There are a lot of reasons not to include grains. Dr. Barnard only mentioned that the cost of eating foods without grains would be too high. If you've heard of the booklet, by Doug Graham, entitled "Grain Damage" a play on the words brain damage, you might get a clearer picture of why many many people are leaving out grains now.

So many people with Crohns have gotten relief with no grains and no pasteurized, homogenized dairy also.

I do not use grains personally for multiple reasons: first, the calcium and phosphorus ration is so backward and unbalanced (instead of 2:1, it's 1:9), and I'm one of those who gets horrible leg and food cramps, restless leg syndrome, etc. from grain. One piece of bread, even if it's a sprouted Ezekiel 4:9 tortilla, will cramp me up that night. I don't have problems with making my own Essene bread, but because of the asbestos in the organic wheat seed, I don't bother because I don't need it. I just grow the wheat grass and use it. I don't need the bread because mostly the reason I and other people want grains is for the b vitamins (and they are always incompletely added back), not counting the delicious smell when it's just coming out of the oven, and I get all the complete b's I need (and I don't need to use my oven except to store dishes in) in my fermented seed and nuts cheeses, sauerkraut and rejuvelac. I understand now why Dr. Wigmore immediately threw away the Essene Bread I brought to her the first year I was with her.

The second reason are the molds: ergot (which makes people have hallucinations, think they are God, etc.), aflatoxin (which combined with dairy, according to Dr. Esselstyn grows tumors), etc. You could go to Mexico and buy a pastry there and be safe from the mold, but there is a real problem in the U.S. with moldy grains, cherries, berries, plums, flaxseed, wheat, breads in general, buckwheat, kamut, oats, quinoa, millet, cornmeal, cream of wheat, grits, rice, artichokes, dried beans, nuts, peanut butter, tapioca, red and white potatoes (brown potatoes had too much zearalenone throughout. Please do reasearch on that and avoid them), wrote Dr. Clark.

There were ways to get rid of the mold. For the dried beans, one needed to wash them several times to get rid of the asbestos, and use a pressure cooker, cook twice to kill the parasite eggs in the center of them that survive the first cooking. For the nuts, use ones in the shell and crack them yourselves and remove the brown skins. Arrowhead Mills was the only peanut butter that was without the mold. The red and white potatoes were to be soaked in hot water twice and peeled carefully. Canned fruits, had asbestos currants, raisins, other dried fruit, grapes, strawberries, were to be avoided because one could not wash the mold off. Plums, kumquats and nectarines, were to be soaked in hot water twice for 1 minute, cut out the stem and blossom widely. For the grains, washed three times and drained to remove the asbestos and cooked twice.

Since I grow the flaxseed, I don't have to worry about the mold. The researchers did not recommend eating "sunflower seeds or sprouted or cooked wheat because it was too difficult to remove the asbestos. Wheat grass was ok. Artichokes one needed to cook twice., Canned vegetables had too many chemicals, and were to be avoided. Mushrooms were too difficult to sterilize, and there was a caution: don't use." I just copied this from a list I got from Dr. Clark when I was doing research for my daughter when she had cancer, and a number of my patients who also had been diagnosed as so-called terminally ill. They recommended that one "soak bananas twice in hot water and pat dry.

Grains, apples, kiwi, pears, peaches, avocado, bananas, cooked vegetables, and dried beans have other things in them as well: asbestos, azo dye, and benzene." Actually, you should have the list from Clark's "The Cure for All Diseases", "The Cure for All Cancers", or "The Cure for All Advanced Cancers". I worked with her for a couple of years, on and off, and in my experience, no matter what others have said, she was an overworked and underpaid and under-recognized genius with integrity. The things I saw happen in her primitive clinic were nothing short of miraculous, and it's too bad I couldn't have gotten Dr. Wigmore together with her because both protocols worked, but Dr. Wigmore, unfortunately, was dead before I met Dr. Clark, and I was searching for somneone I could trust like I did Dr. Wigmore with whom to do research. Dr. Clark wouldn't have charged anybody money either, she was like Dr. Wigmore in that aspect; but they both had to pay rent, etc.and they both fed their students the food they needed to get well. The only difference was Dr. Clark used some foods like dairy to tease the fluke parasites out of the deep tissues and organs back into the GI tract so that the black walnut, wormwood and cloves could kill them. When they were in the gut, the zapper could get to many of them too. Wheatgrass juice, used in Dr. Wigmore's protocol, as a poultice and a rectal or vaginal implant or in a nasal irrigation, eye wash, gargle, or ear wash will do the job too.

