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Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, an Elder Statesman for Civil Rights, Dies at 89BY JON NORDHEIMER

The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, a storiedcivil rights leader who survived beatings andbombings in Alabama a half-century ago as hefought against racial injustice alongside theRev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., died onWednesday in Birmingham, Ala. He was 89.

He died at Princeton Baptist MedicalCenter, his wife, Sephira Bailey Shuttlesworth,said. He also lived in Birmingham.

It was in that city in the spring of 1963 thatMr. Shuttlesworth, an important ally of Dr.King, organized two tumultuous weeks of dailydemonstrations by black children, students,clergymen and others against a rigidly segre-gated society.

Graphic scenes of helmeted police officersand firefighters under the direction of T.Eugene (Bull) Connor, Birmingham’s intransi-gent public safety commissioner, scatteringpeaceful marchers with fire hoses, police dogsand nightsticks, provoked a national outcry.

The brutality helped galvanize the nation’sconscience, as did the Ku Klux Klan’s bombingof a black church in Birmingham that summer,which killed four girls at Sunday school. Thoseevents led to passage of the Civil Rights Act of1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, afterthe historic Alabama marches that year fromSelma to Montgomery, which Mr.Shuttlesworth also helped organize. The lawswere the bedrock of civil rights legislation.

“Without Fred Shuttlesworth laying thegroundwork, those demonstrations in

Birmingham would not have been as success-ful,” said Andrew M. Manis, author of “A FireYou Can’t Put Out,” a biography of Mr.Shuttlesworth. “Birmingham led to Selma, andthose two became the basis of the civil rightsstruggle.”

Mr. Shuttlesworth, he added, had “no equalin terms of courage and putting his life in theline of fire” to battle segregation.

Mr. Shuttlesworth joined with Dr. King in

1957 as one of the four founding ministers ofthe Southern Christian Leadership Conference,the engine of Dr. King’s effort to unify theblack clergy and their flocks to combat JimCrow laws. At the time, Mr. Shuttlesworth wasleader of the Alabama Christian Movement forHuman Rights, which he had helped form in1956 to replace the Alabama offices of theN.A.A.C.P., shut down for years by courtinjunction.

Outside their roles as men of the cloth andcivil rights advocates, however, Mr.

Shuttlesworth and Dr. King stood in sharp con-trast to each other in terms of background, per-sonality and strategies.

Dr. King was a polished product of Atlanta’sblack middle class. A graduate of MorehouseCollege, he held a Ph.D. in systematic theologyfrom Boston University. Fred Shuttlesworthwas a child of poor black Alabama whose min-isterial degree was from an unaccredited blackschool. (He later earned a master’s degree ineducation from Alabama State College.)

Where Dr. King could deliver thunderousoratory and move audiences by his reasonedconvictions and faith, Mr. Shuttlesworth wasfiery, whether preaching in the pulpit or stand-ing up to Bull Connor, who dueled with him foryears in street protests and boycotts leading upto their historic 1963 showdown.

Diane McWhorter, the author of “Carry MeHome,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2001 bookabout the struggle in Birmingham, wrote in ane-mail that Mr. Shuttlesworth was knownamong some civil rights activists as “the WildMan from Birmingham.”

“Among the youthful ‘elders’ of the move-ment,” she added, “he was Martin LutherKing’s most effective and insistent foil: bluntwhere King was soothing, driven where Kingwas leisurely, and most important, confronta-tional where King was conciliatory — mean-ing, critically, that he was more upsetting thanKing in the eyes of the white public.”

Mr. Shuttlesworth was temperamental, evenobstinate, and championed action and con-frontation over words. He could antagonizesegregationists and allies alike, quarreling withhis allies behind closed doors.

But few doubted his courage. In the yearsbefore 1963 he was arrested time and again —30 to 40 times by his count — on charges aimedat impeding peaceful protests. He was repeat-edly jailed and twice the target of bombs.

In one instance, on Christmas night 1956, hesurvived an attack in which six sticks of dyna-mite were detonated outside his parsonage bed-room as he lay in bed. “The wall and the floorwere blown out,” Ms. McWhorter wrote, “andthe mattress heaved into the air, supportingShuttlesworth like a magic carpet.”

When he tried to enroll his children in anall-white school in 1957, Klansmen attackedhim with bicycle chains and brass knuckles.When a doctor treating his head wounds mar-veled that he had not suffered a concussion, Mr.Shuttlesworth famously replied, “Doctor, theLord knew I lived in a hard town, so he gave mea hard head.”

Freddie Lee Robinson was born on March18, 1922, in rural Mount Meigs, Ala. He tookthe surname Shuttlesworth from a man hismother, Alberta Robinson, later married. Hehad eight siblings, and the family supplementedits income by sharecropping and making moon-shine liquor, an activity for which Mr.Shuttlesworth was sentenced to two years’ pro-bation in 1940.

He was a truck driver in the early 1940s butwas soon drawn to pulpits in Selma andBirmingham. He became pastor of BethelBaptist Church in Birmingham in 1953 andjoined the Alabama chapter of the N.A.A.C.P.before it was outlawed from the state in 1956.He and others established the AlabamaChristian Movement for Human Rights to carryon the chapter’s work and came to challengethe white power structure on many fronts.

In 1963 he welcomed Dr. King toBirmingham to take part in the protests. Theyplanned a boycott of white merchants coupled

United Press InternationalThe Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, left, with Ralph Abernathy and Dr. Martin Luther King in 1963.

“Among the youthful‘elders’ of the move-ment,”she added,“hewas Martin LutherKing’s most effectiveand insistent foil:blunt where King wassoothing, driven whereKing was leisurely, andmost important, con-frontational whereKing was conciliatory— meaning, critically,that he was moreupsetting than King inthe eyes of the whitepublic.”

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It is important to remain focused on the theme. Good Health Starts with GoodHabits. This statement is so true – friends. A habit is a practice that improves with repe-tition. The more often you do it, the easier it becomes. The longest held habits begin whenchildren are nurtured to accept them early in life.

The recent Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama provides a national frame-work to promote prevention and early screening in health care. The expansion of preven-tion and early diagnosis policy at the federal level should also result in measurableprogress at the local level. How should we promote prevention in our every-day living?

More importantly, how should communities respond to fast-food advertisements thatoffer a whole range of goods and services? Are they trying to convince us to purchase theirproducts unchecked, and what is their duty to tell the truth about any bad outcomes fromits use?

