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October 20, 2011
Class – There will be another class on heart disease October 25th.
Usually we have just two classes a month, but with my trip to Utah we
are off schedule and I announced in the September Alternatives that
there would be a class the 25th I will do that.
Fermented cabbage -- sauerkraut -- offers an amazing spectrum of health
Benefits. But don't use just cabbage, add peppers, onions, carrots,
cauliflower, etc.
 
Sauerkraut combines the health benefits offered by all cruciferous
vegetables (a category which includes cauliflowers and brussel sprouts
as well as cabbage) with the probiotic advantages derived from the
fermentation process.
In addition:
• It is high in vitamins A & C.
• It is high in phytonutrients & anti-oxidants
• Very long history of of beneficial use
• Great home remedy for most stomach/intestinal aliments
• The probiotics to maintain colon health.
• Easy to make requiring no fossil fuels.
• Stores easily with a long shelf life.
 
Basic Recipe
• Glass jars – 1 or 2 quart, pint, doesn't really matter
• Veggies – cabbage, peppers, carrots, cauliflower, cucumbers, (no
zuchinni, tomatoes) The foundation of min is cabbage.
• Sea Salt , whey (helps but not necessary) The watery stuff that
accumulates in a container of plain yogart.
• Fill jar half full of water plus 1T of salt/pint of water, & if you
have it 1T whey.
• Chop veggies in to small slices, maybe grate the cabbage. I like to
pound the cabbage, but that is probably not necessary.
• Stuff veggies into jars and pack down firmly so that they are covered
with the brine. This is the key, that the brine covers the produce.
Add more brine if necessary.
• I use wide-mouthed jars and then put a regular sized lid on the
veggies to keep them under
• Cover the jar with a lid or some other cover and set aside, not air
tight.
• Check the jars in a few day to make sure the produce is covered with
brine. It will be “done in a couple of weeks, but it is fun to taste
it every week or so.
• I put regular lid on the stuff after a few weeks for better storage.
• Last night 10/19/11 my family of five (children ages 7, 13, 15) ate a
quart easily and would have had more but I cut them off.
• If mold develops on the top, just pull it off and add more brine.
Get the book, Katz's Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition and Craft
of Live
Culture Foods.
 
Good eating,
Dr. G

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Joint Pain

1.    Chlorine and Disinfection Byproducts
Drinking water disinfected by chlorine in pregnancy can increase the child's risk of heart problems, cleft palate or major brain defects. On the other hand, disinfection byproducts (DBPs) are formed when the disinfectants used to purify your water, like chlorine, react with natural organic matter like decaying vegetation in water, Dr. Mercola explains. DBPs are more than 10,000 times more toxic than chlorine, making them the worst type of contaminants.
Chlorine has been linked to health problems associated with drinking water but new studies suggest that DBPs, not chlorine, are responsible for almost all of the toxic effects of chlorinated water. The two most common disinfectant byproducts formed when chlorine is used are trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids. Trihalomethanes have been shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals and have also been associated with spontaneous abortion, stillbirths and congenital malformations.

2.    Drugs and Hormonally Active Chemicals
A comprehensive survey of drinking water in the U.S. reveals that your drinking water may also contain a number of pharmaceuticals and hormonally active chemicals, Mercola points out. The drugs that you take, or those that are given to livestock, do not necessarily become inert in your body. Some of the active components that are not absorbed are deposited into sewage treatment centers that are not always testing for, or removing, pharmaceuticals. Also, unused prescription drugs are sometimes flushed down the toilet or deposited into landfills by individuals, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies, where they ultimately end up back in the environment.
Among the drugs and chemicals found in tap water were atenolol, a beta-blocker used to treat cardiovascular disease; atrazine, a herbicide banned in Europe linked to the decline of fish population and in changes in animal behavior; meprobamate, a psychiatric tranquilizer; phenytoin, an anticonvulsant, and sulfamethoxazole, an antibiotic.

