Blessings
Everyone!
This newsletter is written in a
narrative format. The narrative will be in the print face you are reading now,
and articles will be in
this print face with titles like:
This.
I spent 19 days on the road,
meeting and interviewing people, taking pictures, and just seeing this land.
We hope you'll enjoy this newsletter. If you don't wish to read the narrative,
we still have the table of contents at the beginning as usual. However, if you
read the narrative, you'll find links to all the articles and to all my
pictures.
1.
Meet Dr Burzynski - Fought the FDA and Medical Boards for
17 years, won; his cancer cure is slowly being approved.
2.
Antineoplastons - The NON toxic Burzynski cure that works at the
genetic level. FDA monitored Phase II trials were a huge success.
3.
Aminocare - Burzynski's supplement, creams, and lotions
that prevent cancer, help the body heal, and reverse aging at the genetic level.
4.
My Trip - Nature pictures from Oklahoma, thru Texas, New
Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Northern California, Oregon, Wyoming, and South Dakota;
additionally, we've posted more nature pix in our
Fruits of the Earth
series.
5.
Omegasentials Baking Contest - with recipes you can make
tonight: Muffins and Cookies.
6.
New M&M Colors - more ways to waste your money on
nonexistent cures and force children into slave labor. You can do something
about this.
7.
Master’s Miracle Update - Dietary supplement subject of
warning.
8.
Drug's Success in Fighting Cancer Stuns Doctors - another
accidental discovery.
9.
The Placebo Effect - Two German researchers find out is
doesn't really exist. Don't get me wrong; the power of the mind has been shown
to heal illnesses, but this does not, in any way, prove to be the placebo effect
discussed in the medical journals.
10.
Civil War Medicine - We
are lucky enough to get this article from a great physician and medical
historian. You history buffs will love this one.
11.
Essential Oil Update - Doctors, no less, find they work.
12.
Dr Chachoua Update - You can NOW get his therapy for
Cancer, Heart Disease, and HIV/AIDS.
13.
Cansema Update - The maker has been jailed.
14.
New Cancer Treatment Causes Fewer Side Effects - We told
you about this in 2000.
15.
White House Weakens EPA Cancer Safeguards to Protect Chemical
Industry Instead of Children
16.
Shampoos Contain Toxins Linked To Nerve Damage - Just
our toxic environment.
17.
The Slow Poisoning of America - We'll review his book
soon.
18.
Cancer's Natural Enemy -
Book Review; everything you need to know about Oleander, and more!
19.
Fear Cancer No More - Book
Review; for anyone touched by cancer.
20.
This Just In: One More Statin Drug Side Effect - Just a bit
of brain damage; that's all.
21.
This Just In: White Flour and Alloxan - Alloxan is a
chemical used by scientists to cause diabetes in rats so they can study them.
22.
This Just In: Diet Soda Users Gain Weight - Well, we told
you this long ago.
23.
Codex Update - It's later than you think.
24.
Tidbits - Three articles on the pharmaceutical industry,
news from the Organic Consumers Association, and more.
25.
Laughter is the Best Medicine
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When you run a farm, no matter how large (or small), it’s
hard to get away for even a few days.
I took off on a three week road trip on the 18th
of April. My neighbors were to watch my home. Since I have chickens, I left one
dog at home to protect them, and took the other two (Misha and Bruiser) along.
I headed south to meet with the famous
Dr Stanislaus
Burzynski. We had an interview planned for Thursday (Friday he’d be leaving for
Europe for an international cancer convention).
Sadly, just after leaving
Minnesota, I found out that Ahzoova, my old dog I'd left behind to watch the
chickens, had passed away. She was getting weaker just previous to my trip. She
didn't even want to ride along with us on trips to town. I had a feeling she'd
be leaving us soon. I've made a little page in her memory:
Ahzoova.
At home, in Minnesota, we’d hardly started our spring yet.
There were no leaves on the trees and just a few spring flowers had blossomed. I
left in the middle of the night and the sun began to rise passing through Missouri. By Oklahoma, it was mid day and spring flowers began to show up everywhere.
The first thing I noticed that really stood out was a very
strange tree that had no leaves, but was full of blossoms. I stopped into a
welcome area in Oklahoma and they told me it was called a Red Bud.
To view a larger version of the pix posted here, just click
on the picture. To view them all (pix taken on the entire trip) click on the
link
Trip Pix
or go to the table of contents above.
When I got to Texas, I quickly learned that Texans love Lady
Bird Johnson. She pressed for the federal government to pay for planting wild
flower seeds in Texas. And though I did not get to those locations that are
filled with Texas wild flowers, I did find a few locations where they were
scattered about.
My first and most important stop was in Texas. I was going
to interview the famous Dr Stanislaw Burzynski, MD, PhD. I’d interviewed him by
telephone in 1994, at a time when he was under attack by everyone in the
medical industry. There are a lot of web sites calling his therapy quackery.
Yet today, the FDA is monitoring his work, his studies, and has already approved
a drug created from this research.
You can go here (Dr Burzynski)
to read about him and his work, and go here to read about his
Antineoplastons (they are referenced in our
Alternative Cancer Therapies).
Additionally, you will read how Dr Burzynski created a supplement to prevent
cancer, and a lot more. He's working at the genetic level, safely I might add,
and he's also created a cream that reversed wrinkles at the genetic level.
Simply the Best is now carrying his products.
I also was invited in to do a photo shoot by a lovely woman
I’d met on the web. They are at my
PhotoArt
site, but they do contain nudity, so if that bothers you, don’t go there. They
are Rave’s Slide Show.
Some of the shots were so good, I got excited and forgot I was 55 years old. I
went jumping on a trampoline in her back yard, slipped, and landed on my butt. I
jammed my coccyx. Needless to say, the prospect of driving another eight
thousand miles with a sore butt was not appealing.
I took some portraits along
the way and have added some of them
to my portraits web page. The slide show can be seen at:
Portraits (slide show). However, before you go to a slide
show, please read the Slide Show help I’ve created here:
Microsoft Slide Show
Help. This is mainly because some pix don’t show up and there is no help once
you get there.
After Texas I headed for
New Mexico to visit a cousin. On the way
I stopped in to meet some readers of the
International Wellness Directory. We had sandwiches, and while eating, they told me that
they were using my recipe for mayo. It tasted a bit different from mine, and so
we discussed how they had made it.
I had to laugh. My recipes are made by a bachelor. We don’t’
measure things like housewives. You’ll never hear a housewife say, “That’s good
enough for government work.”
When it came to measuring honey, they filled a tablespoon to
the top, whereas I dip my tablespoon into my gallon bucket and then scrape the
entire glob into the recipe. My tablespoons are closer to two tablespoons. So, I’ve had to rewrite our
mayo recipe. Click here:
Mayo
(with Coconut Oil) and
Mayo
(without).
Oh, and I’ve also learned to add a little more lemon juice
(with the extra honey) and the Mayo has stayed fresh for about 6 – 7 weeks. And
it’s very flavorful.
Speaking of recipes, I’ve had to create some recipes using
Omegasentials. Those who have read about Omegasentials know that it is not just
flax oil, but that the inventor, even though he is a vegan, has added fish oils. Fish oils are needed by the
brain. In adults they help with mental stability (avoiding depression) and in
the young (and in the fetus during the last trimester) they promote brain
development. So, long story short, I have a friend giving birth who doesn’t eat
fish and wasn’t taking her supplements, so I went out and invented a cookie and
a muffin using Omegasentials.
