 in a very discouraged
frame of mind. I had a strong medical background1 and a long history of
medical treatment, but for as long as I could remember, I had never
really felt well. Excess weight was not my major concern at that time,
although I'm not saying it wasn't one of my concerns. 1 must confess,
though, from my early teens 1 had not been happy with the shape of my
body, and since that time I had always worn high heels to achieve a
thinner look. My real problem, although I did not know it at the time, was that I was
totally out of energy. I felt terrible, and I was having a great deal of
trouble coping with my life. Actually what I was experiencing was not an
1 During my childhood my father was a biochemist at the National Institutes of Health in Bcthcsda,
Maryland. He subsequently held positions as department head of Microbiology and Molecular Biol
ogy at New York University Medical School and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is pres
ently the dean of the Graduate School of Medicine at Cornell University. The medical and scientific professions have an all-encompassing life-style in which I was very
much involved as my father's child. I worked in his laboratory during summer vacations, and under
his influence 1 studied biology and chemistry in college. • 109 • uncommon phenomenon. Conditions of negative energy are the basis of
many of the physical, psychological, and emotional problems being expe
rienced by men, women, and children in this country. My symptoms
were not unusual: stomach pain, embarrassing skin eruptions, depression,
confusion, sudden mood swings, and emotional outbursts. What fright
ened me was that they were becoming progressively worse. After having
been so highly motivated in college that I had been Phi Beta Kappa and
magna cum laude, at the age of thirty-one, with two small children, I
spent much of my time in depression and tears, wondering how I was
ever going to feel well enough to get on with my life. No amount of
drugs, treatment, or therapy that I had had over the years had done any
thing to change or improve my situation. In all the time that I had been
medicated for a nervous stomach and debilitated digestive tract, been
tranquilized for nervous tension, taken injection therapy for pain, and
theorized with the "experts" about my physical, mental, and emotional
"dis-ease," no one ever asked me what I was eating! Harvey did! Natural Hygiene, as Harvey was teaching it, supplied me with answers
about my health that I had all but given up on finding. What did I learn? Everything I needed to know to help myself feel well! I learned that I was
in pain and out of energy because for most of my life I had been overtax
ing my system with the wrong kinds of foods. Because for so many de
cades in this country breast-feeding had not been in vogue, I had been
among the millions of babies who never received breast milk, the only
food naturally intended for and suitable to the young of the human spe
cies. In his most recent book, How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of
Your Doctor, Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn writes, "Breast-feeding lays the
foundation for healthy physical and emotional growth... Mother's
milk, time-tested for millions of years, is the best nutrient for babies be
cause it is nature's perfect food. "2
How did we in our society arrive at that place of ignorance where we
actually didn't know what a difference breast-feeding would make in the
future health of our children? Dr. Mendelsohn places the blame firmly
with the commercially motivated formula manufacturers and the pedi
atricians who help them sell their formulas. He faults obstetricians and
pediatricians for failing to emphasize strongly enough the importance of
breast-feeding. As a result, millions of children in our society have been
and continue to be raised on formula and cow's milk, which are over
laden with protein and which some researchers feel contain a coarser and
therefore less absorbable calcium than that found in mother's milk. In
my case, this led to a highly acidic condition in my young body, incredi-
2Robcrt S. Mendelsohn. M.D. How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor. Chicago:
Contemporary Books, Inc., 1984: 46-47. (Italics are Dr. Mendelsohn's.) 110'FIT FOR LIFE bly debilitating bouts of hives, joint problems that ultimately necessitated
surgery in both knees, and a weakened nervous system. As is typical in
our country I had been raised on meat from a very early age. As a natural
vegetarian (although I didn't find this out until the age of thirty-one), my
inability to digest meat resulted in persistent and painful digestive diffi
culties. I had a gourmet background (my mother was a talented hostess
and an accomplished gourmet cook) and had traveled considerably from
early childhood. I was exposed to international cuisine at an early age. As
a college student I had the opportunity to work with a French provincial
cook, Armand Ducellier, in Avignon, France. All of this was very much
part of my identity and my life-style, and at first it was hard for me to see
it as the root of my health problems. But the plain fact was that the foods
I had been eating were wreaking havoc on my body, leaving me with no
energy to cope with anything else in my life. When I put into practice the principles that Harvey recommended,
which are the same that he has just outlined for you, / lost twenty
pounds! In a matter of only six weeks, and for the first time in my adult
life, I was proud of and comfortable with the shape of my body. That is an
exhilarating feeling that everyone deserves! Even more important for me,
however, was my change in outlook. The cloud of depression under
which I had been living for years began to lift. I began to experience
whole days of tranquillity. Only someone who has suffered the drain of
mental and physical depression can understand what a breakthrough that
can be. As my body worked to put itself back into balance, I could see
that I was going to be able to live the productive and fulfilling life that
had once been my dream. I felt as if I were coming back to the land of
the living! One thing was apparent from the outset: It would be necessary to shed
my traditional gourmet approach to food preparation if I was determined
to feel consistently well. This became apparent for me during detoxifica
tion? as my taste buds would periodically yearn for past addictions, and
the indulging of those addictions would immediately make me feel un
well again. Working with Harvey, 1 began to focus on what people would
do when they, like me, became aware of the importance of healthy
weight loss. How would they make a comfortable transition from their
traditional eating habits? What I needed and what others would need was
an exciting new approach to delicious yet nutritious food that would
please palates, fulfill physiological needs, and permit detoxification. Using my creative energies (which were always at their fullest in the
kitchen), and pulling from my extensive background in gourmet cooking
'Remember, a most important aspect of detoxification is healthy weight loss! INTRODUCTION • HI and the culinary arts, I began to develop a HIGH-ENERGY approach to
nutritious home cooking that would satisfy desires for variety and flavor
and keep me on a detoxification program, feeling better and stronger with
each passing day. Subsequently, in addition to my exposure to and stud
ies of French and Italian haute cuisine and American and ethnic cuisine,
I studied food artistry, Chinese food preparation, and the cuisines of In
dia and the Middle East. During that time I also received a masters de
gree in nutritional science from the American College of Health Science. Harvey had been involved in Natural Hygiene for six years before
meeting me, and he was much more comfortable on a regimen of fruits
and vegetables than I was. He had already been through the transition
period when one gives up many of the foods that are not beneficial and
learns to substitute new foods that are. He had already conquered most of
the cravings that I was just beginning to deal with. Harvey taught me
many of the meals that he had enjoyed at the beginning of his transition,
but we both realized that for the "detoxification and permanent slenderiz
ing of America" a very wide variety of meals would have to be developed
so that the experience could be enjoyable rather than clinical. Our meals
became a real challenge for me to see what I could come up with that
would be delicious and satisfying, that the kids would love, and that
would be good for all of us. It required me to be newly creative with
vegetables! Frequently mealtime became a bustling family endeavor. That time was a great deal of fun, and we have wanted our program to
maintain that joyous spirit so that one's becoming "fit for life" can be the
wonderful beginning of the best part of ones life. These endeavors are the
basis of the program that we are presenting to you. These are menus that
allow eating to be a celebration for your taste


 fasting, you may experience un-
pleasant sensations, weakness and pain in some
parts of the body. That’s why a person who’s ig-
norant about fasting may f eel that their body is
being irreparably destroyed during fasting.
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essentially an upgraded intestinal canal. And, to
be fair, they aren’t really exaggerating the im-
portance of this organ. After all, it is in the intes-
tinal canal that all the vital digestive processes
take place.
The majority of the substances necessary for
the body is absorbed through the intestinal walls.
It turns out that a person’s health directly de-
pends on the state of their bowels. But a n irreg-
ular, unbalanced diet leads to waste accumulat-
ing on the intestinal walls. These dense deposits
impede the absorption of nutrients, produce
toxins, disturb intestinal peristalsis. As a result,
a person often experiences weakness, irritability,
const ipation, skin breakouts, weight problems.
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with serious ailments.
Out of all bowel segments, the large intestine is
especially susceptible to toxin accumulation.
Since the gastrointestinal tract is rich in its own
endocrine ‘taps’, which change their activity un-
der the influence of changes, related to metabo-
lism in the bowels, this system in our body pri-
marily provides normal regulation of metabolic
processes, their correspondence with metabolic
and adaptive cha nges. And, of course, all these
systems are dominated by the nervous system,
which controls the overall coordination of all the
systems’ activities.
That’s why it’s quite appropriate that diseases
of organs and systems that, at first sight, are un-
related to the bowels, during their course are
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ticular, a decrease in its barrier function. In this
case, the ejection of intestinal toxins into the
blood and lymph of the sick organism increases,
which substantially in creases the accumulation
of endotoxins in the organism and leads to the
development of endotoxicosis — accumulation
of toxic substances in tissue and intracellular
fluid. These substances can affect the flow of
metabolic processes in the cell, disturb the regu-
lation of bioprocesses. Digestive tract diseases
can create more than 100 different complica-
tions: food allergy, eczema, arthritis, spondylitis,
schizophrenia… The list goes on.
According to scientists, in cases of chronic in-
testinal diseases one of th e causes of internal or-
gans and systems pathology may be linked to the
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components. This can be caused by loss of nutri-
ents due to diarrhea, excessive bacterial growth
or change in intestinal wall permeability.
People affected by similar bowel dysfunction
develop all kinds of different diseases quickly
and easily. Under these circumstances, the prob-
ability of fatal outcome increases, and the
chances for the organism to conquer the disease
and for the person to get well decrease. In other
words, if functional and pathological changes
arise in the digestive tract, the body stops receiv-
ing enough nutrients. The state of the micro-
scopic flora fluctuations, resulting in the im-
mune system weakening and the organism be-
coming defenseless against even the smallest
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trophic diseases arises.

