The following gives you information on the acid/alkaline discussion and the importance of an alkaline pH. Please keep in mind the importance of diet, exercise and breath to create more alkalinity. Ask us for a list of alkalizing foods.

Our bodies were designed to be healthy, slender and energetic! We are meant to have smooth, supple skin and a quick, alert mind. Instead we are overweight, tired and sluggish. Why?

  Dr. Robert O. Young’s New Biology, most simply stated, is that the over-acidification of the body is the single underlying cause of all disease. In contrast, the old biology, based on the work of Louis Pasteur in the late 1800’s stems from the idea that disease comes from germs which invade the body from the outside. Dr. Young has found that when the body is in healthy alkaline balance, germs are unable to get a foothold.

Think of your body as a fish tank. Think of the importance of maintaining the integrity of the internal fluids of the body that we “swim” in daily. Imagine the fish in this tank are your cells and organ systems bathed in fluids, which transport food and remove wastes. Now imagine we back up a car and put the tailpipe up against the air intake filter that supplies the oxygen for the water in the tank. The water becomes filled with carbon monoxide, lowering the alkaline pH, creating an acidic pH environment, and threatening the health of the “fish”, your cells and organs.

What if we throw in too much food or the wrong kind of food (acid-producing food like dairy, sugar and animal protein) and the fish are unable to consume or digest it all, and it starts to decompose and putrefy? Toxic acid waste and chemicals build up as the food breaks down, creating more acidic byproducts, altering the optimum alkaline pH. Basically, this is a small example of what we may be doing to our internal fluids everyday. We are fouling them with pollution, smoking, drugs, excessive intake of food, over-consumption of acid-forming foods, and any number of transgressions which compromise the delicate balance of our internal alkaline fluids. Some of us have fish tanks (bodies) that are barely able to support life, yet we somehow manage to struggle from day to day, building more severe imbalances until there is the inevitable crash and debilitating chronic, disturbing and disorganizing symptoms to deal with.

The pH level (the acid-alkaline measurement) of our internal fluids affects every cell in our bodies. Extended imbalances of any kind are not well tolerated by the body. Indeed, the entire metabolic process depends on a balanced internal alkaline environment. A chronically over-acidic pH corrodes body tissue, slowly eating into the 60,000 miles of veins and arteries like acid eating into marble. If left unchecked, it will interrupt all cellular activities and functions, from the beating of your heart to the neural firing of your brain. In summary, over-acidification interferes with life itself leading to all sickness and disease!

How do you know if you’re overly acidic?

Fat is an Acid Problem!

Perhaps on of Dr. Young’s most well known discoveries is his theory of the cause of overweight. He has shown that fat is actually an over-acidification problem. What does that mean? The body creates fat cells to carry acids away from your vital organs, so these acids literally don’t choke your organs to death. Fat is saving your life! Fat is actually a response from the body to an alarming over-acidic condition. The solution? Alkalize.

What about Underweight?

At the other end of the health spectrum, the yeast and fungus produced within an overly acidic body can feed on your nutrients and reduce the chemical and mechanical absorption of everything you eat by as much as 50%. This causes many people to become excessively thin, which is no healthier than becoming overweight. Without protein, your body cannot rebuild new tissues or produce enzymes, hormones or hundreds of other chemical components necessary for cell energy and organ activity. Fatigue, illness and body weight changes are the results. An underweight person may loose a little more weight as their body chemistry stabilizes. As their body normalizes, they will begin to gain towards their ideal weight.

Healthy bodies are not overweight or underweight. A healthy body naturally maintains its own ideal weight. As alkalizing and oxygenation begins to take place, the body naturally begins to seek its own ideal weight.

  Allergies

The toxins produced within an overly acidic, oxygen deprived body may contribute significantly to what are often called the symptoms of allergy. In addition, the absorption of undigested proteins is a major cause of allergy conditions. The digestive system is weakened, which prevents the total breakdown of amino acids-often causing food allergies. This alone may produce a wide spectrum of severe allergic reactions.

  Fatigue

Fatigue is probably the major symptom or complaint of an overly-acidic body. The toxins produced in an acidic body environment reduce the absorption of protein and minerals, which in turn weakens the body’s ability to produce enzymes and hormones. This also interferes with the reconstruction of cells and other necessary components of energy production. The result is fatigue, poor endurance, an inability to add muscle tone, and general weakness.

  Alkaline Water

One important thing you must learn is to hydrate the body with alkalizing water. Like the earth on which we live, our bodies are 70% water. Food cravings are often the body’s cry for water. A thirst for water will begin as on begins to hydrate with water. A diet high in acid foods such as meat, dairy, grains, high sugar fruits and bread, causes acid wastes to build up in the body. When acid wastes enter our blood stream, the blood system will attempt to dispose of these wastes in liquid form through the lungs or kidneys. If there are too many wastes to handle, they are deposited in various organ systems like the heart, pancreas, liver, colon an other locations. The breakdown of this disposal process of acid waste could also be called “the aging process”. To slow down and reverse this process, one must begin by removing the over-acidification of the blood and tissues by including liberal amounts of alkaline water in the diet. Alkaline water has a pH between 9 and 11, and will neutralize harmful stored acid wastes and gently remove them from the tissues.

The preceding information was taken from Dr. Young’s website.

  What You Will Need

  ½ cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil (Cold Pressed)

1 Large Grapefruit (or 3 lemons)

4 Tablespoon Epsom Salts (Magnesium Sulphate)

3 cups water

2 Pint Jars w/lid

  Choose a day like Saturday for the cleanse, or one where you can rest the next day. You will need to be near a bathroom for the flush.

  Take no medicines, vitamins or pills that you can do without; they could prevent success. Stop any parasite program or kidney herbs the day before.

  Eat a simple, preferably alkalizing (salad, steamed veggies, fruit, baked potato) no-fat breakfast and lunch (no milk or butter). This allows bile to build up and develop pressure in the liver. Higher pressure pushes out more stones.

  Do not eat or drink (a little water is ok) after 2 o’clock . If you break this rule you could feel quite ill later or prevent success.

  Sometime before 6:00 , prepare your Epsom salts. Mix the 4 Tbls. and 3 cups water in a jar and shake vigorously to dissolve salts. This makes 4 servings ¾ cup each. Set aside, you can refrigerate if desired.

  6:00 PM

  Drink one ¾ cup serving of the Epsom salts. This will cause a laxative effect and open the bile ducts. You may also add 1/8 tsp. powdered vitamin C to improve the taste. You may also drink a few mouthfuls of water afterwards or rinse your mouth. Get out the olive oil and grapefruit to warm up.

  8:00 PM

  Have another ¾ cup serving of Epsom salts. You haven’t eaten since two o’clock , but you shouldn’t feel hungry. Get your bedtime chores done & be ready for bed. The timing is critical for success; don’t be more than 10 minutes early or late.

  9:45 PM

  Pour ½ cup olive oil into jar (measured). Squeeze grapefruit by hand into measuring cup. Remove pulp with a fork. You should have at least ½ cup juice, up to ¾ cup is best. You may top it with lemon juice.

Add this to olive oil. Close lid tightly and shake until watery (only fresh grapefruit does this).

  Now visit the bathroom one or more times, even if it makes you late for your ten o’clock drink. Don’t be more than 15 minutes late.

  10:00 PM

  Drink the potion you have mixed. You can take 4 ornithine capsules with the first sips to make sure you will sleep through the night. Take 8 if you suffer from insomnia. Most people won’t need this. Drinking through a large plastic straw helps it go down easier. Some like the taste of this mixture! Take it to your bedside of you want, but drink it standing up. Get it down within 5 minutes (15 minutes for weak or elderly persons).

  Lie down immediately. You might fail to get stones out if you don’t. The sooner you lie down, the more stones you will get out. Be ready for bed ahead of time. Don’t clean up the kitchen. As soon as the drink is down, walk to your bed and lie down flat on your back with your head up high on the pillow. You can also lie on your right side. Try to think about what is happening in the liver and keep still for at least 20 minutes. You may feel a train of stones traveling along the bile ducts like marbles. There is no pain or discomfort because the bile duct valves are open (thanks to the Epsom salts!). Go to sleep. You may fail to get stones out if you don’t.

  Next Morning.

  Upon awakening take your third dose of Epsom salts. If you have indigestion or nausea, wait until it is gone before drinking the Epsom salts. You may go back to bed. Don’t take this drink before 6:00 AM .

  2 Hours Later

  Take your fourth & last drink of  ¾ cup Epsom salt mixture. You may go back to bed.

  After 2 more hours you may eat. Start with fresh fruit juice. Half an hour later eat fruit. One hour later you may eat regular food, but keep it light. By supper you should feel recovered.

  How Well Did You Do?

  Expect diarrhea in the morning. Use a flashlight to look for gallstones in the toilet with the bowel movement. Look for the green kind since this is proof that they are genuine gallstones, not food residue. Only bile from the liver is pea green. The bowel movement sinks but gallstones float because of the cholesterol inside. Count them all roughly, whether tan or green. You will need to total 2,000 stones before the liver is clean enough to rid you of allergies or bursitis or upper back pains permanently. The first cleanse may rid you of them for a few days, but as the stones from the rear travel forward, they give you the same symptoms again. You may repeat cleanses at two week intervals. Never cleanse when you are ill.

HPS editors note:  When I did my first Dr. Clarks liver cleanse I immediately dropped over 200 pea size green and tan stones, and when I examined them I was shocked. They crushed in my fingers and what I found was pure fat, pure cholesterol, hundreds of them. Also in my second liver cleanse I had the same experience.

