One of the more baffling news stories we have been covering on WORLDMEETS.US is that over the resumption of American beef imports to South Korea. For the past two months, daily protests and candlelight vigils have paralyzed the heart of Seoul over what appears to most Americans as a severe over-reaction to a minor trade issue. Read the rest of this entry »

How insidious a disease is alcoholism? Everyone knows by now that it can destroy lives and is hard to cure, but some lose sight of the ways in which it snowballs and grows — often when the person who has it doesn’t realize the extent of what’s going on.

A MUST READ for everyone comes from Dean Esmay (even for those who have clashed with Dean on the Internet over the years). It’s too important to be taken out of context, so here are only a FEW quotes and it MUST be read in full by everyone. In fact, show it to a young person after you read it:

One of the most insidious things about the disease of alcoholism–and it is a disease, despite the best efforts of thundering moralists to deny the science and the plain medical and biochemical facts–is that it plays on your character defects (which all people have) and, worse, it progresses slowly. Biochemically, it’s known to generally progress faster in women, for a variety of reasons that are understood (women are generally smaller, with consequent lower blood volume on average, and may also be able to conceal drinking better if they’re stay-at-home moms) and some of which undoubtedly are not currently understood.

What’s also well-documented about the disease, even symptomatic, is that the alcoholic will occasionally under go “dry spells” where they “prove” to themselves and others that they’ve got the problem “under control” by just not drinking, or by moderating their intake. I myself had such a dry spell 3-4 years ago, where I went about 100 days without drinking, trying a few meetings and then giving up on them because I hated them–the ones I got to were mostly pity-parties, which is one of the negative things you see at some AA meetings. I also did a lot of reading on alternative approaches, and tried some of them with mixed levels of success.

Dean then does what he does in his posts: he bluntly gives it to you between the eyes, except in this case he’s giving it to himself between the eyes. Here’s what he writes after detailing his first attempt to ditch alcoholism:

[W]hat I do regret is that I did go back to drinking, with firm intention never to get out of control again.

But, as is yet another symptom of the disease, I soon was back pretty much where I’d left off. What is quite typical of the progression, which typically takes 3-10 years in women and 5-15 years in men (or so I was told in the hospital last fall), is that you go through periods where you don’t drink at all, or where you convince yourself that you’re moderating successfully. You have instances where you do indeed don’t-drink, or succeed in your goal to drink less. But you don’t notice that the times you fail are increasingly more frequent than the times you succeed.

He reviews his personal history in some detail then writes this:
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Mike Keefe, The Denver Post

A drug based on an ancient Chinese herbal remedy, first used more than 2,000 years ago, holds the promise to save millions of children who die each year from malaria. “Within two years there might be enough supplies to meet the needs of everyone in the world suffering from malaria – up to 500 million people – at a 10th of the cost of existing drugs.” More here…

Three years after posturing over Terri Schiavo’s right to be kept alive after brain death, members of Congress are faced with real end-of-life questions in proposed legislation to force the FDA to speed up its drug-approval process and give terminally ill patients access to investigative drugs.

Last week they had to look into the eyes of a 12-year-old Maryland girl with inoperable liver cancer as her mother pleaded on her behalf.

“Finding help for a sick child should be easy, but it isn’t,” said Anna Tomalis’ mother, who told them her daughter had been turned away from drug studies because she is not healthy enough. “For Anna, time is running out. She doesn’t have years to wait for these drugs to become available.”

The new bill is sponsored by Kansas Republican Sen. Sam Brownback and California Democratic Rep. Diane Watson. “What we need is a system that looks at the patient and their life-or-death situation, not at a bureaucracy and its needs,” says Brownback, a melanoma survivor. “This is deadly neglect, and it can’t continue.”

From the other end of the political spectrum, Rep. Watson cites the grass-roots movement that demanded experimental drugs for terminally ill AIDS patients, arguing that “anyone whose diagnosis amounted to being handed a death sentence” should “have an opportunity to try these drugs.”

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THE PRICE OF FREEDOM is an award-winning film to be shown on PBS over the Memorial Day week.

It tells the story of seven WWII veterans who fought together and were captured together; their “bonds go far beyond surviving combat. The men have joined forces 50 years after the war to conquer a final foe.”

“Despite the brutal ordeals of being a prisoner, many POWs saw their capture as a personal failure, and carried their silent burden for decades.”

