Patients explore complementary medicine

By Marjorie Wertz
TRIBUNE-REVIEW (Suburbian Pittsburgh, PA. newspaper)
Monday, April 21, 2003

For practitioners of holistic medicine, a healthy life is not just the absence of pain. Whole health is the normal functioning of the physical, emotional and chemical self, according to Dr. Phil Westerbeck, a chiropractor at the West-Land Clinic, in Latrobe.
"It is the physical, our posture, muscle tone and weight," said Westerbeck. "It is the chemical, or what we put in our body, and it is the emotional portion of the body. My purpose is to find out why a patient's body is not healthy."

Westerbeck has been a licensed chiropractor for eight years. And while the chiropractic segment of his practice focuses on treating the dysfunctions of the body's joints, Westerbeck also concentrates on nutritional therapy and contact reflex analysis.

His patients seeking nutritional therapy are not alone. Prevention magazine's national survey on the self-care movement reports that 158 million consumers use dietary supplements to stay healthy, spending about $8.5 billion each year.

An estimated 22.8 million consumers use herbal remedies instead of prescription medicines, and an estimated 19.6 million combine herbal remedies with prescription products, according to the American Holistic Health Association.

Similarly, about 30.3 million people use herbal remedies instead of over-the-the counter drugs; approximately 19 million combine herbal and over-the-counter remedies.

Vitamins and minerals are essential to a person's overall health. For a fairly healthy person, a good multivitamin with trace minerals, essential fatty acids such as flaxseed oil or fish oil, and extra antioxidants, will keep him on the road to good health.

The best source of calcium, Westerbeck said, is calcium citrate. Vitamin D and magnesium helps the body assimilate calcium, while antioxidants prevent cell damage caused by free radicals.

"When you get free radicals in your body, it will pull electrons off cells," he said. "Anything that protects the cells from getting disrupted or destroyed is a good thing.

"Contact reflex analysis is similar to acupuncture," Westerbeck said. "We monitor the electrical system of the body by testing various points by using electrical stimulation. Sometimes a patient will have a nutritional problem that causes an imbalance; sometimes there is a CRA imbalance."

In the mid-1980s Deborah Barr, founder of Whole Health Resources in Pittsburgh, began conducting classes in natural weight loss.

"It all starts with a basic need to be happy and healthy," said Barr. "People have a lot of fear about changing their diets. It's about finding the imbalance in the person because sometimes it's how we're eating, not what we're eating."

Barr's training is in traditional Chinese medicine, which looks at the therapeutic values and the energetic properties of food.

"Our diets are terrible. It's not even real food," said Barr. "I'm never surprised when people change their diet and after a week they feel better. Holistic healing focuses on what causes the problems and what new choices I can make. Then you need to create a plan to do those choices.

"We teach and facilitate an understanding of the relationship between diet, attitudes, lifestyle and wellness."

Barr consults with each patient to customize a program based on the person's condition, constitutional strengths and weaknesses, lifestyle, age, activity level, and personal health and lifestyle goals.

"There is no one way for each person to achieve the results they want," she added. "There is no one perfect diet."

In addition to dietary healing, Barr provides attitudinal healing, which is a therapy used to uncover the mental/emotional and spiritual causes of health problems; shiatsu therapy, an energy-based massage; herbal and vitamin therapy; yoga therapy and corrective exercise; meditation; visualization and spiritual development, for her clients.

"We strive to uncover the cause of problems on every level," Barr said. "This is the only way to achieve lasting results."

Sixty-four-year-old Karl Hayek, of Forest Hills, Allegheny County, used to have constant headaches and heart palpitations. He began treatments at Medical Wellness Associates, in Jeannette, in December.

"I just didn't feel right," said Hayek. "I wanted to build up my immune system and have some chiropractic treatments. Now I have more energy and I've lost 11 pounds. I hardly have any heart palpitations and my headaches are infrequent. I attribute that to the diet and nutrition."

His new diet consists of lots of fruits and vegetables, little carbohydrates, and very little meat. He no longer consumes dairy products. Hayek is nearing the last of his immune drip treatments, a series of 12 intravenous infusions of vitamins and minerals specially blended for Hayek's immune system. The treatments are part of Dr. Martin Gallagher's 90-day wellness plan.

"The program has eight steps, each of which is a tool to get well and stay well," said Gallagher.

The steps are: detoxification; diet; optimizing digestion; food, chemical and environmental allergy identification; exercise and conditioning, nutritional supplements, attending to stress and rest; and chiropractic.

"Over the 90 days, we see very profound changes. The patient has more energy, less arthritic pain, the cholesterol lowers, and the blood pressure is lower," Gallagher said. "We also see an improvement in the emotional and spiritual well-being. These methods are natural, but patients must follow a natural lifestyle."

