Alternative Health & Healing Newsletter

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Alternative Health & Healing Newsletter

 

 

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CONTENTS:

 

Health Facts

 

Weed killer Makes Male Frogs Into Females-Study

 

Soy: The Poison Seed

 

More Mind Control Coming

 

Those Little Pharm-Gifts Mean A lot

 

Pharmaceutical Facts

 

Naturopathy Made Illegal in Florida -- Threat for Other States

 

Overweight, Inactivity and Higher Cancer Risk

 

Restaurant Meals Busting Buttons

 

 

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HEALTH FACTS

 

" The medical establishment works closely with the drug multinationals whose

main objective is profits, and whose worst nightmare would be an epidemic

of good health. Lots of drugs MUST be sold. In order to achieve this,

anything goes: lies, fraud, and kickbacks. Doctors are the principal

salespeople of the drug companies. They are rewarded with research grants,

gifts, and lavish perks. The principal buyers are the public - from infants

to the elderly - who MUST be thoroughly medicated and vaccinated...at any

cost! Why do the authorities forbid alternative medicine? Because they are

serving the industry, and the industry cannot make money with herbs,

vitamins, and homeopathy. They cannot patent natural remedies. That is why

they push synthetics. They control medicine, and that is why they are able

to tell medical schools what they can and cannot teach. " Guylaine Lanctot, M.D

 

 

MICROWAVE: Recent research shows that microwave oven cooked food suffers

severe molecular damage. When eaten, it causes abnormal changes in human

blood and immune systems. Not surprisingly the public has been denied

details on these significant health dangers.

 

SOY PRODUCTS: Contrary to popular belief that soy is a health food,

evidence reveals that soy consumption has been linked to numerous

disorders, including infertility, increased cancer and infantile leukemia,

Type1 diabetes, and precocious puberty in children have been fed soy

formula. (early maturation, such as breast development and menstruation as

early as 6 years of age). Scientists have known for years that the

isoflavones in soy products can depress thyroid function and cause goiters

in otherwise healthy children and adults. A combined research team of

Cornell University Medical College and Long Island Community Hospital

medical experts have found that children who develop Type1 diabetes are

twice as likely to have been fed soy formulas as those fed all other foods

This confirms concerns based on animal studies raised in the 1980's and

1990s by Health Canada researcher Dr Fraser Scott and led to the American

Academy of Pediatrics issuing their warning to pediatricians against any

use of soy based formulas.

 

SUGAR FREE PRODUCTS: According to researchers and physicians studying the

adverse effects of aspartame (Aspartame is the technical name for the brand

names, NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, and Equal-Measure.), the following

chronic illnesses can be triggered or worsened by ingesting of aspartame:

Brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome,

parkinson's disease, alzheimer's, mental retardation, lymphoma, birth

defects, fibromyalgia, and diabetes.

 

 

 

 

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Weed killer Makes Male Frogs

Into Females-Study

By Maggie Fox

Health and Science Correspondent

4-16-2

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The most popular weed killer in the United States can

give male frogs female sex organs and other attributes, researchers said on

Monday, in a study that could shed light on the global decline in amphibian

populations.

 

Very low levels of the herbicide atrazine can cause male frogs to grow female

sex organs and curtail their croaks -- key to attracting mates in the frog world

-- a team at the University of California Berkeley found.

 

The frogs appear normal on the outside, but often have both male and female sex

organs, the researchers said, adding that the findings may help explain the

amphibian population decline.

 

The decline worries scientists because amphibians such as frogs respond to

environmental dangers before other species.

 

" Atrazine is the most commonly used herbicide in the U.S. and probably the

world, " the researchers wrote in their report, published in the Proceedings of

the National Academy of Sciences. " It can be present at several parts per

million in agricultural runoff and can reach 40 parts per billion in

precipitation. "

 

Such a common pollutant would reach many animals as well as humans, so the team,

led by Tyrone Hayes, tested its effects on the African clawed frog Xenopus

laevis.

 

They put tadpoles into water laced with levels of atrazine much lower than

allowed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and found that the weed

killer had serious effects on 16 percent of them.

