 lose weight—many became
involved solely for the health benefits. Still, the women lost between 2 and
26 pounds, and the men lost between 2 and 31 pounds. Furthermore, the participants noted that other conditions—from kidney
stones to acne, from constipation to low ener gy—also began clearing up. Here are some of their stories:
One man said that his sister, a vascular sur geon at a major Dallas
hospital, found it hard to believe his total cholesterol level could drop from
214 to 135 in just a few weeks and wanted to make sure that he was firingon all cylinders. Because he’d had other health issues besides high
cholesterol, she gave him a treadmill stress test to assess his overall fitness,
which he aced. After that, and after reading several articles about my
father ’s research on reversing heart disease, she asked her brother to send
her photocopies of as many Engine 2 recipes as possible. Another man, who lost 20 pounds and whose cholesterol dropped from
216 to 125, told me that he’d always imagined that little green men were
working inside his body to repair all the damage he’d caused. But now that
he’d been eating the Engine 2 way, he imagined them sitting around like the
Maytag Repairman, bored and waiting for the phone to ring. Several people talked about how their tastes had changed over the six
weeks. “Y ou don’ t need butter or cheese for food to taste good,” one
woman said, “and I never knew that before.” Another woman said, “Y ou
actually taste the real food and not what it’ s covered with.”
A physician participant said that he thought plant-based eating would be
harsh on his taste buds, but after just a few weeks he noticed that his palate
was changing: He no longer craved any of his old favorites, and found just
the thought of eating meat, cheese, or eggs unpleasant. A number of participants mentioned how they’d never realized what a
wide array of food is available to plant eaters. They’d thought it was all
about carrots and lettuce. Now they’ve learned that it’ s not called the plant
kingdom for nothing. Another subject that came up repeatedly was a change in bathroom
habits. Every single participant said he or she was pooping at least twice a
day—and sometimes up to four times—even though before the study many
had only been going a few times a week. One of the women’ s doctors had
told her that pooping twice a week was a normal condition called lazy
bowel syndrome. But once on the Engine 2 Diet, within one week she
started pooping once a day and twice a day thereafter. Bowel movement improvement is one of the greatest rewards of a plant-
based diet, so it became a hot topic of conversation. My own term for the
act has always been “pooping,” but my participants came up with some
great phrases, such as “I now release hostages two to three times a day,” “I
drop the kids of f at the pool more than ever,” or from one of the triathletes:
“I am spending far less time in the men’ s library.”
The Pilot Study results were impressive, but the most important lesson I
took from them was that it wasn’ t just firefighters who can profit from theE2 Diet. It’ s everyone and anyone who can fog a mirror or think a thought. Colin J. Wallis,  37
Director of Advancement, Lance Armstr ong Foundation
Think of it as a science project. Pay close attention to the inputs and
outputs. Monitor your sleep, exercise, ener gy, strength, mood, and
compare them with how you were on the traditional American diet. This creates a bit of a game, and makes it easy to have fun and see the
results. THE ENGINE 2 DIET
The Engine 2 Diet is a simple, easy-to-follow four -week program that
will enable you to reach whatever goal you choose, whether it’ s losing
weight, becoming physically fit, or reducing the precursors to disease, such
as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, blockage of the arteries,
high blood sugar, insulin resistance, or all of the above. When you follow the Engine 2 Plan, you will:
• Lose weight
• Lose body fat
• Increase lean muscle mass
• Improve your cardiovascular health
• Free yourself from the shackles of chronic Western diseases
• Have fun learning how to make new, smart, and delicious food
choices
• Improve self-esteem and confidence
• Be instilled with a sense of personal power, because you, and you
alone, are in control of your health
• Absolutely love how you feel
The reason the program will help you lose weight is not because you will
be painstakingly measuring your portions or warily watching your calories,
but because you will be eating only satisfying, whole foods that are nutrient
dense as well as naturally low in calories and high in fiber.This kind of pure diet will also grant you clarity of mind and increased
energy. Ask the firefighters at Engine 2: Derick Zwerneman said, “I feel
clean and light.” Josh Miller told me he felt as though his “whole system
has been rebooted.” And Steve Martinez commented, “My whole body and
mind feel like your teeth do after a cleaning from the dental hygienist.”
So let’ s begin! THE TWO ENGINE 2 DIET  PLANS
You have a choice of two plans—the Fire Cadet and the Firefighter. For the most part, firefighters don’ t know how to do anything half-assed. So when I ask people to start the diet, I seldom seek moderation. I ask
people to start at the highest possible level of commitment. But for some, the diet can appear daunting, so I of fer the Fire Cadet
option for those who prefer a more gradual approach. Others can char ge right in with the Firefighter plan—which I
recommend, because you’ll be setting yourself on a course to achieve better
results in terms of everything from weight loss to lowered cholesterol
levels. And isn’ t that worth two extra weeks of work? But if you do start with the Cadet plan, you can always change your
mind and go full bore later. At the start of the E2 Pilot Study, the
participants were divided almost evenly between the Firefighter and the
Fire Cadet options. After the first week, however, almost 80 percent of the
Fire Cadets called me to say they wanted to join the Firefighter plan. Fire Cadet
The Fire Cadet option is for those who don’ t like rushing into things, yet
still want to find that pot of health at the end of the rainbow. Over the first
two weeks, the fire cadet will wean him- or herself of f unfriendly foods
while eating an abundance of healthy, delicious ones. Week One: No dairy of any kind. This includes all dairy—milk, cheese,
creams, yogurt, butter, ice cream, and sour cream. Also, no processed or refined foods—and that means white rice, white
flour, white pasta, white bread, and anything else that is processed: cakes,
cookies, unhealthy chips, sodas, etc. Week Two: Now you stop eating meat, chicken, eggs, and fish, and
continue to avoid dairy and refined foods. In other words, no pork, noturkey, no buf falo, no venison. Nothing that paws a hoof or flaps a wing. Nothing with a face and nothing with a mother, on land or in water. Week Three: Keep the lid on all oils. Yes, I want you to stop eating all
added or extracted oils, whether they’re olive, canola, coconut, or any other. We don’ t eat baked goods with added oils, we don’ t use salad dressings
with added oils, and we don’ t cook with added oils. Now you’re doing the whole shebang: no dairy, no refined foods, no
meat, and no oils. Week Four: You’re still on the total E2 diet. You are digging in with both
heels and consuming only whole foods. You are living the dream! You are
nourishing yourself with only the best and brightest foods on earth: fruits,
vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds. Please check out Part III of this book to see some of the excellent meals
you’ll be enjoying—breakfasts, lunches, and dinners that include delicacies
such as blueberry pancakes, French toast, pizzas, shepherd’ s pie, vegetable
curries, mushroom bur gers with sweet potato fries, orange mousse, and fruit
pie. Firefighter
Starting on Day One, the Firefighter will jump in with both feet, eating a
diet filled with healthy whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and legumes, while
abstaining from all animal-based products and refined foods. What the Fire
Cadet will be practicing in Weeks Three and Four, the Firefighter will be
practicing for all four weeks—and happily so! THIS IS THE SIMPLEST  PROGRAM  you can imagine. And to make it even
simpler, check out Part III’ s tips that make all this as easy as a healthy date
nut crust pie. And speaking of pies, you’ll also be able to eat delectable
cookies, casseroles, breads, soups, and so much more. After a while, you
won’ t even miss the foods you’ll be avoiding—which we’ll now talk about
in a little more detail. Week One—Dairy and Processed Foods
I


 Since this guided meditation has brought you some
revelations, you  may want to write down what came to you duri ng the
meditation.E NERGY -B ODY  H EALING WITH  G EMS AND  C OLORS
The color sky blue is associated with the fifth chakra. Lapis lazuli, known as the “stone of truth,” is great for speaking your
truth. Y ou can also use aquamarine and turquoise. Y ou can  wear or hold to
your thr oat chak ra the stones b lue kyanite and blue iolite to help enhance
clairaudient or psychic hearing abilities. Fifth Chakra Mindfulness Ideas to Ponder
1. When I communicate with other s, I will keep in mind that it’ s not the
words that create beautiful st ories, but the spaces between the
words. And it’ s not the musical  notes that create melodious m usic,
but the pauses between the notes. I’m creating space in my
communication. I’m pausing, listening fully, and allowing the space
to create beautiful conversations. 2. Revealing my inner truth is the only way to authenticity. 3. Honesty is the way I express my self-love and my integrity. 4. I remain open to all forms of communication, and I honor others’
needs to express themselves in many ways. 5. As I live more in truth, more truth will be revealed to me.T6  T H E  T H I R D - E Y E  C H A K R A
A j n a
ELEMENT :  Light
COLOR:  Indigo
MANTRA SOUND:  SHAM
he sixth chakra is a special place on our chakra journey. Anatomically,
we have  arrived  at the area of the third eye, which is located between
the t wo eyebrows and the two p hysical eyes. The sixth chakra includes the
eyes and the pineal gland. Ajna is our center of intuition and clairvoyance,
or seeing things beyond the physical. Relatively speaking, the descriptions of the first five chakras have been
fairly grounded and hopefully relatable to your daily life. Pleas e bear with
me throughout the description of the sixth chakra, as it w ill be more
esoteric. The world we live in is made up of opposites. Where there is up, there is
down. Where there is day, there  is night. Where there is darkness, there is
light. No matter how hard we  try to only have half of something, its
opposite always  tends to show up somehow. As happy as you can be one
day, you know i n the back of your mind that something can happ en to make
you sad. But the  upside is, when  you’re sad, you can be fairly certain that it
won’ t last and that you will eventually experience happiness again, if you’re
patient. This principle of opposites is called duality.When you were born, you came into this world of duality. Y ou began
life on earth, and shortly thereafter you realized that you will die someday. According to T antra yoga philosophy, we can transcend this world of
duality while we’re still living. W e don’ t have to experien ce death to
appreciate our state of perfection wherein suf fering no longer exists. W e can
have this experience while we’re alive. In the first five chakras we’re stuck with the experience of our five
senses, the tanmantras ; with the five elements, the mahabhutas; and with
the three  gunas,  or states of being. The first five chakras are also bound to
the t hree doshas as well as the alternating ener gies of yin and y ang, which
are repre sentative of the Ida and Pingala nadis. As you can see, up until this
point, w e were bound to the eb b and flow of many factors that influenced
the experiences of our existence. Not any more. Once you reach the Ajna chakra, you’re able to go
beyond all these factors. The Ida and Pingala nadis end in the nostrils. For
the s ixth chakra, the two physical eyes represent the Ida and Pi ngala nadis,
and the third e ye represents the Shushumna nadi. Rememb er that the
Shushumna nadi is the central nadi that runs through the spinal cord
connecting all seven main chakras. The physical eyes see the past and
present, and the third eye sees th e future. Lastly, the physical ey es represent
the sun and moon, and the third eye represents fire or intense light. This bea utiful q uote by Dr. K. O. Paulose portrays the essenc e of the
sixth chakra: “Ajna is where time ceases to exist. There is no past, no
present and no future. Ajna will help you break down the barriers between
your ind ividual self and teach you to blend with the cosmic mind in single-
pointed consciou sness. This is the chakra wherein duality ends. There is no
light and dark; no good and e vil. Unconditional truth is the essence of
Ajna.”
