Attitudinal Healing

Attitudinal Healing

Belief vs RealityWe are what we believe. Our belief system is based on our past experience, which is constantly being relived in the present with an anticipation of the future being like the past. Our present perceptions are so colored by the past thing that we are unable to see the immediate happenings in our lives without distortions and limitations. With a sincere willingness we can re-examine who we think we are in order to achieve a new and a deeper sense of our real identity.

Do I want to experience peace or do I want to experience conflict?
If I want peace, I will be concerned only about giving.
If I want conflict, I will be concerned with trying to get something or evaluating why I am not getting it.
So, for EVERY communication I will ask, “Is this communication loving to the other person and to myself?”

We are Limitless
To experience this sense of total freedom, it is important for us to detach ourselves from past and future preoccupations and choose to live in an immediate sense of NOW. To be free also means not to be confined to a reality that seems limited by our physical senses. This, in turn, allows us to see and to participate in the love we already share with everyone.
Love can be looked upon as the total absence of fear. While all of us want love, many seem unable to experience it with any consistency. Our guilty fears from the past block our ability to give and receive love in the present. Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we choose. By choosing love more consistently than fear, we can change the nature and quality of not only our relationships, but our entire lives.

Attack and Defense
When we perceive another as “attacking” us, we usually feel defensive and find a way, directly or indirectly, to “attack” back. Attacking always stems from fear. No one attacks unless he or she first feels threatened and believes that through attack, one’s own strength is demonstrated at the expense of another’s vulnerability. As with all defenses that are designed to keep guilt and fear from our awareness, attack usually preserves the problem.
Most of us cling to the belief that “attacking” can really get us something we want. We seem to forget that “attacking” and “defending” do not bring inner peace. In order to experience peace instead of conflict, it is necessary to shift our perception. Instead of seeing others as attacking us, we can choose to see them as fearful. We are always expressing either love or fear. Fear is really a call for help and therefore, a request for love. It is apparent then, that to experience peace we must recognize that we do have a choice in determining what we perceive.
Many of our attempts to correct others, even when we believe we are offering constructive criticism, are really attempts to attack them by demonstrating their “wrongness” and our “rightness”. Thus, it may be helpful to examine our motivations.
Are we teaching love or are we demonstrating attack?
If others don’t change in accordance with our expectations, we are likely to regard them as guilty and thus reinforce our own belief in guilt. Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others but instead, merely accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.

Forgiveness
The principle underlying “Peace of Mind” is that it can only be reached when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions about someone or something.
Our misperceptions can only be undone in the present. We accomplish this through releasing what we think other people did to us or what we think we did to them. Through this process of selective forgetting, we are free to embrace a present unencumbered by our past history or misperceptions.
Through forgiveness we stop the endless recycling of guilt and look upon ourselves and others with love. Forgiveness permits us to let go of all thoughts that seem to separate us from each other. Without belief in separation, we can accept our own healing and extend healing love to all those around us. Healing, then, becomes the thought of Unity.
When inner peace is recognized as our single goal, forgiveness becomes our single function. Once we accept both our function and our goal, we discover that turning to our inner, intuitive voice for direction can become an excellent guide. As we release others from the prison of our distorted perceptions, we ourselves are released and join with them in the unity of love.

Getting and Giving
It is important to remember that we all have everything we need within the present because love is the essence of our being. If we think we need to get something from others, we will love them when we get what we want and dislike or hate them when we don’t. We frequently have love/hate relationships in which we find ourselves trading conditional love. The “getting” motivation leads to conflict and expressions of hostility towards ourselves and others.
On the other hand, the “giving” motivation leads to a sense of inner peace and joy that is unrelated to time. Giving means extending our love with no conditions and no expectations. Peace of mind occurs when we focus our attention on giving and have no desire to get anything from, or to change, another person.

Retraining the Mind
To aid in retraining your mind, ask yourself the following questions within any circumstance, whether private or interpersonal:
Do I choose to experience peace or conflict?
Do I choose to experience love or fear?
Do I choose to be a love-finder or a fear-finder?
Do I choose to be a love-giver or a love-seeker?
Is this communication (verbal or non-verbal) loving to the other person and is it loving to myself?
Many of our thoughts, statements and actions are not loving. If we want peace of mind, it is essential that our communications with others promote a sense of joining. To have inner peace, it is necessary to be consistent in what we think, in what we say, and in what we do.


