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Lost Health Secrets Handbook p.3

Proactive Steps to Avoid Hear-ing, “You Have Breast Cancer…” Sherri Tenpenny, DO August 13, 2007. (p. 6)

Health and Understanding Metals James P. Frackelton, M.D. (p.8)

Dysautonomia A Common Nervous ConditionBy Derrick Lonsdale, M.D. (p.10)

Energy Medicine: The Medi-cine of the Future—Right NOW-Stanley M. Gardner, M.D. (p.13)

Why Do You Recommend a Vegan Diet for Diabetes?Neil Barnard, M.D. Physicans Council for Responsible Medicine. (p. 18)

Hypothyroidism: The Hidden Story-Trevor Levine, M.D. (p.22)

The Collapse of Cardiology: A Time to Rejoice?Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. (p. 24)

Top 10 Living Foods Books iris Kellie Speth and Tom Frazier Gour-met Raw Foods Chefs. (p. 27)

The Best Way To Lose Weight, December 26, 2007 ePerspective Newsletter-from www.pritikin.com Pri-tikin Longevity Center and Spa. (p. 28)


TABLE OF CONTENTSThe book “Basic Prepared-ness,” from Survival Center and Jurdy’s Stay Healthy Chart (p. 30)

Who is Responsible for Your Health, John Butler, Cert. Iridologist (p.31)

Unique Books/Videos, including Les Brown (p. 33)

Weight Lifting for Your Health! But I Don’t Want those Big Bulky Muscles! Courtesy of The Fit-ness Clinic. (p. 34)

Agriculture and Sustainable Methods for Food Production, Howard Lyman, author. (p. 37)

Mineralization is Directly Linked to Consciousness Gourmet Living Foods Chef iris Kellie Speth (p. 39) Killers in the Kitchen vs. Conscious Therapeutic Cui-sine, author and journalist Helene Berk, MEd, R.D. www.healthypeople.com (p. 40)

How to Reduce Back and Muscular Pain With Therapies that Focus on the Core (Abdominals), by Sunday Homitz, L.P.T., B.F.A. (p. 43)

China Study Reveals Secret to Health is is as Simple as the Right Diet International Au-thor, Colin Campbell, Ph.D. (p. 44)Table of Contents Cont.

Dispersement and Agglomera-tion in Medicine, The Wisdom of T.C. McDaniels By Terry Chappell, MD, an Integrative Family Physician from Bluffton, Ohio. (p.46)

Carrying the Weight of the World, an essay on obesity, LC Woods, M.D., R.N. (p. 48)

PolyMVA. A non toxic treat-ment for cancer, physicians with Vision-Doctors who have seen the data and seen their patients respond. Courtesy of Albert Sanchez, Ph.D. (p.51)

Book/DVD Review, Carbs from Heaven, Carbs from Hell, James Krystosik, DC, and Dr. McDougall’s Common Sense Nutrition. (pg.53-54)

Resources for Your Well-Being /Health and Wealth Resources (pg. 55-56)

Web Resources (p. 57)

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Proactive Steps to Avoid Hearing, “You Have Breast Cancer…”Sherri Tenpenny, DO August 13, 2007Breast cancer strikes fear in the hearts of all women. Most have known someone who has been treated for breast can-cer or worse, has died from the disease. Historically, breast cancer was diagnosed after a woman sought medical atten-tion for soreness or a palpable mass. Annual mammogram screenings have become the “gold standard” for breast can-cer screening with the goal of finding tumors before they can be felt. However, mammography is a late test. It does not prevent cancer; it detects it. Better than early detection

is to not get cancer at all.

What else can be done?Thermography, also called digital infrared imaging (digital IR), was FDA approved for breast screening since 1982. It is painless, non-invasive and uses no radiation. The scan detects thermal patterns not seen by other tools. Abnormal cells require a steady supply of nutrients for rapid growth. A process called angiogenesis draws blood vessels in the direction of the atypical cell. More blood flow to the area deliv-ers more heat that can be measured by the scanner.

The skin surface temperature is symmetrical. A variation of more than 0.3° C from side to side can indicate a problem. Temperature variations of more than 1.0U C detected by infrared scanning suggest the presence of abnormal cells that could be pre-cancerous. Heat changes detected seven to eight years before a mass becomes palpable or can be detected by mammography gives you time to be proactive.

What is a thermogram procedure like? After disrobing, approximately 15 minutes is needed to equilibrate to room tempera-ture. An experienced technician performs three scans—front, left and right—with arms extended over the head. Both hands are then placed in cool water for exactly one minute. When the sympathetic nervous system is chilled, normal vessels con-strict; abnormal vessels stay the same or dilate. A second set of scans is taken for comparison. Temperatures differences between the first and second scan will be part of the final report. When the scans are completed, the exam is over. If an abnormality is identified, pro-active steps can be taken and progress can be monitored with serial scans. Basic recommendations include start with the following: •Diet: Eliminate caffeine, chocolate, MSG, aspartame, alcohol, herbs that have estrogenic properties and non-fermented soy. Studies found that soy supplements can increase breast cancer risk, especially in post-menopausal women. In addition, eat organically grown foods. Pesticides collect in fatty tissue, and the breast can become a reservoir for estrogenic chemicals.


•Exercise: Walking and arm swinging will get the lymphatics moving and lowers excess estrogen levels. Decongesting breast tissue and losing weight reduces risks.•Supplements: Many have an effect on healing the breast tissue. Here are a few: •Diindolylmethane (DIM), found in cruciferous vegetables, has anticancer activity and also works to repair damaged DNA. •Tumeric (curcumin) has strong properties against angiogenesis •Green tea has been associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer.

A normal mammogram may only be a temporary clean bill of health unless proac-tive steps are taken to ensure wellness. For women under 40, at high risk, have dense breasts or implants, a digital scan is the way to go. For women in their 40s and be-yond, who want for more information and peace of mind, add a thermogram to your annual screening program. Our patients are thrilled with the results; you will be too.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++You can find more information at www.osteomed2.com Sign up for Dr. Tenpenny’s blog “Beat Breast Cancer with Breast Health,” available at www.DrSherri.wordpress.com Rahman KW. Gene expression profiling revealed survivin as a target of 3,3’-diindolylmethane-induced cell growth inhibition and apoptosis in breast cancer cells. Cancer Res. 2006 May 1;66(9):4952-60. PMID: 16651453 Mosley CA Highly active anticancer curcumin analogues. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2007;595:77-103 PMID: 17569206Zhang M Green tea and the prevention of breast cancer: a case-control study in Southeast China. Carcino-genesis. 2007 May;28(5):1074-8. Epub 2006 Dec 20 PMID: 17183063

Dr. Sherri J. Tenpenny, is the founder of OsteoMed II, a clinic established in Strongs-ville, Ohio in 1996 to provide the best of integrative medicine in Cleveland, Ohio.

Dr. Tenpenny is a graduate of the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio and received her medical training at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri. Dr. Tenpenny is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. She has undertaken many advanced courses in alternative medicine, including acupuncture and complex homeopathy. Find out more about Dr. Tenpenny’s work with vaccines or to schedule a vaccine consult. Prior to her career in alternative medicine, Dr. Tenpenny served as Director of the Emergency Department at Blanchard Valley Regional Hospital Center in Find-lay, Ohio, from 1987 to 1995. In 1994, she and a partner opened OsteoMed, a medi-cal practice in Findlay limited to the specialty of osteopathic manipulative medicine.

In 1996, Dr. Tenpenny moved to Strongsville, Ohio, and opened OsteoMed II, ex-panding her practice to include traditional, complementary and preventive medicine.


Health and Understanding MetalsBy James P. Frackelton, M.D.

There are many diseases that will go away if “health” is intro-duced into the patient. The term “dis-ease” is exactly that when we introduce “ease” into the life. Health is a delicate balance of cell energy associated with the optimal energy for the “assigned” function (work) that the cell is required to do. There are no free lunches for cells. The body is a biochemical, bioelectric “ma-chine.” The energy comes basically from biochemical reactions inside the cell that is converted to mechanical as well as electri-cal energy. There are thousands of biochemical reactions that go on in each cell on a continuing basis. Each cell needs substrates (food, etc.) and has catalysts that will bring each reaction up

to speed so they can have the chemical reactions go from one domain to another. Forty-five percent of all the catalysts are metals activated, which means that without the metal the catalyst will not work and the particular biochemical reaction will not occur. Depending on the cells involved, this could be the start of a serious autoim-munity disease to just loss of general energy. If sitting on the enzyme is a poisonous metal ion such as arsenic, lead or mercury, the enzyme also will not work. Magne-sium is the most common catalyzing ion. The major source of magnesium in the diet is green vegetables.

Standard medicine has not been taught very much about poisons and heavy metals. Thus, the average physician does not consider the possibility of heavy metal toxic-ity when making a diagnosis. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s top poisons are arsenic, lead and mercury. In addition to being toxins themselves, these substances also poison the depoisoning system (ctyochrome P450) in the liver. The P450 system detoxifies the body of many organic compounds to which we are ex-posed. Unless this system is operating normally, the body cannot rid itself of poisons.

In 1999, a study came out of Rome, Italy, which is a great example of total disre-gard of poisonings. It is a pilot study involving 13 patients with “idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.” The patients had a myocardial biopsy that showed a 22,000-fold increase in mercury and a 12,000-fold increase in antimony. With this load of metals, the heart short-circuited electrically with the consequential heart failure.

This study is probably the most significant pilot study in the entire medical litera-ture that has not had an appropriate follow-up large-scale study to confirm the role of toxic metals as a major factor in the understanding of heart failure. The reason the follow-up study has not been forthcoming is the fact that heavy metal poison-ing does not fit into the way cardiologists think. Chelation therapy with 2,3, dim-ercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) and magnesium EDTA can turn this condition around and frequently avoids surgical procedures. Most of the mercury comes from dental amalgam fillings.

If one has both gold and amalgam together in the mouth, the mercury comes out at a very fast rate through the galvanic currents produced by dissimilar metals in an acid


(decaying food / bacteria) environment in the mouth. Mercury and other metals can produce a Type IV allergy to metals. Diseases such as multiple sclerosis and lupus erythematosis almost invariably have a heavy metal component (usually mercury.) It is important to be able to diagnose a heavy metal burden. It is also unfortunate that most tests for heavy metals include blood levels. The standards for most metals are industry friendly. If you are positive or toxic to the metal, you are probably very close to death by the time it shows high in the blood. Since the metals tie into tis-sue, most blood levels are very normal. It is critical to challenge the body through a provocative chelation with DMSA or EDTA in order to evaluate the body’s burden. The metals are also additive, meaning that high levels of arsenic combined with mild mercury poisoning can have more severe consequences than either alone. Unless this potentiation is understood, treatment will not be adequate.

Calcium, although a necessary nutritious mineral for the body, is the ultimate poison-ous metal from which we all die. The loss of flexibility as we get older is not choles-terol but hardening of ligaments, blood vessels and joints that is caused by calcium in the wrong place. Through lack of antioxidants, cells are subjected to free radical injury. The bipolar lipid cell wall is injured resulting in the extracellular ions calcium and sodium entering the cell while magnesium and potassium leak out of the cell. The calcium goes directly to the mitochondria and produces calcium phosphate that stops the energy production of ATP.

The intracellular magnesium helps run the pumps that are supposed to pump out the intracellular calcium. When the ATP stops, the cell dies. Calcium should be in bones. When it goes into soft tissue, it hardens those tissues (i.e. hardening of the arteries.) The intravenous magnesium EDTA replaces the lost magnesium and restores intrac-ellular magnesium to help man the pumps. The EDTA reduces serum ionic calcium that, in turn, stimulates parathormone. The increased parathormone levels helps mobilize calcium out of tissue and move it back into bone where it should be. Blood vessels become more flexible and the interior diameter of the vessel is enlarged. With increased circulation, any tissue with lack of circulation can normalize.

Mercury is an immune depressant and a neurological poison. We have very rarely seen a malignancy that does not have a heavy metal component (usually mercury). We can watch the patient get better if the metal poisons are removed. The lympho-cytes level in the blood improves. Lymphocytes are the cells that control cancer. Mercury must be banned from any use in medicine and dentistry! This alone would improve overall health and well-being.

The understanding of the toxicities of certain metals should be counterbalanced with understanding the nutritional minerals. Elements vertically positioned on the periodic table have similar chemical characteristics. The best example is mercury, which is heavy cadmium. Cadmium is heavy zinc. Cadmium poisons the zinc system and is present in tobacco. Smoking increases the burden of free radical damage. Superox-ide dismutase (SOD) in the cell protects the cell from excess free radical damage. SOD is a critical balance of zinc and copper in the cytosol while manganese SOD is important in mitochondrial protection.

Cancer is anaerobic in its biochemistry and the mitochondrial SOD is very low.


Arsenic is listed by the EPA as the #1 most poisonous substance. Arsenic poisoning is usually not diagnosed unless severe. Since the symptoms of mild arsenic poisoning are usually gastrointestinal, it usually is unrecognized and passed of by a diagnosis of a viral infection. More severe arsenic poisoning can lead to multiorgan failure. Lead, arsenic and mercury burden can easily be reduced by DMSA oral chelation.

Standard medicine does not recognize heavy metal toxicity as the major factor it is. Instead, standard medicine only treats the symptoms that result. When heavy metal poisoning is identified and properly treated and this is combined with proper nutri-tion through diet and therapeutic use of nutritional supplements, chronic symptoms are easily controlled. Biochemical reactions in the body happen as they should. Each cell of the body functions with adequate cellular energy to do the job for which it is assigned. The result is the foundation of health and wellness.

James P. Frackelton, M.D., F.A.C.A.M.-A graduate of Yale, James P. Frackelton received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine (Western Reserve University at the time) in 1954. He spent two years in Hawaii as a flight surgeon attached to the United States Marine Corp Air Station prior to establishing private practice in Westlake in 1958. After decades of family practice with an empha-sis on exercise cardiology, his interest in nutrition and alternative medicine led him to change his practice to preventive alternative medicine. In 1976, he founded Preventive Medicine Group. At the time, he was one of the first doctors in the country to enter into alternative medicine and the first medical doctor in the metropolitan Cleveland area to do so. He is a past President of the American College for Advancement in Medicine, the foremost alternative medical organization in the world. Dr. Frackelton continues to practice complementary alternative medicine at Preventive Medicine Group. [email protected] (440) 835-0104 FAX (440) 871-1404 (Dr Lonsdale and Dr. Gardner featured next are also with Preventive Medicine Group.

DYSAUTONOMIA: A COMMON NERVOUS CONDITIONBy Derrick Lonsdale, M.D.

