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NEWSLETTER VOLUME 4, ISSUE 5

by Dr. Deborah Baker-Racine 2004-2005

HOME TREATMENT FOR KENNEL COUGH...

In recent months, since starting my book with Ann Martin (Food Pets Die For and Protect Your Pet), I have been asked many times about natural, home treatment for kennel cough.

So, to answer these queries all at once, I have done a page on my site on symptoms and treatment of Kennel Cough. Actually, this is an excerpt of the book "The Animal Lover's Guide to Holistic Pet Care" that I am doing with Ann..so it gives you an idea of how I'll be covering my part which is the holistic treatment of animal health issues from Allergy to Worms.

This is particularly important at this time of year, when the virus/bacteria count is higher and its a common time for pets to be put in boarding kennels while families travel for winter holidays. Its these situations, where many animals are together and are stressed and their immune systems down because they are not with their families and normal routines, that they are so much more susceptible to infections.

You can read the page HERE

Be sure to sign up on our Pet List at the bottom of the Kennel Cough page or you can do that HERE

If your name is on that list, you will be notified when "The Animal Lover's Guide to Holistic Pet Care" is ready.

DID YOU KNOW?????

This came to me from the Biosphere Network:

We can make a collective difference.

If every household in Canada changed just one traditional incandescent light bulb to an ENERGY STAR labeled CFL, the country would save over $73 million in energy costs every year and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 397 000 tonnes of carbon dioxide - which would have the same impact on climate change as taking 66 000 cars off the road for one year.

Or,,,,we could forego building hydroelectric powerplants on northern rivers, and be able to have National Parks created where they should be created, rather than having them designed to avoid potential hydroelectric power sites.

Imagine what we could do if every household changed two or three bulbs.

Now, multiply this by 10 for the U.S....pretty powerful, eh???

AUTISM VIDEO...EVERYONE SHOULD SEE...

The website www.tacanow.com has a 4 minute presentation about Autism, which I believe everyone needs to listen to. This problem is now big enough that it touches us all, whether it be someone you know or love..its seriously affecting the children of the world. Please take time to listen:

http://www.tacanow.com/VIDEO.htm

AUTISM-MERCURY REPORT....A "MUST READ"..

The Environmental Working Group have put a very up to date report together on the relationship between mercury and autism. In my opinion..a "must read"...very well done!!

http://www.ewg.org/reports/autism/execsumm.php

HOW DO ESSENTIAL OILS WORK?

Twenty Trillion Possibilities

This was formulated from an excerpt from Dr. David Stewart's upcoming book: The Chemistry of Essential Oils Made Simple (God's Love Manifest in Molecules),

When nature crafted the molecules of essential oils it was kept simple. Basically, it uses only three types of builiding blocks: Carbon (C), Hydrogen (H), and Oxygen (O). Traces of a few other elements are contained in aromatic oils, but only traces. Yet, every plant produces is own unique blend of hundreds of compounds that comprise its oils--all composed of just three kinds of atoms: C, H and O. Scientists have yet to completely analyze even one essential oil, such is their complexity. And what's more, every year, the same plant or species produces variations on its oils that are different than any previous year's crop. How can such limitless variations be possible from only three elements?

Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen are nature's Legos. They are the elements of all life as we know it on earth. Consider them as nature's Legos. To appreciate the possibilities, consider if you had only sixteen Legos: 5 yellow ones (call these Carbon atoms), 8 red ones (call these Hydrogen atoms), and 3 blue ones (call these Oxygen atoms). If you were in a room with, say, 10 people, each of whom had a set of sixteen Legos in three colors as just described, if you were each asked to build something without looking at anyone else's work, would any two of you build exactly the same arrangement of Legos? The answer is NO. In fact, if there were 1,000 of you in the room, no two of you would build the exactly the same thing. For sixteen Legos in three colors, as described, there are an incredible 20,922,789,888,000 possibilities. That's more than 20 trillion!

The chemistry of essential oils consists of simple hydrocarbons, oxygenated hydrocarbons, and their isomers. Unless you have had a course in chemistry, that sentence may seem a little obtuse, but buried within its meaning are only three elements: Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen. That, in a sentence, is the chemistry of essential oils made simple. Yet, within the simplicity of this elemental trinity are unlimited possibilities, not only for essential oils, but for all the living lifeforms we know, including our own bodies.

