Re: Re: hehe I'll beat Melody

[Guest guest]

LOL, I missed it because I was up at WalMart buying TrueLemon raspberry lemonade

and wondering if I could get used to stevia - got 2 packages of orange. Thought

I was getting 2 of lemon, 2 of orange, 2 of rasp lemon, but ended up with 4 of

rasp lemon and 2 of orange. Came home, heated up some water, made a cup, and

it's certainly doable. <G> Hoping to get off the milk in my tea and coffee, and

the honey - One step at a time to better health, Melody. Sprouts were first.

Thanks!

Pam

> Yeah, you beat me. Guess what? I'm on a roll today. I just diced tomates and

olives to last me a week and I did it in under a minute. It's up on youtube.

Since I know you subscribe, you have probably seen it already. I'm telling you,

I make the BEST sprout salads using this nifty gadget.

>

> >

> > She's uploaded a new video!

> >

> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLyOpCmeB1c

> >

> >

> > A refreshing summer drink!

> >

>

>

[Guest guest]

Wait a minute, what do you mean you heated up the water? You made tea??

Really?? I have never had this anyway but ICE COLD. You made tea?:??

Melody

http://www.youtube.com/user/eliz7212?feature=mhum

Apr 24, 2011 03:59:56 PM, sproutpeople wrote:

===========================================

LOL, I missed it because I was up at WalMart buying TrueLemon raspberry lemonade

and wondering if I could get used to stevia - got 2 packages of orange. Thought

I was getting 2 of lemon, 2 of orange, 2 of rasp lemon, but ended up with 4 of

rasp lemon and 2 of orange. Came home, heated up some water, made a cup, and

it's certainly doable. Hoping to get off the milk in my tea and coffee, and

the honey - One step at a time to better health, Melody. Sprouts were first.

Thanks!

Pam

> Yeah, you beat me. Guess what? I'm on a roll today. I just diced tomates and

olives to last me a week and I did it in under a minute. It's up on youtube.

Since I know you subscribe, you have probably seen it already. I'm telling you,

I make the BEST sprout salads using this nifty gadget.

>

> >

> > She's uploaded a new video!

> >

> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLyOpCmeB1c

> >

> >

> > A refreshing summer drink!

> >

>

>

[Guest guest]

For those of you watching sugars, do be aware that TRUE products contain

evaporated cane juice in SOME of their packages.  I don't remember which way,

but it is either the larger boxes or the individual packages, and it can be a

bit misleading if you are used to buying it a certain way, then switch.  I

recommend checking the label EACH time.  Some of them contain just stevia, but

others contain the cane juice.

> Yeah, you beat me. Guess what? I'm on a roll today. I just diced tomates and

olives to last me a week and I did it in under a minute. It's up on youtube.

Since I know you subscribe, you have probably seen it already. I'm telling you,

I make the BEST sprout salads using this nifty gadget.

>

> >

> > She's uploaded a new video!

> >

> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLyOpCmeB1c

> >

> >

> > A refreshing summer drink!

> >

>

>

[Guest guest]

Oh, thanks for the heads up. I've been using this product. ALL THE PRODUCTS for

YEARS, with no affect on my sugar. Hooray for me

Melody

http://www.youtube.com/user/eliz7212?feature=mhum

Apr 24, 2011 05:12:18 PM, sproutpeople wrote:

===========================================

For those of you watching sugars, do be aware that TRUE products contain

evaporated cane juice in SOME of their packages.  I don't remember which way,

but it is either the larger boxes or the individual packages, and it can be a

bit misleading if you are used to buying it a certain way, then switch.  I

recommend checking the label EACH time.  Some of them contain just stevia, but

others contain the cane juice.

> Yeah, you beat me. Guess what? I'm on a roll today. I just diced tomates and

olives to last me a week and I did it in under a minute. It's up on youtube.

Since I know you subscribe, you have probably seen it already. I'm telling you,

I make the BEST sprout salads using this nifty gadget.

>

> >

> > She's uploaded a new video!

> >

> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLyOpCmeB1c

> >

> >

> > A refreshing summer drink!

> >

>

>

[Guest guest]

No, I made hot lemonade, LOL. It was WONDERFUL.

Pam

> Wait a minute, what do you mean you heated up the water? You made tea??

Really?? I have never had this anyway but ICE COLD. You made tea?:??

