Your Life-Your Choice January, 1998 ==================== issue 23 Letter from the Editor And the celebrations continue! In Jordon they celebrated Arbor Day, and Japan has been busy with Coming-of-Age Day and Adult's Day. Peru celebrated Lima Foundation Week, while Sri Lanka enjoyed Tamil Thai Pongal Day. Finland had their Epiphany, and the U.S. celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. During the remaining days of January Australia celebrates Australia Day, the Dominican Republic has Duarte Day, India has Republic Day, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan will soon celebrate the New Year, and Shevat First is celebrated this coming week. Happy Holidays and Festive Celebrations to you all! Your Life-Your Choice is spreading to all the corners of the earth, and there are many holidays to acknowledge. Next issue I will have a seperate section to list the holidays. I hope I don't miss anyone. If I do, send me an email telling me about your holiday and how you celebrate it. Until next time Your Life-Your Choice wishes you health and prosperity, and Happy Holidays. Brigitte Synesael Editor of Your Life-Your Choice Traditional Medicine Isn't Enough Any More! Your life is your choice-don't make it the doctor's choice! http://www.Life-Choices.com/yourlife ********************************************** @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ @ IN THIS ISSUE: @ @ 1. PLEASE VISIT OUR SPONSORS @ Our sponsors make this @ newsletter FREE to @ subscribers. Please take a @ moment to visit them. @ @ 2. "Complementing Magnetic Therapy With @ The 4-Day Diversified Rotation Diet." @ (part two) @ You can prevent and reverse degenerative @ diseases by maintaining your body in an @ alkaline/high oxygen state. Learn how foods @ can help or hurt. @ @ @ 3. PLEASE VISIT OUR SPONSORS @ Our sponsors make this @ newsletter FREE to @ subscribers. Please take @ a moment to visit them. @ @ 4. Arthritis and "Snake Oil" @ Much snake oil, tonics and potions @ have been created with a promise of @ curing this disease @ @ 5. RECIPE CORNER @ Vegetarian Fry @ Black Bean Soup @ @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Subscribe: You can subscribe by using the form at the Newsletter Headquarters: http://www.Life-Choices.com. Unsubscribe: You can unsubscribe by using the form at the Newsletter Headquarters: http://www.Life-Choices.com. Copyright 1997-1998 by Brigitte Synesael All rights reserved ******************************************** Section 1 PLEASE VISIT OUR SPONSORS This issue of Your Life-Your Choice is sponsored in part by: The "Pain Relief Center." For just a small cost for shipping and handling, get a full size tube of PainBreak®, absolutely FREE! PainBreak® is a new topical analgesic that's effective in relieving the pain of ARTHRITIS POST HERPETIC NEURALGIA (pain after shingles) DIABETIC NEUROPATHY, as well as other CHRONIC PAIN. E-mail your request to me at mailto:Painrlfctr@aol.com. 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Berkel http://www.uniquenterprises.com/html/mt.htm Get the "scoop" on Dr. Boyce Berkel on our Meet the Team page; http://www.Life-Choices.com/team.html ---------- The 4-Day Diversified Rotation Diet is presented in a 3-part series. Last month in part one, you found out the physiologic basis for the diet. Today in part two you will find out specifically what the diet consists of, and how you can use it to prevent or reverse degenerative diseases or aging. Next month in part three you will find out how to manage food and other addictions that play such a major role in the development of degenerative diseases. Here is the 4 Day Diversified Rotation Diet. You can get started on it without food testing. This is found to be adequate for most people. If you start the 4 Day Diversified Rotation Diet by initially leaving out the foods you commonly use, it usually works quite well in reversing the disease process. The 4 Day Diversified Rotation Diet can later incorporate these foods back into your diet after three months if they are eaten on a four day rotation basis. Ninety-five percent of the time, these foods can be re-introduced without producing symptoms. The 4 Day Diversified Rotation Diet should become a lifestyle. "FOUR DAY ROTATION DIET" Day 1 MEAT / FISH Bovidae: - Lamb, beef, milk, yogurt, goat, deer, cheese. Mollusca: - Abalone, snail, squid, clam, mussel, oyster, scallop. VEGETABLES