 waggle from manyphysicians. It means, “I agree with you, but I’m uncomfortable revealing it
in front of others.”
Time after time in my experiences with patients I encounter
unconscious knowledge of the future. One Monday I operated on a man
named Mike, who had a massive hemorrhage from an aneurysm that had
ruptured into his esophagus. It was impossible to stop the bleeding, and he
died. When I talked to his wife, she said, “Y ou know, Sunday we spent the
whole day discussing his funeral and will, and I said, ‘Why do we have to
talk about all this morbid business?’  And now I know.”
Several times I’ve found that close relatives knew of a person’ s death
before they had received news of it. My own father, who is now almost
eighty, told me a few years ago that his mother visited him—spiritually—
one day at work when he was a young man. She said good-bye. He knew
she had died, and he grew terribly sad. His co-workers noticed, but he
couldn’ t tell them what had happened because it sounded crazy. As soon as
he got home, the phone rang, and his sister told him their mother had died. Sandy, whom I mentioned in Chapter 4, told me her experience of the
same intuitive knowledge. Her husband, Harry, always drove the kids to
school, but one day all three of them were late getting dressed. He got angry
and left without them, and a few minutes later was killed in an accident. It
seems obvious to me that there was an unconscious awareness in each of
those children that this was not the day to get dressed and go with dad. When Sandy called Harry’ s mother in Maine and started to talk, his
mother said, “Y es, I know. Harry’ s dead.” When asked how she knew, she
replied, “His father”—who’d been dead a year—“came to me last night and
said, ‘I have to take our son tomorrow.’” These are the kinds of things that
patients share with me, the privileged listener. They are experiences that can
open a whole new realm in one’ s awareness and belief system. One night, when I was giving a lecture, I had all my notes in front of
me. And yet, as I was giving the talk, I realized that, in a sense, two talks
were being given. In one, I was struggling to follow the outline, but
something else was coming out of my mouth. I realized the other talk was
much better, so I finally just gave in and let it happen. When I came of f the stage, I told Bobbie, “I don’ t know who gave that
talk. I didn’ t.” The next woman who came up to me said, “I’ve heard you
before, but that was more moving than usual.” The third person who came
up to me said, “I’m a medium, and while you were reading Lois Becker ’sletter, superimposed over you and staring at the audience was this figure. I
drew him for you.” And she showed me a picture of my guide Geor ge. The famous psychic Olga Worrell has also described Geor ge and
another of my meditative guides, even including the clothes they wear—
flowing robes and the old Jewish prayer caps. When the emotional and
spiritual mind is freed, the distinctions between the “mystical” and the
“mundane” break down. This experience taught me that the unconscious can take care of
everything, and I don’ t have to prepare for my lectures anymore. Whether
Geor ge exists as a spiritual guide or simply exists inside of me as part of my
collective unconscious or intuition, the power is there for all of us, if we
will let it come through. As Socrates replied when asked if he had prepared
his defense, “What needs to be said will be said.”
One woman who had breast cancer told me that her family thought she
was crazy. I asked why, and she told me several stories. One was a dream in
which Death came and told her that her husband was going to die
tomorrow. She ar gued with Death and said, “No. Everybody gets two
weeks’  notice.” Two weeks to the day later her husband died. I told her I loved her and all that she was sharing with me. When we
went out of the examining room, her family was expecting me to say
something negative about their crazy mother. Instead I said, “She’ s
wonderful, terrific.” That led to a new openness and awareness on the part
of the family, a new willingness to accept her and all that she had shared
with them. Death is no barrier to this intuitive, spiritual consciousness. It continues
after death, and it communicates between the dead and the living. Iris, a
blind diabetic who developed cancer, underwent a similar experience. One
day she called her two daughters into her hospital room and told them,
“Girls, I can see again. My mother and father came for me and held out an
apple. They said when I bite into it I will join them. I told them my
grandson’ s birthday was on Tuesday, and I would join them then.” She died
after the party on Tuesday. Before she passed away, one of her daughters said, “Mom, if you die I
want to die, too. I can’ t go on without you.” Two weeks later Iris appeared
to her daughter and said, “Look, I have ten minutes. This is against the
rules. I am in a beautiful place and I am loved. I can’ t be worrying about
you doing something silly.”As I have opened myself to my patients’  beliefs, I have received many
messages from those who have died. Josie was a wonderful woman who
had given everyone who knew her the gift of love and humor. While at the
hospice, for example, she thought she heard a noise and asked if someone
was at the door. The nurse said, “Oh, I just kicked your bucket.” Josie
replied, “I’m here trying  to kick the bucket, and for you it’ s easy.” She was
one of the exceptional people who lived until the moment of death. Josie had asked me to deliver the eulogy at her funeral. I said I would be
honored, but told her I couldn’ t be sure my schedule would permit it,
especially since the funeral would be held in New York. Months before, I
had arranged to be in New York on a certain Friday for a conference. The
only day in the entire year I was scheduled to be in New York. Then a radio
talk show host asked me to speak for an hour at noon on that day, since I
would already be in the city. I agreed, but on the Monday before the show
someone from the station called and said the program had been preempted. I told my wife that Josie’ s funeral would be at that time although she hadn’ t
died yet. On Tuesday evening, Josie’ s husband asked me how to help ease her
passage. She found it hard to leave amid the constant visiting and
expressions of love. I suggested he tell her he loved her, that he and the
boys would be okay, and she could go if she was ready. He shared that with
her the next morning, and then turned to get her breakfast tray. When he
turned back, she had died. Josie’ s son called me to tell me she had died, and that there had been a
debate about whether to have the funeral Friday or Sunday. I said, “Y our
mother wants it at noon on Friday.” He said, “I don’ t know how you know,
but that’ s what we decided.”
After I’d learned of Josie’ s death, I went to meditate in the hospital
chapel, a small closet-like room with no windows. A plaque on the wall
suddenly began to shake for no discernible reason. I looked at it and read
the message: “In the midst of life I am with you.” I knew it was a message
from Josie. On Friday, as I was nearing the end of my eulogy, the
loudspeaker in the funeral home suddenly went of f. I felt that was another
message from Josie, saying, “Enough already!”
Paula, one of our ECaP  group members, told me of a similar experience
after her daughter was murdered in a brutal assault at her college. At the
murderer ’s trial, a bird appeared in the window, making an awful racket anddisturbing the proceedings. Paula said she knew it was her daughter,
because she always demanded a lot of attention. Later at the wedding of
Paula’ s other daughter, another bird appeared, cackling raucously,
interrupting the outdoor ceremony. Then, after Paula finished telling this
story in the group, a bird began squawking at the window, and everyone
turned to Paula and said, “I guess that’ s your daughter again.”
