Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 Standing up straight with feet shoulder-width apart, starting with your hands, clench all your muscles tight (hands to arms to shoulders to neck to jaw then clenching stomach to legs to feet) and hold for a count of 3. Release, bending forward into a shrug until you are completely limp. Repeat.
Force a laugh of exasperation (Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!) so that you sound like a sinister character in a movie.
Close your eyes for a full minute, picture the ocean with waves crashing, and imagine pieces of the stress being cracked as each wave breaks hard against the sand. |
Jack Challem
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 Do another eight reps, but this time alternate between using your left and right hands. Repeat.
Exercise #2. Sit in a firm chair, with your back straight and your feet flat on the ground, one hand weight in each hand. Raise the weights to your shoulder, with the palms of your hands facing forward.This is your starting position. Exhale as you lift the weights so that your arms are straight up. Inhale as you go back to your starting position.Take one breath, then repeat. Do eight reps, rest for a minute or two, and do another eight reps. Repeat. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Now, the brochure says, "Wash your hands a lot," which sounds like something a middle-school teenager might say -- but not something that should come from the Centers for Disease Control. Why not just replace the word "frequency" with the word "tons," because that seems to be a more common word with the undereducated American public? "Wash your hands tons!"
Happy birthday to me!
Next, the brochure attempts to tell people that they should wash their hands for a period of time equal to approximately 60 seconds. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I wouldn't even think of taking a single bite of an Oscar Mayer hot dog or Jimmy Dean sausage, and even holding those foods in my hands made me feel icky just from the energy of the flesh from the slaughtered animals used to make those products. So I sure didn't want to get snapped by a camera standing in front of a Wal-Mart checkout lane with my hands full of junk processed meat products.
After I completed my undercover meat purchase, I headed home and set up the macrophotography equipment. Since I'm experienced at this (I love to take nature pictures, especially of flowers), that was easy. |
Ray D. Strand
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 If you observe anyone with arthritic hands, you can actually see how inflamed and swollen the joints of the fingers and hands become. Have you ever wondered what exactly is causing the inflammation and how this leads to damage of the cartilage? The answer is a multifaceted one, because there are actually several sources for inflammation that occur within the joint, as you can see in the box below.
Causes of Inflammation in Our Joints
Cytokines are some of the leading causes of joint inflammation. These proteins carry messages between cells and regulate immunity and inflammation. |
Bryan Hanson, PhD
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 If you consider your hands or, less conveniently, your feet, you will see that they are similar but not identical. Both hands have four fingers, a thumb, a palm, fingernails, and so forth. But a left hand does not fit into a right-hand glove, so in some way they are not identical. In the chemist's view, we would say that one's hands are a pair of nonsuperimposable mirror images. Everything has a mirror image (except, apparently, vampires), but in many cases the item is identical to its mirror image. A good example would be a coffee mug. |
Ray D. Strand
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| If you observe anyone with arthritic hands, you can actually see how inflamed and swollen the joints of the fingers and hands become. Have you ever wondered what exactly is causing the inflammation and how this leads to damage of the cartilage? The answer is a multifaceted one, because there are actually several sources for inflammation that occur within the joint, as you can see in the box below.
Causes of Inflammation in Our Joints
Cytokines are some of the leading causes of joint inflammation. These proteins carry messages between cells and regulate immunity and inflammation. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Business suits take away the humanity of real people: the suit covers up everything except the head and hands. The hands are used for shaking hands with others, making contact or establishing trust. And the head and face are designed to communicate and represent the intellect. Thus, the business suit covers up everything except the body parts needed to conduct business.
But what, exactly, is being covered up? First, business suits cover up the heart. In fact, they cover chakras one, two, three, four and five. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Place your hands on the edge of the chair beside your buttocks and grip the edge. žYour feet should be flat on the floor, about two feet in front of you, with your knees bent. žLift yourself off the chair so you are now supporting yourself on your hands. žBend your arms, dipping your body down. Go down only as far as you feel comfortable to a count of four, being careful not to touch the chair. žPush back up by extending your arms to a count of two. žIt is important to keep your back close to the edge of the chair as you do these to minimize shoulder stress.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Business suits take away the humanity of real people: the suit covers up everything except the head and hands. The hands are used for shaking hands with others, making contact or establishing trust. And the head and face are designed to communicate and represent the intellect. Thus, the business suit covers up everything except the body parts needed to conduct business.
