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I have been a ballroom dancer since the age of 12.
While on my parents farm my mother said I should go to learn
to dance. So I went to my first public dance in Fenwick, Ontario. I
learned square dancing and other country steps while a 3 pc band
played for the older people ( they were probably 35 and up) I obviously
was the youngest person there. And of course everyone wanted
to help me learn. What more could I ask for. I told you this
in this story because I have been very active in dancing to get a
lot of exercise. It really has been a great help to me over the
years.
In 1964 while lifting my child into the back seat of my car, I got a
sudden pain in my back and could not straighten up. I was hunched
over for the following 3 months with a severe pain. After examining
the Xray, my very knowledgeable Doctor said the problem was in my
spine and that I would need an operation.
I definitely did not want to have an operation, so set out on a
quest for alternatives.
In the next weeks that followed I went to a masseuse in the Kingsway
who operated at the back of his mansion.
He and his wife had a small building in which he had a wood burning
stove and a steam room and tables and they tried everything over a
period of 3 weeks with no positive results. My next choice was
to see a chiropractor. But after many hours each day/week he was
unable to help. I began to think , maybe my doctor was right ?.
Anyway, I didn't give up. I went to New York and then to Michigan
where I
spoke to doctors in hospitals with no positive answers.
Finally another visit with my chiropractor. This time he suggested a
visit to the Chiropractic College on Bloor St. where he introduce me to
the president. (
They are no longer at that location ). The college took me
under their wing and decided to take 20 vials of blood for testing
along with hair and fingernail samples. About a week later
they said they wanted to inject 200,000 units of various nutrients
into my blood stream every morning and night for at least 4 days, which they did. Now looking back I can see that what they were
going to do was to give me a heavy detox. At that time the word
detoxify was not very well known by the public. In fact I cannot
remember them using that word. The result of those
injections was that in the next 4 days my body started to unload
heavy sludge-yellow, green and black. I used our baby's cloth diapers
instead of normal size hankies to hold everything that emanated from
my body. By the 5th day I could straighten up and I had no
more pain. I never did go back to my family doctor to tell him
what happened. I did not need that operation.
The strange thing about all of this is that as a child I was always
sniffling. My nose always seemed plugged. And after this event at
the college, my nose problems also cleared up. It seemed my
body just needed a boost in high volumes of nutrition to loosen the
sludge that had collected. to correct the lack of good nutrition
over many ears of eating cooked food which was delicious but not
healthy.
Because of this experience in my life, I began to study articles and
books on the subject and found out that sprouts had the highest
concentration of nutrients. One story I read (and I wish I
had kept information about the article) said that the sprout is like
a human child. It gets everything at birth. Everything it needs is
in it at birth.. The article described how I could
grow my own sprouts in jars. I did that for a number of years
thereafter. Vitamins were not as common in those days as they
are today and of course much more expensive. So I became a city
farmer in my own kitchen using seeds and beans that were probably
full of DDT. But at that time that is all we had.
Approximately 4 years later I purchased a very expensive all glass
sprout grower. It worked much better but was still difficult to grow
plants in my kitchen in a simple way without getting mold and all
the other problems that could occur while they are growing. Because
of my diet, and over these years I have very rarely ever been ill
for any reason. Good improved nutrition did help me.
Because of my experiences in those years I decided in 2002 to
investigate how I could devise some simple inexpensive efficient
system to grow sprouts. so that I could teach people what I had
learned over so many years. After testing all kinds of methods I
found by using a simple sieve with legs on the bottom sitting on the
right shaped
dish I could grow them very quickly and change water in seconds to
keep them clean. Cleanliness is very important to avoid any kind of
impurities to grow. ( But that is the same for any food )
You have now read half the story.
Here is the rest that I learned by reading and using common sense.
When a human child is born it does not matter whether the mother is
black, white or yellow. The child will be given all nutritional
elements at birth. However after it is born and within a few
days of birth the genes of the child will decide what it should
retain as it grows.
The exact same thing happens with ALL growth of vegetation. As an
example lets take a head of lettuce. Our scientists have told us
that there is very little nutrition in a head of lettuce.( Mind you
though, we really don't know everything about nutrition yet, do we
?. ) But during the first days of birth everything nutritionally is
in place in the baby of the lettuce. If you eat the "baby
plant". before the genes discard what it does not need, then you
will get the full value of nutrition from that vegetable.
This is a very important point. When you purchase vegetables
in a store, they are almost always older than 9 or 10 days. The
genes have already discarded what they do not need as a grown plant.
Over the past 4 years I have written to several eMail addresses I
found in respect to nutrition evaluations of food. The
question I always ask is how old were those items when the study was
done. There answer in almost every case has been "I am not sure".
And if there study pointed out that It had X amount of
nutrients I asked "did you ask for an evaluation of the other
possible nutrients". The answer invariably came back.
"No we did not".
I have been eating sprouts off and on for over 40 years. More in the
past 25 years. I have rarely been ill.
Between dancing and quality food. Make my own bread or buy
nutritious bread when it is on sale. Have a variety of food each
day. Never the same thing day after day. Rather eat at home
than out. But I do have a McDonalds sandwich about once a month.
Sometimes twice.
While living in Stoney Creek ,Ontario I had a family doctor that
said I had a heart murmur. After moving to Burlington I
started to visit a Naturopathic doctor. After tests, he said he does
not think I ever had any heart problem ?? So much for that.
I am over 70 years of age and go dancing often as possible.
Tea dancing in Toronto on Wednesdays and various other styles of
dancing at clubs all over Ontario and Florida. I've yet to find a
partner to keep up to my activity in business, dancing and travel.
Maybe one day.!? ( I believe I have found that partner now )
Did you know that statistically dancers do not get Dementia or
Alzheimer's.
And that is not by doing Monkey dancing. |
