"Nine-tenths of our happiness depends on health. With it, everything becomes a source of pleasure."
"Is there a greater good for man than health?"
What is health?
Health is a poorly defined concept because it refers to a physical state that no one knows today. Yet it is the natural state of all living beings, regardless of age, as long as they are not weakened by a lifestyle that is unsuitable for their physiology, whether in terms of physical, mental, emotional, or dietary habits.
“Every so-called disease is constructed in the mind and body, due to habits causing fatigue of the nervous system. Fasting, bed rest, and the abandonment of bad habits, whether mental or physical, will allow the body to eliminate accumulated toxins. Then, if bad habits are abandoned and replaced with reasonable lifestyle habits, health will return and stabilize. This concept applies to all so-called diseases.”
Dr. John Tilden, Toxemia: The True Cause of Diseases (La toxémie : véritable cause des maladies)
Because we all have decades of cooked and animal-based food behind us, our bodies have accumulated, since the fetal stage, a significant amount of toxins (notably acids and glues) that only continue to increase if one does not improve their lifestyle with more physiological foods, hormesis, time spent in nature, sufficient rest, good breathing, naturopathic detox techniques, etc. This is why, for the average person, aging too often rhymes with decline, as the majority of organisms continue to accumulate more toxins throughout their lives unless they compensate with enough hygienic practices.
What is the life expectancy of a human?
Moreover, some peoples of the planet, like the Houzna in northern India, who once lived in the wild, without a medical system and with a diet primarily raw and vegetarian, had a life expectancy of 120 years. It is therefore not far-fetched to believe that a life in harmony with the laws of living gives centenarians who are neither bedridden nor senile and die in good health.
And if we notice that the life expectancy of mammals is between 6 and 7 times the growth time of their longest bones, we can conjecture that the life expectancy of a human, who would live under ideal conditions, would be between 120 and 140 years.
Dog | 2 years of growth 12 to 14 years of life |
Lion | 4 years of growth 24 to 28 years of life |
Horse | 4 and a half years of growth 25 to 30 years of life |
Camel | 7 years of growth 40 years of life |
Elephant | 25 years of growth 100 to 150 years of life |
Human | 20 years of growth 120 to 140 years of life (theoretical) |
Source: A healthy mind in a healthy body. Roger Le Madec (Un esprit sain dans un corps sain)
"The frugivore diet, as described in Genesis, represents the best type of diet for man. To establish the ideal diet, we must first dispel the fear of undernourishment in people's minds. If we all must restrict our food intake and partially or completely eliminate bread, meat, eggs, milk, etc., it must be proven and demonstrated by examples of individuals illustrating that not only can one live by eating only fruits, but that this Edenic and natural diet of man was the most just and perfect and can still be today."
Discovering our full potential
Humans, by nature, consider all behaviors and habits they observe around them since childhood as normal. This is why we have so much difficulty imagining what our true nature and potential could be, both physically, mentally, and emotionally, if we did everything necessary to feel well. We lack models in this area to inspire us. And as Coluche said: “Just because many are wrong doesn’t mean they will eventually be right!”
In people’s minds, being healthy simply means not having a degenerative, chronic, or genetic disease. But it is so much more than that! True health, which we will call Optimal Health to avoid semantic confusion, is a stable state (independent of age) in which an individual knows no deficiency and no disease on the physical, mental, and emotional levels. It is a natural state for every human being and can only be disrupted by diseases if the body contains poisons, what is called the terrain.
"Health, well-being, and youth are the fruits of applying natural health methods, understanding the laws of life, and the meaning of disease."
"True health is having a happy heart, the joy of living, clear and creative ideas, the energy to realize them, and a solid and harmonious body."
Having vision problems, skin issues, allergies, feeling tired for no reason, depression, pessimism, pain, etc., all these seemingly trivial (because so common) disorders in our societies precisely indicate that we are not in optimal health.
"The more you are freed from all kinds of waste and poisons, the more you will feel and believe this truth, the greatest of all: This Edenic diet is not only sufficient, but it also elevates you higher and higher into physical and mental conditions never reached before."
A heavy legacy
But it must be understood that optimal health is a theoretical state that we cannot currently achieve due to our toxic legacy (the one received at birth), several decades of conventional eating (for most of us), pollution (air, water, and food), and our difficulty in managing our “negative” emotions (sources of toxins and dysfunctions within the body itself). This is why hygienic techniques can only claim to optimize our health by providing more energy to our organism, improving the quality of our fluids and organic tissues, strengthening our immune system, and enhancing our eliminatory functions.
It is true that humans have consumed meat and cooked foods for two million years, but we must not forget that before becoming hunter-gatherers, we were simple gatherers (see this article on the origin of living food). And it is only because humans mastered fire and invented tools and weapons (the first technologies) that we were able to modify our diet. Certainly, our culture has been built around hunting, and it is notably this that has largely shaped our bodies into their anatomically modern form. However, this does not mean that the omnivorous diet is the most favorable for us. More recently, the widespread consumption of industrial goods (with refined sugar, salt, and oil; preservatives, additives, etc.) whose harmfulness is indisputable, is not unrelated to the decline in life expectancy.
In reality, we find ourselves at a historical moment where humans are on the verge of discovering their full potential. And this is at the precise moment when technologies allow us to nourish ourselves with fruits and vegetables wherever we are on the planet.
By abundantly nourishing ourselves with raw fruits and vegetables, while putting love back at the center of our lives, we will gradually regain better health while cultivating a greater connection to the intelligence of life. It is this that provides us with guidance in our existence and makes the practice of living food and hygiene a true spiritual path.
Translation :
Hapiness – Love – Health – Abundance — Freedom — Another possible future! — Make your life a dream and your dream a reality
Thanks to René Bickel for his humorous drawings imbued with wisdom. Find all of Bickel’s works at www.bickel.fr
