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The DOCTOR YOURSELF Newsletter (Vol 2, No 18) July 20, 2002

 

 

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> The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER (Vol 2, No 18) July 20, 2002

> " Free of charge, free of advertising, and free of the A.M.A. "

> Written by Andrew Saul, PhD. of http://www.doctoryourself.com , a free

> online library of over 350 natural healing articles with nearly 4,000

> scientific references.

>

> CORRECTIVE NUTRITION

> I used to teach college courses in jail. No, not as an inmate. As an

> adjunct professor.

>

> Prisons are awful places. First of all, they smell. As in floating

prison

> hulks three hundred years ago, little has changed: you still have the

> fundamental and repugnant problem of packing as many as possible into the

> space available. The " keep the lid on the garbage can " theory serves the

> public to be sure. First of all, what else are you going to do? There

are

> more Americans incarcerated per capita than in any other Westernized

country

> on earth. Pack 'em in, and push the lid down harder, of course. After

all,

> the argument goes, what do we care about their living conditions? They

get

> three squares a day, clean sheets and a roof over their head for free.

> Perhaps they are lucky we didn't take Marge Simpson's grandfather's advice

> and just " shoot 'em all, and let God sort 'em out. "

>

> With well over half a million Americans behind bars, and even with more

> prisons being built literally every day, serious overcrowding continues.

I

> am not pouring out my heart asking for more money for more compassionate

> prisons. The state is doing us a real favor putting most of these

> characters away. I've seen it all close up.

>

> Let me tell you that the most frightening man I have ever seen was not on

a

> movie or TV screen. He was an inmate at the medium-security prison where

I

> was teaching in 1991. Like most of my students (I called them my " captive

> audience " ) he really didn't belong in a college science class. Not that

he,

> or the others, were a discipline problem, because they usually weren't.

He

> had simply never had a single high school science class, the most basic

> prerequisite for even my simplified, no-lab freshman biology course.

(There

> were no lab classes because inmates could make too many weapons out of the

> apparatus.)

>

> So, this big guy struggled with the material, nose down to his book, week

> after week. It occasionally crossed my mind that it might be good for the

> whole inmate population if this man passed the course. It occasionally

> crossed my mind that it might be good for me if this man passed the

course.

>

> During one class, I was lecturing on human nutrition. I mentioned foods

> that are especially wholesome, such as beans, whole grain bread, wheat

germ

> and such. To spark class interest, I asked what foods the prisoners were

> fed. White bread, meat, potatoes and sugar was the general consensus.

>

> " What about vitamin supplements? " I asked

>

> This really got them going.

>

> " No. They never give 'em to us, " came the reply. " Got to buy them

> yourself, at the commissary store. They just got, like, " One-a-Day "

> multiple vitamin pills there. Gotta buy them with your own money. "

>

> No doubt with the bountiful proceeds from the license plate business.

>

> I mentioned that a multiple vitamin each day would be a really good idea

for

> every inmate. They listened. I said that, really, two a day would be

even

> better; one at breakfast and one at lunch. They listened even more

> intently. They were either planning to break out with this information,

or

> they really cared about their health.

>

> It is somewhat surprising that the State does not give inmates a cheap

daily

> nutritional supplement. It would save money in health care expenses,

> thereby making the taxpayers happy to spend the two or three cents extra

per

> person per day. I kid you not: you can still find a daily multivitamin at

> Wal-Mart for this price.

>

> Nothing doing. Politicians and public don't want anything to do with an

> idea like that. It is a familiar argument: " Why should convicted felons

get

> free vitamins? I work hard to make an honest living and I have to buy

> them. "

>

> Weigh in this fact before you respond to this idea:

>

> At least one in four inmates in New York State prisons tests positive for

> tuberculosis.

>

> These are often multi-drug resistant strains of TB at that. One of my

> college students outside the Big House was a prison nurse. Did she ever

> fill us in. In some correctional facilities, the tuberculosis rate is

> nearly one in two.

>

> If you want to let prisoners infect each other and die, and if you

consider

> that punishment to fit their many crimes, I will not contest it. I remind

> you of this, however: Even though you lock them up, nearly every inmate

will

> get out eventually. Their sentences will expire; they will be released.

