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Fri Nov 23, 2001


WARNING: Your Life Is At Risk.

"This Special Report Can Help You Reduce Your Odds of Contracting One of the 
Eight Deadly Diseases of the WesternWorld."

By Paul Devlin


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Note: this report is fairly long. You may want to print itbefore you read it.
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Yes, your life and my life are currently at risk. A warning isdefinitely needed 
for the Western world, and particularly forAmericans who are eating out of 
grocery stores and resaurants. 

Like the aristocrats of ancient Rome, we are literally eating ourselves to an 
early death. It is my opinion that with a little bit of basic knowledge, 
supported by statistics and research from the cutting edge of health and 
science, people can take some simple steps and put the odds of living a longer 
healthier life back in their favor. We have identified 8 major diseases that 
have been sweeping the land since the 1940's. All of them were virtually 
unheard of at the turn of the century. The statistics will amaze you.

I'll also be sharing some health secrets you can use RIGHT NOW to protect 
yourself and your family. For obvious legal reasons, we can't guarantee that if 
you apply this information you will add years to your life, or never get a 
disease. But what we can do is present you with the research, give you our 
interpretation of the research, and let you make the call. Fair enough?

Hopefully, you can see enough value here to spend a few minutes and read on...

Frankly, 7 years ago, I knew almost nothing about health. I was a 32-year-old, 
over-stressed baby boomer. I was so busy, I ate most of my meals off my lap 
driving 70 mph in my car. I knew lots of drive-thru clerks on a first-name 
basis. I frequently had "special sauce" dripping down the side of my face as I 
tried to drive, eat, listen to motivational tapes, pay tolls, and do business 
on my cell phone….all at the same time! I get stressed out again just thinking 
about it. I was clearly on my way to an early death from one of the 8 deadly 
diseases (assuming a head-on collision didn't kill me first).

In 1994, I took a trip to Colorado in an attempt to rekindle one of my past 
loves: mountaineering. A fall on my rump, scree-skiing down on a talus slope at 
13,000ft, compressed some discs in my lower back and left me in bad shape. I 
was so locked up I could barely walk. I went to doctors and chiropractors 
without much success. So I started taking pain-killers.

At about the same time, I heard a radio program about nutrition while I was 
driving my 50-minute commute to work. I heard people talking about how 
nutritional products had helped them overcome a mind-boggling variety of health 
problems, including back pain. I wasn't taking any vitamin or mineral 
supplements at the time, and I was pretty skeptical about the whole thing. I 
didn't really believe products like that could help me, but the show piqued my 
curiosity. I could tell the stories were genuine.  People were breaking down 
over the radio, in tears over their positive health changes. 

I did two things: first, I immediately started taking nutrition(partly because 
of the money-back guarantee) to test it out and see what might happen, and 
second, I started to do some of my own research. I wanted to know what the 
medical literature had to say.

I was one of those 77 million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964. The 
earliest of the boomers was just turning 50, and even though I was only 32 at 
the time, my body already felt like it was 50. I had a lot of living left to do 
at that point! So I was motivated to do the research because I wanted to know 
how I could preserve my health as long as possible. 

Two months after starting the nutrition, my lower back pain completely 
subsided. Were the two related? I'm not sure, but it sure was an interesting 
coincidence. Other things started to happen in my body...

Almost immediately after I started on the product, my daily energy went way up. 
I jumped out of bed in the morning refreshed and wide-awake. I started being 
able to sleep less and feel better.

My mind was sharper. My memory seemed to be better. 

But this was the clincher...

Three months into the products my childhood hayfever and cat allergies 
disappeared. We started allowing the barn cats into the house, this was an 
event that would have sent me into a major explosion of sneezing, itching, 
watery eyes and congestion. Nothing happened. Soon I started actually playing 
with the cats and rubbing my face in their fur: still nothing. When spring 
rolled around and the pollen started to fly I was even more amazed: not one 
symptom. I invited my skeptical parents over to see for themselves, they had 
watched me suffer with allergies my whole life. They were so impressed even my  
jaded mother started taking the stuff (a miraculous event). I was steadily 
becoming a believer.

At about the same time, I started my research. Now, I may not be a doctor, but 
I'm college educated and I can go to the library as well as the next guy and do 
research to find out what's going on with the state of our health. After 
reading dozens of books, plowing through scientific journals and abstracts, and 
conversing with lots of smart people, I concluded that reliable facts evidence 
about how to stay healthy was a complex maze of contradictory opinions.

One day coffee is bad and may lead to breast cancer, the next day it boosts the 
cardiovascular system. One study suggests butter is linked to heart disease and 
recommends margarine, the next study shows hydrogenated oils (like margarine) 
suppress the immune system and could be a cancer risk. One company is out there 
promoting nutrasweet in place of sugar for weight loss. CBS 60 minutes does a 
piece suggesting nutrasweet may lead to tumors in the brain. There is a 
dizzying array of this kind of thing, which is why so many people are confused 
about what to do to maintain their health.

Incredibly, some of the so-called studies I read were funded by the very 
industries that were directly affected by the results!

