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Healthful Living International
eNewsletter #34, July, 2003

Healthful Living International
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Rawstock Premonitions
by Dr. Doug Graham

I am anticipating one of my life's highlight experiences at Rawstock this year. I know it will be an event to remember, and talk about, for the rest of my life. Heck, I almost went to Woodstock, but had a softball game that weekend. Can you imagine? If you are not planning to be at Rawstock this year, you better have a really good reason, because 10 or 20 years from now, it could look really lame. : )

Besides, Rawstock is gonna beat Woodstock, 10 times over.

1. There will be no drugs.
2. Everyone there will be interested in improved health and lifestyle.
3. There will be education that is equally as good as the world-class music.
4. Ongoing food demos will "wow" everyone.
5. We provide organized child care.
6. FREE FOOD.
7. The weather will be perfect.
8. There will be enough toilets, and other hygiene facilities.
9. Everyone will have enough space, and time, to sleep.
10. Fitness and other fun classes will be offered all day

If for some reason you simply cannot come to Rawstock, please please please be creative and tell as many people as you can about it. We want the Hygiene health message to spread as far and wide as possible. Rawstock will be the healthiest and happiest event of its kind, ever.

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Food-Borne Illnesses
By Prof. Rozalind A Gruben HLC AHSI RSA
Copyright Rozalind A Gruben June 12th 2003. All rights reserved
<rozgruben@aol.com>

Going overseas this holiday season? Concerned about food poisoning. If you are eating a raw vegan diet there is little to fear.

Almost all of food-borne illnesses result from consuming flesh or dairy products. The ingestion of fish is especially liable to result in any of a wide variety of conditions, some of which are potentially fatal. The foods least likely to result in any type of food-borne illness are fruits and vegetables.

The following is a direct quote from the New York University Medical Centre (Upton & Graber - Staying Healthy in a Risky Environment, 1993)

"Beef, poultry, fish, seafood, dairy foods and eggs are especially susceptible to contamination with disease-causing bacteria. Two major factors contribute to the food-borne illness problem: food production and slaughter methods, and improper handling. Although and meat processing plants are periodically inspected by the USDA, a microbial or chemical contamination cannot always be detected by sight, which is the current inspection method. What’s more, the tremendous problem of fecal contamination, a predominant cause of food poisoning, can result from factory methods of slaughter."

Bioaccumulation and PCBs
The term bioaccumulation describes the way in which substances become concentrated in the bodies of animals as a result of the food chain.

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are toxins that are not soluble in water but soluble in fat. PCBs discharged into a river can cause problems for many years. Rivers flow into the oceans and all of the planet’s water becomes contaminated. PCBs, and other toxins, enter the food chain when eaten, in minute amounts, by phytoplankton. Here they accumulate to levels far greater than present in the surrounding water. When small fish ingest the phytoplankton the PCBs are transferred into their fatty tissues where they accumulate in concentrations far higher than those found in the phytoplankton. Larger fish then feed on these smaller fish and, once again, the PCBs pass into their fatty tissues where they accumulate to form even higher concentrations. When humans eat these larger fish they are consuming PCBs at a concentration hundreds of thousands times greater that that originally present in the phytoplankton’s water home. These concentrated toxins become even more concentrated in the breast milk of nursing mothers. Bioaccumulation works the same for all forms of toxic substances both on land as well as in the oceans and rivers. Pesticides provide a perfect example of how toxins become progressively more concentrated as they go up the food chain.

The concentration of agricultural chemicals, such as pesticides, found in the flesh of a carnivorous animal or a human who eats flesh (who has consumed the flesh of an herbivore, gramnivore, frugivore or omnivore that had consumed plants contaminated with pesticides) can be hundreds of thousands of times higher than that found in the original plant source.

CONDITION
Anasakiasis

Offending Organism
Anasakis simplex

Food Source
Raw fish - especially herring, Pacific salmon, sushi, sashimi, cerviche.

Method of Transmission Food
Larvae that penetrate stomach lining (larvae killed by cooking or freezing).

Time of Onset
Symptoms do not appear for about a week .

Symptoms
Acute abdominal pain, fever, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

CONDITION
Botulism

Offending Organism
Clostridium botulinum

Food Source
Spores are widespread but only produce toxin where there is no air

Method of Transmission Food
Canned food - (especially low-acid foods such as corn, green beans and mushrooms), also soups, beets, tuna, olives, luncheon meats, pate and garlic in oil.

Time of Onset
4 – 36 hours after consumption.

Symptoms
Deadly
Double vision, trouble swallowing and breathing, slurred speech.

