The Health Plus Letter
September 23, 2003, Vol. 1, No. 12
By Larry Trivieri, Jr. – founder & publisher, http://www.1healthyworld.com

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Table Of Contents:
What’s New
Quote of the Day
Fast Facts
Medical Freedom Alert (Another attempt to restrict our access to natural supplements)
Advice About Coumadin by Garry Gordon, M.D, D.O., M.D.(H.)
Understanding Emotions From the Wisdom Level by Valerie Hunt, Ph.D.
Recipe of the Week: Chilled Indian-Spiced Tomato Soup With Crabmeat
Reader Feedback
Recommendations
Humor: The Amazing Brain


What’s New

In this issue, I’m pleased to present new articles by Drs. Garry Gordon and Valerie Hunt, two 1HealthyWorld.com’s esteemed medical advisory board members. For more information about both of them, please visit http://1healthyworld.com/advisoryBoard.

In the first article, Dr. Gordon discusses the potential dangers of Coumadin and explains the benefits of using his safe and effective natural supplement program, which has been proven to not only prevent blood clotting, but also to significantly reduce the burden of heavy metals and other toxins in the body. Following this, Dr. Hunt offers a fascinating, new paradigm view of emotions and their relationship not only to our health, but also our awareness, based on her pioneering research into emotions and the human mind-field.

Due to time constraints, I am once again omitting the Health News and Commentary section, but I absolutely promise that it will return next issue. To make up for the omission, I’ve introduced a new Humor section at the end of this issue.

As always, please send me with your comments and suggestions. You can email me at larry@1healthyworld.com. And, if you like it, please spread the word about The Health Plus Letter.


Quote Of The Day

“I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.”
-Bob Hope


Fast Facts

In 2002, Americans filled 3,340,000,000 outpatient prescriptions-twelve prescriptions for every man, women, and child in America.

Despite a cold economy in which most industries have seen purchases drop, U.S. drug purchases increased substantially in 2002, reaching $219 billion. Overall drug purchases (all sources) grew 12% 2002, 18% in 2001, and 15% in 2000 (based on wholesale acquisition costs).

Source: Prescription Drug Use in America: The Startling Numbers and Their Implications by Jay S. Cohen, M.D. This article is available at http://www.MedicationSense.com and I highly recommend it.


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Medical Freedom Alert

Please do your part to ensure that the misleadingly named “Dietary Safety Supplement” Act (S. 722) is defeated. To become informed about S. 722 and to take action to help defeat its passage, please visit:
http://capwiz.com/nnfa/S722.html.

Last week, I became aware of another bill before Congress that, if passed, could also severely restrict our access to natural supplements. It’s called H.R. 207, and you can learn more about it and what steps you can take to prevent its passage by visiting http://www.usfa.biz, the website of the United Supplement Freedom Association.


Bypassing Heart Surgery by Garry Gordon, M.D., D.O., M.D.(H.)

Dr. Garry Gordon recently received an email from a woman whose grandfather had been discovered to have an irregular heartbeat after previously having undergone an angioplasty. His cardiologist prescribed Coumadin for him as a preventive measure. The email concluded:

“My mother and I feel that this might be a mistake as we are reading all the risks associated with this medication. Furthermore, while the doctor said it's only for a month, if it takes this long to regularize on the medication, I imagine that discontinuing it must be difficult as well. Is it? My other concern is that it is possible that the only reason he was having the irregular heartbeats is because he was running a fever at the time.

I would like to know when is the quickest that we could possibly discontinue this medicine? What are the alternatives? And what is your opinion of the situation I described?”

What follows is Dr. Gordon’s reply:

The response to all blood thinning substances whether natural or drugs is highly variable since there are so many factors impacting our likelihood of having a clot or bleeding to death, from cigarettes and hormones to diet and stress, all on top of genetics and chronic infections of our vascular tissues that we all have.

Thus, the poor doctor, in prescribing Coumadin for your grandfather, is merely protecting himself because the powerful drug interests have managed to make this unfortunate practice of using drugs and avoiding natural clot busters the current standard of medical practice.

