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Lon's FAA Transfer to Greenville, SC

     In July 1977, Lon was still working with the FAA in Panama City, Florida when he had an opportunity to bid on (request consideration of) an advertised vacant FAA position in the Greenville, SC area.  Lon had worked for several years in preparing to be highly qualified for that particular vacancy, if that special vacancy should occur in the  Southern Region of FAA. 

     In addition to the special job position that was vacant, Greenville, South Carolina was a very desirable location to transfer to for Lon and Janie, as explained below.

     Lon believed that Greenville was an excellent location to live in for a number of reasons, including the colleges that were in Greenville, or near to Greenville, for potential college level education for sons Mike and Bob Willoughby.

    Greenville was also about 75 miles from Janie's parent's home near Chester, South Carolina, and that was also an important consideration about this possible job location transfer.

     Lon promptly bid on that vacant position In September 1977 - a special vacancy that rarely occurred in the FAA. 

     Fortunately, Lon was selected to fill that management level position as a GS-12 Proficiency Development and Evaluation Officer (PDEO).  There were only 13 PDEO positions in the large Southern Region of the FAA (states from Louisiana to Kentucky and all southern states in between - including Tennessee). 

     Lon competed with 40+ FAA employee candidates to be selected for that very special vacant position.  Lon had previously worked for the GS-14 Sector Manager at the Greer (Greenville) Sector Office, when he had been a GS-13 FAA Supervisor in charge of the new RADAR system installed on the North Charleston Air Force base in year 1964. 

     Consequently, the GS-14 Sector Manager at the Greenville Sector Office already knew electronics technician Lon Willoughby, and he was familiar with Lon's reputation as a very capable and very competent FAA electronics technician.  

     Four years later, in year 1968, when Lon Willoughby was working at the FAA Air Route Traffic Control Center in Hilliard, Florida, the same FAA GS-13 Supervisor was also working at that location.  He was not Lon's personal supervisor, but he was familiar with the very good reputation that electronics technician Lon Willoughby had established at that very large FAA facility.  

     That prior knowledge about Lon Willoughby probably had some influence on the GS-14 Sector Manager's selection of Lon Willoughby as the electronics technician to fill the very select PDEO vacancy at the Greenville (Greer) Sector Field Office. 

     That FAA position selection situation enabled Lon, Janie, and Michael to move to the Greenville, South Carolina area in the fall season of year 1977.

     The FAA then sent Lon Willoughby to the FAA Management Training School that was located at the college in Lawton, Oklahoma (Cameron University).  Lon was well prepared to attend that FAA supervisory management training program.

      He had previously completed the USAF Instructor Training School and had been an instructor in the USAF for 18 months.  Lon had already taught and supervised hundreds of airmen in the USAF, and he had developed substantial teaching and personnel management skills. 

      While Lon was working with the FAA in Panama City, Florida, he had voluntarily paid for and completed the Dale Carnegie Course "Effective Speaking and Human Relations."  (Early in year 1977)

     At the end of that locally conducted education course, the class members were asked to select a class member to be president of their class.  They nominated three candidates, and when the votes were counted, Lon Willoughby was elected as class president.      

     Prior to his voluntary transfer to the FAA Sector Field Office in Panama City, Florida, Lon worked at the Jacksonville International Airport for two years.  He had also been elected to be the union president for FAA electronics technicians working at that large FAA Sector Field Office. 

     Lon worked with the FAA in Panama City, Florida for six and one half years.  Throughout those years, he was the "local employee union president" for the FAA electronics technician employees at the airport facility and also the FAA electronics technicians that worked at the joint use Military and FAA long range RADAR facility (200 miles radius range) at the nearby Tyndall Air Force Base. 

     Lon had also been the electronics technician Station Chief for all FAA Facility Equipment Systems headquartered at the FAA Flight Service Station at the Northport, Alabama Airport (in the major Tuscaloosa, Alabama area - where the University of Alabama is located). 

    In that FAA capacity, Lon supervised the operation and management of the FAA electronic facilities at that location and FAA electronic facilities located within about forty miles of the Northport Flight Service Station.  Lon also supervised the FAA electronics technicians assigned to that FAA Flight Service Station office location.

     When Lon had been an Air Force Instructor (1956 - 1957), he helped educate and train about 600 Air Force basic trainees. 

     When Lon then attended the Air Force RADAR school in Biloxi, Mississippi, he was competitively selected to be the Squadron Student Leader ("the White Rope") for about 300 student airmen.  Lon retained that position for seven months - until he was graduated from the RADAR school program (33 weeks of education and training). 

      With all of Lon's relevant education, management, and leadership work experiences, it was not surprising to him that he was graduated at the top of the class in the FAA Management School at the college in Lawton, Oklahoma.

     After completing the Management Training School, Lon returned to the Greenville/Spartanburg Airport location, and his office was next door to the FAA Sector Manager's Office.

     The Sector Manager was responsible for supervising all FAA facilities and electronic technician personnel in the electronics division of FAA located at the combined Greenville and Spartanburg airport facility location, and the nearby Anderson, SC airport facility location, and the nearby Spartanburg city airport facility location, and the Asheville, NC airport facility location, and the Athens, GA airport facility location. 

     As Performance Development and Evaluation Officer (PDEO), Lon Willoughby was responsible for managing and overseeing the education and training qualifications for all FAA electronic technicians at all of those locations, and he also personally assisted the Sector Manager in "managing" the local FAA technical personnel working at the Greenville/Spartanburg Airport Sector Office location and all of those other FAA technical facilities locations.

      Each of those field office locations had an FAA station chief supervisor that worked under the direct "supervision" of the Sector Manager.

     His carefree casual "don't rock the boat" management actions caused some very serious personnel problems for PDEO Lon Willoughby to have to contend with in the large FAA Sector Office jurisdiction. 

