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* 2004 Healthful Living International Symposium on Healthful Living, August 9-15 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida at the Radisson Bahia Mar Beach Resort, 801 Seabreeze Blvd. Huge savings are offered for early registrations. Pay online, by phone or by check. See details at <http://www.healthfullivingintl.org/Symposium2004.html>.

* Rawstock II - The Fig Fest. August 28-30, 2004 at Macdonald Farm, Sebastopol, California. Join us for the funnest outdoor party of the year! Lectures, discussions, farm-fresh food, music, dancing, games, camping, canoeing. Call (707) 829-0362. Details: <http://www.rawstock.us>. A portion of the profits will go to HLI.

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Natural Hygiene Reborn!

Support Your Healthful Lifestyle at
Healthful Living International’s
2nd International Symposium on Healthful Living

A Week of Pure Health Empowerment and
Hygienic Community Connection

August 9th-15th, 2004
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
<http://www.healthfullivingintl.org>

HLI’s Second International Symposium on Healthful Living promises to be a Week of Pure Health Empowerment. You will enjoy:

* Four full days of learning about Natural Hygiene, the most successful self-health care system the world has ever known: Inspiring and educational workshops, presentations, and small-group discussions to once and for all set you firmly on a path of clarity in your healthful lifestyle choices.

* Thursday outing: After full lecture schedules on Tuesday and Wednesday, we’ll enjoy Thursday afternoon outdoors. Join us for a spirited outing to Florida’s Everglades and other points of interest such as the Fruit and Spice Park, or, just relax at the beach.

* Exquisitely healthful meals: A stunning array of delicious, locally grown, seasonal, low-fat vegan fruit and vegetable cuisine, all raw, as Nature provides.

* Personal attention: We have scheduled plenty of time to have your questions answered or to arrange personal consultations with presenters.

* Evening entertainment, social mixers and relaxing walks.

You Will Learn
* How to achieve radiant health and your optimal weight via Natural Hygiene - the science and fine art of healthful living.
* How to create a most healthful lifestyle and receive support from other health-minded friends.
* How to set yourself free of medical dependence.
* How to promote self-healing without medicines, herbs, treatments, or therapies.
* The value of sleep and rest for promoting efficient self-healing.
* The role of fitness in health and rejuvenation.
* How to recognize and utilize healthful living principles as a platform for the advancement of your inner peace and joy.
* The illustrious history of Natural Hygiene.
* The incredible personal stories of many people who have overcome seemingly deadly diseases and have totally rejuvenated without any medical care.
* Why fresh, organic uncooked fruits and vegetables offer top nutrition and most exquisite taste sensations.
* How to save yourself from cooking drudgery.
* Why conventional nutritional guidelines just don't work.
* How to eat for simplicity and optimal digestion.
* Ways to nurture and heal our natural environment via the dietary and lifestyle choices that you make.
* How to most successfully influence others in achieving superior personal and global health.

For full details, please see http://www.healthfullivingintl.org/Symposium2004.html

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Patience, Persistence, and Perseverance Pay Off!
Never forget this when trying to get well hygienically

By Dr. Vivian V. Vetrano
<vvvetrano@rionet.cc>

Recovery of health sometimes seems very slow to those who were brought up in the age of quick cures, computer games, racket ball, and other rapid past times. But, remember this: It takes a lifetime for one to destroy the health with which we were born. During that time many cells and tissues have been destroyed; others have degenerated and are replete with cellular inclusions such as fat, scar tissue, and indigestible substances. The body practically has to remake itself in order to function normally again. This takes time, much time, but a lot less than it took for you to break yourself down. So be patient, be persistent in right living, and doggedly persevere, knowing that your body will definitely heal itself in time. It can’t help but do it, because that was the way it was designed.

The following story about my cat “Cyclone” serves as a unique example of patience, persistence, and perseverance. Cyclone knew what she wanted and persisted until she finally got it. It all began when...

My dog, Peaches, kidnapped a newly born kitten. It may be difficult to believe, but Peaches was really a “catnapper.” I was terribly afraid she would eat it, so I watched closely. Instead of eating it, she gently carried it dangling from her mouth under the house where she dug a shallow hole and laid down, encircled the kitten with her body, and licked it occasionally. I had to pry the kitten away from Peaches three or four times a day, and take it to its mama so it could nurse. Peaches would again and again pick up that particular kitten and carry it to her nest. This continued until the kitten was too heavy for Peaches to carry, so she gave up. This kidnapped kitten became an amazing cat.

