Usually results from impurities clogging up the blood vessels which in turn place an excessive strain
on the heart. After all, the heart is only about the
size of one's fist, it weighs only about 10 ounces,
but nevertheless pumps 6 ounces of blood every time
it contracts. This does not seem much, but
cumulatively it amounts to about 5,000 gallons every
24 hours under normal conditions. Under stress,
however, this volume may reach as high as 25,000
gallons in the 24 hours. During the normal sedentary
lifetime of threescore years and ten there would be
about 3,000,000,000 (three billion) heartbeats, with an added 30% for so-called stress and strain during
that period. No man made mechanism could carry
on day-in-and-day-out without completely
disintegrating within a very short time if it did not
get any better care than we give to our heart and the
rest of our body.
The blood carries everything it picks up in the
system, through the heart. Thus, the starch molecules
of bread and flour and of grain products, not being
soluble in water, have a tendency to clog up the blood
stream. In such a condition it places an excessive
strain on the pumping mechanism of the heart, and
trouble results. Gas pressure in the region of the
Splenic Flexure on the left hand side of the
transverse colon has been known to be the
contributing factor in heart trouble. My FOOT
RELAXATION CHART, referred to towards the end
of this book, has assisted many students to be helpful
in such conditions.
