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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Nutrition and Environment Acknowledged as Cancer Cause by Major University

For decades, going back to the late 60s, I've been an advocate of the philosophy that cancer is an emotional and nutritional dis-ease.  As time progressed I have seen cancer become an industry and rely on a limited number of "standardized" treatment schemes.  Sadly these have done nothing for prevention or cure, and certainly there has been little change or any real new ideas or therapy in mainstream medicine.
Just this morning a colleague of mine, a man who was one of the early orthomolecular pioneers, sent out this from of all places, Johns Hopkins.
I am sure many will be interested because this is what we in natural health over decades have been saying.
Some years ago I leaned from a close friend that his daughter had cancer. Her doctor told her these things but also said not to tell who told her or he could get in trouble (Fred Hutch in Seattle - and Seattle was the place where the draconian WA DOH went after a great doctor who had been following this back in the 70s, saving thousands, he lost his license and and retired from practice.)
Our organization offers the Kelley Method which is nutritional and developed in the 1960s for liver and pancreatic cancer, now shown to have an 83% positive result.
NB: We do not suggest green tea as mentioned in this article as it is linked to pancreatic cancer. We also suggest you NEVER cook or heat in a microwave. We say skip the soy.
FINALLY!!! News from the medical world that makes sense!!!
Thanks Dr. Von!
AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .
Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins:

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they havemultiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patientsthat there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.


3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person hasn utritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic,but also to environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies,
changing diet to eat more adequately and healthy, 4-5 times/dayand by including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing
cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cellsin the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.


8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often
reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from
chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is eithercompromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumbto various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to
mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer
cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.


*CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitutewould be Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very smallamounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white incolor Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or  (Celtic)sea salt.


b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the
gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment.
A meat-baseddiet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little other meat, like chicken. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole
grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body intoan alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cookedfood including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide liveenzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down tocellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhancegrowth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (mostvegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some rawvegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed attemperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high
caffeine Green tea is a better alternative and has cancerfighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, orfiltered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tapwater. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of
digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in theintestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.


13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By
refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymesto attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows thebody's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system
(IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals,EFAs etc.) to enable the body’s own killer cells to destroycancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are knownto cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body'snormal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, orunneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit.
A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warriorbe a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness putthe body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated
environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

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No plastic containers in micro.

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No water bottles in freezer.

3.
No plastic wrap in microwave..

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.
This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life

Cancer from Natural Healing through Natural Health, http://www.leaflady.org/cancer.htm
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May 12, 2011
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Our first webinar is “The Politics of Breast Cancer”- a crash course on the “pinking” of breast cancer, environmental causes of the disease and the corporate interests that control what the public hears about the epidemic. ...
Feb 05, 2011
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There are at least 22 known causes of cancer including malnutrition, reported by the USDA to be related to at least 50% of all cancers in 1972, resulting from over 100 scientific studies. Most nutritional deficiencies included ...
Jan 24, 2011
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Traditional cancer treatments work by targeting the tumor with toxic chemicals or radiation, killing off the malignant cells – but also damaging healthy cells in the process. For this reason, chemotherapy and radiation ...

Friday, September 16, 2011

Update on the Corn Sugar Fight

— The Food and Drug Administration has cautioned the corn industry over its ongoing use of the term "corn sugar" to describe high fructose corn syrup, asking them to stop using the proposed new name before it has received regulatory approval, The Associated Press has learned.



Looks like the big fight over the high fructose corn syrup is still blazing -
SOURCE: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/sep/15/ap-exclusive-officials-slam-corn-syrup-rebranding/


Selections from Natural Health News

Jan 05, 2009
Splenda (sucralose) and Aspartame make you gain weight just like high fructose corn syrup. Somehow all of these fake foods being promoted as the "Best Life" partners leave a lot to be desired. But of course this is my opinion, ...
Jan 20, 2007
High fructose corn syrup you say? Yup! the one that passes directly into your blood stream and is connected with developing diabetes. And corn again, one of those high pesticide and allergy causing foods. You've got added sugar from ...
Nov 07, 2007
Americans have begun to ask why the farm bill is subsidizing high-fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated oils at a time when rates of diabetes and obesity among children are soaring, or why the farm bill is underwriting factory farming ...
Aug 27, 2007
Atrazine, another very toxic chemical, is used in growing corn crops. High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain ...

Read our opinion on the apple juice controversy

UPDATE: 30 November, 2011


http://blog.seattlepi.com/naturalnotes/?p=140

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Apple Juice risks


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What is being done to our children?


