1. Have your Total Nutrition (click here for recipe to make your own), Udo’s Oil, and one or two raw, organic eggs every day (I call this the Green Dragon Recipe). This “highest grade fuel” gives your body the necessary building blocks so that it will start correcting itself. It will help you create and maintain excellent health.
2. Keep your intestines cleansed and purified. Intestinal cleansing will not only detoxify your body, it will also ensure there are no stoppages in the surrounding organs.  It is important to keep your body’s flows moving efficiently, and the place to start is the bowel. This is vital.
3. Eat only organic foods, especially when it comes to meats. Commercial meats are loaded full of hormones, antibiotics, and steroids. Commercial vegetables are saturated with pesticides and due to modern day fertilizing and growing practices have very little nutrition in them. Use only organic body care products on your skin and hair.
4. When it comes to grains, seeds, nuts, and beans, eat only those products that have been sprouted!  All other methods of preparation leave you with enzyme inhibitors that will make you fat and unhealthy. Stay away from all soy. Until this industry cleans up its act, it is best to drop it from your diet altogether.
5. If you don’t own a juicer, buy one and use it daily. Juicing is an excellent tool to aid in detoxing and for putting concentrated nutrition into your body. Get a slow juicer.
6. While keeping all the above in, and until you reach a state of excellent health, you should do my entire Total Body Cleanse Program at least twice a year. Three times is best if you can manage it.
7. Exercise every day! The best exercise I know of is running (Running Without Knee Pain). The next best is rebounding on a mini trampoline. Both of these workouts will exercise every cell in your body. This is absolutely essential to keeping the flows going. Start off with walking if that’s all you can handle, but eventually work up to a minimum of forty-five minutes of hard exercise each day. Work up a real sweat.
8. Stop watching television and reading newspapers. You don’t eat garbage. Why allow it into your  mind? TV is one of the main causes of juvenile delinquency and low personal production.
9. Wear cotton, silk, hemp, and other all-natural fibers. Synthetic clothes can prevent your skin from breathing properly and can toxify your body.
10. Cook your food only in stainless steel, cast iron, or glass. Never cook in aluminum!
11. Drink only distilled water or purified water from a top notch purifier.
12. Start each day by acknowledging to yourself what a great person you are.
13. Help someone else every day. Help a child.
14. Do your part. Take responsibility for the earth by helping to keep it clean and toxin free. Recycle!
15. Create a garden and grow some flowers, fruits, and vegetables. Plant a tree once a month.
16. Put all your possessions in order and permanently get rid of those things you don’t need or want. Do a complete cleaning and reorganization of your living space so that it is neat and orderly.
17. Connect with your favorite groups and get involved. Continue learning new things and expanding your horizons. Make some new friends.
18. Laugh and have fun.
19. And last, but not least, LOVE!

Recommended Reading:

• Detox Cheap and Easy Without Fasting – Recipes Included
• Gluten, Candida, Leaky Gut Syndrome, and Autoimmune Diseases
• Hypothyroidism – Natural Remedies, Causes, and How To Heal the Thyroid
• How to Cure Lyme Disease, and Virtually Any Other Bacterial Infection, Naturally

K. Rashid Nuri is a farmer. If this statement conjures an image of a white two-story farmhouse situated at the top of a rise, overlooking acre upon acre of planted fields that have been handed down through six generations, put a pin in it. Nuri is not that kind of farmer. A city boy, he grew up in Boston. His father had been an educator, his step-father a Navy man, and his mother a community activist. Nuri enrolled in Harvard to pursue a life in politics. He graduated with a degree in political science and enough math and science under his belt to pursue medicine if he was so inclined. But Rashid was a child of the ‘60s who dedicated his life to making a difference. He understood the fundamentals behind nation building—it doesn’t start from the top down; it starts from the bottom up. A nation’s first need is to clothe, shelter, and feed its people. Nuri chose food. “I set out to learn all about food from the seed to the table, and wanted to do this through practical experience.”