Words to ERASE
Retraining the mind includes recognizing the impact of the words we use. The words below are commonly used in self-limiting messages we give to ourselves and others. The keep the guilty past and fearful future active in our minds. As a result, our feelings of conflict are reinforced. The more conscious we are when we use these words negatively and how doing so interferes with our inner peace, the easier it is to eliminate them from our thoughts and communications.
You may even find it helpful to visualize an imaginary blackboard in your mind and every time you use one of these words, visualize it on the blackboard and ERASE it.
In doing any exercise it is important to be gentle with yourself and not feel guilty when you forget. Each time you find yourself using any of the following words in a self-limiting way, merely regard that as a mistake, an error to be corrected, and move on.
Words that limit our thinking and growth include:
Impossible can’t try limitation if only but difficult ought to should doubt
Also include any words that place you or others in a category, measure or compare you or others, or judge or condemn you or others.

Attitude is EVERYTHING
Our attitudes determine whether we feel fulfilled or empty, wealthy or poor, happy or sad, accepted or rejected. It is the rudder of our ship and determines the course of our lives. It is more important than how much education we have; how clever we are; the level of our particular skills; our past accomplishments and future prospects, or how much money we have in the bank. Throughout our lives, it influences our friendships and all other relationships. Quite simply, it is the seminal factor in a life well lived versus one that is a constant struggle. Current research suggests that positive attitudes about aging are a greater factor than wealth, gender, or even our cholesterol levels in adding years to our lives.

Attitudinal Healing
At the heart of Attitudinal Healing is the belief in the extraordinary ability of ordinary people to help each other, and the idea that we have the power to choose our attitude in any moment, regardless of circumstances. It is the realization that it is neither circumstances nor people in the past that are causing us to be upset in the present. Rather, it is our own thoughts, attitudes, and judgments about those things that cause us distress. It is about healing our own minds and hearts, and having harmony and integrity in all we think, say, and do. These are the ingredients for peace of mind.
The approach and philosophy is based on universal principles. You do not need a particular faith or belief system in order to utilize it, and people from all walks of life, cultures, religions and beliefs can benefit. It’s the process of letting go of fear and negative, hurtful thoughts from the past, allowing us to correct our misperceptions and remove inner obstacles to peace. Once we recognize the debilitating effect that holding onto guilt, blame, and self-condemnation has on our mental, emotional, spiritual and physical health, we stop punishing ourselves and others.
AH offers us another way to look at the world and at life and death. We learn to make peace of mind our only goal and forgiveness our primary function. It regards our primary identity as spiritual and affirms that each individual possesses a quality of being or an inner nature that is essentially loving and that this loving nature is shared by all human beings. It defines health as inner peace and healing as a process of letting go of fear. It emphasizes equality in every aspect of our lives, and affirms we are equal as students and teachers to each other. It also does NOT tell other people what to do, but offers them choices. It simply sets the intention of living a life of unconditional love, reminding us that we are worthy of love, and that happiness is our responsibility and our natural state of being.

Organ Stress

Food and/or Nourishment can either be a poison to our system or a medicine, sometimes it is just a neutral effect, neither positive or negative.

SPLEEN/PANCREAS/STOMACH—Foods that stress: sugar & honey, high fat foods, tropical fruits/juices, MSG & food additives.

Body Signals of stress: erratic energy levels, binging on sweets, belching, upset stomach, low resistance to infections.

Mood Signals of Stress: feel scattered, anxious, worried, overly sensitive, big mood swings.

LUNGS/LARGE INTESTINES—Foods that stress: white flour, yeasted breads, high fat foods, sugar & honey, antibiotics, food color, food additives.

Body Signals of stress: fatigue, stuffy sinuses, phlegm, pale complexion, gas, diarrhea, constipation.

Mood Signals of Stress: sad or depressed, nostalgic, stuck, weary.

KIDNEYS/BLADDER—Foods that stress: ice cold food & drink, milk & dairy foods, too much raw food, sugar & honey, over-salting.

Body Signals of Stress: frequent, pale urine or scant, dark urine; lower back ache, low sexual energy, bags under the eyes, often feel cold.

Mood Signals of Stress: overwhelmed, confused, afraid, insecure.

LIVER/ GALLBLADDER—Foods that stress: overeating—especially eggs, meat, cheese & ice cream, alcohol & drugs, chemicallized foods, coffee & chocolate, sugar & honey.