Recently I was out jogging on a cold, dark December morning. A bird
followed me for half an hour, chirping and sharing with me. When I came
home, I said to Bobbie, “Someone died and just said good-bye.” Wednesday
I got a phone call and learned that a patient I’d been very close to, who was
in another state,


include recipes for milkshakes, cocktails, and other treats for
special occasions, not because these drinks are particularly
healthy, but because they’re a natural part of a book on this
topic — and of life. P a r t  V :  T h e  P a r t  o f  T e n s
This wouldn’t be a For Dummies book without a Part of Tens. This part is a very good place to start if you want to ﬁnd some
tips and quick facts about juicing and smoothies. Here I answer
ten frequently asked questions about juicing and smoothies and
list ten antioxidant-rich fruits and vegetables. Icons Used in This Book
Icons help you to zero in on important facts and things that are
worth noting. Here’s a key to what the icons mean: Anything marked with the Tip icon makes your life easier
— at least when it comes to juicing and smoothies. When I want to draw your attention to an important
piece of information, I use this icon. The Remember icon
indicates something I think is worth remembering. When health or safety issues arise, the Warning icon
appears. It lets you know that you need to heed with care
the subject at hand. I don’t use the Technical Stuff icon very often, but when I
do, it adds some extra scientiﬁc or technical information
that offers a bit more information on a topic. Feel free to
ignore anything marked with this icon. Wher e to Go fr om Her e
If you’re shopping for a blender or juice extractor, Chapter 3 is a
good place to start. If the produce section of your local
supermarket is a foreign land to you, turn to Chapter 4 for tips
on shopping for fruits and vegetables. If you’re not really sold
on the health beneﬁts of juicing and smoothies, check out Part
II. And if all you want is to make something delicious right here,
right now, turn to Parts III and IV. I hope you achieve a healthy lifestyle that includes juices and
smoothies and a whole-foods diet because I know for a fact thatit’ll be a great place for you to be.Part I
An Introduction to Juicing and
Smoothies
In this part...If you’re just getting started with juicing and smoothies, this
part is a great place to begin. It starts by telling you what juicing
and smoothies can do for you. Then it walks you through the
equipment you need (don’t worry — it’s not much) and how to
buy fruits and vegetables. I end the part by giving you juicing
and smoothie guidelines for every stage of life, and special
needs such as pregnancy and diabetes.Chapter 1
Drinking Your Way to Better Health
In This Chapter
 Getting acquainted with the liquid lifestyle
 Looking at what juices and smoothies offer
 Juicing for the joy of it
 Savoring smoothies
Welcome to a healthier life through juicing and smoothies! With
this book, you can regain your natural energy or life force by
eating and especially by drinking to be well. Energy is the basic
force throughout all of nature that drives life. It starts at the
cellular level. To nourish the cells and live life at optimum
health, we need four essential components: sleep, air, water,
and nutrients. You can get those nutrients from a variety of sources, but you
get the most bang for your buck with whole, organic foods. Whole foods are unprocessed and unreﬁned, not chemically
treated, and they’re in as pure a state as possible when we eat
them. Whole foods are fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains,
legumes, lentils, nuts, seeds, herbs, unprocessed meat, and
dairy products. Whole foods offer a wide variety of nutrients
including phytonutrients; not only are they a source of soluble
and insoluble ﬁber but they’re also relatively low in fat. Juices and smoothies offer immediate results and a gigantic
step along the path towards health and wellness. If you own a
blender, you can start today and with very little money, time, or
effort, you’ll have more energy, improved digestion andelimination, a stronger immune system, a better memory, and
healthy skin and nails — and you’ll likely lose some weight, too. When you start drinking your way to better health, you’ll feel
positively charged and fully able to take whatever life has to
offer. The Liquid Lifestyle
Let me explain what I mean by the term liquid lifestyle. First, I
use the word liquid to describe juices and smoothies. I like to
think of juices and smoothies as drinkable whole foods. They’re
liquid and, therefore, drinkable because:
 A juice machine has pressed or spun the water along with
the nutrients out of them. The powerful blades of a blender have broken down the
carbohydrate and ﬁber so much that they’re liquidized
and easily swallowed. The word lifestyle indicates that drinking juices and smoothies
is something that becomes a part of your life because it’s
incorporated into a daily routine. So, the liquid lifestyle is a
convenient way to incorporate organic, whole fruits and
vegetables into your daily life in order to feel great and stay
healthy. The liquid lifestyle starts with healthy habits. You don’t need a
miracle pill or expensive supplements to enjoy good health, and
you don’t need to radically overhaul your life or your diet. When you opt for a liquid lifestyle, you’re choosing to add one
new healthy habit. That’s it — simple and convenient. It’s not
daunting or mystifyingly complicated. Instead, it’s easy and fun,
with rewards that you may not expect. And if you keep at it by
following some of the tips in this book, it’s a habit that will leadto other healthy food decisions without making you feel like
you’re giving something up. By making this one healthy decision to drink juices or
smoothies when your energy starts to wane or when you feel
thirsty or hungry, you’re doing more than just one positive
thing for yourself. Here are just some of the magical things that
result from choosing a liquid lifestyle:
 You’re eliminating high-fat and high-calorie foods that only
add calories with no nutrients. You’re resetting your taste sensors to eliminate your
craving for salty or sugar-ﬁlled junk food. You’re adding valuable ﬁber to help your body eliminate
toxins and keep you regular. You’re ﬂooding your cells with high-quality nutrients that
repair cells and protect against diseases. In fact, when you’re enjoying a liquid lifestyle, you’re doing so
much more than simply feeding a thirst or hunger. A liquid
lifestyle can change the way you think about yourself. It can
pave the way for a shift in your diet almost automatically,
without making you feel deprived. After all, who wants to follow
a refreshing fruit or vegetable juice with french fries? Life in the 21st century is exciting, fast paced, and, at times,
stressful. It’s a double whammy that as life gets faster, so does
our food. So, most people are grabbing reﬁned and processed
foods with less ﬁber and nutrients when their hectic jobs and
busy schedules are actually pushing their bodies to require
more and more quality foods just to keep them functioning. I know from experience that from the very ﬁrst glass of raw,
fresh vegetable juice, you’ll feel the immediate response fromyour body. Keep up the liquid lifestyle, and you’ll be drinking
yourself to better health. The one key beneﬁt of juices and smoothies is that they
boost your intake of fresh fruits and vegetables, two of the
most important whole foods. Healthy Living in a Glass
Opting to make your own smoothies and juices means that
you’re making a fresh start. Commercial juices and smoothies,
whether purchased at your grocery store or at a juice bar, are
still better for you than junk food and soft drinks, but making
your own allows you to be in total control of what goes into the
drink. You can save money and still buy organic, fresh fruits and
vegetables that are at their peak of ripeness and, thus, bursting
with optimum nutrients. Reaching for a glass of homemade juice or a smoothie means
that you can stop taking commercial supplements. You’ll save
money and get more of your daily nutrient requirements by
drinking two or more pure fruit or vegetable drinks. The
advantage of eating or drinking whole fruits and vegetables is
that they contain so many complementary nutrients and trace
elements, not just the major ones such as calcium or vitamin C
or A. These complementary nutrients help the body metabolize
or use the vitamins or minerals that we assume we’ll be getting
from a particular food or a commercial supplement, and they
help to boost their effectiveness. Commercial supplements that have isolated one or two
nutrients lack all the other substances that occur naturally in
foods and allow the body to fully use them. For example, if youwere taking a multivitamin with 10 mg of iron and it didn’t have
enough vitamin C and calcium to assist the body in taking up
and using that iron, the iron would pass through your body
virtually unused. My advice for complete and optimum healthy living in a
glass is to drink the rainbow twice a day. Try to include as
wide a variety as possible of the vibrant and colorful fruits
and vegetables available to you. This approach ensures
that you’re getting the best and the most nutrients


 the product of the
fermentation by acidity of alcoholic fluids such as fermented wine
and malt liquors; these are known as Wine Vinegar and Malt Vinegar
respectively. The White Distilled Vinegar with a high acetic acid
content is widely used in this country. Vinegar made from apples is known as APPLE CIDER
VINEGAR. It contains MALIC ACID (C4H605) which is a natural
organic constituent of apples and is an element involved in the digestive
processes. Vinegar made by the process of fermentation of wine contains an
average of from 3% to 9% Acetic Acid, and usually some Tartaric
Acid in addition. Acetic Acid in Vinegar has been known to be a
contributing factor in causing hardening of the liver (cirrhosis of the
liver), duodenal and other intestinal ulcers. 65 APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, on the other hand, contains MALIC
ACID, a constructive acid which combines with alkaline elements
and minerals in the body to produce energy or to be stored in the
system as glycogen for future use. It has proved to be of immeasurable
value when used judiciously by humans and for animals. Space does not permit the publishing of the vast field of beneficial
results obtained. For example, how it helps in the coagulation of blood
in establishing a normal menstrual flow, and contributes to healthy
blood vessels, veins and arteries, and in the building of red blood. One of the great virtues of APPLE CIDER VINEGAR is its
extraordinary potassium content, an element so necessary for building
and storing body reserves and to help the system to achieve harmony
and calm. This potassium readily associates with some of the most
important elements in the body, such as calcium, sodium, iron,
magnesium, chlorine, silicon. It is important, when choosing Apple Cider Vinegar, to consider
its source, in order to be sure that it is made from whole apples and