He started with a Masters in Plant and Soil Science from the University of Massachusetts. Practical experience began when his first job after college took him to San Diego County, California, where he installed organic gardens. Since that time he has worked in more than 35 countries around the world. “I have built farms, managed farms, worked with government, managed a 30,000 rose bush garden, taught organic farming, and spent years in agribusiness working with feed, seed, poultry, cotton and oilseed processing, and commodity trading.” He also served four years as a senior executive in the Clinton Administration, which included time served as the Deputy Administrator of the Farm Service Agency and Foreign Agricultural Service for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In 2006, Nuri brought his 40 years of experience to the creation of Truly Living Well Natural Urban Farms. This community supported agricultural project grows food on four sites in the Metropolitan Atlanta Area, providing nutritionally-rich, fresh-picked, organic produce to the community. Organic, urban food production minimizes the carbon footprint. Crops are not stored and shipped over great distances. Food does not lose its nutritional value. Crops are not contaminated by unwashed trucks or storage bins.

Most of the food produced by the farm is sold through Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) subscriptions, which are sold on a revolving basis. Each subscription punch card is good for 13 boxes of food, to be redeemed at the buyer’s convenience. Member subscription fees provide capital to purchase supplies and fund the operations. Truly Living Well also sells produce to local restaurants and to the community at large.

Yes, K. Rashid Nuri is a farmer. He is also a social activist. He fights hunger through his outreach efforts to help students, organizations, and individuals plant sustainable, organic gardens and through teaching opportunities at his farm. He serves on the board of Georgia Organics and is a member of the Atlanta Local Food Initiative. He is also OLM’s newest contributor and advisor.

Check out Nuri’s article on How to Start Your Own Organic Garden in the next issue.

Popular opinion regarding vaccinations goes something like this: immunizations are one of modern medicine’s greatest achievements; they have prevented more suffering and saved more lives than any other medical procedure. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the modern practice of mass vaccinations may well be the biggest medical blunder of all time. No reliable safety study has ever been performed on any vaccine, and evidence suggests that vaccinations may actually be quite harmful. Individuals without informed consent are being forced to risk death or injury. There is no accountability for the possible negative impacts of vaccinations. The individual is being sacrificed for the “good of society.” An examination of the literature clearly shows that vaccinations are both ineffective and dangerous.

The dramatic decline of infectious diseases, such as smallpox, diphtheria, and polio, is often cited as proof of the effectiveness of vaccination. Any risks or “side-effects” from vaccinations are supposedly far outweighed by the inherent benefits. Looking more closely, however, benefits are difficult to find while risks are quite apparent. The incidence of infectious disease dramatically decreased before the introduction of vaccines—vaccines get credit for something they did not do. For example, in 1950, polio was at its height in Great Britain. By the time polio vaccine was introduced in 1956, polio had already declined by 82%. Similarly, tuberculosis (TB) was a persistent killer throughout the 1800s and by 1945 had already declined by 97%. Recent worldwide outbreaks of virulent forms of TB have proven that “protection” by vaccine has little to do with whether or not one gets the disease. Other infectious diseases that were in decline before the introduction of their vaccines include whooping cough and measles. Their further decline after the introduction of their vaccines was likely a continuation of the existing trend. This is why countries that did not vaccinate against specific diseases experienced declines similar to those that did.

A stronger argument for the decline of infectious diseases can be made regarding better sanitation, less crowded living conditions, and increased availability of food. As Pasteur’s germ theory became common knowledge, better sanitation became a part of life. Infectious transmission dramatically decreased. As is the case with all disease, the level of immunity is most important. Wider availability of food helped improve the immunity of the population at large. In addition, diseases tend to have their own evolutionary cycles; they go away as the population gains “herd” immunity. Diseases like bubonic plague and scarlet fever experienced declines similar to other infectious diseases; they faded away without any immunization programs whatsoever.

Astoundingly, it is difficult to find any studies that prove the effectiveness of vaccines. To prove efficacy, we must analyze studies of vaccinated groups versus unvaccinated ones. Very few of these types of studies have ever been conducted. The few that have, indicate the vaccines are not effective, and are actually harmful!

• One study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the incidence of meningitis in children vaccinated against it was five times higher than in unvaccinated children.
• It is an undisputed fact that tuberculosis vaccinations have had absolutely no impact on the incidence of tuberculosis.
• Diphtheria vaccination programs have been followed by unprecedented diphtheria epidemics among the vaccinated populations. In Germany during World War II, diphtheria vaccinations were made mandatory. The Germans experienced an immediate 17% increase in diphtheria cases and a 600% increase in mortality. At the end of the war, the vaccinations were stopped. There was an immediate and dramatic decline in the number of cases, despite widespread malnutrition and poor living conditions.
• In the U.S., it is officially accepted that since its inception, the polio vaccine has
  caused all cases of polio.

