Your Life-Your Choice October, 1998 ==================== issue 17 Letter from the Editor We've got more great information for you and terrific recipies too! So I'm just going to remind you about the special events this month and let you get right to it! Remember that ALL Your Life-Your Choice promotional opportunities are being offered as a 2 for 1 special during the month of October. This means that when you place your classified ad you will receive 2 ads for the same price. Likewise, when you place your listing in the Wellness Locator, you choose if you'd like a second listing or a classified ad to generate awareness of your listing. ALL LISTINGS BOOKED AND PAYED FOR IN OCTOBER WILL RECIEVE THIS FABULOUS 2 FOR 1 OFFER!!! Spots are filling up, so make your arrangements NOW! Visit http://www.Life-Choices.com/promote.html to see your promotional options. Then email me mailto:yourlife@life-choices.com to discuss the best way for your business to benefit from this terrific opportunity! Our Anniversary CONTEST is still on! If you haven't sent in the answer to last weeks Contest Question GET IT IN! Here is your second chance to win Cary Brown's Spice of Life Cook Book! Convenient spiral binding ensures your pages lay flat while cooking. Approximately 30 nutritious tried, tested, mouth watering recipes in this 8 1/2" X 11" size book. Cary's cookbook is complete with a glossary, a conversion table and a list of places where you can find vegetarian products. So get your questions in for your chance TO WIN! Here's the rules one more time to refresh your memory. To ENTER: Each publication in October will contain a special question about that issue. You'll be provided with an email link, simply email your answer and if it's correct, your name will be held in a draw at the end of the contest. There are 3 publications scheduled for October, each with a new question. Answer each one correctly and you'll have 3 chances to win!!! The contest closes on November 7 and the draw will be held on November 8. This is to give everyone a fair chance to submit each answer. THE CONTEST QUESTION: Fire Poppers can be served as appetizers or in a salad. How long should you refrigerate them during preparation? The answer can be found within this issue. Email your answer to mailto:yourlife@life-choices.com with CONTEST in the subject. Be sure that you include your answer, a correct email address, your name, state/province or country. I'll need that to anounce the winner. SPECIAL NOTES: As you check out the Wellness Locator; http://www.Life-Choices.com/directory.html, watch for the special symbol within the listings indicating a new product or service announcement! These companies have something new and exciting to share with you! The "Let Us Help You Find A Practitioner" form is now up and functioning! If you're looking for someone in your area, and you can't find someone in the Wellness Locator, fill in the short form at: http://www.Life-Choices.com/reports.html#practioner and we'll do what we can to find someone for you. Until next time Your Life-Your Choice wishes you health and prosperity. Brigitte Synesael Editor of Your Life-Your Choice Traditional Medicine Isn't Enough Any More! Your life is your choice-don't make it the doctor's choice! http://www.Life-Choices.com/yourlife ********************************************** @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ @ IN THIS ISSUE: @ @ 1. PLEASE VISIT OUR SPONSORS @ Our sponsors make this @ newsletter FREE to @ subscribers. Please take a @ moment to visit them. @ @ 2. Nutritional Tidbits @ @ @ 3. ELECTROMAGNETIC CONTAMINATION @ and HOW IT AFFECTS YOU @ Did you know that you live in @ an environment of electromagnetic @ contamination, that is adversely @ affecting your health? @ @ 4. PLEASE VISIT OUR SPONSORS @ Our sponsors make this @ newsletter FREE to @ subscribers. Please take @ a moment to visit them. @ @ 5. ADD: RITALIN & ASSOCIATES @ Part III of "The Dilemma of ADD/ADHD" @ In 1996, more than 2.5 million @ children in the U.S. took Ritalin. @ This was an increase of more than @ 2 1/2 times the number taking the @ drug in 1990. @ @ 6. RECIPE CORNER @ Fire Poppers @ Apple Bars @ @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Subscribe: You can subscribe by using the form at the Newsletter Headquarters: http://www.Life-Choices.com. Unsubscribe: You can unsubscribe by using the form at the Newsletter Headquarters: http://www.Life-Choices.com. Copyright 1997-1998 by Brigitte Synesael All rights reserved ******************************************** Section 1 PLEASE VISIT OUR SPONSORS 10 NEW email discussion lists and places to advertise... homebased business, nurses, network marketing, teachers, Carolinas, weight loss, fitness, stay at home moms, female talk, Carolina sports! For more info... mailto:Lists@Landry.com ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Icemall is giving away $199.00 worth of FREE e-books and reports! Check it out today! http://www.icemall.com/free_gift.html ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ********************************************** Section 2 Choice Tidbits What do you think is the largest source of dietary fat for women? Suprisingly it's salad dressing! Many women eat lots of salads in an attempt to lose weight and/or eat a healthy diet. However, many fail to realize how much fat is in a typical salad dressing. Choose your salad dressings carefully! ~~~~~ Author and exercise physiologist, Greg Landry, M.S., publishes a FREE email newsletter, "Fitness, Health, & Weight Loss". To start your free subscription, send any email message, mailto:Fitness-on@mail-list.com or visit http://www.Landry.