Dr. Danise

WHAT ARE COLD AND FLU SYSMPTOMS?

2010-10-06T06:00:00.000-07:00

COLD and FLU SYMPTOMS

SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF A COLD
Fever is rare
Chills are uncommon
Stuffy nose is commonly present and resolves spontaneously within a week
Sore throat is commonly present
Cough that is hacking and mucus-producing is often present
Sneezing is commonly present
Body aches and pains can be symptoms
Fatigue and tiredness is mild
Decreased appetite may be a symptom
Headache is uncommon
Chest discomfort may be mild to moderate
Symptoms take a few days to develop

SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF INFLUENZA (FLU)
Fever present in 80% of cases. Temperature of 100 F or higher for 3 to 4 days.
Chills present in 60% of cases.
Runny nose
Sore throat irritation is common but not always present with flu
Dry Cough
Chest discomfort may be severe
Headache is common in 80% of cases
Muscles aches and pains may be severe
Fatigue may range from moderate to severe
Decreased appetite
Symptoms may hit suddenly within hours with fever and aches

INFLUENZA IS A CONTAGIOUS VIRAL RESPIRATORY INFECTION. Typically, the condition will improve after two to three days of bed rest, although some symptoms may persist for about a week. Death caused by flu virus is very rare. The majority of so-called “flu deaths” are due to bacterial pneumonia – a potential complication of the flu if your immune system is too weak. Other complications can include ear or sinus infections, dehydration, or worsening of existing chronic health conditions. The elderly and people with pre-existing medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes, or heart disease, are at higher risk of developing pneumonia after a bout of the flu.

DON’T PANIC IF YOU GET THE FLU!
1) Keep hydrated. Stay home. Get REST. Consume a liquid diet of vegetable juices and soups. Drink Aloe Vera juice. Do not eat sugary foods or drink sodas as these lower the immune system’s response. Do not consume dairy products as they are mucus forming.

2) SUPPLEMENT: Garlic supplement, Astragalus herbal supplement (stronger than Echinacea,) Colloidal Silver or Silver Shield, Limu juice (sea herbal - drink in ounces throughout the day.) If allergies or sensitivities are common, see a qualified doctor to know if your program is safe for you.

3) Take Vitamin D3 – this is one of the most evidence-based interventions available for reducing incidence and severity of seasonal colds and flu. The data is very, very strong.

(This is an overview and does not replace the advice of a medical doctor. Seek a medical physician if you become ill or have questions about your health.)

BODY BENEFITS FROM FLU

2010-10-06T05:54:00.000-07:00

THE BODY BEBEFITS FROM FLU
By Tedd Koren, D.C.

Hippocrates, the “Father of Medicine,” recognized the role illness plays in the larger picture of health when he wrote, “Diseases are crises of purification, of toxic elimination. Symptoms are the natural defenses of the body. We call them diseases, but in fact they are the cure of diseases.”

In one study, flu sufferers who took aspirin or acetaminophen were sick an average of 3.5 days longer than people who did not take the drugs. (Pharmacotherapy.2000;20(12):1417-1422.)

The cleansing or detoxifying aspect of illness (fever, vomiting, diarrhea, sweating) may be why getting colds, flu and infectious diseases has been associated with a decreased risk of cancer.

Researchers found that those who had febrile infectious childhood diseases have less cancer as adults while another revealed that “a history of common colds or … influenza … was associated with a decreased risk of stomach, colon, rectum and ovarian cancer.” (History of cancer patients and matched controls. Medical Hypotheses. 1998;51(4):315-320) Common infections. J Cancer REs Clin Oncol. 1991:117(4):339-344.)

AVOID THE WINTER FLU

2010-10-06T05:50:00.000-07:00

AVOID THE WINTER FLU By Standard Process

Today, our immune system is under a lot of pressure from stress, environmental pollution, poor eating habits, and lack of sleep/exercise. There are many ways to protect ourselves and our immune system from seasonal challenges and diseases, including the flu. One of those ways is through nutrition. Support your immune system and conquer colds and flu by following these simple steps:

SLEEP When you’re tired, it becomes harder for you to get your daily tasks done. The same is true if your body is overly fatigued, it will be difficult for it to fight the flu. Regular rest will keep you strong and ensure that your body has the strength to fight off any potential invaders. Everyone needs a minimum of 6-8 hours daily! If your immune system is depleted, rest! After all, we cannot think clearly and function 100% without proper rest.

GARLIC Garlic is a triple-whammy: it’s antibacterial, antiviral and anti-fungal. Garlic is one food that you should be eating every day. You may choose to eat, “drink”, or take a quality garlic supplement When eating, it is important to note that the garlic must be fresh to give you optimal health benefits. The active ingredient is destroyed within one hour of pressing the garlic. Compress it with a spoon or garlic press, just prior to swallowing it, or put it through your juicer to add to your vegetable juice. If you swallow the clove intact you will not convert the active ingredient, allicin, to its active form.

STRESS We all face some stress everyday, but if stress becomes overwhelming then your body will be less able to fight off the flu and other illness. It has been estimated that up to 90 percent of illness and disease is stress-related. If you feel that stress is taking a toll on your health, consider “deep breathing” and other relaxing techniques (Yoga, meditation, aromatherapy baths, etc).

EXERCISE Exercise increases circulation and blood flow throughout your body. The components of your immune system are also better circulated, which means your immune system is more efficient at finding an illness before it spreads. In a sense, exercising helps your immune system to be more efficient in weeding and destroying viruses and diseases.

WASH YOUR HANDS Washing your hands decreases the likelihood of spreading a virus to your nose, mouth or other people. If your immune system is strong, it should be able to fight off the virus if it does enter your body, but washing your hands provides a bit of extra protection. Instead of antibacterial soap, identify’ a simple chemical-free soap that you can use. Local health food stores like Trader Joes’s or Whole Foods typically carry a variety of natural soaps.

AVOID DAIRY If you or your family member showing signs of runny nose, cough, congestion, sneezing; eliminate all dairy products for a few days. Dairy products increase the production of mucus and can actually CREATE more congestion, and amplify the feeding ground for bacteria and viruses. To be safe, eliminate any milk, cheese, yogurt, etc. for about 5-7 days while boosting your immune system and building back your energy reserves.

AVOID SUGAR Sugar decreases the function of your immune system almost immediately, and as you likely know, a strong immune system is key to fighting off viruses and other illness, including the flu. It is especially imperative to avoid sugar if you feel you are coming down with something, but keeping sugar out of your diet for the tong haul will do wonders for your health and make your body stronger, which will make it harder for the flu to bother you. Be aware that sugar is present in foods you may not suspect like ketchup and fruit juice.

FLU & COLDS - PREVENTIVE MEASURES

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FLU AND COLD
PREVENTIVE MEASURES

1) EAT WELL.

MAINTAIN A DIET of 75% raw/steamed/sautéed vegetables & fresh fruits. If possible, juice carrots, celery and apples (drink raw juices). Otherwise, purchase refrigerated (less processed) juices.
LIMIT MEAT INTAKE to one serving a day the size of a deck of cards.
REDUCE INTAKE of WHITE FOOD PRODUCTS containing flour, sugar, salt, dairy, and grease/shortening (fried foods.) The “deadly whites” have the ability to lower the immune system’s response, raise blood sugars, increase LDL cholesterol levels, add fat to the body, increase mucus, increase heart disease, clog arteries, etc.: these foods do not support health and healing. They may be consumed in limited amounts when you are healthy.

2) STAY HYDRATED.
Cells require water to function properly and release toxins. A toxic overload lowers your body’s defenses and makes you more susceptible to illness and disease.

3) STRENGTHEN IMMUNE SYSTEM.
a) Products that may help: Colloidal Silver, Essential Oil of Thieves, Garlic crushed or in capsules, Aloe Vera juice, Vitamin D3, Cold-pressed Barley caps or tablets, Limu sea herbal juice.
b) Increase alkalinity of your body: consume large amounts of fresh vegetables and fruits,
c) Limit acidic foods such as meats, dairy, sugary foods, fast foods, pastas and white food products. Do not microwave food.

4) EXERCISE.
Walking 10 minutes before and after a meal helps control weight, blood sugars, reduce stress, improve circulatory system, support heart function, and stimulate lymphatic system, and more.

5) BE POSTIVE.
Being emotionally positive and staying relaxed are optimal ways to maximize your immune defenses and minimize risk of both becoming ill and of complications. A positive attitude can also maximize your recovery should you become ill.

6) SLEEP WELL.
The body heals during sleep. Sleep and rest is essential for healing and for maintaining good health. AT bedtime, watch only happy shows, read the bible, meditate, enjoy relaxing music, close the day with something positive or happy. This is what will play on your mind throughout the night – so give yourself “the gift” of something positive to support your body’s work of repair and healing throughout the night.

7) GET REGULAR B.E.S.T. ADJUSTMENTS.
Eliminating stress from your body and central nervous system is essential to good health. Keep your body in balance so nutrition and energy can be maximized and flow freely to nourish your body.

8) BE THANKFUL.
God gave you a body that heals. Take care of it!

SHOULD I GET A FLU SHOT?

2010-10-06T05:36:00.000-07:00

SHOULD YOU GET A FLU SHOT?
By Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
http://www.russellblaylockmd.com

Millions of Americans will be lining up for their annual flu shot. But should they?
Could a yearly flu shot make you more susceptible to developing Alzheimer’s disease? Unfortunately, the answer may be “yes.”

One of the world’s leading immunologists, Dr. Hugh Fudenberg, conducted studies that found that people who receive the flu vaccine yearly for three to five years increase their risk of Alzheimer’s disease tenfold.

He suggests the culprits are mercury and aluminum in the vaccines, but I believe a new mechanism, which involves mercury and aluminum as well the over-activation of the brain’s immune system caused by the vaccines, is to blame.

Mercury and aluminum are directly toxic to brain cells and also over-stimulate the brain’s immune system. There is compelling evidence that this mechanism can trigger Alzheimer’s dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease and autism spectrum disorders, as well as Gulf War Syndrome.

The greatest risk of vaccinations triggering brain disorders is among those with impaired immunity. We know that as we age, the immune system becomes compromised, primarily because of poor nutrition.

In addition, the mercury vaccines, both in childhood vaccines as well as adult vaccines such as for flu, accumulates in the brain and is very difficult to remove. The idea of having yearly mercury injections is insane, to say the least, but millions still willingly line up for their annual flu shot.

ARE THERE ALTERNATIVES TO VACCINATION? Absolutely. We know that there is a solid connection between a strong immune system and nutrition. Several studies have shown that age-related immune problems can be corrected with nutrients such as selenium, vitamins E and C, zinc and the carotenoids. In addition, vitamin D3helps prevent over-reaction of the immune system as seen in these devastating diseases.

THE KEY FOR PREVENTION IS TO BUILD YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM WITH NUTRITION AND REST.

ARE FLU SHOTS EFFECTIVE?

2010-10-06T05:29:00.000-07:00

IS THE FLU SHOT EFFECTIVE?
By Tedd Koren, D.C.

DOES THE FLU SHOT SAVE LIVES AMONG CHILDREN? In 1999, 25 children died from the flu in the entire United States. In 2000 that number decreased to 19, to 13 in 2001 and to 12 in 2003. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) began to push for flu shots for kids in 2003. The result: the number of flu deaths increased in children jumping to 90. (National vital statistics reports, CDC. cdc.gov/hchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_13.pdf)

DOES THE FLU SHOT SAVE LIVES AMONG THE ELDERLY? Even though immunization rates in those over 65 have increased 50% in the past 20 years, researchers found no decline in flu-related deaths. Researcher report that studies “substantially” overestimate the vaccine’s benefit. (www.cdc.gov’nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52_13.pdf (p16)

HOW MANY PEOPLE DIE FROM THE FLU? You may have heard that the flu kills over 30,000 Americans every year. That is incorrect. Government statistics lump flu and pneumonia deaths together, but flu deaths are only a small fraction of the total. For example, in 2002 when the flu plus pneumonia deaths were reported at over 60,000 only 753 were flu deaths. In 2001 the total number of flu deaths was 267. The flu vaccine is poorly tested. It is a dangerous vaccine, yet millions of people receive it. (www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_3400.cfm)

According to Sherri Tenpenny, DO, VACCINE RESEARCHER, “The fact that the flu shots are ineffective in every age group hardly seems to matter to those who continually promote their use. Multiple studies published in highly reputable publications have documented that flu shots are ineffective in all ages.” (Flu shots: beware! May 1, 2006 www.newswithviews.com/Tenpenny/sherri6.htm)

FLU VACCINE? by Standard Process
The flu shot, and the newly released FluMist nasal vaccine, are not the answer to avoiding the flu. The “experts” will use FEAR to motivate people to get a flu vaccine, but this is yet another health care illusion. Flu can definitely be a killer disease and should not be easily dismissed. However, flu shots do not prevent illness--never have, never will.
The flu vaccine can actually weaken the immune system and make you more predisposed to the illness. And the side effects of FluMist, cough, runny nose/nasal congestion, irritability, headaches, chills, muscle aches and fever, sound just like the symptoms of the flu. If you decide to get the nasal flu vaccine, you will get not only a live flu virus in each dose but also table sugar and MSG, which are fraught with their own problems. Plus, research has shown an increased risk of Bell palsy following intranasal flu vaccination, according to the Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS). The makers of the nasal flu vaccine in the study decided not to market it the following season due to the risk. According to GACVS, the greater risk of Bell palsy following immunization with this vaccine may have been due to specific vaccine components, or simply to use of the intranasal administration route. It is therefore possible that such complications of vaccine administration may also apply to other nasal vaccines.
The flu vaccine, whether in the shot or nasal form, is worthless and should be avoided. Not only are they loaded with toxic chemicals including mercury, formaldehyde, and aluminum, but many people come down with the flu shortly after receiving the shot. This is because it actually weakens the immune system, making the person more predisposed to the illness.

The bottom line is to lead a healthy lifestyle, which includes eating right, exercising, getting adequate sleep, and addressing stressors, year round. If you do, chances are you’ll never have to worry about coming down with the flu.

ARE FLU SHOTS SAFE?

2010-10-06T05:23:00.000-07:00

FLU SHOT SAFETY

By Tedd Koren, D.C.

FLU SHOT CONTAINS MERCURY - A neurotoxin that damages brain and nerve cells.
There are 25 microgram of mercury per dose in most flu shots. That number is FIVE TIMES the maximum amount judged safe by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) for a 110 pound person.
A survey of over 9000 Americans found that this was unknown to an overwhelming. Lisa Handley (of PutChildrenFirst.org) son became autistic after a flu shot.

In 1999 government agencies called for the removal of mercury in vaccines. However, many vaccines are still permitted to have unsafe levels of mercury. Some of this year’s flu vaccines still contain mercury. (www.orgaincconsumers.org/2006/article_3400.cfm)

FLU SHOT DAMAGES THE IMMUNE SYSTEM No one knows the long-term consequences of repeated influenza vaccinations – it’s never been tested ( this is true of all vaccines). Repeated vaccination at a young age increases the risk of influenza in older age. This is possibly due to overall weakening of the immune system. However, NATURAL FLU INFECTION STRENGTHENS THE IMMUNE SYSTEM. (Carrat F et al. Repeated influenza vaccination. Epidemiol Infect. 2006;134(1):63-70. vaclib.org/basic/reteatedfluvax.htm)

FLU SHOT is linked to ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE. According to Hugh Fudenberg, MD, the world’s leading immunogeneticist, the chances of getting Alzheimer’s disease is TEN TIMES HIGHER if you have had FIVE CONSECUTIVE FLU SHOTS. Dr. Fudenberg states that mercury in the shot causes the brain damage. (1st International Conference on Vaccination, September 1997, Arlington, Va.)

FLU VACCINATIN DURING PREGNANCY IS DANGEROUS AND USELESS Researchers found that vaccinating mothers does not reduce respiratory illness in their newborns or infants. “Maternal influenza vaccination did not significantly affect infant outpatient and inpatient visits for acute respiratory illness.” (Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med.2006;160:1277-1283.www.medscape.com/viewarticle/548801) It is not known if flu vaccines can cause cancer or mutations or cause sterility, reproductive problems or fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman. It is also not known whether flu vaccine is excreted in human milk.

The American Academy of Pediatrics states “mercury in all of its forms is toxic to the fetus and children.” Yet pediatricians who tell pregnant women not to eat tuna to avoid mercury still recommend the mercury-laden flu shot even though mercury injected into the mother is able to cross the placental barrier and enter the fetus.

ARE FLU SHOTS SAFE FOR CHILDREN? In 1999, 25 children died from the flu in the entire United States. In 2000 that number decreased to 19, to 13 in 2001 and to 12 in 2003. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) began to push for flu shots for kids in 2003. The result: the number of flu deaths increased in children jumping to 90. (National vital statistics reports, CDC. cdc.gov/hchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_13.pdf)

FLU SHOT - WHAT IS IN IT?

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FLU SHOT INGREDIENTS
By Tedd Koren, D.C.

MERCURY (thimerosal) One of the most poisonous substances known. Has an affinity for the brain, but, liver, bone marrow and kidneys. Minute amounts can cause nerve damage. Symptoms of mercury toxicity are similar to those of autism.

FORMALDEHYDE (formalin) Major component of embalming fluid; poisonous if ingested. Probable carcinogen; suspected gastrointestinal, liver, immune system, nerve, reproductive system and respiratory poison. Linked to leukemia, and brain, colon, sinus, nasopharynx and lymphatic cancers.

GENTAMICIN SULFATE & POLYMYSIN b (antibiotics) Allergic reactions can range from mild to life-threatening. *

CHICKEN EMPRYOS The flu vaccine is made with fluids from chick embryos inoculated with specific types(s) of influenza virus. People who are allergic to these products (egg or chicken) or to any of the other ingredients in a vaccine can become seriously ill from the vaccination.

SODIUM PHOSPHATE Symptoms may include vomiting, lethargy, diarrhea, blood chemistry effects, heart disturbances and central nervous system effects. May cause inflammation and pain on prolonged contact, especially with moist skin

GELATIN Produced from selected pieces of calf and cattle skins, demineralized cattle bones and pork skin. Allergic reactions have been reported. *

POLYSORBATE 80 Known to cause cancer in animals.

NEOMYCIN SULFATE (antibiotic) Interferes with Vitamin B6 absorption. An error in the uptake of B6 can cause a rare form of epilepsy and mental retardation. Allergic reactions can be mild to life-threatening.*

NONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE (msg/glutamate/glutamic acid) A neurotoxin. Being studied for mutagenic, teratogenic (developmental malformation and monstrosities) and reproductive effects. Allergic reactions can range from mile to severe. *

SODIUM DEOXYCHOLATE Promote tumors and damages DNA.

OCTOXYNOL-10 (triton x-100)
OCTOXYNOL-9 (polyethylene)
GLYCOL-P-ISOOCTYLPHENYL ETHER
OCTYLPHENOXYPOLYETHOXYETHANOL
SPERMICIDE (kills spem). Can cause chills, confusion, dizziness, fever lightheadedness, muscle aches, peeling of the skin. Causes severe eye irritation. Harmful if swallowed, inhaled or in contact with skin. Toxicology not fully investigated. May contain traces of ethylene oxide or dioxane, which are probable human carcinogens. Manufacturer’ website, Calbiochem.com, states: FOR RESEARCH USE ONLY. NOT FOR HUMAN OR DRUG USE.

BETA PROPIOLACTONE Known to cause cancer. Suspected respiratory, gastrointestinal, liver, skin and sense organ poison.

NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHAT THIS MIXTURE OF CHEMICALS AND MICROORGANISMS DOES IN OUR BODIES.

* Vaccine should not be administered to anyone with known systemic hypersensitivity to any component of the vaccine. It is almost impossible to know in advance of exposure if a child or adult has an allergy.

REPORTING VACCINE REACTIONS

2010-09-27T09:25:00.000-07:00

REPORTING VACCINE REACTIONS
Doctors’ Reactions
By Dr. Mercola, M.D.

Adverse side effects following vaccinations should be reported to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) hhtp://hhs.gov/index. However, like all other adverse event reporting, it is still voluntary.

According to a patient survey published in “Drug Safety,” doctors frequently ignored or dismissed patients’ complaints about side effects of statin drugs. This study offers strong suggestion that this pattern of dismissal extend to other drugs, including vaccinations, as well.

This pattern highlights the problem of the severe under-reporting of adverse drug reactions, leading both doctors and patients to believe that drugs are far safer than they really are. In reality, as many as 90 to 99 percent of all serious side effects are never reported, and therefore never included in the equation.

It is estimated that fewer than 10 percent of adverse events after vaccinations are ever reported to VAERS, perhaps even as low as one to four percent.

Most doctors will simply deny the possibility that a vaccine has harmed a healthy patient, and when the vaccine is mandatory, their denial can run even deeper. Most frequently, in the case of mandated vaccines, the strategy used is to highlight the seriousness of the disease, while denying the potential complications from the vaccine itself.

EXAMPLE: Meningococcal disease and the Menactra vaccine is one such case in point.

Meningococcal disease is a serious bacterial inflammation of the covering of your brain and spinal cord that can lead to brain damage, loss of limbs, and death. It is, however, a very rare disease, affecting between 1,400 to 2,800 American adults and children each year.

There are 13 meningococcal organism subgroups, and five serotypes (A, B, C, Y, and W-135) are responsible for nearly all cases of the disease worldwide. In the United States, serotypes B, C, and Y cause the majority of cases.

