Looking Back to My Farm Days
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Looking Back to My Farm Days ‘Comparing the Natural Way to the Unnatural Way!’
By Ron Koslo , N/C - NSP - Research Nutrition The sole purpose of writing this article is to illustrate for you the vast di erence between people in the early 1900's who ate animal food and people, like ourselves in modern-day America, who eat processed and re ned, high carbohydrate foods. I was very fortunate when I was young. From the time I was 7 until the age of 10, I went to live on a farm in Illinois. My mother had remarried, and I was fortunate to become part of a whole new family. They were such lovely, beautiful people and to this day, I consider them my own. In my younger years, I was very conscious of the longevity of people around me while living in Detroit. I recall the average age most people lived to was not much higher thatn the low to mid 60's. I observed the average ages of my friends' parents and grandparents when they died, and even my own grandmother died when she was 63. My neighbors that lived across the street passed on when they were 61 and 59. Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson, our next door neighbors, died in their late 50's and early 60's. My viewpoint on death was that human beings lived to be about 60 to 62 years old. I very seldom saw people that were 65-70. When we went to a funeral, the average age of the deceased was about 60, and that was normal. I soon came to the conclusion that if I lived to be the age of 60, I would be very lucky. Today you'll notice people live somewhat longer with the use of prescription drugs, but make no mistake, they are still sick, as those drugs do not heal them. Drugs will keep you alive and that's the extent of it. Remember there are no daily minimum requirements for taking pharmaceutical drugs, only for nutritional vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats and natural carbs. When I rst moved back to the farm in Illinois, my mother and stepfather introduced me to everyone, but I was espically taken with my Grandfather and Grandmother. My Grandmother was somewhere in the neighborhood of 82 and my Grandfather was 84. I thought 'my goodness, this must be rare'. So I asked my mother, "How did Grandfather and Grandmother live to be in their eighties?" She didn't know, so she just said, "Well I guess it's the fresh, farm air." I automatically assumed that my mother was right and that the reason that these people lived into their eighties was because of the air. The longer that I lived on the farm, the more I began to see that being 70, 80, and 90 in the rural areas was not rare, in fact, it was very common. The Turners lived across the road and they owned a farm and they were both in their 80's and had children in their 60's. Mr. Smith down the road was 91 and Mrs. Smith was 90. My Grandparent's children were in their 50's and 60's. I thought 'oh, this must be something; the air must be magical.' Another fact that I observed was that my Grandparents and the people the lived on the farms were extremely poor. But I soon learned that there was always enough good food to eat, and this was a fact. The one thing that startled me was the fact that there was no white our
pancakes, no white our cookies or pretzels or donuts, no pizza, slurpees, pop tarts or sugar frosted akes. No bagels or white our pasta, no fast food, or bologna sandwiches. These foods just didn't exist there. All that was available to us were fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, eggs, cheese, butter, meat, turkey, sh, and lamb, whuich was a very distinct di erence from how we ate in the city. It didn't take me very long to become accustomed to eating good food, but, being the average city dweller, I was accustomed to , even addicted (since I'm hypoglycemic) to, the sugared cereals, and the cookies and the pop and the pretzels and the potato chips of early-on that de nately made up my diet. Of course, eating this way, I was always a sick child. I would go from one so-called disease to another so-called diease, and it was a never-ending battle. I noticed, as I started to eat this heathly farm food that I started to feel decisively better. A the days, weeks, and months passed, I said to my mom, "Why am I feeling so much better?" I didn't seem to have all the symptoms of my so-called hypoglycemia, which included forgetfulness, spots in front of my eyes, always being tired, limited memory, and tremendous mood swings. In reply to why I felt much better, my mother would say, "Well, Ronald, it's the fresh farm air." Again, putting credence into what my mother said, I was sure that was the reason why I felt so much better. The longer I lived on the farm, the more I became an observer and a comparer. I would compare people of the farm to the people in Detroit. The one thing that impressed me was that people very seldom got sick on the farm and when somebody did, Indian Joe was always there to help. Herbal formulas provided by Indian Joe soothed the woman on the farm community during their menstrual cycles, and cured people of the sni es. He was a Cherokee Indian who worked for my Grandfather in exchange for food and shelter. Whenever anybody had a problem with a sickness, they would go to him. Indian Joe was a medicine man and he would simply travel out to the woods and come back with an herbal concoction. At the time, I did not understand what he did or appreciate its value, but his remedies were always e ective, allowing you to go on with your day. As I re ect back, I now relize that when the farm people were 60, 70, 80, and 90, they could carry on a conversation. you could converse with someone that was 80 or 90, and they didn't even seem old. They had all their mental faculties. Today, we call the lack of mental faculties in old age Alzheimer's disease. Of course, a perfect example is our ex-president Ronald reagan who was reported to eat half a pound of