The prefix “dys” refers to an abnormality. The “autonomia” refers to the autonomic nervous system. We have two types of nervous sys-tem. The one that enables us to perform physical and mental actions at will is called the voluntary system. It is controlled by the most so-phisticated and evolutionally modern part of the brain. The autonomic system is involuntary and enables the body to perform its internal functions automatically. It has two channels, called sympathetic and

parasympathetic. Both are under the control of the evolutionally more primitive part of the brain. The two channels oppose each other. For example, the heart is acceler-ated by the sympathetic and decelerated by the parasympathetic. The “decision” is made by the unconscious lower brain, a sophisticated computer. The involuntary brain can be compared with the structure and function of man-made computers, since it must receive input that must be data-processed in order to “decide” the appropriate mental and physical adaptive responses. We constantly adapt to the environment, monitored throughout life by our senses. For example, we sweat in response to heat and shiver in response to cold. Our personal survival and of our species depends on all the built-in reflexes of this brain computer. The best known is the “fight-or-flight” reflex, conducted through stimulation of the sympathetic branch. It includes the emotional component of fear or anxiety and we


are put into high gear for action. It is energy consuming and is designed for short term emergency procedures to kill the enemy or flee from the sudden onset of danger After this has resulted in survival the sympathetic branch is withdrawn and the para-sympathetic is used to stimulate the actions of bodily maintenance that require a safe environment, the “rest-and-be-thankful system”.

Dysautonomia refers to a common condition where the functions of this system are abnormal. For example, so-called panic attacks are really fragmented fight-or-flight reflexes that are being fired without any obvious manifestations of danger. Another common symptom, associated with a rapid drop in blood pressure, is feeling faint or light-headed on standing up suddenly, because of a delayed reaction of the autonomic reflexes that control the heart and blood vessels. It results in a few seconds of insufficient supply of oxygenated blood to the brain. A textbook on dysau-tonomia was edited by Sir Roger Bannister, the athlete who first broke the 4-minute mile in his youth. Written in sophisticated terms, it is only for physicians. Although there are many different forms of this condition, the commonest is caused by high calorie malnutrition, not mentioned in Dr. Bannistser’s book.

`The prototype for dsysautonomia is the ancient scourge of beriberi, a form of malnutrition long accepted as a manifestation of an excess of simple carbohy-drates with an insufficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1). In the early stages of beriberi the autonomic nervous system becomes highly sensitive to unconscious sensory input and unbalanced, resulting in abnormal output of either branch without an obvi-ous adaptive need. In its later stages, the control mechanisms and nerves degenerate. Long considered of only historical interest, the classic vitamin deficiency diseases are forgotten. They are still with us, but in such an attenuated form that physicians rarely have the background knowledge even to consider such a diagnosis.

Beriberi has existed, mainly in rice dependent cultures, for thousands of years. The discovery of its cause, starting in 1897 and only completed in 1936 with the synthesis of vitamin B1, is a saga that reminds us that important history is usually forgotten. The first symptoms often appeared with some kind of stress. For example, Chinese factory workers would take their lunch in the open space between factory buildings in the early summer. When the sun began to shine into the corridor as the day advanced a group of them would have their first symptoms, suggesting some kind of infection before the real cause was found. Much time was wasted trying to find the causative organism. Some kind of physical or mental stress may be “the last straw” in modern dysautonomia.

Beriberi in China occurred in epidemic form when there was increased af-fluence because the staple diet was rice. White rice is the grain that has been stripped of the husk by milling. The grain is starch and the cusp contains the B vitamins need-ed for its metabolism. Milling cost money and people would have their rice treated this way because it looked better. They would serve it to their friends to demonstrate their improved affluence. Little did they know that they were causing the onset of the dread disease. Can we derive a modern message from this? Dysautonomia is so common today that a website exists where patients can chat with each other. Many of them indicate that the physician who made the diag-nosis has little idea how to help them and their symptoms appear to be obscure and


untreatable. To suggest the diagnosis of beriberi would invite ridicule. A rose, by any other name, however, smells just as sweet. By using a little known laboratory test, thiamine deficiency can very easily be documented and it becomes the major clue to the investigation and ultimate treatment of many patients that have dysautonomia.

If it is due to this kind of malnutrition, by getting rid of the many different forms of candy, soft drinks, chocolate, and so-called “comfort foods” and taking a few supplements of the required vitamins, the symptoms gradually lessen and disap-pear. If there is permanent damage caused by the length and severity of exposure, residual symptoms may remain. It is erroneous to believe that, if the dysautonomia is due high calorie malnutrition, it is relieved by small doses of the appropriate vitamin supplements.

Vitamins are cofactors for enzymes. When an enzyme is deprived of its cofactor(s) its action gradually degenerates and it has to be stimulated by large doses of the required vitamin/mineral combination. Success depends on the ability of the patient to resist sweet craving and discontinue the offending food substances. The proper diet is “God-made food without the man-made junk”. As we move further and further from our biologic origins we increase the risk of our departure as a species. The worst victims of inappropriate high calorie carbohydrate ingestion are our children, the “canaries” of the population. ADD, ADHD, Tourette, Learn-ing Disability and autism represent a spectrum of disorders that can be compared with variations on a symphonic theme played by an orchestra. Our culture has allowed sugary junk to become the birthright of our children. It is often believed that if glucose is the fuel that runs the brain, then sugar is an excellent brain energy source. Unfortunately Mother Nature had different ideas. You never find sugar in its free state in nature. It is always wrapped up in fiber and found in plant sources. When we extract it, it becomes more like a drug, conveying a pleasure message from the tongue to the brain. Its processing in the body is extremely complex, starting with its ingestion from its plant source. It is extremely difficult to require a child to give up sugar intake after being reared with the unmistakable message that it can be ingested ad lib. Mothers have tried to advise their children that their symptoms are related to their junk intake. Because children are in the process of seeking their independence as a normal part of development, a mother is likely to be unheard. Often the offspring, particularly the adolescent, will refer to the mother as “a health nut” and ridicule her suggestion. We have ignored the reality of diet indiscretion in medicine and we have a great deal of “catching up” in order to usher in an era of Preventive Medicine that recognizes at last the importance of God-made food. Hippocrates had the right idea when he urged that physicians should help the natural healing process and never do harm. Given the title of “The father of modern medicine” this has been forgotten and his wisdom ignored.

DERRICK LONSDALE, M.D. F.A.A.P., F.A.C.A.M., F.A.C.N., C.N.S.Preventive Medicine GroupDerrick Lonsdale received his medical education at the University of London in England. He immigrated to the United States and after residence in pediatrics was appointed to the pediatric staff at the Cleveland Clinic, where he practiced for 20 years and where he headed the biochemical genetics section. After sev-


eral years as a pediatric oncologist, his interest moved to the study of inborn errors of metabolism andthence to the wider field of nutritional therapy. His strong knowledge of biochemistry compounded by a particular interest in vitamin B1 led him to recognize that nutritional awareness in relation to disease was a blind spot for his peers in conventional medicine.

Wanting to have the freedom to employ nutrition on the biochemical level with his patients, Dr. Lonsdale established private practice at Preventive Medicine Group in 1982 where he has since been practicing complementary and alternative medicine treating adults as well as children. He is a prolific writer with numerous articles published in various medical journals.

Dr. Lonsdale is the author of the book Why I Left Orthodox Medicine, which presents a model for nutri-tionally oriented medicine that is understandable to the lay reader. It is now available online at http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/0201hyglibcat.html. He is also the author of a book on vitamin B1 written for clinicians.

ENERGY MEDICINE: The Medicine of the Future—Right NOW By Stanley M. Gardner, M.D.

After a busy day at work, we come home and rest on the couch for a while, sometimes watching TV or reading the paper. We come to the dinner table for a bite to eat, then go back to the sofa or easy chair, saying that we’re “out of energy.” Then the phone rings. It’s a friend inviting us to do something we love—bowling, dancing, golf, or to

go somewhere we enjoy. Suddenly we feel rejuvenated! Where before there was “no energy,” now energy floods through our body and we are excited to be active.

What is energy? Where does it come from? How does it diminish or grow? Are there ways to increase our energy? And as we get older, instead of feeling that all of our en-ergy is draining out of us, is there a vitamin we can take or a diet we can eat—or is there something else we can do—to help our energy levels?

If you have asked those questions, you have joined thousands of others who understand what energy is when they are experiencing it or they don’t have it, but who don’t know where energy comes from or how to get it.

Energy surrounds us! We know energy by what it does, but we haven’t really come to understand what it is at all. We recognize energy most effectively by its results.Thus we know electricity exists, whatever it is. But in addition to electrical currents, there are other kinds of energy. There are air currents, ocean or water currents, heat, cold, light. All around us, constantly throughout the day, we utilize the benefits of equipment that operates based upon energy. Cell phones, radios, televisions, microwave ovens, computers, fax machines, cameras and camcorders, washers and dryers and dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, remote controls, satellites—the list is probably endless. Interestingly, the wavelengths or frequencies of many of these items permeate the air around us. It is difficult to find a place on Planet Earth where there are no signals present; where frequen-cies do not go. And the wavelengths do not just go around us. They go through us. So


no matter where we are, we are constantly bombarded with energy.

I discussed energy sources in general terms, describing vibrational frequencies and the interactions between the currents of all kinds that flow around and through us. Now I want to propose some thoughts that may seem outlandish, but I’m going to try to explain in terms that will make the concepts more clear. Here’s a revolutionary thought:

All healing takes place at the energy level.

In order to understand my perhaps somewhat outlandish claim, I want to state some things that may be obvious, and then make connections. Let’s look, for example, at some commonly accepted energy tools that are in use today in the practice of medicine. Inter-estingly, a number of these have been in use for decades, and their reliability is unques-tioned for diagnostic and healing purposes.

Years ago, a researcher discovered that the heart gives off electrical waves that can be measured. The healthy tissue in a patient gives off a very specific pattern. Stressed or dead tissue gives off a distinctly different pattern from the healthy tissue. The resultant recordings of those waves we know today as an electrocardiogram, or EKG. An EKG is a powerful diagnostic tool; it picks up the specific electrical changes in the heart’s waves when anyone being tested is having a myocardial infarction (heart attack), or has had one in the past.

An electroencephalogram (EEG) is capable of determining normal and abnormal brain waves, to the point that probable sources of seizures can be diagnosed because of abnor-mal electrical signals given off in the brain.

There are also many therapeutic tools or modalities in medicine. I’ll review just a few of these.

One of the first was Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) Therapy, which releases spe-cific low frequency, electromagnetic pulses to stimulate bone healing in non-healing bone fractures. Some time ago I visited with a colleague who practices orthopedic surgery. He told me that he had begun the practice of placing a small therapeutic magnet inside the cast of a fracture, and as a result he had never seen a fracture fail to heal since that time.

Do you live in an area where there is lots of rain, or the skies are often overcast? That type of climate can have a depressing effect upon many people. Many of us have heard of or used light therapy for depression, called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Changing the types of lights used in the household, and adding additional light can help. So can special light devices, designed to give off healing, positive light frequencies that generate a more positive feeling in the surroundings.

I recall a lady in her early forties who came into the office with dizziness and memory loss. She had seen several other physicians and had a normal MRI, CT scan, ear nose and throat exam, and audiologic exam. She had received some vestibular physical therapy, which helped a little with the dizziness. On physical exam, I found tenderness in many of the muscles that contribute to temperomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ). Massage therapy, often called massotherapy, improved the tightness and tenderness of the TMJ


muscles; however, the dizziness persisted.

In the office, I do an energy art called Jin Shin Jyutsu, and upon reading her energy pulses, I found an energy blockage in the pathway called the “small intestine energy flow.” Upon clearance of that pathway, her dizziness decreased with each treatment. I taught her how to resolve that blockage at home. Her memory improved right along with the disappearance of the dizziness.

Months later, she injured her right elbow, and the dizziness and memory lapses immedi-ately returned, along with a huge headache. Interestingly, this was exactly along the lines of the small intestine flow. When I was able to resolve the elbow injury, the dizziness and memory problems also resolved.

Recently, her dizziness symptoms returned. I found that she had tenderness at the first thoracic vertebrae, which is also along the lines of the small intestine flow. This is a description of how physical trauma and injury can interfere with the energy pathways that naturally flow throughout our entire body.

Every disease or condition gives off its own specific frequency and there are other frequencies that trigger tissue repair. It is important that we understand the effects of environmental energy on the body. Specific healing effects have been found at specific frequencies, and have been identified. For instance, nerve regeneration and neurite growth from cultured ganglion cells takes place at a frequency of 2 Hz.

Bone growth is stimulated at 7 Hz, while ligament healing takes place at 10 Hz. Dimin-ished skin necrosis and increased capillary and fibroblast formation to create new tissue is best accomplished at frequencies of 15, 20 and 72 Hz. 40 Hz is an anti-inflammatory frequency that will also decrease swelling. Frequencies above 2000 Hz are capable of creating a nerve block. When a therapeutic healer touches water, that water will encour-age plant growth.

Just as there are healing frequencies, there are damaging effects of specific frequen-cies. At 60 Hz, it has been documented that there is increase in breast cancer cell proliferation. When a psychotic patient touches water, that water will actually suppress plant growth. There are electric frequency generators that can generate any frequency and any strength. Dr. Rife, in the early 1900s, had a machine that generated frequencies from 1 to 10,000. He would change the frequency and observe its effect on living tissue, bacteria, viruses, fungi, and cancer cells under the microscope. When the frequency destroyed the cells, he would record it. Many of these frequencies are available today.

I use a frequency generator called a frequency specific microcurrent (FSM) that generates frequencies from 0.1 to 999. It has two channels; one for conditions in the body, and the other for a specific organ.

I recall a child who had abdominal pain for months. She was about 9 years old, and had been to pediatricians and pediatric gastroenterologists. She had been examined with a gastroscope, which found inflammation in the esophagus and stomach. She was only marginally better on medicines that blocked acid production in the stomach. Her parents


and I decided to try the FSM machine on her. We used anti-inflammation frequencies, along with frequencies designed to repair the esophagus and stomach.

Within six treatments, she was 100% cleared of any abdominal pain. She had two more treatments six months later, when there was a mild recurrence of abdominal pain. The treatments completely resolved the pain.

Homeopathy is based on the principle that water has hydrogen bonds that are capable of absorbing and storing frequencies. These frequencies may assist in restoring the missing healthy frequency in tissue, or cancel the harmful frequency generated by diseased tissue, when administered as drops or tablets.

