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"Pottenger then recorded his observations with exacting measurements and photographs. The cats fed cooked and pasteurized milk developed common degenerative diseases such a diabetes and arthritis, while the group of cats fed only raw food prospered, living much longer than the cats from the other groups. Dr. Pottenger reported the underlying nutritional factor had to be a substance that was destroyed by the heat used in the cooking and pasteurization processes; the raw foods not exposed to this processing maintained this substance (enzymes), while the cooked and processed food did not." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"In 1946, he experimented with 900 cats. Half were fed raw milk and raw meat; the other half ate cooked meat and pasteurized (cooked) milk. During a ten-year period, he found that the cats on the raw diet thrived, while those on the cooked food diet showed all the degenerative diseases common in man. By the third generation, all the cats on the processed diet were sterile or congenitally malformed. Not only do we have more energy (life force) from raw foods in our diet, but our bodies are more thoroughly hydrated due to their high water content." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"While there are certainly exceptions, generally cats do what cats do. They like high places and will gravitate to the highest ones—the same countertops, refrigerators, and windowsills that are forbidden zones. Although they may honor our rules while in our presence, when they're alone, cats rule their own worlds. THE MIRRORS ARE EVERYWHERE The reason I share this story is because of what Tigger's behavior "did" to me. In his simply being who he was, I found myself frustrated almost to the point of anger." - Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief (Get the book.)

"To find out if his instinct about Orabilex was right, Wennberg set up a series of experiments in which he injected cats with escalating doses of the drug. After all the cats died of kidney failure, Wennberg went to the Johns Hopkins administrators, persuading them to take Orabilex off the formulary, the hospital's list of approved drugs. But they ignored his suggestion that they put pressure on the FDA to withdraw the drug, saying it was not their responsibility." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"While cats normally do not need to be given vitamin C because they are able to synthesize adequate amounts, they require diets containing about 40 mg of niacin per kg of body weight each day. 9 This is very similar to the amount of vitamin C synthesized daily by most mammals, but not, of course, humans. cats have more or less lost the ability to synthesize niacin and most get pre-formed niacin supplements in their diets. cats eating niacin-deficient diets develop "black tongue" hemorrhagic diarrhea, anemia, and reddening and ulceration of the mucous membranes of the tongue and mouth." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD, Feel Better, Live Longer with Vitamin B-3 (Get the book.)

"The cat would become agitated (at least, sometimes), and Cannon would then draw blood from the animal and compare it with the blood of cats that had not been made to feel threatened.11 Following a lead from a colleague, Daniel Roy Hoskins, who was working in a laboratory in Ohio, Cannon found that the blood of frightened cats always contained a certain hormone then called adrenin (today called adrenaline or epinephrine). At the time, it was known that adrenin was secreted by the adrenal gland (located on the kidney)." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Feline leukemia is a form of cancer contracted by cats and caused by a virus. This disease is invariably fatal, with 70% of cats dying within 8 weeks of early symptoms. Most cats are euthanized as soon as the diagnosis is made. In one study, acemannan from aloe was injected weekly for 6 weeks into the cats, with a followup 6 week waiting period. After this 12 week study, 71% of the cats were alive and in good health.36 Acemannan has also demonstrated a potent ability to fight the flu virus, measles and the HIV virus while also reducing the dosage required of the drug AZT." - Patrick Quillin, PhD,RD,CNS, Beating Cancer with Nutrition (Get the book.)

"The virus is so lethal that once cats develop clinical symptoms, they are usually euthanized. Typically, over 70% of cats will die within eight weeks of the onset of clinical signs. In a study of 44 cats with clinically confirmed feline leukemia, acemannan was injected (2 mg/kg) weekly for six weeks, and the cats were re-examined six weeks after termination of treatment.144 At the end of the 12-week study, 71% of the cats were alive and in good health." - Joseph Nd Pizzorno, Total Wellness: Improve Your Health by Understanding and Cooperating with Your Body's Natural Healing Systems (Get the book.)

"Sheldrake's problems is that not merely does he require a morphogenetic field for cats, but he requires a morphogenetic field for Abyssinian cats, Siamese cats, for ordinary torn cats in the alley, and the sheer complexity of this inter-penetrating set of fields really does make the mind boggle. Particularly when one recognizes that cats are only one of a few million species. Sheldrake: The thing that is mind-boggling is the sheer diversity and complexity of nature. I mean there are all these different kinds of animals and plants." - Rupert Sheldrake, A New Science of Life (Get the book.)

