Will It Light?

"Will It Light?" is a video series that asks the question: Will the food we eat give us energy or take it away---will the food we eat light us up?

Watch the following You Tube to learn more!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBangbi8i60

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Exercise for your lungs

This exercise will help any type of lung problem, asthma, bronchitis, or breathing difficulties.

It strengthens the entire breathing system, including the skin, which is often called the " third lung".

To determine the health of the lungs and body, one should measure the length of the inhalation and exhalation. If the exhalation is longer than the inhalation, ill health is indicated, since more is going out of the lungs than is coming in.

1. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and parallel to each other. Your back should be straight, your chin slightly toward your chest, and your head erect, as if the back of your neck is stretching upward.

2. Exhale all the air from your lungs and clasp your hands behind your back.

3. Now inhale slowly, expanding your lungs and pushing your hands away from your back. Keep your chin tucked into your chest, and use only your chest to breathe.

4. Exhaling, drop your hands and bring your arms out in front of you. Continue to raise your arms, bringing your hands up toward your head and then around behind your back, and back up in front of your body, completing one cycle.

5. Interlace your fingers behind your back and begin the exercise again on the inhalation.

The cycle should be done ten times, and the exercise once per day.

Quit smoking tools : http://smokefree.nhs.uk/quit-tools/?WT.mc_id=search&gclid=CO2B9uXS6ZwCFYYU4wodIBm9jg

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Prostate cancer could be linked with a virus

Scientists have identified a virus which they believe could trigger some cases of prostate cancer. Researchers hope that, if proven, the findings could lead to a test and possibly even a vaccine against the deadly form of cancer: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6151243/Virus-could-trigger-some-cases-of-prostate-cancer.html

The best natural way to stop Prostate cancer is by prevention. You can do this by using the mineral Magnesium and zinc. Magnesium is an important mineral it maintains strong bones and tooth enamel, calms the nervous system, regulates heartbeat, strengthens digestion but more importantly maintains a healthy prostate in men.

Lycopene which is found in tomatoes can also significantly reduce the risk of prostate cancer. It is available in capsule form as a nutritional supplement from health food shops.

The herb Saw Palmetto ( Serenoa Serrulata) has also anti-cancer benefits. The berries from the herb have been found to inhibit the hormonal secretion of the prostate and is therefore used as treatment for enlarged prostate.

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Animal Models of Atherosclerosis: Diet-Induced Atherosclerosis

LDL likely plays a role in causing atherosclerosis, with the majority of the damage coming from the oxidized form of LDL. There are at least two ways to increase the concentration of oxidized LDL (oxLDL) in the blood: 1) increase the total concentration of LDL while keeping the proportion of oxLDL the same; 2) increase the proportion of oxLDL. Dietary fats differ in their effects on these two factors, and the net outcome is also dependent on the species eating the fat and the overall dietary context.

The omega-6 polyunsaturated fat, linoleic acid (LA; found abundantly in industrial vegetable oils), may be a factor in the susceptibility of LDL to oxidation. LDL is rich in LA regardless of diet, yet the amount of LA in LDL still depends on diet to a certain degree. Thus, on the surface, one would expect a diet high in industrial vegetable oil to promote atherosclerosis. Unfortunately, it's not that simple, because LA also lowers the amount of LDL in the blood of a number of species, including humans.

The amount of atherosclerosis produced by feeding different fats depends both on how much LDL oxidation occurs and on how the fat affects the organism's blood lipid profile. For example, if corn oil lowers LDL by 3-fold relative to lard in a rabbit model, yet increases the proportion of oxLDL by 50%, the rabbit will probably develop more atherosclerosis eating lard than eating corn oil. This is because the total concentration of oxLDL is still higher in the lard group. On the other hand, if corn oil doesn't reduce LDL at all relative to lard in a rhesus monkey, yet the proportion of oxLDL increases by 50%, the corn oil group will probably develop more atherosclerosis, all else being equal.

