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 I got in on this a little too late. By the time I ordered them from Avon I got my 1st set but they have been on back order ever since.

 What you do is put one of these patches on the bottom of each foot before bedtime. The stuff in them is suposed to pull out harmful toxins out of your body.

  The reports I have read stated that the 1st night the pad was very yucky and by the 3rd night most reported they had clean patches. This did not happen with me, all 3 days I awoke to the same yucky patches each morning.

  I am suposed to recieve my next batch next week-end and can’t wait to try again. Many of my friends are trying them as well, some say they had little or no change and some say they where just a little less yucky from the 1st nights use.

  The patches contain Green Tea powder, and wood vinegar. Both are suposed to be natural aids in detoxification.

  I would love to hear from anyone reading this if you have tried these and if they worked or not.

  Do you double up on the vitamin C during the winter months? I used too, before I did my homework on the matter of too much vitamin C.

Vitamin C has great rewards if taken properly. It can help speed your recovery time from the common cold, in fact may reduce your chances of getting it in the first place. I know I usually get 1 to 3 colds during the winter that last for about 10 days. When I doubled up on my vitamin C, I didn’t get but 1 cold and it last only 2 days. The side affects wasn’t something I had bargained for though. I got some nasty rashes and stomach problems. This led me to research Vitamin C in full, not just the benefits.

  First I will add to the benefits of Vitamin C besides helping with the common cold, it also has many other great properties. It can lessen stress, it’s a great antioxidant, help with heart disease, it can boost the good affects of other vitamins, lessen the mortality rate in stroke victims, help prevent cancer, speeds recovery from wounds, diabetes and many other things.

   The main way to get your vitamin C is naturally. Foods that contain high doses of vitamin C are: Oranges, Grapefruit, Strawberries, Tomatoes, Sweet red Peppers, Broccoli, Spinach, and Potatoes. If you consume plenty of these you really do not need to take an added Vitamin C supplement.

   If you do need to take an added Vitamin C supplement, try to only take them during the winter months and do not take too much. Healthy adults should not exceed 2,000 mg a day. So taking into account foods that are natural in vitamin C and foods that have vitamin C added a 500 mg supplement should be enough for anyone. For myself I try to find one in the 250 mg range. The FDA recommends we get only 60 mg per day. Dr. Linus Pauling has done extensive research on the benefits of extra vitamin C. He has won a few Nobel prizes and has a book out called “How to Live Longer and Feel Better”. If your into reading and want to study up on Vitamin C, it has real evidence and case studies and such.

  If your taking Iron supplements already you do not need to take extra vitamin C supplements. They work against each other. But you may need to add zinc to your supplements. Any time you add 1 vitamin you may need to research the mineral that goes with it. Some work with each other while others work against each other.

   Always talk with your doctor or health care provider before taking anything. This information is just that, information. I am not a doctor or health care provider.

  Sometimes I do not follow my healthy living plan and end up drinking too much cokes and get a kidney infection. My lower back aches and I have a little trouble urinating. When this happens I immediately grab a bottle of water and take 2 concentrated cranberry supplements. After the 3rd does of the day I feel much better.

   This rarely happens any more, I try to stick with my healthy living plan but things come up. I don’t know why I get in a rut at times and let myself slip like that? I’m sure I am not the only one that does this? It is better to keep your urinary tract in tip top shape but wanted you to know what I do when in a jam. Concentrated cranberry supplements can be taken regularly 2 with each meal for max of 6 pills a day.

  I am only telling you what I do when I need to clear up a kidney infection. Always seek the advice of your doctor or health-care provider before trying any unconventional methods of treatment.

  Keeping your urinary tract in great health means keeping your system flushed. Water and unsweetened cranberry juice is the way to go. Cut out as many extra drinks that you can bare to live without. Cola’s, coffee, kool-aid ect… are not good for your body. I don’t live without any of the above mentioned, but I have cut way back on all of them and drink plenty of water.

  Speaking of water, I flipped out when I found out that water can kill you. My dad sent me websites where people had entered contest and died, ran marathons and died. All of them died after gorging themselves on water. So how much water is enough without being too much? I studied up on this for some time and concluded that the average is 1/2 ounce of water per pound of your body weight.  Up to 2/3’s per pound if you are active. It should be consumed slowly through out the entire day.