Dr. Vera Schreibner, a world authority on immunizations and author of Vaccinations, had this to say, “Immunizations…not only did not prevent any infectious diseases, they caused more suffering and more deaths than any other human activity in the entire history of medical intervention.” Having assembled the world’s largest collection of data on immunizations, Dr. Schreibner concludes,  “One hundred years of orthodox research shows that vaccines represent a medical assault on the immune system.” Research by Dr. Schreibner and others continues to unveil the alarming truth about vaccinations. Here are some further examples: Pertussis vaccinations have been followed by cases of “provocation polio.” This kind of polio is well known to follow almost any vaccination, especially pertussis and polio vaccinations. Measles is another case in point. Measles constantly occurs in vaccinated populations. In fact, there is even a new and especially vicious form of measles called ‘atypical measles.’ It affects only vaccinated populations and is apparently the result of a deranged immunological response caused by the vaccine. New data reports sharp rises in diabetes among children vaccinated for meningitis. A recent article in Newsweek attributed the AIDS epidemic to oral polio vaccine given between 1957 and 1960. A growing number of researchers are now attributing the epidemics of childhood cancer, leukemia, asthma, autoimmune disease, cerebral palsy, infantile convulsions, and sudden infant death syndrome to vaccinations.

Each generation is getting more vaccinations and experiencing more immune dystoreunction diseases as a result. Dr. Terry Phillips, Professor of Medicine at George Washington University Medical Center, reported at an international conference in 1997 that the foreign proteins in virtually all vaccines wreak havoc with the human immune system. Vaccines alter the body’s immune response and do permanent damage. Why? Vaccines are loaded with all kinds of garbage that never should be injected into a human body. They are contaminated with animal viruses (monkeys, calves, and chickens) from which the vaccines are made. These viruses put a permanent antigenic burden on our immune systems. Some researchers believe that these persistent circulating antigens do continuing damage to both the immune and nervous systems causing immune suppression and dystoreunction, such as autoimmune disease. Vaccines also contain formaldehyde, aluminum, mercury, and a large assortment of foreign proteins, all of which are not good for you.

Dr. Harris Coulter in his book, The Assault on the American Child, says that the allergic response initiated when a vaccine is injected into the body is capable of causing encephalitis (an inflammation of the brain). Encephalitis can cause permanent brain damage leading to lifetime problems with autism, dyslexia, learning disabilities, behavioral disorders, and antisocial syndromes. Dr. Coulter estimates that 50% of the children who experience a fever after vaccination are actually suffering from encephalitis, which is doing various degrees of permanent brain damage. Coulter blames vaccines for the “new morbidity” of learning and behavior disorders.

There is a definite association between vaccines, learning disorders, and other modern brain dystoreunctions. The immediate effects of vaccinations can include convulsions, fevers, and allergic reactions, which are known to produce mental retardation, learning disabilities,  paralysis, and epilepsy. Yet, there still are no long-term studies on the safety of vaccines. The studies often cited for vaccine safety are short term, often limited to only two days after injection. No studies have been done comparing cognitive or developmental function in vaccinated children versus unvaccinated. Sadly, we know little of what happens in the body during a vaccination; our knowledge of the long-term effects is almost nonexistent.

In October 2000, at the annual meeting of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), a resolution called for an end to all government-mandated vaccinations. Even more astounding—the resolution passed without a single dissenting vote. Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the AAPS said, “Our children face the possibility of death or serious long-term adverse effects from mandated vaccines that aren’t necessary or that have limited benefits.” The AAPS’s resolution read that “mass vaccination is equivalent to human experimentation and subject to the Nuremberg Code, which requires voluntary informed consent…” By failing to inform us of the dangers and taking away our power to choose otherwise, mandated vaccinations become a crime against humanity.

Physicians routinely prescribe procedures and medications with little regard for the damage they may do. The “benefit” of what they think they are doing is usually seen as being worth the risk. Vaccinations are a perfect example of this. When children have seizures, become mentally retarded, or develop polio after vaccinations, we are told that this is the price we must pay to eliminate these diseases from our population.

