In all my studies and reading, I cannot recall coming across a description of the ideal state of health and healing. So, I thought it would be interesting to consider what a Golden Age of Health might be like.

People would know what it takes to remain healthy. People would expect that they would cheerfully and energetically go about their way in life. Mothers would know what to think, eat and do to have healthy, happy babies.

There would be no confusion or misinformation on health, no conflicting information on what is good or not for a person. People would find it easy and natural to eat for a healthy life. Food producers and manufacturers would take pride in their product’s ability to restore or maintain health. One’s daily diet would be flavorful, tasty, varied and economical.

If a person became ill or was injured, that person and all those who cared about her or him would be calmly certain that that person’s health would be regained in the short term. There would be no doubt about the outcome or the methods to be used. No method of healing could do harm and all methods would be relatively simple.

The possibility of greed or exorbitant profit would not exist. Healers would be plentiful, dedicated, well taught, economically accessible, confident and cheerful.

When a person had lived a full long life, death would come peacefully in sleep.

Such a Golden Age can be brought about. There are many elements of it already. It is simply a personal matter to learn what is true by observing it in oneself and others. Then apply it and tell others. As my mother used to say, “If you seek, you will find.”

If you are not as healthy as you would like, please do not stop searching until you achieve what you wish.

Such a goal is attainable. Man can improve. We can bring about a Golden Age of Health. It is done by each person working for it.

Peter Glickman has been writing about vibrant
health for 15 years. His book, “Lose Weight, Have More Energy & Be Happier in 10 Days” has been an Amazon.com Alternative Medicine bestseller five years and is
published in 7 countries. He’s been on CBS News, the Today Show, The NY Times, London Times and Us magazine. Find his free
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Q: I am concerned that I will be harmed by not eating protein every single day of my life. Should I supplement the Master Cleanse with some sort of liquid or powdered protein?

A: It is true that protein is necessary in your routine daily diet. However, in the thousands of people I am aware of who have done the Master Cleanse, no one has been damaged due to skipping protein for a few days or weeks. In fact, many people eat more than their “required daily amount” as set by the US Department of Agriculture. For instance, as a 62 year old male, who is 6’2″ tall, I only need 94 grams of protein per day. That’s less than 3.5 oz!!

Q: I’m not drinking the minimum 6 drinks of lemonade per day. Will that affect the cleanse?

A: In a word, yes! Drinking the minimum 6 drinks a day will keep your body’s water content optimum; help to flush toxins; and provide potassium, lack of which has been known to cause muscle weakness, an irregular heart rhythm, muscle twitching, fatigue, and leg & abdominal cramps.

A: The salt water flush will probably wash out most of your new pro

Q: When should you start to take probiotics after the cleanse?

A: On the evening you resume eating solid food, take your evening probiotics. (I say evening probiotics because I take some that have two different capsules — one kind for the morning and another kind for the evening.

Q: What about taking probiotics during the cleanse?

A: The salt water flush will probably wash out most of your new probiotics. So, wait until you finish the cleanse before taking them.

It is the toxins that Americans are eating and drinking that is causing the epidemic of overweight. Our bodies cannot handle the volume of toxins we consume on a daily basis.

Think processed food does not have toxins? In the article “Why McDonald’s Fries Taste So Good” (The Atlantic Monthly, January 2001), the author, Eric Schlosser, says “About 90 percent of the money that Americans now spend on food goes to buy processed food.” He goes on to say that the flavor is replaced with chemicals to add flavor. For example, there are approximately 350 different chemicals in high quality artificial strawberry flavor.

Further in his article, he says, “One of the most widely used color additives …, cochineal [pronounced koash-a-neil] extract … is made from the bodies of [a small] female … insect harvested mainly in Peru and the Canary Islands. The bug feeds on red cactus berries, and color from the berries accumulates in the females and their unhatched . The insects are collected, dried, and ground into a pigment. It takes about 70,000 of them to produce a pound of carmine, which is used to make processed foods look pink, red, or purple. Dannon strawberry yogurt gets its color from carmine, and so do many frozen fruit bars, candies, and fruit fillings, and Ocean Spray pink-grapefruit juice drink.”
(http://www.rense.com/general7/whyy.htm)

The artificial sweetener Aspartame, also sold as NutraSweet, Equal, Equal Measure, and Spoonful is another good example. The Food and Drug Administration has a system that permits people to report bad health reactions to food and drugs. According to David Rietz’s website (http://www.dorway.com/badnews.html), in February of 1994, Aspartame accounted for more than 75% of all bad reactions reported!

A Plane and Pilot magazine article in January 1990 on food additives explained that diet soft drinks are sweetened artificially by Aspartame (called NutraSweet or Equal). Aspartame contains 10% methanol, a poison, that is released at temperatures above 86º or if left on the shelf for a long time.

The article goes on to say that methanol destroys the brain a little at a time. Immediate effects can either be severe (epileptic seizures, blindness, or chest palpitations) or less noticeable (blurred vision, bright flashes, tunnel vision, ringing or buzzing in ears, migraine headaches, dizziness, loss of equilibrium, or lip and mouth reactions). It reports on an Air Force pilot who directly traced the patterns of tremors and seizures he suffered for two years to his consuming NutraSweet in beverages. His medical problems ceased when he quit drinking NutraSweet.

By the way, on 27 June 1996, without public notice, the FDA removed all restrictions from Aspartame allowing it to be used in everything, including all heated and baked goods. (http://www.dorway.com/badnews.html)

This article is an excerpt from the “Introduction to the Second Edition” of Lose Weight, Have More Energy & Be Happier in 10 Days.

I have tried the cleanse twice. The first time I did it for 6 days; second time for 3. I must say that after the thorough digestive cleanse that it is, I felt amazingly alert both times and my intestines were back to working like a charm.

There is wisdom in cleansing and fasting, as it’s been around for thousands of years. With all the, excuse my language, crap, that people ingest nowadays, it is no wonder that the rates of chronic diseases and obesity are at an all time high. We are not designed to consume highly processed foods like we do now, for convenience. Not to mention the ridiculous amounts of sugar people eat.

Sometimes, you have to give your body a break. I know it’s worked for me.