 

These genetically male frogs had testicles and ovaries, and many had testicles

that did not function properly and contained eggs and sperm. Their levels of

testosterone were much lower than normal.

 

The male frogs also had much smaller larynxes than normal, which could affect

their ability to croak and attract mates, Hayes' team reported.

 

The researchers determined that atrazine is an endocrine disruptor -- a class of

chemicals that disrupts the hormones in the body. Many pesticides fall into this

category and it is one of the qualities that can make them dangerous.

 

" We hypothesize that atrazine ... promotes the conversion of testosterone to

estrogen, " they wrote.

 

" This widespread compound and other environmental endocrine disruptors may be a

factor in global amphibian declines. "

 

Environmentalists responded with alarm.

 

" This research is further proof that this pesticide is a major threat to public

health and the environment, " the Natural Resources Defense Council said in a

statement.

 

" EPA's tap water standard for atrazine is 3 parts per billion -- 30 times higher

than the level at which these dramatic sexual side effects occurred. At higher

levels, the frogs developed additional health problems, " it added.

 

" This rigorous scientific study reinforces what we and other scientists have

been saying for years -- atrazine is a dangerous pesticide, " the council's

Jennifer Sass said. " It's no surprise that it's been banned by many European

countries. "

 

She said the study had implications for humans, especially children who have not

reached puberty.

 

2002 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved

 

 

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Soy: The Poison Seed

Dr. William Wong

 

This piece will be short and very much to the point. As Americas largest cash

crop soy is being touted as having a myriad of health benefits. Far from! Soy

is poison, period! All paid for opinion to the contrary.

 

What's bad about soy?:

 

Contains Isoflavones (Genistein and Daidzein). In soy the isoflavones are built

in insecticides. If they kill bugs are they good for humans?

 

Isoflavones are estrogen like substances which have the same effect as the

bodies estrogen. Cancer comes from having too much estrogen. Irritability and

mood swings, fat gain from the waist down, fibrocystic breast disease uterine

fibromas are all associated with estrogen dominance. Instead of helping prevent

the bad effects of environmental or natural estrogen dominance soy isoflavones

are now known to increase the bad effect of estradiol and estrone the two major

bad guys of the estrogen family. (1,2,3).

 

Kills testicular tissue. In men it permanently reduces testicular function and

lowers Lutinizing Hormone production. LH is what signals your testicles to work.

This increases the probability of estrogen dominance in men with its hair loss,

swollen and cancerous prostates. (4,5). Male children fed soy formulas and soy

products may not ever get to like girls. Dorris Rapp MD, the worlds leading

pediatric allergist, asserts that environmental and food estrogens are

responsible for the increase in male homosexuality and the worldwide reduction

in male fertility. (6).

 

Isoflavones decrease thyroid hormone production. This can stunt children's

growth and make the rest of us tired and fat. (7,8,9).

 

Female children fed the estrogens in soy formula and products hit puberty very

very early sometimes as young as age 6 to 8! (10).

 

Pregnant women eating soy products may effect the sexual differentiation of

their children. Studies show malformations of the reproductive tract or

offspring born with both male and female sexual organs. (11).

 

Isoflavones decrease GOOD cholesterol (HDL). (12,13).

 

Soy contains Phytin, which takes essential minerals such as iron, zinc,

magnesium etc. out of the body before they can be absorbed. Also soy contains

Trypsin inhibitors block this vital anti cancer enzyme, anti fibrosis enzyme.

(14).

 

A 7000 man 30 year epidemiological study done in Hawaii shows soy is connected

with a higher rate of Vascular Dementia (Alzheimer's disease). (15,16).

 

 

Any opinions to contradict the facts noted above have been paid for by the

Agribusiness giants Monsanto and Archer Daniels Midland. Once public knowledge

of their manipulation of public opinion and of the FDA becomes widely known,

expect monster class action lawsuits against these folks. They'll deserve it in

spades!

 

 

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" The hope of the industry is that over time the market is so flooded [with GE

organisms] that there's nothing you can do about it, you just sort of

surrender, " Washington, D.C. biotech industry consultant Don Westfall told the

Toronto Star last year.

