INTRODUCTION
to use hearth-raised bread which, although still made of the whole natural ingredients, already suffered a partial loss in vitamins because of the heat. But now we eat the standard one pound loaf, baked in an overheated oven.
In his research among the various peoples, my husband found that the matzoth, once a Jewish mainstay, was at one time made of crushed wheat and spring water and then sun dried on the desert sands. It was then a healthful, complete lifegiving food. Today however, even the matzoth has deteriorated and although still an unleavened cracker, it is now baked to a crisp and is hence no longer the useful, invigorating food it once was.
Food is not devitalized when it is air dried, frozen, warmed, smoked, or pickled with natural spices, organic substances, salt and water; nor through transportation, or being gathered unripe. It is devitalized only through excessive heat and chemical processing.
It will help us little to eat a four- to twelve-course dinner, consisting of the best carbohydrates, fats, proteins, minerals, starches, sugars and pill vitamins. After years of eating overcooked and processed foods of the finest quality, the majority of us suffer assorted ailments, which vary from debilitating children's diseases to those of crippled maturity and old age. This state of our health has become accepted as the inevitable pattern of our destiny. Some of us however, will not give in and frequently, hopefully follow new fads in eating and are just as frequently led astray to some degree for a very simple reason: because no matter what foods or combination of