Nourishing the Body Temple

After reading this, it is easy to make the proper adjustments to your diet. Your body will thank you for it.

"What we think and what we eat - combined together - make what we are, physically and mentally, (Edgar Cayce reading 288-38) When "Nourishing the Body Temple" first arrived in my home, I placed it on the bottom of my reading pile, and sighed, "another book on nutrition." I have read many, and have a good collection in my personal library, so I was in no rush to read yet another. It was a few days later at our local (Edgar Cayce) Search for God study group, that the book was brought back to my attention. It was the talk of the group. "Wonderful book, beautifully executed, fantastic collection of nutritional insights, easy to read, everything I always wanted to know," were a few of the excited comments. Well, with that introduction, I had to elevate the book to the top of my reading pile. And as I have discovered, well it should have been. The Cayce readings gave the world an unprecedented source of insights on how food energies interact with body, mind and spirit to create health or illness; Simone Gabbay has assembled these for us in this wonderful collection of nutritional guidelines and cooking instructions and complemented them with her own expertise as a professional nutritionist. Simone has given us a comprehensive diet and nutritional guide explaining topics such as enzymes, pH balance, vitamins, minerals, food combining, vegetarian diet and food as medicine. She has included helpful information on fats and oils, cooking methods and the alkaline diet so often referred to in the Cayce readings. To quote from the book, "The task of sustaining the body, through proper nutrition and other measuers, thus becomes a spiritual responsibility. It becomes a goal fueled by the sacred purpose of empowering the soul --the God-self of each individual -- to more perfectly express and experience the full spectrum of its divine attributes". The Cayce readings tell us that we should have reasonable concern for our diet, as in reading 1909-2 "The diet - as the body sees and understands - is as necessary (an) element as any that may be chosen. As the body builds mentally, so may the body build physically by the choice of those foods or valuations from same that will sustain or maintain - that proper relationship between mental, a spiritual, and even physical forces in same." I personally wish to thank Simone for giving us this wonderful spiritual and practical guide to nutrition. Now, when a discussion arises in our family about foods and methods of cooking, we have a standard quip, "What does Simone say?" Then out comes the book, now our kitchen bible, and we look it up. Recently, our family had a great debate about what solid food our baby grandson should be started on. In unison came, "What does Simone say?" Simone gives us a whole chapter on "Nutritional Needs for Special Times and Circumstances". Wonderfully insightful and, surprise; one of the first solid foods for baby is the yolk from a so