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Dangers of Added Sweeteners

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The Dangers of High Fructose Corn Syrup
Dextrose Maltodextrin High Fructose Corn Syrup

Before we get to high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), we will take a look at two other frequently used sweeteners, dextrose and maltodextrin. read more ...

Aspartame (Nutrasweet)
More Dangerous to Your Health Than High Fructose Corn Syrup

It's really hard to believe that something could be worse than the intense sugar loads from high fructose corn syrup and sucrose. But, Aspartame ( Equal, Nutrasweet, Equal Measure, Spoonful, Canderal) is even more dangerous to your health. read more ...

Stevia 100% Natural Herbal Sweetener
Artificial sweeteners are developed in organic chemistry labs. Stevia grows wild in the rain forests.

Finally, a sweetener that I think has yet to show any real toxicity. It has been used for centuries by the Guarani Indians both as a sweetener and a medicinal. It does not have any calories, is suitable for diabetics and does not cause cavities. It is obtained from the leaves of the stevia shrub which grows wild in the Amambay Mountain region of Paraquay. read more ...

Brown or Otherwise ... It Is Still Sugar
Question from Jack:

A question from Jack, one of the subscribers to this newsletter. "Reference your tip regarding diabetes. The only sugar I use is brown and is this a concern in my case?" read more ...

Honey and Meli Maenomenon.
Pediatric Warning: Honey and Children Under Two

Children under the age of one (to be really safe probably two years old) should not ingest honey. Honey contains clostridium botulinum spores. In the human with a mature immune system, the spores will not germinate in the gastrointestinal tract. However, in the immature immune system of the infant, the spores can germinate and cause botulism, a descending flaccid paralysis read more ...

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Risk and Disease

14 Simple Things To Reduce Your Risk of Breast Cancer

Discussion:

As a retired diagnostic radiologist who read way too many mammograms I am excited because I finally have a path to try to connect to so many women who are having and have had mammograms. I was always chagrined since we would really torture and radiate many breasts but it was as if these breasts were not connected to a human type person. It bothered me that so many mammography programs make no effort at all to educate their clientele about what "they can do" to reduce their risks of breast cancer. I would suggest to the directors of these read more ...

Angina Doesn't Care If You Are Half-Right
Comment from one of our readers ...

I did find it interesting that your list of recommended books did not include any by Ornish, McDougall and others. But then I recognize that you stress the elimination of sugar while the others stress the reduction of fats. It seems to me to be different paths to the same place of greater health. read more ...

Hypertension
Headlines

Nearly a quarter of American adults just got diagnosed with a new disorder: pre-hypertension. Is your blood pressure low enough?

Nearly 23% of people over the age of 18 have pre-hypertension (blood pressure over 120/80 and less than 140/90). Another 25% of those over 18 have full-blown hypertension (blood pressure over 140/90). read more ...

Hypertension Part II
Discussion of Twelve Simple Things to Reduce Your Blood Pressure

Lose weight

The association of obesity and hypertension has been long established. As I mentioned in the previous email on this subject, I was considerably overweight when I first became hypertensive at age 34. I changed my diet and lifestyle read more ...

What Really Causses Osteoporosis
Headlines

“The myth that osteoporosis is caused by calcium deficiency was created to sell dairy products and calcium supplements. There's no truth to it. American women are among the biggest consumers of calcium in the world, and they still have one of the highest levels of osteoporosis in the world. And eating even more dairy products and calcium supplements is not going to change that fact.”
- Dr. John McDougall read more ...

Macular Degeneration

Macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in the age 65 and over group in both the United States and the United Kingdom. One in six Americans between the ages of 55 and 64 will be affected which increases to one in four read more ...

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Diet Nutrition Biochemistry

Vitamin C Sugar Competitive Inhibition
Carboloading of a Different Variety

Saturday in Tucson before the 1982 version of the Tucson Marathon we were sitting on the Gentle Ben's patio with some of our running friends from Albuquerque having some carbohydrates of the liquid variety. Bob Pratt would consume 18 Dos Equis and run a blazing 2:31 marathon the read more ...

