posted January 05, 2005 09:52 AM
Yep that's about right Serge. A little bit of what you fancy does you good!!
On a serious note I think that too much germ killing actually does us no good at all. All these cleaning products to provide a sterile home for our kids to grow up in doesn't let the good bugs thrive and causes untold problems in later life.
Be clean, but play dirty..........in the best possible taste!
Barb x
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posted January 05, 2005 10:11 AM
Barbara, you nailed it! My daughter is hardly ever sick nor are we. I'm just not a clean freak. I'm not a slob but I don't spend my life cleaning house like my sister and mother do!
My sisters kids have asthma. I always tell her if she'd quit cleaning with so many chemicals everyday and quit burning all the candles and plugging in air freshners they would probably get better! No one listens to me!
I was one of the mom's that let the pacifier fall on the floor and pick it up, blew it off, them handed it back to the little one. No need to boil it everytime. Build up that immune system.
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posted January 05, 2005 10:22 AM
Ladies are 100% CORRECT!
true story: we were in Peru last year, in Machu Pichu, 8000 ft above sea level. Outof the whole group, only 3 smokers made it all the way to the top! Who needs the oxygen? We got used to lack of it on the daily basis!
posted January 05, 2005 12:47 PM
I totally agree. I have lots of experience under my belt to vouch that a little dirt helps rather than hurts the strength of your immune system. German proverb that applies when you "pick up and blow off the pacifier" is : A farmer does not eat anything without salt.
Serge: I have been fortunate to also have been to Macchu Pichu. The native Indians have chests like barrels, they have to breathe hard to get air, it is so oxyen poor. I smoked at the time, a lot. It took a whole pack of matches to light one cigarette. I would not have walked up that mountain, but the switchback road, which I named the "Hiram Bingam Expressway" after the guy who found MP in 1913, was so terrifying to me that I walked it down. Never thought about that it was a jungle and the critters in there might be dangerous.
I no longer smoke, and I want to go back. But now I think I'm too old to walk it up
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posted January 05, 2005 03:26 PM
i am living proof that not all this cleaning/santitary/antibiotic taking crap is not in your best interest. i grew up in pa. born 1945. this was not the hayday of medical treatment. my father was on of the 1st spinal disc removals in 1946. they cut hin open, removed 2 discs, had him on one of the rotating beds for almost a year, letting his body shrink almost 1-1/2" so the vertabra would set on each other. now they fuse the vertibra. unhead of then. we had running cold water until 1956 when we got our 1st hot water heater. up till that time it was heat water on the stove(was electric after 51, prior to that it was a coal cook stove.) took baths in the kitchen in a tub that we kept on the back porch and brought it in one fri or sat for the weekly bath. you didnt change water from one person to the next....all 3 took turns in the same water only adding more hot water to already used water. during the week a bath consisted of wash cloth baths. back up to the time when i was a baby...my grand ma(baba, in russian) would feed me and prechew the food then put in my mouth! didnt have GERBER then. my mom did the same thing. this was normal. i didnt see an indoor toilet till i was in 4th grade!!! 1st, 2nd & 3rd grade was a 3 room building, 1 room for each grade. brown bag lunch which we used to trade food from each other, ate outside with the flys and bugs. water can for drinking water and we had a small colapsable cup for each of us to drink from. toilets were outhouses....needles to say you didnt go unless you absolutly had to.... as a child of 3,4,5 i played with other children black and white. so what ever germs they carried i was exposed to. we got a shower at home in 1957, was a great day. still had the outhouse till 1969. and had just a toilet installed after my dad died. the porcilen toilet was sit in a corner, piping was run from it to OLD OUTHOUSE!!!! no joke. was this way when i sold the place in 1980!!!!! also i spent a lot of time on a dairy farm in my teen years, workin in cow manure, chicken manure, raw milk was drank everyday. eggs right from the chicken. you wanted a chicken for supper...you went down caught one, chopped of its head, plucked it, gutted it, washed it and then cooked it. we butchered our own beef and pork. had many cuts and abrasions...a little iodine and was on our way. true story from my child hood 8-10 yr olds. one of my freinds fell one day when we was out playing in the woods, busted his head open and was bleedin bad...the other boy with us runs to the boys house that got hurt to get his mom. she comes over to him, looks at the cut on his head, takes her dress and wipes the blood away so she can see the cut....right next to us it a cold water spring(someone stuck a pipe in the hillside and this cold, clear, delious water runs out it)and it collects in a small pond which is mostly mud bottom. his mom digs down into this mud, come up with a hand full of blue-gray clay, slapps it on the open wound...and say your OK...go play!!!!! hes still alive and well to this day!!! point iam makin is the human body has wonderfull defenses....only if you let them do there job....iam 59 and this mass in my bladder is the major serious medical problem ive had in my adult life. i still have my tonsils, addnoids, apendix.....
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posted January 05, 2005 07:13 PM
PIMP!! You just posted you was sick sick sick 2 or 3 weeks ago!!! What was you doin'?? Bein' real clean around that time??
Y'all . . .I agree. I read something about this same thing soemwhere...so I quit using the anti-bacterial soap and dish liquid . . .also, I have a septic tank where I live now....you don't want to kill bacteria in it with the soapy water goin' in there . . .
