COLD and FLU SYMPTOMS
SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF A COLD
Fever is rare
Chills are uncommon
Stuffy nose is commonly present and resolves spontaneously within a week
Sore throat is commonly present
Cough that is hacking and mucus-producing is often present
Sneezing is commonly present
Body aches and pains can be symptoms
Fatigue and tiredness is mild
Decreased appetite may be a symptom
Headache is uncommon
Chest discomfort may be mild to moderate
Symptoms take a few days to develop
SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF INFLUENZA (FLU)
Fever present in 80% of cases. Temperature of 100 F or higher for 3 to 4 days.
Chills present in 60% of cases.
Runny nose
Sore throat irritation is common but not always present with flu
Dry Cough
Chest discomfort may be severe
Headache is common in 80% of cases
Muscles aches and pains may be severe
Fatigue may range from moderate to severe
Decreased appetite
Symptoms may hit suddenly within hours with fever and aches
INFLUENZA IS A CONTAGIOUS VIRAL RESPIRATORY INFECTION. Typically, the condition will improve after two to three days of bed rest, although some symptoms may persist for about a week. Death caused by flu virus is very rare. The majority of so-called “flu deaths” are due to bacterial pneumonia – a potential complication of the flu if your immune system is too weak. Other complications can include ear or sinus infections, dehydration, or worsening of existing chronic health conditions. The elderly and people with pre-existing medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes, or heart disease, are at higher risk of developing pneumonia after a bout of the flu.
DON’T PANIC IF YOU GET THE FLU!
1) Keep hydrated. Stay home. Get REST. Consume a liquid diet of vegetable juices and soups. Drink Aloe Vera juice. Do not eat sugary foods or drink sodas as these lower the immune system’s response. Do not consume dairy products as they are mucus forming.
2) SUPPLEMENT: Garlic supplement, Astragalus herbal supplement (stronger than Echinacea,) Colloidal Silver or Silver Shield, Limu juice (sea herbal - drink in ounces throughout the day.) If allergies or sensitivities are common, see a qualified doctor to know if your program is safe for you.
3) Take Vitamin D3 – this is one of the most evidence-based interventions available for reducing incidence and severity of seasonal colds and flu. The data is very, very strong.
(This is an overview and does not replace the advice of a medical doctor. Seek a medical physician if you become ill or have questions about your health.)
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
BODY BENEFITS FROM FLU
THE BODY BEBEFITS FROM FLU
By Tedd Koren, D.C.
Hippocrates, the “Father of Medicine,” recognized the role illness plays in the larger picture of health when he wrote, “Diseases are crises of purification, of toxic elimination. Symptoms are the natural defenses of the body. We call them diseases, but in fact they are the cure of diseases.”
In one study, flu sufferers who took aspirin or acetaminophen were sick an average of 3.5 days longer than people who did not take the drugs. (Pharmacotherapy.2000;20(12):1417-1422.)
The cleansing or detoxifying aspect of illness (fever, vomiting, diarrhea, sweating) may be why getting colds, flu and infectious diseases has been associated with a decreased risk of cancer.
Researchers found that those who had febrile infectious childhood diseases have less cancer as adults while another revealed that “a history of common colds or … influenza … was associated with a decreased risk of stomach, colon, rectum and ovarian cancer.” (History of cancer patients and matched controls. Medical Hypotheses. 1998;51(4):315-320) Common infections. J Cancer REs Clin Oncol. 1991:117(4):339-344.)
By Tedd Koren, D.C.
Hippocrates, the “Father of Medicine,” recognized the role illness plays in the larger picture of health when he wrote, “Diseases are crises of purification, of toxic elimination. Symptoms are the natural defenses of the body. We call them diseases, but in fact they are the cure of diseases.”
In one study, flu sufferers who took aspirin or acetaminophen were sick an average of 3.5 days longer than people who did not take the drugs. (Pharmacotherapy.2000;20(12):1417-1422.)
The cleansing or detoxifying aspect of illness (fever, vomiting, diarrhea, sweating) may be why getting colds, flu and infectious diseases has been associated with a decreased risk of cancer.
Researchers found that those who had febrile infectious childhood diseases have less cancer as adults while another revealed that “a history of common colds or … influenza … was associated with a decreased risk of stomach, colon, rectum and ovarian cancer.” (History of cancer patients and matched controls. Medical Hypotheses. 1998;51(4):315-320) Common infections. J Cancer REs Clin Oncol. 1991:117(4):339-344.)
AVOID THE WINTER FLU
AVOID THE WINTER FLU By Standard Process
Today, our immune system is under a lot of pressure from stress, environmental pollution, poor eating habits, and lack of sleep/exercise. There are many ways to protect ourselves and our immune system from seasonal challenges and diseases, including the flu. One of those ways is through nutrition. Support your immune system and conquer colds and flu by following these simple steps:
SLEEP When you’re tired, it becomes harder for you to get your daily tasks done. The same is true if your body is overly fatigued, it will be difficult for it to fight the flu. Regular rest will keep you strong and ensure that your body has the strength to fight off any potential invaders. Everyone needs a minimum of 6-8 hours daily! If your immune system is depleted, rest! After all, we cannot think clearly and function 100% without proper rest.
GARLIC Garlic is a triple-whammy: it’s antibacterial, antiviral and anti-fungal. Garlic is one food that you should be eating every day. You may choose to eat, “drink”, or take a quality garlic supplement When eating, it is important to note that the garlic must be fresh to give you optimal health benefits. The active ingredient is destroyed within one hour of pressing the garlic. Compress it with a spoon or garlic press, just prior to swallowing it, or put it through your juicer to add to your vegetable juice. If you swallow the clove intact you will not convert the active ingredient, allicin, to its active form.
STRESS We all face some stress everyday, but if stress becomes overwhelming then your body will be less able to fight off the flu and other illness. It has been estimated that up to 90 percent of illness and disease is stress-related. If you feel that stress is taking a toll on your health, consider “deep breathing” and other relaxing techniques (Yoga, meditation, aromatherapy baths, etc).
EXERCISE Exercise increases circulation and blood flow throughout your body. The components of your immune system are also better circulated, which means your immune system is more efficient at finding an illness before it spreads. In a sense, exercising helps your immune system to be more efficient in weeding and destroying viruses and diseases.
WASH YOUR HANDS Washing your hands decreases the likelihood of spreading a virus to your nose, mouth or other people. If your immune system is strong, it should be able to fight off the virus if it does enter your body, but washing your hands provides a bit of extra protection. Instead of antibacterial soap, identify’ a simple chemical-free soap that you can use. Local health food stores like Trader Joes’s or Whole Foods typically carry a variety of natural soaps.
AVOID DAIRY If you or your family member showing signs of runny nose, cough, congestion, sneezing; eliminate all dairy products for a few days. Dairy products increase the production of mucus and can actually CREATE more congestion, and amplify the feeding ground for bacteria and viruses. To be safe, eliminate any milk, cheese, yogurt, etc. for about 5-7 days while boosting your immune system and building back your energy reserves.
AVOID SUGAR Sugar decreases the function of your immune system almost immediately, and as you likely know, a strong immune system is key to fighting off viruses and other illness, including the flu. It is especially imperative to avoid sugar if you feel you are coming down with something, but keeping sugar out of your diet for the tong haul will do wonders for your health and make your body stronger, which will make it harder for the flu to bother you. Be aware that sugar is present in foods you may not suspect like ketchup and fruit juice.
Today, our immune system is under a lot of pressure from stress, environmental pollution, poor eating habits, and lack of sleep/exercise. There are many ways to protect ourselves and our immune system from seasonal challenges and diseases, including the flu. One of those ways is through nutrition. Support your immune system and conquer colds and flu by following these simple steps:
SLEEP When you’re tired, it becomes harder for you to get your daily tasks done. The same is true if your body is overly fatigued, it will be difficult for it to fight the flu. Regular rest will keep you strong and ensure that your body has the strength to fight off any potential invaders. Everyone needs a minimum of 6-8 hours daily! If your immune system is depleted, rest! After all, we cannot think clearly and function 100% without proper rest.
GARLIC Garlic is a triple-whammy: it’s antibacterial, antiviral and anti-fungal. Garlic is one food that you should be eating every day. You may choose to eat, “drink”, or take a quality garlic supplement When eating, it is important to note that the garlic must be fresh to give you optimal health benefits. The active ingredient is destroyed within one hour of pressing the garlic. Compress it with a spoon or garlic press, just prior to swallowing it, or put it through your juicer to add to your vegetable juice. If you swallow the clove intact you will not convert the active ingredient, allicin, to its active form.
STRESS We all face some stress everyday, but if stress becomes overwhelming then your body will be less able to fight off the flu and other illness. It has been estimated that up to 90 percent of illness and disease is stress-related. If you feel that stress is taking a toll on your health, consider “deep breathing” and other relaxing techniques (Yoga, meditation, aromatherapy baths, etc).
EXERCISE Exercise increases circulation and blood flow throughout your body. The components of your immune system are also better circulated, which means your immune system is more efficient at finding an illness before it spreads. In a sense, exercising helps your immune system to be more efficient in weeding and destroying viruses and diseases.
WASH YOUR HANDS Washing your hands decreases the likelihood of spreading a virus to your nose, mouth or other people. If your immune system is strong, it should be able to fight off the virus if it does enter your body, but washing your hands provides a bit of extra protection. Instead of antibacterial soap, identify’ a simple chemical-free soap that you can use. Local health food stores like Trader Joes’s or Whole Foods typically carry a variety of natural soaps.
AVOID DAIRY If you or your family member showing signs of runny nose, cough, congestion, sneezing; eliminate all dairy products for a few days. Dairy products increase the production of mucus and can actually CREATE more congestion, and amplify the feeding ground for bacteria and viruses. To be safe, eliminate any milk, cheese, yogurt, etc. for about 5-7 days while boosting your immune system and building back your energy reserves.
AVOID SUGAR Sugar decreases the function of your immune system almost immediately, and as you likely know, a strong immune system is key to fighting off viruses and other illness, including the flu. It is especially imperative to avoid sugar if you feel you are coming down with something, but keeping sugar out of your diet for the tong haul will do wonders for your health and make your body stronger, which will make it harder for the flu to bother you. Be aware that sugar is present in foods you may not suspect like ketchup and fruit juice.
FLU & COLDS - PREVENTIVE MEASURES
FLU AND COLD
PREVENTIVE MEASURES
1) EAT WELL.
MAINTAIN A DIET of 75% raw/steamed/sautéed vegetables & fresh fruits. If possible, juice carrots, celery and apples (drink raw juices). Otherwise, purchase refrigerated (less processed) juices.
LIMIT MEAT INTAKE to one serving a day the size of a deck of cards.
REDUCE INTAKE of WHITE FOOD PRODUCTS containing flour, sugar, salt, dairy, and grease/shortening (fried foods.) The “deadly whites” have the ability to lower the immune system’s response, raise blood sugars, increase LDL cholesterol levels, add fat to the body, increase mucus, increase heart disease, clog arteries, etc.: these foods do not support health and healing. They may be consumed in limited amounts when you are healthy.
2) STAY HYDRATED.
Cells require water to function properly and release toxins. A toxic overload lowers your body’s defenses and makes you more susceptible to illness and disease.
3) STRENGTHEN IMMUNE SYSTEM.
a) Products that may help: Colloidal Silver, Essential Oil of Thieves, Garlic crushed or in capsules, Aloe Vera juice, Vitamin D3, Cold-pressed Barley caps or tablets, Limu sea herbal juice.
b) Increase alkalinity of your body: consume large amounts of fresh vegetables and fruits,
c) Limit acidic foods such as meats, dairy, sugary foods, fast foods, pastas and white food products. Do not microwave food.
4) EXERCISE.
Walking 10 minutes before and after a meal helps control weight, blood sugars, reduce stress, improve circulatory system, support heart function, and stimulate lymphatic system, and more.
5) BE POSTIVE.
Being emotionally positive and staying relaxed are optimal ways to maximize your immune defenses and minimize risk of both becoming ill and of complications. A positive attitude can also maximize your recovery should you become ill.
6) SLEEP WELL.
The body heals during sleep. Sleep and rest is essential for healing and for maintaining good health. AT bedtime, watch only happy shows, read the bible, meditate, enjoy relaxing music, close the day with something positive or happy. This is what will play on your mind throughout the night – so give yourself “the gift” of something positive to support your body’s work of repair and healing throughout the night.
7) GET REGULAR B.E.S.T. ADJUSTMENTS.
Eliminating stress from your body and central nervous system is essential to good health. Keep your body in balance so nutrition and energy can be maximized and flow freely to nourish your body.
8) BE THANKFUL.
God gave you a body that heals. Take care of it!
PREVENTIVE MEASURES
1) EAT WELL.
MAINTAIN A DIET of 75% raw/steamed/sautéed vegetables & fresh fruits. If possible, juice carrots, celery and apples (drink raw juices). Otherwise, purchase refrigerated (less processed) juices.
LIMIT MEAT INTAKE to one serving a day the size of a deck of cards.
REDUCE INTAKE of WHITE FOOD PRODUCTS containing flour, sugar, salt, dairy, and grease/shortening (fried foods.) The “deadly whites” have the ability to lower the immune system’s response, raise blood sugars, increase LDL cholesterol levels, add fat to the body, increase mucus, increase heart disease, clog arteries, etc.: these foods do not support health and healing. They may be consumed in limited amounts when you are healthy.
2) STAY HYDRATED.
Cells require water to function properly and release toxins. A toxic overload lowers your body’s defenses and makes you more susceptible to illness and disease.
3) STRENGTHEN IMMUNE SYSTEM.
a) Products that may help: Colloidal Silver, Essential Oil of Thieves, Garlic crushed or in capsules, Aloe Vera juice, Vitamin D3, Cold-pressed Barley caps or tablets, Limu sea herbal juice.
b) Increase alkalinity of your body: consume large amounts of fresh vegetables and fruits,
c) Limit acidic foods such as meats, dairy, sugary foods, fast foods, pastas and white food products. Do not microwave food.
4) EXERCISE.
Walking 10 minutes before and after a meal helps control weight, blood sugars, reduce stress, improve circulatory system, support heart function, and stimulate lymphatic system, and more.
5) BE POSTIVE.
Being emotionally positive and staying relaxed are optimal ways to maximize your immune defenses and minimize risk of both becoming ill and of complications. A positive attitude can also maximize your recovery should you become ill.
6) SLEEP WELL.
The body heals during sleep. Sleep and rest is essential for healing and for maintaining good health. AT bedtime, watch only happy shows, read the bible, meditate, enjoy relaxing music, close the day with something positive or happy. This is what will play on your mind throughout the night – so give yourself “the gift” of something positive to support your body’s work of repair and healing throughout the night.
7) GET REGULAR B.E.S.T. ADJUSTMENTS.
Eliminating stress from your body and central nervous system is essential to good health. Keep your body in balance so nutrition and energy can be maximized and flow freely to nourish your body.
8) BE THANKFUL.
God gave you a body that heals. Take care of it!
SHOULD I GET A FLU SHOT?
SHOULD YOU GET A FLU SHOT?
By Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
http://www.russellblaylockmd.com
Millions of Americans will be lining up for their annual flu shot. But should they?
Could a yearly flu shot make you more susceptible to developing Alzheimer’s disease? Unfortunately, the answer may be “yes.”
One of the world’s leading immunologists, Dr. Hugh Fudenberg, conducted studies that found that people who receive the flu vaccine yearly for three to five years increase their risk of Alzheimer’s disease tenfold.
He suggests the culprits are mercury and aluminum in the vaccines, but I believe a new mechanism, which involves mercury and aluminum as well the over-activation of the brain’s immune system caused by the vaccines, is to blame.
Mercury and aluminum are directly toxic to brain cells and also over-stimulate the brain’s immune system. There is compelling evidence that this mechanism can trigger Alzheimer’s dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease and autism spectrum disorders, as well as Gulf War Syndrome.
The greatest risk of vaccinations triggering brain disorders is among those with impaired immunity. We know that as we age, the immune system becomes compromised, primarily because of poor nutrition.
In addition, the mercury vaccines, both in childhood vaccines as well as adult vaccines such as for flu, accumulates in the brain and is very difficult to remove. The idea of having yearly mercury injections is insane, to say the least, but millions still willingly line up for their annual flu shot.
ARE THERE ALTERNATIVES TO VACCINATION? Absolutely. We know that there is a solid connection between a strong immune system and nutrition. Several studies have shown that age-related immune problems can be corrected with nutrients such as selenium, vitamins E and C, zinc and the carotenoids. In addition, vitamin D3helps prevent over-reaction of the immune system as seen in these devastating diseases.
THE KEY FOR PREVENTION IS TO BUILD YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM WITH NUTRITION AND REST.
By Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
http://www.russellblaylockmd.com
Millions of Americans will be lining up for their annual flu shot. But should they?
Could a yearly flu shot make you more susceptible to developing Alzheimer’s disease? Unfortunately, the answer may be “yes.”
One of the world’s leading immunologists, Dr. Hugh Fudenberg, conducted studies that found that people who receive the flu vaccine yearly for three to five years increase their risk of Alzheimer’s disease tenfold.
He suggests the culprits are mercury and aluminum in the vaccines, but I believe a new mechanism, which involves mercury and aluminum as well the over-activation of the brain’s immune system caused by the vaccines, is to blame.
Mercury and aluminum are directly toxic to brain cells and also over-stimulate the brain’s immune system. There is compelling evidence that this mechanism can trigger Alzheimer’s dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease and autism spectrum disorders, as well as Gulf War Syndrome.
The greatest risk of vaccinations triggering brain disorders is among those with impaired immunity. We know that as we age, the immune system becomes compromised, primarily because of poor nutrition.
In addition, the mercury vaccines, both in childhood vaccines as well as adult vaccines such as for flu, accumulates in the brain and is very difficult to remove. The idea of having yearly mercury injections is insane, to say the least, but millions still willingly line up for their annual flu shot.
ARE THERE ALTERNATIVES TO VACCINATION? Absolutely. We know that there is a solid connection between a strong immune system and nutrition. Several studies have shown that age-related immune problems can be corrected with nutrients such as selenium, vitamins E and C, zinc and the carotenoids. In addition, vitamin D3helps prevent over-reaction of the immune system as seen in these devastating diseases.
THE KEY FOR PREVENTION IS TO BUILD YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM WITH NUTRITION AND REST.
ARE FLU SHOTS EFFECTIVE?
IS THE FLU SHOT EFFECTIVE?
By Tedd Koren, D.C.
DOES THE FLU SHOT SAVE LIVES AMONG CHILDREN? In 1999, 25 children died from the flu in the entire United States. In 2000 that number decreased to 19, to 13 in 2001 and to 12 in 2003. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) began to push for flu shots for kids in 2003. The result: the number of flu deaths increased in children jumping to 90. (National vital statistics reports, CDC. cdc.gov/hchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_13.pdf)
DOES THE FLU SHOT SAVE LIVES AMONG THE ELDERLY? Even though immunization rates in those over 65 have increased 50% in the past 20 years, researchers found no decline in flu-related deaths. Researcher report that studies “substantially” overestimate the vaccine’s benefit. (www.cdc.gov’nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52_13.pdf (p16)
HOW MANY PEOPLE DIE FROM THE FLU? You may have heard that the flu kills over 30,000 Americans every year. That is incorrect. Government statistics lump flu and pneumonia deaths together, but flu deaths are only a small fraction of the total. For example, in 2002 when the flu plus pneumonia deaths were reported at over 60,000 only 753 were flu deaths. In 2001 the total number of flu deaths was 267. The flu vaccine is poorly tested. It is a dangerous vaccine, yet millions of people receive it. (www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_3400.cfm)
According to Sherri Tenpenny, DO, VACCINE RESEARCHER, “The fact that the flu shots are ineffective in every age group hardly seems to matter to those who continually promote their use. Multiple studies published in highly reputable publications have documented that flu shots are ineffective in all ages.” (Flu shots: beware! May 1, 2006 www.newswithviews.com/Tenpenny/sherri6.htm)
FLU VACCINE? by Standard Process
The flu shot, and the newly released FluMist nasal vaccine, are not the answer to avoiding the flu. The “experts” will use FEAR to motivate people to get a flu vaccine, but this is yet another health care illusion. Flu can definitely be a killer disease and should not be easily dismissed. However, flu shots do not prevent illness--never have, never will.
