Your organs remove toxins from the body everyday, however your diet injects more toxic chemicals into the body than it can remove. The toxin backlogs and must be stored for removal later. With more toxins entering the body than it can remove each day, toxins continue to accumulate in the body.

The stored toxins eventually harm your cells, and it will lead to aches, pains and diseases.

You can give your body a chance to remove the toxins by fasting.

During a Fast
1. You only drink liquids such as herbal tea, fresh juice, or water
2. You do not eat solid food
3. You will do every light exercise
4. You will rest and relax most of the time

Digesting food takes a lot of energy. Dr. Isabelle Moser (author of How and When to Be Your Own Doctor) estimates that digestion use roughly 1/3 of your daily energy. When you stop eating solid food for a few days, you give the body a break from digesting. The energy freed from digesting can be used for detoxifying and repairing the body.

Work and movement also takes a lot of energy. By doing light activities and resting most of the time, you also free that energy for cleansing work.

Some work the body does during fasting
1. Repair bone and tissue
2. Remove toxic build up in the body
3. Heal organs
4. Remove tumors or useless growths
5. Burn fat for fuel

Only the body can health itself. Doctors and medicines can only removes the obstacles to allow the body to do its healing. It is the body that heals.

By learning how to fast and continuing to fast on a regular basis, you gain an important tool that allow your organs to clean and repair itself. Healthy organs and a body cleansed of toxins lead to a healthy body.

We are leaving the year of the Tiger and entering the year of the Rabbit. It is a special time for the Asian family to get together to celebrate and welcome the new year in hopes of good fortune, prosperity and good health.

My wife has been busy with spring cleaning over the last few weeks, and she started her baking marathon last week. She has churned out so many wonderful cookies for the New Year celebration. The cookies melt in your mouth and it is so hard to stop even after eating a dozen! Here are some of the cookies she made:

Pineapple Tart

Dragon Cookies

Semperit Cookies

Almond Cookies

Durian Tart

Here is a picture of me enjoying the cookies — hmmm, maybe not — saliva, stuffed mouth, crumbs, just not a pretty sight.

It is time to let loose and celebrate for the next fifteen days. Yes, the celebration last for fifteen day! Isn’t it a great way to kick-start the new year?

I hope the coming year brings you and your family prosperity and good health.

Gong Xi Fa Cai.

First, a friend’s father passed away last week after being in a coma for the last few months caused by a stroke. The doctors could not find the clot and was not able to help him. Sadly, there wasn’t much hope that he would recover, but that didn’t stop the friend from continuing to try everything she can to clear the clot and wake him from the coma. My condolence goes out to her and her family. One good thing that came out of this tragedy was that she has taken prevention to heart. She changed her eating habits and lifestyle, and she tries to share this knowledge with others to help them become aware of the need for a healthy lifestyle to prevent health problem.

Yesterday, another friend’s husband had a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital. The surgeon estimated the surgery would take six hours, however went over by three hours because they found five clots and had to do five bypasses. It is amazing that a person with five clotted arteries managed to function normally for so long. It is truly lucky her husband knew he was having a heart attack and quickly asked her to rush him to the emergency room. The doctors acted quickly and was able to help him. Hopefully the fast action prevented any long term damage to his body. I wish him a speedy recovery, and hope he and his family will have a happy and healthy life ahead.

The food we eat have a huge impact on our body’s health. Many diseases are self inflicted and can be prevented if each of us learn how to care for our body and take responsibility. I just want to stress how important it is to learn to take care of your body to prevent life threatening disease in your future. Surgery is expensive, dangerous, and painful. You do not want to be the person laying on the operating table. I have met people with different types of illness and the methods used to save their lives are not pretty. The patients really do suffer from great pain while the doctors tries to save their lives. I would not want to experience it, and I would not want you to experience that type of pain and suffering. This is one life experience that you do not want to have.

If you do not know how to take care of your body, please learn. If you do not care about your body right now, please start caring because you can only abuse your body for so long before it eat away at your quality of life and make you suffer for it. You never expect something bad would happen to you, but if you do not learn to care for the body, it inevitably will happen to you — it is just a matter of when.

Change is not easy. It takes a lot of effort and work to take care of the body because there are so many unhealthy food and lifestyle choices around us. It is so easy to get swept into those fast, sweet, salty, and delicious mainstream foods. It is so easy to sit and watch TV all day. With some effort, you can start making the right healthy choices, and it will get easier as you continue. If you have problem motivating yourself, then enlist a friend, find a trainer, find a book or video, or do whatever it takes to find the motivate to change. Invest the time and a little money if necessary to give yourself the best chance of a healthy life.

