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Optimum ConnectionsNews from Optimum Choices, LLCOctober 2004To receive this newsletter in your e-mail, click here. ContentsCurrent News Current News
Optimum Choices will offer mini dog massage at the Good Samaritan Pet Center Halloween Party on Saturday, October 30th, 10 am - 1 pm. Dr. Michael Kiriac, PhD, N.D., the Russian scientist who developed BioSuperfood and BioPreparation, will be lecturing on Bio-Algae concentrates on November 9th in Seattle, November 10th in Boulder and November 11th in Denver. Optimum Choices will be joining Dr. Kiriac to lecture on the use of BioPreparation with animals at the Seattle and Denver lectures. For more details, click here. Click here to view the HealthyPetNet newsletters. Click here to view the ZoneNet newsletters. For more current news, see our news page: www.optimumchoices.com/news.htm. BioPreparation helps dog with mast cell tumor
Baby Bear, a shepherd mix dog, was acquired by the Misha May Foundation last spring. The Misha May Foundation specializes in training and rehabilitation for mixed-breed shelter dogs. Unfortunately, Baby Bear was discovered to have a mast cell tumor on his paw, which could not be totally removed without amputating the foot. The executive director, Lorraine May, a holistic dog trainer and Reiki practitioner, decided to remove as much of the tumor as possible surgically while preserving the foot and then pursue holistic treatment. Baby Bear began taking BioPreparationTM last May and the remains of the tumor on his paw quickly started healing. BioPreparationTM is a holistic supplement offered by Optimum Choices. We took regular pictures of his paw which you can see on our Cancer Results page. We are happy to report that Baby Bear was adopted on September 23. He had a vet check on September 23 and was proclaimed very healthy with no sign of any recurrence of his tumor. Lorraine reports that he looks and feels marvelous. BioPreparationTM was developed by Russian scientists through years of animal research to promote optimal health and reduce cancer. For more information, click here. Traditional diets promote optimal health
With people, it makes sense to look at what traditional cultures, untouched by Western civilization, have eaten for thousands of years. Today there are few cultures that have not had contact with civilization. Fortunately, there was a researcher who investigated the diets of many traditional cultures in the 1920's to 1930's, when travel to them became easier but before these cultures started eating Western foods. This researcher was Dr. Weston A. Price, a dentist from Cleveland. Being a dentist, he studied the teeth of these people and discovered that people on traditional diets had healthy, almost cavity-free, beautiful, straight teeth in uncrowded, broad jaws. When the children of these people changed to a Western diet, they had crowded, crooked teeth in narrow jaws with lots of cavities. The cause was clearly not genetic (unlike what we have been told), as children in the same family would either have beautiful, well-spaced teeth or crooked, unhealthy teeth depending on what their diet was. Dr. Price studied the diets of traditional cultures all over the world, from remote villages in Switzerland to Eskimos to the South Pacific. His work is now being carried on by Weston A. Price Foundation, founded in 1999 by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, PhD. Sally Fallon summarizes Dr. Price's research by identifying the 11 underlying characteristics of healthy traditional diets. The first characteristic is that they contained no refined or denatured foods. Just refined sugar, white flour, vegetable oils, canned foods and condensed milk were enough to cause havoc to traditional people's health. Today we have many more refined foods including high fructose corn syrup, pasteurized, skim and low fat milk, hydrogenated fats, isolated protein powders and many food additives and preservatives.
Vitamin D is also essential in the diet, since we would have to spend about half an hour in the sun at noon every day, with no clothes on, to get enough from the sun. Even cultures living in the tropics have a lot of Vitamin D in their diets. So these animal foods rich in Vitamins A and D are very important for health. The third characteristic of traditional diets is that they were extremely nutrient dense. The diets of traditional cultures had much higher levels of vitamins and minerals than we get in our diets today. Everything they did maximized nutrients, such as their choice of food, how they raised their foods and how they prepared them. They grew food on fertile soil, ate organ meats preferentially to muscle meats, ate animal fats rather than vegetable oils, raised animals on pasture rather than in factories, ate dairy products raw or fermented and would travel far to get foods that were super nutritious, such as fish eggs. With our faith in modern medicine, we have forgotten the importance of nutrition. For instance, we used to feed cod liver oil to our children but now we vaccinate them instead. This started with the publication of Baby and Child Care by Dr. Spock, who advocated vaccinations instead of cod liver oil.
Next month, we will describe characteristics five through eleven of healthy traditional diets. Now that we know some of the characteristics of healthy traditional diets, how can we incorporate this into our own diet to improve or maintain our health? One step is to start incorporating some of the "sacred foods" into your diet, such as cod liver oil, butter, organ meats and algae. Optimum Choices offers a superfood algae supplement that provides extremely concentrated nutrition such as Omega fatty acids and over 4,000 natural occurring enzymes: BioSuperfood for people and BioPreparation for pets. For more details on improving your diet, we recommend the cookbook Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon, featured below as our Book of the Month. The information in this article is from a seminar on "Healthy Traditional Diets" by Sally Fallon in Denver on September 20, 2003. Sally Fallon is co-founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation. For more information on the Foundation and a wealth of articles on nutrition, go to: http://www.westonaprice.org. The Foundation also publishes a quarterly journal for members that contains excellent articles on nutrition. Upcoming ClassesAdd Years to Your Pet's Life with Natural Pet Care—October 16 Beyond Aromatherapy—The Wonderful World of Essential Oils—October 30 See www.optimumchoices.com/classes.htm to view the current schedule. Book of the Month
Nourishing Traditions, by Sally Fallon, ISBN 0967089735 This book will tell you how to create a healthy diet for yourself based on the principles of healthy traditional diets, as described in the article above. The book is not only a cookbook but contains a wealth of information, including references to scientific studies and sections explaining the principles of preparing different types of foods, such as grains, to enhance digestibility. Contact Us
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