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Epsom Salt

2012-03-03T14:03:00.003-08:00

The following is a chapter of my book called Small Things Can Make A Big Difference (Victor Pan 2012 Copyright) It is not the final draft, but very close to it. Any feedbacks or comments would be much appreciated. If you want to leave comments on this blog, go down to comments and click the word. It will then take you to the page were comments can be written. Thank you.

Disclaimer: The following chapter is not meant to heal or cure any problems or disease that you may be experiencing. For proper help and treatment with the use of Epsom salt see a medical expert on the subject or an alternative recognised medical practitioner. The author is not responsible for any problem or damage that occurs to the reader and those you choose to apply and use Epsom salt.

Also, this chapter is not to cover the subject of Epsom salt, its uses and many benefits/side effects.

Epsom salt

What are Epsom salts made up of and where are they found?

They are a naturally occurring mineral that is found in water. It is a mineral that is made up of oxygen, hydrogen, sulphur and magnesium. (1) More properly known as magnesium sulphate, Epsom salts derives its popular name from the town of Epsom, England, where the compound was first distilled from water. (2)

Benefits of Epsom salt

This long-time remedy has been useful for almost everything from relaxing the nervous system, curing skin problems, aching limbs, back pain, healing cuts, muscle strain, treating cold and congestion to drawing toxins from the body. It lowers blood pressure, creates a relaxed feeling, improves sleep, concentration, and helps muscles and nerves to function properly. It can prevent hardening of the arteries by lowering blood pressure, protects the elasticity of arteries, prevents blood clots and reduces the risk of heart attacks.

Eases stress and relaxes body

Stress drains the body of magnesium and Epsom Salt is considered to be a natural stress reliever. When dissolved in warm water Magnesium Sulphate is absorbed through the skin and replenishes the level of magnesium in the body. The salt draws toxins from the body, sedates the nervous system, reduces swelling and relaxes muscles. The magnesium helps to produce serotonin, a mood-elevating chemical within the brain that creates a feeling of calm and relaxation. Research shows that magnesium also increases energy and stamina by encouraging the production of ATP (adenosine triphosphate), the energy packets made in the cells. Magnesium ions also relax and reduce irritability by lowering the affects of adrenaline.

Relieves pain and muscle cramps

An Epsom Salt bath is known to relieve inflammation and relieves pain, making it beneficial in the treatment of sore muscles, bronchial asthma and migraine. In addition, it has been known to heal cuts, reduce soreness from childbirth and relieves colds and congestion.

Exfoliates dead skin

Massage a handful of Epsom Salt mixed with a tablespoon bath oil or olive oil and rub over your moist skin to exfoliate and soften your skin. Then sponge down.

Helps muscles and nerves function properly

Studies show that magnesium is an electrolyte and helps to ensure proper functioning of the muscle, nerve and enzyme. It is also known to be critical in the proper use of calcium in cells.

Makes insulin more effective

This salt also increases the effectiveness of insulin, helping to lower the risk or severity of diabetes.

Relieves constipation

Numerous studies have revealed that Epsom Salt can also be used to treat constipation. The salt acts like a laxative. It increases the water in the intestines and can bring about temporary relief from constipation. However, it is strictly warned that Epsom salts should not be used to relieve constipation without the consultation of a physician as it may prove to be harmful in some cases. (3)

From the Epsom Salt Industry Council

Studies indicate that Epsom salt may help to relieve stress in a number of ways. Studies also show these benefits from the major components of Epsom Salt.

Magnesium, one of the chemicals components of Epsom salt, is responsible for the following actions and functions in the body:

Eases stress and improves sleep and concentration
Helps muscles and nerves function properly
Regulates the activity of 325 plus enzymes
Helps prevent artery hardening and blood clots
Makes insulin more effective
Reduces inflammation to relieve pain and muscle cramps
Improves oxygen use

Sulphates:

Flushes toxins
Improves absorption of nutrients
Helps form joint proteins, brain tissue and mucin proteins
Helps prevent or ease migraine headaches

Note to readers:

Such information that can be found in the Epsom Salt Council can be seen as ‘misleading’ in terms of what does the company benefit from propagating the health benefits of Epsom salt. The website does not offer any links to sales of Epsom salt. It does, however, offer information to three different categories of the uses of Epsom salt: beauty, garden and health. It is, as far as I have seen, a website that offers advice on the many uses that can be obtained from Epsom salt.

While increasing your magnesium levels, Epsom salt also delivers sulphates, which are extremely difficult to get through food but which readily absorb through the skin. Sulphates also stimulate the pancreas to generate digestive enzymes and help to detoxify the body’s residue of medicines and environmental contaminants. (4)

Side effects of Epsom salt

What does Epsom salt do inside your body?

Regarding the chemical sulphate, it aids your body to create a pathway that processes salicylates, phenols and other chemicals and substances that your body sees as possible toxins – this can include heavy metals. The body may have more toxins to process than it can handle because of a lack of sulphur. To alleviate the unpleasant reactions such as hyperness, aggression, tantrums, sleep problems, night sweats, irritability, eczema and other skin conditions you can help the body get rid of the amount of toxins that enter it or supply more sulphur to increase the amount of toxins that can be processed from the body. (5) Sulphate has an influence over almost every cellular function. Sulphate attaches to phenols and makes them less harmful, and sets them up for being excreted by your kidneys. Sulphate is used to regulate the performance of many other molecules. Many systems in the body will not function well in a low-sulphate environment. Sulphur is so critical to life that the body will catabolise protein from the muscles to keep it from running too low. (6)

Another possible use of Epsom Salt is that it can cleanse, soothe and dry herpes sores as well as relieve itching and tenderness. An Epsom salt bath is the best method of application for such a condition. (7)

Some negative side effects of misusing and using Epsom salt

Although there hardly any serious side effects of using Epsom salt in a limited quantity, there can be some side effects like: allergic reaction (difficulty breathing; closing of your throat; swelling of your lips, tongue, or face; or hives), flushed skin, drop in blood pressure and/or a slowed heartbeat; nausea with vomiting, reduced awareness and drowsiness. (8)

Before using Epsom salts

This medicine may not be suitable for everyone and some people must never have it. Always get advice from a healthcare professional before having this medicine if:

you are allergic or sensitive to or have had a reaction to any of the ingredients in the medicine
this medicine is for a child under five years of age
you have severe stomach pain
you have nausea or vomiting
you have kidney problems (9)

Documentation of hypermangnesia

The following information can be found on a case study which showed Epsom salt enemas lead to deaths and illnesses. The study is called Fatal Hypermagnesia Cause by an Epsom Salt Enema: Case Study. This study, in my opinion, shows how Epsom salt should not be used unless proper knowledge is known of the potential risks, of it many chemicals and their use/overuse. I still believe Epsom salt is a fabulous natural remedy, if used correctly. It should be common sense that a seven year old boy, should not be doing enemas with any adding of extra ingredients to the water.

The following explains hypermagnesia and some of its sources.

Epsom salt was first described in 1695, when Dr. Nehemiah Grew took water from a well in Epsom, England, and created Epsom salt. Epsom salt is essentially 100% magnesium sulphate. One tablespoon of Epsom salt contains approximately 35 g of magnesium sulphate, which is 3.4 g (287 mEq) of elemental magnesium. This is a considerable amount, considering that the recommended daily allowance for an adult is only 300 to 400 mg per day. Since that time, Epsom salt has been used for numerous ailments including abdominal pain, constipation, sprains, muscle strains, hyaline membrane disease, and cerebral edema. The first report of death caused by an Epsom salt enema was published in 1943 by Fawcett and Gens. Before this report, Fraser reviewed the literature on the toxicity of Epsom salt from 1841 to 1909 and found 7 cases of magnesium toxicity from Epsom salt use, with 5 deaths. Magnesium enemas were used in the treatment of infants with hyaline membrane disease in the early 1970s until they were found to have no benefit and resulted in deaths caused by hypermagnesemia. Magnesium enemas were also used in the management of elevated intracranial pressure in the 1920s, based on an incorrect theory that causing water loss in the rectum would result in fluid loss in the brain and therefore might lower the intracranial pressure. Again, this was found to have no benefit and resulted in deaths caused by hypermagnesemia. Magnesium is one of the most abundant cations and is the second most abundant intracellular cation found in the body. It serves as an important cofactor for most cellular metabolic and energy-related reactions involving phosphorus. Magnesium is involved in more than 300 chemical reactions in the body including glycolysis, oxidative phosphorylation, and the proper functioning of the Na-K-ATPase pump. In addition to these roles, magnesium competitively binds to calcium channels and hence acts as a natural calcium channel blocker. Hypermagnesemia is a potentially lethal condition that may not be as rare as is commonly thought. In 1990, Whang and Ryder studied more than 1,000 patients admitted to a community hospital and found the incidence of hypermagnesemia to be 5.7%, whereas only 12% of those were clinically suspected. Hypermagnesemia is usually found in patients with renal insufficiency who have a creatinine clearance of less than 30 mL/min. Other patients at risk for development of elevated serum magnesium levels are patients with excessive magnesium loads. Potential sources of excess magnesium intake include antacids, laxatives, cathartics, and parenteral administration. Other less common causes of hypermagnesemia include rhabdomyolysis, tumour lysis syndrome, adrenal insufficiency,vhyperparathyroidism, and hypothyroidism. (10)

Some deficiencies of magnesium and sulphate

Studies reveal that a diet, which is deficient in magnesium and sulphate, can lead to various health problems such as malfunctioning of the kidneys, various heart diseases including heart attack, and poor blood circulation. Increasing the level of magnesium in the blood will help to regulate the electrolytes and raise the level of serotonin (monoamine neurotransmitter). When the serotonin level increases, it not only helps in de-stressing but also improves your sleep. The toxins of your body are easily flushed out if the level of sulphates is normal.

Scientific research to back up possible use of Epsom salt, to increase magnesium and sulphates in the body

Scientific experiments show magnesium and sulphates can be absorbed by the human body externally. Dr Rosemary Waring was one of the many doctors to conduct a study on such claim. The test included 19 people, 10 male and 9 female ages of 24-64 years of age. All but three people had their magnesium increased. The values before the first bath were, mean 104.68 ± 20.76 ppm/ml; after the first bath the mean was 114.08 ± 25.83 ppm/ml. as for The individuals who had not had their blood magnesium levels increased, had correspondingly large increases in urinary magnesium showing that the magnesium ions had crossed the skin barrier and had been excreted via the kidney. Free inorganic sulphate levels in plasma rose in all subjects after bathing in Epsom salts (mean pre-bath, 3.28 nmol/mg protein ± 1.40, 2h after 1st bath, mean 5.59 nmol/mg protein ± 3.08). No volunteers complained of any adverse effect. (11) The study that gave these results, can be said to be lacking in evidence. There were insufficient people to prove the effectiveness of the Epsom salt being absorbed through the skin. There was also a difference in male and female absorption of different chemicals, which there is a need for further studies that can be carried out to see whether it is about age of sex specifically. Epsom salts can do wonders for a person suffering from arthritis. Bathing daily in water containing Epsom salts solution will help to increase the blood circulation and reduces swellings in the joints. (12)

Magnesium

Two studies conducted in France at the Clermont University, showed that magnesium, which can be found and easily absorbed through the use of Epsom salt, helps reduce inflammation by increasing cellular activity involved in inflammation. The increase of magnesium decreases the inflammatory response, while reduction in the extracellular magnesium results in cell activation. (13)
Magnesium (Mg) deficiency results in a stress effect and increased susceptibility to physiological damage produced by stress. The effect of Mg deficiency in the development of insulin resistance in the rat model is well documented. Recent findings support the hypothesis that the Mg effect on intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis may be a common link between stress, inflammation and a possible relationship to metabolic syndrome. (14)
Magnesium deficiency in rodent is linked to an inflammation syndrome. A study was done to see whether a lack of magnesium deficiency in rats could modify vitamin A. magnesium deficiency was accompanied by a reduction in plasma retinol and plasma retinol concentration. The data gathered from the study strongly suggest that the decrease in plasma retinol concentration, resulting from the level of its binding protein, is related to the inflammatory effect of Mg deficiency. These results point to the possible interference of Mg deficiency on the use of plasma retinol as an indicator of vitamin A status. (15)

References

1 http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-epsom-salts.htm

2 http://www.livestrong.com/article/98960-drink-epsom-salts-detox/

3http://www.lymeneteurope.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3164

4 http://www.greenecoservices.com/green-health-and-beauty-epsom-salts/

5 http://www.thepeacefamily.force9.co.uk/epsom.html

6 http://www.thepeacefamily.force9.co.uk/epsom.html

7 http://www.naturalnews.com/029109_genital_herpes_remedies.html#ixzz1nkGd Uyn7

8 http://www.emedicinehealth.com/drugmagnesium_sulfate/article_em.htm#sideeffects

Note on the website:

Although the following website was useful for information on Epsom slat and its possible side effects, I personally found the website a source of medical and government propaganda. There are more side effects listed and how bad it is and can be for you and few possible benefits.

http://www.nhs.uk/medicineguides/pages/MedicineOverview.aspx?medicine=Epsom%20salts

10 http://www.alternativehealth.co.nz/cancer/liver/Fatal_Hypermagnesemia_

Caused_by_an_Epsom_Salt_Enema.pdf

11 http://www.mgwater.com/transdermal.shtml

12 http://www.mgwater.com/transdermal.shtml

13 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16712775

14 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20513641

15 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19271422

Further links

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/use-epsom-salts-13-wonderful-ways.html

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/medical-uses-of-epsom-salts.html

Further references for Epsom salt
YouTube video, what is Epsom salt? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URjwfum_azU

Liver Cancer and Fighting It The Natural Way

2012-02-05T01:57:00.000-08:00

The following information is very useful in treating liver cancer using natural ways. Always make sure that you know what you are doing and are aware that some foods are better raw, organic and unheated. Do your own reasearch and continue your life long journey of learning. Thank you for reading and when you can check out www.youtube.com/user/healthyliving2012 for videos on health.

Liver cancer diet, food, supplements herbs vitamins by Ray Sahelian, M.D.

The liver is one of the largest organs in the body -- the skin is larger -- filling the upper right side of the abdomen inside the rib cage. It has two parts, a right lobe and a smaller left lobe. The liver has many important functions, including: Filtering harmful substances from the blood so they can be passed from the body in stools and urine; making bile to help digest fats from food; storing glycogen (sugar), which the body uses for energy.
There are two ways in which cancer can involve the liver. The cancer can arise from the liver itself (primary liver cancer) or it can spread to the liver from a primary tumor at another site (secondary, or metastatic, cancer).

Liver cancer is diagnosed in about 19,000 Americans annually but is much more common elsewhere and is the fifth most common cancer globally. Risk factors include chronic liver infections and some forms of hepatitis. The disease is common in China and countries without widespread use of the hepatitis B vaccine, which is routinely given to U.S. infants. Liver cancer doesn't respond well to conventional chemotherapy and is often diagnosed too late for surgery to be an option. Many patients die within a year of diagnosis.

Natural liver cancer treatment or prevention
Many herbs and nutrients have an influence on liver cancer prevention and treatment. I will mention a few that I have come across and this article will be updated as more information becomes available. Please note that research in this area is minimal and should not be used to forego traditional medical treatment for liver cancer unless your doctor reads this information and concurs with trying some of these supplements. We will need significantly more research in this area of herbal medicine before we can make any statements with confidence regarding the role of herbs in liver support.

AHCC -- Active Hexose-correlated Compound - is a mushroom extract that has been tested as an immune enhancing, liver protective anti-cancer supplement.

IP-6 has been reported to have in vivo and in vitro anti- cancer activity.

Broccoli sprouts and their extract could be considered.

Mangosteen is a fruit

Lycium or wolfberry also known as goji berry

Cornus officinalis

Diet and liver cancer
Certain foods, among them milk and fruit, appear to reduce the likelihood of developing liver cancer. Dr. Renato Talamini, at the National Tumor Institute in Aviano, and colleagues studied 185 patients with liver cancer and a comparison group of 412 "controls" without cancer. As intake of various foods went up, the risk of liver cancer went down. High intakes of milk and yoghurt reduced the chances of developing liver cancer. High consumption of white meat lowered the risk by 56 percent, and with high intake of fruit, it went down by 52 percent. Vegetables, too, apparently had a protective effect, but this didn't reach significance from a statistical standpoint. The researchers saw that the findings held good for patients with hepatitis B and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Dr/. RenatoTalamini advised that, to ward off liver cancer, one should "adopt a correct diet, rich in fruits and vegetables." Also important, he added, "is limiting consumption of alcohol beverages and avoiding HCV infection by practicing safe sex and eliminating needle sharing." International Journal of Cancer, 2006.

In a population-based prospective study of Japanese individuals, consumption of vegetables, green-yellow and green leafy vegetables was inversely associated with the risk of liver cancer. British Journal Cancer. 2009. Vegetable, fruit and antioxidant nutrient consumption and subsequent risk of hepatocellular carcinoma: a prospective cohort study in Japan.

The amount of fat accumulated around internal abdominal organs influences the likelihood of a recurrence of liver cancer following treatment.

Liver cancer symptom
Abdominal pain is generally the initial and most frequent symptom of liver cancer. While the pain my be severe in some instances, the pain is more likely to be a persistent dull ache, which intensifies in later stages. Weakness and weight loss are also common symptoms of liver cancer. Liver cancer is sometimes called a "silent disease" because in its early stages it often does not cause symptoms. But, as the tumor grows, liver cancer symptoms may include: Pain in the upper abdomen on the right side; nausea and vomiting; swollen abdomen (bloating); weight loss; loss of appetite and feelings of fullness; fatigue and weakness; yellow skin and eyes, and dark urine from jaundice; and lastly fever. Please note that a number of medical conditions can cause these symptoms, they are not exclusive to liver cancer.

Liver cancer treatment
Primary liver cancer is difficult to treat. Surgical removal is the best option but these tumors are often too large and too extensive for surgery. Chemotherapy is occasionally used for inoperable tumors but any benefit is usually short lived. Unfortunately liver cancer cure is difficult.
   Several different types of treatment may be offered for secondary liver cancer, most frequently chemotherapy. Surgeons may also resect one or two isolated, metastatic liver tumors.

Metastatic liver cancer
Metastatic cancers are tumors that spread from the organ or origin. Because of its blood supply, the liver is a common site for some cancers to spread. Some of the most common cancers that spread to the liver are those originating in the colon, pancreas, lung and breast. Lymphomas and leukemias can also invade the liver. So can others.

Liver cancer survival rate - liver cancer prognosis
Unfortunately, survival rates for primary liver cancer are low. Survival rate depends on the stage of the liver cancer. Liver cancer prognosis depends on many things, including how early the tumor has been detected. Surgery may be an option if the tumor is small enough and caught early. The success rate of this surgery, however, is low; only ten to twenty percent of all hepatocellular carcinoma surgeries succeed in entirely removing cancerous tissue. If the surgery is not successful, the disease is often fatal within three to six months; the prognosis for liver metastases is equally poor.

Liver Cancer statistics
Primary liver cancer (cancer that starts in the liver) is one of the most common cancers in the world, with approximately one million cases reported every year. This ranges from about 15,000 cases in the United States to more than a 250,000 in China. About 80% of people with primary liver cancer are male.

Liver cancer cause
In the western world, most people who develop liver cancer usually also have a condition called cirrhosis of the liver. This is a fine scarring throughout the liver which is due to a variety of causes including infection and heavy alcohol drinking over a long period of time. However, only a small proportion of people who have cirrhosis of the liver develop primary liver cancer.
     Infection with either the hepatitis B or hepatitis C virus can lead to liver cancer, and can also be the cause of cirrhosis.
     Steroid abuse, smoking, and exposure to toxins are additional causes of liver cancer.
     People who have a rare condition called haemochromatosis, which causes excess deposits of iron in the body, have a higher chance of developing liver cancer.
     In Africa and Asia a poison called aflatoxin, found in moldy peanuts and grain, is an important cause of liver cancer.
     High blood levels of the pesticide DDT are associated with an elevated risk of liver cancer.

Hypothyroidism
Women with long-standing hypothyroidism, commonly referred to as an "underactive thyroid," are at increased risk of liver cancer. By contrast, hypothyroidism is not significantly associated with this malignancy in men. Hepatology, May, 2009.

The role of Coffee
A study, published in the August 2005 issue of International Journal of Cancer. based on data from more than 60,000 Japanese adults, bolsters the findings of another study published earlier this year that linked coffee consumption to a lower risk of liver cancer. In the current study, researchers found that men and women who drank at least one cup of coffee a day were less likely to develop liver cancer than those who drank little or none. Compared with occasional coffee drinkers, habitual drinkers were 29 percent less likely to develop liver cancer over the 7 to 9 years the researchers followed them. And in comparison to their peers who never drank coffee, their liver cancer risk was 42 percent lower.