jellybeans a day, he loved them and he was addicted to them. Jellybeans are made of sugar and coal tar dyes, a bad combination. Now we know that sugar robs the body and the brain of B complex, and as we're nding out, Alzheimer's is directly related to nutrition, or the lack of it, along with heavy metal poisoning. That's why I never saw anyone that didn't have their mental faculties on the farm. I never saw anybody sitting in a chair mumbling "what's my name", regarless of his or her age. Those farm people were sharp mentally and had all their faculties. recently, the Detroit News reported about that the incredible number of U.S. Citizens in their late 40's and early 50's getting Alzheimer's disease! My Grandmother died when she was 101, my Grandfather, when he was 98. Indian Joe lived to be 115, and I don't recall anyone of them not having the ability to communicate their thoughts or opinions on matters, right up until the end of their lives. Yet we're told today that Alzheimer's is normal. Normal for people who suck on pop, and then eat cookies and potato chips? It's normal for them, I guess. For people who eat good food, it's not normal. You can go
anywhere in the world and there are ve cultures that rountinely live to be over 100 years of age. Alzheimer's is unheard of in these cultures, there's no such thing, so take that for what it's worth. One thing that I recall that really shocked me about city living was the multitude of heavy, obese people. Obesity, at the time, was just starting to take a hold on America because of our high carbohydrate and sugar diet. But let me tell you folks, I never saw anybody on the farm that was obese. Obesity just did not exist there. Then there are those that say, "Well, it's because they exercised and they worked hard". Yes, they worked hard, but let me give you an example: my Grandmother worked hard cleaning the house and cooking and feeding her family and walking down to the well to get water, she didn't work in the elds, she was a housewife. All the people on the farm were very slim and muscular. I recall that my Uncle Lester was involved in a tractor accident when he was 13 years old, and I believe this to be a great example for you to think about. He was crippled from then on, for the rest of his life. He died when he was 85 years old and never exercised a day in his life because there was very little that he could do, due to hes permanent disability. How did he live to be 85 and continue to be slim and accomplish this with no exercise while being a icted with alcoholism? I believe it was the food, good nutrition, and that is what I've been trying to explain to all of you. Read the book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Dr. Weston Price in which he observes people from all over the world that initially ate all natural foods and later shifted to processed manmade food, and the correlation between their deteriorating health. It's the exact opposite in the cities as it is on the farm, because today, city people eat processed and re ned foods. Obesity, acne, and Alzheimer's never existed before, but they exist today. In primitive societies, where people eat natural foods, these diseases just don't exist. The famous Dr. Albert Schweitzer spent a considerable amount of time in jungles studying numerous tribes. He never observed acne or tooth decay in any of the research he did with any indigenous people. Alzheimer's was virtually unheard of in early 1900's. Now, our bad sugar diet, lack of B complex, the heavy metal poisonings in our water, aluminum, mercury, yeast, parasites and lead in our vaccinations, chlorinated and uoridated water, are just overwhelming our brains with poison. It is predicted that one out of every 3 people over 65 will become Alzheimer's candidates. Our bodies and organs are strong, but they just cannot funtion if they are pummeled by all these obstacles. It became very apparent to me that there were no vaccinations, arthritis, and diabetes on the farm. People in their 40's and 50's having heart attacks was unheard of. How could they? They were to busy living to be 80, 90, and 100. There were several di erences between city and farm people that amazed me. When I went to school, while living on the farm, none of the other children had acne. I never saw anyone in the higher grades with pimples, puberty age or otherwise. My cousins used to laugh at me because of the vaccination scar on my left arm. The people on the farm weren't vaccinated, they never heard of prescription drugs or vaccinations. Just before I moved to the farm I came down with the chickenpox. My farm family had never heard of chickenpox. I remember thinking that I just couldn't believe that they had never heard of that disease. Another thing that I was aware of, and was shocked by, was that in the city, most people had false teeth. Let me give you an example of what our diet consisted of throughought the day while on the farm. There were always fresh fruits and vegetables and eggs and cheese. I remember my grandfather had many cheese sacks around the barn where they would make cheese. You could
