Health Symptoms
When starting a new weight loss plan

When starting a new diet some people experience health symptoms that affect their health. Often times these are misinterpreted as getting sick from their new weight loss program. The following article explains some of these symptoms and what they really mean.

WHAT SYMPTOMS TO EXPECT WHEN YOU CHANGE YOUR DIET!

By Stanley S. Brass N.D., D.C., Ph.C.
(Part 1 of 2)

Chapter 1: Better Nutrition.
If I were asked which is the area of greatest misunderstanding and confusion in the field of nutrition, I would immediately be forced to reply, it is the failure to properly understand and interpret the health symptoms and changes which follow the beginning of a better nutritional program.

What is meant by a better nutritional program? It is the introduction of foods of higher quality in place of lower quality ones. For example, if a person replaces a protein rich food such as pork with beef, the beef may be considered the superior of the two due to its easier digestibility, lower and less saturated fat content, etc.; chicken is superior to beef, and fish is superior to chicken because of its more rapid digestibility and lower saturated fat content.

Lima beans, lentils, or chick peas, which are eaten at the same meal with vegetables, are superior in all the nutrients needed to rebuild health.

As we go higher on the scale of quality, we begin to include protein rich food which may be eaten in the unfired state, such as cheese which is made from raw milk and is unsalted. Then we ascend to nuts and seeds, which are eaten in the natural state (raw and unsalted).

To summarize: the closer the food comes to the natural state in which it occurs, or the closer to its raw, unfired form, the higher its quality. In this condition, all the enzymes are found intact. The amino acids are in their finest form. The minerals, vitamins, trace elements, carbohydrates, and “life force” are present. The life force, in turn, is capable of reproducing healthy tissue.

The same classification of quality, which we analyzed in relation to protein-rich foods, applies to the carbohydrates (the starch and sugar-rich foods), the fats, and the mineral-rich foods.

The quality of a nutritional program is also improved by OMITTING toxic substances such as coffee, tea, chocolate, tobacco, salt, pepper, etc., from the diet.

Chapter 2: Food quality.
What is the relation of the quality of foods to recovery from illness? It is this in a nutshell: The HIGHER the quality of food we eat, the QUICKER we recover from disease, provided we are able to digest and assimilate properly.

To this must be added the knowledge of (a) proper food combining, (b) proper order of eating different kinds of food at a meal: e.g. the most easily digested food should be eaten first, the more complex one second, the most concentrated item last, (c) the correct quantity of food to be consumed (of each type) in the meal, and (d) the correct time for eating (when hungry, not by the clock).

Now, what happens when a person follows these rules and makes a decided improvement in the quality of food consumed? Remarkable things begin to happen to the body as well as the mind. The amazing intelligence present in every cell of the body and the wisdom of the body, in its operation, immediately become manifest. The rule may be stated thusly: WHEN THE QUALITY OF THE FOOD COMING INTO THE BODY IS OF HIGHER QUALITY THAN THE TISSUE WHICH THE BODY IS MADE OF, THE BODY BEGINS TO DISCARD THE LOWER GRADE MATERIALS AND TISSUES TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE SUPERIOR MATERIALS WHICH IT USES TO MAKE NEW AND HEALTHIER TISSUE.

This is the plan of Nature. The body is very selective and ALWAYS aims for improvement for better health. The body ALWAYS trys to produce health and ALWAYS will, unless our interference is too great. Only then do we fail to recover and degenerate further into disease. The self-curing nature of many conditions such as colds, fevers, cuts, swelling, injuries, etc., furnish endless examples of how the body tends towards health ALWAYS unless we do something to stop the process.

Chapter 3: Early health symptoms.
What are the health symptoms or signs which become evident when we first begin to omit the lower grade foods and instead introduce superior foods – those which are most alive, more natural than we are accustomed to? When the use of toxic stimulants such as coffee, tea, chocolate or cocoa is suddenly stopped, headaches are common and a letdown occurs. This is due to the body discarding the toxins, called caffeine and Theo bromine, which are removed from the tissues and transported through the bloodstream during its many bodily rounds. Before the noxious agents reach their final destination for elimination, these irritants register in our consciousness as pain – in other words, headache. The letdown is due to the slower action of the heart – the resting phase that follows the more rapid heartbeat forced upon the body by certain poisons called stimulants. The more rapid heart beat (or pulse) produces a feeling of exhilaration and the slower action produces a depressed state of mind. Usually within three days the nutrition symptoms vanish and we feel stronger due to the recuperation that follows.

To a lesser extent, the same process occurs when we abandon lower quality foods and replace them with better foods. Lower quality foods have undergone more preparation. Spices, salt, and other ingredients have been added, as they tend to be more stimulating than less prepared and more natural foods. Animal foods such as meat, fowl, fish, etc., are more stimulating than cheese, nuts, and vegetable proteins. Removing animal foods from the diet will reduce stimulation and consequently produce a slower heart action – a resting phase – which registers in the mind as relaxation or a decrease of energy. This initial letdown lasts about ten days or slightly longer and is followed by an increase of strength and feelings of diminishing stress and greater well-being.

Now let us return to the health symptoms that occur in the process of regeneration. The person who starts a better diet, stays on it for three days to a week and then quits will say, “Oh, I felt better on the old diet – the new one makes me feel weak.” He failed because he didn’t give his body a chance to adjust and complete its first phase of action – recuperation. If he had waited a while longer, he would have begun to feel better than before he started.

Continue to part 2

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