Woods shoots 66 for share of lead

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tiger Woods put himself in position yesterday to win his second straight tournament.

He shot a 6-under-par 66 for a share of the lead with Robert Rock going into the final round of the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship in the United Arab Emirates.

More than being atop the leader-board, it’s how Woods got there.

“It’s fun when I’m able to control the golf ball like I did,” Woods said.

Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods finish their 3rd straight day of playing together in the United Arab Emirates.

He had six birdies in a bogey-free round that was    memorable mostly for his ability to hit fairways, tame the par 5s and make clutch putts — including a six-footer for birdie on the final hole.

“It just seemed like I didn’t do a lot of things right but I didn’t do a lot of things wrong today, it was just very consistent,” Woods said. “You know, made a couple putts here and there. … I stayed away from trouble and tried to keep the ball toward the fat side of some of these pins, and I think I did a pretty good job.”

Woods finished the round at 11-under 205.

“There’s a ton of guys with a chance to win,” Woods said. “I can’t go out there and shoot even par and expect to win. I’ve got to go out there and go get it.”

Rock, ranked 117th in the world, birdied his final two holes to join Woods in the last group, along with Peter Hanson, who had a 64 and was two shots behind.

Rock admitted he was star-struck at the prospect of teeing off alongside Woods, calling him “the best guy I’ve ever seen play golf.”

Also two back at 9-under 207 was Rory McIlroy, who played with Woods for the third straight day and had a 68.

“I definitely felt today was a lot better than yesterday,” McIlroy said. “So, hopefully, I can just keep that going tomorrow and maybe get off to a fast start and put pressure on the guys in front of me.”

Francesco Molinari (66) and Paul Lawrie (68) also were tied for third. George Coetzee (65), James Kingston (67), overnight leader Thorbjorn Olesen (71) and Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (69) were another shot back.

Top-ranked Luke Donald (73) is 11 shots behind Woods, with second-ranked Lee Westwood (68) seven off the lead.

PGA Tour

Kyle Stanley overpowered Torrey Pines and opened a five-shot lead in the Farmers Insurance Open in San Diego.

Stanley missed a four-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole that would have broken the 54-hole tournament record set by Woods in 1998.

Stanley still managed a 4-under 68, a spot alongside Woods in the record book at 18-under 198 and great position for his first victory.

Stanley built a three-shot lead with a birdie on the second hole and was never really challenged.

“This is something you dream about as a kid,” Stanley said. “But there’s still one more round.”

John Huh, a 21-year-old rookie who spent three years on the Korean Tour, and John Rollins each had 68 and were at 13-under 203.

FedEx Cup champion Bill Haas (70) and Sang-Moon Bae (72) were another shot behind. Bae was 5-over through five holes until he ran off four straight birdies to start the back nine to get back on the leader-board.

Meyer knows how to fight to win recruits

During the uncivil war of college football recruiting, it is instructive to study how the chief overseer of that other War Between the States handled the doom and gloom of the day.

Looking for a general who would advance and not sit still, Abraham Lincoln considered the qualities of Ulysses S Grant and remarked,  “I cannot spare this man.  He fights.”

ROB OLLER

Urban Meyer fights, too,  so much that Ohio State football recruiting – - once in danger of falling on i’s face – - is landing on its feet in most spectacular fashion.  The Buckeyes’ 2012 recruiting class has jumped from mediocre two months ago into the top three, behind Alabama and Texas, in rankings by several national recruiting sites.

Tom Luginbill, who analyzes recruiting for ESPN (which ranks the Buckeyes’ class No. 8), said that Ohio State pulled a perfect flanking maneuver by hiring Meyer, who rates among the nation’s top recruiters.    “As it turns out, they must be going, ‘Whew,’ ” Luginbill said of OSU’s impressive buoyancy, despite NCAA sanctions that include a bowl ban for next season and the loss of nine scholarships over three seasons. “Fans don’t want to hear this, but at the end of the day, it is a college coach’s job to win games, and you need talent to win. Urban knows you need great players.”

