Chapter 9
Many are advertising what to
eat, and what medicines to take
to make you eat or stop you from
eating. Many books are written
and sold on good and bad foods,
as well as on reducing the
weight and on how to increase
the weight, introducing the many
chemicals used to bring about
the desired result. But Allah,
in the Person of Master Fard
Muhammad, to Whom praises are
due forever, has given us a
better and safer way to do these
things.
His way will prolong our
lives and do away with our
sicknesses. And, that way is
eating one meal a day-or if we
are able and do not have too
much physical work to do, eating
one meal every two days. This
alone will prolong your life.
You will not be sick often if
you eat one meal a day and eat
the proper food. The proper food
is that food which is not
poisonous. The slave masters
taught us to eat the rough
foods, such as field peas, and
today, being accustomed to
eating them, we still eat them
along with sweet potatoes (which
are not good for anyone but
hogs) and white potatoes (which,
since they are so starchy and
fattening, are not good for
anyone unless they are in a zone
where they cannot secure better
food).
We cannot live a long time if
we laden our bodies with fats to
burden our hearts in pumping
blood through all this fat. It
shortens the time our heart
beat, and the fat person is-in
many instances more likely to
attract sickness and disease.
Why are we healthier and our
lives prolonged by eating as God
has taught as in the Person of
Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom
praises are due forever? It is
because of the one meal a day or
fasting. Eating once a day and
fasting gives the body time to
rest from the previous meal and
to absorb it properly and
distribute it where the body is
calling for it.
Some of us eat so often and
so much of the time that it
actually has a tendency make us
small and skinny because we
never allow time for the
previous meal to digest and
distribute the vitamins and
proteins into the proper places
and throughout our blood stream.
Rest, given to the digestive
system of our bodies, is the
thing that prolongs our lives.
In this period of rest (24
hours), poisons that we ate in
the previous meal are not
capable of doing us any harm
(when it is minor food poison),
for the idleness of the stomach
destroys this poison that would
upset us or shorten our lives to
a great extent. Therefore, we
live a longer life if we eat
correctly and do not eat three
meals a day. Only one meal a day
is sufficient for adults no
matter what their occupation may
be.
Milk and bread (wheat bread)
alone will keep us alive
indefinitely, and it is the best
and most easily digested food.
We have plenty of supplements
for milk and bread, so eat them,
but eat them only once a day.
This will reduce your doctor
bill almost 90 percent, and if
you eat once every two days, you
will not have any doctor bills.
So, do not tell the doctor that
I told you this. (smile)
As you know, I contracted
bronchial-asthma, and I have
learned that there are no drugs
that the public has access to
which actually serve as a cure.
But I am doing fine now, and
eating once a day and once every
other day does not give the
mucous time to accumulate and
choke the bronchial tubes and
tract.
All praises are due to Master
Fard Muhammad, as it is written
of Him in the scriptures, that
He comes to prolongs our lives
and to do away with sickness and
death. If we live right, He
teaches us we will enjoy life
for a long, long time .
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