Who giveth and taketh?

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Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:19:42 -0500

WC Douglass

Who giveth and taketh?

 

Daily Dose

 

June 25, 2004

 

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The only thing that should be " fortified " nowadays is your

bomb shelter

 

We've all know about " fortified " foods - and the claims in

ads for white bread and sugar-laden breakfast cereals that

claim they're actually good for you - because they've

been " fortified " with vitamins and iron.

 

Let's get realistic here. It doesn't take much to figure out

that " fortified " refers to the lame attempt to put back into

foods what the refining and preservation processes take out -

which is typically anything about it that may have actually

been GOOD for you.

 

Just open your breadbox and take a look at the label on the

loaf of bread in there. If you see the word " enriched "

anywhere, your bread has been made from nutrition-free

refined flour, then sprayed, injected, or otherwise feebly

treated with a useless chemical version of valuable vitamins

and nutrients you really do need. In other words: Fortified.

 

Here's a funny one: Salt is " fortified " by adding iodine.

What they do is take perfectly good, natural salt - which

actually offers some amazing health benefits - then they

refine and process all the vital nutrients out of it before

finally treating it with iodide.

 

But they call it " fortified, " so it must be good for you,

right?

 

So who's behind all this nonsense? The government,

initially. Since around WWII, they've been mandating that

the various branches of our military buy and use only

fortified flours, breads, and other such gruel. Why? Because

even they knew that our fighting men needed an influx of

nutrients in their rations, not just the empty calories in

refined foods.

 

What I can't figure out is this: If they KNOW that we really

need the vital nutrients in raw, unprocessed, preservative-

free foods, why don't they simply ban the processing methods

that strip these nutrients from flour, milk, and other foods

in the first place? So what if milk or bread no longer

lasted a month or more? Wouldn't the gains in health and

nutrition be worth it?

 

Obviously not, because instead of meaningful regulation, our

government just keeps accepting the word of the processed

food industry - that " fortified " foods are a real,

beneficial solution...

 

And not just another part of the carb-heavy " Food Pyramid "

that's been fattening us like cattle for the last 30

years... .

 

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Statin drugs cause mental " static "

 

I know I've mentioned cholesterol drugs a lot, both in my

newsletter and in the Daily Dose. But new research findings

keep cropping up almost daily, it seems, that tell us new

things about these harmful patent medications - and

their " benefits. "

 

For instance, research unveiled at last fall's meeting of

the American Heart Association revealed that a commonly

prescribed " statin " drug for lowering cholesterol might

actually impair patients' brain function - even so far as to

affect their ability to perform everyday tasks, like drive a

car. The study pinpointed measurable decreases in attention

span and psychomotor reflex speed among the subject group

when compared to the un-medicated control group.

 

But here's the really incriminating part: Those patients who

experienced the greatest decreases in blood cholesterol also

suffered the greatest levels of impairment! Interesting,

huh?

 

I mention these findings to you because I know the

mainstream press will never pick up the story - but also

because some medical authorities estimate that in the very

near future, half of the adult U.S. population could be

taking cholesterol-lowering medications. That's right - if

conventional doctors and the " drug thugs " have their way,

every other one of us will be stumbling around in a statin

stupor! But what's not clear is whether the impairment is

caused by the drugs themselves - or the lack of cholesterol.

 

I suspect it's the latter. Why? Because low cholesterol

levels have been linked to numerous other health issues

directly related to the brain - things like violent

behavior, depression, mood swings, stroke risk and other

problems. Maybe now, we should add " impaired brain

functioning " to that list.

 

I've said it before, and I'll say it again now: Unless your

cholesterol climbs over 300, forget about it - even

the " ratio " of LDL to HDL that so many conventional doctors

make such a fuss about. For heart health, concentrate

instead on DHEA, testosterone (for both men and women), and

homocysteine levels. And be sure to supplement with plenty

of folic acid, B vitamins, and CoQ10, too.

 

Just leave the statin drugs alone - unless you're suffering

from an excess of IQ or terminal euphoria.

 

 

Bringing you the full story,

 

William Campbell Douglass II, MD

 

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