Gallagher, a licensed chiropractor, has a syndicated cable television show, "Nutritional Healing," aired on Sky Angel, The Health and Healing Channel, Cornerstone Television, and Family Land. He also has a radio show, "Alternatives 2 Medicine" on WEDO-AM (810) and KHB-AM (620) from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturdays. He can also be heard on WEDO from 1 to 2 p.m. weekdays and on KHB 10 a.m.-noon Thursdays.

On any given day, between 25 and 30 of Gallagher's patients receive chelation and infusion therapy. Chelation therapy consists of a man-made amino acid (EDTA) which is infused intravenously. EDTA removes toxic metallic agents involved in the buildup of arterial plaque and free radicals. Medical insurers, including Medicare, will not cover the costs involved in chelation treatments.

"We need to develop a method where we start with natural methods first in treating health problems," said Gallagher. "Doctors should be teaching patients on how to get well. There is, however, a place for drugs and a place for surgery in health care."

Westerbeck noted the importance of working with other health care providers in attaining the best possible care for the patient.

"They (medical doctors) are essential," he added. "You are going to find things in patients that they need to be referred to other doctors, such as oncologists or other specialists. That's very important to refer those patients to the physician who can best help them."

Marjorie Wertz can be reached at .

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CURE FOR THE COMMON COLD
Herbal cure for common cold?

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- Echinacea might not fight cold symptoms, further evidence

- Herbal remedy may offer flu protection

- Echinacea fails to reduce severity of colds but may cut frequency

21/09/2004 - Scientists in Germany, Austria and Canada are claiming that their combined work may have led to a natural ?cure for the common cold?.

Calgary-based Factors R & D Technologies in collaboration with researchers at the universities of Alberta, British Columbia and Dalhousie in Nova Scotia, as well as the Heinrich-Hein University in Dusseldorf, Germany and the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria have pooled their knowledge and resources to produce Echinilin - an Echinacea extract phytopharmaceutical.

In contrast to over-the-counter cold and flu treatments, the product is supposed to be a preventative treatment, which does not mask or suppress symptoms.

?When clinical trial participants were given Echinilin, we saw an immediate and sustained increase in natural killer cells which target virus infected cells and destroys them,? said Dr. Richard Barton, co-director of the human clinical studies. ?This indicates that their immune system had been stimulated to target and destroy the viruses. The end result was an immediate and marked reduction in both severity of symptoms and duration of the infection.?

Factors R & D Technologies claim they spent eight years in research and development at a cost of over $5-million dollars to produce this product.

Many researchers are still undecided about the ability of the herbal Echinacea to reduce symptoms of the common cold and help patients recover faster.

A study published in June in the Archives of Internal Medicine (164:1237-1241), for example, showed that the herbal remedy had no effect on severity of symptoms and the time taken to recover from a cold compared to those given placebo.

The findings were based on a trial of 120 adults, who took 300 milligrams of an echinacea juice preparation daily at the first sign of a cold and supported the results of a study in children last year.

This trial, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that echinacea did not reduce the severity or duration of infections although it did appear to cut the number of respiratory tract infections in the children.

Echinacea is thought to stimulate the immune response and is widely sold as a cold remedy. However it is available in different forms, made from both the above-ground herb and/or root portions depending upon the species used. The product tested in both the new and JAMA study used the fresh-pressed juice of the above-ground part of the Echinacea plant.

The researchers from the US-based Marshfield Clinic concluded that "further studies using different preparations and dosages of E purpurea are necessary to validate previous claims.?

Common Cold Cure

Cayenne Pepper for Improved Blood Flow


Cayenne pepper (also called Capsicum frutescens) is a stimulating herb made from the dried pods of chili peppers and is well known for its pungent taste and smell. Cayenne is a popular spice used in many different regional styles of cooking, but it has also been used medicinally for thousands of years. Cayenne is often referred to as chili, which is the Aztec name for cayenne pepper.

The main medicinal properties of cayenne are derived from a chemical called capsaicin. Capsaicin is the ingredient which gives peppers their HEAT. A pepper's capsaicin content ranges from 0-1.5%. Peppers are measured according to heat units. The degree of heat determines the peppers' usage and value. Generally, the hotter the pepper, the more capsaicin it contains. In addition to adding heat to the pepper, capsaicin acts to reduce platelet stickiness and relieve pain. Other constituents of cayenne are vitamins E, vitamin C and carotenoids.

Today cayenne is used worldwide to treat a variety of health conditions, including poor circulation, weak digestion, heart disease, chronic pain, sore throats, headaches and toothache.

