Diet Of The Saints

 

By Teacher Suksun

 

Acidic blood and Alkaline Blood

Human blood may be classified as being either acidic or alkaline. People who have acidic blood cannot control their temper. Dragged around as slaves of their wicked temper, they sin unintentionally, and afterwards regret what they have done. Even though they may decide never to do it again, when placed under the same circumstances, they make the same mistake without even knowing it. At times, they fight with other people, and even after they murder people, their resolution is only temporary. Because they cannot control their temper, it is difficult to predict when and how they will cause trouble. In the end, they cannot even trust themselves. However, those who have alkaline blood have the ability to control their temper and may not commit an unintentional sin.

People who have acidic blood have difficulty recovering from fatigue; it may last for a week or even a month. However, people who have alkaline blood can relieve all their fatigue with just one good night of rest, and they are filled with vitality the next morning. In addition, when they run, those who have acidic blood become exhausted quickly because they have little endurance, while those who have alkaline blood can run the full distance and win since they have endurance. Therefore, although people who have acidic blood gain weight, they cannot run for extended periods. When there is an epidemic, they are infected first because their bodies unable to ward it off. On the other hand, alkaline blood has the same qualities as an alkaline solution and so after a bedbug or a mosquito carrying a contagious disease bites someone who has alkaline blood, it either dies or goes away immediately. Since the blood destroys all the germs that have entered the body, the person cannot become infected with that contagious disease.

Acidic Foods and Alkaline Foods

Our blood can be either acidic or alkaline depending on what foods we eat. When we eat acidic foods, our blood becomes acidic and when we eat alkaline foods, our blood becomes alkaline. Let us examine what foods make our blood acidic and what foods make our blood alkaline.

The foods that make our blood acidic are white rice, meat, white flour, peeled fruits, cooked vegetables, liquor, tobacco, sugar, chemical seasonings, soft drinks, sour kimchi*, and animal oils. A lack of oxygen, hatred, envy, jealousy, discontent, and dissatisfaction also make our blood acidic and lead us to a life of misery. (*Kimchi is a popular, spicy, Korean side dish made of pickled cabbages and other vegetables.)

The foods that make our blood alkaline are fresh, unpeeled fruits, fresh vegetables, brown rice, foods made of whole-wheat flour, nuts, and vegetable oils. In addition, people who consume fresh air and water and live a life filled with love, joy, peace and constant gratitude will have alkaline blood. Saints who will be riding the clouds to the new world will practice this diet.

Brown rice is good for your health because the germ is intact. Not all rice is the same. Brown rice sprouts when soaked in water, while polished white rice decays.

Not only does white rice make your blood acidic, it is what cancer feeds on. However, brown rice is living; it makes your blood alkaline. It can also cure cancer because it is an anticancer food. Because brown rice cures cancer while white rice induces it, we should eat brown rice. Long ago, cancer was not as widespread as it is now because the skin of the rice was only slightly removed when it was husked and the rice would be eaten with its germ left intact.

An analysis of the nutrients in a bowl of brown rice shows us that it is very nutritious. It is equal to approximately one gallon (3.8 liters) of milk, twenty eggs, or fifty sheets of dried laver. In addition, the husks of brown rice contain the best fat. Because it is completely soluble in water, it is invisible when dissolved in water. Therefore, when it enters our blood vessels it circulates throughout our body well and provides us with energy.

These days, due to the modernization of civilization, we strip the husks from our rice and feed them to cows and pigs. Cows and pigs do not have cancer, and even if you do not purchase medicine from drug stores for them, they grow fat and live healthy lives. However, by eating polished white rice, humans have become constitutionally sick. If a family that consumes ten sacks of white rice per year were to eat brown rice, they would consume less than seven sacks of brown rice, which is much more economical. Moreover, eating just one bowl of brown rice is beneficial to us and fills us with strength, while eating a whole sack of white rice is rather harmful.

The same is true for fruits. These days, people peel fruits such as apples or pears that have been sprayed with large amounts of agricultural chemicals before eating them. However, we should not peel our fruits when we eat them. Peeled apples that are exposed to the air oxidize very quickly and start to decay. On the other hand, apples that have not been peeled remain the same even if they are stored for several months or a year. Fruit peels contain many nutrients as well as many remedies and antidotes.

Yet, people feed the peels to livestock while man suffers from numerous maladies that stem from eating peeled fruits-- fruits that are devoid of remedies, nutrients, or antidotes. These days, some people claim that fruits must be peeled before they are eaten because of the high usage of agricultural chemicals. This sounds plausible. However, let us say that only 50% of the agricultural chemicals from peeled fruits enter our body, while 100% of the chemicals from fruits that have not been peeled enter our body. Even though only 50% of the chemicals from the peeled fruits enter our body, they cannot be properly discharged from our body and accumulate within us. On the other hand, though 100% of the chemicals from the fruits that have not been peeled enter our body, all of the chemicals are discharged from our body, and we are supplied with nutrients. For that reason, we should eat fruits that have not been peeled the more they have been sprayed with chemicals. Among all the fruits, the skin of pears contains a strong antidote (counteragent). If you feed a person who has accidentally drunk agricultural chemicals juice pressed from pears that have not been peeled, he will be detoxified and recover in no time. It is also recommendable to take charcoal powder at the same time. A dog dying after eating rat poison once survived after being detoxified with juice pressed from pears that were not peeled. Therefore, if a person becomes intoxicated while spraying agricultural chemicals, it is best to feed him pear juice and charcoal. God has given us all these foods as remedies. Our heavenly Father never handed Adam and Eve a knife in the paradise of Eden saying, "Peel the fruits before you eat them." We will be returning to Eden soon and so we should return to our original life in Eden.

