Re: Digest Number 2555

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, regarding boosting your immune system: We do NOT want to boost our immune systems; we want to depress them. Our immune systems are attacking our livers. Most of us take Imuran to suppress that action. Instead, we want to increase our overall health, but boosting our immune systems is the last thing we want.

Marcy, first of all, avoid herbal supplements; don't take ANYTHING, whether OTC drugs or herbs, that your doctor and pharmacist haven't approved. Then double-check on-line to make sure they aren't overlooking a danger. What is safe enough for someone with a sound liver can be very harmful to us. As for diet, my doctors told me to just eat a sensible diet. One of my doctors said I needed plenty of protein; however, other people at other stages are told they absolutely must limit protein. Obesity is a great problem with Prednisone use; however, another of my doctors said that while I was very ill the most important thing was for me to get plenty of nourishment, as my liver wasn't processing food properly. Other group members have posted or will post lists of foods that are believed to be "liver friendly." Your doctor may have specific advice for you based on your particular liver condition (for example, the need for some people to strictly limit protein.)

Best wishes.

Harper

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In a message dated 10/22/2002 4:07:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time, writes:

Subject: I have questions!! Lots of them!! New to the group!

Dear Marcy,

The no-no's I heard about right away are tylenol, niacin, alcohol, green tea and adding salt.

Amy

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In a message dated 10/22/2002 4:07:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Jerry writes:

Also I know that gargling with

warm salt water is good for a sore throat along with the honey and

tea...honey.

Don't forget the Ludens.

Dear Jerry,

My dad always gave me honey and tea but my husband's family was more into the hot toddies! They probably had more fun when they were sick but I'll never know

Amy

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you're right Amy...hot toddies make you forget you're sick..... actually

Ruth mentioned one that is probably the oldest and best..... CHICKEN

SOUP..... how could I forget.... thanks Ruth...

take care Amy...

love jerry

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Valtrex is an antiviral designed to " treat " not cure Herpes I and II, it has

been found to have some success in helping children that have Herpes VI.

Digest Number 2555

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A spoon full of vinegar with immediately relieve heartburn/acid indigestion.

Jim

Diet

Irene

I have a different type problem. I have absolutely NO idea what I am

eating most of the time. I eat 95% of my meals in a restaurant and the food

is Chinese food. Western type food is much too expensive in China. The

meat, when there is minimal at best. Tofu I eat all I can get when it's

served. Rice is a mainstay of the diet here, small servings of vegetables,

tiny servings of meat and half a tray of rice. I can buy roasted sweet

potatoes from the street vendors, but they are just ok. I have no cooking

facilities in my room but I have a fridge. We do get hard boiled eggs for

breakfast, so I know what I am eating for breakfast. I usually have 1 hard

boiled egg, 1 orange and 1 triangle of soft cheese (expensive Swiss process

cheese). I eat lots of greens as they are available or part of most meals.

Beef is hard to get, pork is plentiful and chicken is also plentiful except

in provinces that have killed all the chickens due to bird flu. One of my

friends up north said no

chicken and no eggs are available in her province right now. I try and buy

the soup with mung-bean noodles rather than the wheat noodles.

Anyhow, I thought I would interject this into the thread as I have 8 more

months till I come back to Canada. I had a hamburger and fries last night

as a sort-of treat, but the meat wasn't really meat or hamburger as I know

it. It was mixed with something and only looked like hamburger. First/last

time for that plus it cost 10 times what a Chinese dinner costs at the

University cafeteria. I could buy roasted meat from the street vendors, but

what the meat is ??? how clean is it???????

Cleanliness is only a requirement in North America. In the school

cafeteria, you can watch the cockroaches crawling on the walls in the

kitchen. The staff don't even notice them.

I did bring lots of homeopathic remedies with me. I am also getting

accupuncture and massage from a Dr. 3X/week for my back and knee. He comes

to my room. Costs me 50Y per visit which is $8.00 CDN or $6.25US.

Next term, I may be out at the new campus and will have a small kitchen.

Microwave, rice cooker and hotplate. But the room is small and the bathroom

is sooooo tiny you can sit on the throne and take a shower at the same time.

In China the bathrooms are often a 'wet bathroom'. This means the floor is

tiled and the drain is on the floor. When you take a shower the entire

bathroom gets wet.

Irene de Villiers <furryboots@...> wrote:

janetlee wrote:

> I've been reading Natural Cures " they " Don't Want You to Know About and

he

> seems to think any kind of packaged foods will make you acidic, that food

> additives are the biggest culprit.

I do not buy that. Depends entirely what's in the package of course, and

they are not all full of additives, even if there were acidifiers

involved. (You would look for things like citric acid on the label.)