Here are the recipes (OmegaSweets) and here is a NEW contest
just for our readers.
Omegasentials Baking Contest
We are giving
away THREE BAGS of Omegasentials to the winner. Bake something up, wrap it
well, and ship it overnight (along with the recipe) to:
International Wellness Directory
36644 Hastings St NE
Stanchfield, MN 55080
The wining entry will be chosen by taste,
creativity, and ease of baking (the more complicated, the less people will make
it).
Rules: no recipe will be cooked at a
temperature over 345. At temperatures over 350, you’ve just destroyed the oils.
The muffins I made (Banana Chocolate
Chip Omega-Muffins) were started at 345 until they started to rise, and then
I dropped the temp to 325. Cookies will cook at 325; just have to cook them
longer.
Deadline for the
contest is November 1st, 2005.
So, create your cookies, cakes, muffins, bars and send them
to us. You do NOT have to use healthy organic ingredients, but when we publish
the recipes, we will modify the recipe to make sure all ingredients are healthy,
organic, and free trade. For example, if you use chocolate, we will not promote
the chocolate industry that puts children under the shackles of slave labor.
Which reminds me: M&Ms has a new campaign for breast
cancer circulating on the web:
New M&M
Colors
Pass this on to all of your friends. There are
many women out there who have breast cancer. Lets do all we can to support this
cause. New Pink & White M&M's
The maker of M&M candies has teamed up with
the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation to raise funds through the sale of their new
"pink & white" M&M candies.
For each 8-ounce bag of the special candies
sold, the makers of M&M (Masterfoods) will donate 50 cents to the foundation. The next time you want a treat, please pick up a bag (now sold in stores nationwide) - you will be donating to a great cause and satisfying your sweet tooth.
Please pass on to all your family and friends.
-- Thank you.
Every
economic decision we make is also a moral decision.
I have news for you. The chocolate in M&Ms comes from
the Ivory Coasts where children are sold into slavery to satisfy your sweet
tooth. A conservative friend of mine tells me that it’s better than the rest of
their country who are not working, because they’re all starving.
So? We fight starvation with child slavery? I’m sure that
for more civilized thinkers, there are better solutions.
Next, M&Ms have artificial colors. Artificial colors,
according to Andrew Weil, create changes at a cellular level that can cause
cells to reproduce outside their programming; such as cancer cells.
The Susan G Koman Breast Cancer Foundation has never given a
dime to Dr Burzynski, who is actually curing breast cancer.
AND YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS
Urge M&M/Mars to Sell Fair Trade Certified Chocolate
Petition: http://www.care2.com/go/z/19164
There's nothing sweet about child slavery.
Companies like M&M/Mars, the world's biggest chocolate
company, make huge profits selling chocolate. Their products are favorites
among children around the world. However, chocolate is no treat for the
hundreds of thousands of child cocoa laborers who work on their poor families'
farms or even as slaves on cocoa farms far from home.
The U.S. chocolate industry has agreed to work to end child
slavery by 2005, but their plan involves "voluntary standards" and
does not guarantee fair and stable cocoa prices, which is the only way to end
child slavery and exploitation for good.
The solution? Fair trade. Fair trade guarantees a minimum
price per pound (a living wage), prohibits abusive child labor and forced
labor, requires independent monitoring, and promotes environmental
sustainability. But M&M/Mars has refused to sell Fair Trade Certified
chocolate.
Chocolate lovers everywhere - we have the power to make a
real difference in the lives of poor children in cocoa-producing nations!
Please urge M&M/Mars to do the right thing, and commit to selling Fair
Trade Certified chocolate:
http://www.care2.com/go/z/19164
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/427833777?z00m=25083&z00m=25083
Every
economic decision we make is also a moral decision.
Once into New Mexico, I
just had to stop and see the Billy the Kid Museum. It was there that I found an
old undertaker's bag, dentist's chair, and some liniment for animals. I then
asked if they had any more old medical stuff (for our articles
on the history of medicine) and they said at the
Old Fort Sumner Museum,
where Billy the Kid's grave is located, that there might be some more medical
devices.
When I got there, they told
me no cameras allowed. So I negotiated: I offered to post the link to their
museum (above) if they'd let me photograph their medical devices, pills, etc.
They agreed. However, to determine what all these things are that I
photographed, we'll have to wait till I have them all checked out by my brother
(physician) who warned me that in the museums he's been to, what you'll find are
mainly abortion tools since that was among the most common medical procedures
performed in the 19th century.
I found some interesting
medicines (one with mercury still used into the 20th century and quite toxic)
and devices and such. I enjoy museums; took some pictures of Billy's grave (the
stone has been stolen so many times that they've finally had to put a cage
around it), and then got back in the car and headed to visit a cousin.
I had a chance to meet some cousins I’d never
met who were now living in New Mexico. One, a young man of 20 or so, was in college and had just taken up tennis 4 weeks earlier to play
me. Since
he comes from a very athletic family
(and will continue on teaching athletics)
he had gotten pretty good in that time. He enjoyed playing with me because he
felt he could actually learn something. He’d not yet played anyone who was any good.
I enjoyed the games, but by the fourth game, my lungs
exploded. That was when my cousin told me that we were over a mile high. I knew
I wasn’t THAT out of shape.
By the second game of the first set, I had to quit. I
couldn’t catch my breath, I was dizzy, and I have never in this life felt so
exhausted.
I also got to meet my
cousin Peg and her family (on the right). Her dad was a fisherman from Alaska.
We'd connected up years earlier in Southern California, but I'd never met any of
his kids till this trip.
I knew that tennis, walking,
and any
movement was good for my jammed coccyx, but driving was unbelievably painful. The day after tennis the pain was so bad, I went to a chiropractor.
I also found a cushion to sit
on that made driving somewhat comfortable. When I got back on the road, I headed
for Arizona where I immediately went to the VA Hospital. They took x-rays and told me, “Oooo, I’ll bet that
hurts.”
All they could do for me was give me drugs. I asked for a
“donut” pillow, but they weren’t on hand and when I arrived home two weeks
later, one was there waiting for me though I no longer needed it. I asked if there was anyone at the hospital
who did manipulative medicine, but nothing. They could do surgery, un-jam it,
and then sew me up and send me home, but no manipulation.
So, a chiropractor friend online told me to find someone who
did Logan Basic. I went online and found one who was still at his office. I
went to see him. First he put heat, then cold over the area, and then he hooked me up to
some electrodes. I’d never had the electrodes before. He stuck an electrode on each
cheek, and began turning up the juice till my butt started to applaud. After
about fifteen to twenty minutes on the electrodes, he manipulated me and taught me a stretching exercise.
The pain improved a thousand percent. I went back four days later on my way out
of town. This guy really helped.
In Arizona, Nevada, and Southern California, the desert was
alive with flowers. They’d had a very rainy winter
and flowers were
blooming all over. The only spring flowers I missed in Arizona where of that cactus (saguaro) that
looks like it’s making a right turn. However, I did see one white flower atop
one saguaro cactus from a distance. They bloom in May, and I was in AZ in April.
I stayed w/ friends I’d met on the web there. I asked one to
please write me up her story. She has been through so many medical disasters,
it’s a miracle that she’s alive today. They gave her antibiotics in her first
year so she has asthma. They gave her tetracycline too early in life, and it
turned her teeth grey. She’s had back surgery after back surgery, and even a
hip replacement that left one leg shorter than the other. Some day I want her
story printed here.
While in Arizona I got two article sent to me of interest to
our readers.
The first is a Master’s Miracle update.