The same is true for vegetables. When spinach is cooked, it becomes harmful and even causes kidney stones. However, if we eat it raw, it contains living enzymes that are very beneficial to our body. It is better to eat vegetables raw and not cook them as much as possible.

Water, Sunlight, and Oxygen

The same is true for water. Boiled water is "dead" water. If we were to water a flower garden frequently with boiled water, all the flowers would die. Experts on television say, "These days, you should boil tap water before you drink it." However, boiling tap water will make it "dead" water. When your tap water smells and it does not seem very clean, immerse a lump of charcoal in it for several hours or overnight, and it will be the best water. That is how you can drink it.

It is better to have breakfast early and to leave about four or five hours between your meals. It is good to drink a bowl of water up to 1 quart (0.9 liter) or more of water before breakfast. Your body can absorb a bowl of water in about ten minutes. Drinking fresh water at body temperature, thirty minutes before mealtime, is good for the body. Water cleanses your blood and all the tissues and organs in your body. This will also induce the abundant secretion of saliva, stimulating appetite and promoting digestion to make you healthy.

There is an old saying, "The more water you drink, the more blessings you will receive." In other words, the amount of blessings you receive depends on how much water you drink. The great blessing you receive is the blessing of being healthy. However, when we refuse to drink water before our meals, the "sewers" or "drains" within our body are not cleaned out properly, and our body becomes diseased. When we do not drink water, we become constipated; constipation is known to be the cause of all illnesses.

At first, your body may not be used to drinking water and there may be adverse reactions. Gradually increase the amount from 1/2 cup to 1 cup, until you are accustomed to drinking water. Since it is not recommendable to drink extremely cold water during winter, you can fill a glass bottle with water and let it sit overnight at room temperature before drinking it the next morning. It is also better to warm it up a little instead of boiling it. Then, your blood will become cleansed and circulate well, filling you with vitality. Water cleanses the entire body and when it becomes mealtime, your mouth will secrete saliva. You should digest your food in your mouth, and not in your stomach.

Though many people know how to operate other types of machines, they do not know how to operate their bodies. They know very well where to lubricate and where to add water. Yet, when it comes to the body, they do not know where to add to water or where to lubricate, or even what kind of oil to use.

You can drink water around three to four hours after breakfast, or even later for people with weak stomachs, after digesting everything and your stomach is empty. This will aid your digestion at lunchtime by inducing the secretion of saliva. However, if you refuse to drink water, the mouth will not secrete saliva. You will have indigestion because of a lack of saliva and because you will be drinking water with your meal.

Try to receive lots of sunlight and consume large amounts of water and oxygen. They are the best gifts of life our heavenly Father gave to us. Sunlight in the cities cannot be a proper remedy, since a layer of pollution blocks it off. Not only is city tap water unclean, chemicals are added, making it unfit for drinking. It is nevertheless better to drink the water without boiling it. In addition, because the air in the cities is impure and polluted, it is not very good for you.

As I mentioned earlier, a saint (sage) is someone who lives with God in the mountains <神 (God) + 人 (person) + 山 (mountain) = 神仙 (divine sage)>. Someone who is a saint should live like one. We should live in the surroundings of a saint, eat the diet of a saint, and live the life of a saint in order to enter the kingdom of saints, the new world.

Overeating and Snacking between Meals

Overeating is worse than eating meats. Because our stomach and brain are linked directly to each other, our brain is clear when our stomach is unclogged, and our brain is unclear and when our stomach is clogged. Therefore, a glutton is hopeless. In order to free us from such a bad habit, the Savior of mankind had to fast for six weeks (forty days) to pay the price for mankind's bad habits of overeating and heavy drinking. An old proverb teaches, "If your child is lovely, do not spare the rod. If your child is loathsome, feed him more." It means that children who eat too much will fall to ruins. Those who overeat will never understand the truth of heaven. Since their brains are clogged, they will merely yawn in their seats without being able to understand a thing. Those who desire to understand the truth should strictly avoid overeating. However, when engaging in physical labor, you should eat enough to work while avoiding overeating at the same time.

Self-indulgence of the appetite (overeating) does not strengthen the body, but rather weakens it and causes feeblemindedness, forgetfulness, amnesia, and loss of memory. It also fatigues the tissues of the body. It calls an excess amount of blood to the stomach, causing the limbs--the hands and feet--to chill quickly. If we tax our stomach with an excessive amount of food to digest, it will become fatigued and we will feel hungry. Some mistakenly think that they are hungry, as if their stomach has digested everything. Many do not know that the stomach is crying out, "Please let me rest. Please spare me!" and mistakenly interpret the feeling to be a sign of malnutrition, a demand for more food. Instead of allowing the stomach to rest, they again burden the stomach with new food. Repeating this will give rise to serious illnesses and ultimately lead to death. A glutton (overeater) can never become a saint.

You can see how terrible overeating is by looking at a puppy. When a puppy overeats, its front legs warp. It will be unable to run properly and will live deformed for the rest of its life. That is how harmful overeating is. It brings fatal consequences to our body. Since our stomach and brain are linked to each other, we should never be so foolish as to clog our brain by overeating. On the other hand, we should not eat too little. People who farm supposedly take five meals a day; that is being intemperate. If your work involves physical labor, you should have no problem digesting three full meals. Eating too little will result in a lack of energy. Therefore, we should eat three full meals. Please be sure to chew your food sufficiently.

