Alternative Health & Healing
Newsletter
June, 2002
Dr. Group’s
Quote of the Month: “Hope is the first step in healing or changing anything. Turn
your hope into a deep faith. With total faith, there
are no questions.”
CONTENTS:
Health Facts
Weed killer Makes Male
Frogs Into Females-Study
Soy: The Poison Seed
More Mind Control Coming
Those Little Pharm-Gifts
Mean A lot
Pharmaceutical Facts
Naturopathy
Made Illegal in Florida -- Threat for Other States
Overweight, Inactivity
and Higher Cancer Risk
Restaurant
Meals Busting Buttons
HEALTH
FACTS
"The
medical establishment works closely with the drug multinationals
whose
main objective is profits, and whose worst nightmare would be an epidemic
of good health. Lots of drugs MUST be sold. In order to achieve this,
anything goes: lies, fraud, and kickbacks. Doctors are the principal
salespeople of the drug companies. They are rewarded with research grants,
gifts, and lavish perks. The principal buyers are the public - from infants
to the elderly - who MUST be thoroughly medicated and vaccinated...at any
cost! Why do the authorities forbid alternative medicine? Because they are
serving the industry, and the industry cannot make money with herbs,
vitamins, and homeopathy. They cannot patent natural remedies. That is why
they push synthetics. They control medicine, and that is why they are able
to tell medical schools what they can and cannot teach." Guylaine Lanctot,
M.D
MICROWAVE: Recent research shows that microwave oven cooked food
suffers
severe molecular damage. When eaten, it causes abnormal changes in human
blood and immune systems. Not surprisingly the public has been denied
details on these significant health dangers.
SOY PRODUCTS: Contrary to popular belief that soy is a health food,
evidence reveals that soy consumption has been linked to numerous
disorders, including infertility, increased cancer and infantile leukemia,
Type1 diabetes, and precocious puberty in children have been fed soy
formula. (early maturation, such as breast development and menstruation as
early as 6 years of age). Scientists have known for years that the
isoflavones in soy products can depress thyroid function and cause goiters
in otherwise healthy children and adults. A combined research team of
Cornell University Medical College and Long Island Community Hospital
medical experts have found that children who develop Type1 diabetes are
twice as likely to have been fed soy formulas as those fed all other foods
This confirms concerns based on animal studies raised in the 1980's and
1990s by Health Canada researcher Dr Fraser Scott and led to the American
Academy of Pediatrics issuing their warning to pediatricians against any
use of soy based formulas.
SUGAR FREE PRODUCTS: According to researchers and physicians studying
the
adverse effects of aspartame (Aspartame is the technical name for the brand
names, NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, and Equal-Measure.), the following
chronic illnesses can be triggered or worsened by ingesting of aspartame:
Brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome,
parkinson's disease, alzheimer's, mental retardation, lymphoma, birth
defects, fibromyalgia, and diabetes.
Weed killer Makes Male
Frogs
Into Females-Study
By Maggie Fox
Health and Science Correspondent
4-16-2
WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - The most popular weed killer in the United States
can give male frogs female sex organs and other attributes,
researchers said on Monday, in a study that could shed light
on the global decline in amphibian populations.
Very low
levels of the herbicide atrazine can cause male frogs to
grow female sex organs and curtail their croaks -- key to
attracting mates in the frog world -- a team at the University
of California Berkeley found.
The frogs
appear normal on the outside, but often have both male and
female sex organs, the researchers said, adding that the
findings may help explain the amphibian population decline.
The decline
worries scientists because amphibians such as frogs respond
to environmental dangers before other species.
"Atrazine
is the most commonly used herbicide in the U.S. and probably
the world," the researchers wrote in their report,
published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences. "It can be present at several parts per million
in agricultural runoff and can reach 40 parts per billion
in precipitation."
Such a common
pollutant would reach many animals as well as humans, so
the team, led by Tyrone Hayes, tested its effects on the
African clawed frog Xenopus laevis.
They put
tadpoles into water laced with levels of atrazine much lower
than allowed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
and found that the weed killer had serious effects on 16
percent of them.
