Oh, so you have a cold-have you?

[Guest guest]

ALL:

FYI. I just wanted to start off the new year thinking about the common cold!

Perhaps if we all nip this one . . . please read on.

 

Wishing you a healthier New Year,

Jane

 

 

 

What Causes Colds?

Most colds are caused by invisible droplets called rhinoviruses that are in

the air you breathe or on things you touch. More than 100 different

rhinoviruses (whose name comes from " rhin, " the Greek word for nose) can

infiltrate the protective lining of the nose and throat, triggering an immune

system reaction that can make your throat sore, your head ache, and can make

it hard for you to breathe through your nose.

No one knows for sure exactly why you may become infected with a cold at

certain times. No matter what your parents say, shrugging off a jacket or

sweater when it's chilly, sitting or sleeping in a draft, or going outside

while your hair's wet won't cause you to catch a cold.

But air that's dry - indoors or out - can lower your resistance to

infection. So can allergies, lack of sleep, stress, not eating properly, or

hanging out with someone who is smoking.

Of course, being around your friends or others with colds make you more

likely to catch one yourself. Rhinoviruses can stay alive as droplets in the

air or on surfaces and may be able to make you sick for as long as 3 hours

after someone who has a cold has coughed or sneezed. If you touch your mouth

or nose after touching skin or some other surface that's been contaminated by

one of these viruses, you'll probably catch a cold. If you already have a

cold, you can make it worse if you don't wash your hands after you cough or

sneeze.

 

from:

http://kidshealth.org/teen/infections/bacterial_viral/colds.html

 

 

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OH, SO YOU HAVE A COLD-HAVE YOU?

Dr. Norman Walker

 

Excerpt from: Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices . . . what's missing in your

body?

Dr. Norman Walker

pgs. 61-63

 

Is your breathing congested? Are you sneezing? Do you have a general

" letdown " feeling?

For many, many years investigators have been, and still are, attempting

to find, isolate and identify some evanescent, evasive " germ " to blame for

the common cold.

Sometime during the middle 1920s, science made the headlines with the

" discovery " of a " germ " which was definitely responsible for the common cold,

but that it was too small and elusive to be caught or even to be visible by

means of the most powerful microscopes they available. Yet, they " discovered "

such a " germ " ?

In the march of progress in the field of enlarging the image of matter,

electronic microscopes have made such vast strides that what is virtually

invisible can be magnified many thousands, even hundreds of thousands of

time. Scientists are still playing with the thought that " the germ " can be

caught, but to my (Walker) knowledge and as a result of all the research and

investigations which I (Walker) have been able to make, to such " germ " has yet

been seen, caught or harnessed.

During the past years-actually since 1946-according to word I (Walker)

have from England, some " Scientists, " under the $150,000 a year patronage of

the British Government's " Medical Research Council " have been hunting-and,

you know the British are notorious for hunting!-For a COLD BUG or VIRUS as

the culprit, which could be blamed for or accused of being responsible for

the starting or the generation of the COMMON COLD.

So far, from every available report they have not yet after many years,

been able to find, catch, harness nor " develop " one. Surely they have been

able to identify about 100 different germs, virus or bacteria, but not one of

these are able to START a cold. Every one of these was feeding on the mucus

of Common Colds, the very purpose for which they were created, namely to

dissolve, break up, decompose and so dispose of the mucus that manifests the

Common Cold.

As I (Walker) understand it, these British " Scientists " have some kind of

a research hospital where they not only invited people to come there and stay

for 10 days or so, free of charge, all meals and everything else provided,

but patients are paid something like five shillings a day to come there and

submit themselves to the Scientists attempts to find a germ or virus that

will GIVE them a cold. It has become quite a fad for some 30 people at a time

to go there once or twice a year for a very inexpensive vacation with pay.

I (Walker) understand that so far only a handful of people during the

past few years did develop a cold, but the germ or virus that was supposed to

create it has never been discovered.

No, indeed there is not a germ in existence which can cause one to have a

cold. The electrical analogy in reference to a cold is worth remembering. The

electric system in your home is equipped with fuses. Right? What happens when

the electric circuit is overheated, because you have overloaded the line with

too many lights and appliances? Does a " germ " notify you that a fuse will

blow out or that the overheating of the wires may burn down your home? No,

indeed. If the fuse fails to blow out, the overloaded and overheated wires

will start a fire.

Think this over when you " catch a cold. "

The waste matter in the system, if not eliminated, builds up fermentation

and heat in the body in the natural course of events. When such fermentation

has reached a sufficiently toxic state, Nature becomes worried about our

neglect to keep the body clean within, and gives us a warning in the form of

mucous elimination which has been labeled " a cold. " It is just as simple as

that, we have seen it demonstrated over and over and over again, that if the

warning is ignored and disregarded, more serious conditions develop,

conditions which are so well-known that a list of them covers a medical

encyclopedia.

Never curse a cold which has caught up with you. Rather be thankful for

the timely warning, and do something about it. No drug was ever known to cure

a cold without the development of eventual afflictions of a more serious

nature, rarely attributed to such drugs.

To put it briefly, a cold is the result of the secretion of too much

accumulated waste, and insufficient and improper elimination. The Colon is

the recipient of all this corruption. Toxins spread thought the body

generating unhealthy mucus in the sinus cavities. Excessive waste matter is

the contributing factor in the generation of mucus. The result - A COLD.

An . . . . . . . . . .

 

 

Excerpt from: Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices . . . what's missing in your

body?

Dr. Norman Walker

pgs. 61-63

[Guest guest]

I beg to differ with you on this one. Cold & damp sure

brings on a cold for me. If I stay warm & dry, I resist most colds.

 

Alobar

 

 

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Wednesday, January 01, 2003 6:17 AM

Oh, so you have a cold-have you?

> No matter what your parents say, shrugging off a jacket or

> sweater when it's chilly, sitting or sleeping in a draft, or going

outside

> while your hair's wet won't cause you to catch a cold.