3.    Fluoride
Fluoride is one of the toxic chemicals still at large in America. It was actually one of the toxic components evaluated for use in the production of the atomic bomb during World War II. For Dr. Mercola, water fluoridation is absurd and unethical because studies show that this chemical can damage your brain, and your immune, gastrointestinal system and skeletal systems. Fluoride is so dangerous that a family-sized tube of fluoridated toothpaste is toxic enough to kill a 25-lb child.

4.     Heavy Metals
Heavy metals such as arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury and nickel can seep into your water, are inorganic, have relatively high densities and are toxic even at low concentrations. Heavy metal poisoning can cause blood disorders, and brain, kidney and nerve damage. These heavy metals usually accumulate in your water supply through human activity, such as industrial and consumer waste. In homes built before the late 1980s, copper and lead can leach into passing water from water pipes and soldered joints on the way to your tap.

5.    Rocket Fuel
Perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel which is also used in fireworks and road flares, was found in the water supplies of 36 states. This chemical can inhibit the production of thyroid hormones, which are essential for pre- and postnatal development. The Environmental Protection Agency has also found that perchlorate exposure led to the development of thyroid tumors in rats.

Because of the dangers of tap water contaminants, water filtration systems are no longer considered a luxury; they're health products. For most people a countertop water filter that effectively removes chlorine, fluoride and inorganic and organic contaminants is the best, most practical and cost-effective choice. A reverse osmosis filter helps remove virtually all tap water contaminants but it is costly, inefficient and requires extensive installation.

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The method of cutting off blood supply to cancer cells. Unlike healthy vessels, tumor vessels are abnormal and poorly constructed and because of that, they're highly vulnerable to treatments that target them, Dr. Li explains.

Obesity is also dependent on angiogenesis because like tumor cells, fat cells grow when capillaries grow.

Dr. Li points out that there are about a dozen anti-angiogenesis cancer drugs that have significantly increased the survival rates of patients. But what is more exciting and promising about angiogenic research is not just making better drugs to fight cancer; it's in preventing cancer from occurring in the first place, Dr. Mercola points out.

There are a large number of fruits, herbs and vegetables that are natural angiogenesis inhibitors. According to Dr. Li, anti-angiogenesis foods include:

•    Artichokes
•    Berries – blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries
•    Cherries
•    Garlic
•    Green tea
•    Kale
•    Maitake

      mushrooms
•    Parsley
•    Red Grapes
Different foods have different levels of potent anti-angiogenic compounds. But it is interesting to note that when researchers evaluated a combination of two of the least potent teas, they found that the combination tea had greater potency than any given tea by itself. This means that there's synergy.

Synergy is what makes fresh, whole foods nutritious. Because the sum is greater than the individual parts, Dr. Mercola believes that it's far more important to focus on eating a diet of whole, organic foods, than putting much attention on individual nutrients.

Foods will soon be scored according to their anti-angiogenetic, cancer-preventive properties. But why wait for this rating system when you're already aware that optimal health hinges on a healthy diet based on a wide variety of whole, organic foods. In the same way that a single food contains synergistic compounds, and a combination of foods can work together synergistically, a healthy diet will help you prevent cancer and other diseases in more ways than one.

 

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You need to understand the principle of "money" to survive. This article puts things in terms that are easy to understand. It should also motivate you to start stocking up on commodities and start accumulating nickels, junk silver coins.

Tags: Prevention & Preparation

Here's a good article on the toxic effects of flea and tick products like Advantage and Frontline and other pyrethroids and the documented harm they have done to over 44,000 dogs and cats last year alone. In light of this you might choose to use instead, herbal sprays of citronella, or pennyroyal, cedar shavings in their bed, diatomaceous earth, and my favorite, neem oil. Also remember, sickly animals are more likely to be the banquet of choice, so cod liver oil, B complex, liver, and brewers yeast are helpful.

Here's interesting insight to the real cause of the 1918 flu epidemic, which might serve to temper one's perspective on the next pandemic they report, and more importantly, in what light to regard mainstream medicine's advice in dealing with it:

Here's another reality check of the addictiveness of junk foods where rats chose to starve if they didn't have junk food (other food being available). If you think you might be addicted, you might try a 24 hour fast to see if you have withdrawal symptoms, assuming you don't have a medical condition or are on medicines that preclude trying this of course.