Electrodermal Testing machines are programmed to interpret the abnormal frequencies inside the body. Diagnostically, these machines are capable of identifying conditions that are very difficult to diagnose with any of today’s laboratory or diagnostic tools. These machines are then capable of creating homeopathic substances that repair abnormal fre-quencies in the body, or supply healthy frequencies where needed.

Kinesiology, or muscle testing, is based upon the principle that the body’s muscles will weaken when the body is exposed to harmful substances, including toxins, allergies, or sensitivities. David Hawkins, M.D., who may be one of the most brilliant minds in the medical world today, extends this principle to every facet of decision making, even to tell if someone is telling the truth or not. He maintains that the cells of the body can abso-lutely recognize what is right or good and what is not.

I combine muscle testing with a treatment called NAET to determine allergies or sensitiv-ities in my patients. Dr. Nambudripad, who called it her “allergy elimination technique,” originated this procedure. The patient is exposed to potential allergens while I administer an energy treatment that is designed to reprogram the body to those sensitivities.

The strength of this procedure is that it can be used with food allergies and chemical al-lergies, as well as toxins. Regular allergy shots are only able to address molds, pollens, dander, dusts, and insects.

The first patient upon whom I used this procedure was a consultant in his mid 30s, who had become so chemically sensitive, that for the previous six months he could hardly leave his home, and could not touch his computer. Of course, this eliminated his ability to do any work. After 12 treatments, he was 100% relieved of his sensitivities, and was able to return to his consulting business.

Two years later, he was still symptom free, and was able to work on his computer and permit exposure to the normal chemicals in his life. What an amazing result!

Last, let’s talk about and understand the power of the mind. Intention or “will” facilitates change in that direction. In 1988, a prayer study was conducted for a coronary care unit. Remote prayer was offered on behalf of 400 specific patients for 10 months. The results showed that the patients for whom prayers were offered had decreased overall complica-tions, decreased pneumonia, decreased ventilator assistance, and decreased antibiotic use.


In 1993, a group of people that practiced transcendental meditation, meditated for peace in Washington, D.C. During that period of study, there was a decreased crime rate until the group left. During this same time period, the surrounding major cities had an increase in crime rate.

Intention even has the ability to change random machines and was able to tip the ratio of heads to tails to a 52-48 ratio after more than 1,000,000 trials. Intention or “will” has been clearly demonstrated to have positive effects on bacteria, yeast, plants, ants, chicks, mice, rats, dogs, cats, human cells, and enzymes.

Because our mind is so powerful, we can bring about what we would like to see happen in our lives. Our attitude has a lot to do with what we attract and create in our lives. In other words, be careful what you wish for!

Healthy tissue vibrates at a specific frequency. Diseased tissue vibrates at specific harmful frequencies. These harmful frequencies can be reprogrammed to healthy frequencies, or the harmful frequencies can be cancelled out.

Harmful frequencies need to be avoided, and healthy frequencies need to be sought. As an important side note, healthy and unhealthy frequencies may include those with whom we associate; those with whom we choose to spend our lives, and what electrical and other devices we bring into our lives.

The challenge to healthful living is to find the appropriate frequencies and treatments, and do them long enough to see miracles occur. I want to repeat the claim I made earlier: All healing takes place at the energy level.

As you proceed in your personal quest for dynamic health and energy, I have a few guide-lines for you: Be realistic. Expect a miracle. But remember, the Impossible just takes a little longer than the Difficult!

Stanley M. Gardner, M.D., C.N.S., A.P.C.T.Preventive Medicine Group

Stan Gardner, M.D., studied medicine in the Philippines and the University of Utah and trained in Pediat-rics at the University of Nebraska. He practiced general and behavior pediatrics for fourteen years before turning his interest toward preventive and alternative medicine. He joined Preventive Medicine Group in 2001 where he has been treating adults as well as children, specializing in preventive medicine with an emphasis on energy medicine, pain management, nutrition, allergy and pediatrics. Dr. Gardner became interested in preventive medicine when he observed the beneficial effects of proper nutrition, magnets and far infrared on children and adults with attention difficulties, pain, chronic diseases and other ailments. He has trained in the ancient Japanese healing art of Jin Shin Jyutsu and uses this modality with tremendous success. In his twenty years of practicing medicine, Dr. Gardner has come to a philosophy of health that can best be described as bringing about a unity or wholeness in a body or soul that is out of harmony. Those who experience healing seem to experience a new aliveness, both in a physical sense and a spiritual sense.


1. Why do you recommend a vegan diet for diabetes?Neil Barnard, M.D. Physicians Council for Responsible Medi-cine Vegan diets, which contain no animal products (meat, dairy, eggs, or other animal products), are healthier than other diets, because they contain no cholesterol and less fat, saturated fat, and calories than meat-based diets or ovo-lacto vegetarian diets. Scientific research shows that health benefits increase as the amount of food from animal sources in the diet decreases, making vegan diets the most healthful overall.

2. I want to try a vegan diet. How should I start?If a plant-based diet is new to you, you’ll be pleased to discover

a wonderful additional benefit to vegan eating: It’s a fun way to explore delicious new foods. Start by checking out our Vegan Diet: How-to Guide for Diabetes and our Vegetar-ian Starter Kit, both of which explain the New Four Food Groups and offer useful tips, the “whys” and “hows” of a healthier diet, and easy-to-make recipes. To order a Vegetarian Starter Kit, please contact PCRM’S Literature Room Manager at [email protected] or 202-686-2210, ext. 346.

3. Are carbohydrates bad for you?Some people imagine that pasta, bread, potatoes, and rice are fattening, but the opposite is actually true. Carbohydrate-rich foods are helpful for permanent weight control because they contain less than half the calories of fat, which means that replacing fatty foods with complex carbohydrates automatically cuts calories. It’s important to remember to eat health-ful carbohydrates, such as whole grains, pasta, brown rice, and sweet potatoes. Processed carbohydrates, such as white bread and white rice, are not as healthful a choice because they have lost much of their fiber and other nutrients and tend to have a higher glycemic index.

4. Why low-fat?High-fat foods increase insulin resistance. Following a low-fat diet not only helps improve insulin’s action but will also help reduce blood sugar, aid weight loss, and lower your cholesterol.

5. How much fat is allowed?By avoiding animal products and added oils you will be able to keep your total fat intake around 20 grams per day. To help meet this, look for foods that have no more than 2 to 3 grams of fat per serving.

6. What is the glycemic index (GI) and why is it important?The glycemic index is a number that indicates how rapidly a given food releases sugar into your bloodstream. A food with a high GI releases sugar into the blood quickly. Examples include sugar itself, white potatoes, many wheat flour products, and most cold cereals.


rapidly rising and falling.

7. What about fruit? Is it okay to eat?Yes, fruit is a healthful part of the diet. While fruit is sweet and contains sugar, it tends not to greatly increase blood glucose levels. Very few fruits have a high-glycemic index: watermelon and pineapple.

8. What about cholesterol—how it important is it to have low cholesterol?Lowering your cholesterol is an important step to reducing your risk for heart disease. Consuming a diet completely free of cholesterol and full of high-fiber foods is one way to lower or maintain (if healthy) your cholesterol. Keeping your cholesterol in control is particularly important for people with diabetes since they are at increased risk for heart disease.

9. What about omega-3 fatty acids and where can I find them?All fats, good and bad, are equally fattening and calorie-dense and should be limited in the diet. Fortunately, the essential fatty acids which include omega-3s and omega-6s are only needed in small amounts (2 to 3 percent of total calories per day) and can be natu-rally obtained from a varied plant-based diet.

10. Aren’t fish the best source of omega-3 fatty acids?Fish and shellfish can contain unsafe levels of contaminants and are often high in mer-cury and other environmental toxins that have no place in a healthy diet. Fish also contain no fiber and are high in animal protein, and often, in saturated fat and cholesterol.

The most nutritious sources of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids are plant-based foods, including green leafy vegetables, legumes, wheat germ, soybeans, and ground flaxseeds. By getting omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids and protein from plant-based foods, you can avoid the health risks associated with fish consumption.

11. How do I get protein on a vegan diet? Do I need to combine proteins?Protein is an important nutrient required for the building, maintenance, and repair of tis-sues in the body. It was once thought that various plant foods had to be eaten together to get their full protein value; this practice was known as “protein combining” or “protein complementing.” We now know that intentional combining is not necessary. As long as the diet contains a variety of grains, legumes, and vegetables, protein needs are easily met.

Especially protein-rich vegetarian foods include soy-based products like tofu, texturized vegetable protein, tempeh (a fermented soybean product), veggie burgers, seitan (a meat substitute made from a wheat protein called gluten), black beans, lentils, chickpeas, and grains such as quinoa, amaranth, and bulgur.

12. How much fiber do you recommend?


foods such as meat and dairy products contain zero fiber.

13. Beans give me gas-- what should I do?Your body will adapt to eating more beans and high-fiber foods, so start out slow, with smaller portions and smaller beans. Over time, you will be able to better digest larger por-tions.

Try these quick tips to help reduce gas:

* Rinse beans thoroughly (at least twice) with water before cooking or eating. * Cook beans with Kombu (a type of seaweed). * Try using smaller beans such as lentils.

14. How do I get enough calcium on a vegan diet? What about osteoporosis?By eating calcium-rich vegetarian foods, including leafy green vegetables such as broccoli and kale, white beans, fortified soymilks and juices, and a variety of fruits and vegetables, you can obtain all the calcium your body needs. But keeping your bones strong and avoid-ing osteoporosis depends on more than calcium intake—you also need to keep calcium in your bones. Exercise and vitamin D help keep the calcium in your bones, while animal protein, excess salt and caffeine, and tobacco can cause calcium loss.

15. What’s wrong with drinking milk? I thought milk was a good source of carbohy-drate for when your blood sugar was a little low (hypoglycemia)? Is organic milk better? Is soymilk a safer alternative?

What about other dairy products?Milk contains fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol, and diets high in fat and saturated fat can increase the risk of several chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease. Other dairy products, such as cheese, yogurt, butter, and ice cream, also contribute significant amounts of cholesterol and fat to the diet. Even low-fat and fat-free milk and dairy products carry health risks because of cholesterol. In addition, natural and artificial hormones are present in all types of milk and dairy products, regardless of fat.

Organic milk may not contain the pesticides and antibiotics that non-organic milk contains, but still can be loaded with fat and cholesterol. Even organic cow’s milk, which does not contain artificial hormones, does contain naturally occurring hormones. The combination of nutrients found in both organic and non-organic cow’s milk increases our own production of some types of hormones. These hormones have been shown to increase the risk of some forms of cancer.

Soymilk and other non-dairy beverages, such as rice and nut milks, are healthy alternatives to cow’s milk. These beverages come in different flavors, and many of them are fortified with calcium and vitamin D. They are a great low-glycemic carbohydrate to be used on cereal, in coffee and tea, and in baking and cooking. Grocery stores now regularly carry soymilk, and most coffee shops offer a variety of soy coffee drinks.


16. Is it safe to eat soybeans and other soy foods?Recently, questions have been raised about the possible health risks of soy consump-tion, but the overwhelming majority of studies on soy have shown positive health effects or, at worst, neutral ones. Some soy products are high in sodium and contain a higher-than-healthy level of fat, so be sure to check the labels and choose the low-fat versions. Nonetheless, these foods are much healthier than the animal-derived foods they are intended to replace. Soy is not an essential part of a vegan diet. Lentils, beans, and other legumes are a hearty and delicious source of plant-based protein and other nutrients. They are also the richest source of dietary fiber.

17. What is the best way to get vitamin B12?Individuals following a vegan diet can easily meet their vitamin B12 needs by taking a daily multivitamin. B12 is also found in fortified breakfast cereals, soymilk, and meat analogues. Some brands of nutritional yeast, such as Red Star Vegetarian Sup-port Formula, are a reliable source for this vitamin.

18. What’s the best diet for weight loss?Both short term and long term, the most effective weight loss comes from avoiding animal products and keeping fats and vegetable oils to a minimum. In addition, it helps to keep the natural fiber in the foods you eat. This means eating whole-grain breads instead of white bread, brown rice instead of white rice, and plenty of fruits, vegetables, and legumes (beans, peas, and lentils). And don’t forget the importance of physical activity for achieving and main-taining a healthy weight.

19. How can I get around food cravings?It takes about three weeks to get over a food craving. If you follow a very-low-fat menu, your tastes will gradually drift to prefer lower-fat foods. It helps to stock up on healthful foods at home and at work to prevent hunger-induced indiscretions, and avoid keeping unhealthful foods in the house.

Neal D. Barnard, M.D., is a nutrition researcher, author, and health advocate. As an adjunct as-sociate professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine, Dr. Bar-nard conducts studies on the role of nutrition in diabetes, obesity, and lipid management, among other health issues. His most recent clinical trial, funded by the National Institutes of Health, established the value of a novel dietary program for type 2 diabetes and set a new standard for dietary approaches to this increasingly common condition.

Dr. Barnard’s articles have appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the American Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Scientific American, the American Journal of Cardiology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Lancet Oncology, Preventive Medi-cine, and many other scientific and medical journals. Dr. Barnard is the editor-in-chief of the Nutrition Guide for Clinicians and the author of more than a dozen books for lay audiences.

In 1985, Dr. Barnard established the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a non-profit organization advocating for preventive medicine and higher ethical standards in research. He later established The Cancer Project, a nonprofit organization providing nutritional services for cancer patients and survivors and public education geared toward prevention, and the Wash-ington Center for Clinical Research, an organization dedicated to studies of diet and health.



Hypothyroidism: The Hidden Story- by Trevor Levine, M.D.

Hypothyroidism is common. Symptoms include: fatigue, weight gain, dry skin, puffiness, rough skin, cold skin, constipation, joint pain, pale skin, poor sleep, muscle and joint pain, hair loss, and brittle nails.

However the diagnosis is commonly missed. The reason for this is that doctors rely on laboratory tests to make the diagno-ses. The late thyroid expert Broda Barnes M.D. pointed out in his book that the diagnoses has to be made on the basis of the patient’s signs and symp-toms. Using laboratory tests to make the diagnoses is fraught with problems.

The standard screening test for hypothyroidism is the TSH test. The absolute value that indicates a problem is very controversial. Bottom line, based on a lot of different data and opinion, and my own experience, anything over 1.5 is abnormal. Lower numbers, how-ever, should not be relied in to exclude low thyroid function. However the standard of care is to do just this. Some endocrinologists tolerate up to a 10, without starting treatment!

