Heaven Earth Natural Therapies Clinic

 A Balance of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine

 Acupuncture - Herbal Medicine - Lifestyle Counselling - BodyTalk - Kinesiology

Our Newsletter Summer pages 3 and 4

For the entire newsetter Summer 2007 click here PDF

Speaking of Water...
Water is such a vital part of our being here on this planet. Its worth remembering water’s amazing and marvellous functions...lets look at a few of them here.

Brain Function: The brain is 2% of the body’s total weight and receives an amazing 15-20% of the blood supply which is mostly water. Dehydration will affect cognitive ability and can through histamine’s action create depression (many anti-depressant medication are anti-histamines)

Bone Tissue Function: Bones require plentiful supplies of water. 75% of the upper body weight is supported by the (watery core of the) 5th lumber disc and the rest by the muscle fibres around the spine.
Nerve Function: Very fine microtubules that run along the length of nerves transport nutrients and conduct energy to the synapses.Dehydration will hinder proper nerve function resulting in the sensation of pain

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Hydrolysis: The body has many water dependent chemical reactions. Dehydration means some of these processes will become faulty metabolic processes, eg proteins and enzymes do not function as well in acidic solutions of higher viscosity where the body is dehydrated.

Leads us to - Digestion needs plenty of water. The stomach relies on mucus lining the walls to shield it from the effects of the stomach’s hydrochloric acid. Any acid that attempts to break through the mucus is neutralised by a bicarbonate solution that is produced by the cells. This natural defence system requires water to be effective.! So before you resort to drugs to stop digestive pain, first try having a few weeks of adequate water intake and see how you feel.

When to have water?? Its best to have water between meals. 1.5-2lt, more if working hard outdoors, Room Temp! no ice!

What constitutes water? 2 hydrogen atoms & one oxygen atom - THAT’S ALL. Coffee, tea, diet soft drinks, beer and other liquids do not constitute water intake.

“Many of today’s designer drinks are diuretic in their effect (water-expelling) (and don’t think that this is a good thing if you are attempting to loose weight because it isn’t.) because their mostly acidic compositions require the body to give up water in order to eliminate their harmful residues. Diet sodas especially are harmful in that they require large amounts of body-water to neutralise the phsphoric acid component (2.8pH). Cells that started off healthy and ‘plum-like’ shrivel to prunes as water...is progessively denied them. The sick in our hospitals are fed the sodas, tea and coffee they ask for in woeful ignorance of the damage wrought to the micro cell-world within them.” Phillip Day, Water, the Stuff of Life, www.Credence.org 2004.

Protein alternatives
Research has shown that protein satisfies our appetites more than foods high in fats or carbohydrates. Amazing Amino Acids….If you don’t want to have meat or don’t have any fish or eggs handy - here are a few examples of how to get a complete protein profile from vegetable and grain sources.
Remember that its best to alternate your grain sources, so have things like spelt, barley, rice, oat, rye breads, and rice cakes & crackers, lavashes, pittas around so you can have some variety in your diet.
Red (eg Aduki) Beans and Brown Rice
Lentil Burger on a Roll
Hummus and Lavash Bread
Nutpaste on toast (Almond, Brazil Nut & Cashew is good)
Chickpeas and Couscous
Felafel on pitta bread
Split Pea Soup and Turkish Bread
Baked beans on toast
Dhal and Pitta Bread
Kidney beans (Mexican beans or barlotti) and Corn Chips(baked better than fried) or Corn Tortilla
3 Bean Salad with Tabouli

Pesto is great

as a dip or on roasted vegetables or on an open toasted sandwhich with slices of chicken and endives....

Here is an easy recipe:- 250g fresh basil; 1/3 cup/50g toasted pine nuts(careful not to burn!);

2 cloves garlic, crushed; 1/3 cup finelygrated parmesan; 1/3 cup/80ml olive oil. Dry washed basil leaves and place them in food processor with the pine nuts, garlic & parmesan. Process until finely chopped.

Then Slowly, in a thin stream add olive oil to mix until all is well combined. The great thing about pesto is that you can change the flavours by using coriander instead of basil and add the juice of a lime, or use fetta cheese, sliced black olives and cashews as a base mixture...go on explore a little!

