Your Life-Your Choice ISSN 1488-0253 ==================== April, 1999 issue 28 Letter from the Editor Well here we are, together again for another issue of Your Life-Your Choice. There's just one quick announcement for today. The number of questions sent in to Your Life-Your Choice is outstanding! Thank you to everyone for you interest and support. The obstacle we're facing is that there are too many questions for one person to respond to. Your Life-Your Choice is looking for another professional who is interested in helping us help others. This person must be licensed in their own specialty, and well versed in several modalities. If you or someone you know would like to participate mailto:yourlife@life-choices.com with "I want to answer questions" in the subject heading. Remember that Practitioners listed in our own Wellness Locator receive TOP PRIORITY, and are always the first to be referred through our Find A Practitioner Program. 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Please take a @ moment to visit them. @ @ 4. NUTRITION FOR SENIORS @ With seniors, even a healthful diet may @ not be enough. As we age our digestive @ systems may not work as efficiently as @ they once did. @ @ 5. RECIPE CORNER @ Vegetarian Stew @ High Energy Quick Cereal @ @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 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 HARVARD MD ANNOUNCES ANTI-AGING BREAKTHRU! Medical science has proven you can reverse 10 to 20 years of aging in as little as 6 months! Lose fat, while gaining muscle. Have more energy, younger skin, boost your libido. Improve your memory, mood, and deepen sleep. Lower cholesterol, strenghten your heart, reverse osteoporosis. NOT MLM! 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Berkel http://www.uniquenterprises.com/html/mt.htm Read about 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. In part one you found out the physiologic basis for the diet. Last month in part two you found out specifically what the diet consists of, and how you can use it. Today in conclusion of 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. This completes the series on the 4-Day Diversified Rotation Diet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MAGNETIC PROTOCOL FOR ADDICTION ORIENTATION: This magnetic protocol applies to addiction to exogenous narcotics as well as addiction to endogenous opiate-polypeptides (endorphins) evoked by frequently eaten food stressors or frequently used chemical stressors such as alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, amphetamines and so forth. Addiction to gambling can be handled by the same magnetic method. It is highly important that all addictions be handled at the same time. Peace-meal resolution of addiction simply extends the misery and the person is likely never to complete the job. The person abandons any and all exogenous narcotics and stops all chemical stressors such as alcohol, tobacco, caffeine and amphetamines and goes on a five day use of only foods used less than two times a week. This also applies to the entire family of any foods eaten two times a week or more. Gluten containing foods are to be left out of the diet if any of them have been used twice a week or more. These are wheat, rye, oats, barley and corn. A four day rotation diet based on food families is introduced and maintained as a lifestyle. In six weeks, start re-introducing the frequently used foods back into the rotation diet. Dairy products and gluten containing foods are best to leave out for a twelve week period before introducing them back into the diet. If need be, magnets can be used pre-meal to prevent symptom production from food. This can be used where there are few foods tolerated. PLACEMENT AND DURATION: Symptoms can be relieved by placing ceramic disc magnets bitemporally. That is, in the front of the ear near the top of the ears. Hold these in place with a 2 x 26 inch band. Place a 4 x 6 x 1/2 inch magnet on the mid-sternum. This can be held in place with a 4 x 52 inch body wrap around the chest. This magnet on the sternum is placed lengthwise the body. Below the rib cage directly over the epigastric area, place crosswise the body a 4 x 6x l/2 inch magnet. This can be held in place with a 4 x 52 inch body wrap. These magnets are to be in place whenever symptoms occur. Symptoms will usually leave within ten minutes. However, for some it may take up to thirty minutes. It would be ideal for the person to be laying down or in a reclining chair. If laying down in a reclining chair there is no need to place a body wrap around either the chest or the epigastric area. There is no restriction as to the duration of leaving the magnets on the body. The more, the better. Many people will choose, for ambulatory reasons, simply to use the magnets whenever symptoms occur. It is easy however, to leave the magnets