"The Men Who Killed Kennedy and "The Love Affair" --Its Vanishing Playlist

Abraham Zapruder

Once again, the playlist for the banned History Channel documentary, THE LOVE AFFAIR, has vanished. After much searching, an avid supporter found the five segments, though scattered, and placed them in the correct order so they can be viewed in sequence (as they were originally before being scattered).

Seg 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ry3DrsN9PY&feature=related
Seg 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRLDm7YT25w&feature=related
Seg 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBbe0jexWn4&feature=related
Seg 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGNyprupDTU&feature=related
Seg 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZyJ1APE6Lc&feature=related

Along the same lines, over 230,000 references to my name have evaporated from the Internet. Yesterday another 100 vanished. When the level goes to 20,000 (it is now 20,200) I ask people to request google to restore the 'lost' references. Twice, it has then shot back up to over 26,000 this year. A far cry from quarter of a million, but hard to complain when Nigel turner, who once had 42,000 references, is now truncated on search engines to a mere 4,600, last I looked.

You find the exact number by placing "Judyth Vary Baker" in quotes before doing the name search, or "Nigel Turner" or "Lyndon Johnson," etc.

It is my hope that everyone reading this blog will make copies of the "playlist" and send it around. Censorship is a word that should not exist where humanity enjoys freedom of speech. Somebody tell that to those who are teaching our people that "conspiracy theory" is what anything involving Kennedy's death by any hand other than Oswald's should be called. We who tell the truth are supposed to be denounced,  our groups infiltrated, and disinformation is to be spread about us.

Several encyclopedias online have reproduced the now-erased inaccurate and nasty Wikipedia biography that had such choice gems in it as, I published several books, ran a number of businesses out of my university English teaching office, wrote a book called "From Dallas with Love" about Lee and me -- which never existed-- and worked for the Ochsner Clinic in 1972(!) -- the same year that somebody posed as "Judyth Vary Baker" to Ed Haslam in New Orleans. Because of this --God knows how I hated to ever have had to speak out, and waited many years -- but this must be corrected -- my authorized, official biography will be written and submitted to numerous sites within the next few days. 

It is a fact that Oswald was innocent. The truth is overwhelming, despite the weight of Bugliosi's book, the weight of the 26 volumes, and the weight of the members of the Warren Commission (figuratively and physically). Against all those lies are many pieces of evidence, such as the tiny weight missing from the "Magic Bullet" versus to what was removed from Connally's shattered wrist, proving all by itself that other bullets were fired.
We now know for a certainty that the Zapruder film was drastically altered, thanks to "The Hollywood Seven" and Doug Horne's fine work, along with Dr. James Fetzer and his team of researchers (The Great Zapruder Film Hoax).

The indefatigable Ed Haslam, and those other great Americans who have battled to protect the truth from extinction are our true American heroes. One look at what America has become since 1963 shows what happens when a conspiracy removes a legally elected sitting American President.
(I'm not sure Bush-Shrub was legally elected -- are you?)
From that pivotal event in Dallas came the first President to resign from office, the first president APPOINTED to the office, a vice president's resignation for corruption, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the Afghanistan War, the war in Iraq (What next, Iran?). Not to mention rampant greed, corruption, etc. that is both ungodly and ubiquitous. Exhausted American families are being ripped apart by those who want to get the last drop of sweat and toil and energy from them.
Sweden's people get five weeks of paid vacation.
My friend who just came to visit me said he could not get ANY vacation the first year he worked as a security guard. The next year --one week.
My God! In the 1960's, we talked of 30 hour work weeks.
The American Dream is a nightmare of overwork, homeless, drugs, debt, poor diet and bankruptcy as any health problem can wipe out a lifetime of savings (I know!).
How is it that banks can be saved, with billions of dollars, but good, hard-working American families are turned out of their homes because they can't pay the banks due to the horrendous unemployment situation and what I will call the Great Depression of 2008? A freeze should be placed on all house payments for one year. Know what? That would save us. Instead, the banks got the money, but the people still had to pay the banks...a double-stuffed Oreo Cookie treat if I ever saw one -- but for the banks, not the people.
Student loans should be cancelled to give everybody a fresh start.
Do you consider that an outrageous idea?

Do you realize that our kids have a terrible future, due to the greed and evil that is ruining their lives?

Kids graduate with enormous debts to repay--and can't get a job! They default or defer their loans. I have spoken to many despairing students who have simply given up ever being able to repay their skyrocketing student loans--they deferred them a couple of years because they had no jobs.
Our poor kids have mortgaged their lives and their futures to the banks.
Who can afford to become a doctor?
Where are the dreams of all qualified students getting their chance to go to college?
Nor can I, who have a folder full of inventions, several of them medical inventions, turn any of them into reality, because the costs of development and patenting are so high. I will cheerfully donate my inventions in the medical field to anyone capable of turning them into reality. One is to prevent the formation of bedsores.
I've tried for two years to give the invention to someone capable of developing it.
Free.
Because I want to help people.
No takers.
Nobody can afford to do the patent search, pay for a patent, etc. Certainly not me.
Inventing something in America is easy.
Getting it to the people these days is extremely difficult.
Ford, Goodyear, Edison--they'd be helpless in today's milieu.
As for "American" (Industrial Complex) interventions and preemptive wars, where our precious young men and women die, supposedly to save us from terrorists, while, instead, we make good Muslims hate our guts, why don't we intervene in the situation in Darfur? Or Somalia? I'll tell you why: it's called a lust for money, oil, and power, an unquenchable greed, a deep and enduring case of corruption, that has nothing to do with preserving our freedom, but everything to do with making money.
You know it.
I know it.
It's a sad fact that doors are closing.
Doors of hope.
Doors of opportunity.
Our kids are having to leave America in order to make a decent new life for themselves.
...I was dismayed to see that the US ranks 47th (2009 statistics) in terms of longevity, with Bosnia, Puerto Rico and Jordan ranked higher.
(Ref: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_lif_exp_at_bir_tot_pop-life-expectancy-birth-total-population)
Sweden ranks #10, but only because so many crippled and wounded refugees from Iran, Iraq, Somalia, etc. swarm into that tiny country: without political asylum seekers (10% of Sweden's population is foreign-born) that country would rank right up there with Macao, Andorra, Japan, and its neighboring Scandinavian countries.
John F. Kennedy said that we must not ask what our country can do for us, but what can we do for our country.
The Number One thing we can do for our country is to care about the truth.

I have had the privilege of welcoming a young visitor from America. Fairly well-educated, he typifies the condition of so many young Americans: decent jobs are overseas, so he has come overseas in an attempt to survive this economic crisis.
He learned his history from the state-approved textbooks and the AP history courses. What he learned was slight, often wrong, and made little impression. He thought the "black panthers" killed Martin Luther King!
He thought Iraqi terrorists brought down the twin towers. He was told that in school!
And because the History Channel's "Conspiracy Theorists" online video described me as claiming to have "invented Aids" HE ASKED ME IF I HAD DONE SO!
I told him the truth and lamented the fact that nobody at the History Channel, who slammed me, Jim Marrs, and Edward Haslam--while at the same time making Jim Garrison look like a dunce, mentioning one of Garrison's odd, earlier ideas about the nature of the conspiracy that killed Kennedy, while ignoring his later, more accurate assessments ---I told him, I repeat, I told this young man that nobody at the History Channel ever asked me, before making their defamatory and libelous and even dangerous statements about me --- I repeat a third time--not one of them ever, at any time, met me, or spoke to me, to verify their outrageous claims before presenting them to who knows how many thousands of viewers.
The book Me & Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald-- will soon be released.
To you.
It is a book the History Channel does not want you or anybody else to read.
They want you to read the big book they praise for its size -- written by Bugliosi--a man who never met me, either, yet offered plenty of insults about me-- they want you to believe the Warren Commission, where the enemies of JFK were called together by Lyndon Johnson --including Dulles of the CIA who had been fired by Kennedy. From the beginning, the evidence was handled by the FBI and the CIA, with the Mayor of Dallas--Cabell--overwatching (his brother, a fine general, was also fired by Kennedy).
The truth can stand the test of time only if the truth is known.
Help me keep the truth alive.
I do need your help to spread the word.
Only with your help will I dare return to a beloved country.
Meanwhile, every day I will pick up a bottle of brown dirt and look at it--it is soil from the state of Texas, where it all happened. Sent to me by a researcher I respect, it is more important to me than anything else I have here in exile.
That soil comes from where all five of my children were born.
That soil comes from where the man I loved more than anything in the world was gunned down before my eyes, as I watched on TV -- accused, though he had courageously tried to save Kennedy, of Kennedy's murder, by the very people who orchestrated Kennedy's death.
That soil, which comes from where I wish I could have had a horse (once helped save 37 starving horses near Houston....).
Where dear and precious family and friends live...
The land of the free and the home of the brave...
My America.
Under seige.
Don't let the Truth die!
Help me.


