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True solutions to any problem can never be attained until the actual cause of a problem is understood. Living Ecology is the system that life on Earth utilizes to manifest and maintain itself. Disease is a direct result of not recognizing our position within the natural Living Ecology of Earth and is a direct reflection of how we treat the Earth through our diet and lifestyle choices. We are part of the Eco-system, not the creator of it. The more we bring our diets, thoughts and actions within the guidelines of supporting the natural Living Ecology of life, both within our bodies and in our environments, the greater our health and happiness on Earth will become. 
 
The Health Care Crisis: Poor Cost To Benefit Ratio  
 
The overall health of the average person in the U.S. and other `civilized', western nations is pathetic. We are the most overweight, pharmaceutical drug addicted and surgery scar riddled societies in the world. The current health care system has already failed, is in financial crisis and unless we begin to do something that actually works, will continue to grow worse.

In the U.S. over 10,000 people turn 50 every day and by the year 2000 there will be over 100,000,000 people over 50 years of age. If the next several `baby boomer' generations move into their `golden years' with the same dependency on surgery and addiction to pharmaceutical drugs as the generations before them we can kiss the `American Dream' goodbye. There is no way our society can afford to perform that many open-heart surgeries, radiation and chemotherapy sessions or house the millions of degenerative disease afflicted patients who cannot to take care of themselves.

Degenerative diseases including cancer, heart disease, arthritis, diabetes and premature aging have become so common in our society that they are generally accepted as a normal occurrence, almost a natural event as we grow older. Nothing could be further from the truth. Simply put, no person has ever become healthier by being cut, burned, and poisoned (i.e. surgery, radiation, and pharmaceutical drugs). As long as we continue to deny personal responsibility for the real causes of degenerative disease, and rely on expensive emergency measures to treat problems that in most cases could have been easily and inexpensively prevented, the health care crisis will continue to grow worse.
 
The Solution Is A Natural One: Support - Don't Suppress

Natural medicine is the solution to the health care crisis. Conventional medicine attempts to remove the symptom with invasive surgery and/or suppress the symptom with poisonous and side effect riddled pharmaceutical drugs. It is amazing that any substance with a one sentence long benefit and a two-page long side affect warning is considered beneficial. If we were truly interested in improving health, the
so-called `war on drugs' would also include pharmaceutical poisons.
 
Suppressing natural body functions or removing diseased organs is simply killing the messenger because you don't like the message. It never changes why the problem occurred in the first place. One the other hand, natural medicine supports natural body processes allowing the body to resist disease and heal itself. With natural medicine we are harnessing and supporting the natural healing power of the body - which is unmatched by any `scientific discovery' that has ever been or ever will be discovered.

The promise of Living Ecology is a step beyond natural medicine: instead of supporting one or even a few natural body processes - SUPPORT THEM ALL. No matter how much we want to identify and treat symptoms, they are always the sign of a deeper imbalance. No chemical reaction happens in the body independent of any other chemical reaction. In other words, nothing (no-one-thing) dominates anything, but everything affects everything. This also applies to disease. No part of the body can be diseased without the whole body being affected.
 
We may have cancer of the liver, but treating the liver, whether through the conventional cut, burn, poison approach or a more natural approach is not complete. We need to see the body as a whole organism, yes it is imbalance to the point of manifesting a disease, but treat the entire organism - not just the liver - and allow the body to heal itself. When we support the entire biological system, not just try to eliminate symptoms we don't like, we support the natural internal Living Ecology that allows freedom of movement by the body in any direction it needs or wants to go.

The body is a highly efficient, intelligent, self regulating, self adjusting, and self healing organism - IF it receives the foundational nutritional materials it needs in a supportive environment. There are three words in the body's dictionary - grow, maintain, and regenerate. How many times have we cut ourselves and watched our body heal itself? EVERY TIME! Has it ever forgotten how? NO! Disease does not happen
because the body is stupid, disease happens because it is the best the body can do with the garbage we are feeding it. The body knows exactly what to do, but it needs cooperation from us in the form(s) of real nutrition, good attitude, and regular exercise in a clean and supportive environment.

Finding Nutritional Balance: Quality and Quantity

The basic problem or imbalance in the average western diet is we are eating foods high on quantity but low in quality. We are consuming WAY to much of the `quantity' nutrients (i.e. protein, carbohydrate/sugar, and fat) without getting enough of the `quality' nutrients that the body needs to process these `quantity' nutrients - including minerals and trace minerals, friendly bacteria, enzymes, antioxidants and other biologically supporting phytonutrients only derived from live, whole foods.

Simply put, the body is relying on us to feed it correctly. If we don't eat a balanced diet, the body cannot maintain a balanced, healthy state. The mistake we have been making is relying on persons and organizations that have a vested interest in our being ill for dietary and lifestyle advice. The new commitment we need to make is to rely less on outside authority to make decisions for us and increase our personal understanding of ways to support the body's natural biological processes. The better we become at providing what the body needs to grow, maintain, and regenerate the healthier we become. Fortunately, the answer is right under our feet - the Living Ecology of Earth.