not the kind that is cheaply made just from apple cores and peelings. Used judiciously, Apple Cider Vinegar is an indispensable item
for the kitchen cupboard. Its antiseptic qualities are almost beyond
belief. Many victims of skin blemishes, even of the contagious type,
have been helped by the application of Apple Cider Vinegar directly
on the skin. In Scotland it used to be, and perhaps still is a common practice
to shrink varicose and "bulging" veins by the application of Apple
Cider Vinegar on the skin to the whole length of the veins, morning
and night, for a month or so, and at the same time drinking daily two
or three glasses of water with two teaspoons of Apple Cider Vinegar
in each glass. And it worked. Your LIFE is manifested in the condition of your blood which is
generated in the marrow of your bones, activated through your spleen
and circulated through your blood vessels. It is a natural, systematic
process that causes the blood stream to be completely recreated every
period of 28 days, and unless the balance is maintained between the
creation of new blood cells while the old blood cells complete their
cycle, health cannot be maintained and one's efficiency is impaired. No single class of nourishment has proved as effective in the
maintenance of balance in the human body as the fresh, raw vegetable
and fruit juices. Likewise, no single means to help obtain the quick
66 reestablishment of such balance has proved to be as efficacious as
pure Apple Cider Vinegar. Excessive bleeding in menstrual cycles, bleeding hemorrhoids,
nose bleeding, cuts, etc., have been wonderfully helped by drinking
two teaspoons of Apple Cider Vinegar in a glass of water daily, and
two or three times a day if necessary. When our digestive system fails to digest proteins, it is a result of
a deficiency in hydrochloric acid. This can, as a result, give rise to
high blood pressure. Consequentially one to three teaspoons of Apple
Cider Vinegar in a glass of water, taken in the middle of meal has
effectually lowered blood pressure. ON THE SUBJECT OF MILK
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: Science is just now uncovering the medical facts that Dr. Walker knew and felt very strong about. — 'A high percentage of our children
are allergic to cow's milk.'Dr. Walker advocated raw goats milk. However, laws of today forbid the selling
of any unpasteurized milk. Consequently we have left Dr. Walker's word exactly
as he wrote them so that you can understand his concern and allow you to
make your own judgement. Whenever MILK, other than Mother's Milk, is needed, RAW
GOATS' MILK is the most logical and beneficial Milk for humans
of all ages to drink. Milk should NEVER be heated at temperatures above 118°F,
because at 130°F the Enzymes are destroyed. We should NEVER use
pasteurized milk for the same reason. It is best, when possible, to use
it as soon as practical after the goat has been milked, before the milk
is refrigerated. However, kept cold in a sealed bottle in the refrigerator
it will keep and be perfectly good for a day or two. It cannot be too strongly emphasized that for infants there is no
better milk than mother's milk. Recently my attention was directed to the little 22 months old
daughter of a good friend of ours. The mother, nursed the child for
one year, and up to that time, and for many months after, the child
never had so much as a "running nose" nor one upset day, physically
nor in her disposition, until one day she was given pasteurized goat's
milk. It happened that the child's father kept two goats. One day these "dried up. " He tried to get some RAW Goat's milk
from a goat dairyman, but the dairyman told him he could not legally
sell the milk to him RAW. It had to be pasteurized. Under the
dairyman's pressure and arguments my friend bought a quart of
pasteurized Goat's milk and fed it to his child. 67 Within two days after drinking the pasteurized milk the child's
nose started "running" and she became irritable. Her father
immediately went out and bought two "fresh" Goats, giving the child
the RAW Goat's milk. In two days the child's disturbances disappeared. This child drinks regularly RAW Goat's milk and fresh-raw carrot
juice. This is by no means a rare occurrence. On the contrary, RAW
Goat's milk is one of the cleanest foods we can use, whereas cow's
milk is rarely clean. Cow's milk has been proven to be very mucus
forming, whereas goat's milk is not. The reason Goat's milk is not generally used today is purely an
economic one. A cow yields a much larger volume of milk than does
the goat. The vast City and Urban populations are the deterrent to the
general use of goats' milk. A great many more farm hands would be
needed, for example, to milk 500 goats to get the yield which 100
cows would give. To keep goats, we need a shed only about 10' by 12' to shelter five
goats, and these five goats need LESS feed than one cow would
require. Of course, the ideal situation is for one or two families to acquire
4 to 5 acres of tillable land, with plenty of available water and about
one or more acres for trees. Ideally you would keep two or three milk
goats, a small flock of good poultry to feed in the fields, organic fruit
and vegetable gardens, a flower garden, and two or three beehives
that would yield 60 to 75, or more, pounds of honey a year. If funds were available to do so, this setup would create a very
independent life-style. One could live a long, healthy, and happy life
and very comfortably so, on little more than the benefits of Social
Security. Such a dream CAN come true. Do not let an inferiority complex
deter you: others have done it—you can. Remember the old proverb:
Aim at the sky and you'll hit higher than a tree. Lets revert back to the milk problem. Remember that the goat is
probably the cleanest animal we have. Its eliminative organs are close
to perfect. Hence her disposition is friendly—almost loving. Her milk
has a vastly higher vibration than cow's milk. It is of certainly higher
vibration than the milk of the mother who smokes, drinks "soft drinks"
and whose temperament may conservatively be classed as "touchy". 68 Besides being the cleanest of animals, goats are virtually free
from tuberculosis, brucellosis and others of the ailments which afflict
the cow. The quality of goat's milk is far superior to that of a cow's because
it is naturally homogenous. It has more nonprotein nitrogen, its proteins
are of better quality, and it has much higher amounts of niacin and
thiamine than almost any other food or product. Goat's milk has been known to be most beneficial and efficient
in cases of diarrhea in small children. This is due to its extremely
high niacin content. Thiamine is one of the most important of the B-complex vitamins
involved in all of life's vital processes from birth to the grave. Goat's
milk abounds in thiamine. Let me emphasize again it is


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participants’  average cholesterol level was 182. By the end, it was a heart-
healthy 143. LDL  AND HDL  CHOLESTEROL
As discussed, there are two types of cholesterol: LDL  (low-density
lipoprotein) and HDL  (high-density lipoprotein). Your LDL  is your Lethal
cholesterol and your HDL  is your Healthy cholesterol. The average American has an LDL  cholesterol level well above 100
mg/dl. But I don’ t want your LDL  cholesterol to be average. I want your
LDL  to be E2 exceptional! As noted earlier, the magic number we’re
shooting for on the E2 diet is below 80. Get your LDL  below 80 mg/dl and
you are essentially heart attack proof. McClaine Sampson, 34
Graduate Student
The reason I did this wasn’ t for health. It was for my weight. I wanted
to look good. If I look good on the outside, then I’ll feel good on the
inside. Maybe that sounds shallow, but I think a lot of women can
relate. What I’ve discovered is that eating poorly is like casual sex. It
feels really good and fun while you’re doing it, but almost
immediately afterward you have regrets and you have to start making
contingency plans. Some medical professionals stress the importance of the cholesterol risk
ratio, which is your LDL  cholesterol divided by your HDL  cholesterol; thelower the ratio, the better—3.5 is generally seen as the cutof f between high
risk and low risk. I—and many medical experts—don’ t agree. Too many people take
comfort in having a high HDL  cholesterol level while their total and LDL
cholesterol levels are in dangerous territory. The real goal here is to achieve
a total cholesterol under 150 and an LDL  under 80. TRIGL YCERIDES
Even though I grew up in a medical household and was a triathlete for
more than a dozen years, I had never heard of a triglyceride until fifteen
years ago, when I started studying health and nutrition. Triglycerides are fat globules in your bloodstream that many researchers
believe are a high-risk factor for heart disease. Just as your body needs a certain amount of cholesterol for cell repair,
your body requires a certain level of triglycerides for fuel, particularly when
it requires ener gy between meals or when you’re exercising. However, too
many triglycerides in your blood can be dangerous, as high levels have been
shown to increase plaque formation, which as we know contributes to
stroke and heart disease. The goal, then, is to keep your triglyceride level under 150 mg/dl—the
same as your ideal total cholesterol number. Here are several ways to bring down elevated triglyceride levels:
a. Lose excess weight. b. Eat whole, plant-based, high-fiber foods. c. Exercise for thirty minutes a day. d. Stop consuming excess calories—they’re converted into
triglycerides. e. Watch your consumption of simple sugars such as alcohol, soda,
honey, molasses, white flour, white pasta, and white rice. FASTING GLUCOSE/BLOOD SUGAR
One of the best markers for checking whether diabetes is on your
horizon is a fasting glucose test. Taken after you have fasted for twelve
hours, this test will tell you the amount of sugar in your blood. A highfasting glucose number is an indication that your body is having a dif ficult
time processing sugar. A normal test result should be between 60 mg/dl and 100 mg/dl. If your
level is over 125 mg/dl, you should consult your doctor. On the E2 Diet, you can lower your fasting glucose level and even
alleviate diabetes. For example, two E2 Pilot Study participants were Type
2 diabetics—one for five years and the other for twelve. Since going on the
E2 Diet, both have been able to get of f insulin, reduce their fasting blood
sugars from over 200 mg/dl to under 100 mg/dl, eliminate or reduce all
their oral medications, reduce their A1C levels from over 1 1 to under 7.5,
and of course, watch their weight drop. BLOOD PRESSURE
Your cardiovascular system consists of an amazing pump (your heart)
and a set of pipes (your vessels). Every hour your heart pumps almost 70
gallons of blood to your 60,000 miles’  worth of vessels. Your blood pressure is a good indication of the health of your
cardiovascular system. Unfortunately, almost one in three Americans has
high blood pressure. Blood pressure is reported as two numbers in the form of a fraction, such
as 110/68. The upper number is called the systolic blood pressure and