Judyth Vary Baker

CONSPIRACIES AND CONSPIRACISM : FROM DR. JAMES FETZER'S ONLINE JOURNAL, WITH COMMENTS BY JUDYTH VARY BAKER

MADISON, Wisc. -- A new study from Political Research Associates entitled Toxic To Democracy: Conspiracy Theories, Demonization, & Scapegoating, by Chip Berlet now proclaims that conspiracy theories are “toxic to democracy” because they share some portion of moral responsibility for irresponsible acts, such as the shooting of the abortion provider, Dr. George Tiller, which some have associated with Rush Limbaugh and other pro-life zealots. By adopting a sweeping stance that does not discriminate between different cases on the basis of logic and evidence, Berlet discredits himself. Since conspiracies only require collaboration between two or more individuals in illegal acts, they are as American as apple pie.

COMMENT BY JVB:  CONSPIRACY IS WHAT THE CIA IS ALL ABOUT:

"In most of its operations, the CIA is by definition a conspiracy, using covert actions and secret plans, many of which are of the most unsavory kind. What are covert operations if not conspiracies? At the same time, the CIA is an institution, a structural part of the national security state. In sum, the agency is an institutionalized conspiracy."    rEF:   questionsquestions.net The JFK Assassination II: conspiracy phobia on the left", by Michael Parenti, 1996

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Perhaps Berlet didn’t get the memo, but according to the government, the US was attacked on 9/11 by 19 Islamic fundamentalists who used box cutters to hijack four airplanes, outfox the most sophisticated air defense system in the world, and commit multiple atrocities under the control of a guy in a cave in Afghanistan.

 When I published a critique of the “official account,” which suggests the facts contradict it, I used the title, THE 9/11 CONSPIRACY, in the knowledge that either way a conspiracy was involved -- either one told by the government using THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT, or something far more sinister, which involved key members of the Bush administration with a little help from their friends. (See, e.g., “9/11 and the Neo-Con Agenda” and the PowerPoint presentation, “Was 9/11 an ‘inside job’?,” which is archived at 911scholars.org.)

According to Berlet, belief in a conspiracy turns out to be the manifestation of a “belief system” that violates the principles of logic. Having taught logic, critical thinking, and scientific reasoning for 35 years, however, the violations of logic seem to be committed by the author. Berlet commits many fallacies in the course of his study, including some stunning, easily disprovable generalizations about reasoning:

“Conspiracism is neither a healthy expression of skepticism nor a valid form of criticism; rather it is a belief system that refuses to obey the rules of logic. These theories operate from a pre-existing premise of a conspiracy based upon careless collection of facts and flawed assumptions. What constitutes ‘proof’ for a conspiracist is often more accurately described as circumstance, rumor, and hearsay; and the allegations often use the tools of fear -- dualism, demonization, scapegoating, and aggressively apocalyptic stories -- which all too often are commandeered by demagogues.” (Toxic to Democracy)

COMMENT BY JVB:  But the government was allowed to do just that during the reign of McCarthyism: specifically: "....demonization, scapegoating, and aggressively apocalyptic stories -- which all too often are commandeered by demagogues..."

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No one would deny that a certain proportion of the American public may be vulnerable to “conspiracism” in this sense, which represents the modus operandi of Rush Limbaugh and other right-wing zealots, who find conspiracies to be a ubiquitous part of public life, from left-wing efforts to spend the country into oblivion to encouraging illegal immigrants to flow into the country unabated to questioning whether Barack Obama has the qualification for office of being “native born.”

These are the kinds of “conspiracy theories” that are a dime a dozen, which find gullible followers across the country by the bushel basket.

But so what?

If conspiracy theories like these are supposed to be “toxic to democracy,” then democracy needs to be made of sterner stuff.  Circumstance, rumor, and hearsay, after all, tend to be the starting point for more serious studies of specific events.

The BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is a case in point.

Who has not heard swirling rumors about Halliburton having cut corners, the BP practice of putting profits before safety, and the further catastrophes that await those who reside along the coast of the states that are most directly affected? Puzzlement over phenomena that do not readily fit into our background knowledge and preliminary understanding is the point of departure for scientific investigations that may better reveal the truth.
Suppose we were prohibited from speculation and rumor in relation to the events that have made the most difference to American history in recent time?


COMMENT BY JVB: WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF THIS KIND OF CENSORSHIP OF THOUGHT.
IS IT REALLY "UNAMERICAN" TO RECALL THAT WE WERE TOLD IRAQ HAD RAILROAD CARS LOADED WITH WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, AND WE HAD TO ACT FAST AND INVADE THAT COUNTRY, IN A PREEMPTIVE ACT OF WAR, TO SAVE OURSELVES?  WE BLINDLY DID WHAT WE WERE TOLD.  DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT DISSENTERS WERE CALLED?

"In the famous Pentagon Papers case, the government sought to prohibit The New York Times and The Washington Post from publishing a series of articles about some highly classified documents about the U.S. government and the Vietnam War.

Then-Attorney General John Mitchell sought injunctions to prohibit the newspapers from publishing such information. The case eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which in 1971 ruled 6-3 in favor of the press. In his opinion, Justice Hugo Black wrote: "Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell."

Ref:    http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=15746

THIS REMINDS ME OF WIKI=-LEAKS TODAY....

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The most important aspect of reasoning is comparisons between different theories to measure which best explains the data.
Indeed, Jesse Ventura’s AMERICAN CONSPIRACES advances no less that 14 illustrations of the collaboration between two or more individuals to bring about illegal ends, from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (where four co-conspirators were hanged from the same gallows at the very same time), to the big-money conspiracy to overthrow the government in 1934 on to Watergate, the Jonestown Massacre, the Iran-scam that gave the presidency to Ronald Reagan, drug-dealing by the CIA, and many more -- a list that can be readily expanded by the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK, and Malcolm X (see, for example, JFK and RFK: The Plots that Killed Them, The Patsies that Didn’t).

Berlet claims (what he calls) conspiracism “must be confronted as a flawed analytical model, rather than a legitimate mode of criticism of inequitable systems, structures, and institutions of power.” He claims it suffers from four debilitating features as “metaframes” of the model:

1) dualism, according to which the world is -- presumably simplistically -- divided into the forces of good and the forces of evil;

2) scapegoating, according to which an individual or group of people is wrongly stereotyped with negative characteristics;

3) demonization, according to which an individual or a group is taken to be the personification of evil; and,

4) apocalyptic aggression, which occurs when scapegoats are targeted as enemies of the “common good” and may be subjected to violence.

What is fascinating about these categories is how well they fit many of the government’s own campaigns to convince the American people to support an unpopular course of action. 

After 9/11, for example, the world was divided into the forces of good (the Americans) and those of evil (the Mulsims). Members of the Muslim community were said to be fanatical and violent, contrary to the principles of the Koran. Nineteen alleged hijackers and al Qaeda were scapegoated as responsible for those atrocities. And wars of aggression would be launched against Iraq and Afghanistan, which continue to this day.

Berlet tells us that what “conspiracy theorists lack is the desire or ability to follow the basic rules of logic and investigative research.”

We can all remember being told Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11, but eventually even George W. Bush acknowledged that Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11.
We were told that Iraq was in cahoots with al Qaeda, but investigations by the Senate and the Pentagon showed that that was not the case.
And when Ed Haas of “The Muckraker Report” questioned Tex Tomb of the FBI about why 9/11 received no mention on a “wanted poster” for Osama bid Laden, he was told the reason was the FBI had “no hard evidence” connecting Osama bin Laden to the events of 9/11. But if Saddam was not responsible, and if Osama was not responsible, then who was responsible for 9/11?

Indeed, according to THE 9/11 COMMISSION, 15 of the 19 alleged hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. 

The number from Iraq was zero.
So why did we attack Iraq instead of Saudi Arabia?
That looks like a stunning illustration of the failure to follow basic rules of logic or investigative research.

As Ron Suskind, THE PRICE OF LOYALTY, reported, George W. Bush’s first secretary of the Treasury, Paul O’Neil, was astonished that war with Iraq was discussed at the first meeting of the cabinet, nearly nine months before the events of 9/11. Which means 9/11 was used as a fabricated rationale to support a predetermined conclusion, which appears to have been a policy that was adopted by Bush and Cheney before their formal inauguration.

While Berlet insists that “conspiracism” fails to follow the basic rules of logic and investigative journalism, he should have explained that rumor and conjecture represent the second stage of scientific modes of reasoning, where it is crucial to elaborate all possible alternative explanations to insure that the true hypothesis is not excluded from scratch. 

COMMENT BY JVB: CAN YOU IMAGINE REFUSING TO TEST CERTAIN HERBS TO SEE IF THEY HAVE ANTI-CANCER PROPERTIES BECAUSE THE HERBS ARE RUMORED IN FOLKLORE TO CURE CANCER?  THAT'S THE SAME KIND OF ILLOGICAL REASONING THAT GOES ON WHEN WE, THE PEOPLE, ARE ASKED NOT TO THINK FOR OURSELVES REGARDING GOVERNMENT PLANS AND DECISIONS.

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Thus, the first stages of puzzlement and of speculation are followed by those of adaptation (of hypothesis to evidence, using likelihood measures of evidential support) and of explanation (when the evidence has “settled down” and the best supported hypothesis is entitled to acceptance in the tentative and fallible fashion distinctive of science (see “Thinking about ‘Conspiracy Theories: 9/11 and JFK”).

