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FEATURESOrganic Agriculture Can Feed the World 3 Andre F. Leu, presents research findings showing sustainable organic farming can produce higher yields than synthetic fertilized and GMO.

Reversing Heart Disease with a Vitamin 10Daniel Cobb, O.M.D., discusses proven evidence that a single commonly available but essential vitamin reverses heart disease.

Vitamin C and Heart Health 15Hyla Cass, M.D. and Jim English, show that collagen is necessary for the repair of blood vessels, and why it needs quantities of vitamin C.

Modern Electrical Lighting: Buyer Beware 20Anne Gastinger discusses the types of electrical light bulbs and equipment that produce increased UV radiation and radio frequencies.

Coconut Oil and Alzheimer’s Disease 23Bruce Fife, N.D., presents clear evidence and anecdote that medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) are essential for neuroregeneration.

Including Dying with Death 27Barry Vissell, M.D., writes of his experience with a family member’s dying and a way to embrace the adventure and journey of death.

Natural Rejuvenating Food Tips from the Kitchen 30Susan Smith Jones, Ph.D., discusses eleven foods that anyone can easily stock in the kitchen to ease and nourish the body and mind.

Appreciation and the Resonance of the Heart 34Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., Raymond Trevor Bradley, Ph.D. and Dana Tomasino, B.A. present research showing that the heart function is strongly electromagnetic and includes intelligence processing.

Ease, Dis-Ease, and the Power of Appreciation 39Shannon McRae, Ph.D., provides cases that demonstrate how negative thought and emotion create dis-ease and tell how to heal conditions.

Mastering Creative Anxiety 43Eric Maisel, Ph.D., argues that anxiety is a part of the process of creating anything, from a new file system to a novel, but mastering and enjoying it can occur by following simple techniques.

IN BRIEF Coconut Oil Cures Dementia Patient 26The Nurse Who Heard an “Angel,” 42Enjoy the Moment, by John Selby 46Cover photo © iStockphoto.com/Anna Kucherova


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Risk?Patented PrescriPtion medicines—promoted heavily by the pharma-ceutical companies that manufac-ture them—are “a significant cause of death,” when their side effects and misuse are taken into consider-ation, said Donald Light, a sociolo-gist and professor of comparative health policy at the University of Medicine and Dentistry, in New Jersey. He cited especially the cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, marketed to prevent heart attacks despite evidence they may do more harm than any good. He noted: “Sometimes drug companies hide or downplay information about seri-ous side-effects of new drugs and overstate the drugs’ benefits.” When these companies spend massive amounts of money marketing their products to physicians, he ex-plained, “Doctors may get mislead-ing information and then misinform patients about the risks of a new drug. It’s really a two-tier market for lemons.” Light also said that data from independent reviewers has suggested five out of six new drugs provide few, if any, new benefits. His latest book is The Risks of Pre-scription Drugs, published by Co-lumbia University Press/The Social Science Research Council Source: “Five out of six new prescription drugs don’t work, doctor claims,” by Stephen Adams, at www.Telegraph.co.uk, 17 Aug 2010.

The Heart of Well BeingWe are happy that the special features on heart health in this issue emerged as they did through a somewhat undefinable and creative editorial process. We found the two articles on vitamin C and cardiovascular health, which follow in these pages, to be quite fascinating indeed. They contain remarkably salient research, though curiously buried, but only by the fact that there are the such large masses of literature regarding health today that any intelligent reader is challenged for time in wading through much of it. Thus we present again, though for the first time in our medium, the Well Being Journal, this remark-

ably simple yet irreproachably pragmatic ap-proach to healing the cardiovascular system with a nutrient. It’s perhaps especially useful for those of us who have missed the find-ings in the past to know of the link between vitamin C and cardiovascular health since making sure we get enough vitamin C is more important as our bodies do not manufacture it on their own. We are particularly pleased also to publish the piece titled “Appreciation and the Reso-nant Heart,” which points to solutions to heart health beyond common thinking. What can be more important than a healthy, open heart? The word open in the previous statement refers to the heart behind the pump. Research-ers in the field of neurocardiology have found

that the heart not only has functional intelli-gence but also emits an electromagnetic field far more powerful than that of the brain. It is now known to be a sophisticated center for receiving and processing information. The good news is that knowledge of this research from HeartMath Institute helps keep the focus on the benefits of positive emotional and attitudinal states for collective health. Also, in “Ease, Dis-ease and the Power of Appreciation,” another feature in this issue, we see how even subtle emotions—and thought processes that lead to them (including subconscious thoughts)—play a key role in healing disease conditions. Everything physical, the author notes, is at its foundation made of energy, and energy can change according to intent. Our other features on Creative Anxiety and Enjoying the Moment, provide, we hope, inspirational words for daily life. We have been listening to our read-ers concerns, kept an eye to scientific and clinical research, and present what we think is a rather fascinating array of new material in this issue. It’s our intent to come together for the purpose of co-creating useful—and delightful— feature articles, news, research notes and inspirational insights in each issue of the Journal. We are looking forward, in the next issue, to publishing, among other fea-tures, the following. Cholesterol: Not Guilty, reasons to avoid Synthetic Food Dyes and more Natural Remedies from Your Kitchen. ∆

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Researchers in the field of neuro-cardiology have found that the heart…is now known to be a so-phisticated center for receiving and processing infor-mation.


Organic Agriculture Can Feedthe World

proponents of industrial agricul-ture state that synthetic biocides, soluble fertilizers and genetic en-gineering are necessary to feed the world’s growing population. Several authorities further state organic agri-culture is not capable of this task. This article looks at numerous and diverse data sets from around the world, showing that given the right conditions, organic agriculture can deliver sustainable high yields. Organic agriculture programs initi-ated by several organizations have substantially increased yields for many third world communities. This has been done with very low input and infrastructure costs to these communities and has substantially increased their standard of living. Data from the advanced agricultural economies of North America, Australia and Europe show that best practice or-ganics can deliver equal to and significantly better yields than current conventional agricultural practices.

INTRODUCTIONSeveral of the high profile advocates for conventional agricultural production have stated that the world would starve if we all converted to organic agriculture. They have written articles for science journals and other publications saying that organic agriculture is not sustain-able and produces yields that are significantly lower than conventional agriculture. (Avery 2000, Trewavas 2001) The push for genetically modified organisms (GMOs), growth hormones, animal feed antibiotics, food irradia-

tion and toxic synthetic chemicals is being justified, in part, by the ratio-nale that without these products the world will not be able to feed itself. Since Thomas Malthus wrote “An Essay on the Principle of Popula-tion” in 1798 and first raised the specter of overpopulation, various experts have been predicting the end of human civilization because of mass starvation. (Malthus 1798) The theme was popularized again by Paul Erhlich in his 1968 book, The Population Bomb. According to his logic, we should all be starv-ing now that the 21st century has arrived. “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s the world will undergo famines; hun-dreds of millions of people are going

to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.” (Erhlich 1968) The only famines that occurred since 1968 have been in African countries saddled with corrupt governments, political turmoil, civil wars and periodic droughts. The world had enough food for these people. It was political and logistical events that prevented them from producing adequate food or stopped aid from reaching them. Hun-dreds of millions of people did not starve to death. The specter of mass starvation is being pushed again as the motive for justifying GMOs. In June, 2003 President Bush stated at a biotechnology conference: “We should encourage the spread of safe effective biotechnology to win the fight against global hunger.” (Dayton 2003)

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IS gLOBAL HUNgER DUE TO A SHORTAgE OF FOOD PRODUCTION?

In this first decade of the 21st century, many farmers around the world are facing a great economic crisis of low commodity prices. These low prices are due to oversupply. The laws of supply and demand, in current economic theories, show that prices decrease when supply is greater than demand. Most of our current production systems are price driven, with the need for economies of scale to reduce the unit costs. The small profit margins of this economic environment favor enterprises working on large volumes and as a result the family farm is declining. Many areas of the USA and Australia have fewer farmers now than 100 years ago and the small rural centers they support are disappearing off the map. Hundreds of thousands of farmers have had to leave their farms in Argentina due to higher production costs and lower commodity prices (Lehmann 2000). The sugar industry in Austra-lia is on the verge of collapse for the same reason. Australian dairy farmers continue to leave the industry since deregulation forced down the prices they receive. Most of the major industrial countries are subsidizing their farmers so that their agricultural sectors do not collapse.

Europe, North America, Australia and Brazil are in the process of convert-ing a large percentage of their arable land from food production to bio fuels such as ethanol in an effort to establish viable markets for their farmers. The latest push in GMO development is BioPharm where plants such as corn, sugarcane and tobacco are modified to produce new compounds such as hor-mones, vaccines, plastics, polymers and other non-food compounds. All of these developments will mean that less food is grown on some of the world’s most productive farmland.

Grain farmers in India have protested about cheap imports that are sending them deeper into poverty. Countries like India and China, once considered as overpopulated basket cases, export large quantities of food. In fact, India, one of the world’s most populated countries, is a net food exporter in most years. South American rainforests are cleared for pasture that is grazed with beef destined for the hamburger chains of North America. Once the soil is depleted, new areas are cleared for pasture and the old degraded areas are abandoned to weeds. In Asia, most of the forests are cleared for timber that is exported to the developed industrial economies. One of the saddest things about this massive, wasteful destruction of biodiversity is that very little of the newly cleared land is used to feed the poor. Most of this production of timber and beef is exported to the world’s richest economies. The reality is that the world produces more than enough food to feed everyone and has more than enough suitable agricultural land to do it. Un-fortunately due to inefficient, unfair distribution systems and poor farming methods, millions of people do not get adequate nutrition.

The only famines that occurred since 1968 have been in African countries saddled with corrupt govern-ments, political tur-moil, civil wars and periodic droughts

according to research by Bahram H. Arjmandi, Ph.D., R.D., and Margaret A. Sitton professor and chair, Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sci-ences at The Florida State University, apples have been found to be a more remarkable fruit than before thought and convey numerous benefits. Stud-ies with animals show that apple pectin and polyphenols in apple improve lipid metabolism and lower the produc-tion of pro-inflammatory molecules. Recent research by Arjmandi, which evaluated long-term cardioprotective effects of daily consumption of apple in postmenopausal women, found that women in the study experienced a 23% decrease in LDL cholesterol. Also, their HDL cholesterol increased by 4%. Arjmandi’s study randomly assigned 160 women ages 45-65 to one of two dietary groups: one received dried apples daily (75g/day for 1 year) and the other dried prunes every day for a year. Blood samples were taken at 3, 6 and 12-months. Arjmandi also noted that the daily apple consumption led to a lowering of lipid hydroperoxide levels and C-reactive protein in those women. In addition, the increase in calories from the apple intake (about 240 calories per day) did not lead to weight gain, but rather the apple eating women actually lost an average of 3.3 pounds Arjmandi said that part of the reason for the weight loss could be the fruit’s pectin, which is known to have a satiety effect. The old say-ing, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” perhaps overemphasizes the power of apples, but this new research adds scientific evidence to colloquial wisdom.From a feature titled “Apple News” at http://www.sciencedaily.comApril 12, 2011, “Apple a Day Advice Rooted in Science.”

Science Substantiates Apple Benefits

Emotions are the tools with which our Souls communicate to us. The more you listen to your Soul and act upon its values and urgings, the more grace-ful and joyous your life becomes. …Only intentional, organized and focused thought brings fulfillment.

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CAN ORgANIC AgRICULTURE FEED THE WORLD?Organic agriculture needs to be able to answer two major questions.

1: Can organic agriculture get high yields?2: Can organic agriculture get the food to the people who need it?The editorial of New Scientist February 3, 2001 stated that low-tech sus-

tainable agriculture is increasing crop yields on poor farms across the world, often by 70 percent or more. This has been achieved by replacing synthetic chemicals in favor of natural pest control and natural fertilizers. (New Scientist 2001) Professor Jules Pretty, the Director of the Centre for Environment and So-ciety at the University of Essex in the UK, wrote: “Recent evidence from 20 countries has found more than 2 million families farming sustainably on more than 4-5 million hectares. This is no longer marginal. It cannot be ignored. What is remarkable is not so much the numbers, but that most of this has hap-pened in the past 5-10 years. Moreover, many of the improvements are occur-ring in remote and resource-poor areas that had been assumed to be incapable of producing food surpluses.” (Petty 1998b) An excellent example of this type of agricultural extension has been published in the January 2003 edition of World Vi-sion News. Working in conjunction with AusAID, World Vision linked farmers from the impoverished Makuyu commu-nity in Kenya with the Kenya Institute of Organic Farming (KIOF). (World Vision 2003) They arranged workshops where KIOF members taught the principles of organic farming, including compost making, pre-paring safe organic pesticides, vegetable gardening and organic care of livestock. Maize yields increased from four to nine times above previous levels. The organically grown crops had yields that were 60% higher than crops grown with expensive chemical fertilizers. The wonderful thing is that many of these farmers now have a surplus of food to sell, whereas previously they did not have enough to eat. They are organizing marketing co-ops to sell this surplus. The profits are going back to the community. They have distributed dairy goats, rabbits, hives and poultry to community members and have planted out 20,000 trees including 2,000 mangos. Several of the organic farmers are training many other farmers in the district and helping them to apply organic farming techniques to their farms. The mood of the community has changed. They are now confident and very importantly they are empowered with the knowledge that they can overcome the problems in their community. These types of simple community based organic agricultural models are what is needed around the world to end rural poverty and starvation, rather than GMOs and expensive toxic chemicals. The Makuyu community in Kenya is not an isolated example. Professor Pretty gives other examples from around the world of increases in yield when farmers have replaced synthetic chemicals and shifted to sustainable/organic methods.

• 223,000 farmers in southern Brazil using green manures and cover cropsof legumes and livestock integration have doubled yields of maize and wheat to 4-5 tons/ha;

Many adults catch two to four colds a year, and have little choice but to let the virus run its course. Black elder-berry has been found to ameliorate the symptoms as well as shorten the duration; now fifteen studies sum-marized in the Cochrane Systematic Review show that zinc supplements, when taken within a day of a cold’s onset, may alleviate symptoms and speed recovery. While the times-cales and dosages varied between studies, patients taking zinc supple-ments every two hours showed significantly better results than those given placebos. Further, 15 mg of zinc per day for five months or more was shown to reduce the frequency of colds in children. Zinc is believed to prevent cold viruses from reproducing, and to coat the viruses, stopping them from penetrating the nasal lining. It may also strengthen the immune system. But, says lead researcher Meenu Singh (Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, India): “[A]t the mo-ment, it is still difficult to make a general recommendation, because we do not know very much about the optimum dose, formulation, or length of treatment.” Experts advise that long-term excessive use of zinc can cause nausea, vomiting, abdomi-nal pain, and diarrhea. However, moderate regular use of zinc as recommended in daily doses has no known adverse side effects. From: “Zinc Can Be an ‘Effective Treatment’ for Common Colds” by Michelle Roberts. 15 Feb. 2011. BBC News. www.bbc.co.uk.

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Low-tech sustain-able agriculture is increasing crop yields on poor farms across the world, often by 70 percent or more


• 45,000 farmers in Guatemala and Honduras used regenerative technolo-gies to triple maize yields to 2-2.5 tons/ha and diversify their uplandfarms, which has led to local economic growth that has in turn encour-aged re-migration back from the cities;

• 200,000 farmers across Kenya as part of sustainable agriculture pro-grams have more than doubled their maize yields to about 2.5 to 3.3 t/haand substantially improved vegetable production through the dry sea-sons;

• 100,000 small coffee farmers in Mexico have adopted fully organic pro-duction methods, and increased yields by half;

• A million wetland rice farmers in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia,Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam have shifted tosustainable agriculture, where group-based farmer-field schools haveenabled farmers to learn alternatives to pesticides and to increase theiryields by about 10%.

(Pretty 1995, Pretty 1998b)

Nicolas Parrott of Cardiff University, UK, authored a report, “The Real Green Revolution.” He gives case studies that confirm the success of oganic and agroecological farming techniques in the developing world. • In Madhya Pradesh, India, average cotton yields on farms participating

in the Maikaal Bio-Cotton Project are 20 per cent higher than on neigh-boring conventional farms.

• In Madagascar, SRI (System of Rice Intensification) has increased yieldsfrom the usual 2-3 tons per hectare to yields of 6, 8 or 10 tons per hect-are.

• In Tigray, Ethiopia, a move away fromintensive agrochemical usage in favor ofcomposting has seen an increase in yieldsand in the range of crops it is possible togrow.• In the highlands of Bolivia, the use ofbonemeal and phosphate rock and inter-cropping with nitrogen-fixing Lupin specieshave significantly contributed to increasesin potato yields.

One of the most important aspects of teaching farmers in these regions to in-tcrease yields with sustainable/organic

methods is that the food or fiber is produced close to where it is needed and in many cases by the people who need it. It is not produced half way around the world, transported and sold to them. Another important aspect is the low input costs. They do not need to buy expensive imported fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides. The increase in yields also comes with lower production costs allowing a greater profit to these farmers. Thirdly, the substitution of more labor intensive activities such as cultural weeding, composting and intercropping for expensive imported chemical in-puts provides more employment for the local and regional communities. This employment allows landless laborers to pay for their food and other needs. As in the example of the Makuyu community in Kenya, these benefits see a positive change in the wealth and the mood of the community. These commu-nities are revitalized, proactive and empowered to improve their future.

discovery of fto genes, which researchers linked to obesity, seemed to show that obesity was genetically determined. Not so, says Emily Sonestedt of the Lund (Sweden) University Diabetes Center, the main author of a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Her conclusion: not only does exercise reduce the effect of the FTO gene, but diet does as well. Subjects possessing the FTO gene but consuming less than 41% of their energy from fat showed no greater disposition to obesity than those lacking the gene. Says Sonestedt: “This shows that we are not slaves to our genes. Even if we are born with an inherited predisposition to obesity, life style is important.” This sounds good, but further questions must be raised. Is all fat equally bad? And how do FTO possessors get the discipline to eat healthily? Since FTO genes act on the hypothalamus, the primitive part of the brain regulating appetite and satiety, they bypass conscious control. Says Sonestedt: “It could be that the carriers of the risk gene don’t feel as full from eating fat and therefore consume more and gain weight.” Joseph Mercola, D.O. commenting on the study, argues that weight control isn’t just a matter of avoiding fat. He argues for the existence of different nutritional types, each of which requires a different balance of protein and carbohydrates; failure to eat right for your type brings food cravings. Refined grains and sugars

Eating Habits Override Genes for Determining

Obesity

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100,000 small coffee farmers in Mexico have adopted fully organic production methods, and in-creased yeilds by half…

It is important to understand that the Beloved doesn’t lead all by one path. —Teresa of Avila, The Collected Works of Teresa of Avila, Vol. II, p. 99


CAN ORgANIC AgRICULTURE ACHIEVE HIgH yIELDS IN DEVELOPED NATIONS?

