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It is amazing how we could be taken over by serious and urgent conversation about something that used to be so common and harmless. A little worse than a cold, but tolerable and aren’t you glad its over. A couple days off from work; lying in bed – reading, eating, sleeping and then all is well.
Today, it is a major catastrophe. An epidemic of gargantuan size. A threat to civilizaiton. The end to life as we know it.
Most of the conversations over breakfast lately have always included something about the flu. In fact, we have had a couple guests who arrived with the flu who we had to offer to serve them breakfast in bed so the other guests would not revolt and run screaming out of our houses:)
In spite of all the talk, we have not had the flu – or a cold – in three or four years. Can’t brag about it because that’s when it happens. However, reflecting on the conversations and seeing how most of it was people who wanted to know how to strengthen their immune systems rather than whether or not they should get a flu shot, we are convinced society will survive this threat.
One thing we have changed in our lifestyle and recommended it several blogs ago – was to give up anti-perspirants and deodorants because we believe they are wicked bad. Trying to do just that we had about a one month time of being very careful when around other people – not because of the flu, but because we didn’t want to share any obnoxious odors we might generate from having given up antiperspirants and deodorants. We went around smelling under our arms constantly when out and about; getting a bit perplexed when the organic apple cider vinegar we talked about using instead of the anti-perspirants, etc. gave us a hard time because it didn’t hold.
Well, that all worked itself out. We now don’t even have to think about it. Taking a shower in the morning – without soap, just plain warm water over the body to get rid of the overnight smells and then splash a little Bragg’s Organic Apple Cider Vinegar with the Mother under our arms we are good to go for the day.
Something must happen – the body must adjust and need a couple weeks to get over its dependency on having its under-arm pores plugged with aluminum to keep from smelling, because after a couple weeks I can go two days without showering and without additional apple cider vinegar and smell just as nice and fresh.
I remember a time in the United States, when I was little, that people went a week without bathing. Saturday night was the big ‘clean-up’ night. You bathed – you soaked – you washed your hair – you defoliated and anti-perspirants were not around. You just didn’t smell bad all week. Today, with the diet changes, the heavy processed foods we eat, the change from having heavy proteins as another spice in the food to having it as large hunks of meat and all the rest of our new lifestyle, you can’t go a day without a shower – and bathing seems to have gone completely out of style.
There was much talk around the breakfast table about how apple cider vinegar works to quell your underarm odors. To smell – you perspire and you have all those bacteria on your skin under your arms. They drink up the sweat and then have to go to the bathroom. They don’t have constructed houses under your arms with toilets which flush to send their excretions someplace else so you smell the result of their having gone to the bathroom under your arms. Antiperspirants eliminate that because they plug your pores with aluminum. Isn’t that supposed to be one of the causes for Alzheimer’s? Don’t know if that is true, but it was certainly discussed as a causative factor. Apple cider vinegar works because it is anti-bacterial and probably kills the bacteria so they have no need to go to the bathroom under your arm pits.
The most common vinegar talked about was Bragg’s Organic Apple Cider Vinegar. They have a health program and someone from the company who goes around and gives talks about staying healthy the “Bragg” way.
The television commercials are all cautioning you to wash your hands and showing people with piles of soap suds on their hands over a sink. We don’t wash our hands with soap and water. That makes things worse. All of your protective oils are washed away and for minutes after your fervent washing of hands all the germs in the world can come and find a home on your unprotected skin. We ‘wash’ our hands with Organic Apple Cider Vinegar and it works wonders for the skin. Sometimes, we even splash a little on our face taking care not to get it in the eyes because the burning will be fierce – we know because we’ve been there – done that.
Other than the vinegar as deodorant – the rest of the conversation was about the changes in our lifestyles and our environment, which seem to be breaking down our bodies at a very rapid pace, while we engage in denial. Others are worried about global warming – we are worried about poor health becoming a way of life in these United States and then around the globe since we seem to export our lifestyle universally.
We wish you good health and hope you avoid this ‘epidemic’. We also hope you will continue to read Bettina Network’s Blog and pass it around to all of your friends, colleagues, family and those you wish well.
