Health
Supreme
The Fumes from non-stick frying pans lined with fluorine
compounds such as Teflon, can be deadly to birds.
We don't seem to understand that warning sign very
well, although Canaries have for a long time been
used to warn miners of deadly gases in the 'underworld'.
Fluoride in frying pans, fluoride in the drinking
water, fluoride in toothpase, fluoride in a large
selection of pharmaceutical drugs. Would anyone care
to explain to me why we are putting ourselves at high
risk of poisoning by fluoride? Here is a recent BBC
News article on frying pans and canaries. (1/31/2004
4:19:55 PM)
Aspartame is a highly toxic sweetener
which unfortunately, through political
pressures overriding the warnings of the FDA's
own scientists, has obtained approval from the FDA
and consequently from health authorities world wide.
It is being sold as a low calorie way to get that
sweet taste, and is being recommended for diabetics
and anyone who would like to avoid sugar. Thousands
of products, including sports drinks and the ubiquitous
"light" soft drinks as well as all kinds
of bakery goods for those who want to avoid sugar,
contain the poison. Consequently, we are seeing an
epidemic of ill health of truly monstrous proportions.
You think SARS is bad? AIDS? Look at the side effects
caused by Aspartame! Ask around your friends and neighburs,
if they have any of the symptoms. Chances are they
are on Aspartame. Janet
Starr Hull, Ph.D. describes the common symptoms
and recommends a ten-step Aspartame Detoxification
Program: (1/31/2004 3:11:14
PM)
Lipitor, a cholesterol lowering
drug made by Pfizer and sold to millions of health
conscious but ill informed patients, is one of the
most profitable drugs the pharmaceutical industry
has ever come up with. Sales account for a quarter
of Pfizer's $ 32 billion annual sales. Expected to
gross more than $ 10 billion this year, Lipitor is
poised to become the largest-selling pharmaceutical
in history, surpassing Pfizer's other wonder drug,
Viagra.
But the price to society is much higher than a mere
8 to 10 billion dollars. Lipitor and other drugs in
the statin class, such as Bayer's version Baycol -
removed from the market by its maker - are not only
lowering cholesterol. These drugs apparently ruin
perfectly good lives with "side effects"
that lead to slow degradation into physical disability.
The story of Doug Peterson and other residents of
Tahoe City may be coldly dismissed as "anecdotal
evidence", but there is no excuse for scientific
statistical sofistry. Every tragedy is real - when
it happens to you, the risk is 100%.
Let's look at the pharmaceutical profit model for
a moment. Drugs are developed and they have to be
sold, otherwise - no profit. In the case of Lipitor
and its similars, that means a market has to be created.
Cholesterol, a beneficial substance in the human
body, is targetted as a bad sign of impending heart
disease. Drugs are promoted to "lower cholesterol".
Mind you, not to prevent heart disease but to turn
off the blinking warning lights. Billions are made,
a huge empire of multinational corporations is built
to "take care of our health" - by selling
us drugs.
National economies are all but bankrupted by the
costs of health care, most of it to pay for drugs.
What's more, national and personal economies are also
bearing the cost - sometimes vastly greater than the
mere cost of a prescription - of these drugs' side
effects, the cost of drug induced illness and disability.
Who is responsible? The drug barons? The medical
researchers? The media which never told us?Or none
of them? I like what Karla, Doug's wife, has to say:
"We are hoping he is going to get better. That's
our number one goal. Anger is a waste of energy at
this point. We are trying to recover and get the word
out." Also Doug is taking the matter with a good
deal of philosophy: "At this point, I consider
myself lucky I'm not in a wheelchair," says Doug,
who is currently in phsyical therapy. "There
are no guarantees in life. Your birth certificate
doesn't come with a warranty." In other words:
Do it yourself. The responsibility is ours. You can
contact Doug by e-mail,
if you think you can help get the word out about what
is really happening. (1/31/2004
3:08:53 PM)
Read my book, chapter on things to avoid.
Lloyd
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