Nicole from : For the Love of Food

It’s a lot to weigh isn’t it? If my infant got that cut, I’d probably not vaccinate them for tetanus, but treat it just like you did. But the risks associated with vaccines go down dramatically the older your child is. For an 8 year old, the risks associated with ONE tetanus booster after nearly 7 years of receiving no vaccines are almost nil. In other words, to my mind, the risk of tetanus outweighs the risk of the vaccine, and I would get the booster.

Please know that this is simply my opinion, and not medical advice! (I’m sure you know that.) I’m just telling you what I’d do for my family.

Zeke — We eat greens in abundance whenever they’re in season. And even out of season, I still eat frozen greens. I LOVE GREENS.

OK, I have a question (yet again) for all of you amazing natural health lovers. This evening, my son cut his knee on a nail that was sticking out of a neighbor’s fence. It left a cut that was 5/8ths of an inch wide. It is showing the subcutaneous (fatty tissue) layer underneath.

I called a pediatric nurse and they were, of course, saying “Take him to an E.R., get him a tetanus shot, probably some antibiotics, and maybe some glue or sutures.”

I am very concerned about getting him that tetanus shot, but tetanus is a serious disease and this is a deep wound. He had the four rounds of tetanus vaccine when he was a baby through age 14 months or so; however, they recommend a booster every 5 years. He’s now 8 1/2 years old, and we don’t vaccinate. We stopped vaccinating all of our children when he was about 3.

I was looking up some things online about colloidal silver. As most of you probably know, it’s a natural antibiotic that kills something like 650 pathogens. Some random sites I’ve ran across say that in rabbits it killed off up to ten times the lethal dose of tetanus. I don’t know what that translates to in humans though.

Soooooo, we decided to put the silver on the wound topically and are giving the silver to him orally every few hours. We closed the wound with a butterfly bandage and it has closed nicely. Because it’s on his knee, we made a splint to keep his knee from bending so that it will not pop off the butterfly.

If this were your child, would you get him that tetanus booster? I am very concerned about the ingredients in the vaccine, but yet, I don’t want to be so “anti-vaccine” that I miss a genuinely important time to use one, if there is such a time. I can always detox him later on with some chlorella or spirulina, if I have to.

Let me know what you think. If I need to, I can take him in tomorrow morning to get that tetanus booster and possible antibiotic. I’ll check responses in the morning. Have a good night!

Go greens.

Zeke

http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/

There is a recently released book of the same material:

http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/20585442.php

And an accompanying blog:

http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/20585442.php

Janet Ruhl, the author of these, is impressively sharp and consistently does a great job of taking the spin off of the latest media pronouncements on diet and health. Where ever else your friend goes to deepen her knowledge, she can’t go wrong by starting with Blood Sugar 101. Ruhl also has many book recommendations for further reading.

I’ve recently been reading The Protein Power Lifeplan by Michael and Mary Dan Eades, which I can highly recommend. It’s somewhat dated (it came out in 1996), but was also way ahead of its time. Excellent material on restoring proper insulin function through diet.

Oh, and the move Fat Head is a must-see. It’s thoroughly enjoyable and very instructive about the true role of fats and carbs in the diet and about the importance of taking responsibility for one’s own health.

http://www.fathead-movie.com/

This post is very timely for me, as recently someone who is borderline diabetic asked me for advice on a diet to follow that would stop the downhill-toward-diabetes-spiral.

Is there any source/book you would recommend for such a person? “Avoid starchy vegetables” has been mentioned but I’m looking for something comprehensive that covers all the bases. I am thinking of something along the lines of the Schwarzbein Principle where someone goes into detail for a complete beginner. (What do you think of her plan, by the way?)

Thanks if you can offer help!

By the way, I totally agree with the main point of your post! Eat fruits and veggies, by all means! If you’ve got a health issue, you might want to avoid (some of) them. Otherwise, enjoy~

Wardeh @ GNOWFGLINS

I’m not sure about a connection between candida and cancer. I view it more like BOTH are symptoms of systematic imbalance, rather than like one causes the other.

Sprouted and green potatoes are higher in a glykoalkaloid poison called solanine which is present in all nightshades. The poison is a nerve agent that can cause diarrhea, vomiting, headaches, and even paralysis of the central nervous system. This poison is present in all nightshades in small amounts and usually not considered dangerous unless you have other health concerns (like arthritis), but sprouted and green potatoes are abnormally high in it and can actually make you genuinely sick.

