Color Therapy- Simplified Version
August 13, 2011 by admin
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Find a place where your are comfortable. You can either sit or lie down .The most important thing is that you are comfortable.
step 1. Visualize in your mind any situation or issue you are having right NOW.
step2. Ask this to yourself: “what color do i need to breath into my system to resolve this issue I’m having NOW?.
Note: The first color that comes into your mind is the color your body needs to vibrate to achieve the result you want. Remember color is just a manifestation of different wavelength or frequency.
step3. Focus on that color and picture it in your mind.Because that’s the color you need to vibrate in that frequency.
step 4. SMILE and leave all worries behind.
Step 5. Breath in and out deeply and listen to the sound of your breath.
NOTE: Breath in and out 7 to 10times with the COLOR you have in mind.
Before exhaling- hold your breath for a while imagining the color you have picture fills your system.
While doing this process if you find any challenge in your body like pain in a particular area of the body you can TAP on it while inhaling and exhaling.
Step 6. Relax…
Step 7. Drink a glass of water.
Note: It is recommended to drink a glass of water after the session to hydrate your body and it aids the release of negative energy inside the body.
*YOU MAY TO MODIFY THIS PROCEDURE AS LONG AS IT WILL HELP ACHIEVE THE RESULT YOU DESIRE.
Bio Enzyme-Excellence Award 2011
August 13, 2011 by admin
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Doc. Rodolfo C. Edlagan with Bio Enzyme Plus received and award of excellence.
Thank you very much to all our stockist, distributors, users and the management and staff of Biocare Multipurpose Cooperative.
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Amazing Recovery from Meningioma
August 13, 2011 by admin
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Mrs. N. Escaner who lives in Rizal was diagnosed with Meningioma and was at the point of being hopeless in her health condition.
Date:June 01, 2011
Our Health Consultant and Systemic Enzyme Therapist Mr Manny Agudo visited Mrs. Escaner to offer a solution on her case using Bio Enzyme Systemic Therapy (BEST). Dosage is Bombing Dosage.
Date:July 20, 2011
Following the health protocol as advised with her, Mrs. Escaner was able to recover from her extreme health condition. From bedridden -now she can walk and sit.
Date:July 22, 2011
Two days after she recovered here she is now in Full Recovery using BioEnzyme Plus .
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Sugar Blues
December 13, 2010 by admin
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Sugar Blues by William Dufty
Book Review
Sugar Blues is an account by William Dufty of the devastating health effects of refined sugar, created quite a splash when it was first published in 1975. I vividly remember how energetically I avoided the book. I thought sugar was food. I desperately wanted sugar to be food! Everyone said that it was! Dufty covers the shameful promotion by the Department of Agriculture, the American Medical Association, the Harvard School of Nutrition, and others, of refined sugar as a good “source of food energy.” (Sound familiar?)
Sugar Blues is framed by Dufty’s own story–his sugar story, that is. He doesn’t mention: ghostwriter for Billie Holiday, marriage to Gloria Swanson, popularizing macrobiotics to celebrities. Dufty’s food and illness story is a familiar tale of unconscious, unwitting sugar addiction (1930′s style), and the accompanying weight gain, mysterious ailments, and incapacitating migraines; and the less familiar final act of sugar withdrawal. (“I knew enough about junkies to recognize reluctantly my kinship with them.”)
But most of Sugar Blues is the history–a colorful, hard-hitting, snarky history–of sugar (and some other refined foodstuffs: white flour, white rice) and the devastation brought: the lengths to which people and countries will go to ensure a sugar supply; sugar’s role in slavery and war; and how sugar backfires on those who consume it. All the consequences of subtle but serious malnourishment due to refined sugar and rather less subtle endocrine disruption, including but not limited to, diabetes, hypoglycemia, ulcers, physical weakness, mental illness, and addiction.
Dufty mentions a shipwreck in 1793; the marooned sailors ate and drank their cargo of sugar and rum. Five emaciated survivors were rescued–after only nine days. Nine days without food, or even without water, ought to be easily survivable. He writes, “As a steady diet, sugar is worse than nothing.”
Why? Sugar is “refined.” It’s an extract from regular food (sugar cane, sugar beets), cooked down into a pure chemical. Regular (“real”) food contains nutrients that nourish the body. Sugar contains no nutrients. Real food contains the nutrients needed to digest and assimilate the food and eliminate its waste. Sugar does not, and the body has to get those nutrients from somewhere else. Refined sugar is an antinutrient: instead of providing nutrients to the body, refined sugar drains nutrients from the body.
The effects of refined sugar are actually quite obvious, but our view is obscured because our culture has been involved with sugar for hundreds of years. We have nothing to compare it to–no control group without sugar. Without the escalation of sugar consumption over the last hundred years, we might not be able to see it at all. We’re left with comparing our degenerative diseases with our considerably more hardy grandparents and our considerably more impaired children. Or, with a better-late-than-never personal experiment like Dufty’s, or like mine, to see the before and after.
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Macronutrients Guide – Dietary Facts About Carbohydrates Protein & Fat
December 13, 2010 by admin
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There is almost too much information spinning around on the subject of nutrition, mainly because of the amount of ‘diet experts’ that perpetuate the world of marketing. Cutting through all of this information and misinformation can be challenging at best. In this article, you will learn foundational nutritional information as well as some specific techniques you can use to help keep you lean and healthy. This article will attempt to align with current food labeling information as well to stay understandable.
For the purpose of this article, we will define a macronutrient as one of a group of food chemical compounds that we as humans consume to provide the bulk of our energy – specifically carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. Understanding the relationship between these macronutrients as well as how the body processes them can give you a big advantage in the quest toward a healthier you. Let’s start with carbohydrates.
Carbohydrates
A carbohydrate is just a sugar on a fundamental level. In fact, the word monosaccharide can be literally translated as single sugar. Carbohydrates in nutrition are all types of sugars, and while ‘sugar’ has earned a bad rep in the health and nutrition circles, it is important to understand that carbohydrates all fit in this classification. How they are structured and how your body processes them changes the impact different saccharides may have on your body, however.
The three main types of carbohydrates to be concerned about are monosaccharides, disaccharides, and polysaccharides. Literally translated, the prefix mono is single, di is double, and poly is many. So a polysaccharide is technically nothing more than a clump of monosaccharides. And a disaccharide is nothing more than two monosaccharides combined together.
macronutrients guideWhy is this important? Well, you can break the category of carbohydrates down into a more global separation to match with nutritional labels by using the terms simple sugar (mono- or disaccharide) and complex carbohydrate (polysaccharide). It is also important because of the way your body digests carbohydrates.
As food is being digested, your body is looking to break whatever food comes into the digestive system down by reducing it into very manageable blocks. In the case of carbohydrates, your body breaks them down into a simple sugar called glucose (otherwise known as blood sugar). Glucose will be stored in your muscle tissue and liver and held as stored energy (called glycogen). Glucose is also primarily used by your brain – if you’ve ever noticed how your energy levels can drop after spending a lot of time thinking, this shows you how much blood sugar that computer in your head can eat up. (Interestingly enough, glucose is a monosaccharide and glycogen is a polysaccharide. Glycogen will be broken down into glucose as needed and is stored to keep blood sugar levels relatively steady.)
So if you eat two different carbohydrates, let’s say one is table sugar (sucrose, a disaccharide) and the other is a potato (a polysaccharide otherwise known as starch), your body will go to work digesting them. The table sugar is snapped in two and converted over to glucose relatively quickly. After all, there isn’t much to do – just break the thing in half, pretty much. The starch, on the other hand, is more of a tangled mess as it consists of multiple glucose molecules jammed together. This takes your body a bit longer to break apart (think of taking confetti off of flypaper). Here’s what this means to you: the simple carbohydrate is digested quickly and hits your blood stream rapidly, while the complex carbohydrate takes a bit longer to digest and consequently the glucose molecules are more steadily released into your bloodstream, not to mention the benefit of vitamins and minerals from the potato that the table sugar is lacking.
All of this relates to terms like glycemic index and glycemic load. The nugget of wisdom to get out of all of this is the same kind of things that you’ve heard before: eat more complex carbohydrates than simple carbohydrates (also referred to as simple sugars).
If we look at the thermic effect of carbohydrates, because it takes energy to digest the very food that is used to obtain energy, it is estimated that carbohydrates will take away about 10% of their calorie value through the digestive process. So, if you ate 50 calories of complex carbohydrates, your body would spend about 5 calories breaking down that carbohydrate into useable glucose. This figure may become more significant as we look at the other macronutrients.