It is up to the individual to decide whether to be vaccinated, and parents must decide what is best for their children. These decisions should be based on accurate information. Unfortunately, much of the research questioning the safety and effectiveness of vaccinations has been effectively hidden from the public. Such information has been suppressed because few people would participate in the vaccination process if they knew the truth. This would make it impossible for the vaccination campaigns to “eliminate” all those terrible diseases.

So what if you don’t want to vaccinate your child—what do you do? Compulsory vaccination is the law in every state, but there are also legal exemptions for various reasons. Simply find out what the exemptions are in your particular state and get one. For example, all states have a medical exemption that a doctor can sign.

What if you are thinking about a flu shot? Consider this study published in the Lancet. The absenteeism of over 100,000 employees was measured each winter, concluding flu shots did not confer any protection. Flu shots appear to weaken and sensitize some people and actually cause the flu as well as other diseases. Outbreaks of deadly Legionnaires disease immediately followed flu vaccination campaigns. What about something like tetanus? Probably the single most important factor in preventing tetanus is thorough cleansing of the wound with removal of all foreign bodies and dead tissue. On rare occasion, “tetanus prone” wounds would justify the vaccine in those already immunized and immune globulin in those who have never been vaccinated.

To avoid an infectious disease, keep your immunity strong. Breastfeeding protects babies against many infections. Allergenic foods like milk and wheat should be avoided. Allergies lower immunity and predispose the body to infections. Nutritional status is critical to immune competence. Refined sugars are well known to damage immunity. Fresh fruits and vegetables are essential. Regular exercise, a good diet, and avoidance of allergens and toxins such as prescription drugs help maintain a healthy immune system with a high resistance to infections.

Moreover, a high-quality supplement program is essential to maintaining immunity. I recommend the Beyond Health
program, including 5000 mg of vitamin C per day, extra vitamin E in the form of Unique E and extra calcium. For those needing more protection, take two or three capsules of olive leaf extract per day as a preventative. As for vaccinations – caveat emptor!

Further Reading:

• How To Detoxify and Heal From Vaccinations – For Adults and Children
• Influenza Vaccine – A Comprehensive Overview of the Potential Dangers and Effectiveness of the Flu Shot
• The MMR Vaccine – A Comprehensive Overview Of the Potential Dangers and Effectiveness
• How Plumbing, Not Vaccines, Eradicated Disease
• Autism and Vaccines: CDC Whistleblower Exposes Vaccine Dangers, Lies, and Cover-ups

Dr. Ian Shillington firmly believes each individual has the right and the responsibility to take charge of his or her health. With this goal in mind, he sets out to inform, to educate, and to empower everyone who seeks his medical advice. Although he has officially retired from practice, he maintains an Internet presence with a Yahoo group where he answers health questions. He runs an online store, maintains a website where he shares information including recipes for his nutritional and detox powders and tinctures, and he owns and operates a restaurant and a health food store.

Although Doc Shillington has shared a remarkably thorough list of natural treatments, he is always hesitant to discuss quick fixes for acute symptoms. His years of practice taught him that patients in search of the quick fix usually disregard the road to true health—the holistic mind, body, spirit approach to life which includes proper nutrition, exercise, and a regular schedule of total body detox.

Naturopathy Lecture – Dr. Ian Shillington, September 21 2002

Doc Shillington’s Total Body Detox

Doc Shillington’s Total Body Detox includes a protocol for an intestinal cleanse, a gallbladder/liver cleanse, and a bladder/kidney cleanse. Together these three cleanses comprise his total body cleanse. For patients who are considered “incurable” (due to a chronic condition or a life threatening condition or disease) Dr. Shillington has designed a variation of his Total Body Cleanse, which can be found on his website.

The full Total Body Cleanse is intensive and expensive, but it is the best detox we have found to date. (Also note that many of the teas and tonics you will purchase will last for more than one detox.) Though the diet throughout the cleanse is vegan and as raw as possible, Dr. Shillington recommends eating as much as you want as often as you want. You won’t be hungry.

For most of the cleanse, we followed the incurables program and relied more on juicing than eating whole foods. Our energy was high and the results were exceptional.

One tester said, “My sleep was better. In the mornings, I woke in an instant, fully awake and aware. Aches and pains from old injuries disappeared. My eyesight improved. My attention and focus improved. My health was restored.”

