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Foo, Patricia Hill, Michael Hooven, Marianne Williamson H.A.N.S. 4 . . JANUARY 2007 (cid:41)(cid:46)(cid:51)(cid:48)(cid:41)(cid:50)(cid:33)(cid:52)(cid:41)(cid:47)(cid:46) (cid:72)(cid:69)(cid:0)(cid:65)(cid:87)(cid:65)(cid:75)(cid:69)(cid:78)(cid:73)(cid:78)(cid:71) (cid:45)(cid:65)(cid:71)(cid:73)(cid:67)(cid:0)(cid:68)(cid:79)(cid:79)(cid:82)(cid:87)(cid:65)(cid:89)(cid:0)(cid:73)(cid:78)(cid:84)(cid:79)(cid:0)(cid:84)(cid:72)(cid:69)(cid:0)(cid:68)(cid:73)(cid:86)(cid:73)(cid:78)(cid:69) (cid:0)(cid:66)(cid:89)(cid:0)(cid:36)(cid:69)(cid:86)(cid:82)(cid:65)(cid:72)(cid:0)(cid:44)(cid:65)(cid:86)(cid:65)(cid:76) I guess it was my time or, rather, shop room with the other participants “Who am I?” became my mantra. I had just come out of. I realized in that God’s time. I was 29 years old. I where we were welcomed with herbal By bedtime, I was so sick and moment that I was having a deep inner had a good husband and I was a tea and honey. All of our valuables were exhausted I thought I would die. I fell experience, not anything visible except successful model and dancer. By con- collected, packaged and stored away into the bunk and slept a bit. At 5 AM for the light that some could see emanat- ventional standards, I had an enviable for safekeeping. We were not allowed the morning bell rang, announcing the ing from my body that divine day. life and yet I felt somehow empty. to wear watches, jewellery, makeup or beginning of day two. I couldn’t believe For the rest of that day and night, I Something was haunting me. cologne. Nor were we allowed to drink that we could be so tortured. To the bath- was bathed in light and felt love toward Then, during a routine check-up, coffee or eat anything other than the room and then down to the workshop everyone and everything. All the things my doctor told me that my uterus had macrobiotic food provided. room to sit in front of another partner that I had hated the day before were now completely dissolved and I would never We were told that during the work- with bad breath saying to me, “Tell me luminous and beautiful. I spent three menstruate again. I would never have shop we would be paired off and face who you are.” hours weeping as I looked at my hand any children. I was devastated by the our partners for one-hour intervals in I was getting angry and the pain in and arm. I was awestruck at the miracle which we would take turns asking each my head was getting worse. I thought of the body that I lived in. I felt great rev- other one question, “Tell me who you of running away, but there was no trans- erence for the power that lay behind this are.” We would have an uninterrupted portation back to the city. Breakfast magnificent creation, even though I now period of time to answer and then we’d passed, showering, more partner work, knew that I was that power. I was expe- riencing the divine union of my body and soul. Nothing has ever come close (cid:41)(cid:0)(cid:82)(cid:79)(cid:76)(cid:76)(cid:69)(cid:68)(cid:0)(cid:65)(cid:82)(cid:79)(cid:85)(cid:78)(cid:68)(cid:0)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:0)(cid:84)(cid:72)(cid:69)(cid:0)(cid:70)(cid:76)(cid:79)(cid:79)(cid:82)(cid:0)(cid:73)(cid:78)(cid:0)(cid:70)(cid:73)(cid:84)(cid:83)(cid:0)(cid:79)(cid:70)(cid:0)(cid:69)(cid:67)(cid:83)(cid:84)(cid:65)(cid:83)(cid:89)(cid:12)(cid:0)(cid:76)(cid:65)(cid:85)(cid:71)(cid:72)(cid:73)(cid:78)(cid:71)(cid:0)(cid:65)(cid:84)(cid:0)(cid:65)(cid:76)(cid:76)(cid:0)(cid:79)(cid:70)(cid:0)(cid:84)(cid:72)(cid:69)(cid:0) to the supreme joy of that state. Every person who sat before me was God. 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Each person I interacted with at work felt divine. Looking deeply into their eyes, news and was telling a friend about it switch roles. After an hour, we’d change lunch. The pain and frustration were I felt tremendous compassion for them when she told me about an upcoming partners and continue. This would go on getting worse for all of us. Many had as they shared their problems with me. workshop designed to take participants for 18 hours each day, apart from breaks vomit bags next to them. The pain in my I knew then that God knows everything to enlightenment, provided they were for meals and