always drink milk when you were milking the cow. You could always eat the cheese. There were plenty of nuts, plenty of vegetables, and fruits were prevalent. Basically the diet was fats and proteins, meats, eggs, sh, chicken, pork chops, sausage. We'd get up in the morning and sit down to breakfast. There is nothing like waking up on the farm, and smelling the bacon cooking in the morning. We'd get downstairs and there was bacon and eggs, raw milk, some whole-grain bread, and sausage, it was just phenomenal. When we came in for lunch, we'd have a meal that consisted of fats and proteins. For supper we'd have turkey or sh, salads and and vegetables. Of course this is contrary to what the medical profession preaches today. They are trying to turn us into vegetarians (refer to the article I wrote, "15 Reasons Why Man is not a Vegetarian"). When my grandfather went out to plow the elds, my grandmother always packed lard or butter sandwiches on whole wheat bread for him. Of course, this is contrary to what the medical profession tells you; they tell you that fats are going to kil you. But this is for the people who advocate carbohydrates and carbohydrates loading: most people are unaware that fats yield twice as much energy as carbohydrates. This is why mountain climbers eat butter sticks when they're trekking up a mountain. My Russian ancestors were sailors at sea, and they used to keep a lard vat and eat fat in order to maintain enough stamina to continue to navigate their ships. Fats don't cause a heart attack, that's just a lie. Fats do not make you fat. Fats have lipotropic factors, therefore, fats burn fat. That's why, anywhere in the world, people who subsist on a high fat , high protein diet, are slim, muscular people and people who subsist on high carbohydrate diet are fat, eshy people. Al Kelly is a friend of mine. He traveled to Europe and Africa while woring for Ford Motor Company three years ago. When he came back he called me to say, "Koslo , you were right!" When he visited the poorer areas of Africa, the people that subsisted on rice, beans and bread (carbs), were fat and eshy. The people in the more a uent areas that ate meat, eggs, sh (protein), were slim and muscular. Also, when he was in Europe, he said that you could always tell which people were from America because they were fat and eshy looking. I remember my grandmother used to cook these little oval things and put them on my grandfather's plate. I'd say, "Grandpa, what are those?" He told me they were sweetbreads and out-west they're called rocky mountain oysters. They were actually bull testicles, and let me tell you one thing, my grandfather was sexed into his eighties. Bull testicles increase your natural testosterone levels. My granparents had 16 children and every once in a while you'd see my granmother fending o his passes by making some excuse, which was rather funny to watch. What I'm trying to point out is that fats are good for you, and my grandparents both ate a high fat diet, that's all we had as a primary source of food on the farm. We did also eat fruits and vegetables and grains, but the medical profession doesn't tell you how important fats are. They neglect to tell you that the higher your natural, good cholesteral level, the higher your hormone levels are going to be. That's one thing they will never tell you, they just don't know that. The only fats that will make you fat are processed, unnatural carbohydrates and fats (goodies). Again, my grandmother had 16 children and she had her last baby when she was 55 years old. This is because she ate good food that allowed her hormone levels to be high. The hormone This is because she ate good food that allowed her hormone levels to be high. The hormone levels of most woman today are diminished by the time they're forty, so they have to go on hormone
replacement, simply because they don't eat good food and fats. There is such a rise in infertility in America and it is primarily due to decreased hormone levels due to lack of good fats in our diets. Today's women eat processed, re ned and low-fat foods, as most Americans do. As I mentioned, and this is very important, my grandfather died two months shy of his 98th birthday and my grandmother died at 101. She started to deteriorate after my grandfather died simply because her man was gone. They were married about 80 years and she felt she no longer had any reason to live. You could carry on a conversation with her right up until she died, which was really amazing. I'd like to talk about Indian Joe a little more. Indian Joe was a Cherokee Indian, and being an American Plains Indian, he was strictly a meat eater. As children, we would always tease him; he did have a great sense of humor. We'd try to give him apples or peaches and he'd say, "Oh, you kids are crazy". He only wanted meat. When Grandpa butchered a hog, or a steer, he'd put it in the cellar (this functioned as a refrigerator). Indian Joe lived on the meat, the brains, the heart, the liver and the spleen. Do you know what was left on the farm after they butchered a hog or a steer'? Nothing. We ate everything. Indian Joe died when he was 115, and he never ate fruits or vegetables (if you read my article, "15 Reasons Why Man is Not a Vegetarian", you can see that he was getting everything that the animals ate by way of vegetation, etc.) If we were good kids we were allowed to make ice cream on Fridays. I remember one time I got sick from eating too much ice cream. Indian Joe chastised me, as he always did, but then he went out on the 'back forty' someplace and mixed up an herbal concoction, and in about a half hour I was ne. I never saw a prescription drug on the farm, never. All we saw were herbal remedies and whatever he would come up with. He was truly an amazing man. The last time I saw him he was about 100 and he looked like he was 50. He had rippling muscles, he was just solid and there wasn't one bit of fat on him, because, as I always preach, carbohydrates build fat, fats don't make you fat, sugars and starches do, and that's the impetus of the American diet. I knew that sooner or later we were going to move back to the city. I have never been healthier than when I lived on the farm and ate natural food. When I rst found out we were moving to the farm, I didn't want to go, and when I found out we were going back to the city, I didn't want to leave the farm. Of course, when we moved back to the city I returned to the average city diet of sugared cereals and pop and chips and cookies, the nonnal American diet. That's when my health started to deteriorate. My little jingle has always been that diseases don't exist; they're just 'nutritional de ciencies'. Back in time, you usually called a medicine man if something ailed you. lf you didn't use a medicine man, you called a doctor and they were homeopathic or herbal-based doctors. We're duped by the fact that we live twice as long as the people in the early l900's, however that's not necessarily true. In the early l900's the census was done by census-takers who would go to city gravesites to record that this or that person died when he was 40 or 50. They didn't account for why theses people died; they could have been run over by a truck. They could have died in a coal mine, as many people did. They could have died because they were in an accident and they couldn't get to a hospital to save their life. People died because they didn't