Sanofi licensed the Menactra vaccine in 2005, and the CDC (Center for Disese Control) immediately recommended it for universal use in all 11- to 18-year olds. Menactra protects against serotypes A, C, Y, and W-135, but not B, which causes one-third of all cases in the U.S. and more than 50 percent of the cases in young infants.

Therefore, Menactra actually offers ZERO PROTECTION against meningococcal disease 30 to 50 percent of the time, depending on your age.

Many adverse effects were found during Sanofi’s clinical trials, and two deaths have been reported to VAERS since its release. Within its first year, five cases of Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) were also reported to VAERS, which prompted the FDA to issue a warning for parents and doctors to monitor for signs of GBS after administrating the vaccine. By October 2006, 15 cases of GBS had been reported.

With the current push for the HPV (Gardasil) vaccine, it should also be noted that adverse event reports in cases where Gardasil and Menactra were administered simultaneously have skyrocketed.

When Gardasil was administered at the same time as Menactra, reports of:
•Guillain Barre Syndrome increased by 1,000 percent
•Respiratory problems increased by 114 percent
•Cardiac problems increased by 118 percent
•Neuromuscular and coordination problems increased by 234 percent
*Convulsions and nervous system problems increased by 301 percent

Search www.mercola.com for more information

VACCINE EXCEMPTION Q's Answered (TX Dept of Health)

2010-09-27T05:54:00.000-07:00

VACCINATION INFORMATION

http://www.vaccineinfo.net is the best source of information we have about vaccination in Texas. Most issues are discussed or linked to other sites.

Vaccinations are mandated by the Texas Department of Health for all school children. However, the State has vaccine exemption affidavits available to anyone who wishes to make the choice to not be vaccinated or vaccinate their children. Public schools may not require vaccinations and must admit any child who submits a Texas Department of Health Vaccine Exemption Affidavit by law.

Here are some questions and answers directly copied from the Texas Department of Health http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/immunize/school/default.shtm

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Vaccine Exemption for Reasons of Conscience

Q. How do I obtain a vaccine exemption for reasons of conscience for my child?
A. Parents or guardians need to request a vaccine exemption affidavit form in writing. Each child’s name and date of birth must be included in the request. The requests must be submitted through the U.S. Postal Service, commercial carrier or hand delivered to:

Texas Department of Health
Bureau of Immunization and Pharmacy Support
1100 W. 49th Street
Austin, Texas 78756

Q. What if I have already submitted a request for a vaccine exemption affidavit form by e-mail or fax?
A. Any request submitted by e-mail or fax will need to be resubmitted in writing and sent through the U.S. Postal Service, commercial carrier or hand delivered to the above address.

Q. How many vaccine exemption affidavit forms can a parent or guardian request at one time?
A. Parents or guardians can request up to five vaccine exemption affidavit forms per child.

Q. What information will be listed on the vaccine exemption affidavit form I receive?
A. Information on the form will include the child’s name; date of birth; a list of vaccines for which exemptions may be requested; a statement for the requesting parent or guardian to indicate their relationship to the child; and an acknowledgement that the parent or guardian has read attached information entitled The Benefits and Risks of Vaccinations. Parents or guardians will then have to sign the form in front of a notary public.

Q. What will happen to the information collected on each child?
A. Requests submitted to TDH will be destroyed once vaccine exemption affidavit forms are mailed to parents or guardians. TDH will track and report on the number of affidavit requests but no personal information will be maintained.

Q. What should parents or guardians do with the vaccine exemption affidavit form?
A After the original vaccine exemption affidavit form is signed and notarized, it must be submitted to the child’s school.

Q. For how long is each child’s individual exemption affidavit valid?
A.Each individual vaccine exemption affidavit is good for five years from the date notarized.

Q. What happens if the parent or school loses the original vaccine exemption affidavit?
A. Photocopies of the vaccine exemption affidavit form are not valid. If parents or schools lose the exemption affidavit, the parent or guardian needs to request another vaccine exemption affidavit in writing following the same procedures used to obtain the first form.

Q. What if my child changes schools?
A. The vaccine exemption affidavit is part of the child’s school records and should be sent to the new school with other school records.

Q. Does a child have a 90-day provisional enrollment in school while awaiting the vaccine exemption form?
A. No. TEA policy requires school districts to provisionally enroll for no more than 30 days, those students whose parents or guardians wish to claim exemption from vaccine requirements for reasons of conscience.

Q. What happens at the end of the 30-day provisional enrollment period?
A. Once the 30-day provisional enrollment period ends, parents or guardians must present an official notarized TDH affidavit form, an up-to-date immunization record or a physician’s affidavit of medical contraindication to school officials to attend school. If parents or guardians cannot produce one of these three documents, their child will be excluded from attendance.

Q. What is required for school enrollment if I want my child exempt from some vaccines but not all of them?
A. Two different immunization documents will be needed: 1) an official notarized TDH vaccine exemption affidavit for those vaccines the parent or guardian has chosen for reasons of conscience to have their child exempt from; and 2) a valid immunization record indicating the month, date and year each vaccine for which the child is not exempt was administered, with appropriate validation by a physician or public health clinic.

Q. If a child currently has a religious exemption for vaccinations on file with the school, do they need to obtain a new vaccine exemption for reasons of conscience affidavit?
A. No. Students who are currently exempt from vaccination for religious beliefs and already have an affidavit on file at the school they attend do not need a new vaccine exemption affidavit form. The religious exemption on file remains valid.

Q. What if there is a vaccine-preventable disease—such as measles—outbreak at a school?
A. Each parent or guardian who signs a vaccine exemption affidavit form also is acknowledging they understand that their child may be excluded from school attendance in times of emergency or epidemic declared by the Texas Commissioner of Health.

Q. Does this new vaccine exemption option mean that my vaccinated child may be attending school with other children who are not fully vaccinated?
A. Yes.

Q. Can an expectant parent request a vaccination exemption affidavit form for an unborn child?
A. No. Because the child’s name and date of birth is required when the vaccine exemption affidavit form is requested, expectant parents must wait until after the child is born to request the vaccine exemption affidavit form.

Q. Can schools accept any other documents, other than a TDH vaccine exemption affidavit for reasons of conscience, to exempt a child from vaccination requirements for enrollment?
A. Yes. In addition to the vaccine exemption for reasons of conscience or religion, parents or guardians also may present for their child an affidavit or certificate signed by a licensed physician, which states that, in the physician's opinion, the immunization required would be injurious to the child’s health and well-being or any of the child’s family or household member. Unless a lifelong condition is specified, this affidavit or certificate is valid for only one year from the date signed by the physician and must be renewed every year for the exclusion to remain in effect.

Q. Are there other reasons a child may be exempted from vaccination requirements?
A. A child may be exempt from one or more vaccinations for medical reasons. The parent or guardian must provide the school with a certificate signed by a physician, registered and licensed to practice medicine in Texas, which states that, in the physician’s opinion, the immunization required would be injurious to the child’s health and well-being or to any of the child’s family or household members. Unless a lifelong condition is specified, that certificate is valid for one year from the date signed by the physician and must be renewed every year for the exclusion to remain in effect.

TEXAS VACCINE EXEMPTION INFORMATION
2005-2006 Texas Vaccine Exemption Information
The state of Texas in law grants and acknowledges the right of parents to exempt their children from vaccination requirements for day care, school, and college for reasons of conscience including a religious belief or for medical reasons. In 2003, the Texas legislature passed changes to the statutes expanding the reasons a parent can claim an exemption but the Health Department has questionably also increased the bureaucratic red tape necessary for claiming the exemption. There are specific procedures for requesting an official state form and submitting it to the school or for completing a medical exemption that all take some time so please don't wait until the last minute to get your papers in order.

For everyone claiming an exemption for the first time after 9/1/03, you must comply with the new law. If you've submitted an old religious exemption prior to 9/1/03 you are grandfathered under the old law (see notes below) and do not need a new form. The vaccine exemption forms for reasons of conscience including a religious belief are only for students claiming a vaccine exemption for the first time after 9/1/03 when the new law went into effect. If you need to request forms from the state health department, you can do it by fax, mail, or personal visit. If you send it by mail, we suggest sending it registered mail with a receipt so you can keep track of your request. If you send it by fax, set your fax machine to print out a delivery receipt. We would like to keep track of the Health Department's processing time.

According to the Texas Dept. of Health:
Written requests must be submitted through the U.S. Postal Service, commercial carrier, fax at (512) 458-7544 , or by hand-delivery to:
1946
DSHS Immunization Branch
1100 West 49th Street
Austin, Texas 78756

Hand-delivered requests may be submitted to the DSHS, Immunization Branch, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. ALL affidavit forms will be mailed to you via U.S. Postal Service. No requests will be filled at the time of hand-delivery.
Affidavit form requests will be processed and mailed within one week from the receipt of the request. If additional information is needed in order to process the affidavit, you will be notified;
The letter must include the following information:
•Full name of each child for whom a form is requested (first, middle, and last);
•Date of birth of each child for whom a form is requested;
•Parent or legal guardian’s complete return mailing address, including zip code;
•Number of forms needed for each child (not to exceed five forms per child)
Electronic mail or telephone requests cannot be processed.

The official Texas Department of State Health Services affidavit form must be notarized and submitted to school officials. The form must be submitted within 90 days from the date it is notarized.

The school will accept only official affidavit forms developed and issued by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), Immunization Branch.. No other forms or reproductions will be allowed.

(SOURCE: http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/immunize/school_exclusion.htm)
IT IS OUR OPINION THAT PARENTS SHOULD OBTAIN A WRITTEN NOTE FROM THE SCHOOL ACKNOWLEDGING RECEIPT OF THE EXEMPTION FORM. IF THE SCHOOL LOOSES THE FORM THEY CAN KICK YOUR KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL. IF YOU HAVE A WRITTEN RECEIPT FROM THE SCHOOL THAT YOU SUBMITTED THE FORM, YOU CAN PUT THE RESPONSIBILITY BACK ON THE SCHOOL TO GO FIND IT AND KEEP YOUR CHILD IN SCHOOL.

It is also our opinion that the department is outside of the law requiring that parents submit their children's names to get a form especially since the law requires the department to develop a blank form. They are also exceeding their authority in the statute by putting 2 year expirations on the new forms as the statute specifies no expiration. This bullying behavior is putting the department at risk for a legal challenge. However, for now, until this is legally challenged, these are the dictatorial procedures the DSHS has set up.

School officials around the state, ignoratn of the facts, are denying kids admission to school if they have an old religious exemption affidavit saying they need one of the new forms from the health department. THIS IS NOT TRUE! If you hear this is happening in your district, please call the superintendent's office and give them this link to the state health department where it clearly says you don't need a new form. Also, when you transfer schools, the old religious exemption letter is still part of your child's record and you do not need a new one as long as it was part of your child's record prior to 9/1/03.
http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/immunize/docs/faq_exemption.pdf

On the bottom of page 2, it says:
Q. If a child currently has a religious exemption for vaccinations on file with the school, do they need to obtain a new vaccine exemption for reasons of conscience affidavit?
A. No. Students who are currently exempt from vaccination for religious beliefs and already have an affidavit on file at the school they attend do not need a new vaccine exemption affidavit form. The religious exemption on file remains valid.
Also on page 2 it says:

Q. What if my child changes schools?
A. The vaccine exemption affidavit is part of the child’s school records and should be sent to the new school with other school records.

Additionally, some schools, daycare facilities and colleges are saying they don't have to accept the exemption. This is wrong - the law grants parents this right and the schools and daycares can't take this right away. For your convenience, we've posted links to the state statutes directly below.

The other option for parents to exempt their child from state immunization requirements is with a medical exemption written by a doctor. This is intended for families with children with health concerns or a past history of reactions. While this option bypasses the bureaucratic red tape with the new conscientious/religious exemption, the pressures on doctors to not write these are great and it may be difficult to get a doctor who acknowledges a vaccine reaction to substantiate that in writing by issuing an exemption because of pressures being put on them to deny acknowledgement of vaccine reactions.

Regardless, most families and physicians are not aware the exemption statute was greatly expanded last session to make it much easier for a doctor to write to protect a child from future reactions. No longer do they have to say the vaccine would definitively harm the child but that it instead poses a risk to the child. Any M.D. or D.O. licensed to practice medicine in the United States can write the letter stating that "in the physician's opinion, the vaccine required poses a significant risk to the health and well-being of the child or any member of the child's household." If the letter also says this is for a lifelong condition, (the condition does not need to be named) the exemption never has to be renewed. Otherwise it has to be renewed annually. The doctor just needs to write it out on a piece of paper and sign it. In this case, you can keep the original and give the school a copy.

Here is a sample medical exemption letter:

Medical Exemption to Immunization
In my opinion, the required immunizations pose a significant risk to the health and well-being of (name of child). This is a lifelong exemption for lifelong conditions.
Doctor's name, signature, and date

Laws Which Allow For Exclusions from Vaccine Requirements
Children and Education including Colleges:
•Texas Education Code, Health and Safety Chapter Section 38.0001 - Immunization Requirement Exceptions
•Texas Education Code, Title 3 Higher Education Section Chapter 51.933 - Immunization Requirements; Exceptions
•Texas Administrative Code Title 25 Part 1 Section 97 - Immunization Requirements in Texas Elementary and Secondary Schools and Institutes of Higher Education
(this section contains vaccine requirements by rule, provisional enrollment, and exemptions)

Day Care:
•Human Resource Code, Section 42.043 - Rules for Immunizations and Exemptions
Health Care Providers:
•Texas Administrative Code Title 25 Part 1 Rule § 97.101- Statewide Immunization of Children by Hospitals, Physicians, and other Health Care Providers
State of Texas:
•Texas Health and Safety Code, Section 161.004 - Statewide Immunization of Children

Other State Information
Texas Vaccine Exemption Information for the 2004 School Year - CLICK HERE:
www.vaccineinfo.net/exemptions/exemptions2004.shtml
Texas Vaccine Exemption Information for the 2003 School Year - CLICK HERE:
www.vaccineinfo.net/exemptions/exemptions2003.shtml

VACCINE EXCEMPTION INFORMATION

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VACCINE EXCEMPTION

It is interesting to note that public health officials have never proven that it is safe to inject vaccines into our children, and they have even a more formidable task of explaining why, with the ever increasing number of vaccinations being administered, neurological and immune system disorders in our children are exploding.

In recent years there has been a growing trend by parents of not wanting to vaccinate their children. Physicians tell us that the number of parents expressing concern over their children receiving vaccinations is steadily increasing. This concern is valid.

The vaccines given newborns can contain a number of incredibly toxic substances:
Formaldehyde
Aluminum phosphate
Antibiotics
Phenols
Live viruses (and various other toxic compounds)
Mercury (in flu vaccines; you are not informed which vaccines do not contain mercury)

Sadly, these vaccines will not keep your child from getting sick. Rather, all vaccines carry the risk of serious side effects, especially the potential for crippling neurological damage such as autism, and even death. If your child receives the CDC’s recommended vaccinations, by the time your child begins kindergarten, they will have received 48 doses of 14 vaccines. Incredibly, 36 of the 48 are given during the first 18 months of life.

Every parent needs to know that although all states have vaccination requirements, all states also provide a way to escape these dangerous vaccines. 48 states allow exemptions for sincerely held religious beliefs, while another 18 states allow parents to opt out for personal, conscientious or philosophical beliefs.

Vaccinations are mandated by the Texas Department of Health for all school children. However, the State has vaccine exemption affidavits available to anyone who wishes to make the choice to not be vaccinated or vaccinate their children. Public schools may not require vaccinations and must admit any child who submits a Texas Department of Health Vaccine Exemption Affidavit by law.

FOR INFORMATION ON VACCINATION EXEMPTIONS
http://www.nvic.org.

HOW TO OBTAIN A VACCINE EXEMPTION FOR REASINS OF CONSCIENCE:
Request a vaccine exemption affidavit form in writing: the form can be obtained on-line.
Each child’s name and date of birth must be included in the request.
The requests must be submitted through the U.S. Postal Service, commercial carrier or hand delivered to:

Texas Department of Health
Bureau of Immunization and Pharmacy Support
1100 W. 49th Street
Austin, Texas 78756
For answers to questions from the Texas Department of Health http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/immunize/school/default.shtm

http://www.vaccineinfo.net ABOUT VACCINATION IN TEXAS

NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION WEBSITE

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www.nvic.org

www.909shot.com

VACCINATIONS: ILLNESSES & SIDE EFFECTS

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VACCINATIONS: ILLNESSES & SIDE EFFECTS
By Ted Koren, D.C.

Vaccination injects bacteria, viruses, genetic material and many other biological and toxic chemicals such as mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, acids, etc., deep into the child’s body, where they have access to internal organs including the brain. (For a detailed list read What Is In A Vaccine?)

The results of receiving so many vaccinations are reports of a host of illnesses that were rare or non-existent before mass vaccination. These conditions include, but are not limited to the following:

Autism, juvenile diabetes, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, reading problems, language difficulties, asthma, allergies, attention deficit disorder (ADD), ADHD, brain tumors, cancer, osteosarcoma, lupus erythematosus, dyslexia, abnormal behavior, deafness, hearing impairment, autoimmune diseases, hyperactivity, death, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel disease, juvenile arthritis, brain inflammation, infantile spasms, seizures, epilepsy, convulsions, increased intracranial pressure, demyelinating disease, SIDS (crib death), Asperger’s syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder, vision problems, otitis media (ear infection), upper respiratory tract infection, vomiting, fever, loss of I.Q. points, gastroenteritis, rash, croup, hives, eczema, colitis, chocking, holding breath, thrush, wheezing, pneumonia, bronchiolitis, influenza, vomiting, conjunctivitis, focal swelling, irritable child, permanent brain damage, encephalopathy (brain inflammation), sepsis, arthralgias (painful joint), nausea, headache, cardiac arrhythmias, syncope (fainting), cranial nerve paralysis, anaphylaxis, Guillain-Barre’ syndrome, Kawasaki disease (inflammation of heart and blood vessels), skin diseases, skin rashes, kidney disorders (including kidney failure), shingles, tuberculosis, carpal tunnel syndrome, paralytic disease, aseptic meningitis, Hodgkin’s Disease and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, atopic dermatitis, skin conditions.

As of 2006, a child may receive up to 80 vaccines by six years of age according to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) recommended schedule, and the number of new vaccines being approved is growing every year.

HOW MANY VACCINES WILL YOUR CHILD GET?

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HOW MANY VACCINES WILL YOUR CHILD GET?
By Ted Koren, D.C

80 vaccines required as of 2006 and the numbers are growing

AT BIRTH
-HepB

ONE MONTH
-HepB

TWO MONTHS
-DTaP – each shoth as 3 vaccines
-Hib – each shot has 2 vaccines
-IPV
-PCV – each shoth as 8 vacines
-Rotavirus

4 MONTHS-DTap – each shot has 3 vaccines
-Hib – each shot has 2 vaccines
-IPV
-PCV – each shot has 8 vaccines
-Rotavirus

6 MONTHS-DTap – each shot has 3 vaccines
-Flu
-HepB
-Hib – each shot has 8 vaccines
-IPV
-PCV – each shot has 8 vaccines
-Rotavirus

12 MONTHS-HepA
-Hib – each shot has 2 vaccines
-MMR – each shot has 3 vaccines
-PCV – each shot has 8 vaccines
-Varicella

15 MONTHS-DTaP – each shot has 3 vaccines

18 MONTHS-Flu – annually throughout lifetime
-HepA

4 to 6 YEARS
-Dtap – each shot has 3 vaccines
-IPV
-MMR – eachshot has 3 vaccines

11 to 12 YEAR-MCV4

Vaccination injects bacteria, viruses, genetic material and many other biological and toxic chemicals (mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, acids) deep into the child’s body, where they have access to internal organs (including the brain). The results are a host of illnesses that were rare or non-existent before mass vaccination. Read VACCINES: ILLNESSES & SIDE EFFECTS for list of conditions.

VACCINES:
DTaP Diptheria, tetanus & pertussis
Flu Influenza
HepA Heptatis A
HepB Heptatis B
Hib Haemophilus influenzae type b
IPV Inactivated poliovirus
MCV4 Mningococcal
MMR Measles, mumps & rubella
PCV Pneumococcal conjugate
Rotavirus Rotavirus gastroenteritis
Varicella Chickenpox

NOTE: These numbers, based on the 2006 CDC recommended schedule, are conservative as they do not include shots that are recommended for certain populations. As of this date, there are currently over 200 additional vaccines in development and a child may receive up to 80 vaccines by age six.

WHAT IS IN A VACCINE?