Enterosorption - an effective means of intes-
tinal rejuvenation and cleansing
Currently enterosorption is one of the best
means of life prolongation (organism rejuvena-
tion). Enterosorption is effective, simple and
safe. We definitely have to take advantage of it!
Medicine widely employs a method of blood
purification called hemosorption. This method
entails a person’s blood being run through a
sorbent, which extracts a number of harmful
substances from it. Usually, synthetic charcoal is
used as a sorbent. However, these procedures
can turn out to be unsafe for the body. A well -
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kis23 effectively used enterosorption to increase
lifespan. The important point is that a person se-
cretes up to 10 -12 liters of digestive juices per
day. The liquid part of these juices is filtered out
from the blood. It’s absorbed back into the blood
in the lower parts of the intest inal canal. There-
fore, when we conduct the sorption of digestive
juices, we can harmlessly purify blood, lymph,
and consequently, intracellular and cellular

23 V. V. Frolkis (1924 -1999), Ukrainian physiologist and geron-
tologist. In Kiev he headed the Department of Aging and the  Labor-
atory of Physiology. His research interests covered all major fields
of experimental gerontology with particular emphasis on neuroh or-
monal mechanisms of aging and longevity. He developed the adap-
tive-regulatory theory of aging. He was the author of more than 700
works, including 25 monographs and 15 handbooks. His fundamen-
tal work is: Starenie i uvelichenie prodolzhitelnosti zhizni   (Aging
and Lifespan Prolongation)  (1991).
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its entirety. It’s crucial that the enterosorbent
also absorbs cholesterol, which is ejected into the
bowels by the gallbladder. This is, perhaps, the
best way to prevent atherosclerosis, which is the
cause of one in two deaths.
28-month -old rats were used in the experi-
ment. The rats were subjected to en terosorption
cycles: for 10 days, a sorbent (synthetic charcoal)
was added to their food, then there was a 30 -day
break. This experiment has led to a 35 % increase
in the rats’ lifespan. The effect of enterosorption
on the cells is so substantial that it affects the rate
of protein synthesis in the organs.
The effect of the enterosorbent on lipid metab-
olism in the body is of huge importance. The
content of total lipids (triglycerides, cholesterol),
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ment of atherosclerosis, in the liver decreases by
about 30%. Similar shifts may be observed in the
brain and heart tissues. The influence of enter-
osorption on lipid metabolism has turned out to
be so substantial that its use restores the struc-
ture of cellular walls! T hat is, something that has
already been destroyed is restored, which means
that the body is rejuvenated! As a result of long
enterosorption, cell damage, connective tissue
growth in the organs and nerve centers begin
significantly later, atrophy is less pr onounced,
there is less vascular sclerosis and more.
Which enterosorbents are best?
Even ordinary dietary fibers (cellulose, which is
the plant cell membrane, etc.) have a minimal ef-
fect.  That’s why you can often hear a
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so-called microcrystalline cellulose is also pro-
duced from plant fiber. But, of course, specially
developed preparations produce the greatest ef-
fect. It can be either ordinary activated charcoal
sold at the drug store, or ‘advanced’ enter-
osorbents  based on apple and citrus pectin with
addition of different plant extracts and healthy
bacteria, which have a cholagogic and general
health -improving effect on both the digestive
tract and the whole organism. Such sorbents in-
clude Toxfighter, Polyphepanum  and others.
The main indicator of an enterosorbent’s effi-


 a meal of raw fruit, there is  usually no discernable rise in the white count. So the rule is this: I f
we can’t eat the food “raw,” if it is not delicious and palatable in its  natural living state, it is not a food for us.

Second Criterion
Does the food introduce harmful or toxic substances into our digestive system?
If the food is proper to the human diet it must contain no  noxious or unwelcome substances. We do not want poisons in our
system, no matter how little or how “mild.” Anything that interfere s with vital activities or destroys cells and tissue is poisonous to ou r
system.
[Author’ s note: Since the time of this writing, science has progressed re markably. W e now know that various toxins
exist even in the most preferable of foods. Terry was correct in his concept, however; j ust the wording was off. I believe
that today he would likely replace the thought of “no” toxins with the reality of “t he lowest possible amount.”]

Third Criterion
Is the food easy of digestion and assimilation?
Foods to which we humans are ideally adapted require a minimum of vital en ergy for their digestion and assimilation. To be of
greatest value to us, foods must be efficiently digested and assimilat ed, granting, of course, that we have unimpaired digestive
systems.
Humans have become highly efficient at digesting and assimilati ng foods to which they, in nature, became adapted. Millions of
years of development made certain foods very easy of digestion—we devel oped constitutions, enzymes, and processes that
appropriated, digested and assimilated certain foods with a minimum expendi ture of vital resources and time.
The water and sugars of fruit, which make up almost its entire digesti ble portion, require virtually no digestion whatever. They
simply require absorption. Shortly after their absorption, they are very e asily and rapidly assimilated.

Fourth Criterion
Does the food contribute a broad range of nutrients? Does the food possess great biological value for us? Though many foods are rather complete in their range of nutrients, non e is suitable for a “mono diet” such as grass is for cattle.
But most of the fruits and vegetables are quite suitable for “monomea ls.” And, certainly, if properly combined, these foods furnish all
the nutrients we humans need.
The objective is not that we should eat a great variety in hopes of getti ng all the nutrients needed, but rather to eat simply to
afford our bodies every opportunity to easily digest and assimilate what th e foods offer. What does it matter the range of nutrients
we put into our bodies if we ingest them in such manner as to vitiate and t ax the digestive process? We can compromise digestion
such that we fail to derive the goodness intended. Thus we would penalize ou r bodies and rob them of nutrients as well.
We should never take more than four or five foods at a single properly prepared a nd combined meal. Almost no preparation
other than cleansing is necessary, but we must make sure to eat in st rictly compatible combinations. The ideal is a single food per
meal! There is no particular penalty in eating two to four different i tems at a meal if they are compatible in the digestive process.
To really simplify the digestive process and to assure ourselves of eas y digestion on a continuing basis, we may select a rather
narrow range of foods according to the season and stick with them. For instan ce, we may make one meal a day of just bananas with
some lettuce and celery and another meal of a salad with citrus and nut s. This can go on day after day in the winter season. In
summer we might have melon rather consistently for just one meal a nd at a second meal of the day, mangos, peaches, or other
summer fruit and a green salad with tomato. The objective is to eat a diet  to which we are biologically adapted, that gives the highest
potential for wonderful health.
Green leaves possess the highest and most complete range of micronutr ients. This is one of the primary reasons we must have
them often in our diet for the best health. Of course the body is provi dent––missing them on occasion is not particularly harmful and
would not prove disastrous unless we missed them for some length of time, us ually months or more.
While we do not spell out the nutrient contents of various foods––that knowl edge not being necessary––we should plan our
meals so that we receive the benefit of foods that complement each other  in their nutrient contents essential in human nutrition. A
variety of fruits and vegetables eaten throughout the year will ea sily guarantee nutritional sufficiency.

Chapter 4. Understanding the Caloronutrient Ratio

W e get our calories from three sources: carbohydrates, proteins, and f ats. I refer to these as “caloronutrients,” a term my wife (who
at that time was known as Professor Rozalind Gruben) and I coined. Thus, I re fer to the proportion of carbohydrates, proteins, and
fats in a person’s diet as their “caloronutrient ratio.” Y ou will s ee these terms used throughout this book. For consistency, I list all
ratios in my writings in the same order: carbohydrates/proteins/f ats (CPF for short), separated by slashes. Thus, “ 80/10/10 ” is
shorthand for 80% carbohydrates, 10% protein, and 10% fat.

“Goldilocks” Nutrition
I believe we benefit from fat—and all other nutrients—in appro priate, moderate amounts. In this book, I propose that too
much of a good thing (in this case fat) is as harmful, and in many cases  much more harmful, than not enough. I call it the “Goldilocks”
approach to nutrition: for best results, you don’t want too much of any nut rient and you don’t want too little; you want the amount to
be “ju-u-ust right.”

