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Antidepressant Drugs that Increase Diabetes Risk

Antidepressant drugs increase the risk of type 2 diabetes among those at high risk of the disease, a re-analysis of part of the large-scale Diabetes Prevention Program study found: http://www.mercola.com/2006/jun/29/dangerous_antidepressants_elevate_type_2_diabetes_risk.htm.

The Dirty Truth About Allergies

People who live in overly hygienic environments appear to be increasing their risk of allergies and autoimmune disease: http://www.mercola.com/2006/jul/6/the_dirty_truth_about_allergies_you_need_to_know.htm.

 

 

Whole Grains Improve Insulin Sensitivity

Whole grains improve insulin sensitivity, according to a study appearing in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Insulin sensitivity is a measure of the body’s efficiency in clearing sugar from the bloodstream. Individuals with better insulin sensitivity have reduced risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and cancer.

The Insulin Resistance and Atherosclerosis Study included 978 middle-aged adults with either normal or impaired glucose tolerance. Participants whose diets included the most whole-grain foods - dark breads (e.g., whole wheat, rye, pumpernickel), bran or granola cereals, and cooked cereals - had significantly better insulin sensitivity, compared to those who tended to skip these foods.

This effect of whole grains appears to come mostly from their fiber and magnesium. However, evidence suggests that the short-chain fatty acids produced as grains are digested also contribute to the effect. Here is the reference:

Liese AD, Roach AK, Sparks KC, Marquart L, D’Agostino RB Jr., Mayer-Davis EJ.
Whole-grain intake and insulin sensitivity: the Insulin Resistance
Atherosclerosis Study. Am J Clin Nutr 2003;78:965-71.

[This is part of what and why we teach the Raw Living Foods Lifestyle at http://chidiet.com]

 

Asthma and Exercise

Often thought to trigger asthma attacks, exercise actually benefits children with this condition, an overwhelming majority of studies find. In fact, researchers suggest that the decline in physical activity among US children today may be a factor in the recent rise in asthma prevalence and severity.

- "Physical Activity and Exercise in Asthma..." by Sean R. Lucas, MD, MPH, and Thomas A. E. Platts-Mills, MD, PhD, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 5/05.

Sleep connected to Diabetes

Sleeping for less than six hours or for more than nine hours each night is associated with an increased risk of diabetes and impaired blood sugar (glucose) tolerance by 2.5-fold: http://www.defeatdiabetes.org/Articles/sleep050505.htm.

Toxemia Explained

by Michael A. D'Ascenzo

What is the nature of dis-ease? Are we all doomed to a life of Russian roulette in regard to our health? Can all the best preventative measures be for naught if we “catch” the wrong virus or disease? Do we have no control over what our genetics have predestined for us?  Have we no choice? Is there no natural and simple way to keep our bodies functioning well?  Could our existence as physical beings really be so cruelly cursed?

The answer is no. Living a healthy life is not only possible, its means are easily understood and available to all. Like the rest of the material world, it comes down to cause and effect.  Yet, the world seems to have a real problem with the cause in this situation. How about poison? Substances that are deleterious to the normal and healthy functioning of the human body. Makes sense, and most would agree it is a major factor.

I say it is the only factor. The human body is a magnificent and miraculous creation that is capable of withstanding and repairing great amounts of stress and damage. It only asks for a little love and understanding. We ask too much of it.

How about "You are what you eat."? Every culture on the planet has a saying with this meaning. Simple, yet profound. Yet this would mean we are directly responsible for our own health. We humans seem to have a problem with this notion. I call it denial. I cite addiction and complacency. I point to those who stand to benefit from the continued poisoning of the populace and the rampant misinformation and oppression of oppositional ideas carried out by such persons.

Of course there are other environmental factors that can and do affect health but the one variable we have absolute control over and influences our biology more than any other is our diet. Food.

Every other living creature on this planet thrives on a natural diet of  'raw' (unheated/cooked, unadulterated, unprocessed) foods. Humans are the only ones tampering with their food. Humans are also the sickest creatures on the planet. By any standards, we are an endangered species. What do you think would happen if we fed a tribe of wild gorillas or a pack of  wild wolves coffee and donuts for a few generations? How about McDonalds? Or TV dinners? The fact is, human diseases are human diseases, animals don't get them (unless they are under our care and/or ill treatment). We are killing ourselves.

Think about it. Say you were stranded on an island or in the desert with no tools or technology available to you. Time passes and you develop a genuine hunger, what do you do? What is your natural inclination? Chase down a wild animal, catch it with your bare hands and tear into it with your teeth, eating it alive (as carnivores do)? Try to steal milk or eggs from another? Catch and eat a raw fish? Or pick fruits, nuts and berries from the trees and bushes?

Someone once said: "Give a baby a banana and a live rabbit. I can bet you my car that every single time the baby will eat the banana and play with the rabbit." Whose instincts do you trust, a baby or an “adult?”

Which mind should you rely on?  The simple, fearless and open one we are born with or the complex, indoctrinated and closed, that is the possession of so many in our society today. The choice is yours, eat wisely. Health is wealth.

You can contact Michael at [email protected].

How To Virtually Eliminate Your Risk of Lymphoma

Eating lots of vegetables lowers the risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), according to a Mayo Clinic study. After examining the dietary intake of 466 people with NHL and 391 matched controls, researchers found that:

1. 1. Those who ate a higher number of vegetable servings per week had a 42 percent lower risk of NHL than those who ate the lowest number. 
2. Those who ate the most servings of green leafy vegetables and cruciferous vegetables had a 40 percent lower risk compared to the lowest intakes.
3. Those who had the highest intake of the carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin had a 46 percent lower risk of NHL. 
4. Those who had the highest intake of zinc had a 42 percent lower risk.
5. The researchers believe the reduced risks are due to the antioxidant effects of the carotenoids in vegetables. An antioxidant-rich diet helps fight DNA damage caused by oxidative stress, which is one of the risk factors for non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition June 2006, Vol. 83, No. 6: 1401-1410

- submitted by Dorit

Healiing colitis - Chron's disease

Healing Colitis (Chron’s Disease)
Article by Paul Nison

I have cured myself of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, also know as Ulcerative Colitis or Chron’s Disease.

As I travel the world I meet many people who are sick with all type of so-called incurable diseases. My heart goes out to all of them, but especially people with IBD. I know how it feels to be sick. I’ve experienced it first hand. Many people knowing my story ask me what can they do to get better. I really wish I could answer them in one phone call or one email but it is not that easy. However it is not that hard either. The first thing one person must do is HAVE FAITH.

I don’t care how well you eat - if you don’t have faith in what you are doing it won’t work, and if it does work it won’t last. Having faith is easy once you understand. Most people do things that sound good but don’t understand what they are doing. How do you begin to understand. Read and study and pray for answers.

To help people who are sick with IBD and any other disease I am in the process of finishing up a book about Inflammatory Bowel Disease. After this book I think many people will understand something they never understood before about health and disease and most important about faith. I am working hard to get this book out as soon as possible but if you come to one of my many lectures I will tell you how to DO IT!!! You can get better from all your sickness. ALL OF IT. I will explain to you how and make you understand it more clearly.

In November, December and January I plan on speaking in a different city almost every night. I am a raw food chef and I will explain to people how to make great tasting easy raw food recipes while explaining why it is so important to eat this way. Just go to my website http://www.rawlife.com and on my lecture page you can see when I will be speaking in your city.

Hang in there, have faith and read, read, read and you will get better.

God Bless You all.
Paul Nison

Nearly 21 million Americans have type 2 diabetes, and the number continues to climb

What's the fast track to joining the ranks? Weight gain, particularly around the middle. An expanding waistline -- 35 inches or greater for women, 40 and over for men -- is a red flag. What can you do? Get active for at least 30 minutes a day, and shun foods high in saturated fat, white flour, and sugar: http://www.realage.com/news_features/tip.aspx?v=2&cid=16788.

Your Neglected Lymph System

The lymph system runs up and down the body like rivers and streams. Lymph fluid bathes all cell tissues and carries solid waste material from metabolic processes in the cell to the elimination organs, mainly the colon or large intestine.

The lymph system is very similar to the blood system (together these two systems make up the circulatory system) except that it does not have a pump like the heart to move the fluid around the body. Movement of lymph fluid is dependent on exercise.

Moving muscles (exercise), jumping against gravity (rebounding), breathing (deep inhalation) and squeezing the tissues (massage) are all ways to move lymph in the body.

The diaphragm is a “lymphatic pump”; therefore, exercise is important. While exercising and inhaling deep breaths of fresh air, the lymph flow increases 5 to 15 times.

The most natural exercises are walking, dancing, swimming, singing, rebounding, deep breathing and aerobics.

The lymph system carries waste materials away from the cells. When the walls of the colon are impacted, mucoid plaque builds up on the walls of lymphatic vessels and cannot drain into the colon to be eliminated.  

For the lymph system to drain freely, first we must clean the colon.

As soon as the colon is cleansed enough to relieve pressure on the lymph system, mucus is often seen in the stool.

Guests at Creative Health Institute have often reported a relationship of this to improvements in chronic physical problems, such as rheumatoid diseases, asthma, hay fever, allergies, cystitis, eczema and other skin diseases, edema, cellulite and inflammations of the lymph nodes.

Dry skin brushing with a natural fiber brush removes dead skin and wastes and stimulates the lymph system. To help cleanse the lymph system, daily dry skin brushing is recommended.  This practice helps produce clear, healthy skin that gives off a natural glow.

Sunbathing for 2 to 30 minutes is an excellent way to encourage elimination through the skin.  

Deep breathing exercises, rebounding for 10 minutes and dry skin brushing are important daily activities that are necessary to increase elimination of solid waste materials from the body.

The Lymphatic System

 From Dr. Ann Wigmore's Home Study Program. Learn more:
http://chidiet.com

Dealing with Diabetes

I am a diabetic (for 20 years), on 8 meds plus a small evening insulin shot. When I found info on the raw food lifestyle, I also found material on reversing diabetes. My doctor & endocrinologist are both supportive of my efforts, surprisingly.