Here are some good resources to help you get started:
• Chapter 14: Healthy Body Healthy Eyes – learn the simple things you can do to maintain good health.
• Fit for Life – was written by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond explaining in a simple manner how food affect our health, how it causes disease and make us fat. It emphasizes food combination to improve digestion and detox the body. It also warns about proteins and dairy. There is also a meal program to show you what to eat during each meal. It is a good book to get you started.
• Nutrition and Physical Degeneration was written by a dentist named Dr. Weston Price, who traveled to remote villages all over the world documenting how locally grown whole natural foods eaten by the villagers kept them extremely healthy. There is a foundation set up to continue sharing his work. The Weston Price Foundation provides many good articles about food and nutrition. They emphasis on whole natural foods which provides plenty of nutrition for the body to maintain good health.
• The Diet Solution – Isabel De Los Rios is a nutritionist and exercise specialist. She shares the principles for weight loss and disease prevention including health food that causes weight gain, truth about fats, food that is best for your body, truth about dairy, recipes, and meal plans. There are lots of articles and videos about burning and losing fat, motivation, foods, workouts, health concerns, and supplements to get you started.
• Truth about abs – Mike Geary is a nutrition specialist and personal trainer specializing in body fat reduction and strength and power training. He address the main problem why people have problem getting rid of their stomach fat. If a nice abs will motivated you to make a change then use it to improve your health. It is important to nourish the motivation that will help you change. Scattered on the pages are lots of good articles about food, nutrition, and exercises.
• Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle – Tom Venuto is a body builder, personal trainer, nutrition consultant, and motivation coach. He shares knowledge of food that burns fat, recipes, training program to burn fat and build muscles, and motivation and goals setting techniques. A bit hidden in smaller fonts at the bottom of the page are dozens of articles about food, nutrition, and fat burning exercises worth reading.

There are thousands of books and videos out there that can help you get started. A lot of them are useless so you have to spend time looking for one that will help you understand your body and understand what you need to do to improve your health. It must also motivate you to take action today to maintain good health. Please do take action, it can save you a lot of suffering and help you maintain a good quality of life.

If you are farsighted whether categorized as presbyopia or hyperopia, you can improve your ability to read or see near. It is a matter of learning the right skills and practicing to master those skills. Just like nearsightedness, once you master the skills and use it daily, it will to help you improve. This struggle is similar to improving nearsightedness, but rather than learning to relax, you may need to increase your eye muscle strength to converge through the fusion exercise. You can read about it in the fusion lesson. You may be able to improve quickly by learning and practicing the fusion lesson. Yes, you have fewer steps to deal with than a nearsighted person.

If you need more assistance, there is a program by Dr. Ray Gottlieb called Read Without Glasses Method that may be able to help. The fusion chart I created is based on the fusion chart from Dr. Ray Gottlieb. He may have some additional insight into improving farsightedness in his program. It may be worthwhile to investigate if the fusion lesson does not bring you the progress you are expecting. They are doing a special promotion right now which allows you to try out the program for thirty days and if it does not work for you then you can return the product and they will not bill you.

It is possible to improve your vision, sometimes you just need a little assistance to understand what you need to do. Hopefully, either the fusion lesson or the Read Without Glasses Method can help you understand the situation and with some practice, improve your eyesight.

Improving your nearsightedness is about learning the skills to use your eyes correctly and using those skills to see and look at everything. It is not a complicated process, but it does require change, effort and persistence. It has to become a part of your life rather than being merely an exercise that you do half an hour a day.

In order to improve quickly, I spent three to four hours doing my work in front of a window where sunlight can shine on my book or computer, and spent every break practicing to look at objects in the distance. I spent my half hour of practice focused on the steps in the lesson and tried my best to notice how strain feels and behave. I was conscious to focus on a small area when I read and look at distance objects. I changed the way I was using my eyes. These changes helped me improve quickly.

After spending a few decades misusing my eyes, I needed to practice using my eyes correctly as much as I can. You must prepare yourself to make whatever changes are necessary to use your eyes correctly throughout the day. By being ready and willing to make these changes, it will allow you adapt to the new skills easier and improve faster.

Please read chapter 13 – New Habits For Using Your Eyes for suggestions on the habits you should develop. Then, you can put these suggestions into action as soon as possible.

Is this a picture of a duck or a rabbit? If you look at the left side of the picture, a duck appears. If you look from the right side, a rabbit appears.

Is this a picture of a young woman or old woman? If you look at the left side of the picture, a young woman appears to be looking away from us. If you look at the center of the picture, a side profile of an old woman looking downwards appears.

Is the walls of this house facing inward or outward?
If you cover the top part of the picture, the lower part appears to be facing outwards.
If you cover the bottom part, the top part appears to be facing inwards.

Are you ready for this last one?

Wait for it.

Wait for it.

Watch out, don’t fall in!

Don’t worry, it is just an optical illusion. This person spent a lot of time and effort painting the street to create this illusion of being at the edge of a cliff. It is a great illusion!

This experiment is worth doing to experience what life would be like without our eyesight. I decided to spend one hour doing my daily task blindfolded.

