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A Kinda New Way of Thinking

In Beyond Medicine: Exploring a New Way of Thinking, Dr. Richard A. Dicenso attempts to integrate a new age spiritual awareness with medical science. Whereas traditional medicine only focuses on the physical realm of the body and confuses symptoms with disease, new age thinking aligns the mind, feelings and intentionality with health and the very creation of one’s reality.

He begins the book distinguishing between “physical”, “biochemical” and “virtual” modes of being. The virtual world stands opposite the physical realm, conjoined by biochemical processes that allows them to communicate and interact.  Ignoring any individual realm will lead to health problems as they interact with each other on all levels.

Dicenso distinguishes 7 of what he calls “caveats.”

1) Anything can cause anything. The law of cause and effect exists only in the physical realm, not the virtual or biochemical, but symptoms can originate from any realm [ed: not very clear about this point - why no cause/effect in the biochemical realm? And if disease is "caused" by problems and imbalances in the "virtual" realm?].

2) For every action there is a reaction, but it is very difficult to determine the particulars of the reaction.

3) Everything works in a unique way. Procedures for treating symptoms [...]

Rethinking Health: Cancer is Not a Disease

In his book Cancer is not a Disease: It’s a Survival Mechanism, Andreas Moritz argues for the revolutionary (with respect to mainstream Western medicine) idea that our view of disease is outdated and needs to be replaced with a more comprehensive and holistic understanding of health.

While his insights are revolutionary they are not new. A few years ago Bob Barefoot of Coral Calcium fame argued that our understanding of cholesterol and the role it plays in disease is backwards. Cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease but a survival mechanism, the body’s desperate attempt to heal itself as a last resort measure by trying to prevent the blood vessels from cracking and rupturing. The true cause of the disease is somewhere else.

Similarly, Moritz argues that cancer is not a disease but the body’s attempt to survive the real dis-ease by producing cells that don’t die. Cancer is a symptom, not the cause or origin of disease. He is a proponent of bridging the mind/body connection and elevating emotional and mental factors to a central role in the consideration of disease factors.

While the book is provocative and helpful in leading us to a greater understanding of disease, he says a [...]

Depressions: Recessions: Money Supply:

A happy shout out to economic historian Price Fishback for reminding us in a piece published in the New York Times that, as bad as things may now seem in the economy, they are nowhere near as bad as during the great depression of the 1930’s in the US.

He begins by saying that economic cycles and downturns are a natural part of the economic cycle [and "nature's" cycle], but that we may be more sensitive to them now because  the big downturns have been coming less frequently since the 1980’s. In other words, we may have gotten a little spoiled and less used to the hardships of the normal business cycle [this lag in business cycles may have something to do with the increasingly loose monetary policy of the last several decades, which climaxed during the reign of "Bubbles" Greenspan].

And according to the theories of Soviet economist Nikolai Kondratiev on the nature of economic supercycles, we are basically due for another big downturn in the world economy. In other words, this is all part of the divine plan and this too shall pass.

But comparison with the Great Depression just doesn’t hold up. Yes the stock market is down about 40% [...]

Corruption in the Health Care Industry

The world’s most powerful medicines, the foundation and fabric of your body, reside in nature, in the food you eat. “You are what you eat” is the fundamental commandment of optimal health and well-being.

Paramount health and the healing of disease doesn’t require artificial, pharmaceutical drugs or medical “experts,” as the medical establishment and pharmaceutical companies would like you to believe. The wisdom of the universe resides in nature and natural foods, and all the nourishment your body needs to heal itself can be found there.  Give the body what it needs and it will heal itself: your immune system is the product of hundreds of millions of years of biological evolution – the evolution of natural intelligence.

If everyone consumed the proper amount of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, green superfoods like chlorella and spirulina, and got enough excercise, 90% or more of all disease would be eliminated within a few years from the face of the earth. Lifespans would increase, youthful health and vitality restored to the elderly, and cutting -edge, natural anti-aging science would become mainstream. One day in the not too distant future it will be.

Will you and your family still be alive to enjoy it? I know mine probably [...]

Toyota and the Financial Crisis: Democracy, China or Nietzsche?

In a stunning example of the plight of the world economy, the Toyota Motor Company – which passed General Motors in 2008 for the record of most vehicles sold worldwide – posted an annual loss of 436.9 billion yen, or $4.4 billion dollars for the fiscal year ending March 2009. This was Toyota’s first annual net loss since the good old days of 1950.

How much did things cost in 1950? According to http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1950.html,

The yearly inflation rate in the USA was 1.09%
A new house averaged $8,450.00
Average wages per year: $3,210.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas: 18 cents
Average Cost of a new car: $1,510.00
Stromburg black and white television: $249.95
Ball point pen: $0.25
Samsonite case: $25.00
Clock radio: $59.95

To make matters worse, Toyota is predicting it will lose another 550 billion yen or $5.5 billion  dollars for the fiscal year ending March 2010, while global sales drop by almost 15%.

It’s interesting to note that in 1950 the average cost of a new house in the US was about 2 1/2 times the average wage. In 2007, the average wage in the US was about $40,000 and the average cost of a new house was about $300,000 – about 7 times the average wage. It was [...]

Red Meat and Dietary Health: Another Somewhat Ambiguous Study

In Paying A Price For Loving Red Meat (New York Times by Jane Brody, April 27, 2009), a new report published in the March 23 issue of  The Archives of Internal Medicine examined the results of the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study, Directed by Rashmi Sinha, a nutritional epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute.

The study finds that “men and women who consumed the most red and processed meat were likely to die sooner, especially from one of our two leading killers, heart disease and cancer, than people who consumed much smaller amounts of these foods . . . the increase in mortality risk tied to the higher levels of meat consumption was described as “modest,” ranging from about 20 percent to nearly 40 percent.”

The problem with this study is that it seems there is no clear distinction made between red, processed and organic meats. Was the red meat that was studied organically grown, free of pesticides and antiobotics? Would this have made a difference in the outcome of the study?

Isn’t there an important distinction to be made between fresh, organically grown* beef free of artificial coloring and chemical preservatives and meats that have been pumped full of [...]