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The lawsuit is ended. It has been dismissed. The plaintiff is a fugitive from justice, according to his attorney. He has 30 days to appeal. But here is what we've learned:
However, things will have to change around here. We are going to focus on fundraising. We need to get back into the black and that will be the focus here and our only goal. This means that less time will be spent writing with more time spent trying to find money. Grant Writers: we recently put out a feeler for grant writers. We got a letter from one telling us that it is unethical to pay a grant writer a commission, since it will affect the writing. I'm under the impression that it's unethical to pay good money to someone who can't guarantee his work. We have two possible grant writers who've not done much so far. We are still looking for grant writers. However, now, they will have to be volunteer grant writers. Fund Raisers: if you know how to do this, then contact us. We have many projects on the back burners right now, including a Journal of International Medicine. Dr Sam Chachua called me and asked me to edit and publish a peer-review journal called the Journal of International Medicine. Something for both physicians and consumers. This will cost us at least $100,000.00 to get off the ground. The next edition of the Wellness Directory of Minnesota™ is still on the back burner, and this time we will be publishing a World version, listing naturopaths, and others from around the world. Sadly, our two sales people in charge of selling advertising, haven't brought in a thing in the past two years. We are currently rewriting our Bypassing Bypass, and our book on Cancer will be updated soon, but that will take even more time and money. So, this is where we stand. We're over 70K in debt, and trying to dig out. We will still work on the site, but our focus will be to get out of debt and then onto bigger and better things. If you want to contribute, you know what to do. Help Out?
It was complex. My life was falling apart. I had just sold my advertising/p.r. agency, and planned to retire (at 52) but wasn't sure the money would last long enough. My wife, Miriam, was in deep depression, has been hospitalized twice, was on anti-depressants which didn't seem to be working. I was pretty depressed myself, dealing with Miriam's depression. I considered getting a keep-busy job of some kind -- like a security guard -- just to get out of the house, but knew that a heavy drinker my age who was also a smoker was virtually unemployable -- and the Houston economy had cratered when the price of oil cratered. I enjoyed drinking, and had gotten away with everything just short of murder, but knew it couldn't go on forever. Sooner or later my health would go. Still, I wouldn't have done anything, except that I stumbled onto this medical doctor who mentioned in passing that he treated alcoholism. I inquired into it, and he did one helluva selling job on me. I figured, what the heck, I'll give it a try. The rest of the story is attached. I used to have it on a website, but never had any inquiries on it, so took it down. I'm considering putting it back up. Today is the 23rd anniversary of my life without alcohol. I went from about a fifth of bourbon a day to zero. Which brings me to the laws of cause and effect. When I was drinking, I never had any health problems, and never got a parking ticket, let alone a moving violation. Since I quit boozing I've gotten two speeding tickets, and my blood pressure is high. I've had four stents put in my arteries, half a dozen skin cancers removed, one of my four parathyroids removed, and my prostate is so large I can hardly pee a stream. I was better off when I was drinking. But I wasn't 75 then, either.Click here to read the article on the Miracle Cure for Alcoholism.
We've written about microwaves in a previous newsletter. One of the first links ever at this site is Hidden Hazards of Microwave Cooking, the report of an actual study that was blocked from publication.
This science experiment has just been debunked by Snopes dot com. Thanx! http://www.snopes.com/science/microwave/plants.asp
Well here's a
howdy-do. TV station in Florida prepares hard-hitting
series questioning safety of grocery-store milk. Large
biotech company threatens station with libel suit.
Station cancels broadcast, orders reporters to rewrite
series. Reporters refuse. Station fires reporters.
Reporters sue station. (In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. The International Wellness Directory has no affiliation whatsoever with the originator of this article nor is the International Wellness Directory endorsed or sponsored by the originator.) "Go to Original" links are provided as a convenience to our readers and allow for verification of authenticity. However, as originating pages are often updated by their originating host sites, the versions posted on the International Wellness Directory may not match the versions our readers view when clicking the "Go to Original" links.