CONDITION
Paralytic and neurotoxic shellfish poisonings.

Offending Organism
Neurotoxins produced by marine dinoflagellates.

Food Source and Method of Transmission Food
Both caused by toxins found in red tides that contain mollusks caught off the Pacific and New England coasts (paralytic type) and off Florida (neuro-toxic type).

Time of Onset
Within minutes (paralytic type) or hours (neurotoxic type)

Symptoms
Paralytic type - burning of the mouth and extremities, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle weakness, paralysis and double breathing.
Neurotoxic type – symptoms milder.

CONDITION
Food Poisoning

Offending Organism
Clostridium perfringens

Food Source
Will only grow in certain protein-containing foods such as meat, poultry, soups and gravies.

Method of Transmission Food
Extensive growth of microbes in food. Usually caused by cooked food prepared and kept warm until served (typically food service establishments).

Time of Onset
Requires time to grow in the intestines producing spores that release toxin.
Symptoms typically occur 12 hours after consumption.

Symptoms
Mild symptoms of abdominal pain and diarrhea not lasting longer than a day.

CONDITION
Giardiasis

Offending Organism
Giardia lamblia

Food Source and Method of Transmission Food
Contaminated water and sometimes uncooked foods.

Time of Onset
After an incubation period of 1 – 2 weeks.

Symptoms
Diarrhea, flatulence, nausea and vomiting.

CONDITION
Listeriosis

Offending Organism
Listeria monocytogenes

Food Source and Method of Transmission Food
Soft cheese, pate, raw milk, uncooked poultry, frozen pork, tongue and seafood.
Can grow at refrigeration temperature.

Time of Onset
From days to weeks.

Symptoms - Deadly
Fever, headache, diarrhea, meningitis, conjunctivitis and miscarriage.

CONDITION
Campylobacteriosis or Campylobacter Enteritis .

Offending Organism
Campylobacter jejuni

Food Source and Method of Transmission Food
Raw poultry, hamburgers, milk and mushrooms.
Bacteria easily killed by cooking.

Time of Onset
2- 5 days

Symptoms
Cramping, fever, diarrhea and bloody stools lasting for 7 – 10 days.

CONDITION
Ciguatera Poisoning

Offending Organism
Ciguatoxins are produced by algae (algae then eaten by fish).

Food Source
Fish–especially bottom-dwelling predator fish caught near reefs in the Caribbean and off Florida and Hawaii (amberjack, red snapper, sea bass, surgeon fish).

Method of Transmission Food
Toxin NOT destroyed by cooking.

Time of Onset
6 – 12 hours after consumption.

Symptoms
Nausea, vomiting and diarrhea often followed by a slower heart rate and lowered blood pressure.
Severe itching, temperature reversals (cold feels hot), numbness and tingling of extremities which can last for days or months.

CONDITION
Enteric E. Coli Infections.
(Enterotoxigenic, Enterinvasive, Enterohemorrhagic, Enteropathogenic).

Offending Organism
Escherichia Coli.

Food Source
Found most often in undercooked ground beef and unpasteurized milk.

Method of Transmission Food
Most E. Coli transmitted by personal contact but these strains are food-borne as well.

Time of Onset
From a few hours to a week after eating.

Symptoms
Watery / bloody diarrhea, severe infections.
Symptoms of enterhemorrhagic infection include kidney failure (children most vulnerable) .

CONDITION
Salmonellosis

Offending Organism
Salmonella

Food Source and Method of Transmission Food
Raw meat, poultry, fish, dairy products and eggs.
Destroyed by effective refrigeration and cooking.

Time of Onset
6 – 72 hours after consumption.
Growth of organism not required for symptoms but the more bacteria present the faster the condition will occur.

Symptoms
Nausea, cramps, diarrhea, fever and headaches

CONDITION
Scombroid Poisoning

Offending Organism
Toxins produced by bacteria that feed on unrefrigerated fish--they break down the histidine in the fish to form toxic levels of histamine.

Food Source and Method of Transmission Food
Fish – the Scombroideae family – tuna, bonito, mackerel and skijack.
Also some non-scombroid fish such as Pacific dolphin (mahi mahi).

Time of Onset
Within minutes or hours of ingestion

Symptoms
Flushing, itching, cramps, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and burning of the throat.
If severe there can be trouble breathing and lowered blood pressure.
Symptoms only last a few hours.

CONDITION
Shigellosis

Offending Organism
Shigella

Food Source
Typically via foods that are liquid or moist.
Common in tuna, chicken, potato salads.