These genetically
male frogs had testicles and ovaries, and many had testicles
that did not function properly and contained eggs and sperm.
Their levels of testosterone were much lower than normal.
The male
frogs also had much smaller larynxes than normal, which
could affect their ability to croak and attract mates, Hayes'
team reported.
The researchers
determined that atrazine is an endocrine disruptor -- a
class of chemicals that disrupts the hormones in the body.
Many pesticides fall into this category and it is one of
the qualities that can make them dangerous.
"We
hypothesize that atrazine ... promotes the conversion of
testosterone to estrogen," they wrote.
"This
widespread compound and other environmental endocrine disruptors
may be a factor in global amphibian declines."
Environmentalists
responded with alarm.
"This
research is further proof that this pesticide is a major
threat to public health and the environment," the Natural
Resources Defense Council said in a statement.
"EPA's
tap water standard for atrazine is 3 parts per billion --
30 times higher than the level at which these dramatic sexual
side effects occurred. At higher levels, the frogs developed
additional health problems," it added.
"This
rigorous scientific study reinforces what we and other scientists
have been saying for years -- atrazine is a dangerous pesticide," the
council's Jennifer Sass said. "It's no surprise that
it's been banned by many European countries."
She said
the study had implications for humans, especially children
who have not reached puberty.
Copyright © 2002
Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
Soy: The Poison Seed
Dr. William Wong
This piece
will be short and very much to the point. As Americas
largest cash crop soy is being touted as having a myriad
of health benefits. Far from! Soy is poison,
period! All paid for opinion to the contrary.
What's bad about soy?:
Contains
Isoflavones (Genistein and Daidzein). In soy the isoflavones
are built in insecticides. If they kill bugs are they
good for humans?
Isoflavones
are estrogen like substances which have the same effect
as the bodies estrogen. Cancer comes from having too
much estrogen. Irritability and mood swings, fat gain
from the waist down, fibrocystic breast disease uterine
fibromas are all associated with estrogen dominance. Instead
of helping prevent the bad effects of environmental or natural
estrogen dominance soy isoflavones are now known to increase
the bad effect of estradiol and estrone the two major bad
guys of the estrogen family. (1,2,3).
Kills testicular
tissue. In men it permanently reduces testicular function
and lowers Lutinizing Hormone production. LH is what signals
your testicles to work. This increases the probability
of estrogen dominance in men with its hair loss, swollen
and cancerous prostates. (4,5). Male children
fed soy formulas and soy products may not ever get to like
girls. Dorris Rapp MD, the worlds leading pediatric
allergist, asserts that environmental and food estrogens
are responsible for the increase in male homosexuality and
the worldwide reduction in male fertility. (6).
Isoflavones
decrease thyroid hormone production. This can stunt children's
growth and make the rest of us tired and fat. (7,8,9).
Female children
fed the estrogens in soy formula and products hit puberty
very very early sometimes as young as age 6 to 8! (10).
Pregnant
women eating soy products may effect the sexual differentiation
of their children. Studies show malformations of the
reproductive tract or offspring born with both male and
female sexual organs. (11).
Isoflavones
decrease GOOD cholesterol (HDL). (12,13).
Soy contains
Phytin, which takes essential minerals such as iron, zinc,
magnesium etc. out of the body before they can be absorbed. Also
soy contains Trypsin inhibitors block this vital anti cancer
enzyme, anti fibrosis enzyme. (14).
A 7000 man
30 year epidemiological study done in Hawaii shows soy is
connected with a higher rate of Vascular Dementia (Alzheimer's
disease). (15,16).
Any opinions to contradict the facts noted above have been paid for by the
Agribusiness giants Monsanto and Archer Daniels Midland. Once public
knowledge of their manipulation of public opinion and of the FDA becomes
widely known, expect monster class action lawsuits against these folks. They'll
deserve it in spades!
"The
hope of the industry is that over time the market is so
flooded [with GE organisms] that there's nothing you can
do about it, you just sort of surrender," Washington, D.C. biotech
industry consultant Don Westfall told the Toronto Star
last year.