Master’s
Miracle Update
Dietary
supplement subject of warning
A
health products company warned Wednesday that some of its dietary supplements
may be contaminated with bacteria that can cause blindness.
The
Master's Miracle Inc., based in Minneapolis, said its Fortified Mineral
Neutralizer and Ultra Fortified Mineral Neutralizer dietary supplements are at
risk of bacterial contamination. According to the Food and Drug Administration,
some Master's Miracle distributors have been promoting the use of the
supplements in people's eyes. If the contaminated product comes in contact with
the eyes, it could lead to serious injury, including blindness.
The
FDA also said the supplements do not meet FDA sterility standards for eye products
and that they should not be used or marketed that way.
The
supplements come in 8-ounce, 20-ounce and 1-gallon size containers and are sold
nationwide.
—
Associated Press
We have to keep in mind that the FDA is not the most
truthful organization in the world. We here do not promote Master’s Miracle
because they left behind the original manufacturer to make their own products.
The original products had years of testimonials behind them, and no problems
such as those mentioned by the AP article. We don’t know if the FDA is lying or
not, but we just thought we’d pass this on to you.
In addition to trip photos,
I've posted more photos in our Fruits of the Earth series; photos from last year
that I never got around to posting. You can visit them here:
Fruits of the Earth, Page 5.
Drug's
Success in Fighting Cancer Stuns Doctors
Medicine First Used to Treat Symptoms of Blood Disorder
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP
ORLANDO, Fla. (May 16) - No one could have been more surprised than the doctors
themselves. They were just hoping to relieve the symptoms of a deadly blood
disorder - and ended up treating the disease itself. In nearly half of the
people who took the experimental drug, the cancer became undetectable.
Specialists said Revlimid now looks like a
breakthrough and the first effective treatment for many people with
myelodysplastic syndrome, or MDS, which is even more common than leukemia.
''It may be, if not eradicating the disease,
putting it into what I would call deep remission,'' said Dr. David Johnson, a
cancer specialist at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center who is familiar with but
had no role in the research.
Revlimid ''is not yet on the market but almost
certainly will be'' because of these findings, he said.
MDS refers to a group of disorders caused by
the bone marrow not making enough healthy, mature blood cells. About 15,000 to
20,000 new cases are diagnosed each year in the United States, and as many as
50,000 Americans have it now. They usually suffer anemia and fatigue and need
blood transfusions about every eight weeks to stay alive.
''It's a serious problem, it tends to occur in
older people, and it's fatal for most,'' said Dr. Herman Kattlove, a blood
disorder specialist at the American Cancer Society.
Revlimid is similar to thalidomide, a drug
notorious for the birth defects it caused decades ago but that in recent years
has proved effective against another blood cancer, multiple myeloma. Researchers
don't really know how it works other than that it boosts the immune system in a
number of ways.
In small studies, Revlimid also showed promise and with far fewer side effects.
In a new study, doctors tested it on 115 people with MDS who have the most
common chromosome abnormality that causes the disease.
After about six months on the drug, 66 percent
no longer needed blood transfusions, said the study's leader, Dr. Alan List of
the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla. A year later, three-fourths of
them still don't need transfusions.
But the big surprise was that signs of the
genetic mutation fueling the disease diminished in 81 patients and vanished in
51.
''The chromosome abnormality completely
disappeared, something we've never seen before'' from a drug aimed just at
boosting red blood cells, List said.
Dr. Bruce Johnson of the Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute in Boston compared it with what doctors saw in early tests of the drug
Gleevec on people with chronic myelogenous leukemia several years ago.
''If you extrapolate what they saw, it's one
of the signs for long remission,'' he said of the abnormality's disappearance.
Dr. Jasmine Zain, a blood specialist from the
City of Hope Cancer Center in New York, said the results warrant further testing
on the drug.
''Nowhere do you see 60 to 70 percent
responses,'' she said.
About one-third of people on the drug had
temporary drops in other blood cells and clotting components, fixed by briefly
interrupting treatment or lowering the dose.
The study was sponsored by Celgene Corp.,
which makes Revlimid. List is a consultant for the company and reported results
Sunday at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Orlando.
In other news at the conference:
- A five-year study of cancer care in America
concluded that most people get good care but that quality differs from region to
region.
The oncology society commissioned the study by
Harvard University and the RAND Corporation after a 2000 Institute of Medicine
report said that not all Americans were getting good cancer care and that this
seemed to be a substantial problem.
Researchers measured more than 100 factors
affecting breast and colon cancer care, such as whether women were appropriately
prescribed tamoxifen and whether radiation doses were correct. They concluded
that 86 percent of people with breast cancer and 78 percent with colon cancer
got good care, higher than what other studies have found for other diseases.
However, ''these numbers range all over the
place'' for the five cities studied - Atlanta, Cleveland, Houston, Kansas City
and Los Angeles - said Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a National Institutes of Health
physician who headed the study. (Individual measures for each city were not
released).
- Another study found that surgery and
follow-up tests for stomach cancer are inadequate in most U.S. hospitals. Three
out of four patients don't have enough lymph nodes removed to check for cancer,
and this made a big impact on survival rates, said Dr. Natalie Coburn of
Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto who used a federal cancer database for her
study.
Five-year survival was more than twice as high
in Hawaii than in Utah, where surgery was poorest.
''I'm not suggesting you fly from Utah to
Hawaii to have your surgery done,'' but patients need to know the qualifications
of their surgeon, said Dr. David Johnson, who is president of the oncology
society.
''If that's true for gastric cancer, we know
it's true for other cancers like lung surgery, breast surgery and the like,'' he
added.
Nearly 22,000 new cases of stomach cancer and
11,550 deaths are expected in the United States this year.
05-16-05 10:25EDT
I left Arizona to drive up thru Nevada to Reno and then cut over to San Francisco. Eastern Nevada is desert. Most of the little towns along the way make more money off
speeders than any other business. You’re traveling along at 65-70 miles per
hour, and then this two shack, one horse town suddenly appears posting a 25 MPH speed
limit. Let me tell you, 26 mph will get you pulled over.
There was very little to see in most of
Nevada beyond the Joshua trees and the colorful flowers in the southern desert.
Again, the rain just flooded this area and the Mojave desert in Southern
California and the flowers were spectacular. For miles and miles, the long hot
roads passed through a truly painted desert. No matter where we stopped, we
found blossoms. That is, until we left the southern area 
and began getting into
northern Nevada. Suddenly it was hot with nothing to see but an occasional
"ranch."
While driving, I often thought of things
that would have to go into this newsletter. Since I read studies all the time
and have always been fascinated about the placebo effect, I decided to do a
little more research on it. I discovered that all we believe about it was
created by one person in one paper published a long, long time ago. So...read on:
___________________________
HEALTH – SCIENTISTS PRESSURED
TO APPROVE DRUGS DESPITE RESERVATIONS: The
Washington Post reports, "almost one-fifth of the Food
and Drug Administration scientists surveyed two years
ago as part of an official review said they had been
pressured to recommend approval of a new drug despite
reservations about its safety, effectiveness or quality."
The survey also found "a majority had significant doubts
about the adequacy of federal programs to monitor
prescription drugs once they are on the market" and
"more than a third were not particularly confident of
the agency's ability to assess the safety of a drug."
The findings "appear to support some portions of the
controversial Senate testimony last month by FDA safety
officer David J. Graham."
___________________________________
The
Placebo Effect
Everywhere you go, you read about the Placebo Effect. The
QuackPots (Quackwatch/Debunkers) want to tell us that the only reason things outside conventional
medicine work is the placebo effect, only.