Liver Cancer Research
Effect of lycium barbarum polysaccharide on human hepatoma QGY7703 cells: inhibition of proliferation and induction of apoptosis.
Life Sci. 2005.
Lycium barbarum polysaccharide, extracted from Lycium barbarum that is a kind of traditional Chinese herb, is found to have anticancer activity. In this study, the effect of lycium on the proliferation rate, cell cycle distribution and apoptosis in the human hepatoma QGY7703 cell line were investigated. The study suggests that the induction of cell cycle arrest and the increase of intracellular calcium in apoptotic system may participate in the antiproliferative activity of lycium in human liver cancer QGY7703 cells.

Chemical aspects of coumarin compounds for the prevention of hepatocellular carcinomas.
Curr Med Chem Anti-Canc Agents. 2005.
The normalization of plasma alanine aminotransferase (ALT) has been proved to be a strategy for preventing the development of liver cancer in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infection. Glycyrrhizin, a plant medicine, normalizes plasma ALT and prevents liver cancer. However, glycyrrhizin is administered intravenously and thereby chemical which is effective on oral administration is required. Coumarin compounds are active components of herbs used for the treatment of various diseases. The ability of coumarin compounds to lower plasma ALT were examined. Furocoumarin effectively lowers plasma ALT, but the safety range between the effective and toxic dosages is narrow. In contrast, osthole, a simple coumarin, causes strong reduction of plasma ALT and also inhibits caspase-3 activation. Furthermore, this chemical is quite safe upon large dose administration. In the structure of osthole, the methoxy group at position-7 and the 3-methyl-2-butenyl group at position-8 were elucidated to be essential for the beneficial effect of this chemical. We conclude that osthole will become a leading chemical for synthesizing a compound which prevents liver cancer on oral administration.

Chemoprevention against hepatocellular carcinoma ( liver cancer ) of Cornus officinalis in vitro.
Am J Chin Med. 2004.
The water extracts of Cornus officinalis Sieb. et Zuce against hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) was studied for its chemopreventive potential. Three HCC cell lines and three leukemic cell lines were tested with XTT assay. Extracts of C. officinalis inhibited all these HCC cells and leukemic cells at a concentration of 100 microg/ml and was dose-dependent. P53 and Ras significantly affected its activity against HCC. Extracts of C. officinalis also possessed the anti-oxidant activity through free radicals scavenging activity at a concentration of 50 microg/ml. In summary, our experiment implied that C. officinalis might be a candidate for chemopreventive agent against hepatocellular carcinoma through the antioxidant and anti-neoplastic effects.

Garcinone E, a xanthone derivative, has potent cytotoxic effect against hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines.
Planta Med. 2002.
Treatment of hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) with chemotherapy has generally been disappointing and it is most desirable to have more effective new drugs. We extracted and purified 6 xanthone compounds from the rinds (peel) of the fruits of Garcinia mangostana L. ( mangosteen ), and then tested the cytotoxic effects of these compounds on a panel of 14 different human cancer cell lines including 6 hepatoma cell lines. Our results have shown that one of the xanthone derivatives from mangosteen which could be identified as garcinone E has potent cytotoxic effect on all HCC cell lines as well as on the other gastric and lung cancer cell lines included in the screen. We suggest that garcinone E extract from mangosteen may be potentially useful for the treatment of certain types of cancer. Liver cancer symptom.

Additional herbs for liver cancer
Celery seed extract

Questions
Would lipoic acid be helpful in liver cancer?
I have not seen any research regarding the use of lipoic acid supplement for liver cancer.

My wife of 61 years of age has been told by the hospital, after taking some tests such as blood tests and ultrasound, that she has got liver cancer. It was a big shock for us. She has no symptoms. She takes yearly abdominal ultrasound and mammogram as well as a chest x-ray and up to last year these tests were all negative. My wife had breast cancer in 2001 and she was all right after an operation, chemo, radiotherapy and spent five years on tamoxefen. She even had liver function tests last August and they were perfect. Last May’s various blood tests were mainly good except the liver function tests. The bilirubin was normal, but her ESR was 38. She has an appetite all right The CBC was good. The doctors want now to give her chemotherapy. Deep down inside she does not want to have it. She is quite prepared to try alternative ways. She is very fond of homeopathy. In fact she goes to one regularly. . Is it possible for Dr. Sahelian to prescribe some herbs, vitamins, or supplements, to see how she goes for a month and then I take another ultrasound or blood test for the liver. My wife is light weight ne ver smoked and does not drink alcohol. She is on a vegetarian diet and takes at least five servings of fruit a day. I read so much about the goodness of curcumin, isoflavones, genestein, quercetin, resveratrol and ellagic acid, beta glucan, etc and of course green tea. Perhaps, such supplements can find a way to destroy these cancerous cells. On the other hand I would greatly appreciate Dr. Sahelian’s advice without any liability.
I cannot offer specific advice but hopefully some of the information on this page will be helpful.

These are some quotes that I found that were said by doctors and even written in medical journals. It is a shame that they are not out more in the open for the public to see, read and learn from. Hope you like it. Visit my youtube chanel when you can.

"Fasting is a valid experience. It can benefit any otherwise healthy person whose calories now have the upper hand in his/her life."
The New England Journal of Medicine
"Fasting is an effective and safe method of detoxifying the body...A technique that wise men have used for centuries to heal the sick. Fast regularly and help the body heal itself and stay well. Give all of your organs a rest. Fasting can help reverse the aging process, and if we use it correctly we will live longer, happier lives.
Each time you complete a fast, you will feel better. Your body will have a chance to heal and rebuild its immune system by regularly fasting [a major benefit]. You can fight off illness and the degenerative diseases so common in this chemically polluted environment we live in. When you feel a cold or illness coming on or are just depressed-- fast!"
James Balch, M.D. and Phyllis Balch, C.N.C.
"In my practice I have seen fasting eliminate lupus and arthritis, remove chronic skin conditions such as psoriasis and eczema, heal the digestive tract in patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, and quickly eliminate cardiovascular diseases such as high blood pressure and angina. In these cases the recoveries were permanent."
Dr. Joel Fuhrman, M.D. (has fasting center in NJ)
"The ideal technique for successful fasting is the use of fresh, raw fruit and vegetable juices. On such a diet, the full spectrum of nutrients is supplied in an easily assimilated form, so the digestive tract is able to remain essentially at rest."
Rudolph Ballentine, M.D., who established holistic medical clinics in Chicago, New York, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and Honesdale, PA, and authored "Radical Healing: Integrating The World's Great Therapeutic Traditions To Create A New Transformative Medicine," hailed as "a masterpiece"
by Carolyn Myss, M.D., and "an instant classic" by Deepak Chopra, M.D.
"I often observe in the fasting participants that by four days of fasting, concentration seems to improve, creative thinking expands, depression lifts, insomnia stops, anxieties fade, the mind becomes more tranquil and a natural joy begins to appear. It is my hypothesis that when the physical toxins are cleared from the brain cells, mind-brain function automatically and significantly improves and spiritual capacities expands."
Gabriel Cousins, M.D.
"Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and natural, plant-based diets are a viable alternative to conventional therapy, and an effective one”
Dr. Joel Fuhrman, M.D., author of Fasting And Eating For Health: A Medical Doctor's Program for Conquering Disease
"Fasting must be recognized as a fundamental and radical process that is older than any other mode of caring for the sick organism, for it is employed on the plane of instinct and has been employed since life was first introduced upon the earth. Fasting is nature's own method of ridding the body of 'diseased tissues,' excess nutriment and accumulations of waste and toxins. Nothing else will increase elimination through every channel of excretion as will fasting."
Herbert M. Shelton (DC, ND) says in his 400 page book, The Science and Fine Art of Fasting (©1978),
“The healthcare of the future will have to be both more effective and less costly than what we have available today. Fasting [and detoxing], as a therapeutic modality, is safe, effective, and a true healthcare bargain.”
Dr. Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
"Juice Fasting is, without any doubt, the most effective biological method of treatment...it is the 'operation without surgery'…it is a cure involving exudation, reattunement, redirection, loosening up and purified relaxation. While fasting, the patient improves her or his physical health and gains much, but he or she will have neglected the most important thing if the hunger for spiritual nourishment that manifests itself during fasting is not satisfied."
Otto Buchinger, Sr., M.D., 1876-1966, Germany's great, self-described "fasting therapist" who founded several renowned Buchinger Kliniks in which he conducted "more than 100,000 juice fasting cures."
"Fasting can help reverse the ageing process, and if we use it correctly, we will live longer, happier lives."
Dr. James Balch, MD
"In over 70 years of supervising fasts, I have seen miracles happen to people... Its power to heal and rejuvenate the body is unsurpassed."
Dr. Bragg, ND, PhD
"There are hundreds of journal articles in the medical literature documenting the value of fasting in improving the function of the entire body including brain [cites studies]. Fasting has been repeatedly observed to alleviate neurosis, anxiety and depression."
Dr. Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
"I had a medical practice for 20 years in NYC, supervised hundreds of long fasts, and I found that the physical healing or weight loss was but a pleasant side effect. What really happened is that the person got in touch with their higher self, their true self, and came to the experience that healing can take place at every level, simply by letting go and allowing Mother Nature to do her work"
Dr. Rai Casey

Source:

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What Symptoms To Expect When Your Diet Is Improved - Stanley Bass

2012-02-05T01:29:00.000-08:00

What Symptoms to Expect When You Improve Your Diet
(or Start Fasting)
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Going on a fast, or improving your diet, may cause you to feel sick

INTRODUCTION

If I were asked which is the area of greatest misunderstanding and confusion in the field of nutrition, I would immediately be forced to reply, it is the failure to properly understand and interpret the symptoms and changes which follow the beginning of a better nutritional program.

HIGHER QUALITY NUTRITION

'What is meant by a better nutritional program? It is the introduction of foods of higher quality in place of lower quality ones.

For example, if a person replaces a protein rich food such a pork with beef, the beef may be considered the superior of the two - due to its easier digestibility, lower and less saturated fat content, etc. Similarly chicken is superior to beef, and fish is superior to chicken because of its more rapid digestibility and lower saturated fat content.
Lima beans, lentils or chick peas, which are eaten at the same meal with vegetables, are superior in all the nutrients needed to rebuild health.
As we go higher on the scale of quality, we begin to include protein rich food which may be eaten in the unfired (raw) state, such as cheese which is made from raw milk and unsalted.
Then we ascend to the nuts and seeds which are eaten in the natural state (raw and unsalted).

HIGHEST QUALITY - RAW FOOD

To summarize: the closer the food comes to the natural state in which it occurs, or the closer to its raw, unfired (raw) form, the higher its quality.
In this condition, all the enzymes are found intact. The amino acids are in their finest form. The minerals, vitamins, trace elements, carbohydrates and "life force" are present. The life force, in turn is capable of reproducing healthy tissue.

This same classification of quality which we analyzed in relation to protein rich foods applies to the carbohydrates (the starch and sugar-rich foods), the fats and the mineral-rich foods.

TOXIC SUBSTANCES

The quality of a nutritional program is also improved by omitting toxic substances such, as coffee, tea, chocolate, tobacco, salt, pepper, etc. from your diet.

FOODS AND RECOVERY FROM ILLNESS

What is the relation of quality of foods to recovery from illness?
It is this in a nutshell: The higher the quality of food we eat, the quicker we recover from disease, provided we are able to digest and assimilate properly.

To this must be added the knowledge of

proper food combining
proper order of eating the different kinds of food at a meal: e.g. the most easily digested food should be eaten first, the more complex one second, and the most concentrated item last
the correct quantity of food to be consumed (of each type) in the meal
the correct time for eating (when hungry, and not by the clock)

REMARKABLE CHANGES

Now - what happens when a person follows these rules and makes a decided improvement in the quality of food consumed?
Remarkable things begin to happen to the body as well as the mind. The amazing intelligence present in every cell of the body and the wisdom of the body in its operation, immediately becomes manifest.
The rule may be stated thusly: When the quality of the food coming into the body is of higher quality than the tissues which the body is made of, the body begins to discard the lower grade materials and tissues to make room for the superior materials which it uses to make new and healthier tissue.

NATURE SELF-CURING

This is the plan of Nature - the body is very selective and always aims for improvement for better health. The body always tries to produce health and always will, unless our interference is too great. Only then do we fail to recover and degenerate further into disease.

The self-curing nature of many conditions such as colds, fevers, cuts, swellings, injuries, etc., furnishes endless examples of how the body tends towards health - always - unless we do something to stop the process.

SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS

What are the symptoms or signs which become evident when we first begin to omit the lower grade foods and instead introduce superior foods - those which are most alive, more natural than we are accustomed to?

Usually within three days, the symptoms vanish and we feel stronger due to the recuperation which follows.

To a lesser extent the same process occurs when we abandon lower quality foods and replace them with better foods.

LOWER QUALITY - MORE STIMULATING

Lower quality has undergone more preparation.
Spices, salt and other ingredients have been added, as they tend to be more "stimulating" than less prepared and more natural foods. Animal foods such as meat, fowl, fish etc. are more stimulating than cheese, nuts and vegetable proteins.

Consequently the withdrawal of stimulation which follows the abandonment of animal food produces a slower heart action - a resting phase - which registers in the mind as relaxation or a decrease of energy. This initial letdown lasts about ten days or slightly longer, and is followed by an increase of strength, a feeling of diminishing stress and greater well-being.

AVOIDING FAILURE

Now let us return to the symptoms which occur in the process of regeneration. The person who starts a better diet, stays on it for three days to a week and then quits will say, "Oh, I felt better on the old diet - the new one makes me feel weak." He failed because he didn't give his body a chance to adjust and complete its first phase of action - recuperation. If he had waited a while longer, he would have begun to feel better than before he started.

RECUPERATION - PHASE ONE

During the initial stage (lasting about ten days on the average to several weeks in others), the vital energies which are usually in the periphery or external part of the body such as the muscles and skin, begin to move to the vital internal organs and start reconstruction.
This shunting of much of the power to the internal region produces a feeling of less energy in the muscles, which the mind interprets as some weakness. Actually, the power is increased, but most of it is being used for rebuilding the more important organs and less of it is available for muscular work.
Any weakness which is felt here is not true weakness, but merely a redeploying of forces to the more important internal parts.

RELAX FOR SUCCESS

Here it is important for the person to stop wasting energy, and to rest and sleep more. This is a crucial phase, and if the person resorts to stimulants of any kind, he will abort and defeat the regenerative intent of the body. It is impor-tant that he have patience and faith and just wait it out, and after a while he will get increasing strength which will exceed by far what he felt before he began the new program.
Success in recovery or improvement of health hinges upon the correct understanding of this point - realizing that the body is using its main energies in more important internal work and not wasting it in external work invol-ving muscle movements. Be wise, take it easy here and relax. Just coast in,. your work and social obligations until you're out of the woods.

RETRACING - CLEANUP

Retracing: As one continues on the improved diet and gradually raises the food quality, interesting symptoms begin to appear.
The body begins a process called retracing.

"Now we have a chance to get rid or this old garbage and build a beautiful new house. Let's get started immediately. Let's get this excess bile out or the liver and gall bladder and send it to the intestines for elimination. Let's get the sludge moving out of the arteries, veins and capillaries. These smelly, gassy, brain-stupefying masses have been here too long - out with them!
These arthritic deposits in the joints need cleaning up! Let's get these irritating food preservatives, aspirins, sleeping pills and drugs out of the way, along with these other masses of fat which have made life so burdensom for us for so long.
Let's get going till the job is done - till we have a beautiful house - and from there on we'll keep it a beautiful ideal model house."

CATABOLISM - ELIMINATION

During the first phase (called catabolism), the accent is on elimination, or breaking down of tissue. The body begins to clean house. - In short, to remove the garbage deposited in all the tissues - everywhere. During this period. the body removes the ashes from the furnace preparatory. So getting a better fire.
Here the accentuation is on removal of the gross and immediate body obstructions. Wastes are discarded more rapidly than new tissue is made from the new food. This becomes evident as weight loss.

STABILIZATION

This persists for a while and is then followed by the second phase - called stabilization.
Here the weight remains more or less stable. During this phase, the amount of waste material being discarded daily is equal to the amount of tissue which is being formed and replaced by the newer, more vital food. This occurs after the excess of obstructing material in the tissues has been removed.

ANABOLISM - BUILDUP

This state persists for a while and is then followed by a third phase - a build-up period called anabolism, wherein weight starts to go up, even though the diet is lower in calories than it was before. At this point, much or more of the interferring wastes have already been discarded. -

The tissues which have been formed since the diet was raised in quality are more durable and do not break down easily. Also new tissues are now being formed faster. This is due to the improved assimilation made possible by the ceasing of wrong food combining.
The body's need for the usual amounts of food decreases, and we are able to maintain our weight and increased energies with less food. Many are able to function very efficiently on two meals a day. As the body progressively increases efficiency and decreases in tissue breakdown under exercise, so do we gradually need less and less food to maintain life.
The higher the percentage of raw food one lives on, the slower the rate of tissue deterioration which one evolves into. A sick body requires a gradual carefully worked-out entry into this stage, where one is able to live on a 100% unfired (raw) diet.

SKIN RASHES

Returning to the symptoms which occur on a superior nutritional program, people who have had tendencies in the past to recurring skin rashes or eruptions will frequently tend to eliminate poisons and harmful drugs through the skin with new rashes or eruptions. If they go to a doctor now who is not familiar with this aspect of nutrition, he will diagnose it as an allergy.

They ask. "How come. I'm eating better now than I ever did before, and instead I'm getting worse?" They don't understand that the body is retracing.

The skin is getting more alive and active. It's throwing out more poisons more rapidly now that the body is building more power which is saved from those hard-to-ingest meals which have been discontinued.

TOXINS DISCARDED

These toxins being discarded are saving you from more serious disease which will result if you keep them in your body too much longer - possibly hepatitus, kidney disorders, blood disease, heart disease, arthritis, nerve degenerations or even cancer - depending upon your hereditary or structural weaknesses. Be happy you're paying your bills now in an easy-payment plan.

CONSTRUCTIVE HOUSECLEANING

With some, colds which haven't appeared for a long time may occur, or even fevers. This is nature's way of housecleaning. Understand that these actions are constructive, even though unpleasant at the moment. Don't, but don't, try to stop these symptoms by the use of certain drugs, or even massive doses of vitamins, which will act as drugs in huge concentrations.

RESPECT THE CURING PROCESS

These symptoms are part of a curing process, and don't try to cure a cure. These are not deficiency conditions or allergic manifestations - not if you're eating properly in quality, quantity, combination and sequence.
Here is where experienced advice is a great value. Unfortunately, there are few books present today which give full guidance to the average reader. Try to find guidance through a doctor or teacher who has the requisite experience in this most confusing of all subjects - nutrition in relation to health and disease.

MILD OR SEVERE SYMPTOMS

You may he eating perfectly in regard to quantity, quality and observing all the correct rules, and still symptoms will occur. Those who have lived better lives in the past - who have eaten better foods and who have abused their bodies less with overeating will have reactions ranging from almost none at all or very mild symptoms which may be uncomfortable or acute.
Those who have lived worse lives and poisoned themselves more will experience more severe symptoms - if their liver, kidneys, or other important eliminating organs have been damaged. When they have been renovated to the point of fair working order, they will no longer produce symptoms.

EXAMPLES

Headaches may occur at the beginning:
fever and/or colds may also appear:
the skin may break out;
there may be a short interval of bowel sluggishness,
occasional diarrhea.
feelings of tiredness and weakness,
disinclination to exercise,
nervousness, irritability, negativity or mental depression,
frequent urination etc.

However, the great majority of people find their reactions tolerable and are encouraged to bear with them, because of the many improvements which have already occurred and are becoming more evident with each day. This acts as an inspirational force to them.

SYMPTOMS WILL DIFFER

The symptoms will vary according to the materials being discarded, the condition of the organs involved in the elimination and the amount of energy you have available. The more you rest and sleep when symptoms are present, the milder they are and the more quickly they are terminated. Be happy you are having symptoms.

YOUNGER AND HEALTHIER EVERY DAY

Realize deeply that your body is becoming younger and healthier every day, because you are throwing off more and more wastes which would eventually have brought pain, disease and much suffering.

Those who have the worst symptom-reactions and follow through to their successful termination are thus avoiding some of the worst disease which would eventually have developed had they continued their careless eating habits.

