Cola Drinks

WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR BODY WITHIN AN HOUR OF DRINKING COLA




So you want to be healthy? Drinking soda is bad for your health in so many ways; science can’t even state all the consequences. Here’s what happens in your body when you assault it with a Coke:



Within the first 10 minutes of drinking it, 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (This is 100 percent of your recommended daily intake, and the only reason you don’t vomit as a result of the overwhelming sweetness is because phosphoric acid cuts the flavour).



Within 20 minutes, your blood sugar spikes, and your liver responds to the resulting insulin burst by turning these massive amounts of sugar into fat.



Within 40 minutes, the caffeine in the cola is complete; your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, and your livers dumps even more sugar into your bloodstream.



After around 45 minutes, your body increases dopamine production, which stimulates the pleasure centers of your brain – a physically identical response to that of heroin, by the way.



After 60 minutes, you’ll start to have a sugar crash.



How many sodas have you had today? As of 2005, white bread was dethroned as the number one source of calories in the American diet, being replaced by soft drinks. Fact.



The average American drinks more than 60 gallons of soft drinks each year, so before you grab that next can of soda, consider this: one can of soda has about 10 teaspoons of sugar, 150 calories, 30 to 55 mg of caffeine, and is loaded with artificial food colors and sulphites. Not to mention the fact it’s also your largest source of dangerous high-fructose modified corn syrup.



Let’s take a look at some of the other major components of a typical can of soda:



· Phosphoric Acid: Which can interfere with the body's ability to use calcium, leading to osteoporosis or softening of the teeth and bones.



· Sugar: It is a proven fact that sugar increases insulin levels, which can lead to high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, weight gain, premature aging and many more negative side effects. Most sodas include over 100 percent of the RDA of sugar. Sugar is so bad for your health in so many ways, I have even created an entire list outlining 100-Plus Ways in Which Sugar Can Damage Your Health



· Aspartame: This chemical is used as a sugar substitute in diet soda. There are over 92 different health side effects associated with aspartame consumption including brain tumors, birth defects, diabetes, emotional disorders and epilispsy/seizures.



· Caffeine: Caffeinated drinks cause jitters, insomnia, high blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, elevated blood cholesterol levels, vitamin and mineral depletion, breast lumps, birth defects, and perhaps some forms of cancer.



· Tap Water: I recommend that everyone avoid drinking tap water because it can carry any number of chemicals including chlorine, trihalomethanes, lead, cadmium, and various organic pollutants. Tap water is the main ingredient in bottled soft drinks.





Clearly, the over-consumption of sodas and sweet drinks is one of the leading causes fueling the world-wide obesity epidemic.



One independent, peer-reviewed study published in the British medical journal 'The Lancet' demonstrated a strong link between soda consumption and childhood obesity. They found that 12-year-olds who drank soft drinks regularly were more likely to be overweight than those who didn't. In fact, for each additional daily serving of sugar-sweetened soft drink consumed during the nearly two-year study, the risk of obesity jumped by 60 percent.



Here’s another sobering fact if you’re struggling with weight issues: Just one extra can of soda per day can add as much as 15 pounds to your weight over the course of a single year! Other statistics on the health dangers of soft drinks include:



· One soda per day increases your risk of diabetes by 85 percent



· Soda drinkers have higher cancer risk. While the federal limit for benzene in drinking water is 5 parts per billion (ppb), researchers have found benzene levels as high as 79 ppb in some soft drinks, and of the 100 brands tested, most had at least some detectable level of benzene present



· Soda has been shown to cause DNA damage – courtesy of sodium benzoate, a common preservative found in many soft drinks, which has the ability to switch off vital parts of your DNA. This could eventually lead to diseases such as cirrhosis of the liver and Parkinson's



If you are still drinking soda, stopping the habit is an easy way to improve your health. Pure water is a much better choice, or if you must drink a carbonated beverage, try sparkling mineral water with a squirt of lime or lemon juice.



There is absolutely NO REASON chikdren should ever drink soda. None, nada, zip, zero. No excuses. The elimination of soft drinks is one of the most crucial factors to deal with many of the health problems you or your children suffer.

Fruits of Our Labours

After attending a Conference in Melbourne, we were faced with the question of whether to purchase food for the two days prior to the next farmer's markets upon our return? Or, upon arriving home, would we find an abundance of food or an empty pantry?