Traditionally, the placebo effect has been set at 25 to 30%.
However, when trying to explain how something works when it’s not supposed to
work, I’ve seen figures of 40 to 80%, and some tell me that even 100% of the
control group experienced this Placebo Effect.
The first time the Placebo Effect was ever described was in
a paper in the Journal of the American Medical association in 1955, “The
Powerful Placebo,” by a physician named Henrey K Beecher. He claimed that
people who took the placebo would respond favorably about 35% of the time due
to the power of suggestion.
Since then, physicians everywhere attributed anyone getting
better by using an herb, a vitamin regimen, or something outside of the current
convention to the placebo effect.
It’s funny how quickly the Placebo Effect was accepted by
conventional medicine, and never once tested. All studies since have simply
assumed that those getting better who were on a placebo were simply part of
this placebo effect. Did anyone ever think that people sometimes get better on
their own? Did anyone ever test to see if another control group taking nothing
got better?
In the late 1980s, a German team set out to test the placebo
effect. They first examined Beecher’s work and even found that the good doctor
had claimed to have found his Placebo Effect in studies that had not even used
a placebo.
Drs Kienle and Kiene examined some 800 papers and concluded
that . . .
The conclusion has startled many researchers.
Modern
medicine has still not accepted their findings, but they demonstrated that the
placebo effect is “unfounded and grossly overrated, if not entirely false” to
the point of being illusory.
Again, in 1996, they published their results in Alternative
Therapy Health Medicine 2:39-54, 1996
People sometimes just get better no matter what they do. The
human body is an amazing piece of machinery. If you want to test the placebo
effect, you really must have a group that takes nothing, and gets nothing.
Perhaps a group like the one mentioned in the article: Cardiovascular Fraud:
From JAMA, we found the results of the Multiple Risk Factor
Intervention Trial, in which nearly 13,000 men aged 35 to 57, were randomly
assigned to one of two groups. One group would get absolutely nothing. The
other group, the experimental group, got “stepped-care’ treatment for
hypertension, counseling for cigarette smoking, and dietary advice for lowering
blood cholesterol levels, or to their usual sources of health care in the
community. [JAMA. 1982 Sep 24;248(12):1465-77]
The results of the study are still being debated, for you
see, in both groups, risk factor levels declined over a seven year period, with
the difference in mortality from cardiovascular disease being statistically
insignificant. The study group had fewer deaths by heart attack, 17.9 deaths
per 1000 people, than the control group that had 19.3 per 1000. The truly
interesting fact squeezed from this study concerns the overall mortality rate
of both groups, because the people in the control group actually lived longer.
And:
A similar study conducted in Finland took nearly 3,500
business executives with at least one cardiovascular risk and put them into two
groups. The control group got nothing while the experimental group got visits
from counselors who promoted dietetic-hygienic measures and monitored cholesterol
lowering measures as well as blood pressure medicines. Again, fifteen years
later, the results showed that the control group had fewer deaths during the
study period. [Journal Watch September 10, 1991].
Some people just get better on their own.
References; [Kienle, GS, Keine H, The powerful placebo effect: fact of
fiction? J Clinical Epidemiology 50: 1311-18, 1987]
Once inside California, I
knew I had to head for San Francisco to meet with old friends, new friends and
pick up my email. Oh yes, and have some sushi. It's three times cheaper there
than in Minnesota.
One of the emails I
received was permission from the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in
Frederick, Maryland to use an image in an article sent to me by a great
physician and medical historian. The article is called:
Civil War Medicine. The
author told me there the two most researched subjects on this planet are Jesus
Christ and the American Civil War.
Oh, here is an article that
was sent to me in my email. We've talked a lot about
essential oils and their properties.
This just goes to show you that what we've learned from history, doctors are
just starting to learn in studies.
Essential
Oil Update
Doctors find they work! Way to go,
Doctors!
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Applying certain essential oils to
the ear canal appears to be an effective treatment for ear infections, findings
from an animal study suggest.
"If toxicity
studies confirm the safety of (anti-bacterial) essential oil components for use
in the ear, then a significant advance can be made" in the treatment of
ear infections, the investigators conclude in the Journal of Infectious
Diseases.
The vapors that
are released by essential oils, such as oil of basil, have been shown to have
rapid bacteria-killing effects.
Topical therapy for ear
infections is usually not recommended because most drugs are in a liquid form
that cannot penetrate the eardrum to reach the infected middle ear. However,
the vapors from essential oils may be able to diffuse through the eardrum and
destroy the microbes present.
To investigate,
Dr. Karl G. Kristinsson, from Landspitali University Hospital in Reykjavik, Iceland, and colleagues tested oil of basil, various essential oil components,
and inactive "placebo" on rats
with experimental ear infections.
Treatment with the
oils cured up to 81 percent of the animals. With placebo, by contrast, cure
rates did not exceed 6 percent.
The team notes that
based on their properties, essential oils may be able to destroy a variety of
bacteria that can cause ear infections. They also point out that essential oils
are generally considered to be safe.
SOURCE: Journal of Infectious
Diseases, June 1, 2005.
Copyright © 2005 Reuters Limited.
It's impossible to find a
parking space in San Francisco. The ride into town had been so long and tedious
with bumper to bumper nonsense, that the first thing we did was go looking for a
park where the pups could play Frisbee and relieve themselves. The park we
eventually found was the highest ground in the city. Both
Bruiser and Misha are
very well trained and do not need leashes, but we didn't want to start any
trouble in SF, so I had to leash them, only to find out that most of the dogs
run free there. So we reached the top of the park and played Frisbee with other
dogs joining in. The pups made a lot of friends, and one standard poodle, a
male, really liked Bruiser and kept mounting the poor guy. His owner kept
telling him to get off, but to no avail. I turned to her and said, "Well, if
you're going to have your first gay experience, I suppose San Francisco is the
place."
She agreed.
Dr
Chachoua
Update
For those of you who do not know who Dr Sam
Chachoua is, you need to read this article:
The Truth Will Set You Free.
Dr San Chachoua is in good health and is away
researching another theory he's come up with. However, his therapies for
HIV/AIDS, Heart Disease, and Cancer are now available. All you need is a
physician willing to administer it.
The price is $10,000.00 per therapy. Each
therapy is administered in seven injections over a 15 day period. People with
cardiovascular disease report that they begin to feel better within minutes of
the first injections.
If you want to discuss this, ask questions, or
order the therapy, contact Gilbert at
phbal@msn.com.
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Quotation of the Year
In Praise of
America
"The Americans brought electricity to my ass before they
brought it to my house." Iraqi citizen being interviewed
after his release from Abu Ghraib.
________________________________________
In the San
Francisco area I got to meet friends I'd only known online, meet an old friend
I'd known in Israel, and play tennis with an old friend. The last time we'd
played tennis was in 1978.
Then I headed
north to see the redwoods. I know that, as a photographer, it is nearly
impossible to capture the magnificence of the redwoods. One needs a helicopter
and an Imax camera.
I
arrived in the evening and had to just get out and walk among the giants. The
pups ran happily among them. That evening, I went to sleep secretly praying for
fog in the morning. I figured only with a the trees in a light fog could I
really capture them.
In the
morning, there was fog. We drove up the Avenue of the Giants and spent the
better part of the day, just driving, and stopping to look around, and then back
in the car to find another scenic area.
