Did You Know...

Heart & Blood

• The Heart will beat, even if removed from the body, as long as it has food. Only the heart muscle can do this.
• Your heart beats over 100,000 times in a day.
• Your heart pumps 1,440 gallons of blood each day.
• Your blood travels over 170,000 miles in a day.
• There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in your body - a distance twice around the world! In each eye alone are about 80 miles of blood vessels if stretched out from end to end.
• Your blood contains 25-30 trillion red blood cells. Their combined surface would cover about 200 square feet.

Brain & Nerves

• You are born with all the brain cells you will ever have.
• The brain is composed of about 15 billion (15,000,000,000) powerful brain cells that are about 90% water.
• Humans use only a fraction (less than 1/10th) of their brain capacity.
• Each half of the brain controls the opposite side of the body.
• Your nervous system sends messages as fast as 185 miles per hour.
• Your brain & nerves cannot function without (neuro) Melanin.

Skin

• Over 600,000 skin cells would fit into an area the size of a postage stamp. The entire surface of the skin has about 7 million pores (perspiratory tubes), each about a 1/4 inch long. Laid out end to end, they'd extend 28 miles.
• The skin breathes like lungs, absorbing oxygen and exhaling carbonic acid gas and watery vapor.
• The skin excretes organic matter, toxins, and saline matter in solution, like the kidneys. The average amount of fluid waste discharged through the skin every 24 hours is about 2 pounds.
• In one square inch of skin are 625 sweat glands, 90 oil glands, 19 million cells, 19 feet of blood vessels, 19,000 sensory cells, 65 hairs... and millions of microscopic animals.

Organs

• Your organs are duplicated in each cell of your body.
• Your liver is a chemical factory and detoxifier which filters toxins at a rate of a quart of blood per minute. It regenerates its own tissue, even if 80% of its cells are damaged.
• As much as 500 gallons of blood pass through the kidneys each day to be filtered of waste. Your kidneys filter the body's entire volume of blood 60 times each day.
• Your ears enable you to keep your balance, plus hear.

Bones & Muscles

• Bones are blood factories, besides being a flesh-hanger. Bone marrow can produce 5 billion red blood cells a day.
• The human skeleton has 206 bones; over 50 in the hands.
• The skull appears to be one bone but really 29 separate bones fused together.
• 650 muscles cover the body. Over 200 are used when you walk. Smiling uses only 17 muscles but a frown uses 43.

Cells & Growth

• From the time of conception to adulthood, your body grows from one cell to one quadrillion cells (1,000,000,000,000,000).
• Blood is renewed at the rate of millions of cells per second.
• The stomach lining completely regenerates in a week, a healthy liver regenerates in 6 weeks, and the skin surface in a month.
• No cell in your body is over 2 years old! (except for your irreplaceable brain cells, and even with these - the atoms are continually being replaced).
• Every year over 96% of your body is completed replaced, even the structure of the DNA of your genes, reconstructed from the food you eat (or rather, the nutrients you assimilate).
• Each cell is a storehouse for some 5000 enzymes needed to implement chemical reactions.
• Each of your cells is responsible for supervising 1000 to 10,000 different chemical reactions.
• In the human body, some 6 trillion reactions occur every second and each of them is correlated with every other reaction.

Your body is a self-cleaning, self-healing, irreplaceable mechanism which deserves Nature's best! All you have to do is feed it properly, give it sunshine, exercise, avoid poisoning it, and stay out of its way. What is your body worth? ...Priceless!! So we must take care of our priceless body and it will take care of us!

"A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison" ~ Francis Bacon Sr.

Hemp

Hemp seed is a "complete protein" containing all the essential amino and fatty acids. The globulin edestin, found in hemp protein, closely resembles the globulin found in human blood plasma, and is easily digested and utilized by the human body. In fact, it is so compatible with humans' digestive tract that a 1955 Czechoslovakian study found Hemp seed to be the only food that can successfully treat the consumptive disease tuberculosis, in which the nutritive processes are impaired and the body wastes away.

Hemp is of special importance for People of Colour, for it effectively helps those suffering from Sickle Cell Anemia. Hemp herb, seeds, and oil (especially) greatly oxygenates the blood and decreases blood pressure. Hemp has been used to treat female disorders: morning sickness (though no one will endorse the smoking of marijuana, or any other substance, by pregnant women), uterine dysfunctions, menorrhagia (excessive uterine bleeding), and menstrual cramps. Hemp has also been used to treat countless dis-eases, including asthma, respiratory diseases, whooping cough, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, neuralgia, migraines, depression, insomnia, malaria, inflammation, digestive disorders, alcoholism and even drug addiction... which brings us to another amazing property: Hemp is not addictive nor habit forming! Smoking marijuana does not lead to addiction, nor to heroin and cocaine addiction, according to studies. Cannabis is nontoxic. No deaths from an overdose have ever been verified.