The following photos will provide you with the answer:

These are Brazillian Cherries. Slightly tart when ripe, and very tart when un-ripe. A very thirst quenching fruit.

This is the bush upon which the Brazillian Cherries grow and at its maximum is about two metres tall.

This is the Surinam Cherry bush which grows  a little taller to the Brazillian Cherry.

In this view we see the fruit with the flowers prior to setting the new fruit.

The fruit is sligly sweeter than the the Brazillian Cherry, although still slighly tart. And whereas the Brazillian Cherry seed is somewhat round and usually consisting of only one seed, and occasionally in the largest fruit two, the Surinam Cherry has usually three rather triangulated seeds.

In this bowl we see the last of the black Mulberry crop, along with the shiny black Jaboticabas. These have a very pleasant flavour along with being slightly tart.

The Jaboticabas grow on a small tree which reaches about five to six metres in height when fully grown.

The Yellow Sapote, botanical name, Lucuma nervosa, or Canistal, not related to the other Sapote's, is a very rich, fruit with dense flesh, quite sweet in flavour.

The Lucuma tree grows from five to eight metres tall with the fruit born in clusters. The new crop forms when the current crop is being harvested. Under the right conditions it can bear two or three crops per year.



The Pomelo is a giant tropical grapefruit. The outer rind is very thick and the inner flesh covering the edible part is quite tough and requires tro be also peeled away before eating. Slightly sweeter than the grapefruit grown in the cooler limate.

The Pomelo tree looks the same as any other citrus tree and hardly grows any bigger in spite of the size of the fruit it bears.

The Jakfruit when opened, looks like crayfish and tastes like bubblegum. In the Asian countries it usually made into curries when still somewhat green. It is a sweet fruit, and can grow to be 30 Kilo's in the right conditions, the fruit growing on the trunk or main branches, and can at times even grow on the roots of the tree.

The timber of the tree is used for building in Asian countries, with the young trees being used for fruit bearing. They are then harvested for their timber as they age.

Harmfulness of Prostrate Cancer Treatment

All conventional prostate cancer treatments harm quality of life


by David Gutierrez, staff writer



(NaturalNews) All major prostate cancer therapies reduce men's quality of life through increased urinary incontinence and hampered sexual function, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and published in the Journal of Urology.



Researchers followed 1,269 men who had been treated for early-stage prostate cancer and assessed their urinary continence, sexual function, energy levels, pain levels, emotional well-being and ability to perform daily tasks. The men were also questioned about each of these quality-of-life measures.



Sixty percent of study participants had been treated with radical prostatectomy, or complete removal of the prostate gland. Seventeen percent had been treated with brachytherapy, the implantation of radioactive "seeds" in the prostate gland. Twelve percent had undergone external radiation treatment, 6 percent had been treated with both forms of radiation therapy and 5 percent had been treated with hormone-blocking drugs.



The researchers found that in all surgery and radiation groups, symptoms of urinary incontinence worsened in the first year after treatment and then improved in the second year, but did not return to pre-treatment levels. Symptoms tended to be worse in patients who had undergone surgery.



In men who had been treated with hormone-blocking drugs, urinary incontinence tended to worsen gradually over the course of four years. The researchers speculated that the drugs might lead to a degeneration of the pelvic muscles.



All treatments led to a decrease in sexual function over the first year after treatment, with surgery once again leading to the greatest effect. Yet while surgical patients tended to undergo improvement in sexual symptoms during the second year after treatment, no such improvement was seen in patients who had undergone other therapies. Thus after the second year, sexual dysfunction was roughly similar in men of all treatment groups.



Because the majority of prostate cancers are slow growing and will never pose a threat to men's health, screening for the disease has become controversial in recent years. Doctors increasingly worry that large numbers of men are being subjected to severe side effects without good cause.



Sources for this story include: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS....

Fluoride, It's Dangers

Fluoridation of our water supplies continues to forced upon us. The media has at last picked up the truth of how harmful it really is. Read all about it on youtube.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZBRBPgTOt0&feature=player_embedded#!