This means the practicing doctor carries some liability if he does not try to push his patients into taking Coumadin when they have anything that may increase the risk of a blood clot, and certainly they believe that irregular heart beats is one such risk factor. Unfortunately the powers that be make sure that he knows nothing about natural substances that could do the job far better without any risk to the patient!

If the doctor, however, believed in the doctrine of informed consent he would also have to tell you about the number of serious bleeding complications that regularly occur with Coumadin. This bleeding can be into the eye (losing vision) or into the spinal cord with resulting loss of function of a part of the patient's body. This warning would allow you to do your own research and find protocols such as that which I am advocating to you and others on my web site.

The skimpy evidence that the drug company was able to come up with to force doctors in this predicament shows that they have to treat 14 patients for a full year with the toxic substance (it is what we use for rat poison) in order to have one less thromboembolic event than would have otherwise occurred. That means 14 patients are placed at considerable risk for a full year, and incur a lot of inconvenience and expense in order to have avoided one less heart attack or stroke between them all. And guess what? That is their best study and when repeated, by the luck associated with the selection of patients for another study, the so-called benefit may not even be seen again!

There are many reasons for temporary existence of skipped beats, particularly fever and stress. But, the drug companies have lots of m^ney to push their products into the poor consumer through the doctor. With grants and st^ck options they buy the approval of some big medical heart specialists, who then become the authorities and the doctors without the experience are hard pressed to challenge these well-funded pseudo authorities. These authorities then make sure that lots of prescriptions are written by setting up artificial standards so that your doctor is afraid to ignore this Coumadin recommendation. In fact, the drug company makes sure that hospital charts are reviewed to see how many more patients could have been pushed into taking their drug, (under the so-called guidelines for good medical practice they push through the system) and the doctors cannot stand up to this peer pressure.

You have a way out and that is to use your right to freedom of choice and even though you are not an expert in blood clots, you do have common sense and know how to use a computer and the Internet. Why not do your own research and see what kind of a safe program with proven benefits you can find that does not carry all of these tremendous risks associated with Coumadin and other medications? Start with something as simple as Omega-3 (fish) oil, which can do better than aspirin in studies on preventing blood clots. The recent past-president of the American Heart Association, writing as editor for the 40-year study on why heart patients die, concluded that aspirin only addresses 1 of the 3 pathways involved in producing these fatal blood clots.

Remember, it is hard for you to know how they manipulate the statistics, so it is hard for you to understand just how small the actual proven benefits with Coumadin are. Since experts worldwide agree that we could avoid at least 70% of all heart attacks and strokes if we did not get these fatal blood clots, then why are we not adding Coumadin to everyone's diet? It is because the harm that they know they would do far exceeds the tiny benefit Coumadin delivers, and to get that tiny benefit they had to select just those patients at greatest risk of serious clot formation.

This is like the scandal over excessive open-heart surgery that continues to this day even though most of us are aware that most of the bypass surgery is today known to be unnecessary. However, the so-called experts still manage to sell this unjustified approach to 500,000 each year but the proliferation of credible alternative information will finally pop that balloon. We can see this already, as more and more patients are refusing such surgeries and choosing far less toxic approaches.

This Coumadin decision then is something that you as a family can also decide to take your own course of action and thank the doctor for his recommendation but politely decide not to follow it. You can even relieve the doctor of the liability he fears by saying that you as a family, having looked into the benefits and the risks, you have decided not to go along with the Coumadin. You could also point out that many new drugs are being developed, clearly showing that all experts see the severe limitations to the Coumadin approach. You can learn more from the book Antithrombotic Therapy by R. Becker, MD, D. Fintel MD and D. Green MD, PhD, second edition from Professional Communications Inc published in 2002. Purchase it from http://www.pcibooks.com or call 1-800-337-9838 to learn all the details about newer drug alternatives to Coumadin.

