Editor,
I have had no medical insurance for more than 15 years, and I do not want any.
I aim never to go to medical doctors for the rest of my life. Now - at age 60 - I am in better health than I was at 21. I prevent and heal disease naturally.
I stopped eating junk food and meat largely in the 1970s and dairy largely in the 1980s. Meat and dairy have no fiber to help our bowel movements. Most Americans suffer from constipation - a major cause of disease.
If cows, pigs and chickens are not fed only organic feed, their meat and dairy concentrate the poison pesticides they consume. Ninety-five percent of the poison pesticides Americans eat are in the meat and dairy they consume. Nonorganic meat and dairy also often have antibiotics and synthetic hormones. Radiation concentrates in all meat and dairy.
Far more people can be fed from the same amount of farm land by growing grain, seeds, greens, vegetables and fruit for people to eat than by growing crops to feed cattle, hogs and poultry, and then people eating those animals.
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I stopped eating cooked food Dec. 12, 1998. Cooking food destroys its enzymes, its life energy. Cooking food destroys up to 85 percent of all its nutrients. Human cancer cells placed on cooked food grow and multiply, while human cancer cells placed on raw, living food die. Cooked food is slow poison. To avoid killing raw plant food's enzymes, never heat over 118 degrees for more than a few minutes.
I smoke no cigarettes and drink no booze. I use no prescription drugs and no illegal drugs. I eat no meals in restaurants. Every morning I do many push-ups, pull-ups, crunches and other exercises. I jump on my trampoline 45 minutes per day. I walk most places I go, and the last time I rode in any car was April 7, 2001.
To be healthy, there is no substitute for enough sleep. I like to go to bed about 9-10 p.m. and to get up from 5-7 a.m. - the hours we sleep before midnight benefit us more than the hours we sleep after midnight.
I have a home water purifier to remove most of the chlorine, fluoride and other contaminants in the city water.
I have drunk my urine every day since Nov. 10, 1999. Our urine is our unique, perfect medicine and it is free. For 9,000 years in Mexico and 5,000 years in India, many people drank their urine to heal diseases and to stay well. Urine contains hundreds of vitamins, hormones, minerals and enzymes. Just as the fallen leaves of a tree are not waste or poison but actually fertilizer for the tree, urine is not waste or poison to the body, but actually the golden fountain of life.
I sunbathe most days year-round. Sunbathing is marvelously beneficial when we eat only raw plant foods with a fat content of 15-20 percent of the total calories. Stay out of the sun if you eat common American junk food and cooked crap, and never burn. Start with a couple of minutes and gradually increase.
Our body is our most precious material possession. Our body - often with some parts missing - is the only material possession we all have from birth to death. I would not trade my health for billions of dollars. Why do many people take better care of their house or car than their body?
Don Schrader
UNM staff
