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There are two main methods of removing contaminants from water: activated carbon filters and reverse osmosis. Activated carbon filters Activated carbon is a highly reactive surface which attracts substances such as chlorine, chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, trichloroethyiene, phenols, DDT, other pesticides, PCBs and dioxins. These and other organic molecules found in tap water stick to the [...]

Avocado pears have a laxative effect on some people. If you have bowel symptoms then you should not include these. If you have never eaten them before, try eating a couple at one sitting before you start Stage 3, to see what effect they have. Spinach and chickpeas should not be included if you have [...]

Although the baby in the womb is nourished by the mother’s blood, the blood of mother and baby do not mix. Instead, they both pass through tiny blood vessels (capillaries) in the structure known as the placenta. The capillaries carrying the mother’s blood lie directly alongside those carrying the baby’s blood, and vital substances such [...]

Acute attacks of diarrhoea should be taken very seriously indeed, especially in small babies. They can lose so much water from the body that they become seriously ill. In extreme cases they can suffer brain damage or die. The signs of moderate to severe dehydration are little urine, which is very dark and smells strongly [...]

A possible suspect in this regard is wheat, which contains defensive proteins called lectins that bind to cells in our bodies. Certain people, known as coeliacs, are made seriously ill by wheat, and the way in which lectins might cause their disease is dealt with on pl36. Coeliac disease is inherited, which suggests that there [...]

So if an alpine herb proves to be more effective than others, having a higher content of active substances, it cannot always be attributed to altitude alone. Rather, it depends upon the kind of plant, its hours of exposure to sunshine, the temperature of the atmosphere and the degree of protection from severe winds. It [...]

The skin cannot breathe naturally if the pores are blocked with cosmetics. In consequence it degenerates; the pores become larger. It is just as unsightly when the skin begins to slacken early, developing more wrinkles than would be expected as a result of the normal ageing process. For a reliable skin care programme rub in [...]

There are indeed some primitive tribes, as we might describe them, who would provide a dentist with no work whatsoever. He could merely admire their beautiful teeth. For one thing, these people have inherited good teeth with the necessary armour-plating of excellent enamel. So if you have children, see to it that they eat plenty [...]

Even though it is said that in experiments it has been possible to transmit cancer from sick animals to healthy ones by infecting them with toxins from malignant tissues, there is absolutely no evidence that cancer is communicable in humans; it has also been proved that cancer can result if certain tissues are subjected to [...]

On 31 March 1964 I received the first letter from a patient in Brussels who had been suffering from multiple sclerosis for sixteen years. A year later, on 30 April 1965, he wrote again, about the effect of the recommended treatment. His letter read as follows: ‘I have been taking your reliable medicines for one [...]