A Page on Health Freedom

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A Page on Health Freedom

 

Here is a quote from Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of

Independence (of the United States of America):

" UNLESS WE PUT MEDICAL FREEDOM INTO THE CONSTITUTION, THE TIME WILL

COME WHEN MEDICINE WILL ORGANIZE INTO AN UNDERCOVER DICTATORSHIP . . .

TO RESTRICT THE ART OF HEALING TO ONE CLASS OF MEN, AND DENY EQUAL

PRIVILEGE TO OTHERS, WILL BE TO CONSTITUTE THE BASTILLE OF MEDICAL

SCIENCE. ALL SUCH LAWS ARE UN-AMERICAN AND DESPOTIC AND HAVE NO PLACE

IN A REPUBLIC . . . THE CONSTITUTION OF THIS REPUBLIC SHOULD MAKE

SPECIAL PRIVILEGE FOR MEDICAL FREEDOM AS WELL AS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. "

----Benjamin Rush, M.D., War Hero

 

Please note: the following is my own opinion and I am sure it would

NOT meet with FDA approval. At least, I hope not. In my opinion we

need to abolish the FDA. It has turned into a goon squad for the drug

companies. Did you know that every head of the FDA moves on into top

positions in major drug companies?? At least so I have heard.

 

Of course, I know that medicine has made many advances and presents

much knowledge for the prolonging of life, and the repairs available

now are amazing. My quarrel is with the attempt to keep the playing

field all to themselves for sake of greed.

 

If this information is new to you, fine. If it stirs you up and makes

you think, all the better. If it makes you mad that I would DARE to

question the DOCTOR, I have achieved my purpose, because in your

fuming you may start to think. In that state you may come across

little tidbits like the fact that when the Doctors went on strike in

New York some years back, the death rate went DOWN. Then maybe you,

too, will start to question what is going on, and at some point you

may notice that while individual doctors mostly mean well and do care

about your welfare, as a group they have (a) an average age at death

of about 55, (b) an abysmal record as far as getting anybody well, and

© if throwing pills or surgery at you doesn't work, which it won't

if your problem is nutritional, they will conclude it's all in YOUR

head and send you to a shrink (psychiatrists have the highest suicide

rate of any profession). They only study disease, and not health. On

another page I have put a list of questions you might ask the doctor

next time you have a moment alone with him/her. Maybe we can get THEM

thinking too, and REALLY upset the applecart!! That would be what my

favorite author, Robert Anton Wilson, calls " guerilla ontology " ~

encouraging change by throwing a monkey wrench into someone's thinking.

 

Once there was a convention of school teachers. One of them said to

another, " Do you think the current emergency in public education is

caused by ignorance or apathy? " The other replied, " I don't know and I

don't care! "

 

We could substitute the word " health " for " education " and the joke

would come out the same, except it wouldn't be quite so funny. The

fact is, there is a profoud catastrophe just over the horizon as

regards the health of people all over the world. It is being hurried

along by BOTH ignorance and apathy, as well as a DIS-information

(otherwise known as " lies " ) campaign by big money/drug interests and

supression of knowledge that would threaten the multi-zillion-dollar

medical machine out of control that has the people in a literal

death-grip.

 

The FDA ruthlessly supports this campaign with gangland-style tactics

such as were perpetrated upon brilliant health researcher Johnathan

Wright, when ski-masked, unidentified FDA goons stormed his office

with machine guns, stole his files, trashed the place, and threatened

everyone present with death if they moved a muscle in protest.

Fortunately, Dr. Wright's integrity was not one of the items they

stole, and he just went on using it as he had before.

 

Well, in case you are feeling bewildered that you seem to have landed

on a page where a wide-eyed fanatic is waving her arms and shouting

about doomsday, let me reassure you that I'm going to get real

positive in just a minute here. If my lead-in threatens your

comfortable denial that your health is safe in the hands of your

doctor, just click here to go to a more comfy site where the sky is

always blue, they are singing a cheery song about how anything can

happen in the land of make-believe, and you will not have to think.

For real! And they are NOT talking about Quantum Physics!

 

One warning: once you get to the cheery site, if you decide reality is

your dish after all, to get back here you'll have to click your back

button not just once but twice! I learned this amusing fact by trying

it. The land of make-believe is reluctant to release its grip on us,

even on the internet!! LOL

 

Are they gone? Good. Now the rest of us can get to the topic at hand,

which is, responsibility for our Health. I'm actually through waving

my arms and shouting about medical dictatorship. Well, almost.