The flu vaccine can actually weaken the immune system and make you more predisposed to the illness. And the side effects of FluMist, cough, runny nose/nasal congestion, irritability, headaches, chills, muscle aches and fever, sound just like the symptoms of the flu. If you decide to get the nasal flu vaccine, you will get not only a live flu virus in each dose but also table sugar and MSG, which are fraught with their own problems. Plus, research has shown an increased risk of Bell palsy following intranasal flu vaccination, according to the Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS). The makers of the nasal flu vaccine in the study decided not to market it the following season due to the risk. According to GACVS, the greater risk of Bell palsy following immunization with this vaccine may have been due to specific vaccine components, or simply to use of the intranasal administration route. It is therefore possible that such complications of vaccine administration may also apply to other nasal vaccines.
The flu vaccine, whether in the shot or nasal form, is worthless and should be avoided. Not only are they loaded with toxic chemicals including mercury, formaldehyde, and aluminum, but many people come down with the flu shortly after receiving the shot. This is because it actually weakens the immune system, making the person more predisposed to the illness.
The bottom line is to lead a healthy lifestyle, which includes eating right, exercising, getting adequate sleep, and addressing stressors, year round. If you do, chances are you’ll never have to worry about coming down with the flu.
By Tedd Koren, D.C.
DOES THE FLU SHOT SAVE LIVES AMONG CHILDREN? In 1999, 25 children died from the flu in the entire United States. In 2000 that number decreased to 19, to 13 in 2001 and to 12 in 2003. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) began to push for flu shots for kids in 2003. The result: the number of flu deaths increased in children jumping to 90. (National vital statistics reports, CDC. cdc.gov/hchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_13.pdf)
DOES THE FLU SHOT SAVE LIVES AMONG THE ELDERLY? Even though immunization rates in those over 65 have increased 50% in the past 20 years, researchers found no decline in flu-related deaths. Researcher report that studies “substantially” overestimate the vaccine’s benefit. (www.cdc.gov’nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52_13.pdf (p16)
HOW MANY PEOPLE DIE FROM THE FLU? You may have heard that the flu kills over 30,000 Americans every year. That is incorrect. Government statistics lump flu and pneumonia deaths together, but flu deaths are only a small fraction of the total. For example, in 2002 when the flu plus pneumonia deaths were reported at over 60,000 only 753 were flu deaths. In 2001 the total number of flu deaths was 267. The flu vaccine is poorly tested. It is a dangerous vaccine, yet millions of people receive it. (www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_3400.cfm)
According to Sherri Tenpenny, DO, VACCINE RESEARCHER, “The fact that the flu shots are ineffective in every age group hardly seems to matter to those who continually promote their use. Multiple studies published in highly reputable publications have documented that flu shots are ineffective in all ages.” (Flu shots: beware! May 1, 2006 www.newswithviews.com/Tenpenny/sherri6.htm)
FLU VACCINE? by Standard Process
The flu shot, and the newly released FluMist nasal vaccine, are not the answer to avoiding the flu. The “experts” will use FEAR to motivate people to get a flu vaccine, but this is yet another health care illusion. Flu can definitely be a killer disease and should not be easily dismissed. However, flu shots do not prevent illness--never have, never will.
The flu vaccine can actually weaken the immune system and make you more predisposed to the illness. And the side effects of FluMist, cough, runny nose/nasal congestion, irritability, headaches, chills, muscle aches and fever, sound just like the symptoms of the flu. If you decide to get the nasal flu vaccine, you will get not only a live flu virus in each dose but also table sugar and MSG, which are fraught with their own problems. Plus, research has shown an increased risk of Bell palsy following intranasal flu vaccination, according to the Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS). The makers of the nasal flu vaccine in the study decided not to market it the following season due to the risk. According to GACVS, the greater risk of Bell palsy following immunization with this vaccine may have been due to specific vaccine components, or simply to use of the intranasal administration route. It is therefore possible that such complications of vaccine administration may also apply to other nasal vaccines.
The flu vaccine, whether in the shot or nasal form, is worthless and should be avoided. Not only are they loaded with toxic chemicals including mercury, formaldehyde, and aluminum, but many people come down with the flu shortly after receiving the shot. This is because it actually weakens the immune system, making the person more predisposed to the illness.
The bottom line is to lead a healthy lifestyle, which includes eating right, exercising, getting adequate sleep, and addressing stressors, year round. If you do, chances are you’ll never have to worry about coming down with the flu.
ARE FLU SHOTS SAFE?
FLU SHOT SAFETY
By Tedd Koren, D.C.
FLU SHOT CONTAINS MERCURY - A neurotoxin that damages brain and nerve cells.
There are 25 microgram of mercury per dose in most flu shots. That number is FIVE TIMES the maximum amount judged safe by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) for a 110 pound person.
A survey of over 9000 Americans found that this was unknown to an overwhelming. Lisa Handley (of PutChildrenFirst.org) son became autistic after a flu shot.
In 1999 government agencies called for the removal of mercury in vaccines. However, many vaccines are still permitted to have unsafe levels of mercury. Some of this year’s flu vaccines still contain mercury. (www.orgaincconsumers.org/2006/article_3400.cfm)
FLU SHOT DAMAGES THE IMMUNE SYSTEM No one knows the long-term consequences of repeated influenza vaccinations – it’s never been tested ( this is true of all vaccines). Repeated vaccination at a young age increases the risk of influenza in older age. This is possibly due to overall weakening of the immune system. However, NATURAL FLU INFECTION STRENGTHENS THE IMMUNE SYSTEM. (Carrat F et al. Repeated influenza vaccination. Epidemiol Infect. 2006;134(1):63-70. vaclib.org/basic/reteatedfluvax.htm)
FLU SHOT is linked to ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE. According to Hugh Fudenberg, MD, the world’s leading immunogeneticist, the chances of getting Alzheimer’s disease is TEN TIMES HIGHER if you have had FIVE CONSECUTIVE FLU SHOTS. Dr. Fudenberg states that mercury in the shot causes the brain damage. (1st International Conference on Vaccination, September 1997, Arlington, Va.)
FLU VACCINATIN DURING PREGNANCY IS DANGEROUS AND USELESS Researchers found that vaccinating mothers does not reduce respiratory illness in their newborns or infants. “Maternal influenza vaccination did not significantly affect infant outpatient and inpatient visits for acute respiratory illness.” (Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med.2006;160:1277-1283.www.medscape.com/viewarticle/548801) It is not known if flu vaccines can cause cancer or mutations or cause sterility, reproductive problems or fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman. It is also not known whether flu vaccine is excreted in human milk.
The American Academy of Pediatrics states “mercury in all of its forms is toxic to the fetus and children.” Yet pediatricians who tell pregnant women not to eat tuna to avoid mercury still recommend the mercury-laden flu shot even though mercury injected into the mother is able to cross the placental barrier and enter the fetus.
ARE FLU SHOTS SAFE FOR CHILDREN? In 1999, 25 children died from the flu in the entire United States. In 2000 that number decreased to 19, to 13 in 2001 and to 12 in 2003. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) began to push for flu shots for kids in 2003. The result: the number of flu deaths increased in children jumping to 90. (National vital statistics reports, CDC. cdc.gov/hchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_13.pdf)
By Tedd Koren, D.C.
FLU SHOT CONTAINS MERCURY - A neurotoxin that damages brain and nerve cells.
There are 25 microgram of mercury per dose in most flu shots. That number is FIVE TIMES the maximum amount judged safe by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) for a 110 pound person.
A survey of over 9000 Americans found that this was unknown to an overwhelming. Lisa Handley (of PutChildrenFirst.org) son became autistic after a flu shot.
In 1999 government agencies called for the removal of mercury in vaccines. However, many vaccines are still permitted to have unsafe levels of mercury. Some of this year’s flu vaccines still contain mercury. (www.orgaincconsumers.org/2006/article_3400.cfm)
FLU SHOT DAMAGES THE IMMUNE SYSTEM No one knows the long-term consequences of repeated influenza vaccinations – it’s never been tested ( this is true of all vaccines). Repeated vaccination at a young age increases the risk of influenza in older age. This is possibly due to overall weakening of the immune system. However, NATURAL FLU INFECTION STRENGTHENS THE IMMUNE SYSTEM. (Carrat F et al. Repeated influenza vaccination. Epidemiol Infect. 2006;134(1):63-70. vaclib.org/basic/reteatedfluvax.htm)
FLU SHOT is linked to ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE. According to Hugh Fudenberg, MD, the world’s leading immunogeneticist, the chances of getting Alzheimer’s disease is TEN TIMES HIGHER if you have had FIVE CONSECUTIVE FLU SHOTS. Dr. Fudenberg states that mercury in the shot causes the brain damage. (1st International Conference on Vaccination, September 1997, Arlington, Va.)
FLU VACCINATIN DURING PREGNANCY IS DANGEROUS AND USELESS Researchers found that vaccinating mothers does not reduce respiratory illness in their newborns or infants. “Maternal influenza vaccination did not significantly affect infant outpatient and inpatient visits for acute respiratory illness.” (Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med.2006;160:1277-1283.www.medscape.com/viewarticle/548801) It is not known if flu vaccines can cause cancer or mutations or cause sterility, reproductive problems or fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman. It is also not known whether flu vaccine is excreted in human milk.
The American Academy of Pediatrics states “mercury in all of its forms is toxic to the fetus and children.” Yet pediatricians who tell pregnant women not to eat tuna to avoid mercury still recommend the mercury-laden flu shot even though mercury injected into the mother is able to cross the placental barrier and enter the fetus.
ARE FLU SHOTS SAFE FOR CHILDREN? In 1999, 25 children died from the flu in the entire United States. In 2000 that number decreased to 19, to 13 in 2001 and to 12 in 2003. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) began to push for flu shots for kids in 2003. The result: the number of flu deaths increased in children jumping to 90. (National vital statistics reports, CDC. cdc.gov/hchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_13.pdf)
FLU SHOT - WHAT IS IN IT?
FLU SHOT INGREDIENTS
By Tedd Koren, D.C.
MERCURY (thimerosal) One of the most poisonous substances known. Has an affinity for the brain, but, liver, bone marrow and kidneys. Minute amounts can cause nerve damage. Symptoms of mercury toxicity are similar to those of autism.
FORMALDEHYDE (formalin) Major component of embalming fluid; poisonous if ingested. Probable carcinogen; suspected gastrointestinal, liver, immune system, nerve, reproductive system and respiratory poison. Linked to leukemia, and brain, colon, sinus, nasopharynx and lymphatic cancers.
GENTAMICIN SULFATE & POLYMYSIN b (antibiotics) Allergic reactions can range from mild to life-threatening. *
CHICKEN EMPRYOS The flu vaccine is made with fluids from chick embryos inoculated with specific types(s) of influenza virus. People who are allergic to these products (egg or chicken) or to any of the other ingredients in a vaccine can become seriously ill from the vaccination.
SODIUM PHOSPHATE Symptoms may include vomiting, lethargy, diarrhea, blood chemistry effects, heart disturbances and central nervous system effects. May cause inflammation and pain on prolonged contact, especially with moist skin
GELATIN Produced from selected pieces of calf and cattle skins, demineralized cattle bones and pork skin. Allergic reactions have been reported. *
POLYSORBATE 80 Known to cause cancer in animals.
NEOMYCIN SULFATE (antibiotic) Interferes with Vitamin B6 absorption. An error in the uptake of B6 can cause a rare form of epilepsy and mental retardation. Allergic reactions can be mild to life-threatening.*
NONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE (msg/glutamate/glutamic acid) A neurotoxin. Being studied for mutagenic, teratogenic (developmental malformation and monstrosities) and reproductive effects. Allergic reactions can range from mile to severe. *
SODIUM DEOXYCHOLATE Promote tumors and damages DNA.
OCTOXYNOL-10 (triton x-100)
OCTOXYNOL-9 (polyethylene)
GLYCOL-P-ISOOCTYLPHENYL ETHER
OCTYLPHENOXYPOLYETHOXYETHANOL
SPERMICIDE (kills spem). Can cause chills, confusion, dizziness, fever lightheadedness, muscle aches, peeling of the skin. Causes severe eye irritation. Harmful if swallowed, inhaled or in contact with skin. Toxicology not fully investigated. May contain traces of ethylene oxide or dioxane, which are probable human carcinogens. Manufacturer’ website, Calbiochem.com, states: FOR RESEARCH USE ONLY. NOT FOR HUMAN OR DRUG USE.
BETA PROPIOLACTONE Known to cause cancer. Suspected respiratory, gastrointestinal, liver, skin and sense organ poison.
NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHAT THIS MIXTURE OF CHEMICALS AND MICROORGANISMS DOES IN OUR BODIES.
* Vaccine should not be administered to anyone with known systemic hypersensitivity to any component of the vaccine. It is almost impossible to know in advance of exposure if a child or adult has an allergy.
By Tedd Koren, D.C.
MERCURY (thimerosal) One of the most poisonous substances known. Has an affinity for the brain, but, liver, bone marrow and kidneys. Minute amounts can cause nerve damage. Symptoms of mercury toxicity are similar to those of autism.
FORMALDEHYDE (formalin) Major component of embalming fluid; poisonous if ingested. Probable carcinogen; suspected gastrointestinal, liver, immune system, nerve, reproductive system and respiratory poison. Linked to leukemia, and brain, colon, sinus, nasopharynx and lymphatic cancers.
GENTAMICIN SULFATE & POLYMYSIN b (antibiotics) Allergic reactions can range from mild to life-threatening. *
CHICKEN EMPRYOS The flu vaccine is made with fluids from chick embryos inoculated with specific types(s) of influenza virus. People who are allergic to these products (egg or chicken) or to any of the other ingredients in a vaccine can become seriously ill from the vaccination.
SODIUM PHOSPHATE Symptoms may include vomiting, lethargy, diarrhea, blood chemistry effects, heart disturbances and central nervous system effects. May cause inflammation and pain on prolonged contact, especially with moist skin
GELATIN Produced from selected pieces of calf and cattle skins, demineralized cattle bones and pork skin. Allergic reactions have been reported. *
POLYSORBATE 80 Known to cause cancer in animals.
NEOMYCIN SULFATE (antibiotic) Interferes with Vitamin B6 absorption. An error in the uptake of B6 can cause a rare form of epilepsy and mental retardation. Allergic reactions can be mild to life-threatening.*
NONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE (msg/glutamate/glutamic acid) A neurotoxin. Being studied for mutagenic, teratogenic (developmental malformation and monstrosities) and reproductive effects. Allergic reactions can range from mile to severe. *
SODIUM DEOXYCHOLATE Promote tumors and damages DNA.
OCTOXYNOL-10 (triton x-100)
OCTOXYNOL-9 (polyethylene)
GLYCOL-P-ISOOCTYLPHENYL ETHER
OCTYLPHENOXYPOLYETHOXYETHANOL
SPERMICIDE (kills spem). Can cause chills, confusion, dizziness, fever lightheadedness, muscle aches, peeling of the skin. Causes severe eye irritation. Harmful if swallowed, inhaled or in contact with skin. Toxicology not fully investigated. May contain traces of ethylene oxide or dioxane, which are probable human carcinogens. Manufacturer’ website, Calbiochem.com, states: FOR RESEARCH USE ONLY. NOT FOR HUMAN OR DRUG USE.
BETA PROPIOLACTONE Known to cause cancer. Suspected respiratory, gastrointestinal, liver, skin and sense organ poison.
NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHAT THIS MIXTURE OF CHEMICALS AND MICROORGANISMS DOES IN OUR BODIES.
* Vaccine should not be administered to anyone with known systemic hypersensitivity to any component of the vaccine. It is almost impossible to know in advance of exposure if a child or adult has an allergy.
Monday, September 27, 2010
REPORTING VACCINE REACTIONS
REPORTING VACCINE REACTIONS
Doctors’ Reactions
By Dr. Mercola, M.D.
Adverse side effects following vaccinations should be reported to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) hhtp://hhs.gov/index. However, like all other adverse event reporting, it is still voluntary.
According to a patient survey published in “Drug Safety,” doctors frequently ignored or dismissed patients’ complaints about side effects of statin drugs. This study offers strong suggestion that this pattern of dismissal extend to other drugs, including vaccinations, as well.
This pattern highlights the problem of the severe under-reporting of adverse drug reactions, leading both doctors and patients to believe that drugs are far safer than they really are. In reality, as many as 90 to 99 percent of all serious side effects are never reported, and therefore never included in the equation.
It is estimated that fewer than 10 percent of adverse events after vaccinations are ever reported to VAERS, perhaps even as low as one to four percent.
Most doctors will simply deny the possibility that a vaccine has harmed a healthy patient, and when the vaccine is mandatory, their denial can run even deeper. Most frequently, in the case of mandated vaccines, the strategy used is to highlight the seriousness of the disease, while denying the potential complications from the vaccine itself.
EXAMPLE: Meningococcal disease and the Menactra vaccine is one such case in point.
Meningococcal disease is a serious bacterial inflammation of the covering of your brain and spinal cord that can lead to brain damage, loss of limbs, and death. It is, however, a very rare disease, affecting between 1,400 to 2,800 American adults and children each year.
There are 13 meningococcal organism subgroups, and five serotypes (A, B, C, Y, and W-135) are responsible for nearly all cases of the disease worldwide. In the United States, serotypes B, C, and Y cause the majority of cases.
Sanofi licensed the Menactra vaccine in 2005, and the CDC (Center for Disese Control) immediately recommended it for universal use in all 11- to 18-year olds. Menactra protects against serotypes A, C, Y, and W-135, but not B, which causes one-third of all cases in the U.S. and more than 50 percent of the cases in young infants.
Therefore, Menactra actually offers ZERO PROTECTION against meningococcal disease 30 to 50 percent of the time, depending on your age.
Many adverse effects were found during Sanofi’s clinical trials, and two deaths have been reported to VAERS since its release. Within its first year, five cases of Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) were also reported to VAERS, which prompted the FDA to issue a warning for parents and doctors to monitor for signs of GBS after administrating the vaccine. By October 2006, 15 cases of GBS had been reported.
With the current push for the HPV (Gardasil) vaccine, it should also be noted that adverse event reports in cases where Gardasil and Menactra were administered simultaneously have skyrocketed.
When Gardasil was administered at the same time as Menactra, reports of:
•Guillain Barre Syndrome increased by 1,000 percent
•Respiratory problems increased by 114 percent
•Cardiac problems increased by 118 percent
•Neuromuscular and coordination problems increased by 234 percent
*Convulsions and nervous system problems increased by 301 percent
Search www.mercola.com for more information
Doctors’ Reactions
By Dr. Mercola, M.D.
Adverse side effects following vaccinations should be reported to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) hhtp://hhs.gov/index. However, like all other adverse event reporting, it is still voluntary.
According to a patient survey published in “Drug Safety,” doctors frequently ignored or dismissed patients’ complaints about side effects of statin drugs. This study offers strong suggestion that this pattern of dismissal extend to other drugs, including vaccinations, as well.
This pattern highlights the problem of the severe under-reporting of adverse drug reactions, leading both doctors and patients to believe that drugs are far safer than they really are. In reality, as many as 90 to 99 percent of all serious side effects are never reported, and therefore never included in the equation.
It is estimated that fewer than 10 percent of adverse events after vaccinations are ever reported to VAERS, perhaps even as low as one to four percent.
Most doctors will simply deny the possibility that a vaccine has harmed a healthy patient, and when the vaccine is mandatory, their denial can run even deeper. Most frequently, in the case of mandated vaccines, the strategy used is to highlight the seriousness of the disease, while denying the potential complications from the vaccine itself.
EXAMPLE: Meningococcal disease and the Menactra vaccine is one such case in point.
Meningococcal disease is a serious bacterial inflammation of the covering of your brain and spinal cord that can lead to brain damage, loss of limbs, and death. It is, however, a very rare disease, affecting between 1,400 to 2,800 American adults and children each year.
There are 13 meningococcal organism subgroups, and five serotypes (A, B, C, Y, and W-135) are responsible for nearly all cases of the disease worldwide. In the United States, serotypes B, C, and Y cause the majority of cases.
Sanofi licensed the Menactra vaccine in 2005, and the CDC (Center for Disese Control) immediately recommended it for universal use in all 11- to 18-year olds. Menactra protects against serotypes A, C, Y, and W-135, but not B, which causes one-third of all cases in the U.S. and more than 50 percent of the cases in young infants.
Therefore, Menactra actually offers ZERO PROTECTION against meningococcal disease 30 to 50 percent of the time, depending on your age.
