Protecting You and Your Kids From Toxins

Your body is a battlefield. Your cells are defending themselves against toxins every single minute a day.
Toxins can be extreme, like poison mushrooms or snake venom. However most toxins can also exist in seemingly harmless plants, common foods, and in many of our daily household items.
They can be ingested, absorbed by the skin, inhaled, and even produced by the body. Where toxins build up, adverse reactions may occur, some of them serious. Where there is disease present, the natural cellular environment has in some way been disturbed or altered by toxins.
The physical effects of toxins can range from a simple skin rash or irritation, to inflammation, and digestive problems, to major diseases, such as cancer.
Unfortunately toxins are a fact of life. Toxins are everywhere — from pollution in the air we breathe and the water we drink, to the preservatives and environmental chemicals in foods.
Toxins also get into our bodies when we eat excessive refined sugars and animal fats, or highly processed junk foods. We also consume big amounts of toxins when we smoke, drink alcohol excessively, and take pharmaceutical drugs.
When cells become toxic they die. Cells need energy in the form of nourishment, hydration and oxygen which is supplied to them by the surrounding fluids. This fluid is mostly water.
Cells will take what they need by way of minerals and nutrients, and either transforms it into energy or store it away for future use. The rest becomes waste, which they need to expel back into the surrounding fluids to be flushed away. If there is an overabundance of toxins and acids in the fluids it can alter the cells’ ability to function. The cells get constipated and congested just as we do. This in turn manifests as sickness.
So to stay well you need to –
• Eat nutritious wholesome food that is vegetarian without dairy or meat
• Drink plenty of water but not too much so you don't dilute them minerals in your system
• Exercise to keep the fluids and lymph system moving so any energy moving through our body is free flowing
• A healthy non-toxic clean environment that does not trigger allergies or poisonings
The trick is to stay away from foods and other substances that work against us, but instead to choose foods that keep our cellular environment clean.
Humans need to keep the fluids moving through their cells through exercise. This will keep toxins from creating an environment where they can take hold and do damage to tissues.
You can eliminate alcohol, caffeine, baked goods, dairy foods, and red meat, and instead revert to lighter fare, or a vegetarian or raw diet.
Doing the above is very much part of alkalinizing your diet. Integrating the alkaline and dispensing with the acidic to the best of your ability is the best way of defending yourself against disease.

Why Do Babies Cry?

Why do babies cry? For the same reason anyone cries, which is for about a million different possible reasons. But with a newborn, you’re handicapped as a mom: you aren’t yet communicating in spoken language, so for you it becomes a guessing game, hourly and daily and even minute by minute. Since babies often cry non-stop for up to two hours at a shot, it can often feel overwhelming, like you’re losing the guessing game. But there are ways to cut down the possibilities and help get to the ideal position of returning your child to a happy gurgling bundle of joy, all momentary needs addressed.
Just try to put yourself in the situation of your baby. First and foremost a baby will communicate by fussing and crying is she is hungry. Remember that the feeding for a newborn is constant, every few hours. If you are convinced your baby is crying for reasons of hunger, address the situation quickly. If the baby becomes TOO hungry then chances are that she will take the bottle too eagerly and gobble up a lot of air along with everything else. This will lead to spit-ups and probably more fussing and crying. If the baby is attacking the bottle with too much gusto, back away and try to feed her little by little.
If the baby doesn’t seem to be hungry, go directly to plan B: check your baby’s diaper right away. There’s nothing like a full diaper to get those tears flowing. Remember here that an incomplete or absent burping after the bottle can produce an upset tummy, which will lead to crying and eventual full diaper, so don’t forget: ABB! (Always Be Burping).
If the above reasons don’t seem to be the case, don’t forget that the average newborn sleeps just like an old cat – sometimes up to 18 hours a day. The child may be crying for the simple reason that her sleep was disturbed in some way. This is a time to remember that a quiet environment must be created and maintained for the child at all times. So turn down the music, turn up the listener-speaker and pay attention!
Finally, sometimes a baby, just like an adult, will become frustrated with her sleep position, or any waking position she happens to be in. In that case you just need to move her around, rock or carry her here and there, and you’ll see this can work wonders to quiet and soothe your crying child.