This newsletter is about Thanksgiving and the day after.

 
 
 
                                                 November 25, 2012

I don't know about you but I engaged in the traditional Thanksgiving ritual of eating more than I could possibly digest for at least a week.  Every year the Hors d'oeuvres do me in.  I know it is some sort of conspiracy.  We are busy running around early in the morning getting stuff ready to go so we don't have time for a proper breakfast.  We arrive at the designated house of the appointed hosting family member for the year around noon absolutely starving.  Hors d'oeuvres are all laid out to snack on while the Thanksgiving dinner is made ready.

Somehow this process always takes 2 to 3 hours, so we nibble on snacks while we are waiting.  Missing breakfast then having to wait two or three hours for the Thanksgiving feast to finally manifest leads to way too many hors d'oeuvres going down the hatch.  By the time dinner arrives I am full on snacks, but you are still required and honor bound to try everybody's contribution to the meal (we do pot luck every year with all the extended family.)  With each new generation that means new dishes prepared and new ever growing piles of food to dump on an already over full stomach filled with pre-meal snacks.

I don't seem to learn this one so I still have work to do on my cognition and memory.  Or maybe it is some other part of my brain - my gut brain that thinks I can eat three days worth of food in one afternoon.  Oh well, I read an article last week that said the days between Thanksgiving and Christmas were the very best time for doing a cleansing fast.  The challenge is getting myself past the carb craving that breaking my normal carb free lifestyle for a holiday like Thanksgiving creates.  Do I get right back on track, or does it take a few weeks of carb indulgence before I get enough consequences to convince me to leave the carbs alone?  We shall see...

During the holiday conversation my son was telling me about the craziness that happens the day after Thanksgiving - Black Friday.  I had never participated in this mad dash to save a few dollars and kick off the holiday buying frenzy before.  Not wanting to miss out on such a cherished slice of Americana, Ellen and I actually ventured out on Black Friday to see what all the excitement was about.  Maybe we were too slow about getting out there as we did not hit the road until after 11 in the morning as my son Mason and his girlfriend Miki were staying with us, but other than the parking lots at the mall being totally full, there was no excitement.  I was led to believe there would be fighting in the aisles over toaster ovens and the like.  No, it was all very orderly.  Even stranger, the new pair of black jeans I bought was not discounted at all.  Where were all the good deals?  Did we miss all the good stuff?

So we wandered around for a while then tried to find an open restaurant for a late lunch/early dinner, but most of the ones we frequent were closed.  Finally we ended up at the Siam Patio across the street from the new office for dinner then off to the house to decorate our year round pretend Christmas tree with season appropriate ornaments.  Ellen loves the lights so the tree stays up all year and we just change the decorations on it to fit the season.  There, all done and we are officially launched into the Christmas season.

The best of the season to all of you,
David 

Take care,

David            

by Gypsy 

Nose cell transplant enables paralyzed dogs to walk 

Ok, this one caught my attention.  How does a nose transplant solve paralysis?  Well it turns out the nerve cells in our nose never stop growing.  The researchers harvested these cells and grew them larger in the lab.  Then they injected them into the injured spinal cords of the dogs.  Many of the dogs showed good improvement.  Human trials have yet to be performed.

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 'Fat' drug could treat epilepsy

100 years ago a popular and successful treatment for epilepsy was to put the patients on a ketogenic diet - what we think of as an Atkins diet today.  With this diet your body breaks your fat down into ketones which your body burns for energy rather than sugar.  Ketones burn without creating the oxidative stress damage that sugar burning creates and this seems to calm down the epilepsy.  So here we are over a hundred year later and some researcher comes up with the money making idea of making ketones in the lab and using them as a drug to treat epilepsy.  Never mind that everybody can manufacture all the ketones they could ever want just by not eating carbs.  There is no profit in that, so lets make them a drug.  Are we going to fall for this one? 

Ketones

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Treetop accommodations 

This project looked really beautiful.  These tree houses being built in an eco-resort in Ontario Canada give new meaning to natural elegance.  Check out the designes on this website...   

 "Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.. "

~Jean-Jacques Rousseau     

About Dr. DeLapp

Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years.  He began experimenting with  medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis.  In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education.  Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic.  He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice. 
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health. 
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities. 
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth.  The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework.  Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.

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