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The single healthiest thing that you can do for your mind and body is to take a daily walk or jog! It can be as short as 15 minutes but ideally should average 30 to 60 minutes per day. Researchers have discovered over 200 mental and physical benefits from a daily walk. If this was a pill, we would all be taking it! :) Get movin'! ~~~~~~ Author and exercise physiologist, Greg Landry, M.S., publishes a FREE email newsletter, "Fitness, Health, & Weight Loss". To start your free subscription, send any email message, mailto:Fitness-on@mail-list.com or visit http://www.Landry.com ********************************************** Section 3 Electromagnetic Contamination and How It Affects You. By Dr. Boyce N. Berkel This report is written by Boyce N. Berkel, M.D. It was condensed and adapted by permission from Dr. William H. Philpotts book "Biomagnetic Handbook." Dr. Philpott is currently doing FDA approved research in Magnetic Therapy, and is taking applications. For more information on this timely and very fascinating subject, go to http://www.i-netmall.com/shops/relief/ ~~~~~~~~~~ Did you know that you live in an environment of electromagnetic contamination, that is adversely affecting your health? Anytime an electric current is present, there will be an associated negative-positive magnetic field. Prolonged simultaneous exposure to a low (yet beyond human adaptation) or high gauss strength of both magnetic fields has been observed to be capable of producing positive magnetic field effects (lethargy, fatigue, illness etc.) on biological systems. Such prolonged biomagnetic exposure can upset the magnetic balance (negative-positive) of your body, causing disordering of your energy systems including brain function. Studies Reported in the American Journal of Epidemiology have shown that children living in homes near overhead electrical wires carrying high current, died of cancer at twice the rate as children living in houses near low current wiring. Consider the effects of the 24-hour-a-day exposure of your body to frequencies and electrical waves not only from 60 cycle AC wired into your home and workplace, but also to the chronic low grade magnetic exposure from household appliances including TV and Video display terminals. These produce strong magnetic fields up to 1-2 feet from the screen. In addition, you are chronically exposed to the invisible waves from radio, telephone, police, fire and utility signals, as well as microwaves with various vibratory rates. All of these environmental electric pulsating frequencies differ from those of human adaptation, and interfere with your metabolic function. Your cells, organs and entire body have a unique functional vibratory rate, and react to subtle energy flows. These energy flows are constantly bombarding your body while awake or asleep. The natural pulsating frequency of the earth is approximately 7.96 cycles per second. This is the healthy vibrational frequency of the human body as a whole. When asleep, the rhythm of the brain runs from 1-2 cycles per second, and while awake and alert 8-12 cycles per second. With mental concentration this increases to 18-22 cycles per second. In today's highly industrialized world, we live in a virtual sea of metabolically disturbing electro-magnetic frequencies and biologically disordering positive magnetic fields. You can therefore easily understand how 60 cycle AC electric current and varying frequencies of radio waves, etc. are disordering the biologic metabolic function of man and animals alike. Here's What You Can Do To Protect Against Electromagnetic Contamination, and Preserve Your Energy and Health. Follow a few simple precautions. These include the following. 1. Investigate your home, yard and immediate surroundings for possible electromagnetic contamination areas and consider measures to reduce exposure. 2. Unplug waterbed heaters when occupying the bed. 3. Discontinue use of electric blankets, until redesigned to reduce magnetic field emissions. 4. As far as possible, keep other electric appliances out of the bedroom. If you must have your electric clock, keep it several feet away from the bedside. 5. Sit at least 3 or more feet from any TV or video screen. Follow a program of negative magnetic field therapy. This will provide protection against harmful magnetic fields. It can also be of value for existing physical and emotional illnesses where the magnetic balance has already been disrupted. This would include the following. 1. Ideally a Magnetic bed provides a protective shield of negative magnetic and natural earth frequency about the body during sleeping hours. 