Try to remember the seven presidents and chief executive officers of tobacco compa-nies who testified about nicotine before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.It was Chairman Henry Waxman who noted in 1994:

Each of the 7 subsequent speakers testified that nicotine was not addictive. In truth, theyall appeared to have committed perjury. From these and other efforts, the multi-statetobacco tax settlement was estimated to generate $246 billion over the ensuing 25 years,

to attack enormous public health problems posed by tobacco on the United States. Thiswas in 1998. Might we envision a similar type of taxation and assessment plan for the fastfood manufacturing companies?

The world is adjusting to moral failures in the housing industry and the greedy prac-tices in the banking system. The current demonstrations on Wall Street about abusivebanking and lending practices are similar to the protests to the Vietnam War in the late1960’s. People who did not believe that the U.S.A. had launched an acceptable war inSoutheast Asia and were determined to change it; and they did. Similarly, the current gen-eration is dismayed at proposals for untaxed riches for millionaires while students wraptheir futures in loans and the country is eroded from its safety net for the elderly and poor.Earlier this year, Jan Brewer, Governor of the State of Arizona, proposed obese or over-weight consumers covered by Medicaid (low income families only) “be assessed an addi-tional $50 per person per year to offset cost for obesity”. It’s not as if fresh fruits and veg-etables were available in these low income communities.

Thankfully, the People’s Produce Project was successful in its Farmer’s Market plans.Every Friday from 2:00 until 6:00 pm, fresh fruits and vegetables are available at the cor-ner of Market Street and Euclid Avenue. In addition, WIC families and people on SSI canhave up to $20.00 doubled each week through the use of EBT federally support coupons.

As globalization redefines the competitive forces with which American workers mustnow try to compete for employment, those at the bottom of the economic ladder must learnhow to work together to promote good health, pursue viable exercises, and promote new

Good Health Starts with Good HabitsPaul B. Simms, MPH, President - San Diego Black Health Associates, Inc.

concepts of wellness.I want to stress the importance of shifting your thinking about a healthy world and

mobilizing the resources to ensure a vital and healthy values. Our goal is for you and yourfamily to live a full and rich life. This means beginning to redefine and make better useof the assets around us.

Ensure that habits promoted in the household are understood by our children and adults.We see that where families are generally strong and vibrant, socialization occurs. Thissocialization takes on varied forms. It is important, therefore, that all of the membersembrace a particular world view about education and healthy living.

Television has become the great socializer of the children, particularly for homes wherethere is a single bread-winner. Neilsen Media Research reported in November 2010 thataverage television use in U.S. households was at 5 hours and 11 minutes each day. ForAfrican American households, however, they use 7 hours and 12 minutes of televisiondaily. Asians used their T.V. the least - just 3 hours and 14 minutes, on average (less thanhalf that of African Americans). Large doses of television do not pave the road to theUniversity of California or to careers in engineering, medicine, law, astronomy, genetics,or psychology.

The important fact is that while there have been hundreds of thousands of dollars com-mitted to education, there are still large numbers of Black children who cannot read. TheBlack Star Project (www.blackstarproject.org) noted that: “This failure exists after sixyears of No Child Left Behind, 53 years of Brown versus the Topeka Board of Education,and 142 years of being technically removed from slavery. If Black children cannot readtoday, they cannot become the Black doctors, nurses, lawyers, engineers, bankers, accoun-tants, technologists, business people or educators of tomorrow who will make Black com-munities successful. If Black children cannot read today, they are really no better off thantheir forefathers who were slaves”.

Thus, reading for our children is an essential function and should be an early habit. Wemust start reading early and stay late. Retired teachers should be mobilized. Work shouldbegin on tutorial opportunities for expanded educational efforts in schools. Churchesshould provide additional study opportunities. Training programs should ensure intern-ships are marketed to the entire community. There are no steps that should be circum-vented to ensure that our children follow our leadership. If we have not practiced readingas adults, we should start.

We should also begin to take greater responsibility over our health. We should empow-er ourselves to do those things that are health-related. You will immediately see and feelthe benefit. These are the simply powerful assets. Drink water (not soda) with meals. Takeour vitamins! Keep track of your health, based on the lab reports. Eat more vegetables andfruit. Never “supersize” anything. Fast and pray regularly. Don’t let yourself get too angry.Learn the value of older habits; “Pot liquor” is the juice that cooked the greens and is tasty.Stay in control. Keep a record of your own weight. Clean your teeth twice a day. Verballysupport your children. Keep them conscious of the changes you are making.

Together, we learn that we are not alone. There is a God who blesses us regularly.

“It is sometimes easier to invent fiction than toface the truth.The truth is that cigarettes are thesingle most dangerous consumer product eversold. Nearly a half million Americans die everyyear as a result of tobacco.This is an astounding,almost in- comprehensible statistic.

Henry Waxman, ChairmanCommittee on Health and the Environment

House of RepresentativesApril 14, 1994

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The Difference Between an Uncle Tom and a SamboBeing a former farm boy that sharecropped

with his father, I got a stomach full of Blacksthat would do any and everything to impress theMassa. You could sometimes hear the namesUncle Tom or Sambo being tossed around.Calling a Black person an Uncle Tom or aSambo had a lot to do with how the particularindividual handled himself in front of whitepeople. That, and also how he treated other

Blacks in the presence of whites. The termUncle Tom became very popular, even catchingthe eye of Hollywood with the movie adapta-tion of the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. In reality,the Uncle Toms of the world didn’t have acabin. If they did, it was just a makeshift castoff with a roof and four walls. If a man provedto be a good Uncle Tom, he would be treatedone step above the plantation animals.

One day I heard a so-called Uncle Tomspeaking to a young Black boy on the planta-tion, admonishing him for the way he wasspeaking to the Massa and his family. TheUncle Tom pulled him to the side and said,“Boy, we can only work with what we’ve got. Iwent to the Massa and asked him to spare youlike I have asked him to spare many otherBlacks on this plantation. Young man, if thereis going to be an exit away from this plantation,living is paramount. If you’re going to leavehere alive, you may have to swallow a bitterpill.” The Uncle Tom stood in to save youngboys and girls like him from a hard fate.Hearing that explanation, the definition of theUncle Tom was redefined for me. The UncleTom was the Black man providing a bufferbetween the Massa and the other slaves on thefarm. The Uncle Tom saved more lives than heever sold out.

Sambo on the other hand earned his stripesby selling out other Blacks. Sambo was theMassa’s boy and the Massa could count on himto look out for his interests at any cost. Sambowas out to get whatever he could get, avoidingworking and yet still looking good in the eyesof the Massa. He would sell you out faster thenJudas did Jesus. He’s the guy that divided theplantation by always keeping some mess goingon so that he would look good as the peace-keeper.