Drugs

pharmaceutical sales representative discloses big pharma secrets: the industry has no interest in your health. it's only goal is to get you on drugs and keep you there your whole life








http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqmeB6GB25Q

Pyschiatric Drugs

The damaged brain, by Lynne McTaggart, WDDTY


Just occasionally, I come across a doctor willing to break the conspiracy of silence on the damage caused by their tools. My hero of the hour is American psychiatrist Grace E. Jackson, who is utterly and refreshingly horrified by psychiatric and most other forms of pharmaceutical medicine. In fact, so incensed was Jackson over the current state of affairs that she felt compelled to self-publish a whistle-blowing book—Drug-Induced Dementia—that painstakingly catalogues the vast amount of scientific proof that modern medicine is the primary culprit behind all forms of dementia, one of the more rampant epidemic conditions of our time.





One of her more outrageous snippets of information is that, in the 1950s, doctors discovered that synthetic-dye and rocket-fuel derivatives had what they considered to be medicinal effects on psychiatric patients. Chlorpromazine, the first antipsychotic agent, was born.





There was only one hitch: the drugs caused the patient to ape the symptoms of sleeping sickness. The doctors also noted that, over time, the drugs produced all the hallmarks of Parkinson’s disease—abnormal gait, tremor, dementia and involuntary movements. Patients were also stupefied, with no feelings or excitation—in effect, a vegetable.





However, with the sort of logic peculiar to modern medicine, these debilitating effects were welcomed as being better than having a crazed hallucinating patient. Indeed, doctors viewed the arrival of parkinsonian effects as a benchmark of the patient’s therapeutic progress: they were proof-positive that the drugs were working.





Yet, the damage caused by psychiatric medicine is only the tip of the iceberg. As our cover story this month reveals, a number of the major classes of drugs can bring on dementia, including heart drugs, cholesterol-lowering drugs, sleeping pills, antidepressants, narcotics, stimulants, anticholinergics and antiepileptics.





As most people over the age of 50 are taking at least one prescription drug, and up to six or more a decade later, it’s small wonder that dementia is one of the world’s fastest-growing disorders, now absorbing one-third of the entire US Medicare bill. It’s now expected that one in four of us will have some form of dementia by the time we reach 80.





This giant problem, created entirely by the pharmaceutical industry, is once again a byproduct of the refusal of our current medicine to consider the body a holistic entity.





In 1970, German physicist Fritz-Albert Popp stumbled upon the fact that humans emit a tiny current of photons, or light, from the DNA of every cell. He also discovered something else remarkable. If a medicine was applied to one part of the body, a massive change occurred in the amount of light emitted not only from where he’d applied the agent, but also from other, more distant parts of the body. Popp soon recognized that this light was a communication channel within a living organism—a means of instantaneous, or ‘non-local’, global signaling.





Popp’s work affords us a glimpse of the body at work as an exquisite, interconnected whole. What affects one part affects every other part simultaneously. Whenever we atomize anything, such as our body—dividing it up and treating each piece separately—we invite calamity.







Published 31 August 2010 10:07 by Joanna Evans

Filed under: dementia, drugs, Parkinson's disease

Breast Cancer

Although this article is directed at Breast Cancer in women, I would not hesitate to say that the causative factors referred to can be, and more often than not are, contributting factors in the development of all types of cancer.  A very little publicised fact is that breast cancer can occur in men also, and appears to be closely connected to the feeding of growth hormones to the animals which are subsequently killed for human consumption. Or, as often happens, in the consumption of the dairy products that are made from the milk produced by these animals.

New Delhi: Are you eating too much of meat and sweets?






Think twice because it might increase risks of breast cancer, says a recent study in China.





Subjected on more than a thousand women, this study found that western diet increases the risk of breast cancer in post menopausal Asian women.





"Western diet consists of meat and animal fats and refined bread. This triggers hormonal imbalances that increases the risks of breast cancer," says nutritionist, Dr Shikha Sharma.





The study also stated that the risks of breast cancer highest among post-menopausal women and also that high fat intake could trigger the risks of breast cancer.





Ten years ago, the numbers for women with breast cancer in urban areas in India were five to eight women per 10,000. Now number has risen to 12, which is almost double.





Dr Sharma adds, "Asian diet is traditionally low in fat and is genetically not tuned to western fatty diet. But now trends crossing borders, along with the lifestyle changes, more fat is coming into the Asian diet pattern."





Cancer specialist/Oncologist, Max Hospital, Dr Amit Bhargava says, " The rising numbers are a result of socio-economic changes in people's lifestyle. More and more people are adapting western patterns of living and diet."





Although doctors agree that the genetic pattern also plays a huge role in resisting this change but they also warn that small lifestyle changes can go a long way.





So one should start pay more attention to diet and eat less red meat and include more fruits and green leafy vegetables in the diet.