Ayurveda also utilizes cayenne to treat poor digestion and gas. Chinese medicine uses cayenne for digestive ailments.

When taken internally, cayenne soothes the digestive tract and stimulates the flow of stomach secretions and saliva. These secretions contain substances which help digest food.

Cayenne is the greatest herbal aid to circulation and can be used on a regular basis. Dr. Richard Schulze, the medical herbalist, says that "If you master only one herb in your life, master cayenne pepper. It is more powerful than any other."

Cayenne moves blood
There is no other herb which increases your blood flow faster than cayenne. Cayenne moves blood. When people ask Dr. Schultze, "What are the 10 most important herbs to have in the home?" He tells them, "At the top of the list is cayenne pepper, because it will make the other 9 work better."

Cayenne is the greatest blood circulation stimulant known. You can take all the milk thistle you want, but if you have bad circulation to your liver, it's not going to do you any good. Cayenne increases your blood circulation immediately within seconds, more than any other herb.

When you have a sick area, there's often a restriction of blood flow to that area. Blood flow is what takes nutrition and the healing properties of herbs to those cells. Blood flow is also what carries out and removes waste material. Cayenne pepper is like TNT. It blasts through all that blockage to get to that area which is sick, taking with it all the minerals and vitamins from the foods you eat, and all the vital chemicals from the herbs you take - all the way to the sick area.

Cayenne pepper is usually labeled 40,000, 60,000, 90,000 or more heat units. Generally, the higher the number of heat units, the more beneficial. The lower-heat cayenne peppers are a lot less efficient, and they are the ones which are most highly contaminated. These are the ones you see labeled for 30,000 heat units. These are the ones to stay away from.


People who are not used to cayenne just need to work their way up. One problem people have is that they blow their mouths with cayenne, right off the bat. For those who have never used cayenne pepper before, a good initial dosage is 1/16th of a teaspoonful in some juice. Work your way up in dosage slowly. Put a small amount in some juice, stir and drink. Delicious.

Cayenne powder
It is recommended that the cayenne powder be used, as opposed to capsules. It is believed that you are only getting a small part of the potential effect of cayenne pepper by taking it in capsules. When you put cayenne in your mouth, your stomach secretes digestive juices before the cayenne ever gets there. So when the cayenne gets down there, your stomach is ready for it.

But if you swallow a capsule, your tongue tastes nothing. A capsule goes down in your stomach, and your stomach notices nothing, at first. Then, 5 minutes later the gelatin bursts, and you have a 1/2 teaspoon of cayenne pepper in your stomach and your body is shocked. You surprised it.

What is going on is that some of cayenne's healing action occurs right in your mouth. As cayenne touches your tongue, the cayenne absorbs in seconds and nerve endings send signals throughout the body - sending waves of fresh blood throughout your body.

My favorite source for high quality, non-irradiated cayenne pepper 90,000 heat units by the pound is here. (If the link goes to a blank page, just search their site for 'cayenne'.) I also like Puritan Pride's special "Buy 2 Get 3 FREE" promotions on cayenne.



I highly recommend the book "The Health Benefits of Cayenne" by John Heinerman if you want to learn more about the power of cayenne. There is no other herb stronger or more effective than cayenne to make immediate physiological and metabolic changes in the body.

Sure, there are a few heating herbs like ginger and horseradish, but what other herb can you put in somebody's mouth and all of a sudden it makes their faces look like cherries? I don't know another herb that will do that, and cayenne does that through your whole body. Use it to improve blood flow throughout your body.

Cayenne Pepper for Improved Blood Flow

Dr. Christopher's Heart Treatments

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Description: Heart circulation, cholesterol, heart disease, palpitation, heart weakness, heart attack, how to strengthen the heart, stress on the heart, etc.


Herbal Aids

Cayenne for Heart Circulation: Take cayenne, working up to a teaspoon three times a day. This increases the power of the heart and corrects the circulation problems. [SNH p.31]

Wheat Germ for Cholesterol and Heart: Wheat germ oil is excellent for feeding the heart and helps cut the cholesterol and smoothens its removal from the area. [SNH p.31]

Heart Attack: Prop up the patient and pour hot cayenne tea down, ( use a teaspoonful of cayenne in a cup of hot water), and have the patient drink the full cup. and the attack will stop immediately. We have been called in the middle of the night so many times. A teaspoon of cayenne should bring the patient out of the heart attack. In case cayenne is not around and you have a heart attack, the dosage on black pepper can be tripled and used. [SNH p.409]