I had never liked cats. I only had the cats around me and fed them because they had been discarded by my grandkids who had grown up and left home without their numerous pets. Peaches’ kitten also grew up, but did not want to leave home. Instead, this cat wanted to be in the house so earnestly that as soon as anyone opened the door she’d scamper in so fast you could barely see her--she was just a yellow streak. I could not tolerate that one bit. After she sneaked into the house, she would hide. When I’d find her she’d deftly escape my every attempt to catch her. Crawling under the furniture to get her, as soon as I’d grab one leg, off she’d go. I used a broom to push her out of tight places. I got so angry with her that one time I threw her out by her tail! I definitely did not want a cat in my house!!! This irritating situation went on for at least three years. The cat’s name became “Cyclone” because when anyone opened the door, she’d swoop in just like a cyclone.

Finally, the cat’s loving nature got to me. After all, she was a sweet cat in spite of her bad habit of sneaking into the house. She liked to be carried on my shoulder and she would follow Peaches and me on our daily walks in the woods. I felt bad, about treating her so meanly. So, I began treating her more warmly and let her in once in a while for a few minutes. She walks all over the house looking at every thing, even going into opened cabinets. She goes all over the desk, around computers, over the cords, on the counter tops and just everywhere. I noticed she was so careful that she never knocked anything over like other cats do. She gets on my lap and purrs and kneads with her paws. When I sunbathe she lays by my arms and legs and purrs and knead more. When I sit down to eat, she comes by me and gives a an abbreviated meow or a “meep.”

She has to have a bite of every thing I eat. She likes cantaloupe, watermelon, nut butter and almost every fruit available. In short, she has become the house cat that I did not want. She kept up her Patience, Persistence and Perseverance for years. She never let up until she got what she wanted. Now, she is happily kneading her claws everywhere, sleeping next to Peaches, inside or outside the house. She comes in the house whenever she wants. All she has to do is stand by the door and say, “meeep.” When she wants out she stands by the door and says, “meeep” again.

Cyclone the kitty, knew what to do to get her way. When you were young I am sure that you also were, perhaps not patient, but persistent, persevering until you got what you wanted from Mother or Dad or both. So now, you must again apply what you already know, but add Patience to the formula to finally achieve the good health that you so desire.

The following law, “the Law of Healing” should give you the knowledge and courage to live in harmony with natural law until you finally achieve your goal, even if it takes years. I formulated this law years ago, because so many people I was teaching had difficulty understanding that healing is a biological process and that all living organisms heal themselves. Life’s Great Law infers this but it can be misinterpreted because of the use of the term “self-preservation” which can also mean running away from danger, etc. It does not imply that the body can restore its own health even when ill from internal abnormalities such as kidney problems, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, other chronic diseases and even those sicknesses that people think are caused by microorganisms. For these, they have been taught that the vicious bacterium, virus, or parasite must be slain with antibiotics or they will surely succumb.

Knowing the truth will help one be PATIENT, PERSIST in right living and, PERSEVERE until the body has recovered health, or as much as is possible, depending upon the reversibility of the damaged organs. It surprises many people when they recover from severe pathological conditions that they do in fact get well by following the Hygienic way, when they had been told that their death was near. The Law of Healing follows:

“So that health may be maintained and/or regained, every living organism has the inherent ability to repair, replenish, renew and heal its own structures, or tends toward healing, without the aid of artificial means, even when death is inevitable as a result of overwhelming inimical influences and agencies.”

So, don’t give up folks. Remember: PATIENCE, PERSISTENCE, AND PERSEVERANCE PAYS OFF.

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Remineralizing the Earth

by Dr. Robert Sniadach
<rwsniadach@transformationinstitute.org>

The remineralization of forests, farms, orchards and gardens with glacial gravel and rock dust is nature's way to regenerate and fertilize soils. During an Ice Age, as glaciers grind rock to a fine dust over millennia, a fertile soil is created. Adding finely ground gravel dust to soils is a tremendous boost to organic agriculture and can make it truly viable by adding up to a hundred elements and trace minerals needed by all life and by nourishing the microorganisms in the soil, whose protoplasm is the basis for all living things. There is evidence to suggest that as forests begin to die off worldwide, giving off carbon dioxide, the climate of the Earth is altered, triggering the transition from warm interglacial to an ice age. We are hastening this process with the burning of fossil fuels. Undertaking the task of remineralization is urgent to restore our agricultural soils and to save the dying forests the temperate latitudes thereby stabilizing our climate.