MORE
MIND CONTROL COMING - AS AN ADVISORY PANEL REVEALS HOW
MINDLESS DOCTORS CAN BE
NEWS
ITEM: ADVISORY PANEL URGES ROUTINE SCREENING FOR DEPRESSION
By
Nicholas Regush
May
22, 2002 - And these are actually adults! A group of doctors,
who, if we didn’t know better, might be accused of smoking
dope while advising the government. Maybe the FBI should
investigate. I mean, who are these people? What were they
thinking? Do they have an iota of brain sense about how
cajoling doctors to screen for depression will likely lead
to mindless drug prescriptions for people who are having
some common, momentary difficulties in their lives?
It’s
bad enough that the average family doctor is out of sorts
when it comes to intelligently prescribing drugs for common
physical ailments (antibiotic over- prescription for ear
infections is a classic example), but when it comes to anything
to do with mental processes, watch out 100-fold, because
the over-prescription of anti-depressants is already epidemic.
And this ongoing debacle should already have gotten the
attention of every chief prosecutor in every state of the
USA.
Rather
than advise doctors to screen for depression, this advisory
panel should have advised the Department of Justice to set
up a Special Task Force to investigate how the medical profession
and the drug industry are in bed with one another and how
this union, involving the influence peddlers of psychiatry,
is set to invade the human mind for even more profit. Talk
about terrorism. The kind of advisory notice sent out today
to routinely screen patients is a forewarning of how dictatorships
form.
The
very idea of a doctor asking a patient two dumb questions
that could be answered "yes" by just about anyone
on the planet is so outrageous that I have wondered today
whether this was a missed-opportunity April Fool’s joke.
Here
are the two great questions that would lead to more screening
if the person answered "yes."
1.
Over the past two weeks, have you felt down, depressed or
hopeless?
2.
Over the past two weeks, have you felt little interest or
pleasure in doing things?
Only
a cultural/social idiot, totally oblivious to the themes
of our times, not to mention the overhanging, ever-present
threat of terrorism and a world going to hell, would ask
these types of questions as some sort of a screener for
depression. This is not screening. This is the full frontal
attack of a medical world that has had its head in the sand
for decades while the international drug peddlers have driven
a stake through its heart and made people into pill-taking
commodities.
Want
to read this advisory report?
http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/3rduspstf/depression
MAY 27,
2002
THOSE
LITTLE PHARMA-GIFTS MEAN A LOT!
This is
getting to be a bit of a habit - a shared SCREAM. But we
can’t help it if the medical profession is experiencing
SHARED PSYCHOPATHOLOGY.
Walk into
a doctor’s office and look around. See the pens with pharmaceutical
company names. See the notepad which s/he scratches things
on. Catch the name of the company? Or is some of the pad
covered up by a freebie drug packet s/he may soon unload
on you?
Okay, so
there are no visible TV sets or computers marked
with a drug company logo. And you certainly won’t see the
free tickets to the latest ballgame or the invitation to
give an "educational" talk at an "educational" drug
conference in Tahiti. No, those are definitely tucked away
somewhere.
Then why
are pens, notepads, other office supplies (including sticky
pads) various trinkets (maybe a bronzed miniature sheep’s
head with a drug company logo) hanging around on the desk
or in view somewhere in the office? Well, that’s because
Dr. Moron doesn’t understand that those "little things
mean a lot."
The fact
is, some of us did take Sociology 101 or Social Psych 101
and we do remember that a wealth of experiments indicate
that it doesn’t take much to influence someone’s behavior.
Should you
have any doubt about this, think again, and think about
the small gifts that you receive that can mean a lot, particularly
if there is a steady supply. And think of how you tend to
want to reciprocate even if the tiny gift was a cheap replica
of a Trojan Horse.
