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Texannie
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07-16-2001
| Sunday, June 04, 2006 - 5:09 am
http://diet.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Main_Page
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Dahli
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11-27-2000
| Friday, June 16, 2006 - 6:56 am
From one of my favourite newsletters. The Underground Health Care Revolution William B. Ferril, MD Power complexes historically begin to falter long before the ruling elite realizes that the oppressed are organizing. Czarist Russian elitists did not fully appreciate the formidable force of organized peasants. The French revolutionaries similarly surprised their oppressors by the magnitude of underground support for a new way of doing things. The uprising against the dominant medical industrial complex is no different as it meets the same old slumbering elitist components. While the elitists smugly continue pandering their symptom control methods, which always have side effects, a better way continues to gather momentum. Slowly but surely, the downplayed art of healing is being rediscovered and is increasingly practiced within the alternative community. More western humans with each passing day leave the dominant medical treatment model. Often their departure centers on a sense that something very important is missing from mainstream medicine's approach to health versus disease. Some of us argue that mainstream medicine has lost its soul. Instituted in place of the soul, from which all healing effects emerge, are the symptom control treatment strategies. But symptom control always comes with a price, and that price is paid within its practitioner's bodies, manifesting as side effects and toxicities. A vicious cycle follows when these side effects and toxicities are treated with yet more symptom control modalities. True healing has but one side effect: its impact on the medical industrial complex's bottom line. The medical industrial complex is a profit-oriented system. The multi-conglomerates that make up this system exist to make money. The system works quite simply: products (pharmaceutical drugs for instance) developed by this industry for sale to the public are sensationalized through the media. Of course, the pursuit of maximum profit provides a disincentive to share more effective healing strategies. Meanwhile the downsides of these products (side effects and toxicities) are minimized. To protect its profits, the medical industrial complex conducts various disinformation campaigns. The media, with its own advertising revenue goals to consider, is generally all too happy to promote these half-truths, which engender fear in those who seek alternative counsel. Common methods of disinformation include: the results of poorly run studies trashing various alternative modalities; the professional opinion of 'certified' experts; and the mantra about the "lack of scientific data" when they know very well that it is they who control which data are collected in the first place. If you're in the system but rock the boat, consequences can be quick and severe. Dr. John Lee relates in the introduction of his book, Some Things Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause that his reputation initially suffered at the hands of the complex. However, he adds that the complex underestimated the power of the international women's network regarding what works. Owners A medical system run by the profit interests of the medical industrial complex is analogous to a diet of junk food. Although junk food tastes like real food, it will harm the body if it is continuously ingested. And so it is with modern medicine. I call a living human being in the possession of a body an "owner." American owners are bombarded by clever advertising schemes that encourage the consumption of injurious ingredients, whether fast foods or mainstream medicine's latest drugs and procedures. In the case of junk food, until recently almost everyone seemed to eat them. But slowly, more owners are catching on to the fact that these processed foods are harmful. Owners have become aware that processed foods, altered by chemicals, hormone mimics and nutrient depletions, will injure the body. The food industry's media campaigns still tout the latest clever come on, but there are less vulnerable owners with each passing year. Similarly, the underground health care revolution cultivates an awareness of the consequences that follow from our obedience to the profit-generating dictums of mainstream medicine. Seven Principles of Healing The middle-aged body wants to heal itself. Around middle age there are seven interrelated principles of health that tend to falter. Unless all are attended to, the chronic degenerative diseases of middle age begin to insidiously propagate. The result is deterioration of the body form. Common examples of these imbalances, which arise from one or more faltering principles of health, include: obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, asthma, arthritis, hormone imbalance, and diabetes. Each of these common diseases can be healed without side effects when all seven principles of health are rebalanced. The achievement of balance requires the afflicted owner's active participation. When this first requirement continues to be ignored, symptom control medicine becomes the only treatment possibility. However, for owners willing to take an active role in their own disease solution there are many cases where the above diseases heal or at least stabilize. The seven interrelated principles are: Preventing rust formation within the tissues Preventing hardening processes within the blood vessels The hormones giveth and the hormones taketh away You are what you supply and absorb Take out your cellular trash water Avoid low voltage cell syndrome Maximize the ratio between the energies that heal and the energies that maim the body tissues. The underground revolution in health care choices is particularly impacted by principle seven. This principle concerns the quality of the life energies' integrity, an important consideration almost completely ignored by mainstream medicine because of its overwhelming preoccupation with disease and symptoms. This mainstream approach can be likened to the 'slab of meat' perspective. The slab of meat is all that is left when the mysterious life energies are removed from consideration. As a person and as a healer I take exception to this inhumane approach. There is more to people than their symptoms, and besides, no one wants to be treated like a slab of meat during a medical exam. The underground healthcare revolution bears the burden of educating those who are unaware. As in other times of exponential change, the dominant power elitists are largely unaware of the strength and conviction within the alternative health care movement. Let them slumber into oblivion. A new day is not far off. The entire article can be found here; http://www.naturopathyworks.com/news/newsltr0606.php
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Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003
| Sunday, October 15, 2006 - 7:09 am
A good-news article, for a change!! And probably something you knew innately. Laugh Your Way to Health & Happiness SparkPeople: Fitness News Flash By Becky Hand, Licensed & Registered Dietitian A recent study conducted by the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine reported that laughter not only enhances your mood, but it may also protect your heart. During the study, 20 healthy participants were shown 2 movies: a funny comedy and a war saga. After viewing the war (stress-inducing) film, participants' blood vessels constricted and blood flow was reduced in 14 of the 20 participants. When viewing the comedy, 19 of the 20 participants experienced improved circulation and blood flow. The researchers explained that the increased blood flow was similar to the benefits experienced with exercise. So what does it for you—I Love Lucy reruns, Popeye cartoons, or your favorite comedy club? Although neither these researchers would encourage you to trade your exercise routine for TV, a daily dose of belly shaking, gut-busting laughter is always permitted—and now recommended!
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Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000
| Monday, October 16, 2006 - 2:29 pm
I don't feel like laughing lately 
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Mocha
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08-12-2001
| Monday, October 16, 2006 - 3:29 pm
You're alive ain't ya?
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Mameblanche
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08-24-2002
| Monday, October 16, 2006 - 9:35 pm

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