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How to Eat to Live
EAT TO LIVE AND NOT TO DIE
Of all the thousands and tens of thousands of instruction items on health issued by
doctors and scientists regarding the type of food that we should eat, none of them is equal to the way that Allah in the Person
of Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom Praise be due forever had taught us.
Eating one meal a day,
one meal every other day or one meal every three days is a better way to obtain good health and long life than all of the
tens of thousands of pamphlets and books authored by doctors, quack doctors and would be doctors. The divine points
out the best way that will produce good health.
We should not stuff our stomachs
with food just because
we have the food to put in our stomachs three times a day.
Some
people are foolish enough to think eating three or four times a day is really the way to obtain good health but take a second
thought of what you are doing. You keep your stomach working all the time trying to digest the surplus food for which
your stomach has not even asked.
He Master Fard Muhammad (God in Person) taught me never to
eat when I am not hungry. He taught me to wait until I am fully hungry then to eat until I am full and not to eat again
until I am really hungry. This is common sense.
The
pig eats all the time; the chicken eats all the time--as long as you give them food to eat--and their span of life is significantly
short.
The dog is greedy, but the hog is greedier. The dog will stop eating when it has eaten
enough. If you continue to feed it, it will try to store the food until such time that it is hungry.
Often, you hear people say, " Come on and eat" and one will say, " I am not hungry." The reply is: "Eat
before you get hungry." This is most unwise. It is inviting sickness and death.
The
mucous-forming foods eaten by the people should be replaced with such less mucous-forming foods as plenty of vegetables and
fruits.
Whole wheat bread should be eaten instead of white bread, which is mucous-forming.
Let us try not to eat so much meat--especially animal flesh. No meat is
good for good health and longevity. We must stop eating meat gradually because actually, meat is not by nature a food
for human consumptions.
Eating one meal once a day or once every two days, with
no meals between, gives the body time to rest the digestive machinery after the previous meal and this gives the blood time
to purify itself of the poison from the last meal.
After three days without taking food into
the body, the blood is found to be in much better condition.
Let us see if we can gradually
stop eating animal flesh and chickens or fowls of any kind.
EAT TO LIVE AND NOT TO
DIE.
Please do not be mistaken about this teaching of HOW
TO EAT TO LIVE, in a world in which you can get everything to eat , from the low and most unwanted creature of the earth,
all the way back to human beings, themselves. This world eats anything and everything. They eat both good foods
and bad foods and they always try to establish some new food or new style of preparing new foods. Do not try to keep
up with them in their way of teaching, lest you find yourself keeping up with them to the graveyard. You do not have
to take anything that the white race says for truth. The answer can be found in our own lives. Doctor and patients lived about
an equal length of time. This shows that their way of teaching you and me is that of "hill of mountain." You
will not live as long as a hill or a mountain. Your life is short and you follow their way 75, 80, and 90 years is nothing
to what you should be living, if you only knew the right kinds of food that you should eat and abide by the rules and teaching
of that type of food. We suffer with many aliments due to the improper foods and the improper time to eat. You have no regularity
about when you are going to eat. Then your sickness, the consequences of an ignorant way of eating, will also have no
regularity about it. The patient can be made to enjoy better health while having sickness and disease, if he eats at the proper
time and eats the proper foods. Follow the right way of HOW TO EAT TO LIVE.
A HIGH percentage
of blood sugar is a very dominate thing among the people but that blood sugar can be controlled if you eat right. You would
not even know you had it, or that it is in you. We must eat the foods that will destroy sickness and disease.
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SCIENCE
Understand your body and the foods you eat.
Good health
leads to physical and mental well being. Healthy people generally feel good and function well. Eating the wrong foods
makes you think and act wrong. Over eating makes you restless and mentally fatigue, which result in a temporary loss of mental
and physical power to respond quickly, the body is under stress from over eating. The most important aspect of good health
is proper nutrition. Nutrition is the study of food and its use by the human body. Nutrients, or substances needed by
the body for life activities, include water minerals, carbohydrates, fats, proteins and vitamins. Exercise, rest, good
personal hygiene, medical and dental care are also essential to good health.