 

My Background

 

My departed mother started studying Health in back in 1955 when I was

12. She did this because she had leukemia. She did not tell me she had

leukemia at that time, although looking back I remember that she

started telling me she wasn't going to be around forever. When I was

50 she told me she had had leukemia. That summer of 1955 she and my

stepfather left me with some friends of theirs on a farm and went on

vacation. I found out in 1993 that what they were doing was getting a

second opinion from a doctor in Canada. My mother politely refused all

their treatments and did a whole lot of research. Then suddenly the

kitchen was different. Our vegetables arrived in a crate from an

organic farm in Southern California. We had raw carrot juice every

day. Books like Silent Spring and The Poisons in Your Food and Body,

Mind, and Sugar started appearing around the house.

 

My mother cured herself of leukemia at the age of 42. I asked her how

she did it when she was 81. She said, " By not putting anything in my

mouth that I didn't know exactly what was in it and where it came

from. " She lived to be 88.

 

That is my early background. I read all the books she brought into the

house. In those days you could go to jail for saying that what a

person ate had something to do with their health.

 

My stepfather, a rigid and uncompromising and rather odious man, was

yet a tireless freedom fighter when it came to health. He once sent me

to my room without dinner for forgetting the word he had taught me at

the previous day's dinner. The word was " non-conformist " . I think it

was the irony of the situation, punishing me for not conforming and

learning the word " non-conformist " that made me remember that word

forever. I shared the joke with my mother at the time and she thought

it was funny but cautioned me that Larry wouldn't think so. I told her

I already knew that.

 

We started going camping every weekend. On Saturday morning we would

get up early and Larry would yell at everyone to hurry up. He took the

back seat out of his black 1950 Ford and we piled up the sleeping

bags, air mattresses, tarps and clothes for a seat for me. Into the

trunk when the plywood and galvanized pipe table he'd made, the camp

stove, food, pans, and notebooks. The camping trips ranged all over

California. Almost every weekend we visited an organic grower and

found out what they were doing. Larry and my mother made up the first

compilation of what actually constituted " organic " . I think it's

amusing that it's now a law in California, because I watched my

parents start the whole thing in 1955.

 

My parents were instrumental in starting the Organic Foods Coop in

Berkeley in the late 50's. It was an underground food coop held in

someone's basement. They all got together to make the order, my mother

ordered all the stuff from suppliers and then they all got together to

break it up and distribute it. When the Co-op Food Stores opened their

big Health Food Store on University Avenue in Berkeley my mother stood

in the middle of the store and cried. She said this was what she had

in mind when they started that little underground club.

 

I got into the act by inventing a confection made of ground-up dates,

pumpkin seeds, almonds, figs, raisins, sesame tahini all mixed

together and made into little balls and rolled in unhulled sesame

seeds. I made up a batch of this stuff every week and sold it at the

coop. It was a lot of work to grind all that stuff and mix it by hand

and I got tired of it. Now I see these energy bars all over the place

and smile.

 

In my 20's I discovered that I was allergic to medications of all

kinds. That was when I began my search for harmless alternatives that

work. In my 30's I discovered colon cleansing and at 41 I became a

colon therapist. In 1985 I went to Florida and got my license for

Massage and Colonics, which I still keep active though I live in

Oregon now.

 

I've read many, many books and tried lots of stuff and I'm still

learning. The one thing I've learned above all else is that every

single person is different, even though as humans we share certain

tendencies. There is no cure-all. The government's blanket statement

that we need X milligrams of such nutrient is bunk. Big food

conglomerates are putting out non-foods with long shelf life that

taste like cardboard and we've forgotten what the real thing even

tastes like, unless we grow our own. Oops, there I go again, climbing

up on my soap box.

 

Here are a bunch of links to various stuff I've discovered and am

using myself to keep healthy. Perhaps in this collection you'll find

something that helps you. I hope so. Check back often, because I'm

looking for new stuff all the time, and I have to get permission to

post links to others.

 

 

Bird Flu Comments

Seeds of Rebellion Free recipe!! ...

Another Real Health Renegade!! Dr. Richard Schulze's page ...

Alkalize for Health Get ready for a long and interesting read here ...

Systemic Enzymes and a product that may help those aches and pains and

low energy ...

The importance of Iodine in health and a possible solution to those

cold hands and feet you keep complaining about, plus more to address

the energy issue bigtime ...

 

I'd like to acknowledge a friend of mine of 12 years, whose absolute

genius in biochemistry has produced a very interesting E-book called

Disease-Free Living for Life! I am posting this link because I believe

the book presents some profoundly important information, and sharing

important health info is what this website strives for. He tells me

that this will be only the first of several books. I can hardly wait!

I'm sorry I can't honor him by including his name, but the information

he presents is so subversive to the current medical establishment that

he prefers his name not be given out.

 

And, last but not least, finally a Doctor in the Northeast that I can

recommend! Dr. Jack Larmer has been a practicing naturopath for 52

years and has probably forgotten more than I will ever know about

health. I wish I was closer to beg him to let me study with him.

Thanks, Dr. Larmer, for letting my post your info here.

 

email Nancy

 

 

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