2. If a magnetic bed is not available, follow the Nightly Routine. (see pg. 28 ******************************************** Veteran Bob Hope script writer Bob Mills who spent 15 years with the peripatetic comedian penning jokes, sketches and parody lyrics now publishes a free topical comedy newsletter Monday-Friday. Jokes in "Funny Side Up" are straight from the day's headlines and include politics, movies, tv, celebrities and human interest in typical Leno/Letterman style. Some lists and reader interactive quizzes add to the mix. Sign up at: http://funnysideup.listbot.com/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Section 4 PLEASE VISIT OUR SPONSORS HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS - YOUR CUSTOMERS ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!! - Thousands of interested prospects will know where to find you. - Have YOUR name available when your services are needed. - Highly targeted local and global promotional benefits for less than $1/week. Your Life-Your Choice often gets requests from subscribers and visitors looking for practitioners in specific areas. Get listed and be found! Visit NOW http://www.Life-Choices.com/promote.html to reserve your position before YOUR new customers find someone else. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR 2 FOR 1 OFFER!!! mailto:yourlife@life-choices.com to find out how. Offer valid for October '98 only! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ******************************************** Section 5 ADD: Ritalin & Associates Part III of "The Dilemma of ADD/ADHD" By Joe Carr, Ph.D., C.N.C. Dr. Joe Carr is a Psychologist, Certified Nutritional Counselor and Certified Microscopist Technician. He is currently completing his dissertation for a doctorate of Naturopathy, is a member of the International Society of Orthomolecular Medicine, the American Nutraceutical Association, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, and the American Association of Nutritional Consultants. He is a partner in Wellness Therapies, a wellness clinic in St. Louis, MO and specializes in working with children who have been diagnosed as ADD/ADHD. He employs a completely natural approach to the problem of ADD and can be contacted at wellness@primary.net. ~~~~~~~~~~ In 1996, more than 2.5 million children in the U.S. took Ritalin on a regular basis to help them cope with the dilemma of Attention Deficit Disorder. This was an increase of more than a two and one half times the number taking the drug in 1990. While estimates vary, the total number of children on Ritalin has probably increased to 4-5 million or more per year. There are predictions that the current rate of escalation will result in 8 million children or more by the year 2000. If you do not have a child who is taking it, ask around at work, church or at social events and you will find someone who has a child taking the medication. It seems that ADD and Ritalin have become synonymous. One would think, because of all of the press it receives, that Ritalin is the only drug used to treat ADD. Not so. It has several cousins that are also widely used: Dexedrine and DextroStat, Adderall, Desoxyn and Gradumet, and Cylert. Except for Cylert, all of these drugs have nearly identical effects and side effects - they are stimulants. Ritalin and all the others (which are amphetamines) can be considered as one type of drug. A wonderful source of information on these drugs and their effects can be found in the book TALKING BACK TO RITALIN by Dr. Peter Breggin, M.D. There are excellent sources of information available on the use and abuse of stimulants in treating ADD but many are either too superficial or too technical. Dr. Breggin has performed an invaluable service for those of us who are parents of children with, or suspected of being, ADD. Most of us have felt the pressure of giving drugs to our children even though we dislike the idea. Teachers may explain, or insist, that stimulants have helped many of their students. Friends may claim that Ritalin has "saved" their children. We as parents may feel we are depriving our children of a legitimate medical treatment that could improve the life of our child. It is to this scenario that Dr. Breggin addresses his book. We need to be informed and this is the intent of the book. I highly recommend it. Returning to our topic, among the effect of the various stimulants on a child taking them: --adverse effects on the brain, mind and behavior, including the production of drug-induced behavioral disorders, psychosis, mania, drug abuse and addiction --inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity - the very same problems they are supposed to treat --the child becoming robotic, lethargic, depressed or withdrawn --loss of appetite, insomnia, nightmares --neurological tics, including Tourette's syndrome --retard growth --causes gross malfunctions in the brain --withdrawal can cause emotional suffering, including depression, exhaustion and suicide --addictive The stimulants work by producing malfunctions in the brain rather than improving brain function. A child taking Ritalin will become more docile and obedient. He will be more willing to do boring tasks such as classwork or homework. It suppresses creative and spontaneous activity. The drugs have no positive effect on a child's psychology or academic performance and achievement. Rather, when a child has been labeled as ADD and has been medicated with a drug like Ritalin, that child has been stigmatized for life. It affects their self-image and makes them believe they cannot achieve their real potential without the assistance of a drug. Please understand that I am NOT condemning anyone who is taking a drug approach to dealing with ADD nor am I slamming the medical community for making it available. I am one of those who had taken this path for many years with my son and am very familiar with the subtle, and not so subtle, pressures that can be brought