Your Life-Your Choice ISSN 1488-0253 October,=20 2001 Issue 78 Letter From the Editor Due to recent events, Your Life-Your Choice express condolences to all, and an article that may help many of you today. All through time stress has played a role in our lives. The challenged economic environment that we live in today is a perfect recipe for stress overload in many individuals. When faced with stressful situations, the body produces an increased amount of and epinephrine. This influx of hormones affects a number of other facets in our body that are geared to maintaining optimum health. It is becoming more evident that if stress is not dealt with properly, it manifests itself into a number of common disorders. Aside from the obvious psychological turmoil, unmanaged stress is believed to be a contributing factor in other health issues such as asthma, migraines, depression, arthritis, diabetes, ulcers, heart disease, and even digestive problems. Recurring attacks of genital herpes may even be the result of stress overload. Relaxation Therapy can offer some effective techniques in learning to manage stress. Simple strategies can be learned through self help books or in a Relaxation Therapy class. They could be as simple as sitting for 15 minutes in a reclining chair with closed eyes while you repeat the word "one" silently each time you exhale. A more active technique consists of focusing on one specific area of the body, tensing all the muscles in that area, then relaxing them. Usually this is started in the head, then you move down to each other body part until and including the feet. Controlled breathing is emphasized in most relaxation techniques. You may decide to opt for a more sophisticated version of progressive relaxation or formalized transcendental meditation. It is important to get proper instruction through a class, a book, or a professional to prevent hyperventilation which may complicate the anxiety or stress. Thirty minutes of vigorous, aerobic exercise completed three or more times per week is helpful in controlling stress. Side benefits of this include maintaining weight control, cardiovascular fitness, and diabetes control. Sources: Columbia University - The Fundamentals of Good Health The Canadian Medical Association Home Medical Encyclopedia Until next time... the best of health to you, Brigitte Synesael Editor of Your Life-Your Choice Make it your business to be informed! No one cares more about you than YOU. http://www.Life-Choices.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Herbal Journey (Stimulant Herbs) 2. Top Dog - Does Your Pet Need Tums? 3. Health Musings part 2 *** Please rate this Ezine at the Cumuli Ezine Finder. http://www.cumuli.com/ezines/ra20413.rate =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Section 1 Herbal Journey (Stimulant Herbs) By Joanne Wilson. Certified=20 Herbalist.=20 mailto:asomn1@aol.com We begin our herbal journey learning about the wonderful benefits of stimulant herbs. (An excellent source of energy for our bodies). Cayenne (Capsicum frutescens) Condiment: As a condiment (spice) cayenne is used in the preparation of many hot spicy dishes, prepared by cooks all over the world. Cooks in Southeast Asia, China and southern Italy use this =93red hot pepper=94 to enhance their cuisine. a milder-sweeter version, called paprika is a leading spice in Hungarian dishes. Herbalists have always respected the healing benefits of cayenne. My experience with cayenne, is the herbs ability to stop nosebleeds. It saved me many trips to the emergency room. My studies of herbalism suggested using a teaspoon of cayenne in a extra-warm glass of water to stop nosebleeds and hemorrhage. It did the job. This is due to the blood pressure being equalized in the body, almost immediately by the cayenne. The bleeding will clot. Surprisingly, cayenne can be used to equalize pressure caused by wounds outside the body. A friend, of mine, a barber cut himself with a razor. He used cayenne to stop the bleeding. The next day the cut was completely closed and no stitches were required. Some herbal remedies for the use of cayenne are: Cold Feet : - Try cayenne power, lightly sprinkled in your socks for a warm night=92s sleep and good circulation. Do not overdo with cayenne for there will be a burning sensation. Toothache :- Use cayenne oil on a cotton ball for a toothache-clean the cavity and then saturate cotton with the oil and place on the cavity until you can get relief from your dentist. Cayenne is a rubifacient, which means it brings redness to the skin- the redness is the blood coming to the surface to start healing. Did you know you can use black pepper if cayenne is not available to stop the bleeding (we will discuss black pepper=92s attributes in this article later) Cayenne liquid (tincture) is many times stronger than the powder- use dry powder on wounds or any external needs. Over the counter preparation is used as a counter-irritant in ointment for, arthritis, muscles, sports rub and linaments. Cayenne is usually listed as Capsicum in these products. For a quicker healing effect, cayenne is better taken in powder form with water. There are also eyewash combination herbs using cayenne that have benefited many people. If