Cyn427- I really agree with the comment that the choice to not vaccinate is not to not take a risk but rather to take a different risk. When speaking with those who I know who choose to not vaccinate it seems they say that the risks of the vaccine are not worth it to them and that they feel the risks of not vaccinating are a better risk to them. I truly feel for anyone who does have an adverse reaction to any vaccine or medical treatment for that matter. Anything we do, or do not do, has it's risks. Regarding the PBS issue... I don't think anything these days is untouchable. There is always somebody, some group, out there that will find something wrong with anything. Regarding OP. It is always good to have new info brought to our attention and it is always good mental stimulation to have discussions here. Even if I feel someone is being "mean" or "rude" or "downright spiteful" I still think it is good conversation. I always take each posters comments as their own opinion that they are entitled to. I never "read into" anything as it is the typed word. There are many times when I wonder what someone meant by what they typed but always try to remember it is just a comment amongst "friends".

Well, I haven't yet been able to find the name of the book. But I did take notes from that book and a health newsletter I get, the Blaylock Wellness Report. I followed the plan for a couple of months last fall, and felt so much better. But I really fell off the wagon from about Thanksgiving until recently. And during that time, the acid reflux returned, as did most of my other aches and pains. I started back with the plan about a week or two ago and feel better already. A couple of the most important points is to avoid omega-6 fats and get lots of omega-3's, and to consume low-glycemic foods rather than high. Here is what I eat: Wild salmon (absolutely no farmed salmon. All the fish I eat is wild) Fish - but none of the larger fish like grouper or swordfish. Raw nuts - almonds, walnuts, pecans and pistachios, mostly. LOTS of organic vegetables, and I eat about half of them raw. 5-10 servings a day. Healthy fats, like extra virgin olive oil and organic virgin coconut oil. I take Carlson's liquid fish oil everyday. If I need a spread, I will occasionally use butter, never margarine. Plenty of tea. White and Rooibos are the ones that Dr. Blaylock recommends. I also occasionally have a cup of green or oolong tea. I drink 3-4 cups of tea a day. Purified water - We invested in a water distiller. It takes about 4 hours to make a gallon. We love it and wouldn't be without it now. Moderate amounts of: Whole grains (limited; definitely not the 7-9 servings advocated in the food pyramid) such as oats, whole wheat, brown rice. I like a bread from Wild Oats that is made with organic whole wheat, filtered water, honey, yeast and salt. That's the entire ingredient list, no additives, chemicals or preservatives. Fruits - Berries are especially good, and I eat oranges and apples, too. I seldom have a banana, as it is higher on the glycemic index. Avocados are great, full of healthy fat (are they a fruit or a vegetable??) Shell fish - I try to avoid that which comes from China or Thailand, which is most of it, especially shrimp. Dried beans/legumes - I eat black or red beans mostly, and just an average size serving, not a huge plateful. Eggs high in omega-3's (Christopher eggs have the highest omega-3, 600 per egg and can be purchased at Kroger or Walmart) Chicken, pork, or beef - just one of these once a week and always organic. Things I avoid: The aforementioned omega-6 fats, found in corn, safflower, sunflower, peanut, soybean and canola oils. This means no packaged snacks, which are full of this. Even if the label touts, "No saturated fat!", it's still a bad fat. High-glycemic foods. This means no white potatoes (darn!), white rice, white bread and sugar. All prepared and processed foods and soups. They are loaded with many things that cause inflammation. Limited or very little dairy. No soft drinks or diet soft drinks. These and omega-6's are the worst things you can put into your body. Regular soft drinks are full of the worst type of sugar, high-fructose corn syrup. And diet drinks have aspartame, another bad guy. No MSG, and it's everywhere in processed foods. Did you know that there are at least a dozen other names that MSG goes by? Manufacturers slip it by us disguised by another name. So basically, it's a whole food diet, with the majority of it being vegetables, fruits, and nuts, with some high quality proteins, dried beans, whole grains and healthy fats thrown in. It is quite restrictive, but the longer I stick with it, the less I miss the junk food and artery-clogging stuff I was consuming. And boy, I can tell a difference in how I feel, so it is worth it. Of course, I will from time to time treat myself to a slice of birthday cake, or some favorite thing that I miss, like sushi. I really do enjoy the foods that are allowed. Today's lunch was a Wild Oats whole wheat pita filled with veggies, lettuce, avocado. Last night's dinner was wild salmon, roasted asparagus spears and a salad of romaine and cherry tomatoes with a dressing made of olive oil, vinegar, and garlic. Then my evening snack was an apple and a few almonds. Tried not to think of the box of Cheese Nips in the pantry!

