I was reading on the internet again, seems that I spend a rather inordinate amount of time on this modern miracle lately. I mean it does contain a lot of extremely interesting information, and I just can't keep up with all of it, but I do try. Also a lot of jokes, and no where near enough time or desire to view all of that. But, I did find this interesting article in the newspaper "Canada" and thought I would show it to anyone that follows my blog. I did edit it some, and just to let you know, he mentions this very cool site, nice to view if you have a half an hour. (GMO Myths)
Genetic Engineering technology was first invented in 1973, it is 40
years old, and it relies on a hypothesis established 70 years ago, the
one gene one protein hypothesis.
Each gene codes for one protein.
So if you insert a gene, you expect one protein to be produced. This
hypothesis was blown out of the water in 2002 when the Human Genome
Project was completed, and we discovered that our genome has just under
25,000 genes, while our bodies function with approximately 100,000
proteins. It does not add up. A genome, we learned, is a complex
ecosystem under much influence from the environment.
We now know
that each gene of a genome makes many proteins according to
environmental cues. And since the Human Genome Project we know that
genetic engineering creates rogue proteins, and some of them can be
allergenic or toxic. Inserting a transgene into a genome and expecting
only a single protein and nothing else, is corporate fallacy.
Genetic pollution is so prevalent in North and South America where GM
crops are grown that the fields of conventional and organic grower are
regularly contaminated with engineered pollen and losing certification.
The
canola and flax export markets from Canada to Europe (a few hundreds of
millions of dollars) were lost because of genetic pollution. Did I
mention superweeds? That's when RoundUp crops pass their genes on to
RoundUp Resistant weeds.
Apparently over 50% of fields planted to
GMOs in the USA are now infested and the growers have to use other toxic
herbicides such as 2-4 D. For those of you too young to remember, that
was Agent Orange in the Vietnam war. The transgenes are also transferred
to soil bacteria. A Chinese study published last year shows that an
ampicillin resistance transgene was transferred from local engineered
crops to soil bacteria, that eventually found their way into the rivers.
The transgenes are also transferred to humans. Volunteers who ate
engineered soybeans had undigested DNA in their intestine and their
bacterial flora was expressing the transgenes. This is genetic pollution
to the extreme, particularly when antibiotic resistance genes are
spread that way.
In 2009 the American Academy of Environmental Medicine called for a
moratorium of GM foods, safety testing and label-ing. Their review of
the available literature at the time noted that animals fed GMOs showed
serious health risks including infertility, immune dysregulation,
accelerated aging, dysregulation of genes associated with cholesterol
synthesis, insulin regulation, cell signaling, and protein formation,
and changes in the liver, kidney, spleen and gastrointestinal system.
The
US Food and Drug Administration waived all levels of safety testing in
1996 before approving the commercialization of these crops. Nothing more
than voluntary research is necessary, and the FDA does not even want to
see the results. And there is certainly no need to publish any of it.
If you remember 1996, the year that the first crops were commercialized,
the research scientists of the US FDA all predicted that transgenic
crops would have unpredictable hard to detect side effects, allergens,
toxins, nutritional effects, new diseases. That was published in 2004 in
Biotechnology. I know well that Canada does not perform long term
feeding studies as they do in Europe. The only study I am aware of from
Canada is from the Sherbrooke Hospital in 2011, when doctors found that
93% of pregnant women and 82% of the unborn tested had the protein
pesticide in their blood. This is a protein recognized in its many forms
as mildly to severely allergenic.
One argument I hear repeatedly is that nobody has ever been sick
after a meal or a trillion meals of GM food. Nobody gets ill from
smocking a pack of cigarette either. But it sure adds up, and we did not
know that in the 1950s before we started our wave of epidemics of
cancer. Except this time it is not about a bit of smoke, it's the whole
food system that is of concern. The corporate interest must be
subordinated to the public interest, and the policy of substantial
equivalence must be scrapped as it is clearly untrue.
Dr. Thierry Vrain Courtenay
http://www.canada.com/entire+food+system+under+threat/8215403/story.html
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Tough world for babies - vaccines - a revisit to this info
This info from a previous posting is very relevant and timely now with this new addition to my neighboring extended family. So, without further ado, info on
vaccines.