Now for the first time, seven of these men who lived it, tell their unique stories and reveal how they have come together to restore their senses of manhood, of selfhood

PBS goes on to say:

Intelligent and heartfelt, this is an emotional and inspiring …[film] sure to resonate with viewers across America, especially soldiers and veterans of all conflicts. Especially now.

What some have well-meaningly named “The Greatest Generation,” could also, in a far clearer reality… have been righteously called “The Silenced Generation.” This includes the soldiers and nursing corps and families and civilians who suffered so deeply in war…

‘Observers’ with few observation skills or little experience with the night thoughts and terrors of veterans, have said in the long ago past, that those who have been to war were ‘brave’ for not speaking about their ordeals afterward. There was little timely intervention for people traumatized by war. And, if there was therapy, it was kept nearly secret from most everyone, further isolating the person ’til they could be ‘rehabilitated’ back into society again.

“Rehabilitated,” as one of my patients who is a veteran and former POW said, “rehabilitated, that’s what the enemy wanted us to be too.”

Something about ’stiff upper lip’ once back home, being some kind of badge of manhood/ honor. Silence often touted as a superior behavior by those very ones who were not POWs, those who have rarely or never been in hand to hand combat, never tried to operate in a field of blood, never tried but failed to save a life, no matter their rank, or lack of it.

One of my dear friends, John, an ace WWII pilot, now white-haired and one of the last of the truly gallant men on earth, says, “We never suffered in flying, no matter how or what we engaged, like the boys did on the ground. We were the lucky ones.”

Back then, observers and self-appointed behavior-setters, were not skilled and were not paying attention to how the psyche, if sealed off from leaching expressions of trauma will, like a radial tire, develop a bubble in the sidewall and blow out in a different way. Alcohol, anger fits, drugs, isolation, inability to bear social interaction, controlling others, instability, violence, abuse, uncommunicativeness, and other addictions gradually build up to ease the pressure from deep trauma.

Those who say it is somehow superior not to speak of grave matters as they affect the human soul and psyche, are wrong in most cases. What is brave is to speak of what one did/ saw/ thought/ felt… as each person chooses, and without fear of being exiled for being somehow less a person. How could a solider, nurse, family member, civilian who was in the midst of blood witness and war, ever be thought ‘less’?

Perhaps for those who remain silent because they have no demons riding nightly through their skulls, that is the right way for them. But that should never be confused with those who have remained silent and done their damnedest all these years, remaining silent, because they felt that if they spoke even a few sentences about these matters, it might throw them to their knees weeping to the sky.

It is brave to say out loud what a culture ought hear when done with war… all of it—rather than enjoining the most superficial aspects of culture which are giddy to wash their hands of it all, wanting only to feast now and be happy and return to ‘your regular programmed episodes,’… leaving out of their ‘happiness equation’ the depth quotient of those who went away to war mostly whole, but came back not weak, but also no longer all of a piece… or peace.

If the culture can stand to go to war, it has to be able to stand to stay near to hear the stories of war afterward, the real ones that live on in people’s very cells, the ones that would make most of us want to fall to our knees and weep to the sky.

It makes no sense to allow those who suffered for us once, to suffer for us twice, and ad infinitum…because we let them suffer in silence, alone.

THE PRICE OF FREEDOM, seven POWs break their silence and tell their stories: showing May 26, Monday KBDI TV in the Rocky Mountain market. Check your local listings

Very soon, Senator McCain is going to be releasing his medical records. He’s had bouts with cancer… There may also be some record of his recovery after being a prisoner of war many years ago.

To the older generation, a cancer diagnosis of any kind in any person was cause for great alarm, as cancer used to be whispered about as ‘the big C” long ago and was considered a certain death sentence.

Back then, often the docs doing exploratory surgery and finding metastasized cancer, didn’t even tell the person they had cancer. Often all the family could say afterward was that the doctor opened the person up, closed them up, and said Take them home and make them comfortable.

When I go to my hematologist who is also in the main, an oncologist, and as I sit there for my intravenous infusions for chronic anemia, I am surrounded by people receiving chemo for cancer. I have heard enough of their brave and fierce stories to know that there are a million stories to cancer, many kinds of cancer, and many different kinds of outcomes– including legions of long term survivors who outlived all their peers.

