Friday, November 6, 2009
My family’s plan to stay healthy through the flu season:
My family’s plan to stay healthy through the flu season:
Eat foods that strengthen our lungs and large intestines.
Your body’s first line of defense are your lungs, and your colon. Most pathogens make their way into the body through the respiratory system, and through food. It is essential to eliminate daily.
What to keep on your shopping list throughout the cold season:
Garlic (a natural antibiotic), ginger (great antiseptic, good for nausea and for clearing mucus in the lungs), peppermint (wonderful digestive aid), apples and pears (strengthening for both the lungs and large intestine, and are wonderfully warming when cooked, cabbage and other cruciferous vegetables – strengthening for the immune system, whole grains especially brown rice (great for brushing out the intestine walls), probiotics to maintain healthy intestinal flora and fauna, digestive enzymes if needed, vitamin D and good essential fatty acids (flax oil or cod liver oil or an EFA blend. I particularly like Udo’s blend udoerasmus.com, but there are plenty of good ones out there).
Things to have in your medicine chest: garlic mullein drops for your ears - great for warding off infection; Nettie pots are excellent for keeping your nasal passages clear, or clearing them out when stuffed up; Natural hand sanitizers are great to have on hand. At our house, everyone washes their hands when coming from the outside.
A few easy remedies that make a world of difference:
At the first sign of a cough slice an inch of fresh ginger into thin slices and put in a pot full of water. Bring to a boil and let boil for 5-7 minutes while you inhale steam with a towel over your head (be careful not to burn yourself!). Then serve with lemon juice and local raw honey.
Another great lung tonic is the above ginger tea mixed with hot pear juice.
Kuzu is great for upset stomachs. Known as a starchy thickening agent that grows wild in the south east of this country, this can be used to make pudding that is soothing and therapeutic.
Chopped garlic with honey and lemon is a powerful antibiotic to take first thing in the morning preventatively or at the first sign of weakness.
What we don’t do:
Eat tropical fruits. They are designed by nature to cool our bodies down. This includes orange juice. To be well, your body needs to be warm.
Eat too many baked goods, bread, and dairy. In excess these can weaken the lungs.
Eat refined sugar or flour. They make for a sluggish digestive system and weaken our immune systems.
Why I’m not getting the H1N1 - swine flu vaccine:
Why I’m not getting the H1N1 - swine flu vaccine:
· For most healthy people, the risk of getting the H1N1 vaccine far outweighs the risk of getting the flu.
· Some ingredients in these vaccines include known harmful substances – mercury, formaldehyde (a known carcinogen), various antibiotics including some that are category D which are known to be harmful for fetuses when taken by pregnant women, toxic cleaning agents and detergents.
· The CDC stopped testing and counting cases of the specific swine flu on August 30th. From that date forward, all flu like illnesses are being lumped together, which is fine for seeing general patterns of flu like illnesses, but seems quite odd if we are in fact dealing with an emergency specific to swine flu warranting such a massive vaccination campaign. For the swine flu www.cdc.gov
· The vaccines are being given without sufficient testing – they cannot yet be determined to be safe and the vaccine inserts state this.
The H1N1 vaccines are being produced by 5 companies: Novartis, MedImmune, Australian drug maker CSL, and Sanofi-Pasteur.
What is found in all the vaccine inserts: "Specific levels of HI antibody titers post-vaccination with inactivated influenza virus vaccine have not been correlated with protection from influenza virus. In some human studies, antibody titers of 1:40 or greater have been associated with protection from influenza illness in up to 50% of subjects." This means that the vaccine only works in half, or less, of those individuals who attain the specified level of seroconversion after vaccination. The FDA defines seroconversion as achieving an antibody titer of 1:40.
This means that if a vaccine was 100 percent effective at achieving this level of seroconversion, it would protect up to 50 percent of the recipients of the vaccine. But none of the vaccines are 100 percent effective at achieving seroconversion.
The above insert quote was taken from the below article that also includes a breakdown of ingredients from each of the companies providing vaccines in the US, and links to the inserts in each of the vaccines being distributed in the US: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/11/05/Swine-Flu-Vaccine-Ingredients.aspx
Dr. Mercola, an outstanding MD that advocates to educate consumers about our health, has created a site dedicated to the latest H1N1 news: www.swineflue.mercola.com
Here’s a Dr. on Fox news describing why he is not getting vaccinated, why he is not vaccinating his children, why he thinks it’s a bad idea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1z7KSEnyxw&feature=player_embedded
Do your research.