to rest. head was unbearable; I felt as though it about us and has infinite patience. willing to apply themselves. I felt a The first night we did a few exercises was about to explode. Finally, at about But the most unexpected and shock- surging force of desire, stronger than to prepare ourselves, to get to know one 4 PM, every cell in my body felt like ing change was that I began to menstru- anything I had ever known. My simple another and to learn the technique. At the it was being crushed. I couldn’t bear it ate after five years. My doctor was curi- response was “I must go.” end of the evening, we collapsed into our anymore. My partner said, “Tell me who ous and concerned and ordered some We both forgot about my uterus. hard, cold bunks. Nobody slept. We were you are.” tests. A few days later, he called and Getting myself to the workshop was awakened at 5 AM. It was horribly cold, I I looked him straight in the eye told me that my uterus was completely surprisingly difficult. When I told Jeff, got up, stumbled to the bathroom and made and said with the most rage I had ever whole and perfectly healthy. I knew that my husband, he said, “You can’t go.” my way to the workshop room where I sat expressed in my life, “Who the hell do a miracle had taken place. He had never tried to prevent me from across from a half-asleep stranger who you think I am?” Then with great force, doing anything before, but this time he said, “Tell me who you are.” I screamed out, “I am me.” At that Vancouver-based Devrah Laval is was not only adamant, but angry. I felt I was miserable. I am not a morning moment, I heard a huge cracking sound author of The Magic Doorway Into the that I was fighting for my life. I told person and have a great aversion to talk- at the top of my head. Suddenly, I was Divine. She has been a spiritual counsel- him I was going anyway. The next day ing to anyone without at least a cup of free of all of my aches, pains and limita- lor and has facilitated numerous groups I asked my boss if I could take Saturday tea first, but then breakfast arrived. I had tions. Perhaps this is how death feels. and workshops. ([email protected]) off, but he refused. Like my husband, he a chance to shower and returned to the I became a very large presence. The (www.themagicdoorway.com). was adamant. I told him I was sorry but I routine. The sun slowly began to shine facilitator noticed and came rushing must go. By the time I left for the week- and I began to feel better. Even my part- over, asking, “Who are you?” I replied, end, I had no idea if I would have a job ners became more interesting and alive “I am me.” I couldn’t describe in words or a marriage when I returned on Mon- as they too began to warm to the routine. this all-pervasive experience of freedom day. But I felt as if something greater was Alternating every few minutes, we con- and knowing, but the “me” I felt was not driving me and I had no control over it. tinued with “Tell me who you are.” my body or personality. “I am God!” I Sleeping bag in hand, I was dropped I enjoyed baring my soul in this very said. Then I pointed to myself and said, off at an old retreat lodge for monks safe environment, however, the facilita- “This is God. I am!” outside the city. Everything was white tor warned us: “Stay focused on experi- The facilitator laughed heartily. I and austere. No flowers. No colour. encing and communicating the absolute began to laugh uncontrollably and fell There was one tiny closet for everyone’s truth of who you really are.” Hours went off my chair. I rolled around on the clothes. Each small bedroom had eight by, lunch came and went, more cleaning, floor in fits of ecstasy, laughing at all of hard bunk beds. It was an icy night in more exercises. The room began to take the lifelong beliefs that I was just this November and everything felt harsh, on a palpable quality of otherworldli- body and its desires, hopes and dreams. cold and naked. I just wanted to go home, ness. It was surreal. Day turned to night I wanted to share my joy with some of but I also knew I had already crossed the and I was exhausted. My head began my other partners, but they just sat there line and there was no returning. to ache, but I had to keep going. “Who looking at me as if I were insane. They I