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India
Testing
At the end of January 2008 I travelled
to Hyderabad in India to meet with Tom Rennie from Global Harmony.
We were meant to give a seminar on Metal Testing and
negotiate a new venture for the manufacture and distribution of our Harmonology
products in India.
Since I love the warmth I was looking forward to change
climates from a very cold China to a much warmer India. In China we experienced
the coldest and especially longest winter of the past 50 years and even in
Nanning (where I live when I am in China and which is a mere 2 hours bus
drive from the Vietnamese border) the temperatures nearly dropped to 0 C on some
days. Fish died in ponds and many plants got damaged or destroyed by the cold.
Hyderabad greeted me with a friendly 27 C. And that was not
the only friendly greeting. As on my many trips to India before, the hospitality
of the people we stayed with was simply overwhelming.
Tom was waiting with a driver at the airport in Hyderabad and
a two hours drive on India’s hazardous roads (cows, people, dangerously unsafe
looking trucks, buses etc.) got us to Warangal and Dr. Jay where we stayed for
the next days. Dr. Jay’s name is a pretty long Indian name and hence we will
leave it just at that…Dr. Jay. His wife Kavitha was a formidable host and
provided us with the most delicious vegetarian meals. Since I have given up
eating meat many years ago that was a great and welcome change from the ‘meat
only’ approach in Nanning where I always have difficulties to find something
without pork fat, chicken broth or small bits and pieces of some kind of meat
thrown into the ‘deal’.
After a couple of days of relative rest, enjoying the warmth
and the friendliness of the people whom I met on my daily morning and evening
walks, things became more serious with the seminar at the Maheswari Conference
Hall.
The panel was made up of Dr. Jay, Dr. Stephen McDonald (Australia), Dr.
Rama Chari, PhD, myself and Tom Rennie.
About 50 people had come for the demonstration and
explanation of the Ionic Metal Test and were keen to see the effect of CH77.
Among them medical doctors, chemists, alternative health practitioners and some
people from the general public.
After a short introductory talk by Dr. McDonald on
homeopathy, I was introduced by Dr. Jay and could start to explain some of my
theories and the Ionic Metal Test. Dr. Rama Chari sumarised some of the
mechanics of heavy metal testing in Telugu, a widely spoken language in the
south of India.
As usual many people wanted to be tested.
I was interested to see how ionic metal levels
compared between China and India. Both countries are still listed as
‘developing’ countries and their pollution levels, I thought, must be similar.
Hence the metal contamination in people should be similar as well. After testing
about 40 people I realised that in India we had many more ‘nearly green’ results
than in China…and Australia even!
That was pretty amazing. What could be the reason for such
lower levels of ionic metal contamination in Indian people when compared with
China despite the fact that their environment was polluted to a similar degree?
When we tested the tap water in Dr. Jay’s house we found to
our surprise that it was absolutely green. No ionic metals present. Most tap or
town waters I had tested in many countries were more or less polluted with ionic
metals. The pH of the tap water in Dr. Jay's home was about 7.5…and that, in
part, may explain the lack of ionic metals in the water. As you know, acid water
attacks and 'rusts' the water pipes which mostly consist of copper or galvanised
iron. Hence we can expect a mixture of copper, zinc and other metals from solder
etc. Here we could observe the obvious benefit of alkaline water. In Nanning
(China) where we had tested tap water previously the water was acidic (pH 6.5)
and full of ionic metals…and virtually everyone we tested there had a very
‘colourful’ test result.
But that alone could not explain the relative ‘better’ urine
test results we observed in India. Many people in China do not drink tap water
any more, but have drinking water from uncontaminated sources delivered to their
homes. Hence we had to consider other mechanisms which would explain the
relatively lower levels of ionic heavy metals in those people we tested in
India.
Air pollution is just as bad in India as it is in China.
Perhaps it is even worse since I had to wash my hands and face many times a
day…the washing water was always black! That could not be the determining factor
either.
