May 28, 2006 - Day 5 - Week 8 - Good Reading

Many well meaning friends and acquaintances have sent cards with sentiments both sublime and ridiculous, all to encourage, humor and embolden me.  It works.

In addition, a few have offered reading material in the form of books.  Several have suggested chat groups on the internet.  A day does not go by when I do not receive insight into a new pathway that could bring healing.

Here are four that I am working on simultaneously.

Long time friend and mentor Dr. Robert Blaich’s  YOUR INNER PHARMACY – Taking Back Our Wellness has just been published.  The subtitle is revealing:  Shift to a healthy mindset and add years to your life.  The cover is of a hand holding an apple.  Symbolically an organic apple represents health and well being, for an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Much more to come later about this book.

Carolyn Reuben, sister of my good friend Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben wrote “Cleansing the Body, Mind and Spirit.”  On the cover she offers: Simple, natural ways to detoxify with fasting, breathing techniques, reflexology, acupressure, diet, exercise and more.  I am going to read this book because my body is probably a candidate for a super fund cleanup.  De-toxification is not just for cleaning out the booze after a heavy weekend of partying, but a life long practice vital to counter-balancing what we ingest just by walking around.

Joel Fuhrman, MD wrote Fasting and Eating for Health.  The subtitle is intriguing to me.  “A Medical Doctor’s Program for Conquering Disease.”   The cover is full of information about the book.   It offers:  Precise diet and fasting programs to relieve headache, hypoglycemia, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, colitis, psoriasis, lupus and uterine fibroids. Sounds like his program can cure whatever ails one.  Heck, he does not mention cancer but this book deserves a good look.

Dr. Steven Pratt and Kathy Matthews penned a book called SUPERFOODS – Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life.  Anytime I read about someone’s empirical data on food I pay close attention.  I may be off base, but I do not think so, that diet may be the magic bullet, the key to unlock the mystery of health.  Once again high on the reading list and over the next few months I hope to unlock the kernels of wisdom contained within.

Optimum nutrients are now a necessity with me.  If you are clean and healthy perhaps you can adapt and adopt so as to fortify your inner eco system so you remain free of the debilitating diseases so common in our culture today; especially the big C.