I set the timer for one hour and tied a cloth around my eyes. I got up and walked toward the kitchen. For some reason, things I instinctively knew to be at a certain place seemed to disappear and reappear where it stubbed my toe, grazed my knee, or bumped my head. I was lucky not to break a cup as I poured myself a some water, which overflowed and I scrambled clumsily to find a cloth to mop it up.

I wanted to prepare and clean so vegetables, but thought twice about working with a knife blindfolded. How does a blind person know if the vegetable is clean anyways? I watched TV but that was no fun without the image. I sat at my desk to start doing some work, and instinctively groped to find the computer’s on switch. What in the world was I going to do after the computer booted up? Yeah, that stumped me!

I felt around for a pen and paper, and started writing.Thoughts and ideas were pouring out. This is easy! When the alarm rang, I was surprise to see that my writing was illegible. It was like chicken scratches on paper and somehow I masterfully manage to write over the same lines on several occasions.

Doing things without eyesight is restrictive. Things I normally do without a second thought is almost impossible blindfolded. I am horribly uncoordinated without my eyesight! I have to salute every blind person who is actively living life with this incredible challenge. I tried it in my own house where know the terrain and yet I could barely function. How a blind person do daily tasks and maneuver the dangerous streets is nothing less than spectacular!

If you can not fathom how important your eyesight is, try blindfolding yourself and go about your daily tasks. It will give you a humbling perspective on how difficult life is without your eyesight.

When I was working eight to twelve hours a day, I did not have time to care about my body and eyes. I didn’t understand that I needed to take care of my body correctly and no one advised me to do it. After some time, I was overweight and developed backaches, knee pains, headaches, foul breath, smelly feet, high nearsightedness and irritability. My quality of life went from good to poor. I had to spend years to learn, change and overcome these annoying problems. I had to learn the hard way that it is important to take care of the body.

Our eyes are important to our quality of life. My advice is to learn and take action to care for the eyes now. Eye disease is spreading rapidly throughout the world because we do not know how to use our eyes properly.

Roughly one in three or four Americans over 40 develop some type of blinding eye disease. The importance of this number may not hit because you never expect health problems to happen to you. It always happens to someone else. When your number is “called” and you face the reality of having a disease, then you panic. You scramble for help, and get hit with complications and high medical bills. Don’t get caught up in this cycle of disease and cure. Prevent so you can have good eyesight to enjoy your life. Prevention does not guarantee that you will not develop a disease. It, however, drastically lower your risk so that you may avoid a major disease.

I can only steer you in the right direction — the next step is in your hands. Start preventing now!

The whole idea behind fluoridation (adding of fluoride to our water supply) was to prevent tooth decay. The problem is that the fluoride being used to “improve” our water comes from sodium fluorosilicate, a hazardous waste byproduct.

“The chemicals used to fluoridate water in the US are not pharmaceutical grade. Instead, they come from the wet scrubbing systems of the superphosphate fertilizer industry. These chemicals (90% of which are sodium fluorosilicate and fluorosilicic acid), are classified hazardous wastes contaminated with various impurities. Recent testing by the National Sanitation Foundation suggest that the levels of arsenic in these chemicals are relatively high (up to 1.6 ppb after dilution into public water) and of potential concern (NSF 2000 and Wang 2000).” Quoted from: 50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation

Opponents of fluoridation claims that it is a ruse by aluminum, steel and fertilizer industries to find a cheap way to dispose of their hazardous waste. If they dump it into the river, it is a pollution violation. Under the disguise of fluoridation, releasing the waste into municipal water is good for health. Not only have they found a way to get rid of their waste, they are being paid to do it. Wow! Did we just get slapped twice! More at: The Fluoride Debate

It doesn’t make sense to continue with fluoridation since recent studies show that too much fluoride can lead to dental fluorisis, skeletal fluorisis, accumulation in the body (brain, pineal gland, etc.) altering behaviors and IQ, inhibit enzymes, damage DNA, and increase risk of bone, liver and mouth cancer. They need to stop poisoning our waters. If they want to combat cavities, they need to tackle the root of the problem. The real problem is explained convincingly by Dr. Weston Price who showed that proper nutrition from whole unprocessed food allows the body to maintain healthy gum, teeth and bone. You can read more about in Food Fresh and Whole for Body Health and at Weston A. Price Foundation.

You may want to be careful with products containing fluoride, the risk may be higher than the claimed benefits.

The next day, I changed the tape and saw that most of the cut has mended. I taped it again to let it do its thing. After two days, the cut healed and there was no sign of the injury.

Normally, a cut would continue to hurt for a few days, a scab would form, and I get the pleasure of peeling away the crusty scab when it starts to fall. With this method, there is no pain even as I continue with my chores, there is no scabbing (I’ll miss tearing the scabs from the skin ), and it heals in about two days.

For minor cuts, it is a great way to dress the cut and allow the skin work its healing magic. When I get cut again, I’m definitely grabbing the medical tape. Try it out the next time you get a minor cut.