Tics are sudden, jerky, irregular and uncontrollable movements of a muscle or group of muscles that occur repeatedly for no apparent reason. They may involve any part of the body, as well as such activities as repeatedly clearing the throat or persistent coughing. They are said to occur in up to 10% of children, to be more common in boys than girls, and to last anywhere from a few weeks to months or sometimes many years. They occur in the school age or adolescent age group, and may persist into adult life. Sometimes tics have not been present during childhood and appear for the first time in adulthood.

Cause

The cause of tics is uncertain, but it is believed somehow to be related to stress. Tics often appear for the first time during a stressful period in the child’s life. Established tics certainly seem to become more frequent and exaggerated when the child is anxious but it is not always possible to identify any stressful events that may have precipitated or worsened the tics. Some children may be more highly strung or have a particular temperament or personality which may predispose them to tics, but even this is only supposition and has not been reliably demonstrated.

Very occasionally tics may have an underlying medical cause. For example, a child who is constantly screwing up his eyes may have a problem with vision, or a child with a persistent cough may have asthma or a chest infection. However, if the tic is caused by an underlying conditions, there will usually be separate evidence of the condition itself. For example, coughing due to a chest infection is present all the time, including when the child is asleep, whereas a habit cough or tic disappears when the child is sleeping.

Clinical features

The tics involve muscles or muscle groups in any part of the body. Sometimes more than one part of the body is affected. Tics often seem an exaggeration of normal movements. The common tics include facial grimacing, smiling, blinking or screwing up the eyes, twisting or stretching of the neck, shrugging of the shoulders, and so on. They also include repeated clearing of the throat or coughing.

They appear most frequently during periods of stress and when the child is anxious, such as when speaking in front of the class or before an examination, and are less prominent when the child is busy or distracted. At these times the tics can disappear for hours at a time. They always disappear during sleep.

Tics cause great concern and irritation to parents and sometimes teachers, and may be a cause of considerable embarrassment and even ridicule to the child who may be teased by his peer group.

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LUNG FUNCTION TESTS (PULMONARY FUNCTION TESTS, SPIROMETRY)

These tests may be used in children who suffer from conditions such as asthma. They are useful in determining the capacity of the lungs and in measuring how well they are functioning. The response to certain drugs which are used to open up the airways and make breathing easier, can also be determined. Chronic conditions such as asthma and cystic fibrosis can also be monitored by lung function testing. Many older children (and adults) with asthma will monitor their lung function daily under their doctor’s supervision, using a simple handheld spirometer. Specialists use more sophisticated machines which provide more detailed information.

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI)

This is a specialised radiological technique which uses radio waves to produce an image of highly detailed anatomy of the brain and spinal cord on a screen. No discomfort or pain is experienced, and there is no exposure to radiation. Smaller children may require sedation in order to keep them perfectly still during the procedure.

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It, therefore, is more common in doctors, nurses and laboratory workers who are collecting and testing blood and those patients with kidney failure who require dialysis in hospital. It is also common in drug addicts who “share the needle” and become contaminated with others’ blood.

The virus has not yet been isolated and cultured but the impure virus has been identified in the blood of carriers and these particles contain the antigens which stimulate anti-body formation.

A vaccine to hepatitis  has been made and initial tests indicate it is 90 to 95 per cent effective.

The third type of hepatitis has us a little stumped. It is called type non-A, non-B rather than type C, because we as yet are uncertain about it. The incidence is not high and researchers are not yet sure whether it is a separate virus or a sub-type of either A or B.

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It appears that having sexual intercourse during pregnancy is accepted as normal behavior. However, the medical profession has been a little hesitant to accept it as being safe, particularly in the latter stages. Doctors have thought that intercourse at this time might bring on premature labor or lead to infection.

Obstetric textbooks have warned doctors to discourage intercourse in late pregnancy, but have offered little evidence to support this opinion.

A joint study in America and Israel has now produced evidence that there is little to support this view. Doctors are no longer justified in discouraging their patients from continuing sexual activity right through pregnancy.

