he himself had been struggling with hyperactivity all his life." There was another mother at that first Meeting, with a four and a half year old son. She went home and started using the Feingold programme. She rang me about a week later and said, "We have had the loveliest day! It's the first day in his whole life that I have ever enjoyed his company!" Before going further, I would like to emphasise that children under five usually benefit very quickly and completely from the Feingold good−behaviour programme. The younger the child, the better it works. Much stress and trauma are saved by an early start. Many mothers have said, "Oh, if only I had known this sooner!" Another thing worth mentioning, is that the Feingold programme is a healthy diet, and where the whole family use it, all the members will receive some health benefit. If the mother can talk to other family members and win their cooperation for all to use the same menu, it becomes much easier both for the mother and for the hyperactive child. Our association was formed in 1977. At the same time, a Waikato Hospital paediatrician Dr Hindle, and a dietitian, Mrs Janelle Priest, were treating ten children with the Feingold programme. Five of the children made a good recovery; three improved somewhat; two made no improvement. Dr Hindle and Mrs Priest published a report of the work with these ten children, in the NZ Medical Journal 26.7.78. About a year later, Mrs Priest said she was using the Feingold programme with over a hundred children. I asked about the success rate; she said the proportion was about the same; about 50% greatly improved; about 30% some improvement; about 20% no improvement. Dr Feingold was an allergy specialist; he said if a hyperactive child did not improve with his programme, detective work was needed to discover what other substance(s) the child was reacting to. In the early 1980's I spoke to Mrs Priest again and enquired whether she was still busy with hyperactive children. She said, "Oh, no; the numbers have gone right down; we have very few now." She thought there 4

were two reasons:1) They had good publicity in Hamilton, and most parents there knew better than to give children dyed and artificially flavoured food containing preservatives. 2) Mrs Priest had turned her attention to allergic babies. She found that if allergic babies were treated early, hyperactivity did not develop. The work was time−consuming; about two hours for each appointment; but very worthwhile. I used to ask mothers who rang, about the hyperactive child's history. Many were adopted, so the mother didn't know; but where it was her natural child, the history was usually difficult pregnancy, difficult birth, colic, sleeplessness, constant crying or screaming. Often the child had been hyperactive in the womb, "kicking the mother to pieces." This probably means that the mother is ingesting toxins that are affecting the baby; she should switch at once to the Feingold programme and cut right down on anything containing caffeine, preferably none at all. The main culprits are the Cola drinks, sports drinks (both bad for teeth as well), tea, coffee and anything containing guarana (another form of caffeine). In 1982 Maureen Minchin published the first edition of "Food for Thought", which is about food allergy in infants, and how to prevent it. She said that colic, with its torment of sleeplessness and constant screaming, is caused by allergy; and can easily be prevented, if the mother is willing to breastfeed and eat sensibly herself, and to learn how to do it wisely. La Leche League and allergy groups can give information, as well as the book itself. Mrs Minchin was a historian doing postgraduate research at Oxford University, when she had her first baby, "and learnt at firsthand the nightmare of colic and mismanaged breastfeeding." Her research switched abruptly from medical history to infant nutrition, and what she found in the university library proved more helpful than the advice of the many lay and professional advisers whom she consulted. When she returned to Australia, she was asked to visit and help mothers of colicky babies. What she learned in these six years is included in "Food for Thought". Colic is an old fashioned name for allergy, and allergy is acquired very early in life. Minchin says that all the very severely colicky babies she worked with, had been given a complementary bottle of foreign protein in the maternity hospital. Dr Kalokerinos, famous for saving babies' lives, insists that the first thing that goes into a baby's mouth must be the mother's nipple. Two other ways of giving a baby allergies are, 1) bottle feeding and 2) if the mother has allergies she does not know of, and eats an allergic food while pregnant or breastfeeding, the baby can become allergic to the food. Allergic foods are often craved. If the mother binges on one or more foods during pregnancy, it will probably be an an allergic food, and the baby will become sensitive to it. In 1982, our association was five years old, and we had learned that many hyperactive children start life as colicky babies. Research in Queensland by Dr Patricia Holborow showed that 42% of hyperactive children surveyed had actually been diagnosed as allergic; and in 65% of the families there were other members who were allergic. It seemed much easier to prevent allergy occurring than to cure hyperactivity later on; so we changed our name to the Wellington Allergy and Hyperactivity Association, and we have worked in both fields ever since. The experience of these years is that the Feingold programme reduces physical stress, and is a good first step in treating both allergy and also hyperactivity/ADD. THE FORESIGHT ASSOCIATION FOR PRE−CONCEPTION CARE Perhaps young couples wishing to have a child, may not know that one can decide to have an easy conception, a comfortable pregnancy, and an easy birth. These are not a matter of luck, but of choice. When both parents eat healthily and have a healthy lifestyle before conception, the pregnancy will be more comfortable, the birth less difficult, and the baby healthier and more peaceful. Foetal alcohol syndrome is now very real with more alcohol being drunk these days. It is most essential for the mother to remain completely alcohol free (and of course not smoke) when trying to become pregnant and when pregnant. Probably good advice for the fathers as well! In Britain, an organisation called Foresight was founded in the late 70's to guide parents how to do this. In New Zealand the Foresight programme is available in two excellent books and a video. There is also a Foresight cookbook, ask your public library to buy them.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson UNDERSTANDING ALLERGY The adrenal glands are our shock absorbers, our coping glands; they help us cope with stress. Allergic symptoms happen when we have too much stress, more than the adrenal glands can cope with. The picture of the allergic barrel illustrates this; when the barrel of stresses overflows, allergic symptoms appear; the symptoms are the overflow. It helps to understand allergy if you know something of the work on stress by Hans Selye, author of "The Stress of Life" published in the mid−fifties. He did research with dogs. He subjected them to stress in the form of intense cold. The animals were very miserable at first, but then developed a tolerance to the cold. Selye called this the adaptation phase. It lasted quite a long time; but then the animals collapsed and died. When they were examined, it was found that their adrenal glands were dried up, withered and useless. It is thought that allergic people go through three similar phases; an initial phase, when the first taste of an allergic food causes a bad reaction; in babies, vomiting, rash, diarrhoea, etc. Then if the child is encouraged or forced to eat the allergic substance, an adaptation occurs and tolerance develops. Some people think this is a sign that it is now OK for the child to be given (for example) milk products. But allergists think the milk is still stressful, and the coping is at the expense of the adrenal glands. It seems that these are forced to pump out adrenalin. In time they become exhausted, and some chronic disease such as asthma, eczema, arthritis, etc.develops. These so−called degenerative diseases are treated with artificial adrenal hormones (cortico−steroids), which replace the hormones that active adrenal glands would produce. Stresses often give people pleasure; for instance dangerous sports such as motor racing. David Lange said on TV, "I love motor racing, it gets the old adrenalin flowing." Adrenalin is a protective device to help us escape from danger; it gives a short burst of intense energy, followed by a slump when the danger is past. One way in which it gives energy, is that it brings stored glucose out of the liver into the blood; this raises the blood sugar level. Too much sugar in the blood causes coma. But a bit more than adequate supply feels very good, and this is how stresses can cause pleasure. Other stresses that give this pleasure are stimulant drinks. They stimulate because they are toxic and therefore stressful to the body. They produce adrenalin, which raises the blood sugar level, which gives a feeling of well−being (a "feel−alive" flavour). But the adrenal glands are meant to protect you in crises and emergencies; not for daily or hourly use. In an hour or two, the sugar level sinks; the person becomes tired an irritable, so goes back to the stimulant for another fix. The fix can be a food that is allergic and therefore toxic. The fix is needed more and more often to give relief, and the person becomes addicted to the allergic food. So the rule of thumb is; if you want to know what foods you are allergic to, they are either the ones you dislike and never eat (these cause no harm), or the ones you like and eat often or eat a lot of (these cause much harm). Keith Mumby, an English allergist, said, "If people could only be persuaded to stop eating their favourite food, most diseases would get better." Be prepared not to feel too good for a while after giving up allergic foods to give your system time to adjust. For adults, this can take up to around four months, but so worth it. All of this has some relevance to the first foreign foods a baby is given. In her book, "Food for Thought", Maureen Minchin said that a baby is born with an undeveloped, immature gut; it is leaky but is sealed by an agent in the mother's milk over the next eight months. One function of the gut wall is to keep undigested food out of the blood. At birth, a baby is programmed to digest human milk, so it passes correctly through the gut wall into the blood. But foreign milks are less easy for the baby to digest, and the large protein molecules can go through the leaky gut into the blood before being digested. The immune system thinks foreign proteins in the blood can only be germs and goes into attack. The result is allergic reaction, actually an immune reaction. The immune system is programmed to overcome an invasion of germs by killing them. But it cannot kill molecules of milk protein, because they are not alive; and it cannot overcome an invasion that recurs every three hours. The result is a state of alarm and despair in the immune system. One of the factors in an immune 6

reaction, is that all the body tissues become more permeable or leaky. This is so that the white corpuscles that attack germs, can get through to every tissue in the body. Thus the gut wall, instead of being sealed by an agent in the mother's milk, remains leaky, or becomes more leaky; and other allergies can develop. Of all nutritious foods, the two commonest allergies are to cow's milk and wheat; probably because in the past these were the first two foreign proteins given to a baby, and often given too early, before the gut was ready for them. An Australian writer said, "When a baby has its back teeth for chewing grains, its gut is ready to digest them." This is reasonable when one considers that the human race was programmed over millions of years, to survive on wild food in its natural state. Agriculture, milling and grinding, and cooking, are recent inventions, only thousands of years old. I have heard of two other ways by which a baby can be given allergies. Maureen Minchin worked for six years helping mothers with colicky babies, (Colic is an old fashioned name for allergy). She said that all the severely colicky babies she worked with, had been given a complementary bottle in the maternity hospital. Dr Kalokerinos, decorated for saving the lives of babies, said, "Every pig farmer and vet knows what happens to a piglet that does not get its mother's milk immediately." He emphasised that the first thing that goes into the baby's mouth must be the mother's nipple, to establish the right organisms in the baby's gut. It seems that exclusive breast feeding in the first fortnight is crucial. A farmer said to me, "If a lamb does not get its mother's milk for the first fortnight, you may as well cut its throat; it will never be healthy." The other way in which a baby can become allergic is, if the mother eats a food that she is allergic to, while pregnant or breast feeding, the baby may reach to that food. The more the mother has eaten, the stronger the reaction is likely to be. For example, a toddler given peanut butter had a very acute reaction (an anaphylactic reaction) and had to be revived in hospital. The mother said she had lived on peanut butter in pregnancy. It was her favourite food. So in pregnancy eat a variety of fresh, natural foods, and everything in moderation. Avoid bingeing; foods craved are likely to be allergic ones. An allergist said, "Addiction equals allergy." It used to be thought that craving in pregnancy indicated that the food craved, contained something the mother needed. This may be so in some cases, but often it means the mother is overtired and will unknowingly turn to a poison to stimulate her (as people do daily when they drink coffee and tea). One mother used an advertised brand of cordial, dyed yellow with a toxic food dye; the other had an even more dangerous craving for petrol fumes. In both cases the child was poisoned, resulting in acute chemical sensitivity and hyperactivity. Both babies "kicked their mother to pieces in the womb." If an unborn baby is hyperactive, switch at once to the Feingold low−additive programme. Better still switch to the Feingold programme before conception. The best time to start feeding a baby right, is several years before it is born. This applies to fathers too, since they provide half the baby's genes. Introducing solid foods to an allergic or potentially allergic infant, I have seen advice by professionals, to the effect that a baby has to learn to tolerate solid foods; the inference being that the mother needs to teach this to the baby; if the baby rejects a food, it is suggested that the mother disguise it with something the baby likes and will accept. A baby's palate is infinitely more sensitive and acute than an adult's, and probably nature tells them what will or will not be good for them. In this case, it would be better to wait a while and then try the food again. Do not ever tempt or persuade or force a young child to eat something that is disliked. Reluctance to eat a food may indicate nausea, ie. the first stage of stress. If you overcome that reluctance, the child will enter the second stage, the adaptive stage of tolerance, in which the adrenal glands work overtime to cope with the food. As they become exhausted and weaken, the person needs more and more of the allergic food, to stimulate the failing glands, and get a feeling of well−being. So you get allergic or hyperactive children with very limited diets; they will eat almost nothing but their favourite foods, which usually include sausages, tomato sauce, beans/spaghetti in tomato sauce, icecream. These are probably the foods that are causing the problems.

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A book recommended by La Leche League, "Mothering your Nursing Toddler" suggests that children plagued by allergies may instinctively refuse solid foods until they are older. If a breastfed baby is healthy and gaining weight, maybe one should see the delay in accepting solids as nature's way of protecting an allergic child. Here is an example from childhood, of the sequence of nausea, tolerance and addiction. At the age of seven, I spent a week with some cousins. We went mushrooming, and came home with buckets of beautiful mushrooms. It seemed to me that we had mushrooms for breakfast, dinner and tea. I had never tasted them before, and they made me feel acutely nauseated. The cousins said, "Go on, eat them; everybody likes mushrooms; they are an acquired taste." So I struggled to acquire the taste, and in due time they were no longer nauseating; in fact, I became very fond of them. When they were in season in February, my mother would cook my favourite breakfast of mushrooms and tomato on toast. February was also the month when my eczema was at its worst, and one itchy morning I wondered if my breakfast had anything to do with it. A last thought: Most food allergies will moderate in time if the food is avoided. But William Philpott, well known American allergist, says never use a food that has previously been allergic, more often than once in five days. Once a week is easier to keep track of. If using the food re−awakens a craving for it, it would be better to avoid it altogether. Further information about allergy

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson FOOD DYES AND OTHER ADDITIVES Many thousands of women throughout the world have found that their children behave better, learn better, are healthier and happier, when artificial colours, preservatives and flavours are removed from their food. Learn how to avoid the unnatural by reading all labels thoroughly, finding out what is contained the numbers given on labels. (There are books available). Find out how many natural ingredients are in sweets, food colourings and flavourings, cordials, soft and powered drinks and if they contain caffeine. These are the main culprits. This evidence has been dismissed by many professional people as anecdotal. Anecdotal means not published, from two Greek words, "an" meaning not and "ecdota" to do with publishing. A woman who can change her shopping, cooking, and the eating habits of herself and her family, and by doing so change an intractable trouble−maker into a co−operative, well behaved, peaceful and happy child, is intelligent. The observations of intelligent people are valuable, even though they do not have access to being published in professional journals. The human race is thought to be several million of years old. 90% of human beings who have lived on earth, have had to hunt and gather their food. Only 6% have been farmers growing their own food. Only 4% have lived as we do, buying food in shops. Our bodies are programmed to thrive on wild food, or food that is as near as possible to wild food. We are not programmed to thrive on manufactured food, loaded with foreign chemicals. Manufactured food is a misnomer. Food cannot be manufactured. To be useful to the human body, food has to grow. The human body is an incredibly intricate and complex electro−chemical machine, imbued by spirit. Everything that happens inside our skin does so chemically or electrically. There are trillions of chemical changes going on every fraction of a second. We are not aware of them because they are controlled unconsciously by the autonomic nervous system. Disease is caused by excessive stress, more than the body has resources to cope with. We are aware of mental and emotional stress, because they occur in the conscious mind. We are not aware of chemical stress because it usually occurs without the awareness of our conscious mind. The body needs and wants the chemicals it is made of, for repair and maintenance. It does not need or want any others; if we ingest foreign chemicals it has the stress of getting rid of them. If it cannot get rid of them the stress is even greater. There has been a chemical revolution in the last fifty years; thousands of new chemicals have been invented that did not exist on earth before. Many are made from petroleum, itself a poison. Once a chemical is invented, there is pressure from the makers to sell it. Foreign chemicals have invaded food, air and water. We toss them into our mouths with the gay abandon of children tossing pebbles in the water. Our bodies are programmed like a computer, but far more intricately than any invented by man. And they are programmed chemically, not electronically. Our chemical programming was done millions of years ago, when the race was being evolved, when we lived on wild food. Foreign chemicals must interfere with this programming and cause imperfections and loss of efficiency. The chemistry of the human body is a new science; what is known is only a scratch on the surface compared with what is not known. A doctor said that less than 3% of the chemistry of the human body is understood. The report of the Health Department s Task Force on Nutrition said or implied that food additives are safe because they are allowed and controlled by the Department. How can we regard a chemical as safe, when 97% of our chemistry is not understood? And when there is very little research on the effect of additives on the nervous system. The commonest additive by far is artificial flavours. They are invented by highly paid chemists whose work is top secret. They are known to contain many ingredients, but what the ingredients are is not known; therefore there is little or no research done on them, and there is no control over them in our regulations.

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There has been some research on the effect of food colours on the nervous system. Augustine &Levitan (1) working with nerve and muscle cells, found that food dyes make permanent or temporary changes in cell walls. Dyes, including the red dye erythrosine, reduce the ability of nerves and muscles to respond to signals from other nerves; at the same time they greatly increase the intensity of signals sent from nerves to muscles. Erythrosine crosses the brain barrier to enter the brain. It interferes with neuro−transmitters which are essential for all thought processes (Augustine &Levitan (2); Lafferman &Silbergeld (3). Shaywitz (4) showed that a mixture of colours commonly used in food, reduced learning ability in baby rats. Egger (5) found that tartrazine yellow dye was the most likely of all the substances he tested, to provoke hyperactivity reactions in children. It is also known to provoke asthma, which is tragically common in New Zealand children. We use colours in New Zealand that are banned in USA because they cause cancer. When an asthma attack presents, find out what the person has been drinking or eating before. Keep a record for a while. Once it was a disease of old age; now children get it. Scandinavian countries do not allow artificial colours in human foods. They have a good record for child health and welfare. A Swedish correspondent said in a letter "Artificial colours are allowed in preparations for rats!" I had a letter from Alexander Schauss, author of "Diet, Crime and Delinquency". He is the director of the American Institute for Bio−Social Research, and operates a clinic for treating disturbed young people and offenders by improving nutrition. This includes reducing artificial dyes and flavours. Schauss described a recent visit from a good looking young man doing very well at university and athletics. At the age of 9 he tried to kill a school mate and was treated by Schauss. He had come to Schauss to thank him. He said that his intervention had prevented many people being harmed. As a child he used to fantasize hurting, maiming and killing people. "Each time I tried to hurt someone, I tried to hurt them harder, like I wanted them to die. I know that if Schauss had not found out what was wrong with me, I would have killed someone before I was 11 or 12." I believe that most criminals and many violent criminals start life as disturbed children. Their basic problem is that they are allergic and sensitive to foods and chemicals. They cannot tolerate foods containing artificial dyes, preservatives and flavours which damage their emotions, behaviour and learning ability. Without nutritional help in childhood, they grow up unhappy loners, subject to uncontrollable rages and consequent violence. Most sick children receive love and consolation. An unruly hyperactive child receives hatred and rejection. David Gray of Aramoana was a man of this type. His school teacher said, "When I was told that the man responsible had been in my class, I knew at once who it would be. He was not a naughty child; just very fidgety and a terrible nuisance." This is a typical picture of a hyperactive child, constantly tormented by foreign chemicals including food dyes found in everyday food. But with the Feingold low−additive, low−salicylate programme which removes artificial dyes, preservatives and flavours, thousands of these children have been rescued from the torment and have grown up to be first class citizens. An adult woman described the effect of a food dye on her nervous system. She would experience a constellation of symptoms lasting several hours. "Feeling uptight; tenseness of the scalp; feeling veins and arteries popping out from the skin; coughing; dry heaves; and a crawling and itchy feeling in the skin, but without a rash." No wonder food colours make children irritable and interfere with their concentration and attention! A child could feel similar or even more intense effects, but not have the fluency or the vocabulary to describe his feelings. Or a child who had had these feelings all his life, might not know they were unusual. A boy who "came right" with the Feingold programme, said, "I never knew how bad I felt, till now, when I know what it feels like to feel good." A science graduate described three kinds of reaction from food or food chemicals he was sensitive to: "(1) A feeling as if acid had been poured over my brain; an uncomfortable feeling as if some chemical was irritating my brain, (2) My brain keeps thinking as if driven; a problem when I am trying to relax or sleep. On one occasion I felt as if the rest of my body was being driven too. I felt as if I had to run or fight to use up 10

whatever was driving me. Running is more peaceful. (3) At a lecture I hear for a while and understand what is being said. And then I do not know what is being said. All I can hear is like a mumbling that tells me that the lecturer is still speaking." About 1979 I was trying to interest a paediatrician in using the Feingold low additive, low salicylate programme to help disturbed children. He said, "You know it's all a lot of poppycock, don t you." Since it was the International Year of the Child, I thought professionals should listen to what children themselves said about their feelings, and collected two pages of their remarks about the Feingold programme. The recurring theme was happiness. A teenager who stuck to the programme for a year, said, "This has been the happiest year of my life." Other children said things like, "I feel so much better now;" "I don t feel angry inside any more;" "My head feels quieter; it's stopped fizzing;" "I don t get those awful noises in the head any more;" "I don t get those awful nightmares now;" "I just feel happy all the time now." A pre−schooler said, "I had a motor inside me, and it would not stop even when I wanted it to because I was tired. It has stopped now, and I feel pink, and still; before I always felt black." An 8 year old wrote, "Now I am on the diet, I feel quiet. I feel light and do not want to fight." A teenager said, "Mum, I don't know what you have been doing to the food, but I feel a lot better; I think I will go on that diet properly." An adult said, "I realise now that I have been struggling against hyperactivity all my life." Have you ever considered what it must feel like to be hyperactive? To live in a perpetual nightmare of distorted perceptions and sensations, distorted feelings and emotions, distorted action and behaviour; a nightmare that goes on and on; year in, year out, unless the child is one of the lucky minority who are released from it by improved nutrition. American research indicates that 15% of the population suffers from chemical sensitivity in one form or another. It is caused by chemical trauma, and is now officially recognised as a disability. The massive Kellogg report of 1990, estimates that 15% of American school children are hyperactive or learning disabled. The estimate 15 years ago was that 5% of American children, over a million, were being given drugs to sit still in school. This shows how the problem is growing. In New Zealand, the psychologist Dr Phil Silva said in 1991 that 15% of the 1,000 children in his longitudinal study are disturbed. The Christchurch psychologist, John Church, estimates that there are about 13,000 severely disturbed children in New Zealand schools. Feingold said, "They are not abnormal children, they are normal children living on abnormal food." An Auckland allergist said, "Anyone who denies the link between food and behaviour, denies children the chance to show their true potential." Severely disturbed children can grow into dangerous adults. With eleven murders in the first three weeks of January 1992, and 116 homicides in the first six months of 1991, we should be thinking of ways to make our nation's food safer for children so that they do not grow up to be murderers. It would be a good time to follow the Scandinavian lead and take all artificial dyes out of human food. Sweden does not allow artificial colours in human food. They have 2 1/2 times as many people as we do, but only half as many disturbed children, and only half as many homicides. (Sadly, in 1996 Sweden is being forced to accept colours, to comply with Common Market rules.) REFERENCES 1. G J Augustine &H Levitan: Effects of Erythrosin B (erythrosine) on neuromuscular transmission in the frog. Annual Meeting Society Neuroscience 6 Toronto, pages 708, 1013 2. G J Augustine &H Levitan: Neurotransmitter release from a vertebrate neuromuscular synapse affected by a food dye. Science V 207, 28/3/80 page 1489

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3. J Lafferman and E Silbergeld: Erythrosin B inhibits dopamine transport in rat caudate synaptosomes. Science V 205 27/7/79 page 4. B A Shaywitz &Others: Effects of chronic administration of food colourings on activity levels and cognitive performance in normal and hyperactive developing rat pups. Annals of Neurology V 4 No 2 August 1978 5. J Eggers &Others: Controlled trial of oligoantigenic (low allergen) treatment in the hyperkinetic syndrome: Lancet 9/3/85 page 54

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson SECTION 2: DIET CONTROL AND THE FEINGOLD PROGRAMME • Summer school for Keri and me By Hellyn Jordan • Chemically sensitive children • What is wrong with our food • The Feingold good temper &behaviour nutrition programme • Foods to avoid • Good and bad food • Safe, low−allergen foods • Baking hints for low−allergen cooks • Pure water is the best drink • Fluoride • Benefits of the Feingold programme • 107 symptoms that improve with diet control

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson SUMMER SCHOOL FOR KERI AND ME By Hellyn Jordan (condensed from an article in "Pure Facts", newsletter of the Feingold Association of the United States) Keri is Hellyn Jordan's 9 year old grand−daughter. She has Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and learning disability. She is bright at maths but there seemed to be a mental block where reading was concerned. She skipped words, reversed them, laboured over every word until she lost the meaning. As a result, all subjects suffered progressively to the point of frustration for her bright little mind. (This can happen with sufferers of ME (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome although maths would suffer as well). She was to have a reading tutor in the summer holidays, and the grandmother volunteered. It meant a shift of 200 miles, but her husband was agreeable, also her son−in−law; and Keri and her mother were delighted. So grandmother began her homework on how to teach reading. She also read books on ADD and the hyperactive child, and how to cope with their learning difficulties. Diet was mentioned frequently as a possible causative factor. A week before she had to leave, she heard of the Feingold Association, who gave her the Feingold programme. She realised that she could initiate the diet, as well as tutoring Keri in reading; and by the time she came home, the parents would be adjusted to the different way of eating and could continue it. They began the reading sessions on a Monday, and the programme two days later. This is how the grandmother describes their progress. One day in the first week, Keri became so frustrated that she banged her fists, stomped her feet, shook her head, and through clenched fists, said, "I can see the words, but I just cannot make them come out!" Another day I looked down at her sitting beside me, and saw a tear run down her face while she was reading; she was still trying to slay that dragon. In a few minutes she burst into tears and cried, "Grandmother, my mind just won't let me do it right!" We sat there wrapped in each others arms and cried. Daily we seemed to see her calming down, and she was a real trouper about eating correctly. On Monday, only the sixth day on the Feingold diet, she read a short chapter in her reader without stumbling. The tears that day were tears of joy! Not every day since has been as good, but I could relate numerous incidents that show beyond a shadow of doubt that the change in our nine year old is diet−related. She has a long way to go to reach her grade level in reading, but we have found the key to calming that little mind so that it can catch up.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson CHEMICALLY SENSITIVE CHILDREN Many young children are sensitive to synthetic chemicals in modern food, and react to them with disturbed behaviour, and many other problems; such as sleeplessness and nightmares, over−activity, crying, temper tantrums, bed wetting, excessive thirst, eye trouble, poor coordination, inability to pay attention, learning problems, compulsive behaviour (including compulsive fire lighting) and many other problems. There is a programme that helps these children by excluding chemicals; it is called the Feingold programme. It is described in a book called "Why Your Child is Hyperactive" by Dr. Benjamin Feingold (Random House USA, 1975). This is available from public libraries, and many people have used the programme successfully, merely by reading the book. The Feingold programme excludes two groups of foods: 1) Those containing artificial colours, flavours and anti−oxidant preservatives. These are excluded permanently. 2) Fruits and vegetables containing a natural preservative called salicylate. These are excluded for six weeks as a trial, and then tested to see if the child can tolerate any of the salicylate fruits or vegetables. In the trial period, all fruits except pear, pawpaw, banana, lemon juice are excluded. Only four vegetables are excluded: tomatoes, cucumber, green and red peppers and mint. After the trial period, a fruit is tested by giving a piece. Only one fruit or vegetable is tested in a week. If there is no reaction, this probably means that the child can tolerate that fruit in small quantities, if it is not eaten too frequently. People often ask, "How do you know if a child is hyperactive?" A psychologist said, "I count the number of minutes it takes me to tidy up my office afterwards." Personally I think it is important not to label a child. Many of these chemically sensitive children, particularly girls, are not hyperactive, but the opposite; withdrawn, lethargic and weepy; but they have the same irritability, temper tantrums, poor concentration and learning problems. If a child is difficult to manage, he/she may be one of these chemically sensitive children; and if so, eliminating chemicals may help the child; it is worthwhile giving the diet a careful trial. If it works, that is in itself a diagnosis. The diet does not cure every hyperactive child, but it helps very many, and it helps many normal children to be brighter also. An American school teacher of 22 grade 2 children, persuaded their parents to put all the children on the Feingold programme for two weeks. She said that by the end of these two weeks, the whole atmosphere of the class had changed. The children were more friendly and less quarrelsome, the rowdy ones were quieter, and the very withdrawn ones came out of their shell, and all were easier to teach, and more diligent in their work. And a little boy in Wellington said after a week on the programme, "Gee Mum, I do feel nice inside now". The Feingold programme is a healthy diet; when it is used in a family, other health problems improve in both the hyperactive child and in other children. It is an excellent first step in treating any disturbed child, but it is only a first step. If it is unsuccessful, or only partially successful in improving behaviour, one should look further to try to identify other substances that the child may be reacting to. Probably the most likely culprits are sugar and milk products. American research showed that very young children benefit from the Feingold programme more quickly and more completely than older children do. After a week on the programme, a Wellington mother said, "We had this terrible screaming three year old, and now suddenly we have the most beautiful little girl living in our house !"

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR FOOD From "The Universe is a Green Dragon; a cosmic creation story" by Brian Swimme, physicist and cosmologist, published by Bear &Co., Santa Fe, New Mexico. Our relationship toward food is simply wrong. Instead of eating the natural foods Earth has created over eons of subtle experimentation, we stuff ourselves with fake junk put out by multinationals with less knowledge of the Earth than could be stuffed into an empty peanut shell, resulting in cancer, heart disease, and all the needless suffering associated with folly. We need to realize that, from a biological point of view, eating is remembering. Why? Because food is rich in the information our bodies need. Through hundreds of millions of years, life forms learned to feed on each other. This means more than supplying fuel. It means supplying the informed sequences of molecules, and amino acids required for our development. Our bodies wait for, expect a particular spectrum of foods. Not just anything will do. Particular molecular compounds are required, those that were fashioned by the millions of years of creative experimentation. Youth "But how is eating remembering?" Thomas "Many of our physiological patterns of activity depend on certain complex chemicals provided by natural foods. The physiological processes are the way the body remembers its ancestral heritage, and this heritage insists on particular natural foods for its remembering. When you eat grains, legumes and good, fresh meat and vegetables, you enable your body to remember its powers." "It is similar to what happens when you leaf through an old photo album. The pictures key in all sorts of memories, and you are flooded with the past coming alive within you. That's what eating is like. The foods enable patterns of activity to start up. If we understood that food was memory, we would stop our miserable eating habits." DON'T LET GET−RICH−QUICK MONEY−MAKERS MAKE A SUCKER OUT OF YOU It has been said that the quickest way to make money is to cater for a vice. A vice is a tool for holding a piece of wood or metal firmly while the carpenter or metalworker does what he wants with it. Or a vice is a habit that holds a person firmly while the money maker does what he wants; i.e. extracts money from the person, daily, weekly, monthly, for year after year. Examples: tea, coffee, alcohol, Coke habits, tobacco, drugs, added caffeine, soft drinks, sugar and sugary foods, chocolate, candy bars, cream buns and cakes, drug habit, glue habit. All of these become habits through addiction. An addiction forms when we take something into the body that is poisonous to it. The body is stimulated by the poison to get rid of it, and the stimulation feels good because one of the elements in the stimulation is temporarily to pour adrenalin into the blood, which raises the blood glucose. This effect is temporary and is followed by a low sugar level which makes people feel tired, depressed, irritable; so they go back for the fix that made them feel good and bingo! Up goes the sugar level and an addiction is set in train. A bad habit can be overcome with faith and courage. If you want to be strong, consider the kauri tree; it is the strongest tree in the forest. Rata cannot smother it because it sheds its bark every year. If you want to be strong, shed a bad habit every year! To help yourself, say "I am an eternal, everlasting non smoker," (or non cake and biscuit eater, or whatever). Sooner or later it will come true. If your children see that you value mental, physical and spiritual health and wholeness, enough to sacrifice an addiction to achieve them, this will help them to withstand the temptations and addictions of teenage years. For more information about shedding addictions, see page 75.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson THE FEINGOLD GOOD−TEMPER, GOOD−BEHAVIOUR NUTRITION PROGRAMME TO IMPROVE MOOD, HEALTH, BEHAVIOUR, AND LEARNING The Feingold programme is a nutrition programme designed by an American allergy specialist, Dr. Ben Feingold. Feingold found that the programme helped children with behaviour problems and learning difficulties. But actually he came to it through an allergic adult with hives. He treated the hives successfully with this programme and the woman simultaneously recovered from emotional disturbance and aggressive behaviour. This first gave Feingold the clue that emotional and behaviour problems are linked with food sensitivity. The Feingold programme is an anti−stress nutrition programme. It reduces physical stress. The human body copes with both physical and mental stress in the same way, by producing hormones to help the body adapt to the stress. If excessive stress makes too great a demand on the coping glands, (adrenal glands) they weaken and fail. In our society there are many anxieties and emotional stresses, and most people have few techniques for dealing with them. But if we can lighten our physical stress load, our adrenal glands will have better resources for coping with mental and emotional stress. The Feingold programme reduces physical stress by reducing the quantity of food additives. These are chemicals, often toxic, added to food to preserve it or to make the manufacturing process more convenient or profitable for the manufacturer. The Health Department restricts the quantity of additives than can be added to a measured quantity of food. But the total amount of the poisons that we eat, depends on how much processed food we consume. Many food additives are petrol derivatives. The chemical revolution of the last 50 years has been based on the discovery of how to turn petroleum into new chemicals that never existed on earth before. Our bodies do not want new chemicals; they only want the original chemicals needed for life and growth; anything else is toxic and causes stress. People living in cities get more than enough petro−chemicals in their blood by breathing motor car exhaust fumes, and have difficulty in coping with others in their food. But in any case, most people will meet with some emotional crisis at some stage of life. For children it often comes with adolescence. Why not eliminate food toxins and conserve our coping resources for the time when they will be needed? We can do this by using the Feingold programme. HOW TO USE THE FEINGOLD NUTRITION PROGRAMME SUCCESSFULLY When our association started in 1977, there were thought to be over a million American children being given drugs to sit still in school. Feingold said, "They are not abnormal children; they are normal children living on abnormal foods". He meant that much of the food sold in dairies and supermarkets at the end of the 20th century, is not fit for human children to eat; it is too loaded with chemicals. Feingold wanted to make things easy for mothers. He said "If you will cut out the four commonest poisons from your children's food, you will benefit them greatly". Two are artificial food dyes, and artificial flavours. Artificial flavours are by far the commonest food additives, found in almost every processed food. Thousands of chemicals are used in flavours; the recipes are top−secret; the ingredients are not known and there are no regulations controlling their use. The third item is anti−oxidant preservative used to preserve fats and oils. Most preservatives are toxic, but this is a particularly harmful one; it blocks the use of valuable essential fatty acids in the body. Oil sold in supermarkets will say on the label, "contains anti−oxidant". If you want to use oil, buy cold pressed oil in a health shop; it does not contain anti−oxidant. It is better not to fry in oil; heating oil to high temperatures makes it cancer−producing. A smear of dripping in the pan is better. Margarine probably contains antioxidant 17

as it as made from oil. The fourth poison often surprises people; it is a natural preservative found in fruit, called salicylic acid, or salicylate. The human race has lived on fruits for so many millions of years, that our bodies have found a way to get rid of this toxin by washing it out in the urine. But allergic children and adults do not seem to do this efficiently; it stays longer in the body and accumulates; when it accumulates one can see how toxic it is; it affects the skin causing rashes; and it can affect the central nervous system, making children irritable, aggressive. In children it causes overactivity, sleeplessness, bedwetting. It can also cause headache, or swollen and painful joints. Salicylate−sensitive people should not drink fruit juices, even pure ones. Feingold said, "Eliminate food colours, flavours and anti−oxidants from your children's food permanently; never use them again." He did not want to deprive children of fruit permanently, so he said, "Use only the low salicylate fruits for 4 to 6 weeks". These are pears, bananas, pawpaw, lemon juice. When the child has calmed down, test the other fruits; each week try one fruit to see if it is tolerated. If the child reacts with a return of symptoms, you know not to use it. If not, it can be considered safe and used in moderation. Remember that you can get a reaction from an accumulation or build up of salicylate from various fruits. Berries and stone fruit are high in salicylate, but they are usually only eaten in summer. If you eat strawberries in December and get a rash, you know that you are allergic or sensitive to strawberries, probably the salicylate in strawberries. Other high salicylate fruits are apples, oranges, tomatoes, and grapes, raisins, sultanas, currants. These are eaten all the year round, so if they cause symptoms, the link between the fruits and the symptoms is less likely to be recognised. Australian research shows that apples vary in their salicylate content; golden delicious and red delicious are lower; grannysmith apples are high. People sensitive to salicylate should peel fruit as it is concentrated below the skin. For further information about salicylate see Appendices, page 72. Feingold died in 1982. Since then a lot of information has come out about Candida (thrush). This is an unrecognised epidemic today. Most women who contact me say that they have had thrush. It starts in babies, who can be infected in the birth canal. I read once, that a baby is born with its interior completely sterile, but within a few hours, it will have millions of living organisms inside. Most are beneficial; they are "intestinal flora" which help to digest food and make vitamins for us. A doctor said, "The first thing that goes into a baby's mouth should be the mother's nipple, to establish the right organisms in the gut." Everybody has some thrush in the intestines, and it is harmless in small quantities. But if it proliferates, it produces toxins that are harmful; they damage and weaken the immune system; they cause allergy and chemical sensitivity, and make people tired and irritable. Thrush overgrowth causes digestive and bowel problems; it is probably common in both children and men as well as women. In women it also spreads to the vagina. Antibiotics favour thrush overgrowth because they kill all the bacteria in the bowel, good as well as bad. Thrush is not killed because it is a fungal organism and not affected by most antibiotics. After antibiotics it has no antagonists or competitors, plenty of room to grow, a comfortable environment, and plenty of food; because the food it likes best is sugar and modern diet gives it plenty of that. So it proliferates rapidly. Because its poisons weaken the immune system, children get infections; especially ear infection and chest infection; they are given antibiotics which give the thrush another boost; so it is a vicious circle. The result of bowel thrush is so devastating to a child's health and personality, that it pays to remove from the diet, all sugar, honey and sweet foods that feed thrush. A sugar free Feingold programme will improve most health and behaviour problems.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson FOODS ETC. TO AVOID If you wish to improve health and/or behaviour by an elimination diet, begin by eliminating the foods that are most useless and harmful. These foods are those containing artificial colouring, flavouring and antioxidants (some preservatives) and caffeine (read labels). All forms of sugar All forms of confectionery: sweets, lollies, chocolate, icecream, iceblocks, chewing gum, cordials, powdered i.e soda stream and soft drinks. Shop bought cakes and biscuits. They have some sort of additive that can sometimes set off asthma attacks. Processed meats and fish: sausages, salami, luncheon sausage, bacon, ham, saveloys, corned beef, smoked fish, fish fingers, commercial stuffing, commercial fried chicken, shop bought meat loaf. Instant packet mixes: instant mix soups, drinks, cordials, cakes, puddings, packet jellies, custard powder, gravy mixes, meat cubes, instant mix sauces. Most rely heavily on artificial flavourings. Margarine: also processed cheeses or any containing colour/flavouring. There are a few other items to be avoided, usually because they contain artificial colour, flavouring or salicylates. 1. Drinks: Tea, coffee, diet drinks, beer, cider, wine, cider and wine vinegar. 2. Sauces: Soy, tomato, Worcester, chilli, etc. 3. Four vegetables are high in salicylate: tomatoes, cucumber, peppers (green and red); also mint. The first three are actually fruits. 4. Almonds are high in salicylate. 5. Medications: Aspirin (the active ingredient is acetyl−salicylic acid); cough drops, mixtures or pastilles; antacid tablets; alka seltzer; children's medications and vitamin or mineral syrups that contain colour or flavouring. Check for alcohol content. 6. Toothpaste, unless additive free. 7. Some people cannot tolerate dairy products, and good results may not be obtained till these are excluded from the diet. Lastly, if you are trying an elimination diet low in chemicals, remember to protect your children and yourself from chemical smells. These go into the bloodstream more quickly than food chemicals. Harmful airborne chemicals include: 1. Chemical cleaners, particularly sprays; oven cleaners 2. Petrol fumes and petrol exhaust fumes 3. All forms of smoke, including cigarette smoke