Hemp has anciently been used for spiritual purposes in cultures around the world. The waterpipe was developed in North Africa. Known as dagga, hemp is a sacrament and medicine to many African peoples including the Twa-humanity's ancestors. In ancient times, Ethiopia was known as the "Land of Incense" and is still renown for its potent hashish.

In addition to feeding, healing and "enlightening" Humanity, Hemp can save Earth and solve many of our ecology problems, including deforestation. Hemp is incredibly versatile. It makes the best, most durable, safe "plastic", glue, wood, fiber, paper, nontoxic varnishes and paints and even bio-fuel. Continuously, it purifies the air (no pun intended), removing detrimental positive ions.

Side Note: The natural chemical in hemp that makes you "high" has great medicinal value. Called THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), it activates when hemp is heated (cooked). For those who smoke hemp, it is safest to smoke it using a waterpipe. When the fumes are drawn through the water, the "bad stuff" (burnt substances) is left behind in the water while the THC escapes.

Reference - Drugs Masquerading As Foods, Suzar

The Power Of Choice

By achieving a strong mind-body connection, you will feel empowered to make better choices and lead a healthier life. Lasting changes and the reaching of goals result from: belief in oneself, belief in the ability to change and actually committing to actions that both change behavioural patterns and lead to real changes in one's very being.

Everything that we have ever been exposed to conditions us in some way. We condition ourselves into patterns of actions based upon all relationships that we have been exposed to over a lifetime (and not just with others but with the environment around us). This conditioning determines much of how we act and we can end up reacting to situations instead of responding in ways that will lead us closer to the life that we want to be living.

This repetition of acting trains us to act more and more in that fashion. We create neural networks and pathways associated with that thought/emotional process and it becomes our natural set point. This has enormous ramifications for what we see as 'personality'.

Where patterns that become strengthened are negative ones, it leads us into poor health and lowered life satisfaction. Addictions are the most obvious examples of this. But we can change the way we act, just as we can change how we move and how strong we are.

We have the choice and unlimited power to change our lives. In fact, our choices really are bounded only by imagination. By recognizing why we act in the way we do now, we are able to see, moment by moment when we are reacting to situations in a way that is pushing us further away from our goals rather than responding in a way that will lead us closer to them.

Knowledge is power and by knowing the basis for our actions, by seeing the action taking place and knowing where we want to be going, we can change course and create a different path through the way we act instead of simply reacting.

Life is a choice. We have in our possession right now, the ability to begin living the life of our dreams. We just have to choose it!

*Referenced by Cliff Harvey ND(c), Dip.FIT, HbT

Birth Control

Natural birth control methods teach women to determine the fertile phase (typically 7 to 10 days long) of their menstrual cycle. To avoid pregnancy, women avoid intercourse on fertile days.

There are many variations of natural birth control. The most effective methods teach women to chart the signs of fertility that ebb and flow with the natural hormonal changes of each menstrual cycle. There are two main approaches 1) the sympto-thermal approach where waking temperature and cervical mucus are charted, and 2) the mucus approach where only cervical mucus is charted.

It is helpful for women and their partners to know about the two most common methods:

1. Fertility Awareness Method (FAM) refers to a natural birth control method outside of a religious framework that supports the use of barrier methods (condom, diaphragm, and spermicide), emergency contraception, and abortion. Justisse is a Canadian developed variant of FAM that teaches both the mucus only and the sympto-thermal approaches.

2. Natural Family Planning (NFP) typically refers to natural birth control that is taught and practised within a religious framework, most commonly Catholic centred organizations. It does not support the use of barrier methods, emergency contraception, or abortion. Billings Ovulation Method teaches only mucus observations. Serena and Couple to Couple League methods are sympto-thermal NFP variants. The Creighton Model will teach both mucus only and sympto-thermal approaches.

Sympto-thermal teaches a woman how to observe, chart and interpret her waking temperature (basal body temperature or BBT) and cervical mucus to understand what days she is fertile and what days she is not fertile. She then knows when she is likely and when she is less likely to become pregnant from intercourse.

A woman who has a regular menstrual cycle will usually experience the following sequence of events:

• 3 to 7 days of menstruation
• several days where she does not feel or see mucus in her vagina or on her vulva
• several days of a ‘wet’ or ‘slippery’ sensation at her vulva or in the vagina where she sees and/or feels mucus, which becomes progressively more slippery, stretchy, and clear as ovulation approaches
• after ovulation her waking temperature rises, mucus disappears from the vulva, and the vulva and vagina feel “drier

Fertile days begin with the first sensation of mucus at the vulva and continue until both the mucus has dried up and the waking temperature has been high for 3 days in a row. With days of higher fertility and lower fertility determined, a woman can time intercourse to avoid or achieve pregnancy.

If a woman’s cycle does not follow a typical pattern, using natural birth control will be more difficult. However, she can still use natural birth control but she is advised to seek consultation with a trained FAM/NFP instructor in order to use the method most effectively. In general, FAM/NFP are not recommended for women with the following difficulties: irregular cycles, inability to interpret the fertility signs correctly, or persistent infections that affect the signs of fertility.