Recruiting can be compared with a child’s formative years, when foundations are cemented. Begin on the wrong foot, in life or recruiting, and it affects future success.

The Buckeyes’ recruiting went into limbo the moment Jim Tressel resigned under pressure on May 30. Luke Fickell did a decent job of holding things together as coach for one season, but the real test would come when recruiting season rolled around in early December, with the results showing up Wednesday on national signing day.

Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith could not afford to hire a George McClellan, the Civil War Union general who was capable enough at organizing and inspiring his troops but who too often sat on his hands when the Army of the Potomac required aggressive action.

Recruiting is not complicated science.  It mostly is measuring a need and relentlessly sending all available resources into that area. Meyer fits that form, but there is more to the game of offering scholarships than fixing bayonets and rushing into the fray.

“Urban not only knows how to evaluate talent, but he knows the other little things that fans are not privy to,” said Luginbill, who crossed paths with Meyer while Meyer worked as an ESPN analyst between leaving Florida in 2010 and joining Ohio State on Nov. 28. “There is tremendous stock in the type of program a prospect comes from.”

Meyer also excels when addressing the strategic component of recruiting, which is knowing how to build a team through the college game’s version of the draft.    “He places a premium on building a team from the inside out — quarterback, offensive line, defensive line and go from there,” Luginbill said. “He understands that if you’re not premier up front, it doesn’t matter how good your skill people are.”

Meyer’s moves appear to support Luginbill’s observations. He concentrated his initial recruiting efforts on securing defensive linemen, snaring Se’Von Pittman, Noah Spence and Tommy Schutt. Meyer also received commitments from highly rated offensive linemen Joey O’Connor and Taylor Decker. He already has the quarter- back in Braxton Miller. Of those recent recruits, all but Spence had committed to other schools before changing their minds when Meyer charged in. A sometimes messy business, this recruiting. But the Buckeyes, who not long ago faced a threatening signing-day smackdown, are back in business thanks to the man in the saddle. When it comes to recruiting, Meyer will not spare you. He fights.

Rob Oller is a sports reporter for The Dispatch. roller@dispatch.com

(After all that has happened to Ohio State Football this past year, I have been prepared to give up on football.  How could any team be expected to carry on after that horrible fiasco?  Our wonderful Quarterback, Terell Pryor and the other guys followed by the ultimate loss of our coach, one of the finest men to ever coach a football team, Jim Tressel.   I couldn’t handle it – gave up football.  No more.  

With the events of this year and further restrictions, who needs it?    But, I really like Urban Meyer, have watched his career since he went to Florida.  Good man.   Braxton is not Tyrell, but he is damned good and I really like him too.       

This may be shaping up to be a good year after all, even tho, we shall not be allowed to “win” anything.  Jan)

It’s been a while since I have done a mini-rave about “fermented foods.”   Since it is simply one of the best things one can do for health;   there is nothing hard about doing it — and the rewards are so very high in health benefits, I’m just curious – is anybody out there doing it?  Has anyone tried it?   One can make one jar or gallons. Customize.

One of the outstanding things about eating your own fermented food, made at home – - it is expensive to buy, but fairly cheap to make at home (even buying organic produce).   There is no other way to get such a high quality of the  B vitamins into your diet without the need to buy anything else. And it helps to repopulate your intestinal flora with the high quality bacteria needed to help establish and maintain your immune system to a healthy level.  You know, rebuilding your own inner eco-flora.

Most people here in the U.S. have become accustomed to  sweet tastes – - we crave it. This is unfortunate.  It can so easily lead us astray, putting taste buds in charge of our well-being and health future.  Once accustomed to the sour tastes, an unexpected blessing is the falling away of the “need” to have sweets.   I noticed that when I first went on the fermented veggie.  I didn’t like them at all first time I ate them.  Was dumfounded cause I hadn’t even thought there may be a problem. My time, effort and money was invested, so I wasn’t willing to just give up.  By next day and each passing day, I became more comfortable with them.  Then I liked them – a lot.   With all the ‘getting used to’  I hadn’t even noticed that I was not eating my chocolate – hadn’t missed it.  Now that’s a big blessing as I had been a chocoholic all my life.