get immediate or proper medical care. We have sophisticated methods of tracking this now. In World War II, if someone had their leg cut and gangrene set in and the person died at forty years old, it was not of natural causes, it was due to the injLu·y. It wasn't the fact that he died young, or died at 40 or 50; the fact is that the census did not discriminate why the person died. In the early l900's there was no such thing as a heart attack in your 30's or 40's, and now people are having diabetes at 5, 10, 15 years old, which never happened 100 years ago. Drugs will keep you alive, there's no doubt about it. Americans are very sick people; we're not healthy people at all. It's projected that people are going to live longer just because our infant mortality rate is less, but that is not an accurate prediction. Statistics weren't kept in the early l900's the way they are kept today. Most statistics were only taken in cities and did not include rural areas. Since I lived on the farm, and when I started to practice good nutrition, I have routinely eaten 4 to 5 eggs every moming for the majority of my life. When 1 was young and my grandpa would go plow the 'back forty', my cousins and I would go milk the cow and ll up a great big stainless steel container. This was not an acceptable thing to do in Grandfathers eyes and if he had found out, we would have been in very big trouble. We would cover the containers with straw and hide it until the following day. By the next day all of the cream would have risen to the top. Then we would pour the milk out for the cats and drink only the delicious cream. As you can see, it never killed me. Another authentic statistic is that the majority of Americans aged 55 take on the average of 5- 1 0 drugs a day. Drug companies love this because a little known fact is that drug companies' annual pro ts out-earn the total of all other business in the world combined. A million dollars to a drug company is pocket change. Dr. Roger Williams was a biochemist at the University of Texas in the l950's. He took a group of rats and fed them white our. He took another group of rats from the same litter and fed them whole-wheat our. The rats that were fed whole-wheat our lived. They were not totally healthy because they could not live by bread alone, but they didn't die. The rats that were fed white our however, died within 3 to 4 months. They died of diabetes, some cancers, arthritis and they became obese. Nostradamus was a French physician and astrologer who practiced medicine in the 1500's at the time when the black plague swept away 25% of the European population. Nostradamus was a feared physician in his time because he would cure a lot of people using natural things like Vitamin C and rosehips. Medical doctors at that time despised him because he had secrets that they didn't have which were based on simple nutrition. They didn't believe in nutrition; they believed in quick silver (mercury), bloodletting, drugs and leaches, none of which cured anyone. People who lived on farms ate natural food and had stronger immune systems. Consequently, the majority of individuals that died as a result of the black plague lived primarily in the highly populated cities, and not the rural areas. People of today, especially children, experience what I call 'genetic progression'. In 1900 only one out of 5,000 people was obese. Then, as the decades rolled by, we ate more processed
and re ned foods, especially more carbohydrates, and after World War II, there was an explosion of junk food, including T.V. dinners, snacks, etc. In 1900 the average American consumed 3 pounds of white sugar a year. Now the average American consumes 150-160 lbs of just white sugar, and that does not account for the consumption of white our. Now we can see a 'genetic progression.' Each generation continues to be more obese, ill more often, and are diagnosed with more cancers and heart disease. Each generation continues to become more and more obese and will continue to do so. We will continue to watch future generations grow sicker and sicker unless they return to natural foods. Vince Gironda, the great bodybuilding teacher, wanted to do an experiment. He took a group of rats and fed them the ultimate diet of meat, sh, eggs, turkey, chicken, fresh fruit, whole grains, vegetables, and vitamin supplementation. The progression took place right in front of his eyes. Each generation of rats became bigger, stronger, more intelligent, healthier, faster, and they became the ultimate rat species. Once he achieved this, he fed the ultimate rats a diet of cookies, pies, donuts, etc. The rats began to deteriorate right before his eyes. They got cancer, diabetes, heart problems and they became obese from eating all the carbohydrates and sugar. Because a rat's life span is only two years, it was easy to view the genetic ndings in a very short period of time. Please always remember Hippocrates lst Rule: "Always follow Mother Nature or God, then you will never be wrong." The natural way is the only way. There is no other way. In summation, it seems as though man will never leam. His in nite arrogances never cease. Man always thinks he knows more than God and Mother Nature, and, when he is wrong, he will su er the consequences! Thanks for your ear, Ron For copies of other articles, or if you have any questions, please call me anytime at: (313) 372-1807 Copyright 2007 Ron Koslo -NSP- Research Nutrition
