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SEPTEMBER 04-AUGUST 05
In an exclusive interview, food enzyme researcher Dr. Edward Howell tells why he believes: "Enzymes may be the key factor in preventing chronic disease and extending the human lifespan..." --Living and Raw Foods 11 Foods That Help You Live Longer The secret to eternal life -- has it been discovered yet? While movies like Vanilla Sky and Austin Powers seem to suggest that being cryogenically frozen and brought back to life is as easy as spotting a pair of big breasts at Hooters, the sad truth is that we still haven't figured out a way to grace the Earth with our presence forever... --Askmen.com For hands-on wellbeing and replenished levels of energy, turn to the art of pranic healing. Sue Short investigates this sophisticated therapy... --Sue Short Green Tea Linked To Skin Cell Rejuvenation Research into the health-promoting properties of green tea is yielding information that may lead to new treatments for skin diseases and wounds...--Science Daily The hard truth: Most women will develop cellulite, the dimpling of the skin that's usually found on the thighs and buttocks. But why does cellulite occur, and how can we diminish it? We tracked down New York City plastic surgeon Mauro Romita, M.D., for insight and solutions...--Shape The Incredible Healing Powers of Raw (Living) Foods and Juices The fastest way to restore wellness is to stop putting into the body the things that have caused the physical problem to develop in the first place, and then give the body the nutrients it needs to repair and rebuild itself. The body is self-healing when the infraction is stopped and proper nutrients provided... --Shirley's Wellness Cafe Should We Eat Living Foods or Dead Foods? Why should this question arise? Because the peoples of America and the world suffer grievously from widespread disease. Recent research has revealed that the quality of nutrients we put into out bodies determines the quality of our lives. We are all aware that engines perform well or poorly, depending upon the quality of the fuel used. Few of us realize that food quality directly determines our physical and mental performance abilities... --Living and Raw Foods Raw Vegetables More Protective than Cooked? Eating lots of vegetables every day is one of the most powerful things anyone can do to prevent a wide variety of diseases, including cancer. Researchers have been puzzled, though, why the protective effect for breast cancer has not been as strong or consistent as for some of the other cancers. Researchers in Germany may have just found a clue to the mystery... --Vegetarian Baby & Child Athletes are always looking for a competitive edge. The latest marketing gimmick is called “functional foods” - processed foods and drinks with powerful ingredients found in whole foods. They single out a specific ingredient found after some study then put a lot of marketing muscle behind it. However, many ingredients that are powerful in a whole food don’t work that when when isolated or cooked. My common sense tells me that natural, whole, live and organic foods already contain plenty of these “nutraceuticals,” and is the best source for them! --Raw, Living Food Nutrition Enzymes for Healing and Rejuvenation You’ve probably heard that enzymes are important for digestion, but did you know that there’s another category of enzymes called metabolic enzymes? In one way or another, enzymes influence everything that happens in your body, whether it’s energy production, growth, tissue rebuilding, breathing, immune function, or a multitude of other metabolic functions. Without enzymes, life could not exist! --Gateway to Beauty.com Jack LaLanne, Still the Muscle Man Punching 90-year-olds in the stomach isn't generally how we start interviews at USA TODAY, but when fitness guru Jack LaLanne barks, "Come on, give me your best shot" in his unforgettable bray, you do what you're told... --USA Today The Mind-Body Secrets of Tai Chi and Qigong Would you like to get healthy and fit, relieve stress, look good, feel better, and have great energy and vitality? Tai Chi and Qigong can give you all this and more! --Al Simon THE COLORS OF VITALITY - Antioxidants and Phytonutrients in Foods and Herbs Mother Nature’s foods and herbs bloom with the colors of vitality. Her rainbow spectrum of purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and red bears not only the richness of beauty, but nutrition and antioxidant power as well. The same colors that reward our senses can give us clues about important phytonutrients (phyto means plant) in common foods and healing herbs... --New Life Journal New research suggests that buying organic food can make people feel better, even before they eat any of it. --BBC News Should We Top Our Friendly Bacteria? Experts have called for tougher controls on products claiming to contain 'friendly' bacteria purported to promote good health. --BBC News Concerned about those fairy lines etching a cobweb at the corner of your eyes? Worried about worry lines? Chances are if you're after a smooth face, then you've considered spending your hard-earned cash on something to make it that way. Barring Botox and surgery, anti-wrinkle cream could be a less drastic