One of the downsides to this cleanse is a lack of clear instruction. Doc Shillington’s website is confusing at best, very poorly designed, and at times difficult to navigate. Finding the regimen for the total body cleanse, and then making sense of it is difficult and time consuming. So we at OLM worked with Doc Shillington and put the regimen together for you (since we pulled much of Doc Shillington’s text word for word, we’ve given him the copyright from this point on).

OLM endorses this body cleanse program that requires you to adhere to a vegan diet during the duration of the cleanse. This means no meat, fish, fowl, or dairy. Eat nothing that had a face on it or came from anything that had a face on it, except for raw eggs, which are included in your Total Nutrition drink.

This is a three-part cleanse, beginning with the colon cleanse, followed by a liver and gallbladder cleanse, and ending with a kidney cleanse. If you have a particular problem with the kidneys, you can cleanse the kidneys before the liver and gallbladder.

The basic diet follows:

Upon Arising:

Drink 8 ounces of distilled water. This is a great way to start your day. The water rinses and flushes your digestive tract of any leftover food and digestive juices.

Breakfast:

Live, fresh fruit or vegetable juice is the best way to get your vitamins, minerals, and other essential nutrients. They are also very important for cleansing and detoxification. If you are hungry before lunchtime, you may have fruit, diluted fruit juices, and fruit smoothies. Stop all fruit or fruit juices at least 1 hour before lunch. It is best while on this program not to mix fruit and vegetables together.

Lunch:

For lunch you can have diluted fresh raw vegetable juices, raw vegetables alone or in salads, sprouts, potassium broth, and herb teas. You may make dressings for the salad if you like using olive oil, avocado, raw apple cider vinegar, lemon juice, garlic, onions, and any herbs and spices.

Afternoon Snacks:

Raw vegetables, raw vegetable salads, diluted vegetable juices, sprouts, potassium broth, Total Nutrition, and herb teas. All vegetable food must be stopped by 6 p.m.

Dinner:

Diluted fruit juices, fruits, fruit smoothies, fruit salads and herb teas.

This program requires you to exercise daily. Start with what you can physically tolerate and increase daily. Walking for 20-40 minutes twice a day is an excellent way to get your exercise. Make sure you sweat.

Hydrotherapy is the last requirement in this program. Hot and cold showers do wonders for your circulation and can speed your recovery incredibly fast. Start off taking a hot shower, as hot as you can stand it. Keep it hot for 3 minutes and then turn the hot all the way off. Stay in the cold water for 1 minute. Repeat this cycle at least twice for a minimum of 3 complete cycles. End with a nice hot shower.

Do not underestimate this procedure; it is powerful and miraculous. There are spas in Europe that specialize in curing “terminally ill” cancer patients using hydrotherapy alone. If you have a particular area of your body that is ill, buy a shower wand and concentrate more “hot & cold” on that area in addition to the above. Hot and cold packs will also work well to increase circulation to an affected area.

Special note: Never take Echinacea for more than three weeks at a time. This is one herb from which you need to rest.

Remember, this program restricts the types of food you will be eating, not the amount. If you are hungry at any point during this detoxification program, drink and/or eat more. The more you eat and drink, the more you will flush the toxins out of your body. Also remember to have a fun time. A positive, healing attitude is important. To achieve maximum benefits from this program, be loving to yourself.

Colon Cleanse, Week One:

8 oz of water in a.m.
Total Nutrition —morning.
Echinacea—2 droppers 3X a day
Total Tonic—2 droppers 3X a day
Intestinal Cleanse —Most people need from one to six capsules, but some have needed as many as 30 capsules.

To the diet listed above, add 8-16 ounces of carrot/beet juice per day with 4 garlic cloves.

Colon Cleanse, Week Two

Repeat week one and add Intestinal Detox. Take 5 to 6 times each day (every 3 hours on the average) for 5 to 6 days. Finish the jar of powder and/or bag of capsules within the week.

One hour after your morning nutritional drink mix 1 heaping teaspoon of Intestinal Detox powder with 8 ounces of diluted juice. Mixes best if you shake it in a small jar. (Or if you are taking capsules, take 8 capsules with your juice).

Do the same ½ hour before lunch, between lunch and dinner, ½ hour before dinner and 1 hour before bed, so that you are consuming a minimum total of 5 heaping teaspoons (or 40 capsules) each day.