By Ron Koslo , N/C - NSP - Research Nutrition The sole purpose of writing this article is to illustrate for you the vast di erence between people in the early 1900's who ate animal food and people, like ourselves in modern-day America, who eat processed and re ned, high carbohydrate foods. I was very fortunate when I was young. From the time I was 7 until the age of 10, I went to live on a farm in Illinois. My mother had remarried, and I was fortunate to become part of a whole new family. They were such lovely, beautiful people and to this day, I consider them my own. In my younger years, I was very conscious of the longevity of people around me while living in Detroit. I recall the average age most people lived to was not much higher thatn the low to mid 60's. I observed the average ages of my friends' parents and grandparents when they died, and even my own grandmother died when she was 63. My neighbors that lived across the street passed on when they were 61 and 59. Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson, our next door neighbors, died in their late 50's and early 60's. My viewpoint on death was that human beings lived to be about 60 to 62 years old. I very seldom saw people that were 65-70. When we went to a funeral, the average age of the deceased was about 60, and that was normal. I soon came to the conclusion that if I lived to be the age of 60, I would be very lucky. Today you'll notice people live somewhat longer with the use of prescription drugs, but make no mistake, they are still sick, as those drugs do not heal them. Drugs will keep you alive and that's the extent of it. Remember there are no daily minimum requirements for taking pharmaceutical drugs, only for nutritional vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats and natural carbs. When I rst moved back to the farm in Illinois, my mother and stepfather introduced me to everyone, but I was espically taken with my Grandfather and Grandmother. My Grandmother was somewhere in the neighborhood of 82 and my Grandfather was 84. I thought 'my goodness, this must be rare'. So I asked my mother, "How did Grandfather and Grandmother live to be in their eighties?" She didn't know, so she just said, "Well I guess it's the fresh, farm air." I automatically assumed that my mother was right and that the reason that these people lived into their eighties was because of the air. The longer that I lived on the farm, the more I began to see that being 70, 80, and 90 in the rural areas was not rare, in fact, it was very common. The Turners lived across the road and they owned a farm and they were both in their 80's and had children in their 60's. Mr. Smith down the road was 91 and Mrs. Smith was 90. My Grandparent's children were in their 50's and 60's. I thought 'oh, this must be something; the air must be magical.' Another fact that I observed was that my Grandparents and the people the lived on the farms were extremely poor. But I soon learned that there was always enough good food to eat, and this was a fact. The one thing that startled me was the fact that there was no white our
pancakes, no white our cookies or pretzels or donuts, no pizza, slurpees, pop tarts or sugar frosted akes. No bagels or white our pasta, no fast food, or bologna sandwiches. These foods just didn't exist there. All that was available to us were fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, eggs, cheese, butter, meat, turkey, sh, and lamb, whuich was a very distinct di erence from how we ate in the city. It didn't take me very long to become accustomed to eating good food, but, being the average city dweller, I was accustomed to , even addicted (since I'm hypoglycemic) to, the sugared cereals, and the cookies and the pop and the pretzels and the potato chips of early-on that de nately made up my diet. Of course, eating this way, I was always a sick child. I would go from one so-called disease to another so-called diease, and it was a never-ending battle. I noticed, as I started to eat this heathly farm food that I started to feel decisively better. A the days, weeks, and months passed, I said to my mom, "Why am I feeling so much better?" I didn't seem to have all the symptoms of my so-called hypoglycemia, which included forgetfulness, spots in front of my eyes, always being tired, limited memory, and tremendous mood swings. In reply to why I felt much better, my mother would say, "Well, Ronald, it's the fresh farm air." Again, putting credence into what my mother said, I was sure that was the reason why I felt so much better. The longer I lived on the farm, the more I became an observer and a comparer. I would compare people of the farm to the people in Detroit. The one thing that impressed me was that people very seldom got sick on the farm and when somebody did, Indian Joe was always there to help. Herbal formulas provided by Indian Joe soothed the woman on the farm community during their menstrual cycles, and cured people of the sni es. He was a Cherokee Indian who worked for my Grandfather in exchange for food and shelter. Whenever anybody had a problem with a sickness, they would go to him. Indian Joe was a medicine man and he would simply travel out to the woods and come back with an herbal concoction. At the time, I did not understand what he did or appreciate its value, but his remedies were always e ective, allowing you to go on with your day. As I re ect back, I now relize that when the farm people were 60, 70, 80, and 90, they could carry on a conversation. you could converse with someone that was 80 or 90, and they didn't even seem old. They had all their mental faculties. Today, we call the lack of mental faculties in old age Alzheimer's disease. Of course, a perfect example is our ex-president Ronald reagan who was reported to eat half a pound of jellybeans a day, he loved them and he was addicted to them. Jellybeans are made