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WHAT IS IN A VACCINE?
By Ted Koren, D.C.

ammonium sulfate (SALT) – Suspected gastrointestinal, liver, nerve and respiratory system poison.

beta-propiolactone – Known to cause cancer. Suspected gastrointestinal, liver, respiratory, skin and sense organ poison.

genetically modified yeast, animal, bacterial & viral DNA – Can be incorporated into the recipient’s DNA and cause unknown genetic mutations.

latex rubber – Can cause life-threatening allergic reactions.

monosodium glutamate (MSG)/GLUTAMATE/GLUTAMIC ACID – Being studied for mutagenic, teratogenic (developemental malformation and monstrosities) and reproductive effects. A neurotoxin. Allergic reactions can range from mild to severe.*

aluminum – Inplicated as a cause of brain damage; suspected factor in Alzheimer’s Disease, dementia, seizures and comas. Allergic reactions can occur on skin.*

formaldehyde (formalin) – Major constituent of embalming fluid; poisonous if ingested. Probable carcinogen; suspected gastrointestinal, liver, immune system, nerve, reproductive system and respiratory poison. Linked to leukemia, brain, colon and lymphatic cancer.

micro-organisms – Live and killed viri and bacteria or their toxins. The polio vaccine was contaminated with a monkey virus now turning up in human bone, lung-lining (mesothelioma), brain tumors and lymphomas.

polysorbate 80 – Known to cause cancer in animals.

tri(n)butylphosphate – Suspected kidney and nerve poison.

glutaraldehyde – Poisonous if ingested. Causes birth defects in experimental animals.

gelatin – Produced from selected pieces of calf and cattle skins, de-mineralized cattle bones and pork skin. Allergic reactions have been reported.*

gentamicin sulfate & polymysin B (antibiotics) – Allergic reactions can range from mild to life threatening.*

mercury (thimerosal) – One of the most poisonous substances known. Has an affinity for the brain, gut, liver, bone marrow and kidneys. Minute amounts can cause nerve damage. Symptoms of mercury toxicity are similar to those of autism.

neomycinsulfate (antibiotic) – Interferes with Vitamin B6 absorption. An error in the uptake of B6 can cause a rare form of epilepsy and mental retardation. Allergic reactions can be mild to life threatening.

phenol/phenoxyethanol (2PE) – Used as antifreeze. Toxic to all cells and capable of disabling the immune system’s primary response mechanism.

human & animal cells – Human cells from aborted fetal tissue and human albumin. Pig blood, horse blood, rabbit brain, guinea pig, dog kidney, cow heart, monkey kidney, chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg, calf serum, sheep blood and others.

* When babies are hours or days old it is impossible to know if they have an allergy.

“A major cause of the Roman Empire’s decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for the transport and supply of drinking water. Roman engineers, the best in the world, turned their fellow citizens into neurological cripples. Today our own “best and brightest,” with the best of intentions, achieve the same end through childhood vaccination programs yielding the modern scourges of hyperactivity, learning disabilities, autism, appetite disorders, and impulsive violence.”
Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D.

VACCINATION: 18 REASONS TO SAY "NO!"

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VACCINATION: 18 REASONS TO SAY “NO!”
By Ted Koren, D.C.

By the time a child is 6 MONTHS OLD they are to be injected with at least 47 vaccines; at 18 MONTHS at least 67 vaccines, and at 4 to 6 YEARS at least 81 vaccines based on the 2009 CDC recommended schedule!

Why are so many parents rejecting vaccinations for their children?
The most common answers giver are:
- They consider the vaccines dangerous and ineffective.
- They prefer natural rather than artificial immunity
- They have (or know someone with) a vaccine-injured child (a growing number)
- They have religious or philosophical objections to vaccinations.

Before submitting to any medical procedure you must be fully informed about it. Let’s explore some of these reasons in greater detail.

1) TO HAVE HEALTHIER CHILDREN. Research reveals that non-vaccinated children are healthier than vaccinated children. 1-2

2) TO PROTECT MY CHILDREN FROM VACCINE-CAUSED DISEASES. It is the vaccinated children who have autism, asthma, allergies, skin disorders, immune system disorders, neurological disorders, ADD (attention deficit disorder), ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), other behavioral disorders, meningitis, dyslexia, hearing and vision problems. These conditions are rare in the non-vaccinated. 3-4

Other conditions linked to vaccination include pervasive developmental disorder (PDD), Asperger’s syndrome, eczema, meningitis, encephalitis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, convulsions, seizures, anaphylaxis, thrombocytopenia, optic neuritis, ocular palsies, retinitis, deafness, otitis media, ulcerative colitis, bowel disease, Crohn’s disease, headache, dizziness, hearing and vision problems, arthritis, arthralgia, learning disorders, chronic fatigue, diabetes, multiple sclerosis and more.

Robert Mendelsohn, MD writes: “Immunization against relatively harmless childhood diseases may be responsible for the dramatic increase in …cancer, leukemia, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), lupus and Guillain-Barr syndrome disease (ALS), lupus and Guillain-Barre syndrome.” 5

Jane Orient, MD, Executive Director of the Associations of American Physicians and Surgeons writes: “Asthma and diabetes…autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder have (increased greatly) since the introduction many new vaccines…..” 6

3) TO PROTECT MY BABY FROM CRIB DEATH (SIDS). What we call crib death or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is, in many cases, vaccination death.

Robert Mendelsohn, MD writes: “My suspicion, which is shared by others in my profession, is that the nearly 10,000 SIDS deaths that occur in the U.S. each year are related to one or more of the vaccines that are routinely given to children.” 7

In 1975 Japan raised the minimum age of vaccination from two months to two years. Crib death, infantile seizures, meningitis and other infectious diseases in infants virtually disappeared. Japan went from 17th in infant mortality to 1st (lowest in the world). However, serious infectious diseases such as meningitis sharply increased in two-year-olds. 8

Medical researcher Harris Coulter, PhD writes: “Now that the draft has been abolished, mandatory vaccination remains the only time an American is asked to risk his life for his country.” 9

4) TO PROTECT MY BABY FROM BEING INJECTED WITH TOXIC POISIONS. In addition to live and killed bacteria, viri and their toxins, children are injected with some of the most lethal poisons known: formaldehyde, mercury, aluminum,; phenol (carbolic acid); borax (ant killer); ethylene glycol (antifreeze); dye; acetone (nail polish remover); latex; MSG; glycerol; polysorbate 80/20; sorbitol monkey, cow, chick, pig, sheep and dog tissues and cells (may be contaminated with animal viruses); gelatin; casein; human fetal cells, human viruses, antibiotics; genetically modified yeast; and animal, bacterial and viral DNA (may affect recipient’s DNA).

5) I DON’T WANT TO PLAY RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH MY CHILD. No one knows the chances of your child being hurt or killed from a vaccination because only a fraction of children who are hurt is ever reported. According to the US Food and Drug Administration, MDs underreport vaccination injuries by 90%. 10 Another report revealed that only one in 50 vaccine-injured children (2%) is ever reported.” 11 Why would that be? There are a number of reasons. One is that most medical doctors do not know how to identify a vaccine reaction. Another is that they refuse to acknowledge that such reactions are inherent in vaccination. After all, they were taught in medical school that vaccines are very safe. A third reason is that it is hard to admit that something they did to help a patient caused that patient harm.

6) CHILDHOOD DISEASES ALMOST COMPLETELY DISAPPEARED BEFORE VACCINATION. The death rate from mumps and pertussis (whooping cough) had decreased over 90% before widespread vaccination. The measles death rate had decreased nearly 98%. Diseases for which no vaccines were introduced, such as scarlet fever and typhoid fever, al decreased to virtually zero.

“Nearly 90% of the total decline is mortality (scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, and measles) between 1860 and 1965 occurred before the introduction of antibiotics and widespread immunizations.” 12

7) THERE IS NO PROOF THE POLIO VACCINE DECRASED POLIO. Additionally the polio vaccine is linked to cancer. Due to improper filtering, a monkey virus 9SV40) was included in the polio vaccine. SV40 is highly carcinogenic (cancer-causing) and is linked to brain tumors, bone cancers, malignant mesothelioma (lung lining cancer) and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. 14

8) I DON’T WANT MY BABY TO GET IMCOMPLETELY-TESTED-DRUGS. Vaccines are not tested for their ability to cause cancer, mutations or developmental malformations. They are also untested for their affect on a child’s reproductive system. Shampoos and cosmetics are tested for carcinogenicity but vaccine are not.

9) I DON’T WANT MY CHILD TO GET CANCER. Pediatric cancer rates have been rising 1% a year since 1974 and cancer is currently the 2nd leading cause of death in children (after accidents). Luekemia and brain tumors, the most common childhood malignancies, are rising dramatically.15

“Have we traded mumps and measles for cancer and leukemia?” asks Robert Mendelsohn, MD. 16 Vaccination in childhood is linked to autoimmune diseases, skin diseases, degenerative diseases of bone and cartilage and tumors in adult life.17

10) I WANT MY CHILD TO HAVE NATURAL IMMUNITY. Vaccination is unnatural. Diseases contracted naturally are filtered through immune system defenses (i.e. skin and mucous membranes). However, vaccines are introduced into a child’s body unnaturally – direct injection into the child’s blood stream – giving them the vaccine ingredients (bacteria, viri and toxins) access to all of the major tissues and organs of the body without the body’s normal advantage of a total immune response.

11) I WANT MY CHILD TO BE FREE OF AUTISM AND LEARNING DISORDERS. After years of denying a link between vaccination and autism, on November 9, 2007 the US government in Court of Federal Claims admitted that vaccinations can cause autism.18 This follows years of thousands of parents reporting their normal, healthy children descended into autism after receiving DPT, MMR or other vaccines. Medical researcher Harris Coulter, PhD reports: “Between 15 and 20% of American school children are considered learning disables with minimal brain dysfunction directly caused by vaccine damage.”19

Dr. Coulter’s estimate (1990) is now a fraction of the larger number of vaccine-damaged children. For example, in 2004 almost five million children ages 3-17 were classified as learning disabled, a three-fold increase since 1976-77, with comparable increases in attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) and asthma.20
In addition, the American Academy of Pediatrics, in their January 2004 “AUTISM a.l.a.r.m.” BULLITEN, ANNOUNCED THAT 1 IN 6 American children were diagnosed with a developmental disorder and/or behavioral disorder. Vaccination is creating a generation of neurologically damaged children. If we include other types of vaccine damage such as allergy (including food allergy) and asthma, the numbers are far higher.

12) VACCINES INTEREFERE WITH TRANS-PLACENTAL IMMUNITY. Trans-placental immunity is the protection the fetus receives from the mother before birth (through the placenta). When a little girl is vaccinated she does not develop all the natural immunity she should have. When she becomes pregnant she cannot pass on as much protection to her unborn baby. That is why measles now occurs in children less than one-year-old and adults over twenty-five, ages where it can be fatal. This was unheard of before vaccination. Vaccines interfere with the age of occurrence of childhood diseases. 21-22

13) NO ONE KNOWS IF VACCINE DAMAGE CAN SURFACE YEARS LATER. “There are no adequate studies to determine the long-term effects of vaccines on our children and future generations.”23 According to Guylaine Lanctot, MD: “Vaccination is a disaster to the immune system. It actually causes a lot of illnesses. We are changing our genetic code through vaccination.”24

14) THE FLU VACCINE HAS BEEN LINKED TO ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND DEMENTIA. According to Hugh Fudenberg, MD, the world’s leading immunogeneticist, if an individual has had five consecutive flu shots his/her chances of getting Alzheimer’s diseaseis 10 times higher. Is this why Alzheimer’s is expected to quadruple? 25-26

15) I WANT MY CHILD TO HAVE PERMANENT IMMUNITY. Only natural immunity lasts a lifetime and vaccines don’t provide natural immunity. Also, when children are permitted to have infectious diseases of childhood they naturally lower their risk of cancer and heart disease in later life.27

16) THE VACCINES DON’T WORK. Outbreaks have occurred in 100% vaccinated populatons.28 In one school, out of 137 children who contracted measles, 98.7% were vaccinated.29 Another study found that getting a pertussis (whooping cough) shot increases the chances of getting pertussis.30

17) VACCINATION DOSAGE ISN’T PERSONALIZED. A 5-pound premature baby will get the same dosage as a 60-pound 6-year-old. There is no personalization for weigh, health or any other reason. A single vaccine given to a 6-pound newborn is the equivalent of giving an adult 30 vaccinations on the same day.

18) TO PROMOTE A NATURAL,DRUG-FREE LIFESTYLE. How can we tell out children to avoid drugs if we drug them throughout childhood? How can we teach our children that drugs are bad if we take them all the time?

OUR CHILDREN ARE INJECTED WITH DANGEROUS TOXIC CHEMICALS that have no benefit and may cause diseases far worse than what they are designed to “prevent.” Natural immunity is safer; natural immunity promotes healthier children; and natural immunity last forever.

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VACCINES & THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

2010-09-24T10:49:00.000-07:00

VACCINES & THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
HOW THE IMMUNE SYSTEM WORKS?

By Richard Moskowitz, MD
Pathways Magazine, Issue 10

It is dangerously misleading and indeed false to claim that a vaccine makes us “immune” or “protects” us against an acute disease. In fact, it only drives the infection deeper into the interior and causes us to harbor it chronically, with the result that our responses to it become weaker and weaker and show less and less tendency to heal or resolve themselves spontaneously. To consider that possibility, I will examine the process of coming down with and recovering from a typical acute disease like the measles, in contrast to what we can observe after receiving the measles vaccine.

HOW THE IMMUNE SYSTEM WORKS

Various components of the immune system all work together as if designed to help the body distinguish “self” from “non-self. “ This helps us recognize and tolerate our own cells, identify and eliminate foreign substances and life forms, and achieve complete and permanent removal of the offending substance from the body.

As an example of how the immune system works, consider the disease of Measles. Measles is a virus of the respiratory tract, acquired by inhalation of infected droplets in the air. These droplets are produced by coughing and sneezing of patients with the disease. Once inhaled by a susceptible person, the virus then undergoes a long period of silent multiplication as it travels, first in the tonsils, adenoids, and accessory lymphoid tissue of the naso-pharynx, later in the regional lymph nodes of the head and neck, and eventually, several days later, passes into the blood and enters the spleen, the liver, the thymus, and the bone marrow, the visceral organs of the immune system. Throughout this “incubation period,” lasting from 10 to 14 days, the patient usually feels quite well, and experiences few, if any, symptoms.

By the time that the first symptoms appear, circulating antibodies are already detectable in the blood, the height of the symptoms coincide with the peak of the antibody response. In other words, the illness we know as “the measles: is precisely the attempt of the immune system to eliminate the virus FROM the blood, mainly by sneezing and coughing, i.e., via the same route that it entered the body to begin with.

The process of coming down with and recovering from an acute illness involves a general MOBILIZATION of the ENTIRE IMMUNE SYSTEM, including:
1) inflammation of previously sensitized tissues at the place of entry;
2) activation of white cells and macrophages that find and destroy the foreign elements; and
3) release of special serum protein fractions to expedite these operations.
Numerous other mechanisms are also involved, one of many being the production of specific antibodies.

There is little room for doubt that acute illnesses (many formally known as childhood diseases) create experiences that are essential for the immune system to develop and mature into a healthy and functioning system with the ability to fight our illnesses. Not only will children who recover from the disease, in this example “measles,” but they will never again be susceptible to it. Such an experience also prepares them to respond even more promptly and effectively to other infections they may acquire in the future. The ability to mount a vigorous, acute response to organisms of this type should be considered a fundamental requirement of general health and well-being.

HOW VACCINES WORK

2010-09-24T10:44:00.000-07:00

HOW VACCINES WORK

By Richard Moskowitz, MD
Pathways Magazine, Issue 10

“When the measles virus is injected into the blood, it bypasses the normal portal of entry, producing at most - a brief, mild inflammatory reaction at the injection site, but does not produce an incubation period, nor the possibility of eliminating it by the same route of entry, and no generalized immune response to build the immune system for future invaders. We have introduced the virus directly into the blood and given it free access to major organs with no way of getting rid of it, which is what the immune system seems to have been designed to prevent.” Vaccines bypass the immune systems’ ability to protect at the blood level by placing the disease elements directly into the blood without allowing the body to prepare its defense for destruction, or exit. Specific antibodies against the virus is achieved with no massive outpouring and general improvement in health of the body allowing a maintenance of the virus in the cells of the immune system for prolong periods of time. This creates a generalized weakening of our capacity to mount an effective response not only to the disease of vaccination, (i.e. measles), but to other acute infections as well.

Far from producing a genuine immunity, vaccines act by SUPPRESSING or INTERFERING with the immune response, as radiation, chemotherapy, steroids, and other anti-inflammatory drugs do. Artificial immunization isolates antibody production, a single aspect of the immune process, and allows it to stand for the whole. (Example: chemical suppression is used to lower blood pressure and is considered a valid substitute for healing the patient with hypertension.) Vaccines may make it more difficult to mount a vigorous acute response to infection by substituting a much weaker chronic response with little or no tendency for the immune system to heal the body spontaneously.

When a virus survives as a foreign element within the cell, the immune system must continue to make antibodies against it. When the virus becomes a permanent part (of the genetic material) of the cells, destroying the infected cells is the only possible way for it to be removed from the body – so the antibodies turns on its own cells – the immune system attacks itself. The persistence of live viruses and other foreign antigens entering the bloodstream within a person, year after year, works to provoke an autoimmune response. Routine vaccination introduces live viruses and other highly antigenic material directly into the bloodstream. After observing how the body reacts and responds, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that a significant number of autoimmune diseases must result.

When a person’s system is weakened by constant strain from the body attempting to make antibodies AGAINST ITSELF; their body becomes less and less able to withstand the stress. Eventually, the chronically infected and genetically transformed cells can no longer distinguish “self’ from “non-self.” They begin to free themselves from the normal restraints of the surrounding tissues and multiply. These may become tumors that remain strictly limited to A cell type or tissue location (“benign”); or become cells that spread to other tissues, organs, and to other areas in the body (“malignant.”) “If these speculations are accurate, the net effect of artificial immunization will be the trade off of the natural diseases of past centuries - for weaker, less curable chronic diseases of today. This introduces the new possibility of ongoing genetic alterations within the cells of our race with the possibility of much weaker, sicker generations to come.”

www.icpa4kids.org/research/references.htm

VACCINES: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW

2010-09-23T12:31:00.000-07:00

VACCINES
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
By Russell Blaylock, MD

All of us, layman and medical professionals alike, have had engrained in our consciousness that the great epidemics of the world: smallpox, measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, an rubella – virtually disappeared from the United States due to a mass vaccination campaign to wipe out these terrible diseases. As is often the case in medicine, appearances and preconceived notions, when examined carefully, are often just not true. Neil A. Miller, an intrepid medical journalist, carefully researched the subject and found to his surprise, that in fact the incidence of death from all these diseases was falling dramatically in the developed world long before the mass vaccine programs started. What the proponents of vaccination did was take credit for the decline by a clever bit of statistical chart manipulation.

What we see is the deaths from polio, measles, whooping cough, and mumps were declining significantly BEFORE the vaccines were introduced. The vaccines merely caught the tail end of the natural decline. The same can be shown for ALL the childhood diseases. Those who have objectively examined these studies have concluded that it was a dramatic improvement in public health measures and diet that caused the decline.

We know, for example, that during wars, famine and other prolonged natural disasters, the incidence and severity of epidemics increases dramatically. This was responsible for the enormous death rates from the H1N1 flu virus during 1917-1918 at the end of WW1. More soldiers died from infectious diseases during both the civil war and World War I than died from bullets and bombs.

A compelling amount of research shows that our resistance to infectious disease is highly dependent on our nutrition, and this makes sense because even a single nutrient deficiency can suppress immunity and raise one’s mortality from infections.

A study in Africa found that children infected with measles had a very high death rate, mostly from pulmonary complications. When they fed these children vitamin A, E and zinc the mortality from measles fell by an incredible 85%. It has always been noted that the death rate in third world nations is infinitely higher for common, normally benign infections such as measles and mumps than in developed countries, where the death rate in healthy children is extremely low.

It is instructive that when public health authorities want to make a case for mass vaccination they always resort to studies in third world nations and not the American experience. They do this because we just don’t have high death rates from the common childhood infections.

“The modern generation is not aware that those of us born in the 1940s were given far FEWER vaccines – there were no vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, H influenza, rotavirus, etc. Yet, neither my wife, nor I,” says Dr. Blaylock, “can recall losing a single person in any of our classes in school to one of these infections. We all got them and they were no big deal. And, unlike the vaccines, our immunity to these diseases was life-long.”

Dr. Russell Blaylock is a nationally recognized board-certified neurosurgeon, health practitioner, author, and lecturer. www.russellblaylockmd.com

VACCINE SAFETY

2010-09-23T12:26:00.000-07:00

VACCINE SAFETY
By Russell Blaylock, MD

Every day the medical establishment finds another vaccine to add to the schedule of vaccines. It is estimated that in the near future by the time our children are adults, they will have had 150 vaccines.

You may ask, “What is wrong with vaccinating all of us against these diseases? Wouldn’t that give us even more protection?” I would answer “yes” if two conditions could be met. First, that the vaccines were safe; and second, that the immunity from the vaccines lasted a lifetime, as with natural infections from the actual diseases. Vaccine makers have met NEITHER of these conditions.

Several studies of common vaccines used both here in the United States and abroad were found to be infected with foreign viruses, bacteria or mycoplasma. One such study found that up to 60% of vaccines from several manufactures were contaminated with pestivirus, a virus that can cause miscarriages in pregnant women and other diseases. Others have noted that because most of these vaccines are manufactured from viruses grown in animal tissue (and even cancer tissues), MOST ARE CONTAMINATED with dozens of other viruses, some of which can cause cancer or neurodegenerative diseases.

A recently discovered class of dangerous viruses, called stealth viruses, is particularly frightening because they are so hard to detect by the usual safety methods. Vaccine companies do not test for these contaminates, including many other well-known dangerous viruses. Other studies have shown that several companies are using pooled human blood products or beef products that have a high risk of being contaminated with prions, mad cow disease.