Body Signals of Stress: headaches, often overeat, eyes irritated or bloodshot, oily or dry skin, restless from 11pm to 2am.

Mood Signals of Stress: impatient, frustrated, angry, blocked creativity.

HEART/SMALL INTESTINES—Foods that Stress: sugar & honey, high fat foods, tropical fruits/juices, MSG, food additives, white flour, yeasted breads, antibiotics, food color, ice cold food & drink, milk & dairy (over-eating), too much raw food, over-salting, alcohol & drugs, chemicallized foods, coffee & chocolate.

Body Signals of Stress: chest aching or tense, backache between shoulders, high blood pressure, red complexion.

Mood Signals of Stress: over-excitable, can’t relax, chronic tension, workaholic.

BENEFICIAL FOODS:
Spleen/Pancreas/Stomach: millet, sweet vegetables, round/compact veggies like cabbage, turnip, onion, rutabaga, pumpkin, local sweet fruit & miso soup.
Lung/Large Intestines: brown rice, dark leafy greens, roots, winter squash, onion, leek, ginger, garlic, apples, pears & miso soup.
Kidneys/Bladder: brown rice, buckwheat, adzuki beans, sturdy greens, roots, winter squash, watermelon, berries.
Liver/Gallbladder: barley, quinoa, wheat, rye, Daikon radish, spring greens, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, parsley, lemon, sauerkraut.
Heart/Small Intestines: corn, quinoa, brown rice, bitter greens, summer vegetables, strawberries, local fruit.

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ITIS aka Inflammation

Anti-Inflammatory Foods:

PROTEIN: Chicken Breast Turkey Breast Salmon Albacore Tuna Shrimp Crab Cod Clams Filet of Sole Swordfish Plain Yogurt Sour Cream Feta Cheese Parmesan Cheese Romano Cheese Egg Whites Lowfat Cottage Cheese Hazelnuts Walnuts Pecans Almonds
Vegetables: Arugula Asparagus Avocado Bean Sprouts Bell Peppers Brussel Sprouts Cauliflower Celery Cucumbers Eggplant Endive Escarole Garlic Ginger Kale Mushrooms Onions Radishes Romaine Lettuce Spinach Summer Squash Soy (Edamame) Tomatoes Zucchini Snow Peas Swiss Chard ALL Dark Leafy Greens
FRUITS: Apples Blackberries Blueberries Raspberries Strawberries Cantaloupe Honeydew Melon Citrus fruit (except oranges) Peaches Pears Plums Kiwi Nectarines
Beans & Grains: Barley Black Beans Oatmeal Chickpeas (Garbanzo beans) Kidney beans Lima beans Lentils Navy Beans Pinto beans
Canned Foods: Alaskan Wild Salmon (in water) Sardines (in oil) Tuna (in water) Beans Olives No-Salt Chicken Broth
Condiments: Extra Virgin Olive Oil Mustard (w/out honey)
Frozen Foods: Flash frozen fruits/vegetables w/NO additives
Beverages: Green Tea WATER
Herbs & Spices: Basil Bay Leaf Dill Mint Parsley Rosemary Thyme Cinnamon Coriander Cumin Ginger Paprika Red Pepper flakes Turmeric

Inflammatory Dis-Eases: Inflammation in bones, joints, blood vessels, kidneys, skin, eyes, brain and immune response OR Arthritis, Auto-immune disorders, Skin eruptions/rashes, etc...

INFLAMMATORY Foods to AVOID!!!

Alcoholic Beverages Bacon Bananas Breads Beef Butter Carrots Cream Cheese Candy Chocolate Coffee Cake Cookies Cereals Cornstarch Corn Corn Syrup Croissants Dried Fruit Duck Doughnuts Fruit Juice Fried Foods Flour Grapes Granola Half&Half Honey Hard Cheese Heavy Cream Ice Cream Hot Dogs Jams & Jellies Mango Margarine Molasses Muffins Noodles Oranges Pancakes Papaya Pastry Peas Pie Pizza Pasta Pickles Popcorn Potatoes Pudding Pumpkins Raisins Relish Rice (instant) Sherbet Soda Scones SUGAR Tacos Waflles Watermelon Whole Milk

