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These waste products and foreign matter enter the body with
1) The carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, smoke, soot, dust and gases in the impure air we breathe.
2) The inorganic mineral matter ever present in the water we drink and the addition thereto of harmful chemicals for the purpose of destroying harmful bacteria and micro organisms.
3) The harmful drugs, serums and vaccines thrust into the body under the wrong supposition that such harmful substances can cure disease-nullify the effects of the Laws of Life.
4) The wrong kind of food we eat decaying flesh of dead animals, denatured food products, such as white flour, polished rice and refined sugar, and even by eating too much of the right kind of food.
We shall now make a brief study of the principal types of degeneration of the body tissues brought about by (1) violations of the Laws of Life and (2) retention of foreign
matter.
Degeneration ----The Immediate Cause of Premature Old Age and Death
What is the difference between the body of a child and that of an old man? It is only a difference in the proportions of its chemical constituents. For instance, in the child the percentage of water is 70, while in the old man it is only about 55. And as old age supervenes, in proportion to the decrease of water is the increase of certain inorganic salts and certain waste products that accumulate in the tissues, hardening them, making them stiff, interfering with their functions and finally causing the paralization of the human organism. As we shall see later on, these inorganic salts are the carbonates of sodium, calcium, magnesium, urates, and various other substances that alter and degenerate the cellular tissues.
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