HEALTH POODS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21760, 17 April 1936, Page 19

HEALTH POODS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PEEBS. Sir.—Tin? report of a recent meeting held at Central Hall, Westminster, London, with Dr. J. Neil Leitch, president of tha London School of Dietetics, in the chair, may interest the readers of the letters on health foods in your columns. Two of the speakers were Dr. Winter Gonin, a doctor of medicine, and Dr Pascoe Goard, a doctor of Divinity r.rd president of the BritishIsrael World Federation. The following points of the addresses are taken verbatim from the summarised report:—"Dr. Winter Gonin showed by a very striking demonstration that health and disease have their roots in the vegetable productions which form the foods supplies of man and beast. It is not sufficient to isolate disease germs, and discover how to destroy them in the human system That is beginning at the wrong end of the process. It is necessary ti> prevent the development and grovtn of disease germs in the basic plant, life. Now, there are two books which show how this should be done, and they indicate that Divine process which, if not interfered with, , will do this thing. The first book is that of nature which acts according to those laws under which creation was brought into being, and under : which the various forms of life, and of chemical activities and so on, are ; carried on, in nature's laboratory. All ► nature is subject to this law, and so, , of, course, we of the human, lamily;

must act in accordance with it, or be diseased, and subject to premature death. The other Book is the Bible, which gives to us, in written form, a presentation of the' same laws and activities, which carried out by nature, according to the basic law, govern all things. The Bible and nature agree as to the law. This unity must be implemented by our falling into line with the same law.” The above is the layman’s attempt to summarise the popular parts of the scientific Itcture by Dr. Winter Gonm. The summary of Dr. Goard’s. address is as follows:—“ The chairman said that this would be an historic occasion, as it was the first public approach to the question from this standpoint by the medical profession. We heartily agree that this was so. The vital point is that scientists are being led by their own science back to the laws which govern, in nature, the same laws which are expressed in the Bible. Now the surface soil of the earth is filled with life of many forms. Bacterial life, insect lire, minute forms of animal life-such as angle worms, burrowing insects, and animals —and so on. On the interaction of these living forms of life depends the balanced life of the sou. This balanced life produces by mutual, or opposite, activities the life of the crops of all kinds. Some of the bacterial forms of life, and of insect life, are beneficent. Some are malevolent. They balance each other. This is so from the lowest forms to the more developed forms of life. For the life of the soil to get out of balance is to bring confusion into the basic life of the physical world, eventuating in disease and death in the bacterial world, the insect world, the vegetable world, the animal world, and the human family. When the balance of life of the soil is preserved, then there is a general sense of well-being, and there is health in all the biological kingdoms, vegetable, animal and human. How shall that balance be maintained? Nature will maintain it more or less well when left to her own devices. But when man interferes with the process, and creates an unbalanced condition, then look out for the results! There will be war, pestilence, and death, in. every realm of life. “Now we go to the written expression of the law of nature which we find in the Bible. Rotation of crops. If we grow certain crops year after year on the same ground, these crops will take certain substances from the soil which will tend to destroy the balance. Such crops will also deposit an excrement in. the soil which will be food for certain other forms of life, but which will be deadly for the crops themselves. Therefore, for instance, wheat may be grown for two or even three years. After that legumes and. roots must be grown to restore the balance. But above all. the bacterial and insect life of the soil is operating and living under the law of the seven years’ plan. Every seventh year do not pluck the fruit of the tree; do not harvest the crop of cereals; do hot dig the roots from the furrow or garden. Allow the bacteria and insect to prey upon bacteria and insect: allow the law of nature to function undisturbed over the whole earth. This is the seventh year Sabbath law. It is also nature’s law. The septic process will be complete at the end of the year. The soil life will be restored to perfect balance. The food supplies will bo grown from a regenerated earth; and the health of all will be assured.” “So wbai the religious leaders have not been able: to do, because they could not explain Bible things in the Bible way, the scientific leaders are now setting themselves to do, namely, to lead the people back to the Biblical laws, which are perfect. “The same thing applies to economics. The same thing applies to national government. The same thing applies to religion.” In conclusion, 1 hope practical tillers of the soil will give us the benefit of their opinions on the benefits or other-

wise of the above system of cropping. —Yours, etc.. '^__ ANGLO-ISRAELITE. April 16, 1936.