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                     Practical Nutrition+ (tm)

Vol 1, No. 1                                  February, 1995
Copyright 1995 by Dennis Denlinger
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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"Practical Nutrition+" is a monthly electronic newsletter about
care of the human body. Over the past 20 years the Editor, Dennis
Denlinger, has been researching how to care for his own body with
much success. During this time many theories and methods have
been investigated and tried. Some have worked and some haven't.
Some which have worked have been replaced with others which have
worked better. Even more subjects have been researched than have
been tried.

Suggestions, gripes, questions and other feedback, addressed to
Editor, "Practical Nutrition+" at [e-mail] are
welcome. Also, experts and people with practical experience with
various areas of health are welcome to contribute guest articles.
Contributors will be acknowledged by listing their Name, Firm
Name, Street Address, Phone Number and E-mail address.

The content of "Practical Nutrition+" is determined by the
Editor, with due weight being given to your input. It will
include from time to time articles by Dennis Denlinger or other
lay persons who have had practical experience in day-to-day
nutrition, articles by health care professionals, book reviews,
answers to your questions and perhaps some surprises.

>>>"Practical Nutrition+" does NOT give advice, but is only
intended to inform, to entertain and to be a place where ideas
regarding health can be exchanged. If you have a specific health
problem, consult an appropriate licensed health care
practitioner.<<<

"Practical Nutrition+" will be available at various locations
around the Internet. To subscribe to the electronic version of
"Practical Nutrition+" send both your e-mail and paper mail
addresses to [e-mail] or to Dennis Denlinger, P.O.
Box 60431, Sacramento, CA 95860-0431, USA. Your address will Not
be distributed to others, but we may send you other pertinent
information from time to time.


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                    Introduction to the Editor

The consensus among health care practitioners is more and more
that much non-optimum health originates with a lack of adequate
nutritional value in our food or with the intake of toxic
substances which reduce the body's functions. There are, indeed,
other factors such as exercise, injury, birth defects,
elimination of waste and mental state which affect physical
health. However, the major factor is daily intake, good and bad
intake. And health does not mean just lack of illness, but a
robust, well-toned and well-feeling body.

The route I took to nutrition was somewhat convoluted. During
many of my growing and young adult years I had chronic headaches.
M.D.s did CAT scans of my head and chiropractors adjusted my
spine and skull. I tried aspirin, pain killer drugs and
nutritional supplements such as calcium and magnesium. Nothing
worked.

Then one day a chiropractor showed me a diagram of muscles in the
neck. WOW! Are Those things really there? But...but...but...I'm
Not using Those muscles...those muscles right There (finger
pointing). I went home and started right away on getting those
muscles working. The headaches lessened. I bought a copy of
"Gray's Anatomy" and started studying muscles in the spine.
Eventually I found and corrected over 15 atrophied or paralyzed
or incorrectly-functioning muscles in my neck alone. The
structural engineering I learned while earning my architectural
degree really came in handy! Needless to say, I have handled many
of my body's structural problems and the remainder are
progressing nicely.

There was a large amount of data collected. An organizational
system to the muscles and bones of the human body was discovered.
At first I was going to write a paper, but there was too much
material and a book resulted. That was ten years ago.

Included in the book was a section on nutrition. When people
found out what I was doing, they started flooding me with
information about health and nutrition. That was the beginning of
my study of nutrition. I did more than just learn. I actually
applied what I learned to myself and my family.

Six years ago, when my son was in the womb, we were already doing
well at nutrition. But, we decided to do better and made some
basic rules: 1) No refined sugar - ever; 2) No preservatives such
as the sodium nitrite and sodium nitrate found in ham and lunch
meats; 3) No refined foods such as white bread, white flour or
white rice - instead use whole foods; 4) No additives such as
food colorings, artificial flavor or substances with
unrecognizably complex names.

It paid off. The Apgar Score is a means of rating a newborn
baby's condition at 1 minute and 5 minutes of age. It is based on
simple, easy to observe factors such as breathing and skin color.
The rating is from 1 for stillborn to a top of ten. My son had an
Apgar Score of 9 in a drugless birth, which is Very good.

When my daughter was in the womb 3 years ago, we shifted to
totally organic foods. Ever since then, all the produce, fruits,
grains, bread, legumes, etc. we buy is grown organically
according to California State Law. This was in addition to the
program instituted for my son.

It also paid off big. First of all, with no other changes and
without trying to do so, I lost 15 pounds in the first 3 months
of instituting the totally organic program. Prior to that I was
obviously over weight. Then my daughter was born drugless
attended by myself and a mid-wife after only 2 hours of labor.
The Apgar Score for my daughter was a 10 At One Minute! The mid-
wife said she rarely gave a 10 at 5 minutes, but Never at 1
minute...until Lindsay was born.

Yes, the nutrition and body health (Health - not merely lack of
disease) theory I have learned did not sit on a dusty shelf, but
was applied in life with excellent results. I feel it is my duty
to let others know about my experiences and the experiences of
others along with the principles which are being applied. The
material must be written simply for the average layman, not
complexly for the research biochemist. Most importantly, it must
be possible to do. Growing sun potatoes in a garden patch on the
moon is not exactly do-able. Replacing refined white bread with
whole grain bread is within reach for most people.

So, I am now publishing the "Practical Nutrition+" Newsletter.
Included will be easy-to-understand theory and how the theory is
being applied in real life by real people. The theory will
concentrate on basic principles, not complex details. For this, I
will welcome submittals by professional and lay readers. Books
which I consider important will be reviewed. Promising new data
will be presented. There will also be a section in which reader's
questions are answered. The "Practical Nutrition+" Newsletter
will be between 10,000 and 20,000 bytes in length. I hope to
publish it monthly. It will be available on FTP and by e-mail
directly to subscribers. If you wish to subscribe, send me your
e-mail And snail mail addresses. Your address will Not be
released to others, but from time to time I may send out items
which I feel will be of interest to my readers.

Your thoughts and comments are important to me. "Practical
Nutrition+" cannot survive in a vacuum. Even if I do not have
space to include your submittal, letter or question in an issue
of the newsletter, I will attempt to answer every piece of e-
mail.

PS- Please do Not ask me to diagnose or prescribe for your ills.
If you are sick, go see an appropriate health care professional.


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