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Authors: Kimberly Snyder
The Grand World War Experiments
Not all studies into the benefits of a plant-based diet take place in a lab. Some come directly from history.
During World War I, Denmark was cut off from all imports, including food, by the allied blockade. Dr. Mikkel Hindhede was appointed by the Danish government to develop a program for the country to avoid the crisis of a major food shortage. Dr. Hindhede stopped feeding the country's grain to livestock and instead fed it directly to the people to conserve the food supply. It was pretty much a national experiment in vegetarianism, involving the three million citizens of Denmark. Dr. Hindhede later reported his findings in the
Journal of the American Medical Association
(
JAMA
).
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The results were incredible. During the period when the food restrictions were the most severe, which was from October 1917 to October 1918, the death rate in Copenhagen from disease was by far the lowest in recorded history. In fact, it decreased over 34 percent when compared to figures for the preceding eighteen years!
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During World War II Norway was occupied by Germany, and Norway had to sharply reduce and often eliminate the meat distribution to its people. Once again, amazing improvements in health occurred. The death rate from circulatory disease dropped dramatically. When the war ended and the Norwegian citizens went back to their normal diet, which included meat, the death rate rose again
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almost with perfect mathematical precision.
Britain also had a significant decrease in its consumption of meat and other animal products during World War II. Reports were in keeping with the massive health improvements found in Denmark and Norway during their near-vegetarian periods. There were many signs of general improved health, including a drop in the prevalence of anemia and a significant decrease in infant and postnatal deaths.
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All are compelling examples of how much health can improve with a vegetarian diet.
The findings of these studies are unquestionably impressive and support the theory that a plant-based diet will bolster our beauty and health. And more and more medical doctors are becoming aware of the overwhelming long-term scientific data that prove that our bodies can and will flourish on plant food. Prominent doctors who promote a plant-based diet include Dr. John McDougall, Dr. Kerrie Saunders, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn and Dr. Joel Fuhrman, who is on the board of the National Health Association. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which boasts a membership of over five thousand physicians, was founded by Dr. Neal Barnard and has prominent medical doctors, such as Dr. Andrew Weil, on its advisory board. It has reexamined nutritional criteria and strongly advocates a vegan diet, which it believes helps combat a multitude of physical health ailments, including heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes.
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It is leading the way for improved federal nutritional policies.
Again, you don't have to become a vegetarian or vegan for the Beauty Detox Solution to work for you. Even if you still eat animal protein, your intake of plant food will dramatically increase. And you can rest assured that by shifting into a more plant-based diet, your body will become an efficiently operating machine, and you will amass far less internal toxicity. You will become more beautiful and vibrant!
Now that we have begun our discussion with a firm understanding of our place in nature and the incredible benefits of eating plant-based foods, you're ready to discover the secrets to radiant health and beauty.
BEAUTY DETOX RECAP
Humans resemble herbivores, in terms of both their anatomical structure and internal organs.
Our intestines and digestive tract are designed to reap the full benefits of amino acids, minerals and other nutrients from plant foods.
We will slow down aging and look younger if we limit our intake of animal protein and increase our intake of plant foods.
Studies show that there is a strong correlation between eating animal protein and the incidence of cancer, heart disease and other illnesses.
BEAUTY ENERGY
Medicines have limitations; the divine creative life force has none.
â Swami Sri Yukteswar
One of the most important assets we have in our quest for beauty is energy. Energy is a key factor in our ability to shed weight easily and permanently, achieve great health and look our most beautiful. Let's refer to all the energy the body spends to do these amazing things as “Beauty Energy.” Where do we get our energy? From food, clean air, sunlight and, depending on your spiritual beliefs, a higher power.
Our energy is more precious than all the gold in the world. It is a more powerful antiaging tool than face-lifts, Botox, Restylane, or anything else. Energy fuels how efficiently our organs work, how efficiently we detox our bodies, and how efficiently our body is able to do the very basic things that contribute to beauty. Energy regenerates our liver and other tissue cells, flushes toxic waste from the body, helps maintain our ideal weight, keeps our skin's collagen smooth and our hair healthy, and keeps blood from stagnating into dark under-eye circles! The more energy we have, the better we feel and the more beautiful we become.