Inflammation
Any injury, including an invasion by microorganisms, causes a complex reaction called inflammation in the affected area. Inflammation occurs as a result of many different conditions. Through the release of different substances from the damaged tissue, inflammation directs the body's defenses to wall off the area, attack and kill any invaders, dispose of dead and damaged tissue, and begin the process of repair. However, inflammation may not be able to overcome large numbers of microorganisms.
During inflammation, the blood supply increases. An infected area near the surface of the body becomes red and warm. The walls of blood vessels become more porous, allowing fluid and white blood cells to pass into the affected tissue. The increase in fluid causes the inflamed tissue to swell. The white blood cells attack the invading microorganisms and release substances that continue the process of inflammation. Other substances trigger clotting in the tiny vessels (capillaries) in the inflamed area, which delays the spread of the infected microorganisms and their toxins. Many of the substances produced during inflammation stimulate the nerves, producing pain. Reactions to the substances released during inflammation include the chills, fever and muscle aches that commonly accompany infection or injury.

*most dis-eases that include "itis" are inflammatory.

Environmental Hormone Effects

MEN:

Low testosterone affects an astounding 1,000,000 American men!
Many men are in the dark about how hormone imbalances affect their health. Men’s hormone changes have been much less publicized and researched than women’s, but hormone
disruption is as much a part of a man’s life as it is a woman’s.
Some men are more attuned to their hormonal fluctuations than others’. Some report clear monthly changes in their energy levels, mood, work and sports performances that they attribute to their equivalent of a ‘period’ or cyclic change.
Blood levels of testosterone fluctuate dramatically at different times from 250 to 1,200 nanograms, and these changes affect a man’s performance, mood and sexuality. While a man’s hormone fluctuations are less dramatic than women’s, testosterone levels start to
decline around age 40, falling up to 10% each decade. This phenomenon called “andropause” is now recognized by almost 8 in 10 family physicians as a real condition that affects quality of life in men.
The most common symptoms of hormonal imbalance among men are: prostate pain and inflammation; lack of abdominal tone; poor urinary and sexual function.
The most common causes for hormonal imbalances among men are: a vasectomy; adrenal exhaustion due to stress; severe dieting or body building; surgery or long illness; protein , iodine, calcium, B-complex or EFA deficiencies.

WOMEN:

A healthy female system works in an incredibly beautiful, complex balance. It is an individual model of the creative universe. A woman is usually an incredible thing to be, but the intricacies of her body are delicately tuned and can become unbalanced or obstructed easily, causing pain and poor function. From child-bearing age, to premenopause, to menopause, to post-menopause, many women are affected by imbalances and fluctuations with their hormones that rattle their lives. Female hormone imbalances are involved in a myriad of health problems for women, including fibroids, endometriosis, headaches, PMS, depression, low libido and infertility.

Effective Weight Keys

RIGHT NOW TWO-THIRDS OF AMERICANS ARE TRYING TO LOSE WEIGHT! AMAZINGLY, OF THOSE, ONLY 20% ARE ACTUALLY REDUCING THEIR CALORIES OR EXERCISING.
FAT—Changing diet composition is the key. The importance of cutting back of saturated fat cannot be overstated. Saturated fats are hard for your liver to metabolize. Focus on healthy fats from seafood, sea greens, avocados, nuts and seeds, which curb cravings by initiating a satiety response (full). Fat isn’t all bad. It’s your body’s chief energy source. Most overweight people have too high blood sugar and too low fat levels. This causes constant hunger, the delicate balance between fat storage and fat utilization is upset, and your ability to use fat for energy decreases. Eating fast, fried, or junk foods particularly aggravates this imbalance. You wind up with empty calories and more cravings. Fat becomes non-moving energy; fat cells become fat storage deposits. But, don’t replace fats with fat substitutes like Olestra. Eating a 1 oz portion of Olestra potato chips, on a daily basis, reduces blood carotene levels by 50%. Fake fats fool your taste buds, not your stomach. In one study, people who replaced 20% of their fat with fake fats were still hungry at the end of the day and they ate twice as much food as normal.
The fact is your body needs Fat! Fat plays a role in many of the complex biochemical processes that keep you alive, it helps you conserve precious body heat, and most important, it is your body’s critical energy source. That’s why NATURE equipped you with some 35 Billion fat cells.
FAT FACTS TO REMEMBER:
Saturated Fats are unequivocally BAD—cut out as many as you can. Polyunsaturated Fats are less harmful, but not harmless. Use butter instead of margarine, just sparingly. Monounsaturated Fats are relatively beneficial, so get in the habit of using oils like Olive and Avocado for cooking and salad dressings. Make fatty fish a part of your diet, at least once a week, but use it to replace, not augment, your total fat intake.