80/10/10 for Health, Beauty, Energy
That amount, I assert—at least in terms of caloronutrients—turns  out to be 80/10/10 : a minimum  of 80% of your calories
from carbohydrates, primarily from whole, sweet fruit, and a maximum  of 10% protein and 10% fat.
On the 80/10/10  plan, a person who eats 2,000 calories a day would shoot for approximately 1,600 of those calor ies to
come from carbohydrates, 200 from protein, and 200 from fat. Naturally, not all source s of these nutrients are the same, and I have
devoted much of this book to discussing just what forms those caloronutrient s should take for best results.
After two decades of research, coaching amateur and professional athle tes, and assisting health seekers worldwide, I have
come to believe that 80/10/10  is the overall target for long-term health and dietary success. Whe n we consume our food in this
proportion—the one for which our species was designed—we enjoy glowi ng health, superb energy, and ideal body weight,
effortlessly.
Sometimes in my lectures, I simplify this formula even further, re ferring to it in shorthand form as 811 —as in “Dial 811  for the
healthiest, trimmest you!” This short form is commonly used in conver sation, e-mail, and my online discussion group, as you will
notice in the testimonials in Appendix C.

80/10/10 for Longevity
Eating foods of low caloric density, such as fruits and vegetables, has bee n cited as a probable method of extending longevity.
Experts in the field of human longevity have long held that refraini ng from overeating is the surest method of extending the lifespan, as
it most effectively reduces the likelihood of obesity. Obese people live shor ter lives, on average.
One very healthful method of not overeating is to increase caloric dem and by raising activity levels while eating primarily fruits
and vegetables, foods that are relatively low in calories per bite.

Long-Lived Cultures Eat High Carbs, Low Fat
In John Robbins’ new book, Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the W orld’ s Healthiest and Longest-
Lived Peoples, he describes the lifestyles and eating patterns of the long-lived cu ltures of Abkhasia (Russia), Vilcabamba
(Ecuador), and Hunza (Pakistan). This table is taken from Robbins’ book:

The Abkhasians, Vilcabambans, and Hunzakuts have traditionally consu med high carbohydrates and little fat mostly out of
necessity, eating strictly from the foods that have been available t o them. They have done so naturally, without any science to guide
them and without options for choosing or adjusting their caloronutrient r atio.

The Ratio for Humans … By Design
People ask me how the 80/10/10  diet can apply equally well to people of all ages, sizes, activity le vels, etc. “Aren’t we all
individuals, with different nutritional requirements and differen t bodily makeups?” they ask.
Despite all the hype about metabolic typing, I do not believe this ratio vari es to any appreciable degree on the basis of our
individual needs. (See the FAQ entitled “What about individual differ ences?” on page 235.)
Like high-performance race cars, the human


 showed up in the group. Ittakes longer to repair the damage than it does to cause it and it takes generationsof unflagging persistence.
I think much the same process has happened to humans in this century. With
the invention of the roller mill and the consequent degradation of our daily breadto white flour; with the birth of industrial farming and the generalized lowering ofthe nutritional content of all of our crops; our overall ratio of nutrition to caloriesworsened. Then it worsened again because we began to have industrial foodmanufacturing and national brand prepared food marketing systems; we begansubsisting on devitalized, processed foods. The result has been an even greaterworsening of our ratio of nutrition to calories.
And just like Pottenger’s cats, we civilized humans in so-called advanced
countries are losing the ability to breed, our willingness (or the energy) to motherour young; we’re losing our good humor in the same way Pottenger’sdegenerated cats became bad tempered. As a group we feel so poorly that wedesperately need to feel better fast, and what better way to do that than withdrugs. Is it any wonder that the United States, the country furthest down the roadof industrial food degeneration, spends 14 percent of its gross domestic producton medical services. Any wonder that so many babies are born by Cesarean, anywonder that so many of our children have crooked teeth needing an orthodontist?The most depressing aspect of this comes into view when considering thatPottenger’s cats took four generations on perfect food to repair most of thenutritional damage.
In the specific case of my daughter, I know somethings about the nutritional
history of her maternal ancestors. My daughter’s grandmother grew up on a
Saskatchewan farm. Though they certainly grew their own rich wheat on virgin
semi-arid prairie soil, I’m sure the family bought white flour at the store for dailyuse. Still, there was a garden and a cow producing raw milk and free-range fertileeggs and chicken and other animals. There probably were lots of cannedvegetables in winter, canned but still highly nutritious because of the fertility of theirprairie garden. My mother consequently had perfect teeth until the GreatDepression forced her to live for too many years on lard and white bread.
During this time of severe malnutrition she had her three babies. The first one
got the best of her nutritional reserves. The second, born after the worst of themalnutrition, was very small and weak and had a hard time growing up.Fortunately for me, for a few years before I (the last child) was born, the worst ofthe economic times had past and the family had been living on a farm. There werevegetables and fresh raw milk and fruit. My mother had two good years to rebuildher nutritional reserves. But “Grannybell” did not managed to replace enough.Shortly after I was born my mother lost every one of her teeth all at once. Thebone just disappeared around them.
Thus, I was born deficient. And my childhood and adolescent nutrition was
poor too: soda crackers, pasteurized processed artificial cheese, evaporated milkfrom cans, hotdogs and canned beans, hotdogs and cabbage. It wasn’t until I waspregnant with my first baby that I started to straighten up my diet. I continuedeating very well after my first daughter, so my youngest daughter had anotherthree years of good diet to draw on. Thus both my own daughters got asomewhat better start than I had had.
My teeth were not as good as my mother’s had been before those years of
malnutrition took them all. Instead of perfect straight undecayed teeth like ahealthy farm girl should have, mine were somewhat crowded, with numerouscavities. My jaw bone had not received enough minerals to develop to its full size.My pelvic girdle also was smaller than my mother’s was. I had had a poor start.
My daughters did better. The older one (the first child typically gets the best of
the nutritional reserves) has such a wide jaw that there are small spaces between
her teeth. My second daughter has only one crooked tooth, she has wider, moresolid hips, stronger bones and a broader face than I do. If my younger daughterwill but from this point in her life, eat perfectly and choose her food wisely toresponsibly avoid empty calories and maximize her ratio of nutrition to calories,her daughter (if she gives us granddaughters as her older sister already has done)may exhibit the perfect physiology that her genes carry.
Along the lines of helping you avoid empty calories I will give you some
information about various common foods that most people don’t know and thatmost books about food and health don’t tell, or misunderstand.
Butter, Margarine and Fats in General.
Recently, enormous propaganda has been generated against eating butter. Its
been smeared in the health magazines as a saturated animal fat, one containingthat evil substance, cholesterol. Many people are now avoiding it and instead,using margarine.
Saturated Monosaturated Unsaturated
Butter 66% 30% 4%Coconut Oil 87% 6% 2%Cottonseed Oil 26% 18% 52%
Olive Oil 13% 74% 8%Palm Oil 49% 37% 9%Soybean Oil 14% 24% 58%Sunflower Oil 4% 8% 83%Safflower Oil 3% 5% 87%Sesame Oil 5% 9% 80%Peanut Oil 6% 12% 76%Corn Oil 3% 7% 84%
This is a major and serious misunderstanding. First of all, margarine is almost
indigestible, chemically very much like shortening—an artificially saturated orhydrogenated vegetable fat. Hydrogenated fats can’t be properly broken downby the body’s digestive enzymes, adding to the body’s toxic load. Margarine,being a chemically-treated vegetable oil with artificial yellow color and artificialflavorings to make it seem like butter, also releases free radicals in the body thataccelerate aging. So, to avoid the dangers of eating cholesterol-containing butter,people eat something far worse for them!
There are severe inconsistencies with the entire “cholesterol-is-evil” theory.
Ethnic groups like the Danes, who eat enormous quantities of cholesterol-containing foods, have little circulatory disease. Actually, the liver itself producescholesterol; it’s presence in the blood is an important part of the body chemistry.Cholesterol only becomes a problem because of deranged body chemistry due tothe kind of overall malnutrition Americans usually experience on their junk fooddiets. Avoiding cholesterol in foods does little good, but eating a low-fat, low-sugar, complex-carbohydrate (whole foods) diet high in minerals does lowerblood cholesterol enormously.
Actually, high quality fresh (not rancid) butter in moderate quantities is about
the finest fat a person could eat. But high quality butter is almost unobtainable.First of all, it has to be raw, made from unpasteurized cream. Second, butter cancontain very high levels of fat-soluble vitamins, but doesn’t have to. Vitamin-richbutter’s color is naturally bright yellow, almost orange. This color does not comefrom a test tube. Pale yellow butter as is found in the commercial trade wasprobably almost white before it was artificially tinted. Butter from grass-pasturedcows naturally changes from yellow-orange to white and back again through theyear as the seasons change. Spring grass, growing in the most intense sunlight ofthe year contains very high levels of chlorophyll and vitamins. Cows eating thisgrass put high levels of vitamins A and D into their cream, evidenced by theorange color of vitamin A. By July, natural butter has degraded to medium-yellow
in color. By August, it is pale yellow. Industrial dairy cows fed exclusively on hay
or artificial, processed feeds (lacking in these vitamins), produce butterfat that isalmost white.
I prefer to obtain my butter from a neighbor who has several dairy cows
grazing on fertile bottom land pasture. We always freeze a year’s supply in latespring when butter is at its best. Interestingly, that is also the time of year when myneighbor gets the most production from her cows and is most willing to part with25 pounds of extra butter.
In general, fats are poor foods that should be avoided. Their ratio of nutrition
to calories is absolutely the worst of all food types, except perhaps for pure whitesugar, which is all calories and absolutely no nutrition (this is also true for otherforms of sugar. Honey, too, contains almost no nutrition.). Gram for gram, fatscontain many more calories than do sugars or starches. Yet gram for gram, fatscontain virtually no nutrition except for small quantities of essential fatty acids.
The perverse reason people like to eat fats is that they are very hard to digest
and greatly slow the digestive action of the stomach. Another way of saying that isthat they have a very high satiety value. Fats make a person feel full for a longtime because their presence in the stomach makes it churn and churn and churn.Fats coat proteins and starches and delay their digestion, often causing them tobegin fermenting (starches) or putrefying (proteins) in the digestive tract.
The best fats contain high levels of monosaturated vegetable oils that have
never been exposed to heat or chemicals—like virgin olive oil. Use smallquantities of olive oil for salad dressing. Monosaturated fats also have far lesstendency to go rancid than any other type. Vegetable oils with high proportions ofunsaturated fats, the kind that all the authorities push because they contain nocholesterol, go r


