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The Roger Wyburn-Mason and Jack M. Blount Foundation for the Eradication of Rheumatoid Disease

aka The Arthritis Trust of America,
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Fairview, TN 37062-9384

I've spent thousands of hours in research and many thousands of dollars to be able to write this brochure. It's been a primary goal of mine for the past twenty five years to develop the Perfect Plan in an effort to help my patients achieve a state as close to Perfect health as possible. Now, perfect health does not just mean the absence of disease. It involves many factors that not only help keep you disease free, but also factors that help to keep you feeling good, happy and content, sleeping peacefully, and energetically enjoying your work and existence.

As a physician, I've been extremely concerned and even deeply worried, that the American people today are not getting the quality of medical care that they need, much less deserve. For generations, very wise men and women have reminded us that nothing, that's right, NOTHING is as important to us as our health. Now, if you are like the many patients I treat every day, people from all walks of life, you're not getting very vital information and training that can help you avoid disease, have more energy, or even get rid of any medical problem you may have.

You see, I sincerely care about your health. It's my job to care. In fact, my work is much more than just a job. It's a lifelong dedication and a passionate commitment to help you live a healthier life than you ever thought possible or even dreamed of. That is the purpose of this brochure: to make available to you the proven facts to attain Better Health, the information and condensed knowledge that once applied to your everyday lifestyle, will do absolute wonders for your health and existence. I will provide this information to you in this paper, but it is up to you to act on it. I CANNOT DO THAT FOR YOU. If you act on this knowledge, whether young or old, rich or poor, no matter what race, sex or religious preference, you will live longer, healthier, and happier than you can even imagine. I've always tried to educate my patients about better health and one primary reason is because of the truth and wisdom I once read in an ancient proverb.

If you give a man a fish, he will make a meal.

If you teach him to fish. he will have a living.

If you are thinking a year ahead, sow seed.

If you are thinking ten years ahead, plant a tree.

If you are thinking one hundred years ahead, educate the people.

By sowing seed once, you will harvest once.

By planting a tree, you will harvest tenfold.

By educating the people, you will harvest one hundred fold.

I would like for this brochure to be a manual of instruction for you to attain better health. Just like when you buy a new car, you get an owner's manual which explains how you can get the most efficient performance from your new car. This manual tells you what grade of oil to use, what type of gasoline is best, how to safely drive the car, and the proper way to lubricate and service the vehicle. If you do not follow these instructions, you could have disastrous results. You wouldn't put water in the gas tank or battery acid in your radiator and expect your new car to give top performance, or even run at all. This brochure is your owner's manual to attain better health with proper nutrition.

The Healthless Generation

Our generation may well be called the ''healthless generation." With today's pollution or our air, water and food, good health or even normal health for the average person is an impossible dream. Degenerative diseases, which were almost unknown a century ago, are becoming epidemic today. Every physician who treats patients is seeing an increase in all the chronic degenerative diseases every year such as arteriosclerosis, arthritis, diabetes, cancer, heart disease. Alzheimer's disease, obesity and hypertension-the list goes on and on.

However, to me, even more significant than these major diseases that are increasing is the almost continual minor illnesses nearly everyone is developing nowadays, which are blindly accepted and endured by tens of millions of Americans. So-called "minor illnesses,'' like colds, flu, sore throats and ears, indigestion, joint and muscle pains, allergies, tooth and gum disease, fatigue, viral and fungus infections and a multitude of other conditions are robbing many people of good health. Unfortunately, these "minor illnesses'' are usually accepted today and simply taken for granted. I've seen many such "sick and tired" people even brag about their health --right up to their dying day. Some people seem to believe that merely being alive means they have health. I cannot understand how these people settle for this when anyone deserves more.

You can have better health, be a whole person and be free of disease. You can be whole physically, emotionally, mentally, socially, and spiritually as God intended you to be. You can be free from any health limitations whether major or minor if you simply follow the enclosed guidelines on how to eat, drink and live for life abundantly -- not deficiently. BUT YOU MUST CARRY THE BALL YOURSELF AND PLACE YOUR HEALTH IN YOUR OWN HANDS. NO ONE IS GOING TO DO THIS FOR YOU, BUT YOU YOURSELF, so it's really simply up to you and you alone. I'll teach you how, but you must apply the knowledge.

Why The Increase In Diseases

In the 1960s and 1970s, extensive studies were conducted by the Ford Foundation, as well as several U.S. Government agencies, concerning the health of America. The conclusions derived from these studies proved that the chronic degenerative diseases were increasing each year, behavioral and scholastic problems in all our schools were increasing nationwide, no matter how many millions of dollars were thrown at these problems and good health in general is deteriorating in America. No psychological or social factors studied could account for the above conclusions and much evidence pointed to a biological cause -- perhaps a nutritional basis as a primary factor in reaching these conclusions.

In 1982, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation commissioned Joseph D. Beasley, M.D. of the Institute of Health Policy and Practice at Bard College Center, to undertake a detailed study to determine why the conclusions of the Ford Foundation were happening in America. The conclusions of this study were just published in 1991 and the results are startling. The study concluded that no one factor determines our health or any disease. Health is a quality, the most important quality of life. It is a state of being - of countless interrelationships in what is called "the web of life." Neither the most brilliant scientists nor the world's most sophisticated medical centers understand the "web of life" in enough detail to manage or control it. The fact that they also cannot prevent or cure the chronic conditions, suggests that these are not so much diseases as symptoms of the underlying state of our health, of something gone awry in the web of our lives.

Great biological systems make up the web of life. Interacting in each of us continually, they yield our present state of health or illness. The existence of these systems has emerged into human awareness only in this century. Yet we know that if these systems are healthful -- in good shape biologically -- we humans will be healthy. We cannot manage health directly, for it is a quality. But we can protect and support the biological systems out of which life arose and on which our health depends, moment to moment. I came to these same conclusions twenty years ago and have tried to incorporate these principles in educating my patients each day.

Of these biological systems, the above study concluded that there are 5 which are absolutely essential to achieve the best of health in today's society. THESE 5 SYSTEMS ARE:

1. Our personal genetics, our genes inherited from our parents, the body's unique cellular code or blueprint that guides all its processes.

2. External events, accidents, luck or agents that cross our path by chance that affect our health such as a car wreck or flu bug or being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

3. Nutrition -- the sustenance and fuel we provide our bodies and minds every day and especially the 50 essential nutrients.

4. The Environment, the milieu of natural and man made elements, pollution, indoors and out, that supports or undermines human life and health.

5. Our behavior or lifestyle in that environment, stressful or relaxed, sedentary or active, with or without smoking, alcohol, drugs or exercise and so forth.

Of course, some might argue that these first two systems are factors that you can do nothing about, but I disagree because we can practice better safety habits (seat belts, exposure to cold) and can, by better nutrition, stimulate our genes to work at maximum efficiency. The last three systems and their improvement have been the basis of my medical practice for the past twenty years and are the main factors I'm incorporating in this brochure. Physicians in America today are not taught in medical school about nutrition and the proper diet, or about pollution and toxic substances in our environment, and they are taught very little about lifestyle changes that must be made to attain better health. I'm very appreciative and feel honored that God has led and directed me to study and learn all about these important systems so that I can give my patients the truth as to how to attain better health.

What Causes Sickness and Disease

There have been a multitude of basic theories as to what are the main causes of sickness and disease and I will briefly discuss three of these theories.

1.Germ Theory. This theory in a nutshell, simply means that if you "catch" a certain germ in your system, you will develop a corresponding disease. Most all physicians today believe this and don't even question it. I only partially believe the above in the sense that it is true that certain diseases are severely aggravated and initiated by certain germs. I do not believe that simple statement that germs cause disease because in order for a germ to cause a disease, you've got to have a body that is willing to accept that germ. If you don't have a body that's willing to receive the germ -- if your body is healthy and your resistance is high, and you haven't inherited a weakened organ system willing to receive the germ, you will not develop a disease from contacting that germ.

As an example, I'm sure you remember the incident several years ago during the American Legion Convention in Philadelphia, where there were 15 deaths from Legionnaires Disease. Investigations proved that the disease was caused by a relatively unknown viral type germ that was transmitted through the ventilating system of the hotel where the Legionnaires stayed and were holding their meeting, yet even though all 16,000 people were exposed to the germ, only 15 had a fatal outcome from the exposure. The truth is that germs are everywhere at all times and we are all exposed to them thousands of times each day and you cannot avoid exposure to these germs but you can avoid diseases initiated by the germs if you have a healthy immune system and other efficiently functioning body systems.

2. Nutritional Deficiency Theory. The mainstream of medical practitioners have never believed this theory but numerous physicians and especially those involved in the study of Nutrition believe that deficiencies in certain vitamins, minerals and other nutrients cause sickness and disease. I personally am convinced that nutritional deficiencies play a role in the development of diseases, but they are not the actual cause of diseases normally. Exceptions to this would be Scurvy (Vitamin C deficiency), Beriberi (thiamine deficiency), and Rickets (Vitamin D deficiency), and a few others. Nutritional deficiencies can cause malfunctions of numerous metabolic processes which weaken the body's immune system or the body's resistance but these deficiencies usually do not cause disease and sickness.

3. Auto-Toxemia Theory. Proponents of this theory believe that our bodies remain healthy by continually ridding themselves of toxins through various organs of elimination. These organs are primarily the liver, kidneys, lungs, skin and colon. Physicians who believe this theory state that the body gets sick and disease develops when the body has more toxins and poisons than the elimination organs can dispose of and as a result, disease develops. I personally believe there is much truth in this theory but it is not the sole cause of disease and sickness. The excess toxins from air, water and food pollution do play a major role in weakening the organs of elimination, as well as the entire Nervous, Endocrine and Circulatory System and diseases will develop in these weakened organ systems if the source of these toxins and poisons are not removed. There are many steps a person can take to remove these toxins and I'll mention several in this brochure.

What is the Truth?

I have always believed and teach my patients that the truth lies in a combination of all these theories. There's much truth in all three, but I have felt for years that the real truth lies in the previously mentioned conclusions of the Kellogg Foundation Report showing that the primary systems involved are not only genetics and accidents or luck, but good nutrition, environmental pollution and lifestyle changes. The reason I believe that a combination of these theories holds the truth is that I see good health develop every day in those patients who follow the suggestions given in this brochure.

Diet and Nutrition

Essential nutrients are those substances necessary for growth, normal functioning and maintaining life. These nutrients must be supplied by foods because they cannot be made by the body. In my thinking and discussions with patients, I usually extend the element of essential nutrients to include other components that are necessary for human life. These include oxygen, water, fibber. . . .

With the above, I have concluded that there are several categories of essential nutrients that must be addressed to attain proper nutrition and better health. These include the following categories.

1. Proteins -- primarily in the form of amino acids.

2. Carbohydrates -- natural sugars and starches.

3. Fats -- primarily in the form of essential fatty acids.

4. Vitamins -- fat and water soluble.

5.Minerals -- essential and trace minerals.

