Book Launch of

"At Risk?" by Rivkah Roth DO DNM

in time for World Diabetes Day - November 14, 2008

We proudly announce that the Natural Medicine Centre kicks off its Early Diabetes Risk Recognition and Avoidance Campaign with the publich launch of the newest book by Rivkah Roth.

http://www.avoidiabetes.com/WDD.html

Recognized early, diabetes and its complications are largely avoidable! This message needs to be heard and not just by the man with the beer-belly and the woman who craves carbohydrates.

"At Risk?" shows how to recognize and avoid the initial symptoms that arise eight to fourteen years prior to a medical diagnosis of diabetes. "At Risk?" identifies over fifty health conditions linked to increased risk of diabetes.

Help us recognize World Diabetes Day 2008. Take a powerful step towards avoiding Diabetes. Change your life and that of your family, friends, colleagues and acquaintances.

Promote health! Help raise awareness on how to avoid diabetes. Move "At Risk?" up the bestseller charts by ordering your copies during a two-day period at

In return we would like to offer you these full-size Illustrations and Charts as bonus downloads.

BONUS #1:

Mini Diabetes Risk Questionnaire

BONUS #2:

Family Health Tree Chart

BONUS #3:

Summary Chart "Before Facts"

Summary Chart "After Facts"

Summary Chart "Complications"

BONUS #4:

Intestinal Inflammation Chart

Toxic Trigger Loop Chart

BONUS #5:

Carbohydrate Addiction Chart

Food/Energy Processes Chart

BONUS #6:

Surprise Bonuses

BONUS #7:

Opportunity to sign up for our complimentary "Weekly Public e-mail Health Tip" or our "Bi-Weekly Health-Professional e-mail Tip"

This is how it works:

1) Order your copy or copies of "At Risk?" between Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 6pm EST and Friday, November 14, 2008 - 11pm EST at http://www.avoidiabetes.com/WDD.html and note down your purchase confirmation number.

2) Return to our website http://www.avoidiabetes.com/bonus.html, sign in and enter your purchase confirmation number where prompted.

3) You will immediately be given the pdf-download links for the Mini Diabetes Risk Questionnaire and all the above Charts and Bonuses.

Print them out any size you like. Laminate them, frame them, display them in your home or give them away to patients and friends.

Take pride in making a difference in your life and that of your friends! Three billion people are at risk of developing diabetes later in life. Help us reduce these numbers quickly.

Please pass on this invitation to your friends and anyone who might be interested.

The Countdown has started. Soon to become available the long-awaited

and these 1-topic, point-form, easy to read DIABETES-Series Little Books:

- Risk of Diabetes

- Low-Carb for Diabetes

- Gluten-free & Diabetes

- Minerals for Diabetes

- Teas for Diabetes

In production: Spices for Diabetes

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One of my patients recently sent me an article of a well-known natural medicine professional in response to the Jan. 14, 2008 New York Times article about the approval of LYRICA (a potent drug used to mask diabetic nerve pain) for fibromyalgia patients.

While most of the info he provides about fibromyalgia is correct, he strongly suggests it to be a “physical response to mental and emotional stress.” This, like so many medical diagnoses, puts the patient into a “victim” position that I simply cannot agree with without further specification.

He then provides some very valid diet recommendations and stresses the use of neuro-modulator techniques. All this is fine; but I believe the underlying rationale is totally different. Here is my take on fibromyalgia:

Many individuals diagnosed with fibromyalgia also experience sleep disturbances, ringing in the ears, headaches, depression, and chronic fatigues, along with a gastrointestinal inflammation such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Reduced pain tolerance (proven by brain scans) goes along with this, as are—yes—external stress factors.

However you look at it food intake is at the base of it all.

• Processed foods include acidity-producing fats (added for taste and texture), colorants, preservatives, artificial sweeteners, starch fillers (an allergen for at least 43% of our population).
• The supposedly healthy vegetables have been grown with pesticides, fertilizers in surroundings of unclean air and iradiated.
• Meat has been raised on modified grains and pumped full of hormones.
• Soda drinks have been known to trigger anything from brain disorders to you name it. The short answer is that they affect your mineral balance.
• Then there is the nasty chewing gum. Don't forget that the mucosa of your mouth quickly absorbs anything it comes in contact with.
• The same goes for all those oral hygiene products from toothpastes to mouth washes and the like. Most of these also contain fluoride - a known displacer of calcium.

All of these triggers affect the mucosal tissue of your mouth and eventually that of your gut. Intestinal inflammation is a natural outcome. Intestinal inflammation leads to mineral absorption problems. Different deficiencies and/or ratio lay the base to various diseases.

So far, every case of fibromyalgia i have come across, had an underlying mineral deficiency and an overacidification of the body. Since the composition of your blood must remain balanced (if you loose this balance you will end up in the emergency room) the body uses its built-in safety measure of being able to draw calcium and some other minerals from your bones. With your blood stream this leached out calcium gets circulated throughout your entire body, from small finger joints to brain cells. In time this calcium needs to be redeposited. In men it frequently builds up as plaque in the arteries leading to cardiovascular disease. In women it may affect joints leading to osteoarthritis. Alternatively it may affect the muscular tissue (fibromyalgia is one outcome) where it lowers the pain tolerance along with its effect on the brain cells and your nervous system.

Therefore, depression and other mental symptoms in a fibromyalgia patient are NOT the cause of fibromyalgia but lastely the result of the same triggers that cause the intestinal inflammation, pain, tinnitus, sleep problems and so on: bad food and lifestyle choices.

The ONLY recipe for fybromyalgia patients, therefore, is to avoid anything that may cause an inflammation and allergic response in the body. Remember, grains are some of the biggest culprits because their proteins easily leak through the walls of an inflamed gut (leaky gut syndrome) into your bloodstream. In addition all gluten grain proteins contain an opioid-like substance that leads to carbohydrate-additction and more inflammation.

In Summary Avoid:

• All processed foods and drinks, mainstrem oral hygiene products, incl chewing gum
• All chemicals, toxins, additives, preservatives, colorants, binders, etc.

The Good News:

Your body replaces some of its cells every 105 to 125 days. With proper food intake and carefully monitored mineral balance (get help from your natural medicine professional) you can once again be well!

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