Going big on a plant-based diet also helps to change your tastebuds, naturally.  Has a lot to do with the body’s needs being met – - cravings start to fall away.

As can be seen, the Health Ranger’s NaturalNews site has a couple of videos (following).  Such a great video library at his blog  I hope you enjoy them.  Even more, I hope you try some fermented veggies.

How to Make Sauerkraut (homemade sauerkraut)
http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=41DD50F0535E9A5156C0D43CC3097CB1

How to Make Cultured Vegetables with Donna Gates
http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=A8412383FE971E61EEDC4B4067B3320F    This is XLNT, a 3-part video from Kevin and Annemarie Gianni of the Renegade Health site

Finally, I have spoken of Dom down in Australia  in my previous how-to on how to make fermented foods:  the first one being January 29, 09 in which I relate a bit of my experience, but not the how to.  Then in Sept 21-09, I do attempt to explain how I made the fermented veggies.  With regard to DOM,  it is still there and well laid out.  You may be hard-pressed to find another site as interesting.  It is rather large with many options.  You can reach it here:

http://user.sa.chariot,nat.au/~dna/kefirkraut.html    Just copy and paste into your browser     Jan

Butylfuel, with 10 employees, combines with British company

By Dan Gearino THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

A Gahanna-based chemical-maker has merged with a British company.

Butylfuel Inc., which has offices and a lab in Gahanna, says it has combined with Green Biologics Limited and will use the Green Biologics name. The combined company has about 40 employees, 10 of whom come from Butylfuel and are located in Ohio. The corporate headquarters is in England.

The main product is “biobutanol,” a fuel developed from plant waste that has the same properties as butanol, a petroleum-based fuel.

• Biobutanol can be blended with gasoline, much like ethanol.

“This merger creates a truly global leader in biobutanol and represents a transformational deal for both companies,” Sean Sutcliffe, CEO of the combined company, said in a statement.

Tom Grote, who was chief financial officer for Butylfuel, will have the same title with Green Biologics. Grote, along with his father, Jim Grote, the founder of Donatos Pizza, have owned the chemical company since 2007.

Butylfuel has mainly sold chemicals for use in paint and plastics. With the merger, the new company will devote more resources to making motor fuel, Tom Grote said.

One of the next steps for Green Biologics will be to build a refinery to produce the fuel, which will likely be in Ohio, he said. He estimates that a plant would employ 50 people and cost at least $50 million. He describes this as a “bolt-on” plant, meaning it would likely be constructed as an addition to an existing ethanol plant, working in partnership with the plant’s owner.

Ohio has six ethanol plants. The closest to central Ohio are in Marion and Fayette counties.

dgearino@dispatch.com

Models leap ahead as car dealers post solid 2011 sales figures

By Dan Gearino | THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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Central Ohio car dealers, after battling a bad economy for several years, finally gained some traction in 2011. New-car sales jumped 17 percent in the Columbus area last year, significantly better than for the country as a whole.

The surge was driven in part by a few models that posted triple-digit percentage increases, led by the Kia Optima, up 535 percent, the Ford Explorer, up 360 percent, and the Chevrolet Cruze, up 180 percent, according to registration figures from Autoviewonline.com  .

The big gains contained a common thread: new designs.

The midsize Optima, with 502 units sold, benefited from a sporty redesign, helping Kia become the fastest-growing of any brand in the market with at least 1,000 vehicles sold.

Several other Kia models also had big increases in sales, such as the Soul crossover, which was up 86 percent. Kia dealers say the growth in sales is attributable to a combination of strong designs and low to moderate prices.