was ushered downstairs to the work- am I? Who am I?” over and over again. remained in the same great misery that (cid:42)(cid:33)(cid:46)(cid:53)(cid:33)(cid:50)(cid:57)(cid:0)(cid:18)(cid:16)(cid:16)(cid:23)(cid:0)(cid:14)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:14)(cid:0)(cid:21) WINTER 1982/’83 WINTER 1983/’84 WINTER 1984/’85 WINTER 1985/’86 WINTER 1986/’87 WINTER 1987/’88 25 inspiring years of Common Ground by Joseph Roberts discovered by a new generation with hair and a big smile asked me to sign a empower this new community. People enthusiasm for the causes. John Len- Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Respon- wanted answers on lifestyle issues non and other socially conscious musi- sibility petition demanding a govern- including birth, death, food, shelter, cians inspired our imagination to give ment inquiry into all aspects of nuclear relationships, sexuality, religion, shelter, peace a chance. Many groups like Voice power including uranium mining, mill- ecology, spirituality, creativity, work, of Women, Society Promoting Envi- ing, reactors, nuclear weapons and play and transitions. They also wanted to ronmental Conservation, Greenpeace, atomic waste. Little did I know that six connect with others contemplating these Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Respon- years later I would be dreaming up and same questions. It was into this renewal sibility and West Coast Environmental organizing Canada’s largest peace rally, that Common Ground was born. Prior to 1982 people needed more Law Association sprouted. Vancouver’s first Walk for Peace. Nor The magazine was black and white on access to information that was Music and dance were alive and well. did I know that Common Ground would newsprint, 28 pages long, and with only inspiring, independent and life The arts flourished. Grassroots groups be born. Such were those fertile times. 20,000 copies printed. When we first affirming. Mainstream media of the were growing. Direct action coupled time represented commercial interests with public education focused attention even more than today. No large indepen- to effect positive change. In 1976 at the Habitat Forum, thousands heard the compassion- dent newspapers or magazines existed to Much personal and social progress inspire people in the spirit of the times. came from this gathering together. Med- ate and passionate words of Mother Teresa, Buckminster Fuller, Many of us who grew up during the itation groups grew. Community gardens 1960s and ‘70s had questioned authority sprang up. People became informed, got Margaret Mead and Barbara Ward encouraging us to be kind to and now wanted more out of life than organized and effectively averted disas- the prescribed regimen. trous projects such as open pit uranium each other and wisely shepherd our beautiful world. The civil rights movement and Viet- mining near Clearwater, BC, the dump- nam war protests had been successful. ing of 2,4-D into the Okanagan’s Lake People were awakening to just causes Kalamata, and Atomic Energy of Canada People were reconsidering all aspects started publishing Common Ground it and experiencing their personal and asking BC Hydro to go nuclear. Saving of social transformation. They wanted was a personal resource directory cover collective power when engaged in hon- wilderness and wildlife came into popu- to find therapists, counsellors, heal- to cover. Section categories included ourable actions. These grassroots move- lar culture. Ecology and conservation ers, practitioners, workshops, seminars, the arts, business services, communica- ments morphed to renew the personal won over short-sighted agendas. products and fellow travellers to support tions, spirituality and many more, with growth, peace, anti-nuclear and environ- In 1976 at the Habitat Forum, thou- their self development and health. the major backbone being health, heal- mental movements. sands heard the compassionate and pas- Someone said that freedom of the ing and bodywork, psychology, therapy Each of these new flowerings of sionate words of Mother Teresa, Buck- press is only guaranteed if you own one; and counselling. We declared Common human spirit branched into a dazzling minster Fuller, Margaret Mead and Bar- so it seemed that starting a fresh