These are some of the opening paragraphs of a wonderful newsletter published by Joanna Campe called Remineralize the Earth. I first heard of these agricultural ideas from another great forward-thinking monthly newspaper called Acres, U.S.A. If you've got an interest in farming, gardening, orcharding and state of the art thinking toward ecologically sound resource management, check these publications out. They both cut through the chaff we're subjected to from the politically correct airwaves and print media.

Any inventor worth his salt will agree that the best ideas are the simple ones. And so it is with the concept of rock dust remineralization. When I first came upon this concept, I laughed out loud at the wonderful innocence of it. I thought to myself, "This guy's actually telling me that all I have to do to restore dying forests, reclaim dead soils, halt the rapid increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide, stop climate temperature change, and have a huge bounty from my garden to boot, is to get a bunch of rocks, grind 'em up real good, and throw it in the garden?" Yeah, right!

Well, believe it. The more I read, the better sense it made. Through careful observation and integration of the facts, John Hamaker understood nature's refertilization cycle. The sheer simplicity of augmenting nature (natural law) in this way to restore our planet's ecosphere is elegant and practical.

Here are some basics:
1. Ice core and tree ring studies from locations all over the Earth show us that for many millions of years, the Earth has cycled from roughly 90,000 years of ice age to 10,000 years of warm interglacial periods. We are presently about 10,300 years into this particular warm interglacial period.
2. It is known that the Earth's soil becomes demineralized during each interglacial. Consequent decline and death of the world's forests and other vegetation which occurs causes great quantities of carbon dioxide to be given off.
3. The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been rising exponentially for the past century. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses trap excess heat from the sun, affecting the world's climate.
4. John Hamaker has supplied one missing piece of the cosmic puzzle to provide an explanation for the 100,000 year cycle of major ice ages. He points out that the greenhouse effect primarily occurs in the tropics, which get the most sun, rather than the polar regions, which get very little. When this happens, the temperature differential between the tropics and the poles increases,resulting in fierce wind systems, hurricanes, tornadoes and storms.
5. The moisture picked up by these increasing storm systems is transported to the higher latitudes, where it gets deposited as snow and ice, eventually bringing on glaciation and the next ice age. The near term effects are extreme temperature swings through the year and a gradually shortening growing season.
6. It is known that as the glaciers advance and recede, the massive weight of the ice grinds down countless tons of rock; this mineral-rich dust is blown far and wide over the surface of the Earth, remineralizing the soil and causing plants to thrive again.

Regarding soil in general:
1. Plants require a continuous intake of minerals, just like we do. The minerals from rocks provide electromagnetic charges needed to power enzyme reactions, transport nutrients and provoke our sensation of taste. Food grown in highly mineralized soil is not only stronger, brighter colored and more compact, the intensity of taste is wonderful to experience.
2. Plants grown on mineral-depleted soil aren't able to achieve their fullest physiological capabilities. They are smaller, less hardy and are much more vulnerable to succumb to insects, worms and fungi.
3. Remineralization causes a phenomenal growth of microorganisms in the soil. It increases the nutrient intake of plants. It counters the effects of soil acidity, prevents soil erosion, increases the storage capacity of the soil, contributes to the building of precious humus complexes, has anti-fungal properties, and when you spray it on plants it repels insects as well. The plants and trees become highly resistant to insects, disease, frosts and drought.
4. Remineralization speeds up the process of composting.

Some of these results speak for themselves:
1. The results of long term experiments released in 1986 showed that in a forest where pine seedlings were remineralized, after 24 years the wood volume was four times higher than in the untreated area.
2. In 1976, Hamaker spread gravel crusher screenings on part of his 10 acres in Michigan. The following year, in an area of sparse rainfall and dry summers, his corn produced 65 bushels per acre, compared to yields of under 25 from other local farms, and he used no irrigation. Independent analyses revealed Hamaker's corn had 28% more protein, 47% more calcium, 57% more phosphorus, 60% more magnesium and 90% more potassium than the same type of corn grown conventionally nearby.
3. Don Weaver grew 18-foot pole beans on remineralized soil and got two to four times the normal organic yield.
4. Alan LePage grew carrots averaging 1-1/2 feet long and the tested brix reading (sugar content) was the highest of any carrots he had ever tested.

