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INTRODUCTION: THE PARABLE OF THE PEEL EATERS


Once upon a time I was a smoker. But I was the type of smoker that used to irk other smokers and here is why: At times I would just inexplicably stop smoking . . . for no reason. I was not trying to quit. For whatever period of time, be it weeks, months or even years, I would just stop smoking and then out of the blue start smoking again the longest period of smoking being for a stretch of eight years. But that ended also and not because I was trying to quit. This cycle of starting and stopping went on for most of my life until I nally realized what it was that was causing this phenomenon. Of course, you can imagine why my fellow smokers were annoyed. Many of them wanted to quit smoking and I seemed to do it without even trying. According to them a smoker was not supposed to stop smoking without at least doing or going through one of the following things: A) Hypnosis B) Nicotine Patch C) Willpower

D) Death I did not undertake any of these things. Whenever I like stopped smoking it was simply because I didn't

smoking. Did you catch that? Sort of like after you have eaten a rather large meal . . . you don't feel like eating after that, right? But this is what was incomprehensible to my friends and family around me. They believed that smoking was an addiction and that it was something that was beyond their control, that it was an inherent weakness within them that made them engage in the behavior of smoking. talk of addiction seemed silly to me, however. fulll a need. discovery. The To me I

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thoroughly enjoyed when I was smoking and it seemed to What that need was exactly, I would not This book is the fruit of that discover until years later.

the establishment explain my situation will power

Anyway, when I stopped smoking, I thought:

; that is, how would

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they explain a person waking up one day and not wanting to smoke? No willpower involved or anything else; how would addiction theory explain it? One of the ways I thought that the experts would explain my situation was that, somehow, I was in denial. That is, I was not facing up to the fact that I was actually using to stop smoking. I knew for As I said, smoking was . Cigarettes simply were a fact that I was not doing that. made me stop smoking was a

enjoyable to me and I felt no reason to quit. Instead, what abhorrent to me and I couldn't gure out why. It nevertheless nagged away at me for many years but somehow I felt there had to be an answer. One day I decided that I would examine those periods in my life where I would just stop smoking for no reason, a little more closely put

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them under the microscope so to speak. When I did, a very strange and interesting pattern presented itself and began to coalesce. Strange because I never heard of this discovery of mine being mentioned by anyone; scientists, doctors and all the experts had not one word to say about it. Weren't the experts supposed to know this? all this, here is what I found: Soon, after painstakingly researching this, I began to experiment on myself and after

Smoking is not an addiction. The cigarette is fullling a nutritional demand of the body because the body is decient in a particular nutrient. More specically, tobacco, being a plant, supplies to the human organism a single nutrient that is decient in the normal diet. However, when this nutrient is supplied in the diet in natural foods, all desire for smoking stops . . .
Once I discovered what that nutrient was I would add it to my diet (in the right amounts) and the desire for smoking would go away . The converse also occurred, e.g., I would then take the nutrient out of my diet and before too long the desire for smoking would gradually come back. This worked like an on/o switch time after time. I began to share this discovery with others and the same eect would occur. Of course, because of this remarkable eect, I began to call it the Magic Element. This principle is actually what doctors use when they utilize nicotine replacement strategies in the form of the patch or gum or whatever. The thinking goes that if nicotine is the thing that is driving you to smoke then we will supply it in a dierent form or mode so that you don't desire it in the form of the cigarette. One mode of transmission is substituted for another. However, nicotine is not the addic-

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tive element in cigarettes, as we will show in chapter 5. It is not the thing that keeps smokers coming back for another cigarette. What that something is will be revealed later in this book but for now we will use the term Magic Element. And it is not because we are addicted to the Magic Element, it is because we are starving for it. Why call it the Magic Element then? Because when we ingest the Magic Element in a food form rather than from the cigarette, the desire to smoke vanishes. There is no doubt that the modern tobacco cigarette is a danger to anyone's health but we must approach this issue with an open mind and let the facts speak for themselves. As is shown throughout the book, through scientic studies, there may be something that is being overlooked concerning the tobacco plant we are not getting the full picture about tobacco. There may be something important in that bathwater that society has thrown out because of zeal and shortsightedness, the baby has to suer the consequences and get tossed out also. Because the theme of this book is that modern science has shown, and ancient Indian mythology (chapter 10) conrms, the existence of a particular element in tobacco that is driving people to smoke

and it is not nicotine.

