I remember an old Oprah episode where the doctor vehemently denies the “old wives tale that getting rained on will make you sick.” He was really really pissed off that people, including Oprah, keep on spreading the idea that “water” makes you sick.
“It’s not the water that makes you sick, its bacteria, viruses … blah blah blah,” the doctor was exasperated.”What an idiot,” I thought. After all, since when has our rain water carried just pure water???
With all the pollution in the air, some places worse than others, the raindrops that hit our heads is nothing to sneeze at (pardon the intentional pun, couldn’t help it). For probably, I don’t know, 1/5 of the earth’s surface where rain falls, its acid rain.
The science is still very new but there is ample anecdotal evidence that probiotics aids in many digestive problems. I have also had personal experience with it where even a single capsule of probiotics (the kind with several strains of bacteria) has helped with stomach upsets within a couple of hours. If you take anti-biotics it is also important to take a pro-biotic because the synthetic anti-biotics rids our gut of a both good and bad bacteria. NOTE: What probiotics are not useful for is in aiding bowel movements when you have constipation.
Below is a video that explains what we know and do now know about probiotics:
August 1, 2008 at 2:32 am
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FISH OIL v OLIVE OIL
Did you know that fish oil supplements given to pregnant women have shown a boost in the hand-eye coordination of their babies as toddlers? This is according to the Science Daily whose research was based on 98 pregnant women who were either given 4g of fish oil supplements or 4g of olive oil supplements daily from 20 weeks of pregnancy until the birth of their babies.
Once the children had reached two and a half years of age, they were assessed using validated tests to measure growth and development. These included tests of language, behaviour, practical reasoning and hand-eye coordination. In all, 72 children were assessed (33 in the fish oil group and 39 in the olive oil group). There were no significant overall differences in language skills and growth between the two groups of children.
But those whose mothers had taken fish oil supplements scored more highly on measures of receptive language (comprehension), average phrase length, and vocabulary!
And children whose mothers had taken fish oil supplements scored significantly higher in hand-eye coordination than those whose mothers had taken the olive oil supplements. However, not all omega-3 fish oil supplements are created equal. Typical fish oil contains only 30% omega-3, so look at the labels, and watch out for other ingredients especially if you’re pregnant!