CYCLICAL IMPROVEMENT

Don't expect to go on an ascending scale of quality, that improving your diet will make you feel better and better each dax until you reach perfection. The body is cyclical in nature. and health returns in a series of gradually diminishing cycles.

For example: you start a better diet and for a while you feel much better. After some time, a symptom occurs - you feel nauseous for a day and have diarrhea with a foul-smelling stool. After one day you feel even better than before and it goes fine for awhile. Then you suddenly develop a cold, feel chills and lose your appetite. After about two or three days (assuming you don't take drugs or do anything else about it), you suddenly recover and feel better than you did for years.

Let us say this wellbeing continues for two months, when you suddenly develop an itch or rash. You don't take anything special for it. This rash flares up, gets worse and continues for ten days, and suddenly subsides. Immediately after this you find that your hepatica is gone and your energy has increased more than ever before. The rash became an outlet for the poisons in the liver which produced the hepatitis.

DOW JONES RECOVERY CYCLES

This is how recovery occurs - like the cycles in the Dow-Jones Average at the beginning of a bull market recovery.

You feel better, a reaction occurs and you don't feel as well for a short while. You recover and go even higher. Then another reaction occurs, milder than the last. You recover and go even higher. And so it goes, each reaction milder than the last as the body becomes pure.
Each reaction becoming shorter in duration and being, followed by a longer period of feeling better than ever before, until you reach a level plateau of vibrant health.
Here you become relatively disease-free.

CONCLUSION

We must learn to obey the laws of Nature. We must learn to eat simple pure and natural foods, properly prepared and combined, and our bodies in return will cast off all the poisons we have taken in during our lives.

The mysteries of the body, the operations of nature, the vital forces working in nature are far beyond what our minds are prepared to understand at present.
Every great physician or scientist who ever lived marvelled in awe and humility at the wonders of nature. Yes - we are "fearfully and wonderfully made."

How Important Is Diagnosis? - Stanley Bass

2012-02-05T01:25:00.000-08:00

Stanley S. Bass:
How Important is Diagnosis?

CAUSE OF DISEASES

Barring injury, emergencies, or complications resulting from injury, such as hemorrhaging, broken bones, etc.., let us begin with conditions that are classified as diseases.
Generally speaking, diseases are caused by any or all of 3 factors - namely enervation, toxemia or deficiency.

TOXEMIA - TOXIC SUBSTANCES IN THE BODY

There are 2 sources of toxemia:
(a) Toxemia which is caused by the ingestion and accumulation of substances which are foreign to the body and toxic in nature, such as chemicals, drugs, etc. These produce irritation, inflammation and pathology in bodily organs and systems.
(b) Toxemia which is due to the accumulation of toxic wastes resulting from the food and beverages we eat and drink; unnatural food or natural food in excess beyond what the body can use at the moment. Retention of this excess leads to decomposition of the food and the production of irritating and toxic chemical wastes, which provide a fertile field for the growth of microbes and various species of bacteria, which further increase the toxic state.

DEFICIENCIES

Deficiencies: The insufficiency of necessary food substances, such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, minerals, vitamins, enzymes etc., lead to breakdown of cells, tissues and organs which is given names of diseases, according to its location.

ENERVATION AND TOXEMIA CYCLE

John Henry Tilden, M.D., formulated a theory of the cause of disease as due to a recurring cycle of enervation and toxemia.
Enervation is the reduction or loss of energy occasioned by the lack of rest or sleep, or the excessive use of emotion, negative thoughts, worry, stress, or the overdoing of physical actions, overeating etc. Enervation leads to a reduction of the body's ability to digest, absorb, assimilate and excrete body wastes - thus leading to a retention of wastes in the cells and tissues and thereby causing disease.
Disease, in turn, causes a depletion of the body's energies, requiring more energy to maintain the normal state of homeostasis than ordinarily needed. This excess expenditure of power leads to a slowdown in bodily function, which is followed by an increased retention of bodily toxins in a cycle as follows:

This ingenious cycle of enervation and toxemia as being the cause of all diseases (barring accidents or trauma) may be regarded as absolutely true if you add the additional factor of deficiencies (which is omitted in the theory).

FUNCTION OF THE BLOOD AND LYMPH

The next important thing to be understood is this - the function of the blood and its circulation. Related to this is the understanding of the lymph circulation, the collateral circulatory system.
All food and beverages which are consumed finally enter the bloodstream and are circulated in an endless flow to all bodily parts. All the food nutrients are supplied to every cell and all cellular wastes are removed in this unceasing dual function.

WEAKEST ORGAN BREAKS DOWN FIRST

Now, if disease occurs in one bodily organ or part from the presence of toxins or food excesses or uneliminated cellular wastes and excretions, you may be certain that these same wastes are being carried to all bodily organs and cells by this same bloodstream.
The weakest organ breaks down first manifesting disease. In time, the next weakest or overworked organ indicates malfunction, and is given a name of disease. The important thing to remember is that all bodily parts and cells are affected at the same time, with the weakest part manifesting first, followed by the next weakest.

DETOXIFICATION

Likewise, in the reverse manner, when you detoxicate the body by reducing the amount of food ingested, either partially (by a restricted diet or juice program), or totally, (by fasting or abstaining from all food except for the use of water), the blood removes all excessive wastes from all bodily parts and cells at the same time, a certain amount each day.

NAMES OF DISEASES CREATE ILLUSION

Diseases are named according to the organ or part that they manifest in, creating the illusion that one disease is different from an other. For example, if an inflammation, called "itis," affects the bronchial tubes, the disease is called "bronchitis". If a nerve is inflamed, it is called "neuritis" etc., yet the same cause,the irritating toxins manifesting in different parts are given different names. If you were to give the same putrified food to many different peopIe, some would vomit; some would have diarrhea; others would get headaches or fever or rashes or colds, each symptom depending upon which parts of each person were most sensitive. The point here is that the same cause would produce different and individualized symptoms in each person.

REMOVING CAUSE OF DISEASE

The important thing to understand here is that whenever you remove all causes of disease, beginning with what a person eats and drinks, which is usually the most important and basic cause of all diseases, the body begins to heal itself, no matter where the disease is located.

EXAMPLE OF PATIENT

When I began a study of disease for about 20 years at the age of 16, after which I practiced for an additional 40 years as a chiropractor and nutritionist, when taking a case history of all the problems a patient has ever had up to the present, I would write all this down at the first visit.
For example, a patient would say, "I have arthritis in my fingers with deformity, and I also have hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure and frequent headaches." After evaluating the lifestyle and diet, I would remove the undesirable foods from the diet and give a much higher quality diet, with proper food-combining, sequence of feeding, and amounts. In periodic visits, I would continue upgrading the quality of the diet progressively.

ARTHRITIS EXAMPLE

In the case of a 55-year-old woman who had arthritis with deformed and crooked fingers, after 8 months I noticed that the fingers were straight and all knots were gone. I was puzzled and asked her, "Weren't your fingers crooked when I first saw you 8 months ago?" She replied, "Yes, and I just had an examination by our family doctor, and I forgot to tell you, my colitis and hemorrhoids a also cured along with the arthritis." She had forgotten to mention these to me any of the visits. While healing the arthritis and reversing the crooked fingers, the body equally healed all other problems present at the same time, using the same bloodstream and lymph circulation.

This was called "The Unity of All Disease" by the early Hygienic medical practitioners of the 19th century, who formulated the basic principles of what is today called "Natural Hygiene."

RARE DISEASES HEAL AUTOMATICALLY

Dr. Herbert M. Shelton, who gathered together the best teachings of the early practitioners of Natural Hygiene and brilliantly formulated it into a cohesive, practical system, once said that diagnosis is really the least important part of getting well.
What is really important is to know the basic principles and laws of life, to know what the body needs to get well and stay well foodwise, and to provide these needs, and magically, the body takes care of all the rest. All you have to know is what foods and amounts are best for the body, and to provide the proper conditions of rest, and the body heals itself.

Even if a person has a baffling, rare disease and the diagnosis is unknown, if he or she eats properly, or fasts if necessary in addition, the body will surely heal itself, as long as sufficient vitality is present.

Diagnosis is a man-made art which the body intelligence is not concerned with. All the body needs is the right materials (foods) and conditions (rest, proper state of mind, such as absence of fear, etc.) and it knows what to do to get well, unfailingly.

NATURE'S HEALING INTELLIGENCE

Given that your father and mother contributed the sperm cell and ovum, or eggcell, and they united together and in 9 months produced the miracle which is you, all done by Nature without the conscious direction of your parents or yourself, you can trust absolutely that Nature has the amazing healing intelligence to make you well again. The Power that made you has the Power to heal you.
The best doctor is the one who understands this and assists Nature in this miraculous process by recommending the best foods your body needs, as well as the proper conditions of rest and non-interference, and to get out of the way - to step aside and allow Nature to proceed with her work, undisturbed by pills or potions.
Many times in my practice patients have forgotten to tell me about other health problems than the one they came in for, and with the elimination of that one, all the others improved or disappeared too.

ALL BODIES HAVE SAME REQUIREMENTS

There is one bloodstream which both nourishes the body and removes all diseases. There is one Nature, one life-force and all bodies have the same requirements - good food, proper rest and sleep, some sunlight, a moderate amount of exercise, and proper thought. If you provide these requirements, Nature (which is God manifesting on the material plane) will unfailingly heal you. "All the rest is jazz," as the expression goes - all the rest is secondary in importance.
All living creatures know this intuitively, and it's time that we, as intelligent humans, become aware of it consciously.

INACCURACY OF DIAGNOSIS

There are so many systems of diagnosis - medical, Oriental (ayurvedic), Chinese (meridians),zone therapy, iridiagnosis, sclerotic diagnosis, reflexes, Naturopathy, x-ray, applied kinesiology, pulse and tongue diagnosis, germ theory, virus theory, genetics, etc., etc.
The Mayo Clinic, one of the most prestigious in the world, admits that their diagnosis is 50% accurate at best, and 50% inaccurate in the rest. This is followed by their prognosis or prediction of the possible outcome, which is equally inaccurate. They are completely unable to state the healing possibilities of non-medical or natural approaches to disease since they have never studied or used them and find them completely unknown.
What is there to be said about lesser institutions than the Mayo Clinic, where the diagnosis is even less accurate, even with the most expensive machinery as the MRI etc., which have their percentage of inaccuracies also?

TREATING SYMPTOMS

In all diagnostic systems there is never total accuracy, but a varying percentage at best. While there may be some value in each of the systems after the diagnosis is made, especially by the leading medical institutions, after the pronouncements and names of disease are given, what will they tell you to do to get well?
They haven't the slightest idea, and, according to the most authoritative medical textbooks on Symptomatology and Pathology, the majority of diseases listed are stated to have causes which are "unknown." So all they can do is what they have been trained to do - to treat symptoms, to use drugs, surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, etc. None of these are aimed at removing causes, but rather directed at removing bodily parts and consigning them to surgical garbage pails.

EASY REVERSAL OF ILLNESS

Once the truth of how to live is understood, the process of illness can be reversed more or less painlessly by intelligent living, and good health can then be easily maintained by persistence in good habits.

UNDERSTANDING BASIC PRINCIPLES OF DISEASE AND HEALTH

As Dr. Shelton said, once the basic principles of disease and health are understood, diagnosis takes a position of secondary importance. Once we know what the body requires for good health, if symptoms of illness arise, you know where to begin and what to do, and the healing power of Nature takes over and does the rest.
Many times in my personal life symptoms appeared which were baffling, but I would always begin with physical and physiological rest (fasting or a juice program) and I always became well.

In my many years of practice, there were times that the symptoms presented by patients were so contradictory and baffling, but trusting nature, I would advise bed rest and reduction or cessation of food during acute phases, and after a few days improvement would follow. And most of these patients had come from medical treatments which hadn't helped them. There are emergencies due to injuries which require medical and hospital care, also conditions requiring hormones, such as diabetes, etc., but, barring these emergencies, the great majority of symptoms will respond to a simple, natural approach, one known to primitive races and cultures.

DIET ADVICE RESPONSE

About 18 years ago, I wrote a booklet entitled, "Achieving Superior Nutrition through Progressive Weekly Diets." This was written for beginners in nutrition coming from a conventional diet. I designed 7 progressive weekly diets, beginning with moderate changes in diet for the first week. Each successive week was more advanced, and by the 7th week they were on a high-quality maintenance diet, laid out in proper food-combining and sequence.
The book had a wide circulation, was translated into French by the Canadian Natural Hygiene Society, and into Hebrew and Greek by Natural Hygienists. After several months, I began to receive letters stating how conditions of arthritis and high blood pressure cleared up and became normal, how acne and psoriasis improved, weight loss, energy increase, disappearance of infections, tumors decreasing in size, reversal of glaucoma and changes occurring in a wide variety of conditions and diseases.
Now these were people I had never seen, diagnosed, or consulted with. All these changes had occurred just by upgrading their diets - by following a booklet I had written. To repeat, without any diagnosis available to me, from people unknown to me, all these remarkable changes occurred just by improving their diets.

FASTER HEALING IF CHEERFUL

What price diagnosis? How important is it if you know how to eat properly? The true key to understanding health and disease is to know what food substances and amounts the body needs for optimal health, and once known, healing is only a matter of time and energy available.
The greater the energy, the quicker the healing - the more cheerful the state of mind, the more energy is conserved and utilized for healing. In Chinese literature, there is a saying that, "The art of the Healer is to amuse the patient while Nature does the healing."

BEST WAY TO TREAT PATIENTS

So what is the conclusion to all this? The best way to treat patients is to use whatever diagnostic knowledge is available, but not to be overly concerned with the accuracy of it.
Next, to reduce drugs slowly by increments as the patient improves by the removal of poor quality food and replacing it with the best quality available. Organic food should be used if available, and the meals should contain all the important and necessary proteins, fats, carbohydrates, minerals, etc.
The total daily amount of food consumed should be the minimal amount the appetite can be happy with (to avoid toxic accumulation and energy loss) for maximum longevity.
Luigi Cornaro, who lived in Padua, Italy in the 1400's, who was dying at 35 years of age, reduced his food to a total of 12 ounces per day, divided into 2 meals of 6 oz each, and 7 ounces of grape juice. In one year's time, he was completely recovered from all illness and lived in vigorous health to 102. When he died, he fell asleep in his rocking chair and painlessly left his body, in a state of total peace.

MOST KNOWLEDGE IS STILL UNDISCOVERED

The final factor to consider is this - all the knowledge we have of the human body from most ancient times to the present represents but a tiny amount compared to that which is unknown, mysterious and undiscovered.
Most of what we know is based upon experiments conducted on cells and tissues studied in a laboratory, in a dying state, far removed from what happens in the living state in which the Life Force is active with thousands of enzymes constantly being manufactured, constantly affecting each cell. This is not seen in the laboratory.
Finally, all our discoveries are theories which every few years become obsolete and have to become revised, showing how far we are from final truths.

TRUST IN NATURE

Isn't it much wiser to trust in the best intelligence present in Nature, who has mastered and successfully used all the principles of Life and used them successfully to maintain all life forms from the beginning of time?
An attitude of humility and openness is clearly indicated if we are to learn how to live more intelligently, hopefully and joyfully, so that we may fulfill our destiny and evolution in accordance with Nature's grand plan for man's highest happiness.

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The Time Factor In Recovery - Dr Herbert Shelton

2012-02-05T01:23:00.000-08:00

If we understand the nature of the phenomena with which we are dealing - we can both understand the urgent need to remove the causes of the suffering of the sick man and the need for time for him to evolve into a state of health.

Dr. Herbert Shelton:
THE TIME FACTOR IN RECOVERY
One of the most trying problems of the Hygienist, in dealing with the sick, and this is particularly true of chronic sufferers, is the demand for speedy results. Everybody wants to get well in a hurry. It is not unusual for sufferers to demand recovery in a week to two weeks.
Why not? Have they not been led to believe that if there is anything wrong, the removal of an organ or part, an operation that requires but a few minutes to an hour or more, and a few days in the hospital, and they will he as good as new? Have they not been taught to be content with mere palliation of symptoms, a thing that may be achieved in many instances in a few minutes? Will not an Alka-Seltzer relieve stomach distress in a very short time; or will not an aspirin relieve a headache in a few minutes?

QUICK RELIEF WORSE THAN ILLNESS

Quick relief, even if only temporary, is what is so generally demanded. It is generally true that these means of providing the speedy results produce an aftermath of troubles of their own that are often worse than the troubles they are given to relieve. Certainly they never, not in a single instance nor in a single trouble, remove any of the causes that are producing and maintaining, even intensifying the trouble. They constitute symptomatic treatment and doubtful palliation, and produce cumulative side-effects.

WHY SUCH A HURRY?

Why do we expect to get well in a hurry of a condition that requires a life-time for its development? Perhaps one is fifty years of age and has had a chronic disease since the age of thirty-five, the condition slowly becoming worse during this time, despite (or because of) the faithful employment of the commonly administered means of palliation. Before the disease became apparent at the age of thirty-five, there was a long antecedent series of developments that led up to the disease. It is literally true that the disease had its initial beginnings with the first cold, colic, diarrhea or hives of infancy.

WHY SUCH RESISTANCE TO NEW HABITS?

This man has given the methods of cure a full fifteen years of time in which to restore health, but if he turns to Hygiene he wants to get well over night! Not only is he in a hurry, hut he wants to achieve his recovery with as little disturbance of his accustomed routine and as little change in his habits of living as possible. He may be willing to change his diet (temporarily, of course), but why should he give up smoking? He may be willing to fast, at least he may he willing to miss a few meals, but why should he rest? He has no insurmountable objection to a temporary abandonment of coffee, but why should he exercise? He actually enjoys sunbathing, but why should he not be permitted to overeat?

Certainly the man whose condition has required a life-time for its evolution will require the employment of all of the means of Hygiene to reorganize and re-constitute his organism. So long as even one of the causes that have contributed to the evolution of his trouble is permitted to remain a part of his daily life, and this cause may be one of omission as well as one of commission, it will contribute to the progressive development of trouble. All causes of weakness, impurity and suffering are to be removed from the life of the individual, else recovery will be retarded and full recovery prevented.

RECOVERY IS THE REVERSE OF DISEASE EVOLUTION.

It is essential that we recognize the fact that recovery of health is an evolution in reverse and that it requires time to be completed. What we term disease is an evolution out of wrong ways of life; recovery of health is an evolution out of correct ways of living. As it takes time to evolve disease, so it requires time to erase the abnormal changes that have taken place in the tissues of the body and to evolve normal tissue to replace the abnormal tissue.

DRINKING RECOVERY

We can watch the evolution of pathology in the drinker, as he progresses from the so-called moderate drinker to the habitual and so-called excessive drinker with the progressive weakening of the functions of his body and the slow evolution of liver sclerosis, delirium tremens and insanity.
Is it to be thought that the effects of ten to twenty years of drinking can be erased in a few days or even in a few weeks, and full health, with its integrity of structure and vigor of function, restored so quickly? If this could be done, then, certainly the evils of alcoholism were not as great as we are accustomed to think.

The evolution of pathology out of any type of habitual or chronic poisoning, whether tobacco poisoning, drug poisoning, or a general and persistent toxic state of the body arising out of lowered functioning power (enervation) resulting from an enervating way of life, is not unlike the evolution of delirium tremens out of alcoholism. Likewise, the road back, when the pathology has arisen from some of these other causes, is a slow and gradual one.
In all pathologies, as they continue to evolve, a stage is reached sooner or later, from which there is no turning back. This is the stage of irreversibility. When this stage is reached there is no longer any hope of recovery of health.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "CURE" AND HEALING?

The reader, versed only in the popular and classic ideas about health, disease and healing, will, perhaps, ask: what is the difference between being cured and recovering health? A cure is the application of something exotic (a drug or a treatment) which, by virtue of its own power restores the sick man or woman to health. There is no such thing.
Recovery is the restoration of health by means of the operation of forces intrinsic to the organism. This is the only force known that is capable of restoring health. Healing is a biological process, not an art.

COMMON COLD

Let us take the common cold. It is estimated that the 190 million people in the United States have an average of four colds each during the year. Some of these people have fewer than four colds, some have more than four. Now, it is acknowledged that there is no known cure for the cold. There is no drug, no serum, no vaccine, no form of treatment that will cure a cold. People treat themselves with all kinds of alleged remedies, but these do not cure the cold. Almost everybody one meets has one or more cold cures, but none of them are genuine.

Yet, it is a matter of common observation that everybody who has a cold recovers; sometimes in a very few days, in some instances in three to four weeks. Not so many months ago a prominent physician said that if one who has a cold is treated, he gets well in two weeks, and if he is not treated, he gets well in fourteen days. The important fact about these recoveries is that these sufferers get well, but they are not cured for no cure is known. Recovery is said to be spontaneous. It is the result of lawful and orderly processes that take place in the body of the sick person.