Then there are the immune adjuvants, such as aluminum and squalene, which have been linked to a number of autoimmune diseases, neurodegenerative diseases and autism. While squalene cannot be used now, Dr. Blaylock expects it to soon gain FDA approval. Repeated injections with dozens of vaccines (the average 6-year-old child will have had 41 vaccines following the CDC’s recommendations, which most states do) have been shown to cause abnormal development of the child’s brain and neuro-degeneration in the adult brain.

There is growing evidence that this damages the immune system, making them more susceptible to infections and increasing the likelihood of severe reactions to mild diseases as a result. But then, this will create a demand for even more vaccines.

Today, a great many of our vaccines are being manufactured in China. The FDA is allowed to inspect these plants only once in 12 years, and then they cannot enter the plant, they must take the Chinese officials word that things are safe. What we should have learned with the Gardasil, HepB and tetanus vaccine experience is that there is a great deal about these vaccines they do not know and discover only after the health of hundreds and even thousands are permanently ruined.

Dr. Russell Blaylock is a nationally recognized board-certified neurosurgeon, health practitioner, author, and lecturer. www.russellblaylockmd.com

PROTEIN: HOW MUCH DO I NEED?

2010-08-02T11:05:00.000-07:00

PROTEIN: How Much Do I Need?

Approximately 25 grams per day is the goal. It is important to count the protein in the entire meal including your beverage, not just the meat. One serving size of meat is the size of one deck of cards. By this measure, we often eat a meat serving at least the size of TWO decks of cards which means we fulfilled our body’s requirement for protein for two days at this one meal without counting the rest of the food eaten at the same time. You can see how easy it is to become out-of-balance consuming to much acidic food in our culture and life style. This affects our blood pH. If the blood pH drops below 7.4, it become very acidic and cannot carry maximum oxygen to the cells to take glucose and make energy. You become sluggish and tired with low energy, because blood is getting more and more acid, or toxic. We create stress on our body due to diet.

Our body must maintain its pH balance. If we do not provide alkalinity through our food intake, our body will look within to pull out what it needs to maintain our pH balance. Sodium bicarbonate may be pulled from the gallbladder and dumped into the blood stream getting the blood back to a maximum pH, or it may pull calcium, which is alkaline, from our bones, gradually weakening our frame. The body will continue to look within to draw from you what it needs to maintain your pH balance, even if it means gradually breaking down your health for you to live. If over acidity becomes your lifestyle, sickness or pain may become common, and your body becomes the perfect environment for developing disease including cancer, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, etc. If sickness and disease are developed one bite at a time, it makes sense that even our most feared diseases can also be reversed by consuming nutritious/fresh foods.
YOUR HEALTH IS YOUR CHOICE. “LIVE WELL!”

PROTEIN IN ANIMAL PRODUCTS, NUTS, SEEDS
Grams of
FOOD SERVING PROTEIN

Ice Cream 2/3 cup (6oz) 4
Milk 1 cup 8
Cheese pizza 1/8 section 6
Cheddar Cheese 1 ounce 7
Yogurt 8 ounces 12
Eggs 1 6
Bacon 2 strips 4
Ham 3 oz 18
Hot Dog 1 6
Beef, ground 3 ounces 23
Chicken, breast 2.8 ounces 26
Corned beef 3 ounces 22
Spaghetti w/meat 1 cup 12
Tuna 3.5 ounces 28
Turkey 3.5 ounces 27
Peanuts ½ cup 18
Peanut Butter 1 tablespoon 4
Corn flakes, dry 1 cup 2
Bagel 1 (3 inches) 4
White bread 1 slice 2
Yeast donut 1 3_

PROTEIN IN VEGETABLES and FRUITS
Grams of
FOOD SERVING PROTEIN
Asparagus ½ c 2.5
Beets ½ c 1
Broccoli 2 spears 8
Brussels Sprouts 7 4
Carrots ½ c. 1
Cauliflower ½ c. 1
Corn ½ c. 2
Green Beans ½ c. 1
Greens, Collard ½ c. 1
Greens, Turnip ½ c. 1
Lettuce 1 c. 1
Potato, sweet 1 2
Potato, white 1 3
Spinach, cooked ½ c. 3
Spinach, raw ½ c. 2
Tomato 1 1
Apple 1 Tr
Banana 1 1
Grapes 10 Tr
Orange 1 1
Strawberries 1 c. 1
Watermelon 4x8 wedge 3

CONCLUSION: You reach 25 grams much more quickly when you calculate the amount of protein in animal products against consuming plant foods. Nuts, seeds, vegetables and fruits allow you to consume filling portions of foods which are highly nutritious and loaded with enzymes essential for digestion. Enjoy animal foods (one time a day or less) in small portions, and use small amounts as toppings or seasonings. Your body is never fooled: too much protein and you will pay for it over time – with declining health, or with your life!

ALKALINE MENU STARTERS

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ALKALINE MENU STARTERS

BREAKFAST IDEAS

EGG WHITE scrambled, or BOILLED EGG with vegetable topping or sauce.

TOPPING - any combination of sautéed vegetables: onions, peppers, mushrooms, spinach, squash, green or firm tomatoes.

SAUCE: May add Newman’s Spaghetti sauce to veggies to make a sauce, or as a spread on SANDWICHES.

FRESH FRUIT BOWLS with seasonal fruit: peaches, mango, banana, pineapple, apple, pear, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, Berries may be served w/ Coconut or Moca Milk.
Note: Eat MELONS first and alone.

FRESH FRUIT SMOOTHIE
This can be made in advance, even frozen and stored. Add fresh apple and or pineapple juice to thin the juice as desired. Add any trace minerals, Limu, vitamin drops, as this usually does not change the flavor.

To INCREASE NUTRITION, add any of the following:
-Nature Sunshine “Berry Healthy” powder,
-Halleluiah Acres “Beet Juice” powder.
-Almond butter, honey, Knox gelatin, cinnamon.

½ c. WHOLE OATS seasoned with cinnamon and Stevia, and/or WHOLE WHEAT BREAD spread of coconut oil, topped with wheat germ, toasted, may be eaten 30 minutes AFTER FRUIT has been eaten.

NOTE: FRUIT SHOULD BE EATEN ALONE. All other foods should be eaten 30 minutes after last bite of fruit, so fruit is NOT trapped in the stomach. When combined with other foods, purification, gas due to fermentation, and/or indigestion may occur.

LUNCH AND SUPPER IDEAS

SALAD: May be the MEAL, or accompany meals below. Cut up vegetables on a bed of SPINACH and ROMAINE LETTUCE. Combine any RAW vegetables you normally cook: squash, peppers, onions, tomatoes, fresh/frozen peas, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, uncooked green beans, avocado, mushrooms, raw corn.

TOPPINGS may include: Pickled beets, black olives, sliced sweet pickles, garbanzo beans, pumpkin seeds, sliced almonds, pecans, walnuts, feta cheese, 3 oz of: salmon, diced chicken, or turkey.

DRESSINGS need to be olive oil and vinegar, or a vinaigrette dressing. Newman’s is a good brand. No creamy dressings (high in fat).

STEAMERS (in the grocer freezer section) may be steamed in ORGANIC VEGETABLE BROTH
Blend left-over veggies into a creamy SOUP.

BAKED SWEET POTATO may add real butter, and/or cinnamon. NO baked white potatoes.

GREEN BEANS, SMALL RED POTATOES, PEARL ONIONS cooked together.

VEGETABLES - ANY COMBINATIONS of fresh or steamed: cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, corn on cob, okra, green peas, green beans, green limas, greens, spinach, mushrooms, tomatoes – onions – peppers combined.

SPAGHETTI SQUASH w/butter, or Newman’s Spaghetti Sauce with added tomatoes, peppers, onions, mushrooms, shredded squash, etc. to increase veggie intake, with TOSSED SALAD of lettuce and tomato.

SALADS MEAL: pea salad, carrot/raisin salad. red potato salad, corn salad. NO pasta or white rice.

GARDEN or BOCA BURGER (in frozen section). used to make MEAT LOAF or traditional BURGER. Can add sautéed onions and mushrooms.
SALAD SANDWICH (burger without the beef.)

SAUTEED’ SANDWICH of squash, mushrooms, red pepper, sundried tomatoes, onion. Add avocado slices, fresh tomato, onions, cucumber, as desired.

COLD SANDWICH: Sliced avocado & tomato; or onion and cucumber; or combine.

WATERMELLON; or FRUIT SALAD: seeds, nuts on bed of spinach w/Raspberry Vinaigrette dressing.

SNACKS: Frozen grapes, veggie sticks, apples, nuts, seeds, dried fruit or veggies, etc.

BEVERAGES: Purified water, water with chlorophyll added, green tea, lemonade, fresh juices, Limu alkaline meal replacement shake.

NOTES:

1) TAKE ENZYMES when eating COOKED FOOD to aid digestion. DOUBLE the amount of enzymes taken if eating MEAT, EGGS or DAIRY.

2): MEAT, EGGS & DAIRY intake is NOT needed to meet nutritional needs. If the animal walks on four legs, do NOT eat its meat more than one time a week. If it walks on two legs, or has NO legs (fish, etc.), try to only eat meat every other day. (A MEAT SERVING SIZE is the same as a deck of cards.) Season stews and dry beans with soup bones instead of meat to enjoy the meaty flavor.

3) TREAT YOURSELF - ONE TIME A WEEK to a meal that is OFF THE MENU, but reduce serving sizes.

HIGH - ALKALINE FOODS

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Plan 75% of each meal with HIGH-ALKALINE FOODS

Foods are listed in order of their positive affect in REPLACING ALKALINE RESERVE in the body, i.e.,
raw spinach (at +556) is approximately 100 times more effective than green peas (5) in REPLACING RESERVES

ALKALINE ASH FOODS
Raw Spinach 4 c +556
Beet Greens 1 c +478
Molasses 1 T +360
Celery 5 st +341
Dried Figs 5 +297
Carrots 3 +282
Dried Beans ½ c +282
Chard Leaves 1 ½ c +214
Water Cress 2 ½ c +192
Sauerkraut 2/3 c +176
Lettuce, Leaf ½ head +170
Green Limas 2/3 c +142
Dried Limas 2/3 c +123
Cabbage 1 1/3 c +111
Broccoli 1 c +101
Beets 2/3 c +98
Brussels Sprouts 6 +95
Green Soy Beans 2/3 c +85
Cucumber 10 sl +71
Parsnip ½ lg +67
Radishes 7 +64
Rutabagas ¾ c +62
Dried Peas ½ c +57
Mushrooms 7 +50
Cauliflower 1 c +44
Pineapple 1 c +44
Avocado ½ c +44
Raisins ½ c +43
Dried Dates 7 +40
Green Beans 1c +39
Muskmelon ¼ +38
Limes ½ c +33
Sour Cherries 18 +30
Tangerines 2 +29
Strawberries 12 +28
White Potato 1 +26
Sweet Potato 1 +26
Grapefruit ½ c +25
Apricot 2 +25
Lemon ½ c +24
Blackberries 1 c +22
Orange ½ c +22
Tomato 1 +21
Peach 1 lg +21
Raspberries 1 c +19
Banana 1 sm +18
Onion 1 sm +14
Grapes ½ c +10
Pear 1 +10
Blueberries 2/3 c +5
Apple 1 +5
Watermelon ½ sl +5
Green Peas ¾ c +5

Allow 25% (or less) of a meal to contain ACID foods
Foods are listed according to their ability to DECREASE the alkaline reserve of your body.
The HIGHER THE NUMBER, the more your alkaline reserve will be DEPLETED and the more harmful the food is to you.

ACID ASH FOODS
Scallops ½ c -226
Oysters 5 -209
Dried Lentils ½ c -171
Sausage 6 links -160
Sardines 8 -160
Cola or Soda Pop 12 oz -125
Oatmeal 1 c -95
Corned Beef ¼ lb -80
Lobster ¼ lb -78
Haddock ¼ lb -78
Soda Crackers 8 -52
Codfish ½ lb -51
Macaroni, Spaghetti 7/8 c -50
Peanut Butter 3T -49
Chicken ¼ lb -43
Peanuts 57 -39
Wheat Germ 1 T -38
Brown Rice 5/8 c -29
Whole Wheat Flour 5/8 c -26
White flour 5/8 c -26
Salmon 1 c -26
Beef Steak or Burger ¼ lb -24
Turkey ¼ lb -23
Barley 5/8 c -21
Veal Chops 1 -21
Lamb ¼ lb -17
White Bread 2 sl -15
Wheat Bran 1 T -10
English Walnuts 10 -10
Lamb Chop 1 -10
Bacon 2 sl -10
Eggs 2 -9
Whole Wheat Bread 2 sl -8
Pork chop 1 -6
Honey 4 T -4
Shrimp ¼ lb -4
Fresh Corn ½ c -2
Sugar 0
Corn oil 0
Olive oil 0

KEEP A RECORD of FOODS EATEN for ONE WEEK
Record your numbers by serving size to learn if your daily totals
are positive (+) building alkaline reserves,
or negative (-) depleting your alkaline reserves
and weakening your health.

EXAMPLE: ONE DAY of the AMERICAN DIET with TOTALS
BREAKFAST: 2 Eggs(-9), 2 sl Bacon(-10), 1 Wheat Toast (-4) -36
LUNCH:12ozCoke(-125) Hamburger(-24) Wht Bun(-8) Fries(+26)-131
SUPPER: Spaghetti 7/8c(-50),Beef sauce (-24),Salad¼hd (+85) +11
SNACK: 57 Peanuts -39
DAILY TOTAL -195
The TRADITIONAL AMERICAN diet depletes the alkaline reserves..
CHECK YOUR DIET - LEARN THE DIRECTION OF YOUR HEALTH

pH

2010-08-02T10:53:00.000-07:00

pH

Potential of Hydrogen and Potential for Health

If you have not been eating foods that contain alkalizing minerals, your body adapts by robbing the minerals from your body because if the pH of your blood should fall much below 7.35 or rise much above 7.45, your body could not survive very long. When your reserves are not constantly replenished, your storehouses become depleted of alkalizing minerals and, eventually the constant robbing from within lead to symptoms of chronic degenerative diseases such as arthritis, osteoporosis, emphysema, most major diseases, even cancer.

The acidity or alkalinity of food is measured in terms of pH. The more acid a solution, the LOWER the pH number will be; the more alkaline the substance, the HIGHER the pH number. If you are truly healthy, both your saliva and urine should register around pH 7.0 the first thing in the morning after five, or more, hours of sleep, before eating or drinking anything. Even though you usually feel good, if your diet consists mostly of meat, pasta, convenience and fast foods, starches, and coffee, cola, or energy drinks, your early morning urine will probably register as low as pH 5, or possibly as high as pH 8. Urine pH tells you how your body is reacting to the food you ate the day before. Saliva pH tells how your body has adapted to stresses in your life and its physical impact. This includes emotional stress and trauma which can also make you acidic, lowering your immunity, eventually allowing sickness and disease to develop. Ask for pH test strips at our clinic or drug store.

The food you eat determines how well your alkaline reserves are replenished. Fresh fruits and raw vegetables contribute the usable alkalizing minerals you need to restock your alkaline reserve to raise pH. When you have enough reserves, your body can buffer the acid produced naturally by cellular activity and the acid food you eat. However, readings considerably lower or higher than pH 7.0 usually indicate that your buffering reserves have been depleted and your body is breaking down to maintain the pH balance essential for your
life and survival. To be healthy, you must support your health with a high alkaline diet and lower stress levels. Alkalinity is measured with pH test strips. The numbers tell the story of how “well” you actually are. The American Diet has riddled us with sickness, disease, and pain. Schedule an appointment with B.E.S.T. practitioner, Dr. Danise Witherspoon, and learn how to track you health according to pH and “live Well.”

Your health IS your choice.

NUTRITIONAL STRESSES

LOW STRESS BALANCED FOODS - pH 7
Alkaline Ash Food
Whole foods as grown by nature: Fruits & Vegetables - 70-80% adult diet
Human Milk
* * * * * * *
Acid Ash Food
Whole foods as grown by nature:Grains, Nuts, Seeds, Beans - 20%-30% adult diet

High STRESS
Fragments of food created by man: Butter, Cheese
Animal products (Acid Ash Foods): Use VERY SPARINGLY: Fish, Eggs, Fowl
(Eliminate salt)

HIGH STRESS: (Acid Ash Food) Red Meat, Animal and Dairy Products
Very Contractive: Salt

Fragments of food created by man: Drugs
HIGH STRESS: Avoid or use sparingly (Very Expansive): Liquors, Beer, Wine, Sugar, Syrups, Chocolate, Coffee, Tea, Fruit Juices

DIABETES - TYPE 2: YOU CAN REVERSE IT!

2010-08-02T10:50:00.000-07:00

Diabetes -Type 2: You Can Reverse It
By The Wholefood Farmacy

If it was an infectious disease, passed from one person to another, public health officials would say we're in the midst of an epidemic. This difficult disease is striking an ever-growing number of adults. Even more alarming, it's now beginning to show up in our teenagers and children.

18 Million Americans have Diabetes 20% of those over 65 have Diabetes
1 in 3 people who have it don't know they have it 90% of cases are PREVENTABLE
It costs $132 Billion dollars a year to "treat" Of people who have Diabetes, 98% die with it

Glucose (a.k.a blood sugar) is the fuel that provides energy to the 10 Trillion cells that make up a human being. When we eat, carbohydrates are converted into glucose, the glucose then moves through the bloodstream to feed the cells. Anytime your glucose levels spike up rapidly, your brain tells your pancreas to produce insulin, a chemical messenger that rings the “dinner bell” for your cells. When the “dinner bell” rings, your cells come running to get their glucose.

Carbohydrates come in two forms natural (complex) and man-made (simple). The man-made carbs are found in processed foods such as white table sugar, candy, sodas, high fructose corn syrup, and white bread. Eating man-made carbohydrates causes sudden and sustained spikes in your glucose levels. The brain interprets this enormous rush of sugar as trauma and signals the pancreas to produce insulin. This constant over-stimulation of the pancreas, year after year after year, causes your “machinery” to wear out. In some cases, the pancreas gets tired and cannot produce enough insulin. In other cases, the “dinner bell” rings so often that the cells get tired of hearing it, and stop running to get their glucose. Either way, when this happens, the health care industry declares that you have Type 2 Diabetes.

Natural sugars, like the sugars found in fruits and other whole foods, are known as complex carbohydrates. Your body was designed to ingest them. They are much larger molecules and cross the blood brain barrier very slowly. They do not cause those sudden spikes in glucose levels, so your “machinery” can last a lifetime. It really is that simple.

Avoid Aspartame sugar replacements. These neuro-toxins actually stimulate the appetite for sweets increasing your chance for over-eating, obesity and Diabetes. Use Stevia, a natural sweetener, instead.

According to the Harvard School of Public Health, making a few changes can dramatically lower your chances of developing type 2 Diabetes. The same changes can also lower the chances of developing heart disease and some cancers.

Control your weight. Excess weight is the single most important cause of type 2 Diabetes. Being overweight increases the chances of developing type 2 Diabetes seven-fold. Being obese makes you 20 to 40 times more likely to develop diabetes than someone with a healthy weight. Losing weight can help if your weight is above the healthy-weight range. Losing 7-10% of your current weight can cut in half your chances of developing type 2 diabetes.

Get moving. Inactivity promotes type 2 diabetes. Every two hours you spend watching TV instead of pursuing something more active increases the changes of developing diabetes by 14%. Working your muscles more often and making them work harder improves their ability to use insulin and absorb glucose. This puts less stress on your insulin-making machinery. Findings from the Nurses' Health Study and Health
Professionals Follow-up Study suggest that walking briskly for a half hour every day reduces the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 30%. Walking, benefits your entire body.
Walking before meals wakes up your system and burns stored calories. Walking 10 minutes after eating prevents your blood sugar from spiking, using the calories you have eaten to burn for energy.

CANCER: COULD YOU BE NEXT?

2010-08-02T10:48:00.000-07:00

CANCER: Could YOU Be Next?
Fact Sheet

1. Every person has cancer cells in their body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their body after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to 10 more times in a person’s lifetime.

3. When the person’s immune system is strong - the body has the ability to destroy cancer cells, preventing cancer cells from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer, it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. When little, or NO MEAT, is eaten, it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells, allowing the body’s killer cells to destroy them. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat putrefies in the intestines and leads to more toxic buildup.

6. To overcome multiple nutritional deficiencies, change diet and add supplements that build and strengthen the immune system.

7. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells, as well as HEALTHY cells
in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract, etc. It can cause organ damage to the liver, kidneys, heart, lungs, etc. The immune system becomes compromised and crippled.

8. Radiation burns, scars, and damages HEALTHY cells, tissues, and organs even though its intended target are cancer cells. The surrounding cells, tissues, and organs, cannot be missed by radiation.

9. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size.
However, prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation does not result in MORE tumor destruction.

10. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body and spirit. A proactive and positive attitude will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, being unforgiving, bitterness, and/or regret, places the body in
a state of stress and creates an acidic internal environment that is perfect for growing cancer cells. Healing requires a loving and forgiving spirit, the ability to relax, to laugh and to enjoy life.

11. The correct supplements help build the immune system. Sprouted barley in capsules or tablets, Limu, IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFA’s, etc, enable the body’s own killer cells to destroy cancer cells.

12. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Walking or daily exercise, deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy may help destroy cancer cells.