Hawthorn Berry Syrup: Dr. Christopher's Hawthorn Berry Syrup to help Build and Strengthen the Heart: The heart is our life pump, and when it is not properly fed (with wholesome foods) it suffers malfunction (weakness and heart attacks) causing the heart failure condition that is one of the world's greatest killers. The mucusless diet used over a period of time can rebuild a heart to a good strong condition, but if the heart, its valves, and other working parts are in a weakened condition and need quick help we use a great "heart food or tonic" to assist it back to health. This food is the hawthorn berry ... This herbal formula is thought of by many to be a wonderful aid for organic and functional heart disorders such as dyspnea, rapid and feeble heart action, hypertrophy, valvular insufficiency sufficiency, and heart oppression. Hawthorn berry syrup is made with hawthorn berry juice concentrate using grape brandy and glycerine as aids and preservatives. Recommended dosage is one half teaspoon three times in a day.[HHH p.184]

BPE: Dr. Christopher's Blood Circulation Combination: This formula is given to assist blood purifying teas to work more efficiently and to also help aid the clearing up of allergies, etc. This group of herbs feeds cayenne (a stimulant) and ginger (stimulant) into the circulatory system where the cayenne works from the bloodstream to the heart and arteries, out into the veins. The other herbs in the formula assist these two herbs and work together to equalize the blood pressure (whether high or low) and to bring it to a good systolic over the diastolic reading. Blood flow is life itself. The blood circulatory combination consists of ginger, cayenne, golden seal, ginseng, parsley and garlic. [HHH p.185]

Adrenetone: Dr. Christopher's Adrenals Formula: to Compensate for Stress Placed on Heart From Adrenals: Contains mullein, lobelia, Siberian ginseng, gotu kola, hawthorne berries, cayenne, and ginger. As this formula helps correct any imbalance in the adrenal gland it also compensates for any stress placed on the heart. [EWH p.208]

Juices for Functional Heart Troubles: Carrot, cucumber & cabbage, endive, carrot & spinach, apple. [NL 3-5]


Testimonials

1. A New Life Through Proper Diet and Herbs. Not long ago, we had an experience that we will not forget for a long time. A gentleman came to visit us on his way through the area with his wife, and when we saw him the previous year on a business deal, he was so bad that rigor mortis had almost set in. In fact, the medical doctors had refused to give him any more medication. He had a heart condition that had gone into dropsy, and his blood pressure was so high that he was just tottering around. There was so much mucus in his body that the tissue was completely loaded to suffocation. At the time, knowing of my profession, he asked what could be done. We started him off with a very simple procedure: We put him on nutritional herbs (fruits and vegetables--our Regenerative Diet) and on Medicinal herbs. Now, a year later, the man had just finished 8,000 miles of touring! He had the finest skin-color you ever saw, and it was a thrill to see a man so full of pep and energy. Tears dropped from his eyes in our meeting, because he was so happy to be alive. These are times that make it worth all of the trouble we have suffered to assure others (seeking vibrant life today or in the future) and to have the legal right to use and obtain healing with medicinal herbs. And here is a living example of our chief message that health begins in the bowel, for when the colon is clean, when we are free from the morbid matter that is toxifying and defiling the system there, then the system can be fed properly, and we begin to live! [SNH p.176]

2. Stops Heart Attack: One doctor who had learned the formula for Hawthorn berry syrup from Dr. Christopher raised his hand after a lecture to tell the following story. He had gone on a house call in response to a call about a heart attack, one so serious that the family was afraid that death was imminent. The doctor had no cayenne in his bag and the family had no cayenne; the doctor began to panic. He remembered that he had a bottle of Hawthorn berry syrup with him. The usual dose is a half-teaspoonful, but the doctor thought a little more might help, so he gave the patient a full tablespoonful. The patient drank it down, sat right up, and said, "Well, I feel okay". The doctor checked him with the stethoscope and the heart sounded alright. As the doctor said, "Talk about quick relief!" [UW-Hawthorn]

3. Hawthorn Cures Lifelong Heart Problems: During the second World War a man had been accepted to work in a large chemical depot. The firm had hired him because he was physically unfit for military service--he had a heart leakage--and they were short of manpower. They placed him in their construction division without a physical examination when he was sixty-two years of age, and he worked for them until he was sixty-five years old. He had begun using this heart tonic when he was sixty years old, using it faithfully because, according to him, it tasted good. Now he was sixty-five years old and the war came to an end. He was called into the company's main office, where they complimented his work record and asked him if he would remain as an employee. He wanted to, but feared the necessary physical examination. He finally agreed to take the examination.