The color we attribute to the third-eye chakra is indigo. The mantra, or
bija (seed) sound, we vocalize for the sixth chakra is SHAM. Sixth Chakra Ailments
Ailments of the Ajna chakra include blindness, eyestrain, blurred vision,
headaches, hallucinations, dif ficulty concentrating, and nightmares. Memory problems can also be a sixth chakra disorder.Sixth Chakra Energy
If you have never experienced a transcendent state, Ajna’ s ener gy may be
dif ficult to understand. Y ou might even have a hard time believing that
something like this exists. Let me give you an example to help you
recognize that you have already experienced the transcendent quality of the
sixth chakra. Have yo u ever experienced your sense of intuition through a hunch or
inner knowing? Have you had a  clear sense about a person or s ituation but
no idea how you knew it? Let’ s say you’re in the market to buy a new car. Y ou shop around and find a particular vehicle that you would like to buy. The car salesma n shows you the  top-of-the-line model with all t he bells and
whistles. Y ou explain you want the basic model with heated front seats but
nothing else extra. He convinces you that he can get you a  great deal,
fantastic trade-in value, and perfect financing on the car he showed you. Reluctantly you agree to let him write up the paperwork. Three hours later
he s ays he’ s crunched all the numbers and presents you with a bill that is
$5,000 m ore tha n you wanted t o spend. Defeated, you’re about to sign on
the d otted line w hen something inside you says, “Stop!” Y ou put down your
pen and tell the salesman, “I thin k I need to shop around some more. I think
I can  get a better deal elsewhere.” He tries to convince you tha t you could
never in  a million years find a better deal on such a car. Listening to your
intuition, you leave and head of f to another dealership where you’re able to
buy the  same top-of-the-line model for $5,000 less, exactly what you
wanted to pay in the first place and with more amenities. That is
transcendence. Y ou mig ht ar gue  that your decis ion to leave the first dealership was pure
logic since you know through life experience when you’re bei ng taken to
the clea ners. But your hunch wasn’ t based on factual information, not
unless y ou had called every sing le car dealership in your area with the specs
on that same car  and had already gathered the information before declining
the f irst deal. It came from an in ner knowing, a small voice that  told you to
get out while you still could. If you’ve ever experienced telepathy or meaningful coincidence, you’ve
also tapp ed into your sixth chakra. Have you ever thought about someone
you hadn’ t seen or spoken to i n a long time, and the mere experience ofthinking about her caused her to call you out of the blue? Or maybe you
thought about a book you really  wanted to read, and a friend w alked up to
you and said, “I was out shopping, saw this book, and thought of you. W ould you like to have it?” That happened to me while I w as living in
France. I was helping my father -in-law, who was having some health issues. I w as thinking about a book I had read several years before, 8 W eeks to
Optimum Health  by Dr. Andrew W eil. I knew that if I could give it to him,
it might change his life. But I didn’ t know where to find it or if  it was even
translated into French. That day I went to the supermarket and walked past
a ba r gain bin f ull of books. I glanced down and there was 8 W eeks to
Optimum Health  in French and on sale. It was crazy. That is what happens
when you access your sixth chakra fully. Many p


165
vs. love, 107–1 1, 116, 161
and marriage, 159, 162
needs of, 108, 1 16, 190, 204
and or gasm, 135
and sensitivity, 128–29
and separation, 162
signals from, 259
vs. spirit, 157, 164, 168, 204
and surrender, 156–57, 163–64, 168, 169
Ego sur gery, 279–81
Emotions, 263–69
Energy:
creative, 230
renewal of, 49
sexual, 142, 146, 229, 284
of Shakti, 239
spiritual, 228
Enlightenment, 135
Equality:
and acceptance, 77–78
and courtship, 127, 130
spiritual, 163
Evolution, personal, 167, 168
Expectations:
in ‘I love you,” 1 13
and sex, 142–49
Falling in love:
vs. being in love, 5
blessed state of, 23–24
and desire, 269–71
ego vs., 24, 1 16, 165and escape, 1 15, 1 16
healing via, 215
needs and, 102
as opening, 62–63
and psychology vs. spirit, 91–93
relationship and, 159
and soul, 66, 71
surrender in, 163–64, 165
False love, 1 13–15, 120–22
Fantasy:
and courtship, 109
and false love, 1 13–14
and fear, 68–69
and infatuation, 89, 99
and sex, 135–36
Fatalism, 194
Fear:
black holes of, 212–15
of commitment, 100
control of, 199–200, 201–4
and danger, 111
of death, 221–22
and fantasy, 68–70
about for giveness, 280
healing of, 215–16
of life, 268, 269–70
and memory, 110–1 1
of risk, 22–24
and selfishness, 1 15
survival, 214–15
Fragmentation, 103–4, 191
Freedom, and intimacy, 137–41
Freud, Sigmund, 10, 12, 37
God:
action of, 244, 247in the beloved, 37
devotion to, 87–88
knowledge of, 247
as love’ s source, 9, 62, 84–85, 86, 249
mirror of, 1 1
as present in death, 247
relationship with, 5
separation from, 191, 205
and soul, 275
Spirit as, 13
as within, 243
Grain of sand, 301–3
Growth, and love, 42
Gyana, 35
Gyana Shakti, 238–40, 241–42
Happiness, 227, 282
achievement of, 39–41, 105
and control, 40
as pleasure response, 40–41
Healing:
death as, 9
defined, 43
by falling in love, 216
of fear, 215–16
of love, 16, 27, 41–43
of separation, 205
Heart:
attention on, 53–55
as center, 51
chakra of, 317
expansion of, 292
meditating on, 52–55
purification of, 51–55
Human nature:
as mirror of God, 1 1spiritual vision of, 10–15
I am enough, 212–17, 321
I am love, 1–3, 33
spiritual tradition of, 5, 1 1–12
I am loved, 322–28
I am That, 274
Icha Shakti, 238–40, 241
Illusion:
and need, 108
vs. reality, 14–15
“I love you”:
emotions in, 1 17
hidden meanings in, 1 12, 1 17, 200–1
and passion, 270
Immanence, 92
Immune response, 88
Independence, and aloneness, 58
Infatuation, 64, 87–105
between two worlds, 89–93
and fantasy, 89, 99
and innocence, 90
loving practice, 94–97
in our lives, 98–105
and perception, 91–92
regression in, 91
and transcendence, 92–93, 94
Infinity, 250
In our lives:
but never the bride, 98–105
Cinderella for sale, 123–30
dying unto death, 218–24
house of light, 314–21
somebody out there, 20–28
what about me?, 179–88
what’ s a little gray?, 79–86who will rescue me?, 56–61
wooing the goddess, 261–71
worn-out lover, 151–55
Insight, 299
Inspiration:
cultivating, 299–313
infinite moment in, 300–3
threads in fabric of, 303–13
Intimacy, 64, 131–55
as agreement, 135–36
and desire, 131–34, 135
and freedom, 137–41
loving practice, 142–50
in our lives, 151–55
and resistance, 139–40
with the self, 134–35, 273–76
and shared self-expression, 135
see also  Sex
Intuition, 244–47
Isolation, 27, 57, 165
Joy, pure, 295
Judgment, 45–46
Kali, 228
Kama, 131–34
Karma, 35, 193–97, 223, 242
Knowledge:
of God, 247
and gyana, 35, 241–42
as love of truth, 1 1–12
Kriya Shakti, 238–40, 242
Letting go, 25, 169–78
and awareness, 170
emotionally, 175–78mentally, 174–75
physically, 173–74
times for, 170–71
and voice of spirit, 258–60
ways of, 173
of what, 172
Liberation, 276
Life:
fear of, 268, 270
as love, 1 1–12
passion for, 227, 229, 234, 237
perfection of, 131
spiritual goal of, 3
Loneliness, 26, 58, 165
Lovability, 70–73
Love:
ability to receive, 84
absence of, 47–50
alignment with, 19
and balance, 42
divine revealed in, 250
vs. ego, 107–1 1, 116, 161
falling in, see Falling in love
false, 1 13–14, 120–22
giving and receiving, 44
God as source of, 9, 62, 84–85, 86, 249
and growth, 42
healing of, 16, 27, 41–43
importance of, 9–10
life as, 1 1–12
messages from, 96–97
vs. non-love, 1 1
path to, see Path to love
and power within, 29
as protection, 202reality as, 14, 16, 27
and relationship, 46
and religion, 12, 36–37, 88
of Self, 216
Self as source of, 14, 33, 46, 65
and sex, 136
social pattern of, 4
and soul bar gain, 17–19
and spirit, 2–3, 1 1–12, 23–24, 29, 33, 37, 39, 65
spiritual meaning of, 3–6, 12, 39
unconditional, 327
and unity, 35
universal, 14, 282, 292
and wholeness, 250
Love story:
with God, 9
living, 43–46
loving practice, 17–19
in our lives, 20–28
revival of, 7–9, 14
Loving practice:
accepting ambiguity, 74–78
cultivating inspiration, 299–313
freeing sexual blocks, 142–50
healing our inner needs, 205–


consideration, and
every other sort of unloving behavior with sweetness and light. For
all its apparent goodness, this situation smacks of self-denial and
even masochism. The rishis’ version of unconditional love contains no eort at all. A person who feels love “no matter what” is simply following his
nature. In truth, this is all that can be asked of anyone. Acting
according to your own level of awareness is inescapable. In order to
smile at the stranger who bumps into me on the street, I need to feel
like smiling; otherwise, my behavior will be calculated. As we saw
before, calculation is the primary strategy of the false self. It has to
calculate when to smile because it is too afraid to show theemotions actually being felt. Tact and diplomacy, which most of us
applaud as “nice behavior,” can also be seen as the subtle skill of
lying. All of us are radiating our awareness out into the world and
bringing its reection back to us. If your awarenes s contains
violence and dread, you will meet those qualities “out there.” On
the other hand, if your awareness contains unconditional love, the
world, even the eyes of a derelict, will mirror that love. The curative
value of this kind of awareness is enormous, as I would like to
illustrate with a moving story told by R. D. Laing. At the age of fourteen, a Scottish boy named Phillip came home
from school one day and found his mother on her bed in a pool of
blood. A long-term tuberculo sis patient, she had died from a sudden
hemorrhage in her lungs. Instead of consoling the boy and helping
him to overco me his shock and grief, Phillip’s father berated him,
telling him again and again that he had killed his mother by putting
her through the exhaustion of pregnancy, birth, and raising him. This went on for two months. Then Phillip came home from school
to nd that his father had committed suicide. Six months later, Laing came  across the boy in a Glasgow mental
ward, in a bizarre state of psychological and physical deterioration. As Laing vividly recalls, “He smelled awful. He was incontinent of
urine and feces, given to staggering and walking peculiarly. He
gesticulated in strange ways without speaking, seem ed almost
completely self-absorbed, and could not care less about his
surroundings and the people in them.”
