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geographical location. Also included are the various influences
on our thinking and behavior which are created by our
human environment, civilization. Similarly, food includes
all of the factors that we consume or take in from the
environment both in the form of vibrational forces such as
light, sound, and electromagnetic radiation, together with the
biological, bio-chemical, and chemical factors that we eat,
drink, and breathe.
Because we are able to exercise control over what we eat
and drink, phycical food is the most important environmental
influence in determining our individual health and happiness.
Our ability to control the other environmental factors that we
take in is much more limited in comparson to the freedom that
we exercise in regard to our daily food. Control over our daily
dietary pratice is the key to solving all physical, mental and
social problems.
The differences in dietary pratice among peoples, together
with variations in their natural and social environments, cause
some to develop and suffer from physical or psychological
ailments and others to remain free of disorders. These
differences also produce the tremendous variation in cultural
patterns and ways of thinking which exist throughout the
word.
After healing himself from tuberculosis and stomach
cancer, in adolescence, Pr. Ohsawa began a serious study of
the philosophies and medicines of both the Orient and the
Occident. As a part of this study, he examined many of the
current scientific theories regarding the cause of diseases, and
the therapies of modem medicine. Eventually, he discovered
that all diseases are the result of a daily diet and way of life
which are not in harmony with surrounding environment.
Pratically speaking, the incidences of diseases have continued
to increase as people have shifted from the more balanced
traditional dietary pattern based around whole cereal grains,
orgnnically grown fresh vegetables and fruits, beans and
seavegetables, and other regional products toward the modem
dietary pattern based on an increased consumption of meat

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