There seems to be a whole lot of stuff going on for infants these days. Back in 1954 when I was born, it was out into the bright lights to view a staff of doctors dressed in green wearing masks, then into mom's arms and life began. Nowadays, they pop the baby out, then wash him, weigh him, soothe him a bit, then stick needles into him and inject weakened Hepatitis B viruses in a matrix of mercury, msg and formaldehyde. Tough thing for a newly arrived infant to have to handle being injected into him. I mean that most newborns already have a huge disadvantage with over 237 toxic chemicals being detected in their blood, all having been consumed by the mother, most inadvertently. Products of modern industrial society.
But really, Hepatitis B? This is a disease that is transmitted through the exchange of bodily fluids, either through sex or the use of needles shared during intravenous drug use. An infant, what is the logic behind the vaccination for Hep B? The worst part is that now, teenage kids that were given the government recommended dosing of this particular vaccine are now showing the ineffectiveness of the vaccine by coming down with the disease in their teen years. Makes one wonder about the reasoning behind requiring this particular vaccine to be administered to infants and to require the vaccine before being allowed admittance to preschools and kindergartens. Remember, this disease, Hepatitis B, is ONLY transmitted through the exchange of bodily fluids or blood as in IV drug use or the exchange of fluids via oral or vaginal sex. Yeah, Preschoolers maybe, in a sick world, but babies.
Try to remember that AmeriKans have the highest rate of infant vaccinations in the world. On average, 49 vaccines are recommended before a child is the age of 2. One child in 88 will become autistic. In 1954 when I was born, and there were no vaccines, one child in 25,000 was autistic.
The chances of a child in third world countries developing polio, rotavirus, diptheria, tetanus, mennengitus, pneumonia, or influenza and becoming totally debilitated or dying, one in 14,000.
A child in AmeriKa has a GREATER risk of becoming autistic, and possibly totally dependent on their parents for a LIFETIME of intensive home care than they have for contracting ANY of the diseases that the vaccines are supposed to protect them from.
And yet the big drug companies take your money and get bigger and badder.
The decision to vaccinate a child for a disease for which there is little to NO chance of the child contracting becomes even more ridiculous when you consider the side effects possible when injecting this vaccine into a newborn baby. The NVIC, the National Vaccine Information Center states,
“As of March 2012, there was a total of 66,654 hepatitis B vaccine-related adverse events reported to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), including reports of headache, irritability, extreme fatigue, brain inflammation, convulsions, rheumatoid arthritis, optic neuritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus, Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) and neuropathy.
There have been more than 1,500 hepatitis B vaccine-related deaths reported, including deaths classified as sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).”The CDC recommends infants receive the Hepatitis B vaccine because "Infants and children who will travel internationally should receive 3 doses of HBV vaccine before traveling:" (CDC website) So how did this recommendation, that in reality MAY have some root causative response that is in line with reality for infants that will be partaking of international travel to third world countries become the government MANDATE that all newborn infants receive this deadly Hep B vaccine?
And the coffers of the big drug companies flow with milk and honey.
If you are about to have a baby, think hard about what you want for your baby's health. Waiting until your infant is 2 years of age reduces the risk of contraction of autism by over 6,000 per cent. When getting vaccines for yourself or for your child, ask the medical professional what is in the vaccine. Refuse any vaccine that contains Thimerisol or formaldehyde.
If you decide to get a vaccine yourself, or worse, if you decide to vaccinate your children, here are some tips from The National Vaccine Help Center. (NVHC)
- Am I or my child sick right now?
- Have I or my child had a bad reaction to a vaccination before?
- Do I or my child have a personal or family history of vaccine reactions, neurological disorders, severe allergies or immune system problems?
- Do I know the disease and vaccine risks for myself or my child?
- Do I have full information about the vaccine’s side effects?
- Do I know how to identify and report a vaccine reaction?
- Do I know I need to keep a written record, including the vaccine manufacturer’s name and lot number, for all vaccinations?
