I have found that physical health and mental health go hand in hand. It’s only been recently that the mental health industry has acknowledged that mental illness is a chemical imbalance. But as you would expect in an industry that has always been drug-oriented, mental health practitioners treat the symptoms of mental illness with drugs. The Buddhists say “First, you heal the body, the body heals the mind, and the mind heals the soul.” My feeling is, if an individual is physically healthy and is having a bout with depression because of a personal loss or some other problem in life, he will snap out of it in a short period of time. But if he is unhealthy physically, his imbalanced chemistry could drag him down further, even to the point where he might begin to experience real neurosis and even psychosis. There are exceptions to this, certainly, because of the “human will” factor and individual character.

But you get the point.
Ronald Reagan opened up the mental institutions back in the late 70s in California, putting the mentally ill back into society. You could find these poor wretched souls almost any hour of the day or night, having coffee and cigarettes at the local McDonald’s. Typically, these people had severe acne, a pasty, pale complexion, horrendous body odor and halitosis–all signs of poor physical health. And, those unfortunate people were attempting to reach out to the normal ones around them, trying to engage them in conversation with little or no success. Essentially, they were ignored. What a lonely existence! But at least back then they had halfway houses for them where they had one another. Now they are sleeping in alleys, under bridges, and who knows where–and almost always alone.
Try and imagine that these poor people had, at a point in their lives, some redeeming qualities that you may have liked. And, like you, they had hope and real potential for the future. Now try and imagine this happening to you. There you are, shuffling along in filthy clothes, talking to some unknown entity, because no one will talk to you. You’ve acknowledged that you are a loser and that you will probable die soon, friendless and alone. It doesn’t get any sadder than that. No, this won’t happen to you, you say, and it probably won’t. You have a good support system of friends and family to take care of you, if this kind of trouble should befall you. But what if you didn’t?

All of our health problems, physical or mental, begin at the dinner table.

If you’re the product of parents who were food connoisseurs, I pity you. You’ve probably never really known good physical health, and no doubt you’ve had some problems with serious depression along the way too, if not more serious mental illness. I don’t expect the institutions ever to accept my notions or my diet. They are too entrenched in their traditions; and, for them, their dysfunctional traditions are working. Hah! We know they’re not really working. We know that the mainstream’s success at bringing people back to real mental health has been relatively very limited.

Gary Noll, America’s sweetheart television nutritionist, once made the statement that he could empty out the old folks’ homes of all of the elderly who have memory problems, simply by requiring them to drink large quantities of water. Memory loss, says Gary, is the result of brain dehydration. Maybe he’s right. I will make a similar claim here. We could empty out these mental institutions, in a matter of months, by putting the patients on an all-raw foods diet combined with a good exercise program. (That is, the few who remain in institutions).

David Sherrod
Author: David Sherrod

David V. Sherrod is the author of Getting Clear - Embracing A Raw Foods Lifestyle. He is a professional artist with a background as a former Medic and Dental Tech in the Air Force. He has been an avid health food enthusiast throughout his life as well as an active mountain biker, white water river boater and all around nature buff. His approach to home cures by way of first understanding the causes of the illness makes for both instructive and interesting reading.

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