Articles and Essays
"To
resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind, and the
heart -- and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and
love."
---Karl von Bonstetten
SOME THOUGHTS ON HEALING…
“I have a suitcase full of pills, yet still feel awful…”
To solve any problem or to effect a permanent change within the human body or to heal from any disease, it is necessary to view it from a higher level. This is especially true in the area of physical healing from accidents or surgery. Often these are a wake up call to get you to change your ways, habits, or beliefs.
A physician or hospital or medical facility can only arrest an illness and keep it from progressing, or reconnect torn or cut skin, or reset broken bones, repair damaged organs or body parts, or reduce infection. This provides the conditions of stability in which the natural state of healing can progress. The best medicine doesn’t create healing. You have to do that yourself from the inside, by correcting imbalances in your biochemistry and re-connecting the lines of communications along the acupuncture meridians and the nervous system.
When you were a baby, your brain learned how to heal every cut, scratch, burn, bruise, infection, disease, etc. that came along. Any kid who couldn’t do this died in babyhood or childhood. This accounts for most of the crib deaths, baby and childhood disease deaths, etc. Having made it to adulthood and able to read these words, you have a fantastic “bio-electro-magnetic computer” sitting on your neck! It keeps track of more different things going on in all of your systems, organs, endocrines, etc. than you can imagine.
Most of us have no idea of what has to happen (in technical detail) to cause a cut to heal or to produce the internal anti-biotics required to ward off infections, etc. We normally leave that to the subconscious mind, which then interrogates an even deeper level of understanding, and produces the necessary processes, chemistry, cell changes, etc. to effect the actual healing.
The final act of healing always seems like a miracle because of the huge amount of information the mind has to work with in order to restore the wholeness of the body, while simultaneously keeping control of body temperature, digestion, heart rate and pressure, hormone production, respiration, elimination of wastes, and the dozens of other systems and subsystems that need to constantly communicate within themselves, and with each other, as well as with the brain.
Some people think of using medical facilities only as a last resort, when it appears that the body is about to die. You can then allow the doctors to prescribe, to surgically cut and remove, and so on, in order to delay death until your mind can re-establish what needs to be done to heal. First, you may want to seek out the cause of the problem, or the problem behind the problem.
What is the REAL problem? Why is your immune system not killing the infection, or stopping the virus or parasite? Why didn’t that scar heal properly? Why does that joint still hurt? Are you overly tired? Overly stressed out? Low on essential vitamins, minerals, or the like? Short of exercise? Think of using invasive medical procedures only AFTER you have exhausted all other options. The pharmaceutical industry will find or invent a drug for any of your symptoms, masking them out and making you feel better, but often not effecting a permanent solution. Then you need more drugs to counter-act the side-effects of the first one, and so on until your suitcase is filled with expensive drugs, and you still feel lousy.
Ask yourself first if your headache is really the result of an aspirin deficiency, or if is due to tension in your neck, or to poor elimination, too much junk food, or alcohol, or too much of anything, or to little of something. Is there an emotional side of it? Are you too worried, taking relationship issues too seriously? Might there be chemical toxins in the blood? Allergies? Might there be subluxations of the spinal vertebrae that need chiropractic help? Are you producing physical pain on purpose to distract your brain from the awful internal pain of guilt or feelings of rejection? Once you know the cause, then it’s fine to mask the symptoms while you are dealing with the underlying issues, but just hiding the symptoms so you can get back to work sooner, leads to worse trouble later on.
Confronting an illness or healing crisis rarely helps. The WAR on cancer, heart disease, AIDs, and dozens of other health issues goes on forever, as the researchers discover more and more drugs that by fighting with the problem instead of solving it, help some but don’t work for many others. The placebo effect will always be an embarrassment to them. They forget that we ARE our bodies, and we most of all need to feel loved. Many have loved themselves enough to heal their own cancers, hearts, nerves, etc., thus postponing indefinitely the injection and the knife.
But you must get started early on. Do not wait until the symptoms of the wake up call are killing you, and drastic invasive procedures are necessary to save your life. Reconnecting your self to your source is always the best solution.
---Written by Bill Dewey,
Certified BodyTalk Practitioner.
IT'S
NOT SEXY TO SMOKE!
ANI
Sunday, February 15, 2004
http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IE320040214075048&Page=3&Title=F
eatures+%2D+Health+%26+Science&Topic=%2D162&
WASHINGTON - Smoking damages almost all aspects of sexual, reproductive and
child health, claims a new study.
According to the study, published by
the British Medical Association (BMA),
smoking not only has a serious impact on male and female fertility and child
health, but also increases the risk of miscarriage, stillbirth and sudden
infant death syndrome or "cot death".
The report further goes on to say that in the
aged 30 to 50 become impotent. It further goes on to report that 1200 cases
of malignant cervical cancer and nearly 5000 miscarriages occur annually due
to smoking.
Voicing concern over the findings, Vivienne Nathanson,
the BMA's Head of
Science and Ethics said: "The sheer scale of damage that smoking causes to
reproductive and child health is shocking."
"It is quite clear from the litany of appalling effects that something has
to be done," he adds.