- Do I know I have the right to make an informed choice?
- Pronounced swelling, redness, heat or hardness at the site of the injection;
- Body rash or hives;
- Shock/collapse;
- High pitched screaming or persistent crying for hours;
- Extreme sleepiness or long periods of unresponsiveness;
- High fever (over 103 F)
- Twitching or jerking of the body, arm, leg or head;
- Crossing of eyes;
- Weakness or paralysis of any part of the body;
- Loss of eye contact or awareness or social withdrawal;
- Loss of ability to roll over, sit up or stand up;
- Vision or hearing loss;
- Restlessness, hyperactivity or inability to concentrate;
- Sleep disturbances that change wake/sleep pattern;
- Head banging or onset of repetitive movements (flapping, rubbing, rocking, spinning);
- Joint pain;
- Muscle weakness;
- Disabling fatigue;
- Loss of memory;
- Onset of chronic ear or respiratory infections;
- Violent or persistent diarrhea or chronic constipation;
- Breathing problems (asthma);
- Excessive bleeding (thrombocytopenia) or anemia.
I will tell this story again here. In 1993 I was having problems with asthma. I was living in an area surrounded with cotton fields and every fall when they sprayed Agent Orange on the cotton then picked the cotton with the huge vacuum cleaners I got sick, and came down with pneumonia. My doctor suggested a pneumonia vaccine. I got it, and within 5 days I could barely move my arms and legs they tingled with this painful numbness that made walking, sitting, sleeping, or anything impossible. This was the first signs of Guillian-Barre Syndrome, a neurological problem that we now know is caused by vaccinations. I went to three neurologists during the six weeks I was off work. None helped. And now that I think about it, none of them asked any of the pertinent questions or took blood to test for heavy metal contamination. But the GBS was new at that time. But look at the list of side effects you should be looking out for in your children if you get them ANY vaccination.
Did you know that the Feds have set up the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program where they have established a superfund of cash to help out parents of children whose lives have been destroyed by vaccinations? Yep. Even the Feds know that they are bad, but they make sooooooo much fucking money selling them that the companies again, payoff federal agencies to allow them to continue to destroy American lives. America vaccinates children with on the average, 49 vaccines before a child is age 2. America has the HIGHEST rate of vaccination of children in the world. America has the HIGHEST rate of autism in the world. There is a DIRECT correlation between the numbers of vaccines received and the rate of autism. And yet no one does anything to stop it.
In America, money is the root of all evil!
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
GMO Report Card. Failed Failed Failed
If I was in school and my performance matched the dismal results that
Genetically Modified crops have returned, I would have gotten my ass
beaten and had my nose forced into books every single minute of every
day that I wasn't asleep, eating, pooping or walking to school. And yes,
in my day we walked to school, my parents never had to worry whether or
not we would go, we went because we knew we had to. And if the bigger
kids beat us up, we had to deal with it. This sort applies to today's
world, and the creators of GM crops, they have beaten the little peons
of consumers and actually the farmers as well, and now we are uniting to
fight back, and now they have to suffer the consequences.
So, first off, I discovered in my research, another branch of the FDA, the ERS, or Economic Research Service. Their job, is to make sure that the figures presented to the world show the lies and half truths that Monsanto and other Gene Tech firms and chemical producers want us to see. Oops, that's not the real mandate, it just seems to be when you look closely at the data and conclusions they present. (ERS info) Their conclusions about how wonderful and healthful as well as productive and cost saving seem to be in direct conflict with the findings of, you got it, their parent organization, the USDA.
Now, I don't know everything, as I have said before, if I did, I would be a woman, a really ugly woman. But I know how to get information that I want, or need, so that I can be perceived as though I know a lot more than I actually do. And thus comes the Internet. And I began to look up info on crop yields for most GM crops to find out how they compare to conventional, and of course, organic, crops in similar environments and growing conditions. I found this paper by the Union of Concerned Scientists - (Failure to yield) One of the things that is discussed in this paper is that yields for most crops are rising across the board, but that those increases are attributable to non-genetic modifications such as improvements in farming techniques like satellite tillage, water and drainage management and other basic but high tech farming techniques. the catch is that the increases are greater for non-GM crops than for GM crops. So I wanted to verify this info, and found (Cotton Yields) (Corn Yields) (Soy Yields) and I even found one article on the differences in harvest in Tobacco Mosiac Virus Resistant Genetically Modified Squash. It was really long and boring and showed that as an abstract that yields were slightly higher for GM but it was attributable to other factors.