 

 

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MORE MIND CONTROL COMING - AS AN ADVISORY PANEL REVEALS HOW MINDLESS DOCTORS CAN

BE

 

NEWS ITEM: ADVISORY PANEL URGES ROUTINE SCREENING FOR DEPRESSION

 

By Nicholas Regush

 

May 22, 2002 - And these are actually adults! A group of doctors, who, if we

didn’t know better, might be accused of smoking dope while advising the

government. Maybe the FBI should investigate. I mean, who are these people? What

were they thinking? Do they have an iota of brain sense about how cajoling

doctors to screen for depression will likely lead to mindless drug prescriptions

for people who are having some common, momentary difficulties in their lives?

 

It’s bad enough that the average family doctor is out of sorts when it comes to

intelligently prescribing drugs for common physical ailments (antibiotic over-

prescription for ear infections is a classic example), but when it comes to

anything to do with mental processes, watch out 100-fold, because the

over-prescription of anti-depressants is already epidemic. And this ongoing

debacle should already have gotten the attention of every chief prosecutor in

every state of the USA.

 

Rather than advise doctors to screen for depression, this advisory panel should

have advised the Department of Justice to set up a Special Task Force to

investigate how the medical profession and the drug industry are in bed with one

another and how this union, involving the influence peddlers of psychiatry, is

set to invade the human mind for even more profit. Talk about terrorism. The

kind of advisory notice sent out today to routinely screen patients is a

forewarning of how dictatorships form.

 

The very idea of a doctor asking a patient two dumb questions that could be

answered " yes " by just about anyone on the planet is so outrageous that I have

wondered today whether this was a missed-opportunity April Fool’s joke.

 

Here are the two great questions that would lead to more screening if the person

answered " yes. "

 

1. Over the past two weeks, have you felt down, depressed or hopeless?

 

2. Over the past two weeks, have you felt little interest or pleasure in doing

things?

 

Only a cultural/social idiot, totally oblivious to the themes of our times, not

to mention the overhanging, ever-present threat of terrorism and a world going

to hell, would ask these types of questions as some sort of a screener for

depression. This is not screening. This is the full frontal attack of a medical

world that has had its head in the sand for decades while the international drug

peddlers have driven a stake through its heart and made people into pill-taking

commodities.

 

Want to read this advisory report?

 

http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/3rduspstf/depression

 

 

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MAY 27, 2002

 

THOSE LITTLE PHARMA-GIFTS MEAN A LOT!

 

This is getting to be a bit of a habit - a shared SCREAM. But we can’t help it

if the medical profession is experiencing SHARED PSYCHOPATHOLOGY.

 

Walk into a doctor’s office and look around. See the pens with pharmaceutical

company names. See the notepad which s/he scratches things on. Catch the name of

the company? Or is some of the pad covered up by a freebie drug packet s/he may

soon unload on you?

 

Okay, so there are no visible TV sets or computers marked with a drug company

logo. And you certainly won’t see the free tickets to the latest ballgame or the

invitation to give an " educational " talk at an " educational " drug conference in

Tahiti. No, those are definitely tucked away somewhere.

 

Then why are pens, notepads, other office supplies (including sticky pads)

various trinkets (maybe a bronzed miniature sheep’s head with a drug company

logo) hanging around on the desk or in view somewhere in the office? Well,

that’s because Dr. Moron doesn’t understand that those " little things mean a

lot. "

 

The fact is, some of us did take Sociology 101 or Social Psych 101 and we do

remember that a wealth of experiments indicate that it doesn’t take much to

influence someone’s behavior.

 

Should you have any doubt about this, think again, and think about the small

gifts that you receive that can mean a lot, particularly if there is a steady

supply. And think of how you tend to want to reciprocate even if the tiny gift

was a cheap replica of a Trojan Horse.

 

 

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" I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for

failure -- which is: Try to please everybody. " ~ Herbert Bayard Swope

 

 

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Pharmaceutical Facts

 

$ According to industry estimates, drug companies spent $15.7 billion dollars on

promotion in 2000, up from $13.9 billion in 1999. (IMS Health)

 

$ Sixty million " details " were made by 83,000 drug reps in the year 2000.

