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Are We Poisoning Our Children With Food?

By Andreas Moritz

Most of us were brought up with the belief that disease is caused by external things. Few people know that germs can only ‘germinate’ in a dead and toxic medium or environment. Parents who see their children go through one infectious illness after another are especially concerned about giving their offspring every possible protection against infectious diseases. Immunization seems to be one way of safeguarding their children’s lives. If their child still happens to ‘catch’ an […]

By Andreas Moritz|December 8, 2011|Categories: Articles, book excerpts and Videos by Andreas Moritz, Diet, Nutrition, Parenting|Tags: baby food, breakfast cereals, breakfast foods, diet and nutrition tables, junk food, Processed Foods, vitamin enriched, why kids fall ill|

Refined, Processed Fats And Oils Damage And Destroy The Immune System

By Andreas Moritz

Sunlight is most beneficial for those who eat a balanced diet according to their individual requirements and body type. Sunbathing may be dangerous, however, for those who live on a diet rich in acid-forming, highly processed foods and refined fats or products made with them. Alcohol, cigarettes, and other mineral and vitamin depleting substances, such as allopathic and hallucinogenic drugs, can also make the skin highly vulnerable to ultraviolet radiation. In particular, polyunsaturated fats as contained […]

By Andreas Moritz|December 7, 2011|Categories: Articles, book excerpts and Videos by Andreas Moritz, Cancer, Diet, Immune System|Tags: cancers, Free Radicals, immune system, oil, polyunsaturated fats, Processed Foods, refined oils, trans fats|

The Link Between Processed Foods And Weight Gain Is The Liver

By Andreas Moritz

Enemy Number One of the overweight or obese individual is processed foods including fast food, ironically billed as saviors of the 21st century. Breakfast cereals, energy bars, TV dinners, hamburgers, chili dogs, pasta, puddings and baked chicken. You pick them off the shelves, peel off the wrapper, eat most of them on the move or put them in the microwave.

They are time-savers, they are delicious and, why, they are even ‘nutritionally enriched’. At least, that’s what […]

By Andreas Moritz|December 7, 2011|Categories: Articles, book excerpts and Videos by Andreas Moritz, Diet, Digestive System, Liver|Tags: chemicals in processed foods, liver, obesity, Processed Foods, refined foods, refined sugars, weight gain|

The Link Between Weight Gain And Diabetes

By Andreas Moritz

Approximately 16 million people in the United States are diagnosed with diabetes based on national statistics. In reality, through, this figure is much higher. It is estimated that another 5.4 million people have the disease and are not aware of it. Type II diabetes, also called adult onset diabetes, now appears routinely in six year old children. Minorities are at particular risk, as their diet consists mainly of cheap fast foods, such as hamburgers, fried chicken, pasta, […]

By Andreas Moritz|December 3, 2011|Categories: Articles, book excerpts and Videos by Andreas Moritz, Ayurvedic Bodytypes, Diabetes|Tags: Blood Sugar, BMI, Diabetes, Insulin, obesity, pancreas, Processed Foods, why weight gain leads to diabetes|