HEALTH: Oh, so you have a cold-have you?

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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?, by 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.

 

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

your body?, by Dr. Norman Walker, pgs. 61-63