For example, how serious do we take a study on the effects of pesticide use, 
when it is funded by Monsanto? Or how about a study on the effects of dairy 
products on asthma and allergy patients that was funded by the Dairy Council of 
America? Isn't that a little crazy after all? To me a lot of it looked like 
"junk" science. They start out with a proposition to prove, and then they find 
a way to do it! I decided to sift through the science and only qualify studies 
where the funding source was disconnected from an interested party.

In addition, I started studying people who were healthy themselves and maybe 
had overcome personal illness through natural means. People who had experienced 
definite, verifiable results (like me), using alternative methods. There has 
always been something about our "drugs and surgery" approach to health care 
that never made sense to me. During my research I found a huge number of 
anecdotal stories that supported the idea that good health resulted from right 
choices with regard to food, nutrition, water, rest and exercise. Using a 
combination of carefully filtered scientific studies, anecdotal stories, and 
good old common sense, I concluded that if the body is given those five natural 
tools, it can literally solve almost any problem without intervention from 
medical science. 

I know that sounds a bit radical, but please bear with me. Give me a little 
more time to convince you…
 
More importantly, let me give you an EXACT prescription that you can use for 
your own health. That's the true purpose of this report. I want you to be able 
to take this information, apply it in your life, and see noticeable results 
right away. If you could make real progress and potentially add years of 
quality living to your life, that would be worth it wouldn't it?

Now that the results of my research are finished, I must warn you….a lot more 
of what you're about to read may challenge some of your strongly held opinions. 
They did mine. That's why every important statement, graph and chart in this 
report has been thoroughly researched and documented including footnotes and 
references.
 
Why You Need To Know This--Even If You're Currently Healthy... 

Let's say you were climbing a mountain with some of your best friends, and you 
happened to be way up ahead of the group. Above you, someone knocks loose a 
gigantic boulder which starts crashing and tumbling down the slope in their 
direction. Would you step aside and watch, hoping the huge rock doesn't crush 
your best buddies? Or would you shout out at the top of your lungs to warn 
them? Wouldn't we all be yelling: ROOOOOOOOCK!!! Because even though there's a 
chance it would bounce harmlessly past, there's also a chance it could kill 
them. No one wants to be responsible for standing idly by why others are being 
killed! 

Because I look at life like a mountain climb, I need to tell you that I know of 
at least eight huge boulders tumbling down in your direction. Some of them may 
bounce harmlessly past you.  But what you're about to find out is the fact that 
the odds of getting picked off by one of these is rising fast. That's why it 
may seem like I'm shouting at you in this report. 

Folks, something has gone terribly wrong with our health.
 
Most of us assume we are living longer, because the longevity stats have gone 
way up in the last 100 years. But the sad truth is that because these 8 
diseases are growing so fast, we are actually living shorter….but taking longer 
to die. Our technology keeps us alive longer, but we sacrifice the quality of 
life in the process. Can there really be dignity when our elderly spend months 
or even years in a vegetative state hooked up to a machine? And what about the 
economic impact?

I used to think that normal aging was the same for everybody. You get one of 
the eight deadly diseases, and then you slowly die. Imagine my surprise when I 
learned that heart disease, the number one killer of Americans, is a relatively 
new disease! The first modern cases of it were reported in 1912, and even then 
it was extremely rare.[3] Today heart disease kills four times as many American 
women each year as breast cancer [3a]. For 300,000 people each year, the first 
and only symptom of heart disease is sudden death.

How did it go from almost non-existent to the number one spot? Hmmmmm. Makes 
you think doesn't it.

What about cancer? Only 3% of us died of cancer a hundred years ago. Today, 
almost 30% of us will succumb to it.[4] The 1909 edition of the standard U.S. 
textbook, Principles and Practice of Medicine,[4a] devoted only 15 pages to 
cancer. Breast and prostate cancers received no mention; colon cancer received 
2 lines. In contrast, the 1994 edition of Principles of Internal Medicine 
devoted 174 pages to this affliction. [4b]  

Stroke, which killed only a very few people a hundred years ago, is today the 
number three killer of Americans.

Alzheimer's wasn't even diagnosed until 1907. Today, 40% of those over 85 are 
suffering from it.[5]

Diabetes has increased 600% in just the last generation.[6]  Each year, 
Diabetes kills more than twice as many American women as breast cancer. [6a]

Over 40 million Americans suffer with some form of Arthritis or Osteoporosis. 
Ask any American woman what disease she fears most and she'll probably say 
breast cancer. Yet hip fractures kill more women than cancers of the breast, 
cervix and uterus combined. [6b]

Finally, there are the auto-immune disorders like chronic fatigue syndrome, 
Epstein-Barr virus, lupus, fibromyalgia, and AIDS. I lump them into one big 
category, and this group is growing like wildfire in the US right now. 20 years 
ago, they didn't even have names for most of this stuff and they were often 
written off as psycho-sematic. But the harsh symptoms of these auto-immune 
disorders are currently wreaking havoc on the health of tens of thousands of 
Americans.