Sometimes, the bile ducts are full of cholesterol crystals that did not form into round stones. They appear as “chaff” floating on the top of the toilet water. It may be tan colored, harboring millions of tiny white crystals. Cleansing this chaff is just as important as purging the stones.

How safe is the liver cleanse? It is very safe. My opinion is based on over 500 cases, including many persons in their seventies and eighties. None went to the hospital; none even reported pain. However, it can make you feel quite ill for one or two days afterwards, although in every one of these cases the maintenance parasite program had been neglected. This is why the instructions direct you to complete the parasite and kidney rinse program first.

You can’t clean a liver with living parasites in it. You won’t get many stones, and you will feel quite sick. Zap daily the week before and complete the parasite killing program before attempting a liver cleanse. If you are on the maintenance parasite program, you are always ready to do the cleanse. Completing a kidney cleanse before cleansing the liver is also highly recommended. You want your kidneys, bladder and urinary tract in top condition so they can efficiently remove any undesirable substances absorbed from the intestine as the bile is being excreted.

  Go to www.drclarkstore.com to purchase parasite cleansing herbs and kidney cleanse.

The Mechanism of the Liver/Gallbladder Flush

1.     Olive oil stimulates bile productions in the liver.

2.     Bile has to flow down to the gallbladder.

3.     Lemon or grapefruit juice contracts the gallbladder

4.     Bile in the gallbladder serves as a lubricant and provides pressure to push out stones when the gallbladder contracts

5.     Epsom salts relax the bile duct (if you choose to use them).

In essence, you squeeze the stones out. However, a congested liver usually results in sluggish bile flow, which can cause sleep problems or nausea and will reduce the effectiveness of the gallbladder flush. If the problem is severe enough, the gallbladder flush may not even work at all because not enough bile will flow into the gallbladder to provide pressure to push out the stones. A decongested liver is essential for a good gallbladder flush.

You can't clean a liver with living parasites in it. You won't get out many stones, and will feel quite sick. If you have a Zapper (see Dr. Hulda Clarkes’ website), zap daily the week before, or get through the first three weeks of a parasite killing program before attempting a liver cleanse. If you are on a parasite maintenance program, do a high dose program the week before.

Completing the kidney cleanse before cleansing the liver is also recommended. You want your kidneys, bladder and urinary tract in top working condition so they can efficiently remove any undesirable substances incidentally absorbed from the intestine as the bile is being excreted.

The Cause of Gallstones  (from Richard Anderson, ND)

Gallstones are formed when there is a deficiency of organic sodium in the body. Sodium deficiency is usually caused by a high protein diet, eating too many acid-forming foods, great emotional stress, or a combination of these conditions. Eating high acid foods, such as proteins in meat, dairy and grains, causes large amounts of acids to enter our bodies. Medically speaking, sodium is used up by the body through the sodium bicarbonate buffer system in the process of neutralizing these acids.

It is imperative to understand the difference between organic and inorganice sodium. Organic sodium comes from the plant kingdom and is a free sodium, unattached to chloride. Inorganic sodium (table salt) comes from rock and is extremely harmful to metabolic function. Sodium chloride (table salt), whether it be rock salt or sea salt, cannot be used by the body! It is extremely harmful and actually requires the use of organic sodium to protect the body from its effects. The reason that people sometimes feel better when taking these table salts is because of the stimulation these poisons cause in the system. The same effect may be seen when eating sugar, coffee and meat. People seem to feel better as they deteriorate faster.

My studies indicate that due to high protein consumption in America, it is likely that most Americans have gallstones. After you do a Gallbladder flush, you will know for sure if you have been eating too much protein, or too much acid-forming food.

 Feb-March, 2002  by Barbara Brewitt

A new paradigm for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is that healthy aging represents balanced signaling within the neuroimmuno-endocrine system. That means for every hormone signal there is a balanced response by another hormone signal. An overly simplistic view states that HRT corrects a measurable deficiency and prevents well known, age-related disturbances such as heart disease, hypertension, liver disease, bone fragility, obesity, diabetes, cancer and excess body fluid retention. Naturopaths all too frequently use the same thinking model except they replace prescription only hormones with 'natural phytoestrogens.' It is time to re-think our logic and return to "Less is more" and "Do no harm." There is an increasing literature that supports the notion that it is the imbalances in hormone signaling that heighten the risk of cancer and toxicity. (1-3)

Conventional medical thought recommends that a person replace by injection an equivalent level or higher, of a specific hormone as when they were 20 or thirty years old to prevent the development of longer-term deficiencies. The first clue as to the overly simplistic perspective of HRT is that higher than physiological levels of exogenous hormone are often necessary. Higher levels are needed to provide biologically active hormone in sufficient bio-available quantities to induce a physiological response after passing through the liver which in turn metabolizes most of it. Exogenous hormones frequently fall to reach their target organ in a bio-available form. Small hormone metabolites fail to elicit desired effects. Furthermore, tissue responsiveness declines with age, making higher hormone levels necessary to overcome tissue resistance.

Typically, HRT involves multiple hormones such as growth hormone, thyroid hormones, cortisol, testosterone, estrogen, and progestin. One of the inducements in HRT is that it only involves one hormone, however within a short time other HRT regimes can become necessary. Hormones have counter-regulatory signals to maintain homeostasis, thus unopposed hormonal signaling leads to further complex problems. For example, unopposed estrogen therapy strongly correlates to endometrial cancer risk. (4) Cycling progestin with estrogen reduces this risk when it is used for at least 14 days per cycle. Interesting, a combined HRT approach of estrogen-progestin without cycling is associated with higher risk of breast cancer as compared to unopposed estrogen therapy. Practitioners may easily begin HRT in their patients, however it becomes increasingly difficult to manage and involves increased health risks and side effects with aging. The more hormones involved the more difficult to manage patient care. One fundamental Princi ple of Pharmacology is that a drug (hormone) affects the body and the body responds with beneficial and/or adverse events. The more hormones administered exogenously, the more reactivity in the body that needs to be managed.

Conventional Toxicity, Patient Compliance and Cancer Risks

The complexity of hormone therapy cannot be denied. Unbalanced hormone networks heighten cancer risk (5) and yet the side effects and risks from HRT are numerous. Side effects and cancer risks arise from aberrant hormone levels such that an imbalance becomes distorted in either direction. Side effects from HRT include breast, ovarian and endomentrial cancers, gallbladder disease, thrombo-embolism, edema, nausea, fevers, tenderness, headaches, bloating, unwanted cyclical bleeding and inflammation. (6,7) The liver extensively metabolizes blood-circulating hormones making them far less bio-available. Adverse side effects are predicted from inflammatory processes. Hormones that are not trapped by the liver during their first pass cause inflammatory immune responses when partially enzyme-digested hormonal subspecies circulate a second time in the bloodstream. Due to increased liver toxicity with aging side effects from HRT predictably increase with age. The more hormone, the greater the risk of liver burden and i nflammatory eliciting responses.

Compliance with HRT is also a hug

…emotional disease is a significant factor in the creation of disease. Our inability to cope with stress, often due to feelings of uncertainty or lack of control, is also very damaging to the physical body and can lead to a nervous breakdown.

Even though it may appear that our emotional reactions are automatic, the nerve pathways that carry the information to the brain take approximately three seconds to relay this information before the emotional responses, and our mind’s experience of them are triggered. In these three seconds the rest of the brain has already received the information via faster nerve pathways, so even though we are unaware of this process, we are built to think before we feel. We are not victims of our emotions.

When we spontaneously have an emotional reaction, because our buttons are being pushed, we need to learn to deal with these emotions effectively so as not to create energy blockages and eventually disease….events are emotionless. We assign an emotion to them according to our perception. Strong emotions that are unresolved are stored in the body and create blockages as they impede the flow of energy through the body’s energy systems.

If we wish to increase both the quality of life, if we desire to experience more joy, happiness, and harmony in our life, we must firstly decide to accept nothing less. By deciding to focus on, and accept positive feelings in our lives, we learn to bring our attitude in line with positive thinking and always look to see the silver lining in every cloud. Both positivity and negativity exist; we choose to focus on the positive aspects of life and, as a result of the laws of energy, what we focus on grows.

By understanding that all experiences are here to teach and inspire us. By understanding how we assign an emotional response to an event via our perception of it, we gain more control over the quality of our experiences. Even if a situation initially appears negative, we can choose to see it and accept it as positive. We can, and will, learn from it so it can be embraced for its teaching power.

Storing negative emotions in the physical body serves no purpose. If we were to dam a free-flowing river by building a wall, the plant life beyond the dam wall would atrophy and die due to lack of water. So it is with our bodies. Emotions must flow freely for the body to be healthy. They must be accepted and not denied. They need to be dealt wit in a positive manner via honoring, acceptance and release without overindulgence. The computer hardware of the body stores negative emotions in databases called our organs; the liver stores anger, the lungs store sadness, etc. simply because we have not learnt how to effectively deal with these emotions.

In his book Ageless Body, Timeless Mind. Dr. Chopra states that emotional pain in the present is experienced as hurt, in the past it is remembered as anger, in the future, it is perceived as anxiety. Unexpressed anger redirected against yourself and held within is called guilt and the depletion of energy that occurs when anger is directed inward is called depression. If as he says in Quantum Healing, cells are just memories clothed in matter, then it is extremely important that we begin to look at and access cellular memory with a view to releasing energy blockages as we cleanse our cells of negativity and toxicity.

