INTRODUCTION: THE PARABLE OF

THE PEEL EATERS

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Once upon a time I was a smoker. But I was the typeof smoker that used to irk other smokers and here is why:At times I would just inexplicably stop smoking . . . forno reason. I was not trying to quit. For whatever period oftime, be it weeks, months or even years, I would just stopsmoking and then out of the blue start smoking again� thelongest period of smoking being for a stretch of eight years.But that ended also and not because I was trying to quit.This cycle of starting and stopping went on for most of mylife until I �nally realized what it was that was causing thisphenomenon.

Of course, you can imagine why my fellow smokers wereannoyed. Many of them wanted to quit smoking and Iseemed to do it without even trying. According to them asmoker was not supposed to stop smoking without at leastdoing or going through one of the following things:

A) HypnosisB) Nicotine PatchC) Willpower

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D) DeathI did not undertake any of these things. Whenever I

stopped smoking it was simply because I didn't feel likesmoking. Did you catch that? Sort of like after you haveeaten a rather large meal . . . you don't feel like eating afterthat, right? But this is what was incomprehensible to myfriends and family around me. They believed that smokingwas an addiction and that it was something that was beyondtheir control, that it was an inherent weakness within themthat made them engage in the behavior of smoking. Thetalk of addiction seemed silly to me, however. To me Ithoroughly enjoyed when I was smoking and it seemed toful�ll a need. What that need was exactly, I would notdiscover until years later. This book is the fruit of thatdiscovery.

Anyway, when I stopped smoking, I thought: How would

the establishment explain my situation; that is, how wouldthey explain a person waking up one day and not wanting tosmoke? No willpower involved or anything else; how wouldaddiction theory explain it? One of the ways I thought thatthe experts would explain my situation was that, somehow,I was in denial. That is, I was not facing up to the fact thatI was actually using will power to stop smoking. I knew fora fact that I was not doing that. As I said, smoking wasenjoyable to me and I felt no reason to quit. Instead, whatmade me stop smoking was a feeling. Cigarettes simply wereabhorrent to me and I couldn't �gure out why.

It nevertheless nagged away at me for many years butsomehow I felt there had to be an answer. One day I decidedthat I would examine those periods in my life where I wouldjust stop smoking for no reason, a little more closely� put

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them under the microscope so to speak. When I did, a verystrange and interesting pattern presented itself and began tocoalesce. Strange because I never heard of this discovery ofmine being mentioned by anyone; scientists, doctors and allthe experts had not one word to say about it. Weren't theexperts supposed to know this? Soon, after painstakinglyresearching this, I began to experiment on myself and afterall this, here is what I found:

Smoking is not an addiction. The cigarette is ful�lling a

nutritional demand of the body because the body is de�cient

in a particular nutrient. More speci�cally, tobacco, being a

plant, supplies to the human organism a single nutrient that

is de�cient in the normal diet. However, when this nutrient

is supplied in the diet in natural foods, all desire for smoking

stops . . .

Once I discovered what that nutrient was I would add itto my diet (in the right amounts) and the desire for smokingwould go away within hours. The converse also occurred,e.g., I would then take the nutrient out of my diet and beforetoo long the desire for smoking would gradually come back.This worked like an on/o� switch time after time. I began toshare this discovery with others and the same e�ect wouldoccur. Of course, because of this remarkable e�ect, I beganto call it the Magic Element.

This principle is actually what doctors use when theyutilize nicotine replacement strategies in the form of thepatch or gum or whatever. The thinking goes that if nico-tine is the thing that is driving you to smoke then we willsupply it in a di�erent form or mode so that you don't desireit in the form of the cigarette. One mode of transmission issubstituted for another. However, nicotine is not the addic-

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tive element in cigarettes, as we will show in chapter 5. It isnot the thing that keeps smokers coming back for anothercigarette. What that something is will be revealed later inthis book but for now we will use the term Magic Element.And it is not because we are addicted to the Magic Element,it is because we are starving for it. Why call it the MagicElement then? Because when we ingest the Magic Elementin a food form rather than from the cigarette, the desire tosmoke vanishes.

There is no doubt that the modern tobacco cigaretteis a danger to anyone's health but we must approach thisissue with an open mind and let the facts speak for them-selves. As is shown throughout the book, through scienti�cstudies, there may be something that is being overlookedconcerning the tobacco plant� we are not getting the fullpicture about tobacco. There may be something importantin that bathwater that society has thrown out� because ofzeal and shortsightedness, the baby has to su�er the conse-quences and get tossed out also. Because the theme of thisbook is that modern science has shown, and ancient Indianmythology (chapter 10) con�rms, the existence of a partic-ular element in tobacco that is driving people to smoke�and it is not nicotine. This book explains the de�cit of thiselement in modern nutrition and how the body and braindesperately need it for normal function. Ultimately, it is

the scarcity of this element that causes people to seek it in

other forms� one of which is by smoking tobacco. Thisprinciple of seeking out the Magic Element in other formshas been known and discussed by the medical profession forquite some time but no one has revealed the exact identityof the Magic Element . . . until now, in this book.