Using both methods, it was amazing how quickly people got well. AIDS, metastisized cancers, everything we/they tried. I recommend you try it.

I also still recommend the basic zapper (in Clark's books) with the 9 volt battery, 2 electric leads with alligator clips and 4" copper tubes, 5/8" in diameter to people. One can make it for a few dollars and if you don't have wheatgrass juice, it sure gets rid of parasites, viruses and bacteria that one doesn't want in less than 2 hours. The problem is that when you go to be tested again, the laboratory results are 180 degrees from what they were before you zapped and they think they've made a mistake! How can anyone get well that fast? Must be a mistake! :}

Back to studying. I have 2 critical tests, one this Friday and the last one, 2 weeks from that, to recertify as a teacher. I will be back on line on the 1st of November. Send me focus energy!

The largest cats (lions) are a great example of herbivores. The alpha lion, that ol' Big Daddy, has the first choice of the morsels that the females have downed for him: the fermented grain in the animal's stomach. He gets to feast on the b-complex vitamins that give him strength and the poor younger males can only chew on the raw meat for the blood. The cat food makers had to put this stomach digest in their cat food because the cats were getting sick from deficiencies. Now, this seems to have been forgotten, and many cats and dogs are again without the fermented stomach grains, as are most people without sauerkraut and other fermented foods, like rejuvelac, seed and nut cheeses, or transitionally, nutritional yeast.

All of Dr. Wigmore's animals were raw food vegans, except the last little poodle, and that was probably the reason for her death. In her absence, someone gave the puppy chicken, and on her return, the little one refused the food she earlier thrived on. In order not to deprive the pup, Dr. Wigmore bought organic chicken and put a little on top of the Energy Soup she prepared for the dog. She was probably boiling a chicken when the electrical fire started in the old kitchen in the wall and she didn't know that you didn't put out an electrical fire with water. She collapsed and died from smoke inhalation next to the tub with a pail of water in her hands.

Not to worry about the new knowledge that we have to protect our health by washing all of the asbestos, dye, mold and benzene off our apples, or double cook our beans. Dr. Clark added HCl to servings - 2 drops per serving of each item on your plate (e.g. 2 drops on potatoes, 2 drops on green beans, etc.)or dipped in HCl water with 2 drops per cup of water) and added B2 to the apples, kiwi, pears and peaches' soaking water. When you've been diagnosed with cancer, and follow those directions that Dr. Clark gave, you got well. Since I follow a combination of the Wigmore protocol (using fresh wheatgrass juice instead of HCl) and some of what Dr. Clark recommended, I am grateful to be 75 without any troubles, but, I use no nightshades except tomatoes once in awhile, being aware that there are residues of the sheep liver fluke biproducts in tomatoes. Her book has the whole list of what contains the isopropyl alcohol residues, also, that attract the fluke because the alcohol destroys the liver: bottled water is the worst of the offenders. If we want to remain healthy way into our senior years, we just have to research and clean our food and eat organic, local, fresh and raw, as much as possible.

The reason I moved to Florida is because when its 95 degrees F., it's really easy to be raw and there's no way a person can chow down on heavy cooked foods and survive comfortably here in that heat, you sweat so much and sleep fitfully, and need to live indoor in a/c, which is not good for you in the first place. Down here, one can eat the highest vibration foods and feel great and not feel or be deprived.

Thanks, that gave me some things to think about. Though I am not sure about the electronic zapper thing, it does have a lengthy write up in Quack Watch as you may already know. I'm not here to argue with people though. :)

http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/clark.html

Thank you Dave S. on how to make the transition for a feline diet, if we dare.