“When the recession hit, it forced people to live within their means and say, ‘I’m going to give this car a shot,’” said George Kauffman, vice president of Byers Automotive, which has a Kia store in Lewis Center.

Meanwhile, the Ford Explorer was part of a surprisingly good year for sport-utility vehicles and a strong year for the Ford brand. The Explorer, which sold 556 units locally, had a new design that was the 2011 North American Truck of the Year.

“We went from selling a few to selling quite a few,” said Doug Krieger, co-owner of Krieger Ford on the North Side.

The model improved on its main drawback — poor fuel economy — and added many features, he said.

Overall, SUV sales have grown for several reasons, including new designs, an increase in the supply of vehicles and relatively stable fuel prices. Among the other standouts in the segment is the Ohio-made Jeep Grand Cherokee, local sales for which were up 129 percent.

The Ohio-made Cruze had its first full year on the market, demolishing the sales of the compact-car model it replaced, the Cobalt, and helping lead a resurgence for General Motors. For this model, the 180 percent increase includes Cruze and Cobalt sales. The Cruze sold 118 units in 2010 and 1,457 in 2011; the Cobalt sold 405 in 2010 and seven in 2011.

“It’s well-built with good mileage, and much higher quality than Cobalt,” said Michelle Krebs, an analyst with Edmunds.com  .

Despite the sudden gains of several models, the region’s top-five sellers were unchanged from 2010 to 2011. Honda continued to dominate the market, with Accord, CR-V and Civic, which ranked first, second and third, respectively. Next were the Hyundai Sonata and Toyota Camry.

The top five were the same in 2010, except that the CR-V rose from third to second, switching places with the Civic. The Sonata also switched places with the Camry.

Honda’s strength in the region is tied to its presence as a major employer. The automaker has assembly plants in Marysville and East Liberty.

The brand’s success came despite some major setbacks, starting with the earthquake and tsunami last March in Japan, which disrupted the supply of parts. Honda dealers spent much of the summer waiting for inventory to arrive.

Central Ohio dealers sold more than 64,000 new vehicles last year, up 17 percent from the year before. That was better than the 10 percent increase in national new-car sales, according to Ward’s Auto.

The region’s strong showing may be tied to Honda’s performance. The brand’s national sales fell by 7 percent in 2011, largely because of the inventory problems, but increased by 9 percent in central Ohio. dgearino@dispatch.com

Nine kidnappers killed after Obama orders mission to save ill American

By Jeffrey Gettleman, Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker THE NEW YORK TIMES

Aid workers Poul Hagen Thisted of Denmark and Jessica Buchanan, formerly of Ohio, had been held for ransom by Somali kidnappers since October.

KHARTOUM, Sudan — Under the cloak of darkness early yesterday, two dozen U.S. Navy SEALs answered the prayers of the many friends of Ohio-born Jessica Buchanan, 32, and Den-mark’s Poul Hagen Thisted, 60.

The SEALs parachuted into Somalia, stormed the hideout of the gunmen who had been holding the two aid workers hostage since October, killed nine of the gunmen and whisked the hostages out of the sweltering desert and into waiting helicopters, Pentagon officials said.

“Ever since Jessica was captured, we all as a community have been praying for her safety and for her safe release,” the Rev. Don Meyer, president of Valley Forge Christian College near Philadelphia, said of the graduate of his school yesterday.

The SEALs were from the same elite Navy commando unit — SEAL Team 6 — that secretly entered Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden in May, senior U.S. officials said, although the rescue mission in Somalia was carried out by a different assault team.

President Barack Obama was closely tracking the raid Tuesday night, which was yesterday morning in Somalia. As he stepped into the House chamber to deliver his State of the Union address, Obama looked at Defense Secretary Leon Panetta standing in the crowd and said: “Leon, good job tonight, good job.”

Minutes after giving his address to Congress, Obama was on the phone with Buchanan’s father to tell him his daughter was safe.