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4. All perfumes, including cosmetics, scented soap, scented shampoos 5. All sprays; hair spray, fly spray 6. Coal gas, natural gas, LPG gas; avoid gas heaters 7. Chemical based felt pens and whiteboard markers 8. Volatile solvents used in glues, paints, house paints and school handcraft materials 9. Detergent and scented washing up liquids (detergent is made from petroleum and is poisonous itself; better to use Sunlight soap for washing up) 10.Chlorine in swimming pools affects some ADD/ADHD children very badly. There are chlorine free products available. Baking soda antidote may help; otherwise swim in the sea or safe rivers if possible. SUBSTITUTES The following substitutes or alternatives may help people using the above low−additive, low−salicylate programme: Sausages: Some butchers are willing to make additive−free sausages using only meat, wholemeal or alternative flour, salt and pepper. Ask your own butcher; (it may help to provide the salted flour). Remember that additive−free sausages have no preservative and must be kept in the fridge or freezer. Source chemical and organic products ie meat, eggs and vegetables where possible. Growing organic vegetables is a good workout and so rewarding. It is better to have a few holes nibbled by vegetarians (ie snails and slugs) than to have poisonous sprays to try and wash off. Sauces: Rhubarb relish is easily made, and delicious with meat or cheese. Soak half a cup of sago in a cup of water. Cook rhubarb in the usual way, and when it comes to the boil, add the sago and cook for a few minutes till the sago is clear. Sweeten with a little sugar if necessary. Sago reduces the sourness and rhubarb is moderate in salicylate. The recipe can also be made with acid fruits such as plums or gooseberries if these are tolerated, and used as a dessert. It will keep in the fridge for about ten days, or can be sealed in preserving jars. Medications: Often a pharmacist will help a child who must avoid colour and flavouring, by giving a white powder from an adult capsule, instead of the same medication in a child's coloured and flavoured tablet. Antacid: Use the sodium and potassium bicarbonate mixture mentioned below. Toothpaste: There are some available that have no flavour, colour or fluoride. However salted water is a good alternative, recommended by school dental nurses in the depression years. I heard of two dentists who disapproved of toothpaste; one said that brushing is what cleans the teeth; the other thought that the abrasive in toothpaste can damage the enamel. Cow's milk: Alternatives are water, home−made soy milk/tofu, goat or sheep's milk/cheese/yoghurt, Pritiken Whey milk from Alfa (Alpha?) Foods, Box 331 044, Takapuna, Auckland (ask them for a contact person in your area). Milk can also be made by liquidising nuts, or sunflower or sesame seeds in water. Dilute to required consistency and strain. Those allergic to only the sugar in milk (lactose) may be able to tolerate acidophilus yoghurt, where the lactose has become lactic acid. 20

ADDITIONAL NOTES 1. For good results, the Feingold programme needs to be followed strictly; using it "so−so" does not work. When toxins are eliminated for a week or more, the body becomes sensitive to them, and they produce a marked reaction, which may last for three days or so. So breaking the diet only twice a week, may keep a child continuously upset. But if used carefully, the programme improves a child's health. In time his coping resources strengthen and sensitivity moderates. 2. Antidote: A teaspoon of baking soda in a cup of warm water can shorten a reaction, by restoring the body's alkaline balance. Better still, ask a chemist to make this mixture for you: 2 parts of baking soda (soda bicarbonate) to 1 part of potassium bicarbonate. Dosage using a 5 ml teaspoon:− Adults 5 mls, children half a spoonful, under−fives a quarter−spoonful. Dissolve the antidote mixture in a cup of warm water; or else mix it to a paste with a little water, and follow it with a cup of warm water. A 12 year old who didn't like the taste of the above antidote, takes this modification without a murmur: 2 parts of baking soda to 1 part each of calcium carbonate and potassium bicarbonate. Mix 1/2 teaspoon in a little hot water and fill cup with water, (from "Different Kids" by Sue Dengate). The antidote helps many conditions resulting from allergy, if taken early. For example, difficulty in getting to sleep, acute swelling, the first stages of migraine, even tobacco craving (see end of page 76), etc. 3. Withdrawal symptoms: When people stop using a food or another substance that is harmful to them, there may be withdrawal symptoms that make them feel worse for a few days. This also applies to food−sensitive children who stop eating the foods that are upsetting them; their symptoms will probably worsen for three to four days. Before starting the withdrawal programme, get some of the baking soda mixture mentioned above, to help with these few days. Usually by the fifth day the withdrawal symptoms diminish and improvement begins. 4. The Feingold programme is more likely to succeed if the mother can persuade the other family members to help by having the same food. It is easier for her if she only has to produce one menu, and it is easier for the Feingold child if he does not see the others eating what he cannot. It is better not to have any forbidden foods in the house. Our advice is to catch the husband and the other children in a good mood, and talk to each separately and in private. Say things like, "You will benefit because if the Feingold diet succeeds, the difficult child will be much more pleasant to live with." Luckily a sugar free Feingold programme is an extremely beneficial diet, that improves both health and mood, as well as learning ability and behaviour. Where the whole family uses it, other members improve in health and in other ways. Here are some remarks: "The person in our family who improved most, was not my hyperactive son, but my three year old daughter, who was always clinging, whingy and crying." "There has been a wonderful change in my husband, noticeable to everyone including himself!" Another young mother expressed amazement at how much happier all her children were, since she excluded sugar and colourings. Another mother living in Petone, where the water was not fluoridated, said that her hyperactive son had a mouthful of cavities in his first teeth. She used the Feingold programme from the time he was five, and none of the children have cavities in their second teeth. Tooth decay is the first warning sign of poor nutrition and some of the additional problems are cola drinks and any sweets held in the mouth for some time. A WORD FOR GRANDPARENTS AND CAREGIVERS It is a great help if a mother can gain the co−operation of other people who may be feeding her child. There are some wonderful grandparents, concerned about the problems of a beloved child; often they are the first to approach us for help, and then there are those who say, "A little bit of this or that won't hurt". But in acutely sensitive hyperactive children, especially if they have other serious allergic problems, such as epilepsy or asthma, a little bit of an offending substance may do a great deal of harm. They should ask their grandchildren's parents what their grandchildren are allowed to have and not deviate. I have heard a granny saying to a child, "your mother would kill me if she knew I was giving you this". Give your child a note of what they should not eat to hand to hosts of birthday parties and caregivers (which include relations) and ask 21

them to respect the request as the child could become ill. When a toxic food is eaten daily, there will be more adrenalin in the blood to cope with it. If one stops eating it, after five days all traces of it will leave the body. The struggling adrenal glands then take a rest to recuperate. The next time the food is eaten, there is no adrenalin waiting in the blood, and one will see how harmful the thing really is, because there will be an acute reaction; a return of previous symptoms in enhanced form. In due time, as the child improves in health and becomes more robust, this acute sensitivity moderates. FOOD TESTING FOR ASTHMATICS AND OTHERS Eliminating a toxin such as salicylate for a week or more, and then giving it as a test, can produce a bad reaction if the person is sensitive to it. For a person with asthma, the reaction might be an asthmatic attack. For this reason asthmatics should only do food testing with the supervision of a doctor. This also applies to a person whose allergic reaction may be acute swelling. Similarly people suffering from acute depression should only test for allergic foods if there is a loving and supportive person in the house with them. A reaction could make the patient feel suicidal. People with epilepsy should not do challenge testing. However, in many cases seizures can be reduced if allergic foods/substances are identified and removed. There are three other easier and safe ways to identify allergies; the pendulum, the pulse test, and the muscle test. Most health stores have booklets on these methods.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson GOOD AND BAD FOOD Dr. Marshall Mandell, the famous allergist, said that he had never met a child who wanted to be bad. "Every child who has entered my office with what I call "cerebral allergy" has been a child who, when not reacting, wanted to please, wanted to do well, wanted to be accepted." People and children often do not know that every human thought and action (possibly pain)is made out of food. This is an astonishing miracle; that a plate of food is changed in the body into a violin solo, a song, a poem, a try in a rugby game, a quarrel, a fight that destroys a marriage or friendship, or a kindness that heals one. All these are made out of food. Good food has good results; bad food the opposite. If I were talking to children I would say: "Do you want to be popular? Do you want other kids to like and enjoy your company? Do you want to be near the top of the class instead of the bottom? Do you want the teacher to stop being angry with you? Do you want your mother and father to like you? Do you want to have a better appearance? Do you want to be well instead of sick. Less colds, flu, earache, asthma, eczema, acne, headaches or leg aches? Do you want to improve at sports, and games? Do you want to succeed in life, do well and earn good money?" Your body will reward you with all these things, if you will just do one thing for your body, that is to give it the best food instead of the worst. If you want to be well, happy, and successful, you have to give your body good fuel; the best kind of food instead of the worst. Everybody knows that the worst food can be made to taste nice by putting sugar and artificial flavouring in it; and that people like to eat this kind of food. Manufacturers are very clever at inventing things that taste nice, so that people will give them money in exchange for a nice taste. But this is poor exchange; this nice taste is only in your mouth for a minute while you are eating the food; it is lost when you swallow it as it contains very little if any, nutrition. Whereas the advantages of eating good−quality foods are of permanent benefit. They benefit you all your life! Always remember that your body is the most valuable thing you will ever own; even if you grow up to be a millionaire with a yacht and a private aeroplane, you will never have anything as valuable as your own body and good health. Take care of it! SAFE FOODS FOR ALLERGIC AND CHEMICALLY SENSITIVE CHILDREN AND ADULTS A famous doctor two hundred years ago said, "The two best physicians are simple food and pure water". This is still true today, when pure water is rare and requires an expensive water purifier; and simple food is totally out of fashion. It has been estimated that 90% of all the human race who have ever lived on earth, have had to hunt or gather their food. Only 6% have been farmers growing their own food; only 4% have lived as we do buying their food in shops. The human race is probably millions of years old. It is programmed to thrive on the foods that were available when it was being created; these were probably leaves and fruits (berries, seeds, nuts), roots, the flesh of birds, fish and small animals, and water to drink. It is not programmed to thrive on the commercial food of the 1990's. Eva Hill, a New Zealand doctor who specialised in curing terminal cancer with raw energy diet, said, "Eat your food as God made it; not as man mucks about with it. The safest foods are those that most closely resemble wild food. The following foods are low allergen (unlikely to be allergic) and also provide a very healthy diet.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson SAFE, LOW−ALLERGEN FOODS Fresh meat, fish and free range chicken and eggs. Plenty of fresh vegetables, both raw and lightly cooked. Organic or home grown are better still. Raw fruit in moderation, eat it whole not juiced. Nuts, seeds and sprouted seeds Home made baked goods using alternative flours available from health shops. Wheat is a common allergen; if it is tolerated use wholemeal flour, but use other flours as well. Avoid sugar in baking. Tasteless white flour requires sugar to flavour it, but whole grain flours have a nutty flavour of their own and do not need added sugar. Tolerated fruits, nuts, sweet vegetables or savoury herbs can be used for flavouring. Use baking soda and cream of tartar for raising, one teaspoon soda to two of cream of tartar. Pure water to drink. If the tap water tastes unpleasant, it will usually be because of chlorine or because of copper from copper water pipes. Chlorine evaporates easily. Boil the water, or run it off into a jug and let it stand for a few hours, preferably over night. Do not drink or cook with water from a hot cylinder. It will contain excess copper. At night, fill a glass jar with water to drink first thing in the morning. Cold water lying all night in copper pipes will contain excess copper. Run tap for a while before using. In 1993, Petone had the purest water in New Zealand, artesian water without added chemicals. There is a big yellow building on the waterfront, the Early Settlers Museum, which has a public tap, (a gardening tap), on the western side facing the Hutt Road. At the Gear Island pump station in Petone, there is another public tap supplying pure, untreated artesian water. Go east, almost to the end of Jackson Street. On the left is the Shandon golf course; on the right a little dirt road leading to the pumping station. These taps will still give pure water if Petone changes to fluoridated water.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson BAKING HINTS FOR LOW−ALLERGEN COOKS (See also recipes) When I learnt cooking at primary school, there were three basic methods: For cakes and biscuits, cream butter and sugar; for pastry and scones, rub butter into the flour; and for sponge cakes, beat eggs and sugar and fold in flour. Low−allergy cooking may have to avoid butter, sugar or eggs. Cold−pressed oil can replace butter or margarine; linseed jelly can replace eggs; sugar can be left out. So how does this affect baking methods? There is one basic method to replace the above methods. Sift all the dry ingredients together: flour(s), salt, baking soda, cream of tartar, and any powdered spices such as ginger, cinnamon, etc. Add things like chopped nuts or dried fruits. Then mix the wet ingredients. Either warm them or mash them in a pot, or whizz them in a liquidiser. Wet ingredients include things like oil, linseed jelly, eggs, whatever liquid is being used, plus fruits, vegetables, seeds, etc. being used for flavouring. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ones and mix. (Note: if using eggs, separate them. Include yolks with wet ingredients. Beat white stiff and fold into the mixture last, for extra lightness. This quick and easy method can be used for any kind of baking by merely adapting the proportion of flour and liquid. For pancakes and pikelets, make the batter wetter and cook in a frypan. For pastry and cracker biscuits, make a drier dough that can be rolled out. For muffins make the dough soft and moist and cook in muffin tins. For loaves and cakes a similar mixture to muffins and cook in tin. For cookies, a slightly drier mixture and cook in spoonfuls on an oven tray. With this method, one can experiment with quantities, and make up one's own recipes. Remember that sugar is a preservative. Keep sugar free cakes in the fridge.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson PURE WATER IS THE BEST DRINK Of all the millions of different kinds of living organisms on earth, every one except man is perfectly satisfied with plain water to quench its thirst. Man is the only one who is foolish enough to insist on his water being flavoured. It must be our early training which leads us to expect flavouring in drinks. Sir Truby King, founder of the Plunket Society, thought mothers should accustom babies to plain water by giving drinks of water between feeds. Excessive thirst is a common symptom of essential fatty acid deficiency and diabetes. It seems to occur in hyperactive children and maybe in allergic children also. This excessive thirst often diminishes with the Feingold diet, which eliminates artificial colours and flavourings, antioxidants, preservatives and natural salicylates found in fruits. Thirst or craving? A point to consider is whether a thirsty child or adult, actually needs fluid or whether his desire to drink is really a craving for an addictive substance. Most of our beverages are addictive. This includes tea, coffee, alcohol, soft and powdered drinks, cordials and caffeine, even milk for those who are allergic to it. Addictive substances increase the total stress load and therefore make allergic symptoms more likely. Water is the safest bet; one cup of water will usually satisfy thirst without setting up a craving for more. Fruit versus fruit juices. Remember that most fruits and green vegetables eaten raw, provide fluid. They are about 90% water. An apple probably contains about a half cup of water. If a child can tolerate a fruit, and has teeth to chew it with, give it to him whole. One of the causes of allergy is a shortage of digestive enzymes. The act of chewing stimulates the flow of digestive enzymes, so those with allergies should do as much chewing as possible. Pure fruit juices are too easy to swallow and too concentrated. They are made for the convenience and profit of producers, rather than for the benefit of consumers. For health the fibre of the fruit is needed with the juice. Possibly tummyaches are caused by lack of fibre, and fruit provides a natural source. A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR DRINKS WHICH MAY HELP It is estimated that about 60% of people who are allergic to cow's milk can take goat's milk. Other alternative milks can be made by liquidising a cup of sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, or some nuts, in a cup of water. Add further water to dilute it, and strain it, if you wish. Pears seem to be low allergen fruit often tolerated by those who react to salicylic acid in other fruits. If pealed pears or bananas are tolerated, make a milkshake by liquidising sesame seeds or nuts, with a pealed pear or banana and water. Meat or vegetable stock, (i.e.. the water they have been cooked in) or a mixture of both, make quite a nice drink either hot or cold. Meat stock is also rather nice frozen. I have often wondered if it could be used for ice blocks. Dr. Feingold, who was an allergy specialist of long experience, thought lemon juice less of a problem than other citrus fruit, and allowed it in his diet. A pleasant drink can be made with hot or cold water, and a very small amount of lemon juice, sweetened with a little honey if required. The less lemon juice used, the less sweetening that is necessary. If your child does not tolerate lemon juice, try replacing it with a pinch of ascorbic acid powder (vitamin C). This is available from a chemist. A small level teaspoonful scraped off level with a knife is approximately 2000 mg. One eighth of a level teaspoon is enough for a cup of water. Ascorbic acid in water is a good drink for a sore throat. Take it every hour till the sore throat has gone.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson FLUORIDE Fluoride probably strengthens the enamel of young children's teeth. But is this a good thing? Max Bircher Benner, a Swiss doctor at the beginning of this century, was the medical officer for two Swiss institutions, a boarding school for children of the wealthy and a Catholic orphanage. In the first the children ate a lot of sweet food, while the children at the orphanage, which was run on a shoestring, ate mostly the produce from the garden, fresh fruit and vegetables with home grown milk, eggs, homemade wholemeal bread and oat porridge, little meat; even the nuns only had meat on Sundays. The wealthy children had the usual ailments, and many cavities. The orphanage children had good health and few cavities. Later Bircher Benner wrote a book entitled "Children's diet". In it, he says that dental decay is the first indication of inadequate and improper diet. If this warning signal is ignored, more serious illness will develop in other parts of the body. Fluoride prevents decay and removes the valuable warning signal. Since it was introduced, children's teeth have improved and their health has deteriorated. We are ashamed of our national statistics for asthma and cot death. A pre−school teacher says eczema is increasing. A primary school principal said that almost all of the five year old new entrants have ear infections. In 1956, before fluoride was used in New Zealand, I was introduced to an academic family with three children who were using fluoride tablets. The mother proudly showed me the children's mouths; not one cavity among the three. But the children had the whitest faces I had ever seen. In those days New Zealand children looked bonny with rosy cheeks, the white cheeks were conspicuous. Today, most New Zealand children have pale faces; it is unusual to see a pink cheeked child. Why does fluoride harden the enamel ? I read this explanation in Penguin "Science News" in the 1950's when there was much discussion about fluoride. Fluoride is so extremely poisonous that the body eliminates about 75% of it in urine within a few hours (provided that the kidneys are working properly). With chemicals it is always difficult to get rid of the last residues. So with fluoride the last residues are shunted away into the safest, most inaccessible place, where they will do the least harm. With children under seven who are growing their second teeth, the enamel is a good place, so that is where the fluoride goes. Here is a story about a New Zealand town. The city council had a majority of under 9,000. Residents took up a petition to have fluoride removed from the water and got 9,000 signatures. They said, "If you do not remove the fluoride, we will vote you out of office." So it was removed. A nurse living there said that babies with eczema began to heal in a fortnight. Lastly, a story about one of our members. When we bought a water purifier, she asked me if she could try some of the water and came twice a week to fill a few flagons. After ten days, she said, "My two and half year old baby has had a stuffed up nose since he was five weeks old. And now after a few days on pure water, it has come unstuffed!" So she bought one herself. People who are well informed on the subject and have the money, are buying water purifiers. The reliable ones cost between $100 and $900, but poor people cannot afford this expense. Rather than the water being poisoned, the right of manufacturers to pressure sell chemical ad sugar loaded foods that destroy children's teeth and health, should be restricted.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson BENEFITS OF THE FEINGOLD PROGRAMME Dr. Patricia Holborow Ph D. and the Queensland Hyperactivity Association, in conjunction with the Psychology Department of the University of Queensland, conducted a survey of 170 families using the Feingold programme for a hyperactive child. The following notes were taken from their report, which was published in the Association's newsletter. There are some very interesting findings. For instance, the report says, "In view of the common impression that hyperactivity should be diagnosed before the Feingold programme is recommended, it was interesting to see that the items showing greatest change, were (in order): effectiveness of punishment, truancy, throws self around, unhappiness, nightmares, inability to fall asleep, gets stiff and rigid, twitches, sets fires." Learning: In the area of learning, reversals in writing and spelling showed most change; then reading difficulty, spelling, maths, and finally untidy writing. Fear of school was reduced, and children were making more progress. 31% of the respondents reported an improved school report. Allergy: 42% of the children had had allergy diagnosed; 65% had allergy in other members of the family. Use of the Programme: 64% said that the whole family uses the Feingold programme, and of these, nearly 60% said that they find the programme either 'very beneficial' or 'quite a lot of benefit'. Health: Health improvements were dramatic. More than a third said they need to see a doctor less often after using the programme. In the following list, the two figures show the percentage of hyperactive children who were ill with the disease as frequently as daily, once a week, or once a fortnight, before and after using the Feingold programme. For example the number of children who had sore throats frequently reduced from 10 to 1, children who had tonsillitis frequently reduced from 7 to 0. Sore throat (10:1) Tonsillitis (7:0) Bronchitis (2:1) Colds (6:0) Flu (1:0) Bed wetting (31:15) Urinary tract infection (2:0) Diarrhoea (10:2) Constipation (13:5) Stomach Pain (24:7) Pain in Legs (13.2) Joint Pain (6:3) Head Ache (15:5) Ear infection ((2:1) Epilepsy (2:1) Twitching (12:5) Eczema (9:8) Fungal infections (2:0) Mouth Ulcers (4:0) Cold sores (2:0) Rash round mouth (10:2) Other rash (8:2) Puffiness or swelling (9:4) A child wrote this letter to Christine Herbert who started the Hyperactivity Association of New South Wales. Dear Christine My mother asked me to drop a line and tell you about the programme. I sincerely think it is fantastic! Before I was on the programme, for fourteen years I have had terrible nightmares, even on one occasion walking out into the street. Also I had it terrible at school. No friends and always being picked on due to my hyperactivity. For the past eight months it's been different, no more nightmares and I now am beginning to make some friends, although I still have to prove to the kids that I am a different person. I feel good in myself and am very grateful to Dr. Feingold.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson 107 SYMPTOMS IMPROVE WITH DIET CONTROL In a questionnaire, Dr. Patricia Holborow PhD. found that 200 of our members were using the Feingold programme, either fully or in part, for their families. Some were also avoiding sugar, milk, and/or wheat. They were using diet control because it helped the following symptoms: Aches and Pains in: stomach, intestine, back, joints, chest, head (migraine), pain over and behind left eye. Respiratory symptoms: feelings of breathlessness, poor lung expansion, asthma (wheezy), catarrh, phlegm, sore throat, tonsillitis, severely damaged throat membranes, bronchitis, chest pains, burning chest, nasal discharge, post−nasal drip, rhinitis, 'sudden outpouring of fluid from nose, eyes, back of throat', hay fever, sneezing, sinusitis, colds and congestion, night cough. Gastro−intestinal symptoms: nausea, vomiting, feeling ill most of the time, bloated feeling, colic, constipation, diarrhoea, passage of mucous, passage of blood, evil smelling wind, pain in stomach, intestinal cramps. Mental symptoms: agoraphobia and other phobias, panic, general unease and anxiety, mental confusion, fatigue and lethargy, depression, inability to concentrate, learning difficulty, poor coordination, dyslexia, shaking, mood swings, illogical, dizziness, memory loss, insomnia, light headedness. Behavioural symptoms: temper outbursts, obstreperous, disobedient, hyperactive, aggressive, cannot stop talking, difficulty making friends, being dishonest. Skin symptoms: dermatitis, hives, eczema, burning lips, dry skin patches, itching, swelling and blisters, red weals, sores on face, ulcers, perspiration, dandruff, tinea. Cardiovascular symptoms: pain around heart, racing heart, palpitations and irregularities, flushes, erratic pulse. General symptoms: cancer with metastases, arthritis, swollen glands, constant infections, ear infections, flu type symptoms, M.E/Chronic Fatigue type symptoms, swollen body and eyes, weight gain, hypoglycaemia, bedwetting, fluid retention, thrush, eyestrain, ulcerated mouth, 'stroke' effect down left hand side, dry vagina, inflamed knees, 'incurable' kidney disease, red face and flushes, weight loss, muscle problems. The following were added to the list of improvements with dietary changes: brighter and happier, more energy, better school reports, better reasoning, calmer, clearer head, better teeth and gums, chronic ear noises stopped, child grew better, child breathed through nose not mouth, better eyesight. To sum up, one person, having recovered from previous poor health, continual tiredness and depression, said "I became myself and began to find strength in me."

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson SECTION 3: THE YEAST CONNECTION • Sugar and thrush (Candida yeast infection) • Low blood sugar (hypoglycaemia) • Case histories showing the effects of thrush

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson SUGAR AND THRUSH (CANDIDA YEAST INFECTION) Candida yeast, thrush, is a normal inhabitant of the bowel, and is harmless in small quantities. But it proliferates in people who take antibiotics and eat a lot of sugar or sweet foods. When it proliferates, it produces enough toxic wastes to be very harmful indeed, as the toxins: 1. weaken the immune system causing susceptibility to ear infections, glue ear, asthma, bladder infections giving a fishy smell etc. 2. damage the skin causing eczema, nappy rash, etc. 3. damage the nervous system leading to disturbed emotions and behaviour 4. disturb the metabolism, leading to gastro−intestinal troubles and also food and chemical sensitivities. Yeast thrives on sugar! Do not ever give children sugar or sweet foods. To do so is a form of child abuse. Ask your public library for a book entitled "The Yeast Connection" by William Crook. Also a little booklet entitled "Yeasts and how they can make you sick" by the same author. CANDIDA YEAST INFECTION Candida is a form of yeast found in human beings. Its common name is thrush, maybe because in the mouth it can cause specks on the tongue like the specks on a thrush's breast. Fifty years ago it was rare. A doctor might see two cases in a year; now he might see five or six in a day. The human gut is inhabited by millions of micro−organisms. Some are beneficial because they make vitamins for us, which are absorbed into the blood. Some are harmless, some are harmful. Everyone has some Candida yeast in the gut; it is harmless in small quantities, but in large quantities it produces enough toxic waste to be very harmful indeed. Micro−organisms multiply very rapidly if the living conditions suit them and there is plenty of food. The food that yeast likes is sugar, and modern people give it plenty of that. Since the 1930's there have been two other factors that favour the development of yeast. One is the contraceptive pill, which favours the growth of Candida. The other is antibiotics which kill beneficial bacteria as well as harmful ones, but do not kill yeast cells because they are not bacteria. So without the competition of bacteria, the yeast flourishes. After antibiotics, one should replace beneficial bacteria with lactobacillus acidophilus. It is found in acidophilus yoghurt, in lactofermented vegetable juice, or in tablet/capsule form sometimes available dairyfree, all available from health shops. The combination of these three things, the pill, antibiotics and sugar, has caused a proliferation of Candida in many people today. Mothers pass it on to babies, and men also suffer from it. It is no good testing a swab from the gut, because everybody has some of it, but proliferation can be suspected in people who have symptoms like fatigue, constant infections, and allergies; who eat a lot of sugar, or have been on long term or broad spectrum antibiotics or immune suppressant drugs (much used these days), or have used the contraceptive pill. Yeasts eat sugar and discharge toxic waste. When Candida proliferates in the body, the toxins increase so much that they can damage the immune system and other systems in the body. When the immune system is damaged people get more infections, take more antibiotics, and so the problem gets worse. When the metabolism is affected, people become very sensitive to foods and foreign chemicals. When the central nervous system is affected, emotional and behaviour problems result.

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What should one do if a Candida problem is suspected? (1) Stop eating sugar in all forms, for at least four months; also foods containing yeast for a trial period. (2) Avoid antibiotics except in life threatening cases. Minor infections heal perfectly well with fasting for one to three days, drinking plenty of water, and taking vitamin C. (3) The medical treatment for Candida is Nystatin. There may be initially a bad reaction to Nystatin when it begins to destroy yeast cells. The dead cells are toxic in the body until it can get rid of them; so one may feel worse before feeling better. This is a good omen, as it means that the Nystatin is having a good effect. It is necessary to persist through the initial setback. People say that if they have established themselves on the sugar free anti−Candida diet before starting Nystatin, the "die−off" reaction is less. A member of our association told me she had a bad start to her Candida treatment. She had withdrawal symptoms when she stopped eating sugar. She had a die−off reaction to Nystatin; and she had PMT at the same time. She felt terrible for ten days, but then began to feel very well; and she said, "The bonus is that I have totally lost my sugar craving!" Since then I have advised people who want to treat Candida, to begin by totally avoiding all sugar and sweet foods for at least a month before using Nystatin. This way the thrush in the gut is reduced more gradually by starvation, and the person is less likely to experience a die−off reaction if they begin using Nystatin. Also, if you are troubled by PMT, pick some other time of the month to begin. Nystatin is only available on a doctor's prescription. There are some other remedies; garlic in any form is an anti−Candida remedy. Other remedies available from health shops are Chaparral powder or capsules, Pau d'arco tea, Yeast−stop, Lactobacillus acidophilus, in capsules or in acidophilus yoghurt. Mrs. Alcorn who founded Open Forum for Health Information in Petone, recommended Caprinex, made from coconut. I read once that the commonest symptom that a doctor hears about in his surgery, is excessive tiredness; he may not have learnt much in medical school about how to deal with it or acknowledge that it can go into overgrowth. Fatigue, depression, poor memory, 'nerves', are among the many symptoms of thrush overgrowth in the bowel. Others are digestive problems; skin problems; headaches; chemical sensitivity; menstrual problems or lack of sex drive; a feeling of being 'sick all over'. If you have such symptoms, and a medical checkup does not reveal a cause, it would be worthwhile to try an anti−thrush sugar free, yeast free diet. William Crook's book, "The Yeast Connection" explains fully what to do. He has also made a brief summary of this book entitled "Yeasts, and how they can make you sick". Both these books include a questionnaire which gives an indication of whether Candida is a problem. There is also a "Yeast Connection Cookbook" by William Crook and Marjorie Jones.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson LOW BLOOD SUGAR (HYPOGLYCEMIA) Since glucose is the only food the brain can use, it is important to the body to keep the glucose in the blood at a fairly steady level. There are two hormones to do this. The adrenal glands secrete adrenalin to try to keep the level high enough, and the pancreas secretes insulin to try to keep it low enough. Too much glucose in the blood is very harmful. We have been told that we need to eat sugar to give us energy; but this is not true. The body makes it own sugar from the starch and proteins that we eat, and it makes it slowly and in the right quantity. When we eat sugar, it goes into the blood quickly, and sets up a kind of tennis match or fight, between the pancreas and the adrenal glands; and in the process the pancreas seems to get the upper hand and excess insulin forces the blood sugar level too low. This is what makes people perpetually hungry for sweet things with a craving for sugar. All the time the glands are taking a thrashing. It is as if two tennis players were trapped in an advantage match that had no tie breaker but went on endlessly day in, day out, year after year. The adrenal glands are the body's shock absorbers. When they wear out, people lose their ability to cope with life, and become allergic; but the glands can recover in time if the people change their diet and feed the body less junk food, fewer toxic chemicals, more vitamins and minerals (either in their food or as supplements), and no sugar. Also no tea, coffee, alcohol because these stimulate the adrenals to release sugar, which stimulates the pancreas to suppress it, and so the fight goes on. The remedy for sugar craving is to eat small frequent meals of non−sweet food. Sugar craving usually occurs when one is hungry, tired or depressed. When trying to lick the sugar habit, do not let yourself get over−hungry. Instead of three meals a day with tea or coffee in between, books recommend a nourishing snack mid morning and mid afternoon; or in other words, small meals every two and half hours. Use protein foods and whole grain carbohydrates to sustain yourself and to avoid that sinking feeling that causes sugar craving. Eat them with raw fruit or raw vegetable such as carrot or celery sticks as they provide vitamins and minerals for overcoming stress. If garlic is tolerated, use it to reduce thrush, which is a likely cause of sugar craving; see note below about garlic oil capsules. Children say that the time of day when they are hungriest is after school. One mother had a pot of meat and vegetable stew ready at 3.30 pm. Another mother who lived on a hillside, used to put meat or peanut butter sandwiches in the letterbox for her son to eat as he climbed the steps; by the time he reached the house he was in a good temper. SUGGESTIONS FOR SMALL MEALS OR SNACKS Whole grain breads: Baked without sugar, and with wholegrain or legume flours, wheat, rice, millet, soy, lentil, chickpea, buckwheat, etc. Cereals: Cooked millet, brown rice, oatmeal, home−made raw muesli, any of these can be eaten with grated or chopped raw fruit. Protein: A slice of cold cooked meat, fish or chicken; sesame, sunflower, or pumpkin seeds; salads made with cooked or soups made with dried beans, lentils or split peas; Flavour with onion, salt, pepper, grated kumara, coconut. Add a cup of flour, make a soft sloppy dough and bake in a glass casserole for an hour. (detailed recipes later in publication) Raw fruit or raw vegetables: use any that are suitable. Some writers advise not to eat both raw fruit and raw vegetable at the same meal. If you are trying to overcome sugar addiction, avoid eating allergic foods. Taking an allergic food causes first a rise in blood glucose level; then a sharp drop. Sugar craving is strongest when the blood glucose level is 33

low. Sugar craving is often a sign of yeast infection in the intestines. Garlic is an antidote to yeast infection. It can be taken either fresh or in garlic oil capsules obtainable from health shops; this remedy can help to control sugar craving. IF YOU LOVE ME DON'T FEED ME JUNK FOOD There are three main reasons for not feeding sugar or sweet foods to children. 1. It leads to malnutrition, since sugar contains no nutrients. Sugar metabolism uses up nutrients (vitamins, minerals and enzymes), but as sugar does not contain any of these, they are not replaced and this leads to a deficiency. 2. Eating sweets and sugar leads to a fluctuating, seesawing level of glucose in the blood, and when the level goes too low the person becomes either tired, fatigued, depressed and irritable, or aggressive or hyperactive or both. 3. Sugar is the chief food of yeast, and eating sugar encourages the development of Candida yeast infection or thrush. In large quantities the yeast can produce enough toxic wastes to poison any or all of the body's systems. When the nervous system is affected, the yeast toxins cause disturbed emotions and behaviour and learning difficulties. When metabolism is affected, food and chemical sensitivities develop. SUGAR CRAVING AND GARLIC A mother spoke to me with joy in her voice about the change in her school age son. He had a craving for sugar and she noticed that after eating sweet foods he became irritable, aggressive and difficult to manage. One November, his grandmother found a paperback in the Rebirth Health Shop called "Body, mind and sugar" by Abrahamson, which explains that sugar craving is caused by low blood sugar. The medical term for the condition is hyperinsulinism, meaning that the pancreas is over−reacting to sugar and producing too much insulin which forces the sugar level in the blood too low. Glucose is the main food that the brain uses, and when the brain is starved of glucose it generates negative emotions of fear, irritability, anger and aggression. The grandmother discussed the problem with Mr O'Flaherty in the health shop and he suggested that Hofel's garlic pearls might help. The boy began taking two a day, morning and evening, through the summer holidays. His sugar craving disappeared and his teacher said, "What a change in him this year! It is a pleasure to have him in the class!" Garlic is an antidote for thrush.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson CASE HISTORIES SHOWING THE EFFECTS OF THRUSH 1. Debbie Smith's Story − I am in my thirtieth year and am overjoyed with my health at present, for I am well on the way to beating Candida, a condition which has plagued my life for maybe fifteen years. On reflection I can see how I have overloaded my body with rubbish, not giving a thought to it except to the pleasure of taste. As a child I delighted in my mum's homebaking. I can remember eagerly coming home from school, sitting in front of the kitchen cupboards and pigging out, going through all the tins, having a bit of everything. It was all made with good old white refined sugar and white flour. Most of my childhood memories revolve around food. I remember being four years old and getting in for a heap of trouble one day, yet I still remember what I had for lunch that day. There are many more fond memories but I did not realise how obsessed I was with it all until recently. My sister found a postcard I had sent to her when I was ten. I had gone on holiday with my girlfriend and her family. On the postcard I had written, "Please get mum to save me some biscuits out of her new tin." It would seem that food was always on my mind. You guessed it. I had plenty of tooth decay and a weight problem. As a young child I had asthma frequently. At seven I grew out of it. At fourteen I had severe hay fever for three months and at fifteen glandular fever, at twenty−one I was plagued by a mystery illness. I was fine during the day but coughed all night leaving me exhausted. The only way to relieve this was to sleep sitting up. This I did for three months. At twenty−eight I was again diagnosed asthmatic. I had the silent type, no wheezing, but I felt like someone was inside me squashing my ribs. During my teenage years I realised my health was not the best, but once again, food was much too pleasurable to consider becoming a "health freak" or "fruit cake". I suffered what I term "burning feet". After I walked a little and stopped, my feet felt like they were on fire. I never felt completely well and vital and thought exercise was the pits. I was fast on a road to debilitation and destruction. After the birth of my two children I suffered depression for four years. During this time I smoke, drank and ate a lot for pleasure. Just a few short months ago I became nearly bedridden. I could no longer function as a warm responsive person. I was continually lethargic, I always had to sit down or lie down and especially hated the mornings. Upon waking I always felt worse than the night before. I looked terrible. My eyes could hardly stay open. I had dark rings and bags under the eyes and many lumps under my skin that never developed into anything but gave me the appearance of having a mild case of acne. My hair was lank and lifeless. I was bloated and felt ugly. Life was difficult to handle, feeling so exhausted. My children also have asthma and associated allergies and they were sick a lot also. All this added up to a life that was pretty unbearable. Fortunately I met someone with M.E., and she recognised the symptoms in me. She introduced me to the Allergy Association and pointed me on the right path with advice and support. To become well became all−consuming. I read all I could about Candida and went to a homeopath and also found a doctor who helped me through this. Many good things have come about because of being unwell. I have learnt to listen to my body and to give it what it needs. It has also been good discipline to my whole life. In fact I am now very health conscious and enjoy exercise and can feel the benefit from it, and am building up a stronger immune system. My husband no longer pollutes us by smoking inside. Due to Candida my life has never been so good. It has brought many wonderful rewards and changes. I have learnt also that there is always something good to come out of something so tragic.

