or female is one example of this, where poor diet habits essentially cause the diabetes, and the laws of the body have consciously or inadvertently been broken. Then comes the result: a disease. There are other particular problems associated with eating habits. But no human being is without relationship to the effect of his or her diet on the health and general welfare of the body. Cayce suggested that you can choose—the diet desired rather than letting the appetite habits of your body rule:
. . . though never get the body in that position wherein the body does not control the appetite rather than appetite controlling [the] system.
106-7
In looking at the information in the Cayce readings, then, toward creating a nutritional program, you must take each reading as a unit, as a recommendation for that person for whom the reading was given. Out of such a search can come certain rules, suggestions, and principles to which you can apply yourself and gain out of it the makings of a reasonable and truly helpful diet. Because, if you are honest with yourself it will work for you.
Hints in Creating Your Best Diet
There are hints, however, that might give you some guidance in helping you in creating your own diet.
About What You Are
Realize that each soul is as the temple of the living God, even as thy own body. Thus be mindful more not of the body for body’s sake, but of the body that the temple of the living God may be the better channel for the manifesting of the spiritual truths . . .
2938-1
About Salads
Have at least one meal each day that includes a quantity of raw vegetables; such as cabbage, lettuce, celery, carrots, onions and the like. Tomatoes may be used in their season.
2602-1
About the Evening Meal
Evenings—preferably this would be the heavier or the more varied meal. In meats, if these are taken, we would use only fish, fowl or lamb. No fried foods ever at any time. Have more leafy vegetables, rather than those of pod or the root nature or those that grow under the ground.
1567-1
About Water
Well to drink always plenty of water, before meals and after meals—for, as has oft been given, when any food value enters the stomach immediately the stomach becomes a storehouse, or a medicine chest that may create all the elements necessary for proper digestion within the system. If this first is acted upon by aqua pura, the reactions are more near normal.
311-4
About Attitudes
Keep in that of constructive thought; because, to be sure, the thoughts of the body act upon the emotions as well as the assimilating forces. Poisons are accumulated or produced by anger or by resentment or animosity. Keep sweet!
23-3
About Acid-Alkaline Balance
For in all bodies, the less activities there are in physical exercise or manual activity, the greater should be the amount of alkaline-reacting foods taken. Energies or activities may burn acids, but those who lead the sedentary life or the non-active life can’t go on sweets or too much starches—but these should be well-balanced.
798-1
About Foods Grown Locally
As indicated, use more of the products of the soil that are grown in the immediate vicinity. These are better for the body than any specific set of fruits, vegetables, grasses or what not. 4047-1
About Combinations to Avoid
Starches and sweets at the same meal—too much acidity.
Several starchy foods together—too much acidity.
Meat and potatoes—or meat and bread—or meat and starch upsets digestion.
Citrus fruits and cereals at the same meal—creates drosses.
Coffee or tea taken with milk or cream—hard on digestion.
About Foods to Avoid
Fried Foods.
Carbonated drinks, generally.
White sugar, white flour products.
Red meats or heavy meats not well cooked.
Pork products—except bacon cooked very crisp.
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Your Body in Health and Disease
A True Story
Cancer of the rectum is not a pleasant thing to discover in your body. Left unattended, it can, of course, destroy the body. Surgery is the most obvious approach to correcting the problem, and seventeen years ago, when Isabelle was diagnosed as having a rectal cancer, the therapy proposed was an abdominal-perineal resection. This means that the entire rectum and part of the colon would be removed and a colostomy would be created on the abdominal wall.
Isabelle, in her mid-fifties, was a registered nurse and knew what all this meant—and she didn’t want surgery. She was well informed about the Edgar Cayce material and wanted to undergo a treatment that was in tune with his suggestions. She chose a therapy program at the A.R.E. Clinic that extended over a period of nearly eighteen months. When the program was completed, her surgeon removed the shrunken bit of tissue locally—what was left of the cancer—and her body was whole again. In seventeen years, no sign of cancer has recurred.
The therapy program included therapeutic massages, colonics, violet ray treatments, counseling, biofeedback, and regular medical evaluation, but the one thing I recall most vividly was the diet. In the Cayce readings on cancer, one suggestion was to eat fresh green leafy vegetables such as a cow or a rabbit would eat. This is certainly sufficient for both the cow and the rabbit, but human beings are not constituted to find such a diet very palatable, filling, or satisfying.
Isabelle followed such a diet, however, eating nothing but green salads for nearly nine months. She lost about twenty pounds during the first couple of months, then stabilized and stayed at a constant weight. Later
