Asthma and The Organic Approach
Hi, I'm back again after yet another month-long ansence! Oh, well, I
suppose I don't have as much time for writing a blog as I thought I
would. Busy mum and housewife juggling too many skittles at the moment!
Anyway, my last post was called Back at Last, and thats the link to it. Well, it looks like this must be back at last version 2 ha!
What have I got to tell you today then?
Well, maybe one reason why I haven't been swriting in here is probably because I've been fairly asthma free for this last month or so. Just the odd mild beginnings of an attck here and there as I have come to expect, but nothing major and so I simply haven't had anything to report on.
I suppose if I had, it would be a report on the total failure of my natural approach to dealing with my asthma, which of course has NOT happened!
So this journal entry is really a reassurance that the natural measures of relaxation exercises, yoga and healthy diet are working to at least keep the rotten disease at bay! So lets touch upon diet and why I believe it has an important role to play in winning the battle against asthma.
Most of the food most people eat is laden with poisons.
Ouch! That is a broad, wide reaching statement, but sadly one of fact that most people simply don't know about or refuse to acknowledge. Don't sit on your backside waiting for some smarmy government minister to come out of their lair and tell you that, by the way. You can bet money on the fact that politicians are quite happy with the perceived status quo on that score. Don't rock the boat and the voters will keep voting for them!
Well, I can tell you that the fruit and vegetables you buy at the supermarkets, greengrocers and most farm market shops are full of pesticides.
Don't believe me? Take a walk along a country lane in springtime a couple of weeks or so after the farmers have planted their fields and you just might notice the odd tractor or a dozen driving up and down those fields spraying something on the newly sprouting crops. Now what do you think that might be then?
Water?
Its a cocktail of up to one hundred or so chemical pesticides, selective herbicides and fungicides designed to kill everything except the crops that are growing in that depleted soil. Those crops absorb those chemicals through their leaves and the poisons stay in the plants. Fact.
As the plants grow and produce the final vegetable crops which are harvested later in the year, those chemicals remain locked in the cells of the plants, while more is intermittently sprayed on throughout the growing season and taken up by the roots and leaves.
When those fruits and vegetables reach the shelves, they still contain the residue of all those chemicals.
I believe, as many now do that those chemical residues are responsible for a large proportion of diseases like asthma that are rising fast to reach epidemic proportions - in direct proportion to the increase in the use of those chemical pesticides on crops.
Don't believe me if you don't want to. Go to your doctor and keep taking the ever stronger doses of steroids and other equally powerful poisons to combat your diseases. If you aren't prepared to listen to common sense and act for yourself, then there is no sense in reading my blog, because I will tell it as it is, not as the fairy prince in Number 10 tells it.
Now if the moaning minnie types have left with a complaint brewing in their cups of tea, the rest of us who are prepared to do something for ourselves can carry on reading!
The way to beat the relentless onslaught of poison laden produce is to either grow it yourself in your own back garden or allotment (yes, you can still get them) or buy organically produced friut and vegetables. Organic meat too, if you still eat it. I don't any more simply because I was sick of the way I felt after eating a large steak or similar - bloated, sluggish and out of sorts.
I have been sort of vegetarian for nearly a year now and feel tons better for ditching meat in favour of more fish and vegetables. I grow a lot of the veggies that I and my family eats, so I know there are no poisons whatsoever on them. Ok, I get the odd bugs to wash off but hey, how much of a bloody hardship is that to know the food is actually doing my family good rather than killing them slowly? Sure, caterpillars and slugs nibble at the leaves and the veg patch needs constant vigilence to make sure their numbers don't increase. Simply going through it every day is actually an enjoyable pastime, picking off the caterpillars from the leaves and dropping them in the centre of the lawn and then going inside and watching the birds come down for a feast!
Slugs are dealy with by using beer traps. Aphids get squirted with a mixture of water and garlic - yes it kills them!
