FDA UPDATE

You are receiving this newsletter because you have previously purchased products from Wilderness Family Naturals or have signed up for their newsletter.  Due to  our desire to conform to regulations from the FDA, these newsletters will now be coming to you from Regaining Health Naturally.

Regaining Health Naturally has information the FDA will not allow to be written by a company that sells products.  In the United States  the FDA claims it is illegal to tell  others the health benefits of foods and supplements if you also sell foods and supplements.  It is even illegal to tell people about vitamins and what they do in the body if you sell health products that contain those vitamins.  You can not even link to the governments on research on these vitamins!  The FDA and the FTC in cooperation with each other send “warning letters” to companies who do not comply with their interpretation of the law and Wilderness Family Naturals has been the recipient of such a letter.  Therefore, from now on, all newsletters will come from Regaining Health Naturally.  Regaining Health Naturally is purely an information website and will thankfully be protected by freedom of speech laws in this country.

You will notice a new look to the Regaining Health Naturally website during the upcoming months.  You will also notice changes being made to the Wilderness Family Naturals website.  Several product labels  will also be changed.

Health Freedom Protection Act

For those of you who are aware of the problems the FDA and FTC create for health products companies and want to do something about it, please consider supporting the Health Freedom Bill written by Jonathan Emord, a constitutional lawyer in Washington, DC.  http://www.emord.com/people/john_emord.htm is a page that will tell you about Mr. Emord.

Jonathan Emord’s website with information on this bill can be found at   http://emord.com. The truth about what the FDA is doing in this country, written by a lawyer who is in the midst of the fight and can help us do something about it will astound you.  We would urge you to sign the petition.

Send it to your congressman as an email.  It is very simple and easy. There is a pre-written letter just waiting for you. This is an important bill that should help make a tremendous difference in  the health of American citizens.

Surprising Information about Cod Liver Oil

In honor of the following information on Cod Liver Oil, Wilderness Family Naturals is offering a 20% discount through February 15th.

In the 1950s, when heart disease skyrocketed to be the number one killer in America, more research was conducted into the essential fatty acids Eicosapentaenoic Acid (EPA) and Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) contained in cod liver oil and other oily fish.  This research has led to the modern view of cod liver oil as not only beneficial in such conditions as rheumatism and an important supplement for healthy bones and teeth, but also as a benefit to the heart and circulatory system.  Cod liver oil is currently one of the best-selling supplements in Europe.  For a complete understanding of the health benefits of cod liver oil please click here.

What is Cod Liver Oil?

Cod liver oil is thin, pale-yellow oil that was originally made from the fresh livers of codfish. Today the standards allow for an incredible amount of variation and “cheating” among manufacturers.  Unfortunately, any fish oil can be “manufactured” into cod liver oil as long as it meets certain basic criteria. Read more about our Cod Liver Oil introduction.

Cod Liver Oil vs. Flaxseed Oil

There are major differences between flaxseed oil and cod liver oil.  Many people in the past 30 years have jumped on the flax oil bandwagon without a thorough understanding of how stable this oil is and how it reacts in the body. For an interesting comparison of how your body utilizes cod liver oil versus flaxseed oil, for a look at the research of Dr. Johanna Budwig, and for a discussion of the stability of both oils.

Comparison of Cod Liver Oils

This page compares our cod liver oil to the other cod liver oils out there, describing how all cod liver oil is made, and how ours is different.  It also exposes what is actually in a leading manufacturer’s cod liver oil – a major competing brand of cod liver oil.

ABC's of Wound Healing

One day, years ago, when my mother was a young girl, as she was running barefoot through the horse barn, she stepped on a pitchfork.  This pitchfork had been used for shoveling manure and was old and rusty.  I am sure that the lines were covered with microorganisms.   As she stepped on the pitchfork, a tine went through the bottom of her foot and came out the top.  To this day my mother still remembers the incident.  This type of wound is a nasty wound, whether it happens today or happened 64 years ago.  At that time, there were no vaccines for tetanus and there were few antibiotics, yet my mother did survive the incident, and it was fairly uneventful.  Hollywood might have us believe that most people die from deep wounds if they do not seek medical attention, but the truth is most people in the past took care of their wounds and survived.  They did it without tetanus shots and they did it without antibiotics.  All you need to know are a few simple rules of basic wound hygiene.

Goldenseal Root

You should also read about Goldenseal. I believe all families who prefer to treat their bodies with natural substances should keep at least a small, 4-oz. bag of goldenseal root powder in their medicine chest.  If you have cayenne pepper and use it for other things, this will work almost as well.

FAQ's

I would like to know what would help my thyroid problems. I take a thyroid pill daily and I wonder if it's okay to take anything?

If you have silver amalgam fillings, your problem probably started years ago with those. Silver fillings are not just made of silver. 53% of a new filling is mercury. Over the years the mercury leaks into your body.

Mercury binds readily to thyroid hormones and instantly makes them inactive
(not usable by the body). The mercury slowly poisons the tissues, organs like the kidneys and liver, the brain, and the digestive tract.

I am new to the group and was on coconut oil for a short time. Yesterday I was tested by my doctor and coconut oil is one of the things that I am allergic to.  I am fine with coconut, but not coconut oil, even the raw good stuff.  I tested allergic to any coconut oil.

Before I found this out I was making smoothies for myself, my husband and our son daily.  My husband always reacted with a stomach ache every times he drank it, very uncomfortable.  I reacted the mildest and I'm allergic to it.  It's only been a week or so, so we weren't sure it was the coconut oil causing us the problems. Obviously, I won't be drinking it anymore, nor will I give it to my family.  I understand that there are good things out there, but they are not for everyone. Be careful.  Even good things can be toxic to someone who can't handle them. I am turning my attention to coconut milk instead.

Most (if not all) allergies are to proteins.  That is how the immune system works.  Antibodies are made to selected protein markers on the cell membranes of bacteria, viruses, pollen or whatever invader they find to eliminate it if they can. 

When an individual has an over active immune system it can actually develop antibodies to foods or common things in our environment.  A normal healthy immune system is not allergic to food.

In coconut there are proteins which some people do become allergic to, though it is not a common allergy.  Most people who have an allergy to coconut have it to shredded coconut and it is the propylene glycol or sodium metabisulfite they are actually allergic to.

You would be surprised at the number of people who believe they are allergic to coconut that do not have a problem when they eat real coconut.