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Little or No Evidence Supports Conventional Medical Treatments
I saw this article and couldn’t help echoing its sentiments.
by Barbara L. Minton (see all articles by this author)
(NaturalNews) Do you ever get the feeling that your doctor doesn’t know what he’s doing? Well, you are probably right. There is little or no evidence that today’s $2 trillion-dollar medical system works any better than various other alternatives. Whether you have diabetes, heart trouble, back pain or cancer, this judgment applies. If you are contemplating surgery, you should know that the orthodox disease establishment doctors have little clue about the success rates for the procedures they endorse.
Dr. David Eddy, a consultant for healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente and leader in the development of clinical evidenced based guidelines admits that the medical profession does not know what its doing, according to an article published by Alan Stang. Even today, with a high-tech health-care system that costs the nation so much money, there is little or no evidence that many widely used treatments and procedures actually work.
Eighty-five percent of what doctors do is not backed by hard evidence, which presumably means that only fifteen percent is. “Doctors dangerously over treat patients, because they get paid to treat; they don’t get paid not to treat,” claims Stang.
A hundred and fifty years ago, Ignaz Semmelweis claimed that his fellow physicians were killing women delivering babies in Vienna’s hospitals. Women were so terrified of hospitals that they considered a hospital stay the same as a death sentence. Their families had to bring them there by force because the women would try to escape. Semmelweis suspected that the reason for the deaths was that doctors were going from surgery to surgery without washing their hands. When he demanded that they scrub and sterilize their hands, the death rate dropped dramatically.
Although you would suspect that modern practitioners certainly wash their hands between patients, especially between surgeries, you would be wrong. Eighty percent of hospital infections happen today because doctors don’t wash their hands, resulting in deaths of thousands of people and costs of over a billion dollars a year. For instance, more than one-quarter of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s doctors don’t wash, because proper washing takes time and costs them money they would otherwise be making, according to an article in Business Week that interviewed some of the nation’s leading doctors.
According to these doctors, some of their colleagues are killing and robbing thousands of Americans a year. And these unindicted felons are the same critics calling for the power of the government to raid health food stores and throw so-called “alternative” practitioners into jail. These are also the same moral miscreants who use government propaganda to warn disease victims to reject any other treatment and therapy except theirs. They are the ones in collusion with the pharmaceutical companies who are trying to ban nutritional supplements with Codex Alimentarius. They point with their unwashed hands at anyone who dares to contradict them.
Stang recalls the story of Abraham Cherrix who had Hodgkin’s disease. The doctors told him to take chemotherapy so he did. It failed and the cancer returned. The chemo had left Abraham so weak that he couldn’t walk. He didn’t want to do it again, wanting instead to try “alternative” treatments to restore his immune system. Doctors used the courts to force him to again take the same chemotherapy that had failed him and left him so weak.
Abraham’s dad asked the social worker, “What will you do with my little boy? Will you take him somewhere and strap him down and put duct tape on his mouth and pump him full of this stuff if he doesn’t want it?” The social worker replied, “No, I will come to your house with a uniformed officer, and I will take your son by force if he resists. And I will take him to somebody else who will do that.” As the result of the huge public outrage over this case, Abraham finally won and was returned to his parent’s custody.
How could this have happened? The disease establishment is willing to do anything to protect and maintain its multi-billion dollar control of the people. Establishment medicine as practiced in the U.S. is monopoly medicine. Any threat to that monopoly is taken seriously. The four big players in monopoly medicine are the government, the AMA (American Medical Association), the drug companies, and the medical schools.
No matter how beneficial prevention modalities and alternative treatment modalities are to the people, they must be concealed, controlled, and done away with. There is a kind of psychic disconnect practiced by the establishment mentalities that want to do away with the means to prevent and treat conditions that may eventually threaten their own lives.
As the drug companies and politicians try to line us up for forced vaccinations and treatments, it’s good to remember that forced medical treatment was one of the main principles of Nazism. The Holocaust did not begin with the extermination of Jewish people. It ended with them.
The Holocaust began with the doctors when Hitler was still in jail during the Weimar Republic established after World War I. The Allies had promised Germany there would not be a punitive peace. Of course they lied and ended up imposing a ruinous war debt at the Versailles Conference. When Germany could not pay, the doctors decided to do their patriotic duty by eliminating “useless eaters”. They began with handicapped children and worked their way to criminals and beyond. Since doctors were running the program, the public swallowed it as just being “humane”. Only years later was this program known as the Holocaust, which many people today wrongly believe only exterminated the Jewish.
The fact that Business Week was able to publish much of this information in their cover story suggests that the disease establishment may be losing some of its control. But like many large beasts, monopoly medicine is probably more dangerous in its death throws.