on the head continuously, if desired. It is necessary to remove the magnet from the epigastric area when eating a meal and should not be replaced for at least an hour after the meal. If however, there are some symptoms that develop in the epigastric area, it could be replaced until the symptom is relieved and then removed. The reason for removing the magnet from the epigastric area is that these muscles are silent while the magnet is there and the food will not move from the stomach into the intestines. It is important also, to not have a magnet over the right side of the body on the front for an hour to an hour and one-half after a meal. If any symptoms develop in any part of the abdomen, the magnet could be used long enough to relieve the symptoms and then removed allowing for the movement of food through the intestinal tract. The magnets on the head are usually placed bitemporally, however, some people find more relief if they place a magnet on the mid-forehead and one on the left temporal area. This is best for anxiety and tension. For obsessive-compulsiveness, more relief may be obtained by using the left temporal and low occipital area. Some even find it better instead of a disc magnet on the occipital area, to place a 4 x 6 x 1/2 inch magnet on the occipital area and to lean back against this if in a reclining chair or on the back of the head if laying down. It is advised that you start the food avoidance immediately when handling any other addictions. The foods that are avoided are the ones that you used twice a week or more. Other foods can be eaten. Sometimes it is quite comfortable for the first five days of this avoidance period to use a watermelon fast, but only if it is watermelon season. In any event, use only foods that are infrequently used. This provides a withdrawal from food addiction. After this five days of avoidance, if foods were introduced to which you were addicted, there would be an acute symptom production within one hour of exposure to the food. A practical way is to not introduce these foods for at least six weeks and if these were very frequently used foods, such as daily, it would be best especially for cereal grains containing gluten and dairy products to not be introduced for twelve weeks. However, after six weeks a trial could be made of introducing into the meal or even having a single meal of a food that had been frequently eaten to determine if it now does not produce symptoms. If it does not, it can be introduced back into the diet if kept in rotation as a lifestyle. This is the description of the minimal program. Addiction for water soluble substances is over in five days. However, fat soluble substances such as nicotine from tobacco requires 21 days to leach out of the cells. Therefore, symptoms may be emerging for as much as 21 days in tobacco addiction. Tobacco, alcohol, and caffeine should never be introduced back into the diet, even on rotation. Even though rotation would make it less likely for symptoms to occur, but for optimum health they should not be introduced back into the diet. WEIGHT MANAGEMENT Body weight beyond physiological normal is often caused by the urge to overeat due to food addiction. Overeating is a compulsive habit, no matter what it's psychological or biological driving force. In any event, magnetic therapy plus calorie reduction can materially help in weight reduction. Magnetic discs placed bitemporally reduce the electrical excitement of the brain, and can handle habit urges whether psychological or physiological. This makes it easier for you to stick with a calorie reduction program. A 4-Day Diversified Rotation Diet is a must in weight management. This will stop food addiction, and make it a whole lot easier to stick with your calorie reduction program. If you place a negative magnetic field over a fat area, it will gradually reduce the fat area. This magnetic reduction occurs only at night while you sleep. A negative magnet activates growth hormone's ability to allow fat cells to release their fat. Growth hormone rises only at night while you sleep. Please note that this magnetic fat reduction will have little effect in maintaining your weight reduction, without also associating it with calorie reduction. STRESS MANAGEMENT Addiction is both a biological and psychological stress. Therefore, magnetically managed addiction has been described in this article under addiction management. Biological responses to psychological stress can be handled magnetically by treating the brain with a negative magnetic field, and also treating magnetically any body areas responding symptomatically to the psychological stress. Frequently used foods as stressors deserve special consideration Serotonin is evoked by both biological and psychological stress as a readiness for needed action. Stress also evokes endorphins in a readiness for action and potential