This book gives you the "success" rate with each study and as you look at it carefully you will see that the risks with drugs that manipulate our bodies' clotting mechanisms are gigantic and frightening, while the benefits are minuscule. I believe that without a doubt anyone doing their homework will find that 98% of the time you will beat the odds published in this book hands down with my oral supplement program. When you want to identify that rare case where some drug, usually heparin, needs to be added to my program, you can send the patient's blood to http://www.thrombocare.com and do the largest number of tests you can get your doctor to order, as the costs are from $3-4,000 and insur^nce generally pays.

Go to that website to learn that with proper testing and treatment more than 1 million lives would be saved each year. I believe that I have a non- toxic approach that exceeds those figures because my approach works with the body. There is one report of excessive bleeding apparently associated with the use of high levels of with fish oils (Omega-3) and the patient had hemorrhagic strokes, but there is no proof that this would not have happened anyway.

It is, however, important for the drug industry to try to find any possible risk with anything that is natural, as their drugs are proven to be the 3rd leading cause of death in our country, so anyone who knows that would obviously use natural approaches first. Thus, you will see a big effort to try to find someone harmed by some vitamin in an effort to keep the population confused enough that they keep swallowing the expensive drugs that are killing them!

The good news is that there are tremendously effective alternative approaches such as Nattokinase, which is found in a world famous formula called Wobenzym, reformulated specifically for this blood clot prevention need as Endozym. Many other nutritional based blood thinners, such as garlic and Omega-3 oils, to vitamin E and ginkgo biloba, are also useful, as is just drinking enough water to stay adequately hydrated at all times.

But, with today's knowledge about how many die of blood clots, I routinely advise an even more aggressive program using things like Nattokinase and oral enzymes and anti-inflammatory products and, in certain cases, having the patients take intravenous oxidative therapies to lower the body's total burden of microbes (pathogens) living in the plaque on our vessels. These additional measures are particularly beneficial for those with known risk factors such as your grandfather has.

Starting in 1983, I worked with Dr. Lester Morrison to develop the nutritional formula Essential Daily Defense, which is a proven oral chelator. Dr. Morrison had focused on the blood-clotting problem using only nutritional approaches for over 10 years as Director of the Arteriosclerosis Research Institute and had spent over $10 million coming up with what was then called the Institute Formula. There are three books on his important research. It had become so successful that he documented, using just his early formula, that I was able to help significantly improve when we added oral EDTA, a 91 % prevention of heart attacks. Today this has evolved into the program that I am advocating and explaining here; I virtually do not hear of anyone having a heart attack or stroke after they begin this program. If someone does get a blood clot, as to the lung, which has happened once in 10 years, I found that the patient had serious underlying genetic propensity to developing a blood clot.

Depending on the abnormality, and the patients’ desires, I may agree that the best approach in those serious cases may be to combine my approach with drugs in low doses (usually heparin), although this is rare. Using low doses avoids most of the dangers of the antithrombotic drugs. Furthermore, since my approach emphasizes trying to avoid blood clots first with things like garlic and ginkgo and vitamin E, only when we are still confronted with a problem do we carefully add a drug to my preferred regime. This approach then ends the nonsense that if you are on the drugs you must not take anything natural to help lower the likelihood of blood clots.

If you read about the very poor record at really lowering the number of deaths from blood clots published in the drug studies, you would agree that to bet your life on just the drug approach is a truly uninformed approach. The experts readily admit that none of the drugs to prevent blood clots are very effective, and due to their toxicity, they have been reluctant to combine the drugs to try and get a broader spectrum of blood thinning benefits, which I can safely do with my nutritional approach. Much of that blood thinning benefit in Essential Daily Defense is from the unique type of mucopolysaccarides from Red Algae, which is significantly enhanced because of the presence of EDTA, and which also increases blood flow by simply getting out lead that inhibits the production of nitric oxide (the body's natural blood vessel dilator). EDTA in the presence of certain sulfated polysaccharides produces a safe, gentle, heparin-like effect. This product has been improved and reformulated by me over the years and incorporates natural heparin/Coumadin-like action along with orally effective chelation, so that patients get detoxified safely while helping to prevent the blood clots that your grandfather's doctor is rightfully concerned about. It also has organic garlic, which is a safe, natural blood thinner and major detoxifier. People taking adequate levels of this product not only avoid unsafe excessive clotting tendencies, they also safely lower their toxic metal load, including lead and mercury.