 a boy comes into
young manhood, or a girl young womanhood, because of the different ratio of the calciums used by the female. Also, it's important to know if this is a Caucasian, because the darker the color the more vitamin D the skin picks up from the sunlight and rays. The lighter the skin the less vitamin D the body picks up from the sun's rays.
The numbers indicate this male is a borderline diabetic. A man at
25 being a borderline diabetic means that the energy rating is going to drop down because if his pancreas ma nufactured too much insulin, or
not enough insulin, then the body will  not assimilate vitamin C. In tak-
ing insulin, the artificial insulin taken by tablets, or shots, will not make vitamin C available to the body, but the insulin that's manufac-tured by the pancreas will make vitamin C available. This condition might have just started a month or two before, or it might have started
a few years before, but we have reason to believe by the process of deduction, that because of this carbohydrate condition the pancreas is not manufacturing enough insulin, and is of a rather short duration. The reason we know that is his weight is still 180 pounds. If he stays in this low insulin condition very long his weight will begin to de-crease. Why would it decrease? The more sugar you have in the blood and in the system, the more nature will demand it and will begin to draw sugar from the body fats and carbohydrates from the muscles. It will leave a person hungry all the time. Their food is not satisfying them.
The second number 7.7 / 7.8 (the urine reading is at the top, the
saliva reading at the bottom) is the pH reading, which is a measure of
resistance indicating that the food is digesting too slowly and that it lies in the stomach. Since the food digests too slowly, it is gradually creating pockets in the colon because the elimination is too slow. This 16 number also indicates that the body contains too much calcium oxide
and not enough calcium lactate and phosphated calcium, and also do-
lomite calcium, calcium carbonate or tri-calcium phosphate. There is too much of one kind of calcium and not enough of five other kinds of calciums, which is creating a digestion problem because the liver has to have some of all six of the calciums every day in order to manufac-ture 5 to 6 billion enzymes necessary to keep the body in perfect health.
7.7 / 7.8 indicates that the liver is not manufacturing enough bile
to properly digest the food, and practically no gelatin at all, which could prevent an easy elimination.
The pH reading is not a measure of the amount of acids or alka-
lines it's a measure of resistance between acids and alkalines. By the resistance we can tell whether we ha ve too much or too little calciums,
or which calciums are enough and of which ones the man has too much. It is not a quantitative measure, it’s a measure of resistance. By a differential calculus by deduction we can tell what is happening in the man's system.
The next number 45C shows the body is retaining too much salt
and that the person is in the zone for a major angina heart attack, how-
ever, with his age it is probably 10 years away If this pattern contin-ues.
Since the body is retaining too much salt It shows us how this
reading is helping to exaggerate the conditions that we found in the pH 7.7 / 7.8 reading because the food is too long in the colon, and now the salt is very high and is causing th e intestines to lose their elasticity
and stretch bigger and bigger, and as they do this forms pockets. If the ability to expand and contract continues in the colon it will get very much out of shape. The transverse colon will begin to sag, giving the man a "beer-bottle stomach" appearance, whether he drinks beer or not. (Drinking beer will only aggravate the condition.)
This high salt content indicates that cholesterols beginning to form
in the veins and arteries. If this person were to go to a doctor and have a blood test it may show that his cholesterol is normal because the blood changes every few minutes, and at the particular time that he 17 was tested the cholesterol could have been low or it could have been
medium or high. The RBTI test give s an overall picture of what is
happening in the walls of the blood vessels, and in this person's case they are losing their ability to expand and contract.
The veins work differently from the arteries (I’ll not go into that
because it is rather technical), and unless nature puts oil in the veins and arteries to take the blood from the veins, from the capillaries back to the heart, the person will die much quicker because the vein would be so dilated until the blood cannot be pushed back to the heart. It is perfectly possible that his cholesterol, within a ten-year-period, would accumulate in such an amount that a piece of it could turn loose in the veins, go to the heart and block the heart and cause a very serious heart attack, or even death. However, this cholesterol would have to get above a saline reading of 47 total before it would be a fatal heart attack. Below 47 it would not be a fatal cholesterol heart attack. (i.e. there is no such thing as a minor angina heart attack. It is either Wham! you are dead, or you got lucky and lived.)
Now let's consider the last two numbers: 14 / 15. Add these two
numbers and you have the total amount of undigested proteins, which we call urea.
With the high urinary sugar, a high pH, and high salt, it indicates
that this man is in a fatal heart att ack zone and could have a fatal heart
attack at any time. Anyone with this set of numbers should be very careful not to over exercise, to get too tired, too excited, lose his/her temper and "blow his/her top," or even get in a hurry because any of these things could bring about instant death.
Now let's look at the overall picture. The numbers indicate that nature is trying to throw out the delta
cells, but the man's diet is so narrow he is not getting the mineral con-tent to maintain good health. He is not drinking enough distilled wa-
ter. (He should divide his weight by two, which would be 90, and call it ounces-drink 84-90 ounces of water a day.) He should drink 4 ounc-es of distilled water every half hour for approximately 10½ or 11 hours a day, and then this will be the first step in bringing his numbers
back to perfect. However, he could become discouraged. Anyone with 18 this set of numbers trying to do this at home could cause the body to
go into a withdrawal and cause a h eart attack. Bringing these numbers
from range C to range A in the RBTI test should be done under super-vision where every number could be watched very closely. If the uri-nary sugar, the first number, drops below 5.5 the first day or the first hour, then the man could go into a violent withdrawal and go into a heart attack.
In the retreat we do not put the person on lemon juice and water
immediately, but on water alone. until the urea (that's the last num-bers) is within a safe zone. After those numbers come down to a safe
zone, and probably the urea down below 20 total, and the salt below 35, then it would be safe to put the man on lemonade (lemon with sweetener) and water to bring him quickly to between 2 and 5.5 on the urinary sugar.
In the meantime the salt would continue to drop and many times
when the body chemistry starts to react it over-reacts and the sugar level would have dropped too low, too quickly and cause a seizure, or it could cause the person to go into a temporary coma, which is very easy to correct. The sugar level has dropped too low and there is not enough oxygen going to the brain. By pu tting a little sugar, or a little
honey, on the tongue, in one minute he would come back to reality again, with no serious damage done. This is an ordinary occurrence in every retreat.
This man would only need to be in the retreat two weeks, but he
still has serious problems. Whenever there's not enough insulin being manufactured to control the carbohydrates, there's not enough vitamin C for cuts, bruises or bums to heal. It's the beginning of serious prob-lems ahead. Yet, if the average medical doctor examined this man with all the modem tests we have today, he would probably not find a thing in the world wrong with him, simply because the medical pro-fession do not have tests that would indicate this problem. I'm not casting reflection upon anyone, I'm only stating a fact.
For example: Diabetes by the medical profession is determined
strictly by the glucose in the blood. If there is more than 120 milli-grams of glucose per gram of blood, the person is said to be a diabetic, 19 and is generally put on orinase or  diabinese until these numbers reach
145. After there is 145 milligrams of glucose per gram in the blood the
person is generally put on insulin.
The medical colleges do not teach to compare a ratio between the
glucose and the total carbohydrates, which is very, very important. It is the missing link in the treatme nt ·of the malfunctioning pancreas