The essence of Berlet’s book, however, is that he believes conspiracy theories come out of psychological needs of prejudiced people, which makes them INTERNAL FANTASIES. He is thereby throwing the crime baby out with the conspiracy bath water. Conspiracies really do happen in the EXTERNAL WORLD. They are not merely internal figments of the imagination. It is true that some people embrace conspiracy theories and reveal themselves by the inability to improve or adjust their views in light of new evidence or new hypotheses. If they are scapegoating, then the internal origin of their conspiracy need is manifest. However, conspiracy crimes are commonplace and external to us. When they are the subjects of objective investigations, those who study them are governed by logic and evidence, which are basic to rationality.

Ultimately, Berlet has defined a belief system called “conspiracism” that has only tenuous connections with conspiracies. While some gullible persons may satisfy its constraints, there are vastly more conspiracies than there are examples of conspiracism. Ask what Shakespeare would have had to write about if not for plots against the kings and queens of England. How many victims of conspiracies have died in the 20th century alone? In his brilliant study, “The Silence of the Historians,” for example, David W. Mantik, M.D., Ph.D., lists the names of more than two dozen prominent political figures -- from Franz Ferdinand and Czar Nicholas II to Salvadore Allende and Fidel Castro -- who were targeted for assassination by multiple conspirators on a single page of MURDER IN DEALEY PLAZA (page 402).

The ultimate failure of Berlet’s study is that it succumbs to the kind of simplistic thinking that he condemns.

The world is divided into forces of good (the rational thinkers) and evil (the conspiracy theorists).
The evil conspiracy theorists are stereotyped as trading in circumstance, rumor, and hearsay, while the rational thinkers follow the rules of logic and investigative journalism.
Their careless collections of facts and flawed assumptions are often commandeered by demagogues.
And of course they can be used to incite unjustified violence against innocent parties.

But this presumes knowledge of which claims are true and which assumptions are flawed. Simplistic thinking of Berlet’s kind does not advance understanding. As Michael Moore said, when asked if he was into conspiracy theories, ”Only those that are true.” Each case must be evaluated on its merits using logic and evidence.

Thanks to Mike Sparks for inviting my attention to Berlet’s study and more.

James H. Fetzer is the editor of assassinationscience.com and co-editor of assassinationresearch.com. He has a blog at jamesfetzer.blogspot.com. His academic web site is found at www.d.umn.edu/~jfetzer.

GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT LOSING WEIGHT

If you've finished reading the prior posts about losing weight, you'll have noticed that record keeping is important.
All important things in your life require record keeping.
What you eat should be no different if your weight has gone out of control.
If you refuse to keep accurate records at the bank, guess what? You'll end up having to take responsibility for what happens to your bank balance, and it can be quite painful.
If you refuse to keep accurate records about what you put into your mouth, guess what? You'll end up reading this advice because your weight is out of control.

GET A BLOOD PROFILE

Your physical 'bank account" is made up of three factors:

1) your blood profile
2) your eating habits
3) your exercise habits


Check your blood profile, using the best test you can afford.
Make sure your thyroid functions well.
Make sure you're not "hypothyrididc" with a GOOD blood test that shows ALL the related values
Check cholesterols -- good and bad -- and triglyceride levels.
Check your potassium level, your blood pressure, the health of your heart.

If you are among those unfortunate Americans who can't get this done, a victim of the cruel system that says only people who can buy it can get good health care, it's even more important to be very careful about what you eat.

Overweight is a result of eating too many 'things' that masquerade as real food, but are not. Cheap ice cream, for example, when allowed to dry out on a surface, is likely to resemble plastic. Consider sugar and salt as items that are basically poisonous. What grows in sugar? Nothing.

Things masquerading as food that contain preservatives and flavor enhancers such as MSG have been created to make lots of money for the manufacturer, because they keep a long time and will taste 'good' no matter how poor the original ingredients might have been.

You will do your family a favor by making a rule that nothing but real food comes into your home. If your family wants pizza -- fine--they can go out and eat it. But I guarantee that if you begin cooking and serving delicious, real food, they'll make such trips out less often.

Here's where you should be, if you're following this advice:

1) you are weighing yourself every day, preferably at the same time. Do not be discouraged with weight fluctuations. You'll learn more about your natural rhythms this way.

2) You eat forbidden things only in the presence of others, outside your home, and you stick to just ONE (if it's cheeseburgers, have as many as you like, but no coke, no milkshake, no fries...if it's fries you crave, no burgers, no coke, no milkshake! Got it? You can have ONE forbidden thing--and all you want of it.

(hint: as you start losing weight, chances are, you will starT getting better control of this)

3) You will not bring your favorite things masquerading as food into your home.

A GOOD RULE OF THUMB: IF IT HAS MORE THAN 300 CALORIES PER 100 GRAMS, DON'T EAT IT. DON'T LET IT INTO THE HOUSE. (BUT YOU CAN HAVE OLIVE OIL AND SMALL AMOUNTS OF BUTTER THAT YOU NEED FOR GOOD HEALTH, AND TO MAKE FOOD TASTE GOOD)

NOW YOU ARE READY FOR THE NEXT STEP:


3) USE A GOOD CALORIE COUNTER, AND KEEP A GOOD RECORD. FOR ME, TO LOSE WEIGHT, I HAVE TO STICK TO 1200 CALORIES. IF I EAT ABOUT 1600 CALORIES A DAY AND DO NOT EXERCISE THAT DAY, I WILL GAIN WEIGHT.

HERE IS ONE I RECOMMEND (IT TAKES A LITTLE PRACTICE TO USE IT):


http://www.everydayhealth.com/mcc-beta.aspx


REMEMBER, CHEATING IS CHEATING AGAINST YOURSELF.

-------START KEEPING TRACK OF CALORIES INGESTED-----

NOTE: FOR 'SALT' YOU HAVE TO MAKE THE '1' A ZERO AND THEN ADD 1/8 TEAS, OR WHATEVER....

PRINT OUT YOUR FINAL SCORE EVERY DAY.

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HINTS ON STICKING TO YOUR DIET:

DO NOT CALL IT A DIET! IT'S A NEW LIFESTYLE!

1) I GO ON THE ATKINS DIET FOR TEN DAYS....FOR ME, THIS STRIPS OFF EXCESS FLUIDS AND
THEN, WHATEVER I ADD, IT SEEMS HEAVENLY GREAT AND DELICIOUS!

2) AFTER TEN DAYS, I ADD A FAVORITE CARB DISH, SUCH AS A HELPING OF PASTA OR TWO TORTILLAS,
AND A PIECE OF FRESH FRUIT. FOR THOSE WHO LIKE WINE, MAYBE THAT'S WHAT YOU'D LIKE.

3) WHEN HUNGRY, DRINK WATER, OR CHEW GUM!

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THE BIG CHANGE:

COME ON, YOU KNOW THE CUPBOARDS HAVE THOSE 'THINGS' IN THEM!
COOKIES, CANDY, CHOCOLATE...
IN THE REFRIGERATOR, LEFTOVER CAKE, OR.... AND THERE'S ALWAYS BREAD, AND BUTTER...RICE, AND ALL THAT WHITE STUFF I TOLD YOU MUST NOT GET INTO YOUR MOUTH....IF IT'S WHITE AND COMES FROM SOME KIND OF FLOUR, YOU CAN;T HAVE IT! NOT UNTIL YOU HIT YOUR TARGET GOAL! AND THEN, JUST ONE HELPING.

IF YOU GAIN THREE POUNDS, GO BACK TO THE ATKINS DIET, OR BACK TO THE PRE-PASTA (OR WHATEVER) PERIOD AND ADD MORE EXERCISE.

NEVER GAIN ORE THAN THREE POUNDS.

NOW, BACK TO ALL THAT STUFF ILLEGALLY LABELED AS 'FOOD' THAT NO SELF-RESPECTING HUMAN SHOULD HAVE EVER BEEN TRAINED TO EAT:

OUT IT INTO SACKS AND GIVE IT AWAY--TO CHARITY, TO A CHURCH, TO A HOMELESS HSELTER, WHATEVER!

THEY NEED THE CALORIES!
YOU DO NOT!
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AND KEEP IT OUT OF THE HOUSE!
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WANT TO HAVE GUESTS OVER FOR A GREAT MEAL?
YOU CAN HAVE BARBECUES--JUST SAY AWAY FROM THE WHITE STUFF!
YOU CAN HAVE BIRTHDAY PARTIES--BY EAING OUT--JUST TAKE NOTHING HOME IN A DOGGIE BAG!

VITAMINS AND SUPPLEMENTS YOU SHOULD CONSIDER

A GOOD WAY TO AVOID CANCER IS TO KEEP HEALTHY CELLULAR LIFE.