This short post is turning into a long one and that wasn't my intention! So, there you have a quick organic primer on one way to cut down your chances of having mroe severe asthma attacks - look at your diet and see where you can change things to make it better for you and your family.
You owe it to yourself and to them
Chelsea
What have I got to tell you today then?
Well, maybe one reason why I haven't been swriting in here is probably because I've been fairly asthma free for this last month or so. Just the odd mild beginnings of an attck here and there as I have come to expect, but nothing major and so I simply haven't had anything to report on.
I suppose if I had, it would be a report on the total failure of my natural approach to dealing with my asthma, which of course has NOT happened!
So this journal entry is really a reassurance that the natural measures of relaxation exercises, yoga and healthy diet are working to at least keep the rotten disease at bay! So lets touch upon diet and why I believe it has an important role to play in winning the battle against asthma.
Most of the food most people eat is laden with poisons.
Ouch! That is a broad, wide reaching statement, but sadly one of fact that most people simply don't know about or refuse to acknowledge. Don't sit on your backside waiting for some smarmy government minister to come out of their lair and tell you that, by the way. You can bet money on the fact that politicians are quite happy with the perceived status quo on that score. Don't rock the boat and the voters will keep voting for them!
Well, I can tell you that the fruit and vegetables you buy at the supermarkets, greengrocers and most farm market shops are full of pesticides.
Don't believe me? Take a walk along a country lane in springtime a couple of weeks or so after the farmers have planted their fields and you just might notice the odd tractor or a dozen driving up and down those fields spraying something on the newly sprouting crops. Now what do you think that might be then?
Water?
Its a cocktail of up to one hundred or so chemical pesticides, selective herbicides and fungicides designed to kill everything except the crops that are growing in that depleted soil. Those crops absorb those chemicals through their leaves and the poisons stay in the plants. Fact.
As the plants grow and produce the final vegetable crops which are harvested later in the year, those chemicals remain locked in the cells of the plants, while more is intermittently sprayed on throughout the growing season and taken up by the roots and leaves.
When those fruits and vegetables reach the shelves, they still contain the residue of all those chemicals.
I believe, as many now do that those chemical residues are responsible for a large proportion of diseases like asthma that are rising fast to reach epidemic proportions - in direct proportion to the increase in the use of those chemical pesticides on crops.
Don't believe me if you don't want to. Go to your doctor and keep taking the ever stronger doses of steroids and other equally powerful poisons to combat your diseases. If you aren't prepared to listen to common sense and act for yourself, then there is no sense in reading my blog, because I will tell it as it is, not as the fairy prince in Number 10 tells it.
Now if the moaning minnie types have left with a complaint brewing in their cups of tea, the rest of us who are prepared to do something for ourselves can carry on reading!
The way to beat the relentless onslaught of poison laden produce is to either grow it yourself in your own back garden or allotment (yes, you can still get them) or buy organically produced friut and vegetables. Organic meat too, if you still eat it. I don't any more simply because I was sick of the way I felt after eating a large steak or similar - bloated, sluggish and out of sorts.
I have been sort of vegetarian for nearly a year now and feel tons better for ditching meat in favour of more fish and vegetables. I grow a lot of the veggies that I and my family eats, so I know there are no poisons whatsoever on them. Ok, I get the odd bugs to wash off but hey, how much of a bloody hardship is that to know the food is actually doing my family good rather than killing them slowly? Sure, caterpillars and slugs nibble at the leaves and the veg patch needs constant vigilence to make sure their numbers don't increase. Simply going through it every day is actually an enjoyable pastime, picking off the caterpillars from the leaves and dropping them in the centre of the lawn and then going inside and watching the birds come down for a feast!
Slugs are dealy with by using beer traps. Aphids get squirted with a mixture of water and garlic - yes it kills them!
This short post is turning into a long one and that wasn't my intention! So, there you have a quick organic primer on one way to cut down your chances of having mroe severe asthma attacks - look at your diet and see where you can change things to make it better for you and your family.
You owe it to yourself and to them
Chelsea
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