The true report card comes with grades in other subjects, not just yield per acre. Those grades are for the tremendous use of pesticides on plants that are supposed to be toxic to insects if they eat them. Ouch, we now have Bt resistant insects, and farmers are spraying ever greater quantities of traditional pesticides on their crops that are damaging beneficial insect populations and dramatically increasing the resistance of the populations of damaging insects that are targeted. Plus the bonus of the Bt toxin being actually in every bite of the GM foods that we consume and with research just now finding out that those toxins are harmful to humans, are chronic and cumulative, and that the genes that cause the manufacture of the Bt toxin in the crops are passed into the bacteria living in the intestinal tracts of humans and animals that consume the crops. Ouch, another failure.
Use of the toxin glyphosate has reached 1.3 billion pounds annually. Contrary to what Monsanto would like us as consumers to believe, it is NOT harmless. New research is proving that the stuff causes cancer, destroys the environment, and does not degrade for several years. Humans in Germany have unbelievably high amounts of glyphosate in their urine. If I win the lottery, I will set up a lab and start to test for that kind of stuff here in the US. Sad to say, it costs a lot of money, and Monsanto will not pay for it. And no governmental agency will pay for it either since big business runs the government. The overall effect of spraying ever greater quantities of glyphosate on crops is that the stuff is pretty much everywhere, and yet the weeds it is supposed to eradicate just develop resistance to the weed killer in much the same manner that the crops have. Ouch, another FAILURE.
It is possible to farm quite effectively and profitably using non-GM crops and using organic methods. In fact, the FDA itself has a complete section on their website about how to do it. (AFICS) Alternative Farming 'Systems Information Center. The number of organic farms in the US has increased over 70% since 2007. And that is just the ones registered, many farms use sustainable practices but are just too small to justify the cost of the organic certification. Or they just don't want to, like the Amish. Who by the way, have been very successful at what they do for quite some time now. It is possible, if we as consumers demand it, it will happen.
Overall, things are just like the title states. The GMO experiment now just some 17 years old, (well for the poison Canola, about 27) and the report card is a big resounding FAILURE. The FDA has their own propaganda dissemination organisation, the ERS and it is telling us all how great and wonderful the experiment is doing here in our life in "Animal Farm" world. Thank you Snowball, our lives are all the better as we live with all the degenerative ills and cancers forming in our bodies from this horrific experiment known as "Monsanto Makes Billions as Humans Die!"
I just want to leave you with this thought, in 1998, 24 African scientists at a United Nations conference wrote an angry rebuke of Monsanto's advertising, which used photos of starving African children under the headline, "Let the Harvest Begin." In
So, first off, I discovered in my research, another branch of the FDA, the ERS, or Economic Research Service. Their job, is to make sure that the figures presented to the world show the lies and half truths that Monsanto and other Gene Tech firms and chemical producers want us to see. Oops, that's not the real mandate, it just seems to be when you look closely at the data and conclusions they present. (ERS info) Their conclusions about how wonderful and healthful as well as productive and cost saving seem to be in direct conflict with the findings of, you got it, their parent organization, the USDA.
Now, I don't know everything, as I have said before, if I did, I would be a woman, a really ugly woman. But I know how to get information that I want, or need, so that I can be perceived as though I know a lot more than I actually do. And thus comes the Internet. And I began to look up info on crop yields for most GM crops to find out how they compare to conventional, and of course, organic, crops in similar environments and growing conditions. I found this paper by the Union of Concerned Scientists - (Failure to yield) One of the things that is discussed in this paper is that yields for most crops are rising across the board, but that those increases are attributable to non-genetic modifications such as improvements in farming techniques like satellite tillage, water and drainage management and other basic but high tech farming techniques. the catch is that the increases are greater for non-GM crops than for GM crops. So I wanted to verify this info, and found (Cotton Yields) (Corn Yields) (Soy Yields) and I even found one article on the differences in harvest in Tobacco Mosiac Virus Resistant Genetically Modified Squash. It was really long and boring and showed that as an abstract that yields were slightly higher for GM but it was attributable to other factors.