Obviously, something has gone terribly wrong with our health - and it's 
happened in our lifetime. But we're acting as if all of these diseases are just 
a part of the normal aging process! Not so! There is nothing normal or natural 
about degenerative disease. We have convinced ourselves it is normal as a way 
of dealing with the terrible new reality of sickness and disease in the modern 
world.

Many of these deaths are totally unnecessary. And that's the tragedy. When a 
plane crashes and a few hundred people die, it makes the front page news for 
days. But when a million people die of heart disease or a half a million die of 
cancer, you'd think there'd be more of an outcry. It's the equivalent of a 
jumbo jet full of people crashing every single hour of every single day of 
every single month for an entire year. Year after year. Pretty amazing isn't it?

Now, let me ask you: How long do you plan on living? To what age? 70? 80? 90? 
100+? What do you think is reasonable? 

Now, take that figure and add 10 extra healthy years to it. What if you could 
live to 100 and beyond without the pain and disease that most people think 
comes with old age? Is this possible?

Today the average person lives to about 76. That's 79 for women and 72 for 
men.[1] But in certain areas of the world centenarians are common. We have only 
lately started to uncover why.

Source for data: National Center for Health Statistics, 1996
http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/datawh/statab/pubd.htm

The Danger Zone!

Today, the risk of dying of any thing before you are 40 is really very small. 
But starting at 40, you enter the zone of the 8 deadly diseases. How deadly are 
they? They kill more than 80% of us.[2] Can you guess what they are?

Heart Disease
Cancer
Stroke
Diabetes
Arthritis
Osteoporosis
Alzheimer's Disease
Auto-Immune Disease

These 8 deadly diseases will send millions of people to an early grave this 
year. Not thousands, but millions!

Here's the good news.

None of these diseases are inevitable. All of them can potentially be avoided 
or at least delayed - and in some cases even reversed - by following a few 
simple steps that I'll share with you before we're done. Because of this, more 
and more of us will be living healthy lives all the way to one hundred and 
beyond.

How about you? Do you want to live to 100? With the way trends are going, you 
may reach 100 whether you want to or not. And that scares some people. We tend 
to think of old people as frail and sickly but research on those who live to 
one hundred finds them "amazingly frisky" 84% function well, and 73% rate their 
health as good to excellent. So what is their secret? As a group, they like to 
walk, they are rarely overweight, and 5200 take extra vitamins and minerals 
daily.[7] If you want to join them, you'll have to adopt many of the same 
habits. And one of your first goals is to avoid the deadly eight for as long as 
possible.

Know thy enemy!

There is an adage in war. Know thy enemy. Each of us is being stalked by eight 
mortal diseases. If we don't want to be cut down early, we need to find out 
more about these diseases so we'll better understand how to conquer them.

#1: Heart Disease

Heart disease kills a million people a year in North America alone, and 
millions more worldwide. It's an epidemic. It's the equivalent of wiping out 
entire cities of people like San Diego or Sydney or Vancouver every year. Year 
after year. Or to say it another way, somebody dies at least every 32 seconds 
from heart disease.[8] But just what is it? It's not a disease you catch like a 
cold.

It's a disease you eat.

Improper diet causes a sludge called plaque to slowly clog up your arteries, 
stopping the flow of vital oxygen and nutrients to your heart muscles. When 
your arteries finally plug up, you have a heart attack. This happens to over 
1.5 million people a year. For most of them, it's a total surprise. They had no 
idea their arteries were clogged. 1/3 of them will die on the way to the 
hospital, with no second chance, no time to say goodbye. [10]those who do 
survive suffer through expensive and painful therapies. These days, a coronary 
bypass surgery costs between $25,000-$50,000.[11]

Sadly, the Centers for Disease Control stated in 1994 that only 18% of 
Americans over age 18 are free of heart disease risk factors. Here they are: 
high blood cholesterol, smoking, overweight, diabetes, hypertension and 
inactivity. [11a]

Each heart attack costs our health-care system at least $40,000. Heart disease 
is a $40 billion dollar industry with bypass surgery and angioplasty among the 
most lucrative medical procedures.[11b]

And all of this expense and pain and death may be unnecessary.

So how can you decrease the risk of heart disease?

Are you ready for a shocker? About 80% of the human race have cholesterol 
levels below 150 and will never have a heart attack. [11c] The Tarahumara 
Indians of Mexico and the Yanamomes of Brazil have average cholesterol levels 
from 133-137. [11d] That should tell us something! We Americans need to rethink 
what we're putting into our bodies.

Odds are, you probably already have some degree of heart disease. Heart disease 
starts early. By age 16, young Americans already have some degree of blockage 
in the crucial arteries that supply the heart with blood.[12] But, here's the 
good news: because of medical technology, we've made significant progress in 
the war on heart disease. Since 1950, we've cut the death rate in half.

As Dr. Michael Colgan, world famous expert on nutrition, has said: "Do not fear 
cardiovascular disease. It's the easiest of all man-made diseases to prevent, 
and even to reverse, if only you follow the right nutrition, plus a little easy 
exercise to blow away the cobwebs." [13]

There are three components to preventing heart disease:

1. Eat a diet high in fiber and low in saturated animal fats, dairy products 
are considered animal fats, even skim milk). Eat lots of raw veggies, fruits, 
grains, legumes, nuts and seeds. Be sparing with anything else.

