More Health or Less Sickness?

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First, I gotta say: Suzi, I enjoy your posts They are quite interesting ~

In a message dated 7/7/2005 8:53:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, suziesgoats@... writes:

Why do most Americans seek help only after the crisis has occurred? Simply stated, because they have been told to.

In my case, it's the lack of funds, unfortunately. Yep, my medical insurance will cover you when you are sick and have something wrong with you, but they won't cover a 'well' visit. They don't cover the kids' well-checkups either. So you get penalized if you have healthy kids?

Plus, if "health" insurance really wanted to be helpful, wouldn't it be nice if there was a

co-pay on say organic foods? We could choose what we wanted to use our insurance for: either that doctor's visit or that trip to the health food store? I wish they would pay for preventative care . . . dare to dream, eh?

They have been told not to worry until the pain comes; that when it does we should take a pill and wait for the "miracle" of medicine to work. Life itself is the miracle. The healer lives within us, not outside of us like a genie in a bottle waiting to be set free.

Unfortunately, many people want the instant "cure" or band-aid over the problem; they don't want to take the effort.

Did you know that all cancer forms without any symptoms? By the time you have any symptoms associated with cancer it is too late.

Learned this first hand last year . . . okay, it was from my dog - my dear, beautiful, raw fed, newfie. Last April she started throwing up. Went on a whole hard day, so I took her into the vet. The x-rays revealed a mass in her digestive tract. "Probably just something she ate" they said. HA! Turned out to be a stricture in her intestines caused by cancer cells growing together. Surgery removed the block, but biopsies of the rest of her digestive tract showed it was widespread. They also diagnosed her with IBD -- she never showed any signs of this. Wish I could have been a little more psychic . . . . Two weeks, she was gone.

Just the month before, she was fit and happy, and the only thing that came back on her blood work is that she had high cholesterol . . . humpf. Three dogs in my little corner of the dog world have died of cancer, and the only signs they showed were that they had high cholesterol. Something's out of sinc, yeah?

Health is the key if you turn it the right way

Anita

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Doc, I am here because I feel great!" "This is the best I've felt in years, and I don't want it to stop." "I'm enjoying my life again and I want to understand how this works!"How many of these comments describe your reason for going to see your doctor? Approximately 50% of the patients we see in our clinic on any given day are simply being checked to determine how balanced their bodies are and where unnecessary stress and tension is accumulating. Essentially, these patients want more health vs. less sickness.Most new patients, on the other hand, are in our office because they are in a state of pain or a state of crisis. Something isn't working right and their health concern is not going away on its own. Why do most Americans seek help only after the crisis has occurred? Simply stated, because they have been told to. They have been told not to worry until the pain comes; that when it does we should take a pill and wait for the "miracle" of medicine to work. Life

itself is the miracle. The healer lives within us, not outside of us like a genie in a bottle waiting to be set free.Heroic medicine, crisis-care-intervention has dominated the American media for the past 100 years. Offering pharmaceutical medication/drugs and surgery, the medical profession has primarily focused on changing the symptoms/effects instead of handling or addressing the cause. While this approach can be life saving under emergency situations, it often fails to address the cause of our crisis. That is why for the past 10 years, more than half of Americans have chosen an alternative to traditional medical care for their health concerns. They are willing to pay out of their own pockets, despite having insurance that covers drugs or surgery.Over 100,000 people will die this year due to a reaction to a properly prescribed medication? Americans are now aware that health doesn't come in a bottle. The days of thinking that your lifestyle has nothing to do with

your symptoms; thinking that you can go ahead, live it up, and just take a pill to heal, are over.Our bodies are magnificent creations, self-healing, self-regulating, self-regenerating. The idea that health is the absence of pain and health care is what must be done to keep us out of pain is something we have all been told to accept as reality. This has led us to the place of waiting to feel the pain before acting on our health. Waiting to be told what to take to make the pain go away. Waiting to be told what to take next when the pain doesn't go away as we had hoped.Did you know that all cancer forms without any symptoms? By the time you have any symptoms associated with cancer it is too late. Did you know that 80% of all heart attack patients felt no symptoms before the attack?A chiropractor typically hears a history that sounds like this: "Doc, I didn't do anything. I just reached for the waste basket and now I can't straighten up." Inevitably, in the very