HERE'S WHAT I DO:

1) I TAKE A GOOD MULTIVITAMIN (WITH MAIN MEAL)
2) i TAKE A GOOD CALCIUM-MAGNESIUM-VITAMIN D-3
SUPPLEMENT (AND PLEASE DON'T TELL ME YOU'RE SCARED OF D-3! IT'S ANTI-CANCER!)(CALCULATE YOUR OWN NEEDS FOR ALL VITAMINS AND SUPPLEMENTS)--THIS SHOULD BE TAKEN WITH THE MAIL MEAL
3) (WHILE ON ATKINS DIET, OR IF i GET A COLD --SOMETHING i NEVER GET, BY THE WAY!) EXTRA VITAMIN C, WITH BREAKFAST
4) OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS, FROM SOURCE WITH NO MERCURY CONTAMINATION)
5) APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, ORGANIC--I USE IT AS BASE OF SALAD DRESSING---ORGANIC SOURCE CONTAINS TRACES OF DICHLORIACETIC ACID--ANTI-CANCER CHEMICAL
6) ALPHA LIPOIC ACID---ONE A WEEK, FOR GOOD KIDNEY FUNCTION
7) IF YOU LIMIT YOUR MEAT INTAKE--USE B-12 LIBERALLY--I USE WHEN I HAVE A DAY OF FISH AND/OR CHICKEN/EGGS ONLY..
8) NIACIN--BEST IN THE FORM OF INOSITOL--EVERY OTHER DAY---USE WHEN YOU DO NOT TAKE D3
9) D3--WHEN NO CHANCE TO GET OUT IN THE SUN FOR 15 MINUTES (TOO MUCH SUN IS BAD, A LITTLE IS GREAT FOR THE SKIN AND TO PROMOTE STRONG BONES AND TEETH, AND FIGHT CANCER!)--DO NOT TAKE D3 AND INOSITOL ON THE SAME DAY
10) TRANS-RESVERATROL, A GOOD BRAND, 50 MG ONCE OR TWICE A WEEK, ON A DAY YOU ARE NOT TAKING ALPHA LIPOIC ACID
11) DHEA --ONCE OR TWICE A WEEK
12) BIOTIN--ONCE OR TWICE A WEEK---TAKE DAILY WHILE ON ATKINS DIET
13) CO-ENZYME Q-10 50 MG EVERY OTHER DAY
14) LECITHIN--EVERY DAY WHEN ON ATKINS DIET, EVERY OTHER DAY OTHERWISE, AND TAKE ON EVERY DAY THAT YOU EAT ANY FORBIDDEN THING...PERHAPS IT WILL HELP YOU NOT TO GET A HEART ATTACK

NOTE: A BABY ASPIRIN EVERY DAY WITH MAIN MEAL IS ADVISED, FOR EVERY 100 POUNDS OF WEIGHT..NOT
NEEDED ON DAYS YOU EAT BROCCOLI OR CAULIFLOWER.

I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT ADVICE HERE YOU DECIDE TO TAKE.
THIS HAS WORKED FOR ME AND A NUMBER OF FRIENDS.
IT WILL WORK FOR YOU, IF YOU MODIFY IT ACCORDING TO YOUR OWN NEEDS.

WHEN YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE ENOUGH TO KEEP TRACK OF WHAT YOU EAT, AND WHAT YOU ALLOW INTO YOUR HOME, YOU'RE A WINNER--AND A LOSER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE RIGHT KIND OF LOSER!

====WHAT IF YOU BREAK, AND BINGE?====

HERE'S THE BIG MISTAKE: THINKING "TOMORROW, I'LL START MY DIET AGAIN!"

INSTEAD, YOU SHOULD THINK THIS:

==OOPS! I'M SPITTING OUT THIS MOUTHFUL AND QUITTING!==

THE KEY IS TO START TODAY.
NOW.
EVEN IN HE MIDDLE OF A 'BINGE'--SAY--STOP!

YES, YOU CAN DO IT.

FOR SOME PEOPLE, OVEREATING FOOD IS AN ADDICTION, NOT JUST A BAD HABIT.
YOU MAY NEED SPECIAL COUNSELING IF YOU ARE GROSSLY OBESE.
HOWEVER, I AND SEVERAL OF MY FRIENDS WHO WERE OBESE HAVE FOUND THIS METHOD TO WORK.

IT IS A LIFESTYLE, NOT A DIET.
REMEMBER, YOU CAN STILL EAT OUT WITH YOUR FRIENDS.
WHEN EAING OUTSIDE YOUR HOME, YOU CAN EAT ANY REAL FOOD YOU WANT THAT'S NOT ON THE 'WHITE' LIST...
NO RICE, NO POTATOES, NO PASTA....
IF YOU CHOOSE A FORBIDDEN THING (SUCH AS PIZZA) OR A WHITE THING....
YOU CAN CHOOSE ONE. JUST ONE.
AND EAT ALL YOU LIKE OF IT.
KNOW WHAT?
YOU'LL FIND IT HAS LESS AND LESS ATTRACTION FOR YOU.

REMEMBER--YOU CANNOT BRING IT INTO YOUR HOME!
IF IT'S CHOCOLATE YOU CRAVE, YUOU CAN, SAY, HAVE A NICE SALAD WITH YOUR FRIENDS, AND A CHOCOLATE BAR...BUT TOSS OUT WHATEVER YOU DON'T EAT BEFORE YOU GET INTO YOUR CAR! (YES, YOUR CAR COUNTS AS 'YOUR HOME'--THAT'S WHY YOU ARE FORBIDDEN TO EAT AT ANY DRIVE-THROUGH ESTABLISHMENTS--EVER!).

TRY IT.

IT WILL WORK IF YOU'RE SERIOUS ABOUT LOSING WEIGHT.
I'VE KEPT MY WEIGHT STEADY FOR TWO YEARS NOW AND HAVE JUST EMBARKED ON A SECOND ROUND
OF WEIGHT-LOSS, AS I STILL HAVE 30 POUNDS TO GO TO GET TO THE WEIGHT LEVEL I ONCE ENJOYED BEFORE HAVING FIVE CHILDREN. MY PROBLEM HAS BEEN LOOSE SKIN. I'D LOOK EVER SO MUCH THINNER IF IT WEREN'T FOR THAT! BUT I FEEL MUCH, MUCH BETTER.

I WISH YOU THE BEST.

JVB

STEP TWO: LOSING WEIGHT AND KEEPING IT OFF.

STEP TWO

A PROMISE, AND A LIST

STEP ONE WAS TO BEGIN A WEIGHT RECORD. FACE IT AND DO IT.

YOU SHOULD KEEP TRACK OF YOUR WEIGHT FOR ONE WEEK BEFORE STARTING STEP TWO.

WE WILL DO EVERYTHING SLOWLY, BECAUSE WE ARE CHANGING YOUR LIFESTYLE STEP BY STEP.

YOUR FAITHFULNESS IN STEP ONE WILL PROVE TO YOURSELF THAT YOU ARE SINCERE IN YOUR DESIRE TO LOSE WEIGHT AND KEEP IT OFF. IF YOU DIDN'T KEEP THE WEIGHT CHART FOR ONE WEEK, START OVER.

WHEN YOU SUCCEED WITH THE WEIGHT CHART, YOU'RE READY FOR STEP TWO.

WHEN SUCCESSFUL IN ESTABLISHING YOUR WEIGHT CHART FOR ONE WEEK, YOU'RE READY FOR STEP TWO.

STEP TWO IS VERY SIMPLE:

YOU CAN ONLY EAT FORBIDDEN THINGS WHEN YOU ARE OUTSIDE YOUR HOME, IN THE PRESENCE OF OTHERS, NEVER ALONE. YOU CANNOT BRING HOME ANY FORBIDDEN THINGS.

NOT ONE POTATO CHIP.

NOT ONE COOKIE.

NOT ONE BOTTLED BEVERAGE.

GOT IT?

==========YOUR LIST OF FORDIDDEN FOODS====================

MAKE A LIST OF YOUR FAVORITE "THINGS TO EAT" --- THE ONES YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD NOT BE EATING:

DEFINITION OF FOOD:

THAT WHICH IS NEEDED TO GIVE STRENGTH AND ENERGY FOR A HEALTHY BODY LIVING A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE. MANY THINGS YOU EAT ARE NOT REALLY 'FOOD.' THEY ARE ENERGY SOURCES --AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THING.


OKAY, IT'S TIME FOR STEP TWO TO BEGIN:

MAKE A LIST OF THE FAVORITE THINGS YOU LIKE TO EAT.

TYPICALLY, POTATO CHIPS, CHEESE DOODLES, FRENCH FRIES, MACARONI AND CHEESE, RAVIOLI, ICE CREAM, PIZZA, COOKIES, CHOCOLATE BARS, PUDDING, BROWNIES, CAKES, DOUGHNUTS, PASTRIES, CHEESEBURGERS, MILKSHAKES, CANDY, PIES, FRIED PIES, FRIED CHEESE STICKS, FRIED CHICKEN, BUTTERED POPCORN, HOTDOGS, SAUSAGES, CREAM PUFFS, JAMS AND JELLIES, WHIPPED CREAM, BREAD, MASHED POTATOES, AND SOFT DRINKS (INCL. LOW OR NO CAL BEVERAGES) ARE ON THIS LIST.

BE HONEST AND PUT DOWN ALL THE THINGS YOU EAT THAT YOU KNOW MAKE YOU GAIN WEIGHT.

YOU KNOW WHAT THEY ARE!

THESE ITEMS ARE NOT REALLY FOOD.

