The Health Plus Letter
August 1, 2006, Vol. 4, No. 14
By Larry Trivieri, Jr. – founder & publisher,
http://www.1healthyworld.com
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Table Of Contents
New This Issue
Quote of the Day
Fast Fact
The Medical Gestapo Strikes Again-Update
Self-Care Tips for Dealing with
Recommendations
Reader Feedback
Medical F/r/e/edom
New This Issue
Welcome to another issue of The Health Plus Letter. I’m traveling this week, so this will be shorter than usual and feature answers to various comments I’ve received from readers. You’ll also find self-care tips for dealing with , as well an update on the medical mafia (to quote C. Norman Shealy)’s attempts to force a teenager to forgo alternative cancer treatment and to undergo continued chemotherapy, which he says is "killing” him.
As always, please continue to send me your comments and suggestions. And please spread the word about The Health Plus Letter by passing it along to your friends and inviting them to subscribe.
Quotes Of The Day
“All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Violence is the last resort of the incompetent.”
-- Isaac Asimov
Fast Fact
Compared to the rest of the world, the United States ranks number 1 in terms of its total health care costs, yet only 72nd in terms of the results medical care in the U.S. achieves each year.
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The Medical Gestapo Strikes Again – An Update
Last issue, I told you how Virginia social workers attempted to force 16-year-old Abraham Cherrix to undergo continued courses of chemotherapy and radiation to treat his Hodgkin’s disease, despite Abraham’s desire (with the full approval of his parents) to pursue an alternative cancer treatment in Mexico. Abraham based his decision on the fact that three months of conventional cancer treatments had not worked and had, in his own words, “almost killed me.” Because of Abraham’s decision, a Virginia judge named Jesse E. Demps, ordered Abraham’s parents to share custody of him with Virgina’s County Department of Social Services, and ordered Abraham to report to the hospital to begin another course of chemotherapy. Fortunately, Virginia’s governor stepped in to void the judge’s ruling pending an appeal by Abraham and his parents. But whether Abraham will be able to continue the course of treatment he prefers still remains to be seen.
Shortly after I wrote last week’s article, a health writer named Maia Szalavitz posted an article on the self-proclaimed progressive, liberal website The Huffington Post. The gist of Szalavitz’s piece was that Abraham and his parents were being duped by quackery and that the state had every right to protect him from his gullibility. A closer reading of her piece has me convinced that Szalavitz is a shill for Cancer, Inc., although I cannot prove that. Whether she is or not, she is definitely out of her depth when it comes to intelligently and accurately discussing viable alternative cancer treatments, as well as the so-called success of Cancer, Inc. Points which I made clear to her in a series of back and forth rebuttals that are part of other comments to her post (most of them, thankfully, disagreeing with her). I encourage you to read her article to get a better sense of how journalists, whether knowing or not, can spin medical facts to the benefit of the medical establishment. Szalavitz’s post, as well as my own and others’ comments, can be found here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/starchild-cherrix-case-_b_25919.html
As new information about Abraham’s case develops, I will keep you updated on it.
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Self-Care Tips for Dealing With Hangover
Hangover is not a health condition, but a condition of discomfort that follows excess drinking of alcohol the night before. The most common symptoms of hangover are headache, fatigue, “brain fog,” grogginess, and sometimes nausea. In some cases, hangover can lead to vomiting as the body attempts to expel the residual alcohol that remains in the person’s system.
Excess alcohol consumption is a health hazard. If you find yourself experiencing hangover on a regular basis, you could be suffering from alcohol addiction, in which case you should seek immediate medical attention and counseling.
Self-Care
Diet: Eat a piece of dry whole grain bread before drinking or before going to bed. This will help absorb alcohol and minimize after-effects. Upon awakening the next morning, drink a glass of orange juice or tomato juice. To counteract the dehydration that results from excess alcohol consumption, drink several glasses of pure, filtered water before going to bed and upon rising, preferably adding the juice of a fresh-squeezed lemon if available.
Nutritional Supplementation: The following supplements are advised: vitamin B complex, vitamin C, and lipotropic factors that contain cysteine and folic acid to aid in liver detoxification.
Supplementing with the amino acid glutamine (2 grams taken in divided doses throughout the day, away from meals) can also help. More importantly, glutamine has been shown to significantly reduce the craving for alcohol in 90 percent of cases.
Aromatherapy: Rosemary, rose, and fennel are useful essential oils for reducing the effects of hangover.
Herbs: Digestive bitter herbs can help clear a hangover if taken first thing in the morning or last thing the night before. Take 1/4 teaspoon of a tincture combination of digestive bitters or, as an alternative, combine gentian, mugwort, and dandelion root tinctures and take in the same amount.
Homeopathy: Nux vom., Arsen alb., Aconite, Sulfur, and Lachesis are helpful homeopathic remedies.
Hydrotherapy: Take a hot sho/wer followed by 2-5 minutes of a cold sho/wer. The bracing effects of such a sho/wer will help shake off feelings of grogginess and fatigue.
Note: My providing this information should in no way be construed as an endorsement for drinking alcohol.
(The above information is adapted from Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide, edited and co-written by Larry Trivieri, Jr.)