Here's another reality check of the addictiveness of junk foods where rats chose to starve if they didn't have junk food (other food being available. If you think you might be addicted, you might try a 24 hour fast to see if you have withdrawal symptoms, assuming you don't have a medical condition or are on medicines that preclude trying this of course.

Here's an important list of medications to be sure to keep away from children; some can kill with just ingesting a single pill:

Here's another study that questions whether it is good to take antidepressants (keep in mind that a drug is something that suppresses your symptoms while you continue to get worse). To fight depression, exercise, get some sun, eliminate gluten, take at least 5,000 IU of vitamin D for starters.

Here's an article about how animals aren't fooled by GM foods:

Here's a good review of the many ways subclinical hypothyroidism can adversely affect your health. Another even better book is: Type 2 Hypothyroidism by Mark Starr, M.D.

Besides this list of nosebleed remedies, I would also add the cell salt Ferrum Phos 

Here's a good article on the myriad of health problems associated with consumption of high fructose corn syrup:

Here's a good article to review the many benefits of coconut oil:

If you haven't taken first aid/CPR classes lately you'll be in for a surprise, they don't recommend assisted breathing between chest compressions as this article explains:

it's interesting that even epicureans are rediscovering the benefits of cooking with this good animal fat (when I say good, I mean one that's been raised free range without antibiotics or hormones, etc.):

If you are experiencing sudden hearing problems, this is an important link to check to see if one of the medications you are on could be causing it:

Here's evidence that taking inositol hexaniacinate may be helpful for stroke recovery. Initial dose should be between 500mg and 1500mg in divided doses and work up to 3000mg.

Here's an article that rediscovers an old therapy thats been around for over 40 years:

Here's another good reason for both sexes to use bioidentical progesterone:

Here's a good article about using vitamin C to combat diseases like flu and polio:

Here's important information that seems to be ignored or neglected by the mainstream media that everyone should know about and be prepared for:

Here's an article about how the kitchen spice, turmeric, helps combat yeast infections and colon cancer:

IF, and I say IF, one needed to lower their cholesterol, because there is growing evidence that there are hazards from having low cholesterol, inositol hexaniacinate would be a much safer alternative to cholesterol lowering drugs:

It should be no surprise that vitamin C has been found to be and important factor to enhance the proliferation of stem cells since it is important for just about any function in the body:

Here's a good website to get information on vaccinations that isn't always mentioned. As with any medical procedure it is important to become educated about pros and cons.

Here's a recent article that reports progesterone can prevent premature birth, which concurs with the opinions of Dr. Lee and Ray Peat:

Did you know that you are a thousand times more likely to die from being treated by doctor than from being shot by a gun? While we lead the world in trauma care, for many reasons we are one of the lowest rated for success in helping with chronic diseases. This article is a must read for anyone to become better aware of the hazards of modern medicine:

with the growing concern over antibiotic resistant bacterial infections, it's good to know about practical remedies that are easily available, such as coconut oil:

here's and interesting article about a simple test to check for the presence of a concussion, one of those critical things to watch for after sports injuries that occur so frequently:

here's a great article that addresses the phobias of consuming fat and give a lot of practical advice on adding good fats to our diet:

while this article is concerned with ways to get good sources of clean, healthy food for our children, it applies to everyone:

here's a great article from the Weston A Price Foundation that talks about eating animal products and bone loss:

here's a number of proven ideas to remove splinters at home:

while many parents and doctors recognize the benefits of counseling and psychotherapy to help the growing number of teenagers struggling with anorexia, not everyone is aware of the importance of vitamin supplementation to also help with functional problems created by deficiencies:

what with all the concern regarding the incidence of lung cancer these days, this information about vitamin E should be front page news:

this is a good article on the benefits of vitamin E supplementation, especially as it gives good scientific evidence that debunks the slanderous claims by the media about ineffectiveness of vitamin E as well as other vitamins:

this is a good article to help understand about the importance of implementing orthomolecular  or optimal doses of vitamin C for treating many conditions:

this link once again illustrates the sobering responsibility of all of us parents to learn about about the effects of any medication prescribed by a doctor for our children; the internet is a great tool to facilitate this kind of research and alternatives

here's a good article by Dr Lester Morrison about an overlooked natural supplement that can even be used with conventional medications to treat heart disease:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/01/26/the-hidden-benefits-of-exercise.aspx

 

Dr. Mercola

 

Regular exercise reduces your insulin levels, which creates a low sugar environment that discourages the growth and spread of cancer cells. Controlling your insulin levels is one of the most powerful steps you can take to reduce your cancer risk.