way to keeping those cheeks baby smooth. But how exactly does this stuff iron out the skin on your face? And what is it anyway? --Wrinkle Free Zone Punching the Timeclock of Life Is human longevity programmed? Does the majority of a population age and die prematurely to make way for a few better-adapted individuals? A USC gerontologist's findings may one day alter Darwin’s ideas... --USC Today I live in biological years. That is what counts. How clean are your arteries and veins? How are your blood pressures? I have blood pressures of 120 over 80. This is the blood pressure of a boy of twenty. I have a steady, strong pulse of sixty. I have the eyes of an eagle and keen ears that can pick up the lightest sounds... --Paul Bragg Think back to your last meal. How heavy was the weight of the food on your tongue? Could you sense the texture as it dissolved from solid to liquid and slid down your throat? --New Life Journal Only one intervention has been proven to extend both the average and maximum lifespan of all animal species tested: reducing the consumption of dietary calories, or calorie restriction... --Goddard's Journal Royal jelly is the the white, milky substance produced in the glands of worker honeybees to feed the queen bee. It is collected by beekeepers and encapsulated because of its remarkable health benefits for we humans! Life expectancy is increasing in the developed world. But Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey believes it will soon extend dramatically to 1,000. Here, he explains why... --BBC News I was raised on the S.A.D. (Standard American Diet) like most folks, with one exception to the rule. My diet was worse as it was a more perverted form of self abuse. It was the Black American diet - B.A.D. The Black American Diet, for those of you who do not know is a diet primarily composed of pork and pork by-products, enormous amounts of salt and grease, and most things are deep fried, i.e. Southern Fried Chicken... --The Garden Diet.com Magnetic Therapy: Plausible Attraction? Long considered only a component of quack medicine, magnetic therapy has received a boost from a recent study at the Baylor College of Medicine. Is it plausible? Is this the best winter of your life? Or are you experiencing the blues or the blaas? For most of us, winter is an emotionally and physically stressful season. Colder temperatures, shorter days, and more illnesses are realities. But you can create greater health, peace of mind, and pleasure for yourself... --New Life journal Essential Oils: What, Why & How The greatest dilemma that many people face today is the speed of change. Coinciding with the dynamics of change is often a sense of separation and isolation. However, there is help at hand... --Inner Self I weighed over 300 pounds, had ovaries covered in cysts (polycystic ovarian syndrome), acne, jaw-line facial hair, a buffalo hump on the back of my neck, autism (Asperger's Syndrome), hyperdyslexia, hypothyroidism, hypoglycemia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and I did not menstruate unless I took synthetic hormones and I had not ovulated by age 22. As I sought treatments and used them, I only grew worse... --Shazzie.com It's a New Year! Why Not Try Living Food? Everyone has their own reasons for giving the raw food lifestyle a try. I decided to try the raw food lifestyle years ago because of chronic pain, and two serious brushes with death. --Vegetarian Baby & Child Sharon Page has a "facial rejuvenation acupuncture" session in Seattle Call it Botox backlash: Sharon Page, 56, wants to age "naturally." As in, no scalpels, injections, lasers or liposuction. But that doesn't mean the Seattle businesswoman welcomes those crinkles settling in around her eyes and mouth... --Seattle Times How to Revive Someone from a Coma During a coma the brain is in shock. Initially, it is likely that the rest of the body is as well. The brain shuts down to try to preserve itself. Many Neuro-receptors cease functioning. Unfortunately, doctors often classify someone in such a state as “a vegetable”, and tell the family there is no hope and that even if the person did regain consciousness, they wouldn’t have a mind left. However, this is not true in more cases than not... --Celestopea Times Exclusive The more toxic we are, the faster we age. "Everyone needs detoxification," says Susan Lombardi, founder and president of the We Care Health Center in Palm Springs, California, and author of Ten Easy Steps for Complete Wellness. "I am vegetarian, and I take care of myself... --Inner Self Helen's Raw Transformation Story I had severe Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, horrible Neck and Headaches (24/7), and about 20 other symptoms. I was on Hydrocodone and Neurontin for pain and when that didn't work I was given injections. --Shazzie.com Ancient Chinese Secrets: Wolfberries The Tibetan and Chinese health Secret: If you read one health report a year, this should be it! --Medical Point One of the great secrets of a long, satisfying, and happy life, according to Eastern wisdom, is to focus on health instead of disease. --Inner Self Thousands of women across America have been enjoying the benefits of a pain free, drug free and even enjoyable childbirth. You want to