  When I 1st started I was up all night long running to the bathroom. After about the 2nd week I was sleeping all night long. (I had NEVER done this before!) When I wake up in the morning you can bet that I will have a good long releasing of my bladder. I have never felt better, more refreshed in the mornings than ever before and as long as I keep up the drinking water I  never have trouble with my bladder or kidneys.

   I am all for all natural medicines, remedies cures ect…Even vitamins! Although vitamins are last on my list of things to take. If you are in good health, eat right and exercise there is not too much need for extra vitamins unless you are lacking in some. With some of us our bodies treat vitamins differently than they may treat our friends or others. What we have enough of others may not, they may have a genetic disorder or something else that may cause them to use up all of a certain vitamin in them and they need to replenish regularly where as we do not. So it is extremely important to see your doctor or health-care provider before adding vitamins to your supplements.

  A good example that happened to me is that my friend always took extra vitamin c during the winter, she said it keeps colds and flu’s away. Well I ran out and bought me a bottle of vitamin c immediately. Next thing I know I am getting these strange skin disorders, my skin was peeling and very ugly. I stopped taking the vitamin c because it was the last thing I had added that I wasn’t taking before. My skin cleared up in a few days. 

    This really puzzled me so I had a talk with my herb provider. He asked me about my diet my supplements and few other things on my daily activities. I was already getting plenty of natural vitamin c from a few of my health drinks and 1 of my supplements. He said I was really getting way more than I needed already and told me the dangers of too much of a good thing. There are many vitamins that if you take in excess that will cancel out other vitamins and minerals in you. So when you add 1 vitamin you may need to add another vitamin or mineral at the same time.

    Read up really well, ask your doctor to check you for any deficiencies just do your homework please. Be sure you really need what you are taking. Vitamins are really good for you! They are essential to your well being, but learn the limits. When in doubt choose natural vitamins over man made! Eat some fruit.

Happy Healthy Living to All!

   Do you have PMS to the point where it hurts you to even get out of the bed? I suffered from really bad cramps since I started my cycle up until I was 31 yrs old. My mom was always bringing me magazines (I like to clip the coupons out), one day she brought me the Oprah magazine. I read in there that Oprah likes to take the natural path to a lot of ailments and vouches for them. The one that caught my eye was on Almonds & PMS. I love planters smoked almonds but as you may know they are rather expensive so I rarely purchased them. Well Oprah said that if you eat 1 ounce of almonds 3 days before your cycle starts and continue through the last day that you would have less severe cramps. I have tried everything on the market with no help in sight. This one was yummy so I gave it a shot. To my amazement my cramps where not so bad my 1st time trying it. After about 3 cycles I had no cramps at all to speak of. For the next few years my cramps had ceased to exist and my other PMS symptoms had also lighted up really well to the point where no one but me knew when I was on my cycle.

  2 thumbs up for Oprah and Almonds! Remember 1 ounce a day 3 days before your cycle and continue through the last day.

  I already wrote about preventing constipation, but thought maybe someone might need information if they where already constipated.

 One thing my Grandpa always gave me when I was constipated was 1 cup of prune juice followed by 1 cup of lukewarm water. It worked like a charm until I got older the prune juice was a tad bit too much for me. It’s funny how you grow out of things sometimes, I used to not mind the taste at all in-fact I found it quit pleasant.

 This next tip I found by accident! I was bored one day and it was too cold for me to want to get out and go to town for snacks. I searched the cupboards and found nothing but a bag of chopped walnuts. After thinking a minute or 2 I decided to wolf down half the bag. For 3 days I could not move away from the toilet. Every time I am sick with anything I call my mom up. Well mom laughed at me so hard she hung the phone up. She called back when she stopped laughing and told me “Don’t you know any better? Walnuts are a natural laxative.” I could not believe all these years I suffered from constipation and always had a handy natural cure in the cupboard. Mom was constantly cooking and making stuff, but I never once ate any of the walnuts. Really never much cared for them until now.

  Last tip I have for constipation is Chamomile. Chamomile relaxes the digestive system and allows bowels to move freely. Usually after the 2nd dose you may then go to the bathroom. Don’t take both doses at once of course, you may end up sitting in the bathroom awhile.

   Don’t forget to read preventing constipation so you won’t be in this predicament again!

  I suffered nearly half my life from constipation. When I was younger my nanny always gave me castor oil, that was great back then but new research has determined that castor oil is bad for constipation. Really it’s bad for you in general if taken internally. It takes out the vitamins and minerals in you.