using cayenne in a plaster form, (like a mustard plaster) olive oil is nice to apply first before applying the cayenne plaster. (it is more soothing) Black Pepper (Piper nigrum) We now come to our common dinner condiment, which may be used as a substitute for cayenne. DO NOT HEAT BLACK PEPPER. It can irritate the kidney, liver and gall bladder organs. The reason is the heating causes the molecular structure to become inorganic when heated, whereas before the molecular structure was organic and beneficial. Use whole peppercorn and grind it yourself for freshness. Black pepper is good for rheumatism or a plaster. Thanks for reading...Take what helps for health. ----- Source : School of Natural Healing Dr.John R. Christopher 20th Anniversary Edition ********************************************* Our sponsors make this newsletter FREE to subscribers. Please take a moment to visit them. ********************************************* WOMEN LOVE THE PRODUCT =AD MEN LOVE THE RESULTS Get in on the ground floor of the most fantastic company and business opportunity to come along since "the little blue pill for men". 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Every now and then, we notice our pets either get the hiccups or bad gas. My Mother used to give her cat peppermints! The poor cat's eyes would water, but Mom insisted that "it's good for him". Today, we can give our pets a gentler way of helping their digestion with herbs. Some to try would be Red Clover, Comfrey, Parsley Root and Gravel Root, your pet will thank you for giving the peppermints a pass. --- Do you have a specific question about your pet's health that you would like to have an answer to? Talk to our TOP DOG. http://www.life-choices.com/cj/pet.html ***************************************** Our sponsors make this newsletter FREE to subscribers. Please take a moment to visit them. ***************************************** The Pursuit Team is a group of professionals consisting of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Rehabilitation Counsellors working together to assist individuals with their recovery from accidents or illness. 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Adorn the goddess within, and create a euphoric effect on the soul. http://life-choices.com/cj/spa.html *************************************** Section 3 Health Musings (Paper 14D, Atherosclerosis; heart=20 problems) by Clifford S. Garner,=20 Ph.D. mailto:kosmik@totacc.com Part 2 of 4 Cholesterol levels can be too low. Levels below 150 lead to twice the risk for brain hemorrhage and strokes, three times the risk of liver cancer, four times the risk of obstructive lung disease, and twice the risk of committing suicide. Cholesterol-lowering drugs are almost never a good idea because of many severe side effects. The common anticholesterol drugs Questran, Zocor, and Mevacor are on Dr. Julian Whitaker's 1996 10 Most Dangerous Drugs List, with side effects including liver toxicity, bleeding disorders, vision problems, gastrointestinal upset, and muscle inflammation. Other harmful cholesterol-lowering drugs include Colestid, Lopid, and Atromid-S (actually increases the death rate by 29%). Although cholesterol and its "bad" LDL form are not significant problems, if you do want to reduce them safely nutrition such as inositol xanicotinate (Thorne Research "Niasafe," a nonflushing form of vitamin B3, 600-1,800 mg a day) and the herb gugulipid (e.g., Enzymatic Therapy "Gugu Plus #860 P.S.E. has gugulipid, inositol hexanicotinate, ginger root, chromium polynicotinate, and vitamin C, maybe 3 a day) are effective. It isn't high cholesterol anyhow, it's high homocysteine. Homocysteine is a blood amino acid which in high levels is a major factor in heart disease (as well as in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's syndromes, schizophrenia, mental decline, depression, strokes, alcoholism, multiple sclerosis, leukemia, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, non-insulin dependent diabetes, diabetic nephropathy and retinopathy, rheumatoid arthritis, neural tube defects, low birthrates, premature birth, spontaneous abortions, osteoporosis, kidney failure, and psoriasis, and recent studies show a possible link with colorectal cancer). Apparently most MDs and testing labs consider blood serum levels of 5 to 15 micromoles per liter to be "normal," but research indicates that risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) and heart attacks begins to increase at levels above 6.5, and a level of 10 corresponds to roughly a doubling of CAD risk and of 15 to a quadrupling of CAD risk. Homocysteine appears to function in part by inducing oxidation of cholesterol to oxidized cholesterol (oxysterols), found in high-temperature cooking of cholesterol-containing foods such as scrambled eggs and hamburgers, and which are significant factors in producing atherosclerosis. I'm not aware of what medical drugs, if any, are used to lower homocysteine levels in the blood. Clearly, high levels are due to a deficiency of any of the three B-complex nutrients, namely, folic acid and vitamins B6 and B12 (white-flour breads, etc., rob the body of B vitamins and other nutrients, contributing to high levels of