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Do you help consume the 10 billion doughnuts per year we eat in this country? Do you drink your 50 gallons of sodas and other sweetened drinks? Do you pull your fair share in consuming 136.2 lbs. of refined sugars per person per year? These are documented figures taken from The Donut Book, The California Center for Public Health, and the United States Department of Agriculture.

If we took all these doughnuts and linked them together like a chain, if we figured they averaged four inches diameter, then our chain would be 1.3 times the distance to the moon. If we took all those soft drinks, all 15.35 billion gallons we drink each year, they would fill a sphere with a diameter of 3/10 of a mile. All the sugar we eat would weigh 41.813 billion pounds.

This is the burden the average citizen of the U. S. is working against trying to achieve a healthy state. These are the chains that bind us to chronic ill-health. This is the sticky ocean in which we swim trying to find a safe harbor.

Because I sell AFA algae related supplements, I often hear the excuse, “I can’t afford to buy ______, even though it sounds really healthful.” The more I look at the astronomical costs of supporting our poor health through our sugar habit, I have to ask, “How can we afford to be unhealthy?”

How much would you save per year if you ate no refined sugar products, drank no sodas or other sweetened drinks, stopped eating your way to the moon along the doughnut chain? Would you save as much as $1,000.00 per year per person in your family? What about secondary costs such as increased dental care and other medical expenses? How much is expended each year because of growing incidences of diabetes? How can we put a price on a healthy tooth?

Are you ready to kick the sugar/sweet habit? It doesn’t have to be an uphill battle of will-power. If it is a battle of will-power against sugar cravings, my bet is on sugar. Only real, nutritionally complete foods bring about a satiety that does not want nor crave the emptiness of refined sugar. It is this deep-seated satisfaction of your cells that signals your brain, “We, the cells of your body, are now complete, we want nothing more.” You will have now accomplished two things at once, a true economy. You have removed a source of degeneration and you have enabled your cells to function on their highest level.

Ellis Hein

“Please pray for (me or fill in the appropriate name) for such and such a condition.”

I am hearing these prayer requests more and more as time goes on. I don’t object to people realizing that God holds their well-being in his hands. But I have to ask, “Have you done your part in the process of healing?” In most cases you have had a hand in the cause, why throw all the work of recovery onto God.

“What do you mean I had a hand in the cause of my cancer, my heart condition, my high blood pressure, etc.?”

Was there a time when you didn’t have this ailment? What did you provide your cells with before the onset of said condition? Did you avoid consuming refined sugars, refined flours, and other substances that robbed you of your metabolic reserves? Did you avoid exposure to man made toxins, physical, mental, and spiritual? These were your responsibility.

“Well, I’ve gone to the doctor and I’m taking the medications he prescribed. What else should I be doing?”

In spite of the miracles of modern medicine, health is the response of your cells, your organs, your various systems to the effects of full spectrum nutrition from food. Drugs can never be the foundation of health any more than pulling on strings makes a puppet come to life. There might be a certain resemblance, but some vital element will be lacking. If it is health you are after, drugs won’t reach the goal. They might play a role, but it will be food that wins the prize or casts you down in defeat.

Now that you are sick, have you sought out those foods, like premium AFA algae, that supply the nutrients your cells need, your systems need, your entire body needs in order to achieve optimum functionality? Have you thrown out those “foods” that hinder optimum function? This is the way God set up health. This is the order he established.

Of course you don’t want to hear this when you are sick or are deeply concerned for a friend. “Never mind the cause, never mind my future behavior, I just want to be cured, now, of this malady so I can get on with my life. I don’t want to change.” Though perhaps not said in so many words, this is the message of our impatience with examining the roots of the disorder.

In spite of our reluctance to deal with causes, there is a set procedure for healing, no matter how it comes about. First comes turning away from the cause or source of the distress, next is turning to the right ordering and calling your body back into the right order, then comes healing and recovery. Such was the way in my own case.

Ellis Hein

How Do I Know Which Diet is Right For Me?

