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Vioxx & FDA corruption

Monday, February 21, 2005

With COX-2 decision, no longer any doubt about FDA corruption and U.S. drug racket

Following the death of as many as 60,000 Americans from COX-2 inhibitors (source: British Medical Journal, author Dr. David Graham, FDA drug safety researcher), an FDA advisory panel has now voted to allow the drugs to return to the market with full FDA safety approval. The fact that a single COX-2 drug has reportedly killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War is apparently not sufficient for the FDA to characterize it as unsafe.

With this decision, a "safety approval" by the FDA has now become meaningless. If the agency can put its stamp of public safety approval on a drug that has killed tens of thousands of Americans and that was removed from the market by its own manufacturer following the revelation of studies showing alarming increases in heart attack risk, then what, pray tell, could possibly be the FDA's definition of a dangerous drug?

For the FDA to consider a drug dangerous, it apparently has to kill more than 60,000 Americans. I'm curious what threshold must be reached before the FDA actually does its job and seeks to protect the U.S. public. Do 250,000 people have to die before the FDA calls a drug unsafe? 500,000 people? How about a million people?

There can no longer be any doubt whatsoever about the FDA's true purpose. Regardless of what the agency publicly states, when it comes time to make key decisions about the safety of U.S. consumers, the FDA will side with drug companies every time. We've seen it time and time again: with the FDA's reluctance to pull obviously dangerous drugs off the market in a timely fashion (Rezulin, for example), with the FDA's attempts to silence its own drug safety scientists (censorship of Dr. David Graham, for example), and with the FDA's collusion with drug companies in suppressing clinical trials and other forms of evidence that raise safety questions about prescription drugs. Corruption runs deep at the FDA, it seems.

This decision with Vioxx and other COX-2 inhibitors was a defining moment for the U.S. Fraud and Drug Administration. It was a moment where the agency could have sided with public safety and held fast to a position of responsibility and ethics. Instead, it chose to favor drug company profits and put its stamp of approval on a class of drugs that is arguably the most deadly drugs ever to hit the open market.

A sane, ethical FDA would have not only banned COX-2 inhibitors outright, it would have put an end to direct-to-consumer advertising that ultimately led to the over-hyping and over-prescribing of these painkillers in the first place. Most people taking COX-2 inhibitors don't even need them. They would be better off with simple over-the-counter painkillers or, better yet, natural health treatments like nutrition, herbal remedies and supplements that work far better than prescription drugs for stopping arthritis pain (and without all the negative side effects). Astaxanthin supplements, for one, greatly ease arthritis pain. So do whole food concentrates made from cherries, blackberries and other fruits. There are dozens of other natural health strategies that ease pain as well.

To pull off this public charade of a serious meeting about COX-2 inhibitors, meeting organizers paraded a line of pain victims in front of FDA panelists and got them to beg for the availability of COX-2 inhibitors. The implied message was, "If we can't have Vioxx, we'll suffer!" What this faulty argument fails to mention is the whole universe of alternative treatments, healing foods and natural health therapies that end arthritis pain at least as well as prescription drugs. Nowhere was there a discussion of other choices these patients might make to treat their pain. Instead, it was a fool's choice: Vioxx or nothing.

And thus the whole FDA panel meeting was a sham. It was contrived from the start and designed to do one thing: to give the panel justification to reinstate Vioxx and avoid banning COX-2 inhibitors as a class of drugs. This, in turn, would dramatically boost stock prices of drug companies and keep the drug profit machine churning away for years to come. (I wouldn't be surprised if the vast majority of the people on the FDA advisory panel, by the way, own stock in the very drug companies impacted by this decision.)

It was brilliant theater, but bad medicine. And with this decision, whatever credibility the FDA thought it had remaining has now evaporated. The agency is suddenly the laughing stock of the world. It has taken what many consider to be the most dangerous class of prescription drugs ever introduced and rubber stamped the whole class with the label of "FDA approved."

The very label of "FDA approved" is now synonymous with "Poison." It sort of makes you wonder about all the other drugs the agency has approved, doesn't it? The agency sure has a funny way of defining "safe."

And if you, like many Americans, were holding out in the hopes that the FDA would, for once, do the right thing and protect the American public, you now realize that the agency is so blatantly corrupt that only radical, wholesale reform will ever restore any sense of credibility.

There is an abundance of evidence available right now, published in peer-reviewed medical journals like the British Medical Journal, showing COX-2 inhibitors to be deadly drugs. That's not to mention the internal drug company memos and emails leaked to the press that directly acknowledge the dangers of these drugs. No reasonable person can argue that these drugs are not dangerous. Yet the FDA will no doubt claim there's not enough evidence to show COX-2 inhibitors are dangerous enough to ban them.

I find this fascinating. When the FDA is attacking herbs and nutritional supplements, they will claim there's not enough evidence to prove they are safe. But when it comes to prescription drugs, the agency says there's not enough evidence to prove they're dangerous. All drugs approved by the FDA, it seems, are deemed safe until proven deadly. And even when proven deadly, they apparently aren't deadly enough to warrant banning them.

The FDA is now so clearly the regulatory puppet of Big Pharma that it has proven itself unable to reform from within. It's time for the U.S. public and its legislative representatives to revoke the power of authority over drug safety that has been granted to the FDA in monopoly fashion. It's time to put the power of drug safety into the hands of people who actually care about safety, not those who benefit from drug sales. And it's time to end the oppressive, Dark Ages reign of the U.S. Fraud and Drug Administration which is not only complicit in the deaths of literally hundreds of thousands of Americans, but which seems determined to continue its campaign of power and corruption, no matter what the cost in the American lives.

Dr. Sidney Wolfe (PublicCitizen.org) was right all along. I say we team Dr. Wolfe with Dr. Graham and let them run the FDA. They can start by firing all the bureaucrats that landed us in this drug safety mess in the first place.

Overview:

• With COX-2 decision, no longer any doubt about FDA corruption and U.S. drug racket

Source: http://www.newstarget.com/004728.html

A brief history of nutritional deficiencies and chronic disease

There is a long history of discovering relationships between nutritional deficiencies and chronic disease. One of the most well known is probably scurvy -- a disease where your bones lose their rigidity due to a deficiency of vitamin C. The historical accounts of this mostly involve sailors who, on long sailing voyages, were overcome by this nutritional disease. And it actually took hundreds of years before the right scientist came along and discovered that this was caused by a simple nutritional deficiency that could be cured by eating fruits high in vitamin C such as limes. Hence the name 'limeys' for sailors.

That's just one example of a disease caused by nutritional deficiencies. There are many other diseases such as rickets and beriberi caused by nutritional deficiencies. Asian people who historically ate polished, processed rice (white rice) frequently got beriberi, a disease caused by a deficiency in vitamin B1 (thiamin). Until the nutritional causes of beriberi were established, however, physicians of ancient Asia thought the disease was some sort of plague.

In America, the term 'redneck' actually comes from a vitamin B deficiency that caused heightened susceptibility to sunburns. Interestingly, most Americans are, today, deficient in B vitamins as well, making them technically rednecks. It also explains why many people are so easily sunburned. As explained in Staying Healthy With Nutrition by Dr. Elson Haas, M.D.:

For a long period of history, the niacin deficiency disease, pellagra, was a very serious and fatal problem. Characterized as the disease of the "three Ds," pellagra causes its victims to experience dermatitis, diarrhea, and dementia. The fourth D was death. As described previously, the classic B3 deficiency occurs mainly in cultures whose diets rely heavily on corn and where the corn is not prepared in a way that releases its niacin. One of the first signs of pellagra, or niacin deficiency, is the skin's sensitivity to light, and the skin becomes rough, thick, and dry (pellagra means "skin that is rough" in Italian). The skin then becomes darkly pigmented, especially in areas of the body prone to be hot and sweaty or those exposed to sun. The first stage of this condition is extreme redness and sensitivity of those exposed areas, and it was from this symptom that the term "redneck," describing the bright red necks of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century niacin-deficient fieldworkers, came into being.

The early colonial settlers in America, by the way, didn’t know how to properly process corn as the American Indians did. The American Indians processed corn using potash (which is highly alkaline) that makes the B vitamins in corn available for assimilation during digestion. But the American settlers, not understanding how to prepare corn, would simply grind up their corn and consume it as corn flour (corn meal). By the way, that's how most people eat corn today: as ground up cornmeal ingredients in chips and foods.

In more modern times, we know very well about what happens when you're deficient in folic acid and you are a pregnant woman: your baby may be born with serious spinal cord defects or even be stillborn. In fact, birth defects are almost always explained by nutritional deficiencies or the consumption of foods and beverages by the mother that interfere with good nutrition.

We also know that iodine is absolutely essential for human health, which is why salt is enriched with iodine. That's in an effort to prevent goiter, a disease that was quite common in the United States until iodine was finally mandated as a salt supplement (enrichment) by the FDA.

As a nation we have managed to force a handful of minerals and vitamins into the food supply that prevent only the most grotesque and physically obvious disorders and diseases caused by nutritional deficiencies. And by the way, those are the only ones that really get addressed through the food supply.

If there is an obvious and immediate link between nutrition and a particular disease such as birth defects caused by a lack of folic acid, then of course this gets recognized and addressed very quickly. But other metabolic disorders such as cancer and diabetes are more complex and so the cause/effect relationship is not so easy to see from the point of view of scientists, the FDA, and even the public. So these don't get addressed.

And that, frankly, is why the public is still not being taught the correlation between nutrition and chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis and even mental disorders like clinical depression.

This article is an excerpt from the book, The 7 Laws of Nutrition by Mike Adams.

Disease names like diabetes and osteoporosis are misleading and misinform patients about disease prevention

There is a curious tendency in conventional medicine to name a set of symptoms a disease. I was recently at a compounding pharmacy having my bone mineral density measured to update my health stats. I spotted a poster touting a new drug for osteoporosis. It was written by a drug company and it said exactly this: "Osteoporosis is a disease that causes weak and fragile bones." Then, the poster went on to say that you need a particular drug to counteract this "disease."

Yet the language is all backwards. Osteoporosis isn't a disease that causes weak bones, osteoporosis is the name given to a diagnosis of weak bones. In other words, the weak bones happened first, and then the diagnosis of osteoporosis followed.

The drug poster makes it sound like osteoporosis strikes first, and then you get weak bones. The cause and effect is all backwards. And that's how drug companies want people to think about diseases and symptoms: first you "get" the disease, then you are "diagnosed" just in time to take a new drug for the rest of your life.

But it's all hogwash. There is no such disease as osteoporosis. It's just a made-up name given to a pattern of symptoms that indicate you've let your bones get fragile.

As another example, when a person follows an unhealthy lifestyle that results in a symptom such as high blood pressure, that symptom is actually be assumed to be a disease all by itself and it will be given a disease name. What disease? The disease is, of course, "high blood pressure." Doctors throw this phrase around as if it were an actual disease and not merely descriptive of patient physiology.

This may all seem silly, right? But there's actually a very important point to all this.