homocysteine). Folic acid and vitamins B6 and B12 are needed for conversion of homocysteine to the harmless cystathionine. Some people need vitamin B6 in the active pyridoxal-5-phosphate form, and occasionally trimethylglycine (TMG) may also be needed. A small percentage of people apparently do not convert folic acid into its active form, tetrahydro folate THF, and may need folic acid in the 5-formyl THF, or folinic acid, form. Betaine and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) are also helpful in lowering homocysteine levels. Aside from the well-known role of stress, smoking, consumption of junk food, etc., research indicates that chlorination of municipal water supplies (instead of harmless ozonization, used in some European cities) is damaging to arteries, as well as increasing cancer risks, etc. Another factor is the drinking of homogenized cow's milk (essentially all marketed milk in the USA). Cow's milk has an enzyme called xanthine oxidase, and homogenization protects this enzyme from human digestive juices so that it is absorbed into the blood stream where it damages arterial walls and promotes atherosclerosis. Incidence of heart disease around the world correlates with intake of homogenized cow's milk, but not with intake of butter, cheeses, and yogurts, which contain little or no xanthine oxidase. Also, cow's milk is a common allergen, and people with blood types O, A and AB appear not to handle cow's milk and many other dairy items well. Another important contribution to atherosclerosis and heart problems is from food allergies (see our Paper 20D), which can cause plaque formation in arteries, constriction of coronary arteries, and release histamines that can damage arterial lining. Many smokers deny that smoking hurts them, or that their smoke harms others. Research done on 12,863 men and women from four USA cities, performed at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, showed that increased thickness of the carotid artery wall (leading to decreased blood flow) was directly linked to tobacco smoke exposure. The thickness decreased in the order: 1) smokers 2) ex-smokers 3) persons exposed to secondhand smoke 4) non-smokers with little exposure to secondhand smoke. The carotid artery was studied because of the ease of measurement by ultrasound technique; it's a safe bet the results would be similar with the coronary arteries. As little as one hour a week of exposure to tobacco smoke causes significant arterial damage. Let's consider next surgery and invasive medical methods for diagnosing and treating atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. Angiography, used in diagnosis, and balloon or stint angioplasty used as a "corrective" procedure, are dangerous and largely ineffective. According to an article in the December 1999 "Health Freedom News," a man who was having heart spasms and what appeared to the MDs as a heart attack was wheeled into surgery for "selective coronary angiography" (instead of first trying an IV of magnesium sulfate, known to stop heart spasms), during which irreversible damage was done: the arterial line inserted accidentally went through the right coronary artery, and with the patient drowning in his own blood and with his life in jeopardy, the surgeons sliced his leg to get a vein to replace the artery they had just damaged and laid open his chest so they could stitch in the vein, thus turning what could have been a routine test into open heart surgery, and resulting in a $200,000 bill=ADapparently this is not all that uncommon. Angiography involves inserting a catheter into a leg artery (in the groin usually) and threading it back up to the small openings leading off the two main arteries of the heart, then injecting a contrast dye and taking a series of X-ray pictures (the radiation dose is typically equal to that of 10,000 chest X-rays). The procedure is uncomfortable and potentially very harmful, costs at least $1,000 and necessitates at least a day's hospitalization. When angiograms are compared with autopsy findings, over 80% of the angiograms are found to be inaccurate. Angiograms given to different radiologists come up with different interpretations 38% of the time, and when angiograms are given back to the original radiologists without their being told they had interpreted them previously, their second evaluation differs from their first in 32% of the cases. Moreover, following angiography 46% of patients who later had a heart attack had normal angiograms. See our next issue of Your Life-Your Choice for part 3 of this article ----- Cliff Garner, Ph.D., is a holistic health facilitator and professional kinesiology practitioner. He may be reached by telephone or fax at: (505) 525-1089 or by mailto:kosmik@totacc.com //////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 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. We strongly encourage you to consult with your own physician regarding any recommendations with respect to your own medical condition. Advertisement in the Your Life- Your Choice newsletter does not indicate endorsement on our part. 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            &nbs= p;            &n= bsp;            =              Issue 78 