The human body
is approximately between 60 and 75 per cent water. The human body follows the same law as the Earth which has the
same approximate water supply 3/4 of the Earths surface is under water. Therefore, water is one of the most important
nutrients needed by the body. In fact , the human body can exist without food for at least one month, but it can only go with
water for a few days. The body uses water to break down foods. Water then carries the other nutrients provided by food
to various parts of the body through the blood. Water also helps to carry wastes from the body. Urine and perspiration
are mostly water.
In addition to proper nutrition, exercise is important to good health. Exercise
strengthens muscles and improves the efficiency of the circulatory and respiratory systems. In science all things are in constant
motion, stagnation brings about death. Walking, bicycling, jogging, swimming, or karate are a few forms of exercise that lead
to a healthy body. To receive the most benefits from an exercise program, a person should begin gradually. An exercise
program should begin slowly and build up to a level that will maintain strong muscles and a healthy heart. Make sure
that you have your body checked out before you start any physical program. Ideally a person should exercise four or five days
a week, varying the amount of exercise done daily. It has been shown that a once a week vigorous activity such
as hand ball is of little benefit and may even harm someone who is out of shape.
Everyone needs
sleep, but the amount of sleep needed varies from person to person. Most adults of today sleep from seven to eight hours per
day, because they eat to much food, which make the body need more rest. Young children may need more sleep than adults because
of growth. When a person sleeps the body relaxes and repairs itself. Life processes slows down. Sleep restores
energy needed by the body after a good night's sleep, the body is refreshed.
Rest and relaxation
are as important to the human body as sleep. Activities that differ from the normal work or study routine provide a
change of pace and help to relieve tension. Tension and stress poisons the blood.
Personal hygiene
enhances over all health. Regular care of skin, hair,nails and teeth can prevent diseases and the transmission of certain
diseases. Skin is a body organ that regulates temperature and provides a barrier against certain diseases. A healthy person
keeps the body clean inside and outside. Take a total bath at least once in 24 hours. This help keep the pores open
in the skin to release poison, and it washes off any germs that you may have picked up during the day. Dirt, oils, bacteria
and perspiration from the outer layer of the skin should be washed away daily. Hair and nails should be taken care of regularly.
Gum disease is cause by eating to much of the wrong food and not taking care of the mouth
or good oral hygiene. Good dental hygiene is essential to a healthy mouth. Plaque, a sticky material that forms on teeth
within 20 minutes after eating is harmful to dental health. Some scientist believe that plaque can cause heart disease. Brushing
and flossing teeth can remove plaque and stop it from forming on teeth. STUDY YOUR BODY AND LEARN TO EAT TO LIVE. Good thoughts
brings about good mental health, the Remembrance of Allah is the Greatest Force to ward off evil.
The food you eat is
not in a form that your body cells can use. After you swallow foods are changed by a process of digestion. The
food is changed into materials that can enter your bloodstream. Your blood carries these food materials to all of your
body cells.
Nutrients are the materials in food that are used by your
body. There are five important nutrients in foods. You need these nutrients and water to keep you healthy.
1.
Proteins: protein is a nutrient that makes up a large part of your body cells. It is used by cells for growth and repair.
Proteins also supply some of the bodies energy. This is just some of the functions of proteins in the body.
2. Carbohydrates:
carbohydrates are nutrients that give your body energy. Your body cells use or burn carbohydrates. Heat results
from the burning. The heat helps keep your body warm.
There are two kinds of carbohydrates.
They are starches and sugars. Starches are found in bread, rice., potatoes, and noodles. Natural sugar is found in fruits
and some vegetables.
Some sugar may be added to food to make it sweet. Processed sugar
gives you energy, but does not help your body and mind in other ways. Food that contain natural sugars gives you energy
and other nutrients . For good health you should not eat any processed sugar, or eat very little.
3. Fats: Fats
are found in whole milk, butter, and margarine. There are also fats in ice cream, and meats, but in most people these
sources form mucous. Fats are nutrients that give your body energy and help you body store energy and vitamins.
4 Minerals;
Minerals are nutrients that are needed for many action in your body. Minerals help your muscles and nerves work. There are
many different minerals You will get the all the minerals you need from eating the proper food.
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