2. Exercise regularly

3. Take whole-food nutritional supplements that contain vitamins C, E and 
niacin, and a broad spectrum of both macro and micro minerals.
(see http://www.pillfreevitamins.com/bodybalance.htm )

#2: Cancer

Cancer is the most feared and most expensive of all diseases, and for good 
reason. At least a million North Americans will be diagnosed with cancer this 
year. 50% of those will die within five years.[14] That amounts to 1,500 people 
a day or one every minute of every day in America and one every 3 or 4 seconds 
somewhere in the world.[15]

We've spent billions trying to cure it. Far from being conquered, the incidence 
of cancer has increased 44% since 1950. Breast cancer is up 6000. Prostate 
cancer is up 100%. At this rate, cancer will soon pass heart disease as the 
number one cause of death in America. [16] Recently, the news on the cancer 
front in the U.S. has shown some improvement. After decades of steady increase, 
the rate of cancer death seems to have peaked and is dropping about 1/2% per 
year. That's good news for about 2,750 people this year. But little comfort to 
the other 547,250 who won't make it.

What are your odds of developing cancer?

The National Cancer Institute says: "that one American in every three living 
today will get cancer, and one in four will die from it." [17]

For women, the most feared cancer is breast cancer. In 1950, only one in twenty 
women got it. Today it's about one in eight. Only 18% of women who are 
diagnosed with breast cancer will survive it for at least five years.[18] About 
45,000 women will die from it this year. [19] According to Patrick Quillin in 
his book, Beating Cancer with Nutrition, even women who are lucky and beat it 
still lose an average of 19 years of life span.[20]

For men, the most feared cancer is prostate cancer. Just about every man over 
50 has an enlarged prostate. [21] Doctors estimate that 30% of American men 60 
years and older have prostatic cancer.[22] Among men who live to 75, the number 
is over 50% [23] That's one in two! And the older you get, the higher the risk. 
But don't panic! Prostate cancer usually grows very slowly and can be treated 
with great success. The ten-year survival rate from prostate cancer is over 
86%.[24]

If cancer is the most feared disease, it is also the least understood. Most of 
us think that cancer is something in your genes: some families get it, others 
don't. This is not necessarily so. Only 20% of cancer is attributable to 
heredity 80% is in your control. [25]  
According to Dr. Virginia Livingston-Wheeler, who at her clinic in San Diego 
treated hundreds of cancer patients with amazing success, "We all have cancer 
in our bodies it's just that our immune system is keeping it in check. It's the 
breakdown of our immune system that allows cancer to grow if you maintain a 
strong and healthy immune system, your chances of ever getting cancer are 
virtually nil." [26], [27]

According to Dr. Patrick Quillin, another cancer expert, "Scientists agree that 
nearly all individuals develop undetectable cancer about 6 times in a 70 year 
life span. Yet only one of three people actually develops overgrown and 
detectable cancer. The body is equipped to deal with cancer, but this process 
relies heavily on nutrition. Proper nutrition could prevent from 50-90% of all 
cancer "[28] 
(see http://www.pillfreevitamins.com/bodybalance.htm )
(also see http://www.pillfreevitamins.com/coloncleanse.htm ) 
So there is hope!

The development of cancer is not always a short, lightning strike event that's 
out of your control. It maybe a long process in the case of lung cancer 20-25 
years.[29] If you strengthen your immune system now, you can take back control 
and possibly keep cancer in check. This report will show you how to do that.

You need to know that my research turned up an interesting connection between 
alkalinity and cancer protection. It seems that the more alkaline you are, the 
less friendly you are to cancer. Cancer cells love acidity because acid blood 
is anaerobic, meaning it pushes oxygen away-which inhibits the immune system. 
Alkaline blood, on the other hand, is aerobic, meaning it encourages oxygen and 
stimulates the immune system to keep cancer cells in check. This simple dynamic 
may be a real key to decreasing your chances of developing cancer.

So how do you keep your blood more alkaline? Eat foods grown from the earth. If 
it comes from a plant, it is generally alkalizing. If you have to chase it down 
and kill it before you can eat it, it is generally more acidic. High blood 
levels of protein from animal products lead to acid blood and an acid PH. So 
remember this simple little thing and adjust the foods you eat and you can 
easily become less cancer friendly. Get a simple saliva PH tester from any 
local pharmacy to keep track of your progress. A PH of 7.0 to 7.2 is ideal.

Studies suggest that pesticides promote cancers of the breast, prostate, brain, 
kidney, liver, central nervous system, blood cells and skin. [29a] So please 
eat organic products whenever possible! This is a simple thing you can do to 
limit your risk. You'll pay a bit more for organic food, but I promise you, 
even a good deductible is pricey if you get cancer. 

So based on the studies I've referenced here and others I've read, if you want 
to limit your cancer risk, my recommendation is to do the following:

1. Eat a diet high in fiber and low in saturated animal fats, (dairy products 
are considered animal fats, even skim milk).  Eat lots of raw veggies, fruits, 
grains, legumes, nuts and seeds. Be sparing with anything else.