You may imagine his surprise when he found that he had been given a clean bill of health. He asked the doctor, "What about my heart leakage?" The doctor replied, "I wish I had a heart as good as yours. You should never worry about dying from a heart attack; in fact, if you don't get hit by a truck or lightning you will probably die quietly in your sleep from old age and won't even muss up the covers." This man worked several more years at the plant, retired, and then lived on until he was in his eighties. On a July evening in 1970, he went to the rodeo with his family and enjoyed the evening like a kid as he watched his son ride and perform. The next morning one of his sons came over to his home and found his father lying peacefully in his bed. He had passed away with his hands folded over his chest and, just as the doctor had predicted, the covers were not even mussed up. No heart attack, just the final sleep of old age. [UW-Hawthorn]

4. Hawthorn to Feel Better: A lady once came to Dr. Christopher to have her irises read and was told that, among other things, she had a heart weakness. She was advised to use a half teaspoon of Hawthorn berry syrup three times a day. She began using the tonic on a Tuesday; before the week was even over she had experienced a dramatic improvement in her condition. [UW-Hawthorn]

5. Wheat Germ Oil Saves Man: I remember an incident well over twenty years ago when I was called upon to visit a home in Idaho to see a patient who was lying helplessly in a bed with a severe heart condition. He was not even allowed to get out of bed to use the bathroom and how he hated that bedpan! His family had been informed that he would live a few days because of his heart and they were also told that another attack might suddenly take him at any time. This gentlemen was from the old school of eating--a meat, potato and gravy man. He ridiculed the idea of a mucusless diet, a cleanse program and the use of cayenne, saying, "I love eating the way I have always eaten and would rather die early with a belly full of steak than live your way." Knowing that he was a cattle man I asked him what he did for his sick cattle. He explained that experience had taught him that the best medicine for sick cattle was wheat germ oil and he purchased it in large drums to supply his herds. I asked him if there was any reason, seeing that the wheat germ oil was good enough for his prize stock, why he himself could not use the same procedure. He was then instructed to use three to six tablespoons of the wheat germ oil each day.

One day two years later as I was waiting in the lobby of a Salt Lake City hotel I saw a man run up the front steps in great haste and into the lobby where I was sitting. When he saw me he came to a screeching halt, yelled my name, and vigorously extended his hand to me.

"Bet you don't remember me," he said. "I am that 'dying' heart patient in Idaho you saw a couple of years ago. I took that 'cow oil' (wheat germ oil) and in a few days was up and around; in a few weeks I was out on a little business and in six months was out with the cattle, doing a hard day's work. Boy, am I a ball of fire today. Thanks Doc."

His thanks meant much more to me than any money I had been paid to make that house call. [NL 1-5]

6. Man Recovers Totally from Heart Attack: I have some friends where the wife was using some herbs, with good results, but her husband did not believe in them at all. One day he had a heart attack and was in the hospital for two weeks and was then sent home to rest. He was given an appointment to come back for tests such as the tread mill and that he may have to have a very dangerous surgery. His wife finally talked him into taking Cayenne and Hawthorn syrup. In slightly less than one week he went to the doctor. He went the full length of the tread mill without it even slightly affecting the heart. They then told him they had never seen such clean arteries.

One month later he went back for another check up and he was told that in the fifteen years they had been treating him, never had his heart beat been so strong. [NL 1-11]

7. Woman Able to Stop Taking Heart Medicine: After purchasing your book 'School of Natural Healing' and learning the value of cayenne pepper, I have been taking it regularly since last December. I have had a heart problem 18 years and have had a pace maker for the last six years. I had been on digorin and inderol for seven years. With the use of the cayenne along with your health food program, my health has improved greatly. I no longer have to take any heart medication and my health in general is much improved. I am even rid of most of my varicose veins. [NL 1-12]

8. Various uses for Dr. Christopher's Hawthorn Berry Syrup: Monday afternoon we took a bottle over to my 85 year old sister-in-law who has been in and out of hospitals for years with a bad heart and a bundle of other ailments. She kept a large oxygen tank in her living room, as she had trouble with breathing spells. Believe it or not, after the first 1U2 teaspoon of hawthorn berry syrup she never used oxygen again, in fact, they had Medicare pick up the tank last month. Then they charged her $240 rental.

I have another business friend that weighs 440 pounds--63 years old. His heart stopped as he came home in an 11 in. snow storm April 5th. He was in the hospital 14 days. But the doctors never figured out why his heart stopped. When he came home from the hospital I gave him a pint of syrup and he is doing fine now....

My wife and I take the syrup morning and night. My wife noticed pains in her chest when working in the garden and shoveling snow last winter. Now she does not feel it any more, since she is taking the syrup. [NL 3-9]

Dr. Christopher's Heart Treatments

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Anti-cancer grilling recipes:
Teriyaki Sauce
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Rosemary Tea Marinade
Blueberry Burger

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Cancer-proof your barbecue

High heat creates carcinogens in meat. But you can reduce the threat any of these 10 easy ways.