Although he was in the midst of doctors and nurses whose job
was to care for him, Phillip had pushed the limits of compassion. He
was too strange and disgust ing for anyone to be around for more
than a few minutes, much less to help. He had developed a stutter,
along with a peculiar collect ion of tics: blinks, darts of the eye, and
twitches in his cheeks, tongue, hands, and ngers. Worst of all was
his total I-could-not-care-less attitude, which had alienated the other
patients and turned the whole sta against him. Two months in the hospital made little change in Phillip’s
condition. “There was no question of the diagnosis,” Laing recounts.“He was an acute (probably becoming chronic) catatonic
schizophrenic. When he had anything to say, it was clear that he
was hallucinated, very paranoid, and very deluded.” Laing felt
drawn to this shattered creature. Phillip had no remaining relatives
or family friends to take him in. That he would be put away for the
rest of his life was a foregone conclusion. Instead, Laing took Phillip home with him, to his wife and three
children under the age of four. He made this extraordinary decision
because, when talking to Phillip alone in his oce, outside the
setting of a psychiatric ward, he noticed that the boy became
calmer. Phillip started to talk intelligibly, and although his talk was
about “crazy” things—his feeling that the ward was a gigantic
sphere with himself as a pin in the center, his visitations by
interstellar beings, his hallu cination that a black man’s voice was
speaking gibberish to him in the night—he did not seem completely
gone. His tics and twitches also subsided in Laing’s oce. For an
hour at least he controlled his bodily functions, and most telling of
all, a shadow of gratitude passed over his rigid features when Laing
oered to help him. Laing had the insight that perhaps the doctors and nurses were
keeping  Phillip crazy simply by the way they felt about him. “Phillip
generated in everyone  who came near him mixed feelings of
revulsion, at the sight of him and the smell of him, and feeling sorry
for him, just because he was so repulsive, as well as at his evident
misery. The result was that hardly anyone could resist trying to
appear to him to be kind and loving, but eeing out of sight and
smell of him as quickly as possible—not because they could not
stand him, but for some other necessity.”
Phillip was being kept crazy because the attempt to love and care
for him was tinged with hypo crisy and he knew it. As soon as Laing
took the unheard-of step of bringing a catatonic schizophrenic into
his home, Phillip improved with astonishing speed. His incontinence
ended the mom ent he entered the house. Within a couple of weeks
he had stopped staggering, although he still shook. He began to talk
falteringly but coherently. Three months later he was well enoughto be moved into a foster home. The threat of a lifetime spent
locked up in a mental ward had been removed. Laing did not use psychothe rapy on Phillip while he was under
his roof. The boy was treated honestly, without emotional
hypocrisy, which meant that what was good or bad about him was
reacted to as such. Fifteen years later, he returned to the house to
report his progress. As Laing puts it with a shade of dry wit, “He
was married, had two children, had a steady job, and was taking
evening classes in psychology.”
It is hard to deny that Phillip’s sanity depended to a huge extent
on projections from the mind s of others. The supercial “love” and
“caring” in the mental ward kept him imprisoned in a false self
because these feelings were equally false. Behind them lurked the
real message: “love” was just a means to keep him under control—it
was a power ploy. Fortunately, in Laing the boy found someone who looked upon
him in the light of love. To me, that is the most touching part of the
story. Laing does not raise the issue of love. He puts his motives on
a simple human basis: “I felt very sorry for his plight and very much
wanted to help him, if possi ble.” Yet in Laing’s presence, a rapport
was established  that was an honest reection of one awareness with
another. The intensity of life, so clear, sane, and loving, radiated
from Laing and touched the boy. That seems to be the most natural
part of what happened between the two, and what should happen
between all of us. One true self speaks to another, using the
language of the heart, and in that bond a person is healed. Safe to Love
If the rishis are right, the end of the false self spells the end of
fear, and the desperate need for power that fearful people cannot
help. Power is a form of self-protection, and when fear is gone, there
is no need for protection. The true self is love, and being able to love
all the time is the most one could want. The clash between love and
power then has no meaning. As Tagore so decisively wrote, “Love is
not a mere impulse; it must contain truth, which is law.” I deeplybelieve that, because I have met people who suddenly found
themselves living under this law. “I was driving down the highway looking for the exit onto the
turnpike when  I noticed an unusual sensation in my chest. It began
as a warm or tingling feeling, which I recognized from meditating. Generally the feeling is pleasant but temporary. Now it began to
intensify, and instead of physical warmth, wave after wave of
emotion started to sweep over me.”
Chris’s eyes shone as he talked on: “It was love, but much purer
and more concentrated love than I had ever felt. I have read in
various scriptures about the heart opening like a ower—one never
thinks such things are going  to happen in real life, on a six-lane
road. But this was it: my heart was unfolding like a ower, almost
drowning me in the exquisit e sensation of love. Strangely, I could
still keep my attention on the road, but I decided to pull o. I
walked into a hamburger stand and just stood there lookin g down at
the salad bar, having the most wonderful experience of my life.”
