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02 Apr

Survival Smarts, Part 1: Surviving or Thriving?

Create a larger purpose to live for, and give your energy, mind and body to that.

Survival smarts is the fifth key part of total health designed by nature. You contend daily with survival issues that take place between your body and a friendly or unfriendly outside world. Survival issues include protection, safety, clothing and shelter.

28 Mar

The Healing Essential Fatty Acids, Part 7: Sources

Safflower oil is our richest source of LA.

Plants make enzymes that ‘insert’ a double bond into (desaturate) fatty acids at positions w3 and w6 to make w3 and w6 fatty acids, but humans do not produce these enzymes. This means that LA and ALA are not essential

26 Mar

The Healing Essential Fatty Acids, Part 6: Daily Requirement

Our body’s content of LNA is less than that of LA.

To unfold some of their functions, LA and ALA must first be converted into EFA derivatives, or into prostaglandins. These conversions require vitamins B3, B6 and C and the minerals magnesium and zinc. Other vitamins and minerals may also modify

14 Mar

The Healing Essential Fatty Acids, Part 3: Some Functions of LA and ALA

EFAs are involved with producing life energy.

Much is still unknown about the functions of EFAs in our body. Of the two, LA has been studied far more extensively than ALA. Both are difficult to work with, because they are easily destroyed, but ALA is five times

07 Feb

Essential Nutrients, Part 4: Reversal of Deficiencies

Impressive work is being done with vitamins, minerals and EFAs in the treatment of degenerative diseases. Much is being learned, and people are being relieved of degenerative afflictions that resist treatment with drugs, surgery, and radiation. Gaps in Knowledge Although

05 Feb

Essential Nutrients, Part 3: Major Sources of Deficiencies

Nutrients and fiber are lost during the processing of wheat.

Since deficiencies are widespread, we might well ask why this is so. Without going into a long explanation, let us examine what happens when whole wheat grain is turned into white flour. The following table shows the percentages of essential

31 Jan

Essential Nutrients, Part 2: Deficiencies

Over 60% of North American people get less than the recommended amounts of one or more essential nutrients.

One might expect that diets in affluent industrial nations would also be nutritionally affluent, but this is not the case. Even though we have the necessary technology, money is not usually a problem, and we have both time and choices,

29 Jan

Essential Nutrients, Part 1: Components

To tell the complete story of nutrition, we must acknowledge all essential nutrients required by our body for health. Nutrients cannot work in isolation. All essential nutrients work as a team to build and support health, and to repair damage.

24 Jan

Inspiration and Creativity, Part 6: Balance

What some people have called ‘Heaven on Earth’ is possible.

I am the source of inspired creativity in my world, my personal sphere of influence. You are the source of inspired creativity in your world, YOUR sphere of influence. Large or small, each of us is the center of a

22 Jan

Inspiration and Creativity, Part 5: Hope

Build what’s inspired, required and creative.

Every inspired human being is creative. It’s an inherent part of the life you come into the world loaded with. You’re creative in countless personal, private and exclusive ways, in lofty, global and inclusive ways, and in constructive and destructive

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