Toxins lead to healthier lives?

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Saturday, January 3, 2003 | John Pike

[redhead]

"I tend to agree with your assessment. Most of the younger people I meet get ghastly allergic to anything and everything under the sun. A consequence of too much protection from things in the world when kids are young, I postulate."

go HERE and read a short article about "homegrown vaccines."

[redhead]

"Just read your post about your sister-in-law. What a way to live! She will drive herself and her kids crazy if she doesn't lighten up. Too much use of anti bacterials are proving to be harmful."

I thought I read somewhere that they are beginning to realize that all these germicides being overused so constantly is becoming a problem, and people are being sensitized to the chemicals used to kill the bacteria.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

...including DDT which I love the smell of and i've smoked since I was 11.

*chuckle* I read this as you smoked DDT since age 11. I was impressed. ;-)

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

I thought I read somewhere that they are beginning to realize that all these germicides being overused so constantly is becoming a problem, and people are being sensitized to the chemicals used to kill the bacteria.

I worked with a young fellow who was always sick, and was rather obsessed with germs and what not. Turns out he was constantly on prescription drugs like penecillin. He was diagnosed with a full-body yeast infection.

My son was constantly sick as a baby, and the doctor kept prescribing amoxycillin for anything and everything he said he had. I pressured my wife to switch doctors and not take the kid in every time he sniffled. After going through a bout of something without medical assistance the kid never got sick as frequently again.

[SheLion]

What am I allergic to? Heat?

You and I are in the same boat, except I heat with wood in a big wood furnace in the basement with an oil furnace for back-up. I, too, sneeze at times. I used to have a humidifier but ran out of room for it.

That seemed to help. I also keep the filters in both furnace changed often. They get really filthy. Especially the wood furnace one.

I think it's because we are inside a closed house and the dry heat the furnaces put out plays hell with our sinuses. It's horrible, I know. I am just now getting over a terrible sinus infection.

And if anyone has ever had one of those, they know the pain and misery they cause.

I never had sinus problems until we moved into this house and started heating with oil and wood. Before we moved to Maine, we had central heating. EVERYWHERE. oh well.

[Old Professer]

When my sister was 5 she used to try to eat gravel.

[Old Professer]

That would make a great logo for an Ice-Vodka (Tete Rouge)

[Old Professer]

How do you smoke DDT? Hickory or Mesquite?

[Burn24]

Thanks for your reply. I also have a humidifier, and an air cleaner, but the only thing that helps is being outdoors (not too practical in January) or standing in the shower. I guess it's just the lack of moisture in the air, even with the humidifier.

I've even snorted water for some relief!

[SheLion]

Oh! I forgot about those! I, too, have several HEPA air cleaners in all the rooms downstairs and one upstairs. Still doesn't do any good. This wood heat is very dirty. I have to dust everyday, so can you imagine the air I am breathing?

Then, in the summer, with the windows open, I am breathing in the clouds of pesticide that the farmers put on the fields. I have three fields around my house. Wonder how I am still alive. hehe!

[BriarBey]

Here's one for you guys....I didn't start smoking till I was 25, I had my first baby at 18, and my husband was a non-smoker also. I went thru broncial asthma (?) with this child till he was old enough to decide he was going to smoke himself, he was turned down on enlistment because of the lung problems. Now he is 30 and enlisting this week for the army, asthma went away when he took up smoking and now he can enlist...rofl. Its all BS and nothing more than a money grab, people have gotten so paranoid and stupid its ridiculous.
The seat belt law drives me insane, I went to jail for 24 hrs. instead of paying the fine which the judge reducted it from 108.00 to 15.00, I still wouldn't pay. If everyone did that instead of just mailing a check in and tied up the court system, that little law wouldn't last long either.
No one is willing to fight anymore, they keep chinking away at our freedoms on a day to day basis, all in the name of safety and concern. WAKE UP AMERICA before its to late.

[BriarBey]

What am I allergic to? Heat?