Guess those professors, CBS evening News and Anderson cooper haven't been doing a thorough search of the literature

The Pourcyrous Study: Peer Reviewed study PROVES vaccines cause brain injury   from Tim O’Shea DC
For years I've been saying in the vaccine seminar and in my textbook on vaccines that this is just scratching the surface of the enormous body of research into Problems with Vaccines. At my recent lecture in Oxford England an attendee gave me a new book she has written about Shaken Baby Syndrome. In Catherine England's book I learned about the landmark Pourcyrous study on brain inflammation following vaccines. (Journal of Pediatrics 2007, vol 151, p 167) In a sample of 239 premature infants (less than 35 weeks) tests were done using two parameters for brain inflammation: C -reactive protein and evaluation of cardiopulmonary function. It was a very thorough study, University of Tennessee, differentiating the effects from a single vaccine vs. multiple vaccines given to these premature newborns. C-reactive protein is a blood value test, high levels of which indicate inflammation. No wonder the results were kept out of media: they were startling.
Among premies getting a single vaccine shot: 70% had elevated CRP ( C-reactive protein)
Premies who got multiple vaccines: 85% had high CRP. Fully 16% had cardiopulmonary events within 48 hours, including apnea and bradycardia.
In a premie, these effects are potentially fatal, of course.
Brain hemorrhages occurred in 17% of those with single vaccines, and in 24% getting multiple vaccines.
As expected, the most dangerous vaccine was DPT. Multiple vaccines included Hepatitis B, polio, DPT, H. influenzae, and Prevnar. Several things here. The recklessness in giving vaccines to premies isn't even discussed. Oh, so it’s for the sake of ‘science,’ so it’s OK, right? Of course there are no risk/benefit studies whatsoever in this area, but it stands to reason if a normal newborn takes at least 2 years to develop even a rudimentary immune system, how much more ill-advised it is to subject a premie who has no immune system at all as well as no blood brain barrier to an array of vaccines which contain neurotoxins such as mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, ethylene glycol in addition to a host of manmade pathogens.
Knowing this alone, what kind of "scientist" would it take to even conduct a study like this in the first place on the fragile systems of premature infants? Sounds like something Dr. Mengele would come up with. 
One struggles for adjectives to describe this policy of vaccinating premies. But if these dangerous results are so high at this age, how much lower results could we expect just a few weeks later when they're at the usual age for getting multiple vaccines? What are we doing? What are scientists playing at?
How smart or how dumb do you have to be to realize how cavalier we're being with the most delicate medium in the universe: the infant's brain neurology? You can bet these geniuses aren't experimenting with their own children. 
Here's how the condescending conclusion of this searing study evaluates its own data on potentially lethal apnea and slowed heart beat: "In a minority of infants immunized, cardiorespiratory events were associated with presumed need for intervention". 
A minority? 17% is a pretty high minority especially if you're talking about the chances of your own infant dying from slowed heart rate and cessation of breathing! And for what?
The value of vaccines has never been clearly demonstrated, never proven in an independent controlled risk/benefit analysis. In other words, we don't know if they work or not. But we're positive they can kill babies. “Presumed need for intervention”? Like what? Drugs? Intensive care?
How about removing the root cause: just don’t vaccinate!
The next time your hear some mouthpiece recite the rote mantra about how there’s no proof vaccines cause brain injury, stop them in mid sentence with the Pourcyrous study - www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(07)00185-0/abstract  
As a parent, wouldn’t it be important to know that your child stands a 17% of a breathing crisis as the result of a vaccine? Or a 24% chance of brain hemorrhage with multiple vaccines, which multiples routinely begin at 2 months of age, with 7 vaccines on one day? I mean here’s the information from the best medical sources. Is the pediatrician going to tell the parents about these studies? Isn’t this level of danger worth knowing about?
What are we doing to our kids?

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

When you need real help

It is quite clearly established that adverse effects of pharmaceutical drugs cause an estimated 2000+ a day in hospital admissions.
Other research shows that at least 50% of all of these adverse reaction are preventable.
If you are a regular reader of Natural Health News, the original natural news blog, you will know this topic is one we have been covering for years.
Most recently we began offering our very well tested Health Forensics and related services to the public.  i find I have competition for a computer seemingly set up by IBM and a health insurance firm to use in an actuarial approach to decision making in health care.
Currently the US ranks 37-39 out of all industrialized countries for health care.  We are the only country that ties health insurance to employment.  This leaves millions without coverage.
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont today help a meeting and discussed poverty in the US and health.  His reports verified what has long been known by health professionals like me: poverty shortens your life because of its impact on your health and nutritional status.
I do not believe this is the United States that people want.
Another medical commentary caught my attention and it is directly related to the serious problem we are facing in mainstream care, or should I say disease management by medicine.