Thousands of scientific studies of various rock dust mixtures are underway all over the U.S. and Europe. The results look extremely encouraging. Again, if we look closely at how natural law works to maintain the abundant life on Earth, we always find ways to "go with the flow" that encourage optimal growth, health and vitality.

And how simple it is! Rocks are nature's fertilizer. Rocks make soil. Through temperature changes and erosion, rocks begin to weather and crack. Then the fungi, bacteria and lichens go to work breaking them down into tiny particles. We can harmonize with this process and accelerate it. If we crush rocks to a flour-like fineness and spread tons of it on our forests, orchards, farms and gardens, the regenerative powers of nature spring forth unlike anything you can imagine.

The base of the Earth's food chain, soil microorganisms, feast on the plentiful minerals and convert them into organic protoplasm that plants can use. Edible produce goes way up in beneficial, healthy nutrient content. Forest trees take on a new vigorous growth. All critters that depend on healthy vegetation begin to thrive again.

What's it gonna take to make this work?

First we need rocks. No worry, rocks are everywhere.

However, it is true that certain rock mixtures and deposits, especially glacial gravel, work better and faster than others. Rock crushing operations are springing up at these desirable mineral deposits all over the U.S. Anything from 50 lb.. bags to truckloads of rock dust and pellets are available for the farmer and gardener. And usually they are very cheap - $8-$10 a ton! Bags of concentrated slow release pellets are available for the gardener who doesn't need such large quantities.

For the best results, work the rock dust into your soil along with a little manure and compost. These adjuncts will insure the presence of the real workers, bacteria and other microorganisms. They will multiply incredibly fast while ingesting and transforming the minerals into organic protoplasm for plants to use. Also, beneficial properties of the soil are continually improved.

If you're not a farmer or gardener, but really want to do something positive for our environment, give a holler to Joanna at <http://www.remineralize.org>.

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Inflammation:
The Body’s Cleanup Crew in Fast Action!

by David Klein
<dave@livingnutrition.com>

When injured or invaded by toxic matter, gases or microorganisms, or when a buildup of internal toxic debris, fluids and/or microorganisms (commonly called an “infection”) reaches a crucial level, the body enacts a health-restorative purification process called inflammation. In this process, the body is working at a “feverish” pace to heal you! It sends elements of the immune system to the threatened area: phagocytes, including monocyte/macrophages and leukocytes, also known as white blood cells or T cells, which produce antibodies, binding toxins to the killer/neutralizing T cells.

In addition to the T cell action, the body sends antibody-producing B cells, more blood and more lymphatic fluid for removal of toxic debris to the threatened area. Also, the permeability of the small blood vessels is increased to permit the delivery of large molecules from the bloodstream to the damaged area for use in the body’s repair work. The extra blood and lymphatic fluid causes the inflamed area to swell, redden, feel hot and, sometimes, painful. These are all normal and positive signs of the body’s magnificent self-healing powers in action.

Would you ever purposely do anything to hinder your body’s healing processes? Only if you did not know why all of this was happening!

Inflammation is vigorous self-healing action intelligently conducted by the body. The intelligence of bodily healing action is supreme, and it is foolish to mess with the process! No matter what we do, only the body can heal itself, and, in each case, it heals in spite of, not because of our interference. Only the body can heal itself, and there is no force in our lives which is more powerful than those self-healing powers. Therefore, it is prudent to simply clean the affected area (if it’s external) with water, then leave it alone and get plenty of rest and sleep to allow the body to shunt all the self-healing energy it can muster for its restorative job. Inflammation will run its course if we support the self-healing process. Only then will health will be restored. Remember: self-healing energy is only generated when we sleep -- it does not come from food or remedies or anything else. There are no exceptions to this physiological process of life.

Taking anti-inflammatory medicines and herbs works against the body’s restorative action, since all "medicinal" anti-inflammatory agents are toxic and enervating -- they have no healing intelligence and do not act on the body; rather, the body works to eliminate them. Thus, their use is counterproductive, decreasing the amount of bodily energy available for self-healing, and in some cases, making us sicker. Overdosing on medicines and herbs can weaken the body so greatly that it has no energy for keeping the inflammation process going, and thus the inflammation stops prematurely, fooling people into believing that the agent “worked” -- that does not “cure” us; rather, that stops the self-healing action, keeping us toxic! Icing a wound chills out our life-force, slowing down the healing process. The self-healing life-force needs to rage on, unimpeded, to complete its job!

