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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1988)
a D t 1 1 f Ijr Ove» JS yeaM of sr'v< r io om neighbors Natural alternatives to the AIDS/ARC conditions ■Personalized Loan Services Designed to Meet Your Special Needs - WARREN E. OSTER - Fran k W a rre n s - Low self-esteem exhibited by some promiscuous individuals , when coupled with homophobia, cannot but hasten immune debilitation. fìutomotive Si Marine Services Inc. Our complete automotive repairs & Service on ALL Domestics & Imports. 228-6607 50 NW 20th B Y STEVEN BAILEY. CRONE MAGIC CRYSTALS & GEMS GODDESS CRAFTS SPIRITUAL ACCESSORIES 1405 NE Broadway Portland. OR 97232 ( 503 ) 249-0444 12-6 Tue-Sat Noon-5 Sunday Give A Heart On /alentine’s Day IV drug use Healthy lifestyle The use of street drugs is complicated by a Our lifestyle is all encompassing; it repre number of factors which weaken the immune sents dietary habits, stress management, exer system. Stimulants use is often accompanied by cise and social activities. For the purpose of this a dramatic decrease in food intake. Users of series, however, lifestyle refers to social other street drugs may also show poor nutri attitudes and activities. Nutrition, stress man tional habits. On the whole, IV drug users show agement and exercise will be discussed as indi high incidences of many infectious conditions, vidual topics. especially hepatitis. The majority of initial AIDS infections were Infection with AIDS requires a weakened found in individuals with poor lifestyles. In the immune system and transfer of the virus. Shar United States and elsewhere, the homosexual ing a needle is a very efficient way of spreading population initially at risk included a subset of the virus. Regardless of sexual preference or highly promiscuous individuals. IV drug users, sexual orientation, if one is exchanging fluids or especially those who share needles, also have sharing needles one is at risk. Please take AIDS an unhealthy lifestyle. Only hemophiliacs who seriously and practice a healthy lifestyle. contracted AIDS through contaminated blood supplies showed no real departure from healthy Before the final cookbook section on natural living habits. In the United States, we are now alternatives to the AIDS/ARC conditions, I will witnessing the worldwide emergence of another discuss various forms of alternative care. group of high-risk individuals — prostitutes and “ Alternative” is defined by Webster’s New other promiscuous heterosexuals — which pre Collegiate Dictionary as “ one of two or more viously had been at highest risk only things, courses, or propositions to be chosen.” in Africa. ' but the term “ alternative medicine” is gener Among all these groups, the common ally accepted to mean “ non-orthodox” forms element is a high incidence of weakened and of care — orthodox referring to the predomin depressed immune systems. The Centers for ant practice of medical doctors. Disease Control admits that infection by HIV Alternative forms of care include acupunc requires an already weakened immune system. ture. Chinese medicine, herbal medicine, nutri- Promiscuity tonal therapeutics, homeopathy, chiropractic and a wide variety of psycho-social therapies. Sexually promiscuous individuals are prob ably at the highest risk for contracting AIDS. Acupuncture is the system of using needles to Promiscuous behavior dramatically increases puncture the skin as a treatment for disease or the number of times one is exposed to a wide ! illness. Today the system includes the substitu variety of infectious organisms, including tion of electric stimulation for the needling. syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes, hepatitis, non Acupuncture cannot be separated from the field specific bacteria, and numerous other fungi, of Chinese medicine, which includes the use of viruses and bacteria. herbs combined w ith Chinese diagnosis and acupuncture. Anal intercourse is one of the most physically abrasive forms of sexual activity. Small lesions, Nutritional therapeutics is the application of nutrients, vitamins, minerals, foods and fluids which give microorganisms direct access to the bloodstream, often occur during anal inter for the improvement of health. course. Homeopathy is the system of medical treat The response of many Americans has been to ment based on the use of small quantities of use antibiotic or drug therapies for these drugs which in large amounts produce symp numerous infections instead of altering sexual toms resembling the disease being treated. activities. Many antibiotics depress white blood Chiropractic is a system of therapy in which cell production. With the use of drug therapy, , the body structures, as in the spinal column, are immune systems do not have the opportunity to manipulated. • SPIRITUAL COUNSELING by REV. BOB E. CARRINGTON, D.D. I offer twenty-five years experience in Spiritual Counseling. Psychic Reading and Hypnotherapy. I have studied with some of the leading names in these fields, including Dick Sutphan. Dan Millman and Freda Morris. A special interest is working with AIDS/ARC patients and the worried-well to help with fears of death and dying. I am a member of the Association for Past-Life Research and Therapy, and a certified Clinical Hypnotherapist. SOUL-PATTERN READING 7819 SE Stark 256-2920 Jm lO iil • 26 • February |ONS complete a curative response. A final component of risk is a subtle area known as “ psychoneuroimmunology,’' which involves the relationship between how we think and feel and our physical immune systems. Low self-esteem exhibited by some promiscu ous individuals, when coupled with homo phobia. cannot but hasten immune debilitation. n this series, we have defined AIDS and discussed its symptoms, testing for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibodies and methods of transmission of the virus. The re mainder of the series will focus on what can be done to strengthen resistance to or response to the disease. Approved Auto Repair WE DELIVER N D. GOING HOME COUNSEUNC TOOZE • KT TABOR FLORIST PAST LIFE THERAPY S O l’L-CONNECTION READING CHANNELING METAPHYSICAL HYPNOSIS SPIRITUAL HEALING STATEMENT OF SERVICES Explore current-life soul patterns, their past-life cause and life-lessons being taught. Go hack to the source and finally understand, learn, release, and heal. Explore death and the spirit state by going back and reliving a past-life death experience. Also re-experience planning this lifetime before birth. Explore unfinished business from past lives. Working with gay and lesbian couples to explore how soul patterns interact and what lessons they are together to learn. Work also done with groups. Let CHARLA s wisdom, hum or and unwavering honesty brighten your path. Work with root causes to make change easy. Both individual and group work available. Please call Rev Carrington at the GOING HOME FOUNDATION for more information (5031635-3272.