Dr Crippen, I snapped at you earlier, sorry. I don't disagree with anyone who tries different eating and drinking habits, we are what we eat and all that. I just have a real thing about people saying, cider apple vinegar, bi-carb, garlic, etc, will cure this and that. If you have an illness none of the above will cure it, of course taken in moderation vinegar and garlic have nutritional benefits as do hundreds of foodstuffs.

As casemoney, has posted he had a reaction to rapeseed oil and it gave him problems, not just the seed but his wife suddenly changing his diet so dramatically with the stuff. Lots of people read tosh on the internet and go ga for the 'new wonder food, (Tumeric apparently cures everything from cancer to ingrowing toenails, FFS) piling it into a body that is not accustomed to it, so the, body reacts to the 'shock in many different ways.

Italians still use garlic as a poultice, vinegar has been used for loads of different home cures, doesn't mean you can stuff it into your body, Southern Italians use garlic in their cooking, Northern Italians don't.

That's okay boxingthefox, it was just a bit of fun anyway.

I don't believe in miracle cures either.
Except for food exclusion, which in many cases the patients show spectacular improvement when an offending food is removed from their diets.

Another very useful thing to know is the benefit one can get from food combining. That's only eating foods in combinations that digest well together.
Another branch of medicine that's sadly neglected by GPs.

I feel a bito moment coming on.

The garlic I grow last us right through until April when it starts to sprout and go soft.
That's about two heads a week or around 24 cloves.

Zorro no one said it had no effect, "every food you ingest must have a flip side to it."...." Started having bad effects because I ate too much. too often."....You've answered your own question. As the Victorians liked to say, Everything in moderation.

zorrostrikes 31 Jul 16 21:30   

I remember once I was in a post office queue and a Ned/Chav.
made a load comment about the stink of Garlic. Shrunk down to
the ground. It's really bad, but it works.


You should have given him a kiss. Always do the unexpected.

A police officer in Berlin once threatened to arrest me. I went straight for the big, sloppy kiss. Tongue down the throat, the lot. The cop staggered off, gagging. That's the last time she'll try to arrest me.

just gets better and better.
B12 test ? Dr says my Iron level is high.
need to come in. (sounds like a car going to a garage).
Might have to be drained. Got a donor card so not a problem.
looked up excess iron and sounds great.
found this on - http://drlwilson.com/articles/IRON.htm

i used to eat a lot of bread, half a loaf a day? or a baguette, or two.

White Flour Products.  An important source of excess iron can be refined wheat flour products.  (The product is labeled as wheat flour, but it means refined white flour.  Only whole wheat flour really is the genuine article.)

In the 1920s, it was found that animals fed a diet of white flour developed serious neurological diseases and then died.  Instead of banning this product, the US Food and Drug Administration declared that most white flour products must be “enriched” with iron and a few vitamins to “correct” the problem.

The “enrichment” has created an even worse situation, in many cases, that contributes to diabetes, heart disease and cancer.  Her is why:

1. “Enrichment” enhances the iron content far more than was originally in the whole wheat flour.  This can increase iron in the diet too much.

2. The form of enrichment is either iron sulfate, iron fumarate, or NaFeEDTA.  These can easily change into a toxic form of iron such as an oxide.

3. The body requires minerals and will absorb whatever is available.  White flour is mainly stripped of its trace elements, creating a nutritionally deficient food.  The iron is plentiful.  Thus the body absorbs more of it than it would if there were a natural balance of minerals in the flour.  This also unbalances the body.

4. Iron is selectively absorbed by the body, to begin with.  This is a survival mechanism because of the great importance of iron for oxygen transport in the blood.

This combination can easily contribute to iron toxicity.

I hope this explains the serious problems with bleached, refined white flour, labeled as “wheat flour” or “enriched flour”.



Iron in water supplies.  In certain areas of America and around the world, the ground water is very high in iron.  This occurs because the water passes through rocks containing iron, or it could be due to industrial contamination, in a few cases.  Wells should always be tested for iron contamination.

If you've had a blood test. Ring Doctors and ask what the levels were.
If you want a hard copy, probably cost you £10.

read up on high iron levels in blood.
it's quite a common thing in western europe.
especially if you have irish lineage.
basically everyone over 40 should be tested
for iron levels. It's cumulative you gain 1gram
each year and it stays with you. each year the levels
rise and your oxygen is affected in red blood cells.
it attacks across the board. Doctor told me I had
a fatty liver, put it down to western living?
pains in spleen,pancreas and heart. All signs of high
iron levels. It attacks the pancreas giving you diabetes.
heart attacks. possible cancer later on.
But treatment is so simple - you donate blood. It takes out
a large portion straight away - an eighth? you keep doing this
over the year till your levels normalize. I'm a blood donor
but haven't given any in ten years - shows you that Karma gets
you. I should have kept giving. I actually stopped coz i was feeling
tired? thought I was draining all the good sauce away.

If everyone over 40 had this test done - it would maybe stop diabetes to
a great degree. plus blood donations would go up - it's a no brainer.
stop heart attacks too?

i'm not Batman...

i'm Iron Man.