2. Eliminate any and all trans-fats like margarine, crisco, and any product 
that contains hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils of any kind. Oils in 
general are immune suppressants so limit your oil consumption as well. 
Vegetable oils suppress immune function and increase cancer risk more than 
animal fats.[29b]

3. Take a whole-food nutritional supplement containing all the major vitamins, 
major minerals, micro minerals, enzymes, amino- acids, EFA's etc.
(see http://www.pillfreevitamins.com/bodybalance.htm )

4. Find a good liquid calcium source. Calcium is the ultimate alkalizer.
(see http://www.pillfreevitamins.com/osteoprocare.htm )

5. Consider Pao D'arco. It's made from the heartwood of the Lapacho tree and is 
a proven immune stimulant.
(see http://www.pillfreevitamins.com/taheebotea.htm )

6. Consider a green product that combines barley greens, wheat grass, 
spirulina, chlorophyll, noni, grapeseed extract, and other anti-oxidants.
(see http://www.pillfreevitamins.com/truegreens.htm )

#3: Stroke

Most of us are petrified of cancer without realizing that stroke kills more 
women than breast cancer, and more men than prostate cancer.[30]

What is a stroke? Most strokes are caused by the same problem that causes a 
heart attack. The arteries of the brain harden and plug up, eventually shutting 
off the flow of blood to vital parts of the brain causing, in essence, a "brain 
attack." Researchers at the University of Cincinnati recently found to their 
alarm that approximately 730,000 strokes occur in the USA each year, almost ONE 
THIRD higher than the previous estimate of 550,000. Of those victims of stroke, 
at least 150,000 will die. And many of the rest of them may wish they had died. 
Strokes are the number one cause of disabilities. There are 4,000,000 North 
American survivors of stroke alive today. Half of them have significant 
disabilities including paralysis, speech problems, impaired vision, and memory 
loss.[31]

You don't want to be a stroke victim and you may not have to be. Follow the 
same instructions for heart disease to limit your risk of stroke.

#4: Diabetes

Over sixteen million North Americans suffer from diabetes, with millions more 
worldwide.[32] And it's on the rise. One in twenty of us will eventually get 
it.[34] It's a major threat to our health. The longer you live, the greater the 
chance that you'll eventually develop diabetes. 40% to 60% of eighty-year-olds 
have it.[35] Peripheral neuropathy is a terrible side effect of diabetes 
leading to nerve damage in the extremities and the eyes. Amputation of limbs 
and blindness are common among those with advanced type II diabetes. Every 
year, diabetes kills 300,000 people,[36] and leaves countless others in a state 
of misery from the symptoms of the disease.

Here's the wake-up call…

In industrialized countries such as ours, blood sugar and insulin levels rise 
progressively with age. This "normal aging process" does not occur in other 
cultures with different diets. The key to avoiding diabetes is understanding 
how the process works. Mounting evidence suggests that sugar, fiber and fat 
each play a major role:

Dietary Causes of Type II Diabetes [36a]

* High Fat intake

* Obesity

* Sugar-fiber ratio too high

At least 80% of type II diabetics are obese. Fat paralyzes insulin response and 
hinders insulin clearance from the bloodstream by the liver. High-sugar, 
low-fiber diets cause blood sugar spiking and elevated insulin, which impairs 
the insulin receptors. [36b] Fiber helps control blood sugar spiking by slowing 
carbohydrate absorption. [36c]

Trust me, you don't want to come within a mile of diabetes. It's a miserable 
thing to deal with. Here are some things you can do to put the odds back in 
your favor:

1. Eat a diet high in fiber and low in saturated animal fats, dairy products 
are considered animal fats, even skim milk). Eat lots of raw veggies, fruits, 
grains, legumes, nuts and seeds. Be sparing with anything else.

2. Take a whole-food nutritional supplement containing all the major vitamins, 
major minerals, micro minerals, enzymes, amino- acids, EFA's etc. Especially 
important are the minerals chromium and vanadium, because they are believed to 
help regulated insulin response.
(see http://www.pillfreevitamins.com/bodybalance.htm ) 

3. Limit your intake of processed sugars. Try to eliminate white sugar. Honey 
is better. Try stevia as a sweetener, it's the best alternative. It is a 
plant-based natural sweetener that doesn't promote an insulin response. Avoid 
Nutrasweet, aspartame, Sweet 'n low, Equal, or any other artificial sweetener 
like the plague!  4. If you're currently overweight or obese, do everything in 
your power to lose the excess weight. If you eat strictly as per #1 above, you 
will lose every excess pound you've got. Get on a weight loss program and add 
exercise to accelerate the progress.

#5: Arthritis

Forty three million of us have arthritis. It is actually a group of more than 
100 diseases. Arthritis affects the joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments, and 
covering of internal organs. The three most common are rheumatoid arthritis 
(RA) which favors younger women, osteoarthritis (OA) which favors older women, 
and gout, which favors indulgent males as it's victim of choice. For this 
section we will focus on RA.