Those burgers, steaks, or ribs sizzling on the grill are cooking up chemicals that can help turn your cells cancerous. High heat reacts with proteins in red meat, poultry and fish to create heterocyclic amines, chemicals that are linked to cancer, especially of the colon and breast. Because these HCAs form within cooked meat, you can't get rid of them by scraping off char. But scientists have come up with ingenious ways to dramatically reduce the hazard. Precisely why these methods work is still a mystery, but research shows they do.

1 Flip burgers often. Turning burgers once a minute and cooking over lower heat reduces HCAs and kills potentially deadly E. coli bacteria, finds a new study at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Important: Use a meat thermometer to make sure a burger's internal temperature reaches 160 degrees Fahrenheit, needed to deactivate E. coli. Just because meat is brown doesn't mean it's thoroughly cooked.

2 Use the right marinade. Slash HCAs by marinating raw meat in a thin, very liquid sauce for at least 10 minutes, or more to taste. The Cancer Research Center of Hawaii found that a teriyaki marinade reduced HCAs 67%; a turmeric-garlic sauce, 50%. The key is to use a watery sauce: When a thick, concentrated commercial barbecue sauce was used, it actually tripled HCAs. So dilute thick sauces.

3 Microwave first. Partially cook burgers, poultry, ribs and fish in a microwave oven before grilling, and be sure to discard the juices. Microwaving a hamburger a couple of minutes or a batch of ribs and chicken 10 minutes eliminates 90% of HCAs, says James Felton, Ph.D., at Livermore Lab.

4 Add anti-cancer soy. Mix half a cup of textured soy protein into a pound of ground meat before grilling. This cuts 95% of the expected HCAs in burgers without appreciably affecting the taste, according to tests by John Weisburger, Ph.D., at the American Health Foundation.

5 Enhance with E. Adding vitamin E to raw ground meat hinders HCAs, says J. Ian Gray, Ph.D., of Michigan State University. His tests showed that 120 milligrams of vitamin E powder mixed into or sprinkled on 3.5-ounce patties can reduce HCA formation as much as 72%. Just crack open a capsule of powdered vitamin E.

6 Try a "fruit burger." Mixing a pound of ground meat with a cup of ground, fresh, tart cherries before grilling suppresses 90% of HCA formation, according to research at Michigan State. A possible reason: Cherries are high in HCA-blocking antioxidants. Researchers say other deep-colored fruits rich in antioxidants (grapes, blueberries, plums) should work, too.

7 Add garlic and herbs. In tests, garlic, rosemary and sage reduced HCAs, Gray says. Mix them into burgers, use them in marinades or just eat them in a meal with grilled meat. Antioxidants in citrus fruits also block HCAs.

8 Don't order meat very well-done. The longer meat is cooked at high temperatures (grilling, broiling, frying) the more HCAs are produced. Cooking steaks very well-done, compared with well-done, doubles HCAs. To minimize HCAs, grill beefsteaks and lamb rare or medium-rare. But always cook burgers, pork and poultry well-done to avoid food poisoning.

9 Wash down barbecue with tea. Chemicals in black and green tea help detoxify HCAs, Weisburger says. He recommends drinking hot or iced tea brewed from bags or loose tea (not bottled teas or powdered instant teas) regularly -- and especially with barbecue. Or marinate meat, poultry and fish in concentrated tea (let a tea bag steep in 1/4 cup hot water for 5 minutes).

10 Skip the meat; grill "green." Fruits and vegetables don't contain creatine, the animal protein needed to make HCAs. Pineapple and peppers are great grilled. Also, eating fruits, vegetables and green salads along with barbecued meat lessens the cancer hazard.

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Tips 2,7 & 9 in action:


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Teriyaki Sauce
1 garlic clove, crushed
1/2 tsp. minced fresh ginger
2 tsps. brown sugar
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup water

Mix all. Pour over meat, fish or poultry. Marinate at least 10 minutes. Makes 1 cup.

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Turmeric Garlic Marinade

2 tsps. garlic powder
1 tsp. ground turmeric
1/2 cup orange juice

Mix all. Pour over meat, fish or poultry. Marinate at least

10 minutes. Makes 1/2 cup.

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Rosemary Tea Marinade

1/2 cup concentrated tea (2 bags brewed in 1/2 cup hot water 5 minutes)
1 tsp. crushed rosemary
1 garlic clove, crushed
2 tsps. honey
2 tsps. soy sauce

Add rosemary, garlic, honey and soy sauce to hot tea.

Cool slightly. Pour over steaks, ribs, burgers, chicken or fish. Marinate at least 10 minutes. Makes 1/2 cup.