In the absence of a disease process, a persons individual level changes about as much as his shoe size! A recent researcher stated that a change of 0.75 is abnor-mal. Seldom do we have a baseline number, before the patient developed symp-toms. The minimum normal TSH is about 0.3. This implies that any TSH above 1.05 (0.3+ 0.75) is potentially abnormal, in an individual without a baseline number. Two 2007 books by thyroid specialists, The Thyroid Paradox, by James Rone M.D., and the second edition of The Thyroid Solution by Rhida Arem M.D. hammer home the folly of relying on the lab tests in the “normal” range for diagnoses or monitoring of treatment.

Many people who are on prescription thyroid hormones still have symptoms and signs of low thyroid function. Fatigue, depression, hair loss, easy weight gain, feeling cold, poor sleep and brittle nails, etc. Why is this? Are they cra-zy, or just imagining things, as their physicians sometimes tell them? Or, are they still hypothyroid despite taking the prescribed medication? The authors above, as well as Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum, author of “From Fatigued to Fantastic”, Dr. J.C. Lowe, author of “The Metabolic Basis of Fibromyalgia”, and multiple oth-er authors on hormone treatment say that you still may in fact be hypothyroid. Most conventional doctors only do one or two thyroid blood tests: The TSH and may-be a total T4(thyroxine) level. In many cases, these few tests are NOT ENOUGH! The most reliable test is YOU. That is, your symptoms, signs, ability to function and energy level need to be evaluated. In addition, comprehensive thyroid tests should be done in order to find out, if possible, where the system has gone wrong.

A common source of thyroid problems occurs in the brain and not in the thyroid it-self. This makes interpreting thyroid tests difficult and therefore most doctors ignore

this issue. Another ignored issue is “thyroid resistance.” This means that thyroid hor-mone may not be getting into your cells even if your test shows a normal, or often a high normal, level of the hormone in your blood stream. The answer to this prob-lem is to first to acknowledge the possibility that this may be happening, then recog-nize it. The treatment is to give various amounts of the active thyroid hormone T3 (Liothyronine) instead of using only the more commonly prescribed T4 hormone.

Various toxins are known to block the thyroid hormone receptor, such as soy prod-ucts, fungal toxins, mercury and other toxins. Some have suggested that other thy-roid molecules involved in the production and disposal of thyroid hormone, when increased in abnormal states, block the receptor, like chewing gum in a lock

An additional source of ongoing problems occurs if the adrenal glands are not working properly. This problem requires a special saliva test. This test requires special training and care to interpret. Mainstream doctors are not trained to use saliva tests. However, these tests are essential to diagnose and treat common adrenal problems that affect thyroid treatment.

So if you have symptoms but you have been told that your thyroid is ful-ly treated, or that you don’t have hypothyroidism, be aware that a deep-er look might reveal otherwise (and restore your credibility). A broad, in-tegrative and holistic treatment approach restores most people to normal.

Trevor Z. Levin, M.D. practices advanced Holistic & Integrative Medicine at The Hormone, Fa-tigue & Rehab Center in Cleveland, Ohio. In addition, he also specializes in chronic and acute pain. 440-684-1755. www.amcdoctor.com

Dr. Trevor Levin was born and raised in South Africa. He completed his military service in the S. A. Air Force.Dr. Levin went to medical school at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. After completing a rotating internship, he was a resident and medical officer in surgery, and surgical specialties, including plastic surgery and ear, nose & throat surgery.

In 1987 Dr. Levin moved to North America and worked as a general practitioner in Canada.In 1992 he com-pleted an internship in Internal Medicine at Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia.In 1995 he completed his resi-dency in Rehabilitation Medicine at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Research into this area uncovered little known findings about the hormonal abnormalities and other factors perpetuating pain. The causes of chronic pain. chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, were now treatable in many instances.

This led Dr. Levin to become involved in treating a variety of metabolic and hormonal disorders. His approach is to seek the cause of the problem, rather than to treat the symptoms.


The Collapse of Cardiology: A Time to Rejoice? By Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.January 17, 2007 -- Recent weeks have witnessed a collapse of the drugs and technology

which form the present back bone of cardiology’s assault on the coronary artery disease epidemic. Is this a dark shadow over our cardiac health or could it be a time to rejoice?

Pfizer, in late December 2006 announced its long hoped for block- buster new drug Torcetrapib was killing more people in its test run than were dying in the control group. Pfizer had spent 800 million in developing this drug to raise HDL, “good” cholesterol and had openly forecast it would reap billions for the company once it came into production. But the research trial was clear and unequivocal with its results.

Among 15,000 patients, 82 died taking Torcetrapib and 51 died taking a standard drug to lower cholesterol Additionally the Torcetrapib group experienced a greater number of cardiac events such as angina, heart failure, and a need for angioplasty. The independent monitoring group advised Pfizer to halt the trial and they complied. The unfathomable mysteries of human metabolism could not tolerate the assault of this drug. It was making vascular disease worse not better. The double whammy for cardiology also developed in the second half of 2006. Reports from Europe in September 2006 indicated that patients utilizing the new drug eluting stents were suddenly having heart attacks and some were dying. While the number was small (0.5%), it was disturbing to cardiologists and remains frightening for patients.

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

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

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


Following testimony, experts contend that for patients with uncomplicated disease the benefits of the drug-coated stents outweighs the risks. For patients with more advanced or complicated disease patterns the outlook is less clear and more research data is required.

What is clear is that everyone feels it may be necessary to prolong the period requiring the anti-clotting drug: Plavix from months to years or indefinitely. However Plavix is not without complications. It promotes bleeding, which may mean a gastrointestinal hemorrhage as well as easy bruising.

The most desperate situations occur when a patient taking Plavix must stop it for dental work, hip or other major surgery and colonoscopy. Will they have a heart attack or die from a stent clot when Plavix is stopped? This scenario has occurred and is continuously encountered. It is as if a therapy for one disease now is painting patients into a corner from which they can not escape when other illnesses require surgical therapy.

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

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

The head cardiologist at Kaiser Permanente, Dr. Calvin L. Weisberger added, “A large pool of angioplasties and by pass surgery are being done with out scientific evidence.”

The hard science, which seems not to be prominent in all these discussions is that it is not the major blockages which are treated by angioplasty and stents which account for heart attacks. The small unstable juvenile arterial plaques are prone to rupture and cause over 85% of heart attacks, and they are not treated by angioplasty or by-pass surgery.

Then why do cardiologists treat the blockages unlikely to cause the heart attacks? There is a lingering belief that somehow the patient will be improved by widening the opening, and there is the unspoken force of money – huge guaranteed money from doing these procedures.

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

decrease in heart attacks.

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

The epidemiologic evidence that coronary artery disease does not exist in cultures consum-ing plant-based nutrition is robust and overwhelming. There is clear evidence that cultures which switch from a plant based culture to a western diet develop an epidemic of coronary heart disease. Lewis Kuller, Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburg School of Public Health, based on his 10 year cardiovascular health study states “all


males 65 years of age or older who have been exposed to the traditional western diet have cardiovascular disease and should be treated as such.

This toxic diet with its burden of animal protein, dairy, processed oils, white flour, sugar, and excess saturated and trans fats and free radicals marinates in our bod-ies injuring our delicate cellular matrix with every bite at every meal. Science shows us how this occurs. We depend mightily on the capacity of our endothelial cells, which comprise the single cell layer lining our arteries, to manufacture nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is the strongest vasodilator in the body. It causes blood vessels to enlarge, prevents blood flow from being sticky or sluggish, and inhibits arterial plaque formation.

The brachial artery tourniquet test quantifies the endothelial responses. The test requires an ultrasound measure of the diameter of the brachial artery below the elbow before and after an upper arm tourniquet stops blood flow to the forearm for 5 minutes.

Normally when the cuff is released and the brachial artery ultrasound measurement is repeated the artery dilates or widens. This occurs from a healthy out pouring of nitric oxide from the endothelium. When volunteers consume cornflakes their brachial artery tourniquet test is normal. If they consume sausage, olive oil, or saturated fat they fail the test.

The ingested fat so injures the endothelium that it cannot produce nitric oxide. Regular con-sumption of the toxic western menu is a cardiovascular disaster. The time is long overdue to challenge the failure of drugs and technology to stop the coronary disease epidemic.

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

Dr. Dean Ornish and this author have investigated this question through scientific peer reviewed study. Dr. Ornish reported his results at one year and again at 5 years. This author reported results at 5 years, 12 years and most recently at 21 years in a book for the public, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Avery /Penguin, February 2007.

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

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


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

Caldwell Esseltyn, Jr., MD is a preventive cardiology consultant in the Department of General Surgery Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, and the author of the forthcoming, “Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease” due out February 1, 2007.www.heartattackproof.com

His scientific publications number over 150, “The Best Doctors in America” 1994-1995 published by Woodward and White cites Dr. Esselstyn’s surgical expertise in the categories of endocrine and breast disease. In 1995 he published his bench mark long-term nutritional research arresting and reversing coronary artery disease in severely ill patients. That same study was updated at 12 years making it one of the longest longitudinal studies of its type. It is most compelling, as no compliant patients have sustained disease progression. Today, 20 years later compliant patients continue to thrive.

Top Ten Living Food Bookscourtesy Kellie Speth

and Tom Frazier Gourmet Raw Food Chefs

1.Green for Life – Victoria Boutenko 2.The Sunfood Diet Success System, David Wolfe3.Living Foods for Optimum Health by Brian R. Clement4.Raw Family – Victoria Boutenko5.The 80-10-10 Diet – Dr. Douglas Graham6.Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for a Spiritual Life and Awakening the Kundalini – Dr. Gabriel Cousins7.Raw Foods Bible – Dr. Craig Sommers8.Enzyme Nutriton – Dr. Edward Howell9.Raw Foods for Busy People – Jordan Maerin10.Eating Without Heating – Sergei and Valya Boutenko

“Sick and Tired: Reclaim Your Inner Terrain” should be the first book everyone, particularly raw fooders should go to. This is usually the first and most often the only book I recomend for people trying to regain their health or to uplevel it. Once they have this fundamental under-standing I definitely recomend other books but usually Brian Clements, Gabriel Cousins, and Ed Howells for info and Boutenkos for inspiration. Honorable mention to Brian Clement and to Gabriel Cousins because both of these men will put it out there that if anyone is in doubt of their methods to come to their locations, go through their programs, and then prove them insufficient just as Dr. Young would do where he gets his microscope out and uses the chal-lengers own blood to prove or disprove the points in question. Tom Frazier


The Best Way To Lose WeightDecember 26, 2007 ePerspective Newsletter-from www.pritikin.com Pritikin Longevity Center and Spa

A growing body of research is finding that additions is the best strategy for shed-ding pounds. While many diet plans focus on restrictions, such as “don’t eat carbs” and “don’t fill up your plate,” a growing body of research is finding that additions, specifically nine or more servings daily of fruits and vegetables, is the best strategy for shedding pounds.

The key is that fruits and vegetables have a low calorie density, explains new re-search from Pennsylvania State University.* Low-calorie-dense foods are full of water and fiber, making them big and heavy and therefore filling, but they

don’t add a lot of calories to the diet.

Analyzing 658 overweight, hypertensive men and women, all of whom were at-tempting to shed weight over a six-month period, lead author Jenny Ledikwe, PhD, and colleagues found that those with the greatest reductions in the calorie density of their diets lost the most weight, an average of 13 pounds. Those who made the smallest reductions in calorie density lost the least amount of weight, averaging just 5 pounds. Controlling hunger

Though they shed the most weight, the low-calorie-dense eaters ate the most food “and experienced the greatest increases in both fruit and vegetable intake,” noted the authors, which “may have helped to control feelings of hunger and to promote feelings of satiety while reducing energy [calorie] intakes.” Healthy diet

An additional benefit of adopting a low-calorie-dense diet was a healthier diet. The men and women with the greatest decreases in the calorie density of their diet had the highest increases in fiber intake, the highest increases in intakes of many vita-mins and minerals, and the greatest decreases in fat and saturated fat intake. They also ended up with the best blood pressure readings.

At the start of the study, the subjects were divided into three different diet groups. The first group received a single 30-minute session on general lifestyle tips to im-prove health.

The other two groups attended 18 sessions (14 group meetings and 4 individual counseling sessions) over six months. The first group was taught to cut calories by adding 9 to 12 daily servings of fruits and vegetables and 2 to 3 servings of low-fat dairy foods, also known as the DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hyperten-sion). The second group was simply told to cut calories.

Fruits and vegetablesOverall, the scientists found that the DASH group cut down the most on calorie


density, and the DASH dieters who ate the greatest number of fruits and vegetables shed the most weight of all the other dieters.

In summary, wrote Dr. Ledikwe and team, “participants with diet patterns character-ized by the largest decrease in the energy [calorie] density had the greatest decrease in calorie intake and the largest declines in body weight. Even modest reductions in calorie density that accompanied increased intakes of fruit, vegetables, fiber, vita-mins, and minerals and of the total weight of food consumed were associated with reduced body weight.”

One-year trialIn related research, Dr. Ledikwe and others at Pennsylvania State University con-ducted a year-long trial comparing two weight-loss diets.** Ninety-seven women were randomly assigned to either a diet group designed to reduce fat intake while in-creasing intake of water-rich foods, particularly fruit and vegetables, or a diet group that focused solely on reducing fat intake.

Both groups were instructed to eat as much as they wanted while following the prin-ciples of their diet. “I’m not hungry anymore.”

After one year, both groups had significant decreases in body weight, averaging 17.5 pounds in the reduced fat/fruit and veggie group and 14 pounds in the reduced fat group, but the fruit and veggie eaters reported feeling less hungry and far more satis-fied. Analysis showed they had consumed more food by weight each day – big filling portions for snacks as well as meals.

The authors concluded that “reducing dietary energy [calorie] density, particularly by combining fruit and vegetable intakes with decreased fat intake, is an effective strategy for managing body weight while controlling hunger.”

*American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2007; 85: 1212.** American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2007; 85: 1465.

Based on more than 110 studies published in leading medical journals over the past 30 years, the Pritikin Program is arguably the healthiest lifestyle on earth. In health conferences world-wide, researchers at UCLA, Stanford, MIT, and Harvard have lauded Pritikin’s remarkable results.The Pritikin Program has been scientifically documented to:* Improve virtually all modifiable risk factors for heart disease, the #1 killer in the U.S;* Prevent and control Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, the Metabolic Syndrome, and several cancers; and* Promote healthy, long-term weight loss.Best of all, people feel the benefits of the Pritikin Program almost immediately. Within two to three weeks, high cholesterol plummets. Hypertension disappears. Many diabetics no longer need their medications. Excess weight melts away. And energy levels soar.


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The book “Basic Preparedness” is a how-to manual that almost takes readers by the hand and leads them through the basic steps of preparedness for

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Who is responsible for your health?As we move through the 21st century, still confronted by all the sickness that surrounds us in this age of advanced technol-ogy, it calls to mind a question posed by the songwriter and philosopher Marvin Gaye, “What’s Going On?”.