new Ground a quarterly resource directory. variety of volunteer causes seeking a bara Ward encouraging us to understand independent publication could help to The cover quoted Robert Mueller deeper realization of self and a fuller that we are global citizens who need to co-inspire this new era. “Networking is a process of making actualization of social justice. The peace be kind to each other and wisely shep- Common Ground was conceived as a connections with other people,” from movement matured and sought inward herd our beautiful world. personal growth resource directory to be his book titled Networking: The First answers to outward problems. The I was swept up into the vibrant grass- published each season. Winter 1982 was Report and Directory. Networking is Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, roots movement opposing atomic ener- our premiere edition. what we’re really about. Our first issue War Resistors League, Ban the Bomb gy and bombs in BC during the ‘70s, Common Ground magazine was the had a picture of the West End photo- and other peace groups were being because an elderly woman with white first major publication in Canada to graphed by Greg McIntyre through Lost JAN/FEB 1995 DEC/JAN ’95/’96 DEC/JAN ’96/’97 DEC/JAN ’97/’98 JAN 1999 JAN 2000 6 . . JANUARY 2007 WINTER 1988/’89 WINTER 1989/’90 WINTER 1990/’91 WINTER 1991/’92 WINTER 1992/’93 JAN/FEB 1994 Lagoon’s bulrushes. Greg MacIntyre My first issue is singed around the Sweet Cheribum, City Farmer, so many workshops for $35 to $50 per person, was a dedicated volunteer, who later in outside edges because it survived the wonderful places. There was a global meals and housing included. That was his life was a photographer for Western fire when our office burned down. and social change section listing Oxfam, 1982. The Sufi Order, 3HO Founda- Canada Wilderness Committee. Unfor- Most of the people listing in the first Seva, CCNR and announcing a Daniel tion’s kundalini yoga, Friends of Find- tunately he died last year. issue were friends or organizations that Ellsberg talk at UBC. horn. There are so many wonderful CG held quarterly networking and we supported. In the energy and envi- The largest section, health, heal- people, places and practices listed. Then distribution parties whenever a new ronment section we had Greenpeace, ing and bodywork, listed so many still there was a section called tools for liv- issue of Common Ground came out. SPEC, West Coast Environmental Law involved in massage, aromatherapy ing which included Banyen Books, We invited all advertisers to come and and Western Canada Wilderness Com- and reflexology. Organizations such Black Swan Records, Camel Dance, The enjoy food, drink and be merry. And, of mittee, to mention a few. There was as Coalition for Alternative Therapies Comic Shop, Futon to Sleep On, Jay’s course, take copies of the new Common always space in the magazine which which became the Health Action Net- Exotic Kaya Kaya, Les Bonquieur – a Ground to help kick-start distribution. we filled with empowering quotes. One work. Practitioners such as Henry Dorst, French bookshop, Mido Framers, Phoe- The rest we did from our cars. such quote in the first edition may have Yvette Eastman, Chris Shirley of the nix Metaphysical, Spartacus Books. Reading the first edition, I see a lot of been prophetic. “A diamond is a piece of Vancouver Reflexology Centre, I have Another section titled women’s organi- people who listed in Common Ground, coal that stuck with it.” Well, Common to say to both Yvette and Chris, “Thank zations and services listed South Surrey who are still doing amazing things in our Ground stuck with it and that piece of you. You’ve been in every single issue White Rock Women’s Place, the Mid- communities today such as Co-op Radio wives Association of British Columbia. and the Ridge Theatre. In the 1980s I The MABC educated for the legalization did carpentry work five days a week and Little did I know that six years later I would be dreaming up and of midwifery in British Columbia. Common Ground on nights and week- And then the catch-all section et ends. Later I managed to switch to doing organizing Canada’s largest peace rally, Vancouver’s first Walk cetera which advertised one of the best Common Ground five days a week