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WDDTY e-News Service - 13 March 2003

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WHAT DOCTORS DON’T TELL YOU - E-NEWS BROADCAST No.26 - 13 Mar 03

 

 

 

 

 

EXERCISE: Do you really have to kill yourself in a gym before it makes a

difference?

 

Everyone knows they should exercise. It’s right up there with “don’t smoke” as

one of the basic tenets of good health maintenance. While we know that one

cigarette is one too many, how much exercise do we need to take before it makes

a positive difference?

 

 

The good news, according to a new study from Yale University, is that a little

can go a long way, provided we’re prepared to do it regularly.

 

Researchers tested the theory on 173 previously sedentary women who were all

overweight or obese and aged between 50 and 75 years. They were split into two

groups: one restricted themselves to stretching exercises, while the rest

carried out some moderate exercise. Most in the latter group plumped for brisk

walking, and this, or some other activity such as cycling or aerobics, was done

for an average of 3.5 days, and for 176 minutes, a week.

 

Within a year the brisk exercise group was showing a significant reduction in

weight and body fat levels. So, no, you don’t have to kill yourself in a gym to

get benefits from exercise—just start walking, but quickly and often.

 

(Source: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2003; 289: 323-30).

 

 

HIV: A simple remedy to help prevent transmission

 

HIV-1 is often transmitted from mother to baby during breastfeeding, especially

in developing countries where the mother may also be malnourished.

 

So what role could vitamins play in reducing this risk, if at all? In other

words, is HIV the same deadly virus in a healthy person?

 

Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health decided to find out, and tested

1078 HIV-infected pregnant women from Tanzania who were five months pregnant.

They were given either vitamin A or a multivitamin.

 

For women with low nutrition, the multivitamins ‘significantly’ reduced levels

of transmission of HIV to the breastfed children, while vitamin A on its own

actually increased HIV transmission levels, and had no positive effect on

mortality levels after two years.

 

The mutivitamins—and, in particular B, C and E—should be a regular part of the

diet of pregnant women who are HIV-positive, say the researchers, a

recommendation that has significance everywhere, and to everyone.

 

(Source: AIDS, 2002; 16: 1935-44).

 

 

 

 

SMALLPOX: It’s terrible, but not terrifying

 

Western countries are living in a state of terror, and we seem to be doing a

better job than the terrorists of terrifying ourselves.

 

The current fear is that terrorists may spread smallpox among us, and it’s one

that is being taken very seriously in the USA where healthcare workers are

lining up for inoculation.

 

We’re frightened of smallpox because we don’t know much about it, other than it

is a dread and fatal disease.

 

But Thomas Mack, an American doctor who treated a smallpox outbreak in Pakistan

in the late 1960s, has a very different view. The outbreak in Pakistan was

quickly contained, not because of an intensive vaccination programme, but

because smallpox is hard to catch, he says.

 

A victim is at his most contagious during the first week that a florid rash, and

deep skin lesions, appear, and this happens around two to three weeks after

initial infection.

 

Even then, the virus travels only a short distance from the victim to someone

else. Scientists were able to grow the virus only from the patient’s face and

bedding. But attempts to do so from exhaled air all failed. This is because

the virus is discharged, not from breath, but from saliva. Most infections in

Pakistan happened at the bedside of a victim, says Dr Mack. Nobody caught

smallpox while on a plane, train or bus, so lending credence to the idea that it

is not an airborne disease.

 

Dr Mack estimates that even a very successful smallpox attack from terrorists

will result in fewer than 20 cases, and 10 deaths, across the USA, whereas 800

people will die from complications from the vaccination.

 

Instead, education of the public about the disease, and its early warning signs,

would be a far more effective strategy, says Dr Mack.

 

(Source: New England Journal of Medicine, 2003; 348: 460-3).

 

 

 

 

READERS’ COMMENTS AND QUERIES

 

Epsom salts is NOT sodium bicarbonate:

Several readers were quick to point out the error in another reader’s suggestion

to use sodium bicarbonate if Epsom salts were proving elusive at your local

store. Both can be mixed together as a detox bath, but Epsom salts (magnesium

sulphate)—which can be a powerful purgative and for soaking whitlows, among many

other uses—is unrelated to sodium bicarbonate. Confusing the two could be

dangerous, warn several readers.

 

 

 

Migraines and amalgam:

A reader reported a few weeks back that his migraines cleared up when he had his

amalgam fillings removed. This prompted another reader to suggest that teeth,

and irregularities in the way that teeth bite together, are the real cause.

When the fillings were removed, occlusion (the way teeth bite together) was more

in balance, which was probably more responsible for the migraines to disappear

than the removal of mercury.

 

 

 

Who’s protecting our health freedoms?

A letter of desperation from one reader who is getting very concerned about the

EU directives. He’s aware of our own Health Freedom Movement, but he says, “a

major nationwide campaign is missing. It is almost as if we are conspiring to

see this (the EU legislation) happen. As one example – surely every health shop

should have a poster in its window? In fact, they don’t even have leaflets!”

 

Health Freedom Movement:

As you all may know, we at WDDTY created the Health Freedom Movement because we

were concerned by the in-fighting and squabbling within the industry, and

between the existing two lobby groups.

 

We’ve failed to stop the in-fighting; some health food stores refuse to stock

our posters, and many vitamin manufacturers are not prepared to send out our

leaflets. Why? We fear they’ve been lured by the prospects of a common market

that will make possible their expansion into Europe, albeit at the expense of

the ‘serious’ health consumer.

 

Nonetheless, we ARE getting support — shops participating include Fresh and Wild

and Planet Organic, as well as a range of independent health shops, and Neways,

the vitamin supplier, has been very supportive. We’ve also had a very

constructive meeting with CND, who organized the massive anti-war march in

February, and plans are progressing well for our own protest march in June.

We’ll be giving you many more details about that nearer the time.

 

Our march is perfectly timed (although that was more by luck than judgement).

Two weeks later, Parliament begins voting on the EU directives, and MPs and

Lords are looking for a strong public groundswell against the legislation so

they can justify a serious modification of it, or even throw it out.

 

So, it’s up to us. Don’t despair – march (and donate)!

 

**Visit the Health Freedom website – http://www.healthfreedommovement.com

 

 

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