Empower yourself to heal by deeply delving into these simple yet mind-challenging teachings. Then, let go and allow your body to heal on its own terms. Self-healing and rejuvenating can be a wonderfully ecstatic experience, and as easy as doing nothing -- intelligently!

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Disease and the Illusion of “Cure”

by Dr. Robert Sniadach
<rwsniadach@transformationinstitute.org>

Healthful Living International recognizes the purpose and inherent wisdom of the disease process, its self-healing nature and the necessity of following its dictates and seeing to its needs for full repair and healing of one’s whole Being (body/mind/spirit).

The hugely popular and yet incredibly destructive misunderstanding of both the true processes of disease and the proper recovery from disease has been “epidemic” within human societies for millennia. The disease processes are innate healing responses initiated by the whole Being as an integral and necessary part of life. The disease process itself is the “cure” for the problems of imbalance in the Being.

Disease, as a word, means very simply not at ease. In physiological terminology, disease means deviation from normal. That means that the body has deviated from regular functions. In a state of disease the body has rechanneled or redirected its energies so that it has less than usual energy left for functions normally engaged in. Disease is an intelligent innate modification of normal body functions to cope with an abnormal situation. Disease is an attempt of the body to free its cells and circulatory system of clogging and toxic materials. It is a desperate body rallying its remaining resources to the tasks of elimination and restoration. Disease has a single basic cause: toxic accumulation of poisonous substances. This is called toxicosis. Disease does not happen in only one part of the body. For example, if the liver is undergoing inflammation (hepatitis), the whole body is diseased. It just so happens that the liver is the focal point for restorative processes.
Just “treating” the liver misses the whole point of true healing.

There are two distinct types of disease. The first type of disease serves a constructive purpose and the second type serves a destructive purpose. They are as follows:
1. Remedial/constructive disease, often called acute disease.
2. Degenerative and destructive, often called chronic disease. This results from repeated insult to
organs, tissues, bones, or other faculties that then undergo destruction, distortion, or irreversible impairment.

Acute disease (aka constructive disease) is always remedial and health producing. Diseases are body created and conducted for the purpose of cleansing, repair and restoration of overall body balance, which is called homeostasis. Acute or constructive disease is a natural physiological process for cleansing the organism of toxic materials that have accumulated above the point of toleration, as determined by the level of vitality. It is a “house-cleaning” step; a condition the body brings about to purify itself, repair damages, and to restore normal function. Only the body’s
intelligence can muster the unity, the organization, the resources, and power to start the disease process. It is a totally natural and innate process, as a living being is self-healing and self-sustaining, when its needs are properly met.

Chronic disease is organic destruction resulting from continuing buildup of toxic materials and debris that overwhelm the cells of tissues and structures for extended periods. Chronic disease results from an original acute disease process that was artificially aborted and/or sidetracked.

Bacteria, viruses and germs are rarely if ever the primary cause of disease. Bacteria are normal to the body. They work symbiotically with the host organism by assisting in breakdown and removal of toxic wastes and materials. Bacteria and protein decomposition create harmful byproducts that, if not eliminated, accumulate to such an extent that the body initiates a cleansing crisis (acute illness) to remove them. Bacteria are helpless against healthy living cells. An “invasion” by bacteria such as we imagine in contagion never takes place. The bacteria that proliferate in a disease crisis are with us all the time. We harbor uncounted billions of microorganisms in our intestinal tract, on our skin, in our mouth and nose and other body cavities. We carry and are exposed to countless millions of streptococcal, staphylococcal, pneumococcal, enterococcal, mycobacterial and parasitic species every day. If the microbes were the active causes of disease, we would all be gone in a few days. Thus, the body is the ONLY actor in the crisis of elimination or cleansing which is called a disease. Bacteria and viruses CANNOT be primarily blamed for disease.

Diseases are not contagious per se, although they have the appearance of being so. It is the unhealthful living practices that cause diseases that are rampant, not the diseases themselves.