"VETERINARY STUDIES Eleven cats with papulocrustous dermatitis randomly received either EPO or sunflower oil for 12 weeks. cats in both groups improved during the period of treatment and the concentration of LA in erythrocyte phospholipid increased in the cats fed EPO. Six weeks after the treatment was withdrawn, the cats fed EPO had deteriorated less than those fed sunflower oil.49 Fourteen cats with crusting dermatoses were treated with various combinations of EPO and fish oil. The cutaneous symptoms improved in those treated with either EPO alone or in combination with fish oil." - Simon Mills and Kerry Bone, Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy: Modern Herbal Medicine (Get the book.)

"In the innocence of just being who they are, they can ignite powerful feelings of control and judgment about the way things should or shouldn't be. cats offer a perfect example. My first experience with cats began in the winter of 1980. I was working for a petroleum company as a computer geologist and living in a small apartment in Denver. As a member of the newly formed technical-services department, I spent most of my days, evenings, and weekends learning the ins and outs of new computers and applying what I learned to the traditional concepts of petroleum geology." - Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief (Get the book.)

"Forty years ago, Barry Sterman, professor emeritus of the departments of Neurobiology and Biobehavioral Psychiatry at UCLA, accidentally discovered that this anticipatory emotion sent cats into a meditative state; their brains slowed to an EEG rhythm of 8-13 hertz, corresponding to human alpha brain frequencies, moments before they got their reward.52 Eventually, he was able to get the cats to re-create this state at will, not simply when they were awaiting food. It was tantamount to the animals' being able to control their own brain waves. But could a human being do the same?" - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Francis Pottenger began a study that ran for ten years, covering four generations of cats, more than nine hundred in all. In this study, Dr. Pottenger controlled the type of food the cats were fed. One group was fed only raw food and unpasteurized milk, while the others were fed a combination of cooked and processed foods. Dr. Pottenger then recorded his observations with exacting measurements and photographs." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"During a ten-year period, he found that the cats on the raw diet thrived, while those on the cooked food diet showed all the degenerative diseases common in man. By the third generation, all the cats on the processed diet were sterile or congenitally malformed. Not only do we have more energy (life force) from raw foods in our diet, but our bodies are more thoroughly hydrated due to their high water content. A diet of exclusively cooked foods forces the body to use its own fluids to moisten the ingested food, and therefore has a dehydrating effect." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"He had allergies to cat and dog hair, and his asthma was triggered by colds, flu, cats, and sometimes dogs. He had previously seen a naturopath, who had taken him off gluten. After this gluten restriction, he did begin gaining some weight, and eating somewhat more food. There was also some improvement in his chronic constipation. He was very prone to recurrent upper respiratory infections, which frequently progressed to asthma. He tended to be chronically tired, had problems sleeping through the night, and had chronic anxiety." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"We carried home, in addition to complaining cats, a printout with our kittens' names, entitled, " Comprehensive Physical Exam." "Just as annual physical checkups are recommended for people," we read with incredulity, "your pet should be brought in for a comprehensive physical exam each year, even if you aren't noticing any particular problems. Doing so helps us discover potential problems before they become more serious and aids us in keeping your pet healthy." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"CATS cats are America's number one pet. There are some 23 million cat people in the United States, and they live in every setting imaginable— country, city, and in between. cats are wonderful, independent companions, and often live to be as much as 15 years old. Cats can be perfectly happy by themselves, a good point to remember if no one is home during the day. Plus, a litter box takes a big worry off a cat owner's mind. If you want to raise, educate, and watch over a cat, get a cuddly kitten, but not one that is younger than 10 to 12 weeks, no matter how adorable." - Linda Mason Hunter, The Healthy Home: An Attic-to-Basement Guide to Toxin-Free Living (Get the book.)