Science has developed tools that give us the ability to see, study and examine planets millions of miles away. We can build cars fueled by pure water that direct us to our next destination with exact distance and time. Finally, sad to say, we even have developed the ability to grow genetically modified tomatoes that look, smell and taste like

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real tomatoes, but they are not. These are all powerful abilities, tremendous advances, yet no one seems to be able to provide a natural cure, without negative side effects, for the #1 killer disease in America: cancer. Every six minutes someone dies from cancer?

And what of the bladder? Certainly experts have developed a method to cleanse or detoxify this organ that causes over 40 million Americans to suffer from incontinence or bladder disease. Let’s look at one more organ, the heart.

They cannot figure out how to naturally clean out or dissolve a blockage in a valve or artery around the heart to keep you from experiencing a heart attack; or if speaking of the brain, a stroke? This occurs every 30 to 36 seconds a day. Obviously, these con-cerns are not the driving force of technology that is leading us today.

Who really is ultimately responsible for the average American’s health? Let’s get right down to it. We are! Romans 12:1 teaches us to present our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which is our REASONABLE portion of service. In short, “it is our daily responsibility to nurture and take care of this body that was given to us as the vehicle to move us through life”.

What are we doing for ourselves? In our late 40’s and early 50’s, we seem to trade one disease for the next. After 10, 20 or 30 years of attempting to manage diseases, we die from cancer a heart attack or a stroke. Why? Because we are average Americans, and the average American:

*Consumes 300 soft drinks a year, each one containing about 12 teaspoons of sugar. * Consumes more than 170 pounds of sugar annually, including 400 candy bars and 500 doughnuts. * Eats more than twelve 3,000-pound cows over the course of his lifetime. * Eats six whole pigs, 3000 chickens and other fowl, assorted fish and sea creatures, and drinks 30,000 quarts of milk in his lifetime. * Is 25 pounds over weight, has high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high blood sugar. * Takes over 30,000 aspirin and other painkillers in his lifetime, with and additional 20,000 over-the-counter prescription drugs. And if that isn’t enough, add about 2000 gallons of alcohol. * Has a negative self-image and experiences recurring bouts of depression and anxiety. He is physically sick and emotionally bankrupt.

If this shocks you in any way, and you recognize any of these behaviors and would like to change, here is the simple solution: STOP BEING AVERAGE! The New England Journal of Medicine published an article stating that 97% of all degenerative disease can be reversed - just by changing diet. So what is the problem? Ignorance, incompe-tence, or indifference…you make the call. For those of you who dare to be different: accept yourself, forgive yourself and embrace The Inner You. John Darnell Butler, Founding President of The Inner U Wholistic Center, is a Certified Iridologist and Wholistic Food Consultant. He has held his formal certification


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Weight lifting for your health!But I don’t want those big bulky muscles!No need to worry. If you are a male you may put on some muscle mass. It may take a year of intense training to add a couple of

pounds. That is of course with a very good diet. If you are a female don’t worry you may not have nearly enough testosterone to get big muscles. Most people may not understand the many benefits of weight training commonly referred to as the fountain of youth by those who practiced weight lifting and resistance training for any extended period of time.

According to research sprinting that is running at full speed for a very short distance is the most cardiovascular. Closely followed by compound joint major muscle group movements. The following bullet points come from the article “High intensity strength training more aerobic than aerobics” By Greg Anderson

•“Aerobic” activity is not the most effective form of exercise for fat-loss. Steady state activities such as running, cycling, dancing, etc. do not burn a significant number of calories! One pound of fat can fuel the body for up to 10 hours of continuous activ-ity. “Aerobic” activity is simply inefficient for this purpose!

•The most important contribution that exercise makes to a fat-loss program is the main-tenance of muscle tissue while fat is lost. Strength training is the only reliable method of maintaining muscle tissue. Aerobics can actually cause you to lose muscle tissue!

•Some supposed “experts” have suggested that the important effect of aerobics is that of increasing metabolic rate. Our question is this: If “aerobic” activities burn few calo-ries while you are doing them, then how many calories will they burn (calories burned = metabolic rate) when you are not doing them? The answer to that question is: very few...

•On the subject of metabolic rate: Every pound of muscle added to the body of an adult female will require an additional 75-100 calories per day just to keep it alive. The aver-age person, through a program of proper strength training can add enough muscle to burn an additional 3500 calories per week (1 lb. of fat = 3500 calories). The amount of strength training required to effect such a change is less than one hour per week.

•“Aerobic” activities are dangerous! Running is an extremely high-force activity that is damaging to knees, hips, and back. Aerobic dance is probably worse. And so-called “low impact” classes or activities like stationary cycling are not necessarily low-force.

Don’t be fooled by the genetic exceptions who protest that they have never been injured-- overuse injuries are cumulative and we are often not aware that we have them until it is too late. In time, the enthusiastic aerobic-dance participant or jogger will probably pay the price


later years, then “aerobics” have effectively shortened the individual’s life-span. Loss of mo-bility is often the first step toward loss of all biological competence. Don’t I need some form of aerobics to insure good health? What about my heart?

•Remember: The function of the cardiovascular system is to support the muscular system--not the other way around. If the human body is logical (and we assume that it is) then

increases in muscular strength (from a proper strength-training program) will correlate to improvements in cardiovascular function.

•You will notice that the word “aerobic” has been set off in quotation marks when it refers to an activity performed for exercise. There is a good reason for this emphasis: There is no such thing as aerobic exercise! We have all heard that activities such as jogging and cycling are “aerobic” while those such as weight training and sprinting are “anaerobic”. These distinctions are not 100% correct. The words aerobic and anaerobic refer to metabolic pathways which operate continuously at all times and in all activities. You cannot “turn off” either of these pathways by merely increasing or decreasing the intensity of an activity.

•A word on intensity: Few of the “experts” who promote aerobics will debate our last statement. What they do say, however, is that gentle low-intensity activities use the aerobic pathway to a greater degree than they use the anaerobic pathway. We agree with this statement completely and feel that it should be taken to its logical conclusion: The most “aerobic” activ-ity that a human being can engage in is sleeping!

•Consider this: Dr. Kenneth Cooper (author of Aerobics, The New Aerobics, Aerobics for Women), the US. Air Force Cardiologist who coined the term “aerobics” (meaning a form of exercise) and has promoted their use for over 25 years now admits that he was wrong! According to Dr. Cooper, further research has shown that there is no correlation between aerobic endurance performance and health, longevity, or protection against heart-disease. He will admit, however, that such activities do carry with them a great risk of injury. Further, he admits that gross-overuse activities such as running may be so damaging to the body as to be considered carcinogenic.

•Irving Dardik, MD, former vascular surgeon, contends that: “The basic concept of aerobics conditioning is wrong.” He also contends that the best way to train the vascular system is to build flexibility into its response by using short bouts of elevation followed by sudden recov-ery, then demanding activity again.

•Elevated heart rate is not an indicator of exercise intensity, exercise effect, or exercise value. It is quite possible to experience an elevated pulse, labored breathing, and profuse sweating without achieving valuable exercise. Intense emotional experiences commonly cause these symptoms without a shred of exercise benefit.

•Even if an elevated pulse is necessary for cardiovascular conditioning (we do not doubt that pulse elevation may be necessary, but we do not believe that it should be the emphasis of a conditioning program) remember that some of the highest heart-rates on record


were achieved during Nautilus research performed at West Point. The West Point cadets commonly experienced heart rates in excess of 220 beats per minute during Nautilus exercise. These pulse rates were maintained for periods of 20-35 minutes. What about endurance? Won’t my athletic performance suffer if I don’t do aerobics?

•Endurance for athletics and recreational activities is primarily a result of three factors: skill, muscular strength, and genetics. Heritable factors (genetics) are considered to be non-trainable or, in other words, you cannot do much about them. Increasing one’s skill in an activity is a result of practicing that activity. For long-distance runners skills such as stride length and efficiency can be trained through practice (practice on a treadmill doesn’t serve this purpose as it is not the same as road-running). Muscular strength is the single most trainable factor in endurance performance. It is the muscles that actually perform work. When strength increases, the relative intensity of any given task decreases. •Athletes often talk about training their “wind”. Actually our bodies’ ability to use oxygen is not as trainable as once believed. Consider that in a resting state the lungs can saturate with oxygen the blood moving through them during the first one-third of the total transit time. At maximal exertion, saturation speed might slow to one-half of the total transit time. Even with some compromise of pulmonary function (illness, in-jury, etc.) the lungs can usually perform their job quite adequately. It is the muscle’s ability to use the nutrients delivered to it that needs training. This is most efficiently addressed by strength-training.

•More on the subject of “wind”: Most exercise physiologists refer to the phenom-enon of “wind” as maximal oxygen uptake. One Canadian researcher has determined that maximal oxygen uptake is 95.9% genetically determined. A 1991 study at the University of Maryland showed that strength training produced improvements in cycling endurance performance independent of changes in oxygen consumption.

•Covert Bailey, author of Fit or Fat and advocate of “gentle aerobic exercise” now recommends wind sprints to those seeking to become maximally fit. Why wind sprints? Because sprinting is a much more intense muscular activity than jogging. Why not wind sprints? Because as with other running, the risk of injury is just too great! Pulled hamstrings, sprained ankles, and damaged knees are too high of a price for a marginal increase in fitness. Strength training greatly increases the intensity of muscular activity (much more so than sprinting) and greatly reduces the risk of injury!

This may or may not be in line with today’s conventional promoted information. At The Fitness Clinic we try to give data and research and not the sales and marketing approach by today’s modern money driven media. www.thefitnessclinic.com


Food/Agriculture and Your Health “As a fourth-generation family farmer in Montana for almost 40 years, I speak from a background of personal experience when I say that chemically based agricultural pro-duction methods today are unsustainable, and therefore ecologically disastrous”by Howard Lyman, the ex cattle rancher who was sued on Oprah for exposing the meat industry. Pic: Howard Lyman. The Animal Rights 2008 National Conference held at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center. Alexandria, Virginia - 16.08.08

My experiences range from working in a large organic dairy to raising registered beef cattle to owning a large factory feedlot. I have farmed thousands of acres of grain and reproduced a herd of over one thousand commercial beef cows. In addition to raising cows, I have raised chickens, pigs, and turkeys. I have also grown crops such as wheat, barley, oats, corn, alfalfa, and grass.

I was involved in agriculture at a time when the call dictated getting bigger and better or get-ting out. I was educated in modern agriculture, and I can tell you from firsthand experience -- it is not sustainable. I followed all the modern advice and turned a small organic family farm into a large corporate chemical farm with a thousand range cows, five thousand head of cattle in a factory feedlot, thousands of acres of crops, and as many as thirty employees. I saw the organic soil go from a living, productive base to a sterile, chemical-saturated, mono-cultural ground produced by my so-called modern methods.

In 1979, a tumor on my spinal cord caused me to be paralyzed from the waist down. That changed my life forever. I promised myself that, whatever the outcome of the surgery, I would dedicate the rest of my life to doing what I believed to be right -- no matter what changes that necessitated.

The period before and after the surgery gave me much time to think about the changes result-ing form my methods of farming. Convinced that we were going the wrong way, I decided to become a voice for the family farmer and the land. In 1983, I sold most of my farm and started working for farmers in financial trouble. This led to my working for the Montana Farmers Union and from there to Washington, D.C. as a lobbyist for the National Farmers Union.

For five years I worked on Capitol Hill for America’s family farmers. In that time we had some small successes, such as passing the National Organic Standards Act. But even after the act became a law, it took the administration several years to allow funds for its implementation. I became convinced that the changes needed had to come from the


producer and the consumers at the grassroots level. Until that alliance is put into play, the big money interest will continue to control public policy in the Congress of the United States.”

“The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist it. Are we so attached to the dietary fallacies with which we were raised, so afraid to counter the arbitrary laws of eating taught to us in childhood by our misinformed parents, that we cannot alter the course they set us on, even if it leads to our own ruin? Does the prospect of standing apart or encountering ridicule scare us even from saving ourselves?

That prospect intimidated me once, and I can only wonder now what I was fright-ened of. It’s hard to imagine, now that I’m a hundred thirty pounds lighter, infinitely healthier, more full of life and energy, much happier. Now that I have vegetarian friends wherever I go, and feel part of a movement that is not so much political as it is a march of the human heart. Now that I understand how much is at stake. Now that I’ve come to relish shaking people up.

I would love to see the meat industry and the pesticide industry shaken up, too. I would love to see feedlots close and factory farming end. I would love to see more families return to the land, grow crops for our own species, and raise them organi-

cally. I would love to see farm communities revive. I would love to know that I’ve wandered into my nation’s heartland by the sweet smell of grain and not the forbid-ding smell of excrement.

When you can’t take it with you, all that really matters is what you leave behind.”* Howard F. Ly-man, LL.D President & Founder, Voice for a Viable Future* (from “The Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher that Won’t Eat Meat”, by Howard Lyman (with Glen Merzer, ©1998))

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Mineralization is Directly Linked to ConsciousnessOne is what one eats. One of the most common phrases known today has within it the secret to “The Secret”, by Rhonda Byrne. What one puts into one’s body one literally becomes the consciousness of.

If you are anything like I was in college and prior, potato chips, pizza, chicken parmesan, pret-zels, cheddar cheese, steak, French fries, burgers, Centrum, ding dongs, milky ways, Reese’s Pieces, an Arby’s regular, coffee, cigarettes, beer, wine, M&Ms, and well,…..you get the point, then I know how you are feeling.

With a list of academic and athletic accolades to my name, friends everywhere, a family who supported my dreams, and a boyfriend who would do anything to see me smile, it seemed un-fathomable that I was chronically depressed. What was at the time a death sentence became my blessing in disguise. I was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue. I experienced seven medications, a doctor’s appointment every other week for a year, a sleep clinic and the removal of tonsils and adenoids.

This trying-to-heal, sickness path persisted for two years until finally, I sat down and admitted that I was depressed. I began to write a list of what created my true happiness. With the realiza-tion that health and fitness were high on the list, I enrolled in Case Western Reserve University’s Medical School Nutrition Graduate program, and picked up my first book on healing, From Fatigue to Fantastic by Jacob Teitelbaum, MD.

My first biochemistry class was a breeze, and my first fast, the Master Cleanser (quite common in the Living Foods world), lasted fourteen days. The fast was so invigorating that I had more en-ergy than when playing high school varsity soccer! This baffled me. How could it be that while I was not feeding my body really anything, I felt so amazing? This phenomenon created an eager curiosity to discover minerals.

