Interesting experiment first conducted by Dr Roger Williams (University of Texas) and later duplicated by Dr U. D. Register (Loma Linda University, California) determined the effects of diet on the metabolism of rats. One group (A) of rats was fed the typical American teenage diet of glazed doughnuts, crackers and cola drinks (junk). A second group (B) was fed a wholegrain diet of oats, wheat, rice, fresh fruit and vegetables as well as nuts, seeds and cottonseed oil. Neither group of rats was over-exercised or psychologically stressed. In each case the rats were given one pail containing only water and one pail of 90 per cent water and 10 per cent alcohol. Group A rats became aggressive and antisocial. They hardly touched the wafer only pail and drank liberally from the pail containing the alcohol. Group B rats remained friendly and social. They hardy touched the alcohol containing pail and drank liberally from the water pail.
Over a period of months Group A rats were consuming the equivalent of what would be a quart of 100 proof whisky a day for an adult man. Adding a multi-vitamin and mineral supplement greatly reduced alcohol intake in Group A rats within a week. Adding the unrefined diet of Group B rats to the supplement reduced alcohol intake to that of the Group B level. The initial aggressive behavior displayed by Group A rats is typical of someone with allergies manifesting in the brain. Were the Group A rats attempting to anaesthetise themselves against the distressing emotions derived from newly developed brain allergies to refined foods? The work of Theron Randolph MD on alcoholism in humans suggests they could be. Certainly all three scientists agree that significant imbalances had been created in the metabolisms of the rats which developed the biological thirst for alcohol.
Dr Pottenger’s other experiments revealed that people with a milk allergy wear down their intestinal villi, the tiny finger-like projections that stick out from the lining of the intestine through which food is absorbed, each time they drink milk. These villi can take months to regrow. Worn down villi mean you absorb less vitamins and minerals no matter how nutritious your diet is.
In its study on the nutritional status of Australians handed down in 1988, the Federal Department of Health concluded that Australian women (due to childbirth, terminations and menstruation) tend to be deficient in iron, zinc and calcium. These are three of the principal nutrients needed by the immune system cells to maintain the balance of their metabolisms and keep their energy levels up. Clearly the Aussie diet is not invigorating us as well as it used to. In its 1944 report, the Federal Department of Health found no deficiencies in Australians. There were less refined, convenience foods in 1944 and less allergies too.
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