The true report card comes with grades in other subjects, not just yield per acre. Those grades are for the tremendous use of pesticides on plants that are supposed to be toxic to insects if they eat them. Ouch, we now have Bt resistant insects, and farmers are spraying ever greater quantities of traditional pesticides on their crops that are damaging beneficial insect populations and dramatically increasing the resistance of the populations of damaging insects that are targeted. Plus the bonus of the Bt toxin being actually in every bite of the GM foods that we consume and with research just now finding out that those toxins are harmful to humans, are chronic and cumulative, and that the genes that cause the manufacture of the Bt toxin in the crops are passed into the bacteria living in the intestinal tracts of humans and animals that consume the crops. Ouch, another failure.
Use of the toxin glyphosate has reached 1.3 billion pounds annually. Contrary to what Monsanto would like us as consumers to believe, it is NOT harmless. New research is proving that the stuff causes cancer, destroys the environment, and does not degrade for several years. Humans in Germany have unbelievably high amounts of glyphosate in their urine. If I win the lottery, I will set up a lab and start to test for that kind of stuff here in the US. Sad to say, it costs a lot of money, and Monsanto will not pay for it. And no governmental agency will pay for it either since big business runs the government. The overall effect of spraying ever greater quantities of glyphosate on crops is that the stuff is pretty much everywhere, and yet the weeds it is supposed to eradicate just develop resistance to the weed killer in much the same manner that the crops have. Ouch, another FAILURE.
It is possible to farm quite effectively and profitably using non-GM crops and using organic methods. In fact, the FDA itself has a complete section on their website about how to do it. (AFICS) Alternative Farming 'Systems Information Center. The number of organic farms in the US has increased over 70% since 2007. And that is just the ones registered, many farms use sustainable practices but are just too small to justify the cost of the organic certification. Or they just don't want to, like the Amish. Who by the way, have been very successful at what they do for quite some time now. It is possible, if we as consumers demand it, it will happen.
Overall, things are just like the title states. The GMO experiment now just some 17 years old, (well for the poison Canola, about 27) and the report card is a big resounding FAILURE. The FDA has their own propaganda dissemination organisation, the ERS and it is telling us all how great and wonderful the experiment is doing here in our life in "Animal Farm" world. Thank you Snowball, our lives are all the better as we live with all the degenerative ills and cancers forming in our bodies from this horrific experiment known as "Monsanto Makes Billions as Humans Die!"
I just want to leave you with this thought, in 1998, 24 African scientists at a United Nations conference wrote an angry rebuke of Monsanto's advertising, which used photos of starving African children under the headline, "Let the Harvest Begin." In
their statement the delegates wrote: We...strongly object that the image of the poor and hungry from
our countries is being used by giant multinational corporations to push technology that is neither safe,
environmentally friendly, nor economically beneficial to use. We do not believe that such companies
or
gene technologies will help our farmers to produce food that is needed
in the 21st century. On the contrary, we think it will destroy the
diversity, the local knowledge and the sustainable agricultural
systems that our farmers have developed for millennia and that it will thus undermine our capacity
to feed ourselves"
Number one cause of Deaths in AmeriKa today.
Most of this info I wrote about back last October, but thought about printing it again as my little niece is in the Banner system delivering her little baby girl this morning. I shouldn't go see her since my sinus infection is blooming again and I do have MRSA up there that I contracted while in a different hospital, none the less, I want this info to get out again
Life is scary. We all like to get a little scared now and then. Amusement parks sell us fear and getting scared, and it is a lot of fun. But I wish the fear that I feel only came with the price of admission to Disneyland. However, it doesn't, it comes every single day of the year and it scares the bejesus out of me. These facts are all found on legitimate organization's sites on the internet, I am not making them up in any way. So get ready to get the crap scared out of you.