As I began to learn about mineralization, through eating greens, vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, berries, super foods, and through research and empirical study, I became radiant with health, bliss, abundance, and wholeness. I felt the spark-of-life literally within my cells. The food I was eating had LIFE, (water, enzymes, and minerals)! I was reading the most cutting edge informa-tion on wellness, and talking with others who were experiencing the same. My life became one large passion-play of gratitude and living bliss.

So grateful with my transformation, from Chronic Fatigue to absolute radiance, I studied at the Living Light Culinary Arts Institute, to become an ambassador of Living Bliss. The vehicle be-came a Certification in Gourmet Living Foods Chef Artistry and Education.

Educated in living foods cuisine at Living Light Culinary Arts Institute and experienc-ing 7 years of complete immersion in living foods alchemy and vibrational healing, iris Kellie emulates Living Bliss. She loves expressing her joy for mother nature’s farmacy and its divine essence through delicious creativity and innovation in the Alchemy Lab. She has conquered chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, poly-pharmacy, and chronic depression and has been educated in nutrition through several mediums including Case Western Reserve University medical school. She loves to teach mothers, children, and college students about the grace, ease, simplicity, and the fun of transformation and creativity using yummy living foods. Her life’s dharma is to empower, inspire, and implode wisdom of “Self-Incrediblement.”

iris Kellie is the Living Foods Life Style Editor for Healthy Referral Newspaper. She givesdemonstrations and talks around the country. A few of her audiences include the Ho-

listic Mom’s Network, Oberlin College, and Snook’s Organic Restaurant in Akron, Ohio. She is a Living Foods Life Style Coach and Educator and loves to throw Gratitude Celebrations! To contact iris Kellie for a coaching session, to schedule a talk or demonstration at your center or college email [email protected] To learn when the next talk, class or party is in your area email [email protected] iris Kellie is a sponsor of ForeverGreen www.593882.myforevergreen.org, Elements for Life www.noblelifeelements.com/livingbliss, and Ion ways www.ionways.com/livingbliss

“Killers in the Kitchen vs. Conscious Therapeutic Cuisine”The path to healing becomes a simple process when you create a mind-set of stocking your kitchen with the right stuff: conscious and therapeutic cuisine. Why invest hard-earned dollars on mediocre groceries loaded with processed oils, high fructose corn syrup (YES, IT RE-ALLY IS THAT BAD FOR YOU), artificial colors, flavors and “UFOs”, that is, un-identifiable food objects you have trouble pronouncing?

To become conscious of cuisine, the first thing to do, is check ingredient lists.

Conscious cuisine is free of: (1) MSG, (2) synthetic ingredients [e.g., artificial colors, flavors, preservatives], (3) toxic and/or glycemic sweeteners [e.g., corn syrup/ high-fructose corn syrup, bleached sugars, “brown sugar”, Sucralose – which has been linked to headaches], (4) trans fats [e.g., hydrogenated & partially hydrogenated oils], (5) over-processed/refined/enriched/fiber-free/bleached flours.

Hormones and antibiotics are big no-no’s, too. But, you won’t find these “additives” included in the ingredient list. When checking’ out the chicken, if the package fails to say: “hormone and/or anti-biotic free”, consider you are eating tortured animals.

Because fructose is low-glycemic, at one time, I approved it for my patients. Now we know, “High Fructose Corn Syrup” [HFCS] is digested, absorbed and metabolized unlike most glycemic sweeteners, such as table sugar or honey. It is processed by the liver. Recent studies indicate HFCS promotes fat-storage, yet fails to trigger the release of insulin, leading to insulin insensitivity, i.e., metabolic syndrome/pre-dia-betes/type 2 diabetes. HFCS also fails to trigger release of leptin, a hormone related to feeling satisfied. That’s why, it is difficult to stop eating when munching on foods with HFCS.

That Sugar Buzz! Have you ever felt sleepy after a carbohydrate binge? A few too many cookies... or perhaps, an entire bag? Consumption of over 100 grams of carbohydrates, the equivalent to roughly 6 to 7 slices of bread, triggers a tsunami of serotonin verses the ideal “slow drip” dose, to give you that happy, warm and fuzzy feeling. Overdosing on glycemic sugars raises blood sugars rapidly. Not only does this cause extreme drowsiness, but also aggravates triglycerides (blood fats), heart disease, obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes and even low-grade inflammation. The word “conscious” in the context of cuisine, indicates ingredients are not, in of themselves, toxic. However, in large doses, even conscious cuisine can become toxic. It is simple to find a “conscious” Oreo-style cookie in today’s natu-ral marketplace. Simply keep in mind, is the “natural cookie” can still be loaded in


natural glycemic sugars, like dehydrated cane juice, honey, maple syrup, fruit juice concentrates, dates, raisins, which are more nutrient-dense sweetening agents, but do rapidly raise blood sugars just as fast as their refined counterparts.

“Check the Oil”-Manufacturers of conscious cuisine often include refined oils or roasted nuts or seeds exposed to high temperatures, which destroys inherent thera-peutic properties. So, look for products using “unrefined” or “expeller pressed” oils and raw nuts and seeds.

The First Five...Ingredients are listed by weight, so the heaviest ingredients are named first. Most health experts agree, the first five listed will give you an idea of what the product is really made of. The conscious cookie may be dramatically more nutrient-dense than its mainstream version. It may not be therapeutic, but has a greater spectrum of vitamins and minerals. Plus, you feel better after having ingested them ...in the appropriate dose.

Recently, I’ve decided to provide a source for conscious cuisine, therapeutic cuisine, on my web site, www.healthypeople.com with one simple phone call, or a “click” to assist those who find it challenging to shop healthfully. The “pulse bars”, below, are examples of super-nutrient dense snacks I consider to be conscious. Because dates are the first ingredient, you can predict this bar will be super sweet, therefore not quite therapeutic. However, the nuts and seeds do retain their inherent therapeutic properties because this particular line of foods is raw.

RAW Raspberry/Lemon Nice Bar Ingredients: (available on www.healthypeople.com ) (These also come coated in organic dark chocolate): Dates, Raspberries, Pecans, Almonds, Raspberry Powder, Raspberry granules, Flax Seeds, Chia Seeds, Sesame Seeds, Walnut Oil, AMP Lemon [See: Promotions tab. They come in a vari-ety of flavors]

RAW Blueberry Pulse Bar Ingredients:Dates, Raisins, Oats (low-glycemic), Dried Blueberry, (low-glycemic) 8 Grain Mix (Barley Flour, Millet, Buckwheat Flour, Brown Rice Flour, Flax Seeds, Teff, Amaranth, Quinoa), Sesame Seeds, Sunflower Seeds, Cashews, Almonds, Walnuts, Pecans, Hazelnuts (Filberts), Prunes, Figs, Cher-ry Granules (1%), Cherry Powder (1.54%), AMPed Grapefruit, Beetroot Powder, Grapeseed Oil, Walnut Oil [We can order for you...not in stores].

THERAPEUTIC (Rx) CUISINE: Now, let’s define the concept of “cream of the crop, therapeutic cuisine” Therapeutic foods, beverages, spices and herbs assist in healing by nourishing cells, and expunging them of toxins to achieve homeosta-sis [i.e., BALANCE]. Rx cuisine may help manage moods and inflammation with omega-3’s. It may assist in building lean mass. Rx cuisine may help alkalize the body with pH balancing elements, as does the phytoplankton-based beverage I recommend on my website and to medical pro’s, medical spas, psychiatrists, elder care, and in combination with cancer therapies.


In addition to the criteria previously mentioned to identify cuisine as “conscious”, “therapeutic cuisine” goes the extra mile, to assist in healing mind, body and spirit.

Here’s what to look for in Rx (therapeutic) cuisine:http://www.healthypeople.com * moderate amounts of sugars [1-2 tsp. or 4-8 grams of carbohydrate per serving] * no refined fats, like poly-unsaturated oils exposed to high temperatures * nuts and seeds are raw, not roasted * carrageenan-free [ Andrew Weil, M.D. warns it triggers low-grade inflammation] * products containing chocolate are NEVER treated with alkali * contain fibers to assist in balancing hormones and cleaning the digestive tract * spared exposure to highly acidic herbicides, fungicides and pesticides

The phyto-plankton “ionic tonic” I recommend on my website is a perfect example of a “therapeutic beverage”. First, you shake the bottle and take a sip. Swirl in your mouth. Allow it to absorb through the mucous membranes, and sublingually, under the tongue. *PHYTO-PLANKTON (*bottom of the food chain) SUPER NUTRI-ENT DENSE BEVERAGE: This ionic tonic contains 14 amino acids, Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Omega - 6 Fatty Acids, Vitamins A, B’s (all of them, including B6 & B12), C, D, E, 72 ionic minerals. In one shot, you get: Alanine, Arginine, Asparagine, Aspartic Acid, Beta-carotene, Bioflavinoids, Biotin, Boron, Calcium, Chlorophyll, Chromium, Cobalt, Copper, Cysteine, Essential Fatty Acids, Electrolytes, Fiber, Fluorine, Folic Acid, Germanium, Gamma Linolenic Acid, Glutamic Acid, Glutamine, Glutathi-one, Glycine, Glycogen, Histidine, Iodine, Iron, Lecithin, Leucine, Linoleic Acid, Lysine, Magnesium, Manganese, Methionine, Molybdenum, Niacin (Vitamin B3), Nickel, Nucleic Acids, Pantohenic Acid (Vitamin B5), Phenylalanine, Phosphorous, Potassium, Proline, Pyridoxine (Vitamin B6), Riboflavin, RNA, Selenium, Serine, Silicon, Sodium, Superoxide Dismutase (SOD), Substance P, Thiamine (Vitamin B1), Theronine, Tyrosine, Valine, Vanadium, Vitamin B12, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Zinc and a few more special ingredients.

As you eat to nourish on a cellular level, you become leaner, healthier and energized!

I CALL IT A METABOLIC MAKEOVER. http://www.healthypeople.com. You can reverse or at least manage the process of disease with therapeutic foods, an active lifestyle and an enthusiastic attitude. Manage: cancers, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension (blood pressures), hormonal imbal-ances, eating disorders, and low grade inflammation. You can manage your moods, too. You can do it all, with a little practice! REMEMBER: Check www.healthy-people.com for my therapeutic grocery list. Look for: “Helene’s Top Ten Therapeutic Favorites”. http://www.healthypeople.com. Food truly can be medicinal. So, relax, and quiet your mind. Let your body talk to you. It knows exactly what it needs.

In summary, conscious cuisine is not necessarily therapeutic. But, therapeutic cuisine is always conscious. As you can see, to be considered therapeutic, in my book, the guidelines are stringent, yet many of the products available in today’s natural products marketplace have enormous integrity. My purpose is to introduce all of the options to you... so, you and those you love can experience optimal health, one bite at a time. Helene Berk, M.Ed., R.D. is a registered dietitian living in Southern California. Her website is www.healthypeople.com Email: [email protected]


How to Reduce Back and Muscular Pain With Ther-apies that Focus on the Core (Ab-dominals)by Sunday Homitz, L.P.T., B.F.A.-Many common back problems are associated with a weak core (abdominal area). Most exercises and movements do not provide enough support for the entire abdominal area. Many aerobic training classes may cause more harm than actual conditioning.

A weak core puts extra stress on the back and especially the lower back. Simple movements such as sitting, turning, after driving and getting up from a chair can put extra stress on the back. If

the wrong muscle usage occurs, extreme complications with other body systems may arise. Remember: muscles that are not toned and weakened hold a history of strain and may prove to be very painful. Many times, this can be easily corrected.

Therapies used in our clinic focus on the core in many planes of motion with emphasis on the breath include: the work of J.H. Pilates (certified), GYROTONIC® EXPANSION SYSTEM, and Body Mind Centering®, resist-a-ball, yoga, and Kinexcercise.™ Each system uses a mind-body approach and includes movements that help stretch the body, lengthen the spine, and help the deep abdominals and the surrounding area in a more efficient and safe manner.

GYROTONIC® uses all planes of motion. This method encourages constant flow of the breath to enhance movement and help the patient focus on their core center, a major key to movement. This helps keep the body strong, helps prevent injuries and speed up the ef-ficiency of rehabilitation. These movements can be taught with the use of equipment or on a mat for practice at home. The results of this physical therapy and fitness approach have been phenomenal. Insurance companies have recognized the efficacy of the treatments we provide.

Approximately 99% of all patients have been receiving 70-100% reimbursement from insur-ance carriers. Patients with 10-20-30 year chronic pain conditions, post accident victims, car accident cases, emotional trauma, and “drop outs” who have not found success with medica-tion or other innovative methods have returned to full activities, different careers, and have changed their lifestyles. Incorporating breath work into their everyday living has been a key factor in recovery. The patient practice time can be from 5 minutes or an hour of every work-ing day.

Sunday Homitz is a licensed physical therapist who founded Body Technic Systems®, Inc in 1997 as a holistic physical therapy, personal fitness, and movement arts center. She is a certified Pilates instructor, a Body-Mind Centering Practitioner, and is a specialist in performance arts physical therapy. Ms. Homitz, LPT was former therapist for the Cleveland San Jose Ballet and worked in the sports medicine section, Cleveland Clinic under John Bergfeld, M.D. former team doctor for the Cleveland Browns, CAVS, Indians. Ms. Homitz, has also conducted educational courses for college students, trainers, and allied health care professionals. www.bodytechnic.com


Renown Author, Colin Campbell, Ph.D. China Study Reveals Secret to Health is as Simple as the Right DietAfter a long career in research and policy making, I now understand why Americans are so confused. As a taxpayer who foots the bill for research and health policy in America, you deserve to know that many of the common notions you have been told about food, health and disease are wrong:

•Synthetic chemicals in the environment and in your food, as problematic as they may be, are not the main cause of cancer.

•The genes that you inherit from your parents are not the most important factors in determining whether you fall prey to any of the ten leading causes of death. •The hope that genetic research will eventually lead to drug cures for diseases ignores more powerful solutions that can be employed today. •Obsessively controlling your intake of any one nutrient, such as carbohydrates, fat, cholesterol or omega-3 fats, will not result in long-term health. •Vitamins and nutrient supplements do not give you long-term protection against disease. •Drugs and surgery don’t cure the diseases that kill most Americans. •Your doctor probably does not know what you need to do to be the healthiest you can be. I propose to do nothing less than redefine what we think of as good nutrition. The provocative results of my four decades of biomedical research, including the find-ings from a twenty-seven- year laboratory program (funded by the most reputable funding agencies) prove that eating right can save your life. I will not ask you to believe conclusions based on my personal observations, as some popular authors do. There are over 750 references in this book, and the vast majority of them are primary sources of information, including hundreds of scientific publi-cations from other researchers that point the way to less cancer, less heart disease, fewer strokes, less obesity, less diabetes, less autoimmune disease, less osteoporosis, less Alzheimer’s, less kidney stones and less blindness. Some of the findings, published in the most reputable scientific journals, show that: •Dietary change can enable diabetic patients to go off their medication. •Heart disease can be reversed with diet alone. •Breast cancer is related to levels of female hormones in the blood, which are determined by the food we eat.


