My Favorite Nutritious Foods: Honey

Honey’s prestigious history as a medicinal superfood predates written history as 8,000 year old cave paintings have been found depicting its harvest. Its religious significance runs deep. Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, and Buddhism all revere the sweet nectar’s power. Hippocrates and Aristotle agreed honey prolonged life. Mythology tells us that Zeus was raised on honey.

 

Honey’s incredible antimicrobial (kills bacteria, virus, and fungus) and antioxidant properties make it the only food that never spoils. It promotes digestion and aids constipation. Raw honey can heal ulcers in the stomach. It increases calcium absorption. Honey can help fights colds and respiratory infections of all kinds. One of my favorite remedies for that pre-cold scratchy throat is a teaspoon of raw honey sprinkled with cinnamon. Applied topically, raw honey can heal cold sores, wounds, insect bites, and rashes. 

One of its best known attributes is its ability to help reduce and eliminate seasonal allergies. Though the exact mechanism in which this is accomplished is not known, it is believed that the honey, with its trace amount of pollen, acts as a “natural vaccine.” In my practice I have seen many people recover from seasonal allergies by using raw honey. 

One study conducted at Xavier University in New Orleans produced notable results. Participants were divided into groups: seasonal allergies, year-round allergies, and those without allergies. These groups were further divided into three subgroups with some people taking 2 teaspoons of local honey per day, others taking the same amount of non-local honey each day, and the final subgroup not taking honey at all. After six weeks, allergy sufferers from both categories suffered fewer symptoms and the group taking local honey reported the most improvement.

Raw honey is mostly natural/good sugar and water. It has a healthy glycemic index. Honey’s sugars are gradually absorbed into the bloodstream and do not create a sugar spike. This makes it a good energy source. The vitamins and minerals found in honey are B6, thiamin, niacin, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, choline, calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, zinc. 

Commercial brands of honey are often heavily processed and chemically refined. Excessive heat destroys honey’s nutritional matrix including the vital enzymes that aid digestion. Filtering honey eliminates many of the beneficial phytonutrients including pollen and enzyme-rich propolis. Raw organic honey is never strained, filtered, or heated. 

Take it straight off the spoon or mix it into your oatmeal, cottage cheese, or tea. Spread it on toast with cinnamon. In a glass of water, mix raw honey with one teaspoon of Bragg’s apple cider vinegar. This is a delicious, quenching, nutritious drink. 

Do not feed honey to infants less than one year of age. Honey may contain spores and toxins that can cause infant botulism, a life-threatening paralytic disease. As the digestive system matures, children older than 12 months can consume it without worry.

Vaccines Never Needed. Morbidity and Mortality

When I was in Chiropractic College learning about the infinite and innate wisdom of the human body, I began to question the need for an artificially induced immune system via vaccines. After all, wasn’t God’s hand in creating macrophage, monocytes, granulocytes, lymphocytes, eosinophils, basophils, neutrophils, natural killer cells, T-cells, B-cells, and a brilliant myriad of other protective mechanisms already perfect? Didn’t we heretofore have a truly amazing constellation of interactive responses that protected us from foreign invaders? Why was science trying to usurp God’s masterpiece?

As I began researching the need for vaccines, one of the first bits of data I unearthed was morbidity and mortality statistics. These are the numbers of people who become ill and die from a disease. I started to apply the advent date of a specific vaccine into these numbers. I found that these diseases, before their respective vaccines were ever used, were not only far removed from any definition of an epidemic but they were well on their way to becoming irrelevant statistic. Nature was restoring balance all on its own.

Diphtheria, in 1900, claimed the lives of 40.3/100,000 U.S. population. By 1930, before its vaccine was used on a mass scale, the death rate had dropped to 4.9/100,000. Pertussis took 12.2/100,000 U.S. population in 1900 and by 1940 the death rate had dropped to 2.2/100,000. Its vaccine wasn’t used on a mass scale until the mid-1940s. Measles fared the same fate. From 1901-1955, the yearly death rate from measles fell from 11,956 to 203. The vaccine wasn’t even licensed until 1963. 

In today’s world of internet accessibility, anyone can pull up a website describing the thousands of children who suffered and died at the hands of polio, rubella, mumps, and tetanus. We must be careful however in accepting this data from the very groups who financially benefit from the administration of vaccines; Bad science but good job security. Statistics can and often are manipulated to create a base of fear. We must have the fortitude to see through the propaganda and misinformation dealt to us and find the facts for ourselves. 

If vaccines spared us from the ruthless onslaught of deadly diseases, what ever happened to scarlet fever, typhus, and until recently, chicken pox for which there were no vaccines? Where are those epidemics? Their death rates and rates of infection have all decreased on their own without a vaccine. 

Changes in our pattern of living did more to eradicate infectious disease than any vaccine ever could. Sewage and water treatment plants were developed. Sanitary landfills kept trash and the vermin associated with them away from populations. Central heating provided escape from drafts and the cold winter air. Iceboxes were used instead of storing food in cool cellars where it was exposed to varying types of bugs and rats. Straw filled mattresses (Sleep tight. Don’t let the bedbugs bite), fly-infested outhouses, and mosquito laden water barrels were discarded for modern conveniences and therefore so too were the modes of transmission for infectious diseases. 

