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2008 Newsletter - EDITION 2

What's up?

Since I entered the second half century of my life I have decided to do more things I have never tried. First believe it or not was to have my legs waxed! Yes and it was very sore! And yes the hair growth is softer and slower, so maybe I will stick with the waxing thing.

Next was to decide to join in the fun in the waves and if my 6 year old grandson can do it s can I. I suppose having the right equipment helped and so I grabbed my 22 year old daughter’s bodyboard and went for it. One of the ways to avoid Alzheimer’s is to keeping learning new skills so this is my first new skill in the next 50 years of my life. Next lesson to learn in the waves was to keep my feet up while I surf, but I am so busy laughing and concentrating on staying on the board that my feet are a last thought. Apparently you go faster, not that I need to. But I am pretty much hooked and can officially use words like, ‘cool’, ‘dude’ and ‘surfs up’!

Mark and I are daily overwhelmed by the awesome emails from many of you doing the 100 days. People’s lives are changing and for that we are eternally grateful!

I am sending this newsletter out as the subject is essential; Vaccination side effects. Just recently I know of 2 adults that contracted mumps after being vaccinated as a child, vaccination if they work only protect you for 7-10 years and if you contract these diseases as an adult you become a lot sicker than if you had them as a child. Both the adults were hospitalised, one for weeks. The US government has actually conceded that vaccines cause autism. Now let us see when the rest of the world does something about it too. For more on vaccinations read our book, “Healthy Kids” 

What's on?

 Dear Mary-Ann

Thanks so much for a most informative newsletter! 

I just also wanted to say thanks again for all the super recipes!   It’s added a whole new dimension so my cooking skills!  Much healthier too! I've been trying to follow the 100-day programme, but do slip up every now and then....

One final thing I just absolutely must mention.... together with BarleyLife and Aimega, both of which I'm thrilled with, I am totally "bowled over" by the benefits of Frame Essentials!   I've been taking Frame for nearly two months now and my lower back pain, and dull throbbing ache in my right hip and thigh has eased considerably!  I don't have the beginnings of osteoporosis or such like, as I've had my lower back and hips checked and x-rayed, but there is a slight degeneration of the spine in my lower back, and while I'm totally against drugs and especially anti-inflammatories, needed to do something about this dull pain, and honestly, Frame Essentials has helped me a lot!   So thank you so much for telling me about AIM!

Kind regards

Marlene

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 Hi Mary-Ann!
Thanks for your wonderful program, the useful tips and encouragements. This program is not only for physical health, it is as well for our spiritual health. If only more people would stick to it, our world would be a paradise on earth.
But the temptations are not always easy to conquer. Specially when you were a chocoholic and are being offered the most mouth-watering sweets! Or when you go shopping and your most wanted chocolate is on an incredible special!
But I always console myself in saying I will have it, but not so much than before.
I'm still on the way to improve my diet.
Thanks a lot again for all your help.
Regards
Brigitte

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Hi Mark,

You wanted a story about health improvement. Here is my brief story:

While I was pregnant with my second child, I developed a small round patch of scaly skin on the top of my foot. I initially attributed it to shoe wear, although I was not wearing closed shoes at the time. Then I got the same scaly patch covering my whole knee and elbows. I put it down to winter and dry skin. Then my other knee also got it, and then I started to get scaly red patches on my thighs, hands and stomach and it was spreading fast. I was beginning to despair that I was going to turn into a lizard. My obstetrician saw it on my knees and referred me to a dermatologist. I was adamant that I did not want cortisone, and was amazed at how stumped this dermatologist was at this demand. She was good at naming the various outgrowths all over my body of which there were 4 different types but she had simply no other avenue of treatment other than cortisone. She gave me a calcium cream for the eczema on my hands, which did work, but the psoriasis remained. I also used to develop a cold with sore throat and severe tonsillitis every 3 months, spending a fortune on antibiotics. As the course ended, the sore throat came right back!

I then went on a holiday to Greece and when I returned I realised that all the patches had completely gone. I knew immediately that it must have been diet related. I analysed my diet carefully, and discovered that I was not eating any bread there and was eating plenty of olive oil.