Letter From the Editor 

Due to recent events, Your Life-Your Choice express
condolences to all, and an article that may help many of
you today.

 All through time stress has played a role in our lives.
The challenged economic environment that we live in today
is a perfect recipe for stress overload in many
individuals. When faced with stressful situations,  the
body produces an increased amount of and epinephrine.

This influx of hormones affects a number of other facets in
our body  that are geared to maintaining optimum health. It
is becoming more  evident that if stress is not dealt with
properly, it manifests itself into  a number of common
disorders.

Aside from the obvious psychological turmoil, unmanaged
stress  is believed to be a contributing factor in other
health issues such as  asthma, migraines, depression,
arthritis, diabetes, ulcers, heart disease,  and even
digestive problems. Recurring attacks of genital herpes may
 even be the result of stress overload. Relaxation Therapy
can offer some effective techniques in learning to manage
stress. Simple strategies can  be learned through self help
books or in a Relaxation Therapy class.  They could be as
simple as sitting for 15 minutes in a reclining chair with
closed eyes while you repeat the word "one" silently each
time you exhale. A more active technique consists of
focusing on one specific area of the body, tensing all the
muscles in that area, then relaxing them. Usually this  is
started in the head, then you move down to each other body
part until  and including the feet. Controlled breathing is
emphasized in most  relaxation techniques.

You may decide to opt for a more sophisticated version of
progressive relaxation or formalized transcendental
meditation. It is important to get proper instruction
through a class, a book, or a professional to prevent
hyperventilation which may complicate the anxiety or
stress. Thirty minutes of vigorous, aerobic exercise
completed three or more times per week is helpful in
controlling stress. Side benefits of this include
maintaining weight control, cardiovascular fitness, and
diabetes control.

Sources:  Columbia University - The Fundamentals of Good
Health  The Canadian Medical Association  Home Medical
Encyclopedia

 Until next time... the best of health to you,

Brigitte Synesael      
Editor of Your Life-Your Choice  
Make it your business to be informed!      
No one cares more about you than YOU.      
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ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE:  

1. Herbal Journey (Stimulant Herbs)
2. Top Dog - Does Your Pet Need Tums?
3.  Health Musings part 2 

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Section 1  
            &nbs= p;           Herbal Journey (Stimulant Herbs)           &nbs= p;        
            &nbs= p;      By Joanne Wilson. Certified Herbalist.          =            &n= bsp;            =             &nbs= p;            &n= bsp;            =     mailto:asomn1@aol.com

We begin our herbal journey learning about the wonderful
benefits of stimulant herbs. (An excellent source of energy
for our bodies).

Cayenne (Capsicum frutescens) Condiment: As a condiment
(spice) cayenne is used in the preparation of many hot
spicy dishes, prepared by cooks all over the world. Cooks
in Southeast Asia, China and southern Italy use this =93red
hot pepper=94 to enhance their cuisine. a milder-sweeter
version, called paprika is a leading spice in Hungarian
dishes.

Herbalists have always respected the healing benefits of
cayenne. My experience with cayenne, is the herbs ability
to stop nosebleeds. It saved me many trips to the emergency
room. My studies of herbalism suggested using a teaspoon of
cayenne in a extra-warm glass of water to stop nosebleeds
and hemorrhage. It did the job. This is due to the blood
pressure being equalized in the body, almost immediately by
the cayenne. The bleeding will clot. Surprisingly, cayenne
can be used to equalize pressure caused by wounds outside
the body. A friend, of mine, a barber cut himself with a
razor. He used cayenne to stop the bleeding. The next day
the cut was completely closed and no stitches were
required.

Some herbal remedies for the use of cayenne are:

Cold Feet : - Try cayenne power, lightly sprinkled in your
socks for a warm night=92s sleep and good circulation. Do not
overdo with cayenne for there will be a burning sensation.

Toothache :- Use cayenne oil on a cotton ball for a
toothache-clean the cavity and then saturate cotton with
the oil and place on the cavity until you can get relief
from your dentist. Cayenne is a rubifacient, which means it
brings redness to the skin- the redness is the blood coming
to the surface to start healing. Did you know you can use
black pepper if cayenne is not available to stop the
bleeding (we will discuss black pepper=92s attributes in this
article later) Cayenne liquid (tincture) is many times
stronger than the powder- use dry powder on wounds or any
external needs. Over the counter preparation is used as a
counter-irritant in ointment for, arthritis, muscles,
sports rub and linaments. Cayenne is usually listed as
Capsicum in these products. For a quicker healing effect,
cayenne is better taken in powder form with water. There
are also eyewash combination herbs using cayenne that have
benefited many people. If using cayenne in a plaster form,
(like a mustard plaster) olive oil is nice to apply first
before applying the cayenne plaster. (it is more soothing)

Black Pepper (Piper nigrum) We now come to our common
dinner condiment, which may be used as a substitute for
cayenne.