Since 1946, the advent of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, im-proved crop varieties and industrial paradigms are credited with producing the high yields of “green revolution.” Because organic agriculture avoids many of these new inputs it is assumed that it always results in lower yields. The assumption that greater inputs of synthetic chemical fertilizers and pes-ticides are needed to increase food yields is not accurate. In a study published in The Living Land, professor Pretty looked at projects in seven industrial-ized countries of Europe and North America. “Farmers are finding that they can cut their inputs of costly pesticides and fertilizers substantially, varying from 20-80%, and be financially better off. Yields do fall to begin with (by 10-15% typically), but there is compelling evidence that they soon rise andgo on increasing. In the USA,for example, the top quartersustainable agriculture farm-ers now have higher yields thanconventional farmers, as well asa much lower negative impact onthe environment.” (Pretty 1998b,Pretty 1998a)

Professor George Monbiot, in an article in the Guardian, Au-gust 24, 2000, wrote that wheat grown with manure has pro-duced consistently higher yields for the past 150 years than wheat grown with chemical nutrients, in trials in the United Kingdom. (Monbiot 2000)

The study into apple production conducted by Washington State University compared the economic and environmental sustainability of conventional, organic and integrated growing systems in apple production. The organic system had equivalent yields to the other systems. The study also showed that the break-even point was 9 years after planting for the organic system and 15 and 16 years respectively for conventional and integrated farming systems. (Reganold 2001)

In an article published in the peer review scientific journal Nature Laurie Drinkwater and colleagues from the Rodale Institute showed that organic farming had better environmental outcomes as well as similar yields of both products and profits when compared to conventional, intensive agriculture. (Drinkwater 1998)

Gary Zimmer, one of the American pioneers of biological farming, runs an organic dairy farm with his son in Wisconsin. In 2000 one of his remineral-ized alfalfa (lucerne) fields produced a yield 4 times greater than the average for the district. He has increased the nutrient value of pasture by 300% and currently calves 150 cows every year without one health problem. (Zimmer 2000, Zimmer pers. com.)

Dick Thompson, a founding member of the Progressive Farmers of Iowa, engages in organic farm research in conjunction with the University of Iowa, the Rodale Institute and the Wallace Institute. He obtains some of the highest yields in his district using composts, ridge tilling and crop rotations. (Thomp-son 2000)

The innovative system of rotationally grazing several species of animals de-veloped by Joel and Therese Salatin, in Virginia, is one of the best examples of a high yield organic system. They use 100 acres of dry land pasture to cell graze cattle, sheep, pigs, meat chickens, laying hens, turkeys, pheasants and rabbits.

are greater risk factors for weight gain than good fats, such as coconut oil and organic pasture fed butter.

From: “Food Habits Are More Important Than Most Important Obesity Risk Gene.” 14 Sep. 2009. Science Daily. www.sciencedaily.com And: “Your Habits Are More Important Than Your Genes,” by Joseph Mercola. 29 Sep. 2009. Mercola.com.

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a study PerforMed by Harvard Medical School’s William G. Christen, Sc.D., to be published in the June issue of Ar-chives of Ophthalmology, indicates that consumption of omega-3 fatty acids reduces the risk of macular degen-eration. Christen and his colleagues tracked the health over ten years of 38,000 women who began the study with no macular degeneration. Those who consumed the most docosa-hexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapen-taenoic acid (EPA), both fish-derived omega-3 fatty acids, were 38 percent less likely to experience macular de-generation over the ten year span. Di-etary questionnaires also showed that women who ate one or more servings of fish a week had a 42 percent lower risk of macular degeneration compared to those who ate less than one serving of fish a month. Canned tuna and dark-meat fish seemed to make the most difference. From: “Omega-3 Fatty Acid Intake Linked with Reduced Risk of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Women.” 15 Mar. 2011. Science Daily. www.sciencedaily.com

Omega-3s Prevent Macular

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The system has been based on native pastures, without cultivation or new “improved” pasture species. The only input has been the feed for the poultry. This multi-species rotational grazing system builds one inch of soil a year and returns the family 15 times the income per acre than is re-ceived by neighboring farms using a set stocking of cattle. (Salatin pers. com.) Steve Bartolo, president of the Australian Organic Sugar Producers Associa-tion, produced similar yields of commercial sugar per hectare from his organic Q124 cane to his conventional cane in 2002. The average yield of sugar for his best organic cane “…achieved higher tonnes [of sugar] per hectare compared to the average of all conventionally grown Q124.” (Bartolo in publication) Greg Paynter, an organic farmer who works for the Queensland Department of Primary Industries, conducted the organic section of grain comparison trials at Dalby Agricultural College in 2002. The organic wheat produced 3.23 ton to the hectare compared to the conventional wheat of 2.22 tons. This trial was conducted during one of the worst droughts on record. (Paynter pers. com., in publica-tion) Graham McNally of Kialla Farms, one of Australia’s significant organic pioneers, consistently achieves com-parable yields to the conventional farms in his region. (McNally in publication) Dr. Rick Welsh of the Henry A Wallace Institute re-viewed numerous academic publications comparing organ-ic production with conventional production systems in the USA. The data showed that the organic systems were more profitable. This profit was not always due to premiums but due to lower production and input costs as well as more consistent yields. Dr. Welsh’s study also showed that or-ganic agriculture produced better yields than conventional agriculture in adverse weather events, such as droughts or higher than average rainfall. (Welsh 1999)

WILL gMOS FEED THE WORLD?Argentina is a good example of what happens when a country pursues the policies of market deregulation and GMO crops. Argentina is the third largest producer of GMO crops with 28% of the world’s production. By the 1999/2000 season, more than 80% of the total soybean acreage or 6.6 million hectares had been converted to GMOs. These are some of the results according to a study published by Lehmann and Pengue in the Biotechnology and Develop-ment Monitor.

• Declining profit margins: Prices for soybeans

declined a significant 28% between 1993 and 1999.• Farmers’ profit margins fell by half between 1992 and

1999, making it difficult for many to pay off bankloans for machinery, chemical inputs and seeds.

• A 32% decrease in producers: Between 1992 and1997, the number of producers dropped from 170,000to 116,000. 54,000 farmers were forced to leave theindustry.

•At least 50% of theacreage is now man-aged by corporateagriculture.•Increasing role oftransnational compa-nies in the agricul-tural sector: Industri-alization of grain andsoybean productionhas boosted depen-dence on foreign

agricultural inputs and increased foreign debt. • Removal of import tariffs led to the bankruptcy of

domestic farm machinery manufacturers and a loss ofemployment.

• The commercial seed sector has become increasinglycontrolled by subsidiaries of transnational corpora-tions. (Lehmann 2000)

Since the above data was published, the Argentinean economy collapsed causing riots and the resignations of several governments. The country is now currently in deep debt with its economy under the control of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Its standard of living has declined and thousands more farmers have been forced off their farms. Rural and urban poverty and hunger have increased.

According to Caritas Argentina, the social services agency of the Catholic Church in Argentina, over 40% of all Argentinean children are now undernourished. “World Health Organization standards for daily caloric intake are unmet for nearly 40 percent of Argentinean children under 18, and for up to half in the poorer northeast region of the country. Even in the comparatively wealthy capital city Buenos Aires, at least 19 children have died of malnutri-tion in recent months.” (Caritas) If GMOs cannot feed the children in the country that is the world’s third largest producer of GMO crops, how will they feed the rest of the world?

CONCLUSIONThe data shows that it is possible to get very good yields using organic systems. This is not uniform at the moment with many organic growers not producing at the levels that are achievable. Education on the best practices in organic agriculture is a cost effective and simple method of ensur-ing high levels of economically, environmentally and socially sustainable production where it is needed.

Education on the best practices in organic agriculture is a cost effective

and simple method of ensuring high levels of economically, environ-

mentally and socially sustainable production where it is needed.


Organic agriculture is a viable solution to preventing global hunger because: 1: It can achieve high yields.2: It can achieve these yields in the areas where it is needed most.3: It has low inputs. 4: It is cost effective and affordable.5: It provides more employment so that the impoverished can purchase their

needs.6: It does not need any expensive technical investment.

It costs tens of millions of dollars and takes many years to develop one ge-netically modified plant variety. This money would be more productive being spent on organic agricultural education, research and extension in the areas where we need to overcome hunger and poverty. Organic agriculture is the quickest, most efficient, cost effective and fairest way to feed the world. ∆

“Organic Agriculture Can Feed the World” was first published in Volume 13, Number 2 March/April 2004 issue of Well Being Journal. We reprint it here as the information is still valid in 2011 and bears repeating in the context of the continued growth of the genetically modified organisms (genetically engineered seeds and foods) in agribusiness business worldwide. See Jeffrey Smith’s articles in past issues of this Journal about genetically modified foods in general.a. f. leu is chairman, Organic Federation of Australia and president, Organic Producers Association of Queensland.

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in a recent study, researchers found that prescribing antibiotics for children with ear infections has only a slight effect on recovery time. The researchers were led by Tumaini R. Coker, M.D., M.B.A., of the David Geffen School of Medi-cine at UCLA, Los Angeles, and RAND, Santa Monica, California. They conducted a systematic re-view of previous studies and found that “of 100 average-risk children with AOM [acute otitis media, or middle ear infection], approximately 80 would likely get better within about 3 days without the use of antibiotics. If all were to have been treated with immediate ampicillin/amoxicillin, an additional 12 would likely improve, but 3 to 10 children would develop rash and 5 to 10 would develop diarrhea.” Coker noted that the number of children likely to benefit from antibiotic treat-ment was similar to the number who would be expected to develop adverse side effects. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (November 17, 2010), was designed to review existing re-search on children’s ear infections for the American Academy of Pedi-atrics (AAP). AAP and the Ameri-can Academy of Family Physicians have suggested since 2004 that “observation”—avoiding antibiot-ics—is a valid option for otherwise healthy children between 2 and 12 years old with ear infections.

Sources: “Study: Antibiotics Have Little Impact on Child Ear Infections,” by Miriam Falco, November 17, 2010, www.cnn.com; “Effective Diag-nosis, Treatment of Ear Infections in Children Examined in Study, ” JAMA media release, November 16, 2010, http://pubs.ama-assn.org.

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What is one of the world’s very best treatments for arteriosclerosis (aka hardening of the arteries via plaque deposits)? The treatment doesn’t involve drugs or surgery; it requires only commonly available nutritional supplements, and can substantially improve a person’s condition inside of a month. This therapeutic treatment has been around for 50-60 years, has been effective in tens of thousands of cases, and was championed by Linus Pauling1 who was a two-time recipient of the Nobel Prize in science. The treatment involves supplements that cost less than $90 per month, and the only side-effect is that you become more resistant to colds and flu. An important note is that it’s a mistake to think of arterial plaque deposits as heart disease itself. The plaque deposits lining the walls of arteries are a downstream effect of what begins as damage to artery walls. Under optimal conditions, this damage would be quickly repaired, because the major arteries – particularly coronary arteries - are under significant mechanical stress and having the blood “break through” a major artery wall could be almost immediately lethal and the body uses plaque to keep that from happening.1 The arterial repair process revolves around the creation of new collagen and elastin fibers in the area of the damage. There is a package of nutrients necessary for the creation of these fibers, and almost all of those nutrients are usually available in sufficient quantity in a healthy body. However, one of those nutrients, vitamin C, is often in short supply.2 Vitamin C is involved in hydroxylation reactions, and plays a critical cross-linking part in the creation of collagen fibers.21 The cross-linking is what gives the fibers most of their strength. It is possible for the body to make collagen in the absence of vitamin C, but the resulting collagen, that lacks the cross-linking, will be very weak and fall apart easily.

Vitamin C performs many functions. It is an antioxidant and it is required by the adrenals for best response to stress.4 Vitamin C plays an important part in the immune system, besides being required to produce collagen fibers, a key component of arterial self-repair.1 It is also used by the body to chelate, or remove heavy metals bit by molecular bit.5 It is important to point out that vitamin C is not stored in the body, nor does the human body produce vitamin C on its own. Fortunately, however, vitamin C can be found in most foods. It is present in every fruit, vegetable, and even in meats. Vitamin C, however, is fragile, and heat used in cooking temperatures compromises it.6 So, if most of your food is cooked, dried, preserved, processed, packaged, or canned, then it’s likely you aren’t getting enough vitamin C from your food, thus risking that you might not have enough vitamin C for crucial body functions (such as synthesizing collagen fibers). When artery walls are damaged and vitamin C is in short supply, your body may not be able to fix the damage optimally, but the body has a plan “B.” As in the story

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of the Dutch boy who sticks his finger in the dike, your body will try to shore up the weak points in the artery walls until they can be repaired. The plaque deposits that heart disease patients have been told to be so afraid of are actually band-aids purposely placed by the body at weak points of the arteries to prevent deadly breakthrough bleeding. The major problem with Plan B, plaque repair of artery walls, is that until very late stages in this disease process, there is no pain, and the person is usually totally unaware of any problem. When there is a lack of vitamin C, instead of using the remedy of vitamin C to repair the damage to the artery walls immediately, the body has to make more plaque that then accumulates. This results in more deposits, and, in places where the artery wall damage is more concentrated, a thicker and thicker buildup of plaque. Eventually the damage in a particular area of an artery may be so great that the body faces a difficult choice – either risk breakthrough bleeding at the point of the greatest arterial weakness or risk having a blood clot close off the artery entirely. When a person finally gets to this stage, a blood clot is often the last step to closing off the artery and bringing about a heart attack. The plaque deposits are actively engaged in saving our lives – by preventing breakthrough bleeding. Because the fear and hysteria about heart disease is so pervasive, it is useful to point out that the plaque deposits and all their component parts, including cholesterol, lipoprotein(a), calcium (remember the dreaded “calcium score”?), are not enemies. The plaque deposits and all their component parts are where they are on purpose, not by accident. They are serving to keep us alive. As long as we respond in a timely manner, plaque deposits and their components do not need to be attacked by drugs, mechanically removed by balloon angioplasty, or circumvented using bypass surgery. If we follow the logic of the “vitamin C” model of treating heart disease, all we need to do is simply repair the damage to our artery walls. Once we remove the purpose for their existence, these plaque deposits should fall apart and leave without requiring any further encouragement. [See adjoining sidebar.] The vitamin C theory is still just a theory until we try to test it out on real people with the plaque-deposit blockages type of heart disease. So, the question becomes: what happens when we provide abundant quantities of the nutrients required to fix damaged areas of artery walls. The almost universal result is that, as the arterial damage heals, the plaque deposits are released from the artery wall. Eventually this disease condition can be substantially or even completely reversed.7 The unfulfilled potential of this previous statement is that, although there are mountains of anecdotal evidence that the vitamin C approach works, there have been very few controlled scientifically designed studies that come to the same conclusion. In one study, in 1954, Canadian M.D. G. C. Willis showed that doses of 500 mg 3 times per day made very substantial improvements in the arterial blockages of heart patients.18

There is one other study that was designed to prove that chelation therapy

We are creatures who look before and after: the more surprising that we do not look round a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.

—Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Oxford World’s Classics, 2008 ed., pg. 4

Calcium and

Heart DiseasecoMMon scans of the heart in heart disease patients involve a “calcium score.” Zero is the best score. Reading these lab test results sometimes gets our competitive juices flowing, and we want to obliterate the “dangerous” calcium. But this is just as misguided as reducing blood cholesterol. Plaque deposits are primarily a combination of cholesterol and calcium. Where conventional medicine presents the plaque deposits as pathological, I present them as adaptive. The calcium is part of the plaque deposit, and the plaque deposit is part of the adaptive reaction to “band-aid” over weakened artery walls. Once you accept the idea that the calcium is there on purpose instead of by accident, then less care needs to be paid to how the calcium (and the rest of the plaque deposit) can be removed. When the purpose for the plaque deposit disappears (when repairs are made to the damaged area of the artery wall behind the plaque deposit), then the calcium, along with the rest of the plaque deposit will disappear on its own. What draws a plaque deposit to the artery wall is the damage/inflammation.9 As the damage is repaired and inflammation is reduced, the plaque deposit gradually disconnects from the artery wall. Whereas, it might be true that ascorbic acid will chelate calcium ions from a plaque deposit, it is also true, as long as the plaque deposit is serving a valuable purpose, that whatever calcium is chelated by the vitamin C will be quickly replaced by the body’s plaque-forming processes. The bottom line is that the vitamin C does not effectively remove the calcium from the plaque deposit. The vitamin C releases the plaque deposit by repairing the damage that started the plaque deposit in the first place.

—Dan Cobb, O.M.D.