Physically active adults experience about half the incidence of colon cancer as their sedentary counterparts. Exercise has a beneficial influence on insulin, prostaglandins and bile acids, all of which are thought to encourage the growth and spread of cancer cells in your colon. Exercise also improves bowel transit time, which means your body's waste is spending less time in contact with the mucosal lining of your colon.

As the Wall Street Journal article points out, women who exercise regularly can reduce their breast cancer risk by 20 to 30 percent over their inactive counterparts. This is likely due to a lowering of estrogen levels.

The article cites a study in which women being treated for breast cancer were 50 percent less likely to die of the disease if they walked at an average pace for three to five hours a week.

Think about it. If just three to five hours of walking per week can so drastically improve your chances of surviving a hormone-responsive breast cancer tumor, imagine what a few more hours a week of exercise could do for you.

If you're male, be aware that athletes have lower levels of circulating testosterone than non-athletes, and similar to the association between estrogen levels and breast cancer in women, testosterone is known to influence the development of prostate cancer in men.

Physical activity can reduce your risk.

Tags: How Exercise Helps You Fight Cancer

The definition of "enriched foods" processed foods to which vitamins and minerals are added.

 

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/01/16/Dont-Rely-on-Fortified-Foods.aspx

 

Vitamin D has major health benefits. The best source of vitamin D is from the sun, but you also see many foods fortified with Vitamin D. Unfortunately, milk and other foods fortified with vitamin D often contain a synthetic form called ergocalciferol, or vitamin D2.

This synthetic form isn't as potent and doesn't last as long in your body. In fact, synthetic vitamin D becomes toxic in your body at far lower levels. Too much synthetic vitamin D2 may be linked to health problems. A number of studies link synthetic vitamin D2 to irritation of the lining of blood vessels.

In fortified milk, you may not know even how much you are getting. When Dr. Michael Holick and his colleagues at the Boston University School of Medicine tested samples of milk, they found 8 out of 10 samples contained either 20 percent less or 20 percent more vitamin D than the amount the label advertised -- and some of the milk tested contained no vitamin D at all.

 

Be sure to review the Youtube video from the link above, and continue reading the information that is provided with it as well.

 

More to this at Mercola.com

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by Barbara Loe Fisher

 

There are three basic facts you should remember when you are exercising your right to make an informed, voluntary vaccination choice for yourself or your child in America:

1. Informed Consent is a Human Right: The right to voluntary, informed consent to a medical intervention, including use of a pharmaceutical product such as a vaccine that can injure or kill you or your child, is a human right.

While the State may have the legal authority to mandate use of vaccines, nobody has the moral authority to FORCE you to get vaccinated or vaccinate your child without your voluntary, informed consent

2. Vaccine Laws Have Exemptions: In 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the legal authority of state governments to pass laws requiring citizens residing in the state to use certain vaccines.

Today, all 50 states have enacted vaccine laws that require proof of vaccination for children to attend daycare, elementary, junior and high school and college.

Vaccine requirements vary from state to state and all 50 states allow a medical exemption to vaccination; 48 states allow a religious exemption to vaccination; and 18 states allow a personal, philosophical or conscientious belief exemption to vaccination.

To find out what your state vaccine law says and which exemptions you may take and how to take them, click here.

3. Freedom is Not Free, Become a Vaccine Choice Advocate: Many state governments now require nearly three dozen doses of more than a dozen vaccines to attend school. Medical and religious exemptions are becoming harder to get and exemptions for reasons of conscience are under attack by proponents of forced vaccination.

The National Vaccine Information Center is working with citizens in states to expand or protect legal exemptions to vaccination.