•Consuming dairy foods can increase the risk of prostate cancer. •Antioxidants, found in fruits and vegetables, are linked to

better mental performance in old age. •Kidney stones can be prevented by a healthy diet. •Type 1 diabetes, one of the most devastating diseases that can befall

a child, is convincingly linked to infant feeding practices.

These findings demonstrate that a good diet is the most powerful weapon we have against disease and sickness. An understanding of this scientific evidence is not only important for improving health; it also has profound implications for our entire society. We must know why misinformation dominates our society and why we are grossly mistaken in how we investigate diet and disease, how we promote health and how we treat illness.

By any number of measures, America’s health is failing. We spend far more, per capita, on health care than any other society in the world, and yet two thirds of Americans are overweight, and over 15 million Americans have diabetes, a number that has been rising rapidly.

We fall prey to heart disease as often as we did thirty years ago, and the War on Cancer, launched in the 1970s, has been a miserable failure. Half of Americans have a health problem that requires taking a prescription drug every week, and over 100 million Ameri-cans have high cholesterol.

To make matters worse, we are leading our youth down a path of disease earlier and earlier in their lives. One third of the young people in this country are overweight or at risk of becoming overweight. Increasingly, they are falling prey to a form of diabetes that used to be seen only in adults, and these young people now take more prescription drugs than ever before. These issues all come down to three things: breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Dr. Campbell is a Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of nutritional biochem-istry at Cornell University. He has received more than 70 grant-years of peer-reviewed research funding and authored more than 300 research papers. His legacy, The China Study, is the most comprehensive study of health and nutrition ever conducted. The study was the culmination of a 20-year partnership of Cornell University, Oxford University and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine.

An engaging and enlightening interview, Dr. Campbell has an encyclopedic knowledge of health and nutrition backed by more than 40 years of research. His well-documented views on the social and political forces of health and nutrition and the impact on Ameri-cans makes him a credible and authoritative subject-matter expert regarding topics such as the current low-carb fad and the ensuing “Atkins Backlash.”

PUBLICATION DETAILSThe China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health. www.thechinastudy.com


Dispersement and Agglomeration in MedicineThe Wisdom of T.C. McDanielsBy Terry Chappell, MD, an Integrative Family Physician from Bluffton, Ohio

Last year I had a wonderful visit to T.C.McDaniels, D.O., who is practicing medicine in Cincinnati, Ohio. This 95 y.o. gentleman has taken his own journey in medicine, based on some fundamental principles of chemistry that cannot be denied but have been ignored

by the general medical community.

His patients have been successful in avoiding heart attacks, strokes, Alzheimer’s disease, kidney stones, chronic fatigue, and many other conditions. He greeted me as a friend, and he offered to give me a gift of knowledge to help me live a long life with all my faculties, free from being a burden to my family in my later years or from wasting most of whatever resources I may have accumulated near the end of my life in an avalanche of medical and hospital bills.

TC starts with the basic concept that anions are negatively charged particles, and cations are positively charged particles. Opposite charges attract, and in the right medium with the right pH, particles with opposite charges will bind together and pre-cipitate out of a liquid solution to form solids. He calls this agglomeration. It occurs in the body frequently. Sometimes the process of agglomeration is life-saving, such as blood clotting to stop bleeding after a laceration. But more often, the body works better when particles and molecules are dispersed, resulting in a slippery, free-flow of various substances and energy throughout the body.

Calcium oxylate stones form in the kidneys, just like a precipitate in a chemistry lab. At least 80% of heart attacks and strokes occur in arteries that have only a minimal amount of plaque. These “vulnerable plaques” leak a small amount of fat tissue that causes agglomeration (clots) that suddenly block the vessel. The tissue sup-plied by that vessel dies from an acute lack of oxygen and nutrients. This is called a heart attack or stroke. Inflammation can result from an injury, infection or foreign substance.

The body’s response is to send out cytokines and other chemical substances. Ag-glomeration forms, and unintended damage can occur. A lack of enzymes, hydro-chloric acid, and/or bile can result in ineffective digestion and dispersement of food. With a leaky gut, these bigger food particles are absorbed, and food allergies occur. If our endocrine glands, such as thyroid, adrenal and sex organs become overworked, inflamed or nutritionally exhausted, they do not produce the hormones we need. We become tired and sluggish.


Pollutants come into the body by various channels. They are often loaded with high-va-lence cations, which clog up our cellular function and cause inflammation. Toxic substanc-es interfere with receptor sites on cell membranes. Neurotransmitters become ineffective. Brain function deteriorates. Our connective tissue, sometimes called ground substance, becomes overloaded with cations, which interferes with energy flow. This energy flow can sometimes be restored by acupuncture or trigger point therapy. Conventional medicine tries for a quick fix, by blocking actions of the body with drugs. Rarely does it try to disperse particles, reduce agglomeration or improve energy flow. Medications might improve symp-toms, but they cure very little, and often have side effects. Integrative medicine is better at getting to the cause of malfunction and is much better at dispersement. TC coined a catchy phrase: “The solution to pollution is dilution.” The first step toward better health is to drink lots of good water, get regular exercise, and breath deeply of clean air. By good water, TC means reverse-osmosis, distilled water with very low levels of total dissolved solids. A guideline is to drink at least a pint of water prior to each of three meals a day. The second step is to alkalinizing the diet, partly by reducing sodium and calcium in favor of magnesium and potassium, and by having a good daily influx of anions like sulfates, car-bonates and phosphates, which are found in most vegetables. Locally-grown, organic foods without labels on them are the best foods to eat. We want to keep the ratio at 35% cations to 65% anions. Step two also makes certain not to ingest an excessive amount of minerals, which are common in high-dose multi-vitamins. If the patient tends to have arrhythmias, however, he or she might need those extra minerals. Step three is to eliminate toxic metals as much as possible from the body. Toxic metals tend to be high-valence cations that cause agglomeration, among other harmful effects. Intravenous EDTA is the broadest chelator to remove toxic metals, such as lead, mercury, arsenic and cadmium. These metals are found commonly in the general population and are extremely dangerous.

Lead, for example, increases the risk of heart attacks, strokes, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, and premature death. EDTA with magnesium is also a very effective surfactant (like soap). It makes everything in the body more slippery, except appropriate blood clotting, which is still available when needed. Step four is to examine carefully the endocrine glands, which often need extra support, even if routine blood tests are reported as “normal”.

Other measures and supplements can be helpful in promoting dispersement and avoiding agglomeration. Fish oils, nattokinase, rutin, garlic and full spectrum vitamin E can reduce clotting. Probiotics and digestive enzymes can help digestion. Aloe vera soothes the lin-ing of the gut, and contributes nicely to a slippery effect. Serrapeptidase, proteolytic and mucolytic enzymes can reduce inflammation and disperse mucous. Red yeast along with coenzyme Q10 reduces inflammation in the walls of blood vessels,


Kwaku Larry C. Woods RN M.D. MetD1Carrying the Weight of the World, an essay on obesity

The energy used to create the world in which we now live resides in a people. Think about it, I mean make mental images of the pictures these words describe. It is this same energy that felled the forest, created the roads and built the houses in which we now live. The same flows of forces that fought the battles and won the wars of our historic past are being carried around on a day to day basis by the sons and daughters of those that actually participated in those conflicts. How is that so? How can any of this be real?

Well, since I posed the question it only seems fair that I answer it. It seems that physics, chemistry, biochemistry, and human behavior combined with culture to pro-vide the answers. Now don’t get shook or anxious because of the educated sounds of those words. They relate to simple things we all know but have never really thought about in certain ways, let me provide those ways.

This country, and to a large extent, this world has been made by men and women

which might be a bigger risk factor than an elevated cholesterol. Low carbohydrates in the diet dramatically reduce high triglyeride levels, which is commonly referred to as “mud for blood”. Silymarin (from milk thistle) is probably the best herbal liver detoxifier. Massage therapy, sauna, and exercise are helpful. Acupuncture, manipu-lation, prolotherapy and neural therapy are doctor-administrated procedures that are effective. In summary, Dr. T.C. McDaniels, puts a lifetime of accumulated knowledge into four simple steps. They will help you be slippery, not sticky, which in turn can avoid abnormal agglomeration and the ravages of chronic diseases.

L. Terry Chappell, M.D., has thirty four years experience as a family physician with a special emphasis on preventive and nutritional medicine. A graduate of DePauw University in premed and the University of Michigan Medical School, Dr. Chappell has established a worldwide reputation as a leader and teacher of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He has served as President of American College for Advancement in Medicine and is currently President of International College of Integrative Medicine.

Dr. Chappell has published several books, the latest being Questions from the Heart, a popular patient guidebook to chelation therapy. He also contributed chapters to several best selling books including: The Yeast Syndrome by Trowbridge and Walker, Pain, Pain, Go Away by Faber and Walker, and 40 Something Forever by Harold and Arline Brecher. He has also authored numerous pamphlets and scientific articles, many of which have been published in scientific journals. He is on the Editorial Board of three medical journals.

Dr. Chappell has served as a consultant for five medical schools, and is involved as Chief Investigator or co-investigator for several research projects.


who worked 12 to 18 hour days as a norm. Our fore parents thought nothing of working from sun-up to long past sundown at what ever life sustaining task was nec-essary to wrest the natural make-up of creation from its long established order and change it to one that more effectively brought about the world we desire. Farming, ranching, construction, manufacturing, even running a home required the output of large amounts of energy over long amounts of time.

Where did this energy come from? More directly, how did people obtain the 4-8 thousand calories that a normal person expended in a normal labor day 50-75 years ago? Why obviously, from their diet. During the period before the civil war, there were major changes to the American diet that were not only changes from the primarily European fare that had marked the previous period but served as the first signs of a truly American cuisine.

The major force for those changes was the work demands placed on Black slaves pitted against the types and quantities of food sources. Slaves were fed a diet that was some what regional but basically consisted of beans, grain, and very little meat. The meat that was given was of poor quality and very, very fatty. Often only waste meat suitable for rending into lard was available and so the puzzle of how to take this energy source in while making it palatable was problematic.

Several answers framed themselves in ingenious new uses for fat. Deep fat frying, various gravies, and sauces resulted. Rarely sugar or honey was added to grease to produce icings, frostings, candied vegetables or other confections. Fat was added to greens and other vegetables to produce a brand of cooking that we now recognize as “Southern Cooking”. The liberal use of butter, cheese, and other ingredients like white flour was added later as a result of well off whites adopting the eating patterns of the slaves, ( ….who cooked for them anyway).

What does this have to do with carrying the weight of the world? One of the worst problems facing modern mankind is the obesity epidemic that is attacking Americans. While many complain about the low energy output of modern people in the good ole U.S.A., most don’t understand that the decreased output is much more easily raised than the increased caloric intake is lowered because we are basically still eating the diet that our Ancestors developed to build this country.

We eat what our parents taught us to eat, we like what our parents taught us to like and they were instructed in those same foods by their parents. The problem is they worked like dogs, we don’t. We are still for the most part eating like slaves, not the same exact foods anymore but the tradition and culturally preserved ceremonies dictate that we eat foods based on what those before us ate, whether we require them or not.

This mismatch between what we do and the calories we consume is most pro-found in our children and is most demonstrated by the inequity between both the per-


Paul McCartney “I am a Vegetarian.” People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), with more than 2.0 million members and supporters, is the largest animal rights organization in the world.

PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in laboratories, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of beavers, birds and other “pests,” and the abuse of backyard dogs. www.peta.org

centage of overweight children and the activities they pursue. For example, twenty years ago 5% of American children were overweight, today 15% are with another 15% on the boarderline. In 1969, 80% of children played sports everyday, today 20% do and with video games sapping t6he attention of adult and child alike these numbers are growing at an alarming rate.

Childhood diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and, believe it or not depression are at all time highs and are all linked to the proven inequality between diet and activity. So much so that Yale public-health expert Dr. David Katz states, “today’s children may be the first generation in history whose life expectancy is projected to be less than that of their parents.” The weight of the world, and its future rest on what we do to assist the children of today in understanding the basis of the problems confronting them and the possibility of solutions that obviously involve changing diet to match energy output and increas-ing activity. Unfortunately those things will require flying in the face of Burger Heaven, Mickey Mac’s and playstation-I,II, and III. Most of all it will require un-derstanding of who we are, what we are, when we are and what we wish to become; then the courage to do what is necessary to build a better future for ourselves and the world.

•Developer of Vector Augmentation*•Originator of Face-Up, Deep Vision, and Ako-Ben Instructional Curricula•Lecturer and Health Consultant for 35 years •Motivational Speaker/Writer of 2 books and several articles, pamphlets, and newsletters on alternative health Medicine•Graduate of University of Kentucky School of Medicine, member of the Vice Presidents council and founder of the M.A.P. (Minority Admissions Program) for recruitment to Med School, (still in use)./Internship and residency at Howard University Hospital Family Practice Program •Finalist in National Medical Associations call for publishing new papers for ”Pro-spective Medicine” •Medical Director at Intercounty Health Inc., Martinsburg, West Virginia, and Sicily Island Medical Center, Sicily Island, [email protected]


Poly-MVA. This is one dietary supplement no cancer patient should be without.Physicians with Vision - Doctors who have seen the data and seen their patients respond! Courtesy of Albert Sanchez, Ph.D.

Thirteen years ago, when the developers of an extraordinarily unique dietary supple-ment asked me to evaluate their new product, I had no idea that the active complex in this product was able to literally gather up free radicals and channel them as a source of energy for living cells. Nor did I know that such an effective channeling of energy would be “welcomed with open arms” by normal cells while the very same particles of channeled energy would overload and damage cancer cells. The cancer cells, which do not have enough oxygen to accept and utilize this energy, begin to literally self-destruct as they are unable to process the excess energy.

The net effect of this good news/good news situation -- good news that normal cells are being naturally energized and good news that the cancer cells are being damaged -- is that thousands of cancer patients who have chosen to take this supplement, Poly-MVA, for nutritional support over the years have experi-enced increased energy and improved quality of life while their cancers have been simultaneously attacked by the same process that has increased the patients’ overall level of energy.