Smoking also affects a woman's reproductive health by interfering with the
sex hormones. Conception in women smokers is reduced by up to 40 per cent
per cycle. They also stand the risk of painful and irregular periods and are
likely to reach menopause earlier than non-smokers.
Pregnant women smokers face three times the risk of having an underweight
baby, which could be susceptible to the risk of poor health, including
coronary heart disease and diabetes. Fatal malformations like a cleft
palate, placental complications and a decrease in the amount and quality of
breast milk are also possible.
"Male smokers have lower sperm counts and a higher proportion of damaged
sperm. They have a swimming pattern that is abnormal," the report said.
Both men and women smokers may have a poorer response to fertility treatment
and trouble in conception.
The BMA believes that the banning of smoking in public places and protecting
pregnant women from exposure to second-hand smoke can help solve the
problem.
It wants the British government to take corrective steps and also suggests
that under European law, pregnant women who cannot be ensured protection
from second hand smoke in the workplace, should be
entitled to leave on full
pay during the time of their pregnancy.
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The Laws of the Pharmaceutical Industry
From
the Dr. Rath Foundation, full text at:
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/PHARMACEUTICAL_BUSINESS/laws_of_the_pharmaceutical_industry.htm
The main principles
governing the pharmaceutical "business with disease."
It is not in the financial interests of the pharmaceutical
industry to
prevent common diseases - the
maintenance and expansion of diseases is a
precondition for the financial growth of this industry.
1 The pharmaceutical industry is an investment industry driven by the
profits of its shareholders. Improving human health is not the driving force
of this industry.
2 The pharmaceutical investment industry was artificially created and
strategically developed over an entire century by the same investment
groups that control the global petrochemical and chemical industries.
3 The huge profits of the pharmaceutical industry are based on the patenting
of new drugs. These patents essentially allow drug manufacturers to
arbitrarily define the profits for their products.
4 The marketplace for the pharmaceutical industry is the human body - but
only for as long as the body hosts diseases. Thus, maintaining and
expanding diseases is a precondition for the growth of the pharmaceutical
industry.
5 A key strategy to accomplish this goal is the development of drugs that
merely mask symptoms while avoiding the curing or elimination of diseases.
This explains why most prescription drugs marketed today have no proven
efficacy and merely target symptoms.
6 To further expand their pharmaceutical market, the drug companies are
continuously looking for new applications (indications) for the use of
drugs they already market. For example, Bayer's pain pill Aspirin is now
taken by 50 million healthy US citizens under the illusion it will prevent
heart attacks.
7 Another key strategy to expand
pharmaceutical markets is to cause new
diseases with drugs. While merely masking symptoms short term, most of the
prescription drugs taken by millions of patients today cause a multitude of
new diseases as a result of their known long-term side effects. For example,
all cholesterol-lowering drugs currently on the market are known to increase
the risk of developing cancer - but only after the patient has been taking
the drug for several years.
8 The known deadly side
effects of prescription drugs are the fourth leading
cause of death in the industrialized world, surpassed only by the number
of deaths from heart attacks, cancer and strokes (Journal of the American
Medical Association,
because drug patents are primarily issued for new synthetic molecules. All
synthetic molecules need to be detoxified and eliminated from the body, a
system that frequently fails and results in an epidemic of severe and
deadly side effects.
9 While the promotion and expansion of diseases increase the market of the
pharmaceutical investment industry - prevention and root cause treatment
of diseases decrease long-term profitability; therefore, they are avoided or
even obstructed by this industry.
10 Worst of all, the eradication of diseases is by its very nature
incompatible with and diametrically opposed to the interests of the
pharmaceutical investment industry. The eradication of diseases now
considered as potential drug markets will destroy billions of investment
dollars and eventually will eliminate this entire industry.
11 Vitamins and other effective natural health therapies that optimize
cellular metabolism threaten the pharmaceutical "business with disease"
because they target the cellular cause of today's most common diseases -
and these natural substances cannot be patented.
12 Throughout the more than one hundred year existence of the pharmaceutical
industry, vitamins and other essential nutrients, with defined functions as
cofactors in cellular metabolism, have been the fiercest competition and the
greatest threat to the long-term success of the pharmaceutical investment
business.
13 Vitamins and other effective natural health therapies that effectively
prevent diseases are incompatible with the very nature of the
pharmaceutical "business with disease."
14 To protect the strategic development of its investment business against
the threat from effective, natural and non-patentable therapies, the
pharmaceutical industry has - over an entire century - used the most
unscrupulous methods, such as:
(1) Withholding life-saving health information from millions of people. It
is simply unacceptable that today so few know that the human body cannot
produce vitamin C and lysine, two key molecules for connective tissue
stability and disease prevention.
(2) Discrediting natural health therapies. The most common way is through
global PR campaigns organized by the Pharma-Cartel that spread lies about
the alleged side effects of natural substances - molecules that have been
used by Nature for millennia.
(3) Banning by law the dissemination of information about natural health
therapies. To that end, the pharmaceutical industry has placed its
lobbyists in key political positions in key markets and leading drug
export nations.
15 The pharmaceutical "business with disease" is the largest deception and
fraud business in human history. The product "health" promised by drug
companies is not delivered to millions of patients. Instead, the
"products" most often delivered are the opposite: new diseases and frequently, death.
