(from a friend of sandy's)
Coughing
fix
This is very interesting and it works!! Much to my surprise.
*I have had a cough for a long time coming from deep down, so
decided to do better than cough syrup.*
Sorry, no graphic for this one, and don't laugh, it works 100% of the
time although the scientists at the Canada Research council (who
discovered it) aren't sure why.
To stop nighttime coughing in a child (or adult as we found out
personally), put Vicks Vaporub generously on the bottom of the feet
at bedtime then cover with socks.
Even persistent, heavy, deep coughing will stop in about 5 minutes and
stay stopped for many, many hours of relief. Works 100% of the time
and is more effective in children than even very strong prescription
cough medicines. In addition it is extremely soothing and comforting
and they will sleep soundly.
I heard the head of the Canada Research Council describe these
findings on the part of their scientists when they were investigating
the effectiveness and usage of prescription cough medicines in
children as compared to alternative therapies like accupressure. Just
happened to tune in A.M. Radio and picked up this guy talking about
why cough medicines in kids often do more harm than good due to the
chemical makeup of these strong drugs so, I listened. It was a
surprising finding and found to be more effective than prescribed
medicines for children at bedtime, and in addition, to have a soothing
and calming effect on sick children who then went on to sleep soundly.
Lolly tried it on herself when she had a very deep constant and
persistent cough a few weeks ago and it worked 100%! She said that it
felt like a warm blanket had enveloped her, coughing stopped in a few
minutes and believe me, this was a deep, ( incredibly annoying!) every
few seconds uncontrollable cough, and she slept cough free for hours
every night that she used it. So, if you have children or
grandchildren, pass it on, if you end up sick, try it yourself and you
will be absolutely amazed by the effect.
Bee/Hornet Cure:
I wanted to share this marvelous information in case you may be experiencing the same problem around your home/garden....
A couple of weeks ago I was unfortunate enough to get stung by both a bee and hornet while working in the garden.
My arm swelled up so off to the doctor I went. The clinic gave me cream and an antihistamine.
The next day the swelling was getting progressively worse so off to my regular doctor I went.... Infected arm - needed an antibiotic.
** The interesting thing is what the Doctor told me....
"The next time you get stung put a penny on the bite for 15 minutes."
That night my niece got stung by two bees. When she came over to swim I looked at the bite and it had already started to swell. So off I went to get my money and taped a penny to her arm for 15 minutes. The next morning, there was no sign of a bite. We were very surprised but figured perhaps she just wasn't allergic to the sting.
Then guess what? I got stung again - by a hornet - twice - on my left hand.
I was so distressed, thinking I would have to go to the doctor for yet another antibiotic.
I promptly went into the house, got my money out, and taped two pennies to my bites, then sat and sulked for 15 minutes. The penny took the string out of the bite immediately. I still wasn't sure what was going to happen. In the meantime the hornets were attacking my niece and she got stung on the thumb. Out came another penny. The next morning I could only see a micro-spot where I had been stung... no redness, no swelling. I went to see my niece and hers was the same. I couldn't even see where she got stung!
The Doctor said that somehow the copper in the penny counteracts the bite. I would never have believed it. But it DEFINITELY WORKS!
So remember this little bit of wisdom, keep a stock of pennies on hand at school and at home, and pass this on to your friends, children, grandchildren, etc.
- The
Benefits of Bananas
This
is a really interesting article. Remember that bananas have a high
glycemic index, so keep it in perspective.
A professor at CCNY for
a physiological psych class told his class about bananas. He
said the expression "going bananas" is from the effects of
bananas on the brain. Read on:
Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose
combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant, sustained and
substantial boost of energy.
Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for
a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number
one fruit with the world's leading athletes. But energy isn't the
only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or
prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it
a must to add to our daily diet.
Depression: According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND
amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better
after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a
type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make
you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.
PMS: Forget the
pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood
glucose levels, which can affect your mood.
Anemia : High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production
of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.
Blood Pressure: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high
in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood
pressure. So
much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the
banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to
reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.
Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school
( England ) were helped through their exams this year by eating
bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain
power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist
learning by making pupils more alert.
Constipation: High in fiber, including bananas in the diet
can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the
problem without resorting to laxatives.
Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is
to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey.. The banana calms
the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted
blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your
system.
Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body,
so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing
relief.
Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to
keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.
Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream,
try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many
people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and
irritation.
Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the
nervous system.
Overweight and at work? Studies at the Institute of Psychology in
Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like
chocolate and chips. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers
found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs.
The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings,
we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high
carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.
Ulcers: The banana is used as the dietary food against
intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It
is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in
over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces
irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.
Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas as a
"cooling" fruit that can lower both the physical and
emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand , for
example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born
with a cool temperature.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help SAD
sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan.
Smoking &Tobacco Use: Bananas can also help people trying
to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the
potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from
the effects of nicotine withdrawal.
Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize
the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's
water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises,
thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with
the help of a high-potassium banana snack.
Strokes: According to research in The New England Journal of
Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk
of death by strokes by as much as 40%!
Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you
want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on
the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place
with a plaster or surgical tape!
So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you
compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the
carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A
and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich
in potassium and is one of the best value foods around. So maybe its
time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, "A banana
a day keeps the doctor away!"
PS: Bananas must be the reason monkeys are so happy all the time! I
will add one here; want a quick shine on our shoes?? Take the INSIDE
of the banana skin, and rub directly on the shoe...polish with dry
cloth. Amazing fruit !
CANCER
UPDATE FROM JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL, US
Useful
Information on one of the deadliest diseases of our time: CANCER
(PLEASE
READ AND FORWARD IT TO PEOPLE YOU CARE ABOUT)
1.
Every person has cancer cells in the 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 bodies 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 more than
10 times in a person's lifetime.