>

> Melody

> http://www.youtube.com/user/eliz7212?feature=mhum

>

> Apr 24, 2011 03:59:56 PM, sproutpeople wrote:

>

> ===========================================

>

> LOL, I missed it because I was up at WalMart buying TrueLemon raspberry

lemonade and wondering if I could get used to stevia - got 2 packages of orange.

Thought I was getting 2 of lemon, 2 of orange, 2 of rasp lemon, but ended up

with 4 of rasp lemon and 2 of orange. Came home, heated up some water, made a

cup, and it's certainly doable. Hoping to get off the milk in my tea and coffee,

and the honey - One step at a time to better health, Melody. Sprouts were first.

Thanks!

> Pam

>

>

>

> > Yeah, you beat me. Guess what? I'm on a roll today. I just diced tomates and

olives to last me a week and I did it in under a minute. It's up on youtube.

Since I know you subscribe, you have probably seen it already. I'm telling you,

I make the BEST sprout salads using this nifty gadget.

> >

> > >

> > > She's uploaded a new video!

> > >

> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLyOpCmeB1c

> > >

> > >

> > > A refreshing summer drink!

> > >

> >

> >

>

>

[Guest guest]

My mother always gave me hot lemonade when I had a cold. I know it's good for

cutting mucous. May be a Southern thing. But if you can have hot and iced tea,

then.... hot and iced lemonade.

Pam

> Hot Lemonade??? I have NEVER heard of this. I must look this up. Sounds

wonderful

>

> > > > >

> > > > > She's uploaded a new video!

> > > > >

> > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLyOpCmeB1c

> > > > >

> > > > >

> > > > > A refreshing summer drink!

> > > > >

> > > >

> > > >

> > >

> > >

[Guest guest]

I'm probably a lot older than most of you. When I was a kid, my mom used to make

a syrup out of onions, and feed that to me for a cold.

ew

Re: Re: hehe I'll beat Melody

[Guest guest]

Onion syrup?????

jeez.

lol

Melody

http://www.youtube.com/user/eliz7212?feature=mhum

Apr 25, 2011 02:13:37 AM, sproutpeople wrote:

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I'm probably a lot older than most of you. When I was a kid, my mom used to make

a syrup out of onions, and feed that to me for a cold.

ew

Re: Re: hehe I'll beat Melody

[Guest guest]

LOL, that would be the adult version. Us kids only got the heated lemonade. <G>

Pam

> Oh, THAT hot lemonade.

>

> Back in MY day, we called it a hot toddy. Maybe it's the Italians who did

this? My mother would make a strong cup of lemon tea, sugar, add scotch, an

VOILA!!! HOT TODDY!!!!

>

> I remember being given this when I was sick as a kid. Maybe that's why I never

touched liquor after that. I hate the taste. I must have had a bad cold. They

put vicks on my chest, someone came to the house and did CUPPING on my back.

They take a glass, wrap a quarter in a little rag, set the rag on fire, put it

on your back and put the glass over it. The fire immediately goes out, your skin

gets sucked into the glass and when they do this all over your back, it leaves

little rings all over your back. The concept is that the glass is drawing the

cold out of the body. My mother's friend Lia (who came from Italy) did this to

me.

>

> Next day they took me to the doctor and when he saw all the rings on my back,

he turned to my mother and said " Listen to me, NO MORE VOODOO " I remember this

like it was yesterday.

>

> I bet many of you have similar cold remedies that your family used to do when

you were younger.

>

> >

> > My mother always gave me hot lemonade when I had a cold. I know it's good

for cutting mucous. May be a Southern thing. But if you can have hot and iced

tea, then.... hot and iced lemonade.

> > Pam

[Guest guest]

I think 50 or more years ago, when anyone had the flu, they had to sweat it out.

Any kind of fever had to be " sweated out " . So when we drank the hot toddy, we

" sweated it out " .

Melody

http://www.youtube.com/user/eliz7212?feature=mhum

Apr 25, 2011 09:37:15 AM, sproutpeople wrote:

===========================================

LOL, that would be the adult version. Us kids only got the heated lemonade.

Pam

> Oh, THAT hot lemonade.

>

> Back in MY day, we called it a hot toddy. Maybe it's the Italians who did

this? My mother would make a strong cup of lemon tea, sugar, add scotch, an

VOILA!!! HOT TODDY!!!!