Then there are other factors that influence atherosclerosis independently of oxLDL, such as the fat-soluble antioxidants, micronutrients and omega-6:3 ratio of the diets. It's also important to keep in mind that atherosclerosis is only one factor that influences the risk of having a heart attack.

In the last post, I argued that feeding excessive cholesterol to herbivorous or nearly herbivorous animals elevates plasma LDL greatly. In many species, saturated fat exacerbates the increase in LDL due to dietary cholesterol overload. However, in the absence of added cholesterol, several commonly used models of atherosclerosis do not show an increase in LDL upon saturated fat feeding. This is similar to the situation in humans.

Rabbits are one of the most commonly used models of diet-induced atherosclerosis. They are very sensitive to dietary cholesterol, due to the fact that their natural adult diet contains virtually none.

I recently found a great study from 1967 titled "Relative Failure of Saturated Fat in the Diet to Produce Atherosclerosis in the Rabbit" (free full text). Investigators fed rabbits cocoa butter, coconut oil and Crisco (hydrogenated cottonseed oil) at 45% of calories. They found that neither cocoa butter nor Crisco increased the rabbits' cholesterol (they didn't measure LDL directly but it typically increases in proportion to total cholesterol in rabbits), while coconut oil caused a transient increase that disappeared by 6 months on the diet. Cocoa butter caused slight atherosclerosis in some of the animals while none was detected in the coconut oil or Crisco groups.

Next, the investigators fed the rabbits cholesterol along with the fats. 0.25% cholesterol with corn oil or Crisco caused a massive (10-fold) increase in blood cholesterol, and produced atherosclerosis. They didn't pair the saturated fats with cholesterol, but the point is still clear: feeding dietary cholesterol, not saturated fat, to an herbivorous species, is the culprit.

However, subsequent studies in rabbits have shown that saturated fats can produce atherosclerosis without added cholesterol. How can this be? It turns out that it only works in the context of a highly refined "synthetic" or "semi-synthetic" diet (ref). So the dietary context plays an important role as well.

The ability of saturated fat to produce atherosclerosis in animal models requires it to cause a large enough increase in serum LDL that it overwhelms saturated fat's natural tendency to reduce LDL oxidation (relative to LA). This process is typically helped along by feeding huge amounts of cholesterol. In the absence of a large increase in LDL, atherosclerosis does not result, all else being equal.

Several studies in primates support this concept. van Jaarsveld and colleagues showed that feeding vervet monkeys 28% of calories from palm oil (SFA-MUFA), sunflower oil (PUFA) or lard (MUFA-SFA) resulted in similar LDL concentrations in the three groups. After more than two years, the palm oil group had the least atherosclerosis and the sunflower oil and lard groups were similar. It's notable that palm oil was the most saturated fat used in this study.

In another telling study by Mott and colleagues, baboons were fed diets containing 40% of calories from a predominantly saturated fat or a predominantly polyunsaturated fat. Each group was further subdivided into two groups: one receiving a small amount of cholesterol in the feed, and one receiving a large amount. Cholesterol feeding increased LDL and atherosclerosis, while the type of fat had a modest effect on LDL and no effect on atherosclerosis both at high and low cholesterol levels. I've noticed that baboons seem to throw a wrench in the gears of the mainstream conception of blood lipid metabolism.

Rudel and colleagues fed african green monkeys and cynomolgus monkeys lard (MUFA-SFA) or safflower oil (PUFA) for 40% of calories, with or without added cholesterol. Without cholesterol, both LDL and the degree of atherosclerosis were low in both monkeys fed both types of fat. Cholesterol feeding raised LDL in both species by 2-3 fold, and caused significant atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis was more severe in monkeys fed lard plus cholesterol than in monkeys fed safflower oil plus cholesterol, correlating with their considerably higher LDL.

In sum, the ability of a fat to contribute to atherosclerosis depends in part on its ability to increase oxLDL. One way to do this is to massively raise LDL. This can be accomplished by combining dietary cholesterol overload with saturated fat in certain susceptible species. Saturated fat, in the context of a somewhat normal diet, does not appear to raise LDL very much if at all in most species, in the long term. This includes humans.