Special Note: While dietary fiber is categorized under the carbohydrate section of nutritional labels, it is technically indigestible by humans as dietary fiber is a non-starch polysaccharide. Fiber is primarily used by the body to absorb toxins and help push food through the digestive system. Fiber is a crucial part of healthy dietary nutrition – look for good sources of both soluble and insoluble fiber.
Fats
One of the most interesting things about fats is the fact that just because you ingest fat doesn’t mean that you will end up being fat. Fats are a critical part of healthy dietary intake and are utilized within the body for a variety of purposes, some of which include health of cell walls, storing/transferring fat-soluble vitamins, skin and hair health, and providing energy for your body. Like carbohydrates, there are different types of fats that the body can use.
Saturated fat gets a lot of bad press, like sugar above, and is found primarily in animal meats as well as some oils (coconut, cottonseed, palm kernel, etc.). It is important to note that not all fats labeled as saturate fats are the same. There is a fundamental difference in the fatty acid ratios between coconut oil and butter, for example.
macronutrients guideMonounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats tends to be liquids at room temperature, due to the nature of the chemical bonds that prevent them from easily being ‘stacked’ on top of one another. You can think of saturated fat as a straight wire and polyunsaturated fats more like steel wool. If you try to stack a couple of wires on top of one another, you can make a pretty dense little metal structure. If you try and mash steel wool into the same kind of shape, it will spring back and refuse to flatten out.
However, these polyunsaturated fats can be chemically straightened by changing the nature of the bond in the fats. Chemically speaking, the double bond that is in a formation called ‘cis’ is changed to ‘trans’. This takes some of the bends out of the unsaturated fat and allows it to better stack against itself. So much so, in fact, that you can force this chemically treated oil to become somewhat solid at room temperature. Thus we have ‘trans fat’ which was originally marketed as margarine, ironically labeled a ‘healthier alternative to butter.’ I tend to stick with the Nature Knows Best philosophy with food, even though I have a chemistry degree.
So, if eating fat doesn’t necessarily make you fat, then what do you need to know about it? You should first know that fats help make you feel full. They are packed with energy – over twice that of carbohydrates and proteins on average – and should not be the mainstay of your nutritional uptake, but are very important nonetheless. In a meal of mixed macronutrients, a recommended manner of eating, fats will help to slow down the absorption of foods with a higher glycemic index. This will help the energy from carbohydrates be more evenly distributed into the bloodstream, preventing blood sugar spikes and corresponding fat storage responses in your body. Fats also help you feel full, so if eating a healthy slower pace, your body should send signals of fullness earlier than if eating just carbohydrates, for example.
The thermic effect of fats is depressed from other foods – if carbohydrates were somewhere around a 10% thermic effect, fats are sitting in at 5% or less. In essence, fats are long chains of molecules. In order to digest these chains, your body just goes along snipping them into smaller chains. This doesn’t take as much work as breaking apart the component sugar molecules of carbohydrates, for example.
With fats, it’s a good idea to stick with mono- and polyunsaturated fat sources as the primary source of fat in your dietary intake. Foods that are rich in omega-3 (and omega-9) fatty acids are a good bet, and stay away from foods that use trans fats. Remember – you can turn a good fat into a trans fat if you cook it at high enough temperature – become knowledgeable about the heat sensitivity of different oils that you may be cooking with.
Proteins
If you get down to the meat of it all, proteins are another critical building block of a healthy dietary intake. In fact, meats are one of the main sources of proteins, although different vegetables will have them as well. Proteins are essentially tangles of amino acid molecules. There are twenty different types of nutritional amino acids, some of which are labeled as ‘essential amino acids’ because our bodies cannot produce them on their own – we must get them from our nutritional intake.
macronutrients guideIf a protein contains all of the essential amino acids, it is considered a ‘complete’ protein. An incomplete protein is therefore a protein that does not contain all of the essential amino acids. Does this mean that incomplete proteins are bad? Of course not. In fact, many vegetables fit into this category and by eating two vegetables that compliment the ‘missing’ amino acids in each other’s profile, your dietary intake will then have a complete amino acid profile.
Proteins are used in our cells for a variety of functions. One of the more publicized functions is the building of muscle tissue. Without proper protein intake, your body will be unable to maintain all of those tiny muscle fibers that make up your muscles which keep you strong, toned, muscular, etc. So protein is a pretty important macronutrient when it comes to staying lean and healthy. After all, if our base metabolism is primarily determined by how much living tissue we have in our bodies (muscle, bone, etc.), then we might as well keep as much as we reasonably can.
The thermic food effect of proteins is a little different than fats and carbohydrates. Remember how proteins are a tangled knot of amino acids? Well it takes a lot more work to break these things down for your body to use them. So much so, in fact, that it’s estimated that your body may spend as much as 30% of the energy available in the protein just to access the amino acids. Even if we go with a more conservative 20% number, it’s easy to see that 50 calories of proteins may end up with only 40 calories actually getting into your body when everything is said and done. Combine that with the fact they are generally slower digesting (your body has to untie all those knots) and they keep you feeling full longer and it’s easy to see why proteins are a very important part of a balanced dietary intake.
Wrapping Up
The phrases ‘you get what you pay for’ and ‘garbage in, garbage out’ really hit home in relation to macronutrients. Use the guideline of eating the best quality of food that you can on a regular basis. If an entire meal costs a dollar or two, you can likely bet that the quality is matching the price and you’ll be paying for this later. Since we exercise a couple of times a week but we eat a couple of times a day, it makes sense to become knowledgeable about the different macronutrients and their roles in your body. Eat healthy, live well, and have fun discovering food that treats your body right.
Source: http://www.shapefit.com/macronutrients-guide.html
Turn your farm into an Organic Farm and yield maximum harvest with higher income through Dual Bio Solution
October 11, 2010 by admin
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Are you are farmer or a farm owner? Dual Bio Solution is the latest technology that helps you yield more harvest and gives higher income from your farm. Dual Bio Solution has been tested for two years in provincial farms and the result was very positive. When applied to farmlands it neutralizes the soil’s acidity and when it happens to be inhaled by farmers it is 100% safe for their health. The use of chemicals for plants has been found it to be dangerous not only to farmers but also to its neighborhood within 250 Km radius hence it contributes free radicals to them that can cause diseases. With the advent of Dual Bio Solution this can now be avoided and prevented.
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Biocare Sizzle Mania
October 6, 2010 by admin
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Biocare Multipurpose Cooperative Sizzle Mania last October 3, 2010 was a very successful event.
This is indeed another breakthrough for Bio Enzyme Plus!
Members from different regions all over the country joined the celebration.
We also welcome Mr. Jerick Ternida our product Endorser . Watch video presentation here to know more about Jerick.
The event ended with an inspirational talk from Doc. Rodolfo Edlagan.
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Refined Sugar – The Sweetest poison of All…
July 29, 2010 by admin
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Refined Sugar – The Sweetest poison of All…
Why Sugar Is Toxic To The Body
In 1957, Dr. William Coda Martin tried to answer the question: When is a food a food and when is it a poison? His working definition of “poison” was: “Medically: Any substance applied to the body, ingested or developed within the body, which causes or may cause disease. Physically: Any substance which inhibits the activity of a catalyst which is a minor substance, chemical or enzyme that activates a reaction.”1 The dictionary gives an even broader definition for “poison”: “to exert a harmful influence on, or to pervert”.
Dr. Martin classified refined sugar as a poison because it has been depleted of its life forces, vitamins and minerals. “What is left consists of pure, refined carbohydrates. The body cannot utilize this refined starch and carbohydrate unless the depleted proteins, vitamins and minerals are present. Nature supplies these elements in each plant in quantities sufficient to metabolize the carbohydrate in that particular plant. There is no excess for other added carbohydrates. Incomplete carbohydrate metabolism results in the formation of ‘toxic metabolite’ such as pyruvic acid and abnormal sugars containing five carbon atoms. Pyruvic acid accumulates in the brain and nervous system and the abnormal sugars in the red blood cells. These toxic metabolites interfere with the respiration of the cells. They cannot get sufficient oxygen to survive and function normally. In time, some of the cells die. This interferes with the function of a part of the body and is the beginning of degenerative disease.”2
Refined sugar is lethal when ingested by humans because it provides only that which nutritionists describe as “empty” or “naked” calories. It lacks the natural minerals which are present in the sugar beet or cane.
