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Health Tests you can do at home

There are quite a few self-help tests you can perform on your body at home that will help you evaluate what is going on in your body. As time permits, I will detail them here. If you know of  useful, simple tests not listed here, please e-mail them to me and I will (if appropriate, and with your permission,) include them under your name.
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THE POPCORN TEST:

This is a way to find out how efficient your digestive system is. You meat eaters don't want to hear this, 'cause you didn't believe my Animal protein, should you eat it, what kind? page anyway, but that animal flesh you love has no fiber, and it is clinging to the sides of your digestive tract gumming everything up.

Don't believe me? Check it out at NO COST. Just swallow about a dozen kernels of Popcorn; raw, with your next meat meal..
Write down the time and date you did it, and then just watch for them to come out. If they come out the next day (24 hours), everything is working just fine down there. I will take back all the nasty things I said about your diet.

If it takes two days then you must read my MEAT page again as penitence. Three days and you must read my pages on PORK and SAUSAGE.  More than three days and you need to go to my NUTRITION 101 course and follow the little numbers at the bottom of each page.

Do it!  (nobody will know but you!)
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THE WHEAT TEST

Close to 30 Million Americans are probably sensitive to wheat and/or gluten Few are aware of this, and naturally the wheat guys fight like mad to keep your consumption of wheat and wheat products high. These commercial interests will tell you that "unless you suffer from celiac disease, a very rare condition, cutting wheat out of your diet is extremely unwise."

That is basically bull. Wheat is a major factor in diabetes. The Standard American Diet (SAD) and its breakfast of cereal and toast is a diabetic meal.  The sad fact is that celiac disease is NOT extremely rare. Dr. Bruce West in his Health Alert newsletter February 20, Volume 20 , issue 2 states that hehas seen hundreds perhaps thousands of patients who became remarkably healthier by simply eliminating wheat. Below are some of the conditions that suggest you should take the test.:

Gut symptoms like diarrhea/constipation alternating, bloating, distention, spastic or irritable bowel, diverticulitus, colitus, and ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease.

Malabsorption problems related to gut symptoms, including malabsorption syndrome, anemia, chronic fatigue, osteoporosis, insomnia, arthritis, and skeletal pains like bursitis and myositis.

Chronic allergies, sinusitis, upper respiratory tract infections, ear infections, and glue ear.

"Autoimmune diseases" like rheumatiod arthritis, psoriasis, Crohn's disease, ensema.

Nervous system diseases like MS epilepsy, tics, neuropathy.

Mental problems like depression, ADD and ADHD, and chronic apathy.

So here's the test: Eliminate all wheat and gluten for 30 to 60 days and see how you feel.
you might check your blood glucose, cholesterol, and tryglycerides before and after wheat elimination. You may be shocked to see the changes.

If you find no change what so ever, what have you lost? Nothing but a few unwanted pounds. That's right, the quickest way to lose weight is to eliminate wheat from your diet.
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ELIMINATION DIET
for the identification of food allergies

Some foods can cause powerful disease symptoms. They can range from digestive problems, skin problems, sinus congestion, rheumatoid, and pain to headaches. Not only is this not fun, but it can be very expensive to determine which food/s cause the problem.

Conventional medicine will have little interest and probably less luck in discovering a food allergy, but will undertake the task if your wallet is fat enough, or you are covered by insurance.

You may be tempted to take one of those magic bullets out there. Beta carotene, blue green algae, Coenzyme-Q10, chromium picolate, DHEA, ginko balboa, germanium, L-carnitene, melatonin, spirilina, all seem to offer solutions for a myriad of problems, but in all likelihood will not do much for food allergies. If one of these bullets makes you feel better, you have other problems than food allergies.

My theory is that Americans are so sick that almost anything that even resembles a part of a real food, will have a positive affect on them. Take someone who is almost to ABSOLUTE HEALTH, and give them one of these single "nutrients", and it probably won't have any positive effect at all. (they can make you feel sick and reduce your overall vitality while your body gets rid of them.). Give me a drug, or one of those strong herbs , and I will get sick. They are poisons.

This ELIMINATION DIET is extremely powerful, and it doesn't cost anything at all !

Essentially you are going on a fruit diet first to purge your digestive system of what ever you have been eating, and to start a mild detoxification process. Drink plenty of distilled water, and limit your food to either fresh seedless grapes, or watermelon, . (One or the other, not both.) In two days or at least in five days, the symptoms you have been experiencing should go away or subside. (Unless you happen to be allergic to grapes or watermelon, "most unlikely"). If the symptoms do go away, then you have some kind of a food allergy. If they don't subside in a week, then probably food is not your problem.

Please make sure your doctor is aware of your fasting / restrictive diet program.

Now that your symptoms are gone, you can start looking for the culprit by adding one food at a time to your mono-diet. After a week on this kind of fare, your food allergies should have ended and you should be feeling well. If this is the case, then you should begin to add other foods to the diet, but only one at a time, to determine if any of them causes your allergic reactions. For testing purposes, each "new" food should be eaten in large amounts three times a day for two days.

If the food does not cause a reaction, you can conclude that it is non-allergenic. Most reactions occur within a few hours, but some do not show up for several days. Each food must be tested individually; do not introduce two new foods at once. When you do have an allergic reaction to a specific food, you must wait four to seven days before testing the next item. This interval gives you the time you need to clear your system of that allergy-causing food.

DO NOT TAKE THIS INFORMATION AS PERSONAL MEDICAL ADVICE. DO NOT CHANGE YOUR DIET IF YOU ARE ILL, OR MEDICATION WITHOUT THE ADVICE OF A QUALIFIED HEALTH CARE PROVIDER

Home testing kits for Pregnancy and Diabetes have been around for years, but there are many more available: You can test for Prostate Cancer, Colon Cancer, Food Allergies, AIDS, Kidney problems, osteoporosis, Thyroid disease, urinary tract infections, and other diseases in the privacy of your own home. You can find these kits in your local pharmacy, or on line at sites like drugstore.com. If privacy is a major issue, use a pseudonym and call for results from a pay phone.

As noted elsewhere most degenerative diseases are caused by nutritional deficiencies, but sufficiencies (or too much of) stuff like junk food can also hurt you. If you just feel lousy and really want to find out if it's your food that's bothering you, find out here.

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