The Importance Of Good Digestion

"You are not nourished by the food you eat, but in proportion to the amount you digest and assimilate" .

Our well being, to a large extent, depends upon good digestion. There is no such thing as good nutrition without good digestion.

Poor digestion does not supply the materials necessary to build and maintain good blood. The tissues will be inadequately nourished, the general health will fail and the constitution will deteriorate. The normal process of blood making depends upon the first step in the preparation of blood making materials in the digestive tract. Therefore, good digestion means more normal tissue change throughout the body. Improved digestion results in general improvement in all of the functions of life.

A whole train of discomforts or symptoms accompany the progressive impairment of the function of digestion; gas, pain in the abdomen, sleepless nights, furred (white) tongue in the morning, constipation, nervousness etc. Distress after meals is exceedingly common and many "aids to digestion" are used. All of these "aids" do not in any way improve or increase the functioning powers of the digestive organs and they do not remove any of the causes of impairment. On the contrary, the continued use of any one of them, without exception, further impairs the digestive powers.

The use of "digestive aids" keeps the attention of the users directed away from the true solutions of their problems and prevents them from learning the truth about their health and disease and how they may truly recover from the dis-ease.

The spoiling of foods in the digestive tract results in the production of poisons which are injurious. Proper food combining not only assures better nutrition but it provides for a protection against poisoning as well. Normal digestion delivers nutrients, not poisons to the blood stream.

What, how and when to eat, is perhaps the most important education needed today. Disease prevention, health creation and the removal of the causes of disease are far more important than conventional disease suppression and symptom palliation which only confirm our diseases even more.