and parties we ever had for Common Ground carpentry on the weekend to keep the for Peace. Nor did I know that Common Ground would be born. at a place called Studio Acousticats on family cash flow going. West 10th near UBC. They had for their Our first logo and layout of the maga- logo the black cat from restricted saying zine was done in Alana Mascali’s base- coal became a diamond. of Common Ground for 25 years. It’s “completely concerned with music”. ment with the layout designed by Bob In the education section was Domin- people like you who’ve made it pos- Mercer, who then was also the designer ion Herbal College, Kirpal Ashram sible for us to continue our work and put Send us your most inspiring for the Georgia Straight. Typesetting School, UBC Centre for Continuing our best foot forward.” The twin broth- Common Ground stories. came on strips of photographic paper Education and the Waldorf School. ers Philip Clement and Peter Clement which needed to be cut and hot waxed The crafts section listed Oh Brother’s advertised bodywork and real estate ser- There are too many memories for just onto large blue-lined flats. This was store on West 41, and my brother David vices. There’s so much in just the first one issue of the magazine. We invite you before desktop electronic publishing. advertised wood carving while living issue! Another major section psychol- to write us with your favourite Common The masthead also read publisher: on Hornby Island. There are so many ogy, therapy and counselling announced Ground experiences, so we can tell your Alana Mascali, Michael Bertrand, memories. In the food section we have the leading edge of personal growth stories throughout our 25th year. Joseph Roberts, camera work: Uni- Canadian Health Food Association, work with Ann Davies, Eden seminars, We are now at a new point of illumi- type, layout: Jane Kane, Ricki Bertrand, Country Health, CRS Worker’s Co-op Gestalt Studios, NLP, Erickson Hyp- nation and awaking. This January 2007 back cover: Alana Mascali, typesetting: which started Uprising Bakery, Folklore nosis, Primal Therapy, Jim and Judy edition is dedicated to you. CG will be Guru Raj Kaur Khalsa, printing: Col- Herbs, Good Morning Dairy, Isadora’s Sellner’s Cortez Centre for relationship. sponsoring 25 events this year in appre- lege Printers. Probably these details are and Theodora’s cooperative restaurants Many have continued their growth, such ciation of our great community of dedi- mostly interesting to the pioneers. started by the founders of Ideal Mini- as Marilyn Atkinson now an internation- cated and compassionate people. 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Full stop. cal exercise. diet. None. “Leeches?” Nope. “Blood letting?” A biotech analyst at a St. Louis bro- Some might even go so far as to say Dr. Neal Barnard, the researcher who Wrong. Give up? It’s the word “cure.” kerage firm really captured this perspec- that remarkable, simple cures for type II ran this study, brims with enthusiasm We hear a lot about prevention, diag- tive in saying, “We sometimes joke that diabetes currently exist, yet they are not when he describes in a phone interview nosis and treatment. There are no end of when you’re doing a clinical trial, there being tested, promoted or used. A recent that the only side effects are good ones: stories about causes, links, associations, are two possible disasters. The first study of dietary interventions compared “They [the patients] lose weight. Their disease markers and genetic predisposi- disaster is if you kill people. The second a vegan diet to one recommended by the clothes don’t fit anymore.” Barnard is an tions. These terms litter the health sec- disaster is if you cure them. The truly American Diabetes Association. It found adjunct associate professor of medicine tions of our newspapers and fill our TV good drugs are the ones you can use that 43 percent of those on the vegan diet at George Washington University, and news broadcasts. No one seems to be chronically for a long, long time.” reduced their need for drugs to manage president of the Physicians Committee talking about cures these days. Let’s face it, long-term diseases their diabetes, compared with 26 percent for Responsible Medicine (www.pcrm. Why is that? Well, there are many – ones which sometimes mean a near- of the ADA diet group. OK, not stellar, org), a group which promotes preven- perspectives on this, but let me give lifetime dependence on drugs, devices, but it helps about two in five patients. tive medicine. you just one: “Cures” are unprofitable. medical interventions and treatments of In terms of lowering blood pressure and No one makes money on cures. 