SPONTANEOUS RECOVERY IN ACUTE DISEASE

Diseases that get well in this manner are said to be self-limited. This simply means that they are brought to an end in a more or less definite time by the organism itself and not by treatment. They are all spontaneous recoveries. These spontaneous recoveries are the things on which all the alleged cures ride to glory. It will not escape the attention of the reader that the self-limited diseases are all acute; that the chronic diseases tend to run on for years and to grow progressively worse and that for these, there are no cures. Almost anything seems to cure the self-limited diseases, nothing seems to work when the disease is not self-limited.

NOT SICKNESSES, BUT SICK PERSONS RECOVER

If we understand that it is the sick person that recovers and not the disease, we will understand that there is a vast difference between treating disease (the popular delusional practice) and caring for a sick person. In the first case, the efforts are directed at controlling, suppressing, palliating and destroying symptoms and local pathologies; in the second instance, the efforts are directed at removing the causes that have impaired the body and at trying to supply the body with its physiological needs. There is no effort made to cure the disease, as it is well understood that healing is a biological process and that no man can either duplicate or imitate the process. There is no treatment of disease for the reason that there is no disease, per se, to treat.

THE SICK ORGANISM ACTS

Apart from the living organism, disease has no existence. Fever, inflammation, pain, discomfort, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, griping, purging, coughing, sneezing, etc., etc., that are considered symptoms of disease, are all actions of the sick organism. They are vital phenomena and do not require treatment.
To suppress diarrhea is to cause the retention in the bowels of the very objectionable materials the diarrhea is designed to expel; to suppress a cough leaves the obstructing and irritating materials in the respiratory passages. This is not intelligent treatment.

TRUE RECOVERY IN TWO+ YEARS

If we understand the nature of the phenomena with which we are dealing and its causes and if we realize that time is required for the causes that are operating to impair the organism in which to evolve their effects, we can both understand the urgent need to remove the causes of the suffering of the sick man and the need for time for him to evolve into a state of health. The average chronic sufferer cannot expect to evolve into full health in less than two years and many will require more time than this. A few will require less time.

Knowing this, we can, with patience and determination, launch ourselves into a way of life out of which good health evolves - and stick to it until we have achieved the desired results - and then stick to it to the end, that we may maintain our gains.

How Diseases Are Cured - Dr Herbert Shelton

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HOW DISEASES ARE CURED
The following article by Dr. Herbert Shelton was first printed in his HYGIENIC REVIEW.
Dr. Shelton had a Texas-based fasting retreat. He collected knowledge from the old hygienic masters as far back as the 1820's, cleared out the junk, and made it into a basic intelligence system - Natural Hygiene or Orthopathy. He was a great genius, and published the best hygienic magazine ever.

"What does the average individual know about keeping well? Almost nothing. ----- The people and their doctors are all in the same boat together with a blind man at the helm. They lack the chart and compass and drift aimlessly on a sea of ignorance and misinformation."

Dr. Herbert Shelton:
HOW DISEASES ARE CURED
It is high time the people begin to learn something about the causes of disease and of the "complications" that so frequently develop under regular care.

Indeed, physicians and doctors of all schools should learn the causes of disease and "complications," - and they should all learn to realize, that to mask symptoms with their drugs and treatments is to stand in their own light.

Behold what a muss! "Scientific medicine" is capable of making a very elaborate diagnosis; but, then, does not know what is really wrong with the patient nor what to do for him. Don't take my word for it - consult Cabot, Mackenzie, Baldwin, and others who have dared slip their professional muzzles long enough to do a little effective thinking.

THE MEDICAL PARADOX: IS PATHOLOGY ITS OWN CAUSE?

The paradox of all medical paradoxes is that physicians recognize pathology as its own cause. Etiology and diagnosis, according to the approved theories and practices of the "regulars," starts with a developed pathology. The science of diagnosis, as practiced today, is merely the naming and classifying of established pathologies; all present and future symptoms being recognized and treated as pathognomic, all antecedent symptoms being ignored as not having any relationship to the existing pathology or so-called disease.

What is a system of diagnosis and treatment worth that is based on an etiology that starts with "causes" that are, in truth, but organized effects?
For example, when a surgeon removes a fibroid tumor, or extirpates a hyperplastic gland, or tonsil, or adenoid without a thought, or the slightest knowledge that these enlargements are but organized effects - neoplasms (new tissue growths) - that cannot possibly come into existence without cause, which cause is not touched by the operation - and, then, pronounces his - patient well (cured), does he not assume that the growth is its own cause? To remove a gall stone and pronounce the patient cured is tantamount to saying that the stone was its own cause. To remove the thyroid gland and pronounce the patient well of goitre (hyperthyroidism) is to imply that the goiter caused itself. Is it difficult to understand that all of these procedures leave the cause untouched - to result in the building of more pathology?

MEDICAL IGNORANCE ABOUT DISEASE

What is disease? Regular medical men freely confess that they do not know. Did they know its essential nature, they would cease their learned glibness about immunity. Theoretically, one "attack" of an infectious disease establishes immunity to future "attacks." In practice, they seek to borrow the "acquired immunity" of an animal and transfer it to man. Or to produce a mild and modified form of the disease so that immunity may be established.
As I have so often pointed out, this is an effort to set aside the law of cause and effect.

Only some so-called infectious diseases are supposed to confer immunity. For example, Forel says: "One attack of gonorrhea in no way protects against a second infection, but rather predisposes to it, and when this disease becomes chronic exacerbations or relapses of the acute stage often occur without fresh infection." Nobody thinks that one "attack" of a cold renders one immune to future "attacks." It is well known that one may have pneumonia numerous times. The same is true of typhoid fever. The fact is that only a minority of the so-called infectious diseases are supposed to confer immunity. Of these, there is not one that people have not had two or more times. For example, there are records of men and women having had smallpox as many as five times.

ATTACK AND DEFENSE

Opposing truths cannot exist. Our medical, like our social and political state, is a stupendous frenzy. The former, like the latter, is built out of dualism, and shredded by multiple contradictory systems. The universal belief in dualism has evolved a chaotic medical state that is well named a "fool's paradise" instead of medical science. Our very thinking on the subjects of health and disease is dualistic. We think of health and disease as antagonistic entities at war with each other. Disease is an "attack" from without. Hence, our conception of proper treatment is to go after the attacking force with hammer and tongs, or with shot and shell - a practice that all too often cripples or kills the patient.

MAN - WELL FITTED TO LIVE ON EARTH

Where law and order reign, why should man be left in a more helpless state than all life below him? To the logical mind, this is unthinkable. It should be recognized by all that man is as well fitted to live on the earth as are the lower orders of life. His environment is really more friendly to him than he is to it. It is certainly more friendly to him than he is to himself. A true health science will teach man how to use both himself and his environment constructively - healthfully.

What does the average individual know about keeping well? Almost nothing. What does the average doctor of all the schools of so-called healing know about keeping well? About as little as the average layman. The physician lives haphazardly and his patients live as near like he does as they know how, or as their means permit. The people and their doctors are all in the same boat together with a blind man at the helm. They lack the chart and compass and drift aimlessly on a sea of ignorance and misinformation.

MASKING THE SYMPTOMS

When a man becomes ill, he calls a physician, takes the drugs the latter prescribes, and gets well or not, as the case may be, and neither he nor the physician knows why he did the one or the other. Certainly the prescription of the physician has nothing to do with his recovery. His prescription has been aimed at masking symptoms and not at cause. He hurls his shot and shell at the "attacking" force with due courage and vigor and the only thing he destroys is the patient.

CANNOT PREDICT

The physician has no idea, previous to any one visit, how he will find his patient, and when he finds a change in symptoms, it has no meaning to him. When a physician prescribes for a patient and leaves him he has no more idea than the man in the moon in what condition he will find his patient upon his next call. The very best of them cannot tell whether or not "complications" will develop in a given case. They are never certain that their patient will improve and cannot be sure that he will not grow worse. When the physician finds a change of symptoms in his patient, he cannot tell whether this change is due to food, drugs, fear, excitement caused by visitors, improper nursing, or to something else. He is likely to conclude that it is a "peculiarity of the disease" or an "unusual development." Every first-class physician knows that "modern medicine" cannot predict anything. Yet, if they had a true science, if they knew real causes and had a valid plan of care, they would be able to predict - prognose - with something like precision, the outcome of the diseases in the patients they treat. Their very masking of symptoms with drugs stand in their own light and prevents them from knowing the true conditions of their patients.

HOW ARE DISEASES NAMED?

What is disease? We apply this term to a group of abnormal signs and symptoms. We group these symptoms into vaguely defined symptom complexes give the complexes names and then go after them with hammer and tongs. Stereotyped treatment is the rule under this way of regarding disease. Quinine for malaria anti-toxin for diphtheria, arsenic for "syphilis", digitalis for the heart, operation for appendicitis, morphine for cancer, the anti histamines for colds. In not one instance do we seek to find, understand and remove cause.

MEASLES

Let us look at measles, which is defined as a "catarrhal fever, a typical enanthom," (eruption on the mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, throat, occasionally bronchus and gastro-intestinal mucous membrane). "The internal enanthema (eruption) is to be expected, or suspected, when the exanthema (external eruption) fails to show up.

All of the symptomatology of measles, carefully compiled by the makers of medical text-books, as well as of all other so-called diseases, has very little meaning for the physicians of the various schools of so-called healing. What does it mean? It means that all of the eruptive fevers - all of the so-called diseases of the mucous membranes, those of the nose and lips, those involving the throat and lungs, and ending with pneumonia, and all of those that involve the outer skin - are but different forms of elimination of pent-up by-products of metabolism. They are processes of vicarious or compensatory excretion.

ACUTE DISEASE = DAMAGE REPAIR

Exaltation of function - rapid heart action, rapid breathing, diarrhea, increased temperature, etc., etc.- as seen in the various so-called acute diseases, represents efforts of the body to eliminate toxins and repair damages. In this respect, exaltation of function is desirable and beneficial under certain conditions. Such exalted function indicates a wrong somewhere and this wrong should be searched for and righted without depressing or weakening the sum of the vital energy.

THE COMMON COLD

A cold is a catarrhal disease, a "catarrhal fever," and is a process of vicarious elimination. Contrary to popular belief, a cold is not something that we "catch," but it represents a process of getting rid of something we have slowly accumulated. What does cold weather have to do with the cause of colds? People "catch" colds as often in warm weather as in cold weather. An increase in temperature may precipitate a cold as often as will a decrease in temperature. They have colds as often in dry as in wet weather. Men have colds as often as women, although they dress heavier. Indeed, men have more catarrh than women, because they dress more warmly, dissipate more and eat more.

TOXEMIA

Back of every catarrh is a toxemic state. Catarrh is impossible in the absence of toxemia. Toxemia is produced by anything and everything that enervates the body. Enervation inhibits (checks) excretion (elimination) permitting the accumulation of uneliminated waste. The accumulation of body waste - end-products of metabolism - produces toxemia.
Toxemia is the universal, basic cause of all so-called disease. Adventitious complicating causes may be super-added to toxemia. By checked elimination is not meant constipation, but checked excretion through all of the excretory organs of the body. Toxemia is not caused by constipation and is not removed by laxatives, enemas and colonic irrigations. Nor will the use of kidney medicines increase elimination through the kidneys. None of the so-called blood-purifiers can be of any value in remedying toxemia.
The ultimate cause of mankind's many so-called diseases lies in the enervating habits of mind and body practiced almost universally. Because this is so, the ultimate remedy for our diseases is a correction of the habits of life.

IF NO ATTENTION TO CAUSE - NEW PROBLEMS

Today, as in the past, when a man becomes ill - he takes a pill from a box, potion from a bottle, gets an injection of a poison from a hypodermic syringe, or has an organ removed. No attention is given to cause. His life is not changed, his habits are not corrected, and in a short time he is sick again. Neither the physician nor the patient is able to trace a connection between the two so-called diseases. So-called health is again restored and the incident passes from memory.
Again, within a short time, another illness (which is as much of a surprise as were the prior two illnesses) develops and still no thought is devoted to its connection with the two preceding illnesses. So long as the real nature of disease and real source of cause are not understood, this will continue to be true.

TOXEMIC CRISIS = STEAM SAFETY VALVE

The medical axiom that "all diseases tend to recovery" is much overworked, and by no school more than by the old school or self-styled "regulars." Why? Because the primary cause, the universal cause of disease - toxemia - is not known. The many diseases which the medical tongue so flippantly describes as functional derangements that "tend to recovery," are simply crises in toxemic saturation. In their alleged "self-recovery" in spite of "cures", palliations, and the "chief function of the physician to guard against complications," there is no recovery at all.
Like the escape of excess steam through the safety-valve of an engine, the steam pressure is lowered for the time being; but unless the cause of toxemic saturation is removed, crises will recur time after time, as the toxemia continues to in-crease, and the "curing" has to be done over and over again.
This requires that the wisest of physicians must be constantly busying himself "guarding against complications" - complications that he is almost always responsible for building.

CRISIS WILL FOLLOW CRISIS

What is a self-limited disease? Disease is remedial effort. It is a process of purification and repair. When the process of compensatory elimination that is called disease, has reduced the toxemia to the toleration point, the symptoms subside spontaneously and the disease is said to be cured. But the patient is not well. He is still toxemic. The cause of the toxemia has not been removed.
The toxemia will again rise above the toleration point and another crisis will develop. Crisis will follow crisis until organic change takes place. Gastric ulcer, diabetes, Bright's disease, heart disease, diseases of the arteries or nerves, cancer, etc., follow in the wake of recurring crises.

PROGRESSIVELY MORE SERIOUS DISEASES

Instead of seeing in these changes a progressive pathological evolution of which cancer, diabetes, disease of the heart and arteries etc., are but end-points - the wisdom of all the ages of medical science is expended in a herculean effort to prove that established pathology is its own cause. On the day that medical savants succeed in lifting themselves by their own boot-straps, they will also succeed in proving that pathology is its own cause.

ANYTHING CAN BE A "CURE"

Here in this land of so-called self-limited diseases is where all the curing methods and systems shine. Just as anything and everything seems to cure a cold, so anything and everything that may be used with which to treat the patient suffering with measles or pneumonia or gonorrhea, etc., will appear to cure. Here in the realm of "self-limited" disease the regular and the irregular cults, the faddists and the mountebanks, every phase of the curing system from the erudite professor to the most stupid lout prove the virtues of their cures. In this every-doctor's land grandma's cataplasms cure, grand-pa's brass-ring cure for rheumatism cures, the rabbit-foot charm and buckeye for piles cure, penicillin cures pneumonia and anti toxin cures diphtheria, the punch in the back cures measles and the herb tea cures gastritis All cures are successful in this grand jamboree of "self-limited" crises. Christian Science and prayer are as effective as the most scientific treatment. The prayer may be, as in Africa, directed to a petrified frog - no matter, it cures.

ACUTE DISEASE - TOXEMIC CRISIS

Our toxemic crises - so-called acute diseases - keep pace with the ebb and flow of toxemia as our habits of living hold this down within the limits of toleration or increase it above the established limits. Toleration is a state of chronic disease, a state, for example in which chronic catarrh, is continuously active throwing off toxins. Acute diseases are intermittent due to the fact that toxemia is pushed above the point of established toleration only intermittently. Chronic disease means chronic provocation. To point this differently: disease begins where cause begins and persists where cause persists.

"REST" IS THE SOLUTION

Nothing so effectively hastens the elimination of toxemia and the recuperation of nerve energy as mental, physical and physiological rest. Only through rest can the enervated body muster sufficient nerve energy with which to increase its work of elimination. By physiological rest is meant fasting, or abstinence from all food except water. Once fasting and rest have enabled the body to eliminate its stored up toxins and recuperate its nerve energy, a physiological mode of living will enable the patient to grow into better and better health until full health is reached, and to maintain health thereafter.

Such a program of physiological living is not made up exclusively of a plan of eating. Proper diet is extremely important, but it does not constitute a complete way of life. All of man's life must be live in harmony with simple, well-defined laws of nature. Exercise, fresh air, sun-shine, sufficient rest and sleep, a wholesome sex life, a cheerful and poised mental attitude, and consistent avoidance of all devitalizing habits are of equal importance with diet. One cannot maintain health, no matter what his diet, if he is practicing enervating habits and denying his body the benefits of sunshine, fresh air and exercise.
Coffee, tea, tobacco, alcohol, poisoned soft-drinks, and other poison-habits will wreck the strongest man, no matter what his diet

CHRONIC DISEASE - "OLD AGE"

If toxemia is not eliminated, if nerve energy is not restored to normal, if the causes of enervation are not removed and corrected, there can be no genuine return to health. There can be only a recession of symptoms after these have reduced the accumulated toxemia to the toleration point, perhaps slightly below, and a state of comparative comfort is again established. This state represents a very low state of health, a state of chronic toxemic saturation. In this state, despite recurring crises, there is the slow, progressive development of the many and varied forms of chronic and degenerative pathologies, not the least of which is that condition of organismal enfeeblement, impairment and decline, which we call old age.

BACTERIA AND EPIDEMICS

What about bacteria and epidemics? First, there must be a changed condition of the body's fluids and tissues, giving rise to that systemic impairment that is designated "susceptibility" or 'lowered resistance."
Once you grasp the fact that all had habits lead to toxemia, it will not be difficult for you to grasp the idea that this perversion of the fluids and tissues must take place before it is possible for bacteria, which are nature's reducing forces, to make any further changes in these materials. Assuming that the scavenger work done by bacteria under these conditions actually complicates the disease, they cannot be the primary cause of disease, nor of any epidemic.
Epidemics of any proportion follow in the wake of some mass prostrating influence - war, prolonged dry, hot weather; prolonged wet, cold weather; sudden changes of temperature, etc. - that further enervate an already a most prostrated and greatly toxemic part of the population. The sudden rise in toxemia thus occasioned necessitates the development of a crisis to throw it off. Mass sickness follows mass prostrating influences.

The evil results of the poisoning are all around us. Few if any, enjoy good health. Until man abandons the ancient superstition that he can be poisoned into good health and learns to rely upon the normal, wholesome things of life, this will continue to be so. Poisonous pills, powders and potions, pathological products of animal suffering and the knives and saws of the surgeon are poor materials out of which to synthesize health. --- Dr. Herbert M. Shelton 1922

MEDICAL DELUSIONS

When crises have been repeated (and cured) until organic changes are established, medical delusions multiply like rats in the corn crib - the most deluded and fatuous draw their air-line decisions, fight their therapeutic battles, and, if they belong to the "regular" school, promise therapeutic perfection - if only the United States Army and Navy will beat down the cultists and quacks, while they demonstrate the glories and wonders of "medical science" on the dear people.

WATERLOO - SYMPTOMS GET WORSE WITH TIME

It is in this field that all of the cures and curing systems meet their Waterloo. The pathology which has been in the making since the development of the first of these "self-limited" crises reveals no tendency to spontaneous disappearance. Rather its tendency it to grow worse and more complicated with the passing of time. Organic change occurs in more and more tissues and organs and these "complications" defy the best efforts of the peddlers of cures. Cause has been present from the beginning (the first cold of infancy represents an established toxemia) and has never been removed.
The physicians are long on diagnosis at this terminal stage of the evolving pathology. They name exactly the pathological status quo and, although they do not hesitate to treat the patient and to accept money for their experiments, they freely confess that their treatments are ineffective. They have all been experts at curing the continuous series of recurring crises - the "self-limited" diseases - but they are all helpless before the end-point of the development of which the first crisis was the initiation. They cannot cure cancer, or diabetes, or Bright's disease, or endocarditis, or arteriosclerosis.

INSULIN "CURES" UNTIL DEATH OF DIABETES

Toxemic subjects who continually poison themselves with excessive carbohydrates and thus stress the pancreas, develop sugar in the urine. These are cured with insulin. Indeed, insulin cures them until they die of diabetes - go out, perhaps, in either an insulin or a sugar coma.
Insulin-cured diabetics, like pepsin-cured dyspeptics, are made to feel fine for a year or two - until the burden of cause so stresses other organs that they develop "complications." They are also so filled with "reflex' discomforts that they demand other forms of "relief." When this stage is reached the curing must become a medley of palliating measures. Surgery, drugs, in fact, all kinds of cures, are now resorted to in keeping with the whims of the patient and the caprices of the physician. Because there are so many who refuse to die after being cured by all known cures, it is necessary to discover new cures all the time.

