Posted: May 13, 2013 | Author: BIO-SIL | Filed under: Babies and Children, Health | Tags: CDC, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, DNA, Feces, Freedom of Information Act, Medicine, Polysorbate 80, Vaccine |
The Vaccine Hoax is Over.
Documents from UK reveal
30 Years of Coverup
1. Known the vaccines don’t work
2. Known they cause the diseases they are supposed to prevent
3. Known they are a hazard to children
4. Colluded to lie to the public
5. Worked to prevent safety studies
Those are the same vaccines that are mandated to children in the US.
Educated parents can either get their children out of harm’s way or continue living inside one of the largest most evil lies in history, that vaccines – full of heavy metals, viral diseases, mycoplasma, fecal material, DNA fragments from other species, formaldehyde, polysorbate 80 (a sterilizing agent) – are a miracle of modern medicine.
Freedom of Information Act filed in the US with the CDC by a doctor with an autistic son, seeking information on what the CDC knows about the dangers of vaccines, had by law to be responded to in 20 days. Nearly 7 years later, the doctor went to court and the CDC argued it does not have to turn over documents. A judge ordered the CDC to turn over the documents on September 30th, 2011.
On October 26, 2011, a Denver Post editorial expressed shock that the Obama administration, after promising to be especially transparent, was proposing changes to the Freedom of Information Act that would allow it to go beyond declaring some documents secret and to actually allow government agencies (such as the CDC) to declare some document “non-existent.”
Simultaneous to this on-going massive CDC cover up involving its primary “health” not recommendation but MANDATE for American children, the CDC is in deep trouble over its decades of covering up the damaging effects of fluoride and affecting the lives of all Americans, especially children and the immune compromised. Lawsuits are being prepared. Children are ingesting 3-4 times more fluoride by body weight as adults and “[t]he sheer number of potentially harmed citizens — persons with dental fluorosis, kidney patients tipped into needing dialysis, diabetics, thyroid patients, etc — numbers in the millions.”
The CDC is obviously acting against the health of the American people. But the threat to the lives of the American people posed by the CDC’s behavior does not stop there. It participated in designed pandemic laws that are on the books in every state in the US, which arrange for the government to use military to force unknown, untested vaccines, drugs, chemicals, and “medical” treatments on the entire country if it declares a pandemic emergency.
The CDC’s credibility in declaring such a pandemic emergency is non-existent, again based on Freedom of Information Act. For in 2009, after the CDC had declared the H1N1 “pandemic,” the CDC refused to respond to Freedom of Information Act filed by CBS News and the CDC also attempted to block their investigation. What the CDC was hiding was its part in one of the largest medical scandals in history, putting out wildly exaggerated data on what it claimed were H1N1 cases, and by doing so, created the false impression of a “pandemic” in the US.
The CDC was also covering up e financial scandal to rival the bailout since the vaccines for the false pandemic cost the US billions. And worse, the CDC put pregnant women first in line for an untested vaccine with a sterilizing agent, polysorbate 80, in it. Thanks to the CDC, “the number of vaccine-related “fetal demise” reports increased by 2,440 percent in 2009 compared to previous years, which is even more shocking than the miscarriage statistic [700% increase].
The exposure of the vaccine hoax is running neck and neck with the much older hoax of a deadly 1918-19 flu. It was aspirin that killed people in 1918-19, not a pandemic flu. It was the greatest industrial catastrophe in human history with 20-50 million people dying but it was blamed on a flu. The beginning of the drug industry began with that success (and Monsanto was part of it). The flu myth was used by George Bush to threaten the world with “another pandemic flu that could kill millions” – a terror tactic to get pandemic laws on the books in every state and worldwide. Then the CDC used hoax of the pandemic hoax to create terror over H1N1 and to push deadly vaccines on the public, killing thousands of unborn children and others. (CDC will not release the data and continues to push the same vaccine.)
The hoax of the vaccine schedule is over, exposed by FOIAs in the UK.
The hoax of the CDC’s interest in children’s lives has been exposed by its refusal to respond to a doctor’s FOIAs around its knowledge of vaccine dangers.
The 1918-19 pandemic hoax has been exposed by Dr. Karen Starko’s work on aspirin’s role in killing people.
And despite refusing to respond to FOIAS, the CDC’s scandalous hoax of a 2009 flu pandemic and its part in creating it, was exposed by CBS NEWS.
And the Obama administration, in attempting to salvage the last vestige of secrecy around what is really happening with vaccines, by declaring agency documents non-existent, has made its claim of transparency, non-existent.
But pandemic laws arranging for unknown vaccines to be forced on the entire country are still in place with HHS creating a vaccine mixture that should never be used on anyone and all liability for vaccines having been removed. Meanwhile, a Canadian study has just proven that the flu vaccine containing the H1N1 vaccine which kills babies in utero, actually increases the risk of serious pandemic flu.
Americans who have been duped into submitting their children to the CDC’s deadly vaccines, have a means to respond now. People from every walk of life and every organization, must
1. take the information from the UK FOIAs exposing 30 years of vaccine lies, the refusal of the CDC to provide any information on what it knows about those lies, and the Obama Administration’s efforts to hide the CDC’s awareness of those lies, and go to their state legislatures, demand the immediate nullification of the CDC vaccine schedule and the pandemic laws.
2. inform every vet. active duty military person, law enforcement people, DHS agents and medical personnel they know, of the vaccine hoax, for their families are deeply threatened, too, but they may not be aware of it or that they have been folded into agency structures by the pharmaceutical industry (indistinguishable from the bankers and oil companies) that would make them agents of death for their country with the declaration of a “pandemic” emergency or “bio-terrorist” attack. It is completely clear now that the terrorism/bioterrorism structures are scams so that any actions taken to “protect” this country using those laws would in fact be what threatens the existence of Americans.
It was aspirin that killed millions in 1918-19. Now it is mandated and unknown, untested vaccines with banned adjuvants in them that threaten the country with millions of deaths. At the same time, the CDC is holding 500,000 mega-coffins, built to be incinerated, on its property outside Atlanta. Not to put to fine a point on this, but it’s clear now that the CDC should not be involved in any way with public health.
Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), we know that vaccines are not a miracle of modern medicine. Any medical or government authority which insists vaccines prevent diseases is either ignorant of government documents (and endless studies) revealing the exact opposite or of the CDC’s attempts to hide the truth about vaccines from the public, or means harm to the public.
Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), we know the vaccine schedule is a hoax.
The health danger to American children and adults are vaccines.
Andrew Baker via Food Freedom News
Related article:
Bill Gates’ Polio Vaccine Program Caused 47,500 Cases of Paralysis Death
Documentation
The vaccination policy and the Code of Practice of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation ( JCVI): are they at odds?
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Posted: May 11, 2013 | Author: BIO-SIL | Filed under: Babies and Children, Health |
4 Effective Ways to Use Colloidal Silver
to Deal with Pesky Sinus Problems
(Including Sinus Cough)
A reader recently wrote me, describing a persistent cough she has been battling after coming down with a cold. She wrote:
“I have a cough that I can’t get rid of. This is a dry cough that came on after a cold and I can’t get rid of it. This usually happens to me every winter. This winter I thought I was going to finally go a winter without the cough, but it came on about 1 ½ weeks ago. Is there a way to inhale the silver so it gets into my lungs to help?”
I replied:
It sounds to me like a sinus issue, rather than a lung issue. I can’t know for sure, of course. And since I’m not a doctor, I can’t diagnose your condition, nor “prescribe” for you what to do.