We can learn to deal with our emotions on a two-fold level. Firstly we can release negative emotions from past experiences stored in the cells and organs of the body. Secondly we can learn to deal more effectively with negative emotions as they confront us in an effective manner. By regular meditation we can take this one step further. We can learn detachment. We can act and not react. We can constantly experience life from that deep place within and see things in perspective.

1. Releasing negative emotions held in cellular memory.

a)This can be achieved by using creative visualization techniques…

b)A large selection of healing modalities are also available to aid the physical body to effect this release quickly and effectively: for example, kinesiology, homeopathy and body harmony. Aid the realigning and cleansing of the cellular structure and energy fields

of the body can be achieved through a number of alternative therapies which can achieve in hours what may otherwise take years of meditation.

c)We can also ask that our emotional body be cleansed and released of all negative beliefs and patterns of limitation while we sleep at night. Simply tune into your Higher Self and ask for this to be done. Do not doubt. You can ask for awareness of this being done via your dreams or you can specifically request that it be done without conscious memory.

I feel that all emotional release work can be a gentle and free-flowing experience and not traumatic unless one requires it to be. I do not support the saying, no pain, no gain, and feel that all can be achieved gently and lovingly if that is our intention and desire.

2. Learn to deal with negative emotions and hurt effectively

a)Dissipate negative emotions through breathing to regain a calm mind, body and emotions. Establish a deep, fine, rhythmical pattern and continue until you feel settled

b)Express your feelings in a non-attacking, non-threatening manner to the person who triggered the hurt and then deal with the issues that allow your buttons to be pushed. Remember, the external situation is only a mirror. If you held no issue within, you would not react. A good indicator for the success of the release work conducted is when you cease to react strongly to a situation that in the past was guaranteed to make you react.

c)Take responsibility for how you think and feel. Feelings always follow thought and perception. If you don’t like how you are feeling, change what you are thinking.

d)Approve of yourself and don’t seek approval from others. Set your standards of what is acceptable to you. We all have different standards of what we wish to experience and accept in life.

e)Top up your own energy by accessing your inner reservoir in meditation. By merging with the divine essence within we learn to love, honor and accept others and become our own well of happiness. Don’t depend on others to make you feel good.

f)Remember the most important person is you. If you are happy, you can positively deal with others and share more effectively.

g)Be in touch with your physical and emotional responses-do not deny how you feel. Burying something under the carpet or holding emotional dis-ease within, e.g. swallowing our tongue for the sake of peace or to not create waves will lead to disease, peptic ulcers, cancer, heart problems, etc.

h)Resolve why you feel hurt and let it go.

i)Learn to live in each moment.

j)Be willing to change-the only constant thing in the universe is change.

k)Don’t poison your body with harmful food, thoughts or emotions.

l)Release judgment. Choose to have only positive thoughts and assessments about others and also about yourself.

m)Replace fear motivation with love motivation.

One of the most powerful tools in healing the emotional body, and consequently the physical body, is forgiveness-forgiving both ourselves and others.

For years I practiced meditation, exercised regularly and followed a relatively pure diet. All this kept the cancer tumor in my liver relatively small. However, it was a direct result of unresolved anger. Although I had done much “personal growth”, rebirthing and used other tools to heal myself, I had not been able, or perhaps willing, to forgive until the diagnosis and “life threatening” situation forced me to. Orthodox medicine can save lives if cancers are detected early enough and removed. We must, however also look at why the cancer was created in the first place and remove the cause, not just the symptom.

3. Meditation as a preventive tool.

…The major benefit of meditation is in dealing with the emotions and the detachment we can achieve so that we no longer feel we are “at the mercy of others.” It allows us to be responsible for our own happiness in a dependable, guaranteed manner and also to readily identify problem ownership.

Mastering the emotional and the mental body does require discipline…we now can be aware and learn to discipline our thinking. An Indian guru once said that you cannot expect a wild horse that has roamed the plains since birth (like our undisciplined minds) to come into a corral simply because we whistle.

4. Set the Standards

I call the following technique and exercise “positive memory association”. It is designed to achieve two things. Firstly, to set a minimum standard of what is acceptable to you regarding your emotional experience. Secondly, to be used as a tool to tune your day when you get “out of the wrong side of the bed”. The technique is simple but powerful in its effectiveness.

Positive Memory Association

a)      Sit in contemplation-breathe deeply, finely and connected until you feel a sense of inner peace. This will allow you to access memory more quickly.

b)      Go back in time, search through your memory database. Find a time when you experienced your life to be just great, happy and fulfilling.

c)      Recapture the details, the time, the place, who you were with, what made it so special. In particular, pay attention to how you felt.

d)      When you have accessed the feeling of this event, decide to accept no less. The exact form the memory takes is not relevant. What is important is how you can use this memory to trigger feelings of joy and harmony.

The majority of people I have done this exercise with report that the most common feelings remembered were ones of joy, contentedness and being carefree…

The fact is that we have had these experiences in the past and, while we may not be able to recreate the same circumstances, we can set the standard for ourselves of what we wish to accept on an emotional level.

Simply by beginning each day by accessing a positive memory from your personal data base of memories, we can set the tone for each day. We can decide to accept no less and then evoke the feeling by reliving the memory. This will allow the day to begin on a positive note.

If the universe responds to our expectations and if we always expect the best for ourselves while vigilantly counteracting negative thoughts by being persistently positive, we will find our life changing quite magically-guaranteed!

"Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About

If you would like to get further insight into how the culture is blindsided in the realm of the food industry, I would highly recommend Kevin Trudeau’s book Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About. This information will open your eyes and may come as a shock to those unaware of how organizations supposedly here to help us are actually hindering our well-being. In it he also talks about the reasons you are sick, the cause of diseases, secrets to losing weight and natural ways to cure yourself of virtually every disease.  Everyone should read this book. Visit his website @ www.naturalcures.com

By Stephanie Relfe B.Sc. (Syd.)

Microwave cooking is one of the most important causes of ill health. It is certainly one of the most ignored.

There was a lawsuit in 1991 in Oklahoma. A woman named Norma Levitt had hip surgery, but was killed by a simple blood transfusion when a nurse "warmed the blood for the transfusion in a microwave oven!" 

Logic suggests that if heating is all there is to microwave cooking, then it doesn't matter how something is heated. Blood for transfusions is routinely warmed, but not in microwave ovens. Does it not therefore follow that microwaving cooking does something quite different?

A little evidence of the harm caused by microwaving cooking was given by the University of Minnesota in a radio announcement:

"Microwaves ... are not recommended for heating a baby's bottle. The bottle may seem cool to the touch, but the liquid inside may become extremely hot and could burn the baby's mouth and throat... Heating the bottle in a microwave can cause slight changes in the milk. In infant formulas, there may be a loss of some vitamins. In expressed breast milk, some protective properties may be destroyed.... Warming a bottle by holding it under tap water or by setting it in a bowl of warm water, then testing it on your wrist before feeding, may take a few minutes longer, but it is much safer".

There have been very few scientific studies done on the effect of eating food microwaved food. This is rather surprising when you think about the fact that microwaves have been with us for only a few decades - and that in that time the incidence of many diseases has continued to increase.

Two researchers, Blanc and Hertel, confirmed that microwave cooking significantly changes food nutrients. Hertel previously worked as a food scientist for several years with one of the major Swiss food companies. He was fired from his job for questioning procedures in processing food because they denatured it. He got together with Blanc of the Swiss Federal Institute of Biochemistry and the University Institute for Biochemistry.

They studied the effect that microwaved food had on eight individuals, by taking blood samples immediately after eating. They found that after eating microwaved food, haemoglobin levels decreased. "These results show anaemic tendencies. The situation became even more pronounced during the second month of the study".

Who knows what results they would have found if they had studied people who ate microwaved food for a year or more?

The violent change that microwaving causes to the food molecules forms new life forms called radiolytic compounds. These are mutations that are unknown in the natural world. Ordinary cooking also causes the formation of some radiolytic compounds (which is no doubt one reason why it is better to eat plenty of raw food), but microwaving cooking causes a much greater number. This then causes deterioration in your blood and immune system.

In addition, they found that the number of leucocytes increases after eating microwaved food - something which haematologists take very seriously, because this is often a sign of highly harmful effects, such as poisoning.

Also, after eating microwaved food, cholesterol levels increased. Hertel said "Common scientific belief states that cholesterol values usually alter slowly over longer periods of time. In this study, the markers increased rapidly after the consumption of the microwaved vegetables." He believes his study tends to confirm new scientific data that suggest cholesterol may rapidly increase in the blood secondary to acute stress. "Also," he added, "blood cholesterol levels are less influenced by cholesterol content of food than by stress factors. Such stress-causing factors can apparently consist of foods which contain virtually no cholesterol - the microwaved vegetables."

The results were published in "Search for Health" in the Spring of 1992. How was this research greeted? A powerful trade organisation, the Swiss Association of Dealers for Electroapparatuses for Households and Industry somehow made the President of the Court of Seftigen issue a `gag order'. Hertel and Blanc were told that if they published their findings they would face hefty fines or up to one year in prison. In response to this, Blanc recanted his findings. Hertel, on the other hand, went on a lecture tour and demanded a jury trial.

FINALLY, in 1998 the Court `Gag Order' was removed.  In a judgment delivered at Strasbourg on 25 August 1998 in the case of Hertel v. Switzerland, the European Court of Human Rights held that there had been a violation of Hertel's rights in the 1993 decision.  The Court decided that the `gag order' prohibiting him form declaring that microwaved food is dangerous to health was contrary to the right to freedom of expression.  In addition, Switzerland was sentenced to pay compensation of F40,000.