DO NOT HEAT BLACK PEPPER. It can irritate the kidney, liver
and gall bladder organs. The reason is the heating causes
the molecular structure to become inorganic when heated,
whereas before the molecular structure was organic and
beneficial. Use whole peppercorn and grind it yourself for
freshness. Black pepper is good for rheumatism or a
plaster.

Thanks for reading...Take what helps for health.
-----
Source : School of Natural Healing Dr.John R. Christopher
20th Anniversary Edition

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Section 2   
            &nbs= p;           Does Your Pet= Need Tums?

Every now and then, we notice our pets either get the
hiccups or bad gas. My Mother used to  give her cat
peppermints! The poor cat's eyes  would water, but Mom
insisted that "it's good  for him".

Today, we can give our pets a gentler way of helping their
digestion with herbs. Some to try  would be Red Clover,
Comfrey, Parsley Root and Gravel Root, your pet will thank
you for  giving the peppermints a pass.

---       
Do you have a specific question about your pet's
health  that  you would like to have an answer to? 
Talk to our TOP DOG.  
http://www.life-choices.com/cj/pet.html

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* Worksite Assessments
* Transferable Skills Analysis
* Labour Market Surveys
* Catastrophic case management
* Vocational rehabilitation
* Task assignments/needs assessment
* Return to work coordination

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needs through therapeutic aromatherapy. We manufacture the
purest aromatherapy body care products available. Our
products are made with uncompromising quality, using the
highest grade therapeutic essential oils from around the
world. Our products do not contain mineral oil, artificial
coal tar dyes, or synthetic scents. Adorn the goddess
within, and create a euphoric effect on the soul.
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            &nbs= p;            &n= bsp;            =    Health Musings
            &nbs= p;     (Paper 14D, Atherosclerosis; heart= problems)           =             &nbs= p;  
            &nbs= p;            &n= bsp;     by Clifford S. Garner,= Ph.D.           &nbs= p;            &n= bsp; 
            &nbs= p;            &n= bsp;     mailto:kosmik@totacc.com

            &nbs= p;            &n= bsp;            Part= 2 of 4

Cholesterol levels can be too low. Levels below 150 lead to
twice the risk for brain hemorrhage and strokes, three
times the risk of liver cancer, four times the risk of
obstructive lung disease,  and twice the risk of committing
suicide. Cholesterol-lowering drugs  are almost never a
good idea because of many severe side effects.  The common
anticholesterol drugs Questran, Zocor, and Mevacor are on
Dr. Julian Whitaker's 1996 10 Most Dangerous Drugs List,
with side effects including liver toxicity, bleeding
disorders, vision problems, gastrointestinal upset, and
muscle inflammation. Other harmful cholesterol-lowering
drugs include Colestid, Lopid, and Atromid-S (actually
increases the death rate by 29%).

Although cholesterol and its "bad" LDL form are not
significant problems, if you do want to reduce them safely
nutrition such as inositol xanicotinate (Thorne Research
"Niasafe," a nonflushing form of vitamin B3, 600-1,800 mg a
day) and the herb gugulipid (e.g., Enzymatic Therapy "Gugu
Plus #860 P.S.E. has gugulipid, inositol hexanicotinate,
ginger root, chromium polynicotinate, and vitamin C, maybe
3 a day) are effective.

It isn't high cholesterol anyhow, it's high homocysteine.
Homocysteine is a blood amino acid which in high levels is
a major factor in heart disease (as well as in Alzheimer's
and Parkinson's syndromes, schizophrenia, mental decline,
depression, strokes, alcoholism, multiple sclerosis,
leukemia, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia,
non-insulin dependent diabetes, diabetic nephropathy and
retinopathy, rheumatoid arthritis, neural tube defects, low
birthrates, premature birth, spontaneous abortions,
osteoporosis, kidney failure, and psoriasis, and recent
studies show a possible link with colorectal cancer).

Apparently most MDs and testing labs consider blood serum
levels  of 5 to 15 micromoles per liter to be "normal,"= but
research indicates  that risk of coronary artery disease
(CAD) and heart attacks begins to increase at levels above
6.5, and a level of 10 corresponds to roughly a doubling of
CAD risk and of 15 to a quadrupling of CAD risk.

Homocysteine appears to function in part by inducing
oxidation  of cholesterol to oxidized cholesterol
(oxysterols), found in  high-temperature cooking of
cholesterol-containing foods such as scrambled eggs and
hamburgers, and which are significant factors in producing
atherosclerosis. I'm not aware of what medical drugs, if
any, are used to lower homocysteine levels in the blood.