You will see even quicker and stronger benefits if you can also afford to see a chelation doctor and receive some more aggressive detoxification and possibly also some oxidative therapy (such as H202, Ozone or UVB or HBO), which only trained chelation/oxidative doctors can provide. These intravenous therapies are necessary for maximum benefits and are what I tell everyone to obtain who is not seeing rapid enough benefits from aggressive oral programs.

Since none of us are adequately detoxified today, even if we eat organically, I recommend that everyone interested in optimizing health and vitality (and achieving their maximum intended lifespan) should detoxify continuously everyday with some type of detoxification therapy. A very affordable adjunctive approach is to simply add proven, effective, homeopathic detoxification products (See HEEL in Albuquerque, N.M. for their DETOX kit and or go to http://www.Shelton.com).

However, some of us are so mercury toxic today that it may be necessary to add small amounts of oral DMSA or DMPS and/or penicillamine, to hasten the excretion so that the benefits of heavy metal detoxification can be enjoyed more rapidly. Other natural detoxification methods for heavy metals include alpha lipoic acid (I prefer the fat and water soluble formula called Thio Gel), and extra intake of vitamin C. Today we all need detoxification as we all have at least 90 provable dangerous immune suppressing cancer causing, neurotoxic chemicals in our bloodstream at all times, making optimal health impossible for anyone not detoxifying continuously!

What I have attempted to do in this reply is to provide information to help educate you so that you may make a more informed decision as to what to do for yourself and your grandfather. I insist that patients who choose to discontinue taking Coumadin make this decision on their own, since in our litigious society I cannot make that recommendation, except for patients I have personally evaluated, or those who have had the panel of tests offered by Thrombocare so we know what we are dealing with.

For more on this and other topics related to improving your health, I invite you to visit my website, http://www.gordonresearch.com, where you will find a wealth of additional articles and published research.

[Note: Dr. Garry Gordon’s nutritional formulas will soon be available through 1HealthyWorld.com. Keep reading The Health Plus Letter for further details.]


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Understanding Emotions From the Wisdom Level by Valerie Hunt, Ph.D.

Each of you reading my thoughts about emotions will filter these through what you “know’ about them. In a sense, you are your own expert. You have experienced emotions in utero, throughout this life and in other lifehooods. Your beliefs about emotions were formulated from these experiences, and strengthened by what you gained from experts.

Do you know that there is more printed material about the psychology of emotions than about any other subject ever written? Yet your experiences and the written words overwhelmingly focus upon one level of emotions: on the material, rational level of I, my and me, the physical and personal selves. Even Freud’s formulation of the super and sub conscious saw emotions as connected to every day operation in the world, not to the soul.

Despite what we accept, as the world’s consciousness expands, we seek deeper levels of understanding about everything and especially emotional happenings. We intuitively know that the human “soul”, the highest level of human existence, is somehow deeply involved. But remember that the soul is not a higher self. It is the highest self.

For over 40 years I have been a counselor assisting people to advance in spiritual knowing. This is how I learned that the soul level is the source of all emotional strengths and weaknesses in human life.

My Beliefs About Emotions

Emotion is the metronome of life. It is organized energy that is patterned to keep us alive and make our lives richer and more satisfying. Emotion is energy directed to action, to behave. Simultaneously emotion is a feeling state, which may accompany action or precede it. The direction of action and feelings comes from the emotional programming of our patterns laid down by experiences of living in this and other lifehoods. In other words, we “softwire” programs ourselves. We spiritual counselors learned that all profound emotions , even those triggered by present body-ego-self threats, have their source in the deep programming of soul experiences.