Everyone gets mad at me if me or Em' eat a gumball or somethin' off the floor . . .LOL
Have you ever held a coupl'a bux, or a pen in your mouth while you were doin' somethin' else??
Just wipe the pasa off a lil' and plug the baby up again!!???...yep.
All I say is: "You BREATHE in worse than that...every where, all day, every day!"
But I do draw lines . . .(lol hey! That's a pun!!)
ANYWAY.... ~I think it's nastier to take baths. How can you get clean in the same water your sittin' in???
~And I think it's gross to put the ear-handles of your glasses in your mouth . . .YUK!! What all's behind your greasy ears???
(lol)
~Or what about drinkin' out of a paper milk carton . . after someone else?? Blah...it's so... soggy . . .won't do it at all even if I'm dyin' of thirst.
~An' have y'all seen them people on 'The Planet's Funniest Animals'?? Lettin' a dog lick ALL UP IN their mouth??? BLECH!! I'll change that channel when that comes on...
I don't care HOW clean a dogs mouth is 'SPOSED to be . . .we all know where it's tongue is 75% of EVERY DAY....ACK!
HEY!! I'm just thinkin' . . .this is a great way to stick to a diet!! I'm too grossed out to eat now!!
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posted January 06, 2005 09:12 AM
Remember that story about the guy that comes home asking "What's for dinner?" His wife answers "Tongue." He says, "I'm not eating something outa a cows mouth!" She inquires what he'd like instead and he says "Just fix me a couple eggs."
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posted January 06, 2005 09:36 AM
Hey Guys, this strand is a major part of Dr. Jordan Rubin's "The Makers Diet". Has anyone else here read it? If you're in the Atlanta area the end of this month, He's going to be speaking at Victory World Church in Norcross, GA.Jan.2(2 &23rd to be exact)If you want more information, Their website is www.victorywc.org. You just need to hear this guy's whole philosophy.
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posted January 06, 2005 01:42 PM
There are 278 types of germs living in the mouth of a human being. Those germs are harmless: when two people kiss, thousands of germs flow from one mouth to another. In such cases they produce enzymes and natural antibiotics for self-defense. As a result, the bodies of the two kissing individuals develop resistibility against all other pathogenic bacteria.
Hmmm? Interesting...
Cher.
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posted January 06, 2005 02:52 PM
david, i think sheila answered it. all i was saying is that if you let your "natural" imune system work, with out all the synthetic antibiotics and drugs of modern medicine.....you might just fair far better. 3 differnt people i know who had cancer, was givin a death sentance by doctors....6-12 months to live......dint take kemo/pills/or what the medical system prescribed, they turned to "natural organic healing". they did juicing, and raw vegtables & friuts only. and they are still alive and well 2-5 years after doctors told them they would die. also read my new post....KILLER DRUGS.
[ January 06, 2005, 03:19 PM: Message edited by: old paint ]
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posted January 06, 2005 10:49 PM
Hell, when I was little, I ate coal and dirt all the time. My mom said I was never sick. I still dont get sick that much, maybe once ever couple years or so. I must be gettin enough dirt in me to keep me healthy.
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posted January 07, 2005 01:48 AM
coal was goood huh john? i remember pikin a lump a cola outa the coal bucket. it was also a burnable item trash can...hehehehehehe.
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posted January 07, 2005 04:19 AM
I never heard these theories or gave it much thought before, but I've also always been less of a germ freak then those around me, (neat-freak: yes, but not a germ-freak) & I've also always been sick less then others.
Serge, I hiked the Inca trail to Macchu Picchu also, & although the ruins are, as you say, at an elevation of 8,000 ft. the 3 day trail in goes over an 11,000 ft. pass.
I met some New Zealanders I hiked with & they were big-time "trekkers" to hear them tell it, but I was in good shape from being a tree-planter working in the Oregon mountains everyday so I shot up past them to the pass & was sitting there smoking a joint when they arrived all panting out of breath. They were the picture of shame to be out "trekked" by a stoner
The hike up to Wayna Pichu (the steep peak always show in the background of most pics) was also a great trek for an awesome view of the Urubamba river, & a chance to avoid all the tourists after hiking in at sunrise before anyone else was there.
posted January 07, 2005 06:06 AM
When we moved onto the Hill in 78, we moved into a 25 yr old trailer with a 3 room addition on the side of it. The water pump drew water from a 300 gallon spring box out in the hillside. The sewage system was 100' of drain pipe running over the hill. We had a15 gallon water heater and had to watch the water usage every day. Too much water used drew down the spring box, and the pump lost it's prime. We shared bath water, adding a bit of hot water as we went. The water was heavy with lime from the limestone that passes as topsoil around here. (The most fertile ground around was at the end of the drain pipe!)
After our daughter was born we had the water tested. It had high levels of porcine fecal chlorophyl(sp?) For 2 years we were drinking pig Sht, not to mention bathing and cooking with it. We also raised goats for milk & meat; chickens for eggs and meat.
We lived in that place til '86 when we finished building the new house.
Never had much illness in the family, still don't!
The Good Old Days!
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posted January 08, 2005 02:05 AM
Nietzche...STAY AWAY FROM THIS GUY....and kiekaguard....both are nut cases...
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quote:Originally posted by old paint: Nietzche...STAY AWAY FROM THIS GUY....and kiekaguard....both are nut cases...
spoken by a man with a tube in his johnson....eat a steak will you
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