Snacking between Meals

We should never snack between meals. Snacking between meals is like digging your grave with your own hands. No matter how strong a man may be, he will soon collapse if he is made to work day and night without any sleep. Likewise, if our stomach is not given rest, it will soon become exhausted and break down.

Carefully observe regulated dietary habits, making sure not to eat a single grain or morsel of fruit between meals. Once food enters our stomach, it needs three to four laborious hours to digest the food. Afterwards, the stomach needs thirty minutes to an hour of rest in order to strengthen itself so that it can digest the next meal. It is when the stomach has become exhausted and is about to rest after laboring to digest large quantities of food that many snack on a piece of bread or minced meat. For example, a rice mill has to run all its rice-polishing machines whether it polishes one bowl or one bushel of rice. In the same way, the stomach needs the same amount of labor to digest a grain of rice or a piece of fruit.

Those who overcome their appetite can overcome the devil, the god of this world, while he will overcome those who cannot overcome their diet. Man fell out of his inability to overcome appetite and, as a result, the god of this world defeated him.

Many eat snacks after breakfast, then after lunch, again after dinner, and while watching television until midnight. The food forces the stomach to continuously dispose of it until the stomach finally cannot push out any more. Then, it begins to decay, and when that person burps, he releases a putrid smell. Moreover, if the person continues to eat, the stomach will suffer from prolapse and later gastroptosis, the ultimate cause of stomach cancer. That is why you are digging your grave with your own hands when you overeat and eat between meals.

Those who are suffering from gastroptosis should fast for several days. Then, all the food that has accumulated will exit out of the stomach, and the prolapsed stomach will be restored to its original position. After fasting, they should remedy their stomach by starting with (rice) porridge. Otherwise, their stomach will have to be removed, eventually placing their life in danger. Therefore, breakfast should be taken early, and a sufficient amount should be eaten deliciously. Because our digestion is good in the morning, we should eat enough, but at the same time not overeat. In addition, we should take nothing except water or juice until lunchtime. Dinner should be taken early and consist of light, simple foods that can be easily digested. Our stomach should be completely empty when we sleep at night. Then we will be able to sleep soundly and get up the next morning filled with strength and vigor.

Those who eat a heavy dinner or eat late at night may snore while they sleep. This is because their stomach has to work all night long in order to digest the food, and they cannot sleep soundly. Their fatigue is not relieved, and so when they get up the next morning, they feel worn out and exhausted. They have no appetite and lose all interest in work. However, those who sleep on an empty stomach after having a light, early supper of just fruits for supper will be full of life and vigor the next morning. They will feel refreshed and have a good appetite at breakfast. Such people have happiness and victory guaranteed for them that day.

Sleep

We should go to bed no later than 9 p.m. This is because the nerves in our brain sleep from 9 p.m. to midnight and wake up at 1 a.m. Since our nerves are already awake, even if we sleep at dawn, we merely snore, and still feel tired when we wake up. That is why we should go to bed early in the evening in order to sleep soundly and be healthy. Those who watch TV until midnight and then go to sleep at dawn wake up weary and exhausted, and they have no interest to work.

A certain company compared a team that worked throughout the early evening hours with a team that worked during the dawn hours. The team that went to sleep early in the evening and woke up at dawn the next day to work became more and more healthy, while the team that worked throughout the early evening hours and went to sleep at dawn became more and more pallid as the days went on. There is a true, old saying that those who go to bed early in the evening will become rich.

We must refrain from eating late-night snacks. The living habits of people these days include snacking late at night until their stomachs are full. Just as it says in the Bible that a rich man cannot sleep if his stomach is full, we cannot sleep on a full stomach. A person may be able to sleep even though his stomach is full, but his stomach has to work, and so it reproaches the nose, "How can you sleep when the rest of us are working?" Upset, it works and at the same time complains all night long. When the person gets up the next morning, the stomach is so angry that it refuses to accept any food he tries to put in it. That is why many people go to work after drinking just a cup of coffee or a glass of milk. Not only do those who have skipped their breakfast like that lose interest in working, they get irritated easily. Therefore, we should go to sleep on an empty stomach and our nose, the nerves in our brain, and stomach should all sleep at the same time.

These days, Koreans also have a full dinner and skip breakfast. In a certain western country, traffic accidents occur the most during the morning hours. This is because the stomach and brain have become disordered from working all night long. You become so edgy the next morning you are liable to quarrel with your wife as soon as you get up. Since you cannot control your stomach, your mind and brain become disordered. However, when you go to sleep on an empty stomach and get up after a sound sleep, you feel refreshed in the morning and new vigor gushes from within you.

Therefore, we should abandon the habit of staying up late at night. The busier we are, the earlier we should go to sleep. When we are busy, we should sleep at 9 p.m. and when we are even busier, we should sleep at 8 p.m., and then wake up at midnight, or at 1 a.m. The busier we are, the earlier we should sleep so that we can do much work at dawn. Some may say that it is impossible to sleep early when we are busy. However, we should go to bed early because we are busy. Those who sleep early accomplish much while those who sleep late get little work done. Students who sleep early in the evening, when the nerves in their brain are asleep, and get up at dawn study more efficiently. What would normally take three to five hours of studying they accomplish in just one or two hours at dawn. Therefore, we should drink lots of fresh water and get enough sleep. When we sleep soundly on an empty stomach, we wake up refreshed with new strength gushing from within us.