The Function Of Emotions

To remove life threats.
The most difficult emotions come from physical life threats. These may be so intense that we fear our conscious “will” cannot control them. All behavior and feelings, sometimes even simple reflexes, are emotionally charged and directed. The quantity of energy dictates the available strength of action and feelings. Emotional patterns were established throughout lifehoods in order to handle in the best way possible personally strong emotional energies, and are programmed on various levels. Where and how this emotional energy is manifested ultimately comes from the Master Program to protect and embellish the soul.

With imagined or potential threats to life electromagnetic energy is directed to eliminate that threat with God ordained feelings of anger. Whenever we are in a situation where we feel emotionally or physically threatened, our response is anger, giving us energy to solve the problem or run away from it. If a situation is so overwhelmingly threatening our response may be acute fear, which does not activate energy but freezes it. Sometimes inconspicuousness protects us.

When the above solutions are unavailable or can’t be constructively used , the anger may turn against people or ourselves, with bodily disturbances. With no solution, the active anger may be drained off in depression or, if it remains, we may choose a psychotic altered state escape. To solve feelings of despair we inevitably seek the ultimate help: God’s help. Our requests are dependent pleading or angry demanding. If we feel we are not getting any help from the divine source we turn away from spiritual thoughts and remain angry with God. This level of emotional processing is totally oblivious to most people. However we must be able to experience this ultimate anger in order to receive the divine guidance. Then there is blessing, understanding and peace.

We generally interpret aggressive emotion as bad and unpleasant because if intense it can be irrational and unacceptable to the consciousness. Whenever emotional energy is activated there are feeling states not always directly related. Often the feelings stem from how we try to cope with the raw destructive energy –how we have learned to handle these. Ideally the feeling states should be directly geared to the direction and power of the energy action. All of the above anger reactions are similar whether the threat is body-self destruction or soul annihilation but the difference is in the intensity of the emotion. Soul destruction is exponentially stronger and less controllable.

To embellish life
Emotions directed toward enjoyment are equally important and far more pleasant. They enable us:

To feel the sensual pleasure of the body and that we are loved and protected.

To experience awe at the glorious wonders of nature as these unfold in living things.

To behold the beauty of sunrise and sunset, the rainbow, the sparkle of mist and the twinkle of stars.

To accept praise bestowed upon us because of accomplishment.

To experience the profoundness of great art, music and the written and spoken word.

All of these pleasures come from emotional energy and feelings stimulated by the senses on a self, ego and personal level. However if the emotional energy is strong enough it can move our consciousness to the divine, highest self, to the soul level where we recognize the profound greatness of our soul, where we are in direct contact with the divine, the source of our experience. At this soul level these emotions are profound, overwhelming and beyond explanation.

Why Understand Both Levels Of Emotions

If we are on the path to expand our consciousness and gain wisdom and peace, our only barriers are our emotional energy patterns. If our goal is to have command over emotional energies to improve our life and health, to find our profound capabilities and happiness we must choose experiences that help us understand the emotional energy patterns, the drives, inhibitions and the elegance at the soul level. Our goal must be emotional maturity where energies are f*r*e*e to be felt, to be understood, and directed by our higher “will” with a full range of consciousness. Emotional energies must be available, dynamic and enjoyed.

Emotional change is a process like meditation where we grow in understanding of our patterns, where they came from, their limitations and how they served us even if not well. But it is more than intellectual understanding; it requires a strong emotional commitment, a dedication and a willingness to give up the old patterns, so we are in command of our emotions rather than they in command of us. Such change is difficult. Intellectual decisions do not eliminate the unacceptable emotional patterns so firmly grooved into our recorded subconscious plan. These records must be emotionally re-confronted over and over again. With time these can change. Some impatience is good; too much blocks the process.

How Do I Go About It?