FIBER -
Fiber performs its most essential service in one area of the body—your intestinal tract. Its job is to keep your digestive system running smoothly and eliminating wastes regularly. Fiber is Nature’s own laxative. It works by making your stool absorb more water. That increase its size, and makes it easier for you to pass the waste.
Although there are several sorts of fiber, they all boil down to one of two basic kinds, and each plays a role in keeping you healthy. One kind, Soluble Fiber, dissolves in water, soaking up liquid in your stomach and small intestines. It works like a sponge, slowing the absorption of your food. That’s what gives you that ‘full’, satisfied feeling after a meal. It is also what absorbs fats and cholesterol, so your body doesn’t.
The other kind of fiber is not a sponge, but a broom. It moves through your body fairly quickly, sweeping along with its substances you have eaten that may be harmful. There is a simple test to see you are getting enough fiber in your diet—if your stool floats in the toilet, you are getting enough fiber—if it sinks, you are NOT getting enough fiber.
FIBER FORMS:
Cellulose and Hemicellulose—speeds transit time in digestive tract.
Lignin—Absorbs fat and cholesterol, speeds transit in digestive tract.
Pectin—Absorbs water, fats and cholesterol, and slows stomach digestion.
Gum—Absorbs water, fats and cholesterol, and slows stomach digestion.
Mucilage—Speeds transit time in digestive tract and absorbs fats and cholesterol.

EXERCISE:
Exercise strengthens your whole body—muscles, nerves, blood, glands, lungs, heart, brain, mind and mood. It increases your metabolic rate, muscle mass, oxygen uptake, circulation, and boosts the enzymes that help your body burn fat. It also stimulates antibody production, enhances immune response, and reduces fatigue.
Exercise optimizes metabolism, especially ‘brown fat’ activity. Brown fat is highly active metabolically, very different from ‘yellow fat’, the kind you see deposited on your body as cellulite. Brown fat is bound to your skeleton and is filled with tiny, brown colored, mitochondria and cytochromes, chemical powerhouses that produce energy in your cells. Brown fat is thermogenically responsive. When you take in excess calories, your body compensates in part by producing more heat to burn them off instead of storing them as yellow fat.

WATER:
Water can get you over diet plateaus. Dehydration slows Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) and can cause waste products like ketones to build up in tissues. Making up almost three-fourths of the body, every cell is regulated, monitored and dependent on an efficient flow of water. Water transports minerals, vitamins, proteins, and sugars around the body for assimilation. Water maintains your body’s equilibrium and temperature, lubricates tissues, flushes wastes and toxins, hydrates the skin, acts as a shock absorber for the joints, bones and muscles, and adds needed minerals.
Should you drink more Water?
A good rule of thumb, is to weigh yourself—you should be drinking half of your body weight in ounces. So, if you weigh 140 pounds—you should be drinking 70 ounces of water daily.
Here’s how your body uses it up every day… Your Kidneys receive and filter your entire blood supply 15 times each hour! If you become overheated, your 2 million sweat glands perspire to cool your skin and keep your internal organs at a constant temperature, using 99% water. You use a small amount of water during breathing and through tear ducts that lubricate the upper eyelids 25 times per minute. Crying and hearty laughter release water from your eyes and nose. Even normal activity uses up to at least 3 quarts of replacement water each day. Strenuous activity, a hot climate or a high salt diet increases this requirement.
What happens if you don’t get enough Water?
A chain reaction begins…
A shortage message is sent from your brain.
Your Kidneys conserve water by urinating less (constipation and bloating occur).
At only 4% water depletion, muscle endurance diminishes, you start to get dizzy or light-headed.
At 5% water loss, headaches, from moderate to severe begin, you get drowsy, lose the ability to concentrate and get unreasonably impatient.
At 6% water loss, body temperature is impaired, your heart rate increases (races).
At 7% body water depletion, there is a good possibility of collapse.