Foods We Should Refrain from for Our Health

Milk used to be beneficial to us--it strengthened our teeth and bones. However, now it weakens them. Originally, milk strengthened our teeth and bones, and remedied gastrointestinal disorders and lung diseases. When we drink the milk sold in the market these days, our teeth fall out and our bones become weak. At one time, milk was a calcium supplement. These days there is the possibility that it removes the calcium in our body. So many diseases are prevalent among cows that, in order to combat them, medicines are mixed into their feed. Not only that, cows are continuously injected with drugs and antibiotics. Milk, therefore, contains large quantities of antibiotics and toxic substances, making it very detrimental to those who drink it. In a certain country where its citizens drank large volumes of milk, young men and women were in need of dentures because their teeth were becoming weak and falling out.

I once had the opportunity to travel with a man who was raising many dairy cows. When I told that dairy farm owner I did not drink milk, he replied that he did not either. He said that dairy cows sometime contract mastitis and secrete pus when they are milked, and so not only do they always need to be injected with antibiotics, the antibiotics are mixed into their feed. He said that in many cases, even if the cow becomes sick, they just sell the milk after straining and boiling it. That was why he did not drink milk either. I told him that I instead drink milk from goats fed with grass from the unpolluted mountains, and he praised me for doing so.

Though we should not drink the milk sold in the markets, if some of you would still like to drink milk for the sake of your family's health, I would like to recommend that you raise your own dairy cows or goats. If you feed them wild grass and grains, you will be drinking the best milk. Such milk not only strengthens your teeth and bones, but also contains remedies to cure gastrointestinal disorders and also many peptics to aid your digestion.

The president of a soy sauce company does not eat the soy sauce his company makes, and instead eats homemade soy sauce. The president of a seasoning company does not eat the seasoning his company makes; even the employees of that company choose to marry women who either do not use such seasoning at all or eat a small amount of it. This is because they all know how harmful seasoning is. There were many cases of palsy and paralysis among young people in Japan and no one knew why. Doctors later discovered that artificial seasoning was the main cause. Seasoning is so detrimental that when its raw ingredients are stored in a new steel drum, they puncture a hole.

In the past, everyone enjoyed food without adding seasoning to it. Now people say they cannot eat unseasoned food because it does not taste good. This is because the seasoning has paralyzed their taste buds so that they cannot taste anything. When seasoning was first sold in Korea, one small bag would last an entire month. These days, however, people add at least one tablespoon of seasoning to everything they cook. Their taste buds have become so paralyzed that they have to first add seasoning to their food before eating it. Once you stop using seasoning, your taste buds will be newly revived after some time, and you should be able to eat everything deliciously without adding any seasoning.

Salt is a "silent killer." Salt is an essential food that forms the blood in our body. Though the daily amount needed per person is approximately two to four grams, people these days eat tens of times more salt than they should. This results in high blood pressure, fainting, and sudden death.

In a certain country where people consume salt excessively, fainting is the cause of half the deaths in the country while 25% of the population suffers from high blood pressure. Though salt is beneficial to our body, due to its overuse, it is now called the "silent killer."

Sugar should also be used moderately. Using too much sugar may be even more harmful than consuming meat. People say that sugar is a thief of calcium since it removes even the calcium that is in our body. If we eat excessive amounts of sugar, our bones become weak and our teeth decay, which means our bones are also melting away. In severe cases, our bones may be completely damaged.

Not only that, sugar also hinders the tissues in our body from working properly, has a direct effect upon the brain, and at the same time, is detrimental to our stomach's functions. In its fermented state, sugar clouds our brain and makes us peevish. There was an incident in a hospital in America where a nurse murdered several babies by slashing them with a knife and breaking their bones during a violent fit. An investigation into the case revealed that the nurse scooped sugar into her mouth as if she was eating cereal. Sugar, like liquor, destroys us. Any person or family that consumes excessive amounts of sugar will become very peevish, and thus it will be almost impossible for such a person or family to be happy.

The same is true for eggs. These days, diseases among chickens have become so widespread at poultry farms that they mix antibiotics and drugs consisting of mercury in their feed. Thus, the eggs contain large amounts of poison and mercury. They even feed chickens chemical drugs and confine them in cages for the sole purpose of having them lay eggs, and after a while, they become useless chickens.

Eating such eggs may cause mental derangement and in severe cases, cause insanity. It is better not to eat such eggs. If you would like to eat eggs, you should move to the countryside and raise your own chickens. Eating the eggs of chickens that have been fed grains and are allowed to feed freely on the grass in the fields is very healthy for your body. If you boil such eggs, you will see that the yolk is very yellow and the eggs are very tasty. Eggs from a poultry farm may be larger, but the yolk is whitish and thin, and they are not very tasty. These days, poultry farms supposedly feed chickens artificial coloring to make the yolk of the eggs they sell more yellow than the yolk of natural eggs.

Liquor makes our blood acidic. The number of people who have died from drinking is said to be far greater than the total number of those who died from both World Wars. There are many instances where even young people have died from alcoholism. Their faces turn black, and their stomachs, kidneys, and livers are completely ruined before they die. People normally drink strong liquors such as Soju,* or whiskey. However, if you were to put a match to them, they would become inflamed. If something that strong enters our soft stomach, how irritating it must be! Moreover, we cannot tell how many crimes and accidents were caused by liquor and how many families were ruined. Not only does it drive people insane, liquor also steals our vitality. That is how it not only destroys us but also our families. Each person has approximately 15 billion brain cells, and a countless number of them die each time we have a drink. Unfortunately, there is no way to revive dead brain cells. (*Soju is a clear, distilled, rice liquor of Korea.)