We all want a technique to shorten and clarify our path to enlightenment. First we must rearrange our lives to provide time, quiet, and learn to meditate. Meditation techniques from Zen, Tao, religious and shamanic philosophies based upon belief systems are effective for some people to live a more spiritually peaceful life. These techniques are weak in assisting us to successfully redirect deep emotional patterns so we can operate with strength and wisdom in all levels of our human lives. So often we get caught up in the process of meditation, believing it is enlightenment rather than the path that we have chosen. Too easily we accept some meditative philosophies that outline these stages of enlightenment as expansion and elevation. They easily allow us to get lost in powerful experiences so grand to remember but that have little impact upon the wisdom of our living.

Regardless of what techniques you follow you must confront and change your emotional patterning. I think it is comforting but incorrect to believe that if you hit conscious peaks all limitation will fall away. You can substitute or transcend temporarily but that does not bring spiritual and material wisdom.

I hope you can learn that you are your best teacher, because you and you alone know the source and all the correct answers to your emotional patterning. Quietly ask your higher self for directions. Put a damper on your brain figuring out the answer. Listen to your mind divulge the answers. These answers can intuitively hit a bingo, jackpot. If they don’t, contemplate the information and put it on the shelf. If it is correct, it will return. If not, you should and will forget it. Remember that the mind is extremely creative in coping with emotions. Don’t get led down a “primrose path”. Such an approach will redirect the goals of your meditation.

My eBook Mind Mastery Meditations has helped many people use meditation to realign emotional energies toward wisdom.


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Recipe Of The Week

Chilled Indian-Spiced Tomato Soup With Crabmeat

This soup can be pureed by pressing it through a strainer or a food mill. It can also be pureed in a blender and then strained.

Spice mix:
1 tablespoon cumin seeds
1 tablespoon coriander seeds
1 tablespoon fennel seeds
1 teaspoon yellow mustard seeds
1 teaspoon black peppercorns

Soup:
6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 cups chopped celery
1 1/2 cups chopped onion
1 cup chopped carrots
1/4 cup chopped peeled fresh ginger (from about 3-inch-long piece)
6 garlic cloves, chopped
1 pound red bell peppers, chopped
1 3/4 cups chopped fresh fennel bulb
3 pounds plum tomatoes, diced (about 8 cups)
5 1/4 cups vegetable broth
2 teaspoons (about) hot pepper sauce
1 pound fresh crabmeat, picked over
Thinly sliced radishes
Chopped fresh chives

For spice mix:

Toast all ingredients in heavy medium skillet over medium heat until spices darken slightly in color and start to pop, stirring occasionally, about 7 minutes. Cool in skillet. Transfer to spice mill and grind finely.

For soup:

Heat oil in heavy large pot over medium-high heat. Add celery, onion, and carrots. Sauté until vegetables soften slightly, about 8 minutes. Add ginger and garlic and sauté for 3 minutes. Add bell peppers and fennel. Stir for 2 minutes to coat. Add tomatoes; cook until tomatoes soften and break down, stirring often, about 8 minutes. Add broth and bring soup to boil. Reduce heat to medium; simmer until all vegetables are tender, about 25 minutes. Add ground spice mix; return soup to boil. Remove from heat; cover and steep 20 minutes.

Place coarse sieve over large bowl. Working with 2 cups at a time, strain soup into bowl, pressing liquid and most of solids through sieve. Season soup to taste with hot pepper sauce, salt, and pepper. Refrigerate soup until cold, at least 3 hours. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and keep refrigerated.)

Ladle soup into shallow bowls. Divide crabmeat among bowls. Garnish with radish slices and chives.

Serves eight.

I found this recipe at http://www.epicurius.com.

For additional healthy recipes, please visit http://www.1healthyworld.com/recipes, which features a new recipe each day.


Reader Feedback

Barbara B. from New Zealand, commenting on last issue’s articles by Dr. Garry Gordon and Jon Rappoport, writes: “It may have been your publication that saved my life. Somewhere I read that a teaspoon of Cayenne pepper in a cup of hottish water would save most hearts if given in time. Well, I shot a clot about 3 weeks ago and can tell you without a doubt that, second only to prayer, this is a treatment of choice.

