Try These 5 Natural Acid Reflux Remedies For Effective Relief

If you're constantly suffering from heartburn after eating, drinking coffee or your favourite wine, then this is a warning sign that you need to find acid reflux remedies.

Acid reflux is a common disorder affecting many people's lives and when the symptoms are continuous and severe, it can greatly reduce people's quality of life. Acid reflux occurs when the acid from stomach flows up into the oesophagus. As the protective lining of the oesophagus is very thin, it can easily be irritated by the corrosive effects of the acid. When this happens people will experience a burning sensation in their chest area and this is commonly known as heartburn.

The traditional acid reflux remedies that you can buy in the drug stores range from antacid tablets, blockers and proton pump inhibitors PPIs. These remedies focus on either reducing or neutralising the acid in your stomach. Antacids are the first remedy you can take. If these prove unsuccessful, then a doctor may put you on a course of PPI's or H2 blockers. These work by inhibiting the production of acid. These OTC or prescribed remedies only provide short term relief and their chemical content can also result in side effects. 

Flu Shots - Who Needs Them?

Are you wondering about Flu shots?

Who needs them?

Do you need one?

It seems wherever I go I see signs telling me that I can get a free flu shot. This has prompted me to try to answer the following questions about these shots.

1. Do we really need flu shots?

Everyone seems to be saying that we do. But from my research, there are some disturbing facts that you may not be aware of. Many scientists are now convinced that the shots are not only unnecessary, but even harmful.

2. Are the statistics accurate?

Every fall we hear through the media that the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has warned that 36,000 people will die from the flu. A closer check of the facts published in the CDC's own records, the National Vital Statistics Reports, reveals that actually only several hundred have died each year from the flu. And most of those deaths occurred in patients who were already suffering from some other condition such as cancer, diabetes, asthma or AIDS that cause a person to be much less able to resist infection.

In fact, the above report shows that more than ten times as many deaths occurred due to malnutrition as from the flu. And even more occurred from asthma - a condition that may be caused by the vaccine.

3. Do the flu vaccinations prevent the complication of pneumonia?

One of the benefits that the manufacturer of the vaccine advertises on TV is that the vaccine helps to prevent the secondary infection of pneumonia.

That is a strange claim as the flu is caused by a virus and most pneumonia cases are caused by bacteria. In fact, the FDA has insisted that the official website for the company must have a disclaimer stating that there is no scientific evidence of that fact that the FDA is aware of.

4. What about the dangerous side-effects?

Last year due to the alarming number of children hospitalized after having convulsions, vomiting and dangerously high fevers triggered by flu shots, Australia's chief health officer banned flu shots for all children in that country. It is the added chemicals, not the virus itself that causes the adverse symptoms. Those chemicals (which are added as preservatives) cause severe problems for elderly patients also, and contribute to neurological diseases including Alzheimers.

My mother's neighbor had the experience of getting the flu shot one day and being paralyzed and bed-ridden for one whole year afterward. She never regained her former health.

Because the media has produced a fear of flu, most of the time when a person gets respiratory symptoms plus fever and aching muscles, they believe they have the flu. In many of these cases, when lab tests are performed, no flu virus is detected. However, they are often diagnosed and treated without any laboratory testing to confirm the diagnosis.

Another interesting fact is that in 1989 only 15 percent of people over age 65 in the U.S. and Canada were vaccinated against flu. Today, more than 65 percent are vaccinated. Yet death rates among the elderly during flu season have increased rather than decreased.

Also, the flu vaccines produced each year contain 3 strains of flu viruses. There are so many strains of flu virus that it is left to the flu "experts" to decide which ones to include.

They check with China to determine the prevalent strain in that country during the summer and try to estimate which one may travel to the U.S. by winter.

Often the virus has mutated enough so that the vaccine has no value in treating it, or an entirely different virus affects our population. One year the CDC had to admit that millions of people were injected with vaccines that were the wrong virus so the shots were utterly useless.

The United States has spent billions of dollars stockpiling vaccines that have never been proven to prevent the flu. These vaccines have caused Guillain-Barre Syndrome and other neurological consequences - as noted in the warning on the consent form. Why do the CDC and the medical profession push these dangerous vaccines? Could it be that they have stakes in the pharmaceutical labs that produce them. In 2009, 50% of our doctors refused the shot, yet they still recommended them for their patients.

I urge you to read all the information available before you choose to have or not have the flu or any other vaccine for you or your children. Some of the studies have shown that vitamin D3 that we get from non-sunscreened exposure to sunlight or in gel cap form is superior to the flu shot in protecting us from the flu.

I have included the following link for more information to help you decide the right course of action for you and your loved ones.

http://naturalsociety.com/a-flu-vaccine-timeline-the-recent-history-revolving-around-vaccine-dangers/

How Bulimia Affects a Teen Girl's Body

It is a known fact today that easy access to many types of media including television and magazines along with the internet  have caused many teenage girls to seek out the perfect body for themselves. This quest has led many of them down the road to eating disorders such as Bulimia.

Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by binge eating and purging or consuming a large amount of food in a short amount of time, followed by an attempt to rid oneself of the food consumed, usually by purging (vomiting) and/or by laxative, diuretics or excessive exercise.

How does this happen? Eating an unusually large amount of food is known as bingeing and this usually occurs when somebody has been on a strict diet or has been starving themselves and they suddenly lose control and eat a huge amount of food.  Usually after binge eating, people feel guilty and so bad that they want to get rid of the food that they have eaten and they do this by purging it out of their body. The most common ways of doing this is by vomiting or using laxatives. Most people will choose one method over the other, but some will even combine methods. This can lead to serious health complications with some being so severe that they can be life threatening. The severity is usually determined by the type of purging method that is used by the individual.

Normal bodily functions are disrupted when someone chooses to go on a binge eating and purging spree. The most common area affected is the digestive system, but cardiovascular and dental health can also be compromised. It also has a negative effect on the potassium levels in your body and that can put you in potential danger for possible drug abuse.