The opinions
of the experts are constantly changing. The correct treatment this
year is often the wrong treatment next year. When choosing an approach,
treatment, or therapy, try to pick the one that poses the smallest
risk of harm. When your done mulling it over in your mind, listen
to your heart before making your decision, because “woman’s
intuition” is invaluable. Always remember, doctors cause more
deaths every year than traffic accidents, so choose carefully.
February 2007 |
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News About Aspartame - But Beware Short Article #2 - Beware Of The CAT Scan - The Risks Are Serious Short Article #3 - Vitamin D Cuts The Risk Of Pancreatic Cancer By Nearly 50% Short Article #4 - A Little Personal Vanity With A Lesson Short Article #5 - Drugs For Preventive Medicine and A Reduction In Breast Cancer Numbers --- Can We Connect The Dots? Short Article
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More News About Aspartame - But Beware Monsanto's cash cow is about to die. Europe's largest producer of Nutrasweet, Holland Sweetener, has lost so much money that they are considering stopping production. Merisant, our top Nutrasweet producer lost 29% of their U.S. sales in 2004 and 2005 and has 100 million more debt than assets. This is the result of hundreds of courageous doctors, publishers, and broadcasters who have testified before congress, written books, and published a huge pile of research demonstrating the incredibly deleterious effects of Nutrasweet. That's great news, but 25 years too late. As the evidence has mounted that Nutrasweet has contributed to the growing incidence of brain tumors, organ cancers, and neurological disease, while actually contributing to weight gain (exactly the opposite of what it is claimed to do), Monsanto and the remainder of the Nutrasweet manufacturers and suppliers continue to influence our government by buying and lying. I believe it won't be long before they will fall to the same fate the tobacco manufacturers have recently experienced. As the word has spread about Nutrasweet (aspartame), another chemical sweetener has taken the top spot among tabletop toxins. Splenda is a tri-chlorinated sugar, which releases chlorine into the body, destroying the immune system and other vital functions. All this, just to satisfy our addiction to anything sweet. You've been warned over an over about artificial sweeteners, so beware. If you have to sweeten, use stevia. |
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Short Article #2 Beware Of The CAT Scan - The Risks Are Serious In 2003 the number of CAT scans performed hit 57 million. There isn't enough research yet to call these diagnostic devices safe. These are super X-ray machines that do a phenomenal job of detecting the smallest of abnormalities, so they have enormous potential in the disease care delivery system; however, as usual, because CAT scans are quickly reimbursable by insurance they are being over utilized (perhaps a gross understatement). Please consider that the average resident of Hiroshima and Nagasaki received a mean dose of 20 millisieverts, a measurement of radiation exposure. The post bomb cancer rate was horrendous, as all of us who are old enough remember. Now consider this, the average full body CAT scan patient receives between 12 and 25 millisieverts. A mammogram measures about 0.84 millisieverts. A 10 millisievert level is associated with an increased risk of cancer, AND THIS RADIATION IS CUMULATIVE. That means that the woman who receives a mammogram a year for 12 or 13 years has just increased her cancer risk as a result of the early detection mammographic testing. The average person receives about 3.6 millisieverts a year from natural sources, and that has to be added to the X-ray dosage we receive from our chiropractors and dentists, not to mention the worst offenders of all, hospital emergency rooms. There is a huge debate going on over the risks from one-time dosage versus cumulative exposure. Because of the huge financial incentives involved this will be a long drawn out debate. The only one protecting your family is you and your knowledge.
Some companies are advertising cardiac (heart) scans on the radio
for any and all middle aged people. If you choose this path, be
sure to get the millisieverts you will be exposed too, and don't
be sold the bill of goods that CAT scans are safe. They can be
invaluable when used cautiously, but when has medicine ever proceeded
with caution when a new tool had enormous possibilities for financial
gain? If you can think of an instance, please let me know. |
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Vitamin D Cuts The Risk Of Pancreatic Cancer By Nearly 50% A recent report by the American Association for Cancer Research claims that Vitamin D is a critical component is reducing risk to pancreatic cancer, and a risk reduction of approximately 50% is nothing short of amazing. Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in this country and it is rapidly fatal. Pancreatic does not respond to the standard medical approaches. The figures were garnered from long term follow
up studies on the dietary habits of over 120,000 participants. This
is even more reason to take our Vitalmins Vitamin D & A. I take
3 each morning which gives me 3000 i.u. of vitamin D. I consider
anything from 2000 i.u. per day to 5000 i.u. per day to be in the
"absolutely safe" and at "optimum levels" zone
for the best of health. |
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A Little Personal Vanity With A Lesson The other day at the office a couple of things occurred that happen quite frequently. Frequently enough, in fact, that I thought it prudent to mention it in a newsletter. First, a patient complimented me on how youthful I look for an old man on social security. Soon after, a patient asked me to build them a minimum supplemental vitamin program and then ranted about the number of vitamins I suggested. Most people who take no vitamins or try to get by on a Multi of some kind usually do not look young for their age. When they asked how many vitamins I took a day they were shocked, and I felt this might be the right time to share some of my lifestyle with my patients and customers. But first, at least half a dozen books are written each year, and have been for the last two decades, describing how our food has become a major source of our disease and disability. If you have doubts regarding the necessity for moderate to heavy supplementation you need to read some of these books. I take between 25 and 30 supplements with my breakfast each morning. I consider that necessary to provide OPTIMUM levels of the essential micronutrients for good health and intelligent risk reduction considering that I was an unhealthy child. That doesn't mean that choosing food wisely and a good exercise regimen aren't equally important, but something positive is working for myself and many of my patients who supplement optimally. Remember, if you're looking older than you'd like on the outside, you're looking older than you'd like on the inside. Regular exercise (not activity), a healthy organic diet (foods that are indigenous to the region and in season), optimum supplementation, and detoxification from our polluted environment (I take a far infra-red sauna five times a week) will result in reduced risk of chronic illness and an increased possibility of lifelong good health. My friend the plumber turns his water off whenever he goes on a trip. I asked him if that wasn't overkill. He laughed and said a good part of his income was made from people that thought it was overkill, only to return to a basement full of water. He's the expert, so now I turn the main water off when I go on a vacation. I hope you get the analogy. |
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Drugs For Preventive Medicine and A Reduction In Breast Cancer Numbers --- Can We Connect The Dots? U.S Preventive Medicine is a new company advertised in the Wall Street Journal. They are rounding up physicians throughout the country to focus on preventing disease by prescribing drugs before people get the diseases the drugs are to be taken for. This will make the drug companies a LOT of money, which is what the spin on prevention is all about, after all. Does anyone out there know of a disease that's due to a drug deficiency??? Drugs, long term, cause side effects. Sometimes it takes decades to discover how bad those side effects are, but sooner or later we find out, often the hard way. For example, the breast cancer rate is definitely down, and medicine is raving about the numbers saying medical science is finally making progress against this horrible disease. I think this is another case where figures lie and liars figure. Consider that just a few years ago we learned that the 30 year experiment with hormones from pregnant mares urine, Premarin, was doing more harm (ex., breast cancer) than good. Now let's look at the projected figures, and we realize that the improvement in breast cancer death is the result of physicians no longer so cavalierly prescribing a very dangerous drug. To me it simply says once again, the more drugs we take as a society the sicker we will ultimately become. It's unavoidable. |
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