In addition, sugar is worse than nothing because it drains and leaches the body of precious vitamins and minerals through the demand its digestion, detoxification and elimination makes upon one’s entire
system. So essential is balance to our bodies that we have many ways to provide against the sudden shock of a heavy intake of sugar. Minerals such as sodium (from salt), potassium and magnesium (from vegetables), and calcium (from the bones) are mobilized and used in chemical transmutation; neutral acids are produced which attempt to return the acid-alkaline balance factor of the blood to a more normal state.
Sugar taken every day produces a continuously overacid condition, and more and more minerals are required from deep in the body in the attempt to rectify the imbalance. Finally, in order to protect the blood, so much calcium is taken from the bones and teeth that decay and general weakening begin. Excess sugar eventually affects every organ in the body. Initially, it is stored in the liver in the form of glucose (glycogen). Since the liver’s capacity is limited, a daily intake of refined sugar (above the required amount of natural sugar) soon makes the liver expand like a balloon. When the liver is filled to its maximum capacity, the excess glycogen is returned to the blood in the form of fatty acids. These are taken to every part of the body and stored in the most inactive areas: the belly, the buttocks, the breasts and the thighs.
When these comparatively harmless places are completely filled, fatty acids are then distributed among active organs, such as the heart and kidneys. These begin to slow down; finally their tissues degenerate and turn to fat. The whole body is affected by their reduced ability, and abnormal blood pressure is created. The parasympathetic nervous system is affected; and organs governed by it, such as the small brain, become inactive or paralyzed. (Normal brain function is rarely thought of as being as biologic as digestion.) The circulatory and lymphatic systems are invaded, and the quality of the red corpuscles starts to change. An overabundance of white cells occurs, and the creation of tissue becomes slower. Our body’s tolerance and immunizing power becomes more limited, so we cannot respond properly to extreme attacks, whether they be cold, heat, mosquitoes or microbes.
Excessive sugar has a strong mal-effect on the functioning of the brain. The key to orderly brain function is glutamic acid, a vital compound found in many vegetables. The B vitamins play a major role in dividing glutamic acid into antagonistic-complementary compounds which produce a “proceed” or “control” response in the brain. B vitamins are also manufactured by symbiotic bacteria which live in our intestines. When refined sugar is taken daily, these bacteria wither and die, and our stock of B vitamins gets very low. Too much sugar makes one sleepy; our ability to calculate and remember is lost.
SUGAR: HARMFUL TO HUMANS AND ANIMALS
Shipwrecked sailors who ate and drank nothing but sugar and rum for nine days surely went through some of this trauma; the tales they had to tell created a big public relations problem for the sugar pushers. This incident occurred when a vessel carrying a cargo of sugar was shipwrecked in 1793. The five surviving sailors were finally rescued after being marooned for nine days. They were in a wasted condition due to starvation, having consumed nothing but sugar and rum. The eminent French physiologist F. Magendie was inspired by that incident to conduct a series of experiments with animals, the results of which he published in 1816. In the experiments, he fed dogs a diet of sugar or olive oil and water. All the dogs wasted and died.3
The shipwrecked sailors and the French physiologist’s experimental dogs proved the same point. As a steady diet, sugar is worse than nothing. Plain water can keep you alive for quite some time. Sugar and water can kill you. Humans [and animals] are “unable to subsist on a diet of sugar”.4 The dead dogs in Professor Magendie’s laboratory alerted the sugar industry to the hazards of free scientific inquiry. From that day to this, the sugar industry has invested millions of dollars in behind-the-scenes, subsidized science. The best scientific names that money could buy have been hired, in the hope that they could one day come up with something at least pseudoscientific in the way of glad tidings about sugar.
It has been proved, however, that (1) sugar is a major factor in dental decay; (2) sugar in a person’s diet does cause overweight; (3) removal of sugar from diets has cured symptoms of crippling, worldwide diseases such as diabetes, cancer and heart illnesses. Sir Frederick Banting, the codiscoverer of insulin, noticed in 1929 in Panama that, among sugar plantation owners who ate large amounts of their refined stuff, diabetes was common. Among native cane-cutters, who only got to chew the raw cane, he saw no diabetes. However, the story of the public relations attempts on the part of the sugar manufacturers began in Britain in 1808 when the Committee of West India reported to the House of Commons that a prize of twenty-five guineas had been offered to anyone who could come up with the most “satisfactory” experiments to prove that unrefined sugar was good for feeding and fattening oxen, cows, hogs and sheep.5
Food for animals is often seasonal, always expensive. Sugar, by then, was dirt cheap. People weren’t eating it fast enough. Naturally, the attempt to feed livestock with sugar and molasses in England in 1808 was a disaster. When the Committee on West India made its fourth report to the House of Commons, one Member of Parliament, John Curwin, reported that he had tried to feed sugar and molasses to calves without success. He suggested that perhaps someone should try again by sneaking sugar and molasses into skimmed milk. Had anything come of that, you can be sure the West Indian sugar merchants would have spread the news around the world. After this singular lack of success in pushing sugar in cow pastures, the West Indian sugar merchants gave up.
With undaunted zeal for increasing the market demand for the most important agricultural product of the West Indies, the Committee of West India was reduced to a tactic that has served the sugar pushers for almost 200 years: irrelevant and transparently silly testimonials from faraway, inaccessible people with some kind of “scientific” credentials. While preparing his epochal volume, A History of Nutrition, published in 1957, Professor E. V. McCollum (Johns Hopkins university), sometimes called America’s foremost nutritionist and certainly a pioneer in the field, reviewed approximately 200,000 published scientific papers, recording experiments with food, their properties, their utilization and their effects on animals and men. The material covered the period from the mid-18th century to 1940. From this great repository of scientific inquiry, McCollum selected those experiments which he regarded as significant “to relate the story of progress in discovering human error in this segment of science [of nutrition]“.
Professor McCollum failed to record a single controlled scientific experiment with sugar between 1816 and 1940. unhappily, we must remind ourselves that scientists today, and always, accomplish little without a sponsor. The protocols of modern science have compounded the costs of scientific inquiry. We have no right to be surprised when we read the introduction to McCollum’s A History of Nutrition and find that “The author and publishers are indebted to The Nutrition Foundation, Inc., for a grant provided to meet a portion of the cost of publication of this book”. What, you might ask, is The Nutrition Foundation, Inc.? The author and the publishers don’t tell you. It happens to be a front organization for the leading sugar-pushing conglomerates in the food business, including the American Sugar Refining Company, Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Curtis Candy Co., General Foods, General Mills, Nestlé Co., Pet Milk Co. and Sunshine Biscuits-about 45 such companies in all. Perhaps the most significant thing about McCollum’s 1957 history was what he left out: a monumental earlier work described by an eminent Harvard professor as “one of those epochal pieces of research which makes every other investigator desirous of kicking himself because he never thought of doing the same thing”.
In the 1930s, a research dentist from Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Weston A. Price, traveled all over the world-from the lands of the Eskimos to the South Sea Islands, from Africa to New Zealand. His Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects,6 which is illustrated with hundreds of photographs, was first published in 1939. Dr. Price took the whole world as his laboratory. His devastating conclusion, recorded in horrifying detail in area after area, was simple. People who live under so-called backward primitive conditions had excellent teeth and wonderful general health. They ate natural, unrefined food from their own locale. As soon as refined, sugared foods were imported as a result of contact with “civilization,” physical degeneration began in a way that was definitely observable within a single generation. Any credibility the sugar pushers have is based on our ignorance of works like that of Dr. Price.
Sugar manufacturers keep trying, hoping and contributing generous research grants to colleges and universities; but the research laboratories never come up with anything solid the manufacturers can use. Invariably, the research results are bad news. “Let us go to the ignorant savage, consider his way of eating and be wise,” Harvard professor Ernest Hooten said in Apes, Men, and Morons.7 “Let us cease pretending that toothbrushes and toothpaste are any more important than shoe brushes and shoe polish. It is store food that has given us store teeth.” When the researchers bite the hands that feed them, and the news gets out, it’s embarrassing all around. In 1958, Time magazine reported that a Harvard biochemist and his assistants had worked with myriads of mice for more than ten years, bankrolled by the Sugar Research Foundation, Inc. to the tune of $57,000, to find out how sugar causes dental cavities and how to prevent this. It took them ten years to discover that there was no way to prevent sugar causing dental decay. When the researchers reported their findings in the Dental Association Journal, their source of money dried up. The Sugar Research Foundation withdrew its support. The more that the scientists disappointed them, the more the sugar pushers had to rely on the ad men.