6. Water-- the most important of all.

7. Others -- oxygen, fiber, specific anti-oxidants, etc.

Recommended Daily Allowances

Recommended daily allowances (RDAs) are merely guidelines to the quantities of nutrients that the body needs each day. They are set by committees and are simply opinions based on scientific evidence at hand. These recommendations are made on inadequate information and even differ from one country to another. All too often however, and unfortunately, many doctors cite RDAs as though they are the Gospel. This is far from the case and highlights the fact that the mere existence of RDAs can lead to a misunderstanding of what is actually occurring with any individual. Many recent studies made in the past ten years, are showing that even though many patients eat a "balanced diet," more than 90 percent suffer from the lack of one or more essential nutrients. The idea behind setting RDAs was to give at least some idea to the likelihood of groups of individuals being deficient in a specific nutrient when considering their dietary intake. This has severe limitations because people not only have different and unique fingerprints, but also different and unique nutritional requirements. In my opinion, the RDAs are useful only as a guide as to what amounts of these nutrients will prevent specific nutritional diseases like Scurvy, Beriberi, Rickets. To use them as a guide to attain better health can be catastrophic.

Factors Influencing Nutritional Status

1. Quality of food

2. Quantity of food

3. Efficiency of digestion.

4. Efficiency of absorption.

5. Efficiency of utilization.

1. The Quality of the Food. Food grown on nutrient poor soil can be deficient in certain nutrients The trace minerals in soils are largely governed by farming policy. Overworked soil and soils that have added chemicals such as pesticides, insecticides and herbicides, can adversely influence the quality of the food. Hormones, antibiotics and other chemicals fed to commercially grown cattle, chickens or pigs, to make them grow faster, definitely influences the biochemistry in our bodies. Certain processes that foods undergo during manufacture and storage influence their nutrient content. Even food preparation procedures in our kitchens influence the nutrient content of our foods.

2. The Quantity of the Food. In America, undernutrition is not a problem. However, malnutrition can occur anywhere as a result of wrong food choices and a dependence on large amounts of heavily refined foods. Processed foods (foods in boxes, cans and packages) have had many essential nutrients removed and can definitely influence nutrition. Whole grain and unprocessed (fresh) foods are always superior and in fact, the "health food nuts" of the past who insisted on whole grains and fresh vegetables have been proven right by modern science.

3. The Efficiency of Digestion. A person who has an inefficient digestive system will naturally be more likely to have a poorer nutritional status than a person with an efficient digestive system. The former is often seen by physicians when certain patients do not have enough hydrochloric acid in their stomach to allow the stomach enzyme pepsin to work properly. This leads to impairment of other digestive enzyme activity.

4. The Efficiency of Absorption. Digested foods must be absorbed properly from the intestine into the blood stream to provide the body with these essential nutrients. One example I see very often where patients do not absorb vital nutrients, is when patients have an overgrowth of a yeast called Candidiasis. The yeast grows little finger-like projections that tend to "plug up" the absorption tissues called villi and nutritional deficiencies can rapidly result.

5. The Efficiency of Utilization. A person may have proper digestion and absorption of their food and nutrients, but previous deficiencies of certain vitamins and coenzymes may prevent certain vital chemical reactions from taking place in the various metabolic processes that are going on continually in the body. Some people with genetic defects may excrete excessive amounts of nutrients in the urine which definitely influences one's nutrition.

Truths and Myths about Nutrition

The idea that our Western diet is excellent and healthy needs to be debunked. Below, I've listed some myths that are still widely believed by many doctors and nutritionists in America.

Myths

1. Animal protein is necessary for optimal health.

2. Nutritional deficiencies cannot exist in people on a so called "healthy balanced" diet.

3. Sugar is an essential nutrient for energy.

4. Milk is necessary to maintain adequate calcium balance.

5. Food preservatives, colorings and additives do not affect good nutrition.

6. Skipping meals will help you lose weight.

7. Breakfast can be skipped and it won't hurt you.

8. Vitamins give you energy and make you hungry.

Truths

The American diet contains too:

1. much animal fat,.

2. much salt,

3. much sugar and refined foods,

4. little fiber,

5. many processed foods,

6. much coffee, tea, alcohol and soda pop,

7. little pure water,

8. The American diet contains potentially harmful chemicals such as insecticides, pesticides, and herbicides, as well as colorings, flavorings, preservatives and additives,

9. Skipping meals will not help you lose weight and you should always eat breakfast every day,

10. Only calories from carbohydrates, proteins and fats give you energy. Vitamins themselves do not give you energy nor do they make you hungry.

A Lesson in Chemistry

The next session of this brochure could well be the most important of all in helping you to understand why you must change your dietary habits if you ever hope to achieve better health. If you presently are sick or have any major or minor illness and sincerely desire to get well, you must remember that in order to make your life anew, you've got to change your point of view. You must remember that no matter who you are and no matter what state your health is presently in, YOU CAN CHANGE AND IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH. You can slow down the aging process and eliminate the degenerative changes taking place in your body because with the information in this brochure, you will now be armed with the true facts as to what you must do. With my help, we will identify the major causes of your body's malfunction, then you must live as wisely as you can with the hazards you cannot remove. You see, there presently exists in the 1990s, effective medical knowledge that is sufficient to prevent and/or to reverse the many malfunctions of body processes that are continually happening in our body systems. Unfortunately, most physicians do not understand these processes and are unable to advise their patients accordingly.

Proper Chemical Balance Keeps Your Body Healthy

If you sincerely desire to attain the best of health and to stay healthy, you should try to understand some basics of the chemistry of dissolved solids in your body fluids and how they work to keep you healthy and disease free. I must warn you, however, that the explanation is quite technical and unfortunately many physicians do not understand these processes as they are not taught in any depth in our medical schools because the processes involve colloid chemistry - the chemistry of dissolved solids in liquids. If this section is too technical for you to understand, you may want to skip to the section entitled "A SIMPLIFIED EXPLANATION." I would prefer that you read this entire section however.

SOME BASIC DEFINITIONS

To clearly understand this next section, you must comprehend some basic definitions of chemistry language, so try to understand the following definitions.

Atom. An atom is the smallest part of an element that can exist or that can enter into a chemical combination. Atoms have a negative or positive electrical charge.

Electrolyte. Any substance or compound or molecule that can separate into ions when dissolved in solution, and thus becomes capable of conducting electricity. All salts as table salt (NaCl), Epsom Salt (MgSO4) or baking soda (NaHCO3), etc. are electrolytes.

Element. The fundamental or elementary substance that cannot be broken down by chemical means to simpler substances. All matter in the universe is made up or composed of one or a combination of 108 presently known elements. Examples of elements are hydrogen and oxygen, which combine to form water. Elements may be liquids, gases or solids.

Compound. A compound is a distinct substance containing 2 or more elements chemically combined in definite proportions by weight. Compounds can be broken down into the elements that make them.

Molecule. A molecule is the smallest uncharged individual unit of a compound and is formed by the union of 2 or more atoms. Water is a typical molecular compound and a single molecule of water consists of 2 atoms of hydrogen and 1 atom of oxygen giving the chemical formula H20. A molecule of table salt contains two elements; one atom of sodium (NA+) and one atom of chloride (Cl-) and when combined, form a single molecule of salt with the chemical formula NaCl.

Ion. An ion is a positively or negatively electrically charged atom or a group of atoms. An ionic compound is held together by attractive forces that exist between positively (+) charged and negatively (-) charged ions. A positively charged ion is called a CATION (pronounced cat-eye-on) and a negatively charged ion is called an ANION (an-eye-on).

Colloid. Particular matter (compounds usually in solution) in the size range of 10 angstroms (a unit of small-size measure) to one micron (another unit of measurement of larger size) in diameter which fail to settle out when in a solution or in a liquid suspension. When colloids are dissolved in or dispersed in a liquid or solution, this system is called a colloid system. All body fluids are examples of colloid systems as blood, urine, saliva, etc. In fact, blood and urine are a mass of colloids which include all electrolytes, protein particles, sugars and other dissolved solids.

Homeostasis. The state of equilibrium (balance) of the internal environment and relative constancy of all body fluids with their chemical and physical properties. Ideal homeostasis exists when all normal body fluid chemicals and dissolved solid substances are in perfect balance.

To summarize these definitions, I can state that one atom of sodium (Na+, an element and a cation) can combine with one atom of chloride (Cl-, an element and anion) to form one molecule of the chemical compound NaCl (table salt). Now, after dissolving the NaCl in water and when hundreds or even thousands of these NaCl molecules are dispersed (spread throughout the water ) we then have a colloid system composed of the colloid form of NaCl whose molecular particle size keeps the NaCl dissolved in the water and the NaCl doesn't settle out. If too much salt is added to the water, the solution will soon become overly saturated with NaCl and the excess NaCl molecules will clump together (aggregate or agglutinate) and settle out to the bottom.

Understanding Colloid Chemistry- Vital for Good Health

I feel that a terrible mistake is made in all our medical schools today, by not teaching colloid chemistry to all medical students. They are taught inorganic chemistry which is the chemistry of all elements (dead things) other than carbon and their compounds and they are taught organic chemistry which is the chemistry of the compounds of carbon (live things), and biochemistry which is the study of the specific molecular basis of life, but very little is taught about colloid chemistry which is what the body fluids are all about -- the behavior of the dissolved solids and colloids in all our body fluids. As I've already mentioned, most physicians are so ignorant concerning colloidal chemistry that they cannot even give you a clear definition of what a colloid is. This is tragic. Without an understanding as to how these colloids or dissolved solids behave in our body fluids, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANY PHYSICIAN TO FULLY UNDERSTAND THE MECHANISMS OF MANY DISEASE STATES AS WELL AS HOW TO TREAT THEM. This is one of the main reasons that medical students today are taught to treat symptoms of diseases with drugs and chemicals instead of being taught to treat the cause of the disease.

Our Blood - Constantly Out of Chemical Balance

Now, to put the aforementioned definitions to use to help you understand what is really happening concerning poor health in America, let me simply explain about what is happening with the cations and anions in all our body fluids, but with emphasis on the blood. When one is in good health and homeostasis and usually when a person is born, each liter (1,000 cc or slightly more than a quart) of blood contains approximately 2/3 anions and 1/3 cations. However, due to the pollution of our water, the polluted air we breathe, the chemicals and preservatives in the food we eat and the excessive amounts of prescription and nonprescription drugs and medications most people ingest, this ratio has reversed in most people to the point that most of us have about 2/3 cations and 1/3 anions in our blood.