> Even WITHOUT work-release, even WITHOUT parole, you still cannot imprison

> everybody for life. And even if you could, or even if you executed them

> all, you would still have the guards, the nurses, the cooks, and all other

> staff that work at the prison coming home each night to their families, to

> their communities, to where you live.

>

> If you in any way to the idea of the germ theory, this

guarantees

> the spread of viruses and bacteria outside of prison walls.

>

> Think about that.

>

> Tuberculosis is well known to flourish when diet is poor. There is also a

> connection with diet and most other contagious diseases. It is economical

> for the taxpayer to keep inmates from getting sick. Medical care inside a

> prison is no cheaper than anywhere else. And the spread of disease

outside

> of prison cannot be halted, even with a change of clothes, or rubber

gloves.

>

> Many prisons are more like hospitals now. Certainly one of the ones that

I

> worked at was. According to the captain of the guards, about 50% of the

> inmates in this particular facility were HIV positive. There, I remember

> that the smell of disinfectant was enough to gag a maggot.

>

> The tuberculosis epidemic in American prisons is kept quiet, just as the

> Nazis kept quiet about typhoid epidemics in their concentration camps.

Any

> time your actions are comparable with Hitler's, it is high time to

> reconsider.

>

> In addition to the play-down-the-TB-epidemic policy, our prisons are

> incapable of dealing with what they have now. Infirmary beds are around a

> dozen per thousand inmates. At one of the slammers where I worked, 90

> inmates were crowded into huts designed to hold 45. With bunk beds and

all

> things considered, the odds are that any inmate is sleeping just feet away

> from a TB positive individual.

>

> A letter was written to the State about the TB problem in its prisons. I

> have in my possession the written response from the central Department of

> Corrections office. It says that " we are doing everything possible to

> contain the spread of this virus. " The letter is signed by a senior

health

> official.

>

> Everyone knows that tuberculosis is not viral, it is bacterial. Well,

> almost everyone knows that. Corrections certainly doesn't seem to be

> working on all cylinders.

>

> Back to that big, scary inmate.

>

> He made eye contact with me more during my talk about wheat germ and

> vitamins than ever before. Yeah, yeah. The class went on to the next

> chapter.

>

> A number of classes later, everybody was filing out and the Big Guy lagged

> behind. He moved up close beside me.

>

> Ulp.

>

> " Uh, can I talk to you for a minute? " he whispered.

>

> " Sure, sure, " I answered. You got a better answer?

>

> " I, uh, I been eatin' that stuff, that wheat germ you told us about, " he

> said.

>

> " How did you come up with it? "

>

> " They sell it in the commissary, " he answered. " They got those mul-tie

> vitamins, too. Been taking them. "

>

> There was an uncomfortable half-second pause, and than he continued:

>

> " Well, I just want to tell you, " he said, " that I been taking those

vitamins

> and eatin' that wheat germ for a couple o' weeks now. "

>

> " And? " I said.

>

> " And, well, I just want to tell you that I feel more clear. "

>

> He put an unusual emphasis on the word " clear, " looking me straight in the

> eye.

>

> It finally dawned on me that this was a compliment, a thank-you.

>

> " Oh, good! " I said. " Keep on doing it. "

>

> He left, squeezing through the door like a supertanker going under a low

> bridge.

>

> >From time to time, I have considered the benefits to society of having a

man

> like that feeling more " clear. " I think that reaching some form of

clarity

> in prison might go a long way towards actually making them correctional

> institutions.

>

> Nutritional supplements could make it happen.

>

> AND NOW FOR THE NEWS:

>

> HEALTHY EATING " CAN CUT CRIME " (From the BBC News, Tuesday, 25 June, 2002)

>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/hi/english/health/newsid_2063000/2063117.st

> m

>

> A study by researchers at the University of Oxford has found that adding

> vitamins and other vital nutrients to young people's diets can cut crime.

> They found that improving the diets of young offenders at a maximum

security

> institution in Buckinghamshire cut offences by 25%.

>

> Bernard Gesch and colleagues at the University of Oxford enrolled 230

> young offenders from HM Young Offenders Institution Aylesbury in their

> study. Half of the young men received pills containing vitamins, minerals

> and essential fatty acids. The other half received placebo or dummy pills.