When we look at symptoms and give them disease names, we automatically distort the selection of available treatments for such a disease. If the disease is, by itself, high cholesterol, then the cure for the disease must be nothing other than lowering the high cholesterol. And that's how we end up with all these pharmaceuticals treating high cholesterol in order to "prevent" this disease and lower the levels of LDL cholesterol in the human patient.

By lowering only the cholesterol, the doctor can rest assured that he is, in fact, treating this "disease," since the definition of this "disease" is high cholesterol and nothing else.

But there is a fatal flaw in this approach to disease treatment: the symptom is not the cause of the disease. There is another cause, and this deeper cause is routinely ignored by conventional medicine, doctors, drug companies, and even patients.

Let's take a closer look at high blood pressure. What actually causes high blood pressure? Many doctors would say high blood pressure is caused by a specific, measurable interaction between circulating chemicals in the human body. Thus, the ill-behaved chemical compounds are the cause of the high blood pressure, and therefore the solution is to regulate these chemicals. That's exactly what pharmaceuticals do -- they attempt to manipulate the chemicals in the body to adjust the symptoms of high blood pressure. Thus, they only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.

Or take a look at high cholesterol. The conventional medicine approach says that high cholesterol is caused by a chemical imbalance in the liver, which is the organ that produces cholesterol. Thus the treatment for high cholesterol is a prescription drug that inhibits the liver's production of cholesterol (statin drugs). Upon taking these drugs, the high cholesterol (the "disease") is regulated, but what was causing the liver to overproduce cholesterol in the first place? That causative factor remains ignored.

The root cause of high cholesterol, as it turns out, is primarily dietary. A person who eats foods that are high in saturated fats and hydrogenated oils will inevitably produce more bad cholesterol and will show the symptoms of this so-called disease of high cholesterol. It's simple cause and effect. Eat the wrong foods, and you'll produce too much bad cholesterol in the liver which can be detected and diagnosed by conventional medical procedures.

Yet the root cause of all this is actually poor food choice, not some bizarre behavior by the liver. If the disease were to be accurately named, then, it would be called Fatty Food Choice Disease, or simply FFCD.

FFCD would be a far more accurate name that would make sense to people. If it's a fatty foods choice disease, then it seems that the obvious solution to the disease would be to choose foods that aren't so fatty. Of course that may be a bit of simplification since you have to distinguish between healthy fats and unhealthy fats. But at least the name FFCD gives patients a better idea of what's actually going on rather than naming the disease after a symptom, such as high cholesterol. You see, the symptom is not the disease, but conventional medicine insists on calling the symptom the disease because that way it can treat the symptom and claim success without actually addressing the underlying cause, which remains a mystery to modern medicine.

But let's move on to some other diseases so you get a clearer picture of how this actually works. Another disease that's caused by poor food choice is diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the natural physiological and metabolic result of a person consuming refined carbohydrates and added sugars in large quantities without engaging in regular physical exercise that would compensate for such dietary practices.

The name "diabetes" is meaningless to the average person. The disease should be called Excessive Sugar Disease, or ESD. If it were called Excessive Sugar Disease, the solution to it would be rather apparent; simply eat less sugar, drink fewer soft drinks and so on. But of course that would be far too simple for the medical community, so the disease must be given a complex name such as diabetes that puts its solution out of reach of the average patient.

Another disease that is named after its symptom is cancer. In fact, to this day, most doctors and many patients still believe that cancer is a physical thing: a tumor. In reality, a tumor is only a side effect of cancer, not its cause. A tumor is simply a physical manifestation of a cancer pattern that is expressed by the body. When a person "has cancer," what they really have is a sluggish immune system. And that would a far better name for the disease: Sluggish Immune System Disease or SISD.

If cancer were actually called Sluggish Immune System Disease, it would seem ridiculous to try to cure cancer by cutting out tumors through surgery and by destroying the immune system with chemotherapy. And yet these are precisely the most popular treatments for cancer offered by conventional medicine. These treatments do absolutely nothing to support the patient's immune system and prevent further occurrences of cancer. That's exactly why most people who undergo chemotherapy or the removal of tumors through surgical procedures end up with yet more cancer a few months or a few years later. It's also another reason why survival rates of cancer have barely budged over the last twenty years. (In other words, conventional medicine's treatments for cancer simply don't work.)

This whole situation stems from the fact that the disease is misnamed. It isn't cancer, it isn't a tumor and it certainly isn't a disease caused by having too strong of an immune system that needs to be destroyed through chemotherapy. It is simply a sluggish immune system or a suppressed immune system. And if it were called a sluggish immune system disease or a suppressed immune system disorder, the effective treatment for cancer would be apparent.

There are many other diseases that are given misleading names by western medicine. But if you look around the world and take a look at how diseases are named elsewhere, you will find many countries have disease names that actually make sense.

For example, in Chinese medicine, Alzheimer's disease is given a name that means, when translated, "feeble mind disease." In Chinese medicine, the name of the disease more accurately describes the actual cause of the disease, whereas in western medicine, the name of the disease seems to be intended to obscure the root cause of the disease, thereby making all diseases sound far more complex and mysterious than they really are.

This is one way in which doctors and practitioners of western medicine keep medical treatments out of the reach of the average citizen. Because, by God, they sure don't want people thinking for themselves about the causes of disease!

By creating a whole new vocabulary for medical conditions, they can speak their own secret language and make sure that people who aren't schooled in medicine don't understand what they're saying. That's a shame, because the treatments and cures for virtually all chronic diseases are actually quite simple and can be described in plain language, such as making different food choices, getting more natural sunlight, drinking more water, engaging in regular physical exercise, avoiding specific food toxins, supplementing your diet with superfoods and nutritional supplements and so on.

See, western medicine prefers to describe diseases in terms of chemistry. When you're depressed, you aren't suffering from a lack of natural sunlight; you are suffering from a "brain chemistry imbalance" that can only be regulated, they claim, by ingesting toxic chemicals to alter your brain chemistry. When your bones are brittle, it's not brittle bones disease; it's called osteoporosis, something that sounds very technical and complicated. And to treat it, western doctors and physicians will give you prescriptions for expensive drugs that somehow claim to make your bones less brittle. But in fact, the real treatment for this can be described in plain language once again: regular physical exercise, vitamin D supplementation, mineral supplements that include calcium and strontium, natural sunlight, and avoidance of acidic foods such as soft drinks, white flour and added sugars.

In fact, virtually every disease that’s prominent in modern society -- diabetes, cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, clinical depression, irritable bowel syndrome and so on -- can be easily described in plain language without using complex terms at all. These diseases are simply misnamed. And I believe that they are intentionally misnamed to put the jargon out of reach of everyday citizens. As a result, there's a great deal of arrogance in the language of western medicine, and this arrogance furthers the language of separation. Separation never results in healing. In order to effect healing, we must bring together the language of healers and patients using plain language that real people understand and that real people can act upon.

We need to start describing diseases in terms of their root causes, not in terms of their arcane, biochemical actions. When someone suffers from seasonal affective disorder or clinical depression, for example, let's call it what it is: Sunlight Deficiency Disorder. To treat it, the person simply needs to get more sunlight. This isn't rocket science, it's not complex, and it doesn't require a prescription.

If someone is suffering from osteoporosis, let's get realistic about the words we use to describe the condition: it's really Brittle Bones Disease. And it should be treated with things that will enhance bone density, such as nutrition, physical exercise and avoidance of foods and drinks that strip away bone mass from the human body.

All of this information, of course, is rather shocking to old-school doctors and practitioners of western medicine, and the bigger their egos are, the more they hate the idea of naming diseases in plain language that patients can actually comprehend. That's because if the simple truths about diseases and the causes of health were readily available to everyday people, that would lessen the importance of physicians and medical researchers.

There's a great deal of ego invested in the medical community, and they sure don't want to make health sound attainable to the average person without their expert advice. It's sort of the same way that some ultra-conservative churches don't want their members talking to God unless it all goes through their priest first. Doctors and priests all want to serve as the translators of "truth" and will balk at any attempts to educate the public to either practice medicine or talk to God on their own.

But in reality, health (and a connection with spirit) is attainable by every single person. Health is easy, it is straightforward, it is direct and, for the most part, it is available free of charge.

Don't believe the names of diseases given to you by your doctor. Those names are designed to obscure, not to inform. They are designed to separate you from self-healing, not to put you in touch with your own inner healer. And thus, they are nothing more than bad medicine masquerading as modern medical practice.

Overview:

Disease names like diabetes and osteoporosis are misleading and misinform patients about disease prevention

Source: http://www.newstarget.com/002800.html

WARNING: Your Life Is At Risk.

"This Special Report Can Help You Reduce Your Odds of Contracting One of the Eight Deadly Diseases of the Western World."

By Paul Devlin

Yes, your life and my life are currently at risk. A warning is definitely needed for the Western world, and particularly for people eating food out of grocery stores and restaurants. Know anyone like that?

Like the aristocrats of ancient Rome, many Americans are literally eating themselves to an early death. It is my opinion that with a little bit of basic knowledge, supported by
statistics and research from the cutting edge of health and science, people can take some simple steps and put the odds of living a longer healthier life back in their favor. We have identified 8 major diseases that have been sweeping the land since the 1940's. All of them were virtually unheard of at the turn of the 20th century.

The statistics will amaze you...

I'll also be sharing some health secrets you can use RIGHT NOW to protect yourself and your family. For obvious legal reasons, we can't guarantee that if you apply this information you will add years to your life, or never get a disease. But what we can
do is present you with the research, give you our interpretation of the research, and let you make the decision on what to do with it. Fair enough?

Hopefully, you can see enough value here to spend a few minutes and read on...

Frankly, 7 years ago, I knew almost nothing about health. I was a 32-year-old, over-stressed baby boomer. I was so busy, I ate most of my meals off my lap driving 70 mph in my car. I knew lots of drive-thru clerks on a first-name basis. I frequently had "special sauce" dripping down the side of my face as I was driving, eating, listening to tapes, paying tolls, and doing business on my cell phone....all at the same time! I get stressed out all over again just thinking about it. I was clearly on my way to an early death from one of the 8 deadly diseases (assuming a head-on collision didn't kill me first).

I wasn't the only dummy out there living like this. The research shows that my past lifestyle is the norm for most people. I will shed a little light here on what science says about living and eating as an everyday American worker...and it's not pretty.

But before I do, let me share with you why I decided to make the fundamental choice for good health...

In 1994, I took a trip to Colorado in an attempt to rekindle one of my past loves... mountaineering. Scree-skiing down on a talus slope at 13,000ft in the San Juan mountains, I took a wicked fall on my rump and compressed some discs in my lower
back. The injury left me in bad shape. I was so locked up with nerve pain, I could barely walk. I literally walked like a 100-year old man. I went to doctors and chiropractors
without much success. So I started taking pain-killers.

At about the same time, I heard a radio program about nutrition as I was driving my 50-minute commute to work. I heard people talking about how nutritional products had helped them overcome a mind-boggling variety of health problems, including back pain.

I wasn't taking any vitamin or mineral supplements at the time. Frankly, I was pretty skeptical about the whole thing. I didn't really believe products like that could help me, but the show piqued my curiosity. I could tell the stories were genuine. People were breaking down over the radio, in tears over their positive health changes.