Your Drinking Water- Critical

Most all city water filtration systems do an excellent job in making our drinking water germ free, but they do a miserable job in removing excess cationic dissolved solids that are increasing each year due to the pollution of our environment. Unfortunately, most bottled waters (with the exception of "distilled" water) do not address this problem and the majority of home water filtering systems on today's market do not remove these excessive cations. I advise all my patients to bring a pint of their drinking water to our clinic so we can check by a very sensitive electronic machine, the actual dissolved solids in their drinking water. I also advise my patients that before buying a home water filtration system to get a pint sample of the filtered water and bring it to the clinic to be checked before buying any water filtration system. I've found very few filtration systems that actually do what they claim to do, and those that do a good job are all using a reverse osmosis (R.O.) filtering system. Most of the waters from wells that I've been checking for my patients, have much fewer cationic dissolved solids than most city waters. Therefore, to help eliminate this hazard in your health, you should drink distilled water or reverse osmosis (R.O.) filtered water from a good home water filtration system. I CANNOT EMPHASIZE ENOUGH TO YOU, THE IMPORTANCE OF DRINKING AND COOKING WITH THE CORRECT TYPE OF PURE WATER THAT DOESN'T HAVE EXCESS CATIONS.

The Air You Breathe--Critical

Another danger that gives excess cations in our blood is the increasing pollution the air we breathe. All the smog, tobacco smoke, diesel and gas fumes, pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, detergents, deodorants, formaldehyde, phenolic compounds and many other chemicals polluting our environment today are primarily cationic in nature and only serve to add to the burden of excessive cations in our blood. One should therefore make every effort to avoid exposure to these pollutants, and some patients have to purchase special filters for their heating and air conditioning systems, especially at home.

Chemicals and Drugs You Take - Critical

The pharmaceutical and drug companies are making billions of dollars annually in selling over the counter and prescription drugs and medications. Most all the pain medications, antihistamines, cough medicines, antacids, and indigestion drugs, diarrhea medications, laxatives, sleeping pills, not to mention tobacco, alcohol, and illegal drugs, are primarily cationic in nature and when ingested, also serve to increase the excessive burden of cations in our blood and body fluid systems. It seems we are in a Catch 22 situation because the more drugs and chemicals we take in the sicker we become, which to most people simply calls for more drugs and chemicals to treat the symptoms, and we then begin to develop even more serious illness requiring more drugs. One must not forget that drugs and chemicals of all kinds are foreign to our bodies and only add severe stress to our already stressed-out systems, but they cause an excessive burden on the organs of elimination, suppress the immune system and severely compromise the imbalance of cations and anions in our blood, which in turn prevents maximum efficiency of all body processes throughout. Our health then suffers. No wonder the chronic degenerative diseases are increasing every year and the drug companies and many health practitioners keep getting richer and richer while unsuspecting citizens get sicker and sicker.

The Food You Eat - Critical

Probably the worse source of polluting cations in our blood and body is from our polluted food chain. All the ingredients added to our foods to make them look good, taste good, easy and convenient to prepare and all preservatives added to give longer shelf life, are cationic in nature and critically compromise the overburden of cations in our blood. In fact, at last count, there are over 60,000 different colorings, flavorings, preservatives, taste enhancers, emulsifiers, texture balancers and a multitude of other types of food additives that serve to increase the cationic imbalance in our blood and body systems. The processing of these foods alone, in addition to poisoning with cationic additives, only serves to make these foods deficient in vital nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and fatty acids. Many people today are eating only processed foods, so no wonder America is sick. If you are following this same pattern, then you are going to get sicker unless you take your health into your own hands and do something about your health. Unfortunately, most people do not have anywhere to turn to for advice because most physicians know very little about nutrition. They know even less about cations, anions, and colloidal chemistry, and the health of America continues to suffer, degenerative diseases increase, the pharmaceutical and drug companies and most doctors get richer and the cost of health care keeps sky rocketing.

What a dilemma!

Why Excess Cations are Dangerous

The question now arises as to why these excessive cations are so dangerous in causing disease and why the depleted anions are protective and prevent the development of many disease conditions. When one does an indepth study of colloids and colloidal chemistry and the behavior of these dissolved solids in our blood, one quickly learns that there are known and proven laws of behavior that regulate and control the actions of these dissolved particles of cations and anions. There are proven laws concerning Zeta Potential, Vander-Waal-London forces, specific conductance, surface tension, steric hindrance, surfactants, electrophoresis, anion gap, homeostasis, intravascular coagulation and other processes that are vitally important in controlling the behavior of these dissolved solids in our blood. It would take a full length textbook to explain what actually happens and why it happens in our blood when we reach the point of having excessive cations dominate our fluid systems.

Hopefully a very simplified explanation will suffice to help you get an idea of what is happening in your blood when overburdened with excess cations. Cations are sticky in nature and you can imagine sticky substances in your blood trying to flow through your arteries and capillaries. A good portion of these sticky substances are going to stick to the lining of your blood vessels and this can build up over a period of time. (Could this be the actual cause of arteriosclerosis or hardening of the arteries?) These sticky cations will stick to the formed elements (red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets) and they in turn will have a tendency to not only stick together (agglomerate) but also to stick to the blood vessel walls or lining. All of these sticky processes will finally terminate in a condition of electrolyte imbalance and intravascular coagulation where your organs and tissues cannot receive the proper nutrients (even if your diet has made them available), nor can the cells and tissues properly rid themselves of the cell products of waste metabolism. This results in a severe deterioration of cellular function and degeneration sets in. I've made a list of 64 different disease states where the above processes are playing a vital role in causing or aggravating these disease conditions. It's also been shown scientifically that heavy metal cations such as lead, mercury, aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, nickel and beryllium, are the absolute worst cations to initiate this intravascular coagulation. Our foods that are sticky are the high cation foods. All sweets and desserts, all processed foods (with additives of cations) like white flour foods, macaroni, spaghetti, pizza, chips and dips, most cereals, canned fruits, and all fatty red meats, but especially pork should be avoided as they are highly cationic. There are unprocessed foods like oatmeal and fresh fruits that are sticky and they have high cations but they also have high amounts of anions to balance them.

The anionic foods are all the green foods, yellow foods, and slicky foods. If any vegetable is green, yellow, or slicky, it is high in the good anions. You can cut a cucumber and on rubbing it, the slickiness is felt. The same holds true for squash, okra, broccoli, spinach, greens, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, as well as all the fresh green leafy vegetables. Yellow vegetables like squash, lemons, sweet potatoes, bananas or pumpkins, etc. are also highly anionic. The anions in the blood are slicky and all the formed elements (red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets) have a built in preference to have the anions coat their surfaces instead of cations, as well as the endothelial cells (lining) of our blood vessels. With adequate anions in the blood, you will find no intravascular coagulation (clumping or agglutination) and the circulation is greatly enhanced as those slicky cells slide quickly and easily through all our blood vessels and capillaries without clumping, and nutrients are efficiently delivered to the cells and tissues, and waste products from cellular metabolism are quickly removed from their source and carried to the excretory organs for proper elimination very efficiently. A person who has the proper amounts of the slicky anions will seldom be seen suffering from any of the 64 diseases listed.

MOST PHYSICIANS DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS

I want you to understand that the above subject and discussion is totally unknown, much less understood by 99% of the practicing physicians and health practitioners today. They haven't been taught colloidal chemistry and most doctors do not even understand the language of colloidal chemistry, much less comprehend the laws or principles involved in the forces that regulate the behavior of these dissolved solids (colloids) that our body fluids are composed of. So they will not even understand what I'm talking about and in all likelihood will ridicule, criticize, or scoff at the previous discussion because, human nature being what it is, I've learned that a law of human nature that usually applies is "if they are not up on it, they are down on it." (No one likes to admit their ignorance). Any honest and sincere physician reading this brochure will be compelled to call me to try to learn more about this vital subject in order to better treat their patients. The doubters and those that criticize this information are simply uninformed and ignorant (and maybe stupid), concerning these principles because there are basic laws concerning dissolved solids in the body fluids that work in certain ways under various conditions that I did not invent or make up or even discover, but these laws operate every day in our body fluids that control the behavior of these colloids. When we violate the laws we must suffer the consequences and our health deteriorates.

My goal in life is to find the TRUTH concerning my personal, professional and religious life, and I've tried to pass on these truths to you, my patient, in order to ensure that you attain better health. The previous discussion on colloids and dissolved solids in our body fluids are not my invention or conclusions. I'm not intelligent enough to figure out or to tie together all the processes involved because I am not a chemist, even though I have made an indepth study on colloid chemistry principles. Numerous other physicians, chemists and scientists have made the discoveries and I have simply tired to help organize and tie these vital principles and laws together so that my patients can get well faster. I want no credit and deserve none for any discoveries or information produced in this brochure, but I have been able to help organize the ideas and principles into a format that will benefit my patients and help anyone who applies these principles and ideas to maintain superior health. I've never claimed to know everything and never will, but when I see the health of my patients improve by applying the ideas and principles recommended in this brochure, I feel obligated to share this information with anyone, physician or patient, who desires to achieve better health. These principles work and will enable you, if applied, to achieve the best of health for yourself and your family.

TWELVE VITAL NUTRITIONAL AND HEALTH TOPICS

There are twelve "good health" practices and topics that needs further discussion and/or clarification to give you a crystal clear understanding of why you should incorporate them in your overall lifestyle. There is considerable confusion and false information that has been given out by various individuals and self interest groups concerning these subjects. Most of the confusion and incorrect fallacies have been spewed out to the general public in order for their perpetrators to make a profit on some "health product" they are selling to an unsuspecting public. My desire and goal here is to bring you the truth, the facts, the proven knowledge to help you have the opportunity to use this truth to achieve better health - and I'm not trying to sell you any product or service. I just want you and your family to be healthy and avoid sickness. You may not be able to apply all of these principles to your lifestyles, but you will have the truth at your fingertips to use if you so desire. Again, IT'S UP TO YOU! I sincerely hope you put this information to good use.

1. REFINED AND PROCESSED FOODS

The food processing companies today are all in business to make money. You must never forget this fact. This is the American way, and I'm not being critical of them when I state this truth. There is tremendous competition among these companies and they are all striving to get you - the consumer - to buy their product instead of their competitors'. They do not want to harm you in processing their foods, but they simply want to make a profit from your purchases.

These companies know that in today's society, in order for the average family to maintain the same standards of living that we are used to and the same standards our parents maintained as we grew up, it has become necessary for most husbands and wives to both work or be employed. The average wife (or husband) simply does not have the time or energy to prepare the wholesome and nutritious meals they feel they should feed their family. They must take short cuts and look for ways to save time, energy and money to give the family the necessary meals required. The easiest way to do this is to purchase processed, refined and prepackaged foods. Knowing this and trying to get your dollar, all food processing companies know that to be successful, they must make their packaged foods look good, taste good, and maintain a long shelf life. In order to accomplish this, they must remove many vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, much fiber and other vital nutrients from the foods and they have to add color and taste enhancers, emulsifying agents, preservatives and many other additives to keep the foods looking good and preserving them. All these added chemicals are cations and dangerous to your health. With some foods (like white breads) the U.S. Government requires that they add back 7 of the 23 nutrients removed. Most of the companies try to capitalize even on this by advertising that their product is "enriched" with the 7 nutrients they added back, but they never mention the other 16 vital nutrients removed from the flour. This is fraud and deception in my opinion as they are trying to make us believe they are "enriching" the product by adding back the previously removed nutrients.