to bear on a parent. It is my intent to show the other side of the proverbial two-edged sword and assist the parent in making an informed decision. In our last installment of this series, we will look at some of the alternatives that are available to us in treating ADD. ************************************************************* Section 6 RECIPE CORNER FIRE POPPERS By Cary Brown Fire Poppers are a spicy crunchy appetizer. Your choice of Spice of Life™ Meatless Meat (defatted soy-textured protein) is precooked in a garlic-onion broth, then rolled in sesame seeds and toasted. Serve this robust fare with a selection of dips and a favorite cold brew. Serves: 24 Preparation time: 20 minutes (8 hours refrigeration required) Cooking time: 15 to 20 minutes at 350° F. Standing time: 5 minutes INGREDIENTS Fresh 1 onion, minced 3 cloves garlic, minced INGREDIENTS Dry 8 oz. Spice of Life™ Meatless Meat 1 cup raw sesame seeds 4 tsp. Egg Replacer™ INGREDIENTS Spices 1/4 to 1 tsp. red pepper flakes 1/2 tsp. lemon zest INGREDIENTS Liquid 4 TBS. olive oil 1 TBS. sesame oil 1 cup low sodium vegetable broth olive oil spray PREPARATION Add olive and sesame oils to a pre-heated pan. Stir-fry Spice of Life with minced onions and garlic, until onions turn translucent. Add vegetable broth, pepper flakes and lemon zest. Adjust pepper flakes to taste. One teaspoon is quite spicy. Bring to boil and simmer covered for 10 minutes. Set aside to cool. REFRIGERATE OVERNIGHT. Remove Spice of Life from liquid. Reserve liquid. In a separate bowl, mix Egg Replacer and 4 teaspoons of the reserved liquid. Dip Spice of Life into Egg Replacer solution, then roll in sesame seeds. Set aside on cooking rack. Spray a cookie sheet with olive oil. Add fire poppers and lightly spray with olive oil. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Turn when lightly browned. Spray again and continue cooking until sesame seeds are golden brown. Let stand five minutes before serving. SERVING Appetizer: Serve on toothpicks with choice of dipping sauces. Salad: Add to chopped greens with sweet vinaigrette dressing. Nutritional Information: Fire Poppers Serving Size: About 6 Serving Per recipe: 24 Calories: 133 Calories from fat: 60 Fat Total : 7g Saturated: 1g Monounsaturated: 3g Polyunsaturated: 3g Cholesterol: 0mg Carbohydrate: 14g Dietary Fiber: 2g Protein: 5g Sodium: 185mg Potassium: 54mg Calcium: 39mg Iron 1mg Zinc 1mg Vitamin A 186iu Vitamin C: 1mg Daily values: (2000 Calorie Diet*) Total Fat 7g (11%) Saturated Fat 1g (4%) Cholesterol 0% Sodium 8% Carbohydrate 5% Dietary Fiber 6% Protein 11% Vitamin A 3% Vitamin C 2% Calcium 3% Iron 7%. *Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs. (c)1998 Cary Brown All rights reserved. ~~~~~~~~~~ Cary Brown, a vegan, is an Emmy Award winning writer, producer, director. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and educated at the University of Illinois and Columbia College, Chicago. Brown, who began his career at fifteen, as producer of ABC's "Telechievers,i was executive in charge of production for ABC Video Enterprises and has written, produced and directed over seventy films and video projects. Married, with one son, he lives in Los Angeles. Brown is a member of the Directors Guild of America. To email Cary: mailto:cbrown@studioline.com ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sugar Free Treats for ADD/ADHD Children APPLE BARS By Howie Thomason R.N.C.P. This is a wholesome treat, easily made, that will satisfy the sweet tooth in your children. We do not use refined sugars in this recipe. Refined sugar includes; raw sugar, brown sugar, yellow sugar, sucanat, and white sugar. Refined sugar is sucrose. This is the ultimate naked carbohydrate. ³Whit Death². Stripped of all nutritional benefits. Sugar is known to play a negative role in many diseases, and can also depress the immune response and the body¹s resistance to disease by inhibiting the release of growth hormone. Following a sugar free diet doesn¹t mean you have to give up good taste or the comforts of sweetness. You can use honey, molasses, maple syrup, fruit juice or barley malt in place of sugar. Apple Bars For 12 pieces; Preheat oven to 350 deg F. Mix all ingredients in a bowl. 1/2 cup Apple Sauce 1/2 cup Apple Juice 3 Eggs 4 TBS Butter 2 cups Whole Wheat Pastry Flour 2 teasp Baking Powder 1 teasp Baking Soda 1.5 teasp Cinnamon 1 teasp Nutmeg 1 cup Raisins Press into an oiled square pan. Sprinkle with Apple Pie Spice if desired. Bake for 25 minutes. Nutritional Analysis; Per Serving; 166 calories 5 grams protein 25 grams carbohydrate 3 grams fibre 6 grams fat 63 mgs cholesterol 66 mgs calcium 1 mgs iron 31 mgs magnesium 440 mgs potassium 53 mgs sodium 1 mg zinc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ References; Linda Rector-Page, N.D., Ph. D. Cooking for Healthy Healing 1996 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Howie Thomason is a Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioner, (R.N.C.P.), and owner of BioNutrition practising in the Newmarket area of Ontario, BioNutrition 1-888-770-0033 905-473-9294 mailto:hmt@ican.net ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Disclaimer All material appearing in this newsletter is provided for educational purposes only. It is provided with the understanding that authors and contributors are not offering medical advice or services. 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