I did two things: first, I immediately started taking nutrition(partly because of the money-back guarantee) to test it out and see what might happen, and second, I started to do some of my own research. I was curious about what the medical literature had to say about all this.

I was one of those 77 million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964. The earliest of the boomers was just turning 50, and even though I was only 32 at the time, my body already felt like it was 50. I had a lot of living left to do at that point! So I was motivated to do the research because I wanted to know how I could preserve my health as long as possible.

Two months after starting the nutrition, my lower back pain completely subsided. Were the two related? I'm not sure, but it sure was an interesting coincidence. And then some other things started to happen in my body...

Almost immediately after I started on the product, my daily energy went way up. I jumped out of bed in the morning refreshed and wide-awake. I started being able to sleep less and feel better.

My mind was sharper. My memory seemed to be better.

But here was the clincher...

Three months into the products my childhood hay fever and cat allergies disappeared. We started allowing the barn cats into the house, this was an event that would have sent me into a major explosion of sneezing, itching, watery eyes and congestion. Nothing happened. Soon I started actually playing with the cats and rubbing my face in their fur: still nothing. When spring rolled around and the pollen started to fly I was even more amazed: not one symptom. I invited my skeptical parents over to see for themselves, they had watched me suffer with allergies my whole life. They were so impressed even my jaded mother started taking the stuff (a miraculous event). I was steadily becoming a believer.

At about the same time, I started my research. Now, I may not be a doctor, but I'm college educated and I can go to the library as well as the next guy and do research to find out what's going on with the state of our health. After reading dozens of books,
plowing through scientific journals and abstracts, and conversing with lots of smart people on the subject, I concluded that reliable evidence about how to stay healthy was a complex maze of contradictory opinions.

One day coffee is bad and may lead to breast cancer, the next day it boosts the cardiovascular system.

One study suggests butter is linked to heart disease and recommends margarine, the next study shows hydrogenated oils (like margarine) suppress the immune system and could be a cancer risk!

One company is out there promoting nutrasweet in place of sugar for weight loss. 60 minutes does a piece on CBS suggesting nutrasweet may lead to tumors in the brain.

There is a dizzying array of this kind of thing, which is why so many people are confused about what to do to maintain their health. I've heard folks like my Dad just throw in the towel and say things like: "there's so much contradiction out there, who knows what to believe anymore--I'll just eat what I want and take my chances".

Incredibly, some of the so-called studies I read were funded by the very industries that were directly affected by the results!

For example, how serious do we take a study on the effects of pesticide use, when it is funded by Monsanto?

Or how about a study on the effects of dairy products on asthma and allergy patients that was funded by the Dairy Council of America?

Isn't that a little crazy after all? To me a lot of it looked like "junk" science. They start out with a proposition to prove, and then they find a way to manipulate the data in order to
prove it! I decided to sift through the science and only qualify studies where the funding source was disconnected from an interested party.

In addition, I started studying people who were healthy themselves and maybe had overcome personal illness through natural means. People who had experienced definite, verifiable results (like me), using alternative methods. There has always been something about our "drugs and surgery" approach to health care that never made sense to me. During my research I found a huge number of anecdotal stories that supported the idea that good health resulted from right choices with regard to food, nutrition, water, rest and exercise. Using a combination of carefully filtered scientific studies, anecdotal stories, and good old common sense, I concluded that if the body is given those five natural tools, it can literally solve almost any problem without a lot of intervention from medical science.

I know that sounds a bit radical, but please bear with me. Give me a little more time to convince you?

More important than even convincing you, let me give you an EXACT prescription that you can use for your own health. That's the true purpose of this report. I want you to be able to take this information, apply it in your life, and see noticeable results right away. If you could make real progress and potentially add years of quality living to your life, that would be worth it wouldn't it?

Now that the results of my research are finished, I must warn you, a lot more of what you're about to read may challenge some of your strongly held opinions. They did mine. That's why every important statement in this report has been thoroughly researched and documented including footnotes and references.

Why You Need To Know This--Even If You're Currently Healthy...

Let's say you were climbing a mountain with some of your best friends, and you happened to be way up ahead of the group. Above you, someone knocks loose a gigantic boulder which starts crashing and tumbling down the slope in their direction. Would you step aside and watch, hoping the huge rock doesn't crush your best buddies? Or would you shout out at the top of your lungs to warn them? Wouldn't we all be yelling: ROOOOOOOOCK!!! Because even though there's a chance it would bounce harmlessly past, there's also a chance it could kill them. No one wants to be responsible for standing idly by why others are being killed!

Because I look at life like a mountain climb, I need to tell you that I know of at least eight huge boulders tumbling down in your direction. Some of them may bounce harmlessly past you. But what you're about to find out is the fact that the odds of getting picked off by one of these is rising fast. That's why it may seem like I'm shouting at you at times in this report.

Folks, something has gone terribly wrong with our health.

Most of us assume we are living longer, because the longevity stats have gone way up in the last 100 years. But the sad truth is that because these 8 diseases are growing so fast, we are actually living shorter...but taking longer to die. Our technology keeps us alive longer, but we sacrifice the quality of life in the process. Can there really be dignity when our elderly spend months or even years in a vegetative state hooked up to a machine? And what about the economic impact?

I used to think that normal aging was the same for everybody. You get one of the eight deadly diseases, and then you slowly die. Imagine my surprise when I learned that heart disease, the number one killer of Americans, is a relatively new disease! The first modern cases of it were reported in 1912, and even then it was extremely rare.[1] Today heart disease kills four times as many American women each year as breast cancer [1a]. For 300,000 people each year, the first and only symptom of heart disease is sudden death.

How did it go from almost non-existent to the number one spot? Hmmmmm. Makes you think, doesn't it?

What about cancer? Only 3% of us died of cancer a hundred years ago. Today, almost 30% of us will succumb to it.[2] The 1909 edition of the standard U.S. textbook, Principles and Practice of Medicine,[2a] devoted only 15 pages to cancer. Breast and
prostate cancers received no mention; colon cancer received 2 lines. In contrast, the 1994 edition of Principles of Internal Medicine devoted 174 pages to this affliction. [2b]

Stroke, which killed only a very few people a hundred years ago, is today the number three killer of Americans.

Alzheimer's wasn't even diagnosed until 1907. Today, 40% of those over 85 are suffering from it.[3]

Diabetes has increased 600% in just the last generation.[4] Each year, Diabetes kills more than twice as many American women as breast cancer. [4a]

Over 40 million Americans suffer with some form of Arthritis or Osteoporosis. Ask any American woman what disease she fears most and she'll probably say breast cancer. Yet hip fractures kill more women than cancers of the breast, cervix and uterus
combined. [4b]

Finally, there are the auto immune disorders like chronic fatigue syndrome, Epstein-Barr virus, lupus, fibromyalgia, and AIDS. I lump them into one big category, and this group is
growing like wildfire in the US right now. 20 years ago, they didn't even have names for most of this stuff and many of them were written off by doctors as psycho-sematic. But the harsh symptoms of these auto-immune disorders are currently wreaking havoc on the health of tens of thousands of Americans, and in the case of AIDS, are killing people at an alarming rate.

Obviously, something has gone terribly wrong here, and it's happened in our lifetime. But we're acting as if all of these diseases are just a part of the normal aging process! Not so! There is nothing normal or natural about degenerative disease. We have convinced ourselves it is normal as a way of dealing with the terrible new reality of sickness and disease in the modern world.

Many of these deaths are totally unnecessary.

And that's the tragedy. When a plane crashes and a few hundred people die, it makes the front page news for days. But when a million people die of heart disease or a half a million die of cancer, you'd think there'd be more of an outcry. It's the equivalent of a jumbo jet full of people crashing every single hour of every single day of every single month for an entire year. Year after year.

Pretty amazing, isn't it?

Now, let me ask you: How long do you plan on living? To what age? 70? 80? 90? 100+? What do you think is reasonable?

Now, take that figure and add 10 extra healthy years to it. What if you could live to 100 and beyond without the pain and disease that most people think comes with old age? Is this possible?

Today the average person lives to about 76. That's 79 for women and 72 for men.[5] But in certain areas of the world centenarians are common. We have only lately started to uncover why.

Source for data: National Center for Health Statistics, 1996 http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/datawh/statab/pubd.htm

The Danger Zone!

Today, the risk of dying of any thing before you are 40 is really very small. But starting at 40, you enter the zone of the 8 deadly diseases. How deadly are they? They kill more than 80% of us.[6] Can you guess what they are?

Heart Disease
Cancer
Stroke
Diabetes
Arthritis
Osteoporosis
Alzheimer's Disease
Auto-Immune Disease

These 8 deadly diseases will send millions of people to an early grave this year. Not thousands, but millions!

Here's the good news.

None of these diseases are inevitable. All of them can potentially be avoided or at least delayed - and in some cases even reversed - by following a few simple steps that I'll share with you before we're done. Because of this, more and more of us will be living healthy lives all the way to one hundred and beyond.

How about you? Do you want to live to 100? With the way trends are going, you may reach 100 whether you want to or not. And that scares some people. We tend to think of old people as frail and sickly but research on those who live to one hundred finds them "amazingly frisky" 84% function well, and 73% rate their health as good to excellent. So what is their secret? As a group, they like to walk, they are rarely overweight, and 5200 take extra vitamins and minerals daily.[7] If you want to join them, you'll have to adopt many of the same habits. And one of your first goals is to avoid the "deadly eight" for as long as possible.

Know thy enemy!

There is an adage in war. Know thy enemy. Each of us is being stalked by eight mortal diseases. If we don't want to be cut down early, we need to find out more about these diseases so we'll better understand how to conquer them.

#1: Heart Disease

Heart disease kills a million people a year in North America alone, and millions more worldwide. It's an epidemic. It's the equivalent of wiping out entire cities of people like San Diego or Sydney or Vancouver every year. Year after year. Or to say it another way, somebody dies at least every 32 seconds from heart disease.[8] But just what is it? It's not a disease you catch like a cold.

It's a disease you eat.

Improper diet causes a sludge called plaque to slowly clog up your arteries, stopping the flow of vital oxygen and nutrients to your heart muscles. When your arteries finally plug up, you have a heart attack. This happens to over 1.5 million people a year. For most of them, it's a total surprise. They had no idea their arteries were clogged. 1/3 of them will die on the way to the hospital, with no second chance, no time to say goodbye. [10] Those who do survive suffer through expensive and painful therapies. These days, a coronary bypass surgery costs between $25,000-$50,000.[11]

Sadly, the Centers for Disease Control stated in 1994 that only 18% of Americans over age 18 are free of heart disease risk factors. Here they are: high blood cholesterol, smoking, overweight, diabetes, hypertension and inactivity. [11a] Each heart attack costs our health-care system at least $40,000. Heart disease is a $40 billion dollar industry with bypass surgery and angioplasty among the most lucrative medical procedures.[11b]

And all of this expense and pain and death may be unnecessary.

So how can you decrease the risk of heart disease?

Are you ready for a shocker? About 80% of the human race have cholesterol levels below 150 and will never have a heart attack. [11c] The Tarahumara Indians of Mexico and the Yanamomes of Brazil have average cholesterol levels from 133-137. [11d] That
should tell us something! We Americans need to rethink what we're putting into our bodies.