Editor's Note: this was sent by a reader, but we found some bits that were not true and had to edit it. Hopefully, the remaining parts are true. If you find something suspicious, please write us: info@mnwelldir.org
So why is MSG in so
may of the foods we eat?.. Is it a preservative or a
vitamin? References:
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.
Both the "medical
research community" and "food manufacturers" have known
about 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? A great link to peruse is: http://www.msgmyth.com/hidename.htm.
Editor's note: A while back we quoted a professor and medical doctor who taught at a medical school in Texas. He said, "The biggest myth of all is that food has any connection to behavior." We found the story at WebMD.
The biggest myth in medicine is
that a physician knows anything about nutrition. For the
most part, physicians in the US are not taught nutrition
or prevention, but are taught pharmaceutical medicine.
Patients
benefit by cutting intake of junk food Changes in diet over the past 50 years appear to be an important factor behind a significant rise in mental ill health in the UK, say two reports published today. The Mental Health Foundation says scientific studies have clearly linked attention deficit disorder, depression, Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia to junk food and the absence of essential fats, vitamins and minerals in industrialised diets. A further report, Changing Diets, Changing Minds, is also published today by Sustain, the organisation that campaigns for better food. It warns that the NHS bill for mental illness, at almost £100bn a year, will continue to rise unless the government focuses on diet and the brain in its food, farming, education and environment policies. "Food can have an immediate and lasting effect on mental health and behaviour because of the way it affects the structure and function of the brain," Sustain's report says. Its chairman, Tim Lang, said: "Mental health has been completely neglected by those working on food policy. If we don't address it and change the way we farm and fish, we may lose the means to prevent much diet-related ill health." Both reports, which have been produced collaboratively, outline the growing scientific evidence linking poor diet to problems of behaviour and mood. Rates of depression have been shown to be higher in countries with low intakes of fish, for example. Lack of folic acid, omega-3 fatty acids, selenium and the amino acid tryptophan are thought to play an important role in the illness. Deficiencies of essential fats and antioxidant vitamins are also thought to be a contributory factor in schizophrenia. A pioneering nutrition and mental health programme, thought to be the only one of its kind in Britain, was carried out at Rotherham, South Yorkshire. According to Caroline Stokes, its research nutritionist, the mental health patients she saw generally had the poorest diets she had ever come across. "They are eating lots of convenience foods, snacks, takeaways, chocolate bars, crisps. It's very common for clients to be drinking a litre or two of cola a day. They get lots of sugar but a lot of them are eating only one portion of fruit or vegetable a day, if that." The therapy includes omega-3 fatty acids and multivitamins, with advice on cutting out junk food and replacing it with oily fish, leafy vegetables for folic acid, Brazil nuts for selenium, and food providing tryptophan. Some patients who resist treatment with drugs accept nutritional therapy and most have reported an improvement in mood and energy. Ms Stokes said: "Within the first month there's been a significant reduction in depression. We've had letters from [the patients'] psychiatrists saying they can see a huge difference." One sufferer who benefited from a dietary change was James McLean, who was at university when first diagnosed with bipolar disorder (manic depression). After he had been sectioned repeatedly, his father read about the role of nutrition in mental health. The pair went privately to the Brain Bio Centre, in London, where Mr McLean's nutrient levels were checked; he was allergic to gluten and yeast and was given supplements, including vitamin B and essential fatty acids. "I'd been eating lots of intense carbohydrate foods ... because they were cheap, and very little fruit or vegetables," Mr McLean said. Now, he excludes wheat from his diet too. He added: "I have more energy and confidence, I sleep better, and I came off the anti-psychotic drugs, although I still take mood stabilising ones." Andrew McCulloch, chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation, acknowledged that mental illness results from a complex interplay of biological, social, psychological and environmental factors, but thought diet should be an everyday component of mental health care. "It costs £1,000 a week to keep someone in a psychiatric hospital. How much does good food cost? We need mentally healthy school meals, and mentally healthy hospital foods," he said. Best choices and worst:
Good for the brain:
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We are extending the contest to October. And we're sweetening the pot by offering the winner, not only three bags of Omegasentials, but a copy of Bruce Fife's new book: Coconut Cures. Our friends at Wilderness Family Naturals who supply us with all our coconut needs just love us and sent us a copy of Coconut Cures not knowing that Bruce Fife had already sent us a copy. So, we'll be passing that onto the winner of the Omegasentials Baking Contest. You should note that we've changed our recipe for Omega-Muffins just a tad. On the coconut recipe page we substitute Coconut Flour for wheat, and in all our Muffin recipes we've now made the amount of Omegasentials per recipe one and a half cups. This guarantees that each muffin will have a two tablespoons of Omegasentials, the recommended daily amount. If you've not yet made our Omega-Muffins, you'll never know how good healthy food can taste.