SUCROSE: “PURE” ENERGY AT A PRICE
When calories became the big thing in the 1920s, and everybody was learning to count them, the sugar pushers turned up with a new pitch. They boasted there were 2,500 calories in a pound of sugar. A little over a quarter-pound of sugar would produce 20 per cent of the total daily quota. “If you could buy all your food energy as cheaply as you buy calories in sugar,” they told us, “your board bill for the year would be very low. If sugar were seven cents a pound, it would cost less than $35 for a whole year.” A very inexpensive way to kill yourself. “Of course, we don’t live on any such unbalanced diet,” they admitted later. “But that figure serves to point out how inexpensive sugar is as an energy-building food. What was once a luxury only a privileged few could enjoy is now a food for the poorest of people.”
Later, the sugar pushers advertised that sugar was chemically pure, topping Ivory soap in that department, being 99.9 per cent pure against Ivory’s vaunted 99.44 per cent. “No food of our everyday diet is purer,” we were assured. What was meant by purity, besides the unarguable fact that all vitamins, minerals, salts, fibers and proteins had been removed in the refining process? Well, the sugar pushers came up with a new slant on purity. “You don’t have to sort it like beans, wash it like rice. Every grain is like every other. No waste attends its use. No useless bones like in meat, no grounds like coffee.” “Pure” is a favorite adjective of the sugar pushers because it means one thing to the chemists and another thing to the ordinary mortals. When honey is labeled pure, this means that it is in its natural state (stolen directly from the bees who made it), with no adulteration with sucrose to stretch it and no harmful chemical residues which may have been sprayed on the flowers. It does not mean that the honey is free from minerals like iodine, iron, calcium, phosphorus or multiple vitamins. So effective is the purification process which sugar cane and beets undergo in the refineries that sugar ends up as chemically pure as the morphine or the heroin a chemist has on the laboratory shelves.
What nutritional virtue this abstract chemical purity represents, the sugar pushers never tell us. Beginning with World War I, the sugar pushers coated their propaganda with a preparedness pitch. “Dietitians have known the high food value of sugar for a long time,” said an industry tract of the 1920s. “But it took World War I to bring this home. The energy-building power of sugar reaches the muscles in minutes and it was of value to soldiers as a ration given them just before an attack was launched.” The sugar pushers have been harping on the energy-building power of sucrose for years because it contains nothing else. Caloric energy and habit-forming taste: that’s what sucrose has, and nothing else. All other foods contain energy plus. All foods contain some nutrients in the way of proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins or minerals, or all of these. Sucrose contains caloric energy, period.
The “quick” energy claim the sugar pushers talk about, which drives reluctant doughboys over the top and drives children up the wall, is based on the fact that refined sucrose is not digested in the mouth or the stomach but passes directly to the lower intestines and thence to the bloodstream. The extra speed with which sucrose enters the bloodstream does more harm than good. Much of the public confusion about refined sugar is compounded by language. Sugars are classified by chemists as “carbohydrates”. This manufactured word means “a substance containing carbon with oxygen and hydrogen”. If chemists want to use these hermetic terms in their laboratories when they talk to one another, fine. The use of the word “carbohydrate” outside the laboratory-especially in food labeling and advertising lingo-to describe both natural, complete cereal grains (which have been a principal food of mankind for thousands of years) and man-refined sugar (which is a manufactured drug and principal poison of mankind for only a few hundred years) is demonstrably wicked. This kind of confusion makes possible the flimflam practiced by sugar pushers to confound anxious mothers into thinking kiddies need sugar to survive.
The use of the word “carbohydrate” to describe sugar is deliberately misleading. Since the improved labeling of nutritional properties was required on packages and cans, refined carbohydrates like sugar are lumped together with those carbohydrates which may or may not be refined. The several types of carbohydrates are added together for an overall carbohydrate total. Thus, the effect of the label is to hide the sugar content from the unwary buyer. Chemists add to the confusion by using the word “sugar” to describe an entire group of substances that are similar but not identical. Glucose is a sugar found usually with other sugars, in fruits and vegetables. It is a key material in the metabolism of all plants and animals. Many of our principal foods are converted into glucose in our bodies. Glucose is always present in our bloodstream, and it is often called “blood sugar”. Dextrose, also called “corn sugar”, is derived synthetically from starch. Fructose is fruit sugar. Maltose is malt sugar. Lactose is milk sugar. Sucrose is refined sugar made from sugar cane and sugar beet. Glucose has always been an essential element in the human bloodstream. Sucrose addiction is something new in the history of the human animal.
To use the word “sugar” to describe two substances which are far from being identical, which have different chemical structures and which affect the body in profoundly different ways compounds confusion. It makes possible more flimflam from the sugar pushers who tell us how important sugar is as an essential component of the human body, how it is oxidized to produce energy, how it is metabolized to produce warmth, and so on. They’re talking about glucose, of course, which is manufactured in our bodies. However, one is led to believe that the manufacturers are talking about the sucrose which is made in their refineries. When the word “sugar” can mean the glucose in your blood as well as the sucrose in your Coca-Cola, it’s great for the sugar pushers but it’s rough on everybody else.
People have been bamboozled into thinking of their bodies the way they think of their check accounts. If they suspect they have low blood sugar, they are programmed to snack on vending machine candies and sodas in order to raise their blood sugar level. Actually, this is the worst thing to do. The level of glucose in their blood is apt to be low because they are addicted to sucrose. People who kick sucrose addiction and stay off sucrose find that the glucose level of their blood returns to normal and stays there. Since the late 1960s, millions of Americans have returned to natural food. A new type of store, the natural food store, has encouraged many to become dropouts from the supermarket. Natural food can be instrumental in restoring health. Many people, therefore, have come to equate the word “natural” with “healthy”.
So the sugar pushers have begun to pervert the word “natural” in order to mislead the public. “Made from natural ingredients”, the television sugar-pushers tell us about product after product. The word “from” is snot accented on television. It should be. Even refined sugar is made from natural ingredients. There is nothing new about that. The natural ingredients are cane and beets. But that four-letter word “from” hardly suggests that 90 per cent of the cane and beet have been removed. Heroin, too, could be advertised as being made from natural ingredients. The opium poppy is as natural as the sugar beet. It’s what man does with it that tells the story. If you want to avoid sugar in the supermarket, there is only one sure way. Don’t buy anything unless it says on the label prominently, in plain English: “No sugar added”. use of the word “carbohydrate” as a “scientific” word for sugar has become a standard defense strategy with sugar pushers and many of their medical apologists. It’s their security blanket.
CORRECT FOOD COMBINING
Whether it’s sugared cereal or pastry and black coffee for breakfast, whether it’s hamburgers and Coca-Cola for lunch or the full “gourmet” dinner in the evening, chemically the average American diet is a formula that guarantees bubble, bubble, stomach trouble. unless you’ve taken too much insulin and, in a state of insulin shock, need sugar as an antidote, hardly anyone ever has cause to take sugar alone. Humans need sugar as much as they need the nicotine in tobacco. Crave it is one thing-need it is another. From the days of the Persian Empire to our own, sugar has usually been used to hop up the flavor of other food and drink, as an ingredient in the kitchen or as a condiment at the table. Let us leave aside for the moment the known effect of sugar (long-term and short-term) on the entire system and concentrate on the effect of sugar taken in combination with other daily foods.
When Grandma warned that sugared cookies before meals “will spoil your supper”, she knew what she was talking about. Her explanation might not have satisfied a chemist but, as with many traditional axioms from the Mosaic law on kosher food and separation in the kitchen, such rules are based on years of trial and error and are apt to be right on the button. Most modern research in combining food is a labored discovery of the things Grandma took for granted. Any diet or regimen undertaken for the single purpose of losing weight is dangerous, by definition. Obesity is talked about and treated as a disease in 20th-century America. Obesity is not a disease. It is only a symptom, a sign, a warning that your body is out of order. Dieting to lose weight is as silly and dangerous as taking aspirin to relieve a headache before you know the reason for the headache.
Getting rid of a symptom is like turning off an alarm. It leaves the basic cause untouched. Any diet or regimen undertaken with any objective short of restoration of total health of your body is dangerous. Many overweight people are undernourished. (Dr. H. Curtis Wood stresses this point in his 1971 book, Overfed But undernourished.) Eating less can aggravate this condition, unless one is concerned with the quality of the food instead of just its quantity. Many people-doctors included-assume that if weight is lost, fat is lost. This is not necessarily so. Any diet which lumps all carbohydrates together is dangerous. Any diet which does not consider the quality of carbohydrates and makes the crucial life-and-death distinction between natural, unrefined carbohydrates like whole grains and vegetables and man-refined carbohydrates like sugar and white flour is dangerous. Any diet which includes refined sugar and white flour, no matter what “scientific” name is applied to them, is dangerous.