>

> I remember being given this when I was sick as a kid. Maybe that's why I never

touched liquor after that. I hate the taste. I must have had a bad cold. They

put vicks on my chest, someone came to the house and did CUPPING on my back.

They take a glass, wrap a quarter in a little rag, set the rag on fire, put it

on your back and put the glass over it. The fire immediately goes out, your skin

gets sucked into the glass and when they do this all over your back, it leaves

little rings all over your back. The concept is that the glass is drawing the

cold out of the body. My mother's friend Lia (who came from Italy) did this to

me.

>

> Next day they took me to the doctor and when he saw all the rings on my back,

he turned to my mother and said " Listen to me, NO MORE VOODOO " I remember this

like it was yesterday.

>

> I bet many of you have similar cold remedies that your family used to do when

you were younger.

>

> >

> > My mother always gave me hot lemonade when I had a cold. I know it's good

for cutting mucous. May be a Southern thing. But if you can have hot and iced

tea, then.... hot and iced lemonade.

> > Pam

[Guest guest]

Oh yeah, THE BLANKETS!!! I remember them.

And exactly how does one do a controlled burn (with a fever I mean).

Thanks,

Melody

http://www.youtube.com/user/eliz7212?feature=mhum

Apr 25, 2011 09:57:24 AM, sproutpeople wrote:

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Even in my tea-totaller Southern Baptist home growing up, we got the " alcohol

included " version of a Hot Toddy and then were put to bed under a pile of

blankets to sweat it out. And, it worked!

I'm a firm believer in allowing our immune system to do it's job and part of

that includes not preventing a fever as fevers are part of how the immune system

defends. Let the fever burn (a " controlled burn " to use a firefighter's term for

it)!

Tina

> > >

> > > My mother always gave me hot lemonade when I had a cold. I know it's good

for cutting mucous. May be a Southern thing. But if you can have hot and iced

tea, then.... hot and iced lemonade.

> > > Pam

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

EW,

 

I've heard of using that syrup on a poultice for the chest, too. My grandmother

used that I think.

 

Mom would grease us up with Vicks - and I mean we were SLIPPERY with it! She

would put it on our back, chest, forehead, over our sinuses (you had to keep

your eyes closed!), inside our nose, and then for good measure, she'd put some

on our tongue and we'd have to let it dissolve there. And for sore throats or

swollen glands, it was some kind of salve (I can't remember exactly which -

maybe Wintergreen?) covered by one of Dad's wool socks soaked in ice water and

pinned around the throat with several dry wool socks over the top. I actually

had to go to school that way sometimes!

 

And we survived it all. Tough old birds, aren't we?

 

Peggy

To: sproutpeople

Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 11:13 PM

Subject: Re: Re: hehe I'll beat Melody

 

I'm probably a lot older than most of you. When I was a kid, my mom used to make

a syrup out of onions, and feed that to me for a cold.

ew

Re: Re: hehe I'll beat Melody

[Guest guest]

Let's see if I got this straight. Alan gets a fever of 102 or so. I make sure

he's warm, I DON'T GIVE HIM ANYTHING, and I let him sleep until he breaks the

fever and sweats it out??

Is this right? I don't think I'd have the nerve to do this. I'm so ingrained

about bringing down a fever, well I don't know.

Thankfully neither of us gets sick and the last time he got a fever ( last

month) it was from cellulitis on the bottom of his foot, and he took

antibiotics. I thought he had the flu but I was wrong. He had an infection. The

antibiotics cleared it up.

I'm just afraid at what could happen if I didn't give him the tylenol.

I mean, I understand the immune system part of all this but my husband has BAD

psoriasis, which is auto-immune. And he can't take any of those pills for

psoriasis. He uses clobetazol which works fine, (but when he gets stressed, OH

LORD), Does that make any difference? If a person has auto-immune issues, can

their immune system still fight a bad bug?

Thanks very much for answering this.

Melody

http://www.youtube.com/user/eliz7212?feature=mhum

Apr 25, 2011 02:45:57 PM, sproutpeople wrote:

===========================================

Well, essentially, you let the immune system do it's thing without interference

unless the fire/fever reaches danger levels...which is actually higher than

" they " have taught us. 103 is not dangerous for most people but it is to

bugaboos so don't get tempted to throw water on the fire (in this case aspirin

or tylenol)...just drink plenty of fluids, sweat, and sleep.

