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Foodborne illness and Food Poisoning How to Protect Yourself

1/9/2020

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Have you ever had foodborne illness or food poisoning?

If you have ever had food poisoning or foodborne illness you probably will never forget it. Especially, if it was severe. Some of us, have mild reactions and there are others who never knew food poisoning or foodborne illness was the culprit. 

Did you know the FDA â€‹estimates that there are about 48 million cases of foodborne illness each year. This estimate is equivalent to 1 in 6 Americans becoming sick from contaminated food, which results in an estimated 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths. WHOA!

What is the difference between Foodborne Illness and Food poisoning? 

The CDC refers to "foodborne illness" as "foodborne germs and illness" and then goes on to talk about food poisoning. And, this is where it can come quite confusing. Foodborne illness and food poisoning are used interchangeably and are somewhat similar but have different classifications. Stay with me here.

FoodBorne Illness Definition

Foodborne illness is caused by eating contaminated food. Which, leads to getting sick within minutes or developing symptoms over the several weeks or even later. 
​Foodborne illness is caused by harmful bacteria or other pathogens in contaminated food.
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Food Poisoning Definition

Food poisoning happens by swallowing toxins, a form of poison caused by microorganisms in food.It is a TYPE of foodborne ilness.  Food poisoning begin quickly, usually within 60 minutes after eating the contaminated food. 
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Food Poisoning and Foodborne Illness Symptoms

As you can see from the picture above, food poisoning and foodborne illness symptoms are a bit different. Both are severe, especially for those who are immune compromised, the very young, pregnant women and those over 60 years of age. Food poisoning symptoms are far more sever and you should seek immediate medical attention. 
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How Do We Get Foodborne Illness or Food Poisoning?

Foodborne Illness and Food Poisoning typically come from food and sometimes beverages. It can be canned food, packaged food, fresh food. It just has to be contaminated. It can be from food you purchased at a Farmer's market, restaurants, food truck, festivals, grocery stores, any where you can purchase food. 

With the increase in food borne illness outbreaks from produce to packaged foods including restaurants with less than stellar kitchen habits, can we protect ourselves from getting sick?

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How to Prevent Foodborne Illness and Food Poisoning

Preventing foodborne illness and food poisoning can be tricky because we usually do not know it has happened until after it has happened. Of course, check the expiration dates. Make sure the product is within consumption date. 
If the restaurant and the bathroom looks dirty, more than likely the kitchen is too! Walk away!
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According to the CDC, when it comes to handling food at home, to prevent contamination try these 4 steps 
  1. Wash your hands and surfaces often
  2. Separate; keep raw meat, poultry, and seafood separate while shopping, storing and preparing
  3. Cook: To the right temperature
  4. Chill and Refrigerate; Keep your refrigerator below 40°F refrigerate perishable food within 1 hour.
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Let's Talk About Food Poisoning Remedy You Can Do

A top food poisoning remedy is prevention. We just talked about some tips in the kitchen, but there are also things you can do with your body! Sounds far fetched, right? Not really, if you understand how your body works
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Let me Share 5 ways you can prevent foodborne illness and food poisoning.

1. Chew Your Food!
​Most of us don’t chew our food. Chewing is your number one defense to fight off microbial attacks!  
Chewing your food releases antimicrobials in your mouth which can begin the process of killing off microbes later in the digestive tract. 
Microbes like salmonella, e.coli and listeria . These Bad guys have been dominating the news and the CDC’s list of food borne illness outbreaks, A LOT. 
2. Stomach Acid.
if there is good hydrochloric acid, the stomach acid will kill these invaders. Think of battery acid. Your stomach acid is like battery acid — highly corrosive and will burn them up, or, at the very least, can break down the protein structure of the pathogens to help out the small intestine.
3. Which brings us to Pancreatic Enzymes. If your stomach acid does not get all of the pathogens, enzymes made by your pancreas activated in your small intestine will attack the protein structure and break them down. 
4. Don't forget the Gallbladder. The gallbladder releases bile acids that will also burn those little critters up and make their protein structures weak. Bile made in your liver and stored in your gallbladder also contains soaps. Think of washing your hands with soap, same thing here, bile soaps will help wash out the small intestine of bad guys and keep the proper alkaline pH so that microbes can not grow, causing illness and helps wash away metabolic debris, even  parasites do not stand a chance.
5. 3 Healthy Poops a Day ​If you have a good, strong, diverse microbiota the bacteria in your colon will create the proper acidic pH and crowd out and inhibit pathogenic microbes from colonizing in the colon. If you are constipated this leads to less diversity and more opportunistic chances of suffering the symptoms of foodborne illness. 
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​Digestion Is The Key To Prevention of Foodborne Illness and Food Poisoning

​You see, you can prevent foodborne illness by just supporting your body to help rid itself of the nasty little critters. If you chew well, and take care of your body and gut bacteria with high quality food grown in the ground and which grazes off of the land, you have a better chance of not getting sick from foodborne illness and Food poisoning, or, at the very least less symptoms taking you down. 
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Is there ​treatment for foodborne illness and Food Poisoning?

Although digestion can help in preventing foodborne illness and food poisoning, at the end of the day, depending on the severity, you may require medical advice. Especially, if you have food poisoning symptoms. Don't mess around! â€‹And, of course, check with your doctor before trying any of these recommendations. 

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If you do come down with a not-so-nice- bug, you can try the following supplements, which you can purchase through my online store by going here (and save 10% plus free shipping). If you would like help with purchasing the right supplements. You can call me or email me, and I can tell you which ones would be the most effective. Here is a good helpful support to your body while dealing with Foodborne illness 
  • ​Activated charcoal or Colostrum can soak up those nasty toxins causing your symptoms.
  • Support your pancreases with some proteolytic enzymes
  • Good liver gallbladder support which includes dandelion and milk thistle
  • Start a multi-strain probiotic
  • Incorporate natural anti-microbes like 
    • oil of oregano, grapefruit seed extract, cinnamon oil, garlic oil and black walnut are excellent choices. 

Be sure to follow up with stool test by Diagnostic solutions called the GI MAP to make sure the pathogen is not hanging around causing secondary health problems.
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How to Prevent Foodborne Illness and Food Poisoning

OK, so you may not be able to completely prevent foodborne illness and food poisoning, but you may have the opportunity to lesson the severity of foodborne illness symptoms and food poisoning symptoms. But you sure can help lesson the severity of the symptoms. 
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To bring it all together 
1. Chew your food well; 25-50 times release those enzymes
2. Make sure you have good stomach acid
3.  support your pancreas with enzymes
4. Support your Liver and gallbladder..make sure those soaps and bile acids are in good working order
5. Have 3 good healthy poops a day to keep your colon pH rocking the right pH and kicking those nasty microbes to the curb.

Let me know in the comments, 
  • How well are you chewing your food?
  • Are you going to chew your food more?
  • How well are you pooping? 3 times a day? Less than 3 times a day?
  • Do you have any tips you can share?…. Looking forward to your comments. 
​If these tips do not help you successfully reverse the symptoms or, you have had enough let’s work together. Email me right now or, call me right now 623 226-7003
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