In Summary: Blanc and Hertel found that eating microwaved food:

• Increases cholesterol
• Increases white blood cell numbers
• Decreases red blood cell numbers
• Causes production of radiolytic compounds (compounds unknown in nature)

RUSSIANS BAN MICROWAVE OVENS

After the World War II, the Russians also experimented with microwave ovens. From 1957 up to recently, their research has been carried out mainly at the Institute of Radio Technology at Klinsk, Byelorussia. According to US researcher William Kopp, who gathered much of the results of Russian and German research - and was apparently prosecuted for doing so (J. Nat. Sci, 1998; 1:42-3) - the following effects were observed by Russian forensic teams:

1. Heating prepared meats in a microwave sufficiently for human consumption created:
* d-Nitrosodiethanolamine (a well-known cancer-causing agent)
* Destabilization of active protein biomolecular compounds
* Creation of a binding effect to radioactivity in the atmosphere
* Creation of cancer-causing agents within protein-hydrosylate compounds in milk and cereal grains;
2. Microwave emissions also caused alteration in the catabolic (breakdown) behavior of glucoside - and galactoside - elements within frozen fruits when thawed in this way;
3. Microwaves altered catabolic behavior of plant-alkaloids when raw, cooked or frozen vegetables were exposed for even very short periods;
4. Cancer-causing free radicals were formed within certain trace-mineral molecular formations in plant substances, especially in raw root vegetables;
5. Ingestion of micro-waved foods caused a higher percentage of cancerous cells in blood;
6. Due to chemical alterations within food substances, malfunctions occurred in the lymphatic system, causing degeneration of the immune system==s capacity to protect itself against cancerous growth;
7. The unstable catabolism of micro-waved foods altered their elemental food substances, leading to disorders in the digestive system;
8. Those ingesting micro-waved foods showed a statistically higher incidence of stomach and intestinal cancers, plus a general degeneration of peripheral cellular tissues with a gradual breakdown of digestive and excretory system function;
9. Microwave exposure caused significant decreases in the nutritional value of all foods studied, particularly:
* A decrease in the bioavailability of B-complex vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E, essential minerals and lipotrophics
* Destruction of the nutritional value of nucleoproteins in meats
* Lowering of the metabolic activity of alkaloids, glucosides, galactosides and nitrilosides (all basic plant substances in fruits and vegetables)
* Marked acceleration of structural disintegration in all foods.

As a result microwave ovens were banned in Russia in 1976; the ban was lifted after Perestroika.

Standing in front of a microwave is also highly damaging to your health. Perhaps you have already felt this intuitively? We know that cells explode in the microwave - just fry an egg in your microwave. We are made up of trillions of cells. So work out how many are getting damaged if you stand in front of your microwave for 5-10 minutes.

In the past I had been told that it was important for people to stop eating microwaved food, but I did not pay too much attention to this because I had been microwave cooking for years. I never thought much about it but I suppose that I figured that if something was so bad for us, then there wouldn't be so many people using it. Little did I know.

When I first began seeing clients for sessions of kinesiology, I did not worry too much about telling them to give up eating microwaved food. However, I kept a record of all of the corrections that were needed for each client when they came in. Now, once a correction is made, it is to be hoped that the correction will stay in place for a long time to come, hopefully months if not years. People often ask me "How long will it last?" May answer to them is "That depends on your lifestyle".

Most of my clients came back to see me after about two weeks. In the early days I found that many who came back were not much better. I found that they were again `out of balance'. That is, their electrical circuits were not working correctly (which is common for many people). It was therefore not surprising that they were not much better, because the body does not begin to fully fix itself until the electrical circuits are in balance.

The question was, why did their electrical circuits go out of balance? The answer had to be something that was highly stressful, to effect the body in such a short space of time. Once that answer was remedied, the client would begin to get better. Using muscle testing, I went through the process of testing if the cause was electrical, chemical/nutritional, emotional or structural. Again and again the same answer would come up - electrical. When I then went through a range of possible electrical causes, the same answer again came up again and again - the person had eaten microwaved food! Incidentally, this answer never came up when a person had NOT eaten microwaved food.

I began to tell all of my clients on the first visit that under NO circumstances were they ever to do microwaved cooking again. I gave this a higher priority than any of things that are normally considered as health risks, such as cigarettes or alcohol. Immediately I began to get a marked improvement in the results I was getting. Long term problems such as headaches, back aches and emotional instability went away within a few weeks.

Other kinesiologists can confirm these results. David Bridgman, who has years of experience as a kinesiologist, said "Of all the people I test for allergies, 99.9% so far show severe sensitivity to any microwaved food".

I experienced the effect of eating microwaved food for myself one time. I had been doing quite a lot of kinesiology and feeling on top of the world when for no apparent reason I began to feel rather `grey' and rather low. I realised that I needed a balance from a kinesiologist. Sure enough, I was out of balance. When the kinesiologist used muscle testing to see why my body had gone out of balance, the answer came up ... microwaved food! The trouble was, I couldn't remember eating any. Until I remembered a particular vegetarian restaurant I had been to. When I went back to the restaurant and asked them if they microwaved their food, they told me that they did.

So be warned! Many restaurants use microwaved cooking, even `health' restaurants. Ask if the "steamed vegetables" are in fact steamed - or are they microwaved? I have sent meals back when they have not been what they were described on the menu, much to the surprise of the restaurant owners.

MICROWAVED PLASTIC WRAP HAS 10,000,000 TIMES FDA LIMITS OF CARCINOGENS!

From: doug@d-w-m.com

Sent to me by a reader: Hello Folks. Hopefully all of you are already well enough informed so as to avoid the use of a microwave oven due to the many detrimental effects consuming microwaved food has upon our health, but "just in case", here is some interesting info sent to me by Ron Scanlon -- many thanks, Ron! Cheers, Doug

University of California, Davis Medical Center 2315 Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento, California 95817

As a seventh grade student, Claire Nelson learned that di(ethylhexyl)adepate (DEHA), considered a carcinogen, is found in plastic wrap. She also learned that the FDA had never studied the effect of microwave cooking on plastic-wrapped food. Three years later, with encouragement from her high school science teacher, Claire set out to test what the FDA had not.

Although she had an idea for studying the effect of microwave radiation on plastic wrapped food, she did not have the equipment. Eventually, Dr. Jon Wilkes at the National Center for Toxicological Research agreed to help her. The research center, which is affiliated with the FDA, let her use its facilities to perform her experiments, which involved microwaving plastic wrap in virgin olive oil.

Claire tested four different plastic wraps and "found not just the carcinogens but also xenoestrogen was migrating [into the oil]...." Xenoestrogens are linked to low sperm counts in men and to breast cancer in women. Throughout her junior and senior years, Claire made a couple of trips each week to the research center, which was 25 miles from her home, to work on her experiment. An article in Options reported "her analysis found that DEHA was migrating into the oil at between 200 parts and 500 parts per million. The FDA standard is 0.05 parts per billion."

Her summarized results have been published in science journals. Claire Nelson received the American Chemical Society's top science prize for students during her junior year and fourth place at the International Science and Engineering Fair (Fort Worth,Texas) as a senior. "Carcinogens --At 10,000,000 Times FDA Limits" Options, May 2000. Published by People Against Cancer, 515-972-4444

http://www.relfe.com/microwave.html

For several million years, humans existed on a diet of animals and vegetation. It was only with the advent of agriculture a mere 10,000 years ago - a fraction of a second in evolutionary time - that humans began ingesting large amounts of sugar and starch in the form of grains (and potatoes) into their diets. Indeed, 99.99% of our genes were formed before the advent of agriculture; in biological terms, our bodies are still those of hunter-gatherers.

While the human shift to agriculture produced indisputable gains for man - modern civilization is based on this epoch - societies where the transition from a primarily meat/vegetation diet to one high in cereals show a reduced lifespan and stature, increases in infant mortality and infectious disease, and higher nutritional deficiencies.

Contemporary humans have not suddenly evolved mechanisms to incorporate the high carbohydrates from starch- and sugar-rich foods into their diet. In short, we are consuming far too much bread, cereal, pasta, corn (a grain, not a vegetable), rice, potatoes and Little Debbie snack cakes, with very grave consequences to our health. Making matters worse, most of these carbohydrates we consume come in the form of processed food.

That 65% of Americans are overweight, and 27% clinically obese, in a nation addicted to sesame seed buns for that hamburger, with a side of French fries and a Coke, is no coincidence. It is not the fat in the foods we eat but, far more, the excess carbohydrates from our starch- and sugar-loaded diet that is making people fat and unhealthy, and leading to epidemic levels of a host of diseases such as diabetes.

If you are experiencing any of the following symptoms, chances are very good that the excess carbohydrates in your body are, in part or whole, to blame:

We all need a certain amount of carbohydrates, of course, but, through our addiction to grains, potatoes, sweets and other starchy and sugary foods, we are consuming far too many. The body's storage capacity for carbohydrates is quite limited, though, so here's what happens to all the excess: they are converted, via insulin, into fat and stored in the adipose, or fatty, tissue.

Any meal or snack high in carbohydrates generates a rapid rise in blood glucose. To adjust for this rise, the pancreas secretes the hormone insulin into the bloodstream, which lowers the glucose. Insulin is, though, essentially a storage hormone, evolved over those millions of years of humans prior to the agricultural age, to store the excess calories from carbohydrates in the form of fat in case of famine.