Cansema Update
This letter is going out to all customers of
Alpha Omega, the makers of Cansema:
Dear Alpha Omega Customer,
Thank you for your order or information request, however, we are unable to sell
or ship any of our products at this time. The FDA has taken our products, our
ingredients, our files and our testimonies. They have destroyed all products,
everything from the Cansema Salve to the Aloe Vera Acemannen. We are unable to
ship to ANY location – we do not have any products and have no resources for
making more at this time. Our herbalist (Greg Caton aka James Carr) is currently
serving 16 months in jail for introduction of a new unapproved drug and mail
fraud charges.
Although we had disclaimers on each page of our web site the FDA considered our
wording as medical claims. Our disclaimer says: “To U.S. Users Only: The
statements made on this page have not been evaluated by the U.S. Food & Drug
Administration. The viewing of this page in your country is for historic and
educational purposes only. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure
or prevent any disease.” We also had offices in Nassau, Bahamas, however – we
were shipping from our Louisiana facility. Because the labels listed our Bahamas
address rather than our Louisiana facility, Greg Caton was charged with mail
fraud. We believe this to be an error, which warrants correction and a possible
fine, but not a reason for Federal Agents to invade our business, warehouses and
the Caton’s home with guns drawn and full body armor as if they were searching
for Tony Montana’s cocaine stash. We ultimately had to shut down our Bahamas
offices due to the Louisiana raid.
Our Story:
At 9:10 a.m. on Wednesday, September 17th, 2003 the Federal Drug Administration
(FDA) suspended all activities at our fulfillment center in Louisiana. The
arrested our herbalist, Greg Caton. They believe that our products are not safe
for human consumption, and have destroyed everything they took from us (an
estimated $100,000 to $200,000 in stock and ingredients).
The FDA claims that we were selling battery acid to our customers (referring to
the H3O). This product has a CAS and a TOSCA number and has been EPA approved
through its manufacturer. Although the H3O tests out analytically as 9.4%
sulfuric acid, it is actually a patented product from California that has been
extensively tested for safety and has OSHA’s approval. It is no more corrosive
than water and is not required to have special labeling when shipped. The
testing that is required for OSHA proves that it is non-caustic and
non-corrosive. In fact, the FDA contacted the man who made the H3O to find out
the best way to dispose of the H3O…they were told with out a missed heartbeat to
“drink it”. Although the FDA didn’t find it amusing, the man was right, it has
been tested at Texas A&M Prairie View and is found to be non-corrosive to man,
plant and animal, because the sulfuric acid is made to be non-corrosive.
In the 10+ years we’ve been in business, we’ve had thousands of satisfied
customers. Not one complaint in 10+ years, and then we received 2 complaints.
The first complaint was from a woman in Texas who claimed her doctor used H3O
internally during surgery and it fused her organs together. We had expert
witnesses testify that this was not possible. All expert witnesses agreed that
her fused organs was most likely from multiple surgeries (an occurrence common
with multiple surgeries), the woman had several surgeries prior to this surgery.
One expert witness said (and I quote): “ I feel the post-operative small bowel
obstruction was the result of pelvic surgery, not the use of the H3O solution.”
The doctor actually used the H3O after surgery to help the healing process and
after an investigation the decision was that the investigation be CLOSED with no
action recommended because the evidence did not indicate a violation of the
Texas Medical Practice Act. Unfortunately our insurance company felt it would be
more cost effective to settle, instead of proving our innocence in court.
The second complaint came from a woman in Indiana. She claimed that Cansema
Salve burned the skin off her nose off. She then stated that it was the H3O that
was the cause of the damage. She did in fact order H3O, but tried to return it 1
& ½ years after ordering stating that she never used it. In her own sworn
testimony she claimed that she never even opened the H3O bottle. She then
claimed that it was Bloodroot Paste from Appalachian Herbal Remedies that was
the cause of her nose falling off. After several sworn and signed affidavits
from the Indiana woman this is what we know:
1. She applied Cansema, she then applied Bloodroot Paste from a different
company altogether.
2. She didn’t have problems until after the application of the Bloodroot Paste
and she picked the skin off of her nose.
3. She never opened H3O although she claims H3O was the cause of the damage to
her nose.
4. She signed a sworn affidavit that didn’t mention H3O, Cansema, Greg Caton or
Alpha Omega Labs at all three days after Greg Caton (owner of Alpha Omega Labs)
plead guilty of introduction of a new unapproved drug. She blamed the entire
incident on Appalachian Herbal Remedies.
5. She also testified that before she applied any of the herbal treatments she
was diagnosed with Cancer. She reports that she is now Cancer Free.
The sad fact is although we had hard evidence that Cansema did not damage this
woman, she did use the product before applying the Bloodroot Paste. Once again
the insurance company felt more comfortable with settling than with going to
court. Everything I have said above is on the record and documented with the
courts.
My last update is regarding Mr. Toby McAdam aka Risingsun Health aka McAdam
Enterprises. We have gotten hundreds of complaints starting from last year about
Mr. McAdam. He claims to have Cansema products and has none. He has tried to
create a product that mimics the creation of Greg Caton but has failed. Upon
doing so, he has cheated hundreds of people out of their money, hopes and in
some cases – their health. I have complaints that he charges customers cards and
then they never receive any products. I also have complaints that he charges
customers cards and after waiting sometimes several months, they get something
that isn’t Alpha Omega’s products at all, and in fact, doesn’t even work. They
believe they are getting Alpha’s products because Mr. McAdam has stolen an
entire copy of our web site. He uses our testimonies, our pictures, Greg Caton’s
words, etc. Nothing is his own. I urge anyone thinking about ordering from
www.bloodrootproducts.com aka
Risingsun Health to please read the following:
http://www.altcancer.com/fake_cansema.htm. Please file any complaints that
you have to www.fraud.org. If you used paypal to purchase your products from
Risingsun, you can also contact
complaint-response@paypal.com.
We continue to pray that the suppression of natural effective herbal treatments
will be unmasked and that people will one day have the right to choose their own
fate. The only company that we know that still has black salve is Two Feathers
Inc. in Reno, NV. You can get their Two Feathers healing formula at
www.healingformula.net. You can also
find alternative products at: www.protocel.com,
www.onconat.com, and
http://www.health.centreforce.com.
The Old Amish Dewormer can be ordered from
wormfree@loganrec.com.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me anytime.
We are also accepting testimonies. If you've used one of our products and would
like to give us feed back about your experience, please write to us at
support@soybean.com.
Tabetha LeDoux
(888) 220-6780
I left the
Redwoods for North Central California, near my alma mater in Chico. I got some
great pix of birds but truly realized that I am NOT a nature photographer. Three
things are needed to be a true nature photographer: lots of time; the patience
of a sniper; and a lens that takes three people to lift. I
have the patience, and I can get by without the lens, but I just didn't' have
the time. I had been on the road for over two weeks and it was time to get home,
so after having lunch with an old friend from college, there was just one more
stop in Oregon and then all the way back to Minnesota.
However,
whenever I cross the mountains, I think back to the first settlers who crossed
them. It makes you wonder what kind of person it takes to do something like
that. We like to think of our CEOs as rugged in day out there in the wilderness.
On the radio some right wingnut was complaining about illegal immigrants. We
tacitly allow them into the country to work jobs that are beneath us. And it hit
me, I'll bet our illegal immigrants could cross these mountains. They want
something and are willing to work for it. I've reached an age where I don't have
the stomach for crossing a mountain pass with a horse and a pack. But for 30
miles of twisty windy mountain roads, I was the Mario Andretti of the Rockies!