     Lon received very good annual performance written evaluations from the Sector Manager for his two years of work with the Sector Manager, but the Sector Manager's management actions of "going along to get along" with the local employee union president caused some very difficult, frustrating, and very stressful work situations for Lon to have to contend with for some of the electronics technicians employed at the large FAA Sector Office location at the Greenville/Spartanburg Airport.

     This was the same employee union that Lon had worked with as a "local president" for two years in Jacksonville, Florida area, and then worked with as a "local president" for six years in Panama City. 

     The Sector Manager casually allowed the local union president to seriously interfere with some of Lon's PDEO responsibilities. 

     The union president wanted to argue and create an emotionally frustrating dispute at every opportunity for disagreement.  He was routinely involved in union power plays to show local union members that he could manipulate the Sector Manager to get whatever union actions he wanted.

     Lon knew how to provide better leadership and management guidance for the FAA technician personnel assigned to the Greer (Greenville area) Sector Manager office location - than the GS-14 Sector Manager was providing, but the Sector Manager did not allow PDEO Lon Willoughby to help him exercise any better employee management actions. 

     The Sector Manager wanted to do everything his way (go along to get along), and he had no flexibility in allowing Lon Willoughby to help him exercise better and more effective personnel management of the numerous FAA technician employees in the local Greenville/Spartanburg Airport Sector Office location.

     Some of Lon's routine work was like a personal assistant to the Sector Manager.  That person's lack of responsible employee management actions with the local union president created the most difficult, the most frustrating, and the most stressful personnel management situations that Lon had encountered in his 17+ years of work with the Federal Aviation Administration. 

     It was not a direct stressful relationship between Lon and the Sector Manager, but an indirect stressful relationship that was caused by the Sector Manager's deficiency of responsible management actions with the local union president (a local electronics technician employee) that caused a lot of emotionally stressful situations for Lon to have to cope with as the PDEO.

     The Sector Manager was getting close to his retirement age, and his management style at that point in his career was to sit back and let the local management system "kind of manage itself" - "go along to get along" with no identifiable personnel management standards established by him or routinely maintained by his FAA station chiefs at the various FAA office locations identified previously. 

     Lon Willoughby believed that FAA facility managers should demonstrate some real management ability and capability with  their local area FAA employees and "lead them" into reasonable and responsible daily work attitudes and performance standards. 

     He did not agree with the very common perception in U.S. government managers that the FAA facility managers should allow the local employee personnel to casually establish their own "go along to get along" employee work standards. 

     Lon found his daily ongoing relationship with the Sector Manager to be fairly easy to cope with, but the Sector Manager's casual deficient management actions with the local union president - his "go along to get along attitude" - caused some very frustrating and very stressful personnel situations for Lon to have to cope with as PDEO.  Those situations were detrimental to Lon's health, in addition to his ongoing daily frustrating and stressful hypoglycemia health condition which affected his emotional attitude and feelings.     

     One of the problems with hypoglycemia is that there are days when the person does not have sufficient diplomatic patience with frustration, irritation, and stressful situations. 

     Normally, Lon had very good abilities to cope with those kinds of stressful situations, but his hypoglycemia health condition frequently caused him to have serious difficulty in using his usual skilled diplomatic management capabilities.

     If Lon had not been trying to cope daily with his still very confusing and frustrating hypoglycemia health condition, he would have been able to cope more successfully with those frustrating union actions  personnel management work conditions - personnel problems that the Sector Manager's too casual management "go along to get along" actions caused for PDEO Lon Willoughby to cope with.

     During two very long years, the frustrating and stressful work conditions of Lon's management duties as the PDEO were too frustrating and too stressful for Lon to contend with day after day, week after week - in addition to having to cope with his very confusing and frustrating   hypoglycemia health condition on a daily basis.  

     Those emotionally frustrating and irritating personnel situations caused Lon Willoughby to not want to work for the Sector Manager anymore. He appeared to be totally oblivious to the problems that his "go along to get along" attitude was causing for Lon Willoughby as the PDEO.

     Consequently, after two years of those very difficult working conditions, Lon realized that the Sector Manager's "go along to get along" personnel management actions had subjected him to more frustration and more emotional stress than he was willing to endure and tolerate on an ongoing basis. 

     Lon had been unable to get any medical help for his hypoglycemia health problem from the several medical doctors that he had consulted during the past ten years.

Leave the PDEO Position?

     Lon could have transferred back to a vacant electronics technician position at another FAA Office location somewhere in the large Southern Region of the FAA (without any reduction in pay), but Lon did not want to move away from the Greenville, SC area. 

     His wife Janie had a very good teaching position at the Mauldin High School, just six blocks from their home.  She was teaching the courses that she preferred to teach, and she liked and respected the female high school principal that she worked for (was her direct supervisor).

     Janie did not want to move to some unknown location, and try to get another high school teaching position with some unknown high school principal.      

     The younger son Robert (Bob) had been graduated from high school in Tabor City, North Carolina, and brother Michael had visited his mother and Bob in Tabor City, NC in June of year 1978.  Michael had talked with Bob and suggested that Bob seriously consider coming to live with dad and Janie for the summer of 1978 (as recommended by Lon to son Michael before he made that trip to visit Mom and Bob during June 1978). 

     Bob did choose to visit Dad and Janie for the summer, and he then decided to stay with them and begin going to nearby Greenville Technical College (a very good Junior College) in the fall semester. 

     During the two years that Bob lived at home with Dad and Janie, while attending Greenville Tech, Lon and Janie were able to help him a lot with his family relationship emotional maturity progress (to overcome his intense  longstanding resentment feelings that he had developed toward his father). 

     Janie's special people skills, developed in dealing with thousands of high school students, enabled her to be super helpful to Bob Willoughby as her "second son."  They established a very good practical informal "adopted" mother and son relationship that was very helpful to Bob Willoughby.

