This month's main article is Part 2 of our two part series documenting what your doctor won't tell you about vaccination. Last month we noted some significant problems. These included the reasonably high vaccination failure rate, resulting in recipients having a false sense of security. We also discussed the inappropriate immune system impact that vaccinations have and the potential this provides for long-term problems and delayed diseases, quite difficult to "pin" on vaccinations.

In this month's article we consider some of the problems directly associated with vaccinations and vaccination programs. What contaminants are in your vaccines? Read the article to learn more about vaccination than you will ever learn from your doctor.

In this month's main article we commence a two part exploration of What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Vaccination. In Part 1 we explain why activating only half of the normal immune response, as vaccinations do, might set up the conditions for chronic illnesses.

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This month's edition provides a response to the hype surrounding the so-called swine flu. We have not seen so much media hype since the so-called bird flu marketing exercise of 2005. The main article, Swine Flu: Avoid the Hype, encourages calm in the face of this episode and provides a more rational perspective than the mainstream media and many health authorities which seem to be dancing to the hype pedlars' tune. Read the article to learn what is an appropriate response.

Still, this doesn't excuse them. Unless they live totally within their ivory towers (the University of California Davis School of Medicine and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry to be specific) or are exceedingly dull and uninformed there is simply no excuse for their ignorance.

I am referring to a report by Ulfat Shaikh, MD, MPH; Robert S. Byrd, MD, MPH and Peggy Auinger, MS. It was titled Vitamin and Mineral Supplement Use by Children and Adolescents in the 1999-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and was published recently in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Vol. 163 (No. 2), Feb 2009.

The study found that around one third of children and adolescents take vitamin and mineral supplements. The findings came from an analysis of data from 10,828 children aged 2 to 17 who participated in the 1999 to 2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. In the survey parents filled out questionnaires and participated in household interviews, and children and teens underwent medical examinations, including nutrition behavior analysis.

The study analysed children in age groups of 2-4, 5-11 and 12-17 and found that younger children were more likely to take vitamin and mineral supplements. Prevalence was 43, 37 and 27 percent respectively. The study also found that underweight children and those children with better overall diets reported greater supplement intake.

So what did the authors say about these findings? First they said: "Our results supported our hypothesis that underweight children would have the highest use of vitamin and mineral supplements," which is fine. We expect that parents of children who don't seem to be eating enough (and hence are underweight) will be more likely to want to supplement their diets so this hypothesis is reasonable.

They then said: "However, in contrast to what we expected to find, children and adolescents with healthier nutrition, more active lifestyles, greater food security and greater health care access were more likely to use vitamin and mineral supplements." This is where we see clearly just how uninformed and out of touch these authors are. Their expectation here tells us more about them than about the pattern of children's supplement consumption.

It should have been quite well known to them that patterns of consumption of vitamin and mineral supplements follow socioeconomic position in society. The researchers said that children and adolescents who may face the greatest risks for vitamin and mineral deficiencies are those that actually take supplements less. Children in this group include those with less healthy nutrition and activity patterns, greater obesity, lower income, lower food security, poorer health, and lower health care access. It appears that they finally discovered the blindingly obvious.

Basically, parents with enough education and income know about the importance and can afford to purchase nutritional supplements, including vitamins and minerals. Sadly, those who are less well informed and have lower income -- yes, the very people with greater need -- tend to miss out on the benefits of supplements. Can this really have been such a surprise to these authors?

This month's edition features an article on the natural cure of psoriasis. All manner of treatments are available online for this condition, many promising miraculous cures. Some prescription treatments and other over-the-counter drugs (often in ointments or creams or lotions or baths) are also available. The fact is that none of these individually or in combination can actually cure psoriasis and ultimately they will make the condition -- and your general health -- worse.

While orthodoxy debates its two main hypotheses about the cause and provides mere symptom relief (if you are lucky) naturopathic medicine provides a solution. What's more, the treatment will not make your condition worse -- its only 'side effect' is improved general health.

If you have psoriasis or know someone who does then read this month's feature article. It is available to all subscribers. Remember, subscription is free and available at most of our sites, such as our Health Products Site.

This month's edition encourages readers not to be a bowel cancer (or colorectal cancer) statistic. This lifestyle-related disease is a major killer in western society. The featured article goes beyond the simple and orthodox symptom list and screening recommendation to add a proactive means of prevention.

Are you at risk? Do you have symptoms that should be investigated? Do you know what preventative actions you can take? Find out in this month's edition.

This edition focusses on taking action and getting the health foundation right. The main article, titled Bowel Cleansing: Path to Inner Detoxification and Real Health, challenges readers to follow 8 rules for their consumption of food and fluids over the next month. Those who do will be rewarded with improved health and knowledge of how to make great improvements to their bowel health and how to gently but effectively detoxify.

This edition makes the points that good health requires sound choices and regular action. There is no passive road to wellbeing and those who seek it or pretend to sell it live in deceit.

• the observations and reasoning it offers are essentially sound, and
• it represents a fine example of the kind of critical enquiry that consumers need to develop

References would strengthen the article but none were submitted. To follow up on the article make a comment below or contact Barb Feick directly via her site.

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The is a summary of peanut allergy info so far Posted in Health, Peanut allergies on January 13th, 2009 - A basic review of what I've covered in my previous blogs concerning peanut allergy which can be deadly.

Hypothesis: Vaccinations are the leading cause of peanut allergy. Infant formula, infant vitamins, and antibiotics that contain peanut products directly or indirectly may be secondary causes.