Fats (triacylglycerols) and Essential Fatty Acids
Some basic terminology

fat or fatty acid
In the human most of the important fatty acids are between 14 and 24 carbon atoms in length with the most common being 16 or 18 carbon atoms. There is a carboxy.. (acid) group at one end (COOH) and a methyl read more ...

Five Serious Dangers of Low-Carb Diets
Headlines

WASHINGTON, Jun 22, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- A coalition of nutrition, public health and consumer groups is calling on U.S. residents to beware of the dangers of low-carb diets. read more ...

How to Prevent Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Sugar)

Hypoglycemia affects both non-diabetics as well as diabetics. It has been considered an early sign of adult onset diabetes, although I am not completely convinced that this is always true. If you have ever felt weak at the knees, sweaty and somewhat disoriented about two hours after eating something sweet, you
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Four Steps of Hunger Control
Evolutionary Biochemistry

As man evolved, he did not have convenience marts and fast food on every corner. Today, the biochemistry of man is still anachronistically Neanderthal, while on every corner are heavily processed foods that the biochemistry of the human is not prepared to process. Incomplete foods rob the body read more ...

Proper Nutrition
No Weight Loss Program Can Succeed Without It

Probably the most important and least understood axiom of successful weight loss is that you have to nourish your body. The main reason why most people are overweight is that they are malnourished. In our modern grocery stores are all kinds of processed and packaged foods. The nutritional value of any read more ...

He Shou Wu

He Shou Wu is a Chinese herb derived from Polygonum Multiflorum Root. It has been used in China for many years and is one of the most frequently taken herbal remedies in China. The literal translation of the Chinese "He Shou Wu" means "Mr. He Hair Black." read more ...

Fifteen Secrets of Safe and Easy Permanent Weight Loss Revealed!

You must nourish your body. Certainly one can starve themselves and lose weight, but this is not the weight that you want to lose. When you don't eat, human biochemistry will keep the blood glucose levels high because glucose is the only molecule the brain can metabolize. It does this however, after read more ...

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Environmental

Lymphoma -The Dangers of New Carpet

In February of 2000 we moved into a house located on the Third Street bike path here in Tucson, just about three blocks East of the University of Arizona. The house had new carpet which we initially thought we liked. Oh, the smell of new carpet, like the smell of a new car. read more ...

Asbestos Asbestosis Mesothelioma
Asbestos

It has been estimated that approximately 25 million people have been exposed to asbestos over the past 40 years. The word asbestos is derived from Greek meaning inextinguishable. It is a naturally occurring mineral that when crushed yields silicate fibers. It has been mined for read more ...

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Dangers of Sports Nutrition

Your Stomach Knows Best
The Dangers of Sports Nutrition

Ironman 1988 (I think the year was 1988) on television, we were following the leader Mark Allen approximately 11 miles into the run on the way to the big Bud can at 16 miles. There he was the race leader, soon pulling off to the side of the road to relieve his colon and small bowel of a large amount of "precious intravascular volume" that one does not want to give up at an event like the Ironman.
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Recipes

Chunky Cole Slaw
Vegan Chunky Cole Slaw, a great way to eat low on the glycemic index while it helps you stay hydrated during the heat of summer.

Lesson from the Jackrabbits

Summertime here in Tucson is rather hot. It becomes difficult to maintain good hydration since you are sweating most of the time. Many times running in the heat of the desert summer, I would see jackrabbits and cottontails. I would marvel at how they could even survive read more ...

Financial Effects of Illness

Headlines From The Washington Post
"Sick and Broke" By Elizabeth Warren

Wednesday, February 9, 2005; Page A23

Nobody's safe. That's the warning from the first large-scale study of medical bankruptcy.

Health insurance? That didn't protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year. read more ...

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The MericleDiet

Enjoy Safe and Permanent Weight Loss While You Reduce Your Risk for Disease. The MericleDiet is the Easy Transition to a Healthy Vegetarian Sugar-Free 100% Organic Diet.

