Strong Mus­cles Help Make Strong Spine

An excerpt from my book Build Strong Healthy Feet Ban­ish Aches & Pains

Pos­ture

Human spines have nor­mal curves which enable the mus­cles to oppose grav­ity and hold the back erect. As long as the mus­cles are strong enough to main­tain the bal­ance of these curves and pre­vent sag­ging, the back is com­fort­able. When the mus­cles are too weak to do this nor­mal work, the back sags, lig­a­ments are stretched, and then back­ache enters the pic­ture. Remem­ber to main­tain one’s body in a healthy state involves many fac­tors: healthy foods, rest, exer­cise, sleep, fast­ing, con­trol of emo­tions and mind and, last but not least, good posture.

If a body is well-nourished and cared for, good pos­ture is not a prob­lem. When the body lacks the essen­tials, poor pos­ture is often the result. Once poor lifestyle habits have been estab­lished, one must change to def­i­nite, cor­rec­tive healthy lifestyle liv­ing, such as proper exer­cises and daily delib­er­ate healthy pos­tural habits, etc.

I will look today for the mir­a­cle of the Divine Power in my heart and delight in the won­der of the plea­sure it will give me. Paul Bragg

Per­fect Bal­ance or No Balance

I hope you enjoy this excerpt from my book, Build Strong Healthy Feet Ban­ish Aches and Pains.

If foot func­tion is impaired, bal­ance will be dif­fi­cult. You will tire in a short time and even some­times in min­utes can suf­fer leg pains. Observe what hap­pens: at once the inner side of the foot comes into rapid play or action, with slight, con­stantly fluc­tu­at­ing adjust­ments nec­es­sary to sus­tain the body bal­ance; the outer side of the foot remains com­par­a­tively immo­bile
and your entire weight tends to focus upon that part.

The fluc­tu­at­ing inner part of the foot is called the spring-arch. Its chief func­tion is to adjust for and main­tain bal­ance. The outer por­tion is called the weight-bearing arch and it oper­ates to cen­ter and sus­tain the body weight. 

By this sim­ple exper­i­ment, you will learn not only the impor­tance of the struc­ture of your feet, but you will also be able to test their con­di­tion. The nor­mal, unim­paired foot will bal­ance the body per­fectly, with grace­ful, easy move­ments and only a slight sway­ing of the body. The weak, crip­pled or deformed foot will make vio­lent jerky efforts to bal­ance the body, but will fail! Impaired func­tion will force you to reach for sup­port, to drop the other
foot to the ground, or fall in a heap.

The con­di­tion of a great major­ity of feet are between the extremes of Per­fect Bal­ance and No Bal­ance. The vital impor­tance of this bal­anc­ing action of the foot becomes evi­dent the moment we con­sider the act of walk­ing. While walk­ing, we are con­tin­u­ously bal­anc­ing first on one foot and then on the other as we trans­fer the weight of the body for­ward from right to left and left to right. In fact, it is a move­ment demand­ing remark­able equipoise, for the height and mass of the human body are out of pro­por­tion archi­tec­turally to the nar­row base formed by the feet. The equi­lib­rium, in turn, depends upon the per­fect coor­di­na­tion of the nerves and mus­cles and their con­trol of the lever-like bones, ful­crums, bases, angles and shift­ing sur­face of the feet. Cor­rect walk­ing is a feat of bal­anc­ing on bal­anced feet!

Cre­ative Prob­lem Solving!!

Farmer John lived on a quiet rural high­way.
But as time went by, the traf­fic slowly built up and became so heavy and so fast that his chick­ens were being run over at a rate of three to six a day.

So one day Farmer John called the local police sta­tion and said, “You’ve got to do some­thing about all of these peo­ple dri­ving so fast and killing my chickens.”

What do you want us to do?” asked the police­man.
“I don’t care, just do some­thing about those crazy dri­vers!“
So the next day the police­man had the Main Road’s work­ers
go out to erect a sign that said: 

SLOW: SCHOOL CROSSING 


“You’ve got to do some­thing about these dri­vers. The ‘school
cross­ing’ sign seems to make them go even faster!“
So, again, the police­man sends out the Main Roads work­ers’
and they put up a new sign:

SLOW: CHILDREN AT PLAY 

That really sped them up. So Farmer John called and
called and called every day for three weeks.
Finally, he asked the police­man, “Your signs are doing no
good at all … can I put up my own sign?”

The police­man said, “Sure, go ahead.“
He was will­ing to let Farmer John do just about any­thing
in order to get him to stop call­ing to com­plain.


Three weeks later, curios­ity got the best of the police­man
and he decided to give Farmer John a call. “ How’s the
prob­lem with those dri­vers. Did you put up your sign?”

