Health Symptoms
When starting a new weight loss plan

WHAT SYMPTOMS TO EXPECT WHEN YOU CHANGE YOUR DIET! By Stanley S. Brass N.D., D.C., Ph.C.
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Chapter 4: Weight Loss Phases.
During the first phase (called catabolism), the accent is on elimination, or breaking down of tissue. The body begins to clean house – in short, to remove the garbage deposited in all the tissues – everywhere. During this period, the body REMOVES THE ASHES FROM THE FURNACE PREPARATORY TO GETTING A BETTER FIRE. Here the emphasis is on the removal of the gross and immediate body obstructions. Wastes are discarded more rapidly than new tissue is made from the new food. This becomes evident as weight loss. This persists for a while and is then followed by a second phase – called stabilization.

Here the weight remains more or less stable. During this phase, the amount of waste material being discarded daily is equal to the amount of tissue that is being formed and replaced by the newer, more vital food. This occurs after the excess obstructing material in the tissues has been removed. This state persists for a while and is then followed by a third phase – a build-up period called ANABOLISM --wherein weight starts to go up even though the diet is lower in calories than it was before. At this point, because much of the interfering wastes have already been discarded, the tissues that have been formed since the diet was improved are more durable and do not break down easily. Also, new tissues are now being formed faster. This is due to the improved assimilation made possible by ceasing improper food combining. The body’s need for the usual amounts of food decreases and we are able to maintain our weight and increased energies with less food. Many are able to function very efficiently on two meals a day. As the body progressively increases in efficiency and decreases in tissue breakdown under exercise, so do we gradually need less and less food to maintain life. The higher the percentage of raw food one lives on, the slower the rate of tissue deterioration. A sick body requires a gradual, carefully worked out entry into this stage, where one is able live on a 100% unfired (raw) diet.

Chapter 5: Eliminating poisons.
Returning to the symptoms which occur on a superior nutritional program, people who have had tendencies in the past to recurring skin rashes or eruptions will frequently tend to eliminate poisons and harmful drugs through the skin with new rashes or eruptions. If they go to a doctor who is not familiar with this aspect of nutrition, he will diagnose it as an allergy.

They ask, “How come I’m eating better now than I ever did before and I’m getting worse?” They don’t understand that the body is RETRACING.

The skin is getting more alive and active. The body is building more power and is throwing out more poisons more rapidly --those poisons remaining from those hard-to-ingest meals that have been discontinued. Discarding those toxins will save you from more serious diseases that will occur if you keep the toxins in your body too much longer – possibly hepatitis, kidney disorders, blood disease, heart disease, arthritis, nerve degenerations or even cancer, depending upon your hereditary or structural weaknesses. Be happy you’re paying your bills now in an easy-payment plan. Some people who haven’t had a cold in a very long time may seemingly inexplicably develop colds or even fevers. THIS IS NATURE’S WAY OF HOUSECLEANING.

Understand that these reactions are constructive, even though unpleasant at the moment. DON’T try to stop these symptoms by the use of drugs, or even massive doses of vitamins, which will act as drugs in huge concentrations. These symptoms are part of a curing process, and don’t try to cure a cure. These are NOT deficiency conditions or allergy manifestations – NOT if you’re eating properly in quality, quantity, combination and sequence. Here is where experienced advice is a great value. Unfortunately, there are few books available today with full guidance for the average reader. Try to find guidance through a doctor or teacher who has the requisite experience in this most confusing of all subjects – nutrition in relation to health and disease.

Chapter 6: How severe will it get?
You may be eating perfectly in regard to quantity, quality, and observing all the correct rules, and still symptoms will occur. Those who have lived healthier lives in the past – who have eaten better foods and who have abused their bodies less with over-eating -- will have reactions ranging from almost none to very mild symptoms which may be uncomfortable but not acute. Those who have lived less healthy lives and eaten less nutritious foods will experience more severe symptoms if their liver, kidneys, or other important eliminating organs have been damaged. When they have been restored to the point of fair working order, they will no longer produce symptoms.

Headaches may occur at the beginning; fever and/or colds may also appear; the skin may break out; there may be a short interval of bowel sluggishness, occasional diarrhea, feelings of tiredness and weakness, disinclination to exercise, nervousness, irritability, negativity or mental depression, frequent urination, etc. However, the great majority of people find their reactions tolerable and are encouraged to bear with them because of the many improvements that have already occurred and are becoming more evident with each day. This acts as an inspirational force to them.

The symptoms will vary according to the materials being discarded, the condition of the organs involved in the elimination, and the amount of energy you have available. The more you rest and sleep when symptoms are present, the milder they are and the more quickly they are terminated. Be happy you are having symptoms. REALIZE DEEPLY that your body is becoming younger and healthier every day because you are throwing off more and more waste which would eventually have brought pain, disease, and much suffering. Those who have the worst symptoms and reactions and nevertheless follow through to their successful termination are thus avoiding some of the worst diseases which would eventually have developed had they continued their careless eating habits.

Chapter 7: Why do I keep getting sick?
Don’t expect to be on a constantly ascending scale of quality, that improving your diet will make you feel better and better each day until you reach perfection. The body is cyclical in nature, and health returns in a series of gradually diminishing cycles. For example: you start a better diet and for a while you feel much better. After some time, a health symptom occurs – you feel nauseous for a day and have diarrhea with a foul-smelling stool. After a day, you feel even better than before and all goes fine for a while. Then you suddenly develop a cold, feel chills, and lose your appetite. After about two or three days (assuming you don’t take drugs or do anything else about these symptoms), you suddenly recover and feel better than you have for years.

Let us say this well-being continues for two months, when you suddenly develop an itch or rash. You will. Don’t take anything special for it. This rash flares up, gets worse and continues for ten days, and suddenly subsides. Immediately after this you find that your hepatica is gone and your energy has increased more than ever before. The rash becomes an outlet for the poisons in the liver, which produced the hepatitis. This is how recovery occurs – like the cycles in the Dow-Jones Average at the beginning of a bull market recovery. You feel better, a reaction occurs, and you don’t feel as well for a short while. You recover and go even higher. Then another reaction occurs, milder than the last. You recover and go even higher. And so it goes, each reaction milder than the last as the body becomes pure – each becoming shorter in duration and being followed by a longer period of feeling better than ever before, until you reach a level plateau of vibrant health. Here you become relatively disease-free.

We must learn to obey the laws of Nature. We must learn to eat simple, pure and natural foods, properly prepared and combined, and our bodies in return will cast off all the poisons we have taken in during our lives. Yes, we are “fearfully and wonderfully made.”

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