Tobacco is also extremely harmful to us. Even from a financial standpoint, our nation's wealth is disappearing into the sky with the smoke. Around thirty years ago, there was a report that people spent approximately USD$66 million annually on cigarettes in our country. We cannot imagine how high the figure is now.

Smoking gives rise to different kinds of diseases in our respiratory organs and every other organ in our body; its consequences are much more fatal than drinking. When people stop smoking, they immediately begin to gain weight and their complexion becomes bright. However, when they start smoking again, they begin to immediately lose weight. Tobacco is especially fatal to our bronchus and lungs, and can cause of cancer. Most people blindly follow others into smoking for the first time, thinking it looks good, not because it tastes good or because they really want to smoke. However, once they become addicted to smoking, they cannot set themselves free from it for the rest of their lives. They are dragged around by it until they become diseased and die painfully, leaving their families behind.

Kimchi

, Red Pepper Powder>

There are times when we eat kimchi even though it has turned a little sour, but we should throw it away without regret once it becomes sour. Sour kimchi is the same as liquor and it makes our blood acidic.

Next, let me mention red pepper powder. It is all right now since rubber gloves are available, but long ago, mothers could not sleep after making kimchi for winter use. They would spend all night trying to cool their burning hands with their breath. If hot red pepper powder makes even the thick skin on our hands burn and smart, what will happen after it is swallowed and enters our soft stomach? Not only will it bore into our stomach and ruin it like alcohol, it will also later taint our blood. Red pepper paste made from hot red pepper powder is only good as a medicine for dysentery diarrhea. Dysentery diarrhea may be cured by drinking charcoal powder dissolved in water or by eating boiled cranesbill, a wild herb that can be found on riverbanks. If you have tried everything and nothing seems to work, you can try eating several pieces of raw garlic mixed with one tablespoon of red pepper paste with your meal. You will see immediate results. There is no other use for hot red pepper paste than that. If you would like to eat peppers, you can grow mild peppers that are somewhat sweet when they have ripened red. They are nutritious and good for your health.

There is nothing beneficial about drinking coffee. When we drink coffee, our skin turns pale and loses its elasticity; the functions of our brain are weakened; our nervous system is destroyed. Drinking coffee may keep us awake. However, this is not because we simply cannot fall asleep--it is the beginning of insomnia, the very beginning of our nervous system's destruction. Coffee stimulates our mind and body, and so we feel energetic and it seems as if we are working more efficiently after we drink it. However, a little while later, we feel weak and we lose stamina. Just as alcohol is stimulating at first, only to make you feel worn out later, we become exhausted. What follows is total exhaustion, headaches, nervous prostration, and later, tremor of the hands and many other irrecoverable diseases.

In addition, beverages like soda pop, cola, and Bacchus* are not good for us. It is better to buy fruits and drink fresh squeezed juice. Water is the best beverage. (*a Korean beverage)

The Harmful Effects of Meat

The saints of the past were pure vegetarians. Far from eating fish and meat, they loved and protected the animals, and they befriended them. Capillaries stretch throughout our entire body like cobwebs. Their overall length could run the circumference of the earth many times over. When we eat meat, such as beef, pork, dog meat, or chicken, the animal fat enters our body and not only does it make our blood acidic, it becomes deposited along the walls of our capillaries and eventually hinders the blood from flowing through them. The results are arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure, and even sudden death. Moreover, there is a possibility of contracting various diseases, such as tumors, lung disease, syphilis, and leprosy. A meat diet also arouses the lower passions, animalizing man so that he cannot control his passion.

Though many people these days die of cancer, there was a time in our country when we did not even know what it was. Cancer is a western disease, and statistics show that in many countries, hundreds of thousands of people die of cancer each year. Yet, people do not seem to know the basic cause of cancer. Cancer is the result of eating too much meat. Cancerous germs feed on meat; it is their food. If we simply abstain from a meat diet and return to the pure diet of Eden, it is almost impossible to get cancer, and even those who already have cancer can be cured easily.

Very few animals in the time of Noah or Jesus were diseased. The animals in Noah's time were clean, but these days, all the chickens, cows, and pigs have become diseased. When we eat such meat, we are also eating their diseases and eventually we contract them too.

Cows are not meat-eaters. They only feed on grass and vegetables and yet they grow fat. They are not only free from disease, but also very strong. In order to be free from disease and strong as well, we ourselves need to eat fruits and vegetables. However, since we eat the meat of a diseased cow, we contract the same diseases the cow suffered from. Moreover, these days, cows are fed and injected hormones to fatten them, and they gain weight within a few months. Those who buy and eat such beef will likewise gain weight, and their bones will become so weak they will not be able to sustain the additional weight. Such people have only become fat. If they fall down, their bones will break easily, and they will eventually collapse since their blood vessels are becoming clogged. Modern medicine without an understanding of the law of nature is useless. People deceive themselves; in the end, they will face destruction.

I used to visit a certain leper colony quite often. When I asked the patients how they contracted leprosy, they replied that all they knew was that after scratching their skin, boils formed on their bodies, and in turn they became lepers. Modern medicine also does not know the cause of leprosy. Leprosy is the result of eating pork. Nevertheless, these days, people on TV recommend that food made of minced pork is an excellent snack for children. In addition, when cancer patients visit hospital, physicians advise them to eat plenty of meat to take in a sufficient amount of nutrition.