I remember an incident where I was calledon to a military base to figure out why theyounger Black and white soldiers couldn’t getalong. When I arrived on base, I was quicklytold by some white women just how great thesergeant majors and the sergeants were. Intheir minds, it was the young troops that werecreating all of the trouble. After spendingsome time observing the situation I came torealize that the powers to be, both Black andwhite, kept confusion going on at all the timesbetween the soldiers so that there wouldalways be some sort of chaos. The sergeantswould then get up even in the middle of thenight to stop the fighting, making themselveslook good in front of the general. The gener-

al thought his sergeants were lifesavers, but Ihad to tell him otherwise. A Sambo is foreverlooking for something to raise him above therest.

Which one are you? An Uncle Tom or aSambo? Are you in the Black communitytoday looking out for Blacks and making surethey are growing at the rate of other commu-nities? Or are you a Sambo selling out peopleto make sure you get your stripes? You maynot say it publicly but you practice it in pri-vate. When was the last time you encourageda Black person to keep on pushing or tried tohelp them push forward? Or are we simplysitting around talking about how bad we lookand complaining that Black people don’twork together? Perhaps it’s because we don’thave any common ground in the community.If one of us tries to do something, we alwaysfind a way to pull it down and kill it. Soremember the definitions of the Uncle Tom andthe Sambo from this day forward. And askyourself this, which one are you?

Until next week,Willie Morrow

SHUTTLESWORTHContinued from page 3with large marches that they expected wouldprovoke overreaction by city officials and showthe world the depth of white resistance.

“We wanted confrontation, nonviolent con-frontation, to see if it would work,” Mr.Shuttlesworth later said. “Not just forBirmingham — for the nation. We were tryingto launch a systematic, wholehearted battleagainst segregation, which would set the pacefor the nation.”

Mr. Shuttlesworth suffered chest injurieswhen the pummeling spray of fire hoses wasturned on him. “I’m sorry I missed it,” Mr.Connor said when told of the injuries, The NewYork Times reported in 1963. “I wish they’dcarried him away in a hearse.”

After 1965, with the new civil rights legisla-tion on the books and Dr. King turning hisattention to poverty and black problems in theurban North, Mr. Shuttlesworth remainedfocused on local issues in Birmingham andCincinnati, where he had moved to take the pul-pit of a black church. He traveled frequentlybetween Ohio and Alabama before returningpermanently to Birmingham in 2008 for treat-ment after suffering a stroke the previous year.

Besides his wife, Mr. Shuttlesworth is sur-vived by four daughters, Patricia Massengill,Ruby “Ricky” Bester, Carolyn Shuttlesworthand Maria Murdock; a son, Fred Jr.; a step-daughter, Audrey Wilson; five sisters, BettyWilliams, Truzella Brazil, Ernestine Grimes,

Iwilder Reid and Eula Mitchell; 14 grandchil-dren; 20 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

With the death of Dr. King, and later Dr.King’s chief aide, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy,Mr. Shuttlesworth eventually assumed the roleof elder statesman in the civil rights movement.In 2004 he was named president of theSouthern Christian Leadership Conference, buthe stepped down the same year, complainingthat “deceit, mistrust and a lack of spiritual dis-cipline and truth have eaten at the core of thisonce-hallowed organization.”

He also came under criticism by gay rightsadvocates in 2004 when he lent his name to acampaign in Cincinnati to stop the city frompassing a gay rights ordinance.

He remained an honored figure inBirmingham, however. In 2008, the cityrenamed its principal airport Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport.

In 2009, in a wheelchair, he was front andcenter among other dignitaries in an audienceof about 6,000 at the city’s BoutwellAuditorium to watch a live broadcast as thenation’s first black president, Barack Obama,was sworn in.

He had encountered Mr. Obama, then a sen-ator from Illinois, two years earlier, along withformer President Bill Clinton, during a com-memoration in Selma of the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights marches. As a crowdcrossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, wheredemonstrators were beaten and tear-gassed on“Bloody Sunday,” March 7, 1965, Mr. Obamapushed Mr. Shuttlesworth’s wheelchair.

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Although the "work-related" requirementmay seem like a simple rule, it can get tricky.Some common situations are covered below. Ifyour injury or illness falls into a gray area, youmay want to consult with an attorney to find outwhether you will be eligible for benefits. (Tolearn about situations that aren't covered byworkers' compensation, see Nolo's articleWorkplace Injury: When You Can Sue Outsideof Workers' Compensation.)

Lunch BreaksUsually, injuries or illnesses that happen on

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injuries, but those injuries are usually coveredby workers' compensation, regardless of fault.

As an example of how injuries that stemfrom misconduct are usually still covered underworkers' compensation, let's say Dolores andKalil work on the assembly line at WidgetWorld. One day, they decide to play catch witha two-pound metal ball that is part of themachinery. This is in direct violation of a safetyrule, which prohibits playing with the equip-ment. While Dolores is attempting to catch theball, it slips through her hands and hits her in thehead, knocking her unconscious and causing aminor brain injury. Her injury could still be cov-ered by workers' compensation, even though shewas violating a work rule when she got hurt,especially if the employer knew this type ofhorseplay occurred and condoned it.

There are some exceptions to this generalrule. For example, if your injuries were self-inflicted, then they might not be covered.

Preexisting ConditionsIf you have a preexisting condition, and your

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Hearing LossPeople who work in noisy environments --

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Mental ConditionsMental conditions that are job-related are

covered by workers' compensation. For exam-ple, if you are traumatized by witnessing anoth-er employee injured or killed on the job, yourtrauma is compensable by workers' comp.Conditions caused by a stressful workplaceenvironment can also be compensable. In addi-tion, if you become depressed because you havesuffered from a workplace injury, that depres-sion is covered by workers' compensation.

Be warned, however, that it can be hard toprove that the mental condition actually existsand that it was caused by workplace events. Thisis a situation in which a consultation with alawyer can help you decide how to proceed. Tolocate a workers' compensation attorney in yourgeographic area, visit Nolo's Lawyer Directory.

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Only work-related injuries or illnesses are covered

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City to consider new urban farm guidelinesBy Nathan Max, Reporter - UT

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego CityCouncil is considering new regulations to makeit easier for residents to garden and keep vari-ous unconventional animals on their properties.

City staff hopes to bring the new set of rulesbefore the council in early 2012. OnWednesday, a series of proposals came beforethe city’s Committee on Land Use and Housingand garnered praise from council members andthe public.

New regulations could affect farmers’ mar-kets and community gardens, as well as resi-dents who want to keep chickens, bees andgoats on their properties.

“Urban agriculture operates in cities acrossthe country,” Councilman Todd Gloria said.“We’re simply updating our codes to matchthose of other cities. And, frankly, the prac-tices are already occurring in homes through-out the city.”

