Awakening Our Self-Healing Body: A Solution to the Health Care Crisis by Arthur M. Baker If there is one thing agreed upon by 'experts' and lay people in this country regarding health care, it is that the system works poorly, is wasteful, and needs drastic, not merely cosmetic reform. The focus of health care into the next century needs to be placed on educating the public on fulfilling the genuine biological needs of the human body. And so begins a revolutionary new book, Awakening Our Self- Healing Body - A Solution to the Health Care Crisis by Arthur M. Baker (published by Self-Health Care Systems). This provocative book is a change from the traditional offerings for health reform, expounded by those with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. While the health care industry continues to produce more profit but fewer results in decreasing disease and suffering, Awakening Our Self-Healing Body teaches readers how to control their own health destiny by meeting their biological needs such that they cause health to occur, rather than disease. A confrontational, revealing softcover book, Awakening Our Self- Healing Body challenges those who sincerely desire health to make simple yet profound adjustments in lifestyle that, when implemented, dramatically decrease the likelihood of disease. Lifestyle that is in accord with our natural mandate is the foundation of health, and that which is contrary to it provides the basis of disease. Health is not a gift of God, nor is illness a stroke of bad luck, for these are largely creations of our own making. Those who desire well-being must do more than wish for it - they must make a lifetime commitment to creating and maintaining it. The book is filled with practical suggestions for living more healthfully, and building self-sufficiency in matters of self- health care. This is the first book written with a firm basis in the principles governing physiology, whose wise lifestyle choices are based on the innate intelligence of the human body. It teaches how to scientifically determine our natural dietary needs and how to cooperate with our body's self-healing nature. Awakening Our Self-Healing Body acknowledges that three of every four deaths in this country are due to heart disease, cancer, stroke, and cirrhosis of the liver and that cleaning up our lifestyle is the "cure." While Blue Cross acknowledges that changes in diet, smoking, exercise, alcohol consumption, and a reduction of stress would do more to improve health than doubling outlays in medical care, current medical practice has very little to do with the promotion of healthful living. No doctor can eat, exercise, or sleep for you. The individual must assume active responsibility, and must be educated to meet the essentials of health and the genuine needs of the body. The book dispels popular medical myths regarding the supposed causes of disease and inspires the reader with the confidence that healthy living is the key to life-long wellness and vitality. So long as readers are willing to live consciously, regarding how substances and influences build or degenerate health, the choice is their own to achieve the desired degree of vitality. The public is only now beginning to inquire not how to GET well, but how to KEEP well. This generation may be the first in recent history to achieve their health potential and live a disease-free lifespan as do most animals in nature when left alone by man. But they must be given the information and skills to make informed lifestyle choices. Awakening Our Self-Healing Body is a book whose time has come. It will awaken an entire generation to take control of their health and to realize that degenerative disease and suffering are not inevitable in old age. The book is destined to become a classic. To order Awakening Our Self-Healing Body - A Solution to the Health Care Crisis from the publisher for $12.95 call 1- 800-900-HEALTH, (plus $2.00 shipping) or write Self-Health Care Systems, 1800 S. Robertson Blvd. Suite #239, Los Angeles, CA 90035 Table of Contents | 1994 Issues | Subscribe Truth Seeker | Feedback | Freethought.com Webmaster Credit card Orders call: 800-321-9054 or fax: (619)676-0433 Or send check or money order to: Truth Seeker / 16935 W. Bernardo Drive, Suite 103 / San Diego, CA 92127 $20.00 annual U.S. subscription ($35.00 international). Individual issues—$10.00 + $2.50 postage and handling Or be a committed freethinker and send $35.00 for a two year subscription. Truth Seeker is published by Truth Seeker Co., Inc. (ISSN 0041-3712) © 1996