13. Never drink liquids from plastic bottles that have been frozen. This releases dioxins from the plastic. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Cast le Hospital, explained this health hazard. John Hopkins also sent out this information in its newsletters.
14. Do not heat food in the microwave using plastic containers, especially foods that contain fat. The combination of: fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food, and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, use glass or ceramic container for heating food. TV dinners, instant ramen, and soups should be removed from the container and heated in glass or stainless steel cookware. Avoid using paper for cooking as you do not know its contents. Restaurants moved from using Styrofoam to paper glasses because of the dioxin problem, and release of zino-toxins. Plastic wrap allows toxins to melt out and into the food.

16. Avoid all processed foods. These are high in additives and are nutrient deficient.

15. Avoid products with high caffeine: coffee, tea, sodas, chocolate.
Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties.
Drink distilled, alkaline, RO, or purified water and avoid toxins and heavy metals found in tap water.

16. An effective way to BATTLE CANCER is to STARVE CANCER CELLS by not feeding them foods that create an acidic environment which is perfect for them to thrive and multiply.

CANCER CELLS FEED ON or ARE PROMOTED IN THE BODY BY THE FOLLOWING:
a) SUGAR. Sugar is a cancer feeder! By cutting off sugar, it cuts off one important food supply to cancer cells. Sugar substitutes, like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc. are made with Aspartame which is harmful. A natural substitute is Manuka honey, or molasses in very small amounts.

b) TABLE SALT. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Bragg’s Aminos, or sea salt, are better choices. ALL CHEMICALS ARE TOXIC and should be eliminated from the diet.

c) MILK. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. CANCER FEEDS ON MUCUS. By cutting off dairy products and substituting with coconut milk, cancer cells will not have mucus to feed on.

d) MEAT – BASED DIET. Cancer cells thrive in an acidic internal environment. Meat is highly acidic using more energy than it gives when digested; plus, it contributes no enzymes. It contains antibiotics, growth hormones, parasites and poisons from pesticides, herbicides, and ear tags. All are harmful, especially to those with cancer.

PREVENTION
A DIET HIGH IN FRESH VEGETABLES AND SOME FRUITS can help put the body back into an alkaline environment. Consume a diet of 80% FRESH VEGETABLES AND FRESH VEGGIE JUICE. About 20% of your meals can be from whole grains, seeds, nuts and cooked food including beans and brown rice. Fresh vegetable juices, and fresh and steamed veggies, provide LIVE ENZYMES that are easily absorbed, reaching down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cell, drink fresh vegetable juice and eat some raw vegetables (or steamed/ sautéed’ veggies) and sprouts 2 or 3 times a day. The goal is to give your body building materials to fight cancer cells and to restore the body. Enzymes are the life of plants and are essential to your life, necessary for digestion and absorption of nutrients. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 F (40 degrees C), making all cooked food – dead food. When eating food that has had heat or cooked, it is essential to take digestive enzymes with your meals to help replace the enzymes that were destroyed.

CHEW YOUR FOOD! A liquid diet is best for fastest healing. However, this is not how we live. So, take small bites of food and chew each bite 20 times until there is nothing left to chew. This helps digestion to begin in the mouth. When possible, drink FRESH carrot/apple/celery juice, and eat large amounts of spinach fresh salads, and fresh/steamed or sautéed vegetables.

Can Soft Drinks Cause Pancreatic Cancer?

2010-07-19T11:32:00.000-07:00

Can Soft Drinks Cause Pancreatic Cancer?

By Sylvia Booth Hubbard

Drinking two or more soft drinks a week increases the risk of developing pancreatic cancer by two-fold compared to people who do not drink soft drinks, says a report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

People who drink soft drinks on a regular basis tend to have poor behavior patterns overall, but the effects of soft drinks on pancreatic cancer may be unique, Mark Pereira, Ph.D., senior author of the study and associate professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, said in a statement.

“The high levels of sugar in soft drinks may be increasing the level of insulin in the body, which we think contributes to pancreatic cancer cell growth,” said Pereira.
Pereira and colleagues followed 60,524 men and women in the Singapore Chinese Health Study for 14 years. During that time, there were 140 pancreatic cancer cases. Those who consumed two or more soft drinks per week (averaging five per week) had an 87 percent increased risk compared with individuals who did not.

The researchers found no link between fruit juice consumption and pancreatic cancer.
Pereira said that these results from Singapore probably apply to the United States.
“Singapore is a wealthy country with excellent health care. Favorite pastimes are eating and shopping, so the findings should apply to other western countries,” said Pereira.

According to the American Cancer Society, risk factors for pancreatic cancer include:

• Age. Nearly 90 percent of people with pancreatic cancer are older than 55, and the average age at the time of diagnosis is 72.
• Gender. Men are slightly more at risk.
• Race. More African-Americans develop pancreatic cancer than whites.
• Smoking. Smoking increases the risk as much as 300 percent.
• Chronic diseases. Diabetes, pancreatitis, and cirrhosis of the liver all raise risk.
• Obesity and physical activity. Obese people and couch potatoes have a higher risk.
• Family history. Pancreatic cancer seems to run in some families, perhaps due to inherited genes.

Each year, more than 42,000 Americans are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Fewer than 5 percent are alive five years after diagnosis, making it one of the deadliest forms of cancer.

8 Foods That Fight Diabetes

2010-07-19T11:24:00.000-07:00

8 Foods That Fight Diabetes By Sylvia Booth Hubbard

The Centers for Disease Control has declared the sharp increase in the number of people with diabetes as an epidemic. An estimated 23.6 million people have diabetes and 90 percent are Type 2 diabetics. Type 2 diabetes affects the way your body uses its main source of energy - sugar. Either the body does not produce enough insulin to use the glucose or it ignores the insulin.

Diet is key to preventing or managing diabetes: Some foods have powerful effects on blood sugar. They include:
Green tea. Green tea helps regulate blood sugar, the function impaired by diabetes. “Tea may be a simple, inexpensive means of preventing or retarding human diabetes,” write the authors of an animal study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Garlic. Used as a traditional treatment in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, garlic has been shown in animal studies — as well as in some limited human studies — to have the ability to lower blood sugar. According to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's Human Nutrition Center in Beltsville, Md., garlic can increase the level of insulin in the blood Chocolate. Dark chocolate improves insulin sensitivity, according to

Tufts researchers. The cocoa powder is rich in flavonoids which help counteract insulin resistance, the condition that prevents your body from using insulin effectively. Vinegar. A study at Arizona State University East found that taking two tablespoons of vinegar before meals lowered sugar levels in diabetics by 25 %. In pre-diabetics, blood sugar levels were cut in half. Italian researchers discovered that apple cider vinegar with meals slashed blood sugar levels by 30 %. Oranges. Diabetics have been shown to have low levels of vitamin C, so citrus fruits, which are loaded with vitamin C and antioxidants, are good choices as snacks. In addition, A Canadian study showed that citrus peel extract reduces insulin resistance in animals. Cinnamon. Research has shown cinnamon reduces inflammation and may help treat Type 2 diabetes by lowering sugar levels. Also, a study presented at a meeting of the Association for Chemoreception found that simply smelling cinnamon boosted several areas in the brain involved in everything from memory to attention and focus. As little as a quarter teaspoon a day can improve insulin resistance. Apples. A Finnish study found that men who ate the most foods high in quercetin, such as apples, had 20 percent less diabetes. Other sources of quercetin include onions, tomatoes, berries, and leafy green vegetables. Agave. Experiments suggest that a diet high in fructans found in agave, stimulates the production of a hormone which triggers the release of insulin.

2010-07-19T11:18:00.000-07:00

How to Prevent Diabetes
By The Wholefood Pharmacy

If it was an infectious disease, passed from one person to another, public health officials would say we're in the midst of an epidemic. This difficult disease is striking an ever-growing number of adults. Even more alarming, it's now beginning to show up in our teenagers and children.

18 Million Americans have it
20% of those over 65 have it
1 in 3 people who have it don't know they have it
90% of those cases are PREVENTABLE
It costs $132 Billion dollars a year to "treat" it
Of people who have it, 98% die

Glucose (a.k.a blood sugar) is the fuel that provides energy to the 10 Trillion cells that make up a human being. When we eat, carbohydrates are converted into glucose, the glucose then moves through the bloodstream to feed the cells. Anytime your glucose levels spike up rapidly, your brain tells your pancreas to produce insulin, a chemical messenger that rings the “dinner bell” for your cells. When the “dinner bell” rings, your cells come running to get their glucose.

Carbohydrates come in two forms natural (complex) and man-made (simple). The man-made carbs are found in processed foods such as white table sugar, candy, sodas, high fructose corn syrup, and white bread. Eating man-made carbs causes sudden and sustained spikes in your glucose levels. The brain interprets this enormous rush of sugar as trauma and signals the pancreas to produce insulin. This constant over-stimulation of the pancreas, year after year after year, causes your “machinery” to wear out. In some cases, the pancreas gets tired and cannot produce enough insulin. In other cases, the “dinner bell” rings so often that the cells get tired of hearing it, and stop running to get their glucose. Either way, when this happens, the health care industry declares that you have Type 2 Diabetes.

Natural sugars, like the sugars found in fruits and other whole foods, are known as complex carbs. Your body was designed to ingest them. They are much larger molecules and cross the blood brain barrier very slowly. They do not cause those sudden spikes in glucose levels, so your “machinery” can last a lifetime. It really is that simple.

Avoid Aspertame sugar replacements. These neuro-toxins actually stimulate the appetite for sweets increasing your chance for over-eating, obesity and Diabetes. Use Stevia, a natural sweetener, instead.

According to the Harvard School of Public Health, making a few changes can dramatically lower your chances of developing type 2 Diabetes. The same changes can also lower the chances of developing heart disease and some cancers.

Control your weight. Excess weight is the single most important cause of type 2 Diabetes. Being overweight increases the chances of developing type 2 Diabetes seven-fold. Being obese makes you 20 to 40 times more likely to develop diabetes than someone with a healthy weight. Losing weight can help if your weight is above the healthy-weight range. Losing 7-10% of your current weight can cut in half your chances of developing type 2 diabetes.

Get moving. Inactivity promotes type 2 diabetes. Every two hours you spend watching TV instead of pursuing something more active increases the changes of developing diabetes by 14%. Working your muscles more often and making them work harder improves their ability to use insulin and absorb glucose. This puts less stress on your insulin-making machinery. Findings from the Nurses' Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-up Study suggest that walking briskly for a half hour every day reduces the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 30%. Walking, benefits your entire body.
Walking before meals wakes up your system and burns stored calories. Walking 10 minutes after eating prevents your blood sugar from spiking, using the calories you have eaten to burn for energy.

Tune-up your diet. Two dietary changes can have a big impact on the risk of type 2 diabetes.

1. Choose whole grains & whole-grain products over highly processed carbohydrates.

2. Choose good fats instead of bad fats. The types of fats in your diet can also affect the development of diabetes. Good fats, such as the polyunsaturated fats found in tuna, salmon, liquid vegetable oils, and many nuts, can help ward off type 2 diabetes. Trans fats do just the opposite. These bad fats are found in margarines, packaged baked goods, fried foods in most fast-food, and any product that lists "partially hydrogenated vegetable oil" on the label. If you already have diabetes, eating fish can help protect you against a heart attack or dying from heart disease.

If you smoke, quit. Smokers are 50% to 90% more likely to develop diabetes than nonsmokers.

The bottom line? The key to preventing type 2 diabetes can be boiled down to five words:
Stay lean and stay active.

Homemade Natural Deodorant

2010-07-15T13:57:00.000-07:00

Homemade Natural Deodorant

SITE: http://www.passionatehomemaking.com/2008/03/update-homemade-deoderant.html by Lindsay

Did you know you can make your own wonderful deodorant with just a few completely natural ingredients? This recipe is awesome! It is frugal and very effective! Aaron & I have been using it for over a year now, and it has worked wonders. It smells wonderful, but very faint, so the hubby does not mind! We have tried all natural brands without much success, until we tried this! It is especially important for women to take thought to the harmful aluminum materials in deodorant as it has been linked to breast cancer, being that the armpits are so close to the chest.
Ingredients:
5-6 Tbsp Coconut oil
1/4 cup baking soda
1/4 cup arrowroot powder, or cornstarch without aluminum
Combine equal portions of baking soda & arrowroot powder. Then slowly add coconut oil and work it in with a spoon until it maintains the substance you desire. It should be about the same texture as the store bought kind, solid but able to be applied easily. You can either scoop this into your old dispensers or place in a small container with lid and apply with fingers with each use. After applying the product, you can just rub the remains into your hands as a lotion! This recipe lasts about 3 months for two people with regular daily use.

For the best price around on organic quality coconut oil, check out Mountain Rose Herbs.
Check out www.passionatehomemaking.com for natural solutions for everyday use

How High Fructose Corn Syrup Damages Your Body

2010-07-15T13:36:00.000-07:00

(HFCS) How High Fructose Corn Syrup Damages Your Body
Excerpts from Dr. Mercola

The number one source of calories in the US is high fructose corn syrup. Food and beverage manufacturers began switching their sweeteners from sucrose (table sugar) to corn syrup in the 1970’s when they discovered that high-fructose corn syrup was cheaper to make and sweeter, a switch that has drastically altered the American diet. According to the USDA’s report, about one-quarter of the calories consumed by the average American is in the form of ADDED sugars – the majority of which comes from high fructose corn syrup. The food that people get MOST of their calories is from soft drinks where high fructose corn syrup is the main ingredient. Consumption of beverages containing fructose rose 135% between 1977 and 2001.

High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contains NO enzymes, vitamins, or minerals and it leeches micronutrients from the body. The problem with high fructose corn syrup is the way it is metabolized. Most fats are formed in your liver, and when sugar enters your liver, it decides whether to store it, burn it, or turn it into fat. Fructose, however bypasses this process and simply turns into fat. This process disrupts insulin levels. If you need to lose weight, or if you want to avoid diabetes and heart disease, fructose is one type of sugar you will want to avoid, particularly in the form of high fructose corn syrup. It plays havoc on systems throughout your body.

High fructose corn syrup contributes to most chronic illnesses. Because most fructose is consumed in liquid form, its negative metabolic effects are significantly magnified. It reduces the affinity of insulin for its receptor which is the principle characteristic of type 2 Diabetes. According to the latest statistics, new cases of Diabetes have increased by 90 percent in the last 10 years, and Diabetes or pre-diabetes now strikes one in four Americans. HFCS interferes with insulin and leptin (a protein hormone that regulates energy intake and expenditure, appetite and metabolism.) Appetite does not recognize signals to slow or stop food intake, and the desire for food may actually be increased contributing to weight gain and obesity. High fructose corn syrup elevates blood cholesterol. It inhibits the action of the immune system’s white blood cells, leads to bone loss and anemia. It harms organs such as your pancreas, and liver - even causing nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. It contributes to cardio vascular disease interfering with the heart’s use of minerals such as magnesium, copper and chromium. It contributes to cancer, hypoglycemia and Metabolic Syndrome X.

Despite all the evidence, the industry persists in claiming these findings are untrue, arguing the high fructose corn syrup is the same as sugar. Their campaign also relies on nutritional research, but it should be noted that the findings for many of the major studies in question came FROM COMPANIES THAT PRODUCE PRODUCTS CONTAINING HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) and, therefore, they have a financial stake in the out come. To admit major health problems result from ingredients they put into their products would be devastating to their business. Your health is not their concern, the bottom line is.

55 percent of sweeteners used are made from corn. This dangerous sweetener is in many processed foods and fruit juices. If you purchase packaged or pre-prepared food, become an avid label reader. Commercials for processed food products pretend to be “natural,” but high fructose corn syrup is not organic or natural, it is processed. Names for high fructose corn syrup are: natural sugars, chicory’ insulin, iso glucose, glucose-fructose syrup, dahlia syrup, tapioca syrup, glucose syrup, corn syrup, crystalline fructose, fruit fructose, agave, and the list continues to grow. The best rule is – if you cannot recognize it as a whole food – it is a foreign substance – do NOT put it INTO your body!

To avoid high fructose corn syrup and the health dangers it creates, focus your diet on whole foods: fresh from the produce section, or frozen. Eating small amounts of whole fruit will not provide tremendous amounts of fructose and should not be a problem for most people where diabetes or obesity is NOT an issue.

We would see a radically outrageous improvement in our health as a nation if everyone just stopped drinking soda.

Names for High-fructose Corn Syrup: Chicory' insulin, iso glucose, glucose-fructose syrup, dahlia syrup, tapioca syrup, glucose syrup, corn syrup, crystalline fructose and flat out fraud, fruit fructose, and agave.

HYDRATION FOR SENIORS - Key to Health & Longevity

2010-06-18T10:12:00.000-07:00

HYDRATION FOR SENIORS
Key to Health & Longevity
By Herb Joiner-Bey, N.D.

DEHYDRATION: PUBILC HEALTH HAZARD
Clinical dehydration is one of the most common causes of hospitalization among persons over the age of 65. Half of those hospitalized die within one year of admission. Increasing the intake of pure water can prevent such catastrophes. It is also a simple, effective, and natural way to slow the aging process and put more vitality into the Golden Years.

CELL DEHYDRATION: HALLMARK OF AGING
The body of an infant is 78% water. By the time we reach advanced years, our bodies have dehydrated to contain only 50% water. To make matters worse, the location of water shifts with age from the interior of cells to regions exterior to cells.

FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO DEHYDRATION IN SENIORS
1-Lack of awareness of true optimal hydration needs.
2-Illness acceleration water loss – fever, diarrhea, vomiting.
3-Loss of mental clarity and attentiveness to personal needs with aging.
4-Decline of thirst sensation with age.
5-Fear of embarrassment and inconvenience due to urinary incontinence.

THE PRICE OF NEGLECT
Gradual total body and cellular dehydration parallel the aging process. If we fail to drink adequate amounts of pure water, the body will compensate to the best of its ability. But a high price is paid. Nutritional, biochemical, and energy resources that would otherwise be used to enhance longevity are re-directed for short term survival. As a result, free radical damage proliferates, cell and tissue structure is compromised, metabolic residues and debris accumulate more rapidly within cells, and the process of aging accelerates.

THE FICKLE SENSE OF THIRST
Thirst cannot be trusted to be an accurate indicator of the body’s need, especially among seniors. A few swallows of fluids easily quench thirst temporarily. Although thirst will return due to inadequate water intake, continuous satiation of thirst with palliating small doses of fluids leaves the body in a continuing state of water deficit.

Beverages commonly used to quench thirst (soft drinks, juices, coffee, tea, beer, cocktails) have so many solutes dissolved in them that the movement of water from the gastro-intestinal tract into the blood is inhibited. Optimal hydration is achieved only with pure water.

As we age, the already unreliable thirst sense gets even less sensitive. Senior citizens cannot trust their sense of thirst to tell them when their bodies need water. Scientific research indicates that, after water deprivation, healthy elderly men have less thirst and drink less water compared with younger men. For this reason, seniors and their caregivers must be vigilant to assure adequate hydration throughout the day.

OPTIMALLY HYDRATING THE BODY
Nothing hydrates the body better than pure water. The reason for this fact is simple. Molecules in solution move from a region where they are abundant to a region where they are scarce. Pure water can quickly hydrate the body because, after a person drinks pure water, water molecules are in much higher concentration in the gastro-intestinal tract than in the bloodstream. Water naturally moves unimpeded from the intestines to the blood, and from the blood, to the cells. If anything is dissolved in water – salts, sugar, coffee, tea, flavorings, etc. the movement of water molecules is impaired and optimal hydration is not possible. Alcohol (and carbonation) actually dehydrates the body and its tissues. (Much discomfort from hangovers is the result of dehydration of the Central Nervous System.) Therefore, sugar-saturated drinks, coffee, juices, cocktails, beer, etc. are not good beverages for assuring optimal hydration.

Tap water can contain undesirable levels of arsenic, aluminum, fluoride, nitrates, other pollutants and antibiotics. Yet, the alternatives are worse. In addition to pollutants, the acid in soft drinks and juices tend to leach aluminum out of cans, causing high intake of aluminum when ingested. Scientists are beginning to realize the link between aluminum toxicity and Alzheimer’s disease.

In addition, many popular sweet beverages can contribute to health difficulties. Artificial colors and flavors have been linked to allergies and asthma. Sugar-sweetened soft drinks and some fruit juices are heavily laden with sugar – as much as 8 ½ teaspoons or more per 12 fluid ounces. This sugar burden puts great stress on the liver and pancreas and contributes to obesity. And to add insult to injury, sugary drinks contribute to tooth decay.

To make matters worse, the phosphates in soft drinks induce the loss of calcium through the urine. This is exactly what is NOT needed in senior citizens whose bodies need calcium to maintain the integrity of bones. The life-long consumption of soft drinks can be a major factor in osteoporosis, especially among those with a family history of this disorder.

HOW MUCH PURE WATER SHOULD WE DRINK?
The daily intake of pure water should be the number of fluid ounces equal to one-half the number of pounds the body weighs. For example, a 150-pound person should drink 75 fluid ounces (about ten 8-ounce cups) daily. This amount should be distributed throughout the day and consumed in small doses every 15 to 20 minutes to ensure continuous hydration. Increase intake according to increased physical activity and atmospheric temperature. Do not rely on thirst as an accurate indicator of water need. Even among world-class athletes, thirst is unreliable.