This book explains the decit of this

Ultimately, it is the scarcity of this element that causes people to seek it in other forms one of which is by smoking tobacco.
desperately need it for normal function. of the Magic Element . . . until now, in this book.

element in modern nutrition and how the body and brain

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principle of seeking out the Magic Element in other forms has been known and discussed by the medical profession for quite some time but no one has revealed the exact identity

THE LAND OF THE PEEL EATERS If all of this is true, society stands at a strange place in regard to how we view smoking and our attempts to stop this habit it is rather like an obstructed view. This book will give the smoking issue a crystal clarity that has never existed before. By analogy and parable I hope to clarify the overarching concept of this book that was introduced in the preface the fact that a nutrient that is vital to the cell generally and the brain specically has been removed from our food supply. From the early 20th century until now we have been suering as a race because of this fact. The human organism MUST have this nutrient and it WILL attain it at any cost by turning on a as it were, that guarantees it will be attained. But we do not want to get ahead of ourselves for this is all discussed in chapters one and two. But to make it real simple for now, this mechanism in the human cell makes the human organism procure that missing nutrient in  wherever and whatever it may be. It is a highly interesting and strange mechanism but in order to appreciate it we must follow this through logically. When you see the qualities of this nutrient in chapters 6 and 7 then you will understand why the human organism does this. To bring this into relief somewhat I will use a parable form to demonstrate the main principle of this book. I will use a nutrient that is not the Magic Element to represent the Magic Element as it relates to smoking. So, just for the sake of demonstrating truth by means of this parable, I will use vitamin C as a substitute for the Magic Element for the sake of clarifying the principle introduced above. Again, vitamin C is NOT the Magic Element. I am just using it

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dierent forms

to demonstrate a truth regarding the Magic Element and smoking. Before we get on to this we should at least be aware that vitamin C is a necessary nutrient for our body. If we are chronically decient in this nutrient, believe it or not, there is even the possibility of death. Before the twentieth century dawned, this deciency was the scourge of the English Naval eet whenever long voyages were made. Until it was discovered that limes (which contain vitamin C) prevented this aiction from occurring, English sailors were dropping like ies from the disease they called scurvy. It was a deciency of the nutrient we all know as vitamin C and now, practically everyone knows it is a necessary nutrient in our diet. In light of this, imagine the following: You are transported to a fantasy land where you are the only person who has knowledge of the facts related above about vitamin C and the necessity of it. But in this land you come upon some strange customs and habits. For instance, when it comes to their food, the inhabitants do something really strange with the citrus fruits which are rich sources of vitamin C. They `process' or throw out the fruit while keeping the peels somehow they have managed to extract fuel from the peels which powers their motor vehicles and furnaces. They have been following this custom since time immemorial and so it goes, as with many other things, no one questions it. There are some who do eat the fruit and ascribe healing powers to it but their science has not been able to conrm or nd any redeeming benets of the fruit for the body so it is thrown out. Those who do eat it are called derogatory names such as `the fruity people' or worse `health fanatics'.

Another strange custom that you run into is that wherever you go to restaurants, bars or even outdoor parks you see people gnawing on thin rolled up pieces of citrus peels dangling from their mouths. You happen to pick up a newspaper and you read about this strange habit and how it is adversely aecting the lives of at least 30 percent of the population. The other 70 percent of the population view this habit with disgust since the citrus peel is used as a fuel and therefore considered a non-food. The paper states how the act of peel eating is really getting on the nerves of those who don't engage in it it is polluting the environment (everyone `icks' their peels), it is socially impolite, and bad teeth (from the acidic peel) are becoming the norm for these citrus peelers. The paper goes on to say that the government is about to enact strict legislation to control this phenomenon since it seems to be growing out of control. As you become more acquainted with the phenomenon, a thought strikes you. `Since they're throwing the fruit away, because of their strange customs, maybe these much maligned peel eaters are trying to get whatever vitamin C they can get through the citrus peel? Is it possible that this custom of `processing' or `rening' of the fruits is causing this citrus peel-eater phenomenon?' In other words, you are the only one that knows the body needs vitamin C and that because this society is throwing out the fruit which is naturally high in vitamin C, the peel eaters may be seeking it in another mode or form which is the peel, since the peel does have vitamin C in it. They are starving, in a sense, for vitamin C the peel-eaters can't resist eating or sucking on the peels since the peels have at least some residue of vitamin C in them but they don't know this fact only you do.