The Best Diet for Cancer Prevention!

This diet is the ONLY Diet Today that Makes it easy to be 100% Sugar-Free and 100% Organic. Nothing slows your Immune System like Sugar and Nothing Cripples your Immune System like the Pesticides, Hormones and Antibiotics used in commercial food production.

Nothing will make your Immune System happier.

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The Best Diet for Coronary Artery Disease Prevention!

This is the Only Diet that is 100% Meat, Dairy and Sugar FREE! The association between meat ingestion and demonstrable coronary artery disease has been known for years. Restricting all forms of animal protein and sugar will help to keep your "coronary arteries and arterioles clean and compliant."

Your Heart Will Love You!

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The Best Diet for Prevention of Stroke!

By completely avoiding the Causes (Meat and Dairy) of Atherosclerotic Plaque Buildup in the Carotid Bifurcation you significantly reduce your risk for Stroke!

Your Brain (Woody Allen's second favorite organ) will reward you with many more years of creative thought and locomotion!

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The Best Diet for Prevention and Control of Adult Onset Diabetes!

Adult Onset Diabetes Mellitus (a polite and confusing term for Sugar Toxicity) is now epidemic. The prediction that 10% of teenagers will get this slowly crippling and killing disease by age twenty, is not surprising in this day where sugar consumption is also epidemic and at record levels. This is the only diet that makes it easy to transition away from sugar all together. Believe me, I know, I have adult onset diabetes mellitus and have controlled it with the 100% Sugar-Free MericleDiet for the past seven years.

Your arteries will remain compliant and will thank you
by allowing good blood flow to all your favorite organs!

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The Best Diet for Prevention of Osteoporosis!

That the continued consumption of meat and diary in this country is the
Cause of the Epidemic of Osteoporosis isn't even a subject of debate. This
information has been known for over twenty-five years. The MericleDiet makes
the transition away from meat and dairy easier than you would ever believe.
Believe me, we don't suffer on this diet.

Your bones will remain strong, not fracture as easily
and you will not "Shrink" as you get older.

Stop!

Are you tired of dieting?

Are you tired of worrying about your weight?

Are you tired of worrying about cancer, heart disease and stroke?

Do you have adult onset diabetes?

Are you worried about osteoporosis?

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Ask Yourself?

Would I rather not worry about all this?

Do you look as good as you could?

Do you want to eat a healthier diet but don't know how?

Are you confused about what to eat and what is a true carbohydrate?

Do you exercise but don't seem to lose weight?

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I think we all have felt this way and asked many of these same questions. This physician certainly has.

Back to 1977 University Medical Center Tucson, Arizona

At 34 years old I was in my fourth year of Diagnostic Radiology training and had a physical exam for a life insurance policy. For the first time in my life my blood pressure was elevated to borderline abnormal at 140/90 up from 118/78. I was weighing a "robust" 175 pounds on a 5'6" frame and my waist had burgeoned from 32 inches to 37 inches. I had already had my first angina at age 30.

Not really feeling all that great!

I didn't feel very good and was starting to have headaches probably related to the elevated blood pressure. I would eat large meals and still be hungry. I would get hypoglycemic usually about two in the afternoon and usually eat something sweet. Actually I found it difficult to feel good when I was that overweight. As I look back now I recognize the early signs of adult onset diabetes mellitus. I also knew that I was not going have the usual diagnostic barrage of studies for hypertension that I as a resident was administering to patients routinely.

Enter Dr. Kai Haber

Dr. Haber was one of the younger staff in the Department of Radiology. He had just started running and had stopped eating most meat and dairy products. Realizing even then that I was destined for some not so pleasant days ahead if I did not change my lifestyle, I started running and stopped eating meat and dairy. One early afternoon around three pm I was walking out to go for a run when Dr. Haber asked where I was going. Expecting the worst like get back in the department you lowly resident Dr. Haber surprised me. He said, "John, that is the most important thing you can do for yourself right now." The rest is history and I am in the 30th year of my daily running streak -four miles or thirty minutes every day, not to mention 29 Marathons (PR 2:45) and three Hawaii Ironman Competitions.

