Bernard Jensen - Foods That Heal

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Date-Filled Tahini Cookies 257 Eggplant Eggplant Roll-ups 258 Eggplant and Rice Casserole 260 Endive Gourmet-Style

Belgian Endives 261

Belgian Endive and Walnut

Salad with Goat Cheese 262 FigFig Bars 263

Garlic Garlic Toast 264

Grape Grape Gel 265

Greens Collards, Kale,

Mustard Greens, Spinach,

Swiss Chard, and Turnip

Greens 265

Kale Potatoes and Kale A La

Grecque 267

Kale, Cabbage, and White

Bean Soup 268

Leeks Quinoa with Leeks

and Mushrooms 269

Cream Of Leek Soup

(nondairy) 270

Lemon Lemon-Tamari

Dressing 271

Lentil Lentil-Carrot Loaf 272

Lentil Pie 273

Lima Bean Lima Bean Soup 274

Mango Mango Salad with

Orange Dressing 275

Melon Melon Sherbet 276

Mushroom Eggless

Mushroom Quiche 277

Mushroom-and-Onion

Stuffed Potatoes

(Nondairy) 278

Mushroom-Noodle

Casserole 280

Nectarine Nectarine Pie 281 Okra Cajun-Style Okra 282

Onion Creamy Onion Pie 283 Orange Orange Date Sauce 284 Papaya Orange-Banana

Corn Cakes 285

Parsnip Carrot and Parsnip

Saute 286

Parsnip Patties 287

Parsnip Pate 288

Peas Creamed Peas and

Mushrooms 289

Peach Peach Upside-Down

Cake 290

Creamy Peach Pie 291

Pear Pear and Berry Gel 292

Peppers Mexican Stuffed

Peppers 293

Dominique's Italian Pimentos 294

Persimmon Persimmon

Salad 295

Pineapple Pineapple-Yogurt

Pie 295

Potato Potato Casserole

Delectable 297

Potato, Turnip, and Cheese Casserole 298

Pumpkin No-Bake Pumpkin

Pie 299

Radish Pearl Buck Radishes 300 Rutabaga Rutabaga and

Sweet Potato Casserole 301 Snap Bean Green Bean and

Rice Casserole 302

Spinach Spinach and Cottage Cheese Pizza 303

Whole Wheat Pizza Crust 304 Squash Elegant Squash

Souffles 305

Maple-Baked Acorn Squash 306 Strawberry Strawberry

Topped Tofu Cheesecake 306 Strawberry Pie 308

Oatmeal Pie Crust 309

Sweet PotatoesBaked Sweet

Potatoes with Cheese 310

TomatoesCorn-Stuffed

Tomatoes 311

Tomates Provencales (broiled Tomatoes with Herbs) 312

Pot Au Feu (Baked Vegetable Stew) 313

Appendix A: Food Analysis Chart

Index

About the Author

317 321 329

To my dearest friends,

Lynne, Eleanor, and their son Larry,

all healers and all a credit to the healing arts.

Preface

I am not the kind of physician who performs surgery, prescribes or administers drugs, or practices medicine the way most modern physicians are generally thought to do. Rather, for the past fifty-five years, I have been a different kind of physician. I have counseled patients, striving to guide and uplift them by building their health and teaching them that there is a right way and a wrong way to live.

This does not mean I have not taken care of sick people. Hundreds of thousands of patients have entered my sanitariumsmany with serious chronic diseasesome in wheelchairs, several on stretchers. I have had the privilege of seeing the great majority of them leave free of the symptoms and conditions that brought them into my care.

I have treated these patients using a combination of proper nutrition, exercise, positive thinking exercises, water treatment, and other natural methods. Though I believe in the scientific merit of certain therapeutic drugs, I do not advise their use nor do I use them myself. Though I believe surgery has its place in the treatment of certain life-threatening diseases and extreme conditions, I advocate the use of less invasive, more natural methods in most cases.

I do not regard the healing art lightly. On the contrary, taking care of people has been both my life's ideal and its privilege. I sincerely feel that each person I treat is a living soul and a member of the family of man and, as such, is entitled to love and respect. As

a physician, I feel a humanitarian responsibility to respond to suffering and its needs.

The story of how I developed my philosophy begins in 1926 when I was a young man of 18. It was then that I entered the West Coast Chiropractic College, supporting myself by working at a local dairy. Long hours of study, followed by long hours of work, combined with poor nutritional habits, posed a triple threat to my health. Shortly after my graduation from college I collapsed.

Physicians diagnosed my condition as bronchiectasis, an incurable lung disease, often fatal in those days before antibiotic treatment. I had inherited weak lungs from my mother, who died of tuberculosis at the age of 29. Lung weakness ran in my family, and now it had run into me.

It was about this time that I was introduced to a Seventh-Day Adventist physician who enlightened me on the differences between a poor food regimen and a healthy one. Sadly, his name escaped me over the years. I certainly owe him a debt of gratitude because of the path he set me upon. This doctor declared that a root of my problem was my nutritional deficiencies. I was, he said, starving myself with a ' 'junk food" diet. In its place he prescribed a diet full of healthy foods. Combined with breathing exercises given by Thomas Gaines who once worked for the New York Police Department, my condition improved. I began to gain weight, put several inches of flesh back on my chest, and found renewed energy. I was back on the road to health.

Though I.began my career in the health arts as a chiropractor, my remarkable experience with the regenerative abilities of proper nutrition and exercise spurred me to incorporate these healing methods in my growing practice. In addition, I continued my postgraduate education to keep abreast of new developments in natural health care. I worked along side Dr. Ralph Benner of the Bircher-Benner Clinic in Zurich, Switzerland. I studied bowel management with Dr. John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek, Michigan; iridology with Dr. R. M. McClain of Oakland, California and Dr. F. W. Collins of Orange, New Jersey; homeopathy with Dr. Charles Ges-ser of Tampa, Florida; and water cure treatment at Bad Worisho-fen, West Germany, home of nineteenth-century water therapy pioneer Fr. Sebastian Kneipp.

Now, at the age of 80, I often reflect on what it was in my life that allowed me to live this long-to come this far. For though I had cured bronchiectasis with nutrition and exercise, I continued the frantic pace of work and study that, combined with my bad habits,

had made me so ill so long ago. Looking back, I have concluded that wellness is as much a satisfying relationship with life as it is a consequence of dietary and lifestyle changes.

I believe the secret of my good health is that I am always good to myself mentally. I am convinced my longevity is due to my mental philosophy, my joyous contentment with life. I have always loved people. I have always loved seeing people who came to me for help return home healed. And these people loved me in return. I uplifted them to the best of my ability, and it always came back to me.