represents the force your heart exerts on your arteries when your heart
squeezes. Systolic pressure should be 120 or below. The lower number is called diastolic blood pressure, and represents the
force the blood exerts on your arteries when your heart relaxes. That
number should be 80 or below. In America, we consider high blood pressure, or hypertension, to be a
natural part of the aging process, but this doesn’ t have to be the case. In
populations consuming a mostly plant-based diet, adults routinely have
blood pressure levels similar to those of their children. E2 POP  QUIZ
Q: Which of these foods has the highest percentage of saturated fat:
butter, ice cream, steak, or cheese?A: Cheese has the most saturated fat, at almost 20 grams of saturated
fat per pound. Thus, there is no reason why your blood pressure needs to increase as
you age—unless you are consuming an animal-product-based diet, in which
case it likely will go up, and you will have to go on medication to regulate
it. There are three main culprits of hypertension—the reasons eating
animal-based foods is unhealthy. The first bad guy is dietary cholesterol—if you eat animal-based foods,
you’re consuming a lot of cholesterol, which forms plaque inside your
arteries, which in turn causes them to become narrow, forcing your blood
pressure to rise. The second is saturated fat, which attaches to the red blood cells, making
your blood overly thick and sludgy, which in turn causes your heart to work
harder. That, too, makes your blood pressure rise. The third is excess sodium, which causes your body to retain fluids,
which remain in your bloodstream. Once again, this condition asks your
system to work harder, increasing your blood pressure. How can you repair this situation? Eat the E2 way. There is no dietary
cholesterol in plant-based foods. There is no saturated fat in plant-based
foods (except coconuts). There is little sodium in plant-based foods. What
could be easier? BODY  MASS INDEX (BMI)
BMI is the relationship between your weight and your height. With more
than 64 percent of America overweight and greater than 30 percent
considered obese, knowing your BMI may be the wake-up call you need to
put down the pizza and remote control and pick up the banana and the
walking shoes. Too many Americans have become complacent with their weight and fall
into a BMI category that places them at high risk for chronic disease. Recent studies have shown that the lower your BMI, the greater your
chances of avoiding chronic Western diseases. Take care of yourself and get
yourself down to a BMI that speaks to the seriousness of the obesity
epidemic in America.Visit www.theengine2diet.com  and use our handy BMI calculator, or
find your BMI on the chart below and then take a moment to reflect on the
dietary decisions you’ve made over the last ten years. Keep in mind, though, that athletes and people with high muscularity
(such as body builders) may have a BMI that indicates they are overweight
when in reality their weight is healthy. PERCENT AGE BODY  FAT
Knowing your BMI is a good wake-up call, but knowing your
percentage body fat can be a complete jolt. Carrying around excessive
abdominal as well as visceral fat (which surrounds your internal or gans) is a
health hazard. It puts you at an increased risk for all kinds of diseases, from
stroke and diabetes to cancer and heart disease. The average male should have a body fat percentage of less than 20
percent, while a female’ s should be less than 25 percent. So when you
realize that your body is 30, 40, or even 50 percent fat, it may finally light a
fire under your ever -widening rear end. Remember, muscle burns many more calories at rest than does fat. So
the more fat and the less muscle you have, the fewer calories you need to
maintain your weight, and the harder it will be to lose that weight.Lose the dietary fat, start building muscle, and watch your body-fat
percentage and pounds drop. Many dif ferent methods are available for determining body fat, including
using calipers and underwater scales. Whichever method you or your doctor
use, for consistency you should employ the same one before and after you
undertake the E2 Diet. Our pilot study participants reported that one of their favorite parts of the
E2 Diet was looking at their before and after body-fat numbers, and
marveling that in just four weeks they had changed so dramatically. THE 3-MINUTE HEAR T RATE


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replacing it with something else. All these ways can and do wo rk. But they
all invol ve forci ng the mind int o distraction. If you have ever  tried doing
something like this, you know that it’ s dif ficult and tiring. Y ou really have
to f ight the mi nd frequently. Y our mind will tell you things such as
“Chocolate isn’ t  that bad. Studie s have shown it has antioxidant s that make
you healthy” or “Y ou’ve had a rough day today; don’ t you des erve a littlechocolate. ” And  on and on goes the mind with great ar guments to separate
you from your goal. The thing about fighting or using strong resolve to get
to w here you w ant to go is that it’ s fatiguing rather than e mpowering. Eventually you will get tired of the battle and give up. Now let ’ s compare the above method with cajoling the mind by going
out of your mind. When you meditate, you are not in your mind. Y ou are
accessing your spirit or the par t of you that was never born and therefore
can never die. Y our spirit is the part of you that is eternal. My guru Dr. W ayne W. Dyer used to say  th at when you talk to yourself, there are two
people: you and your Self. The  Self with a capital S  is  the h igher self I’m
speaking of. The other self, kno wn as the ego, is the one who tries to push
through toward your goals and leaves you tired. The higher self is the part
of you who only wants good an d can harness the power of intuition. When
you get out of your mind through meditation, you gain greater access to
your higher self. One com mon misconception about meditation is that you’re stopping all
the a ctivities of the mind. The j ob of the mind is to think thou ghts. It will
always do that, no matter wha t. Through meditation you can lower the
number of thoughts and evolve your thoughts to get you closer to what you
desire, but you will not stop all thought. As you get out of you r mind, also
referred to as transcendence, you strengthen your relationship  with your
spirit or  higher self. Then you  return back to the mind with love and
acceptance. W ith these higher qualities of spirit, you cajole the mind into
thinking thoughts that lovingly, ef fortlessly, and easily help you. The chaos of th e monkey mind subsides, and you are left with a mind
that thinks more clearly. The more you meditate, the clearer your mind can
think and the more in touch you become with your intuition. AJNA GUIDED MEDIT A TION
Sit o r lie comfo rtably and close your eyes. Place your awaren ess on
the area between  your eyebrows at the third eye. If you want to make
your awareness clearer, lick you r thumb, and then press the moisture
on the third eye. T ake in a couple of deep belly breaths, exhaling
completely. W ith  your focus stil l on the third eye, ask your high er selfto st ep f orward. Y our higher self, also referred to as the witness,  is the
one who  has always been there. It is the still, small voice inside you
that always gives you truth. It is the aspect of you that was there
before y ou were born and that will be with you after you die. Y our
higher self is ever present, ever witnessing, and always acts according
to your higher good. Greet your higher self and welcome it in. Y ou are going on a journey with  your higher self from the time of
your earliest memory. Think back to your first memory. What was it. Who was there. What did the  scenery look like. What wer e you
wearing. What were others wearing. Do you remember your
witnessing presence being there. What wisdom did it share with you
then. Next, go  to a m emory in your e arly childhood years, between the
ages of six and t welve. Is there a particular moment that sticks out for
you. Do you re member your higher self being there and letting you
know what you should do. Did you follow your inner witness, or did
you go against it. Next, fast-forward to your teenage years between the ages of
thirteen and nineteen. What m oment comes to mind during these
years. W ho wa s there. What were you wearing. What were others
wearing. What did your surrou ndings look like. How did you  feel. Do you remember your higher self being there with you at that time. T ake a few mom ents to continue through the decades of your li fe,
going through one event per dec ade that stands out and noticing your
higher self in them all. Now co me back to the present moment. Bring your awareness  to
challenges you’ re currently having. Maybe there is a decision you
need to make o r a relationship you need to heal. Whatever it is, ask
your wi tness or  your higher se lf, “What choice is it in my h ighest
good to make. ” Then scan your body for an inner tug or a sense of
knowing. Y our mind will instantly go to a thought or a solution that
hadn’ t occurred to you before. Y our higher self is now directing your
thoughts and helping you through the power of your intuition. Y our inner witness is always loving, truthful, and kind. Y o ur
higher self will never ask you to  do anything or make any choice that
is unlov ing. If you hear an unlov ing voice, that is your ego. When youhear you r ego, thank it and then send it away so you can feel the  voice
of y our higher s elf. Continue to do this with every problem you  have,
and feel the answer come through your witness. When yo u’re finished, thank your higher self for its guidance. Y ou
can ask it to hel p you be more present with it each day. Y ou ca n seal
your meditation by chanting the mantra sound SHAM  three times. T ake a few moments before opening your eyes. Y ou can always come back to this meditation anytime you need  to
reignite your connection with your higher self. E NERGY -B ODY  H EALING WITH  G EMS AND  C OLORS
Indigo, or bluish-purple, is the color of the sixth chakra. Y ou can wear
indigo or adorn a room with this color. Amethyst, lapis lazuli, and azur ite are great stones and crystals to help
align the  third-eye chakra. Indigo kyanite stimulates the pineal gland and
may help awaken psychic abilities. Sixth Chakra Mindfulness Ideas to Ponder
1. My sens e of intuition is as rel iable as my senses of sight, smell,
hearing, touch, and taste. 2. I wi ll get in touch with my w itness or my higher self, and I will
practice watching myself in all aspects of life. 3. As I recognize my shadows, they will dissipate, and I will  live
stronger in the light. 4. Meditation is my path to knowingness and enlightenment. W7  T H E  C R O W N  C H A K R A
S a h a s w a r a
COLOR:  V iolet or White
MANTRA SOUND:  OM
e ha ve arrived at the top of t he seven chakras, the Sahaswara
chakra, our source of enlightenment and spiritual connection. This
chakra i s also referred to as the thousand-petal lotus. In Hindu and Buddhist
traditions, the lotus flower is a p owerful symbol. It grows through adversity