Among the proposed new rules: Retailfarms of up to four acres would be permitted.The use of pesticides on them would be prohib-ited, and 75 percent of products sold would berequired to be produced on site.

Backyard chickens: Currently, residents are

allowed up to 25 chickens on their property,however, the animals must remain 50 feet fromany structure used for residential purposes. Forthose wishing to keep 15 or fewer chickens, thedistance would be relaxed. Roosters, however,will be prohibited.

Honey bees: Hives must be located within asecured area to protect the colony and the pub-lic, and no more than one hive would be per-mitted per lot. Bigger lots could have one addi-tional hive for every 5,000 square feet of lotspace.

Goats: Only miniature goats would beallowed, they must be dehorned and maleswould have to be neutered. The sale of goatfood products would be prohibited.

More than a dozen residents spoke in favorof the new guidelines at Wednesday’s meeting.There were no speakers opposed.

Council members did not vote on the pro-posals. The issue is expected to come backbefore the committee late in the year beforeheading to the full council.

“I think urban agriculture makes sense,”Councilman Kevin Faulconer said. “It alsomakes sense to make the rules clear. I’m strong-ly supportive of this moving forward.”

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Police in the District are planning for sizablebut civilized protests this week by groupsaffiliated with the anti-Wall Street demon-strations in New York as the movementgains support in cities across the country, as

far as San Francisco.“Right now, we haven’t had any sign that there is

going to be any civil disobedience,” said Lamar Greene,a Metropolitan Police Department assistant chief. “Wehave sufficient manpower out there if it was to drasti-cally change. Things could change pretty rapidly.”

In three weeks, the protests that started with ahandful of college students camping out in a park nearNew York’s financial center have swelled to the thou-sands and resulted in hundreds of arrests Saturday(Oct. 1) as protesters swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge.The Occupy Wall Street movement, which is speakingout against corporate greed and corruption and toexpress a mass feeling of injustice in society, hasspawned similar movements with marches on finan-cial centers in cities including Chicago, Boston andLos Angeles. Another component of the movement isthe encampments that protesters have erected in busydowntown corridors, which they say will remainindefinitely.

In the coming weeks, marches are planned fornearly every major U.S. city, and some not-so-majorcities. The fledgling Occupy D.C. movement has beensmall in number since kicking off efforts Saturday. Byits own count, approximately 120 people showed upfor a meeting that night. The number of protestersgathered at McPherson Square dwindled last Mondaybut is expected to gain momentum in the comingweeks—there are indications that there will be 1,000protestors

Due to the mass arrests and complaints of policebrutality in New York, both police and organizers inthe District plan to keep a close eye on interactionbetween protesters and police. During protesters’occupation thus far, interactions with police have been“mostly cordial,” said Chris Carraway, a GeorgetownUniversity law student working with the National

Lawyer’s Guild to help orga-nize legal observers. Thehandful of protesters sleepingat McPherson Square havepurposely chosen to sleep onsidewalks rather than in thesquare itself, which is illegal,Mr. Carraway said.

“The general assemblyhas decided they want to pro-ceed nonviolently and with-out breaking any laws,” he said of the group’s orga-nizing body. MPD officials have met with protestleaders, and has used cameras, to document interac-tions for the upcoming First Amendment-relatedevents. “We do have protests almost on a daily basis,so our procedures are pretty current,” he said of theway MPD handles protesters. The police department’sstrategies have greatly improved over the last decade,thanks in part to two multimillion-dollar class-actionlawsuits brought by people arrested during protests.

“Ten years ago, you couldn’t go to a demonstrationin D.C. without risk of being falsely arrested and thatis very different now,” said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard,executive director of the Partnership Civil JusticeFund, which brought the lawsuits against the District.The District paid out $22 million in protest settlementsfor two separate incidents, the arrest of 400 people inPershing Park in the District in 2002, and the arrest of700 people in 2000 during a protest near the WorldBank. The arrests also led to changes in law that dic-tate how police must deal with protesters in theDistrict. Legal observers will be out among theprotests this week to ensure protesters are treated fair-ly and police follow the law.“We’re monitoring thepolice action in D.C. with regard to this growingprotest movement in part to ensure compliance withthe very significant changes we’ve secured in D.C.,”Ms. Verheyden-Hilliard said.

Could this be the new Tea Party Movement? Canthis movement successfully influence members ofCongress, more so than the Tea Party? Well it’s a start.

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Where Did All The Money Go - 2?!?THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC BUBBLE!!

Connect Create CooperateWhile I am not an economist, (but I am looking for one for my campaign) I haven’t heard

anyone else say it, so YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST! THE WORLD IS IN A GLOBAL ECO-NOMIC BUBBLE! (If you already heard it somewhere else, keep it to yourself. J )

I was watching interviews from the Barefoot Economic Summit on MSNBC (which I listento almost every day) and reading this book, “The Sellout: How Three Decades Of Wall StreetGreed And Government Mismanagement Destroyed The Global Financial System, by CharlesGasparino.*” (You’ve got to read more than the newspaper.) This is what they were talkingabout without saying it, and it’s scary as hell. No, I mean really scary as hell. When you get achance, study economic bubbles, especially the “Tulip Bubble.” This was the dumbest one ofall, and, in the modern European economy, the first bubble. Why do we not learn from our mis-takes??

You’ve probably heard of the “dot com bubble” and the “real estate bubble”. This is whensomeone says something is worth something it’s not, and a lot of people put up a lot of money(billions and trillions of dollars) to buy it at the high (fake) price. The problem comes whensomeone finally says, “Oh hell no, ain’t nobody gonna pay that kinda money for that!” Then thedot-com start-ups go under, or the fake housing “values” drop to half, and everybody’s won-dering, “Where did all the money go?!” Because now the billions and trillions invested in thesebusinesses and houses simply vanish from someone’s balance sheet – i.e., into thin air. It’s a bitmore complicated than that, but I’ve only got 500 words here.

This week the biggest investors in the world are getting together to try and figure out wherethe world economy is headed, and all of them are saying it’s heading into the tank (i.e.: “toilet”).Why, because Greece can’t pay its bills. Why, because it is too deep in debt. Why is this crit-ical and scary as hell, because the people who are supposed to bail out Greece are drowning indebt, too. If Greece goes under, the world economy goes under with it. SOLUTION: Forgiveeverybody’s debt! Give everyone a loan modification. This debt isn’t real anyway. IT IS ADEBT BUBBLE! (Note: This is a European/American problem)

I’ll see you on Monday October 11th at 6:00 p.m. at the Urban League and we’ll figureout our part in this.