FATTER AND MORE DEGENERATED

Every day we watch people getting fatter and fatter on "plenty of good nourishing food" that "keeps up their strength" until they die of fatty degeneration, cerebral hemorrhage (apoplexy), or paralysis. Nobody warns them of what is in store for them and they will not heed if they are warned. So disgracefully have we become habituated to associating health and even distinction with a most pampered state of the body, that we think it most natural or normal for a fat man to maintain at the highest pitch, the unholy "love affairs" of his unregulated body. Unfortunately, our standards are empty of all value except for measuring varying degrees of ill health. Even our "normal" or "healthy" individuals, as measured by these standards, represent only a slightly less degree of ill health than that seen in the sick.

A study made by the collaboration of forty-three American life insurance companies, using three numerically equal groups of people over forty-five years of age, showed the incidence of diabetes in these three groups as follows. In the group of very thin people there was one case; in the normal group there were five cases; in the fat group there were two hundred and twenty-seven cases. Similar figures are available for cancer and a few other so-called degenerative diseases of later life. Fat and the overeating that is back of it are serious dangers at all ages of life.

"STRONG" MEN ARE NOT STRONG

Our strong men do not live any longer than the run-of-the-mill specimens of humanity. Many explanations for this have been devised. Actually, there is very little excuse for these mental meanderings. Athletes and strong men are often toxemic to the point of collapse.
They are so vulnerable from the effects of self-poisoning that all they need to bring them down with a "fatal malady" is some slight unusual enervating influence, or some slightly unusual amount of an accustomed influence. As unreasonable as it may appear, the average medical man as well as the average layman, recognizes those - who are on the verge of apoplexy, "heart failure," kidney disease, or other diseases resulting from the degeneration brought on from chronic toxemia, arterial tension and fat pressure - as ideal types of health.
They are commonly referred to as "pictures of health." In the early days of the recent war a young man was called before his local board for examination. The physicians found him fit and told him to go home and await his call for induction. He dropped dead on the way out.

IGNORANCE AND COMMERCIALISM CAUSE DEATH

Many bankers and big business men die of operations for prostatic disease. These deaths are wholly unnecessary. Only the worst type of ignorance and commercialism causes physicians to resort to operations for prostatic enlargement and prostatic "infection." Cutting out prostate gland is as non-sensical as cutting out uterine fibroids and breast tumors. This senseless desexing and mutilating of women goes on regularly, country-wide.

CANDY CAN KILL

Chronic candy drunkenness kills many with coma brought on from acidosis; others develop rheumatism, hard arteries, organic heart disease, obesity and other symptom-complexes and the urge of the candy manufacturers is for us to consume more and more candy. Private profits are always paramount to human welfare.

Headaches are often blamed upon eye-strain, and the symptom is palliated with glasses. Eye-strain cause headaches! The animal body physiologically adjusts itself to all kinds of anatomical deformities and, when in full health, free from toxemia, functions smoothly in spite of such defects. In caring for "eye strain," it is significant that when toxemia is removed, the headache ceases.

Anemia is frequently blamed upon food deficiency. But it is never recognized that the deficiency is secondary to the impairment of nutrition and will end when nutrition is restored to normal. Restoration of normal nutrition depends upon the removal of the impairing causes and not upon overcrowding an already impaired nutritive system with more food or with more food of a given kind. When once toxemia and its parent, enervation, are recognized as the real cause of anemia, we will direct our attention to the removal of these things and to the correction of their causes, and cease the present foolish effort to usurp nature's prerogative of a cure.

Operations for appendicitis are rendered necessary by the officious gouging, boring and digging examinations made by physicians who have much more interest in the surgical fee than in the welfare of their patients. A surgeon who understands what appendicular inflammation is and then makes the regular examination, is a criminal protected by law. Such surgeons with their heavy-handed examinations are responsible for most of the ruptured appendices against which they so glibly warn us. They create most of the dangers in appendicitis and produce the apparent need for operation.

LIGHTEN NATURE'S BURDEN

For those victims of their own and the physician's ignorance who have developed truly irreparable organic conditions, the future is not as dark as it may seem, if they can be taught how to live. Nature tolerates a certain degree of irremediable pathology and permits us to live for an extended period - providing we lighten her burden. She cannot carry the double load of impaired function and bad habits. She cannot be expected to hold an impaired nervous system at par and at the same time take care of three times as much food as is needed to replace the ordinary wear and tear. Efficient metabolic activity cannot be maintained when enervating habits are regularly indulged. The hopelessness of chronic sufferers is not wholly due to the fact that physicians regularly commence their care of such patients at the wrong end of their diseases, but also to the fact that causes are ignored and mere palliation, this of a very doubtful character, is exclusively employed.

CHRONIC SUFFERERS - LIVE WITHIN LIMITATIONS

The man with a crippled pancreas must learn to live within his limitations. The same is true of the heart cripple, the renal (kidney) cripple and all other types of physiological cripples. A one-legged man would not think of trying to run, but a man whose heart is crippled does not hesitate to overtax it. The man with an impaired pancreas demands to be permitted to eat to his belly's content of carbohydrates and then be given a shot of insulin.
"Science" is ever on the alert in its search for new crutches to be employed by the physiological cripples, who never seem to realize that - while the crutch may seem to give them impunity, they must pay for their bad mental and physical conduct with increased impairment of other organs, of the whole organism in fact. Neither insulin nor penicillin will ever enable man to live imprudently with impunity.

HEALTH EDUCATION

The greatest need of this world today is health education. Knowledge of Natural Hygiene is needed by everybody.

Bowel Action During Fasting

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The following is information on what happens to your bowel (colon) during the fasting period. It is an interesting read and great information on a subject that is not touch too often by the 'medical community.' Thank you reading this blog/article and please do visit my youtube chanel. Thank you. http://www.youtube.com/user/healthyliving2012.

Website link: http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.iii/020127.ch13.htm

The Hygienic System Vol. III

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The following is a great link for one of Dr Herbert Shelton's writings on health and fasting. Please do not forget to visit my youtube chanel for more information, thank you for reading this information and visiting my blog. http://www.youtube.com/user/healthyliving2012.

Website link: http://soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.toc.htm

Fasting Is Not Starving by Dr. Herbert Shelton

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Dr Herbert Shelton was, in my personal opinion, a great doctor who understood the great and various effects and stages of fasting. He had fasted himself and practiced what he preached. A truly great man that people should read more on, especially his books on fasting. No blog nor website on health is complete without one of his many writings such as the following. Thank you for reading and please do not forget to visit my youtube chanel http://www.youtube.com/user/healthyliving2012.

CHAPTER VI

The word starvation is derived from the Old English steorfan,
meaning to die. Today it is used almost wholly to designate death
from lack of food. When we mention fasting to the average person and
even the average physician, he immediately pictures to himself, the
dire consequences that he thinks must inevitably result from going
for even a few days without food. To him to fast is to starve--that
is, die.

This fear of fasting is kept alive by the press, which, ever so
often carries the story of somebody dying while fasting, and
invariably death is attributed to starvation. These deaths are
presented as "horrible examples" of the "evils of fasting." How rare
are these deaths! But it would be enlightening if we could have all
the details of each of these deaths. No doubt, we would find that
most of them are not due to abstinence from food at all. Most of
these deaths have been due to irreparable damage to some vital organ
(organic disease), an occasional one may have been due to pushing
the period of abstinence beyond the fasting period, a few have been
due to injudicious breaking of the fast, some of them have been due
to drugs. But every day people die from unnecessary
and "unsuccessful" operations and the press keeps quiet. Everyday
people die from drugging and the editors and newsmen ignore such
deaths. Fasting is their target.

There is no sense in the panicky fear of missing a few meals that
is so prevalent in both lay and professional circles today. The fear
of starving, expressed on every hand, is a foolish fear. "I am not
going to starve to death," says Mr. Average Man, when advised to
fast. They warn others who are fasting that they will starve to
death. Although we oppose letting people "starve to death," we make
no decided stand against them stuffing themselves to death; instead,
we rather encourage it.

In popular opinion fasting means starving. Physicians,
physiologists and others of the "learned professions" habitually
employ the two terms--fasting and starvation--synonymously. "I am
not going to starve," says a long-suffering invalid, upon being
advised to fast. Those who employ fasting are commonly referred to
as "starve-to-death doctors."

The uninformed physician imagines that the blood and the vital or
functioning tissues of the body begin to break down the moment food
is withdrawn; that organic destruction sets in immediately and that
every day the fast is prolonged means a greater destruction of the
vital tissues. That this idea is false will become apparent
presently.

In previous chapters it was shown that the body, at all times,
has stored within itself reserves of food sufficient to last for
considerable time in the event of scarcity of food, or of sickness,
when food cannot be digested. We saw how the body feeds upon this
food reserve and how the vital tissues of the body feed off the
least essential, so that even if actual starvation occurs, there is
almost no damage to the vital organs.

So long as the body's food reserves last, the individual
abstaining from food is fasting. When this reserve has been consumed
to the point where it is no longer able to sustain the functions of
life, further abstinence becomes dangerous; starvation begins. It is
only after this point is reached that any real damage is sustained
by the vital organs and their functions. As a general rule, under
proper conditions of environment, one may fast for weeks, and even
months, before the starvation point is reached. "It is perfectly
true," says Sinclair, "that men have died of starvation in three or
four days; but the starvation existed in their minds--it was fright
that killed them."

Laboratory workers describe destructive changes in the pancreas,
supra-renal glands and other organs and glands of the body, as a
result of starvation. But these changes occur after the period of
fasting proper has been passed. The vital cells of the organs and
glands--those doing the actual physical and chemical work of these
organs--do not begin to break down until actual starvation begins.

Morgulis says: "Apart from the purely pathological phenomena
occurring in the terminal stages (the starvation period) of fasting,
it should be mentioned that the histological peculiarities appearing
in the very beginning of inanition are associated with changes in
the colloidal condition of the protoplasm and are not at all
degenerative in kind. The progressive atrophic changes coincident
with inanition are simply due to the gradual withdrawal of
metaplasmic inclusions which represent the nutritive reserves of the
cells. The atrophic diminution of both cells and nuclei does not,
therefore, present a pathological phenomenon either. Moreover, the
morphological processes in inanition are not invariably destructive,
cell proliferation going on even when the organism has been deprived
of nourishment for a long time."

This means that, except during the actual starvation period, the
wasting of parts during a fast is the result of the using up of
those portions of the protoplasm of the cells containing the
products of their secretions and not of an actual destruction of the
cell proper. The metaplasm is slowly used as the fast progresses, so
that the size of the cells and, consequently, of the organ is
gradually reduced, but there is no actual deterioration in structure
of the cells, tissues and organ.

Dr. Morgulis makes the cautious, perhaps over-cautious, estimate
that a fast which involves a body loss of ten to fifteen per cent is
harmless and usually beneficial; and that the danger point in
fasting begins when from twenty-five to thirty per cent has been
lost. He has had animals recover normal health after a weight loss
of sixty per cent. We have seen the same thing in more than one man
and woman.

A number of people have died of serious organic "disease" while
fasting, and autopsies have been performed in many of these. In
every case there was still considerable subcutaneous fat, whereas,
this is always entirely absent where death has been caused by
starvation. Except in a case or two where the heart had never
sufficiently developed or where there was previous heart "disease,"
the heart was found to be normal in all cases; while in actual
starvation, the heart is always contracted or markedly atrophied.
The pancreas is little, if at all affected, in death during the
fast, whereas in death from starvation, this gland is almost
entirely absent. In these cases the blood was normal in amount with
no anemia present; while in starvation, the relative blood volume is
reduced and there is usually marked anemia.

In starvation the tongue remains coated, the breath offensive,
the pulse and temperature sub-normal and hunger may disappear for
days at a time.

Death may result at any time, feeding or fasting, due to the
failure of some particular vital organ, which is so far destroyed
that a fatal ending cannot be prevented by any means, but death from
abstinence from food cannot occur until all possible nutritive
material has been exhausted. "True starvation begins," says
Sinclair, "only when the body has been reduced to the skeleton and
the viscera."

Fortunately we are not left unprotected and unwarned in this
matter. Before the danger point is reached an imperious demand for
food will be made. We say, then, that so long as hunger is lacking,
the patient is fasting; but after hunger returns, if he continues to
abstain from food, he is starving. Besides the return of hunger,
there are other indications that the body is ready to take food, as
stated elsewhere.

Carrington has well summed up the matter in these words: "Fasting
is a scientific method of ridding the system of diseased tissue, and
morbid matter, and is invariably accompanied by beneficial results.
Starving is the deprivation of the tissues from nutriment which they
require, and is invariably accompanied by disastrous consequences.
The whole secret is this: fasting commences with the omission of the
first meal and ends with the return of natural hunger, while
starvation only begins with the return of natural hunger and
terminates in death. Where the one ends the other begins. Whereas
the latter process wastes the healthy tissues, emaciates the body,
and depletes the vitality; the former process merely expels corrupt
matter and useless fatty tissue, thereby elevating the energy, and
eventually restoring the organism that just balance we term health."

Prof. Morgulis divides what he calls starvation, or inanition,
into four periods--"each period comprising approximately one-fourth
of the total loss in weight sustained at the time of death."

The first of these periods of "every complete inanition,"
(by "complete inanition" is meant abstinence from all food until
death occurs) is a "transition from the condition of adequate
feeding to the basal metabolism of fasting"--"the organism is
readjusting itself from the prefasting metabolic level to the level
of the true physiological minimum characteristic for the particular
individual."

The division between the next two periods is not well marked or
defined. They constitute one period divided into "early and late
phases" and "are not very distinct but merge gradually one into the
other." During these "two periods," physiological activities are at
a minimum peculiar to this individual. The length of these two
periods will be determined by the size of the animal or man or the
surplus food reserves on hand.

The final or fourth stage of inanition "is characterized by the
predominance of pathological phenomena caused by the prolonged
stringency of nourishment and exhaustion of the tissues." This is
the true starvation period and sets in when the body's nutritive
stores are practically exhausted.

Prof. Morgulis refers to the whole period, from the omission of
the first meal until death finally ends the scene, as starvation and
as fasting. He uses the two words synonymously and does not
distinguish between fasting and starvation as we do. It will be
noted that all pathological phenomena, of which we are so frequently
warned, belong to the fourth stage of inanition; or, to the period
of starvation proper, as distinct from fasting, as we employ these
terms.

Morgulis points out that "the morphological changes observable in
advanced starvation are practically identical with those generally
found in every pathological condition and present nothing peculiar"
and suggests that perhaps all "pathological changes of tissues are
primarily inanition effects."

Further applying his division of "starvation" into four periods,
Prof. Morgulis says: "All the scientifically studied fasts of men
have been of relatively short duration. In the longest fast of this
kind lasting 40 days Succi lost only 25 per cent of his original
weight. Judging by the loss of weight, therefore, the experiments on
inanition with human subjects have not extended far beyond what may
be regarded as the second stage of inanition and, regardless of the
length of time of the abstinence, had no deleterious effect whatever
upon the subjects because the fasts were invariably discontinued
long before the exhaustion stage had been reached."

Taking up the study of Levanzin's fast for 31 days, undergone at
Carnegie Institute, Morgulis says that this fast extended over the
first two inanition periods. The first of these periods, lasting
fifteen days saw a loss of ten per cent of Levanzin's weight and
represents "the transition from the metabolism of the well nourished
condition to that of the fasting condition."

By the end of his 31 days' fast, Levanzin lost about 20 per cent
of his weight. "Assuming the maximum loss he could possibly have
survived 40 per cent," says Morgulis, "it is clear that the fast
could have extended another month before a fatal termination. In
other words, the fast was broken at a relatively early stage." If we
take into consideration the fact that the second 20 per cent of
Levanzin's weight would not have been lost nearly so rapidly as the
first 20 per cent, it is very certain that he could have fasted much
more than another month before a fatal termination.

The rule that man or animal can sustain a loss of 40 per cent of
his or its body weight before death results must not be taken too
seriously in practice. Obviously an emaciated man or woman weighing
only 90 or 100 pounds cannot afford to lose 40 per cent of his or
her weight. On the other hand a man who ought to weigh about 150
pounds, but who actually weighs 350 pounds, can afford to lose much
over 50 per cent of his weight. Exhibition fasters have survived a
reduction of body weight of thirty per cent without anything like a
total collapse of vital vigor.

Within recent years physiologists have tried to determine how
long man can live without food by figuring on a basis of the period
of time required for animals, particularly mammals, to starve to
death. Their experiments indicate that the period in which death
from starvation ensues is proportionate to the cube root of the body
weight.

A mouse weighing 18.0 grams dies after five or six days without
food. The corresponding "starvation period" in man would be 15.6
times as long or 96.5 to 109 days. A dog weighing twenty kilograms
dies in sixty days; the corresponding period for man is eighty-nine
days. A cat weighing twenty-one kilograms can live eighteen days
without food; the corresponding period for man would be fifty-five
days. A rabbit weighing 24.22 kilograms dies after twenty-six days;
the corresponding period in man would be seventy-nine days.

From these figures, Dr. A. Putter, a German physician, who has
made a study of fasting, concludes that there is nothing in
comparative physiology to show that man cannot live from ninety to a
hundred days without food, if he were kept under proper conditions
of warmth, rest, fresh air, water and emotional poise.

Sylvester Graham denied that the fat man lives longer on
prolonged abstinence from food than does a thin one. He says, "If
the it be designed for the nourishment of the body during protracted
fasts, etc., then if a very fat man, in the enjoyment of what is
ordinarily considered good health, and a lean man in good health, be
shut up together, and condemned to die of starvation, the fat man
ought to diminish in weight much more slowly, and to live
considerably longer than the lean man; but directly the contrary to
this is true. The lean man will lose in weight much more slowly, and
live several days longer than the fat man, in spite of all the
nourishment which the latter may derive from his adipose deposits."--
Science of Human Life, pp. 193-194.

Trall took a similar view, as does Carrington, who says of
Graham's statement: "I may say that this has been my own experience,
precisely." The explanation offered is that, while the fat person
has a large store of fat on his frame, he is deficient in other food
requisites. Fatty tissue, these men think, is invariably diseased
and deficient tissue. Trall said, "Feed a dog on butter, starch, or
sugar alone, and you will save in him the consumption of fat, but
the dog will die of starvation. He will be plump, round, embonpoint,
and yet die of inanition."--Alcoholic Controversy, pp. 148-149. This
seems to be what they thought will take place in the fasting fat man.

This is an a priori conclusion, since the experiment has never
been made, and it is not borne out by animal experimentation. There
is, as I have emphasized elsewhere, a vast difference between a fast
and a very deficient diet, such as the diets described by Trall. The
ultimate results of the two types of nutrition are very different.
Nevertheless, there may be cases of fat individuals who would
actually starve to death before a thinner person would do so, for
the reason that the nutritive reserves in the fat person may be so
unbalanced that he cannot go long without food. I have, myself,
cared for fat men and women who did not fast well and who did not
hold up under fasting as well as do many who are actually skinny.
But I have never been sure that in these patients, the trouble was
not largely if not wholly mental. In view of the fat person's love
of food and his worrying and fretting when deprived of it, he may
actually kill himself while the thin man is still philosophizing
about life and death.

If there can be such a thing as unbalanced reserves, and I
presume that such may exist, there is as much reason why the thin
man, eating the same type of diet as that eaten by the fat man, may
have an unbalanced reserve as there is that the fat man may have
this. The greatest losses in the fast, however, are in those very
nutritive factors that are most abundant in the diet of most people,
while the body clings to the factors that are commonly lacking. The
tendency is for nutritive balance to be restored. The fact that the
fat man who does not fast well, loses all of the difficulties that
appear to have come from fasting, as soon as he gets his first half-
a-glass of fruit juice, indicates that his troubles are mental.

Graham's statement that the fat man will lose weight much faster
than the thin one is literally true, but what he overlooked is that
this rapid loss of weight is not continued. Indeed, we often see fat
women who undertake to fast to reduce, lose twenty to twenty-five
pounds the first two weeks, but six pounds the third week and two
pounds the fourth week. The rapid rate of loss does not continue. It
should be observed at this point, also, that some thin people lose
rapidly the first few days of their fast.

A fast of a hundred days or more can be survived even under the
most favorable conditions, only by the individual who possesses
sufficient food reserves to sustain his vital organs and vital
functions for this period of time. The smaller the amount of food
stores one has in reserve, all things else being equal, the earlier
is the starvation period reached.

What Morgulis classes as the first three stages of starvation, we
class as the period of fasting; while his fourth period of
starvation is classed by us as the starvation period. Fasting begins
with the omission of the first meal and ends with the return of
natural hunger. Starvation begins with the return of hunger and
terminates in death. Fasting is distinctly beneficial; starvation is
distinctly harmful. It is precisely because the average medical man
does not distinguish between these two major phases of abstinence
from food, and because he imagines that the pathology developed
during the starvation period belongs, also, to the fasting period,
that he offers his false objections to fasting.