I made it clear that my ultimate goal was to be off most, if not all of my meds. After 3 weeks of green smoothies, not even every morning, and some small changes in diet, I had lost 9 lbs. and felt like I had some energy again. This is definitely incentive!

Thank you for the info you are providing on the internet, and I hope that the legal issues are soon resolved.

Ruth

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Jim's comments:

If I had the money and the resources, it would be great to do one of those big studies like the pharmaceutical companies do of "typical benefits." I'd like to know just what percentage of people see a significant change in their blood sugar levels and energy levels when they convert to a Raw Living Foods program.

During my years as Director of Creative Health Institute every diabetic that went through the program reported a significant reduction in medication, usually within three or four days of starting the program.

The medical community says that treating diabetes is a matter of diet and exercise; well, that's what Dr. Ann Wigmore's Lifestyle Program is all about. It not only changes your diet, it also reduces your stress level and encourages you to get the proper types of exercise on a daily basis, "just what the doctor ordered."

Congratulations to Ruth and to the many others that email me stories about reversing their diabetes - even to the point of getting off their meds - with raw living foods.

One does not have to be sick, but you do need to "choose" to be healthy. Here's a link to our current, legally required "typical benefits and results" statement.

For more information about the Raw Living Foods program, here's the DVD version: http://chiDiet.com

Here's the same program in the green, online version: http://RawLife.org

Enzymes and Digestion

- Working less by eating better.

by Dr. James Carey, Ph.D. (computers)

In my last article we discussed how and why eating an organic raw living foods vegan diet led to weight loss by detoxifying the body.

In this article we're going to look at the value of digestive enzymes to the body, and their relationship with an organic, raw lifestyle, digestion, and your daily energy level.

Digestive enzymes are the tools that the body uses to turn food into nourishment. When you consume a meal of cooked food the body examines the contents of the stomach, then the pancreas goes to work producing the proper enzymes to digest that food.

This process is called "tagging" the enzymes, and is an approximation process. In other words, the pancreas can't always correctly tag enzymes for the foods you've eaten, and takes it's best guess. A common example of this is to see undigested corn in your stool - it's hard for the body to properly tag enzymes to digest cooked corn, thus, it passes though the body without being utilized.

When we eat raw fruits, grains, nuts and vegetables, however, the properly-tagged digestive enzymes already exist in those foods. Raw apples have apple-tagged enzymes, raw coconut has coconut-tagged enzymes, and corn has the properly-tagged enzyme for the body to digest it, and thus get the most from the nutrition it contains.

So when we consume our foods raw our bodies get maximum benefit because of proper digestion. That alone is reason enough to eat lots of raw foods.

But it gets better...

That desire you feel for a nap after a big meal is caused by the blood going to the pancreas to produce the needed digestive enzymes.

When you've already got the enzymes in there, as part of the food you just ate, the pancreas gets "time off."

That's why raw fooders seem to have so much more energy.

Eating a 100% raw vegan diet saves the body eight hours of work a day - that's a lot of energy saved.

But it gets even better...

Over time, the pancreas loses the ability to produce digestive enzymes. That's why we begin to have digestion problems as we get older. Taking that load off the pancreas thus improves our digestion.

So, for older people, when we eat more raw food we have fewer stomach and intestinal problems.

And, yes, there's something even better...

As we discussed last time, the body never takes time off. When we remove one responsibility from it, like working eight hours a day to digest food, it finds something else to do.

In this case, it can now devote itself to cell rejuvenation and healing with the conserved energy. This is the reason raw fooders, even when they begin later in life, start to not only feel younger, but to look younger. I've even seen white hair revert to it's darker color over time - something I though was irreversible.

I know that I certainly feel better, have more energy, and am more mentally alert than I was 20 years ago.

"OK, Dr. Jim, I'm sold on the raw vegan lifestyle."

Ah, but you only think you're sold. Right now you're motivated, so grab some organic fruit for your next snack, not something that comes in a plastic package. Next issue I'm going to share some information about stress reduction, DNA healing, and how living foods take you there, naturally.

By the time we finish these sessions you'll be convinced, not just sold.

Yours in Great Natural Health,
Jim Carey

Dr. Jim Carey, PhD, DD, has been a raw living foods advocate for six years, ever since the Dr. Ann Wigmore program changed his life. You can learn more about Dr. Wigmore, N.D., and Dr. Carey at AnnWigmore.com, RawDoctors.com, chiDiet.com, chiVideos.com, WigmoreDiet.com and chiDiet.net.

Dr. Carey is currently doing an American television series about the raw vegan lifestyle. Episodes of his show can be seen at GrassyRoots.com. Dr. Carey resides in rural Georgia, USA, where he loves to eat wild edibles, and travels extensively sharing the message of the raw living foods lifestyle. He can be contacted via email at [email protected].

Dr. Jim also served as Director of Creative Health Institute for several years, and is a Trustee of the Creative Health Institute 501(c)-3 Non-Profit Trust.

Updated Raw Living Foods Course Now Available

By popular demand, the Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods Home Study Course keeps growing and growing.

I've added more video titles, two ebooks, and the entire Grassy Roots TV series to the course. It now covers everything from "Raw Curious" to Advanced Raw. There's a 300 page Handbook to Going Raw, and a recipe book with hundreds of raw and transitional recipes.

Learn more: chiDiet.com

Yours in Raw Inspiration,

Jim Carey

"Eat to live - not live to eat." - Ben Franklin

"Because of their diets nine men in ten are suicides." - Ben Franklin

(Ben was a pretty smart guy, wasn't he?)

Dairy Products and Oils are Hurting You

From the Wellness Revolution series:

I could barely concentrate on what the man from India was saying because I was so aware of what he is doing to bring illness to his own body.

This man worked with Mother Teresa for 7 years. He, like so many others, is like the shoemaker who doesn’t have any shoes. He is healing others and forgetting himself.

He needs to stop using dairy products immediately in order to get rid of the chronic nasal drip and phlegm that is plaguing him. The dairy protein casomorphine (sticky glue) is causing him to clear his throat constantly. The speaker Dana after him has a head full of brain fog/phlegm from the dairy that he has not cleared from his system. This, and some oils he is using, is preventing him from having a full head of hair because the oils clog up your hair follicles and your hair falls out. You can tell where his congestion is (from the dairy) because of his nasal voice.

The morphine in the casein is addictive and after a 21 day detox, using home-ripened freshly made pineapple juice, the bromelain enzymes will dissolve the mucus that keeps them bound to treatments instead of 'cures.'

I hope everyone would please read Dr. Esselstyn’s book “Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease” and Dr. T. Colin Campbell’s book “The China Study” and Dr. John McDougall’s writings, and Drs. Neal Barnard’s and Gabriel Cousen’s books and works on curing diabetes with a plant-based diet.

We must educate ourselves that the casomorphine (casein) and albumin from dairy and chickens enculture the viruses, bacteria and parasites and allow them to grow and spread disease unchecked.

One example the man from India gave did not explain why it worked: The reason why the milk and onion worked for the child who had congestion, is that the fumes from the onion drove the ‘germs’ out of his body into the dairy, in which they could breed.

We must look past the ‘treatment’ and get to the cause of the problem, which is that the child is eating dairy products or eggs. This repetition of deadly food intake is a habit that moms perpetuate out of fear that their child is not getting enough xyz nutrients, when a plant-based diet will supply everything without innocently and ignorantly putting the child in harm’s way.

I worked for over 22 years teaching the Ann Wigmore Living Food Program when she was alive, and I continue to do so after her death, and what I do is free.

Good health is your birthright.

Thank you for ending this with Caroline Myss, a lone voice in the crowd who helps people get to the bottom of things without 'treatment' with stuff. We have everything we need in ordinary foods, if they are eaten in the proper forms: blended or juiced or eaten whole, peacefully. 

http://www.rawdoctors.com & http://www.RawLife.org.

Peace be with you,

Dr. Flora

Diabetes Linked to Improper Sleep Patterns

40 Winks or More

We all know that getting enough quality sleep is vital to our health. Sleep is the body’s time to do ‘fix up.’ Well you may be able to add yet another benefit to getting forty winks.

A new study from the University of Chicago indicates that not getting enough quality sack time, along with a sedentary lifestyle, as well as overeating may all contribute to getting diabetes.

Your lifestyle does make a difference in your health. In fact, this is the kind of information that needs to be considered in Washington as they are trying to fix our broken ‘health’ care system. People taking responsibility for their own health in little ways like getting enough ‘shut eye’ can go a long way to reducing the cost of health care, be it good, bad or indifferent.

Full story: http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE57B3I620090812

Bowel Cancer Awareness Week

Australia recognizes Bowel Cancer Awareness Week in June which is designed to raise public awareness of a disease that claims the life of one Australian every two hours. Bowel cancer is the most common cancer in Australia to affect both men and women and is Australia's second biggest cancer killer after lung cancer.

Symptoms of Bowel Cancer:

There are a number of signs and symptoms of bowel cancer, such as:
* Bleeding from the rectum, accompanied by constipation or diarrhea.
* Sudden weight loss.
* Fatigue and low blood pressure.
* Change in the frequency and timing of bowel movement.
* Stools with mucus and/or melena.
* Bowel pain, tenderness and vomiting.
* Blood or air bubbles in the urine and vaginal discharge that is malodorous in nature.
* Anemia and palpitations due to a low hemoglobin level.
* Jaundice and liver enlargement.
* Paraneoplastic syndrome related to blood thickening.
* Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

For more information visit chiDiet.com.

Low Vitamin D Makes Asthma Worse

For years I've been taking about the benefits of proper exposure to natural sunlight, and warning about the dangers of having low Vitamin D levels in your body. Now here comes a report that shows ANOTHER side effect of low Vitamin D.

Again... get outside, get some sun. Avoid sunscreens. Use your head and don't get burned, but get some natural sunlight on your body. It's how you body makes Vitamin D, and it's critically important to your health.