But what, exactly, is being covered up? First, business suits cover up the heart. In fact, they cover chakras one, two, three, four and five. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Wash your hands tons!"
Happy birthday to me!
Next, the brochure attempts to tell people that they should wash their hands for a period of time equal to approximately 60 seconds. But apparently, the term "60 seconds" is a little too technical for the American public. So, it has been translated into a completely absurd tidbit that says, "Wash your hands for as long as it takes to sing the Happy Birthday song to yourself to twice." Apparently, Americans cannot understand the concept of 60 seconds -- presumably because it contains a number. |
Andreas Moritz
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 This feeling of alienation and helplessness drives many into the hands of alternative practitioners who spend more time with their patients and offer them approaches that include self-help programs like meditation, yoga, dietary advice, and natural remedies. In 1997 Americans made 627 million visits to practitioners of alternative medicine and spent $17 billion of their own money to pay for alternative therapies, including cancer treatment. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Enough sun can be obtained to produce adequate vitamin D:
(a) In ten minutes on the face and hands three times weekly.
(b) In thirty minutes of sun on the face, chest, and arms with SPF 8 sunscreen once weekly.
(c) Through windows in the winter.
(d) Supplemental vitamin D must always be taken.
10. Calcidiol is transformed to calcitriol in:
(a) The liver.
(b) The kidneys.
(c) The skin.
(d) The lungs.
11. Regulation of the active form of vitamin D is handled by:
(a) The stomach.
(b) The parathyroid gland.
(c) The thyroid gland.
(d) The liver.
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Andreas Moritz
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| Eating more than what equals two cupped hands full at the biggest meal of the day (taken ideally at midday) gets them into intestinal trouble. Impure foods, polluted water and air, alcohol, coffee, cigarettes, soft drinks and other unhealthful substances are particularly upsetting to Pitta types and often cause very uncomfortable cleansing reactions, such as skin eruptions, stomach problems or emotional distress. Pittas are also negatively affected by wearing clothing that is made from synthetic materials. |
| Spraying or sprinkling your face, neck and hands with a little cold water before your meal also increases AGNI.
2. Liquid foods, such as soup, should be eaten toward the beginning of the meal, unless your meal includes a fresh, raw salad. In this case, eat the salad first, followed by the soup. Raw foods can only be digested at the beginning of a meal, not once you have eaten cooked food.
3. Normally, the stomach processes and removes liquids before it can attempt the digestion of the more solid and concentrated food items. |
| As a result, the extra uric acid is deposited first in those areas of the body that have the poorest circulation and oxygen supply, that is, the toes of the feet or fingers of the hands. These deposits of uric acid and other harmful substances in the toes and fingers can make the joints rigid, stiff and unbending. (Check particularly the small toes of your feet, which show the condition of the bladder.)
Naturally, wherever waste products are stored inside or outside the body, specialized bacteria will also be present to help break them down. |
| The single most important experience that the unbalanced body/mind needs for healing is the experience of happiness, which results when a person begins to take his health in his hands and removes whatever congestion and imbalance may exist in the body. This is a highly self-empowering process, which is pleasing to the heart, body and soul.
A fascinating study showed that happy people are the least likely to catch colds, regardless how often you expose them to a cold virus. Also, people who are in love show a higher resistance to disease. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 If "laying on of hands" is what patients really need, then faith healing would work just as well—for a fraction of the price. If the practice of medicine purports to be a science—that is, if medical decisions are based on scientific rigor—then this kind of logic cannot stand.
Some doctors still advocate and subject their patients to annual physical examinations. However, as official policy, the practice is dead. But its first cousin, the periodic physical examination, is not—despite a lack of evidence of its utility. In 2003, U.S. |
Jack Challem
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 There is often a
55 psychological component as well: eating may be a source of comfort, a cure for boredom, or just something to keep your hands or mouth busy while you watch a movie or television. Whatever the reason, food addicts just can't stop eating.
The idea that food and drug addictions share many common features is not all that far-fetched. Considerable research has found similar types of brain activity in people who are overweight and those who are drug addicts. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| Our vision of the cardiologist is one who holds the beating heart—and therefore our very life—in his (sorry again for the sexism) hands. This leads us to coronary artery bypass grafts (called "cabbages" because of the CABG abbreviation), more than a half million of these surgeries are performed yearly. In this procedure, the surgeon does indeed stop the heart, and graft a piece of vein (usually the saphenous vein from the thigh) into one or more of the coronary arteries.