New Cancer Treatment Causes
Fewer Side Effects
ABC News published this story
recently about a targeted radiation therapy that is worth viewing:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MedicineCuttingEdge/story?id=468399&page=1
However, we first reported this story in 2000:
NeoRx - A New Approach
to Radiation Therapy
Coming
into Oregon, we left the sun behind in California. I met an old friend there,
and her husband, who took me out to see the sites. I'm still waiting for her to
name all the different trees and flowers they showed me. We went up a few
mountains, fished pumice stones out of a lake (the only stone that floats),
viewed two mountain falls, and discovered wild flowers. We found their favorite
Thai restaurant just before the clouds ripped open and drenched the countryside.
When we got
back to their home, we discovered Misha and Bruiser had escaped, and a neighbor
said
that someone had picked them up when they were running up and down the side
walks. He said that they sat by my car for a while, and then would take off down
the road looking for me, and then return to the car, and then take off again.
Like any parent, I bout freaked. But the person who took them home knew by their
behavior (they did everything she told them to) that someone was missing them,
and she found my home phone on their tags. Long story short, they were returned
and they both trotted into my motel room without looking up at me. They knew
they'd done something wrong.
Cancer's Natural
Enemy
by Tony Isaacs
Your complete guide to
making
Nerium Oleander Extract in your own kitchen.
White House Weakens EPA Cancer Safeguards to Protect
Chemical Industry Instead of Children
White House Inserted Language in Guidelines Making it Easier for Chemical
Industry to Stymie EPA Chemical Reviews
http://www.thecre.com/quality/2005/20050331_quality.htm
WASHINGTON -- March 29 -- The Environmental Protection Agency's new guidelines
for assessing cancer risk from chemical pollutants will give industry too many
opportunities to stifle safeguards that protect children, according to NRDC
(Natural Resources Defense Council).
EPA's guidelines acknowledge, for the first time, that children under 2 years of
age are 10 times more likely to get cancer from certain chemicals than adults
who are similarly exposed. But the White House Office of Management and Budget
undermined that acknowledgment by inserting language in the guidelines that make
it easy for industry to block EPA from following them when assessing
cancer-causing chemicals.
"The White House decided it was more important to protect the chemical industry
than protect our kids from cancer," said Dr. Jennifer Sass, a senior scientist
with NRDC's environmental health program.
The guidelines announced today, which dictate how EPA regulates cancer-causing
chemicals, finalize a draft policy issued by EPA in March 2003. That draft
policy included supplemental guidelines for assessing cancer risks to children.
The guidelines had to go through several rigorous scientific reviews before they
were released today.
EPA's draft guidelines, including the children's supplemental, first passed
through an internal agency review two years ago. The agency's Scientific
Advisory Board reviewed the guidelines and agreed with EPA's conclusion that
early-life exposures to chemical pollutants increase cancer risk. The board
recommended finalizing EPA's draft guidelines as written.
The guidelines then went to the White House Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for scrutiny, where they languished until today. Out of public view, OMB
substantially weakened the guidelines by adding language that will allow the
chemical industry to contest policy decisions more easily, according to NRDC.
Specifically, OMB inserted language allowing for "expert elicitation," opening
the door for any outside party to challenge the way EPA applies the guidelines
to assess chemicals. Such a challenge could slow the agency down for months, if
not years, in making a decision on regulating a cancer-causing chemical,
according to NRDC. OMB further weakened the guidelines by adding language
requiring any EPA cancer evaluation to meet the standards of the Data Quality
Act, a law designed by tobacco industry consultants to quash protective
regulations. By opening the process to relentless industry challenges, said Dr.
Sass, OMB set the bar so high that children will not be adequately protected
from many cancer-causing chemicals.
"The White House took what would have been strong guidelines to protect our
children from cancer and turned them into an industry punching bag," said Dr.
Sass. "Chemical companies will be able to pummel any new safeguard to death. The
chemical industry wins, our children lose."
The Natural Resources Defense Council is a national, nonprofit organization of
scientists, lawyers and environmental specialists dedicated to protecting public
health and the environment. Founded in 1970, NRDC has more than 1 million
members and online activists nationwide, served from offices in New York,
Washington, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
We left Medford, Oregon
heading for Crater Lake. If you've ever seen it, its one of the most beautiful
spots in the entire US.
However, when we got there, we could barely make it out
thru the fog. The snow was 14 to 16 feet high along the roads. We got out,
exercised a bit, and then headed for Wyoming and
the Grand Tetons.
This is the only mountain
chain in the US I'd never seen. I really didn't want to spend too much time on
the road. My coccyx was still in pain. I had to sit funny on a pillow with an
ice pack in the middle of
my butt (I had a cooler of ice and had to exchange ice
packs every few hours). But when I was pulling into the Grand Tetons, I spotted
two Bald Eagles sitting on one branch,
and pulled off the road as far as I could and nearly caused a six car pile-up as
I got my camera out.
The sun came back, the
mountains were truly magnificent, and the wild life was abundant along the
roads. For a lot of pictures, I did not have to get out of the car. It hurt to
get up and out and then back in and I was starting to show the wear of the trip.
When I did get out, I made sure we were in a rest area where the pups could
exercise.
Shampoos Contain Toxins Linked To Nerve Damage
NewsTarget.com
3-11-5
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have found a correlation
between an ingredient found in shampoos and nervous system damage. The
experiments were conducted with the brain cells of rats and they show that
contact with this ingredient called methylisothiazoline, or MIT, causes
neurological damage.
Which products contain this chemical compound MIT? Head and Shoulders, Suave,
Clairol and Pantene Hair Conditioner all contain this ingredient. Researchers
are concerned that exposure to this chemical by pregnant women could put their
fetus at risk for abnormal brain development. In other people, exposure could
also be a factor in the development of Alzheimer's disease and other nervous
system disorders.
The chemical causes these effects by preventing communication between neurons.
Essentially, it slows the networking of neurons, and since the nervous system
and brain function on a system of neural networks, the slowing of this network
will suppress and impair the normal function of the brain and nervous system.
These finding were presented December 5th at the American Society for Cell
Biology annual meeting.
I have frequently warned readers about the dangers of using brand-name personal
care products. The vast majority of these products contain toxic chemical
compounds like MIT that contribute to cancer, liver disorders and neurological
diseases. In fact, this chemical, MIT, is just one of dozens of such chemicals
that are found in personal care products.
Why are these dangerous personal care products allowed to remain on the market?
Because the FDA, which is responsible for regulating these products, spends
almost no time, money or effort actually investigating the safety of such
products. Instead, the FDA spends the vast majority of its time approving new
prescription drugs rather than protecting the public against the dangers from
such drugs or personal care products like shampoos, soaps, deodorants and
fragrance products.
In fact, it may surprise you to learn that manufacturers can put practically any
chemical they want into shampoos, even if it is a hazardous chemical listed in
the RTECS database of toxicity and even if it is considered a toxic waste
chemical by the EPA. The FDA allows all sorts of chemicals to be used in these
products, including chemicals that are known carcinogens and that contribute to
liver failure and nervous system disorders. How's that for protecting public
health?
If you thought prescription drugs were dangerous, just take a look at the toxic
chemicals found in personal care products used by virtually all Americans every
single day. Americans bathe themselves in toxic chemicals and they do it by
buying and using products made by brand name companies that have premier shelf
positioning at convenience stores, grocery stores and discount clubs.
One of the more curious personal care products on the market is Herbal Essences
Shampoo by Clairol. Personally, I think this product is a joke because it's
trying to exploit the word "herbal" to imply that the shampoo is healthy, even
though it is primarily made with the same ingredients as other popular shampoos.