22 false assumptions, practice failures, and everyday clinical errors that we believe are common in modern medical practice:1. Lack of appreciation of the phenomenon of physician persuasion and its hidden power. The placebo effect is scientific, potent, and worthy of use.
2. Lack of understanding of the power of prevalence or pretest probability in the diagnostic process, leading to frequent false positives and "overdiagnosis" of nonexistent diseases.
3. Lack of understanding that many disease processes are gradual and progressive -- not "on or off" signals; analog and not digital. This leads to great confusion about when to diagnose and treat. For example, at what percent stenosis is an artery "diseased" and in need of treatment?
4. Incorrect assignment of reductions in death rates and increasing life expectancy to curative medicine rather than to preventive efforts.
5. Medicine has a tendency to remove many physicians from relying on direct experience and personal observations and replace this with a reliance on indirect information. This leads to an over-reliance on lab and imaging findings by both patients and doctors.
6. Lack of long-term clinical outcome data, stratified by gender and age, leading to an inability to obtain a truly informed consent.
7. The mind-body dichotomy, present since René Descartes in the 1600s, holds erroneously that the mind and body are completely separated. This false separation leads us to believe that the lack of evidence for disease in the body of a symptomatic patient confers a diagnosis of mental disease: Thus the non-helpful statement to the patient, "Don't worry, it's all in your head."
8. Lack of appreciation for what is scientifically established versus what is still in the thought stage of development.
9. A failure of medicine to recognize what it can effectively treat and what it cannot, and admitting that some diseases have no effective treatment.
10. Failure to recognize that the fields of human biology and clinical medicine overlap but do not coexist. Schools of medicine are becoming more schools of human biology and less schools of clinical medicine.
12. Lack of a blood or urine test that can measure mental status. Dementia can be missed in up to 20% of admissions to hospitals.11. Absence of a test that will distinguish well from sick. The lack of a test leads to the erroneous assumption of sickness as the rule of thumb for almost all patients.
13. Lack of full understanding of the intense secondary gain of illness.
14. Fallacy of the first lesion found being assigned importance, whether or not it is the cause of the symptoms.
15. Fallacy of any lesion found being sufficient to explain symptoms.
16. Failure to stop a drug or treatment when it is not helping.
17. Failure to identify what abnormality or test result is to be followed to determine success or not, when someone is being treated.
18. Failure to look for little signs of improvement and stick with the treatment rather than change it too soon.
19. Failure to know a patient well enough to know what their wishes are in terminal or hopeless situations.
20. Failure to recognize and advise the family when a condition or situation is futile and should move to palliation and comfort care.
21. Failure to keep the number of drugs to a minimum.
And, number 22, perhaps the most important to today's society:
22. An exaggerated and unfounded fear of malpractice suits with abdication of professional responsibility just to avoid any chance of being sued.
The above are from George Lundberg MD and Clifton Meador MD and this is sourced from MedPage Today. 
Working as I have in critical care for so many decades I have seen all 22 of these and probably more.

When you need help getting through the quagmire known here as "health care" look to Health Forensics


Also consider that there is recently a move to looking at nutrient status as it relates to health.  Very few offer this although I have been working with nutritional status and health since the 1960s as encouraged by the renowned Dr Hoffer.

Nutrient review and depletions identification as related to pharmaceuticals are key parts of this unique system.

When you are looking for the best, look for Health Forensics.





Helpers for Your Failing Heart


A group of people with heart failure was studied to see how well they responded to COQ10 and other antioxidants.  Patients had a 40% or lower ejection rate and had been diagnosed for at least six months.  Daily dose of COQ10 was 350 mg.  Pycnogenol was the antioxidant used in this study.

None in this group was taking statin drugs or supplements because of the impact on COQ10.  Statins deplete this critical enzyme.