Odds are, you probably already have some degree of heart disease. Heart disease starts early. By age 16, young Americans already have some degree of blockage in the crucial
arteries that supply the heart with blood.[12] But, here's the good news: because of medical technology, we've made significant progress in the war on heart disease. Since 1950, we've cut the death rate in half.

As Dr. Michael Colgan, world famous expert on nutrition, has said: "Do not fear cardiovascular disease. It's the easiest of all man-made diseases to prevent, and even to reverse, if only you follow the right nutrition, plus a little easy exercise to blow away the cobwebs." [13]

There are four components that the research suggests may aid in preventing heart disease:

1. Eat a diet high in fiber and low in saturated animal fats, dairy products are considered animal fats, even skim milk). Eat lots of raw veggies, fruits, grains, legumes, nuts and seeds. Be sparing with anything else.

2. Exercise regularly

3. Take an organic whole-food nutritional supplement containing all the major vitamins, macro minerals, trace and ultra trace rare-earth minerals, enzymes, amino-acids, EFA's etc, in their ionic form. Liquids are best.

4. Find a good liquid calcium source. Calcium is the ultimate alkalizer. I like calcium orotate. A german study by Nieper showed the beneficial effects of calcium orotate on the heart. [13a] For more info, investigate the work of Rilling [13b], Zondek [13c], and Kylin [13d].

#2: Cancer

Cancer is the most feared and most expensive of all diseases, and for good reason. At least a million North Americans will be diagnosed with cancer this year. 50% of those will die within five years.[14] That amounts to 1,500 people a day or one every minute of every day in America and one every 3 or 4 seconds somewhere in the world.[15]

We've spent billions trying to cure it. Far from being conquered, the incidence of cancer has increased 44% since 1950. Breast cancer is up 600%. Prostate cancer is up 100%. At this rate, cancer will soon pass heart disease as the number one cause of death in America. [16] Recently, the news on the cancer front in the U.S. has shown some improvement. After decades of steady increase, the rate of cancer death seems to have peaked and is dropping about 1/2% per year. That's good news for about 2,750 people this year. But little comfort to the other 547,250 who won't make it.

What are your odds of developing cancer?

The National Cancer Institute says: "that one American in every three living today will get cancer, and one in four will die from it." [17]

For women, the most feared cancer is breast cancer. In 1950, only one in twenty women got it. Today it's about one in eight. Only 18% of women who are diagnosed with breast cancer will survive it for at least five years.[18] About 45,000 women will die from it this year. [19] According to Patrick Quillin in his book, Beating Cancer with Nutrition, even women who are lucky and beat it still lose an average of 19 years of life span.[20]

For men, the most feared cancer is prostate cancer. Just about every man over 50 has an enlarged prostate. [21] Doctors estimate that 30% of American men 60 years and older have prostatic cancer.[22] Among men who live to 75, the number is over 50% [23] That's one in two! And the older you get, the higher the risk. But don't panic! Prostate cancer usually grows very slowly and can be treated with great success. The ten-year
survival rate from prostate cancer is over 86%.[24]

If cancer is the most feared disease, it is also the least understood. Most of us think that cancer is something in your genes: some families get it, others don't. This is not necessarily so. Only 20% of cancer is attributable to heredity, 80% is in your control. [25]

According to Dr. Virginia Livingston-Wheeler, who at her clinic in San Diego treated hundreds of cancer patients with amazing success, "We all have cancer in our bodies it's just that our immune system is keeping it in check. It's the breakdown of our immune system that allows cancer to grow. If you maintain a strong and healthy immune system, your chances of ever getting cancer are virtually nil." [26], [27]

According to Dr. Patrick Quillin, another cancer expert, "Scientists agree that nearly all individuals develop undetectable cancer about 6 times in a 70 year life span. Yet only one of three people actually develops overgrown and detectable cancer. The body is equipped to deal with cancer, but this process relies heavily on nutrition. Proper nutrition
could prevent from 50-90% of all cancer "[28] So there is hope!

The development of cancer is not always a short, lightning strike event that's out of your control. It maybe a long process in the case of lung cancer 20-25 years.[29] If you strengthen your immune system now, you can take back control and possibly keep cancer in check. This report will show you how to do that.

You need to know that my research turned up an interesting connection between alkalinity and cancer protection. It seems that the more alkaline you are, the less friendly you are to cancer. Cancer cells love acidity because acid blood is anaerobic, meaning it pushes oxygen away-which inhibits the immune system. Alkaline blood, on the other hand, is aerobic, meaning it encourages oxygen and stimulates the immune system to keep cancer cells in check. This simple dynamic may be a real key to decreasing your chances of developing cancer.

So how do you keep your blood more alkaline? Eat foods grown from the earth. If it comes from a plant, it is generally alkalizing. If you have to chase it down and kill it before you can eat it, it is generally more acidic. High blood levels of protein from animal products lead to acid blood and an acid PH. Other sources of acidity are soda pop, coffee, and products loaded with simple sugars. So remember this simple little
thing and adjust the foods you eat and you can easily become less cancer friendly. Get a simple saliva PH tester from any local pharmacy to keep track of your progress.

A PH of 7.0 to 7.4 is ideal.

Studies suggest that pesticides promote cancers of the breast, prostate, brain, kidney, liver, central nervous system, blood cells and skin. [29a] So please eat organic products whenever possible! This is a simple thing you can do to limit your risk. You'll pay a bit more for organic food, but I promise you, even a good deductible is pricey if you get cancer. You also get the added feel-good vibes from supporting sustainable agriculture. One of the best features of organic farming is the fact that mega-farms can't do it. It's a BOOM for the small family farmer.

So based on the studies I've referenced here and others I've read, if you want to limit your cancer risk, my recommendation is to do the following:

1. Eat a diet high in fiber and low in saturated animal fats, (dairy products are considered animal fats, even skim milk). Eat lots of raw veggies, fruits, grains, legumes, nuts and
seeds. Be sparing with anything else.

2. Eliminate any and all trans-fats like margarine, crisco, and any product that contains hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils of any kind. Oils in general are immune suppressants so limit your oil consumption as well. Vegetable oils suppress immune function and increase cancer risk even more than animal fats.[29b] The only oils I recommend are Olive oil and carefully processed Coconut oil, but use even these beneficials sparingly. Oils are concentrated foods and should be taken as such.

3. Take an organic whole-food nutritional supplement containing all the major vitamins, macro minerals, trace and ultra trace rare-earth minerals, enzymes, amino-acids, EFA's etc, in their ionic form. Liquids are best.

4. Find a good liquid calcium source. Calcium is the ultimate alkalizer. I like calcium orotate. Oritic acid has been shown to be the ultimate carrier molecule to get calcium into the deepest bradytrophic cartilege and connective tissues in the body.[37b]

5. Consider Pao D'arco. It's made from the heartwood of the Lapacho tree and is a proven immune stimulant.

6. Consider a green product that combines barley greens, wheat grass, spirulina, chlorophyll, noni, grapeseed extract, and other anti-oxidants.

#3: Stroke

Most of us are petrified of cancer without realizing that stroke kills more women than breast cancer, and more men than prostate cancer.[30]

What is a stroke? Most strokes are caused by the same problem that causes a heart attack. The arteries of the brain harden and plug up, eventually shutting off the flow of blood to vital parts of the brain causing, in essence, a "brain attack." Researchers at the University of Cincinnati recently found to their alarm that approximately 730,000 strokes occur in the USA each year, almost ONE THIRD higher than the previous estimate of
550,000. Of those victims of stroke, at least 150,000 will die. And many of the rest of them may wish they had died. Strokes are the number one cause of disabilities. There are 4,000,000 North American survivors of stroke alive today. Half of them have significant disabilities including paralysis, speech problems, impaired vision, and memory loss.[31]

You don't want to be a stroke victim and you may not have to be. Follow the same instructions for heart disease to limit your risk of stroke.

#4: Diabetes

Over sixteen million North Americans suffer from diabetes, with millions more worldwide.[32] And it's on the rise. One in twenty of us will eventually get it.[34] It's a major threat to our health. The longer you live, the greater the chance that you'll eventually develop diabetes. 40% to 60% of eighty-year-olds have it.[35] Peripheral neuropathy is a terrible side effect of diabetes leading to nerve damage in the extremities and the eyes. Amputation of limbs and blindness are common among those with advanced type II diabetes. Every year, diabetes kills 300,000 people,[36] and leaves countless others in a state of misery from the symptoms of the disease.

Here's the wake-up call?

In industrialized countries such as ours, blood sugar and insulin levels rise progressively with age. This "normal aging process" does not occur in other cultures with different diets. The key to avoiding diabetes is understanding how the process works. Mounting evidence suggests that sugar, fiber and fat each play a major role:

Dietary Causes of Type II Diabetes [36a]

* High Fat intake

* Obesity

* Sugar-fiber ratio too high

At least 80% of type II diabetics are obese. Fat paralyzes insulin response and hinders insulin clearance from the bloodstream by the liver. High-sugar, low-fiber diets cause
blood sugar spiking and elevated insulin, which impairs the insulin receptors. [36b] Fiber helps control blood sugar spiking by slowing carbohydrate absorption. [36c]

Trust me, you don't want to get diabetes. It's a miserable thing to deal with. Here are some things you can do that research shows could put the odds back in your favor:

1. Eat a diet high in fiber and low in saturated animal fats, dairy products are considered animal fats, even skim milk). Eat lots of raw veggies, fruits, grains, legumes, nuts and seeds. Be sparing with anything else.

2. Take an organic whole-food nutritional supplement containing all the major vitamins, macro minerals, trace and ultra trace rare-earth minerals, enzymes, amino-acids, EFA's etc, in their ionic form. Liquids are best. Especially important are the minerals chromium and vanadium, because they are believed to help regulate insulin response.

3. Limit your intake of processed sugars. Try to eliminate white sugar. Honey is better. Try stevia as a sweetener, it's the best alternative. It is a plant-based natural sweetener
that doesn't promote an insulin response. Avoid Nutrasweet, aspartame, Sweet 'n low, Equal, or any other artificial sweeteners like the plague!

4. If you're currently overweight or obese, do everything in your power to lose the excess weight. If you eat strictly as per #1 above, you will lose every excess pound you've got. Ever seen a fat peasant? How about a fat vegetarian? Eat from the five categories listed above and you can weigh what you were supposed to weigh. Eat lots of animal fats and sugars and...well...you know what happens. Do you like milk? Ever stop to think about the natural role for milk? It is designed to take a 60lb calf and turn it into a 600lb cow in about 8 months. If those are the kind of results you're after....go for it! ;)

Bottom line: Get on a weight loss program and add exercise to accelerate the progress.

#5: Arthritis

Forty three million of us have arthritis. It is actually a group of more than 100 diseases. Arthritis affects the joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments, and covering of internal organs.
The three most common are rheumatoid arthritis (RA) which favors younger women, osteoarthritis (OA) which favors older women, and gout, which favors indulgent males as it's victim of choice. For this section we will focus on RA.

