The Pyramid Project
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Public Health
“What
do we teach our children about Health?" The addiction to sugar in Peru is started at an early age. Many of the children lose their teeth to decay. Here a bottle of cola is cheaper than a bottle of water! Most adults are addicted to the soda drinks particularly Inca Kola. If you order a fruit juice in Iquitos they add at least a dessert spoon of sugar unless you say "sin asucar" - and even then they still often add some because they think you mean you just don't want too much sugar, since in their mindset sugar is so sweet and lovely
Many of the foods here are packed with cheap additives, possibly many that would not even be permitted in Europe. And, let us face it, most of the additives in the first world are approved by the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) who's motivations have become dubious, particularly since their controversial ratification of the sweetener, Aspartame in the 1980s
The real drugs problem In addition to problem food it seems that culture all around the world has become over dependent on the Pharmaceutical industry. Doctors are commissioned to get people on to drugs, natural medicine is forgotten or even purposely repressed by the FDA despite the fact mankind evolved next to natural medicine for 10,000s of years. People handover responsibility of their health to "qualified" doctors and with this their personal power. In over six years of medical training doctors spend less than 1 day leaning about nutrition and yet nutrition obviously plays a big part in good health. Any spiritual path to healing is completely ridiculed by an increasingly objective system. Science has become so religious on this that if anyone dare claim they can help cancer and are not FDA approved, despite good scientific evidence, they can be jailed. For example take the case of the German, Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer, and his groundbreaking research into the effect emotion plays on cancer. This said, of course modern medicine does have it's place particularly in trauma incidents and we are all grateful for the discovery of antibiotics
Here in Peru the shop assistant in the Chemist often takes the place of a doctor because they don't charge S/. 40 for a consultation, plus they wear the reassuring white coat. In my experience I was offered an antibiotic as a recommended substitute for the pro-biotic I asked for - this is exactly the opposite of what I needed! The chemist shop assistants are on commission by the way. That means that the system is encouraging them to get the public to spend more money. We have seen a national food industry that is actively making people obese in a quest to maximise profits - "Would you like French Fries with that?". Please understand the Pharmaceutical industry is playing the same game - "You also need an anti-inflammatory with that sir" Today's societies just don't understand health. Instead of preventing diseases and maximising the power of our immune system to fight disease, western medicine strives to remove outward symptoms thinking that this is the cure. Often this is just an illusion. Inward problems that never really got cured are forced to find another way out and new, often more serious, symptoms arise. The Chemists gets repeat business so again the system is rewarded at the expense of the customers health. There are many brilliant people working in the Pharmaceutical industry but the whole business model is not generally beneficial to human health, it is beneficial to the investors When you take responsibility for your health, back form your G.P. and instead have faith in your own body then I believe you are on the path to excellent health. Critics will argue that it is dangerous to give this advise out publicly, I argue that it is dangerous to take the advise of most western doctors. That said, it is encouraging to see more western doctors becoming interested in alternative medicines. Lastly I would like to make this quote: "Never take your health advise from an unhealthy person and that means seeing behind any white coat" Read what Jesus Christ had to say about health and about fasting, sunbathing, doing enemas, eating raw foods, being vegetarian... "Wait a minute, it doesn't say anything about enemas in the bible" perhaps you might be thinking. My advise to you is, if you want to know what the profit really said then read a direct translation of the original Aramaic texts. There is a short book called "The Gospel of Peace of Jesus Christ by the disciple John" which was first translated in 1936 by Edmond Székely. When I heard what Jesus really said it moved me and I knew the words were his. This book talks about how you can cure yourself of any disease. I'm a slow reader, I read at the speed that I speak - it took me 4 hours Possibly the people who know the most about health in this country are the indigenous populations who have a knowledgebase handed down from generations of testing. They certainly look healthier than the city folk and so there's the clue