However, I get pretty much the same thing every year during cold and flu season, and it almost always happens directly after a nasty cold. I don’t know why. But that’s the way it happens. I’ve been to doctors about it repeatedly over the past three or four years, and in every case the doctor tells me, “It’s your sinuses. They’re dripping down the back of your throat, triggering your cough. You need to start using one of the over-the-counter anti-allergy medications in order to stop it.“
Well, I won’t do that because I don’t like the side effects of allergy or sinus medications. But thankfully, based upon my research for The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual, I’ve found that there are four basic ways to get colloidal silver up into the sinus cavities and resolve the problem:
Method #1 – Take an eye dropper (available in the pharmacy section of Wal-Mart) and fill it with colloidal silver. Lay on your back and then slowly, start dripping colloidal silver, drip by drip, into one of your nostrils allowing it to run down into your sinuses and down your throat. Once you let a full dropperful drip down into your nostril, do the other nostril. You may need to do this several times a day for a few days in order to notice the problem resolving.(This works well for babies and young children – just a little squirt while they are asleep causes least discomfort – Yvonne)
This is probably the simplest method of resolving the sinus problem and related cough. But in my own personal experience it is not as effective as any of the other three methods below. So if that doesn’t work for you, you might want to consider trying this:
Method #2 – Go to the pharmacy section of Wal-Mart and purchase one of those little one-ounce or two-ounce nasal squeeze spray bottles full of saline solution that people use to spray a fine mist of saline solution up into their sinuses. They cost about a buck.But what you’re going to do when you get it home is grab the little nipple-nozzle and pull it right out of the bottle. Then dump the saline solution and wash the empty squeeze spray bottle out real good. Then rinse it out real good with distilled water.
Finally, fill it about half-way with colloidal silver (no more than halfway or it won’t spray the fine mist you need) and put the little nipple-nozzle back in. Then start using it to spray a fine mist of colloidal silver up into your nostrils at least three or four times a day, while sniffing vigorously to get it up into the sinuses. That usually does the trick. But if not there’s another method avid colloidal silver users use:
Method #3 – Go to the pharmacy section of Wal-Mart and buy a small plastic pot with a long spout, called a “neti pot.” The neti pot allows you to completely flush your sinuses. It usually comes with little packets of powder containing sea salt and baking soda.
Basically, you follow the directions that come with the neti pot, adding lukewarm water to the basin of the pot, while stirring in a packet of the powder. But you’re going to add about a half ounce to an ounce of colloidal silver to the mix and make sure it’s well stirred.
The general idea is to stand over a bathroom sink, lean forward, turn your head to one side, and insert the end of the long neti pot spout into one of your nostrils, and then literally start pouring the solution into your nostril. It will go straight to your sinus cavity, and then run out your other nostril. I know it sounds weird. But go to this web site and read more about using a neti pot and colloidal silver for sinus problems. Then follow the simple video instructions you’ll find there on how to flush your sinuses using a neti pot.
Method #4 – Finally, if all else fails, you can nebulize colloidal silver up into your sinuses. This is perhaps the most effective way ever devised of getting rid of sinus infections and related sinus problems, according to just about everyone I know who’s used it (including myself).
It’s a last resort for most people, because medical nebulizers are genrally hard to come by and they can be a bit pricey. Plus, they are considered to be medical devices, so most commercial outlets want a prescription from your doctor before they’ll sell you one.
However, people often sell them on eBay. And you can easily pick one up for under $40 by going to eBay and using the eBay search engine. Just search under the term “Omron Nebulizer” (Omron is one of the top manufacturers of commercial nebulizers).
In case you don’t know it, a nebulizer is a device generally used by asthmatics to get asthma medicine directly into their lungs. It has a small plastic well that usually holds about an ounce of liquid medication.
You simply fill the tiny plastic well with colloidal silver instead, and then turn the device on and it will rather quickly start turning the liquid colloidal silver solution into a very fine mist that closely resembles fog. Nebulizers have a spout through which the fog-like mist comes out, allowing you to lean forward toward the spout and gently inhale the mist into your lungs.
But when you’re using colloidal silver in a nebulizer in order to deal with pesky sinus issues, you simply start inhaling the mist gently through your nostrilsinstead of through your mouth. That way the fine, fog-like colloidal silver mist coats your sinus cavities as you breathe it in.
Most people I know do this for anywhere from three to five minutes at a time, and then stop. You may have to do it several times throughout the course of the day, initially. But it doesn’t take long to start healing your sinuses, and you can then judge how often you need to use it after that. For me, it generally knocks out a sinus problem (along with that irritating sinus cough) in two or three days, or less.
Okay, those are the four basic methods for using colloidal silver to deal with pesky sinus problems. Again, I’m not “diagnosing” or “prescribing.” Just reporting what I’ve learned in the course of my research for The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual.
Be sure to let me know how it works out for you, should you decide to try any of these methods!
And please be sure to join the new Colloidal Silver Secrets Community on Facebook, where you can ask and answer questions about colloidal silver and its usage…participate in ongoing Discussion threads…learn about the latest ways to use colloidal silver…and much, much more!
Regards,
Spencer
Source: http://thesilveredge.com/sinuses.shtml
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Posted: May 10, 2013 | Author: BIO-SIL | Filed under: Babies and Children, Health | Tags: Alternative, Andrew Wakefield, British Homeopathic Association, Health, Homeopathy, Sarah Wollaston, Vaccination, Vaccine |
Homeopathic vaccine alternatives
VACCINES – Oh yay … judging from the calls I’ve received, people are waking up to the dangers of WMD (weapons of mass destruction) being peddled via vaccinations.
Now, we need the flip-side ….. can anyone assist with information about the homeopathic alternatives.
Please share your successes – where you’ve found them, what they’re called etc etc etc. Wish I’d known about this when my children were little. I would have been a prime rebel on this score! Many thanks 
of _____________________________________ hereby state that we have chosen to not
vaccinate our child due to medical (and/or) religious/conscience concerns.
We maintain that we have investigated the reported risks and benefits of vaccination. We
maintain we are making a responsible and ethical choice for the following reasons:
1. Vaccination is a medical intervention performed on a healthy child that has the ability
to injure or cause the death of the child;
2. The fact that there cannot be a guarantee that the deliberate introduction of live or
killed microorganisms into the body of a healthy child will not compromise the health
or cause the death of that child, either immediately or in the future;
3. there are no predictors in science that can give advance warning that injury or death
may occur in any particular child that is vaccinated;
4. there are no proven assurances that the vaccine will protect the child from contracting
the disease;
5. there is an absence of adequate scientific knowledge regarding the way vaccines
interact with the human body on a molecular level.
Therefore, we believe that vaccination is a medical procedure that could reasonably be
termed as experimental each time it is administered to a healthy child.
We accept full responsibility for the health of our child.
In the event any of “vaccine-preventable” disease outbreak in our community, our child is
the one at risk, our child will remain home. We understand your facility would exclude our
child and we will gladly make arrangements for our child stay home.
We are aware that Paragraph 16 of the NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY ACT, 1996
(ACT NO. 27 OF 1996) ADMISSION POLICY FOR ORDINARY PUBLIC SCHOOLS states
that on application for admission, a parent must show proof that the learner has been
immunised against the following communicable diseases: polio, measles, tuberculosis,
diphtheria, tetanus and hepatitis B. We are aware that paragraph 16 states that if a parent
is unable to show proof of immunisation, the principal must advise the parent on having
the learner immunised as part of the free primary health care programme. We understand
that although we must be advised on immunising this is not a condition for admission. We
also acknowledge the advisement on vaccinating for the polio, measles, tuberculosis,
diphtheria, tetanus and hepatitis B and confirm respectfully that we decline all vaccinations
for our child.