Insulin, stimulated by the excess carbohydrates in our overabundant consumption of grains, starches and sweets, is responsible for all those bulging stomachs and fat rolls in thighs and chins.

Even worse, high insulin levels suppress two other important hormones - glucagons and growth hormones - that are responsible for burning fat and sugar and promoting muscle development, respectively. So insulin from excess carbohydrates promotes fat, and then wards off the body's ability to lose that fat.

Excess weight and obesity lead to heart disease and a wide variety of other diseases. But the ill effect of grains and sugars does not end there. They suppress the immune system, contributing to allergies, and they are responsible for a host of digestive disorders. They contribute to depression, and their excess consumption is, in fact, associated with many of the chronic diseases in our nation, such as cancer and diabetes.

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This article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is the best article I have ever seen written in the published literature documenting the tragedy of the traditional medical paradigm.

This information is a follow up of the Institute of Medicine report which hit the papers in December of last year, but the data was hard to reference as it was not in peer-reviewed journal. Now it is published in JAMA which is the most widely circulated medical periodical in the world.

The author is Dr. Barbara Starfield of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and she describes how the US health care system may contribute to poor health.

ALL THESE ARE DEATHS PER YEAR:

These total to 250,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes!!

What does the word iatrogenic mean? This term is defined as induced in a patient by a physician's activity, manner, or therapy. Used especially of a complication of treatment.

Dr. Starfield offers several warnings in interpreting these numbers:

First, most of the data are derived from studies in hospitalized patients.

Second, these estimates are for deaths only and do not include negative effects that are associated with disability or discomfort.

Third, the estimates of death due to error are lower than those in the IOM report.

If the higher estimates are used, the deaths due to iatrogenic causes would range from 230,000 to 284,000. In any case, 225,000 deaths per year constitutes the third leading cause of death in the United States, after deaths from heart disease and cancer. Even if these figures are overestimated, there is a wide margin between these numbers of deaths and the next leading cause of death (cerebrovascular disease).

Another analysis concluded that between 4% and 18% of consecutive patients experience negative effects in outpatient settings, with:

116 million extra physician visits

77 million extra prescriptions

17 million emergency department visits

8 million hospitalizations

3 million long-term admissions

199,000 additional deaths

$77 billion in extra costs

The high cost of the health care system is considered to be a deficit, but seems to be tolerated under the assumption that better health results from more expensive care.

However, evidence from a few studies indicates that as many as 20% to 30% of patients receive inappropriate care.

An estimated 44,000 to 98,000 among them die each year as a result of medical errors.

This might be tolerated if it resulted in better health, but does it? Of 13 countries in a recent comparison, the United States ranks an average of 12th (second from the bottom) for 16 available health indicators. More specifically, the ranking of the US on several indicators was:

13th (last) for low-birth-weight percentages

13th for neonatal mortality and infant mortality overall

11th for postneonatal mortality

13th for years of potential life lost (excluding external causes)

11th for life expectancy at 1 year for females, 12th for males

10th for life expectancy at 15 years for females, 12th for males

10th for life expectancy at 40 years for females, 9th for males

7th for life expectancy at 65 years for females, 7th for males

3rd for life expectancy at 80 years for females, 3rd for males

10th for age-adjusted mortality

The poor performance of the US was recently confirmed by a World Health Organization study, which used different data and ranked the United States as 15th among 25 industrialized countries.

There is a perception that the American public "behaves badly" by smoking, drinking, and perpetrating violence." However the data does not support this assertion.

The proportion of females who smoke ranges from 14% in Japan to 41% in Denmark; in the United States, it is 24% (fifth best). For males, the range is from 26% in Sweden to 61% in Japan; it is 28% in the United States (third best).

The US ranks fifth best for alcoholic beverage consumption.

The US has relatively low consumption of animal fats (fifth lowest in men aged 55-64 years in 20 industrialized countries) and the third lowest mean cholesterol concentrations among men aged 50 to 70 years among 13 industrialized countries.

These estimates of death due to error are lower than those in a recent Institutes of Medicine report, and if the higher estimates are used, the deaths due to iatrogenic causes would range from 230,000 to 284,000.

Even at the lower estimate of 225,000 deaths per year, this constitutes the third leading cause of death in the US, following heart disease and cancer.

Lack of technology is certainly not a contributing factor to the US's low ranking.

Among 29 countries, the United States is second only to Japan in the availability of magnetic resonance imaging units and computed tomography scanners per million population. 17

Japan, however, ranks highest on health, whereas the US ranks among the lowest.

It is possible that the high use of technology in Japan is limited to diagnostic technology not matched by high rates of treatment, whereas in the US, high use of diagnostic technology may be linked to more treatment.

Supporting this possibility are data showing that the number of employees per bed (full-time equivalents) in the United States is highest among the countries ranked, whereas they are very low in Japan, far lower than can be accounted for by the common practice of having family members rather than hospital staff provide the amenities of hospital care.

Journal American Medical Association July 26, 2000;284(4):483-5

Some helpful information on your journey to healing and creating a more conscious and healthy lifestyle….From Caroline Sutherland, a well-known “medical intuitive”:

 “Speak to your body and encourage it to repair on all levels. The pivotal question in terms of any illness is to engage the will to live. Ask yourself the question “What is my will to live?” On a scale of 1-10, the will to live should be high-7 or above. If you intuitively sense that it is less than 5, do your best to engage it.

Bless everything in your life- even your illness, and fill your body with gratitude and love. As soon as this takes place, the energy for healing will flood back into your body…”

“…On the physical level, your aim is to strengthen the body and rebuild your immune system. Food allergies can play an important role here. Any food to which the body is intolerant, can initiate a histamine response and weaken the immune system. Few people are aware of the negative effects of common foods.

I suggest that you eliminate wheat and flour based products from your diet. Wheat is a very common allergen and can make a person tired, not to mention contributing to arthritic symptoms….use 100% rye bread or rice instead.” (we recommend whole grain brown rice-white rice is void of nutrients)

 Caroline also recommends elimination of dairy from the diet. See our article on dairy in this issue. Also, make sure that you are not exposed to molds, pet dander or airborne allergens. All of these impact the lungs.

 In regards to cancer; “did you know that cancer cells are glucose supported? Any fast-growing cell needs sugar to live. Along with all of the above strategies, keep your sugar intake as low as possible….

“…take time to explore the core emotional issues and release them. Then the body is well on its way to experiencing a whole new level of wellness.”

 For those dealing with cancer;

IPT – Insulin Potentiation Therapy for Cancer - Gentle Chemotherapy

 If you or anyone you know has been diagnosed with cancer, there is an innovative cancer treatment which some doctors use called IPT – Insulin Potentiation Therapy which does not come with a list of the usual side effects resulting from traditional chemotherapy.

It isn’t a well-known method and there are only a handful of doctors who offer it to their patients in the US and Canada.

I deeply respect the work of one such doctor who has been treating cancer in this gentle way for well over 25 years…Dr. Steven G. Ayre. Numerous reports testify to its’ effectiveness. IPT uses low dose chemotherapy…as little as 10% of the same FDA approved drugs used in conventional treatment. Because of this, the patient is left with little or no side effects. IPT is not for everyone. Check with your doctor, research it, make an informed decision…www.contemporarymedicine.net

 Caroline has a wonderful CD called “Letting Go of the Past and Moving Forward” to relax, calm and uplift. Your can order it and her popular book “The Body Knows” from her website www.carolinesutherland.com .

 Milk-based products are mucous forming and research has shown them to be a leading cause of many health issues. Read on for more information.

 Heart Disease

 The consumption of modern dairy products has been found by researchers to be a leading cause of arteriosclerosis, heart attacks and strokes. The highest death rate from heart disease in the world is found in Finland, a country with one of the very highest rates of dairy product consumption. Compared to people in the US, the Finnish people consume one and a half times as many dairy products, and die one and a half times as often from heart disease.

 The higher fat forms of dairy products have been implicated as the culprit in contributing heavily to heart attacks, strokes, and arteriosclerosis. The higher fat dairy products are also those most likely to contain unsafe levels of environmental contaminants including pesticide residues and dangerous radioactive substances. Dairy products are high on the food chain, and dairy fats tend to collect very high concentrations of these pollutants. Of all the foods available to Americans, full-fat dairy products such as whole mile and cheese rank with fish as carriers of the highest levels of dangerous environmental contaminants.

 What about low-fat dairy products?

 Low-fat dairy products are higher in protein. Many people mistakenly assume this to be a health advantage. But as a result of their higher protein concentrations, low and especially non-fat dairy products make an even greater contribution to osteoporosis, kidney problems, and some forms of cancer than do their higher-fat counterparts.

What about allergies?

 Modern Western dairy products are the leading cause of food allergies, and the lower-fat versions are actually more allergenic than those higher in fat. It is the proteins in dairy products that induce allergic reactions in humans.

 The list of the most common symptoms of dairy allergens is a long one, as are the benefits often obtained by sensitive people who remove dairy products from their diets. Many studies have shown allergies to dairy products to cause irritability, restlessness, hyperactivity, muscle pain, mental depression, abdominal pain, cramps, bloating, gas, diarrhea, bad breath, headaches, lack of energy, constipation, poor appetite, malabsorption, nasal stuffiness, runny nose, sinusitis, asthma, shortness of breath, rashes, eczema and hives.

 Scientific literature contains numerous accounts of dramatic improvement, not just for the above problems, but also in cases of ulcerative colitis, obesity, enlarged tonsils and adenoids, and iron deficiency anemia occurring with the removal of dairy products.