Modern merchandising has demonized sunlight, something that we lived with and under for a million years, then in the last 20 grew to fear the sun. Did you know that the incidence of skin cancer is higher among factory workers than it is in construction workers? Yep, several times higher.

Here's that new report:
http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/635427.html

The Missing Ingredient for Good Health

Did you ever wonder why, no matter what you do for your health, you never seem to get to the point of optimal health????

Have you tried the diets, the exercise plans - and still fallen short???

While diet and exercise are important, you are still missing the critical part, the most important part. You're missing the emotional connection for optimal health and wellness. You are what you feel!

We've put together a collection of resources to help you address this:

Audio interviews with Bruce Lipton – author of The Biology of Belief and Spontaneous Evolution. In these interviews he discusses how his scientific studies led to the writing of these two books, what he learned, and how.

Bruce is a PhD Biologist who has made the scientific connection between emotions & health.

An audio lecture (CD) by Neville Goddard – a positive thinking legend.

Audio interviews and lectures about the relationships between prayer, meditation and love - and how they impact healing.

Great inspiration from Julie Motz, Marilyn Schlitz, K. C. Craichy, Dr. David Kessler, James Howard Kunstler, Sally Wadyka, and more.

Outlines of how our emotions affect our well being on many levels.

Charts matching disease and emotional connections - find out what emotion is matched to what physical problem…

This is the "secret" to optimal health and wellness at any age.

You get all the information you need to transform your health - and your life - in this one outstanding package from RawDoctors.com!

For more information, please click here. (http://chidietvideos.com/the-secret-ingredient)

Poor sleep raises risk for strokes

Sleep apnea, often responsible for shortness of breath and loud snoring has ruined countless peaceful nights. It may also increase the risk for stroke, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

These results are the latest to suggest that this common sleep problem has more troubling consequences than simply feeling tired the next day.    

A recent study evaluated 842 middle-aged men and women who sought help for their sleep problems. About two-thirds of the participants were diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea.
Three years later, there were 22 strokes and 50 deaths in this group.

In contrast, there were 2 strokes and 14 deaths in the group that had more benign sleep troubles. When hypertension and other common stroke risk factors were ruled out, sleep apnea appeared to double the chances of someone suffering an attack.

Sleep apnea clogs the airway and can cause someone to struggle to breathe during their sleep, which is responsible for the loudest snoring. This disruption can lead to surges in blood pressure and a lack of oxygen that may gradually increase the risk of stroke. Also, most people die in their sleep and the lower oxygen supply seems to be a primary cause of this.

Often times the sleeper is not aware this is happening. They wake up from the slight pause in breathing and then fall back asleep. The only clue is feeling exceptionally tired the next day.

Researchers found that a type of air forced air pressure and face mask can counter these sleep disruptions and reduce the risk of heart attacks, another after effect of apnea.

However, I learned that many who are prescribed with these devices do not like them and will not wear them. Although it's not clear that the same treatment can help against stroke. "Everyone will sleep better," he said. 

The complete article: http://www.healthology.com/focus_article.asp?f=sleep_disorders&c=sleep_apnea-stroke&spg=NWL&b=healthology.
- submitted by Jan Jensen

[When I transitioned to raw living foods my sleep problems disappeared. I slept like a log every night, had wonderful dreams, and awoke refreshed and energized every morning. I simply followed the instructions in the Creative Health Institute Home Study Program, and felt wonderful in just a few days. - Jim Carey]

Raw living foods as preventative medicine

An Ounce of Prevention

Some try to heal you with vitamins or herbs, others with drugs or surgery. But the Dr. Ann Wigmore program is different – We Don’t Wait for you to get sick. The Wigmore diet “tunes up” your entire body now, so you won’t get sick in the first place!

-- Donald O. Haughey, founder, Creative Health Institute

Healing Gangrene, by Dr. Ann Wigmore

by Dr. Ann Wigmore, after she was run over by a wagon as a young lady

I tried to eat everything green I could find. But my uncle refused to search for possible herbs. He was fearful that through his ignorance he would bring me poisoned vegetation. He did give me flowers, which I would consume ravenously after he left me in the morning. Also, by reaching down beside the bench I was able to fill my stomach with ordinary grass, which my grandmother believed held every nutrient required for human health. And so, through the long days, I was able to obtain the kind of food which my body seemed to need; that is, both fresh from the earth and untreated with heat. By having my uncle move the bench around the yard on my plea that the sun would reach me better, I was able to supply my body with fresh grass each day...

With the young hospital surgeon was the “doctor with gray whiskers,” as my sister had called him. Together they inspected my legs. Finally, they conferred together in low tones and told me that had decided to tell my father I was recovering. They called him from the house. He listened impatiently, and the information seemed to infuriate him. He could not understand or accept that he had been wrong in his decision to have my feet removed...

I was induced to return to the Middleboro Hospital for the doctors to see. They made no comment, merely shaking their heads as they inspected the X-ray films which showed that the bones had knitted firmly. All signs of gangrene had vanished.

From Why Suffer?: How I Overcame Illness & Pain Naturally, by Dr. Ann Wigmore, ND, DD

Losing to Heart Failure

Again, they don't get it. Big Medicine and Big Pharma give themselves all the credit in the world for helping people survive heart attacks. They don't pay much real attention to the fact they 'lose' many of those same people to heart failure. I thought the idea was not just to keep people alive but have them actually get better. Guess not. 

According to an article in the New York Times, more and more Americans are simply living with chronic disease. They don't get any better and over time, actually get worse. It's a slow spiral to death. Take the case of heart attack victims just mentioned. They keep you alive for more pills or more surgery or more procedures, running up the tab for health care and not giving a better quality of life in return. It seems they are satisfied to have you living sick.

Well that's obviously baloney. Again, medicine treats you like a machine. You have parts. And as we all know 'parts is parts.' They can change you oil, rotate your tires, realign your front end... but in the end, they don't fix you. They don't deal with your core health issues. 

Again, Raw Living Foods offers up the 'gold standard' of health and wellness (because if you are healthy you can't also be sick). It is the raw, organic living food lifestyle as found in the Dr. Ann Wigmore Lifestyle. You hold the 'key' to fixing and maintaining your health - not them, obviously.

Full story: http://health.nytimes.com/ref/health/healthguide/esn-heart-failure-ess.html?ref=health

Bad Sleep, Bad Life

40 Winks Is Good for Your Smile

Here they go again. A new study from Finland suggests that those who don't get enough sleep are more likely to be unhappy with their lives. The National Public Health Institute in Helsinki says something about sleeping badly in itself may affect "the brain, emotions, and mood."

I understand the connection, but conventional medicine again 'puts the cart before the horse.'

We know that a good night's sleep is essential for good health. Sleep is time that the body rest, repairs and reboots itself, so to speak. What they don't touch on is the source of the problem. Why do some people not sleep? 

Your body fails to function properly because it doesn't have the raw materials to work with. Optimal nutrition is part of the puzzle. Stress reduction is the other. In a very basic way, it offers up guidelines for a lifestyle that offers optimal wellness - on virtually every level... including providing an environment for a good night' sleep.

Full story: http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE51850C20090209

Air Conditioning and Cholesterol

One of the things that people are most concerned about now is high cholesterol. 

One of the things that can affect your cholesterol levels as well as your blood pressure levels is having to go in and out of an environment that has air conditioning. 

With every radical change in temperature, our bodies lose our B-complex (anti-stress) vitamins, and having lots of rejuvelac and veggikraut helps, but it's better to just stop using the a/c and sweat.

Peace and love,
Flora

[email protected]

Dr. Ann Wigmore Speaks About The Basic Causes of Disease

What is the basic cause of disease?

Dr. Ann Wigmore taught that toxemia and deficiency are the root causes of all disease.

Deficiency that means that our bodies are undernourished and are not receiving the proper types and amount of food the body needs. The digestive tract is being overloaded and allergies have developed. Dr. Ann Wigmore believed that about eighty per cent of the population has deficiency disorders because of the body’s inability to digest food. This is why she developed methods for blending, sprouting, and fermenting. Living Food is supremely efficient nourishment that returns the body to health and productive self-healing.

Toxemia is a term used to describe poisons that are stored in the body. Toxins are formed from eating impure or unnatural, processed and chemicalized foods. Dr. Ann taught that the body can release these stored poisons by feeding it with Living Food in easy-to-digest form. Once the body eliminates stored poisons that have accumulated in the bloodstream the cells are able to receive nourishment, thus enabling the immune system to strengthen and rebuild.

Dr. Ann Wigmore taught that toxemia and deficiency are the root causes of all disease.

Deficiency that means that our bodies are undernourished and are not receiving the proper types and amount of food the body needs. The digestive tract is being overloaded and allergies have developed. Dr. Ann Wigmore believed that about eighty per cent of the population has deficiency disorders because of the body’s inability to digest food. This is why she developed methods for blending, sprouting, and fermenting. Living Food is supremely efficient nourishment that returns the body to health and productive self-healing.

Toxemia is a term used to describe poisons that are stored in the body. Toxins are formed from eating impure or unnatural, processed and chemicalized foods. Dr. Ann taught that the body can release these stored poisons by feeding it with Living Food in easy-to-digest form. Once the body eliminates stored poisons that have accumulated in the bloodstream the cells are able to receive nourishment, thus enabling the immune system to strengthen and rebuild.

The Key to a Healthy Brain

The Sunshine Vitamin

Well it looks like the conventional medicine types are at it – again. They have apparently ‘discovered’ that vitamin D is key to a healthy brain. Alternative health people have known this for years.

Vitamin D is not really a ‘vitamin’ as such. It is more of a ‘pro-hormone.’ And as such, it is good for things like muscles, moods and memory. Those last two things connected to a healthy brain.

Nevertheless, the University of Manchester team published results of a study they did on the sunshine vitamin and the brain. They figure we have an evolutionary need for the sun and the vitamin D it helps us make from it.

Not only that but it is part of the Life Energy Pyramid©. The one thing that will allow you to become your own raw food doctor easily and simply.

Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8058183.stm 

[Note from Dr. Jim - recent reports indicate that those that succumb to pig phlu might be simply vitamin D deficient.]

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease - a book review

by Dr. Flora van Orden

     After hearing him in person, I was delighted today to get my Earth Save News, July 2007 and read: "A groundbreaking program backed by the irrefutable results from Dr. Esselstyn's 20-year study proving changes in diet and nutrition can actually cure heart disease.

     Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States for men and women. But, as Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., a former internationally known surgeon, researcher and clinician at the Cleveland Clinic, explains in this book, it can be prevented, reversed, and even abolished. Dr. Esselstyn argues that conventional cardiology has failed patients by developing treatments that focus only on the symptoms of heart disease, not the cause.

     Based on the groundbreaking results of his 20 year nutritional study - the longest study of its kind ever conducted - this book explains, with irrefutable scientific evidence, how we can end the heart disease epidemic in this country forever by changing what we eat.

     Dr. Esselstyn convincingly argues that a plant-based, oil-free diet cannot only prevent and stop the progression of heart disease, but also reverse its effects.

     The proof is in the results. The patients in Dr. Esselstyn's initial study came to him with advanced coronary artery disease. Despite the aggressive treatment they received, among them bypasses and angioplasties, most were told by their cardiologists that they had less than a year to live. Within months on Dr. Esselstyn's program, their cholesterol levels, angina symptoms, and blood flow improved dramatically. Twenty years later, they remain free of symptoms. Here are the documented results.

     Drop in cholesterol levels: After 5 years in Dr. Esselstyn's initial plant based diet, the average total cholesterol levels of his research group dropped from 246 milligrams per deciliter to 137 mg/dL (above 240 mg/dL is considered "high risk", below 150 mg/dL is the total cholesterol level seen in cultures where heart disease is essentially nonexistent.) This is the most profound drop in cholesterol ever documented in the medical literature in a study of this type.

     Cardiac events: The patients in the study had 49 cardiac events in the years leading up to the study, and had undergone aggressive treatment procedures. Several had multiple bypass operations. After beginning the eating of plants, there were no more cardiac events in the group within a 12 year period.

     Angiogram evidence: Angiograms taken of the participants in the study show a widening  of the coronary arteries, and thus a reversal of the disease.

     Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease offers readers the same simple, nutrition-based plan that dramatically changed the lives of this patients forever. With this eating plan, sufferers of heart disease will maintain cholesterol levels low enough to ensure that they will never have a heart attack. Best of all, the book offers more than 150 delicious recipes that Dr. Esselstyn and his wife, Ann Crile Esselstyn, have developed over the years - showing readers how easy it is to enjoy their new way of eating.

     Dr. Esselstyn wrote: "Recent weeks have witnessed a collapse of the drugs and technology which form the present backbone of cardiology's assault on the coronary artery disease epidemic. ..Pfizer, in late December 2006, announced its long hoped for block-buster new drug Torcetrapib was killing more people in its test run than were dying in the control group. Pfizer had spent more $800 million in developing this drug to raise HDL, 'good' cholesterol and had openly forecast it would reap billions for the company once it came into production.

     "But the research trial was clear and unequivocal with its results. Among 15,000 patients, 82 died taking Torcetrapib and 51 died taking a standard drug to lower cholesterol. Additionally, the Torcetrapib group experienced a greater number of cardiac events such as angina, heart failure, and a need for angioplasty. The independent monitoring group advised Pfizer to halt the trial and they complied. The unfathomable mysteries of human metabolism could not tolerate the assault of this drug. It was making vascular disease worse, not better.

     "The double whammy for cardiology also developed in the second half of 2006. Reports from Europe in September 2006 indicated that patients utilizing the new drug eluting stents were suddenly having heart attacks and some were dying. ...it was disturbing to cardiologists and remains frightening for patients.

     "When an artery to the heart is severely narrowed and causing symptoms cardiologists insert a balloon tipped catheter to the area of blockage and expand the balloon to widen the constriction. The benefit of this angioplasty is lost in 50% of patients because of recurrent constriction in 6 months. Placing a metal scaffold or stent improves the results to only 10-20% recurrent narrowing.

     "Starting in 2003, the stents were coated with a drug which diminished the rate of recurrent blockage after angioplasty. However, it is essential to maintain patients on an anti-clotting drug for 6-12 months to prevent the stent from developing a clot or thrombosis. It now appears that after stopping the anti-clotting drug, 1 in 200 or 0.5% (5,000 nationwide) and 10,000 persons worldwide will have a heart attack and 50% of these will die when the stent fails.

     "These results have so upset cardiologists and the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) that a national conference was called in December 2006 to review this disturbing news. Watching intently and participating were the stent manufacturers Johnson and Johnson and Boston Scientific. Billions of dollars were at stake.

     "Following testimony, experts contend that for patients with uncomplicated disease, the benefits of the drug coated stents outweigh the risks. For patients with more advanced or complicated disease patterns, the outlook is less clear and more research data is required. What is clear is that everyone feels it may be necessary to prolong the period of requiring the anti-clotting drug Plavix from months to years or indefinitely.

     "However, Plavix is not without complications: it promotes bleeding, which may mean a gastrointestinal hemorrhage as well as easy bruising. The most desperate situations occur when a patient taking Plavix must stop it for dental work, hip or other major surgery and colonoscopy. Will they have a heart attack or die from a stent clot when Plavix is stopped? This scenario has occurred and is continuously encountered. It is as if a therapy for one disease now is painting patients into a corner from which they cannot escape when other illnesses require surgical therapy.

     "This Gordian knot has lead leading cardiologists to question stent therapy.

     "Dr. Eric Topol, a member of the conference panel stated, "There's a much more liberal use of angioplasty and stenting than there needs to be."

     "The head cardiologist at Kaiser Permanente, Dr. Calvin L. Weisberger added, 'A large pool of angioplasties and by-pass surgery are being done without scientific evidence.'

     "The hard science - which seems not to be prominent in all these discussions - is that it is not the major blockages which are treated by angioplasty and stents which account for heart attacks. The small unstable juvenile arterial plaques are prone to rupture and cause over 85% of heart attacks, and they are not treated by angioplasty or by-pass surgery. Then why do cardiologists treat the blockages unlikely to cause the heart attacks? There is a lingering belief that somehow the patient will be improved by widening the opening, and there is the unspoken force of money - huge guaranteed money from doing these procedures.

     "Then there is the harshest critic of all - scientific research. Study after study indicates for most patients undergoing angioplasties and stents, there is no increase in survival and no decrease in heart attacks.

     "Why might this be a time to rejoice? The morbidity, mortality, expense and transient benefits of a high technology approach toward the coronary disease epidemic has failed. It is time to realize that the answer to a faulty lifestyle epidemic is not drugs and technology - it is lifestyle.

     "The epidemiologic evidence that coronary artery disease does not exist in cultures consuming plant-based nutrition is robust and overwhelming. There is clear evidence that cultures which switch from a plant-based diet to a western diet develop an epidemic of coronary heart disease. Lewis Kuller, Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburg School of Public Health, based on his 10 year cardiovascular health study states: "all males 65 years of age or older who have been exposed to the traditional western diet have cardiovascular disease and should be treated as such."

     "This toxic diet with its burden of animal protein, dairy, processed oils, white flour products, sugar and excess saturated and trans fats and free radicals marinates in our bodies injuring our delicate cellular matrix with every bite at every meal. Science shows us how this occurs. We depend mightily on the capacity of our endothelial cells, which comprise the single cell layer lining our arteries, to manufacture nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is the strongest vasodilator in the body. (Dr. Flora interjects: watermelon and fresh papaya and home-ripened pineapple juice from outside the body going in do a fine job of vasodilating when the oxide is low until the body can catch up! Salt is a vasoconstrictor. Throw it away.) It causes blood vessels to enlarge, prevents blood flow from being sticky or sluggish, and inhibits arterial plaque formation.

     "The brachial artery tourniquet test quantifies the endothelial responses. The test requires an ultrasound measure of the diameter of the brachial artery below the elbow before and after an upper arm tourniquet stops blood flow to the forearm for 5 minutes. Normally, when the cuff is released and the brachial artery ultrasound measurement is repeated, the artery dilates or widens. This occurs from a healthy out-pouring of nitric oxide from the endothelium. When volunteers consume cornflakes, their brachial artery test is normal. If they consume sausage, olive oil, or saturated fat, they fail the test. The ingested fat so injures the endothelium that it cannot produce nitric oxide. Regular consumption of the toxic western menu is a cardiovascular disaster. The time is long overdue to challenge the failure of drugs and technology to stop the coronary disease epidemic.

     "The natural next question is can patients who have severe coronary artery disease arrest and reverse this disease by consuming a totally plant-based diet?

     "Dr. Dean Ornish (PCRM) and this author have investigated this question through scientific peer reviewed study. Dr. Ornish reported his results at one year and again at 5 years and most recently at 21 years in a book for the public Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Avery/Penguin, February 2007.

     "These studies indicate that fully compliant patients decrease the episodes of angina or eliminate them, decrease their cholesterol, decrease their weight, increase their exercise capacity, and arrest and selectively reverse their disease on follow-up x-rays of the coronary arteries. Seeing these patients thrive beyond 20 years of initiating their plant-based therapy is the most powerful reason for wanting the cardiology community to embrace and utilize plant-based nutrition.

     "There is no morbidity, mortality or added expense with plant-based nutrition and benefits endure and improve with the passage of time. Cardiologists say they doubt that patients will follow such a nutritional change. My experience in counseling hundreds of these patients indicates this concern is flatly not true. As a matter of fact, patients rejoice in the knowledge that they have become the leader/locus of control over the disease that was destroying them and are distraught that they were never told of this option by their cardiologist.

     "In summary, the dark shadow cast over cardiology, through failure of its miracle drug and the melt-down of drug eluting stents with unforeseen clotting resulting in heart attacks and death should motivate us to look more closely at a proven therapy which is effective and endures and has the potential to eliminate the coronary heart disease epidemic, as well as other chronic western illness such as strokes, hypertension, adult onset diabetes, obesity, impotence and dementia."

