Anxiety, worry, and/or annoyance can easily delay or stop stomach peristalsis. Simple annoyance often causes bile to defy gravity and be retropulsed upwards into the stomach. It's easy for fat to do this since it floats on water. <> Robert Coleman Kent, M.D. (Stomach, Intestines, and Pan... Read More

Constant snacking? It can cause a pendulous stomach that hangs down to the crotch. (Seriously! It's more common than you think.) Overeating can do the same. <> Taking baking soda with meals? Routinely, it can hinder peristalsis and also create a pendulous stomach. <> The stomach... Read More

I wrote an e-book called Mesmerism & Miracles. But why do I warn people about being hypnotized or Mesmerized (turning their consciousness over to another human being)? <> Milton H. Erickson, M.D. (a major inspiration for the "Milton model," NLP, family systems therapy, etc.) wrote … "O... Read More

Dates are not only an allowable food for diabetics; they reduce blood glucose. <> Hyder Osman Mirghani ("Dates fruits effects on blood glucose among patients with diabetes mellitus: A review and meta-analysis," Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences, Jul.-Aug. 2021) wrote ... "Date fruit is k... Read More

We're omnivores. We can eat everything from soup to nuts, from algae to zebras, from tree bark to woolly mammoths, from ants to dates. <> Henry Thomas Buckle (History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1, 1857) wrote ... "If we inquire into the most important circumstances which concerned ... Read More