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THE LAND OF THE PEEL EATERSIf all of this is true, society stands at a strange place in

regard to how we view smoking and our attempts to stopthis habit� it is rather like an obstructed view. This bookwill give the smoking issue a crystal clarity that has neverexisted before.

By analogy and parable I hope to clarify the overarchingconcept of this book that was introduced in the preface�the fact that a nutrient that is vital to the cell generallyand the brain speci�cally has been removed from our foodsupply. From the early 20th century until now we have beensu�ering as a race because of this fact. The human organismMUST have this nutrient and it WILL attain it at any costby turning on a switch, as it were, that guarantees it will beattained. But we do not want to get ahead of ourselves forthis is all discussed in chapters one and two. But to makeit real simple for now, this mechanism in the human cellmakes the human organism procure that missing nutrientin di�erent forms� wherever and whatever it may be. It isa highly interesting and strange mechanism but in order toappreciate it we must follow this through logically. Whenyou see the qualities of this nutrient in chapters 6 and 7 thenyou will understand why the human organism does this.

To bring this into relief somewhat I will use a parableform to demonstrate the main principle of this book. I willuse a nutrient that is not the Magic Element to representthe Magic Element as it relates to smoking. So, just forthe sake of demonstrating truth by means of this parable, Iwill use vitamin C as a substitute for the Magic Element forthe sake of clarifying the principle introduced above. Again,vitamin C is NOT the Magic Element. I am just using it

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to demonstrate a truth regarding the Magic Element andsmoking.

Before we get on to this we should at least be aware thatvitamin C is a necessary nutrient for our body. If we arechronically de�cient in this nutrient, believe it or not, thereis even the possibility of death. Before the twentieth cen-tury dawned, this de�ciency was the scourge of the EnglishNaval �eet whenever long voyages were made. Until it wasdiscovered that limes (which contain vitamin C) preventedthis a�iction from occurring, English sailors were droppinglike �ies from the disease they called scurvy. It was a de�-ciency of the nutrient we all know as vitamin C and now,practically everyone knows it is a necessary nutrient in ourdiet.

In light of this, imagine the following: You are trans-ported to a fantasy land where you are the only person whohas knowledge of the facts related above about vitamin Cand the necessity of it. But in this land you come upon somestrange customs and habits. For instance, when it comes totheir food, the inhabitants do something really strange withthe citrus fruits which are rich sources of vitamin C. They`process' or throw out the fruit while keeping the peels�somehow they have managed to extract fuel from the peelswhich powers their motor vehicles and furnaces. They havebeen following this custom since time immemorial and so itgoes, as with many other things, no one questions it. Thereare some who do eat the fruit and ascribe healing powers toit but their science has not been able to con�rm or �nd anyredeeming bene�ts of the fruit for the body� so it is thrownout. Those who do eat it are called derogatory names suchas `the fruity people' or worse� `health fanatics'.

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Another strange custom that you run into is that wher-ever you go� to restaurants, bars or even outdoor parks�you see people gnawing on thin rolled up pieces of citruspeels dangling from their mouths. You happen to pick up anewspaper and you read about this strange habit and howit is adversely a�ecting the lives of at least 30 percent of thepopulation. The other 70 percent of the population viewthis habit with disgust since the citrus peel is used as afuel and therefore considered a non-food. The paper stateshow the act of peel eating is really getting on the nerves ofthose who don't engage in it� it is polluting the environ-ment (everyone `�icks' their peels), it is socially impolite,and bad teeth (from the acidic peel) are becoming the normfor these citrus peelers. The paper goes on to say that thegovernment is about to enact strict legislation to control thisphenomenon since it seems to be growing out of control.

As you become more acquainted with the phenomenon, athought strikes you. `Since they're throwing the fruit away,because of their strange customs, maybe these much ma-ligned peel eaters are trying to get whatever vitamin C theycan get through the citrus peel? Is it possible that this cus-tom of `processing' or `re�ning' of the fruits is causing thiscitrus peel-eater phenomenon?' In other words, you are theonly one that knows the body needs vitamin C and thatbecause this society is throwing out the fruit which is natu-rally high in vitamin C, the peel eaters may be seeking it inanother mode or form which is the peel, since the peel doeshave some vitamin C in it. They are starving, in a sense, forvitamin C� the peel-eaters can't resist eating or sucking onthe peels since the peels have at least some residue of vita-min C in them� but they don't know this fact only you do.