No...you need more moisture in the air. Summers are more humid and keep your nose from drying and cracking inside, go buy a humidifier or when its really hurting, put a pan of water on the stove, bring it to a boil, throw a towel over your head with the pan and breath the steam. It will make it feel better. I'm sure your nose looks like the cracked desert on the inside....lol.

[BriarBey]

When my sister was 5 she used to try to eat gravel.



Let me guess...now she has teeth and gum problems and poops mortar mix......roflmao.

[Virginia-American]

Look at it from a Darwinian perspective: we're adapted to a dirty environment. Cave people, hunter-gatherers, early farmers were considerably dirtier than we are. There have only been a few cultures that even bathed regularly (Greece, Rome, Japan, some American Indians), or had anything apporoaching modern public hygeine.

It's only been the last 150 or so years that there has even been a germ theory of disease - before then, cleanliness was an aesthetic (or in some cases ritualistic) mattter.

Also, if things like eating dirt were *really* bad, they'd have been selected out a long time ago.

I'm surprised no-ones quoted Nietzsche:

That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.

[Gabz]

Dry heat will do it everytime.

I was always miserable with the forced air heat we had in Delaware, I always kept a window open and pans of water on top of the floor vents for some moisture. And that was natural gas.

Now we have the opposite problem. We have an oil fired furnace but it fuels a baseboard hot water heating system. There is too much moisture in the house so we wound up with mold and all of us were sick for more than a month before we found and eradicated the major source of the mold. We are also firing up the wood stove a little more often in order to dry things out.

My husband and I spent the 3 days after Christmas smelling like clorox and lysol but by Monday we all felt better than we had since before Thanksgiving. And yesterday he spent the day pulling up the old vinyl tiles from the bathroom floor. We've got an electric space heater going in there right now trying to get the sub floor fully dried so that we can put in ceramic tile.

I'm clean - but I'm not a fanatic such as an earlier post described an SIL. One of my daughter's favorite past times is creating mud puddles and making mud pies!!!! She is rarely sick, and even when she does get sick, she's over it within a day or two.

[Burn24]

"a baseboard hot water heating system."

I'm glad you solved your mold problem.

You know, it might be worth it for me to move to a place that had hot water heating - it beats having your nose hurt five months a year. Any other drawbacks (besides the mold)?

[Gabz]

There really are no drawbacks to it, at all. It keeps moisture in the air and is very effecient. The heat is not what caused the mold, although it didn't help in getting rid of it. I'm sorry if I gave that impression

Where we live there is a very high humidity factor and we've had a horrendous amount of rain since September, nothing is drying and the ground is thoroughly saturated.

There was a tremendous amount of mold build up on the outside of the house and my husband went through 4 gallons of bleach getting rid of it. It actually looks like he put a new coat of paint on it. So between the exterior mold, the high humidity, all the rain, the dampness under the vinyl tile in the bathroom and the hot water heating system - we had a major problem.

Actually there is one drawback to this type of heating system - you most likely would have to buy a much older house or have one custom built. Our house was built in 1945 but the heating system was installed later - it's an old farmhouse that used to beheated with a woodstove. I think the baseboard hot water systems became popular in the early 60s.

[Burn24]

OK. Thanks for the tips.

[Gabz]

Always happy to help out a fellow FReeper. I would never have survived the ordeal of moving if it wasn't for my FReeper "family" aso I try to return the favor whenever possible!!!!

[InvisibleChurch]

From Woody Allen's classic film Sleeper:


"Has he asked for anything special?"
"For breakfast, he requested something called wheat germ, organic honey, and tiger's milk."

"Ahh, yes, yes, back then people thought of such things as charmed substances that contained life-preserving properties."

"You mean there was no deep fat, no steak, or hot fudge?"

"Oh, no, those were thought to be unhealthy, precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true."

"Incredible!"

......................................

Later, Miles/Woody watches Diane Keaton's character light up a cigarette for medicinal purposes and moans:

"How could we have been so wrong? Everybody knew fat and caffeine were toxic substances!"

"Miles, everybody knows that the only things that have kept mankind alive are coffee, cigarettes, and red meat!"