50 Reasons why GMOs are Cause for Great Concern

Simplifying the GMO debate: the Harmful Effects of GM Foods. 
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50 Reasons why GMOs are Cause for Great Concern (pdf 372kb)

Natural Pest Control

This article is in line with our experience on the farm over the past fourty years, and underlines the work of the founder of Organic farming, Sir Albert Howard, and other leading researchers in the organic farming community.

Sir Albert Howard pointed out that the insects are natures monitors, that they only attack the unhealthy plant. They are warning us that the conditions in which the plant is growing are not supplying the necessary ingredients, or oversupplying some and undersupplying others, or in some instances stopping the uptake of essential nutrients. All of these situations can be caused by a number of factors, including, poor soil conditions(management),chemical farming,weather conditions(too hot or cold, too dry or wet etc.)to name a few.

Over the years we have demonstrated the validity of these claims on many occasions. One of our favourite ways of doing so has been to withhold water from our vegetable plants, In a relatively short time they are being devoured by insects. Restore the water(remove the stress), and almost immediately the insects disappear, and the plants return to their former healthy state.



Better Pest Control with Organic Agriculture


02/07/2010

Washington State University has found that organic farms are better at fighting pests. The researchers discovered that there was a much better balance of animal and plant communities on organic farms compared to standard high intensive farms and this resulted in bigger and healthier crops.



For the experiment, the researchers chose to test a potato crop and by regular analysis they found there to be a more balanced insect population in which no one species was able to dominate. Plants in these balanced environments grew better.



Post-doctorate research associate in entomology at Washington State University, David Crowder, said "I think 'balance' is a good term,"

because "When the species are balanced, at least in our experiments, they're able to fulfill their roles in a more harmonious fashion."



The conclusions being made are that to restore an ecosystem, both richness and evenness are needed.



French fry customers such as McDonald's and Wendy's as well as the potato industry in general are taking keen note of the results from this and other similar studies as they are needing to know which pest control practices are ecological sustainable.



In most current pest control management systems, the biological communities that result on farms are ones that are dominated by just a few species. This often results in one species accounting for 75% of the insect population. In stark contrast, on organic farms the most abundant specie of the farms’ predators and enemies amounted to only 38% of the insect population.



Crowder suggested that the reason why conventional farms get a much lower specie balance may be due to different methods used for crop fertilization and/or from unwittingly killing certain crop enemies over others.

Modern Psychiatry - A Danger to Humanity

The total failure of modern psychiatry


by David Gutierrez, staff writer



(NaturalNews) Modern psychiatry went wrong when it embraced the idea that the mind should be treated with drugs, says Edward Shorter of the University of Toronto, writing in the Wall Street Journal.



Shorter studies the history of psychiatry and medicine.



Modern U.S. psychiatry has adopted a philosophy that psychological diseases arise from chemical imbalances and therefore have a very specific cluster of symptoms, he says, in spite of evidence that the difference between many so-called disorders is minimal or nonexistent. These "disorders" are then treated with expensive drugs that are no more effective than a placebo.



"Psychiatry seems to have lost its way in a forest of poorly verified diagnoses and ineffectual medications," he writes.



Shorter calls for U.S. psychiatry to abandon its emphasis on "psychopathology" and instead adopt the European approach, which focuses on the symptoms and needs of people as individuals. Yet the draft of the latest edition of psychiatric diagnostic "Bible," the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), shows that U.S. psychiatry has no intention of changing course.



"With DSM-V, American psychiatry is headed in exactly the opposite direction: defining ever-widening circles of the population as mentally ill with vague and undifferentiated diagnoses and treating them with powerful drugs," Shorter writes.



U.S. psychiatry was not always obsessed with psychopharmacology, he notes. Its early years were marked by a psychoanalytic approach that categorized mental disorders in broad, fluid categories such as "nerves," "melancholia" or "manic-depressive illness." These categories sufficed because similar treatments would work for people suffering from any version thereof: lithium treated both mania and severe depression, for example, while the specific symptoms experienced by an anxious person had little influence on the therapies needed.



"Our psychopathological lingo today offers little improvement on these sturdy terms," Shorter said. "A patient with the same symptoms today might be told he has 'social anxiety disorder' or 'seasonal affective disorder.' ... The new disorders all respond to the same drugs, so in terms of treatment, the differentiation is meaningless and of benefit mainly to pharmaceutical companies that market drugs for these niches."



