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Possibly you have heard your doctor say, “We’re not exactly sure right now, why don't we follow up on this say six months from now and see what develops�. In other words you have not progressed to a nameable disease that can be managed with drugs. Our modern health care approach today is based on a disease care model. Disease is seen as an enemy, separate from the body, that must be labeled and destroyed. The body is seen as a physical object made up of separate parts, each with their own medical specialty requiring special drugs to fight its enemies. Much to the detriment of your health few clinicians see, and work with the body as a whole. (often referred to as wholistically). In reality the body-mind has no discrete boundaries. Through the communication systems of the body (nervous, immune and endocrine systems) every cell, tissue and organ is intimately interconnected. Because of this the health of one organ affects the health of all other organs. As discussed in previous articles by this author, the Summer is the perfect time for Trail Rides~ health of the digestive tract has a profound influence on the Schedule yours today! health of distant tissues even our brain. We've also explored how improper diet and lifestyle leads to insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome well before diabetes develops. This insulin resistance turns on inflammation that affects every tissue in your body leading to pain, fatigue, weight gain and eventually cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease FODVVHV WR FKRRVH IURP Let's look at the typical patient which may seem familiar 6HQLRU )LWQHVV VWDQGLQJ VLWWLQJ FDUGLR \RJD to you. Most of course don't feel well, and complain of multiple )ORRU &DUGLR %DOO 6WHS $%6 symptoms, typically involving various interconnected tissues =XPEDŠ HDV\ WR IROORZ /DWLQ GDQFH FODVV and organ systems. Nearly all are on multiple medications. <RJD Usually they have pain somewhere in their body, a signal from 0DW 3LODWHV FRUH VWUHQJWK EDODQFH their nervous system that tissues, e.g. the muscles and joints are Valid Tues- Fri; 10 years or older %HOO\ 'DQFH Expires end of 2011 7XUER .LFNŠ PLQXWH NLFNER[LQJJ not healthy. Many have issues with fatigue and insomnia and at least 75% have some digestive disorder such as gastric reflux, * Reservations with deposit or credit 4XDOLILHG IRU LQVXUDQFH irritable bowel syndrome, or constipation. Nearly 2/3 of these card required for all other activities. ILWQHVV UH LPEXUVHPHQW Some restrictions may apply. patients are on some medication for depression or anxiety. 7U\ &ODVV )5(( What our disease care system misses is that these WD[ PHQWLRQ 7LGELWV

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● On Sept. 10, 1919, almost a year after the end of the First World War, New York City holds a parade to welcome home Gen. John J. Pershing, commander in chief of the American Expeditionary Force, and some 25,000 soldiers who had served on the Western Front. ● On Sept. 7, 1813, the United States gets its nickname when a New York newspaper refers to “Uncle Sam.” The name is linked to meat packer Samuel Wilson, who supplied barrels of beef to the United States Army during the War of 1812. Wilson stamped the barrels with “U.S.” for United States, but soldiers began referring to the grub as “Uncle Sam’s.” ● On Sept. 6, 1847, writer Henry David Thoreau moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson in Concord, Mass., after living for two years in a shack he built himself on Walden Pond. In 1854, his collection of essays, “Walden, or Life in the Woods,” is published.

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Ford pardons his disgraced predecessor Richard Nixon for any crimes he may have committed or participated in while in office. The Watergate scandal erupted after it was revealed that Nixon and his aides had engaged in illegal activities. With impeachment proceedings under way, Nixon became the first American ● On Sept. 5, 1958, Boris Pasternak’s president to resign. romantic novel “Dr. Zhivago” is published in the United States. The book ● On Sept. 16, 1620, the Mayflower sails infuriated Soviet officials, but admirers from Plymouth, England, bound for the of Pasternak’s work began to smuggle New World with 102 passengers. The the manuscript out of Russia piece by ship was headed for Virginia, but stormy piece. The book won the Nobel Prize for weather and navigational errors forced Literature in 1958. the Mayflower off course. On Nov. 21, the “Pilgrims” arrived in Massachusetts. ● On Sept. 9, 1965, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax hurls the eighth ● On Sept. 15, 1916, during the Battle perfect game in major-league history, of the Somme, the British launch a leading the Dodgers to a 1-0 win over major offensive against the Germans, the Chicago Cubs at Dodger Stadium. employing tanks for the first time. Koufax retired after the 1966 season at Although slow, the tanks showed promise just 30 years old because of arthritis in and hundreds more were ordered. his elbow. ● On Sept. 17, 1923, a fire threatens the ● On Sept. 8, 1974, President Gerald University of California at Berkeley,