In this 12 week study the improvement level was very good for 86% of the participants and these included -

Ejection fraction increased by 22.4%
Quality of life issues improved from 43% to 54% 
3.3 times longer walking distance on treadmill
Decrease in distal edema
Decrease in blood pressure by 8% both systolic and diastolic
Decrease in heart rate
Decrease in respiratory rate up to 8.25%

Selections from Natural Health News

Feb 02, 2011
September 22, 2008 — A new study has found that older adults with severe subclinical hypothyroidism had almost double the risk of developing heart failure (HF) compared with those with normal thyroid function over a 12-year follow-up . ...
Jul 05, 2011
Atrial fibrillation is often asymptomatic and is not in itself generally life-threatening, but it may result in palpitations, fainting, chest pain, or congestive heart failure. People with AF usually have a significantly increased risk of ...
Mar 27, 2007
An extract from the leaves of the crataegus, or hawthorn tree, already available in Europe, extended the lives of patients with congestive heart failure who were already receiving medicinal treatment by an average of four months, ...
Dec 23, 2008
Dec 22 - In patients hospitalized with acute decompensated congestive heart failure, low total cholesterol levels independently predict a higher risk of in-hospital death, a report in the December issue of the American Heart Journal ...

Monday, September 12, 2011

I've got a lovely jar of coconut (oil)


A couple of weeks ago I received a large glass jar of coconut oil to review. Our organization frequently tests and reviews books and product and we've done so for about a dozen or more years. I guess its because of the trust so many have in us and our findings.

I've long been aware of the health benefits of coconut, even enjoying it greatly as a child. Over many decades in natural health I've learned much about the real benefits of coconut oil and how it can be beneficial for many things.
Probably I got extremely interested in this food when I was working with a retired Air Force colonel with ALS and also my work with Keep Hope Alive on HIV and AIDS.
Coconut oil is one of the three oils I recommend to all my clients.
The week before I received the oil and set up my plan to review it I suggested coconut oil to three people for different health concerns. The most serious was for a person a major candida overgrowth problem for a person who had just been discharged from the hospital following "treatment" for pneumonia. The aggressive use of antibiotics without concomitant use of probiotics was the iatrogenic cause of this super infection. This person developed an extreme case of "thrush" from the antibiotics; it completely covered their mouth and esophagus. They could not eat or drink and they also have Stage 3 renal failure.
I suggested coconut oil to their home care worker who is a friend of mine. I explained that it would give calories, melt at body temperature so there was no work to ingest it, just to let it melt and coat the mouth, throat and esophagus. Within two days the candida overgrowth was clearing up, this person was taking much needed fluids, and had begun to eat.
I had made some additional suggestions, including a reminder to start using those cans of coconut milk I'd sent by. Through donations received at CHI we can donate health products to people in need.
While the brand of coconut oil I've been using is a bit more expensive than most of what is sold in even health stores, I have to say I'm convinced there is a difference.
Firstly this is an organic product. Yes, there are other organic products sold for less money but all of then are mechanically expressed.
Secondly, this coconut oil, to me at least seems to be very different. Maybe it is an energetic difference or something I can't put my finger on, but I know it is different.
When the package arrived the oil in the jar was liquid. As our weather cooled I watched little bubbles form of the oil molecules as it hardened, and this was fascinating to observe.
I'd taste tested this oil when it was liquid and the taste was noticeable lighter and less acidic that others I have used. As the oil hardened I tasted it again each morning, and it was just a pleasing hard, as liquid.
Cooking with this oil was a breeze as it melted very quickly, faster than what I've been using. There was no change in taste to what food I was cooking and it stayed "melted" in smoothies I'd made.
I use coconut oil for a weekly hair treatment and this oil washed cleanly after one lathering, but then I use Dirty Girl's Desert Rain shampoo bar and this might make a difference.
I tested this oil as a lotion and the absorption is quick! My skin felt great and it look softened and hydrated with just a very small amount.
I guess I have to say I'm sold on traditionally handmade, organic Tropical Traditions Gold!

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Jul 23, 2011
A recent study published in the journal Human and Experimental Toxicology (August 2005) revealed the effectiveness of coconut oil in neutralizing aluminum phosphide, a poison used in rodent control. A case study reported ...
Mar 04, 2009
MARY ENIG Ph.D. ON NATURAL COCONUT OIL FOR AIDS and OTHER VIRAL INFECTIONS On July 19, 1995, Enig was quoted in an article published in The HINDU, India's National Newspaper as stating that coconut oil is ...
Aug 12, 2009
A new study examined the effects of coconut oil supplementation on women with abdominal obesity—that is, a waist circumference greater than 34 ½ inches—one of the leading risk factors in both heart disease and diabetes. ...
Jul 05, 2011
In all of my articles I promote the use of mild, unfrangranced soap, dying your hands thoroughly, and applying a simple natural lubricant to your skin to help prevent drying (which perpetuates the problem), coconut oil works ...
"We all come from the same root, but the leaves are all different."
-John Fire Lame Deer


Tuesday, September 06, 2011

More about risky drugs and Osteoporosis

UPDATE: 9/10/11
Another new article points to the insanity of the FDA's process of approving drugs that take so long to report data about the risk to bone health.  The other odd consideration is the lack of attention to how to properly label problematic drugs and how to determine just how long someone would take a risky Rx.
FDA advisers wary of time limit on bone drugs

From 9/6/11
Today it was announced that Blythe Danner, actress and mother of Gwyneth Paltrow, has osteoporosis. 

