Showing posts with label Vinegar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vinegar. Show all posts

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Common Food Sources of Mold

In the never ending battle with this depression I have come across some of the strangest things that were effecting me. In researching mold and it's sources here is a list that will slap you between the eyes. Because, well, these are the foods that I have had constantly until rather recently. The list is taken from WebMD.


Common food sources of mold include:
Cheese
Mushrooms
Vinegar and foods containing vinegar, such as salad dressing, catsup, and pickles, I love pickles
Sour cream, sour milk, and buttermilk
Meat or fish more than 24 hours old, unless I am there when the meat was killed, well how can I avoid       this?
Breads and other food made with yeast, I made my own yeast bread and craved it daily!
Sauerkraut, duh, I am of German heritage
Pickled and smoked meats and fish
Dried fruits such as dates, prunes, figs, and raisins
Soy sauce, love sushi
Hot dogs, sausages
Canned juices

So one can see that eating can bring on depression. Not just what is normally considered "bad" foods (bad fats sugars etc), but what most of us were brought up on.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Vinegar to kill Mold!


Reposted from www.nappycino.com.au
The links don't work, so I don't know original source.

Okay I know this is idle talk BUT
I was on this page tonight from a thread elsewhere about how someone felt crook while at home and all symptoms ceased while she was away and she was concerned something in her house was making her sick
anyway, long story short I went to that first link above,
and while I know a lot of us here don't use bleach (me included although with our old loo I am tempted sometimes! ) I thought this was really important

bleach doesn't kill mould.

It continues to grow, but you've bleached it, so now it grows and you can't see it... 
the list of things that can be caused by mould (symptoms wise) spun me out
so off I went to the bathroom armed with vinegar...
I am going to get about 5 litres tomorrow, I kid you not, and a squigie mop thing, because despite my aversion to it, DH not long ago decided bleach was the only thing for the ceiling in our bathroom bc nothing else was working... (we never thought of vinegar)
so the bathroom will cop the vinegar treatment tomorrow - the site says 80:20 but I'm keen for full strength (should I not?)
I also took the cover off the poor exhaust(ed) fan in there and cleaned it so the thing can actually work. The window is always open BUT it opens into the rest of the house (back room is an addition)...
hmmm
anyway so I thought I'd share - yet ANOTHER reason to use vinegar instead of bleach.
don't even feel like going in there for a shower now 
I spoke to the AC man today, 9/8/11, and he said that white vinegar is better by far to kill mold in the AC system lines in the house.                     
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