One email bud (well-meaning,
I’m sure) was quick to write back telling me how the info about aspartame
is all (my paraphrase) “hogwash” ~ and here, you can read such & such
article on snopes to check it out for yourself. I wrote back saying that I will
go on being skeptical, thanks anyway, and avoid aspartame like the plaque!!
JUST B/C THE FDA **APPROVES** SOMETHING ~ DOES NOT MEAN IT IS NOT
HARMFUL!!! That’s
unfortunately, one of the number one DECEPTIONS in our modern age. People put too much stock in what the
medical community tells us. (I
am not slamming all doctors here, but just speaking in general terms, from
the FDA to drug companies.)
And laugh if you want
to ~ but this very thing has created numerous rifts in our family,
as my MIL is always telling/yelling at us to go see a (expletive) M.D. ~
thinking that we are traveling down the wrong road by choosing good nutrition
over medicine.
OTOH, I see some of them
~ every single one of them are on meds for high cholesterol, and honestly,
I’m afraid they’re going to kill over from TAKING
the MEDS. There are always
“side effects” with all chemicals we put into our bodies, INCLUDING the
“prescribed” pills.
{pssst ~ thanks to John
Clark for the info about flax seed!!} …. While the extended family will
not listen and/or try it, I most certainly will.
Now about arthritis –
some times it’s not that we NEED another nutrient, but rather it CAN be
caused by something we are ALREADY consuming. Listen, I speak from experience
here!!
I would have been incapacitated
and in a wheelchair a few years back, had the Holy Spirit not led me to
investigate & find out what was causing my CRIPPLING Rheumatoid Arthritis.
IT
WAS WHEAT!!!!!
~ I have a severe, almost deathly wheat allergy. I hadn’t always had it; it developed
as an adult. Likely cause
(at least my DC & I think so) was by being dosed with way too many antibiotics
over the years!! It did a number on my intestines. Now I can
no longer digest wheat. Symptoms will not be the same for everyone,
but for me: extreme bloating for days on end (constipation!);
{like CEMENT in the intestines}; definitely IBS; bad behavior {don't
know how DH put up with me.... just glad he did!}; and eventually rectal
bleeding; and then ulimately, CRIPPLING R.A. I could not walk
without pain; I had constant pain EVERY SINGLE DAY.
**SIGH**
You see, I used to have
chronic sinus infections & the Doc would prescribe dose after dose of
antibiotics – no exaggerations here, I bet I took 3 – 4 rounds of antibiotics
EVERY YEAR for a period of 10 years!!!
Funny ~ how I never got
any “better”!! Only worse.
Till finally I only had severe reactions to all antibiotics &
could no longer tolerate them at all.
Please note this Scripture
from Mark 5: 26She had suffered a great deal from
many doctors through the years and had spent everything she had to pay them,
but she had gotten no better. {the
NKJV translation says she only got WORSE.}
Now days, if I feel a
bug or virus or even infection coming on, I take some Olive Leaf Extract
capsules (purchase at health food store) ~ as they are a NATURAL ANTIBIOTIC.
Generally clears up most anything for me within a couple of days.
Garlic is also good &
is a NATURAL antibiotic. I
take garlic softgels from time to time; but far more beneficial is to eat
raw garlic – press it & put it in fresh salsa! Mmmm!
Then, I started developing
allergies to CORN. {I know
this is long & you have other things to read, but keep reading anyway!}……
if you think getting off wheat was difficult it was nothing compared
to corn – as corn derivatives seem to be in EVERYTHING!!
To see the extensive
list of items that corn is in, click on:
http://www.theconnorswebsite.com/cornallergens/list.htm
It was hard for me, considering
Mexican food is “big” where I live & my, we’d eat it quite often.
Had to give up tortilla chips (my fav. Snack) and popcorn.
No more colas – corn
syrup!! At that time, the allergy
was so severe, that even the corn STARCH in a pill would bother me.
But let me tell you ladies
~ there is no doubt in my mind that I was developing breast cancer!!!
Once I got off the corn, all the tumors & pain WENT AWAY!!!!!! ~ within 2-3 weeks.
No, I’m not saying all
grains are bad for everyone – but there must still be some “poison” left
in MY system from all those antibiotics I took over the years.
When I was still consuming
corn, even my pap came back “abnormal” ~ doctors got all nervous, started
ordering tests!! ……. I took one test at the hospital
– and nothing showed up as “wrong”. I could not keep affording more
tests -- for them to poke at me & prod me.
However, by then getting
off the corn, my uterus returned to it’s “normal” size, my ahem, “digestion”
worked a lot better, and my pap returned to normal as well.
Some times it really
pays to investigate what is making us sick!!
Like “Dove Susan” ~ I
am not a vegetarian, though if I cared more for veggies, heh ~ I think I
could almost be one. I am NOT
“against” eating meat, but some times, just me personally, I tend to get
repulsed by it.
Even if pork is now okay
to eat, I choose to eat very little of it – as I’ve heard some nutritionists
talk about the (nasty!) parasites
in it which cannot be cooked out. And cancer patients, they say, can never
GET WELL, if they continue to eat pork.
If anyone has cancer
– they need to stop ALL SUGAR consumption, too ~ as sugar “feeds” the cancer.
Same thing for my many
years’ battle with the ongoing sinus infections. Had that Dr. learned that the constant
antibiotics were NOT healing me – had he ever once recommended good nutrition,
and suggested I get off sugar (and for me, dairy) ~ then maybe I wouldn’t
have had to spend so many years being so sick all the time.
Doves, I am sorry this
is so long ~ my apologies!
But I would like to come
back & tell you my (horrible – awful) experiences with perfume sensitivities!!
And all the TOXIC chemicals that are in perfumes, colognes, aftershaves,….
You name it. Seeing as how this is so long already
though, I expect we better wait for another day to discuss that one.
BTW, I’d appreciate a
quick word of prayer for me, the “Dove in Oklahoma” ~ as I’m having a similar
health problem to Mark 5:25-26 {no doubt, from all the estrogen I’ve had
over the years} and would appreciate
prayer for my healing (preferably without surgery!) THANK YOU! And I pray for all of you Doves with special
needs & requests as well.
Love to all!
MARANATHA!!! ~ looking
forward to being with Jesus forever, and having our new glorified minds &
bodies! **AMEN!!**