"I
cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give
you the formula for failure -- which is: Try to please
everybody." ~ Herbert Bayard Swope
Pharmaceutical Facts
$ According to industry estimates,
drug companies spent $15.7 billion dollars on promotion
in 2000, up from $13.9 billion in 1999. (IMS Health)
$ Sixty million "details" were
made by 83,000 drug reps in the year 2000. Astra-Zeneca
added 1,300 reps solely to promote Nexium. (Scott-Levin Consulting)
$ $7.2 billion dollars worth
of free samples were distributed in the year 2000. (IMS Health)
$ The "Research-based" pharmaceutical
industry spends more on promotion and administration than
it does on research and development. (Families USA)
$ Drug costs increased 18.8%
to $131.9 billion dollars in 2000. Over a third of this
increase was due to a shift to the use of more expensive
drugs. (National Institute for
Health Care Management)
$ Two and one-half billion
dollars were spent on advertising to consumers in 2000,
a 35% increase from 1999; $468 million dollars were spent
on journal ads. (NIHCM)
$ Increases in the sales
of the 50 drugs most heavily advertised to consumers were
responsible for almost half (47.8%) of the $20.8 billion
increase in spending in 2000.(NIHCM)
$ In 2000, Merck spent $161
million on advertising for Vioxx. That is more than Pepsico
spent advertising Pepsi. ($125 million), and more than Anheuser-Busch
spent advertising Budweiser.($146 million) (NIHCM)
$ The increase in Vioxx sales
in 2000 accounted for 5.7% of the 1 year increase in drug
spending. (NIHCM)
$ Since 1995, R&D staff
of U.S. brand name drug companies have decreased by 2%,
while marketing staff have increased by 59%. Currently,
22% of staff are employed in research and development, while
39% are in marketing. (PhRMA Industry
Profile 2000)
$ In a study by Avorn, et
al, forty-six per-cent of physicians reported that drug
reps are moderately to very important in influencing their
prescribing habits (Amer Journal
of Med, 1982).
$ A study by Chew, et al
(JGIM, 2000),
found that in the treatment of hypertension, over 90% of
physicians would dispense a sample that differed from their
preferred drug choice.
$ A study by Westfall, et
al (JAMA,
1997), found that 96% of physicians and staff had taken
samples for personal or family use in the preceding year.
$ The AMA generates $20 million
in annual income by selling detailed personal and professional
information on all doctors practicing in the United States
to the pharmaceutical industry (NY
Times, November 16, 2000)
Naturopathy Made Illegal in Florida -- Threat
for Other States
Bill
HB 591, which was accepted in Florida in 2000, makes any
practice of naturopathic medicine illegal. While the area
was unregulated for many years, this bill requires that
people practicing a health care profession without a license
get a minimum fine of $1000 and one year in prison.
So
what, in Florida, is defined as practicing a health care
profession? The law defines it as "…the use and practice
of psychological, mechanical, and material health sciences
to aid in purifying, cleansing, and normalizing human tissues
for the preservation or restoration of health, according
to the fundamental principles of anatomy, physiology, and
applied psychology, as may be required. Naturopathic practice
employs, among other agencies, phytotherapy, dietetics,
psychotherapy, suggestotherapy, hydrotherapy, zone therapy,
biochemistry, external applications, electrotherapy, mechanotherapy,
mechanical and electrical appliances, hygiene, first aid,
sanitation and heliotherapy…"
As
you can see, pretty much anything could be considered "practicing
a health care profession" under this law -- even giving
first aid! It opens the door for arbitrary prosecution of
anyone in the field. Meanwhile, there are only 6 licensed
naturopaths left that were licensed under an old law before
1959....
For
more information and to find out what you can do go here:
http://www.naturalhealth.org/index.shtml
Overweight,
Inactivity and Higher Cancer Risk
Research
has shown that overweight, inactive individuals have higher
risk for many cancers, but a clear biological explanation
for exactly why this is so has been more elusive.
Now, however,
one likely reason is beginning to emerge from the research.
It has been
shown that being overweight and inactive can cause the body
to secrete higher and higher amounts of insulin and other
growth factors.
Cells exposed
to high levels of these substances over an extended period
of time may begin to reproduce so quickly that cancer becomes
more likely.