Processed or refined foods are all packaged in boxes, bottles, cans or cellophane packages and include all sweets, pastries and desserts of all types, all white flour products including breads, crackers, biscuits, macaroni, spaghetti, pizza, most all soups, canned meats and vegetables and fruits and cereals. I jokingly tell my patients they can eat the box or cans, bottles or cellophane packages, but don't eat the processed foods in them. Truly, these cationic foods are very detrimental to your health and ideally should be avoided. The best safeguard to avoid these bad foods is to read all labels of any foods purchased and totally stay away from those items when food labels list the chemicals and additives that are put in the foods. Remember, fresh foods are the best to purchase, frozen or home canned are second best and bottled or packaged foods are the worst.

And don't forget that most artificial sweeteners are also cationic and are not the best for you. The best sweeteners would be unprocessed honey (with some honeycomb in the bottle) and blackstrap molasses. White sugar or any ingredients ending in "ose" (glucose, fructose, maltose, etc. ) as well as all white flour products tend to create an acid medium in the colon which is destructive to the good germs found in the colon. The good germs play a vital part in preventing yeast overgrowth, parasites and other harmful germs that try to grow in the colon.

Also, remember refined foods and sugars are usually depleted in fiber and this simply slows the progress of the foods passing through the intestine which makes one more susceptible to constipation, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, colon and rectal cancers. Also, with a slower transit time through the colon, more time is allowed for putrefaction (rotting) of the refined foods to occur in the colon which allows more toxic substances to be absorbed into your system.

And finally, please remember that all commercial wheat flour is prepared so that it can be stored for long periods of time without spoiling. To do this, "the life" is removed from the wheat in the processing. Fresh whole wheat flour spoils rapidly. Unfortunately, except for those fortunate enough to possess a household flour mill, truly fresh flour is unavailable and this also applies to whole wheat breads found in most supermarkets. Probably your best choice under these circumstances is to purchase whole wheat bread from your local health food store and make sure that the bread purchased from your grocery store has written on the package 100% Whole Wheat or 100% Whole Grain. Eat no food products prepared from commercially processed wheat flour.

2. RAW FRUITS AND VEGETABLE

All raw foods (except meats) are much more nourishing than cooked foods. The cooking process destroys or changes many vitamins, minerals and especially enzymes (cell produced catalysts involved in vital cell functions) which can severely compromise your digestion and the availability of these important nutrients. Raw fruits and vegetables are more cleansing and detoxifying than cooked foods, and their roughage or fiber value helps keep your food moving through the intestine efficiently. This plays a strong part in preventing hemorrhoids, varicose veins, diverticulosis and other colon diseases, as well as colon cancer. Also, the natural vitamins, minerals, amino and fatty acids in the raw foods are readily available for absorption and therefore play a major part in preventing deficiencies of these substances. The super abundance of natural enzymes in raw foods will ensure good digestion and absorption of essential nutrients.

Many people go for weeks with no more raw food in their diet than perhaps a small amount of lettuce or an occasional glass of fruit or vegetable juice. Ideally, at least 75 % of our fruits and vegetables should be eaten raw and uncooked. This principle of nutrition is one that is most often overlooked and neglected in our American society.

You should understand that raw fruits and vegetables are "live" foods, and cooking them makes them "dead" foods. Life diminishes in all fruits and vegetables in direct proportion to the time lapsed since picking. Life involves receiving live nutrients like vitamins, minerals, enzymes, amino acids and fatty acids and cooking makes many of these elements dead. We originally ate living food - that is right after picking or harvesting and even as recent as 30-40 years ago most people obtained much of their food from their own gardens and livestock. Dead foods are devitalized of most nutrients. Even though they will fill your stomach, they do not nourish your body and give good health. Therefore, dead foods like cooked fruits and vegetables produces death, and live foods like raw fruits and vegetables produce life.

Our Creator with His omniscient wisdom made our foods whole and placed within each type of whole food the proper and adequate nutrients that are necessary for our body to digest, absorb and use these particular foods. This is why different foods contain different essential nutrients. Then humankind comes along trying to make a profit, refines the food, and removes many of the nutrients and adds chemicals to enhance taste and appearance and to preserve shelf life. This refining then destroys the God-intended value of the food. It's common sense to ask yourself, "How can any given food be assimilated and used by our body when the refining process robs that food of its vital nutrients."

Let me explain why the above is so critically important. In researching and studying why the chronic degenerative diseases were increasing and what treatment methods could be applied to halt this onslaught on the health of America, I came to several conclusions. Of these conclusions, there were three that were certain primary sources that greatly contribute to the epidemic of cardiovascular-renal disease we are seeing today. My conclusions were influenced greatly by T.C. McDaniel, D. O. of Cincinnati, Ohio, and published work completed by the late physical chemist, Thomas M. Reddick of New York.

These three vital contributing factors causing the cardiovascular-renal disease epidemic are:

1. Excessive mineral salts (strongly cationic) intake that is happening to most all Americans today.

2. The reversal of the God-provided natural sodium-to-potassium ratio that is directly caused by food processing today.

3. The ingesting of these excessive mineral salts are overworking, overwhelming and critically harming our kidneys which results in colloid particle imbalances in the blood, and then intravascular coagulation begins. Degenerative diseases result.

As Dr. T.C. McDaniel concluded, I agree that a major factor contributing to the excessive mineral salts in our food supply lies in the basic misconception and lack of knowledge on the part of the FDA concerning the physical chemistry of food processing. Although the FDA limits certain chemical additives to food to 1% of the amount demonstrated to be without harm to experimental animals, they permit virtually unlimited use of hundreds of chemicals that they classify as GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe). I sincerely do not believe the FDA researchers fully understand the colloidal behavior of the excess salt, for example, found in our processed foods.

In measuring the specific electrical conductance (mineral salts) in 8 fresh vegetables (asparagus, beets, carrots, corn, lima beans, peas, string beans and tomatoes), it was found that measurement of these foods in a fresh state resulted in an average of 7500 micromhos. These same foods measured from canned and processed sources gave an average reading of 17,500 micromhos. These readings show over 2 1/2 times the mineral salts found in these canned vegetables as compared to fresh forms.

Another example was taken from the Handbook of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (No. 8) which shows the amounts of sodium and potassium and their ratios of these minerals in the natural God- given, fresh state, and also after being processed. Eighteen fresh natural foods were listed (including those mentioned in the specific conductance test). In the fresh, raw state, these foods averaged (after measuring total sodium and potassium content) 14% sodium and 86% potassium, giving a ratio of 1:6, or one part sodium to 6 parts of potassium. These same foods were listed after processing, and they showed 75% sodium and 25% potassium with a ratio of 3:1, three times as much sodium (added) to one part of potassium (most removed). These figures prove that the potassium was intended to be the major mineral with sodium the minor one. After processing, these ratios are totally reversed, which should give you the very best conclusions as to why you should eat as many of your fresh fruits and vegetables as you can, in the raw, uncooked, unprocessed form.

3. Meat, Meat Products and Proteins in Your Diet

Proteins are one of the seven food and nutrient groups that you have read about previously in this brochure. Human muscle cells are composed primarily of protein and these proteins are made from chains of amino acids. Amino acids are molecules of chemicals that contain nitrogen bonds. Sources of these amino acids, of which there are twenty three known to be required in human nutrition, include meats from animals, fish, and poultry; dairy products; and non-animal sources - chiefly legumes (beans and lentils, etc. ) nuts, seeds and sprouts. Proteins are also derived from the germ portion of whole grains. Our human body makes fifteen of these twenty three amino acids, and the additional eight are termed essential amino acids because they are not made by the body and must be included in adequate amounts in our diet. These eight essential amino acids are tryptophan, phenylalanine, leucine, isoleucine, valine, methionine, lysine, threonine, and, in children, histadine. Proteins are generally considered the building blocks in our body to make and repair new tissues, to make and repair certain cells and cellular parts, to make hormones, antibodies, enzymes and other necessary chemical compounds in the body. They also supply a certain amount of necessary anions in the body, although they are generally classed as amphoteric which means that they can act as an acid or an alkali, and may exhibit anionic or cationic properties.

The largest concern regarding proteins surrounds the controversy of animal versus vegetable sources. One of the chief problems with animal protein intake is the excess fat content. Fats supply nine calories per gram compared to protein at 4.5 calories per gram; therefore, since each variety of meat varies in fat content, some proteins have more calories than others. For example, two ounces of baked chicken without the skin yields 284 calories and two ounces of broiled sirloin steak will yield 392 calories. It becomes very important in our diet that we try to choose meats that have the least amount of fat content in them. The highest fat content consists of pork and fatty red meats while the lowest calorie content includes chicken, fowl, and most types of fish and seafood products, as well as eggs and dairy products.

It should also be mentioned that dairy products like milk, cheese, yogurt, eggs and animal meats supply all eight essential amino acids. Most vegetable sources do not supply all eight amino acids and thus must be combined to provide all essential amino acids together at the same meal. It has been shown in one study that excess proteins may contribute to calcium loss through the use of calcium as a binding agent or the excretion of nitrogenous waste products. Prolonged consumption of protein poor diets can retard brain development, modify the chemical composition of the brain, and produce long term learning and behavioral deficits.

In the United States and Canada, it has been shown that about 40 percent of free living people over the age of 60, show evidence of protein malnutrition, or deficiencies of selective nutrients such as zinc and iron that are found in meats. This has a very detrimental effect on our immune system which makes us much more susceptible to infections of all types. Another study showed that 80 percent of women taking birth control pills have demonstrated abnormal tryptophan metabolism.

To my patients, I recommend that pork (bacon, sausage, ham) be avoided at all costs. Pork not only contains extremely high amounts of saturated or bad fat but in Germany it has been shown that pork contains excessive amounts of certain bad germs that are often not destroyed in the cooking process. Pigs and hogs are scavengers and God even warned the Israelites not to eat pork. I have my patients avoid fatty red meats and use only the lean cuts of beef. I advise patients to limit lean beef to once a week and instead try to get their proteins from lean chicken, fowl, fish, low fat cheese, and low fat milk or yogurt and eggs.

Excessive intake of proteins provides no more protein for the bodily needs than what is "enough," as the excess protein is used either as carbohydrate or fat. The more important factor to be considered is the digestion of a normal quantity of protein, so that a reasonable amount is supplied each day, and so I recommend to my patients that, if they are depending on meats for protein, they should limit their protein intake to one meal a day and preferably have an average serving of meat at the evening meal.

Contrary to some opinions, the grinding of meat into small particles (like hamburger) does not increase its digestibility. Nor does the thorough chewing of meat. No protein digestion occurs in the mouth. Meat needs only to be chewed to the extent that it may be easily swallowed. On the other hand, grinding of meat can have deleterious effects. Ground meat spoils rapidly at room temperature and whole meat does not; in fact, a sort of "predigestion" can occur. Nucleic acids are released in the grinding process and apparently this changes preservability. Similar action may occur when ground meat is introduced into the intestinal tract. Here the temperature situation for spoilage is ideal. If there is insufficient hydrochloric acid in the stomach or a lack of proteolytic (protein digesting) enzymes, the possibility of putrefaction (rotting) of proteins is greatly enhanced with ground meat as compared with whole meat. Preserved meats such as wieners, sausages, bologna, potted meat, luncheon meats, salami, and Vienna sausages do not have as much of a putrefaction tendency; however, they are absolutely loaded with chemicals and preservatives which play a very detrimental part in causing poor health. They simply should be totally avoided.