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2. A mother writes of her teenage son "It is now six months since I wrote to the Allergy Association asking for information on the treatment of my son's very enlarged tonsils, which the doctor said were not infected. I would like to thank all who wrote or telephoned; their useful information helped us to see that this might be a Candida problem. We consulted the allergy specialist you suggested. He thinks Candida is the major problem together with an allergy to dust and pollen. My son takes nystatin powder, zinc capsules, drops, and gives himself injections to build up resistance. We find it easier for the family to be on the same diet. The library has a very good book, "The Yeast Connection". We found it was a sign that Candida may be present when someone smothers their food in tomato sauce. One tonsil is now back to its normal size and the other is no longer a problem when swallowing, but we have noticed other dramatic changes too. My son often felt ill in the morning; stomach ache, pains in his legs, headaches, sore eyes and runny nose. It would be easy to assume this was a lazy teenager who did not want to get out of bed. These symptoms have now gone and his eyes, hair and skin are clearer. Athlete's foot which had been a problem for months disappeared; his balance and coordination have improved; he was always having accidents. Long bouts of sneezing have stopped, deafness from catarrh has gone. He can run without getting a sore chest. There is a big change in his personality too. He has changed from a miserable, aggressive, solitary person to a happy, considerate young man who has learnt to smile and no longer fights with everyone in the family. My son has had allergy problems all his life, but seems healthier now than ever before. Thank you for your assistance." NOTE: Dr. C.O. Truss, in his book on Candida infection, "The Missing Diagnosis", has this to say about Candida infection in males: "Teenage boys with this condition appear depressed or ill tempered and lacking in ambition. Acne may be severe (or athlete's foot). School work suffers severely as a result of the intellectual impairment, the lethargy and the depression. School "drop outs" are frequent among both boys and girls with this problem. After seeing a number of cases, one cannot help wondering about the possible relation of this condition to the sharp increase in teenage suicide and drug use. Although the condition appears to be less common and less easily recognisable in the male, it can have equally devastating effects on intellectual performance and mood, and be equally destructive of self confidence and accomplishment. When these behaviour patterns develop, especially if associated with intestinal symptoms, acne, and a history of allergy, infections and antibiotics, yeast infection and allergy should be considered. It is only one of the possible causes of this type of problem, but again, the consequences when this diagnosis is missed are tragic." (The Missing Diagnosis contains two other excellent chapters on the effects of Candida on infants and children, and on teenage women.) 3. The following two case histories show the results of thrush infection through three generations. In the first case there was no diet modification and health deteriorated in each generation. The second family modified the diet to use the Feingold programme, reducing the ingestion of toxic chemicals and sugar, with more fortunate results. The children in the third generation are healthy and their parents healthy and good citizens. In the first family, a grandmother had thrush when her children were born a generation ago. A son was hyperactive, though no one knew what was wrong with him then, and he was only given medication. This man is now an alcoholic. The daughter's family is now in trouble. She has two boys, five and three. The older has asthma, the second is hyperactive. The mother had arthritis after both births. (All these symptoms are linked with Candida and allergies.) The boys were born from a fertility drug. The mother was on the pill, which makes people zinc deficient and therefore immune deficient. Her doctor did not think she needed to continue the pill, but immediately she 36

stopped she became pregnant, and now has a baby girl three weeks old, ill with thrush and flu. She had no milk for the baby so it is on Isomil, though recent research shows soy milk is high in aluminium and therefore should not be given to premature or newborn babies. The grandmother says that she herself is tormented by sugar craving. She went on a sugar free "Fit for Life" diet and felt very well, but succumbed to sugar again and now feels ill. Very likely she is still troubled by intestinal Candida. Could all the family's problems have come in part from the grandmother's original thrush problems? By contrast, here is the story of the second family. The mother was a foundation member of our Association when we started in November 1977. She had two hyperactive sons. She used the Feingold programme successfully and in 1978 wrote me the following letter about the younger son. Both sons are now grown up. The older is happily married with a healthy child and in steady employment. The youngest daughter was not hyperactive, but had severe eczema. In the 80's the mother took her to a specialist in allergy and in Candida treatment. He diagnosed Candida in both mother and daughter and put them on the anti−fungal medication Nystatin, with yeast free, sugar free diet. A fortnight later the eczema was 75% better and the mother told me something interesting; she had suffered from bleeding gums when she brushed her teeth all her life; but in the last fortnight with oral Nystatin, they had stopped bleeding. Thrush in the mouth damages the membrane lining in the mouth and can cause mouth ulcers. Presumably it was also responsible for the weak gums, since they healed with anti−fungal treatment. The mother must have had thrush all her life, and if so it would have been a basic cause of her sons' hyperactivity. Experienced allergists consider that in many cases, food and chemical sensitivity come from poisons from thrush overgrowth; and hyperactivity comes from food and/or chemical sensitivity. This is the 1978 letter referred to above: "My son David, aged just eleven, has been on the Feingold diet for eight months. I was very sceptical about the diet, as David had been on drug therapy which was effective for a while. I did not know if I had the patience to persevere with the diet, as I had five children, aged from four to sixteen. However I love my son dearly and he was still having trouble concentrating at school and still having difficulty in controlling his movements and behaviour. Much to my surprise after three or four days he stopped wetting the bed and has not wet it since. He had wet it almost everyday since he was born. His attention span improved along with his school work. The teacher was not told anything about the diet and she pinpointed when it happened. He became less aggressive and irritable. He seemed a happier boy. He often said he wanted to kill himself as no one liked him and nobody understood his problem. He learnt to tie his shoe laces and this was quite an achievement as his grandparents and I had been trying to teach him that since he was five. He used to hate crowds and cling to us frightened wherever we went. During the Christmas holidays he wanted to go into Wellington on his own in the bus to look around. Others outside the family have noticed an improvement. I did not realise just how many of our foods are artificially coloured and flavoured until I went shopping the first week David was on the diet. Many labels leave a lot to be desired and if in doubt I just do not buy. These are the things I have noticed and he said himself he feels happier. His peers accept him better, his teachers are more positive towards him. I wish the diet had been available for my sixteen year old son, who was also hyperactive, when he was little."

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson SECTION 4: MANAGING ALLERGIC DISEASES • Managing Allergic Conditions • Ways of reducing the body's stress load to reduce allergies

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson MANAGING ALLERGIC CONDITIONSe.g. Asthma, eczema, hayfever, ear/nose/throat infections, migraine, disturbed emotions and behaviour, etc. (there are many others) All allergy comes from stress (perhaps all disease comes from stress). The adrenal glands are intended for coping with stress in acute emergencies, but people wear out their adrenals with constant daily stresses such as drinking toxic tea and coffee, and eating foods that contain a host of minute doses of toxic chemicals. When the total stress load is more than the body and the adrenal glands can cope with, that is when allergic symptoms appear. If the stress load can be lightened, they will tend to disappear. In allergic jargon, if the total body load of stress is high, the threshold at which allergic symptoms appear will be low, and vice versa. So basically the treatment for all allergic disease is the same; lower the total stress load. Stress occurs in two ways, physical and mental or emotional. Most people are aware of mental stress because it occurs in the conscious mind; but most people are not aware of physical stress because it occurs in the interior of the body which is governed by the unconscious mind without our being aware of it. The adrenal glands cope with both kinds of stress in the same way, i.e., chemically. The body is an electro−chemical machine. Everything that happens inside our skin is programmed like a computer, but chemically, not electronically. All the hormones are chemical messengers, travelling round the body in the blood stream delivering their messages. For repair and maintenance the body needs the chemicals it is made of. It does not need or want any others; if any foreign chemicals enter the body, it has the stress of getting rid of them; if it has no means of getting rid of them the stress is even greater. Trillions of correctly programmed chemical changes are going on in the body every micro−second; foreign chemicals must interfere with these, and cause loss of efficiency. There has been a chemical revolution in the last sixty years, and foreign chemicals have entered our food, air and water. The first and easiest way to reduce stress is to lower this toxic load.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson WAYS OF REDUCING THE BODY'S TOXIC LOAD TO REDUCE STRESS Reduce the intake of environmental pollutants in air, food &water: Avoid polluting the air with sprays, perfumes, quick drying solvents, glues, oven cleaners, other cleaners with a chemical smell, gas heaters, pesticides, petrol fumes, smoke, tobacco smoke, paints, etc. Baking soda paste is an excellent cleaner for many surfaces. To reduce the use of fly spray, nets over windows help to keep out flies. Flies are attracted to light therefore most can be got rid of by drawing drapes and leaving a door open for a while. Cooking onions in particular attracts blowflies. NEVER spray cupboards, particularly ones that hold dishes, foodstuffs or clothes to keep out insects unless pure pyrethrum and then in moderation. Use the Feingold diet to avoid toxic food additives; 83% of additives are artificial flavours, dyes and preservatives plus caffeine/guarana. Pure water is the best drink; buy a water purifier, collect rain water, use Petone water or advertise for a source of pure water. THE BODY CAN BE POISONED FROM INSIDE IN THREE WAYS 1. Candida yeast infection (thrush) is very common today. It can occur in the bowel or in other parts of the body. When it multiplies it produces toxic wastes that can damage any system in the body, including the skin, causing eczema. Three things cause it to proliferate; antibiotics, the contraceptive pill and eating sugar and sweet foods. Eliminate sweet foods from the diet totally, use a barrier method of contraception and avoid antibiotics except in life threatening cases. 2. Negative emotions: Hormones generated by negative emotions such as fear and resentment are very potent, and toxic in excess. To minimise them replace fear with belief in a good outcome, and belief in God's love and protection. Replace resentment with forgiveness; forgiveness means saying "It doesn't matter." Fear is the root of all evil; resentment is its by−product. 3. Allergy: When under stress the body loses the ability to metabolise food correctly. This is called allergy. The foods that cannot be used correctly, become in effect, poisonous. To minimise this source of poisoning, avoid allergic foods and substances. The rule of thumb for recognising allergens (allergic substances) is that they are usually the things you do not like and never eat (these cause no trouble) or else the things you are over−fond of and eat a great deal. Of the nutritious foods, the commonest allergen by far is cow's milk, the second is wheat. Can be other grains and sometimes soy. However, I believe that if any foods are to be eliminated from the diet, one should begin with the ones that are harmful or useless, such as the processed foods in packets and bottles that contain few vitamins or minerals and are usually loaded with chemicals and sugar. If it has a label, it has been added to, and a lot of the additives are poisonous. So my protocol for treating eczema, asthma or hayfever would be: 1. Eliminate processed foods containing dyes, artificial flavours, sugar. Use the Feingold programme, including the second part concerning salicylate fruits which often contribute to eczema. Avoid all sugar and sweet foods. Avoid stimulant drinks which have a similar effect in the body to sugar, in that they stimulate the adrenal glands to release glucose stored in the liver. All stimulants do this, including tobacco and other drugs. They stimulate because they are toxic, stressful, and therefore stimulate the adrenal glands. They give a lift because the extra glucose in the blood feels good; but this effect is temporary and is followed by a low in which one goes back to the stimulant for another fix, so the habit becomes an addiction. The effect on the adrenal glands of this constant misuse is that the glands become exhausted, and unable to cope with a real emergency.

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2. Health will improve on this regime. If not entirely satisfied, do a trial elimination of milk products, then a trial elimination of wheat products. Candida often makes people sensitive to wheat and yeast, and these do better without commercial bread. Make homemade baking−powder bread using alternative flours, or gluten free flour. 3. In a questionnaire conducted by our Association, people listed 107 symptoms which improved under this regime using the Feingold programme, plus elimination of sugar and possibly milk or wheat. They included asthma, eczema and rhinitis (hay fever). Those still not satisfied could take allergy tests to identify other substances they may be allergic to. There are now practitioners, both medical and alternative, in a number of New Zealand towns, who do allergy testing. Names and addresses are available from our Association. Muscle testing is an easy test to learn, and one which can be done at home to members of one's family, if you can find a local person or a practitioner of Touch for Health (kinesiology) to demonstrate it. Kinesiology is also used as a treatment to cure allergies. Other self−help allergy tests are the pulse test (described in A. Coca's book "The Pulse Test"), or the pendulum. Information about these methods are available from healthshops. 4. Supplements of vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids (EFA's) such as evening primrose oil and cod liver oil help allergy treatment. The medical profession is prejudiced against supplements, and says, "Eat a good balanced diet, and you do not need supplements". But people vary a great deal in their need for them; not everybody is the same. The gut is lined with microscopic fingerlike projections (villi) which are there to increase the surface area of the gut lining. Where digested food touches the gut lining it is absorbed through the lining into the blood. Unfortunately, in allergy, especially wheat and gluten allergy, the villi flatten, reducing the absorptive lining area, and leading to the common allergic problem of malabsorption of food and nutrients. This means that to get enough vitamins and minerals you sometimes have to take extra. Also in stress the body rapidly uses up its vitamins and minerals, and needs replacements. The supplements that seem to help allergic conditions to improve are: vitamin C, B−complex (especially B3, B5, B6) minerals zinc, manganese, magnesium and EFA gamma−linolenic acid, found in evening primrose oil. Also, digestive enzymes (such as Pancrex V available from chemists) improve digestion and therefore reduce allergies. 5. This article would not be complete without mentioning the value of exercise, relaxation, meditation, in reducing stress, and therefore benefiting allergic conditions. A pain management specialist, Norman Shealy, said, "All pain comes from stress. The best single antidote to stress is physical exercise." A book called "Relief without Drugs" by Ainslie Meares claims that relaxation and relaxed breathing will reduce both pain and stress, and shows how to do it. His method helped a fellow Australian, Ian Gawler, to overcome terminal cancer. Gawler thinks that relaxation and meditation are the first step in the healing process because they give such peace and clarity of mind. 6. Lastly anything that improves health will reduce stress and improve allergy symptoms. For example, sunshine, fresh air, exercise in the fresh air, enjoyment, games, sport, gardening, giving and receiving love; seabathing, happiness. "The three best doctors are Dr Diet, Dr Quiet, and Dr Merryman."

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson SECTION 5: RECIPES • Simple low−allergy recipes

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson LOW ALLERGY RECIPES See also "Baking Hints for low−allergen Foods" NEVER LEAVE FOODS RAW OR COOKED IN ALUMINIUM CONTAINERS LONGER THAN NECESSARY. PREFERABLY USE BEST QUALITY STAINLESS STEEL FOR ALL COOKING. SAMPSON EASY LOAF RECIPE: makes three small loaves. Milk, wheat, gluten, egg, yeast and sugar free. For Feingold diet choose low salicylate flavourings. Use a large measuring cup, the size of the black glass coffee mugs commonly seen nowadays. I use linseed jelly in bread. It is not necessary, you can use water instead. But the linseed jelly makes the loaves moister and less crumbly. Prepare the jelly beforehand. Linseed Jelly Soak 1 tablespoon of linseed in a half cup of water overnight. Next day fill up the cup with hot water and whizz in blender till the seeds are ground and jelly forms. Linseed jelly can also be used as an egg substitute in baking. Use 2 tablespoons of jelly to replace 1 egg. Bread Recipe 1. Grease three loaf tins with oil, clean dripping or butter if allowed 2. Sift dry ingredients 6 cups of flour, use any that you have or any that you like, or a mixture 2 teaspoons baking soda, 4 teaspoon cream of tartar, 1 small teaspoon of salt Add handful of walnuts or other nuts if you like. 3. Whizz wet ingredients to a frothy cream 1 cup linseed jelly, 2 1/2 cups of hot water, 2 tablespoon cold pressed oil, 2 cups of any fruit or vegetable; it can be cooked or raw, chopped, grated or mashed; suggestions follow at the end. 4. Mix wet into dry ingredients. Rinse out the blender with 1/2 cup of warm water, probably this extra liquid will be needed, the mixture should be soft and moist. Divide into three tins and cook 1 hour at about 400¦F or 200¦C. Do not cut till the next day, it improves with keeping. Keep spare loaves in fridge or freezer. Flavours Low Salicylate flavours : Chopped pears, mashed bananas, pumpkin with a few cloves of garlic, any root vegetable chopped or grated. I have used carrot and red beet. Other flavours: grated raw apple or cooked apple pulp, with 2 teaspoons cinnamon and some sultanas. Zucchini or marrow flavoured with ginger, 1 teaspoon of powder or 2 teaspoons of grated raw ginger. This recipe makes a moist flavourful loaf that does not need a spread. It is important not to cut it till it is 24 hours old, the flavour improves with keeping. The loaves are small and compact, with a dense meaty texture. If you want the slices to look bigger cut them at a 45 degree If eggs are tolerated and you wish to use 2 eggs instead of linseed, separate whites and yolks. Put the yolks in the blender with the wet ingredients and beat the whites till stiff. Mix the wet and dry ingredients using more water if necessary, and at the very end fold in the egg white to give extra lightness. BREAD RECIPE WITH WHEAT FLOUR, easy and delicious A member writes "I have an excellent bread recipe to share, so simple." 4 cups wholemeal flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking soda 4 tablespoons wheatgerm 1 teaspoon baking powder 600 mls acidophilus yoghurt

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Mix all ingredients, put in a loaf tin and bake 1 hour at 200¦C Can be varied by putting different seeds on top, or adding chopped fruit, dried fruit or nuts. Wheat free dieters could try this recipe using alternative flours. PUMPKIN AND GARLIC LOAF Wet ingredients: mash these together in a pot over a low heat 1 cup boiling water 110 gms butter or 1/4 cup cold pressed safflower oil 1 level teaspoon salt 2 large cloves of chopped garlic 2 cups cooked pumpkin 1 tablespoon golden syrup, optional Sift dry ingredients 4 cups of any tolerated flour, try a cup each of barley, rye, soya, rice, etc. 2 teaspoons baking soda and 4 teaspoons cream of tartar. Stir wet into dry ingredients and add more warm water if too stiff Bake in two greased loaf tins at 400F for about an hour. If you want to avoid using too much soda, ask your chemist for some potassium bicarbonate and use it with cream of tartar as a raising agent to replace baking soda. WAFFLES are now all the rage in our house! Ever since I stopped eating bread, I have missed the delicious crunch of crisp toast. But now I have found an even more delicious replacement, waffles. My Aunt Marcia heard me mention how I loved waffles and advertised for a second hand electric waffle iron and gave it to me for a birthday present. But we did not use it much because my mother had a coronary and a stroke and waffles made with eggs and topped with jam and cream are very high cholesterol food. However there is a low allergen, low cholesterol waffle recipe in Linda Edwards "Baking on a limited wholefood diet" which I found very much to my taste. Here it is − waffle cookers are such a reasonable price these days. Ingredients 1 1/2 cups oat flour or tolerated alternative flour 1 1/2 cups water 1/2 cup sesame seed 1/2 teaspoon salt Method The sesame seeds need to be ground. Put 1/2 cup flour in blender. Add sesame seeds. Whizz till flour and seeds combine. Put all the ingredients in a bowl and beat with eggbeater to a thick but slightly runny cream. Add a little more water or flour if needed. Allow 5 minutes for waffle iron to heat, grease it if necessary with butter or sweet dripping, (some newer irons are non−stick). Pour in the batter and allow 5 minutes to cook. If you open the waffle iron too soon, the waffle will split open in the middle. If it does just shut it again. The nice part is that you can make a bigger quantity and keep them in fridge or freezer. When you are ready to use them you can re crisp them in a toaster or in the oven. They can be topped with sliced banana or other fruit, but the sesame seed gives a nutty flavour and I enjoy them plain with no topping, just as a biscuit. CHRISTMAS FRUIT CAKE (no wheat, eggs, dairy or sugar, but high in salicylate. For the salicylate−sensitive, reduce currants/sultanas/raisins and give vitamins/minerals to reduce sensitivity. See page 60) 2 cups water 1 1/2 cups rice flour 1 cup sultanas 1 1/2 cups soya flour 1 cup currants 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 cup chopped raisins 2 teaspoons cream of tartar 1 1/2 cups cold mashed pumpkin 1 teaspoon mixed spice 1 teaspoons grated lemon rind 1 teaspoon nutmeg 3 tablespoons oil 1 teaspoon cinnamon

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Combine fruit and water in a large pot preferably stainless steel or enamel. Bring to boil and remove from heat. Stir in pumpkin, lemon rind and oil; cool and stir in sifted dry ingredients. Pour into greased 8 inch ring tin. Bake in moderate oven 1 1/2 to 2 hours. This cake has no added sugar, so will not keep a long time. When cold, wrap in double layer of aluminium foil and store in fridge. BREAKFAST MUESLI Mix one cup of each of the following in a large plastic bag: Oatmeal or rolled oats, wheat germ, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds. Use a half cup sprinkled over any chopped or grated raw fruit. If you do not tolerate wheatgerm, try coconut instead. Try to eat it without adding fluid, chewing it thoroughly so that it becomes liquid in the mouth with saliva. All food should be liquidified in this way, because digestion begins in the mouth with an enzyme called ptyalin found in saliva. PORRIDGE IS MORE NOURISHING &BETTER VALUE THAN PACKET CEREALS Recipe: 1 cup of oatmeal or any ground meal; fine cornmeal, wheatmeal, rye, millet, brown rice or buckwheat flour (use a different grain each day). 1 small teaspoon salt, 1 cup hot water and two cups of boiling water. Mix the meal to a slightly runny paste with the hot water and stir it into the salted boiling water. Simmer gently for a few minutes, cover and remove from heat. Keep the pot warm with a teacosy or a warm cloth. After fifteen minutes it will be ready to eat. Eat it without milk or sugar. All grain food should be well chewed to mix it with saliva since saliva is what enables it to be digested. For flavouring one can add chopped tolerated fruits, dried fruits, nuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, etc. Try medium ground cornmeal porridge with a peeled and grated pear. It's delicious. Try to use freshly ground grains. If you have a liquidiser, use it to grind your own. Soak grains in a cup of water overnight; next morning liquidise and add boiling water to make porridge. If you do not have a liquidiser and find it hard to get freshly ground grains, try making porridge with whole unground grains. Still use the proportions of one cup of grain to three cups of water. Soak the grain overnight in cold water; next day add boiling water and salt and simmer gently till all the water is absorbed. Or use the haybox method of keeping the pot hot without heat, by wrapping it in something warm: Soak the grain in cold water in the morning. In the evening add boiling water and bring it to boil. Cover the pot, place it on a warm mat and wrap it in a warm cloth. By next morning it will have absorbed most of the water and will need only a little more cooking. If you have or can get a wide mouth thermos, there is a very easy and delicious way to cook whole grains. Put a suitable amount of the grain in the thermos at night, add three times the amount of boiling water, put the lid on and leave it. In the morning the grain will be cooked. You can use wheat, rice, millet, or any grain. If tolerated, chopped apple and sultanas can be included in the thermos for flavour. Try mixing a little millet with rice for a crunchy texture. SPREADS HOUMUS: Small cup of chickpeas, soak in water then whizz smooth and keep in fridge. A pinch of salt improves it. Other optional ingredients are: Cover with water overnight, drain, cook in water till soft. Put them in a blender with about 4 cloves of garlic, a peeled lemon, and a big bunch of roughly chopped parsley. Whizz with a cup of sesame seeds and 1 or 2 tablespoons of cold pressed safflower or olive oil. Houmus can be made without a blender. Mash the chickpeas, squeeze the lemon juice out, crush the garlic and chop the parsley finely. Mix thoroughly and add salt if you wish. BLACK CURRANT JAM: 250 gms black currants, whizzed in liquidiser with 1/2 cup water. 1/2 cup sago, soak it in 1 cup cold water till it swells, about 15 minutes. Cook the sago in another cup of water till it goes clear. Add the currants and bring back to the boil. Taste it and add a little honey to sweeten it if you wish. This method can be used with any tart fruit. Keep in fridge and store surplus in freezer. 45

SOY BUTTER (to replace margarine which should NOT be used): 3/4 cup soy flour and 3/4 cup of water. Cook over boiling water, (use a double boiler, or a two−part saucepan with a steamer unit and a bowl inside the steamer, or just a bowl in a pot with an inch of water in the pot). Whizz the cooked soy flour with 3/4 cup cold pressed safflower oil. LOW−SUGAR JAM SPREAD OR DESSERT from fruit and sago: It is a Danish dish. My Danish grandfather taught his wife and my mother to make it. Method: Jelly stewed fruit with sago. Use about half a cup of sago to about a pound of fruit. Before cooking the fruit, fill the half cup of sago to the top with cold water. Cook the stewed fruit in the usual way. By the time it is cooked, the sago will have swelled to fill the cup; if not help it with a stir. Add the soaked sago to the boiling fruit and cook it very gently for a few minutes longer till the sago becomes transparent. Taste it and if you find it too sour, add some sugar or honey to your taste. Bring it back to the boil. Put into heated glass preserving jars. If you wish to preserve it, seal it with preserving lids. It will keep quite well in a cold part of the fridge for 2 or 3 weeks without sealing. This is a good way of using strongly flavoured or acid things such as tamarillos, rhubarb, plums and gooseberries. The sago makes the flavour more bland, so that less sweetening is needed. Mild flavoured fruits are nicer jellied with Davis pure gelatine. Jellied fruit goes further than stewed fruit served in its juice. Jellied with sago the dessert can be served hot or cold. Also sago can be used with some fruit such as plums that cannot be jellied with gelatine. Use sago−jellied fruits as a spread: I have often used rhubarb cooked like this as a tangy spread on meat or cheese sandwiches, in place of tomato sauce or chutney. The other day I found an icecream carton of frozen raspberries in the freezer, and made some delicious raspberry jam in the same way. We used it spread like jam on hot pancakes, and at another meal as a cold dessert. I cooked the raspberries in about a cup or more of water, and then added sago instead of sugar. (Remember that sugar is the preservative in jam; without sugar you need to preserve in some other way, such as sealing with preserving lids.) Tamarillos are delicious cooked in this way. Cut off the stalks, cut in half, cook them till the skins come off easily, then add sago and a little sweetening if desired. The more water and sago used, the less sugar needed. RAW PARSLEY SOUP A quick and easy drink for winter lunches or after school snacks − rich in vitamin C and minerals. Liquidise 1 chopped onion, a small potato scrubbed but not peeled, 1 small level teaspoon of salt in one cup of water. Bring this liquid to the boil to thicken it, do not cook it any longer. Take a good−sized bunch of parsley, chop it roughly and liquidise it in a cup of milk or milk substitute. Add this green milk to the boiling soup and it should be about the right temperature to drink. If too cool, heat it a little more, but do not boil it as this destroys the vitamin C. If the two liquids do not mix smoothly, beat them together with an egg beater. HINT TO SAVE TIME AND TROUBLE If you are too busy to cook, don't buy readymade foods; serve as many foods as possible raw, Cooking destroys valuable nutrients. If a food can be enjoyed raw, don't waste time, electricity and nutrients by cooking it. A mother said, "At my child's party the most popular food was carrot sticks made from baby carrots." PATTIES, RISSOLES AND MEAT LOAF TO REPLACE BREAD Someone rang me to ask where they could obtain sausages suitable for Feingold children, and my husband overheard the conversation. Afterwards he said, "Why don't you tell people to make their own sausages? We always used to on the farm; they are quite easy to make." I asked him for particulars. They are more like rissoles than sausages and far more delicious This is how to make them: 500 gm mince 1 cup wholemeal flour 1 level teaspoon salt 1 onion chopped finely 1 teaspoon dried mixed herbs, or else some chopped parsley and thyme, marjoram or sage from the garden 1 beaten egg (optional).

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Mix ingredients and work them into a dough with your hands. Shape the dough into patties and dip them in flour. Fry them gently in a little dripping till they are brown, about 12 minutes, then turn to brown the other side. Keep the lid on the pan while cooking. Serve with vegetables and gravy made from stock or vegetable water. If there are any left over, they are fine reheated in gravy. A child might like to eat one cold as an after school−snack. It is illegal to put preservative in mince, but some small local butchers still do it. One can tell if preservative has been added, because it turns the mince which would be a purplish colour, a bright tomato red. If possible buy mince at a shop which has a quick turnover, because they will sell their mince quickly and will not need to put preservative in it. RISSOLES OUST SANDWICHES Many people who have to avoid wheat, rye or corn bread, can have a much more attractive and nutritional lunch or snack with rissoles made from cooked vegetables, cereals, legumes and sprouts. It is often important for allergic children taking lunch to school to be seen eating exciting food. Cook extra of the allowed vegetables, legumes or cereals of the day: taro, lentils, carrots, parsnips, beans, kumara, rice, etc. Reduce to a thick paste in a food processor, blender or mincer. Add an egg if you wish. Add chopped onion, parsley, herbs, grated ginger, garlic, sprouts, sea salt or kelp, as desired. Make flat rissoles, cover with flour or crumbs of allowed cereal and bake lightly on lightly oiled oven tray. Alternatively the mixture can be baked as a loaf in a casserole dish or loaf tin. RECIPES USING LENTILS Soak brown lentils in water for 12 hours, drain, cover with water, cook to a mash with a cup of diced onion, salt, pepper and nutmeg. Add a cup of pea flour or other tolerated flour, two egg yolks or whole eggs if tolerated. Mould into balls in suitable flour and fry in a greased pan. LENTIL RISSOLES 225 gms cooked lentils 1 onion, minced, grated or chopped finely 1 1/2 cups soft tolerated breadcrumbs 1 or 2 potatoes cooked and mashed 1/4 cup sesame seeds 1 tablespoon chopped parsley 1 beaten egg Mix all together and fry in a little dripping for 10 minutes each side FISH AND POTATO RISSOLES A good source of protein and vitamin C. Fish has become very expensive; the cheapest way to buy it is to buy a whole fish. Bake it in the oven in a covered dish with about half a cup of water, or steam it in a big pot, simmering it very gently with half a cup of water to produce steam. When it is tender, lift the flesh off the bones and serve the pieces hot with parsley sauce. Make the sauce with the juice from the fish. Make thickening by mixing any tolerated flour to a paste with any tolerated milk, sesame milk is nice. Flavour the sauce with chopped parsley, finely chopped onion, salt and pepper. To make rissoles, save 2 cups of cooked fish flakes and mix them with 3 cups of mashed potato, salt and pepper, a finely chopped onion and a bunch of parsley chopped fine. Shape them into fish cakes, dip them in any tolerated flour and fry them gently in a pan till brown on both sides. ALTERNATIVE TO BREAD/TOAST FOR GLUTEN FREE DIET From a letter: "Instead of bread I make waffles on a Ralta waffle machine. Recipe: 1 oz cornmeal, 1 oz rice flour, 1 oz melted butter, 1 egg yolk. Mix these together with milk and fold in a stiffly beaten egg white. I serve these buttered and my two year old loves them." PRESSED TONGUES A good snack for a child is a slice of cold meat, with a carrot or celery stick or a piece of fruit. Use pressed tongue for this purpose. Pressed tongues are a useful source of cold meat, and much healthier than luncheon sausage or ham. Keep one or two cooked ox tongues in the freezer for a convenience 47

food that only needs thawing. Usually as soon as the butcher gets tongues, he puts them in a brine that contains toxic preservatives such as nitrates. In our case, we order the tongues and say that we would like them fresh and not to put them in the brine. They take very long slow cooking so we usually ask for two ox tongues and six or more sheep tongues and cook them together in a very large saucepan which holds more than 12 pints. We press the ox tongues and freeze them and use the sheep tongues hot with a sauce made from the cooking water, which can be used as stock since the tongues have not been in the toxic brine. Method: Cover the tongues with water and add the following flavourings. Reduce the quantities if you are cooking fewer tongues. 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon honey, 1 teaspoon vinegar, 1/4 teaspoon pickling spice or a few cloves and peppercorns, 8 cloves of garlic and a few bay leaves if you have them. Bring to the boil and simmer gently for about 4 hours. You can tell when it is cooked because the skin will peel off easily. Peel the ox tongues. Sheep tongues have thinner skins and peeling is optional. Press the ox tongues by putting them in a basin while still hot. Cover with a small saucer and put a weight on the saucer to press the meat till it is cold. The sheep tongues can be pressed in the same way, or served hot. For the latter, make a sauce of the cooking water, thickened with a tolerated flour, or use stock and a tolerated milk, half and half, and flavour with chopped parsley. Another thing that can be cooked with the tongues, is half a dozen sheep hearts, or half an ox heart. Sliced thin when cold, they make an inexpensive and nourishing meat meal. QUALITY MEAT AND VEGETABLE SOUP OR STEW (anything left in an aluminium pot for any length of time can cause nasty tummy aches!!) 1 kilo or more of neck chops, and as many root vegetables as you can muster, onion, carrot, parsnip, swede, potato, artichoke. 2 tablespoons pearl barley, salt to taste. (Soak the barley in water overnight.) Cover the chops with water and simmer for 1 and a 1/2 hours till the meat is cooked. Let it stand overnight so that the fat hardens on the top and can be removed. Next day add diced vegetables and soaked barley and cook for a further half hour. Remove bones and serve, or if you wish make a gravy by thickening the cooking water with a flour and water paste. It is good as a winter time Irish stew dinner, or as an after school meal, or it can go in a wide mouth thermos as a school lunch. WHEN YOU NEED SOMETHING QUICK AND EASY Cook a large batch of rice and freeze the extra in meal sized portions for up to six months. Reheat in a casserole, or in a colander or basin above boiling water, or heat very gently in a covered saucepan containing half an inch of water. An easy way to cook rice or other grains is by the haybox method, bringing the rice and water to the boil in a stainless steel saucepan (which retains heat). Place the pot on a warm mat, and cover with a teacosy or warm cloth to hold the heat in. You will need to reheat the pot to boiling point and cover it again with the warm cloth. Do this once or twice, till all the water is absorbed. The proportion is 1 cup of rice to 3 cups of water, plus a small level teaspoon of salt. Make a large batch of Meat Balls. Freeze half and keep them on hand to add to any sauce, soup or casserole to use another night. They are also good for lunches or after school snacks. Recipe: (double the recipe for a larger quantity) 500 gm mince, 1 small cup of tolerated flour, 1 level teaspoon salt, 1 onion chopped finely, 1 teaspoon dried herbs, 1 beaten egg to bind (optional), a tomato peeled and chopped, if tolerated and in season. Mix all the ingredients and work the mixture into a dough with your hands. Shape into patties, dip them in flour. Fry them gently in a covered pan with a little dripping till brown, about 12 minutes, then turn and brown the other side. If you are doing a large quantity, it might be easier to brown them on an oven sheet in a very hot oven. FISH FILLETS Fish fillets cook very quickly; the less cooking the more tender and tasty they are. Put a very little water into a large saucepan or frypan with lid, 1/4 inch deep. Lay the fillets, singly if possible, over the bottom of the pot and sprinkle with salt. Cover and heat gently till the water boils, turn fillets over, cook a few seconds longer and remove pan from heat onto a warm mat. The fish is cooked as soon as it turns 48

white. If you want a sauce, drain off the liquid, add equal quantity of water or tolerated milk, thicken with tolerated flour, flavour with chopped parsley. If the fillets are from a large fish and very thick, slice them crossways thinly before cooking. Can also be served sprinkled with lemon juice and garnished with finely chopped parsley. TO ECONOMISE, BUY WHOLE FISH INSTEAD OF FILLETS Cook in the same way with very little water in a saucepan. It will need longer cooking because it is thicker. It is cooked when the flesh leaves the bone. Lift off the flesh and serve with parsley sauce. Cats enjoy the skeleton, also the fish scraps that can be bought cheaply from fish shops. Poach in water in stainless steel saucepan till cooked. Leave in the water until cold. This forms a delicious edible jelly. Mash with potato masher to loosen the bones and feed to cats. They leave the bones for burial and their coats and eyes will gleam with health. If you do not have a cat bury the scraps in the garden as a fertiliser. Danish people eat raw fish on open sandwiches: sprinkled with lemon juice, it's delicious. If you do not like the idea of eating raw fish; marinate it in lemon or lime juice till it turns white. It can then be made into a Tahitian type salad by adding chopped additions such as red and green peppers or gherkins and either coconut cream or tolerated mayonnaise. TRY MOCK WHITEBAIT FRITTERS With a sharp knife cut some fillets into shreds the size of whitebait, cutting across the grain of the fillet. Make a batter of 1 cup of tolerated flour, 1 cup of milk or water, 1 small level teaspoon salt, 1 egg. Beat it all with an egg beater for as long as you have energy. Then sift in 1 teaspoon baking powder with a little more flour and add the shredded fish. Grease a non−stick pan with a little good dripping and cook in spoonfuls like pikelets. FISH CAKES MADE WITH SOFT ROE If ever you see unsmoked fish roe, buy some and put it in the freezer. It is a very good food, full of protein, vitamins and minerals, and it is only available in spring. Recipe: 1 to 2 cups roe, 1 cup of flour, 3/4 cup water, 1 egg, 1 small teaspoon salt. Roe is easier to cut up before it is quite thawed. Slice it thin; if the slices are big, cut them up still smaller. Beat all the other ingredients together into a thick batter with an egg beater, then stir in the roe and beat again with a spoon to mix well. Cook like pikelets in a non stick pan greased with a little sweet dripping. HOMEMADE ICECREAM If cream is tolerated the easiest recipe is to beat some cream till it is thick and put it in a freezer. If eggs and sugar are also tolerated, try this: Beat separately, a bottle of cream, 3 egg yolks, 3 egg whites. Add some sugar, as little as you like, to the whites, and beat again till it dissolves. Fold all together till well mixed and freeze. MILKFREE ICECREAM A layer of tofu, 1 tablespoon honey, 1 tablespoon of cold pressed safflower oil; chopped strawberries, or any tolerated fruit. Blend it all and chill it in the freezer, beat it again later and re−freeze. Slice some bananas, roll the pieces in toasted sesame seeds. Freeze them and serve them with the icecream. QUICK AND EASY ICECREAM (my favourite) 1 cup tofu, 1/2 cup each dates, Brazil nuts, crystallised ginger. Liquidise all in kitchen whizz and freeze. CREAM OR INSTANT APPLE ICECREAM 2 sliced frozen bananas (if for cream, not too brown). 1 to 6 tablespoons stewed apple or apple juice (the more the creamier). Blend or process the frozen banana slices with the juice. Serve the icecream immediately and freeze any leftovers. If apple is not tolerated, use 2 grated pears with a squeeze of lemon juice and a little water.

