I hear a lot of talk on radio and television about being allergy season or cold season. What does that mean? I don’t have allergies. And very seldom, if ever, do I get a cold. Why is it that I don’t get allergies and or colds very often, if ever. But you do? Could it be that my lifestyle is different than yours? There is no such thing as an allergy season anymore then there is a season for colds! What do you think the cold germs do? Jump on the planes down in the Bahamas and fly up to your town during the winter???

That season stuff is just drug companies telling you that so you don’t think it’s your fault that you’re sick. They want you to think that you’re a victim of nature. Now you will buy their stupid drugs in the hopes of feeling better.

Sad part about this is that you allowed your kids to get sick with allergies and or colds as well. You fed them all of that vitamin mineral deficient junk food, and now you’re shoving toxic drugs down their throats in the hopes of some kind of magic cure.

One winter I was at a local shopping center and there was a new Mother holding this HUGE cup of soda in one hand while she wiped the snot from her 3 foot tall kids’ nose, and then she gave that HUGE cup of soda back to the child!!! I rest my case…

The reason people get sick with these afflictions is because their immune system is out of whack, not because the grass and trees are doing their thing or the weather gets cold!!

If your immune system was healthy, you would be too! Remember all those double cheeseburgers with fries, gallons and gobs of dairy products, and all the rest of that junk food you folks eat? That’s why you have problems! Those are the things that tear your immune system down. Your Adrenal glands could be so exhausted from too much stress, alcohol, coffee, tea, drugs, sugar, chocolate, eggs, milk and dairy products, food coloring, food additives, chlorinated water, vaccines, yeast, antibiotics, sulfites, and MSG. Are these the things you and your kids use in your lives on a daily basis? Be honest now!

I’m surprised that all you have is allergies or a cold after all this! The foods you should be eating are carrots, yams, squash, peaches, cantaloupe, brown rice, soybeans, lentils, English walnuts, sunflower seeds, molasses, wheat germ, avocados, lemons, cherries, strawberries, and cabbage. These are the foods that contain calcium, magnesium, pantothenic acid, bioflavonoids, vitamin E and zinc. In other words, foods that contain the things that your immune system needs to be healthy, so it can protect you from allergies and colds!!!

I was raised in the Midwest in a town called Dubuque. I grew up with three sisters and two brothers, a mother and father, grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces and cousins by the truckload. When we had a family reunion there was probably 150 of us altogether. I also grew up with 40 or more kids on my block, not to mention the 800 kids I went to school with.

And thinking back now I can’t remember one single kid that ever came down with cancer. But today there are so many kids with cancer that we have special hospitals set aside just for kids with cancer!!! I’m not going to profess that I know the cause of cancer, but I have my suspicions.

I can tell you a few of the differences from my era compared with today. As kids, we were constantly outside doing things like riding our bikes, playing tag, climbing trees to get to the cherries and apples, raiding the neighbors watermelon patch or tomato garden, seeing how many red currents we could get in our mouth at one time or balancing ourselves on the top of the fence, trying to reach high up into the trees to get the ripest and juiciest plums. As far as soda and candy are concerned those only came at special times like Christmas or birthdays. And fast food restaurants were unheard of.

Most families back in those days had a garden of their own that they depended on for survival. Money was tight and jobs were short, so if you wanted to eat, you needed to raise most of your own food. Not one single garden or fruit tree had even an ounce of chemicals sprayed on it!! And believe it or not, the sky was deep blue and the water ran clean. I guess it’s time to end my article with that old saying “it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out”.

The other day I saw an article on television that was showing how people in China could choose a particular coffin they wanted to be buried in. The twist here was that the coffin could be in any shape whatsoever. If you enjoyed playing the violin in life, you could have a coffin in the shape of a violin. On the other hand, if you enjoyed going to the temple, you could have a coffin in the shape of a temple. Perhaps you were an animal lover. In that situation, you might have one built in the shape of a dog or cat or any other animal, including an alligator! They could have their coffin designed in the shape of a guitar, a sports car, or any other crazy shape they could dream up. That way you would know something about the person just by looking at the design of their coffin.

That got me thinking about an appropriate new line of coffins we could have here in the United States. The coffin shape would tell us something about that person, and what they died from.  Americans seem intent on ending their days as soon as possible with the diet they choose to eat. They cast fate to the wind with the myriad of things they feel are appropriate to shove down their throats.  Cancer, no problem.  Heart attack, still no problem.  Stroke, who cares.  And to top it off it’s always nice to light up a smoke after a good meal.

We could have a coffin in the shape of the triple bacon cheeseburger, or to go along with that, we could have a coffin in the shape of a clogged artery. We could also have one in the shape of a hot dog bun. That one would be easy to carry by the little handles along the sides. That coffin would let us know that the person died from eating all of those nitrates, pesticide residues, and hormones.

Some other interesting shapes that come to mind are two french fries laid out in the shape of a cross. Another design could be in the shape of a bottle of prescription drugs. It could be somewhat cozy being laid out in that wad of soft white cotton at the top of the bottle. That one would let us know that that person was one of those 100,000 people or more that die each year from the prescription drugs given to them by their doctors. How about coffins in the shape of a six pack of beer.  Perhaps six people could be buried in that one.  Or maybe one that looked like a car that was completely totaled by someone who drank that six pack of beer before driving.

Of course, another popular shape would be that of a pack of cigarettes. I guess in this case you could double up like in the case of the six pack of beer. This time though, you could bury 20 people in the same coffin.  Surely there will be 20 available smokers who will have need for that coffin soon enough, thereby saving lots of space and burial costs. We could also have coffins in the shape of a couch or perhaps a TV wand, letting us know right away that the person did not get enough exercise.

I think a comfortable coffin might be an extra-large extra thick crust meatsa meatsa pizza covered with soft warm cheese.  Wait a minute, that might be a good coffin to end up in, come to think of it.  Let me ask you this. What shape of coffin will you have? Think about it.

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