     Dr. Esselstyn is a preventive cardiologist consultant in the Department of General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, and the author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease.

Peace and Love,

Dr. Flora van Orden III
[email protected]

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease is available from Amazon.com (direct link).

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The Calcium Myth

The tragic truth of the matter is that, thanks to our French researcher, Dr. Kirvran, and his book Biological Transmutation and the Secret Life of Plants, by Christopher Bird, we know that calcium in foods has never been known to approach the human bones.

It’s only foods rich in potassium, magnesium, and silica, which turns into bone calcium.

Calcium in dairy actually provides nothing helpful.

There is so much sodium in dairy that it’s dangerous, but who would want to eat cheese without salt? It’s a marketing ploy, a necessity. Salt-free cheese tastes like what it is, a block of Elmer’s glue, which is made of the dairy protein casein or casomorphine.

Cheese decalcifies women; it’s so acid that our bones' calcium is withdrawn to act like a buffer. The more acid protein we eat, the more osteoporotic we get!

Peace and Love Be With You,

Flora

Dr. Flora van Orden III has a PhD in nutrition and belongs to the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine.

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Why American Medicine Can't Cure Cancer or Diabetes

Dr. John McDougall’s speech to MDs at a conference, continued.

Chapter 8: A pill for every problem

I used to work at St. Helena Hospital. I was there for 16 years and it was a very good experience. I have very fond memories of it but one of the reasons that caused me to leave I’d like to share with you. I don’t go to these conferences. I don’t go. It’s an insult to my intelligence to have a drug rep sit and lecture me. But, I was at the hospital a few years back and I saw the title of a lecture. It was called “Diabetes is caused by fat, not sugar.”

So I gathered all of my staff together and we went down to the lunch room and we walked in and my first clue that there was a problem was the Pfizer rep is sitting in the back of the room. Well anyway, I sat down and listened for a whole hour to the presentation, and listened to the man tell me how to properly take care of a diabetic. And I counted the list of drugs he said I needed to use.

To care for a diabetic, I needed several types of oral medication, maybe some insulin. I needed to put them on a cholesterol lowering drug. I needed to put them on some calcium channel blockers, some ACE inhibitors. You always gotta be on ACE inhibitors to protect those kidneys, he said. And it went on and on and on and finally, I had a list of 20 drugs that a well-treated diabetic should be on.

And he made it sound really good because he gave it a sexy term, he called it polypharmacology. I waited until the end of the presentation and I raised my hand and said, “Hey, doctor, the title of your lecture is called 'Diabetes is caused by fat, not sugar.' Did I miss something? You didn’t mention diet once in the entire hour.”

He said “I gotcha here, didn’t I?”

And I said, “Yeah, you got me here but a lot of the drugs you mentioned, they kill diabetics. Like sulfonylureas, and calcium channel blockers.”

Around that time one of my mentors, John Hodkins, jumped up and apologized for my behavior, in a very politically correct way, might I mention. He was very good about it. He said, “This is Dr. McDougall, he writes health food books, you know, you’ll have to excuse him.”

Anyway, so I made a few other comments, and John (he’s a good friend, still is a good friend) and I were walking out of the room together. I looked over at John and said, “You know our colleagues don’t really believe that’s the way you treat a diabetic, do they?”

He said, “Yes, we do.” At that moment, I decided I didn’t want to be associated with my colleagues anymore because that’s not the way you take care of a diabetic, or any patient.

I mean, think about the patients you take care of. They’re not on one drug. They’re on a bag full of drugs. They’re on something for blood pressure like Norvasc, calcium channel blockers, which are very deadly. They increase the risk of dying of heart disease, cancer, breast cancer, suicide and bleeding. Blood sugar medication, cholesterol lowering medications, some for uric acid like Zyloprim. Homocysteine, that’s a good one, a folic acid.

We just saw two large reports that showed it increased the risk of heart disease and death by about 30%. Triglycerides like Lopid, you no longer put patients on Aspirin that you can buy 50 for a penny, do you? No, you’ve got to put them on a $4 aspirin called Plavix, which increases the risk of stroke and other problems.

But believe me, they paid for studies to make sure that we do those things. Something for your body fat like Orlistat, headaches like Darvoset, body aches, indigestion. Give them some antacid, they’re all on antacids, right?

Then, their constipation: put them on Miralax, something for diarrhea.

Then, they stink so bad from all the meat they eat so you have to put them on deodorants.

I forgot one prerogative; if they keep on complaining, and they keep coming back because you know you’re supposed to cure them as a doctor, when they complain so much you’re just sick and tired of listening to them, what do you do? Put them on an anti-depressant, right?

Drug Therapy: He showed a slide of a man, before and after, with a bag of drugs in his hand. I want to introduce you to a patient; this is somebody I’ve known for awhile. This man, he knew he had some problems, so he decided to go to the doctor and he was diagnosed with high blood pressure, type-2 diabetes, hyper cholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, gout, mild kidney failure, overweight, mild osteoarthritis, constipation, and depression.

I’m not exaggerating, this is true. So, he went to the doctor for 2 years, paid the monthly office visit, paid thousands of dollars for medication, followed the advice strictly for 2 years and what I want to show you now is a picture of him 2 years later. He still has high blood pressure, type-2 diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, gout, mild kidney failure, overweight, mild osteoarthritis, constipation and depression.

Ok, here’s the trick question. What do you see different about this man? Nothing. He’s just as fat and sick as he was two years before. Now I ask you about your friends, your relatives, your patients. You tell me what happened when they underwent good medical care. Nothing. They’re still fat and sick and now they’re carrying around a bag full of drugs, and that is it. And, if you’re a doctor, you must believe you are doing some good, because you cannot see it.

Treatment of Heart Disease: Surgery: OK, let’s talk about some of the real serious problems going on in medicine. Let’s talk about the treatment of heart disease with surgery.

Can’t work. Doesn’t work. Studies show it doesn’t work.

We’re talking about the angioplasty business and they do a million of those a year in this country. We’re talking about bypass, which they only do 400,000 a year in this country. Combined, it’s a $100,000 billion a year business and 80% of a hospital’s income comes from heart disease.

Now, there have been some studies to look at the benefits of surgery compared to medical therapy. There have been three major studies done; they were all done before 1990. There will be no further studies done. They have already looked at the situation and expressed the results and it doesn’t work.

The vast majority of people, 90% +, survive no longer with surgical therapy than they do with medical therapy.

You say, "What about the exceptions, like the ‘widow maker,” left main coronary artery disease?" CASS study says they don’t live any longer.

What about left main equivalents, when all main vessels are blocked up? Well, CASS study says they don’t live any longer with surgery than medical therapy.

The CASS study, the most recent one done, says it doesn’t matter what the anatomy looks like. Doesn’t matter if it’s left main, doesn’t matter how many vessels are diseased. What matters is what has happened to the left ventricle. What they did was they played the game, and they set the rules. They saw that those people with left ventricle damage expressed by a rejection fraction 50% or less, have an 18% increased survival over 10 years. And, they brag about it.

Bypasses have been done since 1968 and angioplasty has been done since 1978, but there is not a single study showing that angioplasty prolongs lives. Not a single study. They do a million a year, and they get away with it. Can’t possibly work.

A recent article - I encourage you to read it, you can find it online, it was July 18, 2005 in Business Week magazine. The title of the article is “Is Heart Surgery Worth It?” It’s a review for the treatment of heart surgery. It’s basically the review I wrote in 1985 for heart surgery: “Does it work?” In fact, one of the key people who were interviewed in this article, a Dr. Hadler, who is a professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says “bypass surgery should have been relegated to the archives 15 years ago. I'd say 20 years ago. Read it. I hand this out to my patients. It’s a great review. It’s well written. Uncontested. It’s the truth.

Now, why can’t bypass surgery and angioplasty work? It’s because they don’t treat the killing part of the disease. The killing part of the disease is not the large blockages, the killing part of the disease is the tiny, fat-filled plaques that are volatile and bust and cause a blood clot to form. That’s why we call heart attacks coronary artery thrombosis, because essentially all of them are caused by this mechanism. It’s the little tiny pimples in the inside of the artery that burst like the pimples on a teenager’s face, and as a result the products of injury are released and the blood clots, and that’s why you have the acute coronary syndrome. That’s why. Bypass surgery doesn’t tweak those. Bypass surgery treats the big blockages that are filled with scar tissue and calcium which may be causing chest pain, but they’re solid as a rock.

In fact, to add insult to injury, the day after a bypass surgery or a heart attack, what do we do for the patient? We serve them the same foods that brought them there in the first place. Here you have this teaching moment. The doctor walks in and the patient looks at the doctor with frightened eyes and says, “I’d eat cardboard not to come back here, what should I do?”

“I don’t know, but you better eat that cheeseburger. You need the protein to heal your wound.” And, at every coronary unit, they serve them the same foods that brought them there in the first place. They started them on drugs as soon as they had a heart attack. Of course that doesn’t work, but how about doing something really radical like feeding them a healthy diet after they had a heart attack? That might be novel!

So, you have a situation where what they’re bypassing is non-lethal disease. What they’re doing angioplasty on is non-lethal disease. It’s not the part that kills. The part that kills is the little pimple next to the big plaque that pops and causes the blood to clot. It really needs to be clear that that’s the problem.

And, of course, when you go in there with your angioplasty catheter, what do you do? You blow up the balloon, you cut with a laser or a knife and what do you do? You create products of injury, and the consequence is the blood clots. So, in 40-50% of the people treated, their artery completely closes down in five months.

Of course, now we have stints, right? So, now it’s only 20% due to self-proliferation. There are other problems with that, but enough said.