Six Principles for Protecting Vaccine Choices

First Principle: It's Your CHOICE

When exercising your right to voluntary, informed consent to vaccination for yourself or your child, remember that state vaccine laws contain:

1. Legal requirements that school and health officials are responsible for enforcing

2. Legal exemptions that you have the legal right to choose to exercise. (Public schools must allow vaccine exemptions outlined in state vaccine laws, but private religious or other non-state operated schools may reject vaccine exemptions.)

Most state vaccine laws do not allow unvaccinated students with vaccine exemptions to attend school during confirmed outbreaks of certain infectious diseases for defined periods of time.

Remember: Nobody has the moral authority to force you or your child to be injected with a vaccine without your voluntary, informed consent and you have the legal right to exercise exemptions to vaccination according to the laws in your state.

Second Principle: You Have the Right to KNOW

You have the legal right to know the risks and complications of vaccines BEFORE you make the choice of whether or not to allow your child to be vaccinated.

The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by President Reagan in 1986, directed all doctors and other vaccine providers to give parents written information about vaccines BEFORE children are vaccinated.

Remember: All vaccines and other pharmaceutical products carry a risk of injury or death and those risks can be greater for some than others.

Never agree to use a vaccine, drug or other product without fully informing yourself about ALL risks.

The product information insert, which drug companies by law must include with every vial of vaccine provided to public health clinics and private doctors' offices, includes a description of the vaccine's reported reactions and precautions.

You can ask for a copy of that vaccine information insert from your doctor or state health department.

Third Principle: Be INFORMED and Prepared

Knowledge is power. Arm yourself with accurate information about vaccination and health. Do your own research and talk to one or more trusted health care professionals before you make any health care decision.

Become an educated consumer and you will be empowered to defend your right to freely make voluntary choices about health, including vaccination, for yourself and your children.

Remember: If you arm yourself with accurate information about vaccines and health, you will be prepared to intelligently and rationally discuss your vaccine choices with your family, friends, colleagues, doctors, elected officials and others in your community.

Fourth Principle: Take RESPONSIBILITY for Your Words and Actions

When you are standing up for your right to know, and freedom to choose, whether or not to vaccinate yourself or your child, how you go about exercising your rights will determine whether or not you will succeed.

In your contact with doctors, school or government health officials, remain calm but politely firm when explaining and defending the vaccine choice you have made.

If you are treated with disrespect or are harassed in any way by a doctor or government official, do not engage in an unproductive argument. You may want to contact an attorney, your elected state representatives or local media if you or your child are threatened.

To publicly post a report of harassment for your vaccine choice, click here.

Remember: Treat others as you want to be treated, even if you are being attacked or harassed for the vaccine choice you have made.

Protect yourself and your family by seeking legal or other expert counsel, if necessary.

Serve as an example for others in your community whenever you defend your right to exercise voluntary, informed consent to vaccination, including the right to decline to use one or more vaccines for yourself or your child.

Fifth Principle: Keep WRITTEN Records

Be sure to ask your doctor for copies of your medical records or your child's medical records, including recorded information about vaccinations and illnesses. Under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, doctors and other vaccine providers are required by federal law to:

• Write down any serious health problems that occur after vaccination in a child's permanent medical record

• Keep a permanent record of all vaccines given, including the manufacturer's name and lot number

• Report serious health problems, hospitalizations injuries and deaths that occur after vaccination to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). (If your doctor won't report, you have the right to make a vaccine reaction report to VAERS).

Remember: It is wise to keep written records of your interactions with doctors, school and health officials that involve vaccine choices you make, as well as copies of any vaccine exemptions you file with the state. You may have to hire an attorney to defend your informed consent rights when it comes to vaccination and it is important to have written records.

Sixth Principle: Be COURAGEOUS

It is not easy to stand up for the right to make informed, voluntary choices about vaccination when public health officials, the pharmaceutical industry and many medical doctors are putting pressure on all Americans, especially parents, to use every government recommended vaccine.

The fact that the numbers of doses of government mandated vaccines have tripled in the past quarter century, while the numbers of chronically ill and disabled children have also tripled, offers an opportunity to have a long overdue public conversation about the effects of vaccination on individual and public health.