Cervical changes are a third fertility sign that a woman may find useful in determining her fertility. She checks for variations in the position, firmness and openness of the cervix that relate to fertile and infertile days.

In order to effectively use FAM/NFP a woman needs to accept responsibility for charting and interpreting her fertility on a day-to-day basis. The possibility of an unplanned pregnancy should not represent a devastating occurrence in order to use this method of family planning. As with all forms of birth control, motivation, intention, and cooperation between partners are the key to effective, successful use.

Benefits

• Effective method of birth control
• Has no negative health side effects
• An alternative for women who cannot or do not want to use hormonal methods
• Promotes positive body awareness
• Consistent with many religious beliefs and lifestyles
• Alerts women to reproductive health and fertility concerns
• Fosters communication between partners
• Encourages partners to enjoy a variety of romantic or sexual activities as alternatives to vaginal intercourse during fertile periods
• Encourages male involvement

Disadvantages

• Provides no protection from sexually transmitted infections
• Often difficult to find trained FAM/NFP instructors
• Requires time to learn (usually 3 to 6 cycles)
• Requires discipline and commitment to chart fertility signs and follow the rules to avoid pregnancy
• Times of abstinence from intercourse may be a challenge for some couples

::For more information about Fertility Awareness Methods and a listing of certified instructors throughout North America please visit Justisse (http://www.justisse.ca/).

References

Strauss, J., & Barbieri, R. (Eds.). (2004). Jen and Jaffe's reproductive endocrinology (5 ed.). Boston, Massachusetts: Elsevier Saunders.

Lemonade Diet

For the novice and the advanced student alike, cleansing is basic for the elimination of every kind of disease. The purpose is to simplify the cause and the correction of all disorders, regardless of the name or names. As we eliminate and correct one disease, we correct them all, for every disease is corrected by the same process of cleansing and building good health.

The basic cause of disease is no longer a mystery. The basic cause is the habits of improper diet, inadequate exercise, negative mental attitudes, and lack of spiritual attunement which combine to produce toxic conditions and malfunction of our bodies. The elimination of the cause of illness is the obvious and only way to healing and health. The elimination of the habits that cause illness is done through the positive approach of developing proper habits that cause health combined with corrective techniques that remove the ill effects of our former incorrect ways.

The lemonade diet, has successfully and consistently demonstrated its eliminative and building ability. It may be used with complete safety for every known type of disease.
Lemons and limes are the richest source of minerals and vitamins of any food or foods known to man, and they area available the year round. Thus the diet may be used successfully any month of the year and virtually any place on earth. Its universal appeal and availability make it pleasant and easy to use.

As a reducing diet it is superior in every way to any other system because it dissolves and eliminates all types of fatty tissue. Fat melts away at the rate of about two pounds a day for most persons - and without any harmful side effects.

All mucus diseases such as colds, flu, asthma, hay fever, sinus and bronchial troubles are rapidly dissolved and eliminated from the body, leaving the user free from the varied allergies which cause difficult breathing and clogging of the sinus cavities. Allergies exist as a result of accumulation of these toxins and they vanish as we cleanse our body. People who are over-weight often experience these difficulties, and the more they continue to eat the toxic fat-producing foods which cause this obesity, the more their ailments multiply.

People build strong, healthy bodies from the correct foods or they build diseased bodies from the incorrect foods.

Purpose
- to dissolve and eliminate toxins and congestion that have formed in any part of the body
- to cleanse the kidneys and the digestive system
- to purify the glands and cells throughout the entire body
- to eliminate all unusable waste and hardened material in the joints and muscles
- to relieve pressure and irritation in the nerves, arteries, and blood vessels
- to build a healthy blood stream
- to keep youthful and elasticity regardless of our years

When To Use It
- when sickness has developed - for all acute and chronic conditions
- when the digestive system needs a rest and a cleansing
- when overweight has become a problem
- when better assimilation and building of body tissue is needed

Follow the diet for a minimum of 10 days or more - up to 40 days and beyond may be safely followed for extremely serious cases. The diet has all the nutrition needed during this time. Three to four times per year will do wonders for keeping the body in a normal healthy conditions. The diet may be undertaken more frequently for serious conditions.

2 Tbsp lemon or lime juice (approx 1/2 lemon)
2 Tbsp genuine maple syrup (not maple flavoured sugar syrup)
1/10 Tsp cayenne pepper (red pepper) or to taste
Water, medium hot

Take from six to twelve glasses of the lemonade daily during the waking period. As you get hungry just have another glass of lemonade. No other food should be taken during the full period of the diet. As this is a complete balance of minerals and vitamins, one does not suffer the pangs of hunger.


:: The following diet is given solely as a suggestion; anyone who follows it does so voluntarily. Since each person naturally reacts differently, each individual must use his/her own judgement as to its use.

* Referenced by 'The Master Cleanser' - by Stanley Burroughs