The plaque deposits are actively engaged in saving our lives —by preventing breakthrough bleeding


does not work. The way that the study design was arranged was to make chelation look impotent by giving both the test group and the controls vitamin C and magnesium IV’s, and then to look only at the additional benefits derived from using IV EDTA in the test group. The study “proved” that chelation didn’t do much good, but what was left unstated in the summaries was that in both arms of the study (test and control) subjects improved their cardiovascular performance in a highly significant way (P < .001).19 Thus, what this study really “proved” was that IV vitamin C and magnesium is absolutely wonderful for cardiovascular function. Why are the studies so few and far between? Heart disease treatment is a huge industry, and the industry at large does not appreciate competition from a common vitamin that can be produced for a handful of pennies per dose, does not require a prescription, and is effective both as a cure and for prevention. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), and especially the FDA have found a comfortable niche operating as the Washington D.C. branch office of the pharmaceutical industry trade group. There have been other studies proposed to test the vitamin C theory of heart disease. The latest one, in 2002, was put together by a group affiliated with the Vitamin C Foundation. This study was also rejected by the NIH.20

There is another category of studies, such as the Physicians’ Health Study II, which examined the effect of vitamin C on heart disease and concluded that vitamin C has no positive effect on heart disease.22 This study however was funded by pharmaceutical companies that stood to lose big profits if vitamin C gained respect as a heart disease treatment. The skewed study not only used low doses (500 mg / day) but also the worst kind of vitamin C (dl-ascorbic acid with tableting aids and excipients) and distributed the vitamin C only once a year (vitamin C does not age well because it is an unstable molecule). Studies such as this don’t really count as a test of the “vitamin C theory” because of their flaws and the fact that the dosages and quality were so far below the recommended levels.

The following, in general terms, is the vitamin C treatment for arteriosclerosis. An optimal

heart healthy formula also includes other supplements and nutrients. Here is an example of a full list of optimal supplementation with dosages and intended purposes: Vitamin C – at least 6 grams per day. C is an antioxidant that limits further damage and plays a role in creation of collagen fibers. In lower doses, vitamin C mineral ascorbates (e.g., magnesium, calcium) may be a good choice. However, in higher doses, the amount of mineral intake that comes along

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oMega-3 fatty acids have been shown to promote muscle protein production in the elderly, and to combat the onset of sarcopenia, an age-related condition marked by the decline of lean body mass and strength. The study, led by Bettina Mittendorfer (Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science at Washing-ton University School of Medicine, St. Louis), showed that adding four grams of omega-3 fatty acids (DHA and EPA) to the diet for eight weeks produced significant increase in muscle mass. Along with this came an intensified activation of a signal-ing pathway designated as mTOR-p70s6k, which the researchers identify as an “integral control point for muscle cell growth.” People in their twenties have up to 60% fat-free muscle mass, which drops to under 40% in their seven-ties. “A major cause for the loss of muscle mass with advanced age is the inability of aging muscle to ad-equately increase the rate of muscle protein synthesis in response to nutritional stimuli,” the authors of the study stated. The study was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The exact mecha-nism by which omega-3s reverse this effect of decreased muscle protein synthesis remains unknown. From: “Omega-3s May Counter Degenerative Muscle Loss: Study,” by Stephen Daniels. 23 Feb. 2011. Pressman. www.drpressman.com

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Utterly amazingly, where I am there has been no looting, no pushing in lines. People leave their front doors open, as it is safer when an earthquake strikes. People keep saying, ‘Oh, this is how it used to be in the old days when every-one helped one another.’ …I find food and water left in my entranceway. I have no idea from whom, but it is there. Old men in green hats go from door to door checking to see if everyone is OK.…”—”Ann,” in Japan during the March, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, from Medical News

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with the ascorbate vitamin C needs to be taken into account. In some patients, vitamin C dosages may rise as high as 18 grams per day (Linus Pauling’s daily dosage), and at that level the mineral dosages in the ascorbate forms of C could cause problems/imbalances. To get the best results, I recommend Cardio-C from the Vitamin C Foundation. I use it myself. It is a powder, easily absorbed and has no excipients. The vitamin C portion of this treatment is primarily pure crystalline ascorbic acid. Some people may develop diarrhea from high doses of vitamin C, especially when they are taking pure ascorbic acid. The intestinal problems are usually avoided by dividing the dosage into about four or more smaller doses per day. Dividing the doses is a wise idea even if intestinal problems never occur, because vitamin C has a half-life of about 30 minutes in the blood,16 and taking the vitamin C several times per day gives you much better “coverage.”Rutin—500 mg per day. Works with vitamin C to make it last longer.8

L-Lysine—6 grams per day. Used tobuild collagen fibers and also helpsdisintegrate plaque deposits as repairsare being made.9

L-Proline—1 gram per day. Helps todisintegrate plaque deposits as repairsare being made. 9

Vitamin E—(should contain all 4tocopherols and all 4 tocotrienols)—400to 800 IU / day. Vitamin E is a fat-soluble antioxidant that relieves vitaminC of some antioxidant responsibilitiesso that the vitamin C can be used tocreate collagen fibers. Vitamin E is also a mild anticoagulant.Magnesium (as citrate or chelated)—400 mg / day. It promotes healthy heartrhythm. Magnesium is also a mild anticoagulant.10

Co-Enzyme Q10—100+ mg per day. Enables the heart to function at highenergy levels. May be even more necessary because of high blood pressuresthat commonly accompany occlusive heart disease.11

Vitamin K—100 micrograms (mcg) / day. K is a natural coagulant to balancethe anticoagulant effect of magnesium and Vitamin E, making the blood-thinning effect of the rest of this formula neutral. (K1 and K2 are the naturalforms of Vitamin K.)Copper—2 mg / day.12 Copper is also necessary for the production of collagenfibers.3 It seldom gets top billing because fewer people are deficient in thismineral than magnesium for example.Zinc —about 20 mg per day. Zinc is used to repair tissues, and also balancesthe copper.13

B Complex—use dosage on bottle. Vitamin B6, B12 and Folic acid are usefulto reduce levels of homocysteine, which is known to damage blood vesselwalls.14

Omega-3 fats—from fish oil or flaxseed oil. Somewhere between 1 teaspoonand 1 tablespoon per day depending upon your overall fat intake and body size.Highly unsaturated oils can be effective at quickly moving oxygen. The heartis one area where a lot of oxygen needs to be used. Make sure that the oils youuse are fresh and refrigerated, because these highly unsaturated oils go rancideasily.15

the recent increase of drug-resis-tant fungal infections, especially among the immunocompromised, has prompted renewed examina-tion of natural remedies. Promi-nent here is lavender oil. A study by scientists from the University of Coimbra in Portugal, published this year in the Journal of Medical Microbiology, demonstrated laven-der oil’s effectiveness against two important fungal strains: Candida species which cause thrush, and dermatophytes, which feed on the keratin in skin, nails and hair, causing athlete’s foot and ring-worm. Lavender oil attacks these fungi by damaging their mem-branes. Says study co-leader Lígia Salgueiro: “Lavandula oil shows wide-spectrum antifungal activity and is highly potent. This is a good starting point for developing this oil for clinical use to manage fungal infections.” The researchers call for experimental trials in order to see how their laboratory experi-ments translate when applied to living subjects. Lavender oil has already proven popular as a topical application to fungus infection of the nails, which, because they have no blood sup-ply, are unreachable by medicines taken internally; such medicines only work if the infection is in the blood. From: “Lavender Oil Has Potent Antifungal Effect.” 16 Feb. 2011. Science Daily at http:www.science-daily.com, and: “Essential Oils Can Be Used to Cure Toenail Fungus.” Anti Nail Fungus. http://antinail-fungus.com

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In my clinic, we have a saying, “Heart disease is easier to treat than low-back pain.” This treatment, when done correctly, works wonders.7 Out of all my heart disease patients, I have had only one who did not improve significantly, and that one patient did not use the recommended type of vitamin C. Another patient last year completely reversed her heart disease in 2 months. ∆

daniel coBB, D.O.M., (Oriental Medicine) practices at the Integrative Holistic Healing Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He teaches anatomy and physiology at Southwest Acupuncture College and pathophysiology at the New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts, both in Santa Fe. Contact: [email protected]. Daniel Cobb’s complete book, Reversing Heart Disease can be found athttp://www.lulu.com

REFERENCES1. Tower Laboratories Corporation, The Pauling Therapy: Is It a Cure for Heart Disease?http://www.hearttechnology.com/pauling_therapy.html2. Supplements Store, Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) Review,http://www.vitamins-supplements.org/vitamin-C.php3. Natural-Health-Information-Center.com, Copper, Essential to Zinc, Iron and Vitamin CFunction, http://www.natural-health-information-centre.com/copper.html4. Luzia Braun, Vitamin C and Your Adrenal Glands,http://ezinearticles.com/?Vitamin-C-And-Your-Adrenal-Glands&id=8408835. Ronald L. Hoffman, Chelation,http://www.drhoffman.com/page.cfm/906. Kristie Leong, M.D., Does Cooking Destroy Vitamin C?http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2660233/does_cooking_destroyzz_vitamin_c.html7. Owen Fonorow and Sally Snyder Jewell, Practicing Medicine Without A License, Lulu Press(Lulu.com), 2008, p. 1458. Weight Control Room, Rutin: Vitamin C’s Best Friend,http://www.weightcontrolroom.com/articles/rutin.htm9. Jim English and Hyla Cass, MD, Linus Pauling’s Collagen Connection,http://www.vrp.com/heart-health/vitamin-c-and-heart-health-linus-paulings-collagen-connection10. Wayne Martin, BS, ChE, Reducing Deaths From Hearts Attacks and Cancer,http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/martin_chd.html11. Darrell M., Co-Q10 and L-Carnitine,http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/l-carnitine.shtml12. Laurie Warner, MA, CNC, Copper-Zinc Imbalance: Unrecognized Consequence of Plant-Based Diets and a Contributor to Chronic Fatigue,http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=145200613. Wikipedia, Wound Healing,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wound_healing14. Harvard School of Public Health – The Nutrition Source, “Three of the B-Vitamins: Folate,Vitamin B6, and Vitamin B12,”http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/vitamin-b/index.html15. Dr. Robert Jay Rowen, You Don’t Have To Get Cancer,http://brianpeskin.com/soapr07-2-4-pgs-1.pdf16. New World Encyclopedia, “Vitamin C,”http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Vitamin_C17. Owen Fonorow and Sally Snyder Jewell, Practicing Medicine Without A License, Lulu Press

(Lulu.com), 2008, p. 83-8618. G. C. Willis, MD; A. W. Light, MD; W. S. Gow, MD, SerialArteriography in Atherosclerosis in Human Beings, http://www.internetwks.com/pauling/study.htm19. Fonorrow, Owen R., Vitamin C and Magnesium Used as Placebo inChelation Study,http://www.internetwks.com/owen/ETHICSPAPER.htm20. Vitamin C Foundation, Major Articles,http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/page2.shtml21. Pauling, Linus, How to Live Longer and Feel Better,http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/collagen.html22. Physicians’ Health Study webpage,http://phs.bwh.harvard.edu

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a recent review by University of Michigan researchers shows that inactivity for those who are aged 50 or over can mean losing up to as much as 0.4 pounds of muscle per year (this type of loss can begin even earlier if a person is sedentary as a younger adult). However, the researchers note that even if you’re someone who is well over 50, you can increase your strength by 25 to 30 pertcent and add 2.42 pounds of lean muscle in an average of 18 to 20 weeks. The University of Michigan researchers who reviewed the literature pointed out the benefits of progressive resistance training for older adults, and they suggest beginning with squats, modified push-ups and tai chi, Pilates or yoga. They also advise working with a professional who can design a strength training program that evolves to such disci-plines as working with weights and machines to build and strengthen muscles. The review mentions that in as little as five months’ time significant progress can be made, substaniating once again the fact that the body can regenerate re-markably. Full story published in the March 2011 issue of The American Jour-nal of Medicine.


collagen is the protein that forms connective fibers in tissues such as skin, ligaments, cartilage, bones and teeth. Collagen also acts as a kind of intracellular glue that gives support, shape and bulk to blood vessels, bones, and or-gans such as the heart, kidneys and liver. Collagen fibers keep bones and blood vessels strong, and help to anchor our teeth to our gums. Collagen is also required for the repair of blood vessels, bruises, and broken bones. As the most abundant protein in the body, collagen accounts for more mass than all the other proteins put together. Vitamin C—along with the amino acids proline and lysine—is essential for the formation of healthy collagen. Many vitamins and minerals act as catalysts to support the manufacture of proteins. In the case of collagen, however, vitamin C is actually used up as it combines with two

amino acids—lysine and proline—to form procollagen. Procollagen is then used to manufacture one of several types of collagen found in different tissues throughout the body. There are at least fourteen different types of colla-gen, but the most common ones are: Type I: Makes up the fibers found in connective tissues of the skin, bone, teeth, tendons and ligaments. Type II: Round fibers found in cartilage. Type III: Forms connective tissues that give shape and strength to organs, such as the liver, heart, kidneys, etc. Type IV: Forms sheets that lie between layers of cells in the blood vessels, muscles, and eye.Vitamin C Deficiency Equals Collagen Deficiency Our body is continually manufacturing collagen to maintain and repair connective tissues lost to daily wear

and tear. Without vitamin C, collagen formation is disrupted, resulting in a wide variety of problems throughout the body. Scurvy, the disease caused by vitamin C deficiency, is really a process that disrupts the body’s ability to manufacture collagen and connective tissues. With scurvy, the body liter-ally falls apart as collagen is broken down and not replaced. The joints begin to wear down as tendons shrivel and weaken. The blood vessels crumble and begin to fall apart, leading to bruising and bleed-ing as vessels rupture (hemorrhage) throughout the body. Teeth loosen and fall out as the gums and the connective tissues holding teeth also begin to erode. Organs, once held firmly together by con-nective tissues, also lose structural strength and begin to fail. In time, the various body tissues weaken, the immune system and heart give out, leading to death.

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Linus Pauling Challenges Cholesterol Theories In 1989, the eminent American scientist and two-time Nobel Prize winner, Linus Pauling, announced a breakthrough in how we view and treat heart disease. In “A Unified Theory of Human Cardiovascular Disease,” Linus Paul-ing announced that the deposits of plaque seen in atherosclerosis were not the cause of heart disease, but were actually the result of our bodies trying to repair the damage caused by long-term vitamin C deficiency. In essence, Pauling be-lieved that heart disease is a form of scurvy, and plaque is the body’s attempt to reinforce and patch weakened blood vessels and arteries that would otherwise rupture. Pauling also showed that heart disease can be prevented or treated by taking vitamin C and other supplements.Plaque Deposits Pauling based his revolutionary theory on a number of important scientific findings. First was the discovery that plaque deposits found in human aortas are made up of a special form of cholesterol called lipoprotein (a) or Lp(a), not from ordinary LDL cholesterol. Lp(a) is a special form of LDL cholesterol that forms the thick sheets of plaque that obstruct arteries.

Another finding central to Pauling’s theory was the observation that plaque deposits are not formed randomly throughout the circulatory system. This was first reported in the early 1950s when a Canadian doctor, G. C. Wil-lis, MD, observed that plaque always forms nearest the heart, where blood vessels and arteries are constantly being stretched and bent, rather than being spread evenly throughout the entire car-diovascular system. Willis also noted that plaque deposits always occur in regions that are exposed to the highest blood pressures, such as the aorta, where blood is forcefully ejected from the heart.

In 1985, a team of researchers verified that plaque only forms in areas of the artery that become damaged. Just as cracks form in a garden hose that has be-come weak and worn from constant bending and high pressure, cracks form in the lining of the arterial wall. As these tiny cracks open up they expose strands of the amino acid lysine (one of the primary components of collagen) to the blood stream. It is these strands that initially attract Lp(a). Lp(a) is an espe-cially sticky form of cholesterol that is attracted to lysine. Drawn to the break, Lp(a) begins to collect and attach to the exposed strands. As Lp(a) covers the lysine strands, free lysine in the blood is drawn to the growing deposit. Over time, this process continues as lysine and Lp(a) are both drawn from the blood to build ever-larger deposits of plaque. This process gradually reduces the inner diameter of the vessels and restricts its capacity to carry the blood.Heart Disease as Low-Level Scurvy Observing the newly described process of plaque formation, Pauling recog-nized a similarity to underlying processes seen in scurvy. He also saw similari-

as a student rn, the Sugar Addiction article in Vol. 20, No.3 has left me wondering about managing diabetes in relation to preventing an elevated blood sugar level. While I agree that a body’s chemical reaction, phos-phorylation, may play an important role in increasing insulin sensitivity, I disagree with the statement that physical exercise proves to be a futile approach in lowering blood sugar for any single individual. In fact, aerobic physical exercise is known to be ef-fective in managing blood glucose. Just because a certain exercise ac-tivity proves to be ineffective for one individual, does not mean that exer-cise, in general, is pointless in help-ing a person overcome a “metabolic nightmare.” Exercise is incapable of producing useful results only if its not effectively done or combined with other treatment plans. Diabetes and obesity are concerns that need to be managed by oneself. While it is true that too much sugar can lead to health problems, it is an individual’s responsibility to take a leadership approach in developing his/her own plan for successful man-agement of obesity and blood-sugar related conditions such as diabetes. An individual takes on a leadership approach by having the right mental-ity and learning to manage change in positive ways. Ultimately, we are all responsible for our own actions toward our own bodies. For instance, who’s at fault if a person decides to binge-eat after dieting or having an intense physical workout? If, for some reason, individuals find diabetes extremely hard to manage then finding a good resource such as a diabetic nurse educator will be of


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Cardiovascular disease does not occur in any of the animals that are able to manu-facture their own vitamin C

Here I am 86 years old and preparing to pass over to the other side; and it’s like I’m finally beginning to understand that everything, every tiny, little thing, is alive and has the holy Voice of God within it if we just listen. …All of life is holy and is all about loving and listening and learning and being happy.