Remember: Freedom of thought and exercise of free speech is protected under the U.S. Constitution.

You have the right to talk privately and publicly about any concerns you have about vaccine necessity, safety and effectiveness, and to work with your elected officials to modify the vaccine laws in your state.

Become an engaged, courageous citizen activist and protect your right to make vaccine choices.

Vaccination and U.S. Law: A Brief Summary

• Medical Exemptions: All 50 states allow medical exemption to vaccination.

Medical exemptions to vaccination must be written by a medical doctor (M.D.) or doctor of osteopathy (D.O.) and are usually reviewed annually by school or state health officials.

Since 1986, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) have eliminated most officially recognized medical reasons for withholding vaccination (contraindications) so that almost no medical condition qualifies for a medical exemption to vaccination.

In most states, school or state public health officials can question or even deny a medical exemption to vaccination written by a doctor if it does not strictly conform to CDC and AAP contraindication guidelines.

The National Vaccine Information Center is working with citizens who want to change vaccine laws to prevent state school or health officials from questioning or denying a medical exemption to vaccination written by a doctor.

• Religious Exemptions: All but two states (West Virginia and Mississippi) allow religious exemption to vaccination.

These exemptions are worded differently in different states and require different forms of written documentation that must be submitted to state governments supporting a sincerely held religious belief opposing vaccination.

Some states require a notarized affidavit or letter from a spiritual advisor attesting to the sincerity of a person's religious beliefs about vaccination. The religious exemption is under attack and, in some states like New York, parents are being grilled about the sincerity of their religious beliefs by state officials and denied religious exemptions to vaccination so their partially or completely unvaccinated children cannot attend public schools.

The National Vaccine Information Center is working with citizens, who want to protect their rights to religious exemptions, to add or re-write the religious exemption in state vaccine laws.

• Conscientious Belief Exemptions: 18 states allow conscientious, personal or philosophical belief exemption to vaccination. These states come the closest to protecting a citizen's right to exercise voluntary, informed consent to vaccination in America. They are:

Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin

This exemption, like the religious exemption, is under attack by forced vaccination proponents who want to eliminate non-medical exemptions to vaccination in America.

The National Vaccine Information Center is working with citizens who want to protect or add conscientious belief exemption in state vaccine laws.

• Vaccine Exemptions for Military Personnel: All branches of the U.S. Armed Services provide medical and religious exemptions to vaccination, but those exemptions must be first declared before enlistment in the military.

If a military recruit does not clearly state a medical or religious objection to vaccination BEFORE joining the military, he or she gives up the right to object to vaccination during active military service. Failure to obey an order to vaccinate while on active military duty can result in demotion, imprisonment and involuntary discharge from the military, including dishonorable discharge.

After enlistment, legal assistance is often required to successfully object to vaccination without being subjected to sanctions.

Family dependents of active military personnel often must obtain approval from military officials to exempt children from vaccination for medical reasons or religious objections, especially if the children are attending military-operated daycare or schools or are deployed to foreign countries or re-entering the U.S. after living in a foreign country.

• Vaccine Exemptions for International Travel: Different countries have different laws requiring vaccines to enter or leave the country.

Most developed countries, including those in Europe, currently do not require visitors to show proof of vaccination. However, some countries in Africa, Asia and elsewhere may require certain vaccines to enter or exit. Click here to check the CDC website on travel vaccine requirements.

• Other Vaccine Exemption Issues: Vaccine choices also can affect adoption, immigration, child custody arrangements during divorce proceedings, eligibility for health insurance and government entitlement programs, and medical care.

Children adopted from foreign countries as well as in the U.S. may be required by US law and adoption agencies to receive certain government mandated vaccines.

Immigration laws also contain vaccine requirement provisions.

In cases of divorce, one parent may attempt to gain full custody of a minor child by using the vaccine choice issue as leverage.

Some families have been dropped from medical insurance plans or barred from eligibility for government funded medical care and food supplement programs if children are not given all government recommended vaccines.