There is a plethora of information available about dieting. There are diets designed to address almost every problem except the one, overarching problem that has created the need for diets. Any diet that doesn’t address the nutritional deficit in our food supply may sell dieting books, but it won’t restore your body to a peak level of health.

At age 45, my body was falling to pieces like the Fuddles in L. Frank Baum’s Emerald City of Oz. You may ask what diet did I follow to regain health? How did I know what was the right food choices to make?

My approach was to incorporate the best food on the planet, premium AFA algae, and then let my body tell me what other things to eat and not eat.

Take as an example, lacto-fermented vegetables. Shortly after starting to consume premium AFA algae, we acquired Sally Fallon’s Nourishing Traditions. When I ran across her entries on lacto-fermentation, I knew I was on to something good; even before our first taste of the resulting vegetables, I knew.

Sometimes the choice may not be so clear from the beginning. However, if you are supplying your body with the nutrients it needs to function properly and if your one desire is to know life, a short trial may be all you need to determine the appropriateness of some food or substance. A properly functioning body is like a glass of clear water. Drop in a rock and the water remains clear. Drop in a lump of dirt and you can instantly tell the water is getting cloudy and dirty. Try the same procedure on a glass of muddy water and the effects are indistinguishable. With an improperly functioning body, I can’t determine what is making me muddy.

Ellis Hein

What happens when you eat the perfect food? Before answering this, lets explore food and its role in life.

Role of Food in Life

When God made insects, He had contrived the food for many birds. Insects proved so good at this role that they were/are the perfect food for the busy parents as well as providing the energy needed to grow baby birds from hatchling to fledgling in a few weeks.

I have spent many hours watching parent birds carry insects to feed their hungry babies and have always marveled at the food value packed into a small creature like an insect. Yet I still am not tempted to join the birds.

Where Did Human Food Come From?

When God unveiled humans, they, unlike birds, wouldn’t eat insects. Instead, God had to revert to something much older, a life form that came at the beginning of life on Earth, as the model for food for humans. Lets look at some of the aspects of this model.

Human breast milk has an amino acid profile nearly identical to AFA algae, a blue-green, colonial bacteria. All the amino acids needed by humans, whether ones we can synthesize or those we can’t are borrowed from AFA. AFA has a net protein utilization index of 75%, which means you easily assimilate 75% of the protein. Compare that to an 18% net protein utilization index for red meat.

AFA supplies a properly balanced array of fatty acids including the right proportion of Omega 3 and Omega 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids. The right balance of fatty acids is critical for the development of and the function of such organs as the brain, for systems like the circulatory system, and for maintaining cellular flexibility.

We talk a lot about vitamins, but do we really understand what they do? Vitamins are the key to unlock and enable enzymes to do the work of the cell that makes your life possible.

AFA contains a full complement of the vitamins we need to function as a human. They come in a form that your body can recognize, get at, and assimilate because they are part of a food. Because they are already part of enzyme systems they are readily available to you. This is why laboratory formulations of vitamins and minerals don’t get used by your body. They are not part of a natural package because they weren’t packaged in nature.

Biologically available minerals also come as part of enzyme systems. We are not designed to feed on raw elements of the earth. That is why you are part of a food chain. Some other organism picks up the minerals or the elements and incorporates them into enzyme systems, combining them with other minerals in combinations that make it possible for us to assimilate and incorporate into our own enzyme systems. These then are used to form neurotransmitters, to create strong bones, to regulate blood sugar levels, and any other function of the body.

Because AFA carries a complete package of the nutrients needed by the human body, and because we can so easily access those nutrients, our bodies respond to it differently than to other foods. I became more alive. I began to eliminate toxins that had been stored in my cells. I became more flexible. My immune system got stronger. I began to see how certain “foods” were affecting me.

Is AFA Our Perfect Food?

Premium AFA algae from Simplexity Health gets my vote for the perfect food for humans. How do you vote? This isn’t a secret ballot, you know. You proclaim your vote every day by the choices you make.

Ellis Hein