olve, to grow, to truly become Who You
Really Are. Your mind is right now filled  with
old thoughts. Not only old thoughts, but
mostly someone else’s old thoughts. It’s
important now, it’s time now, to change
your mind about some things. This is what
evolution is all about.
  Chapter 12
Why can’t I do what I really want to do with
my life and still make a living?
What? You mean you actually want to have
fun in your life, and still earn your keep?
Brother, are you dreaming!
What? —
Only ki dding —just doing a little mind
reading, that’s all. You see, that’s been your
thought about it.
It’s been my experience.
Yes. Well, we’ve been all through this now
a number of times. The people who  make
a living doing what they love are the people
who insi st on doing so. They don’t  give up.
They never give in. They dare life not to let
them do what they love.  But there’s another element that must be
brought up, because this is the missing
element in most people’s understanding
when it comes to life work.
What’s that?
There’s a difference between being and
doing, and most people have placed their
emphasis on the latter.
Shouldn’t they?
There’s no “should” or “should not”
involved. There’s only what you choose,
and how  you can have it. If you choose
peace an d joy and love, you won’t get
much of it  through what you’re doing. If you
choose happiness and contentment, you’ll
find little  of that on the path of doingness. If
you choose reunion with God, supreme
knowing,  deep understanding, endless compassion, total  awareness, absolute
fulfillment, you  won’t achieve much of that
out of what you’re doing.
In other words, if you choose evolution —
the evolution of your soul —you won’t
produce that by the worldly activities of
your body. Doing is a function of the body.
Being is a function of the soul. The body is
always doing something. Every minute of
every day it’s up to something. It never
stops, it never rests, it’s constantly doing
something. It’s either doing what it’s doing
at the behest of the soul —or in spite of  the
soul. The quality of your life hangs in the
balance.
The soul is forever being. It is being what it
is being, regardless of what the body is
doing, not because of what it’s doing.  If you think your life is about doingness, you
do not understand what you are about.
Your soul doesn’t care what you do for a
living —and when your life is over, neither
will you. Your soul cares only about what
you’re being while you’re doing whatever
you’re doing.
It is a state of beingness the soul is after,
not a state of doingness.
What is the soul seeking to be?
Me.
You.
Yes, Me. Your soul is Me, and it knows it.
What it is doing, is trying to experience  that.
And what it is remembering is that the best
way to have this experience is by  not doing
anything. There is nothing to do but to be.  Be what?
Whatever you want to be. Happy. Sad.
Weak. Strong. Joyful. Vengeful. Insightful.
Blind. Good. Bad. Male. Female. You name
it. I mean that literally. You name it.
This is all very profound, but what does it
have to do with my career? I’m trying to find
a way to stay alive, to survive, to support
myself and my family, doing what I like to
do.
Try being what you like to be.
What do you mean?
Some people make lots of money doing
what they do, others can’t make a go o f it—
and they’re doing the same thing. What
makes the difference?
Some people have more skill than others.  That’s the first cut. But now we get to the
second cut. Now we’re down to two people
with relatively equal skills. Both graduated
from college, both were at the top of their
class, both understand the nature of what
they’re doing, both know how to use their
tools with great facility —yet one still does
better than the other; one flourishes while
the other struggles. What’s that about?
Location.
Location?
Somebody once told me there are only
three things to consider when starting a
new business —location, location, and
location.
In other words, not “What are you going to
do?” but “Where are you going to be?”
Exactly.  That sounds like the answer to my question
as well. The soul is concerned only with
where you are going to be.
Are you going to be in a place called fear,
or in a place called love? Where are you —
and where are you coming from —as you
encounter life? Now, in the example of  the
two equally qu alified workers, one is
successful and the other is not, not
because of anything either is doing, but
because of what both are being.
One person is being open, friendly, caring,
helpful, considerate, cheerful, confident,
even joyful in her work, while the other is
being closed, distant, uncaring,
inconsiderate, grumpy, even resentful of
what she is doing. Now suppose you were
to select even loftier states of beingness?
Suppose you were to select goodness,  mercy, compassion, understanding,
forgiveness, love?  What if you were to
select  Godliness? What then would be your
experience?
I tell you this:
Beingness attracts beingness, and
produces experience.
You are not on this planet to produce
anything with your body. You are on this
planet to produce something wi th your soul.
Your body is simply and merely the tool  of
your soul. Your mind is the power that
makes the body go. So what you have here
is a power tool, used in the creation of the
soul’s desire.
What is the soul’s desire?
Indeed, what is it?  I don’t know. I’m asking You.
I don’t know. I’m asking you.
This could go on forever.
It has.
Wait a minute! A moment ago, You said the
soul is seeking to be You.
So it is.
Then that is the soul’s desire.
In the broadest sense, yes. But this Me it is
seeking to be  is very complex, very  multi -
dimensional, multi -sensual, multi -faceted.
There are a million aspects to Me. A  billion.
A trillion. You see? There is the profane and
the profound, the lesser and the  larger, the
hollow and the holy, the ghastly and the
Godly.  You see?  Yes, yes, I see...the up and the down, the
left and the right, the here and the there,
the before and the after, the good and the
bad...
Precisely. I am the Alpha and the Omega.
That was not just a pretty saying, or a  nifty
concept. That was Truth expressed.
So, in seeking to be Me, the soul has a
grand job ahead of it; an enormous menu
of beingness from which to choose. And
that is what it is doing in this moment now.
Choosing states of being.
Yes—and then producing the right and
perfect cond itions within which to create
the experience of that. It is therefore true
that nothing happens to you or through you
that is not for your own highest good.  You mean my soul is creating all of my
experience, including not only the things I
am doing, but th e things that are happening
to me?
Let us say that the soul leads you to the
right and perfect opportunities for you to
experience exactly what you had planned
to experience. What you actually
experience is up to you. It could be what
you planned to experi ence, or it could be
something else, depending upon what you
choose.
Why would I choose something I don’t wish
to experience?
I don’t know. Why would you?
Do You mean that sometimes the soul
wishes one thing, and the body or the mind
wishes another?  What d o you think?
But how can the body, or the mind, overrule
the soul? Doesn’t the soul always get what
it wants?
The spirit of you seeks, in the largest
sense, that grand moment when you have
conscious awareness of its wishes, and
join in joyful oneness with them. But the
spirit will never, ever, force its desire on the
present, conscious, physical part of you.
The Father will not force His will upon the
Son. It is a violation of His very nature to  do
so, and thus, quite literally, impossible.
The Son will not  force His will upon the Holy
Spirit