Attacks on Vitamins and Supplements are getting hot, hotter, and hottest. Why? Well, one reason is that Pharmaceutical companies want us to use drugs instead of things our bodies really need. Another thing is that they want to show us how dangerous these things are so they can outlaw them, make them available by prescription only, and then buy out the companies selling them and get rich by selling you a $15.00 bottle of Vitamin C for $150.00. Let's get real. Here is something from the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service:
The biggest lie in medicine is that medicine is better for us than vitamins and supplements and that vitamins and supplements can be dangerous. Yet recently, there have been a spate of articles on how we must take vitamins with care and caution. On ABC News we find: Daily Dose: Which Vitamins Help, Harm? Here you can learn that Vitamin E causes Congestive Heart Failure. Yeah, right. As we said before, calling synthetic alpha tocopherol Vitamin E is tantamount to calling Textured Vegetable Protein fillet mignon.
As previously reported, this finding was first discovered in a study that was arranged so badly, it's methodology absolutely corrupt, that when discovered it was overlooked because the rest of the findings were so far off. It took years to discover that this is actually true. If you are a smoker, do NOT supplement with Beta Carotene. Or better still, STOP SMOKING. Again, on ABC News we find Americans may take too many vitamins, experts say. Funny, but when you want to create a study showing that vitamins are worthless, if you can't use a synthetic form, always give the experimental group the Required Daily Allowance, although we like to call them the Ridiculously Daily Allowance. Under dosing is the best way to prove something is worthless. My Own Recent Experience Again, I did not realize I was coming down with a bug. I'm just too proud to admit that I'm human at times. My throat was dry and tickling; my voice became gravelly. I wrote it off as the dryness of the spring and my voice raw from calling the pups. Soon, I had a fever and a sore throat that just got worse and worse. I was so sick that I went from 50,000 mgs of Vitamin C to 100,000 mgs of Vitamin C. If I had overdosed, I'd get diarrhea. But no, my stool was solid and normal. The sore throat would not go away, and after five days I thought it was time to visit my doctor and see if I'd had something antibiotics would clear up (or should clear up in the case of strep). Tests came back normal. So she said, let's get s liver count and a urine test. I said, What? Ok, it seems that in a viral attack, it's the kidneys and liver that get the brunt of the attack and they are the first to show damage. So, I sat there at the VA hospital all day waiting for my tests. The doc stepped into the waiting room and said, "Good news. Your numbers are perfect." "So, does this mean I'm not sick" I coughed. "No, it means that whatever you are doing is working. You've got a viral attack, but your body is fighting it off and nothing's been damaged." That's when I told her I'd been taking 100 grams (that's 100,000 mgs) of Vitamin C. She said, "Well, don't overdo it." Funny thing. She tells me what I'm doing is working, but then upon hearing what I'm doing, tells me not to do it. I guess we need to teach our doctors about megadoses of Vitamin C. Back To ABC News Some Vitamins Can Do More Harm Than Good, is the name of the article that starts off: "Vitamins are big business. Americans spend $7 billion a year on them in hopes of warding off colds, cancer and other diseases. But new studies show that high doses often provide no health benefit and can even cause harm." Funny how ABC, CBS, NBC, and the rest never tell us how Pharmaceuticals are a big business with consumers spending 100s of billions a year only to find themselves hooked on very expensive drugs for life and that life not being of much quality or all that long. They tell us that Dr David Katz recommends a balanced diet and a multivitamin. They don't tell us what exactly a balanced diet is nor do they tell us that Dr David Katz probably never studied nutrition or vitamin therapy. He tells us: "New studies have found vitamin C, if taken at the same time a patient is getting certain medical treatments, such as chemo for cancer, can interfere with that treatment." Funny thing, but with specific alternative therapies, such as Poly MVA or Paw Paw, using Vitamin C will work against the process. But Dr David
Katz apparently did not read Abdellatif, et al. “Vitamin
C enhances chemosensitization of esophageal cancer cells