16 The survival of the pharmaceutical industry is dependent on the
elimination by any means of effective natural health therapies. These
natural and non-patentable therapies have become the treatment of choice for
millions of people despite the combined economic, political and media
opposition of the world's largest investment industry.
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Media Comments
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premiums rocketed to 385,000
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the state, rates
rose 50%. "The American Medical Association".
"Malpractice rates won't ease..." Orlando Sentinel
"The insurance industry is unfairly bilking our doctors," Steve Toole
- Washington St. Trial Lawyers Assoc.
"Soaring Malpractice premiums stun many doctors"
"Malpractice Premiums Triple and Quadruple..." Missouri Tribune
"The Florida Medical Association on Wednesday said it collected by e-mail
and fax the more than 1,000
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*****Disclaimer*****
All material herein was prepared by RSI Inc (RSI) based upon information
supplied by the company
or other sources believed to be reliable. The information contained herein is
not guaranteed
by RSI to be accurate, and should not be considered to be all-inclusive.
What does this imply? The
first $100,000 or so that patients pay your doctor goes right out past
the doctor to his/her insurance company to pay for lawsuits against all doctors
who have made serious mistakes. Hmmmm…..ed.
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BECOME HEALTHIER WITH HEALTHFUL EXERCISE
Keeping yourself healthy should be a priority in your
life, even if it isn't your topmost concern.
To accomplish your other life goals, you need a working body and an energetic mind.
You have to be able to get up early -- the earlier the better -- and work with vigor and intelligence throughout the day. You have to be able to enjoy yourself and have fun, spread some cheer in dreary places, build a loving family life, help your friends, make a good living, cultivate a profitable side business, invest in real estate, and more.
In short, to live a full, productive, and happy life, you need to be as healthy as you possibly can be.
Achieving good health is a matter of developing healthy habits. The two major habits you need to form are (1) eating well and (2) exercising sensibly. Having a healthy body has little to do with weightlifting and muscles. It has little to do with the shape of your bottom.
It is about being lean and strong and flexible -- and you can become leaner and stronger and more flexible if you resolve to follow this program:
FOR YOUR STRENGTH
Do some muscle training (free weights, machines, cables, calisthenics) every week. It's not necessary to spend a lot of time or push a lot of weight; the important thing is to gradually make yourself stronger.
The goal is simple: To get a little stronger every month.
FOR YOUR FLEXIBILITY
As you get older, flexibility becomes extremely important. If it isn't already, you should make flexibility training a cornerstone of your exercise routine.
Plan to spend at least an hour each week toward this goal. Stretch twice a day (in the morning and evening) for about five minutes. This routine alone will make a noticeable difference.
FOR YOUR HEART AND LUNGS
To get the inside of your body working at optimum levels, you have to do some cardiovascular work each week. Again, you don't have to go overboard. (In fact, some of my sources say that marathon running is bad for you.) The trick is to push yourself to make progress but to do so at a gradual pace so you don't hurt yourself.
Cardiovascular training: Mix it up, to avoid boredom.
For more information on exercise, see Message #235 ("Fitness for Overachievers”) and Message #614 ("Reduce the Time You Devote to Exercise and Increase Your Lifespan"). Also, read Dr. Al Sears' "Health Confidential for Men" (even if you are a woman). Dr. Sears is particularly well-versed in strength training -- having worked with athletes and having been an athlete himself for many years -- and both his monthly newsletter and his weekly e-mail service are full of great routines and useful tips. Click here for more information: http://www.agora-inc.com/reports/BUL/EarlyRiser7/
To reiterate:
* Make a serious commitment to getting healthier this year.
* Identify the key areas of health you want to focus on and set yearly goals.
* To achieve those goals, establish a weekly exercise routine -- something that incorporates strength training, flexibility training, and cardiovascular exercise.
* Change your exercises and routines as soon as they get boring, but don't stop unless you get injured.
* Read more to learn more.
---Excerpted from the Health Sciences
Newsletter
FDA Consumer magazine
FDA Cautions Against Ultrasound
'Keepsake' Images
By Carol Rados
It's risky business taking
pictures of unborn babies when there's no medical need to do so. That's the
word from the Food and Drug Administration, which is concerned about companies
trying to turn an important medical procedure into a prenatal portrait tool.
Facilities with captivating
names such as Fetal Fotos, Peek-a-Boo, Womb with a
View, and Baby Insight are popping up in strip malls and shopping centers all over
the country. And they're promoting "keepsake videos" that use the
latest ultrasound technology to produce high-resolution three-dimensional and
four-dimensional (moving) images showing the surface anatomy of babies
developing in the womb. The lure of this burgeoning industry is that
parents-to-be get to see characteristics like facial features, hair, and even
the baby's sex, and often they can count fingers and toes before their baby is
born. Some women even have videos made at various stages of their baby's
growth. And the videos are often being marketed as a prized addition to
collections of childhood memorabilia.
As compelling as these sneak
previews may be, the FDA is warning women about the potential hazards of
getting keepsake videos. The agency also is warning companies against creating
them for entertainment purposes. While ultrasound has been around for many
years, expectant women and their families need to know that the long-term
effects of repeated ultrasound exposures on the fetus are not fully known. In
light of all that remains unknown, having a prenatal ultrasound for non-medical
reasons is not a good idea….