of sugar and coal tar dyes, a bad combination. Now we know that sugar robs the body and the brain of B complex, and as we're nding out, Alzheimer's is directly related to nutrition, or the lack of it, along with heavy metal poisoning. That's why I never saw anyone that didn't have their mental faculties on the farm. I never saw anybody sitting in a chair mumbling "what's my name", regarless of his or her age. Those farm people were sharp mentally and had all their faculties. recently, the Detroit News reported about that the incredible number of U.S. Citizens in their late 40's and early 50's getting Alzheimer's disease! My Grandmother died when she was 101, my Grandfather, when he was 98. Indian Joe lived to be 115, and I don't recall anyone of them not having the ability to communicate their thoughts or opinions on matters, right up until the end of their lives. Yet we're told today that Alzheimer's is normal. Normal for people who suck on pop, and then eat cookies and potato chips? It's normal for them, I guess. For people who eat good food, it's not normal. You can go
anywhere in the world and there are ve cultures that rountinely live to be over 100 years of age. Alzheimer's is unheard of in these cultures, there's no such thing, so take that for what it's worth. One thing that I recall that really shocked me about city living was the multitude of heavy, obese people. Obesity, at the time, was just starting to take a hold on America because of our high carbohydrate and sugar diet. But let me tell you folks, I never saw anybody on the farm that was obese. Obesity just did not exist there. Then there are those that say, "Well, it's because they exercised and they worked hard". Yes, they worked hard, but let me give you an example: my Grandmother worked hard cleaning the house and cooking and feeding her family and walking down to the well to get water, she didn't work in the elds, she was a housewife. All the people on the farm were very slim and muscular. I recall that my Uncle Lester was involved in a tractor accident when he was 13 years old, and I believe this to be a great example for you to think about. He was crippled from then on, for the rest of his life. He died when he was 85 years old and never exercised a day in his life because there was very little that he could do, due to hes permanent disability. How did he live to be 85 and continue to be slim and accomplish this with no exercise while being a icted with alcoholism? I believe it was the food, good nutrition, and that is what I've been trying to explain to all of you. Read the book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Dr. Weston Price in which he observes people from all over the world that initially ate all natural foods and later shifted to processed manmade food, and the correlation between their deteriorating health. It's the exact opposite in the cities as it is on the farm, because today, city people eat processed and re ned foods. Obesity, acne, and Alzheimer's never existed before, but they exist today. In primitive societies, where people eat natural foods, these diseases just don't exist. The famous Dr. Albert Schweitzer spent a considerable amount of time in jungles studying numerous tribes. He never observed acne or tooth decay in any of the research he did with any indigenous people. Alzheimer's was virtually unheard of in early 1900's. Now, our bad sugar diet, lack of B complex, the heavy metal poisonings in our water, aluminum, mercury, yeast, parasites and lead in our vaccinations, chlorinated and uoridated water, are just overwhelming our brains with poison. It is predicted that one out of every 3 people over 65 will become Alzheimer's candidates. Our bodies and organs are strong, but they just cannot funtion if they are pummeled by all these obstacles. It became very apparent to me that there were no vaccinations, arthritis, and diabetes on the farm. People in their 40's and 50's having heart attacks was unheard of. How could they? They were to busy living to be 80, 90, and 100. There were several di erences between city and farm people that amazed me. When I went to school, while living on the farm, none of the other children had acne. I never saw anyone in the higher grades with pimples, puberty age or otherwise. My cousins used to laugh at me because of the vaccination scar on my left arm. The people on the farm weren't vaccinated, they never heard of prescription drugs or vaccinations. Just before I moved to the farm I came down with the chickenpox. My farm family had never heard of chickenpox. I remember thinking that I just couldn't believe that they had never heard of that disease. Another thing that I was aware of, and was shocked by, was that in the city, most people had false teeth. Let me give you an example of what our diet consisted of throughought the day while on the farm. There were always fresh fruits and vegetables and eggs and cheese. I remember my grandfather had many cheese sacks around the barn where they would make cheese. You could
always drink milk when you were milking the cow. You could always eat the cheese. There were plenty of nuts, plenty of vegetables, and fruits were prevalent. Basically the diet was fats and proteins, meats, eggs, sh, chicken, pork chops, sausage. We'd get up in the morning and sit down to breakfast. There is nothing like waking up on the farm, and smelling the bacon cooking in the morning. We'd get downstairs and there was bacon and eggs, raw milk, some whole-grain bread, and sausage, it was just phenomenal. When we came in for lunch, we'd have a meal that consisted of fats and proteins. For supper we'd have turkey or sh, salads and and vegetables. Of course this is contrary to what the medical profession preaches today. They are trying to turn us into vegetarians (refer to the article I wrote, "15 Reasons Why Man is not a Vegetarian"). When my grandfather went out to plow the elds, my grandmother always packed lard or butter