Contributed by Christina Kimona

During a lecture on Essential Oils, they told us how the foot soles can absorb oils. Their example: Put garlic on your feet and within 20 minutes you can 'taste' it.

Some of us have used Vicks VapoRub for years for everything from chapped lips to sore toes and many body parts in between. But I've never heard of this. And don't laugh, it works 100% of the time, although the scientists who discovered it aren't sure why. To stop night time coughing in a child (or adult as we found out personally), put Vicks VapoRub generously on the bottom of the feet at bedtime, then cover with socks.

Even persistent, heavy, deep coughing will stop in about 5 minutes and stay stopped for many, many hours of relief. Works 100% of the time and is more effective in children than even very strong prescription cough medicines. In addition it is extremely soothing and comforting and they will sleep soundly..

Just happened to tune in A.M. Radio and picked up this guy talking about why cough medicines in kids often do more harm than good, due to the chemical makeup of these strong drugs so, I listened. It was a surprise finding and found to be more effective than prescribed medicines for children at bedtime, in addition to have a soothing and calming effect on sick children who then went on to sleep soundly.

Readers who followed the Dracula movies of the Sixties must know all about garlic and how vampires just cannot stand them! These days, vampires are no longer villains, they are heroes, and if box office receipts are any thing to go by, vampires have become the trendy new thing. So garlic is probably out... but ONIONS are experiencing α major revival of interest. Why? Here's what's being emailed among the older folk. . . we summarize it here simply because we think readers paranoid about H1N1 might find this beneficial.

In 1919, the flu killed 40 million people and many farmers died. One farmer and his family however stayed extremely healthy and when a visiting doctor asked what was different about the farmer's household. The farmer's wife told the doctor she had placed an unpeeled onion in a dish in each of the rooms of the home.

Contributed by Christina Kimona

February 24/ 2010 - Nicosia, Cyrpus

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys.  When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get  their money back.   

It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter.  How do you like it?   They have come out with some clever new flavorings....    
 DO YOU KNOW.. the difference between margarine and butter? Read on to the end...gets very interesting

Noted British psychiatric researcher Malcolm Peet conducted a provocative cross-cultural analysis of the relationship between diet and mental illness. His primary finding was a strong link between high sugar consumption and the risk of both depression and schizophrenia.

There are at least two potential mechanisms through which refined sugar intake could exert a toxic effect on mental health. First, sugar actually suppresses activity of a key growth hormone in the brain called BDNF. BDNF levels are critically low in both depression and schizophrenia.

Second, sugar consumption triggers a cascade of chemical reactions in your body that promote chronic inflammation. In the long term, inflammation disrupts the normal functioning of your immune system, and wreaks havoc on your brain. Once again, it’s linked to a greater risk of depression and schizophrenia.

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