Friday 27 September 2019

NATURAL ANTI-INFLAMATORIES BUT PLEASE BEWARE OF VERY BRIGHTLY COLOURED TURMERIC POWDER BECAUSE IT ISN'T ALL THAT IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE..

You would have to not be a reader of my blog to know how she dislikes and won't take certain drugs.

The only ones that she will take are for her open angled glaucoma. The rest, including blood thinners and pain killers, nah! 

She uses a teaspoonful of ground ginger powder for pain relief and thanks Dr. Michael Greger for his very informative book.. the details of which are immediately below.

HOW NOT TO DIE by Dr. Michael Greger.
Published in 2015, then republished in soft cover form by Macmillan in 2016.
ISBN # 978-1-4472-8244-0

She makes a tea out of ginger root, turmeric root and freshly ground black pepper, this strange 'tea' is allowed to brew for about ten minutes and then is strained and drunk.

These three spices are a magic bullet at working on several ailments, the first two are anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory and extremely efficient at tackling pain.

And used together they are a drug free way to counteract numerous conditions with no evil side effects. 

And a day or two ago, a scientific friend pointed her to research published by Stanford University.

Apparently brightly coloured turmeric powder started to appear when Bangladesh suffered severe flooding, for when the turmeric roots were harvested, they were found to be of a much paler colour than normal.

So what was done? It isn't a happy story this.

Some spice manufacturers in Bangladesh have been found to have added an industrial lead chromate pigment to 'brighten & enhance' the colour of their turmeric.

Lead is a source of cognitive and other severe ailments. Lead pipes, of course, have long been banned from use.

The lead in powdered turmeric dates back to the 1980's and the flooding we wrote about earlier, so poor unsuspecting customers have got used to the brighter, richer colour and their food looking brighter too and it has become a vicious circle.

Luckily we don't use powdered turmeric as she much prefers the taste of fresh turmeric root and buys it fresh every week. And mighty fussy she is too about the quality of the roots she buys (this applies to the ginger roots as well).

Lead is a neurotoxin, which increases the risks of heart and brain disease and interferes with brain development.

The report is long and we recommend that you read it.

Neurotoxin lead sometimes added to turmeric for brighter colour - ScienceDaily.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190924101446.htm

IF you must buy it in the powdered form, buy the palest coloured powder, this also applies to ginger powder you buy. Think of grated ginger root (yum), it is not dark, so powdered ginger should only be a fraction darker than fresh ginger. 

We're experiencing monsoon type rain! It's deluging down from a very dirty grey sky and making a loud rat-a-tat-tat noise on our steps, oh, how lucky Big Juli and Andreea are. 

But I know what we are having for our very late / early supper and so I have to go and inspect the happenings (is that a real word, or is a GeeGee word?) in yumyum hq.

Time to flap a wing to go zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom.

What? You called me silly? Of course, I'm silly, so would you be if you had a parent like mine.

GeeGee Parrot.
September 27th, 2019. 

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