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To me, better financial returns to investors, we type II diabetes, also known as “adult would do best to stamp out and elimi- onset diabetes” is the quintessential dis- nate cures once and for all. A cure for ease that engenders lifelong dependency. any of the big, chronic diseases of our More than many diseases, it illustrates time – asthma, heart disease, arthri- the corporate model of modern sickness tis – would have a significant, nega- care that is keen on having you take tive impact on the stock market and in products over and over and over again. turn, the economy. It would cost jobs. Your “high” blood sugar, or glucose, a It would affect our competitiveness. We condition called hyperglycemia can lead couldn’t have it. to many long-term health problems, You’ll never hear health care indus- such as eye, kidney and nerve damage. try executives say outright that cures are The opposite of this, hypoglycemia, is anathema to their growth projections, also bad news, and happens when blood but if you look closer, you’ll find, as I sugar levels drop too low, impairing have, all kinds of very strong evidence mental functioning and sometimes caus- that possible “cures” are being denied, ing you to lose consciousness. discredited and otherwise undermined. 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(cid:116)(cid:1)(cid:51)(cid:70)(cid:72)(cid:74)(cid:84)(cid:85)(cid:70)(cid:83)(cid:70)(cid:69)(cid:1)(cid:34)(cid:68)(cid:86)(cid:81)(cid:86)(cid:79)(cid:68)(cid:85)(cid:86)(cid:83)(cid:74)(cid:84)(cid:85) diabetes seem almost “cure-like.” You Can we even take the IDF seriously (cid:116)(cid:1)(cid:53)(cid:83)(cid:66)(cid:69)(cid:74)(cid:85)(cid:74)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:66)(cid:77)(cid:1)(cid:36)(cid:73)(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:70)(cid:84)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:46)(cid:70)(cid:69)(cid:74)(cid:68)(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:49)(cid:83)(cid:66)(cid:68)(cid:85)(cid:74)(cid:85)(cid:74)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:70)(cid:83) can be sure the Diabetes Industrial Com- when it comes to talking about anything (cid:116)(cid:1)(cid:37)(cid:80)(cid:68)(cid:85)(cid:80)(cid:83)(cid:1)(cid:80)(cid:71)(cid:1)(cid:53)(cid:83)(cid:66)(cid:69)(cid:74)(cid:85)(cid:74)(cid:80)(cid:79)(cid:66)(cid:77)(cid:1)(cid:36)(cid:73)(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:70)(cid:84)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:46)(cid:70)(cid:69)(cid:74)(cid:68)(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:70) plex won’t like it. In fact, Dr. Barnard, that affects the financial interests of the and physicians like him, who propose diabetes business? 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But I see the (cid:68)(cid:66)(cid:77)(cid:77)(cid:1)(cid:85)(cid:80)(cid:77)(cid:77)(cid:1)(cid:71)(cid:83)(cid:70)(cid:70)(cid:1)(cid:18)(cid:15)(cid:25)(cid:25)(cid:25)(cid:15)(cid:21)(cid:20)(cid:23)(cid:15)(cid:22)(cid:18)(cid:18)(cid:18)(cid:1)(cid:80)(cid:83)(cid:1)(cid:19)(cid:22)(cid:17)(cid:15)(cid:20)(cid:25)(cid:21)(cid:15)(cid:19)(cid:26)(cid:21)(cid:19) in Cape Town, South Africa, last month, issues around our blood glucose to be (cid:88)(cid:88)(cid:88)(cid:15)(cid:68)(cid:68)(cid:66)(cid:80)(cid:78)(cid:15)(cid:68)(cid:80)(cid:78)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:71)(cid:80)(cid:33)(cid:68)(cid:68)(cid:66)(cid:80)(cid:78)(cid:15)(cid:68)(cid:80)(cid:78) the International Diabetes Federation largely social, rather than medical. 