Tina

> > > >

> > > > My mother always gave me hot lemonade when I had a cold. I know it's

good for cutting mucous. May be a Southern thing. But if you can have hot and

iced tea, then.... hot and iced lemonade.

> > > > Pam

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

I completely agree with you. I am trying to wean my husband off of Splenda. I

am now using Sun Crystals. He can't taste the difference. His problem is diet

soda with Splenda. He will not listen to me. Very very stubborn. I do the

probiotics all the time. And of course, I have my sprouts. If they made a diet

soda with Stevia, I would buy that in a heartbeat. Some Day!!!

And I really do thank you for all the good info.

Melody

http://www.youtube.com/user/eliz7212?feature=mhum

Apr 25, 2011 03:05:18 PM, sproutpeople wrote:

===========================================

If you are dealing with an auto-immune or immuno-compromised individual, then

you need to talk to their infectious disease doctor about whether their system

can handle the challenge of fighting off microbe invasions. It may be that for

minor invasions, the immune system can handle it, maybe not. I have a friend

with a rare auto-immune disease for whom very simple things have put her in the

hospital near death. My advice is not geared for such indivduals. For the rest

of us, yes, but not for those whose immune systems are wacked out.

For such individuals, it is POSSIBLE to strengthen the immune system so that it

can 'relearn " how to do it's job. For this, probiotics are what is needed. I

know it may sound counter-intuitive but some auto-immune disorders are actually

from immune systems run amuk--overactive rather than underactive. Probiotics

actually go in and calm the immune system down--kinda like a mom going into a

group of wild teens and using her mommy voice calms down the situation. (And,

for underactive immune systems, it does the reverse...weird but lovely.)

Probiotics do this for a wacked out immune system. To understand more of how

this works read the book " Probiotic Revolution " , written by a professor of

immunology at Eastern Michigan University. Very very understandable book and

very effective at explaining how probiotics interact with our immune system.

Tina

> > > > >

> > > > > My mother always gave me hot lemonade when I had a cold. I know it's

good for cutting mucous. May be a Southern thing. But if you can have hot and

iced tea, then.... hot and iced lemonade.

> > > > > Pam

> > >

> > >

> > >

[Guest guest]

Peggy, I just checked with my sister about the onion. She said mom minced the

onion and it let it ferment and fed that to us.

ew

Re: Re: hehe I'll beat Melody

[Guest guest]

LOL, time to add some more Vicks to my " OMG, the world is coming to and end "

storage <G>.

Pam

> Ernest, if she'd just added a little sliced cabbage and radish, you could have

had a great kimchee cocktail. Your mom was just way ahead of her time.

>

> This whole conversation is a trip. I can't recall how long it's been since I

opened a jar of Vicks but I can still call up the smell in memory. I wonder what

20-somethings whose parents never used it, think when they see it on the store

shelf.

>

> Molly

>

>

> >

> > Peggy, I just checked with my sister about the onion. She said mom minced

the onion and it let it ferment and fed that to us.

> > ew

>

>

[Guest guest]

We are pretty much trained from birth to treat SYMPTOMS of an illness, rather to

than to find the cause to start with.  As babies, if we get so much as a tiny

fever, we are dosed with tylenol, a stuffy nose warrants medication, diaper rash

gets an ointment, and pretty much every little ailment is medicated for the rest

of our lives.  If we realized that a symptom is the body's way of fighting off

an illness, and did NOT medicate so much, the human body would be much more

efficient at maintaining itself.  It was only when I QUIT using medications

that I actually got better!  The body does a remarkable job of repairing

itself, if given the opportunity to do so.  We often treat the symptom, rather

than try to isolate the cause.  This is often the case with things like

headaches, skin ailments, etc.  If you discover what the underlying cause is

(VERY OFTEN it is undiagnosed food or chemical allergies), the ailment will

clear up when the offending

allergen is removed.  Psoriasis is very quick to respond to allergen

identification.  My life long issues with it were among the first to clear up

when I discovered that I was allergic to many foods.   I haven't had ANY sign

of it in all the years I have controlled my allergies, except when I have had an

accidental exposure.

===========================================

Well, essentially, you let the immune system do it's thing without interference

unless the fire/fever reaches danger levels...which is actually higher than

" they " have taught us. 103 is not dangerous for most people but it is to

bugaboos so don't get tempted to throw water on the fire (in this case aspirin

or tylenol)...just drink plenty of fluids, sweat, and sleep.