—Sal in Victor Villaseñor’s Beyond Rain of Gold, page 83, Hay House, 2011, www.hayhouse.com


ties between human and animal models of atherosclerosis that pointed to a connection with scurvy. First, cardiovascular disease does not occur in any of the animals that are able to manufacture their own vitamin C. Many animals produce large amounts of vitamin C that are equivalent to human doses rang-ing from ten to twenty grams per day. Second, the only animals that produce Lp(a) are those which, like man, have also lost the ability to produce their own vitamin C, such as apes and guinea pigs. Putting all the pieces of the puzzle together, Pauling suggested that the abil-ity to form plaque is really the body’s attempt to repair damage caused by a long-term deficiency of vitamin C. He knew that our ancestors lived in tropical regions where the diet consisted primarily of fruits and vegetables. With a daily intake estimated to be in the range of several hundred milligrams to several grams per day, our ancestors easily survived without the gene required to manufacture vitamin C. Almost unnoticed, this mutation was passed on to suc-cessive generations, and only became a problem when early humans began to spread to other regions of the world. In effect, when humankind left the garden, the lack of a reliable and adequate supply of dietary vitamin C led to scurvy. Pauling thought that scurvy was one of the greatest threats to humankind’s early survival, and believed that the loss of blood during times of vitamin C deficiency, particularly during the Ice Ages, likely brought humans close to the point of extinction.Plaque as a Life Saver? The core of Pauling’s theory is that, over time, the body developed a repair mechanism that allowed it to cope with the damage caused by chronic vitamin C deficiency. The repair mechanism is as elegant as it is simple. When arteries became weak and began to rupture, the body responded by gluing the damaged areas together with Lp(a) to prevent a slow death from internal bleeding. In

great benefit. Diabetic nurse educa-tors can help effectively manage high glucose levels by tailoring a diabetic self-management regimen to the individual’s needs. Diabetic nurse educators are certified and work in various inpatient and outpa-tient settings. Diabetic nurse educa-tors can even make home visits. If a majority of people were to take a self-leadership approach in effectively managing their diabetes then there would be less need for financing blood tests, anti-diabetic drugs, hospitalizations, and clinic visits. There would also be less need for blood glucose checks on a daily basis.

—Christian Panaligan, Antioch, CA

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essence, plaque is the body’s attempt to patch blood vessels damaged by low-level scurvy. Accordingly, Pauling believed that conventional triggers of plaque formation, such as homocysteine and oxidized cholesterol, are actually just additional symptoms of scurvy.Scientific Support for the Pauling Unified Theory Pauling’s theory was unique in that it addressed a fact never explained by older, mainstream theories. Specifically, Pauling finally explained why plaque isn’t randomly distributed throughout the body, but restricted to areas of high me-chanical stress. A surprising number of animal studies have been found to sup-port Pauling’s theory. Research conducted with animals that cannot make their own vitamin C found that when vitamin C levels are reduced, collagen produc-tion drops and blood vessels become thinner and weaker. Additional studies also confirm that when animals are deprived of vitamin C, their bodies respond by increasing blood levels of Lp(a) and forming plaque deposits to strengthen arteries and prevent vessel ruptures.Collagen Melts Plaque, Keeps Arteries Open

In addition to taking vitamin C to prevent atherosclerosis, Pauling recommended a combination of vitamin C and the amino acids lysine and proline to help remove ex-isting plaque while strengthening weak and damaged arteries. As mentioned previously, the body produces collagen from lysine and proline. Pauling reasoned that by increas-ing concentrations of lysine and proline in the blood, Lp(a) molecules would bind with the free lysine, rather than with the lysine strands exposed by the cracks in blood ves-sels.How Much Vitamin C Does it Take to Prevent Atherosclerosis? While acute scurvy can be prevented by a mere 10 mg vitamin C per day, there is no

current research showing how much vitamin C might be required to prevent the atherosclerotic plaques of chronic scurvy. In his Unified Theory, Linus Pauling often recommended 3,000 to 5,000 mg per day as an effective dose. Anecdotal reports from patients using the Pauling Therapy indicate that rapid recovery is frequently the rule, not the exception, allowing many people to avoid open heart surgery and angioplasty.Pauling Therapy for the Reversal of Heart Disease 1. Vitamin C: to bowel tolerance - as much as you can take without diarrhea.

For most people this will be in the range of five to ten grams (5,000-10,000mg.) each day. Spread this amount into two equal doses 12 hours apart. (Vitamin C prevents further cracking of the blood vessel wall - the beginning ofthe disease.)

2. L-Proline: 3 grams twice per day (acts to release lipoprotein(a) from plaqueformation and prevent further deposition of same).

3. L-Lysine: 3 grams twice each day (acts to release lipoprotein(a) from plaqueformation and prevent further deposition of same).

4. Co-enzyme Q10: 90-180 mg. twice per day (strengthens the heart muscle).5. L-Carnitine: 3 grams twice per day (also strengthens the heart muscle).6. Niacin: decreases production of lipoprotein(a) in the liver. Inositol hexani- cotinate is a form of niacin which gives less of a problem with flushing and

therefore allows for larger therapeutic doses. Begin with 250 mg. at lunch, 500 mg. at dinner and 500 mg. at bedtime the first day; then increase gradally over a few days until you reach four grams per day, or the highest dose

Rapid recovery is frequently the rule, not the exception, allowing many people to avoid open heart surgery and angioplasty

“[the rosickys] had been at one accord not to hurry through life, not to be always skimping and saving. They saw their neighbors buy more land and feed more stock than they did, without discontent. Once when the creamery agent came to the Rosickys to persuade them to sell him their cream, he told them how much the Fasslers, their nearest neighbours, had made selling their cream last year. “Yes,” said Mary Rosicky, “and look at them Fassler children! Pale, pinched little things, they look like skimmed milk. I’d rather put some color into my chil-dren’s faces than put money into the bank.” —Willa Cather in Neighbour Rosicky Weston Price, DDS, wrote in Nutrition and Physical Degeneration in 1933 of his studies in Switzerland about the use of raw and traditional foods, “Each isolated Swiss valley or village has its own special feast days of which athletic contests are the principal events. The feasting in the past has been largely on dairy products. The athletes were pro-vided with large bowls of cream as constituting one of the most popu-lar and healthful beverages, and special cheese was always avail-able…. It is reported that practically all skulls that are exhumed in the Rhone Valley and, indeed, practical-ly throughout all Switzerland, where graves have existed for more than a hundred years, are found with relatively perfect teeth; whereas the teeth of people recently buried have been riddled with caries or lost through this disease.” “The tradition of preserving foods, enhancing their nutritive value, and making them more interesting to eat through fermentation is a very an-cient one. A form of yogurt was said to have been revealed to Abraham by an angel; and the starter particles

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under four grams you can tolerate. Be sure to ask your doctor for liver en zyme level tests every two months or less to be sure your liver is able to handle the dose you are taking.

7. Vitamin E: 800-2400 IU per day. (Inhibits proliferation of smooth musclecells in the walls of arteries undergoing the atherosclerotic changes.) ∆

This article is reprinted by permission from Vitamin Research Products; see www.vrp.com for more information.

hyla cass m.d. is the author of Supplement Your Prescription, Natural Highs, and 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health. She is associate editor of Total Health Magazine, and a former board member of ACAM. For more: www.drcass.comJim english is a widely published editor, writer and author of several books and articles on nutrition, complementary health and life-extension.

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of kefir, a substance similar to yogurt but thick enough to be drinkable, are called ‘grains of the prophet Mo-hammed,’ the prophet having been credited with their introduction.” —William H. Lee, Ph.D. in The Friendly Bacteria. “The fermentation of milk makes it more assimilable to those with lactose intolerance—a large part of the lactose is transformed into lactic acid; and because the presence of the enzyme lactase in fermented milk products helps break down lactose in the digestive tract. A portion of the milk protein (casein) is decomposed, liberating the amino acids. Research shows that proteins in yogurt are digested twice as quickly as those of nonfermented milk.” —Claude Aubert, Les Aliments Fermentés Traditionnels. “During fermentation of milk products, 30 to 40% of the lactose is broken down…. However, a special enzyme activity also takes place. Fer-mented products that are not heated in ways that destroy enzyme activity have significant levels of enzymes that contribute to the digestion of lactose in the intestine.” —All excerpts above from Nourishing Traditions, by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, Ph.D., second ed., New Trends Publishing, pages 82-83.

“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more ‘manhood’ to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.”

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Modern Electrical Lighting

– “buyer beware”By Anne Gastinger

since the invention of electrical light over a century ago, incandescent light bulbs have dominated the domes-tic lighting market. Problem is, incandescents generate heat superfluous to lighting production, which means wasted energy. Today’s global mandate for energy efficiency has gov-ernments and the green movement alike eager to place a use-by date on the incandescents’ lifespan. Consumers in a show of unity have switched with ease to halogen and energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs. Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) in particular have been a popular means of conserving electrical energy, yet the way forward in lighting technology is not as clear-cut as it would seem. “Buyer beware” is apt advice when choosing the type of electrical light that is safest for you and the environment.

uV radiationNot many people know that all lamps emit ultraviolet (UV) radiation; the brighter the lamp shines, the more UV it emits. The Swedish Radiation Protection Institute ad-vised its citizens in the early 1990s against the use of halogen lamps as table lamps or as working area lighting. They estimated that eight hours’ radiation from a 50-watt halogen lamp, at a distance of half a metre, is equivalent to an hour’s summer sun-shine. As well as emitting UV-A and UV-B radia-tion, the Danish Lighting Technology Association detected short-wave UV-C radiation from halogen lamps. radio frequency radiation–dirty electriity In addition to UV radiation, professor Magda Havas, from Trent University, Canada, found that many compact fluorescent light bulbs produce radio frequency radiation. This higher frequency radiation can leak onto the 60 Hz frequency elec-trical wiring throughout our homes and buildings, contaminating them with “dirty electricity.”

She explains: “These frequencies radiate directly from the bulbs and go on the electrical wiring in the home or school causing poor power quality or dirty electricity. The closer you sit to the bulb the greater your exposure. Because the high frequencies travel along the wire you can be exposed in other rooms of your home as well as the room that contains the CFL. Not all CFL bulbs pro-duce the same amount of dirty electricity. Some are worse than others.”1 Another consideration when installing a lighting system in your house is whether to use dimmer switches. This is not a good idea, claims Havas, if you want to avoid dirty electricity pollutants because “putting lights on dimmer switches exacerbates the problem. The dimmer switch converts the electrical signal into high frequency transients that result in dirty electricity. Even clean incandescent lights will produce dirty electricity if a dimmer switch is used”.2

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carcinogenic” (also in this category are lead, DDT, and diesel). Generally, the higher the frequency, the stronger its effect. Energy-efficient bulbs have a stronger elec-tromagnetic field than incandescent bulbs. According to Havas, “CFLs operate in the intermediate frequency range of the electromagnetic spectrum”.3

Fortunately electromagnetic fields degrade sharply with distance. The strategy of keeping a good arm’s length or two away from any EMF source is a wise precaution. Electromagnetic fields are capable of radiating through walls and up through ceilings. As a precaution avoid positioning beds, children’s play areas or study areas on the second story of homes directly above the lower floor ceiling lights.

Mercury in CFL bulbsCompact fluorescent light bulbs have already provoked public concern regarding their mercury content. The mer-cury in the bulb emits UV radiation when it is electrically excited and then interacts with chemicals on the inside of the bulb to generate light. Fluorescent tube bulbs use diffusers to filter the UV radiation, but these diffusers are omitted in compact fluorescent lights. Health Canada’s Consumer and Clinical Radiation Protection Bureau ac-knowledged that because these diffusers are not provided in the CFLs there may be skin sensitivity issues, espe-cially in people with certain skin diseases such as lupus, eczema, dermatitis or porphyria.

Concern about mercury poisoning as a result of break-age of bulbs is warranted. The elemental mercury va-pourises readily and is harmful to our respiratory system. Information given on their manufacturers’ websites advise that should a bulb break, open windows and evacuate the room. Each bulb is estimated to contain 4–5 milligrams of mercury – merely enough to cover the tip of a ballpoint pen, yet capable of contaminating up to 150,000 litres of water. Once they have expired, many bulbs will be carelessly tossed into the household rubbish and eventually end up in landfills. Compressed and broken, their hazardous contents could leach into the soil and underground wa-terways. Once in contact with water, elemental mercury changes into the more toxic compound, methyl mercury. In this form it can bioaccumulate up the food chain. Methyl mercury when absorbed by humans can mimic an essential amino acid, allowing it entry across either the blood brain barrier or the placenta, potentially causing brain damage or birth defects. Energy efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs are a popular choice for those concerned with decreasing their carbon footprint. Our dilemma in choosing to use them is whether the energy savings gained are worth the risk of exposing ourselves and others to its mercury content. They are produced mainly in Asia, and reports of workers being poisoned from mercury exposure at the Nanhai Fei-


yang lighting factory (Foshan), and the Compact Fluorescent factory (Jinzhou) in China demonstrate this issue. Rubbish collectors and landfill workers are another occupational group inadvertently at risk from mercurial gases released when these light bulbs break.

Other chemicals of concernExposure to multiple chemicals may result in unpredictable effects. The Swed-ish International Testing and Research Institute in Boras found that “common lamps, which people use every day, actually contain and emit numerous chemi-cals, some of which are known to be carcinogenic and endocrine disturbing, affecting fertility. The chemists found phenols and other substances that can cause hypersensitivity to light, and many other chemicals such as formalde-hyde, toluene, cresol, 1-butanol, and 4H-1.3 benzodioxin.”

Flicker rateCFL bulbs have a flicker rate of 100–120 hertz (Hz) cycles per second, twice the frequency of 60 Hz incandescents. Most reports claim that the flicker rate of modern CFLs are too high for the human eye to detect any fluctuation in light intensity. However Khazova and O’Hagan (2008) found that a significant proportion of CFLs they tested exhibited flickering in the lower range at around 100 Hz.4 Some health conditions are susceptible to the effects of such light flicker rates, for example Kasteleijn et al (2004) suggests that “3% of epilepsy patients are sensitive to flicker of up to 110 Hz.”5 People affected by migraines or autism may also suffer ill-effects from the imperceptible flicker of these bulbs.

Light-emitting diodes: LEDsReports to date suggest light-emitting diodes are a safe and energy-efficient lighting technology suitable for the domestic market. They don’t contain mercury, and are electromagnetically cleaner than some compact fluorescent lights. Although priced prohibitively for the home market, it is expected that prices will decrease as this technology develops. Further investigations are still required to determine their suitability for at risk groups of people.

Natural light the best of allThose who intentionally exclude natural light in the design of factories, super-markets, shopping malls etc., contribute to the waste of energy, a precious re-source. Even with safer energy-efficient artificial lighting technologies around the corner, natural light is still the healthier, more economic, and environmen-tally sensible option. The organic solution is to work with nature rather than exclude it. ∆

anne gastinger is a New Zealand researcher/writer with a strong interest in health and conservation issues.

This article was first published in Organic NZ, January/February 2011, www.organicnz.org and is reprinted by permission.

REFERENCES1. www.dirtyelectricity.ca/cfl_lights.htm2. www.dirtyelectricity.ca3. Magda Havas, “Health Concerns associated with Energy Efficient Lighting and their Elec

tromagnetic Emissions: Preliminary Report for the EU Scientific Committee on Emerging andNewly Identified Health Risks,” June 5 2008 , p 4

4. Association for the Conservation of Energy, “Mapping knowledge on low energy lamps andhealth,” London, 2009, p. 12

5. www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.451004.x/fullFurther recommended reading* Gunni Nordstrom, The Invisible Disease: The dangers of environmental illnesses caused byelectromagnetic fields and chemical emissions, O Books, UK, 2004* www.ledke.com/news/Shortcoming-Compact-Fluorescent-Lights-CFL.html* www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_lamp* www.biotech.about.com/od/biotechindailylife/a/dirtyEinterview.htm

you Most likley think you are boost-ing your antioxidant intake when you choose foods with blueberries added. You are, but to make sure blueberries are actually in the food you may want to take a second look and read the label. Popular break-fast products from cereals, to bagels and poptarts advertise blueber-ries in the name and prominently display pictures of them on the box, but if you read the ingredients the conspicuous things missing can be the blueberries themselves. Mike Adams, with Food Investigations for the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center found the following prod-ucts contain fake blueberries: Total Blueberry Pomegranate Cereal by General Mills; it does not contain blueberries or pomegranetes. It does contain red dye #40, blue dye #2, sucralose, sugar, corn syrup and brown sugar syrup. Other products list misleading ingredients such as blueberry bits or blueberry crunch-lets, which are mostly made of various sugars, artificial food dies, hydrogenated vegetable oils and artificial flavor. Why would companies want to trick consumers into thinking they are buying something healthy? Because it feeds their bottom line, or profit? Blueberries can be quite expensive but artificial blueberries made from sugar are very inexpen-sive. The good news is that there are companies that actually use whole food blueberries in their ingre-dients. For example, Nature’s Path Organic Optimum Blueberry, Cinna-mon Breakfast Cereal contains both real blueberries and cinnamon! Next time you grab a box of something that you assume contains what the pictures and words are advertising, make sure you check the ingredi-ents.The closer to nature the better. For more see http://naturalnews.tv

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the most effective treatment for Alzheimer’s may be sitting on your cupboard shelf. Recently a medical doctor discovered the effectiveness of coconut oil in fighting neurodegeneration while researching a new drug. From time to time I receive testimonials from people who attest that coconut oil helped them or a family mem-ber overcome neurological problems. These problems include Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, autism, dementia, epilepsy, and various emotional disorders. Of these conditions, the effects of coconut oil or the fatty acids in coconut oil on epilepsy are the most thoroughly studied and documented. However, new research on Al-zheimer’s disease has shown that coconut oil may be the best alternative treatment for this otherwise untreatable condition. Recently, I received a copy of a letter addressed to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and other members of the Alzheimer Study Group. I would like to share some of the contents of this letter with you. The letter was written by Mary T. Newport, MD, direc-tor of Neonatology at Spring Hill Regional Hospital in Florida. About five years ago Dr. Newport’s husband, Steve, began to develop signs of Alzheimer’s disease. At the time Steve was only 53 years old. The disease pro-gressively worsened and according to Dr. Newport his condition was “moderately severe.” Steve’s latest MRI shows extensive atrophy in the amygdala and hippocam-pus, the areas affected by Alzheimer’s. He lives at home where his health care is supervised by his wife. During this time, Dr. Newport searched endlessly for ways to curb the progression of the disease. She learned of some clinical trials recruiting Alzheimer’s patients for studies to test the effectiveness of two experimental drugs. In researching the drugs she discovered that one of them, Ketasyn, showed great promise. In preliminary studies persons with Alzheimer’s disease demonstrated

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overall improvement in mental ability in as little as 45 days. Positive results were noticeable in some of the sub-jects after just a single dose. She recognized that this drug had the potential to be the most effective treatment on the market for preventing and reversing symptoms associated with Alzheimer’s disease. During her research, she discovered that the active ingredients in Ketasyn were medium chain triglycerides (MCTs)—which are derived from coconut oil. Since the drug is not yet approved for treatment of Alzheimer’s by the FDA and was not commercially available, she went to the health food store and purchased a bottle of virgin coconut oil. The daily dosage of MCT oil used in pre-liminary studies was equivalent to about 2 tablespoons of coconut oil. “I started adding 2 tablespoons to my husband’s oat-meal at breakfast,” says Dr. Newport. “Within a few days there was noticeable improvement in his gait, his abil-ity to converse, and his sense of humor has returned; he

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remembers the month and the season immediately, which he could not re-member if repeated over and over to him before. He is following through on things that he wants to accomplish during the course of the day.…To see this much improvement in such a short time is very encouraging for both of us. He is well aware that he is suffering from this disease and fully supports and enjoys our dietary change.” In the hospital where Dr. Newport works, some nurses are from the Philippines. “My nurse friends from the Philippines have advised me that in their country of origin (as well as other Asian countries), coconut and coconut oil are a staple, used on a daily basis, which may explain why there is a much lower incidence of Alzheimer’s disease in that part of the

world.” How do the medium chain triglyc-erides in coconut oil fight Alzheimer’s disease? During digestion, MCTs are broken down into medium chain fatty acids, some of which are converted into ketones. Nerve tissue, including the brain, relies on glucose for energy, nerve cells can also convert ketones into energy. When food is restricted and adequate glucose is unavailable, the body converts fat into ketones, which supplies the brain with the energy it needs to function properly. Glucose cannot enter cells without the aid of insulin. Insulin is a hormone that takes glucose from the bloodstream and shuttles it into the cells. Certain

conditions, such as chronic inflammation, can cause cells to become insulin resistant. In insulin resistance, insulin receptors do not function properly and cannot adequately transport glucose into the cells. When inflammation affects nerve tissue, nerve cells become insulin resistant. Therefore, the brain is unable to get the glucose it needs and nerve cells degenerate and die, leading to problems such as Alzheimer’s disease, Par-kinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and other neurological disorders. Ketones do not require the aid of insulin to pass through cell mem-branes. Therefore, they can supply brain cells with needed energy re-gardless of insulin status. Nerve compromised brains that are starving for nourishment can get the energy they need from ketones the body manu-factures from coconut oil. Other fats and oils will not convert to ketones unless a state of starvation exists, so they are of no benefit.