In the 1950s and '60s, a new wave of psychiatrists sought to turn away from psychoanalysis -- perceiving it as focusing excessively on "unconscious psychic conflicts" -- and toward a more "scientific" model instead. As a result, the DSM-III introduced the vague new categories of "major depression" and "bipolar disorder," even though evidence suggests that there is no substantial difference between the two conditions. At the same time, "major depression" absorbed what Shorter calls two very different conditions, "neurotic depression" and "melancholia."



"This would be like incorporating tuberculosis and mumps into the same diagnosis, simply because they are both infectious diseases," he writes.



DSM-V only continues the trend of extending the disordered label to more and more normal people, Shorter warns: "To flip through the latest draft of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, in the works for seven years now, is to see the discipline's floundering writ large."



For example, the new disorder of "psychosis risk syndrome" associates a whole new class of people with full-blown schizophrenia, under the logic, Shorter says, that "even if you aren't floridly psychotic with hallucinations and delusions, eccentric behavior can nonetheless awaken the suspicion that you might someday become psychotic." The implication, of course, is that such people should be treated with antipsychotics.



Symptoms of "psychosis risk syndrome" include such vague descriptors as "disorganized speech."



Other new "disorders" include hoarding, mixed anxiety-depression and binge eating. "Minor neurocognitive disorder" describes a reduction in cognitive function over time, such as that normally experienced by people over the age of 50, while "temper dysregulation disorder with dysphoria" refers to children who suffer from outbursts of temper.



"DSM-V accelerates the trend of making variants on the spectrum of everyday behavior into diseases," Shorter says, "turning grief into depression, apprehension into anxiety, and boyishness into hyperactivity."



Sources for this story include: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100....

2010 ROW Lecture Tour - Delhi,India.

This year my first port of call was to Delhi, India. My initial reaction was one of extreme surprise on the lack of beggars that I saw in my wanderings around the city. This was at complete odds with what I had expected. And yes, there is extreme poverty, with people living on the streets, yet not once was I approached by any-one begging. In spite of their lack of wealth, and worldly goods,the people I saw and came into contact with, and I can assure you, I visited areas of the city which were occupied by the poorer people, as well as those which were not lacking in wealth, were basically happy and friendly.

On my journey I had picked up a book written by a Catholic Priest, on his time spent in the slums of Calcutta. In it he describes how the people used every possible occasion for the celebration of life, and inspite of the hardships they were confronted with on a moment to moment, and day to day basis, as they struggled to survive in the harsh environment, were ever assisting one- another whenever possible. And through it all they maintained a level of happiness, and humanity that is almost hard to imagine given the prevailing circumstances.

Nearly everything was carried out on the street, including barbering

Within a short distance in one street I passed three barbers plying their trade.

Each of them having a different modus operandi. From the most simple with just a plastic sheet covering, and squatting on the ground to the more elaborate and sophisticated chair and all the accoutrements to be found in most western establishments. Albeit though, still on the roadside and in the open air.

The bulk of the population live in these high rise apartments separated one from the other by the mostly narrow ,dark, cavern, like laneways.

And some are even wider with much more light.

And the main interconnecting streets are much wider with, on the whole, far less rubbish obstructing the passage of cars and multitudes of people. This photo was taken in the early morning before the bulk of the people were up and about.

Then there are the broader main thouroughfares along which trundle the ancient and rather decrepit buses, which appear to be kept mobile more by gosh and good-luck than regular maintenance and care.

This is another early morning shot, for within a very short time these roadways have become crowed with both foot traffic and motorised vehicles including the ubiquitous tuk-tuk.

These are some of the street scenes which are a true presentation of the ever present derritrus of our societies as occurs when the population is beyond the physical capacities of the infrastructure to cope with.

 

And through it all, the people struggle on in their endeavours to attain at least a minimum of dignity, cleanliness, and self-reliance.

Each day the residents endeavour to maintain a modicum of cleanliness and tidiness in their limited way. The mountain of accumulating rubbish though, is far beyond their ability to do so.

Even the goats live on the street.

In the midst of all this clutter and debris are to be found the flower sellers

Their efforts, as they laboriously weave the flowers into intricate and attractively pleasing displays, assists in offsetting the effects of the continual exposure to the mounds of rubbish on the senses.

One thing I did not do was to smell the flowers to see if they gave off an aroma. Or, as the case in most westernised countries today, the flowers grown are so hybridised that they no longer have any aroma.