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ICECREAM (ABOUT A LITRE) 6 large soft bananas 4 tablespoons milk powder soya or goat, 1/3 cup water, handful chopped dates or nuts, 1/3 cup cold pressed sunflower or safflower oil. Blend bananas thoroughly and add rest of ingredients. Blend well and pour into container, cover and freeze. For a chocolate icecream try 2 tablespoons carob instead of the fruit or nuts WHY HOMEMADE ICECREAM? There is little control of the use of artificial flavours in food. Our Health Department lists only seven flavours that are not allowed in New Zealand foods, cade oil, coumarin, nitrobenzene, pyroligneous acid, saffrol and isosaffrol, sassafras oil. Apart from these, any artifical flavour or flavour enhancer may be legally used, but its use must be listed on the label as flavour or flavour enhancer. Laboratory analyses have found the following chemicals used as artificial flavourings in some commercial icecreams, according to an article that has circulated for several years and been sent to me more than once: Strawberry: benzyl acetate, a nitrate solvent, Banana: amyl acetate, an oil paint solvent Pineapple: ethyl acetate, a leather and textile cleaner whose vapours cause lung, heart and liver damage to employees in these industries. Etc. I asked the Health Department whether any such substances could be used to flavour New Zealand icecream. The assistant said possibly. She did not know. The only way would be to ask the manufacturer. But he may not know if he buys his strawberry flavour from an American flavour manufacturer. By making your icecream, at least you know what is in it. A member who had several foster children, said one boy was terribly difficult, the naughtiest child she had ever met. They had commercial icecream as a dessert every night, till one November she said, "No more!" She was over−weight and wanted to get into training for swimming. Within a week the naughty child had changed so much that she wrote to me to ask for the full Feingold diet. His teacher said that whereas the other children were suffering from end of the year lethargy and tiredness, he became more alert and attentive every day. HOME−MADE SOY MILK, INEXPENSIVE, EASY TO MAKE Soy beans contain an enzyme that causes a bitter taste if the bean is soaked or in any other way disturbed. The enzyme is less active at low temperatures, hence soaking in the fridge. All enzymes are destroyed at 118 F which is below boiling point. So it is best to bring the milk to the boil as soon as possible, by starting with boiling water; this also reduces the time you have to spend stirring the milk while it is heating. Flavouring with a little honey and a pinch of salt gives a nice flavour if honey is tolerated. Or put a small bunch of parsley and a vanilla bean into the boiling water at the beginning and cook these with the milk; (remove them before straining). Or use a little pure vanilla essence. You will need about two feet of cheese cloth. Wash in soap and water before use. Tie a knot in one end to make a bag. Spread the bag in a colander to make a strainer. Using a wooden spoon or clean hands, press or wring as much of the milk out of the pulp as possible. The pulp is called okara; it is rich in protein and can be added when making bread, cakes, cookies, or included in meat or vegetable casseroles or loaves. SOY MILK RECIPE We suggest that you make half this quantity the first time. Soak 1 cup of soy beans in 4 cups of water in the fridge overnight. Drain and rinse them and put half into a blender or food processor. Have 3 pints of pure water boiling in a large stainless steel pot. Use about a cup of this boiling water to whizz the first half of the beans to a smooth paste. Repeat with the other half of the beans, then tip all the paste into the boiling water. Bring the milk to the boil, stirring all the time. Use care, it boils over even more suddenly than cow's milk. Put the lid on the pot, remove from heat, place it on a warm surface covered with a teacosy or a warm cloth. Let it stand for 15 minutes. It will keep hot and go on cooking. Strain the milk through a cheese 50

cloth as described above. Muslin can be used instead of cheesecloth. Then put the hot milk and the okara straight into separate glass jars leaving a good space free at the top if planning to freeze and seal with metal lids; (do not put hot things into plastic as the heat causes plastic to evaporate and the vapour is toxic). Put the jars straight into the fridge. Surplus can be frozen when cool. Okara Cookies, using the pulp left after making soy milk from beans. 2 cups tolerated flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 4 teaspoons baking powder 2 cups okara 1 spoonful honey optional 1/4 cup cold pressed safflower oil 1/2 cup warm water 1 teaspoon pure vanilla (optional) Mix honey, warm water, oil and vanilla Sift flour, salt, baking powder into bowl Add soy pulp and mix well Add liquids and mix well Drop spoonfuls into a greased tray and bake at 200ºC or 400ºF for about 25 minutes. Keep in fridge because they have little sugar to preserve them. MARGARINE Please do not use margarine. It is made from safflower or sunflower oil, (which are only beneficial if cold−pressed) by changing the chemical structure to make the oil solid. The process converts it into a "trans" fat. The word trans refers to the position of atoms in the molecule. Trans fats are useless and harmful in the body. Some people who are allergic to milk, can tolerate a little butter or ghee. Ghee is made by washing butter in boiling water to remove traces of milk, and then setting it in the fridge. Some can tolerate butter and cream, but not milk. Those who cannot use butter can use cold−pressed safflower oil for baking; (1 cup equals half a pound of butter.) For a spread try hummus or soy butter (recipes on page 46). For those who use margarine because it is easy to spread, there are two alternatives. Warmed butter can be beaten with an equal amount of oil and then reset. Or little pieces of butter can be softened in three minutes by putting them in coolish tepid water. If the butter melts, the water is too warm. It should feel cool to the lips.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson SECTION 6: HAVING A BABY EASILY • How to have an easy baby (a non−allergic baby)

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson HAVING A BABY MORE EASILY, OR, HOW TO HAVE AN EASY BABY (A NON−ALLERGIC BABY) A mother with a young second baby said, "Thank you for telling me to read Maureen Minchin's book. After a colicky first baby, it is such a joy to have one who chuckles and gurgles after his feeds !" The book is "Food for Thought", ed 3, Allen &Unwin, 1985. Having a baby is a three−fold achievement. It is firstly a creative achievement. An act of creation requires raw materials. The raw materials needed for a good baby are good foods. These should include meat, fish or legumes to provide protein; fruits and vegetables, mostly raw and preferably home grown or organically grown; and if grains are tolerated, baking should be done with a variety of whole grain flours. Pure water is the best drink. Eat a variety of foods in moderation, do not binge on one particular item. Read Betty Kamen's book "The Kamen plan for Total Nutrition during Pregnancy", (Angus &Robertson), or Catherine Lewis, "Good Food before Birth", (Unwin paperbacks). Secondly, it is an athletic achievement. Athletic preparation is as important for childbirth as for an Olympic event. Read "Active Birth" by Janet Balaskas, (Unwin paperbacks) and "Birth Reborn" by M. Odent, (Pantheon, USA). Thirdly, it is a spiritual achievement. It requires a spirit of faith. Faith means expecting good to happen. Have faith in your body's ability to do the right thing, in the right way, at the right time. Faith brings love, joy and peace, and makes thing go right. RULES FOR AVOIDING ALLERGY AND COLIC IN A BABY The tendency to develop allergy runs in families. If there is allergy in your family, or if you had allergic symptoms in childhood, such as asthma, hay fever, eczema, ear/nose/throat infections, growing pains, etc., prepare for a non−allergic baby before conception. 1. When planning a pregnancy: If you have been taking the contraceptive pill, or using a copper−containing IUD, stop using it at least one month before conception, and preferably longer, four months or more. Change to a barrier method which is safer for women's health and therefore for the health of the baby. The pill makes users zinc deficient; an animal study showed that zinc deficiency in pregnancy seriously affected the immune system in the offspring. So if you have been using the pill, take a good vitamin or mineral supplement containing zinc, such as Blackmore's or Vitafit 400. Be at your best before conception. Both partners eat well and abstain from all alcohol before conception as well as during pregnancy. The best time to start feeding a baby right, is several years before it is born. This applies to fathers too, since they provide half a baby's genes. 2. During pregnancy and lactation: Avoid foods that you are allergic too, and bear in mind that you may have hidden allergies that you are not aware of. Hidden food allergies are most likely to be foods you do not like and eat little of; or else foods you like too much and eat a lot of, or eat often. It has been said, "Addiction equals allergy". Cravings in pregnancy often point to foods you have a hidden allergy to. In pregnancy and lactation, do your best to avoid addictive stimulants and bingeing. We usually binge or want stimulants when we are depressed or tired.. Try to arrange things so that you can go to sleep when tired; and when depressed get away from the kitchen and get some exercise in the fresh air. Gardening is a good way for some people, or a walk. Perhaps you could offer to walk a neighbour's dog regularly? Do not let people persuade you to eat foods that gave you an allergic reaction in childhood, or foods that you do not like, or ones that make you feel nauseated, by saying that they will be good for the baby. If you have a hidden allergy to the food, it will be very bad for the baby. This applies especially to dairy products, because they are often recommended as a good source of protein and calcium. Calcium can be obtained from many sources. A good balanced diet using alternative high protein foods and calcium rich foods will be just as 53

beneficial for you and the baby. If a baby seems very active or overactive in the womb, this may be an indication that it is sensitive to caffeine or chemicals, and is distressed by these in the mother's diet or environment. Many couples decide to decorate during pregnancy and no−one knows what effect the very strong paint and turpentine fumes may have − may be the cause of breathing difficulties such as Asthma. A mother could be wise and use the Feingold low additive diet to help the baby. In fact the Feingold diet reduces physical stress, and benefits the health of the whole family when it is used. I have just read that singing (lullabies?) to a baby in the womb is soothing and beneficial to the baby. Your baby will let you know if it enjoys or hates various sounds. 3. Labour: Where there are good domiciliary midwives, as seems to be the case in Wellington at present, 1993, a home birth may be worth considering. The mother of a hyperactive child chose home birth for her second child. I asked her if she would do it again. She paused for a moment, and then said, "I couldn't NOT do it again; its such a marvellous start for the baby. This one is so placid!" If you decide on a hospital birth, try to avoid anaesthetics, especially pethidine. In pregnancy read something about pain management, e.g.. "Relief without Drugs" by Ainslie Meares. Since reading this book I have never needed a dental anaesthetic. For those who have a reaction to dental anaesthetic, the dentist can offer an alternative that may suit better. A small survey done by our association in 1990 seemed to indicate that pethidine in labour may have long lasting effects on the child. Forty−seven mothers using the Feingold programme (either the basics, or extended, by avoiding other items as well) responded to our questionnaire. One question was whether they had pethidine in labour. The pethidine group had a higher incidence of asthma in the child, and a slightly higher incidence of hyperactivity. Before going into the maternity ward, make it clear that the baby must not be given any complementary bottles; make the authorities sign a paper to this effect. The first thing that goes into the baby's mouth should be the mother's nipple, to establish the right bacteria in the baby's gut. Maureen Minchin worked with colicky babies, and said that all the severely colicky babies she met, had been given a complementary bottle in the maternity hospital. Possibly warmed distilled water only as a comforter. One of the causes of allergy is a leaky gut allowing undigested protein to go through the gut wall into the blood, where it sets up allergic reactions. When a baby is born, the mucous membrane lining its intestines is not fully developed. It is leaky until it is sealed by an agent in the mother's milk. This can take up to eight months, but the first fortnight is crucial. It is very important for the baby's health and happiness that it should not have foreign protein in the first two weeks. A baby can also be exposed to allergy−forming proteins if the mother eats food that she is allergic to while breastfeeding, so look after yourself first. Avoidance of foreign allergy−producing proteins is one of the reasons why it is important for a baby to be breastfed, especially in an allergic family. Specific allergies may not be inherited, but DNA is and the tendency to develop allergies runs in families. In an allergic family a bottle fed baby has a two to one chance of becoming allergic. If the baby is breast fed this is reduced to one in four chance. If you have allergies, tell them about it when you book into the maternity hospital, and make sure that they are prepared for you. Suggest that fresh low salycilate fruit may be better for you, for a snack after the birth, than hot buttered toast and cheese for example, if wheat and dairy products are a problem for you. Ensure that the dietary department staff know what you mean when you say that you are on a special diet, and to be certain, you could give them a few days sample menus to ensure that you and baby get only what is good for you. If your diet is quite restrictive, you may be best to aim for an earliest possible discharge from hospital. Discuss this with your doctor early, to book a domiciliary mid−wife who will care for you at home. Make lists of suitable foods and educate your friends or family who may cook meals for you in the early days, so that you can adhere to your diet even if you are not preparing the food.

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When you start to take baby out socially, take allowed food for yourself to eat too. That way you and baby will not suffer from dietary indiscretions at morning tea parties, etc. Allergy, stress and tiredness are closely linked. Resting after baby is born is not always easy, especially if you have other children at home too. All try to have naps together. Teach older children to operate your tape recorder and allow them to play favourite tapes while baby sleeps. If possible, get everyone asleep after lunch. Lying down on the bed to read stories will often put toddlers to sleep. Gratefully accept any offers to take one or more children off your hands for a few hours so that you can sleep; but remember to send the child off with appropriate foods, so that you do not get a hyperactive toddler back again! With all the good planning in the world, you will have some bad days as well as the good. Remember that a baby is only a baby for a year or two, and make a positive mental and spiritual effort to enjoy this time with your baby. USING THE FEINGOLD PROGRAMME IN PREGNANCY HELPS The following notes are abridged from the Journal of the Hyperactive Childrens' Support Group, Great Britain. Hyperactive children often come from atopic or allergic families; that is, from parents with symptoms like migraine, hayfever, etc. Hyperactive children are often hyperactive in the womb, punching and kicking their way through the pregnancy. One mother wondered whether the baby was in distress. Very active in utero babies may get the umbilical cord around their neck. Many hyperactive children in Britain have been found to be deficient in zinc and essential fatty acids (EFA's). These are needed to produce prostaglandin E1 which controls the immune system, thirst, behaviour, etc. In allergic people opioids from poorly digested wheat or milk protein may occur. These opioids block the production of prostaglandin E1. HACSG suggests that hyperactivity in utero may be caused by chemical additives in the mother's food, or by EFA deficiency or by food allergy. They suggest that pre−natal clinics should screen mothers for over−active foetus, and where it is found mothers should be introduced to the extended Feingold programme. The extended programme eliminates sugar and/or milk/wheat products as well as chemical additives and salicylates. Eliminate as much caffeine as possible ie tea, coffee, colas and sports drinks. Guarana is another form of caffeine. These steps might correct hyperactivity before the baby is born, saving mother and child much misery later. Colas can also aggravate calcium loss from teeth during pregnancy. HELPING A NEW BABY TO BREASTFEED Two factors help to establish a good sucking technique in the baby. It helps if the baby has not received pethidine during the birth. It also helps very much if the baby is not taken away from the mother after the birth for washing and weighing, etc., but is allowed to lie naked on the mother's abdomen until it finds the breast and suckles. In research, babies not separated took the breast within 49 minutes maximum, and sucked for about 20 minutes; 24 correctly, 4 in a faulty way. Of the separated babies, only 7 sucked correctly, 11 incorrectly, and 16 refused to suck. Of the babies who had received pethidine, the majority were too drowsy to suck at all. Of the babies who were exposed to pethidine, and were separated, not one sucked correctly. Of babies not exposed, and not separated, almost all sucked correctly. (Righart, "Effect of delivery routines on success of first breastfeed", Lancet, 1990) FORESIGHT ASSOCIATION FOR PRE−CONCEPTION CARE A chiropractor said that a common cause of colic in infants, is stress from neck vertebrae displaced by a difficult birth. I know of one very hyperactive infant who was cured by a chiropractor. But it is better to prepare for an easy birth by good nutrition and a good lifestyle before conception. Foresight is a British organisation to help parents do this. There is a www.foresight−preconception.org.uk/ website to access their information. See page 69 for books about the 55

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson SECTION 7: SUPPLEMENTS TO HELP ALLERGIES &HYPERACTIVITY • Beneficial vitamins, minerals, EFA's, enzymes

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson VITAMIN AND MINERAL SUPPLEMENTS FOR ALLERGIC OR HYPERACTIVE CHILDREN AND ADULTS The ones I see mentioned over and over again are vitamin C, B−complex (especially B3, B5, B6). B6 is pyridoxin, B5 is pantothenic acid or pantothenate, B3 has two names, niacin and nicotinic acid. The useful minerals are zinc, magnesium and manganese. Useful essential fatty acids are evening primrose oil and cod liver oil. A Wellington member had a seven year old son who was hyperactive. He responded partially but not completely to the Feingold diet. However his mother said he was fine if she gave him the following supplements. When she stopped giving them for a month, his behaviour worsened and changed dramatically for the worse after about three weeks, so she put him back on the pills and he improved again after about three weeks. The supplements taken daily were: One tablet of calcium with vitamin D or one dolomite tablet (dolomite is a mixture of calcium and magnesium). Two 250mg tablets of vitamin C Two B−complex tablets, high potency (the label said "Child dose 1 to 2 daily") One capsule of vitamins A,D,E (in one capsule) She used calcium and dolomite alternatively; a bottle of one, then a bottle of the other. Adelle Davis was a best−selling nutritionist in the 50's. In her book "Let's have healthy children", the last chapter is entitled, "Allergies? Why keep them?" She believed that allergies can be cured with vitamin and mineral supplements, and cited her own case. She adopted a daughter who turned out to be very allergic, but the allergies were reversed with vitamins and minerals. (note: from a grain sensitive person who tried following Adelle Davis's nutrition advice and found she felt a lot worse on the breakfast cereals recommended. She found she was allergic to most grains except corn.) The following letter supports her claim. It is from the mother of a hyperactive boy aged four, who improved greatly with the Feingold programme. She writes, "My mother−in−law came to visit us. She is into Adelle Davis, and thought that my son's sensitivities were nutrition−oriented and that with adequate supplements he could eat anything. So I allowed her to give Danny a teaspoon of dolomite powder twice a day, 25mg vitamin B5 four times daily, and about 250mg vitamin C daily. After a few days of these supplements, we gave him, within a week, tomatoes, apples, a peach, plums, cucumber and an orange. We had no reaction at all. Since Mum went home, I have not been keeping up his vitamins and an orange last week had him vomiting, etc, as it used to. The dolomite seemed to help him sleep better too; he was in bed asleep most nights between eight and nine, instead of his usual go−to−sleep time around eleven pm." Here is another letter from a mother in Brisbane: "I'm writing this letter in the hope that others may benefit from my experience and not lose precious years in obtaining help for their child. Four years ago my boy (twelve years now) went on the Feingold diet after eight years of "sheer hell" for him and his family. Dramatic response in a few days; a complete reversal of personality, behaviour, etc. After six months we reintroduced salicylates but to no avail; the diet has to be as strict now as it was then. It is a way of life now. Lots of work has been put into co−ordination problems, with gradual improvement. A series of tests by an allergist revealed how allergic he is to environmental allergens; moulds, dusts, etc, and also the hydrocarbons are bad. Any strong smells affect him. So like a lot of children we have contact with, he has a double−barrelled health problem: 1) Sensitivity to artificial colour, flavour, salicylates and additives and

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2) Allergy to food and environment. By controlling these two health factors, day−to−day living, learning and coping are achieved. But how can we give that "bit extra"? The answer for this boy came by way of supplementation with vitamins. He was having a bad patch with depression, emotional crying, like a person having a nervous breakdown. In despair I rang a Brisbane doctor who saw him and put him on large doses of sodium ascorbate, zinc, vitamin B6 and magnesium. The change after two months is dramatic. He has a zest for life, all the time now, is happy, outgoing, fearless, growing like a lion, is loveable and loving. He has that bit extra that he didn't have before, on a controlled diet." The supplements for the twelve year old were: Vitamin C in the form of sodium ascorbate, one gramme (half a level teaspoon) taken three times daily. A tablet containing 25 mg vitamin B6, 25 mg zinc sulphate, 50 mg magnesium. This was taken twice daily. Later half a teaspoon of dolomite powder was added daily. ZINC (Reprinted with permission from "Nutrition Summary" by Earl Conroy.) Zinc is increasingly being noted as a deterrent of infections and unmanageable behaviour including poor sleeping habits. Zinc and unmanageable children: Children that are unsettled, frequently demanding attention, upset much of the time, and whose sleep is regularly broken during the night can be very wearying on parents. Dr Joseph T. Hart, a paediatrician of Portland, Oregan, has found that by supplementing zinc you may be able to eliminate the problem of sleeplessness. He has supplied zinc drops to hundreds of children and in the majority of cases the chronic sleeplessness has disappeared. Dr K.M. Hambridge of Denver, Colorado, observed that zinc−fed babies were much less irritable. Dr Carl C Pfeiffer of Princeton, New Jersey, demonstrated that supplementing zinc to pregnant women who had high copper levels would result in healthier babies. Dr Hart observed that in babies who habitually wake up many times at night, with zinc supplementation ... in two or three nights the children are responding and sleeping through till morning, and continuing to do so. Hart reports that zinc supplementation also produces improvement in appetite, daytime irritability, diarrhoea, skin rashes, and pallor. Older children whose wakefulness was followed by climbing out of bed, getting in bed with parents, lost those annoying habits. Zinc also helps to get rid of the terrible two's. Within a week we often see a definite settling down and reduction of tantrums and terrorizing of poor mother. Zinc is being successfully used for learning−disabled children, for kids with seizures, skin lesions, and histories of infections. Zinc is essential for new tissue formation. It is essential for white blood cell and antibody formation. It helps to neutralize toxic minerals in the body such as lead, cadmium and copper. It also seems to make other nutrients work better. Zinc drops may be made by putting one saltspoon of zinc sulphate into 50 ml bottle of rain or well water and shaking thoroughly.

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Fill a second 50ml bottle with water and five drops from first bottle. This is readily absorbed with no side effects whatsoever. Use 10 drops a day for children, 10 drops twice a day for adults. ZINC AND ZINC DEFICIENCY Zinc deficiency is common; there are several reasons for it. 1) Poor dietary intake. The chief food source of zinc is red meat, and there is a move towards vegetarian diet. Oysters are said to be rich in zinc; also pumpkin seeds; there is not much in fruit or vegetables. When cooking pumpkin don't discard the seeds; whizz them with water, strain, and use the liquid in soup and gravy. Or boil the seeds with the pumpkin, then split them with the teeth and eat the nut. 2) Poor absorption. Things that help the absorption of zinc are vitamin C and manganese. 3) Increased need, as in pregnancy and in stress. 4) The contraceptive pill makes women zinc−deficient (also deficient in some vitamins) 5) The use of copper water−pipes in plumbing. Water (especially soft water or hot water from copper−lined cylinders) becomes loaded with copper. A label on a new hot water bottle said, "Do not fill with water from a hot tap; it will be loaded with copper, which will shorten the life of the bottle". A tiny trace of copper is needed in the body, but too much is poisonous, and causes headache, migraine, joint pain, arthritis. Don't ever drink or cook with water from a hot tap. In the body, zinc and copper bond, and when the body is trying to excrete excess copper, zinc is excreted at the same time, leaving zinc deficiency. One advantage of zinc supplements is that zinc, plus B6 and vitamin C, helps to reduce excess copper in the body. Carl Pfeiffer says that over several months this will reduce arthritis. One research showed that 90% of a group of hyperactive children tested, were deficient in zinc, compared with only 26% of non−hyperactive children. WHY ZINC IS IMPORTANT There are trillions of chemical changes going on in the body every fraction of a second. Hundreds of enzymes are the catalysts for these changes. A great many of the enzymes require the help of zinc in order to work correctly; probably also vitamins C, B6 and other B vitamins. Adequate zinc and vitamins C and B6 are needed for a strong immune system. In animal research, zinc deficiency in pregnant females, led to immune deficiency in the offspring for three generations. The human foetus requires zinc for brain development; the male foetus also needs a lot for the development of the testes. There is also zinc in human milk. It is thought that if a mother enters pregnancy zinc−deficient, the foetus may almost exhaust her supplies; when she begins breast feeding this may take her last traces, and post−natal depression results. An article in the journal of the American association for learning disability, suggested that the reason why there are so many more hyperactive and learning disabled boys than girls, may be because of zinc deficiency in pregnancy. In male foetuses, the zinc available goes first to form the genitals, leaving an inadequate supply for brain development. SIGNS OF ZINC DEFICIENCY 1) White spots on nails. If these are present, take John Peters' zinc tonic till they disappear. 2) Skin problems : eczema, dermatitis, acne 3) Impaired immunity and susceptibility to infections 60

4) Impaired wound healing 5) Low birth weight and retarded growth 6) Failure of sexual development or function, prostate problems in men, (I know of two men who avoided a prostate operation by taking zinc). 7) Impaired taste and impaired sense of smell. This lack of taste and smell leads to poor appetite and anorexia. Both improve with zinc supplements. If you cannot taste zinc, it means that you need it. 8) In women, depression and post−natal depression (baby blues). 9) In children, disturbed behaviour, learning difficulties, sleeplessness. 10)Weak, brittle nails, dry, brittle hair. ZINC SUPPLEMENTS AVAILABLE The recommended minimum daily allowance for adults is 15mg of pure zinc. Health shops sell tablets of chelated zinc; the zinc is bonded with a protein to make it more easily absorbed. John Peters, owner of the Mall pharmacy in Upper Hutt, phone (04) 528 5188, makes a liquid zinc supplement containing vitamin B6 and also manganese to help zinc absorption. JOHN PETERS' ZINC TONIC John kindly gave me a copy of the recipe; readers can ask their own pharmacist to make it for them. Tell your chemist the age of the person you want it for. If you want to use B−complex as well (which we recommend, because B vitamins are the "good−temper" vitamins) the B6 in the zinc recipe could be reduced by the amount in the B−complex tablet. The zinc recipe 1) for adults or teenagers: zinc sulphate 65mg; manganese chloride 7.2mg; magnesium chloride 50mg; vitamin B6 100mg; water to 5ml. Dose 5 ml once or twice daily depending on need; 2) children 7 to 12 years: Vitamin B6, 50mg; zinc, manganese and magnesium 66% of adult recipe; water to 5 ml. Dose 5ml daily or 2.5ml twice daily; 3) children 3 to 7 years: Half the adult amounts for all the ingredients, water to 5ml. Dose 5ml daily or 2.5ml twice daily; 4) infants up to 3 years: The same recipe as for children 3 to 7 years, but half the dose, 2.5ml daily. Take it with food, preferably early in the day. This zinc tonic has no preservatives or additives, so order only a month's supply at a time. Ask your chemist for a measuring spoon to measure 5 and 2.5mls. John Peters recommends a multi−vitamin liquid to give with the zinc tonic, Vita−Fit Liquavita, "Hi−Vita". Vitamin C It is important to take vitamin C with the zinc liquid. Dr Kalokerinos, the Australian "vitamin C doctor" recommends the sodium ascorbate form available from chemists. The daily requirement varies a lot from one individual to another. Dr Kalokerinos says to start with a small amount and work up. If you take more than necessary it will cause diarrhoea, in which case merely reduce the dose. He said a small amount for an infant would be sodium ascorbate as big as a match−head, but when that is tolerated, increase it. Magnesium ascorbate is also good, and provides magnesium. It is not easy to buy, but can be made at home. Ask a chemist for a small quantity of light magnesium carbonate and ascorbic acid (vitamin C). Before breakfast, take half a small, level teaspoon of the mixture and stir it into a cup of hot water. It will fizz slightly and make a new compound, magnesium ascorbate. Add a teaspoon of John Peters' zinc mixture and drink.

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VITAMIN C AND SALICYLATE SENSITIVITY Some salicylate sensitive people are afraid to take vitamin C, because one research showed that it competes with salicylate for excretion; that is, surplus vitamin C will prevent salicylate from being excreted. But when the body is under any internal stress, it uses up its vitamin C rapidly. Hyperactivity is a sign of great internal stress, so maybe the vitamin C will be used up, instead of being excreted. BOOKS, ETC. ABOUT ZINC Bryce−Smith, D., The zinc solution Pfeiffer, C., Mental and elemental nutrients Pfeiffer, C., Zinc and other micro−nutrients Rodale, J., Zinc and the healthy prostate There is a connection with zinc deficiency and skin diseases. ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS (EFA's) (1) Evening Primrose Oil (EP Oil) Allergic and hyperactive people often benefit from supplements of EFA's such as evening primrose oil and cod liver oil. Excessive thirst is a symptom of EFA deficiency, and hyperactive children with excessive thirst are specially likely to benefit; also children or adults with eczema or asthma. EP oil seems to benefit many conditions that stem from allergy; this is because it helps to strengthen and regulate the immune system. The dose for infants is 1 or 2 capsules a day; for children 3 a day, for adults 6 to 8 a day. The oil is absorbed through the skin; if a baby is too young to swallow a capsule without choking, soften the capsule by leaving the lid off, pierce it with a needle and rub the oil gently onto the soft skin of the tummy, or inside the thigh or forearm. For the best results, take the following supplements with EP oil; they are needed for the oil to be correctly metabolised in the body: vitamins C and B−complex; especially B3, B5, B6, also zinc, magnesium and manganese. Evening Primrose Oil should not be used in cases where there is epilepsy. Toxins that block the use of EP oil in the body are: artificial food colours, anti−oxidant preservatives in cooking oil, hydrogenated fats (oils that have been chemically changed into a solid as in margarine), and opioid peptides that are produced in the stomach when milk and wheat proteins are not properly digested. Our members can obtain EP oil from Analytical Nutrition, PO Box 35 127, Browns Bay, Auckland at a discount. Firstly, check to see if if this source is still available. (2) Cod liver Oil This contains vitamins A and D, as well as a valuable essential fatty acid. Vitamin A keeps the mucous membranes in the body healthy, and cod liver oil helps to keep children free from coughs and colds. A teaspoon daily after breakfast will cure a persistent cough in a week. It is easier to take if a few grains of salt are added. Eaten with a pinch of salt between two slices of bread it tastes like a sardine sandwich. All oils should be kept in the fridge. Don't force a child to take oil that is disliked; it may be rancid, and that is toxic. To prevent rancidity, wipe the top of the bottle with a tissue before replacing the cap. Or the child may be allergic to the oil, making it toxic to him. For more information bout EFA's, read "Superimmunity for Kids ids" by Leo Galland. ENZYMES CAN IMPROVE DIGESTION AND THUS REDUCE ALLERGIES Digestive enzymes are now available in tablet or capsule form. There is a good brand called "Pancrex V" which contains three enzymes to assist digestion of fat, protein and carbohydrate. It is avaialble from chemists either without a prescription, or with one if your doctor will give it. NUTRITION IS A BETTER WAY TO CORRECT HYPERACTIVITY/A.D.D. The British Hyperactivity Association, the Hyperactive Children's Support Group (HACSG) pioneered the use of evening primrose oil with a vitamin/mineral supplement called Efavite and found it effective in reducing hyperactivity and disturbed behaviour. A Dunedin doctor Dr Les Simpson has also researched EP oil and found it effective for allergic and hyperactive children.

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Research has shown a brain abnormaility in hyperactive children. A part of the brain called the striatum has a reduced blood flow and does not function properly. This is the part of the brain that screens out unwanted stimuli and allows the person to concentrate on what is important. The discovery could explain why some children have poor concentration and attention deficit. Stephen Schoenthaler has done research with thousands of young offenders in USA which has shown clearly that improved nutrition improves behaviour. In one research he studied six subjects who were deficient in vitamins and minerals, as shown by blood assays. They were given brain scans which revealed a total of 22 brain abnormalities. Four were given vitamin/mineral supplements for 13 weeks; the other two were given placebos. In the second round of tests, the four who had received supplements had normal levels of nutrients and 12 out of their 14 brain abnormalities had disappeared! The control group of two still had low nutrient levels and their eight brain abnormalities were unchanged. Schoenthaler points out that his subjects have not shown physical signs of malnutrition; he therefore believes that the brain is far more sensitive to malnutrition than the body. Blood assays to determine nutrient levels are not common in New Zealand. But the question arises, could the malfunction of the striatum in hyperactive and ADHD children be due to nutrient deficiencies, and could it be corrected with nutrient supplements? Research to answer this question would be invaluable. Schoenthaler did research with 615 school children, from four schools. One was in a poor area, two in middle class areas and one in a wealthy area. Some were given vitamin/mineral supplements for three months; some had placebos. 45% of the children on supplements benefited from them. Their non−verbal I! (their "native wit") rose by an average of 20 points. This implies that for almost half the children, their previous diet was so deficient in vitamins and minerals that malnutrition was retarding their mental ability. So give hyperactive and ADHD children vitamin/mineral supplements to bring possibly low levels of these up to normal, and at all times give food as rich as possible in vitamins and beneficial minerals; ie vegetable proteins or fresh, unprocessed meat, fish, free−range chickens; plenty of fresh vegetables, raw or lightly cooked; raw fruit in moderation; bread and baking made with whole grain flours and pure water to drink. Raw food is far richer in vitamins, minerals and enzymes, than is cooked food. If you do not have time for cooking, do not buy fast foods or convenience foods. Instead, save time by NOT cooking! Eat as much food as possible raw. Leslie Kenton, in her book "Raw Energy" says that cooking may damage your health! If one is well and wishes to stay that way, half the food should be eaten raw. If one is sick and wants to get well, 75% to 80% should be eaten raw. Dr Eva Hill, a New Zealand doctor who cured many people of terminal cancer with a raw food diet, told one of her patients, "You can eat anything you like, as long as you don't cook it". This woman had lumps all over her body, but they were going away. I met her thirty years later, still in good health. PYCNOGENOL Pycnogenol is a new vitamin supplement that has become available in the 1990's. It seems to help with a number of diseases including some cases of ADD and hyperactivity. Possibly something to trial.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson SECTION 8: APPENDICES • Reading List • Papers available on topics related to allergy • Information about salicylate • Overcoming alcohol/tobacco addiction and craving • Additives to avoid • Understanding Allergy Part 2 • Classifying Allergies and Allergy Treatment • Acknowledgements

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson READING LIST 1. Allergy Alexander, P: It could be allergy and it can be cured. Baker, C. Allergy and food intolerance in your family Buist, R. Food intolerance Food chemical sensitivity Crook, W. Are you allergic ? Dr Crook discusses allergy &how it affects you and your family Detecting your hidden allergies FAUS Salicylate/Aspirin Sensitivity Minchin, M. Food for thought, ed 3 1986 Mumby, K. The Food allergy plan Mansfield, P. Chemical children Rapp, D. Allergies and your family 2. Hyperactivity &Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) Taylor, J. Helping your hyperactive child Barnes, B. The Hyperactive child; what the family can do Dengate, Sue *Different Kids Fontenelle, D. Understanding and managing the overactive child Feingold, B. Why your Child is hyperactive Hallowell, E. *Driven to Distraction King, Laughton *Reaching the Reluctant Learner Rapp, D. Allergies and the hyperactive child The impossible child Is this your child? Serfontein, G. The hidden handicap Smith, Lendon *Hyper Kids Crook, W. Solving the Puzzle of the hard−to−raise child, 1987 Help for the hyperactive child * Recent books about ADD and learning difficulties; highly recommended 3. Infant and Child Care Balaskas, J. Active birth Darrah, F. Healing your child Kalokerinos, A. Every second child Odent, M. Birth reborn Price, A. Breastfeeding guide for the working woman Minchin, M. Breastfeeding matters; what we ought to know about infant feeding Hershey, J Why Can't my child behave Holborow, P Let the genius flower Breakey, J Is your child food−sensitive 4. The Foresight Programme of Pre−conception Care Barnes, B Planning for a healthy baby Bradley, S.G. Preparation for pregnancy; an essential guide Naish, F. The natural way to better babies; preconception health care for prospective parents Jervis, N. &R. The Foresight wholefood cookbook for building healthy families Video Preparing for the healthier baby; The Foresight pre−conception programme 5. Health and Nutrition Ash, J. Happiness is junk free food Davies, S. Nutritional medicine Galland, L Superimmunity for Kids Gooch, S. If you love me don't feed me junk! Morgan, B. Brain food Peterson, V. Strategies of the champions Prince, F. Feed your kids bright (English title: Feed your kids a better IQ) Reed, B. Food, teens and behaviour Roberts, G. Boost your child's brain power Schauss, A. Diet, crime and delinquency Schauss, A. Nutrition and behaviour; how what you eat affects what you do Smith, L. Feed your kids right Improving your child's behavior chemistry 6. Recipe Books Coffey, L. Wheatless cooking Crook, W. The Yeast connection cookbook Edwards, L. Baking on a limited wholefood diet Baking for health Kamen, B. The Kamen plan for total nutrition during pregnancy (recipes) Middlestead, M Cooking naturally Mulcock, T. Flours and grains for feasting Rockwell, S. Coping with candida cook book Swain, A. Friendly food. Williams, X. Living with allergies 7. Candida Yeast Infection (Thrush) Crook, W. Dr Crook discusses yeasts and how they can make you sick The yeast connection Chaitow, L. Candida albicans Turner, R. Candida can be beaten 8. M.E. (Chronic fatigue syndrome) Collinge, William Recovering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Crook, W. Chronic fatigue syndrome &the yeast connection Rosenbaum, M. Solving the puzzle of chronic fatigue 65

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson PAPERS ON RELATED TOPICS AVAILABLE FROM WELLINGTON ALLERGY AND HYPERACTIVITY/ADD ASSOCIATION INC. A sugar−free Feingold Programme is the basic first step in allergy treatment; to improve health, learning ability and behaviour. Those not entirely satisfied with results after six weeks should investigate the possibility of allergy to nutritious foods; the most common statistically, is allergy to cow's milk, after that wheat allergy and possibly yeast sensitivity. Information papers below are available on request from , Hataitai, Wellington 6003: "In praise of Grandparents" (notes for grandparents and other caregivers) Notes on low salicylate diet prepared by an Auckland allergist Case histories showing the benefits of a sugar−free Feingold programme for children and adults Three do−it−yourself allergy tests Children with poor appetite Seven rules for getting and keeping well. Symptoms of allergy Symptoms of hyperactivity Allergies may be to blame for learning difficulties and disturbed behaviour. Help for learning disabled children Notes on asthma Anti−asthma nutrition Notes on glue ear Notes on eczema Notes on arthritis Notes on migraine Notes on hayfever Improving nutrition in school cafeterias Names and addresses of doctors and practitioners in Wellington or in your own area, who are interested in allergy or who do allergy testing. Five day plan for school children, to identify chemical or salicylate sensitivity. By Patricia Holborrow, PhD.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson N.Z. GROUPS &INDIVIDUALS WHO GIVE INFORMATION ABOUT ALLERGY AND HYPERACTIVITY Paparoa Fay Cox, PO Box 118, Paparoa, (09) 431 8625 Whangarei Betty Hooper, PO Box 4329, Kamo, (09) 435 1201 Auckland Allergy Awareness Association, PO Box 12 701, (09) 267 6032 Auckland A.D.H.D. Assn, (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), PO Box 51 675,Auckland, (09) 623 5380 Auckland ADD Support Group, PO Box 74 349, Auckland 5, (09) 846 4128 Hamilton Michelle Fitzjohn, 10 Dover Street (07) 849 1733 Cambridge Nancy Cooke, (07) 827 7359 evenings Rotorua Helen Franich, 11 Awatea Terrace, Rotorua 345 6535 New Plymouth Helen Cronin, 152A Parklands Avenue, New Plymouth (06) 755 2252 Wanganui Allergy &Hyperactivity Awareness Assn, c/− Sharyn Wylie, 5 Durie Vale Rd, Wanganui (06) 345 8393 Palmerston Nth Elizabeth Manson, c/− SPELD, PO Box 1707 Palm Nth (06) 359 0495 Napier Helena Merson 39 Clark Avenue (06) 843 2051 Masterton Adrienne Bradley, 119 South Belt,Masterton (06) 378 9027 Otaki Enquire at Women's Health Centre, (06) 364 6367 Wellington see facing page Picton Allergy Resource Centre, June Morgan 2 Surrey St Picton 573 7458 Upper Moutere Anthea Kershaw RD2 Upper Moutere 543 2648 Christchurch Allergy Awareness Association PO Box 15 052 Christchurch 2 Dorothy Joyce 72 Bamford Street Woolston Christchurch 2, 384 1012 Christchurch ADD Support Group, PO Box 40, Belfast 8250 (03) 323 8394 Cheviot Rosemary Barnes, Spotswood, R.D. Cheviot, (03) 319 2891 Darfield Darfield Allergy Support Group Julie Law 6 Longden St Darfield (03) 318 8029 Rakaia Rakaia Allergy Support Group, c/− Mrs Lee Halliday, RD11 Rakaia (03) 302 7399 A