 Now that I am older I learned how to prevent constipation without taking harsh chemicals. Just two shots 1 ounce each of aloe vera juice a day will do the trick if I am eating and exercising right. If not, I take either oat bran supplement or fiber. I also drink lots of water spread out through the day. Colas can dry up out digestive system and may cause constipation. Eating lots of fruits will also help prevent constipation.  I rarely eat my fruits like I am supposed to. My mom says that green veggies will also help keep you from getting constipated. The only green stuff I really like is turnip greens and we don’t eat them often enough so I stick with my herbal supplements.

The old saying is “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. This is so true with constipation: Being constipated for long periods of time and over and over can damage our bodies inside and out. I suffered from hemorrhoids, IBS and other complications from always being constipated.  I sure wish I knew then what I know now.

Overview & tips to prevent constipation

• 2 of 1 ounce shots aloe vera juice a day.
• Drink plenty of water.
• Exercise.
• Up your fiber intake.
• Take bran supplements.
• Chew your food slow and thoroughly.
• Eat your greens.
• Eat raw fruits.
• Never lay down directly after eating.

  Have you ever heard of Penile Yeast Infection? Personally I never thought that men could get this, boy was I wrong. Remember me telling you about my yeast infection? Well this whole time that I was suffering my husband never said a word. One night afterwards he was sleeping on the couch and not in our bed, I threw a fit. After all aren’t we women the ones that’s supposed to put them on the couch? Not the men putting themselves there. Well, he called me in the bathroom and showed me his penis, it was U.G.L.Y.! I laughed afterwards thinking how crazy this all was. He thought I had been cheating on him and he contracted something. Funny huh? He didn’t know about my whole ordeal until that night.

 So I immediately called my friend up and told her that my husband must have been the one to give me that yeast infection, because up until this point we had not slept in the same bed together for awhile before. She told me several things to try and they worked. Although he did eventually have to go see his doctor, he is a diabetic, and as you may know diabetics have problems with healing sometimes. The skin had gotten so bad before he showed it to me that some corrections needed to take place after it got healed up again.

Here is what we done to heal his penile yeast infection

• 1 cup warm water with 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar.
• Changed his soap from antibacterial to an all natural soap.
• Changed our laundry detergent to Dreft.
• Applied Tea Tree Cream to it at night.
• Added cranberry concentrate supplement to his supplements.
• Before he jumped in the shower he smudged plain yogurt on his penis and let it set there for a few minutes.
• I cut out his drinks and switched everything to only: water, sweet acidophilus milk, unsweetened cranberry juice.

 When his penis healed it left some scaring tissue that I didn’t have an answer for and he had to go to his doctor and get some cream. I am happy to say all is better now!

 Although I have only had 1 vaginal yeast infection in my life, I have had plenty of oral yeast infections. When I was younger I got oral yeast infections at least twice a year. Every time I took antibiotics I would get one, every time I sat up late at night drinking and smoking while playing poker I got one. It seemed as I got older they kept coming more frequently. Usually by the time I knew I had one it was nasty to say the least, very painful, itchy mouth and tongue. The only cure by then was to see the doctor and get some swish & spit.

 Well on my last visit to the doctor to get some medication she told me to eat tons of yogurt very slowly as well as eat cheese with live cultures. She said the longer I could keep it in my mouth the better. It really helped to speed the healing process up. She also informed me that I could test myself every week or so to make sure I was keeping the oral yeast infection at bay. All you do is get a clean glass of water in the morning when you wake up and spit in it a few good times before you do anything else. After a few minutes check and see what’s going on. If it is disappearing or just standing there you are good to go, but if you see stringy stuff hanging from it your in trouble. Wait a little longer if you do happen to see stringy stuff and see if it starts getting little tiny ball like things hanging from the stringy stuff. If so, you have intestinal parasites as well as oral yeast infection.

  If you have an oral yeast infection and you catch it before your tongue gets raw there is some self help. See tips below.

• Eat yogurt with live cultures very slowly 2 or more times a day.
• Eat cheese with live cultures very slowly 2 or more times a day.
• Drink sweet acidophilus milk.
• Avoid beer, sweets and breads. (They feed yeast)
• Eat some smashed up garlic cloves, if this is too impossible for you try some odorless garlic supplements once a day for a few weeks.
• Drink plenty of water.
• Do not brush your tongue, you brush away good bacteria.