We are also aware that section 9 (3) and (4) under the Bill of Rights on Equality states:
neither “the State” nor “any person” may “unfairly discriminate, directly or indirectly, against
anyone on one or more grounds” including “religion”, “conscience” and “belief”. We are
aware that ISASA (Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa) adheres to South
Africa’s Constitution and Bill of Rights
Signed on this ___ day of ________________ 201__ at _______________________
Signed by: (name) _________________________(signature)____________________
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Posted: April 6, 2013 | Author: BIO-SIL | Filed under: Babies and Children, Cures - Success stories, Health | Tags: Colloid, Health, Influenza, Medical uses of silver, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Shopping, Silver, Steve Barwick |
Colloidal Silver and Flu: Prophylactic Treatment Works Best
“Possibly one of the most important medical roles for colloidal silver is its ability to destroy pandemic flu viruses and deadly pathogens like methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
Colloidal silver not only stops bacteria and the flu virus in its tracks after being infected, but protects against contagion.
Take colloidal silver prophylactically as soon as you experience the first symptoms of illness to ward off a full-blown attack.
Prophylactic treatment involves adults taking a teaspoon or two daily during flu season. Children can take one-half to one teaspoon daily depending on age and weight.”
– J.B. Bardot, Nine DIY Home Remedies to Beat the Flu, NaturalNews.com, Jan. 15, 2013
[From the "What the Experts Say About Colloidal Silver" page at www.TheSilverEdge.com]
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Posted: April 3, 2013 | Author: BIO-SIL | Filed under: Babies and Children, Health | Tags: Big Pharma, DNA, Fever, Marshall Smith, NASA, RNA, Tylenol, Viral replication |
There have been two huge civil lawsuit damages awarded to parents whose children suffered horrific allergic reactions from Children’s Motrin containing ibuprofen in the past couple of years. They were given Motrin by their parents for fevers from the flu. What you’ll soon find out though, is that these medications are completely unnecessary, as a fever is actually beneficial.
Emergency rooms admit tens of thousands of people annually for acetaminophen poisoning. Acetaminophen is the active ingredient of Tylenol and other over the counter (OTC) similar pain and/or fever relief drugs.
We have all been conditioned to accept fever alone as worthy of medicating to make it go away. It’s time to eliminate that conditioning. Here’s your shocker for the day: Fever is your friend. Don’t kill the fever; fever kills the pathogens causing the illness. High fevers even defeat viruses.
Allow fever to help you or your child get over the infection. Up to 104 degrees Fahrenheit or 40 Centigrade/Celsius will not damage the brain, as you may have been led to believe. There are exceptions, which I’ll go into later. But first let’s go over how fever fights pathogens.
Fever is Your Infection Fighter
According to former NASA scientist and researcher, Marshall Smith, the body causes a fever above 101 degrees which stops the telomeres on the ends of the virus from allowing any viral replication. Telomeres are chromosome caps to keep chromosome threads from randomly sticking together. Marshall Smith explains the virus replication process:
“When a virus enters one of your cells, it escapes from within its own old protein surface coating and it stretches out into a long string. The viral DNA then collects millions of free amino acids floating in your salty cell fluid to make a mirror image copy of the four types of amino acids in the viral chain. This reversed mirror image chain is called Retro-deoxy-ribo Nucleic Acid or shortened to RNA.”
Once this occurs, it continues on and on. This process is called replication and it’s how a virus spreads in the body. The original virus and its many replicate copies are now free to invade your other body cells, stealing pieces of protein coatings from your damaged and dying cells, and covers the viral DNA with stolen cell wall material.
Now the virus then looks like just one of your own friendly cells and not a dangerous foreign virus. This is how it hides from the immune system’s killer cells. It’s the rise in body temperature that halts viral replication by inhibiting the DNA strand telomeres from capturing the free amino acids needed to replicate.
Marshall Smith’s message is clear and is corroborated by other health experts not influenced by the medical monopoly’s disinformation that helps sell Big Pharma’s OTC drugs. Any attempt to reduce fever during a viral influenza attack may accelerate the virus’s rapid replication and produce viral pneumonia or worse.
Invading bacteria are easier to spot as foreign cells and be killed by T-cells generated from the body’s immune reaction. Even fever under 101 degrees F or 38 degrees C fever is a sign that an anti-bacterial battle is being waged. So fever is the reaction of your immune system’s battling either bacterial or viral infections.
A Few Exceptions
One exception is a fever from heat stroke. Heat stroke may demand immediate medical attention if there is a high fever. Another high fever that should be treated is that of a cytokine storm resulting from a vaccination, which can lead to permanent brain damage and/or paralysis.
A cytokine storm is an accelerated immune system reaction often induced by vaccinations that attacks the body’s healthy cells instead of targeting viral or bacterial pathogens.
Shona Botes from NaturalNews writes:
“There are however times when medical attention should be sought for high fevers. These include fevers in children younger than 3 months, who have a fever of more than 100.4F. … Medical attention should also be sought for children between 3 months and 3 years old, who have a fever higher than 102.2F, and for anyone who has a fever higher than 104.5F.”
Dr. Russell Blaylock, author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills and several other books noticed that as a hospital neurosurgeon he would observe infants having cytokine storms after vaccinations. He noticed how placing ice packs on their points of inoculation would calm them down.