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Sure, the peels are practically a non-food item and perhapsthey are justi�ably ridiculed but maybe, just maybe, thesepeople are acting on good instincts rather than instinctsthat are called into question by the psychologists� perhapstheir bodies are directing them to engage in this behaviorbecause their bodies are de�cient in this vitamin and aredesperate for it. So, you begin to befriend some of the peel-eaters and you introduce your theory. Thankfully, some ofthem are open minded enough to listen to your proposal:

'Peel eaters, it seems that you are being castigated andmarginalized for your habit, so I propose an experiment thatwill do you no harm. Your culture is processing a necessarynutrient out of your food supply. I propose that if you re-introduce this nutrient into your diet that all peel-eatingwill cease to exist.�

The peel-eaters begin to look at one another in stunnedsilence as someone yells, �But the experts say that we can'thelp this peel-eating because we have addictive personal-ities.� You can see and hear some nods and murmurs ofagreement.

Someone else yells out, �Besides there's no cure!� Morenods and murmurs and you haven't even told them whatexactly the cure is. But you hope that things will begin totake a turn for the better as the crowd argues with itselfas more people become involved in the debate. Slowly, afavorable consensus begins to build.

�Why not listen to this outsider? What have we got tolose if he says it does us no harm?�

Another voice objects by yelling, �I'm not stickin' aroundfor this. I know what cures my peel eating. I'm going to gethypnotized again. It works like a charm everytime!� Every-

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one laughs as they realize the absurdity of the statement.But the comment makes you begin to realize the folly ofhypnotism and why it doesn't consistently work for thesepeel eaters. If they are really starving for vitamin C howcan hypnotism stop their hunger for a vital nutrient? Is itpossible that those who have success with it are actually atthe same time changing their eating patterns by taking inmore vitamin C in some way� who knows? These are allquestions that you hope to address after you get your �rstwilling participants.

Another peel eater yells out, �Well, I'm on the citro-patch and it seems to be working out for me!� At this,everyone turns to the location of the voice that just ut-tered this and they all behold a man rolling up his sleeveto proudly display his citro-patch. �See� I've been on itfor a month now and�� But the sentence was not �nishedas more than one person began to note the obvious. As theman proudly displays his patch, everyone notices the rolledup cigar-sized citrus peel hanging from his mouth. Amidstgu�aws and criticism the man says, �If you just let me �n-ish, I would have told you that I'm not eating peels as much

since I've been on this patch!!�But you still haven't told the peel-eaters your theory of

what and where the nutrient is that will help them. As youanticipate how to present them with the simple solution ofeating the fruit that is `processed out' of their diet a mancomes to the front and turns around to address the peel-eaters. He then points at you and says, �Pay no attentionto this man! I've been seeing a therapist to help me with mywillpower and ability to make decisions. And I have stoppedpeel eating just by learning to say no . . .� The man goes

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on to say how the psychological profession has helped himanalyze why he is weak willed and how it has helped him tobecome stronger willed and such.

The crowd is duly impressed with this testimony andyou might as well throw in the towel with your theory butjust then inspiration hits you and you decide to put yourtheory to the test by asking a question . . .

�Sir, I was just wondering� since you have successfullystopped peel eating have you noticed any change in yourdiet?�

At this, the man's face becomes distorted into an expres-sion of arrogant dismissal but then as the question sinks in,his countenance changes into one of anxiety and apprehen-sion, as if one is being found out.

The man spits out, �What does my diet have to do withme stopping peel eating?�

�Just curious if anything has changed in your diet beforeor since you stopped peel eating for good. Just an idea I'vehad that's all.�

The man begins to shrink a little as if he knows whereyou are going with your line of enquiry and as luck wouldhave it, just then a voice pipes up, from the crowd, whichyou take to be the voice of the man's wife, �Oh, honey!Aren't you going to tell the stranger that special diet youstarted just before you quit peel eating?�

Bingo! Now the man begins looking wildly about as iflooking for an escape route but you begin to plead, �Heywait! Won't you share with us what your diet change con-sisted of before you quit peel eating?�

Again he repeats, �What does that have to do withanything� especially me quitting?�

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Then you decide to unleash your strange idea: �Maybeyour diet change is what made you stop smoking and contin-ued to help you quit.� Now you have stunned the crowd�but this is a good thing because the shear novelty of youridea makes the crowd wonder about the man's diet evenmore, so they begin to ask and to prod the man into tellingthem what it was exactly that he changed in his diet. But�rst you take a gamble and decide to expound your theory.You begin: �Peel eaters, I believe that the reason you arepeel eating is because the peel is giving you a nutrient thatis not in your food supply. But the main reason this nutri-ent is not in your food supply is because you are throwing itout� you are processing it out of your food. So, I believe, ifyou stop this practice you will stop peel eating. This is thereason you are eating a non-food, because it contains some-thing you actually need though not in su�cient amounts soyou must eat many peels to get enough of this nutrient.�

With almost one voice, the crowd asks, �Which food arewe throwing out that is causing this?�

Then you tell them about vitamin C and how it is beingthrown out of the food supply by discarding the fruit. Youexplain how the body needs this vitamin and has no choicebut to acquire it from a non-food source such as the peelwhich still has a residue of the vitamin. The crowd beginsto buzz with skepticism but almost immediately there is ashriek heard from the wife of the man that gave his testi-mony on willpower. Clasping her heaving chest she says,�I can't believe it! I think this man might be right! Yousee, my husband wasn't feeling good about his weight so hewent to visit a `health fanatic' practitioner who told him tobegin eating fruits among other things. Can you imagine

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that?! He was desperate to try anything because of how hewas feeling so he started eating fruits and in a few days hejust stopped eating peels!!�

At hearing this, almost everyone in the crowd becomes awilling participant in your `fruit' experiment. Your theoryis con�rmed by the results. Almost immediately, everyonebegins to notice a change and soon enough the desire to `eata peel' becomes reprehensible because everyone is eatingthe fruit which is far richer in vitamin C. All it took wasreplacing the vitamin C in their diets in a whole food form.As soon as this happened the desire for the vitamin C inthe non-food form was vanquished.

You have now become somewhat of a celebrity becauseyou have `cured' a long known problem in this society butthis status is not without its downside. The professions thatused to be involved with peel eating, hypnotists and doctorsetc, are having a di�cult time dealing with this `cure' eversince they noticed that less business was coming their wayfor this issue� it just seems that way anyway. But there issomething greater than this which consumes your interestnow that the peel eating problem has been solved. It justso happens that this problem you have been thinking aboutcomes up at a sort of reunion meeting of ex-peel eaters andit is not too long before one of the former peel eaters bringsit up. A former peel eater named George says, �You know,I have often wondered why I needed to eat peels and mostof the rest of the population didn't. I mean, what kept thenon-peel eaters from not eating peels? Since they weren'ttaking in vitamin C from fruit then what kept them frombecoming peel eaters just like us?�

Since they have been open-minded enough to listen to

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you before, you decide to present all the evidence for yourargument regarding this topic. They are no less stunnedthen before as you reveal why the non-peel eaters didn't eatpeels as they did.

As you �nish your presentation you hear a chorus of, �Sothat's why they weren't peel-eaters like us!�

George, the former peel eater who broached the topicexclaims, �The whole time us peel-eaters thought we weredoing something bad the rest of the population was doingsomething even worse or just as bad!�

There was some laughter as the realization hit that theonly reason the non-peel eaters were not eating peels is be-cause they also were ingesting a non-food item that con-tained vitamin C in a very bare amount . . . daily. So, muchlike the peel eaters they were criticizing, this group was actu-ally engaging in the same behavior� taking into their bod-ies a non-food substance� which happened to have tracesof vitamin C in it. This was why they were not eating peelsbut they didn't know why exactly� you see they thoughtthat they were somewhat better because they didn't havethe peel eating problem. But what the non peel-eating pop-ulation never realized is that their non-food was worse fortheir bodies than those who engaged in peel-eating. Thoughit was worse for them they escaped criticism because it wassocially acceptable unlike the peels.

NON-SMOKERS HAVE A NON-FOOD TOOWhen society chides people to `quit smoking' (peel-eating)

we are not addressing the real issue� which is the actualnutrient de�ciency for the Magic Element. Though the nu-trient is in a non-food form in tobacco it is still needed andused by the body. If you have doubts about this, chapter

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two will investigate this phenomenon that humans engagein� of obtaining nutrients in non-food items� it is univer-sal and ancient. But make no mistake about it, when wetell the smoker to quit we are not addressing the underly-ing issue� we are telling the smoker to stay away from anutrient without providing an alternative in a dietary form.Although this may sound completely at odds with the so-called facts . . . this book will show that the facts arenot presented in their totality. The whole paradigm mustbe rethought; the world must turn upside down. What hasbeen thought to be a bad habit or an addiction is actuallythe human organism acting intelligently to systematicallyprovide a speci�c nutrient to the body because of a de�citin the food supply and diet. This behavior of seeking anutrient in a non-food form is generally what this book isabout and chapter one broaches the subject by introducingthe principle of reorientation.