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Tips 6,7 & 8 in action


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Blueberry Burger

1 pound ground turkey breast or extra-lean ground beef
1 cup blueberries, ground in a food processor or blender
3/4 tsp. dried thyme
2 garlic cloves, crushed
Salt and pepper, to taste

Combine ingredients. Form into 4 burgers. Grill until well-done.

Per turkey burger: 290 calories, 31g protein, 6g carbohydrates, 15 fat (4g saturated), 1g fiber, 124mg sodium.

Contributing Editor Jean Carper is the author of "Your Miracle Brain" (HarperCollins).


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PreCook or Microwave First.
Barnat , R.S. Environ Health Perspect 104; 280-288, 1996

Sprinkle On Vitamin E
Balogh Z, Food Chem Toxicol 2000 May; 38(5): 395-401

Add Garlic and Herbs:
Bear, WL., Anticancer Res 2000 Sep-Oct;20(5B):3609-14

Wash Barbecue Down With Tea:
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HERBS AND NATURAL FOODS by Phil Cutrara


Venice Produce Market

In the study of nutrition that shows how natural foods keep the whole person healthy, only a small percent of the chemical properties are needed for a normal person to retain well being. Homeopathy has shown that when a similar symptom that a chemical property exhibits upon a person's body is ingested at a small percentage found in its natural state, it exhibit's a greater healing property. Powers of 10X-6 to 10X -80 are within their range. Common prescribed are X6 to X10 (.0000001) to (.00000000001)% of the natural amount found in food.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the condition of the tongue is used to help determine the condition of the body. While searching the Internet for Cat Scratch Fever and eye drops, I found a Russian article on the language of the tongue. I used AltaVista's translation feature to give me a good understanding of the topic.

Tongue Diagnostics of the states of the language

There are many pictures of the tongue, examples of illnesses of the body and treatments using homeopathic formulae. Those ingredients that I wanted to find out more, where researched using the "Image" feature of the AltaVista search engine.

In many cases those searches would lead to other countries and other languages that were also translated using AltaVista's translation feature. When I did not know the country of the Internet address, I put that into the search engine to find what language the site was written in when it was created.

The Internet is being made more helpful for researchers. Many of the closed stacks in the libraries of the world are being opened to the WWW.

Chemical component databases of foods and herbs are being added every day to the web. The relationship of foods to animals and to humans is found even in the great manuscripts of the middle ages.

Certain butterflies prefer their own types of flowers and they have certain healing properties for humans. I remember researching herbs and found a manuscript filled with water colored paintings of butterflies with the flowers they liked.

I compared these flowers with the commonly used herbs used to treat the aliments of modern human beings. There are only three copies of this book in the world. One of them can be found in the library of the University of Pisa in Italy by searching the Internet.

The chemical component database of foods can be used to discover what helps us be healthy. There are basic requirements the body needs to have the proper nutrition to be fully healthy.

In some cases, we need very little of a vitamin, but often times the body might have a difficult time making what it needs. Humans need very little B12; however doctors used to rely on often times, expensive B12 shots. Today, we can ingest all the B12 formula we need by keeping a pill under our tongue for a couple of minutes.

Nutritionalist have formulated a synergistic combination of B12 with B6 and folic acid that we can take under the tongue.

Better yet, we can see what foods contain these and eat them when we need them and watch out for them when they are in season, and when they are the freshest.

We do not need to shop at the nearest store any more, we can do a little traveling to other markets, and even use the Internet to do some special shopping for certain foods, herbs and homeopathic remedies.

With a little study you can become a smarter shopper, or even our own natural doctor that does not use harmful chemicals; but only natural foods to keep you fully alive, and totally well.

IGNATIAN METHOD OF MEDITATION/CONTEMPLATION

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I. BEFORE MEDITATION
1.. Quiet myself physically & mentally
2.. Reflect on the Presence of God.
3.. Preparatory prayer.

II. PRELUDES
1.. Passage to meditate.
2.. Composition of place.
3.. Grace to ask.

III. MEDITATION
1.. Read the passage slowly.
2.. Divide into two or three points.
3.. Look for 'jumping off' points.
4.. Persons, words, actions, Jesus.
5.. Follow lead of the Holy Spirit.

IV. CONVERSATION
1.. Speak from your heart.
2.. Make a resolution.
3.. Rest in God's Love.

V. CLOSING PRAYER
1.. An Our Father, Hail Mary, etc.

VI. EXAMINATION OF PRAYER
1.. Did I prepare myself to pray?
2.. Was I able to pray or was I distracted? Why?
3.. Did God seem close to me, or far away? Why?
4.. Did any particular prayer or Scripture strike me?
5.. Was God telling me something in my meditation?