If Nuclear power is the answer, it must have been a pretty stupid question...
What kind of Quality of Life are we Creating?

This is an excerpt taken from an article written by Professor Ian Lowe. Ian Lowe is Emeritus Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Griffith University, Brisbane. One of Australia’s best-known environmental scientists, he is president of the Australian Conservation Foundation.

He recently joined Senator Bob Brown in public discussions regarding sustaining true quality of life on our planet, at the recent Woodford Folk Festival, both men received standing ovations at the end of each session. Support for their continued efforts in the political and educational arenas was unanimously applauded.

“The debate about nuclear energy is a welcome recognition of the urgent need to respond to climate change. I welcome that awareness and the resulting debate, but the nuclear option is not a wise response. It is too costly, too dangerous, too slow and makes too little impact on greenhouse pollution. That is why most of the developed world is rejecting the nuclear option in favour of renewable energy and improved efficiency.

There is no serious doubt that the climate change is real; it is happening now and its effects are accelerating. It is already causing serious economic impact such as reduced agricultural production, increased costs of severe events such as fires and storms, and the need to consider radical water-supply measures such as desalination plants. So we should set a serious target for reducing our rate of releasing carbon dioxide, like Britain’s goal of 60 per cent by 2050. The Australian policy vacuum is a failure of moral leadership and also an uncertain investment framework.

The economics of nuclear power just don’t stack up. The real cost of nuclear electricity is certainly more than for wind power, energy from bio-wastes and some forms of solar energy. Geothermal energy from hot dry rocks also promises to be less costly than nuclear. That is without including the huge costs of decommissioning power reactors and storing the radioactive waste. So there is no economic case for nuclear power. As energy markets have liberalized around the world, investors have turned their backs on nuclear energy. The number of reactors in western Europe and the United States peaked 15 years ago and has been declining since. By contrast, the amount of wind power and solar energy is rising at rates of 20 to 30 per cent a year.

Reducing energy waste is the cheapest and most immediate way to reduce greenhouse pollution. For instance, more than 10 percent of household electricity is used by keeping appliances such as TV’s, stereos and videoplayers on stand-by.

Nuclear power is too dangerous - not just the risk of accident such as Chernobyl, but the increased risk of nuclear weapons or nuclear terrorism. It remains the case, as the Ranger Inquiry found nearly 30 years ago, that increased export of Australian uranium would contribute to the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Nuclear power also inevitably produces radioactive waste that will have to be stored safely for hundreds of thousands of years. After nearly 50 years of the nuclear power experiment, nobody has yet demonstrated a solution, expanding the rate of waste production is just irresponsible.

Nuclear power will not stop climate change. The argument that it would reduce greenhouse pollution presumes high-grade uranium ores are available. Even with such high-grade ores, there is a massive increase in greenhouse pollution from mining, processing and reactor construction before any electricity is generated. The known resources of high-grade uranium ores only amount to a few decades’ use at present rate, so an expansion of nuclear power would see this high grade ore depleted and therefore larger quantities of lower grade ore would have to be mined.

To avoid dangerous self-created changes to our climate, we need to act now. We should make a commitment to the sensible alternative that produce sustainable cost-effective reductions in greenhouse pollution: wind power, solar water-heating, energy efficiency, gas and energy from organic matter such as sewage and waste.” (for more information go to www.acfonline.org.au)

"My religion is to have nothing
to be ashamed of when I die." Milarepa

e-mail -Would you like to help heal the planet? We would love to keep you informed

and notify you when we will have the Free audio MP3 meditation cycles available online.

We are also looking at having teleconference calls that will be a support and how to create Sacred Environments and powerful changes for a better life.

Life is like a motor car.

A motor car can be used to travel great heights.

But most people lie in front of it,
allow it to drive over them,
then blame it for the accident.
Anthony deMello

The Sacred Web Project site will be fully functionable by the end of February 07

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Robert Kendall @
HeavenEarth Natural Therapies Clinic
Phone (07) 5522 0411
1/12 Classic Way, Burleigh Waters.

Queensland. 4220 - Australia