1. Vaccines are given to create an immune response from the body. It only makes sense that the body treats anything in the vaccine as an invader that needs to have an antibody created to combat it. That is why we give vaccines. But if the vaccine has a trace of food in it such as egg or peanut, it only makes sense that the vaccine can cause a food allergy.

2. Peanut oil is used in vaccines in adjuvants or as a vaccine carrier. The ingredients of adjuvants or vaccine carriers are not listed individually on the package insert. So the physician would have no way of knowing that there was peanut oil in the vaccine.

3. Peanut allergy decreases in populations that have decreased percentage of vaccinated children. There are a number of studies that link vaccinations to allergies.

4. Peanut allergy is almost unknown in Israel. The population eats lots of peanuts. Israel produces sesame oil. Israel manufactures is own vaccines. Sesame is a major allergy there. Hypothesis: Sesame oil is used instead of peanut oil in the vaccines used in Israel.

5. Study that is frequently cited saying that Indonesia and Thailand people do not suffer from peanut allergies was erroneous. Many children in the study reacted to peanuts in the skin prick test. The study relied on parents of report food reactions. I found a Thai parent quoted on the Internet saying that her child had a peanut allergy. I also found a physician from Singapore stating that peanut allergy is a major problem there.

6. The "hygiene" theory points out that there is less food allergy in underdeveloped countries. They speculated that the people and environment is less clean so it is the early exposure to bacteria, etc. that protects against allergies. However, children as young as 8 months have been diagnosed with peanut allergy and it is only since 1990 that peanut allergies have become a huge problem. The populations in the underdeveloped countries are also not as compliant with childhood vaccinations which would account for less peanut allergy.

7. The United States and China are major producers of peanut oil and vaccinations. There are many patents for products used in vaccines that contain peanut oil.

8. The secondary causes of peanut allergy are due to young children having a "leaky gut", immature digestive system. Introducing foods too soon can lead to allergies. Medicines given with traces of peanut protein could lead to an allergy. Also antibiotics kill off good bacteria as well as bad and can lead to an overgrowth of yeast which can cause food allergy type problems. I don't know if any infant formula in the United States contains peanut oil. One website said it was more of a problem in Europe.

9. Our vaccinated animals are getting food allergies Dogs are allergic to peanuts. Searching the Internet - I found a wild elephant allergic to wheat; the elephant had been immunized. (Wheat germ oil is used as a carrier of vaccines. Wheat protein is used to manufacture vaccines/medicines.)

10. The statistics for allergies is appalling!! The allergy epidemic increased with every new mandate for more childhood immunizations.

11. How pure can we make peanut oil? I assume it is highly refined but it only would take a teeny weeny bit of peanut protein in a vaccine to create a problem. That is, of course, assuming that it is ONLY the peanut protein that causes the allergy. Using my "guessing" math, only 1 shot out of 1680 would need to be contaminated to create a peanut allergy in 1 in 70 people in Great Britain.

12. Vaccine adjuvants/ vaccine carriers contain many other oils/ingredients. These other ingredients could account for allergies to other foods. Fish oil is used. Shellfish can be mixed in with the fish by-products which are used to make fish oil. Wheat germ oil, corn oil, soy oil are used. Milk and eggs are also used in the production of vaccines.

I keep looking but so far, I have been unable to DISPROVE my hypothesis.

In this month's edition Dr Jenny Tylee gets physical with details about how to strengthen your pelvic floor. Don't know what your pelvic floor is? ...or what it does for you? Then you need to read this article.

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This month's main article by Dr Jenny Tylee considers the significant problem of air pollution within the home. There is plenty of research to confirm what is perfectly obvious -- people spend many hours every week inside their homes. Add to this number the additional hours spent inside other buildings and the level of exposure poses quite a problem.

This significant risk to health is all the more worrying because it is largely silent. People just don't realise what they are exposed to and what problems can result. Many people suffer poor health as a direct result from exposure to toxins found in the air inside their own homes. Might you be one of them? What can you do about the problem?

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As usual we have answers to questions posed by readers. This month we have a brief follow-up to last month's discussion about managing allergic responses.

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In this edition we consider the basics of how the body inactivates drugs. This is a very important part of how the body naturally attempts to maintain a detoxified state. Unfortunately many people suffer from either failures in this area or damage to this area. Both of these situations represent threats to wellbeing.

In answer to a subscriber's question we also address how to deal with allergies. This seems to be a question that's posed over and over again so there is obviously considerable need for information about effectively dealing with allergies without resorting to pharmaceutical antihistamines.

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This edition features an article titled: Stress - Impact on the Mind and Body. A brief but telling review of the impact that negative stress can have on both body and mind, the article encourages readers to recognize the importance of dealing effectively with stress in daily life.

Further information in this month's publication considers natural antibiotics. Several are listed along with brief discussion on the importance of moving beyond the Big Pharma consumers' conditioned response of looking for "quick fix" and "magic bullet" solutions. Natural antibiotcs are extremely powerful and very effective without the downside risks and side effects associated with pharmaceutical antibiotcs, but they must be approached differently.

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In this month's edition our main article is titled Eliminating Constipation. This widespread problem can easily "take the gloss off" even the best of days when only mild and short-lived. When it is severe or chronic constipation can lead to a multitude of health problems due either to the accumulation of toxins or the physical effects of the associated stools.

In the section called Peter's Pearls there is a material to stimulate some deep thinking. It includes a link to the book titled Seven Words That Can Change The World by Joe Simonetta -- a book well worth reading.

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