RA is a systemic, progressive, auto-immune disease in which the body attacks its own tissues. RA usually spreads to several joints, destroying cartilage, bone, surrounding structures, and eventually, life itself. RA patients typically die 10-15 years earlier than expected.[36d]

RA commonly develops from an auto-immune reaction to animal products. Patients with RA often have serum antibodies to cow protein in their blood.[36e] Saturated animal fats worsen arthritis. [36f] Auto-immune reactions to animal protein may trigger allergies to wheat gluten, corn and citrus. Controlled studies demonstrate the effectiveness of vegetarian diets (without dairy products) in treating RA. [36g]

You might think it only happens to old people, but the average age at which arthritis strikes is 47 - hardly over the hill.[37] And 80% of Americans develop some degree of arthritis by the age of 60. According to the National Institute of Health, arthritis accounts for more disability among middle-aged and older adults than any other affliction.[37a] If you hate pain, then you can take a few simple, inexpensive steps that might lower your chances of getting arthritis.

These recommendations can also benefit people who currently have arthritis:

1. Eat a diet high in fiber and low in saturated animal fats,(dairy products are considered animal fats, even skim milk). Eat lots of raw veggies, fruits, grains, legumes, nuts and seeds. Be sparing with anything else.

2. Take a liquid calcium product. I prefer calcium orotate (calcium carbonate combined with orotic acid), which gives you the best absorption rate into the bradytrophic cartilege and connective tissues.[37b] Also be sure the calcium product contains magnesium in a 2 to 1 ratio. For example, if the calcium is 1000mg, then the magnesium ought to be 500mg. In addition, take liquid glucosamine hydrochloride (200mg), and chondroitin sulfate (100-200mg) for the rebuilding of worn out cartilege and other tissues.

3. Take an organic whole-food nutritional supplement containing all the major vitamins, macro minerals, trace and ultra trace rare-earth minerals, enzymes, amino-acids, EFA's etc, in their ionic form. Liquids are best.

Are these recommendations starting to sound a bit redundant?
Hmmm?

#6: Osteoporosis

Twenty-five million of us suffer from osteoporosis, or brittle bone disease. 80% of these are women over the age of 50. [38]You've heard about older people falling and breaking their hips. In many cases, it's just the reverse. She was walking down the mall, and her hip spontaneously broke and then she fell. Her bones were so brittle that just walking caused them to snap. And it all started in her thirties. After age 35, your bones lose bone mass at the rate of about 1% per year.[39] Menopause accelerates the bone loss so that by age seventy-five, 90% of women have osteoporosis.[40], [41]

What does this mean to you?

A third of the women over 65 suffer fractured vertebrae or fractured hips. And not to leave the men out, by age 80, a sixth of the men also break a hip.[42] What's so bad about a few broken bones? Well, for 50,000 seniors last year, these fractures were a death sentence.[43] Unable to walk and to be active, they were confined to bed. A quarter of them died within 6 months.[44] That's one death every twenty minutes.[45] However, osteoporosis is not just about broken bones. Have you ever wondered why some older people seem to wrinkle more than others? Osteoporosis actually causes your skull to shrink, too! According to one plastic surgeon, "The result of ... such bone loss ... is skin that sags, like a dress that's a size too big." [46]

What's the key to understanding and preventing osteoporosis? It all gets back to alkalinity. Let me explain: in ranking priorities, the body places maintenance of blood calcium well above the maintenance of bone strength. The body is pre-programmed to sacrifice it's skeleton to maintain blood calcium. Protein is composed of amino acids which turn the blood slightly acidic. The body neutralizes these acids by dissolving bone calcium leading to urinary calcium loss. [46a]

The more protein in the diet, the greater the calcium loss. [46b] Doubling the protein intake increases urinary calcium loss by 50%. [46c]

"Osteoporosis is a disease of calcium loss, not calcium deficiency. American women are hemorrhaging calcium." [46d]
------Michael Klaper, M.D. Institute of Nutrition Education and Research

Here's another fact to chew on: vegetarian women, on average, have lower calcium intakes, lower estrogen levels and greater bone densities than meat-eating women. [46e] How can that be? Hmmmm. Here's some documentation that may surprise you:

** Calcium from green leafy vegetables is more absorbable than calcium from milk. [46f]

** Animal proteins erode bone by forming ammonia and uric acid. [46g]

** Animal proteins contain twice the sulfur of plant proteins. Sulfur erodes bone by forming sulfuric acid and hydrogen sulfide. When soy protein replaces animal protein, less calcium is lost in the urine. [46h]

** Meat, poultry and fish contain 15-20 times more phosphorus than calcium. [46I] Phosphorus stimulates parathyroid hormone which erodes bone for it's calcium. [46j]

** Plant-based diets are high in magnesium which suppresses parathyroid hormone. Fruits and vegetables generate alkaline compounds like sodium and potassium hydroxide. Higher alkalinity leads to less demand on blood calcium and less urinary calcium loss.

** Animal products are low in magnesium which decreases calcium absorption. Dairy milk has a calcium-magnesium ration of 8:1.

Want more proof? Look at some population studies. Here's one:
Traditional Chinese consume plant centered diets in sharp contrast to those of Americans. The following table is standardized for 143-pound adult males: [46k]

Daily Calcium Intake...China: 544mg USA: 1143mg
Calcium from Dairy.....China: 0% USA: 75%
Daily Protein Intake...China: 64g USA: 91g
Protein from Animals...China: 7% USA: 70%
Calories from Animals..China: 6% USA: 44%
Osteoporosis Rates.....China: .5% USA: 10%

If you look at these numbers closely, you should find them shocking because they fly in the face of everything we have ever heard about osteoporosis! How can anyone argue that we just need to drink more milk! It's absurd! We've been hoodwinked by the National Dairy council!

In rural regions of China, osteoporosis is rare despite HALF the calcium intake of Americans. Clearly, animal protein intake is a much more significant factor with regard to osteoporosis. This study suggests the need to shift the American diet from animal-centered to plant-centered.

Here's another population study: Alaskan Eskimos consume up to 2500mg of calcium and 200-400 grams of animal protein each day. [46L] The Eskimos have one of the world's highest rates of osteoporosis affecting both men and women starting at age 40,
despite their heavy weight-bearing exercise. So even with outrageously high levels of calcium consumption (all from animals), they still have rampant osteoporosis.

Got any ideas as to what my recommendations are for preventing osteoporosis?

Eat like a Chinese peasant and you can't go wrong!! That means lots of green vegetables, beans, and whole grains. And because our soils are depleted, be sure to take a whole food supplement like I described above. In addition, even though osteoporosis is not a disease of calcium deficiency (like most Americans falsely assume), it's still a great idea to take a natural liquid calcium supplement, because calcium plays many beneficial roles in the body in addition to bone strength, and Americans need something to balance out the high demand on their bones for
blood calcium.

#7: Alzheimer's

Although it was identified in 1907, it wasn't until ex-president Ronald Reagan was diagnosed with it that the public took notice. Now experts predict that the longer you live, the more likely it is you'll get Alzheimer's. 10% of people over 65 have it. 20% of people over 75 have it. 40% of people over 85 have it.[48] That amounts to about four million of us. The symptoms are loss of memory, mental capacity and disorientation. Death follows diagnosis in seven to ten years.[49] It kills 100,000 people each year - but only after reducing its victims to human vegetables.[50]

You don't want to come within one hundred miles of this disease.

The good news is that 20-30% of those diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia don't actually have the disease at all. They have, instead, a deficiency of a single, specific vitamin. That vitamin is B12. When given simple B12 supplements, the symptoms of Alzheimer's and dementia disappeared.

Have you ever known an older person who was senile? Could it be that they just hadn't taken enough vitamins? According to Dr. Irwin H. Rosenberg of the US Department of Agriculture's Human Nutrition Research Center at Tufts University, "Much mental deterioration associated with aging can be prevented or reversed by vitamins."[51]

The mechanisms that cause Alzheimers are not yet fully known by science. But this is another disease of the Western world that numerically tracks with our food choices and lifestyle. As we eat out of an increasingly broken down food chain, Alzheimer's disease is on the rise. My suggestion, in light of scant evidence as to the cause of the disease, would be the same as for all the other diseases. Eat like a peasant! Take your liquid, whole food vitamins. Exercise. Drink water. Rest.

#8: Auto-immune Disease

Basically, to have an auto-immune disorder like Lupus, fibromyalgia, aids, MS, or chronic fatigue syndrome, means that your own immune system is working against you instead of for you. These are all unique and complicated disorders and because we are lumping them together, we can only talk in general terms. But basically, what you want to have is a strong immune system that can keep viruses, bacteria, food allergens and environmental invaders from overwhelming your body. When your immune system collapses, or is constantly working overtime on the wrong stuff, or is attacking your own tissues, it leads to all sorts of debilitating symptoms.

Current research suggests that "leaky gut" syndrome can play a major role in many of the auto-immune diseases. Leaky gut happens when yeast grows out of control (candida) and penetrates the stomach or intestinal wall creating pathways for undigested food particles to enter the blood stream directly.

Normally food particles are "chelated" or bonded with the ligand proteins in the gut which "deliver" the food to the bloodstream in such a way that the body can convert the food into it's useful byproducts. When yeast pathways grow unchecked, tiny tendrils poke holes in the stomach and small intestine which causes food particles to enter the bloodstream directly. The body considers the particles invaders and their presence invokes an auto-immune response.

Because immune responses place large demands on the body, a constant "war" against allergens in the blood can use up all the available energy and weaken the bodies defenses making it vulnerable to things it could normally deal with. This is why chronic fatigue patients are always exhausted. These people are often chronically sick with cold and flu-like symptoms. Also, as the allergenic particles settle in tissues surrounding the
joints, inflammation and RA can begin to manifest.

Out of control yeast growth can be caused by many things, but the primary culprit seems to be an overuse of anti-biotics, which kill the friendly, yeast-eating bacteria in the gut. [51a] So an important preventative measure is to limit the use of anti-biotics unless absolutely necessary.

There is a simple test you can use to check for out of control Candida yeast problems in the gut. It's called the "spit test". First thing in the morning, before you've brushed your
teeth, spit into a glass of purified or distilled water. The saliva should float and the water below it should remain clear. Watch closely. If tendrils begin to grow down from the saliva into the water, that's an indication of the presence of Candida yeast. The faster the tendrils grow, the more yeast is present. If it takes a few minutes, that means you are
probably keeping the yeast in check. But if you immediately see signs of tendrils in the water, that's a sign that the Candida is out of control and may be causing serious leaky gut problems.

Follow all the same dietary recommendations listed above, including a heavy use of whole food supplements if you have an auto-immune disease. Colon cleansing is particularly important as well to purify and detoxify the digestive tract, making it
easier to absorb nutrients through the normal pathways. It's also very important to fight Candida yeast with an alkaline PH. You should completely eliminate any foods
that contribute to the acidity and since yeast feeds on sugar, take sugar completely out of the diet. Monitor your PH several times a day. Do it at least 2 hours after eating for
best results.

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So that's it folks. Those are the top 8 diseases of the Western world. Isn't it fascinating that the research would suggest such a remarkably similar prescription for such a diverse set of diseases? In every case conditions are helped by moving toward a plant-centered diet and away from an animal-centered one; by increasing fiber and decreasing fat; and by adding a high quality, whole-food supplement with vitamins, minerals, enzymes and amino acids.