THEY ARE CREATED TO MAKE YOU WANT TO BUY MORE OF THEM AND EAT MORE OF THEM. THEY RELY ON THE SALT-SWEET-BUTTER MIXTURES THAT ARE IN PROCESSED FOODS.

ONE IMPORTANT RULE: IT'S CALLED THE 'WHITE RULE.'

IF IT'S WHITE, YOU CANNOT EAT IT --- UNLESS IT'S AN ONION, OR A WHITE CHEESE!

NOTHING MADE WITH WHITE FLOUR.

NOTHING MADE WITH WHITE SUGAR.

NOTHING MADE WITH WHITE FATS.

NO RICE.

NO POTATOES.

NO WHITE BEANS.

/////NO WHITE PASTA/MACARONI////

THIS IS WHAT YOU MUST DO AT HOME.

NOTE: YOU CAN HAVE SOME BROWN THINGS, SUCH AS POTATO SKINS,A HIGH FIBER BROWN BREAD, BLACK BEANS, ETC.

NOW, YOU AND I BOTH KNOW THAT KNOWLEDGE IS NOT ENOUGH TO STOP EATING THESE FOOD SUBSTITUTES AND THESE WHITE CALORIE-FILLED 'FOODS.'.

THEY ARE SO MUCH TASTIER THAN SALADS, FOR EXAMPLE.

SO YOU NEED SOME WAY TO STOP YOU FROM CHEATING,RIGHT?

HERE'S A 'WAY OUT' FOR YOU!

AFTER YOU HAVE MADE YOUR LIST OF 'FAVORITES,' YOU KNOW YOU MUST STAY AWAY FROM THEM....NOW, KEEP THIS LIST WITH YOU. LOOK AT IT EVERY DAY. CARRY THE LIST WITH YOU!

NOW, YOU'RE HALFWAY TROUGH STEP TWO: YOUR SOCIAL LIFE HERE CAN BE A BIG HURDLE TO JUMP.

NO MATTER HOW YOUR KIDS COMPLAIN OR YOUR WIFE OR HUSBAND OR PARTNER OR MOM COMPLAINS, YOU WILL NOT BRING THESE ITEMS INTO YOUR DWELLING.

YOU WILL NOT BUY THEM.


IF NECESSARY, YOU WILL HAVE TO DO THE COOKING AT HOME FOR EVERYONE. AND THE GROCERY SHOPPING.


REMEMBER---YOU DO HAVE AN 'OUT'!

YOU ARE ALLOWED TO EAT ANY ONE OF THESE FORBIDDEN ITEMS, AND HOWEVER MUCH YOU WANT OF IT, IN THE PRESENCE OF SOMEBODY, NEVER ALONE, AT A RESTAURANT OR INSIDE A FAST FOOD PLACE, EVERY DAY.

THE CATCH: YOU CANNOT GO THROUGH ANY "DRIVE-THROUGHS"--NEVER, EVER!

BUT YOU CAN GO INSIDE, IF YOU ARE NOT ALONE, AND YOU CAN HAVE AS MUCH AS YOU WANT OF ANY O-N-E FORBIDDEN ITEM.

YOU CAN HAVE TEN HAMBURGERS, IF YOU LIKE.

BUT NO COKE WITH IT, NO MILKSHAKE, NO FRIES.

YOU HAVE TO BREAK THE 'HABIT.'

YOU'LL HAVE TO DRINK WATER, OR DRINK REAL ORANGE JUICE (REAL JUICE, NOT ORANGE 'DRINK')

OR YOU CAN HAVE ALL THE ICE CREAM YOU WANT......

OR ALL THE PIZZA YOU WANT.....

THE CATCH: YOU CANNOT BRING IT INTO YOUR HOME.

NOT EVER.

IF YOU HAVE SOMEBODY HELPING YOU TO STAY FAT, ASK THEM IF THEY LOVE YOU AND IF THEY WILL COOPERATE WITH YOU IN THIS MATTER.

AT HOME, YOU HAVE TO EAT REAL FOOD. EVERYBODY ELSE WILL HAVE TO EAT REAL FOOD, TOO, IDEALLY.


YOU CAN EAT WHATEVER YOU LIKE THAT IS NOT ON THE 'FAVORITES' LIST OF 'THINGS' YOU LOVE TO EAT THAT MAKE YOU GAIN WEIGHT.

SO HERE YOU ARE, AT STEP TWO:

1) KEEPING TRACK OF YOUR WEIGHT

2) ONLY REAL FOOD IN YOUR HOME

3) BUT YOU'RE EATING OUT, EVERY DAY IF YOU FEEL YOU MUST, EATING ANY ONE FORBIDDEN THING (UNLIMITED AMOUNTS)--- BUT NEVER ALONE -- AND NEVER IN A DRIVE-THROUGH.

===CAN YOU DO THIS?

IT'S ALL ABOUT BREAKING A BAD HABIT.

DO YOU REALIZE THAT MOST OVEREATING SITUATIONS BEGAN WHEN YOU WERE EATING AT A PARTY OR FEAST WITH FAMILY AND/OR FRIENDS? THAT BIRTHDAY CAKE, THAT ICE CREAM, THE CHRISTMAS COOKIES, THE ANNIVERSARY DINNER, THAT SPECIAL 'DATE' ---ALL ASSOCIATED WITH FOOD AND COMFORT AND HAPPINESS!

YOU LEARN TO ASSOCIATE BEING HAPPY WITH OTHERS WITH OVEREATING....THEN, WHEN YOU FEEL BLUE, OR STRESSED, OR LONELY, OR NEED 'COMFORT'--YOU'RE LIKELY TO OVEREAT ALL ALONE, AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, YOU ARE EATING A LOT OF FOOD "WITHOUT THINKING" -- ALL BY YOURSELF.

COME ON, I'VE BEEN A COUNSELOR FOR THE HOMELESS AND FOR ABUSED CHILDREN AND FOR SINGLE PARENTS---IT'S VERY COMMON AND NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED OF. AND YOU CAN STOP IT!

IT'S A HABIT THAT NEEDS TO BE BROKEN.


WHAT WE'RE DOING IS MOVING BACKWARDS---WE ARE STOPPING THE 'EAT-BY-YOURSELF OVEREATING PART.


IF YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'RE GOING TO OVER-EAT AT HOME, DRINK A GLASS OF WATER. BE SURE TO CHANGE YOUR HABITS: IF YOU WERE EATING DINNER WHILE WATCHING TV, CHANGE THE HABIT IF IT MEANS YOU EAT TOO MUCH WHEN YOU DO THAT. EAT AT THE TABLE. TAKE SMALL BITES. TAKE YOUR TIME. IT'S YOUR ONLY BODY. DO SOMETHING GOOD FOR YOURSELF.

IF YOU HAVE PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS, REMEMBER, ALWAYS CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR, AND CONSIDER VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS. (I'LL GIVE YOU A LIST, LATER)

WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS TO BACK OUT OF THE OLD ROUTINE.

NO MORE EATING FORBIDDEN THINGS BY YOURSELF.


DOES THIS MEAN YOU'LL BE PERFECT, AND NOT SLIP UP?

COME ON! YOU'RE EATING FORBIDDEN THINGS! BUT IT'S TIME TO CHANGE. YOU KNOW IT IS. DO IT.

ALL WE CAN GUARANTEE AT THIS STAGE IS THAT YOU WILL BE BREAKING A BAD HABIT--EATING FORBIDDEN THINGS BY YOURSELF, AND EATING FORBIDDEN THINGS AT HOME.

THAT'S A VERY BIG STEP.

WHEN YOU ARE SUCCESSFUL FOR A WEEK WITH STEPS ONE AND TWO, YOU'LL BE READY FOR STEP THREE.


HINT: IF YOU FEEL REALLY HUNGRY AND WATER DOESN'T WORK, CHEW GUM. PREFERABLY ONE GOOD FOR YOUR TEETH!


THE NEXT POST WILL SHOW YOU WHAT TO DO AFTER YOU HAVE CONQUERED THIS CHALLENGE.

How I Lost Fifty Pounds -- and Kept It Off --Despite Challenges

In 2003, I had just been released from the hospital after a concussion. It was the third concussion I'd suffered since speaking out -- all three as a result of two vehicle "accidents" that occurred in Dallas, Texas.

People have seen me in documentaries and on CDs, then later noticed I had lost considerable weight. Besides a thyroid problem for which I need medication daily (it causes weight gain and lethargy all by itself!), I also have RDS (see below)--a chronic condition where for days at a time I sometimes cannot walk, with many other days just a life of pain. This includes problems with my hands and feet that range from no feeling, to extreme pain, when touching things. If you have ever had your feet 'fall asleep" imagine trying to walk on that all day.

How to lose weight, when exercise is so difficult, and one also has a thyroid problem where weight gain put pounds on me for years, before it was diagnosed?

Even to this day, most of the feeling in my hands and feet is either missing or feels like pins and needles. Double vision and short term memory problems, combined with whiplash and renewed back problems (rebuilt, from an earlier operation)combined with painkillers and steroid injections) created a weight gain that wasn't helped by family, friends, and former students supplying plenty of chocolate candy and other bedside goodies when I was reduced to a wheelchair.

I gained forty pounds after that third concussion.

