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How a change of diet can affect a person's personality and 'character' is to be observed particularly in children.
Through 30 years of teaching at all school levels I had uncountable experiences.
If we succeed in making children stop eating food with abundant animal proteins (meat, cheese, milk!! etc.), food with a lot of all kinds of sugar, or other kinds of treated ingredients (flour, rice...), changes can be observed which will be regarded as a wonder and you will hardly believe that it is still the same boy, girl or teenager:
- children that kicked a dog or tortured animals all of a sudden caress them
- children that were aggressive and liked to quarrel and fight with their companions all of a sudden are nice and caring
- children that were tired and inattentive during the class, all of a sudden pay attention and learn better
- children that were hyperactive and couldn't sit still in class, all of a sudden are quiet and behaving normally
- children that liked to watch TV the whole day all of a sudden like to play outside with their companions
- children whose parents told me that they cannot sleep in the evening all of a sudden are tired and like to go to bed early
- children that had a chronic cold with a 'running nose' and 'running ears' for years often within a COUPLE OF DAYS are free of any symptoms.
There is another very important fact: The diet that children grow up with is very decisive for their future eating habits!
The change is bigger the more FRESH, UNCOOKED food is being consumed. The more non-violated the food is, the less violent the person is!
Columbus wrote in his diary when he reached the Isle of Guanahani (I found it in one of my school books): 'We met friendly natives who lived on fruit and vegetables.'
'Mens sana in corpore sano!' The Latin saying has got a deeper meaning than we usually think. The same can be observed in adults, by the way, but the change is far slower. Maybe because the body takes longer to be cleaned?
'As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields!', Leo Tolstoi said.
Sigrid De Leo
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