What about Calcium and Iron?

 The dairy council distributes an attractive booklet free of charge to hospitals and schools throughout the country. Titled “Is it safe to be a vegetarian?”, the booklet provides a remarkably self-serving answer. The booklet says yes, it is safe-so long as you substitute more cheese, yogurt and milk for the “missing” meat.

 In fact, what the Dairy Council is suggesting is likely to cause food allergies and is an open invitation to iron-deficiency anemia. If you consume too many dairy products, be they in the form of skim mild, whole mile, cheese, yogurt, butter, ice cream, or whatever, there is a very real possibility of iron deficiency. Cow’s milk is so low in iron that you’d have to drink many gallons to get the iron available from a single serving of any dark green, leafy vegetable!

 Not only do dairy products provide no iron, they also block it’s absorption. Breastfed babies, for example, have a much higher rate of iron absorption than those fed cow’s milk formulas, even if they are especially fortified with extra iron.

 *NEVER FEED AN INFANT COW’S MILK FORMULA (note from Energetic Balancing).

 In our society, breast-feeding mothers often consume more dairy products than usual, thinking they are doing themselves and their babies good. Sadly, though, they aren’t. Breastfed babies can get colic and other symptoms of cow’s milk allergies if the mother consumes dairy products. The dairy proteins pass into the mother’s breast milk, make their way into the baby’s intestine and blood, and may result in persistent crying, fussing, and many other expressions of allergic reactions.

 (from an article by John Robbins)

 Many researchers and health advocates agree that cow’s milk is simply not designed for anyone but a cow! All of the nutrients which we need can be gained from a diet of whole foods without the use of dairy-based products. That we need to consume dairy products to obtain calcium is a myth endorsed by the Dairy Council and uneducated individuals. We can simply use our own common sense in determining what is best for our bodies. Just look at how many people have adverse reactions to dairy and the industry which has been created to deal with the side effects of milk-based products, not to mention many other processed foods which are difficult to digest and assimilate. Why would something which is supposedly good for us, have an entire shelf in the drug store dedicated to products which will help us digest it, or deal with it’s side effects!

 Please note - soy isn’t necessarily a healthful replacement for dairy, as some have been misled to believe. Please see the information on the hazards of soy on this website.

Before embarking upon any change for better health, it’s important to understand the influence of our thoughts on our biology. As important as our efforts to cleanse and alkalize are, our attitudes preclude all else. Following are some comments from the brilliant Dr. Joe Dispenza.

 “The thinking brain, the neo-cortex, is the seed of our freewill and allows us to have a choice and opinion. The one thing I noticed about people who had changes in health had changed their thinking. If they changed their thinking, was the effect in the brain sending a new signal to their body? The answer is yes. We begin to construct new thoughts based on new knowledge. This wires our thoughts permanently in our brain, in the innate intelligence or spiritual essence, the higher order in every human being.

Our thoughts have a direct connection to our direct level of health. Thoughts make a chemical. If you have happy thoughts, then you’re producing chemicals that make you feel happy. If you have negative thoughts, angry thoughts or insecure thoughts, those thoughts make chemicals to make you feel how you’re thinking.

Those chemicals are messengers feeding the cells of the body. If you keep thinking the same thoughts for 20 years, you have an assault on the cells. They begin to cause the cells to produce proteins that are unhealthy.

We do one thing as our privilege as human beings; that is to modify our behavior. If you are not changing your thoughts, you’re living from the emotions of the past and that’s what causes people to become diseased.”

 “My research and what I have been teaching starts with a thought and goes to the cell. Thoughts push the genetic buttons that cause disease.

Feelings and emotions are the product of an experience. The problem is at a certain point in life people stop experiencing new things and new chemicals. They rely on feelings of the past.”

 “Study the anatomy of your thoughts. Most of our thoughts are automatic and those are the ones that run our behavior. Once we understand the way we process thought, people begin to understand what it is about them that keeps them separate from what they want in life.”

 “Anytime we embrace change in order to interrupt a program that runs life, ask important questions like;

 “What would it be like to be a happy person?”

“What is the greatest ideal of myself that I could have?”

“Who do I know (in history) that inspires me?”

“What would I have to change in order to be great?”

Ask yourself these questions every morning; you have to stop the program from running for a few minutes. The brain begins to reformat in a new sequence of neurological connections. Now we know scientifically that if that process is repeated, the neurological architecture will change within it, and we start growing new circuits.

So, once we grow new circuits, we’re preparing the body and brain for a new experience and we are no longer going to be our routine, automatic self. We each have the privilege of being a human with the freewill to change in the same lifetime, instead of after generations of adaptations.

And than we begin to create new circuits, which become the circuits we rely on more than the old familiar circuits. And that’s the cliff notes version of the course!”

 In other words, and as Dr. Joe says, ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING!

 From an interview in Today’s Chiropractic.

Sugar comes in many forms, the processed, white, denatured kind used in many foods is considered the worst for your health, but, most sugar, even in it’s most “natural” form, can be hard on the body. Even fruit sugar in excess can have a detrimental effect on your system. Sugar is acidic and can be a very addictive drug. Try eliminating sugar from your diet and see the kind of change that will result. Here are some good reasons why:

 Contributed by Nancy Appleton, Ph.D
Author of the book Lick The Sugar Habit

In addition to throwing off the body's homeostasis, excess sugar may result in a number of other significant consequences. The following is a listing of some of sugar's metabolic consequences from a variety of medical journals and other scientific publications.

1.     Sugar can suppress your immune system and impair your defenses against infectious disease.

2.     Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in your body: causes chromium and copper deficiencies and interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium.

3.     Sugar can cause can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline, hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and crankiness in children. (and aldults!)*

4.     Sugar can produce a significant rise in total cholesterol, triglycerides and bad cholesterol and a decrease in good cholesterol.

5.     Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function.

6.     Sugar feeds cancer cells and has been connected with the development of cancer of the breast, ovaries, prostate, rectum, pancreas, biliary tract, lung, gallbladder and stomach.

7.     Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose and can cause reactive hypoglycemia.

8.     Sugar can weaken eyesight.

9.     Sugar can cause many problems with the gastrointestinal tract including: an acidic digestive tract, indigestion, malabsorption in patients with functional bowel disease, increased risk of Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis.

10. Sugar can cause premature aging.

11. Sugar can lead to alcoholism.

12. Sugar can cause your saliva to become acidic, tooth decay, and periodontal disease.

13. Sugar contributes to obesity.

14. Sugar can cause autoimmune diseases such as: arthritis, asthma, multiple sclerosis.

15. Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections)

16. Sugar can cause gallstones.

17. Sugar can cause appendicitis.

18. Sugar can cause hemorrhoids.

19. Sugar can cause varicose veins.

20. Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive users.

21. Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis.

22. Sugar can cause a decrease in your insulin sensitivity thereby causing an abnormally high insulin levels and eventually diabetes.

23. Sugar can lower your Vitamin E levels.

24. Sugar can increase your systolic blood pressure.

25. Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased activity in children.

26. High sugar intake increases advanced glycation end products (AGEs)(Sugar molecules attaching to and thereby damaging proteins in the body).

27. Sugar can interfere with your absorption of protein.

28. Sugar causes food allergies.

29. Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy.

30. Sugar can contribute to eczema in children.

31. Sugar can cause atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.

32. Sugar can impair the structure of your DNA.

33. Sugar can change the structure of protein and cause a permanent alteration of the way the proteins act in your body.

34. Sugar can make your skin age by changing the structure of collagen.

35. Sugar can cause cataracts and nearsightedness.

36. Sugar can cause emphysema.

37. High sugar intake can impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in your body.

38. Sugar lowers the ability of enzymes to function.

39. Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson's disease.

40. Sugar can increase the size of your liver by making your liver cells divide and it can increase the amount of liver fat.

41. Sugar can increase kidney size and produce pathological changes in the kidney such as the formation of kidney stones.

42. Sugar can damage your pancreas.

43. Sugar can increase your body's fluid retention.

44. Sugar is enemy #1 of your bowel movement.

45. Sugar can compromise the lining of your capillaries.

46. Sugar can make your tendons more brittle.

47. Sugar can cause headaches, including migraines.

48. Sugar can reduce the learning capacity, adversely affect school children's grades and cause learning disorders.

49. Sugar can cause an increase in delta, alpha, and theta brain waves which can alter your mind's ability to think clearly.

50. Sugar can cause depression.

51. Sugar can increase your risk of gout.

52. Sugar can increase your risk of Alzheimer's disease.

53. Sugar can cause hormonal imbalances such as: increasing estrogen in men, exacerbating PMS, and decreasing growth hormone.

54. Sugar can lead to dizziness.

55. Diets high in sugar will increase free radicals and oxidative stress.

56. High sucrose diets of subjects with peripheral vascular disease significantly increases platelet adhesion.

57. High sugar consumption of pregnant adolescents can lead to substantial decrease in gestation duration and is associated with a twofold increased risk for delivering a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infant.

58. Sugar is an addictive substance.

59. Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol.

60. Sugar given to premature babies can affect the amount of carbon dioxide they produce.

61. Decrease in sugar intake can increase emotional stability.

62. Your body changes sugar into 2 to 5 times more fat in the bloodstream than it does starch.

63. The rapid absorption of sugar promotes excessive food intake in obese subjects.

64. Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). (It can also be the cause of it)*

65. Sugar adversely affects urinary electrolyte composition.

66. Sugar can slow down the ability of your adrenal glands to function.

67. Sugar has the potential of inducing abnormal metabolic processes in a normal healthy individual and to promote chronic degenerative diseases.