in vitro.” J Chemother, 2005;17 Dr Katz goes on to say: "When you look at all the literature, it appears that the levels of vitamins in our ancestors' diet was optimal," Katz said. "We can best recreate that by eating a balanced diet supplemented by a multivitamin." The levels of PCBs, benzene, dioxins, and 75,000 other chemicals in our ancestors' bodies weren't what they are today. The amounts of horemones and antibiotics in our livestock are a bit greater then were in our ancestors' foods. Our diets aren't even close to our ancestors' diets. Again, Dr Kats seems to have learned only what he was supposed to learn, and believes only what he's supposed to believe. As the battle over our health care rights heats up, stay tuned. We'll have the answers to the right wing (yes, the pharmaceutical companies are all right of center -- see below) talking points.
Go to Original Thursday 09 February 2006 Frist denies protection was added in secret. Washington - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert engineered a backroom legislative maneuver to protect pharmaceutical companies from lawsuits, say witnesses to the pre-Christmas power play. The language was tucked into a Defense Department appropriations bill at the last minute without the approval of members of a House-Senate conference committee, say several witnesses, including a top Republican staff member. In an interview, Frist, a doctor and Tennessee Republican, denied that the wording was added that way. Trial lawyers and other groups condemn the law, saying it could make it nearly impossible for people harmed by a vaccine to force the drug maker to pay for their injuries. Many in health care counter that the protection is needed to help build up the vaccine industry in the United States, especially in light of a possible avian flu pandemic. The legislation, called the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, allows the secretary of Health and Human Services to declare a public health emergency, which then provides immunity for companies that develop vaccines and other "countermeasures." Beyond the issue of vaccine liability protection, some say going around the longstanding practice of bipartisan House-Senate conference committees' working out compromises on legislation is a dangerous power grab by Republican congressional leaders that subverts democracy. "It is a travesty of the legislative process," said Thomas Mann, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. "It vests enormous power in the hands of congressional leaders and private interests, minimizes transparency and denies legitimate opportunities for all interested parties, in Congress and outside, to weigh in on important policy questions." At issue is what happened Dec. 18 as Congress scrambled to finish its business and head home for the Christmas holiday. That day, a conference committee made up of 38 senators and House members met several times to work out differences on the 2006 Defense Department appropriations bill. Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., the ranking minority House member on the conference committee, said he asked Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, the conference chairman, whether the vaccine liability language was in the massive bill or would be placed in it. Obey and four others at the meeting said Stevens told him no. Committee members signed off on the bill and the conference broke up. A spokeswoman for Stevens, Courtney Boone, said last week that the vaccine liability language was in the bill when conferees approved it. Stevens was not made available for comment. During a January interview, Frist agreed. Asked about the claim that the vaccine language was inserted after the conference members signed off on the bill, he replied: "To my knowledge, that is incorrect. It was my understanding, you'd have to sort of confirm, that the vaccine liability which had been signed off by leaders of the conference, signed off by the leadership in the United States Senate, signed off by the leadership of the House, it was my understanding throughout that that was part of that conference report." But Keith Kennedy, who works for Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., as staff director for the Senate Appropriations Committee, said at a seminar for reporters last month that the language was inserted by Frist and Hastert, R-Ill., after the conference committee ended its work. "There should be no dispute. That was an absolute travesty," Kennedy said at a videotaped Washington, D.C., forum sponsored by the Center on Congress at Indiana University. "It was added after the conference had concluded. It was added at the specific direction of the speaker of the House and the majority leader of the Senate. The conferees did not vote on it. It's a true travesty of the process." After the conference committee broke up, a meeting was called in Hastert's office, Kennedy said. Also at the meeting, according to a congressional staffer, were Frist, Stevens and House Majority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo. "They (committee staff members) were given the language and then it was put in the document," Kennedy said. About 10 or 10:30 p.m., Democratic staff members were handed the language and told it was now in the bill, Obey said. He took to the House floor in a rage. He called Frist and Hastert "a couple of musclemen in Congress who think they have a right to tell everybody else that they have to do their bidding." Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., also was critical of inserting the vaccine language after the conference committee had adjourned. "It sucks," he told Congress Daily that night. Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., another member of the conference committee, was upset, too, a staff member said, because he didn't have enough time to read the language. The final bill was filed in the House at 11:54 p.m. and passed 308-102 at 5:02 the next morning. The Senate unanimously approved the legislation Dec. 21, but not before Senate Democrats, including several members of the conference committee, bashed the way the vaccine language was inserted. "What an insult to the legislative process," said Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., a member of the conference committee. Byrd is considered the authority on legislative rules and tradition. President Bush signed the legislation into law Dec. 30. When asked about Frist's earlier denial, spokeswoman Amy Call said: "Bill Frist has fought hard to protect the people of Tennessee and the people of the United States from a bioterror emergency and that's what he did throughout this process." Hastert's office did not provide a response. Not against the Rules The practice of adding to a compromise bill worked out by bipartisan House-Senate conference committees, while highly unusual, is not thought to violate congressional rules. Some Senate and House Democrats have proposed banning the practice as part of broader attempts at ethics reform in Congress. They, consumer groups and others with concerns about possible harm caused by vaccines charge that the move was a gift by Frist to the pharmaceutical industry, which they point out has given a lot of campaign cash to the Nashville doctor through the years. "The senator should be working to ensure there are safe vaccines to protect American families rather than protecting the drug industry's pocketbooks," Pamela Gilbert, president of Protect American Families, said in a statement. The group is an alliance of consumer, labor and advocacy organizations. Frist has received $271,523 in campaign donations from the pharmaceutical and health products industry since 1989, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a watchdog group. He is also a possible candidate for president in 2008. In the interview, Frist reiterated how important he thinks the vaccine protections are. "The United States of America, if a pandemic occurs, is totally unprepared," he said. "And the only way we are going to be prepared is rebuilding our manufacturing base to build a vaccine infrastructure that can be timely and responsive. We don't have it today." Frist has long advocated liability protection for vaccine makers, and it was widely reported that he would attempt to attach the legislation to the Defense Appropriations bill because it is considered must-pass legislation. Ken Johnson, senior vice president of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, said that, while the group favors liability protection, it did not take a position nor did it lobby on behalf of the law that passed. (In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. The International Wellness Directory has no affiliation whatsoever with the originator of this article nor is the International Wellness Directory endorsed or sponsored by the originator.) "Go to Original" links are provided as a convenience to our readers and allow for verification of authenticity. However, as originating pages are often updated by their originating host sites, the versions posted on the International Wellness Directory may not match the versions our readers view when clicking the "Go to Original" links.
The latest problem to arise from the use
(over-use) of non-steroidal anti- In a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, 72,000 men over the age of 45 who took NSAIDs on a regular basis more than doubled their risk of getting acute urinary retention (AUR). The higher their use of the NSAID, the greater their risk. You do not want AUR. You just can't urinate and it's painful. You'll need a catheter, and that's painful too. So, when you have that pain, you might wish to try an alternative. Please read our article on chronic inflammation for a complete list of alternatives (which will be updated as we find more). [Verhamme KM, et al. "Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and increased risk of acute urinaryretention." Arch Intern Med. 2005]
We got a copy of the movie Side Effects and LOVED it. Go Here. Then Heartland Products sent us some wonderful natural products to review. If you want some great safe soap or products to rid yourself of pests that won't poison your family, then go Here. Finally, we've been sent two forms of Jiaogulan tea, China's Immortality Herb. To read about them, go Here.
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