PETE SOUZA WHITE HOUSE    President Barack Obama, accompanied by his wife, Michelle, tells John Buchanan by phone from the Capitol that his daughter is safe. Obama had just completed his State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night.

No SEALs were hurt during the operation, Pentagon officials said. The hostages were soon flown to a U.S. military base in neighboring Djibouti.

U.S. officials said they were moved to strike because they had received “actionable intelligence” that Buchanan’s health was rapidly deteriorating and could lead to kidney failure. The gunmen had just refused $1.5 million to let the two hostages go, Somali elders said.

A Danish Refugee Council official said Buchanan was “not that ill” but needed medicine. The family reported that her health is good, Meyer said, but there were no other details on her illness.

Before Buchanan’s family moved from Ohio years ago, she attended the now-closed Ridgeville Christian School in Springboro, north of Cincinnati. Buchanan was an elementary-education major at Valley Forge Christian, which has about 1,100 students, and had done a student-teaching stint at Rosslyn Academy in Nairobi, Kenya, as part of her course work, Meyer said. She had been in Africa about five years when she was abducted.

“She fell in love with Africa,” Meyer said. “She could hardly talk about Africa without tears in her eyes.”

The aid workers had been kidnapped by two truckloads of gunmen as they headed to the airport in Galkayo, a central Somalia town on the edge of pirate territory. The two were representing the Danish Refugee Council, one of the few Western organizations still operating in the area, and were working with a mine-removal unit. The two had finished a workshop on land mines just before they were kidnapped.

Somali elders said the gunmen were part of an established pirate gang. Pirates operate with impunity in much of Somalia, which has languished without a functioning government for more than 20 years. As naval efforts have intensified on the high seas, stymying hijackings, Somali pirates seem increasingly to be snatching foreigners on land. Just last week, pirates grabbed another U.S. hostage not far from where the SEAL raid took place.

Somali pirates have held hostages for months, often in punishing conditions with little food, water or shelter, and past ransoms have topped $10 million. One British couple sailing around the world on a small boat was kidnapped by pirates from this same patch of central Somalia and held in captivity for more than a year.

Obama authorized the operation on Monday.

“As commander in chief, I could not be prouder of the troops who carried out this mission,” he said in a statement yesterday. “The United States will not tolerate the abduction of our people.”

Pentagon officials said the SEALs dropped into the area by parachute about 2 a.m. and hiked nearly 2 miles to where the hostages were being held, near a small village called Hiimo Gaabo, south of Galkayo.

According to Pentagon officials, within minutes of the SEALs reaching the encampment, shots rang out. The hostages were quickly located and freed. In the gunbattle, the nine Somali gunmen, described as heavily armed, were killed.

Accounts differed as to whether the SEALs captured any of the gunmen, with local officials saying several had been taken. The Pentagon said no prisoners were taken.

Several hostages are still being held in Somalia, including a British tourist, two Spanish doctors and an American journalist kidnapped on Saturday.

Information from the Associated Press and McClatchy Newspapers was included in this story.

Besides usual separations such as retirements, the Army will allow fewer enlistments.

By Lolita C. Baldor ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The Army plans to slash the number of combat brigades from 45 to as few as 32 in a broad restructuring of its fighting force. The action is aimed at cutting costs and reducing the service by about 80,000 soldiers, according to U.S. officials familiar with the plans.

Officials said the sweeping changes likely will increase the size of each combat brigade — generally by adding another battalion — in a long-term effort to ensure that those remaining brigades have the fighting capabilities they need when they go to war. A brigade usually is about 3,500 soldiers but can be as large as 5,000 for the heavily armored units. A battalion usually is between 600-800 soldiers.

The restructuring will unfold over several years and is intended to save money without eroding the military’s ability to protect the country and wage war when needed. Army officials say that while there eventually would be fewer brigades, building them bigger will give them more capabilities and depth, and will reduce stress on the units.