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shburton Refer to Parents Centre, La Leche League or Soil &Health Assn. Some of their members are interested in allergies Timaru Margaret Kane, Rocky Hundreds Road, RD2, Timaru Waimate Waimate Allergy Support Group Caroline Fox, Uretane Rd, RD9, Waimate or Joan Scott, Upper Mill Road RD 8 Waimate Dunedin All−aware Allergy Support Group, c/− Kathryn Jones, 41 Melville St, Dunedin 9001, (03) 477 0836 M.E. Information &Support Service, c/− Sandra Crashley, 12 Montague Street, N.E. Valley, Dunedin Invercargill Food Allergy &ME Group, c/− Marie Lockie 107 Wilton St, Invercargill (03) 217 8720

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson INFORMATION ABOUT SALICYLATES There are several sources of information. Early research found salicylate in a number of fruits, and this information was used in four Feingold books: Why your child is hyperactive, by Ben Feingold (1975) The Feingold Cookbook, by Ben &Helene Feingold (1979) The Feingold Handbook, by the Feingold Association US (1986) Salicylate/Aspirin Sensitivity by the Feingold Association US (1992) These books warn that the following items contain salicylate; they advise parents to avoid them for four to six weeks, using only low salicylate fruits (such as peeled pear, banana, pawpaw and lemon juice). These are the salicylate items named Almonds, apples (also apple cider and cider vinegar) apricots, all berries, cherries, red/black currants, grapes (also raisins, currants, sultanas, wine, wine vinegar), oranges and tangerines, all stone fruits, tomatoes and all tomato products, cucumber and cucumber pickles, mint, peppermint, peppers and chillies (all peppers are high or very high in salicylate), cloves, coffee, all teas, aspirin and wintergreen. If symptoms have improved in the four to six week period, it may be possible to reintroduce some of the salicylate fruits. Test only one at a time, for about a week, watching for a reaction (a return of symptoms). If one occurs, use the antidote on page 20. Keep a precise diet diary, so that if a change in behaviour or skin problems occurs, it can be correlated with the offending food. Begin testing with a small amount (maybe a spoonful); if there is no reaction give the item every second or third day for a week. If there is a reaction, stop testing for a week or more. With very sensitive or asthmatic people, testing should be closely supervised by a doctor. Sensitivity to food chemicals is dose−related. Symptoms appear when the amount tolerated is exceeded. A person might eat a different fruit each day without a reaction; but if they exceed their tolerance level, the next fruit eaten (say a peach) may produce a reaction; though they may not be more sensitive to peaches than to other fruits. So watch out for a build−up of salicylate. People vary greatly in their tolerance levels, and each has to discover their own threshold. Essential fatty acids such as evening primrose oil and fish oil, seem to raise tolerance levels in allergic people; also vitamin and mineral supplements; (see story of Danny on page 60.) Using the Feingold programme improves health, and some mothers find that salicylate sensitivity moderates in time. Using the Feingold programme with the above information about salicylate has helped thousands of children world−wide. Patricia Holborow PhD helped to form a hyperactivity association in Brisbane. She did nine years of research with this salicylate programme, asking mothers to ring her with feedback about their results. She found that different varieties of the same fruit can vary in salicylate content; also that in general, parents are quite good at finding their child's tolerance level. She has evolved a simple five−day plan which a parent or teacher can use to discover whether food chemicals and salicylates are at the root of a child's behaviour or learning problems. Further Australian Research In the 80's, Australian dietitian Dr Anne Swain, and others at the Sydney University and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, analysed 333 foods and other items, to discover their content of salicylate. The work was reported in an article, "Salicylate in Foods" by Anne Swain and others, in the 70

Journal of the American Dietetic Assn., August 1985. The foods are divided into categories and listed with their salicylate content in milligrams per 100 grammes of food. Robert Buist made use of this information in his book "Food Chemical Sensitivity" arranging the items into five groups:− Negligible salicylate up to .1 mg per 100 grammes; Low salicylate .1 mg to .5 mg per 100 grammes; Medium salicylate .5 mg to 1 mg per 100 grammes; High salicylate 1 mg to 5 mg per 100 grammes and Very High salicylate over 5 mg per 100 grammes. Since 1985, the Sydney team have extended their research to cover amines and MSG, two other food chemicals occurring naturally in foods. Their work culminated in a recipe book entitled, "Friendly Food: the complete guide to avoiding allergies, additives and problem chemicals" by Anne Swain, V.L. Soutter and R.H. Loblay. It contains a 16 page introduction which includes eight pages of charts showing the content of salicylate, amines and MSG in fruits, vegetables and many other foods and substances. The charts are in columns headed low, moderate, high and very high to show the quantity of food chemicals in each item. For foods that contain only salicylates, the charts show the levels. Where there is a combination of chemicals, the amount of salicylate is not given; only the total quantity of chemicals. Dr Swain thinks that chemically sensitive people probably react to amines as well as salicylate, and that many hyperactive children react to both salicylates in fruit and vegetables and also to amines in cheese, chocolate, bananas, etc. Amines are suspected of causing migraine. Two Auckland boys suffered from both hyperactivity and migraine; their mothers thought amines more of a problem than salicylates. They wrote a low−amine recipe book entitled "Real Food Cookbook" by Hauf and Anderson. Baking recipes in Friendly Food (and also those in the Feingold Cookbook) use sugar freely. Those using a sugar−free diet, could still use these recipes, reducing the sugar or omitting it. Dr Feingold's advice was to reduce the sugar by a teaspoonful every time you make the item. Feingold's Salicylate fruits compared with Anne Swain's The high salicylate fruits named by Feingold, correlate fairly well with Anne Swain's research. However, grapefruit, kiwifruit, and pineapple are "allowed" in the American Feingold Handbook but are rated very high in chemicals in the Australian book Friendly Food; so use these fruits cautiously, and avoid them in stage one of the diet, ie. for the first month or six weeks. Fruits and vegetables vary in their composition according to their variety and the time of season. Fruits harvested early in the season are higher in salicylate than riper fruit. All varieties of peas, beans, lentils seem to be low in salicylate except broad beans. These are moderate in salicylate but contain amines, making them very high in total chemicals. Final Remark There is an old saying that fruit is golden in the morning, silver at midday, lead at night. Maybe a sensitive individual can tolerate it better in the morning when refreshed by a night's sleep. One mother at least, found her children slept better when she gave them no fruit after 3 pm. This could also benefit bedwetters. Bedwetting and night terrors seem to be linked with salicylate sensitivity, and improve with the Feingold programme. Chemically sensitive people may react to pesticide residues in foods. Commonsense Organics, near the corner of Wakefield and Tory Streets, Wellington, sells spray free organic fruits/vegetables. Or write to the NZ Organic Growers assn., PO Box 306, Napier, for a list of growers who supply organically grown produce by the case.

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The book entitled "Salicylate/Aspirin Sensitivity" by the Feingold Assn of US (FAUS). It has 28 pages of useful information about managing salicylate and chemical sensitivity. Ask your local library to buy it, or order a copy for yourself, from FAUS, PO Box 6550, Alexandria, VA 22306, USA.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson OVERCOMING ALCOHOL/TOBACCO CRAVING There is a saying that "addiction equals allergy"; meaning that all addiction is linked with allergy. Craving is a symptom of allergy, and can be cured or improved by allergy treatment. Tobacco and alcohol used in pregnancy can have a devastating effect on the baby's health and behaviour. Tobacco increases the likelihood of hyperactivity, cot death, asthma, ear infections, glue ear. Alcohol in pregnancy can cause brain damage, and a particularly difficult form of hyperactivity, which according to the American Feingold Association does not seem to respond as well as usual to the Feingold programme. In case there are women addicted to alcohol/tobacco who would like to stop using them in pregnancy, or before, here are a few hints to help. There is a small book entitled "The easy way to stop smoking" by Allen Carr. I showed it to my brother. He said, I don't want to stop smoking; it's my only pleasure". I felt sad; if people are healthy, everything they do is a pleasure. He read the book for half an hour and then threw it down irritably. But when I saw him next, a month later, he had stopped smoking. I lent it to a woman who wanted her mother to stop smoking. When she returned it after a month, she said, "Three people have stopped; my mother, my sister and her boyfriend. He is a truck driver and used to smoke two packets a day." Allen Carr's theory is that nobody enjoys smoking. The first cigarettes smoked in childhood cause nausea. If one stops because of an illness, and then starts again, the first cigarettes cause nausea. What people enjoy is cessation of withdrawal symptoms. As soon as a cigarette is stubbed out, withdrawal symptoms begin to build up. Withdrawal symptoms of tobacco are so terrible, that it is heaven to cancel them with another cigarette. It is like wearing shoes that are too tight, and hurt one's corns, just for the pleasure of taking them off. Carr says, read this book to the end; then say, "Thank God I never have to smoke another cigarette as long as I live," and stop! Probably the same is true of alcohol. The withdrawal symptoms are so unpleasant that the addict craves another fix to cancel them. Help with Craving An alcoholic realised he was hooked, and stopped drinking. He said that for six years he suffered from terrible craving; also from constant rages and aggression. Then he read "Are you allergic" by William Crook. He stopped eating wheat products, and the craving and the rage both left him. It is thought that alcohol addiction is linked with allergy to the substance that the alcohol is made from; probably grains; maybe grapes. If the problem food is identified and avoided, the addiction is easier to overcome. Alternatively, neutralising drops can be used; they diminish allergy symptoms including craving; they can be obtained from an allergist. Read "A little of what you fancy" by Richard Mackarness; he explains how to make the neutralising drops by serial dilution. They are safe; like homeopathic drops they are a minute dilution of the allergic substance; maybe one part in 100,000. Another doctor suggests inhaling an unlit cigarette. Possibly one might get the correct tiny dose of nicotine to neutralise craving. Baking soda, or the soda/potassium antidote (two parts of sodium bicarbonate and one part of potassium bicarbonate) reduces allergy symptoms, including craving. Alexander Schauss describes a research in which a group of smokers took 1300 mg of the antidote in a cup of warm water, three times daily for a minimum of five weeks. After six weeks they had stopped smoking; none of the control group had. 1300 mg would be about a third of a teaspoonful.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson ADDITIVES TO AVOIDThe Hyperactive Children's Support Group (HACSG) is the British hyperactivity association. They recommend that the following additives should be avoided by hyperactive or chemically sensitive people. Colourings • 102 Tartrazine • E128 Red 2G • E104 Quinoline Yellow • 132 Indigo carmine • 107 Yellow 2G • 133 Brilliant blue FCF • 110 Sunset Yellow FCF • 150 Caramel • 120 Cochineal • 151 Black PN • 122 Carmoisine • E154 Brown FK • 123 Amaranth • 155 Brown HT • 124 Ponceau 4R • 160(b) Annatto • 127 Erythrosine Preservatives • 210 Benzoic acid • 251 Sodium nitrate • 211 Sodium benzoate • 220 Sulphur dioxide • 250 Sodium nitrite • 282 Calcium proprionate; a mould inhibitor in bread and other flour products Anti−oxidants • 319 Tert−butylhydroquinone • 321 Butylated hydroxytoluene • 320 Butylated hydroxyanisole Note: Artificial flavours are not given code numbers, but they should also be avoided. On a label “flavouring” usually means artificial flavour. The following additives are dangerous to asthmatics or aspirin−sensitive people, and could reasonably be added to the HACSG listing. They should especially be avoided by babies and children. • 212 Potassium benzoate • 224 Potassium metabisulphite • 213 Calcium benzoate • 310 Propyl gallate 74

• E214 Ethyl 4−hydroxybenzoate • 311 Octyl gallate • E215 Ethyl 4−hydroxybenzoate, sodium salt • 312 Dodecyl gallate • 216 Propyl 4−hydroxybenzoate • 621 Monosodium L −glutamate • E217 Propyl 4−hydroxybenzoate, sodium salt • 622 Monopotassium L −glutamate • 218 Methyl 4−hydroxybenzoate • 623 Calcium di L−glutamate • E219 Methyl 4−hydroxybenzoate, sodium salt • 627 Disodium guanylate • 221 Sodium sulphite • 631 Disodium inosinate • 222 Sodium bisulphite • E635 Sodium 5−ribonucleotide • 223 Sodium metabisulphite

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson UNDERSTANDING ALLERGY Part 2 Allergy is very common today. It is sometimes estimated that about 30% of people are allergic, but it may be much higher. In a small survey by our association, over 50% said that they were aware of allergies in self or family; and 94% ticked allergic symptoms they had suffered in the previous 18 months. A BBC reporter conducted his own survey; he said that of the first 20 people he questioned, 18 said they had allergies. I think there are five main causes for this epidemic. 1 When the atmosphere in the home is mainly tense, argumentative and negative, with little laughter,it can make the following more likely to cause allergies. 2 The common use of bottle feeding throughout the 20th century. The tendency to develop allergies runs in families. It is more likely to be inherited if both parents come from allergic families. Allergy is also more likely to develop in a baby if it is bottle fed. The incidence of allergy seems to have increased with each generation. The La Leche League was formed in the 60's to help women breast feed successfully, and they have almost three decades of experience in this field. Should Plunket and La Leche combine, it would benefit the health of New Zealand infants and children. 3 There has been a chemical revolution in this century. Thousands of new chemicals that never existed before, have been invented by a wealthy and powerful industry. When invented there is pressure from the manufacturers to get them sold and used, and they have invaded our food, air and water. The body needs pure food, pure air, pure water; it does not need foreign chemicals; they create stress and weaken the immune system. 4 There is an epidemic today of Candida yeast infection (thrush), (see p.31), Among other harmful effects, it causes allergy and chemical sensitivity. 5 I think a fifth cause of the allergy epidemic is the diet of teenagers. It is considered cool for children and teenagers to eat fast foods, take−away foods, junk foods. By the time they reach child−bearing years, their bodies are exhausted of the nutrients needed for a happy pregnancy, an easier birth, and a healthy baby. Difficult pregnancy and birth are stress for mother and baby alike, and stress is the forerunner of allergy; or colic as it used to be called. A sleepless, screaming, colicky baby, developing into a restless, unhappy, overactive toddler; is a misery I would not wish on anyone. I say again, that the best time to start feeding a baby right, is several years before it is born. This applies to fathers too, since they provide half the baby's genes. CLASSIFYING ALLERGIES Two kinds of allergic reaction are recognised: 1 Allergy to nutritious foods, such as milk or wheat products. This is really an immune reaction, as explained in the first part of this article on page 4. 2 The second type is usually called "sensitivity". It is not an immune reaction; it is a reaction to a chemical that is toxic to the body; such as a food additive, a pesticide, a toxic gas such as smoke, perfume, or volatile solvents used in quick drying glues, etc. These fumes are probably toxic to everyone; whether they produce a reaction will depend on how efficiently the individual can excrete them. Allergies can also be classified into those that produce physical symptoms in the body, and those that produce mental and emotional symptoms in the brain and nervous system. The latter are called cerebral allergies. Cerebral allergy is the cause of much or most disturbed emotions and behaviour in children (and I believe in adults, also). Cerebral allergy also produces learning difficulties such as dyslexia, and hyperactivity.

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ALLERGY TREATMENT Always remember that the basic cause of allergy is stress. Allergic symptoms appear when the total stress load is more than the body can cope with. So the first step in allergy treatment is to reduce stress. Stress can be of two kinds; mental and emotional stress, or physical stress. We give our bodies physical stress when we put something in the body that it does not want; either by eating or drinking or breathing it. This is the easiest kind of stress to reduce; we just have to stop doing it. So this is where I advise people who want to overcome allergy, to begin. Reduce physical stress (chemical stress) by using a sugar−free Feingold programme. The Feingold programme reduces the quantity of toxic chemical additives in the diet, and eliminating all sugars starves thrush in the bowel and reduces the toxic wastes it produces.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson CLASSIFYING ALLERGIES Two kinds of allergic reaction are recognised: 1 Allergy to nutritious foods, such as milk or wheat products. This is really an immune reaction, as explained in the first part of this article on page 4. 2 The second type is usually called "sensitivity". It is not an immune reaction; it is a reaction to a chemical that is toxic to the body; such as a food additive, a pesticide, a toxic gas such as smoke, perfume, or volatile solvents used in quick drying glues, etc. These fumes are probably toxic to everyone; whether they produce a reaction will depend on how efficiently the individual can excrete them. Allergies can also be classified into those that produce physical symptoms in the body, and those that produce mental and emotional symptoms in the brain and nervous system. The latter are called cerebral allergies. Cerebral allergy is the cause of much or most disturbed emotions and behaviour in children (and I believe in adults, also). Cerebral allergy also produces learning difficulties and hyperactivity. ALLERGY TREATMENT Always remember that the basic cause of allergy is stress. Allergic symptoms appear when the total stress load is more than the body can cope with. So the first step in allergy treatment is to reduce stress. Stress can be of two kinds; mental and emotional stress, or physical stress. We give our bodies physical stress when we put something in the body that it does not want; either by eating or drinking or breathing it. This is the easiest kind of stress to reduce; we just have to stop doing it. So this is where I advise people who want to overcome allergy, to begin. Reduce physical stress (chemical stress) by using a sugar−free Feingold programme. The Feingold programme reduces the quantity of toxic chemical additives in the diet, and eliminating all sugars starves thrush in the bowel and reduces the toxic wastes it produces.

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Anti−Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood, Health, Behaviour and Learning By Brenda Sampson ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In 1977 I knew almost nothing about allergy or hyperactivity. I would like to thank all who have taught me and helped me; all the many mothers and a few fathers who gave me feedback about improvements in their families; researchers P. Holborow PhD., D. Olsen, H. Franich, D. Curry, N. McGavin, D. Fox, D.M. White; our committee members through the years, and those who have supported us with donations and subscriptions; the staff at Wellington Library who have always been so helpful; all the New Zealand and overseas Allergy and Hyperactivity Associations for their informative newsletters and journals; and my sister Margaret Taylor for her tremendous help and support. Actually it was Margaret who was responsible for starting the whole enterprise when she urged me to invite Dr Feingold to speak in New Zealand. If you gain something from this book, it is Margaret and the others you should thank. But the person we should thank most, is the late Dr Ben Feingold, whose leadership and vision lightened the load of thousands of overstressed children and families. "Where there is no vision the people perish." NUTRITION AND LEARNING ABILITY A school district in Florida was appalled at the bus−loads of children coming to the special centre for children with learning difficulties. They decided to try out the idea that better nutrition improves learning ability. The school food service would provide food which contained no artificial flavours or colours, no sugar or white flour, and they advertised for parents who would use similar foods at home. Individual allergies were not catered for, but the children were given vitamin and mineral supplements. The pilot programme lasted three years. The children were given three−monthly blood tests to monitor vitamin and mineral levels. At the beginning they had high levels of toxic minerals (lead &cadmium) and low levels of beneficial minerals; but by the end of three years this was reversed. There were also before and after tests that showed improvement in learning ability. But the report said that the most gratifying improvement was in the children themselves, as they began to realise that they were not dumb and stupid. Their self−images began to shine! Are not our New Zealand children as well worth rescuing?

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THE CHEMICAL POISONING OF NEW ZEALAND By Brenda Sampson THE MANUFACTURE AND USE OF TOXIC CHEMICALS IN THE 20th CENTURY. THEY ARE USED IN MEDICATIONS, WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO THE POISONING OF NEW ZEALAND CHILDREN ISBN 0−473−09010−4 PUBLISHED BY ALLERGY & HYPERACTIVITY/ADD ASSOCIATION INC. NEW ZEALAND Copyright to the Allergy &Hyperactivity/ADD Association Inc. Material may be reproduced in any form, in whole, or part, provided that credit is given to Brenda Sampson and the Allergy &Hyperactivity/ADD Association Inc.

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THE CHEMICAL POISONING OF NEW ZEALAND By Brenda Sampson The Poisoning Of New Zealand. The cover article of this week's NZ Listener (11.5.02) is "New Zealand has aviolent society". This was not always so. In the 1930's and 1940's we had apeaceful society, 3 homicides in 3 decades. The NZ historian, Keith Sinclairsaid. "The time of the first Labour Government seems to have been a goldenage". Today homicide is almost a daily occurrence. The cause of violence isbrain poisoning. Medical drugs contribute to it. Ever since the Flexner Report in 1910, medical education in Westerncountries has been dominated by the immensely wealthy and powerfulpharmaceutical drug manufacturing industry. It invents and produces toxicchemicals to kill disease germs. Living cells are basically the same. Whatwill kill a germ cell, is also poisonous to a human cell. Most medical drugsare poisonous. I do not condemn doctors. Many are devoted and altruistic. But medicaleducation is woefully lacking in information about healing and health. Doctors have not always received the respect and admiration they have inNew Zealand today. A biography of Louis XIV entitled, "The Sun King" tellsthis story. If the king heard that a courtier had a sick child, he would sendone of this own doctors to treat the child. The treatment was so bad that thechild nearly always died. So the mother would try her best to keep the sickchild hidden until it recovered. New Zealand doctors today are dangerous to children. For example takeasthma. In the 1940's asthma was rare. I taught school from 1939 to 1945inclusive, and in 7 years only met one asthmatic child. She was a mild caseand never had an attack at school in the year I taught her. Today, research atthe Wellington Medical School has shown that 30% of children are asthmaticor wheezers. This increase has only occurred since the invention of asthmadrugs.

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THE CHEMICAL POISONING OF NEW ZEALAND By Brenda Sampson We had a paper in our files about research done by a Dr. Row, a pediatritionist at Nelson Public Hospital. In the 1980's he treated children admitted to the Emergency Ward with acute asthma, almost entirely without medication, and they did very well indeed. Recently a doctor was amazed to see a child who was ill for the first time in a year. He said it was normal today for children to visit him monthly. Probably most visits resulted in prescribing medication, even though most have side effects, showing that the drug is stressful to the child. Stress overload is the cause of allergies developing. Allergic disease has become VERY common in the 20th century. One of the defects of medical education is that doctors learn little about allergy. A mother told me that the medical attitude to allergy is either, "Allergy? No such thing! Or, "Allergy? What can you do about THAT!" The history of modern medical education begins in the early 20* century with two millionaire families. The Carnegies had made a fortune in steel, the Rockefellers in the oil industry, They extended their wealth by investing money in the burgeoning pharmaceutical industry. They also endowed medical schools. "He that pays the piper calls the tune". These schools (financed by wealth from the pharmaceutical industry) taught pharmaceutical medicine. They became the wealthiest and most prestigious in the country. In the 1920's, chemistry was the major science. Science was greatly respected, and it meant chemistry. At that time, homeopathy was a popular alternative therapy which was also burgeoning. By the beginning of the 20* century, there were over 50 medical schools teaching homeopathy in the United States. Apparently the orthodox medical profession felt threatened. About 1910 a Dr. Flexner travelled throughout USA, visiting every medical school, to assess which schools were the best. He reported that the 3 best schools were the wealthy ones endowed by the millionaires. The Flexner Report recommended that pharmaceutical medicine be taught in medical schools. (Thus excluding preventive medicine, nutrition, alternative therapies, natural healing, etc), and that all health care practitioners should be "scientists, rigorously trained" in these schools.

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THE CHEMICAL POISONING OF NEW ZEALAND By Brenda Sampson Scientific medicine was drug therapy, and since then Western medical schools have concentrated on drug therapy, backed up by surgery; and preventive medicine, nutrition and natural therapies have been ignored. The result over 80 years has been escalating disease rates. There is a saying, that the best way to make money, is to take something that is cheap and plentiful, and turn it into something that can be sold easily at a higher price. At the beginning of the 20* century, motor cars had been invented and oil wells drilled for fuel. Petroleum was cheap and plentiful, and chemists turned it into thousands of different petrochemicals. The human body is an electro−chemical machine imbued with spirit. It needs the chemicals it is made of for repair and maintenance. Petrochemicals are foreign to the body, and poisonous in the sense that they interfere with the body's own chemistry. Let us go back to the mid−19th century when the poisoning of the world began. Before that time, agriculture had depended on recurring fallow years. In Europe every third year the land was not used. It was given a year−long holiday. In Palestine the earth lay fallow every 7th year. This was called the Year of Jubilee. In the fallow years the land grew weeds. Weeds are survival plants. Some, like dandelion and dock, have tap roots that go deep down into the earth and can reach trace−minerals which the short fibrous roots of wheat and grains cannot reach. These trace minerals come up into the leaves. The next year they are plowed under, and the wheat planted thereby gaining benefits from the trace minerals which are so important for health; for the health of the soil, for the plants which grow in the soil, for the animals which eat the plants, and the humans who eat both the plants and animals. Trace minerals give healthy soil, healthy plants, and health to humans who eat the healthy food.

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THE CHEMICAL POISONING OF NEW ZEALAND By Brenda Sampson The poisoning began with a chemist called Leibig. In the mid−1850's he announced that allowing the land to lie fallow was a waste. He showed that plants grow well if they are fertilised with 3 chemicals; nitrogen, phosphates and potash (potassium). This became known as a "complete" fertiliser, and agriculture has used it as such ever since. Gradually the trace minerals stored in the soil from previous fallow years, became exhausted, and plants became diseased. Another jump in time. I read the following in a book entitled "Chemical children; how to protect your family from harmful pollution". By Drs Peter Mansfield and Jean Munro. This phase began with the 1st World War. Poison gas was used to kill soldiers in the trenches in France. The soldiers were killed instantly, or their health was damaged for life. After the war, there was an international agreement that poison gas would never by used again. In the 2nd World War, Britain suspected that Hitler would break the agreement and use poison, so the British Government commissioned the chemical industry to build up a stockpile of poison to retaliate. But Hitler did not use poison as a weapon. What does an industry do, if it has become wealthy supplying a demand which suddenly disappears? It tries to create other markets to supply. That is what happened to the poison industry. This coincided (happily for the poison industry) with the agricultural diseases which had appeared in plants because of over 50 years without trace minerals. So here was a new market for poisons. Use them to kill plant diseases with toxic sprays. Never mind that toxic residues on fruit and vegetables would damage health of consumers, especially child health!

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THE CHEMICAL POISONING OF NEW ZEALAND By Brenda Sampson Another happy coincidence for the chemical industry, was aerial spraying. New Zealand had very good pilots in the 2" World War. They returned from the war looking for employment. On our hilly terrain, gorse had always been hard to control. Here was the answer: farms could be sprayed from the air with poison to kill gorse, and with Liebig's chemical fertiliser to grow grass. So this is where pilots returning from the war, found jobs. The rural areas of New Zealand, (which used to be "the healthiest country in the world" according to an early settler) became a dangerous place to live in. All through the 20th century the chemical industry continued to invent new petrochemicals at the rate of thousands every year, and to invent new uses for them. 80,000 had been invented by the end of the century, including many by a Dutch microscopist, Leeuwenhoek, (1632−1723) He discovered minute, onecelled organisms swimming in water. Later, a Frenchman, Pasteur, found that such organisms caused disease in the wine industry, and that they could be killed by heating. This process became known as pasteurisation. A controversy arose. Is disease caused by germs, or do they only attack an unhealthy host? On his deathbed, Pasteur changed his mind, and said, "I now believe that the condition of the host is more important". But throughout the 20th century, the medical attitude (and indeed the general attitude) seems to have been, "If you don't like it, kill it". An American doctor, Carl Pfeiffer, spoke against the use of toxic medications. He said, "Medication is a treatment that leads nowhere. It should only be used as a crutch, while the nutrition is improved to the point where the medication is no longer necessary."

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THE CHEMICAL POISONING OF NEW ZEALAND By Brenda Sampson The basis of natural therapy is that germs don't harm us if we are well. Iheard this on the radio once, in a talk called "Why does food go bad?". Thespeaker, a scientist, began by saying that all living organisms have asymbiotic arrangement with smaller organisms such as bacteria. Thebacteria do no harm to the larger creatures, because as long as the latter arealive, they have defense mechanisms against the germs. After death thedefense mechanisms no longer operate; the corpse becomes food, and thebacteria eat it. Their excreta are stinking and sometimes poisonous and thisis what we call "gone bad". The reason why meat goes bad more quicklythan fruit is that fruit takes longer to die; it does not die immediately it ispicked off the tree. When I heard this I thought, "If a germ is harmless to aperson who is fully alive (ie. healthy) we must be in the process of graduallydying, like a fruit, before we catch a contagious disease. It is not (as wethink) that when we have flu we are sick. We catch flu because we are sick,ie. not fully alive. Natural therapy and diet therapy believe that this"not−fully−aliveness" is caused by toxins accumulating in the body. In his book "Health and Healing in the New Age", Dr Williams described thesources of these toxins. He believed very strongly in the Life Force and thebody's power to heal itself. When the conditions that are making the personsick are removed, the body grows back to health, as surely as a plant that hashad a plank over it, grows upright to the light when the plank is removed. Antibiotics are a quick way of killing germs. But they are poisons anddisastrous to the health of infants and children. It is better to avoid them, andwork on improving a child's health by improving nutrition so that antibioticsare unnecessary. A Swiss doctor, Bircher Benner, said, "It is a tragedy whena short cut is invented. Afterwards, no one will use the long way, and oftenthe long way is better". Another potential source of poisoning is plastic. Plastic has thousands ofuses, but it is a toxic material. Synthetic carpets and other furnishings andbuilding materials, off−gas when new; ie. give off toxic gases. And plastic is soluble. I read that some liquids should never be kept in plastic containers,because the contents would be contaminated; eg. vinegar, wine or fruit juice,oil.

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THE CHEMICAL POISONING OF NEW ZEALAND By Brenda Sampson New Zealand's greatest doctor was Ulric Williams of Wanganui (1890−1982).He was a surgeon who became a naturopath. He said "All disease is causedby one of two things; an unhealthy life−style, or unhappiness in the mind orspirit. As I have grown older, I realise that the second is more basic, becauseunhappy people tend to live in an unhealthy way." The opposite is also true. A healthy life style creates a healthy brain with theintuitive thoughts that can solve problems. What is a healthy life style? Itinvolves walking in clean air, using our own two automotive legs, instead ofour cars. Ideal health requires toxin−free food, air and water. But air ispolluted by petrol fumes, food by toxic additives and pesticides, and water bychlorine, fluoride and aluminum salts. The human body has incredibleresources for getting rid of poisons that would otherwise stress the body.Disease comes from stress overload, which occurs when the toxin load is tooheavy. Health returns if the stress load is merely reduced to the point wherethe body's own healing resources can cope. Another source of poisoning is food allergy. Toxic chemicals can disrupt thefunction of every organ and system in the body. In the first half of the 20thcentury, it was known that allergy can make one sneeze, wheeze or itch (withhayfever, asthma, eczema). About 1970, an American allergist, Dr BenFeingold, Professor Emeritus at a Californian medical school, discovered thatallergy can also affect the brain. This is called brain allergy or cerebralallergy. It would be interesting to know what is the incidence of allergy in NZ today. The incidence is important, because food allergy is another source of poison.If allergic food is eaten, the end−products are poisonous. This is the meaningof the ancient saying, "One man's meat is another man's poison". Fromoverseas research, and from a small survey done in Wellington by ourmembers, it seems that allergy is very common today.

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THE CHEMICAL POISONING OF NEW ZEALAND By Brenda Sampson How Common Is Allergy Today? Before she became Prime Minister, Helen Clark was Minister of Health in a previous Labour Government. At that time. Dr. Bruce Duncan, an allergy specialist, made an appointment with her to request that an allergy clinic be set up at Wellington Hospital. He asked me, and another committee member in our Association, to accompany him. Helen Clark said, "How many allergic people are there?" I had never heard of any survey to answer this question. But not long afterwards, I read of research in California which might be copied here. University students questioned 1000 people, and asked them 2 questions. 1. Are you aware of allergy in yourself or members of your family? 2. Would you be willing to read a list of allergy symptoms and tick any that you have suffered from in the last 18 months?. The result of this survey: 30% were aware of allergy, and of those NOT aware of allergy, half ticked symptoms. In our newsletter I asked for volunteers to do a similar survey. Six people volunteered, and they questioned a total of 166 respondents. One questioned 30 parents of a class of Std I children. One questioned 26 parents of a another class of school children. Two others questioned 50 parents of kindergarten and play−centre children. Another questioned 40 people; she knocked on doors on her own side of the street. Another questioned 20 people at her church or at her hair−removal clinic. The following table is a report of this small survey by our association. Out of a total of 166 people, over half, (54%) were aware of allergies; 94% had experienced symptoms likely or very likely to stem from allergy. Only 6% were free of allergic symptoms.

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THE CHEMICAL POISONING OF NEW ZEALAND By Brenda Sampson No. of respondent shaving allergies 30 26 35 15 40 20 166

People aware of symptoms 10 13 20 5 28 14 90

NOT aware of allergy symptoms 20 13 15 10 12 6 76

No. who licked allergic symptoms 27 26 32 15 38 19 157

Totally free of allergic symptoms 3 0 3 0 2 1 9

Of nutritious foods, the commonest allergy is milk products. The Milk Boardexists to sell milk, and therefore down−plays the likelihood of milk allergy.They claim that 2% of children aged one year are allergic to cow's milk, andthat this reduces to 1% by age two. I do not know what this estimate is basedon. A well−known allergist in London, Keith Mumby, author of "Food AllergyPlan" was interviewed by a BBC reporter, who asked him, "How common isallergy?", Mumby replied, "Do your own survey. Go down into the street andask people". The reporter did so. Of the first 20 people he questioned, 18 said they had allergies. KeithMumby also said, "If people could be persuaded to stop eating their favoritefoods (ie. allergic foods to which they are addicted) MOST diseases wouldget better". About 1990, a Dr Mahler was Director−General of the World HealthOrganisation. During a New Zealand visit, he said "There is nowoverwhelming evidence that ALL the major diseases are food−related".

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THE CHEMICAL POISONING OF NEW ZEALAND By Brenda Sampson To recap, sources of poisoning today (not necessily in this order) are: 1. Medical drugs 2. Motor vehicle exhaust fumes 3. Agricultural pesticides and other chemicals 4. Food additives in manufactured foods 1. We do not have a health service: we have a disease service. It knows little about health, and specialises in distribution of toxic medical drugs and in surgery. Even surgery requires chemical anaesthetics. I spoke to a woman whose son is a drug detailer. His work is to visit surgeries and persuade doctors to prescribe his Firm's brand of drugs. He has to know the side effects of every drug at his fingertips. He would not take any medication himself, not even an aspirin. 2. Proliferation of motor vehicles. Nearly 3 million are registered in 2002. The toxic exhaust fumes poison the air in all towns and cities, and the roads connecting them. Sadly schools and playgrounds occur in the centre of built−up areas. The air in the Hataitai tunnel in Wellington, is terribly poisoned, and children go through it to school. Children are more badly affected by toxins than adults, because their bodies are smaller, and because their brain and nervous system is still developing. Many of these modern poisons are neurotoxins, affecting brain and nervous system. Till recently, most testing of poisons was to see if they caused cancer. Neurotoxins were not thought of. The carbon dioxide emission from nearly 3 million cars in daily use, is a major contributor to global warming, melting ice−caps; and the very violent weather being experienced world−wide, with droughts, floods, tornadoes, and forest fires in drought areas. Instead of spending millions on the Transmission Gully road to make things more convenient for motorists, we should be doing everything possible to reduce the use of motor traffic. Give a medal to people who don't own a car!

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THE CHEMICAL POISONING OF NEW ZEALAND By Brenda Sampson 3. Chemical agriculture. Ancient farming methods encouraged the development of trace minerals needed for health. Our chemical farming is one of the contributors to the. poisoning of New Zealand. Toxic chemicals including dioxins, PCB's (polychlorinated biphenyls) and pesticides, were found in the blood of EVERYONE of 3376 people aged 15 and over who were blood−tested by the Ministry of the Environment. They included nursing mothers. The report was published in May 2001. There is a new fertiliser, not yet well known, that really is a complete fertiliser. I read that the whole earth could be re−fertilised with it. It is powdered rock, called rock dust. I understand that carrots are heavily sprayed with pesticide to prevent carrot fly, but dressing the ground with rock dust before seed is planted, gives perfect carrots. I ordered it from G. Mosen, 20 Kauri St, Inglewood, (06) 756 8229. Palmer's garden shop had never heard of it, but also found a source when I enquired. Most gardeners know that river flats have rich soil. This is because glaciers grind rock to powder. The ground rock remains in the water when the glacier melts, and settles in the river−flat soil. I read that rock dust could restore the fertility of the earth, and the health of its inhabitants. 4. Chemical Additives in Manufactured Food. Manufactured food is a misnomer. Food cannot be manufactured. To supply the vitamins and minerals needed for health, food has to grow. The only safe food today is organically grown food. The First four headings above are external poisons from environmental pollution and from the food environment. The next two are internal poisons resulting from chemical and other stresses. One is Candidiasis, or thrush overgrowth, caused by a combination of antibiotic medication, and sugar in the diet. Cane sugar is a totally unnatural food that has only been cheap and plentiful in the last 300 years. For further information the reader is referred to "The Yeast connection" by William Crook, Random House 1983.

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THE CHEMICAL POISONING OF NEW ZEALAND By Brenda Sampson The other internal poison is from allergic foods eaten. Many books onallergy have been published in the last 20 years. A good one is "FoodAllergy Plan" by Keith Mumby. A reader said it covers briefly everythingshe had read in many other books. (Alien and Unwin 1985). An American nutritionist and author. Professor Sidney Baker, says that themajor plagues of western civilization are:− Food allergy and intolerance − Sensitivity to toxic chemicals, ingested or inhaled− Deficiency of trace minerals, particularly zinc and magnesium− Deficiency of Essential Fatty Acids. (In the language of chemistry aciddoesn't mean sour. It means anything that will combine with a mineral.Essential Fatty Acids (EFA's) are called essential because they are notmade in the body. They must be found in food. The commonestdeficiency is Omega 3 oil, found in fish. Oddly an Omega 3 oil is alsofound in the seed of the linen−flax plant. This oil is called linseed oil orflax oil. Our medical doctors would not know how to correct these problems. A bestfirst step would be to avoid allergic foods, toxic food additives, sugar, allpoisons, both eaten and inhaled, and to use supplements of zinc, magnesiumand EFA's. The best source of good minerals is the orotate form. If a person wants daylight in a darkened room, he doesn't try to sweep out thedarkness with a broom. He pulls up the blinds and lets the daylight come in.If one wants health, it is not necessary to drive out the illness withmedication,. All that is needed is to stop poisoning oneself and let healthcome back. The body has an innate healing power, the Vix Mediatrix, knownto ancient doctors, which heals us when we stop doing what is wrong. There is a Dow Chemical company in Paratutu, Taranaki, whichmanufactures poisons. The reason it is there, is that no other country would allow it to be built in their territory. Some years ago the media drew attentionto the fact that whole families near Paratutu were dying of cancer.