Additional Sources:
Pediatrics
HealthyChildren
Mercola
HealthyChildren.org
AcupunctureBrooklyn
Wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol_toxicity
NaturalNews.com/027149
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Posted: March 31, 2013 | Author: BIO-SIL | Filed under: Babies and Children, Food, Health |
![RAW HONEY: LIQUID GOLD IN YOUR PANTRY </p><p>That buzzing noise means something.</p><p> Now, the only reason for making a buzzing noise that I know of is because you are… a bee!</p><p> And the only reason for being a bee is to make honey.</p><p> And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it.</p><p> ~ from Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree</p><p>When selecting foods for your stockpile, the most budget-friendly, space-conscious way to do it is by selecting items that multitask. This criteria places honey high on your “to-buy list”. Tess Pennington of Ready Nutrition lists honey as one of the top SHTF sweeteners to store.</p><p>Honey is indeed nature’s sweetener, but don’t write it off as just a condiment. The sticky sweet substance is far more than something to stir into your tea or spread on your toast.</p><p>Since ancient times, the healing properties of honey have been documented. Some of this knowledge seems to have been forgotten (and purposely marginalized), and drug companies have replaced honey with chemical ointments, antibiotics and antivirals. (This is, as always, about money – they can’t patent honey, can they?)</p><p> Honey has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for more than 4000 years. Honey is an ingredient in 634 remedies in ancient Hindu vedic texts.<br /> The Ebers Papyrus of ancient Egypt expounded on the medicinal properties of honey, and it is contained in nearly every ancient Egyptian remedy.<br /> In ancient Greece, Hippocrates, the “Father of Medicine” wrote, ”Honey and pollen cause warmth, clean sores and ulcers, soften hard ulcers of lips, heal carbuncles and running sores.”</p><p>Just Because the Label Says “Honey” …</p><p>Now, you can’t go and get the ubiquitous squeezy bear full of honey at the grocery store and expect it to cure all your ills. In fact, the some of the squeezy bears don’t even contain real honey at all. Our good friends at the FDA have defined honey as “anything containing pollen.</p><p>Even with that broad definition, some of the Chinese companies have “ultrafiltered” the honey that goes into those little bears to the point that there isn’t even any pollen left.</p><p>I bet you wonder why – I did.</p><p>Ultrafiltering removes the pollen so that the source of the honey cannot be determined. Providers of cheap honey do this so that consumers cannot discover the origin. Often the cheap honey is tainted with pesticides, illegal antibiotics, and heavy metals. Some of the cheap honey is watered down with High Fructose Corn Syrup. Much of the questionable honey originates in China.</p><p>According to independent testing ordered by Food Safety News and performed by Vaughan Bryant, a professor at Texas A&M University and one of the nation’s premier melissopalynologists, or investigators of pollen in honey.76% of the golden stuff sold in grocery stores as honey doesn’t contain even one little drop of pollen.</p><p> 76 percent of samples bought at groceries had all the pollen removed, These were stores like TOP Food, Safeway, Giant Eagle, QFC, Kroger, Metro Market, Harris Teeter, A&P, Stop & Shop and King Soopers.<br /> 100 percent of the honey sampled from drugstores like Walgreens, Rite-Aid and CVS Pharmacy had no pollen.<br /> 77 percent of the honey sampled from big box stores like Costco, Sam’s Club, Walmart, Target and H-E-B had the pollen filtered out.<br /> •00 percent of the honey packaged in the small individual service portions from Smucker, McDonald’s and KFC had the pollen removed.<br /> Bryant found that every one of the samples Food Safety News bought at farmers markets, co-ops and “natural” stores like PCC and Trader Joe’s had the full, anticipated, amount of pollen.</p><p>The FDA, despite their definition, doesn’t seem to care about the false labeling of these products. The FDA has ignored requests from Congress, beekeepers and the honey industry to develop a U.S. standard for honey. Less than 5% of honey on store shelves has been tested by the FDA for purity.<br />How can you be sure you are actually buying honey?</p><p>As with most products, the closer you can get to the actual source, the better off you’ll be. Short of scooping the sticky stuff directly from the hives, purchase as locally as possible, directly from beekeepers or at your favorite farmer’s market.</p><p>There are more than 300 varieties of honey sold in the US. The difference in these varieties is the source of the pollen. Buckwheat honey is reputed to have the most healing properties of any type of honey. As a general rule of thumb, the darker the honey is, the more benefits it has.<br />Pasteurized vs. Raw</p><p>The FDA seems more concerned that honey be pasteurized (i.e.,heat processed) than that the honey actually be honey. The problem with pasteurization is that it kills off many of the beneficial components in the honey, most particularly propolis.<br />…The processing of honey often removes many of the phytonutrients found in raw honey as it exists in the hive. Raw honey, for example, contains small amounts of the same resins found in propolis. Propolis, sometimes called “bee glue,” is actually a complex mixture of resins and other substances that honeybees use to seal the hive and make it safe from bacteria and other micro-organisms. Honeybees make propolis by combining plant resins with their own secretions… Other phytonutrients found both in honey and propolis have been shown to possess cancer-preventing and anti-tumor properties. These substances include caffeic acid methyl caffeate, phenylethyl caffeate, and phenylethyl dimethylcaffeate. Researchers have discovered that these substances prevent colon cancer in animals by shutting down activity of two enzymes, phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C and lipoxygenase. When raw honey is extensively processed and heated, the benefits of these phytonutrients are largely eliminated…</p><p>Despite the important benefits of raw honey, there are some caveats.</p><p> Infants under the age of 1 should not be fed raw honey because of the risk of botulism. Their underdeveloped immune systems cannot prevent the Clostridium botulinum pores from multiplying. Botulism can cause paralysis and death.<br /> People with bee venom allergies sometimes suffer an allergic reaction to honey. These allergic reactions can easily become life-threatening.<br /> There is a higher risk of food poisoning when you consume raw honey vs pasteurized honey.</p><p>With the knowledge of the above warnings, I still purchase only raw honey for my household. The pros outweigh the cons for me.<br /> The Benefits of Raw Honey</p><p>Raw honey is anti-viral, anti-bacterial, and anti-fungal, making it one of the most healing substances on earth. It is also highly nutritious. Honey is a natural multivitamin. It contains significant amounts of: B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, C, magnesium, potassium, calcium, sodium chlorine, sulphur, and phosphate.</p><p>Honey has been used historically both internally and externally for a variety of concerns:</p><p> Apply honey liberally on a wound to speed healing.<br /> Apply honey to a rash, burn or scrape, and cover loosely.<br /> A tsp taken 3 times per day can help prevent seasonal allergies.<br /> A tbsp of raw honey sprinkled with cinnamon taken 3 times per day can boost the immune system and fight off a cold or sore throat.<br /> A spoonful of honey can soothe a cough caused by a tickle or sore throat.<br /> A couple of tablespoons of honey stirred into hot tea can lessen the symptoms of a cold or flu.<br /> Honey mixed with equal parts coconut oil makes a wonderful skin conditioner.<br /> Some studies say that honey can help control blood sugar fluctuations.<br /> Raw honey increases the production of antioxidants in the bloodstream.<br /> Recent studies proved that honey reduced overall cholesterol levels when taken daily.<br /> Honey applied topically to a wound or incision moistens the skin and helps prevent or reduce scarring.</p><p>Recipe: Homemade Cough Syrup</p><p>I keep a honey-lemon-ginger remedy in my refrigerator all winter long. </p><p>I always keep a jar of this homemade cough syrup in my refrigerator. It tastes so good that I don’t have to ask my kids twice to take it. You can also stir a few tablespoons of the syrup into hot water for a homemade “Neo-Citran”-style hot drink without all the nasty chemicals.</p><p>Ingredients</p><p> 2 lemons, scrubbed and thinly sliced<br /> 6 tbsp of grated ginger root<br /> Honey as needed</p><p>Directions</p><p> In a glass jar, layer the lemon slices and grated ginger until the jar is full.<br /> Pour honey into the jar, using the blade of a kitchen knife to move the lemon and ginger around and make room for it.<br /> Store it in the fridge for at least 2 weeks before using it. Then, take 1-2 tsp 3 times per day, as needed, for coughs or sore throats.</p><p>Long Term Storage of Honey</p><p>The great news about buying honey for your stockpile is that it stores forever. Literally. Honey was discovered in the pyramids of Egypt – over 5000 years old – and still edible. Given that, I strongly suspect it will remain viable in your stockpile for as long as you care to store it. The only thing that will happen is that, in time, it will crystallize. You can resolve this issue by placing the jar of honey in a bowl of hot water until it returns to liquid form. However, you can also use it in its crystallized form – you can stir it into tea, spread it on hot toast, or take a spoonful of it as one of the remedies mentioned above.</p><p>Frequently heating and cooling honey can lessen its nutritional potency, so I recommend putting honey in a small jar for regular use and using the big jars just to restock your little one.</p><p>Store your honey in an airtight container in a cool, dark place.</p><p>Written by Daisy</p><p>Learn more at @[192977694159550:274:The Universal Energy Matrix]](https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s480x480/533887_193541434103176_320804523_n.jpg)
RAW HONEY:
LIQUID GOLD IN YOUR PANTRY
That buzzing noise means something.Now, the only reason for making a buzzing noise that I know of is because youare… a bee!And the only reason for being a bee is to make honey.
And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it.
~ from Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
When selecting foods for your stockpile, the most budget-friendly, space-conscious way to do it is by selecting items that multitask. This criteria places honey high on your “to-buy list”. Tess Pennington of Ready Nutrition lists honey as one of the top SHTF sweeteners to store.
Honey is indeed nature’s sweetener, but don’t write it off as just a condiment. The sticky sweet substance is far more than something to stir into your tea or spread on your toast.