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MORE ENERGY = MORE BEAUTY
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What eats up energy? Most of us first think of physical activities when we consider what exhausts our energy: walking, running and going to the gym. But beyond that, the amazing machine of the human body organizes our billions of cells as it performs an astonishing number of internal functions on a constant daily basis.
Let's focus on one of those functions:
digestion
. Yes, digestion! Did you know that the full process of digestion takes more energy than any other specific internal function of the human body? Some experts estimate that digestion takes as much as 50 to 80 percent of our total energy.
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Imagine that your body keeps all its energy in a pantry, just as you keep your food in one. Picture containers of various sizes holding energy dedicated to the body's different activitiesârebuilding collagen in the skin, cleansing, growing hair and nails. In the middle of the pantry is a container that is far, far bigger than all the othersâand big enough to hold more than half of the total energy in the pantry. That is the energy the body uses for digestion.
Digestion is the key that can elevate our beauty to the highest levels, or, adversely, take us down, by sucking up precious energy that could be used for other processes. The Beauty Detox Solution is designed to free up energy from digestion, which is the single most important way to redirect large amounts of energy to make weight loss easy and help us look our most beautiful.
THE REAL CAUSE OF AGING
Most people try to fight aging by getting fillers or face-lifts, avoiding so much as a drop of sunlight on their faces without some kind of sunscreen, using increasingly more expensive antiwrinkle creams, eating fatty fish or other animal proteins to “plump or support the skin”â¦or finally giving up the fight altogether. The problem is not that aging is inevitable; it is that most of us don't understand what really
causes
aging.
The analogy I always like to use is to think of ourselves as wheels. When we are children, the wheel rolls along quickly and easily, and without obstruction. We never had to obsess over what to eat, or how many calories or grams of carbs we were ingesting, yet we were always the right weight, had high energy, and slept perfectly. Over time, from years of exposure to less than perfect foods, pollution, preservatives, toxic additives, medications and many other things, waste begins to build up in our bodies.
Internal waste is like sludge in the spokes of a wheel. Think of dirt or mud that gets kicked up into the spokes of a wheel and then hardens and sticks over time to create sludge. The sludge stuck in the spokes of the wheel prevents the wheel from rolling along powerfully and easily. The wheel slows down. As the years go by, it becomes increasingly harder to maintain your weight or have high energyâeven if you were eating the same exact way five years earlier. Suddenly issues begin to pop up in many different forms, ranging from the inconvenient ones, like acne or brittle nails, to the life-threatening ones, like various diseases.
BEAUTY TIP
Grow Younger
If I met you six weeks ago and said hello, and we met again today, most or all the cells on your face would be brand-new. That's because every six to eight weeks the skin cells on our face are renewed. In fact,
most
of the cells of our body are replaced each year. Bone and dentin can be around seven years old, but most of the body's cells are much newer than that.
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That's great news for us, because even if we have lived a life of abuse and poor habits, much of that is reversible if we begin to adopt good habits and consistently build on them
now
.
Following the Beauty Detox Solution will give your body the best quality nutrition while simultaneously cleansing your cells on an ongoing basis. Minerals and nutrients will be absorbed by your body more efficiently, your cells will become more purified and you will look younger. Puffiness, chronic dark under-eye circles and wrinkles will start to melt away.
Forget the past, what you've heard, and what your chronological age is. It is possible to grow younger, not older! And it is possible to look and feel better now than you did one or even a few decades ago.
This sludge is what makes us old. We can throw expensive supplements, prescription antiaging creams, or Botox on top of it all day long, but we will never fully be able to fight aging unless and until we work to
clean out the sludge
.