     Janie's aging parents were located in the Chester, SC area, just 75 miles away from Mauldin, SC - where Lon and Janie Lived. 

     Lon and Janie had finally managed to develop a very good family relationship situation with the two sons and with Janie's parents due to their very good location in Mauldin, South Carolina.   

     Unfortunately, Lon's ongoing hypoglycemia health problems caused him to very reluctantly consider resigning from a very good secure FAA government job that he was well-qualified for, that paid him a good dependable salary, and that had very good retirement system benefits, and Lon had already accumulated 19 years of very successful FAA employee service.  However, he would need to work for the FAA another 12 years before he would be eligible to retire from the FAA.

     Lon had been unable to get any medical help for his hypoglycemia health condition from a series of medical doctors that he had consulted over a ten-year period of time.  Consequently, it seemed hopeless that he would ever get any help for that very serious health condition from medical doctors.  Lon did not know who else he should consult with about coping better with his hypoglycemic health condition.      

     Lon seriously considered that he would have to work 12 more years to be eligible for FAA retirement.  He did not believe he could survive for another 12 years working in his present job with a lot of frustration, irritation, and management type emotional stress while also trying to cope daily with his still very confusing and very frustrating hypoglycemia health condition. 

    That very confusing and very frustrating health condition had clearly wrecked his very good FAA career. 

     Although Lon had two sons in nearby colleges at that time (with lots of college cost expenses), he reluctantly resigned from the FAA in October 1979, after 19 years of very successful FAA service. 

     Bob completed two years of education at Greenville Tech as a very good student, and then transferred to Clemson University (about 45 miles away) to study for an engineering degree.   Eldest son Michael completed his college education at Furman University (in the Greenville area).

One Very Interesting Point

     A point of interest here, relative to the various FAA positions that Lon Willoughby had bid on (applied for) during his first 17 years with the FAA: all of those position transfers had been competitive selections with multiple people competing for each of those FAA position vacancies. 

     From his first voluntary application for promotion from a GS-7 electronics technician (Raleigh, NC) to the GS-9 electronics technician position at the Charleston Air Force Base RADAR station, and then continuing over the years to his selection as the GS-12 PDEO position at the Greenville/Spartanburg Airport Sector Office location, Lon was consistently selected for each FAA position that he had bid on (applied for in a competitive selection). 

    He had a 100% track record of being selected for each vacancy that he bid on throughout his 17 years of bids on advertised position vacancies.  In other words, he came in at first place for each of those potential job transfers. 

    However, as related above, his complex and very frustrating hypoglycemia health condition had gradually wrecked his very good and promising career with the Federal Aviation Administration.      

      Lon's health problem situation is a good illustration of how serious it can be to have a confusing and frustrating health problem that conventionally educated and trained medical doctors do not understand and are not able to diagnose or evaluate properly. 

      That situation also illustrates Lon's very serious mistake in failing to understand that he should have consulted with a nutrition consultant (a dietitian or a nutritionist) about his hypoglycemia health condition when he was working in the Jacksonville, Florida area, back in the summer of 1966 to February 1971.

     If Lon had realized that he needed special help from a nutrition consultant, he probably could have located a dietitian or a nutritionist in Jacksonville because it is a big city. 

     A nutrition consultant may have understood some of the specialized carbohydrate food concepts knowledge that Lon needed mentoring help with.

     Years later, Lon could have likely located a dietitian or nutritionist in the Greenville, SC area in 1978 - 1979 after he had moved here from Panama City, Florida in September 1977. 

     But you see, Lon had been brainwashed all of his life to believe that medical doctors were the healthcare professionals that he should consult with about his very confusing and frustrating unnamed health condition.    

      Unfortunately, in years 1966 to 1971, due to a lifetime of brainwashing about the medical profession, Lon still did not know anything about nutrition consultants   (a dietitian or a nutritionist).

     Due to his lifetime of brain-washing about medical doctors, he still thought that a medical doctor was the healthcare professional that he should consult with about getting help for his very confusing and frustrating "unnamed" health condition (his hypoglycemia).

     Remember that Lon did not learn a possible name for his mysterious health condition until the summer of year 1972.  (hypoglycemia???)  In a miraculous way, Lon acquired a book that taught him the name of a mysterious health condition (hypoglycemia) that had some symptoms like Lon's health condition symptoms.  That health book author was a nutritionist in a very distant state, and Lon had no practical access to her.

     Three years later, Lon learned more information about the hypoglycemic health condition in another book that he very fortunately purchased and reviewed in year 1975 - written by a PhD type nutritionist and coauthored by a medical doctor.  Lon had no access to those two distant people.

     Those two paperback books were his beginning education about nutritionist.  Prior to those years, Lon had no practical working knowledge about nutrition consultants for healthcare problems. 

Brain-washing Effects

     Many years after year 1963, when Lon had the nasal surgery in Charleston, SC, he finally realized that his lifetime of brain-washing about the importance of consulting medical doctors about any healthcare issues had been overpowering any new understanding that he was gradually developing about the importance and relevance of nutrition consultants.

Lon's Very Important Health Store Work

      Over a period of 15 years (1/4/1999 - 4/23/2014), Lon personally managed our complex corporate natural health products retail sales store in the Greenville, SC area. 

      We had many herbal products (in capsules) and many other nutrition products (enzymes, minerals, probiotics, protein supplements, multi-vitamins, individual vitamins, weight loss products, etc.). 

     Due to Lon's technical interests and knowledge, we also stocked and displayed air filters, air purifiers, water filters, water purifiers, water ionizers, quality rebounder exercisers, and CHI styled exercisers. 

     ABC of Health was a special health store, like no other health store in the Greenville area due to Lon's technical interest and knowledge, and his special abilities in natural healthcare education. 

     Lon and his assistant, Diane Owen, worked responsibly with more than 1,000 store customers and visitors over a period of years - helping them learn how to take better care of their natural health.