sandwiches on whole wheat bread for him. Of course, this is contrary to what the medical profession tells you; they tell you that fats are going to kil you. But this is for the people who advocate carbohydrates and carbohydrates loading: most people are unaware that fats yield twice as much energy as carbohydrates. This is why mountain climbers eat butter sticks when they're trekking up a mountain. My Russian ancestors were sailors at sea, and they used to keep a lard vat and eat fat in order to maintain enough stamina to continue to navigate their ships. Fats don't cause a heart attack, that's just a lie. Fats do not make you fat. Fats have lipotropic factors, therefore, fats burn fat. That's why, anywhere in the world, people who subsist on a high fat , high protein diet, are slim, muscular people and people who subsist on high carbohydrate diet are fat, eshy people. Al Kelly is a friend of mine. He traveled to Europe and Africa while woring for Ford Motor Company three years ago. When he came back he called me to say, "Koslo , you were right!" When he visited the poorer areas of Africa, the people that subsisted on rice, beans and bread (carbs), were fat and eshy. The people in the more a uent areas that ate meat, eggs, sh (protein), were slim and muscular. Also, when he was in Europe, he said that you could always tell which people were from America because they were fat and eshy looking. I remember my grandmother used to cook these little oval things and put them on my grandfather's plate. I'd say, "Grandpa, what are those?" He told me they were sweetbreads and out-west they're called rocky mountain oysters. They were actually bull testicles, and let me tell you one thing, my grandfather was sexed into his eighties. Bull testicles increase your natural testosterone levels. My granparents had 16 children and every once in a while you'd see my granmother fending o his passes by making some excuse, which was rather funny to watch. What I'm trying to point out is that fats are good for you, and my grandparents both ate a high fat diet, that's all we had as a primary source of food on the farm. We did also eat fruits and vegetables and grains, but the medical profession doesn't tell you how important fats are. They neglect to tell you that the higher your natural, good cholesteral level, the higher your hormone levels are going to be. That's one thing they will never tell you, they just don't know that. The only fats that will make you fat are processed, unnatural carbohydrates and fats (goodies). Again, my grandmother had 16 children and she had her last baby when she was 55 years old. This is because she ate good food that allowed her hormone levels to be high. The hormone This is because she ate good food that allowed her hormone levels to be high. The hormone levels of most woman today are diminished by the time they're forty, so they have to go on hormone
replacement, simply because they don't eat good food and fats. There is such a rise in infertility in America and it is primarily due to decreased hormone levels due to lack of good fats in our diets. Today's women eat processed, re ned and low-fat foods, as most Americans do. As I mentioned, and this is very important, my grandfather died two months shy of his 98th birthday and my grandmother died at 101. She started to deteriorate after my grandfather died simply because her man was gone. They were married about 80 years and she felt she no longer had any reason to live. You could carry on a conversation with her right up until she died, which was really amazing. I'd like to talk about Indian Joe a little more. Indian Joe was a Cherokee Indian, and being an American Plains Indian, he was strictly a meat eater. As children, we would always tease him; he did have a great sense of humor. We'd try to give him apples or peaches and he'd say, "Oh, you kids are crazy". He only wanted meat. When Grandpa butchered a hog, or a steer, he'd put it in the cellar (this functioned as a refrigerator). Indian Joe lived on the meat, the brains, the heart, the liver and the spleen. Do you know what was left on the farm after they butchered a hog or a steer'? Nothing. We ate everything. Indian Joe died when he was 115, and he never ate fruits or vegetables (if you read my article, "15 Reasons Why Man is Not a Vegetarian", you can see that he was getting everything that the animals ate by way of vegetation, etc.) If we were good kids we were allowed to make ice cream on Fridays. I remember one time I got sick from eating too much ice cream. Indian Joe chastised me, as he always did, but then he went out on the 'back forty' someplace and mixed up an herbal concoction, and in about a half hour I was ne. I never saw a prescription drug on the farm, never. All we saw were herbal remedies and whatever he would come up with. He was truly an amazing man. The last time I saw him he was about 100 and he looked like he was 50. He had rippling muscles, he was just solid and there wasn't one bit of fat on him, because, as I always preach, carbohydrates build fat, fats don't make you fat, sugars and starches do, and that's the impetus of the American diet. I knew that sooner or later we were going to move back to the city. I have never been healthier than when I lived on the farm and ate natural food. When I rst found out we were moving to the farm, I didn't want to go, and when I found out we were going back to the city, I didn't want to leave the farm. Of course, when we moved back to the city I returned to the average city diet of sugared cereals and pop and chips and cookies, the nonnal American diet. That's when my health started to deteriorate. My little jingle has always been that diseases don't exist; they're just 'nutritional de ciencies'. Back in time, you usually called a medicine man if something ailed you. lf you didn't use a medicine man, you called a doctor and they were homeopathic or herbal-based doctors. We're duped by the fact that we live twice as long as the people in the early l900's, however that's not necessarily true. In the early l900's the census was done by census-takers who would go to city gravesites to record that this or that person died when he was 40 or 50. They didn't account for why theses people died; they could have been run over by a truck. They could have died in a coal mine, as many people did. They could have died because they were in an accident and they couldn't get to a hospital to save their life. People died because they didn't
