Modern Medicine/Germ Theory Examples I am providing here a few examples of the germ theory to make very clear what our culture believes to be the causes of disease and other physical problems. This is important to understand because if you want to have healthy children, you need to have an empowering framework regarding what makes them sick. The following examples are not what I believe, but are the modern beliefs that many people hold:

A cold: A cold is caused when harmful cold viruses touch our eyes, nose or throat. It is caused when we come in contact with someone else who has a cold. They sneeze on us or through some other form of contact transmit their disease to us.

Chicken Pox: This highly contagious disease is caused by the chicken pox virus. You can obtain immunity to chicken pox when you have had the disease. If you do not contract this disease in childhood you could get it in adulthood when its consequences will be worse.

Poor Vision: Poor vision is due to the unlucky combination of genetic material (DNA) you received from your mother and father. Science will soon identify the genes for poor vision and excellent vision and hopefully be able to prevent the former.

Diet: Diet has only a small influence on our health. When you are healthy, you can eat most types of foods without any harm. Be sure to avoid unhealthy saturated fats that cause heart disease, and instead use unsaturated vegetable oils. Eat lean cuts of meat. In general avoid fat —it’s bad for you—and make sure to have many servings of grains per day.

Degenerative diseases: Scientists do not understand the cause of cancer, heart disease, diabetes or __________ (name any disease). There is probably not one cause, but many different factors are involved. Family history is a risk factor. Name any disease, and scientists probably believe that genetics play a role in getting it. There is no known cure for ___________ (name any disease), they say, and the secrets to preventing it are not yet known.

These are merely examples to clarify our culture belief patterns about what causes disease.