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My temperature dropped to 96 partway through August when the weather changed slightly. Between that and hearing that someone in the office is getting sick, it’s time to act. Being well and warm this winter will not only result in peace of mind but in more work if I want it, when everyone ELSE is getting sick. Maintaining a normal body temperature is CRUCIAL to maintaining a strong immune system. Working with the elderly, who are high flu risks, I cannot emphasize immunity enough! Last year I was exposed once or twice a week at work for the entire flu season. Due to hydrotherapy I managed to stay well.

Tonight’s shopping trip had a theme of “I am going to be WARM and WELL this winter!!!!” I spent way too much and will have to eat beans for awhile to recuperate from the impact, but it is far worse to miss three to five days or even more of work during the winter due to flu…. and I need to eat more beans anyway.

Flannel sheets

Soft pj’s

Garlic, onions, ginger, beef - all warming foods

Spicy pumpkin seeds

Some spicy Indian sauce

A number of different kinds of tea which have warming herbs and spices in them: cardomom, cinnamon, ginger, ginseng, etc.

Some supplements from Super Supplements for immunity, and some cough drops and natural sore throat and flu remedy stuff. Kleenex.

Tuna has iodine and so it helps keep people warm.

A heating pad to replace last year’s that broke - this time with a LIFETIME warranty.

And last and most important: a heater, to replace one that bit the dust. I have only two vents in this apartment - recycled heat and no control over the thermostat. For a hypothyroid person, this is not good. This is not to mention that there was no hot water at 6:45 am three days ago. Evidentally everyone else in the building takes morning showers - EARLY morning showers.

Got some gloves and some slippers for walking on cold client floors, some stretch pants to use like long underwear.

Came home and soaked some beans for the crockpot, and will put other warming foods in with it for hot beans in the morning. Ate some nuts - a warming food, and turkey (before the cat jumped up on the counter and found it). Did a hot and cold shower … alternating hot and cold on my back … this stimulates metabolic rate. Now I am ready to put those flannel sheets on and drift off.

Chinese medicine talks about yin and yang and how each must be in balance. Yin people are cold all the time and think too much and are more sedentary. Yang people are hot all the time and are too active. Yang foods are warming, yin foods are cooling. The raw food movement has some good ideas but the thing is - raw food is cooling (yin), so they often get very cold and this is the reason. I guess we are meant to eat cooked food and meat and nuts and squash during the winter. If lettuce and nectarines don’t grow naturally during the winter, the clue nature is giving us, is that we should not be eating them during the winter. Nature gives us what we need to be warm. Only we are too busy eating what our palates want to eat, from all the imported foods we get, to realize that nature wants us to eat seasonally.

I have a choice from now to the end of May 2009: COLD and SICK, or WARM and WELL.

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There’s a lot of nutrition in bee pollen, in fact, all the nutrition that a human needs to sustain life. It is especially high in the B vitamin complex. This means that it supports mental health. Here is an article which describes the health benefits of bee pollen:

http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/bee.htm

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Enjoy the hot soapy water when doing dishes.

Get a massage at a holistic fair.

Practice sitting still doing nothing 10 minutes a day.

Sleep with the window open and breathe deeply.

Drink hot tea.

Lie  on the floor and individually tense each muscle then relax it.

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B vitamins are important for mental functions: both mood and memory. B vitamins can be found in many different foods, not just meat, either. B vitamins also help cope with overloads of stress. I found a website that lists food sources of B vitamins. I found it to be really useful. I hope you do too.

http://www.bodybuildingforyou.com/vitamins-minerals/vitamin-b7-biotin-deficiency.html

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Brewer’s yeast, which contains B vitamins, is having a powerful effect on my sleep and fluid balance. This is a very nutritious yeast which is very versatile. You can sprinkle it on salad, use it in sauces and dressings. You can even put some water in it and use it for a spread on toast. B vitamins help mental function and help combat depression without antidepressants. Vitamin B6 helps one to dream at night and when you dream when you sleep, you feel better when you wake up.

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B Vitamins are important for mental function. You can find them in Brewer’s Yeast in abundant amounts. You can also find them in small amounts in vegetables and fruits. Even in watermelon! They can be found in green beans, miso, tempeh, and kombucha, to name a few things that aren’t meat that have B vitamins.

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We need good fats, and these are found in fish, legumes, and nuts.

An essential fatty acid deficiency can produce depression, among many other things.

Some examples of foods you could eat that have essential fatty acids are:

Salmon, halibut, tuna, pistachios, brazil nuts, beans, flax, and peas.

It’s amazing: the medical community medicates depression with a drug, but there are many whole food alternatives to taking sometimes life-threatening pharmaceuticals.

Choose to go nature’s way - get it from your food.

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The holistic philosophy promotes:

Seeing the patient as an individual, unique person, instead of an illness.
Partnership with the physician
Addressing of lifestyle causes
Self-responsibility
The Western medicinal philosophy promotes:

Using science and research and proven studies
Use of pharmaceuticals with minimal emphasis on lifestyle and prevention
Seeing the physician as all-knowing and all-powerful

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