At the same time, I got hold of your book "Perfect Health" and decided to cut wheat out completely while changing my eating habits. I only changed my family's breakfast to a fruit and nut one initially and ate much less red meat. The psoriasis has never returned, and neither has the tonsillitis!!  It has been 2 years now, and I have only had a mild cold that was nothing worse than a mild headache. I have not seen a doctor since! Using the principles of healthy living in the book, I also stopped using anti-perspirants, in order to allow my body to detoxify as it was supposed to. This changed many things for me. In the beginning the smells was so pungent and putrid I thoughts I was going to knock myself out!! I was suddenly aware of how I smelled after I ate specific food stuff. Coffee is the worst culprit! So is meat which is not organic, which creates a heavy "hormone" smell. By eating only veggies, there is hardly any smell at all. I do battle however constantly thinking about the coffee and olive breads that I cannot eat. Sometimes I just do have some, but do not make a habit of it. My life has definitely changed, and I am constantly aware of how doctors could solve so many health problems holistically, but their nutritional knowledge is so scant! I wish I had the money to buy them all a copy of "Perfect Health"!!

Thanks

Angela

What's in?

U.S. Government Concedes Vaccines Cause Autism

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the federal agency that oversees the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), recently conceded the first vaccine-autism case.

This case was filed in the no-fault National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program as part of the Autism Omnibus proceedings in the U.S. Federal Court of Claims.

It was one of the first three cases chosen that alleged Thimerosal in childhood vaccines significantly contributed to a child developing autism.

Clifford Shoemaker, of Shoemaker and Associates of Vienna, Virginia, is the attorney of record in the Hanna Poling v. Secretary of HHS (case: 02-1466V).

Experts filing on behalf of the petitioner, Hanna Poling, included pediatric neurologist, Dr. Andrew Zimmerman of Johns Hopkins University, and Maryland geneticist and epidemiologist, Dr. Mark Geier of the Genetic Centers of America.

This concession shows the dishonesty of the continual media spin coming from public health officials and others who maintain there is no evidence that Thimerosal, or any other part of any vaccine, has ever caused autism or, for that matter, has harmed anyone in any way.

The facts are that the Vaccine Compensation Act has already compensated over 2,000 individuals who proved that they were harmed by vaccines, resulting in settlements of nearly two billion dollars.

Additionally, hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific/medical articles from some the world’s best universities have long implicated Thimerosal in vaccines as a causal factor in neurodevelopmental disorders including autism.

Furthermore, in 2003, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Government Reform Committee, after a 3.5-year investigation, concluded that Thimerosal caused the autism epidemic and that the FDA and health authorities were guilty of “institutional malfeasance” in covering it up.

Evidence supporting the connection between mercury and autism include:

1. Published studies from the US and France showing that urinary porphyrins, a biomarker for body-burden of mercury, are elevated in patients diagnosed with autistic disorders (http://www.mercury-freedrugs.org).

2. A published study by researchers at Harvard University that found twice as much mercury and oxidative stress in the brains of those with an autism diagnosis as found in the brains of those who were normal.

3. A study from the US showing a significant relationship between increasing blood mercury levels and an increased risk of a diagnosis of an autistic disorder.

4. Numerous papers by independent researchers showing a link between increasing mercury exposure from childhood vaccines and the risk of a child developing an autistic disorder.

5. Several papers showing that adding low levels of Thimerosal to certain blood, brain, eye, immune, liver and/or muscle cells poisons their cellular mitochondrial pathways and can induce cell death.

Today, despite being banned in Europe and restricted in 7 U.S. states, Thimerosal-containing flu vaccines are still recommended for routine administration to pregnant women and infants, with little or no warning of the presence of this known poison in these and other vaccines.

VACCINATION - The pros and cons (for more read Healthy Kids)

Since the early 1900’s, when the use of vaccination was introduced “en masse”, there have been many outspoken critics of their assumed safety. Today one of the most outspoken critics against vaccination or inoculation is Dr. Robert S Mendelsohn - surprisingly, a paediatrician!

Looking back at past research there are reams of information on how the actual vaccine causes the disease it is supposed to prevent! Assuming that medical science has improved the vaccine, one would assume the critics would die down. In fact what has happened is that as a result of million dollar law suits in the U S A, vaccination in many countries, including S A, is no longer compulsory. If vaccines were so wonderful why are they no longer compulsory?

In my quest to find answers, I phoned the Department of National Health and asked if they could give me a written or verbal guarantee that vaccines would protect my children, they declined saying that the disease would be a lot milder in an immunised child. When I then asked for a guarantee to that effect, they declined again, saying there were no guarantees.

In a recent discussion with a doctor who provided vaccines at a vaccine agency (funded by pharmaceutical companies), she admitted that a healthy diet was the ideal way to promote immunity against disease, but was not always possible with malnourished communities.

Yet it is known for a fact that malnourished children stand a much higher chance of severe side effects from vaccines than well nourished children. It is those very poorly nourished communities who in ignorance blindly submit to free inoculation.

According to most anti-inoculation proponents :

1.      There is no scientific evidence that mass inoculation either eliminate or prevent any         childhood disease. In fact the reduction of any disease is put down to improved living           conditions, hygiene and diet.

