pot
a
to, rice, ch
e
ese, refined, processed,
stale, and tinned foods
should all
b
e avoided.
Tip 30. L
o
w blood sugar is caused
b
y
too
m
uch sugar.
Hypoglyca
e
mia is a co
n
dition of low
blood suga
r
s. Ironically, it is aggrav
a
ted by consuming too much sugar.
Hypoglyca
e
mia is usually caused by an excessive intake of
r
efined carb
o
hydrates and sugar foods. These substanc
e
s
cause the
pancreas, t
h
e adrenal gland and the
liver to lose
their ability
to handle t
h
e sugar pr
o
perly. Other
causes of
l
o
w blood su
g
ar are a tumour, disturb
e
d functioning
of the liver, pituitary gl
a
nd or adrenal glands. S
t
ress inte
n
s
ifies this
condition as it weakens t
h
e adrenal glands and s
t
arts a faulty pattern of glucose int
o
l
e
rance.
Tip 31. To
a
void gout, avoid meat.
Gout was at one time considered the disease of
t
he rich, wh
e
n in the West only the rich ate meat.
The gout p
a
tient should
avoid all purine and uric
acid producing foods s
u
ch as all meats, eggs, and fish. Glandular meats are especially harmful.
The one who has gout should also
av
oid all intoxicating liqu
o
rs, tea, coff
e
e, sugar, white flour
and its pro
d
ucts and all
canned and
processed
f
oods. Spic
e
s
and sal
t
s should be used as lit
t
l
e as possible.
Tip 32. Meditate!
Meditation involves training the mind to remain fixed on a certain external or internal location.
All the mental faculties should be di
r
ected, with
o
ut cessa
t
io
n
, towards the object of
meditation.
It can be ach
i
eved by co
n
s
tant pract
i
ce. It will be
a
dvisable to
meditate on God or Atman as one
becomes imbued with the quality of the object on which one
meditates.
Meditation will help cr
e
ate an amount of balance
in the nervous system. This would
enable the glands to re
t
urn to a cor
r
ect state of
hormonal balance and t
h
ereby over
c
ome the feeling of depression.
Regularity of time, place
and practice are very
i
mportant in meditation. Regularity
of practice
conditions t
h
e mind to slowing down its activiti
e
s
.
The most effective times for meditation are early dawn and dusk,
when the atmosphere is serene and
peaceful.
Tip 33. No drugs cure high blood pressure.
All drugs a
g
ainst hypertension with
o
ut exception, are toxic and have distressing side effects. The safest
way to cure hypertension is to remove the real cause. The
n
atural way of dealing
with it is to
e
liminate the
poisons fr
o
m the system which cause it. Perso
n
s with high
b
lood
pressure s
h
ould always follow a well-balanced r
o
utine of pro
p
er diet, exercise and r
e
st.
Diet is of primary
i
mpor
t
ance. Meat and eggs c
a
use the blo
o
d pressure
t
o rise more than any other food. The pressure is
lowered and blood clot
ti
ng diminis
h
ed by partaking of a higher fruit content, lower protein a
n
d non-flesh
diet. A natural diet co
n
s
isting of fresh fruits and vegetables, instead of a
traditional diet, is helpf
u
l in getting rid of the poisons from the body. A hypertension patient s
h
ould start t
h
e process of
healing by living on an exclusive fruit-diet for at least a
w
eek, and take fruits at fi
v
e-hourly intervals thrice in the day. Oranges, apples, pears, mangoes, guava, pineapples, rasp
b
erry, water-melon are the best diet in such c
a
s
e
s. Bananas and jack fr
ui
t should not
be taken. Milk may be taken after a
week of "fruits only"' die
t
. The milk should be f
r
esh and
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