DOCTOR YOURSELF Newsletter (Vol 3, No 1) November 20, 2002

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The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER (Vol 3, No 1) November 20, 2002

 

" Free of charge, free of advertising, and free of the A.M.A. "

 

Written by Andrew Saul, PhD. of http://www.doctoryourself.com , a free

online library of over 350 natural healing articles with nearly 4,000

scientific references.

 

RALPH NADER SHOULD KNOW BETTER

 

It's not every day that I publicly state that Ralph Nader is wrong about

something. But when the Raiders (that's Nader's, not Oakland's) slam

vitamins, it is time to set a few things straight.

 

" Worst Pills, Best Pills " is a monthly newsletter published by Public

Citizen, Ralph Nader's " Health Research Group. "

 

http://www.citizen.org/hrg/

 

The October, 2002 issue (Vol 8, No 10) contains this statement by editor

Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D.:

 

" You should not take dietary supplements. These products have not been

tested or shown to be effective for any use, and their safety is unknown.

The only exception to this advice is an inexpensive vitamin or mineral

preparation. " (page 80)

 

This statement is untrue. Both the effectiveness and safety of vitamins are

well established.

 

( http://doctoryourself.com/bibliography.html ) I think the doctor's

comments show that he must be quite uncomfortable with the recent JAMA study

(June 19, 2002) urging that " all adults take one multivitamin daily. " And

Dr. Wolfe's weak, tacked-on " recommendation " seems to me to be an unwilling

concession at best. His negative attitude is revealed in his discussion of

vitamin E on page 77, where he presents a lone study purporting to show that

200 International Units of vitamin E is somehow harmful to patients with

respiratory tract infections.

 

It is not. Vitamin E is a lifesaver, and has safely been used for decades in

vastly larger doses than 200 IU. Taken every day, 400 to 800 IU of the

vitamin cuts deaths from cardiovascular disease in half. (Doctor Yourself

Newsletter, Vol 2, No 7) http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v2n7.txt . New

England Journal of Medicine, May 20, 1993 (Vol. 328, pp 1444-1456. Also see

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/forgotten.html ). Moreover, if you really want

to knock out a respiratory infection, why not do it right, take the advice

of board-certified chest specialist Frederick R. Klenner, M.D., and use

megadoses of vitamin C?

http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerpaper.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/ortho_c.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/klenner_table.html

 

 

What is harmful to sick patients is an UNsupplemented diet. Mr. Nader's

doctor misses this point bigtime.

 

JAMA has published that over 100,000 people die each year from

properly-given pharmaceuticals. ( Journal American Medical Association July

26, 2000; 284(4):483-5. Very good comments at

 

http://www.mercola.com/2000/jul/30/doctors_death.htm )

 

When a publication's very name is " Best Pills, Worst Pills, " don't you think

that vitamins, which do not cause even one death annually, might just fit

the " Best Pills " category?

 

I do applaud " Best Pills, Worst Pills " watchdog effort to caution the public

about the dangers of pharmaceutical drugs. That is good use of the printed

page. But it is not enough to " say no " to medicines. You have to say " yes "

to something else. There must be an affirmation. " Alternative health " is

still the best overall mindset; switch to what works. Dr. Wolfe, your

warning people away from safe and effective nutritional supplements is not

serving the public interest, or the public's health.

 

FRESH OUT OF COLLEGE, I lived up in the hills of Vermont. My elderly friend

Maurice LaSalle, an octogenarian of French-Canadian extraction and I were

talking one day. I said to him, very facetiously, " Maurice, I'm getting

old. "

 

He thought about that for a spell, giving it far more consideration than it

was worth.

 

Presently the old gentleman answered, with a childish grin:

 

" Keep right on! "

 

I took that to mean that if you keep right on getting older, you are still

here. I mean, consider the alternative! Remember the teaching of one of

history's great yogis:

 

" It ain't over until its over. " (Yogi Berra)

 

If you are alive, you have time.

 

( http://www.doctoryourself.com/terminal.html )

 

Should you be afraid that it might be too late for you, remember this: 98%

of the atoms in your body are replaced every year. Just think: 98% of you is

BRAND NEW in only 12 months. And every one of those atoms can only come from

what you breathe, drink and eat.