Treatment of Heart Disease: Diet and Lifestyle: (slide of cleared arteries) OK, now this is a reversal of disease. This is not concrete in a person’s arteries. Cholesterol and fat, they go into the plaques, they create the inflammation. When you change your diet, what happens is you change the equation so more cholesterol and fat come out of the plaque. The surface tension is decreased, you’re less likely to pop the pimple, burst the volatile plaque. You bathe the plaque with clearer blood, healthier blood, so it stabilizes the membranes.

The other thing you do once you eat a healthy diet is you remove the strongest clotting factors people come in contact with. That’s animal fat. Animal fat makes the platelets very adhesive, makes the clotting factors very aggressive, particularly clotting factor 7.

So, you just set them up for a clot by feeding the rich American diet. As soon as you change their diet, I’m talking hours after you change their diet, they realize the benefits. The risk reduction is there. So, diet and lifestyle, they reduce the major risk factors for heart disease, like cholesterol and triglycerides, high blood pressure, obesity, insulin resistance.

Going back to Dr. Dean Ornish, he said, “According to the PET scans, 99% of the patients stopped or reversed the progression of coronary heart disease.”

When we understand that this is a diet and lifestyle artery disease, we get to treat a whole bunch of problems; it’s not just the heart arteries. There are all kinds of different arteries over the body that are compromised by atherosclerosis. The arteries; they either supply insufficient amounts of blood or they close down and as a result they cause common diseases.

For example, you close the arteries to the eye and you get ocular degeneration. You close the arteries to the ears and people go deaf, they get tinnitus and vertigo. Close the arteries to the brain; you get a stroke, to the heart; you get heart attacks. You close the arteries that feed the aorta and you have an aneurism. Close the arteries to the bowel, you got bowel infarction, you close the arteries to the spine and you get back pain, you get degenerative disk disease.

I mean, the clue to us should be degenerative. I mean, that’s the clue to what causes this. It’s degenerative. It’s not like someone picks up a VW or a piano and their disk ruptures. It’s like they turn or take a step and the degenerative disk pops. It’s a vascular problem. You close the arteries to the legs, they get intermittent claudication. You close them down really badly, you get gangrene. Now, a real motivator here is you close the arteries to the penis, you become impotent.

Cancer - I’d like to talk about cancer for a couple of minutes. Prevention by screening and treatment of common cancers with medications, radiation and/or surgery cannot possibly work. If you understand the natural history, just like you understand the natural history of coronary artery disease, you understand why it can’t work. If you understand the natural history of cancer then you understand why present therapies and screenings cannot work. It’s impossible.

Now, I have to qualify before I go on here, that there are some real important exceptions. And that is, when we find pre-cancerous changes, that means before cancer, I believe we can make a difference when it comes to screening. For example, when we do PAP smears, and I do recommend PAP smears every 3-5 years up until the age of 50. Colon polyps, those are pre-cancerous lesions, I think if we take those out, we can reduce the risk of colon cancer.

It’s interesting. My son is at Ohio State University first year medical school. He called me, very upset, because he went to a lecture on preventing colon cancer. He said, ”Dad, that whole lecture, they didn’t mention diet once. All they talked about was colonoscopies.” But the title of the lecture was “preventing colon cancer.”

I said, “Get used to it, kid.” Leukoplakia in the mouth and skin changes, you can catch melanoma early enough, I think so. But you see, these are superficial changes prior to them turning into cancer. You can make a difference.

I also want to point out that we have treatments for cancers that do work. These are cancers like childhood cancers and testicular cancer, lymphomas and leukemia. We do have treatments that we should be very proud of.

Ok, you have those qualifications firmly in mind for the rest of the discussion. John C. Bailar from the National Cancer Insitutute wrote a very important landmark paper which made a lot of people upset in 1997 in the new England Journal of Medicine. He said,”The risk of dying from cancer has increased by 6% from 1970 to 1994.

The war against cancer is far from over. Observed changes in mortality due to cancer primarily reflect changing incidence or early detection. The effect of new treatments for cancer on mortality has been largely disappointing. The most promising approach to control of cancer is a national commitment to prevention with a concomitant to rebalancing of focus and funding research,” which, of course, hasn’t happened.

Here are a couple of my heroes. Charles Wright is one of the most famous epidemiologists in the world, and C. Barber Mueller is the father of breast cancer surgery. I have known him for many years. I had a television show called “McDougall, M.D.” that we did about six years ago and it still plays worldwide.

I had them on the show and we talked about a lead article published in the British Lancet in 1995 that looked at various studies. There are actually six or eight, depending on how you divide them, of mammography breast cancer screenings. They looked at all those studies and said, “The benefit achieved is marginal, the harm caused is substantial, the costs incurred are enormous. We suggest that public funding of breast cancer screening at any age group is non-justifiable."

Yeah, this is heresy, but that’s what they said. And no one contested it in the letters to the editor. I still recommended mammography is 1995. I recommended it for women between the ages of 50 and 68. Not below 50 because it’s notorious for being a failure, and not after 68 because you don’t live long enough. It’s something that was detected to show any benefits. But I would still tell a woman that “You know you ought to get a mammogram" or if she asked, I’d tell her “there’s some evidence that there’s some benefit.”

And, I took that stand until Lancet came out with an article in 2000, and then they came out with their final report in 2001. The Cochrane Group is a group of Nordic scientists who are known for the evaluations of drugs and treatments without bias.

The couple of researchers wrote in the Lancet of 2001, “In 2000, we reported that there was no reliable evidence that screening for breast cancer reduced mortality. As we discuss here, a Cochrane review has not confirmed and strengthened our previous findings. The review also shows that breast cancer mortality is a misleading outcome measure and finally, we use date supplemental to those in the Cochrane review to show that screening leads to more aggressive treatment.” Well, that made a lot of people mad.

About a breast self-examination? I mean, who could think that breast self examination could bother anybody and it would be something you would avoid recommending.

But the Canadian task force on preventive medicine looked at the issue in 2001. They said, “There are two randomized controlled trials, a quasi-randomized trial, and large cohort study and several case-controlled trials, and they have failed to show a benefit for regular performance of breast self-examination or breast self-examination education, compared with no breast self-examination. In contrast, there is good evidence of harm from breast self-examination instruction, including significant increases in the number of physician visits for the evaluation of benign breast lesions and a significantly high rates of benign biopsies.”

So, what did they tell us to do for our patients? They told us not to recommend breast self examination.

They said it’s because there is a fair evidence of no benefit and good evidence of harm. There is fair evidence to recommend that routine teaching of breast self-examination be excluded from the periodic health examinations of women in this age group and so on and so on and so on. Can you imagine that?

Treatment: Little or no survival benefits: OK, we went over the treatments and looked at the survival benefits for various treatments.

We generally come down to these conclusions: For solid tumors, surgery provides no survival benefit.

Radiation provides no survival benefit. Oh, you can tell there may be a couple of exceptions, but the bulk of the literature shows this.

Hormone manipulation shows some for breast and prostate cancer, and that’s things like removing the ovaries or taking out the testicles, giving anti-estrogen treatments, and maybe even chemotherapy works by knocking out the ovaries. That’s my guess. With chemotherapy, the benefits are a little and the harms are substantial.

Let me explain why this is true. Once you know the mechanism underlying cancer, it’s all obvious why screening can’t work and nor can treatment: let’s talk about the mechanism of cancer growth.

Cells live in a neighborly manner. They are not allowed to divide anytime they want, if they divided any time they wanted under their own free will, we’d become misshapen masses in a matter of days. So, cells are allowed to divide under certain circumstances like if there’s a stimulus for growth from a brain signal, or hormone signal, that they’re allowed to grow.

If a cell gets injured, like we get a laceration; the cells next to that injury can proliferate and grow, and repair the injury. That’s fair, that’s what’s allowed to be done. We have these regulatory mechanisms to make sure this works correctly and properly so we stay in the form that we are.

Well cells get injured by things like radiation, products of cigarette smoke combustion and various toxins in our environment. As a consequence of injury, when it’s serious, most cells die.

Sometimes cells get injured, not bad enough to die, but bad enough to stop being neighborly. Then they start dividing at their own free will. That’s of course, the transition from normal to cancer. One cell always leads the way in the breast or prostate. One cell always leads the way. So, let’s take that cell.

Slide on doubling: The first cell begins, and the doubling time on average is 100 days for a solid tumor, be it breast, colon, prostate or lung. It’s every 100 days. So, 100 days later you have two cancer cells. Three and a half months later, you have four.

Now you’ve had cancer for a year and you’ve got 8-12 cancer cells lurking in a breast that contains 100 billion cells per breast, and a prostate that contains 100 billion cells, of course, obviously undetectable. Divisions continue, you go to 16, 32, 64.

You’ve had cancer for less than a year and you have less than 100 cells in your tumor mass. You couldn’t possibly find it. These are early stages, and if it’s truly cancer, then it starts to metastasize, and the tissues that go to it have a similar doubling rate as the original tumor.

No one dies of breast cancer or prostate cancer; they die of metastases in the lungs, bone, brain, etc. Well the divisions continue and finally you reach a tumor mass, after six years on average that contains a million cells the size of a period on a piece of paper, a lead tip. It’s undetectable by any current means. Yet, it has been growing for six years, it has amassed one million cells, if it’s truly cancer it has spread over 90% of the time and probably 100% of the time. It it’s truly cancer.

Lots of things that we treat that we tell the patient it’s cancer, it’s really not cancer. Anyway, so the divisions continue and finally you get to a detectable tumor mass, its one billion cells in size it’s a centimeter, it’s the size of the eraser of a pencil. At this size, the tumor is now able to increase the PSA level.

Prostate specific antigen increases only after the mass is a centimeter in size. In other words, it’s been growing an average of 10 years and contains one billion cells. It’s the size that you can feel on a digital rectal examination or breast self-examination. You may pick up a tumor mass 2-6 years earlier on mammography, but the truth is: because of the types of tumor masses that are picked up on mammography, the average length of doubling is about 14 years before you find them.