Sources:
Author not noted, “Medical Guesswork”, Business Week, May 29, 2006.
Stang, Alan, “Today’s American Medicine: The Cure,” (www.AlanStang.com)
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I see TV adverts and magazine articles promoting beauty products and in particular skin care solutions to the masses but I know from my own research that the constituents in these products in fact harm the skin especially when exposed to the sun. They actually accelerate the ageing of skin - so by using these mass market products women are actually harming their health and in the case of the youngsters who have yet to become mums the prospects of having normal healthy children (more of that in a later posting).
So my thread today is all about preservatives and parabens in particular in make-up and beauty products. The age old premise that ‘if you can’t say the name of something in a product’ then you shouldn’t eat it now applies to don’t put it on your skin.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, accounting for nearly one of every three cancers diagnosed in
So what does the new study actually tell us? Up to now it was known that parabens could be absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract or the blood, metabolized, and eventually excreted in the urine. But now the presence of intact parabens in tumour tissue shows that these chemicals can not only be absorbed through the skin but can also persist and accumulate in breast cancer tissue in their original form, without being degraded. (When parabens are eaten they are degraded and lose some of their constituents, making them less oestrogen-like). This is new information. We do not yet know how long they can persist and what effects they might have. Because controls with normal breast tissue were not done, we also don’t know if comparable levels of parabens would be found in normal tissue. Plus, the study did not identify the route by which the parabens entered the body. The chemical form of the parabens found suggests that the source was probably underarm cosmetics, though this needs to be confirmed. (This article does not say anything about the use of deodorants/antiperspirants by the women in the study.) Despite these limitations, this study represents an important first step.
Knowing that parabens can be absorbed through the skin and retained in breast tissue is necessary in order to investigate the causes and possible mechanisms of its action. The authors of this study write in their paper: “This adds parabens to the list of environmental estrogenic chemicals that can be found to accumulate in the human breast and already includes polychlorinated byphenyls (PCBs) and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs).” This also raises the issue of possible interactions between all these chemicals and the influence that might have on their toxicity.
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Hi I’m a great devotee of the Low GI diet and have been for years - it is one of our threads in our quest to stay healthy. I was surprised when i read that a Low GI diet not only helps keep weight in the normal range but may also aid hair restoration. But once again when i read about what sucrose does to the body in my last post i realised that it also affects the hormonal system - hence the link with hair loss. Want to keep your hair - go Low GI, want to get pregnant - go Low GI, want to lose weight - go low GI. In fact if you want to live long and prosper - go Low GI
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Thinning hair isn’t just a problem for men—like many women, Kristin is experiencing hair loss. “I want to know how to slow it down, how to prevent it, and what are my options to try to get the thickness back,” she says.
Dr. Northrup says that Kristin’s thinning hair may be a result of a hormonal imbalance. “You can get it back by eating a low-glycemic diet, making sure that you are on supplements,” she says.
According to Dr. Northrup, glycemic foods can cause dramatic changes in the body. “One of the things that often happens in mid-life to people is if they have a lot of stress hormones in their system and they’re eating a high-glycemic diet, and the high insulin is in their blood from the high sugar … that actually changes the way hormones are metabolized. So you actually begin to shoot your estrogen and progesterone into androgen-like substances that produce male pattern baldness in women. Have you seen this—where [women] start to get a beard and they get thinning of the hair at the temples and so on?”
Other than a low-glycemic diet, Dr. Northrup has one other recommendation for thinning hair. “Acupuncture can be very, very helpful for it,” she says.
The Greatest Tragedy of All Time
This film was a personal response to our over reliance on the established medical treatments and it expresses some of my personal views. If you want to see more please go to website www.squidoo.com/greatesttragedye mail me
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We’ve all herd of yogurt with added probiotics, low fat spreads with something else. Well prepare to be amazed - and is it all in the name of health - I’ll let you be the judge?
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Dear Reader,Here’s a doctor’s office conversation that might seem a little far fetched…
Doc: Your LDL cholesterol is higher than I’d like to see.
Patient: Is it time for Lipitor?
Doc: Down the road, maybe. But for the time being…
Patient: Don’t tell me I have to exercise!
Doc: No, I’d like you to eat two large bags of tortilla chips every day.
Patient: Are they prescription chips?
Doc: No, they’re available over-the-counter.
Patient: Great! Thanks, Doc!
Doc: We’ll test your blood in six months. Maybe we can cut back to one bag per day.This may sound like a joke, but the folks who make Corazonas tortilla chips probably wouldn’t think so.
Welcome to the wild, wacky world of functional foods.