Increasingly, pediatricians are refusing to treat children who are not fully vaccinated and, in some instances, medical personnel in hospital emergency rooms and physicians' offices have reported parents to state child social services agencies for child medical neglect for refusing to vaccinate their children. In these circumstances, you may need to consult to protect informed consent rights.

Legal Options

The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 was passed by Congress to protect vaccine manufacturers and vaccine providers from liability for vaccine injuries and deaths in civil court.

If a child is injured by a government recommended or mandated vaccine, the child must sue the Secretary of Health for damages under the Act in the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C.

If the vaccine injured child is turned down for federal compensation or offered too little to provide for the child's lifetime care, a lawsuit may be filed in civil court against a vaccine manufacturer or negligent doctor with certain restrictions.

By 2009, about $2 billion had been awarded to vaccine victims for brain inflammation and immune system damage leading to permanent injury or death, even though two out of three children are turned away for federal compensation.

The Bottom Line

• When you or your child is injured by a vaccine, the risks are 100 percent, and you will be left to deal with the consequences. Those who make and give vaccines are protected from liability in civil court, and federal vaccine injury compensation is very difficult to get.

• There is no guarantee that a vaccine will, in fact, protect against an infectious disease or that exposure to an infectious disease will cause a complication, injury or death. Good health is about so much more than vaccination and preventing experience with infectious disease.

• Vaccines are pharmaceutical products that carry a risk of injury or death that is greater for some than others. The right to informed consent to medical risk-taking is a human right. Empowering ourselves with information and taking responsible action to protect the right to exercise voluntary, informed consent to vaccination in America is one of the most important actions we can take as citizens to protect our freedom.

• Don't let anyone force you or your child to take a vaccine without your voluntary, informed consent.

• If a doctor denies you or your child medical care because you want to make vaccine choices, find another doctor.

• If a doctor threatens you, or if a government official denies a medical or religious exemption that you have legally filed, find an attorney to help you.

• If you don't like the vaccine laws in your state, contact your elected officials and work to change them.

Together, we can educate the public and reform vaccine laws in America to protect the right to make informed, voluntary vaccination decisions for ourselves and our children.

For More Information ...

• Diseases & Vaccines -- A list of diseases that have vaccines, selected stories about the diseases and the vaccines, and other links to find information about them.

• Vaccine Manufacturers' Product Inserts

• State Laws & Vaccine Exemption Information

• Become a Vaccine Choice Advocate in your state to protect vaccine exemptions

• If you have been harassed for your vaccine choices, make a report here

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The American Heart Association has, for the first time, identified seven health factors and lifestyle behaviors its research indicates are necessary to keep your heart in good shape.

The AHA says ideal cardiovascular health for adults is defined by these health measures:

1. Never smoked or quit more than a year ago

2. A healthy body mass index (BMI)

3. Physical activity, and the more the better

4. Blood pressure below 120/80.

5. Fasting blood glucose less than 100 milligrams/deciliter

6. Total cholesterol of less than 200 milligrams/deciliter

7. Eating a healthy diet

The AHA hopes the seven factors could improve the cardiovascular health of Americans by 20 percent by the year 2020, and also reduce deaths from cardiovascular-related diseases and strokes by 20 percent.

By Dr. Mercola

 

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/02/09/7-steps-for-a-healthy-heart.aspx

 

If you or anyone has concerns or questions regarding this subject, please feel free to call me Monday, Wednesday and Thursday between 3:30 and 4:00 PM at my office, 541-998-0112

An increasingly alarmed army of international scientists have reached a controversial conclusion:

The "electrosmog" that first began developing with the rollout of the electrical grid a century ago and now envelops every inhabitant of Earth is responsible for many of the diseases that impair or kill them.

During the past 100 years, we have methodically filled in the electromagnetic spectrum far beyond what occurs in nature.

Recently, several developments have highlighted the growing hazards of EMF pollution and the crucial need to address them.

In 2007, the Bioinitiative Working Group released a 650-page report citing more than 2,000 studies (many very recent) that detail the toxic effects of EMFs from all sources. Chronic exposure to even low-level radiation (like that from cell phones), can cause a variety of cancers, impair immunity, and contribute to Alzheimer's disease and dementia, heart disease, and many other ailments.