Does "cabbage" save lives? The first major clinical trial was in the early 1980s. |
Jack Challem
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| With your hands, shape the salmon into patties. (It may help to wear disposable plastic kitchen gloves.) Fry the patties for about 2 to 4 minutes, depending on their thickness; turn them over and fry them for another 1 to 2 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat. Serve the patties immediately or refrigerate them. For added flavor at the table, sprinkle a little fresh lemon juice on the patties or serve them with Traditional Pesto Sauce or Pesto Aioli (see the recipes on pages 161 and 162). |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 In this case, the placebo group actually got massages—like treatment, but it was uneven, tactile stimulation to areas of the ears, hands, and feet that would not be considered good "reflex points" or appropriate targets for real reflexology treatment for PMS. In this case, all the placebo subjects reported finding the treatment relaxing and pleasant, though a few complained that the manual pressure was too light. They all thought they were getting "real" reflexology treatment.
The results were pretty interesting. |
| If someone has stress in the heart, for example, a message goes to the brain, which then in turn goes to "reflex areas" for the heart, which are located in the hands, feet, and ears. "We work on these reflexes by applying attentive, nurturing pressure with our thumbs and fingers," he says.
What the Research on Reflexology Says
If Flocco is any example, reflexologists can be some of the most caring, nurturing practitioners in complementary health care. |
Andreas Moritz
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| To test whether a particular shampoo, toothpaste medical drug or food item, is suitable for you, place any of these items into one of your hands while you ask your partner to test the muscle of your other arm. Note: If you are left-handed, it is better to test your left arm and place the tested item in your right hand. If these items are not available, merely think of them as he tests you on these products, one at a time.
It may be necessary for you to experiment with this technique on each other for a while before it becomes second nature to you. |
Bill Sardi
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 Most likely the person you hired would throw up her hands and become perplexed.
Cancer researchers can't make up their minds whether phytoestrogens are good or bad. So how are cancer patients supposed to know what to do?
Here are some examples of the indecision regarding phytoestrogens and cancer:
A report issued by researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center says: "Despite great promise, it is difficult to make many specific recommendations about their (isoflavones') use at the current time. No recommendation regarding soy isoflavones can be made based on the current data. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 No differences in pain or hand function improvement were detected after 21 days of treatment with either topical gel preparations of ibuprofen 5% or Arnica 50 g tincture/lOOg, DER 1:20 in a randomized, double-blind study in 204 individuals with confirmed and active osteoarthritis of inter-phalangeal joints of the hands. Adverse event rates were similar, with six patients using ibuprofen and five patients using Arnica reporting problems (Widrig, 2007). |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 The power is in their hands. They decide how much therapy they need, because they have access to their feelings that alerts them to the "danger" of rising pain. Generally, they come once or twice a week at first and then as the months go on, they taper off to less frequent visits. At the end of an individual or group session, there is an individual discussion period that can last from a half hour to an hour. Here the patient goes over her feelings and her insights. She discusses how the pain drove her to have certain symptoms or to behave in neurotic ways. |
| The practice is only dangerous in untrained hands.
One last thought: As the therapy goes on, patients have to experience Primal level feelings less and less. They know how they feel, and they can lead much healthier lives, no longer being addicted to whisky, cigarettes, and drugs—and no longer addicted to therapy. |
| Washing her hands is about all she could do with an unknown and unreachable memory. It is a symbolic ritual where the person had no idea about origins. As soon as she discovers the origin, the ritual has no further purpose.
Self-Destructive Behavior
A woman who is insatiable in sex may, in the end, be trying to feel loved, a trauma that may have started in infancy. Should we convince her through cognitive therapy that her behavior is destructive? In the old days of insight therapy, I did just that. And the patient invariably agreed. |
| One of my patients always felt that she had to wash her hands at least 10 times so she could feel clean and finished with her task. It had so many implications: "I feel dirty. I feel bad."
The following are two patients with two different kinds of compulsions. The first, a woman who must hang all her shirts in the same direction. She gets very nervous if one shirt isn't hanging right. The insight in her feeling was, "I could never get it right. Nothing I could do would make my parents say, 'You've done a good job.' |
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