The School of "Lifestyle Disease" Hard Knocks.

Some almost 18 years later ... 1995.

I would often find myself thinking over these years that I had "pretty much" figured out most things relating to diet and health. Then I would be faced with yet another problem relating either to my health or the health of some member of my family. I would then have to further refine my diet. In fact I learned very quickly that I will never know all there is to know about the relationship between diet and health. In January 1995 my ex-wife finds a mass in her left breast that by ultrasound is malignant. She had continued to eat a fair amount of cheese, much the same as Linda McCartney. Just when I thought everything was right, in July 1997, I find adult onset diabetes in myself and realize that my sugar ingestion (for me it was Pepsi) is severely damaging my vascular system.

Why Reinvent the Wheel?

Why wait until you have demonstrated proof of disease in yourself. Why wait until you are overweight and hypertensive. The MericleDiet is the product of 29 plus years of the school of hard disease knocks. This food preparation system can help keep you stay clear of these disasters and will give you a base to start developing your own refinements and additions to this system of health. By purchasing the MericleDiet you will be kept current of any new developments or refinements in the future. We also encourage all who purchase the diets to email us with any refinements, suggestions or additions of their own so that we all can learn from each other.

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The MericleDiet Food Preparation System.

The MericleDiet allows you to lose weight safely, permanently and without hunger while you reduce your chances for coronary artery disease, cancer and stroke.

Want to eat a healthier diet but don't know where to start?

By preparing basic food groups in quantity sufficient for a week you can feed yourself and your family a great tasting and healthy organic whole food diet -on short notice. If you and your family only eat one meal a day from this diet it will begin to fine tune your body. You will find that your cravings for what is not good for you like sugar, meat and dairy will gradually diminish. You will feel better and look better while you lose weight. You will not have to starve yourself and will eat as much as you like of healthy foods.

Table of Contents.

• Introduction including Why Organic.
• Potatoes
• Beans
• Soups
• Gravy
• Bean Burritos
• Tacos
• Enchiladas
• Pasta
• Tofu and Tempeh
• Whole Grain Rice
• Fruits and Nuts
• Fresh Produce, Salad and Salad Dressings.
• Carbohydrate Confusion
• Insulin and Glucagon
• Recommended Reading

Throw away your scales.

You will not have to worry about your weight. If you start to put on a few pounds you will know it immediately and just decrease your food consumption and cut back on eating anything that is not so good for you. This diet is so powerful that as long as you get one good meal a day, you will be able to have that occasional dietary indiscretion that we all do.

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Learn the Secrets of how to Look Better and Feel Better for Life and Save Money.

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Advantages of The MericleDiet.

Cook on Sunday and eat well all week.

By doing all of your "prep" cooking and food preparation on Sunday you reduce the amount of time you have to spend preparing tasty Whole Food meals during the week.

Makes great tasting Whole Food meals available on short notice.

With a well stocked refrigerator full of basic Whole Food foods you will never have to worry about what to cook for yourself or your family. Take out several short-term preserved foods and combine in any fashion you like. Voila ... a great tasting, healthy Whole Food meal.

No increased risk of disease, actually you reduce your chance for disease on this diet.

As is currently being proven some of the latest diet fads actually increase your risk for coronary disease, cancer, stroke and osteoporosis. The MericleDiet will reduce your risk for all these diseases and also will increase your energy and general feeling of well being.

Lower food costs.

Even though we recommend organic foods your overall cost of eating on this diet will decrease considerably since you will not be eating a lot of expensive processed and packaged food items.

Exercise.

You don't have to exercise on this diet. While we do recommend that you exercise -it is not to lose weight. Exercise is good for the immune system and your mental well being but is not an integral part of this weight loss program.

Forget worrying about your weight for good.