Chapter two will begin to address the last question thatwas asked by the former peel eater, George. That is, if wesay that it is a de�ciency of the Magic Element that causespeople to smoke, then it must be the case that those whodon't smoke must be having plenty of the Magic Element intheir diet. The shocking conclusion that this book reaches,and chapter two �rst broaches, is that the reason the non-smoking population does not smoke is because they are do-ing the SAME thing that the smoker is doing. Yes, theyare taking in the Magic Element but the stunning thing isthat it is also through a non-food. Now, the di�erence be-tween the non-smokers non-food and the smokers non-fooditem (tobacco) is that it is more acceptable in society andmuch more ubiquitous than tobacco� even though it is the

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ROOT cause of many of our illnesses and pathologies, itgets a free pass.

THE CONCEPT OF IRONYNow we understand that the Magic Element is re�ned

out of the food supply. The human organism must havethis nutrient and so it seeks it in non-food forms such astobacco. But there is a further irony here� it is almostas if the gods have aligned themselves against the humanrace. This method of re�ning leaves us with an end productthat is stripped of not only the Magic Element but manyother nutrients. The disaster of the human race lies in thisfact, as will be shown throughout this book: This end prod-uct of re�ning is consumed by the majority of the humanrace and what they don't realize is that this causes a cellu-lar disfunction that results in an even greater need for theMagic Element because of it's special ability in dealing withthis cellular disfunction. In Newtonian physics we are in-troduced to an interesting law of motion known as the thirdlaw� `To every action there is always an equal and oppositereaction.' This idea applies very well here.

Historically, there was always a psychological cause in-voked in order to explain why people smoked. This bookis the �rst to explain that smoking is a result� cigarettesmoking is actually a reaction to something. This reactionof smoking which you see in the outside world as someonepu�ng away on a cigarette is really a manifestation of some-thing deeper. That something deeper is the human cell andit's environment� it is strictly a physiological reason, notpsychological, as chapter 1 will demonstrate. This is thekey to it all� manifestations which are visible to us areresults of something hidden and that is the cellular environ-

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ment of the human organism. That cellular environmenthas been compromised, however, by the end products of there�ning process� and these end products are accepted bysociety. And we know the cigarette is reviled as wicked andsinful and unhealthy� in a word, unacceptable. But isn'tthe cause greater than the result in some sense? If cigarettesmoking is a result, a reaction, shouldn't we be blaming thecause of that reaction instead?

The end product of the re�ning process will be givena name in the forthcoming chapters� it will be called apartial-food. This is self explanatory since most of the nu-trients have been removed, especially, for our purposes, theMagic Element. Partial-foods as we'll come to see, are thecause of a dangerous environment in the cell which producesan even greater need for the Magic Element which will cor-respond to greater tobacco use in society.

DEPTH CHARGESUltimately, as will be shown, tobacco smoking is a result

of the fractionation of the food supply.But, as it also will be shown, there are far greater things

that occur as a result of this fractionation and they are not`good' in any sense. The human cell simply can not handlefoods that do not contain the metabolizing elements withinthem� this causes cellular in�ammation and by extension,system-wide and eventually organic in�ammation. The in-�ammatory result of ingesting partial-foods has repercus-sions that a�ect the multi-dimensional aspects of man.

�It will a�ect him physically.�It will a�ect him mentally and emotionally.�And, as a result of the cellular in�ammation caused

by partial-foods, the human organism will initiate a special

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mechanism in order to acquire the Magic Element. Whydoes it only seek out the Magic Element? Because, as willbe shown in chapter 7, the Magic Element is specially de-signed to put out the FIRE� the cellular in�ammation.The special mechanism, discussed in chapter 1, will seekout the Magic Element in non-food forms, since it is notavailable in the food supply� it is processed out.

So, in chapters 4 thru 7 we discuss one of those non-food forms that many people in the 20th and 21st centuryhave been seeking missing the Magic Element� tobacco. Inchapter 8 we provide the dietary solution for correcting thisstarvation, which is evidenced by cigarette smoking, andthat is through whole foods that are naturally rich in theMagic Element. Chapters 9 and 10 tie up the loose ends byshowing how the need for this nutrient is universal and weshow that this knowledge of the Magic Element is actuallyancient, as revealed by Indian mythology.

Hopefully, as you turn the pages, you will understandwith a deeper appreciation that when people smoke, theyare starving� and if you end the starvation, the smoking`habit' ends also . . .

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