Potato: - Potato, tomato, eggplant, red / green peppers, pimento. Goosefoot: - Beet. spinach, Swiss chard, lamb's quarters. Composites: - Lettuce, chicory, endive, escarole, artichoke, dandelion, safflower. FRUITS Mulberry: - Mulberry, figs, breadfruit, strawberry, rasberry,blackberry, dewberry, loganberry, young berry, bousenberry, rose hip. Grape: - Grapes, raisins. Cashew: - Mango NUTS Sunflower: - Sunflower seeds Cashew: - Cashew, pistachio Protea: - Macademia nut THICKENING Tapioca SEASONING Grape: - Cream of tartar Potato: - Chilli pepper, paprika, cayenne. Composites: - Tarragon Nutmeg: - Nutmeg, mace. OIL Safflower SWEETENER Beet sugar TEA Rose hip, chicory, dandelion Day 2 MEAT / FISH Bird: - *All fowl = chicken, turkey, duck, goose, guinea, pigeon, quail, pheasant. Eggs: - Eggs. *Duck, chicken and turkey are different families. These may be eaten every second or third day. Salt fish: - Sea herring, anchovy, cod, sea bass, sea trout, mackerel, sword fish, flounder, sole, halibut, grouper, red snapper, haddock, orange roughy. VEGETABLES Myrtle: - Pimento Grass: - Millet Parsley - Carrot, parsnip, celery. Mushroom: - Mushroom, yeast (Brewer's baker's),. Mallow: - Okra. FRUITS Plum - Plum, cherry, peach, apricot, nectarine, wild cherry. Pineapple - Pineapple pawpaw: - Pawpaw, papaya, papain. GRAINS Gluten: - Wheat, oats, barley, rye, sprouts from any of these. Non gluten - Millet, sorghum, bamboo shoot, malt. NUTS Plum: - Almond Beech - Chestnut Brazil nut - Brazil nut Flaxseed - Flaxseed THICKENING Wheat flour, agar-agar (vegetable gelatin from sea algae) SEASONINGS Myrtle: - Guava, clover,allspice, clove. Parsley: - Celery seed, celeriac, anise, dill, fennel, cumin, parsley, coriander, caraway. Pedalium: - sesame Orchid: - vanilla. OIL Cottonseed, flaxseed, sesame SWEETENER Cane sugar, clover honey, molasses. TEA Sterculia: - Papaya tea. Day 3 MEAT / FISH Crustacea: - Crab, crayfish, lobster,prawn, shrimp. Suidae: - Pork VEGETABLES Legumes: - Pea, black-eye pea, green bean, bean sprouts, soybean, lentil, peanut, alfalfa, lima bean, navy bean, garbanzo bean, great nothern bean, pinto bean, kidney bean. Laurel: - Avocado. Lily: - Onion, garlic, asparagus, chive, leek. FRUITS Apple: - Apple, pear, quince. Banana: - Banana, Plantain. Heath: - Blueberry, huckleberry,cranberry. Gooseberry: - Currant, gooseberry. Ebony: - Persimmon Buckwheat: - Rhubarb GRAINS Buckwheat; - Buckwheat, rice. NUTS Legumes: - Peanuts Birch: - Filbert, hazelnut. Conifer: - Pine nut. THICKENING Arrowroot: - Arrowroot flour SEASONINGS Arrowroot: - Arrowroot Heath: - Wintergreen Legume: - Licorice Laurel: - Cinnamon, bay leaf, sassafras, cassia bud / bark Pepper: - Black / white pepper. OIL Soybean, peanut, avocado. SWEETENER Fructose, carob syrup, maple sugar, tupelo honey. TEA Alfalfa, sassafras, garlic, applecider / tea. Day 4 MEAT / FISH Meat: - Rabbit Fowl: - Fowl not used on Day ll (chicken, turkey, duck). Fish: - Sturgeon, herring, salmon, whitefish, bass, perch, and any fresh water fish. VEGETABLES Morning glory: - Sweet potato. Gourd: - Cucumber, pumpkin, squash, zucchini, acorn, pumpkin, squash seeds. Mustard: - Mustard, turnip, radish, horseradish, watercress, cabbage, kraut, chinese cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, collards, kale, kohlrabi, rutabaga. Olive: - Black / green olives. Grass: - Fresh corn, hominy, gritts. FRUITS Gourd: - Watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, Citrus: - Lemon, orange, grapefruit, lime, tangerine, citron, kumquat. Honeysuckle: - Elderberry. Palm: - Coconut, date. NUTS Seeds: - Pumkin seeeds,squash seeds, coconut. Walnut: - English walnut, black walnut, pecan, hickory, butternut. THICKENING Cornstarch SEASONINGS Mustard: - Mustard. Mint:- Basil, sage, oregano, savory horehound, catnip, spearmint, peppermint, thyme, marjoram, lemon balm. OIL Coconut, olive, pecan, corn. SWEETENER Date sugar, honey (other than tupelo or clover), corn sugar. TEA kaffer HOW TO USE A FOUR DAY DIVERSIFIED ROTATION DIET WITHOUT DELIBERATE FOOD TESTING Many people find it practical to go directly to a four day diversified rotation diet without food testing. First assume that you are reacting to any food eaten as frequently as twice a week, or to any members of that food family. Leave these frequentty used foods out of your diet for three months. At the