Kicking sugar and white flour and substituting whole grains, vegetables and natural fruits in season, is the core of any sensible natural regimen. Changing the quality of your carbohydrates can change the quality of your health and life. If you eat natural food of good quality, quantity tends to take care of itself. Nobody is going to eat a half-dozen sugar beets or a whole case of sugar cane. Even if they do, it will be less dangerous than a few ounces of sugar. Sugar of all kinds-natural sugars, such as those in honey and fruit (fructose), as well as the refined white stuff (sucrose)-tends to arrest the secretion of gastric juices and have an inhibiting effect on the stomach’s natural ability to move. Sugars are not digested in the mouth, like cereals, or in the stomach, like animal flesh. When taken alone, they pass quickly through the stomach into the small intestine. When sugars are eaten with other foods-perhaps meat and bread in a sandwich-they are held up in the stomach for a while.
The sugar in the bread and the Coke sit there with the hamburger and the bun waiting for them to be digested. While the stomach is working on the animal protein and the refined starch in the bread, the addition of the sugar practically guarantees rapid acid fermentation under the conditions of warmth and moisture existing in the stomach. One lump of sugar in your coffee after a sandwich is enough to turn your stomach into a fermenter. One soda with a hamburger is enough to turn your stomach into a still. Sugar on cereal-whether you buy it already sugared in a box or add it yourself-almost guarantees acid fermentation.
Since the beginning of time, natural laws were observed, in both senses of that word, when it came to eating foods in combination. Birds have been observed eating insects at one period in the day and seeds at another. Other animals tend to eat one food at a time. Flesh-eating animals take their protein raw and straight. In the Orient, it is traditional to eat yang before yin. Miso soup (fermented soybean protein, yang) for breakfast; raw fish (more yang protein) at the beginning of the meal; afterwards comes the rice (which is less yang than the miso and fish); and then the vegetables which are yin. If you ever eat with a traditional Japanese family and you violate this order, the Orientals (if your friends) will correct you courteously but firmly. The law observed by Orthodox Jews prohibits many combinations at the same meal, especially flesh and dairy products. Special utensils for the dairy meal and different utensils for the flesh meal reinforce that taboo at the food’s source in the kitchen.
Man learned very early in the game what improper combinations of food could do to the human system. When he got a stomach ache from combining raw fruit with grain, or honey with porridge, he didn’t reach for an antacid tablet. He learned not to eat that way. When gluttony and excess became widespread, religious codes and commandments were invoked against it. Gluttony is a capital sin in most religions; but there are no specific religious warnings or commandments against refined sugar because sugar abuse-like drug abuse-did not appear on the world scene until centuries after holy books had gone to press.
“Why must we accept as normal what we find in a race of sick and weakened human beings?” Dr. Herbert M. Shelton asks. “Must we always take it for granted that the present eating practices of civilized men are normal?… Foul stools, loose stools, impacted stools, pebbly stools, much foul gas, colitis, hemorrhoids, bleeding with stools, the need for toilet paper are swept into the orbit of the normal.”8
When starches and complex sugars (like those in honey and fruits) are digested, they are broken down into simple sugars called “monosaccharides”, which are usable substances-nutriments. When starches and sugars are taken together and undergo fermentation, they are broken down into carbon dioxide, acetic acid, alcohol and water. With the exception of the water, all these are unusable substances-poisons. When proteins are digested, they are broken down into amino acids, which are usable substances-nutriments. When proteins are taken with sugar, they putrefy; they are broken down into a variety of ptomaines and leucomaines, which are nonusable substances-poisons. Enzymic digestion of foods prepares them for use by our body. Bacterial decomposition makes them unfit for use by our body. The first process gives us nutriments; the second gives us poisons.
Much that passes for modern nutrition is obsessed with a mania for quantitative counting. The body is treated like a check account. Deposit calories (like dollars) and withdraw energy. Deposit proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals-balanced quantitatively-and the result, theoretically, is a healthy body. People qualify as healthy today if they can crawl out of bed, get to the office and sign in. If they can’t make it, call the doctor to qualify for sick pay, hospitalization, rest cure-anything from a day’s pay without working to an artificial kidney, courtesy of the taxpayers. But what does it profit someone if the theoretically required calories and nutrients are consumed daily, yet this random eat-on-the-run, snack-time collection of foods ferments and putrefies in the digestive tract? What good is it if the body is fed protein, only to have it putrefy in the gastrointestinal canal? Carbohydrates that ferment in the digestive tract are converted into alcohol and acetic acid, not digestible monosaccharides. “To derive sustenance from foods eaten, they must be digested,” Shelton warned years ago. “They must not rot.” Sure, the body can get rid of poisons through the urine and the pores; the amount of poisons in the urine is taken as an index to what’s going on in the intestine. The body does establish a tolerance for these poisons, just as it adjusts gradually to an intake of heroin. But, says Shelton, “the discomfort from accumulation of gas, the bad breath, and foul and unpleasant odors are as undesirable as are the poisons”.9
SUGAR AND MENTAL HEALTH
In the Dark Ages, troubled souls were rarely locked up for going off their rocker. Such confinement began in the Age of Enlightenment, after sugar made the transition from apothecary’s prescription to candymaker’s confection. “The great confinement of the insane”, as one historian calls it,10 began in the late 17th century, after sugar consumption in Britain had zoomed in 200 years from a pinch or two in a barrel of beer, here and there, to more than two million pounds per year. By that time, physicians in London had begun to observe and record terminal physical signs and symptoms of the “sugar blues”.
Meanwhile, when sugar eaters did not manifest obvious terminal physical symptoms and the physicians were professionally bewildered, patients were no longer pronounced bewitched, but mad, insane, emotionally disturbed. Laziness, fatigue, debauchery, parental displeasure-any one problem was sufficient cause for people under twenty-five to be locked up in the first Parisian mental hospitals. All it took to be incarcerated was a complaint from parents, relatives or the omnipotent parish priest. Wet nurses with their babies, pregnant youngsters, retarded or defective children, senior citizens, paralytics, epileptics, prostitutes or raving lunatics-anyone wanted off the streets and out of sight was put away. The mental hospital succeeded witch-hunting and heresy-hounding as a more enlightened and humane method of social control. The physician and priest handled the dirty work of street sweeping in return for royal favors.
Initially, when the General Hospital was established in Paris by royal decree, one per cent of the city’s population was locked up. From that time until the 20 century, as the consumption of sugar went up and up-especially in the cities-so did the number of people who were put away in the General Hospital. Three hundred years later, the “emotionally disturbed” can be turned into walking automatons, their brains controlled with psychoactive drugs. Today, pioneers of orthomolecular psychiatry, such as Dr. Abram Hoffer, Dr. Allan Cott, Dr. A. Cherkin as well as Dr. Linus Pauling, have confirmed that mental illness is a myth and that emotional disturbance can be merely the first symptom of the obvious inability of the human system to handle the stress of sugar dependency. In Orthomolecular Psychiatry, Dr. Pauling writes: “The functioning of the brain and nervous tissue is more sensitively dependent on the rate of chemical reactions than the functioning of other organs and tissues. I believe that mental disease is for the most part caused by abnormal reaction rates, as determined by genetic constitution and diet, and by abnormal molecular concentrations of essential substances. Selection of food (and drugs) in a world that is undergoing rapid scientific and technological change may often be far from the best.”11
In Megavitamin B3 Therapy for Schizophrenia, Dr. Abram Hoffer notes: “Patients are also advised to follow a good nutritional program with restriction of sucrose and sucrose-rich foods.”12 Clinical research with hyperactive and psychotic children, as well as those with brain injuries and learning disabilities, has shown: “An abnormally high family history of diabetes-that is, parents and grandparents who cannot handle sugar; an abnormally high incidence of low blood glucose, or functional hypoglycemia in the children themselves, which indicates that their systems cannot handle sugar; dependence on a high level of sugar in the diets of the very children who cannot handle it. “Inquiry into the dietary history of patients diagnosed as schizophrenic reveals the diet of their choice is rich in sweets, candy, cakes, coffee, caffeinated beverages, and foods prepared with sugar. These foods, which stimulate the adrenals, should be eliminated or severely restricted.”13
The avant-garde of modern medicine has rediscovered what the lowly sorceress learned long ago through painstaking study of nature. “In more than twenty years of psychiatric work,” writes DR Thomas Szasz, “I have never known a clinical psychologist to report, on the basis of a projective test, that the subject is a normal, mentally healthy person. While some witches may have survived dunking, no ‘madman’ survives psychological testing…there is no behavior or person that a modern psychiatrist cannot plausibly diagnose as abnormal or ill.”14 So it was in the 17th century. Once the doctor or the exorcist had been called in, he was under pressure to do something. When he tried and failed, the poor patient had to be put away. It is often said that surgeons bury their mistakes. Physicians and psychiatrists put them away; lock ‘em up.
