Toxic tuck-shops

No mother in her right mind would knowingly give her little darlings hard earned cash to buy poison. This is an obvious fact, but what is not obvious is that many loving parents have unknowingly fallen into this very trap and happily bundle the kids off to school, sometimes every day, armed with the means to swallow toxins and poisons on a regular basis. These poisons build up in their bodies and soon their young and vulnerable immune systems become compromised when their bodies are no longer able to rid themselves of the offending substances quickly enough or find spaces in their tissues to store them

The results? Obesity is the most visually obvious, as little people become rounder and wider, unable to keep up with others in the play ground and becoming figures of fun, developing asthma and eczema, regular chest infections and more. Although so many children are obese these days that it’s almost hard to find a thin kid – and then probably only because the thin one is also starving. Oh, and by the way, the obese kids are starving too – for REAL food.

Less obvious consequences of these daily toxins are see-sawing sugar levels, bad concentration, aggression and children yawning with exhaustion at 10 in the morning. Many of these children are diagnosed with ADD and are further lumped with harmful drugs, adding more toxic loads onto already compromised immune systems

And all in the name of ‘necessary School Funds’. Further damage comes from the frightening alliance between cola drink manufacturers and schools where these poisonous drinks are available for children to help themselves. As long as the school advertises the manufacturer, they get kick backs to help with ‘School Funding’. Money again. And make no mistake the drink manufacturers know full well what dangers they are ‘allowing’ young minds and bodies to become addicted to. Colas are drugs – just try giving them up…….

Unfortunately there is not enough space in this article to give mothers healthy alternatives to Toxic Tuck-shops, so watch out for the good news in future postings!

Hope for allergy sufferers?

Allergy vaccine hopes get boost, so says Richard Black, BBC science correspondence

“Medical researchers have obtained promising results from a trial of a genetically-engineered allergy vaccine.

During the trial, conducted in Austria, Sweden and France, the vaccine significantly reduced peoples' allergic response to pollen.

The team says it is already developing further GM vaccines to combat other allergies”

Some estimates reveal that a quarter of the world’s population could be allergic to something; so many unhappy sniffling, sneezing and coughing people around the world will welcome this news

However, further into the article, Black writes “But although these can work well, they can also produce major side-effects.”

As with many other pharmaceutical drugs, somehow the cause of the allergies has been quietly by-passed, and all this new genetically modified drug can ever do is mask the symptoms so that we feel better - whilst our body gets sicker with side effects, more likely on top of other drugs for other conditions which carry more side-effects. And so the debilitation goes on, with no real hope of ever being fully well again

Why not get to the cause instead?

Allergies are frequently caused by food sensitivities, and while we are not aware of their causing the problem, allergens such as pollen and house mites will tip the scales and produce the attacks that leave us utterly miserable:

• Whilst asthma has long been classed as an allergy, it is in fact rooted in a food sensitivity, most often dairy or wheat or sugar
• Dry eyes, not always connected to allergies, are a symptom of an Omega-3 deficiency
• Sinus problems can be a thing of the past if you give up dairy products

Ten suggestions to rid you of allergies forever:

1. Speak to a nutritionally trained health practitioner
2. Food sensitivity tests are readily available to find your specific sensitivity
3. Or you can eliminate trigger foods from your diet for one month at a time – i.e. no dairy foods for one month, then no wheat, no sugar, etc
4. Once you have found your sensitivity, stay off that food (or foods) for a minimum of six months, and then SLOWLY re-introduce the offending food.
5. If you reintroduce too quickly your sensitivity could come back with a vengeance!
6. Supplement with pharmaceutical grade Omega-3 Fish Oil (deficiencies of this essential fat can exacerbate food sensitivities)
7. Increase fresh fruit and vegetables, with lots of raw and juiced foods
8. Eliminate bad fats such as margarine, sunflower and cheap olive oils
9. Eliminate processed foods from your diet
10. Get good exercise at least three times a week

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