Animal models of diet-induced atherosclerosis are useful for studying the disease, but they do not support the conclusion that humans should avoid foods containing natural amounts of cholesterol and saturated fat. "Saturated fats" such as lard, palm oil, beef tallow and coconut oil probably have little or no connection to atherosclerosis in humans, or in most species eating a somewhat natural diet.

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'Let It Unfold'

Over the last thirty years of researching and
teaching the "New Biology (R)" and "The pH Miracle Living
Science, Lifestyle and Diet(TM)", I have given great
thought over the process of trying to "merge"
the seemingly divergent "fight" versus the
"let it unfold" postures.

I believe we are creatures of both action on one
end and potential wisdom on the other. The lower
end of consciousness, the body-sense issues, operate
in one "desiring and acquiring" fashion and the
intellect-spirit end of the continuum operates at
a "higher level." Much like a pH scale.

With our body/sense/mind gifts we are bound and
determined to act. That's the fight part. If we
act, however, with discrimination, spirit and wisdom,
we are following the dictates of our conscience.

The wisdom one day will suggest that we are not the
doers. We are simply the instruments--and the locus
of act....not the locus of control.

Thus, we do the fight, we do the action, but we must
do it according to that level of wisdom with which we
have been accorded. Once we use our intellectual-
spiritual gifts as we live, i.e., once we ACT with
such primary human values as hope, faith, love, peace,
truth, right conduct and non-violence as we walk along the
path, we are harmonizing and integrating the gifts
across the full continuum of our human consciousness.

Thus, we are bound to act, say, to roll the bowling
ball down the alley. We are bound to do this act
according to the best of our ability given the context
of "the game" or intention of "the act."

And yet, we know the incredible complexity of the
universe. There are many reasons that that ball
will do what it will do. Once we have acted, we
know that the outcome is in the hands of a "Greater
Energy".... and that energy travels through timber of
the wood, the wax on the alley, the temperature
of the ball, the precision of the pin-setter,
the humidity of the building, the sweat of our hands,
the health and pH of our body fluids, cells, tissues,
organs and blood, the energy of those in the gallery,
perhaps the position of the moon...and the list
goes on far beyond our ability to calculate.

There is gathering "social" science to suggest that
the list may takes us back many lifetimes of "action"
and "intention" in an evolutionary unfolding.

The long and short is that we can hardly take credit
or blame for the number of pins that we will knock
down. That would be the height of ego or
self-absorption.

We do not reach for the fruit of our actions. And if
something that looks like fruit falls into our laps,
our conscience must also dictate how we will distribute
the results.

Thus, we must act, and we must with conscience.
That's the whole "thought-word-deed" admonition.

Our conscience is one of the solid connections
with Divinity.

It sure makes sense to me--at least on most days.

I hope these words make sense and are of some help
to you on your journey called "Life."

All of us at the pH Miracle Living Center appreciate
your love, support and energy in sharing the
"New Biology" and "The pH Miracle Living Science,
Lifestyle and Diet" with all of your associates,
friends and loved ones.

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Veganism as Intersectional Social Justice (part 1)

Introduction
Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday...Then why now, with all the world at stake, do so many people retreat into these entirely personal “solutions”?--Derrick Jensen[*]

[Oppressions are ideologies—]“a set of socially shared beliefs that legitmates an existing or desired social order. Prejudice, on the other hand, is an individual predisposition to devalue a group of others… speciesism is also an ideology—that is, a set of widely held, socially inherited beliefs… When the psychological and moral (or immoral) bases of oppression are accentuated, social structural forces are downplayed or overlooked entirely… they tend to stifle any realization of the need for social change.” –David Nibert[*]

The discourse of vegetarian and vegan advocates is saturated with personal choice. Perhaps more persistently than any other social justice movement in America today other than the pro-choice movement, animal defenders emphasize the individual: the individual animal who suffers, the individual person who chooses three times a day to choose compassion over cruelty, the individuality of the movement, etc.

