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You can help people who suffer from liver disorders, too, by telling them of this happiness cure. They will have reason to be grateful to you. If your own liver, the most important gland in your body, is not working as it should, let happiness set about casting out trouble and anxiety. It can wage a successful war against these saboteurs and will effectively counteract the damage done by them. Take and use this help which, though sometimes buried deep within you, is always ready to come to your assistance. Be filled with the rhythm of the pulsating life of happiness; be glad, even if the gladness at first is somewhat artificial and forced. Breathe deeply and at the same time concentrate upon something of beauty and value. Eventually you will find that happiness will pervade your whole being and so master your body and all its functions.

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Nevertheless, in spite of local efforts, the new habit spread faster than the protective defence could educate. There is an awful attitude and saying that poisons the minds of children, youths and adults alike: “That’s the way it’s done today. Someone else can clean up after us!’ Just take the following experience. While waiting for their train, two fresh-looking girls from the Engadine littered the whole platform with peanut shells. An observer’s remark of ‘Well, now!’ caused nothing but the weakest indication of embarrassment on their part and the thoughtless excuse: ‘Everybody does this nowadays; the cleaner will sweep it all up anyway.’

If this is the attitude of modern youths, it is no wonder that we encounter a lack of concern and love for untouched nature even in the most beautiful areas. Today, it is quite common to see rubbish in gorges and streams. A campsite, picnic area or wayside frequently tells us that visitors have enjoyed themselves without giving as much as a single thought to the fact that other people want to enjoy the beauty unspoiled. How can they do so if they have to sit down in the midst of empty cans, bottles, paper and all kinds of rubbish? Neither meadows nor forests, not even rhododendrons and the white snow escape this antisocial behaviour! It is amazing how quickly good habits become forgotten when bad influences take over. How superficial the sense of beauty really is when it can close its eyes to ugly disorder!

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I do admit that these chemicals have saved the lives of a number of people, especially in tropical regions. On the other hand, one must face the fact that one cannot shoot sparrows with cannon balls. Honestly, I would not like to eat vegetables and fruit every day knowing that they contained measurable traces of these poisons, which actually remain in the body. For this reason they steadily accumulate in the system until a certain degree of concentration is reached that puts the person’s health and life in jeopardy.

Eichholz, a well-known and outspoken professor from Heidelberg, Germany, has stated that in large cities hardly an autopsy takes place where the fatty tissue does not show traces of DDT. People who lose weight during a severe illness are in danger when poisons begin to settle in the fatty tissue, because the body will draw on its own tissues and the toxic matter will enter the bloodstream and trigger reactions that not even the physician is able to explain.

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Whole buckwheat: Precook some buckwheat in a little water or vegetable stock. Make a sauce from two teaspoons of wholegrain (wholemeal) flour, finely chopped herbs and unseasoned tomato puree and mix with the buckwheat. Add some stewed onion and a little oil, and cook until the grains are soft but still whole.

Cold buckwheat: Prepare some buckwheat as above, pour it into a mould and leave to cool. When cold, remove from the mould and garnish with parsley and tomatoes. Serve with a green salad.

Fried buckwheat: Prepare a buckwheat gruel, then add some finely chopped onions, garlic and a little marjoram. Form into small shapes and fry in oil on both sides until golden brown.

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As suggested in the previous section, non-meat-eaters may find it difficult to get the necessary protein in tropical countries. Milk and milk products are usually scarce or unobtainable because the climate is too hot for productive dairy farming. Soya is not grown everywhere and nuts are often unknown. So what can be used to provide protein? Small island populations could not survive if it were not for seafood. Shellfish are a welcome and valuable source of protein in these areas.

Of what benefit is seafood for those of us who already obtain enough protein from other sources? The addition of seafood is then not really essential. Still, we are accustomed to eating many things that are not absolutely necessary; for example, we could live without citrus and tropical fruits, yet we are glad and grateful for the added variety. Seafood contains good quality protein, is easily digestible and many prefer it to animal protein. Important, too, is the fact that seafood contains traces of iodine.

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