Healing foods of the Holy Bible – inexpensive way to stay healthy during a Great Depression

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THE Holy Bible pointedly refers to dozens of healthful foods that you might want to consider adding to your diet as part of an overall wellness plan.

And here you’ll find 10 of them as referenced in “Hertel’s New Standard Bible” – an 82-year-old “classic” that was published in 1924 and has been passed down through my family for generations.

Hertel’s New Standard contains a comprehensive dictionary that, as the editors themselves put it, “answers all questions pertaining to persons, places and things of the Scripture.”

Una de Gato: guaranteed-potency jungle herb for 96 different illnesses will come in handy after economic and social collapse.

The dictionary is a rich source of information on foods of the Bible, many of which are recommended by modern nutritionists as good choices for those of us who are concerned with our health.

Don’t forget: If you are seriously ill or think you might be, always consult a doctor before you try to diagnose or treat yourself.

1. Almonds. Almonds are a storehouse of nutrients, including magnesium, arginine and dietary fiber. True believers insist that just three raw almonds a day will keep sickness at bay.

2. Apples. An apple a day, as the saying goes, keeps the doctor away – and it’s easy to see how they got that reputation. Apples are chock full of vitamins – vitamin C especially.

And apple “pectin” – the pulpy part of the fruit next to the peeling – is reputed to help flush environmental toxins from the body, lower cholesterol, help regulate blood sugar levels, and reduce the risk of heart disease.

Chihuahua-tossing fad sweeps U.S. – ‘It’s fun for the whole family,’ say fans. But animal advocates rage: ‘The sport is insane.’

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It’s not unusual for a 2-pound puppy to fly 60 yards through the air when beer-drinking boneheads get together for a tossing contest – Chihuahua tossing, that is.

Nobody knows exactly how, when or where the bizarre fad started but worried animal activists say it’s both white hot and sweeping the nation.

Chihuahua tossers argue that the animals wear tiny crash helmets and hardly ever get hurt. But pet lovers couldn’t disagree more, saying the little guys “are terrified” and in “extreme danger.”

“It’s a miracle they don’t wind up with a broken neck every time one of these drunken idiots winds up and lets fly with one,” fumes Margaret Kantner, president and founder of Dogs Are People, Too, an animal rights group in Dallas, Texas.

“How would you like it if a booze-addled oaf walked up and threw you half the length of a football field? I think every one of these Neanderthals ought to be rounded up and thrown under the jail. What they’re doing

New study proves it: Lyme bacteria stronger than antibiotics

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A new study proves it beyond the shadow of a doubt: Lyme bacteria can and do thrive in the body after treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics despite claims by the CDC and other medical authorities that the drugs “cure” Lyme – bang! – just like that.

In the past, doctors and researchers have derided or even ridiculed patients who claimed to be sick with Lyme after conventional treatment with antibiotics such as Doxycycline, saying that once the drugs hit the bloodstream, the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria that cause Lyme are killed and disappear.

The “experts” insisted that even a short course of antibiotics taken at any time after infection always resulted in a complete cure.

They went on to say - wrongly – that anyone who suggested otherwise was a crackpot or mentally ill.

Now, for the first time, it’s clear that far from being crazy or crackpots, these patients and their champions – maverick MDs and alternative doctors of every stripe – were correct:

Lyme has become so virulent that all too often, only longer-term treatment with antibiotics can even approach a cure.

The new study by Stephen Barthold and colleagues at UC Davis shows that Borrelia burgdorferii, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, can persist in mice after antibiotic treatment.