The director of a certain hospital contracted a disease that made his bones very frail. His bones would crack even if he would just bump into something while walking. No medicine in this world could heal his disease. However, he was healed of his incurable disease after attending my seminar and listening to my lectures. Man must live according to heaven's rationality. Apart from it, both medicine and theology are unreasonable. If cancer patients would only abstain from a meat diet and return to the pure diet of Eden, they can be cured easily.

Many cases of cancer appear in western countries and in countries where the citizens consume large quantities of meat. The reason why there are so many cancer cases in our country also these days is that our citizens have become wealthy and are eating a great deal of meat. Cancer is an incurable disease and once a person has been operated on, it is that much more difficult to treat him/her with natural methods. Moreover, it is very difficult to use natural methods to treat those who have already received chemotherapy, and so they are more than likely to fail. No matter how advanced modern medicine may be, everyone is afraid of cancer. In more severe cases, some doctors even give up on their patients and simply tell them to go home, eat whatever they would like to, and just take it easy.

Cancer is a fatal disease. However, if we only eat the natural foods heaven originally told us to eat, we can fight against cancer and sufficiently overcome it.

These days, the world has abandoned the food God prepared for us in the beginning, and by eating "new" food man has prepared, doctors and patients alike are dying. Modern medicine is neither aware of that fact nor even tries to know about it. Doctors spend their entire life merely researching temporary measures. They do not even try to direct their attention to that easy, fundamental treatment.

There is a saying, "Pork is worth the price you have paid only when it is eaten well." Some germs in pork do not die, no matter how much they are boiled or cooked. They rather thrive in the warmer temperature. Once those germs enter our body, they start multiplying very rapidly, as if to say, "Now we're in charge." That is how we develop cancer, syphilis, and leprosy. Therefore, by eating pork we are not just "taking one and losing a hundred," but "taking none and losing ten thousand." We gain nothing from it.

In the Bible, there is an account of Jesus eating fish two thousand years ago. However, all the rivers and oceans have become polluted and poisoned these days. Therefore, even fish is unsuitable for our consumption because our body becomes diseased when we eat it. Moreover, some fish that may have been caught in clear, clean water may have already been poisoned from some other remote, polluted water; some people die immediately of food poisoning after eating such fish. In these last days, fish is also totally unfit for consumption by the saints of the new world.

All the oceans in the world are now polluted, and so the time has come to refrain from eating fish also. You may think you will suffer from malnutrition if you abstain from meat and fish. Rather, those people who eat meat and fish may lack the nutrients they need since their blood vessels become clogged; they only become fat and diseased. You will not suffer from malnutrition just because you stop eating meat.

Then why did God allow His children to eat meat during the time of the Old Testament? Beginning from the Garden of Eden up until Noah's flood, God never once told His children to eat meat. However, when all the fruits and vegetables were destroyed by the Flood and there was nothing left to eat, God allowed Noah and his family to temporarily eat meat instead of vegetables. Even then, He had them eat the meat of only select, clean animals and not the meat of unclean ones. In addition, after the Flood, God fed Moses and the two million Israelites he was leading manna, not meat. It was only because they complained and clamored for what they were accustomed to eating in Egypt that He allowed them meat against His own will. Eating meat was never God's plan. While raising our own children, there are times when they cry for something we know is harmful to them, and when we cannot bear it any longer we give it to them even though we do not feel like it. It was the same for our heavenly Father.

In the wilderness, the Israelites complained and cried for meat so much that Moses could not bear it any longer. The reason why God did not allow them to eat meat even until Moses could no longer bear it was because He knew how unsuitable and harmful such food would for them. Moses appealed to God, ["For they weep all over me, saying, 'Give us meat, that we may eat....' Please kill me...and do not let me see my wretchedness."] (Numbers 11:13-15) So God replied, "I will give them meat [but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have despised the Lord who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, 'Why did we ever come up out of Egypt?']" (Numbers 11:20) God poured clouds of quails down upon them. As for those who coveted meat, [...while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was aroused against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.... There they buried the people who had yielded to craving.] (Num. 11:33, 34)

Therefore, countless numbers of Israelites died while they coveted meat and those who survived became diseased from eating it. Meat is a food that God has prohibited; it makes us ill. [He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul] and body. (Psa. 106:15)

Those who eat meat can never become saints. Though this may sound extreme, those who eat meat can never enter the new world. This is because we enter the new world through our characters and people who eat meat will never be regenerated, nor will theirs hearts or characters ever be transformed--even if they fast and pray all night to God asking Him to regenerate and sanctify them. When we eat meat, our blood becomes tainted, and accordingly our character becomes wicked.

Therefore, religionists who eat meat can never be transformed, no matter how much they may pray to be. Not a single verse in the sixty-six books of the Bible tells us to eat dog meat or pork. Far from telling us to eat the meat of unclean animals such as dogs or pigs when they die, it is written in the Bible that God has told us not to even touch their carcasses. He called those who touched their carcasses unclean and told them not to enter the holy camp until they had purified themselves.

[Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him.] (1 Cor. 3:16, 17)

["Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves, to go to the gardens after an idol in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination...shall be consumed together," says the Lord.] (Isa. 66:17) [Who sit among graves, and spend the night in secret places; who eat swine's flesh, and the broth of unclean meat is in their pots; who say, 'Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am holier than you!' These are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all the day.] (Isa. 65:4, 5, NASB)

[Who sit among the graves] refers to this earth; privately go to the [secret places; who eat swine's flesh, and the broth of unclean meat is in their pots;] and while eating pork and the broth of dog meat, they say, "['Keep to yourself...] I am a holy servant of God. [Do not come near me, for I am holier than you!']"”God has said that such people who pretend to be righteous are [smoke in (His) nostrils, a fire that burns all the day.] In other words, they will be destroyed by His wrath.

