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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] OT: BBC NEWS | Health | 'Friendly bacteria' gumforteeth]
  • Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:26:57 -0400

Jody Troupe wrote:

>Kathy Evans wrote:

> "...host resistance was more important than eradicating the germ."

Appropriate to permaculture interests in soil, followers of Albrecht may know that there was another man (Cary Reams) that continued studies into soil health and expanded the soil interests into areas of personal health. Mr. Reams' later became the founder of a mathematical equation that gives extremely important information on the status of that person's health. The closer the total measurements in the equation are to the 'ideal', the better the health of the person in question.

As in soil health for plants, there is an ideal position within the acid/alkaline environment of the body (among a few other factors). The closer one is to ideal, the less the body will be bothered with unfriendly organisms & symptoms. A healthy body is not a good host to these unfriendly bacteria, so they do not take up residence. Balance in the body is maintained entirely on its own.

Balance = host resistance.

This concept applies to just about anything you can think of that creates disease conditions in the body. Since you have an 'ideal' measurement to aim for (not just a 'normal' across a population) you can actually measure exactly where you are.

For followers of traditional chinese medicine, there are a lot of parallels with yin/yang theory, and acid/alkaline.

It seems that things come full circle some times. As for diet and maximum
nutrition for maximum health
there are followers of theories of food combining; not the Francis Moore Lappe ideas about food combining for maximum protein even though they are related and valid. Food combining for maximum digestion, maximum nutrition and maximum health involves creating meals wherein certain foods and food groups are matched according to how well they can be digested when combined. Foods that are acid, starchy, neutral (maybe alkaline?) foods such as non-starchy vegetables, subacid, sweet, oily and protein may be eaten together when combined according to certain rules. There are charts and a few books that define acceptable combinations. A meal must be completely digested before another can be eaten. Certain foods must be eaten alone, melons for example. Sweet foods (fruits) alone may be combined and eaten alone. Any single element in the protein group may be consumed but not combined with any other proteimn, i.e. one bean type, one seed type, one nut type. Oily protein may be combined with acid foods and non starchy vegetables. Starchy foods may be combined with non acid vegetables but not with oily protein, i.e. no starch with oily protein. Sub-acid foods like tomatoes and peaches may be combined with neutral vegetables and not with oily protein or starch. You can combine cooked foods with raw foods but this match is not perfect. Ideally one would stick to a completely raw foods diet with raw plus cooked or cooked alone as less desirable dietary options. When you think of the amazing array of raw foods one can grow and prepare and the long and short term benefits derived from this austere regimen is it not such a daunting discpline to follow. Sprout farms, seed cheese, totally raw salads and salad dressings, collard and ground sesame tacos are but a few of the delights awating the faithful.

It now seems that there may be some correlation between Carey Reams equation
and a diet wherein the rules of food combining
I have tried to describe are observed and adhered to.

Anyone else have thoughts about this?

One interesting aspect of becoming certified in the application of this equation for human health is that the instructor also requires the student to take a soil/gardening seminar.

Very nice!

LL







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