• They said specialty units, such as Army special operations forces, would not be affected by the cuts.

Reducing the overall number of brigades also will eliminate the need for the headquarters units that command and oversee them.

Officials acknowledged that merging battalions together into larger brigades could shift some soldiers to different bases across the country, although that effort could be stymied by members of Congress who don’t like to see the staffing decline at bases that feed local economies. Officials said the Army will try to limit such shifts.

The cuts come as the Pentagon puts the finishing touches on its 2013 fiscal-year budget, which must reflect about $260 billion in savings in its five-year plan. Congress has ordered the Defense Department to come up with a total of $487 billion over the next 10 years, and it could face cuts of double that amount if Congress can’t reach an agreement to avoid automatic across-the-board reductions mandated by lawmakers last year.

Most military leaders, from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on down, insist that they will come up with the budget cuts without hurting the force’s effectiveness.

According to officials, plans call for the active-duty Army to shrink from a high of about 570,000 soldiers during the peak of the Iraq war to roughly 490,000 over the next decade or so. Initial cuts have been ongoing, and there currently are about 558,000 active-duty soldiers.

Additionally, there are nearly 205,000 in the Army Reserve and close to 360,000 in the Army National Guard.

The Army plans to shed soldiers carefully, including through planned departures, separations for medical or behavioral problems and by scaling back the number of people promoted or allowed to enlist and re-enlist.

Bats dying by the millions because of recent fungus

My own diet is pretty clean, therefore, I’m not too worried for myself on the cancer front.  But the thing is, doing the Gerson Therapy tends to heal the body enabling it to heal and/or take care of anything which is needing correction.  Even tho I juice and have for years, am big on fermented foods and am pretty much plant-based and a lot RAW,  I still have a a couple of things that I wish I didn’t have some of which I have bored you with before.  So when I came across this piece, it seemed to me that it would be helpful for you to know about for anyone one you may wish to help down the road.  Meanwhile, I intend to concentrate a little more seriously on this therapy now.) 

The Gerson Therapy 

Healing Your Body with the Gerson Therapy

With its whole-body approach to healing, the Gerson Therapy naturally reactivates your body’s magnificent ability to heal itself – with no damaging side-effects. Over 200 articles in respected medical literature, and thousands of people cured of their “incurable” diseases document the Gerson Therapy’s effectiveness. The Gerson Therapy is one of the few treatments to have a 60 year history of success.

The Gerson Therapy is a powerful, natural treatment that boosts your body’s own immune system to heal cancer, arthritis, heart disease, allergies, and many other degenerative diseases. One aspect of the Gerson Therapy that sets it apart from most other treatment methods is its all-encompassing nature. An abundance of nutrients from thirteen fresh, organic juices are consumed every day, providing your body with a superdose of enzymes, minerals and nutrients. These substances then break down diseased tissue in the body, while enemas aid in eliminating the lifelong buildup of toxins from the liver.

Throughout our lives our bodies are being filled with a variety of disease and cancer causing pollutants. These toxins reach us through the air we breathe, the food we eat, the medicines we take and the water we drink. As more of these poisons are used every day and cancer rates continue to climb, being able to turn to a proven, natural, detoxifying treatment like the Gerson Therapy is not only reassuring, but necessary.

Although its philosophy of cleansing and reactivating the body is simple, the Gerson Therapy is a complex method of treatment requiring significant attention to detail. While many patients have made full recoveries practicing the Gerson Therapy on their own, for best results we encourage starting treatment at a licensed Gerson treatment center.

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Please Note: The Gerson Institute does not own, operate, or control any treatment facilities. We maintain a licensing program with clinics to ensure that patients are receiving true, 100% Gerson care. Be sure your clinic is licensed by the Gerson Institute to provide the Gerson Therapy. 