Your body will be too acid if you are not well, especially if you eat

too little protein. Acidic body is caused by lack of proper metabolic

power, as in protein and antioxidants, or by too much inflammatory food

as in starch, saturated fat, grains and sugars.

Heartburn is a separate issue and is more a *result* of acidic body than

a cause. It's due to being too unhealthy to produce digestive juices in

the right proportions and/or inappropriate food in the first place - or

as in my case due to a metabolic health problem.

My case as an example of mechanism:

My body is very acidic, because of metabolic disease. I produce stress

hormone from tumours and it breaks down muscle. That causes heartburn

unless I adjust my diet to counter that acidity:

So to counter that I get 45% of my calories from protein every day,

and 45% from good fat, with only 10% from carbs.

If I mess with that ratio, especially if I get less protein, or if I

fail to remove saturated fat and replace with beneficial ones like EVO,

fish oil and some beneficial nuts, I will get MORE acidic.

This is so despite the fact that beef (my main protein) needs a lot

of acid to digest well. Provided I stick to type O foods exclusively, I

get no heartburn, but if I eat so much as a crumb of cookie or cake with

wheat in it, or bacon on a hamburger, or cheese etc, I shall have

indigestion and gastric reflux " for Africa " .

I also get gastric reflux any day my calories from protein drop below

45% of my total cals for the day.

So if I want to eat cake at my birthday party for example, I have to get

very high protein elsewhere that day - like a big sirloin steak eaten at

two separate sittings 3 hrs apart (small meals are easier to digest and

have enough acid for the job) and salmon, cheese and egg at another

meal, then I can " afford " to eat a slice of pumpkin pie and a slice of

cake at my party. I will still get 45% of my calories from protein that

day. I can drop to 41% I find, on one day only but not to say 38%.

I would highly recommend to anyone, that to be healthy one needs to find

the optimal protein intake for you as a percentage of your total

calories - and to avoid the inflammatory foods, and stress healthy fats.

In my practice as a homeopath, I use these principles to get great

success with all kinds of animal species. Each individual has an ideal

ratio of percentage protein in their calorie total. Second most relevant

is percentage cals from fat (hence also carbs as the one left.) But

getting protein right first - and using the right kind of course - works

every time to get a major step forward in health - works in all animal

species.

As to heartburn, the only concern is that I make ENOUGH acid. I find if

I eat mainly food on the beneficial list, I can make enough acid. If you

make too little acid to digest protein, you WILL get " acid reflux " from

LACK of acid. That happens because food stays in your stomach instead of

getting digested, waiting for you to make enough acid for the job. It

will try to digest but if you lack acid the food with some acid will sit

there, perhaps make gas, which burps along with what little acid you had

that was insufficient for the job.

Alternatively you can be in the situation where you have eaten too

many vegetables, and your body uses alkali for thos - which also burps

up and burns the same as acid does - you can not FEEL the difference

between alkali burn and acid burn - it feels the same.

So the real answer is to ensure that you eat mainly foods from the

beneficial list of O foods, and TOTALLY avoid things not in your blood

group. If you still get heartburn I'd be surprised - I lost mine

altogether in a week flat. But if you do still have problems, then it is

time to eat digestive enzymes and acid with meals to help your system

catch up with making enough acid for what you eat.

Don't get protein from plants - get it from beef and other beneficial

meats. Plants skew your immune system and cause worse health conditions

- especially avoid soy protein.

Nuts are good, but go slowly and not too many at a time and only the

good ones - no peanut butter!

> Eating organic meats, fruits and

> vegetables will leave you alkaline and juicing is especially good.

I don't agree. Fruit and fruit juice is very inflammatory due to the

sugar, and in my view should be omitted until the situation is fully

healed. Then they can be added slowly, in small amounts as whole fruit

eaten at meals with high protein.

In the meantime healing antioxidants can be had from spinach, collard

greens, kale, dandelion greens, beet greens, asparagus, mushroom,

tomato, green pepper, red pepper, turmeric, parsley flakes, onion,

garlic, oregano, chilli, curry, paprika, nori, and so on.

>>Be kind to dragons, for thou art crunchy when

>>roasted and taste good with ketchup.

SO CUTE!!!

:-))

Namaste,

Irene

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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.

www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)

Proverb:Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it.

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In a message dated 11/20/2005 9:16:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,

brownjc0@... writes:

A spoon full of vinegar with immediately relieve heartburn/acid indigestion.

Jim

Only sometimes. Vinegar is acidic. If your stomach is already acidic it'll

make it worse. Baking soda buffers the stomach whether it is acidic or

alkali. A teaspoon in a little water works wonders. Some people don't like it

because it includes a shot of sodium. I find that it works very well.