Method of Transmission Food
Found only in the intestines of humans and monkeys.
The bacteria is transmitted to the food by unsanitary handlers.

Time of Onset
1 – 7 days after consumption

Symptoms
Abdominal pain, cramps, bloody diarrhea and fever.

CONDITION
Staphylococcal Food Poisoning

Offending Organism
Staphylococcus aureus

Food Source
Meats, poultry, eggs, fish and cream

Method of Transmission Food
Occurs if food left at wrong temperature for length of time.
May originate from food handler’s skin infection, boil, acne or nasal mucus.

Time of Onset
1/4 hr – 4 hrs

Symptoms
Severe – diarrhea, cramps, vomiting (does not last longer then a day)

CONDITION
Trichinosis

Offending Organism
Trichinella

Food Source
Pork

Method of Transmission Food
Insufficient cooking of affected pork allows larvae to survive and, once eaten, mature into worms in the intestines.

Time of Onset
Early symptoms during first week, more symptoms 2-3 weeks later.

Symptoms
Early symptoms – diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, fever.
Later symptoms – muscular pain and stiffness .

CONDITION
Vibrio Food Poisoning

Offending Organism
Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Vibrio vulnificus

Food Source
V. vulnificus - raw oysters (and wounds),
V. parahaemolyticus - shellfish (especially shrimp), mollusks

Method of Transmission Food
Inadequately frozen in storage.
Inadequately cooked.
Wound of food handler already infected .

Time of Onset
Relatively quick.

Symptoms
Explosive, watery, bloody diarrhea, abdominal cramps.
V. vulnificus – wound infections and rapid, fatal blood infection.

CONDITION
Asiatic cholera

Offending Organism
Vibrio cholerae

Food Source and Method of Transmission Food
Any contaminated food or water.

Symptoms
Explosive, watery, bloody diarrhea (quickly leading to dehydration), abdominal cramps.

As a raw vegan all you need to do is be aware that produce is not always handled in the most hygienic of ways. In developing countries, be sure and wash your food before consuming it and do so in water that has been purified. Choose those fruits that you peel before eating, such as mangos and citrus, as much as possible.

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DON'T BE FOOLED BY A CRISIS
by Dr. V. V. Vetrano
vvvetrano@rionet.cc.

People often develop a crisis after having been supplying all of the physiological needs of life, such as sunshine, rest and sleep, emotional poise, etc. and eating all uncooked foods for several months. During the first two to three weeks they may feel so lousy and let down that they wonder how people can say they feel so much better on the regimen. It is like the drug addict who abruptly ceases taking his favorite drug. The full effects of having been on a detrimental and unnatural high for years is making itself known by extreme bodily discomfort. Eating unnatural and injurious "foods," condiments and other poisonous substances are also addictive and one can expect to feel tired and lethargic when quitting hurtful things. The body has to readjust to the more healthful regimen. In the beginning there may be a few light eliminating crises. Then the Health Seeker begins feeling better and better and they begin to think that this is it. They feel great and think that the elimination of stored toxins is all over.

But, don't let that fool you. Remember, that there is a state called "enervation,"--- a state of lowered nerve force as well as a weakened physical state because of activities that exhaust the entire body. You may be feeling great but you can still be so enervated from your past life style that your body is unable to eliminate all the toxins or heal every organ in a short time. It has a lot more work to do, but you may be unaware of it. Your organism must recover some extra nerve energy to carry out further healing processes. Also, the entire organism is chronically fatigued and may have detrimental changes in certain vital organs, needing repair. Therefore, more work needs to be done and it can not all be done at once. The body concentrates on one or only a few areas at a time.

Frequently, after about a year on the strict Hygienic program, the Health Seeker will suddenly develop a strong eliminating and healing crisis. Living in harmony with the laws of life permits the body to regain nerve energy as well as physical and organ functioning capacity. That is why it can now create a strong healing crisis. When a powerful crisis happens some people have a panic attack. They thought they were getting well and now they are much worse. "What is wrong?" These strong crises are not detoxification and should not be called such because it is instituted by
the organism itself and not with some medication to nullify another poison in the system. Healing is taking place as well. The Hygienic crisis is not just a matter of the elimination of toxins.

Having more of whatever symptoms the Health Seeker had initially is sometimes more than they can take, because they do not realize that it is really a crisis in the correct usage of the term. It is a
turning point or stage of any disease where the individual could get better or worse. Many a time when physicians still made house calls a doctor would sit there and wait to see if the patient would surmount all obstacles and recover or go the other way. It was a tense emotional period for the family and the doctor. That is what a crisis is; the patient either made it or didn't. The Hygienic crisis is a turning point and the patient almost invariably makes it, especially because no medications have been used to suppress symptoms.

