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which have profound negative effects on brain represent foreign objects. So every time you eat
chemistry. When candida produces ethanol in an offending food—even a food that is consid-
the small intestine, a person will seem drunk ered nutritious—an immune system response
after a meal of carbohydrates, even though he will occur.
has consumed no alcohol. In fact, eventually a In an allergic reaction, your body produces
person will actually crave the foods that produce antibodies that attack the foreign intruder. These
alcohol in the small intestine. This is one reason antibodies are meant to protect you from harm,
why multitudes of children and adults have an but if your body becomes overzealous and is re-
insatiable appetite for high-carbohydrate junk quired to attack a food protein that you eat all the
food and why a multi-billion dollar processed- time, you will suffer constant inflammation. You
food industry continues to thrive. may develop chronic pain—and this pain may
We all know that alcohol is extremely toxic, travel—as the inflammatory chemicals circulate
especially to a developing fetus or a child. The throughout your body. On Monday, your elbow
following are some of the wide-ranging effects is sore. On Tuesday, your back may kill you. On
of a prolonged presence of alcohol from an over- Wednesday, you have a horrible headache. On
growth of candida in the body: Thursday, you have all of the above.
You can visit the massage therapist, the
• Damage and inflammation to the gut lining chiropractor, or take anti-inflammatory medi-
and resulting malabsorption cine to mask your pain until the “cows come
• Nutrient deficiencies home,” but until you find the real answer to your
• Stress to the immune system digestive problems, you will forever be in pain.
• Liver damage Natural remedies may not have as many side
• Accumulation of toxins effects as pharmaceuticals, but they also fail
• Unmetabolized neurotransmitters and hor- to treat the root causes of acid reflux, allergies
mones that can cause abnormal behavior and chronic pain that are the outgrowth of poor
• Brain damage that can lead to lack of self digestion.
control
• Impaired coordination, aggression THE HIGH-FIBER DICTATE:
• Loss of memory and stupor; peripheral nerve PART OF THE PROBLEM
damage The USDA and the FDA have insisted on the
• Muscle tissue damage and weakness food pyramid model in their dietary guidelines,
• Metabolic alteration of proteins, carbohy- not for good health but for profit. This diet stress-
drates and lipids es high-fiber foods, and everywhere—on the
• Pancreatic degeneration news, in magazines, in books, on talk shows—we
hear about the “benefits” of whole grains and
Thus, poor digestion can set up conditions in high-fiber vegetables. So-called experts present
which it is difficult to think and enjoy life. As our the benefits of fiber as an article of faith, with no
diet causes mood problems and interferes with questions asked—whole grains, raw vegetables
mental clarity, we become chemically dependent and fruits—you need them at every meal, and
on the very foods that are making us sick. fiber supplements for good measure.
No questions asked? The reality is that
ALLERGIES “OUT OF THE BLUE”? people trying to follow the government dic-
Insoluble fiber Today allergies are commonplace—every- tates—with “healthy” raw salads every day, raw
is exceedingly body has them, including children. For some vegetables for snacks, all-bran cereals and whole
grain breads with added fiber—often develop a
people they are a minor annoyance, but for oth-
difficult to ers, they can cause great suffering, even leading wide array of digestive problems like flatulence,
digest without to anaphylactic shock and death. With a leaky hernias, hemorrhoidal disease and irritable bowel
a healthy gut gut, allergies can easily develop because a leaky syndrome.
Insoluble fiber is exceedingly difficult to
gut allows undigested proteins into the blood
flora. stream. To your immune system, these proteins digest without a healthy gut flora. Historically,
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