Learn more about licensed Gerson treatment centers

The History and Development of the Gerson Therapy

The Gerson Therapy is a state of the art, contemporary, alternative and natural treatment which utilizes the body’s own healing mechanism in the treatment and cure of chronic debilitating illness. When it was introduced to the world by Max Gerson, M.D., the dietary therapy was so far ahead of its time that there were almost no rationales available in the scientific literature to explain how it could produce cures in chronic as well as infectious diseases. But, because it did cure many cases of advanced tuberculosis, heart disease, cancer and numerous lesser conditions, the Gerson Therapy was established as a major contribution to the medical field, through the publication of articles in peer reviewed medical literature http://cancer-research.net/GersonPubs.html. Gerson first published on the topic of cancer in 1945, almost forty years before the adoption of the current official U.S. National Cancer Institute program on diet, nutrition, and cancer.

Max Gerson treated many hundreds of patients and continued to develop and refine his therapy up until his death in 1959, at the age of 78. His most famous patient was Dr. Albert Schweitzer, whom Gerson cured of advanced diabetes when Schweitzer was 75. Schweitzer returned to his African hospital, won the Nobel prize, and worked past age 90. Schweitzer wrote “I see in Dr. Gerson one of the most eminent geniuses in the history of medicine.”

Most recently, Dr. Gerson was recognized as a pioneer in his field when he was inducted into the Orthomolecular Medicine Hall of Fame in Ottawa, Canada on May 14, 2005. He joined seven other giants of medicine whose seminal work has been influential in the medical and scientific worlds, and are considered pioneers in their respective fields.

It is rare to find cancer, arthritis, or other degenerative diseases in cultures considered “primitive” by Western civilization. Is it because of diet? The fact that degenerative diseases appear in these cultures only when modern packaged foods and additives are introduced would certainly support that idea. Max Gerson said “Stay close to nature and its eternal laws will protect you.” He considered that degenerative diseases were brought on by toxic, degraded food, water and air.

How the Gerson Therapy Works

The Gerson Therapy seeks to regenerate the body to health, supporting each important metabolic requirement by flooding the body with nutrients from almost 20 pounds of organically grown fruits and vegetables daily. Most is used to make fresh raw juice, one glass every hour, 13 times per day. Raw and cooked solid foods are generously consumed. Oxygenation is usually more than doubled, as oxygen deficiency in the blood contributes to many degenerative diseases. The metabolism is also stimulated through the addition of thyroid, potassium and other supplements, and by avoiding heavy animal fats, excess protein, sodium and other toxins.

Degenerative diseases render the body increasingly unable to excrete waste materials adequately, commonly resulting in liver and kidney failure. To prevent this, the Gerson Therapy uses intensive detoxification to eliminate wastes, regenerate the liver, reactivate the immune system and restore the body’s essential defenses – enzyme, mineral and hormone systems. With generous, high-quality nutrition, increased oxygen availability, detoxification, and improved metabolism, the cells – and the body – can regenerate, become healthy and prevent future illness.

No treatment works for everyone, every time. Anyone who tells you otherwise is not giving you the facts. We know that when you have been diagnosed with a life-threatening ailment, choosing the best strategy for fighting your illness can be a bewildering task. Everyone claims to have either “the best treatment”, “the fastest cure”, or “the only therapy that works.” In most cases your trusted family physician only has knowledge of conventional treatments, and is either unaware of, or even hostile toward alternative options. No matter how many opinions you receive on how to treat your disease, you are going to make the final decision on what to do, and you must be comfortable with your decision. Choose a treatment that makes the most sense to you.

Most therapies, conventional or alternative treat only the individual symptoms while ignoring what is ultimately causing the disease. The reason the Gerson Therapy is effective with so many different ailments is because it restores the body’s incredible ability to heal itself. Rather than treating only the symptoms of a particular disease, the Gerson Therapy treats the cause of the disease itself. Although we feel the Gerson Therapy is the most comprehensive treatment for disease, we don’t claim it will cure everything or everyone.