in murky waters and blooms w here there is no clarity. The beauty of the
lotus emer ges out of the darkness. And so it is for you: It has taken you a
long tim e to get here. Y our road  toward enlightenment has had s ome bumps
and setbacks. Y et here you are, a shining example for the world to see. The seventh chakra is located at  the crown of the head and incl udes the
cerebral cortex, the central nervous system, and the pituitary gland. Artists have depicted the crown chakra as a halo in paintings and
drawings of saints and great spiritual masters. A Sahaswara person always
has a white light glowing around his or her being. Here a permane nt channel is o pen to divine knowledge and wisdom. The state of se venth chakra awareness exists beyond space, time, and
causality. When you attain this state, you mer ge with oneness. Y ou
completely transcend duality. The mind is unaf fected by fluctuations and
separateness. Th e seventh chakra person possesses siddhi  powers, which
include clairvoyance, levitation, and psychokinesis. The Y oga Sutras of Patanjali give us a road map to open ing the
Sahaswara chakra through the fifth limb of yoga known as pratyahara, or
withdrawal of the senses. Through this practice of drawing your senses
inward by closing your eyes,


ymosin, w hich regulates the imm une level. The thymus is responsible for the
initiation and maintenance of the immune
response, underlying the importance of the heart chakra’s role in health
maintenance. Thymosin is responsible for the production and programming
of T-cells (a type of white blood cell), which can distinguish between thebody’s own protein and that of foreign origin such as invading germs and
bacteria or genetically mutated cells. When the system identifies such foreign
proteins it can mobilise resources to destroy and remove them. Thymosin is
also involved in the maintenance of T-cell function; malfunction or
maldevelopment of T-cells leads to overwhelming infection or the
uncontrolled multiplication of mutated cells, which may manifest as cancer
or auto-imm une disease or HIV/AIDS. Thyroid gland
The thyroid gland is shaped like a butterfly or a bowtie and is located across
the front of the upper part of the trachea (windpipe). It is associated with the
vishuddhi (throat) chakra. The thyroid is responsible for the manufacture of
hormones, which are released into the bloodstream to control the rate of
metabolism (the process of oxygen uptake and subsequent production of
energy and hea t within the bod y) in all the other tissues and or gans. While all
other endocrine glands produce their secretions when required, the thyroid
stores within itself almost three months’ supply of its hormones. In most
people thyroid production is controlled within fairly narrow limits, but severe
stress exposure may result in increased production. The vishuddhi chakra,
which is related to communication and self-expression, is easily affected by
emotional stress and bottled emotions, which may have a direct or indirect
effect on the th yroid gland as well as the sacral and heart c hakras. Pineal gland
This small organ (6 mm x 4 mm) lies deep within the brain and appears at
around the 36th day of gestation. It gains maximum development at around
seven years of age and undergoes involution by the age of 14. Pinealocytes,
the main cells contained in the pineal gland, are responsible for theproduction of melatonin, which regulates sleep and wakefulness in synchrony
with the dark/light cycle. The balance of this delicate rhythm is easily upset
by events such as changing time zones, going on night duty and stress,
causing sleep disturbance. Pinealocytes are necessary for the development
and functioning of gonads, pituitary and thyroids. Although considered to be a part of the brain, the pineal gland is outside
the brain blood barrier and lacks true nerve cells. It is associated with the
sahasrara (cr own) chakra. OceanofPDF.com5
Lymphatic system
As mentioned ear lier, vital ener gy or pranas cir culate in the bod y through the
nervous system, the circulatory system and the nadis. The circulatory system
has two aspects: the blood circulatory system and the lymphatic system. Blood moves through the body in closed vessels, arteries and veins, while
lymph moves via lymphatic vessels, which are like open channels in the body. While the movement of blood is regulated by the pumping of the heart,
lymph movement is mainly due to muscle activity. A sedentary lifestyle
adversely affects our lymphatic flow and makes it sluggish. However, other
factors that affect our lymphatic system adversely are emotional blockages
and stress. We have observed this over a period of time while working with
clients with lymph-related issues. We could establish an interesting
correlation between emotional blockages, lymphatic blockages and chakra
health. The lymphatic system has not been given enough attention by the
medical world, nor has there been any significant study or research to
analyse lymphatic movement and the causes of lymph blockages. Medical
doctors are sometimes clueless in understanding the causes of and treatment
for lymphatic blockages and swollen lymph nodes, which can often be
cleared simply by manual lymph drainage, a technique used by massage
therapists. As explained in the section on vayus (the role of the energy in each
chakra), there are five variants of energy associated with the different
chakras. The energy associated with the swadhisthana (sacral) chakra isvyana vayu, which controls fluid circulation in the body. The swadhisthana
chakra is associated with the water element, an element that represents all
the fluids in the body, including lymph. Therefore, it can be concluded that
the swadhisthana c hakra influences lympha tic flow in the bod y. To understand this concept, we need to understand the lymphatic system
and lymph nodes. In short, lymph is all the interstitial fluid, or the fluid
between the cells. This fluid basically oozes out from the arteries at the
extremities. Our arterial b lood carries oxygen, nutrients and hor mones for all
the cells in the body. To reach the cells at the extremities lymph leaves the
small arteries and flows into the tissues, filling the space between the cells. This fluid delivers its nourishing products to the cells then leaves the cells,
taking with it toxins and waste products. It is composed of 97 per cent water
and almost 3 per cent of white blood corpuscles and lymphocytes. Lymph
contains less proteins and oxygen than blood plasma and doesn’t have any
red corpuscles (erythrocytes). Our lymphatic system is a secondary
circulatory system that supplies nutrients and drains the tissue fluids and
toxins from the tissue spaces. The lympha tic system is mainly r esponsible for the following functions:
◼removing excess fluid and waste products from the interstitial spaces
between the cells
◼aiding the imm une system b y removing and destr oying waste, debris,
dead blood cells, pathogens, toxins and cancer cells
◼absorbing fats and fat-soluble vitamins from the digestive system and
delivering these n utrients to the cells of the bod y. Lymph moves in the interstitial spaces up to the subclavian veins at the
base of the neck. Approximately 70 per cent of these veins are superficialcapillaries located near or just under the skin. The remaining 30 per cent,
which are known as deep lymphatic capillaries, surround most of the body’s
organs.Lymph nodes generally occur in groups at various parts of the body, such
as under the knee, groin or inguinal area under the arm or neck. The task ofthe lymph nodes is to control the lymph transported to it. Every lymph node,
which is only a few millimetres in diameter, consists of lymphatic tissue
enclosed in a co vering of connectiv e tissue. All lymph nodes ha ve the primar y
function of the production of lymphocytes, which help defend the body
against microorganisms and harmful foreign particles and remove debris
from lymph bef ore it is returned to the b loodstream. The major lymph nodes ar e mainly f ound in six ar eas:
◼ Cervical region: nodes in this area are grouped along the lower
border of the jaw, in front of and behind the ears, and deep in the
neck along the larger blood vessels. They drain the skin of the scalp
and face, the tissues of the nasal cavity and the pharynx. This area is
associated with the vishuddhi (thr oat) chakra. ◼ Axillary region: these nodes are in the underarm region and
receive lymph from vessels that drain the arm, the walls of the
thorax, the breast and the upper walls of the abdomen. This area is
associated with the anaha ta (heart) c hakra. ◼ Inguinal region: the nodes in this area receive lymph from the
legs, the outer portion of the genitalia and the lower abdominal wall. This area is under the influence of the swadhisthana (sacral) chakra. The health of these lymph nodes and the health of the sacral chakra
are interrelated as both affect each other. The sacral chakra is the
one that indirectly controls lymphatic circulation as the energy
associated with it, called vyana vayu, regulates fluid circulation in
the body. ◼ Pelvic cavity: the nodes here appear mostly along the paths of the
blood vessels within the pelvic cavity and receive lymph from thelymphatic vessels in the area. This area is also associated with the
swadhisthana and m uladhara (base r oot) chakras. ◼ Abdominal cavity: within this area, nodes occur in chains along
the main branches of the arteries of the intestine and the abdominal
aorta. This area is associated with the manipura (solar plexus)
chakra. ◼ Thoracic cavity: these nodes occur between the lungs and along
the windpipe and bronchi, and receive lymph from this area and
from the internal wall of the thorax. This area is also associated with
the anaha ta (heart) c hakra. The idea tha t ‘our issues ar e in our tissues’ is indeed true, as all emotional
issues get stuck and are stored somewhere in the body. Our minds tend to
forget bitter experiences over time but they remain imbedded somewhere in
the body’s memory. Over the years of our chakra healing practice we have
noticed these issues show up as knots in the muscles in the inguinal area, just
above or below the inguinal lymph nodes


-lov ing Father
in heaven are probably compensating for the father that did not love
them enough on earth. “I was sitting in a café last year telling a student, ‘If you are
completely honest with yourself, you will never claim to know that
you have a soul.’ Medieval physicians used to weigh their dying
patients to test if the body became lighter as the soul departed. They
never found anything, of course. But metaphysics is the hardest
superstition to kill. Newton himself believed that the aairs of the
universe take place inside God’s mind—he never produced evidence
for that contention, either. “Think of all the spiritual titillation we would be forced to
abandon if the ‘other world ’ and its ‘higher beings’ had to prove
their existence instead of being taken on faith! By the time I turned
twenty-one, I had dropped the whole archaic vocabulary of God,soul, sin, atonement, redemption, and immortality as so much
excess baggage.”