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There are many contributing causes of heart disease: nutritional deficiencies, overconsumption of sugar and refined carbohydrates, lack of exercise, obesity, smoking, coffee drinking, etc. The way all these factors affect the heart is the same, however: they cause oxygen deficiency in the heart muscle, which, in severe, acute cases, results in a heart attack and death.

The heart is a solid muscle which constantly pumps blood to the billions of cells in the body and it never rests, even for a minute, for the duration of life. It depends in its work on a constant, undiminished supply of fresh oxygen. Even the slightest insufficiency of oxygen supply to the cells of the heart will diminish its efficiency and cause permanent damage. An Austrian scientist, Professor W. Hal-den, of the World Health Organization, reported to the World Congress for Nutritional Research recently that anemia, for example, may cause degenerative changes in the heart and blood vessels through an insufficient oxygen supply to the tissues by the red blood corpuscles. Tobacco and coffee (also caffeine-containing cola drinks) can also bring about oxygen deficiency by causing violent fluctuations in blood sugar levels and increasing cholesterol and fat content of the blood. Alcohol has a very similar effect. Fatty deposits in the arteries prevent a sufficient flow of oxygen-rich blood to the heart and cause an acute oxygen shortage in the heart muscle.

Thus, in the final analysis, oxygen deficiency is a direct cause of heart disease.

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It started in 1954 with a sore throat followed by tonsillitis. He was treated with various drugs. After awhile he began to have nagging pains, first in his joints and later in his whole body. His doctor in Borlange diagnosed the condition as rheumatoid arthritis. He had a very high sedimentation rate. The doctor prescribed several drugs, 12 tablets a day, but no cortisone.

In February, 1955, Mr. Lindgren went to Bjorkagarden. He was bedridden with agonizing pains and badly swollen joints.

His first fast, on pure water, lasted ten days, followed by a ten-day fast on vegetable and fruit juices. Various baths, massage, vacuum cupping, etc. were included in the program. He fasted a total of 30 days.

After two months in Bjorkagarden Mr. Lindgren was able to return home without the slightest trace of arthritis. During his stay at the clinic he made several visits to his doctor in Borlange (a nearby city), and each time the doctor reported a steady improvement in his condition, which he attributed to the drugs he prescribed. Mr. Lindgren didn’t tell him about his treatments at Bjorkagarden and that he had discontinued the drugs long before. The last examination showed that he was totally free from the disease.

The case has been periodically checked—no relapses in over ten years.

I recently contacted Mr. Lindgren myself to find out if his recovery from arthritis was complete. This is what he wrote to me: “There is nothing wrong with my joints and my general health now. I exercise heavily and feel just great … It is tragic that riot all arthritis sufferers have knowledge of the methods which restored my health.”

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It is self-evident that the only measures that can be successful in correcting arthritis, bringing it under control and accomplishing a lasting cure, must be ones which are directed at correcting its underlying causes. Prolonged use of drugs, even such “simple” drugs as aspirin, will eventually suppress and break down the body’s own defensive and healing mechanisms and cause severe chemical and hormonal imbalance. The disease will then be pushed further and further toward a condition where it will be completely incurable.

Therefore, in order to obtain lasting results the total withdrawal of all drugs is imperative.

Biological treatments are directed at:

Eradication and correction of abnormal and health-destroying conditions which have led to the development of the disease.

Assisting the body’s own healing forces in normalizing all the metabolic processes; establishing biochemical stability; cleansing the body of accumulated toxins and wastes; strengthening the functions of all the vital organs; revitalizing glandular activity and achieving a hormonal balance—or, in sum total, rebuilding and strengthening the general health of the patient.

When the causative factors are thus eliminated and the body is strengthened and revitalized by proper dietetic, physiotherapeutic and other biological measures, then the organism’s own curative powers are given a chance to take over and bring about the actual cure.

Therapeutic fasting

Almost without exception the treatment of arthritic patients in European biological clinics begins with fasting. Fasting is the one most important curative measure in the treatment of arthritis.

I wish to add here that most clinics employ repeated juice fasts for patients with arthritis; for example, one week of fasting followed by one week on a special diet, then a two-week long fast followed by two weeks of dieting, and so on. At the famous Buchinger Clinic in Germany, the usual length of fasting is 14 to 21 days. The longest recommended fast for therapeutic purposes is 40 days.