Two-thirds of the disease has occurred without the knowledge of the patients or the doctor. It has already expressed itself. Every oncologist and every doctor should know that. That’s the natural history of this disease. So how in the world are you going to treat a disease that has already expressed itself with local treatment like surgery and radiation? It’s impossible. That’s why they don’t survive any longer. It’d be nice if we had chemotherapy agents that work, it really would be.

But, by and large, the chemotherapy agents are ineffective and I gave you some exceptions and they are very toxic. Of course, that’s why chemotherapy is so popular. Everybody realizes its natural history, and local therapy doesn’t treat systemic disease. It couldn’t possibly do it. It’ll never work. But, we continue to do it.

You know, even after these kinds of realizations and even after the effort to change from a radical to a more conservative therapy in terms of prostate cancer and breast cancer, still these days, 65% of women are getting mastectomies. We had laws of informed consent in 18 states as long ago as 30 years, and yet 65% of women are getting mastectomies. By the way, this doubling time is on average every 100 days. But some women double their tumors every 24 days; some women double their tumors every 850 days.

I believe you can change that doubling time with a change in diet.

I published the first scientific study on the dietary treatment of breast cancer in 1982. Since then, there have been about 20 studies published in our best medical journals on the dietary treatment of breast cancer and other cancers. Everything says you can slow that doubling time. So, our goal should be to slow the doubling time, so that instead of a woman dying in 3 years, she dies in 12 years. Or maybe our goal should be to have all our patients with prostate and breast cancer die of their disease when they’re 95. We’re certainly not accomplishing that with present methods.

Next: Diet and Lifestyle Benefits

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Peace and Love Be With You,

Flora

Treating genetic conditions with food

Treating genetic conditions with food is something the Ann Wigmore diet has been teaching for over 50 years.  Now CBS News calls it "high tech medicine"and the medical community calls it Nutrigenomics.

Here's the CBS News article:
http://chidiet.com/articles/CBSNewsDietForYourGenesFebruary27-2003.htm

Here's more information about Nutrigenomics:
http://chidiet.com/articles/NutrigenomicsOverview.htm.

Heavy metals may be implicated in autism

(New Scientist) Urine samples from hundreds of French children have yielded evidence for a link between autism and exposure to heavy metals. If validated, the findings might mean some cases of autism could be treated with diets that purge the body of heavy metals:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19025535.400&feedId=online-news.

Heart Disease Treated with Diet, not Surgery

Treatment of Heart Disease with Surgery: Can't work, doesn't work, studies show it doesn't work. A $100 billion a year business and 80% of a hospital's income comes from heart disease. There have been 3 major studies done. There will be no further studies done. They have already looked at the situation and expressed the results and it doesn't work. 90% survive no longer with surgical therapy than they do with medical therapy.

Why can't bypass surgery and angioplasty work? It's because they don't treat the killing part of the disease which is the tiny fat-filled plaques that are volatile and burst and cause a blood clog to form. That's why we call heart attacks coronary artery thrombosis, because essentially all of them are caused by this mechanism. It's the little tiny pimples in the inside of the artery that burst like the pimples on a teenagers face, and as a result the products of injury are released and the blood clots, and that's why you have the acute coronary syndrome. By pass surgery doesn't tweak those; it only treats the big blockages that are filled with scar tissue and calcium which may be causing chest pain, but they're solid as a rock.

So you have a situation where what they're bypassing is non-lethal disease. What they're doing angioplasty on is non-lethal disease. It's not the part that kills. The part that kills is the little pimple next to the big plaque that pops and causes the blood to clot. it really needs to be clear that that's the problem. And of course when you go in there with your angioplasty catheter, what do you do? You blow up the balloon, you cut with a laser or a knife and what do you do? You create products of injury and the consequence is the blood clots. So, 40-50%of the people treated, their artery completely closes down in five month. Of course, now we use stints, right? So now it's only 20% due to self-proliferation. There are other problems with that, but enough said.

Treatment of Heart Disease: Diet and Lifestyle reverses disease. Cholesterol and fat, they go to the plaques. they create the inflammation. When you change your diet, what happens i you change the equation so more cholesterol and fat come out of the plaque. The surface tension is decreased, you're less likely to pop the collateral pimple, so it stabilizes the membranes.

The other thing you do once you eat a healthy diet is you remove the strongest clogging factors people come in contact with. That's animal fat. Animal fat makes the platelets very adhesive, makes the clotting factors very adhesive, makes the clotting factors very aggressive.

So you just set them up for a clot by feeding the rich American diet. As soon as you change their diet, I'm talking hours after you change their diet, they realize the benefits. The risk reduction is there. So, diet and lifestyle, they reduce the major risk factors for heart disease, like cholesterol and triglycerides, high blood pressure, obesity, insulin resistance.

Going back to Dr. Dean Ornish, he said, "According to the PET scans, 99% of the patients stopped or reversed the progression of coronary heart disease."

When we understand that this is a diet and lifestyle artery disease, we get to treat a whole bunch of problems. It's not just the heart arteries. There are all kinds of different arteries all over the body that are compromised by atherosclerosis. The arteries; they either supply insufficient amounts of blood or they close down and as a result they cause common diseases.

For example, you close the arteries to the eye and you get ocular degeneration. You close the arteries to the ears and people go deaf, they get tinnitus and vertigo. Close the arteries to the brain; you get a stroke, to the heart; you get heart attacks. You close the arteries that feed the aorta and you have an aneurysm. Close the arteries to the bowel, you got bowel infarction, you close the arteries to the spine and you get back pain, you get degenerative disk disease.

I mean, the clue to us should be degenerative. I mean, that's the clue to what causes this. It's degenerative. It's not like someone picks up a Volkswagen or a piano and their disk ruptures. It's like they turn or take a step and the degenerative disk pops.

It's a vascular problem. You close the arteries to the legs, they get intermittent claudication... You close them down really badly, you get gangrene. Now, a real motivator here is you close the arteries to the penis, you become impotent.

Peace and Love be with You,

Flora

About Drug Ads

(Washington Post) - How drug ads sell people on the idea that they may be sick.

Reverse Diabetes in 30 Days

Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days is an independent documentary film that chronicles six Americans with 'incurable' diabetes switching their diet and getting off insulin.

The film follows each participant's remarkable journey and captures the medical, physical, and emotional transformations brought on by this radical diet and lifestyle change.

We witness moments of struggle, support, and hope as what is revealed, with startling clarity, is that diet can reverse disease and change lives.

Additional wisdom is provided by Morgan Spurlock, Woody Harrelson, Anthony Robbins, Rev. Michael Beckwith, and Doctors Fred Bisci, Joel Furman, and Gabriel Cousens.

We've been awaiting this film for months; it's finally been released. Learn more, and get your copy here:
http://tinyurl.com/revDiabetes.

Yours in health and vitality,

Dr. Jim Carey

P.S. "Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food." - Hippocrates.

P.P.S. Here's another good video about reversing Diabetes and other health challenges with raw, living foods: http://tinyurl.com/chiFood.

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Raw Living Foods and Diabetes

Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days is an independent documentary film that chronicles six Americans with 'incurable' diabetes switching their diet and getting off insulin.

The film follows each participant's remarkable journey and captures the medical, physical, and emotional transformations brought on by this radical diet and lifestyle change.

We witness moments of struggle, support, and hope as what is revealed, with startling clarity, is that diet can reverse disease and change lives.

Additional wisdom is provided by Morgan Spurlock, Woody Harrelson, Anthony Robbins, Rev. Michael Beckwith, and Doctors Fred Bisci, Joel Furman, and Gabriel Cousens.

We've been awaiting this film for months; it's finally been released. Learn more, and get your copy here:

http://tinyurl.com/revDiabetes.

Yours in health and vitality,

Dr. Jim Carey

P.S. "Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food." - Hippocrates.

P.P.S. Here's another good video about reversing Diabetes and other health challenges with raw, living foods: http://tinyurl.com/chiFood.

5 minute preview video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSUw9SaPLmA

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Mental attitude and healing

We've noticed at Creative Health Institute that guests that say, "I can, I will and I do," get better; those who say, "I can't, I won't and I don't," don't.

The reasons for dis-alignment, health problems, etc.

There are numerous reasons for dis-alignment, health problems, etc., being...

1. consequences
2. trials and tests
3. taking on for the "whole"

The third has to do with balancing the energy system we live in and "intercession" and mitigation.

People who have done their work on the first two, or who are called to a special mission for someone in particular, or for the whole, often anonymously, often times take on what is not even theirs.

I go back to the concept that "a little knowledge can be dangerous". This is why we have so few epiphanies and satories in western culture. Someone gets one insight and goes off on a tangent, to base the rest of their life on it, to create a religion or belief system, etc.

There are five things a person needs to have for a "holistic/natural cure" to be effective:

1. open mindedness (willing to try something new)
2. discipline (steadfastness to follow a protocol)
3. obedience (listen up without question and DO it)
4. patience (continued perseverance, despite appearances)
5. the will to live

Number five is a kicker as it is very subtle and often those with the disease really don't want to be here anymore but are not being out right honest about it.

Carol Hulet,
Wigmore Practitioner
Maui, Hawaii

Watching the news may be weakening your immune system

Use this simple energy-clearing technique to clear away any damaging effects: http://www.mercola.com/2006/jul/1/watching_the_news_may_be_weakening_your_immune_system.htm.

The power of pineapple in healing

In addition to raw honey as a topical healer, raw pineapple can be used topically to speed healing and prevent infection. In tropical regions healers will apply it directly to open wounds. I've even read of a case where a Haitian cane field worker cut his leg to the bone with his machete, the only treatment used was raw pineapple, and he was back working in two weeks.

So packing a wound with raw pineapple, or even raw sugar, is a good idea, especially in the tropics where this abounds.