injury. This rise in endorphins under stress-injury buffers against pain. Thus, stress and potential injury raises simultaneously serotonin and self-made opiates. First of all, magnetically handle addiction since addiction is a major stressor. Do not use a food to raise the serotonin-opiate complex as this either is addiction or will soon become addiction. Use a negative magnetic field to relieve the symptoms. Sleeping at night in a negative magnetic field will normalize the serotonin and opiate balance. Symptoms can be relieved within ten to thirty minutes with a negative magnetic field appropriately placed on the head and the symptom area. This magnetic treatment normalizes biological function and never leads to addiction or any side effects. THE FINAL WORD Addiction leads to degenerative diseases, especially maturity onset diabetes mellitus. Food addiction is very real and the most frequent addiction. A 4-Day Diversified Rotation Diet is optimal to prevent and or reverse food addiction. Do not use food as a symptom reliever or for weight management such as has been advised. The weight reduction medications using the serotonin-opiate complex produced so many symptoms, they have been withdrawn from the market. The tranquilizer-antidepressants using a method of raising the serotonin-opiate complex produce serious, devastating side effect symptoms and therefore, cannot be recommended. A negative magnetic field properly placed relieves symptoms, produces melatonin, produces normal energy restoring sleep and normalizes the serotonin-opiate ratio and has no side effects. A negative magnetic field associated with a non-addictive state is markedly superior to tranquilizers, antidepressants and weight management medications. WARNING: The system described in this write-up uses the negative magnetic pole field only. The positive magnetic field or the mixed positive- negative magnetic fields will not achieve the necessary results. A negative magnetic field calms neurons and normalizes biological functions. A negative magnetic field does not evoke the production of serotonin or endorphins. A negative magnetic field has a biological response of alkaline- hyperoxia. A negative magnetic field activates oxidoreductase enzymes that process free radicals, peroxides, acids, alcohols and aldehydes and releases oxygen which is bound in these substances thus making oxygen available for producing ATP in the oxidation phosphorylation process. A positive magnetic field, whether singly or mixed with a negative magnetic field, excites neurons, produces acid-hypoxia, and blocks oxidoreductase enzyme function. The positive magnetic field on the heart increases the pulse rate and can evoke tachycardia in a subject predisposed to tachycardia. A positive magnetic field excites neurons and can evoke a seizure in a subject predisposed to seizures. A positive magnetic field evokes the production of serotonin and endorphins and for this reason can produce magnetic addiction. Positive magnetic field addiction produces pleasurable euphoria, disorders judgement, and has a painful withdrawal phase. Positive magnetic field addiction can lead to the frequent use of the magnet to relieve pain and when used on the head can be misused to produce pleasurable euphoria. A positive magnetic field addiction is a true addiction with all the features of addiction. My reason for presenting this subject of a positive magnetic field addiction is because there are magnets marketed-for pain that use both positive and negative pole fields. These are not suitable for treatment of addiction, weight management or for stress management. Complete details and specifics of the 4-Day Rotation Diet; which magnets to use and how to apply them are described in Volume IV, First Quarter 1998 - Magnetic Management of Addiction. http://www.uniquenterprises.com/html/mtrt.htm ******************************************** Section 3 PLEASE VISIT OUR SPONSORS Icemall is giving away $199.00 worth of FREE e-books and reports! 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The production of Hydrochloric acid (HCL) by the parietal cells in the stomach can decrease to half of what it was in our youth by the age of forty. This hydrochloric acid is needed to convert pepsinogen into pepsin, an active proteolytic (protein digesting) enzyme. The result can be poor digestion of proteins and minerals such as calcium and iron. It doesnıt end there though. The contents of the stomach need to be acidic in nature when they pass through the pyloric valve and into the duodenum, the beginning of the intestinal tract. It is this acidic nature that stimulates the release of alkaline pancreatin from the pancreas. The pancreatin contains enzymes for the digestion of fats, (lipase), carbohydrates, (amylase), and proteins, (protease). These continue the digestion started by the mouth and the