RA is a systemic, progressive, autoimmune disease in which the body attacks its 
own tissues. RA usually spreads to several joints, destroying cartilage, bone, 
surrounding structures, and eventually, life itself. RA patients typically die 
10-15 years earlier than expected.[36d]

RA commonly develops from an autoimmune reaction to animal products. Patients 
with RA often have serum antibodies to cow protein in their blood.[36e] 
Saturated animal fats worsen arthritis. [36f] Autoimmune reactions to animal 
protein may trigger allergies to wheat gluten, corn and citrus. Controlled 
studies demonstrate the effectiveness of vegetarian diets (without dairy 
products) in treating RA. [36g]

You might think it only happens to old people, but the average age at which 
arthritis strikes is 47 - hardly over the hill.[37]And 80% of Americans develop 
some degree of arthritis by the age of 60. According to the National Institute 
of Health, arthritis accounts for more disability among middle-aged and older 
adults than any other affliction.[37a] If you hate pain, then you can take a 
few simple, inexpensive steps that might lower your chances of getting 
arthritis. These recommendations can also benefit people who currently have 
arthritis:

1. Eat a diet high in fiber and low in saturated animal fats,(dairy products 
are considered animal fats, even skim milk). Eat lots of raw veggies, fruits, 
grains, legumes, nuts and seeds. Be sparing with anything else.

2. Take a liquid calcium product (calcium orotate, or calcium combined with 
orotic acid, gives you the best absorption rate). Also be sure the calcium 
product contains magnesium in a 2 to 1 ration. For example, if the calcium is 
1000mg, then the magnesium ought to be 500mg. In addition, take liquid 
glucosamine hydrochloride (200mg), and chondroitin sulfate (100-200mg) for the 
rebuilding of worn out cartilage and other support tissues.
(see http://www.pillfreevitamins.com/osteoprocare.htm ) 

3. Take a whole-food nutritional supplement containing all the major vitamins, 
major minerals, micro minerals, enzymes, amino- acids, EFA's etc.
(see http://www.pillfreevitamins.com/bodybalance.htm ) 

Are these recommendations starting to sound a bit redundant? 

#6: Osteoporosis

Twenty-five million of us suffer from osteoporosis, or brittle bone disease. 
80% of these are women over the age of 50. [38]You've heard about older people 
falling and breaking their hips. In many cases, it's just the reverse. She was 
walking down the mall, and her hip spontaneously broke and then she fell.  Her 
bones were so brittle that just walking caused them to snap. And it all started 
in her thirties. After age 35, your bones lose bone mass at the rate of about 
1% per year.[39] Menopause accelerates the bone loss so that by age 
seventy-five, 90% of women have osteoporosis.[40], [41]

What does this mean to you?

A third of the women over 65 suffer fractured vertebrae or fractured hips. And 
not to leave the men out, by age 80, a sixth of the men also break a hip.[42] 
What's so bad about a few broken hones? Well, for 50,000 seniors last year, 
these fractures were a death sentence.[43] Unable to walk and to be active, 
they were confined to bed. A quarter of them died within 6 months.[44] That's 
one death every twenty minutes.[45] However, osteoporosis is not just about 
broken bones. Have you ever wondered why some older people seem to wrinkle more 
than others? Osteoporosis actually causes your skull to shrink, too!according 
to one plastic surgeon, "The result of ... such bone loss ... is skin that 
sags, like a dress that's a size too big." [46]

What's the key to understanding and preventing osteoporosis? It all gets back 
to alkalinity. Let me explain: in ranking priorities, the body places 
maintenance of blood calcium well above the maintenance of bone strength. The 
body is pre-programmed to sacrifice it's skeleton to maintain blood calcium. 
Protein is composed of amino acids which turn the blood slightly acidic. The 
body neutralizes these acids by dissolving bone calcium leading to urinary 
calcium loss. [46a] The more protein in the diet, the greater the calcium loss. 
[46b] Doubling the protein intake increases urinary calcium by 50%. [46c]

"Osteoporosis is a disease of calcium loss, not calcium deficiency. American 
women are hemorrhaging calcium." [46d] 
------Michael Klaper, M.D. Institute of Nutrition Education and Research

Here's another fact to chew on: vegetarian women, on average, have lower 
calcium intakes, lower estrogen levels and greater bone densities than 
meat-eating women. [46e] How can that be? Hmmmm. Here's some documentation that 
may surprise you:

** Calcium from green leafy vegetables is more absorbable than calcium from 
milk. [46f]

** Animal proteins erode bone by forming ammonia and uric acid.
[46g]

** Animal proteins contain twice the sulfur of plant proteins. Sulfur erodes 
bone by forming sulfuric acid and hydrogen sulfide. When soy protein replaces 
animal protein, less calcium is lost in the urine. [46h]

** Meat, poultry and fish contain 15-20 times more phosphorus than calcium. 
[46I] Phosphorus stimulates parathyroid hormone which erodes bone for it's 
calcium. [46j]

** Plant-based diets are high in magnesium which suppresses parathyroid 
hormone. Fruits and vegetables generate alkaline compounds like sodium and 
potassium hydroxide. Higher alkalinity leads to less demand on blood calcium 
and less urinary calcium loss.