NOTE: I am not preaching pure veganism. I believe there are some problems with that approach. Meats are fine in moderation, but be sure to eat organic, grass fed meat whenever possible.

The Defense System

by HARUN YAHYA
TAKEN FROM "FOR MEN OF UNDERSTANDING"
BY HARUN YAHYA, TA-HA PUBLISHERS, UNITED KINGDOM, 1999

As acknowledged, issue that has to be given top priority by a country for the continuance of its existence. Nations have always to watch out for all kinds of internal and external threats, assaults, risks of wars and terrorist actions. This is why they allocate a great part of their official budgets to defense. Armies are provided with the most advanced aircraft, ships, and arms, and the forces of defense are always kept at the highest level of preparedness.

The human body is surrounded by a great number of enemies and threats. These enemies are bacteria, viruses, and similar microscopic organisms. They exist everywhere; in the air we inhale, the water we drink, the food we eat, and the environment in which we live.

What most people are not aware of is that the human body has an excellent army, the immune system, which fights against enemies. This is a real army made up of many "soldiers" and "officials" with different assignments, who are specially trained, employ high technology and fight with conventional and chemical weapons.

Every day, even every minute, a permanent war is fought between this army and the enemy forces, but away from our knowledge. This war can also be in the form of minor, local skirmishes as well as battles in which the whole body is involved and alarmed. We call these battles "diseases".

The general conduct of this war almost never changes. The enemy attempts to fool the other side by camouflaging itself when intruding into the body. The trained investigative forces are assigned by the defense to identify the enemies. The enemies are identified and appropriate weapons are produced to exterminate them. Then there is close contact, the defeat of the enemy, cease-fire, and clearance of the battleground. Last, there is storage of every type of information about the enemy as a precaution against the possibility of a later attack....

Now let us examine this interesting war closer.

The Besieged Castle: The Human Body

We can liken the human body to a castle besieged by enemies. The enemies look for various ways to invade this castle. The human skin is the wall of this castle.

The substance of keratin in the cells of the skin is an impassable barrier for bacteria and fungi. Foreign substances that reach the skin cannot pass through this wall. Moreover, although the outer layer of skin that contains keratin is continuously rubbed off, it is renewed by skin growing from beneath. Thus, all unwanted guests that have squeezed between the skin are ejected from the body together with dead skins, during renewal of the skin from inwards to outwards. The enemy can only make its way in through a wound that is inflicted on the skin.

The Front Line

One of the ways through which viruses enter the body is air. The enemy pushes its way to the body through the air inhaled. However, a special secretion in the nasal mucous membrane and cell-swallowing defense elements in the lungs (phagocytes) meet these enemies and take control of the situation before the danger grows. Digestive enzymes in the stomach acid and small intestine eliminate a great number of the microbes that seek to enter the body through food.

The Clash of the Enemies

There are some microbes that have settled in various parts of the human body (such as skin, skin folds, mouth, nose, eye, upper respiratory canals, digestive canal, the genitals) yet do not cause illness.

When a foreign microbe enters the body, these domestic microbes - thinking that their habitation would be invaded- and not wishing to give way to the foreigners who invade their habitation - fight strenuously. We can define them as professional soldiers. They try to protect their territory for their own ends. Thus, the complex army in our body is reinforced by these micro supports.

Step by Step to Hot War

If a microscopic intruder entering the body can overcome defense elements on guard and bacteria serving as soldiers, it causes war to begin with. After that, the body, with its ordered army, fights a perfect offence-defense war against this foreign army.

The war fought by the defense system is comprised of four parts:

1. Identification of the enemy.

2. The fortification of defenses and the preparation of offensive weapons.

3. Attack and battle.

4. Retreat to normal state.

The cells that first meet the enemy units are macrophage cells that make "phagocytosis", i.e., that engulf the enemy. These cells are involved in close contact with the enemy, and fight a hand-to-hand war. They are just like infantrymen who fight a bayonet war against enemy units and struggle at the distant front line of the army.

Moreover, macrophages function as intelligence units, or as the secret service of an army. They hold one portion of the enemy they destroy. This portion is used to identify the enemy’s identity and to determine its features. Macrophages pass this portion to another intelligence unit, messenger-T cells.

General Alarm

When a country is involved in war, a general mobilization is declared. Most of the natural resources and the budget are spent on war expenses. The economy is re-arranged according to this extraordinary situation and the country is involved in total action. In a war, which the defensive army of the body will fight as a whole, mobilization is also declared. Do you wonder how?

If the enemy is more than they can handle, the cavalcades (macrophages) that launch an attack secrete a special substance. The name of this substance is "pyrogen" and it is a kind of alarm call. After travelling a long way, "pyrogen" reaches the brain and stimulates the fever-increasing centre of the brain. Following this stimulation, the brain sets off alarms in the body and the person develops a high fever. The patient with a high fever naturally feels a need to rest. Thus, the energy needed by the defense army is not spent elsewhere. As seen, there exists an extremely complex plan and design at work.

The Ordered Army Swings into Action

The war between the microscopic intruder and the immune system becomes more complicated after mobilization, that is, your falling ill in bed. At this stage, infantrymen (phagocytes) and cavalrymen (macrophages) have proved insufficient, the whole body is alarmed, and the war becomes heated. At this stage, lymphocytes - (T and B cells) - intervene.

Cavalrymen (macrophages) pass the information they have on the enemy to T helper cells. These cells summon T cytotoxic and B cells to the battleground. These are the most effective fighters of the immune system.

Weaponry Production

As soon as B cells receive information about the enemy, they start producing weapons. These weapons, just like ballistic missiles, are only produced to hit the enemy on whom information is available. This production is so perfect that the three dimensional structure of the microscopic intruder and the three dimensional structure of the weapon fully match each other. This accord is like that between a key and its lock.

Antibodies advance towards the enemy and clamp tightly on it. After this stage, the enemy is neutralized like a tank that has its treads, cannon and gun destroyed. Afterwards, other members of the immune system come and eliminate the neutralized enemy.

Here, there is a very important point to consider: there are millions of types of enemy that the immune system will confront. B cells can produce an appropriate weapon for all types of enemy no matter what they are. This means that the immune system innately has the knowledge and capability to produce the keys appropriate to millions of different types of locks. These unconscious cells have the ability to make millions of types of antibodies, and their using it in the best way proves the existence of a creation by the Owner of an exalted power.

Furthermore, the system is more sophisticated. As B cells destroy the enemy with ballistic weapons, T cytotoxic cells also fight a tough war against the enemy. When some viruses enter a cell, they can hide from the weapons produced by the B cells. The T cytotoxic cells find the diseased cells in which this camouflaged enemy hides and destroy them.

After the Victory

After the enemy is defeated, the T suppressor cells swing into action. These cells give the army of defense the command to cease fire, and cause the T cytotoxic and B cells to stop their activities. Thus, the body does not carry on in a state of mobilization in vain. After the war is over, most of the T and B cells produced specifically for the war complete their lifecycle and die. This tough war, however, is not to be forgotten. Before the war, a short time passed while the enemy was identified and the necessary preparations made. If the enemy ever comes back, the body will be much better prepared. A group of memory cells, which have come to know the features of the enemy, will constantly serve in the immune system in future. In a possible second attack, the immune system, with the information in the memory cells, will have the means to react before the enemy gains force. The reason why we do not catch mumps or measles again, after we have once caught them, is because of the memory of our immune system.

The front defense line of the body is the skin. When a cut or wound is inflicted on the skin, it means that the body is in danger. Viruses and bacteria can easily make their way through. When such a wound is inflicted, "virus- and bacteria-hostile" cells called "phagocytes", rush to the afflicted spot and try to swallow the micro-organisms that intrude into the body. On the other hand, the wound on the skin has long since started to receive treatment to prevent further foreign materials from entering the body.

"THE CELL INVASION" OPERATION OF THE VIRUS
1. Virus contacts the cell it approaches and adheres to its surface. (It is seen on a bacteria cell in the scheme).

2. The virus discharges a special enzyme at the point of contact that will help melt the membrane of the cell it approaches. Because of this action, a hole forms in the cell wall. The virus pulls back its tail and, by shrinking, it injects the nucleic acid in its body (DNA or RNA) into the cell.

3. The nucleic acid of the virus that enters in the cell takes it under control. The vital functions of the cell stop. The nucleic acid of the virus self-replicates by using the resources of the cell.

4. The newly formed parts of the virus come together and form new viruses.

5. When sufficient viruses are formed, the cell bursts and developed viruses swing into action to find new host cells. The time from the virus’ intrusion into a cell to the end of its reproduction is around 20-25 minutes. At the end of each replication, 200-300 new viruses are formed in a host cell.


Macrophages are those elements of the immune system that fight at the front. They engulf and digest all kinds of foreign substances in the blood. Their other task is to call the T cells for help wherever they meet the enemy. In the photograph on the left, a macrophage is seen trying to catch a bacterium with its extensions. On the right, the macrophage is trying to engulf a lipid molecule that has entered the body.
THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

The leucocytes, around a trillion in number, form a highly specialized army of defense. The most important agents of this army and the duties they perform during a war with the enemy are described below.

The Virus
The virus, a genetic data package, is dependent on the environment to be activated. It has to use the mechanisms of a host cell in order to reproduce.

The Macrophage
It is a watchman and the defense cell in the front line. It engulfs and digests all kinds of foreign materials in the blood. When it runs into a microscopic intruder, it summons up T helper cells to the site of action.

The T Helper Cell
It is the administrator of the immune system. After identifying the enemy, it goes to the spleen and lymphatic glands and warns other cells to fight against the agent of disease.

T Cytotoxic Cells
Warned by the T helper cell, these cells destroy the cells that are occupied by foreign materials and cancer cells.

The B Cell
These cells, considered as biological weapon factories, are found in the spleen and the lymphatic glands. When warned by T helper cells, they produce strong chemical weapons named antibodies.

Antibodies
This protein in the shape of a "Y" sticks onto the disease agent, renders it ineffective and turns it into a target for killer cells.

The T Suppressor Cells
This third type of the T cells slows the activities of the T and B cells or stops them. It ends the assault after the illness has been overcome.

The Memory Cell
This defense cell is formed after the first disease is over. By remaining in the body for years, it ensures that the immunity mechanism is activated very rapidly and effectively when the body meets an agent of the same disease again.

1)The War Begins

When viruses are disseminated in the body, some of them are engulfed by the macrophages. Macrophages split the antibodies off the virus and stick them onto their own surface. Very few out of millions of T helper cells traveling in the circulatory system have the ability to "read" this specific antibody. These particular T cells which stick on the macrophage become active.

2)Defense Cells Increase

When T helper cells are activated, they tend to increase. They then warn the T cytotoxic cells and B cells, which are few in number and sensitive towards the enemy virus. While the number of B cells increases, the T helper cells give them the signal to produce antibodies.

