1. Be of Service to
Yourself
Complete Home Health Care for the Family
by Ania Kastashchuk B.Sc., B.Edu N.C.
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3. About the Author
The most important word in Ania’s vocabulary is balance. She always strives to combine
material and spiritual parts of her life, as well as being a wife and a mother with personal
development and serving others. Ania believes that in every person there is so much good
and in the same time so much bad that it would be unwise to try to determine which one is
predominant. She is compassionate and accepting, and she enjoys seeing others grow. Ania
adores her two little boys Petia and Misha, and dreams about making life of the children of
the planet better.
Ania has Bachelor of Education and Bachelor of Children Psychology and graduated with
Cumma Sum Laude from Belarus State University of Education. She also received a diploma in
Natural Health and Nutrition from Fit For Life Sciences Institute and College of Natural Health.
Ania has been a Program Director of Fresh Start Health Retreat Centers. since 2005 and has
helped hundreds of people in natural health restoration coaching them through the 5-10 or 14
day sessions at the retreat.
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4. Be of Service to Yourself
I personally haven’t eaten any food from boxes or cans for several years, and was 99% raw and vegan for one year; I prepare fresh food from scratch
twice a day… and yet I still wear glasses and have pains here and there. Nothing major, and yet…The worst part is that I am a health consultant and
help others recover from cancer, diabetes, arthritis. Talking about doctor heal yourself first!
Have you ever wondered why it takes so much effort to be healthy? Have you ever been in the situation, when you seemed to do a lot of right
things for your body and soul, tried all supplements in the world and yet felt depressed and tired?
There are many health conscious people: vegan, raw foodists etc. who strive for better health. Yet most of them struggle. It can be low body weight,
B12 deficiency, overgrowth of Candida, or something else. The truth is that very few people are truly free of dis-ease, and can boast with huge energy
resources and ideal weight. Many have been searching for a secret of perfect health. Some became vegan, some stopped being so. Some started eating
raw meat; others got disappointed in the whole concept of going raw. Why does that happen? Why those who apply so much effort to remain healthy
cannot reach their ideal and have to compromise it?
Service is the rent you pay for room on this planet.
-ShirleyChisholm
Recently I was doing research on several particular diseases, and was just shocked
with the facts.To help you understand till what point, here are some of them:
• Every 3rd or 4th American dies of heart disease[1].
• 39% of Canadian women and 44% (close to every 2nd!!!) men will
develop cancer during their lifetimes, and 1 out of 4 Canadians will die
of cancer[2].
• Half the American population suffers one or more symptoms of
diabetes. [3]One in every three children now being born in the U.S.
ultimately will become diabetic.[4]
• Based, on current statistics [ 5], in 158 years every Canadian woman
will have at least one of her breasts removed because of breast cancer,
even if all Canadian women had their breasts today!
There is usually more than one risk factor in development of a disease. However, what a hell is going
on here? Why are we on the verge of extinction? And mainly: why those who chose to avoid
junk food are not perfectly healthy either?