“Jon Rappoport is spot on as usual. The AIDS virus mutates so fast that making a vaccine is like shooting at a moving target. The tests used to detect HIV are notoriously inaccurate.

Enjoy your work no end so please keep it coming.”

You can count on it, Barbara. But I can’t cre∼dit The Health Plus Letter for the cayenne pepper tip. Perhaps you read it in Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide, which I created with my friend Burton Goldberg.

Also commenting on Jon Rappoport’s article about how misleading blood tests that rely on antibodies to detect disease can be was D. H., who writes: “The argument about the lack of specificity of antibodies is one of the basic premises in a book by Gary Null: AIDS, A Second Opinion. He notes that there are dozens of conditions which can cause a positive HIV test, including malaria, TB, parasites, auto-immune disease, pregnancy, etc.”

Gary Null’s book does an excellent job of looking past the official story about AIDS and HIV, and in point of fact the two most common tests for the HIV virus are both notorious for the high percentage of false positive readings they produce. Gary Null is a very knowledgeable writer on a wide range of holistic health issues, but Jon, to my knowledge, was one of the first investigative reporters to point out these and many other facts that call into question the so-called HIV hypothesis. I recommend his book, AIDS, Inc., which you can read in its entirety on the membership section of his website, http://www.nomorefakenews.com.

Linda Paulhus asks: “Where can I find the complete article from the U.S. Council of Environmental Quality regarding the 93% increase in cancer with chlorinated water?”

I found the statistic in an article you can read at: http://www.jyi.org/volumes/volume5/issue4/features/vora.html which also includes a bibliography and links to further info on the subject.

Linda is the publisher of the website http://www.alsalternative.com, a moving and informative resource for anyone interested in learning more about ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases.


Recommendations

Websites:
http://www.localharvest.org - Do you want to buy fresh, locally grown organic food but don’t know where to find it? Then this is the site for you. You can locate the farms, farmers’ markets, food co-ops, and restaurants in your area that grow or carry organically-raised food. A truly excellent resource for anyone who wants to eat healthy!

http://www.altenergy.org - The online home of the Alternative Energy Institute, this fascinating site provides a wealth of information (much of it technical) on viable alternative sources of energy, which, if adapted on a global scale, would literally create a new paradigm of existence on this planet.

http://www.bringthemhomenow.org - This site, developed and overseen by military families, veterans, active duty personnel, reservists and others opposed to the ongoing war in Iraq, provides an excellent source of information about what are troops are really dealing with. It also contains a links directory of other sites of interest.

Books:
Evolution’s End by Joseph Chilton Pearce. Pearce has for decades been exploring and writing about human development and consciousness, and how five common practices of modern society interfere with Nature’s intent for our species. He maintains that “[w]ithin each human being lies the potential to achieve evolution’s highest f*o*r*m,” but that, because of these societal practices, we have “locked ourselves into the lowest level of the brain-mind structure-a level that has led us into a cultural state bordering on futility and despair.” But instead of making for a depressing read, this book ultimately provides an inspiring and optimistic roadmap fro how each of us “may pass through the forces that impede us and come to the next step in human evolution.”

A Murder, A Mystery, and A Marriage by Mark Twain. Lost and unpublished until 2001, this whimsical, short novella hardly ranks among Twain’s best efforts, but it’s still very entertaining, and the accompanying Forward and Afterward written by Roy Blount, Jr. provides fascinating information about one of my all-time favorite writers.


Humor: The Amazing Brain

My friend Steve Lazarek sent me this:

The brain does amazing things, doesn't it?
Instructions: Just read the sentence straight through.

“Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.”

See you next Tuesday.

Health and Blessings!

And don’t forget your chance to receive a f*r*e*e* eBook of your choice from 1HealthyWorld, as well as autographed copies of three of my critically-acclaimed health books. For details, see http://www.1healthyworld.com/ezine/vol1no7.cfm and read the What’s New section.

Larry Trivieri, Jr (larry@1healthyworld.com)


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