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Sure, the peels are practically a non-food item and perhaps they are justiably ridiculed but maybe, just maybe, these people are acting on good instincts rather than instincts that are called into question by the psychologists perhaps their bodies are directing them to engage in this behavior because their bodies are decient in this vitamin and are desperate for it. So, you begin to befriend some of the peeleaters and you introduce your theory. Thankfully, some of them are open minded enough to listen to your proposal: 'Peel eaters, it seems that you are being castigated and marginalized for your habit, so I propose an experiment that will do you no harm. Your culture is processing a necessary nutrient out of your food supply. I propose that if you reintroduce this nutrient into your diet that all peel-eating will cease to exist. The peel-eaters begin to look at one another in stunned silence as someone yells, But the experts say that we can't help this peel-eating because we have addictive personalities. You can see and hear some nods and murmurs of agreement. Someone else yells out, Besides there's no cure! More nods and murmurs and you haven't even told them what exactly the cure is. But you hope that things will begin to take a turn for the better as the crowd argues with itself as more people become involved in the debate. favorable consensus begins to build. Why not listen to this outsider? What have we got to lose if he says it does us no harm? Another voice objects by yelling, I'm not stickin' around for this. I know what cures my peel eating. I'm going to get hypnotized again. It works like a charm everytime! EverySlowly, a

one laughs as they realize the absurdity of the statement. But the comment makes you begin to realize the folly of hypnotism and why it doesn't consistently work for these peel eaters. If they are really starving for vitamin C how can hypnotism stop their hunger for a vital nutrient? Is it possible that those who have success with it are actually at the same time changing their eating patterns by taking in more vitamin C in some way who knows? These are all questions that you hope to address after you get your rst willing participants. Another peel eater yells out, Well, I'm on the citropatch and it seems to be working out for me! At this, everyone turns to the location of the voice that just uttered this and they all behold a man rolling up his sleeve to proudly display his citro-patch. See I've been on it for a month now and But the sentence was not nished as more than one person began to note the obvious. As the man proudly displays his patch, everyone notices the rolled up cigar-sized citrus peel hanging from his mouth. Amidst guaws and criticism the man says, If you just let me nish, I would have told you that I'm not eating peels since I've been on this patch!!

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But you still haven't told the peel-eaters your theory of what and where the nutrient is that will help them. As you anticipate how to present them with the simple solution of eating the fruit that is `processed out' of their diet a man comes to the front and turns around to address the peeleaters. He then points at you and says, Pay no attention to this man! I've been seeing a therapist to help me with my willpower and ability to make decisions. And I have stopped peel eating just by learning to say no . . . The man goes

on to say how the psychological profession has helped him analyze why he is weak willed and how it has helped him to become stronger willed and such. The crowd is duly impressed with this testimony and you might as well throw in the towel with your theory but just then inspiration hits you and you decide to put your theory to the test by asking a question . . . Sir, I was just wondering since you have successfully stopped peel eating have you noticed any change in your diet? At this, the man's face becomes distorted into an expression of arrogant dismissal but then as the question sinks in, his countenance changes into one of anxiety and apprehension, as if one is being found out. The man spits out, What does my diet have to do with me stopping peel eating? Just curious if anything has changed in your diet before or since you stopped peel eating for good. Just an idea I've had that's all. The man begins to shrink a little as if he knows where you are going with your line of enquiry and as luck would have it, just then a voice pipes up, from the crowd, which you take to be the voice of the man's wife, Oh, honey! Aren't you going to tell the stranger that special diet you started just before you quit peel eating? Bingo! Now the man begins looking wildly about as if looking for an escape route but you begin to plead, Hey wait! Won't you share with us what your diet change consisted of before you quit peel eating? Again he repeats, What does that have to do with anything especially me quitting?