     Since year 2000, Lon gradually discovered, developed, and copyrighted more than 50 important and valuable natural healthcare and wellness concepts.  They are our corporate trade secrets.

Lon's Ability to Self-educate

    With all of Lon's many years of formal education, he had learned that he was an "eye-minded" student - rather than being an "ear-minded" student.  Lon found that he usually learns better from reading about a subject rather than by listening to an instructor lecture about that subject. 

   Consequently, having completed the U.S. Air Force's Instructor School Education and Training Program in year 1955, and having learned how to teach education classes professionally, Lon gradually realized that he was capable of teaching himself about subjects that have a good text book. 

   If Lon has a good text book, he does not need an instructor to learn a subject well.  An instructor can usually be somewhat helpful but is not necessary if one is an "eye-minded learner" and also knows how to teach classes professionally and is also disciplined enough to accomplish a self-taught education program from good text books.

   Those special learning abilities were very important   many years later when Lon was teaching himself many  natural healthcare and wellness concepts from the many books that he purchased for our corporate library.

    Lon had convenient access to hundreds of natural  healthcare type books in our ABC of Health corporate library.  He was able to study books written by the "Masters in America" about many natural healthcare and wellness concepts. 

    Due to his instructor abilities and skills, he was able to efficiently acquire an extensive education about natural  healthcare and wellness concepts that actually surpasses the practical usable aspects of a Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition plus a Master's Degree in Nutrition.

    Over a period of many years, Lon has acquired a remarkable education about natural healthcare and wellness concepts that is unique in America. 

    This special introductory educational website shows that Lon has learned how to educate large numbers of American adult citizens about very important and very valuable natural healthcare and wellness concepts on the Internet using a "free to review" format that he and Janie developed for ABC's of Health, Inc. (dba ABC of Health). 

     However, for reasons that are explained in some detail herein, Lon has limited and restricted our natural healthcare concepts education marketing territory to two major ZIP Code areas in the upstate of South Carolina (296 - - and  293 - -). 

Lon's Natural Healthcare Book Purchases

     From year 2000 to year 2019, Lon purchased many books about natural healthcare and wellness concepts education subjects.  He averaged spending about $500 to $800 per year on those very important natural healthcare  book purchases. 

     By year end 2019, Lon had purchased more than 1000 natural healthcare-related books.  He placed those books in our ABC of Health's corporate library as he gradually bought them for our health store's business library.  He still buys a few books each year, but not nearly as many as he bought in those past years.

      Lon had learned that if you want to purchase a natural healthcare type book, buy it when you find it at a reasonable price because many books go out of print and the price can then increase a lot (if the book is still available for sales). 

     Example 1:  Janie bought Lon a paperback health book in 1972 that cost less than $8.00, but today there is a very limited supply available of that specific book - Let's Get Well by Adelle Davis - the price at Amazon.com is now about $40.00.

     Example 2:  The book "Low Blood Sugar and You" that Lon purchased in 1975 for less than $8.00 sells today at Amazon.com for much more.  Lon found that the newer publication of that revised and improved book is a much better book to purchase (available at the regular price).

     Our company (ABC of Health) probably has the best private corporate "natural health books library" in the state of South Carolina.  We have more than 1,000  natural healthcare type books in our very important  health books library. 

     Lon has taught himself a lot of very important  education about natural healthcare and wellness concepts using many of those books.

    He has become a natural healthcare consultant, a nutrition consultant, a healthy lifestyle consultant, and a skilled natural healthcare classroom educator. 

     Having all of those health books available for convenient review is very important for Lon because that enables him to review and learn about many natural  healthcare and wellness concepts that have already been published (copyrighted) by many authors. 

     Lon understands that he cannot copyright a natural  healthcare concept or wellness protocol that has already been developed and copyrighted by various book authors. 

     In order to copyright a healthcare concept or wellness protocol, it must be a unique concept or protocol that has not been copyrighted by another person. 

     Having convenient access to many of the best natural  health concepts books enables Lon to review many  natural healthcare concepts and wellness protocols to see what has already been published (copyrighted) about those natural healthcare subjects. 

     The amazing Internet enables Lon to conduct searches for many natural healthcare and wellness concepts.  In this way, Lon may think about natural healthcare education subjects that are still available for development of some important natural healthcare and wellness concepts that may still be copyrightable for educational use by ABC of Health. 

If Lon had not had

Serious Health Problems

     If Lon had not developed his very confusing and frustrating health problems, he would not have devoted thousands of hours to studying and learning about many natural healthcare and wellness concepts over a period of 40+ years (starting in the 1970's time period). 

         That was a very challenging objective for Lon, and it caused him to gradually purchase hundreds of natural healthcare type books so he could study many kinds of health conditions.  He spent thousands of dollars purchasing those special healthcare education books.

     If Lon had not developed serious health conditions, there would not be an education company named ABC of Health, and there would not be multiple websites like the ones that Lon developed for ABC of Health. 

     He gradually developed the special educational websites that ABC of Health can now use for important education of selected "qualified visitors" in selected Zip Code areas in upstate South Carolina. 

     Lon used a broad assortment of healthcare concepts knowledge to develop this introductory educational website for education of selected "qualified visitors."

     He and wife Janie Willoughby also use some of these websites for teaching our natural healthcare and wellness concepts education clients. (Our Americans4Justice-SC private education club members.)

     ABC of Health is now in a very special position to educate thousands of selected "qualified visitors" about how ABC of Health can teach Americans 4 Justice private education club members how they can take much better care of their natural health and their natural healthcare assets.

     This very special education position is due in large part to Lon's wife, Janie Willoughby. 

     If Lon had not married Janie (December 1970), his life would have been very different because he would not have eventually learned how to cope with his very confusing and very frustrating hypoglycemia health condition. 