It was conclusively demonstrated in the laboratory, by Lasarev,
that the changes in the various organs of the body are definitely
related to particular stages of fasting and starvation. Vital organs
do not begin to break down as soon as the first meal is omitted.
Fasting belongs to that period during which there are ample food
reserves to maintain vital integrity. The fasting period is,
therefore, determined by the amount of reserves the body has on
hand. Starvation sets in after the reserve stores have been
sufficiently exhausted that they are no longer adequate to maintain
functional and structural integrity.

Thousands of fasts, ranging from a few days to three months in
duration, in men, old and young and both sexes, in all conditions of
life, have demonstrated not only that man can go for long periods
without food and not be harmed thereby, but also, that he will
receive great benefit from a rationally conducted fast. To starve is
to die; to fast is to live.

Fasting Is Not Starving by Dr. Herbert Shelton

CHAPTER VI

The word starvation is derived from the Old English steorfan,
meaning to die. Today it is used almost wholly to designate death
from lack of food. When we mention fasting to the average person and
even the average physician, he immediately pictures to himself, the
dire consequences that he thinks must inevitably result from going
for even a few days without food. To him to fast is to starve--that
is, die.

This fear of fasting is kept alive by the press, which, ever so
often carries the story of somebody dying while fasting, and
invariably death is attributed to starvation. These deaths are
presented as "horrible examples" of the "evils of fasting." How rare
are these deaths! But it would be enlightening if we could have all
the details of each of these deaths. No doubt, we would find that
most of them are not due to abstinence from food at all. Most of
these deaths have been due to irreparable damage to some vital organ
(organic disease), an occasional one may have been due to pushing
the period of abstinence beyond the fasting period, a few have been
due to injudicious breaking of the fast, some of them have been due
to drugs. But every day people die from unnecessary
and "unsuccessful" operations and the press keeps quiet. Everyday
people die from drugging and the editors and newsmen ignore such
deaths. Fasting is their target.

There is no sense in the panicky fear of missing a few meals that
is so prevalent in both lay and professional circles today. The fear
of starving, expressed on every hand, is a foolish fear. "I am not
going to starve to death," says Mr. Average Man, when advised to
fast. They warn others who are fasting that they will starve to
death. Although we oppose letting people "starve to death," we make
no decided stand against them stuffing themselves to death; instead,
we rather encourage it.

In popular opinion fasting means starving. Physicians,
physiologists and others of the "learned professions" habitually
employ the two terms--fasting and starvation--synonymously. "I am
not going to starve," says a long-suffering invalid, upon being
advised to fast. Those who employ fasting are commonly referred to
as "starve-to-death doctors."

The uninformed physician imagines that the blood and the vital or
functioning tissues of the body begin to break down the moment food
is withdrawn; that organic destruction sets in immediately and that
every day the fast is prolonged means a greater destruction of the
vital tissues. That this idea is false will become apparent
presently.

In previous chapters it was shown that the body, at all times,
has stored within itself reserves of food sufficient to last for
considerable time in the event of scarcity of food, or of sickness,
when food cannot be digested. We saw how the body feeds upon this
food reserve and how the vital tissues of the body feed off the
least essential, so that even if actual starvation occurs, there is
almost no damage to the vital organs.

So long as the body's food reserves last, the individual
abstaining from food is fasting. When this reserve has been consumed
to the point where it is no longer able to sustain the functions of
life, further abstinence becomes dangerous; starvation begins. It is
only after this point is reached that any real damage is sustained
by the vital organs and their functions. As a general rule, under
proper conditions of environment, one may fast for weeks, and even
months, before the starvation point is reached. "It is perfectly
true," says Sinclair, "that men have died of starvation in three or
four days; but the starvation existed in their minds--it was fright
that killed them."

Laboratory workers describe destructive changes in the pancreas,
supra-renal glands and other organs and glands of the body, as a
result of starvation. But these changes occur after the period of
fasting proper has been passed. The vital cells of the organs and
glands--those doing the actual physical and chemical work of these
organs--do not begin to break down until actual starvation begins.

Morgulis says: "Apart from the purely pathological phenomena
occurring in the terminal stages (the starvation period) of fasting,
it should be mentioned that the histological peculiarities appearing
in the very beginning of inanition are associated with changes in
the colloidal condition of the protoplasm and are not at all
degenerative in kind. The progressive atrophic changes coincident
with inanition are simply due to the gradual withdrawal of
metaplasmic inclusions which represent the nutritive reserves of the
cells. The atrophic diminution of both cells and nuclei does not,
therefore, present a pathological phenomenon either. Moreover, the
morphological processes in inanition are not invariably destructive,
cell proliferation going on even when the organism has been deprived
of nourishment for a long time."

This means that, except during the actual starvation period, the
wasting of parts during a fast is the result of the using up of
those portions of the protoplasm of the cells containing the
products of their secretions and not of an actual destruction of the
cell proper. The metaplasm is slowly used as the fast progresses, so
that the size of the cells and, consequently, of the organ is
gradually reduced, but there is no actual deterioration in structure
of the cells, tissues and organ.

Dr. Morgulis makes the cautious, perhaps over-cautious, estimate
that a fast which involves a body loss of ten to fifteen per cent is
harmless and usually beneficial; and that the danger point in
fasting begins when from twenty-five to thirty per cent has been
lost. He has had animals recover normal health after a weight loss
of sixty per cent. We have seen the same thing in more than one man
and woman.

A number of people have died of serious organic "disease" while
fasting, and autopsies have been performed in many of these. In
every case there was still considerable subcutaneous fat, whereas,
this is always entirely absent where death has been caused by
starvation. Except in a case or two where the heart had never
sufficiently developed or where there was previous heart "disease,"
the heart was found to be normal in all cases; while in actual
starvation, the heart is always contracted or markedly atrophied.
The pancreas is little, if at all affected, in death during the
fast, whereas in death from starvation, this gland is almost
entirely absent. In these cases the blood was normal in amount with
no anemia present; while in starvation, the relative blood volume is
reduced and there is usually marked anemia.

In starvation the tongue remains coated, the breath offensive,
the pulse and temperature sub-normal and hunger may disappear for
days at a time.

Death may result at any time, feeding or fasting, due to the
failure of some particular vital organ, which is so far destroyed
that a fatal ending cannot be prevented by any means, but death from
abstinence from food cannot occur until all possible nutritive
material has been exhausted. "True starvation begins," says
Sinclair, "only when the body has been reduced to the skeleton and
the viscera."

Fortunately we are not left unprotected and unwarned in this
matter. Before the danger point is reached an imperious demand for
food will be made. We say, then, that so long as hunger is lacking,
the patient is fasting; but after hunger returns, if he continues to
abstain from food, he is starving. Besides the return of hunger,
there are other indications that the body is ready to take food, as
stated elsewhere.

Carrington has well summed up the matter in these words: "Fasting
is a scientific method of ridding the system of diseased tissue, and
morbid matter, and is invariably accompanied by beneficial results.
Starving is the deprivation of the tissues from nutriment which they
require, and is invariably accompanied by disastrous consequences.
The whole secret is this: fasting commences with the omission of the
first meal and ends with the return of natural hunger, while
starvation only begins with the return of natural hunger and
terminates in death. Where the one ends the other begins. Whereas
the latter process wastes the healthy tissues, emaciates the body,
and depletes the vitality; the former process merely expels corrupt
matter and useless fatty tissue, thereby elevating the energy, and
eventually restoring the organism that just balance we term health."

Prof. Morgulis divides what he calls starvation, or inanition,
into four periods--"each period comprising approximately one-fourth
of the total loss in weight sustained at the time of death."

The first of these periods of "every complete inanition,"
(by "complete inanition" is meant abstinence from all food until
death occurs) is a "transition from the condition of adequate
feeding to the basal metabolism of fasting"--"the organism is
readjusting itself from the prefasting metabolic level to the level
of the true physiological minimum characteristic for the particular
individual."

The division between the next two periods is not well marked or
defined. They constitute one period divided into "early and late
phases" and "are not very distinct but merge gradually one into the
other." During these "two periods," physiological activities are at
a minimum peculiar to this individual. The length of these two
periods will be determined by the size of the animal or man or the
surplus food reserves on hand.

The final or fourth stage of inanition "is characterized by the
predominance of pathological phenomena caused by the prolonged
stringency of nourishment and exhaustion of the tissues." This is
the true starvation period and sets in when the body's nutritive
stores are practically exhausted.

Prof. Morgulis refers to the whole period, from the omission of
the first meal until death finally ends the scene, as starvation and
as fasting. He uses the two words synonymously and does not
distinguish between fasting and starvation as we do. It will be
noted that all pathological phenomena, of which we are so frequently
warned, belong to the fourth stage of inanition; or, to the period
of starvation proper, as distinct from fasting, as we employ these
terms.

Morgulis points out that "the morphological changes observable in
advanced starvation are practically identical with those generally
found in every pathological condition and present nothing peculiar"
and suggests that perhaps all "pathological changes of tissues are
primarily inanition effects."

Further applying his division of "starvation" into four periods,
Prof. Morgulis says: "All the scientifically studied fasts of men
have been of relatively short duration. In the longest fast of this
kind lasting 40 days Succi lost only 25 per cent of his original
weight. Judging by the loss of weight, therefore, the experiments on
inanition with human subjects have not extended far beyond what may
be regarded as the second stage of inanition and, regardless of the
length of time of the abstinence, had no deleterious effect whatever
upon the subjects because the fasts were invariably discontinued
long before the exhaustion stage had been reached."

Taking up the study of Levanzin's fast for 31 days, undergone at
Carnegie Institute, Morgulis says that this fast extended over the
first two inanition periods. The first of these periods, lasting
fifteen days saw a loss of ten per cent of Levanzin's weight and
represents "the transition from the metabolism of the well nourished
condition to that of the fasting condition."

By the end of his 31 days' fast, Levanzin lost about 20 per cent
of his weight. "Assuming the maximum loss he could possibly have
survived 40 per cent," says Morgulis, "it is clear that the fast
could have extended another month before a fatal termination. In
other words, the fast was broken at a relatively early stage." If we
take into consideration the fact that the second 20 per cent of
Levanzin's weight would not have been lost nearly so rapidly as the
first 20 per cent, it is very certain that he could have fasted much
more than another month before a fatal termination.

The rule that man or animal can sustain a loss of 40 per cent of
his or its body weight before death results must not be taken too
seriously in practice. Obviously an emaciated man or woman weighing
only 90 or 100 pounds cannot afford to lose 40 per cent of his or
her weight. On the other hand a man who ought to weigh about 150
pounds, but who actually weighs 350 pounds, can afford to lose much
over 50 per cent of his weight. Exhibition fasters have survived a
reduction of body weight of thirty per cent without anything like a
total collapse of vital vigor.

Within recent years physiologists have tried to determine how
long man can live without food by figuring on a basis of the period
of time required for animals, particularly mammals, to starve to
death. Their experiments indicate that the period in which death
from starvation ensues is proportionate to the cube root of the body
weight.

A mouse weighing 18.0 grams dies after five or six days without
food. The corresponding "starvation period" in man would be 15.6
times as long or 96.5 to 109 days. A dog weighing twenty kilograms
dies in sixty days; the corresponding period for man is eighty-nine
days. A cat weighing twenty-one kilograms can live eighteen days
without food; the corresponding period for man would be fifty-five
days. A rabbit weighing 24.22 kilograms dies after twenty-six days;
the corresponding period in man would be seventy-nine days.

From these figures, Dr. A. Putter, a German physician, who has
made a study of fasting, concludes that there is nothing in
comparative physiology to show that man cannot live from ninety to a
hundred days without food, if he were kept under proper conditions
of warmth, rest, fresh air, water and emotional poise.

Sylvester Graham denied that the fat man lives longer on
prolonged abstinence from food than does a thin one. He says, "If
the it be designed for the nourishment of the body during protracted
fasts, etc., then if a very fat man, in the enjoyment of what is
ordinarily considered good health, and a lean man in good health, be
shut up together, and condemned to die of starvation, the fat man
ought to diminish in weight much more slowly, and to live
considerably longer than the lean man; but directly the contrary to
this is true. The lean man will lose in weight much more slowly, and
live several days longer than the fat man, in spite of all the
nourishment which the latter may derive from his adipose deposits."--
Science of Human Life, pp. 193-194.

Trall took a similar view, as does Carrington, who says of
Graham's statement: "I may say that this has been my own experience,
precisely." The explanation offered is that, while the fat person
has a large store of fat on his frame, he is deficient in other food
requisites. Fatty tissue, these men think, is invariably diseased
and deficient tissue. Trall said, "Feed a dog on butter, starch, or
sugar alone, and you will save in him the consumption of fat, but
the dog will die of starvation. He will be plump, round, embonpoint,
and yet die of inanition."--Alcoholic Controversy, pp. 148-149. This
seems to be what they thought will take place in the fasting fat man.

This is an a priori conclusion, since the experiment has never
been made, and it is not borne out by animal experimentation. There
is, as I have emphasized elsewhere, a vast difference between a fast
and a very deficient diet, such as the diets described by Trall. The
ultimate results of the two types of nutrition are very different.
Nevertheless, there may be cases of fat individuals who would
actually starve to death before a thinner person would do so, for
the reason that the nutritive reserves in the fat person may be so
unbalanced that he cannot go long without food. I have, myself,
cared for fat men and women who did not fast well and who did not
hold up under fasting as well as do many who are actually skinny.
But I have never been sure that in these patients, the trouble was
not largely if not wholly mental. In view of the fat person's love
of food and his worrying and fretting when deprived of it, he may
actually kill himself while the thin man is still philosophizing
about life and death.

If there can be such a thing as unbalanced reserves, and I
presume that such may exist, there is as much reason why the thin
man, eating the same type of diet as that eaten by the fat man, may
have an unbalanced reserve as there is that the fat man may have
this. The greatest losses in the fast, however, are in those very
nutritive factors that are most abundant in the diet of most people,
while the body clings to the factors that are commonly lacking. The
tendency is for nutritive balance to be restored. The fact that the
fat man who does not fast well, loses all of the difficulties that
appear to have come from fasting, as soon as he gets his first half-
a-glass of fruit juice, indicates that his troubles are mental.

Graham's statement that the fat man will lose weight much faster
than the thin one is literally true, but what he overlooked is that
this rapid loss of weight is not continued. Indeed, we often see fat
women who undertake to fast to reduce, lose twenty to twenty-five
pounds the first two weeks, but six pounds the third week and two
pounds the fourth week. The rapid rate of loss does not continue. It
should be observed at this point, also, that some thin people lose
rapidly the first few days of their fast.

A fast of a hundred days or more can be survived even under the
most favorable conditions, only by the individual who possesses
sufficient food reserves to sustain his vital organs and vital
functions for this period of time. The smaller the amount of food
stores one has in reserve, all things else being equal, the earlier
is the starvation period reached.

What Morgulis classes as the first three stages of starvation, we
class as the period of fasting; while his fourth period of
starvation is classed by us as the starvation period. Fasting begins
with the omission of the first meal and ends with the return of
natural hunger. Starvation begins with the return of hunger and
terminates in death. Fasting is distinctly beneficial; starvation is
distinctly harmful. It is precisely because the average medical man
does not distinguish between these two major phases of abstinence
from food, and because he imagines that the pathology developed
during the starvation period belongs, also, to the fasting period,
that he offers his false objections to fasting.

It was conclusively demonstrated in the laboratory, by Lasarev,
that the changes in the various organs of the body are definitely
related to particular stages of fasting and starvation. Vital organs
do not begin to break down as soon as the first meal is omitted.
Fasting belongs to that period during which there are ample food
reserves to maintain vital integrity. The fasting period is,
therefore, determined by the amount of reserves the body has on
hand. Starvation sets in after the reserve stores have been
sufficiently exhausted that they are no longer adequate to maintain
functional and structural integrity.

Thousands of fasts, ranging from a few days to three months in
duration, in men, old and young and both sexes, in all conditions of
life, have demonstrated not only that man can go for long periods
without food and not be harmed thereby, but also, that he will
receive great benefit from a rationally conducted fast. To starve is
to die; to fast is to live.

Concentrate or reconstituted?

2012-02-05T00:55:00.000-08:00

Concentrate or reconstituted?

When choosing to buy a juice, always always read the back label and check for these two words: concentrate or reconstituted. Both words are used interchangeably and literaly refer to the same process of degrading the fruit or vegetable, for elongated shelf life, more profits and no need to keep the product refrigirated. What you basically are paying for is a powdered version of the juice, which was heat treated - no enzymes to aid in the digestion of the juice, has little to no nutrition and is a quick way to make money. If you want the best juice possible, juice the stuff yourself and have 100% real juice. No matter what the company nor what the government has to say about there being nothing different from the real stuff to the powdered stuff, do not believe such lies. That is like saying there is no difference in a food being radiated or grown organically!

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What is a concentrate?

A concentrate is a form of substance which has had the majority of its base component (in the case of a liquid: the solvent) removed. Typically this will be the removal of water from a solution or suspension such as the removal of water from fruit juice. One benefit of producing a concentrate is that of a reduction in weight and volume for transportation as the concentrate can be re-constituted at the time of usage by the addition of the solvent.(1)

Concentrate juice, also known as fruit juice concentrate or concentrated juice, contains far less water than normal, or not-from-concentrate forms of juice. Through a set of advanced filtration and extraction processes, normal fruit juice becomes better suited for storage, shipping and resale in grocery stores and warehouses.

The Concentration Process

In order for natural fruit juice to get converted into concentrated juice, the diluted liquid must receive a heat treatment that evaporates nearly all of the water from the naturally squeezed mixture. Once the water gets depleted from the liquid, only the flavorful contents remain behind.

This concentrate juice then becomes more powerful through reverse osmosis. The contents get packaged, froze and stored or shipped.

Misconception

Several parties feel as though concentrated juice contains harmful ingredients or actually lessens the nutritional value of the natural fruit juice. However, the concentration process literally works to keep the nutrients found within fruits by only removing water which dilutes the overall mixture.

Store bought fruit juice concentrates sometimes contain additives that work to maintain color, flavor and nutritional content within the juice. Mainly, the concentration process occurs only to extend the life of the fruit juice and save money for fruit harvesting and juicing companies which sell their products.

If all juices were sold as not-from-concentrate products, an excessive amount of fruits would go to waste, namely because fresh juices go bad much more quickly than frozen concentrate juice varieties.

Nutritional Values

When compared to not-from-concentrate juices, the actual concentrated forms of similar fruit juices provide equal nutritional content. However, much like dried fruit, one serving size of non diluted concentrate juice compared to an equal serving size of not from concentrate juice will greatly differ in nutritional content.

When fresh fruit gets dried, it loses all of its natural water content, shrinking in size. This process works identical in fruit juices as well. The natural state of freshly squeezed fruit juice contains far more water weight volume than that of a concentrated comparison. Consequently, one cup of non diluted concentrate juice will contain purely sugars and nutrients found within the fruit, while the same serving size of bottled juice varieties will contain only a fraction of those same nutrients.

Most concentrated juices get used to make diluted juices. The main objective of juice concentration involves saving time, money and space.(2)

Health fears over cheap imported juice concentrate

By Brian Williams

The Advertiser

January 16, 2012

CITRUS growers believe a Brazilian fruit concentrate may contain a fungicide implicated in birth defects.

Growers say the concentrate is found in 95 per cent of orange juice on our shelves.

Citrus Australia chief executive Judith Damiani said yesterday the only way Australian consumers could avoid Brazilian products was to squeeze their own local oranges or buy fresh juice supplied by local growers who did not use the fungicide carbendazim.

Carbendazim is registered for use in Australia for the control of diseases in crops but it has a low uptake and citrus growers stopped using it more than two years ago. Australian growers want the Federal Government to significantly increase testing for the fungicide.

The issue came to light in the US two weeks ago when a juice manufacturer found 35 parts per billion of the fungicide in brands which include Brazilian orange concentrate.

Although that level is well below the mandated maximum residue level of 200 parts per billion, the alarm was raised because of potential health issues.

On January 4, the US suspended all imports of foreign orange juice and began stringent testing for carbendazim. "In Australia, over 300,000 tonnes of oranges are imported every year in the form of cheap Brazilian concentrate," Ms Damiani said. "We call on the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service to increase testing of all imported citrus juice for chemicals banned in Australia."

Ms Damiani said AQIS tested a relatively minor amount of concentrate.