Click here for the
full article---if you are pregnant, this is scary that even the FDA admits
their safety data is 10 years old.
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"No illness which can be treated by diet should be treated by any other
means."
(Moses Maimonides, 12th century physician)
The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER (Vol. 4, No. 6
"Free of charge, free of advertising, and free of the A.M.A."
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is strictly prohibited.
HEALTH UN-SURANCE
Sure, health insurance should cover preventive and therapeutic megadoses of
vitamins. It doesn't. Now think this one over: Viagra "is covered by most
health plans," says its manufacturer, Pfizer Inc., in its 2003 ad
campaign.
Of course Viagra, admits Pfizer, may cause "heart attack, stroke,
irregular
heart beats, and death" in some persons, even those without preexisting
heart conditions.
Face that off with the fact that high-dose vitamin E and C supplements
prevent heart attack and stroke, and reduce cardiovascular deaths by up to
50%. (http://www.doctoryourself.com/forgotten.html)
And still, substantially any use of vitamins is not covered by most
"health"
plans. I'll bet your own health "un-surance"
won't even cover a daily
multiple vitamin. But it is much more likely to cover Grandpa's access to a
better sex life than to pay for vitamins for his grandchildren.
As for the poor, Food Stamps cannot be used to buy vitamins, either. Some
skeptical people I've talked to think this is tantamount to conspiracy.
Whether or not that is the case does not matter nearly as much as this does:
Take charge of, and responsibility for, your family's health. My mother
always said, "You can only spend your money in one place." Use it
wisely:
invest in wellness. It is cheaper in the long run.
My children were raised all the way into college without even one dose of
any antibiotic. When we had insurance (which was rarely), it did not help us
at all. Our kids had their physicals at school, and economically thus
vetted, played outdoors, ate right, and, by golly, took their vitamins.
Insurance did not pay for any of the vitamins or the good food that kept
them well.
But as for erectile dysfunction, well now, just sign here!
COST OF KIDS' VITAMINS
BUGGING YOU?
Oh, please. The average baby goes through between 6,000 and 7,000 diapers
before completing toilet training. You might just as well have a healthy
baby as a dry baby.
Just raising one kid to age 18 can cost a quarter of a million dollars,
according to the US Department of Agriculture. (Lino M. Expenditures on
Children by Families, 2002.
http://www.usda.gov/cnpp/Crc/crc2002.pdf
) Do it on a health homesteader's
budget, like I did, and it's still a hundred grand, easy.
By any standard of comparison, you can afford supplements. Adjusted for 2004
dollars, we personally spent about 25 cents a day per child on preventive
megadoses of vitamins. That's under a hundred bucks a
year per kid. When
they were sick, up went the C and out came the vegetable juicer. But, aside
from physicals, there were no doctor visits. (I mean NONE; my son and
daughter never even met their pediatricians.) No office call fees; no
waiting-room scream-a-thons; no co-pays; no medicines, prescription or
otherwise. Such savings certainly covered the cost of carrots and extra
vitamin C.
For more information on child's health, please do a search for
"children"
from the search box near the top of the main page at
http://www.doctoryourself.com .
(Reader reminder: I do not endorse any supplement brand, and do not provide
recommendations as to which one you might want to use. That is what Google
searches and health food stores are for.)
NEW REVIEW OF "DOCTOR YOURSELF: Natural Healing that Works"
(http://www.doctoryourself.com/saulbooks.html):
Hugh D. Riordan, M.D., writes:
"What a superb book Doctor Yourself is for both the health professions and
anyone interested in maintaining a better level of health. I applaud the
work, especially its forthright manner of presentation. It should be of
enormous value to a vast number of people."
My book "Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing that Works" is now
available
through booksellers everywhere. If you'd like an autographed copy, please go
to http://www.doctoryourself.com/order.html
and I'll get out my Sharpie and
sign one for you.
WATER
I'm for it.
Your body is mostly water. Vegetable juice is mostly water. Food is mostly
water. Even wood from your local lumber yard is 25% water.
Drink a lot of water and you will feel better immediately. Try it and see.
Headaches vanish; stuffiness clears up pronto; your "plumbing" will
like
work a dream (less constipation; risk of kidney stones drops to near zero);
it will even help you lose a bit of weight (especially in combination with
vegetable juicing, further below).
Do not take this as an excuse or an endorsement to spend money on water
products, with the possible exception of an inexpensive device to clean up
your drinking water if you live in an area where tap water is a bit dicey.
Sipping from a cute little bottled-water container, while at least a small
step in the right direction, is not the same as drinking water by the
glassful. Unless there is a clear medical requirement that you limit your
fluids, then don't. Open the hatch and gulp it down! It is remarkably
difficult to over-hydrate yourself, but it is amazingly easy to get
dehydrated. Though everyone knows that hot weather activity causes water
loss, you need as much or more to replace water lost in cold weather
activity. It is not just exercising (I'm for that, too) that causes water
loss. Talking uses water: classroom teachers need an extra liter or two a
day just for that. Airline travel dehydrates you, and there you just sit. In
many ways, the old-time hydropathists were right: Water can be good for what
ails you. Certainly the value is great, the safety high, and the price is
right.
