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HEALTHY FEEDING – 1

The Rose+Cross enjoys a veritably noteworthy health and the people to whom he relates in acknowledging this vitality he sheds think that it is simply a quality that he acquired since birth.

Nevertheless, those that so think are deceiving themselves. The occultist conserves his health and youth thanks to the esoteric or scientific teachings that he receives and follows with perseverance from his studies of the science of the feeding.

Considering that health is the basis of all human activity inasmuch as everything we wish to do depends on our health, you must study and practice the rosicrucian messages that we give on natural feeding.

The healthy feeding is one of the factors which most contribute to the regeneration of the physical body. Consequently, if you are adopting harmful eating habits, we suggest that you think about the principles of this message inasmuch as many people who are not members of any esoteric society have already understood the value of healthy eating habits.

The greatest mistake of today’s civilization in relation to nutrition is to avoid at an ever growing rate, the natural foods considered only as a supplement of the industrialized foods believed to be richer and tastier.

It is obvious that the industries try to alter the natural products. The more the products are passed through machines, hulling them, cooking them, devitalizing them, that much more will be their profit and the procurement of the products by the less knowledgeable who want “pure” foods – these poor creature believe that the whiter or the more refined the product the better its quality.

The same thing occurs in the homes where the housewives spend the whole morning burning the foods or adding seasoning which is harmful to the health. When the food was deprived of all its nutritious value, of all its mineral salts and vitamins, when the natural taste was substituted for artificial seasoning they present what was left over, a devitalized food of little nourishing value and this is presented to the children and the husband.

We are convinced that the housewives act thus in good faith in contrast with the industries which generally know that their products have no nutritious value but continue mass producing the harmful foods in order to maintain their enormous profits.

The foods which contain all the ingredients for perfect nutrition are those natural, fresh, green, livings, raw, which did not come into contact with fire.

Cooking destroys and wastes the vitamins and the mineral salts. Therefore, if the Rose+Cross does not take to some raw foods, or these have a disagreeable taste when natural, he can cook them just sufficiently so that they can be ingested with pleasure.

All the animals with the exception of man and house pets eat raw foods in n natural state. That is why they do not suffer frequent sicknesses – in fact, statistics prove that the sicknesses caused by deficient feeding increase every day motivated by the disregard for this important rule.

At present, fruit, juices, are considered medicine and people pay high prices at lunch counters for them. If people consider the natural foods as medicine, why do they not use this medicine to substitute their devitalized meals remained so well conserved and free of sickness?

The naturist diet is not another system of feeding among the dozens that exist, it is the true and only way of feeding oneself.

Classes of Foods – Food has two functions: to produce energy and to build or repair the tissues. It is interesting to get to know the types of food:

a) Proteins – which serve growth and repairing of tissue. They are found dairy products, eggs, soybeans, lentils.

b) Hydrocarbons (sugars and starches) produce heat furnishing the organism with the capacity to work. They are found in the following foods: grains, potatoes, fruit and sugars.

c) Fats –have the same function o the hydrocarbons. They are found in butter, vegetable oils (canola, soybeans, cotton).

d) Mineral salts.

e) Vitamins.

Fruit – The best feeding for the human being consists of fruit. They are excellent sources of vitamins and mineral salts. The fruit produced locally is fresher and cheaper than foreign fruit which is stocked for long periods and loses part of its nutritional power. Also, seasonal fruit should be preferred. It is tastier and more nutritional. Some examples of fruit: avocado, pears, pineapples, bananas, persimmons, guavas, oranges, apples, papayas, watermelons, strawberries, pears, peaches, grapes.

Vegetables and Greeneries – They are indispensable to nourishment and the student of the Rosicrucianism will do well to include vegetables in his daily meals. Vegetables lose part of their vitamins and minerals when cooked and any time they can be eaten raw they should not be cooked. Examples of vegetables and greeneries: watercress, chard, lettuce, beet, chicory, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, spinach, turnips, radishes, tomatoes.

Legumes – What we said about vegetables is true, too, about the legumes which are: beans, lentils, chick-peas, pea-pods, soybeans, peanuts. The soybean is richer in proteins that milk and meat.

Oleaginous – Nuts, chestnuts, cashew nuts, coconuts, almonds, are very rich in proteins but you must be moderate because they are very hard to digest if eaten in great quantities.

Grains – At present, wheat is taken out of its shell which contains its most nutritive elements and these are given to the pigs, chickens, ox, etc. And what is left over, practically only starch is offered as “extra fine” food to man. When we buy bread we should demand whole wheat bread, called black bread. Also we can use rye, soybean or wheat bread which are more nutritive than the bread made from white flour. Numerous experiences have proved that animals fed with white flour die in a short time. On the other hand those that are fed with whole wheat flour stay alive and healthy.

Rice I also refined and polished and deprived of vitamin B-1 which is an important element for the nerves already o racked by our present way of life. The best thing to do is only use whole rice or parboilized rice.

Corn is also another very nutritive grain which can be prepared in various manners.

Dairy Products – Milk is called the perfect food because it contains nearly all the most essential elements for the organism’s necessities. It should not be missing from our daily meals. Cheese should only be eaten if it is made from sour milk, without ay foreign chemical substance such as those added by the various brands which are found on the market. Yogurt as a byproduct of milk has all its nourishing qualities as well as having the quality of destroying the pathogenic bacteria found in the intestines.

Honey –It is excellent nourishment and a very good source of heat nd energy as well as increasing the number of hemoglobin of the blood. Honey can be used to substitute sugar. In fact, we recommend our students to use very little sugar because it is an excessively energetic food and demands great physical effort to be used up by the organism and it is very harmful for sedentary people.

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