3)The Defeat of the Disease

Meanwhile, some of the viruses have entered the cells. Viruses can only replicate within a cell. With the chemical materials they secrete, T cytotoxic cells cause the death of these cells by drilling through their membranes, thus preventing the virus in the cell from reproducing. By holding ectly onto the surface of the virus, antibodies neutralise it, prevent it from entering the cells and start chemical reactions that will destroy the invaded cells.

4)After the War

After the disease is won, T suppressor cells stop the whole offensive system. Memory-T and B cells remain in the blood and lymphatic system in order to become immediately activated in case a virus of the same type is met.

Implications of Molecules in Emotion

by June Butlin

In nearly three decades of working in the area of wellness I have never found one health discipline that has all the answers for healing. The reason is that there are so many individualised factors that intertwine and interact in any healing process. However, I believe there are two fundamental components that need to be considered in restoring health, and these are nutrition and emotions. Nutrition provides the starter molecules for the biochemical pathways in the body and quality nutrition is therefore a key factor in determining health. Emotional status is of vital importance as it affects the way we think, feel and behave on an ongoing basis. The latter is an area that intrigues me, and which I would like to focus on this month.
In my practice I invariably find strong connections between sub optimum health of my clients and stress, trauma, depression or other emotional events that have occurred in a client's life. When these events are confronted there is often a release of emotions that cause a deep inner healing to take place. This healing then manifests in a physical healing.
I had first hand experience of this myself when I consulted a Shen therapist. On my first appointment I was asked if I had any recurring nightmares. I could recall one that had presented itself intermittently throughout my life in stressful times. The nightmare started with feelings of fear and pain, and a vision of a small oval shape that repeated itself over and over again, increasing in size and speed. It would eventually reach a manic conclusion, at which point I would wake up screaming. After the Shen session I realised that the nightmare depicted an accident that had occurred when I was a baby. I was placed in a sleeping bag, at only a few months of age, with my thumb bent backwards in a dislocated position. The shape in the nightmare represented my thumb, and the fear and pain were my feelings. After the release of these emotions the nightmare never returned.
In order to understand, relate and communicate better with my clients I wanted to find out the mechanisms behind these mind-body experiences. It is important to me, as most illnesses appear to have a psychosomatic component - psyche meaning mind, emotion and soul and soma meaning body. There were so many questions that I needed answering: Why do hands on and energy therapies work? Why do memories and feelings affect the physical body? Why do we catch cold when we are feeling down and depleted? Why do some people remain in poor emotional and physical health in adulthood because of traumas in childhood? Why do some researchers believe that cancer is caused by repressed emotions? Or simply why do some people blush when they are shy?
My answers and understanding of these questions came from reading Molecules of Emotion by Dr. Candace Pert. Through scientific research she has provided the biochemical basis for awareness and consciousness linking the mind and body as one. Her work demonstrates that emotions are made in the cells of the body and brain through chemicals binding to specific receptors on the surface of the cells, transmitting information into the cells. The changes in the cells are then picked up by nerve impulses travelling across the cell membrane to produce the corresponding changes in behaviour, physical activity and mood. It is this mechanism that stores memories and repressed emotions. As an example we can take the opiate receptors involved in controlling pleasure and pain that are found in both the body and brain. Drugs which change behaviour such as Marijuana, Librium and Morphine bind to these opiate receptors and the transmitted information results in obliterating anxiety and emotional discomfort, and relieving pain. The body has natural opiates called endorphins, which act in a similar way to the drugs and are naturally increased in sexual activity and aerobic exercise such as running, producing pleasure and relieving pain.
The white cells of the immune system also secrete endorphins and stress hormones made by the pituitary gland. This links the immune system with the brain and the endocrine system. An example of this communication network can be seen in the intestinal tract, which contains nerve, endocrine and immune cells and a density of receptors. This provides an explanation as to why our emotions are often described as "gut feelings". Studies have also shown that anger and excitement increase gut motility while contentment decreases it. Viruses use the same receptors as the molecules of emotion and therefore the state of our emotions will affect whether or not we succumb to viral infections.
Stress affects the body by releasing hormones, adrenaline and corticosterone from the brain and the immune system. Once in a stressed state the body itself can continue the stress cycle by the continuous activation of corticosterone. Depressed and traumatised people have high levels of corticosterone and often have a decreased level of immunity. This physiological state can be deactivated when the trauma and stress are released.
The key to relieving trauma and stress is to express feelings and to let them go, which Buddhists refer to as "non-attachment to experience". This is where the importance of the healing arts lie, as they can access the psychosomatic network, through counselling, hypnotherapy, hands on and energy therapies, biofeedback techniques, meditation and many others. When the emotions are moving, and the chemicals in the body are flowing, a state of wellness can be achieved, along with feelings of freedom, hopefulness and joy.
Another question now lies heavily on my mind: where does this innate intelligence, the information that runs our mind and body, come from? There is no definitive answer, but I believe it comes from a divine, spiritual, energetic force. If this is so, our own spirituality should not be overlooked. Candace Pert advises us to:
"Live in an unselfish way that promotes a feeling of belonging, loving kindness, and forgiveness. Living like this promotes a state of spiritual bliss that truly helps to prevent illness."

Reference:

Molecules of Emotion. Candace B. Pert Ph.D. Simon and Schuster Ltd. 1998. ISBN 0 684 81981.3

MINI-COURSE IN NUTRITION

Every disease - whether it is arthritis, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, ulcers or whatever - is a desperate warning signal from our bodies telling us that we are doing something wrong. We need to heed these warning signals immediately, before it is too late.

THERE DEFINITELY ARE ANSWERS TO OUR PROBLEMS!

To understand how to repair a car, you must first understand how the car functions. To understand how to repair the body, you must first understand how it functions. In view of this, we at Health thru Nutrition (HTN) have compiled a nutraceutical complement for those who have a genuine desire to rebuild health once and for all.

Ultimately, you are responsible for your health - not your friends, your spouse or your doctor - but yourself. This means that you need to be informed.

ASSIMILATION

Digestion begins in the MOUTH. As we chew our food, our SALIVARY GLANDS introduce digestive substances into the mouth for combination with the food. SALIVA is very important to the digestive process, so it is important to chew your food thoroughly.

From the mouth, the food passes through the ESOPHAGUS into the STOMACH. In the stomach the food is broken down by DIGESTIVE ENZYMES. Different enzymes work on different foods. Some enzymes will counteract other enzymes. If you eat food at one sitting the wrong combination (e.g., a slice of melon and an egg), the digestive enzymes that these foods trigger in your body will actually work against each other. As a result, the food does not digest properly. For further information, ask me about "Food Combining."

Assuming that proper food combining has been used and your food has been substantially broken down in your stomach, it then flows into the SMALL INTESTINE to be broken down further. The nutrients in your food now begin to be absorbed through the INTESTINAL WALLS and into the BLOODSTREAM.

Due to improper eating habits, these walls are often coated with mucus that inhibits the digestion and absorption process. One of the best ways to clean out the gastrointestinal tract is to follow an INTERNAL CLEANSING PROGRAM using an herbal combination that is specially formulated for this purpose.

When the food matter reaches the end of the small intestine, its consistency is that of soupy waste. This matter passes into the LARGE INTESTINE where more liquids are extracted from it. Ideally, at this point, there should be little nutritional value left in the substance.

ELIMINATION

While traveling through the large intestine, the STOOL is formed. If the stool is too slow leaving the body, the waste matter will PUTREFY and will smell rotten if and when it finally leaves the body. Just as we do not eat spoiled food because it would make us ill, fresh food left to spoil within us will also make us ill. Good food that becomes spoiled either before or after eating will produce the same result.

TOXEMIA

Everything that our digestive tract produces eventually ends up in the bloodstream. If the bloodstream becomes loaded with toxins, the CELLS SUFFOCATE.

LIFE IS IN THE BLOOD

Over a period of time, under these conditions, the cells will degenerate and symptoms such as arthritis, high blood pressure, kidney malfunction and even cancer and tumors will show up in the weakest area of each individual's body. "LIFE IS IN THE BLOOD!" - and when the blood is saturated with toxic matter, life can only suffer from it.

It is clear that we must stop creating toxins in our bodies, but we must also work on cleaning out the toxins that are already there.

THE TYPICAL North AMERICAN DIET

The typical N. American diet of fast foods, canned foods, and frozen foods lacks the necessary vitamins, minerals, live enzymes, and fiber vital for optimum health. The human body is a reamarkable and resilient entity. Given the proper nutrients and cleansing it can heal itself If you are interested in an Internal Cleansing and Health-Building Program , I can recommend specific food supplements to meet this need and, aid you in rebuilding your body. Please contact me, Hanna Gube, at wealthnhealth@earthlink.net or 514-817-4107 to discuss any of your concerns.
It cannot be overemphasized that proper nutrional supplementation, food selection and food combining are essential.

DR. WALKER'S PROGRAM

You don't need to relate your health to your age! For more than 100 years, Norman W. Walker, Ph.D., proved through research that well-being and long life can go hand-in-hand. Modern day nutritionists and medical researchers are just now discovering the truths which Dr. Walker has known and, expounded throughout the twentieth century. Dr. Walker himself was living proof that a longer, healthier life may be achieved through proper diet, mental soundness, and intelligent body care. Every year we read about a new fad diet, a "cure-all" drug, a food supplement, or a revolutionary exercise program that will save our lives. The Dr. Walker program is unique in that it doesn't use the promotional words, "miracle, fad, or revolutionary" ....it doesn't need them!

Dr. Walker's contributions to our living longer, healthier lives began before the turn of the century in London, where as a young man he became seriously ill from over-work. Unable to accept the idea of ill health or a sick body, Dr. Walker cured himself. Since that time, he spent the balance of his life searching man's ability to extend life and achieve freedom from disease.

In 1910, Dr. Walker established the Norwalk Laboratory of Nutritional Chemistry and Scientific Research in New York, and thus began his important contributions to a longer, more active form of living. Among his great contributions, was the discovery of the therapeutic, value of fresh vegetable juices, and in 1930 the development of the Triturator Juicer.

We believe Dr. Walker was one of the world's leading nutritionist; his unique contribution are all available to you through his books.

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DR. WALKER'S PROGRAM
TO A HEALTHIER MORE VIBRANT LIFE

Raw vegetable and fruit juices offer all the live enzymes and detoxicating qualities needed to keep our bodies strong, healthy and able to combat the many enemies of contamination and pollution in the world today. Our immune systems are kept at their peak when we consume "raw" vegetable and fruit juices on a daily basis. Vegetable juices are the "builders" of the body, while fruit juices are the "cleansers". Every cell, gland and organ benefits from pure, natural form of nutrition. It is comforting to realize that by drinking raw vegetable and fruit juices every day, our diet is complete in all the vitamins and minerals it needs to remain younger, stronger and healthier.

"Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices" by Dr. N. W. Walker was written to better explain and emphasize the procedures and specific benefits of juicing. Raw carrot juice for instance is rich in Vitamins A, B, B, C, D, E, and K. Properly prepared raw carrot juice aids digestion and is valuable in the maintenance of the bone structure that supports our entire body, including the teeth. Even intestinal and liver diseases are sometimes due to the lack of certain vitamins and minerals found in raw carrot juice. Endive juice contains elements essential to the optic systems while the cucumber juice offers the best of diuretic qualities. The list goes on.