Tina

> > > >

> > > > My mother always gave me hot lemonade when I had a cold. I know it's

good for cutting mucous. May be a Southern thing. But if you can have hot and

iced tea, then.... hot and iced lemonade.

> > > > Pam

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

We are pretty much trained from birth to treat SYMPTOMS of an illness, rather to

than to find the cause to start with.  As babies, if we get so much as a tiny

fever, we are dosed with tylenol, a stuffy nose warrants medication, diaper rash

gets an ointment, and pretty much every little ailment is medicated for the rest

of our lives.  If we realized that a symptom is the body's way of fighting off

an illness, and did NOT medicate so much, the human body would be much more

efficient at maintaining itself.  It was only when I QUIT using medications

that I actually got better!  The body does a remarkable job of repairing

itself, if given the opportunity to do so.  We often treat the symptom, rather

than try to isolate the cause.  This is often the case with things like

headaches, skin ailments, etc.  If you discover what the underlying cause is

(VERY OFTEN it is undiagnosed food or chemical allergies), the ailment will

clear up when the offending

allergen is removed.  Psoriasis is very quick to respond to allergen

identification.  My life long issues with it were among the first to clear up

when I discovered that I was allergic to many foods.   I haven't had ANY sign

of it in all the years I have controlled my allergies, except when I have had an

accidental exposure.

===========================================

Well, essentially, you let the immune system do it's thing without interference

unless the fire/fever reaches danger levels...which is actually higher than

" they " have taught us. 103 is not dangerous for most people but it is to

bugaboos so don't get tempted to throw water on the fire (in this case aspirin

or tylenol)...just drink plenty of fluids, sweat, and sleep.

Tina

> > > >

> > > > My mother always gave me hot lemonade when I had a cold. I know it's

good for cutting mucous. May be a Southern thing. But if you can have hot and

iced tea, then.... hot and iced lemonade.

> > > > Pam

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Dito!!!!

Sent from my iPod

> We are pretty much trained from birth to treat SYMPTOMS of an illness, rather

to than to find the cause to start with. As babies, if we get so much as a tiny

fever, we are dosed with tylenol, a stuffy nose warrants medication, diaper rash

gets an ointment, and pretty much every little ailment is medicated for the rest

of our lives. If we realized that a symptom is the body's way of fighting off

an illness, and did NOT medicate so much, the human body would be much more

efficient at maintaining itself. It was only when I QUIT using medications that

I actually got better! The body does a remarkable job of repairing itself, if

given the opportunity to do so. We often treat the symptom, rather than try to

isolate the cause. This is often the case with things like headaches, skin

ailments, etc. If you discover what the underlying cause is (VERY OFTEN it is

undiagnosed food or chemical allergies), the ailment will clear up when the

offending

> allergen is removed. Psoriasis is very quick to respond to allergen

identification. My life long issues with it were among the first to clear up

when I discovered that I was allergic to many foods. I haven't had ANY sign of

it in all the years I have controlled my allergies, except when I have had an

accidental exposure.

>

>

>

>

>

> ===========================================

>

> Well, essentially, you let the immune system do it's thing without

interference unless the fire/fever reaches danger levels...which is actually

higher than " they " have taught us. 103 is not dangerous for most people but it

is to bugaboos so don't get tempted to throw water on the fire (in this case

aspirin or tylenol)...just drink plenty of fluids, sweat, and sleep.

>

> Tina

>

>

>

> > > > >

>

> > > > > My mother always gave me hot lemonade when I had a cold. I know it's

good for cutting mucous. May be a Southern thing. But if you can have hot and

iced tea, then.... hot and iced lemonade.

>

> > > > > Pam

>

> > >

>

> > >

>

> > >

[Guest guest]

Dito!!!!

Sent from my iPod

> We are pretty much trained from birth to treat SYMPTOMS of an illness, rather

to than to find the cause to start with. As babies, if we get so much as a tiny

fever, we are dosed with tylenol, a stuffy nose warrants medication, diaper rash

gets an ointment, and pretty much every little ailment is medicated for the rest

of our lives. If we realized that a symptom is the body's way of fighting off

an illness, and did NOT medicate so much, the human body would be much more

efficient at maintaining itself. It was only when I QUIT using medications that

I actually got better! The body does a remarkable job of repairing itself, if

given the opportunity to do so. We often treat the symptom, rather than try to

isolate the cause. This is often the case with things like headaches, skin

ailments, etc. If you discover what the underlying cause is (VERY OFTEN it is

undiagnosed food or chemical allergies), the ailment will clear up when the

offending

> allergen is removed. Psoriasis is very quick to respond to allergen

identification. My life long issues with it were among the first to clear up

when I discovered that I was allergic to many foods. I haven't had ANY sign of

it in all the years I have controlled my allergies, except when I have had an

accidental exposure.

