Heart Attack or Cardiac Arrest

Please share this with everyone your know. It is that important. You must know the difference between a heart attack and cardiac arrest. The wrong emergency treatment while you are waiting for the professional could kill. HeartAttackCardiacArrest.html

Oh boy am I excited?? I received an email this morning from the FBI and Homeland Security confirming that the 7 million dollars in the Nigerian bank is really mine and I just need to click a link and confirm my banking information and the money is legally mine. I'm sorry but if you fall for that - you deserve to lose the money in your banking account.

Just read an article on gas and bloating after a meal - claimed the cause was candida - a common yeast overgrowth. The article suggested that you go to a specific site and take an online test to determine if you have this condition.

I suggest that if you feel you might be suffering from candida, you go see your physician for a real world hands on test.

Gas and bloating after a meal. Yes candida side effects could be a cause. But - so could eating too fast, not chewing your food, drinking too much fluid with your meal, drinking sodas, too much stress with the food. The list can go on and on.

The first thing to do is make sure you are very thorough in chewing your food. Your stomach was not designed to process large chunks of meat and vegetables. Cut out the sugar - fermentation. Have only small sips of water with your meal. Keep the conversation to non-controversial subjects. After you eat, don't go lay down to watch TV.

You may also find it helpful to take digestive enzymes a half hour before you start eating.

Second, is this gas and bloating happening after every meal? Again, go see your physician if the above suggestions don't help.

And just in case you want to try to be proactive, the home grown treatment for candida is good old garlic. You need to ingest raw garlic, and lots of it. Another reason to take that daily garlic supplement - not as good as fresh but better than none.

Candida is a real problem and lots of people have it and don't have any symptoms they are aware of on a daily basis. This condition spreads rather silently and the effects - well let's just say that you get use to the symptoms before you realize there is a problem.

Vaginal candida usually comes with intense itching but internally spreading all over your body is like a vague headache.

Oh, don't forget, the biggest source of food for candida is sugar. Wide spread candida may also be linked to heart disease and cancer.

Allergies Honey and Peanut Butter

There was some interesting reading in my email today. It started with the peanut butter recall and a condemnation of the health inspectors and went on to honey.

We all know to eat local honey. It helps with allergies. I have been using local honey for years but will buy honey on trips from local road side vendors. I love the different tastes.

Now is appears that a big percentage of the honey you buy at the grocery store has been imported from China and relabeled so that information is not available.

"According to a five-month Seattle P-I investigation, more than 60 percent of honey consumed in the U.S. is imported. And about half of the imported honey comes from China. And a large portion of that Chinese honey is mislabeled to give consumers the impression that the honey is produced anywhere but China.

This practice is called "honey laundering." And besides being deceptive, it can be dangerous because Chinese honey sometimes contains chloramphenicol, an illegal antibiotic with harsh side effects – especially for those who have a sensitivity to the drug.

An executive for Sue Bee (one of the largest honey packers in the U.S.) told the Seattle P-I that chloramphenicol is detected in honey about once a month. When found, it's sent back to the importer. Bill Allibone, president of Sue Bee, explains that the FDA isn't informed because the company never actually takes ownership of the honey

But here's the heart of the problem: When chloramphenicol contamination is discovered, honey producers usually send it back to the importer. The FDA is rarely contacted, so unscrupulous importers are free to simply ship the honey to a different producer, hoping the antibiotic won't be detected the second time around." www.hsibaltimore.com

Isn't it sad. Most of us will not buy anything imported from China as a great deal of those imports turn out to be poison. Now our government is allowing US distributors to mislabel these products so we won't know they are from China. Just who's side is our government on?

Talking about allergies -- yesterday I got up feeling bright eyed and ready to go. Just after the sun came up my nose started to run -not drip- run. Within an hour I was miserable. Last night my nose slowed down and I slept pretty well. I'm wondering if something that opens in sunshine and closes at dark is the culprit. Today I have a headache but no running nose - no sun, total cloud cover.

until next time - smile and choose your honey wisely

Sharon
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