“Oh, I sure did,” replied Farmer John, ”and not one chicken
has been killed since then. I’ve got to go.

I’m very busy.”   He hung up the phone.

The police­man was really curi­ous and he thought to him­self,
“I’d bet­ter go out there and take a look at that sign … it might
be some­thing that WE could use to slow down dri­vers.“
     So he drove out to Farmer John’s house, and his jaw dropped
the moment he saw the sign.

It was spray painted on a sheet of wood.…
*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

NUDIST COLONY 
Go slow and watch out for chicks!

VEGETARIAN SAUSAGES

1 cup cooked lima beans

2 cups cooked soybeans

1 cup cooked navy beans

1 tsp Bragg Liq­uid Aminos

Egg Replacer equal to

½ tsp Bragg Sprin­kle 1 Tbsp Bragg Organic Olive Oil

⅔ cup soy milk

⅛ tsp paprika

½ tsp poul­try seasoning

1 cup corn­meal or whole-grain

1 egg cracker crumbs

1 Tbsp Bragg Organic Olive Oil

Put all beans in food proces­sor. Mix in sea­son­ings. Shape sea­soned beans into sausages. Beat Egg Replacer and soy milk. Now dip sausages in mix­ture, then corn­meal, and repeat. Place in pan with olive oil, and brown on all sides at 450°F. Serves 8.

I must live my life. No man can help me unless I build within myself a truer and bet­ter world. Paul Bragg

Patri­cia Stars in Film Shoot

Dr. Patri­cia Bragg and Elaine LaLanne (wife of exer­cise leg­end Jack LaLanne) starred in film pro­duc­tion for a new Health TV Pro­gram.  On set Patri­cia demon­strates Bragg Healthy Foods and Healthy Lifestyle.
She and Elaine remem­ber Jack LaLanne and his amaz­ing health contributions.

Here’s Patri­cia with crew prep­ping for shoot.

 Patri­cia on Set

Patri­cia with Elaine LaLanne

Patri­cia Reflects on  life of Jack LaLanne

I let my body glo­rify in the real­iza­tion that it is one with the Divine Power. Paul Bragg

ROASTED EGGPLANT ROLOTINI

1 egg­plant, slice

3 Tbsps Bragg Organic Olive Oil

2 cloves gar­lic, mince

¼ lb cooked lasagna noodles

Tomato sauce

1 tsp marjoram

½ cup fresh basil, chop

1 tsp Bragg Liq­uid Aminos

½ lb crum­bled firm tofu, drain

Cut egg­plant into 6-inch length slices. Place on oiled bak­ing sheet. Com­bine minced gar­lic with olive oil and brush on slices. Bake at 350°F for 20 min­utes or until ten­der. Cut lasagna noo­dles in half and place 1 egg­plant slice on each piece. Noo­dles should be at least 1-inch longer than egg­plant. Mix tofu with herbs and Liq­uid Aminos. Spread 6 of the mix­ture on each egg­plant and roll up.
Top with tomato sauce and cook for 30 min­utes. Serves 6.

What Can You Do Today to Reduce ?
Your Vul­ner­a­bil­ity to a Heart Attack or Stroke?

There are many fac­tors which can lead to stroke or heart attack such as: hyper­ten­sion, smok­ing, heavy alco­hol or caf­feine con­sump­tion, overuse of aspirin, med­ica­tions and drugs, heavy fat, salty, fried-food diet and being overweight.

Thou­sands of heart attacks and strokes occur every day in the U.S.! You could be next – unless you do some­thing about it start­ing today! You should start imme­di­ately to pre­vent a future heart attack or stroke! The pre­ven­tion of a heart attack is basi­cally a life-long job of healthy lifestyle liv­ing to pre­vent the slow accu­mu­la­tion of deposits that can clog the arter­ies. If you are seri­ous about avoid­ing a heart attack or stroke, you can begin our Bragg Heart Fit­ness Pro­gram right now.

Many car­di­ol­o­gists pre­scribe aspirin for its anti-clotting fac­tor. We don’t! They claim it may reduce heart attacks by 30% by reduc­ing blood clot­ting. Cau­tion: Aspirin may affect nat­ural clot­ting process too much (a friend almost bled to death). Also, some peo­ple develop seri­ous stom­ach prob­lems and gastro-intestinal bleed­ing. Instead they need imme­di­ate lifestyle changes for a health­ier heart! Also, tak­ing aspirin does not lower cho­les­terol or blood pressure!

The first thing to work for are clean arter­ies! The inner lin­ing of a healthy person’s arter­ies are smooth and flex­i­ble so blood (your river of life) can flow easily.