68. I.V.s (intravenous feedings) of sugar water can cut off oxygen to your brain.

69. Sugar increases your risk of polio.

70. High sugar intake can cause epileptic seizures.

71. Sugar causes high blood pressure in obese people.

72. In intensive care units: Limiting sugar saves lives.

73. Sugar may induce cell death.

74. In juvenile rehabilitation camps, when children were put on a low sugar diet, there was a 44 percent drop in antisocial behavior.

75. Sugar dehydrates newborns.

76. Sugar can cause gum disease. (and tooth decay.)*

Chemicals and Everyday Toxins in the Home

 The following are more facts from the Indoor Air Pollution Seminar given by Joyce last October.

Our homes should have a complete change of air 3 or 4 times a day. New homes are built so air tight that it is impossible to get a complete change of air. We should leave our windows open on each side of our house for better cross ventilation.

In Alberta last year accidental poisoning statistics were as follows:

Between the ages of: 0 - 4 years - 11, 515 poisonings

5 - 10 years - 1,52411

19 years - 1,01920

and over 7,799

Top three culprits according to Poison Control:

Household cleaners, bleach and medications. In the USA the #1 cause of accidental poisoning is Dawn Dishwashing detergent. WHY? Because it is the #1 seller.

Tide contains lye and is the #1 polluter. It is also the #1 seller. Did you know the little shiny things in Tide Powder are fiberglass?

Did you know that "Formula 409" is considered a legal pesticide?

Deep Woods, Off and many other insect repellents have an ingredient called DEET. DEET is known to cause seizures and in some cases, even death in children and adults.

Inert (or inactive) ingredients in products are protected by trade secrets and very dangerous. In the work place Material Safety Data Sheets must accompany any product used. The work place and the outdoors are considered "legal environments" while homes are not. Thus, regulations for outdoor air pollution and toxins in the workplace are much stricter than in the home.

The ideal rate of humidity is between 35% and 45%. Anything higher causes mold. When we use humidifiers or dehumidifiers with standing water we are encouraging mold growth in the standing water. The ideal temperature in the home is between 68 degrees and 72 degrees anything higher makes chemicals more active.

When we shower, the hot water combined with the chlorine in the water can cause headaches. Using aerosols can cause dizziness and headaches. Steam from our dryer vents is extremely toxic, because of the chemicals from dryer sheets and residue from laundry soap and bleach.

Chemicals used to dry clean clothing are very dangerous and can cause cancer. When you bring dry cleaning home, you should hang it outside for at least 3 days. Dry-cleaning chemicals are the same cancer causing chemicals that are found in mothballs.

There are 4700 chemicals in tobacco smoke.

Chemicals from carpets and plastic have been found to cause kidney and liver damage.

More products that contain Formaldehyde: Antiperspirants, Mouthwash, Toothpaste, Tupperware, Baggies, Permanent Press clothing, Floor waxes and furniture polishes, Coffee, Wax, Paper and Money.

Some symptoms caused by formaldehyde are: Allergies, cancer, immune system failings and asthma.

Products that contain Phenols: Acne medications, Baking Powder, Computers, TV sets, Mouthwash, Sugar substitutes, Wallpaper.

Some symptoms caused by phenols (which are absorbed by lungs and skin) are: Caustic burns, kidney and liver damage, hyperactivity and possibly even death.

"Lysol" is even more dangerous than we thought. Lysol contains phenols and dioxin (Agent Orange).

Fungicides used on fruit trees in the Okanogan, BC and in southwestern Ontario have been found to cause babies in both areas being born with no eyes or very tiny eyes.

When using chlorine, antiseptics or bleach in industrial settings you are required to wear impervious protective clothing including hard hats, boots, gloves, apron or coveralls, chemical goggles or full face shield. You are required to use them only in well ventilated areas.

When using Easy Off make sure all your skin is covered, wear protective clothing, do not breath in and don't get on your enamel, (if this product will hurt the enamel on your stove, can you imagine what it will do to us.)

Air fresheners desensitize the nerves in your nose so you cannot smell. 1970 - NTA's were banned, 1980 Lobbying Proctor & Gamble brought back the use of NTA's in our products although they are extremely cancer causing. What are they used for? ONLY to make more suds in our laundry detergents so that you think your clothes are getting cleaner.

Our immune system is very powerful, like a janitorial system giving our bodies good nutrition means our body can repair itself and be able to handle what we face in the world. Household chemicals cause all kinds of problems that you would never suspect could be related to cleaning your home and clothes such as: cardiovascular problems, panic and anxiety attacks, and bedwetting.

Eliminating the cause of the environmental illness is more effective and much less expensive than treating the symptom.

Prevention - 80% - 90% effective

Treatments - 50% - 60% effective.

http://www.greathealthandwellness.com/id3.html

STROKE  IDENTIFICATION:

During a BBQ, a friend  stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was  fine (they offered to call paramedics) and just tripped over a brick  because of her new shoes. They got her cleaned up and got her a new  plate of food - while she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went  about enjoying herself the rest of the afternoon. Ingrid's husband called later saying that his wife had been taken to the hospital and passed away. She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today. Some stroke victims don't die; they end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.
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A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within three hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke . . . totally. He said the trick was having a stroke recognized, diagnosed and then getting the patient medically cared for within three hours, which is tough.
 
 
RECOGNIZING A STROKE:

Remember the "3" steps.
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.

Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:

1  *Ask the individual to SMILE.
2  *Ask the person to TALK, to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE. (Coherently)  (i.e. . . It is sunny out today)

3  *Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH  ARMS.

NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out their tongue. If the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other, that is also an indication of a stroke.

If he or she has trouble with any one of these tasks, call 911 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.

The Deadly Effects of Erythromycin

By Dr. Patrick Gentempo

A common antibiotic prescribed for 50 years to treat everything from strep throat to syphilis, dramatically increases the risk of cardiac arrest, especially when taken with certain newer, popular drugs, a study found.

 The study shows the need for continuing research on the safety of older medicines such as the widely prescribed drug, erythromycin, including how they interact with newer medicines.

 In patients taking erythromycin, along with other drugs that increase its concentration in the blood, the risk of cardiac death was more than five times greater…That translates to six deaths for every 10,000 people taking erythromycin for the typical two weeks while on the other drugs.

 Amoxicillin, another popular antibiotic, showed no cardiac risk.

We are seeing more and more drugs in the headlines that are found to be unsafe, some even being deadly. Sure, the article quotes experts saying that we shouldn’t use Erythromycin anymore, but who can guarantee that the alternate antibiotic won’t have devastating effects? It is estimated that over half of the drugs that receive market approval from the FDA have serious adverse effects not known prior to their approval.

 What is especially shocking about this discovery is the fact that Erythromycin is such a common and widely used drug. And it has been on the market for 50 years! Shocking as this may be, I have to tell you this isn’t the first time a long trusted, assumed to be safe drug was killing people.

 Another example is Fen-Phen. Phenfluromine was on the market for 24 years before it was discovered that is caused heart valve defects in a third of the people who were taking it. Many of them died. Very tragic – especially since these people were taking Fen-Phen to lose weight.

 I think on thing that’s important for all people to understand is that all drugs have some degree of adverse effects. Since we are all biologically different and unique, it is hard to predict exactly how any of us will react to a particular drug…

 The reason medical doctors are supposed to prescribe antibiotics is because the patient has some sort of bacterial infections. The important thing that I don’t think many people realize is that infections can be avoided. The misconception is that people buy into the old concept of the germ theory – a point of view that states that germs cause diseases. And although there is a relationship between germs and diseases, it is different than most people understand. The only way for a germ to proliferate in your body is for your body’s immune system to be in a weakened state, where it can’t fight the germs…..

 Energetic Balancing…More information on   “Herbal Antibiotic Alternatives”.

 In other words, having a strong immune system won’t allow contract the infections which antibiotics are prescribed for. Build a strong, healthy immune system through diet, exercise, attitude and raising your life force! There are also herbal alternatives to traditional antibiotics.

The danger of antibiotics

by Doug Kaufman

Simply put, antibiotics are poisons that are used to kill. Only licensed physicians can prescribe them. The drugs are used to kill bacteria. Certainly, many people have benefited from using them. However, if bacteria were the only organisms that antibiotics killed, much of this book would be unnecessary. In fact, I con­tend that poisons that kill small organisms in small doses -- organism-specific varieties notwithstanding -- can also kill big organisms, when they are taken in big doses. You, my friend, are a big organism.

We’ve talked about the link between fungus and human disease. This chapter addresses the possibility that antibiotics may help fungi to proliferate within the human body.

As an adult human, you have three to four pounds of beneficial bacteria and yeast living within your intestines. These microbes compete for nutrients from the food you eat. Usually, the strength in numbers beneficial bacteria enjoy both keeps the ever-present yeasts in check and causes them to produce nutrients such as the B vitamins.

However, every time you swallow antibiotics, you kill the beneficial bacteria within your intestines. When you do so, you upset the delicate balance of your intestinal terrain. Yeasts grow unchecked into large colonies and take over, in a condition called dysbiosis.

Yeasts are opportunistic organisms. This means that, as the intestinal bacteria die, yeasts thrive, especially when their dietary needs are met. They can use their tendrils, or hyphae, to literally poke holes through the lining of your intestinal wall. This results in a syndrome called leaky gut. Yeasts are not the only possible cause of this syndrome. Some scientists have linked non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) such as naproxen and ibuprofen to the problem. Given their ability to alter intestinal terrain, antibiotics also likely contribute to leaky gut syndrome.

