IDEAL HEALTH
There is no cancer in Hunzaland.l Nestled in the valleys of the beautiful,
snow-covered Himalayan mountains, Hunza provides a peaceful, pure
environment. Here the people live close to the land, close to nature,
breathing pure air, drinking pure water and eating food in its natural
state. The average Hunzan lives a healthy, robust life, free from disease;
then simply dies in his sleep well beyond the age of 100. The whole nation
of 10,000 people has only one doctor.
We do not need a whole course in physiology and biology to know how to care
for ourselves properly. Common sense and basic principles underlie good
health and right living. We need fresh air, pure water, invigorating
exercise and nourishing food. There is a great deal of truth to the old
adage, "you are what you eat". However, it is more accurate to say, "you are
what your body makes out of what you eat." A healthy body must properly
digest, assimilate, process and deliver nutrients to every cell. It must
also eliminate cellular waste and defend against external pathogens (disease
causing agents).
Research in the field of Mind-Body Medicine leaves little doubt that
attitude affects health. Folk wisdom has long held that optimism leads to
good health and modern medicine is beginning to pick up on this. "It is part
of the cure to wish to be cured," said the noble Roman philosopher Seneca, a
contemporary of Christ.
"Change of diet will not help a man who will not change his thoughts. When a
man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food," wrote James
Allen, whose inspirational classic As A Man Thinketh, has influenced
millions for good. The body is the servant of the mind. A long, healthy and
happy life is rooted in faith and obedience to the laws of nature.
Ideal health therefore, is based on the foundations of Body, Mind and Spirit
Herein lie the roots of Sung Bok Hsu's highly successful back-to- health
program.
NEED FOR CLEANSING
Nearly every single American will be afflicted by a chronic, degenerative,
debilitating, often life-threatening disease. Modern, hectic life-style;
poor eating habits; depleted, overly- refined foods; lack of exercise;
pollution; all place severe stress on the human body and contribute to the
growing rates of cancer, diabetes, arthritis, and immune-related disease.
Compare the human body to an automobile engine. A new car comes with clean
oil. But the oil becomes dirty in its job of lubricating the engine. The oil
itself is cleaned as it passes through the oil filter. After a time the
unclean oil and the clogged filter must be replaced. If you don't, the
engine will be ruined. The human body is a living system. It is constancy
cleaning itself out. But if you overload the system with impurities,
eventually it cannot handle them anymore and there will be a breakdown.
Already one in four, now approaching one in three, face the scourge of
cancer. And the astronomical advance of immune-related disorders in recent
years has alarmed many. But this does not have to be our fate! We can learn
the elements of good health and what to do to restore health. First we must
overcome our ignorance and then practice the simple principles that promote
good health.
We look back with antipathy on archaic medical practices like leeching and
bloodletting. Among many others, George Washington was literally bled to
death. Perhaps its only a matter of time until we look at the present
practices of cutting, burning and shooting the body full of radiation in a
similar vein.
Today we are aware that blood-cleansing rather than blood-letting is the
answer. We are well aware that health or disease is determined in large part
by the quality of the bloodstream. The wave of the future is in prevention.
Life indeed is in the blood, for it is this river of life that delivers
health-or disease-to the cells. As the eminent French scientist Louis
Pasteur related before he died: "It is diseased tissue that creates a
natural habitat for germs and virus. It was not the germs, rather the
environment that caused disease."