Caution: Do not start the Gerson Therapy without referring to Charlotte Gerson’s Book, Healing the Gerson Way, or without the supervision of a Gerson Doctor if any of the following conditions apply:

• Chemotherapy
• Diabetes
• Brain metastases
• Severe kidney damage
• Foreign bodies such as pacemakers, breast implants, steel plates or screws.

Patients must be able to eat, drink and eliminate normally.

The Gerson Therapy cannot be administered to organ transplant recipients.

Juicers

Juicing is an essential component of the Gerson Therapy. To ensure reliable results, the Gerson patient will need to purchase an appropriate juicer. Dr. Gerson’s research indicates that cancer patients must have a two- stage juicer with a separate grinder and hydraulic press. One-step juicers generally do not produce the same quality of enzyme, mineral or micronutrient content, and some patients have failed to experience results simply by using the wrong juicer. We do not recommend the use of any centrifugal-type juicers for Gerson patients. Other non-centrifugal juicers may be used for health maintenance or non-cancer diagnoses.

Please read our Gerson Guide to Juicers to learn more about the kinds of juicers that can be used for the Gerson Therapy.

If you are interested in learning more about the two-step Norwalk juicer, please contact the Norwalk Juicer Representatives, Richard Boger or Gisela Summer at 1-800-405-8423/760-436-9684 outside the US.

The Gerson Diet

The Gerson diet is naturally high in vitamins, minerals, enzymes, micro-nutrients, extremely low in sodium and fats, and rich in fluids.

The following is a typical daily diet for a Gerson patient on the full therapy regimen:

• Thirteen glasses of fresh, raw carrot/apple and green-leaf juices prepared hourly from fresh, organic fruits and vegetables.
• Three full vegetarian meals, freshly prepared from organically grown fruits, vegetables and whole grains. A typical meal will include salad, cooked vegetables, baked potatoes, vegetable soup and juice.
• Fresh fruit and fresh fruit available at all hours for snacking, in addition to the regular diet.

Supplements

All medications used in connection with the Gerson Therapy are classed as biologicals, materials of organic origin that are supplied in therapeutic amounts.

• Potassium compound
• Lugol’s solution
• Vitamin B-12
• Thyroid hormone
• Pancreatic Enzymes
• Enemas of coffee and/or chamomile

Detoxification

A very important part of the Gerson Therapy is frequent detoxification of the tissues and blood. This is accomplished through a variety of means, first and foremost through the use of coffee enemas.

The scientific basis for the use of coffee enemas is well documented, and can be obtained from the Gerson Institute. Patients report that the enemas decrease pain and hasten healing. Biologically, enzyme systems of the gut wall and liver are stimulated, and bile flow is increased. This has been shown to enhance the body’s ability to eliminate toxic residues from environmental, chemotherapeutic, and other sources.

Tumor and other diseased tissue is also more rapidly eliminated as it is broken down.
Other means of detoxification include castor oil, used as an additional stimulant of bile flow and as another way to enhance the liver’s ability to filter blood. In addition, digestive enzymes serve to enhance absorption of nutrients as well as assist in the elimination of damaged tissue.

Patients must have a complete understanding of the Gerson Therapy so that they may effectively continue the regimen at home after leaving the treatment center. The following are examples of educational opportunities at a typical licensed Gerson facility:

• Gerson-trained physicians and/or educators present lectures and instruction on healing reactions and medication uses.
• Charlotte Gerson and/or other senior Gerson Institute staff members lecture on the theory and practice of the Gerson Therapy, scientific rationales and relevant research.
• Instruction and demonstration of two-piece, press-type juicers, such as the Norwalk Juicer.
• Videotapes of lectures by Charlotte Gerson, other Gerson Institute staff, and Gerson-trained physicians are available for viewing at any time.
• Regular, individualized consultation with your Gerson physician on the specifics of your condition and any necessary modifications to the treatment. During this time, any specific questions you have may be addressed.

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