Chester Yozwick, N.D., P.M.D. Ph.D.
Is Food Your Best Medicine?
I believe that nutrition and lifestyle is a very personal thing, and that you must choose what you feel comfortable with. What good would it do for you to follow regimes advocated by various experts if you dislike what you are doing? You would be placing stress on yourself just as you would if you disliked your job. You would have poor absorption and would not feel well. Someone might say; "if that is true then I'll stay on the 
average American diet because I feel comfortable with that." I say you must feel good as well as comfortable, and logic will tell you it is the lifestyle that causes disease. When a person stops the inhalation of the toxic substances found in tobacco smoke, the over absorption of alcoholic drinks, the toxicity of caffeine, the chemicals found in preserved foods, and avoids the many other dangers of modern life, he or she has a better chance of long life and good health.
You will find that the higher up the food chain ladder you go, the better you will feel. By that I mean eating more of the foods you are biologically and physiologically equipped to handle. This is known as building a better nutritional program. It is the introduction of foods of higher quality in place of lower quality ones. Allow me to elaborate. If a person replaces a concentrated protein food such as pork with beef, the beef is considered superior to the pork because it is easier to digest, has lower and less saturated fat content, etc. Chicken is considered superior to beef, and fish is superior to chicken for the same reason. Lentils, chick peas, or lima beans eaten during the same meal with vegetables are considered superior in all of the nutrients needed to restore health.
Going higher in the food chain ladder of quality, we begin including more concentrated protein food which may be eaten in the raw or unfired state, like cheese that is unsalted and made from raw milk. Raw, unsalted nuts and seeds would also be considered superior. In conclusion, the closer the food comes to the natural condition in which it occurs (plant vs. animal foods, raw vs. cooked foods) or the closer we come to its raw, uncooked form, the higher the quality. In this natural state, all the enzymes are found intact. The amino acids (structure of proteins) are in their finest form. The vitamins, minerals, trace elements, carbohydrates and "life force" are present. This life force, in turn is capable of reproducing healthy tissue.
So, the changes you make may be slow, but remember you will only be healthy to the degree that you change, no more, no less. Whatever degree you manage to achieve in the food chain ladder, I can assure you that based on my own personal experience that food really is your best medicine!
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