AND GOT FILMED THAT WAY.

When I was filmed by Nigel Turner and Wim Dankbaar, in 2003, my weight was 216 pounds. And I was only 5' 2" !

It was humiliating to be so heavy, but I felt the filming had to be done even though people would be sure to comment (and they did, quite reasonably).

How to lose weight, when I could hardly walk? (Forced myself to walk "normally" for filming!)

I was able to lose ten pounds. By 2004, I had gone from 216 to 206 pounds. This was still a terribly high and dangerous weight. I got down to 190 by 2005, but after that, it seemed hopeless. If I lost weight, back it came. In 2007, I was assaulted by student who was trying to steal a book. She was twice my size and got her way: I ended up in the hospital. There I learned that I had a condition that later, in Europe, was diagnosed as "RSD."

When a death threat forced me to seek political asylum in the EU system, which came suddenly after Ed Haslam's book, Dr. Mary's Monkey, was publicized in Budapest -- I was teaching in the public school system in a big city in Northeastern Hungary-- I came to Sweden and suffered another RDS attack that left me almost crippled.

I looked and felt awful, even though I got filmed again on the Swedish TV news.

Since then, I have learned how to cope with RDS, my thyroud problems, and, most importantly, with getting the weight off and keeping it off. Several people have noticed the change in my features and have asked how I managed to do it.

Thought it was time to share what worked for me.

Everybody is different, of course. Always check with your doctor before crafting any kind of dietary changes for yourself. be sure the doctor is trained in nutrition, though.

First of all, I'd like to explain what RDS is, for those who don;t know. People with arthritis or overactive immune system problems will appreciate what I present here: information from a website that accurately describes my condition, which means that some kinds of exercise simply inflame my joints and body to the extent that I become bedridden. I have to be careful to avoid various injuries and trauma. You might have ther same problem, or perhaps you jhave no time or strength left in you at the end of your working day to 'exercise.'

We'll talk about how to exercise "wherever you might be" later.

Right now, an article about RDS: over half a million people suffer from it, including me:

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome


(http://arthritis.about.com/od/rsd/a/rsd.htm)


What Are The Symptoms Of RSD?

RSD usually affects one of the extremities (arms, legs, hands, or feet). The primary symptom of RSD is intense, continuous pain. According to NINDS, the list of symptoms includes:

burning pain
increased skin sensitivity
skin temperature changes (warmer or cooler than opposing extremity)
skin color changes (blotchy, purple, pale, red)
skin texture changes (shiny, thin, sweaty)
changes in nail and hair growth patterns
stiffness and swelling in affected joints
decreased ability to move affected extremity
Pain can spread to a wider area (i.e. from finger to entire arm) and can spread to the opposite extremity (i.e. from left arm to right arm). Emotional stress can cause symptoms to worsen.

Some experts suggest there are three stages of RSD, during which progressive changes occur in the skin, muscles, joints, ligaments, and bones of the affected area. The progression has not been confirmed by clinical studies though.

Stages Of RSD

Stage 1

lasts 1 to 3 months
severe, burning pain
muscle spasm
joint stiffness
rapid hair growth
skin color and temperature changes
Stage 2

lasts from 3 to 6 months
pain which becomes more intense
swelling
decreased hair growth
nails which are cracked, brittle, grooved, spotty
softened bones
stiff joints
weak muscle tone
Stage 3

irreversible changes to skin and bone
pain is continuous
muscle atrophy
severe limited mobility
contractions of muscles and tendons (limbs may be twisted)

What Triggers RSD?

There can be numerous triggers for RSD including:

injury or trauma
surgery
degenerative arthritis of the neck
shoulder problems
heart disease
stroke
diabetes
cancer
infection
brain diseases
thyroid disorders
carpal tunnel
shingles
certain medications
In an estimated one-third of patients with RSD, there is no associated trigger.

How Is RSD Diagnosed?


(In my case, I was not correctly diagnosed in the US and only received a proper diagnosis in Europe. Once it was understood what condition I suffered from, a nerve block and various satagies helped me immensely.)

A patient's clinical history (signs and symptoms) are the major factor in diagnosing RSD. The diagnosis is made difficult because many of the symptoms overlap with other conditions.

There is no specific blood test or other diagnostic test for RSD. X-rays can show thinning of bones (osteoporosis). Nuclear bone scans can show characteristic uptake patterns which help diagnose RSD.

How Is RSD Treated?

Treatment focuses on relieving painful symptoms associated with RSD. Treatment can include:

physical therapy and exercise
psychotherapy to relieve stress, anxiety, and depression
sympathetic nerve blocks (recommended! jvb)
surgery including sympathectomy (considered controversial)
spinal cord stimulation
intrathecal drug pumps
medications including:
topical analgesics
anti-seizure drugs
antidepressants
corticosteroids
opioids

Celebrity Announces Battle With RSD

American Idol judge and celebrity Paula Abdul announced that following a 25 year battle with chronic pain, precipitated by a cheerleading accident when she was 17 years old, she has been diagnosed with RSD.

The media attention given to Abdul's medical struggle has placed RSD on front pages and magazine covers. RSD is among the 100 types of arthritis and rheumatic diseases. It is estimated that between 500,000 and 750,000 people have RSD.


By the time I recovered, I was a dismal 191 pounds.

I wondered if it would EVER come off.

In weight loss, there are factors to take into consideration:

1) Food choices

2) Social pressures

3) Food temptations

4) Opportunities to Lose weight

5) Keeping track of weight

The entire matter is a learned process. You learned how to gain weight.

Now you have to learn how to take it safely off.

"I saw you when you were fat!" one of my friends told me yesterday. "I hope you write a blog about what you did!"

Well, several others have made the same suggestions, so, here it is!

Talking to many people, item 5 -- keeping track of your weight --is the one that people avoid when they KNOW they are gaining weight.

They put away the scales or ignore the scales.

THIS IS STEP ONE IN CONQUERING YOUR WEIGHT PROBLEM.


ASSIGNMENT #1
The first thing you MUST do is to keep track of your weight. You need to weigh at the same time every day. fORGET the advice that some days you will seem to gain weight. You and I know that's from menstrual cycles, eatig dalty foods and retaining fluids, or eating a big meal that hasn't exited its remains quite yet.

KEEP TRACK ANYWAY. YOU'LL DISCOVER YOUR CYCLE OF WEIGHT GAIN AND HOW IT'S CNNECTED TO YOUR LIFE HABITS AND BODILY FUNCTIONS.

Tape a photo of some fat people "before and after" in a prominent place, such as on the refrigerator.
Tape a weight chart in a private p;pace, until you feel proud enough of it to put it on the refrigerator door.
WEIGH YOURSELF EVERY DAY. USE A PLUS OR MINUS TO SHOW ANY WEIGHT LOSS OR WEIGHT GAIN. USE A ZERO FOR 'SAME WEIGHT"--AND PLACE THE REAL WEIGHT THERE, IN POUNDS OR KILOS.
KEEP THIS RECORD GOING 'FOREVER.'
REMEMBER, UNLIKE AN ALCOHOLIC, YOU 'MUST' EAT, SO YOU 'MUST' KEEP TRACK OF YOUR WEIGHT IF YOU'VE HAD PROBLEMS. DON'T PRETEND YOU DON;T HAVE TO.
THIS METHOD WORKS, BUT ONLYIF YOU FOLLOW IT.