Additionally, every single study of brain tumors that looks at 10 or more years of use shows an increased risk of brain cancer.

A recent study from Sweden is particularly frightening, suggesting that if you started using a cell phone as a teen, you have a 5 times greater risk of brain cancer than those who started as an adult.

A recent study showed that exposure to very-low-frequency voltage signals (1-100kHz), or "dirty electricity,” can greatly increase your risk of melanoma, thyroid cancer, and uterine cancer. These signals are largely by-products of electronics, such as modern energy-efficient appliances, televisions, stereos and other entertainment devices.

These electronic devices use a lower voltage than other appliances, and this manipulation of current creates a complex electromagnetic field. This field not only radiates into the immediate environment but also can travel along home or office wiring throughout the neighborhood.

"For the first time in our evolutionary history, we have generated an entire secondary, virtual, densely complex environment — an electromagnetic soup — that essentially overlaps the human nervous system," says Michael Persinger, PhD, a neuroscientist at Laurentian University who has studied the effects of EMFs on cancer cells.

And it appears that, more than a century after Thomas Edison switched on his first light bulb, the health consequences of that continual overlap are just now beginning to be documented.

 

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The main bulk of an animal's body consists of water, protein, fat and bones. Fat and bone are metabolically more quiscent than the protein-water systems. During stress or starvation, or even hibernation, animals lose lean mass faster than fat.

The amino acids that constitute protein have many hormone-like functions in their free state. When our glucose (glycogen) stores have been depleted, we convert our own tissue into free amino acids, some of which are used to produce new glucose. The amino acids cysteine and tryptophan, released in large quantities during stress, have antimetabolic (thyroid-suppressing) and, eventually, toxic effects. Hypothyroidism itself increases the catabolic turnover of protein, even though general metabolism is slowed.

Other amino acids act as nerve-modifiers ("transmitters"), causing, for example, excitation or inhibition.

Some of these amino acids, such as glycine, hace a very broad range of cell-protective actions.

Their physical properties, rather than their uyse for production of energy or other metabolic function, are responsible for their important cytoprotective actions.

Gelatin (the cooked form of collagen) makes up about 50% of the protein in an animal, but a much smaller percentage in the more active tissues, such as brain, muscle, and liver. 35% of the amino acids, in gelatin are glycine, 11% alanine, and 21% proline and hydroxyproline.

In the industrialized societies, the consumption of gelatin has decreased, relative to the foods that contain an inappropriately high proportion of the antimetabolic amino acids, especially tryptophan and cysteine.

The degenerative and inflammatory disease can often be corrected by the use of gelatin-rich foods.

1. We eat too narrow of range of foods. Most Americans get about 75 percent of their calories from just 10 different foods.

2. We eat too much refined foods. Excessive processing strips the food supply of fiber, which rushes the refined carbohyrdrates into the bloodstream before they can undergo the complete digestive process.

3. We eat too many fake foods. Most of our packaged foods have been crammed with synthetic chemicals that the human body cannot adequately metabolize.

4. We're deficient in digestive enzymes. Even when many people eat healthy foods, they lack the digestive enzymes and hyrdochloric acid to break them down properly.

5. We may have "leaky gut." Irritations from alcohol, coffee and chemical additives as well as yeast/candida overgrowth affect the sensitive digestive membranes, causing poor absorption and lead to "leaky gut," a condition that allows incompletely digested food molecules to slip through the intestinal wall, which then causes immune reactions.

6. We often eat too much at once. Overeating overwhelms the digestive system and we may also crave our reactive foods.

7. We have a lot of stress. The average American worker takes only 11 minutes for lunch or may eat unconsciously on the job. When you're under stress, hormones, including adrenaline and cortisol, divert blood away from digestion.

8. We don't chew our food well enough. Foods that remain in large pieces can't be broken down completely, even when enough digestive juices are available.

9. We drink too much liquid at meals. Drinking a lot of liquid with food dilutes our digestive juices and stomach acid, thus preventing complete digestion.

10. And finally, we all have some of these habits at the same time, combining risks for developing food reactions and false fat. Most people combine several risk factors so they quickly reach their reactive threshold and trigger an immune response.

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