LOWERING CHIOLESTEROL AND TRIGLYCERIDES
Sean writes:
"I was having a very difficult time with cholesterol and triglycerides. My
triglycerides were over 700 and cholesterol was 256. About two months ago,
in one of your newsletters, you suggested that if we eat meat and fried
foods, that we should be taking lecithin. I went on a regimen of powdered
lecithin, and in two months, my cholesterol was reduced to 180 and
triglycerides were reduced from over 700 to 350. Then, I started taking
1,500 mg of niacin for the triglycerides and raised it to 3,000 mg/day.
"I suspected that my future lipid tests would continue to show dramatic
improvement, and they did. Three months later, cholesterol: 149;
triglycerides: 250.
"I am 62 years old, and the doctor said that he was jealous of my blood
pressure and cholesterol count. Thank you!"
Most kind of you to write. Your letter will be a great
encouragement to
many. Thanks are rightly due to Dr. Jacobus Rinse,
who turned me on to
lecithin decades ago. (For more information on lecithin and Dr. Rinse's
therapy, please do a search for "lecithin" from the search box near
the top
of the main page at http://www.doctoryourself.com
.)
MULTIPLE CHEMICAL
SENSITIVITY
I am preparing an article on multiple chemical sensitivity. I'd be
interested in knowing what has helped you (and also what hasn't) if you have
MCS. No product endorsements, please. If you want to share your story,
please email drsaul@doctoryourself.com
.
DEPRESSION
R. T. writes:
"I have struggled with chronic depression and anxiety for years. I read
your
website articles about vitamin B-3 (niacin) and schizophrenia, and the other
info about B vitamins and how important they are. So, I thought I would give
the idea a shot and went and purchased a powerful B-complex supplement. It
worked! I notice a magnificent improvement just over the past few months.
Previously, I was taking Zoloft. But the B-complex has done much more than
the Zoloft did. Amazing how mankind tries to complicate things when it is
actually very simple. I am amazed!"
Good for you. For even better results, you can take your B-complex vitamin,
divide the dose, and take it all throughout the day, say with each meal. I'd
be sure to add vitamin C as well.
WEIGHT LOSS
"Does taking vitamins make you fat?"
No, taking vitamins makes you healthy. Obtaining vitamins goes with eating
right. Underweight people who eat right and take vitamins will gain weight;
heavy people who eat right and take vitamins will lose weight. Not
overnight, but given time. Look for a 3 to five pound loss per month. That
is the kind of gradual but sustainable weight loss you want to see.
Vitamin pills contain no calories. The foods most people eat contain
calories and no vitamins. I think a lot of people overeat because their
bodies are understandably craving vitamins and also craving the good part of
fats, their essential fatty acids (linolenic and linoleic acids). You can
meet both cravings without blimping out.
Here's how:
Eat a tablespoon of lecithin (granulated, stirred into in milk or juice)
about half an hour before every meal. Lecithin in quantity is a very good
diet aid: it kills your appetite while giving your body those two essential
fatty acids (above) it is really looking for.
Also, take a good multiple vitamin pill twice daily.
Most people's regular
mega-calorie fare is already vitamin-poor. For most people,
dieting just
makes bad food-based vitamin intakes even worse.
WEIGHT LOSS AND APPETITE
"Thank you honestly for all the valuable information you presented on your
website regarding weight loss and, most importantly, how to keep it off
through simple rules for changing life style, not just an item or two of
diet.
"One of the most fruitful solutions you presented to lose weight was to
juice fast. I tried fasting before and it was easy after day 2 or 3. I'm
thinking of juice fasting again, but those first two hungry days are
amazingly hard as much as the days that follow them are amazingly great. Do
you have advice to share on this?"
Sure do. The first thing to remember is that fasting is a choice; starving
is a sentence.
We instinctively fear hunger, and with reason. I've gone hungry a few times
in my life and there is nothing ennobling about it. Let's start by banishing
the fear: You'll be fine.
That brings us to appetite, the real problem. Like dogs and teenagers, we
are always hungry. But for what? If you have a
hankering for salty, sugary,
greasy "foods," then I say you are not really hungry. Appetite is
partly
physiological but largely learned. While the normal human
body can go days
or even weeks without food, your appetite is not about to let you without
putting up a fight.
Appetite is linked to low blood sugar, a desire to chew, and an empty
stomach.
We can fix them all.
First, the blood sugar. Water-only fasting tends to
crash your blood sugar
and fruit-juice-only fasting tends to make it (and you) hyper. Vegetable
juice is in smack in the middle, containing a natural mix of some but not
too many complex and simple carbohydrates. If you are pooped out, drink more
juice. For a picker-upper, have some fruit juice after you FIRST have two
glasses of plain water. If you are buzzing and putting a new addition on the
house at
vegetable juices. Low-salt V-8 is good for taking to work and traveling.
Now for the chewing part: Simply snack on raw vegetables, any kind, any
time, day or night. Chew them very, very well. Is this cheating? How can it
be, if you were going to put those same vegetables through the juicer
anyway? Relax! This is about good health, not distracting technicalities and
legalities. I won't call the Food Police if you won't, OK? If you need to,
then munch. Just munch on the right things. (More on this further below.)