Dr. Newport discovered that the science behind the use of MCTs to treat neurological disorders has been around for a number of years, but little has been done to use this knowledge to develop treatments for Alzheimer’s and other neurological conditions. MCTs and coconut oil are natural products and as such, are not patentable, so drug manufacturers have little interest in re-searching their therapeutic potential. Likewise, the government and medical profession in general, which are greatly influenced by the pharmaceutical industry, have shown little interest.

Newport laments that had she known about MCTs, she could have begun treating her husband sooner. “Just three years ago my husband’s MRI was ‘normal’ and he could work as an accountant.” Now, it may be too late: “realistically speak-ing, I cannot expect him to fully recover.” She believes his

we know good nutrition and certain nutritional supplements are beneficial for the brain, but now a study shows that aerobic exercises such as walking benefit the brain as well, especially as you get older. The study points out that “Hippocampal and medial temporal lobe volumes are larger in higher-fit adults.” This new study from researchers at four uni-versities shows that over the course of a year, that walking around a track, for example, for 40 minutes three times a week can increase the size of the hippocampus, the area of the brain essential to memory functions (it is thought that the hippocampus shrinks as we get older, leading to such mental challenges as forgetfulness and dementia). A team of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Illinois, Rice University and Ohio State studied 120 adults ages 55-80, selected because none exercised regularly. Half were assigned to the 40-minute walking program. The others did stretching exercises and worked out with weights. Both groups were coached by instructors and monitored. MRIs taken at the end of the study showed increases in the size of the hippocampus among those in the aerobic exercise group compared with MRI results at the outset. Hip-pocampus size declined among those in the group that merely stretched and worked with weights. Participants in the aerobic group also did better on spatial memory exercises. Full story in an online article titled “Exercise training increases size of hippocampus and improves memory,” January 31, 2011 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sci-ences, www.pnas.org.

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Within a few days there was noticeable improvement in his gait, his ability to converse, his sense of humor has returned


mind would not have deteriorated to the state it is in today if she could have started him on the coconut oil when the symptoms first arose. In fact, he may have retained all of his mental capabilities. Newport wrote a letter to key individuals imploring them to “study the research and make the findings public knowledge so that everyone who suffers from this disease can potentially benefit.” In addition to Justice O’Conner and myself, letters were sent to Senator Hillary Clinton, Steven K. Galson, M.D. acting Surgeon General, Mehmet Oz, M.D. at NBC studios, the medical editors of the New

York Times and Washington Post, and many others. Hope-fully Newport’s campaign will bring about greater aware-ness of the health benefits of coconut oil. ∆Reprinted by permission from Healthy Ways Newsletter, vol-ume 5, Number 3, www.coconutresearchcenter.org.

Bruce fife, n.d., is the author of over 20 books, including The New Arthritis Cure: Eliminating Arthritis and Fibromyalgia Pain Permanently and Cooking with Coconut Flour, both of which are available from Piccadilly Books, Ltd., phone: 719- 550-9887, e-mail: [email protected].

Ingredients2 medium beets 1 meduim red onion4 medium carrots1 cup chopped yam 1/2 cup shaved and chopped fennel bulb4 cups mixed greens 1 tbls safflower oil2 tbls cold pressed coconut oil1 cup balsamic vinegar

Directions1. Preheat oven to 375. Option: roast on the outdoor grill. Chop beets, carrots, onion, andyam into chunky medium bite size pieces and coat with safflower oil. Place on bakingsheet or grill plate and cook for 30-35 min or until fork easily pokes through a beet.2. Bring balsamic vinegar to a low boil and stir constantly for 10-15 min. Set aside and letcool to thicken.3. Remove vegetables from oven or grill; let them cool 5 minutes, then toss with coconutoil and a dash of sea salt.4. Arrange greens on plates, scoop warm vegetables on top, garnish with fennel, anddrizzle with balsamic glaze. ∆ —L.H.

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May we say that the soul has been forever in a state of knowledge? And if the truth about reality is always in our soul, the soul must be immortal, and one must take courage and try to discover—that is, to recollect what one doesn’t happen to know, or (more correctly) remember, at the moment.

—Socrates in Plato’s Meno

tWo months ago rev. Bruce flett was struggling with severe dementia. He couldn’t read or talk properly. He had to have help with all his basic needs. The doctor said he would never preach again. Within three hours of taking coconut oil all that changed. Now he is doing everything by himself and even working again. Recently he performed a wedding ceremony. “I knew something had to happen soon,” said Carol Flett of Paisley, Canada. “My husband, Bruce, was getting worse and worse. The dementia was progressing rapidly. Bruce, was finding it harder and harder to form a simple sentence. He couldn’t communicate to tell me his needs; he couldn’t do the simplest tasks for himself. If this kept up I wasn’t sure what would happen.” Bruce Flett is a retired minister and the author of four novels. In 2010 he developed endocarditis—inflammation in the heart, which in Bruce’s case was caused by a fungal infection. The infection destroyed part of his heart, requiring him to have heart valve replacement surgery. The infection spread into his bloodstream and infected his spleen, gallbladder, liver, and brain. He was in critical condition and almost died two or three times, but managed to survive. The infection, however, destroyed brain tissue leaving him with dementia. The doctor told Carol it was permanent and that he would never preach again. Bruce could no longer read or even talk normally. Carol had to help him with all his basic needs and do everything for him. “I was resigned to having lost my husband,” says Carol. “It was more like having to look after a small child.” Bruce took a test called a Mini Mental Status Exam (MMSE) which is used to evaluate and monitor the severity of dementia. The test has 30 questions. A score of 25-30 correct answers is considered normal. A score of 21-24 suggests mild impairment, 10-20 moderate impairment, and 9 or fewer severe impairment. Anyone who scores below 10 is severely handicapped. Bruce scored 11, indicating he was on the brink of severe dementia. The stress of caring for her disabled husband began to take its toll on Carol. The doctor suggested putting Bruce in a nursing home. She couldn’t do that. There had to be another solution. “Lord, I need your wisdom,” Carol whispered in desperation. “Direct me; show me what I should do to help my husband.” The next day she had a new friend on Facebook. This friend had a link on her Facebook page to a YouTube interview (search, coconut cures alzheimer’s) with a doctor who had had success reversing her husband’s Alzheimer’s using

Coconut Oil Cures Dementia Patient vitaMin d3 is a rising nutritional

star, with recent studies connecting it to cardiovascular health and the prevention of diabetes. A study performed by Ibhar Al Mheid of Emory University School of Medicine found low vitamin D levels associated with stiffer arteries. Data from 554 generally healthy participants revealed, “that people with vitamin D deficiency had vascular dysfunction comparable to those with diabetes or hypertension.” Al Mheid suggests that vitamin D “could be strengthening endothelial cells and the muscles surrounding the blood vessels. It could also be reducing the level of angiotensin, a hormone that drives increased blood pressure, or regulating inflammation.”

Another study of 5,200 subjects, performed by Claudia Gagnon of Western Hospital, University of Melbourne, Australia, found subjects with below average vitamin D levels were 57% more likely to develop type 2 diabetes. Gagnon cautions the study does not prove cause and effect, but raises the possibility that vitamin D increases insulin release.

Obtained primarily from sunlight, vitamin D is also available in fortified foods, in oily fish, and in inexpensive supplements; complementary medical practitioners recommend doses as high as 5,000 IU a day. Darker skinned people need more sunlight. Sun exposure of 20 minutes a day over the entire body would produce 20,000 IU of vitamin D3.

From: “Vitamin D Levels Linked with Health of Blood Vessels,” 4 Apr. 2011. Science Newsline. http://www.sciencenewsline.com and, “Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to Diabetes Risk.” 27 Apr. 2011. MSNBC.com.http://www.msnbc.com

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until i attended medical school, death was something I heard about, rather than witnessed. I remember playing in our back yard as a child when my mother came outside to tell me my grandma had just died. Although I loved my grandma, I didn’t see her very often, and hadn’t seen her sick with cancer. So it was just news. Bad news, but still news. It wasn’t up close and personal. In medical school, death and dying were clinical phenomena, to be studied in a detached intellectual way. The human cadaver my small group of first-year students and I dissected was only a real person in rare moments of reflection. The rest of the time it was organs, muscles and bones. Even the patients who died during my clinical rotations through the hospitals were often stripped of their humanity in our feverish attempts to prolong their lives. Friends have died along the way, some closer to me than others, some very young. I was never present in the extremely intimate day-to-day dying process. Then there was my own dad. One mo-ment he was hugging my mom before she went out to do some errands. The next moment he sagged against her, falling over on top of her. By the time the first emergency team came to their house, ten minutes had elapsed and, although they restored his breathing and heartbeat, his brain had suffered irre-versible damage. I caught the first flight I could and arrived in San Diego that evening. My mom and I visited Dad in the hospital. He was connected to a breathing ma-chine, and his heart was beating regularly with the use of drugs, but it felt to me like my dad was not there. His body lay in the hospital bed, blood and oxygen keeping it alive, but something vital and essential was gone. The next morning we arrived at the hospital and signed the forms to “unplug” his body, removing all machines and drugs. For the next hour, my mom and I watched his body gradually shut down as his breaths came with longer and longer intervals in between. My mom was stroking his head while she cried. I encouraged her to say good-bye, which she did. As he took his final breaths, I sang a song to him. I distinctly remember I had no tears – until I called Joyce, minutes after his body was still. Then it felt like the floodgates opened, and the tears finally flowed.

Still, something was missing. It was death without dying. I missed the op-

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By Barry Vissell, M.D.coconut oil. A few weeks earlier, Carol had purchased some coconut oil at the grocery store on a whim, after a nurse had recommended it to her. She had forgotten all about it. Inspired by the video, she gave Bruce a couple of tablespoons of coconut oil. Within three hours he was speaking in clear sentences for the first time in months. She continued to give him coconut oil daily. A month later he was taking care of all his personal needs; he was using the telephone, operating his computer on his own, and reading short books; he even began building a bookshelf, all things that he couldn’t even attempt to do a month earlier. “I have my husband back!” she exclaims. “I still thank God for each new day that Bruce wakes up and talks to me without getting all confused.” The doctor was amazed. He ordered another MMSE test—the one that convinced him that Bruce was beyond hope. This time he scored 24 out of 30, putting him at the very cusp of normal. Carol told the doctor about the answer to her prayer and the use of coconut oil. He didn’t scoff. He just said, “Keep doing what you’re doing because it’s working.” Bruce continues to improve each day and has resumed some of his pastoral duties such as performing marriages. Bruce and Carol have been married for 43 years and look forward to many more happy years ahead, thanks to coconut oil and an answer to her prayer.

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Every child comes with the message that God is not discouraged with us.…Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy? —Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, Collected Poems & Plays, Macmillan Publ. Co, Inc., New York, 1974

portunity to say good-bye while my dad was still alive, to sit with him and integrate all the feelings of the dying process and, perhaps most of all, to listen to and feel his experience of dying. Of course, over the years since his death I’ve had many conversations with my dad. I’ve said good-bye to him. I’ve expressed unfinished feelings and difficult realiza-tions. And most importantly, I’ve expressed my love, which has given me the most peace. Still, it seems there will always be something missing around my dad’s death. All this changed with the dying of Joyce’s mother, Lou-ise. Having Joyce’s mom next door, seeing her every day, expressing my love to her, receiving her love, listening to her experiences, talking about death, all these things have changed my life for the better. Louise gave me the gift of including dying with death. Death was no longer just news I received in the back yard of my childhood. It was a complex, dynamic, painful and joyful process, a life-changing experience. Death was part of living, not the end of living. Dying is not neat; it’s messy. I thought I would dread changing diapers on an old woman, or taking care of bed-

sores. Instead, it was something that needed to be done, and in fact could be done with tenderness and patience. Even the feelings are messy. I remember one day helping to move her body to relieve pressure on one of her bed sores. Louise screamed out in pain and anger, “You’re torturing me.” I found a capacity for patience that the closeness to death seemed to bestow upon me. I calmly said, “No, Louise, it just feels that way. Your bed-sores will get worse if we don’t move you.” Dying is not a clinical experience; it’s extremely per-sonal. I finally had the opportunity to turn off my “doc-tor mind,” to stop trying to find solutions to her medical problems, to stop trying to figure out ways to prolong her life. Sometimes I wouldn’t know how busy my mind was until I walked into Louise’s apartment. It was like walking into a place where time simply didn’t exist. The tranquility around her provided a stark contrast to my own lack of peace. It forced me to focus on my breathing, to calm myself down, so I could match her energy and connect heart to heart. What an opportunity to silently look into Louise’s eyes without any hesitation or embarrassment, to see her great


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serenity reflected in those luminous pools of light. Her eyes were truly the windows of her soul, and her soul was nearly always content with her current journey – except, of course, when she was in pain. It was nearly impossible to gaze into those clear, shining eyes and not see the reflection of my own death, however far into the future. When I was really present with Louise, her dying was my dying as well. When I was at peace looking into her eyes, exchanging words of love, I was at peace with my own dying. Louise knew with clear certainty that death was not the end of life. She knew death as the beginning, as well as part of, an even greater adventure and journey. Her calm certainty allowed those of us around her to touch our own knowing of life beyond the confines of the body. The times she spoke with her beloved husband, Hank, and other friends and family who had passed on, the things she shared with us about the world on the other side of the veil of death, were too inspiring not to be believed. I suppose it would be possible to hang on to the belief that there is no life after death. But after sitting day after day with Louise, watching her body gradu-ally shut down while watching something deeper and more essential actually getting stronger and more alive, witnessing a birth during the process of a death, how could anyone doubt the immensity and continuity of this journey? It feels to me the only way I could doubt life after death would have been to keep myself from looking into Louise’s eyes, or listening to her wisdom and experience, or feeling the growing love in the room. I could only doubt the ongoing journey of her soul by refusing to see the birth happening in front of my own eyes. Being with Louise’s dying has allowed me to be with my living. Being with Louise’s heart, her love and aliveness, has allowed me to be with my dying in a new way. When it is my time to die, I hope I am surrounded by the same love of family and friends, supporting me and helping me to launch into my next great adven-ture. I hope I can bring through wisdom from the next world to prepare the way for those after me. I hope I can inspire my family as much as Louise inspired all of us. I hope I can make my transition with the abundant expectancy I witnessed in Louise.∆This article is excerpted by permission from Barry and Joyce Vissell’s new book A Mother’s Final Gift: How One Woman’s Courageous Dying Transformed Her Family, by Joyce and Barry Vissell.Joyce & Barry vissell, a nurse/therapist and psychiatrist couple since 1964, are counselors near Santa Cruz, Califor-nia, who are widely regarded as among the world’s leading experts on conscious relationship development and personal growth. Their previous books include The Shared Heart, Models of Love, Risk To Be Healed, The Heart’s Wisdom and Meant To Be. Contact 1-800-766-0629 (locally 831-684-2299) or www.sharedheart.org


Natural Rejuvenating Food Tips from the Kitchen

By Susan Smith Jones, PhD

“health comes from the farm, not the pharmacy.” My grandmother, Fritzie always used to state this fact to me when I was a teenager and into my 20s. When I was 17, I learned the secrets to living a sacred, balanced life from my grandmother Fritzie, inviting joy to be my daily default position. At that time in my life, my diet was deplorable. Meat, sweets, and white refined-flour breads were my quotidian pleasures, and my health sorely suffered as a result. I was rarely without allergies, and I carried tissues with me everywhere to wipe my runny nose, deal with my sneezing and to take care of all the extra mucus that I was coughing up. It was not a pretty picture, and my physician advised me that I would have to live with this condition forever. One day when I was visiting with my grandmother, telling her what I learned from my doctor, she told me that if I followed her healthful guidance and suggestions 100 percent, that not only would my allergies and sinus

problems clear up within 30 days, but my entire life would also profoundly change for the better: my acne would clear up, my energy would soar, the extra weight I was carrying would fall away, and my attitude would change from negative to positive. Needless to say, she had my attention, and for the next several hours, days and eventually years, I learned a variety of health practices that—even though they sounded weird and strange at that time—still touched a responsive cord in my heart. That well-known adage, “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear,” was definitely true for me with my grandmother’s loving support. I was ready, and my entire life would change for the better because of that wonderful, memorable day with Fritzie—when my new approach to healthy living was engendered. Along with comprehensive guidance on the healing power of natural, plant-based foods; time spent in nature; and deep breathing, visualization, and meditation, she also

taught me the specifics of taking great care of my body (from dry skin brushing to fasting,) so that my body would be better equipped to take great care of me and live a sacred, balanced, vibrantly healthy life. Everything that Fritzie taught me in those few years before her passing are some of the greatest blessings and life lessons that I continue to embrace and teach to this day. From her loving guidance, I chose my life career; my passion for alternative and holistic heath was born. Also, because of her teachings, I have never taken prescription medications. Instead, I choose to live close to Nature and listen to my body’s whisperings.