The first three ingredients, for example, are: water, sodium laureth, and sodium
lauryl sulfate. Big deal, huh? You can find the same three ingredients in
99-cent shampoo at Wal-Mart. Plus, the product contains all sorts of other
ingredients that I personally would never allow to touch my skin (like
methylchloroisothiazolinone, if you can believe there's actually a chemical with
a name that long). Think the color of the shampoo is from the herbs? Think
again. Three other ingredients in the shampoo are Yellow #5, Orange #4 and
Violet #2.
In other words, this is a shampoo product purchased by naive consumers, in my
opinion. People who really know herbs and natural products can only laugh at a
product like this. Want a real shampoo? Buy Olive Oil Shampoo from Heritage
Products, available at most natural health stores.
The bottom line to all of this, though, is that every week, it seems like we see
a new announcement about some toxic chemical found in personal care products
that is related to either cancer or neurological disorders. And yet week after
week these products are being sold by retailers and consumed in large quantities
by the American people who remain oblivious to the real damage these products
are causing to their health.
Once again, the solution here is to protect yourself by learning the truth about
these products and switching to products made with safe ingredients. There are
safe shampoos, safe soaps, safe laundry detergents, dishwashing liquids and even
deodorant products. You don't have to expose yourself to toxic chemicals to take
care of personal hygiene, because whether you agree with it or not, these
disease-causing chemicals are going to remain quite legal in the use of personal
care products for many years to come. Why? You can bet that the manufacturers of
these products will fight against any attempt to regulate or outlaw these toxic
chemicals. That's because the chemicals are convenient for such manufacturers.
It's much the same way in which food manufacturers use sodium nitrate in bacon
and other packaged meats. It's all about their convenience rather than
protecting your health.
So, here's the idiot test for today: if I was standing on a street corner with a
bottle of colored liquid, and I told you that liquid contained a toxic chemical
that caused neurological disorders, Alzheimer's disease and birth defects, would
you buy that product from me and scrub it into your scalp under warm water?
Of course not. But if you're buying these popular shampoo products, that's
exactly what you're doing right now. Such is the power of brand marketing in
America.
NewsTarget.com is part of the News Target Network ©2004,2005 All Rights
Reserved.
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Wyoming has an enormously
varied landscape, though most of it is desert. Once past the mountainous area, I
was so tired of driving and just wanted to get home. My speedometer kept telling
me I was doing 90 but it seemed like 25. I had one stop left: Crazy Horse
Monument.
I'd seen it as a kid of 10.
When I arrived I was absolutely amazed at two things: 1. How far the sculpture
had NOT come (Mt Rushmore was built at the speed of light comparatively) and 2.
How large the center had grown. It seems that the memorial has become a central
point for Native
American
history. There is not one nation on Native Americans that has not contributed to
the center. They are building a museum of Native Americana and even have a
school in the back that teaches the ways of the Natives. I was very impressed.
Being our last stop, we
stocked up on puppy treats and coffee and took off thru Custer National Park to
get to the freeway. I was told to watch out for buffalo, but the only ones we
ran into were in a picnic area (no humans to be found).
We found the highway and
put the cruise control up to 80 and sat back. Till we hit the biggest storm
I've ever been in. I was on the phone to a friend who had the Weather Channel
on. She said that the storm I was in stretched from Kansas to the top of North
Dakota. Every once in a while we had to slow down for the two inches of
hail on the road.
After a few hours, we were
past it and heading into Minnesota. We arrived home just in time to tell
everyone that this big storm was heading our way. And it was.
Slow Poisoning Of America [and CANADA]
I wondered if there could be an actual
chemical causing the massive obesity epidemic, so did a friend of mine, John Erb.
He was a research assistant at the
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and spent years working for
the government.
He made an amazing discovery while going
through scientific journals for a book he was writing called /The Slow Poisoning
of America/. In hundreds of studies around the world, scientists were creating
obese mice and rats to use in diet or diabetes test studies.
No strain of rat or mice is naturally obese,
so the scientists have to create them. They make these morbidly obese creatures
by injecting them with MSG when they are first born. The MSG triples the amount
of insulin the pancreas creates, causing rats (and humans?) to become obese they
even have a title for the race of fat rodents they create: "MSG-Treated Rats"
MSG?
I was shocked too. I went to my kitchen,
checking the cupboards and the fridge. MSG was in everything! The Campbell's
soups, the Hostess Doritos, the Lays flavored potato chips, Top Ramen, Betty
Crocker Hamburger Helper, Heinz canned gravy, Swanson frozen prepared meals,
Kraft salad dressings, especially the 'healthy low fat' ones. The items that
didn't have MSG had something called Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein, which is just
another name for Monosodium Glutamate. It was shocking to see just how many of
the foods we feed our children everyday are filled with this stuff. They hide
MSG under many different names in order to fool those who catch on.
But it didn't stop there. When our family
went out to eat, we started asking at the restaurants what menu items had MSG.
Many employees, even the managers, swore they didn't use MSG. But when we ask
for the ingredient list which they grudgingly provided, sure enough MSG and
Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein were everywhere. Burger King, McDonalds, Wendy's,
Taco Bell, every restaurant, even the sit down ones like TGIF, Chilis',
Applebees and Denny's use MSG in abundance. Kentucky Fried Chicken seemed to be
the WORST offender: MSG as in every chicken dish, salad dressing and gravy. No
wonder I loved to eat that coating on the skin, their secret spice was MSG!
So why is MSG in so may of the foods we eat?
Is it a preservative or a vitamin? Not according to my friend John. In the book
he wrote, an expose of the food additive industry called The Slow Poisoning of
America (www.spofamerica.com) he said
that MSG is added to food for the addictive effect it has on the human body.
Even the propaganda website sponsored by the food manufacturers lobby group
supporting MSG at:
http://www.msgfacts.com/facts/msgfact12.html explains that the reason they
add it to food is to make people eat more.
A study of elderly people showed that people
eat more of the foods that it is added to. The Glutamate Association lobby group
says eating more benefits the elderly, but what does it do to the rest of us?
'Betcha can't eat just one', takes on a
whole new meaning where MSG is concerned! And we wonder why the nation is
overweight?
The MSG manufacturers themselves admit that
it addicts people to their products. It makes people choose their product over
others, and makes people eat more of it than they would if MSG wasn't added. Not
only is MSG scientifically proven to cause obesity, it is an addictive
substance!
Since its introduction into the American
food supply fifty years ago, MSG has been added in larger and larger doses to
the prepackaged meals, soups, snacks and fast foods we are tempted to eat
everyday.
The FDA has set no limits on how much of it
can be added to food. They claim it's safe to eat in any amount. How can they
claim it is safe when there are hundreds of scientific studies with titles like
these?
The monosodium glutamate (MSG) obese rat as
a model for the study of exercise in obesity. Gobatto CA, Mello MA, Souza CT,
Ribeiro IA. Res Commun Mol Pathol Pharmacol. 2002
Adrenalectomy abolishes the food-induced
hypothalamic serotonin release in both normal and monosodium glutamate-obese
rats. Guimaraes RB, Telles MM, Coelho VB, Mori RC, Nascimento CM, Ribeiro Brain
Res Bull. 2002 Aug
Obesity induced by neonatal monosodium
glutamate treatment in spontaneously hypertensive rats: an animal model of
multiple risk factors. Yamamoto M, Iino K, Ichikawa K, Shinohara N, Yoshinari
Fujishima Hypertens Res. 1998 Mar
Hypothalamic lesion induced by injection of
monosodium glutamate in suckling period and subsequent development of obesity.
