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From Deb Eaton:

Brian is the owner of the Hippocrates Health Institute and he and I co-worked with a remarkable medical doctor in Switzerland. Oh, I guess it must be 25 years ago! He will be in Belfast on Friday September 14.

It's free, with a donation if you so choose.
It's on Friday, September 14 at 4 PM for a talk at the UUChurch in Belfast.

Then at 5:30, raw food dishes will be available for us to sample, and Brian will talk about the health values and benefits.
I am looking for people who want to prepare a raw foods dish for the sampling...sprouts? salads? nut butters? would you like to? do you know anyone who would like to as well? I have 4 people now and want a dozen or so different dishes for all of us to sample.
If you would like to be part of this, please let me know. I can give you a recipe or you may have a favorite one of your own.

Here is Brian's 'bio.' I think it explains a lot of his impact in the world. He talks with Ministers of Health in different countries and he has a political understanding of how medicine, prevention and health impact this world. He's worth hearing. And then, of course, he has written a book and that is available at the Mr. Paperback in Belfast.
Living Foods for Optimum Health by Brian Clement.


Bio for Brian Clement
Dr. Brian Clement, PhD, N.M.D. is director of Hippocrates Health Institute; the world‚s first and foremost residential complementary health care facility. The institute was founded in Boston a half a century ago and relocated to West Palm Beach, Florida in 1986. As director, Clement pioneered the integration of cutting edge, non-invasive medical technology with traditional medicine and pure lifestyle modalities. Gathering a team of health professionals from every aspect of the comprehensive field has helped the thousands of individuals seeking healing. Although all kinds of individuals attend the life change program, Clement and the institute are best known for the work they have accomplished with catastrophically ill people.

Monitoring the program‚s participants through medical blood profiles and dark-field microscopic analysis has created a watershed of data and research material that has been pursued for studies by Colombia University. This information is now being considered by the National Institute of Health. Clement was one of the founding members of the Coalition for Holistic Health, a gathering of natural health care organizations, some twenty-five years ago. This group was formed to resist the frontal attack of the pharmaceutical industries and the U.S. government on traditional therapies.

He has taught in over thirty countries, worked with the Swedish, Indian, and Egyptian governments on their healthcare systems, consulted the Ministers of Health in Ireland and is an internationally known figure in the establishment of health policies. Under Dr. Clement‚s directorship, Hippocrates Health Institute received the status of number one medical spa in the world at the turn of the twenty-first century. He spends much of his time researching, writing and addressing groups globally.

Brian Clement is the father of four children and happily married to Dr. Anna Maria Gahns Clement with whom he shares responsibility for overseeing the institute‚s ongoing operations.
561.471.8876
www.hippocratesinstitute.org


Hope to see you there.
Deb Eaton

[Holly]

Hi everyone-
I really enjoyed the talk and found it really thought-provoking. I keep mulling over a couple of questions today. I'll jot them down here in case anyone is up for a discussion.

One is that I'm very partial to traditional diets and habits, given those are what humanity evolved on. They also tend to be what restores health to populations (eg what has happened recently with the Pima Indians and native Hawaiians) when people revert to them. As far as I know, there is no precedent in history for a culture that eats absolutely everything raw. (Am I wrong?) Distilled water was also obviously not available to most of humanity. So while I really see the therapeutic benefit of the Hippocrates program, I'm finding it hard to use such a broad brush as to say it would be good for absolutely everyone to do as a lifestyle for the rest of their lives.

The other thing is that while I am very careful about what we eat and use on our skin and use to clean our house, I realized I am not terribly careful about non-organic cotton clothing, plastic and putting my laptop on my lap! We have a lot of plastic. My son has polyester teddy bears. I forgot about the flame retardants on his clothing. My question is, basically, even if you are wealthy to take every precaution --which we are not-- there is no escaping this modern toxicity. Where do you draw the line and just hope for the best?

Thank you Deb for inviting him!

Holly

[Holly]

Deb writes:
We humans correct our health when we eat the live enzymes and bacteria in our food. Water? If the water is full of heavy metals and pesticides, we are better off drinking distilled and getting minerals from organic foods.
I have had the opportunity to see Brian in action at the Institute (HHI). He is teaching very ill and seriously weak people to make the diet and lifestyle change from processed foods that Œgum up‚ the intestines towards a rebuilding live food, like sprouts, and these people need to be absolutely dedicated to live foods to correct the damage. I have been at the door of HHI when families arrive, with a loved one on a stretcher, and Brian puts them all on live foods and the change over the family is truly remarkable.
Therefore, I can understand why Brian is so adamant about „absolutely everyone eating live foods for the rest of their lives.‰ He is filled with a passion and drive that, to some, seems out of balance but to the people that are near death, his drive is strong enough to keep a weak will powered person on track. That‚s what a leader does: stays way out in front, so that the middle ground can get a little closer. That‚s his purpose.
Then, there are people like me: In 1992, I was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue and went to the HHI for a full week. I was very weak the first few days, and then just after 4 days of eating living foods, (buckwheat sprouts are my favorite) I bounced back and felt energy returning. I decided to remain there and take the 8 weeks Health Educator Course. I lived in a large house with the other 9 international students and we found the following routine to be in a good balance, for where we were in our process:
We ate raw foods and living sprouts 5 days a week∑on Wednesdays we fasted (watermelon juice)  then on Sundays, we all piled into 2 cars and went to an Indian restaurant and ate cooked food, had wine, traditional desserts and usually finished with espresso coffee. We mostly felt fine afterwards and then returned to the living foods on Monday.
On most afternoons, I would walk down to the local 7-11 Store and buy a small bag of potato chips.
Now, the secret there is not to feel guilty and not to be tense while eating anything that one Œshouldn‚t‚ eat. The inner thoughts and tension of judging what one eats will get in the way of a relaxing experience. Inner tension is one of the biggest roadblocks to being healthy. That‚s why laughter is so valuable∑laughter switches our bodies from the sympathetic to the para-sympathetic nervous system, and then the digestive juices and peristalsis can function.
Years ago, I heard a venerable elderly healer from Russia state 2 things:
Keep the ratio of live foods, organic foods, raw foods at 80% and anything else at 20%. For years, I have heard 80/20 as a beneficial balance for most people. Now, if you are very ill and weak, then a higher percentage is needed.
The other nugget of wisdom he said was „It‚s not what you ingest, its what you digest.‰


From Deb:
Here‚s where the drums and trumpets ring out! The living foods like sprouts absorb the toxins of this industrial society and build up our digestive tract so that we can have a life of activities, buy and use the products made by the solvents that make plastics and return to health.
The secret is how well does a person detox the plastics, etc? Living foods rebuild and wheat grass detoxes the body. Water and laughter detox and the cycle goes on and on.
I have devoted my life to cleansing the body and am very well trained in the detox process.


Deb:
You are so welcomed! Thank you ALL for welcoming Brian with your open hearts. It‚s fun to laugh.

Deb Eaton
The Detoxer!