Megalungs Health Week - Wednesday

Edgar Wallace

Optimal nutrition for health

     Edgar Wallace looks healthy! That's an important asset when talking about good health. He isn't the only one who looks healthy. His wife, daughter and two sons look healthy. They are authentically healthy people with a healthy message that fits the lifestyle. Edgar doesn't just talk a good talk - he walks it as well.

     The question the audience were confronted with was, "what is the best diet for us?"

     Rather than us saying, "But you are here to tell US that" we tried to answer the question honestly. Finally the answer came, The best diet is the one God suggested for us from the beginning; plants yielding seeds. Of course, Edgar pointed out, different cultures would all say they have the best diet - but the diet that transcends culture is the original diet - a diet suggested by the Creator for all cultures.

     That, of course is obvious, who on earth would put diesel fuel in a petrol car - we follow the manufacturers instructions.

     Our lecturer then went on to introduce, and in many cases re-introduce the NEWSTART acronym, where each letter reminds us of an ideal to attain. Each element is related to the other, so that for proper nutrition to work effectively the correct amount of exercise should be taken, while we would neither want to, nor be able to apply the best nutrition if we did not actually Trust in God, the final element in the NEWSTART acronym. Behind all of this the idea is to make sure that all healthful elements are taken in balanced quantities - for health's sake.

     We were recomended two books as excellent guidelines for studying in more depth. The first, The China Study, and the second, Hans Diehl's, The Optimal Diet: the Official Cookbook and Health Power: Health by Choice Not Chance.

     Before outlining the very basic needs in a good diet, Edgar Wallace, took us to look at a brief Case Study in good dietary practice. Well before people were using electron microscopes to study food and creating laboratories to study the effects of good dietary practice the Biblical Prophet, Daniel recorded the effects of a 10 day diet for us in the Bible. Daniel found himself in the court of his new ruling king asking to be spared eating the King's own food. He wanted simple food - but offered his diet as a test of it's value. A ten day, limited scientific trial followed. Daniel, and his companions in the trial looked better and studied better than those on the diet provided from the kitchens of King Nebuchadnezzar. If that kind of diet worked for them - it should work for us.

     The diet we are recomended then is a simple diet of wholefoods that have been processed as little as possible. We should aim for a very colourful blend of foods that are high in nutritional content while being rather low in calorie content.

     We should not avoid fats, as we need them in the diet, but we should source them from the whole natural resources where we can. It is a good idea to reduce our meat intake.

     In other words, vegetarian style cooking is a preferred option with a reduction in processed sugars and salt being a real aim.