The iceman still lays a major role with he cost of refrigeration and refrigerators being beyond the ability of the average person.

 

The delivery is made, as can be observed, on bicycles, right to your front doorstep. And as many people live on the streets, that happens to be the roadside.

The bicycle is still considered, and actively used as a major form of transportation.

In this photo not only can we see this man straining to transport what is obviously a very heavy load as he is unable to move it by pedalling.

We can also observe one of the modern replacements of the rickshaw - the pedal operated tri-shaw.

Although modern transportation methods are available, such as utilities and trucks etc., a large percentage of the goods are transported by these three wheeled bicycles which not only are they cheap to hire, they also can access the very narow streets and lane-ways that are to be found almost everywhere.

In this climate which is invariably warm and hot all the year round, these juice stalls selling freshly made fruit juices are a common sight. My taste buds indicated that the juice was well watered down, refreshing nevertheless.

The street stalls selling fresh fruit and vegetables were always a welcome sight. In the background can be seen the motorised form of transportation which has replaced the rickshaw - known commonly throughout Asia, and even in Cuba, as the tuk-tuk.

The food available is certainly of equal quality and flavour to any I have sampled anywhere in the world. Perhaps even superior in many instances. Much of the food is still grown by the traditional methods without the use of artificial fertilisers and poisonous sprays, the farmers beeing too poor to purchase them. And in those instances where they have been introduced they have often bankrupted the farmers, causing total disruption to the local economy and resulting in the suicides of many of the farmers.

This stall is selling juice made with a hand operated juicer.

And this stall is selling cups of tea, and freshly laid eggs

Here we see the old and the new forms of transport, both actively in use. With in the background the admonition to exercise, which for the tricycle operator appears rather superfluous.

Women still use the traditional method for carrying anything by placing it in a basket on their heads.

In this instance the women are carrying the sand from one side of the street to the cement mixer on the other.

All types of vehicles are utilised as people carriers, such as this LandRover. Stacked in they are.

The rear end of all the trucks, and buses all have this very same sign, or a variation of it, painted on them, which says, "Please sound your Horn". And you may rest assured that every-one does just that, resulting in the senses being continually exposed to this great cacophony of sound, which as you may well imagine results in no-one really taking any notice.

Here is to be seen another very normal street scene. It would appear that the replacement of water pipes and subterranean cables is a never ending process with almost every street being involved.

The street is just as common a place as anywhere for your daily ablutions. All you require is a bowl of water and a cake of soap.

Each street has its roadside temple dedicated to one of the many deities that are worshipped in India.

And in the midst of all this poverty you find these beautifully maintained mausoleums to some past dignity, his wives, and concubines.

Each one is beautifully constructed, with the inticacy of the carved stonework and frieze' rarely, if ever, seen in our buildings today.

Each is unique in its own right, with the acres of surrounding grounds so well cared for and places of peace and quiet, so different from the surroundings, with its wall to wall people, traffic, and inevitable cacophony of sound generated by the people,motor traffic, blaring horns etc.

This brings us to the prime reason for my visit to Delhi. Not only to view the lifestyle of the local inahbitants - also to visit the local so-called Nature Cure Hospital. So why do I refer to it as a so-called Nature Cure Hospital?  My reason for doing so is based upon the fact that, although it subscribes to the use of some of the principles of Nature Cure, such as Hydrotherapy, Heliotherapy, Exercise etc., it also uses Ayurvedic Medicine. And by its very name of Ayurvedic Medicine we are informed that it is the practice of medicine, and not that of Nature Cure. For in the practice of Nature Cure there is no place for medications of any type or description. Medications are used for the treatment of disease. And as Nature Cure subscribes to the principle that disease(acute) is the process by which the body heals itself - any treatment by medication will only result in suppression of the healing process and contribute towards the development of chronic disease.

I was very graciously received by Dr Pradhan the director of the Hospital, and after a viewing of the facilities that they offered, spent the next two hours in discussion of matter of mutual interest, ending with the most kind invitation to visit again any time I wished.

This is the room from which the Ayurvedic medications are dispensed.

These are the various rooms which are used for hydrotherapy with this photo depicting the equipment used for the foot and arm baths.

In this last view we see the room for the teaching of Yoga. I did not enquire as to the capacity of the Hospital, yet from the size of this room it would indicate that it is quite substantial..