“But now you do possess a soul?” I asked in puzzlement. “Believe it or not, I think I do.” He laughed and spread his hands
in the air to ward o invisible objections. “Let me just tell you what
has happened, and you judge.”
“All right,” I said. I’ve known Sidney for ve years, as a friend
and occasional patient. If he had found his soul, it would be worth
hearing about. Sidney is forty-seven and looks at the world with the
most alert gaze I have ever met. He is a uent and diverse writer
and sometime professor who takes his stance against any kind of
orthodox dogma. His words, which pour out like Niagara, are
always memorable. Now here we were, seated in another café,
taking shelter from the rain one gray Saturday in Cambridge. “A few month s ago,” Sidney said, “it became quite clear to me
that my normal mind was breaking apart.”
“You had a psychotic episode?” I asked, startled. “Let us say that I brushed up against a state of mind that I would
have unhesitatingly labeled as disturbed in someone else,” he
replied. “But again, I leave the judgments to you. Early last winter I
started noticing some strang e ‘coincidences’ in my life. One day it
was snowing when I had to walk to the grocery store. As I stepped
outside my apartment, a patch of sunlight appeared at my feet, and I
couldn’t help but notice as I went down the street that it moved
with me. “I took a left turn at the end of the block; so did the patch of
sunlight, which  measured perhaps ten feet across. I stopped at the
trac light and waited for it to change—and when I crossed the
street, so did the light!<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        In his
journal, the English essayist Mark Rutherford writes about one
spring morning when he was walking in the woods and chanced
upon a huge old oak. The tree was just leang out, bursti ng forth as
a billow ing cloud of greenish-yellow buds. Caught by the splendor
of so much new life, Rutherford suddenly felt that “something
happened which was nothing less than a transformation of myself
and the world. ”
The oak was “no longer a tree away from me and apart from me. The enclosing barriers of consciousness were removed. … The
distinction of self and not-sel f was an illusion. I could feel the rising
sap; in me also sprang the up-rushing from its roots, and the joy of
its outbreak, from the extremity of each twig right up to the summit,
was my own. ” Fused with the being of the tree, he thought the
words Thou in me and I in thee. The key to his experience lay in the
unity that this sentence conveyed. “I cannot explain; it will be easy
to prove me absurd, but nothing can shake me. Thou in me and I in
thee. Death. what is death. There is no death: in thee it is
impossible, absurd. ”
Countless people have had similar experiences. They have fused
with nature for a moment and realized the Self. Isn’t it possible,
then, to go further and think of a state where a person fuses with
nature permanently. That is the yogi’s challenge to our everydayconception of being. To be human, the yogis say, is to experience
the one silence  underlying everything. Indeed, life is silence, and in
the fellowship of silence all life is oneself. Going into Silence
At the end of our rst talk, I decided to ask Karin to maintain
strict silence, speaking to no one for the next three days, after which
we would meet and talk again. She was staying as a patient at the
clinic outside Boston where I see patients, so her daily needs would
be taken care of. At the same time, this period of silence would be a
good opportunity to deepen her experience of meditation,  which she
had just learned the previous month. Karin was very reluctant to try my experiment. “Do I have to be
totally silent. ” she asked nervously. “Yes,” I said. “When you need anything, you can write a note and
pass it to one of the sta. ”
She only looked more nervous. Karin is used to keeping up a
constant shield of words, partly to relieve her anxiety, partly to
cover it up. I could see how the prospect of being quiet seemed like
having her oxygen tent taken away. “Please, just have a little faith,”
I implored. “You might be surprised at what happens. ”
She wavered. “Can I at least call my brother to wish him a happy
birthday. ” she asked. I nodd ed. “And then not a word to anyone. ”
she said. “Not a word,” I replied. Asking a patient to go into silence is a very unusual step— I hasten
to add that spending days in silence is not a requirement for
successful meditation—but I couldn’t think of any other way to keep
Karin from constantly verbal izing every tiny thing that happens to
her. Using words as an escap e route, she runs away from me, from
anyone else who has tried to help her, and ultimately from herself. Also, it seems to me that she has a basic misperception about her
problem. She believes that she is outside reality trying desperately
to get back in. I often feel, on the contrary, that she spends just as
much of her energy making sure that she stays on the outside. Why does she do that. Partic ipating in the everyday world brings
with it a mixture of pleasure and pain, but Karin prefers to oat
above the world like a balloon barely tethered to earth. This distant
vantage point doesn’t provide much pleasure, but it certainly  helps
to isolate her from any more pain. Karin knows that her escape
plans haven’t succeeded. She is still tied to the ground, by her
memories, by her distress, and above all by her longing to rejoin the
rest of us. I didn’t expect a few days of silence to mark a major
breakthrough, but at least I could be there if she happene d to come
to earth and meet herself again. It would be a highly charged
moment, I knew. When the three days were up, I felt that some kind of change had
taken place. Karin looked rested and less anxious; she did not return
obsessively to the same litany of complaints. She looked at me
inquisitively, and after admit ting that she felt a little more cheerful,
she asked, “What was I supposed to get out of that. ”
“What do you think you got out of it. ” I asked in return. “Well, I still feel like a lit-up Christmas tree,” she laughed
ruefully, “and I still want to pull the plug so the lights will go o. ”
She stopped. “Anything else. ” I urged. “I don’t know,” she mumble d evasively. “I walked around a lot. There was one thing. ”
“Yes. ”
“There’s a big maple in your woods that was cracked by lightning
and has a hole in the middl e, about shoulder high. I happened to
pass by when I noticed some thing moving inside the hole. Walking
closer, I saw a bird’s nest with a single blue egg in it; an adult bird
was standing beside it, not moving. I was surprised that she didn’t
y away, but when I looked closer, I realized what was happening. The egg was hatching, right at that moment. Tiny cracks appeared,
and then the brown point of a bill. “I stood very still, holding my breath. For a second I wondered if I
should help, but I have heard that touching a hatchling will make
the mother reject it. So I just watched and very slowly moved my
hand until it was only a foot from the nest. Still the bird did not yaway. The chick must have gotten exhausted, because as soon as
one large patch  of shell fell o, it didn’t move for several minutes. I
decided to go back. ” Neither of us said anything. “Do you know why the mother bird


asable like vitamins, because, as with
many prescription drugs, supervision is usually necessary for their successful use. If th e FDA ever succeeds at making
protomorphogens unavailable to me, I could still have very good results. (At this time the Canadian authorities do not allow
importation of protomorphogens for resale, though individuals can usually clear small shipments throu gh Canada Customs if for
their own personal use. ) But protomorphogens do facilitate healing and sometimes permit healing to occur at a lower gradient of
handling. Without them a body might have to fast to heal, with the aid of protomorphogens a person migh t be able to get better
without fasting. And if protomorphogens are used (chewed up --ugh. ) while fasting, healing is accelerated. Protomorphogens are made from freeze -dried, organically -raised animal organ meats (usually calf or lamb) combined with ver y
specific vitamins, herbs and other co -factors to potentiate the effect. I view protomorphogens as containing nutritional
supplementation specific for the rebuilding of the damaged organ. Doctor Royal Lee, a medical genius who developed protomorphogen s therapy in the 50s and who spent several stints in prison
in exchange for his benevolence and concern for human well -being, also founded the company that has supplied me with
protomorphogens. After decades of official persecution and denial of the effica cy of protomorphogens by the power structure, it
looks like they are about to finally have their day. As I write this book cutting -edge medical research companies are developing
therapies using concentrated animal proteins (protomorphogens) to treat arthri tis, multiple sclerosis, eye inflamations and juvenile
diabetes. The researchers talk as though they are highly praiseworthy for "discovering" this approach. Unfortunately, this development is likely to cut two ways. On one hand, it vindicates Dr. Lee; on the other, when these drug
companies find a way to patent their materials, they may finally succeed at forcing protomorphogens (currently quite inexpens ive)
off the non -prescription market and into the restricted and profitable province of the MD. I divide clients into two basic types: simple cases and complex ones. When I was treating mental illness, occasionally I had a
client who had not been sick fo r too long. I could usually make this client well quite easily. But if the person had already become
institutionalized, had been psychotic for many years, had received much prior treatment, then their case had been made much m ore
difficult. This sort had a  poor prognosis. A very similar situation exists with physical illnesses. Many people get sick only because
they lack information about how to keep themselves healthy and about what made them sick. Once they find out the truth, they
take my medicine withou t complaint and almost inevitably get better very rapidly. Some of these people can be quite ill when they
first come to me but usually they have not been sick for very long. Their intention when coming into my office is very positi ve and
have no counter i ntentions to getting better. There are no spiritual or psychological reasons that they deserve to be sick. If this
person had not found me, they almost certainly would have found some other practitioner who would have made them well. This