===THE NEXT BLOG ENTRY WILL TELL YOU WHAT TO DO NEXT!====

TEN YEARS OF BATTLE

Ten years ago, I decided to speak out concerning my relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald, who has long been accused of murdering President John F. Kennedy. I remember placing about half the evidence I had on the bed and looking at it, wondering if it was enough, and if I could find witnesses to our relationship, for Oswald and I had a love affair in New Orleans, which was known to some others; I had remained in contact with Lee until a day and a half before Kennedy’s assassination. We planned to marry if he was able to escape with his life. To this day, I have never met another man with such courage.
I had written down a highly detailed account for my son, for him to read after I died, but it occurred to me that he might not understand its complexity and importance: Lee Oswald had been demonized in the press, and I had heard many lies about his character and personality, even though I tried hard to remove myself from every possible contact with the past, for I had seen Lee shot to death on television, a shock indescribable. Lee had told me that he was being set up to get trapped and killed: as a “returned defector” he found he could not advance, and was not trusted. Nevertheless, despite the risks to himself, he had penetrated an assassination ring, in hopes of saving Kennedy, by means of his association with David Ferrie and anti-Kennedy former FBI officer Guy Banister, and others. Eventually, he understood that he had no way to extricate himself without endangering me, his wife, and his babies. Besides, he told me that he had become part of an abort team that would try to save Kennedy. He stressed that he would try to act as naturally and normally as possible, despite what he knew, in order to protect us and others who had tried to save the President. Meanwhile, he sent warnings and information to those he hoped would respond, including to the FBI. Recently, we have heard from Abraham Bolden concerning such matters, in James Douglass’ fine book, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters.
Lee Oswald expected to be shot dead the same day as the President, because he knew too much. Nevertheless, being an intelligent man, he had attempted to craft an escape for himself. He was then betrayed. He had far closer ties to the mafia than was known to most between 1963 and 1999, when I finally revealed the true extent of his ties with the Marcello organization in New Orleans – Carlos Marcello at that time being the country’s most powerful godfather. Marcello was scarcely mentioned in official investigations in 1963.
From childhood on, Lee yearned to become a double agent/spy against communism, ever since viewing “I Led Three Lives” in New York when he was a young teenager. He was NOT an ordinary young man: he became a Marine at the earliest legal age, was trained in covert activities, conquered the difficult Russian language, and entered Russia as a fake defector while still 19 years old. He returned to the United States at the height of the Cold War almost three years later with a Russian wife and child without undue difficulty, because he was one of our own. A true hero and patriot – one of the few who had ever entered the USSR as a defector and returned alive to tell the tale, Oswald would survive all of that only to be shot down while in the custody of the Dallas police.
All his public actions, such as passing out pro-Castro literature, were choreographed by the CIA and FBI, so that he could be sent into Cuba against Castro in a later assignment, whenever asked to do so.
Lee became a successful double agent working secretly against Castro for the CIA, with ties to the FBI, even while posing as pro-Castro. He had successfully worked as a spy for the US inside the Soviet Union, and was soon assigned to prepare himself as a spy inside Cuba, but he also had numerous jobs to do for the CIA and FBI here in the United States – and I was aware of many of them, having at times posed as his wife in New Orleans, and for some time had also served to help cover his activities while he and I worked at a small coffee company in New Orleans. I was from Florida, and was very anti-Castro, beginning with my close friendship in high school with Tony Lopez-Fresquet (the son of Castro’s first finance minister, he was forced to flee Cuba because his mother was an American).
I won’t discuss my training in cancer research here, but I was qualified to work in an anti-Castro cancer research project that began early in 1962 in New Orleans under the auspices of Dr. Alton Ochsner, known for his anti-communist ferocity, and Dr. Mary S. Sherman, along with other doctors, specialists, and trained assistants, including the well-known anti-Castro genius-eccentric, David Ferrie, a friend of Dr. Sherman’s. Ferrie’s role and capabilities have been downplayed as much as possible by all “Oswald-did-it” propagandists. He hid his clandestine activities well from most of his homosexual contacts to reduce the chances of getting blackmailed by them. Ferrie’s former homosexual friends and lovers, therefore, can be poor choices whereby to learn of his clandestine activities.
As he told me himself, “If anybody ever asks you if I am involved with the CIA, THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS ‘NO.’ “ He stressed how he kept “the boys” “out of the loop” in such matters. Therefore, those who base their assessment of Ferrie’s activities on what Ferrie’s “friends” have to say can be greatly misguided. The man who was flying Carlos Marcello’s planes and who sat with Marcello himself, advising the godfather during court proceedings in New Orleans, wasn’t there for his good looks. He was there because of what he knew, and who he knew.
. Through a series of events, I was brought inadvertently into what we called The Project: I was originally supposed to be involved only peripherally, in Dr. Sherman’s bone cancer laboratory. How this occurred is told in detail in several books, as well as on DVD’s, and in documentaries. Visit http://www.judythvarybaker.com for additional information. Lee Oswald –a quick learner-- was involved first as a courier and additionally as a lab tech in the project. My recent, but unhappy marriage, the absence of my husband (and his being unavailable to help me during a severe crisis), and Lee Oswald’s interventions and help in my times of need (a person even more unhappy in his own marriage) created a camaraderie between us that developed into a romance. I know Lee loved me with all his heart. And I loved him, the same.
We endured much to get The Product (a deadly cancer-causing virus and associated cancer cells that were potentially lethal if injected into a depressed immune system) developed, tested, and ready to send into Cuba. At the time, we believed that Castro’s death could prevent nuclear war between the two great Super Powers. In addition, Castro’s death would have turned assassination plans against Kennedy aside in a quest to dominate Cuba. Killing Castro could save Kennedy. We were young and patriotic.
In the end, Lee did everything he could to protect me after those efforts ultimately failed, especially after I had a falling-out with Dr. Ochsner over using one or more ‘volunteers’ to test the cancer. By then, Lee was already deeply involved in penetrating a JFK assassination ring that existed in New Orleans that later lured him into its arm in Texas. Believing he could obtain information that might be used to save Kennedy, Lee, fully aware of the dangers, cooperated with the assassination ring’s leaders.
Lee’s attempts in Mexico City to get the cancer product into Cuba to use against Castro proved fruitless, because the project was called off. The excuse was the approach of Hurricane Flora, and the scattering of Castro’s medical teams throughout Cuba: the shelf life of the product was limited, and wouldn’t survive any neglect.
I was warned to keep quiet after Lee was arrested and pointed out immediately as the ‘sole assassin,’ then shot and killed on November 24. I was now to become a ‘vanilla girl’ – I was to do no more cancer research, though it had been my great dream, and I had been exceptionally good at it. I would eventually get a B.S. in anthropology and spend much time teaching, counseling, and writing. Lee had begged me to have babies, and to go on with my life, so I finally did. I ended up with five children, but waited until the last one left home before looking into the current state of affairs regarding the JFK/RFK/MLK murders. I knew enough about what happened to Lee to suspect that all three murders were agency-arranged. I took out the film JFK, by Oliver Stone, to watch – a film I could not bear to see when the kids brought it home some seven years earlier --- they remember my unexplainable walk-out, leaving them alone in the house to watch it --- but now, by myself, I saw enough to understand what a mess had been made of the truth, and I felt my soul shrink with shame when Stone noted that to remain silent was cowardly!
I had heard that Dr. Sherman and Dave Ferrie had both been murdered. Now I saw more murders of witnesses on that film. Though it had been 38 years since JFK had died, I feared who might still be alive to do harm to me or my loved ones. I had written down the entire truth for my son in a series of letters, but I realized I could not simply publish them. I could be harmed in many ways by the powerful people still alive, including those in the Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and George Bush dynasties who were beneficiaries of the Coup D’Etat. I remember trembling all over, with pure fear, at the thought of speaing out.
For I would have to tell the world that Lee Oswald was innocent, nor guilty. Had I said he was guilty, I’d be quite rich. Instead, I’ve had to flee for my life and have lost the love of several of my children..
Still, Oliver Stone’s movie had awakened my conscience. What kind of love had I held for Lee, if I didn’t try to set the record straight, best I could? I couldn’t betray him by continued silence. I just couldn’t. But I decided to protect myself. I began writing The Oswald Connection, a mishmash of memories thrown together without regard to my painfully written and highly accurate letters. If any publisher showed interest in this incomplete “teaser” story, which omitted numerous key names and activities, I’d then bring out the full 600 pages I’d written, and ask for protection from lawsuits.
Satisfied that I had enough evidence to back my testimony, and certain I’d find witnesses that Lee and I had been lovers (Some of them had to still be alive!), I sent a fax to Twenty-Twenty, a TV program that had investigated Benny Hinn and other controversial figures quite well. They felt the story was too big for them, and contacted Sixty Minutes, who soon after contacted me. A few weeks later, after Sixty Minutes began interviewing me, I found a European-based literary agent, after a US agent backed out due to fear. This agent took my hastily-written book, interviewed me by phone and email, and then boldly edited the book, including adding details that I would later be criticized about.
“It doesn’t matter,” he told me. “Once it’s with a publisher, fix it up as you please.” That agent was a go-getter, but he created a fake story about my hiding out in Europe, and other lies, and also tried to get a producer friend of his to do the film-work with Sixty Minutes. When the agent insisted that Sixty Minutes sign a contract with financial demands in it, and they refused to handle the story. I had already personally turned down all financial offers and only learned of these demands later.
After I fired the agent, and told Sixty Minutes he was gone, for the next year and a half, Mike Wallace, Don Hewitt, Phil Scheffler and a team of researchers investigated me. They sent me to New Orleans, to Washington, to New York, and I was vetted mercilessly. I learned, too, how such investigations can get infiltrated: in New Orleans, one such investigator, who turned out to have written a huge, glowing review of Posner’s Case Closed (an “Oswald-did-it” now known to be filled with errors and prejudice) said it was “too hot” to go with me to important sites. The expensive (for Sixty Minutes) trip was spent watching this man drink cocktails as he sweated in his fancy suit. Later, he questioned me in an air-conditioned conference room in his hotel there without meeting a single local witness. He then told Sixty Minutes that I had no evidence. Howard Liebengood (an HSCA specialist) knew better: three times, dates were set to film. Three times, filming was called off, the final one from high up in CBS. Hewitt, the founder of Sixty Minutes, apologized to me by phone and by email. “We did not walk away from this,” he wrote to me. He was forced to abort the filming, telling C-Span, “the door was slammed in our face.”
