Cholesterol-lowering drugs such as Lipitor are some of the most dangerous drugs around, causing serious side effects, and blocking the body’s ability to manufacture cholesterol—which is a vital substance in the body for brain functioning and tissue repair. This talk will examine traditional high-fat diets and the healthy populations that ate them—from the Arctic to Africa. It will also look at myths and truths about cholesterol and how our culture has been misled into eating dangerously low-fat diets that create many long-term health problems, including, ironically, obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
November 12, 2009: 6 to 7:30 pm, suggested donation: $10
Upper Valley Food Coop, in White River Junction, VT
For more information call (802) 785-2503 or email sustainablemedicine@gmail.com
About the Instructor:
Didi Pershouse, certified homeopath and licensed acupuncturist, has provided gentle and affordable health care in the Upper Valley for over 15 years. She is co-author of the latest homeopathy textbook: “Vital Expression: A Manual on Homeopathic Casetaking.” She is the local chapter leader for the Weston A. Price Foundation, and founder of The Center for Sustainable Medicine in Thetford Center, VT where she practices homeopathy, acupuncture, and nutritional counseling. She has traveled and taught extensively in the field of alternative medicine. You can read her Sustainable Medicine Manifesto online at www.sustainablemedicine.org
On several instances, Cuba has offered to send free doctors and medical supplies to the United States, and the US has turned them down. Is this right? Cuban doctors are known around the world for the excellent medical care they provide in underserved and recent-disaster areas, absolutely free of charge. Why should we turn them down?
Read more at Huffington Post
Fidel Castro’s speech to doctors gathered poised to help after Katrina is reprinted here:
Monday, 05 September 2005 07:03
Remarks by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, meeting with the medical doctors assembled to offer assistance to the American people in areas affected by hurricane Katrina. Havana Convention Center, September 4, 2005.
Distinguished guests; Fellow Cubans:
Hardly 48 hours ago I concluded my remarks on the Round Table broadcast where I once again explicitly offered the United States to send a medical (more…)
Well, I’ve gone and done it, something I’ve been considering for years. I have rented out my house in the woods to the new teacher at the high school, and moved into the old house that holds the Two Rivers Clinic and Center for Sustainable Medicine. One of my colleagues had moved out and another was looking for a shared space with his sweetie, so I said “This is it: an opportunity to try truly sustainable living as a health care provider.” Yes, we’re all here–kids, medical dog and all. The chickens are on their way as soon as I get a fence up. Not all amenities are quite in place yet, but it’s amazing what a localvore can cook up on a single electric burner when friends are coming for dinner, and lucky for me I have several close friends with showers and the best secret swimming hole just a minute’s walk away, since a claw foot bathtub turns out to be a lot more expensive to install than I thought.
My old office is now my bedroom and writing space, and the office next door is back to its original use as the boy’s bedroom. Henry and Alden asked me if they could spray paint (more…)
This article first appeared in The American Acupuncturist, Volume XXIII, Winter 2000. I am reprinting it here because Cuba is a country we will wish we had studied closer as we enter the post-peak-oil era. Cuba has already been through the changes we are just barely starting to feel the effects of, and their solutions were far more brave and creative than most other countries who have found themselves suddenly lacking resources.
Despite huge shortages in medical supplies due to the U.S. embargo, Cuba has one of the most advanced medical systems in Latin America-and a strong commitment to providing free medical care not just to its own people, but to poverty stricken areas around the world.
In recent years, a second revolution has taken root in the fertile soil of the first: “Natural and Traditional Medicine”-from acupuncture to homeopathy to music therapy-is now offered in clinics and hospitals alongside conventional therapies, and Cuban patients pay the same amount for open heart surgery as they do for an acupuncture treatment: absolutely nothing. I traveled to Cuba in November, 1999 to research this phenomenon, and returned with a great love for this small country. (more…)