"In examining cats raised with one eye sewn shut, they found that the visual cortex was significantly smaller. All this work established the metaphor of the brain as a muscle, and the notion of use it or lose it. Aside from challenging the long-standing separation between biology and psychology, the social implications of environmental enrichment were radical. The Berkeley studies led to the creation of Head Start, the federal education program that provides funding to send disadvantaged children to preschool. Why should poor kids be left in bare cages?" - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Although fairly common among dogs, cats, and horses, heterochromia iridium is quite rare in humans. In another form of this condition, heterochromia iridis, the different colors are in the same eye, creating a piebald or SIGN OF THE TIMES The ancient Greeks feared people with blue eyes, believing they could cast the evil eye. To ward off the threat, they carried around blue charms that looked like blue eyes. Today, many Greeks—as well as other southern Europeans and Middle Easterners—still carry these blue amulets. mottled effect." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"One experiment that makes the case for the importance of taurine in protecting the brain was conducted using cats.33 Two sets of cats were fed an identical concentration of L-cystine, but one group was fed a taurine-free diet and the other was given a small amount of taurine. All nine cats fed the taurine-free diet plus the 5% L-cystine developed lethargy, inability to stand, rigidity of the neck and lower limbs, epileptic seizures, and eventually died. The cats fed a diet containing a small amount of taurine plus the L-cystine showed only minimal symptoms or were symptom free. None died." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills (Get the book.)

"Typically, over 70% of cats will die within eight weeks of the onset of clinical signs. In a study of 44 cats with clinically confirmed feline leukemia, acemannan was injected (2 mg/kg) weekly for six weeks, and the cats were re-examined six weeks after termination of treatment.144 At the end of the 12-week study, 71% of the cats were alive and in good health. • Typical antiviral dosage: 800 mg of acemannan or one quart of Aloe vera juice per day Astragalus membranaceus Astragalus is a Chinese herb traditionally used to treat infections. Some research supports its antiviral activity." - Joseph Nd Pizzorno, Total Wellness: Improve Your Health by Understanding and Cooperating with Your Body's Natural Healing Systems (Get the book.)

"The epidemic was halted by the airlifting of hundreds of cats.15 The idea of cats being flown in to combat a lethal epidemic may seem a bit surreal, spawning visions of thousands of little parachutes descending from the sky bringing a brigade of "purr-atroopers" to the rescue. But what happened in Bolivia was quite serious, and reflects the role cats have long played in keeping rodent populations in check. Today's "house-cats" are descended from animals bred by the Egyptians to protect their grain stores." - John Robbins, Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the True Source of Healing (Get the book.) "When the problem was finally traced to a virus which spread through mouse urine, national radio sent out a plea for donated cats to be sent to the afflicted area. The epidemic was halted by the airlifting of hundreds of cats.15 The idea of cats being flown in to combat a lethal epidemic may seem a bit surreal, spawning visions of thousands of little parachutes descending from the sky bringing a brigade of "purr-atroopers" to the rescue. But what happened in Bolivia was quite serious, and reflects the role cats have long played in keeping rodent populations in check." - John Robbins, Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the True Source of Healing (Get the book.)

"You can tell a boom by its fattest cats, and today's fat cats got rich at the expense of the poor. "Them that has, gits" is the general drift of things. In countries like France, the gittin' of those who have is detested by those who haven't. "Behind great fortune lies a crime," observed the great novelist Balzac. Sensible people in France try to look poorer than they are to avoid being detested. But in the Anglo-Saxon countries, people try to appear richer than they are, because the lower classes tend to admire the rich; they have no desire to cut their heads off." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"Instead of feeling loneliness, you see yourself as a seventy-year-old spinster with sixteen cats. Instead of dealing with simple anger, you're afraid you'll hurt someone. Norma is a thirty-six-year-old mother of three. Every day at 4:30 p.m., she starts to count the hours until her husband will get home. She gets so overwhelmed and it feels as if she'll never get any relief from the laundry, the kids fighting, and her mother, who, recently widowed, is dating on a regular basis and wants Norma to be her confidante about her new sexual endeavors." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"Allen's team first induced an asthma attack in 10 people who had known allergies to cats, and then performed a HRCT. The next day, they exposed these individuals to cats, and took another scan six hours later. The researchers performed yet another scan 22 hours after that cat exposure, during another induced asthma attack. Even after the outward symptoms (such as difficulty breathing) abated, all 10 people continued to experience a decrease in lung function, the testing showed." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"We are born, we grow up, we get married and have children, and one by one collect houses, possessions, cats and dogs, all the while inevitably getting older and moving in a line toward death. Indeed, the most tangible evidence of the progression of time is the physical fact of our own ageing. The other inviolate notion from classical physics is the notion that the world is a geometric place filled with solid objects with spaces in between them. The size of the space in between determined the kind of influence one object had on another." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

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