know how? Read on…. --OPI U.S. Racking Up Huge "Sleep Debt" In her fast-paced job as a reporter for the Orange County Register, a southern California newspaper, Gwendolyn Driscoll says she "blasts through the day." --National Geographic News Study: A Happy Marriage Can Help Mend Physical Wounds A happy marriage apparently is good medicine, but hostile spouses may be harmful to one another's health. --USA Today The Healing Properties of Emu Oil Available through health-food stores and online, Emu Oil is being reported has having healing properties making many dermatologists and general practitioners take notice. Containing Vitamin E, which is an anti-oxidant and healing agent, Vitamin A known for its skin repairing qualities, as well as Sapogens for skin softening, and Terpines for antiseptic healing, Emu oil is being used in the treatment of those with severe burns, skin ailments, Fibromyalgia, and sports injuries and many other countless skin and pain related injuries and diseases... --Homesteading.org Happiness is the Best Medicine The pursuit of it was written into the Declaration of Independence, but finding the causes and effects of that elusive "it" -- happiness -- has been notoriously difficult. --Wired News "I think it’s reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely."-- Aubrey de Grey Cup of Tea May Help Boost Memory More good news for tea lovers -- green tea may be as good for your health as it is to your taste buds, according to new study findings... --Qi Lisa's Raw Transformation Story As a child, I spent numerous days in the hospital and stayed home from school each year, with asthma, allergies, and hay fever, just to mention a few. On an average year, I would miss 70 days of school... --Shazzie.com Holographic Repatterning: A New Wave in Vibrational Healing Based on the principle that all matter consists of vibrating wave patterns of energy, Holographic Repatterning is an empowering new approach to healing... --Conscious Living Find a few moments to relax your body and rejuvenate your spirit with these supersimple postures from America's pre-eminent teacher of restorative yoga. --Natural Health In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely. --San Francisco Chronicle Reduce Stress and Strengthen Your Immune System - 10 Natural Ways to Relax and RejuvenateStress has become a constant factor in today's fast-paced society. If left unchecked, it can wreak havoc upon our health. Learning how to effectively manage stress can mean the difference between being robust and full of life, or becoming susceptible to illness and disease... --Vegetarian Baby & Child What do paper cuts, spicy foods, stubbed toes and intense workouts at the gym have to do with your odds of getting colon cancer, drifting into Alzheimer's or succumbing to a heart attack? More than you might think... --Better Nurtrition Demi Goes Full Throttle For Raw Food Rejuvenation! How is it that 40-year old Demi Moore makes a Hollywood comeback with a roll in which she bares almost all in a bikini next to 20-something actresses and looks just as good, if not better! --Natural Health Web A simple thing like cleansing and detoxifying the colon can produce miraculous benefits, eliminate so many health disorders, restore normal bowel movements, lose weight and shrink or eliminate a pot belly producing a flat stomach! --Natural Rejuvenation The notion that youth is synonymous with overall fitness is being slowly but surely questioned and revised. The notion that the body "ages" as a matter of course is being replaced by the fact that "deterioration" is the real cause of aging: neglect through misuse and disuse... --Emmelina Raw-Food Fervor Starting to Sprout Interest in eating food in its pure form, uncooked and unprocessed, is growing. Celebrities swear by the raw diet and local stores scramble to keep raw products in stock. --San Diego Union-Tribune A Spoonful of Stevia - Herbal Sweetner - Answering Machine The allegation has at least some basis in fact. The FDA does admit that it received a trade complaint, and it is likely that some American companies are spooked by stevia. After all, stevia represents almost 40 percent of the high-intensity sweetener market in japan where it's used in gum soda and ice cream... --Look Smart 10 Other Paths to Better Health So you don't want a bare-bones diet of salad and not much else. You don't have the time or opportunity to hit the gym every day. And, excuse me, but you actually like not-so-healthful foods such as double bacon cheeseburgers... --USA Today Light Touch in the Operating Room What Is Reiki, an Alternative Energy Therapy, Doing in a Mainstream Medical Institution? That's Just What Researchers Hope to Learn. --Washington Post
Raw Chocolate - Food of the
Gods
"The beverage of the gods was Ambrosia; that of man is chocolate. Both
increase the length of life in a prodigious manner." -- Louis Lewin,
M.D., Phantastica In the summer of 1933, [we made] contact with large bands of Indians who had come out of the Pelly mountain country to exchange their catch of furs at the last outpost of the Hudson Bay Company... they have remained as nomadic wandering tribes following the moose and caribou herds in the necessary search to obtain their foods... --INHS |