Tanaka K, Shimada M, Nakao K, Kusunoki Exp Neurol. 1978 Oct
Yes, that last study was not a typo, it WAS
written in 1978.
Both the medical research community and food
"manufacturers" have known MSG's side effects for decades! Many more studies
mentioned in John Erb's book link MSG to Diabetes, Migraines and headaches,
Autism, ADHD and even Alzheimer's. But what can we do to stop the food
manufactures from dumping fattening and addictive MSG into our food supply and
causing the obesity epidemic we now see? Even as you read this, George W. Bush
and his corporate supporters are pushing a Bill through Congress. Called the
"Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act" also known as the
"Cheeseburger Bill " this sweeping law bans anyone from suing food
manufacturers, sellers and distributors. Even if it comes out that they
purposely added an addictive chemical to their foods. Read about it for
yourself at:
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/8458081.htm
"Last month [February 2, 2005] the House of
Representatives passed the "Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act" to
protect the food and beverage industry from civil lawsuits. Under the measure,
known as the "Cheeseburger Bill," people who buy food or drinks couldn't sue the
companies that made them, the stores that sold them or the restaurants that
served them if they got fat from the products, so long as the products met
existing laws. The Senate is expected to take up a similar bill later this
year."
The Bill has already been rushed through the
House of Representatives, and is due for the same rubber stamp at Senate level.
It is important that Bush and his corporate supporters get it through before the
media lets everyone know about MSG, the intentional Nicotine for food.
Several months ago, John Erb took his book
and his concerns to one of the highest government health officials in Canada.
While sitting in the Government office, the official told him "Sure I know how
bad MSG is, I wouldn't touch the stuff!" But this top-level government official
refused to tell the public what he knew. The big media doesn't want to tell the
public either, fearing legal issues with their advertisers. It seems that the
fallout on the fast food industry may hurt their profit margin.
So what do we do? The food producers and
restaurants have been addicting us to their products for years, and now we are
paying the price for it. Our children should not be cursed with obesity caused
by an addictive food additive. But what can I do about it? I'm just one voice,
what can I do to stop the poisoning of our children, while guys like Bush are
insuring financial protection for the industry that is poisoning us.
I for one am doing something about it. I am
sending this email out to everyone I know in an attempt to show you the truth
that the corporate owned politicians and media won't tell you. The best way you
can help save yourself and your children from this drug-induced epidemic, is to
forward this email to everyone. With any luck, it will circle the globe before
Bush can pass the Bill protecting those who poisoned us. The food industry
learned a lot from the tobacco industry. Imagine if big tobacco had a bill like
this in place before someone blew the whistle on Nicotine? Blow the whistle on
MSG. If you are one of the few who can still believe that MSG is good for us,
and you don't believe what John Erb has to say, see for yourself. Go to the
National Library of Medicine, at www.pubmed.com.
Type in the words "MSG Obese", and read a few of the 115 medical studies that
appear.
We do not want to be rats in one giant
experiment, and we do not approve of food that makes us into a nation of obese,
lethargic, addicted sheep, waiting for the slaughter. With your help we can put
an end to this, and stop the Slow Poisoning of America.
“Let's save our children,” says John Erb.
Some of the shots were so good, I got excited and forgot I was 55 years old. I
went jumping on a trampoline in her back yard, slipped, and landed on my butt. I
jammed my coccyx. Needless to say, the prospect of driving another eight
thousand miles with a sore butt was not appealing.
on the history of medicine) and they said at the
Old Fort Sumner Museum,
where Billy the Kid's grave is located, that there might be some more medical
devices. 
I found some interesting
medicines (one with mercury still used into the 20th century and quite toxic)
and devices and such. I enjoy museums; took some pictures of Billy's grave (the
stone has been stolen so many times that they've finally had to put a cage
around it), and then got back in the car and headed to visit a cousin.
he comes from a very athletic family
(and will continue on teaching athletics)
he had gotten pretty good in that time. He enjoyed playing with me because he
felt he could actually learn something. He’d not yet played anyone who was any good.
So, a chiropractor friend online told me to find someone who
did Logan Basic. I went online and found one who was still at his office. I
went to see him. First he put heat, then cold over the area, and then he hooked me up to
some electrodes. I’d never had the electrodes before. He stuck an electrode on each
cheek, and began turning up the juice till my butt started to applaud. After
about fifteen to twenty minutes on the electrodes, he manipulated me and taught me a stretching exercise.
The pain improved a thousand percent. I went back four days later on my way out
of town. This guy really helped.
and flowers were
blooming all over. The only spring flowers I missed in Arizona where of that cactus (saguaro) that
looks like it’s making a right turn. However, I did see one white flower atop
one saguaro cactus from a distance. They bloom in May, and I was in AZ in April.
I stayed w/ friends I’d met on the web there. I asked one to
please write me up her story. She has been through so many medical disasters,
it’s a miracle that she’s alive today. They gave her antibiotics in her first
year so she has asthma. They gave her tetracycline too early in life, and it
turned her teeth grey. She’s had back surgery after back surgery, and even a
hip replacement that left one leg shorter than the other. Some day I want her
story printed here.
I left Arizona to drive up thru Nevada to Reno and then cut over to San Francisco. Eastern Nevada is desert. Most of the little towns along the way make more money off
speeders than any other business. You’re traveling along at 65-70 miles per
hour, and then this two shack, one horse town suddenly appears posting a 25 MPH speed
limit. Let me tell you, 26 mph will get you pulled over.
Again, the rain just flooded this area and the Mojave desert in Southern
California and the flowers were spectacular. For miles and miles, the long hot
roads passed through a truly painted desert. No matter where we stopped, we
found blossoms. That is, until we left the southern area 
and began getting into
northern Nevada. Suddenly it was hot with nothing to see but an occasional
"ranch."
CREATING
HUMAN-ANIMAL HYBRIDS
I
THINK, THEREFORE I AM... A LAB MOUSE
HUMAN
GENES ARE WHAT'S FOR DINNER
WORLD
LEADERS MEET TO BAN 12 PERSISTENT TOXIC CHEMICALS 
MY
BOLOGNA HAS A FIRST NAME, IT'S C-A-N-C-E-R
BREAK
THE CHAINS ON WORLD FAIR TRADE DAY WITH A HOUSE PARTY!
The
American Heart Association has released a study indicating that the
rate of obesity among Americans earning more than $60,000 a year is
growing three times faster than the rate among the poor. "Sedentary
lifestyles and restaurants are the two big things that affect that
group the most," said Marc O'Meara, a dietitian at Brigham and
Women's Hospital. "The portion sizes just keep growing."
Although
dreaming of one day being a heavy metal drummer, 15 year old Micah
Hinton may be destined for engineering. The high school sophomore
has designed a model car that uses a solar panel to create hydrogen
fuel out of water. When the car is running, it converts that
hydrogen back into ordinary water. As a result, the fuel source is
never depleted, and the car never needs a fill-up. "It lasts
forever," said Hinton, 15.
The
OCA has announced the launch of its new international Science
Oversight Board (iSOB), that will expand OCA's outreach into the
biomedical and public health arena. The iSOB oversight board will
investigate and publicize conflicts of interest at academic medical
centers and in governmental agencies worldwide. It will focus on the
corporatization of medicine and the commodification of human life.
ALERT:
STOP THE PENTAGON'S WAR ON PUBLIC HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT
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