I still see my friend Chris every once in a while. He has worked as
a bank manager and a community organizer; he is a hardheaded
sort, not the man you would pick to have his heart unfold like a
ower. But that is wrong


 of my readers are feeling a littl e overwhelmed by all these warnings and "beware ofs," and intricacies. They are
used to taking no responsibility for securing their own food supply quality and have come to expect the "system" to protect t hem. I
believe it is not because of lack of governm ent intervention, but because of government intervention itself, our food system is very
perverse. Until our mass consciousness changes, if you wish to make yourself and your family truly healthy, you are going to have
to take charge and become quite a dis criminating shopper. Unconscious consumers are on a rapid road to the total unconsciousness
of death. And again, let me remind you here that this one small book cannot contain everything you should know. The bibliography at the
end of should become your gu ide to earning your post -graduate education in nutritional health. Freshness Of Fruits And Vegetables
Most people do not realize the crucial importance of freshness when it comes to produce. In the same way that seeds gradually  die,
fruits and vegetables  go through a similar process as their nutritional content gradually oxidizes or is broken down by the
vegetables own enzymes, but vegetables lose nutrition hundreds of times more rapidly than cereals. Produce was recently part of a
living plant. It was co nnected to the vascular system of a plant and with few exceptions, is not intended by nature to remain intact
after being cut. A lettuce or a zucchini was entirely alive at the moment of harvest, but from that point, its cells begin to  die. Even
if it is n ot yet attacked by bacteria, molds and fungi, its own internal enzymes have begun breaking down its own substances. Vegetables, especially leafy vegetables, are far more critical in this respect than most ripe fruits. All, however, deteriora te much
like ra dioactive material; they have a sort of half -life. The mineral content is stable, but in respect to the vitamins and enzymes and
other complex organic components, each time period or "half life" results in the loss of half the nutrition. Suppose a lettuc e has a
half life of 48 hours, two days after harvest only 50 percent of the original nutrition remains. After two more days, half th e
remaining half is gone and only 25 percent is left. After two more days half of that 25 percent is lost. Thus six days afte r harvest
and a lettuce contains only bout 12 percent of its original nutrition. A two day half -life is only hypothetical. Those types of
produce I classify as very perishable probably do have a half -life of from 36 to 48 hours. Moderately perishable produ ce has a half
life of about 72 hours; durable types of produce have half lives of 96 hours or longer. Vegetable Storage Potential
 Very Perishable  Moderately Perishable  Durable
lettuce  zucchini  apple
spinach  eggplant  squash
Chinese cabbage  sweet peppers  oranges
kale broccoli  cabbage
endive  cauliflower  carrot
peaches  apricots  lemons
parsley   beets

    The half life of produce can be lengthened by lowering its temperature. For that reason, sophisticated produce growers usuall y
use hydrocooling. This process dumps a just -cut vegetable into icy water within minutes of being harvested, lowering core
temperature to a few degrees above freezing almost immediately. When cut vegetables are crated up at field temperatures, and
stacks of those crates are put in a cooler, it can take the inside of the stack 24 hours, or longer, to become chilled. Home gardeners
should also practice hydrocooling. Fill your sink with cold water and wash/soak your harvest until it is thoroughly chilled b efore
draining and refrigerating it. Or, harvest your garden early in the morning when temperatures are lowest. Still, when yo u buy produce in the store it may have been sitting at room temperature for hours or possibly days. The bottom line here: fresh is equally as important as unsprayed or organically grown. The Real Truth About Salt And Sugar
    First, let me remind c ertain food religionists: salt is salt is salt is salt and sugar is sugar is sugar. There are no good forms of salt
and no good forms of sugar. Salt from a mine and salt from the sea both have the same harmful effect; white sugar, natural br own
sugar, hone y, molasses, corn syrup, maple syrup, whatever sweet have you. All are sugars and all have the similar harmful effects. I know of no harmless salt substitute that really tastes salty. Nutrisweet is basically harmless to most people and can be us ed as a
very satisfactory replacement for sugars. (A few people are unable to tolerate nutrisweet, causing the anti -chemicalists to circulate
much anti -nutrisweet propaganda, but you should carefully consider this thought before dismissing nutrisweet –there is almost no
food substance that some people are not allergic to or unable to digest. The fact that nutrisweet is made in a chemical vat a nd the
fact that some cannot handle nutrisweet does not make it "of the devil. " And its not all black and white with the oth er items either. Sea salt does have certain redeeming qualities not found in mined salt
and under certain very special conditions, eating small quantities of salt may be acceptable. Similarly, some forms of sugar are not
quite as harmful as other forms, th ough all are harmful. The primary health problem caused by table salt is not that it contributes to high blood pressure in people with poor kidneys,
though it does that. It is not that eating salt ruins the kidneys; salt probably does not do that. The  real problem with salt is that
sodium chloride is an adrenal stimulant, triggering the release of adrenal hormones, especially natural steroids that resist
inflammation. When these hormones are at high levels in the blood, the person often feels very good, has a sense of well -being. Thus salt is a drug. And like many drugs of its type, salt is a habituating drug. However, we are so used to whipping our adr enals
with salt that we don't notice it. What we do notice is that we think we like the taste of salte d food and consider that food tastes flat
without it. But take away a person's salt shaker and they become very uncomfortable. That's because the addict isn't getting their
regular dose. What's wrong with repetitive adrenal whipping is that adrenal fo rtitude is variable; many people's adrenals eventually fail to
respond to the prod of salt and the body begins to suffer from a lack of adrenal hormones. Often those inheriting weak adrena ls
manifest semi -failure in childhood. The consequence is that ordin ary, irritating substances begin causing severe irritation. The
person becomes allergic to pollen, dust, foods, animal danders, etc. We see asthma, hay fever, sinusitis, etc. Though one can  then
discover specific allergens and try to remove them from the e nvironment or diet, often this case can be solved far more easily by
complete withdrawal from all salt. This rests the adrenals and they may recover their full function; almost certainly their f unction
will improve. The asthma, allergies and etc., graduall y vanish. Most of us don't need to eat salt as a nutrient. There's enough sodium in one dill pickle to run a human body for a year. The re's
enough natural sodium in many types of vegetables to supply normal needs without using table salt. Perhaps athle tes or other hard
working people in the tropics eating deficient food grown on leached -out depleted soils, people that sweat buckets day after day
may need a little extra sodium.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the author's opinion on the use of butter and margarine?,
A: The author advises against using margarine and recommends using high-quality, raw, and unpasteurized butter, as it is a more nutritious option.
Q: What is the author's stance on dairy products?,
A: The author is critical of dairy products, stating that they are hard to digest and can cause health problems, especially in people who are not genetically adapted to digest them.
Q: What is the author's view on the role of salt in the diet?,
A: The author considers salt to be a toxic drug that can lead to adrenal fatigue and a range of health problems, including allergies and digestive issues. They recommend avoiding salt and sugary foods.
Q: How can one avoid the pitfalls of whole grains?,
A: The author suggests that people should grind their own grains at home, as commercial stores often sell stale or rancid products. They also advise against eating a variety of foods at one meal, as this can lead to poor digestion and toxicity.
Q: What is the author's approach to treating critically ill patients?,
A: The author believes that the body has the ability to heal itself, and that the role of the therapist is to provide the correct therapeutic approach, rather than the therapy itself doing the healing.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>I believe fasting is the therapy that almost invariably gives a critically ill person their very best chance of recovery. If a patient
dies while fasting they almost certainly would have died anyway, and if death comes while fasting, it will be more comfortabl e,
with less pain, and with more mental clarity. Critically ill people may have, among other things, any of the followi ng diagnoses: advanced cancer, advanced aids, heart
failure, very high blood pressure, kidney failure, advanced liver disease, advanced emphysema, pneumonia or other catastrophi c
infections, especially


 chain of
causes and effects that extend back in the life of the patient for years—tensions in business and
personal affairs over-taxing the nervous system. Excessive venery is one of the most prominent causes, but lasciviousness when it is in control of
the mind is equally as pernicious. Excessive eating, coffee, tea, tobacco, alcohol, and a lack of
poise are among the most common causes. Salt eating undoubtedly contributes to its production,
but to blame high blood pressure on this alone is to ignore all the many other influences in the life
of the patient. In traditional Alice in Wonderland fashion of starting with a result as a cause, hypertension is
said to cause heart disease, and the hypertension is blamed upon the nerves. The fact that substances liberated by the kidneys, by the adrenal glands, perhaps substances
liberated by the thyroid and pituitary glands, can also cause high blood pressure, tends to reveal
that the condition may be more than simple nerve irritation—that it is a symptom of a general or
systemic state. This being true, the remedy is not some temporary forced reduction of pressure, but
a thorough removal of the causes of systemic impairment. Treatment is commonly directed to depressing the nervous system. The surgical procedures of
removing the thyroid gland and portions of the sympathetic nervous system are both based on the
assumption that the organs of the body are causes of disease. The fact that high blood pressure
never develops spontaneously in animals is given as the reason for the thought that the nervous
107system is involved in the cause of hypertension in man. Drugs given to depress the nervous system, to relax the arterial system, and to depress the heart
are the most common means of reducing blood pressure in cases of hypertension. It hardly needs to
be pointed out that such treatment removes no cause and provides reduction to the pressure only so
long as the drugs are being taken. Indeed, in most cases, the blood pressure tends to rise in spite of the depressing effects of the
drugs, after they have been taken over a brief period. The drugs all result in more or less annoying
and often serious side effects, so that there is a constant search for new, and it is hope, less
injurious drugs. Certainly the treatments in vogue are not satisfactory, neither to the patients nor to
their physicians. Multiple causation makes specific treatment a tragedy. The remedy must be as many-sided as the
cause. It will not do, for example, to have the patient discontinue the eating of salt and permit him