next breath this patient will state, "You know, before today my back was fine. I didn't have any pain."Your state of health is not measured merely be the absence of symptoms. Yet, most people are truly unaware of what is going on with their body. Your success in your quest for health is dependent upon your participation, your life style, and your environment. Your goal needs to be normal body function, not merely feeling better. To feel good all the time is not realistic. Your level of health is influenced by the six essentials: What you eat, what you drink, how you exercise, how you rest, what you breathe and what you think.When your body is functioning 100% and you are fully expressing your genetic potential, it feels great. For many people, however, if you take away the soda, caffeine, chocolate, nicotine, aspirin, ibuprofen, fast food, or whatever vice is actually keeping you from being aware of your body, it doesn't feel so great. It's as if you play this

symptom-avoidance game just to feel okay. The unfortunate cost is your health.The bulk of the confusion as to when, for what, and why a person goes to a doctor is because sickness-care-crisis intervention is actually called health care by the media and health care emphasizing function improvement is called alternative care. But, what is really the alternative here?Please remember that pain is simply a signal that something is out of sync. When the cause is changed, the effect or symptom must change. If the oil light in your automobile were flashing, you wouldn't cut the wire that goes to the indicator light. You cannot treat the effect (symptom) as if it is the cause. If you have treated the effect, (i.e., your headache with an aspirin) the survival priorities of the body have simply changed, making the symptom less intense. Although we are not opposed to treating a symptom in this manner, from time to time, because we all have to work, handle our families, etc., we

are absolutely opposed to treating the symptoms or effects day after day, year after year without treating the underlying cause. The unfortunate consequence will be your diminished health.Hopefully by now you have realized that health isn't merely the absence of symptoms. The choice is clearly yours. More health or less sickness?We encourage you to choose more health as opposed to less sickness. Use the best procedures (diet, exercise, reduce stress, etc) regularly to stay balanced as opposed to waiting until your body is in a crisis to act. Health care is affordable, sickness care is unaffordable. Be the best you can be and enjoy more health.

from The Health Connection, a quarterly newsletter which is published by Benner Chiropractic.

Suzi

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

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In a message dated 7/8/2005 8:41:53 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, astrosue@... writes:

I just get a rabies vaccination now for my cats.

The dogs I have now just get rabies and heartworm prevent -- saw my aunt's dog go through heartworm, and it wasn't pretty

The real issue is good food and good care so that the immune system remains strong

so that the animal will naturally fight off cancer.

True -- the first four years of the newf's life was at the mercy of my inexperience. She was my first dog, so of course why wouldn't I listen to the vet, they know best . . . <cough, cough, gag> I know better now. By the time she was four, she had bad allergies, and long story short, I fired my vet, got a new holistic one, started feeding raw and limited vaccines, and she was much, much better.

She taught me so much about dog health and eating well in general, which in turn helped me feed my family better. So I joined this list to learn more about the human side of healthy eating and awareness, and I'm finding out that there are many similarities -- food is food.

Which brings me to a funny -- while preparing dinner yes\terday, my daughter came in and asked, "Is that for us or the dogs?" LOL Sometimes it *is* hard to tell <snerk>

Anita

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Thank you Anita.

For future reference, my brothers dog got cancer.. they gave her 1 month at best... we started giving her essiac 2-3 times a day, full doses... do you know she lived another year or so...and had a quality life during this time... I could not get them to feed raw...

SuziSneezinggecko@... wrote:

First, I gotta say: Suzi, I enjoy your posts They are quite interesting ~

InLearned this first hand last year . . . okay, it was from my dog - my dear, beautiful, raw fed, newfie. Last April she started throwing up. Went on a whole hard day, so I took her into the vet. The x-rays revealed a mass in her digestive tract. "Probably just something she ate" they said. HA! Turned out to be a stricture in her intestines caused by cancer cells growing together. Surgery removed the block, but biopsies of the rest of her digestive tract showed it was widespread. They also diagnosed her with IBD -- she never showed any signs of this. Wish I could have been a little more psychic . . . . Two weeks, she was gone.

Just the month before, she was fit and happy, and the only thing that came back on her blood work is that she had high cholesterol . . . humpf. Three dogs in my little corner of the dog world have died of cancer, and the only signs they showed were that they had high cholesterol. Something's out of sinc, yeah?

Suzi

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

http://suziesgoats.wholefoodfarmacy.com/__________________________________________________

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In a message dated 7/8/2005 9:06:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, MorningGlory113@... writes:

cooked with onions

Egads - these days onions are a no-no for the furkids. They cause renal troubles.

Anita