Introduction

This book is intended to provide helpful hints on detoxifying your body instead of spending a lot of money and time being diagnosed for a disease or other malady and having a treatment prescribed.
     Nadine has tried each of these methods at various points in her life, with beneficial effects.  She wrote this from experience.  Each of the methods described in these pages is a natural, non-prescription way to cleanse one’s body of toxins—the poisons created in your body due to unhealthy stimuli in our environment.  We all need to clean out ourselves constantly.  Parasites cannot infect a healthy body.
     “Detoxing” in this day and age connotes the process which smokers, user of all types of drugs, or an alcohol abuser goes through to clean his or her body of a harmful substance and to rid his or herself of dependence or addition to that substance.  But there are many other toxins in our modern society that can negatively affect our health, from air pollutants to processed foods, white flour, artificial sweeteners and preservatives, impurities in our drinking water, microwaves, power lines, new carpets, building materials, negative thoughts, and stress from being around toxic people.
     This book is meant to provide ways to wash or draw out these impurities, to restore health, balance, and feelings of well-being.  When the body is balanced, it provides no host area for parasites, viruses, fungi or bacteria to exist.
    One final note:  She is not suggesting that a person suffering from a disease should not consult a physician.  Her point is merely that you don’t automatically have to seek a doctor’s diagnosis for every ailment.  Home cures can often help.  There is no better guard against disease than a healthy, well balanced body—spiritual, mental, and physical, combined with a joyful, optimistic outlook.  
     A few of the five dozen ways to detox: 

·     One of the most powerful detoxifiers is a SAUNA.  It sweats toxins out through the skin.  If you smoke, you can touch your arm with your tongue and taste the bitter nicotine leaving your body. 

Some clinics give a guest niacin tablets, take a blood pressure reading, send the guest to the sauna, and repeat the cycle over and over, charging thousands of dollars for the cure.
     You can find a sauna at a spa or health club.  A usual stay in a sauna is about 20 minutes, followed by a shower or dip in a cool pool, then another 20 minutes in the sauna and so on.  Those with severe poisonings may go every day or until one feels better.  It is best to do this on a regular basis to retain good health.  I would go for the whole day and take a bag of organic apples to eat and lots of mineral water to drink.  If you do this on a regular basis, it is wonderful for your health.    MORE
 

            It was the first time I even thought of wearing something other than a suit and tie (something I did for 8^th Grade graduation and for other special occasions). But my mother was insistent: a cummerbund? A bow tie? (well-that was OK!) a tux? How much did it cost to rent? You mean I have to buy a flower (corsage) for her as well?
     All of this was in connection with the proms at WHS. I had the chance to attend three of them. It was the “social event” of the season, a lot more “upscale” than the sock hops and other dances held in the cafeteria. And as opposed to the special events of “Homecoming” and “Sweetheart” events, everyone eligible by their Junior or Senior status had the chance to dress up and attend.
    That’s how I got the chance to attend the first one. As a sophomore, I was asked by a Junior girl. It was my invited entry into the social goings on of the upper classes. 
     Besides the starched collar and the itchy shirt and pants, the event was nice as I tried to blend in. It was the first time I had seen girls at school in strapless gowns!  I also remember the Junior girl had to get a school permit for me to attend.
      As a Junior you were a part of the prom scene for the next two years, being that it was a Junior-Senior event. In my Junior year I took a classmate whom I was dating at the time. Since the gym was the perennial location, our Junior Class selected theme “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” I remember people climbing the tall scaffolding to hang crepe paper and balloons on the metal supports because I was one of them. But since we had to climb a rope hanging from the beam in gym class during the year, it was no big deal to us.    
      In looking through my yearbook for 1961, I had forgotten I was the Master of Ceremonies for the occasion and had saved the script for some of the events that night. Tom O’Connor sang “Pocketful of Rainbows” Eugene Raggo sang “Rock Island Line”, and Margie Wright sang “Rock Around The Clock” accompanied by Wayne Wilson and Mickey Hagan.
      One last item here-my buddy and I double dated at the Prom. We had decided to take our dates to either the swanky Blue Top Inn or the Carriage House Inn. When we got there and I looked at the prices and my wallet, I knew I needed help. Just couldn’t imagine food could cost so much! Should have had more food at the Prom! My buddy helped me out and saved the evening!
       Must have had my mind elsewhere in my Senior Year and don’t really remember much about that Prom. Perhaps it was more a case of looking ahead to college in the fall or not seriously involved with anyone. I did come across a permit from the school to allow me to bring a girl from St. Thomas Aquinas. And I remember having a car by then and borrowing my dad’s edition to pick her up and take home again.
       I had not worn a tux since that time (1962) until this year (2008) when my son married in Chicago!

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