type of person ho nestly feels they are entitled to wellness. And they are. However, some of the sick are not sick for lack of life -style information; they suffer from a mental/spiritual malady as well, one
that inevitably preceded their illness by many years. In fact, their physical ailments are merely reflections of underlying problems. This patient's life is usually a snarl of upsets, problems, and guilty secrets. Their key relationships are usually vicious o r unhealthy. Their level of interpersonal honesty may be poo r. There are usually many things about their lives they do not confront and so, can
not change. With this type of case, all the physical healing in the world will not make them permanently better because the m ental
and emotional stresses they live under se rve as a constant source of enervation. Cases like this usually do not have only one thing wrong with them. They almost always have been sick for a long time; most
have been what I call "doctor hoppers," confused by contrary diagnoses and conflicting M D opinions. When I get a case like this I
know from the first that healing is going to be a long process, and a dubious one at that. On the physical level, their body will only
repair one aspect of their multiple illnesses at a time. Simultaneously, they m ust be urged to confront their life on a gentle gradient. There is usually a lot of backsliding and rollercoastering. The detoxification process, physical and psychological, can take several
years and must happen on all the levels of their life. This kind of case sees only gradual improvement interspersed with periods of
worsening that indicate there remains yet another level of mental unawareness that has to be unraveled. Few medical doctors or holistic therapists really understand or can help this ki nd of case. To do so, the doctor has to be in touch
with their own reactive mind and their own negative, evil impulses (which virtually all humans have). Few people, including
therapists, are willing to be aware of their own dark side. But when we deny it in ourselves, we must pretend it doesn't exist in
others, and become its victim instead of conquering it. Anyone who denies that they have or are influenced by their own darke r
aspects who seem to be totally sweet and light, is lying; proof of this is that  they still are here on Earth. All this generalizing about diagnostic methods and clinical approaches could go on for chapters and more chapters, and writin g
them would be fine if I were teaching a group of health clinicians that were reading this book  to become better practitioners. But
I'm sure most of my readers are far more interested in some complaint of their own or in the health problem of a loved one, a nd are
intensely interested in one might go about handling various conditions and complaints, what types of organ weaknesses are
typically associated with them, and what approaches I usually recommend to encourage healing. And, most importantly, what kin d
of success or lack of it have I had over the past twenty five years, encouraging the healing o f various conditions with hygienic
methods. In the case studies that follow I will mostly report the simpler, easier -to-fix problems because that is what most people have;
still, many of these involve life -threatening or quality -of-life-destroying illn esses. I will tell the success story of one very
complicated, long -suffering case that involved multiple levels of psychological and spiritual handling as well as considerable
physical healing. Arthritis
    Some years back my 70 years old mother came fro m the family homestead in the wilds of northern British Columbia to visit me
at the Great Oaks School. She had gotten into pathetic physical condition. Fifteen years previously she had remarried. Tom, h er
new husband, had been a gold prospector and general  mountain man, a wonderfully independent and cantankerous cuss, a great
hunter and wood chopper and all around good -natured backwoods homestead handyman. Tom had tired of solitary log cabin life
and to solve his problem had taken on the care and feeding of  a needy widow, my mom. He began doing the cooking and menu
planning. Tom, a little older than my mother, had no sense about eating but could still shoot game. Ever since their marriage  she
had been living on moose meat stews with potatoes and gravy, white  flour bread with jam, black tea with canned milk, a ritual
glass of brandy at bedtime, and almost no fresh fruit or vegetables. In her youth, my mother had been a concert pianist; now she had such large arthritic knobs on all of her knuckles that her  hands
had become claws. Though there was still that very same fine upright in the cabin that I had learned to play as a child, she had long
since given up the piano. Her knees also had large arthritic knobs; this proud woman with a straight back and long,  flowing strides
was bent over, limping along with a cane. She was also 30 pounds overweight and her blood pressure was a very dangerous 210
over 140, just asking for a stroke. Instead of a welcoming feast, the usual greeting offered to a loved one wh o has not been seen for a few years, I immediately
started her on a juice fast. I gave her freshly prepared carrot juice (one quart daily) mixed with wheat grass juice (three o unces
daily) plus daily colonics. She had no previous experience with these tech niques but she gamely accepted everything I threw her
way because she knew I was doing it because I loved her and wanted to see her in better condition. She also received a daily full
body massage with particular attention to the hand and knees, stimulatin g the circulation to the area and speeding the removal of
wastes. Every night her hands and knees were wrapped in warm castor oil compresses held in place with old sheeting. I did not use any vitamins or food supplements in her case. I did give her fla vorful herbal teas made of peppermint and
chamomile because she needed the comfort of a hot cupa; but these teas were in no way medicinal except for her morale. In three weeks on this program, Grannybelle, as I and my daughters called her,


aths,
111
“climate cure,”
104
,
105
,
123
diet,
50
,
64–66
,
98
drugging,
41
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45
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82–83
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89
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98
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110
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111–112
,
117
,
121
,
125
manipulation,
110
no need for,
46–47
no real cure,
46
search for,
47
surgery,
117–118
,
125
word traced,
46
Cystitis,
104
,
144
,
125
Dagnini, Giorgio,
131
,
132
Darbishire, A. D.,
46
Death,
63
,
73
Decompensation,
130
 (See The Heart)
Degeneration of tissues,
30–31
Dehydration,
31
Deihs, harold,
95
,
98
Depressing the nervous system,
79
,
121
,
125
Deterioration,
51
,
155
Determination, persistence,
113
Diabetes,
95
Diarrhea,
33
,
57
,
83–84
,
96
,
134
,
137
Diathesis
105
,
111
,
157
Diet,
22
,
117
,
167
after fasting,
64–67
bland,
117
of children,
82–83
,
117
Digestion,
64–65
,
78
,
79
Disease and Diseases,
45–46
,
63
,
73
,
83
,
96
acute,
33
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50
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58
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63
,
83–85
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89–90
,
91
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96
care of,
46
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58
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90–91
basis, one; diseases many,
68
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108
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109
,
110
,
111
benefited by fasting,
45–46
cause,
47
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48
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68
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107
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111
149children’s,
83–85
chronic,
50
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58
,
63
,
92
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93
,
138
cure, cures, curing,
46–47
,
48
not needed,
47
deficiency,
29
degenerative,
96
drugs in,
41
,
89
,
121
,
125
evolution of,
96
,
115–116
fasting in,
93
,
94
,
112
 (See Fasting)
incipient,
19
inflammatory,
84
,
94
,
133–134
,
139
,
141
,
144
inflammatory stage,
84
,
100
irreversible stage,
75
,
140
palliation,
107
drugs,
45
,
117
,
125
,
166
fasting,
147
food,
117
manipulations,
59
,
60
,
110
prevention,
92
,
93
recovery,
45
,
92
,
93
,
98
,
100
,
102
,
113
,
151
,
155
recurrence,
143
remedial nature of,
48
,
90
,
98
secondary causes,
105–111
self-limited,
127
,
149
spontaneous recovery,
98
supervision,
52
terminal stage,
63
Diuresis,
132
Drug addicts,
121
Drugs,
45
 (See Palliation)
Duncan, Garfield,
24
Duodenal ulcer,
115
 (See Ulcers)
Duodenitis,
94
Dyspnea,
104
Eating, Compulsive,
32
Eczema,
45
,
143
Edema,
57
,
129
,
130
Efficiency of nature,
30
Elimination,
38
,
84
,
97–98
Emaciation,
78
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79
Encephalitis Lethargica,
153
Endocarditis,
46
150Endocrine Glands,
164
adrenal,
125
,
126
imbalance of,
164
pituitary,
125
,
126
thyroid,
125
,
126
Endurance,
66
Enemas,
137
Enervation,
68
,
83
,
97
,
153
Enteroptosis,
134
Enzymes,
29
,
68
Epilepsy,
46
Ergotamine,
121
Excesses,
125
,
153
 (See also Satiety)
Excretion,
37
,
38
,
84
Exercise,
80
Exhilaration,
26
,
40
Experiments,
75
,
76
faulty,
30
medication,
95
wet clothing, drafts,
97
Expert supervision,
22–23
,
26
,
52
,
54
,
63–67
,
80
,
83
,
85
 (See Fasting)
Fasts and fasting,
41–42
,
46
,
57–58
,
59
accomplishments,
29
,
30
,
39
,
71–72
,
75–77
animals,
18
 (See Animals)
assimilation/excretion, simultaneous,
37–38
basis for,
17
,
21
breaking,
63–67
 (See Breaking the Fast)
children (See Children)
contraindicated,
51
,
95
,
128
crisis,
56
death during
43
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44–45
dehydration,
24
,
25
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31
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57
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60–61
temperature of water,
61
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85
developments,
53
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54–57
comfort,
23–24
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26
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54
diarrhea,
57
discomfort,
23–24
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54–55
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56–57
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62
feeling of strength,
40
,
41
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56
feeling of weakness,
40