** Animal products are low in magnesium which decreases calcium absorption. 
Dairy milk has a calcium-magnesium ration of 8:1.

Want more proof? Look at some population studies. Here's one:

Traditional Chinese consume plant centered diets in sharp contrast to those of 
Americans. The following table is standardized for 143-pound adult males: [46k]

Daily Calcium Intake...China: 544mg USA: 1143mg
Calcium from Dairy.....China: 0% USA: 75%
Daily Protein Intake...China: 64g USA: 91g
Protein from Animals...China: 7% USA: 70%
Calories from Animals..China: 6% USA: 44%
Osteoporosis Rates.....China: .5% USA: 10%

If you look at these numbers closely, you should find them shocking because 
they fly in the face of everything we have ever heard about osteoporosis!

In rural regions of China, osteoporosis is rare despite HALF the calcium intake 
of Americans. Clearly, animal protein intake is a much more significant factor 
with regard to osteoporosis.  This study suggests the need to shift the 
American diet from animal-centered to plant-centered.

Here's another population study: Alaskan Eskimos consume up to 2500mg of 
calcium and 200-400grams of animal protein each day. [46L] The Eskimos have one 
of the world's highest rates of osteoporosis affecting both men and women 
starting at age 40, despite their heavy weight-bearing exercise. So even with 
outrageously high levels of calcium consumption (all from animals), they still 
have rampant osteoporosis.

Got any ideas as to what my recommendations are for preventing osteoporosis?
(see http://www.pillfreevitamins.com/osteoprocare.htm ) 

Eat like a Chinese peasant and you can't go wrong!! That means lots of green 
vegetables, beans, and whole grains. And because our soils are depleted, be 
sure to take a whole food supplement like I described above. In addition, even 
though osteoporosis is not a disease of calcium deficiency (like most Americans 
falsely assume), it's still a great idea to take a natural liquid calcium 
supplement, because calcium plays many beneficial roles in the body in addition 
to bone strength, and Americans need something to balance out the high demand 
on their bones for blood calcium.

#7: Alzheimer's

Although it was identified in 1907, it wasn't until ex-president Ronald Reagan 
was diagnosed with it that the public took notice. Now experts predict that the 
longer you live, the more likely it is you'll get Alzheimer's. 10% of people 
over 65 have it. 20% of people over 75 have it. 40% of people over 85 have 
it.[48] That amounts to about four million of us. The symptoms are loss of 
memory, mental capacity and disorientation. Death follows diagnosis in seven to 
ten years.[49] It kills 100,000 people each year - but only after reducing its 
victims to human vegetables.[50]

You don't want to come within one hundred miles of this disease.

The good news is that 20-30% of those diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and 
other types of dementia don't actually have the disease at all. They have, 
instead, a deficiency of a single, specific vitamin. That vitamin is B12. When 
given simple B12 supplements, the symptoms of Alzheimer's and dementia 
disappeared.

Have you ever known an older person who was senile? Could it be that they just 
hadn't taken enough vitamins? According to Dr. Irwin H. Rosenberg of the US 
Department of Agriculture's Human Nutrition Research Center at Tufts 
University, "Much mental deterioration associated with aging can be prevented 
or reversed by vitamins."[51]
(see http://www.pillfreevitamins.com/bodybalance.htm ) 

#8: Autoimmune Disease

Basically, to have an autoimmune disorder like Lupus, fibromyalgia, aids, MS, 
or chronic fatigue syndrome, means that your own immune system is working 
against you instead of for you. These are all unique and complicated disorders 
and because we are lumping them together, we can only talk in general terms. 
But basically, what you want to have is a strong immune system that can keep 
viruses, bacteria, food allergens and environmental invaders from overwhelming 
your body. When your immune system collapses, or is constantly working overtime 
on the wrong stuff, or is attacking your own tissues, it leads to all sorts of 
debilitating symptoms.

Current research suggests that "leaky gut" syndrome can play a major role in 
many of the autoimmune diseases. Leaky gut happens when yeast grows out of 
control (candida) and penetrates the stomach or intestinal wall creating 
pathways for undigested food particles to enter the blood stream directly.

Normally food particles are "chelated" or bonded with the ligand proteins in 
the gut which "deliver" the food to the bloodstream in such a way that the body 
can convert the food into it's useful byproducts. When yeast pathways cause 
food particles to enter the bloodstream directly, the body considers the 
articles  an invader and their presence invokes an immune response.

Because immune responses place large demands on the body, a constant "war" 
against allergens in the blood can use up all the available energy and weaken 
the bodies defenses making it vulnerable to things it could normally deal with. 
This is why chronic fatigue patients are always exhausted. These people are 
often chronically sick with cold and flu-like symptoms. Also, as the allergenic 
particles settle in tissues surrounding the joints, inflammation and RA can 
begin to manifest.

Out of control yeast growth can be caused by many things, but the primary 
culprit seems to be an overuse of anti-biotics, which kill the friendly, 
yeast-eating bacteria in the gut. [51a] So an important preventative measure is 
to limit the use of anti-biotics unless absolutely necessary. One excellent way 
to do this is through the use of colloidal silver.