to continue to indulge in tobacco. Every element of cause must be removed to achieve certain and
lasting results. We should also recognize the fact that in high blood pressure we deal with a
symptom of a general systematic state that has been years in the making and is the result of many
correlated antecedents. The whole of the systemic abnormality must be remedied if we are to be successful in our
efforts to provide permanent reduction of blood pressure. Treatment directed at the symptom
cannot do more than provide a brief palliation of the symptom. The speed with which fasting results in a marked reduction of blood pressure indicates the
importance of rest in reducing systemic tension and excitement. The reduction may be so great in a
very few days as to astonish the patient. As the toxic load is reduced, the nervous system becomes
less irritated, the functions of the kidneys, adrenal, thyroid and pituitary glands are restored to
normal, so that blood pressure falls to new levels, even to normal or slightly below, and tends to
remain down after eating is resumed. Indeed, it will remain at or about the normal level so long as
the patient continues to live in a manner to avoid the redevelopment of toxemia. All of this is to say that the reduction of blood pressure secured by means of the fast is a genuine
reduction and not a forced state. The organism is not crippled in the process as it is when a gland
or portions of the sympathetic system are removed. If we cut out causes instead of cutting out
organs, we secure a genuine and lasting elimination of effects. As in all things, the causes that have produced the condition in the first place, will reproduce it
if they are not permanently removed. Fasting is not a substitute for achieving—and holding to a
correct way of life. 10827
The Fast and the Heart
It was formerly widely held by physicians that if one were to go without food for six days the heart
would collapse and death would result. The myth that fasting causes the heart to collapse persisted
in scientific circles, in
spite of the great amount of evidence to the contrary, until after the famous
Cork hunger strike in 1920. Protesting their arrest following the Easter Rebellion of Irish patriots, Terence Mac Swiney,
Lord Mayor of Cork, Ireland, and his co-fasters went without food for periods ranging from over
seventy days to ninety-four days. They demonstrated by their long fasts the fallacy of the “heart
collapse” from the lack-of-food theory. Today we are foced to recognize the fact that instead of fasting weakening the heart, it results in
strengthening this wonderful organ. Stunt or exhibition fasters had also shown that man may safely abstain from food for extended
periods and their sensational proofs had received sufficient publicity, even scientific study, to
have dispelled the fallacy. Indeed, fasts by early
Hygienists
 demonstrated the fallacy of this idea
of the early collapse of the heart, years before it was abandoned in the world of science. On this subject, Hereward Carrington, Ph.D., author of
Vitality, Fasting
 and Nutrition says:
“That the heart is invariably strengthened and invigorated by fasting is true beyond a doubt. I take
the stand that fasting is the greatest of all strengtheners of weak hearts—being, in fact, its only
rational physiological care.” He attributed this improvement to the following three factors:
1. The added rest for fast provides for the heart. 2. The resulting improvement of the blood-stream. 3. The absence of the “stimulants” that patients in general and heart patients in particular are
accustomed to take. If we consider angina pectoris, a disease of the heart that grows out of constant stimulation with
tobacco, coffee, tea, wrong food combinations and excesses of carbohydrates, and observe the
effects of the fast in these patients, we are amazed at the speed with which the heart recovers from
its difficulties. Individuals who are inclined to overeat greatly, who have not learned their limitations regarding
quantity and who tend to overdo everything they undertake are likely to develop angina pectoris. Their mode of living places a heavy and constant strain upon the heart. Rest is its most urgent need. It is said authoritatively that during the past twenty years more than fifty drugs and surgical
treatments have been advocated for the relief of angina pectoris. At the same time angina has been
called a “self-limited disease,” and some authorities have held the position that their advice tried
during recovery might get the credit. How do we know that fasting is of genuine value in a case of angina? We do not claim that
fasting
cures
 angina. We state only that it takes a load off the heart so that it may restore it own
normal condition in a more certain and speedy manner. “The ticker has certainly improved and slowed down; I can’t hear it any
 more,” this was a blind
Canadian discussing his condition with me after a few days of fasting, followed by a few days of
eating. Before beginning the fast he told me that for some time he had been able to hear the beat of
109his heart and that it was especially bothersome at night when he laid his head on the pillow. There was also rapid heart action, which troubled him considerably. Nothing brings about a
quieting down of a rapid heart and an excited system generally like rest with fasting. This takes a
heavy load off the heart and results in a speedy reduction of blood pressure. With a reduction of tension and a reduction of the number of repetitions of the heart’s pulsations,
this remarkable organ secures a real rest, something that nothing else can provide. With less work
to do, the heart repairs itself. The fast, as has been repeatedly emphasized in the preceding pages, is a period of physiological
rest. It does not do anything, it is merely a cessation of doing. The rest provides opportunity for the
body to do for itself, under conditions of rest, what it cannot do under conditions of full-speed
ahead. It can perform under abstinence what it cannot manage in a state of surfeit. So regular and
uniform is the improvement of the heart in the fast that it cannot be doubted that Carrington’s
statements are true. There are, of course, heart conditions that are beyond any possibility of
improvement and these will not be helped by the fast. In the hundreds of cases of heart disease that I have watched through fasts of various lengths, all
but a few have developed stronger and better hearts. Many of them, even so-called
incurable
 ones,
have become entirely normal. Rapid hearts have slowed down, abnormally slow hearts have
speeded up, weak hearts have greatly improved in vigor, hearts that were irregular have become
regular in time and frequency, hearts that were missing pulsations (even as often as one pulsation
out of four) have resumed regular pulsation, and many other improvements in heart function have
been observed. (It should not be necessary to say that fasting does not enable the heart to grow a
new valve where one had been destroyed.) Since fasting relieves


throws away when she makes salad are the richest in vitamins and
minerals. Those elements are the catalysts which taken into the body help
keep its processes going. When any of those elements run short,
bodily functions are impaired and disease appears. For years and
years, I kept telling my patients those things. The typical patient
would listen with one ear, then go home and eat white bread, mashed
potatoes and gravy and lettuce hearts for supper. CHAPTER 8. As long as I practiced dentistr y in Albertville, it never occurred
to me that dental decay or crooked teeth or pyorrhea could be
prevented. In that Alabama country everybody's teeth decayed. One of my
patients in 1898 was 2 year old Willie McNaron. As she played in my
offices in her father's hotel, Willie  had watched my patients. So she
thought she had to spit a lot when sh e got into the dental chair. So I
had to wait for her afternoon nap hour  and fill her teeth as she slept. For another small patient, Jimmie C., 16 years old, I put 15
fillings in one day all in posterior teeth. Those two children had
typical mouths for that country. Among Alabama folk, most decay
occurs between the teeth; but among Hereford, Texas folk this is rare. As I later realized, those children had bad teeth because they had
been fed too much white bread, cake, pies, polished rice, syrup and
jelly. The worn out soil adds its part. They did not get enough raw
whole milk to supply the calcium and vitamins; or enough raw leafy
vegetables and fruit to supply the trace minerals (including fluorine)
needed to build sound teeth. Now our instructors at Vanderbilt had taught us dental students
to wait six months after pulling teeth for gum shrinkage before putting in a new set of teeth. But later I observed that when a patient had lost
his teeth purely from decay—that is, when he had no pyorrhea, and
that malady was rare in Alabama in those days—I could put in a plate
immediately, with little or no shrinkage. So the plates rarely had to be
refitted. I recall that soon after I opened my office in Albertville, young
Tom Boyd came in to get his bad teeth pulled out and a new set put in. When the last tooth was out, my patient asked:
"Doctor, when do I get my new teeth?" "Oh, in about six months," I told him. At that, young Boyd stretched himself about six inches taller and
yelled at the top of his voice:
"Good God, doctor, I'm going to be  married tomorrow. I've got to
have my teeth for the wedding." It was not according to the book ; but, sympathizing, I discarded
what Vanderbilt had taught me. "All right, young fellow," I answered. "Have a seat there and let's
get busy." I worked all that day and late that night. Before the wedding
hour, I had my patient's teeth ready for him. When I last saw Mr.
Boyd, 10 years after that, he told me his plates had not given him a bit
of trouble. They still fit perfectly. It was only a few days after that I pulled Miss Agnes Strickland's
teeth that were too far gone for repa ir. I told her, as I told all my
patients, what the book said: "Better wait six months for the gums to
shrink and heal before we put in a new set of teeth." But after 10 days
Miss Strickland was back. "I can't wait no six months, doctor," she challenged me. "I want
my new teeth and no foolin'." So I made her a new set right off. Like Tom Boyd, Miss
Strickland told me some years later that her plates had never given her
the least trouble. The explanation: Both those patients had perfectly healthy
mouths, no trace of pyorrhea and hence no bone shrinkage after the
denture was placed. During the 17 years that I had my office in Albertville I cannot
recall having a single patient coming back to have his dental plates refitted. By contrast, in the He reford, Texas country, numerous
patients had to have their plates made over. Pyorrhea, rare in Alabama
but prevalent on the Texas high plains had caused most of my
Hereford patients to lose their teet h. Long after the teeth were out the
underlying bone would keep shrinking even though wearing the new
denture. After questioning many such patient s, year after year, I was led
to connect pyorrhea with a heavy diet of meat and gravy. Too much
meat and animal fat consumed for a long time apparently causes the
bony structure to waste away. I simply observed the fact: I did not
then, and do not now, undertake to explain it, other than it is due to food. When I revisited Birmingham in May, 1947, Walker Fowler
showed me some gold fillings which I had put into his mouth 45 years
before. Though well along in years,  Mr. Fowler still had firm healthy
gums. All his life, he told me, he ate meat and drank milk sparingly. I
noted his numerous fillings and told him—correctly, he said—that he
habitually ate too heavily of white bread, potatoes, sugar and syrup. One day a stranger walked into my house at Hereford and
challenged me:
"Doctor, look at the gold fillings in my teeth. Do you know
anything about those fillings?" I looked, shook my head and asked my visitor: "Can you tell me
any reason why I should know?" Then he said: "You put those filling in 45 years ago. My name is
Lee Barnes." Lee is a cousin of mine, but I didn't recognize him. Like Mr.