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Apple Cider Vinegar Uses
Wednesday, June 6th, 2012copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2012
In response to a guest request for uses for Apple Cider Vinegar:
There are thousands of ways to use Apple Cider Vinegar – both for health and cleaning purposes. We have zeroed in on only a few because we need to test everything before we put it out on the blog. Needless to say, we use Organic Apple Cider Vinegar
If you search Bettina Network’s Blog under the category ‘Apple Cider Vinegar’ you will find uses we have previously published in this blog. You can also find other uses for Apple Cider Vinegar if you search the internet. There are several really good books – some out of print, but discoverable in estate sales – written decades ago, which are fantastic.
The huge use, – the one we find that has infinite health benefits is the use of Organic Apple Cider Vinegar as a deodorant/anti perspirant. (No, you can’t substitute White Vinegar – not even Organic White Vinegar).
I believe we have a blog on this and we have had ongoing trials with different people using it. Now that the weather has turned really warm, we have found that using a little Apple Cider Vinegar splashed under your arms after a shower will keep you feeling cool and odor free. We have also found that when your energy starts to flatten, another splash of apple cider vinegar under the arms and a little rubbed on the face will bring your energy up in dramatic ways.
It is amazing how something so cheap and so totally effective would not be used by millions. Are we so detached from the ways of our grandparents that instead of following their lead, which they acquired from following their parents and grandparents, we are the generation which follows those whose job it has been to market the latest to us. The latest things to pad the pockets of the few at the expense of the health, well-being and financial resources of the many?
We all are using one of the many Deodorants and Anti-Perspirants on the market. That says a lot for the success of the marketing campaigns which have been aimed at making us think if we didn’t use the products they are currently marketing we would smell bad, be considered amoral and the ‘good’ people of the world would not want us around.
In fact, if we use the products being promoted for our use with beautiful women, flowery scenes, romantic music, comedy and/or cutesiness there are serious possible health problems involved. We worked hardest in trying to discover some way to live in public around other people and not smell nor cause ourselves health problems into the future. When we heard the way anti-perspirants work is to clog your pores with aluminum, we threw out the anti-perspirants and deodorants – no matter how good the marketing and advertising. Apparently, you don’t smell because the perspiration and bacteria which eats the perspiration causing the odor can’t get started because you can’t perspire. We always thought that perspiration was a natural bodily function with a reason to preserve your health and well being.
That freaked us out. Especially since we have heard the stories about Aluminum being one of the contributors to starting Alzheimer’s, plus a long line of other health problem possibilities.
We have had feed back from a few people in the Bettina Network about using Apple Cider Vinegar first thing in the morning – a little in a glass of water and drink it down – but we haved no way to know if and how this is effective, so we will stick with the use of Apple Cider Vinegar as a very effective deodorant.
We also find it good to use cleaning house. We use it with Olive Oil. The Olive Oil poured on OOOO steel wool will clean and wax the furniture and Apple Cider Vinegar does an excellent job at washing walls and etc.
In a Bettina Network home you will find a bottle of Apple Cider Vinegar in the bathrooms with a rag for you to use to clean the bathtub. The homes have clean bathrooms, but many guests, when they travel, don’t take a bath, in spite of wanting to take a bath and being accustomed to baths instead of showers. They are afraid of the tub and assume the hotel and/or the bed & breakfast and/or the inn, etc. could possibly not have cleaned the tub the way they would like it clean. Since the Apple Cider Vinegar is a disinfectant, we came upon the idea of putting a bottle in the bathrooms so guests can use it anyway they see fit.
Another use we have for Apple Cider Vinegar is in the clothes washer. We put in the detergent and fill the softener container with Apple Cider Vinegar to help clean and disinfect the wash – the sheets, towels, etc.
Doing just those few things will dramatically reduce your cleaning budget and increase the cleanliness and germ-freeness of your home. It will be pleasant smelling – no off-gases – nothing to hurt your hands or get into your blood stream and wreck havoc producing illnesses you become baffled by because you can’t figure out their genesis.
We have heard about using it to rinse your hair and do all kind of other things, but the above is what we are trying and getting feed back from so it is all we can talk about at the moment.
Hope this helps. Let us know if you find other uses, we love the feeback and try all suggestions (within reason). It helps us and others and will probably wind up in a blog. If it does, we will give you credit or post it anonymously, if you don’t want your name used.
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