Many adverse effects were found during Sanofi’s clinical trials, and two deaths have been reported to VAERS since its release. Within its first year, five cases of Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) were also reported to VAERS, which prompted the FDA to issue a warning for parents and doctors to monitor for signs of GBS after administrating the vaccine. By October 2006, 15 cases of GBS had been reported.
With the current push for the HPV (Gardasil) vaccine, it should also be noted that adverse event reports in cases where Gardasil and Menactra were administered simultaneously have skyrocketed.
When Gardasil was administered at the same time as Menactra, reports of:
•Guillain Barre Syndrome increased by 1,000 percent
•Respiratory problems increased by 114 percent
•Cardiac problems increased by 118 percent
•Neuromuscular and coordination problems increased by 234 percent
*Convulsions and nervous system problems increased by 301 percent
Search www.mercola.com for more information
VACCINE EXCEMPTION Q's Answered (TX Dept of Health)
VACCINATION INFORMATION
http://www.vaccineinfo.net is the best source of information we have about vaccination in Texas. Most issues are discussed or linked to other sites.
Vaccinations are mandated by the Texas Department of Health for all school children. However, the State has vaccine exemption affidavits available to anyone who wishes to make the choice to not be vaccinated or vaccinate their children. Public schools may not require vaccinations and must admit any child who submits a Texas Department of Health Vaccine Exemption Affidavit by law.
Here are some questions and answers directly copied from the Texas Department of Health http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/immunize/school/default.shtm
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Vaccine Exemption for Reasons of Conscience
Q. How do I obtain a vaccine exemption for reasons of conscience for my child?
A. Parents or guardians need to request a vaccine exemption affidavit form in writing. Each child’s name and date of birth must be included in the request. The requests must be submitted through the U.S. Postal Service, commercial carrier or hand delivered to:
Texas Department of Health
Bureau of Immunization and Pharmacy Support
1100 W. 49th Street
Austin, Texas 78756
Q. What if I have already submitted a request for a vaccine exemption affidavit form by e-mail or fax?
A. Any request submitted by e-mail or fax will need to be resubmitted in writing and sent through the U.S. Postal Service, commercial carrier or hand delivered to the above address.
Q. How many vaccine exemption affidavit forms can a parent or guardian request at one time?
A. Parents or guardians can request up to five vaccine exemption affidavit forms per child.
Q. What information will be listed on the vaccine exemption affidavit form I receive?
A. Information on the form will include the child’s name; date of birth; a list of vaccines for which exemptions may be requested; a statement for the requesting parent or guardian to indicate their relationship to the child; and an acknowledgement that the parent or guardian has read attached information entitled The Benefits and Risks of Vaccinations. Parents or guardians will then have to sign the form in front of a notary public.
Q. What will happen to the information collected on each child?
A. Requests submitted to TDH will be destroyed once vaccine exemption affidavit forms are mailed to parents or guardians. TDH will track and report on the number of affidavit requests but no personal information will be maintained.
Q. What should parents or guardians do with the vaccine exemption affidavit form?
A After the original vaccine exemption affidavit form is signed and notarized, it must be submitted to the child’s school.
Q. For how long is each child’s individual exemption affidavit valid?
A.Each individual vaccine exemption affidavit is good for five years from the date notarized.
Q. What happens if the parent or school loses the original vaccine exemption affidavit?
A. Photocopies of the vaccine exemption affidavit form are not valid. If parents or schools lose the exemption affidavit, the parent or guardian needs to request another vaccine exemption affidavit in writing following the same procedures used to obtain the first form.
Q. What if my child changes schools?
A. The vaccine exemption affidavit is part of the child’s school records and should be sent to the new school with other school records.
Q. Does a child have a 90-day provisional enrollment in school while awaiting the vaccine exemption form?
A. No. TEA policy requires school districts to provisionally enroll for no more than 30 days, those students whose parents or guardians wish to claim exemption from vaccine requirements for reasons of conscience.
Q. What happens at the end of the 30-day provisional enrollment period?
A. Once the 30-day provisional enrollment period ends, parents or guardians must present an official notarized TDH affidavit form, an up-to-date immunization record or a physician’s affidavit of medical contraindication to school officials to attend school. If parents or guardians cannot produce one of these three documents, their child will be excluded from attendance.
Q. What is required for school enrollment if I want my child exempt from some vaccines but not all of them?
A. Two different immunization documents will be needed: 1) an official notarized TDH vaccine exemption affidavit for those vaccines the parent or guardian has chosen for reasons of conscience to have their child exempt from; and 2) a valid immunization record indicating the month, date and year each vaccine for which the child is not exempt was administered, with appropriate validation by a physician or public health clinic.
Q. If a child currently has a religious exemption for vaccinations on file with the school, do they need to obtain a new vaccine exemption for reasons of conscience affidavit?
A. No. Students who are currently exempt from vaccination for religious beliefs and already have an affidavit on file at the school they attend do not need a new vaccine exemption affidavit form. The religious exemption on file remains valid.
Q. What if there is a vaccine-preventable disease—such as measles—outbreak at a school?
A. Each parent or guardian who signs a vaccine exemption affidavit form also is acknowledging they understand that their child may be excluded from school attendance in times of emergency or epidemic declared by the Texas Commissioner of Health.
Q. Does this new vaccine exemption option mean that my vaccinated child may be attending school with other children who are not fully vaccinated?
A. Yes.
Q. Can an expectant parent request a vaccination exemption affidavit form for an unborn child?
A. No. Because the child’s name and date of birth is required when the vaccine exemption affidavit form is requested, expectant parents must wait until after the child is born to request the vaccine exemption affidavit form.
Q. Can schools accept any other documents, other than a TDH vaccine exemption affidavit for reasons of conscience, to exempt a child from vaccination requirements for enrollment?
A. Yes. In addition to the vaccine exemption for reasons of conscience or religion, parents or guardians also may present for their child an affidavit or certificate signed by a licensed physician, which states that, in the physician's opinion, the immunization required would be injurious to the child’s health and well-being or any of the child’s family or household member. Unless a lifelong condition is specified, this affidavit or certificate is valid for only one year from the date signed by the physician and must be renewed every year for the exclusion to remain in effect.
Q. Are there other reasons a child may be exempted from vaccination requirements?
A. A child may be exempt from one or more vaccinations for medical reasons. The parent or guardian must provide the school with a certificate signed by a physician, registered and licensed to practice medicine in Texas, which states that, in the physician’s opinion, the immunization required would be injurious to the child’s health and well-being or to any of the child’s family or household members. Unless a lifelong condition is specified, that certificate is valid for one year from the date signed by the physician and must be renewed every year for the exclusion to remain in effect.
TEXAS VACCINE EXEMPTION INFORMATION
2005-2006 Texas Vaccine Exemption Information
The state of Texas in law grants and acknowledges the right of parents to exempt their children from vaccination requirements for day care, school, and college for reasons of conscience including a religious belief or for medical reasons. In 2003, the Texas legislature passed changes to the statutes expanding the reasons a parent can claim an exemption but the Health Department has questionably also increased the bureaucratic red tape necessary for claiming the exemption. There are specific procedures for requesting an official state form and submitting it to the school or for completing a medical exemption that all take some time so please don't wait until the last minute to get your papers in order.
For everyone claiming an exemption for the first time after 9/1/03, you must comply with the new law. If you've submitted an old religious exemption prior to 9/1/03 you are grandfathered under the old law (see notes below) and do not need a new form. The vaccine exemption forms for reasons of conscience including a religious belief are only for students claiming a vaccine exemption for the first time after 9/1/03 when the new law went into effect. If you need to request forms from the state health department, you can do it by fax, mail, or personal visit. If you send it by mail, we suggest sending it registered mail with a receipt so you can keep track of your request. If you send it by fax, set your fax machine to print out a delivery receipt. We would like to keep track of the Health Department's processing time.
According to the Texas Dept. of Health:
Written requests must be submitted through the U.S. Postal Service, commercial carrier, fax at (512) 458-7544 , or by hand-delivery to:
1946
DSHS Immunization Branch
1100 West 49th Street
Austin, Texas 78756
Hand-delivered requests may be submitted to the DSHS, Immunization Branch, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. ALL affidavit forms will be mailed to you via U.S. Postal Service. No requests will be filled at the time of hand-delivery.
Affidavit form requests will be processed and mailed within one week from the receipt of the request. If additional information is needed in order to process the affidavit, you will be notified;
The letter must include the following information:
•Full name of each child for whom a form is requested (first, middle, and last);
•Date of birth of each child for whom a form is requested;
•Parent or legal guardian’s complete return mailing address, including zip code;
•Number of forms needed for each child (not to exceed five forms per child)
Electronic mail or telephone requests cannot be processed.
The official Texas Department of State Health Services affidavit form must be notarized and submitted to school officials. The form must be submitted within 90 days from the date it is notarized.
The school will accept only official affidavit forms developed and issued by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), Immunization Branch.. No other forms or reproductions will be allowed.
(SOURCE: http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/immunize/school_exclusion.htm)
IT IS OUR OPINION THAT PARENTS SHOULD OBTAIN A WRITTEN NOTE FROM THE SCHOOL ACKNOWLEDGING RECEIPT OF THE EXEMPTION FORM. IF THE SCHOOL LOOSES THE FORM THEY CAN KICK YOUR KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL. IF YOU HAVE A WRITTEN RECEIPT FROM THE SCHOOL THAT YOU SUBMITTED THE FORM, YOU CAN PUT THE RESPONSIBILITY BACK ON THE SCHOOL TO GO FIND IT AND KEEP YOUR CHILD IN SCHOOL.
It is also our opinion that the department is outside of the law requiring that parents submit their children's names to get a form especially since the law requires the department to develop a blank form. They are also exceeding their authority in the statute by putting 2 year expirations on the new forms as the statute specifies no expiration. This bullying behavior is putting the department at risk for a legal challenge. However, for now, until this is legally challenged, these are the dictatorial procedures the DSHS has set up.
School officials around the state, ignoratn of the facts, are denying kids admission to school if they have an old religious exemption affidavit saying they need one of the new forms from the health department. THIS IS NOT TRUE! If you hear this is happening in your district, please call the superintendent's office and give them this link to the state health department where it clearly says you don't need a new form. Also, when you transfer schools, the old religious exemption letter is still part of your child's record and you do not need a new one as long as it was part of your child's record prior to 9/1/03.
http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/immunize/docs/faq_exemption.pdf
On the bottom of page 2, it says:
Q. If a child currently has a religious exemption for vaccinations on file with the school, do they need to obtain a new vaccine exemption for reasons of conscience affidavit?
A. No. Students who are currently exempt from vaccination for religious beliefs and already have an affidavit on file at the school they attend do not need a new vaccine exemption affidavit form. The religious exemption on file remains valid.
Also on page 2 it says:
Q. What if my child changes schools?
A. The vaccine exemption affidavit is part of the child’s school records and should be sent to the new school with other school records.
Additionally, some schools, daycare facilities and colleges are saying they don't have to accept the exemption. This is wrong - the law grants parents this right and the schools and daycares can't take this right away. For your convenience, we've posted links to the state statutes directly below.
The other option for parents to exempt their child from state immunization requirements is with a medical exemption written by a doctor. This is intended for families with children with health concerns or a past history of reactions. While this option bypasses the bureaucratic red tape with the new conscientious/religious exemption, the pressures on doctors to not write these are great and it may be difficult to get a doctor who acknowledges a vaccine reaction to substantiate that in writing by issuing an exemption because of pressures being put on them to deny acknowledgement of vaccine reactions.
Regardless, most families and physicians are not aware the exemption statute was greatly expanded last session to make it much easier for a doctor to write to protect a child from future reactions. No longer do they have to say the vaccine would definitively harm the child but that it instead poses a risk to the child. Any M.D. or D.O. licensed to practice medicine in the United States can write the letter stating that "in the physician's opinion, the vaccine required poses a significant risk to the health and well-being of the child or any member of the child's household." If the letter also says this is for a lifelong condition, (the condition does not need to be named) the exemption never has to be renewed. Otherwise it has to be renewed annually. The doctor just needs to write it out on a piece of paper and sign it. In this case, you can keep the original and give the school a copy.
Here is a sample medical exemption letter:
Medical Exemption to Immunization
In my opinion, the required immunizations pose a significant risk to the health and well-being of (name of child). This is a lifelong exemption for lifelong conditions.
Doctor's name, signature, and date
Laws Which Allow For Exclusions from Vaccine Requirements
Children and Education including Colleges:
•Texas Education Code, Health and Safety Chapter Section 38.0001 - Immunization Requirement Exceptions
•Texas Education Code, Title 3 Higher Education Section Chapter 51.933 - Immunization Requirements; Exceptions
•Texas Administrative Code Title 25 Part 1 Section 97 - Immunization Requirements in Texas Elementary and Secondary Schools and Institutes of Higher Education
(this section contains vaccine requirements by rule, provisional enrollment, and exemptions)
Day Care:
•Human Resource Code, Section 42.043 - Rules for Immunizations and Exemptions
Health Care Providers:
•Texas Administrative Code Title 25 Part 1 Rule § 97.101- Statewide Immunization of Children by Hospitals, Physicians, and other Health Care Providers
State of Texas:
•Texas Health and Safety Code, Section 161.004 - Statewide Immunization of Children
Other State Information
Texas Vaccine Exemption Information for the 2004 School Year - CLICK HERE:
www.vaccineinfo.net/exemptions/exemptions2004.shtml
Texas Vaccine Exemption Information for the 2003 School Year - CLICK HERE:
www.vaccineinfo.net/exemptions/exemptions2003.shtml
http://www.vaccineinfo.net is the best source of information we have about vaccination in Texas. Most issues are discussed or linked to other sites.
Vaccinations are mandated by the Texas Department of Health for all school children. However, the State has vaccine exemption affidavits available to anyone who wishes to make the choice to not be vaccinated or vaccinate their children. Public schools may not require vaccinations and must admit any child who submits a Texas Department of Health Vaccine Exemption Affidavit by law.
Here are some questions and answers directly copied from the Texas Department of Health http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/immunize/school/default.shtm
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Vaccine Exemption for Reasons of Conscience
Q. How do I obtain a vaccine exemption for reasons of conscience for my child?
A. Parents or guardians need to request a vaccine exemption affidavit form in writing. Each child’s name and date of birth must be included in the request. The requests must be submitted through the U.S. Postal Service, commercial carrier or hand delivered to:
Texas Department of Health
Bureau of Immunization and Pharmacy Support
1100 W. 49th Street
Austin, Texas 78756
Q. What if I have already submitted a request for a vaccine exemption affidavit form by e-mail or fax?
A. Any request submitted by e-mail or fax will need to be resubmitted in writing and sent through the U.S. Postal Service, commercial carrier or hand delivered to the above address.
Q. How many vaccine exemption affidavit forms can a parent or guardian request at one time?
A. Parents or guardians can request up to five vaccine exemption affidavit forms per child.
Q. What information will be listed on the vaccine exemption affidavit form I receive?
A. Information on the form will include the child’s name; date of birth; a list of vaccines for which exemptions may be requested; a statement for the requesting parent or guardian to indicate their relationship to the child; and an acknowledgement that the parent or guardian has read attached information entitled The Benefits and Risks of Vaccinations. Parents or guardians will then have to sign the form in front of a notary public.
Q. What will happen to the information collected on each child?
A. Requests submitted to TDH will be destroyed once vaccine exemption affidavit forms are mailed to parents or guardians. TDH will track and report on the number of affidavit requests but no personal information will be maintained.
Q. What should parents or guardians do with the vaccine exemption affidavit form?
A After the original vaccine exemption affidavit form is signed and notarized, it must be submitted to the child’s school.
Q. For how long is each child’s individual exemption affidavit valid?
A.Each individual vaccine exemption affidavit is good for five years from the date notarized.
Q. What happens if the parent or school loses the original vaccine exemption affidavit?
A. Photocopies of the vaccine exemption affidavit form are not valid. If parents or schools lose the exemption affidavit, the parent or guardian needs to request another vaccine exemption affidavit in writing following the same procedures used to obtain the first form.
Q. What if my child changes schools?
A. The vaccine exemption affidavit is part of the child’s school records and should be sent to the new school with other school records.
Q. Does a child have a 90-day provisional enrollment in school while awaiting the vaccine exemption form?
A. No. TEA policy requires school districts to provisionally enroll for no more than 30 days, those students whose parents or guardians wish to claim exemption from vaccine requirements for reasons of conscience.
Q. What happens at the end of the 30-day provisional enrollment period?
A. Once the 30-day provisional enrollment period ends, parents or guardians must present an official notarized TDH affidavit form, an up-to-date immunization record or a physician’s affidavit of medical contraindication to school officials to attend school. If parents or guardians cannot produce one of these three documents, their child will be excluded from attendance.
Q. What is required for school enrollment if I want my child exempt from some vaccines but not all of them?
A. Two different immunization documents will be needed: 1) an official notarized TDH vaccine exemption affidavit for those vaccines the parent or guardian has chosen for reasons of conscience to have their child exempt from; and 2) a valid immunization record indicating the month, date and year each vaccine for which the child is not exempt was administered, with appropriate validation by a physician or public health clinic.
Q. If a child currently has a religious exemption for vaccinations on file with the school, do they need to obtain a new vaccine exemption for reasons of conscience affidavit?
A. No. Students who are currently exempt from vaccination for religious beliefs and already have an affidavit on file at the school they attend do not need a new vaccine exemption affidavit form. The religious exemption on file remains valid.
Q. What if there is a vaccine-preventable disease—such as measles—outbreak at a school?
A. Each parent or guardian who signs a vaccine exemption affidavit form also is acknowledging they understand that their child may be excluded from school attendance in times of emergency or epidemic declared by the Texas Commissioner of Health.
Q. Does this new vaccine exemption option mean that my vaccinated child may be attending school with other children who are not fully vaccinated?
A. Yes.
Q. Can an expectant parent request a vaccination exemption affidavit form for an unborn child?
A. No. Because the child’s name and date of birth is required when the vaccine exemption affidavit form is requested, expectant parents must wait until after the child is born to request the vaccine exemption affidavit form.
Q. Can schools accept any other documents, other than a TDH vaccine exemption affidavit for reasons of conscience, to exempt a child from vaccination requirements for enrollment?
A. Yes. In addition to the vaccine exemption for reasons of conscience or religion, parents or guardians also may present for their child an affidavit or certificate signed by a licensed physician, which states that, in the physician's opinion, the immunization required would be injurious to the child’s health and well-being or any of the child’s family or household member. Unless a lifelong condition is specified, this affidavit or certificate is valid for only one year from the date signed by the physician and must be renewed every year for the exclusion to remain in effect.
Q. Are there other reasons a child may be exempted from vaccination requirements?
A. A child may be exempt from one or more vaccinations for medical reasons. The parent or guardian must provide the school with a certificate signed by a physician, registered and licensed to practice medicine in Texas, which states that, in the physician’s opinion, the immunization required would be injurious to the child’s health and well-being or to any of the child’s family or household members. Unless a lifelong condition is specified, that certificate is valid for one year from the date signed by the physician and must be renewed every year for the exclusion to remain in effect.
TEXAS VACCINE EXEMPTION INFORMATION
2005-2006 Texas Vaccine Exemption Information
The state of Texas in law grants and acknowledges the right of parents to exempt their children from vaccination requirements for day care, school, and college for reasons of conscience including a religious belief or for medical reasons. In 2003, the Texas legislature passed changes to the statutes expanding the reasons a parent can claim an exemption but the Health Department has questionably also increased the bureaucratic red tape necessary for claiming the exemption. There are specific procedures for requesting an official state form and submitting it to the school or for completing a medical exemption that all take some time so please don't wait until the last minute to get your papers in order.
For everyone claiming an exemption for the first time after 9/1/03, you must comply with the new law. If you've submitted an old religious exemption prior to 9/1/03 you are grandfathered under the old law (see notes below) and do not need a new form. The vaccine exemption forms for reasons of conscience including a religious belief are only for students claiming a vaccine exemption for the first time after 9/1/03 when the new law went into effect. If you need to request forms from the state health department, you can do it by fax, mail, or personal visit. If you send it by mail, we suggest sending it registered mail with a receipt so you can keep track of your request. If you send it by fax, set your fax machine to print out a delivery receipt. We would like to keep track of the Health Department's processing time.