2.      There are a variety of risks associated with every single vaccine with many contra           indications that could make it dangerous to inoculate your child.

3.      Most short term side effects are known, but as yet no one knows the long term consequences    of injecting foreign proteins into the body.

Some suspected long term consequences are Aids, auto Immune conditions such as arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis and cancer (Even juvenile diabetes is now suspected of being a side effect of some vaccines). As Dr. Mendelsohn so succinctly puts it “Have we traded mumps and measles for cancer and leukemia”.

Let’s go through the possible side effects of each vaccine.

Measles

The measles vaccine is associated with encephalitis, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (hardening of the brain usually fatal), ataxia (inability to co-ordinate muscle movement), mental retardation, aseptic meningitis, seizures, hemipatesis (paralysis affecting one side of the body), multiple sclerosis, toxic epidermal neurolysis, anaphylactic shock, Reye’s syndrome, Guillain-Barre syndrome, blood clotting disorders, juvenile diabetes and even Hodgkin’s disease and cancer.

Mumps

Vaccine possible side effects are rash, itching, bruising, febrile seizures (convulsions), unilateral nerve deafness and encephalitis. Supposed to protect for 6 years only, after which age it is more severe to get mumps anyway. Why not build natural immunity and get mumps when you are younger and can cope better?

Rubella (German measles)

Again, this is a very safe disease to get when you are very young, later in life it could cause severe complications. Side effects of vaccine are arthritis, (Yes, I have seen this in a 13 month old baby!), arthralgia (painful joints), polyneuritis (causing severe pain), numbness or tingling (usually hands and feet). Dr. Leon Chaitow (vaccination and immunisation) states that “Rubella is not a serious disease yet the side effects of the vaccination are sometimes very serious indeed. He adds that although these symptoms are of a limited duration they may last several months, and may not start until a few months after vaccination.

A recent statement in the Journal of the American Medical Association, pointed out that 90% of all obstreticians/gynaecologists refused to be immunised, regardless of the so-called risk to the expectant mothers they were dealing with. One wonders why?

Whooping cough (Pertussis)

Research done in Glasgow showed that 30% of all children who get Whooping Cough were vaccinated and their symptoms, duration and severity are no different to non-vaccinated children. Research also indicated that Whooping Cough had declined by 80% before the vaccine was introduced.

Side effects can be fever, crying bouts, a shock-like state, swelling, redness and pain. Other possible side effects, although not as common, include convulsions, sudden infant death syndrome and permanent brain damage resulting in mental retardation.

Research done in Germany found that in Hamburg, where very little vaccination is done, the incidence of whooping cough is the lowest in West Germany. Yet in Berlin where the vaccination rate is 2 ½ times greater, the incidence of whooping cough and death from it, is much higher.

In Britain death from whooping cough is extremely low, 2 - 13 children a year and yet the number of cases of brain damage from the vaccine is about 25 per year. Professor Gordon Stewart (past Professor of Public Health at Glasgow University claims that the 3-in-1 DPT is useless according to statistics, and that hundreds if 5-not thousands of infants in the U K have suffered irreparable brain damage as a result of the vaccine.

Dr. Robert Mendelsohn estimates that nearly 10 000 sudden infant death syndrome deaths occur in the U S A related to vaccines with the whooping cough vaccine being the most likely culprit.

Diphtheria

Dr. Mendelsohn states that “today your child has as much chance of contracting diphtheria as he does of being bitten by a cobra”!!

Possible side effects of vaccine : a rare side effect is polio.

This vaccine is usually part of the 3-in-1 Diphtheria/Pertussi/Tetanus with possible side effects of brain damage, convulsions, uncontrollable screaming and meningitis.

There appears to be no study done to find out possible long term effects.

Drs. Harris Coulter and Barbara Loe Fisher in their major research work, dealing with the effects of D P T vaccination state that any of the following reactions are possible:

(a)       Mild reactions

            Swelling at site of injections

            Mild fever

            Inconsolable crying

            Earache.

(b)       More severe reactions

            Very high fever

            Collapse

            Convulsions

            A high pitch cry described as encephalitic crying due to cerebral irritation. Death may occur in these cases.

If the child survives these severe reactions it may develop serious chronic problems such as allergies (multiple), asthma, sleep disturbances with long term effects such as mental retardation, infantile epilepsy, partial paralysis, hearing, speech and visual disturbances (deafness or blindness) and possible infantile autism. In less severe situations, the damage may be milder and result in sensory perception problems such as dyslexia and hyperactivity.

A study done by UCLA/FDA found that 11 - 12 thousand cases of permanent neurological damage take place annually in U S A as a result of DPT vaccine.