The article states "In order to spread awareness about osteoporosis, Danner is helping launch Act2ReduceFractures.com, an informational Web site on fracture risk jointly sponsored by Amgen, American Bone Health, the Global Healthy Living Foundation, and the Older Women’s League."

This is of course another celebrity pushing drugs and avoiding any discussion of what natural remedies are available to help prevent and treat bone loss. Fluoride based drugs with many serious adverse reactions are the cornerstone along with low level dosing of vitamin D, calcium, and kale chips which are in fact quite good.

Nothing is referenced about the problems with calcium about the form and utilization as well as the need for a full complement of nutrients to keep bones strong and healthy.

No mention of herbs, no mention of homeopathy, no mention of many good natural approaches.
Read complete article

Also consider this - 

Thursday September 01, 2011
Reclast Gets FDA Kidney Failure Warning 
The osteoporosis drug zoledronic acid (Reclast) should not be used in patients with significant renal impairment, and physicians should screen patients for kidney dysfunction before starting them on the drug, the FDA said.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/ProductAlert/Prescriptions/28320?utm_source=breaking-news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-news

Look to Health Forensics for more information 


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Aug 16, 2009
Osteoporosis involves the thinning of bones, and if some measures are not taken, it can lead to excruciating pain accompanied by fractures and forms of disability. For treatment, one should take proper intake of ...
Aug 12, 2009
FDA staff has expressed concerns that denosumab, the investigational biologic drug for osteoporosis, may increase risk of serious infections through its activity against an important immune system modulator. ...
Jun 05, 2006
more than just osteoporosis - Further down in this post you will find this paragraph:"Oncologist Julie Gralow, M.D., of the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle said that women should ...
Oct 02, 2009
The first case of osteosarcoma associated with Forteo use was published in the Journal of Bone Mineral Research in 2007 (JBMR vol. 22, p. 334), and a second case was published on-line in Osteoporosis International on the ...

Thursday, September 01, 2011

Germany to scrap airport scanners

UPDATE: 6 January 2012

Despite frequent claims by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) that their naked body scanners are harmless, a radiation doctor says the surveillance devices can cause death or cancer.
The head of radiology at Florida Medical Center, Dr. Edward Dauer, has recently said that body scanners that emit ionizing radiation are, undeniably, a very serious health threat that can even cause cancer.

He said the devices are especially carcinogenic for the people over 65 years of age and in women, who are genetically prone to developing breast cancer

"Ionizing means it knocks the electrons out of your body, which breaks your DNA chain, which can cause death or cancer," Dauer said.

However, the TSA continues to insist that the scanners, X-ray scanning machines, whose radiation could penetrate passengers' clothes and show hidden objects, emit a minimal amount of ionizing radiation.

It argues that the scanners are by no means more dangerous than the 'higher' amounts of background radiation people are exposed to in their ordinary everyday lives. Yet the agency has failed to provide any solid proof to support its claim.

A group of scientists from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), have also publicly contradicted the TSA's claim.

The group says this claim is highly deceptive since during a naked body scan, the radiation is concentrated directly on the skin and its underlying tissues. Yet, background radiation that the body is exposed to in places such as airplanes is absorbed by the whole body.

Having repeatedly challenged the legitimacy of the use of the body scanners, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a public interest research group based in Washington, DC, is at present filing a lawsuit aimed at putting an end to the entire body scanner program, which it denounces as 'unlawful, invasive, and ineffective.'

SOURCE
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BODY scanners being trialled at a German airport ahead of a planned nationwide roll-out were so inaccurate that the whole scheme has been scrapped, a government official has announced.
The so-called backscatter scanners had an error rate of 54 percent during their year-long trial at Hamburg Airport, The Local reported.
The controversial screening devices are similar to the "naked scanners" already in the US at several major airports.
But the German models proved unusable, returning false results triggered by folds in clothing and even by perspiration.
Selection from Natural Health News
Mar 14, 2011
Smith-Bindman, who has testified before Congress about excessive radiation from medical scans, studied the TSA reports and said she wasn't concerned about the airport X-rays. The risks are "truly trivial," she wrote in an ...