Our 5 year old girl was absent from school the whole week last week due to a very bad cold that made it hard to breath and made coughing painful in her chest. Although her mother gave her anthroposophic and homeopathic medicines for relief, her cold still persists and I am getting impatient.

In that week we tried to put her on paleo diet but with some soup and some cooked meat. No final cure.

This Saturday I handed down the law. Raw paleo diet. Sunday she does juice fasting. Freshly squeezed orange juice and some coconut juice and some coconut meat. Tomorrow Monday this juicing will continue but I will add Henry Bieler’s soup with zucchini, string beans, celery, and parsley. Then it will be raw paleo diet the whole week for her.

If we still have problems then it might truly be the construction dust filled air in our current condominium. I will probably temporarily live in a beach with her for a few days. Sounds like fun. We should do it anyway.

“Aminosweet: Only Sugar Tastes as Good.” This is the marketing line on the front banner of the Ajinomoto EU website today February 14, 2010. “Ajinomoto Sweeteners Europe markets AminoSweet® Aspartame throughout Europe, the Confederation of Independent States (CIS), the Middle East and Africa.”

The company of course in the effort to make money and with the awareness from many people that aspartame = bad seems branding under the registered name “Aminosweet” will help them sell this artificial sweetener to the public.

Now personally, we do not use artificial sweeteners in our home. We use real raw honey. And raw fruits in season are sweet enough.

As far as my opinion on why we do not use any sweeteners other than real raw honey is because I do not want my children having a sweet tooth. My target is for my family to be on a paleo diet with high fat, low carb. I do not believe in consuming too much carbohydrates. Nor do I believe in consuming artificial non-foods such as artificial sweeteners.

We’ve got to keep our health up. Paleo diet rocks. Pure food only. No condiments.

Lucky me. I chanced upon mabolos in Farmers Market in Cubao. 120 pesos per kilo.

Mabolos grow mostly wild here and there and in the mountains and forests. In some website they say it is cultivated? Sure sure, by someone who likes them and planted a couple of trees in his yard.

Mabolo is not a popular fruit. There is no demand. These things are sold as a mere addition, a novelty in a big market such as in Marikina or in Farmers Cubao. You are never going to see this in a supermarket.

When you find a rare fruit being sold like a mabolo, buy some immediately.

Good thing the kids liked this. They ate some last night and this morning. I wonder what it is good for?

Learn more about Mabolos at http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/mabolo.html

US comedian Jim Carrey is part of a website called Generation Rescue.  The headline says Autism is reversible.  And of course if you avoid vaccinations, preventable.

Now I don’t watch television or much movies.  I did see Jim Carrey in a movie once.  But he appears to be famous.  So if you are star struck with Jim, maybe you should listen to what he has to say about vaccinations.

Lately Jim and partner Jenny McCarthy made a statement regarding some monkey vaccination study that is being censored because it may show that vaccination turned out harmful to the monkeys.

Andrew Wakefield, Scientific Censorship, and Fourteen Monkeys

A statement from Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey
Los Angeles, February 5, 2010

Dr. Andrew Wakefield is being discredited to prevent an historic study from being published that for the first time looks at vaccinated versus unvaccinated primates and compares health outcomes, with potentially devastating consequences for vaccine makers and public health officials.

It is our most sincere belief that Dr. Wakefield and parents of children with autism around the world are being subjected to a remarkable media campaign engineered by vaccine manufacturers reporting on the retraction of a paper published in The Lancet in 1998 by Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues.

The retraction from The Lancet was a response to a ruling from England’s General Medical Council, a kangaroo court where public health officials in the pocket of vaccine makers served as judge and jury. Dr. Wakefield strenuously denies all the findings of the GMC and plans a vigorous appeal.

Despite rampant misreporting, Dr. Wakefield’s original paper regarding 12 children with severe bowel disease and autism never rendered any judgment whatsoever on whether or not vaccines cause autism, and The Lancet’s retraction gets us no closer to understanding this complex issue.

Dr. Wakefield is one of the world’s most respected and well-published gastroenterologists. He has published dozens of papers since 1998 in well-regarded peer-reviewed journals all over the world. His work documenting the bowel disease of children with autism and his exploration of novel ways to treat bowel disease has helped relieve the pain and suffering of thousands of children with autism.

For the past decade, parents in our community have been clamoring for a relatively simple scientific study that could settle the debate over the possible role of vaccines in the autism epidemic once and for all: compare children who have been vaccinated with children who have never received any vaccines and see if the rate of autism is different or the same.

Few people are aware that this extremely important work has not only begun, but that a study using an animal model has already been completed exploring this topic in great detail.

Dr. Wakefield is the co-author, along with eight other distinguished scientists from institutions like the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Washington, of a set of studies that explore the topic of vaccinated versus unvaccinated neurological outcomes using monkeys.

The first phase of this monkey study was published three months ago in the prestigious medical journal Neurotoxicology, and focused on the first two weeks of life when the vaccinated monkeys received a single vaccine for Hepatitis B, mimicking the U.S. vaccine schedule. The results, which you can read for yourself here, were disturbing. Vaccinated monkeys, unlike their unvaccinated peers, suffered the loss of many reflexes that are critical for survival.

Dr. Wakefield and his scientific colleagues are on the brink of publishing their entire study, which followed the monkeys through the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule over a multi-year period. It is our understanding that the difference in outcome for the vaccinated monkeys versus the unvaccinated controls is both stark and devastating.

There is no question that the publication of the monkey study will lend substantial credibility to the theory that over-vaccination of young children is leading to neurological damage, including autism. The fallout from the study for vaccine makers and public health officials could be severe. Having denied the possibility of the vaccine-autism connection for so long while profiting immensely from a recent boom in vaccine sales around the world, it’s no surprise that they would seek to repress this important work.

Behind the scenes, the pressure to keep the work of Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues from being published is immense, and growing every day. Medical journals take extreme risk of backlash in publishing any studies that question the safety of the vaccination program, no matter how well-designed and thorough the research might be. Neurotoxicology, a highly-respected medical journal, deserves great credit for courageously publishing the first phase of this vaccinated monkey study.

The press has been deeply misled in the way The Lancet retraction, and Dr. Wakefield’s mock trial, have been characterized. Led by the pharmaceutical companies and their well-compensated spokespeople, Dr. Wakefield is being vilified through a well-orchestrated smear campaign designed to prevent this important new work from seeing the light of day.

What medical journal would want to step in front of this freight train? Moreover, why now, after 12 years of inaction, did The Lancet and GMC suddenly act? Is it coincidence that the monkey study is currently being submitted to medical journals for review and publication?

We urge the media to take a close look at the first phase of the monkey study discussed above and to start asking a very simple question: What was the final outcome of the 14 primates that were vaccinated using the U.S. vaccine schedule and how did that compare to the unvaccinated controls?

The U.S. vaccine schedule has grown from 10 vaccines given to our children in the 1980s to 36 today, perfectly matching the dramatic rise in autism. The work of Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues deserves to be shared with the world to further, rather than censor, scientific progress.

from http://www.generationrescue.org/wakefield_statement2.html

Spread the word. Jim knows it, I know it, now you know it. Walk the talk I do not vaccinate my children.