There was one factor which came prominently to mind…most
Indian people are vegetarians whereas most Chinese people happily eat everything
that moves. Could a vegetarian diet help to ‘chelate’ ionic metals and hence
remove them from the body? Theoretically that would make sense. Meat eaters
often are much more acid than vegetarians. That increased acidity (see articles
I wrote before on acidity and ionic metals) ‘traps’ metals and increases the
production of free radicals through the ‘metal mediated Fenton reaction’.
An increase in free radical production should also lead to an
increase in chronic diseases and especially so cancer.
Hence I had a look at cancer statistics. The following
statistic compares the overall cancer rates of a number of different countries.
http://www.incc.cancer.ca/ncic/internet/standard/0,3621,84658243_85787780_379601028_langId-en,00.html#fig11.1
As you can see, India has the lowest incidence rates for all
cancers when compared with other countries…by far!!
Now I am not going to say that this is the iron clad proof
that vegetarians are living a healthier life than meat eaters, but nevertheless
the statistic is giving us some food for thought.
It is worth to think about these two food sources, meat and
vegetables, and how they compare with each other. As mentioned above,
vegetarians may have a lower incidence of over acidity when compared with meat
eaters. This lower level of acidity may indicate that there will be also lower
levels of metals present…a bit similar to the tap water, although the mechanism
is different. Furthermore, amino acids from vegetable sources are much easier
available to the body then from meat sources. That in turn would lead to a
better ‘chelation ability’, i.e. the body could ‘cope’ much easier with ionic
metals which may be present.
I decided to have a look at articles on the internet which
may support my theory…and the ionic metals test results we observed in India and
China. In the following are excerpts from some of the many articles I found.
Epidemiologically, the intake of animal source food
correlates with the country-by-country incidence of six types of cancer.
Although none of the reporting countries can be assumed to have large vegan or
even vegetarian populations, it appears that the less animal source food per
capita, the lower the cancer rate.
http://www.vegsource.com/harris/cancer_vegdiet.htm
People
who eat vegetarian or near vegetarian diets have the lowest rates of cancer in
the world. A vegetarian diet comes closest to the dietary guidelines for
reduction of cancer set forth by the National Cancer Institute of USA which
estimates that one third of all cancer deaths in USA and eight out of ten of all
cancers are related to diet. According to some estimates about 30%-40% of
cancers in men and up to 60% of cancers in women are due to dietary factors
(Bayer and Gragam, 1984).
http://www.ecomall.com/greenshopping/veggiediet.htm
Lifelong
vegetarianism, practiced by most Hindus in India, was associated with a 30% risk
reduction for colorectal cancer compared with non-vegetarian Indians, reported
Yogesh M. Shastri, M.D., of the J.W. Goethe University Hospital in Frankfurt,
Germany, at Digestive Disease Week sessions here.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/DDWMeeting/tb/5707
Formerly
seen as strange and faddish, vegetarian diets are now recognized by many,
including the American Dietetic Association as not only being nutritionally
adequate, but also a healthful, natural way to treat chronic diseases. Cancer,
heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes, gallstones and many other chronic
diseases are thwarted by integrating a healthful and well-balanced vegetarian
diet.
Tufts University
Medical School registered dietitian Johanna Dwyer summarized: “Data is strong
that vegetarians are at lesser risk for obesity, atonic [reduced muscle tone]
constipation, lung cancer, and alcoholism. Evidence is good that risks for
hypertension, coronary heart disease, type II diabetes, and gallstones are
lower.”
http://www.pacificcollege.edu/publications/articles/2007/march/Vegetarian_Diets_Cancer.html
And so I could go
on and on…but let these excerpts be sufficient to make my point.
Since I do not want
to convince everyone to become a vegetarian, we must look for other ways to
overcome the problem of increased ionic metal levels, the over production of
free radicals associated with that increase and hence a general increase in
chronic diseases. That other way certainly is a reduction in acid levels (by
increasing the body's ability to digest proteins, for example, or decreasing the
acid levels through alkalizers) and an increase in 'chelation ability' through
the use of CH77.
With best wishes for your health and
happiness,
Hans
Nanning (China) 4.3.2008
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