What might be the moral to the story? This might be it: wait a little while if you are shocked when you read about a problem that sounds shocking to you. It probably also sounds shocking to everyone, but wait. Don't be trigger happy. Don't indulge yourself by typing out your feelings. Wait. Someone will post some kind of fact-based response within a few hours. Isn't there a Supreme Court Justice who subscribes to this theory of conservation of personal (his) initiative? He doesn't believe in "indulging himself" by vocalizing any thought processes, either. Of course, I don't recall his reserve having garnered him many plaudits for holding his curiousity or opinion in check. My initial position was paraphrased by marcolo several times. Several people have made a big ado about it. Marcolo pointed out why it is good to ask for information first. Wow. What a new idea. Ask around. Get new input. (MARCOLO! Paging Dr. Marcolo! Need Davidro-to-english translation help here, please.) Assuming I understood the point of the post, isn't that what a post on the Kitchen Forum is about? Airing personal experience, making correlations, getting opinions on similarity or dissimilarity of experience? I don't believe that posting is an automatic ticket to litigation-city. That said, while I don't disagree with David that the massive haemorrhaging of personal outrage on the KF can be a trifle wearying, the instances cited here that have apparently motivated this thread are ridiculous. For one thing: "exploding glass doors" vs "exploding glass doors that way". Yes, tempered glass explodes "that way" but to think that anyone should be expected to be blase and off-hand about the fact that their oven door blasted itself open in the course of its "normal operation" (I'll hold my opinion on self-clean in check here) is asking for the moon. It doesn't matter than tempered glass breaks a certain way - it does matter that it spontaneously imploded without a clear and discernible impact to trigger; that makes the data noteworthy and the event really should be publicized. Yes, perhaps the glass was subjected to stresses beyond normal range a while back - or even undetected anomalous events at the time of high drama: bird strike, pellets, surface scratches, edge impact - and now the smallest minor perturbation to the nominal took it beyond its elastic limit, so to speak. But if a certain product has a habit of shattering (multiple reported such outcomes) - well, the likelihood that there should be such a high correlation between purveyors of that item and 6-sigma beyond norm events that shattering glass should be an expected outcome, is statistically insignificant. More than likely then, there is indeed a manufacturing defect - either in the glass manufacture process, or planarity of the door frame into which it is inserted, its tensioning or some other assembly process. Tempered glass might shatter safely, but it doesn't have a habit of shattering so much so that anyone buying ovens or doors or whatever should expect that after the 3year/5year/7year window that they should expect to walk upto an imploded door. This is just silly. It is absolutely the right thing to do to air the fact that E'lux's oven door shattered in self-clean mode. If many E'lux ovens do that, it is likely an E'lux problem and won't be known until such complaints are aired, collected and documented. If many oven doors shatter in self-clean then either ovens will get to a point where they won't use glass in self-clean ovens or self-cleaning will be outmoded (yesssssss!). Whatever. (regardless that as far as I know, self-clean temps are well inside the tolerance regime of tempered glass). None of this happens until the user airs this. & others aren't edified until they happen upon such reports. The only factually incorrect, if that, information I ran across on the e'lux oven thread was the moral outrage about the health risks of someone walking into the glass shards. Fact is that shattered tempered glass is safer than regular shattered glass but it's no bowl of tofu, chaps. So, while I think that keeping a bit of a tamp on the emotional quotient isn't a bad idea, the motivating example has even me arguing against this thread and I certainly don't support the idea of filter's eliminating posts that exceed some imagined emotion threshold or pass someone's idea of fact-filled posts. If the last was the case, I doubt that the OP's post (top post, this thread) would have made the cut .... Hmmmm, come to think of it ....

There is no good reason you can't eat when taking thyroid meds. That's why you take the meds on an empty stomach and don't eat for an hour so they are absorbed into your blood stream. Once in the blood they are unaffected by food and most other medications. I am quite sure that cabbage probably does have anti-inflammatory properties. But the question is how much would you have to actually eat to b get the real benefits. Most modern medications have their historical roots going back to things found in plants and nature. However it similar to drinking cranberry juice to ease the pain of a bladder infection. You would have to drink gallons. One AZO pill or gallons of juice? I'll take the pill.