What You Can Expect in Benefits and Results

Expected Results & Benefits Disclaimer

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ANY CLAIMS MADE OF ACTUAL BENEFITS OR EXAMPLES OF ACTUAL RESULTS CAN BE VERIFIED UPON REQUEST. YOUR LEVEL OF SUCCESS IN ATTAINING THE RESULTS CLAIMED IN OUR MATERIALS DEPENDS ON THE TIME YOU DEVOTE TO THE PROGRAM, IDEAS AND TECHNIQUES MENTIONED, YOUR MOTIVATION, KNOWLEDGE AND VARIOUS SKILLS. SINCE THESE FACTORS DIFFER ACCORDING TO INDIVIDUALS, WE CANNOT GUARANTEE YOUR SUCCESS OR BENEFITS. NOR ARE WE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY OF YOUR ACTIONS.

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We offer no cures - we treat and heal no one. We simply share information, developed by Dr. Ann Wigmore, about how a Raw Living Foods Diet and Lifestyle can benefit everyone, and how the body often cures itself with a proper diet.

Information contained within this website is for educational purposes only. Statements have not been evaluated by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.

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Is faulty diabetes treatment the reason many people think it’s incurable?

 

Is diabetes being treated wrong in America? http://www.renegadehealth.com/blog/is-diabetes-treatment-wrong

The only way to heal is to reclaim our power by taking responsibility for our own health

A young man wrote to me yesterday. After seeing his Father in law die of cancer he had just had his eyes opened to the level of corporate corruption in the medical industries. I wrote him back my take on it. We can’t really blame the corporations. We have handed them over absolute power over our bodies because we don’t want to deal with our health ourselves. Power corrupts when it is put in the wrong place. And the only way to heal this is to reclaim our power by taking responsibility for our own health, for understanding our bodies and nutrition and doing what we know is right.

We made Doctors into Gods out of wishful thinking. Yes, if only they were Gods who understood everything about the human body, about our particular human body, and could wave a magic wand and make us whole. And sometimes they do. But we expect them to be able to do this every time and it just doesn’t work like that. And so we go to the alternative health sector where we find “natural” pills that promise to restore us to perfect health. But what if instead of putting our health in other people's hands we took responsibility for our own health today. We already know what we must do to be healthy. Let’s reclaim our responsibility! Let’s reclaim our power!

To Your Health,
Jinjee
http://www.TheGardenDiet.com

The Immune System and Its Relationship to the New Epidemics - a Review

The Immune System and Its Relationship to the New Epidemics
- a video with Joe Bassett, Creative Health Institute Trustee
- a review by Lisa Lovas, former Director of Creative Health Institute

Recently I viewed a video by Joe Bassett on the immune system.  In the video Joe, owner and operator of Bassett’s Health Food store in Toledo, Ohio, explains that, according to scientific study, humans could literally wipe out degenerative disease within five generations simply by changing to a natural Living Foods diet.

WOW!  Imagine a world free from DIS-EASE.  No more cancer, diabetes, arthritis, etc. I know that this lifestyle works by my own experience, and by watching others rejuvenate and heal themselves at the Creative Health Institute.  If you know someone who is critical or unsure of the Living Foods Lifestyle I encourage you to share this information with them.  Like Pottenger, Dr. Ann Wigmore devoted her life to researching and sharing these amazing truths.

- available at http://chidietvideos.com.

Floss Teeth, Improve Brain

I don't know about you, but I'd almost rather go to a hanging than floss my teeth. I really hate jabbing that length of stringy floss between my choppers and gums.

I do it at least once a day, because I know it's a good thing to do, but I sure don't like it.

Well, here's a good reason to stay motivated with daily flossing. According to Michael Roizen, M.D., physician and author of Real Age: Are You as Young as You Can Be?, folks with periodontal disease (which often strikes when one doesn't clean between the teeth and gums) have an increased risk of developing fatty plaque in their blood vessels.

And of course squinched up blood vessels decrease the flow of blood to the ole brain, which can then impair memory.

Floss those teeth every day and perhaps your memory will improve to the point where you'll recall your first date. God forbid if it was anything like my first date. But that's another story.

From http://chetday.com

Broccoli Protects Skin from Sun Damage

Add sunscreen to the list of broccoli’s health benefits. A new study suggests the potent vegetable may help protect the skin from sun damage.

Researchers found the compound sulforaphane, which is derived from broccoli sprouts, reduces the skin redness and inflammation caused by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation.

Repeated sunburns are linked to a higher risk of skin cancer, and researchers say controlling the redness, known in medical terms as erythema, may be another way to fight skin cancer and sun-related skin damage...

http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20071022/broccoli-protects-skin-from-sun-damage

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/22/AR2007102201377.html

Cure Fungalized Feet

Take a Whiz and Cure Fungalized Feet

Anyone who reads my health writings knows I have an overly-developed sense of humor, so let me preface today's health tip by saying that I'm not joking with what you're about to read.

With that said, I've been researching some natural foot fungus remedies lately. Well, the other day, a new suggestion came in from a friend of mine, a licensed pharmacist whose avocation lies with helping his clients by referring them whenever possible to natural solutions rather than to strong drugs.

He doesn't make as much money this way, of course, but he helps more people and makes a lot of friends, and that's what it's all about anyway, near as I can tell. Okay, here's what my buddy told me in his letter:

"Hey, Chet, between you, me, and the printer cable, the fastest and cheapest and most effective way to go after good ole foot fungus... your own urine. I know peeing on your feet in the shower sounds whacked, but I have used it effectively and passed it out dozens of times from behind the Prozac counter. And with a host of positive feedback."

Well, I was glad to get this fascinating suggestion from my friend because I've always been interested in urine. I mean, seriously, with so much of it coming out of us every day, how can we not be?

Although I don't have space to write an epistle on this, I do want to say that, contrary to the bad press it gets, human urine is sterile and not something filthy that we should cringe about when we mention its name.

I mean seriously, my pharmacist friend and I aren't recommending that you drink the stuff, though people in India have been doing just that for thousands of years for apparently good reasons. But that's another story.

Anyway, if you have a nasty case of foot fungus and want to try the easiest and least expensive home remedy I'm currently aware of, pour or pee some of your own urine on the problem in the shower, let it set for a minute or two, and then wash it off. Repeat as necessary whenever you shower until the problem heals.

By the way, after reading this tip, Linda S wrote, "There is another less offensive remedy. For real. Soak a cup of corn meal in warm to very warm water for about an hour, then soak the affected area in the 'meal water.' This can be done while watching you favorite tv show in the evening. Repeat as necessary. Supposedly, two to three times in a week should do the trick."

From http://chetday.com

[ Another suggestion - Take Off Your Shoes - When I was living on Maui last winter I became accustomed to going barefoot almost all the time. When I did put something on my feet it was only sandals (slippahs, in Hawaiian terms). I brought that behavior pattern home with me.

Not only have my athlete's foot issues disappeared, but also my toenail fungus and fallen arches. My posture changed, too - for the better. My feet are larger now - none of my old shoes fit - but I feel so much better that I don't care.

There's a spiritual aspect to this, also. I feel much closer to the Earth now. Gardeners talk about the communion they feel with the earth when gardening, and I'm experiencing the same thing - all the time. When I saw Wayne Dyer on PBS recently, barefoot, I laughed out loud. He feels the same thing; that means I might be unusual, but I'm not as crazy as my friends say I am. <g>

With the onset of cooler weather here in Georgia, US, I find myself wearing sandals more, but most days I can get barefoot and out in the woods for at least a couple of hours.

When was the last time YOU were in direct contact with the Earth? - Jim Carey ]

Take the Sting Out of Insect Bites

"Take the Sting Out of Insect Bites"
by Chet Day

There are almost as many insect bite home remedies as there are seeds in a pomegranate.

Here are a few of the more interesting ones I've read about lately.

1. Soak the affected area with vinegar.
2. Put a cotton bowl dipped in ammonia on the bite to draw out the stinger and reduce the pain and itch.
3. Smash up a clove of garlic and place the poultice on the affected area.
4. Spread some honey onto an old cloth. Place some ice cubes on top of the honey. Wrap up the cloth and place on affected area.
5. Kill a rattlesnake and then eat some of the meat every day for the next week. (I don't recommend this one since monkeying with rattlesnakes is dangerous, but I included it anyway for any snake handlers out there reading today's health tip.)
         
   From http://chetday.com

Vegetarian diet will lessen E. coli threat

Studies have shown that when contaminated meat is recalled, only about half of it is actually recovered- the rest remains in grocery stores. You can protect yourself and your loved ones from E. coli, campylobacter, listeria, and other bacteria that live in the intestinal tracts and feces of animals by always leaving meat and other animal products at the grocery store. Most farmed animals are crammed into filthy sheds and slaughtered on killing floors that are contaminated with feces, vomit, and other bodily fluids. These unsanitary conditions have led to a rise in food borne bacteria.

Plant-based foods, on the other hand, don't normally harbor E. coli or other fecal bacteria. In fact, according to the USDA, 70 percent of food poisoning is caused by contaminated animal flesh. When fruits or vegetables do become contaminated with E. coli, it is because animal manure was used to fertilize crops or leaked into waterways. Cross-contamination can also occur when fruits and vegetables are placed on the same surface as meat... http://examiner.gmnews.com/news/2007/1004/letters/033.html

Gout on the rise in the USA

Over the past 20 years, the incidence of gout - a debilitating arthritis caused by eating rich food - has doubled in the USA.  Not surprisingly, this is an increase that parallels the growing epidemic of obesity.

Although gout is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis in men, affecting as many as 5 million men in the United States, this painful arthritic condition is essentially unknown in parts of the world where people consume a diet based on starches.

The most important cause is an increase in the intake of rich foods, which are high in uric acid precursors, known as purines. The muscles of animal meat, poultry, fish and seafood are the most abundant sources of purines.

Most people have large storages of uric acid in their tissues which may take months of healthy eating and associated weight loss to dissolve away: http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2006nl/june/gout.htm.

Eating vegetables may prevent hardening of the arteries, research suggests

(BBC)  US researchers found 38% less build up of fatty deposits in the arteries of mice who were fed a mixture of vegetables, including carrots and peas.  

US researchers found 38% less build up of fatty deposits in the arteries of mice who were fed a mixture of vegetables, including carrots and peas: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5076850.stm.

- submitted by Helen Terry