     Remember that in the summer of year 1972, school teacher Janie was at home during the summer school break.  She fortunately chose to watch the special Dinah Shore TV morning program that featured nutritionist Adelle Davis on that particular day. 

     Janie then went to the local book store later that day and purchased the book "Let's Get Well" by nutritionist Adelle Davis.  She gave that book to Lon as a "present" that evening when he came home from his work with the FAA.    

     That very special book was a very important gift from Janie while Lon was still working with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at their airport field office  location in Panama City, Florida. 

    Without that very special book, Lon would not have learned about hypoglycemia.  In that event, he would have likely died many years ago.  Fortunately, he did not die due to Janie's incredibly important help. 

    If Lon had not married Janie in December 1970, there would not be an ABC of Health in Greenville County, South Carolina.  Consequently, it is very important to understand that Janie was an absolutely essential part of the gradual improvement in Lon's health condition and the subsequent development of ABC of Health. 

     Janie's special teaching abilities and skills, developed over 39 years of teaching in public schools, and her advanced level education (Master's Degree in Education) helped Lon a lot in the development of our ABC of Health educational websites.

     Since year 1999, ABC of Health has developed into a company that can now educate thousands of selected "qualified visitors" in upstate South Carolina (selected  American natural-born adult citizens who are Christian-oriented and patriotic-minded toward America, and live in selected areas of the upstate - as explained previously). 

     You have seen that selected "qualified visitors" can begin this very important and very valuable education with no upfront cost because Lon and Janie developed our "free to review" educational format, as used in this introductory educational website. 

     You have already seen that this Advanced Natural Health Concepts educational website can introduce  "qualified visitors" to some very important and valuable natural healthcare and wellness concepts.

Topic 4

WARNING!!!

Most American Medical Doctors

Do Not Know Much About Nutrition

     Over the years, Lon consulted with several medical doctors and those experiences taught him that many American educated and trained medical doctors apparently know very little about important food nutrition concepts or important nutrition supplement products - like nutrition supplement products that are normally available in many health food stores.

     None of the medical doctors that Lon consulted in Panama City, Florida asked him any questions about his diet, and they did not ask any questions about nutrition supplements that he might be taking (or should be taking). 

     Over the past 50+ years, Lon learned that some  American Medical Profession opinions and statements about a number of important health and nutrition issues were not reliable information.

     1.  "They" were wrong about the cardiovascular danger of eating eggs.  An egg yoke contains some cholesterol, and "they" claimed that this will increase cholesterol in the blood system and thereby increase the risk of having heart attacks. 

     Sounds logical, reasonable, and sensible at first consideration, but there is more to that important health concept than just superficial medical logic.

     Lon had known several people who routinely ate eggs for breakfast daily throughout their lifetime (for many years), and they also ate eggs on many other occasions.  They lived to be in their eighties and some lived to be in their late nineties.  They lived longer than most Americans live so eating a lot of chicken eggs apparently did not cause them to have dangerous cardiovascular problems.     

     Consequently, Lon did not believe the medical profession's nutritional advice about the cholesterol in egg yokes being an important cardiovascular risk factor. 

     He continued eating ten or more eggs per week, and he has done that for the past 60+ years with no known harmful health effects. 

     Many years later, the American Medical Profession  acknowledged publicly (nationally) that more recent research had shown that their admonition against eating eggs had been wrong.  The cholesterol contained in egg yokes was now believed to not be a significant cardiovascular risk factor.

     2.  They were wrong about the benefits of eating margarine vs. eating butter - a big nutrition mistake.

     Lon was suspicious about eating margarine in the early 1980's (an altered manufactured food). When he attended the annual convention of the National Health Federation conducted in Atlanta, Georgia in June 1986  Lon learned why it was not healthy to eat margarine in any of its marketable forms. 

     He learned that liquid oil used to make margarine products is heated to a very high temperature (about 600 degrees F) to enable the added hydrogen ions to convert the liquid oil to a soft butter like consistency (a small tub of margarine), or to convert the liquid oil to a harder butter stick consistency. 

     Lon did not want to consume oil that had been heated to a very high temperature and then deodorized (cleaned up) to help it taste like it had not been severely damaged.

     Lon has avoided eating margarine of any type for 38+ years.  Current nutritional knowledge shows that he made a wise decision when he avoided all margarine food products - beginning about 1983 (39+ years ago). 

     3.  The American Medical Profession has been wrong for many years about the amount of some vitamins that humans need to be healthy.

     Lon learned that it is most unlikely that American adults will obtain a sufficient amount of some vitamins from their daily diet to be really healthy.  They may survive at low levels of RDA vitamins, but they will likely not be able to perform mentally or physically at improved levels with those low levels of vitamins. 

     Consider the many tragic situations that frequently occur in America - assaults, brutal marital injuries and murders, many malicious and ruthless injuries and murders of strangers, many thousands of auto accidents, etc. 

     Lon and Janie Willoughby now understand that many of those tragic situations would have likely not occurred if the people involved had been routinely taking appropriate higher levels of some very important vitamins, minerals, and carefully selected beneficial herbs.  

     Lon and Janie also now understand that many people incarcerated in jails, prisons, and mental institutions could have likely avoided doing things that caused their  tragic incarceration if they had been routinely taking adequate higher levels of some very important vitamins,   minerals, and herbs.

     American adults can benefit substantially from consuming a lot more of some vitamins than "medical profession personnel" and the high level nutritional "authorities" recommend as the RDA amount.  Lon has proven that conclusively in his life and in wife Janie's life.

     Lon and Janie have routinely taken some vitamins that are much more potent than the RDA levels (6 to 10 times the RDA level, that is 600% to 1,000%, and even more for some vitamins).  They have done this since Lon learned why they should do this back in 1986 (35+ years ago).

     Lon's health and Janie's health and their lives together have been greatly improved by the routine use of much higher levels of several vitamins, quality minerals, and some special herbal supplements. 