According to the Texas Dept. of Health:
Written requests must be submitted through the U.S. Postal Service, commercial carrier, fax at (512) 458-7544 , or by hand-delivery to:
1946
DSHS Immunization Branch
1100 West 49th Street
Austin, Texas 78756
Hand-delivered requests may be submitted to the DSHS, Immunization Branch, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. ALL affidavit forms will be mailed to you via U.S. Postal Service. No requests will be filled at the time of hand-delivery.
Affidavit form requests will be processed and mailed within one week from the receipt of the request. If additional information is needed in order to process the affidavit, you will be notified;
The letter must include the following information:
•Full name of each child for whom a form is requested (first, middle, and last);
•Date of birth of each child for whom a form is requested;
•Parent or legal guardian’s complete return mailing address, including zip code;
•Number of forms needed for each child (not to exceed five forms per child)
Electronic mail or telephone requests cannot be processed.
The official Texas Department of State Health Services affidavit form must be notarized and submitted to school officials. The form must be submitted within 90 days from the date it is notarized.
The school will accept only official affidavit forms developed and issued by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), Immunization Branch.. No other forms or reproductions will be allowed.
(SOURCE: http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/immunize/school_exclusion.htm)
IT IS OUR OPINION THAT PARENTS SHOULD OBTAIN A WRITTEN NOTE FROM THE SCHOOL ACKNOWLEDGING RECEIPT OF THE EXEMPTION FORM. IF THE SCHOOL LOOSES THE FORM THEY CAN KICK YOUR KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL. IF YOU HAVE A WRITTEN RECEIPT FROM THE SCHOOL THAT YOU SUBMITTED THE FORM, YOU CAN PUT THE RESPONSIBILITY BACK ON THE SCHOOL TO GO FIND IT AND KEEP YOUR CHILD IN SCHOOL.
It is also our opinion that the department is outside of the law requiring that parents submit their children's names to get a form especially since the law requires the department to develop a blank form. They are also exceeding their authority in the statute by putting 2 year expirations on the new forms as the statute specifies no expiration. This bullying behavior is putting the department at risk for a legal challenge. However, for now, until this is legally challenged, these are the dictatorial procedures the DSHS has set up.
School officials around the state, ignoratn of the facts, are denying kids admission to school if they have an old religious exemption affidavit saying they need one of the new forms from the health department. THIS IS NOT TRUE! If you hear this is happening in your district, please call the superintendent's office and give them this link to the state health department where it clearly says you don't need a new form. Also, when you transfer schools, the old religious exemption letter is still part of your child's record and you do not need a new one as long as it was part of your child's record prior to 9/1/03.
http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/immunize/docs/faq_exemption.pdf
On the bottom of page 2, it says:
Q. If a child currently has a religious exemption for vaccinations on file with the school, do they need to obtain a new vaccine exemption for reasons of conscience affidavit?
A. No. Students who are currently exempt from vaccination for religious beliefs and already have an affidavit on file at the school they attend do not need a new vaccine exemption affidavit form. The religious exemption on file remains valid.
Also on page 2 it says:
Q. What if my child changes schools?
A. The vaccine exemption affidavit is part of the child’s school records and should be sent to the new school with other school records.
Additionally, some schools, daycare facilities and colleges are saying they don't have to accept the exemption. This is wrong - the law grants parents this right and the schools and daycares can't take this right away. For your convenience, we've posted links to the state statutes directly below.
The other option for parents to exempt their child from state immunization requirements is with a medical exemption written by a doctor. This is intended for families with children with health concerns or a past history of reactions. While this option bypasses the bureaucratic red tape with the new conscientious/religious exemption, the pressures on doctors to not write these are great and it may be difficult to get a doctor who acknowledges a vaccine reaction to substantiate that in writing by issuing an exemption because of pressures being put on them to deny acknowledgement of vaccine reactions.
Regardless, most families and physicians are not aware the exemption statute was greatly expanded last session to make it much easier for a doctor to write to protect a child from future reactions. No longer do they have to say the vaccine would definitively harm the child but that it instead poses a risk to the child. Any M.D. or D.O. licensed to practice medicine in the United States can write the letter stating that "in the physician's opinion, the vaccine required poses a significant risk to the health and well-being of the child or any member of the child's household." If the letter also says this is for a lifelong condition, (the condition does not need to be named) the exemption never has to be renewed. Otherwise it has to be renewed annually. The doctor just needs to write it out on a piece of paper and sign it. In this case, you can keep the original and give the school a copy.
Here is a sample medical exemption letter:
Medical Exemption to Immunization
In my opinion, the required immunizations pose a significant risk to the health and well-being of (name of child). This is a lifelong exemption for lifelong conditions.
Doctor's name, signature, and date
Laws Which Allow For Exclusions from Vaccine Requirements
Children and Education including Colleges:
•Texas Education Code, Health and Safety Chapter Section 38.0001 - Immunization Requirement Exceptions
•Texas Education Code, Title 3 Higher Education Section Chapter 51.933 - Immunization Requirements; Exceptions
•Texas Administrative Code Title 25 Part 1 Section 97 - Immunization Requirements in Texas Elementary and Secondary Schools and Institutes of Higher Education
(this section contains vaccine requirements by rule, provisional enrollment, and exemptions)
Day Care:
•Human Resource Code, Section 42.043 - Rules for Immunizations and Exemptions
Health Care Providers:
•Texas Administrative Code Title 25 Part 1 Rule § 97.101- Statewide Immunization of Children by Hospitals, Physicians, and other Health Care Providers
State of Texas:
•Texas Health and Safety Code, Section 161.004 - Statewide Immunization of Children
Other State Information
Texas Vaccine Exemption Information for the 2004 School Year - CLICK HERE:
www.vaccineinfo.net/exemptions/exemptions2004.shtml
Texas Vaccine Exemption Information for the 2003 School Year - CLICK HERE:
www.vaccineinfo.net/exemptions/exemptions2003.shtml
VACCINE EXCEMPTION INFORMATION
VACCINE EXCEMPTION
It is interesting to note that public health officials have never proven that it is safe to inject vaccines into our children, and they have even a more formidable task of explaining why, with the ever increasing number of vaccinations being administered, neurological and immune system disorders in our children are exploding.
In recent years there has been a growing trend by parents of not wanting to vaccinate their children. Physicians tell us that the number of parents expressing concern over their children receiving vaccinations is steadily increasing. This concern is valid.
The vaccines given newborns can contain a number of incredibly toxic substances:
Formaldehyde
Aluminum phosphate
Antibiotics
Phenols
Live viruses (and various other toxic compounds)
Mercury (in flu vaccines; you are not informed which vaccines do not contain mercury)
Sadly, these vaccines will not keep your child from getting sick. Rather, all vaccines carry the risk of serious side effects, especially the potential for crippling neurological damage such as autism, and even death. If your child receives the CDC’s recommended vaccinations, by the time your child begins kindergarten, they will have received 48 doses of 14 vaccines. Incredibly, 36 of the 48 are given during the first 18 months of life.
Every parent needs to know that although all states have vaccination requirements, all states also provide a way to escape these dangerous vaccines. 48 states allow exemptions for sincerely held religious beliefs, while another 18 states allow parents to opt out for personal, conscientious or philosophical beliefs.
Vaccinations are mandated by the Texas Department of Health for all school children. However, the State has vaccine exemption affidavits available to anyone who wishes to make the choice to not be vaccinated or vaccinate their children. Public schools may not require vaccinations and must admit any child who submits a Texas Department of Health Vaccine Exemption Affidavit by law.
FOR INFORMATION ON VACCINATION EXEMPTIONS
http://www.nvic.org.
HOW TO OBTAIN A VACCINE EXEMPTION FOR REASINS OF CONSCIENCE:
Request a vaccine exemption affidavit form in writing: the form can be obtained on-line.
Each child’s name and date of birth must be included in the request.
The requests must be submitted through the U.S. Postal Service, commercial carrier or hand delivered to:
Texas Department of Health
Bureau of Immunization and Pharmacy Support
1100 W. 49th Street
Austin, Texas 78756
For answers to questions from the Texas Department of Health http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/immunize/school/default.shtm
http://www.vaccineinfo.net ABOUT VACCINATION IN TEXAS
It is interesting to note that public health officials have never proven that it is safe to inject vaccines into our children, and they have even a more formidable task of explaining why, with the ever increasing number of vaccinations being administered, neurological and immune system disorders in our children are exploding.
In recent years there has been a growing trend by parents of not wanting to vaccinate their children. Physicians tell us that the number of parents expressing concern over their children receiving vaccinations is steadily increasing. This concern is valid.
The vaccines given newborns can contain a number of incredibly toxic substances:
Formaldehyde
Aluminum phosphate
Antibiotics
Phenols
Live viruses (and various other toxic compounds)
Mercury (in flu vaccines; you are not informed which vaccines do not contain mercury)
Sadly, these vaccines will not keep your child from getting sick. Rather, all vaccines carry the risk of serious side effects, especially the potential for crippling neurological damage such as autism, and even death. If your child receives the CDC’s recommended vaccinations, by the time your child begins kindergarten, they will have received 48 doses of 14 vaccines. Incredibly, 36 of the 48 are given during the first 18 months of life.
Every parent needs to know that although all states have vaccination requirements, all states also provide a way to escape these dangerous vaccines. 48 states allow exemptions for sincerely held religious beliefs, while another 18 states allow parents to opt out for personal, conscientious or philosophical beliefs.
Vaccinations are mandated by the Texas Department of Health for all school children. However, the State has vaccine exemption affidavits available to anyone who wishes to make the choice to not be vaccinated or vaccinate their children. Public schools may not require vaccinations and must admit any child who submits a Texas Department of Health Vaccine Exemption Affidavit by law.
FOR INFORMATION ON VACCINATION EXEMPTIONS
http://www.nvic.org.
HOW TO OBTAIN A VACCINE EXEMPTION FOR REASINS OF CONSCIENCE:
Request a vaccine exemption affidavit form in writing: the form can be obtained on-line.
Each child’s name and date of birth must be included in the request.
The requests must be submitted through the U.S. Postal Service, commercial carrier or hand delivered to:
Texas Department of Health
Bureau of Immunization and Pharmacy Support
1100 W. 49th Street
Austin, Texas 78756
For answers to questions from the Texas Department of Health http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/immunize/school/default.shtm
http://www.vaccineinfo.net ABOUT VACCINATION IN TEXAS
VACCINATIONS: ILLNESSES & SIDE EFFECTS
VACCINATIONS: ILLNESSES & SIDE EFFECTS
By Ted Koren, D.C.
Vaccination injects bacteria, viruses, genetic material and many other biological and toxic chemicals such as mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, acids, etc., deep into the child’s body, where they have access to internal organs including the brain. (For a detailed list read What Is In A Vaccine?)
The results of receiving so many vaccinations are reports of a host of illnesses that were rare or non-existent before mass vaccination. These conditions include, but are not limited to the following:
Autism, juvenile diabetes, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, reading problems, language difficulties, asthma, allergies, attention deficit disorder (ADD), ADHD, brain tumors, cancer, osteosarcoma, lupus erythematosus, dyslexia, abnormal behavior, deafness, hearing impairment, autoimmune diseases, hyperactivity, death, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel disease, juvenile arthritis, brain inflammation, infantile spasms, seizures, epilepsy, convulsions, increased intracranial pressure, demyelinating disease, SIDS (crib death), Asperger’s syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder, vision problems, otitis media (ear infection), upper respiratory tract infection, vomiting, fever, loss of I.Q. points, gastroenteritis, rash, croup, hives, eczema, colitis, chocking, holding breath, thrush, wheezing, pneumonia, bronchiolitis, influenza, vomiting, conjunctivitis, focal swelling, irritable child, permanent brain damage, encephalopathy (brain inflammation), sepsis, arthralgias (painful joint), nausea, headache, cardiac arrhythmias, syncope (fainting), cranial nerve paralysis, anaphylaxis, Guillain-Barre’ syndrome, Kawasaki disease (inflammation of heart and blood vessels), skin diseases, skin rashes, kidney disorders (including kidney failure), shingles, tuberculosis, carpal tunnel syndrome, paralytic disease, aseptic meningitis, Hodgkin’s Disease and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, atopic dermatitis, skin conditions.
As of 2006, a child may receive up to 80 vaccines by six years of age according to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) recommended schedule, and the number of new vaccines being approved is growing every year.
By Ted Koren, D.C.
Vaccination injects bacteria, viruses, genetic material and many other biological and toxic chemicals such as mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, acids, etc., deep into the child’s body, where they have access to internal organs including the brain. (For a detailed list read What Is In A Vaccine?)
The results of receiving so many vaccinations are reports of a host of illnesses that were rare or non-existent before mass vaccination. These conditions include, but are not limited to the following:
Autism, juvenile diabetes, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, reading problems, language difficulties, asthma, allergies, attention deficit disorder (ADD), ADHD, brain tumors, cancer, osteosarcoma, lupus erythematosus, dyslexia, abnormal behavior, deafness, hearing impairment, autoimmune diseases, hyperactivity, death, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel disease, juvenile arthritis, brain inflammation, infantile spasms, seizures, epilepsy, convulsions, increased intracranial pressure, demyelinating disease, SIDS (crib death), Asperger’s syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder, vision problems, otitis media (ear infection), upper respiratory tract infection, vomiting, fever, loss of I.Q. points, gastroenteritis, rash, croup, hives, eczema, colitis, chocking, holding breath, thrush, wheezing, pneumonia, bronchiolitis, influenza, vomiting, conjunctivitis, focal swelling, irritable child, permanent brain damage, encephalopathy (brain inflammation), sepsis, arthralgias (painful joint), nausea, headache, cardiac arrhythmias, syncope (fainting), cranial nerve paralysis, anaphylaxis, Guillain-Barre’ syndrome, Kawasaki disease (inflammation of heart and blood vessels), skin diseases, skin rashes, kidney disorders (including kidney failure), shingles, tuberculosis, carpal tunnel syndrome, paralytic disease, aseptic meningitis, Hodgkin’s Disease and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, atopic dermatitis, skin conditions.
As of 2006, a child may receive up to 80 vaccines by six years of age according to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) recommended schedule, and the number of new vaccines being approved is growing every year.
HOW MANY VACCINES WILL YOUR CHILD GET?
HOW MANY VACCINES WILL YOUR CHILD GET?
By Ted Koren, D.C
80 vaccines required as of 2006 and the numbers are growing
AT BIRTH
-HepB
ONE MONTH
-HepB
TWO MONTHS
-DTaP – each shoth as 3 vaccines
-Hib – each shot has 2 vaccines
-IPV
-PCV – each shoth as 8 vacines
-Rotavirus
4 MONTHS-DTap – each shot has 3 vaccines
-Hib – each shot has 2 vaccines
-IPV
-PCV – each shot has 8 vaccines
-Rotavirus
6 MONTHS-DTap – each shot has 3 vaccines
-Flu
-HepB
-Hib – each shot has 8 vaccines
-IPV
-PCV – each shot has 8 vaccines
-Rotavirus
12 MONTHS-HepA
-Hib – each shot has 2 vaccines
-MMR – each shot has 3 vaccines
-PCV – each shot has 8 vaccines
-Varicella
15 MONTHS-DTaP – each shot has 3 vaccines
18 MONTHS-Flu – annually throughout lifetime
-HepA
4 to 6 YEARS
-Dtap – each shot has 3 vaccines
-IPV
-MMR – eachshot has 3 vaccines
11 to 12 YEAR-MCV4
Vaccination injects bacteria, viruses, genetic material and many other biological and toxic chemicals (mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, acids) deep into the child’s body, where they have access to internal organs (including the brain). The results are a host of illnesses that were rare or non-existent before mass vaccination. Read VACCINES: ILLNESSES & SIDE EFFECTS for list of conditions.
VACCINES:
DTaP Diptheria, tetanus & pertussis
Flu Influenza
HepA Heptatis A
HepB Heptatis B
Hib Haemophilus influenzae type b
IPV Inactivated poliovirus
MCV4 Mningococcal
MMR Measles, mumps & rubella
PCV Pneumococcal conjugate
Rotavirus Rotavirus gastroenteritis
Varicella Chickenpox
NOTE: These numbers, based on the 2006 CDC recommended schedule, are conservative as they do not include shots that are recommended for certain populations. As of this date, there are currently over 200 additional vaccines in development and a child may receive up to 80 vaccines by age six.
By Ted Koren, D.C
80 vaccines required as of 2006 and the numbers are growing
AT BIRTH
-HepB
ONE MONTH
-HepB
TWO MONTHS
-DTaP – each shoth as 3 vaccines
-Hib – each shot has 2 vaccines
-IPV
-PCV – each shoth as 8 vacines
-Rotavirus
4 MONTHS-DTap – each shot has 3 vaccines
-Hib – each shot has 2 vaccines
-IPV
-PCV – each shot has 8 vaccines
-Rotavirus
6 MONTHS-DTap – each shot has 3 vaccines
-Flu
-HepB
-Hib – each shot has 8 vaccines
-IPV
-PCV – each shot has 8 vaccines
-Rotavirus
12 MONTHS-HepA
-Hib – each shot has 2 vaccines
-MMR – each shot has 3 vaccines
-PCV – each shot has 8 vaccines
-Varicella
15 MONTHS-DTaP – each shot has 3 vaccines
18 MONTHS-Flu – annually throughout lifetime
-HepA
4 to 6 YEARS
-Dtap – each shot has 3 vaccines
-IPV
-MMR – eachshot has 3 vaccines
11 to 12 YEAR-MCV4
Vaccination injects bacteria, viruses, genetic material and many other biological and toxic chemicals (mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, acids) deep into the child’s body, where they have access to internal organs (including the brain). The results are a host of illnesses that were rare or non-existent before mass vaccination. Read VACCINES: ILLNESSES & SIDE EFFECTS for list of conditions.
VACCINES:
DTaP Diptheria, tetanus & pertussis
Flu Influenza
HepA Heptatis A
HepB Heptatis B
Hib Haemophilus influenzae type b
IPV Inactivated poliovirus
MCV4 Mningococcal
MMR Measles, mumps & rubella
PCV Pneumococcal conjugate
Rotavirus Rotavirus gastroenteritis
Varicella Chickenpox
NOTE: These numbers, based on the 2006 CDC recommended schedule, are conservative as they do not include shots that are recommended for certain populations. As of this date, there are currently over 200 additional vaccines in development and a child may receive up to 80 vaccines by age six.
WHAT IS IN A VACCINE?
WHAT IS IN A VACCINE?
By Ted Koren, D.C.
ammonium sulfate (SALT) – Suspected gastrointestinal, liver, nerve and respiratory system poison.
beta-propiolactone – Known to cause cancer. Suspected gastrointestinal, liver, respiratory, skin and sense organ poison.
genetically modified yeast, animal, bacterial & viral DNA – Can be incorporated into the recipient’s DNA and cause unknown genetic mutations.
latex rubber – Can cause life-threatening allergic reactions.
monosodium glutamate (MSG)/GLUTAMATE/GLUTAMIC ACID – Being studied for mutagenic, teratogenic (developemental malformation and monstrosities) and reproductive effects. A neurotoxin. Allergic reactions can range from mild to severe.*
aluminum – Inplicated as a cause of brain damage; suspected factor in Alzheimer’s Disease, dementia, seizures and comas. Allergic reactions can occur on skin.*
formaldehyde (formalin) – Major constituent of embalming fluid; poisonous if ingested. Probable carcinogen; suspected gastrointestinal, liver, immune system, nerve, reproductive system and respiratory poison. Linked to leukemia, brain, colon and lymphatic cancer.
micro-organisms – Live and killed viri and bacteria or their toxins. The polio vaccine was contaminated with a monkey virus now turning up in human bone, lung-lining (mesothelioma), brain tumors and lymphomas.
polysorbate 80 – Known to cause cancer in animals.
tri(n)butylphosphate – Suspected kidney and nerve poison.
glutaraldehyde – Poisonous if ingested. Causes birth defects in experimental animals.
gelatin – Produced from selected pieces of calf and cattle skins, de-mineralized cattle bones and pork skin. Allergic reactions have been reported.*
gentamicin sulfate & polymysin B (antibiotics) – Allergic reactions can range from mild to life threatening.*
mercury (thimerosal) – One of the most poisonous substances known. Has an affinity for the brain, gut, liver, bone marrow and kidneys. Minute amounts can cause nerve damage. Symptoms of mercury toxicity are similar to those of autism.
neomycinsulfate (antibiotic) – Interferes with Vitamin B6 absorption. An error in the uptake of B6 can cause a rare form of epilepsy and mental retardation. Allergic reactions can be mild to life threatening.
phenol/phenoxyethanol (2PE) – Used as antifreeze. Toxic to all cells and capable of disabling the immune system’s primary response mechanism.
human & animal cells – Human cells from aborted fetal tissue and human albumin. Pig blood, horse blood, rabbit brain, guinea pig, dog kidney, cow heart, monkey kidney, chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg, calf serum, sheep blood and others.