5. While continuing doing research, I think I found the answer. And my discovery is this:
The primary and most important factor in our ill health is nutritional deficiencies due to changes in our agricultural practices. Because of
poorqualityoffoodsweeat,nomatterwhatwedowestillarenotfeelinggood.Smallvarietyoffoods,poorqualityoftheairwebreathe,sedentarylifestyle,
stress, occasional eating of convenient foods (most of us still do it) among other things contribute to our ill health, too.
Dr. Max Gerson described soil factor as a connection between an external and internal metabolism [6]. External metabolism is related to the health of
plants themselves. As long as the soil they are grown on is healthy, they remain disease free and produce superior fruit and leaves.
Internalmetabolismrelatestowhathappenswhenanimalsandpeopleconsumetheplants,orwhenpeopleconsumetheanimalsthathadeatenplants.
External and internal metabolism is closely interrelated. Healthier the soil, healthier the plant. Healthier the plant, healthier will be those who
eatit.Sobydepletingoursoilswithpesticides,herbicidesandfertilizers,wemakeplantsandmicroorganismssick;andbytreatinganimalswithhormones
and antibiotics we inject them into ourselves.
“In 1940 and again in 1991, RA McCance and EMWidowson tested various fruits, vegetables (including carrots, broccoli, spinach and potatoes) and meats
for mineral content [7]. They found that the amounts of calcium, magnesium, iron and copper in our vegetables had declined during those
51 years by as much as 75 percent or even 96 percent, while meats had lost 41 percent of their calcium and 54 percent of their iron, fruits had lost 27
percent of their zinc, and apples and oranges had lost 67 percent of their iron. The tests were repeated in 2002 with similar results. It is not only mineral
content that has declined over the past half century. Levels of vitamins A and C have also dropped dramatically [8]. Wheat has lost much of its protein since
1900. Nitrogen fertilization in conventional farming was found to decrease vitamin C concentrations in many fruits and vegetables”. [9], [10]
Ifthespinachweeat,containsonly4%ofcalciumitissupposedto,andthenwediminishwhatisleftbyfoodprocessing,isitwonderthat
80% of those of us who are 50 get osteoporosis?
How CanWe ImproveThe Quality of FoodsWe Eat?
We have 2 options:
1. Buy organic. Organic food was not treated with pesticides or insecticides, and is much better than conventional.Yet it might be
quite expensive and is not always fresh and ripe, because it takes sometimes many days for the produce to arrive to the consumer.
Organic produce is usually grown with artificial fertilizers, which deplete soil of nutrients.
2. Growfoodyourself.Doyourememberthesmellandflavorofgrandma’scucsandtomatoes?Ibetyoucanalmostfeeltheirtaste
in your mouth. It is so different from the produce we buy: substances that do not have smell, do not have taste, do not feed.You
rarelycanbuyanythinglikeyourgrandmahad.Growingfoodismuchcheaperthantobuyorganic;youcanconsumeyourproduce
fresh and ripe.What is more important, you can choose, what you feed your plant with.

6. AFewPracticalTips:Eventhosewholiveincitiescangrowtheirownfoodinflowerpots
onbalconyortodosimplesproutinginjars.Thosewhohavelittlespaceforgrowingmight
consider doing a square foot gardening [11]. It is important to add nutrients to the soil,
especially natural minerals, like for example ground mineral rock.
In order to get we need first to invest into our soils. Remember: if 4% of iron, this
is all your soil will get from your table scraps, this is all it is going to give you, when you
harvest.You get what you give.
By robbing the Earth during the past century, we hoped to gain. Yet we lost.
Only by giving it back what we took we will get back the superior food and
health we all are crying for.
We always thought that it should be done by somebody else, and we would do
a higher and a better paid job. Yet we did not know that by letting others grow
our food we gave them also the right to control our health.
ItcametimetotouchtheMotherEarthwithlove. Bydoingsowewouldgiveagreat
favor to the nature, humanity and ultimately to ourselves. There is no higher privilege
than to kneel down and to reverently kiss a little seed – the symbol of life. And
who knows, maybe by this simple act of consciousness we’ll save the world. “There is a
loftierambitionthanmerelystandhighintheworld.Itistostoopdownandlift
mankind a little higher”(HenryVan Duke).
1. Ron Garner, M.D. Four Keys to A Long Life, 2003, p. 59.
2. Canadian Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute of Canada: Canadian Cancer Statistics 2008.
3.Thomas Smith, Our Deadly Diabetes Deception. http://www.congregator.net/medicalnews/diabtesj.html.
4. Dr AlanTomlinson, DiabetesWarning Signs Stop the Insanity! http://www.healthy-diabetic-solutions.com/diabetes/
5. Canadian Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute of Canada: Canadian Cancer Statistics 2008.
6. Howard Straus, Max Gerson: Healing the Hopeless, 2002, p. 275.
7. McCance RA andWidowson EM, 1940 to 1991, commissioned first by the Medical Research Council and later by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
8.What Doctors Don’tTellYou, Dec. 2002, vol. 13, No. 9, p. 4.
9. Mozafar A. Nitrogen fertilisers and the amount of vitamins in plants: a review. J Plant Nutrition, 1993, 16(12), 2479-506.
10. Dr. Eva Novotny Organic Farms Make Healthy Plants Make Healthy People: Organic foods are richer in minerals and vitamins and relatively free from harmful chemicals and additives. Source: Institute of Science in
Society http://www.i-sis.org.uk/OrganicFarmsHealthyPlants.php
11. Mel Bartholomew. Square foot gardening, 2005, 2006.

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