     The higher levels of those special nutrients can improve brain functions and thereby improve the way the emotions function.  High levels of certain vitamins can dramatically reduce feelings of anger, anxiety, nervousness, frustration, irritation, and also help with some serious depression conditions.   

     These higher amounts of certain vitamins can help people make better decisions and have better emotional balance throughout the day.  This can also result in much better human relation actions and skills, enabling people to interact and get along with other people much better, including improving human relationship skills with a spouse and children.  

     Improved nutritional levels with certain vitamin supplements can also help the body in several important performance areas, by increasing the energy and vitality that the body produces on a daily basis.

     Several high quality multivitamin and mineral formulas are now in the marketplace that contain much higher levels of certain vitamins - similar to the higher levels that Lon and Janie have been routinely using for many years. 

     This situation is very important evidence that some of the top formulating nutritionist in America also understand that adults need much higher levels of some vitamins than the very low level RDA levels that are usually recommended by high level nutritional authorities.

     From reviewing the very large number of pharmaceutical drugs that are sold annually to help patients cope with those very common types of health problems (feelings of anger, anxiety, nervousness, frustration, irritation, and also depression), it is clear to Lon and Janie Willoughby that many millions of American residents are having substantial difficulties in coping with those types of common health problems. 

     Lon and Janie realize that millions of American adult residents could probably be helped a lot if they were taking some of the higher levels of certain vitamin supplements  - like Lon and Janie have been taking for more than 35 years. 

     4.  The American Medical Profession was wrong about how much vitamin C is an adequate amount to take daily.  Lon learned that humans need much more vitamin C than the small amount that "they" (he so-called high level experts) typically recommend as the RDA amount. 

     There are several forms of vitamin C in the marketplace, and "they" typically recommended the least expensive form of vitamin C supplement (straight Ascorbic Acid - with a pH of 3.2). 

     That very acidic form of vitamin C presents stomach problems for some people.  That is one of the reasons buffered forms of vitamin C are in the marketplace. 

     Using the very acidic form of vitamin C also makes it more difficult for a person to maintain healthy pH levels in their body fluids.  The buffered forms of vitamin C also have a much better pH value (not strongly acidic like Ascorbic Acid type vitamin C).

     5.  The American Medical Profession has been wrong for many years about healthy vitamin D levels in the blood system for American adults.

     Lon has learned that most Americans probably need to take much more vitamin D3 supplements than the very low level that medical profession "experts" have recommended for many years as the proper RDA level of vitamin D supplementation. 

     Vitamin D in the blood system is also much more important than the medical "experts" have understood and publicly acknowledged. 

     Vitamin D levels in the blood system affect the body in several beneficial ways so it is very important to responsibly maintain the blood level of vitamin D at a healthy normal level.

     The amount of vitamin D supplementation that should be taken by Americans varies somewhat with the geographic location of the individuals. 

     People that live in northerly latitudes generally need more vitamin D3 supplementation than people who live in a more southerly latitude.  The further north people live, the more vitamin D3 supplementation they likely need because they are usually getting less beneficial sunshine exposure when they are outdoors. 

     This also varies dependent upon the amount of open skin sunshine exposure, and the length of time of that exposure, and the frequency of that sunshine exposure.   

     All of this varies with how much sunshine actually interacts with open skin areas, and this also varies with the time of day and the time of the year when skin exposure to sunshine occurs. 

     10:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. on a sunshiny day during summer months in usually the best time for developing natural vitamin D in the blood system from direct sunshine exposure to open skin areas. 

     The amount of open skin area is an important factor here - more open skin area enables more vitamin D to be produced in the blood during a fixed amount of time (such as 20 minutes).    

     So what happens with vitamin D development in the blood during other times of the year, such as the winter months?  That is when people need vitamin D3 supplements the most because the wintertime sunlight is not as effective at producing vitamin D in the blood as summertime sunlight.

     Sunshine exposure through auto windows doesn't count due to the filtering of sunlight rays that greatly reduces vitamin D production from sunlight rays that have passed through auto window glass. 

     Dark skin people in America generally need more vitamin D3 supplement than light skin people.  The dark skin acts as a filter that reduces the amount of vitamin D that is naturally produced in the blood with sunlight exposure on open skin areas. 

     For thousands of years, the dark skin helped lightly clothed natives in Africa avoid getting too much vitamin D produced in the blood system.  Yes, it is possible to get too much vitamin D in the human blood supply.

     Lon and Janie routinely take much more vitamin D supplementation than the RDA amount.  They usually get their blood level of vitamin D tested once per year to help them verify that they are keeping their blood level of vitamin D in the healthier upper level range.  

    6.    Vitamin D in the blood system produced by sunlight on open skin area is actually a mistaken name because that substance is in fact a hormone, it is not a vitamin.  By definition, vitamins are substances that are not produced in the body and vitamin D is produced in the body - so it is not a vitamin, it is a hormone. 

     That name mistake was made many years ago - so in America, for simplicity, we just continue calling it vitamin D.  Just be aware that it is actually a hormone - it is not a vitamin.

     In general terms, the body does not make or produce vitamins (it does produce the hormone misnamed as vitamin D).  All substantial amounts of vitamins must be obtained from the food substances that are consumed or consumed in nutritional supplement products because the various vitamins that are needed daily will not be produced within the body. 

     Tiny microscopic size microbes living in the intestinal tract do produce some B vitamins but only in extremely small amounts.

     7.  The vitamin D3 that is sold in nutrition stores is more effective at producing vitamin D (hormone) in the blood system than the vitamin D2 supplement that American medical doctors typically "prescribe" for their healthcare patients.

     It is very important to understand that a vitamin D3  supplement and a vitamin D2 supplement are different products with different levels of effectiveness at producing the vitamin D (hormone) in the blood system.  The vitamin D3 is the more effective form of the supplement to take.    