It is the individual who is responsible for the suffering of each individual animal because of some irrational prejudice. If only these people were just more enlightened about animal sentience, about nutrition, they would leave cruelty-free lives. It is also the individual who is responsible for world hunger because they selfishly feed the world’s grain to livestock. If only each individual chose a vegetarian lifestyle, there would be enough food for everyone.

When the individual person is not totally responsible for the suffering of each individual animal, it is because vegetarianism is too inconvenient and the law is too permissive of cruelty. If only restaurants and grocery stores offered more vegetarian foods (especially faux-meats), people would stop eating meat. If only there were stricter penalties for animal cruelty, less people would harm animals and there would be more justice. Thus the irony of the dominant discourse is that animal liberation is possible so long as humans become more rational and less self-interested; but, so long as people are self-interested, we ought to make vegetarianism as convenient and non-threatening as possible and make animal cruelty as inconvenient and punishable as possible.

In this post I will lay-out the myriad of ways the most popular forms of animal advocacy (at least in the USA) privileges a white, middle-class audience at the expense of including people of color and people of low-income. Drawing on the vast, original works over at The Vegan Ideal [TVI], I wish to demonstrate 1) how focusing on punishing, shaming, and dehumanizing individual animal exploiters a) draws attention away from the institutional oppression (i.e. speciesism) in favor of vice (i.e. cruelty) as well as b) how such punishment is often part of ethnocentric and nationalist projects, and finally, c) how such projects merely seek to substitute human cages for animal cages.

Further, I would like to point out 2) how focus on individual action and lifestyle changes often centers around "voting" with one's dollar, which a) privileges the middle-class at the expense of marginalizing low- and no-income classes, b) privileges non-profit dissemination of literature at the expense of real social organizing and mobilization that empowers people and communities, and c) encourages conservative discourse by said non-profits that target "mainstream" audiences with money that can be used to support said kind of campaigns.
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NO Surgery, No Chemo, No Radiation

The following is another pH Miracle story ...

Lots of love,

Dr. Robert O. Young

Dear Anne Marie, Thanks for keeping me on your mailing list. I remember I told you a while back that I would share my story with you. Below is an e-mail to Cindy Wheatley in response to her story reversing breast cancer with the pH Miracle lifestyle and diet. Feel free to share my story. --Mindy

----- Original Message -----

From: Mindy Coffman
To: cindylee761@wheatcraft.net
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 12:26 PM
Subject: Thanks for sharing your story....

Hi Cindy,

Thank you for sharing your story. Mine is similar although I did not ever have a diagnosis from the "medical profession" I found a lump in my left breast a couple of years ago. I had no symptoms at all with my health. I thought I was pretty healthy. I went to my D.O., he prescribed a mammogram, but I knew if I did that I would be cattle prodded through the biopsy and then surgery route. NOT FOR ME!! I wasn't taking that route, period.

I had learned of Dr. Young through Tony Robbins a few years earlier. I immediately went to the pH Miracle juice feast and set out to find someone in my area who did live and dried blood microscopy. I had the live blood test and no cancer patterns was found. The lump I found was a fibroid. But what I did not know was that my lymph nodes were also seriously inflamed. Matter of fact the therapist said she had never seen such large lymph nodes in the breasts.

I continued with the pH Miracle lifestyle and diet. I also had lymph drain message therapy and the lymphatic lumps completely went away in my breasts and the fibroid has broken up and is nearly gone.

My husband was drinking, which I allowed to caused me great deal of stress. I'm grateful you shared your challenges with your relationship. I had heard before of unhealthy relationships contributing to breast cancer. Now with your story and mine I guess there is definitely a connection, although that is a concept hard to face. The microscopist, also told me that I was very emotionally stressed and depleted and that my adrenal system was also suffering.

You have encouraged me to stick with the pH miracle lifestyle and diet, although tough at times. I am also taking up yoga to get better at relaxation and breathing. Feel free to share my story. We must get this pH Miracle message out there to other women. Our bodies are incredible and miraculous!

Love, light and incredible lightness of being,

Mindy Coffman
mindycoffman@charter.net
817-496-0698
Fort Worth, TX

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