One million seven hundred thousand people each and every year will acquire a nosocomial infection. This is a bacterial or fungal infection that a person gets while in the hospital. Approximately 115,000 people will die from these infections. This is an annual estimate for the US by the CDC. These infections affect the urinary system, cause pneumonia, destroy the broncho/nasal systems and a whole host of other systems. And the worst part is now the prevelance of MRSA, and other antibiotic resistant bacteria. Hospitals are the PRIMARY cause of the transmission of these new and incredibly dangerous new strains of bacteria. I personally am just one case of having contracted MRSA during a hospital stay. Good luck asking them to fix it. It has no cure and they will only try if you have really good insurance.
Next on the list of Frightening Happenings that cause death in the night is drug interactions and mis-prescribed drugs. 2.2 million people have severe adverse reactions to drugs, and over 105,00 die annually. When in hospitals. This has nothing to do with drug recalls or adverse side effects of drugs that drug companies and the FDA only find out about AFTER they are approved to be sold to the American public. Again, this is something that happened to me, when in the hospital for my second pulmonary embolism, I was given 2 different drugs and developed pancreatitis. A nurse told me they should not have prescribed that combination as it could do such. I went ahead and looked it up on Drug.com and sure enough, that was the one thing that the site said could happen if you took those two. Hmmm. Oh well.
I want to take a moment here to talk a bit about Plavix. This is a drug that is used to prevent strokes and now pulmonary embolisms. Something that I survived four episodes of. The standard treatment for this has been coumadin. An actual compound that was used as a rat poison as it tasted good, the rats ate it and then they died a slow death by bleeding internally. So some one thought that would be a good thing to save lives. I took it for three years, most of my hair fell out, I still have scars on my arms and legs from the CONTINUOUS bruising that occurred just from simple light bumps. When I found out that Plavix would replace Coumadin, I was happy. Then I found out about all the deaths from it. With a little further research, I discovered that Plavix reduced the risk of stroke in patients down to 6.78 per 100,000 people. Then, I found that taking one baby aspirin a day would drop the risk of stroke to 6.97 per 100,000 people. And a very low possibility of death, unlike Plavix. And at about 1 cent an aspirin, 600 times cheaper. I no longer take Coumadin, and I certainly don't take Plavix, I take an aspirin every day.
Next scary death knell, Iatrogenic Events. Fancy word for just plain accidental deaths due to medical intervention. About 2 million reported events resulting in an annual death rate of about 230,000.
So, what does all this mean. Well, first off, this is only part of the list. There are lots of other minor things causing deaths in hospitals. But the whole thing boils down to this one thing. And it is pretty important: THE NUMBER ONE CAUSE OF DEATH IN AMERICA TODAY IS MODERN MEDICAL PRACTICES. Sends a shiver down my spine. And you know, I really really am lucky to have survived my treatments by modern medicine, I am lucky to wake up every morning.
Take precautions everyone, ask questions of your doctor, look up your meds online to verify they won't cause more harm than any possible good they MAY do for you. And ask, ask, ask, ask, and ask again. If they think you are taking an interest in your care, they might not practice on you
But for me, I worry about this information about how modern medical practices are the number one cause of death in America today. And so when I go to the doctor, I try to get the doctor as much information as possible so that the particular practitioner I am seeing has all the facts about my case, and hopefully they will do more than a precursory exam with the info about me. I don't want that medical professional to come in, see me, a big overweight guy, look at the chart and see that my blood pressure is 112 over 62 and think that I forgot to list the blood pressure meds on my list of medication. They all seem to have preconceived ideas for what they want to diagnose for patients. Every doc in an ER, (and I have been to ER's a LOT) all want to know what diuretic I take or other blood pressure med. I don't take any. Of all those in my family, I am the only one, but that is a dietary thing. When I try to give doctors my COMPLETE medical history, sure they are shocked that I survived four incidents of pulmonary embolisms, understand the black mold and the need for HIGH doses of steroids, and the subsequent onset of Avascular Necrosis and hip replacement. But when I start on telling them about my 95% vegetarian diet, avoidance of white flour, high fructose corn poison, any and all GM food products, salt, soda, distilled spirits, and all processed foods; they really don't listen. When I list all the supplements that I take, (about 20) they half hearted listen, and only one, my oncologist, asked me why I take Saw Palmetto as that is a natural anti male hormone drug. Her advice, don't take it. My response, I take it to keep my prostate from swelling to the size of an apple and to help stop male pattern baldness. Of course she looks at my head and tells me it isn't working. But then we both laugh about the coumadin propensity to make people's hair fall out in huge clumps. (mine is growing back in areas devastated by the blood thinner poison) ((YAAAAY)) But for the most part, these "Doctors" listen to me prattle on and I believe that for the most part, could care less. I truly believe that most doctors have no concept that nutrition is at the root of MOST medical problems. The AMA direction is to prescribe drugs whose manufacturers fund their organization and treat symptoms, rather than diseases.
