How Diseases Originates

by Mark
Part 1

It has been definitely proved that although character traits and limitations are transmitted from parent to offspring, disease, as a rule, is not. Nature has seen to it that a new generation should always have a good start in life. We all know how a pregnant woman, lacking calcium in her blood, will lose some of her teeth in order that the foetus may build bones out of the needed material.

Many other similar adjustments are made in a woman's body at the time of pregnancy so that the child may be born physically normal in spite of its mother's limitations. From the moment food begins entering the child's body the latter develops either normally or not, both physically and mentally, all according to what is given it to eat proper or improper food. A vivid proof of this contention is a comparison between breast-fed and bottle-fed babies.

Whereas the former are known for their sturdiness and absence of sickness, the latter are sickly most of the time and do not develop as well. Not only in growing children, but also in adults, nutrition is an important factor in maintaining health. We must eat the right foods in order to be well we all know that; conversely, when we eat the wrong foods we encourage disease.

What becomes of the food after we eat it? First, it is broken up into small particles and mixed with saliva in our mouth and sent to the stomach. There it is mixed with various digestive juices, then sent to the small intestines where it is mixed with additional secretions from our organs and glands - the liver, pancreas and spleen. Now in the form of a smooth creamy liquid it begins to be absorbed through the walls of the small intestines into our lymphatic system, and then into the blood.

The latter carries the assimilated food to every cell of our body where it is used for building muscles, nerves, bones, to repair tissues, and to be burned up to produce energy, and do other necessary work in the body.