     8.  American medical doctors and their high level "nutrition experts" have also been oblivious to and ignored for many years the great importance of taking a Vitamin K2 supplement (MK-4 and MK-7 types of K2).

     9.  They have also ignored the very important relationship of taking that very important vitamin K2 supplement whenever one takes a substantial amount of vitamin D3 supplementation daily (2,000 IU or more). 

Mineral Health Concepts

     Another very important area of inaccurate and/or inadequate nutrition knowledge from American medical doctors is with mineral type supplements.  

   10.  Lon has observed for many years that the calcium supplements that are normally recommended by American medical doctors for outpatient therapy (with some of our health store customers) was typically a form of crushed up limestone. 

     That common and popular calcium supplement has a typical absorption rate into human body cells of only about 5% to maybe 8%. 

     There are much better calcium products in the marketplace than crushed up limestone, but medical doctors apparently do not have the nutritional education and training to understand the difference between very low quality calcium products and high quality calcium products. 

     What happens to the calcium from the very low quality calcium products that cannot be effectively absorbed into the body cells but are likely absorbed into some of the body fluids around the cells? 

     Over the years, that type of calcium can buildup and become a form of semi-concrete - causing the body to be stiff and have pains with body movements (such as raising the arms above the head, normal stretching, or simply walking with regular arm movements). 

     Those situations are quite common in many places in Florida because the normal drinking water in many locations contains a lot of limestone type calcium that is not assimilated well into body cells. 

     Lon lived in Florida for 14 years, and he realizes that many people need a water filter or water purifier system that can remove the undesirable limestone calcium particles from their drinking and cooking water.  Lon learned that most of those Floridian adults probably do not know that. 

     Most of those people will likely continue drinking that heavily calcified particle water throughout their lifetime, and that can damage their body badly with harmful limestone particle sediment accumulation throughout their body.

     This is another very important situation where people need to consult with a natural healthcare consultant  about very important actions that people can take to help them protect and improve their natural health. 

     This type of basic healthcare water education can help people in many locations in Florida, and also many other locations in the USA, wherever there is a lot of microscopic size limestone particles normally present in their drinking water.

     Those water situations can usually be determined inexpensively by having the water tested for "total dissolved solids" (TDS).   You can usually purchase your own TDS meter for less than $30.00 (www.Amazon.com).

     A local area water quality technician can usually help people learn about their local water quality situation. 

     Look for water filters and water purifiers services in the yellow pages of the local phone book (or search on the Internet) to see which local company to call about testing the quality of your local municipal water system. 

     If a person uses a private well as their primary drinking water source, they will need to have that water tested.  A local water quality technician can likely help them accomplish that very important task in an economical way. 

     The fact that the water looks O.K. and tastes O.K. does not mean that the water is safe to drink.  It could have serious radiation problems and still look good and taste good. 

      In upstate South Carolina, a common problem is serious radiation danger from granite rock radiation in the well hole wall - where the private drilled well hole passes through some granite rock.  

     The granite rock lining the drilled well can impart dangerous radiation into the water passing through the granite rock well hole. That harmful radiation can cause some very serious health problem conditions over a period of time - typically causing cancer conditions.

     Well water can also have pathogenic bacteria contamination, or other forms of pathogenic microbe contamination, and still look good and taste good. 

     Well water can be contaminated with farming chemicals or contaminated with fruit orchard type chemicals, or leaked chemical waste site contamination - and still look good and also taste good. 

     Therefore, appearance and taste are not accurate evidence of lack of serious contamination.

     A comprehensive laboratory test of private well water can cost hundreds of dollars, depending upon the broad spectrum of potential contaminates that are requested to be included in the complex water testing process. 

     A local water quality technician can probably help a local resident understand which water quality tests are usually needed in a given local area.

Mineral Supplements

     Calcium that can be absorbed into the body cells can be used in about 500 metabolic processes in the human body; therefore, calcium can be a very beneficial mineral (but only if it is a form that can be assimilated well into body cells). 

     There are several forms of calcium supplements in the marketplace and some forms are assimilated much better than other forms. 

     It's smart to talk with a nutrition consultant and then choose one of the better forms of calcium, rather than take a very low quality calcium product for many years that will not be effective adequately and can also clog up large portions of the body with calcium residue that the body could not assimilate properly. 

     Popular low cost calcium products are purchased by people who do not understand the much better health benefits of choosing a higher quality calcium product.

   11.  Magnesium supplements are also very important in the human body, and most American adults are probably magnesium deficient to a substantial degree.  People consuming municipal processed water in Greenville County are not likely going to get the amount of magnesium that is needed daily from their daily diet or from the water they drink.  Consequently, they likely need to be taking a magnesium supplement daily.

     Magnesium that can be absorbed into the body cells can be used in about 400 metabolic processes.  It is a very important mineral.

     There are several forms of magnesium in the marketplace so it is smart to talk with a nutrition consultant about how to choose a very good magnesium supplement product. 

     NOTE:  There are several other minerals that are very important for humans (such as copper, iodine, Iron, manganese, molybdenum, potassium, selenium, zinc, etc.)  Lon could go on with information about other nutrition issues, but you probably get the really important point that he is making here. 

Really Important Point

     It is very important to understand that most medical doctors (and medical nurses) have not had specialized education and training about selecting nutrition supplement products such as: enzymes, herbs, important major and trace minerals, important vitamins, probiotics, protein supplements, natural blood pressure control supplements, natural cholesterol and triglyceride management, natural glucose stabilization products, immune system booster products, memory enhancement supplements, natural reduction and minimization of heart attacks and strokes products, natural pain relief supplements for muscle injuries, aches and pains.

     Consequently, medical doctors and medical nurses are generally not competent to offer advice or education about the nutrition products listed above.  That kind of information can be obtained best from a nutrition consultant (a dietitian or a nutritionist or a natural healthcare consultant similar to Lon Willoughby).