Thermogenesis:
Thermogenesis is critical to weight loss after 40 years of age. Thermogenesis is about fat-burning. About 75% of the calories you eat work to keep you alive and support your RMR. The rest are stored as white fat, or burned up by brown adipose tissue (BAT), your fat burning factory. Brown fat is the body’s chief regulator of Thermogenisis, so the more active your brown fat is, the easier it is to maintain a desirable weight. Dieter’s who rely solely on restricting their caloric intake usually end up disappointed with the results, because extreme calorie restriction lowers the rate of Thermogenesis. Your body actually burns less fat than it did before you started dieting.
Middle-aged spread means too little Thermogenesis after you eat. Everybody increases metabolism after eating, but the amounts of heat (calorie burning) varies widely. Lean people experience a 40% increase in heat production after a meal. Overweight people may have only an increase of 10%. Obesity occurs primarily when brown fat isn’t working properly, only a little Thermogenesis takes place, and the body deals with the excess calories by storing them as fat. Starting in our early 40’s, a genetic timer shuts down the thermogenetically mechanism. Turning this timer back on is the secret to re-activating Thermogenesis and a more youthful metabolism.
Here’s how Brown Fat works to stimulate Thermogenesis: a protein, called uncoupling protein, breaks down or uncouples, the train of biochemical events that the cells use to turn calories into energy. Brown Fat cells continue to convert calories into heat as long as there is white fat for them to work on.
Thermogenic Herbs increase blood flow to lean muscle tissue, so it works faster and longer, as well as helping to suppress appetite, eating less with less effort.
Fat-burning Herbs and Spices:
GINGER BASIL THYME
GARLIC ROSEMARY
CINNAMON TURMERIC
DRY MUSTARD FENUGREEK
CAYENNE

POISON Additives

There are over 3,000 food additives approved by the FDA for use in foods we consume or the beverages we drink. Additives with immediate effects may cause headaches, or alter your energy level, or they may affect your mental concentration, behavior or immune response.

12 Key Additives to AVOID:
Hydrogenated Fats are artificial and increase risk of heart diseases, obesity, and generally stress the liver.
Artificial Food Colors are carcinogenic, allergenic and believed to contribute to hyperactivity, learning problems, ADD/ADHD.
Nitrates/Nitrites are carcinogenic as this preservative is converted to nitro amines in our body—Vitamin C 500-1000mg protects, if eaten.
Sulfites trigger allergic reactions, causing headaches, nausea, diarrhea, and irritated membranes—especially avoid if you are asthmatic.

Sugar & Natural Sweeteners should be limited to no more than 10% of your diet, as overuse causes dental cavities, obesity, diabetes, hypoglycemia, behavioral changes, hyperactivity, ADD/ADHD, yeast problems and food cravings. Include-honey, maple syrup, date sugar, brown rice syrup, barley malt, fruit juice/concentrates, fructose, Sucanat (cane juice), and molasses.

Artificial Sweeteners are synthetic chemicals and should be avoided. Saccharin, Cyclamate, Aspartame (Nutrasweet/Equal), Sucralose, Asulfame K, Splenda and Neotame are dangerous!

MSG or monosodium glutamate is a flavor enhancer causing headaches, agitation, increased heart rate, tightness in chest and tingling muscles or skin.

Preservatives like BHA, BHT, and EDTA are toxic to the nervous system and the liver.
Refined flours’ low fiber has contributed to digestive disorders, constipation and diverticulitis.

Salt or sodium chloride is necessary for our body, too much leads to fluid retention, increased blood pressure and irritability—1200mg is RDA recommend for daily intake (1 soda contains 1/2 RDA).

Olestra, a fat substitute and non-absorbable oil polymer, not metabolized in the human body and report digestive problems, abdominal cramping, diarrhea and incontinence.

70 million Americans have heart disease, 20 million have diabetes, 45 million are pre-diabetic, 65% of adults are overweight, 30% are obese—we are seeing strokes, cancers, Alzeimer’s & autism at record numbers, and their climbing...

AVOID:
Acesulfame K
Aspartame (Nutrasweet/Equal)
Artificial Colors (FDC)
BHA (Butylated hydroxyanisole)
BHT (Butylated hydroxytoluene)
BHO (Brominated Veg Oil)
MSG (Monosodium Glutamate)
Olestra

EDTA
Saccharin

Xylitol
Sodium Nitate

THBQ
Sodium Nitrite

Salt
Sulfites (esp bisulfate)
Sulfur Dioxide
Sodium Benzoate
Polysorbate 60, 65 & 80
Propyl gallate
Gums
Propylene Glycol
Corn syrup, sucrose & dextrose

All truth passes through three stages -
First it is ridiculed
Then it is violently opposed
Finally, it is accepted as self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhouer (1788-1860)
German philosopher