Conventional medicine utilizes three main approaches in attempting to cure disease:
1. Chemical forces -- drugging/poisoning, sterilizing
2. Physical forces -- burning, freezing, electrocuting, irradiating
3. Mechanical forces -- cutting, removing, traumatizing

None of these methods of “cure” or “prevention” are designed to affect or even touch the basic causes of disease. Drugs may suspend vital activity such that symptoms disappear, but they do not remove the cause. They may kill germs but they also kill off patients. They do not clear up the systemic condition that permits bacteria to thrive and grow in parts of the body where they are not normal. Chemicals may temporarily check the growth of a tumor or cancer, but it does not and cannot remove the causes of cancer. Powerful X-rays may destroy a cancerous growth but they also destroy healthy tissue and cause further cancer while leaving intact the causes of disease.

It cannot be emphasized too much that: If a modality does not remove causes, it does not “cure.”
Serums and vaccines are admittedly capable of doing much harm, but they do not remove the causes of disease. Therefore, they do not enable us to “avoid” diseases, even those for which they are administered. We need to know that: If practices do not enable us to avoid the causes of disease, they cannot prevent disease. Surgeons may pull a tooth, extract the tonsils, cut out the gall bladder, excise the appendix, sever and remove the ovaries and seminal vesicles, drain the sinuses, etc. but they do not thereby remove the causes of disease. Mopping up the water from a leaky faucet does not remove the causes of the leak. Removing effects of cause likewise does
not remove the cause. It is time for us to understand the following: If surgery does not remove the causes of disease, it cannot “cure” the disease.

There is no “cure” short of removal of causes. Cutting out an organ, suppressing a symptom with a drug (medicine), destroying a growth, removing a stone -- these processes touch effects only. They fail to restore health for three very vital reasons:

1. They do not remove the causes of ill health.
2. They are not the factors out of which good health is built.
3. They produce definite injury to the body.

We must look to constructive natural agencies, forces, and methods for “prevention” of disease and recovery of health. We must cease relying on destructive, unnatural or anti-natural measures, forces, agents and processes. Agents such as drugs that produce disease in the well cannot possibly produce health in the sick. Disease-producing agents and measures are not health preserving. The popular methods of “prevention” and “cure” neither prevent nor restore health. Witness the ever-growing army of sick and suffering in spite of the ever-increasing size of our army
of physicians, nurses and hospitals, and the ever-growing list of “cures” and “miracle drugs.”

All drugs are toxic, foreign to the body and ultimately have seriously destructive side-effects (more accurately termed “undesired primary effects”) to many systems and structures in the body. The body recognizes them as poisons and makes heroic efforts to expel them quickly. The disease process has progressions and plateaus. These must be respected and tended to by applying the
proper hygienic needs of life in the manner best suited to the ill person’s ability to make positive use of them at that time.

Disease, if the body initiates it, can be encouraged to a successful conclusion all the more speedily if fasting, rest, fresh air, and sunlight are obtained in healthful measure. Disease will not occur if a healthful living regime, which includes occasional fasting, is followed. To be healthy, do not indulge the causes of disease. Only madness can lead us to attempt to be free of disease by
submitting to means which cause yet more disease. To “cure” disease, remove the causes of disease. It is the worst kind of folly to attempt to cure disease by ignoring its causes and employing modalities that are in themselves causes of disease. It is absurd to attempt to build health by employing means and measures that are known to impair and wreck
health. To build health, employ the causes of health -- Natural Hygiene.

HLI recognizes and strongly emphasizes that health does not come solely from understanding the disease process and the falsity of attempting to cure disease. This understanding, however, is
a major piece of Hygienic wisdom that will serve you well in your continuing journey toward excellent health.

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Why Does Overeating On Fat
Make It Impossible To Get Enough Carbs?

by Dr. Douglas Graham
<foodnsport@aol.com>

There are only three sources of calories: protein, fat and carbohydrate. If you overeat on calories, you gain weight, and store it as fat. Human physiology dictates that we need 80-90% of our total calories consumed as carbohydrates. As approximately 6-10% of our total calories will always come from protein, if you eat more than 10% of calories from fat, you cannot possibly meet your carbohydrate needs without consuming an excess of calories.

On the physiology side, if you have higher than healthy blood fat levels, it will lead to heart disease and cancer while exerting an inhibiting impact upon sugar's exit from the bloodstream resulting in some combination of candida, diabetes, and chronic fatigue. Yes, you can utilize fat for fuel by converting it to carbs via the process known as gluconeogenesis, but not only is this extremely unhealthy, (the high levels of ketones generated have abnormal impact upon brain chemistry) but it is also extremely inefficient.

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