Our Guest Cherie Calbom

SID: Sid Roth here with Cherie Calbom. And Cherie, I’ve never heard of this. I mean, I’ve heard of inflammation, of course. But I’ve never heard it being the root of most diseases. What is inflammation, for starters?

CHERIE: Inflammation, if we see it on the surface like a cut or a sprained ankle, we see redness, swelling, irritation. It’s obvious. But inside at the cellular level, we can’t see that a little cell is distressed. They call it the silent killer. It’s a big frontier of study right now, inflammation being at the root of every condition that there is, and we must get it down. And what is it? It’s a distressed cell and it’s an over-reaction of the immune system. And so this is going on right down at the cellular level, and every disease out there, if you’re listening right now and you say, oh, I’ve got something wrong with me, you’ve got inflammation and we want to show you how to get that down.

SID: Okay. Well when you have inflammation, aren’t there medical things, pills and things you can take to get rid of it? Isn’t that the simple way? And I know you’re not going to like that, but I have to ask you.

CHERIE: You had to ask, didn’t you?

SID: Yes.

CHERIE: Yeah. Well you know, a lot of those pills add to your inflammation, add to the toxicity in the body. What we need is the anti-inflammation diet. We need food that bring inflammation down in our body. We need to not eat the foods that are pro-inflammation.

SID: Let’s talk about that a little bit. What would cause, what are we eating that’s causing inflammation and is it increasing in society?

CHERIE: It is increasing and studies show that. And what I’m about to tell is based on scientific studies, one thing right after another. The number one cause of inflammation today, and this is based on studies, scientific studies at universities, is junk food. All the packaged, boxed stuff that we eat has things in it: additives, wrong types of sugar, dyes, preservatives, pesticides, on and on it goes. The body was never designed for this kind of stuff pouring into our bodies. And so many people are getting the convenience foods, packaged things, things that are making, things they think are easy, making life simple for them, it’s making us sick. Number two are all the sugars and they’re bad sugars: high fructose corn syrup, fructose and in everything, all the artificial sweeteners, and too much sugar and sugar in all different forms not created by God, and way too much sugar. We were never designed for that. Scripture says, “A little honey, not a whole lot.” That’s what we eat all day long.

SID: I thought it said, eat as much as you want. I got a lot on this (unintelligible).

CHERIE: So that’s based on scientific study, too, way too much sugar, and sugar is an inflammation-causing product. We cannot be eating this sugar. And people eat it all day long, a sugary cereal for breakfast, sweeten their tea or their coffee. They may have a little dessert for lunch, a little energy bar packed with sugar, a dessert after dinner. We’ve got sugar, sugar, sugar all day long, and packaged foods.

SID: Wait a second. They package things right now with artificial sugar. It doesn’t give you any calories. It’s wonderful, zero calories.

CHERIE: Zero calories and I say scary, scary stuff. And you know why? Now studies are showing it’s supposed to be the diet sweetener, right? It makes people overweight, 500 times more addictive and making people want to eat more sweets and it deranges our metabolism, and it causes people to gain much more weight, and to want to eat more food, and to want to eat more sweets. And then they’ve done studies showing statistically, when artificial sweeteners came on the market, a couple years later, brain tumors spiked way up. If you see a bar graph, you’ll see a big spike and you’ll see all sorts of migraine headaches and other problems, and central nervous system problems. These are not things God designed.

SID: Are you telling me if you get your inflammation under control, you’ll get your heart under control?

CHERIE: You will. And studies have proven that. In fact, right at the top of the list of what is contributing to heart disease is high inflammation. And there I found a quote by a cardiologist, and he said, “If you did not have inflammation in your body irritating your arteries, cholesterol would flow freely on through.”

SID: No, no, no. We have cholesterol medicine now. No problem, Cherie. That’s what doctors push, cholesterol medicine.

CHERIE: No problem. Pop a pill, right?

SID: Yeah.

CHERIE: It’s supposed to answer everything. You know, there’s a study out of the U.K., the WIN Institute did a study and found as many people died of heart disease with low cholesterol as with high, and they said we find no correlation with cholesterol. God created cholesterol. It’s there to plug up a wound. If we cut ourselves, we want cholesterol, goes in and plugs it up. If we have an irritated artery, that cholesterol is going to go in and cover up that wound in your artery or irritation. It’s done what God called it to do. What do we have to do? Get that irritation down, get that inflammation down.

SID: So we’re going after the symptoms rather than the causes. That’s what I’m hearing you say.

CHERIE: We are. And God is always wise and he’s saying, go to the root of the problem. “Come out from among them, my people,” he says, “and be separate because I’ve given you the food, the diet, the plan.” He designed this body. It was like you got a Ford and you said, I don’t want to put in the right fuel that Ford, said put that in that car, I want to put in what I think is great. Uh-uh. God says, here’s the fuel for your body, this is what’s going to give you health, vitality, wholeness, vibrant health, so you can go do that work in the Kingdom. You can help all those people get on the train you’re talking about. You need, we need lots of workers. We are all needed in this great time of harvest.

SID: You know, you told me that you got so many responses from the last time you were on our show. Tell me about someone from, the woman from India. It’s a neat story.

CHERIE: I’m so excited about her. She went to her doctor and had a large cyst on her ovary. It measured, if my memory is correct, at 4 by 3 centimeters. She had no insurance, no money to get that taken care of, and really no hope. And saw our last show, and said, okay, I’m going to get this package, and I’m going to give it a try. And she got a juicer, and she started juicing, and she changed her diet. And eight months later, went back to her doctor, and he said the cyst is gone. Thanks be to God. It was a miraculous healing.

SID: You know, when we come back, you’re going to find out that it’s the most wonderful, nutritious food that you can eat. It’s not just juicing. It’s a whole diet. Are you interested in seeing what it’s like? We’ll be right back