In the 1940s, DR John Tintera rediscovered the vital importance of the endocrine system, especially the adrenal glands, in “pathological mentation”-or “brain boggling”. In 200 cases under treatment for hypoadrenocorticism (the lack of adequate adrenal cortical hormone production or imbalance among these hormones), he discovered that the chief complaints of his patients were often similar to those found in persons whose systems were unable to handle sugar: fatigue, nervousness, depression, apprehension, craving for sweets, inability to handle alcohol, inability to concentrate, allergies, low blood pressure. Sugar blues!
DR Tintera finally insisted that all his patients submit to a four-hour glucose tolerance test (GTT) to find out whether or not they could handle sugar. The results were so startling that the laboratories double-checked their techniques, then apologized for what they believed to be incorrect readings. What mystified them was the low, flat curves derived from disturbed, early adolescents. This laboratory procedure had been previously carried out only for patients with physical findings presumptive of diabetes. Dorland’s definition of schizophrenia (Bleuler’s dementia praecox) includes the phrase, “often recognized during or shortly after adolescence”, and further, in reference to hebephrenia and catatonia, “coming on soon after the onset of puberty”. These conditions might seem to arise or become aggravated at puberty, but probing into the patient’s past will frequently reveal indications which were present at birth, during the first year of life, and through the preschool and grammar school years. Each of these periods has its own characteristic clinical picture.
This picture becomes more marked at pubescence and often causes school officials to complain of juvenile delinquency or underachievement. A glucose tolerance test at any of these periods could alert parents and physicians and could save innumerable hours and small fortunes spent in looking into the child’s psyche and home environment for maladjustments of questionable significance in the emotional development of the average child. The negativism, hyperactivity and obstinate resentment of discipline are absolute indications for at least the minimum laboratory tests: urinalysis, complete bloodcount, PBI determination, and the five-hour glucose tolerance test. A GTT can be performed on a young child by the micro-method without undue trauma to the patient. As a matter of fact, I have been urging that these four tests be routine for all patients, even before a history or physical examination is undertaken. In almost all discussions on drug addiction, alcoholism and schizophrenia, it is claimed that there is no definite constitutional type that falls prey to these afflictions.
Almost universally, the statement is made that all of these individuals are emotionally immature. It has long been our goal to persuade every physician, whether oriented toward psychiatry, genetics or physiology, to recognize that one type of endocrine individual is involved in the majority of these cases: the hypoadrenocortic.15 Tintera published several epochal medical papers. Over and over, he emphasized that improvement, alleviation, palliation or cure was “dependent upon the restoration of the normal function of the total organism”. His first prescribed item of treatment was diet. Over and over again, he said that “the importance of diet cannot be overemphasized”. He laid out a sweeping permanent injunction against sugar in all forms and guises.
While Egas Moniz of Portugal was receiving a Nobel Prize for devising the lobotomy operation for the treatment of schizophrenia, Tintera’s reward was to be harassment and hounding by the pundits of organized medicine. While Tintera’s sweeping implication of sugar as a cause of what was called “schizophrenia” could be confined to medical journals, he was let alone, ignored. He could be tolerated-if he stayed in his assigned territory, endocrinology. Even when he suggested that alcoholism was related to adrenals that had been whipped by sugar abuse, they let him alone; because the medicos had decided there was nothing in alcoholism for them except aggravation, they were satisfied to abandon it to Alcoholics Anonymous.
However, when Tintera dared to suggest in a magazine of general circulation that “it is ridiculous to talk of kinds of allergies when there is only one kind, which is adrenal glands impaired…by sugar”, he could no longer be ignored. The allergists had a great racket going for themselves. Allergic souls had been entertaining each other for years with tall tales of exotic allergies-everything from horse feathers to lobster tails. Along comes someone who says none of this matters: take them off sugar and keep them off it.
Perhaps Tintera’s untimely death in 1969 at the age of fifty-seven made it easier for the medical profession to accept discoveries that had once seemed as far out as the simple oriental medical thesis of genetics and diet, yin and yang. Today, doctors all over the world are repeating what Tintera announced years ago: nobody, but nobody, should ever be allowed to begin what is called “psychiatric treatment”, anyplace, anywhere, unless and until they have had a glucose tolerance test to discover if they can handle sugar. So-called preventive medicine goes further and suggests that since we only think we can handle sugar because we initially have strong adrenals, why wait until they give us signs and signals that they’re worn out? Take the load off now by eliminating sugar in all forms and guises, starting with that soda pop you have in your hand. The mind truly boggles when one glances over what passes for medical history. Through the centuries, troubled souls have been barbecued for bewitchment, exorcised for possession, locked up for insanity, tortured for masturbatory madness, psychiatrised for psychosis, lobotomised for schizophrenia. How many patients would have listened if the local healer had told them that the only thing ailing them was sugar blues?
Source: http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/refined-sugar-the-sweetest-poison-of-all.html

If The Symptoms Worsens, It Could Be Just Signs Of Healing Crisis!
May 31, 2010 by admin
Filed under Health Update Corner
Healing crisis can occur due to any natural cures such as energy healing therapy, exercise, improved diet, even a life changing training! However, most people are not aware of this general health tip.
In chronic illnesses, you may experience a…
…temporary worsening of all symptoms and may conclude that the treatment is not working.
Nevertheless, the symptoms and signs produced by this crisis indicate that our body is actually clearing toxins and impurities from our system.
What is it?
Healing crisis, also known as Herxheimer’s reaction, occurs when the vital forces within the…
…body builds up enough strength to handle the healing process.
Natural cures promote this environment where our body is able to self-cure.
How does the body create an environment for healing?
Most of us have a build up of toxins or waste in our body, leading to toxemia. When the right ingredients and conditions are available, our body wants to naturally heal itself; every body system works together to eliminate these waste products and also sets the stage for regeneration where old tissues are replaced with new.
In other words, the body is literally dumping all these waste all at once. Hence, the…
…body is detoxifying too rapidly…
…and toxins are being released faster than the body can eliminate them.
As a result, symptoms arise as the body heals itself. The symptoms can be sudden and severe, testing your faith in the process of healing.
What are the signs?
The symptoms ranges from:
- Fever
- Mucus discharge
- Tiredness
- Skin eruptions
- Inflammation and pain
- Nausea and vomiting
- Bowel disturbances like diarrhea
- Aching muscles or joints
- Swelling
- Coated tongue
- Cystitis
- Thrush
- Weakness
- Cramps
- Headaches
- Cold and flu symptoms
- Sore throat
- Cough
- Dizziness
- Mood swings
Notice how these symptoms match many disease symptoms? In fact,…
…the symptoms you experience may be identical to the illness itself.
So how do you know if it is healing crisis?
- Often the crisis will come after you feel your very best and energized. In children, this may be 3 – 14 days. However in adults, it might take 3 months or more to work into a healing crisis.
- When your symptoms feel worse over time, then you are sick. The symptoms are more than transient and more than mild. In your gut you don’t feel right.
- The crisis usually lasts between 1-3 days but on rare occasions can last several weeks if the patients’ energy is low
- The crisis will usually bring about past conditions/ illnesses. These past conditions is usually forgotten by patients but reminded once again during the process
- The symptoms tend to move from one part of the body to another, from inside out and from top to bottom
- At the end of the crisis, you feel much better than before the healing crisis occurred
- You are eating all the right things and up until healing crisis have had a good attitude
- You are making changes in your lifestyle and are working on physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of your life
- You are mentally prepared to get though the healing
- You may have just indulged yourself with some kind of bodywork – this sometimes triggers a healing crisis. This is a positive act.
Dr. John Whitman Ray, the founder of Body Electronics, considered by many to be the most powerful self-healing technique in the world today.
According to Dr. Ray, “the healing crisis will begin from within out, in reverse order chronologically as to how the symptoms have appeared, tempered by the intensity of the trauma. The individual will have the opportunity to re-experience each trauma, both physiological and psychological, beginning with the trauma of least severity.”