>

>

>

>

>

> ===========================================

>

> Well, essentially, you let the immune system do it's thing without

interference unless the fire/fever reaches danger levels...which is actually

higher than " they " have taught us. 103 is not dangerous for most people but it

is to bugaboos so don't get tempted to throw water on the fire (in this case

aspirin or tylenol)...just drink plenty of fluids, sweat, and sleep.

>

> Tina

>

>

>

> > > > >

>

> > > > > My mother always gave me hot lemonade when I had a cold. I know it's

good for cutting mucous. May be a Southern thing. But if you can have hot and

iced tea, then.... hot and iced lemonade.

>

> > > > > Pam

>

> > >

>

> > >

>

> > >

[Guest guest]

Thank you

Melody

http://www.youtube.com/user/eliz7212?feature=mhum

Apr 25, 2011 07:41:35 PM, sproutpeople wrote:

===========================================

Dito!!!!

Sent from my iPod

> We are pretty much trained from birth to treat SYMPTOMS of an illness, rather

to than to find the cause to start with. As babies, if we get so much as a tiny

fever, we are dosed with tylenol, a stuffy nose warrants medication, diaper rash

gets an ointment, and pretty much every little ailment is medicated for the rest

of our lives. If we realized that a symptom is the body's way of fighting off

an illness, and did NOT medicate so much, the human body would be much more

efficient at maintaining itself. It was only when I QUIT using medications that

I actually got better! The body does a remarkable job of repairing itself, if

given the opportunity to do so. We often treat the symptom, rather than try to

isolate the cause. This is often the case with things like headaches, skin

ailments, etc. If you discover what the underlying cause is (VERY OFTEN it is

undiagnosed food or chemical allergies), the ailment will clear up when the

offending

> allergen is removed. Psoriasis is very quick to respond to allergen

identification. My life long issues with it were among the first to clear up

when I discovered that I was allergic to many foods. I haven't had ANY sign of

it in all the years I have controlled my allergies, except when I have had an

accidental exposure.

>

>

>

>

>

> ===========================================

>

> Well, essentially, you let the immune system do it's thing without

interference unless the fire/fever reaches danger levels...which is actually

higher than " they " have taught us. 103 is not dangerous for most people but it

is to bugaboos so don't get tempted to throw water on the fire (in this case

aspirin or tylenol)...just drink plenty of fluids, sweat, and sleep.

>

> Tina

>

>

>

> > > > >

>

> > > > > My mother always gave me hot lemonade when I had a cold. I know it's

good for cutting mucous. May be a Southern thing. But if you can have hot and

iced tea, then.... hot and iced lemonade.

>

> > > > > Pam

>

> > >

>

> > >

>

> > >

[Guest guest]

Yeah, I showed him. I'll show him again. But I read that both Coke an Pepsi are

coming out with sodas with stevia.

Melody

http://www.youtube.com/user/eliz7212?feature=mhum

Apr 25, 2011 03:42:58 PM, sproutpeople wrote:

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Melody, if you had a soda stream, you could make him soda with stevia, or agave,

or fruit juice, etc.  I love mine!

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If you are dealing with an auto-immune or immuno-compromised individual, then

you need to talk to their infectious disease doctor about whether their system

can handle the challenge of fighting off microbe invasions. It may be that for

minor invasions, the immune system can handle it, maybe not. I have a friend

with a rare auto-immune disease for whom very simple things have put her in the

hospital near death. My advice is not geared for such indivduals. For the rest

of us, yes, but not for those whose immune systems are wacked out.

For such individuals, it is POSSIBLE to strengthen the immune system so that it

can 'relearn " how to do it's job. For this, probiotics are what is needed. I

know it may sound counter-intuitive but some auto-immune disorders are actually

from immune systems run amuk--overactive rather than underactive. Probiotics

actually go in and calm the immune system down--kinda like a mom going into a

group of wild teens and using her mommy voice calms down the situation. (And,

for underactive immune systems, it does the reverse...weird but lovely.)