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 be most accurate.
Since this is not a book about food allergy, hypersensitivity, cytolytic reaction,
immune complex mediated reaction, delayed hypersensitivity reaction, food
intolerance, food idiosyncrasy, food metabolic reaction, toxicity reactions, or
anaphylaxis, I won’t go into detail describing the various tests. Instead, acquire
information from the following laboratories, which are quite accommodating to the
health professional:
Immuno Laboratories, 1620 West Oakland Park Boulevard, Ft. Lauderdale,
Florida 33311; toll-free nationally (800) 231–9197, in Florida (305) 486–
4500, teleFAX (305) 739–6563.Meridian Valley Clinical Laboratory, 24030 132nd Avenue SE, Kent,
Washington 98042; toll-free nationally (800) 234–6825, in Washington (206)
631–8922, teleFAX (206) 631–8691. (This is the laboratory with which
Jonathan Wright, M.D., was associated and that was raided at gunpoint by
agents of the FDA in May 1992.)
Metametrix Medical Laboratory, 5000 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, Suite
110, Norcross, Georgia 30071; telephone (404) 446-5483, teleFAX (404)
441-2237.
Great Smokies Diagnostic Laboratory, 18A Regent Boulevard, Asheville,
North Carolina 28806; toll-free nationally (800) 522-4762, in North Carolina
(704) 253-0621, teleFAX (704) 253-1127.
National BioTechnology Laboratory, Inc., 13215 SE 240th Street, Suite C,
Kent, Washington 98042; telephone (206) 630-2295, (800) 846-6285.
IMMUNOTHERAPY
Another weapon in our treatment armamentarium is immunotherapy. Bernard A.
Bellew, M.D., discovered that patients receiving immunization for influenza and
for bacterial infection who had arthritis greatly improved following immunization.
Dr. Bellew theorized that rheumatoid arthritis was secondary to chronic infection.
With serial injections of flu and bacterial vaccines, he has had impressive results
in treating rheumatoid arthritis.
DMSO is, of course, the tool against arthritis that this book favors most. If you
have any further questions about the employment of DMSO in arthritis or other
treatment modalities, please call or write to William Campbell Douglass, M.D.,
P.O. Box 888, Clayton, Georgia 30525, telephone (706) 782-7222. He is an expert
on this therapy.
For literature and other information on pain relief for chronic joint,
ligamentous, and tendon disabilities, send a check or money order for $18 (U.S.)
along with a self-addressed, nine-inch by twelve-inch manilla envelope with
enough postage for ten ounces of articles to Dr. Morton Walker, Freelance
Communications, 484 High Ridge Road, Stamford, Connecticut 06905-3095;
telephone (203) 322-1551, teleFAX (203) 322-4656.
FINAL RANDOM COMMENTSIn the treatment of massive stroke, extremely large doses of DMSO are required
for a good result. The initial dose is 2 g per kg of body weight. By the usual
standards, this is an incredibly large dose of medication, a comment on the lack of
toxicity of the drug. What other medication can be safely used even at one tenth of
that dose?
One potentially serious side effect can occur at these high dosage levels—
hemolysis.
The first IV arthritis patient treated by my medical consultant, Dr. Douglass,
had hemolysis with hemoglobinuria at a dosage of one g per kg. This is not a
common occurrence but occurs with enough frequency to warrant frequent blood
hemoglobin and hematocrit determinations and urine monitoring during the initial
phase of treatment.
If hemolysis occurs, treatment should be continued at the same dosage level as
long as kidney function remains within normal limits and the hemogram doesn’t
change significantly. Transfusion will rarely be necessary but packed cells can be
given if indicated.
A final word about the legality of DMSO in your state: Most people, including
doctors, don’t understand the FDA rules and regulations concerning the use of
“approved” drugs. Once a drug has been approved by the FDA for any condition,
a licensed physician in any state, whether the legislature of that state has passed
special legislation or not, has the right to use that drug in any way that he feels will
benefit his patient. There are many precedents for this, such as xylocaine in
cardiac arrhythmia, propranalol in hypertension and headache, diphenhydramine for
sedation, and phentoin for arrhythmias. Another example is the use of the
phenopropins for menstrual cramps.
As DMSO has been approved for use in interstitial cystitis by the FDA,
DMSO is also legal in all fifty states for use in stroke, burns, arthritis, and for
whatever other purpose the doctor deems appropriate.APPENDIX II
Titles of Scientific Papers on DMSO Therapy in the
Order They Were Presented at the Dimethyl Sulfoxide
Symposium Held Under the Auspices of the New York
Academy of Sciences in January 1974
Pharmacologic and Biochemical Considerations of Dimethyl Sulfoxide.
 Don C.
Wood, Ph.D., Medlab Computer Services, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Influence of Non-Ionic Organic Solutes on Various Reactions of Energy
Conservation and Utilization.
 Thomas Conover, Ph.D., Hahnemann Medical
College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Effects of DMSO on Subunit Proteins.
 Thomas R. Henderson and Rogene F.
Henderson, Lovelace Fnd., Albuquerque, New Mexico, and J.L. York, University
of Arkansas School of Medicine, Little Rock, Arkansas.
The Effect of Dimethyl Sulfoxide on a Lysosomal Membrane.
 Donald W. Misch
and Margaret S. Misch, Department of Zoology, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Specific Modifications of the Na+, K+
-
ATPase by DMSO.
 Joseph D. Robinson,
State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, New York.
Toxicology of DMSO and DMSO in Chemical Combinations.
 Lionel F. Rubin,
V.M.D., School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
Metabolism and Excretion of DMSO in Calves and Cows After Topical and
Parenteral Application of Labelled DMSO.
 J. Tiewst, E. Scharrer, N. Harre, L.
Flogel, and W. Jochle.
The Effect of Dimethylsulfoxide and Dimethylformide on Tumor Cells in Vitro.
Ellen Borenfreund and Aaron Bendich, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,
New York, New York.Effect of DMSO on the Hepatic Disposition of Chemical Carcinogens.
 W.G.
Levine, Department of Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx,
New York.
Potentiation of Anti-Neoplastic Compounds by Oral DMSO in Tumor-Bearing
Rats.
 Joel Warren, Ph.D., Miriam R. Sacksteder, B.S., Harriet Jarosz, B.S., Bruce
Wasserman, B.S., and Peter E. Andreotti, Leo Goodwin Institute for Cancer
Research, Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Effect of DMSO on Skin Carcinogenesis.
 F. Stenback and H. Garcia, Eppley
Institute, Omaha, Nebraska.
Report on the Use of DMSO on the Treatment of Extensive Superficial Wounds
in Dogs and Horses.
 S.W.J. Seager, M.A., M.V.B., M.R.C.V.S., Department of
Surgery, University of Oregon Medical School, Portland, Oregon.
Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Thrombotic Effects of Topically Applied Dimethyl
Sulfoxide (DMSO).
 Peter Gorog, Ph.D., Egypt Pharmacochemical Works and Irene
B. Kovacs, M.D., Otto Korvin Hospital, Budapest, Hungary.
Fate and Metabolism of DMSO in 30 Agricultural Crops.
 Bernard C. Smale,
Ph.D., Neil J. Lasater, and Bruce T. Hunter, Crown Zellerbach Central Research,
Camas, Washington.
Accumulation and Persistence of Sulfur 35 in Peach Foliage and Fruit Sprayed
With Radiolabeled Dimethyl Sulfoxide.
 Harry L. Kell, Ph.D., United States
Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Northeastern Region,
Agricultural Research Center-West, Beltsville, Maryland.
Use of DMSO to Control Aflatoxin Production.
 George A. Bean and George W.
Rambo, Division of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Maryland,
College Park, Maryland.
Current Concepts Concerning Radioprotective and Cryoprotective Properties of
Dimethyl Sulphoxide in Cellular Systems.
 M.J. Ashwood-Smith, Department of
Biological Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
The Effect of Dimethyl Sulfoxide on Forelimb Regeneration of the Adult Newt.Gerald G. Slattery, Ph.D., College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery, Des
Moines, Iowa, and Anthony J. Schmidt


 to eat.
Next week going to the Altai. I certainly was not in the Altai,
but on television saw what beautiful scenery there. I am Sergey
Ivanovic said - if a dry hunger will take place normally,
arrive on the third day of LFG. Weeks go by unnoticed, no
fear of the passage of dry fasting, I was not, so
more in such a beautiful place like the Altai, and the mood I was
going to win. Late at night my husband at the airport,
hugged and said: - You're my fellow and you will succeed. Flight
I had a good, unique - irritated by the smell of food and chewing
neighbors. But then we landed in the city of Barnaul.
We met Sergei, with its on-Siberian Health
nephew, Andrew. When we boarded the minibus "UAZ", I
thought, but on such a machine are going to trudge a long time. But
only in the Altai Mountains, when we went to the most beautiful places
I realized the true value of this car. Drive us to our
wellness center 320 km, Andrew said that about
five hours. All the way asleep, woke up only in aggregates, the Motherland
Shukshin. Vavilov, Andrei and Valentin (wife SI)
went to drink tea. What a funky splices market - such
the number and types of honey, I have never seen
and how many there were any yummy. Even in the stomach, something
327
327Home rumble. After Srostki appeared small mountain
and beautiful river of Altai - Katun ride was much more interesting.
Here we are at last arrived. Of course, I knew that the beautiful Altai,
but this has surpassed my expectations. Cozy clearing in the woods, mountains,
wooden houses, near a small lake (a mountain creek
blocked by the dam) and, most importantly, close - five hundred meters
- Beauty Katun. And what is the divine air - immediately
dry mouth dropped. I settled on the second floor, I like this
room immediately liked, is the balcony, and most importantly fresh
and cool. The only drawback, a toilet on the street, but we all
still on hunger, so I is not much worried. When we
all were seated, I went to bed rest. In the evening we have with a neighbor Irina
she had the same problems as me (polycystic ovaries), and went
walk. What good has a place that is ideal for a walk. By
forest is a road, about five miles. It ends where it is still
Sema one river flows into the Katun. On the third day of dry starvation
we quietly went back and forth for three hours. Time has passed on
surprisingly fast, yet important during the passage of hunger -
it will switch and do something.
That's how flying is my third day of dry fasting, the only
that bothered me - it's a small nausea during the trip
and dry mouth. When we came to walk, our entire team
sitting by the fire and talked with Sergei Ivanovich. I sat
a little bit and went to bed - you should sleep until sleep. Sergei Ivanovich
said that tomorrow we go on an excursion to Chemalsky GES, on the island
Patmos, where the small female monastery. I woke up hours
at six, slept well, failed again. Friend did not sleep,
went with her for a walk. Still, as beautiful in the Altai, - white mist
over the mountains, the air just nadyshatsya can not, you feel like
charging your whole body and every cell. They walked slowly,
quietly, enjoying nature, about thirty minutes sat on the
Katun meditate. When they came to the base, they were all ready
on the tour. Sergei Ivanovich we measured the pressure and we went
weighed.
So, Day 4 SH. Pressure 110/70, pulse - 75 bpm. min., weight 80 kg.
with an increase in 168 cm My weight loss with diet, cleansing
and starvation was 9 kg. (Was 89). This is certainly good news. Today
looked at his tongue, he is a very strong white-yellow
bloom, and, basically, until everything is tolerated. Excursion to me very
Bad, especially a good idea at the HES, where the river Chemal noise
water and dust falls from the dam. There, all was well, we
Sergei Ivanovich was asked to stay longer at the dam,
feel the body through the skin saturate with moisture. Very
beautiful place - the river flows into the Katun Chemal. Chemal such
black, brown and white Katun and she would not want to tolerate
in the river itself. two hours went to the base. Yes, Sergei Ivanovich
well thought out, sight-seeing time has flown by.
328
328at four o'clock on my massage to Andrew. After the trip again
felt sick and was sick the waist. A massage to Andrew to go
scary - a machine of the weight of about 120, rising by 190, will break
FIG. To my surprise I really liked the massage. Andrei is very
strong, but at the same time soft and gentle hands. When he bent down
and went through my spine, I have it all began to crackle.
Really liked the massage mayonnaise jar banks, first
It was painful, but after that the full relaxation and a pleasant warmth
around the spine. Nausea and pain after a massage
passed immediately. In the evening, again walking with his girlfriend, were probably
Six kilometers, tried to keep quiet and breathe only through his nose, as
said Sergei Ivanovich, all the same it helps fight dryness
in the mouth. After a walk ill right side, pain tolerance, but
I remember the words of Sergei Ivanovich - anything that hurts the famine, the
treated, let him. In the evening, once again sitting near the fire, noticed how-
then I began to breathe better.
The fifth day of LFG. Pressure 100/70, pulse 72 beats. min., weight 78.8,
lost a kilo of two hundred, is very pleased with my feminine pride.
Sleep was no longer mattered, sleep well, probably two hours.
Dreamed a wonderful dream, as I have come to our clean mountain
rivulet, got his big mug, I want to get water, but
River recedes, then remembered after I did the famine. During
walk all of a sudden I went phlegm green-gray
with a very unpleasant smell. Think to myself: that's bronhitik
my hunger hooked immediately on the soul was somehow easier. Talk
harder, his voice goes down, ligaments dehydrated. Start
appear weak. Today went to the lake Manzherok is about
He sings Edita. Lake, of course, so-so, but there
grows a unique endemic nut "Chilim, Sergey Ivanovich
said that he grows still somewhere in Canada. Thought, of course,
already confused. Stopped for one of the coolest rapids on the river
Katun threshold "Manzheroksky. The spectacle of course, super. Such
power, Katun rages, I'd probably could not go rafting here.
Energy, of course powerful here, the body is very good
feels. Pobyli on the threshold of two hours, the water and attracts both want
bend down and drink. But still, as well on tour -
half a day has passed, and the body is treated, let my dear,
We must all go through. Today, massage is Andrew doing softer, so
as after yesterday's all sore. Still massage - it's good
and distracting, relaxing, and the spine is treated. In the evening went
walk alone, once everyone starts little by little annoying. Found
Katun on a quiet place, still good in our place
- No tourists, no music, silence and solitude. Pobyla on
Katun two hours, a little charged, still some strong
Energy river! Do not want to eat but to drink - drank
would probably have a bucket or two. Sergei Ivanovich said - this is an illusion
Look at the output. Sit by the fire already feel like, I'll go,
329
329Try reading. Little esteemed, very reluctant, but at
dry hunger and feel like reading and watching television.
Sixth day of LFG. Pressure 100/70, pulse 60, weight 77.7 kg.
In the morning a long time lay a walk for some reason did not want. Overnight
conducted with an open balcony, fresh, cool mountain
air - is high. in the body began to appear some internal
fever, it was good - went to present the treatment process. Mouth full
related, general reluctance to talk. Today, Sergei Ivanovich
promised we got a very narrow space on the Katun River, said
try to come back later. It is very good - the
important that the time passed quickly. Place really
beautiful, and quite another nature than ours, although we passed
all from our site 80 km away. Of course, nature is not so
perceived as a normal well-fed condition. Necessarily
come here with her husband in a car as tourists. We arrived an hour
four, for a massage - in six hours. Took a camping mat,
went to the place where our little creek flows into the Katun. There
cool, this natural refrigerator, would lay the whole
day. Problem one - when you go