My very good friend, and about the best sexual partner I have ever had in my life, Key, has been going to a Chinese holistic doctor and they ask those kinds of questions about diet and lifestyle. Chinese medicine looks at the whole body and environment and goes from there. Their problem lies in an inability to utilize some, and there are a few, of the advancements in medicines that have been discovered. Osteopathic doctors look at your skeletal structure and think that points to the root of problems, not exactly correct, but certainly a starting place that the AMA should look at a little bit at least. So how do we combine all of these differing viewpoints? Well, I personally don't think it is possible. They each are adamantly opposed to the other, and like my ex-wife, they each want to be the dominant person in their own little universe. So, it is up to the individual to choose, drug based treatment, holistic herb based diagnosis and treatment, or skeletal reasoning. And then go from there. Will it work? Well, all I know is that when I get a few bucks ahead, I am going out for Chinese.
Life is scary. We all like to get a little scared now and then. Amusement parks sell us fear and getting scared, and it is a lot of fun. But I wish the fear that I feel only came with the price of admission to Disneyland. However, it doesn't, it comes every single day of the year and it scares the bejesus out of me. These facts are all found on legitimate organization's sites on the internet, I am not making them up in any way. So get ready to get the crap scared out of you.
One million seven hundred thousand people each and every year will acquire a nosocomial infection. This is a bacterial or fungal infection that a person gets while in the hospital. Approximately 115,000 people will die from these infections. This is an annual estimate for the US by the CDC. These infections affect the urinary system, cause pneumonia, destroy the broncho/nasal systems and a whole host of other systems. And the worst part is now the prevelance of MRSA, and other antibiotic resistant bacteria. Hospitals are the PRIMARY cause of the transmission of these new and incredibly dangerous new strains of bacteria. I personally am just one case of having contracted MRSA during a hospital stay. Good luck asking them to fix it. It has no cure and they will only try if you have really good insurance.
Next on the list of Frightening Happenings that cause death in the night is drug interactions and mis-prescribed drugs. 2.2 million people have severe adverse reactions to drugs, and over 105,00 die annually. When in hospitals. This has nothing to do with drug recalls or adverse side effects of drugs that drug companies and the FDA only find out about AFTER they are approved to be sold to the American public. Again, this is something that happened to me, when in the hospital for my second pulmonary embolism, I was given 2 different drugs and developed pancreatitis. A nurse told me they should not have prescribed that combination as it could do such. I went ahead and looked it up on Drug.com and sure enough, that was the one thing that the site said could happen if you took those two. Hmmm. Oh well.
I want to take a moment here to talk a bit about Plavix. This is a drug that is used to prevent strokes and now pulmonary embolisms. Something that I survived four episodes of. The standard treatment for this has been coumadin. An actual compound that was used as a rat poison as it tasted good, the rats ate it and then they died a slow death by bleeding internally. So some one thought that would be a good thing to save lives. I took it for three years, most of my hair fell out, I still have scars on my arms and legs from the CONTINUOUS bruising that occurred just from simple light bumps. When I found out that Plavix would replace Coumadin, I was happy. Then I found out about all the deaths from it. With a little further research, I discovered that Plavix reduced the risk of stroke in patients down to 6.78 per 100,000 people. Then, I found that taking one baby aspirin a day would drop the risk of stroke to 6.97 per 100,000 people. And a very low possibility of death, unlike Plavix. And at about 1 cent an aspirin, 600 times cheaper. I no longer take Coumadin, and I certainly don't take Plavix, I take an aspirin every day.