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Natural Remedies that Really Work1. Keep stress levels down with tea. Fritzie always used

to say to me that, “Tea is a hug in a cup.” I now like to say, “hugs in a cup” because of how good it feels to drink tea with every sip. When someone would come to see Fritzie who needed help with stress and anxiety, she would make them a combination of chamomile, lavender, and lemon tea. She would pick the herbs fresh from her beautiful garden. If someone had an upset stomach, she would often make that person spearmint or peppermint tea. If they had high blood pressure, she would make hibiscus tea. Or if they had gas and bloating or wanted something to soothe their nerves, she would make them lemon balm tea and add in a cinnamon stick. With Fritzie instilling in me a love of tea-drinking, I discovered what is now my favorite herbal tea that’s not from my herb garden; it is a carefully blended instant herbal tea from Switzerland called Olbas. Renowned worldwide, this fragrant tea is a mixture of 20 soothing herbs harvested from the earth’s finest crops, enhanced with pure essential oils. Even its delightful herbal aroma gives you an immediate, fresh, clean feeling in the nose and sinuses. Since the early 80s, in my private practice, I have been recommending this delicious tea to give relief during times of seasonal discomfort, to calm the stomach, quell anxiety, promote relaxation, to enjoy as an after-dinner tea, or when you simply want a comforting tea. It has a delectable peppermint flavor and aroma. There are no tea bags or straining to contend with, and it is great hot, warm, or chilled. I often put a teaspoon of this tea in my smoothies to give them a better flavor.

2. Look soft and dewy with honey. Honey has beenused for centuries, especially by the Egyptians to keep their skin looking youthful. Apply some raw, unfiltered honey on your clean face as a mask for 20 minutes and rinse with warm water afterward. This moisturizes the skin and helps it become taut and supple.

3. Have a berry white smile. Strawberries can help youhave a dazzling smile. Just juice some strawberries or, if you don’t have a juicer, blend and extract some juice through cheesecloth. Then paint the juice on your teeth. Leave it for five minutes and then rinse your mouth with warm water with a pinch of baking soda added to it.

4. Give yourself a mini massage. Here’s theMediterranean secret for restoring vitality. Extra virgin, cold pressed olive oil —it’s not only a delicious, nutritious salad dressing, but when you combine one tablespoon of it with 3 to 4 drops of essential peppermint oil, and massage it into your feet, you’ll likely soon be saying “Ahhhh!”

5. Soothe with a little aloe vera. Fritzie would alwayskeep a potted aloe vera plant on her kitchen windowsill,

and I always do too. It requires no care beyond weekly watering. For itching, inflamed skin, bug bites, tooth ache, hemorrhoids, a minor cut or wound, sunburn or any other irritated skin conditions, snip off a thick leaf and slit it open; scoop out the gel from the inner leaf and apply it to the infected area.

6. Assuage achy, arthritic joints with cherries. Cherriesare a delicious, vitamin-packed fruit that actually relieves arthritis pain—and they are proven to work as well as or better than aspirin and ibuprofen. Long a folk remedy for gout, cherries now have scientific substantiation. Researchers at Michigan State University found that a substance in cherries stops the production of chemicals

that cause inflammation and pain. The scientists say cherries relieve arthritic pain as well as or better

than over-the-counter drugs! A bowl of 20 cherries (fresh or frozen) a day during a bout

with gout is enough to neutralize the aches and swelling with no stomach upset or other side effects. A later study on people in California reported the same pain-relief results.

7. Eat less with pepper. A popularingredient in Southwestern cooking, chilies (hot peppers) add spice and interest to many foods. They also provide a 4-pronged attack against obesity, provided you are not sensitive to nightshade vegetables such as these.

Some experts believe that eating sharp-tasting foods such as hot peppers,

pickles, and tomato juice can overwhelm taste buds, cutting off food cravings. Chili

pepper may help you eat less. Researchers in the Netherlands gave men .9 gram of

ground cayenne pepper, either as a pill or mixed into a tomato juice beverage. Then 30 minutes later,

they turned the men loose at an all-you-can-eat buffet. Compared with men who were given a placebo, the men who had chili pepper reduced their food intake by 10 to 16%. It requires energy to eat chili peppers. That’s right, it burns calories to eat them! That’s because the heat you feel when you eat chili peppers takes energy to produce. It increases fat burning during exercise. A study in the Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology reports that taking a capsaicin supplement one hour before aerobic exercise increased fat burning.

8. Team up with cinnamon for balance. Most peoplelove the taste of cinnamon. Its fragrance conjures up thoughts of the holidays and special treats for the taste buds. An ancient spice obtained from the dried bark of two Asian evergreens, cinnamon is a highly versatile flavoring as well as a carminative that relieves bloating and gas. Adding cinnamon to food, especially to sugary ones, helps normalize blood sugar by making insulin more sensitive. Cinnamon’s most active ingredient is

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methylhydroxy chalcone polymer (MHCP), which increases the processing of blood sugar by 2,000%, or 20-fold. So using cinnamon in tiny amounts—even sprinkled in desserts—makes insulin more efficient. Cloves, turmeric, and bay leaves also work, but they’re weaker. Avoiding high circulating levels of blood sugar and insulin may help ward off diabetes and obesity. Regular lower insulin levels are a sign of slower aging and greater longevity. In fact, cinnamon has been the subject of numerous studies that credit it with supporting healthy glucose metabolism and maintaining healthy blood sugar levels. It also helps maintain healthy cholesterol and triglycerides levels, and is a time-honored digestive aid. It soothes upset stomach and relieves gas and bloating. Because it is also a warming circulatory tonic, it increases blood flow throughout the body. Researchers at Kansas State University have added cinnamon to the growing list of natural bacteria fighters, too. Here are some other ways to use it. Sprinkle cinnamon on your morning coffee, toast or oatmeal. Double the amount you use in baked food recipes, sprinkle it on baked sweet potatoes, add it to chilies and curries for authentic flavor, or create a zero-carb, flavorful and refreshing drink by adding a cinnamon stick to your glass or bottle of water. One stick lasts 2 days; you can transfer it from glass to glass, and then use a new stick.

9. A healing agent since Biblical times. It is said that Hippocrates, the Greek“father of medicine,” relied on apple cider vinegar as a standard remedy. The current scientific literature and users of apple cider vinegar, which is rich in enzymes and potassium, have corroborated its ability to relieve high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, acid reflux, achy joints, allergies, vaginitis/yeast infections, sore throats and other conditions. There’s a difference between the raw, organic, unfiltered and undistilled apple cider vinegar sold primarily in health food stores and the distilled, clear vinegar that turns up on grocery shelves. The latter lacks the “mother of vinegar,” which is the cloudy sediment containing most of the health-promoting enzymes, acetic acid, bacteria, minerals and other nutrients from the apple, but which lacks “eye-appeal” to the general public. If you’re interested in trying apple cider vinegar as a tonic and cleansing drink, stir 1-2 tablespoons per 8 ounces of water and sip it gradually. Some people add honey or other sweetener for taste. Undiluted apple cider vinegar, being highly acidic, can damage tooth enamel as well as throat and mouth tissue if residues are allowed to remain in the mouth. This effect can be overcome simply by rinsing the mouth with water after drinking or consuming apple cider vinegar.

10. Fight father time with this wrinkled gem. With a new name and a newimage, the dried plum—you know it as a prune—is now proven to fight the diseases of aging, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, cancer, and yes, constipation. This wrinkled wonder contains more

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than twice as many antioxidants as the next highest food source—the raisin. Oklahoma State scientists found in a study that this fruit actually helps restore bone density after losses had occurred. Plus, it has the same cancer-fighting component as apples, grapefruit and oranges. Eat them out of hand, cut them up and add them to grain dishes, muffins and breads. I often re-hydrate prunes and puree them in a blender to add to smoothies (as a thickener and taste-enhancer) and baked goods (to help keep them moist). Pureed prunes make a good substitute for chocolate, too. An effective facial mask: I also suggest a freshly made puree using the following: ½ re-hydrated prune and ½ avocado. Gently apply this dynamic duo to your clean face and leave it on for about 20 minutes. Rinse it off with warm water and pat dry. You’ll notice a soft, moisturized and rejuvenated glow to your skin.

11. Ginger for osteoarthritis andback pain. The latest research on ginger showed its pain-killing properties for osteoarthritis (OA) are on par with over-the-counter painkillers. While ginger is probably best known for adding flavor to foods, my grandmother recommended it to relieve pain. Now there are studies to corroborate her wisdom. In the results of one randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study published in the November 2000 issue of the journal Arthritis and Rheumatism, those 247 people with OA who took ginger extract noticed a reduction in discomfort. In fact, of the patients who took ginger, 63% noticed a reduction in knee pain when they were standing, while only 50% of the placebo group reported a similar reduction. The researchers wrote, “A highly purified and standardized ginger extract had a statistically significant effect on reducing symptoms of OA of the knee.” My grandmother taught me to start the day with a hot hug of fresh tea and to add coin slices of fresh ginger to many of my teas. I make a quart of this tea each morning to enjoy throughout the day. While you can use ginger tea bags, it’s less expensive and fresher to simply slice fresh ginger root and simmer these ginger coins for about 5-7 minutes. Ginger is an anti-inflammatory and gives a warming sensation to the body. It also soothes the respiratory tract. So if you don’t have any peppermint or spearmint on hand, try a cup of fresh ginger tea after dinner. ∆© Susan Smith Jones, PhD

The next feature in this Natural Remedies series will appear in the upcoming September/October 2011 issue of Well Being Journal.

susan smith Jones, phd, is the author of over 26 books including The Joy Factor: 10 Sacred Practices for Radiant Health, Walking on Air: Your 30-Day Inside and Out Rejuvenation Makeover, and Recipes for Health Bliss: Using NatureFoods & Lifestyle Choices to Rejuvenate Your Body & Life. For 30 years she taught healthy living at UCLA and now travels throughout the U. S. and internationally as a motivational speaker. For more see www.SusanSmithJones.com Well Being Journal

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Poor nutrition, such as in diets that include regular consumption of high fructose corn syrup, white flours and pastas, is not the only causative factor in metabolic syn-drome, obesity or type 2 diabetes. Recent studies indicate that there is a direct connection between obesity and insufficient sleep, especially for children. Researchers have asserted that children who are prone to being obese from environmental factors such as diet, exercise or genetic tendencies will be further protected against more risk of obesity if they get proper sleep. Researchers in one study gave 308 children, who ranged in age from 4 to 10 years old, a brace-let that could monitor sleep. The study found that that the children with the least amount of sleep were 4.2 times more likely to encounter obesity. Phyllis Zee, director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Northwestern Memorial Hospital asserts, “There is grow-ing evidence for a link between sleep duration and childhood obe-sity….” She also indicated that variations in the timing of sleeping and waking also played a role, so that regular sleep and waking times are important. For more information seehttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21302856Adolesc Med State Art Rev. 2010 Dec;21(3):480-90, viii-ix.“The obesity epidemic and disor-dered sleep during childhood and adolescence.”

Lack of Sleep Linked To Obesity

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APPRECIATION AND THE RESONANCE OF THE HEART

By Rollin McCraty, Ph.D. Raymond Trevor Bradley, Ph.D. and Dana Tomasino, B.A.

many Believe that conscious awareness originates in the brain alone. Recent scientific research suggests that consciousness actually emerges from the brain and body acting together. A growing body of evidence suggests that the heart plays a particularly significant role in this process.

heart fieldS Far more than a simple pump, as was once believed, the heart is now recognized by scientists as a highly complex system with its own functional “brain.” Research in the new discipline of neurocardiology shows that the heart is a sensory organ and a sophisticated center for receiving and processing information. The nervous system within the heart (or “heart brain”) enables it to learn, remember, and make functional decisions independent of the brain’s cerebral cortex. Moreover, numerous experiments have demonstrated that the signals the heart continuously sends to the brain influence the function of higher brain centers involved in perception, cognition and emotional processing.

heart field interactionS Within the Body In addition to the extensive neural communication network linking the heart with the brain and body, the heart also communicates information to the brain and throughout the body via electromagnetic field interactions. The heart generates the

body’s most powerful and most extensive rhythmic electromagnetic field. Compared to the electromagnetic field produced by the brain, the electrical component of the heart’s field is about 60 times greater in amplitude, and permeates every cell in the body. The magnetic component is approximately 5,000 times stronger than the brain’s magnetic field and can be detected several feet away from the body with sensitive magnetometers. The heart generates a continuous series of electromagnetic pulses in which the time interval between each beat varies in a dynamic and complex manner.

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The heart’s ever-present rhythmic field has a powerful influence on processes throughout the body. We have demonstrated, for example, that brain rhythms naturally synchronize to the heart’s rhythmic activity, and also that during sustained feelings of love or appreciation, the blood pressure and respiratory rhythms, among other oscillatory systems, entrain to the heart’s rhythm. We propose that the heart’s field acts as a carrier wave for information that provides a global synchronizing signal for the entire body. Specifically, we suggest that as pulsing waves of energy radiate out from the heart, they interact with organs and other structures. The waves encode or record the features and dynamic activity of these structures in patterns of energy waveforms that are distributed throughout the body. In this way, the encoded information acts to in-form (literally, give shape to) the activity of all bodily functions—to coordinate and synchronize processes in the body as a whole. This perspective requires an energetic concept of information, in which patterns of organization are enfolded into waves of energy of system activity distributed throughout the system as a whole. Basic research at the Institute of HeartMath shows that information pertaining to a person’s emotional state is also communicated throughout the body via the heart’s electromagnetic field. The rhythmic beating patterns of the heart change significantly as we experience different emotions. Negative emotions, such as anger or frustration, are associated with an erratic, disordered, incoherent pattern in the heart’s rhythms. In contrast, positive emotions, such as love or appreciation, are associated with a smooth, ordered, coherent pattern in the heart’s rhythmic activity. (See figure above) In turn, these changes in the heart’s beating patterns create corresponding changes in the structure of the electromagnetic field radiated by the heart, measurable by a technique called spectral analysis. More specifically, we have demonstrated that sustained positive emotions appear to give rise to a distinct mode of functioning, which we call psychophysiological coherence. During this mode, heart rhythms exhibit a sine wave-like pattern (see figure) and the heart’s electromagnetic field becomes correspondingly more organized.

• At the physiological level, this mode is characterizedby increased efficiency and harmony in the activity and interactions of the body’s systems.*

• Psychologically, this mode is linked with a notablereduction in internal mental dialogue, reduced perceptions of stress, increased emotional balance, and enhanced mental clarity, intuitive discernment, and cognitive performance. In sum, our research suggests that psychophysiological coherence is important in enhancing consciousness—both for the body’s sensory awareness of the information required to execute and coordinate physiological function,

and also to optimize emotional stability, mental function, and intentional action. Furthermore, as we see next, there is experimental evidence that psychophysiological coherence may increase our awareness of and sensitivity to others around us. The Institute of HeartMath has created practical technologies and tools that all people can use to increase coherence. heart field interactionS

BetWeen indiVidualSMost people think of social communication solely in terms of overt signals expressed through language, voice qualities, gestures, facial expressions, and body

movements. However, there is now evidence that a subtle yet influential electromagnetic or “energetic” communication system operates just below our conscious awareness. Energetic interactions likely contribute to the “magnetic” attractions or repulsions that occur between individuals, and also affect social exchanges and relationships. Moreover, it appears that the heart’s field plays an important role in communicating physiological, psychological, and social information between individuals. Experiments conducted at the Institute of HeartMath have found remarkable evidence that the heart’s electromagnetic field can transmit information between people. We have been able to measure an exchange of heart energy between individuals up to 5 feet apart.

* Correlates of physiological coherence include: increased synchroni-zation between the two branches of the autonomic nervous system, ashift in autonomic balance toward increased parasympathetic activity,increased heart-brain synchronization, increased vascular resonance,and entrainment between diverse physiological oscillatory systems.