In addition to possibly causing leaky gut syndrome, I believe that parasitic yeasts can also cause you to change what you eat in that they encourage you to binge on carbohydrates including pasta, bread, sugar, potatoes, etc. So, it should come as no surprise that weight gain counts as one of the telltale signs of antibiotic damage and subsequent yeast overgrowth.

By altering the normal terrain of the intestines, antibiotics can also make food allergies more likely. An array of intestinal disorders can ensue, as well. Sadly, most doctors claim ignorance concerning their patients’ intestinal disorders rather than admit that the drugs they themselves prescribed actually caused the disorders to begin with.

Tons of antibiotics are fed to American livestock on a daily basis, purportedly to proof them against bacteria. This practice not only possibly contributes to antibiotic resistance in humans -- many experts feel weight gain, and not disease prevention, is the real reason antibiotics are so widely used. Fat cattle sell for more than thin cattle. That’s all very well, but imagine what the antibiotics thereby possibly present in dairy products could be doing to our children’s health…..to read the rest of this article, go to www.mercola.com

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FLU VACCINE

Flu vaccine manufacturers are notoriously inaccurate at predicting the appropriate viruses to us in an individual year’s vaccine, rendering the vaccine ineffective.

 Flu vaccine is relatively ineffective in those patients most at risk of flu complications

Those most at risk of flu complications probably share a higher risk of adverse reactions to the flu vaccine as well.

 Fluzone is the new flu vaccine for babies! (recommended for 6 month to 23 month old). You can get it as a 0.25 ml prefilled syringe (for pediatric use) and as a 0.5 ml prefilled syringe.

Fluzone contains:

Mercury (pure poison)

Chicken embryos

Formaldehyde (also for embalming)

Sucrose (sugar)

Sodium Chloride (aka salt)

Gelatin (aka boiled cow hoofs)

Polyethylene Glycol (synthetic plastic)

p-Isooctylphenyl Ether (anesthetic)

Hemaggluttinin (blood coagulant)

I don’t know about you, but I would never have these things injected into my or my baby’s bloodstream! you can look into the truth for yourself:

https://www.vaccinesoppe.com

Info. from the drug company:

 http://www.vaccinationnews.com/dailynews/september2002/fdaapproves12.htm

YEAST OVERGROWTH- CANDIDA      

 by Kimberly Wagner

Candida Albicans is a naturally occurring yeast and is among the many organisms that live in the mouth and gastrointestinal tract.

Candidiasis is an overgrowth of this yeast. This complex, which is usually referred to as Candida, causes a broad spectrum of symptoms, many of which are centered around, but certainly not limited to, gastrointestinal distress. Candida can be pervasive and truly wreak havoc upon one’s physical and mental state if it isn’t addressed.

Candidiasis has been considered an important factor in AIDS, rheumatoid arthritis, MS, schizophrenia, hyploglycemia and at least 20 other conditions. Some also believe that it is a causative factor in “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”.

Some of the symptoms which one might experience if there is an overgrowth of yeast are;

fatigue

depression

painful joints

poor memory

feelings of “spaciness’

digestive disturbance

food allergies & sensitivities

abdominal pain-bloating

sugar cravings

dry, itchy, tingling or burning skin

vaginal infections

low body temperature

PMS

hormonal disturbance

While these symptoms can be caused by other factors, certainly adopting a protocol which will eliminate yeast, will most certainly help with many of these symptoms. A shift to a healthy, nutritive diet, free of yeast-feeding foods, will be the first step to better health, whether or not you have yeast!

Some elements which can make Candida grow are;

antibiotics

birth-control pills

faulty diet; high sugar or carb. content

foods containing yeast

alcohol

some drugs

compromised immunity

sugar, white flour, caffeine, aspirin, chocolate, fluoride, nitrates, sedatives and STRESS are all “nutrient destroyers”

If you suspect that you may have an overgrowth of yeast, it’s important not to self-treat or diagnose this condition. You can go to www.theyeastconnection.com for a wealth of information. There you can answer questions to begin to determine if you might have a yeast problem. Then, see your Doctor or licensed health care practitioner, and have a GI panel done to get accurate testing and diagnosis.

Once you know that yeast overgrowth is an issue for you, you must eliminate the factors which are causing the problem. If you choose to rely on drugs, know that future outbreaks are probable. Antibiotics promote the growth of Candida and kill good bowel flora. Synthetic anti-fungals and other drugs used for Candidiasis can be toxic to the organs, damage the liver, weaken the immune system and many people find that their symptoms persist after taking drugs.

We highly recommend choosing a natural approach to addressing Candidiasis. The body/mind has a powerful self-healing ability, and given the right elements, will find it’s way back to balance without the use of drugs. Boosting immunity through a healthy, mostly alkaline diet (see Acid/Alkaline discussion), supplementation, rebuilding healthy intestinal bacteria and creating a balanced emotional life is a powerful arsenal!

Begin by eliminating all sugars and sugar products, especially processed white sugar. Also; high fructose corn syrup, maple syrup, brown rice syrup, honey, corn syrup, fructose, sucrose, lactose, etc. Fruit juice is best avoided, as it is concentrated sugar. Do not ever use artificial sweeteners. Do not ever drink soda pop or sweetened drinks.

You will also need to eliminate dairy products, butter, all white flour products, bread, pasta, pastries, white rice, potatoes, alcoholic beverages, vinegar, fermented foods, salad dressings, pickled products, roasted nuts, soy sauce, tamari, crackers, fried foods, pork,  bacon, cheese,  and processed foods of any kind.

Cheese, alcohol, melons, peanuts, dried fruits, cured meats, raw mushrooms, yeast breads and brewer’s yeast all contain mold or yeast and must be avoided. You should also avoid citrus fruits, pineapples and tomatoes.

Fresh vegetables (except potatoes, corn and yams), small amounts of gluten-free grains (millet, brown rice, quinoa, buckwheat, amaranth), eggs, fish, chicken, turkey (preferably organic) should be emphasized. You want to be more alkaline, get optimum nutrition and increase your fiber, thus creating healthy elimination. You may want to consider a colonics or enemas as you begin to rid the body of any toxins.

There are many herbal remedies and supplements for Candida-probiotics are essential. As mentioned before, the website www.theyeastconnection.com gives very helpful and more comprehensive information on yeast overgrowth and how to address it.

Do your own research online to find other websites which may be helpful and to find products which are specifically designed to attack the yeasts. If you want to consider a cleanse, the book “Cleanse & Purify Thyself”, by Richard Anderson is a wonderful resource.

Emotions are a strong component with Candida and it is crucial to look into yourself and do some mental and emotional cleansing. Consider the assistance of an experienced professional to help you reveal subconscious emotions, beliefs and programs which can be the underlying cause of yeast overgrowth. Breathwork is also very useful and will benefit you for a lifetime.

Best wishes on your journey to greater health, joy and clarity of mind. The efforts it takes to rid yourself of yeast overgrowth is a small thing in the light of vibrant health and happiness!!!

Don't use antibacterial soap

The antibacterial agent triclosan, commonly used in certain soaps, is starting to appear in consumer products ranging from socks to toothpaste.

But research shows that under normal household conditions triclosan can react with chlorinated water to produce chloroform, a likely carcinogen.
An initial 2005 study showed that, in the laboratory, pure triclosan reacts with free chlorine to produce chloroform. More recently, follow-up studies on 16 products found that household goods containing triclosan produced either chloroform or other chlorinated byproducts. In some soaps, the triclosan degraded within one minute of exposure to chlorinated water at temperatures used for household cleaning.

Environmental Science & Technology February 28, 2007

Environmental Science & Technology Online February 28, 2007


Dr. Mercola's Comment:
I posted an alarming report two years ago about the dangers of using the chlorinated water that comes from your tap with antimicrobial soaps and cleaners containing triclosan. I am not surprised to learn those initial reports have been confirmed; products containing triclosan can produce the cancer-causing substance chloroform.
That is one of the benefits you get by reading this newsletter. It is very common that you'll be alerted of health issues YEARS before they become widely publicized in the traditional media.
So be alert because the average consumer has NO CLUE this is a problem. I see it all over. In the office building where my Web site is located, they use antibacterial soap so I had to explain to the building manager how crazy and unnecessary that was.

Antibacterial soaps are widespread in most commercial institutions. If you see it, be an activist and tell the manager. Show them the evidence and ask them to switch. No reason they need to poison the public so some company can make money and provide no benefit, only harm.
Because water temperatures, chlorination and the antibacterial products used can vary based on the locale, it's hard for scientists to predict the precise amount of chloroform to which you may be exposed. That said, the use of triclosan in some conditions can expand your exposure to
chloroform by as much as 40 percent.
But remember that even when triclosan does not degrade into chloroform, it's still dangerous in and of itself, because it enters the environment and eventually creates antibiotic-resistant germs.
It's surprising the problem still exists, considering even the highly conservative American Medical Association's very public slam against antibacterial soaps seven years ago, and undisputed evidence that nothing works better when it comes to hand-washing than plain soap and water, without the unnecessary toxic antibacterial chemicals.

Salt may affect more than blood pressure: study

The information on this page is for your convenience to help you learn and understand the importance of cleansing and maintaining a balanced PH level. We collected these information (articles) from other websites to make it easy on you becoming aware of your culture.

We do not sell any products, nor recommend a specific one. You need to do your own research and consult with your trusted Doctor/therapist before doing a cleanse.