* When babies are hours or days old it is impossible to know if they have an allergy.
“A major cause of the Roman Empire’s decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for the transport and supply of drinking water. Roman engineers, the best in the world, turned their fellow citizens into neurological cripples. Today our own “best and brightest,” with the best of intentions, achieve the same end through childhood vaccination programs yielding the modern scourges of hyperactivity, learning disabilities, autism, appetite disorders, and impulsive violence.”
Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D.
By Ted Koren, D.C.
ammonium sulfate (SALT) – Suspected gastrointestinal, liver, nerve and respiratory system poison.
beta-propiolactone – Known to cause cancer. Suspected gastrointestinal, liver, respiratory, skin and sense organ poison.
genetically modified yeast, animal, bacterial & viral DNA – Can be incorporated into the recipient’s DNA and cause unknown genetic mutations.
latex rubber – Can cause life-threatening allergic reactions.
monosodium glutamate (MSG)/GLUTAMATE/GLUTAMIC ACID – Being studied for mutagenic, teratogenic (developemental malformation and monstrosities) and reproductive effects. A neurotoxin. Allergic reactions can range from mild to severe.*
aluminum – Inplicated as a cause of brain damage; suspected factor in Alzheimer’s Disease, dementia, seizures and comas. Allergic reactions can occur on skin.*
formaldehyde (formalin) – Major constituent of embalming fluid; poisonous if ingested. Probable carcinogen; suspected gastrointestinal, liver, immune system, nerve, reproductive system and respiratory poison. Linked to leukemia, brain, colon and lymphatic cancer.
micro-organisms – Live and killed viri and bacteria or their toxins. The polio vaccine was contaminated with a monkey virus now turning up in human bone, lung-lining (mesothelioma), brain tumors and lymphomas.
polysorbate 80 – Known to cause cancer in animals.
tri(n)butylphosphate – Suspected kidney and nerve poison.
glutaraldehyde – Poisonous if ingested. Causes birth defects in experimental animals.
gelatin – Produced from selected pieces of calf and cattle skins, de-mineralized cattle bones and pork skin. Allergic reactions have been reported.*
gentamicin sulfate & polymysin B (antibiotics) – Allergic reactions can range from mild to life threatening.*
mercury (thimerosal) – One of the most poisonous substances known. Has an affinity for the brain, gut, liver, bone marrow and kidneys. Minute amounts can cause nerve damage. Symptoms of mercury toxicity are similar to those of autism.
neomycinsulfate (antibiotic) – Interferes with Vitamin B6 absorption. An error in the uptake of B6 can cause a rare form of epilepsy and mental retardation. Allergic reactions can be mild to life threatening.
phenol/phenoxyethanol (2PE) – Used as antifreeze. Toxic to all cells and capable of disabling the immune system’s primary response mechanism.
human & animal cells – Human cells from aborted fetal tissue and human albumin. Pig blood, horse blood, rabbit brain, guinea pig, dog kidney, cow heart, monkey kidney, chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg, calf serum, sheep blood and others.
* When babies are hours or days old it is impossible to know if they have an allergy.
“A major cause of the Roman Empire’s decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for the transport and supply of drinking water. Roman engineers, the best in the world, turned their fellow citizens into neurological cripples. Today our own “best and brightest,” with the best of intentions, achieve the same end through childhood vaccination programs yielding the modern scourges of hyperactivity, learning disabilities, autism, appetite disorders, and impulsive violence.”
Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
VACCINATION: 18 REASONS TO SAY "NO!"
VACCINATION: 18 REASONS TO SAY “NO!”
By Ted Koren, D.C.
By the time a child is 6 MONTHS OLD they are to be injected with at least 47 vaccines; at 18 MONTHS at least 67 vaccines, and at 4 to 6 YEARS at least 81 vaccines based on the 2009 CDC recommended schedule!
Why are so many parents rejecting vaccinations for their children?
The most common answers giver are:
- They consider the vaccines dangerous and ineffective.
- They prefer natural rather than artificial immunity
- They have (or know someone with) a vaccine-injured child (a growing number)
- They have religious or philosophical objections to vaccinations.
Before submitting to any medical procedure you must be fully informed about it. Let’s explore some of these reasons in greater detail.
1) TO HAVE HEALTHIER CHILDREN. Research reveals that non-vaccinated children are healthier than vaccinated children. 1-2
2) TO PROTECT MY CHILDREN FROM VACCINE-CAUSED DISEASES. It is the vaccinated children who have autism, asthma, allergies, skin disorders, immune system disorders, neurological disorders, ADD (attention deficit disorder), ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), other behavioral disorders, meningitis, dyslexia, hearing and vision problems. These conditions are rare in the non-vaccinated. 3-4
Other conditions linked to vaccination include pervasive developmental disorder (PDD), Asperger’s syndrome, eczema, meningitis, encephalitis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, convulsions, seizures, anaphylaxis, thrombocytopenia, optic neuritis, ocular palsies, retinitis, deafness, otitis media, ulcerative colitis, bowel disease, Crohn’s disease, headache, dizziness, hearing and vision problems, arthritis, arthralgia, learning disorders, chronic fatigue, diabetes, multiple sclerosis and more.
Robert Mendelsohn, MD writes: “Immunization against relatively harmless childhood diseases may be responsible for the dramatic increase in …cancer, leukemia, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), lupus and Guillain-Barr syndrome disease (ALS), lupus and Guillain-Barre syndrome.” 5
Jane Orient, MD, Executive Director of the Associations of American Physicians and Surgeons writes: “Asthma and diabetes…autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder have (increased greatly) since the introduction many new vaccines…..” 6
3) TO PROTECT MY BABY FROM CRIB DEATH (SIDS). What we call crib death or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is, in many cases, vaccination death.
Robert Mendelsohn, MD writes: “My suspicion, which is shared by others in my profession, is that the nearly 10,000 SIDS deaths that occur in the U.S. each year are related to one or more of the vaccines that are routinely given to children.” 7
In 1975 Japan raised the minimum age of vaccination from two months to two years. Crib death, infantile seizures, meningitis and other infectious diseases in infants virtually disappeared. Japan went from 17th in infant mortality to 1st (lowest in the world). However, serious infectious diseases such as meningitis sharply increased in two-year-olds. 8
Medical researcher Harris Coulter, PhD writes: “Now that the draft has been abolished, mandatory vaccination remains the only time an American is asked to risk his life for his country.” 9
4) TO PROTECT MY BABY FROM BEING INJECTED WITH TOXIC POISIONS. In addition to live and killed bacteria, viri and their toxins, children are injected with some of the most lethal poisons known: formaldehyde, mercury, aluminum,; phenol (carbolic acid); borax (ant killer); ethylene glycol (antifreeze); dye; acetone (nail polish remover); latex; MSG; glycerol; polysorbate 80/20; sorbitol monkey, cow, chick, pig, sheep and dog tissues and cells (may be contaminated with animal viruses); gelatin; casein; human fetal cells, human viruses, antibiotics; genetically modified yeast; and animal, bacterial and viral DNA (may affect recipient’s DNA).
5) I DON’T WANT TO PLAY RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH MY CHILD. No one knows the chances of your child being hurt or killed from a vaccination because only a fraction of children who are hurt is ever reported. According to the US Food and Drug Administration, MDs underreport vaccination injuries by 90%. 10 Another report revealed that only one in 50 vaccine-injured children (2%) is ever reported.” 11 Why would that be? There are a number of reasons. One is that most medical doctors do not know how to identify a vaccine reaction. Another is that they refuse to acknowledge that such reactions are inherent in vaccination. After all, they were taught in medical school that vaccines are very safe. A third reason is that it is hard to admit that something they did to help a patient caused that patient harm.
6) CHILDHOOD DISEASES ALMOST COMPLETELY DISAPPEARED BEFORE VACCINATION. The death rate from mumps and pertussis (whooping cough) had decreased over 90% before widespread vaccination. The measles death rate had decreased nearly 98%. Diseases for which no vaccines were introduced, such as scarlet fever and typhoid fever, al decreased to virtually zero.
“Nearly 90% of the total decline is mortality (scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, and measles) between 1860 and 1965 occurred before the introduction of antibiotics and widespread immunizations.” 12
7) THERE IS NO PROOF THE POLIO VACCINE DECRASED POLIO. Additionally the polio vaccine is linked to cancer. Due to improper filtering, a monkey virus 9SV40) was included in the polio vaccine. SV40 is highly carcinogenic (cancer-causing) and is linked to brain tumors, bone cancers, malignant mesothelioma (lung lining cancer) and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. 14
8) I DON’T WANT MY BABY TO GET IMCOMPLETELY-TESTED-DRUGS. Vaccines are not tested for their ability to cause cancer, mutations or developmental malformations. They are also untested for their affect on a child’s reproductive system. Shampoos and cosmetics are tested for carcinogenicity but vaccine are not.
9) I DON’T WANT MY CHILD TO GET CANCER. Pediatric cancer rates have been rising 1% a year since 1974 and cancer is currently the 2nd leading cause of death in children (after accidents). Luekemia and brain tumors, the most common childhood malignancies, are rising dramatically.15
“Have we traded mumps and measles for cancer and leukemia?” asks Robert Mendelsohn, MD. 16 Vaccination in childhood is linked to autoimmune diseases, skin diseases, degenerative diseases of bone and cartilage and tumors in adult life.17
10) I WANT MY CHILD TO HAVE NATURAL IMMUNITY. Vaccination is unnatural. Diseases contracted naturally are filtered through immune system defenses (i.e. skin and mucous membranes). However, vaccines are introduced into a child’s body unnaturally – direct injection into the child’s blood stream – giving them the vaccine ingredients (bacteria, viri and toxins) access to all of the major tissues and organs of the body without the body’s normal advantage of a total immune response.
11) I WANT MY CHILD TO BE FREE OF AUTISM AND LEARNING DISORDERS. After years of denying a link between vaccination and autism, on November 9, 2007 the US government in Court of Federal Claims admitted that vaccinations can cause autism.18 This follows years of thousands of parents reporting their normal, healthy children descended into autism after receiving DPT, MMR or other vaccines. Medical researcher Harris Coulter, PhD reports: “Between 15 and 20% of American school children are considered learning disables with minimal brain dysfunction directly caused by vaccine damage.”19
Dr. Coulter’s estimate (1990) is now a fraction of the larger number of vaccine-damaged children. For example, in 2004 almost five million children ages 3-17 were classified as learning disabled, a three-fold increase since 1976-77, with comparable increases in attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) and asthma.20
In addition, the American Academy of Pediatrics, in their January 2004 “AUTISM a.l.a.r.m.” BULLITEN, ANNOUNCED THAT 1 IN 6 American children were diagnosed with a developmental disorder and/or behavioral disorder. Vaccination is creating a generation of neurologically damaged children. If we include other types of vaccine damage such as allergy (including food allergy) and asthma, the numbers are far higher.
12) VACCINES INTEREFERE WITH TRANS-PLACENTAL IMMUNITY. Trans-placental immunity is the protection the fetus receives from the mother before birth (through the placenta). When a little girl is vaccinated she does not develop all the natural immunity she should have. When she becomes pregnant she cannot pass on as much protection to her unborn baby. That is why measles now occurs in children less than one-year-old and adults over twenty-five, ages where it can be fatal. This was unheard of before vaccination. Vaccines interfere with the age of occurrence of childhood diseases. 21-22
13) NO ONE KNOWS IF VACCINE DAMAGE CAN SURFACE YEARS LATER. “There are no adequate studies to determine the long-term effects of vaccines on our children and future generations.”23 According to Guylaine Lanctot, MD: “Vaccination is a disaster to the immune system. It actually causes a lot of illnesses. We are changing our genetic code through vaccination.”24
14) THE FLU VACCINE HAS BEEN LINKED TO ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND DEMENTIA. According to Hugh Fudenberg, MD, the world’s leading immunogeneticist, if an individual has had five consecutive flu shots his/her chances of getting Alzheimer’s diseaseis 10 times higher. Is this why Alzheimer’s is expected to quadruple? 25-26
15) I WANT MY CHILD TO HAVE PERMANENT IMMUNITY. Only natural immunity lasts a lifetime and vaccines don’t provide natural immunity. Also, when children are permitted to have infectious diseases of childhood they naturally lower their risk of cancer and heart disease in later life.27
16) THE VACCINES DON’T WORK. Outbreaks have occurred in 100% vaccinated populatons.28 In one school, out of 137 children who contracted measles, 98.7% were vaccinated.29 Another study found that getting a pertussis (whooping cough) shot increases the chances of getting pertussis.30
17) VACCINATION DOSAGE ISN’T PERSONALIZED. A 5-pound premature baby will get the same dosage as a 60-pound 6-year-old. There is no personalization for weigh, health or any other reason. A single vaccine given to a 6-pound newborn is the equivalent of giving an adult 30 vaccinations on the same day.
18) TO PROMOTE A NATURAL,DRUG-FREE LIFESTYLE. How can we tell out children to avoid drugs if we drug them throughout childhood? How can we teach our children that drugs are bad if we take them all the time?
OUR CHILDREN ARE INJECTED WITH DANGEROUS TOXIC CHEMICALS that have no benefit and may cause diseases far worse than what they are designed to “prevent.” Natural immunity is safer; natural immunity promotes healthier children; and natural immunity last forever.
REFEFERENCES
1)Pearce N et al. Is infant immunication a risk factor for childhood asthma or allergy? Epidemiology: 1997,8.678-680
2)Odent ME, Culpin EE, Kimmel T. Pertussis vaccination and asthma: is there a link? Letter: JAMA. 1994; 272(8):593
3)McKeever TM, Lewis SA, Smith C. Does vaccination increase the risk of developing allergic disease:: a birth cohort study. Winter Abasstract supplement to Thorax. 200;57:Supplement III.
4)Yoney H, Suzuki M, Fujii K, Odajima Y. The Effect of DPT and BCG vaccinations on atopic disorders. Areugi. 2000;49(7):585-592.
5)Memdelsohn R. How To Raise A healthy Child…In Spite of your Doctor. Dhicago: Contemporaty Books. 1984:232.
6)Statement of the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons to the U.S. House of Representatives. The Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources of the Committee on Government Reform. Submitted by Jane Orient, M.D. June 14, 1999.
7)Mendelsohn. Ibid:250.
8)Cherry Jd et al. Report of the task force on pertussis and pertussis immunization. Pediatrics (Supplement), 1988, 939-984.
9)Coulter HI. Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality: The Medical Assault on the American Brain, Washington DC: Center for Epirical Medicine. 1990:1v.
10) Kessler D. Introducing MEDWatch. A new approach to reporting medication and divice adverse effects and product problems. JAMA. 1993;269(21):2785
11) Froeschle]. Adverse event associated with childhood vaccines, evidence bearon on causality. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine presentations. 5/11/92;328, Appendix B.
12)Illich I. Medical Nemesis: Chapter 1: The Epidemics of Modern Medicine. NY: Bantam Books, 1976.
13) Mendelsohn. Ibid:230.
14) Vilchez RA, Kozinetz CA, Arrington, AS. Simian virus 40 in human cancers. American Journal of Medicine.2003;114(8):675-684.
15) Increase in childhood brain tumors likely cue to better diagnosis and reporting incidence rise coincides with spread of magnetic resonance imaging. NIH news release. September 1, 1998.
16) Mendelsohn. Ibid:233.
17) Renee T. Measles virus infection without rash leads to disease in adult life. Lancet. 5 January 1985.
18) Kirby D. Government conceded vaccine-autism case in federal court – Now what? The Huffington Post: February 25, 2008.
19) Coulter. Ibid.
20) Bloom B, Dey An. Summary health statistics for U.S. children: National health interview survey, 2004, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics.
21) Papania M. Baughman Al, Lee S et al. Increased susceptibility to measles in infants in the United Stated Pediatrics. 1999;265(24).
22) MMWR. 1991;40:369-372 in JAMA. 1991; 254(24)
23) US Rep. Dan Burton. LA Times. Letter to the editor. April 24, 200.
24) Medical Post. December 1944.
25) Dr. Fudenberg at the NVIC Internationa Vaccine Conference, Arlington, VA September, 1997. Quoted with permission.
26) John’s Hopkins Newsletter. November 1998.
27) Albonico HU, Braker Hu, Husler J. Febrile infectious childhood idiseases in the history of cancer patients and matched controls. Medical Hypotheses. 1998;51(4): 315-20.
28) MMWR. Us Govt. 12/29/89/38(5-9:1-18.
29) Davis Rm, Whitman ED, Orenstein Wa. A persistent outbreak of measles despite appropriate prevention ancontrol measure. Am J Epidemiol, 1978; 126(3).438-449.
30) De Melker HE, Schellekens JRP, Neppelenbrock SE et al. Reemergence of pertussis in the highly vaccinated population of The Netherlands: observations on surveillance data. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2000;6(4):348-357.
By Ted Koren, D.C.
By the time a child is 6 MONTHS OLD they are to be injected with at least 47 vaccines; at 18 MONTHS at least 67 vaccines, and at 4 to 6 YEARS at least 81 vaccines based on the 2009 CDC recommended schedule!
Why are so many parents rejecting vaccinations for their children?
The most common answers giver are:
- They consider the vaccines dangerous and ineffective.
- They prefer natural rather than artificial immunity
- They have (or know someone with) a vaccine-injured child (a growing number)
- They have religious or philosophical objections to vaccinations.
Before submitting to any medical procedure you must be fully informed about it. Let’s explore some of these reasons in greater detail.
1) TO HAVE HEALTHIER CHILDREN. Research reveals that non-vaccinated children are healthier than vaccinated children. 1-2
2) TO PROTECT MY CHILDREN FROM VACCINE-CAUSED DISEASES. It is the vaccinated children who have autism, asthma, allergies, skin disorders, immune system disorders, neurological disorders, ADD (attention deficit disorder), ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), other behavioral disorders, meningitis, dyslexia, hearing and vision problems. These conditions are rare in the non-vaccinated. 3-4
Other conditions linked to vaccination include pervasive developmental disorder (PDD), Asperger’s syndrome, eczema, meningitis, encephalitis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, convulsions, seizures, anaphylaxis, thrombocytopenia, optic neuritis, ocular palsies, retinitis, deafness, otitis media, ulcerative colitis, bowel disease, Crohn’s disease, headache, dizziness, hearing and vision problems, arthritis, arthralgia, learning disorders, chronic fatigue, diabetes, multiple sclerosis and more.
Robert Mendelsohn, MD writes: “Immunization against relatively harmless childhood diseases may be responsible for the dramatic increase in …cancer, leukemia, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), lupus and Guillain-Barr syndrome disease (ALS), lupus and Guillain-Barre syndrome.” 5
Jane Orient, MD, Executive Director of the Associations of American Physicians and Surgeons writes: “Asthma and diabetes…autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder have (increased greatly) since the introduction many new vaccines…..” 6
3) TO PROTECT MY BABY FROM CRIB DEATH (SIDS). What we call crib death or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is, in many cases, vaccination death.
Robert Mendelsohn, MD writes: “My suspicion, which is shared by others in my profession, is that the nearly 10,000 SIDS deaths that occur in the U.S. each year are related to one or more of the vaccines that are routinely given to children.” 7
In 1975 Japan raised the minimum age of vaccination from two months to two years. Crib death, infantile seizures, meningitis and other infectious diseases in infants virtually disappeared. Japan went from 17th in infant mortality to 1st (lowest in the world). However, serious infectious diseases such as meningitis sharply increased in two-year-olds. 8
Medical researcher Harris Coulter, PhD writes: “Now that the draft has been abolished, mandatory vaccination remains the only time an American is asked to risk his life for his country.” 9
4) TO PROTECT MY BABY FROM BEING INJECTED WITH TOXIC POISIONS. In addition to live and killed bacteria, viri and their toxins, children are injected with some of the most lethal poisons known: formaldehyde, mercury, aluminum,; phenol (carbolic acid); borax (ant killer); ethylene glycol (antifreeze); dye; acetone (nail polish remover); latex; MSG; glycerol; polysorbate 80/20; sorbitol monkey, cow, chick, pig, sheep and dog tissues and cells (may be contaminated with animal viruses); gelatin; casein; human fetal cells, human viruses, antibiotics; genetically modified yeast; and animal, bacterial and viral DNA (may affect recipient’s DNA).