It is well worth one's time to study the benefits derived from "fresh raw" juices. Actually, it's worth far more than your time... after all, this is your health and your life. Take control, feel better, look younger, and enjoy your life more completely. You are worth it!

Keep the colon clean. The health of your colon can be an indicator of your health. Laxatives are not healthy and certainly not the proper answer to constipation. Raw vegetable salads, fresh fruits, legumes and unprocessed grains along with plenty of distilled water will keep your colon regular and healthy. "Colonic Irrigations" once or twice a year, along with enemas done at home, offer an optimum way in which to insure a clean and active, healthy intestinal track. Being "regular" is having a bowel movement at least once a day, though often times two or three movements a day is ideal. The elimination of red meat and all processed foods from the diet is equally important. A well cleansed colon in perfect working order is absolutely essential for a long, productive and active life. It is important to note that when the colon is healthy, and not blocked, you are avoiding innumerable ailments. Because the colon is a natural breeding ground for pathogenic bacteria, it is essential that we prevent a toxic condition from developing in the colon. By maintaining a proper and clean environment for the "good bacteria" we avoid the "bad bacteria" which is dangerous and disease producing.

Drink PURE water. The body is dependent on fresh, clean water. The minerals, bacteria, and commercial additives in inorganic water (i.e. tap, spring, well water, etc.) are inorganic and cannot be utilized by the body. The vitamins and minerals within vegetables and fruits and their juices are organic and therefore beneficial to your health. Distilled water is in reality steam that has condensed back into water. Bacteria, parasites (including Cryptosporidium parvum that is so devastating to those in ill health) is destroyed by the distillation process. Some authorities believe that distilled water acts like a "sponge" and assits the body in eliminating toxins, etc. through the body's normal elimination processes. Drink plenty of vegetable and fruit juices and distilled water.

Regular exercise. It keeps our hearts healthy, our blood pressure intact, our respiratory systems strong, and our metabolism balanced. Walking is the best exercise you can do. It can burn calories and tone muscles. In addition to weight control, exercise strengthens the immune system, relieves stress, and because of the release of endorphins, lifts your spirits. Recent medical research has found that during exercise the body releases several different chemicals, some of which have been found to deter cancer. A 30-minute walk every day is truly beneficial to your health. Also, bear in mind that the body needs sufficient rest and sleep to function at its' best.

Control your weight. Weight control is a very real and all to common problem among Americans today. Carrying an excess amount of weight dramatically affects the state of ones overall health. High blood pressure, clogged arteries and fatigue are only a few reasons why maintaining a healthy weight is so imperative. A long and healthy life cannot be achieved when the body is forced to deal with such a myriad of dilemmas. Weight control need not even be an issue if we simply restrict our food consumption to salads composed of raw vegetables and fruits, drink their juices and distilled water. You will feel much healthier and your vitality will increase, when all red meats, fats, commercial sugars and starches are eliminated from the diet.

The elimination of unhealthy products. Some of the most harmful food products consumed today include processed sugars, harmful fats, cow's milk and soft drinks. Because the human body does not tolerate, and in many cases, is damaged from the consumption of such products, one would be wise to consider not ingesting them. This elimination may very well in and of itself, better insure a longer and healthier life. The pancreas, for instance, is both overworked and subject to disturbing reactions when we consume sugar. When the body processes meat it produces a great deal of uric acid. The muscles absorb much of what should be expelled through the eliminative system and what sometimes occurs is the manifestation of various conditions such as rheumatism, neuritis and sciatic. it is self-preserving not to tempt bad health with bad food choices.

Alcohol and tobacco products are carcinogenic, organ damaging and life threatening to all who imbibe. Though these habits remain widespread throughout our world today, few would argue of their obvious dangers to our health and to the negative effect on the very length of life itself. To live longer, healthier and with vitality, we should eliminate all detrimental products from our lives.

Other vital nutrients that play important defense roles in your health include plentiful amounts of Vitamin C, raw onions and garlic. They offer strong immune boosting qualities, act as an excellent cleansing agents, are readily available, and should be taken advantage of on a regular basis. Ideally we would all grow our own food in our own healthy soil. But this of course, is not an option for the majority of our population. What is possible is selecting the best of all foods that you can possibly find.

Last, but not least, is our spiritual and emotional health. Stress, anger, resentment, the need to "get even" are all negative emotions and can play havoc with our physical health. Heart attacks, strokes and nervous disorders are only a few of the conditions associated with such a negative life-style. The opposite of negativism is optimism. Laughter, spiritual strength, the ability to forgive and forget, to deal with our every day problems with an attitude of solving them is essential to keep the glands in our body working together. Our physical health is dependent upon a calm, serene mental attitude.

Self-preservation utilizes wisdom. The knowledge and application of defensive procedures can do much to protect and lengthen our lives. For instance, it is as wise to always wear a seatbelt as it is to avoid preservatives and pollutants whenever possible. Adopting and exchanging unhealthy habits to healthy habits is as easy as eating smaller meals, eating them more frequently, and chewing ones' food for a longer period of time are changes your entire digestive system will thank you for. Utilize your wisdom, it will benefit you greatly in your quest to live a long and vibrant life.

The Evolution of Medicine—Prevention and Anti-Aging

The Evolution of Medicine—Prevention and Anti-Aging
Genes are responsible for about fifteen percent of disease, but the rest is environment—the food, water, supplements, activities, recreational drugs, contaminants, medicines and stressors we choose.

What a mess!
We have been aging more quickly than necessary. Most people put food in their mouths and cross their fingers that they won’t get sick. In their mid 30’s and beyond, people bemoan poor sleep, aches and pains, reduced energy, frequent infections, reduced sex drive, reduced memory, obesity and failed diets. These problems slowly multiply with age. Doctors’ offices are full of people suffering from diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and arthritis, all potentially brought on by incorrect nutrition. People with preventable conditions, such as clogged arteries or negative drug interactions, are queuing up to get into hospitals.

The media and health food stores often offer conflicting information. Profit motives have contaminated the quality of some health information offered by the health food and supplement industry. Some people have uncritically embraced alternative health and are on bagfuls of unnecessary products while other remain so confused they take few or no beneficial supplements. Even the North American food guidelines require modification—if you follow them strictly you are likely to become obese, sick and could die early.

Conventional medical training excludes important information about nutritional physiology and nutritional therapies. While medical science has developed very sophisticated tools and surgery to deal with all-too-common preventable lifestyle diseases, the cost is stretching beyond our government’s budget. And these costs are increasing as the population ages. The government responds by cutting health care workers’ salaries, de-listing covered services, reducing pharmacare benefits and closing community emergency rooms. These strategies save little money, makes a lot of people angry and miss the real target—prevention.

We all know the old adage that prevention is better than cure but, until recently, the specifics have eluded us. We are surrounded by a maze of conflicting and ineffective approaches. We need good quality information that isn’t based on wishful thinking or commercial interest. As Dr. Michael Colgan puts it, “we need to separate the science from the silly.” The most profound new finding in preventative medicine is that we are eating too much sugar and starchy foods. Low fat diets are the wrong target in normalizing weight. Low fat foods don’t taste very good so the food industry has increased the sugar content to make them more palatable. The trouble is that excess sugar is converted to fat very quickly. A single cup of flavoured low-fat yogurt contains four teaspoons of sugar! A large plate of pasta has the sugar equivalent of four snickers bars! Not only does eating sugar and starch make people heavier and accelerate aging, it increases hunger, creating a self-perpetuating the problem. Nutritionally weak, processed foods did not exist in cave-man days, the environment where humans evolved. Cars and elevators didn’t exist then either, so we need to walk. 30 minutes a day is all! New research is teaching us about necessary improvements to the North American food guide and important supplements that should be started at certain ages. Under proper medical supervision, new bio-identical hormone replacement (as opposed to synthetic hormone replacement therapy, premarin and provera) with estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, melatonin and growth hormone can perform miracles in improving quality of life.

Now that I am in my late 40’s, I have been amazed at the changes in my own health since starting an anti-aging program several years ago: I lost the extra 20 pounds that would never go away, improved my energy level, cured my back stiffness, improved my sleep quality, ended night-time urination from prostate enlargement, improved my memory and even reversing the start of graying hair!

I did all of this by eating nutritionally strong, “cave-man foods” (coloured vegetables, protein, nuts and moderate amounts of fruit) and taking effective supplements.

While prevention and anti-aging therapies cannot cure everything, my patients benefit from them enormously. Physicians need to, and in time will, learn these new therapies. I strongly encourage people to read the suggested reading list, visit a good nutritional therapist/naturopath and seek out an anti-aging program by age 35 to 40—and definitely before age 45. Health is wealth. Investing in preventative health is invaluable.

Dr. Aspinall is a board-certified anti-aging specialist and medical director of Optima Health Solutions, a new comprehensive anti-aging and preventative medical clinic in Vancouver BC. (604-266-8349)

Recommended Reading:
Sam Gracie, “The Food Connection”
Dr. Michael Colgan, “The New Nutrition” and “Hormonal Health”
Dr. Barry Sears, “A Week in the Zone” and “The Soy Zone”
Dr. Ray Strand, “What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know about Nutrition May Be Killing You”
Dr. Don McLeod and Dr. Phillip White, “Doctors Secrets”

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Sodas May Raise Cancer Risk

Carbonated Beverages May Increase Risk of Esophageal Cancer

By Charlene Laino
WebMD Medical News Reviewed By Charlotte Grayson, MD
on Tuesday, May 18, 2004

May 18, 2004 -- You may want to think twice before reaching for a soda. A new study suggests that carbonated soft drinks may raise the risk of cancer of the esophagus, the tube that connects the mouth to the stomach.

Cancer of the esophagus is one of the fastest growing cancers in the western world. It is often in an advanced stage when it is diagnosed. In advanced stages, esophageal cancer can be treated but rarely can be cured.

"Since many cancers are affected by what we eat and drink, we looked back at data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to see what [changes in the diet] could explain the [more than fivefold] increase in esophageal cancer rates over the past 50 years," says Mohandas K. Mallath, MD, professor and head of the department of digestive diseases and clinical nutrition at Tata Memorial Hospital.

Mallath presented the results of his study at a meeting of digestive disease specialists this week in New Orleans.

"What we found was a huge rise in intake of carbonated soft drinks," he tells WebMD. Per capita consumption of carbonated soft drinks rose by more than 450% during the past half-century, from 11 gallons in 1946 to 50 gallons in 2000 -- the equivalent of two cans of soft drinks per person per day, he says.

Since exposure to cancer-causing agents usually precedes the disease by about two decades, "an association seemed possible," Mallath says.

Searching the medical literature for evidence to bolster the theory, his team found a study offering a strong biological basis to explain the link, he says.

The study showed that drinking carbonated beverages exposes the gastrointestinal tract to excess acid, the hallmark of acid reflux disease, or GERD, he says. And other studies show that GERD is a risk factor for esophageal cancer.

Also, countries in which people drink very few carbonated beverages, including Eastern Europe, Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, and India, have had little increase in the incidence of esophageal cancer, Mallath notes.