As far as having an empty stomach goes, well, don't. If you have an empty
stomach you are doing it all wrong. When you are hungry,
drink juice. No
limit. All you want; any kind, any amount; any time. There is absolutely no
need to have an empty stomach. Juice it up!
In summary: If you can eat it raw, you can juice it. If you can juice it,
you can eat it raw. If you are hungry, immediately do one or the other.
Now here is the part you've REALLY been waiting for:
EAT AND GROW THINNER
"Oh, yeah, like I haven't heard that one before!" you say.
Let me let you in on a secret. The real trick to successful dieting truly is
to never be hungry. If you are hungry or otherwise uncomfortable, you are
doing it wrong. Plenty of people needlessly suffer when they diet. I think
most dieters are either down and dehydrated, crazy
carnivores, or angry
martyrs.
Diet Mistake Number One: DOWN AND DEHYDRATED
1) Don't dry up and wither away: Drink lots of water,
as we've discussed
above. And the colder the better.
(http://www.doctoryourself.com/dieting.html)
It will cut your appetite. It
will relieve most headaches. It will help fill your tummy with zero
calories. And it costs nothing.
And while you have that water glass in your hand, take some vitamin C with
it.
One big reason people eat is to improve their mood. Vitamin C, a natural
antidepressant, also helps improve mood. High doses of vitamin C promote the
formation of epinephrine, or adrenaline. In fact, the human body's primary
reserves of vitamin C are found in the adrenal glands, and vitamin C is a
specific treatment for adrenal exhaustion. You take more C and you feel
peppier. Sounds trite, but just you try it.
Take substantial vitamin C doses regularly throughout the day and see how
well it works as an appetite suppressant. I am not making this up.
Researchers of the Department of Psychiatry,
found that, in persons "using an ascorbic acid aerosol as a sensory
substitute" for tobacco, "hunger for food was significantly
lower." (Levin
ED, Behm F, Carnahan E, LeClair
R, Shipley R, Rose JE. Clinical trials using
ascorbic acid aerosol to aid smoking cessation. Drug Alcohol Depend.
1993
Oct;33(3):211-23.) How to make your own vitamin C
spray has been discussed
in previous Newsletters, and a search for "vitamin C spray" from the
search
box near the top of the main page at http://www.doctoryourself.com
will find
it for you.)
Diet Mistake Number 2: CRAZY CARNIVORISM
2) Most meats contain a big slug of fat. Even lean meat is made up of 10% to
20% fat, and has no fiber. Yes, yes: you need protein. But you do not
necessarily need to kill a critter to get protein in your diet. Eat nuts
instead.
Yes, nuts. You will hear people say the opposite, but the truth is that nuts
are very good diet foods. They are satisfying, crunchy, high in magnesium,
and have excellent mouth feel. Nuts are incredibly filling if you eat them
slowly and chew them up well. Buy the good ones at the health food store:
nothing stale, no salt, no oil, no tooth-rotting so-called "honey
roasting."
Eating nuts will help you have the willpower to leave the meats and many
another "fat-food" alone. Nuts are high in the amino acid tryptophan, which
your body makes into mood-elevating serotonin. For people who "eat for the
wrong reasons," who eat out of loneliness, despondency or despair, nuts
are
a perfect answer. Peanuts and cashews are especially rich in tryptophan.
(http://www.doctoryourself.com/prozac.html)
Diet Mistake Number 3: ANGRY MARTYRDOM
3) It's not what you eat but what you eat a lot of that matters in the end,
such as a pants-stretching rear end. Tasteless diet joke.
Sorry. But don't
have a tasteless diet! Look, here's the plan: eat all the salads you want
and eat all the fruit you want, and I mean ALL you
want. Raw-food
vegetarians eat themselves slim. Want to cook the vegetables? Go ahead,
although it seems like a lot of extra work to me. Cooking does not increase
the calories in a food, but it does compact the food such that you eat more
of it. A really big bowl of greens will cook down into a very small portion.
Still, it's better for you than the meat-mad, fat-frenzied, carbo-crazy
way
most people eat. Raw vegetarian foods are fat-free, low cal and delicious,
and you can eat until you are FULL at every meal. Now that's a diet plan!
(http://www.doctoryourself.com/weight_loss.html)
If you do not want to go for the "full monty"
of a raw food vegetarian diet,
that just do a regular no-junk-food, meatless diet and load up on foods that
really do need cooking: the legumes. Peas, beans and lentils are high in
fiber, cheap and filling. They are also high in the dieter's friend,
tryptophan, the feel-good amino acid mentioned above.
Be sure to eat your squash, too. People who complain that vegetarian eating
does not satisfy their hunger are doing it wrong. Follow the ways of the
native Americans and always invite all of the Three
Sisters to your dinner
table: grain, legumes and squash. If you eat a lot of just one or two parts
of this triad, you will likely still have the after-dinner munchies. When
you have roughly equal servings of grain, beans, and squash at each meal,
you prepare yourself for entry into a whole different between-meal world: a
world in which you are happy and the cravings are gone.
If you do not agree with this, it is because you have not tried it yet. Why
not? What have you got to lose?