Fowler of Birmingham, Mr. Barnes, a Government field man now,
had eaten lightly of meat but too he avily of starchy foods and he had
not consumed enough milk. That is, not enough from well fed cows. CHAPTER 9. I CONFIDE MY IDEAS TO FELLOW
DENTISTS

By 1910, as I recall, my persistent ideas concerning the effect of
food and drink on the building of a sound body, and with it, a sound set of teeth, had begun to take definite shape. It was at the Alabama Dental Association convention in
Birmingham that year at a luncheon  table with three fellow dentists,
that I first ventured to unload those unorthodox ideas on the
profession. I have about reached the conclusion, I told those dentists,
that a patient's diet has more to do with the condition of his mouth—or
for that matter, the condition of his body generally— than our medical
or dental scientists have any idea of. "It is my conviction, gentlemen,
that if a child, from its birth up, were fed a well-balanced diet, given
plenty of calcium in milk to build bones and teeth; plenty of protein in
meat or beans or whole wheat grains or similar foodstuff; given enough carbohydrates in bread, potatoes, sugar and white syrup to supply bodily energy, but none to lay up excess fat—that a child so
fed would grow up with perfectly sound teeth. As you know, Doctors,
our people on the farms feed their laying hens limestone grit and
oyster shells to produce egg shells. Their poultry bulletins from
Auburn tell them to do that. But it never occurs to those same people to see that children get lime enough to produce sound teeth." "Good cow's milk would supply that element, provided the cows
grazed on grass or were fed on grain or fodder that grew on limestone
soil. As we dentists know, and as our farm experts know, a lot of our
Alabama sandy land is sadly defici ent in lime. We know also that
cows and people habitually drink soft water from springs and shallow wells and consequently do not get enough lime in their diet. Give the
children, and the grownups as well the minerals they need and you
will have sound bones and sound teeth." I'm further persuaded, gentlemen, (I  went on to say) that wheat, if
it were consumed whole instead of being refined into white flour, as
our modern mills refine it, would be just about the perfect food. For
wheat contains protein, starch, phosphorus, calcium, iron and other
elements which it takes from the soil. In good soil wheat contains
nearly a complete ration. Feed this whole grain wheat to growing children and give them
all the milk they can drink, with a little meat and sweetening in their diet, not too much of either, and you will have healthy children. Now, there is some sense to refining wheat to make paste for
hanging paper, but no sense at all that I can see to taking out of the
wheat all those elements that nature put into it to feed people. It is
impossible to be ailing wh en the food is correct. My fellow dentists heard me out with respectful attention. When
I had finished my say, two sat silent and incredulous. But Dr. Young
of Anniston remarked: "If all our patients adhered to Dr. Heard's
ideas, we would be minus patients." CHAPTER 10. IN WHICH I WIN A HELPMATE
 Not long after I opened my office in Albertville, I met an
attractive school teacher


books to attending my breathing  course, improving his fitness, completely
eliminating prescription medicine for his asthma, and running h alf and full
marathons in very respectable times. The word asthma  derives from Greek and means “to pant. ” While
asthma has been around for a very long time, it af fects more p eople today
than ever before. Exercise-indu ced asthma af fects an estimated 4 to 20
percent of the g eneral populati on and 11 to 50 percent of cer tain athlete
populations. Interestingly, one study showed that while 55 percent of
football athletes  and 50 perce nt of basketball players displayed airway
narrowing conducive to asthm a, athletes from the sport of water polo
showed significantly fewer asth ma symptoms. Later on in this section we
will investigate why this might be. So, what causes asthma. The  most common theories include the
hygiene hypothesis, which rests on the premise that too much cleanliness
means children are not exposed to enough germs, resulting in diminished
immune capabilities later on in life. A second commonly cited explanation
is an increase in  pollution, but while this may well be a trigger, it is not
necessarily the cause. For instan ce, the west of Ireland, where I live, has a
high asthma rate but very good air quality. Might there be another factor that plays a significant role in causing
asthma—that of  habitually breathing too much. If this were true, then
surely reducing breathing volume could result in a reversal of th e condition. By look ing at the causes and symptoms of asthma, and the p hysiological
changes resulting from the condition, we can begin to determi ne just how
important breathing exercises can be in treating asthma. Since asthma is a condition cha racterized by dif ficulty in breathing, a
logical approac h would be to  attempt to find the root cause by first
addressing poor breathing habi ts. T ackling asthma from this angle is not
new and  was employed by the ancient Greek physician Ga len and the
sixteenth-century doctor Paracelsus, who recommended breath holding and
breathing exercises for the treatment of coughing and narrowed airways. The prevalence of asthma increa ses relative to wealth. Increased wealth
leads to a chan ge in living standards: Food becomes more processed,
competitive stress increases, houses become more airtight, we perform less
physical exercise, and the majority of our jobs are sedentary. Fifty years
ago, our living and working situations were quite dif ferent, and asthma rates
were sig nificantly lower. During  that time, we ate more natural foods, had
less competitive  stress, our ho uses were drafty, and most occupations
involved physical labor. B ack then, our lifestyle was conducive to a more
normal breathing volume, and, as a result, asthma was far less common. As we have se en, normal breathing volume for a healthy adult is
generally agreed  to be 4 to 6 liters of air per minute, but adults with asthma
demonstrate a resting breathing volume of 10 to 15 liters per mi nute, two to
three times more than required. Imagine the ef fect on the respiratory system
when an  individ ual breathes twice or three times too heavily all day, every
day. Normal breathing during rest involves regular, silent, abdominal breaths
drawn in  and out through the no se. People with asthma, on the other hand,
display habitual  mouth breathing with regular sighing, snif fing, and visible
movements from the upper chest. During an exacerbation of asthma,
symptoms like wheezing and breathlessness increase along with respiratory
rate, relative to the severity of the condition. In other words, as asthma
becomes more severe, there is also an increase in breathing volume. While it  is well documented that people with asthma breathe too much,
there is a need to determine whether the increase to breathing volume is acause or ef fect of the condition. As the airways narrow a feeling of
suf focation is generated, and a normal reaction is to take more air into the
lungs to try to eliminate this sensation. Either way, it is a vi cious cycle;
narrowed airways lead to heavier breathing that causes an increase in
breathing volum e, resulting in th e narrowing of the airways and  on and on,
worsening the condition and esta blishing bad breathing habits as a matter of
necessity. The only way to  determine whether breathing too much causes asthma
is to  investigate what happens when a group of individuals with asthma
practice breathing exercises designed to bring their breathing volume
toward normal. A st udy at the Mater Hospital in Brisbane found that when the breathing
volume of adults with asthma decreased from 14 liters to 9. 6 liters per
minute, their symptoms reduc ed by 70 percent, the need for rescue
medication decr eased by 90 percent, and the need for preve nter steroidmedication decr eased by 50 percent. The study found a direct relationship
between the reduction of breat hing volume and improvement to asthma. The closer breathing volume reduced toward normal, the greater was the
reduction of asthma symptoms s uch as coughing, wheezing, chest tightness,
and breathlessness. Furthermore, the trial’ s control group—who were taught
the hosp ital’ s in-house asthma management program—made zero progress. The reason for this was solely due to the fact that there was no change to
their breathing volume. Further studies reinforced these findings by
showing that people with asthma who practiced reducing their breathing
volume had far better asthma co ntrol with a significantly reduced need for
preventive steroid and rescue medication within 3 to 6 months. Since 20 02 I have taught thousands of children and adults with asthma
how to address the root cause of their condition—breathing too much. T riggers such as animal dander, dust mites, exercise, pollution, excessive
hygiene, and changes in the w eather are often cited to be the cause of
asthma symptom s, but in my experience the vast majority of suf ferers can
take back significant control of their condition, regardless of their triggers,
by s imply learning to breathe light. The fundamental cause of ongoing
asthma s ymptoms can almost always be attributed to breathing too much. As l ong as a student understands  the exercises and devotes time to changing
his or her breathing, positive results are consistent and reproducible. Based on the fact that a number of clinical trials have shown that asthma
symptoms and the need for asthma medication are significantly reduced
following the employment of reduced breathing exercises, there is no doubt
that over breathing is a significant contributor to asthma. Of cour se, it is also
normal for people prone to ast hma to increase their breathing volume to
compensate for a feeling of suf focation, but this action is simp ly part of a
feedback loop. Elements of modern living increase breathing volume,
which can activate asthma in genetically predisposed individuals. As their
asthma takes hold, the individual breathes faster and more intensely,
worsening the condition. While  it is important to recognize this feedback
loop, th e first step to addressing asthma is to reduce excessive breathing
habits. I can relate to any child or adult with asthma because for m ore than
twenty y ears I struggled with the same symptoms; I was unable to perform
even the most basic physical exercise, my nose was constantly stuf fed, and Icontinuously breathed through a n open mouth. Y ear after year my asth ma
medication increased with no signs of my symptoms abating. My sleep,
concentration, m ood, and quality of life were all adversely af fe cted. It was
only by chance, when I learned of the work of Russian doctor Konstantin
Buteyko, that I w as able to reve rse my asthma. W ithin a few short days my
wheezing decrea sed dramaticall y, simply by learning to unblo ck my nose
and norm alize m y breathing volume. I have now been wheeze-free for the
past thirteen years, and all I did was to learn to breathe normally again. This had  such a tremendous imp act on my life that I changed careers in
2001 an d retrained under the auspices of the late Dr. Buteyko. In 2002, I
founded Asthma Care to help publicize this information to children and
adults with asthma. Our clinics are now of fered in a number of countries. The first step to  addressing chronic overbreathing is to make th e switch
from m outh to nasal breathing. While nasal breathing is important for
everyone, for people prone to asthma it is vital. When breathing volume is
greater than normal, there is a tendency to open the mouth in order to allow
more air  to enter the lungs. Peo ple diagnosed with asthma often feel they
are n ot t aking in  enough air whi le breathing through the nose, w hich causes
them to breathe through the mouth. Mouth breathing influences asthma in a number of ways:
•   Air taken in through the mouth is not filtered of airborne
particles, including germs and bacteria. •   The mouth is simply not as ef fective as the nose in conditioning
air to the correct  temperature and humidity prior to entering the
lungs. •   B ecause the m outh provides a lar ger space to breathe throu


 nerve cell to thenext, a molecule of acetylcholine is consumed. Thus acetylcholine has to beconstantly replaced. As the body ages, levels of acetylcholine surrounding thenerves drop and in consequence, the nerves begin to deteriorate. DMAE israpidly and easily converted into acetylcholine and helps maintain acetylcholinelevels in older people at a youthful level. When laboratory rats are fed DMAE they solve mazes more rapidly,
remember better, live about 40 percent longer than rats not fed DMAE and mostinterestingly, when autopsied, their nervous systems resemble those of a youngrat, without any evidence of the usual deterioration of aging. Human nervoussystems also deteriorate with age, especially those of people suffering fromsenility. It is highly probable that DMAE will do the same thing to us. DMAE alsosmoothes out mood swings in humans and seems to help my husband, Steve,when he has a big writing project. He can keep working without getting writersblock, fogged out, or emotionally rollercoastering. DMAE is a little hard to find. Prolongevity and VRP sell it in powder form. Since the FDA doesn’t know any MDR and since the product is not capped up,the bottle of powder from Life Extension sagely states that one-quarterteaspoonful contains 333 milligrams. Get the hint? DMAE tastes a little like soursalt and one-quarter teaspoonful dissolves readily in water every morning beforebreakfast, or anytime for that matter. DMAE is also very inexpensive consideringwhat it does. A year’s supply costs about $20. Lecithin  is a highly tonic and inexpensive food supplement that is underutilized
by many people even though it is easily obtainable in healthfood stores. It is an
emulsifier, breaking fats down into small separate particles, keeping blood
cholesterol emulsified to prevent arterial deposits. Taken persistently, lecithinpartially and slowly eliminates existing cholesterol deposits from the circulatorysystem. In our cholesterol-frightened society lecithin should be a far more popular
supplement than it currently is. It is easy to take either as a food in the granularform or when encapsulated. Lecithin granules have very little flavor and can beadded to a homemade vinegar and oil salad dressing, where they emulsify the oiland make it blend with the vinegar, thickening the mixture and causing it to stick tothe salad better. Lecithin can also be put in a fruits smoothie. A scant tablespoona day is sufficient. Try to buy the kind of lecithin that has the highest phosphatidylcholine content because this substance is the second benefit of taking lecithin.Phosphatidyl choline is another precursor used by the body to build acetylcholineand helps maintain the nervous system. Algae. Spirulina or sun dried chlorella are also great food supplements. Both
make many people feel energized, pepped-up. It is possible to fast on eitherproduct and still maintain sufficient energy levels to take of minimal workresponsibilities. Algae reduces appetite and as a dietary supplement can assist inweight loss. It contains large amounts of highly-assimilable protein due to it’s highchlorophyll content, as well as a large amount of beta carotene. It also assists indetoxification of the lymphatic system. It can be purchased as tablets or powder.Take a heaping teaspoon daily, or at least six tablets. Chapter Seven
The Analysis of Disease States:
Helping the Body Recover
From the Hygienic Dictionary
Diagnosis. [1] In the United States, making a diagnosis implies that you are a doctor duly licensed to
engage in diagnostic function.... The making of a diagnosis is reserved only for doctors.... The term“analysis” does not have such an explicit legal definition. Thus, it is the term of choice of iridologistsand the one most often used by them. It is essential for the survival and promotion of iridology thatthose who choose to engage in its practice avoid naming any disease condition. As we have seen, to doso is to infringe on rights reserved exclusively for doctors and can land the iridologist, sooner or later,in a snarl of legal troubles. It is better for the iridologist to refrain from suggesting to a person that he has any particular
disease, letting such diagnostics remain the province of licensed doctors. In so doing, the iridologistwill avoid transgressing the law and stepping on the toes of those who are legally qualified todiagnose. It is indeed unfortunate that one of the greatest pitfalls awaiting the iridologist is the temptation
to name diseases. The feelings of satisfaction and power resulting from conferring a name are deeplyrooted in the human psyche. For example, the Bible tells us that man’s first task on Earth was to namethe animals, thus giving him power and dominion over them. Strong is the temptation to name diseases because nearly everyone has come to expect that his
malady has a name. Patients have come to expect, and doctors have been trained to make, a diagnosis.... “After all,” the patient may reason, “how can you hope to deal with my condition if you aren’tknowledgeable enough to call it by name?”