5) I DON’T WANT TO PLAY RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH MY CHILD. No one knows the chances of your child being hurt or killed from a vaccination because only a fraction of children who are hurt is ever reported. According to the US Food and Drug Administration, MDs underreport vaccination injuries by 90%. 10 Another report revealed that only one in 50 vaccine-injured children (2%) is ever reported.” 11 Why would that be? There are a number of reasons. One is that most medical doctors do not know how to identify a vaccine reaction. Another is that they refuse to acknowledge that such reactions are inherent in vaccination. After all, they were taught in medical school that vaccines are very safe. A third reason is that it is hard to admit that something they did to help a patient caused that patient harm.
6) CHILDHOOD DISEASES ALMOST COMPLETELY DISAPPEARED BEFORE VACCINATION. The death rate from mumps and pertussis (whooping cough) had decreased over 90% before widespread vaccination. The measles death rate had decreased nearly 98%. Diseases for which no vaccines were introduced, such as scarlet fever and typhoid fever, al decreased to virtually zero.
“Nearly 90% of the total decline is mortality (scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, and measles) between 1860 and 1965 occurred before the introduction of antibiotics and widespread immunizations.” 12
7) THERE IS NO PROOF THE POLIO VACCINE DECRASED POLIO. Additionally the polio vaccine is linked to cancer. Due to improper filtering, a monkey virus 9SV40) was included in the polio vaccine. SV40 is highly carcinogenic (cancer-causing) and is linked to brain tumors, bone cancers, malignant mesothelioma (lung lining cancer) and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. 14
8) I DON’T WANT MY BABY TO GET IMCOMPLETELY-TESTED-DRUGS. Vaccines are not tested for their ability to cause cancer, mutations or developmental malformations. They are also untested for their affect on a child’s reproductive system. Shampoos and cosmetics are tested for carcinogenicity but vaccine are not.
9) I DON’T WANT MY CHILD TO GET CANCER. Pediatric cancer rates have been rising 1% a year since 1974 and cancer is currently the 2nd leading cause of death in children (after accidents). Luekemia and brain tumors, the most common childhood malignancies, are rising dramatically.15
“Have we traded mumps and measles for cancer and leukemia?” asks Robert Mendelsohn, MD. 16 Vaccination in childhood is linked to autoimmune diseases, skin diseases, degenerative diseases of bone and cartilage and tumors in adult life.17
10) I WANT MY CHILD TO HAVE NATURAL IMMUNITY. Vaccination is unnatural. Diseases contracted naturally are filtered through immune system defenses (i.e. skin and mucous membranes). However, vaccines are introduced into a child’s body unnaturally – direct injection into the child’s blood stream – giving them the vaccine ingredients (bacteria, viri and toxins) access to all of the major tissues and organs of the body without the body’s normal advantage of a total immune response.
11) I WANT MY CHILD TO BE FREE OF AUTISM AND LEARNING DISORDERS. After years of denying a link between vaccination and autism, on November 9, 2007 the US government in Court of Federal Claims admitted that vaccinations can cause autism.18 This follows years of thousands of parents reporting their normal, healthy children descended into autism after receiving DPT, MMR or other vaccines. Medical researcher Harris Coulter, PhD reports: “Between 15 and 20% of American school children are considered learning disables with minimal brain dysfunction directly caused by vaccine damage.”19
Dr. Coulter’s estimate (1990) is now a fraction of the larger number of vaccine-damaged children. For example, in 2004 almost five million children ages 3-17 were classified as learning disabled, a three-fold increase since 1976-77, with comparable increases in attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) and asthma.20
In addition, the American Academy of Pediatrics, in their January 2004 “AUTISM a.l.a.r.m.” BULLITEN, ANNOUNCED THAT 1 IN 6 American children were diagnosed with a developmental disorder and/or behavioral disorder. Vaccination is creating a generation of neurologically damaged children. If we include other types of vaccine damage such as allergy (including food allergy) and asthma, the numbers are far higher.
12) VACCINES INTEREFERE WITH TRANS-PLACENTAL IMMUNITY. Trans-placental immunity is the protection the fetus receives from the mother before birth (through the placenta). When a little girl is vaccinated she does not develop all the natural immunity she should have. When she becomes pregnant she cannot pass on as much protection to her unborn baby. That is why measles now occurs in children less than one-year-old and adults over twenty-five, ages where it can be fatal. This was unheard of before vaccination. Vaccines interfere with the age of occurrence of childhood diseases. 21-22
13) NO ONE KNOWS IF VACCINE DAMAGE CAN SURFACE YEARS LATER. “There are no adequate studies to determine the long-term effects of vaccines on our children and future generations.”23 According to Guylaine Lanctot, MD: “Vaccination is a disaster to the immune system. It actually causes a lot of illnesses. We are changing our genetic code through vaccination.”24
14) THE FLU VACCINE HAS BEEN LINKED TO ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND DEMENTIA. According to Hugh Fudenberg, MD, the world’s leading immunogeneticist, if an individual has had five consecutive flu shots his/her chances of getting Alzheimer’s diseaseis 10 times higher. Is this why Alzheimer’s is expected to quadruple? 25-26
15) I WANT MY CHILD TO HAVE PERMANENT IMMUNITY. Only natural immunity lasts a lifetime and vaccines don’t provide natural immunity. Also, when children are permitted to have infectious diseases of childhood they naturally lower their risk of cancer and heart disease in later life.27
16) THE VACCINES DON’T WORK. Outbreaks have occurred in 100% vaccinated populatons.28 In one school, out of 137 children who contracted measles, 98.7% were vaccinated.29 Another study found that getting a pertussis (whooping cough) shot increases the chances of getting pertussis.30
17) VACCINATION DOSAGE ISN’T PERSONALIZED. A 5-pound premature baby will get the same dosage as a 60-pound 6-year-old. There is no personalization for weigh, health or any other reason. A single vaccine given to a 6-pound newborn is the equivalent of giving an adult 30 vaccinations on the same day.
18) TO PROMOTE A NATURAL,DRUG-FREE LIFESTYLE. How can we tell out children to avoid drugs if we drug them throughout childhood? How can we teach our children that drugs are bad if we take them all the time?
OUR CHILDREN ARE INJECTED WITH DANGEROUS TOXIC CHEMICALS that have no benefit and may cause diseases far worse than what they are designed to “prevent.” Natural immunity is safer; natural immunity promotes healthier children; and natural immunity last forever.
REFEFERENCES
1)Pearce N et al. Is infant immunication a risk factor for childhood asthma or allergy? Epidemiology: 1997,8.678-680
2)Odent ME, Culpin EE, Kimmel T. Pertussis vaccination and asthma: is there a link? Letter: JAMA. 1994; 272(8):593
3)McKeever TM, Lewis SA, Smith C. Does vaccination increase the risk of developing allergic disease:: a birth cohort study. Winter Abasstract supplement to Thorax. 200;57:Supplement III.
4)Yoney H, Suzuki M, Fujii K, Odajima Y. The Effect of DPT and BCG vaccinations on atopic disorders. Areugi. 2000;49(7):585-592.
5)Memdelsohn R. How To Raise A healthy Child…In Spite of your Doctor. Dhicago: Contemporaty Books. 1984:232.
6)Statement of the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons to the U.S. House of Representatives. The Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources of the Committee on Government Reform. Submitted by Jane Orient, M.D. June 14, 1999.
7)Mendelsohn. Ibid:250.
8)Cherry Jd et al. Report of the task force on pertussis and pertussis immunization. Pediatrics (Supplement), 1988, 939-984.
9)Coulter HI. Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality: The Medical Assault on the American Brain, Washington DC: Center for Epirical Medicine. 1990:1v.
10) Kessler D. Introducing MEDWatch. A new approach to reporting medication and divice adverse effects and product problems. JAMA. 1993;269(21):2785
11) Froeschle]. Adverse event associated with childhood vaccines, evidence bearon on causality. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine presentations. 5/11/92;328, Appendix B.
12)Illich I. Medical Nemesis: Chapter 1: The Epidemics of Modern Medicine. NY: Bantam Books, 1976.
13) Mendelsohn. Ibid:230.
14) Vilchez RA, Kozinetz CA, Arrington, AS. Simian virus 40 in human cancers. American Journal of Medicine.2003;114(8):675-684.
15) Increase in childhood brain tumors likely cue to better diagnosis and reporting incidence rise coincides with spread of magnetic resonance imaging. NIH news release. September 1, 1998.
16) Mendelsohn. Ibid:233.
17) Renee T. Measles virus infection without rash leads to disease in adult life. Lancet. 5 January 1985.
18) Kirby D. Government conceded vaccine-autism case in federal court – Now what? The Huffington Post: February 25, 2008.
19) Coulter. Ibid.
20) Bloom B, Dey An. Summary health statistics for U.S. children: National health interview survey, 2004, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics.
21) Papania M. Baughman Al, Lee S et al. Increased susceptibility to measles in infants in the United Stated Pediatrics. 1999;265(24).
22) MMWR. 1991;40:369-372 in JAMA. 1991; 254(24)
23) US Rep. Dan Burton. LA Times. Letter to the editor. April 24, 200.
24) Medical Post. December 1944.
25) Dr. Fudenberg at the NVIC Internationa Vaccine Conference, Arlington, VA September, 1997. Quoted with permission.
26) John’s Hopkins Newsletter. November 1998.
27) Albonico HU, Braker Hu, Husler J. Febrile infectious childhood idiseases in the history of cancer patients and matched controls. Medical Hypotheses. 1998;51(4): 315-20.
28) MMWR. Us Govt. 12/29/89/38(5-9:1-18.
29) Davis Rm, Whitman ED, Orenstein Wa. A persistent outbreak of measles despite appropriate prevention ancontrol measure. Am J Epidemiol, 1978; 126(3).438-449.
30) De Melker HE, Schellekens JRP, Neppelenbrock SE et al. Reemergence of pertussis in the highly vaccinated population of The Netherlands: observations on surveillance data. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2000;6(4):348-357.
Friday, September 24, 2010
VACCINES & THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
VACCINES & THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
HOW THE IMMUNE SYSTEM WORKS?
By Richard Moskowitz, MD
Pathways Magazine, Issue 10
It is dangerously misleading and indeed false to claim that a vaccine makes us “immune” or “protects” us against an acute disease. In fact, it only drives the infection deeper into the interior and causes us to harbor it chronically, with the result that our responses to it become weaker and weaker and show less and less tendency to heal or resolve themselves spontaneously. To consider that possibility, I will examine the process of coming down with and recovering from a typical acute disease like the measles, in contrast to what we can observe after receiving the measles vaccine.
HOW THE IMMUNE SYSTEM WORKS
Various components of the immune system all work together as if designed to help the body distinguish “self” from “non-self. “ This helps us recognize and tolerate our own cells, identify and eliminate foreign substances and life forms, and achieve complete and permanent removal of the offending substance from the body.
As an example of how the immune system works, consider the disease of Measles. Measles is a virus of the respiratory tract, acquired by inhalation of infected droplets in the air. These droplets are produced by coughing and sneezing of patients with the disease. Once inhaled by a susceptible person, the virus then undergoes a long period of silent multiplication as it travels, first in the tonsils, adenoids, and accessory lymphoid tissue of the naso-pharynx, later in the regional lymph nodes of the head and neck, and eventually, several days later, passes into the blood and enters the spleen, the liver, the thymus, and the bone marrow, the visceral organs of the immune system. Throughout this “incubation period,” lasting from 10 to 14 days, the patient usually feels quite well, and experiences few, if any, symptoms.
By the time that the first symptoms appear, circulating antibodies are already detectable in the blood, the height of the symptoms coincide with the peak of the antibody response. In other words, the illness we know as “the measles: is precisely the attempt of the immune system to eliminate the virus FROM the blood, mainly by sneezing and coughing, i.e., via the same route that it entered the body to begin with.
The process of coming down with and recovering from an acute illness involves a general MOBILIZATION of the ENTIRE IMMUNE SYSTEM, including:
1) inflammation of previously sensitized tissues at the place of entry;
2) activation of white cells and macrophages that find and destroy the foreign elements; and
3) release of special serum protein fractions to expedite these operations.
Numerous other mechanisms are also involved, one of many being the production of specific antibodies.
There is little room for doubt that acute illnesses (many formally known as childhood diseases) create experiences that are essential for the immune system to develop and mature into a healthy and functioning system with the ability to fight our illnesses. Not only will children who recover from the disease, in this example “measles,” but they will never again be susceptible to it. Such an experience also prepares them to respond even more promptly and effectively to other infections they may acquire in the future. The ability to mount a vigorous, acute response to organisms of this type should be considered a fundamental requirement of general health and well-being.
HOW THE IMMUNE SYSTEM WORKS?
By Richard Moskowitz, MD
Pathways Magazine, Issue 10
It is dangerously misleading and indeed false to claim that a vaccine makes us “immune” or “protects” us against an acute disease. In fact, it only drives the infection deeper into the interior and causes us to harbor it chronically, with the result that our responses to it become weaker and weaker and show less and less tendency to heal or resolve themselves spontaneously. To consider that possibility, I will examine the process of coming down with and recovering from a typical acute disease like the measles, in contrast to what we can observe after receiving the measles vaccine.
HOW THE IMMUNE SYSTEM WORKS
Various components of the immune system all work together as if designed to help the body distinguish “self” from “non-self. “ This helps us recognize and tolerate our own cells, identify and eliminate foreign substances and life forms, and achieve complete and permanent removal of the offending substance from the body.
As an example of how the immune system works, consider the disease of Measles. Measles is a virus of the respiratory tract, acquired by inhalation of infected droplets in the air. These droplets are produced by coughing and sneezing of patients with the disease. Once inhaled by a susceptible person, the virus then undergoes a long period of silent multiplication as it travels, first in the tonsils, adenoids, and accessory lymphoid tissue of the naso-pharynx, later in the regional lymph nodes of the head and neck, and eventually, several days later, passes into the blood and enters the spleen, the liver, the thymus, and the bone marrow, the visceral organs of the immune system. Throughout this “incubation period,” lasting from 10 to 14 days, the patient usually feels quite well, and experiences few, if any, symptoms.
By the time that the first symptoms appear, circulating antibodies are already detectable in the blood, the height of the symptoms coincide with the peak of the antibody response. In other words, the illness we know as “the measles: is precisely the attempt of the immune system to eliminate the virus FROM the blood, mainly by sneezing and coughing, i.e., via the same route that it entered the body to begin with.
The process of coming down with and recovering from an acute illness involves a general MOBILIZATION of the ENTIRE IMMUNE SYSTEM, including:
1) inflammation of previously sensitized tissues at the place of entry;
2) activation of white cells and macrophages that find and destroy the foreign elements; and
3) release of special serum protein fractions to expedite these operations.
Numerous other mechanisms are also involved, one of many being the production of specific antibodies.
There is little room for doubt that acute illnesses (many formally known as childhood diseases) create experiences that are essential for the immune system to develop and mature into a healthy and functioning system with the ability to fight our illnesses. Not only will children who recover from the disease, in this example “measles,” but they will never again be susceptible to it. Such an experience also prepares them to respond even more promptly and effectively to other infections they may acquire in the future. The ability to mount a vigorous, acute response to organisms of this type should be considered a fundamental requirement of general health and well-being.
HOW VACCINES WORK
HOW VACCINES WORK
By Richard Moskowitz, MD
Pathways Magazine, Issue 10
“When the measles virus is injected into the blood, it bypasses the normal portal of entry, producing at most - a brief, mild inflammatory reaction at the injection site, but does not produce an incubation period, nor the possibility of eliminating it by the same route of entry, and no generalized immune response to build the immune system for future invaders. We have introduced the virus directly into the blood and given it free access to major organs with no way of getting rid of it, which is what the immune system seems to have been designed to prevent.” Vaccines bypass the immune systems’ ability to protect at the blood level by placing the disease elements directly into the blood without allowing the body to prepare its defense for destruction, or exit. Specific antibodies against the virus is achieved with no massive outpouring and general improvement in health of the body allowing a maintenance of the virus in the cells of the immune system for prolong periods of time. This creates a generalized weakening of our capacity to mount an effective response not only to the disease of vaccination, (i.e. measles), but to other acute infections as well.
Far from producing a genuine immunity, vaccines act by SUPPRESSING or INTERFERING with the immune response, as radiation, chemotherapy, steroids, and other anti-inflammatory drugs do. Artificial immunization isolates antibody production, a single aspect of the immune process, and allows it to stand for the whole. (Example: chemical suppression is used to lower blood pressure and is considered a valid substitute for healing the patient with hypertension.) Vaccines may make it more difficult to mount a vigorous acute response to infection by substituting a much weaker chronic response with little or no tendency for the immune system to heal the body spontaneously.
When a virus survives as a foreign element within the cell, the immune system must continue to make antibodies against it. When the virus becomes a permanent part (of the genetic material) of the cells, destroying the infected cells is the only possible way for it to be removed from the body – so the antibodies turns on its own cells – the immune system attacks itself. The persistence of live viruses and other foreign antigens entering the bloodstream within a person, year after year, works to provoke an autoimmune response. Routine vaccination introduces live viruses and other highly antigenic material directly into the bloodstream. After observing how the body reacts and responds, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that a significant number of autoimmune diseases must result.
When a person’s system is weakened by constant strain from the body attempting to make antibodies AGAINST ITSELF; their body becomes less and less able to withstand the stress. Eventually, the chronically infected and genetically transformed cells can no longer distinguish “self’ from “non-self.” They begin to free themselves from the normal restraints of the surrounding tissues and multiply. These may become tumors that remain strictly limited to A cell type or tissue location (“benign”); or become cells that spread to other tissues, organs, and to other areas in the body (“malignant.”) “If these speculations are accurate, the net effect of artificial immunization will be the trade off of the natural diseases of past centuries - for weaker, less curable chronic diseases of today. This introduces the new possibility of ongoing genetic alterations within the cells of our race with the possibility of much weaker, sicker generations to come.”
www.icpa4kids.org/research/references.htm
By Richard Moskowitz, MD
Pathways Magazine, Issue 10
“When the measles virus is injected into the blood, it bypasses the normal portal of entry, producing at most - a brief, mild inflammatory reaction at the injection site, but does not produce an incubation period, nor the possibility of eliminating it by the same route of entry, and no generalized immune response to build the immune system for future invaders. We have introduced the virus directly into the blood and given it free access to major organs with no way of getting rid of it, which is what the immune system seems to have been designed to prevent.” Vaccines bypass the immune systems’ ability to protect at the blood level by placing the disease elements directly into the blood without allowing the body to prepare its defense for destruction, or exit. Specific antibodies against the virus is achieved with no massive outpouring and general improvement in health of the body allowing a maintenance of the virus in the cells of the immune system for prolong periods of time. This creates a generalized weakening of our capacity to mount an effective response not only to the disease of vaccination, (i.e. measles), but to other acute infections as well.
Far from producing a genuine immunity, vaccines act by SUPPRESSING or INTERFERING with the immune response, as radiation, chemotherapy, steroids, and other anti-inflammatory drugs do. Artificial immunization isolates antibody production, a single aspect of the immune process, and allows it to stand for the whole. (Example: chemical suppression is used to lower blood pressure and is considered a valid substitute for healing the patient with hypertension.) Vaccines may make it more difficult to mount a vigorous acute response to infection by substituting a much weaker chronic response with little or no tendency for the immune system to heal the body spontaneously.
When a virus survives as a foreign element within the cell, the immune system must continue to make antibodies against it. When the virus becomes a permanent part (of the genetic material) of the cells, destroying the infected cells is the only possible way for it to be removed from the body – so the antibodies turns on its own cells – the immune system attacks itself. The persistence of live viruses and other foreign antigens entering the bloodstream within a person, year after year, works to provoke an autoimmune response. Routine vaccination introduces live viruses and other highly antigenic material directly into the bloodstream. After observing how the body reacts and responds, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that a significant number of autoimmune diseases must result.