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“Give me a chance to create fever and I will cure any disease,” said the great physician Parmenides two thousand years ago.

“High temperature during infection helps combat the growth of virus. Therefore, fever should be not brought down with drugs,” said a great modern healer, Nobel prize winner, famous French virologist and professor of medicine, Dr. A. Lwoff.

Why then do mothers get so anxious when Junior suddenly develops a slight fever? They run to the family doctor and with the help of many modern fever-suppressing drugs quickly bring the fever down “to normal.”

Fever has been too long a misunderstood and mistreated symptom. Most medical doctors try to combat and suppress fever. They see in fever a negative, pathological condition which must be eliminated as fast as possible. The biological doctor or nature-cure practitioner considers fever to be a constructive, healing-promoting symptom, created by the body in its effort to fight infection or other diseased conditions and restore health.

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There is no better way than the empirical way to prove any given nutritional theory. Our knowledge of intricate body chemistry and metabolism is rudimental and new facts are discovered daily. But if we can put the theory into practice and see what results it has produced through centuries or even millenniums of use, then it is worth more than bookshelves full of scientific reasoning.

The secret of the Hunzaluu

There is one particular nation which is generally considered “the healthiest people on earth”—the Hunza people. First “discovered” by Sir Robert McCarrison, famous British physician, in the beginning of this century, Hunza has been visited since that time by many researchers, attracted there by the Hunza people’s remarkably good health and freedom from all diseases common to the “civilized world.” Hunza is located in the Himalayas and is a quiet, isolated kingdom of about 25,000 inhabitants.

Cancer, heart diseases, diabetes, rheumatic diseases and many other diseases common in western countries are unknown in Hunza. Do not try to discount this by the usual “they-don’t-have-proper-diagnosis” argument. A very competent physician, Dr. McCarrison, lived among them for 11 years and tried hard to find traces of these diseases. “They know no sickness,” he said. They live up to 90, 100 and over 100 years of age; are virile, strong and active long after they reach the usual three score and ten.

The researchers who studied Hunza agree that their diet is the major factor in their unusual health and longevity. Primitive life and healthful mountainous climate are, of course, contributing factors; but some other tribes in the same area, but with different eating habits, do not demonstrate nearly as good health as the Hunzakuts do. The Hunza diet is a high natural carbohydrate—low animal protein diet! Their staple foods are grains, such as wheat, barley, millet, and buckwheat; fruits, mostly apricots, apples, and grapes; assorted vegetables, generally eaten raw; and very little milk, largely goat milk. They eat few eggs and very little meat, only on festive occasions and not more than once a month. Needless to say, because of their isolated and inaccessible position in the Himalaya mountains, they have no access to refined, civilized foods made from white flour, white sugar, canned foods, etc. The Hunzas are a living proof that an unrefined, simple diet, rich in natural carbohydrates and low in animal proteins is superior to our over-refined, devitalized protein-rich diet.

Yemenites

A few years ago, a tribe of Semitic origin was discovered in the mountains of Yemen. Several thousand people were living high in the mountains in an area isolated from the rest of the world for over 2,000 years, with customs and living and eating habits of the pre-Christian era. Of course, the sensational news was publicized in the world press. Many scientists from all over the world immediately rushed to Yemen to study these people, their way of life, their health conditions, eating habits, etc. They discovered that these Yemenites were specimens of perfect health who lived to a very old age and knew practically no diseases. And what did they eat? You’ve guessed it! Yes, theirs was a low animal protein—high natural carbohydrate diet!

Russians

Russians are known for their endurance and good health. They have seven times more centenarians per million than the United States. Russians are a low-protein people. Their staples are black whole-grain bread with lots of vegetables (mostly cabbage, onions and potatoes) and grains like millet and buckwheat. Russian sour black rye bread,* borsch (vegetable soup) and kasha* (millet or buckwheat porridge) are world-famous. They seldom eat meat more than once a week. 74.5 percent of their protein need is derived from vegetable sources and only 25.5 percent from animal sources (as compared with the United States figures of 29 percent vegetable and 71 percent animal!). Of course, the greatest number of Russia’s 21,000 centenarians are vegetarians, or nearly vegetarians. During the war many of their armed units lived on meatless diets for months and demonstrated remarkable stamina and endurance.