4 . FOOD COMBINATIONS

Poor food combining or food combinations can be a cause of toxicity in the body. The reason for this is that certain food groups do not digest well together. Some foods digest primarily in the stomach, others in the small intestine. Some foods digest in minutes while others take many hours. Some foods require an acid medium to digest in and others an alkaline medium. Therefore certain foods eaten together do not digest properly and thus tend to become toxic. For example, starches digest primarily in the small intestine while protein digestion mostly occurs in the stomach. Eating the two together holds the starch in the stomach too long which leads to putrefaction. This is one example of how even the best food can become toxic to you. Fruits digest in a few minutes while starches require at least an hour or two to digest. When the two are combined, the fruit putrefies as it is unable to pass through the intestine quickly enough. Fruit with protein usually causes the same problem. The fruit needs to pass right through the stomach and the protein food needs to digest in the stomach for a much longer period of time, and when eaten together, this blocks the fruits' passage.

Also sugar inhibits or retards the action of protein digesting enzymes. Therefore, sweet foods such as sugar and dessert foods should not be eaten at the same time as animal foods like meats. As an example, beans (pinto or navy beans) are an excellent vegetable source of proteins. In Mexico, the pinto bean is a major constituent of the diet and is eaten unsweetened. In this country, "baked beans" are served which combine proteins and sugar. Baked beans are noted for the digestive flatulence (gas) that they cause. Most Americans are accustomed to finishing off a good protein meal (steak or other meat) with sweet desserts (like apple pie). Desserts should be eaten several hours after mealtime on an empty stomach for best nutrition. There are many sugar-protein combinations which may be avoided easily. The fact that most foods contain some protein must be taken into consideration of course. Also, a small amount of sugar does little harm if it is not eaten regularly. Even natural sugars such as honey and blackstrap molasses (which I usually recommend) are less harmful than any processed sugars, but they are best eaten at different times than with high protein meals. For example, orange juice that is high in natural sugars would not be an ideal combination with eggs (high proteins). A better choice would be tomato juice.

We usually do not go into depth in the education of my patients concerning combinations of foods because I have found that the person who is in average good health can usually tolerate poor-food combinations without any serious or critical ill effects. However, in some patients who have a severely compromised immune system, I do encourage that they observe the following recommendations which have been shown through the ages to be the very best information concerning food combinations.

1. Proteins generally do not combine with starches. This is probably the worst of the disease-producing habits. Of course, this really hits home "with meat and potato" eaters, as well as those who excessively use sandwiches in their diet. In the digestive process, they tend to neutralize themselves and good digestion is impossible. The increased putrefaction and rotting takes place under these circumstances. Exceptions to this rule are avocados, which combine fairly well with grains.

2. Fruits do not combine with starches. Fruits digest immediately in the mouth and small intestine, while starches require more of their digestive time in these areas. The fruit sugars are quickly absorbed into the intestine, while the starch requires digestion in the mouth, stomach, and small intestine. Ideally, one should eat a fruit meal by itself. Most people prefer to make breakfast their main fruit meal and this is a good idea.

3. Fruits do not combine with proteins. Here again, the fruits go directly into the intestine, while protein requires much more time digesting in the stomach. If sugars are held back in the stomach while trying to digest protein, you can count on the fruit putrefying.

4. Fruits do not combine with vegetables. A good way to remember this is that fruits are cleaners and vegetables are builders. It's very difficult to clean and build a house at the same time. One exception to this is tomatoes, a fruit. You can have tomatoes with most salad vegetables.

5. Acid fruits do not combine with sweet fruits. These two food groups repel each other. Acid fruits include the citrus fruits like lemons, limes, oranges, pineapple, tangerines, and grapefruit, along with most available berries and tomatoes. The sweet fruits include bananas, dates, dried fruits, including apples, apricots, figs, peaches, pears, prunes, and raisins.

5. FASTING

Food combining is usually recommended for patients in very critical health and especially those with a very compromised immune system. If you've spent years as a "junk food junkie," ideally, you need more than withdrawal from these foods and changing to a natural foods diet. With the accumulation of chemicals, preservatives, and additives in these junk foods and other harmful substances in your body, a detoxification program should be implemented. Even natural foods, especially fruits, certain vegetables, and their juices, possess a considerable detoxifying effect. Certain vitamins are very important in the detoxification process and especially vitamin C. Fasting is the fastest way of bringing about elimination of toxins in the body and the quickest way of getting toxic materials out of the body. Fasting on just water or perhaps juice, greatly enhances body detoxification. During such a fast, the body can "live off itself" and burns up dead cells, waste materials and excess fat to supply energy. Since many toxins end up stored in the fatty tissues, the benefits of fasting for detoxification is simply logical. I'm convinced that regular fasting one day per week produces great benefit in maintaining a clean system. Some authorities recommend longer fasts of three days or more, to be taken 3 or 4 times each year, which induces more thorough body detoxification, and this can be compared to a quarterly "spring cleaning."

It is common knowledge that fasting has thousands of years of reputation as the ultimate form of detoxification. Let me briefly explain what fasting does and how it can help your health. When I speak of fasting, I am talking about the total abstinence from food but not water, for a certain period of time. When one fasts, no food is being converted into energy and the body must live off of itself, a process called autolysis. There's nothing harmful about his since the body must go for several weeks without food as it burns up dead cells and fatty tissues where most toxic chemicals are stored in the body. Fasting is really sort of an internal operation without using surgery. When the digestive and elimination systems shut down in fasting, more energy is available for detoxification and repair. Therefore, when one fasts, one usually sees a greater increase in one's energy on the third day of a fast, than what it would be when eating normally.

I believe personally that short term fasts, such as one day per week, can be an excellent benefit to your health. I have also learned from research done in Germany that one should never fast more than ten days, however, as this could be very detrimental to your health. By abstaining from two or three meals one day each week, this gives you a sort of weekly "house cleaning" inside your body. If you decide to fast, please remember that it can be very beneficial to your health, but you should certainly exercise some care by following the guidelines listed below.

How To Fast Properly

1. When you begin to fast, the detoxification will often cause headaches, tiredness, fatigue, and even nausea. This is normal and it simply means that you are eliminating harmful toxins and substances from your body. When these side effects are seen, it merely shows that your body needs the fasting experience and these symptoms usually disappear after the second or third day.

2. If you decide to fast, you should begin your fasting experience gradually. You should start with a one day a week fast and probably skip only two meals. Later on, you can skip three meals on your weekly fast, and after several months of this kind of fasting, you can then handle a two or three day fast if you desire. Never begin a long fast unless your body is accustomed to fasting.

3. Once you begin your fasting program on a-one-day per week basis, you will soon notice that there is very little to no discomfort because of the successful elimination of most of your accumulated toxins.

4. You should keep in mind that you should not fast if you are pregnant, have an advanced chronic degenerative disease or even diabetes.

God Recommends Fasts

We must not forget that fasting is recommended by God in the Bible in many places and fasting is one of God's greatest gifts for man's health. It is probably the very best method to eliminate the toxins that have accumulated in your fatty tissues over a period of years.

6. FERMENTED FOODS

Fermentation was one of the first methods of preservation discovered for foods. Because of the fermentation process, foods such as sauerkraut, pickles, yogurt, cheeses, buttermilk, and cottage cheese came into existence. All of these foods in their natural form have a long history of use and are highly acceptable in dietary items. I've learned from researchers in Germany that there are two kinds of lactic acid produced by the body. When all body processes are functioning properly, the body produces a form of lactic acid called L-lactic acid, and when the body is overly stressed and not functioning properly, a bad form of lactic acid called D-lactic acid is produced. Even today, with many of my patients with chronic degenerative diseases, I have found that by supplementing extra L-lactic acid for these patients, their improvement is greatly enhanced. As the fermentation process acts to produce primarily L-lactic acid, this natural acid is common to the previously named foods. This L-lactic acid seems to have a "preservative" effect on the intestinal tract as well. Such foods as yogurt and buttermilk thus have an enviable reputation for being favorable to intestinal environment. The fermentation process also seems to act somewhat as a "predigesting factor." Tough fibers are made softer; nutrients may be released from their biological hold, such as lactose (milk sugar), which is richer in buttermilk than in sweet milk. It has also been found that lactose favorably influences and enhances the absorption of calcium.

Two Good Fermented Foods

There are two foods that are outstanding in the fermented food class: buttermilk and sauerkraut. They are easily available and both are very rich sources of L-lactic acid. Buttermilk is preferred, of course, because of its high protein and calcium content. But those who do not care for buttermilk should consider sauerkraut as a source of L-lactic acid. It would be a good health practice to try to include some fermented foods in your diet each day, like buttermilk, yogurt, sauerkraut, or cottage cheese.

7. Exercise and Physical Activity

Did you know that a fairly recent Gallop Poll reported that only 24 percent of the citizens of the U.S. exercise regularly? Because of the mechanization of our society over the past 100 years with machines and household appliances, and since only a very small number of people now earn their living in jobs requiring persistent physical activity, physical inactivity for the majority of Americans has become the rule and not the exception. I've asked many patients "What is the most strenuous exercise that you have engaged in the past two weeks?" And the great majority state that actually their exercise has been no greater than walking up a flight of stairs, walking from their car across a parking lot to their place of business, or maybe even just pushing a grocery cart. What we should understand is that "running around all day," whether it be at home or at our place of work is definitely not exercise and should not be considered as such.

There have been many new studies completed the last ten years which have fairly well proven that lack of exercise or habitual inactivity very often contributes to high blood pressure, chronic fatigue, premature aging, poor muscle tone and lack of flexibility, which in turn aggravates low back pain, mental stress, coronary artery disease and especially obesity. Prolonged inactivity also slows bowel function, decreases male hormone production in men, as well as decreases sperm counts. Without proper physical activity, there is very inefficient transfer of oxygen in the lungs, and it also has been shown to aggravate and make us more susceptible to developing softening of the bones or osteoporosis. We have seen that lack of exercise causes rapid deterioration of muscle tissue, as well as connective tissue in our ligaments and tendons. If you want to age faster, then do not exercise because, when you don't use your muscles, it is true that "if you don't use it, you lose it." Exercise also increases the good cholesterol in the body and lowers the bad cholesterol and total cholesterol levels.

A person doesn't have to be a marathon runner or chop wood three hours a day in order to become more active. There are many forms of exercise that a person can perform and these range from walking to jogging, bicycling, swimming, rebounding, or getting involved in some sport activity such as tennis, volleyball, or possibly even playing golf. The most important decision for you, however, is to make a definite decision that you are going to exercise at least five days each week and begin some program. I'm going to briefly discuss two types of exercise programs that I will recommend for the great majority of my patients, and they involve brisk walking and rebounding.