Tetanus Vaccine

The side effects of the Tetanus Vaccine according to Dr. Leon Chaitow is an impaired immune system. He also states that the tetanus toxin acts on the nerve cells in the body.

BCG Anti-tuberculosis

In a trial in India involving 260 000 people, it was proved to be totally ineffective. In fact, more cases of T B occurred in those vaccinated than the placebo group. Good nutrition is the only way to protect yourself and your family against this disease!

Flu vaccine

Ever since the 1976 swine flu debacle in the U S A, when the vaccine was found to cause paralysis and death, the flu vaccine has been treated with skepticism, yet year after year the “latest” flu vaccine is feted as this year’s miracle cure. Invariably if you get flu from the vaccine or after treatment you are told, yours is a new strain not covered by the vaccine.

The Lancet (Vol.2) 1974, published a report that stated after 2 years of study on 50 000 people the flu vaccine made no difference to absenteeism.

Poliomyelitis

Dr. Robert Mendelsohn states, “but the fact is that no credible scientific evidence exists that the vaccine caused polio to disappear”. Rather, he puts it down to improved living conditions, sanitation and diet worldwide. According to him, the best way to avoid your child getting polio is to avoid the vaccine!

Fortunately, today the choice is yours as a parent! Unfortunately you have to live with the choice, so choose wisely. Dr. Fred Klenner (North Carolina, U S A) has stated that the Salk and Sabin (polio) vaccine (made from monkeys kidney tissue) have been directly responsible for the major increase of leukaemia in this country!

The Coxsackie virus is one of a large group of viruses which includes the polio virus. They are supposedly involved in a wide variety of diseases from colds to M E (yuppie flu), pneumonia, meningitis and paralytic poliomyelitis and multiple sclerosis ( Dr. H Weaver - “Medical News” 1967 and Dr. Klenner “Cancer Control Journal” 1974.)

By suppressing the immune system with the measles vaccine many children later develop as adults, lupus erythemeitosus, Scheuremann’s disease and chondro malacia, all chronic degenerative diseases.

There also appears to be a link between Hepatitis B vaccine and Aids (Michael Culbert D.Sc. “Aids:  Terror, Truth, Triumph), as well as a link between the polio vaccine given in the 1950’s and 1960’s.

I think too that few people are unaware of the source of most vaccines for e.g. :

Diphtheria vaccine - derived from putrefying horse blood

Pertussis - from mucous taken from throats of infected children

Typhoid - decomposed fecal matter

Salk polio serum - taken from infected monkeys’ kidneys

I have battled over the years to get updated information from the S A Health Department and after spending days on the telephone have found that some vaccines are live, some are dead, some are imported, some locally made and yes, they are aware that all vaccines do have possible side effects but I must not quote anyone and they are not prepared to tell me anymore!

To sum up - I have basically given you the cons of vaccination/immunisation. The pros are available from any health clinic or doctor although I must admit they prefer using scare statistics rather than actual research data! In the final analysis it is up to you as a parent to investigate the issue. Keep in mind that the annual budget in South Africa for inoculation is approximately R34 Million on vaccine costs alone but including labour and equipment such as syringes, R200 million is the final figure -  BIG  MONEY  INDEED  FOR  ANYONE INVOLVED. Remember too, that long term effects are extremely difficult to pinpoint.

REFERENCES

The Blood Poisoners - Lionel Dole

Health and Survival In the 21 Century - Ross Horne

Vaccination and Immunisation - Dr. Leon Chaitow

How to Raise a Healthy Child in spite of your Doctor  - Dr. Robert S Mendelsohn, Paediatrician

Vaccinations do not Protect - E McBean, Ph.D.  N D

Nature’s Child - Leslie Kenton

The Poisoned Needle - E McBean, Ph.D.  N D

Health Shock - Martin Weitz

 What's to eat?

Paloma’s Gazpacho (Paloma is a stunning Spanish lady who served this to us one hot summer day)

6-8 spring onions

6-8 tomatoes

½ an English cucumber

1 red pepper

Fresh oregano

2 Tbsp. cold pressed olive oil

Mary-Ann’s garlic & Herb salt to taste

Cover the tomatoes in boiling water for 15 minutes so that you can remove the skins. Add the skinned tomatoes and all the other ingredients to e blender and blend until smooth. Chill and serve with wholegrain bread, crackers or gluten free -- rice cakes or grilled polenta slices drizzled with olive oil.

What's inside?

When swelling and pride come, then emptiness and shame come also, but with the humble (those who have been pruned or chiseled by trial and renounce self) are skilful and Godly Wisdom and soundness.

 Proverbs 11:2