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THE CHEMICAL POISONING OF NEW ZEALAND By Brenda Sampson In December 2000, there was an international convention in Sweden, aboutthe "Deadly Dozen", the 12 most deadly pesticides. It called for nations toban these twelve, and 90 nations, including New Zealand, signed theagreement. When contacted, the Dow Company said they are no longermaking or distributing 10 of the 12 poisons. The other 2 are gases distributedinto the atmosphere when toxic wastes are burnt in an effort to dispose ofthem. Phil Goff, the Minister of Trade, said in a letter that the Governmentcould not legislate against this toxic pollution, because one of the gases,dioxin, is present in cigarette smoke. I wonder what the Government intends to do about New Zealand's farmlands,poisoned by tons of pesticides sprayed in the last 100 years? Or about thestocks of pesticides still stored here, and still being used? ConclusionAllergy is the result of stress overload. If the stress−load is lightened in ANYway) allergy symptoms will reduce. Everyone has heard of a vicious circle,but one can also have a beneficial circle, where one improvement leads toanother and then another. To finish on a happier note here is a true story ofthis happening. Allergy Treatment Rehabilitates Violent OffenderIn 1986, at one of the seminars on violence, the chaplain from Mt. Crawfordgoal described the typical violent of offender:− The child of a non−coping young or teenage mother, either unmarried ordeserted by her husband. Child sleepless, constantly crying, sickly withinfections) difficult with temper tantrums. At school hyperactive andlearning−disabled. This description exactly matches allergic/hyperactivechildren. They are the same children. The difference between the 2 groups isthat those raised on the Feingold program of foods low in toxins, don't become violent offenders. They grow up to be splendid youngsters. See ourbooklet "Happy families" by B. Sampson;

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THE CHEMICAL POISONING OF NEW ZEALAND By Brenda Sampson An American study showed that about 90% of prisoners had been diagnosedas hyperactive in childhood. A NZ survey about 25 years ago showed that75°/o of our prisoners cannot read properly. An American allergy specialist,Doris Rapp, said "Our prisons are CRAMMED with people who should betested for allergy!. Unsuitable (ie. allergic) food can affect the nervous system and produceviolence. The reverse is also true; using a low−allergen diet can turn a violentperson into a normal human being. If the medical profession, and theMinistries of Health, Education, Justice/Corrections would recognise this,instead of bleating repetitiously "There is no conclusive evidence", if theywould USE this knowledge instead of saying that they cannot use it until it isproved by double−blind studies, the incidence of violence could be halved orquartered. I would like to tell you a true story. It is not a typical story, because I neverheard of such a thing happening before, But it could be a typical story if theprison authorities would try to discover how many prisoners have food andchemical intolerance; (in other words are allergic people) and give themproper treatment. I suspect that a very high proportion of offenders areallergic, because allergy comes from excessive stress, and criminals haveoften had very stressful childhoods. A young man is in prison. He is schizoid and is covered with eczema.Evidently the medical treatment in the prison is not effective, and the eczemais so bad that the authorities let him out to have other treatment from a nursewho is a capable allergist. The prison psychiatrist strongly disapproves; saysthat if he is let out he is likely to commit a rape or a murder in the first week.The nurse offers to be responsible for him and takes him into her own home,She finds him acutely allergic to wheat products, and puts him on a lowallergen diet. The eczema improves in the first week, and also the disturbedmental condition. She Finds him quiet and polite; a pleasant person to have inthe house. After the first week he goes to his mother in Christchurch for amonth, (on the same diet). He stayed in Christchurch, doing well andapparently rehabilitated by allergy treatment plus help from an Anglicanrehabilitation centre in Christchurch. Quote: "Either our doctors of today will become the nutritionists oftomorrow, or the nutritionists of today will become the doctors of tomorrow!"

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HAPPY FAMILES A BOOK OF LETTERS FROM MOTHERS WHO HAVE USED THE FEINGOLD GOOD−BEHAVIOUR NUTRITION PROGRAM SUCCESSFULLY Edited by Brenda Sampson The little recognised secret of success: ENTHUSIASM "Those who deny the relationship between food and behaviour deny children the chance to show their true potential" This book is copyright to the Allergy &Hyperactivity/ADD Association Inc.Material may be reproduced in any form, in whole, or part, provided that credit is given to Brenda Sampson and the Allergy &Hyperactivity/ADD Association Inc.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson CONTENTS 1. Findings from an Australian study with 170 Feingold families. 2. Happiness is making a success of the Feingold program. 3. What is the Feingold Good Behaviour Nutrition Program? 4. Letters and case histories from mothers using diet control and the Feingoid Program 5. Many symptoms improve with the Feingold program. Results of a New Zealand questionnaire. 6. How common is Allergy?

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson 1. Australian Study of Feingold Families The psychology department of the University of Queensland in co−operation with the Queensland Hyperactivity Association, did a survey of 170 families using the Feingold programme. One of the interesting results was the number of behaviours, not necessarily connected with hyperactivity, which improved. In addition there were many health benefits noted by the families. The report, (published by the association) notes "In view of the common impression that hyperactivity should be diagnosed before the Feingold programme is recommended, it was interesting to see that the behaviour showing greatest change were, (in order) effectiveness of punishment, truancy, throws self around, unhappiness, nightmares, inability to fall asleep, gets stiff and rigid, twitches, sets fires." The most dramatic change in schoolwork was the decline in reversing letters. Other improvements were seen in reading ability, spelling, maths and a reduction (for some children) in the fear of school. Health improvements were noted in these areas; sore throat, tonsillitis, bronchitis, colds, bed wetting, urinary tract infection, diarrhoea, constipation, stomach pain, leg pain, joint pain, headache, ear infection, twitching, eczema and rashes. If your husband or partner does not co−operate with diet control, show him this list of improvements. Another advantage of the Feingold program is the reduction in doctor's bills, visits to the doctor can go down from one a month to one a year.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson 2. Happiness is making a success of the Feingold Program Our association started as the Wellington Hyperactivity Association in 1977, to help families use the Feingold diet for hyperactive children. We were having good success. I was working as librarian for the IHC Society and in 1979 I spoke to their paediatrician, Dr Bush about the Feingold program, thinking it might also benefit intellectually handicapped children. He said, "You know it's all a lot of poppycock, don't you?" I was so astonished and shocked that I was speechless. In 1976 it was estimated that 5% of American children (over a million) took Ritalin to sit still in school. Ritalin is a very expensive and profitable drug. The opposition of the drug industry to the Feingold program has always been enormous, and the industry exerts a powerful influence on the opinions of the medical profession. Also the Nutrition Foundation (the front organisation of the American food industry) misused science to 'prove' the Feingold program useless. 1979 was the International Year of the Child so I thought the medical profession should pay attention to what children themselves felt about being on the Feingold program. I began to collect their remarks. They felt happy. They were experiencing happiness for the first time in their lives! Have you ever wondered what it must feel like to be hyperactive? To live in a perpetual nightmare of distorted sensations and perceptions, distorted feelings and emotions, distorted action and behaviour; a nightmare that goes on, year in year out, unless the child is one of the lucky minority who are released from the nightmare by improved nutrition. Most sick children receive help and comfort from others, but hyperactive children receive rejection, punishment and hatred. Mrs Christine Herbert of NSW, whose son Martin "came right" with the Feingold diet, wrote a charming little book about her experience of hyperactivity entitled "Noise and movement", (our life has been so full of noise and movement). A Palmerston North member said this was the most helpful book she had read. In the book Mrs Herbert says, "I came to realise that terrible as the days had been for me, they had been far worse for Martin". Martin, aged eight, wrote this little poem: The way I feel Now I'm on the diet I feel quiet. I feel light, and not to fight.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Christine Herbert received the following letter. My mother asked me to drop a line and tell you about the diet. I sincerely think it's fantastic' Before I was on the diet, for 14 years I had terrible nightmares, even on one occasion walking out into the street! Also I had it terrible at school. No friends and always being picked on due to my hyperactivity. For the past eight months it has been different, no more nightmares and I am now beginning to make some friends, although I still have to prove to the kids that I am a different person. I feel really good in myself and am very grateful to Dr Feingold. Sam was an American child, son of a minister, He "came right" not through the Feingold diet but through the loving kindness of two parishioners. (But they did alter his eaating habits to give him the most nutritious food.) One morning he climbed on his father's knee, threw his arms around his father's neck and said, "Oh Daddy, I do feel so grateful!" Probably hyperactive children do not realise that their internal feelings are unusual. An older boy on the Feingold diet said, "I never knew how bad I felt until now, when I know what it feels like to feel good". Here are some other revealing remarks from children who found relief in the Feingold nutrition program. One cannot help noticing the recurring theme of happiness. A girl aged seven whose mother did not see total success from the programme and did not want to be bothered continuing it, said "Oh PLEASE Mummy, let me stay on the programme." "Why?" "Well, I feel so much better now. Why, I can sit still!" From a young boy, "I don't have those awful noises in my head any more". (His parents had never known about the head noises until then) Other children have said: "My head feels quieter, it's stopped fizzing". "I don't get those awful nightmares now". "Gee, Mum, I do feel nice inside now". An American school teacher with a grade two class, persuaded all the mothers to use the Feingold programme for two weeks. At the end of a fortnight a little giri was asked why she was always smiling now. She said, 'I don't know, I just feel happy all the time now". Another little girl of four and a half said "I have a motor inside me and it won't stop, even when I want it to because I am tired. Now my motor is stopped and I feel pink and still. Before I always felt black.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson The following is from a letter, "Peter seems to realise that his change in eating habits has helped him. He even told me this morning, "I don't feel angry inside any more". I feel so happy for him, I could cry, it just chokes me up. How I wish I had known about the Feingold diet 6 1/2 years ago; he could have been such a happy little boy so much sooner! Two sixteen year olds The first was a Hamilton boy. After a long period of infringements during which he got into considerable trouble, he was persuaded to treat the Feingold diet seriously. He was rewarded by what he himself described as "The happiest year of my life". The second story was told to me by Brian Attwood who founded the Hyperactivity Association of South Australia. A mother asked for help with a very difficult son who scoffed at the idea of changing his eating habits. He and his father came home from work and sat down to their "Hyperactivity Cocktail" (beer for the father, Coke for the boy). Brian said, "Mrs Smith, you are the one who serves the boy's food when he is at home. Just make sure that everything you put on his plate is according to the programme, and don't say a thing about it." Two months later the boy said to his mother, "Mum, I don't know what you've been doing to the food, but I feel much better. I think I'll go on that programme properly." The last story concerns a father who agreed to use the programme that transformed his 4 1/2 year old son. After eating a la Feingold for two months, he said to his wife one day, "Do you know, I realise now that I have been struggling against hyperactivity all my life". I have collected these stories hoping that primary school or older children may be persuaded by them to "have a go" at using the Feingold program enthusiastically and successfully. Junk food becomes addictive and it takes faith and courage to break an addiction. The rewards in this case are tremendous; a new sense of achievement and selfworth, and a body that becomes, for the first time, a pleasure to live in.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson 3. What is in the Feingold Good Behaviour Nutrition Program? Around 1912, an Austrian doctor, Von Pirquet, invented the word 'allergy'. It meant another way of working. In allergic people foods work in a different way. Dr Ben Feingold was a Califomian doctor who had studied allergy in Europe under Von Pirquet. In 1965 he treated a woman with acute hives. Her allergy tests were negative. He suspected that chemical sensitivity was her problem and gave her an elimination diet free of artificial food colours and flavours. The skin condition vanished in three days. Ten days later, he had a phone call from the woman's psychiatrist. She had been in psychotherapy for two years for hostile and aggressive behaviour. In the two weeks on the diet, her personality had completely changed and she had become peaceful. This gave Feingold the first clue that chemical sensitivity can affect the brain and nervous system, causing disturbed emotions and behaviour. The condition is now called brain or cerebral allergy. He began to use his findings to treat hyperactive children. He found that an elimination diet withdrawing artificial colouring, flavouring, anti− oxidant preservative and a natural preservative called salicylate, improved concentration and behaviour in the majority of children. Those who did not improve needed detective work to discover what other substances were upsetting them. In 1973 he presented his findings to a US medical conference. They were not impressed, so in 1975 he published a book for parents entitled "Why Your Child is Hyperactive". Anxious parents were impressed, and support groups sprang up in English speaking countries to help parents use the Feingold program. The modern name for hyperactivity is ADD/ADHD, meaning Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit with Hyperactivity Disorder. Feingold said, "These are not abnormal children; they are normal children living in an abnormal food environment". He thought that modern manufactured food is too loaded with toxic food additives to be suitable for human children. The words "manufactured foods" is a misnomer; food cannot be manufactured; to be useful to the body, food has to grow. Feingold tried to make things easy for mothers: he said if the four worst chemicals were removed from children's food, children would benefit.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Three of the toxins he named are artificial colouring, artificial flavouring, and anti−oxidant preservatives used to preserve fats and oils. Anti− oxidant preservatives are made from petroleum and are poisonous. Oil bought at a supermarket will say on the label, "contains anti−oxidant". It is better to buy cold pressed oil from a health shop and keep refrigerated. Margarine does not mention anti−oxidant on the label but the oil it is made from probably contains it. Artificial colours and flavours are described on the label as colouring and flavouring. Flavourings are unique among food additives in that nobody knows what is in them, except the chemist who created them. I read that all the flavourings used throughout the world are made in two American states, New York and New Jersey. A reporter visited one of the factories and reported as follows: 'The chemists are very highly paid and their work is top secret. They do not tell their recipes to anyone, not even another chemist in the same firm. The area where they work is like a library, but the shelves hold, not books, but thousands of tiny bottles, the Ingredients of the flavours. It is known that one flavour may contain 50 or 100 ingredients but no one knows what they are. The result is that there is no research about the safety of artificial flavours, and as far as I know there are no regulations about their use in any country in the world. But flavourings are the commonest additives used, because the taste is what makes the purchaser buy the product. The aim of the flavour artist is to create a flavour that is more delicious than the real thing. The fourth no−no in the Feingold program surprises people. It is fruit. Most fruits contain a natural but toxic preservative called salicylate. A lecturer in biochemistry at Victoria University told me that most plants and plant foods contain poisons. A plant is a living organism and I suppose It does not really want to be eaten by a human being. Humans have lived on fruits from time immemorial and our clever bodies have found ways of changing the toxin to a harmless form that can be excreted in urine. However, allergic people do not do this efficiently. An allergic food has poisonous end products. "One man's meat is another man's poison" is literally true. If people unknowingly eat foods they are allergic to, the liver is working hard eliminating these poisons and does not excrete salicylate well. It accumulates in the body. When this happens one can see that it is poisonous. It causes joint pain and rheumatoid arthritis, plus eczema (especially on the face) and it poisons the brain and nervous system causing ADD/ADHD in children.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Low salicylate fruits are pear and banana (without salicylate to preserve them these fruits go bad easily). Anne Swain, a dietician at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in NSW, did research to discover the amount of salicylate in fruits, etc. She found that of apples, golden delicious contained the least. But later she said that she tested these at the end of the season when they were really ripe. Ripeness reduces salicylate. Note that salicylate is concentrated under the skin of fruit so salicylate−sensitive people should peel fruit. Bananas do not contain salicylate but they contain another toxin called amine. Amines can cause migraine. Bananas follow a different rule. Amines increase as the fruit ripens so avoid over−ripe bananas. Imported bananas are heavily poisoned with anti−fungal pesticide, but organic growers in North Auckland are now growing pesticide−free bananas. Soil &Health magazine, September 2000 gives their addresses. Feingold did not want to deprive children of fruit permanently and recommended the use of low salicylate fruits for the first six weeks. When the child has calmed down on the Feingold program, one can try very small amounts of other fruits to see how much salicylate the chi!d can cope with. Many ADD/ADHD children have other food allergies. If these can be identified and withdrawn, the workload of the liver is lightened. Then it will be better able to eliminate salicylate, and fruit will be better tolerated. Food supplements help (vitamins, minerals, enzymes and essential fatty acids). The first three poisons, (colourings, flavourings and anti−oxidants) should be avoided permanently. All preservatives are poisonous and are better avoided. Feingold did not say much about sugar, only that it should not be eaten on an empty stomach; it is better eaten after a protein food. That way it does not go into the blood stream too quickly disturbing the glucose level in the blood. Feingold died in 1982. The Feingold program is fully described in his own book "Why your child is hyperactive", Random House, 1975. In 1983 "The Yeast Connection" by William Crook was published. This book was a best seller and spread the information that antibiotics and sugar encourage thrush overgrowth. This poisons the immune system leading to further infections, disturbs the brain and nervous system leading to hyperactivity and the metabolism causing allergies to develop.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson In the 1970s there was a lot of research by psychiatrists, psychologists and medical doctors to establish whether Feingold's theory was valid. Some of it was poorly designed because the researcher had no knowledge of allergy or chemical sensitivity. In some cases it appeared that the researcher was more interested in disproving the theory than discovering the truth. One very negative survey was funded by the Nutrition Foundation which is a front organisation for the American food industry. But in all the research, some of the children improved: and in some of the studies, many improved. In 1987 I gave a fifteen minute talk to the Mental Health Congress in Auckland about the effect of this early pre 1980 research. The Feingold program, especially a sugar−free Feingold program, is an immensely valuable first step to improving children's behaviours. The earlier it is used, the better it works, but it is only a first step. Research in the 80s by a team of allergists in Great Ormond Street Hospital for sick children in London, showed that hyperactive children often have other food allergies that must also be attended to. It has also been found that chemically sensitive children react to toxic pollution in the air, as well as toxic chemicals in food and water. The team at Great Ormond Street whose research on hyperactivity was published in the Lancet, 9/3/85, found that the three substances tested that were most likely to trigger disturbed behaviour, were food colouring, preservative and cow's milk, in that order. No child was allergic to only one substance. Note that flavourings were not tested. The method used in the Lancet research was to put the children on a "Few Foods" diet for two weeks. Four basic foods used were a protein, a starch, a fruit (banana or apple) and a vegetable (cabbage or cauliflower) plus a vitamin and mineral supplement and pure water to drink. The protein was a choice of lamb or chicken, the starch was rice or potato. All four foods were thought unlikely to be allergic. The behaviour of sixty−eight out of seventy−six children improved on this diet. Where the parents were willing, children were tested in double−blind fashion to find out which substances caused a return of symptoms. Hyperactive children often have other symptoms of allergy, such as asthma, eczema, hayfever, or migraine, or joint/muscle pain. A British psychologist working with ADD/ADHD children, found that if any of these allergy symptoms are present, this is a good indication that the hyperactivity is coming from allergy, and that it will lessen, along with the other symptoms, if allergic substances are identified and removed from the diet. Antagonists of the Feingold program have claimed that reducing the amount of fruit eaten, may deplete vitamin C levels. But research proved the opposite: children on the program had higher levels of vitamin C than children not on the program. Junk food used up vitamins and minerals, without containing any replacements, leading to low levels. In Feingold families many junk foods are eliminated.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson 4. Letters and case histories from mothers using diet control and the Feingoid Program We have been on the Feingoid program for two weeks now and there have been definite noticeable changes in my son's behaviour. He is more agreeable, carries out directions with minimum fuss, tolerance level up, he attempts tasks he would not have done previously (e.g. buckling his sandals) and he has stuck and persevered with a difficult puzzle. His teacher is pleased with the way he is settling into school routine. We did have a set back and for three days his behaviour slipped, I can only put it down to raw celery. MM This child was hyperactive and epileptic. The epilepsy also lessened with the Feingoid program and after a year the doctor agreed to stopping the medication. He was five when they started the Feingoid program. A note about celery, it is heavily sprayed with pesticide, but grows easily in a home garden. Try growing it yourself. BS **** You will be interested to know that due to a previous newsletter that mentioned dolomite, pantothenic acid and vitamin C tablets for hyperactive children, several mothers in Christchurch tried them, all with positive results; the main and most common one being that all our children slept better and seemed calmer in themselves than before. On the Feingoid diet our six and a half year old, Simon, has changed from an aggressive, moody, uncooperative boy into a charming and loveable child. The transition has taken eighteen months of ups and downs, and much patience from his teachers and family. Two years ago, when his grandparents were here on holiday, his grandmother noticed his anti− social behaviour and said, "Well, Mary, if he were my child I would have him out of the house and into a home!" Imagine how he would have fared if I had taken her advice! Every day I bless Dr Feingoid for his great efforts and years of study which have helped these hyperactive children.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson I was a hyperactive child myself and remember the teachers always put me into the corridor outside the classroom because I could never sit still long enough to concentrate. Their hostility made me retaliate by refusing to learn. It was not till I was thirteen and taken under the care of a concerned and very loveable old headmistress that I began to learn at all. From then on, I could not absorb enough. In those days nothing was known about the Feingold program, and children like myself were classed as disruptive no−hopers. This is what kept me from caving in with Simon; remembering how I had felt. It can be very lonely growing up misunderstood. As an adult now, 1 see the need to be very patient with all our children, knowing how important a loving home background can be. We need to convince sceptical doctors that hyperactive children on the Feingold program show definite improvements, and do need extra special attention from parents over and above the norm. MI Notes from BS Have you given your child his emotional vitamins today? (And your spouse?) Have you hugged your child today? (And your spouse?) Quote for fathers, "The best gift you can give your children is to love and support their mother". Quote from Moses: "The most important thing to teach your children is to love God". The Bible says that children suffer from the mistakes of parents for three or four generations, but God shows mercy to those who love Him and keep his commandments. To err is human. Few parents are so infallible that they never made a mistake. But if the children love God, the mistakes are wiped out. Teach children that to love God (which means to love good) is like an insurance policy. It occurred to me that God must think it very important to learn to overcome resentment and forgive; seeing that He gives everyone so many opportunities to practise this. I had this book of letters printed hoping that where there is no support group, they may be a source of encouragement and information for mothers of ADD/ADHD children. If you would like a support group in your area, put an advertisement in your local paper asking parents to ring you and come to a meeting.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson **** Iain is three and a half years old and has been on the Dr. Feingold programme only since December, and now I would not let him have any artificial flavouring and colouring as to me it's proved the harm it does to lain in particular. Since introducing this method, lain is a different boy, also the whole family has benefited. The tension that was always in the home has now gone, my daughter can play with friends without undue interference, and her room and things have become hers. I myself feel more relaxed now than I have for a long time, my nerves have settled down with not having the worry of lain and watching him all the time. I could not go shopping locally without it being a nerve−racking time; as for visiting other homes, it got so I just could not take lain with me at all. Neither my husband nor I could discipline the lad to any effect, it just did not get through to him. Since being on the diet, he listens now, takes notice, we can reason as to why he has to do certain things, and it is marvellous for everyone. During the recent school holidays, I took both children into Wellington for the day, also to the pictures, and I can say I enjoyed our outings. Now beforehand, I could not have faced doing this, let alone enjoy myself and the children too. The Kindergarten teacher was amazed at the change in lain after the holiday break: last term he was making trouble and no concentration to do anything for more than a second. Now both at home and kindergarten, he is doing creative play, sitting still to listen to stories and look at books, also building with blocks, etc., doing puzzles, lain has never stopped long enough before to really do any of this, for any length of time. He still has plenty of energy and is not perfect by any means, but then how many youngsters are? We just know that Dr. Feingold's programme has given us a normal healthy boy to enjoy life along with other children. For him just a difference in what he eats is all that is necessary. To make icing on cakes more colourful, I put a drop or two of beetroot red water in the icing sugar to make it pale pink. So little is used the taste does not come through. I have found in my house the pink cakes always go first. Perhaps others may like to try this. P.B. **** Jason has been on the diet for five months; since then he has become a different child. The teacher has found that he is able to settle down to a set task. The teacher was giving all the children in the class sweets at the end of the day for how many stars they had got during the day for good work. I did not know this until one day, I happened to pick Jason up from school and I saw this. As Jason is not allowed to have bought sweets, he now has dates. Also the other children have dates as well. I have found orange iceblocks have a bad effect on Jason.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson One day the next door neighbour gave him an orange iceblock without my consent and when Jason arrived home, he was alright, but two hours later he was a different child. Before Jason went on the programme, his behaviour was terrible. For example, breaking windows for attention, getting into the refrigerator in the middle of the night. The next morning I find things out on the floor, ail mixed together. Getting into cupboards − things everywhere. In the end I was too embarrassed to take him visiting, as I did not know what he was going to do next. I would not say Jason is a model child, but he has been better since being on the programme. A.L. In March, I started our seven year old son Dennis on the Feingold programme. I had heard it was beneficial for hyperactive children and decided there was certainly nothing to lose and possibly a lot to gain from trying it. From birth Dennis has been a difficult child. He was almost four years old before he slept through the night. So rare were undisturbed nights that we would comment on it if we woke in the morning having been able to have a whole night's sleep. He wanted attention the whole time, could not settle to play with anything for more than a few minutes at a time, was aggressive, destructive and violent, a lot of which we felt at the time was due to frustration from being unable to communicate as he is partially deaf. He was always in trouble, either for getting into his sister's belongings, breaking things, being disobedient, disappearing, spraying the neighbour's house and swimming pool with a can of spray paint, or running off with someone's pet bantams that died from broken necks because he held them by the necks. Since he has been on the programme, he has become a normal, contented boy. He is happier and calmer, easier to talk to and can be reasoned with. Even his voice is softer and calmer. Because he is calmer, he is concentrating better, hence better speech and greater understanding. He is far more patient, greater imagination and gets on better with other children. He has no problems now with neighbours, and his headmaster remarked to us that he has not come up before him once, since being on the programme. His sisters can now handle him and are enjoying his company more. He will play quietly indoors for hours or lie on his bed reading, there are no tantrums or violence any more. As his sister put it, he is nicer all round.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson At last we feel we have a normal family life and each one of us is grateful for the Feingold programme that makes it possible. I feel Dennis is aware of the difference, and when he sees food asks me, "Is that good, Mum?" If I say no, he accepts it, whereas, before the programme, he would have thrown a tantrum. People are always remarking to me on the change in him, even those who have not known him for very long. Occasionally he has got hold of something he should not have, like the other day I caught him eating cheezles, he was on a high for several days after that, was aggressive, could not sit still even to watch a favourite TV program. He has accepted his limitations as well: we can now take him to functions where there is food, and he will ask what is alright for him to eat. To us the diet is a miracle and it has changed our lives for which we are grateful. M.B. Report of a phone call from LF, who rang to say thank you for the Feingold program. She had just come out of hospital after a second major ear operation to try and diminish head noises. (A grandmother had minded Daniel, aged four, and was impressed by the improvement in him, and quite converted to the Feingold method.) Whenever she went to visit her husband's relatives in Brisbane, her in−laws would say, "Why don't you put him on this new diet?" "But I couldn't find anything about it in New Zealand, and when I asked Daniel's doctor, he pooh−poohed the idea." So the family endured two years of unnecessary misery. She told the surgeon that she still has the distressing head noises which caused him to recommend the operation. He said he thought the noises were due to stress. In fact he said that the whole ear condition could be the result of stress: he thought it was when she first consulted him a year ago. In the last month Daniel was so much better that she hopes the head noises will disappear in time. How much better is Daniel? Sufficiently better that she has taken him off his tranquilliser this week and has had the happiest week since he was born. This week is the first week of his life that she has ever enjoyed being with him. Yesterday, in spite of feeling far from well as a result of the operation, she took him to town on the bus (a thing she would never have done previously even in the best of circumstances) and they shared a really lovely day. He said, "We went in a bus, and a meazle bus!"

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson He has started sharing little conversations with her, which in his frantic activity he never did before, and saying the quaint endearing things that normal four year olds say. When told that there are no witches nowadays, "Are witches stinct, like dinosaurs?" Some babies become hyperactive when weaned, but Daniel was hyperactive while still on the breast. "What were you eating?" "Well some of the time I was staying with in−laws, and had no control over the food. Some of the time I was in Karitane and the food there was pitiful. They would give you spaghetti on toast for the main meal. It was a mixed up sort of time when I probably did not eat the best food". (Apart from other ingredients, tomato sauce is very unsuitable for hyperactive children). Later We have been in Brisbane for four months, and are well and truly settled in. The object of this letter is twofold. Firstly, I must thank you most sincerely for your help with our problem. The Feingold programme has changed Daniel from a hyperactive, difficult child into a delightful, well adjusted one. We keep very rigidly to the diet, for any infraction returns to us the 'old' Daniel. Secondly, and just as exciting, is the news that when we saw a paediatrician at the children's hospital here, he was so pleased with the results we have had, that he wants to carry out a long−term study of Daniel with the object of proving that the Feingold programme works: a study which apparently has not been done anywhere in the world. This study will not actually involve Daniel much: rather it will be as thorough review of his history, including all drugs used, etc. and a study of his present eating habits, with results when the wrong food is eaten. The reason Daniel has been chosen is because since he has been on this diet, it has become apparent that apart from this allergy to salicylates, etc., he is a perfectly normal child. According to the doctor, he is intelligent, with no other problems. So Mrs Sampson, thanks to you and your efforts on our behalf, not only has our problem been solved, but also the way is clear for many others with similar problems to find the answer. I trust all is well with you and the hyperactivity association in Wellington. Keep up the good work! L.F.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Eight months later:− I tell my children that time passes quickly when one is happy, and that is what seems to be happening to us. Daniel is still calm and settled − a full year now − although he is getting very excited about Christmas He seems to be walking a tight−rope; any small thing will push him off, but we can cope easily with these things, secure in the knowledge that they are only temporary. He has had a very successful year at pre−school, and seems ready for the transition to school. I have approached the infant mistress and explained Daniel's need for certain foods, and have received a most favourable reaction, so I have high hopes that he will have a happy first year at school. He has even been put with a quiet, older, experienced teacher who should be able to cope with any problems that arise. L.F. My daughter Felicity, who will be six years old in December, has been hyperactive from birth. At first it seemed that she was not settling down, but soon it became apparent that far from settling down, her periods of sleeping were becoming fewer. All her waking hours were spent screaming. Feeding was difficult, and she refused to eat for more than a minute or two at a time, and with sometimes eight hours in between. She made very small weight gains but did not actually lose weight. When she slept, she awakened easily, and could then scream for a further four hours after possibly twenty minutes sleep. She seldom went to sleep in less than an hour and then only in perfect quiet. During these months the longest period she slept was two hours and twenty minutes. It was impossible to make eye contact with her for longer than a second or two and she resisted vigorously any attempts to hold her close. She awakened up to five times each night, screaming, totally unreasonable and seemingly panic stricken. As she grew older she would stop screaming if carried about constantly out of doors, but panicked if either put on to the floor or if left in a room alone. Her behaviour had no set pattern, although there did seem to be periods of several weeks when she was not quite so impossible. She was seen by Dr. Desmond Woods who pronounced her hyperactive. Part of Dr. Feingold's book "Why your child is hyperactive", Random House, 1975 appeared in an overseas magazine which came into my possession. As I had already decided that some foods affected Felicity's behaviour, I felt that here could be some real help at last. After exhausting all avenues in this town I wrote and asked my pen friend in New York if she could get me a copy of this book.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Within three days of starting Felicity on the programme she showed marked improvement. After three weeks she was behaving quite normally. She had ceased her frenetic behaviour, was no longer clumsy, slept better at nights, sometimes without waking at all, and most wonderful of all was responding in a normal manner to discipline. Two things surprised me greatly. The first was the co−operation from Felicity (after the first critical, totally unco−operative days, during which she had to be policed constantly) and the second surprise was her expression of how she felt. Let me tell you in her own words, remembering that at that time she was barely four and a half years. "Mummy, I have a motor inside me which has always been going, and I have to go even if I am tired, as it won't let me stop. Now my motor is off, and I feel pink and still. Before I always felt black." (Note: The first unco−operative days are due to withdrawal symptoms. Be patient: they are temporary. BS) Between the time she began the diet and started school she learned through "Play School" and 'Sesame Street" on television (which she had never before been able to keep still long enough to watch;) how to recognise and recite the alphabet, how to count, and to type those things on this typewriter, all without my knowledge! When I first saw her efforts at writing (printing), it was a copy of her own name that I had printed in her school bag. I was astonished and could scarcely believe that she had done it. She is now, according to her teacher (who says she finds 'it hard to believe that Felicity was hyperactive, never having seen her in that state,) mixing well with others, and is among the top few in the class. She remarked that Felicity is so gentle. We had to smile, for Felicity eighteen months earlier used to introduce herself with either a punch or push. On one unforgettable occasion she lifted a child about her own age up by the hair! Undue fatigue or noise can cause disturbance but can be overcome. Only infraction of the diet causes a return to former behaviour. This is a success story which you may make use of as you see fit. W.H. Murray, a seven year old, was a colic baby and slept very little between 11 pm and 4 am. As he got older, he slept less, demanded more attention and was always active. Even when he did catnap, his bed looked as if a tornado had been through it.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson By the time he was four years old we were down to four very broken hours of sleep at night and had a child who was always wanting to do something (invariably things that were beyond his capabilities) getting himself into all manner of mischief and taking terrible risks, (leaping from high places, getting himself into awkward places, etc.) despite all our efforts to keep and remove him from possible accidents. Although he had some nasty falls and suffered bumps and awful bruises he would go back and do the same things. We had sought help through Plunket and the local GPs but to no avail. Just prior to his fourth birthday we were really desperate for some help as we were getting so little sleep we were exhausted and although I had finally got him settled at morning kindy, afternoons and evenings would find him moving a whole room of furniture, running and jumping wildly − constant physical activity. We approached our local GP and requested a referral to a specialist. This was given and Murray was thoroughly checked by a Christchurch paediatrician. He diagnosed Murray as hyperactive and he was placed on medication. One thing I did say to the specialist was that Murray always appeared so much worse after a meal and did really unbelievable things. We had noticed this for some years but were told it had nothing to do with Murray's condition. The only item of food we were certain about was vanilla icecream. He just went berserk after eating it. Murray right from a tiny tot always had a very high colour in his face, ears and neck, and once on the medication it toned down a little but he still was not a natural colour or a quiet child. The medication helped him to sleep and gave him a short concentration span − maybe ten minutes but he would be fidgety − his arms and legs were constantly moving. After he had been on the medication for nearly twelve months, family and friends in Australia advised us of an eating programme that seemed to prove helpful for hyperactive children, and they obtained what information they could for me. I then approached the specialist and obtained his permission to try the programme and he obtained a copy for me. Then I proceeded to adapt the Australian diet to New Zealand products. I wrote to manufacturers of similar products, some were extremely helpful, some would not say what was in the product, others ignored me. We did not find the diet hard to use, as we had farm−killed meat, and sausages only occasionally, home grown vegetables, not a lot of biscuits and cake and this was usually home−made, lollies and soft drinks very rarely, icecream cones occasionally and plenty of fresh fruit.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson The hardest things for Murray to give up were apples, oranges, sultanas and raisins all of which he would eat a lot of. He also found the toothpaste substitute a little difficult as he would not only clean his teeth but would also eat the toothpaste. Because of my allergies, strong perfumes, hair and fly sprays, strong detergents have not been used in the home. After about six months on the programme the results were very noticeable. Murray had a natural colour in his face and neck and he had clear bright eyes instead of thick white film across them. He was able to stand, talk with a minimum of fidgeting, his concentration span had improved and he was actually able to enjoy TV (certain children's programs) with just a little fidgeting. I then obtained information on the programme adapted to New Zealand conditions and immediately put it into practice. Murray's diet has been checked by Mrs J Priest at the Waikato Hospital and okayed as being very adequate, so after small experiments at breaking his diet, he has not yet been reintroduced to apples, sultanas, etc. I once tried him with a small quantity of home−made raspberry jam and sometime later a small piece of home−grown tomato and on both occasions the high colour returned to his face and he was "not himself" for three days. We were advised by two authorities that there was the possibility that Murray would only be able to cope with school three mornings a week. We know that the programme does help Murray and has helped. He attends school Monday to Friday, he can sit and watch TV without fidgeting, can concentrate and complete a task or job and his medication has not had to be increased in strength for over a year. He still has the odd spell out of maybe a few hours or a few days, and it has been quite often found to have been due to being near the smell of paint or turps, being taken by the school to the flower show, etc. He has also been rather difficult the last couple of months as he is cutting eight of his second teeth all at once. The whole family follows the programme as it is well balanced and quite adequate. The programme has been successful for our son. To assist in some small way all the people afflicted with this complaint, manufacturers could put on the product labels the most relevant information for hyperactive folk on the diet. Mrs H Note: Do not allow ADD/ADHD children to use toothpaste. It contains mint flavouring. Mint is high in salicylate. Use a toothbrush that has been dipped in salt water. BS

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson I would like to take this opportunity to thank you on behalf of myseLf and husband for your help to get our son Gregory on the Feingold programme. Gregory has been on this method four weeks and a very noticeable improvement in his behaviour has been noticed not only by me, but by friends and neighbours. These are some of the points: Not nearly as easily upset − no more grizzly whining over next to nothing. Not so "up in the air" and excitable, which in turn has helped him with co−ordination of movements. Gregory never walked anywhere, he always ran or skipped along. His actual movements have slowed down and he has stopped banging into doors and walls, etc. His concentration has improved immensely. He will now sit through a TV program or a story or listen to a record without dashing in and out of the room. I can also now tell him no and he accepts that as my answer, whereas before he would harp on until I almost screamed. Although these points may not seem much to others, to us as a family it has made a big difference. We feel we can go out now without our eyes having to follow Gregory's every movement. Even our two older girls are including Gregory in their games as he has not the urge to disrupt all they are playing with. Our understanding of his problem has given us peace of mind which in itself made a difference, but with every passing day we feel so much more a loving whole family. I thank you once again from us all. K.S. Please find enclosed two report cards and a letter from Jeffrey's headmaster re his attitude since he has been on the programme. Since he has been on the programme, we have for the first time in eight years, been a united happy family. The stress and tension are gone and basically the only problems (apart from normal day to day living ones, in this day and age) are when Jeffrey has any infractions. Keep up the good work. G.H. School Report for Jeffrey H. Std.l. Bishopdale School "Jeffrey has found great difficulty in applying himself to his work. His reading has made steady progress but his general attitude is a disturbed one. He finds it very difficult to work on his own or with a group of other children"