For those patients who are entering their "golden years," a simple routine involving a brisk, daily walking is quite sufficient for the initial part of the exercise regime and may be all that a lot of patients ever need. The usual response to my walking prescription is that walking makes a person hungry. This is not true. When the body is walking briskly, the body's fat deposits are tapped freely for energy in order to supply fuel for the muscles so the blood becomes loaded with these fuel materials. The net effect is that, not only does the muscle tissue have readily available fat to burn, but the hunger mechanism is short circuited, and there is actually less hunger than if there had been no activity. A prolonged walk at a steady pace with constant stress on the circulatory system and the heart is beneficial in many ways. The primary concern in exercise is to increase your pulse rate and get your heart beating faster. This increase should be from fifty to seventy percent higher than your normal resting pulse, but do not overdo it. You would be wise to get in the habit of exercising twenty minutes every day with your heart beating faster. Morning exercise is better for you because it will give you more energy all day long.

In the beginning, the walk should be short and slow but gradually build up one's speed and distance. When asked how fast one should walk, I often use the following example: "Imagine that you are wearing thin clothing and that the temperature outside is below freezing, the wind is blowing hard, and it is raining and you have to go to the bathroom very badly and you are a mile from home. How fast would you walk to get there?" Now, that's brisk walking!

Of all the types of exercise available, in the past year I have concluded that the very best form of exercise is rebounding or using a small mini-trampoline, called a rebounder. This form of exercise is different from other physical activities because it puts gravity to work in your favor. It has many advantages over "regular" exercise because it, in addition is a cellular exercise. By subjecting each of the sixty trillion cells in your body to greater gravitation pull, waste products are squeezed out and nutritional elements and oxygen are drawn into the cells. The cells function more efficiently, the metabolism increases to its maximum. With this form of exercise, the membranes around each cell become stronger as they demand more protein from the body. These thicker membranes are better able to fight off foreign invaders like germs, toxins, poisons, and other pollutants more effectively. Here, everything improves: the blood, the brain, the lungs, the muscles, all the internal organs, those of the senses, and even more.

Rebounding exercise will increase the vital capacity (can handle more oxygen) in your lungs and more oxygen will be delivered to the body tissues and better absorption of oxygen will result. There appears to be a faster gaseous exchange within the lungs. The red blood cell count, as well as more blood, is pushed through these vessels. The heart muscles work more efficiently and collateral circulation improves. The result is that more oxygen is carried to the heart muscle. Elevated blood cholesterol and trigylceride levels tend to come down, and the good cholesterol levels increase. Rebounding also strengthens the adrenal glands so that more severe stresses may be handled by the body. Your metabolism is enhanced and there is better absorption or nutrients from food intake. Digestion, appetite and elimination all get better. This type of exercise also tends to decrease any tendency for blood clotting or coagulation in the blood vessels. Many scientists believe that a prime cause or contributing factor of cancer is lack of oxygenation of the cells, and exercise is the main way to bring oxygen into the blood with which to bathe the cells.

I feel the most important benefit of rebounding, however, is its effect on the lymph system. Most people are not familiar with what the lymph system really is. It is another circulatory system within the body and it is the system that drains and removes toxins, poisons, and waste products from between each individual cell and delivers these waste products to the lymph nodes and that part of the immune system that destroys and eliminates toxins, bacteria, poisons, and other products that get in your body. In one sense, the lymph system is the metabolic garbage can of the body. It gets rid of toxins, dead cells, cancer cells, waste products, trapped proteins, pathogenic bacteria, and viruses, heavy metals, and assorted junk products that the cells need to get rid of.

Your circulatory system (heart, blood vessels, and blood) delivers food and oxygen to your cells, and the products of cell metabolic breakdown must be drained away with its load of waste through the lymph vessels. Now, unlike the artery system, the lymphatics do not have their own pump. There are only three ways to activate the speed up of the flow of lymph away from the tissues it serves and back into the main circulation. Lymphatic flow requires (a) muscular contraction from exercise and movement (b) gravitational pressure and (c) internal messages to the one-way valves that are present in these lymph vessels.

Arthur C. Guyton, M.D., Professor and Chairman of the Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi School of Medicine, is an internationally known expert on lymphology and the lymphatic system. He states, "The lymphatic group becomes very active during exercise but sluggish under resting conditions. During exercise, the rate of lymph flow can increase to as high as three to fourteen times normal because of increased activity. An increase in tissue fluid protein increases the rate of lymph flow and this washes the proteins out of the tissue spaces, automatically returning the protein concentrate to its normal low level. If it were not for this continual removal of proteins, the dynamics of the capillaries would become so abnormal within only a few hours, that life could no longer continue. There is certainly no other function of the lymphatics that can even approach this in importance."

As the lymphatic vessels have one-way valves in them, and the lymph flow only one way (towards the heart) when one jumps up on the rebounder, the lymph is thrown up also and cannot go back down the vessels because of the one way valves. This acts as a suction pump to pull out and suck out the lymph with accumulated toxins between the cells and return it back to the circulation where it is supposed to be.

How to Rebound

Jog on the rebounder for two minutes, then jump with both feet on the rebounder for two minutes and repeat this process over and over for twenty minutes in all. If you get dizzy at first, this is because the toxins are being pulled out of the spaces between your cells too rapidly. You should slow down or stop for a few minutes before continuing if this should happen. If you feel unsteady on the rebounder, you may want to hook a rope in the ceiling and let it hang down to hold onto or you could screw a little hand-holding hook in the wood door frame and simply hold on to this as you rebound.

8. Drink Water, Water, Water - Live Longer, Longer, Longer

The average person drinks nearly six times their body weight in water each year. In our bodies, water is absolutely vital for life. Our health becomes critical if we lose only 10% of our body water and death is certain if we lose 20%. Of our body weight, approximately 70% is water. Even our bones contain over 30% water. Our drinking water, beverages, and foods we eat are the sources of water for our bodies. Every cell in our body must have water or it dies. Water bathes the cells in our body and provides the medium or means of transportation for all metabolic elements which are food nutrients and body chemicals such as hormones, enzymes, vitamins, oxygen and minerals. In these cells, there are literally thousands of chemical reactions taking place at all times to use the food and water we take into our bodies to produce our energy. These processes taking place in the cells are generally referred to as "metabolism." Water is actually produced during these processes. These metabolic elements in the body fluids (primarily water) are constantly flowing in and out of our body cells, and waste products flow out of the body cells into the lymphatic system where they are returned to the blood circulation system and then carried to the kidneys for disposal. The heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of this blood plasma through about 70,000 miles of blood vessels in our bodies each day, sometimes at the rate of 40 miles per hour. Actually about a quart of water flows through our kidneys every minute. The kidneys are continually filtering out the waste products from the blood, and these products are excreted in the urine.

All body cells have a membrane or sac which completely surrounds the cells. The body water constantly bathing the cells is vital to maintain a delicate acid-alkali (base) chemical and physical balance between the cells and all body organs. This delicate balance that must be maintained is referred to as homeostasis, and must be maintained or we will die. If we don't have enough water intake, our body metabolism is depressed and when our metabolism slows down, our food has a tendency to turn into fat and we become much more fatigued.

Water is essential to moisten the delicate membranes in our nose, throat, bronchial and breathing tubes, so that oxygen is brought to our blood and carbon dioxide (a waste product) excreted. Water must be available to lubricate our joints, as well as allowing absorption of our food nutrients in our digestive tract. Without adequate water, one will see constipation. Waste products and toxins are increased in the blood and are carried to the liver which puts additional stress on the liver. These accumulated waste products and toxins depress the function of most of our glands. Water is vital in regulating our body temperature. Water is needed for our muscles to function properly and to maintain the right tone in our muscles. Adequate water prevents wrinkling and sagging of our skin.

It is extremely important that our body maintains a proper equilibrium between the intake and output of body water. This is called water balance. Our water intake comes from the fluids we drink (48%), from the solids we eat (40%), and from the metabolic processes taking place in the body (12%). The output water losses are from the kidneys (56%), skin (20%), lungs (20%), bowels or intestines (4%), and a small amount from tears. Proper water balance must be maintained by having the water intake equal the water output.

The water in the body is distributed in two main compartments. Water outside the cells is called extracellular water, and the water inside the cells is called intracellular. Intracellular water (about 9 gallons) makes up 50% of our total body weight and extracellular water (about 4 gallons) makes up 20%. The extracellular water is further divided into the water around the cells (interstitial, 10-11 quarts) and the blood plasma (intravascular, 3-4 quarts).

When we think about fluid retention, we are primarily concerned with the extracellular water, the water stored in the tissue spaces between the cells and water in the blood plasma. The chemical - sodium chloride (plain table salt) plays a very important part in determining whether fluid is retained or not. The concentration or sodium in the blood is carefully regulated by various hormones and chemical reactions in the body. When we take in too much salt, the kidneys begin to excrete more sodium in the urine in an effort to bring the delicately balanced sodium concentration back to normal. Sodium holds onto water and with excess sodium in our bodies, we become thirsty. When we then drink water, the sodium concentration is diluted and a delicate balance returns. When a person has swelling in the tissues, it generally means they have too much sodium in their body and in order to get rid of this sodium, we must make more water in our kidneys. To do this, we must make more urine; the best way to make more urine is to drink more water. This is the main way to get rid of any fluid retention without the use of drugs. This sounds paradoxical, but it is true: You must drink more water to get rid of water. If you have fluid retention, drinking less water will not help, but may aggravate it. If you have fluid retention, drinking more water will not worsen it, but help cure it.

You may be asking at this point, why not take a diuretic? Diuretics only cause water to leave the body in an abnormal and often dangerous manner. Besides, the water loss is only temporary. The body learns to depend on diuretics like many people are habituated to laxatives, when over a period of time they have had to increase the strength of the laxative for it to be effective. They must then depend on laxatives. I don't want this to happen to you.

A Major Problem Today; Most Drinking Water is Polluted

From the above discussion, you can easily understand that water is the key to all bodily functions: digestion, assimilation, circulation, elimination, lubrication, and temperature control and other important factors. Because of this, I'm sure you can understand that the purity and quality of the water you drink is vital to your body's well being. Another very important point that few people stop to think about, is that the Earth does not make any new water. In fact, only one percent of the Earth's water is suitable for drinking. The other 99% is either ice or unusable salty water. This same one percent is recycled over and over with all the potential exposure to chemicals, toxins, and poisons.