 

" I wake up each morning and gather my wits,

 

I pick up the paper and read the obits;

 

If my name is not in it

 

I know I'm not dead;

 

So I eat a good breakfast

 

and go back to bed. "

 

(Quoting Studs Terkel in Rolling Stone; original author unknown)

 

If that is you; if you are sick and tired of being sick and tired;

 

if your get up and go has got up and went; well, here's some help:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/longevity.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/lifespan.html

 

CAN'T MISS BY TRYING

 

The elderly are the number one user of a developed country's medical and

hospital services. Perhaps this is why most of my experience with older

persons is with the very ill. From the elderly who are just now learning

natural healing methods for the first time, I frequently hear this:

 

" If only I'd done this thirty years ago! "

 

For the number one regret of an aging person generally is not about

something they'd done badly, but rather about something they had never tried

to do at all.

 

Sometimes, that is something as basic as eating right and exercising.

 

There is nothing to lose, and a lot to gain, by giving your health priority

in your life right now, regardless of your age.

 

To begin:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/badhabits.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/DY_ch02_web.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/edumed.html

 

I NEVER HARMED AN ONION

 

Did I tell you about the boy in my fifth grade class who brought in a whole,

raw onion for snack time? True, and he really ate it, too. The odor (and

resulting pandemonium) filling the room caused sufficient consternation for

the teacher to cancel snack time for everyone.

 

Bummer.

 

So why did I do it? To get noticed, for one (mission accomplished). Plus, I

really liked onions. Still do. They are nutritious, cheap and versatile. If

you don't like them raw (you poor soul, you), then plunk them into a New

England boiled dinner along with carrots, cabbage, and potatoes for a good

hot meal. Better yet, juice the cabbage and carrots, eat the onion raw, and

just boil up the 'taters.

 

Doctor Yourself " STEALTH FOOD " of the Month:

 

BREYERS YOGURT

 

Breyers Yogurt has sold out. . . again. It's bad enough that Breyers is

owned by Kraft, which is controlled by the Phillip Morris Tobacco Company.

Yuk. But now Breyers has, without warning of any kind, started putting food

paint in what was once known as a natural yogurt. I have checked " Breyers

Fruit on the Bottom " Yogurt, and it contains artificial color. Even worse is

" Breyers Smooth and Creamy " Yogurt, with TWO artificial colors, plus a lot

of junk like modified food starch, corn syrup and a chemical preservative to

boot. Vote with your dollars: don't buy Breyers or any other

artificially-colored " food. "

 

Complain about Bryers yogurt directly to Kraft, for free, at 1-800-538-1998.

Call early and call often.

 

READERS ASK:

 

H. B. writes:

 

" Your frequent advice to avoid red meat raises questions as to how a person

is to get adequate absorbable B-12. I see many reports about vegetarians

being B-12 deficient. Whazzup? "

 

If you eat eggs, fish, yogurt, cheese (or for that matter any dairy products

at all), you will get some B-12. If you are a vegan (no animal products at

all), then nutritional yeast is a good source of the vitamin. I recommend

NEAR-vegetarianism, and I personally am one. Furthermore, any multiple

vitamin pill will contain B-12. But you make an important point in using the

word " absorbable. " For the older we get, the less B-12 we are able to

absorb. I have written an article on the how-to's of B-12 supplementation,

which is posted at

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/nasal.html

 

Alzheimer's Disease and B-12:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/alzheimer.html

 

L.H. writes:

 

" Do you give your pets vitamins? "

 

Sure. My dog gets 500 mg of vitamin C daily, a multiple vitamin, plus 300 mg

of calcium because she is getting on in her years. I give her 200 IU of

natural (d-alpha) vitamin E once or twice a week. She loves the E and C and

will do tricks for them. You stroke a dog's throat to get it to swallow the

multiple and the calcium tablets. That, or stick it in some peanut butter.

She also eats a middle-quality dry dog food (And no, I will not discuss

brands: Read the labels, check your pocketbook, and decide for yourself.) I

mix our carrot pulp, left over from daily juicing, into her dog food. This

12 year old mutt has never needed to go to the vet except to be spayed. She

has never been sick and has no signs of doggy cataracts. She can outrun me

on a bicycle. (Just to clarify: That's me on the bicycle, the dog on foot.

Feet.)

 

Our cat gets the same food as the dog, carrot pulp and all. In my opinion,

there is rather little essential difference (other than price) between cat

and dog food. It is a lot of fun to put identical food in the dog dish and

the cat dish, and watch them switch and eat out of each other's bowl. They

are sure that the other's food is tastier than theirs. Not in this house,

mate.

 

Getting a cat to swallow a tablet is impractical to say the least, so we

sprinkle a couple of hundred milligrams of vitamin C powder on top of the

kitty's food. She has to eat through it that way, and does.

 

Yes, you too can make your pet a health nut. If the animal rejects the good

food you offer, fast it for a day or two. Even so-called finicky cats

quickly cave in.

 

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