initiation of the rotation diet, stop all use of caffeine (coffee, teas with caffeine, cola drinks, chocolate), tobacco and all alcoholic drinks. DO NOT RE-INTRODUCE THESE INTO THE DIET. For the next three to four days, there will be withdrawal symptoms. Handle these symptoms as described in the section - "How To Initiate This Program." Three months from now, re-introduce these foods back into your diet. Nearly always (95% of the time), these foods will no longer be reactive, as long as you keep them on a once-in-four-day rotation basis. When re-introducing foods into your diet, simply add the food to the established rotation and observe whether or not symptoms occur. If no symptoms occur, then this food can be rotated. If symptoms occur, wait another three months before trying this food again. One way to expand the use of foods is to sprout cereal grains and legumes. You should make certain that the grain or bean is sprouted with approximately 1/4" or more of a sprout. The foods that have been sprouted will no longer carry the same reactive capacity that the non-sprouted foods do. Thus, once sprouted, grains and legumes can be introduced into the diet immediately. Gluten is the most frequent and severe symptom reactor of all foods. Thus, gluten is the most likely food substance to continue causing symptoms. Common physical reactions to gluten include: gastrointestinal problems such as celiac disease and Crohn's disease (gluten enteropathy), jerking muscles (Tourette's syndrome), and headache. Emotional and mental symptoms caused by reactions to gluten range from mild (tension, anxiety, phobias, depression, obsessions, compulsion) to severe (psychotic depression, hallucinations, delusions). The genetically determined immunologic reaction to gluten occurrs at a ratio of 1 in 200 Irish people and 1 in 2,000 non-Irish. These immunologically reactive people should leave gluten out of their diet. Wheat, rye, oats and barley all contain gluten. If gluten is introduced, only a small amount should be used, and then avoided for months. In addition to being the most reactive food substance in terms of immunologic and non- immunologic maladaptive reactions, gluten is the most addictive of all food substances. Gluten is split in half during the first stage of digestion, which occurs in the stomach by a combination of hydrochloric acid with the enzyme pepsin. This splitting of gluten produces an active narcotic (exorphin). This narcotic becomes addicting when it is absorbed through the small intestine without further digestion by pancreatic enzymes and their normal alkaline medium. Many people do not produce adequate pancreatic enzymes or associated sodium and potassium bicarbonate. Thus. these people are subject to gluten addiction if they use gluten frequently. Alcoholics using alcohol prepared from wheat, rye. oats or barley will have symptoms emerge on deliberate food testing for these gluten- containing foods. Vodka addicts have symptoms to provocative food testing for white potatoes. Wine addicts have symptoms to a provocative test meal of either grapes or the substance from which the wine is made. This applies to wine vinegar as well. Beer addicts have symptoms with test meals to brewer's yeast or any gluten-containing cereal or rice used in the beer-making process. Dairy products and beef are the second most symptom reactive foods. Characteristically, the person who reacts to dairy products also reacts to beef and vice versa. In terms of the frequency of symptoms, corn products are approximately equal to dairy products and beef. People with homocystinuria have symptoms from dairy products and meats. Homocystinuria is an infrequent genetic error. It is caused by a deficiency of cystathionine B-synthase enzyme, in which methionine cannot be processed property. Occasionally, homocystinuria is due to a nutritional deficiency of the B complex vitamins, especially B12 or folic acid. In these nutritional deficiency cases, B complex supplementation solves the problem of food reactions to high methionine containing foods. People with genetic homocystinuria must rely on avoidance of foods high in methionine. They must also supplement cystine, which comes from methionine. In addition, they should also supplement taurine, which is made from cystine. Taurine is important in keeping the central nervous system calm. Another rare genetic enzyme