This often happens after eight or nine months into the Hygienic regimen. It also often happens a month or two after a complete fast. Recently, I had a client who had ulcerative colitis, with abcesses that became fistulas and drained out close to the anal region. This was so repulsive to him that he really wanted to get well in a hurry. We all do. However, as we all know, no serious disease, especially of the gastrointestinal tract, gets well in a hurry. He did his best for almost a year by supplying all the needs of life, staying with strained juices and nut milks which he tolerated very well. His symptoms slowly got better. Instead of many bloody bowel movements a day he had fewer and fewer and after several months the bloody stools finally stopped and he was well on his way to complete recovery. He could go outdoors or shopping without colonic accidents or the fear of having one.

Then it came!! The Big Crisis!! All of a sudden there were more bowel movements, more mucus in the stools, coupled with gobs of mucus streaming from the fistulas. He was sick and tired of juices and did not want to go back to them because he had been confined to them for so long; and now he was already able to eat solid foods. He just couldn't stomach going back to juices; and that is perfectly understandable. So, he sought care outside of the Hygienic field. Had he been able to fast he would have avoided being so long on juices but many people cannot get away to fast
properly. Nevertheless, mucous was also pouring out other parts of the body. And he was in great abdominal pain. He did what most people do, when they have not studied Hygiene long enough. You can't blame them because the crisis fools them and they think they are back where they started instead of almost being at the aspired goal of genuine health. Dr. Herbert M. Shelton has often written about these types of crises. He said that when they come, they not only result in the healing of the primary problem, but the recovery of many other accompanying diseases also occurs with the same crisis.

When a crisis like this hits it is of course best to stop all food and fast through it. It won't be so painful, and it won't last so long. But, if that can't be done, it is of utmost importance that one
continue the Hygienic program and not panic and seek care outside of Hygienic sphere. In seeking care from other practitioners, the symptoms will be suppressed with herbs, medical drugs, or with diet or whatever makes the patient "feel" better and helps him think that he is getting well. By suppressing the symptoms whether it be by a different diet, drugs, herbs, supplements, or other means several negative things can happen: (1) the healing itself is suppressed and the good effects which could have been experienced by the individual are lost; (2) the suppressive agents themselves cause a waste of nerve energy and can reinstate the toxic condition of the body; (3) if the suppression of the symptoms is carried on for a significant length of time there will be a return of the symptoms for which the person had struggled so long to get to heal.

A person who initiates the Hygienic regimen should study all avenues of Hygiene deeply so that crises are understood for what they are--a step forward to health and not a step backward. Before doing anything unHygienic the Health Seeker should at least consult a Hygienic doctor first. Then if other means seem best at the time the Hygienic doctor will tell the Health Seeker and refer him/her to someone or suggest what else can be done. Also, this will provide two opinions and the individual can make up his/her mind as to what is best under these circumstances. Under most circumstances it is always best to hang in there with Hygiene rather than to interfere with the bodily functions.

For more information write or call: Dr. Vetrano's Health Information Service, P.O. Box 190, Barksdale, Texas 78828; Tel: 830-234-3499; e-mail: vvvetrano@rionet.cc.

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Take two portabello mushrooms, spread avocado onto their surfaces, fill with finely sliced cucumber before placing face to face to make a yummy sandwich. - Prof. Rozalind Gruben

Freeze several ripe bananas, run through a Champion juicer with the blank plate installed, or process with an S-blade, then serve in bowls topped with blueberries and/or sliced strawberries. Option: freeze a few strawberries too and process them with the bananas. - Dave Klein

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The superior eating habits of underslept people always start tomorrow.

Where there is conflict there is opportunity for the demonstration of love.

Sunshine is to the soul what water is to the cells. Without it we become parched in our perspectives.

- Prof. Rozalind Gruben

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Today, all I need to do is to be truly present then my day will become a gift.

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Summer’s bounty of luscious fruits has just begun to arrive. Seek out “u-pick-em” farms and stock up at farmer’s markets too.

Plant a few cucumber seeds and a tomato plant or two or three every few weeks to assure a fall bounty of fresh food from your garden. Also plant a few pumpkin and squash seeds for a harvest of their seeds in the fall.

At Rawstock we’ll have the creamiest, most flavorful and nourishing organic apricots: Blenheims.
I hope you can come and enjoy it all!

- Dave Klein

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