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Then you decide to unleash your strange idea: Maybe your diet change is what made you stop smoking and continued to help you quit. Now you have stunned the crowd but this is a good thing because the shear novelty of your idea makes the crowd wonder about the man's diet even more, so they begin to ask and to prod the man into telling them what it was exactly that he changed in his diet. But rst you take a gamble and decide to expound your theory. You begin: Peel eaters, I believe that the reason you are peel eating is because the peel is giving you a nutrient that is not in your food supply. But the main reason this nutrient is not in your food supply is because you are throwing it out you are processing it out of your food. So, I believe, if you stop this practice you will stop peel eating. This is the reason you are eating a non-food, because it contains something you actually need though not in sucient amounts so you must eat many peels to get enough of this nutrient. With almost one voice, the crowd asks, Which food are we throwing out that is causing this? Then you tell them about vitamin C and how it is being thrown out of the food supply by discarding the fruit. You explain how the body needs this vitamin and has no choice but to acquire it from a non-food source such as the peel which still has a residue of the vitamin. The crowd begins to buzz with skepticism but almost immediately there is a shriek heard from the wife of the man that gave his testimony on willpower. I can't believe it! Clasping her heaving chest she says, I think this man might be right! You

see, my husband wasn't feeling good about his weight so he went to visit a `health fanatic' practitioner who told him to begin eating fruits among other things. Can you imagine

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that?! He was desperate to try anything because of how he was feeling so he started eating fruits and in a few days he just stopped eating peels!! At hearing this, almost everyone in the crowd becomes a willing participant in your `fruit' experiment. Your theory is conrmed by the results. Almost immediately, everyone begins to notice a change and soon enough the desire to `eat a peel' becomes reprehensible because everyone is eating the fruit which is far richer in vitamin C. All it took was replacing the vitamin C in their diets in a whole food form. As soon as this happened the desire for the vitamin C in the non-food form was vanquished. You have now become somewhat of a celebrity because you have `cured' a long known problem in this society but this status is not without its downside. The professions that used to be involved with peel eating, hypnotists and doctors etc, are having a dicult time dealing with this `cure' ever since they noticed that less business was coming their way for this issue it just seems that way anyway. But there is something greater than this which consumes your interest now that the peel eating problem has been solved. It just so happens that this problem you have been thinking about comes up at a sort of reunion meeting of ex-peel eaters and it is not too long before one of the former peel eaters brings it up. A former peel eater named George says, You know, I have often wondered why I needed to eat peels and most of the rest of the population didn't. I mean, what kept the non-peel eaters from not eating peels? Since they weren't taking in vitamin C from fruit then what kept them from becoming peel eaters just like us? Since they have been open-minded enough to listen to

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you before, you decide to present all the evidence for your argument regarding this topic. peels as they did. As you nish your presentation you hear a chorus of, So that's why they weren't peel-eaters like us! George, the former peel eater who broached the topic exclaims, The whole time us peel-eaters thought we were doing something bad the rest of the population was doing something even worse or just as bad! There was some laughter as the realization hit that the only reason the non-peel eaters were not eating peels is because they also were ingesting a non-food item that contained vitamin C in a very bare amount . . . daily. So, much like the peel eaters they were criticizing, this group was actually engaging in the same behavior taking into their bodies a non-food substance which happened to have traces of vitamin C in it. This was why they were not eating peels but they didn't know why exactly you see they thought that they were somewhat better because they didn't have the peel eating problem. But what the non peel-eating population never realized is that their non-food was worse for their bodies than those who engaged in peel-eating. Though it was worse for them they escaped criticism because it was socially acceptable unlike the peels. NON-SMOKERS HAVE A NON-FOOD TOO When society chides people to `quit smoking' (peel-eating) we are not addressing the real issue which is the actual nutrient deciency for the Magic Element. Though the nutrient is in a non-food form in tobacco it is still needed and used by the body. If you have doubts about this, chapter They are no less stunned then before as you reveal why the non-peel eaters didn't eat

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two will investigate this phenomenon that humans engage

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called facts . .

in of obtaining nutrients in non-food items it is .