When a person’s system is weakened by constant strain from the body attempting to make antibodies AGAINST ITSELF; their body becomes less and less able to withstand the stress. Eventually, the chronically infected and genetically transformed cells can no longer distinguish “self’ from “non-self.” They begin to free themselves from the normal restraints of the surrounding tissues and multiply. These may become tumors that remain strictly limited to A cell type or tissue location (“benign”); or become cells that spread to other tissues, organs, and to other areas in the body (“malignant.”) “If these speculations are accurate, the net effect of artificial immunization will be the trade off of the natural diseases of past centuries - for weaker, less curable chronic diseases of today. This introduces the new possibility of ongoing genetic alterations within the cells of our race with the possibility of much weaker, sicker generations to come.”
www.icpa4kids.org/research/references.htm
Thursday, September 23, 2010
VACCINES: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
VACCINES
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
By Russell Blaylock, MD
All of us, layman and medical professionals alike, have had engrained in our consciousness that the great epidemics of the world: smallpox, measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, an rubella – virtually disappeared from the United States due to a mass vaccination campaign to wipe out these terrible diseases. As is often the case in medicine, appearances and preconceived notions, when examined carefully, are often just not true. Neil A. Miller, an intrepid medical journalist, carefully researched the subject and found to his surprise, that in fact the incidence of death from all these diseases was falling dramatically in the developed world long before the mass vaccine programs started. What the proponents of vaccination did was take credit for the decline by a clever bit of statistical chart manipulation.
What we see is the deaths from polio, measles, whooping cough, and mumps were declining significantly BEFORE the vaccines were introduced. The vaccines merely caught the tail end of the natural decline. The same can be shown for ALL the childhood diseases. Those who have objectively examined these studies have concluded that it was a dramatic improvement in public health measures and diet that caused the decline.
We know, for example, that during wars, famine and other prolonged natural disasters, the incidence and severity of epidemics increases dramatically. This was responsible for the enormous death rates from the H1N1 flu virus during 1917-1918 at the end of WW1. More soldiers died from infectious diseases during both the civil war and World War I than died from bullets and bombs.
A compelling amount of research shows that our resistance to infectious disease is highly dependent on our nutrition, and this makes sense because even a single nutrient deficiency can suppress immunity and raise one’s mortality from infections.
A study in Africa found that children infected with measles had a very high death rate, mostly from pulmonary complications. When they fed these children vitamin A, E and zinc the mortality from measles fell by an incredible 85%. It has always been noted that the death rate in third world nations is infinitely higher for common, normally benign infections such as measles and mumps than in developed countries, where the death rate in healthy children is extremely low.
It is instructive that when public health authorities want to make a case for mass vaccination they always resort to studies in third world nations and not the American experience. They do this because we just don’t have high death rates from the common childhood infections.
“The modern generation is not aware that those of us born in the 1940s were given far FEWER vaccines – there were no vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, H influenza, rotavirus, etc. Yet, neither my wife, nor I,” says Dr. Blaylock, “can recall losing a single person in any of our classes in school to one of these infections. We all got them and they were no big deal. And, unlike the vaccines, our immunity to these diseases was life-long.”
Dr. Russell Blaylock is a nationally recognized board-certified neurosurgeon, health practitioner, author, and lecturer. www.russellblaylockmd.com
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
By Russell Blaylock, MD
All of us, layman and medical professionals alike, have had engrained in our consciousness that the great epidemics of the world: smallpox, measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, an rubella – virtually disappeared from the United States due to a mass vaccination campaign to wipe out these terrible diseases. As is often the case in medicine, appearances and preconceived notions, when examined carefully, are often just not true. Neil A. Miller, an intrepid medical journalist, carefully researched the subject and found to his surprise, that in fact the incidence of death from all these diseases was falling dramatically in the developed world long before the mass vaccine programs started. What the proponents of vaccination did was take credit for the decline by a clever bit of statistical chart manipulation.
What we see is the deaths from polio, measles, whooping cough, and mumps were declining significantly BEFORE the vaccines were introduced. The vaccines merely caught the tail end of the natural decline. The same can be shown for ALL the childhood diseases. Those who have objectively examined these studies have concluded that it was a dramatic improvement in public health measures and diet that caused the decline.
We know, for example, that during wars, famine and other prolonged natural disasters, the incidence and severity of epidemics increases dramatically. This was responsible for the enormous death rates from the H1N1 flu virus during 1917-1918 at the end of WW1. More soldiers died from infectious diseases during both the civil war and World War I than died from bullets and bombs.
A compelling amount of research shows that our resistance to infectious disease is highly dependent on our nutrition, and this makes sense because even a single nutrient deficiency can suppress immunity and raise one’s mortality from infections.
A study in Africa found that children infected with measles had a very high death rate, mostly from pulmonary complications. When they fed these children vitamin A, E and zinc the mortality from measles fell by an incredible 85%. It has always been noted that the death rate in third world nations is infinitely higher for common, normally benign infections such as measles and mumps than in developed countries, where the death rate in healthy children is extremely low.
It is instructive that when public health authorities want to make a case for mass vaccination they always resort to studies in third world nations and not the American experience. They do this because we just don’t have high death rates from the common childhood infections.
“The modern generation is not aware that those of us born in the 1940s were given far FEWER vaccines – there were no vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, H influenza, rotavirus, etc. Yet, neither my wife, nor I,” says Dr. Blaylock, “can recall losing a single person in any of our classes in school to one of these infections. We all got them and they were no big deal. And, unlike the vaccines, our immunity to these diseases was life-long.”
Dr. Russell Blaylock is a nationally recognized board-certified neurosurgeon, health practitioner, author, and lecturer. www.russellblaylockmd.com
VACCINE SAFETY
VACCINE SAFETY
By Russell Blaylock, MD
Every day the medical establishment finds another vaccine to add to the schedule of vaccines. It is estimated that in the near future by the time our children are adults, they will have had 150 vaccines.
You may ask, “What is wrong with vaccinating all of us against these diseases? Wouldn’t that give us even more protection?” I would answer “yes” if two conditions could be met. First, that the vaccines were safe; and second, that the immunity from the vaccines lasted a lifetime, as with natural infections from the actual diseases. Vaccine makers have met NEITHER of these conditions.
Several studies of common vaccines used both here in the United States and abroad were found to be infected with foreign viruses, bacteria or mycoplasma. One such study found that up to 60% of vaccines from several manufactures were contaminated with pestivirus, a virus that can cause miscarriages in pregnant women and other diseases. Others have noted that because most of these vaccines are manufactured from viruses grown in animal tissue (and even cancer tissues), MOST ARE CONTAMINATED with dozens of other viruses, some of which can cause cancer or neurodegenerative diseases.
A recently discovered class of dangerous viruses, called stealth viruses, is particularly frightening because they are so hard to detect by the usual safety methods. Vaccine companies do not test for these contaminates, including many other well-known dangerous viruses. Other studies have shown that several companies are using pooled human blood products or beef products that have a high risk of being contaminated with prions, mad cow disease.
Then there are the immune adjuvants, such as aluminum and squalene, which have been linked to a number of autoimmune diseases, neurodegenerative diseases and autism. While squalene cannot be used now, Dr. Blaylock expects it to soon gain FDA approval. Repeated injections with dozens of vaccines (the average 6-year-old child will have had 41 vaccines following the CDC’s recommendations, which most states do) have been shown to cause abnormal development of the child’s brain and neuro-degeneration in the adult brain.
There is growing evidence that this damages the immune system, making them more susceptible to infections and increasing the likelihood of severe reactions to mild diseases as a result. But then, this will create a demand for even more vaccines.
Today, a great many of our vaccines are being manufactured in China. The FDA is allowed to inspect these plants only once in 12 years, and then they cannot enter the plant, they must take the Chinese officials word that things are safe. What we should have learned with the Gardasil, HepB and tetanus vaccine experience is that there is a great deal about these vaccines they do not know and discover only after the health of hundreds and even thousands are permanently ruined.
Dr. Russell Blaylock is a nationally recognized board-certified neurosurgeon, health practitioner, author, and lecturer. www.russellblaylockmd.com
By Russell Blaylock, MD
Every day the medical establishment finds another vaccine to add to the schedule of vaccines. It is estimated that in the near future by the time our children are adults, they will have had 150 vaccines.
You may ask, “What is wrong with vaccinating all of us against these diseases? Wouldn’t that give us even more protection?” I would answer “yes” if two conditions could be met. First, that the vaccines were safe; and second, that the immunity from the vaccines lasted a lifetime, as with natural infections from the actual diseases. Vaccine makers have met NEITHER of these conditions.
Several studies of common vaccines used both here in the United States and abroad were found to be infected with foreign viruses, bacteria or mycoplasma. One such study found that up to 60% of vaccines from several manufactures were contaminated with pestivirus, a virus that can cause miscarriages in pregnant women and other diseases. Others have noted that because most of these vaccines are manufactured from viruses grown in animal tissue (and even cancer tissues), MOST ARE CONTAMINATED with dozens of other viruses, some of which can cause cancer or neurodegenerative diseases.
A recently discovered class of dangerous viruses, called stealth viruses, is particularly frightening because they are so hard to detect by the usual safety methods. Vaccine companies do not test for these contaminates, including many other well-known dangerous viruses. Other studies have shown that several companies are using pooled human blood products or beef products that have a high risk of being contaminated with prions, mad cow disease.
Then there are the immune adjuvants, such as aluminum and squalene, which have been linked to a number of autoimmune diseases, neurodegenerative diseases and autism. While squalene cannot be used now, Dr. Blaylock expects it to soon gain FDA approval. Repeated injections with dozens of vaccines (the average 6-year-old child will have had 41 vaccines following the CDC’s recommendations, which most states do) have been shown to cause abnormal development of the child’s brain and neuro-degeneration in the adult brain.
There is growing evidence that this damages the immune system, making them more susceptible to infections and increasing the likelihood of severe reactions to mild diseases as a result. But then, this will create a demand for even more vaccines.
Today, a great many of our vaccines are being manufactured in China. The FDA is allowed to inspect these plants only once in 12 years, and then they cannot enter the plant, they must take the Chinese officials word that things are safe. What we should have learned with the Gardasil, HepB and tetanus vaccine experience is that there is a great deal about these vaccines they do not know and discover only after the health of hundreds and even thousands are permanently ruined.
Dr. Russell Blaylock is a nationally recognized board-certified neurosurgeon, health practitioner, author, and lecturer. www.russellblaylockmd.com
Monday, August 2, 2010
PROTEIN: HOW MUCH DO I NEED?
PROTEIN: How Much Do I Need?
Approximately 25 grams per day is the goal. It is important to count the protein in the entire meal including your beverage, not just the meat. One serving size of meat is the size of one deck of cards. By this measure, we often eat a meat serving at least the size of TWO decks of cards which means we fulfilled our body’s requirement for protein for two days at this one meal without counting the rest of the food eaten at the same time. You can see how easy it is to become out-of-balance consuming to much acidic food in our culture and life style. This affects our blood pH. If the blood pH drops below 7.4, it become very acidic and cannot carry maximum oxygen to the cells to take glucose and make energy. You become sluggish and tired with low energy, because blood is getting more and more acid, or toxic. We create stress on our body due to diet.
Our body must maintain its pH balance. If we do not provide alkalinity through our food intake, our body will look within to pull out what it needs to maintain our pH balance. Sodium bicarbonate may be pulled from the gallbladder and dumped into the blood stream getting the blood back to a maximum pH, or it may pull calcium, which is alkaline, from our bones, gradually weakening our frame. The body will continue to look within to draw from you what it needs to maintain your pH balance, even if it means gradually breaking down your health for you to live. If over acidity becomes your lifestyle, sickness or pain may become common, and your body becomes the perfect environment for developing disease including cancer, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, etc. If sickness and disease are developed one bite at a time, it makes sense that even our most feared diseases can also be reversed by consuming nutritious/fresh foods.
YOUR HEALTH IS YOUR CHOICE. “LIVE WELL!”
PROTEIN IN ANIMAL PRODUCTS, NUTS, SEEDS
Grams of
FOOD SERVING PROTEIN
Ice Cream 2/3 cup (6oz) 4
Milk 1 cup 8
Cheese pizza 1/8 section 6
Cheddar Cheese 1 ounce 7
Yogurt 8 ounces 12
Eggs 1 6
Bacon 2 strips 4
Ham 3 oz 18
Hot Dog 1 6
Beef, ground 3 ounces 23
Chicken, breast 2.8 ounces 26
Corned beef 3 ounces 22
Spaghetti w/meat 1 cup 12
Tuna 3.5 ounces 28
Turkey 3.5 ounces 27
Peanuts ½ cup 18
Peanut Butter 1 tablespoon 4
Corn flakes, dry 1 cup 2
Bagel 1 (3 inches) 4
White bread 1 slice 2
Yeast donut 1 3_
PROTEIN IN VEGETABLES and FRUITS
Grams of
FOOD SERVING PROTEIN
Asparagus ½ c 2.5
Beets ½ c 1
Broccoli 2 spears 8
Brussels Sprouts 7 4
Carrots ½ c. 1
Cauliflower ½ c. 1
Corn ½ c. 2
Green Beans ½ c. 1
Greens, Collard ½ c. 1
Greens, Turnip ½ c. 1
Lettuce 1 c. 1
Potato, sweet 1 2
Potato, white 1 3
Spinach, cooked ½ c. 3
Spinach, raw ½ c. 2
Tomato 1 1
Apple 1 Tr
Banana 1 1
Grapes 10 Tr
Orange 1 1
Strawberries 1 c. 1
Watermelon 4x8 wedge 3
CONCLUSION: You reach 25 grams much more quickly when you calculate the amount of protein in animal products against consuming plant foods. Nuts, seeds, vegetables and fruits allow you to consume filling portions of foods which are highly nutritious and loaded with enzymes essential for digestion. Enjoy animal foods (one time a day or less) in small portions, and use small amounts as toppings or seasonings. Your body is never fooled: too much protein and you will pay for it over time – with declining health, or with your life!
Approximately 25 grams per day is the goal. It is important to count the protein in the entire meal including your beverage, not just the meat. One serving size of meat is the size of one deck of cards. By this measure, we often eat a meat serving at least the size of TWO decks of cards which means we fulfilled our body’s requirement for protein for two days at this one meal without counting the rest of the food eaten at the same time. You can see how easy it is to become out-of-balance consuming to much acidic food in our culture and life style. This affects our blood pH. If the blood pH drops below 7.4, it become very acidic and cannot carry maximum oxygen to the cells to take glucose and make energy. You become sluggish and tired with low energy, because blood is getting more and more acid, or toxic. We create stress on our body due to diet.
Our body must maintain its pH balance. If we do not provide alkalinity through our food intake, our body will look within to pull out what it needs to maintain our pH balance. Sodium bicarbonate may be pulled from the gallbladder and dumped into the blood stream getting the blood back to a maximum pH, or it may pull calcium, which is alkaline, from our bones, gradually weakening our frame. The body will continue to look within to draw from you what it needs to maintain your pH balance, even if it means gradually breaking down your health for you to live. If over acidity becomes your lifestyle, sickness or pain may become common, and your body becomes the perfect environment for developing disease including cancer, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, etc. If sickness and disease are developed one bite at a time, it makes sense that even our most feared diseases can also be reversed by consuming nutritious/fresh foods.
YOUR HEALTH IS YOUR CHOICE. “LIVE WELL!”
PROTEIN IN ANIMAL PRODUCTS, NUTS, SEEDS
Grams of
FOOD SERVING PROTEIN
Ice Cream 2/3 cup (6oz) 4
Milk 1 cup 8
Cheese pizza 1/8 section 6
Cheddar Cheese 1 ounce 7
Yogurt 8 ounces 12
Eggs 1 6
Bacon 2 strips 4
Ham 3 oz 18
Hot Dog 1 6
Beef, ground 3 ounces 23
Chicken, breast 2.8 ounces 26
Corned beef 3 ounces 22
Spaghetti w/meat 1 cup 12
Tuna 3.5 ounces 28
Turkey 3.5 ounces 27
Peanuts ½ cup 18
Peanut Butter 1 tablespoon 4
Corn flakes, dry 1 cup 2
Bagel 1 (3 inches) 4
White bread 1 slice 2
Yeast donut 1 3_
PROTEIN IN VEGETABLES and FRUITS
Grams of
FOOD SERVING PROTEIN
Asparagus ½ c 2.5
Beets ½ c 1
Broccoli 2 spears 8
Brussels Sprouts 7 4
Carrots ½ c. 1
Cauliflower ½ c. 1
Corn ½ c. 2
Green Beans ½ c. 1
Greens, Collard ½ c. 1
Greens, Turnip ½ c. 1
Lettuce 1 c. 1
Potato, sweet 1 2
Potato, white 1 3
Spinach, cooked ½ c. 3
Spinach, raw ½ c. 2
Tomato 1 1
Apple 1 Tr
Banana 1 1
Grapes 10 Tr
Orange 1 1
Strawberries 1 c. 1
Watermelon 4x8 wedge 3
CONCLUSION: You reach 25 grams much more quickly when you calculate the amount of protein in animal products against consuming plant foods. Nuts, seeds, vegetables and fruits allow you to consume filling portions of foods which are highly nutritious and loaded with enzymes essential for digestion. Enjoy animal foods (one time a day or less) in small portions, and use small amounts as toppings or seasonings. Your body is never fooled: too much protein and you will pay for it over time – with declining health, or with your life!
ALKALINE MENU STARTERS
ALKALINE MENU STARTERS
BREAKFAST IDEAS
EGG WHITE scrambled, or BOILLED EGG with vegetable topping or sauce.
TOPPING - any combination of sautéed vegetables: onions, peppers, mushrooms, spinach, squash, green or firm tomatoes.
SAUCE: May add Newman’s Spaghetti sauce to veggies to make a sauce, or as a spread on SANDWICHES.
FRESH FRUIT BOWLS with seasonal fruit: peaches, mango, banana, pineapple, apple, pear, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, Berries may be served w/ Coconut or Moca Milk.
Note: Eat MELONS first and alone.
FRESH FRUIT SMOOTHIE
This can be made in advance, even frozen and stored. Add fresh apple and or pineapple juice to thin the juice as desired. Add any trace minerals, Limu, vitamin drops, as this usually does not change the flavor.
To INCREASE NUTRITION, add any of the following:
-Nature Sunshine “Berry Healthy” powder,
-Halleluiah Acres “Beet Juice” powder.
-Almond butter, honey, Knox gelatin, cinnamon.
½ c. WHOLE OATS seasoned with cinnamon and Stevia, and/or WHOLE WHEAT BREAD spread of coconut oil, topped with wheat germ, toasted, may be eaten 30 minutes AFTER FRUIT has been eaten.
NOTE: FRUIT SHOULD BE EATEN ALONE. All other foods should be eaten 30 minutes after last bite of fruit, so fruit is NOT trapped in the stomach. When combined with other foods, purification, gas due to fermentation, and/or indigestion may occur.
LUNCH AND SUPPER IDEAS
SALAD: May be the MEAL, or accompany meals below. Cut up vegetables on a bed of SPINACH and ROMAINE LETTUCE. Combine any RAW vegetables you normally cook: squash, peppers, onions, tomatoes, fresh/frozen peas, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, uncooked green beans, avocado, mushrooms, raw corn.
TOPPINGS may include: Pickled beets, black olives, sliced sweet pickles, garbanzo beans, pumpkin seeds, sliced almonds, pecans, walnuts, feta cheese, 3 oz of: salmon, diced chicken, or turkey.
DRESSINGS need to be olive oil and vinegar, or a vinaigrette dressing. Newman’s is a good brand. No creamy dressings (high in fat).
STEAMERS (in the grocer freezer section) may be steamed in ORGANIC VEGETABLE BROTH
Blend left-over veggies into a creamy SOUP.
BAKED SWEET POTATO may add real butter, and/or cinnamon. NO baked white potatoes.
GREEN BEANS, SMALL RED POTATOES, PEARL ONIONS cooked together.
VEGETABLES - ANY COMBINATIONS of fresh or steamed: cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, corn on cob, okra, green peas, green beans, green limas, greens, spinach, mushrooms, tomatoes – onions – peppers combined.
SPAGHETTI SQUASH w/butter, or Newman’s Spaghetti Sauce with added tomatoes, peppers, onions, mushrooms, shredded squash, etc. to increase veggie intake, with TOSSED SALAD of lettuce and tomato.
SALADS MEAL: pea salad, carrot/raisin salad. red potato salad, corn salad. NO pasta or white rice.
