Colds, respiratory illnesses, intestinal viruses, mono, and other infectious diseases are constantly present in American schools. In response, my teenage kids have placed four bowls on the kitchen counter – a large one in the middle full of vitamin C surrounded by three smaller bowls of niacin, vitamin D, and thiamine tablets. They help themselves to the vitamins when they feel the need, and many of their friends have adopted the idea as well. Regularly, the kids report that the vitamins actually work. The most frequent comments are, “Wow, I can breath through my nose again!”, and “I was sure I was getting sick yesterday but I feel fine today.”

The AMD (Acid Mine Drainage) is heavily contaminated water containing primarily radio-active uranium, cadmium, lead, arsenic and a cocktail of toxic metals so dangerous that, and I quote: “(that it) caused depletion of dolomite in two-and-a-half years – under normal circumstances, this would have taken millions of years”. The article reads that the Witwatersrand, home to the world’s biggest gold and uranium mining basin, is where mining operations have ‘raped the earth for its gold and uranium, left behind gaping holes in the ground, polluted river sources and disrupted and left unenriched communities’, says Mrs. Mariëtte Liefferink, chief executive for the Federation for Sustainable Environment.

Carin Smit was invited to Faridkot, Punjab, India in 2008 to train 3 doctors of Indian Neuro-Therapy as Auditory Integration Training Practitioners. The Baba Farid Center for Special Children offers Indian Neurotherapy and other naturopathic interventions to some 400 children with cerebral palsy, autism epilepsy, neurological disorders, etc. in the state of Punjab. During Carin’s visit her heart broke to see the degree of disability, lack of facilities, poverty and degree of illness of the children, ranging from babies in arms to adults with severe neurological disabilities.