Brazilian oranges were grown in tropical conditions, using a high amount of fungicide and there was every reason to expect tainted products could have come in.

"We have a low level of confidence in products from Brazil, Mexico and China," she said. Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig's office did not respond to the issue.

The Australian citrus industry is worth $540 million a year and has about 2000 growers. It is the largest fresh fruit exporter, with annual export earnings of about $190 million. Local growers cannot produce oranges cheaply enough to make it worth turning into concentrate.

South Australia's Riverland is one of the four major citrus growing areas in Australia.

The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority has been reviewing carbendazim since 2007 after concerns were raised that exposure might pose a risk.(3)

The Truth About Reconstituted Fruit Juice

Jun 10, 2010

What Is Reconstituted Fruit Juice?

Reconstituted fruit juice is juice produced from a fruit juice concentrate. It differs slightly in taste to fresh juices, carrying a different texture and aroma. Like freshly squeezed juices, juice is produced from a juicing machine, which then has as much water removed from it as possible, reducing it to a to a concentrate. Many juice companies around Australia and around the world use the concentrated form of juice for transportation and storage, hydrating the concentrate (typically with 80% off water that was originally removed) only once it has arrived where it is to be packaged and distributed.

Frozen packets or tubes of reconstituted juice may also be purchased at your local supermarket. They can be stored in you home freezer for a number of years, leaving you with the the DIY job of adding the water when there is a need.

Is Reconstituted Fruit Juice Nutritious?

Unsurprisingly, reconstituted fruit juices do not offer the high nutritional qualities of their freshly squeezed counterparts. Enzymes required for adequate food metabolism and the immune system are destroyed through the process of heating and reconstitution. Vitamin C levels are also depleted significantly, but artificially added back by most manufacturers at a later date.

Reconstituted fruit juice labels may also be misleading, as there is no current Australian regulation to enforce juice companies' list where the concentrate itself originates. Domestic harvests can great vary season to season in Australia, and shortfalls of juice concentrate used to in the reconstituted juices may be imported from offshore. This is especially concerning when there is possibility the concentrate comes from countries such as China, where there are no strict health codes of practice in place. It is also worth checking the labels to ensure the reconstituted juice hasn't been produced from less expensive juices such as apple or grape, which offer a significantly less nutritional value. Please keep your eye out for reconstituted juices that contain the artificial preservative sodium benzonate as well.

If you are looking for an environment-friendly juice option, reconstituted juice may not be the product for you either, especially when you consider the huge amounts of energy (in the form of fuels which could otherwise be conserved) that is spent in the processing, transportation, and reconstitution of the juice. This only leaves you with a heavier environmental conscious, and the world with yet another reason to contribute to global warming. All in the name of juice that essentially tastes the same to its freshly squeezed counterpart.(4)

With the next lot of information, I personaly would not believe a government website when it comes to health. Especially if they say no added sugar, concentrates are not different that freshly squeezed , etc.

General & Technical FAQ's

1. What is 'reconstituted'?
Oranges are squeezed using machines much like that found in the home. This juice is then 'condensed' by removal of water using heat. The resultant concentrate is transported to factories around Australia where the water is added back to the concentrate. This process is called reconstitution. The primary reason for using reconstituted juice is economic transportation and to ensure availability all year round.

2. Why do you need preservatives?
Preservatives are needed to maintain product quality for the required shelf-life so that juice can be made available conveniently. Many preservatives can be found naturally in raw foods, such as citric acid (in oranges and lemons) and ascorbic acid (vitamin C).

3. Do you use imported juice?
Although Australia grows an excess of 600 kilo tonnes of oranges every year, the harvest can vary greatly due to seasonal variations. Shortfall of concentrate availability necessitates importation of juice during some
periods.

4. It is out of date - is it alright?
The juice does not become spoiled on the use by date. The juice will last past this date as long as it has been stored properly. The quality may not be as good as when first made. It should be assessed if it is 'fit to drink'. If in doubt throw it out.

5. Why doesn't freshly squeezed juice taste like what comes out of the bottle?
Most juices on the market are made from concentrate which does not have the 'fresh aroma' due to the heat treatment.
There are some products on the market which are made only from juice which has not been concentrated. These juices do taste more like the 'home made' product.

6. Are fruit juices irradiated?
In Australia no food including fruit juices can be irradiated by law.

7. How does orange juice produced by diffusion/counter current extraction methods differ from conventional orange juice?
The diffusion or counter current extracted product differs from conventional orange juice in that it combines a percentage of juice extracted from the inside of the peel as well as from the flesh of the orange.
This extraction is done using technically very advanced processes, so that the product sold is nutritionally, analytically and organoliptically equivalent to conventional orange juice.
This development will enable Australian producers to compete economically with overseas countries in the supply of orange juice and also give the Australian consumer an equivalent product at a lower price.

8. What is 100% Juice?
100% juice is the liquid obtained from fruits or vegetables. It does not include juice derived from concentrate or contains any additives whatsoever.

9. What is Organic Juice?
These juices are prepared from fruit grown without the use of ‘chemicals’ and not derived from genetically modified crops. All manufacturers are independently certified before they are able to use the term organic.

10. What is Natural?
Does not contain food additives (unless they are natural components) or have any part removed or changed.

11. What Does “No Added Sugar” Mean?
No added sugar - products must not contain any added sugar (includes honey, malt, malt extract or maltose) but, of course, still contain the natural sugars of the fruit juice.

Health and Nutrition FAQs

1. Does reconstituted juice have any added sugar?
Definitely not. Juice is transported around Australia and indeed the world in a concentrated form (two thirds of the water has been removed). The reason for this is that it is expensive to transport this extra volume. The water is extracted by evaporation, but the juice retains all its nutritional characteristics except for the fact that it loses some of its Vitamin C. Reconstituted juice is simply this concentrated juice with the same amount of water added back as was originally evaporated off. You would have noticed in the ingredient labelling of most brands containing reconstituted juice that the company has added Vitamin C to more than compensate for that lost during the evaporation process. No sugar is added or removed during the concentration process.

2. If a juice uses reconstituted juice but the bottle doesn’t list a sugar under ingredients or doesn’t say “No added sugar” on the label - is it likely that sugar has been added?
Again, if sugar is not mentioned in the ingredient listing there should definitely not be any sugar added to the product.

Fruit Juice Australia (FJA), through its voluntary Code of Practice, actually monitors fruit juice samples from the marketplace and analyse their contents for truth in labelling on an ongoing basis to ensure compliance to the Australian Food Standards and the safety of consumers.(5)

Fruit Juice, Pulp & Concentration Plants

The study, design & manufacturing of this processing line are the result of many years of efforts devoted to the research of processing methods focused on preserving the organoleptic, physical and aromatic characteristics of the processed fruit in order to produce a juice of high quality in color and clearness.

Subsequently it dicfortes the quantity of concentrates and the fruit juice powders. Fruit processing industry has been declared as "Thrust Industry" for its potential and vast utilisation of fruits.

Fresh juices are best in taste and color and are best to be consumed fresh. The efforts to preserve them & to ensure their quality, various techniques are to be adopted. This includes various process and preservation methods. The most important aspect is to ensure such methods which helps to retain these properties to the maximum extent.

SSP offers complete line for fruit processing and concentration. This plant is for processing of fruits like mango, orange, apple, pears, etc. and for making juice concentration, paste, jam, jelly, ketchup, etc.

The plant size ranges between 1 Ton/day to 200 Ton/day or even more depending on availability of fruits.

THE MOST IMPORTANT STEPS INVOLVED IN PROCESSING OF JUICES AND BEVERAGES ARE:

Selection and preparation of fruits
Extraction of Juices
Straining, Filtration and clarification
Blending Pasteurisation.
Filling, Sealing and sterlization
Cooling, Labelling and Packing

For Juice Concentration, vacuum evaporation is another step in fruit processing line. The final concentrate can be filled in aseptic bags in drums for export purposes.

Clear Juices can be formulated, blended and spray dried at best conditions to convert them into readily soluble powders.

SSP OFFERS MULTIPLE FRUIT PROCESSING PLANT FOR PRODUCTION OF JUICES/PULPS

Apple, Pineapple
Mango
Tomato
Papaya
Guava
Berrys
Grapes
Oranges
Lemon

Multi Fruit Processing Line

Reconstitution Plant For - Juice, Ketchup & Puree

For economic transportation of Fruit Juice concentrates and reduction of volume, two third of the water from the juice is extracted through evaporation process & the resultant concentrate is transported to factories, where the same amount of water or vitamin contents that was extracted before, is again added back or reconstituted. The process is called the Fruit Juice Reconstitution System.

Unloading of paste from aseptic drums into a tank with a agitator.

Transfer of paste to a formulation tank where the other ingredients are added for dilution.

The formulation can be done for tomato juice, puree and ketchup. For juice and puree the dilution will take place in the formulation tanks and passes through the pasturizer before filling and packing is done.

For ketchup preparation, sugar desilation and other ingredients will take place in separate tank. These ingredients are pumped to the blending tanks where the paste / puree is already in place. Heat in supplied through steam in the Jacket and all the ingredients are processed to confirm the ketchup requirements. The formulated ketchup is then pasturized and packed into paper packet/ glass bottles.

Fruit Juice Powder Plant

Converting Juice into powder can be a solution for long shelf life and essy packing and transportation.

SSP offers juice powder processing plants of various capacity to suit the client requirment.(6)

1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrate\

2 http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/healthy-eating/understanding-concentrate-juice.html

3 http://www.news.com.au/business/health-fears-over-cheap-imported-juice-concentrate/story-e6frfm1i-1226245001017

4 http://www.naturaltherapypages.com.au/article/reconstituted_fruit_juice

5 http://fruitjuiceaustralia.org/faq/

6 http://www.sspindia.com/fruit-juice-processing.html

Reactions to Cleaning Out the Body

2012-02-04T22:23:00.000-08:00

Fasting, Cleansing & Detoxification Reactions

During a fast, cleanse or detox the body takes the opportunity to eliminate a lot of toxins that have built up over the years. The toxins are predominantly stored in fat and mucous cells. But also other tissues throughout the body. There are many different types of detox recipes a person can follow and also a lot of reactions that can occur, some of which can be very unpleasant.
The reason for the cleansing and fasting reactions is that toxins are released into the system via the blood and other eliminating fluids. As these toxins circulate through the body on their journey out, they can cause other parts of the body to be affected. For example a common detoxification reaction is the headache. This occurs because the toxins in the blood cause it to thicken and hence cause a headache. A simple remedy is to drink more water, have a bowel movement or slow the cleansing down by moderating the herbs you are on. I will go more into reactions and what to do later.

List of Reactions

EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCES - During fasting a person is forced to stop eating and in many people, eating was done as some kind of emotional comfort. Eatingcan be a distraction from some underlying problem. So during a detox this problem, or problems may arise. This is a good time to look deeply within and meditate to overcome the disturbance.
HEADACHES - Toxins can cause muscle tightness in the neck and shoulders. This can result in tension headaches. Massaging the neck and shoulders will help relieve the tension. The herb Fever Few, which is available in health food stores, is well worth trying. The thickness of the blood also can cause headaches.
COLD VIRUS - Is a cold virus what we have been led to believe or is it actully a symptom of the body eliminating toxins.In any case try to drink more water and rest, because once your body is free of toxins, you will not get the 'flu'.
MUSCLE TIGHTNESS - The muscles may become tight and sore due to toxin irritation. The legs can be the worst affected as toxins accumulate in the legs. A self massage, hot baths, stretching and exercising will help to release the toxins. Keep exercise light as you need to conserve your electrolytes for the liver.
NAUSEA - When waste is released too quickly by the lymph glands, some of the toxic overload is taken by the liver and secreted with bile into the stomach. This causes nausea. Drinking water or carrot juice will dilute the bile and toxin mixture helping to flush it from the system.
BACKACHES - Back pain may increase due to toxins in the lower intestine. The blood vessels that draw nutrients from the colon are very close to the nerves of the spine. Back pain often decreases after elimination of the toxins. Back exercises also can relieve some pain. A cold pack also will help. Using an enema kit will be the best remedy.

BAD BREATH - Waste passes through the lungs which are an eliminative organ. Brushing the tongue with a tooth brush, using dental floss and rinsing with herbal mouthwash will reduce bad breath.
CANKERS - These may develop from a toxic buildup in the mouth. Unhealthy bacteria increases between the teeth. The tongue becomes coated with waste. To stop cankers, gargle with apple cider vinegar mixed with water several times daily. Dabbing the sore with tea tree oil or vitamin E quickens the healing process.
DIARRHEA - Fruit juices have a laxative effect which is more pronounced after water fasting. It can be stopped by using the enema. Using psyllium husk during diarrhea will help regulate the system. Also cut back on laxative herbs if you are taking them.
BLACKOUTS - During fasting the body conserves energy. The heart pumps slower and blood pressure lowers. The blood is also thicker due to toxins. Standing or moving quickly from a resting position will cause the blood to flow to the legs. For a few seconds, the brain may not get enough oxygen, causing blackouts and dizziness. To stop a blackout get down on one knee or sit. Lowering your center of gravity will instantly stop a blackout. Blackouts are more frequent during water fasting.
NERVOUSNESS - The elimination of toxins can irritate damaged nerves. Exercise will relieve tension. Use quarter slices of avocado to slow the fast.
SKIN DISTURBANCES - The skin may become oily as rancid oils are purged from the body. People with problem-free skin may have a few days of pimples or boils. A pallid complexion is also a sign of waste in the blood. When cleansed of mucus and toxins, the skin will be healthy, soft and unblemished.
TIREDNESS - Tiredness is normal during water or restricted juice fasting. If the tiredness is too much, increase the quantity of sweet juices like melon and carrot juice. The tiredness is also caused by the body using most of it's energy to break down and eliminate the toxins.

Specific Health Conditions and Fasting Advice

HEART DISEASE - Include bananas and avocados when juice fasting to balance the blood sugar level. Toxins in the blood and reduced blood sugar levels may cause a weak heart to labor. Like any other organ, the heart needs nutrients, a toxin-free environment, and time to heal.
HYPOGLYCEMIA - Do not juice fast unless you use bananas and avocados to balance the blood sugar level.
KIDNEY PROBLEMS - Fasting can irritate damaged kidneys due to the amount of toxins they filter. Try short juice fasts of 3 to 5 days before progressing to longer fasts. Avoid high-protein meals, refined flours, commercial oils and fats.
LIVER DISEASE - The liver can become toxic due to abuse. If the liver is badly degenerated, cleansing must be done in stages. Start with short juice fasts and lead to fasts over five days. Avoid heavy proteins, refined flours and fatty foods. Eat meals of fruits or vegetables between the fasts.
AGING - There is no such thing as being too old to fast--it is exactly what the body needs to feel young again. Shorter fasts are recommended to start. Assess your physical state as you proceed. If juice fasting becomes too intense, bananas and avocados will lessen the intensity by slowing the cleansing.
ULCERS - Fasting will help significantly. Choose the juices that do not irritate the condition.

General Advice for Cleansing, Detox and Fasting Reactions

-Drink more water
-Do an enema
-Eat something light or have some fruit juice, depeding on what kind of fast you are on. If on the Arise and Shine cleanse then you can eat a baked potato if you have performed the above steps and they don't work.
-If taking herbs, take a little less.
-Do not allow cleansing reactions to go on for to long at an unbearable rate, there is no need to "tough it". Just slow it down a little. You can always do another cleanse later, or stretch this one out a bit more.

Source: http://www.detox.net.au/articles/fasting-detoxification-reactions.htm

Father of the Detox Bath - Louis Kuhne

2012-02-04T22:19:00.000-08:00

The Origin Of The Detox Bath Method

Louis Kuhne created a unique hydrotherapy panacea, including the friction sitz bath, to successfully heal a wide spectrum of diseases.

The late 19th century and early 20th century saw the birth of Neo-Naturopathy, particularly in Germany. Father Sebastien Kneipp, Dr Benjamin Lust, Louis Kuhne amongst others, were but a few disappointed with the impotence of modern medicine in the face of serious disease.

These men all turned to nature in a quest to heal a diseased body and maintain a lifetime of good health. Inspired by the work of the father of medicine, Hippocrates (400 BCE) who stated that "Nature is the physician of disease" they started successfully experimenting with various methods using water as a healing agent. Hippocrates is famous for studying the healing powers of water, and subsequently creating thalassotherapy.

Dr Benjamin Lust called Louis Kuhne a "Genius in the art of healing". Kuhne created the friction sitz bath, on which the Detox Bath is based. He believed that the origin of all disease is an accumulation of waste matter and toxins in the body. He reckoned that this deposited matter could sometimes even deform the body, as in spinal distortion for instance. This realisation gave birth to his doctrine of the "Unity of Diseases".

His diagnosis method, the Science of Facial Expressions consists in examining the face and neck for -sometimes invisible- signs of accumulated waste matter, which results in a wide spectrum of diseases and ailments. Those range from cancer to heart, respiratory, circulatory and digestive problems and even skin problems.

Louis Kuhne devised and successfully practised the friction sitz bath, father of the Detox Bath, or for over 3 decades. He created an establishment in Leipzig, Germany in 1883, where he cured thousands of various illnesses and diseases. The fact that he successfully alleviated and cured such diverse conditions with a unique hydrotherapy panacea surely validates his theory of the "Unity of Diseases".

Kuhne was personally suffering from a severe early hereditary cancer in his stomach and lungs. He had been bitterly disappointed with the inability of orthodox medicine to help him. He turned to natural cures in an attempt to find a way to overcome the terrible pain caused by a disease that was devouring him inside.

Not only did he succeed in alleviating his own symptoms, and keeping his serious disease at bay, but he was also able to devote his life to treating the sick. He proved beyond the shadow of a doubt the efficacy of the healing system he devised.

Kuhne demonstrated through his doctrine of the Unity of Diseases that the origin of all disease is a lifelong accumulation of waste matter and toxins in the body, either inherited or acquired, which manifests in various organs depending on heredity or genes. He observed that poor digestion was the cause of all subsequent ailments and that the body can only be healthy if the digestive organs are functioning correctly. This discovery allowed Kuhne to create a unique cure system for all disease manifestations. Kuhne's cure consisted chiefly in altering his patient's diet to vegetarian, coupled with frequent and regular steam, hip and especially friction sitz bath treatments.

The fact that Kuhne's patients came to his establishment as a last resort, when orthodox medicine had pronounced them incurable, and were subsequently successfully healed by him, is an irrefutable confirmation of the efficiency and viability of his unique cure.

According to Kuhne, when waste matter accumulates in the body it pushes outwards and upward to areas from which it can no longer be eliminated, and consequently causes organ malfunction and disease. The function of the friction sitz bath, as he advocated it, (and the Detox Bath) is to push back the excess load of accumulated waste matter and toxins and redirect it back towards the intestines, from which it is later evacuated.

It is not difficult to imagine what causes these surcharges and morbid excesses to accumulate in the body. Through our mouth, skin and nose, various fumes we inhale, vapours, colorants and additives in food, pesticides as well as food excesses, penetrate the body and create deposits. Undigested organic matter also has a similar effect inside the body. When it putrefies, it creates illness and fever.

This excess load makes the body incapable of normal elimination and nutrient absorption. The result is an accumulation of toxic deposits and fats that develops first around the stomach, hips, buttocks and thighs, and later travels towards the upper body and extremities. Kuhne devised the friction sitz bath (Father of the Detox Bath) specifically to deal with this action and redirect waste matter and toxins back towards the intestines for elimination. He demonstrated how, when used regularly, this particular bath could rid the body of disease and excess fat and help maintain optimal health.

This method is nothing but a reflection of our body's inherent ability to cleanse, heal and eliminate toxic waste.

Sources: http://www.pureinsideout.com/louis-kuhne.html and Louis Kuhne and Benjamin Lust's book: Neo-Naturopathy: The New Science of Healing or the Doctrine of Unity of Diseases

Fasting and its many wonders.

2012-02-04T22:13:00.000-08:00

Although I have written about fasting as much as I could in my book, this blog is to give further evience, information and 'advice'on fasting.

In History

Fasting, in the various forms that people have observed throughout history, has been known to have a beneficial effect on health. However in a religious context, it is primarily a technique for seeking proximity to God and the divine. It seems that every religion knew the practice of fasting in one form or another. In the archaic practices of Hinduism there were certain days of the year set aside for fasting by women, and others for men. In our day, the Brahmin caste in India still observes a complete abstinence from food and drink on the eleventh and twelfth days of every Hindu month.

Hippocrates (400 BCE), the mythical Greek "Father of Medicine," seems to have prescribed total abstinence from food while a "disease" was on the increase, and especially at the critical period, and a spare diet on other occasions.

