namahatta.org - Congregational Development Ministry

Fasting for one day each month may reduce the risk of clogged arteries by 40 percent, according to a new study conducted by researchers from Intermountain Medical Center and the University of Utah and presented at a conference of the American Heart Association.

Researchers first began to study fasting when an analysis of a health registry indicated that significantly fewer Mormons than non-Mormons in Utah suffered from the clogged arteries indicative of heart disease, even after different smoking rates were taken into account.

''We cannot say with any certainty that cellphones are either safe or not safe,'' Dr. Black said on CNN. ''My concern is that with the widespread use of cellphones, the worst scenario would be that we get the definitive study 10 years from now, and we find out there is a correlation.''

- Experts Revive Debate Over Cellphones and Cancer, New York Times

A prominent cancer researcher's warning to limit cell phone use has rekindled anew the longstanding question over mobile-phone health risks.

The media is abuzz with news of the memo from Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. He sent it to faculty and staff Wednesday, saying, among other things, that children should use cell phones only for emergencies, since their developing organs are the most likely to be sensitive to possible effects of exposure to electromagnetic fields.
Dr. Ronald B. Herberman

While it is normally only considered cliché that "laughter is the best medicine," specific medical theories attribute improved health, increased life expectancy, and overall improved well-being, to laughter.

[Video]

Hey, remember after one of my trips to the US I wrote about so-called "Restless Leg Syndrome? (Follow the link to read the blog post if you don't remember).

Now, again, I mean - wtf? A "syndrome" is a collection of symptoms without an understood cause. Prescribing a drug for that, especially when the symptom is something like "restless legs" is crazy. What does the drug do to address the problem, paralyze your legs? Problem solved....

by Sudevi dasi

Dear devotees,

Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I have put together a list of books that are helpful in understanding everything to do with your child and the positive alternatives available to mainstream parenting and schooling. I have spent a bit of time researching how to raise a child like the native cultures of the world, especially Indian culture, as I have always noted that Indian children act very differently to their western counterparts and I always wondered why, since having a child myself I have found many reasons why western children are different, some answers were obvious and others a great discovery for me.

Read more on the MOTHERS Act, proposed US legislation to prescribe psycho-drugs to pregnant women.

Yes, innocent people are involved in these institutions, including compassionate and sincere ones. However, they are cogs in a machine, dispensing medicines and maintaining systems that are ultimately directed toward the destruction of the human race, Krishna's special arrangement in this world for the conditioned souls to return home, back to Godhead.

Geoff asked about resources for alkaline diet. Here are some, as well as resources for cancer:

• Detoxify or Die, by Sherry Rogers is good. (We have an infrared sauna, by the way)
• Phillip Day's The ABCs of Disease is good. Here is the section on cancer excerpted.

This is going a little beyond alkaline diet, but here are some other great links for cancer treatment / prevention:

Here are some great resources on B17 therapy for cancer, including an Australian source for apricot kernels:

Unfortunately, there is extremely strong pressure being exerted through the governments of most Western democracies to outlaw all these sorts of treatment. Even since we've started some supplements we've been using have become unavailable due to legislation enacted in Australia.

I recommend watching the video "Nutricide." I will link it in a separate post.

Yuddhistira Maharaja said that the most wonderful thing in the world is how everyone can see that everyone dies, and yet still we live as if we will never die. I never cease to be amazed how so many senior devotees leave their bodies due to cancer and organ failures, and we continue to eat the same way, use the same petro-chemical based products, and carry on the same lifestyle. Gee, what do you think the result will be?

by Sita-pati das

Unfortunately, there is extremely strong pressure being exerted through the governments of most Western democracies to outlaw all these sorts of treatment. Even since we've started some supplements we've been using have become unavailable due to legislation enacted in Australia.

I recommend watching the video "Nutricide" . I will link it in a separate post.

Yuddhistira Maharaja said that the most wonderful thing in the world is how everyone can see that everyone dies, and yet still we live as if we will never die. I never cease to be amazed how so many senior devotees leave their bodies due to cancer and organ failures, and we continue to eat the same way, use the same petro-chemical based products, and carry on the same lifestyle. Gee, what do you think the result will be?

By Christopher Wanjek

Monsanto, the multinational biotechnology corporation and leading producer of genetically engineered seed with a near monopoly on many crops and annual revenue exceeding $7 billion, is worried that you are being misled.

For this reason, the company wants to ban shady dairy farmers like those rascally Amish and weirdo hippies from labeling their products free of artificial hormones.

Earlier this month, Monsanto complained to the Food and Drug Administration and Federal Trade Committee about the proliferation of labels with language such as “Our Farmers’ Pledge: No Artificial Growth Hormones,” as found on milk sold by Oakhurst Dairy in Portland, Maine.

Monsanto says this scares consumers into thinking there’s something unhealthy about its human-made recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), also known as recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST) or by the Monsanto brand name, Posilac, now in about one-third of American dairy cows.

I’m thinking about having a funeral for the movement. It started with a brilliant leader who had a clear and transparent vision of living a life of voluntary simplicity, dependent on the land and animals, finding joy not in consumer goods, but in right livelihood.

He spread the movement by writing and publishing books and distribution of magazines.

Eventually, urban influences took one aspect of the movement, the part that benefited individuals personally, and abandoned the principle of the overall good.

The early disciples of the leader eventually became marginalized and their sacrifices became the platform for the profiteers to launch operations, using the strong branding created by the early followers, that have lost the original intent of the founder, and simply become money makers.