READERS SAY
Patricia, aged 93, writes:
"Back in 1970 my hubby had the killer kind of heart attack. He was alive
but
a sick man with serious heart troubles a year later. We learned about the
Drs. Shute's therapy with vitamin E. Dr. Wilfrid Shute called Coumadin
"poison," took him off it, and within weeks (it seemed) had him heart
healthy. My husband took only our current vitamins, plus he'd worked up to
1,600 IU's of vitamin E. This took him to age 90
without health problems."
Way to go! A search for "Shute" or for
"Vitamin E" at
http://www.doctoryourself.com will
give you much more to read about this
approach.
WHY FDA MEANS "FOOLISH DRUG
ADVOCATES"
The U.S. Senate, the U. S. House of Representatives and the FDA (in close
cooperation with the international pharmaceutical cartel) are attempting to
restrict vitamin potency with a "dosage must be restricted to insure
safety"
argument. Consider this: tincture of iodine, a deadly poison, is sold over
the counter without even being in a child-resistant bottle. There is a screw
loose here somewhere, and it may be more than just the
iodine bottle cap.
Previous recent issues of this Newsletter discussing this problem are posted
at http://www.doctoryourself.com/backissues.html
. Look for the latest ones
in Volume 4. The search engine on my main page will save you time: just type
in "CODEX" or "supplement restriction."
You can find VACCINATION EXEMPTION LAW, STATE BY STATE, at
http://www.access1.net/via/STATES/allstates.htm
, which says "All States
have a Medical Exemption. In addition, all States have a Religious Exemption
except
Amendment of the U. S. Constitution applies (or should apply) in EVERY
state, don't you think?
For more information on vaccination alternatives and how to do them, please
search the http://www.doctoryourself.com
website with the keyword
"vaccination." There are many excellent anti-vaccination websites to
be
found on my "Links" page.
YOUR FEEDBACK WANTED
Have you ever been denied a natural therapy by a
doctor or hospital? Tell
your story! Email your experience to me at drsaul@doctoryourself.com
WEBSITE RESOURCE
Does your state have laws protecting your right to demand natural health
care? Does it protect your doctor from persecution if he or she provides
drugless care to you? All this and more will be found at
http://www.healthlobby.com/statelaw.html
.
WHEN I WAS AN "
I was just minding my own business one day when my father said this to me,
without a preface of any kind: "As of today, I've been married longer than
I
've been single. Remember that." I have. I have
also learned that a
relationship is one of the few things that takes two people to make it work,
but only one person to wreck it. Certainly your total health care requires a
consideration of the health of your relationships. I am pleased to present
some wise words by SUNY Professor Emeritus John I. Mosher, Ph.D. Four of Dr.
Mosher's practical, down-to-earth articles are posted at
http://www.doctoryourself.com/relationship.html
http://www.doctoryourself.com/mosher2.html
http://www.doctoryourself.com/mosher_neuro.html
http://www.doctoryourself.com/mosher3.html
STOP TOBACCO DEATHS
Tobacco is the number one cause of preventable death. Lung cancer kills far
more women than breast cancer. Tobacco smoke contains hundreds of toxic
chemicals. For more information on putting an end to smoking, you can look
at the website of one of my favorite, all-volunteer organizations:
http://www.SmokefreeAir.org .
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just health websites; that's of all websites.
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The
lighter side of health:
Exercise facts
It is well documented that for every minute that you exercise, you add one
minute to your life. This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional 5
months in a nursing home at $5,000 per month!
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. Now she's 97
years old and we don't know where the hell she is.
The only reason I would take up exercising is so that I could hear heavy
breathing again.
I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 bucks. Haven't
lost a pound. Apparently you have to go there.
I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm
doing.
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.
The advantage of exercising every day is that you die healthier.
If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.
And last but not least:
I don't exercise because it makes the ice jump right out of my glass.
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Subject: Dementia test
Just to keep us from taking our
health too seriously...
Exercise
of the brain is as important as exercise of the
muscles. As we grow older, it's important that we keep
mentally alert. The saying; "If you don't use it, you will
lose it," also applies to the brain, so.....Below is a very
private way to gauge your loss or non-loss of intelligence.
Take the following test and determine if you are losing it
or are still with it."
OK, relax, clear your mind and.... begin.
1. What do you put in a toaster?
Answer: "bread." If you said "toast," then give up now and
go do
something else. Try not to hurt yourself. If you said, bread, go to Question 2.
2. Say "silk" five times. Now spell "silk." What do cows
drink?
Answer: Cows drink water. If you said "milk," please do not attempt
the next question. Your brain is obviously over stressed and may even overheat.
It may be that you need to content yourself with reading something more appropriate,
such as Children's World."
If you said "water," proceed to question 3
3. If a red house is made from red bricks, and a blue house is made from blue
bricks, and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made
from black bricks, what is
a green house made from?
Answer: Greenhouses are made from glass. If you said, "green bricks,
"what the devil are you still doing reading these questions?????
If you said "glass," then go on to Question 4.
4. Twenty years ago, a plane was flying at 20,000 feet
over
Germany
Where would you bury the survivors? . . . in
Answer: You don't, of course, bury survivors. If you said ANYTHING else, you
are a real dunce and you must NEVER try to rescue anyone from a plane crash.