Since ancient times, the healing properties of honey have been documented. Some of this knowledge seems to have been forgotten (and purposely marginalized), and drug companies have replaced honey with chemical ointments, antibiotics and antivirals. (This is, as always, about money – they can’t patent honey, can they?)
Honey has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for more than 4000 years. Honey is an ingredient in 634 remedies in ancient Hindu vedic texts.
The Ebers Papyrus of ancient Egypt expounded on the medicinal properties of honey, and it is contained in nearly every ancient Egyptian remedy.
In ancient Greece, Hippocrates, the “Father of Medicine” wrote, ”Honey and pollen cause warmth, clean sores and ulcers, soften hard ulcers of lips, heal carbuncles and running sores.”
Just Because the Label Says “Honey” …
Now, you can’t go and get the ubiquitous squeezy bear full of honey at the grocery store and expect it to cure all your ills. In fact, the some of the squeezy bears don’t even contain real honey at all. Our good friends at the FDA have defined honey as “anything containing pollen.
Even with that broad definition, some of the Chinese companies have “ultrafiltered” the honey that goes into those little bears to the point that there isn’t even any pollen left.
I bet you wonder why – I did.
Ultrafiltering removes the pollen so that the source of the honey cannot be determined. Providers of cheap honey do this so that consumers cannot discover the origin. Often the cheap honey is tainted with pesticides, illegal antibiotics, and heavy metals. Some of the cheap honey is watered down with High Fructose Corn Syrup. Much of the questionable honey originates in China.
According to independent testing ordered by Food Safety News and performed by Vaughan Bryant, a professor at Texas A&M University and one of the nation’s premier melissopalynologists, or investigators of pollen in honey.76% of the golden stuff sold in grocery stores as honey doesn’t contain even one little drop of pollen.
76 percent of samples bought at groceries had all the pollen removed, These were stores like TOP Food, Safeway, Giant Eagle, QFC, Kroger, Metro Market, Harris Teeter, A&P, Stop & Shop and King Soopers.
100 percent of the honey sampled from drugstores like Walgreens, Rite-Aid and CVS Pharmacy had no pollen.
77 percent of the honey sampled from big box stores like Costco, Sam’s Club, Walmart, Target and H-E-B had the pollen filtered out.
•00 percent of the honey packaged in the small individual service portions from Smucker, McDonald’s and KFC had the pollen removed.
Bryant found that every one of the samples Food Safety News bought at farmers markets, co-ops and “natural” stores like PCC and Trader Joe’s had the full, anticipated, amount of pollen.
The FDA, despite their definition, doesn’t seem to care about the false labeling of these products. The FDA has ignored requests from Congress, beekeepers and the honey industry to develop a U.S. standard for honey. Less than 5% of honey on store shelves has been tested by the FDA for purity.
How can you be sure you are actually buying honey?
As with most products, the closer you can get to the actual source, the better off you’ll be. Short of scooping the sticky stuff directly from the hives, purchase as locally as possible, directly from beekeepers or at your favorite farmer’s market.
There are more than 300 varieties of honey sold in the US. The difference in these varieties is the source of the pollen. Buckwheat honey is reputed to have the most healing properties of any type of honey. As a general rule of thumb, the darker the honey is, the more benefits it has.
Pasteurized vs. Raw
The FDA seems more concerned that honey be pasteurized (i.e.,heat processed) than that the honey actually be honey. The problem with pasteurization is that it kills off many of the beneficial components in the honey, most particularly propolis.
…The processing of honey often removes many of the phytonutrients found in raw honey as it exists in the hive. Raw honey, for example, contains small amounts of the same resins found in propolis. Propolis, sometimes called “bee glue,” is actually a complex mixture of resins and other substances that honeybees use to seal the hive and make it safe from bacteria and other micro-organisms. Honeybees make propolis by combining plant resins with their own secretions… Other phytonutrients found both in honey and propolis have been shown to possess cancer-preventing and anti-tumor properties. These substances include caffeic acid methyl caffeate, phenylethyl caffeate, and phenylethyl dimethylcaffeate. Researchers have discovered that these substances prevent colon cancer in animals by shutting down activity of two enzymes, phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C and lipoxygenase. When raw honey is extensively processed and heated, the benefits of these phytonutrients are largely eliminated…
Despite the important benefits of raw honey, there are some caveats.
Infants under the age of 1 should not be fed raw honey because of the risk of botulism. Their underdeveloped immune systems cannot prevent the Clostridium botulinum pores from multiplying. Botulism can cause paralysis and death.
People with bee venom allergies sometimes suffer an allergic reaction to honey. These allergic reactions can easily become life-threatening.
There is a higher risk of food poisoning when you consume raw honey vs pasteurized honey.
With the knowledge of the above warnings, I still purchase only raw honey for my household. The pros outweigh the cons for me.
The Benefits of Raw Honey
Raw honey is anti-viral, anti-bacterial, and anti-fungal, making it one of the most healing substances on earth. It is also highly nutritious. Honey is a natural multivitamin. It contains significant amounts of: B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, C, magnesium, potassium, calcium, sodium chlorine, sulphur, and phosphate.Honey has been used historically both internally and externally for a variety of concerns:Apply honey liberally on a wound to speed healing.
Apply honey to a rash, burn or scrape, and cover loosely.
A tsp taken 3 times per day can help prevent seasonal allergies.
A tbsp of raw honey sprinkled with cinnamon taken 3 times per day can boost the immune system and fight off a cold or sore throat.
A spoonful of honey can soothe a cough caused by a tickle or sore throat.
A couple of tablespoons of honey stirred into hot tea can lessen the symptoms of a cold or flu.
Honey mixed with equal parts coconut oil makes a wonderful skin conditioner.
Some studies say that honey can help control blood sugar fluctuations.
Raw honey increases the production of antioxidants in the bloodstream.
Recent studies proved that honey reduced overall cholesterol levels when taken daily.
Honey applied topically to a wound or incision moistens the skin and helps prevent or reduce scarring.
Recipe: Homemade Cough Syrup
I keep a honey-lemon-ginger remedy in my refrigerator all winter long.
I always keep a jar of this homemade cough syrup in my refrigerator. It tastes so good that I don’t have to ask my kids twice to take it. You can also stir a few tablespoons of the syrup into hot water for a homemade “Neo-Citran”-style hot drink without all the nasty chemicals.Ingredients2 lemons, scrubbed and thinly sliced
6 tbsp of grated ginger root
Honey as neededDirections
In a glass jar, layer the lemon slices and grated ginger until the jar is full.
Pour honey into the jar, using the blade of a kitchen knife to move the lemon and ginger around and make room for it.
Store it in the fridge for at least 2 weeks before using it. Then, take 1-2 tsp 3 times per day, as needed, for coughs or sore throats.
Long Term Storage of HoneyThe great news about buying honey for your stockpile is that it stores forever. Literally. Honey was discovered in the pyramids of Egypt – over 5000 years old – and still edible. Given that, I strongly suspect it will remain viable in your stockpile for as long as you care to store it. The only thing that will happen is that, in time, it will crystallize. You can resolve this issue by placing the jar of honey in a bowl of hot water until it returns to liquid form. However, you can also use it in its crystallized form – you can stir it into tea, spread it on hot toast, or take a spoonful of it as one of the remedies mentioned above.Frequently heating and cooling honey can lessen its nutritional potency, so I recommend putting honey in a small jar for regular use and using the big jars just to restock your little one.Store your honey in an airtight container in a cool, dark place.