Meditation can greatly enhance a practitioner’s feelings of calm and peace as well as improve clarity, relationships, personal self-esteem and an overall sense of well being. Now researchers have found it can also reduce pain sensitivity after only limited sub-ject training, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience (April 6, 2011). In this recent study, 15 volunteers were subjected to the painful but not harmful application of 120-de-gree heat to their right calves on two occasions—before and after attending four 20-minute training sessions in a type of mindfulness meditation known as “focused attention.” During the second ap-plication of heat, after the training, the volunteers, who had been in-structed to meditate rated the pain as being 57 percent less unpleas-ant and 40 percent less intense. That result is “pretty dramatic,” stated lead study author Fadel Zeidan, Ph.D., from the Wake For-est University School of Medicine, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He added that these reductions in pain ratings were significantly greater than those seen in similar studies involving painkilling drugs, including morphine, which typical-ly reduce pain ratings only about 25 percent. Many medical practitioners are looking for ways to decrease their patients’ dependence upon drugs. Here is a case where something very natural may work much better. Mindfulness meditation involves learning to observe what goes on in one’s mind and body

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We have also found that one person’s brain waves can actually synchronize to another person’s heart. Furthermore, when an individual is generating a coherent heart rhythm, synchronization between that person’s brain waves and another person’s heartbeat is more likely to occur. These findings have intriguing implications, suggesting that individuals in a psychophysiologically coherent state become more aware of the information encoded in the heart fields of those around them. The results of these experiments have led us to infer that the nervous system acts as an “antenna,” which is tuned to and responds to the electromagnetic fields produced by the hearts of other individuals. We believe this capacity for exchange of energetic information is an innate ability that heightens awareness and mediates important aspects of true empathy and sensitivity to others. Furthermore, we have observed that this energetic communication ability can be intentionally enhanced, producing a much deeper level of nonverbal communication, understanding, and connection between people. There is also intriguing evidence that heart field interactions can occur between people and animals. In short, energetic communication via the heart field facilitates development of an expanded consciousness in relation to our social world.

the heart’S field and intuitionThere are also new data suggesting that the heart’s field is directly involved in intuitive perception, through its coupling to an energetic information field outside the bounds of space and time. Using a rigorous experimental

design, we found compelling evidence that both the heart and brain receive and respond to information about a future event before the event actually happens. Even more surprising was our finding that the heart appears to receive this “intuitive” information before the brain. This suggests that the heart’s field may be linked to a more subtle energetic field that contains information on objects and events remote in space or ahead in time. Called by Karl Pribram and others the “spectral domain,” this is a fundamental order of potential energy that enfolds space and time, and is thought to be the basis for our consciousness

of “the whole.” (See heartmath.org for further detail.)Social fieldS

In the same way that the heart generates energy in the body, we propose that the social collective is the activator and regulator of the energy in social systems. A body of groundbreaking work shows how the field of socioemotional interaction between a mother and her infant is essential to brain development, the emergence of consciousness, and the formation of a healthy self-concept. These interactions are organized along two relational dimensions—stimulation of the baby’s emotions, and regulation of shared emotional energy. Together they form a socioemotional field through which enormous quantities of psychobiological and psychosocial information are exchanged. Coherent organization of the mother-child relations that make up this field is critical. This occurs when interactions are charged, most importantly, with positive emotions (love, joy, happiness, excitement, appreciation, etc.), and are

...the nervous system acts as an “antenna,” which is tuned to and responds to the electromagnetic fields produced by the hearts of other individuals

Meditation—all by itself—may offer more to the health of a person than all the pharmaceutical remedies put together.

—Robert Dozor, M.D., in The Heart of Healing, D. Church, ed. p. 312


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without judgment, using attention to one’s breath or a chanted man-tra as a focusing device. Previous-ly, conventional wisdom held that meditation eases pain by enabling people to control their percep-tion of it, according to meditation researcher Katharine MacLean, Ph.D. However, this study showed that meditation also helps to diminish the physical sensation of pain. Brain scans conducted dur-ing the application of heat showed that meditation decreased activity in the somatosensory cortex—an area of the brain that maps the lo-cation and intensity of pain in the body—as well as affecting other regions of the brain. Significantly, these results were seen after only 80 minutes of meditation training, showing that even novices can effectively achieve pain reduction.

Sources: “In Pain? Try Medita-tion,” Huffpost Health, April 11, 2011, www.huffingtonpost.com; “Meditation Can Provide Greater Pain Relief Than Powerful Medi-cation,” by Drucilla Dyess, Health-News, April 7, 2011, www.Health-News.com.

patterned as highly synchronized, reciprocal exchanges between these two individuals. These patterns are imprinted in the child’s brain and thus influence psychosocial function throughout life. (See Allan Schore, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self.) Moreover, in a longitudinal study of 46 social groups, one of us (RTB) documented how information about the global organization of a group—the group’s collective consciousness—appears to be transmitted to all members by an energetic field of socio-emotional connection. Data on the relationships between each pair of members was found to provide an accurate image of the social structure of the group as a whole. Coherent organization of the group’s social structure is associated with a network of positively charged emotions (love, excitement, and optimism) connecting all members. This network of positive emotions appears to constitute a field of energetic connection into which information about the group’s social structure is encoded and distributed throughout the group. Remarkably, an accurate picture of the group’s overall social structure was obtained from information only about relationships between pairs of individuals. We believe the only way this is possible is if information about the organization of the whole group is distributed to all members of the group via an energetic field. Such correspondence in information between parts and the whole is consistent with the principle of holographic organization.*

SyntheSiS and implicationSOrganizing features of the heart field may be shared by those of our hypothesized social field. Each field is a field of energy in which the waveforms of energy encode the features of objects and events as energy moves throughout the system. This creates a nonlocal order of energetic information in which each location in the field contains an enfolded image of the organization of the whole system at that moment. The organization and processing of information in these energy fields can best be understood in terms of quantum holographic principles.** Another commonality is the role of positive emotions, such as love and appreciation, in generating coherence both in the heart field and in social fields. When the movement of energy is intentionally regulated to form a coherent, harmonious order, information integrity and flow are optimized. This, in turn, produces stable, effective system function, which enhances health, psychosocial well-being, and intentional action in the individual or social group.

When the movement of energy is intentionally regulated to form a coherent, harmonious order, information integrity and flow are optimized

* Holographic organization is based on a field concept of order, in whichinformation about the organization of an object as a whole is encoded as aninterference pattern in energy waveforms distributed throughout the field. Thismakes it possible to retrieve information about the object as a whole from anylocation within the field.** The term quantum, as used in quantum holography, does not mean thatthis kind of energetic information processing is understood in terms of theprinciples of quantum physics. Rather, quantum holography is a special,nondeterministic form of holographic organization based on a discrete unit ofenergetic information called a logon or a quantum of information.


Heart coherence and social coherence may also act to mutually reinforce each other. As individuals within a group increase psychophysiological coherence, psychosocial attunement may be increased, thereby increasing the coherence of social relations. Similarly, the creation of a coherent social field by a group may help support the generation and maintenance of psychophysiological coherence in its individual members. An expanded, deepened awareness and consciousness results—of the body’s internal physiological, emotional, and mental processes, and also of the deepert, latent orders enfolded into the energy fields that surround us. This is the basis of self-awareness, social sensitivity, creativity, intuition, spiritual insight, and understanding of ourselves and all that we are connected to. It is through the intentional generation of coherence in both heart and social fields that a critical shift to the next level of collective consciousness can occur—one that brings us into harmony with the movement of the whole. ∆

rollin mccraty, ph.d., is director of research of the Institute of HeartMath. raymond trevor Bradley, ph.d., is co-founder and director of research, e-MotionLtd., Auckland, New Zealand.dana tomasino, B.a. is a molecular biologist and research associate at Institute of Heart Math.

This article is reprinted with permission from the Institute of HeartMath. For more information on the Institute of HeartMath’s research and publications, please visit www.heartmath.org.

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for fifteen years, people from all over europe have been streaming to Zagreb, Croatia to be healed through the simple act of gazing with Braco (pro-nounced Braht-zoh), a kind and gentle man who is now in his early forties. While Braco doesn’t call himself a healer, thousands around the world do. The healings are unexplainable, yet undeniable. There are innumerable sto-ries of people remarkably and often spontaneously healed by standing before Braco and his silent gaze. People in wheel chairs have walked afterward, and those with illnesses that range from heart disease and cancer to PTSD and epilepsy have been healed. There are more than physical healings, and they include emotional, spiritual, mental, and interpersonal healings Braco recently left the regions around his homeland to bring his healing gaze to the U.S. Shortly after hearing of his work, Jane Sibbet, one of the stars of the “Friends” television show, left acting to assist Braco, and now intro-duces him to hundreds of audiences nationwide. NBC as well as FOX News stories about Braco recently aired in the U.S. Those who have experienced being in Braco’s groups, including this writer, witness an energy coming through his gaze that is very strong. Many in the groups, which can be as large as 2-300 at a time, bring photographs of friends or relatives who are ill, and many of these absent ones experience healing too, according to their intent. Despite the dire diagnosis of patients from doctors, Braco’s assistants have documented healing after healing occurring via friends or family members who’ve simply held before Braco a picture or x-ray of a loved one in need or simply held their loved one’s image in their mind. Some of these healings occurred instantly, while others took a little more time—within a month or so of the gaze. Braco hasn’t spoken in public for years. He preaches no religion, nor asks anything of anyone, and he hasn’t accepted a single donation for a gift he

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“She is a poor honey—the sort of woman who gives me the idea of being determined never to be well and who likes her spasms and nervousness and the consequence they give her, better than anything else.”

—Jane Austen, to her brother Frank in The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen, ed. by Penelope Hughes Hallett; Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1990

Ease, Dis-easeand the Power of Appreciation

By Shannon McRae

these days, it is increasingly common to hear of re-search substantiating the benefits of healing touch and energy medicine. Recently researchers at the University of California, Irvine, discovered that recovery for stroke patients who receive touch from caregivers is remarkable, compared to the progress of those who aren’t touched and instead are only given standard drug treatments.1 Practi-tioners in the art of transferring healing energy—whether through prayer, focused thought, or hands-on healing —may be interested in technique. There are many methods for the transfer of healing energy to others, but the basis of them all is a focused intent to help the other heal. That focus is the core of my practice, and it seems to be the reason for the often-times remarkable healings that occur with my clients when they too have a strong intent to heal. There is a quantum jump into a realm of infinite and powerful healing energy when two or more join together in focused agreement for the purpose of prayer or healing. Everything physical is, at its foundation, made of energy, and energy can be altered through intent. Here is a wonderful example of the power of focused intent to align with the realm of healing energy in thought and feel-ing. A client, I’ll call Gene, telephoned me. He said that a mole on his arm had grown from a

very tiny spot to about the size of the head of a thumbtack within a two-week period, and he wanted my help. I intui-tively saw what he was describing, which appeared to me as an elevated bump with “extra cells” reminiscent of can-cer cells. I asked him to put his finger on the mole and to imagine my finger superimposed on his. He said he could feel the energetic presence of my finger, and after a short while, I told him that I now saw that the energy of the mole was gone, although its physical form still remained.

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He said he could feel a shift in his emotions from worry to the realization that the energy of the mole had changed. Such feelings are subtle, but they are an important part of the healing process. I know this client well, as we have worked together a number of times over a six-year period, and I have seen the strength of his intention that the power of energy medicine will work—indeed, it has worked for him many times. So, it did not surprise me to hear from him, in about two weeks, that the mole had decreased consider-ably in size. It has now been about two months, and there is just a very small remnant of what once was a fast-growing mole.

The healing technique I use is very simple, in a way. It is basically the visualizing of a healed condition, and the simulta-neous sending of focused healing energy to the cli-ent. This has to be accom-panied by the intent of the client to accept healing. When both the healer and client are open to the flow of healing energy, the con-duit to the Source of all healing becomes greater. That is the reality behind the statement, “Wherever two or more are gathered in my name, there ‘I am.’” Much disease is caused by emotions or thoughts that block the natural flow of universal energy, or Well Be-ing, to our bodies. Many conditions that manifest in the body—whether heart disease, cancer, fibromyalgia, or sinus pains—can be seen as emotionally based. These things can occur because the person wants to avoid doing something, such as managing a certain stress or letting go of a particular self-image, such as the concept that one is special because of an illness of some kind. I am reminded of Jane Austen’s characterization. “She is a poor honey—the sort of woman who gives me the idea of being de-termined never to be well and who likes her spasms and nervousness and the consequence they give her, better than anything else.”2 Diseases can occur from holding on to habitual negative thoughts that prevent the body from receiving the natural and constant stream of Well Being. Gene also presented me with an example of how hold-ing onto thoughts can affect the body, when he asked for my help in eradicating a toenail fungus. This is the sort of issue that could easily be seen as physically caused, but, as it turned out, it had an emotional component that stemmed from an old, negative belief that he held. Gene had been trying for ten years to eradicate this toenail fungus, which he thought might have come from wearing wet athletic shoes. He used to wade through streams while hiking, wearing the wet shoes for miles, and he sometimes soaked in natural hot springs. He

thought the fungus might have been caused by one or both of these scenarios. He said he’d tried just about every remedy on the books, and he asked me to help him heal with energy medicine, which I agreed to do. However, as I began to channel healing energy to him, I intuitively saw that there was more to the story, and that it had an energetic or emotional component. As we talked, a long-forgotten memory came to him. He recalled a scene from thirty years before, in which a young woman whom he’d admired had made the criti-cal comment that his feet were too long and narrow. I noticed, as he said this, that he had taken that criticism to

heart and never released it. I intuitively saw that Gene had been so embar-rassed by the criticism that he had immediately begun judging his feet and toes, and had continued to do so all these years. The negative thought had set up a holding area for a disease process to begin. Nothing he had tried served to eradicate the fungus, as that negative

emotion was still living within him and negatively affect-ing his feet. I knew that he needed to shift this energy if there was to be a healing. We talked about how he could begin to appreciate his feet as beautiful—after all one negative comment from someone who was out of alignment isn’t a reason to think negatively of one’s body. Gene acknowl-edged that he had been subconsciously carrying this nega-tive comment around with him for thirty years! In a case like this, finding something to appreciate is quite important. The energy of appreciation is a high-fre-quency vibration. Whenever you appreciate—whether it is life in general, a person or thing that you love, the blue sky, or your body itself the energetic frequency of your body will rise. The light waves that are at the basis of all physical matter and the substrate of molecules, DNA, and cells increase in power when there is appreciation. Appre-ciation allows Well Being to flow naturally and facilitate the processing of old, diseased cells out of the body. I encouraged Gene to appreciate his feet for all they had done to serve him, as this would be the basis for the beginning of the healing. Then I suggested that he reconstruct the original situation from a position of ap-preciation for his general health and his wonderful feet. Gene visualized the person who had made the negative comment, and imagined responding to her from his sense of appreciation and esteem of himself. He then told me he remembered that she had been in a negative mood; she was out of alignment with appreciation herself when she criticized his feet. He imagined her to be as a little child

Whenever you appreciate— whether it is life in general, a person or thing that you love, the blue sky, or your body itself the energetic frequency of your body will rise.


when she spoke, and then he imagined a new response as he would have said it to a child: “Well, thank you for your opinion, but I think I have perfect feet just the way they are.” Our cells and even our DNA can be changed in this way; this is self-healing. As Gene went through this process, I continued sending healing energy to his feet, seeing them in a healed condition. In the month since this session took place, Gene’s toes have been doing much better—energetically, they are healed—but the fungus in the toenails will take just a bit longer to completely clear up as the nails grow out clean and healthy. There was an emotional heal-ing, and this is being followed by physical change for the better. There’s really no disease condition that cannot be reversed in this way. Basically, what Gene did was to envision the past criticism from the woman in present time and intentionally change his thought about the original event, in order to release the disease state. In other words, he reframed the incident by imagining a new response to her criticism. “I like my feet the way they are,” he replied now, and feeling the truth of that statement brought a smile to his face. I could hear it in his voice. He also forgave himself for having ever thought otherwise. If you have memories of negative events such as this, you can work towards healing your-self by letting them go and forgiving yourself for having carried them around. It’s very impor-tant to forgive yourself, as it raises your vibratory frequency to allow the full flow of Well Be-ing. It’s also important to refrain from judging any part of your body, but love it all as perfect. After you see yourself as perfect, you can see others that way. We’re all different, but perfect. After releasing your judgements, all of which block the flow of energy, you will find it is far easier to be well than to be in dis-ease! Thoughts of appreciation or self-love invigorate your DNA, and unhealthy cells, which are no longer welcome in your body, begin to disintegrate. They begin to lift off the body, allowing the space for healthy cells to replace them. In most of my healing sessions, I guide my clients through a process similar to this, lifting off the old cells and bringing in trillions of new, healthy ones. Working with a healer can be much more effective than working alone, be-cause, as previously mentioned, when two or more are gathered for healing, the energy takes a quantum leap.

dawson church, author of the remarkable book The Genie in Your Genes writes (pp. 72-3), “the use of visualizations to help patients cope with cancer was pioneered by Carl Simonton, M.D. and others in the 1970s. I vividly remember an interview I did with a woman in 1989. She impressed me as someone with great strength of will and courage. “Nancy had been diagnosed with metastasized Stage IV uterine cancer in 1972. Though her condition was terminal, she had rejected conventional medical therapy entirely, reasoning, ‘My body created this condition, so it has the power to uncreate it too!’ She quit work, exercised as much as her physical energy allowed, and spent hours lying in the bath. She came up with a visualiza-tion that tiny stars were coursing through her body. Whenever the sharp edge of a star touched a cancer cell, she imagined it punc-turing the cancer cell, and the cancer cell deflating like a balloon. She imagined the water washing away the remains of the dying cancer cells. She focused on what she ate, how far she could walk, her baths, and the stars. “Nancy began to feel stronger, and her walks became longer. She began to visualize what her future might look like many years from that time. She went back to see her doctor three months after the diagnosis. She did not make the appointment until she had a firm inner conviction that the can-cer was completely gone. To the astonishment of her physicians, tests revealed her to be cancer free. Curiously, many patients who use similar techniques report an inner knowing that the disease is gone, long before it is confirmed by medical tests. They also use highly individualized images that work for their particular psyche.”

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If instead of thinking about Nature—identifying ourselves as a creation or product outside Nature—we allow ourselves to feel its soul running through us, then we find peace unfolding in our hearts and the unending wisdom of Nature’s processes reveal-ing themselves in our awareness. —R.W. Emerson, in Natural Abundance, ed. by Ruth L. Miller, Atria Books/Beyond Words, 2011

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This all might seem mystical to some, but it’s important to remember that many scientists are quietly becoming modern mystics because their findings prove the existence of a powerful source of Well Being. Quantum physicists such as Amrit Goswami speak to the connectivity between our bodies and consciousness as a whole and stress how important it is to create a world of so-lutions to the problems we might have. Goswami states that our challenge is to move beyond ego mode to the more powerful nonlocal quantum consciousness. This is the realm from which the fountain of Well Being flows to us. Goswami asserts, “Actually, we [scientists] have done our job. The scientific evidence for spirituality that includes experimental data is already here. My question to you is: ‘What are you doing about it?3

What we can do to achieve optimum health is to be in ease and allow the flow of Well Being. We can take the time to examine our thoughts and emo-tions, and make sure we are free of those that cause resistance or separation from this flow of Well Being. We can also ask for help from healers of many kinds to assist us, and that includes those unseen angels who we can access through prayer. All it takes is a little focused intent and practice to begin, and continue, on a journey of healing. ∆

shannon mcrae, ph.d., practices intuitive medicine primarily by phone consultation. She may be contacted at 775-841-6555 or 775-315-7232.