But what stands out most is a shift to a new and different attitude in current cancer fighters and survivors … one different than their elders. It’s summed up in the big buttons my doc gives out. The buttons say, CANCER SUCKS! One of my favorite old women who sits near me getting her chemo, wrote with magic marker under that phrase, her own: CANCER IS A FREELOADER: KICK ITS ASS OUT!

The drugs and intervening means we have today are far advanced of what used to be. Cancer is not a death sentence, but certainly a loud announcement that things hang in the balance, and a patient must decide to intervene in ways they see fit, right now. Not, later.

Yet, cancer appears to have become practically as common in the US, as the flu– albeit far more serious. The reasons why so many are afflicted by cancer is, despite tons of money poured into research, still an open question in many persons’ minds. We wish we understood its epidemic better. Yet, there are also a quantum number of persons walking around hale and fit, who have had cancer, or who have had two or more remissions.

So, with the important caveat, that no one can crystal-ball anyone’s longevity by looking at medical records and making generalizations, especially about 5 and 10 and 20 years survivors of cancer… still, in my mind as an analyst, before Senator McCain’s records are released, there are about 6 preliminary questions (the rest will be better answered when we see content and scope of records, and Q and A from/with his physicians)

1. Are these redacted records, summations, or the full ‘as-written’ accounts? This is important to know only because redacted or summarized records can give the appearance that it is a pick and choose process about what to place emphasis on, or not… what to put in, what to leave out.

2. Why has it taken so long to release the records? Some will question whether the records have been edited by the Senator, because it seems to have taken so long to release the records publicly.

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Some aid workers can and do get into the country - here’s how to help:

Myanmar Cyclone Relief

New York, NY, May 8, 2008—Thanks to its historical, 94 years of operation as a non-political entity and relief organization, JDC staff has been granted entry visas to carry out humanitarian aid efforts for victims of cyclone Nargis which hit Myanmar last week. A senior JDC professional is on the ground in Myanmar, where he will assess the situation and carry out plans to aid the estimated several hundred thousand cyclone victims without shelter and safe drinking water. JDC is partnering with MASHAV, Magen David Adom (MDA), and F.I.R.S.T (Fast Israeli Rescue & Search Team) to provide emergency relief, including medical supplies and personnel and rescue workers.

Read Entire Myanmar Cyclone Situation Report

JDC has opened a mailbox and is now accepting donations to provide immediate assistance and relief:

Donate to Myanmar Cyclone Relief:
Online: https://www.jdc.org/donation/jdc_form.cfm
By Phone: 212.687.6200
By Mail: Check payable to: JDC-Myanmar Cyclone Relief, P.O. Box 530, 132 East 43rd St., New York, NY, 10017

According to my contact in Yangon, what pitiful supplies are on the ground, have no distribution whatsoever to any of the thousands of villages and tributaries in Burma hit into utter devastation by the tsunami/ cyclone. The Burmese, most poorer than poor before the tsunami, are going on their 6th sunrise without clean water, food, or shelter or medicines.

Meanwhile, it is certain, while the military government gets down their fiddles, the infants and newborns and toddlers grow dehydrated. Without adequate water and food, their mothers’ breasts will have run out of milk, and the children will die from dehydration, an entire generation of young will be gone within a week.

Than Shwe: You cannot keep others from knowing about the mayhem of your country. Burma is on satellite. The floods and the people and the animals can be seen dead and floating and bloated. The living can be seen by satellite also, picking through ruins, entire villages wiped out with no survivors.

Than Shwe, delaying allowing aid workers in, makes you only look more and more unleaderly.

Than Shwe, animals survive by adapting. Animals who can learn new behavior, survive the unforeseen.

Than Shwe, animals who do as they have always done, die.

Than Shwe, open your heart, if not your mind. Be known as a ruler who took care of his people in every way possible, rather than going down in history as the leader who stood by paralyzed and allowed holy people and helpless people, his own kith and kin, to die in misery.

CODA
I hear from my contact in Yangon, that the people on the ground in Burma are begging that international aeroplanes please fly over and drop supplies.

Than Shwe, if they fly, let them fly unmolested. Add no more horror to horror. It’s within your power. Choose honorific over horrific.

Than Shwe, the new respect you would receive then, would be remarkable.

This is our deepest prayer for you Than Shwe, and for the people of Burma… the Central Buddhist Precept:

Deprive no living thing of its life.