More and more, every day throughout our nation, magazines, television, and newspapers warn about the dangers of drinking polluted water, and many of the pollutants in the drinking water are tasteless, odorless, and colorless, but they are dissolved in the water. Unfortunately, for many generations, the oceans, rivers, and ground waters, have been a catch-all for waste products. The main sources of these waste products are AGRICULTURAL (fertilizers, insecticides, pesticides, herbicides, arsenic, nitrates), INDUSTRIAL (heavy metals, chemicals, solvents, mercury, organic waste, lead, rust, asbestos, dioxin, phenolics), and MAN-MADE (detergents, dissolved solids, sewage, algae, viruses, fungus, parasites, bacteria, hydrocarbons, chlorine). You should easily be able to see the seriousness of this problem when you stop to consider that over 66,000 chemicals are used in the United States and 45,000 pesticides are on the market. I saw in a recent issue of Sierra Magazine, an article which reported that of 1,200 different ingredients found in pesticides that are labeled "inert," only 300 are considered "safe," 100 are known to be dangerous and the risk for the remaining 800 are "unknown." The seriousness becomes even more apparent when one realizes that there are over 19,000 hazardous waste dumps, 95,000 landfills, tens of thousands of reservoirs, or pits that contain liquid waste, and millions of underground storage tanks and septic tanks. There are over three and a half billion gallons of liquid waste created each and every day, which potentially can pollute our water supply.

It's quite obvious that Big Brother knows the danger of this polluted water in our society and wants to keep us ignorant of this fact. Would you believe that recent legislative action has made it illegal to claim that any municipally treated water is detrimental to your health? Can you believe this? Ralph Nader's 1988 Report states, "Nationwide, 2,110 organic and inorganic contaminants have been identified in drinking water at various levels by Federal Land State Survey programs since the Safe Drinking Water Act was passed in 1974. Of these, the vast majority, nearly 2,090 of the over 2,100 contaminants are organic chemicals." This Ralph Nader report presents a national portrait of the real drinking water contamination crisis that local, state, and federal officials have been unwilling or unable to manage. The Environmental Protection Agency only tests for 33 contaminants, and if the standards for these are met, the water is considered safe. What about all the contaminants not tested for? Another factor is that, some of the most hazardous contaminants like asbestos and lead, usually enter the water after leaving the water treatment plants. Also, not realized by most people, is that the majority of water treatment facilities use aluminum sulfate to precipitate the cloudiness in our drinking water, and according to Colloidal Chemistry Laws, 3 parts per million of this aluminum will cause severe coagulation in our blood. Therefore, since many contaminants are not even tested for and others enter the drinking water after treatment, we all are potentially at great risk from these very harmful substances. The only way you can protect yourself is to drink distilled water, or reverse osmosis filtered water. I am recommending this for all my patients. In the rest of this paper, I will refer to distilled or reverse osmosis filtered water as "pure" water.

Water -- What You Should Do!

To Achieve the Best Good Health, You should Do This

To attain the best of health, it is essential that we all use "pure" water in our drinks of all types. I recommend that all my patients bring a sample of their water to the Clinic where I can check the dissolved solids found in the water. By law, I can only show you what is in the water, but I cannot tell you that the water is bad for your health if it is water that has been treated by a municipality. When most patients see what comes out of their water, I don't have to say anything because it is obvious that there is pollution present. Now, what are your options that you can follow to ensure that you get "pure" water for your family.

1. You could buy a reverse osmosis filtering water system for use at your home and this is probably the cheapest in the long run. I have been checking numerous water filtering systems and have only found two that do an adequate job. One of these is the Shakleer reverse osmosis filtering system, and the other is made by Purwaterr, which is manufactured by Water Factory Systems, Inc. They both sell for around $400. Personally I prefer the Water Factory Systems type. I would like to warn all patients though, that if they are considering buying a water filtering system, that they get a pint of the water after it is filtered and bring it here to be checked before making the purchase. The reason for this is that I have found that many water filtering systems simply do not do what they claim in their advertising. If you are going to buy a system, make sure that it works. A good reverse osmosis filtering system will remove these potentially dangerous colloids. Of course, the ideal water purification system will have 4 stages of purification. First should be a prefilter that removes all particles smaller than a red blood cell, and this protects the remaining cartridges and extends their lifetime. Stage 2 should be a granular activated carbon filter that removes chlorine as well as taste and odor causing compounds commonly found in water supplies. Stage 3 would include a reverse osmosis unit which really removes all the cations from metals, salts, and large organic molecules. And finally, the fourth stage should have a prolonged contact carbon filter to remove the chloramines, chlorophenols, and other organic chemicals. The Water Factory System filtering units have all of these stages; this is the type of unit I use at home and at our office.

2. You can purchase distilled water from your local grocery store, drug store, or health food store, and use this for all of your cooking and drinking purposes. Distilled water is certainly excellent water, and it does not have any of the potentially harmful colloids in it. There are several types of water distillers on the market, and most of them are very good as they remove all the cations. I have had one concern about some of the available water distillers, and that is there exists a possibility of some waters being contaminated with various hydrocarbons like gasoline or kerosene or other chemicals that may be volatile which turn into gas or vapor at high heat. Should this be the case, the volatile chemicals could be distilled out of the original water source and be fed into the newly formed distilled water and thereby remain contaminated. If you purchase a distiller, try to find one that has a trap for volatile substances. One such filter I have found is known as Aqua D Seriesr and is made by Pure Water, Inc. This distiller has a volatile gas vent that allows volatile gases to escape.

3. You can find a neighbor who has well water and get it checked. Most likely it will be much better than your regular tap water. It usually has some of the potentially harmful colloids but not nearly as much as municipally treated water does. It may be possible that you could make some type of arrangement with this neighbor who has the good well water to get some five gallon jugs and get your drinking and cooking water from them.

4. You may be forced for one reason or another to just use your regular tap water at your home or business.

No matter what type of water you use, whether it is reverse osmosis (RO) filtered water, distilled water, well water or municipally treated water, it is very important that you try to drink a least three quarts of water each day. I also recommend that you add the juice of a lemon (very high anions) to a gallon of water that you drink. Another option here is that you may prefer some Zetar crystals at BioMed which you can add to your water. This will also increase anions in your system very effectively. For those who want the absolute best, I recommend that you purchase Zeta crystals, and ask also me about a very inexpensive source of catalyst-activated water which offers even greater advantages.

The sole purpose of Zeta crystals is to help balance electrolytes in the body fluids; this will allow a person's natural filtration system, the kidneys, to help get rid of unwanted cations in body fluids. These crystals have the added advantage of being very highly concentrated with good anions, as well as providing extra magnesium to your system. I am convinced that magnesium deficiency is probably the most common mineral deficiency in America today. Most physicians, when they measure magnesium blood levels, cannot get a true picture of magnesium levels since magnesium is an intracellular mineral, and just measuring blood levels can give a false picture of the true levels in the body. Zeta crystals added to drinking water simply help one reach homeostasis faster and more efficiently.

Catalyst-activated water is an additional additive that seems to give more "life" to the water you drink. It increases the surface tension of the water, and the water becomes "wetter." By coating the formed elements in the blood (red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets) with this increased surface tension liquid, the cells become more slicky and simply flow through arteries and capillaries faster and easier, improving circulation.

Clinic Visits

I like all my patients to get a urine sample each visit and carry the urine sample to our laboratory to check the dissolved solids in their urine. This tells me if they are eating the right things and drinking the right water. It also tells a great deal about how body elimination is functioning. For all patients receiving intravenous injections, it is very important to have their effects checked in terms of dissolved solids in the urine. It would be helpful to devise a system where patients could check their own urine to motivate following diet and water intake properly.

Better health with proper water intake decreases cations and increases beneficial anions. This plays a tremendous part in helping prevent and treat over 64 different diseases.

"Pure" water for drinking and cooking cannot be emphasized enough. It's up to you to correct the problem.

9. The Spiritual Life

I have learned that the best physical health flows from a dynamic relationship with God. Nothing counteracts emotional stress more effectively than spiritual insight and its resultant strength. Spiritual strength is one of the most powerful assets you can have to combat emotional stress and give you the best of health. God's word tells us, "Let Him (God) have all your worries and cares for He is always thinking about you and watching everything that concerns you" (Peter 5:7). Nearly three thousand years ago, the wisest man who ever lived, King Solomon, stated the relationship between spiritual and physical health in Proverbs 3:7-8, "Trust and reverence the Lord and turn your back on evil; when you do that, then you will be given renewed health and vitality."

Many people go through their entire lives never realizing the tremendous, powerful, ever-reaching light of God that can flood out all their black and gray places and allow them to step out of the darkness where many people dwell all their lives. God can cleanse you from top to bottom, inside to outside. God's ways are good, and they are not only good, but they are far above man's ways. In every area of your life, God can show you what is right and what is wrong, what will bring good and what will bring bad, what will bring sickness and disease, and what will bring good health. If we trust in Him, He will show us which things are really part of his intended ways for us and which are not. This can give us balance in our life. There are many things that must be put together in proper balance to achieve consistently good health. I have tried to bring out many of these important things in this brochure that I feel God has shown me. These are elements that work together to bring about and preserve health and well-being.

The Bible says, "My people are destroyed by lack of knowledge." This is so true. Sickness and premature death are commonplace all because we have no knowledge of the Lord's ways. We live so very far from the way that God intended us to live. That's one of the reasons there is so much pain and sickness, so many heart attacks, headaches, bad tempers, mental illness, and just plain lack of joy. We suffer a great deal just because of our own ignorance about God's ways. I think that most of us drift away from God's ways because of our wishes to satisfy our own desire. This is why you or I get into health trouble today. We want to gratify our flesh and desires more than we want to serve our God. I'm convinced that God has provided a remedy for every disease that might afflict us. It's possible that almost every disease is caused by some kind of violation of the natural laws of God. We don't obey them because we don't understand them.

It appears that many of us are simply jaded and have become content to live a life of mediocrity. Some of us have never been taught God's ways; we certainly don't see them in the world around us. Every year we get further and further away from how God intended us to live. We have become so perverted now that we call evil good and good evil. We cannot blame it on others because we all do it. Now, maybe we aren't as bad as some people who are extremely perverse and evil, but we do it in little things and that's where it all starts. We live in a society that wants to push our children to be super human beings instead of teaching them God's ways and how to live in true freedom and simplicity, at peace with God and with our fellow men. Some of us have been taught the right way to do things, but we have chosen not to follow these instructions. We have this inner voice of knowledge that shows us the way, but we would rather ignore it and serve our own selfish desires. Many of us simply do not listen to this inner voice that really tells us what to do.

I do not think it is wise to be preoccupied with your body's looks, but it is wise to value your body as the temple of the Holy Spirit which God has given you. The Holy Spirit of God dwells in and works through that wonderful body of yours. Now, how do you treat it? Do you feed it poorly, never allowing it to have any exercise, keeping it shut away from fresh air and sunshine, filling it with poisons of unforgiveness and bitterness, never allowing it to rest and then being critical of it because it doesn't look good or can't do what you want it to do. You must, to gain the best of health, make up your own mind to have respect, appreciation, and love for the body that God gave you, no matter what shape it is in at this moment. You should remember God in your prayers, as David did when he said in Psalms 139:14, "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made." Paul tells us in Romans 12:1, "Give your body to the Lord as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God."