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson School Report for Jeffrey H. Std. 2. Bishopdale School "Jeffrey has been working well, making good progress with his school work. He still has the odd day when he is unsettled but these are getting fewer which is a direct result of the special eating programme he has been on." To whom it may concern This year there was a marked improvement in the behaviour of Jeffrey H. This personal observation is backed up by comments of teachers in close association with Jeffrey. In this period Jeffrey was much more amiable and willing to co−operate, and able to get along with his peers. We were led to believe that Jeffrey was on a special diet during the year and can only assume that the marked behaviour change has some connection with this. I A McMillan, principal, Bishopdale School It was mentioned at our last meeting that you would like confirmation from parents regarding adverse effects of additives on hyperactive children. Our son Craig was diagnosed as hyperactive by Dr Allan Frazer and later that year I read Dr Feingold's book regarding diet and hyperactivity. From then on we took particular note of Craig's behaviour after consuming certain drinks and foods. In particular we noticed the adverse effect on him of children's coloured and flavoured drinks supplied in plastic bottles shaped like spacemen, etc. that were much sought after by children because of their attractive appearance. Also we noticed that Coca cola and Fanta had the same effect on Craig though not to such a noticeable degree. After having these drinks he would be extremely excitable and talk incessantly and we would be unable to get him to relax in any way. I have always tried to give my family a balanced diet and have eliminated "junk food" as much as possible, but with Craig I find this a must. As he grows older, (he is now ten), his behaviour is slowing down and modifying and I think it is a combination of restricting food and drinks known to contain additives, his continuing maturity and our patience with him, because they seem to all interact. Do hope this will be of some help to you in establishing the connection between food additives and hyperactivity in children.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson For the past five months I have tried Dr Feingold's programme on my son, Mark, and I consider the diet has contributed to his better manageability with consequent reduction in destructiveness and tantrums. While some people may not consider the diet to be effective, I am at least aware of the types of food which can trigger adverse reactions. Mark, too, is aware of these foods and does not hesitate in advising other people that he must not indulge in them. E.W. My son David aged just eleven, has been on the Feingold diet for eight months. I was very sceptical about the diet as he had been on drug therapy which was effective for a while. I did not know if I had the patience to persevere with the programme as I have five children aged from four to sixteen. However I love my son dearly and he was still having trouble concentrating at school and still having difficulty controlling his movements and behaviour. Much to my surprise after three or four days he stopped wetting the bed and has not wet it since. He had wet it almost everyday since he was born. His attention span improved along with his schoolwork. The teacher was not told anything about the diet but she pinpointed when this happened. He became less aggressive and irritable. He seemed a happier boy. He often said he wanted to kill himself as no one liked him and nobody understood his problem. He learnt to tie his shoe laces and this was quite an achievement as I had, along with his grandparents, been trying to teach him how to since he was five. He used to hate crowds and cling to us frightened wherever we went. During the Christmas holidays he wanted to go into Wellington on his own in the bus to look around. Others outside the family have noticed an improvement. I did not realise just how many of our foods are artificially coloured and flavoured until I went shopping the first week David was on the programme. Many labels leave a lot to be desired and if in doubt I just don't buy. These are the things I have noticed and he said himself he feels happier. His peers accept him better, his teachers are more positive towards him. My sixteen year old son is also hyperactive. I wish the programme had been available when he was little. The Association is great as I no longer feel a leper because I have sons that are different. P.H.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Neither my husband nor I have any doubt whatsoever that the Feingold program has improved our seven year old son's behaviour. Unfortunately he seems to be unable to refuse offers of chewing gum or sweets when he is out playing, or to resist swapping lunches at school, so we are not getting as good a result as we had hoped. However in the initial trial period of four weeks he was extremely cooperative and his behaviour was remarkably good. Instead of being the 'difficult child' in the family he was better behaved than either of our other two boys. We are able to tell as soon as he comes home if he has accepted something while he has been out and he has admitted this every time. On these occasions he becomes more aggressive, abusive, makes odd noises, pulls faces or becomes rather "vague" and irrational. The degree varies and we are starting to recognise those things which consistently have the worse affect. His reading difficulties increase on these occasions and even when he is prepared to attempt to read he is obviously unable to concentrate and guesses far more (and more inaccurately) than usual. At times when he has adhered to his diet he copes reasonably well with simple reading books, particularly those with which he is familiar. We feel it is probably his continuing dietary lapses which are making it harder for him to make much further progress. These symptoms have never occurred during those periods when due to weather, ill health or whatever, we have been certain that he has had no opportunity to eat anything that we have not given him. MrsJ. I wish to tell of my experience of putting my son on a diet of no food colouring or artificial flavouring in anything. My son was assessed as hyperactive by the Plunket nurse and the speech therapist, and had the behaviour pattern that often goes with hyperactivity, although not as bad as some that I have heard of. Perhaps he would have got worse as he got older if i had not heard of the diet. The speech therapist gave me a copy of a diet sheet and recipes. My son was three years seven months when I started the diet. To make it easier on my son I put the whole family on the diet, except for my husband's baked beans which he thought he could not do without for his breakfast, tt has made a different child out of my son. He is more obedient, talks better and now likes to listen to stories. Whereas he would not even sit for one before. One incident when my son had been on the diet for a month, and had become quite calm, my sister in law gave him a flavoured drink. He started rushing around and pushing things over as in earlier days. The effects lasted for almost three days. Apart from one other fairly hectic few days at the end of Labour weekend when he could have got something that I did not know of, we have only had a few mild incidents since the start of the diet.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson I have also made a discovery about myself. Coloured and flavoured food does affect my sleep and moods. I feel nervy and niggle at the family, feel that nothing is worth while. Keeping to the diet has made a big difference to me, and to my husband. He is not totally convinced, but he does agree with me that the programme has changed our son. I must say I enjoyed reading the newsletters, especially the bits the mums have forwarded. I have four children; the eldest, Andrew and the youngest Vicki are allergic to preservatives and colourings. Vicki is even allergic to natural fruit and porridge. It affects them in completely different ways. Andrew who is 12 and a half years gets headaches and his personality changes to being nasty and forceful. Vicki has trouble with her speech and at six years she is just starting to string words together. We have been so thankful for her slow but sure progress. With infractions she just bounces more, rocks all night plus disturbed behaviour. We have had them on B6 and they have settled down, but the odd thing does filter into their diet. I find when they stay with friends, the mothers know of their allergies but think it does not matter, or they just do not read labels. We have found dolomite is good to help them in their learning. I would like to have copies of your papers "Notes on Asthma" and "anti−Asthma Nutrition". Thank you for the support and help your newsletters give to us. Could I have a copy of your article about food in school canteens. We have converted a local butcher to making sausages without preservatives or flavourings using only meat, flour, salt and pepper. This seems to be going on like a serial, but thought I would mention the article in the Southland Times, "Natural flavours welcomed by Jenny Scott, president of the Auckland Hyperactivity Association". It is pleasing to see these articles in the newspapers: that is how we found out about Vicki's allergies. We had been to a paediatrician and he told us it was our discipline and to just put her in a bedroom. Vicki was 3 1/2 then, could say mum and dad, still in nappies all the time as she had no control. Took all drinks out of her diet except water and milk. There was an improvement, so went to the doctors. They said, "OK, try a few foods". It has been through these articles and the newsletters that I have found and am still finding the answers. The doctors in our area won't take the first initial step. Because of this I feel a lot of children are missing out on help.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Darren our third boy, had glue ear, abscesses and eczema in the ears. I was going to doctors three times a week for a full term. When we started this diet, within a few weeks his ears dried up and we have never had that ordeal again. WB My daughter's name is Sarene (apt when born; now we wonder!) and yes, I am now using the Feingold diet and am not finding it as difficult or expensive as I had thought it would be. She has been on the diet now for about three weeks and there is a marked difference in her whole outlook. On the odd occasion (twice, I think) she has had shop bought iceblocks and has shown no reaction whatsoever. But these will be kept as a very special treat, just in case. We were wondering if her apple juice and yoghurt were causing the reaction, as she was a different person twenty−four hours after taking these two things out (before I had her on the Feingold diet completely). She used to consume about 1 1/4 litres of Freshup about every four days and always demanded yoghurt at every meal. I now give her pineapple juice, prunes, dates or nuts, probably once every other day. We have the odd day (late afternoons usually) when she shows signs of being hyperactive and I cannot pin it down to anything she has eaten; but find she has been out or had a really physical day, so we think it is just tiredness. It is really great now that she is not throwing a wobbly because the door is shut when she wants to go through it or her dolls just won't do what they are supposed to do. Sarene and I have some really great days now. I think it has all been so worthwhile. I have nearly converted my neighbour. She has read the books and has now realised that her eighteen month old daughter lives on apple juice and raisins and is getting very like Sarene used to be. My neighbour is really interested. Thank you very much for the information you sent me. I am so glad I wrote in the first place. LDS

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson We noticed a marked improvement in Dion within one week. He is now a completely different child. He started school a week ago and is doing very well. He seems to have an almost instant reaction to some things like tomatoes, cordials, sweets and toothpaste, but can tolerate small amounts of some other things like raisins, sausages and lemonade. We saw a doctor in Auckland and now have a diet of our own. We also found that homeopathic drugs help a little when he has had a slip from his diet. If you are Interested for your records we obtained these in Auckland from B K Moore Pharmacy Ltd, 272 Lincoln Road, Henderson. Also Eileen Evans, the TV announcer, who lives in Titirangi in Auckland makes up homeopathic medicines. Thank you for the last newsletter you sent. My husband forwarded it to us in Auckland and my mother was also very interested in it. She is a teacher and has a hyperactive child in her class. Thank you very much for your help so far. JB I feel much relieved and settled in myself now that my son is doing so well on the diet and I think back to last year with the struggles going on in this household. Its coming up to a year since Iain was started on the programme. I am sure your prayers and thoughts have helped my family through all the trying experiences that we were having. My marriage is healthy once again and we are all happy as a family unit. My daughter, Jane has benefited too by not having so many artificial additives in her food. She is calmer and more reasonable, although she has never been hyperactive at any stage. We both are so grateful for Dr Feingold's programme and also for the support that we have always felt was there from you and the association. PB

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Iain has always been an active child. As a pre−schooler I found himexhausting. He was always up early and slept quite a lot less than hisolder brother. In self defence, I used to go to bed when they did, inorder to be reasonably rested when Iain awoke all ready to go again. At five and a half years he was climbing and fell resulting in a fractured skullrequiring lifting surgically. He was prescribed Dilantin as a precautionagainst epilepsy (he never had a fit). The drug masked the'activeness'. The dose was high. Iain was walking into fences and offthe footpath on to the road, totally unaware of what he was doing. Iasked our GP for help and he reduced the dose. Iain was unable toconcentrate at school. There were a few mutterings of "What else canyou expect after head injury and possible brain damage?" FortunatelyI have been trained as an occupational therapist and had assessedpeople after different injuries. I did not agree with the teachers but saidnothing. I gave Iain puzzles and language games and took his work toschool. The result was surprise on their part and Iain was put up aclass. The work he had been doing was so easy he could not bebothered. The Dilantin over the two years was reduced gradually, Iainunfortunately reacted at each dosage change. But he also becamemore difficult to manage at times. I described the problem to Mr Worth,his neurosurgeon who was very interested and gave me a copy of theNew Zealand Medical Journal article on hyperactivity. (NZMJ 26/7/78:Hindle &Priest, "Management of HA children by diet therapy".) Both MrWorth and Dr Sarfati (our doctor) felt Iain was not really hyperactive butDr Sarfati felt a trial on the diet would be worthwhile if there was apossibility life could be easier. I realised that any improvement wouldnot be immediate. The hardest part was the elimination of so manyfruits. Last Christmas, Iain had a yellow iceblock (we rarely had them) and hisbehaviour was a problem particularly as we were staying with a maidenaunt at the time. Another time we had fish and chips while on a car tripto Carterton with my mother in law: the batter on the fish was brightyellow−orange. Iain has always been an active child (slept less than the older child) anddid not have any obvious learning difficulties. In fact he could readquite well before he started school. The irony now is that once on thediet, the effect of any food that affects the child is far worse than itwould have been before going on the diet. We have found out the hardway about the anti−oxidant in cooking oil, but thanks to your group, wediscovered how to correct that problem. White bread seemed toproduce a bad reaction. We were out on a picnic with friends and Iain did not want to eat the white bread roll. I assured him it should be OKand it was not. Iain became fearful, aggressive, hyper−sensitive andeven ran away by himself over rocks by the sea. He was difficult tocontrol or even to get through to. I had worked for part of my trainingas occupational therapist at Oakley Hospital and I was extremelyworried by Iain's behaviour which reminded me a little of some hospitalpatients.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Since then if Iain has some strong objection to a food I do not insist that he eat it. He won't have cornflour custards but I have used barley flour quite successfully without any objection or bad effects. Some weeks ago I suspected ordinary white flour as well, as there had been short lived attacks (six − eight hours) after a lunch of spaghetti and cheese sauce (white flour) or scones with "three quarters of a cup wholemeal flour and one quarter a cup white flour. So I cut out all white flour. I felt that his behaviour became more stable. I went to a mid−year review with his teacher (who does not consider Iain to be hyperactive but had been interested all the same), and his first remark was that he felt Iain was able to concentrate better and do better work, although his work had not been too bad before. The improvement noticed by the teacher coincided with the end of white flour! As a result of this diet, Iain seems to get on better with the children in his class. He is more tolerant of them. In the past if they were stupid, or Iain too sensitive, matters came to blows. Although there were additional problems with four bigger older boys well behind Iain's abilities at school; an appeal to the school helped sort that one out. I would like to sincerely thank you for sending me the information about the Feingold programme, hyperactivity and asthma. I had actually changed my son Peter's diet quite drastically before it arrived, so I really felt reinforced in what I was doing for him after reading the literature. We have noticed very definite changes in his behaviour, emotionally, and his concentration has improved quite a lot. The creche he attends full time while I am working, is very supportive and they have made changes to their diet to help him. The last report I had was somebody had given him ice−cream in error and he deteriorated within fifteen minutes! Even though Peter is only four, he seems motivated to 'do the right thing' for himself and we constantly talk about what is good for us and what is not. While reading the literature I was able to acknowledge for myself that I have suffered food allergies during my life, and the part yeast has played in my history of thrush. As a family, we are making changes in our diet which can only help us all. Thank you again. AC.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson I have two children. The elder is three and a half and has no problems except a cold every six weeks. The second, just two, has been a bombshell! After many months we went to a paediatrician who after a few trials diagnosed a milk allergy at eight months old. So with 'heaps' of drugs there was a dramatic improvement. Then at around eighteen months she was still getting the odd ear infection and I asked myself why − still on drugs −still ear infections? We had recently moved to Greytown and I heard of Dr Bailey Gibson. He gave me the backup to do what I knew was right. But after months of broken nights and sicknesses I needed to have a doctor's support for what I was doing. I threw away my hoard of drugs and went on an elimination diet for Holly, now nearly two. To my amazement she was not very allergic to anything. So we are on a rotated diet and she has been wonderful. Improved behaviour and no ear infections. So when I wrote to you, it was for any foods at all I could include on • Day 1 wheat and milk, etc. • Day 2 oats and chicken, etc. • Day 3 Millet and fish, etc. • Day 4 Corn and pork beef, etc. • Day 5 Rye and lamb It is a variety of 'goodies' I needed which is why I wanted to know the contents of the Sanitarium products just for variety. The rotated diet is wonderful for health but restricting. We actually have little in the way of processed food. My husband was brought up on the worst English diet imaginable and has taken a lot of convincing that two year old Holly's allergy is food−related. My three and a half year old has had three years of a 'combination' diet − English "rubbish" plus ridiculous health food as my husband described it. When we put Holly on the rotated diet we noticed that her colds were much less frequent and lasted only three days instead of three weeks. I have always been interested in whole foods. I have been trying to keep everyone happy, but at the same time have everyone eat the same food at one meal. W.E.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson I should have written to say thank you for your kind helpfulness but I have waited to see if there was any reaction to our new way of eating. I am pleased to report that after three weeks it appears to be highly successful. There has been a complete, wonderful change in my husband, noticeable to all, including most importantly himself? A loss of tension by myself and other helpful signs. Though I still renege occasionally, I can cope. My son has taken the longest to show any improvement, but we can now see signs and are very relieved. I think he also reacts to grains in bread One of the lists allows bread and peanut butter (his favourite) so have been getting that again, and white bread for him, and with that concession he has begun to blossom! We have stopped taking tea and coffee, although we find that very occasionally a coffee with friends goes down nicely, with no problems. My husband feels that tea was his greatest upset. Has anybody yet found a tie up between a child's hyperactivity and the type of food its mother ate while pregnant. I consumed several cases of Granny Smith apples (full of salicylate) while expecting my son and I wonder if this would have affected his assimilation of so many types of food. He has several allergies as well as behavioural or mood changes that I find hard to pin point to sensitivity to foods. Although breast fed for sixteen months, from ten months he has had skin problems to his lower face and his skin would be raw from dribbling. He is now eleven years and has little resistance to viral infections, etc., has had glandular fever several times and symptoms of tonsillitis although his tonsils were removed at two and a half years, etc. It has been difficult for him to adjust to a 'diet' type so long. He gets mad and buys something he should not consume and feels miserable, so he is now earning bonus bonds for each week that he has managed to have no wrong foods, and is doing very well, feels a lot more settled and is more communicative. He has flu at present so it is hard to gauge improvement this week, but we are seeing a lot less sulleness, perhaps some of that was emotional as things are very difficult. DC Reuben is now about six and he is quite OK now, a lovely child, learning well, doing well reading. At two he was very hyperactive. His mother phoned me when he was two and a quarter and I suggested the Feingold programme; it helped slightly but not enough. She saw Mrs Alcorn (founder of Open Forum for Health Information) who put him on a very strict stoneage diet; nuts, sprouts, lamb and turkey, vegetables. He has done well ever since and is now beginning to tolerate some of the foods previously allergic. He reacted to the chemicals in chicken, and pork affected his urinary tract. He still cannot tolerate these or green apples or mandarins. BS

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson I found the "The Yeast Connection" by William Crook very interesting, and now have a better understanding of what has been happening to me these last nine years. At long last, after spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars on different doctors and therapies, I am at last getting the relief we have all been praying for. Praise the Lord. My family are all delighted in the change that has taken place already. My life has completely changed and believe me nothing will tempt me off my diet. I will be experimenting on the recipes I received yesterday. Thank you for sending them. EB I cannot tell you how thankful I am that at last I can understand Stephen's behaviour and now feel that I can cope with him. It was on your advice that I applied for the diet sheets (with some misgivings on our doctor's part) and since he has been on that diet the change in him has been so dramatic as to be almost unbelievable. Prior to this I dared not have him out of sight even to do the washing. Now I find that he can be trusted to play outside or even go for walks with his older brother. His previous behaviour had been so unpredictable and uncontrollable that constant adult supervision had been necessary. Stephen is now 3 and a half years old and has been strictly on the Feingold diet for eight months and in that time his sleeping pattern has changed too. Prior to the last few months, bedtime was always a battle. When we could get him to sleep, then he would be up and down at least three or four times a night usually ending up in our bed just so we could get some rest. I would like to point out here that we have always been firm with Stephen. We feel that discipline is important even if for the sake of the other children, who would follow his disruptions. Another aspect of this was toilet training. It was impossible to say the least. Even at three years he was only partly trained. He would go anywhere at any time, often to our embarrassment. Only recently has he become dry at night.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson The change in Stephen is now very noticeable. Now that we recognise his mood changes, I can say most definitely that there is a connection between his sleeping habits, toilet habits and more infraction of the diet. Unfortunately for my son, strong perfumes, e.g. Lux dishwashing liquid, are enough to affect him. When this happens, and only then, does he wet his bed, have a disturbed sleeping pattern and revert back to his old ways. When these have worn off he then becomes a delightful, very cuddly, affectionate boy, lovely to have around. I recall too that this hyperkinetic behaviour did not start until he was six months old. Until that time he had been totally breastfed and it was only with the introduction of solids and Ribena that he ceased to be an ideal baby and became so difficult. There is so much more that I could comment on, so many changes, but I would end up writing a book. After reading the latest newsletter and in particular, the article by the Ohio school teacher, I would like to mention my eldest son, Michael, now eight. Until this year he was plagued with health problems (mostly tonsils now removed) and his school work was appalling. None of it was completed, essays were only barely started, maths not understood. But this year since we have all been on the Feingold programme, he has become a very good student. His stories are three to four pages long, his concentration noticeably improved. I am convinced that the programme is the major contributing factor to this. PH My lad's name is Peter and he is a state ward. He and his brothers and sisters were removed from their parents when he was eighteen months old. He then went to live with a very nice couple but at the age of four and a half she could no longer manage him and he came into my care. He was the naughtiest child I have ever met anywhere. The welfare officer described him as boisterous. After one week with Peter I looked the word up in the dictionary and felt it was a very mild word to use for his behaviour, but could not find another to replace it. However sometimes under his exterior naughtiness I glimpsed another little fellow who was really rather nice. I only saw it fleetingly and I vowed that one day I would get the nice boy on the outside and have the naughty one vanish. Here I am 6 and a half years later with a rather nice fellow emerging rapidly, thanks to the information you sent me regarding food control.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson His behaviour at home has improved. We no longer have his dreadful screaming matches through the house, and his teacher reports after our first month, that all the children in the class are getting tired and slowing down in school work while Peter is becoming more alert all the time. He is willing to set to and do school work, and is retaining what he is learning. He even wrote a three page essay. He has never done that before. Half a page and then give up, has always been the way he has done things. The teacher even did a spelling level test in the last week of school to see if there had been an improvement there also, and Peter went up a level. What a proud boy he was that day! Peter seems to realise that his change of eating habits has helped him. He even told me one morning, I don't feel angry inside any more." I feel so happy for him, I could cry, it just chokes me up. How I wish I had known about the Feingoid programme six and a half years ago, he could have been such a happy little boy so much sooner. We spend time on pocket money day browsing through health shops reading labels on various sweets so he can learn what to look for when shopping on his own. I also now do my household shopping on a Saturday morning so Peter can accompany me. We study labels on tins and bottles and packets, and are always thrilled to find products we can use and can bring them home and try them. He is getting very firm about popping things back on the supermarket shelf that have labels that do not qualify for our new eating habits. Note by BS: The foster mother told me on the phone, that she used to serve ice−cream for dessert every night. But she was overweight and wanted to get into training for swimming and decided to stop serving it. Within a week Peter's behaviour had improved so much that she rang me to ask for more information about the Feingoid program. Recently Tip Top told me that the ingredients of their icecream are: milk fat (cream or butter), skim milk, sugar and glucose, cocoa or chocolate, emulsifier and stabiliser, artificial colouring and flavouring, chocolate pieces and coloured lollies for further variety.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson From three weeks of age, Sarah was ill. She was bottle fed and vomited constantly, cried with pain after a feed, had recurring diarrhoea and bad eczema. I took her to doctors and specialists and her condition was slightly improved with drugs. Allergy was never diagnosed. As Sarah grew, so did her symptoms − aggression, unprovoked mood changes, appeared to be tender to touch, tiredness, extremely itchy, bleeding skin, sores that would not heal. Food with colouring or preservatives aggravated her condition; contact with paint−fumes, dust and dogs would bring her face and hands up in red weals: and she slept very little at night. By this stage my husband and I were getting desperate. I was taking tranquillisers and was very depressed. It was impossible to go out as a family because of Sarah's behaviour. Our second daughter, Kate, had arrived. Although she appeared a lot healthier than Sarah, she spilled excessively after each feed. Fortunately we heard about Mrs Alcorn at Open Forum for Health. She put Sarah on a very strict diet of lamb, home−made soya milk, selected vegetables, bananas, apples, pears and artesian water. For just over one year we kept Sarah on this diet, gradually adding wheat alternatives. It was extremely difficult trying to add variety to her diet but the results were very encouraging. Her eczema virtually disappeared, she had more energy, was a happy and affectionate child and slept better at night. Mrs Alcorn then referred us to Dr. de Monchy in Lower Hutt. On his advice we stopped Sarah watching television as he believes it stimulates the senses too much. She now sleeps every night. He also prescribed homeopathic medicine. This year we have been gradually introducing new foods and find she can tolerate cheese, cow's milk, fluoridated water, a greater selection of fruit and vegetables and egg occasionally. Upon introducing wheat, Sarah was very aggressive, wakeful at nights, naughty and her skin flared up. We also put Kate on a similar diet for her first twelve months. She is now eighteen months and can tolerate any food, although we try and keep it as natural as possible without colouring, etc. Sarah is now healthy providing she eats a selection of her tolerated foods although she tires more easily than other children her age. We also dress her in 100% cotton and pure wool. She has a bed with pure wool over the springs and uses natural bedding. As a pillow, she uses a sheepskin in a cotton pillowcase. Our experience with Sarah has proved without doubt that diet affects behaviour and general health. Note: Dr de Monchy's practice at 37 Pretoria Street, Lower Hutt is now held by another naturopathic GP, Dr Mark Austin at 11 Hector Street, Petone. Another idea for a pillow is two folded towels in a cotton pillow−case. BS

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson I have found the diet to be most helpful and with the addition of evening primrose oil capsules, Robert now goes to bed and goes to sleep almost straight away Instead of the usual two hour performance. He is eight years old. Once again many thanks. D.M. Thank you for sending Efamol and Efavite: they do help my husband so much. He got back onto bread, bit by bit, a bit of toast and a dagwood. He kidded himself he could eat it OK now. When we went to town, he would buy those health bars, sometimes he would eat two. Well, as I call it, "He went to the moon for another trip" and I paid for it. Each time he got stuck into me over nothing, I would say, "You should have another piece of bread!" Well, he has left the bread alone again and is much, much better. Last night I found the last seven slices in the pantry, gone green with mould, so out they went. AG Thank you very much for all your help and advice. The Feingold programme has made such a difference to Ruth. We had figured out the flavouring, colouring, additives and the preservatives for ourselves, but the information on the salicylates was great. We have found that a little goes a very long way as we eat a lot of fruit and vegetables. In particular I am so pleased that this is a diet that does no harm, except perhaps for some lack of variety in fruit and vegetables. It is only leaving out those things that were no use in the first place, so that even if the effect is purely psychological as has been claimed, it matters not at all. Except for the fruit and vegetables, it has meant that we have had to alter our eating patterns not a jot; it has just given me courage to say "no" firmly to all those well meaning people who offer the children biscuits, cordials, etc. People can accept the explanation that Ruth is allergic to such things. Previously I was always put on the spot to explain why our children were not allowed sugar. The eldest has just turned four for heaven's sake.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Great to be spared those screaming sessions. Ruth is sleeping through the night or if she wakes, will settle with a word and a touch. As an added bonus she is even dry all night; she is just two and a half. I was interested in the recent article in the Listener on calming hyperactive children with hugs, etc., as my experience with Ruth has been quite the opposite. When she got going the last thing she could accept was a hug. Your arm was literally thrown back at you, and even in the general way of things, she did not want to stop still for a decent cuddle anyway. I had wondered if she was "touched out" in a family that is very close physically. But nowadays she is as warmly affectionate as the other two, all the time, not on a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde basis as she had been before we took the programme seriously. I guess that is one of the things that makes me feel that this progrmme has made a real difference. We no longer have the swings in mood for no apparent reason, when Ruth could change from a sweet and loving little girl into a demon, She is 'herself' all the time. Anyway since this has worked so well for us, and has meant nothing more than making sure she sticks to the plain straightforward food we ordinarily have, I do not mind if it is 'all in the mind'. It works. Thank you for the advice to watch out for non−food allergies such as toothpaste and daddy's shaving cream! GM Michael M. aged eight is addicted to sugar and junk food. He is hyperactive and his mother has found that he is better without dairy products, chocolate and Coke and has eliminated these. Also sweet corn in tins gives him diarrhoea so she gives him no corn, tinned or frozen. He has a history of ear infections, tonsils and adenoids removed. Backward in speech, but his mother thinks he is not deaf. At present drinking Raro powdered orange drink. I sent the Feingold programme and handbook and suggested that garlic oil capsules sometimes help correct sugar craving. Just under four weeks later the mother rang. She is very pleased with the result. He has eaten no sugar for two weeks, his behaviour has improved and he is going to bed happily at 8 pm, earlier and more easily than before. Note: Do not use any soft drinks or powdered drinks. Use purified water or bottled spring water eg Kiwi Blue, or both. Spring water probably contains beneficial minerals. If you use organic vegetables drink the cooking water for the minerals.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson The Queensland recipe book was a real beaut. I really enjoyed having it. A lot of people have taken recipes from it. Thank you, I will keep Ann Tydeman's little instant book "Recipes for hyperactive children". It is great as well. Please would you send the Ann Tydeman's other recipe book for me to have a look at? The kids are really enjoying the food. Kelly is very good now with the programme. She says, "No thank you" to lollies and such. I am very proud of her. Aren't people thick sometimes? The number of people that try and pressure her to have some and when she keeps saying 'no" they get really cross! But she gets on fine now. G.N. We use the low saticylate, no additives, diet a little. For James we eliminate milk as well because of asthma and sinusitis. We have used this diet for a year. Asthma and hyperactivity both lessened because the Ventolin asthma drug caused him to be hyperactive and he does not need it now. I have had a near miss but not a cot death. No cot deaths in our relatives; they have one child. No smokers during pregnancy. James is now nine and a half. He had convulsions and fits at 24 hours, suspected pneumonia, incubator for eight days, breathing monitored and erratic. Given lumbar puncture at six days, antibiotics for fourteen days, detected heart murmur. At six weeks convulsion at 10 am, fortunately when dressing from a bath: in hospital for three weeks with meningitis. Extremely colicky baby. Mostly breast−fed till six months, never liked cow's milk from bottle, so had Ribena with veges, fruit, etc. Never slept through the night till over three years. Asthma from ten months onwards. Four hospitalisations by two and a half years, colicky till eighteen months. Always slightly hyperactive, Ventolin made him noticeably more hyperactive. Chocolate made him hyperactive and anti−social if eaten on an empty stomach or more than four pieces. He always had tummy cramps and vomited after cream cheese or a considerable amount of dairy food.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson My present doctor has put James on a dairy−free diet for a year, much less asthma, only three times. Behaviour good: reacted on challengewith yoghurt. It was quite severe, after four days running nose,headache, feeling sick, then asthma attack. I have not yet challengedcheese, mainly because I am settling into a full time study course atC.I.T. I do allow James a little plain or hokey pokey ice−cream abouttwice weekly with no adverse effect, otherwise at present he has noother dairy products. I am more aware of diet and have cut down onfast foods with preservatives and colourings: tend to cook withwholemeal or barley flour, and sugar is cut down to a minimum. DB Note:Colic is an old−fashioned name for allergy. James' symptoms could besigns of allergy, maybe acquired through his mother unknowingly usingallergy foods while pregnant or breast−feeding. Ribena is made fromcurrants which are high in salicylate. Both currants and Ribena cancause sleeplessness and hyperactivity. I cannot thank you enough for all your help. A recent newsletterreferred to calcium deposits on fingers and chlorine in pools. I have aspa pool full of chlorine which I do not react that well to. Good news from Dr Tizard. I have a high reading of paraquat, not tomention Candida. He says I will have to be on tablets for a year forthrush and also undergo two to three weeks treatment of hyperbaricoxygen with vitamin C drip therapy, then some homeopathic treatment.He says my symptoms are not any more unusual than about 2,000other people he has seen. I have been knocking my head against abrick wall for seven years trying to get someone in the medical field tolisten to me: they now have the nerve to investigate Dr Tizard and hismethods! My opinion of the medical profession is poor; if they cannotwork out what is wrong with you, you are obviously making it up andyou are mad. I have come across a couple of sympathetic doctors, butI would like to give the rest of them a dose of their own medicine. Dr Tizard seems to think that I will be on the road to recovery after histreatment and will probably get about 80% recovery, but it will probablytake six months. I will let you know in a few months time how things go.If all goes well, I could be given my life back after seven years. CR

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson I was so pleased to receive your letter. Dean and I were reading it through tears. Finally someone was telling me it was not my imagination and was offering me positive advice and Dean cried because he could not have milk or jelly anymore. There is a health shop in Kerikeri and through the owner I have been in contact with a lady who has goats, and tried Dean on goat's milk. He gave it the 'yuk' rating and is quite happy to drink water. We have very diluted fruit juice and water: the children don't mind at all. Dean has been completely off drinking milk for a month now. The first four days the change in him was dramatic to say the least. He helped himself to a drink on the fifth day and he was the boy whom I knew so well. Since then we have all worked hard, and the whole family is a lot happier. My husband is an electrician so we have no farming connections. He has been very supportive and understands a lot more now. When I think of Dean as a baby and toddler and what we all went through, I feel a tremendous loss, and that things did not have to be. That is the past now and we are looking forward to the future. I cannot thank you enough for your help. MM Thank you very much for the information which has been of great benefit to our whole family. Steven has now been on the Feingold programme for eight to ten weeks and he has settled down considerably. He is quieter, far more controllable, less clumsy and more receptive to information. In fact he was taken to a concert by his sisters. Of course I expected them back home within half an hour. But two hours later they came home and Steven sat, watched, clapped all that time. We also went out to a family dinner at a restaurant with Steven and he sat for three hours, never once misbehaving, only once leaving his seat to look for a toilet. Now if someone had said three months ago we could go out with him without a furore, I would have laughed. My husband and I can now go out together, first time in five years. So thank you once again and please continue to send meeting notes and any further information. We have used the Robinson's lemon and barley water sachets for Steven and he is fine on them. Has since reacted wildly to tomato but have introduced no more. (From a later telephone conversation) − Temper tantrums reduced from three or five a day to about one a day. The improvements seem to have come all at once, in the last two weeks or so, after being on the programme for several weeks. ZW

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Thank you for sending me these books. I found them really interesting and most helpful. Our family diet has improved greatly. Though it will take time to accept all the change necessary. I have discovered a source of natural vanilla essence, a selection of cold−pressed oils and many other ingredients used and mentioned in your articles. The Tawa Woolworths have opened a new section based on natural foods. It is a health conscious person's haven. They also have a selection of 'dairy−free' cookies and additive−free sauces, bulk wholemeal flour and dried fruits, etc. Note: Use organic fruit/veges if possible. I do not think all Woolworth's fruit/veges are organic. BS Dried fruits can contain high concentrations of salicylates and preservatives that may cause asthma. DN I have enjoyed making my own bread. I went to Marcelle Pilkinton's bread making seminar. Still trying out different breads to find what suits. Soya bread is great especially as my son Matthew, seven and a half, is on soya milk. The kids adapt more easily to change. My husband is finding it a bit hard. He has lymphoma but he is trying. GP I did appreciate you sending the leaflets. I did learn a lot. The programme has really helped David, even in his school work. At the beginning of last year I was very doubtful if he would make it through to Std 1 this year, but he has improved so much he is now in an ordinary class. You asked where did I get the programme from. Our eldest daughter was over in Australia working with her husband and she read an article on hyperkinetic children and the Feingold programme and managed to procure a book, "The Feingold cookbook for hyperactive children". I had realised before I received this, that David was very susceptible to food colouring, but I did not realise that some foods alone could put him on a high. So I got so far with the programme, but felt there was still something more that could be done. I have a friend who believes in the colour therapist and she persuaded me to take David to him. I felt that he could not do any harm and I must admit I was ready to get help from anywhere. And it was he who said that sugar was David's biggest bugbear. Within a couple of days we noticed a huge improvement and from there on he kept improving all the time. It was about this time I wrote to you so it was a combination of a few things that put me on the right track.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson David is now seven, and it is so nice to be living a more or less normal life with him now. The first six years I would not like to repeat! We have five other children ranging in ages from 19−26. At times I felt just too old to cope with it all. Last year I took up golf, the best thing I ever did! JR Since my son Sam has stopped taking all artificial colourings and flavourings, his eczema has improved almost 100% and he has only had one short period of asthma 'wheeziness'. Although he was not severely incapacitated by those conditions before, it is wonderful to see him sleep peacefully without itching through the night, and able to play a whole game of soccer without becoming breathless. His temperament seems less volatile too! This week Sam spent three full days at YMCA camp. He enjoyed it very much, and the camp leaders were helpful in trying to understand his needs, but he has still come home with a rash of spots, patches of rough skin, feeling very tired and needing to urinate frequently. I had sent a cache of allowed snacks and he did avoid the obvious things like cordials and jellies, but the diet must have been pretty heavy on the traditional 'party foods'. What a shame that a camp which emphasises a healthy country environment with physical open air activities does not put more stress on healthy food as well! One positive aspect of the incident is that I now realise how much 'semi−health' we have been putting up with for some six years with him and how much we are all benefiting from a better diet as a family, even if the effects are not quite as spectacular. IP This is just a few lines to thank you for a loan of the books and to let you know my little granddaughter has improved quite a bit since my daughter−in−law has her on the special diet. She is a dear little soul but could be very trying. She will be five in November so we hope to have her right before she starts school. She is my little adopted granddaughter and I love her very much. Her name is Jodeane. Thanking you again. WM

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Thank you for the most helpful notes and books. I have found the anti−stress diet helped Katherine. We have also discovered that sawdust, pollen and grasses set off her asthmatic cough. RS I do get great encouragement from your letters and talk a lot about it to other mothers, I have a son Isaac (6) who is hyperactive and a daughter Esther (7) and we have all enjoyed better health since being on the diet. My husband who used to rush everywhere and not relax at all, has suddenly realised that he has slowed down too, not realising I had cut all colour, flavour, etc. out of my pantry cupboard. My son Isaac got very badly burnt a few weeks ago and had to spend seven weeks in the Wanganui Base Hospital. I was surprised at the battle I had to have about Isaac's diet. The medical staff seemed to be unaware of hyperactive people, so thanks to your newsletter quite a few more people were made aware of it. Yesterday on the Beauty and the Beast TV program, a lady wrote in about her two year old daughter who seemed to change into an uncontrollable child after giving her smarties and an orange. The Beauties reckon it could not have anything to do with colour because the child was given an orange as well as the sweeties. I was cross, the poor little girl badly needed Feingold's programme. I do realise that you have a terrific lot of paper work to do so I intend to write to Beauty and the Beast to inform them of their mistake. Often people will say, "It does not work with all people." My standard reply is "A healthy diet never hurt anyone". JS A boy aged about eleven was in Std 2. Slightly backward because of inability to concentrate. Put on diet but mother did not notice much improvement and was about to give it up, when teacher wrote her a note to say that the child had come top of the class in a concentration test! His aunt said, "Its unbelievable!" CS

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Our son Brendon aged four is hyperactive. At least he has some of the symptoms of a hyperactive child and there definitely has been a great improvement since we introduced the Feingoid programme. Brendon is prone to throat, ear and nose infections and is worse at these times. He is unwell at present and I gave him Benedryl and Disprin without thinking, with unhappy results. He also comes out in a very nasty rash if he eats anything he should not, which fortunately is not often. We are amazed at how quickly he has accepted these new eating habits. I am interested to know if you still have copies available for sale of 'Cooking with pure ingredients' by Anne Tydeman as mentioned in your March newsletter. I really think diet variations are what we must concentrate on as overall his behaviour is much improved and he is sleeping all night. So you can see the Feingold programme is really working for us. KJ Thank you for your wonderful magazine: it is a real joy to read and find people are discovering natural ways of curing and coping. Did you hear a radio news item four or five weeks ago about giving vitamin C in juice form at breakfast time. There was a marked decrease in fighting and disagreements as vitamin C helps the reasoning part of the brain. I joined the Hyperactivity Association last year when my baby was born, to increase my knowledge of colic and how to eliminate it. My first baby was very colicky and cried continuously until I stopped breast feeding at eleven months. It is a real joy to breastfeed this time and to have a baby smiling and gurgling after a drink. Maureen Minchin's book "Food for thought" has been invaluable in coping with the problem. Also a vitamin B drink every day has helped me to cope with the stress of coping with two children and broken sleep. HT. Thank you for your letter and the leaflet regarding hyperactive children. I passed it on to my friend and she was most interested and is going to show it to her doctor. She was particularly interested in the mention of artificially coloured medicines. She has taken Isaac off Dilantin because it was artificially coloured. The doctor was not happy about this but she is determined in a quiet way. She stuck to her point of view and won his consent to try it for three months. She says Isaac is a different boy since she put him on the Feingold programme. He gets good reports from school, no longer bangs his head on the pantry door as he did repeatedly when frustrated and no longer tears up his Sunday school projects. She is thrilled and does not find the programme so difficult. BD