stomach. Digestion can go on reasonably well without proper stomach function due to the pancreas doing most of the work. Does it matter if the pancreas does the digestion rather than the mouth and the stomach? Yes! It puts too much of the work load on the pancreas. If digestion is sluggish, toxins are produced and foods are not broken down completely. This can be one of the causes of food intolerance and allergy. This can be the beginning of dis-ease. When digestion is quickened and made more complete, the body immediately reactivates its healing powers. The food moves down the duodenum into the rest of the small intestine which is about twenty feet long. The walls secrete more alkaline digestive enzymes which continue the breaking down of proteins into amino acids, long fatty chains into fatty acids, and starches and complex sugars into glucose. The fats are carried away by lymph vessels and veins pick up other digested nutrients. The veins gradually join together to form the portal vein, which goes directly to the liver. If digestion is not complete at this stage, and there is tissue injury to the intestine, foods that are not completely digested can be transported to the liver. This is the beginning of food intolerance and food allergy. This also becomes a burden on the liver. The fats are picked up by the lymph system because too much fat interferes with both liver and red blood cell function. At the end of the small intestine is a circular valve called the ileocecal valve. This stays closed so the food stays in the small intestine long enough to be digested and absorbed fully, and also to prevent the micro-organisms in the large intestine from getting into the small intestine where their waste products could easily be absorbed. As digestion and absorption are completed the ileocecal valve opens and the rhythmic waves of contraction called peristalsis move the food into the cecum, which is the beginning of the five foot long large intestine or colon. The large intestine is populated with over four hundred different types of micro-organisms which collectively are called the intestinal flora. Most of them are our friends and are very important aids to the digestive process. They make B vitamins, lactic acid, which improves digestion of foods and aids with peristalsis, and vitamin K, which aids in blood clotting, among other things. An imbalance of these bacteria is known as Dysbiosis, and can be the cause of many seemingly unrelated conditions. When they die they provide much of the bulk of the stool. People who have hypochlorhydria, (low stomach acid), tend to have higher bacterial counts and anaerobes and coliforms, not normally found in the stomach. So if the stomach doesnıt work properly, there will be micro-organisms from the large intestine getting into the stomach and small intestine, rather than just the large intestine where they belong. So as you can see, the stomach is the centre of our digestive universe, and all systems down stream of it are dependent on it to do their jobs efficiently. A healthy diet is of great importance, and together with complete digestion health can be restored and maintained. ************************************************************* Section 5 Vegetarian Stew This is a contribution of Orion@smartnet. Reprint permission given by Renee from Veggies Unite! - http://www.vegweb.com/ ---------- 4 large potatoes cubed 2 cups sliced carrots 1 large onion cut into medium peices 2 packages fresh mushrooms 1 can cream of mushroom soup 1 package of dry onion soup mix salt, pepper, garlic powder to taste Line shallow baking pan with enough foil to fold over the top. Blend soup and onion mix together thoroughly. Spread on the bottom of the pan. Add potatoes on top then carrots, onion mushrooms seasonings and then sprinkle with water. Fold foil overtop and seal tightly. Bake at 450 for 1 hour. Preparation time: approximately 1 hour ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ High Energy Quick Cereal This is a contribution of Clint Gibbs. Reprint permission given by Renee from Veggies Unite! - http://www.vegweb.com/ ---------- 1/2 cup uncooked Quaker Oatmeal 1/2 cup Grapenuts cereal 1/4 cup raisins 1 Tablespoon Kretschmer's Wheat germ 1 cup rice milk (or soy milk) Put all ingredients in a cereal bowl and stir. It's delicious and full of carbohydrate energy! Serves: 1. Preparation time: 1 minute. Nutrition Information: Using rice milk: Calories 625 Calories from Fat 60 Total Fat 6 grams Cholesterol 0 mg Sodium 450 mg Protein 17 grams Total Carbohydrate 136 g Sugars 49g . ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Disclaimer All material appearing in this newsletter is provided for educational purposes only. It is provided with the understanding that authors and contributors are not offering medical advice or services. 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