Nutrition is a Very 

Complicated Subject

     Lon has listed some very important nutrition supplements above; however, there are many other nutrition supplements to consider for various healthcare conditions. 

     ABC of Health routinely stocked 300+ types of nutrition supplements in our corporate natural health products store in Greenville County, SC.  It is important to understand that some nutrition supplements are supplied in capsules, and some are in tablets, and some are in powders, and some are in liquid form. 

     Some minerals are available in different forms and some mineral forms are better absorbed into body cells than other forms.  In general terms, the better mineral forms are more expensive than poor quality minerals. 

     Very cheap nutrition supplements will generally contain the less expensive minerals and may contain some vitamin forms that are not absorbed as well as higher quality vitamins. 

     Brand names are very important in these regards.  Some nutrition product companies routinely provide higher quality nutrients than some other brands (usually cheaper products).  A very good nutrition consultant will be knowledgeable about the better quality brands.

     It is also important to understand that chelated minerals can usually get into the body cells more reliably (improved bioavailability and absorption) than non-chelated minerals.

     Albion Laboratories in Clearfield, Utah was founded in 1956 as a veterinarian pharmaceutical company.  Some farmers and ranchers began using mineral supplements in bagged animal feed for their animals to improve their health and increase their profits from animal sales in the marketplace.

     Those common improved animal nourishment situations occurred before quality mineral supplements were provided for packaged foods for many Americans (men, women, teenagers, and younger children). 

     So now you understand why Albion Labs. began as a veterinarian pharmaceutical company rather than a people pharmaceutical company. 

     Albion Labs. has developed more than 50 patents about the chelation of minerals.  They are a premier chelator of important minerals, and it is difficult for other nutrition companies to develop their own chelate minerals without violating some of Albion's chelation patents. 

     Albion Labs. chelated minerals are now available in several brands of high quality nutritional supplements that contain minerals.

     Understanding those mineral considerations can help "qualified visitors" understand that nutrition really is a very complex subject.

     Nutrition consultants have a lot to learn in their dedicated responsible efforts to become knowledgeable about many nutrition issues and many nutrition supplement products so they can help people make practical, responsible, and sensible choices about various healthcare supplement products.

     Over the past 50+ years, Lon Willoughby learned that American medical doctors are generally not a reliable source of nutrition information or information about taking nutrition supplement products. 

     Lon learned that most medical students in America get very little nutrition education when they go through their medical school education.  In some medical schools, medical students received almost no nutrition education.

     Lon found that American adult citizens will likely be helped much better by consulting with a nutrition consultant (a dietitian or a nutritionist) rather than consulting a medical doctor or medical nurses about any kind of nutrition-related healthcare concern.

     Lon also learned that American medical doctors appear to be very reluctant to recommend that a patient consult a nutrition consultant about any healthcare concern or healthcare problem.  

     Rather than consider nutrition consultants  as complementary healthcare consultants, many medical system professionals seem to consider them as  adversarial opponents.  Which medical profession attitude would work best for medical patients? 

     The answer to that question is obvious; nutrition consultants (a dietitian or a nutritionist) should be considered as complementary healthcare consultants.  They can provide very important essential healthcare benefits to medical patients that medical doctors and medical nurses are usually not competent to provide to their healthcare patients. 

      As reported herein, American adults could be healthier if they routinely consulted and relied upon  nutrition consultants - rather than consulting and relying upon medical doctors and medical nurses for nutrition-related healthcare concerns.  

     As related in this very important report, that was a BIG MISTAKE that Lon Willoughby made again and again for many years - due to the fact that he had been  successfully brain-washed to believe that erroneous healthcare concept (all serious healthcare concerns need a medical doctor consultation). 

     It took many years of disappointing medical doctor consultations for Lon to overcome his medical doctor brainwashing and finally realize that he should have also been consulting with nutrition consultants (dietitians or nutritionist) about health problems that might involve nutrition considerations.

False Impression

     Lon has observed that the American medical profession and American medical doctors routinely strive to give the public impression that they are the  professional healthcare practitioners who know how to help Americans with practically any kind of healthcare concern, including nutritional concerns. 

     Over 50+ years, Lon gradually learned that this is a very serious false impression.  He learned that there are other kinds of "healthcare practitioners" who know much more about nutrition-related healthcare concerns than typical American medical system doctors and nurses.

     During the many years that Lon consulted a series of medical doctors, only one of them asked him any questions about his diet.  That was the last medical doctor that he consulted about nutrition concerns - an Allergy Specialist that he consulted during year 1978 (more than 40 years ago).  He did not have any known allergy problems, but he had learned that this allergy specialist MD had acquired some knowledge about nutrition issues.

 The Allergy Specialist

     The allergy specialist was the most competent and most ethical and most responsible medical doctor of the series of medical doctors that Lon consulted over a ten-year period of time about his health problems. 

     The allergy specialist medical doctor tried to help Lon with his hypoglycemia condition, but no health improvements occurred during an eventful one-year trial period. 

     The good doctor suggested a number of changes in Lon's diet and some changes in his daily nutrition supplements regimen.  However, none of those changes improved Lon's hypoglycemia condition. 

     In general, Lon's health was affected adversely or negatively by those changes, but some of those changes made no noticeable differences.

     Lon ended the one-year trial period by going back to the same daily diet and nutrition supplements regimen that he had gradually developed for himself over a period of many years. 

     It is important to note that the medical doctors that Lon consulted did not recommended that Lon should consult a nutrition consultant (a dietitian or a nutritionist). 

Topic 6

The Super Good News

     Due to Lon's extensive studies about a broad range of natural healthcare and wellness concepts, and his many years of hands-on work experiences at our corporate health products retail store, he and his wife Janie were able to gradually develop natural healthcare and wellness concepts educational services that are needed badly by millions of American adult citizens, including medical doctors and nurses, and some other types of healthcare practitioners (as listed herein previously).