It is not necessary to name diseases in order to exercise dominion over them. Dr. Bernard Jensen,
Visions of Health. In self defense, I must make it very clear from the first word that hygienists and
most other naturopaths of various persuasions, and especially I myself, have neverin the past, never!, and do not now, diagnose, treat or offer to cure, disease orillness. Diagnosis and curing are sole, exclusive privileges of certified, duly-licensed medical doctors and may only be done with a grant of Authority to do sofrom the State. Should an unlicensed person diagnose, offer to treat or attempt tocure disease or illness, they will have committed a felonious act. With bigpenalties. Therefore, I do not do it. When one of my clients comes to me and says that a medical doctor says they
have some disease or other, I agree that the medical doctor says they have somedisease or other, and I never dare say that they don’t. Or even confirm on myown authority that I think they do have some disease or other. What I can legally do for a client is to analyze the state of their body and its
organs, looking for weaknesses and apparent allergies. I can lawfully state that Ithink their liver tests weak, the pancreas appears not to be functioning well interms of handling meat digestion, that the kidney is having a hard time of it. I cansay I see a lump sticking out of their body when one is obviously sticking out oftheir body; I can not say that lump is cancerous but I can state that the cells in thatlump test overly strong and that if I myself had a mass of growing cells testingoverly strong and if I believed in the standard medical model, then I would berushing my overly-strong-testing cells to an oncologist. But I don’t dare say theperson has a cancer. Or diabetes. Or is getting close to kidney failure. That is adiagnosis. To me, diagnosis is a form of magic rite in which the physician discovers the
secret name of the devil that is inhabiting one’s body and then, knowing thatsecret name, performs the correct rite and ritual to cast that demon out. I don’tknow why people are made so happy knowing the name of their condition! Doesit really matter? Either the body can heal the condition or it can’t. If it can, you willrecover (especially if you give the body a little help). If the body can’t heal a
condition you will die or live a long time being miserable. No “scientific” medical
magic can do better than that. By describing a disease in terms of its related organ weaknesses, instead of
pinning a Latin name on it, I am able to assist the body to achieve recovery in asuperior way that the physician rarely does. By discovering that the body with thelump of overly strong cells also has a weak spleen, liver and thymus gland, I cantake actions to strengthen the spleen, liver and thymus. If the body can strengthenits spleen, liver and thymus, then the overly strong cells miraculously vanish. But ofcourse what I did did not cure any disease. Any improvements that happen Iassign (correctly) to the body’s own healing power. The way I analyze the organic integrity of the body is through a number of
related methods, including the general appearance of the body, the patient’s healthhistory, various clues such as body and breath odor, skin color and tone, andespecially, biokinesiology, the applied science of muscle testing. Biokinesiologycan be used to test the strength or weakness of specific organs and their function.A weak latissimus dorsi muscle indicates a weak pancreas, for example. Specificacupuncture points can be tested in conjunction with muscle strength to indicatethe condition of specific organs or glands. The strength of the arm’s resistance todownward pressure could be calibrated with a spring scale and precisely gauged,but experienced practitioners have no need for this bother, because they are ableto pick up subtle changes in the arms resistance that are not apparent to thetestee. Thus muscle testing becomes an art form, and becomes as effective as theperson using it is sensitive and aware. Biokinesiology works because every organ and gland in the body is
interconnected with other parts of the body through nerve pathways and nervetransmissions, which are electrical and can be


 see this as an expression of your
ego’s desire to be superior to everyone else. But this is not an ego statement
at all—it’s an affirmation of self-respect. Transcend that ego mind and
affirm your love for yourself and your connection to the Spirit of God. This
doesn’t make you superior to anyone; it makes you equal to all and
celebrates that you’re a piece of God. Affirm it for your own self-respect. Affirm it in order to be respectful of that which intended you here. Affirm it
because it’s the way you’ll stay connected to your Source and regain the
power of intention. I love me. Say it without embarrassment. Say it proudly,
and be that image of love and self-respect. Step 2: Write the following affirmation and repeat it over and over
again to yourself: I am whole and perfect as I was created. Carry this
thought with you wherever you go. Have it laminated, and place it in your
pocket, on your dashboard, on your refrigerator, or next to your bed—allow
the words to become a source of high energy and self-respect. By simply
carrying these words with you and being in the same space with them, their
energy will flow directly to you. Self-respect emerges from the fact that you respect the Source from
which you came and you’ve made a decision to reconnect to that Source,
regardless of what anyone else might think. It’s very important to keep
reminding yourself at the beginning that you’re worthy of infinite respect
from the one Source you can always count on, the piece of God energy that
defines you. This reminder will do wonders for your self-respect, and
consequently your ability to use the power of intention in your life. Over
and over, remind yourself: I’m not my body. I’m not my accumulations. I’m
not my achievements. I’m not my reputation. I am whole and perfect as I
was created. Step 3: Extend more respect to others and to all of life. Perhaps the
greatest secret of self-esteem is to appreciate other people more. The easiest
way to do this is to see the unfolding of God in them. Look past the
judgments of others’ appearance, failures, and successes, their status in
society, their wealth or lack of it. and extend appreciation and love to the
Source from which they came. Everyone is a child of God—everyone. Try
to see this even in those who behave in what appears to be a godless
fashion. Know that by extending love and respect, you can turn that energy
around so that it’s heading back to its Source rather than away from it. In
short, send out respect because that is what you have to give away. Send out
judgment and low energy and that is what you’ll attract back. Remember,
when you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself as
someone who needs to judge. The same applies to judgments directed at
you. Step 4: Affirm to yourself and all others that you meet, I belong. A
sense of belonging is one of the highest attributes on Abraham Maslow’s
pyramid of self-actualization (which I discuss at the beginning of the next
chapter). Feeling that you don’t belong or you’re in the wrong place can be
due to a lack of self-respect. Respect yourself and your divinity by knowing
that everyone belongs. This should never come into question. Your presence
here in the universe is proof alone that you belong here. No person decides
if you belong here. No government determines if some belong and some
don’t. This is an intelligent system that you’re a part of. The wisdom of
Creation intended you to be here, in this place, in this family with these
siblings and parents, occupying this precious space. Say it to yourself and
affirm it whenever necessary: I belong. And so does everyone else. No one
is here by accident. Step 5: Remind yourself that you’re never alone. My self-respect stays
intact as long as I know that it’s impossible for me to be alone. I have a
“senior partner” who’s never abandoned me and who’s stuck with me even
in moments when I had seemingly deserted my Source. I feel that if the
universal mind has enough respect to allow me to come here and to work
through me—and to protect me in times when I strayed onto dangerous
nonspiritual turf—then this partnership deserves my reciprocal respect. I
recall my friend Pat McMahon, a talk-show host on KTAR radio in
Phoenix, Arizona, telling me about his encounter with Mother Teresa in his
studio before interviewing her for his program. He pleaded with her to
allow him to do something for her. “Anything at all,” he begged. “I’d just
like to help you in some way. ” She looked at him and said, “Tomorrow
morning get up at 4:00 A. M. and go out onto the streets of Phoenix. Find
someone who lives there and believes that he’s alone, and convince him that
he’s not. ” Great advice, because everyone who wallows in self-doubt or
appears to be lost. has lost their self-respect because they’ve forgotten
that they’re not alone. Step 6: Respect your body. You’ve been provided with a perfect body to
house your inner invisible being for a few brief moments in eternity. Regardless of its size, shape, color, or any imagined infirmities, it’s a
perfect creation for the purpose that you were intended here for. You don’t
need to work at getting healthy; health is something you already have if you
don’t disturb it. You may have disturbed your healthy body by overfeeding
it, underexercising it, and overstimulating it with toxins or drugs that make
it sick, fatigued, jumpy, anxious, depressed, bloated, ornery, or an endless
list of maladies. You can begin the fulfillment of this intention to live a life
of self-respect by honoring the temple that houses you. You know what to
do. You don’t need another diet, workout manual, or personal trainer. Go
within, listen to your body, and treat it with all of the dignity and love that
your self-respect demands. Step 7: Meditate to stay in conscious contact with your Source, which
always respects you. I can’t say this enough: Meditation is a way to
experience what the five senses can’t detect. When you’re connected to the
field of intention, you’re connected to the wisdom that’s within you. That
divine wisdom has great respect for you, and it cherishes you while you’re
here. Meditation is a way to ensure that you stay in a state of self-respect. Regardless of all that goes on around you, when you enter into that sacred
space of meditation, all doubts about your value as an esteemed creation
dissolve. You’ll emerge from the solemnity of meditation feeling connected
to your Source and enjoying respect for all beings, particularly yourself. Step 8: Make amends with adversaries. The act of making amends
sends out a signal of respect for your adversaries. By radiating this
forgiving energy outward, you’ll find this same kind of respectful positive
energy flowing back toward you. By being big enough to make amends and
replace the energy of anger, bitterness, and tension with kindness—even if
you still insist that you’re right—you’ll respect yourself much more than
prior to your act of forgiveness. If you’re filled with rage toward anyone,
there’s a huge part of you that resents the presence of this debilitatingenergy. Take a moment right here and now to simply face that person who
stands out in your mind as someone you hurt, or directed hurt to you, and
tell him or her that you’d like to make amends. You’ll notice how much
better you feel. That good feeling of having cleared the air is self-respect. It
takes much more courage, strength of character, and inner conviction to
make amends than it does to hang on to the low-energy feelings. Step 9: Always remember the self in self-respect. In order to do this,
you must recognize that the opinions of others toward you aren’t facts,
they’re opinions. When I speak to an audience of 500 people, there are 500
opinions of me in the room at the end of the evening. I’m none of those
opinions. I can’t be responsible for how they view me. The only thing I can
be responsible for is my own character, and this is true for every one of us. If I respect myself, then I’m relying on the self in self-respect. If I doubt
myself, or punish myself, I’ve not only lost my self-respect, I’ll continue to
attract more and more doubt and lower-energy opinions with which to
further punish myself. You can’t stay linked to the universal mind, which
intends all of us here, if you fail to rely on your self for your self-respect. Step 10: Be in a state of gratitude. You’ll discover that gratitude is the
final step in each succeeding chapter. Be an appreciator rather than a
depreciator of everything that shows up in your life. When you’re saying
Thank you, God, for everything, and when you’re expressing gratitude for
your life and all that you see and experience, you’re respecting Creation. This respect is within you, and you can only give away what you


Drink water. Lots of water. It helps
keep your system flushed, and
it’s a mighty relief to at least have
something to push out when you
need to go. -Urinate after intercourse (this is
especially important for women,
who have shorter urethras and
therefore are more prone to
infection.) It helps flush out any
bacteria that may enter the urinary
system “that way.”
