How Food Helps the Body to Heal Itself
… By Professor Charles Ssali
MBChB FRCS (ED)

Human life was meant to be sustained by the use of nutrients from natural sources. These sources are foods from plants, vegetables, fruits, and herbs but not animals.

It is these nutrients that the body requires to build the tissues used to renew it and replace those that are damaged.

The body has its own defence mechanism, i.e. the immune system, and it is this that defends the body against the numerous bacteria and viruses in our environment. For as long as the body has an intact immune system, these bacteria, viruses and fungi have no adverse effect on the health of the individual.

A person may be in perfect health despite the presence of bacteria, fungi and viruses on the skin, inside the intestines, lungs or blood in circulation. These organisms are sometimes beneficial to us due to their ability to produce some essential vitamins in the gut. This symbiotic coexistence is only maintained as long as we keep our body well supplied with food that is properly balanced, in order to maintain our immune system intact.

The immune system has what are called defence cells and chemical weapons known as antibodies. It is these two parts of the immune system that keep the potentially offensive organisms at bay. If an individual fails to keep the body supplied with the essential nutrients, then the bacteria and viruses get the upper hand of the defences and produce diseases in our systems.

If we eat foods, which are low in nutrient value, we become deficient and susceptible to diseases. Diseases like AIDS, Scurvy and rheumatic fevers and joint pains are just a few, out of many others, that are secondary to some form of nutritional breakdown or deficiency. Whenever that deficiency is corrected by the resumption of a balanced diet, then the problem is solved and the disease disappears with all its symptoms and signs. Failure to achieve this means that one has not taken enough of the nutrients.

A disease only becomes incurable if it is left far too long untreated, till body tissues become destroyed beyond repair. In other words all diseases should be treatable using nutritional supplements to make up the deficiency. Clinical experience shows that all deficiency diseases can be reproduced in the body if the nutrient responsible is withheld from the individual. By the same token, all diseases should be treatable if the lacking nutrients are identified and supplied in liberal quantities.

The use of food items that have been artificially altered by the addition of preservatives, artificial colours, sweeteners or genetic manipulation may cause disease in the individual consuming them. Foods like refined sugar, where the natural composition has been changed by the removal of minerals and vitamins, may cause degenerative diseases like diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and many others. This is the reason why the animals that feed on the molasses we throw away do not suffer from deficiency diseases, which affect people that own them.

Our close relatives, the primates that live naturally in the forests are healthier than ourselves. It is due to their balanced diet that they do not suffer from ailments which occur in human beings. Monkeys do not cook their food or try to refine it and hence do not destroy the nutrients that are naturally occurring in foods like unpolished rice, wheat or raw cane sugar. The brown colour in these foods which we human beings are seemingly so inimical to. By supplementing our diet with concentrated vitamins, minerals, plant hormones, enzymes and amino acids, we can attempt to eliminate most of the diseases that afflict man.

The pharmaceutical products that we use to treat many of our ailments are the very ones that produce the toxicity symptoms. These, in turn, doctors treat with even more toxic drugs thus compounding the problems of their patients. An individual treated for high blood pressure ends up needing treatment for secondary impotence or muscle pains caused by the drugs prescribed. Those on treatment for diabetes often die from stroke or coronary heart disease both promoted by the treatment.

Cancer patients are more likely to die from the chemotherapy and irradiation treatment used against the cancer itself. Those that do not seek medical treatment in hospitals on occasion live longer despite the doom predicted by their doctors. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy destroy tissues and the immune system that are necessary for the recovery of the patient from cancer. Therefore these same agents could not be reasonably used to treat the very diseases that they caused!

By the same token, Mariandina believes that toxic chemicals like ARVs cannot successfully treat an immune disorder like AIDS without causing a further deterioration of the immune system.

Mariandina believes that nutritional supplements from natural sources are beneficial to the immune systems of those with arthritis, diabetes, asthma, lupus, cancer and viral diseases like HIV/AIDS and hepatitis.

Medical doctors are experiencing an ever-increasing demand for holistic medicine as opposed to allopathic chemical-based drugs of the pharmaceutical industries.

Mariandina is a nutritional supplement that is beneficial to those that take it.

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