During or after dinner, take your Intestinal Cleanse capsules as usual. When you start Intestinal Detox increase your regular dosage of intestinal cleanse by 1 additional cap, or more if necessary to have sufficient bowel movements. It is helpful to drink additional liquid after each dose of Intestinal Detox, at least 8 ounces.

Liver Cleanse, Week Three

The evening before you start, make the Liver Detox tea per instructions.

Liver Detox Tea
Total nutrition
Echinacea—2 droppers 3X a day
Total Tonic—2 droppers 3X a day
Intestinal Cleanse  &  Detox
–Liver Cleanse Day #1:

Continue with the same diet you have been eating for the past two weeks. First drink 8 ounces of distilled water. Within 1 hour prepare for the following morning drink: In Spring or Summer mix 8-ounces of fresh orange juice or a citrus juice combination (1 lemon or 1 lime and enough orange, grapefruit or tangerine to make 8 ounces). In Fall or Winter mix 8 ounces of fresh apple and/or grape juice with:

8 ounces of Distilled Water
1-5 clove(s) of garlic (start with one and increase daily)
1-5 tablespoon(s) of organic virgin cold-pressed olive oil (start with one and increase daily)
1-5 small pieces of fresh Ginger root (1 inch long – start with one and increase daily)

NOTE: IF YOU FEEL NAUSEATED AT ALL – ADD MORE GINGER
15 minutes after this drink, consume 2 cups of the Liver Detox Tea & 2 dropperfuls of Liver/Gallbladder Anti-Parasite tincture. The tincture can be taken straight or in a few ounces of purified water or mixed in with the tea. Repeat the tea and tincture 2 more times during the day.

Liver Cleanse, Days #2, #3, and #4:

Begin the 3 day juice fast. Start with your water, morning flush drink and herbal tea. Drink diluted fruit juices and herb tea until noon. Drink diluted vegetable juices, Potassium Broth, Total Nutrition and herb tea mid-day and afternoon. Take diluted fruit juices and herb tea again in the evening. Consume at least 1 gallon of liquid (8 ounces every hour)! If you get hungry, DRINK MORE!

Liver Cleanse, Day 5 – Liver Gallbladder Bomb:

This is the day you break your fast. After your morning drink, you can have some fresh fruit. Chew it very slowly and mix each mouthful with plenty of saliva. Remember, breaking your fast is a very important part of this program. Chew your food well and eat until satisfied, not full. You can always eat more later if you are still hungry. After 1:00 PM you should have a small vegetable salad and fruit again in the evening, chewing everything to a liquid pulp.

Tincture–The “Bomb”:

At bedtime, drink ½ cup of warm, unrefined olive oil blended with ½ cup of fresh lemon juice. Immediately go to bed and lie on your right side with your right knee pulled up close to your chest for 30 minutes.

Thereafter do the bomb each evening before you go to bed until there are no more gallstones (little dark green globules from the size of BBs up to the size of a mothball) coming out the following day. Do not start on the Week 4 program until the bomb is over and done with.

Kidney and Bladder Cleanse, Week Four

The night before you begin, make the Kidney/Bladder Tea per the instructions on the package.

Stop taking echinacea, Intestinal Cleanse #1 & #2, and discontinue the Liver Detox Tea and tincture. Continue taking Total Nutrition, Total Tonic, and cayenne drops (in tea or water).

Day 1 Upon Arising:

Drink your water. Within 1 hour prepare the following Morning Drink:

Kidney & Bladder Flush Morning Drink
Juice of one lemon and one lime
16 to 32 ounces of distilled water
A pinch of cayenne pepper or 1 to 10 drops of Cayenne Tincture
Optional – maple syrup (a little) to taste:
End of Cleanse, Week Five

Begin all over again at Week #3 if you wish to do a more concentrated detox and cleanse program.

Take it easy when returning to a new healthy food program. Choose lighter foods for a few days and be careful not to overeat. Chew your food well. Eating smaller meals more often is better than one or two large meals. Enjoy your new set of values on food choices and amounts. For the best health, eat lots of raw, organic foods that are grown locally and in season. Repeat this program until you are well, but do it at least twice more after you have recovered. OLM
Doc Shillington’s Total Body Cleanse Program copyright (c) 2001 by Ian Shillington N.D.

Some of Shillington’s Recipes:

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Shillington’s detox products can be found  here at Green Lifestyle Market.

