Polarity Diet

SELECTION OF FOOD: The selection of food is according to each one's temperament. The mind must be satisfied with the food and drink. If the problem of Polarity and need is understood, the right food will be selected at the right time, and digested. The body goes through changes like the seasons in Nature. There are times when stimulating and warm foods are best, as in cold seasons. The summer season supplies its own answer in producing luscious fruits and vegetables, which are best taken then as they help to balance the outside heat by their watery essences.

Meals generally should be simple. There should not be too much variety at one meal. The food should be well masticated. Stimulants and spices are specifics, and should be used sparingly, when needed.

Breaking down foods in a liquifier and drinking them does not favor digestion. The proper preparation of food through mastication and insalivation is the first step in preparing the food, through the alkaline media in the saliva, for further digestion in the acid of the stomach. The process of making a correct chemical emulsion, through the body's own juices, is an essential one, so the essences can be extracted by the body as building blocks. The necessary chemical action which takes place when food is properly masticated, is lost when food is prepared and swallowed as a liquid. The mouth is alkaline, and the ptyalin in the saliva is a valuable digestive agent, which has no time to be mixed with liquid food because it passes through the mouth so quickly. Solid foods should be masticated and insalivated. Liquids, like water and some juices, have little solids in them and do not require the action of the saliva on them for the benefit of the body.

The four actions of chemical mutation in digestion are: The chemistry of the mouth is alkaline; that of the stomach is acid; the small intestines are alkaline; and the colon is acid. These four stations in the body are analogous to the four seasons through which the food passes in its cycle of growth in Nature. In this entire process, the four chemical actions, like the four elements, are necessary.

The excellent practice of fletcherizing^[1] the food favors the extraction of essences from foods by the body's own essence; namely, its natural digestive juices.

It is the essence in the food which we really crave. The gross particles must all be expelled or they would accumulate and we could not carry on. The gross forms are but conveyors of the life essence within them.

If we need stimulating foods which push out the wastes by their fiery element and motor action, we select the bitter qualities which give tone to the gallbladder, liver and duodenum. Ginger and other spices also come under the fiery calssification [classification] as they increase the appetite and aid the fires of digestion in the splanchnic [intestinal] region.

Foods which contain more than one element in them serve those essences in our diet. Naturally, a balance must be maintained or the Polarity may be upset. Too much of any one stimulating food alone opposes the other factors and detracts from their share of energy currents in the body's economy.

Intelligence and the experience gained by the trial and error method act as a safeguard

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¹ Prolonged chewing. Named for Horace Fletcher (1849-1919), the American lecturer and health food advocate who popularized the practice. "Nature will castigate those who don't masticate."