During these past 13 years Poly-MVA has been studied so extensively, and the results of these studies have been so encouraging, that many prominent physicians have been compelled to stand up and take notice. Indeed, the evidence is so compelling that hundreds of the most caring and compassionate physi-cians in the world have taken it upon themselves to recommend Poly-MVA for their cancer patients.

While the list of these Physicians with Vision is far too extensive to include in the space provided for this column, I have included the names of a few of these visionar-ies below. I would also like to encourage you to do your own research by conduct-ing a search on Poly-MVA via Google or any other search engine.

Please contact Healthy Referral office for more details including how to obtain PolyMVA. 866-99-GRAND. [email protected]

James W. Forsythe, M.D., H.M.D., Board Certified OncologistEDITOR’S NOTE: During 2003, Dr. Forsythe had seen so many successful outcomes


Stage 4 cancer patients who had previously failed conventional therapy were permit-ted to enroll. When Poly-MVA was given to these terminally ill cancer patients as an adjunct to the therapy they received during the 2005-2008 clinical studies completed by Dr. Forsythe, the Overall Survival Rate was 71% in the Poly-MVA group, an extraordinary result in view of the fact that less than 10% of those patients would have been expected to survive 2 years if they had continued to receive conventional therapy alone.

Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., F.A.C.C. Dr. Sinatra is a board-certified cardiologist, certified nutrition specialist (American College of Nutrition), author of several books and writer/editor of a monthly newsletter entitled Heart, Health and Nutrition: A Cardiologist’s Guide to Total Wellness.

The former Chief of Cardiology at Manchester Memorial Hospital (Manchester, Connecticut), who recently appeared on Good Morning America to discuss his latest book, The Fast Food Diet: Loose Weight and Feel Great Even If You’re Too Busy to Eat Right, founded the New England Heart and Longevity Center where he continues to care for his patients. A national speaker with an extensive following that includes readers, subscribers and other physicians, Dr. Sinatra was among the first to recog-nize the significant benefits experienced by patients taking Poly-MVA.

Samuel D. Benjamin, M.D., M.D.H. Well known physician and radio show host Dr. Sam Benjamin, who is licensed to practice both allopathic and homeopathic medi-cine, was introduced to Poly-MVA when he was recruited to create and direct the Complementary and Alternative Medicine program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine in 1998. Dr. Benjamin, who subsequently served as Corporate Medical Director of Integrative Health Strategies for Humana, Inc., currently hosts the Primary Care show on KTAR Radio and practices medicine in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Paul Rothwell, M.D.-Dr. Rothwell, following his tenure as Chief of Staff at Deacon-ess Hospital, the largest hospital in Oklahoma, is currently practicing family medi-cine in Bethany, Oklahoma.

He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Southern Nazarene University in 1969 and his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Oklahoma College of Medi-cine in 1974. He has been certified by the American Board of Family Practice and is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians. His special interests include preventative medicine and sports medicine. Recently he has developed a special inter-est in nutritional therapy for cancer patients. He is a clinical associate professor with the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Rothwell is also contributing author to a bi-monthly article entitled “Ask Dr. Paul” in Brio Magazine, which is published by Focus on the Family. In addition, he is a free-lance writer and has been a speaker at several medical seminars.


If you think all carbohydrates are the same, think again. With the anti-carbohydrate diet craze in full swing, Americans may be losing a lot more than just pounds. Scientific evidence shows that--based upon your individual body chemistry--only some carbs make you gain weight. Studies also show that there are good carbs, which are essential to maintaining maximum health. If you are one of the millions of people confused about what to eat and what to avoid, Carbs From Heaven, Carbs From Hell was written just for you.

Inside this book, you will learn the truth about carbohy-drates: what they are, what they do, and which ones are right for you. You will also learn how a simple blood test

can identify the specific carbs that may be making you put on weight. And you will discover which carbs you can eat to lose weight. As a bonus, you will also learn which vitamins can help you lose those cravings for carbs and actually curb your appetite. Carbs From Heaven, Carbs From Hell will show you how to lose weight permanently--and safely--using proven easy-to-follow strategies.

So before you toss out the carbs and pick up the bacon, fill up on the facts. With Carbs From Heaven, Carbs From Hell in hand, you can win the battle of the bulge.

Dr. James D. Krystosik has been a practicing chiropractic physician for over twenty years. In his pursuit of effective noninvasive treatments for his patients, he has extensively studied natural medicine. Dr. Krystosik is the author of two books and numerous health- related articles. In addition, he is the weekly host of the popular radio show The Other Side of Medicine. Dr. Krystosik is the director of The Country Doctor’s Clinic located in Solon, Ohio. www.drgoodcarbs.com

Dr. McDougall’s Common Sense Nutrition The Truth About Protein, Soy, and FishDr. McDougall’s Common Sense Nutrition (from www.drmcdougall.com) Misinformation about the nutritional qualities of common foods leads people to make incorrect choices and the consequences are as serious as obesity, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and premature death. In this series Dr. McDougall challenges com-monly held nutrition beliefs, such as:

Plants Are Incomplete Proteins. Almost every dietitian, doctor, and respected organization teaches animal foods are necessary in order to get sufficient amino acids from proteins. They are wrong, and the science says so. Plant foods provide complete nutrition long before they reach the dinner table. Informed consumers will avoid all that fat, cholesterol,

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and contamination mixed up with animal protein by choosing delicious dishes made from complete protein foods like potatoes, rice, and/or beans.

Soy Makes People Sick. Soy foods are at the center of one of the most intense controversies in nutrition; some people say they are medicines and some say poisons. They can be both, but as traditional foods, like tofu and soy milk, they are delicious additions to a healthy meal plan. How-ever, fake meats, synthetic estrogens, and baby formulas made from soybeans are toxic.

Fish Is Good for the Heart. The belief that fish is the most important food for a healthy heart has led to the destruction of our oceans. Plants provide the safer, cleaner, environmentally sensitive, and original source of omega-3 fats. The real tragedy is this slaughter of sea life has been senseless

because consuming fish does the body much more harm than good.

Chapter 1: When Friends Ask: Where Do You Get Your Protein?Chapter 2: Soy Is Food, Not A Poison or A Miracle DrugChapter 3: Fish Is Not Health Food

Dr. McDougall is the author of several national bestsellers including: The McDougall Plan: 12 Days to Dynamic Health, McDougall’s Medicine: A Challenging Second Opinion, The McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss, The New McDougall Cookbook, The McDougall Program for Women, and his latest ground breaking book, The McDougall Program for a Healthy Heart.

A graduate of Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine, he per-formed his internship at Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, and his medi-cal residency at the University of Hawaii. He is certified as an internist by the Board of Internal Medicine and the National Board of Medical Examiners.

To make it easier for people to eat well on the go, Dr. McDougall co-founded Dr. McDougall’s Right Food’s Inc., a producer of high quality vegetarian cuisine. The convenience meals are consistent with his health-supporting guidelines of 10% or less calories from fat, strictly vegetarian so there’s no cholesterol, and no added oils. Dr. McDougall is the Chairman of the Company. www.drmcdougall.com


Resources for Your Well-BeingNeurofeedback, or brainwave biofeedback training is a computerized EEG system or tool which gives practitioners and their clients or patients the ability to teach the brain to deeply relax at the neuronal/cellular level choosing specific brain sites to encourage the brain to naturally “self regulate

itself” or normalize function through homeostasis. Numerous symptoms are alleviated, or lessen with neu-rofeedback training as indicated by hundreds of studies. Clients oftentimes experience increased attention, con-centration, memory, brain stillness and calmness, less nervousness, better sleep, and an overall feeling of well being. Neurofeedback is also defined as brain fitness

and is used by the medical industry internationally.

BrainMaster’s mission is to bring Neurofeedback, or brainwave training to licensed health practitioners. Our educational partner company www.stresstherapysolutions.com offers workshops and certification direction for licensed health practitioners. BrainMaster is an American manufacturing and Neurofeedback (brainwave) software developing company residing in the outskirts of Cleveland, Ohio and has been in the neuroscience (Neurofeedback) field for over 10 years. www.brainmaster.com BrainMaster Technologies Inc. 195 Wil-lis Street,Bedford, OH 44146 440-232-6000 phone/440-232-7171 fax [email protected]

Sacred Commerce. This book highlights the link between commercial enterprise and the highest good for all, and invites you to harness that power in your own life and work. Sacred Commerce reverses the common assumption that business and spirituality are mutually opposed, and instead looks at business as a path of destiny. Your professional and business activities need not be divorced from your “regular” or “fam-ily” life. The notion of capitalism infused with the sacred expands the notion of profit with the concept and the reality of the fourth bottom line.

The authors give credence to this notion by showing us how the Merchant Priesthood shaped and influenced the forward movement of society with business and commercial innovations throughout time. Commerce, that intrinsic and basic function of exchang-ing goods and services, can—within this context—raise human culture to a level of sacredness that otherwise might not be attained while placing those who practice it on a trajectory of accelerated growth. Authors: Ayman Sawaf is an international visionary entrepreneur, published musician and a best-selling author. He is one of the original creators of the disciplines now known as Emotional Literacy (EL). Rowan Gabrielle is a visionary entre-preneur and philanthropist with 15 years experience in the cultural creative market including Urth.tv and the Wholelife Expo. She is the founder of

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by Patch Adams-I entered medical school in 1967 to use medicine as a vehicle for social change. I used my free time to study the history of health care delivery around the world and to look at contemporary

models with the idea of creating a medical model that would address all the problems of the way care is delivered. I didn’t intend to create a model that would be the answer to the problems; but to model creative

problem solving, and to spark each medical facility to design their own ideal rather than succumb to the garbage of managed care, or a resignation to the impossibility of humanistic care. Beginning in the climate of the political “war on poverty,” I felt confident that a free hospital to serve the poorest state, West Virginia, would find easy funding and that we would be built in four years. I smile writing this as we enter our 33rd year without having broken ground on the hospital. www.patchadams.org


Health and Wealth Resources•Solupay Processing Systems is a leading provider of integrated credit, debit, gift and electronic check conversion processing solutions. The management team of Solupay has over 33 years combined credit card processing experience working with some of the nation’s largest retail, restaurant, hotel, and supermarket chains. We have also worked closely with industry leaders in direct marketing and travel . Ask for Pat McCann in dept HR. 612-741-8738. [email protected] •15 Powerful Audio Lectures from 15 years of the International Natural Foods and Health Expo. www.naturallivingchannel.com •A non toxic supplement developed to support cancer and stroke. www.healthyreferral.com and click on cancer help Polymva.•$99 Real Practical Health Care. Provided via Healthy Referral Newspaper gives each employee, regular practical health information such as contained in this book, audio lectures with the best 15 hours of powerful health information, raw foods, ability to order wholesale for the family, the Healthy Referral Newspaper. 866-99-GRAND for details. [email protected] and [email protected]•LEGAL HEALTH-also helps benefit the tennis centre.Pre-Paid Legal Services®, Inc. was one of the first companies in the United States organized solely to design, underwrite and market legal expense plans. For a low monthly fee of $26 or less, the Company’s legal expense plans (referred to as memberships) offer a variety of legal services in a manner similar to medical reimbursement plans or HMOs. The Company currently provides legal services to over 1.5 million families across the U.S. and Canada. Plan benefits are delivered through a network of independent provider law firms. Members have direct, toll-free access to their provider law firm rather than having to comb through a yellow-page style directory for a referral. Provider firms are carefully selected and the quality of service is closely monitored to maintain the high standards of Pre-Paid Legal. 440-813-5688. Ask for Cheryl. [email protected] for details on membership. Ask about becoming an associate.•Whole Foods to Your Door: www.myforevergreen.org/healthyreferral click on ecata-log. GMO and pesticide free. Ready to eat soups, raw food energy bars, 24 karat dark organicchocolate, a powerful liquid nutritional drink called Frequensea with Marine Plankton. Orderwholesale. Call 801-655-1000 give the operator ID 75720 ask for wholesale and ship to you.866-99--GRAND for questions and to become start a home business.•“Dance of Spirit” Join me for an Expression of Spirit through “Dance”........Our Arms &

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•Play Hard Play Smart (PHPS) is a not-for-profit 501c3, community-based, youth-development organization, based in Sacramento Ca. and led by professional men and women to expose our youth to the essential educational and athletic disciplines necessary to become productive student athletes and mem-bers of our community. We promote the self-empowerment of our youth. Another goal of our program is to increase college and university awareness of Northern California’s student athlete talent pool. Our Sport’s Program, hosts and participates in a variety of Top Basketball Tournaments--local and throughout the United States. The president of PHPS is constant contact with coaches and scouts from Colleges and Universities all over the Country. student athletes P.H.P.S work together to support our student athletes in attaining their goals and dreams. www.playhardplaysmart.com [email protected]•The Akron Circle Burners-The club was organized with the goal of getting young people involved in something hands-on where they can learn about aviation, science, physics, math, mechanics. Years ago Model Aviation was very important aspect of growing up! Neil Armstrong, the legendary astronaut,flew controline model aviation,as did Burt Rutan ( Most famous for his design of the voyager and space ship one. Controline model aviation is a sport for everyone-Men,Women, Girls and Boys-everybody! Contro-line is a wonderful sport. It is how young people learn. It improves manual dexterity. It teaches science and math. it is an inexpensive way to have fun and learn. by flying the plane with a control handle in their hand,they feel the connection!and that is the secret. It is the allure of the horizon,the flight,and the pride of seeing something they create take to the air that draws them back again. Model Aviation was tremendous force for shaping and directing the lives of many youths. There is no question it can be again. Roger Strickler, 390 W Caston Rd. Akron,Ohio44319, 330-645-1435.


Thank you for taking the time to read about a major project to help inspire kids. This idea started in the early 80’s when I volunteered to teach at the Israel Tennis Centers in Tel Aviv. What I saw was the most amazing idea where thousands of kids interacted, Jewish, Arab, Ethiopian, Russian with the common bond of having fun playing

tennis and learning. Since that time, a vision of duplicating what I experienced here in Cleveland was started. After a long journey including:

•teacher training for Cleveland Public Schools at Cleveland State•camp at Case Western Reserve U. for inner city kids•day camp at Luke Easter Park with a special guest the Athletic Director Morehouse College •Camp on behalf of Olivet Institutional Baptist Church at Cleveland State. Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr., pastor who worked with Martin Luther King Jr. on civil rights issues •School demonstration at Whitney Young Jr. High on Harvard in front of approx. 200 kids •Here’s a preliminary 3D rendering of a proposed center in NE Ohio. developed by Woodrow Marcus, president of 3D Visual ConConcepts. [email protected] www.viscepts.comCONTACT: [email protected] for sponsorship and details on how to be

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