The Foundation of Disease  Dead Food = Dead Body  
 
In our current, toxic-chemical based agricultural practices of food production, the quality of the soil, or the `Living Ecology' of the soil, is not considered important. In fact, with the use of chemicals and synthetic fertilizers, great steps are taken to eliminate the soil's natural Living Ecology. The soil's vital mineral and friendly bacterial balance is destroyed, resulting in plants which have lowered natural resistance to insects and other pathogens including fungus. Without the widespread use of pesticides and herbicides - to compensate for a weakened immune system - plants grown in dead soil cannot survive.

As these plants grown in dead soil work their way through level after level of common food processing, they are unable to deliver even basic nutritional needs - let alone what is necessary for optimum health. This is especially true in the nutritionally demanding, polluted, and unnatural environments many of us are subject to in today's modern world. Overall dietary mineral, friendly bacterial and phytonutrient/antioxidant content is very low, at best, resulting in a body which has lowered natural resistance to infection and other
pathogens (i.e. viruses, fungi and parasites).

Without the widespread use of drugs and antibiotics - to compensate for a weakened immune system - bodies fed in this manner cannot survive. What is the difference between pesticide/herbicide use in agriculture and drug/antibiotic use in medicine? NOTHING! They are both used because the natural resistance and immunity of the plant and the mammal (human and pet) have been compromised by
destroying the natural Living Ecology of the external and internal environment.

The health of a plant is largely determined by the health of the soil it is grown in. The health of a person or pet is largely determined by the quality of nutrients in its diet - the highest quality coming from plants - which, obviously, come from the soil. Even the quality of animal foods is determined by soil as chickens, cows, turkeys, and pigs are vegetarians. The bottom line: health begins from the ground up and what we do to the soil and the Earth, we are ultimately doing to ourselves.

The Foundation of Health  Live Food = Live Body

In the world of organic agriculture, the health and vitality, the `Living Ecology' of the soil is paramount. Mineral balance and content and microbial (friendly bacterial) activity are nurtured and encouraged. Plants that grow in soil of this nature are healthy and vital – eliminating the need for pesticides and herbicides. This is very important to understand. Organic agriculture is not simply the growing of food without pesticides or chemicals. It is the practice of working with the natural Living Ecology of Earth so that pesticides are simply not needed.

Commercial agricultural propaganda claims that pesticides have to be used to ensure a secure food supply. What they fail to mention is that this is only true IF you are growing food in dead soil. Organic agriculture is successful in producing high quality food - many tests have been performed showing the nutritional content of organically grown food to be higher than commercially grown food - without the use of pesticides. The secret is in the mineral balance and microbial activity in the soil. Organic plants are healthy and vital, their natural immunity and resistance eliminates the need for toxic-chemical intervention.
 
If we could consume a diet that was primarily fresh, organically grown, raw or minimally processed plants, there are three primary categories of nutrients that would be supplied:

1) Minerals - including essential trace minerals.

2) Friendly Bacteria - including microbes found in the soil.

3) Phytonutrients - natural plant proteins, fats, carbohydrates, fibers, enzymes and complex nutrients only found in raw or minimal processed live foods.

This live food diet results in a live body - nutritional balance with natural resistance to pathogens including infections from pathogenic bacteria, viruses, fungus and parasites - AND an elimination of the cellular damage and nervous system chaos which creates degenerative disease.
 
Summary

The body is a walking plant and the intestinal tract is the root of the body's cellular plant. The intestinal tract serves the exact same function to the body as roots do for plants - the processing and creation of nutrients, the elimination of wastes, and protection against pathogens. To be healthy and to live in balance - to be a Living Ecology - the body needs what plants need - minerals and friendly bacteria - plus it needs the plant - complex nutrients, phytonutrients, and antioxidants.  Truly live foods are phytonutrient rich, containing all of the minerals and trace minerals, covered and protected by friendly bacteria. It is these three essential categories of nutrients that define a live food and it is these three essential categories that must be in the diet or supplement program for long term health to occur. Minerals, friendly bacteria and phytonutrients are the nutritional foundation of life and health on Earth.

For More Information Contact on Living Ecology or Living Ecology Products Contact:
The Living Ecology Research Institute
sprouts@frontier.net
www.livingecology.com

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Rev. Zane Baranowski is a certified nutritionist from the National Institute of Nutritional Education in Aurora , CO. and a Priest of the Church of Antioch in the Order of Sanctuary in Durango, CO. Zane is the author of Living Ecology: The Nutritional Foundation For a Living Body & Earth and Colloidal Silver: The Natural Antibiotic Alternative as well as several nationally published articles. He has also been a guest on dozens of national radio talk shows regarding nutrition, degenerative disease and the natural healing powers of the body.

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