-Eat pineapple. Pineapple contains
an enzyme called bromelain which
has been shown to help clear up
UTIs quicker in people who ate it
with medication versus those who
took a placebo. Even if you aren’t
on antibiotics, it’s worth a shot. -Drink cranberry juice-similar to
the component in goldenseal,
it can prevent bacteria from
attaching to the walls of the
urethra. 143Copyright 2014 everydayroots.comTips & TroubleshootingBaking soda (sodium bicarbonate) is extremely alkaline, so it can help neutralize the acidity of urine. This in turn
would help with the burning associated with going to the bathroom. It also has antibacterial properties, which
would possibly help as the UTI is caused by bacteria in the first place. This is assuming it retains its antibacterial
properties after passing through your system. Make sure you drink the whole glass of water, as doing so will
dilute the urine farther and flush out the bacteria.Baking Soda & Water
-1 teaspoon of baking soda
-8 ounces of fresh, cool, water1. Stir a teaspoon of baking soda into 8 ounces of cool water and drink
the whole thing. Y ou can do this 3 times a day. 144Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com UTIY ou will need… DirectionsGoldenseal is a perennial herb in the buttercup family, native to the northeastern United States and
southeastern Canada. It contains a compound called berberine, which can help with inflammation, as well
as preventing bacteria from sticking to the walls of the urethra. Native Americans discovered long ago the
medicinal properties of the plant, and used it to treat several ailments. By drinking it as a tea, you are getting not
just the benefits of the goldenseal, but also extra fluid.Goldenseal Tea
-1-2 teaspoons of dried
goldenseal leaves, or a
generous handful of fresh
-1 cup of boiling water
-Some honey or lemon to taste
(optional) 1. Place dried leaves or fresh leaves in a mug. Pour boiling water over
them, cover, and let steep for 10-15 minutes. Strain and add honey or
lemon to taste. 145Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com UTIY ou will need… DirectionsGinger can help lessen painful inflammation and lessen the acidity of urine, which will help ease the burning
feeling. Juniper berries act as a diuretic, stimulating the kidneys and bladder and making it easier to urinate. Drinking the tea will, of course, get you more fluids too.Ginger-Juniper Tea
-3 teaspoons of freshly grated
ginger root
-2 teaspoons of juniper berries
-3 cups of water
-Honey or lemon (optional) 1. Combine the ginger and berries in a pot and add water. Simmer for 8
minutes and then discard the solids. Add honey or lemon to taste, and
drink. 146Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com UTIY ou will need… DirectionsBefore I say anything about weight loss, I must state that I firmly believe
there are only two ways to truly manage weight, and they are the two
things that nobody wants to hear, but I’m giving the spiel anyways. Y ou have to eat healthy and exercise. People search frantically for
some magic shortcut. There is no shortcut. This isn’t news to anyone-
but I am stating it anyways, because it’s ignored too much. There is
a reason obesity has skyrocketed with our increasingly sedentary
lifestyle and overly-processed diets. Our bodies, quite simply, were
not meant to live the way many of us do now. Humans constantly
seek instant gratification, but the road to a healthy body, one you are
confident with, is not one that will lead to instant gratification. Y ou must
dedicate yourself to eating healthy and exercising the right way, and
stick to it, and you will lose weight. Maybe not for a week, or a month,
or however long, but you will. Y our primary reason for losing weight
should always be health-looks can come second. In today’s society,
you are bombarded from all sides with ridiculous imaging that portrays
all these “attractive” people, and what you need to look like, good,
which is just discouraging and silly. It may make you feel like working at
getting in shape, only to end up feeling bad about yourself and give up. Remember-being healthy will make you glow from the inside and the
outside. So what’s going on when we lose weight? Fat is just stored energy,
and calories are used to measure potential energy in food in the forms
of fats, proteins, and carbs. Y our body coverts fat to usable energy for
muscles through metabolic processes, while excess calories you don’t
need get stored away. Metabolism is just a way of saying any and all
chemical process that takes place in the body to sustain life. When you
exercise and eat right, and don’t replenish or overload your calories,
your body draws on its stored fat to convert it to energy, and the fat cells
shrink. It doesn’t disappear; it’s just changing its form, like water turning
to steam. Really that’s just scratching the surface of weight loss, but that’s the
process in a tiny little nutshell. When it comes to losing weight, there’s
also a fascinating science behind forming habits and changing behavior
that is far too complex to go into now, but I strongly suggest reading a
book or two on habits. There’s also genetics, and a host of other factors,
but again, I couldn’t fit it all in this book! Ok, now that that is out of the
way, the following remedies can help with weight loss in accordance to
diet change and proper exercise. Weight Loss
-Exercise and eat right. -Focus as much on the mental
aspect of losing weight as
physical aspect. Y our body will
perform the same process to
burn fat automatically-your mind,
on the other hand, needs to be
convinced to do what you want. -Assuming you don’t have any
outstanding conditions that make
you sensitive to certain things,
don’t totally deprive yourself of
something tasty (as long as it’s in
moderation. ) Just make sure you
are balancing what you eat and
how you exercise. If you totally
deprive yourself of any treats, in
moderation, as it’s just going to
make it harder to stick to your
weight-loss plans. Following
popular dieting methods you
make it seem like you’re starving
yourself, and your body just
packs more fat away and slows
metabolism to conserve energy. -Chew gum-it’s a good way to get
flavor without a bunch of calories. -An interesting theory suggests
that will-power is like a muscle
that gets exhausted the more it
gets worked. It explains why you
wake up in the morning with the
solid resolve to eat better but
cave in after dinner to a bowl of
ice cream. Y ou’ve “flexed” your
will-power muscle all day and it’s
finally worn out! Remind yourself
of that when you feel tempted at
the end of the day. Y ou’ll wake up
stronger for it. 147Copyright 2014 everydayroots.comTips & TroubleshootingMetabolism is simply a term that refers to any and all chemical processes in a living organism that helps sustain
life. This includes the process of fat getting converted to energy. The 4 spices in this tea have all been shown
to potentially help with weight loss, and they are all quite common. If you are familiar with home remedies you
almost certainly use them quite frequently already. First and foremost is ginger, which some studies have shown
can increase metabolism by up to 20%. Second is cinnamon, which helps insulin function efficiently. Insulin is a
hormone that removes glucose (blood sugar) from the bloodstream-a lack of insulin results in diabetes. A lower
or stable blood sugar can also stabilize your appetite. Third is cayenne pepper, which is normally touted for its
ability to reduce pain thanks to its capsaicin content. It turns out that capsaicin increases the body’s production
of heat (which is why you might feel warm and sweat during a spicy meal.) This indicates that your metabolism
is increasing-one study showed by up to 50% for 3 hours after a meal. A sprinkle of black pepper is then added,
which may help speed metabolism in a similar manner to the capsaicin in cayenne.Metabolism Tea
-1/2-1 teaspoon of ground
cinnamon OR 5 cinnamon
sticks
-1/2-1 teaspoon of cayenne
pepper
-1/2-1 teaspoon of ground
ginger OR 1 sliced inch of fresh
ginger root
-A sprinkle of black pepper1. Pour a cup or so of water into a pot and bring to a boil, then reduce to
an active simmer. 2. Add the ground or whole spices and let it simmer