Love Your Neighbor. J Love Yourself!*A couple of other books to read: Rich Dad’s Prophecy, by Robert Kiyosaki and Three Billion

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Puberty & Menopausefrom a males ProspectiveBy Robin A. Allen

I spoke on the topic of Puberty and Menopause in my last column to you and theeffects of how these two very different events in life can come together in one homeand cause chaos. Now I will share with you what the male counter part may begoing through when he is faced with this deli ma in his home.

I interviewed a gentleman by the name of , Kevin, who states when he wentthrough this very difficult time he was faced with the challenge of dealing with notonly the emotions of his wife, but that of his own teenage daughter as well. Thiswas not an easy time as he puts it. In fact he shared some advice for those fatherwho may find themselves in the same situation.

One problem would be when the emotions are high , Kevin states " do not walkaway from an argument that is brewing between your wife and teen rather mediateby taking the wife in private and working through the problem." Sometimes Youspouse may be too emotional to rationally deal with the situation at hand and maynot be able to clearly think things through. By you pulling her to a private envi-ronment you can hash through the drama and get to the nuts and bolts of the issueat hand.

Next He states " it's okay to tell your teenager that you will have to discuss theissue with them at a later time." Often times teenager's will get upset when thingsare not going in their favor. By taking time out to handle the issue you allow themto vent privately and calm down at the same time you are giving yourself a chanceto give a more clear explanation to them with fairness rather than rushed decisiondue to the emotional battle field P & M can bring. As Kevin puts it " it''s a goodtime to go and change the oil on the car." This way you are not leaving the envi-ronment so your wife does not feel abandoned , and your teenager has some supportknowing that the mediator is close by. It also sends a message to your teenager thatthey can not upset the parental balance and that your wife and you are making deci-sions as a team. Often times when teenager's can not get what they want they willplay the "parent card." In other words {what mom says no to dad will approve.}Kevin states this is bad reflection on team parenting and should not be done.

I feel that this is sound advice because in my own home I am sure had the medi-ator been in place a lot of my own conflicts would have been better resolved.

In retro spec I would just like to remind the reader that if you feel you may begoing through Menopause or Peri menopause and you have a teenager at homeplease seek some help.

Have your MD check your hormonal levels and follow up with a solid treatmentplan for the symptoms of menopause. Make sure to take your supplements get plen-ty of rest and a well balanced diet. Exercise and talk to others in a support groupsetting.

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Through the eyes of your child what emits back through theircornea, the part of the eye that is like a camera lens? What is it thatyour child or children see of you on a regular basis? We have theresponsibility to raise them up in a way that is pleasing to God.That means that we are not to live a life that says do as I say not asI do. It means we are to live a life that they can emulate later in lifeand instill those same values and principles in their children. Somuch damage is being done by parents to their children that isabsolutely mindboggling and downright shameful. The childrenborn to you did not choose you and yet they’re stuck with you. Letme ask you, through the eyes of a child; is this the image they see?

• A parent who insists their child/children go to church and yetthe parent lives their life as though they don’t know Jesus the othersix days of the week?

• A parent who walks around saying God bless you and out ofyour mouth on a regular basis the child hears you cussing them andothers out?

• A parent who puts their respective courting partner before theneeds of their own child?

• A parent who brings courting partners into their lives thathave no values and no morals? Living off of you and contributingnothing?

• A parent who brings courting partners into their lives who areabusive to you and your children?

• A parent who misappropriates funds given by God opting forfrivolity then can’t pay the basic bills needed to provide for your family?

• A parent who tells their child they’ll never amount to anything? Calls their child stupid? Isalways tearing them down?

I could go on and on. The question begs don’t you want to give your children a chance in life?Many times our children act up because we are not giving them the love, the time, the attention, orthe encouragement they need to mine their way through this thing called life. Our young girls searchfor the love of a man that they just can’t seem to get from their fathers. This means they tend to gettogether with any pair of britches if they dare to say those five magic words, “Girl you know I loveyou.” Our young men tend to emulate the men they’ve seen come around or worse they have a strongneed to prove themselves and an even stronger need to feel accepted since they’ve been torn downby the very one who should be building them up.

Here are some images that should be seen and embraced through the eyes of a child:• A parent who encourages them to be the best they can be.• A parent who exercises tough love, when, the occasion calls for it.• A parent who if they say they are a Christian is identified as such not because you say it but

because the child witnesses Christian behavior by you on a regular basis. You are a walking epistle.• A parent who shows by example what it means to have work ethics, be a good citizen, and live

in a way that exudes character and respect for authority.• A parent who has a spirit of hospitality, a spirit of compassion, and one who always endeavors

to see the best in others.You can add to this list also. It is time out for the constant destruction being done to our children

and time for parents to be parents is a way that builds our children up instead of tearing them down.Like marriage parenthood should not be entered into lightly. You will have to sacrifice, you will haveto discipline yourself, you will have to put some of your wants and desires on the back burner toensure that your children’s needs are met both emotionally and financially. Remember you’re the onewho decided to have children so you should be the one making the sacrifice. If we don’t stop thisemotional chaotic rollercoaster that has taken over the very fabric of the family then we position our-selves to continue to see the following:

• Escalating divorces• Escalating violence towards one another• Escalating sexual promiscuity• Escalating single parent households• Escalating emotionally disturbed childrenLet’s stop the cycle. If you have not lived in a way that you want your child to see you apolo-

gize to your child and immediately begin a corrective program to bring your child/children into ahealthy realm of existence.

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NATURAL WAYS TO PREVENT AND REVERSE AUTOIMMUNE ILLNESS

PART 3 OF 4 ON GETTING YOUR HEALTH BACK!By Lady Topaz

This is Part 3 in a 4part series gearedtowards helping youunderstand the rootcauses of many autoim-mune diseases and howto effectively addressthem in a healthy andholistic way.

Last week we concluded how the immunesystem falters and begins identifying some ofthe body’s own tissues as being harmful, orunnecessary, causing it to attack and eliminatethese tissues through an inflammatory responsewhich can cause pain and discomfort in manyforms thus explaining how autoimmune illnessdevelops.

This segment of the article series will reviewseveral natural ways to protect yourself againstautoimmune illness. In some cases, I have foundthat the steps outlined herein can actuallyreverse some of the degenerative changes thatcan accompany various autoimmune illnesses.

Let’s begin with …. GIVE YOUR DIGESTIVE TRACTA CHANCE TO HEALThink of your digestive tract as your first

physical line of defense against autoimmune ill-ness, or any degenerative illness for that matter.

From your mouth to your rectal pouch, thelining of your digestive tract is continuous withthe skin that covers your body. This technicallymakes your digestive tract lining similar to yourouter skin in the sense that it acts as a barrier thatprotects your blood and inner tissues againstundesirable substances in your environment.