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In order to celebrate mathematics in the new millennium, The Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts (CMI) has named seven Prize Problems. The Scientific Advisory Board of CMI selected these problems, focusing on important classic questions that have resisted solution over the years. The Board of Directors of CMI designated a $7 million prize fund for the solution to these problems, with $1 million allocated to each. During the Millennium Meeting held on May 24, 2000 at the College de France, Timothy Gowers presented a lecture entitled The Importance of Mathematics, aimed for the general public, while John Tate and Michael Atiyah spoke on the problems. The CMI invited specialists to formulate each problem.

One hundred years earlier, on August 8, 1900, David Hilbert delivered his famous lecture about open mathematical problems at the second International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris. This influenced our decision to announce the millennium problems as the central theme of a Paris meeting.

The rules for the award of the prize have the endorsement of the CMI Scientific Advisory Board and the approval of the Directors. The members of these boards have the responsibility to preserve the nature, the integrity, and the spirit of this prize.

Paris, May 24, 2000

Please send inquiries regarding the Millennium Prize Problems to prize.problems@claymath.org.
Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
Hodge Conjecture
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Riemann Hypothesis
Formulated in his 1859 paper, the Riemann hypothesis in effect says that the primes are distributed as regularly as possible given their seemingly random occurrence on the number line. Riemann's work gave an 'explicit' formula for the number of primes less than x in terms of the zeros of the zeta function. The first term is x/log(x). The Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to the assertion that other terms are bounded by a constant times log(x) times the square root of x. The Riemann hypothesis asserts that all the 'non-obvious' zeros of the zeta function are complex numbers with real part 1/2.

August La Mantia's Family Baptism Picture 1913

PHOTO 1913 THE CHRISTENING OF AUGUST LAMANTIA OF HOMER CITY IN BLAIRSVILLE, PA. 1ST ROW: Gertrude Larkin (office clerk), Josephine Delisi (1898-1971 d/o JF Delisi married Jos. DeMaria), Mary Calderone (1896-1963 d/o Rocco:.married John LaMantia of Indiana, PA. Ines Delisi 1895-1971, d/o Joseph F. Delisi: married Joseph P. Delisi. Sophie Calderone. (1898-1957) d/o Rocco.married A. Giunta, brother of Marino Giunta. Rose LaMantia,(1886-1972), d/o John LaMantia. Married Marino Giunta. BABY: Salvatore Giunta. Mattea Battaglia (1885-1934),married Dom LaMantia, parents of the christened baby, August born Oct. 15, 1912. Josephine Dinovo. Married A.LaMantia (Baby Rose LaMantia born 1913. Married to John Gabelli.) Phillippa LaMantia d/o John. Married to A. Calderone. (Baby John Calderone married to Annette Calderone.) Cosima, 2nd wife of Rocco Calderone. Josephine LaMantia (1872-1918.) Married to Joseph F. Delisi. (Baby Samuel Delisi (1912-1993)
2nd ROW: Mr. Brown (Hired man) Dominic LaMantia (!878-1954. (Baby: Elsie LaMantia.) Marino Giunta (1882-1938) Charles Giunta Born 1911. A. Calderone married Phillipa LaMantia. A. LaMantia married to Josephine Dinovo. Vincent LaMantia called Zio Veeshey) brother of Josephine LaMantia.Sal Catanzaro. Sal Calderone (died 1932 of Apollo, PA.) Rocco Calderone (1864-1937) Joseph F. Delisi (1866-1937) married to Josephine LaMantia. Sam Catanzaro, son of Sal. Rose LaMantia of Homer City, PA. Still living in 2001. 3rd Row: Andy DeMeo, A. LaMantia (1906-1948) Dominic LaMantia (1908-1934) Phillip LaMantia (!909- (?) Rocco Calderone. Rose Calderone of Vandergrift, PA (1909-1980) Married to J. Calderazzo (tailor) John Calderone of Vandergrift (1902- )Josephine Calderone (1903 )d/o Rocco Married to McCoy. Lil Calderone d/o Rocco Married to J. Cascio. Mary Calderone (1904- )d/o Tony Married to J. Lombardi. (?) Sam LaMantia, Brother of Elsie of Homer City, PA.. (?)

Back Row: J. Battaglia of Derby PA. Vincent LaMantia of Blairsville. Married Marie LaMantia. Paul LaMantia .Sam LaMantia. John LaMantia (1890-1969) Married Mary Calderone. Joseph.L.Delisi (1900-1991). Francesco (Chico) Delisi, (!896-1962), brother of J.P. Delisi Joseph P. Delisi (1888-1968) Married Ines Delisi.