Does anyone use a juicer?
If the symptoms haven't settled in yet, eat a clove of garlic ASAP. You can cut it in half and swallow like a pill. Take another tomorrow morning. It's a homeopathic trick I learned more than a decade ago and have only been tapped by a cold a handful ot times and that's usually because I didn't have any garlic. I carry garlic pills with me once I started traveling for work. It never got me with those either, but the real deal is much cheaper.
Also, Vitamin D and Zinc are immunity boosters.
Valerie
DS 2005
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next to the mashed potatoes
I am a believer when it comes to juicing for improved health- but I am really, really lazy about making it. When I was feeling crappy due to cancer related crap I would make the following concoction.... it makes a lot though, as my husband and daughter would have a large glass also.
Greens- kale, beet greens, a little parsley, spinach
2 carrots
a couple tomatoes (cherry, grape- small size, or 1 regular size)
1 lemon including the rind
1 apple
celery
I use enough greens that this comes out a green murky color. I can't stand it without the lemon- some type of citrus to lighten it up. When I juiced regularly (4-5 times a week, 1 glass in the morning about 12 ounces or so) my labs improved, my skin improved (a big deal for me as I have skin cancer- less irritation on the skin is a good thing), I stopped getting sick, etc. If someone would make it for me I would drink a glass a day.
Careful though- calories abound in this. In my case when I was in weight loss mode I built it into my regimen- but it is not triggery for me (or at least not when I was doing it back then). Just google juicer recipes- there are a ton out there. I think for me the combo of the greens and citrus is what really helped.
I don't like using my vitamix for it. I can't stand thick juice- but my friend uses her Ninja and likes that a lot.
Surgeon: Chengelis Surgery on 12/19/2011 A little less carb eating compared to my weight loss phase loose sleever here!
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