Once the lining of your digestive tract beginsto break down, if your genetic programmingallows for it, you will begin to experience theantigen-antibody complex formation that occurswhenever incompletely digested protein leaksthrough your damaged digestive tract into yourblood. The same goes for exogenous toxins likesynthetic chemicals found in cosmetic products.

If you are suffering from an autoimmunecondition, chances are good that your digestive

tract is not as healthy as it can be, and that theeffects of “leaky gut syndrome” and the forma-tion of antigen-antibody complexes are con-tributing to your current symptoms.

How can you know with reasonable cer-tainty that your digestive tract lining is not ashealthy as possible? Leaky gut syndrome is notrecognized by conventional medicine as a healthcondition, most likely because there are noclear-cut drugs or surgical procedures that canjustifiably be prescribed for it.

The loss of lining integrity that we are talk-ing about is microscopic, which doesn’t make itany less harmful than it is.

In general, you can safely assume that yourdigestive tract lining is in need of significantrepair if you have symptoms of an autoimmuneillness and you have one or more of the follow-ing symptoms of digestive tract dysfunction:

Excessive, foul-smelling gas productionIll-defined discomfort in your abdomen fol-

lowing meals or even during mealsChronic constipation and/or diarrheaSO HOW DO YOU GO ABOUT RESTORING THE

HEALTH OF YOUR DIGESTIVE TRACT?First, recognize that your body’s self healing

mechanisms are already hard at work to repairany damage that exists within your body, includ-ing within your digestive tract.

Just as your body predictably works to heal acut on your skin the moment the cut is created,your body is constantly on the alert for troublespots throughout your body and will alwayswork to repair damaged areas.

The difference between your digestive tractand your skin is that you can see your skin andclearly determine if your daily choices are help-ing or hindering your self healing mechanismsas they work to repair a cut.

Put another way, it is easy for you to see thatwhen you keep a cut on your skin clean and pro-tected against abrasive objects, your body canalmost always successfully restore it to health.But when it comes to your digestive tract, it isnot as easy for you to know how your daily foodand lifestyle choices are helping or hindering

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We spent part of our weekend going to the Del Mar Fair grounds which was showcas-ing the Cross Roads of the West Gun show. It was such a sight, so many people were therewho were so friendly and took the time to explain things to us. My best friend loved themodern guns and the shiny ones where as I loved the antiques. I was so surprised to see allof the families with their children. There were tons of things to look at like collector’scoins, clothes, jewlrey, knives, guns of course and ammonition. The hunting booth sparkedour interest and now we want to go on a hunting trip for wild turkey. All I want to know iswho is going to pluck the feathers?

Next stop, the Beer Festival at Pacific Beach. My best friend said, “You really don’tknow how blessed you are to live in San Diego where you can go to the beach any time youwant. I live in the boone docks where it is hot as hell and nothing to do to, an escape to thebeach would be like Heaven”. We had a wonderful time at the beach just walking on theboard walk and enjoying the breeze. Next week I will finish our “Fabulous Weekend” sostay tuned in.

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Entrepreneurs are amazing: part superhero,part lunatic, all at once we can go days withoutsleep and without artificial help because welove working THAT MUCH. A few confer-ences ago I realized that no matter where in theworld we are or what our start-up does or whatlanguage we speak at home, launching andbuilding a start-up is hard work.Entrepreneurship is not a mystic venture, it is acommon journey of like-minded individualswho are trying to solve a major problem andscale to be bigger than imaginable. Some arehoping to get rich but those only interested inthe money will get weeded out quickly whenthe heat goes up.

There are thousands if not hundreds ofthousands of entrepreneurs in this world sowhen I went to pick up my 23 year oldColombian start-up Founder/CEO friend inSan Francisco and he was holding a Walgreensbag filled with Tums, Nyquil, a heating packand migraine medicine I realized we have acommon bond: certain things will affect us thesame if we have the same work-aholiclifestyle.

The list below is not medical advice, butthings to lookout for if you work like amachine, never sleep, and forget to listen toyour body.

1. Back ProblemsSoon from leaning over a laptop all day and

night you will get back problems. Stress tight-ens the muscles, driving to meetings or sittingon a train will make it worse and before youknow it you will have developed “the 2amlean.” Its the position your body makes whenyou can finally switch to personal emails andrealized you have a conference call with someforeign place at 7am. Best plan is to take a fewminutes every couple of hours to lay flat on theground. Might be good for the mind as well. Inthe case of many friends, instant heating packsthat can be found at most pharmacies workgreat.

2. Acid RefluxYou won’t know what this is called but you

will slowly develop it. One morning you will

have a coffee, just like normal, and head out toa meeting. You will think that something didn’tsettle right or maybe you are nauseous but ithas nothing to do with the contents per se. Onemorning you will take a sip of coffee and gagoutloud. You will sip coffee and find your bodyalmost rejecting it, check. Tums, Mylanta andassorted antacids will help as well as (I haveheard) bubble water. Not medical advice, justFounder advice of what works.

3. Perma-ColdEvery little germ on the planet that crosses

your path will almost wipe you out. Beingsleep deprived, overly caffeinated, and uberstressed will make your immune system into apansy. Little kids, airports, city streets will startto take on a new perspective. When you do geta cold you will eye every sniffling four yearold at the Mac store like a loaded gun.

4. MigrainesNot just headaches, real doozies. Migraines

so bad you might even take to laying on theground quickly or forget your name. They comerapid fast, are directly related to when you’refeeling overwhelmed or getting over-pinged,plus you are probably not drinking enoughwater. Excedrin helps, aspirin helps. Justremember you are not dying or having a heartattack, this is all stress and how you manage it.

5. Kidney StonesThis is the hidden issue amongst

entrepreneurs. It wasn’t until I passed stonesmyself that I realized this is common withexecutives. Long hours, not enough water, toomuch Red Bull, too much alcohol. Work hard,play hard, right? One friend of mine accepted aprestigious industry award only to be in a hos-pital bed getting saline via IV only a few hourslater. I can remember being at a Web 2.0 After-Party hosted by Canaan Partners standing inthe most pain I have ever felt my body gener-ate and thinking “wow, my body is only 25years old.” Remember what is in must comeout, drink lots of fluids and try to have a doc-tor in your life at some point.

6. Separation Anxiety–LaptopYou will not be able to leave it or enjoy

your time by any considerable means. Evengoing to the bathroom you will realize whilesitting on the toilet, ‘where’s my phone?!” Ifyou think this comment is gross, it’s becauseyou already have your phone with you, thisarticle is probably being read by a couplefounders at this moment while they are check-ing email and Twitter on the John. Kiddingaside, be prepared to no longer be able to enjoylife unless your laptop is one, it will go awayafter your Series A funding or if you can man-age a vacation after Seed Funding, thoughunlikely.