A WORD ABOUT TAKING MEDICINES AND SUPPLEMENTS
Senior citizens frequently take prescription drugs, as well as nutritional supplements, to support their health and maintain vitality during their twilight years. Unfortunately, it is common for seniors to swallows these pills and capsule with just enough water to get the pills down the esophagus. This small amount of water is woefully inadequate to dissolve thoroughly the medications or vitamins and assist their movement from the intestines to the bloodstream. The most common side effect of medicines is gastric upset – nausea and vomiting. It is possible that the tendency to drink only small amounts of water with medicines increases the risk of gastric irritation. Be sure to drink at least 8 ounces of water with these products. Pharmaceutical and nutriceutical manufacturers, as well as health care professionals, also make this recommendation. Consult your physician or product retailer for more detailed guidance.

GETTING WATER INTO THE CELL WHERE IT IS DESPERATELY NEEDED
“Aquaporins” are tiny protein water channels on cell membranes that allow cells to tightly control the influx of water and oxygen. Only water molecules in single-file array can enter the cell. But water molecules tend to clump into clusters too large to traverse aquaproins. Any pollutants in the water will cause aquaproins to close. Therefore, no matter where you are in the world, it is important to drink the purest water you can find to facilitate the influx of water into all the cells of the body. Let water put more years into your life and more life into your Golden Years!

Are Your Supplements Being Sabatoged?

2010-06-17T18:41:00.000-07:00

ARE YOUR SUPPLEMENTS BEING SABATOGED?

DID YOU KNOW ?. . . . . . . . .

ALCOHOL can interfere with the absorption, storage and metabolism of nutrients.

ANTIBIOTICS may deplete vitamins B2, C, D, niacin, folic acid, biotin, calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, and zinc.

ANTACIDS may reduce your levels of calcium, copper, iron, phosphorus, folic acid, and vitamins A and B1.

CONJUGATED ESTROGENS like Premarin and oral contraceptives are associated with deficiencies in B-Complex vitamins, vitamin C, magnesium, and zinc.

DIURETICS can deplete potassium, magnesium, sodium, zinc, and vitamin B2.

DIABETES causes excessive urination, which leads to depletion of many nutrients, particularly B vitamins, magnesium, zinc, and chromium.

SODA, with its excessive amounts of phosphates, interferes with normal calcium metabolism and can draw calcium right out of your bones.

STRESS will deplete your “building block” vitamins and minerals – like vitamins C, B5, and B6, as well as magnesium, zinc, and potassium. Your adrenal glands need these nutrients to properly manufacture hormones.
Copied from Dr. Julian Whitaker’s Forward Nutrition Today #136d092909

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HOW THESE VITAMINS AFFECT YOUR HEALTH AND WELL-BEING

MINERALS
Boron. . . . . . . . . . . . Works with other nutrients for optimum function
Calcium . . . . . . . . . . Strengthen teeth and bones, muscle and

nerve function
Chromium . . . . . . . . Cell nourishment and energy
Magnesium . . . . . . . Fights Depression
Potassium . . . . . . . . Essential for nerve and heart function
Zinc . . . . . . . . . . . . . Optimal thyroid health, wound healing

VITAMINS
A . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vision, cell division,

reproduction, immunity
B1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Thiamine) Regulates mood
B2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Riboflavin) Regulates mood
B3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Niacin) Nerves, skin, digestive

system
B5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Pantothenic Acid) Anti-stress and

fat metabolism
B6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Needed for enzymes and protein

metabolism
B9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Folic Acid) Used to make new cells
B12 . . . . . . . . . . . . Regulates mood and energy
C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wound healing
Biotin . . . . . . . . . . . Cell growth, fat metabolism

Chicken Safety Alert - Arsenic in your chicken!

2010-06-17T18:39:00.000-07:00

Chicken Safety Alert
Arsenic in your chicken!

Many poultry producers feed animals an organic form of arsenic, which is believed to be harmless to animals, to control intestinal parasites. But there is evidence suggesting that some of this arsenic is converted in the birds into a toxic, inorganic form of arsenic. A new study shows that arsenic, a known carcinogen, was found in 55% of 155 samples of raw chicken purchased in Minnesota and California supermarkets, according to research commissioned by the nonprofit Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP). All of the 90 samples purchased from fast-food restaurants contained arsenic.

Toxicologist Paul Mushak, PhD of Durham, North Carolina, an expert on arsenic and other toxic elements says, “You don’t want to have any more arsenic in your body than what you absolutely can not avoid.” Questions remain about what happens to it in the human body. Symptoms that have been identified with arsenic toxicity shortly after consumption may be: severe stomach pain, high temperature, shakiness, and a feeling of core coldness which may lasts for a few hours up to a few days.

To reduce exposure: Call the consumer-service department of the producer whose poultry you typically buy and ask if the birds are given arsenic. Another option is to buy organic chicken as these birds cannot legally be given arsenic. Use of arsenic is not prohibited in chicken labeled only as kosher or “free range.”

2010-05-06T14:16:00.000-07:00

EATING FRUIT – DO’s & DON'Ts

We all think eating fruits means just buying fruits, cutting it and just popping it into our mouths. It's not as easy as you think. It's important to know how and when to eat.
What is the correct way of eating fruits?

FRUITS SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH, NEVER EATEN AFTER YOUR MEALS!

If you eat fruit alone, on an empty stomach or after meals, it will play a major role to detoxify your system, supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities.

FRUIT IS VITAL FOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH. Let's say you eat two slices of bread and then a slice of fruit. The slice of fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but it is prevented from doing so.

The minute the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil. The whole meal rots, ferments and turns to acid.

So eat your fruits on an empty stomach or before your meals! You have heard people complaining that every time they eat watermelon they burp, when they eat durian their stomach bloats up, when they eat a banana they feel like running to the toilet, etc — actually all this will not arise if fruit is eaten on an empty stomach. The fruit mixes with the putrefying other food and produces gas and hence you will bloat!

Graying hair, balding, nervous outburst, and dark circles under the eyes all these do NOT happen when fruits are eaten on an empty stomach.

There is no such thing as some fruits, like orange and lemon being acidic, because all fruits become alkaline in our body, according to Dr. Herbert Shelton who did research on this matter. The ability of fruit to help the body detoxify, plus the benefits of live, alkaline food and all of it nutrients, is believed to help prevent and may reverse cancer. If you have mastered the correct way of eating fruits, you have the Secret of beauty, longevity, health, energy, happiness and normal weight.

When you need to drink fruit juice - drink only fresh fruit juice, NOT from the cans. Don't even drink juice that has been heated up. Don't eat cooked fruits because the nutrition has been destroyed. You only get to taste. Cooking destroys all the vitamins.

Eating a whole fruit gives you fiber. When drinking the juice, drink it mouthful by mouthful slowly, because digestion begins in the mouth and the juice needs to mix with your saliva before swallowing. A 3-day fruit fast can be a method of cleansing your body. Eat fruits and drink FRESH fruit juice throughout the 3 days. You may be surprised how much better you feel and how radiant you look! NOTE: If you are Diabetic, do this under a doctor’s care and monitor blood sugar levels as fruits are very sweet.

KIWI: Tiny but mighty. This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E & fiber. Its vitamin C content is twice that of an orange.

APPLE: An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low vitamin C content, it has antioxidants & flavonoids which enhances the activity of vitamin C thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke.

STRAWBERRY: Protective Fruit. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits & protect the body from cancer-causing, blood vessel-clogging free radicals.

ORANGE : Sweetest medicine. Taking 2-4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessens the risk of colon cancer.

WATERMELON: Coolest thirst quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione, which helps boost our immune system. They are also a key source of lycopene — the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients found in watermelon are vitamin C & Potassium.

GUAVA & PAPAYA: Top awards for vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high vitamin C content.. Guava is also rich in fiber, which helps prevent constipation. Papaya is rich in carotene; this is good for your eyes.

Drinking Cold water after a meal = Cancer! Can u believe this?? For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this 'sludge' reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.
Article by Dr. Herbert Shelton

WHY IS WATER ESSENTIAL?

2010-05-06T13:40:00.000-07:00

Drinking water at the correct time maximizes its effectiveness on the Human body

2 glasses of water after waking up helps activate internal organs

1 glass of water 30 minutes before a meal - helps digestion

1 glass of water before taking a bath - helps lower blood pressure

1 glass of water before going to bed - avoids stroke or heart attack

WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO DRINK WATER:

WATER . . . . .

Composes 75% of the brain

Makes up 83% of the blood

Accounts for 22% of bones

Makes up 75% of our muscles

Helps carry nutrients & oxygen to cells

Helps body absorb nutrients

Moistens oxygen for breathing

Helps convert food into energy

Protects and cushions vital organs

Regulates body temperature

Cushions joints

Removes waste

NOW YOU KNOW WHY DEHYDRATION IS HARMFUL TO YOUR BODY.

WEIGHT CONTROL RECOMMENDATIONS

2010-04-21T11:53:00.000-07:00

Weight Control Recommendations
by Dr. Mercola

It’s 5-2-1-0, and it breaks down like this:

5: Eat five vegetables and fruits a day (the majority of this should be vegetables). Limit your fructose consumption from fruits to under 15 grams per day. You can use the table lower on this page to help you determine the fructose content of common fruits.

2: Limit screen time — TV in particular — to 2 hours or less a day. (Robert Lustig, MD a endocrinologist at the University of California who specializes in weight loss, integrates for every minute of screen time (TV or video games) a minute of exercise is required.

1: Do one hour of physical activity a day.

0: Have zero sugar-sweetened or diet drinks.

Fruit
Serving Size
Grams of Fructose
Limes 1 medium 0
Lemons 1 medium 0.6
Cranberries 1 cup 0.7
Passion fruit 1 medium 0.9
Prune 1 medium 1.2
Apricot 1 medium 1.3
Guava 2 medium 2.2
Date (Deglet Noor style) 1 medium 2.6
Cantaloupe 1/8 of med. melon 2.8
Raspberries 1 cup 3.0
Clementine 1 medium 3.4
Kiwifruit 1 medium 3.4
Blackberries 1 cup 3.5
Star fruit 1 medium 3.6
Cherries, sweet 10 3.8
Strawberries 1 cup 3.8
Cherries, sour 1 cup 4.0
Pineapple 1 slice(3.5" x .75") 4.0
Grapefruit, pink or red 1/2 medium 4.3

Fruit Serving Size Grams of Fructose
Boysenberries 1 cup 4.6
Tangerine/mandarin orange 1 medium 4.8
Nectarine 1 medium 5.4
Peach 1 medium 5.9
Orange (navel) 1 medium 6.1
Papaya 1/2 medium 6.3
Honeydew 1/8 of med. melon 6.7
Banana 1 medium 7.1
Blueberries 1 cup 7.4
Date (Medjool) 1 medium 7.7
Apple (composite) 1 medium 9.5
Persimmon 1 medium 10.6
Watermelon 1/16 med. melon 11.3
Pear 1 medium 11.8
Raisins 1/4 cup 12.3
Grapes, seedless (green or red) 1 cup 12.4
Mango 1/2 medium 16.2
Apricots, dried 1 cup 16.4
Figs, dried 1 cup 23.0

MORE TIME FOR EMERGENCY STROKE TREATMENT!

2010-04-21T11:50:00.000-07:00

More time for emergency stroke treatment?
From the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
Stroke patients who reach the hospital within three hours of experiencing symptoms can be treated with a drug that breaks up blood clots and restores blood flow, potentially sparing precious brain tissue from damage. Current guidelines state that the drug, called tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, must be given within three hours. A study published today in the journal Stroke, however, suggests that the three-hour window may be too narrow.
Researchers at Stanford University and colleagues in Germany and Belgium have shown that treatment can help patients up to 4.5 hours after the first symptoms appear. The study is published online in the journal Stroke. The researchers combined data from four large clinical trials on tPA. Among a total of 1,622 patients who arrived at the hospital between three and 4.5 hours, treatment with tPA improved their odds of a favorable outcome by 31%. A favorable outcome was defined as returning to normal or having only minimal residual symptoms, such as some numbness.
With 750,000 Americans suffering a stroke each year, expanding the recommendation for tPA for up to 4.5 hours could help a large number of people, said the lead author of the study, Maarten Lansberg, an assistant professor of neurology and neurological sciences at Stanford.
"We've known that this treatment works for ischemic stroke since 1995," Lansberg said in a news release. "But in the United States, only about 3% of stroke patients end up getting treated. Most of them are ineligible because they come to the hospital after the three-hour time window."
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The following recipe may help temporally stop stroke. This must be prepared in advance. Capsicum: Combine: 1 part Cheyenne Pepper & 4 parts Vodka

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The Sea Herbal drink, Limu, may be excellent nutritional support for vascular health and may increase healing in event of strokes as good nutrition supports health and healing. A diet of mostly fresh, steamed, saute’d vegetables and some fresh fruit supports an alkaline diet that supports and builds health. Visit our Naturopath, Dr. Danise Witherspoon, and our Herbal Specialist, Carole Morris, for coaching. - - - - - - - - - - - -

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Support your health at the Natural Health Clinic, 1415 Shields Ave. Cedar Hill, TX 75104
972-283-0341

HEART HEALTH

2010-04-21T11:39:00.000-07:00

Heart Health
Facts:
Heart disease is epidemic in our nation
One out of three American have some degree of heart disease.
Over 60% of women who have heart disease die with their first attack,
many without ever knowing that they had a heart health problem. 46% of men have heart attacks. Dairy products may be the number one food contributing to heart disease.
(When you look at your empty milk glass, you can see what is sticking
to your veins and arteries.) Stress is a key ingredient for heart disease.

More heart attacks occur on Monday than any other day of the week, primarily because people hate their jobs and dread going to work.

Conventional medicine may offer drugs and surgery to correct heart problems. Some medical doctors recommend dietary changes and exercise. Yet hospitals under the direction of dietitians will serve to heart attack patients, the very foods that contribute to heart disease.

Alternative or complimentary medicine may also offer dietary changes and an exercise program. Some may recommend Chelation, a proven therapy that gradually removes plaque from the walls of veins and arteries. According the severity of heart disease, Chelation may be taken as a pill that can be purchased at any health food store, from a recipe of combined ingredients to be eaten, or intravenously with a series of treatments. Because this is a nutritional alternative, it is not covered by insurance. It is unlikely that heart doctors will recommend a natural alternative to drugs and surgery. Should you choose intravenous Chelation, you would be under a medical doctor’s care; these doctors can be located through the intranet. Should you decide to choose natural alternatives, it is recommended that you get regular check-ups with your medical doctor. Consider all choices for your health before it becomes life threatening. Check out going to the Whitaker Wellness Institute where natural alternatives are administered under medical doctors and health professionals. The clinic has a 30+ year history of reversing heart disease and other life threatening diseases.

What to do if someone is having a heart attack: Call 911

Heart attack symptoms for women may include feelings of: indigestion, sensations/discomfort under breastbone, and jaw discomfort. For men: chest pain, cold sweats, left arm numbness.

Complimentary medicine that may stop a heart attack while help is on the way:
-Capsicum in the mouth or under the tongue
-Ki energetic touch: wrap left hand around left little finger and place finger tips of right hand
on gently the spine between the shoulder blades until symptoms subside
-If you are the victim, use Capsicum. If unable to access Capsicum, some report a strong rhythmic coughing may help reset the heart beat

Self diagnosis never takes the place of professional evaluation & care. Always seek medical attention.

(RECIPES FOR CAPSICAN AND CHELATION ON BACK)

RECIPIES

The following recipe may help temporally stop stroke or heart attack.

Capsicum: Combine: 1 part Cheyenne Pepper & 4 parts 100 proof Vodka

Cure by placing on a window seal in daylight for 2 weeks. Shake well, every day. Strain and place liquid in a dark bottle with a dropper a dropper. One dropper full under the tongue is one application.

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The following recipe may support vascular health

Chelation Pesto

2 Clove garlic
1 cup almonds or cashews (finely chopped for better results)
2 cup packed fresh cilantro leaves
4 tablespoons lemon juice
12 tablespoons olive oil

- Put the cilantro and olive oil in blender (food processor works better) and
process until the cilantro is chopped.
- Add the rest of the ingredients and process to a lumpy paste. (You may
need to add a touch of hot water and scrape the sides of the blender.)
- You can change the consistency by altering the amount of olive oil and
lemon juice, but keep the 3:1 ratio of oil to juice.

To preserve the freshness, you can freeze half in 2 teaspoon servings in ice trays. Pop the frozen servings into a zip lock bag and store in freezer until needed.

This recipe lasts about 2 weeks.

Two teaspoons a day for 2 to 3 weeks is recommended, 2 or 3 times a year. (This may be taken in addition to, but not in the place of care under a medical physician. Always consult your doctor.)

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The above may give the person time to get the medical help that is needed. It is not intended to take the place of prescription drugs or the advice of medical doctors. Always get check-ups, know the status of your health and educate yourself on what you can do to support your health and healing.

Learn all you can to live a healthy lifestyle…and then do it!

Dr. Danise N. Witherspoon, N.D., C.N.C,
B.E.S.T. Therapy - Elite Master

Natural Health Clinic
1415 Shields Ave. Cedar Hill, Tx 75104

972-283-0341

What You Think About What You Eat Is More Important Than What You Eat!

2010-03-24T09:04:00.000-07:00

What You Think About What You Eat Is Even More Important Than What You Eat!

Thoughts, or memories of thoughts, run through your head twenty-four hours a day – even when you sleep. You can't get away from thoughts, and thoughts affect your physiology all of the time. Man's level of thought is what separates him from other species.

The impact of thoughts on physiology can be demonstrated by this simple example. Think of a lemon. See yourself slicing that lemon in half. Now, imagine picking up one half and squeezing the juice into your open mouth. If you do this with your eyes closed and really concentrate, you can, and probably will, begin to salivate. Salivation is your body's natural response to neutralize the acid of the lemon. Just the mere thought of pure lemon juice in your mouth can change your body's physiology.

What you think about, you bring about. Your body responds constantly to your mind's messages. Your verbal expressions and thoughts actually send messages to your body, which it displays in physical symptoms. In fact, specific feelings and emotions have been linked with particular symptoms and diseases.
It seems that negative feelings are generally associated with the production of disease. So, then the opposite postulate would be that positive feelings produce health. Feeding the physical body positive thoughts from the conscious mind leads to health.

What you are eating is your business. What others are eating is theirs. Worry about yourself. Don't judge others on what they are doing. These toxic judgments will render your good diet virtually worthless. Your thoughts are much more toxic that any “bad” food you might consume. And, if you make a choice to eat something that falls outside of the healthy guidelines, don't beat yourself up over it. Enjoy it! It's not what you eat occasionally that affects your health - it's what you eat every day.

The 11 Foods You Should NEVER Eat!

Margarine Products – Margarine is man-made and is produced by taking a good food product like liquid oil, putting it under high temperature and high pressure, and then bubbling hydrogen through it to make it a solid. New studies now show that margarine can raise blood cholesterol and increase vascular and cardiac stress. Cooking products like Crisco as well as commercially produced peanut butter also fall into this category. They just won't spoil – bacteria won't even eat it!

Artificial Sweeteners – Nutrasweet, Equal, Aspartame, etc., are essentially neurotoxins. This means they are toxic to the nervous system. In 1988, 80% of complaints received by the FDA were due to artificial sweeteners. They are stimulatory, without question! And, studies are showing their link to brain tumors.

Junk Food – Classified as soft drinks, processed snacks, pizza, and fast food, «junk food» is all made with parts of foods and are prepared with margarine, mayonnaise, and other artificial ingredients. To utilize these “foods” internally the body has to use vitamins, minerals, and enzymes needed elsewhere in your system, because the junk food is virtually void of these things. And, soft drinks are very, very acid, and will make your living system acid as well.

Mayonnaise - Simply put, most mayonnaise is made up of mainly fat and artificial or chemically altered ingredients. We are better off to get our fats from cold pressed virgin olive oil which contains three essential fatty acids.

Caffeine - Coffee, colas, and teas are all stimulatory. In other words, they rev up the body artificially when it doesn't need to be. The more outside stimulation the less internal regulation. And, as time goes on, it will take more and more of the same substance to get the same effect. Two cups of coffee a day increases the chances of heart disease by 50%. Cut it down, and then cut it out!

Chlorine and Fluoride - These are both found in our water supply, and they need to be eliminated. Chlorine oxidizes and kills bacteria in the colon - the bacteria we need. Fluorine is quite frankly a poison. Over time it assaults our immune system.

MSG - Monosodium glutamate - This flavor enhancer is very stimulatory to the body and is addictive. Some people have tremendous allergic reactions to it because it is an inorganic salt that the body cannot break down.

High Fat Dairy Products - We have been fooled into believing that if we do not drink enough milk, we will not get enough calcium and we will end up with osteoporosis. However, studies indicate the countries where people drink the most milk have the most osteoporosis. Sure milk has calcium, but it also has a lot of protein and phosphorus, which has a negative affect on calcium in the body. Calcium should come from the vegetable world. If you were to pasteurize and homogenize milk and feed it to a calf, it likely won't live for more than 6 months. Really, the way we alter milk, it is not even good for the species it was designed for.

Alcohol Products - Alcohol is a negative energy substance. You get a temporary spurt of energy, but you body loses more than it gains. Alcohol stimulation is usually followed by a let-down.

Aluminum - Make sure you don't cook your foods daily in man-made aluminum product cookware. If every meal you eat is cooked in aluminum, you are going to have aluminum accumulation. Aluminum is also found in most over-the-counter antiperspirants and deodorants. Studies indicate that accumulation of Aluminum in the body have been linked to Alzheimer's disease.