Written by Daisy
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Posted: March 23, 2013 | Author: BIO-SIL | Filed under: Babies and Children, Food, Health |
Four Ways Our Family Says
NO to GMO!
GMO – Genetically Modified Organism
By Scott Morefield
Guest Writer for Wake Up World
One of the most important issues of our day, an issue that directly affects the health and well-being of everyone on our planet, is an issue most people have never heard about genetically modified organisms (GMO) in our food supply. The ‘why’ is a topic we encourage everyone to research. Start here, then do some Google searches. Research both sides, then decide for your family if foods containing GMO are something you feel comfortable with your children consuming on a regular basis.
We strongly believe that removing genetically modified organisms (GMO) from our diet is one of the most important things we can do for our health. Here are a few steps our family has taken to do just that. Sure, it’s impossible to completely eliminate GMO, but we can minimize it, educate others, and fight the contamination of our food supply. Voting with our wallet is a great first step!
1. Can the Corn
One of the most widely produced and used franken-engineered crops, GMO corn is in everything from processed foods to ethanol (watch Food Inc. to see just how many products corn is used in, as well as the tactics of Monsanto and their ilk). The geniuses at Monsanto altered the DNA of corn to be resistant to pests (hey, why spray the pesticide ON the corn when you can grow it IN the corn!) as well as resistant to their herbicide, Round-UP. Who needs weeding when you can dust your entire field, corn and weeds alike, with a deadly herbicide?
One ‘small’ detail, the fact that humans actually EAT the pesticide and herbicide laced corn that’s in almost every mainline food item they buy, is doubtless not lost on the psychopaths at the franken-engineering firms. What’s collateral damage when you can make a few extra bucks? Folks, you don’t need a pressure-canner to CAN this toxin-filled corn!
However, avoiding GMO corn isn’t easy because there are no labeling laws (within the USA) and, as stated before, corn is in SO many things. We found a frozen brand at Sam’s that is voluntarily advertised on the package as non-GMO. The other day we passed a farmer’s roadside stand with a sign that said ‘organic corn.’ Buy in bulk, eat a ton, freeze or can the rest. Making connections with local farmers is huge. Talk to them about GMO. Many of the smaller farmers you meet will be very aware. Don’t buy from the ones who aren’t. As always, avoiding non-organic processed foods is important. Read the labels – if it has corn syrup,high-fructose corn syrup, corn oil, corn starch, malt, maltodextrin, maltose, maltol, ethyl maltol, mannitol, malt syrup, dextrose, dextrin, polydextrose, etc., don’t buy it or at least minimize consumption of these products.
2. Sink Soy
Processed, non-fermented soy is not only GMO, but has lots of other health ramifications as well. Like corn, soy is in almost every non-organic processed food. Textured soy protein (TSP), hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP), textured vegetable protein (TVP), textured soy flour (TSF), lecithin, meat analogs, structured protein fiber (SPF), and soy protein concentrate are few of the GMO soy based ingredients you will find lurking in processed food. Avoiding soy isn’t quite as difficult as corn since corn is a widely used ingredient AND a vegetable most people love to eat (although some people eat soy burgers, soy milk, etc. – because of the health issues above this is not recommended). It really just comes down to avoiding non-organic processed foods.
On their website, Monsanto insists, “’There is no need for, or value in testing the safety of GM foods in humans.” Wonder why?
3. Shake the Sugar
These days more than half of non-organic white sugar isn’t from beautiful green sugar cane fields somewhere in the Caribbean, but from franken-engineered sugar beets developed in a lab somewhere by mad scientists who get high off thinking of ways to poison the food supply so farmers won’t have to weed.
The best all-around advice (although we don’t follow nearly enough!) is to avoid sugar altogether. No need to make a case here – we all know it’s not good for us. However, the Morefields like a sugar fix as much as anybody, so when we do, we like to buy organic cane sugar produced from those green sugar cane fields and sold at EarthFare. It’s a little more work to scoop it from the bin into bags, label it, and haul it home, but the peace of mind is well worth it. And, of course, sugar is in most non-organic processed foods and drinks, so avoiding those is a must as well.
4. Replace Canola Oil with Peanut, Olive, and Coconut Oils
Sorry folks, no catchy phrase here, unless you can ‘crush’ canola oil. Canola oil is not only used in most households to cook, but is also found in many processed foods you find at the grocery store. Completely replacing such a major GMO product with non-GMO has lots of positive ramifications, especially for a family that cooks from scratch as much as ours. Virtually every dish has some sort of oil in it, so getting the GMO out of the oils we use, if we are careful in other areas, will get it out of lots of the dishes we cook and consume.
For everyday baking, we buy bulk peanut oil at Sam’s, refilling a smaller, handier container in our kitchen from it. It’s a little more work, but quite cost-effective. Organic virgin and extra virgin olive oils can be found at health food stores like EarthFare, Whole Foods, and Trader Joe’s, although occasionally you can find them at closeout stores like Big Lots for a fraction of their original price, and even at discount retailers like Ross and TJ Max. Note: Be careful what oil you use because not all olive oil is olive oil.
Coconut oil is harder to find, but can be found online or at health food stores. Although Trader Joe’s is probably the least expensive, coconut oil is still more expensive than the other oils. There’s a reason for that – it’s also the best for you! We can’t afford to use coconut oil for everything we cook, but if we could we probably would.
Does anyone see a pattern here? Almost all GMO ingredients can be ‘conveniently’ found all in one place, the middle aisles of mainstream grocery stores! These are the convenience items, for families that just don’t have the time to cook from scratch, ‘conveniently’ laced with potentially deadly GMO ingredients for young and old alike. When shopping at mainline grocery stores, stay on the edges and avoid the center aisles. If you must buy processed foods, it’s worth a few more dollars to buy organic. (Just be sure it’s labeled ‘USDA Organic,’ or you might not be getting what you paid for.) The Non-GMO shopping guide is a great place to start!
About the Author
Scott is a blogger, writer, and researcher whose primary focus is how to raise healthy kids despite a system and status quo that makes it as difficult as possible. He and his wife, Kim, live in the hills of east Tennessee with their four small children. He holds an MBA from East Tennessee State University. Scott has written over 20 articles for the natural health website NaturalNews.com. In addition, Scott and Kim blog about parenting, marriage, healthy lifestyle, nutrition, and homesteading at amorefieldlife.com. Connect with them on Facebook at facebook.com/amorefieldlife.
- What’s the deal with GMOs? (responsiveuniverse.wordpress.com)
- Beginner’s Guide to GMOs (consideritalljoy.com)
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Posted: March 18, 2013 | Author: BIO-SIL | Filed under: Babies and Children, Food, Health |
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Dr. Robert O. Young. and Shelley Redford Young
THE NEW WORD ON SUGAR: STAYING ALKALINE WITH HEALTHIER SWEETS
by Shelley Redford Young
THE YEAR IS STILL QUITE NEW and it’s a new season to adopt a more healthy lifestyle. A huge part of the pH Miracle mission is to make healthy food that taste great! Most kids -and adults, who are just big kids – eat for taste, so it’s really important that healthy food tastes good to or people won’t stay with it. There is emerging research that cautioning us about our sugar intake. We have been taking sugars – even fruit sugars out of the diet of sick and tired people for many years because they cause high acidity in the blood and tissues. We already know that sugar causes diabetes and obesity, but too many people – even medical doctors – have yet to realize the significant role that sugar plays in acidic cancer cells and tumors and how they metabolize. We know that sugars proliferate yeasts, molds and bacteria loads in the bloodstream. We also see those same loads diminish in the blood when we take sugars out of the diet. As we all know, taking away sugar can be an adjustment. Something sweet simply tastes good.