disorder is carnosinuria. This is caused by a deficiency of the enzyme carnosinase. This enzyme processes carnosine and anserine. If not enzymatically processed, carnosine and anserine are toxic to humans. People with this genetic enzyme disorder must avoid foods containing carnosine and anserine. Carnosine is found in all land animals Anserine is found in tuna and salmon. Carnosinase is a zinc- dependent enzyme. Therefore, carnosinuria is occasionally caused by zinc deficiency. Zinc deficiency can be determined by a laboratory assessment. Physical symptoms of zinc deficiency include: white spots in the fingernails and toenails, ridged or easily splitting fingernails, and stretch marks on the skin, especially on the abdomen or breasts. When carnosinuria is caused by a nutritional deficiency, zinc supplementation can solve the problem. A carnosinase enzyme deficiency can produce a wide range of symptoms. The most prominent symptoms Dr. Philpott has observed are attention deficit and hyperactivity. For example, a ten-year-old boy with attention deficit and hyperactivity on laboratory testing was demonstrated to have both carnosinuria and zinc deficiency. Neither supplementation with zinc nor rotation of foods solved his problem. However, upon removal of meats, tuna, and salmon from his diet, he was free of symptoms. Dr. Philpott explains these genetic and nutritional disorders in order to point out that although the rotation diet solves most food reaction symptoms, these other causes of food reactions must sometimes be considered. Laboratory tests can help make the determination. People who try to help themselves without medical supervision can make this determination only through trial and error. For twenty years Dr. Philpott deliberately food tested his patients. This consisted of five days of avoidance of any food used with the frequency of two or more times a week, followed by food tests of single food per test meal. Classically, it is the foods eaten with a frequency of two or more times a week that produce acute symptoms and are also responsible for the symptoms of degenerative diseases. This is true of degenerative diseases such as diabetes mellitus type II, arthritis of various types, inflammatory reactions such as tendinitis, myositis, fibrositis, and many pains such as headaches and pains elsewhere in the body. Secondarily, these maladaptive reactions are important in major mental disorders, multiple sclerosis, lupus. etc. These diseases classically initially start with a viral infection which disorders the immune system and injures target tissues where symptoms are produced. Stress factors such as injury, frequency of use, local infection, etc., often serve to prepare a specific area of the body to be the area selected as the target tissue area in food reaction. An example is carpal tunnel syndrome, classically occurring in the wrist that is used most frequently. Dr. Philpott has examined numerous carpel tunnel syndrome cases and found them all to be due to food maladaptive reactions. The stress of use associated with the food reaction combine to produce the inflammatory reaction of the specific area. In major mental illness, there exists a primary chronic viral infection of the brain which prepares the brain to be the target organ for a maladaptive food reaction. Malnutrition can also be a factor predisposing to maladaptive reactions to foods, chemicals, and inhaled substances, and to the selection of particular tissue areas for the maladaptive reaction. Years of experience of deliberate food testing has provided convincing evidence that it is the stress of the frequency of contact that produces the maladaptive reactions to foods, chemicals, and inhaled substances. This is true, whether these are lgG immunological reactions or non-immunological reactions. The frequency needs to be more than two times per week. A practical food rotation diet can be set up, avoiding any food eaten as frequently as two times a week or more. Initially, avoid these foods for three months. Ninety-five percent of the time, after three months of avoidance, these initial foods left out of the diet can be introduced back into the four-day diversified rotation diet without symptoms being produced. Gluten from wheat, rye, oats, or barley is the most frequent and most serious cause of food producing reactions. Dairy foods and corn