Various news reports say there are over 200,000 dead in the cyclone and tsunami that hit Burma… now five days ago.

Other reports say over 500,000 will be dead if the thousands of bodies floating in water and lying in mud are not burnt or buried, and the injured given help, and the vulnerable given clean water.

This is after the government originally said there might be a total of 10,000 dead. Maybe not even that many, they said.

This from The Sun, U.K., by Nick Parker, Chief Foreign Correspondent at Mae Sot on the Burmese border
and James Clench

The UK has so far pledged more aid than anyone, announcing a £5million package to be channelled through the UN.

Charities Save the Children, Oxfam and the British Red Cross have also swung into action.

But most of the aid is yet to be distributed because of the secretive Burmese junta, led by ruthless General Than Shwe.

His isolationist regime is paranoid an influx of foreigners might have a political impact on a national referendum due tomorrow, set to strengthen the army’s grip still further.

Three days ago, the dictatorship’s Health Minister went on TV, in what was called a rare appearance, and he said aid was on its way to the Burmese people. Right away.

It’s not. Aid is not on its way. Five days later, world aid is not present in Burma.

General Than Shwe, dictator of Burma, has 400,000 soldiers at his behest.

And as I wrote at TMV earlier, hopefully Than Shwe would stand out of the way and allow the experienced international teams of aid workers to bring equipment and supplies, and the means to both unload it and distribute it.

It didn’t happen.

Ships from many nations are still fully loaded all over the world waiting orders to turn the wheel and steam toward Burma. Cargo planes are loaded and waiting. They are filled with medical supplies At various airports outside Burma, aid workers are sitting on their packed duffels and backpacks ready to go: parameds, post trauma specialists, doctors, engineers, health care workers, and heavy equipment, such as back hoes, trailers. All waiting.

And waiting

And waiting

Than Shwe, hugely well fed dictator of the ancient Burmese people, he who has suffered no personal loss from this disaster for he is ensconced more than 200 miles away from where the tsunami/ cyclone hit… and it is Than Shwe, who wanted to be king of everything and who wanted to control everything, it is he who has publicly failed the world soul, failed the world heart that cries out for a humane response…

Than Shwe has failed publicly and utterly by keeping aid workers out of Burma, by putting no real teeth behind his health minister’s claim that help was coming, big help was coming, right away, huge help was coming.

Than Shwe is merely keeping all aid workers on strings… without cutting the red tape.

The dictatorship’s excuse? Than Shwe and his merelings continues to parrot that they “cannot let aid workers into the country out of concern for the workers own safety.”

Than Shwe, NEWS ALERT: to aid workers, a disaster site wouldn’t be a disaster site if it weren’t unsafe.

Than Shwe’s huge lie will not hold water, not even a drop left behind by the tsunami.

China, meaning those men and women at the top of all things, has sent out a country-wide alert to try to get Chinese citizens to wash their hands more often and to spray disinfectant

– all in order to deal with a disease called Entero-virus 71, described as a hand, mouth and foot virus. (not the same as hoof and mouth disease in cattle)

In one city alone, Entero-virus 71 has killed 22 children in the last week. Tens of thousands are said to be hospitalized across China, and in one city , over 3000 cases are reported. The disease is passed by effluvia: spittle, feces, blister fluids, nasal and throat discharges.

The Chinese nationwide order about this epidemic remarks:

–EV-17 shows signs of spreading further.

–”Health bureaus at all levels must recognize the importance and urgency of preventing the spread of infectious diseases.”

–Preventing the spread of infectious diseases was necessary “to guarantee the smooth staging of the Beijing Olympics and Paralympics and to practically preserve social stability.”

–The order said any person or agency who tried to cover-up or delay disclosure of outbreaks, would be punished.
(During a SARS pneumonia outbreak in 2003, the government at Beijing tried to cover it up, delaying intervention, causing the deaths of many more people, and finally under pressure from world voices, took severe measures.)

–In the same order, China acknowledged that they have many more cases this year of EV-71, and that also the people need to take steps to prevent epidemics of hepatitis A, measles and other infectious diseases commonly spread in warm weather.

–And peak for infectious disease transmission would come in June and July, the government said.

A year after the massacre at Virginia Tech by the troubled Cho Seung-Hui, what has been done to address the root causes of that event - the worst at any American educational institution? Dietmar Ostermann writes for Germany’s Frankfurter Rundschau, “The debate over gun control erupts loudly and often, yet it’s a discussion without consequences. The way people with psychological problems are handled, however, is a silent scandal. Even after Blacksburg, American society is so uncomfortable with the topic that it was quickly suppressed.”

