Author: Ian McAllister
Asthma medical healthfood can go a long way to improving your breathing. I'm amazed how people refuse to get rid of chronic health problems because they don't want to change what they eat! Isn't it worth eating a few carrots and fruit that you don't like, to breathe more freely? You can even use this healthy natural preparation to get rid of asthma without paying for it with a healthier lifestyle. But why should you?
Changing what you eat is simple and pleasant. Of course, if you cut out refined sugar and grains from your diet your so-called friends will tease you and try to tempt you with bad foods. I wonder - if you die from anaphylactic shock because they teased you into eating peanuts - will they still think that it is funny?
Cutting out refined sugar (white and brown are equally bad) and grains, and eating 14 serves of organic fruit and vegetables each day (it's easy if you blend it) might be enough to banish your asthma. It will change your lifestyle by making it easy to breathe, strengthening your immune system, and cutting out doctor's bills.
Unsaturated Fats
Researchers, led by Dr Alet Wijga, say various components of milk fat - such as specific types of fatty acids, or other micronutrients - may help to protect against asthma.
Several experts believe that the epidemic of asthma may be in some way related to us eating less saturated fat, which is found in high concentration in milk. And previous research has found a diet high in polyunsaturated fats - found in many margarines and vegetable oils - may double a child's chances of having breathing problems.
Other researchers say that toddlers who eat lots of unsaturated fats like margarine and foods fried in vegetable oil may be twice as likely to have breathing problems as their peers who eat less of these foods. Read how you have been lied to about saturated fats. Saturated fats such as butter, lard and dripping are much more healthy, and coconut oil is even more healthy. Aren't coconuts a pleasant healthfood, that even your children will enjoy?
Historically humans have eaten omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids in equal amounts. Now some people eat up to 50 times as much omega 6 fatty acid and it is common to eat twenty times as much omega 6 as omega 3. That means that you may need to eat very large amounts of omega 3 fatty acids to reach a balance once more. Omega 6 fatty acids increase inflammation (that's the trouble with asthma) and omega 3 decreases it.
Many research studies say that eating more oily fish protects against asthma and can improve lung function. Because fish is poisoned with mercury nowadays it is safer to take fish-oil capsules as healthfood, which should have very little mercury, instead of eating fish. Or you could go for fish that are low in the food chain such as sardines or mackerel. They don't concentrate mercury as much in their bodies.
Perilla oil is best for vegetarians, but you probably can't get it. It is used as a cooking oil by some oriental countries, so it must be very cheap there, but in Australia it costs $100 for a kilo. Next to that is freshly-ground flax-seed (linseed). Eat enough each day to get enough omega 3 oils to replace the fish oil capsules, but you need to eat a large amount. A woman can possibly get away with drinking a cupful of flax-seed oil a day, but it can cause prostate cancer in men, so flax-seed meal is safer.
Americans eat less fish now but modern agriculture may make things worse. They rely on giving cattle grain to fatten them up quickly. Even "grass-fed cattle" are no better. All cattle are grass-fed, but the question is how much grain they received to fatten them up. If you are lucky you can buy a side of beef from a local organic farmer at the end of the grazing season.
Apples
When the FDA tries to ban a healthy food I always start to take that food seriously, because their function is to suppress competitors of the drug industry. It stands to reason that a health product that doesn't work is not worth suppressing, so it means that something works if the FDA tries to ban it.
So when they wrote to Eden Foods to complain that apple juice is a dangerous drug because "Researchers . . . reported that people who consumed apples and apple juice had better lung function and lower incidence of respiratory diseases such as asthma than non-apple eaters." it convinced me that apples are a good healthfood to fight asthma, or they wouldn't be banned.
Carrots
John Wesley who founded the Methodist Church recommended carrots to relieve asthma.
Garlic
Put four cloves through a garlic press and drop the pulp into some brandy. Steep for two weeks in a dark closet. Use several drops at a time throughout the day for asthma. Garlic is an exceptional cleanser for the body and has anti microbial action similar to other antibiotics.
Ginger
Ginger: grate two fresh ginger roots. Put into small muslin bag. Bring water to boil and turn down heat till about one bubble surfaces every three seconds. Squeeze juice from ginger in bag, then drop bag into water. Simmer (don't change the heat setting) for another ten minutes. Allow to cool to blood heat (only just bearable to your hand) then soak a towel in it. Wring out the towel and fold to size of patient's chest. Bandage onto chest.
Mucus congestion will break up almost immediately.
Mustard Greens
Pulped mustard greens are reported to be very effective against asthma, but you must coat the chest with vaseline first to prevent burns or welts on the skin. Also you have to grow the mustard greens first, but can buy ginger root from the grocers.
Tangerines (Mandarins)
Wash with detergent to get rid of agricultural poisons then rinse thoroughly to get rid of detergent. Each morning blend two tangerines, with the skin still on, and drink the result. It contains a large amount of synephrine, which is a good decongestant. Who said that healthfood had to taste bad!
Seaweeds
These contain lots of proteins and minerals
Fruit and Vegetables
Try to eat at least 6 servings of fruit and 6 servings of vegetables each day to get plenty of phytochemicals. Raw is best, but if you must cook your food, cook it for the shortest time possible. Leave the skins on most food, but wash of agricultural poisons with detergent, then rinse off the detergent.
Asthma and your diet
The medical literature indicates that over 25% of the population is sensitive to glutamic acid, with resulting symptoms including migraine headache, nausea and vomiting, fatigue, disorientation, depression and asthma. So don't have MSG in your food.
Adverse asthma reactions to any medical nutrients, including dairy products, are relatively rare in people with asthma - less than 2% of adults and 11% of children with asthma experience an asthma attack due to food. Does this mean that you don't need to avoid allergens? What if you are one of those two percent? One child had more and more severe asthma attacks until his parents learned to cut out milk products from his diet until the attack had finished. They commented that "it usually works." Raw milk is best in spite of the pasteurization swindle.