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Hot & spicy
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That’s how a slightly frightening marketing blurb describes Corazonas Jalapeño Jack tortilla chips, along with this note: “Foods containing at least 0.4 g per serving of plant sterols, eaten twice a day with meals for a daily total intake of at least 0.8 g, as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of heart disease. A serving of Corazonas supplies 0.4 grams of plant sterols.”
That’s right – Corazonas corn chips may reduce the risk of heart disease. Or rather, the FDA allows them to make that claim based on plant sterol research. I think we can be pretty sure that no one has mounted a double blind, placebo-controlled trial in which half the subjects ate Corazonas chips and half ate a placebo chip.
As I’ve noted in previous e-Alerts, plant sterols actually do help block absorption of dietary cholesterol. But of course, dietary cholesterol intake doesn’t present the major heart disease danger. The true danger comes further along in the cholesterol chain-of-events when the effects of oxidation and inflammation on LDL play a key role in the development of atherosclerosis (narrowing of the arteries).
So, is there anything in Corazonas chips that might promote inflammation? As a matter of fact… The Corazonas web site (corazonas.com) states that the chips are made with vegetable oil, which may contain safflower, sunflower, and/or canola oil. All three of these oils just happen to have high omega-6 to omega-3 ratios – a common but unhealthy imbalance that promotes inflammation.
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——————————————–Of course, I’m not saying that Corazonas chips cause atherosclerosis, but there’s more to heart health than just lacing a snack food with something healthy and then claiming it reduces heart disease risk.
Which begs the question: If you want a snack, and you want something that really does reduce heart disease risk, why not snack on a whole, unprocessed food that naturally contains plant sterols?
There’s a crazy idea!
In the e-Alert “Pillow Talk” (3/20/06), I told you about Virginia Polytechnic Institute study that assessed plant sterol levels in different seeds and nuts. Top of the list: Wheat germ. Okay…admittedly, not very snackable, although you can add wheat germ to many dishes, which will make them healthier and give them a mild nutty taste. (That’s right – you can actually produce “functional” foods in your own home!)
For something closer to the snacking category, the VPI study found sunflower seeds and pistachio nuts to have relatively high plant sterol levels. And although they’re completely useless for dipping salsa, they’re the real deal if you want to enjoy the heart healthy effects of plant sterols.
Foresight Report On Obesity
The Foresight report, while stating the obvious, is a welcome study of the trends that are affecting our wester diet and lifestyle - but and there is always a but. Who will read the report and more importantly can government and the food industry actually change behaviour - I think it is unlikely. My feeling is that an enormous proportion of the west’s population is now committed to a self indulgent, ostrich like existence that believes either there is no point in making any changes or that any changes are futile. The slope we are sitting on is slippery and comfortable but we are inexorably sliding towards an obesity epidemic, a diabetes epidemic and a chronic illness epidemic that will ultimately demand rationing of health care resources. I read in a book recently by Marcus Buckingham (the Galup Organisation) that the choices we make today inevitably detrmine our future - if only we could see it. The slight Edge by Jeff Olson talks about the small choices we make every day being what influences our future - we don’t get sick today by making one bad choice - they accumulate over years. We do have a choice - but we have to act from a place of education not ignorance and comfort.
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“It’s OK” they said - the’re tested by the government
I, like many others, watched the channel 4 UK television programme last night on the toxic chemicals in cosmetics, cleaners and surprisingly foodstuff. Three ladies, including the presenter, tested blood and urine for Triclosan and Parabens (they could have checked for many other) and found disturbingly high levels of the primary 2 they were testing for and identified exposure to over 5000 separate chemicals. They then changed their products for ones without these chemicals and 8 days later were tested again. Wow the results were surprising even for me. After 8 days Parabens were out of the system and Triclosan was also much lower. The point is this - just because these compounds and chemicals are tested by the Government and given the ’safe’ tag why should we believe them. They also said DDT was safe and PCBs and pesticides. Don’t blindly accept what you hear from ‘experts’ they may be being funded by the very people who make these chemicals.
My advice, for what it’s worth, LIVE LIFE WITHOUT CHEMICALS and READ THE LABELS. If there are chemicals that you can’t say the name easily don’t put them in your body or on your on your skin.
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Red Wine Good - Red Wine Bad!!!
OK where do we go from here - it sounds like the so common complaint from people these days who say ‘first they tell me it’s good for me - then someone else says its bad for me’.
What do we believe - who is telling the truth. Quite simply they both are, but truth is a very subjective thing. There is no absolute truth anymore - just truth as an individual sees it. So what is my take - cut out the hype and get to the bottom of the real issue. What specifically is the good thing in wine that helps my health - cut out the alcohol and go for the compound that helps. In this case something called an antioxidant from the skin of a grape. Its called Resveratrol, the best form of which is extracted from Grape skin, and believe it or not several companies who produce food supplements have antioxidant supplements that already have it incorporated.