But researchers
at the American Institute for Cancer Research stress that
this potentially dangerous condition is reversible.
--Regular
physical activity can help reset the body's hormonal systems
and regulate the secretion of insulin.
--Losing
weight and keeping it off also helps restore insulin levels
to normal.
As research
continues, scientists will likely identify additional biological
reasons that excess weight and inactivity increase risk.
It is already clear, however, that diet, physical activity
and weight management play key roles in cancer prevention.
The secret of maximum health? "The
last resort", this is what Natural Hygiene has been called.
- Why? - Because so many people, who are sick or overweight,
and have tried everything else without success, - finally
end up here, and usually manage to solve their problems. The
secret? - trust the body, let the body heal without interfering.
Plus an optimal environment: the best food, sleep and exercise.
Does that sound too simple?.
RESTAURANT
MEALS BUSTING BUTTONS
Meals often
five times larger than healthy servings
By Karen
Collins, R.D. (MSNBC Contributor)
June 7 – Studies
show that as people eat out more often, their calorie consumption
goes up. This is probably due not just to what we order,
but also how much. New research shows that restaurant portion
sizes have grown markedly, with amounts two to five or more
times larger than the “standard” serving size.
According
to government studies, adult calorie consumption increased
about 200 calories a day from the late 1970x to the mid-1990s. Although
this increase may be due to many changes in our eating patterns,
a study in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association
shows that more frequent eating out or ordering take-out
is linked with higher daily calorie and fat consumption.
Portion
sizes in fast food, take-out and family-type restaurants
were studied by researchers at New York University and reported
in a recent American Journal of Public Health. Many of
the restaurant portions were substantially larger than the
standard serving sizes used in government nutrition recommendations
like the Food Guide Pyramid.
WANNA COOKIE---OR SEVEN?
The average bagel was double the standard
serving, steak was more than double, a muffin was three times
larger, pasta was equal to almost five standard servings,
and cookies were an astonishing seven times the standard serving
size.
Portions
larger than a standard serving are not always a problem. For
example,one way to reach the health goal of five to 10 servings
of fruits and vegetables is to include in your meal a portion
equal to two (or even three) servings. Unfortunately, portion
sizes of fruits and vegetables in restaurants were not noted
in the NYU report. But experience tells us these foods
are often served in restaurant meals as garnish—or not even
included.
Grain products
like bread, rice and pasta would not be at all inappropriate
in a one-cup portion (equal to two standard servings). But
when a portion of pasta is almost five standard servings,
or when meat is twice the recommended serving size and eating
one cookie is really like eating seven, the problem with
frequent restaurant eating becomes obvious. When calorie
consumption increases, the nutritional proportion of healthy
foods is probably toppled.
It wasn’t
always this way. Researchers in the NYU study also looked
at how portions at these restaurants have changed over the
years. Today’s French fry, burger and soda portions are
about two to five times the portions originally served. The
number of large-sized portions has increased more than ten-fold
in the last 30 years.
SAY “NO” TO SUPER-SIZES
This trend ins a U.S. phenomenon. A “large” portion
in Europe is smaller than a “large” in America. In this country,
the food industry promotes larger portions as bargains that
give you more for your money. But while larger servings may
cost less per ounce, eating more than you really need is not
a good deal.
When a range
of portions is offered, the “small” size of virtually everything
is usually the best choice—except for vegetables. Remember
that even a “medium” was once a “large” not too long ago. Observe
Portion sizes, using comparisons like a deck of cards as
a standard meat portion, and an average adult’s fist as
a maximum grain portion.
The key
is to eat portions based on true hunger cues rather than
eating until the plate is empty. Unfortunately, this is
hardest to do when eating “on the run,” the very time that
much of our fast food and take-out eating is done.
??? ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE ??? Will someone
please explain to me how the practice of 'Natural Medicine',
which has been around for over 3000 years, is now called "ALTERNATIVE",
while the practice of 'Allopathic Medicine', which has
existed for less than a century, is officially referred
to as "TRADITIONAL"?
Am I missing something
here?
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