> The researchers recorded the number and type of offences each of the

> prisoners committed in the nine months before they received the pills and

in

> the nine months during the trial.

>

> They found that the group which received the supplements committed 25%

> fewer offences than those who had been given the placebo.

>

> The greatest reduction was for serious offences, including violence which

> fell by 40%.

>

> There was no such reduction for those on the dummy pills. The authors

> described the finding as " remarkable " . Writing in the British Journal of

> Psychiatry, they said improving diets could be a cost-effective way of

> reducing crime in the community and also reducing the prison population.

>

> (Lead author) Gesch said: " The supplements just provided the vitamins,

> minerals and fatty acids found in a good diet which the inmates should get

> anyway. Yet the improvement was huge. "

>

> Related reading:

> http://www.doctoryourself.com/cheapheal.html

> Dr Abram Hoffer's comments:

> http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_krypto.html

>

> SELLING OUT

> R. C. writes " Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your

> newsletter. It's so refreshing to have this resource available without the

> threat of being bombarded by sales pitches. "

>

> Thank you for the compliment, which should really go to my mother.

>

> Door-to-door salespeople were a fixture of life when I was a boy. My

mother

> had a pretty cool way of dealing with them: before answering the door,

she'd

> always grab a dishcloth and a cooking spoon to carry with her. No, it was

> not to gag and bludgeon the Fuller Brush Man. It was to silently send a

> visually effective " I'm busy " message.

>

> So there's Mom, ready to open the door, spot a salesman, and invariably

fire

> the first shot. " What are you selling? " she would immediately ask. This

> saved considerable time. You might think that not answering the door would

> have saved more, but I suspect that Mom kind of liked the confrontations.

>

> She always taught us that people that are spontaneously overnice to you

are

> just trying to get your money.

>

> I regularly receive overly flattering emails from distributors of this or

> that brand of nutritional supplement. Most of these letters assume three

> things:

>

> 1) That I was somehow born yesterday, and never heard of the wonders of

> their particular company;

>

> 2) That surely I am looking for easy money and that I will, of course,

want

> to sell their products for them; and

>

> 3) That I will at least want to discuss this with them, link my

educational

> website to their sales website, and openly endorse their pet brand in my

> Newsletter.

>

> I refuse to do so. I think my objectiveness (and my credibility, such as

it

> is) would go right down the toilet if I had any affiliation with any

> commercial health business. Furthermore, I refuse to sell my " own brand "

of

> vitamin supplements, and refuse to sell ANY supplements from my website or

> office or any other way.

>

> Believe it or not, I recently received an invitation from a very large

> pharmaceutical company to consider going to work for them.

>

> For years I told my college students that everyone has their price,

> including me, and that the only reason I've not sold out is that so far no

> one has offered me enough to make it worth while.

>

> This is still true. I did not respond to the drug company.

>

> And as for my price? Well, once again as I told my students, it is very

> high due to the fact that I am independently wealthy.

>

> If you believe that, there is a bridge in Brooklyn that I'd like to sell

> you.

>

> FLUORIDATION: WHO'S NOT

> If you would you like to know which countries do **not** fluoridate their

> water, consider a look at

> http://www.fluoridation.com/c-country.htm

>

> What is really neat is that the original letters from the responding

> governments are posted for you to read firsthand. And there's quite a few

of

> them.

>

> More on this subject at

> http://www.doctoryourself.com/fluoridation.html , and a major article is a

t

> http://www.doctoryourself.com/fluoride_cancer.html

>

> CLEANING OUT

> I just spent the morning in the clinic. Regular " Newsletter " readers will

> surmise that that is my kitchen, and that I was probably juicing. Right on

> both counts. Today it was carrot-broccoli-lettuce juice, and it tastes far

> better than it sounds. or looks. Leaf lettuce and broccoli leaves juice

> fairly easily. Broccoli stems will not juice well as they are too

fibrous.

> And naturally, the broccoli florets you eat anyway.

>

> In graduate school, a health-nut friend of mine handed me two books that

he

> said I positively HAD to read: Make Your Juicer Your Drug Store, and Dick

> Gregory's Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat. I think we should indeed make

our

> juicers, our gardens, and our kitchens into our clinics and pharmacies.