products come in for a good second. Any food used frequently can become a reactive substance. The same principle of frequent contact producing maladaptive symptoms applies also to chemicals and inhaled substances. HOW TO INITIATE THIS PROGRAM The four-day diversified rotation diet and avoidance of symptoms of frequently used foods is initiated at the same time. Furthermore, to be discontinued at the same time is the use of any tobacco, alcohol, and caffeine beverages. The first three days will be the most serious symptom-evoking period. By the fifth day, usually the symptoms have materially subsided and have become manageable. To handle the acute withdrawal symptoms, you will need to have available the following magnets: Two 11/2 x 3/8 inch ceramic disc magnets. These have a gauss strength of 3,950. Two 4 x 6 x 11/2 inch ceramic block magnets with a gauss strength of 3,950. For some people. it would be well for them to also have a 4 x 24 x 1/8 inch thick plastiform magnet with a gauss strength of 2,450. These magnets can be used either continuously during this withdrawal phase or used just at the time that you experience the withdrawal symptoms. It usually requires 10 to 30 minutes for magnetic management of the symptoms. First, place the ceramic disc magnets on each temple area, that is, in front and at the level of the top of the ears. These can be held in place with a 2 x 26 inch self-fastening band. Other placements that may be found to be helpful, are a left temple and low occipital area or a left temple and frontal area. The left temple is used in a right-handed person, and the right temple is used in the left-handed person. At the same time, place a 5 x 6 x 1/2 inch ceramic block magnet on the mid- sternum, that is, the middle of the chest, on the front. Also, a 4 x 6 x1/2 inch thick magnet should be placed directly over the epigastric area, which is just below the sternum. These can be held in place by a 4 x 52 inch body wrap or an Ace bandage, or if you are lying down, these magnets can just rest on these areas. You may find it helpful, or even necessary, to use the 4 x 24 inch plastiform magnet down the spine. You would need to be lying down to do this. To use this magnet, always use the negative magnetic field. After this acute phase is over, use these magnets to relieve symptoms if and when they re-occur. The rotation diet should become a life style. You should also sleep on a magnetic bed pad and with magnets at the crown of your head. *** Next month, in segment three of this series, you will find out how to manage food and other addictions that play such a major role in the development of degenerative diseases. ******************************************** Section 4 PLEASE VISIT OUR SPONSORS Icemall is giving away $199.00 worth of FREE e-books and reports! Check it out today! http://www.icemall.com/free_gift.html ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Increase traffic to your site by THOUSANDS every day WITHOUT Spamming! It's Fast, it's Easy, and best of all it's FREE! (If the following url does NOT appear on one line, you will have to copy each part and paste into the location bar of your web browser.) http://www.special-report-network.net/specialreports.cgi/BS9662 ******************************************** Section 5 Arthritis and "Snake Oil" By Joe Carr, Ph.D., C.N.C. Get the "scoop" on Joe Carr on our Meet the Team page; http://www.Life-Choices.com/team.html ---------- Arthritis may be the oldest and most treated disease in the history of mankind. You don't have to look it up in a dictionary to find its definition if you suffer from it. It's one of those ailments in life that you live with for years as a minor inconvenience and suddenly, or at least so it seems, it grows into a full-blown and debilitating "condition" that rules your every waking moment. Much snake oil, tonics and potions have been created with a promise of curing this disease and as a testament to the pain of the disease, the makers of the "cures" have never lacked a market that readily buys the promised elixirs. In simple terms, arthritis is an inflammation of the joints with accompanying pain, swelling and stiffness. It typically strikes older people and the most common form is osteoarthritis. More than 80 percent of Americans over the age of 50 suffer from it to some degree and it is the leading cause of physical disability