Restoring Health with Nature Cure in VS .NET

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Nature Cure focuses on cleansing the body, removing accumulated waste matter and toxins, and improving overall vitality Other important aims are to improve nutritional status through good eating practices and to restore the spirit by boosting confidence, stimulating hope, and encouraging selfempowerment and self-help

Nature Cure approaches, designed to awaken the body s self-healing ability include: Return to nature: Regular and appropriate eating, drinking, fasting, breathing, bathing, clothing, working, resting, sleeping, thinking, moral life, sexual life, and social life Elementary remedies: The use of water, air, and sunlight for their therapeutic benefits Natural remedies: The use of natural, nutrient-rich foods for health and healing, and sometimes also herbal and homeopathic remedies Mechanical remedies: Using exercise, massage, and manipulation therapy Mental and spiritual remedies: Relaxation, constructive thought, prayer, and meditation

Nature Cure recommends eating a simple, wholesome, unadulterated diet based on seasonal and fresh fruit and vegetables, lightly cooked, with the addition of protein from, for example, seeds, nuts, and whole grains Here are some more specific Nature Cure recommendations for your diet: Eat a vegetarian diet This is strongly recommended because it is alkaline in nature and rich in mineral salts and fibre (the chewy bits in vegetables, fruit, and whole grains), thereby assisting elimination and cleansing of the body Green, leafy, and juicy vegetables, such as lettuce and watercress, are regarded as especially beneficial Consume raw and living foods These foods, such as sprouted grains, are packed with live enzymes and seen as especially nutritious Use simple dressings Plain lemon juice or olive oil are preferred to sugary and salty salad dressings Consider milk Milk, live yoghurt, whey products, and buttermilk were all originally recommended by Nature Cure practitioners (but not blue and other strong cheeses) Milk was seen as the only perfect natural food combination in existence and was believed to be an ideal food for growth and repair However, at that time milk came from grass-fed cattle living a natural existence in unspoilt meadows and on mountainsides The animals weren t fed artificial foodstuffs, nor kept indoors, nor given cocktails of antibiotics, growth hormones, and other drugs as they sometimes are today In addition, the milk was unpasteurised and therefore contained many live enzymes and pro-biotic bacteria (healthy bacteria for the intestines) It was therefore quite different from most milk on the market today

Nowadays, Nature Cure practitioners are more likely to recommend plant milks such as oat, rice, soya, almond, and coconut milks instead of dairy milk, because they no longer consider dairy milk to be such a healthy food This recommendation is partly because of concerns about modern dairy farming practices, as outlined above, and also because dairy intolerance now appears to be quite common, and in response to concerns about the possible links between dairy consumption and osteoporosis and certain cancers (for more on this read Professor Jane Plant s excellent books Your Life in Your Hands: Understanding, Preventing and Overcoming Breast Cancer and Understanding, Preventing and Overcoming Osteoporosis (Virgin Books)) Ditch the coffee, tea, alcohol, tobacco, and other stimulants These are seen as toxic and fatiguing Nature Cure advises replacing these with vegetable and fruit juices, herbal teas, dandelion coffee, and water Fresh water plus lemon juice is regarded as the best drink for first thing in the morning, and prune or fig juice is recommended for sluggish bowels or constipation Stop the sugar Sugar and artificial sweeteners are considered deadly and putrefying and to be avoided at all costs Nature Cure recommends using raw, enzyme-rich honey, unrefined maple syrup, and fresh and dried fruits as natural sweeteners instead Take your grains whole Because of the importance of chewing and saliva production and the higher levels of nutrients and fibre, whole grains (brown foods) are considered much better than refined white foods Go nuts! Nuts (used sparingly) and seeds provide good nutrition Pulses (beans, lentils, and so on) can also be good but use them in moderation because too many can cause digestive gas Restrict your salt and pepper Nature Cure practitioners recommend you add only vegetable or seaweed salts in cooking Avoid animal fats Olives are much better for you than sausage fry-ups or burgers Eat organic This advice is a recent addition Nature Cure practitioners always recommend eating food that is as unadulterated as possible and pesticide-free