But make no mistake about it, when we

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tell the smoker to quit we are not addressing the underlying issue we are telling the smoker to stay away from a nutrient without providing an alternative in a dietary form. Although this may sound completely at odds with the so. this book will show that the facts are not presented in their totality. The whole paradigm must be rethought; the world must turn upside down. What has been thought to be a bad habit or an addiction is actually the human organism acting intelligently to systematically provide a specic nutrient to the body because of a decit in the food supply and diet. This behavior of seeking a nutrient in a non-food form is generally what this book is about and chapter one broaches the subject by introducing the principle of . Chapter two will begin to address the last question that was asked by the former peel eater, George. That is, if we say that it is a deciency of the Magic Element that causes people to smoke, then it must be the case that those who don't smoke must be having plenty of the Magic Element in their diet. The shocking conclusion that this book reaches, and chapter two rst broaches, is that the reason the nonsmoking population does not smoke is because they are doing the SAME thing that the smoker is doing. Yes, they are taking in the Magic Element but the stunning thing is that it is also through a non-food. Now, the dierence between the non-smokers non-food and the smokers non-food item (tobacco) is that it is more acceptable in society and much more ubiquitous than tobacco even though it is the

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ROOT cause of many of our illnesses and pathologies, it gets a free pass. THE CONCEPT OF IRONY Now we understand that the Magic Element is rened out of the food supply. tobacco. The human organism must have this nutrient and so it seeks it in non-food forms such as But there is a further irony here it is almost as if the gods have aligned themselves against the human race. This method of rening leaves us with an end product that is stripped of not only the Magic Element but many other nutrients. The disaster of the human race lies in this fact, as will be shown throughout this book: This end product of rening is consumed by the majority of the human race and what they don't realize is that this causes a cellular disfunction that results in an this cellular disfunction. for the Magic Element because of it's special ability in dealing with In Newtonian physics we are introduced to an interesting law of motion known as the third law `To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.' This idea applies very well here. Historically, there was always a psychological cause invoked in order to explain why people smoked. smoking is actually a This book is the rst to explain that smoking is a result cigarette to something. This reaction of smoking which you see in the outside world as someone pung away on a cigarette is really a manifestation of something deeper. That something deeper is the human cell and it's environment it is strictly a physiological reason, not psychological, as chapter 1 will demonstrate. This is the key to it all manifestations which are visible to us are results of something hidden and that is the cellular environ-

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ment of the human organism.

That cellular environment

has been compromised, however, by the end products of the rening process and these end products are by society. And we know the cigarette is reviled as wicked and sinful and unhealthy in a word, unacceptable. But isn't the cause greater than the result in some sense? If cigarette

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smoking is a result, a reaction, shouldn't we be blaming the of that reaction instead? The end product of the rening process will be given

a name in the forthcoming chapters it will be called a partial-food. This is self explanatory since most of the nutrients have been removed, especially, for our purposes, the Magic Element. Partial-foods as we'll come to see, are the cause of a dangerous environment in the cell which produces an even greater need for the Magic Element which will correspond to greater tobacco use in society. DEPTH CHARGES Ultimately, as will be shown, tobacco smoking is a result of the fractionation of the food supply. But, as it also will be shown, there are far greater things that occur as a result of this fractionation and they are not `good' in any sense. The human cell simply can not handle foods that do not contain the metabolizing elements within them this causes cellular inammation and by extension, system-wide and eventually organic inammation. The inammatory result of ingesting partial-foods has repercussions that aect the multi-dimensional aspects of man. It will aect him physically. It will aect him mentally and emotionally. And, as a result of the cellular inammation caused by partial-foods, the human organism will initiate a special

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mechanism in order to acquire the Magic Element.

Why

does it only seek out the Magic Element? Because, as will be shown in chapter 7, the Magic Element is specially designed to put out the FIRE the cellular inammation. The special mechanism, discussed in chapter 1, will seek out the Magic Element in non-food forms, since it is not available in the food supply it is processed out. So, in chapters 4 thru 7 we discuss one of those nonfood forms that many people in the 20th and 21st century have been seeking missing the Magic Element tobacco. In chapter 8 we provide the dietary solution for correcting this starvation, which is evidenced by cigarette smoking, and that is through whole foods that are naturally rich in the Magic Element. Chapters 9 and 10 tie up the loose ends by showing how the need for this nutrient is universal and we show that this knowledge of the Magic Element is actually ancient, as revealed by Indian mythology. Hopefully, as you turn the pages, you will understand with a deeper appreciation that when people smoke, they are starving and if you end the starvation, the smoking `habit' ends also . . .

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