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Recommendation
Last week, I highly recommended The Holistic Dental Digest Plus, a bi-monthly newsletter that has been published for 27 years by Dr. Jerome Mittleman, DDS, and Beverly Mittleman, BS, CNC. Upon doing so, Dr. Mittleman contacted me to say that he would be happy to provide anyone who requests it a f.r.e.e sample copy. If you are interested, please email me you name and address, and I’ll forward your contact info to him.
Reader Feedback
Jim R, writes: “In the book Infinite Mind Ms. hunt tells about a lady Emilie Conrad who said, ‘I create a field of energy and ride it.’ What is this field, how is it created, is it possible for anyone to create this ‘energy field’”?
To which I responded:
All of us are surrounded by what Valerie Hunt calls a human mind field, which is also known as the aura, etc.
Dr. Hunt's research proves that this field directly responds to our predominant emotions (even more than to our thoughts) and that optimal health depends on the field being coherent and fluid (meaning that all aspects of its electromagnetic frequencies and related energies be available to us at any time as appropriate). Few human beings live in that empowered state, however. Even when we are seemingly healthy, most of us tend to access only part of the full range of these frequencies and energies. People who regularly meditate in a passive fashion, for example have been found by Valerie to do well with the so-called higher frequencies but to have problems dealing with and expressing the energies of the so-called lower energies that correspond to the "lower" chakras or energy centers. As a result, Dr. Hunt has found such people typically have a greater predisposition towards developing cancer since they have problems with expressing and owning their anger, feeling that doing so is somehow "not spiritual"
I can't say for certain what Emilie means by her statement above, yet I can say that all of us are capable of extending our energy field once we become aware of it and start to master it. The active (in the sense that they call into play the Imagination and Will) meditations that Dr. Hunt has developed are intended to help us achieve such mastery. On the written page, they seem deceptively simple and possibly unlikely to work. My own experience puts such assumptions to rest, however. I've found that they very quickly enable me to be aware of my field, notice where it may be "blocked," and allow me to undo such blockages easily and powerfully.
I hope this goes at least part of the way towards answering your questions. The best answers, however, come from experimenting with the meditations themselves, as well as with other forms of, for lack of a better word, energy medicine.
Rita L asks, “Hi, Larry. Since you’ve raised the issue of politics in recent issues of The Health Plus Letter, I’d like to ask you what your own political orientation is?”
Fair enough, Rita. First off, I don’t put a lot of sto.ck in politics, per se, especially these days when, as far as I’m concerned, both major political parties are in thrall to vested corporate interests, and therefore ignoring the needs and wishes of “we the people.” As I’ve already made clear, I also feel that our current White House administration, as well as both houses of Congress, rank among the most corrupt in our nation’s history.
That said, my own political leanings are libertarian (small l) in nature and similar, I believe, to the intent of our nation’s Founding Fathers (most of them, anyway). In other words, I am very much a conservative when it comes to fiscal policies and the federal government, and a liberal when it comes to the rights of all of us to live our lives as we so choose, so long as we do no harm to others. I am opposed in principle to nearly all federal programs, both because they are not sanctioned by our Constitution and Bill of Rights, and because they almost always prove to be miserable failures. To whit, for example, our medical freedoms were much more widely intact when there was no federal Dept. Of Health and Human Services (which includes the FDA), and our resistance to cancer was much better before the federal government, beginning with Richard Nixon, got involved in the “war against cancer” (one in ten people got cancer when Nixon declared this so-called war; today, nearly 50 percent of all men an women living in the US will develop cancer, despite hundreds of billions of dollars being spent by the federal government to fund cancer research), and so forth (the examples I can site are many).
I believe that each of us is completely responsible for all aspects of our individual lives, and that looking to the government, or anyone else, to solve our problems is inevitably futile. The fact that so many of us shun that responsibility makes it all the more easier for politicians to seduce us with promises that they will look out for us, something they rarely do, yet something that invariably sees those who are seduced all too eager to trade in their freedoms for the illusion of security.
Given the humungous size of the federal government, these days, along with the burgeoning bureaucracies of our state and local governments, I am not one to waste my time trying to change the world, as it were. Rather, I do my best to learn all I can in order to best be able to responsibly care for myself and those I love and am responsible for, without relying on government or other services unless absolutely necessary. (So far, I have never had to resort to calling upon such services.) And I also strive to keep free from the various entanglements that exist these days because of our corporatist federal state.
I could go on, yet I think that’s enough about politics this time around (though I’m sure the subject will arise again in future issues.
Medical F/r/e/edom
Please contact and support the following organizations dedicated to protecting our health freedoms.
Citizens for Health - http://www.citizens.org
Alliance for Natural Health – http://www.alliance-natural-health.org (The leading organization fighting to preserve health f/r/e/edom in England and the EU.)
Institute for Health F/r/e/edom – http://www.ForHealthF/r/e/edom.org
International Advocates for Health F/r/e/edom (IAHF) – http://www.iahf.com
And to learn how corrupt and extensive Big Pharma’s monopoly is, visit http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/online/research/index.html the website for the Campaign Against Fraudulent Medical Research. In particular, read their in-depth report The Pharmaceutical Drug Racket that you will find th/e/re.
That’s all for this week.
Health and Blessings!
Larry Trivieri, Jr. (larry@1healthyworld.com)
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