Vibrant Health from Your Kitchen

504 Pages·1986·40.062 MB·English

by  Bernard Jensen

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VIBRANT HEALTH
FROM YOUR KITCHEN
by
Bernard Jensen, Ph.D.
THE INFORMATION PRESENTED HERE WAS GATHERED DURING
OVER 50 YEARS OF SANITARIUM EXPERIENCE, WORKING WITH DIET,
EXERCISE AND THE NATURAL HEALING ART TO BRING PATIENTSTOA
RIGHT WAY OF LIVING.
PUBLISHED BY: Bernard Jensen, Ph.D.
Route 1, Box 52
Escondido, CA 92025 USA
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
stored in retrieval system or transmitted In any form or by any means:
electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior
written permission from the publisher.
This bookisintendedforuseasaninformationsource.Itisnotintendedas
adviceforself-diagnosisoraprescriptinforself-treatment. Itishopedthatthe
information contained herein will stimulate thought and encourage the
adoption of a beneficial lifestyle.
First Edition
Copyright 1986 Bernard Jensen
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
BERNARD JENSEN, Publisher
Route 1, Box 52
Escondido, CA 92025 USA
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Believe
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I believe man wants to do what is right and will, ifshown that
doing the right thing will result in a better life.
I believe that we all have the right to pursuit ofhappiness, but
the pursuitofhappiness willneverbe fulfilled unless the pursuitof
health goes with it. It is your privilege to seek them.
I believe that to attain health and happiness, a person's
lifestyle must be approved by the universal God and must be in
harmony with natural principles.
I believe in a universal consciousness of sharing, love,
brotherhood and peace.
I believe we will have peace when people refuse to take a job
that will harm another person.
I believe, given a choice of therapies, that the therapy closest
to nature will produce the deepest and most lasting tissue
correction.
I believe that the man who conquers his own hostilities does
more than if he conquers a whole city.
I believe this book will be a "wayshower," an uplifting
experience, bringing us another step toward our final destiny of
health, happiness and the joy of living that all people desire.
—Dr. Bernard Jensen
April 1986
Preface
The Reason for This Book
In the past few years, so many of my patients and students
have asked fora book thatwould summarizethefood and nutrition
classes I have that I finally put aside the time needed to do it. I feel
there is an obligation on my part to share what I know about
building good health through foods. So come to you as an
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ambassador of goodwill, an ambassador with gifts to offer, gifts of
health knowledge, of food knowledge—knowledge of the better
things in life. In this book, I am giving you the very best I have.
Some of you may have ignored the path of health wisdom and
have taken theeasyway, theconvenientway, the "fasttrack" in life.
Maybe you just didn't want to make theeffort. Sometimes ittakesa
serious health problem to bring ustothe placewherewearewilling
to pay attention; but want to tell you, the wise person learns from
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the mistakes of others.
According to the National Research Council's Food and
Nutrition Board, there is growing evidence of a link between diet
and degenerative diseases such ascancerand heartdisease. Yet, a
survey by the National Research Council released in 1985 found
that the average medical school teaches the future doctors of the
United States too little about food and nutrition. Covering 45 ofthe
country's 127 medical schools, thesurveyshowed thattheaverage
medical school graduate has received only 21 hours of nutrition
education in 4 years of study. Twenty percent of the schools
surveyed provided less than 10 hours of nutritional studies and 60
percent provided less than 20 hours. The National Research
Council recommends at least 25 to 30 classroom hoursof nutrition
education. Until doctors receive betterand morethorough training
in food and nutrition, it is up to the individual to find out howtoeat
right to stay healthy and to avoid the chronic diseases that are so
prevalent in Western nations in our time. This is one of the main
purposes of my book.
We don't always want to come into this health work, this
nutrition work, but want to say there is an extreme obligation on
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the students' part. Life is a school, and to do well in it, you need
knowledge and wisdom. If you are in the 2nd grade, you have to
learn; if you are in the 5th grade, you have to learn. There isalways
something more to learn, toget readyforthe next highergrade. We
are "in training" on this planet to do better things, not to make the
same mistakes every day. We're here to follow the path of wisdom.
This book is slanted toward the best health possible through
nutrition.
Students have an extreme obligation to realize that there may
be a better way than the one they are following now. We should
have an inquiring mind. We should want to do the right thing. We
should neverslam thedoor on anything until wefind outwhether it
could be a better way of life. They say "Opportunity is knocking at
your door." Will it return if you slam the door in its face?
I think it is time we have a better communication with one
another, person to person. We must learn from the mistakes of
others because we just can't afford to make their mistakes all over
again. don't think we're going to live long enough to repeatall the
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mistakes that others have made. We might as well learn from one
another. We might as well find out whether we have missed
something we should know in order to have a more complete life.
My mother used to say, "Health isn't everything, but without
health, everything else is nothing." She would also say, "You can
lose your money and you've lost a lot; you can loseyourhealth and
you've lost still more; butifyou loseyourpeaceof mind, you've lost
everything."
In the wholistic approach to health, nutrition is only part of a
larger picture, only one aspect of the healthy life. I would like to
teach about peace of mind, happiness, nature, relaxation, beauty
and security—where our security really is. I would like to teach
about wisdom and knowledge, and howto usethem to serveothers
and live the good life. would like toteach abouttruecureand how
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takes place from the inside out, how we liveon whatwepourout.
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we don't have anything within—spiritually, mentally or
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physically, how can we express the worthwhile life?
We find that nutrition and foods are a good place to start for
the average person. This will provide a foundation for getting into
good health and not into treating disease. When we treat the
patient on the other end of disease symptoms, building toward
better health by taking care ofthewhole person, thesymptomsare
often left behind. Drugs may change the blood chemistry, butthey
cannot rebuild or replace tissue. Only foods can do that. This is
why we need to know about nutrition and foods.
Many reasons can be brought out to explain why people eat
the way they do, but lack of knowledge is the number one reason.
We may have put our health in the handsof doctorswho have never
studied enough nutrition to offeradvicetothefamily. We may have
been following food traditions passed down through the family
without considering a balanced food regimen. The family is
considered the basic social unit of a healthy society, but we can't
have a healthy society unless the family has the proper food
knowledge to be healthy.
This bookis a guided tourthrough the experiences Ihavehad
in taking care of thousands of patients through nutrition. It is
meant to be practical, useful in food shopping, food preparation
and in the kitchen. It represents a concerted effort to help every
member of the family—no matter what age—come to a better level
of health.
Teaching you these things fulfills my side of the obligation;
learning them and enjoying better health will fulfill your side.
TAKING ON A NEW PATH
This book is an introduction to a new way of living. We cannot
hold on to theold, otherwisethe newcannottake its place. Coming
into this health way is taking on a new path, a new direction, a new
obligation and eliminating theold ways, theways thatcannotbuild
good health. If we are going to build new tissue to replace the old,
we have to clean out our pantry, we have to have new insight, new
outsight and a new homesite. We haveto move—we won't havethe
same address anymore. We are going to a new place, a new level in
life.