( see http://www.pillfreevitamins.com/colloidal.htm ) 

Colloidal silver is a natural antibiotic with a proven track record of 
"suffocating" over 650 different disease-causing viruses, bacteria, fungi and 
parasites. The beauty of using CS (at 10ppm in distilled water) is there is no 
possibility of micro-organisms developing a tolerance to it. Keep it in your 
medicine cabinet and use it 2-3 times per week for prevention or more often if 
you are sick or struggling with an auto-immune disorder. In addition to CS, 
consider using Pao D'Arco (taheebo) as a proven immune stimulant and blood 
cleanser.

Follow all the same dietary recommendations listed above, including a heavy use 
of whole food supplements if you have an autoimmune disease. Colon cleansing is 
particularly important as well to purify and detoxify the digestive tract, 
making it easier to absorb nutrients through the normal pathways. 

So that's it folks. Those are the top 8 diseases of the Western world. Isn't it 
fascinating that the research would suggest such a remarkably similar 
prescription for such a diverse set of diseases? In every case conditions are 
helped by moving toward a plant-centered diet and away from an animal-centered 
one; by increasing fiber and decreasing fat; and by adding a high quality, 
whole-food supplement with vitamins, minerals, enzymes and amino acids.

Footnotes and References

General References:

I want to be sure to give reference to Robert Allen for some of the ideas and 
references for this special report. He has been a "virtual" mentor of mine for 
many years and it was his special report on health for his USANA business that 
gave me the idea to write this.

I also want to reference Lee Hitchcox D.C.. His book Long Life Now has had a 
major influence on my thinking and on this special report. Lee is a dogged 
researcher and is willing to print the truth as he sees finds it. His book is a 
must read! 

Visit http://www.pillfreevitamins.com for the supplements mentioned in ths 
article.

Footnotes:

1 Time Magazine, The Frontiers of Medicine Special Issue. Fall 1996
2 Center for Disease Statistics
3 Ccolgan, Dr. Michael, The New Nutrition, p.48
3a Patlak, M., Women and heart disease, FDA Consumer, Nov 1994, pg7
4 Quillin, Dr. Patrick, Beating cancer with Nutrition, p.27
4a Osler, W., Principles and Practice of Medicine, Appleton Co., 1909
4b Harrison, T., Principles of Internal Medicine, 13thed,Mcgraw Hill 1994
5 Healing with Vitamins, a Prevention Magazine book
6 Passwater, Dr. Rivhard, The New Super Nutrition, p.260
6a Vital Statistics, Health, Jan/Feb 1994 pg 14
6b Dixon, A., The National Osteoporosis Society, Lancet 2:55, 1986
7 Bortz, Walter M. II, M.D., Dare To Be 100, pp.79 - 81
8 Disease Free, by Matthew Hoffman, Wm. LeGro Editors of Prevention p..327
10 Sinatra, Dr. Stephen, mailing piece, p.14. Also LifeSpan Plus by the editors 
of Prevention Magazine, p 41
11 Time, ibid
11a Nutrition Week, Feb 11th, 1994 pg 7
11b Hitchcox, Lee, Long Life Now, 1996 pg 163
11c Castelli, W. in Liebman, B., The HDL/triglycerides trap, CSPI Nutrition 
Action Healthletter, Sept 1990, pg 7
11d Walford, R., The Anti Aging Plan, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994, pg5
12 Sinatra, ibid
13 Colgan, p.51
14 Quillin, chart on p.6
15 Pauling, Dr. Linus, Cancer and Vitamin C, p.10
16 Quillin, pp.25 - 6
17 Quillin, p.xv
18 Quillin, p.25
19 Time, ibid. Actual figure = 44,000
20 Quillin. p.30
21 Disease Free, p.552
22 Disease Free, p.556
23 Pasting, p.95
24 Time, ibid. 41,400 prostate, 44,000 breast. Also, Quillin, p.30, 86.8%
25 Beyond Deficiency New Views on the Function and Health Effects of Vitamins, 
p.368
26 Livingston-Wheeler, Dr. Virginia, The Cosquest of Cancer, pp.101-2
27 Pauling, p.94
28 Quillin, p.37
29 MacDonald, Dr. John, website, www usana.com
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30 Readers Digest, November 1996, p.75
31 Time, ibid
32 Time, ibid
34 Time, ibid
35 Passwater, p.264
36 JAMA, US Dept. of Health antI Human Services, National Institute of Health
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36f Kremer, J., Effects of manipulation of dietary fatty acids on clinical 
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38 Time, ibid. Also, Lifespan Plus, p.285
39 Cooper, Dr. Kenneth H., Antioxidant Revolution, p.98
40 Ulene, Drs. Art and Val, The Vitamin Strategy, p.193
41 Bortz, p.226
42 Colgan, p.75
43 Willis, Dr. Robert D., Healthy At 100, p.18
44 Bortz, p.226. Also, Colgan, p.75
45 Bortz, p.227
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50 Disease Free, p.27
51 Carper, Jean, Stop Aging Now!, p.5

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