Astra-Zeneca added 1,300 reps solely to promote Nexium. (Scott-Levin Consulting)

 

$ $7.2 billion dollars worth of free samples were distributed in the year 2000.

(IMS Health)

 

$ The " Research-based " pharmaceutical industry spends more on promotion and

administration than it does on research and development. (Families USA)

 

$ Drug costs increased 18.8% to $131.9 billion dollars in 2000. Over a third of

this increase was due to a shift to the use of more expensive drugs. (National

Institute for Health Care Management)

 

$ Two and one-half billion dollars were spent on advertising to consumers in

2000, a 35% increase from 1999; $468 million dollars were spent on journal ads.

(NIHCM)

 

$ Increases in the sales of the 50 drugs most heavily advertised to consumers

were responsible for almost half (47.8%) of the $20.8 billion increase in

spending in 2000.(NIHCM)

 

$ In 2000, Merck spent $161 million on advertising for Vioxx. That is more than

Pepsico spent advertising Pepsi. ($125 million), and more than Anheuser-Busch

spent advertising Budweiser.($146 million) (NIHCM)

 

$ The increase in Vioxx sales in 2000 accounted for 5.7% of the 1 year increase

in drug spending. (NIHCM)

 

$ Since 1995, R & D staff of U.S. brand name drug companies have decreased by 2%,

while marketing staff have increased by 59%. Currently, 22% of staff are

employed in research and development, while 39% are in marketing. (PhRMA

Industry Profile 2000)

 

$ In a study by Avorn, et al, forty-six per-cent of physicians reported that

drug reps are moderately to very important in influencing their prescribing

habits (Amer Journal of Med, 1982).

 

$ A study by Chew, et al (JGIM, 2000), found that in the treatment of

hypertension, over 90% of physicians would dispense a sample that differed from

their preferred drug choice.

 

$ A study by Westfall, et al (JAMA, 1997), found that 96% of physicians and

staff had taken samples for personal or family use in the preceding year.

 

$ The AMA generates $20 million in annual income by selling detailed personal

and professional information on all doctors practicing in the United States to

the pharmaceutical industry (NY Times, November 16, 2000)

 

 

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Naturopathy Made Illegal in Florida -- Threat for Other States

 

Bill HB 591, which was accepted in Florida in 2000, makes any practice of

naturopathic medicine illegal. While the area was unregulated for many years,

this bill requires that people practicing a health care profession without a

license get a minimum fine of $1000 and one year in prison.

 

So what, in Florida, is defined as practicing a health care profession? The law

defines it as " …the use and practice of psychological, mechanical, and material

health sciences to aid in purifying, cleansing, and normalizing human tissues

for the preservation or restoration of health, according to the fundamental

principles of anatomy, physiology, and applied psychology, as may be required.

Naturopathic practice employs, among other agencies, phytotherapy, dietetics,

psychotherapy, suggestotherapy, hydrotherapy, zone therapy, biochemistry,

external applications, electrotherapy, mechanotherapy, mechanical and electrical

appliances, hygiene, first aid, sanitation and heliotherapy… "

 

As you can see, pretty much anything could be considered " practicing a health

care profession " under this law -- even giving first aid! It opens the door for

arbitrary prosecution of anyone in the field. Meanwhile, there are only 6

licensed naturopaths left that were licensed under an old law before 1959....

 

For more information and to find out what you can do go here:

http://www.naturalhealth.org/index.shtml

 

 

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Overweight, Inactivity and Higher Cancer Risk

 

Research has shown that overweight, inactive individuals have higher risk for

many cancers, but a clear biological explanation for exactly why this is so has

been more elusive.

 

Now, however, one likely reason is beginning to emerge from the research.

 

It has been shown that being overweight and inactive can cause the body to

secrete higher and higher amounts of insulin and other growth factors.

 

Cells exposed to high levels of these substances over an extended period of time

may begin to reproduce so quickly that cancer becomes more likely.