Your efforts would not be appreciated.
If you said, "Don't bury the survivors," proceed to Question 5.
5. If the hour hand on a slow clock moves 1/60 of a degree every minute how
many degrees will the hour hand move in one hour?
Answer: One degree! .. If you said, "360
degrees" or anything other than "one degree," you are to be
congratulated on getting this far, but you are obviously out of your league.
Turn in your pencil, and exit the room.
Everyone else proceed to the final question.
6. Without using a calculator -- You are driving a bus from
What was the name of the bus driver?
Answer: Oh, for crying out loud! Don't you remember?
It was YOU!!
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========================================================================= Is there hope for a national healthcare plan that really works? Kathleen
O'Connor, a Her prize was won by Vaughan Glover. His suggestions,
presented in a 50-page paper, earned reviews for "brilliance." Dr. Vaughan Glover, 53, is not a medical
doctor. He is not even an American. He did not attend an Ivy League
school. He is not affiliated with any university. He is a dentist from His
ideas and beliefs can be summarized as follows: The
only way to reform healthcare is by mobilizing the overwhelming power of the
grass roots movement that is currently changing the health consciousness of
our society. All of this is only
possible because of this information age that returns the power back to the
people. We are finally in an age where "Power to the People" is
possible, because information can be disseminated better and faster via
email, without needing the approval of higher management or bureaucracy. Most
of us have given over control of our personal health to our doctor, who is
controlled both by our personal health insurance company and by the
possibility of a liability lawsuit, keeping his/her malpractice insurance
premiums well over $100,000 per year.
Medical doctor information sources and training seminars continue to
be funded both by both government bureaucracy and the drug companies, mostly
for reasons of control and profit. There
is very little room left for intuition and patient review of what would work
to the patient’s best interest, when you are only allowed to use information
from the bio-chemical-mechanical model in The
better approach is to design a
Healthcare System around Health, rather than design a healthcare disease
model around an existing System that is not working. Health should be people-centered and the
purpose of the system should be to support the health of the people. Too often,
health systems serve the politicians, businesses, insurance companies or
special interest groups at the expense of the people. The The prize committee appreciated that Glover included a national, government-funded safety net in his proposal along with the idea of personal savings accounts -- ideas that would normally come from opposite ends of the political spectrum. "I've spent 10 years, really, boiling this thing down," said Dr. Glover, wearing a white lab jacket over a shirt and tie. "It's really frustrated me that the patients seem to be losing control of the health care system." He has spent so long thinking and researching
the fundamental ills of health care in Dr. Glover's ideas are deceptively simple. He is
proposing what he calls an "Informed Patient Centered Model,"
which, in reality, is a tectonic shift in how care would be delivered. Currently, Dr. Glover sees the system working
roughly like this: In his country, they have a Canada Health Act, which sets
out several lofty principles, the most sacred of which is universality. A
group of politicians decides, on an ongoing basis, how much money heath care
is entitled to; another regime decides how much doctors will make and how
many hospitals we can have; another group decides -- because resources are
limited -- what expensive tests will be available to whom. At the end of the food chain, in walks the
patient, getting whatever care the system is able to eke out. If he needs to
wait a year for a hip replacement, so be it: the
care is universal, it's accessible, it's affordable (in Dr. Glover's model reverses the whole hierarchy.
Start with patients. Give them loads of information -- in person,
online, in books -- about what promotes good health. Give the patient a "primary provider
coach," which could be a nurse or a nurse practitioner. Together, the
team works on the whole idea of supporting good health, not just curing
disease. And so the very definition of "health," so different today
than 20 years ago, he argues, goes hand-in-hand with the new approach. Behind the coach provider is a ring of help:
doctors, hospitals, alternative care providers, church and charity groups,
schools, private insurance companies, family and friends. To make the system more financially responsible,
Dr. Glover is suggesting personal savings accounts reserved for health. You
need care? This drives home the point that someone is paying for all that
free help. A patient with a cold, for instance, could
explore a range of treatments and, rather than accept a prescription without
question, would make a judgment about whether to pay for a pill from his
electronic account or utilize insurance or some other approach. The healthy person can roll their funds over to
the next year. In typical Canadian fashion, Dr. Glover's ideas are receiving
more attention now that he's made a splash in the Still, he described Canadian health officials as
"very, very hesitant because this is a time bomb. There are people out
there who believe you cannot change the system." In particular, he's
been told that tampering with the concept of universal health care is
"political suicide." He's careful not to step into the minefield of
public-versus-private medicine in Dr.
Glover recognizes that Governments are not visionaries; rather they react to
what they think the public wants. Health professionals have not demonstrated
the leadership and visionary skills to reform a health system that is very
rewarding to them just the way it is. Change
must come from the people. It is organizations such as American Holistic
Health Association and the will of the people that will develop a model and a
system that are accountable to the people. Dr. Glover is currently focusing on writing his book, Journey to Wellness. It is being designed to be interactive by having the readers respond to the ideas in each chapter thru a web site. The book and the web site are to be completed by September 2004. The above article was created by combining news
stories from: the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Dr. Vaughan Glover would welcome hearing your ideas. E-mail him at r.glover@trytel.com -=============================================================- |
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