So, how do we keep our patients healthy and happy at the pH Miracle Center? Here are a few healthy and sweet tricks of the trade…
GREEN MILK EVERY MORNING
Green milk is what we call our blend of fresh green juices like spinach, celery, parsley, cucumber, kale, romaine and cabbage with fresh silky nut and seed milks – usually almond or hazelnut milk – which is our favorite. It is delicious! And holds a humbler, more pancreas-friendly sweetness that is so refreshing first thing in the morning. I love this blend so much that I drink it all throughout the day! If you’re someone who is just getting into fresh juicing or doing your first juice cleanse, the green milk is a great way to go, not only to add the wonderful alkalizing elements and B-vitamins from the greens, but also Vitamin E, calcium and magnesium from the almond milk! You can go half green juice, half almond milk for a very creamy version, or you can simply fill your glass with mostly the juice of greens and then use the almond milk as a “creamer” on top. That’s how I like it best! Either way, this is a sweet way to get your blood fortified and cleansed in a tasty new way!
RED PEPPER LICORICE
Another thing I do to satisfy my sweet tooth is make “red licorice” out of red bell peppers. Simply core and cut up red bell peppers into thin strips and place them on a dehydrator tray and dehydrate them just until they slightly bend. They are chewy and sweet! I take them to the movies or keep a stash in my car when I want something chewy. You can also continue to dehydrate them to a crisp consistency and grind them into a powder in your VitaMix (or other blender) and sprinkle over your soups, shakes and salads. Incredibly colorful and sweet!
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Posted: March 16, 2013 | Author: BIO-SIL | Filed under: Babies and Children, Health | Tags: American Academy of Pediatrics, General Motors, Health, Infant formula, Phytic acid, Soybean, Trypsin inhibitor, Weston A. Price Foundation |
Why Soy Formula (even organic)
is So Dangerous for Babies
by SARAH, THE HEALTHY HOME ECONOMIST on MARCH 14, 2013
Today’s generation of children could aptly be called Generation A where the “A” stands for allergies.
Food intolerances of all kinds are rampant with the very first frequently becoming apparent when a formula fed infant demonstrates an allergy to commercial milk based formula.
The typical recommendation by a conventional doctor in this case is to put the baby on a soy based formula such as Isomil or ProSobee. About 25% of American babies are fed soy infant formula according to the website of Dr. Sears.
Elemental infant formula might also be suggested, but these are usually reserved for preterm infants and those with specific medical problems such as severe allergies to both milk and soy. Elemental formulas also tend to be foul tasting compared with milk or soy based formula and babies tend to reject them for this reason.
Many parents make the switch to soy formula in haste hoping to ease the digestive discomfort their child is experiencing on milk formulas not realizing the full implications of their decision.
In some cases, parents may never even try a dairy formula at all if a milk allergy already runs in the family. There is no evidence that using soy formula reduces the risk of a dairy allergy later, however. For this reason, the Committee on Nutrition of the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends against the use of soy formula in infants who are potentially allergic to cow’s milk. Milk based formula should still be the first choice even in those situations.
Why Soy Formula is So Dangerous for Babies
The primary problems with soy formula are threefold: trypsin inhibitors, phytic acid and worst of all: phytoestrogens.
Trypsin inhibitors are proteins found in plentiful amounts in soybeans that inhibit digestion and absorption of nutrients. They are large in size and require application of high heat for appreciable periods of time to neutralize.
The industrialized process of producing soy infant formula deactivates the majority of trypsin inhibitors. Unfortunately, some remain and even in low amounts, they have been found to prevent normal growth in rats. Given that a baby’s brain grows at its most rapid rate the first year of life, growing to about 75% percent of adult size (it is 25% of adult size at birth), even a slight retardation of growth could be devastating to development of the brain and nervous system.
Phytic acid is an organic acid, which like trypsin inhibitors, is present in large amounts in soybeans. Phytic acid is present in the outer portion of all seeds and blocks the absorption of critical minerals like calcium, magnesium, iron and particularly zinc.
Unlike other seeds, soybeans have extremely high amounts of a type of phytic acid that is particularly resistant to deactivation. Researchers testing soy formula in 1967 found that soy formula caused zinc deficiency in every single infant who received it.
Zinc is known as the intelligence mineral because it is critical for optimal development and functioning of the brain and nervous system. As a result, deficiency of this nutrient in infants at a time when the brain is growing at its most rapid rate could have lifelong implications and possibly reduce IQ.
Phytoestrogens or isoflavones represent the most serious problem with soy infant formula. These estrogen-like compounds have the potential to disrupt baby’s hormonal system for life.
According to the Weston A. Price Foundation:
Toxicologists estimate that an infant exclusively fed soy formula receives the estrogenic equivalent of at least five birth control pills per day. By contrast, almost no phytoestrogens have been detected in dairy-based infant formula or in human milk, even when the mother consumes soy products. A recent study found that babies fed soy-based formula had 13,000 to 22,0000 times more isoflavones in their blood than babies fed milk-based formula.
Flooding of an infant boy’s bloodstream with female like hormones has the potential to cause serious developmental problems at puberty. During the first few months of life, a baby boy has testosterone levels that could be as high as that of an adult male. This “testosterone surge” readies the baby boy’s hormonal system for puberty both for normal development of the sexual organs and also patterns of male behavior.
Could soy infant formula be responsible for the increasing problem of boys where physical maturation is delayed or even completely absent with retarded development of the sexual organs?
Baby girls fed soy infant formula may suffer negative hormonal impact as well from early soy exposure. In a 2010 study, time-to-menarche was assessed in 2,884 girls. Those girls identified as early soy fed via soy infant formula had a rate of menarche in early adolescence (before age 12.5) that increased by 42%.
Early sexual development in girls can herald serious problems with the reproductive system later in life such as unexplained infertility and breast cancer.
Research from 2012 published in Biology of Reproduction’s Papers-in-Press describes the effects of plant estrogens found in soy on the mouse oviduct. The study was specifically designed to model the effects of soy-based baby formula on human infants. The results of the study suggest that exposure to estrogenic chemicals in the womb or during childhood has the potential to negatively affect a woman’s fertility as an adult.
Organic Soy Formula No Protection from Soy Dangers
Some parents mistakenly believe that genetically modified soy is the main problem and that buying organic soy formula is protective for their infant.
Nothing could be further from the truth. While organic soy formula does indeed provide a better quality source of soy, organic soy still has the same problems as GM soy – trypsin inhibitors, high levels of phytic acid, and large amounts of hormone disrupting plant estrogens that can devastate baby’s development and hormonal system.
Parents wishing to provide the highest quality formula for their baby should breastfeeding not be an option should consider a homemade formula from grassfed raw milk. Most babies allergic to commercial dairy formula surprisingly have no problem with a homemade raw milk formula and in the rare case where a dairy allergy presents with the homemade milk based formula, a hypoallergenic formula based on homemade broth and pureed meat can be utilized.
Click here for detailed recipes and a comprehensive training video illustrating how to make either the milk based or hypoallergenic formula.
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
Sources: Why Babies Should Not Be Fed Soy
How neonatal plant estrogen exposure leads to adult infertility
Soy Formulas?
The Tragedy of Soy Infant Formula
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Posted: March 16, 2013 | Author: BIO-SIL | Filed under: Babies and Children, Health | Tags: Arizona State University, Autism, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dimercaptosuccinic acid, Intelligence quotient, Research, Toxic metal, United States |
Source : http://www.naturalnews.com
Autistic children have more toxic metals in their blood
by David Gutierrez, staff writer
(NaturalNews) New evidence suggests that heavy metal exposure may be a cause of autism, in a study conducted by researchers from Arizona State University and published in the journal Biological Trace Element Research.