 depth of 100 ft (30 m)
below sea level. Commercial harvesters rake plants
off banks and rocks. The cleaned seaweed, after
being boiled with sulphuric acid for 6 hours, yields
agar, which sets to form a jelly. Around 6,500 tons
of processed agar are produced each year.
Part Used Seaweed extract (agar).
Constituents Agar contains polysaccharides,
mainly agarose and agaropectin (up to 90%), which
are very mucilaginous.
History & Folklore Agar is commonly used
as a thickening agent in food preparation, but its
most widespread application is in scientific research,
where it is used as a culture medium for growing
micro-organisms in petri dishes.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Like most
seaweeds and their derivatives, agar is nutritious
and contains large amounts of mucilage. Its chief
medicinal use is as a bulk laxative. In the intestines,
agar absorbs water and swells, stimulating bowel
activity and the subsequent elimination of feces.
Related Species While G. amansii  is the main
agar-producing species, G. cartilagineum  (found
on the Pacific coast of North America) and other
closely related species around the world are being
used as alternative sources.Habitat & Cultivation Native to
southeastern provinces of China, gardenia prefers
humid, tropical climates. The fruit is gathered
when it turns reddish-yellow.
Part Used Fruit.
Constituents Gardenia fruit contains iridoid
glycosides. The flowers are the source of the
essential oil.
History & Folklore Gardenia has been used in
Chinese medicine for at least 2,000 years. It provides
an important essential oil used to flavor teas. The oil
is also used to make perfumes. Gardenia perfumes
often blend gardenia, jasmine, and tuberose.
Medicinal Actions & Uses In the Chinese
herbal tradition (pp. 40–43), gardenia is a “bitter, Gaultheria procumbens
(Ericaceae)
Wintergreen
Description Aromatic low-lying shrub growing to
6 in (15 cm). Has leathery, oval leaves, small white or
pale pink bell-shaped flowers, and brilliant red fruit.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to North
America, wintergreen is found in woodland and
exposed mountainous areas. The leaves and fruit
are gathered in summer.
Parts Used Leaves, fruit, essential oil.
Constituents Wintergreen contains phenols
(including gaultherin and salicylic acid), 0.8% volatile
oil (up to 98% methyl salicylate), mucilage, resin,
and tannins.
History & Folklore Wintergreen was popular
with Native Americans, who used it for treating back
pain, rheumatism, fever, headaches, sore throats, and
many other conditions. Samuel Thomson, founder
of the 19th-century Physiomedicalist movement,
combined it with hemlock ( Conium maculatum, p.
193) to treat severe fluid retention. The leaves have
been used as a substitute for tea ( Camellia sinensis, p.
181), for example during the American
Revolutionary War (1776–1784).
Medicinal Actions & Uses Wintergreen is
strongly anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, and soothing to
the digestive system. It is an effective remedy for
rheumatic and arthritic problems, and, taken as a tea,
it relieves flatulence and colic. The essential oil, in the
form of a liniment or ointment, brings relief to
inflamed, swollen, or sore muscles, ligaments, and
joints, and can also prove valuable in treating
neurological conditions such as sciatica (pain resulting
from pressure on a nerve in the lower spine) and
trigeminal neuralgia (pain affecting a facial nerve).
The oil is sometimes used to treat cellulitis, a bacterial
infection causing the skin to become inflamed.
Cautions People who are sensitive to aspirin
should not take wintergreen internally. Oil of
wintergreen should never be taken internally,
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216Gelsemium sempervirens  other medicinal plantsGelsemium sempervirens
(Loganiaceae)
Y ellow Jasmine,
Gelsemium
Description Evergreen woody climber growing
to 20 ft (6 m). Has shiny, dark green leaves and
clusters of fragrant, trumpet-shaped yellow flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to the
southern U.S. and Central America, yellow jasmine prefers damp sites. The rootstock is unearthed in autumn.
Part Used Rootstock.
Constituents Y ellow
jasmine contains indole alkaloids (including gelsemine and gelsedine), iridoids, coumarins, and tannins. The alkaloids are toxic and act as a depressant to the central nervous system.
History & Folklore It is unclear whether
yellow jasmine was used in Native American medicine. The plant came into regular use only  in the middle of the 19th century. It was first employed by followers of the Eclectic herbal movement, and then later became an official medicine, listed in the Pharmacopoeia of the  United States from 1863 to 1926.
Medicinal Actions & Uses A potent medicinal
herb, yellow jasmine is prescribed in small doses  as a sedative and antispasmodic, most commonly for neuralgia (pain caused by nerve irritation or damage). Y ellow jasmine is often given for nerve pain affecting the face. The herb is also applied externally to treat intercostal neuralgia (nerve pain between the ribs) and sciatica (pain resulting from pressure on a nerve in the lower spine). Y ellow jasmine’s antispasmodic property is used in treating whooping cough and asthma. The herb is occasionally taken for migraine, insomnia, and bowel problems, and also to reduce blood pressure. Y ellow jasmine is also used in homeopathic medicine.
 RQ Cautions Y ellow jasmine is an extremely
toxic plant that should be used only under professional supervision. The plant is subject to legal restrictions in some countries.Parts Used Root, aerial parts.
Constituents Wild geranium contains up to
30% tannins.
History & Folklore Native American peoples
used wild geranium for sore throats, mouth ulcers, infected gums, and oral thrush. The herb was later used by European settlers for diarrhea, internal bleeding, cholera, and venereal diseases.
Medicinal Actions & Uses An astringent and
clotting agent, wild geranium is used today much as in earlier times. The herb is often prescribed for irritable bowel syndrome and hemorrhoids, and it is used to staunch wounds. It may also be used to treat heavy menstrual bleeding and excessive vaginal discharge.
Related Species See herb robert
(G. robertianum, following entry).
Caution Wild geranium should only be taken for
a few weeks at a time.
Geranium robertianum
(Geraniaceae)
Herb Robert
Description Strong-smelling annual or biennial
herb growing to 20 in (50 cm). Has deeply cleft
red-green leaves, bright pink flowers, and pointed seed capsules.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to Europe and
Asia, herb robert is naturalized in North America. It is gathered in summer.
Parts Used Aerial parts, root.
Constituents Herb robert contains tannins, a
bitter principle (geraniin), traces of volatile oil, and citric acid.
History & Folklore Herb robert’s unpleasant
odor has earned it the name “stinking Bob” in parts of England.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Herb robert
is little used in contemporary European herbal medicine. It is occasionally employed in much the same way as Wild geranium (G. maculatum, preceding entry), as an astringent and wound healer. The herb bears closer investigation as a remedy. According to one authority it is effective against stomach ulcers and inflammation of the uterus, and it holds some potential as a treatment for cancer.Habitat & Cultivation Native to Europe and
central Asia, avens is a common wayside plant. The root is dug up in spring, and the aerial parts are picked in summer.
Parts Used Aerial parts, root.
Constituents Avens contains phenolic
glycosides (including eugenol), tannins, a volatile  oil, and possibly a sesquiterpene lactone (cnicin).
History & Folklore Once known as herba
benedicta (blessed herb), avens was credited with significant magical powers in the Middle Ages. A German text of 1493 states that if avens root is in the house, the devil is powerless. According to tradition, the root should be unearthed on March 25th.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Avens is an
astringent herb, used principally for problems affecting the mouth, throat, and gastrointestinal tract. The herb tightens up soft gums, heals mouth ulcers, makes a good gargle for infections of the pharynx and larynx, and reduces irritation of the stomach and gut. It may be taken for peptic ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, diarrhea, and dysentery. Avens has been used in a lotion or