Clearly, high levels are due to a deficiency of any of the
three B-complex nutrients, namely, folic acid and vitamins
B6 and B12 (white-flour breads, etc., rob the body of B
vitamins and other nutrients, contributing to high levels
of homocysteine). Folic acid and vitamins B6 and B12 are
needed for conversion of homocysteine to the harmless
cystathionine. Some people need vitamin B6 in the active
pyridoxal-5-phosphate form, and occasionally
trimethylglycine (TMG) may also be needed.

A small percentage of people apparently do not convert
folic acid into its active form, tetrahydro folate THF, and
may need folic acid in the 5-formyl THF, or folinic acid,
form. Betaine and  N-acetylcysteine (NAC) are also helpful
in lowering homocysteine levels.

Aside from the well-known role of stress, smoking,
consumption of junk food, etc., research indicates that
chlorination of municipal water  supplies (instead of
harmless ozonization, used in some European cities) is
damaging to arteries, as well as increasing cancer risks,
etc. Another factor is the drinking of homogenized cow's
milk (essentially all marketed milk in the USA). Cow's milk
has an enzyme called xanthine oxidase, and homogenization
protects this enzyme from human digestive juices so that it
is absorbed into the blood stream where it damages arterial
walls and  promotes atherosclerosis.

Incidence of heart disease around the world correlates with
intake of homogenized cow's milk, but not with intake of
butter, cheeses, and yogurts, which contain little or no
xanthine oxidase.

Also, cow's milk is a common allergen, and people with
blood types O, A and AB appear not to handle cow's milk and
many other dairy items well. Another important contribution
to atherosclerosis and heart problems is from food
allergies (see our Paper 20D), which can cause plaque
formation in arteries, constriction of coronary arteries,
and release histamines that can damage arterial lining.

Many smokers deny that smoking hurts them, or that their
smoke harms others. Research done on 12,863 men and women
from four USA cities, performed at Wake Forest University
in North Carolina, showed that increased thickness of the
carotid artery wall (leading to decreased blood flow) was
directly linked to tobacco smoke exposure. The thickness
decreased in the order:  1) smokers  2) ex-smokers  3)
persons exposed to secondhand smoke  4) non-smokers with
little exposure to secondhand smoke.

The carotid artery was studied because of the ease of
measurement by ultrasound technique; it's a safe bet the
results would be similar with the coronary arteries. As
little as one hour a week of exposure to tobacco smoke
causes significant arterial damage.

Let's consider next surgery and invasive medical methods
for diagnosing and treating atherosclerosis and
cardiovascular disease.  Angiography, used in diagnosis,
and balloon or stint angioplasty used as a "corrective"
procedure, are dangerous and largely ineffective. According
to an article in the December 1999 "Health Freedom News," a
man who was having heart spasms and what appeared to the
MDs as a heart attack was wheeled into surgery for
"selective coronary angiography" (instead of first trying
an IV of magnesium sulfate, known to stop heart spasms),
during which irreversible damage was done: the arterial
line inserted accidentally went through the right coronary
artery, and with the patient drowning in his own blood and
with his life in jeopardy, the surgeons sliced his leg to
get a vein to replace the artery they had just damaged and
laid open his chest so they could stitch in the vein, thus
turning what could have been a routine test into open heart
surgery, and resulting in a $200,000 bill=ADapparently this
is not all that uncommon.

Angiography involves inserting a catheter into a leg artery
(in the groin usually) and threading it back up to the
small openings leading off the two main arteries of the
heart, then injecting a contrast dye and taking a series of
X-ray pictures (the radiation dose is typically equal to
that of 10,000 chest X-rays). The procedure is
uncomfortable and potentially very harmful, costs at least
$1,000 and necessitates at least a day's hospitalization.
When angiograms are compared with autopsy findings, over
80% of the angiograms are found to be inaccurate.

Angiograms given to different radiologists come up with
different interpretations 38% of the time, and when
angiograms are given back to the original radiologists
without their being told they had  interpreted them
previously, their second evaluation differs from their
first in 32% of the cases. Moreover, following angiography
46% of patients  who later had a heart attack had normal
angiograms.

See our next issue of Your Life-Your Choice for part 3 of
this article
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Cliff Garner, Ph.D., is a holistic health facilitator and
professional kinesiology practitioner. He may be  reached
by telephone or fax at: (505) 525-1089 or by
mailto:kosmik@totacc.com

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