The researchers found that autistic children had significantly higher levels of numerous toxic metals in their blood than non-autistic children.
Autism is a neurological disorder that causes repetitive or restricted behavior and trouble with communication and social interaction. According to theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it affects one in every 252 girls and one in every 54 boys in the United States. Although mainstream medicine long considered autism to be a hereditary disorder, increasing evidence is emerging that link the condition to various environmental factors, such as toxic exposure.
“Studies such as this improve our understanding,” said Caroline Hattersley of the UK-based National Autism Society. Further studies should be performed to back up this research, she said.
More exposure equals more severe symptoms
The researchers tested blood and urinary levels of various toxic heavy metals in 99 children between the ages of five and 15. 55 of the children had autism, while 44 did not. The groups were similar in age and gender distributions.
The researchers found that autistic children had 41 percent higher levels of lead in their blood and 74 percent higher levels in their urine than non-autistic children. Their urinary levels of tungsten were 44 percent higher, thallium levels were 77 percent higher and tin levels were 115 percent higher.
All four of these metals have previously been linked with impaired brain function and development, the researchers noted, and can be toxic to other organ systems as well.
Based on three separate scales of autism severity, the researchers also found that higher blood levels of toxic metals were associated with more severe cases of autism. In fact, between 38 and 47 percent of all variation in autism severity could be explained by varying heavy metal levels, particularly cadmium and mercury. This made toxic metal burden the single “strongest factor” predicting severity, the researchers said.
On one level, the findings come as no surprise, given the well-established neurotoxic effects of heavy metal exposure.
“We knew that exposure to lead makes people lose IQ points, and clearly it can induce autism,” lead researcher James Adams said. “The study also showed that people with the highest levels are least able to excrete them.”
The findings may have real-world implications for both preventing and treating autism, however.
“We hypothesize that reducing early exposure to toxic metals may help ameliorate symptoms of autism, and treatment to remove toxic metals may reduce symptoms of autism,” the researchers wrote. “These hypotheses need further exploration, as there is a growing body of research to support it.”
Adams has previously conducted research into the effectiveness of DMSA, a drug designed to remove toxic metals from the body. The study concluded that DMSA did indeed remove some metals successfully, and also reduced some symptoms of autism. Autistic children with the highest urine levels of metals benefited from the treatment the most.
Sources:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225162231.htm
http://psychcentral.com
http://www.metro.us
DMSA Challenge Test for Heavy Metal Poisoning*
* Warning: The DMSA test must be administered under the supervision of a physician
and requires a physician prescription for DMSA (Chemet). Severe serious side-effects
may occur with DMSA usage.
Dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) is a drug (CHEMET) approved for use in the treatment of
lead poisoning. It is a chelating agent that binds to heavy metals such as lead and mercury,
which are then eliminated in the urine as the DMSA is excreted. A significant benefit is that it
does not remove substantial amounts of other beneficial metals such as iron, calcium,
magnesium and zinc. In addition to the therapeutic use of DMSA, a brief administration of
DMSA followed by measurement of heavy metals in the urine is used as an indicator of the
body burden of heavy metals. The greater the body burden of toxic metals, the greater the
amount excreted after DMSA.
The approach to this test is that any increase in heavy metals after DMSA challenge is
considered significant. The patient is then treated with DMSA treatment until the toxic metals
in the urine are within the normal range after a DMSA challenge. An additional complication
for children is that even a six-hour urine collection may be difficult. Therefore, a single urine
sample collection after DMSA may sometimes be used.
DMSA Dosing Chart for challenge test:
Body Weight (lbs) Dose (mg) No. Capsules
18-35 100 1
36-55 200 2
56-75 300 3
76-100 400 4
>100 500 5
1. Immediately after awaking, empty the bladder completely. Do not eat any food for one
hour except for small amount of food needed to take the DMSA.
2. Obtain DMSA capsules in the proper dosage from the chart above by filling a prescription from
your doctor. Take the DMSA capsule with an 8-ounce glass of water or other fluid immediately
after the bladder is emptied. The capsules may be opened up and added to the food for children
or adults who have difficulty in swallowing capsules.
3. Collect all urine in the plastic collection jug for six hours after taking the DMSA capsule.
• You may eat breakfast one hour or more after taking the DMSA capsule.
• Drink only a moderate amount of fluid during the 6-hour collection period.
4. At the end of the 6-hours, empty the bladder of all urine into the collection jug one last time.
5. If you know from experience that you cannot collect the urine for six hours or you try to collect
six hours of urine but are unsuccessful, mark the requisition with the number hours you were
able to collect.
6. Follow the regular instructions for shipping urine samples.
Side effects of DMSA
The Physicians Desk Reference lists a number of side effects associated with DMSA usage. The side
effects affect between 1-20% of the individuals affected. It might be expected that a single dose of
DMSA would cause fewer side effects than a long-term treatment with DMSA.Side effects of DMSA (continued)
Gastrointestinal side effects include nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, and abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Hematological (blood) side effects include neutropenia, eosinophilia, and increased platelets.
Other side effects include elevated liver enzymes, drowsiness, dizziness, sleepiness, rash, decreased
urination, cardiac arrhythmia, leg and knee pain, and flu-like symptoms.
Treatment if challenge test is abnormal
If the challenge test is abnormal, then a treatment plan needs to be implemented. The most important
aspect of the treatment plan is the removal of any current source of heavy metal poisoning. If the child’s
house is contaminated with lead-based paint, the parents may have to move or have the lead removed
from the house. If the child is chewing on pajamas containing antimony-containing flame-retardant, they
may have to be replaced. If the child has significant mercury from vaccines containing the mercury
compound thimerosal, non-mercury vaccines should be used in the future. Excessive fish intake may
also cause mercury toxicity.
DMSA
The next step is the use of agents to remove toxic metals. The most commonly used agent is DMSA.
Despite some side-effects DMSA is considered the safest prescription agent. It is fairly expensive with
a treatment cost that may range from $12 -$25 per day with an average treatment course of 19 days
and may need to be repeated if a significant heavy metal burden remains after treatment.
Certain nutritional supplements may also be used to remove heavy metals. In addition,
supplementation with beneficial metals such as calcium, magnesium, and zinc may also be helpful
since these metals may compete with toxic metals and reduce heavy metal toxicity.
Lipoic acid
The vitamin lipoic acid has two sulfhydryl groups that readily bind to mercury and result in its
elimination. This vitamin has no toxicity at doses used as a vitamin supplement and is sometimes used
as an adjunct to DMSA therapy. Lipoic acid is available in any health food store.
PCA
Peptidyl clathrating agent (PCA) is a dietary supplement and not a drug. According to John Wilson,
M.D. who has extensive experience in the removal of heavy metals, PCA is an extract of marine algae
and barley grass, cell wall components of olive leaf, colloidal silica, minerals, and components from
certain bacteria. Lipoic acid is high in this product and it is possible that the major active agent in this
product is its lipoic acid. A number of different mechanisms of action are claimed for this product.
Animal studies as well as clinical experience with humans seem to indicate that this agent is more
effective and less toxic than pharmaceutical chelating agents such as DMSA and DMPS. Furthermore,
PCA like DMSA does not remove beneficial elements. PCA is available from Timothy Ray OMD in Los
Angeles at 310 473-1813.
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International Conference, February 25-27,2000, Atlanta, GA.
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