get immediate or proper medical care. We have sophisticated methods of tracking this now. In World War II, if someone had their leg cut and gangrene set in and the person died at forty years old, it was not of natural causes, it was due to the injLu·y. It wasn't the fact that he died young, or died at 40 or 50; the fact is that the census did not discriminate why the person died. In the early l900's there was no such thing as a heart attack in your 30's or 40's, and now people are having diabetes at 5, 10, 15 years old, which never happened 100 years ago. Drugs will keep you alive, there's no doubt about it. Americans are very sick people; we're not healthy people at all. It's projected that people are going to live longer just because our infant mortality rate is less, but that is not an accurate prediction. Statistics weren't kept in the early l900's the way they are kept today. Most statistics were only taken in cities and did not include rural areas. Since I lived on the farm, and when I started to practice good nutrition, I have routinely eaten 4 to 5 eggs every moming for the majority of my life. When 1 was young and my grandpa would go plow the 'back forty', my cousins and I would go milk the cow and ll up a great big stainless steel container. This was not an acceptable thing to do in Grandfathers eyes and if he had found out, we would have been in very big trouble. We would cover the containers with straw and hide it until the following day. By the next day all of the cream would have risen to the top. Then we would pour the milk out for the cats and drink only the delicious cream. As you can see, it never killed me. Another authentic statistic is that the majority of Americans aged 55 take on the average of 5- 1 0 drugs a day. Drug companies love this because a little known fact is that drug companies' annual pro ts out-earn the total of all other business in the world combined. A million dollars to a drug company is pocket change. Dr. Roger Williams was a biochemist at the University of Texas in the l950's. He took a group of rats and fed them white our. He took another group of rats from the same litter and fed them whole-wheat our. The rats that were fed whole-wheat our lived. They were not totally healthy because they could not live by bread alone, but they didn't die. The rats that were fed white our however, died within 3 to 4 months. They died of diabetes, some cancers, arthritis and they became obese. Nostradamus was a French physician and astrologer who practiced medicine in the 1500's at the time when the black plague swept away 25% of the European population. Nostradamus was a feared physician in his time because he would cure a lot of people using natural things like Vitamin C and rosehips. Medical doctors at that time despised him because he had secrets that they didn't have which were based on simple nutrition. They didn't believe in nutrition; they believed in quick silver (mercury), bloodletting, drugs and leaches, none of which cured anyone. People who lived on farms ate natural food and had stronger immune systems. Consequently, the majority of individuals that died as a result of the black plague lived primarily in the highly populated cities, and not the rural areas. People of today, especially children, experience what I call 'genetic progression'. In 1900 only one out of 5,000 people was obese. Then, as the decades rolled by, we ate more processed
and re ned foods, especially more carbohydrates, and after World War II, there was an explosion of junk food, including T.V. dinners, snacks, etc. In 1900 the average American consumed 3 pounds of white sugar a year. Now the average American consumes 150-160 lbs of just white sugar, and that does not account for the consumption of white our. Now we can see a 'genetic progression.' Each generation continues to be more obese, ill more often, and are diagnosed with more cancers and heart disease. Each generation continues to become more and more obese and will continue to do so. We will continue to watch future generations grow sicker and sicker unless they return to natural foods. Vince Gironda, the great bodybuilding teacher, wanted to do an experiment. He took a group of rats and fed them the ultimate diet of meat, sh, eggs, turkey, chicken, fresh fruit, whole grains, vegetables, and vitamin supplementation. The progression took place right in front of his eyes. Each generation of rats became bigger, stronger, more intelligent, healthier, faster, and they became the ultimate rat species. Once he achieved this, he fed the ultimate rats a diet of cookies, pies, donuts, etc. The rats began to deteriorate right before his eyes. They got cancer, diabetes, heart problems and they became obese from eating all the carbohydrates and sugar. Because a rat's life span is only two years, it was easy to view the genetic ndings in a very short period of time. Please always remember Hippocrates lst Rule: "Always follow Mother Nature or God, then you will never be wrong." The natural way is the only way. There is no other way. In summation, it seems as though man will never leam. His in nite arrogances never cease. Man always thinks he knows more than God and Mother Nature, and, when he is wrong, he will su er the consequences! Thanks for your ear, Ron For copies of other articles, or if you have any questions, please call me anytime at: (313) 372-1807 Copyright 2007 Ron Koslo -NSP- Research Nutrition