 

But researchers at the American Institute for Cancer Research stress that this

potentially dangerous condition is reversible.

 

--Regular physical activity can help reset the body's hormonal systems and

regulate the secretion of insulin.

 

--Losing weight and keeping it off also helps restore insulin levels to normal.

 

As research continues, scientists will likely identify additional biological

reasons that excess weight and inactivity increase risk. It is already clear,

however, that diet, physical activity and weight management play key roles in

cancer prevention.

 

 

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The secret of maximum health? " The last resort " , this is what Natural Hygiene

has been called. - Why? - Because so many people, who are sick or overweight,

and have tried everything else without success, - finally end up here, and

usually manage to solve their problems. The secret? - trust the body, let the

body heal without interfering. Plus an optimal environment: the best food, sleep

and exercise. Does that sound too simple?.

 

 

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RESTAURANT MEALS BUSTING BUTTONS

 

Meals often five times larger than healthy servings

 

By Karen Collins, R.D. (MSNBC Contributor)

 

June 7 – Studies show that as people eat out more often, their calorie

consumption goes up. This is probably due not just to what we order, but also

how much. New research shows that restaurant portion sizes have grown markedly,

with amounts two to five or more times larger than the “standard” serving size.

 

According to government studies, adult calorie consumption increased about 200

calories a day from the late 1970x to the mid-1990s. Although this increase may

be due to many changes in our eating patterns, a study in the Journal of the

American Dietetic Association shows that more frequent eating out or ordering

take-out is linked with higher daily calorie and fat consumption.

 

Portion sizes in fast food, take-out and family-type restaurants were studied by

researchers at New York University and reported in a recent American Journal of

Public Health. Many of the restaurant portions were substantially larger than

the standard serving sizes used in government nutrition recommendations like the

Food Guide Pyramid.

 

WANNA COOKIE---OR SEVEN?

 

The average bagel was double the standard serving, steak was more than double, a

muffin was three times larger, pasta was equal to almost five standard servings,

and cookies were an astonishing seven times the standard serving size.

 

Portions larger than a standard serving are not always a problem. For

example,one way to reach the health goal of five to 10 servings of fruits and

vegetables is to include in your meal a portion equal to two (or even three)

servings. Unfortunately, portion sizes of fruits and vegetables in restaurants

were not noted in the NYU report. But experience tells us these foods are often

served in restaurant meals as garnish—or not even included.

 

Grain products like bread, rice and pasta would not be at all inappropriate in a

one-cup portion (equal to two standard servings). But when a portion of pasta

is almost five standard servings, or when meat is twice the recommended serving

size and eating one cookie is really like eating seven, the problem with

frequent restaurant eating becomes obvious. When calorie consumption increases,

the nutritional proportion of healthy foods is probably toppled.

 

It wasn’t always this way. Researchers in the NYU study also looked at how

portions at these restaurants have changed over the years. Today’s French fry,

burger and soda portions are about two to five times the portions originally

served. The number of large-sized portions has increased more than ten-fold in

the last 30 years.

 

SAY “NO” TO SUPER-SIZES

 

This trend ins a U.S. phenomenon. A “large” portion in Europe is smaller than a

“large” in America. In this country, the food industry promotes larger portions

as bargains that give you more for your money. But while larger servings may

cost less per ounce, eating more than you really need is not a good deal.

 

When a range of portions is offered, the “small” size of virtually everything is

usually the best choice—except for vegetables. Remember that even a “medium”

was once a “large” not too long ago. Observe Portion sizes, using comparisons

like a deck of cards as a standard meat portion, and an average adult’s fist as

a maximum grain portion.

 

The key is to eat portions based on true hunger cues rather than eating until

the plate is empty. Unfortunately, this is hardest to do when eating “on the

run,” the very time that much of our fast food and take-out eating is done.

 

 

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??? ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE ??? Will someone please explain to me how the

practice of 'Natural Medicine', which has been around for over 3000 years, is

now called " ALTERNATIVE " , while the practice of 'Allopathic Medicine', which has

existed for less than a century, is officially referred to as " TRADITIONAL " ?

 

Am I missing something here?

 

 

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