Ostermann goes on, “Even more than the U.S. mania for weapons, this bloody killing spree represents the often tragic consequences of a system in which mental suffering is not only ignored - it is criminalized.”
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Why is the media, and the blogs, overlooking the “real” issues? The recent Clinton/Obama debate once again brought under spotlight a serious lack of professionalism among journalists and their growing penchant to trivialize serious issues. To give another example, few seem interested at the looming food crisis that is likely to have worldwide political and economic ramifications.

Would the media wake up only when the wolf reaches their doors or the dinner table (when it is too late)? Even if the media is looking for “sensational” news there is plenty to be found in the “real” issues. How about this….?

“Food riots have erupted in countries all along the equator. In Haiti, protesters chanting ‘We’re hungry’ forced the prime minister to resign; 24 people were killed in riots in Cameroon; Egypt’s president ordered the army to start baking bread; the Philippines made hoarding rice punishable by life imprisonment. ‘It’s an explosive situation and threatens political stability,’ worries Jean-Louis Billon, president of Côte d’Ivoire’s chamber of commerce,” reports The Economist.
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That’s what some of the pundits are hinting at. But, I wonder what the rules are for releasing one’s medical records if one is running for the presidency; surely it’s not required.

Senator McCain’s had several brushes with cancer; it’s not his age, but perhaps some think it’s his vulnerability to cancer that ought be weighed.

There’s a saying in the old religious stories that when we were born, God put a number on our heads, indicating the number of years we’d have on earth. No one knows their own number. Probably thankfully, many might say.

Yet number of years lived is no perfect predictor of longevity. I’ve seen, and you likely have too, enough clear-headed ninety year olds who lived past ten difficult diseases to still take a dance or ten at every wedding. And you and I have no doubt seen the too many young fall away like snowflakes in a sudden sun, leaving this earth far too soon.

Did Senator McCain have Post-traumatic Stress Syndrome when he returned as a POW from the Viet Nam war? (PTSD is currently called a ‘disorder,’ but I often use the older phrase ’syndrome,’ for post-trauma recovery process is often more like a set of phases one goes through in order to reset the psyche to know the difference between living in war, and living in peace again). Read the rest of this entry »

Not being able to sleep is very unpleasant but it’s not going to kill you – no one ever died from not sleeping. But it is a great blessing to have a refreshing sleep when one hits the bed…or wherever… (photo above courtesy Getty Images) Much has been written about how to get good sleep. I found the following article interesting…please click here.

You may also try this…

In one of those telling front page-back page juxtapositions, the headline news about Eliot Spitzer overwhelms a government study showing that one out of every four American teenage girls is infected with a sexually transmitted disease.

After seven years of a federal government promoting abstinence only, both stories are reminders that the gap between what Americans say in public and do in private has morphed into a chasm of hypocrisy.

As righteous Republicans enjoy the spectacle of a Democratic governor joining the ranks of Larry Craig, David Vitter et al, little attention is being paid to the alarming news about teenagers who don’t know or don’t care enough to protect themselves from infections that can lead to serious disease.

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Never in medical history the pharmaceutical giants, who reportedly enjoy clout next only to the international arms dealers, have witnessed such sustained assault on their credibility as in recent weeks. (By the way the mysterious silence of the U.N.’s World Health Organization on this issue is intriguing.)

The latest attack was triggered yesterday by an analysis of published and unpublished trials of modern antidepressants, including Prozac and Seroxat, showing they offer no clinically significant improvement over placebos (dummy pills) in most patients. (But doctors said patients on the drugs should not stop taking them without consulting their GPs.)

The Independent reports: “The pharmaceutical industry came under assault from senior figures in medical research yesterday over its practice of withholding information to protect profits, exposing patients to drugs which could be useless or harmful.
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It will be surprising if anyone claims that he/she has not been depressed at some time or the other in life. Our marital/personal/professional life, in this whirling and topsy-turvy modern world, faces extreme challenges in an attempt to retain a modicum of sanity. However, the popular myth that the ‘happiness pills’ help us come out of depression received a severe jolt recently.