On the topic of fruit juices:

“Most fruit juices, including frozen, bottled or canned, are
prepared from fruits that have been allowed to stand in bins, barrels and other
containers for periods ranging from an hour to several days or weeks. Although
juice processors discard fruits that are obviously spoiled by mold, most fruits used
for juice contain some level of mold.” — (The Yeast Conenction, Cook)

Mold feeds Candida which I think is one of the biggest heath problems of people — men, women, and children — on the SAD. In Cook’s book, I believe that he mentioned that citrus fruits are one of the worst offenders in the mold department…so to me, juicing citrus fruits would just multiply that problem ten-fold and potentially lead to Candida problems if done often enough.

Speaking of yeast, are ya’ll as suspicious as I am that there is a major, major, MAJOR link between Candida overgrowth and cancer?

And somebody fill me in as to why sprouted potatoes and green potatoes should not be consumed. I’m trying to remember. Is it because it increases the glycemic load? I ate a potato the other day. It had sprouted a little bit. I pulled the sprouts off, washed it, cooked it, put some butter and sea salt on it, and was nauseated for a good hour after eating it. I had leftovers so I ate it again the next day the same way and I was nauseated again for another hour after eating. I’ve heard not to eat them green or sprouted, but I’ve never heard WHY. Someone fill me in!

Sara — First, please, please, please COOK your potatoes! They’re actually poisonous to us if we eat them raw. And NEVER ever eat a potato that’s sprouted or green. Second, regular potatoes are considerably higher both in GI and GL than sweet potatoes. If prepared properly (and consumed with the skin), they’re edible. But if you are considering a low-carb diet, they are the third on my list of things to eliminate behind sugars and grains. If you are trying to lose weight, or are borderline diabetic, or are trying to fix candida problems, you really SHOULD eliminate starchy vegetables if you can. If you are in great health and just wanting to stay that way, eating them in moderation is A-okay, particularly if you cook the foods in a traditional way, in classic combinations (like potatoes w/butter & sour cream). But even then, I’d try to keep consumption of white potatoes down to once a week or less.

Diane — Welcome! I hope you stick around and keep commenting. I like conversation!

Local Nourishment & Christina — I’ve been making my way through that book recently, fascinating stuff! I would also add that although no single large study has been done like the CHINA study (which can be easily debunked), there are a few pretty neat surveys of traditional people groups eating traditional diets. Have you read Nutrition & Physical Degeneration by Weston A Price? In it, he surveys people groups from around the globe, looking at their diets & their overall health.

People tend to fall into three camps: hunter gatherers, herdsmen, and agriculturalists. All groups were considerably better off than industrialized peoples with limited tooth decay (if any) and virtually no chronic diseases. But among the three groups, he did notice increases in tooth decay & diseases when compared with each other. The hunter gatherers fared best, followed by the herdsmen, and then followed by the agriculturalists (who all properly prepared their grains!). The hunter gatherers basically had NO ill health at all. No tooth decay. No chronic disease. The herdsmen experienced a minor rise in tooth decay (still at 1-4% of the population, compared to our 96%). The agriculturalists were the first to show signs of vitamin deficiencies and chronic diseases, and their tooth decay rates were at 5-9%. Again, it’s considerably lower than the industrialized world, but noticeably more than the hunter-gatherers who were statistically at zero.

Vin — I think Mercola’s high fruit diet included a lot of juicing, which is something I can’t support for just that reason. We really shouldn’t drink fruit juices. Way too much fructose without all it’s supporting fiber. If you actually ate whole fruit, you’d get way too full before you’d have the chance to binge. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I can’t even eat a single large banana! I have to split it with someone else or cut it in half. Perhaps the only exception might be the particularly juicy fruits like citrus, but that’s just a guess.

Raine — All good points! I really appreciate your (and everyone’s!) comments on this. When I wrote this post, I had one specific goal in mind: to show anti-carbers that fruits & vegetables aren’t evil. The truth is, not all carbs are bad. You and others have helped clarify the various times when a person may need to go extremely low-carb in order to reset their body’s balance: when they’re trying to loose weight, heal candida overgrowth, or treat diabetes. Again, I think it’s all just so clarifying for the end reader who will ultimately be making these decisions about their personal health.