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Thank you for your support for Michelle. She has quietened down a lot but I am wondering if she is hyperactive or was it just a stage she was going through. I have spoken to a lot of people and they say she is not. Her doctor thinks she might be slightly, or she is just a child who has a lot of energy to burn up. When I think of it, her father has a lot of energy and cannot sit still. Well I am quite happy with Michelle and I seem to have more time to myself. She is sleeping all night and three hours during the day as well. I and my husband thank you very much. Thank you very much for the information and the book. I can see they are going to be a big help. Marni's fever never broke until Wednesday night (it started Sunday night). Thursday she screamed for five hours. My doctor advised me to modify my diet to white meat, root veges and porridge. This is the sixth day on that diet and Marni has never been so happy and alert. I will let you know how things progress. Later I do not know if I told you, but there has been something in Marni's diet that has been making her sick every fortnight. I removed cold pressed oil from our diets and after four days her appetite was marvellous. I waited a week and then fried myself some chips in about one tablespoon of oil. I am breast feeding. The next morning Marni had spots on her face, a very runny nose and was a bit irritable. She also refused all food. The second day she had a fever as well. The fourth day Marni got diarrhoea which lasted three days. The fifth night she cried until 4 am and very obviously had a tummy ache. In the past after a reaction she has had a night of screaming but until this time it has not been obvious where the pain was. Marni is 10 and a half months old now. I have removed the oil from our diet altogether. I use my own mutton fat from roasts, etc. for frying. Could I please purchase 'Parties make me sick' and 'Feingold handbook'? (2 booklets)

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Later still Marni has been very well for four weeks now the longest spell of wellness that we have had. I could not understand why sometimes she would react to mutton and sometimes she would not. I read in the 'Real Food' cookbook (Hauf and Anderson) about tyramine in meat so I tried freezing the meat the day I got it, using only very fresh meat from the freezing works. Marni was well and happy for a week. Then I bought some chops and kept them in the fridge for three days. I grilled them for tea. That night she became irritable and when I did finally manage to get her to sleep she had a very restless broken sleep. Since then I have only used fresh meat and together with cutting out the oil, that seems to have really done the trick. In answer to your question about oil, I had been using cold pressed oil (Dietex). I tried maize, sunflower and a blend of maize, Soya bean and wheatgerm. As my father reacts badly to the same oil I feel that Marni has an inherited intolerance to oil rather than a reaction to any additives that may not be in it. The diarrhoea, facial spots and colic have all disappeared since I stopped using oil. Marni is eating three large meals a day from a spoon for the first time ever. Hopefully she will now start gaining weight as she was only 18 lbs when she was eleven months old. I loaned my 'Food for Thought' book to the dietician and after reading it she changed her mind about my weaning Marni, thank heaven! Since Marni has been well I have introduced her to semolina and sago cooked in Just Juice (pineapple and papaya) and wholemeal macaroni and rice made into a soup with grated vegetables and chicken or lamb bones. She loves all of these things, I guess they make a nice change from the boiled fruit and vegetables she has been used to. Sheryl W Editor's note The 'Real Food' cookbook mentioned above is a new edition of 'Mine's a Special Diet'. The two authors are members of the Auckland Hyperactivity Association. They have sons who suffer from both hyperactivity and migraine and the recipes are based on foods that the boys can tolerate. Tyramine is a mono−amine found in some foods and has been thought to cause migraine. It is also a natural by−product of the bacterial breakdown of protein, so people on this anti−migraine diet are recommended to use only very fresh foods, particularly with meat and fish. Avoiding these foods has helped migraine sufferers.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson The next letter is from Sheryl's mother, Mami's grandmother. I would like to say thank you for all the help and support you have given my daughter, Sheryl. Without the information and support that you have passed on, I am sure Sheryl would now be having a breakdown It is a bad situation where a mother knows there is something wrong with her child but her doctor shrugs her off as a neurotic mother with a badly disturbed child. However that is now ail changed and her doctor is deeply interested. He looked at everything you sent her, asked questions about her diet, etc. Then said, 'My word, you have been resourceful, haven't you'. I said to Sheryl, 'Did you tell him the word was desperate'. Thank you once again for your support. Marni's grandmother. PS Since you advised Sheryl to omit white bread, Marni has been sleeping better at night and has developed a sleep pattern during the day for the first time in her life. Our third child, Christopher is on the Feingold programme and has been under the care of an Auckland paediatrician. We recently joined the Auckland Hyperactivity Association before being required to transfer to Masterton. On reading your information I felt the urge to tell you of our dealings with the medical profession. When Christopher was eighteen months of age we were aware he was more than just a very active little boy. There was an obvious compulsion about his activity. Having previously been vaguely aware of the Feingold programme, we decided with scepticism to try it. Anything that might work was worthwhile. We eliminated anything that was obviously coloured or artificially flavoured and in a few days the change was obvious. In our ignorance we kindly bought apple juice for Chris. I do not need to detail the result! Our Auckland Plunket nurse gave us the contact phone number for the Auckland Hyperactivity Association and we received a diet sheet, titles of books to read, etc. The family then went on a proper diet and again Chris improved. After a few months (and no new foods introduced), we were aware that Chris was again out of control and a physical danger to himself. That was when our.GP referred us to the paediatrician, a very helpful Chinese doctor, Dr Liang.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson After a physical examination which included listening to the abdominal sounds, he arranged tests of urine analysis, faecal studies for ova, cysts, parasites, a blood count, immune globulin and other blood tests and a skin sensitivity test. Not as extensive as some of the Australian and American clinics, but then we only had a very few visits before leaving Auckland. The paediatrician, required that Chris remain on the Feingold programme and prescribed an antihistamine. We also did a ten day milk−free diet followed by a provocative test. Neither the antihistamine nor the milk−free diet worked for Christopher, but had there been any possible improvement by eliminating milk and milk products, we would then have done double blind testing. The paediatrician advised the use of fine ground linseed meal. I am sorry I cannot recall its effect, but anyway we could not get Chris to take it with any disguise at all. Christopher was then prescribed Nalcrom, a drug obtainable only through the hospital and an extremely expensive drug available through Social Security fortunately. Taken on an empty stomach and first dissolved in water. Nalcrom develops and seals the lining of the stomach and intestines so that they do not absorb whole or partly−broken−down allergens. For Christopher this seems to be the answer and we are very grateful to our informed efficient paediatrician. We plan to soon try reintroducing some of the valuable foods currently excluded from our diet. Many of the foods we have not missed. Chris will drink water happily when the other children have a colourless drink. We would be grateful for any help you can give us. SM Thank you for sending me the copies of the newsletter. I found it extremely interesting. We have noticed a big change in Jacob. He seems brighter, happier and a lot calmer. I am giving him Dolomite and half a vitamin B tablet every day. I think that has calmed him a lot. We are all taking them. A Christian magazine 'Above Rubies' that I pick up occasionally at second−hand shops said that vitamin B is the secret of good humour. I feel personally I can cope better with him having a few laughs about things. Also I decided to ask Jesus into my heart so I could feel more love for Jacob to cope with him. Before his behaviour was so terrible at school, etc. that I was embarrassed and felt I was turning very bitter towards him. But since asking Jesus to help me, things look much brighter. We have tried the wheat grass from which I could not squeeze the juice. We chewed it whole instead. It tasted like the pea pods. It was quite nice. We have bought a milking goat from a nice elderly couple who have a herd. We were buying goat−milk for a while but it was too expensive, the petrol too. But our goat, hopefully is in kid and we will milk her or maybe one of her little ones. We would like to start a small herd ourselves.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Thankfully, Jacob will eat literally anything, so I can put loads of garlic, parsley, bran straight from the packet on his cereal and I am using kelp instead of salt as I had some swelling in my hands and feet due I think due to too much salt. I also use sunflower seeds instead of nuts in our muesli, they are quite nice, although I don't like too many of them. I have sprouted beans too. They are delicious when I remember to sprout them. We have them a lot, cooked or uncooked. I tried baking my own bread, but it never turned out, and I find I have not really the time as we have so many animals to tend to, goat, pig, calf, cat and dog, chooks, etc. I would like to make bread and will try when the baby is older, she is only six months old and with another three and a half year old boy, I am pretty busy. I love a clean house and it is clean but not exactly 'neat and tidy'. I tend to spend more time with the children and animals and garden, which I am happiest with. Also as I love my cup of coffee and I am breast feeding and will hopefully do so for another six months. I searched high and low for a more healthy coffee. Finally I found one called Inca from the health shop. It is bigger than a normal jar and is cheaper. Ingredients − extracts of roasted barley, rye, chicory, beet roots. It is a natural product too. I think it is nice, so does my husband. Jacob's teacher said she had noticed a difference in him and that he seems to be able to concentrate better. By the way, when he gets home from school he is pretty tired and irritable so I find if I try to have a big pot of home−made soup (just pumpkin, onions, carrots, celery and meat) ready for him, it helps a bit. I would be interested in hearing any more information about this, as we are trying very hard with the programme. I have just got the book 'Why Your Child is Hyperactive', I have yet to read it . Well once again thank you for your help.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Note: Jacob is a first cousin to Patrick in the next letter. Thank you for the current, newsletter. I receive various newsletters regularly but never have I received one as interesting and stimulating as yours. Living in Upper Hutt and not possessing a vehicle makes attending meetings difficult but I would still like to be a member. If you still have the toddlers' badges mentioned in the newsletter, please forward one (or two if possible to guard against loss). For your next newsletter others in the Upper Hutt area may be interested to know that Mr Peter Lagan, an Upper Hutt pharmacist is interested in and sympathetic to the subject of hyperactivity. He would be happy to make up any of the formulae on the Feingold programme sheet especially since he is holding a large quantity of paracetamol powder that he ordered, to compound the colourless unflavoured elixir for me. I just thought I would mention it as Mr Lagan was so very accommodating and understanding. He is also interested in seeing this newsletter which I mentioned by phone to him. He has been reading quite a lot about allergies generally. I am sure that being a pharmacist he will not have to read it twice. Incidentally I had to read it three times, it was a little more technical than Golden Books or Richard Scarey which are more my line these days with a two year at foot. Finally, the information you require for the English Association. Patrick is blonde, blue eyed with very fair, creamy white skin. His skin is also very fine and sensitive to insect bites and sun although if exposed carefully to the latter does not freckle but tans. He has been on the programme for a month now with terrific results. Has stopped continual grizzling and head banging and tantrums to a large degree. His thirst is now normal and concentration improved markedly measurable by his increase in vocabulary which amazes us. I can now read to him. However he is still very active, on the go for 12−14 hours a day and even then often awake a great part of the night. I am hoping this is due to the very hot weather. I would be interested in trying Patrick on the Efavite, if you are able to obtain it at a later date. At the moment it would not be prudent to take part in the trial as I am actually in hospital awaiting an operation tomorrow. Consequently things will be a bit unsettled for a while and Patrick will probably behave accordingly. Because of this I have even had to put off reintroducing him to foods that have been restricted in the diet. Incidentally while sitting here, the registrar Andrew Edward, came in to explain what would happen to my gall bladder tomorrow so I asked him what celiac disease was (mentioned in the newsletter notes). He like the previously mentioned chemist is young, unbiased and interested in allergies, hyperactivity, etc. Apparently he studied it in America. The sister here in Lower Hutt hospital was also interested. Both wanted to know the effect of the Feingold programme on Patrick. I was pleased at their interest. NL.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Patrick, a case history Blonde, blue eyed, fair complexion, diagnosed hyperactive at two years From birth Patrick suffered from colic and projectile vomiting regardless of the fact he was breast fed for six months. As a baby and toddler he was always awake, active and miserable. This reached a peak at about two years of age when a neighbour observed, "It's as if a demon is in him". He would always run, never walk, seldom sleep, was loud, banging doors, etc. He was away with the fairies, i.e. would not listen, could not concentrate. Neither punishment nor reasoning could prevent him from destroying things. He also had an excessive thirst and tantrums, head banging and grizzling were common, My GP prescribed Vallergan. Patrick was dazed and unresponsive but unbelievably, as active as ever. By chance I read an article on hyperactivity and because at the time Patrick was drinking litres of Freshup apple juice I began to wonder if diet was the cause of his problem. I approached my GP for a referral to the Hutt Hospital for its programme based on Feingold's findings. In the meantime I had taken Patrick off Freshup and immediately noticed an improvement in his behaviour. Using the Feingold programme was a long process and I honestly cannot say I found positive reactions to anything in particular although several foods (baked beans, I recall) were highly suspect. By avoiding these suspect foods, Freshup, using Dolomite and avoiding stressful situations, his gradual improvement continued. One month later when he was 2 and a quarter I was able to note that he has stopped grizzling, head banging and tantrums to a large degree. His thirst is now normal and concentration improved markedly (measurable by amazing increase in vocabulary). I can now even read to him. However, he is still very active although my brother remarks that "the diet seems to have made him happily rather than unhappily hyperactive." At four and a half Patrick was, I observed "a loving, obedient and intelligent child who gets on well with kindergarten teachers and peers. I no longer consider him hyperactive". On reflection it appears that as I ate numerous apples when pregnant and breast feeding, it could be possible that Patrick developed an intolerance to them before birth which would have been exacerbated by my milk and the Freshup. Now at six and a quarter Patrick eats the occasional apple and most other foods (although naturally dyes, preservatives, etc., I do try to avoid.)

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson He is still well behaved and sleeps well but does get tense and anxious at times and concentration is not all it could be. In view of his past history I shall quietly bear these points in mind until hopefully they no longer apply. NL A psychology student was doing a MA thesis on treatment of hyperactivity. She asked Patrick's mother which of these three is the most effective methods of treatment. 1. Reinforcement (rewards, punishments, time out) 2. Positive practice (making the child do the right thing) 3. Ritalin NL replied: Patrick was a first−born, and the 'terrible twos" are difficult times. But being the second−born in a family of eleven children, babies were not unknown to me. Now, with another child 19 months old, I still consider Patrick's behaviour back then was abnormal, and I still consider that the apple juice was the main culprit. The juice came in large cans, and I did read later of a lead scare with Freshup cans. Whether Patrick's behaviour was due to a build−up of lead in his system, or to an intolerance of sallcylate, I will never know; but I do suspect the latter. Incidentally, I ate many apples during pregnancy; some believe that intolerance can begin in the uterus. Note: On a radio programme discussing pregnancy cravings, a mother phoned in saying that she could not stop eating fejoa fruit whilst pregnant. The baby girl she was carrying cannot eat one tiny bit of fejoa without a bad reaction! DN Bearing all this in mind, might I now state that answering your questionnaire was extremely difficult for me. I felt every answer needed qualifying. Generally I feel the Ritalin treatment to be treating the symptom, not the cause; a last resort treatment, of more use to the sanity of the teacher than to Max (the boy mentioned in the questionnaire). Reinforcement is great for a normally behaved child, but rather punitive for one who genuinely cannot respond. It works best for Patrick now; it was ineffective before. Time−out also is good for a normal child having a tantrum. It works (as does reinforcement) with my 19 month−old. It meant nothing to Patrick before, except the chance to rip wallpaper off the wall, or something similar. And Max could learn nothing, because he was having time−out all day. Positive Practice Why not, if you have the patience of a saint, and all the time in the world. Most mothers do not. I would have been willing to try any of the treatments (Ritalin with reservations) if the diet did not work or in conjunction with the diet if necessary. However I feel that living to treat unacceptable behaviour by such methods would be frustrating if the brain is not functioning normally due to chemical imbalance: rather like trying to talk or demonstrate sense to a drunk. I would sober him before even trying. As a volunteer in a Community Psychiatry Program, and also as one intending to study psychology next year, I do respect your methods. However as Patrick's mother I am thankful that I did explore other avenues of treatment. Even though some of the medical profession may remain sceptical and suggest that he grew out of his bad behaviour. I do not believe this is so. I believe that by altering his diet at such an early stage, his body chemistry stabilised and his behaviour modified accordingly. NL Editor's note: "Terrible twos" is a modern expression. Eighty years ago, two year olds were not terrible: they were charming people. But young children with small bodies and an immature brain and nervous system need 52

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Norman Shealy, author of "90 days to Self−Health" is an American specialist in pain management. He was invited to speak in Wellington by the Arthritis Foundation. He said, "All pain comes from stress. The best single antidote to stress is physical movement". Hyperactive children suffer terrible internal stress. Is this why they ARE hyperactive? Does Nature say to them, "Move or Die!". Is it fair to them to try to teach them to sit still using psychological methods, without first removing from their environment and food environment, the poisons that are causing their stress? The following story comes from a hairdresser, who continued to work through her pregnancy. The toxic chemicals used in a salon probably caused her son's problems. For example perfumes are poisonous, and all hair dyes are made from lead, one of the causes of hyperactivity. Here is the hairdresser's story:− From the time my son was a year old, he became a bit of a problem. He walked at ten months and spoke very well by the time he was a year old. For three years he was an only child. Where I should have enjoyed him, he gradually got more and more uncontrollable. It is obvious now, that it was as he was introduced to different foods. At the age of three, twins, a brother and a sister, added to his confused life. From the day they came home, things got worse. Jealousy was the main factor, which is understandable. My husband and I went out of our way to include him in every way, which seemed to have been the wrong thing to do, as he now demands loads of attention. Life went on in a very up and down way, I did not know from one day to the next what sort of mood he would be in.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson At the age of seven and a half, I could not stand him any longer and took him to the doctor who referred us to a paediatrician. Before the appointment a friend gave me a book to read, "Not All in the Mind" by Dr Richard Mackarness. I had come to the conclusion that our problems with our child were all associated with different foods. It was this that was turning him into a monster. He was under average weight, and over average height; dark under the eyes, just a pathetic looking child. The specialist was a great help and for the first time I felt we were on to something at last. A sore neck he had constantly complained about was a migraine. With tablets for this, plus tablets to calm him down and increase his appetite, we were on the right road. Next came elimination of different foods. Chocolate in any form − chocolate, ice−cream, baking with cocoa, any chocolate drinks, were out for ten days. We could not believe the difference. He was a different boy. His behaviour improved out of sight, and for once he wanted to please us. Other things were found to affect him − fish, citrus fruit, grapes, pineapple, breakfast foods with malt, bacon, ham, pork or anything highly coloured or containing a lot of sugar. By trial and error, we gradually worked out what sort of reactions they produce. They are not all the same; some put him on a high almost immediately, and the next day a low, tears, arguments, aggressiveness, etc. Others make him lethargic and listless, and yet he cannot keep still; some foods are OK in strict moderation, but not chocolate. That is out, there is no way I will have it in the house. He has put on weight, eats like a horse, getting on better at school and in general a normal healthy little boy. Its lovely to find he can sit still and watch television or concentrate on what he is doing. If only I had known nine years ago, what I know now. When asked what he feels like after eating chocolate, he says "It makes me angry".

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson I am watching my younger son who suffers from spasmodic stammering, very carefully. After seeing the program on television on food allergies and the girl that stammered after eating dates, I suspect that it could be connected with a food allergy. Also since finding the allergies with my son, I find that that I myself am affected by chocolate, shellfish and grapefruit, causing headaches and depression. I am a much better person going without these things. We still have some bad times with him, but the bad times are getting fewer and there are more good times. Daphne Olsen of Paraparaumu is one of the hairdresser's clients. Daphne suffered previously from many health problems, read 'Not All in the Mind' by Mackarness, treated herself for allergy and recovered her health. In the salon the hairdresser told Daphne of her impossible son. She was about to see a paediatrician and Daphne suggested that she make a list of the boy's symptoms and habits to show to the specialist. This was the list: • active and keyed up • chews collars and shirts, etc. • tired and irritable • jealous • uncontrollable and excited • ignores us when spoken to • asthmatic and a bad sniffer • mostly does not eat but craves sweets • very tearful • sometimes eats well but eats like a pig • destructive and restless • always has to be first • very noisy • always has to be boss • bites nails badly • good sleeper but dreams and calls out etc. Daphne lent the hairdresser 'Not All in the Mind' and when they met again, said she felt the problem might be caffeine or chocolate. The boy did not drink coffee and the mother said they never bought chocolate but the current breakfast cereal was coca−puffs and the boy bought chocolate flavoured yoghurt daily for lunch. There were occasional chocolate biscuits.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson It was suggested that the mother treat all three children the same, give them a diet totally free of chocolate or chocolate flavouring or cocoa for two weeks. Then share a large Cadbury's block among the three of them and note the result. The other two children were not affected, but the boy was tearing around shouting and screaming. The father was very angry and shouting that the mother should have known better than to do such a foolish thing. She tried to explain above the din that it was a necessary experiment to see if chocolate was the culprit, which it was! (For a bad reaction give the antidote in our book "Anti−Stress nutrition program") It was a few days before the boy recovered, but when he did, she sat down with him and talked to him. She said that it was the first time in his life that she had been able to get through to him. In the talk he explained that he did not want to do those things, but it was as if he was in orbit. He could not stop. The mother took the child to a doctor for allergy tests. When the foods etc. that he was sensitive to, were eliminated, he grew up normally. He is now a teenager and his mother says he is quite alright. In December 1991 he graduated from the seventh form at school and with 300,000 unemployed in New Zealand, he got a job immediately. Before he recovered on the elimination diet, his mother thought that in ten years time, he would be in prison, and she would be in a mental hospital from the stress. Here are some other families whom Daphne Olsen helped with advice about allergies:− Children in the family suffered from asthma until mother banished certain foods from the diet (without medical assistance). "Coffee makes me dizzy, sick, skin rash. I avoid it and have no symptoms. (Asthma can be relieved or cured by milk free diet and Bowen therapy. Daphne Olsen is a Bowen therapist. Ask us for names and addresses of therapists in other areas.) The son as a small child had thick green phlegm, runny nose, chest cough, ear infection. Both son and husband had asthma attacks twice a day until a naturopath in Johnsonville suggested they were allergic to milk. Since then neither has asthma any more. Son was hyperactive when on steroids but has improved as steroid dose reduced. Mother feels that milk allergy was partly the cause. A respondent was sure at the beginning of the interview that she and her family had no allergies, but they had these symptoms: red itchy eyes, earache and ringing in the ears, wheezing, eczema, itching hives, blotchy skin, migraine and panic attacks. Her husband consulted Mr Tressider, a natural healer, of Raumati who suggested a sugar free, yeast free, low allergen diet. Since then her husband has felt much better. She would take the rest of the family for treatment If it were not for the cost involved.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson 5. Many symptoms improve with the Feingold program; results of a New Zealand questionnaire. This was a miniature questionnaire. There were 45 replies, almost all from women. QUESTIONNAIRE Please tick where appropriate. I use the Feingold program 1. completely 2. in part 3. for myself 4. for the whole family 5. for one or some members of the family I avoid/restrict: items in Feingold diet 1. food colourings 2. artificial flavours 3. anti−oxidant preservatives 4. salicylates other items 1. sugar 2. milk products 3. wheat products 4. name any other items: Do you find your diet program beneficial? 1. very beneficial 2. fairly beneficial 3. not beneficial at all Name any symptoms reduced by your diet program Has any member of your family ever had a cot death? I had pethidine in pregnancy/childbirth. Give symptoms in child if any. Diet programs All but one of the families were using the Feingold programme, either fully or in part. But only three were using the minimum program, (eliminating only food colours, artificial flavours, saticylate fruits, anti−oxidant preservatives). All the others were avoiding or restricting other items, usually sugar or milk or wheat, or more than one of these. 16 families avoided 1−4 other items. Only one family had a long list of allergic foods. These extra items were as follows. The number in front tells how many avoided the item. • (5) tea/coffee 58

• (2) red meat • (1) maize • (1) nuts • (5) eggs • (2) fats • (1) white flour • (1) coconut • (4) yeast • (2) salt • (1) all grains • (1) processed • (3) citrus • (2) gluten • (1) chocolate foods • (2) chicken • (1) oats • (1) fish • (1) sodium nitrate • (2) meat • (1) rye • (1) spices &nitrites 2 respondents found the program very beneficial: 14 found it fairly beneficial, only one mother found it not beneficial; she had avoided colours/flavours and later separately milk/wheat, to see if it would cure eczema in her breastfed baby and it did not. (She did not avoid sugar which might have helped) Three people did not answer this question, but named benefits. One said the diet was very beneficial if she avoided the foods, fairly beneficial if she merely restricted them.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Symptoms reduced Only half of the families mentioned a hyperactive child. The other half wereusing the program for the other health improvements it gave. Altogether 78medical symptoms were mentioned that had been reduced by diet control. Insome families the list of improvements was surprisingly long, and quite moving. Pethidine painkiller Our interest in pethidine was aroused when the Auckland HyperactivityAssociation wrote an article about it in their newsletter. A hyperactive boy hadresponded only partially to the Feingold diet but testing with an EAV machine(an electronic machine used for testing allergies) showed him affected bypethidine given to his mother in pregnancy and childbirth. When he was givena homeopathic antidote to pethidine he lost his hyperactivity and coulddiscontinue all asthma medication. We asked which mothers had had injections of pethidine at childbirth; 13 didhave it. Where pethidine had been used, there was a higher incidence ofasthma in the children and a slightly higher incidence of hyperactivity,compared with the cases where it was not used. Also the success of dietcontrol was less where pethidine had been used. The proportion of motherswho found the diet program very beneficial was reduced; more found it fairlybeneficial. Asthma 12 out of 45 families mentioned asthma or chronic bronchitis. In five of theasthmatic families, pethidine had been used. In the asthmatic families, sevenfound diet control very beneficial, five found it fairly beneficial. Cot death Two mothers had had a cot death; three had had near misses. We do notknow how many children there were in the 45 families, but the average NewZealand family has just under two children. Two cot deaths in 90 childrenwould be five times the New Zealand rate. One of the deaths (and I thinkprobably both) occurred before the mother joined our association and beganusing reformed diet.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Symptoms reduced through diet control Respondents named 78 symptoms that improved with their diet program. We grouped them into ten categories. The numbers are people who reported Improvement in that area. Symptoms reduced by diet control: some individual cases Aches &Pains • (3) ear ache • (4) migraine • (8) headache • (4) stomach pain • (7) joint/arthritic pain • (1) muscle pain Respiratory • (1) Chest mucous • (1) Nasal mucous • (1) Catarrh • (2) Rhinitis • (2) Hayfever • (1) Stuffy nose • (2) Blocked nose • (3) Runny nose • (1) Sinusitis • (1) "Thick head" • (4) Sore throats • (1) Tonsillitis • (1) Swollen glands • (1) Bad breath • (2) Chronic bronchitis • (1) Chronic cough • (1) Pneumonia • (7) Asthma • (1) Shortness of breath • (1) Colds Skin problems • (15) eczema or rash • (1) Itchy skin • (1) Spots • (1) Dandruff • (3) nose/mouth ulcers • (1) cold sores • (1) acne • (1) nappy rash 61

• (1) tinea Mental/emotional • (6) Insomnia • (1) Nightmares • (2) Moodiness • (1) Mood changes • (2) Depression • (3) Lack of concentration • (1) Fuzzy head • (1) PMT • (1) Panic attacks • (2) Anxiety &stress • (2) Tiredness/fatigue • (2) Lethargy • (1) Sleepiness • (1) Brain allergies • (2) Memory loss • (1) Confusion Gastrointestinal • (2) Indigestion • (1) Vomiting • (3) Bloating/gas • (3) Colic • (1) Loose bowels • (4) Diarrhoea • (2) Constipation • (1) Both alternately • (4) Stomach ache Behavioural symptoms • (12) Hyperactivity/disturbed behaviour • (3) Aggression &violence • (2) Irrational behaviour • (1) Shaking Hearing problems • (1) Tinnitus • (2) Ear infection • (3) Earache • (1) Glue ear Genito−urinary • (1) Bedwetting • (1) Inflammation of gut &uterus 62

Other problems improved • (1 ) Dark circles under eyes • (1) Partial paralysis • (2) Rapid weight gain/loss • (1) Sugar craving • (2) Palpitations Other improvements • (2) Everyone much calmer • (2) More co−operation • (1) More energy • (1) Recovery from ME &Candida

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson 1. Where diet program very beneficial Hyperactivity: "Everyone much calmer" Self, muscle pain, gut &uterus inflammation, eczema,children, behavioural symptoms, colds Lethargy, hyperactivity, aggression, constipation, diarrhoea, eczema, sleeplessness, lack of concentration Catarrh,indigestion, insomnia, general disposition Ear &throat problems Headaches, sinusitis, rhinitis, chronic cough, indigestion, stomach pain, rapid weight gain Earache, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhoea, itching skin, spots, lack of concentration, shaking Improvements in pain, weight gain, easier to control, less confusion, skin rash, diarrhoea, forgetfulness, depression, tiredness Fuzzy head, swollen glands, earache, headache, mouth ulcers, cold sores, palpitations, arthritis, improved memory In baby, colic; in child, eczema, aching joints, aggressive behaviour; in self, aching joints and headache Abdominal discomfort and insomnia Mouth/nose ulcers, headaches, earaches, runny noses, behaviour problems Rhinitis, PMT, headaches, joint pains, palpitations, stress 2. Where diet program fairly beneficial All bloating &gas and loose bowel movements gone, improvements in mouth ulcers, aches &pains, panic attacks, rash, headache, dandruff Insomnia, etc. Insomnia, behaviour problems, bedwetting Eczema, rash, stomach gas, diarrhoea Symptoms of asthma and chest complaints reduced in the following cases: (NOTE: A thought may be given that may be, when women who are painting and decorating, using vinyl wallpapers and thinners whilst pregnant, may give birth to asthmatic babies. Some of the fumes modern products give off are extremely strong, and when breathed in, may affect the foetus as does smoking, imbibing caffeine, and alchohol.) 1. Where diet program very beneficial Asthma, eczema, hyperactivity, depression Hayfever, asthma, eczema, congested nose, irrational behaviour, nightmares in 4 year old, children are more cooperative In daughter eczema, mood changes, dark circles under eyes, runny nose blocked nose, ear infections, bronchitis, pneumonia, etc. In self cured acne, chronic bronchitis, reduced migraine &brain allergies 2. Where diet program fairly beneficial Nasal and chest mucous, sore throats Asthma, eczema, hayfever, migraine, partial paralysis, hyperactivity, moodiness, etc. Eczema, asthma

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Asthmatic families where the mother had pethidine 1. Where diet program very beneficial Mother recovered with diet control from ME &Candida In child asthma, colic, nappy rash, skin rashes reduced, child has more energy Both mother and son (now 35) had asthma. Diet control reduces shortness of breath in the mother Stuffy nose, bad breath "calmer behaviour" 2. Where diet program fairly beneficial Daughter's symptoms when not on diet, whitish diarrhoea, flatulence, rashes, unreasonable behaviour, glue ear, stomach pains, weight loss, asthma, mucous, lank hair, "gluten−free she is beautiful; milk−free I have little asthma" Pethidine at birth but no asthma in family, Symptoms reduced 1. Where diet program very beneficial Runny nose, sore throat, athletes foot, migraine, stomach ache, constipation, arthritic pain in feet, tonsillitis Son now 22 had allergies in childhood, now OK but careful. Diet reduces joint pains and headaches Cravings for sugar and sweet foods reduced, now able to sleep at nights Eczema reduced 2. Where diet program fairly beneficial Son's symptoms, abdominal pain, lethargy, poor concentration, moodiness. He is willing to avoid salicylates to avoid pain but as a teenager does not willingly forego junk foods In mother migraine &chronic thrush reduced In child hyperactivity, aggression, violence reduced Low grade headaches, undue fatigue, sleepiness, thick head Behaviour problems, anxiety, stress

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Conclusions from this miniature survey 1. It was surprising that out of 44 respondents who were using the Feingold program with benefit, only 17 mentioned hyperactivity or difficult or irrational behaviour as a symptom in their family. It used to be thought that the Feingold program was for hyperactive children, and that no one should use it except for a child who had been diagnosed as hyperactive. That tended to be the medical view among doctors who had heard of the program. But in this survey half the respondents were using it because it benefited other medical conditions. Our association has found that the Feingold program is a healthy one that benefits whole families using it, in many ways, besides improving behaviour. The present survey bears this out. 2. Only three families in the survey were using the minimum Feingold program (eliminating only the four items named by Feingold: colours, artificial flavours, anti−oxidant preservatives and salicylates in fruit, etc.). 42 families were using the extended Feingold program, avoiding other things, usually sugar and/or milk, and/or wheat. This raises the question, "Do chemically sensitive and hyperactive children, usually need more than the bare Feingold diet to improve?" Two good research studies in the 80s by Egger and Kaplan, both agreed that they do. Feingoid himself said that if his program did not give 100% success, the parents should try to detect what other substances the child might be reacting to. A Sydney allergist, Chris Reading, author of "Relatively Speaking" about medical family histories, sees salicylate and chemical sensitivity as a secondary symptom caused by food allergy. Eating foods like milk/wheat that one is allergic to, towers the body's pH (makes it less alkaline). Reading thinks that when this happens the body cannot eliminate salicylate and additives so easily; they accumulate and have toxic effects on the nervous system, the skin, etc. Reading has a laboratory for testing vitamin &mineral levels in the body, He finds that when deficiencies are made good by vitamin and mineral supplements, both allergy and salicylate sensitivity improve. Some of our members have found the same. Digestion of food needs and uses up vitamins, minerals, enzymes, etc, and depletes them. But these nutrients should be found in the foods eaten. In this way they are available to digest the next meal. It is like an example of perpetual motion. Sugar has none of these valuable nutrients. A diet of sugar−rich, low−nutrient manufactured food, leaves the body nutrient deficient.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson 3. Re Pethidine in Childbirth It is a dreadful thought that hyperactive and asthmatic school children may still be suffering from the effects of pethidine used in childbirth. It suggests that home birth may be the safer option. Two mothers have remarked on the excellent effects of home birth on the child. 4. High cot death rate in salicvlate sensitive families 44 of the 45 people who responded to our questionnaire were using the Feingold diet either strictly or in part, and found it beneficial. The Feingold program restricts salicylates and eliminates food chemicals (dyes, artificial flavours) which seem to have a similar effect in the body to that of salicylate. Aspirin is also implicated, the active ingredient in it is salicylate or salicylic acid. The high proportion of cot deaths in these 44 salicylate sensitive families seems to suggest that cot death maybe linked with salicylate sensitivity. I had a letter from Mr Jack Jacobs who was chairman of the adult subcommittee of the Feingold Association of USA (the American Hyperactivity Association). He said that the Feingold low additive, low salicylate diet had cured his sleep apnea (cessation of breathing during sleep). Our member Patricia Holborow MSc &PhD, quotes research showing that in salicylate sensitive people, a sudden drop in the salicylate level in the blood from high to low, can interfere with the brain mechanism that controls breathing. This might happen in a salicylate sensitive baby who was given a lot of apple one day and none the next. Apples, oranges, tomatoes, grapes, stone and berry fruit, are rich in salicylate, and cooked apple was often recommended as a first solid food on weaning. Peeled pears and bananas have little, golden delicious apples are low in it; red delicious apples are moderate and grannysmiths are high. Well ripened fruit contains less salicylate than unripe fruit. But do not eat overripe bananas.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson 6. How Common is Allergy? The following two mothers contacted me by phone. The first lived in Petone that has no fluoride. It has the purest water in New Zealand according to their Waterworks Department. This mother asked for help with a hyperactive son aged five. He had two younger sisters. I sent her the Feingold program. Besides hyperactivity, at age five, the boy had a mouthful of cavities. But because the Feingold diet is a healthy diet, there were no cavities at all in his next teeth after the age of seven: the younger sisters had no cavities either. The whole family used the same program. My contention is that pure water plus the pure food used in the Feingold program achieve good health in children, and healthy children have good teeth. The second family lived in a fluoridated area. Their four year−old daughter also had a mouthful of cavities. One day she said to her mother, "Mummy, why does my mouth taste so nasty?" The reason is that allergy causes a "sour taste in the mouth". Both blood and saliva need to be alkaline. But eating an allergic food causes the saliva to become more acid. The mouth tastes sour, and the acid saliva eats into the calcium (enamel) of the teeth, causing cavities. Does this also happen with the blood? If a person is allergic to milk, and drinks it, does this make the blood too acid, so that it leaches calcium from the bones causing osteoporosis? If a person is allergic to milk, maybe it will cause tooth decay and osteoporosis also? I mention this because the Health Ministry recommends the public to use milk products every day to provide calcium for bones and teeth. But of all nutritious foods, the commonest allergy is to milk; the second is wheat. (See "Understanding Allergy" in "Anti−Stress nutrition program" by BS.) A piece of international research compared statistics for osteoporosis in Britain, USA, and China. The Chinese do not keep cows and use little milk. They have the lowest osteoporosis rate of the three countries, I do not know of any research surveys to show how common allergy is in New Zealand today, except a small survey done by our association with 166 respondents. Over 50% were aware of allergies in self or family. Over 90% ticked allergic symptoms.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Overseas the prevalence of allergy is also high. in the 1960s Californian university students questioned 1000 people. 30% were aware of allergies and 65% ticked allergic symptoms. In London a BBC reporter did his own survey by questioning people in the street. Of the first twenty people he spoke to, 18 had allergies. Also in Britain a soap powder manufacturer had to screen new staff for allergies, because so many employees developed eczema from soap powder (especially enzyme soap powders). They found that 30% of applicants for employment had to be turned down because of allergy. There is a saying among allergists that "addiction equals allergy", meaning that we only become addicted to substances that we are allergic to. How many New Zealanders have no addiction? Alcoholism is caused by allergy to the grain or fruit that the alcohol is made from. When this food is avoided, the craving disappears. A British allergist, Keith Mumby said, "If people could be persuaded to stop eating their favourite food, MOST diseases would get better. Maybe when we eat too much of a good thing, our bodies run out of the raw materials needed to digest it correctly. So "one man's meat becomes another man's poison"" (i.e. an allergy). Another example of the prevalence of allergy is the symptom of acute sensitivity to light. How many people wear sunglasses in summer? These are allergic people. It is tragic that with a high incidence of allergy causing disease, the education of doctors does not include allergy information. A mother said that the GP's attitude is either "There is no such thing as allergy" or "It may be allergy, but what can you do about THAT!" One can do a lot. The attitude of our association is that allergy occurs when the body is suffering from stress overload. The last straw that breaks the camel's back is the point where allergies occur. We believe that they can be relieved by reducing stress. Stress can be reduced by improving life−style in three ways; 1. Improving nutrition with pure, low−allergy, nutritious foods (a sugar−free Feingold program is a very good start) 2. Taking exercise with our own two automotive legs instead of in motorcars 3. A Nelson chiropractor said "50% of our life is fear. This is what pays for the livelihood of all the chiropractors and doctors in the world". We can reduce mental and emotional stress by avoiding toxic relationships, overcoming fear, replacing it by expecting good. and by loving thoughts and positive thinking.

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HAPPY FAMILES By Brenda Sampson Helpful books are: • Norman Vincent Peale: The Power of Positive Thinking • The New Testament • Ulric Williams: "Hints on Healthy Living" and "Health and Healing in the New Age" • Merlin Carothers: Prison to Praise • Frederick Bailes: Hidden Power for Human Problems PLUS our books; "Antistress Nutrition Program" and "N.Z.'s Greatest Doctor, Ulric Williams". Here are some good books on behaviour management to use in conjunction with the Feingold program:− Two for parents:− • Barbara Coloroso: Kids are Worth It. • Thomas Phelan: 1. 2, 3, MAGIC! (for children 4 to 12) There is a video about this method. And a book for teachers: Pamela Sims: Awakening Brilliance. Other videos: "Last one Picked, First one Picked On" • "How Difficult Can This Be?" (Understanding learning disabilities) • "Impossible Kids, Possible Answers".

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