Fasting was also known to the ancient Egyptians and Greeks. Similarly, the ancient scriptures of Persia advocate fasting and confirm its value as a means for spiritual purification. The Jews of the Old Testament were known to observe fasts on days of danger and misfortune and on several fixed days in their calendar, of which the best known to non-Jews is the fast of Yom Kippur. Jesus is said to have fasted forty days and nights before his final entry into Jerusalem.

The early Christians, most of whom observed the Mosaic Law, also fasted on the Day of Atonement. But with time, less emphasis was placed on exact adherence to the practices observed by Jesus, and the Lenten fast assumed a largely symbolic role, involving abstention from certain types of food only.

Muslims observe an annual fast, during the month of Ramadan. Between first light and sundown, adult Muslims in good health abstain from food, drink, cigarettes, and sex. The fast lasts for an entire lunar month of between 28 and 30 days. It is described in the Quran thus "so that you may attain taqwa or God-consciousness" and is another instrument for bringing believers closer to our natural state and for cleansing this state from the dross of any disobedience and corruption.

Fasting to Detoxify

In the strict dietary sense, fasting is the complete abstinence from all substances except pure water, in an environment of total rest. Juice fasting, a popular variation, is abstinence from all food and drink except water and fresh vegetable and fruit juices. A modified fast includes small amounts of solid food, usually raw fruits as well as raw and steamed vegetables.

Other types of fasts sometimes include brown rice fast, whereby only brown rice is eaten for a week, accompanied by water. Detoxification is the foremost argument presented by advocates of fasting.

Detoxification is a normal body process of eliminating or neutralising the toxins resulting from biochemical functions through the colon, liver, kidneys, lungs, lymph nodes, and skin. Fasting precipitates this process because, when food no longer enters the body, the latter turns to its fat reserves for energy.

When the fat reserves are used for energy during a fast, they release the stored chemicals from the fatty acids into the system and are then eliminated through the above mentioned organs.

Another benefit of fasting is the healing process it triggers. During a fast, energy is diverted away from the digestive system, since there is no food to mobilise it, towards the metabolism and immune system. This is one reason why animals stop eating when they are wounded, and the reason why we feel less hungry when we're sick.

Fasting also triggers rapid weight loss. Once the body is in fasting mode, it becomes accustomed to go without food after a few days. After a fast, the stomach actually shrinks and is restored it to its normal size. People tend to be satisfied with less food after fasting, as the latter signals to your body that you've altered the way you eat.

Beware of bingeing after a fast, especially if you starved your body to extreme! You could defeat the whole purpose of the fast.

When is a good time to fast?

Spring fasts are highly recommended because the increased physical vitality and availability of fresh produce and vegetables in the spring and summer can make the cleansing process pleasant and beneficial. For a winter fast, plan a short 2 day program, like a weekend fast for instance.

Long, unsupervised fasts can be dangerous. If you plan to fast for more than 2 or 3 days in a row, you must consult your natural health practitioner or doctor before you start.

Source: http://www.pureinsideout.com/fasting-for-detox.html

The author of the excerpts of the material is Patricia Bragg, from her book The Miracle of Fasting.

The Six Main Reasons You Should Avoid Processed Honey and Buy Raw Honey

2012-01-28T02:11:00.000-08:00

The Six Main Reasons You Should Avoid

Processed Honey and Buy Raw Honey

Your body won't absorb the 22 amino acids, 27 minerals and significant traces of B vitamins because ultra filtration will have removed the pollen that contains these benefitial compounds. And it is pollen that gives honey its sublime flavour.

Your body won't absorb the natural enzymes in honey because they will have been destroyed by pasturisation. Honey has up to 5,000 enzymes, some of which have a positive effect on the human body. For example:
- glucose oxidase is an enzyme in raw honey that releases a mild form of hydrogen peroxide and gluconic acid. This aids healing of external and internal wounds and infections. Enzymes in honey also aid digestion because the sugars in the honey are already partly predigested by the action of the enzymes.

You won't be benefiting from the other natural anti-bacterial qualities of honey. Honey kills bacteria because it draws water out of infections and wounds depriving bacteria of the moisture they need to thrive.

You may be eating a product that may have some residue of the antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals fed to 'factory farmed' bees.

Factory farmed bees endure harsh conditions, all their honey is taken and they are fed sugar rather than honey in the winter. But they need honey to stay fit and get through the winter. Often the bees are simply killed before the honey is extracted.

You don't know where your honey has come from and many countries simply don't have rigorous standards or monitoring. Most processed honey is a blend of different honeys from different countries. Instances have been found of honey that has been adulterated with sugar.

Source

http://www.pyreneeshoney.com

Honey, a miracle food that keeps on helping,

2012-01-28T02:07:00.000-08:00

The following a collection of articles and studies that have been done and have found great benefits and properties. Please enjoy and learn more about honey.

New Study Finds That Honey May Aid in Absorption of Calcium
A new study conducted at Purdue University showed that consuming honey along with supplemental calcium enhanced calcium absorption in rats. In addition, the absorption of calcium was increased as the amount of honey was increased. The study, led by Dr. Berdine Martin of Purdue University, was presented at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology meeting, April 2-5, 2005 in San Diego.

“Many adults struggle to get the recommended amounts of calcium in their daily diet,” said Dr. Katherine Beals, nutrition consultant to the National Honey Board.

According to the recently released Surgeon General’s Report on Bone Health and Osteoporosis (Oct 14, 2004), "By 2020, half of all American citizens older than 50 will be at risk for fractures from osteoporosis and low bone mass if no immediate action is taken by individuals at risk, health care professionals, health systems, and policymakers."

Osteoporosis is often referred to as a “silent” disease because many of those afflicted are completely unaware that they suffer from it. In fact, four times as many men and three times as many women have osteoporosis than report it.

One of the key strategies for reducing the likelihood of developing low bone mass (and subsequent osteoporosis) is to consume the recommended amounts of calcium. It is also important that the calcium consumed be absorbed by the body. Dietary factors that have been shown to enhance the absorption of calcium include vitamin D and the sugars found in honey.

In the Purdue University study, rats were given a “labeled” dose of calcium alone, or with 200 mg. of honey, 500 mg. of honey, 800 mg. of honey, 800 mg. of a glucose fructose mixture made to resemble honey, 10.75 mg. of raffinose, or 200 mg. of raffinose. After two days, the calcium absorption into the hind leg bones of the rats was measured. Compared to the control group, rats given 800 mg. and 500 mg. of honey showed a 33.6% and 25.5% increase in calcium absorption, respectively. These results indicate that honey and its carbohydrate constituents, specifically glucose, fructose and raffinose, may enhance calcium absorption.
“Although this study was done with rats, the preliminary results are very compelling” said Dr. Beals. “Of course we would have to replicate the experiment in a human sample to see if the same holds true for people.”

Funding for this study was provided by the National Honey Board. Based in Longmont, Colorado, the National Honey Board provides consumers with honey information and recipes at www.honey.com, and serves U.S. honey producers, packers and importers through honey research, promotion and marketing.

Uses of Honey:

Honey contains antioxidants, a wide array of vitamins, minerals and amino acids.
Heals wounds, burns, cataracts, skin ulcers, sores and scrapes.
Provides a protective barrier for wounds.
Kills bacteria and germs.
Reduces inflammation.
It's amino acids and vitamin C speed the growth of healthy tissue.
It's a natural source of energy. It enlivens the body, makes muscles stronger, refreshes nerves, cheers up, Sharpens the mind, and gives sound sleep.
Helps reduce chest disorders, coughs, heavy breathing, and insomnia.
Soothes sore throats.

http://www.ebeehoney.com/

Honey

Six medical journal articles over the past three years have also described the antibiotic properties of honey. A physician at the medical college in Maharashtra, India, recently explored the use of honey-soaked gauze to treat burn patients. The 40 patients treated with honey healed in about half the time - and with half the scar tissue - compared with patients treated by other means. (Subrahmanyam M, Burns, Aug. 1994;20:331-3). A team of researchers from the department of surgery, University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria, reported that unprocessed honey "inhibited most of the fungi and bacteria" causing surgical and wound infections. In a remarkable conclusion in the journal Infection (Jul.- Aug. 1992;20:227-9),Dr. S. E. Efem and his colleagues wrote, "Honey is thus an ideal topical wound dressing agent in surgical infections, burns and wound infections." Perhaps most remarkable is the effect of honey on Helicobacter pylori, the bacterium now known to cause gastric ulcers. Because honey has long been a folk remedy for dyspepsia, or stomach upset, a team of researchers from the University of Waikato, New Zealand, tested whether honey would have any benefit. Within three days, honey stopped the growth of H. pylori colonies obtained from patients.

Written by Jack Challem, The Nutrition Reporter

Clinical Observations

It has been reported from various clinical studies on the usage of honey as a dressing for infected wounds that the wounds become sterile in 3 - 6 days (19, 34), 7 days (7, 13, 20) or 7 - 10 days (28). Others have reported that honey is effective in cleaning up infected wounds (21, 44). It has also been reported that honey dressings halt advancing necrosis (20, 36). Honey has also been found to act as a barrier preventing wounds from becoming infected (7, 14, 15, 24, 45), preventing cross-infection (23), and allowing burn wound tissue to heal rapidly uninhibited by secondary infection (7, 42).

It has been reported that sloughs, gangrenous tissue and necrotic tissue are rapidly replaced with granulation tissue and advancing epithelialisation when honey is used as a dressing (7), thus a minimum of surgical debridement is required (19). It has been observed that under honey dressings sloughs, necrotic and gangrenous tissue separated so that they could be lifted off painlessly (7), and others have noted quick and easy separation of sloughs (10, 21) and removal of crust from a wound (10).

Rapid cleansing (9) and chemical or enzymic debridement resulting from the application of honey to wounds have also been reported (14, 15, 17, 20, 36), with no eschar forming on burns (18). Several other authors have noted the cleansing effect of honey on wounds (21, 23, 29, 35, 40, 46). It has also been noted that dirt is removed with the bandage when honey is used as a dressing, leaving a clean wound (39). Honey has also been reported to give deodorisation of offensively smelling wounds ( 7, 13-15, 20, 36, 45).

Honey used as a wound dressing has been reported to promote the formation of clean healthy granulation tissue (7, 10, 18-20, 23, 28, 29, 34, 35, 41, 46), allowing early grafting on a clean clear base (9). It has also been reported to promote epithelialisation of the wound (7, 16, 18, 20, 36, 41). Dumronglert (29) commented that the rapid growth of new tissue is remarkable. Improvement of nutrition of wounds has been observed (7), also increased blood flow has been noted in wounds (29), and free flow of lymph (21).

Several authors have commented on the rapidity of healing seen with honey dressings. Descottes (38) refers to wounds becoming closed in a spectacular fashion in 90% of cases, sometimes in a few days. Burlando (47) refers to healing being surprisingly rapid, especially for first and second degree burns. Blomfield (40) is of the opinion that honey promotes healing of ulcers and burns better than any other local application used before. Bergman (24) has observed clinically that healing in open wounds is faster with honey, as has Hamdy (48) who also found that it accelerated making wounds suitable for suture.

It has been noted that dressing wound with honey allows early grafting on a clean clear base (9), with prompt graft taking (23, 35). It has also been reported that it reduces the incidence of skin graft areas (45) and helps skin regenerate, making plastic reconstruction unnecessary (20, 36). Others also have noted that skin grafting is found to be unnecessary (18, 19). It has also been reported that dressing wounds with honey gives little or no scarring (20).

Another effect of honey on wounds that has been noted is that it reduces inflammation (18, 47) and hastens subsidence of passive hyperaemia (41). It also reduces oedema (7, 17, 20, 29, 41) and exudation (7, 20, 47), absorbing fluid from the wound (36). Honey is reported to be soothing when applied to wounds (15, 39, 49)] and to reduced pain from burns (15, 47), in some cases giving rapid diminution of local pain (41).

Honey is reported to cause no pain on dressing (21, 45) or to cause only momentary stinging (21), to be non-irritating (17, 19, 21, 46), to cause no allergic reaction (7, 13, 16, 23), and to have no harmful effects on tissues (7, 13, 17, 21, 23).

It has been noted that honey dressings are easy to apply and remove (23, 35, 40). There is no adhesion to cause damage to the granulating surface of wounds (18, 21, 45), no difficulty removing dressings (15), and no bleeding when removing dressings (15). Any residual honey is easily removed by simple bathing (44).

No adverse effects have been noted in any of the studies in which honey has been applied topically to experimental wounds on animals (12, 24, 26, 51, 53, 54).

Advantages of using Honey as a Wound Dressing

Honey provides a moist healing environment yet prevents bacterial growth even when wounds are heavily infected. It is a very effective means of quickly rendering heavily infected wounds sterile, without the side-effects of antibiotics, and it is effective against antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria (33). Its antibacterial properties and its viscosity also provide a barrier to cross-infection of wounds. It also provides a supply of glucose for leucocytes, essential for the 'respiratory burst' that produces hydrogen peroxide, the dominant component of the antibacterial activity of macrophages (64).

Furthermore it provides substrates for glycolysis, which is the major mechanism for energy production in the macrophages, and thus allows them to function in damaged tissues and exudates where the oxygen supply is often poor (64). The acidity of honey (typically below pH 4 (65)) may also assist in the antibacterial action of macrophages, as an acid pH inside the vacuole is involved in killing ingested bacteria (64).

Whether it is through this action, or through preventing the toxic unionised form of ammonia from existing that is involved (66), topical acidification of wounds promotes healing (67). The high glucose levels that the honey provides would be used by the infecting bacteria in preference to amino acids (68) from the serum and dead cells, and thus would give rise to lactic acid instead of ammonia and the amines and sulphur compounds that are the cause of malodour in wounds.

Honey gives a fast rate of tissue regeneration and suppression of inflammation, oedema, exudation and malodour in wounds, as evidenced in clinical observations and the results of animal studies and clinical trials. The antibacterial properties clearing infection could alone account for these effects by preventing the production of the products of bacterial metabolism which are responsible for the contrary conditions. But honey has a direct trophic and anti-inflammatory effect on wound tissues, as evidenced by the results of animal studies in which there was no bacterial infection involved, particularly in those where the honey was administered systemically.

Honey can be expected to have a direct nutrient effect on regenerating tissue because it contains a wide range of amino acids, vitamins and trace elements in addition to large quantities of readily assimilable sugars (65). (The vitamin C content of honey, which is typically more than three times higher than that in serum, and may be many times higher, could be of particular importance as because of the essential role of this vitamin in collagen synthesis.)

In addition, the high osmolarity of honey causes an outflow of lymph which serves to provide nutrition for regenerating tissue which otherwise can only grow around points of angiogenesis (seen as granulation): healing is delayed if the circulation to an area is poor, or if a patient is poorly nourished. Also it has been suggested that the decreased turgor resulting from the application of honey may increase oxygenation of tissues (7).

This osmotically induced outflow will also assist in lifting dirt and debris from the bed of a wound. It also ensures that the dressing will not stick to the wound, as what ends up as the material in contact with the wound tissue is a fluid solution of honey, which can be easily lifted off and any residue rinsed away.

Thus there is no pain on changing dressings, and no tearing away of newly formed tissue. The cleansing effect of the osmotic flow and the chemical or enzymic debriding effect of honey makes surgical debridement unnecessary, thus saving the patient pain or the risks associated with anaesthesia. It has also been noted that by reducing in surface area oedematous and soggy wounds, or making them more clearly defined, it enables a definite decision on limb amputations to be made, which would be of particular advantage in the case of diabetic and malignant ulcers (7).

There is also an economical advantage to using honey as a wound dressing. This is seen both in the direct cost savings when compared with conventional treatments, and in the savings in ongoing costs when consideration is given to the more rapid healing rates that are achieved. Cost comparisons that have been made are: 480 F for treatment with Debrisan compared with 7.5 F for treatment with honey (38); $70 for treatment with antibiotics compared with $2 for treatment with honey (23); $40 for treatment with Duoderm compared with $8 for treatment with honey (8).

Other observations on cost savings have been: use of antibiotics ceased (28), length of hospitalisation reduced (23, 28, 38) (by at least half (13, 19)). In addition there are the savings in the costs of surgery where debridement and skin grafting become unnecessary when honey is used.

Honey is also an ideal first-aid dressing material, especially for patients in remote locations when there could be time for infection to have set in before medical treatment is obtained: it is readily available and simple to use. It would be particularly suitable for first-aid treatment for burns, where emergency dousing or cooling frequently involves the use of contaminated water which then leads to heavy infection of the traumatised tissue. As well as providing an immediate anti-inflammatory treatment the honey would provide an antibacterial action and a barrier to further infection of the wound.

Source: Honey as a dressing for wounds, burns,and ulcers: a brief review of clinical reports and experimental studies.

Honey's Nutritional Profile

Raw honey is a source of simple carbohydrates. Its composition on average, is 17.1 percent water, 82.4 percent total carbohydrate and 0.5 percent proteins, amino acids, vitamins and minerals. The average carbohydrate content is mainly fructose (38.5 percent) and glucose (31 percent). The remaining 12.9 percent of carbohydrates is made up of maltose, sucrose and other sugars.

Source of Energy

As a carbohydrate, raw honey supplies energy at 64 calories per tablespoon, providing fuel to working muscles. A limited study at the University of Memphis Exercise and Sports Nutrition Laboratory found raw honey to be one of the most effective forms of carbohydrate gels to ingest just prior to exercise. According to Dr. Richard Kreider, the study's lead investigator, “honey appears to be a carbohydrate source that is relatively mild on its effects upon blood sugar compared to other carbohydrate sources.” Continuing research is examining the effects of raw honey in comparison to different types of carbohydrate gels prior to weightlifting on the effect on glucose, insulin and markers of protein breakdown.

Other limited studies performed in Dr. Kreider's lab have shown that raw honey may comprise half of the secret to post-workout recuperation. Many post-workout products on the market combine a large amount of carbohydrates with protein. The most common carbohydrate source used is maltodextrin, a mildly sweet carbohydrate usually derived from corn. Upon comparison of a honey-protein vs. a maltodextrin-protein shake taken after a vigorous weightlifting workout, the honey-protein combination fared as well in promoting markers of muscle recuperation. The honey group's blood sugar was sustained for at least two hours post-workout. “Our data suggest that honey functions well in all of the aspects associated with post-workout recuperation and energy repletion. In addition, raw honey appears to stand out as perhaps a better source of carbohydrate to ingest with post-workout protein supplements. These findings support our previous study presented at the annual Experimental Biology meeting in April 2000,” added Dr. Kreider.

“In addition to promoting muscle recuperation and glycogen [carbohydrates stored in muscle] restoration, honey-protein combinations also seem well suited to sustain favorable blood sugar concentrations after training.”

Honey's Nutrition and Health Facts
Vitamins, Minerals and Amino Acids in Every Bite

Raw honey contains small amounts of a wide array of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and antioxidants. The vitamins found in honey may include (depending on floral variety) niacin, riboflavin and pantothenic acid; minerals present include calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium and zinc. Just as the color and flavor of honey varies by floral source, so does the vitamin, mineral, antioxidant and amino acid content.

Antioxidants in Honey

In addition to the nutrients that are involved in normal metabolic activity, foods contain components that may provide additional health benefits. These nutrients are referred to as nutraceuticals. Phytochemicals are one broad category of nutraceuticals found in plants that are actively being investigated by scientists for their health-promoting potential. Honey has a phytochemical profile which includes polyphenols that can act as antioxidants.

Antioxidants perform the role of eliminating free radicals, which are reactive compounds in the body. Free radicals are created through the normal process of metabolism and contribute to many serious diseases. Researchers at the University of Illinois, led by Nicki J. Engeseth, Ph.D. and May R. Berenbaum, Ph.D., are studying the antioxidant capacity of common honey varieties.

Honey's Antimicrobial Properties and Benefits to Wound Healing

The use of honey as a wound dressing goes back to ancient times and has now been ‘rediscovered' by modern medicine, according to Dr. Peter Molan of the University of Waikato, New Zealand. “It is a common observation in the many reports in medical journals that numerous benefits result from using honey to dress wounds,” says Dr. Molan. The antibacterial properties of honey may help clear infection in wounds, and the anti-inflammatory action of honey may reduce pain and may improve circulation which hastens the healing process. According to Dr. Molan, “Honey stimulates the re-growth of tissue involved in healing, making healing faster and reducing scarring.

http://www.champlainvalleyhoney.com

Extra links

http://www.worldwidewounds.com/2001/november/Molan/honey-as-topical-agent.html

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2012-01-27T18:11:00.000-08:00

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