This sludge is what slows our body down, and it is also a primary factor in the speed at which we age and in our ability to keep excess weight off. I know people that eat the Beauty Detox Solution way that are fifty-three and look thirty-five. One woman I know is thirty-seven and looks as if she can't possibly be older than her midtwenties. It
is
possible.
Healthy and Youthful: Cemented, The wheel rolls along easily, with no obstruction.
The Cause of Aging: hardened sludge in the spokes of the wheel, which makes the wheel and all its functions slow down.
A CLEAN BODY IS A BEAUTIFUL BODY
I speak of beauty and health interchangeably, and it is a natural law that you cannot be truly and fully beautiful until you are in superior health. The great natural healing pioneer Professor Arnold Ehret wrote, “Disease is an effort of the body to eliminate waste, mucus and toxemias, and this system assists Nature in the most perfect and natural way. Not the disease but the body is to be healed; it must be cleansed, freed from waste and foreign matter, from mucus and toxemias accumulated since childhood.”
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Our body's systems are always trying to maintain perfect balance, which leads to the most superb health and beauty, but this is only truly possible once we have cleansed ourselves of toxic materialâboth the old sludge and the new sludge that accumulates constantly. Why? It all comes down to digestion and how much Beauty Energy we have.
Remember that our bodies are designed for survival, so the energy will go first to maintain our life-sustaining processes and internal organs. Keeping our skin wrinkle free and our hair shiny is of little concern to our bodies when our livers are overloaded with waste, our adrenals are exhausted and our intestines are all backed up!
Now that you know how much energy the body spends to digest food, it makes sense that the more efficiently we digest food (or the less energy the body has to spend on digesting), the
more
energy the body has to clean out the old toxic material and perform all those beautifying process. The toxic sludge amasses at a much faster pace when we are not digesting our food efficiently.
Detoxing ourselves by getting rid of old waste is key to allowing our digestion to function optimally. When we loosen the toxic sludge from the spokes of the wheel, our energy will automatically increase as our bodies will be able to perform digestive and other functions efficiently and with much less effort. Thanks to that renewed energy, we will also lose weight and look years or even decades younger. Our skin will radiate and our hair will grow in with vibrant body and a healthy sheen.
BEAUTY TIP
Eat Your Way to a Wrinkle-Free Face
Traditional Chinese medicine tells us that our face is a window into the vitality of organs in the body, and that there are meridians, or energy pathways, running all throughout the body. In a similar vein, in the Western tradition we learn that there are reflexes, or nerve pathways, that run throughout the body. Reflexes trigger an impulse to go through the point of stimulation right to the point of response. Remember how at a routine physical your doctor taps your knee and your lower leg kicks out? Our intestines, believe it or not, are key to how we look and feel, because they are integrally connected via these nerve pathways or meridians to every major organ and to all parts of the body. The impaction of old toxic material in our bowel can affect many other parts of the body, as it can work to send disruptive, weakening reflexes to other parts of the body in many forms, resulting in such ailments as a headache.
If we clear up blocked energy in our intestine, we will be able to free up energy all around the bodyâincluding blockages and pain in our shoulders or back. Blood, nerve impulses and lymph can only flow freely when our channels are not blocked. This has implications for our external beauty, as well. For instance, the nasolabial line between the nose and the mouth is directly related to our lung meridian, which also runs through the intestines. This deep wrinkle can get more pronounced the more toxicity we have in our bodies. Likewise, it will start to lighten up naturally as we begin to cleanse by changing our eating habits for the long term.
One of my most delightful results of following the Beauty Detox Solution is that my rather deep “laugh” lines greatly diminished. They weren't really lines just from laughing, after all, but simply toxic blockages in my system!
I think you would be surprised to realize how much impacted waste is in our bodies at any given time, continuously poisoning the blood and the entire system to a varying extent. Remember how long and winding our intestinal tract is, and how much space there is to store waste. Since our body is made of spongy tissue through which our blood circulates, this waste can and does permeate our other tissues and organs. Quite a gross and scary thought! But we all need to be aware of this and we all need to cleanse.