Those who eat meat cannot become saints; those who eat meat cannot enter the new world. In the new world, there is no such thing as butchering an animal and eating its meat. Those who will live in the new world as saints must first become saints on this earth. Moreover, those who eat meat may become so violent that they cannot live together with the saints in the new world.

Let me show you a practical object lesson. If you look at carnivorous animals such as cats, tigers, lions, wolves, hawks, and eagles, you can see that they are very brutal. They tear their prey apart and kill it even when they do not eat it. From small cats to large lions, and even beautiful birds, all carnivorous animals have violent and brutal characters. On the other hand, herbivorous animals--from small sparrows to large elephants--that feed on the same food as the saints such as sheep, deer, cows, elephants, sparrows, orioles, and doves have nice characters. They are all docile and good-natured.

A westerner once experimented with a very ferocious dog. It was so scary that no one could approach it or even enter the house it was staying. He brought the dog home and did not feed it any meat. He put the dog on a strict vegetarian diet for several months, feeding it boiled beans. Little by little, the dog became docile; later it behaved so well that it followed people around without attacking them. Later, he fed the dog meat and bones once again. The dog soon became scary and ferocious; it would snarl at people and attack them. His experiment was precise, and his results were correct. The food we eat forms our blood, and our character and disposition are dependent on the type of blood formed. Tigers and lions were as gentle as sheep when they fed on grass in the Garden of Eden. It has been said that the lions and deer lay together and the sheep and wolves played together. However, the world is different now. Ever since tigers and lions started preying on other animals on this cursed earth, lions and sheep do not play together in one place; sheep are so scared of lions that they do not even look at them.

If man and beast would like to possess the beautiful character they once possessed in the Garden of Eden they should return to our diet in the Garden of Eden. Even if God took habitual meat-eaters, like the carnivores, back to the Garden of Eden, they would not be able to resist their craving for meat.

In order to live beautifully with all the other animals in paradise, we need to return to the pure diet of old Eden starting from this world. Eating meat is the dreadful act of eating another's corpse. Such ferocious animals or horrible people will not exist in the new world we will enter and live in. In order to live there, and in order to become holy, good people, we should eat only clean foods and possess a good heart and character starting from here on this earth.

Look at the blood that is stored in the blood banks. The blood that is from meat-eaters is dark, thick, and heavy, while the blood from vegetarians is clear, pure, and light. That is why the blood from vegetarians is very precious and in demand. Because our blood is our life, we should make our blood clean and free of disease.

Even in the past, when animals had very few diseases, meat was very detrimental to our health. Then, with all the serious diseases in livestock these days, how detrimental it must be to our body! It is like paying a high price to buy and consume miserable diseases. When people eat meat, they immediately feel stronger, and when they stop eating meat, they feel like they are losing energy. Many insist that this proves we need to eat meat.

However, there is a reason why that happens. Meat is stimulating; it causes pyrexia of the blood and excites our nerves. Its symptoms can be likened to a drunken man who feels strong under the stimulating influence of the alcohol, but is left completely exhausted when its influence wears out. When you quit eating meat, you may feel weak and dizzy. But if you can get through that certain period, you will be tens of times more energetic and healthier from then on. This is something all of you will happily experience. You will come to confess that God's benevolent plan of forbidding meat is love after all, and deeply appreciate it.

I also ate a great deal of meat when I was young. My health was very poor back then--I suffered from many diseases. In order to grow stronger, I ate as much meat as I could. However, I would feel stronger only when I ate meat; I became increasingly unhealthy, and later, I became a young invalid who could not even walk. That was when I realized through the Bible that Heaven did not give us meat as our food, and that meat was the cause of my diseases and feebleness. More than forty years have passed since I gave up eating meat. I am now so much healthier and stronger than I was when I was in my twenties. My work is quite difficult, something not anyone can do--I stand in front of an audience for ten hours a day, giving lectures all by myself from 4:30 a.m. until 8 or 9 p.m. every day, for ten days without even a break. I have done this more than 100 times, and yet, I still have strength and health to spare. Not only was it all possible with power from Heaven, I was also blessed with health from obeying the diet of the saints Heaven has gave to us.

Avoid the Extremes of Diet Reform

Although it is important to resolutely abstain from all the foods that are harmful to our body, what is more important is that when you start living on vegetarian diet, you should get enough nutrition, even more than you received when you ate meat. Vegetarians must be careful to get enough fat and calcium; therefore, laver, sea lettuce, brown seaweed, and kelp are all very good sources of calcium. We should not suffer from malnutrition because we are not eating meat. With the money we normally spend on meat and fish, we can buy peanuts, sesame seeds, perilla seeds, walnuts, and pine nuts, etc., and we can get more than enough nutrition from eating such nuts. We should not roast sesame seeds and perilla seeds too long. Even vegetable oil congeals when used too long for roasting or frying. It hardens on the walls of our blood vessels and hinders the flow of blood, causing arteriosclerosis. As much as possible, it is better to eat them raw; but if you would like to roast them, roast them lightly. If we simply eat the foods heaven has given us, we should not have to worry about falling ill. In addition, vegetables grown with fertilizers have different nutritional values than vegetables grown without them. Therefore, it is not enough to merely explain this from a nutritional standpoint.

