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KARI’S TESTIMONY
Kari Smith, 4400 Winner’s Lane, Burton, TX 77835
Well, I prided myself on being the health queen of central Texas. My friends got tickled at my one solution to all of their physical complaints ? that they needed to get their colons reamed out. Having read and faithfully applied correct health principles since the 1960’s and working in a health food store, I had listened to enough people and read enough books to know that a dirty sewage system will back up into a person’s body and produce every pain and disease known to man. Because of my own constant chronic fatigue, I stuck as close as possible to a raw food diet with its roughage, took periodic colonics since 1980, drank distilled water, and faithfully abstained from refined salt, sugar, grain, alcohol, smoking, dairy, meat and overly cooked foods most of the time. So, you can understand how humbling it was that I wound up completely innervated, organs totally out of balance, gasping for air from lack of oxygen, unable to sleep, muscles quivering from stress and exhaustion, shoulder and back ache that would not go away, unable to digest food or water, and not knowing that I was borderline diabetic, heading for lupus, had growing breast cancer, and was a breath away from a heart attack..
That is how Dr. Ede Koenig received me as an emergency patient at Radiant Health Institute. I do not think I would have lived one more day without her Emergency Drink, Sleep Ease, poison?absorbing drinks, herbal formulas, ozonated and oxygenated colonics and hyperbarics chamber. Dr. Ede could tell the location and size of all the impactions in my colon from her years of skillful work as a Naturopathic Doctor and Colon Hydrotherapist. Each day we worked to loosen and break them up, Dr. Ede could tell me how much of them was left or where they were traveling in my colon. It was truly remarkable. The pain and suffering diminished day by day, and I was able to sleep more and more as these orange?sized impactions were washed from my body. Where did they come from? Years of cheese and pickle sandwiches as a child, panfulls of RiceCrispie/Marsh mallow candy as a teenager, college study breaks gorging on donuts, pizza, ice cream and Mexican food, a few years of bingeing and fasting, then lately, lots and lots of expensive powdered vegetable and sprouted bean drinks and rice/psyllium bars ballooned out my transverse colon so badly that it was like a huge purse under and above my naval. (I was spending $400?$500 a month from a very well known Herbal Company for products that just about killed me. I will save that from now on because I will only use Dr. Ede’s products.) Colonic therapists who worked on me in the past did not massage correctly, and no herbal colon cleaning products out there on the market could put a dent in the putrid masses. Health Food always made me feel better, but it took near death to help me finally find Dr. Ede and the real cause of my lifelong struggle with fatigue.
The spiritual implications are numerous. We are born craving the stimulating and addictive sugar, salt, and other things our mother craved that can kill us. We are also born spiritually dead with an inherited sinful nature that craves degenerating stimulus that can harm or kill us. We are hopelessly and helplessly separated from God. But His grace and love solved our sin problem by sending His son to die in our place as a substitute for us; all of our putrid, sinful waste matter being poured out on his own perfect body. Washing the debilitating impactions from our bodies, correct eating, sunshine, rest, and exercise will help our bodies to feel better and may prolong our lives considerably. But eventually we will all die. But those who trust in Jesus Christ, who have accepted His gracious gift of salvation, can look forward to a magnificent resurrection body that will never grow old or die. I give all of the glory to my Lord Jesus Christ and to God the Father for bringing me to this place, for teaching me so many wonderful things about Himself and myself, and for answering my prayers to become healthier and more energetic
- beyond my dreams! And, I would like to highly recommend Radiant Health Institute to anyone with health problems who want to get well and learn how to prepare and eat the most nutritious and delicious foods possible. Dr. Ede can
help, you can bet your life on it.