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(continued) • Whale sharks swim in warm ocean waters mostly near the equator. However, they have been occasionally spotted as far north as the Maritime Provinces of Eastern Canada. Whale sharks swims with their mouths open. Those mouths can be up to 5 feet (1.5 m) wide — large enough to fit a small car inside! (Hmmm. Remember the Bible story of Jonah being swallowed by the big fish?) The world’s biggest fish actually prefers small food, mostly plankton, sardines and other small fish. Whale sharks have more than 3,000 teeth, smaller than fingernails. • Not as big as a whale shark, but to be feared more, is the bull shark. Bull sharks are very aggressive and can be found in freshwater as well as saltwater. They have been found in the Amazon and the Mississippi Rivers. They get their name from the fact that they headbutt their prey and have tough attitudes. • A fish that appears to have a grouchy attitude is the grouper. With its lower jar protruding in a nasty under-bite, this fish is not good looking but is very tasty. This relative of the sea bass is a healthy favorite with restaurants and home cooks. • The largest grouper on record caught

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with a rod and reel was pulled out of the water in Destin, Florida, on December 22, 1985. It weighed a whopping 436 pounds (198 kg)! • There are 162 species of grouper, with Red, Nassau and Black, being the most common in America. They have some really odd little “friends” that help them. Cleaner fish are tiny fish that swim inside a grouper’s mouth and eat the food that is trapped between the big fish’s teeth. Who needs a dentist?! • Grouper are bottom feeders, which means they typically swim and eat at the bottom of the water. Catfish are also bottom feeders. Some are even called “mudcats.” • The 36th Annual World Catfish Festival was held in Belzoni, Humphreys County, Mississippi, on April 2 this year. This family event celebrates the catfish farming industry that started in the area in the 1960s. Since that time, U.S. catfish farming has grown tremendously. There are 466 million pounds (211,374 metric tons) processed annually. Of the 95,200 acres (38,526 ha) in the United States devoted to catfish farming, 64,000 acres (25,900 ha) are in Mississippi. About 95 percent of the farm-raised catfish in the United States is raised in the Southern states of Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama

Order by phone 763-792-1125 and Louisiana. • Farm-raised catfish are not bottom feeders like wild catfish. They are raised in ponds of fresh water that are only 4 to 6 feet deep. The catfish are fed high protein feed pellets, made from soybean meal, corn and rice that float on top of the water. No. 1 in the South for many years, the popularity of catfish has spread across the country. With its consistent white meat and mild flavor, it is now the fifth most popular fish in America. • Some really strange nicknames are given to another fish that is a favorite on dinner tables. “Whales,” Soakers” and “Barn Doors” are monikers for large halibut. • Halibut the size of one caught in 2003 in the Bering Sea, west of Anchorage, Alaska, definitely deserve any of those nicknames. The giant was 8 feet, 2 inches (2.4 m) long and weighed an estimated 533 pounds (242 kg). Five people struggled to pull it in! • Halibut has firm, flaky snow-white meat. The fillets are called “fletches.” One halibut has four fletches. The real delicacies coming from halibut though are the “cheeks.” They, obviously, come from the head. • Halibut are from a group of mostly saltwater, bottom-dwelling fish called

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STRANGE STRENGTH Have you ever walked through a spider web and had a hard time getting it off your clothes or out of your hair? Spiders’ webs have amazing strength. Some spiders spin silk that is considered to be the strongest fiber on earth: stronger than steel and stronger than Kevlar! • Way back in 1881, a physician in Tombstone, Arizona, named George Emery Goodfellow pulled a silk handkerchief from the breast pocket of a man who was shot in a gun battle. The doctor found two bullets inside the hanky. The silk handkerchief had stopped the bullets from entering the man’s body. Dr. Goodfellow was intrigued and began studying the strength of silk. • Kevlar is a manmade material discovered by scientists at DuPont in 1964. It is stronger than steel but expensive. It is used for military applications, like

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helmets and bulletproof vests, and many other everyday products, like tires. It has helped provide safety in areas where strength is important. • Kevlar is not metal, yet it is stronger than steel. According to Tucker Norton of DuPont, a spider web is even stronger. "If you look in a spider web, and if you just took one single strand of that spider silk, that strand is stronger than steel as well — a lot like Kevlar," said Norton. "The problem is, we haven't figured out how to make that commercially at a large scale." • Spiders, eight-legged arachnids, and their ability to manufacture fragile-looking fibers that are pound-forpound stronger than steel, have been studied for decades. The individual threads of spider silk are extremely strong. Scientists are amazed that spiders seem to be able to match tasks with the type of silk needed. • According to biologists from the University of California at Riverside, “A typical garden spider can spin seven different types of silks.” Researchers are hoping to figure out how to produce the silk that spiders produce someday, possibly by splicing the silk gene into plants that can be planted and harvested. • Currently Professor Randy Lewis at the University of

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