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From the monthly archives:
You’re an infant and you get an ear infection. The doctor prescribes antibiotics. The infection clears but reappears three months later. Another round of antibiotics. This goes on for a year or two. As an 8- and 9-year-old you have chronic bronchitis and headaches, which are treated with antibiotics and ibuprofen. You get the flu [...]
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Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won’t Eat Meat by Howard F. Lyman
Personal account of a cattle rancher
This is an excellent book by a fourth-generation Montana cattle rancher turned vegetarian. Lyman writes about how he inherited his father’s farm and destroyed it through chemical agricultural practices he learned in college.
Right before undergoing surgery [...]
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An Exposition of the Principles and Practices of Orthopathy by Herbert Shelton
Exhaustive treatment of the principles of Natural Hygiene
Herbert Shelton is the voice for natural hygiene (NH) in the 20th century. NH teaches that the body is fully self-sufficient and can properly regulate its functions and maintain health if we live in accordance with the [...]
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I once played tennis with a man who berated himself after every missed or faulty hit. “You idiot!” “Stupid, stupid, stupid.” “How could you miss that?” “Dummy!” What was supposed to be a game of fun was an exercise in self-condemnation. He wasn’t even aware of it; it was a conditioned response, perhaps taught to [...]
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Since arriving in Pennsylvania I’ve been staying at my friend Tom’s house. His house is absolutely gorgeous, a showcase of good taste and money well spent. Tom is only a few months younger than me, and each staged room of his home reflects back to me my own monetary stupidity and foolhardiness.
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Continued from Part I.
Tom and Mike needed to fit ten cat carriers, a litter box, three boxes of litter, four cases of canned cat food, two suitcases, one valise, two pillows, a bathrobe, two bags, two boxes, a gun case, a few odds and ends and three people in an SUV. They did it somehow.
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How to move ten cats from Oregon to Pennsylvania?
My original intent was to drive the cats in my Mazda Speed 6 and tent camp along the way. I wrote about the problems with the trial run in the tent in an earlier post. When I realized camping wouldn’t work, I tried to buy a van, [...]
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