GARDEN or BOCA BURGER (in frozen section). used to make MEAT LOAF or traditional BURGER. Can add sautéed onions and mushrooms.
SALAD SANDWICH (burger without the beef.)
SAUTEED’ SANDWICH of squash, mushrooms, red pepper, sundried tomatoes, onion. Add avocado slices, fresh tomato, onions, cucumber, as desired.
COLD SANDWICH: Sliced avocado & tomato; or onion and cucumber; or combine.
WATERMELLON; or FRUIT SALAD: seeds, nuts on bed of spinach w/Raspberry Vinaigrette dressing.
SNACKS: Frozen grapes, veggie sticks, apples, nuts, seeds, dried fruit or veggies, etc.
BEVERAGES: Purified water, water with chlorophyll added, green tea, lemonade, fresh juices, Limu alkaline meal replacement shake.
NOTES:
1) TAKE ENZYMES when eating COOKED FOOD to aid digestion. DOUBLE the amount of enzymes taken if eating MEAT, EGGS or DAIRY.
2): MEAT, EGGS & DAIRY intake is NOT needed to meet nutritional needs. If the animal walks on four legs, do NOT eat its meat more than one time a week. If it walks on two legs, or has NO legs (fish, etc.), try to only eat meat every other day. (A MEAT SERVING SIZE is the same as a deck of cards.) Season stews and dry beans with soup bones instead of meat to enjoy the meaty flavor.
3) TREAT YOURSELF - ONE TIME A WEEK to a meal that is OFF THE MENU, but reduce serving sizes.
BREAKFAST IDEAS
EGG WHITE scrambled, or BOILLED EGG with vegetable topping or sauce.
TOPPING - any combination of sautéed vegetables: onions, peppers, mushrooms, spinach, squash, green or firm tomatoes.
SAUCE: May add Newman’s Spaghetti sauce to veggies to make a sauce, or as a spread on SANDWICHES.
FRESH FRUIT BOWLS with seasonal fruit: peaches, mango, banana, pineapple, apple, pear, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, Berries may be served w/ Coconut or Moca Milk.
Note: Eat MELONS first and alone.
FRESH FRUIT SMOOTHIE
This can be made in advance, even frozen and stored. Add fresh apple and or pineapple juice to thin the juice as desired. Add any trace minerals, Limu, vitamin drops, as this usually does not change the flavor.
To INCREASE NUTRITION, add any of the following:
-Nature Sunshine “Berry Healthy” powder,
-Halleluiah Acres “Beet Juice” powder.
-Almond butter, honey, Knox gelatin, cinnamon.
½ c. WHOLE OATS seasoned with cinnamon and Stevia, and/or WHOLE WHEAT BREAD spread of coconut oil, topped with wheat germ, toasted, may be eaten 30 minutes AFTER FRUIT has been eaten.
NOTE: FRUIT SHOULD BE EATEN ALONE. All other foods should be eaten 30 minutes after last bite of fruit, so fruit is NOT trapped in the stomach. When combined with other foods, purification, gas due to fermentation, and/or indigestion may occur.
LUNCH AND SUPPER IDEAS
SALAD: May be the MEAL, or accompany meals below. Cut up vegetables on a bed of SPINACH and ROMAINE LETTUCE. Combine any RAW vegetables you normally cook: squash, peppers, onions, tomatoes, fresh/frozen peas, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, uncooked green beans, avocado, mushrooms, raw corn.
TOPPINGS may include: Pickled beets, black olives, sliced sweet pickles, garbanzo beans, pumpkin seeds, sliced almonds, pecans, walnuts, feta cheese, 3 oz of: salmon, diced chicken, or turkey.
DRESSINGS need to be olive oil and vinegar, or a vinaigrette dressing. Newman’s is a good brand. No creamy dressings (high in fat).
STEAMERS (in the grocer freezer section) may be steamed in ORGANIC VEGETABLE BROTH
Blend left-over veggies into a creamy SOUP.
BAKED SWEET POTATO may add real butter, and/or cinnamon. NO baked white potatoes.
GREEN BEANS, SMALL RED POTATOES, PEARL ONIONS cooked together.
VEGETABLES - ANY COMBINATIONS of fresh or steamed: cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, corn on cob, okra, green peas, green beans, green limas, greens, spinach, mushrooms, tomatoes – onions – peppers combined.
SPAGHETTI SQUASH w/butter, or Newman’s Spaghetti Sauce with added tomatoes, peppers, onions, mushrooms, shredded squash, etc. to increase veggie intake, with TOSSED SALAD of lettuce and tomato.
SALADS MEAL: pea salad, carrot/raisin salad. red potato salad, corn salad. NO pasta or white rice.
GARDEN or BOCA BURGER (in frozen section). used to make MEAT LOAF or traditional BURGER. Can add sautéed onions and mushrooms.
SALAD SANDWICH (burger without the beef.)
SAUTEED’ SANDWICH of squash, mushrooms, red pepper, sundried tomatoes, onion. Add avocado slices, fresh tomato, onions, cucumber, as desired.
COLD SANDWICH: Sliced avocado & tomato; or onion and cucumber; or combine.
WATERMELLON; or FRUIT SALAD: seeds, nuts on bed of spinach w/Raspberry Vinaigrette dressing.
SNACKS: Frozen grapes, veggie sticks, apples, nuts, seeds, dried fruit or veggies, etc.
BEVERAGES: Purified water, water with chlorophyll added, green tea, lemonade, fresh juices, Limu alkaline meal replacement shake.
NOTES:
1) TAKE ENZYMES when eating COOKED FOOD to aid digestion. DOUBLE the amount of enzymes taken if eating MEAT, EGGS or DAIRY.
2): MEAT, EGGS & DAIRY intake is NOT needed to meet nutritional needs. If the animal walks on four legs, do NOT eat its meat more than one time a week. If it walks on two legs, or has NO legs (fish, etc.), try to only eat meat every other day. (A MEAT SERVING SIZE is the same as a deck of cards.) Season stews and dry beans with soup bones instead of meat to enjoy the meaty flavor.
3) TREAT YOURSELF - ONE TIME A WEEK to a meal that is OFF THE MENU, but reduce serving sizes.
HIGH - ALKALINE FOODS
Plan 75% of each meal with HIGH-ALKALINE FOODS
Foods are listed in order of their positive affect in REPLACING ALKALINE RESERVE in the body, i.e.,
raw spinach (at +556) is approximately 100 times more effective than green peas (5) in REPLACING RESERVES
ALKALINE ASH FOODS
Raw Spinach 4 c +556
Beet Greens 1 c +478
Molasses 1 T +360
Celery 5 st +341
Dried Figs 5 +297
Carrots 3 +282
Dried Beans ½ c +282
Chard Leaves 1 ½ c +214
Water Cress 2 ½ c +192
Sauerkraut 2/3 c +176
Lettuce, Leaf ½ head +170
Green Limas 2/3 c +142
Dried Limas 2/3 c +123
Cabbage 1 1/3 c +111
Broccoli 1 c +101
Beets 2/3 c +98
Brussels Sprouts 6 +95
Green Soy Beans 2/3 c +85
Cucumber 10 sl +71
Parsnip ½ lg +67
Radishes 7 +64
Rutabagas ¾ c +62
Dried Peas ½ c +57
Mushrooms 7 +50
Cauliflower 1 c +44
Pineapple 1 c +44
Avocado ½ c +44
Raisins ½ c +43
Dried Dates 7 +40
Green Beans 1c +39
Muskmelon ¼ +38
Limes ½ c +33
Sour Cherries 18 +30
Tangerines 2 +29
Strawberries 12 +28
White Potato 1 +26
Sweet Potato 1 +26
Grapefruit ½ c +25
Apricot 2 +25
Lemon ½ c +24
Blackberries 1 c +22
Orange ½ c +22
Tomato 1 +21
Peach 1 lg +21
Raspberries 1 c +19
Banana 1 sm +18
Onion 1 sm +14
Grapes ½ c +10
Pear 1 +10
Blueberries 2/3 c +5
Apple 1 +5
Watermelon ½ sl +5
Green Peas ¾ c +5
Allow 25% (or less) of a meal to contain ACID foods
Foods are listed according to their ability to DECREASE the alkaline reserve of your body.
The HIGHER THE NUMBER, the more your alkaline reserve will be DEPLETED and the more harmful the food is to you.
ACID ASH FOODS
Scallops ½ c -226
Oysters 5 -209
Dried Lentils ½ c -171
Sausage 6 links -160
Sardines 8 -160
Cola or Soda Pop 12 oz -125
Oatmeal 1 c -95
Corned Beef ¼ lb -80
Lobster ¼ lb -78
Haddock ¼ lb -78
Soda Crackers 8 -52
Codfish ½ lb -51
Macaroni, Spaghetti 7/8 c -50
Peanut Butter 3T -49
Chicken ¼ lb -43
Peanuts 57 -39
Wheat Germ 1 T -38
Brown Rice 5/8 c -29
Whole Wheat Flour 5/8 c -26
White flour 5/8 c -26
Salmon 1 c -26
Beef Steak or Burger ¼ lb -24
Turkey ¼ lb -23
Barley 5/8 c -21
Veal Chops 1 -21
Lamb ¼ lb -17
White Bread 2 sl -15
Wheat Bran 1 T -10
English Walnuts 10 -10
Lamb Chop 1 -10
Bacon 2 sl -10
Eggs 2 -9
Whole Wheat Bread 2 sl -8
Pork chop 1 -6
Honey 4 T -4
Shrimp ¼ lb -4
Fresh Corn ½ c -2
Sugar 0
Corn oil 0
Olive oil 0
KEEP A RECORD of FOODS EATEN for ONE WEEK
Record your numbers by serving size to learn if your daily totals
are positive (+) building alkaline reserves,
or negative (-) depleting your alkaline reserves
and weakening your health.
EXAMPLE: ONE DAY of the AMERICAN DIET with TOTALS
BREAKFAST: 2 Eggs(-9), 2 sl Bacon(-10), 1 Wheat Toast (-4) -36
LUNCH:12ozCoke(-125) Hamburger(-24) Wht Bun(-8) Fries(+26)-131
SUPPER: Spaghetti 7/8c(-50),Beef sauce (-24),Salad¼hd (+85) +11
SNACK: 57 Peanuts -39
DAILY TOTAL -195
The TRADITIONAL AMERICAN diet depletes the alkaline reserves..
CHECK YOUR DIET - LEARN THE DIRECTION OF YOUR HEALTH
Foods are listed in order of their positive affect in REPLACING ALKALINE RESERVE in the body, i.e.,
raw spinach (at +556) is approximately 100 times more effective than green peas (5) in REPLACING RESERVES
ALKALINE ASH FOODS
Raw Spinach 4 c +556
Beet Greens 1 c +478
Molasses 1 T +360
Celery 5 st +341
Dried Figs 5 +297
Carrots 3 +282
Dried Beans ½ c +282
Chard Leaves 1 ½ c +214
Water Cress 2 ½ c +192
Sauerkraut 2/3 c +176
Lettuce, Leaf ½ head +170
Green Limas 2/3 c +142
Dried Limas 2/3 c +123
Cabbage 1 1/3 c +111
Broccoli 1 c +101
Beets 2/3 c +98
Brussels Sprouts 6 +95
Green Soy Beans 2/3 c +85
Cucumber 10 sl +71
Parsnip ½ lg +67
Radishes 7 +64
Rutabagas ¾ c +62
Dried Peas ½ c +57
Mushrooms 7 +50
Cauliflower 1 c +44
Pineapple 1 c +44
Avocado ½ c +44
Raisins ½ c +43
Dried Dates 7 +40
Green Beans 1c +39
Muskmelon ¼ +38
Limes ½ c +33
Sour Cherries 18 +30
Tangerines 2 +29
Strawberries 12 +28
White Potato 1 +26
Sweet Potato 1 +26
Grapefruit ½ c +25
Apricot 2 +25
Lemon ½ c +24
Blackberries 1 c +22
Orange ½ c +22
Tomato 1 +21
Peach 1 lg +21
Raspberries 1 c +19
Banana 1 sm +18
Onion 1 sm +14
Grapes ½ c +10
Pear 1 +10
Blueberries 2/3 c +5
Apple 1 +5
Watermelon ½ sl +5
Green Peas ¾ c +5
Allow 25% (or less) of a meal to contain ACID foods
Foods are listed according to their ability to DECREASE the alkaline reserve of your body.
The HIGHER THE NUMBER, the more your alkaline reserve will be DEPLETED and the more harmful the food is to you.
ACID ASH FOODS
Scallops ½ c -226
Oysters 5 -209
Dried Lentils ½ c -171
Sausage 6 links -160
Sardines 8 -160
Cola or Soda Pop 12 oz -125
Oatmeal 1 c -95
Corned Beef ¼ lb -80
Lobster ¼ lb -78
Haddock ¼ lb -78
Soda Crackers 8 -52
Codfish ½ lb -51
Macaroni, Spaghetti 7/8 c -50
Peanut Butter 3T -49
Chicken ¼ lb -43
Peanuts 57 -39
Wheat Germ 1 T -38
Brown Rice 5/8 c -29
Whole Wheat Flour 5/8 c -26
White flour 5/8 c -26
Salmon 1 c -26
Beef Steak or Burger ¼ lb -24
Turkey ¼ lb -23
Barley 5/8 c -21
Veal Chops 1 -21
Lamb ¼ lb -17
White Bread 2 sl -15
Wheat Bran 1 T -10
English Walnuts 10 -10
Lamb Chop 1 -10
Bacon 2 sl -10
Eggs 2 -9
Whole Wheat Bread 2 sl -8
Pork chop 1 -6
Honey 4 T -4
Shrimp ¼ lb -4
Fresh Corn ½ c -2
Sugar 0
Corn oil 0
Olive oil 0
KEEP A RECORD of FOODS EATEN for ONE WEEK
Record your numbers by serving size to learn if your daily totals
are positive (+) building alkaline reserves,
or negative (-) depleting your alkaline reserves
and weakening your health.
EXAMPLE: ONE DAY of the AMERICAN DIET with TOTALS
BREAKFAST: 2 Eggs(-9), 2 sl Bacon(-10), 1 Wheat Toast (-4) -36
LUNCH:12ozCoke(-125) Hamburger(-24) Wht Bun(-8) Fries(+26)-131
SUPPER: Spaghetti 7/8c(-50),Beef sauce (-24),Salad¼hd (+85) +11
SNACK: 57 Peanuts -39
DAILY TOTAL -195
The TRADITIONAL AMERICAN diet depletes the alkaline reserves..
CHECK YOUR DIET - LEARN THE DIRECTION OF YOUR HEALTH
pH
pH
Potential of Hydrogen and Potential for Health
If you have not been eating foods that contain alkalizing minerals, your body adapts by robbing the minerals from your body because if the pH of your blood should fall much below 7.35 or rise much above 7.45, your body could not survive very long. When your reserves are not constantly replenished, your storehouses become depleted of alkalizing minerals and, eventually the constant robbing from within lead to symptoms of chronic degenerative diseases such as arthritis, osteoporosis, emphysema, most major diseases, even cancer.
The acidity or alkalinity of food is measured in terms of pH. The more acid a solution, the LOWER the pH number will be; the more alkaline the substance, the HIGHER the pH number. If you are truly healthy, both your saliva and urine should register around pH 7.0 the first thing in the morning after five, or more, hours of sleep, before eating or drinking anything. Even though you usually feel good, if your diet consists mostly of meat, pasta, convenience and fast foods, starches, and coffee, cola, or energy drinks, your early morning urine will probably register as low as pH 5, or possibly as high as pH 8. Urine pH tells you how your body is reacting to the food you ate the day before. Saliva pH tells how your body has adapted to stresses in your life and its physical impact. This includes emotional stress and trauma which can also make you acidic, lowering your immunity, eventually allowing sickness and disease to develop. Ask for pH test strips at our clinic or drug store.
The food you eat determines how well your alkaline reserves are replenished. Fresh fruits and raw vegetables contribute the usable alkalizing minerals you need to restock your alkaline reserve to raise pH. When you have enough reserves, your body can buffer the acid produced naturally by cellular activity and the acid food you eat. However, readings considerably lower or higher than pH 7.0 usually indicate that your buffering reserves have been depleted and your body is breaking down to maintain the pH balance essential for your
life and survival. To be healthy, you must support your health with a high alkaline diet and lower stress levels. Alkalinity is measured with pH test strips. The numbers tell the story of how “well” you actually are. The American Diet has riddled us with sickness, disease, and pain. Schedule an appointment with B.E.S.T. practitioner, Dr. Danise Witherspoon, and learn how to track you health according to pH and “live Well.”
Your health IS your choice.
NUTRITIONAL STRESSES
LOW STRESS BALANCED FOODS - pH 7
Alkaline Ash Food
Whole foods as grown by nature: Fruits & Vegetables - 70-80% adult diet
Human Milk
* * * * * * *
Acid Ash Food
Whole foods as grown by nature:Grains, Nuts, Seeds, Beans - 20%-30% adult diet
High STRESS
Fragments of food created by man: Butter, Cheese
Animal products (Acid Ash Foods): Use VERY SPARINGLY: Fish, Eggs, Fowl
(Eliminate salt)
HIGH STRESS: (Acid Ash Food) Red Meat, Animal and Dairy Products
Very Contractive: Salt
Fragments of food created by man: Drugs
HIGH STRESS: Avoid or use sparingly (Very Expansive): Liquors, Beer, Wine, Sugar, Syrups, Chocolate, Coffee, Tea, Fruit Juices
Potential of Hydrogen and Potential for Health
If you have not been eating foods that contain alkalizing minerals, your body adapts by robbing the minerals from your body because if the pH of your blood should fall much below 7.35 or rise much above 7.45, your body could not survive very long. When your reserves are not constantly replenished, your storehouses become depleted of alkalizing minerals and, eventually the constant robbing from within lead to symptoms of chronic degenerative diseases such as arthritis, osteoporosis, emphysema, most major diseases, even cancer.
The acidity or alkalinity of food is measured in terms of pH. The more acid a solution, the LOWER the pH number will be; the more alkaline the substance, the HIGHER the pH number. If you are truly healthy, both your saliva and urine should register around pH 7.0 the first thing in the morning after five, or more, hours of sleep, before eating or drinking anything. Even though you usually feel good, if your diet consists mostly of meat, pasta, convenience and fast foods, starches, and coffee, cola, or energy drinks, your early morning urine will probably register as low as pH 5, or possibly as high as pH 8. Urine pH tells you how your body is reacting to the food you ate the day before. Saliva pH tells how your body has adapted to stresses in your life and its physical impact. This includes emotional stress and trauma which can also make you acidic, lowering your immunity, eventually allowing sickness and disease to develop. Ask for pH test strips at our clinic or drug store.
The food you eat determines how well your alkaline reserves are replenished. Fresh fruits and raw vegetables contribute the usable alkalizing minerals you need to restock your alkaline reserve to raise pH. When you have enough reserves, your body can buffer the acid produced naturally by cellular activity and the acid food you eat. However, readings considerably lower or higher than pH 7.0 usually indicate that your buffering reserves have been depleted and your body is breaking down to maintain the pH balance essential for your
life and survival. To be healthy, you must support your health with a high alkaline diet and lower stress levels. Alkalinity is measured with pH test strips. The numbers tell the story of how “well” you actually are. The American Diet has riddled us with sickness, disease, and pain. Schedule an appointment with B.E.S.T. practitioner, Dr. Danise Witherspoon, and learn how to track you health according to pH and “live Well.”
Your health IS your choice.
NUTRITIONAL STRESSES
LOW STRESS BALANCED FOODS - pH 7
Alkaline Ash Food
Whole foods as grown by nature: Fruits & Vegetables - 70-80% adult diet
Human Milk
* * * * * * *
Acid Ash Food
Whole foods as grown by nature:Grains, Nuts, Seeds, Beans - 20%-30% adult diet
High STRESS
Fragments of food created by man: Butter, Cheese
Animal products (Acid Ash Foods): Use VERY SPARINGLY: Fish, Eggs, Fowl
(Eliminate salt)
HIGH STRESS: (Acid Ash Food) Red Meat, Animal and Dairy Products
Very Contractive: Salt
Fragments of food created by man: Drugs
HIGH STRESS: Avoid or use sparingly (Very Expansive): Liquors, Beer, Wine, Sugar, Syrups, Chocolate, Coffee, Tea, Fruit Juices
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