All of Shillington’s Products can be found here at Green Lifestyle Market.

Further Reading:

• Hot & Cold Hydrotherapy
• How to Make a Tincture
• Total Nutrition – Make your own Homemade Multivitamin and Mineral Formula
• Detox Cheap and Easy Without Fasting – Recipes Included
• Gluten, Candida, Leaky Gut Syndrome, and Autoimmune Diseases

Recommended Supplements:

• Shillington’s Total Nutrition Formula
• Shillington’s Liver/Gallbladder Formula
• Shillington’s Liver/Gallbladder Tea
• Shillington’s Kidney/Bladder Formula
• Shillington’s Kidney/Bladder Tea
• Shillington’s Blood Detox Formula
• Shillington’s Blood Detox Tea
• Shillington’s Cayenne
• Shillington’s Echinacea +
• Shillington’s Intestinal Cleanse
• Shillington’s Intestinal Detox
• Shillington’s Total Tonic
• Shillington’s Body Balance +

In our quest to find the best organic shampoo and hair care products for our personal use, we tried Morrocco Method. Our first purchase was an expensive package with four shampoos, a hair detox treatment, oil, a hair massager, a volumizing spray, and two conditioners.

There are things we love about this company and other issues we feel they should address. First and foremost, the products are wonderful. Honestly, it doesn’t get any better than Morrocco Method. They truly represent top of the line, best of the best, without cutting any corners. The ingredients are natural, gluten free, and raw. Nothing is synthetic. This company is dedicated to fair trade and extremely sensitive to environmental issues in all of their business practices.

Their shampoos can be used as a body wash and a shaving cream; one of their conditioners doubles as a deodorant. And their products do more than detox hair and scalp and restore luster to your hair, their products actually help regrow hair. (From our experience, we can agree this claim is true).

I wish we could say we liked everything about this company. We don’t. While it would be a mistake to assume customer service for an individual would be the same as a corporate response to a magazine asking for samples for a product review, we must report we were not at all pleased with the way they treated us at OLM. Rather than go into details, let’s just say that they were more than willing to send us samples, but their level of professionalism left much to be desired.

The same can be said for the company website and the written material and instructions that accompany a purchase. Morrocco Method would benefit from hiring an editor to proof its written copy and by revamping the navigation and layout of its website to make it more user-friendly. The site also boasts about its forum, but a question we posted 11 months ago has never been answered. It looks as if no posts have been answered since 2007 Morrocco Method’s prices are steep, especially if you follow their suggestion and buy all 4 shampoos for $75.00 so you can rotate them each time you wash your hair.

Rotating the four shampoos is said to provide optimum results, so it is a bit confusing to see literature that states that one shampoo is for normal to oily hair, one is for normal to dry hair, and two are for all hair types. On the other hand, words are inadequate to describe how your hair feels after using these products. It’s as if you are rediscovering your true hair, they way it is meant to feel with its natural oils. We found for the first time that we didn’t need to wash our hair each day, or even every other day. We could go as long as four or five days between shampoos thus making these shampoos affordable in the long run.

We highly recommend Morrocco Method’s hair care products for everyone, but especially for anyone who is losing hair. Try these products and follow the written advice regarding daily brushing and massage.

Update 12/21/2013: Right we are pleased to announce that Morrocco Method is available at our store, Green Lifestyle Market.

Update 7/1/2014: Their customer service is much better, but it’s still hit or miss. The people are nicer, but there are inconsistencies that are annoying.

In this day and age, we often hear families rarely share meals, much less share in their preparation. The time we spend preparing and eating good, healthy, lovingly prepared food holds us together as a family.

I will be the first to admit that almost everything involved in preparing a meal can be a chore. But the “simple” value of passing on cooking skills and the time spent together shopping, cooking, and washing up are bonding and learning experiences for you and your little ones.

Farmers markets and local shops are more likely to provide pleasurable shopping experiences than the local supermarket. Take your time and make it an adventure with the children. Help them to learn where things really come from (eggs from chickens, milk from cows). Don’t let them grow up believing everything comes from supermarkets.