Time has passed. I have learned who the bad guys are. Who the good guys are. Who has a pet theory, a pet book, a pet agenda, that must not be set aside to tarnish a reputation. Sadly, the people are being taught that conspiracy theorists are just that –theorists. That conspiracies are no-no’s about which one must not speak, unless one is to be labeled some kind of “buff” or fanatic. Or even unpatriotic. We are to march as did those who followed Hitler. We are to believe everything we’re old by the government. We must stop Wiki-Leaks. Kennedy told us that secrecy is a dirty word in a democracy. Never forget that.
I have much more supporting evidence now, and now have living witnesses on tape and film as well, but years earlier, a third party threatened one of my witnesses (Anna Lewis) to the extent that she refused to be re-filmed for Sixty Minutes. Another witness worried that I was an imposter (he has since realized that another person was posing as me!). He has since written a book (Dr. Mary’s Monkey, by Edward T. Haslam) using me as a primary witness. Sixty Minutes didn’t learn about his new information in time, nor did they want to use the poor quality original film where Anna Lewis states how she and her husband, and Lee Oswald and I, double-dated together in New Orleans. Her husband was David Lewis, who had worked with Guy Banister, as had Lee.
Howard Liebengood, who had had access to HSCA/CIA files, supported me, but there was also difficulty trying to get this story told in just 18 minutes – the longest time segment allowed in the format of the program. In the end, CBS sent me two checks for lost wages (CBS told me they had never done that before for anyone investigated by Sixty Minutes).
Meanwhile, one researcher had leaked information to a vicious newsgroup, which over the years issued over 250,000 hostile posts. Most of these have since been erased, but the thrust was that I sought money, fame and attention. When that didn’t stick, mental illness and character assassination ploys came next – then a combination, mixing facts with fiction. The big websites that attacked me were handled by people who never met me. Amazing.
It is also suggested that I should be arrested if I’m telling the truth, all the while ignoring numerous statements from living and dead witnesses who have long proven that Lee and I were lovers, as well as much new evidence, and leads that I’ve given researchers which has unearthed new information concerning Oswald and the assassination, such as that Oswald worked with Customs agents, and that CIA handler David Atlee Phillips was in Dallas on Nov. 22nd, the day JFK was shot there.
Of course, I also hear “So what? He probably lied to her, too!” Ten years after speaking out for the first time, I have fought to get my health and strength back. I had been reduced to a shadow of my former healthy and strong self, plagued with chronic pain and double vision. Why? I’d been struck twice by vehicles in Dallas, had been assaulted, stalked, threatened and found my teaching jobs vanishing, again and again. My phones were tapped in Europe, I was followed openly in England and in Sweden, the brake line on my car was cut in the US, and vandals repeatedly broke into my homes and destroyed my property. But that’s just the start.
I do not want pity: I wish you to understand my situation. It could happen to any whistleblower. My reputation was destroyed on the Internet. While teaching in Hungary, in 2007, I was suddenly told I had to quit: Hungarian agents warned me to leave the country, but not to return to America. The date: Sept. 8 – the same day Edward T. Haslam’s book, Dr. Mary’s Monkey, was reviewed by a popular blogger in Budapest, Hungary. I ended up fleeing to Scandinavia, where I sought political asylum. It was a delicate political situation – after all, I came from America! – but they did not deport me, as at first I was told was 100% inevitable, and would happen immediately.
Instead, after reviewing my case, I received protection under appeal, remaining sheltered in Sweden for over ten months. I finally obtained safe havens in the Middle East and in Europe, through the actions of friends and my two children who love me, just before I would have been forced to go back to America. Instead, I am free to go anywhere I choose, and do so, but I am a woman without a country, without a home, unable to see my grandchildren and children, for I do not want bad things to happen to them because of my presence.
I am grateful for those who handled my case in Sweden, who despite political difficulties granted me time to find safe haven (actually, two safe havens!). I do feel safe now, and have had an opportunity to write my book the way it was meant to be written. Thanks to everyone’s help, especially those researchers who have taken the time and effort to actually meet me and to personally investigate my story and interrogate me, t.hat book will soon be published. Originally 480 pages, more than 100 additional pages have been added, delaying the book’s publication for months. Even so, some evidence simply couldn’t be included. Through this blog and others, I intend to present much more evidence to prove that Lee Oswald was framed. Furthermore, to this very day America is being run by a shadow government that took over when Kennedy was murdered. They select and groom their candidates and their power brokers. They do not care about America. Look what has happened to America under their “careful” hands!
But I miss my country. I miss my people. My children and grandchildren. I do hope someday to be able to safely live and travel in my own country. Wouldn’t you?
It has been difficult getting out the truth to the world.
Twice, books I attempted to write, with much more information, and with those important names and events added, that I so long feared to mention, have been published without my permission, for both books needed much more work. The present book, Me & Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Lpose Lee Harvey Oswald is the only authorized book. It also adds new information. Donations allow me to travel between my two residences (I can only stay 89 days at a time at each residence, and it’s expensive to move four times a year, but I currently have no choice, if I am to live in safety.
After The History Channel aired TMWKK -- THE LOVE AFFAIR—JUDYTH VARY BAKER-- I received many threats and was hospitalized a total of five times from injuries associated with my situation. Before that, I hadn’t been inside a hospital for some two decades.
In 2003, British film producer Nigel Turner, famed for the once-popular (and now banned) History Channel series, The Men Who Killed Kennedy, which had previously been popular on The History Channel for two decades, offered three final segments to the world about the Kennedy assassination: The Smoking Guns, The Love Affair, and The Guilty Men. The Love Affair (in 5 sections on You Tube, JFKMurdersolved.com, Edward Haslam’s websites, judythvarybaker.com, etc.) was Turner’s only documentary featuring just one witness story – mine.
He had to ask for the extra segment, as only two had originally been planned. But that’s before he met Gerry Hemming, who told him about me. Turner’s personal business card gave me the impetus to tell him everything, despite the consequences—it showed a knight in shining armor on a charging warhorse!
Supposed to be shown for nine years running, until 2013 (the 50th anniversary of the JFK Coup), the series nailed down the role played by President Lyndon Johnson in helping to assure Kennedy’s assassination – with a terrible outcry from two former Presidents, Lady Bird Johnson, Jack Valenti, Bill Moyers, and others. The documentaries were secretly purchased from The History Channel, then banned. They were seen only five times in America.
They were also shown in Europe and Australia.
Other documentary attempts were made by Jim Marrs, Wim Dankbaar, and Dutch investigator Peter deVries, who runs a Sixty-Minute style investigative news program in Europe – all of these persons spent significant time investigating me, my witnesses, the new evidence, and how it tied to the old. Finally, Edward Haslam’s book, Dr. Mary’s Monkey, explains in detail, and quite accurately, just what happened in New Orleans in 1963, and the roles Lee and I played there in our attempt to help kill Fidel Castro and to try to save JFK. But only in the book Me & Lee will you learn of the greatness, patriotism, courage and decency of Lee Harvey Oswald. Nobody is a saint—he and his wife had a very unhappy time of it, but you will see how Oswald grew in character as he promised never to mistreat his wife again. And he did not.
Today, several of my children are very unhappy with my having spoken out. I have lost friends; many relatives are also upset with me, though others pray every day for my safety. My great concern is that I have lost my reputation in the world as a good, kind, truthful person who cares deeply about others and who was once known as an excellent mental health counselor and teacher.
For some time, after I endured pain and crippling from an (unrelated) assault (but would I have taken that hazardous teaching job if I had not lost so many other job opportunities?) I was in a wheelchair, and got badly overweight, almost overcome with neck and back pain. I have since lost considerable weight and am now healthy again. Maybe I won’t be harmed again, and can keep my health. I am so grateful for the donations that have helped pay off my medical bills!
I am treated with respect overseas, but it seems that all my efforts have had little impact in the United States. .Even my home town area newspaper allowed a reporter to publish a damaging article about me in 2008, using quotes from two former classmates I scarcely knew, plus additional nasty comments from the hostile news-groupees who never met me. The article also implied that I was apparently too callous to attend my mother’s funeral --not mentioning that I was being protected in the political asylum system in Sweden, due to death threats—making it seem I didn’t care about my beloved mother. She fully supported me in life: she knew I would have come to her side, had it had been possible.
While there have been some defeats, then, there have also been victories. Today, people do not look startled when I tell them that Lee Oswald tried to save Kennedy. New evidence has now come forth supporting that. I hope to live to see Lee Harvey Oswald fully exonerated. Every year, on November 24, the date Lee died, we hold THE LEE HARVEY OSWALD MEMEORIAL EVENING. We expect it to be held in 15 countries in 2010.
My closest friends and allies know what I’ve been through – depending on when and where they’ve been; they generally realize, now, that pressure has been put upon me to give up, to shut up. To a great extent, attempts to close my mouth succeeded, because I must keep my locations secret, if I am to have peace. But I will never give up efforts to exonerate Lee Harvey Oswald. Do not go gentle into that dark night of lies. Fight to stop the dying of the light! Copy this blog’s messages and send them to others. We need to get our country back.
When my voice goes silent at last, who then will speak for Lee Oswald?
For the truth?
Those who killed Kennedy went on to push not one, but two wars, onto the American people. Look to Texas. Look to New Orleans. Some were finally exposed in their lies, deceptions, and cruelty. Some of them believe torture is okay – they believe it is okay to intercept your emails, to listen to your phone calls. They use fear to control you, and money. It started with Kennedy’s murder. Jim Marrs said, “It may be too late for justice, but it is never too late for the truth.” Watch the banned documentaries. Copy them. Buy the books. Tell your friends. Teach your children. Never forget!
Judyth Vary Baker: ten years later.