REFERENCES1. See November 19, 2010 issue of the Los Angeles Times2. Jane Austen, to her brother Frank, in The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen, ed. by PenelopeHughes Hallett; Clarkson Potter Publishers, 19903. Goswami, Amrit in How Quantum Activism Can Save Civilization, Hampton Roads, 2011,www.hrpub.com

i Was Working as a nurse on the night shift at Stanford Hospital in 1989. The only way for me to handle the monthly day/night rotations was to pray before I went into work, since I was sometimes there for 24 hours at a time. I prayed for assistance that I could get through the night, and that I would be safe and alert for anything that arose. One particular night while I was walking into a patient’s room, I heard a voice tell me to go down to the opposite end of the hall and check on another patient of mine. I thought, “I just checked on him not too long ago, and he was sleeping and doing fine.” Normally, the nightly rounds on every patient oc-curred every two hours, and I had just seen that patient about 45 minutes prior. I contemplated the voice, trying again to rationalize, “But I just saw him”; yet the voice persisted. I then decided, “Okay, I’ll go check on him.” I put the other medications down and walked the long hallway, and entered into this pa-tient’s room. He was sleeping, so I put my hand on his chest, asking if he was all right. As my hand touched him, I noticed something wet, so I turned on the light. I then saw that he was hemorrhaging from a central-line site where the line had been taken out during the prior shift hours before! I immediately applied a pressure dressing. I asked the patient if he felt any pain or knew he was bleeding, and he said “no.” He was dreaming away! I then knew that the only way for me to have caught this hemorrhaging in the begin-ning was due to guidance. I was very thankful, and now I really listen to my “angels.” ∆ —From Saved by an Angel: True Accounts of People Who Have Had Extraordinary Experiences with Angels—and How You Can, Too, by Doreen Virtue, Hay House, Inc. www.hayhouse.com

The Nurse Who Heard An “Angel”

a recent study identified 31 pre-scription drugs that are dispropor-tionately linked to violent behavior toward others. Number one on the list was varenicline (Chan-tix), a smoking cessation aid that increases the availability of the neurotransmitter dopamine. After varenicline, the most strongly and consistently reported drugs were SSRI antidepressants. A number of ADHD medications also made it onto the list. The top ten:

1. Varenicline (Chantix): anti-smoking drug

2. Fluoxetine (Prozac): anti-depressant

3. Paroxetine (Paxil): antide-pressant

4. Amphetamines: ADHDmedication

5. Mefloquine (Lariam): ma-laria treatment

6. Atomoxetine (Strattera):ADHD medication

7. Triazolam (Halcion): sleepaid

8. Fluvoxamine (Luvox): anti-depressant

9. Venlafaxine (Effexor): anti-depressant

Prescription Drugs Linked

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many anxieties arise as you attempt to create anything: a painting, a new recipe, a home business, or a solution to a personal problem. There is the anxiety associated with going into the unknown, with relinquishing control, with making choices—innumerable anxieties arise as you endeavor to create, whether that creation is something as grand as a novel or as everyday as a new filing system or new décor for your living room. In order to deal with all the anxiety that comes with creating, you must acknowledge and accept that anxiety is part of the process, demand of yourself that you will learn—and really practice!—some anxiety management skills, and get on with your creating and your anxiety management. Here are some excellent everyday anxiety management tools. 1. attitude choiceYou can choose to be made anxiousby every new opinion you hearor you can choose to keep yourown counsel. You can choose toapproach life anxiously or you canchoose to approach it calmly. Itis a matter of flipping an internalswitch—one that you control.2. improVed appraiSingIncorrectly appraising situations asmore important, more dangerous ormore negative than they in fact are,raises your anxiety level. You cansignificantly reduce your experienceof anxiety by refusing to appraisesituations as catastrophicallynegative.3. lifeStyle SupportYour lifestyle supports calmness or it doesn’t. When you rush less, createfewer unnecessary pressures and stressors, get sufficient rest and exercise, eat ahealthy diet, take time to relax, include love and friendship, and live in balance,then you reduce your experience of anxiety. How much harder will it be to dealwith the creative anxiety in your life if your very lifestyle is producing its ownmagnum of anxiety?

MASTERING CREATIVE ANXIETYBy Eric Maisel, Ph.D.

the benefit of suPPleMenting with cranberry in cases of urinary tract infection (UTI) has been well docu-mented, but now a new study pub-lished in BMC Infectious Diseases (2010, 10:94) helps to determine effective dosages. Researchers led by Amy Howell, of the Marucci Center for Blueberry and Cranberry Research and Extension at Rutgers University, conducted a random-ized, double-blind study involving 32 volunteers in four countries—Ja-pan, Hungary, Spain, and France—and found a positive dose-depen-dent response to the powdered, standardized cranberry supplement. Their results supported previous findings by a French research team that taking North American cran-berry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) standardized to contain at least 36 mg of proanthocyanidins (PACs), a type of bioflavonoid, can help reduce E. coli adhesion to urinary tract walls, and thus fight UTIs. The new study found that a higher dose of 72 mg was even more effective, while a lower dose of 18 mg was significantly less so. Data indicated that the anti-adhesion effect of the two higher dosages decreased after 24 hours, so the researchers sug-gested that consuming cranberry in two split doses of 36 mg each in the morning and evening might be beneficial. It should be noted that while PACs are also found in other foods—such as green tea, grapes, apples, and chocolate—the main ones in cranberry are of a different type, called A-type PACs, and these may be the only ones effective in preventing bacterial adhesion. Source: “Study Supports Cranberry Dose Levels for Urinary Health,” by Stephen Daniells, June 1, 2010, posted at www.nutraingredients.com.

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4. BehaVioral changeSWhat you actually do when you feel anxious makes a big difference. If a ten-minute shower or a twenty-minute walk can do as good a job of reducingyour anxiety as watching another hour of televised golf or smoking severalcigarettes, isn’t it the behavior to choose? There are many time-wasting,unhealthy, and dispiriting ways to manage anxiety—and many efficient,healthy, and uplifting ways, too.5. deep BreathingThe simplest anxiety management technique is deep breathing. By stopping todeeply breathe (5 seconds on the inhale, 5 seconds on the exhale) you stop yourracing mind and alert your body to the fact that you want to be calmer. Beginto incorporate deep breaths into your daily routine, especially at those times

when you think about and turn to your creative projects.6. cognitiVe WorkChanging the way you think isprobably the most useful and powerfulanti-anxiety strategy. You can dothis straightforwardly by 1) noticingwhat you are saying to yourself; 2)disputing the self-talk that makesyou anxious or does not serve you;and 3) substituting more affirmative,positive or useful self-talk. This three-step process really works if you willpractice it and commit to it.7. incantingA variation on the last two strategies

is to use them together and to “drop” a useful cognition into a deep breath, thinking “half” the thought as you inhale and “half” the thought as you exhale. Incantations that can reduce your experience of anxiety include “I am perfectly calm” or “I trust my resources.” Experiment with some short phrases that, when dropped into a deep breath, help you quell your anxious feelings.8. phySical relaxation techniqueSPhysical relaxation techniques include such simple procedures as rubbing yourshoulder and such elaborate procedures as “progressive relaxation techniques”where you slowly relax each part of your body in turn. Doing somethingphysically soothing can prove really useful in the moment to help you calmyourself especially when used in combination with your cognitive practice.

9. mindfulneSS techniqueSMeditation and other mindfulness practices that help you takecharge of your thoughts and get a grip on your mind can provevery useful as part of your anxiety management program. Thebetter a job you do of releasing those thoughts and replacingthem with more affirmative ones, the less you will experienceanxiety.10. guided imageryGuided imagery is a technique where you guide yourself tocalmness by mentally picturing a calming image or a series ofimages. You might picture yourself on a blanket by the beach,walking by a lake, or swinging on a porch swing. Determinewhat images calm you by trying out various images and thenactually bring them to mind when you are feeling anxious.

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10. Desvenlafaxine (Pristiq):antidepressant

The researchers, led by Thomas J. Moore, of the Institute for SafeMedication Practices, in Alexandria,Virginia, examined data from theFDA Adverse Event ReportingSystem for the years 2004 throughSeptember 2009, and identifiedcase reports indicating “homicide,homicidal ideation, physical assault,physical abuse or violence-relatedsymptoms.”

They concluded, “These data provide new evidence that acts of violence towards others are a genuine and serious adverse drug event that is associated with a relatively small group of drugs,” and they called for additional studies to further evaluate this negative side effect and identify differences and commonalities between the drugs.

Sources: “Prescription Drugs Associated with Reports of Violence Towards Others,” by Thomas J. Moore, Joseph Glenmullen, and Curt D. Furberg, Plos ONE, vol. 5, issue 12, December 2010, www.plosone.org; “These Popular Drugs Can Make You Violent—Avoid Them,” at www.mercola.com.

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11. diSidentification techniqueS“Disidentification” is the core idea of the branch of psychotherapy known aspsychosynthesis. Rather than attaching too much significance to a passingthought, feeling, worry, or doubt, you remind yourself that you are larger thanand different from all the stray, temporal events that seem so important in themoment. For example, you stop saying “I’m anxious” and begin to say, “I’mhaving a passing feeling of anxiety.” By making these linguistic changes youfundamentally reduce your experience of anxiety.12. ceremonieS and ritualSCreating and using a ceremony or ritual is a simple but powerful way to reduceyour experience of anxiety. For many people lowering the lights, lightingcandles, putting on soothing music and in other ways ceremonially creating acalming environment helps significantly. Learn to ceremonially move from therush of everyday life to the quiet of your creative work, whatever that workmay be.13. reorienting techniqueSIf your mind starts to focus on some anxiety-producing thought or situationor if you feel yourself becoming too wary, watchful and vigilant, one thingyou can do is consciously turn your attention in another direction and reorientyourself away from your anxious thoughts and toward a more neutral stimulus.14. diScharge techniqueSAnxiety and stress build up in the body and techniques that vent that stresscan prove very useful. For example, one discharge technique that actors learnto employ to reduce their experience of anxiety before a performance is to“silently scream”—to make the facial gestures and whole body intentions thatgo with uttering a good cleansing scream without actually uttering any sound.If you intend to create, whether it’s building a home business, writing a novel,or experiencing everyday life more deeply, get ready for anxiety. It is coming!You can handle it beautifully if you use the simple tools I’ve just described andturn yourself into an anxiety management expert.∆

eric maisel, ph.d., is a creativity coach and is widely known as a creativity expert. This article is based on the book Mastering Creative Anxiety © 2011 by Eric Maisel, and is printed here with permission of New World Library, Novato, CA. www.newworldlibrary.com

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older Patients with knee osteo-arthritis (OA) who engaged in the regular practice of Tai Chi experienced a decrease in pain and an improvement in physical function, according to Chenchen Wang M.D., M.Sc., and colleagues from the Tufts University School of Medicine, in Boston. In the study, 40 patients with symptomatic knee OA whose mean age was 65 were randomly assigned either to participate in “Yang” style Tai Chi sessions or to attend well-ness education classes and do stretching exercises for 1 hour twice weekly for 12 weeks. Most of the participants were overweight, and none had previous Tai Chi training. At the end of this time period, those in the Tai Chi group were found to have a significant decrease in knee pain compared to the controls, as well as better scores on measurements of physi-cal function, self-efficacy, depres-sion, and health quality of life. Tai Chi is a traditional Chinese martial art with slow, flowing movements that induces mental relaxation and enhances balance,

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i drove into toWn this morning to see the skin doctor about a curious little growth on my scalp. Here in Hawaii we’re alert to skin cancer because of all the sunlight we indulge in year-round. An acquaintance died a while back because he ignored a skin condition that was indeed melanoma, and so it was natural that I found myself sitting tensely while awaiting the doctor’s verdict. Moreover, my brother went to the doctor six months ago complaining of a headache that wouldn’t go away, and he was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer — so of course my mind was caught up in worst-case scenario anxieties about the new lump on my head. I’m sure many know this basic life situation, where your future is uncertain and you fixate on your fear-based apprehensions. All sense of joy in the present moment seems to collapse when anxious forebodings dominate the mind, messing with your emotions, constricting your breathing, and fogging your thoughts. In one way, I’m lucky when it comes to breaking free from such worrying. After all, I get paid to focus day in and day out on discovering and testing new methods for shifting from feeling bad to feeling good. My life study has been meditation, which is in essence a cognitive process for letting go of fear-based

Enjoy this MomentBy John Selby

emotional contractions and entering a more fulfilling, compassionate, creative, and harmonious state of mind. So, when I realized I was making myself suffer while awaiting the doctor, I remembered to practice what I preach. I did what I hope you’ll start doing — I brought to mind a central Focus Phrase I’ll teach you now, and said silently to myself on my next exhale: I choose to enjoy this moment. First I said to myself, “I choose . . . ,” which enabled me to assume control of my own mind. Then I said “to enjoy . . . ,” which specified where I chose to aim my attention — at enjoyment. Then came the object of my focus, “this moment . . . ,” which aimed my attention at the immediate sensory events happening inside and around me right then. The result was that my awareness instantly popped away from fearful imaginations about the future to whatever enjoyable sensations were present at the moment. By filling my mind with words of positive intent, I was able to turn away from the fearful chatter running in the back of my mind and reconnect with ongoing sensory events happening right then inside

my body.You’ll soon discover that whenever you shift your attention back to what’s happening in the present moment, you naturally tune in first to your own breath. This shift is ideal because, as other researchers and I confirmed in perceptual studies we did some years ago at the National Institutes of Health, as soon as you focus on the sensation of air flowing in and out of your nose, all thoughts tend to simply fade away and stop. This instant quieting of the mind in turn generates relief from anxious imaginations and emotions. And indeed, as I sat there in the doctor’s cubicle, my sensory attention woke up when I said to myself, “I choose to enjoy this moment,” and tuned in to my breathing as well as let go of upsetting memories and forebodings that’d been grabbing at me. As I took a

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good breath of air, I spontaneously stretched a little and woke up good feelings in my body. Just then, the doctor came in, took a look at my lump, and told me that the growth was totally benign. There was in reality, nothing to worry about.no more torture chamBersIf we’re honest with ourselves, most of us will admit we tend to run torture chambers inside our own minds. We spend part of our lives tormenting ourselves with worries about the future — fearful imaginings and forebodings that almost never become reality. Think back over your life and consider the vast number of times you’ve worried yourself sick about some potentially negative financial, health, or relationship situation that never came to pass — or if it did, it generated much less emotional suffering than all your worrying did. Several of the Focus Phrases I’ve discovered are aimed specifically at giving you the power to regularly short-circuit your habitual anxiety habits. The first Focus Phrase by itself can often do the job, once you practice a bit, by helping you temporarily refocus your attention away from thoughts about the past and future. By returning your attention to the experiential present moment, you will be able to relax, tune in to your sensory presence, and more times than not, thoroughly enjoy your here-and-now experience. Most of your waking moments take place in safe and enjoyable situations. Maybe now and then you are forced to deal with real danger and physical suffering, but you’ll find that usually, when you refocus on your present-moment experience, you are indeed free to enjoy the moment rather than suffer. And you do have a clear choice each new moment: you can focus on negative anxious thoughts, uncomfortable or painful sensations, depressing guilt-ridden memories, or anxiety-provoking future imaginations. Or you can focus on any of the vast assortment of positive sensations, creative flashes, empathic emotions, and uplifting thoughts that make you feel good, confident, open, bright, and yes, happy. When choosing between anxiety and enjoyment, there’s really no reason to choose anxiety. In fact, when you see clearly that you have the choice, there’s hardly any choice to be made. The same basic logic applies to all other negative mental habits, such as heaping guilt and blame on your head, judging others overmuch, thinking thoughts that make you feel depressed or angry or wronged, and so on. You do have the power to choose to quiet such thoughts and shift your attention to the pleasure of the present moment. So, whenever you find yourself feeling bad, remember that you can say yourself: “I choose to enjoy this moment.” And do just that. ∆

Excerpted from the book Expand this Moment © 2011 by John Selby and reprinted here with permission of New World Library, Novato, CA. www.newworldlibrary.com or 800-972-6657 ext. 52.

John selBy is the author of more than 20 books including Quiet Your Mind, Seven Masters, One Path, and most recently Expand this Moment. Educated at Princeton, University of California, Berkeley, the Graduate Theological Union, and the Radix Institute, he has worked as a therapist and mindfulness coach for two decades. More at http://www.iUplift.com.

strength, and flexibility. Wang observes, “Tai Chi is a mind-body approach that appears to be an applicable treatment for older adults with knee OA,” and calls for efforts “to further evaluate the biologic mechanisms and ap-proaches of Tai Chi to extend its benefits to a broader population.”Sources: Wiley-Blackwell, “Tai Chi Exercise Reduces Knee Osteoarthritis Pain in the Elderly, Research Shows,” ScienceDaily, November 1, 2009, www.sciencedaily.com; C. Wang, C. H. Schmid, P. L. Hibberd, et al., “Tai Chi is effectivein treating knee osteoarthritis: A random-ized controlled trial,” Arthritis Care andResearch, Vol. 61, No. 11, November 15,2009, pp. 1545-53.

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believes only comes through him, not from him. The silence within the gaze of-fers whatever is needed for each person. Braco has a normal life in every other way—a beautiful wife, a happy son, and a cherished circle of close friends and family. He states privately that his only desire is to serve, and he will see all those who need his assistance as long as they continue to come. ∆ —S. E. M.Upcoming events announcements and more at www.bracoamerica.com

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