WHAT I HAVE LEARNED as a result of my stay at Radiant Health Institute:
1. I had been full of SELF-DECEPTION and self-justification. My body had been giving me warnings that it was in trouble over the past several years. I would wake up gasping for air with horrible ear-ringing, feeling like I would soon exit my body, become teeth chattering cold, have to have blankets piled on top of me, and I thought that these were merely panic attacks or some kind of residual Salmonella poisoning. One time about a year ago, my feet, legs, hands and arms were also going numb during one of the attacks and my husband called 911, but by the time they got to me, I was feeling OK, thankfully. Surely it was a cleansing crisis of some sort because I was eating healthy foods, I told myself. And isn’t it amazing how a person can justify chest pains to be nothing really serious?
2. No, I wasn’t in trouble I told myself because I had always been so health-conscious and had spent thousands of dollars buying the best HERBAL HEALTH PRODUCTS available. I totally trusted the people who were my upline in the large, ritzy, international multi?level company I had joined when they assured me that the doctors who formulated the "life-saving" products were geniuses with maximum integrity. I did not know that products can contain absolutely anything in them up to 25% without it being stated on the label according to FDA regulations. (Did I get this right, Dr. Ede?)
3. So, I bought and consumed tons of their powdered vegetable PROTEIN drinks, bars and puffs, would feel good, then worse, good, and then worse. The sicker I got, the more I was advised to drink them, and I was to drink them all through the night! Little did I realize the great harm I was doing to myself because the shakes were settling in colon pockets and clogging movement in my intestines because of their lack of bulk. I had to learn the hard way how excessive amounts of concentrated protein can cause deaths! The drinks were putrefying in my colon because so much of them were not used by my body, became waste, and literally made me toxic. This is why I never had any energy. Bad teeth and thin enamel should have clued me in that calcium was being leeched out of my bones as well ? excessive protein! Not only that, but this is why I had arthritis, my liver was totally stressed out, I had a good start on breast cancer, and organs like my pancreas were degenerating as they were broken down by the concentrated vegetable protein. And I could never lose weight no matter how little I ate or what I did.
4. Which brings me to weight-loss bars with puffed rice, fruit and PSYLLIUM. Not only was I eating them for breakfast, lunch and dinner to lose weight, but I was drinking chocolate-veg.protein-psyllium drinks, too. They make a person feel full, so they ought to work, right? Wrong! While taking daily colonics at Radiant Health and drinking five of Dr. Ede’s formulated bentonite-psyllium drinks each day, I noticed a sticky goop on the kitchen sink that had to be scrubbed and scrubbed in order to get it off. We had been washing out our glasses after our drinks and little bits of psyllium left over from them clung to the sink. While psyllium is of ultimate benefit when taking colonics, I learned that it can be very harmful any other time. Psyllium is so sticky that it will actually help to "gum up" the intestines if it is not flushed out. Enforced pain humility taught me to never, never, never take psyllium in any product or form unless undergoing colon hydrotherapy within 24 hours. Free oil can "gum up" not only your intestines, your arteries, brain, and every organ in your body. I was so amazed when I found out that even the polyunsaturated free fats can cause cancer. I always thought they were good for you, especially flax seed oil. I was flabbergasted when I found out that free fat (oil) causes more hare to a diabetic or hypoglycemic than sugar! I found out our bodies need fat, but keep the fat enclosed in the cells of the olive, avocado, flax, the whole food. God put everything in a perfect package ?leave it there!
5. If you want to die young, just do what I did and eat whenever you have the faintest urge. Eating fruit all day long shouldn’t hurt anyone, should it? Hah! There is no better way to completely wear out the entire system of digestion and assimilation than to eat too frequently. It is proven fact that five to six hours are desperately needed by the stomach between meals to digest food properly and to give it some time to rest. That way, the stomach can produce enough gastric juices for the next meal. The smallest bite of food between meals will not digest. Period. It turns into poison.
The more liquid there is taken into the stomach with the meals, the more difficult it is for the food to digest; for the liquid must first be absorbed. If anything is needed to quench the thirst, pure water, taken a half hour before the meal and two hours after the meal.