>

> If you are ever in northern Rochester, NY and are taking the walking tour

of

> the Charlotte portion of the Genessee River, you will be within a

baseball's

> throw of the house where I grew up. Assuming you'd want to, you could

still

> find some oddball archeological evidence, in what was my Mom's kitchen, to

> help explain how and why I got into this work in the beginning: Castoria

> Corner.

>

> My mother was a true believer of laxatives. More than any other reason,

this

> was because she was medicated with phenobarbital for her epilepsy.

> Depressants like that cause constipation. But in her zeal was

> overcompensation. On what seemed like a daily basis, my brothers and I

were

> sequentially instructed to " go stand in Castoria Corner, " over there by

the

> cereal cupboard, for, of course, some Castoria.

>

> Castor oil is a tried-and-true stimulant laxative. Castoria is, or was,

the

> trade name for a flavored, less oily emulsion that kids were supposed to

> enjoy taking.

>

> This label claim was not, I assure you, written by a child.

>

> I hated Castoria. But Mom gave it to us regularly. (Ha! You got that,

> right?)

>

> What came out of all this (heh, heh, heh) was a growing apprehension with

> laxatives and a growing interest in alternatives. Even as a little boy

I'd

> learned that chewing food well, eating raw vegetables, and raiding my

mother

> 's dresser for her stash of chocolate-flavored Ex-Lax were all better than

> choking down that Castoria.

>

> Eventually Mom relented and Castoria went by the wayside. Maybe it is

> because we grew to eat better. Maybe it was because we ran and hid more

> effectively. But to spare your kids the culinary pits of Castoria, here's

a

> tip from Jennifer Daniels, MD, that really works.

>

> Apply castor oil externally, as an over-all body rub. The castor oil is

> absorbed through the skin and works just fine. Castor oil is cheap and,

> used this way, easy to take. There is a slight smell but that's a small

> price to pay for bypassing your taste buds.

>

> Do I recommend routine use of laxatives? I do not. But constipation is

such

> a problem in a population that still stubbornly rejects a high-fiber

> plant-based diet that we often need to, as W. C. Fields said, " Take the

bull

> by the tail and face the situation. " Naturopaths have always maintained

that

> much if not most illness is due to systemic toxemia: a polluted body.

Good

> elimination can be a wonderfully good start for chronically unhealthy

> people, and a castor oil rubdown will plant a person on the potty in a

> matter of hours. Another way to do the trick is to take a heaping teaspoon

> or three of vitamin C powder (6,000 - 15,000 milligrams or thereabouts),

> just as Dr. Linus Pauling advised for years.

>

> The real answer to regularity is, of course, a regular routine of

> high-fiber, raw-food-and-juice, near-vegetarian eating. I learned that,

if

> nothing else, just to avoid the use of laxatives such as Castoria.

> Plant-based diet will also help you sidestep cancer, heart disease,

diabetes

> and many more constipation-caused killers.

>

> More information at

> http://www.doctoryourself.com/constipation.html

> http://www.doctoryourself.com/DY_ch02_web.html

> http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v1n21.txt

> http://www.doctoryourself.com/badhabits.html

>

> JUICING TIP OF THE MONTH:

> Fresh vegetable juice does not keep at all well. People that want to take

> fresh juice along with them, say to work, can stretch Nature's very short

> " expiration date " by adding vitamin C powder. Vitamin C is a powerful

> antioxidant and will help keep the juice from " wilting " (turning dark and

> losing flavor and health benefits). As an illustrative experiment, cut an

> apple in half and paint one half with plain water, and the other exposed

> half with vitamin C solution. Watch and see which side does not turn

brown.

>

> How much " C " ? Half a teaspoon should take care of a 1 liter Thermos-full

for

> a while, if it is filled to the brim and tightly capped. Still, fresh is

> best. Another good plan is to juice for breakfast; hit the salad bar for

> lunch; and juice again when you get home.

>

> http://www.doctoryourself.com/juicing_2.html

> http://www.doctoryourself.com/juicing_2.html

>

> HUMOR, SORT OF

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> back door. "

>

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