Bulgarians

Bulgarians are among the healthiest races in Europe. They are, along with the Scandinavians, the tallest people in Europe and they possess great vitality and longevity. There are more centenarians in Bulgaria than in any other civilized country. They are known to retain the characteristics of youth to an advanced age. The virility of their “old” men is legendary. According to the 1930 census, Bulgarians had 1,600 centenarians to every million of population as compared to nine persons of 100 years old or older per million in the United States.

The diet of the Bulgarians consists largely of black bread (mostly whole rye and barley), vegetables and soured milk in the form of yogurt or kefir. They eat relatively little meat.

Seventh-Day Adventists

A grand-scale scientific evidence supporting the low animal protein diet is presented in the health statistics from a religious group, the Seventh-Day Adventists.

A study conducted by Dr. Frank R. Lemon and Dr. Richard T. Walden, of the Loma Linda School of Medicine, reveals that the Seventh-Day Adventists, as a group, have better health and live longer than the general population. Their rate of lung cancer is practically zero, 1000 percent or ten times less than among the general population. This is true even among those Adventists who live in the heavy-smogged Los Angeles area! The rate of coronary disease among them is 40 percent less than in the general population. Studies reveal low mortality and low morbidity among Seventh-Day Adventists from all cancers of the respiratory tract and esophagus, emphysema and bronchitis, and from coronary artery disease.

The Seventh-Day Adventist mortality rate from all causes is two times lower, and from respiratory diseases four times lower, than among the general population.

Now, here we have an extraordinarily remarkable scientific study made by reputable medical men and reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which shows that a certain group of people, living in the United States seemingly under the same conditions as the rest of us, possesses vastly superior health. Wouldn’t this study be worth looking into in our multibillion-dollar quest for ways of improving the catastrophic state of our health?

The answer to the superior health of the Seventh-Day Adventists lies in the health program advocated by their Church. They look upon their bodies as the Temples of the Spirit and, as such, keep it clean and in good repair. They are lacto-vegetarians; they eat no meat. They do not smoke, drink no alcohol, nor do they use coffee, tea or other caffein-containing beverages such as cola drinks. They are also advised to abstain from the consumption of sugar and refined starches. A recent study made by the Colorado State Health Department reveals that Seventh-Day Adventist children have about 50 percent fewer cavities than the other children in the area.

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Practically all conditions which lead to chronic diseases are the result of accumulated impurities (toxins) in the body. Constipation is one of the most common ailments of civilized man. As a consequence of long-standing constipation, the digestive tract, particularly in the lower bowels and colon, becomes slack and stagnant, with hardened residues clinging to the walls of the colon and filling its many pockets and folds. Also, excrements tend to collect and remain too long in the sigmoid (the S-looking curve just above the rectum). This results in putrefaction and gas, forming a source of slow poisoning of the whole body.

Therefore, it is essential that the digestive and eliminative system is restored to a normal condition if positive results of the change-over to the Waerland diet are to be expected. Enemas can do much to restore effective elimination.

To take an enema, you must have an enema can with a rubber hose and a nozzle; it can be obtained at any drug store. First, take one pint of luke warm water (about 99° F) with a few drops of lemon juice. The best position for taking an enema is on your knees, head down to the floor, with a can standing or hanging two to three feet above the anus to get sufficient pressure in the flow of water. The flow can be regulated by squeezing the tube with your fingers. Be sure that no air is left in the tube before inserting the nozzle into the anus. Use some vaseline on the nozzle to make insertion easier.

After emptying the bowel, a second enema, this time of one quart, may be taken. This larger enema will penetrate higher in the colon and accomplish a more thorough cleansing.

Warning: Enemas are intended only as a temporary measure during change-over period and are not intended to be a regular routine, or a habit. Although small one-pint enemas are perfectly harmless, larger enemas may slacken the bowel and damage the mucous membranes if used too frequently. When constipation is relieved and normal bowel movements achieved (as they will usually be on the Waerland-diet), then all enemas should be discontinued.

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