There is just one excuse I did not have for not sleeping well at night. And that is that digestion is slowed down during the night and takes twice as long. So, who could possibly sleep when the body to trying to get food digested all night long? As the digestion goes, so goes the health. Poor digestion, and there goes the health.
6. My husband and I thought we were doing our digestive system the greatest favor by chewing a peppermint, health-food gum after meals. Gum chewing seems like such an insignificant thing from which no possible problems could arise. Well, what I didn’t know was that digestion begins in the mouth and I was overworking and damaging my mouth’s ability to make ptyalin enzymes for breaking down starch. Consequently, I suffered with a lot of unpleasant, dry mouth and very poor digestion.
7. My multi-level company insisted on using gelatin capsules. Everyone knows where gelatin comes from, don’t they? We see the source of gelatin every time we go to the neighbors to get a load of manure for our compost pile. Gelatin hooves of pigs, goats, horses, and cows are standing there in the barnyard as we load up the trailer.
8. I personally tested my ritzy, multi-level company’s shampoos, toothpaste, soaps, perfumes and cosmetics and really liked them. But I always had a gnawing doubt about the answers I was given whenever I asked about all of the cancer-causing parabens and other chemicals in them. I was told that the genius doctors formulating these expensive products knew how to balance out any bad ingredients with herbs, which would cancel out the ill effects. Do the scalp, tongue, gums, and skin absorb whatever is put on them? You bet they do! I trusted my happy, upline friends. They were only telling me what they were told. It all sounded so good.
9. You know, there is correctly, precise procedure for doing nearly everything. I have heard Dr. Ede say one important thing pertaining to many different situations: "You can overdo a good thing." She also says, "if you want good health follow the diet God gave in the beginning in Gen. 1:29 ’And God said Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.’ She said, "I don’t know who coined the word meat for dead flesh. It wasn’t God. He called meat the fruits, nuts, seeds and grains. And the dead animal He called dead flesh. Even if you have God’s original diet, if you are not eliminating the waste (excrement) as you should (for every meal you should have a bowel movement and if you are not, you will not assimilate and absorb the nutrients properly.) The body must be cleansed. You are what you eliminate and what you assimilate. Matt 23:26 "Cleanse first that which is within. II Cor. 7:1 "Let us then cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh." Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary "Filthiness of the flesh: excrement; dung"; Greek Dictionary "Filthiness of flesh: cleanse the bowels."
It is also important to exercise, especially if you doing a lot of brain labor. The stomach is closely related to the brain and when the stomach is diseased, the nerve power is called from the brain to the aid of the weakened digestive organs. Exercise aids digestion and it also is the best thing to keep the lymphs clear and uncongested.
If a person is teachable, is looking for truth, is open to being taught, is willing to throw out what hasn’t been working, and then never lets go of the principles which obviously do work, has an attitude of gratitude, he is going to be richly blessed. 3John2 "Beloved I wish above all things thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as they soul prospereth." And He’s told us exactly how to do it."
10. When I was all alone, in intense pain, couldn’t sleep, and it was very dark, it was easy to get into negative, morbid thinking. I would call out for help for God the Father who I personally know well because I have trusted in His son. But I could not feel His presence. Blank. Nothing. All I had to face the hopelessness and helplessness of the many nights was the Bible promises and doctrines I had studied and studied that were entrenched in my soul. I KNEW He was there, closer than ever. I KNEW that He knew my pain and despair in eternity past as well as every other problem I will ever face. I KNEW He would go to battle for me if I would just get out of His way with my fear, trust Him, and let Him help me. He KNOWS more about me than I do, loves me more than I do, and is only able to do the perfect thing about my awful predicament. When I put it all in His capable hands, I KNEW that He would take unlimited responsibility for it. I KNEW that He cannot forsake me ? that is His character. I may not be able to sleep, but I can enter into the greatest rest possible when I depend completely on Him. He gets all the honor, praise, and glory for having the character to care about me so much. I thank Him for The Radiant Health Institute. Many in our church and family are listening to Danny and me now.
Written by Kari Smith, Texas.
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