You won't have to worry about your weight all the time. You will look good and feel good. There are too many other concerns in this life to worry about your weight.

Creative Cooking.

By learning the basic cooking principles in the MericleDiet you leave behind the confining world of recipes mostly based around meat and dairy. You will never eat exactly the same meal twice and your meal preparation becomes an wondrous exercise in creative cooking, depending on what is short term stored in your refrigerator.

Healthy great tasting Mexican food.

Mexican food is not difficult to prepare and once you learn to make good beans and get good tortillas you can eat some very tasty Mexican dishes that are made with organic beans and organic tortillas.

You avoid commercial food.

Commercially grown food today is at least nearly if not completely nutritionally bereft. Besides being nutritionally bereft most if not all of it is loaded with either pesticides or sugar or both.

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Warm or cold whole grain brown
rice makes a nice addition to any salad.

What's in it for you?

This is a very serious question.

• Look better.
• Feel better.
• Better health.
• Better work and better play.
• Weight loss without hunger.
• Decreased food costs.
• Decreased health care costs.
• Decreased morbidity and mortality from the common lifestyle diseases of today: coronary artery disease, cancer and stroke.

Why should you care?

Another great question. While you are healthy and actually perceive no real health problems, you may not care. However, there comes a time in most people's lives where they are faced with serious health problems that can significantly compromise their quality of life. The MericleDiet is not as much about life and death as it is about "Quality of Life." Putting your ego aside can be tough but when your health and quality of life hang in the balance most intelligent people will in time do all they can to be as healthy as they can. The MericleDiet is a very "clear" path to improving your health as much as you can through simple dietary manipulation.

Why is this woman starving?

Demonstration of the relationship
between malnourishment and obesity.

The "Incomplete food cycle."

You eat incomplete foods. You body is hungry as soon as your stomach empties. You eat more incomplete foods trying to satisfy this hunger. This hunger cannot be satisfied with incomplete foods so you continue eating more incomplete foods. Never satisfied and always hungry you end up overweight with high insulin levels all day and usually all night long. Before long you are really overweight and sick. Your quality of life plummets.

This woman is starving and overweight because:

• She is buying heavily processed and sugared packaged foods.
• There is little if any real nutrition is all of the combined grocery stores of the food industry behemoths.
• This woman has very high insulin levels.
• High insulin levels are associated with all of today's "diseases of affluence: coronary artery disease, cancer and stroke."
• One of the strongest relationships that exists today is the relationship between nutrition and disease.

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The cost of MericleDiet is $47.

The cost of a combined medical/nutritional consult here in Tucson today is $395 for the first visit and $195 for the second visit.

The cost of health insurance today is $9950 for a family of four, up 59% in the last three years. The cost for an individual is $3695.
These figures are from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The cost of Coronary Cinangiography is $2500.00+.

The cost of your average cancer therapy is in most cases well over $2500.00 / month.
The cost of a stroke and the needed care is well over $25000.00.

A mere $47 will significantly reduce your chances of having to pay big dollars for your health -not to mention reducing your chances of ever getting sick from one of the big three killers.

Learn how to really play the odds of staying healthy.

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Just email: refunds@drmericle.com

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Also Included for This Low Price:

• "Seven Days of Great Tasting Vegan Meals Based on the MericleDiet." This ebook will help you get started on your way to improved health.
• "The Dangers of Added Sugars" ebook. This covers sucrose, honey, high fructose corn syrup and the artificial sweetener Aspartame (NutraSweet) and more.
• Unlimited use of the Health Tracker diet assessment survey.
• Free Risk Analysis based on the Health Tracker.

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Thank you for visiting the MericleDiet.

John Mericle M.D. D.A.B.R.

P.S.

Some of the things you won't have with the MericleDiet!

• Recipes with sugar
• You will not go hungry.
• Complicated recipes to follow
• Monthly Meetings
• Costly programs with recurring charges
• Counting Points
• Dangerous Pills or Drugs
• No Surgery!
• No Worry about your weight!