So I've been planning! Routines, timetables, fun stuff, budgets and anything else that is going to ensure we have $30k by Dec 2011.
ONIONS
In 1919 when the flu killed 40 million people there was a Doctor who visited the many farmers to see if he could help combat the flu. Many of the farmers and their family had contracted it - many died.
The doctor came upon one farming family and to his surprise, everyone was very healthy. When the doctor asked what the farmer was doing different the wife replied that she placed an unpeeled onion in a dish in the rooms of the home - probably only two rooms back then. The doctor couldn't believe it. He asked to take one of the onions and place it under the microscope. When he did this, he found the flu virus in the onion. It had absorbed the bacteria, keeping the family healthy.
A hairdresser in NZ said several years ago many of her employees were coming down with the flu as were many of her customers. The next year she placed several bowls with onions around in her shop. To her surprise, none of her staff got sick.
A woman in Oregon contacted pneumonia and was very ill. Someone came across an article that said to cut both ends off an onion put one end on a fork, place the forked end into an empty jar and put the jar next to the sick patient at night. It said the onion would be black in the morning from the germs. Sure enough, it happened, just like that ~ the onion was a mess and she began to recover.
Remember too, onions and garlic placed around the room saved many from the black plague. Both have powerful antibacterial, antiseptic properties.
So buy some onions and place them in bowls around your home. If you work at a office, place one or two on or under your desk or even on top somewhere. Try it and see what happens. What have you to lose? Just a few bucks on onions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LEFT OVER ONIONS ARE POISONOUS
Who has used an onion which has been left in the fridge or bench, especially when you don't use a whole one at one time, and save the other half for later.
During a tour at Mullins Food Products, a huge US maker of mayonnaises owned by 11 brothers and sisters, questions about food poisoning came up. One of the brothers, Ed is a chemistry expert and is involved in developing most of the sauce formulas. He's even developed sauce formula for McDonald's. People are always worried that mayonnaise will spoil. Ed's answer will surprise you as he said all commercially made Mayo is completely safe.
It doesn't even have to be refrigerated. No harm in refrigerating it, but it's not really necessary. He explained that the pH in mayonnaise is set at a point that bacteria could not survive in that environment. He then talked about the quaint essential picnic, with the bowl of potato salad sitting on the table and how everyone blames the mayonnaise when someone gets sick.
Ed says that when food poisoning is reported, the first thing the officials look for is when the 'victim' last ate ONIONS and where those onions came from (in the potato salad?). Ed says it's not the commercial mayonnaise that spoils in the outdoors. It's probably the onions, and if not the onions, it's the POTATOES.
He explained onions, especially raw, are a huge magnet for bacteria,. You should never plan to keep a portion of a sliced onion, not even if you put it in a zip-lock bag and put it in your refrigerator. Both the onions and the moist potato in a potato salad, will attract and grow bacteria faster than any commercial mayonnaise will even begin to break down.
So, how's that for news? Take it for what you will. I (the author) am going to be very careful about my onions from now on. For some reason, I see a lot of credibility coming from a chemist and a company that produces millions of pounds of mayonnaise every year.'
AND FINALLY...
Dogs should never eat onions. Their stomachs cannot metabolize onions.
Must say thanks to Ann for this pearl of information ~ so, is it fact or an old wives tale? Any one with their own personal experience?? I would love to know if this works because I'll happily use a few onions around the house to suck up the crap that makes us ill! Let me know if you do...
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