Toxins As well as food and drugs the human body is now bombarded by so many chemicals. Soaps, shampoos, deodorants, toothpastes, perfumes, makeup, toilet paper, household cleaners, building materials, paints, vehicle fumes, smoking, alcohol, water purification chemicals, let alone secondary pollution that has gone from careless factory processes or careless waste management and into the food chain. What most people don't realise is that when the body can no longer expel toxins it has no choice left but create a safety cushion around the toxin molecules and send this "fat cell" onto the extremity of the body. If you think that you got fat because you ate fat then think again. By stopping eating fat which the body can choose to pass if it does not require it, you are removing the symptom and not the cause - the cause of obesity is toxicity. Increasing experience suggests that detoxing the system is the best way to lose fat. If your blood is clean and your body is not constipated then it can choose to break down fat cells and reabsorb the toxicity which now has an escape route As for the toxins that have crept into our lives, the truth is that they can all be removed with education. There is a smarter way for us to live Without good health people lose their personal power. Most people have no idea how much better they could feel every day of their lives by just making a few changes and being prepared to say, fast for a week to detoxify their bodies. You do not have to be rich to afford to eat healthily and remove the toxins in your life, you just need to learn a few basic things It's all very well learning what you should do and another to actually action it. Usually this is because we have addictions and these are hard to break. The Shamanic way teaches us that these addictions have personalities, that they are intelligent beings, demons which can be expelled. Even if you don't believe that this is possible you may concede with careful thought that, to personify an addiction in this way actually makes it easier to fight because you have created a visual framework in which to tag the problem
“What
will the Pyramid do?" We will take the standard Pyramid Program personal development course that our paying world guests receive. We will condense it and then translate it all into Spanish. We will have it presented by brilliant Peruvian presenters for a minimal charge designed to invoke respect rather than make a profit We will invite up to three hundred Iquitos citizens into the pyramid at a time and we will teach the following: 1) The dangers of addiction. e.g. sugar, smoking and alcohol 2) How to detox the body in 7 days 3) How to keep clean without soap, shampoo, toothpaste, deodorant and perfumes 4) Recommendations on good wholesome, cheap food avoiding additives, over processed and unhealthy foods 5) Recommendations on basic exercise. Encouragement to get a bicycle! 6) Education on basic health maintenance such as parasite cleansing, herbal medicines etc. 7) Education on basic integrity and values to promote a healthy mind 8) Motivation on taking up the personal power of health and invitation to come back and help others get motivated 9) General education on environment and why we need to work together to keep Iquitos litter free and tourist friendly
What else will the pyramid do? Iquitos has little consciousness about organic produce. Some healthy foods such as rock salt, sugar free Soya milk, rice milk and even chemical free fresh bread, which us westerners take for granted, are not yet available in the shops. The pyramid fund is committed to change this. The Pyramid Restaurant will slowly create clean food sources. Food will be grown locally using organic practices and at first made available to other restaurants. As demand increases shops will be targeted to supply healthier food too The addiction to the sugary soda drinks must be curbed to ensure a healthier future. The soda companies that survive long term will be the ones that embrace responsibility for public health. Those that do not are on the same road as the tobacco industry We must also do something to help the animals in Iquitos and that will probably mean supporting local charities that are working this. This is an Iquitos street dog
A social experiment The goal is to see if a project like this can get a whole city to be healthier. If it can happen in Iquitos then it can happen anywhere. There are no political motives involved and absolutely no products being pushed onto anyone. The Pyramid Project's sole intention is to offer people a way to live a healthier and thus happier life and reverse the trend of growing unhealthiness we see in cities the world over. A world our children have a future in
“Can
you help?" If you would like to get involved then we are looking for Peruvian people, preferably from Iquitos, who have good charisma and want to present this kind of health education. If you are passionate about nutrition, the environment and perhaps even are a spiritual type then we would love to hear from you. It would be a bonus if you are prepared to really get involved to the point of speaking on local radio for example Another way anyone from Iquitos can help is to support the pyramid restaurant. This will be opened in May 2008 with the objective of supplying exceptionally healthy and varied food at very reasonable prices
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