3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will
be destroyed and prevented 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. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing
diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer
cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone
marrow,gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage,
like liver,kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and
damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often
reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and
radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and
radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed,
hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and
complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate
and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also
cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer
cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.
CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
a. Sugar
is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off
sugar it cuts off one important food supply
to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like
NutraSweet, Equal,Spoonful, etc are made
with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better
natural substitute would be Manuka honey
or molasses but only in very small
amounts. Table salt has a chemical added
to make it white in color.
Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea
salt.
b.
Milk causes the body to produce mucus,
especially in the gastro-intestinal tract.
Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off
milk and substituting with unsweetened
soya milk cancer cells are being starved.
c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid
environment. A meat-based diet is acidic
and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken
rather than beef or pork. Meat also
contains livestock antibiotics, growth
hormones and parasites,
which are all harmful, especially to people
with cancer.
d. A diet made of
80% fresh vegetables and
juice, whole grains,seeds, nuts and a little
fruits help put the body into an alkaline
environment. About 20% can be from
cooked food including beans. Fresh
vegetable juices provide live enzymes that
are easily absorbed and reach down to
cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish
and enhance growth of healthy cells. To
obtain live enzymes for building healthy
cells
try and drink fresh vegetable juice
(most vegetables including bean sprouts)
and
eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a
day. Enzymes are destroyed at
temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees
C).
e. Avoid coffee,
tea, and chocolate, which
have high caffeine.Gren tea is a better
alternative and has cancer-fighting
properties. Water-best to drink purified
water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins
and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled
water is acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of
digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines
become putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining
from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the
protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells
to destroy the cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6,
Flor-ssence,Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.)
to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells.
Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or
programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of
damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive
and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor.
Anger,
unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and
acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit.
Learn to
relax and enjoy life.
16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment.
Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down
to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means
employed to destroy cancer cells.
(PLEASE FORWARD IT TO PEOPLE YOU CARE ABOUT)
Subject:
CANCER UPDATE FROM JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL, US - PLEASE READ
1.
No plastic containers in micro.
2.
No water bottles in freezer.
3.
No plastic wrap in microwave.
John Hopkins
has recently sent this out in its
newsletters.
This information is being
circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical
Dioxin
chemicals causes cancer, especially
Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of
our bodies.
Don't
freeze your plastic bottles with water in
them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.
Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at
Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health
hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for
us.
He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave
using plastic containers.
This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He
said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics
releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells
of the body.
Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning
Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get
the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as
TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed
from the container and heated in something else.
Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the
paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware,
etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants
moved away from the foam containers to paper.
The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.
Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just
as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the
microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes
poisonous toxins to actually
melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food.
Cover food with a paper towel instead.
This is an article that should be sent to
anyone important
in your life
Pass The Butter ~
~ ~ ~ This is interesting . . . .
Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it
killed the
turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research
wanted a
payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do
with this
product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no
food
appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to
use in
place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some
clever new
flavorings.
DO YOU KNOW... the difference between margarine and butter?
Read on to the end...gets very interesting!
Both have the same amount of calories.
Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to
5 grams.
Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over
eating the
same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical
Study.
Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in
other
foods.
Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few
only because
they are added!
Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the
flavors of
other foods.
Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been
around for
less than 100 years.
And now, for Margarine..
Very high in trans fatty acids.
Triple risk of coronary heart disease.
Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol)
and lowers
HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)
Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.
Lowers quality of breast milk.
Decreases immune response.
Decreases insulin response.
And here's the most disturbing fact.... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS
VERY
INTERESTING!
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC..
This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life
and
anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added,
changing
the molecular structure of the substance).
You can try this yourself:
Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded
area.
Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:
* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that
should
tell you something)
* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no
nutritional value;
nothing will grow on it Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will
not a
find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Would you
melt your
Tupperware and spread that on your toast?
Share This With Your Friends.....(If you want to "butter them
up")!
Chinese Proverb:
"When someone shares something of value with you and you
benefit from it,
you have a moral obligation to share it with others."
Microwaved
Water
http://www.rense.com/general70/microwaved.htm
HOW MUCH ARE DRUG COMPANIES REALLY PAYING YOUR DOCTOR ?
According to this fascinating New York Times piece, seven
legislatures have passed laws requiring drug companies to
disclose how much they've spent on the marketing efforts in
their individual states, and an accompanying Journal of the
American Medical Association study focuses on two of them
(Minnesota and Vermont).
Drugmakers have kept details of the payouts to health care
professionals in
Vermont
private, declaring them "trade secrets." But
Minnesota
's disclosures are a matter of public record.
Since 1997, when the Minnesota law was passed, drug
companies have paid more than 5,500 health care workers in the
state at least $57 million; more than 20 percent of the
state's physicians received money, and over 100 people
received more than $100,000. Ten doctors and one dentist
received more than $500,000. Another $40 million was paid to
clinics, research centers and other organizations.
Psychiatrists, as a profession, received the most
money, followed by doctors who specialize in internal
medicine, then cardiologists, endocrinologists and
neurologists.
Doctors often received payments in return for delivering
lectures about drugs to other doctors. Some sat on the
committees that create nationwide guidelines about when to use
medicines; a 2002 survey actually found that upwards of 80
percent of the doctors on such panels had financial ties to
drug makers. A small number of doctors were being paid to do
research.
Studies have shown that doctors who have close financial ties
to drug companies tend to prescribe newer, pricier drugs, even
if this is not in the best interest of the patients. Few
patients are aware of the financial connections between the
doctors prescribing drugs and the companies making them.
Journal
of the American Medical Association, Vol. 297, No. 11, March
21, 2007: 1216-1223
New
York Times March 21, 2007 (Registration Required)
Tuscaloosa
News.com March 21, 2007
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