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56
fever symptoms,
55
muscle atrophy,
31
nausea and vomiting,
56–57
151pasty mouth, tongue,
55
urine,
39
,
55
,
130
,
131
weakness,
42
weight loss,
23
,
25
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30–31
,
56
disease (See Diseases)
duration,
28
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29
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31
,
42
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52
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53
,
54
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64
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79–80
,
106
effective,
21
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36
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37
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45–46
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49
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71
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72
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76–77
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80
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90
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94
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95
,
102
,
119
,
120
,
163
exercise,
25
,
41
,
42
,
60
,
66
expert supervision,
22–23
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26
,
31
,
42
,
51
,
52
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53
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58
,
61
,
63–67
,
80
,
83
,
85
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95
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112
,
132
fasting is,
17
,
18
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21
,
22
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25
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26
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46
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58–60
,
71
,
92
fasting is not,
17
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30
,
45
,
46
,
48
,
49
,
58
,
92
,
126
,
147
,
150
fat utilized,
30
,
38
,
162
,
163
fatty cells, a storage place,
38
,
72
fear,
51
,
59
,
81
gastric irritation,
32
,
34
,
93
heroic case,
19–21
history of,
18–19
how? complete rest,
28
,
59–60
,
127
,
128
no interruptions,
58
no treatments,
60–61
hunger,
32
disappearance,
32
reappearance,
63
,
64
where felt,
32
individualized,
49–50
,
80
,
101
,
105
,
106
ineffectual,
39
,
45
,
51
,
72
,


grown on poor soil, or which otherwise lacks certain elements which
are essential to keeping the bodily machine in repair and running
smoothly. A principal reason why the general run of foodstuff you find in
the grocery store is deficient in mi nerals and vitamins which the body
needs is because that food in its natural state is too easily spoiled. Your food processor refines the stuff so that it will keep until it
reaches the consumer. That is good business; but, I say, it is not good
dietetics. When the miller takes out those elements in wheat which
would spoil, he has robbed the grai n of life sustaining vitamins. There is the secret of white flour' s keeping qualities. But that fact
also accounts for the vitamin deficiencies and other forms of slow
starvation—which sooner or later,  will afflict the person who eats
white bread exclusively. Tests at various experiment stati ons have shown that cows fed on
whole wheat will thrive; but cows from the same herd, equally healthy
when the tests begin, when fed for some time on white flour
exclusively, would die of heart failure. Other experimenters, like Dr. C. A. Pierle at Canyon, Texas, a nd Dr. Francis Pottenger in California,
have tried white rats on an exclusive white flour diet, with identical
results: The rats starved to death, with full stomachs. What is bad for cattle or rodents, I submit, is bad for children and
grownups, too. During my early dental practice in Alabama, my heart
would bleed for children only 2 years old brought to me with half their
teeth decayed. As I was to learn years later, those children, fed upon
whole raw milk, whole wheat cereal and other vitamin—and mineral-
rich foods would have had mouthfuls of sound teeth. For proof, I can point to my own three grandchildren—Martha,
13; George, 10 and Jane, 5 years old, who live on the George G. Heard dairy farm not far from Hereford. None of those children have a
single decayed tooth. If all three should live a 100 years and keep on
eating the same kind of food they have lived on up to now, they still
will have perfect teeth—and, I dare prophesy, sound bodies otherwise. All three children are heavy milk drinkers; but take their milk
raw, not pasteurized. Practically all the food which those children
consume is produced on Deaf Smith County's mineralized soil. The
bread they eat is made from home grown wheat, which has been
freshly ground in a special mill and the whole grain has gone into the
loaf—bran, shorts and all. The children's meat diet consists  mostly of beef and chicken
these cattle and fowls raised on th e place, grazed on native grass and
lush green wheat, with a supplement of home grown alfalfa and grain
sorghum. After they had been fattened, the steers and chickens were
slaughtered and put into deep freeze. Most of the garden vegetables that will grow anywhere in the
country flourish on the Deaf Smith County irrigated farms. The Heard children like them all and take a portion of their vegetables raw—
celery, lettuce, asparagus, cabbage slaw, tomatoes, carrots or a dozen
kinds chopped up together in a salad. For much of the year, those
vegetables come fresh out of the garden; but deep freeze keeps the
stuff "garden fresh" the rest of the time. For sweetening, the youngsters consume honey. By way of
exception, the Heard children get most  of their fruit from other parts:
apples, oranges, grapes, bananas, figs, peaches and plums. For some years I supplied butter picked up from Deaf Smith
County farms to a Mr. J. H. Fuerhrer, who lives at Coopersburg, Pa. He fed that butter to his children and also gave them whole wheat cereal, freshly ground from his own mill. He saw to it that the children ate raw vegetables, fresh fruit and nuts, to make up a balanced ration
of protein, starches, sugar, vitamins and minerals. His neighbors thought Mr. Fuehrer a crank—just a bit off. But
when his daughter, Helen, became of  school age, he had his payoff. When the time came to put the first-year pupils through their health
tests, the school dentist examined 62 little mouths, all very much
alike. This 6 year old was the only  one free of cavities. Each child had
some decayed teeth. When he came to look into the mouth of Pupil 63, Helen Fuehrer,
6 years old, that dentist was astonished. The child had a mouthful of perfect teeth. The dentist had many questions to ask the little girl and her mother—curious to know how she had lived six years without
getting even one small blemish on her teeth. He did not know what
magic that butter from Deaf Smith County, Texas, had worked in the
child's mouth—and being told, would not believe it. It was the food that little Helen had put into her mouth that had
built her sound teeth and, at the same time, as the school physicians
later found, had built her a sound body generally. The right foods, properly balanced, not too much and not too
little, will create a healthy body. The wrong foods, which do not build
or repair cells and tissues, clog up the bodily functions and cause
disease. Frequently, people say that something they ate made them sick. More often than otherwise, the actual cause of their trouble is
something they did not eat. The bodily functions may suffer as
severely from lack of the food elements, or vitamins which serve as
catalysts, to keep them going, as they would suffer from poison. The
healthful diet is a perfectly balanced diet. CHAPTER 26. ON THE CHEMISTRY OF DEAF SMITH
COUNTY FOODS

In his search for the secret of Deaf Smith County people's
immunity to tooth decay, Dr. Edward Taylor took samples of flour milled at Hereford from home grown wheat to the Texas State Laboratories in Austin for analysis. For a long time previously, our
millers had publicized "the extremely high protein content," of the
native flour. The State analysis (says Dr. Taylor's bulletin) showed that the
Hereford flour contained 0. 199 per cent of phosphorus, as compared
with 0. 037 per cent for standard flour. That is, the Hereford breadstuff
was found to be more than five times as rich in phosphorus as general
run of flour produced elsewhere. On the other hand, the Hereford sample showed 0. 0274 per cent
of calcium, as against 0. 0370 per cent in the standard product. Observe, reader, that what Dr. Taylor had analyzed was the
refined white flour. Most of the life-giving mineral elements to be
found in Deaf Smith County wheat had been taken out of that flour in
the bran and shorts. Laboratory tests with white rats—b y Dr.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What did the doctors tell D, and how did he react?,
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Q: What did Dr. Pottenger find in his experiment with cats?,
A: Dr. Pottenger found that the cats did not reproduce when fed on cooked beef and pasteurized milk, but they did reproduce when fed on raw meat and raw milk.
Q: What did Dr. Price do to help Freddie S.?,
A: Dr. Price put Freddie on a diet of raw milk and whole wheat, and the boy's convulsions stopped, and his broken bone began to heal.
Q: What did Dr. Mitteldorf say about the role of dentists?,
A: Dr. Mitteldorf said that dentists are not honest with themselves and are following a repair trade rather than a profession.
Q: What did Dr. Heard say about the importance of a well-balanced diet?,
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gained health of body, mind and soul, when he possesses an
abundance of life's good things and dwell in harmony with his
environment. So far as my contact with it has gone, the church has never set
such a goal for its members. Rather the church has adjured poverty in
the here and now, to fit oneself fo r the more abundant life hereafter
but as the tree falleth so it lieth. As I read it, such is not the implication of the Sermon on the
Mount, which holds the sum and substance of Jesus' message: "Lay
not up for yourselves treasure upon earth." That tenet, if obeyed, would eliminate the love of money, which
Paul taught was the root of all ev il. Eliminate evil and you eliminate
the causes of sickness, sorrow and death. In all my 75 years of church going I have never heard this doctrine expounded from the pulpit. But
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