La Iniciación · Año IV, Nº 36 · April 1945

1play the role of true accumulators, charged with distributing to the organs the energy these will employ for their functions (muscles, nerves, etc.).

2The energetic foods are constituted by oils in general and fats of different origin and nature. [Sic: the Spanish prints aumentos, for alimentos.]

3It must be borne in mind, however, that while plastic foods are noxious through the production and deposit in our tissues of toxic substances, the energetic ones are also noxious if employed in great abundance in our feeding, because the excess of fat goes on depositing itself little by little in the subcutaneous adipose tissue, upon and in the parenchyma of the internal organs, thus hindering the movements of the body and the fulfilment of the delicate functions of the internal organs.

4Catalytic Foods.

5— All those foods that serve, whether to afford "prana" or to facilitate, with their mineral salts, ferments or enzymes and vitamins, the physico-chemical operations that transform and transmute certain substances into others, are the so-called catalytic ones.

6These foods are the true vitalisers and toners of our tissues and of our organism in general; they afford agility, harmony and beauty to the body.

7The sources of these catalytic foods are all fresh vegetables and fruits, which may be ingested in abundance, without fear, for they give origin to no noxious substance and, on the contrary, facilitate the elimination of toxic substances.

8If our feeding lacks the catalytic foods, we fall ill little by little and lose all vitality and vigour.

9These foods must be eaten, then; and the rawer we absorb them, the more benefits we shall obtain.

10Hydric Foods.

11— We must never forget that more than three-quarters of our organism is composed of water — but not of river water or of any other mineral source, but of physiological water, that is, the water contained in the vegetables and fruits we ingest.

12One of the grave faults, one of the causes [Sic: the Spanish prints 1as, with a numeral] of the illnesses that attack us, is to ignore this fundamental principle.

13The proof of this affirmation lies in the fact that, when we eat unnatural foods such as meats and fish and perform heavy work in summer, we sweat abundantly — above all after having taken great quantities of water, beer, wine or mineral water.

14This process tends to re-establish the disturbed osmotic equilibrium, which manifests itself symptomatically by an intense thirst.

15Now, on the contrary, in equal circumstances in which we sweat copiously and, in consequence of thirst, take juices of sour fruits, such as oranges, grapefruits and lemons, we soon note that the thirst is extinguished — contrary to the preceding case — and we also eliminate less urine.

16All of which demonstrates to us that, if thirst is extinguished by taking fruit juices and not common water, and the elimination of urine [Sic: the Spanish prints 1a, with a numeral] is likewise not abundant, it is because what the organism really needs is physiological water.

17The whole metabolic process in general, in its two phases of assimilation and disassimilation, is effected essentially, in its quantitative aspect, thanks to the physiological water which acts as a solubiliser of humours and a carrier and conductor of them toward the emunctory ways of elimination, such as the kidneys, skin and lungs.

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