I want to give my family the best. I have learned it’s just as easy to buy organic and fresh produce as it is to buy the supermarket stuff. What surprises me most is discovering careful selection of food doesn’t blow our budget. One of the secrets is to buy seasonal foods. By buying seasonal local foods you not only save your budget, you help the planet. A recent study says our diets (consisting of flown around the world) account for up to two times as many greenhouse emissions as driving. Learn what is in season and how to make delicious meals from seasonal choices. Many celebrity chefs now have published their own seasonal recipe book; one yummy discovery is Nigel Slater’s cookbook.

This is the season for making Christmas gifts. Nothing goes down quite as well, or conveys love and care as prettily wrapped homemade goodies do. The pride of a child who hands over a parcel of something they made is immeasurable. It’s also a simple way to step back from the season’s commercialism and frantic shopping for mass produced, preservative filled, plastic gifts. Onions are easy to grow and store. They are packed with anti-viral properties—super for sore throats and coughs. Baked, they become so sweet and caramelized; children will like them. This recipe would also go well as a Christmas side dish.

There are online resources aplenty for seasonal eating, too. One very clever U.S. site I’m fond of is www.Epicurious.com. It has a seasonal ingredients map, which can also link to recipes, cooking tips, and inspiration which are then rated by readers.
Onions with Parmesan and Cream
4 medium/ large onions
300 ml (1-1/4 cups) whipping or double cream
Good handful of grated Parmesan

Set the oven at 180˚c (350 F). Peel the onions and bring them to a boil in a deep pan of water. Leave them at a simmer for about 25 minutes, until tender. Lift them out with a draining spoon. Slice the onions in half from root to tip and put them cut side down in an ovenproof dish. Tip the cream over the onions. Season with salt, pepper, and grated cheese and bake for 25-30 minutes until golden and bubbling.
One of my favourite, more unusual seasonal recipes is beetroot chocolate cake. My boys are most suspicious of the usual borscht, but this goes down splendidly. I know, it sounds weird, but trust me; think carrot cake in pretty pink.

Beetroot and Chocolate Cake

375g (1.6 cups) Organic, unrefined caster sugar
250g (2 sticks) organic butter
4 organic free range eggs
250g (1 cup) plain flour
2 tsp organic bicarbonate of soda (baking soda).
450g (2 cups) finely grated raw beetroot (beets)
100g (1/2 cup) organic unsweetened grated chocolate, high cocoa content
2 heaping tablespoons of organic cocoa powder
Half a tablespoon organic vanilla essence (vanilla extract)
Preheat the oven to 180C (350F).
Mix the softened butter and caster sugar until light and fluffy. Whisk eggs in a separate bowl, then add them to the cake mix gradually. Sift the flour, bicarb of soda, and cocoa powder into the cake batter and stir in well. Cut the stalks off the beetroot and peel them. Finely grate them and add to the cake mix. Add the grated chocolate and stir well. Add the vanilla essence. Pour cake batter into a 23cm greased cake tin. This cake takes 50 to 65 minutes to bake, depending on your oven and the depth of the cake tin. Check whether it is ready by carefully piercing the cake with a skewer. It should come out relatively clean.

For a change from all those root vegetables, there are also quite a few lettuce varieties that will happily thrive in frost (at least here in the UK!) and children will love wrapping up warm to brave the weather and plant seeds. Also sprouting seeds like chickpea, sunflower and alfalfa in a jar on the windowsill gives a super winter boost of vitamins and provides satisfyingly quick results for children. And one of the best bits of getting cold outside is coming in to hot cocoa. Again, Willie’s Supreme Cacoa wins the day. It’s a solid block of 100% cacao that’s been storming the UK. You just grate it into the milk, and for us, the milk’s sweetness and the chocolate’s creaminess means we can pass up on the sugar.

If you are not up to all that work, there is always organic convenience available such as the Mummy Delicious organic risottos and soups, ready and on the table in under 20 minutes, loved by both adults and children. Add some pure Willies Cacao to the Porcini Mushroom risotto and you have a meal that would mesmerize any dinner guest.

Barbara Kingsolver has written an exquisitely hilarious and inspiring book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, A Year of Food Life regaling her family’s attempt to be self sufficient, organic, and local for a year. It will inspire you to get up and create if nothing else will!

Vanessa Arelle de Peeters is Founder and Managing Director of Mummydeli.com. This online emporium offers shoppers in the UK more than 450 local products that are natural, organic and sustainable. Watch for Mummydeli.com to expand to the U.S. and Canada with local and sustainable products.www.mummydeli.com