Probiotics do this for a wacked out immune system. To understand more of how

this works read the book " Probiotic Revolution " , written by a professor of

immunology at Eastern Michigan University. Very very understandable book and

very effective at explaining how probiotics interact with our immune system.

Tina

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> > > > > My mother always gave me hot lemonade when I had a cold. I know it's

good for cutting mucous. May be a Southern thing. But if you can have hot and

iced tea, then.... hot and iced lemonade.

> > > > > Pam

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[Guest guest]

Yeah, I showed him. I'll show him again. But I read that both Coke an Pepsi are

coming out with sodas with stevia.

Melody

http://www.youtube.com/user/eliz7212?feature=mhum

Apr 25, 2011 03:42:58 PM, sproutpeople wrote:

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Melody, if you had a soda stream, you could make him soda with stevia, or agave,

or fruit juice, etc.  I love mine!

===========================================

If you are dealing with an auto-immune or immuno-compromised individual, then

you need to talk to their infectious disease doctor about whether their system

can handle the challenge of fighting off microbe invasions. It may be that for

minor invasions, the immune system can handle it, maybe not. I have a friend

with a rare auto-immune disease for whom very simple things have put her in the

hospital near death. My advice is not geared for such indivduals. For the rest

of us, yes, but not for those whose immune systems are wacked out.

For such individuals, it is POSSIBLE to strengthen the immune system so that it

can 'relearn " how to do it's job. For this, probiotics are what is needed. I

know it may sound counter-intuitive but some auto-immune disorders are actually

from immune systems run amuk--overactive rather than underactive. Probiotics

actually go in and calm the immune system down--kinda like a mom going into a

group of wild teens and using her mommy voice calms down the situation. (And,

for underactive immune systems, it does the reverse...weird but lovely.)

Probiotics do this for a wacked out immune system. To understand more of how

this works read the book " Probiotic Revolution " , written by a professor of

immunology at Eastern Michigan University. Very very understandable book and

very effective at explaining how probiotics interact with our immune system.

Tina

> > > > >

> > > > > My mother always gave me hot lemonade when I had a cold. I know it's

good for cutting mucous. May be a Southern thing. But if you can have hot and

iced tea, then.... hot and iced lemonade.

> > > > > Pam

> > >

> > >

> > >

[Guest guest]

I'll share the smell with you. My foot Dr. is making me out Vick's on my

toenails twice a day to soften them up so she cab trim them properly.

ew

Re: hehe I'll beat Melody

Ernest, if she'd just added a little sliced cabbage and radish, you could have

had a great kimchee cocktail. Your mom was just way ahead of her time.

This whole conversation is a trip. I can't recall how long it's been since I

opened a jar of Vicks but I can still call up the smell in memory. I wonder what

20-somethings whose parents never used it, think when they see it on the store

shelf.

Molly

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> Peggy, I just checked with my sister about the onion. She said mom minced the

onion and it let it ferment and fed that to us.

> ew

[Guest guest]

Tina, I'm reading it right now. Fascinating book!

ew

Re: hehe I'll beat Melody

If you are dealing with an auto-immune or immuno-compromised individual, then

you need to talk to their infectious disease doctor about whether their system

can handle the challenge of fighting off microbe invasions. It may be that for

minor invasions, the immune system can handle it, maybe not. I have a friend

with a rare auto-immune disease for whom very simple things have put her in the

hospital near death. My advice is not geared for such indivduals. For the rest

of us, yes, but not for those whose immune systems are wacked out.

For such individuals, it is POSSIBLE to strengthen the immune system so that it

can 'relearn " how to do it's job. For this, probiotics are what is needed. I

know it may sound counter-intuitive but some auto-immune disorders are actually

from immune systems run amuk--overactive rather than underactive. Probiotics

actually go in and calm the immune system down--kinda like a mom going into a

group of wild teens and using her mommy voice calms down the situation. (And,

for underactive immune systems, it does the reverse...weird but lovely.)

Probiotics do this for a wacked out immune system. To understand more of how

this works read the book " Probiotic Revolution " , written by a professor of

immunology at Eastern Michigan University. Very very understandable book and

very effective at explaining how probiotics interact with our immune system.

Tina

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