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Have (cid:16)(cid:30)(cid:30)(cid:20)(cid:26)(cid:30)(cid:23)(cid:27)(cid:26) percent of the world’s adult population. we engineered the nutrients out of our (cid:16)(cid:24)(cid:24)(cid:1)(cid:31)(cid:27)(cid:25)(cid:20)(cid:26)(cid:2) In the words of IDF president-elect food and the need for physical energy Martin Silink, “The diabetes time bomb out of our lives? has been ticking for 50 years and it’s My resolution for this year is to (cid:12)(cid:38)(cid:1)(cid:47)(cid:38)(cid:43)(cid:1)(cid:31)(cid:24)(cid:44)(cid:28)(cid:1)(cid:24)(cid:37)(cid:47)(cid:1)(cid:38)(cid:29) getting louder.” With a market set to devote 2007 to diving into this, the most (cid:42)(cid:31)(cid:28)(cid:1)(cid:29)(cid:38)(cid:35)(cid:35)(cid:38)(cid:45)(cid:32)(cid:37)(cid:30)(cid:1)(cid:41)(cid:47)(cid:36)(cid:39)(cid:42)(cid:38)(cid:36)(cid:41)(cid:8) expand within 20 years to affect roughly heavily marketed disease of the cen- (cid:56)(cid:1)(cid:28)(cid:25)(cid:29) (cid:22)(cid:31)(cid:28)(cid:41)(cid:28)(cid:1)(cid:24)(cid:40)(cid:28)(cid:1)(cid:38)(cid:37)(cid:35)(cid:47)(cid:1)(cid:24)(cid:1)(cid:29)(cid:28)(cid:45)(cid:1)(cid:38)(cid:29)(cid:1)(cid:42)(cid:31)(cid:28)(cid:1)(cid:41)(cid:47)(cid:36)(cid:39)(cid:42)(cid:38)(cid:36)(cid:41)(cid:1) 380 million people, you can imagine the tury – type II diabetes – and examine (cid:56)(cid:1)(cid:16)(cid:44)(cid:53)(cid:40)(cid:36)(cid:49)(cid:54) (cid:40)(cid:28)(cid:35)(cid:24)(cid:42)(cid:28)(cid:27)(cid:1)(cid:42)(cid:38)(cid:1)(cid:31)(cid:38)(cid:40)(cid:36)(cid:38)(cid:37)(cid:24)(cid:35)(cid:1)(cid:32)(cid:36)(cid:25)(cid:24)(cid:35)(cid:24)(cid:37)(cid:26)(cid:28)(cid:7) diabetes industry – the makers of drugs, the myriad ways in which the Diabetes (cid:56)(cid:1)(cid:23)(cid:47)(cid:47)(cid:40)(cid:49)(cid:32)(cid:33)(cid:40)(cid:42)(cid:40)(cid:49)(cid:54) (cid:21)(cid:47)(cid:37)(cid:42)(cid:31)(cid:28)(cid:42)(cid:32)(cid:26)(cid:1)(cid:14)(cid:38)(cid:40)(cid:36)(cid:38)(cid:37)(cid:28)(cid:1)(cid:20)(cid:28)(cid:39)(cid:35)(cid:24)(cid:26)(cid:28)(cid:36)(cid:28)(cid:37)(cid:42)(cid:1)(cid:22)(cid:31)(cid:28)(cid:40)(cid:24)(cid:39)(cid:47)(cid:1)(cid:38)(cid:40)(cid:1) monitoring devices and blood test strips Industrial Complex is making your high (cid:56)(cid:1)(cid:25)(cid:45)(cid:45)(cid:35)(cid:1)(cid:48)(cid:52)(cid:40)(cid:44)(cid:38)(cid:48) (cid:10)(cid:32)(cid:40)(cid:42)(cid:31)(cid:1)(cid:11)(cid:38)(cid:37)(cid:42)(cid:40)(cid:38)(cid:35)(cid:1)(cid:19)(cid:32)(cid:35)(cid:35)(cid:41)(cid:1)(cid:24)(cid:40)(cid:28)(cid:1)(cid:37)(cid:38)(cid:42)(cid:1)(cid:42)(cid:31)(cid:28)(cid:1)(cid:24)(cid:37)(cid:41)(cid:45)(cid:28)(cid:40)(cid:7) (cid:56)(cid:1)(cid:23)(cid:44)(cid:48)(cid:45)(cid:43)(cid:44)(cid:40)(cid:32) – are salivating at the size and scope of blood sugar the hottest disease on the (cid:56)(cid:1)(cid:55)(cid:21)(cid:45)(cid:38)(cid:38)(cid:54)(cid:57)(cid:1)(cid:49)(cid:39)(cid:40)(cid:44)(cid:41)(cid:40)(cid:44)(cid:38) (cid:9)(cid:35)(cid:42)(cid:28)(cid:40)(cid:37)(cid:24)(cid:42)(cid:32)(cid:44)(cid:28)(cid:1)(cid:14)(cid:38)(cid:40)(cid:36)(cid:38)(cid:37)(cid:28)(cid:1)(cid:21)(cid:38)(cid:35)(cid:43)(cid:42)(cid:32)(cid:38)(cid:37)(cid:41)(cid:1)(cid:32)(cid:41)(cid:1)(cid:24)(cid:1)(cid:26)(cid:35)(cid:32)(cid:37)(cid:32)(cid:26)(cid:1)(cid:38)(cid:29)(cid:1) this market. Any cure for this chronic planet. 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(cid:56)(cid:1)(cid:21)(cid:32)(cid:49)(cid:40)(cid:38)(cid:50)(cid:36) (cid:24)(cid:40)(cid:28)(cid:1)(cid:41)(cid:32)(cid:26)(cid:34)(cid:1)(cid:24)(cid:37)(cid:27)(cid:1)(cid:42)(cid:32)(cid:40)(cid:28)(cid:27)(cid:1)(cid:38)(cid:29)(cid:1)(cid:29)(cid:28)(cid:28)(cid:35)(cid:32)(cid:37)(cid:30)(cid:1)(cid:41)(cid:32)(cid:26)(cid:34)(cid:1)(cid:24)(cid:37)(cid:27)(cid:1)(cid:42)(cid:32)(cid:40)(cid:28)(cid:27)(cid:5)(cid:1) tes Federation (IDF), anyway? 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Have you any experience with “… global advocate for more than 240 treating it or “curing” it in yourself or (cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:3)(cid:32)(cid:33)(cid:35)(cid:45)(cid:43)(cid:36)(cid:44)(cid:5)(cid:1)(cid:39)(cid:40)(cid:46)(cid:48)(cid:5) (cid:18)(cid:32)(cid:42)(cid:42)(cid:1)(cid:11)(cid:8)(cid:10)(cid:6)(cid:12)(cid:9)(cid:13)(cid:6)(cid:9)(cid:14)(cid:14)(cid:14) (cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:49)(cid:39)(cid:40)(cid:38)(cid:39)(cid:48)(cid:4) million people with diabetes world- someone close to you? 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