Hence, long forgotten illness symptoms may suddenly flare up again in the form of a healing crisis.
Most importantly, he states that…
…each illness contains a strong emotional component which needs to be re-experienced…
…during the healing process. If not, healing will be incomplete and the problem will arise again for healing at deeper level.
What should you do?
- Drink plenty of natural water to flush the body, avoid coffee and sodas
- Take plenty of rest as you may be feeling tired
- Watch your diet. Eat fresh vegetables and bran instead of junk food like potato chips
- Symptoms usually disappear after a good bowel movement, so use of enema to provide relief
- On rare occasions, a reduction of the dosage or temporary cessation may be required to ease the intensity of crisis
- Exercise is a good way to support detoxification. Walking for 15 minutes is a good start.
- Lots of sunshine
- Just coast in your work and social obligations until you feeling better
Besides that, looking after your emotional and spiritual well-being is also important:
- Watch light comedy on TV rather than dark drama
- You can choose to read self-improvement books
- You can choose to replace negative beliefs about yourself and others with one that uplift and promote. You can resolve to get more in touch with your spirit by meditating.
Therefore, when a person embarks on an energy healing therapy or natural body detox, it is important to be aware of the possibility of healing crisis occurring. Upon recognizing its signs, one must be patient and at all cost avoid taking medications as it will suppress the healing process.
Source: http://www.enaturalhealthcures.com/healing-crisis.html
Healing Crisis
May 30, 2010 by admin
Filed under Health Update Corner
Healing Crisis
At some point during a natural, drug-free, disease reversal process a patient will experience what is known as a Healing Crisis. This is the special mechanism used by Nature to cure Arthritis, Cancer, Emphysema, Asthma and other degenerative diseases.
My years of practice and research have taught me that few practitioners – traditional or wholistic – truly understand the nature and significance of a Healing Crisis. It’s an event that every healer should strive to produce in every patient suffering from Arthritis or other wasting disease but it must be carefully monitored to obtain the desired healthy outcome.
So, what exactly is a Healing Crisis? Before I answer that question I’d like to give you a backdrop to this concept of a healing crisis and where it began. During the 19th century a brilliant European Homeopath by the name of Constantine Hering discovered a law, a basic unerring principle of nature.
This immutable principle revealed that:
- all cure comes from within out
- from the head down, and
- in reverse order as the symptoms originally appeared in the body.
The Path to Disease
Most diseases such as Arthritis follow a certain path or stages of deterioration and degradation and a predictable path to recovery. Doctor Hering observed that when patients engaged in some manner of systemic waste removal one of the first manifestations exhibited was a revisitation of the same symptoms formerly present when a patient had a specific ailment in the past.
Since the time of Doctor Hering many Practitioners have embraced and furthered his research in this area. Doctor Jensen developed a four-stage system of disease degradation and recovery that was quite successful with patients during 60 years of clinical practice.
The four stages of disease as taught by Doctor Jensen are known as:
Acute: Inflammation, pain, sensitivity, fever, discharge, high acidity are usually present. Poor living and dietary habits can contribute to the buildup of catarrh and this can lead to the beginning of toxic settlements throughout the body. Using common respiratory complications as an example of how disease can progress through the four stages of increasing degeneration the following observations and assumptions can be made:
- Disease manifestations: Colds, coughing, bronchitis, influenza, allergies.
- Traditional modes of suppression: Coal tar or sulfur based drugs, nostrums, and aspirin.
- Necessary waste elimination: Loose catarrhal settlements in the lungs and sinuses.
Subacute: Absorption of systemic toxins, dull aching pain, low metabolism, weakness, lassitude. Devitalized foods and beverages, poor living habits, polluted environment, all lead to general buildup of excessive accumulations of toxic matter throughout the body.
- Disease manifestations: Sinus troubles, hay fever, toxic acidic discharges from skin, nose, eyes, mouth, genital area.
- Traditional modes of suppression: Nasal sprays, vapors, synthetic chemicals, drugs, aspirin, etc.
- Necessary waste elimination: Prolonged loose catarrhal elimination.
Chronic: Low metabolic activity, increasing toxic buildup throughout system, lack of vitality. Heavy accumulations of toxic waste interfere with vital cellular activity. (Doctor Jensen found that at least 80% of all recognized disease in the U.S. could be classified as chronic).
- Disease manifestations: Pneumonia, asthma.
- Traditional modes of suppression: Penicillin, antibiotics, antihistamines, sulfa drugs, tranquilizers.
- Necessary waste elimination: Large accumulations of hardened catarrh throughout body and solid waste matter from colon.
Degenerative: No perceptible sensations in affected tissue, extremely low blood circulation, low nerve force, tissue decay. General breakdown of life supporting activity in affected area and often throughout entire system. Vital force at low ebb.
- Disease manifestations: Malignancies, tumors, cancer, Arthritis, gangrene, emphysema, hardening of arteries.
- Traditional modes of suppression: Heavy drugs, chemotherapy, radiation, cortisone, gold injections.
- Necessary waste elimination: Thorough systemic cleansing of toxic accumulations from the entire body through skin, bowel, kidneys, lungs, eyes and mouth. This often indicates the necessity to flush the large colon with water, a change in lifestyle to something more in tune with nature and eating wholesome foods.
We can determine from the above example that if we do not properly and effectively address disease in its infancy the long term prognosis – the inevitable deterioration to a disease state such as Arthritis – is not encouraging.
However, the Healing Crisis is Nature’s surefire way of arresting any disease at whatever point it is to be found. If we allow the Healing Crisis to proceed unobstructed, Nature can reverse the direction of the disease condition.
It is at this particular point that Nature can walk a patient back through the degenerative, chronic, subacute and acute stages of a particular disease path until the original condition of acute irritation is attained.
From there it is simply a matter of a patient following a sensible maintenance program for continued tissue cleansing, cellular rejuvenation and system-wide homeostasis.
How the Healing Crisis Works
Hering’s law of cure tells us that in order to get a handle on any given disease or affliction that’s in, let’s say, the degenerative stage we must somehow reverse the entire process of degeneration through a series of Healing Crises. With each successive crisis the body can begin the long but sure pathway back to the stage of initial acute but manageable inflammation.
This reversal process usually takes a patient back through all of the bodily sensations, pains, aches, nervous tension, thought patterns and emotions associated with each level of disease manifestation in the previous stages of disease development.
Over the years I have spoken with many people who told me they literally panicked when confronted with these old disease symptoms again. This usually occurred when people were not educated about Healing Crises. Their initial reactions, when experiencing the old symptoms, were of shock and disappointment.
Just before a Healing Crisis began these people were feeling so good – right up until the old disease symptoms started reappearing. They were completely at a loss as to what steps to take to deal with the symptoms.
This is why it is so important that a person going through a self administered body cleanse or who is under the care of a practitioner be aware of how and why the disease reversal process will usually result in at least one major Healing Crisis.
The feeling of optimum health and well-being you experience immediately prior to a Healing Crisis is Nature’s warning she’s about to begin the great event. You have cleaned your body and strengthened it to the point where a Healing Crisis can and must take place. This is the one and only path you can take to a complete and natural cure of Arthritis or whatever disorder you may have.
The Healing Crisis as it Can Apply to You
As your body is fasted, cleaned of accumulated toxic matter, fed wholesome nourishment, exercised and rested properly, it can experience this great event at different times and in various ways along the reversal path to good health.
If you have recently been taking cortisone or gold injections or chemically based drugs to ease your arthritic pains, during the first few months of a thorough systemic cleansing program your body will try very hard to rid itself of much of the accumulated toxic chemicals that were used to deaden your nerves. While this is happening you will probably feel much if not all of the pain you would have felt had you not taken the cortisone, gold or drugs for the pain.
Most Healing Crises will tend to develop along the path back to good health at just about the same point the original ailment became manifest. In other words, as your condition originally worsened from a cold, to influenza, to bronchitis, to hay fever, to pneumonia, to asthma and finally to Arthritis or a malignancy, when you begin the road back to good health your body will experience the same major disease manifestations it once exhibited while you had each of the abovementioned ailments.
Make no mistake about this, your body MUST go through this disease reversal process in order to cleanse itself of all toxic drugs and accumulated waste material that contributed to the development of each ailment in the past.
The route the body chooses to travel on the road back to good health is a rocky, one lane mountain pass wrought with EVERY SINGLE MAJOR AILMENT you ever encountered during your life. You can’t avoid re-experiencing each of these afflictions if you truly desire to reach the summit and be well again. This is Nature’s way of cleaning house and setting up shop again the right way.