7. Weird Skin IssuesEverywhere. Rashes, zits, all kinds of

bizarre things. You can go to a doctor andswear you have an ancient disease but itsstraight up stress. Weird stuff too, like a ran-dom red rash on your belly, or a pimple the sizeof a quarter on your shoulder. You shouldappreciate the amazingness that your body canproduce and keep all kinds of itch and blemishcreams in your toolbox.

8. Shingles22 year old founder or 32? Won’t matter, at

some point the stress will get so high yourbody will tingle all over, then your side willitch and before you know it there’s a little pathof red Pop Rocks on your body. The cool thingand key here is to pay attention to your body. Ifyou start noticing blisters or early warningsigns of Shingles you can go to a doctor andget medicine to help. Similar to kidney stones,if caught in the beginning your quality of lifecan be drastically changed. However ifignored, breakouts and Shingles can last forweeks so paying attention ultimately pays off.

9. A.D.DWhile some experts vary on the causes and

symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder youwill undoubtedly be unable to maintain anystream of attention for more than a few secondsand your ability to emote with other humanswill be gone. It doesn’t make you a bad personjust understand when you are trying to close a$400k gap or round, your friend’s issue (entersomething minor with little consequences

here) will bore you. Try not to look bored, sayyou are stressed. On the other hand, at times itmight be relaxing to listen to OPP (OtherPeople’s Problems) but eventually your mindwill wander onto something more shiny.

10. Becoming a WimpRemember a time in your life when you

partied super hard, like in college at that frathouse or maybe grad school? Won’t happenagain or for a while. You will soon find your-self only being able to handle a glass or two ofwine at max. Part of it will be your stomach/Acid-reflex/ ulcer and part of it will be physi-cal exhaustion. Either you won’t be able todrink what you used to or stay awake like youused to. Find yourself getting heckled byfriends on a Tuesday night for not going out onthe town for “fun” or random drinking.Remember they aren’t running a company,they get to hide in cube the next day. If youwere into random weeknight drinking youwouldn’t have started your own company.

That said, is there any hope for anentrepreneur? Of course! First, talk withfriends that are both “ahead” of you and“behind” you. In the beginning you won’tknow what that means but soon you will figureout where you are on the food chain: boot-strapped, Seed stage, Series Valued. You willbe able to look at products or websites andappreciate the work it has taken them to getthere, then you can measure up and realize youare 6 months ahead of someone or 1 yearbehind someone. Getting the information andpassing it on keeps your mind sharp and karmaaligned.

Some other (maybe helpful) tips:Vitamins and Water: are your friends.

Drink that water and try to take vitamins espe-cially if you aren’t getting enough sleep.

Sleep: this is very important, it can be hardto wind down but force yourself to sleep evenif it means a early rise.

Get a Small Health Plan: there are afford-able plans with small deductibles especially ifyou are in your early 20?s. Shop around, searchonline. Its possible. Don’t make it an excuse.

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Somali refugee’s leadership skills impressBy Peter Rowe, Reporter - UT

One morning this week, Hamse Warfa was intro-duced to a San Diego State class as a recent SDSUgraduate — class of ’04 — and a Somali refugee.

Soon, observers predict, the 32-year-old CityHeights resident will be known for much more.

“He could really write his own ticket,” said BobMontgomery, executive director of the InternationalRescue Committee in San Diego.

That ticket, Warfa said, may lead to elected office.Some day. Today, he’s too busy to campaign; his plateis piled higher than a glutton’s at an all-you-can-eatbuffet.

He works full time at Alliance HealthcareFoundation, managing 30-odd grants to nonprofitgroups serving poor San Diegans of all ethnicities. He’sa Ph.D. candidate (leadership studies) at the Universityof San Diego. He’s active in the San Diego RefugeeForum, a group for professionals working with immi-grants fleeing oppression. He’s president of the Institutefor Horn of Africa Studies and Affairs, a San Diegothink tank with an international membership.

But running for office three years from now, whenthat Ph.D. is hanging on his wall? “That’s my inter-est,” he said. “I want to be shaping the discussion.”

It’s easy to imagine the campaign. His skin is thecolor of dark coffee, his smile as white as whole milk,his talking points red, white and blue. “Anything ispossible in this country,” he said. “I came here with nolanguage and no resources and within 15, 16 years, Iam influencing policymakers internationally and help-ing my community locally.

“My adopted home has given me so much.”So he steals another hour from his wife and two

children and drives to SDSU. There, he outlines EastAfrica’s woes and then takes questions. The studentsare sharp — What is China’s role in the Ogaden, theoil-rich lands of northern Somalia? — but their ques-tions reflect book knowledge.

Warfa’s replies reflect his life. “Talking about theoil in the Ogaden, what comes to my mind was mygrandfather was displaced by war, my father was dis-placed by war and I was displaced by war,” he said.“To do this oil exploration, the government is going tomove everyone out of certain areas. I am thinkingabout the people who are going to be displaced.”

The three-year lineChasing peaceful solutions to violent problems

can be dangerous.

In 1991, as civil war raged across Somalia,Warfa’s parents were preparing to abandon theirMogadishu home when their 11-year-old disappeared.With a band of idealistic friends, he planned to enterthe capital, march against the war and end the fighting.

“That,” Warfa said dryly, “didn’t materialize.”Instead, warriors fired on the young protesters.

The children ran and Hamse managed to catch a rideback home. Reunited, his family set off for safety,eventually landing in Kenya refugee camps.

Warfa spent much of the next three years standingin lines — for food, for water, for asylum applications.

The family moved to Denver in 1994, then settledin San Diego in ’95. Warfa attended Crawford HighSchool and enrolled in an after-school program run bythe International Rescue Committee.

“Even back then,” Montgomery said, “he wasambitious — and I mean that in a good way. He’salways aspiring toward success, not just for himselfbut for his community.”

While Warfa is committed to San Diego’s 20,000-plus East African refugees, his life and work is notlimited to that population. But his background maybecome a political asset. San Diego’s council districtswere recently redrawn, raising the possibility that CityHeights — home to many immigrants from Vietnamand East Africa — will soon be represented by some-one who knows what it means to be displaced, to fleeone country and embrace life in a new land.

“Hamse could make history as the first refugeeelected to San Diego City Council,” said Councilman

Todd Gloria, who has worked with Warfa through thecommunity groups he represents. “I don’t think that’sout of the question, given what he’s accomplished so far.