The human body has its own innately endowed method of defense and it cannot be enhanced by adding artificial, synthetic, pseudo-immunity. The resistance of the body depends on its own vitality. The vitality of our body relies upon proper levels of immune supporting vitamins, minerals, and nutrients, adequate exposure to fresh air, hydration with clean water, and unobstructed direction from a stress free nervous system. (Go see your chiropractor!) That’s basic human physiology. 

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Proof That God Exists.

I have never seen a bearded old man throwing lightning bolts down from the clouds. I have never wept at the feet of an angel nor have I ever had a near death experience and “headed for the light.” I’ve never had a burning desire in my heart to go to church and commune with the Holy Spirit. In spite of these shortcomings, I have proof that God exists. 

How else can you explain the delicate weaving of a spider web? This simple creature has the tiniest of brains, never went to college to study architecture, and yet can undertake such an intricate and beautiful task. How else can you explain the migration of the monarch butterfly? This weightless aviator travels over 2,500 miles to complete its life’s mission. (Respectful of size, that’s about 11 trips around the earth for a human.)

Who tells the bear when to hibernate when they can’t read a calendar? How does a seed planted haphazardly in the ground know which direction is up? Salmon don’t have GPS so who gives them directions allowing them to swim upstream and spawn in the same place they were born? Without any fences, what keeps polar bears from wandering into warm climates? Without a watch, who tells the geese it’s time to fly south for the winter? 

With no gravity in space, how do planets stay stuck in orbits? What makes the earth eternally spin on its axis without a battery? How do the brilliant reds, yellows, and oranges hide within the green of a leaf without being seen? Who squishes a giant 100 foot tall oak tree into a tiny acorn? 

Without fighting, arguing, or complaining, nature does what nature does, perfectly, every second of every day. Without rules, regulations, labor unions, or politics, without instructions or owner’s manuals, the sun rises in the east, cows change grass into milk, and the seasons cycle. How do our heart and lungs continue on their mission while we sleep? How does a single celled zygote evolve into a thinking, breathing, thumb opposing human without the intervention of science? 

When you get the urge to pass up the Thanksgiving meal with your family and instead volunteer to help in a soup kitchen, where did that urge originate from? When you spend your day off work picking up litter along the streets of your neighborhood, where does that desire come from? Where does the alcoholic find the strength to push that bottle aside? Where does love come from? The answer certainly is not born in a laboratory nor built in a pharmacy. 

How else do you possible explain these endless miracles? Oh, science has some theories and they think there is a rational explanation for it all but I know better. When I look at nature I see the effortless and unbridled Spirit of Life at work and that is all the proof I need. God is in your child’s laughter and makes the kitten purr. Man’s finite mind will never ever comprehend the influence and power of an infinite God.

It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see and I see God.

Obamacare Fails to Address the Real Issue

Obamacare is now inevitable after his re-election but unfortunately its failure to improve the health of Americans in any way is absolute. While the United States makes up 5% of the world’s population, it consumes over 50% of the world’s pharmaceutical drugs. We spend nearly 3 trillion dollars on health care annually. With those statistics, one would expect incredible health among its people yet the World Health Organization ranks The U.S. 42nd in life expectancy. 

We have 23 million people with diabetes, 100 million with high cholesterol, and 11 million with cancer. Autism, allergies, asthma, and ADD ravage our children. This current system of medicine has done nothing to curb chronic disease. Our standard method of health care is broken and allowing free and easy access to a broken medical system does nothing to create true lasting health. It simply allows more people into the existing failed and misguided health care complex.

Do you really want free and easy access to this ruinous organization; This system with all its “scientific” research that has done nothing to curb chronic disease? No thank you. Allowing a diabetic (or anyone with a pre-existing condition) affordable insurance only confirms that they will be confronted with more of the same health care failures. It does nothing to cure or restore normal physiology.

Our emergency medicine is state of the art. No doubt about it. There’s no place I’d rather be than in an American E.R. if my life was hanging by a thread. But when it comes to chronic disease, our system is guided by special interest groups, greed (feel free to check out the Wilke vs. AMA lawsuit), and dogma entrenched in an outdated paradigm of reductionism (vs. the now more current paradigm of holism.) 

Research suggests that 80% of our diseases and illness are attributed to lifestyle choices. (Health care costs for obesity alone range near $52 billion.) Inside the Affordable Care Act, where is the emphasis on prevention and life style choices? Medicine turns its back on the vital and essential role of nutrition, hydration, fresh air, exercise, and sunshine while promoting the use of dangerous synthetic chemical therapies. Where are the therapies to correct pH imbalance; So critical to health yet so ignored by medicine.  Where are the referrals from MDs to chiropractors whose treatment for back pain has been proven to be more cost effective? Where are the prescriptions for broccoli, carrots, and apples?

In a world where we can find real lemons used in furniture polish but lemonade is fabricated from synthetic chemicals, when we have been convinced that a headache is caused by a deficiency of Ibuprofen, and that loading up our children with mountains of sugar has nothing to do with ADD, what should we expect? When we fill our dinner plates with GMO products, Aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated fats, and secondary hormones and antibiotics, what should we expect?

Being guided by a group of people who do not understand basic physiology is not my idea of health care. We can give away free and easy access to every person in this country but it will not make us healthier. If you want real medical reform, learn how not to get sick in the first place and stay out of the doctor’s office.

My book, Mother Nature’s Healing Touch Therapies. The Remedy for an Ailing Health Care System, (available through Amazon and Kindle) can help you understand just how easy real lasting health can be.