While you are engaged in the reversal process the body senses you’re giving it a chance to correct past ills. Perhaps it further senses this may be the last or best chance it has to do as such. All at once it proceeds with a Herculean effort to clean up as much of the mess you’ve made of your body as possible in the shortest expenditure of time.
How Long Does a Healing Crisis Last?
Although there appear to be no sure fire laws written in stone, a good rule of thumb is that for every major ailment you had along the road to degeneration a true healing crisis can last for one to five days, with a common average of three days.
If, for example, you reach the point in your reversal process where you’re beginning to experience symptoms of bronchitis, you may have the same sensations, feelings, mental state, emotions, catarrhal discharge that you once experienced when you actually had bronchitis. This may go on for one to five days as the body quickly and thoroughly rids itself of every trace of bronchitis and the drugs once used to suppress it.
After the healing crisis is finished it’s a good bet your body is done with whatever residue of bronchitis there may have been in your system. Your body may do this with every major ailment it comes across on the reversal path to recovery.
I personally experienced multiple healing crises related to a number of childhood and early adult ailments the first time I went through Doctor Jensen’s elimination diet and colon tissue cleansing program back in 1984. I have not had a reoccurrence of ANY of those disorders since successfully passing through each associated Healing Crisis.
Relief from Pain and Discomfort During a Healing Crisis
Depending on the severity of the affliction, patients with advanced cases of Arthritis and other forms of Rheumatism may experience short lived but rather acute pains in joints and soft tissue while going through a Healing Crisis. Although I don’t recommend any drugs or other symptomatically targeted remedial measures I do have a few suggestions that have been quite helpful.
Most of the aches and pains the average Arthritic patient will feel during a Healing Crisis is the result of toxic, acidic waste material and inorganic substances being lifted out of joints and soft tissue and being put back into the blood and lymph streams for removal.
Many patients are satisfied with our recommended Hydrotherapy treatments, Shiatsu, Swedish Massage or Healing Touch to relieve pain during a Healing Crisis. However, the best way we’ve found to counteract much of the pain associated with a Healing Crisis is to serve such patients a broth high in potassium which can help alkalinize the patient’s system.
The broth we prepare for patients is made from the jackets of 5 organically grown white russet potatoes and two ripe stalks of celery. Barbara cuts up the celery and the potato peelings and throws them in a pot with one quart of distilled water. Next she brings it to a boil, covers the pot and simmers on low heat for 20 minutes. Then Barbara allows the preparation to sit for a few minutes – with the lid on the pot. After which Barbara strains the broth and serves it to the patient.
If taken two or three times daily during a difficult Healing Crisis it works quite well in alleviating many of the sporadic aches and pains of a Healing Crisis.
I have another useful suggestion along these lines. If you don’t have access to raw russet potatoes, soak two tablespoons of raw, uncooked oats in a pint of distilled water and let it stand in your refrigerator overnight. In the morning remove the mixture from your refrigerator. Let it stand until it attains room temperature. Then strain and drink the water.
This raw oat water will have a good amount of potassium and other beneficial biochemical elements that can help relieve the pain and discomfort of a Healing Crisis.
Although there are many advertised topical applications available to somewhat reduce soft tissue and joint-related arthritic pains, these remedies will invariably only address the symptoms of the disease without correcting the cause of your discomfort. I prefer to let Nature orchestrate any pain relief measures naturally and within the confines of our recommended Nature Cure program.
Respect the Healing Crisis and It Will Respect You
Frankly, it’s not advisable for someone with Rheumatoid or Osteoarthritis to purposely induce a Healing Crisis without the supervision of a trained, knowledgeable health care practitioner or a biological treatment center’s guidance. A Healing Crisis should not be provoked unless you are under the care or guidance of a person or organization experienced with patient care and management during and after such an intense event.
The only other prerequisite to justify self-inducement of a Healing Crisis is if the person has successfully undergone this intense event previously.
The entire disease reversal process – culminating in one or more Healing Crisis events – should never be taken lightly. The revisitation of acute pain, anguish, emotional and mental irregularities and other – often peculiar – psychological and physiological disturbances can wreak havoc with someone unschooled about such matters.
Perhaps the best way to sum up the difference between a Disease Crisis and a Healing Crisis is as follows:
- During a Disease Crisis the body usually has great difficulty expelling toxic waste. The accumulation of this morbid matter throughout the body leads from acute to subacute tissue inflammation. If the condition is left unchecked the subacute symptoms can deteriorate to chronic or degenerative disease.
- During the disease reversal process, resulting in a Healing Crisis, the body experiences many of the same symptoms present during a Disease Crisis. The two exceptions are that the symptoms generally last no longer than a few days and all of the body’s channels of waste elimination work very hard to expel toxic waste – particularly fecal matter, urine and catarrh.
When the Healing Crisis has run its course whatever unpleasant physiological, emotional and mental symptoms you may have experienced during that event will probably not come back to trouble you again during your life if you learn to care for your body properly.
The Healing Crisis is Nature’s way of cleaning house. She does it thoroughly and certainly better than any Doctor, drug or medical center could ever do.
Healing Crises are manageable and should always be much preferred to a continuation of the lifestyle that supports a painful and unpleasant degenerative disease state such as Arthritis.
Source: http://www.arthritis-nature-cure.com/crisis.htm
Here’s another article that would help you in dealing patients undergoing the healing crisis.
Healing Crisis A Natural Part of Body Cleansing
Introduction to A Healing Crisis
An increasing number of people today are trying alternative healing methods to cleanse and detoxify their bodies. Simple methods such as switching to a natural food diet, juicing to increase nutrition, or fasting are used to cleanse the body of stored toxins in the hopes of naturally addressing long-standing symptoms such as chronic headaches, adult acne, allergies or arthritis. More intensive methods may be used to perform cleansing of the body’s elimination organs: colon, kidney and liver. However, many people trying these and other alternative health cleansing methods discontinue them when they experience new symptoms of ill health. Generally, these new symptoms are in actuality not a new disease or malady affecting the body, but rather a healing crisis.
Healing Crisis Defined
A healing crisis is when symptoms from diseases and toxins that are released during a detoxification process manifest themselves. Also known as “Herxheimer Reaction”, a healing crisis occurs when toxins stored in the body are released at a faster rate than can be properly eliminated. The more toxic one’s body is, the more severe the detoxification and the more intense the reaction.
A healing crisis is characterized by a temporary increase in symptoms during a cleansing or detoxification process. Such symptoms may be mild or severe, depending on the body’s original toxicity, but are definitely temporary. They can occur immediately, within several days, or even several weeks of a cleansing program.
Reverse Order
What is not immediately intuitive is that symptoms are experienced in the reverse order of when the body was originally exposed to their cause. This simple explanation may help demonstrate the reason.
Assume that every year you painted your walls a different color. As time went on, you layered color upon color. Finally after 30 years, you found that the newest paint was not sticking properly because layers of paint underneath were cracking and coming off. So you decided to strip all of the paint off the walls and give it a fresh coat of paint. As you started stripping off paint, you saw earlier layers. In the process of cleaning and stripping the walls, you got glimpses of what your walls were like and what they went through in prior years.
Believe it or not, human bodies work in a similar fashion. As bodies store fat, the chemistry of the fat reflects the internal body conditions at the time the fat was stored. Each year, a residue of the viruses, bacteria and toxins you were exposed to were stored in fatty deposits.
Similar to the paint stripping analogy, as a body is cleansed, stored toxins, bacteria, and viruses are released. As they are released, symptoms experienced with the particular malady or event associated with the toxin are re-experienced ? albeit in a milder form.
Possible Symptoms
A healing crisis can have a variety of possible symptoms, depending on what the body underwent during the initial toxic encounter. Symptoms can include:
- muscle cramps or pain
- arthritic flair ups
- diarrhea
- extreme fatigue
- restlessness
- headaches
- insomnia
- sinus congestion
- fever
- skin eruptions
- strong emotions or mood swings
Recommended Treatment
During a healing crisis, it is important that the cleansing program be continued. Continued cleansing will help the body rid itself of released toxins and diseases forever. Following these simple steps may help to relieve some of the symptoms of the healing crisis.
- Drinking plenty of fresh water helps the body eliminate released toxins.
- Increasing fiber intake and taking supplements to cleanse the colon and kidneys will also help to accelerate the elimination of toxins.
- If fatigued, give the body rest
- Meditation can help to manage symptoms such as strong emotions and mood swings
Source: http://www.the-natural-path.com/

