High-Fructose Corn Syrup - Watch for the upcoming article on high-fructose corn syrup.

Increase the Quality of What You Eat

Want to know more about what constitutes “good” food? Here are some of the qualities you can look for when you're looking at what to eat!

Wholeness - Food should be as nearly complete and as close as possible to the form it was when it came from the garden or tree. Avoid fragmented, processed, or “instant” foods.

Rawness - Although it is difficult to eat raw food exclusively, we can, with relative ease, eat about 30% of our daily consumption raw. This amount will give the body material, which it can use to make enzymes to digest the remainder of the foods. In fact, when you begin each meal with something raw, it allows your body to start manufacturing enzymes that can be carried over and used to produce personalized enzymes. Note: Spinach should always be eaten raw.

Ash - The food should have an alkaline ash. That means that the end product of digestion is alkaline in nature. Fruits and vegetables, with the few notable exceptions of cranberries, rhubarb and plums, satisfy this requirement.

Quantity - You will be less inclined to overeat if you confine your diet to fruits and vegetables. Good food is usually self-limiting, however, it is possible to overdo – as with any excess, overeating should be avoided.

Compatibility - Even good foods can have adverse effects if they are improperly combined at a meal. Never eat protein and starch at the same meal, and always eat melon alone. Make sure that food is combined in such a way that it does not act as a “poison” to the body. The more sick a person is, the more important proper food combining becomes, and the more important it is to eat only one food at a meal.

Could Asparagus Be An Answer To Your Health?

2010-03-24T07:46:00.000-07:00

Could Asparagus Be An Answer For Your Health?

The U.S. National Cancer Institute reported that asparagus is the highest-tested food containing glutathione which is considered one of the body's most potent anti-carcinogens
and anti-oxidants.

Glutathione, or GSH, is a naturally occurring protein that protects every cell, tissue, and organ from toxic free radicals and disease. It is a tripeptide of three amino acids: Glycine, glutamate (glutamic acid), and cysteine. These precursors are necessary for the manufacture of glutathione within the cells. Glutathione has been called the “master antioxidant” and regulates the actions of lesser antioxidants such as vitamin C and vitamin E within the body. It has many functions, including the following: regulates and regenerates immune cells, helping to detoxify the body, important in DNA synthesis and repair as well as protein and prostaglandin synthesis, may have anti-viral properties by slowing or stopping the replication of pathogens, research data indicates that GSH improves symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease and possibly retard the progression of the disease.
Source: WHITAKER WELLNESS CENTER.

Asparagus contains a good supply of protein called histones, a substance that acts like a cell-growth normalizer which is believed to be active in controlling cell growth. That may account for claims of its action on cancer and as a general body tonic.

Asparagus has been credited as helping to reverse Cancer (including Hodgkin’s Disease and Lymphoma), Kidney disease, Kidney stones, Parkinson’s disease, and many other diseases; however, this has not been tested or proven by the medical community. It is also not known if other medical or alternative treatments were factors. One fact remains: asparagus has much to contribute in the way of nutrition which makes it an excellent choice as a building block for health and healing.

RECOMMENDED: Place the cooked asparagus in a blender and liquefy to make a puree; store in the refrigerator. For health issues, take 4 full tablespoons twice daily, morning and evening. It can be diluted with water and used as a cold or hot drink. Larger amounts can do no harm and may be needed in some cases. The whole food may also be eaten. Improvement may be observed in from 2-4 weeks.

Asparagus tea powder may be purchased at www.chi-health.com. For orders call Chi's Enterprise, Inc. (800) 457-5708, 1435 N. Brasher St., Anaheim, CA 92807

NOTE: Since asparagus is cooked, canned or frozen asparagus may be used. The two leading caners of asparagus, Green Giant and Stokely, were reported to contain no pesticides or preservatives; however, additives are routinely and unnecessarily added to many products throughout the food industry to enhance flavor and increase sales. It is up to each consumer to be diligent in checking periodically to keep a constant watch with companies as to the contents and additives contained in foods purchased.

Regardless of health issues, the body cannot fight disease and repair itself without the tools it needs. The only way the body can get those tools to rebuild is through the food we fuel our body with; not drugs. In order to qualify as a drug, a substance has to have a kill rate of 50% of its critters in testing, a rating known as LD-50 (Lethal Dosage 50%). Once it receives this rating, it is sent back to the company to be marketed to you and me in the form of medications and drugs. Shouldn’t drugs have a heal rate instead of a kill rate to be marketed as a medication? Only nutritious food has a heal rate.

COMMENT: Health is the responsibility of each person. There are many factors that influence health: stress, exercise, diet, environment, accidents, and much more. Of the things we can control, diet and exercise are within our reach. If you are under the care of a medical doctor or health practitioner, research the benefits of vegetables and fruits: fresh, steamed and frozen. Support your health goals by choosing nutrient rich foods that will build and restore your body. If taking drugs, consult your pharmacist or medical doctor to learn of any possible reactions between medications, or interactions with foods. We were not born drug-deficient; but because of our choices we become nutritionally deficient, and that makes us SICK, sometimes VERY SICK.

Visit with Dr. Danise Witherspoon, N.D. at the Natural Health Clinic to learn more: 972-283-0341.

Coconut Oil and Its Medium-Chain Triglycerides (MCT)

2010-03-23T18:49:00.000-07:00

Coconut Oil and Its Medium-Chain Triglycerides (MCT)

One of the first scientifically recognized benefits of MCT (medium chain triglycerides) or MCFA (medium chain fatty acids) is the unique manner in which they are easily digested, absorbed and put to use nourishing the body. MCT are broken down almost immediately by enzymes in the saliva and gastric juices so pancreatic fat-digesting enzymes are not even essential. Therefore, there is less strain on the pancreas and digestive system, and provide a quick source of energy necessary to promote healing. These fats provide nutritional benefits that can improve overall health of both: the sick and the well, the young and the old. Even athletes are now using them to boost performance and control weight.

People who suffer from malabsorption problems such as: cystic fibrosis, or have difficulty digesting or absorbing fats and fat soluble vitamins, benefit greatly from MCT. When lauric acid is consumed in the diet, either in human breast milk or in coconut oil, lauric acid forms a monoglyceride called monolaurin which has been shown may destroy several bacteria and viruses including listeria monocytogenes and helicobacter pylori, and protozoa such as giardia lamblia. They can also be of importance to people suffering from diabetes, obesity, gallbladder disease, pancreatitis Crohn's disease, pancreatic insufficiency, and some forms of cancer. It may be helpful in cases of chronic fatigue syndrome, Epstein-Barr, and mononucleosis, which are all result of depressed immune system. Some of the viruses that have been destroyed by monolaurin include HIV, measles, herpes simplex virus-1, vesicular stomatitis virus, influenza and cytomegalovirus. There is also evidence that the MCTs in coconut oil may kill yeast infections such as Candida.

Short- and medium-chain saturated fatty acids have important antimicrobial properties. They may protect against harmful microorganisms in the digestive tract. Much of the recent research done on coconut oil and lauric acid the most predominant fatty acid chain found in coconut oil has focused on the anti-microbial and anti-viral properties of this unique fatty acid. Today, many strains of bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics, and antibiotics are generally ineffective in treating virus infections. Approximately 50 percent of the fatty acids in coconut fat are lauric acid. It can be higher than this, depending on the source and how it is processed. Lauric acid is a medium chain fatty acid which has the additional beneficial function of being formed into monolaurin in the human or animal body. Monolaurin is the anti-viral, anti-bacterial, and anti-protozoal monoglyceride used by the human or animal to destroy lipid coated viruses such as HIV, herpes, cytomegalovirus, influenza, various pathogenic bacteria including listeria monocytogenes and helicobacter pylori, and protozoa such as giardia lamblia. Some studies have also shown some antimicrobial effects of the free lauric acid.

Coconut oil may reduce the possibility of heart attacks and blood clots. It may reduce cancer risk since it kills bacteria which free the white blood cells to fight on behalf of the immune system and deal more effectively with cancer cells. Some research studies have shown it to be anti-carcinogenic, especially against colon and breast cancer, and prostrate enlargement. It may help with diabetes in that it may stabilize blood glucose rate and may help lessen excess body weight.
Research and clinical observation have shown that medium-chain fatty acids (MCFA's) like those found in coconut Oil, may provide a wide range of health benefits such as:
· Reduce viruses load that cause influenza, hepatitis C measles and others illnesses.
· Kills bacteria that causes pneumonia, earache, throat infections, dental cavities, food poisoning, urinary tract infections, meningitis, gonorrheal and dozens of others diseases.
· Expels or kills tapeworms, lice, giardia and others parasites.
· Anti virus, anti bacteria, anti fungus, and anti natural parasite.

So how much coconut oil should one consume? A therapeutic dosage is 3 to 4 tablespoons a day, which will give an adult the equivalent amount of lauric acid that an infant receives from his mother's breast milk (the highest amount found, with coconut oil being second highest). This provides enough lauric acid to build the immune system which takes several weeks. Look for unrefined coconut oil. Stay away from all hydrogenated oils. Read the label. The more processed the product, the less benefit you will receive.

Saturated fats have many important roles in the body’s chemistry: Saturated fatty acids constitute at least 50 percent of cell membranes. They give our cells necessary firmness and integrity. They play a vital role in the health of our bones. For example, at least 50 percent of our dietary fats need to be saturated for calcium to be effectively incorporated into the skeletal structure. They lower Lp(a), a substance in the blood that indicates proneness to heart disease.
They protect the liver from the toxic effects of alcohol and certain drugs. They enhance the immune system. They are needed for the proper utilization of essential fatty acids. Elongated omega-3 fatty acids are better retained in the tissues when the diet is rich in saturated fats.

Saturated 18-carbon stearic acid and 16-carbon palmitic acid are the preferred foods for the heart, which is why the fat around the heart muscle is highly saturated. The heart draws on this reserve of fat in times of stress.

HOW MCT WORKS

In the digestive system MCT are broken down into individual fatty acids (MCFA). Unlike other fatty acids, MCFA are absorbed directly from the intestines (without requiring pancreatic enzymes to break them into smaller units) into the portal vein and sent straight to the liver where they are, mostly, burned as fuel much like a carbohydrate. In this respect they act more like carbohydrates than like fats. Mitochondria is the engine of every cell and needs to be fed. Due to it having smaller molecules, coconut oil MCFA’s can penetrate the cell wall of mitochondria without help from an enzyme and feed it the necessary energy. The MCFA can travel to any cell that needs it, so if a heart muscle cell needs more energy; it is available from the coconut oil’s MCFA. Athletes are also experiencing its benefits.

In contrast, other fats require pancreatic enzymes to break them into smaller units; then they are absorbed into the intestinal wall and bundled with proteins to make lipoproteins, then carried by the lymphatic system (bypassing the liver, and not burned up for fuel) and dumped into the bloodstream to go throughout the body. They are distributed to all the tissues of the body. Medium-chain fatty acids produce energy. Other dietary fats produce body fat.

The importance of coconut oil for nursing mothers: One of the major characteristics of human breast milk is its ability to protect since it has antimicrobial substances in milk that protect the child from a world teaming with infectious germs and parasites are the MCFA. When a nursing mother is infected with an illness, her child is also vulnerable. It has been recommended that HIV-infected mothers who are breastfeeding consume 24-28 grams/day of lauric acid and 3 - 4 grams/day of capric acid to prevent the transfer of the virus. Since coconut oil is nearly 48 percent lauric acid and 7 percent capric acid, this requirement would be met if the mother ate about 50-55 grams of coconut oil each day. A tablespoon is equivalent to 14 grams. So 3 ½ tablespoons of coconut oil a day would provide the recommended amount of both lauric and capric acids. Eating 40 grams (about 3 tablespoons worth) of coconut oil in one meal can temporarily increase the lauric acid in the milk of a nursing mother from 3.9% to 9.6% after 14 hours. Content of caprylic and capric acids are also increased. "The milk has increased amounts of the protective antimicrobials lauric acid and capric acid (the most important ones) which gives even greater protection to the infant." If the mother consumes coconut oil every day while nursing, the medium-chain fatty acid content will be even greater—up to as much as 18%. Coconut oil may also work as an aid for digestion and constipation. If the mother does not eat them while nursing, she will only be able to produce 3% lauric acid and 1% capric acid, and the baby may lose out on nutritional benefits and antimicrobial protection.

Coconut oil is especially important to elderly. Elderly people may get more benefit from their food and supplements if they consume it with coconut oil and it may aid digestion and constipation. As we age, the pancreas does not make as many digestive enzymes, our intestines do not absorb nutrients as well. The whole process of digestion and elimination moves at a lower rate of efficiency. As a result, older people often suffer from vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Because MCT are easy to digest and improve vitamin and mineral absorption they should be included in their meals. This is easy to do if the meals are prepared with coconut oil.

Coconut Oil may help restore and improve skin: Virgin coconut oil is attributed with the capability of sustaining connective tissue assisting it to become stronger. It may reduce wrinkles and slackness. In certain skin conditions, it may afford restoration of the damaged skin and scars, some skin diseases, provide relief of eczema, psoriasis and fungal infections and may prevent whitehead growth, and other damage caused by aging and excessive sunlight. It acts as an exfoliate adding to the youthfulness of your skin. It is attributed with the ability to soak into the deeper layers of tissue, kill virus, bacteria and protozoa, and reinforce the skin layers which may result in a skin that is softer with a healthier glow. It may prevent free radical formation that destroys skin cells, as well as act as a protectant from free radical reaction protecting the skin from problems caused by the aging factor and excessive exposure to sunlight. Some have found it may eliminate dandruff, dryness, fungus, heal scalp tissue, protect skin from ultraviolet rays, grow hair on bald heads and serve as a good hair conditioner. Simply massage it into the skin including any wrinkled skin area, cracked heels, hard corns, for regenerative nutrition and moisturizing. Use as a lotion daily. It may take several months for the body to regenerate through the healing process.

SKIN AGING TEST: Aging causes loss of skin elasticity and skin becomes hard and quilted. Pinch skin under arm for 5 min., let go to see how many seconds it takes for it to go back normal. 5 - 9 seconds = age 45 to 60; 10 - 15 seconds = age 60; 35 - 55 seconds = age 70.
Person age 50 ate coconut oil and skin returned to normal after 1 - 2 seconds.

STORY: The Polynesians live in a hot climate and wear very little clothing constantly exposing them to sunlight, but their skin is flawlessly healthy without skin infections or cancer. They eat coconut oil and use it as a body lotion and experience no damage from sunlight exposure. They believe coconut oil gives immediate recovery and healing, and protects them against in daily contact of disease-causing bacteria.
This info-page is a collection of articles from health advocate: Karen McLean. We recognize and thank her for sharing her work. This is a nutritional resource for information only. Consult your medical doctor when making changes that may affect your medications or your health. If you choose recommendations in regard to health from this or any article, you are diagnosing yourself and assume total responsibility for your health. You alone are responsible for your health.

For more information: go to mercola.com and type coconut oil in the Search bar. Combined articles from Dr. Mercola in http://www.treelight.com/health/nutrition/CoconutOil.html You can find products at Cox Farms, Sprouts, Vitamin Shoppe and also order coconut oil online at http://www.tropicaltraditions.com/virgin_coconut_oil.htm or www.vitacost.com

Cell Phone Dangers And Health Rists

2010-01-23T13:43:00.000-08:00

Cell Phone Dangers and Health Risks Posted by: Dr. Mercola, January 21, 2010

Lloyd Morgan, lead author and member of the Bioelectromagnetics Society says, “Exposure to cell phone radiation is the largest human health experiment ever undertaken, without informed consent, and has some 4 billion participants enrolled. Science has shown increased risk of brain tumors from use of cell phones, as well as increased risk of eye cancer, salivary gland tumors, testicular cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and leukemia. The public must be informed.” At Columbia University Law School, a presentation on Wireless Hazards, explained how wireless radiation creates cognitive problems, damages DNA, diminishes fertility, causes disorientation and navigation difficulties for birds, bees and other wildlife, and may contribute to Bee Colony Collapse, which, if not reversed, will jeopardize the future of life on earth.

Witnesses before a Senate Committee testified about research into cell phone use and its potential impact on human health, as well as the potential side effects such as brain and salivary gland tumors. In 2008, cell phones were identified as a contributor to salivary gland tumors. Dr. Siegal Sadetzki, who testified in September 2009 at the U.S. Senate Hearing, is the principle investigator of the study that made this finding. The report states that your risk of getting a parotid tumor on the same side of your head that you use for listening to the mobile phone increases by:

34 percent if you are a regular cell phone user and have used a mobile phone for 5 years.
58 percent if you had more than about 5,500 calls in your lifetime.
49 percent if you have spoken on the phone for more than 266.3 hours during your lifetime.

About 4 billion people are now using cell phones around the world, despite the fact that their safety is being increasingly called into question. There are no safety standards for testing cell phones before they are released to the market. You may be wondering why, if there is so much data showing the risks of cell phone use, no warnings are being made. The telecommunication industry is even BIGGER than drug industry, and they have far more influence in Washington. Government agencies have essentially ignored all the danger warnings. They fail to realize that it can take anywhere from 10 to 30 years for brain tumors to develop from cell phone exposure, so we are just now beginning to see some of the tragic effects of heavy cell phone use. The truth is, we are on the verge of a brain cancer epidemic . It could grow to 500,000 cases worldwide in 2010, and there may be over a million cases in the U.S. alone by 2015.

Sadly, children and teens are at an even higher risk, as their thinner skull bones allow for greater penetration of cell phone radiation. The radiation can enter all the way into their midbrain, where tumors are more deadly. In addition, children's cells reproduce more quickly, so they're more susceptible to aggressive cell growth. Their immune systems are also not as well developed as adults. Lastly, children face a far greater lifetime exposure. Professor Lennart Hardell of Sweden has found that those who begin using cell phones heavily as teenagers have 4 to 5 times more brain cancer as young adults! Increasing evidence is pouring in that cell phones are not only a risk factor for brain tumors, but also salivary gland tumors, eye damage , Alzheimer’s disease and more. An overlooked fact is that portable phones, used in homes and businesses, emit the same microwave radiation as cell phones creating the same health risks.

Convenience and popularity of portable and cell phones, blackberries, etc. will keep the demand high and the users at risk. Three things you can do:

1) Limit cell phone use to emergencies only and use the speaker phone whenever possible;

2) At home, use a land line with a corded phone instead of a portable phone; or invest in an inexpensive magicJack (computer) phone (www.secure.magicjack.com) and use a corded phone;

3) Wear a multi-polar magnet at all times to help limit absorption of EMFs (electro-magnetic frequencies) because we cannot escape our environment saturated with microwaves from broadcasting towers, TVs, computers, microwave ovens, multiple electronics: available at: NATURAL HEALTH CLINIC, CEDAR HILL, TX, 972-283-0341.

TIPS FOR HOME, GARDEN and FOOD

2010-01-17T19:15:00.000-08:00

YARD AND GARDEN TIPS

ANTS: Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it 'home,' can't digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works and you don't have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!

MOSQUITOES: Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.

SQUIRRELS AWAY! To keep squirrels from eating your plants, sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn't hurt the plant and the squirrels won't come near it.

WEEDS AWAY: Put in your plants and work the nutrients in your soil. Then, wet newspapers and put layers around the plants overlapping as you go. Cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.

HOME AND APPLIANCES TIPS

DRYERS: How to protect the heating unit on dryers. Take your dryer filter (cleaned of lint) out of your dryer. Take it to the sink and run hot water over it. The lint filter is made of a mesh material. The hot water that should go through it will sit on top of the mesh and not go through the filter. This is because dryer sheets cause a film over the mesh and this invisible film is what burns out the heating unit of the dryer. The waxy feel of the dryer sheet is what builds up on your clothes and on your lint screen. Over time, this may cause the dryer unit to burn up which may result in overheating and fire. Wash the dryer mesh filter with hot soapy water and an old toothbrush every six months. This may make the life of the dryer at least twice as long and eliminate the risk of fire.

ENVELOPES, REOPENING SEALED: If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals easily.

FOGGY WINDSHIELDS: Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of your car. When the windows fog, rub with the eraser! It works better than a cloth!

FRUIT FLIES: To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass, fill it 1/2' with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid; mix well. Flies are drawn to the cup and gone!

GLASS, BROKEN: Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can not see easily.

SHAVING: Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It's cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth. It's also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but did not like when you tried it in your hair.

STATIC CLING, REDUCE: Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt or dress. The same works when you place a pin in seam of slacks when wearing panty hose. Static is gone.

VACUUM, FLEXIBLE: To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge - add an empty paper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.

FOOD TIPS

BANANAS: Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.

CHEESE: Store opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh longer and not mold.

EGGS, DEVILED: Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly; cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.

EGGS, SCRAMBLED: To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich - add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream and then beat them up.
(Just don’t eat eggs too often as this is a highly acidic food.)

FROSTING - DOUBLED: When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer for a few minutes. Result: the added air increases its volume giving you approximately twice as much frosting for more cakes and cup cakes allowing you to consume less sugar and calories per serving.

GARLIC: Add garlic (immediately) at the beginning to a recipe if you want a light taste of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.

MEASURING CUPS: Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with HOT water. Dump out the hot water, but do not dry cup. Add your ingredient, such as peanut or almond butter and watch how easily it comes right out.