“I just hope he waits until I’m termed out.”‘The Try’Warfa’s story was featured in James Owens’“The

Try,” a book of inspirational true-life stories. Owensstressed the San Diegan’s commitment to nonviolencedespite experiences in his native and adopted coun-tries. In January 2010, a robber murdered two ofWarfa’s cousins in a Minneapolis store.

“He could respond to that and take vengeance, buthe doesn’t do that. He says we have to change course,find a better way,” said Charles Dambach, chief ofstaff to Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Creek.“There is a morality and an intelligence to him.”

He also has “the try,” Owens’ term for a determi-nation to press forward, no matter how daunting thetask. Warfa recently co-chaired a conference atWashington’s Woodrow Wilson International Centerfor Scholars, discussing regional solutions to the Hornof Africa’s woes. Some thought the approach — try-ing to unravel this area’s intertwined problems — wastoo ambitious.

Warfa disagreed. “We need to create tomorrow’sleaders,” he said in his softly accented English, “notjust for Africa but all over the world.”

Any candidates?Dambach, who spoke at the Wilson Center con-

ference, nominates Warfa: “Here in Washington, peo-ple pay attention to him.”

Hamse Warfa settled in San Diego in 1995. .John Gastaldo

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your body’s attempt to heal damaged areas.If you could see with your eyes how a specif-

ic food that you ate over lunch – say a hot dog ora turkey sub – was putting stress on your diges-tive tract lining and preventing it from makingprogress in healing, you would certainly be wellmotivated to avoid such foods.

Similarly, it is not obvious to your eyes howother foods, lack of rest, emotional stress, andother lifestyle factors are affecting the health sta-tus of your digestive tract.

The good news is that you can learn – fromthis article and by listening to your body’s signals– how to best support the healing of your diges-tive tract. And, once your daily food and lifestylechoices consistently support your body’s ongoingefforts to restore the health of your digestive tract,recovery of your health is well within your reach.

When you want a cut on your skin to heal asquickly as possible, you know that you must dothe best you can not to disturb that area. Leave italone and let your healing mechanisms do exact-ly what they are well designed to do all the time.

The same principle applies to healing yourdigestive tract: leave it alone as much as possi-ble. Do not give it any unnecessary stress.

Which takes us to our next major point...ADOPT EATING HABITS THAT FACILITATE

OPTIMAL DIGESTIONPerhaps the single most important eating habit

that you can adopt to facilitate healing of yourdigestive tract is to chew your foods thoroughly.

Ideally, you want to chew your foods until liq-uid. When you chew well, you allow your diges-tive tract to efficiently break down small particlesof food into micronutrients that can pass throughthe wall of your small intestine into your blood.

Your teeth are designed to mechanically breakdown food, while the rest of your digestive tractand organs are designed to chemically breakdown your food. Whenever you do not chew

well, your digestive tract and organs take on theburden of trying to accomplish what is much eas-ier for your teeth to accomplish.

If you have dental or jaw problems that makeit difficult to chew well, consider blending yourfoods in a blender or a food processor.

Chewing your foods well allows your salivaand digestive enzymes to mix in with your foodsand liquids, and begin the process of digestionright in your mouth.

However, chewing well also encouragesphysical and emotional rest while eating. Beingemotionally balanced and at rest while you eatallows your body to send a rich supply of bloodto your digestive organs during a meal, whichhelps to optimize every step of digestion.

If possible, strive to combine the habit of chew-ing well with a steady focus on feelings of gratitudefor your food and other blessings. Just as the con-nection between your mind and body can cause youto sweat when you are nervous, having a feeling ofgratitude while you chew your food can help yourdigestive organs break down your food and assim-

ilate nutrients into your blood. Once you condition yourself to chew well and

to eat with a grateful heart, the next habit to adoptto promote optimal digestive tract health is to...

AVOID EATING MORE PROTEIN THAN YOU NEEDAs mentioned previously, a significant cause of

autoimmune illness is the formation of antigen-antibody complexes that can float around in yourblood and get deposited into your tissues, whichcan cause inflammation and accompanying dis-comfort.

Chewing your food well will certainly help tominimize the amount of undigested protein that canmake it into your blood.

But to stay optimally well, it is equally impor-tant to avoid eating more protein than your bodyneeds.

In general, it is best to eat no more than halfof your body weight of protein, in grams, per day.This means that if you weigh 150 pounds, youshould strive to eat no more than about 75 gramsof protein per day.

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A three-ounce piece of beef, chicken, or fishcontains approximately 25 grams of protein. Andthree ounces of meat equates to a serving sizethat is about the size of a regular deck of cards.

But don’t forget that every food that you eat,including fruits and vegetables, contains protein.So if you eat three ounces of animal-based pro-tein for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, you arealmost certainly eating more than 75 grams ofprotein per day.

A cup of broccoli, cooked spinach, or corncontains approximately 5 grams of protein.

A cup of peas contains over 8 grams of pro-tein.

Even a medium-sized potato contains almost5 grams of protein.

If you eat plenty of vegetables and legumes, itis not difficult to get enough protein to be opti-mally healthy without eating any animal foods atall. I am not suggesting that you need to be astrict vegan for the long-term to recover fromand prevent autoimmune illness. Rather, I amstriving to illustrate how easy it is to eat moreprotein than you need, which is a critical mistakewhen addressing autoimmune illness.

My active participation in holistic regimens,alternative medicine studies and research has ledme to believe that animal-based protein, espe-cially when cooked at high temperatures, tendsto contribute to antigen-antibody complex for-mation in people with autoimmune illness moreeasily than plant-based protein.

To best support recovery from autoimmune

illness over the long-term, I would recommendeating no more than one three-ounce serving ofanimal-based protein per day, cooked using alow temperature technique, such as steaming orboiling.

If possible, I even recommend staying awayfrom all animal-based protein for a period of sixmonths to give your digestive tract complete restfrom having to digest animal protein. Duringsuch time, it is best to avoid eating large amountsof protein-dense plant foods as well, such as nuts,seeds, and legumes. As long as you eat plenty ofvegetables, especially green ones like broccoli,lettuce, and cabbage, you will get plenty of pro-tein for your daily needs.

After six months of avoiding animal proteinand going light on protein-dense plant foods, youcan gradually increase your protein intake untilyou are eating approximately one gram of pro-tein per day for every two pounds of your bodyweight, with no more than one major serving ofanimal-based protein.

Now that we have emphasized how importantit is to avoid over-consumption of protein, let’stake a close look at how you can choose to...

Pick up next week’s edition of The SanDiego Monitor News & Business Journal forthe final part of this 4 Part series, on GettingYour Health Back.

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