A benefit of living in the countryside is that you can carry a hoe to the mountains and "shop" for all different kinds of wild roots, herbs, and greens before lunch. It is so nice to see the table full of what you have brought from the mountains; it is far better than the ginseng now sold in markets. These days, they must spray the leaves of the ginseng with layer after layer of agricultural chemicals to the point they become white, and so many do not call it ginseng but instead "poisonous ginseng." However, bellflower roots, Codonopis lanceolata, and other small rooted grass are very similar to wild ginseng. Because heaven has grown them, they are very fresh. In addition, all the seasonal fruits like persimmons, chestnuts, pears, peaches, strawberries, grapes, apricots, oranges, as well as "vege-fruits" such as watermelons, melons (like honeydew and cantaloupe), cucumber, and tomatoes are so delicious and fresh that when we eat them, our blood becomes clean and our complexion looks healthy. We can look beautiful without applying any make-up.

When eating fruits and vegetables, we should make a clear distinction between them. Otherwise, the wrong combination of eating fruits with vegetables will make our head feel heavy and we cannot be perfectly healthy. When planning our menu, we should either eat bread with fruits or rice with vegetables, or else have vegetables in the morning, something else for lunch, and fruits for supper, so that our menus do not overlap. In addition, "vege-fruits" like melons, watermelons, cucumber, and tomatoes can be considered neutral and may be eaten with either vegetables or fruits.

Our nutrition should be well balanced, and our menu simple, with just two, or three to four, dishes. If we eat five to six different dishes or too much all at once, our brain becomes confused. The simpler our foods are, the clearer our head will be. Those who eat too many different kinds of food at once in order to balance their nutrition will confuse their brain. If we eat three to four different dishes for breakfast, other kinds of food at lunch, and then something else for supper, even if we just eat three different kinds of food three meals a day, our nutrition is well-balanced since we are eating nine different kinds of food. When invited over to someone else's house, it is better to eat just a few of the dishes that have been prepared. Our mind becomes confused when we take in too many different kinds of food at the same time. This is why people are so complicated these days. Because the truth is simple, only those who are simple-minded understand it.

Taking a stroll after your meal is the best digestive. In addition, do some light work. Going into the mountains and fields and engaging in moderate labor is the first blessing of health. Work not only keeps us physically healthy, but also spiritually and mentally healthy. Those who confine themselves to reading books and doing research in a room without any physical labor will soon upset their physical, spiritual, mental, and character equilibrium. We should eat a well-balanced diet, sleep well, and work diligently. This is the life of a saint. Heaven dislikes lazy people the most. Even God runs the sun, the earth, the moon, and all the galaxies every day, and earnestly looks after all His creatures and each one of His children. Let us also try to work faithfully.

[Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before unknown men.] (Prov. 22:29)

The Natural Diet of the New World

In conclusion, let me end this chapter by introducing the perfect diet that the saints who will live as immortal Gods in the new world have to practice. There are four kinds of diets.

The first is a meat diet--a (mixed) diet consisting of meat and vegetables, without being particular to one or the other.

The second is a vegetarian diet--…a diet consisting of cooked foods and vegetables.

The third is a raw diet--a diet consisting of raw grains and vegetables eaten uncooked, without regards to pollution (fertilizers, agricultural chemicals).

The fourth is a natural diet--a diet consisting of natural, organic, unpolluted (no fertilizers, no agricultural chemicals) grains, vegetables, and fruits grown by heaven and eaten raw.

The latter was man's original diet in the paradise, in the beginning before the fall. Those who are restored to the way it was in the beginning of this earth and live according to the diet back then and who restore the truth and love of the beginning and live accordingly will inevitably be restored as original, immortal saints and go to the new world as its heirs. This is the obedience--objective--Heaven ultimately requests of the youngest children of this earth. Let me end this chapter with the wholehearted hope that all our brethren on the earth, regardless of the country, engage in natural farming so that we can all become immortal saints and live together as heirs to the new world by restoring the natural diet, love, and the truth.

Appetite

Gluttony, the lethal demon, kills people, destroys families,

And drags the world to its grave.

From Grandfather and Grandmother to son and daughter-in-law,

Grandson and granddaughter,

From generation to generation, to one's remotest descendants

All are killed at once and buried by this lethal demon.

The main weapons of this lethal demon, gluttony,

Are eating between meals, overeating, and late-night snacking.

This lethal demon's main slogan is,

"Man was born to eat."

He says, "Eat, everyone. If you don't, you will die.

Eat, eat, you must eat to live."

Therefore, the entire world eats, eats,

Eats, and then eats again.

They eat breakfast and then a snack; they eat lunch and then a snack;

They eat dinner and then a snack.

They also eat in the middle of the night, then at dawn, and again during the day, eating and eating continuously.

First, their stomach becomes ruined,

Then their brain becomes clogged,

Their internal organs become ruined,

And their whole body becomes weak and diseased.

When their body becomes diseased, this lethal demon presses them again,

Exclaiming that malnutrition is the cause, so they must eat.

It insists that they must take medication, and eat meat and rice continuously.

And by repeating this again and again,

No one is able to survive.

People continue to die and die, everyone dies,

Grandfather, Grandmother, Mother, Father, and even the baby,

All die.

Whoever expels this lethal demon with a good scolding

And drives out

All the eating between meals, overeating, late-night snacking, and gorging…

Is a hero, a victor,

And a saint worthy to enter eternal, immortal life.