Total Health and Restoration: A 180-Day Journey Book

	Prologue: The Journey	xv
Part 1	My First Steps on the Pathway to Health and Healing
	A Historical World-view	1
	A Chance Encounter	3
	My Developing World-view	4
	"Normal" illness and addiction	5
	Exposure to different world-views	6
	The Deteriorating American Lifestyle	7
	My Nutritional Search	10
	It worked!	11
	A painful secret	12
	Problems of my own	17
	Faith tested	21
Part 2	America's Health and Healing Crisis
	Feeling Ill Is the New "Normal"	26
	Why We Have a Health and Healing Crisis	27
	Qualified physicians?	29
	Biomedical achievements	30
	Biomedical limitations	32
	Proper training needed	33
	Natural medical systems opposed	34
	Physicians with a mission	36
	Where I found help	37
	A Crisis of Motivation	38
	Industry and illness	38
	Goliath of modern medicine	39
	Coming to power	40
	Dealing With a Medical Monopoly	42
	Legislating our health needs	43
	The need to end the medical monopoly	44
	The tragedy of death by physicians	45
	How should we then respond?	46
	Response of the medical community	47
	Summary: Key Issues in America's Health and Healing Crisis	49
	An inevitable paradigm shift	51
	Old Paradigm vs. New Paradigm	53
	Learning to ask the right questions	54
	Ominous news from the inside	56
	Counteracting the bad news	57
	What Is a Healthy Lifestyle?	58
	Scientific breakthroughs can help	59
	World-view: body, mind and spirit	59
	Undeniable testimonials birth fitness boom	61
	Restoring Our Precious Freedoms	65
	Response to sudden crisis	69
	The best and worst of times	70
Part 3	How We Heal
	How We Heal: Making Foods Your Medicine	74
	The Healthiest People in the World	75
	Mediterranean people of the 1960s	75
	The rural Chinese people	76
	Characteristics of Healthy Cultures	77
	Two universal principles	78
	Comparing levels of dietary fat	78
	Poor fat choices	80
	A Healthy Food Pyramid	80
	A Culture of Chronic Disease	82
	Obesity and overweight	82
	Chronic disease in children	84
	Over-the-counter remedies	85
	The impact of diet	86
	Regenerating power of natural therapies	87
	Immediate relief available	87
	Recognizing Your Food Allergies	88
	Are you allergic to bread?	89
	A simple remedy: the elimination diet	90
	Welcome confirmation	92
	Hereditary Tendencies	92
	Insulin Sensitivity--a Marker for Life Span	93
	Guidelines for Reversing Chronic Degenerative Diseases	95
	Avoiding processed foods	95
	Irritable Bowel Syndrome	96
	Diverticulosis	97
	Diverticulitis	98
	Colitis and ulcerative colitis	98
	Crohn's disease	99
	Pruritus ani	100
	Restoring Health to the Bowels	101
Step 1	Eliminating harmful sugars	101
Step 2	Discovering your healing nutrients	103
Step 3	Supplying needed digestive enzymes	104
	Special considerations for Crohn's disease	105
	Probiotics--Key to the Second Immune System	106
	Our special need for friendly bacteria	107
	How to Begin Whole-Food Therapy	108
	Protocols for Treating Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes	108
	Type 1 diabetes	109
	Type 2 diabetes	110
	Special Considerations for Diabetics	111
	The "fat" offender	111
	Essential fatty acids	111
	Monounsaturated fat	113
	The Faith Paradigm	114
	How We Heal: Balancing Your Hormones	115
	What Is Estrogen Dominance?	116
	ERT and HRT	117
	Inappropriate Therapies	118
	Unopposed estrogen	119
	Problem of popular synthetic hormones	120
	Perpetuating the problem	121
	Silencing critical voices of medical peers	121
	Safe, natural alternatives available	123
	What Are Xenobiotics?	128
	Protocols Using Bioidentical Hormones	130
	A proven track record	131
	Noninvasive, Accurate and Inexpensive Saliva Hormone Tests	132
	The Mind-Body Connection	134
	How We Heal: The Spiritual Connection	136
	Science Confirms Spirit	137
	The Role of the Spirit in Scripture	139
	Teachers of the Spirit	140
	The apostle Paul, a biblical hero	142
	Harriet Tubman, a nineteenth-century hero	143
	Albert Schweitzer, a twentieth-century hero	145
	Jack McConnell, M.D., a twenty-first-century hero	146
	Finding Wholeness in Spirit	150
	How We Heal: Exercise Needed to Restore Your Body, Mind and Spirit	151
	Aerobic Exercise for Mental and Emotional Health	152
	The body's natural opiates	153
	Reducing stress = reducing cortisol levels	154
	Strength Training for Energy	154
	Restoring and Maintaining Flexibility	155
	Understanding "Your Exercise Program"	156
Part 4	A 180-Day Journey
	The First Month
	Milestone One--We Seek His Way	160
	Living Each Hour in His Power: People Converted to Christ	161
	Real Food Is Fabulous: Green Leafy and Cruciferous Vegetables	168
	A Body I Can Live With! Restoring His Temple	169
	Strength training	170
	Flexibility training	170
	The Second Month
	Milestone Two--We Honor His Temple	172
	Living Each Hour in His Power: Hearing His Voice and Obeying His Word	173
	Real Food Is Fabulous: Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs)	178
	A Body I Can Live With! Restoring His Temple	179
	Strength training	179
	Flexibility training	180
	The Third Month
	Milestone Three--We Celebrate His Provision	181
	Living Each Hour in His Power: The Names of Christ	182
	Real Food Is Fabulous: Phytoestrogens and Legumes	187
	A Body I Can Live With! Restoring His Temple	189
	Strength training	189
	Flexibility training	190
	The Fourth Month
	Milestone Four--We Walk in His Power	191
	Living Each Hour in His Power: We Learn to Trust Him	192
	Real Food Is Fabulous: Nourish Your Body With Phytochemicals	197
	A Body I Can Live With! Restoring His Temple	199
	Strength training	199
	Flexibility training	200
	The Fifth Month
	Milestone Five--We Grow in His Wisdom	201
	Living Each Hour in His Power: The Peace of God	202
	Real Food Is Fabulous: Learning the Value of Complex Carbohydrates	207
	A Body I Can Live With! Restoring His Temple	209
	Strength training	209
	Flexibility training	210
	The Sixth Month
	Milestone Six--We Walk in Freedom	211
	Living Each Hour in His Power: Empowered by the Holy Spirit	212
	Real Food Is Fabulous: Healthy Choices for Animal Products	217
	A Body I Can Live With! Restoring His Temple	219
	Strength training	219
	Flexibility training	220
	Your Exercise Program: Description of Exercises	221
	Strength training: instructions and photos	221
	Flexibility training: instructions and photos	224
Appendix	World-view Comparison Chart	226
	Notes	229