“One of the largest studies (in Britain) of modern antidepressant drugs has found that they have no clinically significant effect. In other words, they don’t work,” says The Independent. More here…

While The Times adds: “Millions of people taking commonly prescribed antidepressants such as Prozac and Seroxat might as well be taking a placebo, according to the first study to include unpublished evidence. More than £291 million was spent on antidepressants in 2006, including nearly £120 million on SSRIs. As many as one in five people suffers depression at some point.”

More here…

For the past decade or more lots of strides have been made in the field of alternative medicine. But the medical fraternity and the media refuses to take notice of it or recommends allocation of money to find out the efficacy of such healing processes. This could be owing to the conservative approach or the mighty influence of the powerful pharmaceutical industry that rakes in millions by providing drugs/pills whose efficacy is often questioned (Click here for more) …as now in the case of ‘happiness pills’.

Hearteningly, a large number of people, even in the West, are opting for yoga, reiki, acupressure, acupuncture, flower and aroma therapy…that aim to strengthen one’s positive thoughts, improve the blood circulation and the immune system. For my earlier posts on this subject please click here… And here…

Owing to a growing awareness in the West about the threat posed by tobacco smoking, the cigarette companies made a frontal assault on the vulnerable Third World markets during the past decade. The result: A recent study shows that the ’smoker’s paradise’ India is in the grip of a smoking epidemic that is likely to cause nearly a million deaths a year by 2010.

Conducted by The Center for Global Health Research at the University of Toronto, the study predicts that “one in five of all male deaths (and one in 20 of all female deaths) between the ages of 30 and 69 will be caused by smoking. The study, conducted by a team of doctors and scientists from India, Canada and Britain, has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.”

(Last week, a WHO study revealed that nearly two-thirds of the world’s smokers live in 10 countries led by China, which accounts for nearly 30 percent, and India with about 10 percent. They are followed by Indonesia, Russia, the United States, Japan, Brazil, Bangladesh, Germany and Turkey.)

According to Muneeza Naqvi of the Associated Press: “The study, one of the most comprehensive ever in India, sent 900 field workers to survey 1.1 million homes across the country. They compared the smoking history of 74,000 adults who died from 2001 to 2003 with 78,000 living adults.

“While an increasing number of countries prohibit smoking in public places, people in India freely puff away in playgrounds, railway stations, sidewalk cafes and even hospitals.”

India has enacted a number of laws banning smoking in various public places, but most are routinely ignored.

The BBC quotes Professor Amartya Sen of Harvard University: “It is truly remarkable that one single factor, namely smoking, which is entirely preventable, accounts for nearly one in 10 of all deaths in India.” More here…

While a majority of our political leaders, and the media too, continue to scare the world out of us that every nook and cranny is filled with terrorists, somehow there are only a handful among them who remind the people of the terrorist within that is taking away their natural resistance to an assortment of physical, emotional and mental ailments.

In the Indian subcontinent the ancient texts clearly emphasise that negative emotions created by fear, greed, anger, lust, etc, lead to dissipation of natural strength that exists within every human being, and which has enough power to fight any disease. A decade-long uncertainty is now taking a heavy toll of human health because of the negative emotions generated by the so-called ‘war on terror’ that seems unending.

This fallout of the ‘war on terror’ is not getting the attention it deserves. Not only the soldiers fighting on different fronts but even ordinary people sitting at home have been affected by the continuing violence and uncertainty…and, yes, we also have the fear of recession looming large on the horizon.

But then history tells us that humanity has seen even worst crisis/challenges…and overcame it. So why worry? And, yes, even worrying depletes natural resistance to fight disease!!! But since we are ordinary human beings we would succumb, in some way or the other, to the depleting factors.

However, one theory is that we are now more susceptible to ill health because most of us have stopped, or heavily reduced, walking. Why walk? As the picture above, sent by a friend, shows the organs of our body have their sensory touches at the bottom of our feet. If you massage these points you will find relief from aches and pains…You can see the heart nerve ending on the left foot. The belief is that the nerves connected to these organs terminate here. This is covered in great detail in acupressure studies or textbooks.

“God created our body so well that he thought of even this. He made us walk so that we will always be pressing these pressure points and thus keeping these organs activated/healthy at all times,” says the mail from my friend.

So, don’t just keep sitting in front of computers/TVs with a grumpy expression on your face…Instead, SMILE…And KEEP WALKING…!!!

For some more insight/fun click here…