Part of the incredible compatability between human bodies and essential oils has to do with their compositions being mainly of the same basic elements.

DID YOU KNOW????

Mainline medical research is finally taking place in the prevention/nutritional arena and proving what we "alternative types" have been saying for at least the past two decades..

Nutrition and Aging – Practical Advice for Healthy Eating

Mary Ann Johnson, PhD

This article provides practical advice about foods and dietary supplements that are beneficial for the health of older people. Overweight and obesity are among the most common nutrition-related disorders in older people. A plant-based diet is associated with reduced risk of chronic diseases such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes. Vitamin B12 deficiency is prevalent in older adults, but there are misconceptions about the causes, consequences, and treatments. Diminished synthesis of vitamin D in the skin that occurs with aging and poor dietary intake contribute to the high prevalence of poor vitamin D status in older adults. Vitamin D deficiency is associated with chronic disorders beyond poor bone health. Supplements containing vitamin B12 and vitamin D will help older adults meet their needs for these key nutrients.

Downoad the whole paper here:

• Nutrition and Aging: Practical Advice for Healthy Eating

This was published in the Detroit Free Press on January 13, 2005:

January 13, 2005

BY SUSAN AGER
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

I don't know why, or why I hadn't before, but the other day I read the back of my wrinkly tube of toothpaste.

As if I don't already suffer enough anxiety, I found these words: "Do not swallow."

Nearby was a warning to keep the tube away from children under 6. It got worse: "If more than used for brushing is accidentally swallowed, get medical help or contact a Poison Control Center right away."

Words like "poison" and "do not swallow" do not belong on the label of anything you put in your mouth even once a day.

But there they were, on my Arm & Hammer, on a tube of Colgate in my travel case, on my husband's "natural" Tom's of Maine. When I visited my local drugstore, I found similar words -- including the P word -- on every brand I checked.

What the hell?

One friend guessed too much toothpaste might "plug you up like concrete," so that evening before bed I squeezed a tablespoon onto my finger and ate it. Its powerful minty taste made me gag, but it didn't kill me overnight or slow any of my natural functions.

I considered eating a spoonful every day for a month, just to see. Instead I called the 800 number on the tube, where I learned the warning, required by the FDA, had to do with just one toothpaste ingredient -- fluoride.

So what's the problem?

"It's not meant to be ingested," Tonya in Arm & Hammer customer service told me. "It's just supposed to be put on the teeth to help with strengthening."

So what happens if you ingest too much?

"I honestly don't know," she said, "but I've heard some people say they squeeze the toothpaste straight from the tube into their mouths as they leave the house, and that's not the purpose of the product."

Prowling the Internet, I found alarming claims about fluoride: that it's up there with arsenic and lead in toxicity, that half a tube of toothpaste can kill a child, that it's linked to attention deficit disorder, to Alzheimer's disease, to bone cancer and arthritis. I learned that Grand Rapids in 1950 was the first city in America to fluoridate its water, and that now about two-thirds of Americans drink fluoridated water.

Only 2 percent of Europeans do, because scientists there consider the chemical too dangerous to spread around.

I spoke with Christopher Bryson, an award-winning investigative journalist who a year ago published "The Fluoride Deception" ($24.95, Seven Stories Press). He told me optimal fluoridation levels of 1 part per million scare him, since research has found dramatic toxic effects in animals consuming 5 parts per million.

He uses a fluoride filter on his home tap in New York City. As for fluoridated toothpaste, he said, "I think about what my 2-year-old son is looking to do, so I don't keep the stuff in my house."

It's a lot to swallow

At Poison Control's national number -- 800-222-1222 -- I found Susan Smolinske, a pharmacist at Children's Hospital of Michigan. She said a 22-pound child would have to eat an ounce of fluoridated toothpaste to get an upset stomach. She vaguely remembers one case of a seizure in a child who ate too much, but said acute fluoride poisoning from toothpaste isn't as troubling as chronic exposure.

You should worry, she said, "if you have a child who every day eats a couple teaspoons." That can cause severe bone and other problems.

Then she told me, "If you drink fluoridated water, you don't even need toothpaste. It's more important to brush your teeth than to brush them with toothpaste."

I never knew that. I'm happy I now do, and I'm glad I read my tube, which is now in the trash.

Contact SUSAN AGER at 313-222-6862 or ager@freepress.com.

Enjoy!

Warmly,
Dr. Deb

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