Getting Sick?

I HATE BEING SICK!

Have you ever had the feeling of dread come upon you when you begin to feel the symptoms of a cold or some other virus attacking your body? You know, the sore, scratchy throat. The congestion in your head and ears. Your sinuses actin' up making your breath smell as if you just passed gas out of your mouth! (Well, you get the point.) If you abhor being sick as much as me, give me your ear for a few more moments.

Several years ago my sister filled me in on a little secret. It's called Grapefruit Seed Extract. Her family takes a 250 mg capsule when they feel the symptoms of a cold creeping in. Since I like being ill as much as I like being audited by the IRS, I decided to give it a try. Now, you must understand that my family and I are not "pill-poppers." We do take a very effective multi-vitamin (derived from raw foods) and Co enzyme Q10. Other than those, we do not regularly take a whole lot of supplements.

To my surprise, Grapefruit Seed Extract works wonders! Whenever I feel runned-down or the symptoms of a cold I take a capsule of this wonderful immune-boosting substance and whoola--I'm feeling better the next morning. We buy Nature's Way Grapefruit Seed Extract from our local natural grocers. For your convenience, we've added a link in this post and have added it to the Building Great Health Store. (Click here to order.)

So next time you feel yourself coming down with something, give Grapefruit Seed Extract a try!

Until next time...

Building Great Health
K Wood

Vaccine Court: Autism Debate Continues

It's been a while since the last post. Boy, life has a way of "getting away from you!"

There is ongoing debate in regards to vaccinations. One camp advocates the complete effectiveness and safety of vaccinations for children. While the other camp is adamant vaccines are neither beneficial nor harmless. While there are some who are in the middle of these opposing viewpoints.

A friend of ours, who has a little girl with autism, sent this article published in the Huffington Post today.

ANOTHER AUTISM CASE WINS IN VACCINE COURT
By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

On February 12, the federal "Vaccine Court" in Washington issued a sweeping ruling in three highly touted "test cases" against families who claimed that their childrens' autism had been caused by vaccines. The Special Masters in those three cases found that Petitioners failed to establish causation between MMR vaccines, the mercury-laced vaccine preservative thimerosal, and autism (the court decision, which is under appeal, deferred any finding on a thimerosal-only theory of causation). The rulings could have a significant precedential impact on some 5,000 families who opted to bring their cases in the Omnibus Autism Proceedings (OAP) hoping that the vaccine court would officially hold that the MMR vaccine or thimerosal had caused autism in their children.

The New York Times joined the government Health Agency (HRSA) and its big pharma allies hailing the decisions as proof that the scientific doubts about vaccine safety had finally been "demolished." The US Department of Health and Human services said the rulings should "help reassure parents that vaccines do not cause autism." The Times, which has made itself a blind mouthpiece for HRSA and a leading defender of vaccine safety, joined crowing government and vaccine industry flacks applauding the decisions like giddy cheerleaders, rooting for the same court that many of these same voices viscously derided just one year ago, after Hannah Poling won compensation for her vaccine induced autism.

But last week, the parents of yet another child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were awarded a lump sum of more than $810,000 (plus an estimated $30-40,000 per year for autism services and care) in compensation by the Court, which ruled that the measels-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine had caused acute brain damage that led to his autism spectrum disorder.

The family of 10-year-old Bailey Banks won their case quietly and without fanfare in June of 2007, but the ruling has only now come to public attention. In the remarkably clear and eloquent decision, Special Master Richard Abell ruled that the Banks had successfully demonstrated that "the MMR vaccine at issue actually caused the conditions from which Bailey suffered and continues to suffer."

Bailey's diagnosis is Pervasive Developmental Disorder -- Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) which has been recognized as an autism spectrum disorder by CDC, HRSA and the other federal health agencies since at least the 1990s.

In his conclusion, Special Master Abell ruled that Petitioners had proven that the MMR had directly caused a brain inflammation illness called acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) which, in turn, had caused the autism spectrum disorder PDD-NOS in the child:

The Court found that Bailey's ADEM was both caused-in-fact and proximately caused by his vaccination. It is well-understood that the vaccination at issue can cause ADEM, and the Court found, based upon a full reading and hearing of the pertinent facts in this case, that it did actually cause the ADEM. Furthermore, Bailey's ADEM was severe enough to cause lasting, residual damage, and retarded his developmental progress, which fits under the generalized heading of Pervasive Developmental Delay, or PDD [an autism spectrum disorder]. The Court found that Bailey would not have suffered this delay but for the administration of the MMR vaccine, and that this chain of causation was... a proximate sequence of cause and effect leading inexorably from vaccination to Pervasive Developmental Delay.

Click on link to read the entire story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-and-david-kirby/vaccine-court-autism-deba_b_169673.html

Until next time...

Building Great Health
K Wood