 As such an experience never causes me to have a cold, I wonder why he so
readily develops a cold when thus “exposed.” He discounts the idea that being in good condition
will enable one to avoid colds, but his reasons for objecting to this idea are rather shaky.
In his youth he used to have four severe colds a year—at a time when he was an athlete, a track
man, a swimmer and an instructor in a gymnasium—although he would take a cold bath every
morning and run three or four miles every evening.
Unfortunately for his position, his activities do not necessarily prove that he was in genuinely
good condition. Athletes are notorious for their frequent colds. Alvarez has accepted the common
faulty conception of what constitutes good condition. A plethoric and toxemic individual may pass
for being in good condition. He says: “We are told to eat well and get plenty of sleep.” He neither
approves nor disapproves of this advice. I would point out that what is commonly meant by “eating
well” is overeating and eating plentifully of staple foods. This is a sure way to build colds, not to
prevent them.
I do not dismiss exposure to cold, however, as a contributing factor in the production of a cold
any more than I am willing to dismiss becoming overheated as a contributing factor in the same
complex of factors that collectively constitute cause. Prolonged exposure to cold enervates and
this checks elimination.
Those who are already enervated and toxemic, when exposed to cold, have their elimination
further checked and this is frequently enough to
precipitate a crisis, in this case a cold. It should be
realized that when one is already enervated and toxemic any added enervating influence will place
enough additional check upon elimination that a crisis is sure to develop.
What happens is that the added check upon elimination causes the toxic accumulation to rise
above the point of established toleration and the body rebels. A channel of supplementary
elimination is established through which to get rid of the excess.
Copavin,
 the drug considered the best by Alvarez, was the only one that Diehs thought “worked
84well." This drug, which contains codeine, was said to “block out” about 85% of colds, but it was
“effective” only if taken early. It does not
cure
 the cold later. The fact is that the many “block outs”
attributed to this drug would have occurred had the drug not been given. Colds last anywhere from
a few hours to two or three weeks. Almost anything can be made to appear to
cure
 the cold for the
reason that recovery is spontaneous and occurs if nothing is done.
Copavin
 results in constipation
and troubles many nervous patients. It does not remove the cause of the cold.
What should we do when the first symptom of a cold arises? All food should be discontinued at
once. Instead of large quantities of water, as commonly advised, only as much water as thirst
demands should be taken. Indeed, it seems that the less water taken the more rapid the recovery.
The fast should not be less than twenty-four hours, it may be three or four days in duration,
depending on the severity of the symptoms.
Following the fast, eating should be light for the first few days: orange or a grapefruit—no sugar
—for breakfast, a vegetable salad at noon, and fresh fruit in season in the evening, for the first one
to two days, after which the eating should be sparse until all symptoms have subsided.
While fasting, the best place for the patient is in bed. He should be warm and comfortable and
should have fresh air in the room both day and night. A daily lukewarm bath may be taken, but no
heroic bathing is advisable. If it is not possible to quit work and go to bed, one should obtain as
much rest as circumstances permit and get to bed early at night.
If these simple suggestions are carried out, no cold will evolve into pneumonia. Prolonging a
cold by eating and by suppressing its symptoms with drugs, may end in death.
Fasting does not
cure
 a cold. One may get well of a cold if one eats heartily, drinks heavily, gets
little sleep, works hard and is chilled by day. People have been doing this throughout history. All
that we claim for the foregoing fasting program is that it greatly lessens the discomforts of the cold,
shortens its duration and leaves the patient in much better condition when the cold has ended.
8520
Multiple Sclerosis
Widespread fund-raising campaigns to fight the crippling effects of this disease, and to perform
research into its cause and treatment, have made multiple sclerosis familiar to the public. Yet there
may be some basic causes already known in terms of diet and activities of the individual and even
possible avenues of recovery in the fast.
I recall a case of an optometrist whose condition became so bad that he had to give up his work
and turn his office over to someone else. For a few years he had been under the care of several of
the best neurologists of the East and, as they had warned him at the outset, had grown
progressively worse. They had frankly told him that they had no
cure
 for multiple sclerosis.
They were telling him the truth, yet after seven weeks in a
Hygienic
 institution, he walked out
under his own power, returned home and resumed his professional activities.
He was not a well man at the end of seven weeks. It is too much to expect a full recovery in such
a short time. But he had made such great improvement that he felt justified in returning home and
getting back to work. This is often a wrong position to take, especially with a condition like
multiple sclerosis, but it is a mistake that the sick frequently make.
Many patients seem to be satisfied to stop their efforts in recovering health when they have been
freed of their most annoying symptoms. They are often unwilling to go on to full health, and are
convinced they can take care of themselves. After having made a certain amount of initial
improvement they expect to take charge and they feel they can carry on, from that point, as well as
their professional adviser. In a few cases it works out; generally they fail. In cases watched and
controlled, results of fasting can be established.
Sclerosis means induration or hardening. It has special reference to hardening of a part due to
inflammation. In the nervous system the term denotes an overgrowth of connective tissue
(hyperplasia of connective tissue) in the nerve tissue.
Multiple sclerosis—also called disseminated sclerosis and sometimes
known as Charcot’s
disease—is characterized by hardening (sclerosis) occurring in sporadic patches through the brain
and spinal cord or both. These hardened patches range from the size of a pin head to that of a pea
and are scattered irregularly through the brain and cord.
At autopsy, it is found that the insulating sheath of the nerves is broken down and the nerve cells
and fibers have fused together. I have emphasized that this is what is found at autopsy for the
reason that the trouble does not start as a sclerosis (hardening), but as an inflammation.
A man dies after suffering with multiple sclerosis for fifteen or twenty years and an autopsy is
performed. His brain and nervous system are subjected to the closest scrutiny and certain
pathological changes are found. But this is the end-point. What was the condition of his nerves five
years, ten years or fifteen years prior to death? It is reasonable to think that if the condition of the
nerves was the same five years or ten years prior to death that they are found to be in at death, he
would have died five to ten years earlier.
The disease is said to be “incurable.” It may last for years before the patient dies. The end-
point, as found at death, is certainly irreversible, but can we be sure that the earlier stages of the
disease are irreversible? The very progress of the disease would seem to negate such an
assumption. In the inflammatory stage of the disease it would certainly seem to be remediable.
86Indeed, spontaneous remissions are known that may last for weeks or even years. Once the
hardening has occurred, there would seem to be no possibility that the disease could intermit, or
that recovery could be effected.
A fatty insulating material called the myelin sheath, which surrounds the nerves, is lost and this
is said to cause abnormal nerve behavior. Some of the nerves work energetically, some work very
weakly and others fail to work at all.
No two cases are alike because in no two cases are the same parts of the brain and nervous
system affected. The development of the hardening does not progress at the same rate in each case,
and does not take place at the same rate at all points in the body of the same patient. For the reason
that no two cases are identical, no description of the disease will fit any particular case.
Among the leading symptoms of the disease are weakness, strong jerky movements,
incoordination of the extremities that is often more marked in the arms than in the legs, and
amemomania, which is a form of insanity with agreeable hallucinations. Also other abnormal
mental exaltations, scanning speech and an involuntary rapid movement of the eyes, called
nyastagmus are evident. The tremor is jerky, is increased by voluntary efforts to restrain it, and is
entirely absent during complete rest and sleep, returning when movements are resumed.