in the U.S. The standard medical treatment is the use of NSAIDs (nonsteroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs). Commonly prescribed NSAIDs include Ibuprofen (Advil, Nuprin, Motrin), Indomethacin (Indocin, Indometh, Naprosyn), Fenoprofen (Nalfon), Meclofenamate (Meclomen, Meclofen) and aspirin. Aspirin may be effective initially but, as the condition worsens, the dosage has to be increased. This often creates unpleasant side effects such as ringing in the ears, gastrointestinal irritation and blood thinning. While the other NSAIDs are better tolerated than aspirin, they are not necessarily more effective. They are costly and when used over long periods of time and in certain dosages can pose significant health risks. Another treatment is the use of corticosteroids but this poses even greater health risks. Only in cases where a physician has determined that it is absolutely necessary should steroid drugs be used. Ironically, long-term use of steroid drugs can weaken bone structure and actually cause arthritic-like conditions in some people. Into this fray enter a relatively new supplement, glucosamine sulfate. Glucosamine has some exciting prospects as a natural and safe treatment of osteoarthritis and other inflammatory joint conditions. It is a naturally occurring amino-monosaccharide whose primary purpose is to stimulate the production of cartilage components (necessary to keep the joints functioning and in a state of constant repair) and prompts the production of connective tissue. Connective tissue is what keeps us from falling apart - it is the fibrous material that holds our bones together and is the main component of cartilage. Certain parts of the body - tendons and cartilage - are made completely of connective tissue. The body recognizes glucosamine as a natural substance. It does not suppress or stimulate normal cellular function but enhances the physiological processes which have deteriorated with age (which causes the gradual destruction of cartilage stores). Glucosamine is a non-toxic, natural substance that treats the origin and cause of the disease as opposed to masking the symptoms, as pharmaceutical drugs do -- it acts like a healing agent instead of a simple pain reliever. Additionally, it also contributes to the repair of joints that have deteriorated. Glucosamine is not a direct anti-inflammatory because it does not initiate a direct pain-killing effect. While it does have anti-inflammatory properties, glucosamine goes directly to the cause and controls inflammation by assisting in the healing and regeneration of damaged tissue. NSAIDs only target arthritic symptoms and do not address the cause. A study in 1991 indicated that compared with the health risks of NSAIDs, glucosamine is 10 to 30 times more desirable in its therapeutic actions when compared to its safety. Another study conducted in the same year stated that glucosamine seemed "comparable or superior to that of the known NSAIDs (Setnikar, 1991)." Numerous other studies and trials have also indicated the use of glucosamine sulfate as not only a safer alternative to NSAIDs but even more effective. Already widely used in Europe, the combination of glucosamine sulfate and chondroitin sulfate has been remarkably effective in treating osteoarthritis. These elements work together in such a manner to initiate the production of new cartilage while protecting existing cartilage tissue. They treat the disease at its root and do not mask the symptoms. These two components work synergistically: where one is weak the other excels. Glucosamine stimulates the production of cartilage, provides joint lubrication and helps to reduce pain and inflammation. Chondroitin boosts cartilage synthesis, inhibits the enzymes that destroy cartilage molecules, promotes cellular nourishment and contributes to joint protection. Combined, glucosamine and chondroitin may offer the single most effective answer to the thousands suffering with arthritis. Anyone considering glucosamine and chondroitin should also consider other natural substances to complement and enhance the effectiveness of this therapy. Manganese (enhances effectiveness), vitamin C (cartilage repair), vitamin E (antioxidant and inhibits the breakdown of enzymes found in cartilage), proanthocyanidins (anti-inflammatory compound more powerful than vitamins C and E), white willow bark (anti-inflammatory and useful for joint and muscle pain), and Cat's Claw (inhibits inflammation, antioxidant). Jason Theodosakis, M.D., author of the best selling The Arthritis Cure, recommends using the glucosamine and chondroitin combination to lower one's risk of developing osteoarthritis as well as to treat a current condition. He also recommends manganese and vitamin C to help boost the effects of the two. According to Dr. Theodosakis, the best way to determine dosage is based on your body's weight: less than 120 pounds - 1000mg glucosamine/800mg chondroitin; 120 - 200 pounds - 1500mg glucosamine/1200mg chondroitin; 200+ pounds - 2000mg glucosamine/1600mg chondroitin. He recommends adjusting the dosages according to results and advises taking the supplements in two to four doses spread out during the course of a day. The supplements can be taken with or without food. Finally, don't forget what you eat - it affects the way you feel. Do eat foods rich in bioflavonoids: blueberries, blackberries and cherries; phytochemicals such as onions, garlic, cabbage and Brussels sprouts; lots of fresh, raw vegetables except for potatoes, peppers, tomatoes and eggplant. Avoid meats, sugar (all forms), dairy products, eggs, soda pop, carbonated beverages and alcohol, saturated fats, breads and pastas and tobacco. Patience is the key word in any therapy. Do not expect the "overnight cure." The time for the effectiveness of glucosamine and chondroitin will be longer than the quick action of NSAIDs. However, once it has established itself it should provide a superior source of treatment, even when compared to strong medications such as Ibuprofen. ************************************************************* Section 6 Vegetarian Fry This is a contribution of J. Rose. Reprint permission given by Renee from Veggies Unite! - http://www.vegweb.com/ ---------- 1 diced tomato 3 diced carrot 6 servings of angel hair spaghetti 2 tbsp of olive oil 1 green pepper sliced 1 cups of mushrooms Lotsa garlic soy sauce Butter substitute Broccoli vegan parmesan Slice all vegitables and fry them together with soy sauce, olive oil, and mushrooms. Boil the Angel hair and fry it with garlic and parmesan. Add vegetables and let simmer for 10 minutes... Serve with any spice you want.. Enjoy Serves: 4 Preparation time: 30 min ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Black Bean Soup By Howie M. Thomason RNCP mailto:hmt@ican.net Get the "scoop" on Joe Carr on our Meet the Team page; http://www.Life-Choices.com/team.html ---------- The origins of arthritic conditions range from metabolic disorders brought on by stress and poor environment, to adrenal exhaustion, faulty elimination, an over acid system, long emotional resentments and pessimism about life, and over use of prescription drugs. The common thread of natural treatment is improvement in diet and nutrition allowing the body to heal itself by changing the terrain. As arthritic conditions can be a result in part, of acidic body chemistry, we would like to try and alkalize the body which in turn can allow healing to proceed. Black Bean Soup This soup is purifying, strengthening, and most importantly alkalizing, with protein for healing. Makes ten servings. Soak 2 1/2 cups dried black beans in 10 cups of water overnight. Saute 2 cloves of minced garlic and 1 chopped onion in 2 tbs of oil until very brown. Add and bring to a boil in a large stock pot; The soaked beans. 2 tbs dark miso paste. 9 cups of vegetable stock or bouillon. 1 cup of water. 1 cup rose¹ wine. Reduce heat. Simmer uncovered for 1 1/2 to 2 hours stirring occasionally. Keep the beans covered with liquid. Remove from heat to cool slightly. Puree soup in the blender in batches and return to the pot. Add 1/4 cup of madiera or marsala wine, 1 teaspoon black pepper, and 1 teaspoon of sea salt. Serve in bowls topped with crumbled hard boiled eggs and lemon slices. Nutritional Analysis; Per serving; 177 calories 9 gm protein 26 gm carbohydrate 9 gm fibre 3 gm fat 21 mg cholesterol 56 mg calcium 83 mg magnesium 2 mg iron 416 mg potassium 480 mg sodium 2 mg zinc. ----- References; Linda Rector-Page, N.D., Ph. D. Cooking for Healthy Healing 1996 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Disclaimer All material appearing in this newsletter is provided for educational purposes only. 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