Our physical condition can influence our spiritual lives far more than most of us realize. If we are disciplined in the care of our physical bodies, we are far more likely to be disciplined in our spiritual lives too. Sickness detracts from our relationships and service far more than we imagine. God designed our body to be self repairing and self healing if we treat it properly. The great majority of Americans today do not have the advantage of learning good nutrition and the knowledge of God's ways. Some wonderful news is that your body can be rebuilt in a matter of months if you give the body the proper tools to work with. That is what I have been trying to do with this brochure. I'm giving you the knowledge that you can use if you want to apply it to achieve the maximum health possible. Just as there are physical laws such as the Law of Gravity or the Law of Cause and Effect, there are also Spiritual Laws. We usually have a good interpretation of these physical laws, and we have learned that when we go against them we will get hurt or must suffer the consequences. With the Law of Gravity (what goes up will come down), no right thinking person would jump off a building because they knew they could fall to their death. They would suffer the consequences of breaking the law. There are equally important spiritual laws concerning the preservation of good health, but few there are that follow them, and they will suffer the consequences because they are breaking spiritual laws. Read the Bible and pray to God to reveal these laws to you and He will.

In our medical schools today, all doctors are taught to give out drugs and chemicals to treat symptoms of disease. It is true that many drugs have been developed that have saved millions of lives, but they are certainly used to great excess in our society all over the world. I believe that if God wanted us to use drugs and chemicals to treat symptoms, he would have provided them to us in some way other than the way they are provided today, "to make a profit and get rich." Over 99% of drugs and medications given today are cations and can be very harmful to our health if taken over a long period of time. In Revelations 18:23, where John is discussing the fall of Babylon, which represents evil, in the latter days, he makes the statement, "And the light of a candle shall shine no more in thee; and the voice of the Bridegroom (Jesus) and of the Bride (true believers) shall be heard no more at all in thee; for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived."

When one looks up the Greek meaning of the term sorceries, this word means pharmacies. Of course, we all know that pharmacies are responsible for giving us our drugs and chemicals to treat diseases. I personally do not believe that John is referring to narcotic type drugs, but drugs in general, and in these latter days, we are being deceived about good health because of drugs and chemicals. I believe this because I am seeing more and more people suffering from various illnesses that are tremendously aggravated by taking too many drugs. In fact, it's been estimated that 20% of the people admitted to hospitals are there because of iatrogenic medicine, and that means reactions and side effects of drugs and chemicals given to patients by their doctors. This is why I try to get patients off drugs as much as possible in my practice, and I sincerely believe this is what God wants us to do. This includes all types of drugs and chemicals.

I know that all my efforts that have been dedicated to develop a deeper spiritual life and a closer relationship with God have paid off tremendously for me and given me strength that I could never find anywhere else.

In the past 3 years, God keeps sending me more and more information, research studies and proven knowledge about the wonderful benefits of various herbs and how they can be used to restore health and fight disease. I ask God to guide me daily in treating all patients, and the Holy Spirit is telling my spirit that there is coming a revolution in the use of herbs and natural substances to treat and cure all types of diseases. As I remember you in my prayers, please remember me and ask God to send me the Truth so that God can use me as his instrument and vessel to heal all patients that he sends to me to treat, advise, and educate, and may Jesus Christ be glorified with every healing.

10. Mental Attitude and Self Image

With a good positive mental attitude, you will look better, feel better, and heal better. Our libraries are full of all types of books that will help you develop a better positive mental attitude. God tells us, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," Proverbs 23:7. I have rephrased this proverb to make it a little easier to us to understand: "We become what we think about." Because of this, we need to try to force ourselves to think good positive, goal-oriented thoughts at all times. By doing this, because we truly become what we think about, we will soon find ourselves actually becoming whatever these thoughts are that we have been forcing ourselves to continually think about. You may want to get my tape recording entitled, Remove the Fat Between Your Ears, which will give some real detailed instructions on how you can get some real direction in your life. I have explained in this recording a simple technique that will force you to think positive about everything you do. I have seen this technique actually change people's lives around 100%, and it has done so for me on several occasions.

The truth is that every circumstance of your life can be looked upon from a positive or negative viewpoint-it's entirely up to you. Dr. Robert Schuller gave an excellent example of this in the following story. He said:

"One of my favorite stories is the classic story of the Chinese who had one horse and one son. One day his horse broke out of the corral and fled to the freedom of the hills. The neighbors came around that night and chattered. 'Your horse got out? What bad luck!'

" 'Why?' the old Chinese said. 'How do you know it's bad luck?'

"Sure enough, the next night the horse came back to his familiar corral for his usual feeding and watering, leading twelve wild stallions with him. The farmer's son saw the 13 horses in the corral, slipped out and locked the gate. Suddenly, he had 13 horses instead of none.

"The neighbors heard the good news and came chattering to the farmer. 'Oh, you have 13 horses. What good luck!'

"The old Chinese answered, 'How do you know that's good luck?'

"Some days later, his strong young son was trying to break one of the wild stallions, only to be thrown off and his leg broken. The neighbors came back that night and passed another hasty judgment. 'Your son broke his leg? What bad luck'

"And the wise farmer answered again, 'How do you know it's bad luck?'

"Sure enough, a few days later, a Chinese War lord came through town and conscripted every able-bodied young man, taking them off to war, never to return again. But the young man was saved because of his broken leg. Only God knows what's good for us and what's bad for us."

Another important factor is for you to try to always feel good about yourself and have a positive self image. Do you have basically positive feelings or basically negative feelings about the person you see in the mirror? Do you love yourself or hate yourself? King Solomon put it this way: "A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones" (Proverbs 17:22). Without a positive self image, you will not properly digest and assimilate your food or the nutrients in your food. If this happens, the foods can become toxic within your intestine and a negative self image, as well as other emotional and spiritual stresses interferes with our digestive system from functioning properly. Some researchers are convinced that the colon (large intestine) is a manifester of the emotions. So much so that a wise doctor in Philadelphia some years ago remarked that "the colon is the mirror of the mind and when the mind gets tight, the colon gets tight." On the other hand, positive feelings toward yourself relaxes the intestines, stimulating the proper functioning which will give you the best possible digestion and nutrition.

It is also believed by most authorities that when you have relationships that are not good with other people, they usually result from a negative self image. If we don't get along with ourselves, we tend not to get along with others. Other people tend to react to the negative image that we project. Negative relationships affect our bodies just like a negative self image. For these reasons, we should all strive to develop a good positive mental attitude at all times and to keep a good self image concerning ourselves. I've seen so many people who live their lives according to what other people may think about them. Frankly, this is a rather stupid attitude, because when the real facts are known, most of the people you meet do not care that much about you or what you are or what you think unless it affects their own pocketbook. The important thing is to be genuine yourself, and we all know what we really are inside because we cannot fool ourselves. So don't live your life according to what you think people may think about you, but live your life in truth and be genuine to yourself. Then, you will always maintain a good positive self image about yourself.

11. Stress and Stress Management

Many human illnesses are directly related to stress, isolation, emotions, pressures from society and the negative effects of the social, political and industrial choices we are required to make each day. Stress therefore affects us physically, mentally, emotionally, and influences all our behaviors. Stress may be defined as a demand for adaptation. It has been shown, however, that we humans respond to demands not as they actually are, but as we perceive them to be. A stress may be real or imagined.

There are many types of stress we constantly face. These stress factors may be physical (exposure to the extremes of temperature, injuries, or accidents), chemical (exposure to pollutants, allergens, poisons, toxins, and drugs), microbiological (germs, bacteria, viruses, fungus, and other microorganisms), psychological or extreme emotional states (fear, anger, sadness, or a sense of loss), mental functioning (suppression or repression), as well as inborn drives to hurry, to succeed, to compete, as well as sociocultural (work pressures, crime, IRS, regulations, financial crisis and peer and parental pressure). Stress affects practically every organ in the body and if not controlled can certainly aggravate and complicate most any known disease or illness. The intention of this paper is to summarize for you some suggestions on how you can better cope with stress and methods that have been proven to help relieve stress in your life. These methods help you reduce stress, relax better, and enjoy life more.

Stress is the response of your mind, emotions and body to whatever demands are being made on you. So the important thing is that it's not so much what happens to you that determines the effect on stress upon your body, but the way that you respond to it. The ideal response is a relaxed, carefree and positive thinking reaction. This in itself will prevent many problems when you are faced with stressful situations. And don't forget, there are two kinds of stress, positive and negative. Positive stress is happy, desirable, controllable, easygoing good stress like being informed that you've just had an increase in salary. Negative stress, however, is maddening, sad, disturbing, uncontrollable and depressing like having an argument or being in an accident or losing a loved one. This is the worst type of stress you can have, and if you can learn to face it in a relaxed, carefree, positive thinking manner, it will not cause nearly the harm to your system as to the average person.

a. Develop a positive attitude about everything you do. The Bible tells us, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." We become what we think about. If we constantly think about negative, bad problems and thoughts, we are simply going to create more of these bad situations to face from now on. The Public Library is full of books that will show you how to think positively.

b. Tell yourself to relax totally. By simply sitting down and taking some deep abdominal breaths and closing your eyes, try to relax all over. Sit in a comfortable chair and tell yourself that you are totally relaxing as you visualize in your mind - your feet relaxing, then your lower legs relaxing, then your upper legs, then your pelvis, then your stomach, then your chest and your hands, and your lower arms, your upper arms, your neck, and your head. Then, visualize yourself in your mind's eye as being totally relaxed. A few minutes of this will do wonders to relieve stress in your entire system.

c. Practice breathing exercises to relax. You should use abdominal breathing to relax totally. Sit in a very relaxed position in a comfortable chair with your hands on the arms of the chair and your feet on the floor. Breathe in slowly through your nose as you expand your abdomen and imagine that you have a balloon inside your abdomen, and, as you inhale, you are slowly inflating the balloon which will cause your abdominal area to swell. Then, breathe out slowly through your nose. Pull your abdominal muscles in as you press all of the air out of your lungs. You should take several breaths in this manner, and it will help relax you. Another variation of this type of exercise is to use abdominal breathing as you inhale deeply through your nose. Then, exhale through your puckered mouth as if you were blowing out a candle. Repeat this several times.

d. Cultivate a good sense of humor. Laughing always relieves stress. If you know yourself, you know what things make you laugh. If you would try to do these things more often, this will help you relieve stress. Remind yourself to have fun. This may mean going to a comedy movie or picking up a book of funny jokes to read to get you laughing. You may even consider keeping a laugh scrapbook where you can keep a record of all letters, funny jokes, poems, limericks, or anything you have collected that made you laugh. Read through these in times of severe stress.

e. Listening to relaxing music will dissolve your tension. Listening to your favorite music is an excellent way to relieve stress. Instrumental music like that performed by the harp, piano, string ensembles, or the flute tend to be more soothing than vocal pieces which may distract you. While enjoying the relaxing music, you will notice that you are breathing more slowly and deeply which means you are relaxing more.

f. Call a relative or friend. When hit with any type of stressful situation, an excellent technique is to call a close friend or family member and discuss the situation with them