PEPPERS: Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating.
Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.

PIZZA: Reheat leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove. Set heat to med-low and heat until warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy pizza. Never microwave.

SNICKERS BARS: Leftover from Halloween can make a delicious dessert. Chop up bars with a food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Place apples in a baking dish and sprinkle chopped candy bars over the apples. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Serve. Yumm!

For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints in double broiler and pour over warm brownies.. Let set for a wonderful minty frosting.

COCONUT OIL BENEFITS

2010-01-01T07:03:00.000-08:00

COCONUT OIL and Its MEDIUM-CHAIN TRIGLYCERIDES (MCT)

One of the first scientifically recognized benefits of medium chain triglycerides (MCT) or MCFA (medium chain fatty acids) is the unique manner in which they are easily digested, absorbed and put to use nourishing the body. MCT are broken down almost immediately by enzymes in the saliva and gastric juices so pancreatic fat-digesting enzymes are not even essential. Therefore, there is less strain on the pancreas and digestive system, and provide a quick source of energy necessary to promote healing. These fats provide nutritional benefits that can improve overall health of both: the sick and the well, the young and the old. Even athletes are now using them to boost performance and control weight.

WIDE RANGE OF HEALTH BENEFITS

Research and clinical observation have shown that medium-chain fatty acids:

· Reduce viruses load that cause influenza, hepatitis C measles and other illinesses.

· Kills bacteria that causes pneumonia, earache, throat infections, dental cavities, food poisoning, urinary tract infections, meningitis, gonorrheal and dozens of others diseases.

· Expels or kills tapeworms, lice, giardia and other paracites.

· Anti virus, anti bacteria, anti fungus, and anti natural parasite.

Today, MANY STRAINS OF BACTERIA ARE BECOMING RESISTANT to antibiotics

Antibiotics are generally ineffective in treating virus infections. Short- and medium-chain saturated fatty acids have important antimicrobial properties. They may protect against harmful microorganisms in the digestive tract. Much of the recent research done on coconut oil and lauric acid has focused on the anti-microbial and anti-viral properties of this unique fatty acid. Approximately 50 percent of the fatty acids in coconut fat are lauric acid, a medium chain fatty acid which has the additional beneficial function of being formed into monolaurin. Monolaurin is the antiviral, antibacterial, and antiprotozoal monoglyceride used by the human body to destroy lipid coated viruses. Such viruses are HIV, herpes, cytomegalovirus, influenza, and various pathogenic bacteria.

MEDIUM-CHAIN FATTY ACIDS (from coconut oil) PRODUCE ENERGY.

Other dietary fats produce body fat. In contrast to coconut oil, other fats require pancreatic enzymes to break them into smaller units. They are absorbed into the intestinal wall and bundled with proteins to make lipoproteins, then carried by the lymphatic system (bypassing the liver, and not burned up for fuel), then dumped into the bloodstream being distributed to all the tissues throughout the body to be stored in the form of fat. Medium-chain fatty acids produce energy.

COCONUT OIL MAY REDUCE the possibility of HEART ATTACKS & BLOOD CLOTS

It may reduce cancer risk since it kills bacteria which free the white blood cells to fight on behalf of the immune system and deal more effectively with cancer cells. Some research studies have shown it to be anti-carcinogenic, especially against colon and breast cancer, and prostrate enlargement. It may help with diabetes in that it may stabilize blood glucose rate and may help lessen excess body weight.

MCT MAY DESTROY SEVERAL PATHOGENIC BACTERIA and VIRUSES

including listeria monocytogenes and helicobacter pylori, and protozoa such as giardia lamblia. They may also be of importance to people suffering from diabetes, obesity, gallbladder disease, pancreatitis Crohn's disease, pancreatic insufficiency, and some forms of cancer. It may be helpful in cases of chronic fatigue syndrome, Epstein-Barr, and mononucleosis, which are all result of depressed immune system. Some of the viruses that have been destroyed by monolaurin include HIV, measles, herpes simplex virus-1, vesicular stomatitis virus, influenza and cytomegalovirus. There is also evidence that the MCTs in coconut oil may kill yeast infections such as Candida.

PEOPLE WHO SUFFER FROM MAL-ABSORPTION PROBLEMS

such as: cystic fibrosis, or have difficulty digesting or absorbing fats and fat soluble vitamins, benefit greatly from MCT. Coconut oil (and breast milk) contain lauric acid, when consumed in the diet has been shown may destroy several pathogenic bacteria and viruses.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO INCREASE YOUR ENERGY LEVEL throughout the day?

If you get tired in the middle of the day or feel you lack energy, adding coconut oil to your daily diet may provide you with a much needed boost to help carry you through. Besides increasing your energy level, there are other very important benefits that results from boosting your metabolic rate helping to protect you from illness and speed healing. Several health problems such as obesity, heart disease, and osteoporosis are more prevalent in those people who have slow metabolism. Any health condition is made worse if the metabolic rate is slower than normal, because cells can't heal and repair themselves as quickly. Increasing metabolic rate provides an increased degree of protection from both degenerative and infectious illnesses. When metabolism is increased, cells function at a higher rate of efficiency. Injuries heal quicker, old and diseased cells are replaced faster, and young, new cells are generated at an increased rate to replace worn-out ones. Even the immune system functions better.

SATURATED FATS HAVE MANY IMPORTANT ROLES IN THE BODY’s CHEMISTRY

-Saturated fatty acids constitute at least 50 percent of cell membranes. They give our cells necessary firmness and integrity.
-They play a vital role in the health of our bones. For example, at least 50 percent of our dietary fats need to be saturated for calcium to be effectively incorporated into the skeletal structure.
-They lower Lp(a), a substance in the blood that indicates proneness to heart disease.
-They protect the liver from the toxic effects of alcohol and certain drugs.
-They enhance the immune system.
-They are needed for the proper utilization of essential fatty acids. Elongated omega-3 fatty acids are better retained in the tissues when the diet is rich in saturated fats.
-Saturated 18-carbon stearic acid and 16-carbon palmitic acid are the preferred foods for the heart, which is why the fat around the heart muscle is highly saturated. The heart draws on this reserve of fat in times of stress.

HOW MCT WORKS

In the digestive system MCT are broken down into individual fatty acids (MCFA). Unlike other fatty acids, MCFA are absorbed directly from the intestines (without requiring pancreatic enzymes to break them into smaller units) into the portal vein and sent straight to the liver where they are, mostly, burned as fuel much like a carbohydrate. In this respect they act more like carbohydrates than like fats. Mitochondria is the engine of every cell and needs to be fed. Due to it having smaller molecules, coconut oil MCFA’s can penetrate the cell wall of mitochondria without help from an enzyme and feed it the necessary energy. The MCFA can travel to any cell that needs it, so if a heart muscle cell needs more energy; it is available from the coconut oil’s MCFA. Athletes are also experiencing its benefits.

HOW MUCH COCONUT OIL SHOULD ONE CONSUME?

A therapeutic dosage is 3 to 4 tablespoons a day, which will give an adult the equivalent amount of lauric acid that an infant receives from his mother's breast milk (the highest amount found, with coconut oil being second highest). This provides enough lauric acid to build the immune system which takes several weeks. Look for unrefined coconut oil. Stay away from all hydrogenated oils. Read the label. The more processed the product, the less benefit you will receive.

THE IMPORTANCE OF COCONUT OIL FOR NURSING MOTHERS

One of the major characteristics of human breast milk is its ability to protect since it has antimicrobial substances in milk that protect the child from a world teaming with infectious germs and parasites are the MCFA. When a nursing mother is infected with an illness, her child is also vulnerable. It has been recommended that HIV-infected mothers who are breastfeeding consume 24-28 grams/day of lauric acid and 3 - 4 grams/day of capric acid to prevent the transfer of the virus. Since coconut oil is nearly 48 percent lauric acid and 7 percent capric acid, this requirement would be met if the mother ate about 50-55 grams of coconut oil each day. A tablespoon is equivalent to 14 grams. So 3 ½ tablespoons of coconut oil a day would provide the recommended amount of both lauric and capric acids. Eating 40 grams (about 3 tablespoons worth) of coconut oil in one meal can temporarily increase the lauric acid in the milk of a nursing mother from 3.9% to 9.6% after 14 hours. Content of caprylic and capric acids are also increased. "The milk has increased amounts of the protective antimicrobials lauric acid and capric acid (the most important ones) which gives even greater protection to the infant." If the mother consumes coconut oil every day while nursing, the medium-chain fatty acid content will be even greater—up to as much as 18%. Coconut oil may also work as an aid for digestion and constipation. If the mother does not eat them while nursing, she will only be able to produce 3% lauric acid and 1% capric acid, and the baby may lose out on nutritional benefits and antimicrobial protection.

COCONUT OIL IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT TO ELDERLY

Elderly people may get more benefit from their food and supplements if they consume it with coconut oil and it may aid digestion and constipation. As we age, the pancreas does not make as many digestive enzymes, our intestines do not absorb nutrients as well. The whole process of digestion and elimination moves at a lower rate of efficiency. As a result, older people often suffer from vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Because MCT are easy to digest and improve vitamin and mineral absorption they should be included in their meals. This is easy to do if the meals are prepared with coconut oil.

COCONUT OIL MAY HELP RESTORE AND IMPROVE SKIN

Virgin coconut oil is attributed with the capability of sustaining connective tissue assisting it to become stronger. It may reduce wrinkles and slackness. In certain skin conditions, it may afford restoration of the damaged skin and scars, some skin diseases, provide relief of eczema, psoriasis and fungal infections and may prevent whitehead growth, and other damage caused by aging and excessive sunlight. It acts as an exfoliate adding to the youthfulness of your skin. It is attributed with the ability to soak into the deeper layers of tissue, kill virus, bacteria and protozoa, and reinforce the skin layers which may result in a skin that is softer with a healthier glow. It may prevent free radical formation that destroys skin cells, as well as act as a protectant from free radical reaction protecting the skin from problems caused by the aging factor and excessive exposure to sunlight. Some have found it may eliminate dandruff, dryness, fungus, heal scalp tissue, protect skin from ultraviolet rays, grow hair on bald heads and serve as a good hair conditioner. Simply massage it into the skin including any wrinkled skin area, cracked heels, hard corns, for regenerative nutrition and moisturizing. Use as a lotion daily. It may take several months for the body to regenerate through the healing process.

SKIN AGING TEST: Aging causes loss of skin elasticity and skin becomes hard and quilted. Pinch skin under arm for 5 minutes, let go to see how many seconds it takes for it to go back normal. 5 - 9 seconds = age 45 to 60; 10-15 seconds = age 60; 35-55 seconds = age 70. Person age 50 skin became normal after 1-2 seconds.

This info-page is a collection of articles from health advocate: Karen McLean. We recognize and thank her for sharing her work. This is a nutritional resource for information only.

Consult your medical doctor when making changes that may affect your medications or your health. If you choose recommendations in regard to health from this or any article, you are diagnosing yourself and assume total responsibility for your health. You alone are responsible for your health.

For more information: go to mercola.com and type coconut oil in the Search bar. Combined articles from Dr. Mercola in http://www.treelight.com/health/nutrition/CoconutOil.html You can find products at Cox Farms, Sprouts, Vitamin Shoppe and also order coconut oil online at http://www.tropicaltraditions.com/virgin_coconut_oil.htm or http://www.vitacost.com/ (Revised: 1-1-10)

God's Vitamin Shoppe

2009-12-30T10:13:00.000-08:00

God’s Vitamin Shoppe

Calcium: Unsalted Almonds, carrots, dandelions, turnips, spinach, oranges, raw goat’s milk (for infants), okra, cauliflower, tomatoes, garlic, parsnips, all berries, all nuts (except peanuts), apples, raw potatoes, apricots.

Chlorine: Beets, cabbage, celery, garlic, horseradish, parsnips, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, avocados, dates, pomegranate, coconut.

Carbon: Olives, avocados, and nuts, especially unsalted almonds, but not peanuts as they are exceedingly acid-forming. Nut butters are good if raw but not when processed (heated). Unsalted butter and cream when NOT pasteurized.

Fats (unsaturated, non-greasy): Avocado, almonds, Brazil nuts, chickpeas, black walnuts, English walnuts, eggs, millet, hickory nuts, olive oil oats, pumpkin seed, pistachio nuts, safflower oil, rice, whole wheat, sunflower oil, Filberts or Hazel nuts, corn meal, olives, sesame seeds, pecans. (Healthy fats grease the joints and support the liver, not the hips!)

Fluorine: Unsalted almonds, carrots, beet tops, turnip tops, dandelion, spinach, celery tops, raw goat’s milk, Swiss cheese, beat up raw egg yolks with honey in orange juice, cauliflower, cabbage, watercress, parsley, cucumber.

Hydrogen: Carrots, celery, spinach, cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes grapes, huckleberries, red raspberries.

Iodine: Kelp, seal lettuce, carrots, Irish moss, pineapple.

Magnesium: Carrots, celery, cucumbers, unsalted almonds, apples, apricots, walnuts.

Nitrogen: Alfalfa and other green leafy vegetables. Breathe deeply & rhythmically.

Oxygen: Drink as much fresh, raw juices of fruit and vegetables as possible to obtain organic oxygen and remember to practice deliberate deep breathing.

Phosphorus: Kale, parsley, large white radishes, asparagus, sorrel, watercress, Brussels sprouts, garlic, Savory cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, squash, cucumbers, leeks, lettuce, turnips, Brazil nuts, walnuts, huckleberries, blackberries, cherries, black Mission figs, oranges, limes.

Potassium: Carrots, celery parsley, spinach, beets, cauliflower, leeks, garlic, raw potatoes, sorrel, squash, tomatoes, turnips, oranges, lemons, apricots, bananas, cherries, dates, grapes, huckleberries, figs, pears, peaches, plums, raspberries, watermelon, pomegranate, olives.

Silicon: Cucumbers, lettuce, parsnips, raw asparagus tips, beet tops, dandelion, horseradish, leeks, okra, parsley, green peppers, radishes, spinach, watercress, strawberries, cherries, apricots, apples, watermelon, figs.

Sodium: Celery, carrots, spinach, tomatoes, strawberries, radishes, squash, lettuce, dandelion, leeks, cucumbers, beets, turnips, apples, apricots, watermelon, huckleberries, pears, oranges, grapefruit, lemons, dates, cherries, grapes.

Sulfur: Brussels sprouts, watercress, kale, horseradish, cauliflower, cabbage, chives, garlic, sorrel, cranberries, raspberries, pineapple, currants, apples, Brazil nuts, filberts.

Reference: Natural Weight Control by Dr. Norman W. Walker, D.Sc., Ph.D.
From Natural Health Clinic Dr. Danise Witherspoon (N.D.) 972-283-0341, Cedar Hill, TX

God's Pharmacy - Amazing!

2009-12-29T12:55:00.000-08:00

God’s Pharmacy! Amazing!

Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).
Broccoli looks like lungs. Broccoli sprouts combats cell damage and inflammation from environmental allergens that may cause asthma or nasal allergies. Herb Andrographis is effective in relieving asthma symptom and also helps prevent bacterial and viral respiratory tract infections.

A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye.. and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.

Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.

Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All o f the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

Alkaline vs Acid - Your Body's Fight for Survival!

2009-12-29T12:35:00.000-08:00

Alkaline vs Acid - Your body’s fight for survival!

Building Your Body - If you were to build a house and had to choose between using new bricks and fresh lumber or old bricks and aging lumber, which would you choose? It’s quite an easy choice, isn’t it?

We make a similar choice every day by deciding what foods we are going to use to build and maintain our true home—our body. Our amazing bodies are in a state of constant change, continually being replaced throughout our life—building new bone, making fresh blood—replacing the old with new. This is why the raw materials from our diet impact our health so dramatically. The cells of our body have no choice but to work with the raw materials our diet provides. In this pamphlet, we would like to give you a glimpse of one of the most important aspects of our nutritional knowledge: the concept of acid and alkaline foods and the role they play in determining the health of our bodies.

Alkaline = HEALTH - Acid/alkaline balance is one of our clinic’s fundamental concepts because our bodies, by design, are alkaline. Most bodily fluids—the blood, the lymph, the fluid surrounding the joints, the fluid bathing the cells—must remain alkaline to maintain normal functioning. When our cells work, they produce acid, but our body constantly neutralizes those acids. The foods we eat can also be divided into alkaline and acid. They are placed in one category or the other based upon the by-products they leave in the digestive tract (which are called either alkaline ash or acid ash). Every acid food leaves acids behind that must be neutralized or the overall acid level of the body will increase. Alkaline foods, on the other hand, leave minerals behind that help neutralize acid and build alkaline reserves in the body. Because the American diet is predominately acid, and most Americans do not eat many alkaline foods, the average American’s alkaline mineral reserve is low or depleted. This leads to acid accumulation in the cells, which is a major contributing factor in the development of heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, diabetes, and many other widespread chronic, degenerative diseases.

4 of the 6 Food Groups Are Acid! - Acid foods make up 2/3 of the food groups we are instructed to eat according to the USDA’s updated food pyramid. The meat group and the dairy group are entirely acid, and the grains and “Other” group (containing fats and sugars) are mostly acid. The only groups that are alkaline are the fruit group and the vegetable group. The more refining and processing that man does to food, the more likely that food is becoming more acid and less nutritious. For example, white flour is more acid than whole wheat flour and stimulatory foods like soda, coffee, and foods high in sugar and salt (most of which are found in that “Other” group) are all acid. High protein foods like beef, fish, chicken, milk, cheese, and pork contribute the most acid to most people. They are eaten on a daily basis by most people in the US, and their ash, in general, is more acidic than any other type of food.

Two Major Reasons for Widespread Degeneration – The widespread development of chronic, degenerative disease now starts becoming easier to understand. First, the diet of most Americans has been predominately acid foods for their whole lives. Beef, chicken, fish, cheese, dairy processed foods, and stimulants are consumed in large quantities by the great majority of Americans. Second, the average American diet contains few, if any, fresh fruits and vegetables, so the body has not been getting the alkaline minerals it needs to neutralize the acids produced.

The consequences of these two facts are mathematically very predictable. The overabundance of acids that must be neutralized are not countered with enough alkalizing minerals, which leads to an acid environment within our body’s cells. When enough cells in an area become acid, the organ they make up becomes susceptible to infection, malfunction, or chronic degeneration. People may deny that their diet has contributed to a problem they have because, they reason, they have been eating the same way all their life and claim they’ve never been sick. You will now hopefully understand that their diet has slowly depleted the alkaline reserve they were born with, and often, major symptoms only manifest once this reserve is very low, sometimes between ages as low as 35-45 in our society.

According to Dr. D.M. Hegsted, Professor of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health,

“The question to be asked, therefore, is not why should we change our diet, but why not? Ischemic heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and hypertension are the diseases that kill us. They are epidemic in our population. We cannot afford to temporize. We have an obligation to inform the public of the current state of knowledge and assist the public in making correct food choices. To do less is to avoid our responsibility.”

The raw materials you provide your cells on a daily basis, meal after meal, year after year, will determine if you are contributing to your body’s acid accumulation or increase of your alkaline reserve. It is the alkaline foods that provide the quality building materials your cells need. The cells will function more efficiently with an excess of these alkaline minerals that can quickly eliminate acids before they accumulate. You can choose now to be in control of your health and future. Health is truly a choice that brings with it added responsibility. No one but you can play the role of overseeing your return to health. Your health is truly in your hands.

Many thanks to:
Dr. Presten Witherspoon, D.C. of Health Touch Chiropractic in Tigard, Oregon who wrote this and Dr. Michael Einsohn, D.C., who provided the inspiration.

How To Enjoy Living!

2009-12-27T11:30:00.000-08:00

How To Enjoy Living

1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight, and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay “them”.

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.

3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. “An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.”

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long, and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it’s family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don’t take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; or to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Eight Ways To Have A Winning Day!

1. Believe that something fantastic will happen today.
2. Practice saying something good about everyone you meet.
3. Take advantage of every honorable opportunity.
4. Practice and believe in prayer-power.
5. Have a positive outlook on life.
6. Remember that you can’t please everybody.
7. Saturate your mind with positive thoughts.
8. Practice giving yourself away: give to others.

Why I am creating this blog!

2009-12-23T09:27:00.000-08:00

The Foundation of the
Natural Health Clinic

The Natural Health Clinic is founded upon Christian principles. Dr. Danise Witherspoon recognizes God as our Creator and benefactor of life. It is her belief that we are created
with the ability to “Live Well” when we apply:
God’s laws of nutrition (Genesis 1:29),
God’s laws of thought (Philippians 4:8),
God’s laws of Spirituality (Galatians 5:22-23), and
God’s laws of living (1 Corinthians 6:19-20,)

Dr. Witherspoon also believes that God has laws and plans for our life when we depart this
world (Hebrews 5:9) Just as physical health is an individual choice, eternal life is also a choice (Philippians 2:12) Physical health and eternal life are both very personal decisions and require a lifetime of commitment and dedication. At the Natural Health Clinic, I will guide you with your physical journey and strive to serve all patients in a manner that honors God. (Colossians 3:17)

REFERENCES: (NIV) New International Version

Gen 1:29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. (NIV)

Phil 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy-- think about such things. (NIV)

Gal 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. (NIV)

1 Cor 6:19-20 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. (NIV)

Heb 5:9 and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him (NIV)

Phil 2:12 ……. continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, (NIV)

Col 3:17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. (NIV)