Next scary death knell, Iatrogenic Events. Fancy word for just plain accidental deaths due to medical intervention. About 2 million reported events resulting in an annual death rate of about 230,000.
So, what does all this mean. Well, first off, this is only part of the list. There are lots of other minor things causing deaths in hospitals. But the whole thing boils down to this one thing. And it is pretty important: THE NUMBER ONE CAUSE OF DEATH IN AMERICA TODAY IS MODERN MEDICAL PRACTICES. Sends a shiver down my spine. And you know, I really really am lucky to have survived my treatments by modern medicine, I am lucky to wake up every morning.
Take precautions everyone, ask questions of your doctor, look up your meds online to verify they won't cause more harm than any possible good they MAY do for you. And ask, ask, ask, ask, and ask again. If they think you are taking an interest in your care, they might not practice on you
But for me, I worry about this information about how modern medical practices are the number one cause of death in America today. And so when I go to the doctor, I try to get the doctor as much information as possible so that the particular practitioner I am seeing has all the facts about my case, and hopefully they will do more than a precursory exam with the info about me. I don't want that medical professional to come in, see me, a big overweight guy, look at the chart and see that my blood pressure is 112 over 62 and think that I forgot to list the blood pressure meds on my list of medication. They all seem to have preconceived ideas for what they want to diagnose for patients. Every doc in an ER, (and I have been to ER's a LOT) all want to know what diuretic I take or other blood pressure med. I don't take any. Of all those in my family, I am the only one, but that is a dietary thing. When I try to give doctors my COMPLETE medical history, sure they are shocked that I survived four incidents of pulmonary embolisms, understand the black mold and the need for HIGH doses of steroids, and the subsequent onset of Avascular Necrosis and hip replacement. But when I start on telling them about my 95% vegetarian diet, avoidance of white flour, high fructose corn poison, any and all GM food products, salt, soda, distilled spirits, and all processed foods; they really don't listen. When I list all the supplements that I take, (about 20) they half hearted listen, and only one, my oncologist, asked me why I take Saw Palmetto as that is a natural anti male hormone drug. Her advice, don't take it. My response, I take it to keep my prostate from swelling to the size of an apple and to help stop male pattern baldness. Of course she looks at my head and tells me it isn't working. But then we both laugh about the coumadin propensity to make people's hair fall out in huge clumps. (mine is growing back in areas devastated by the blood thinner poison) ((YAAAAY)) But for the most part, these "Doctors" listen to me prattle on and I believe that for the most part, could care less. I truly believe that most doctors have no concept that nutrition is at the root of MOST medical problems. The AMA direction is to prescribe drugs whose manufacturers fund their organization and treat symptoms, rather than diseases.
My very good friend, and about the best sexual partner I have ever had in my life, Key, has been going to a Chinese holistic doctor and they ask those kinds of questions about diet and lifestyle. Chinese medicine looks at the whole body and environment and goes from there. Their problem lies in an inability to utilize some, and there are a few, of the advancements in medicines that have been discovered. Osteopathic doctors look at your skeletal structure and think that points to the root of problems, not exactly correct, but certainly a starting place that the AMA should look at a little bit at least. So how do we combine all of these differing viewpoints? Well, I personally don't think it is possible. They each are adamantly opposed to the other, and like my ex-wife, they each want to be the dominant person in their own little universe. So, it is up to the individual to choose, drug based treatment, holistic herb based diagnosis and treatment, or skeletal reasoning. And then go from there. Will it work? Well, all I know is that when I get a few bucks ahead, I am going out for Chinese.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
What will it take to BAN all GM foods?
Oohhh, I've talked about this before, and now it is hitting the mainstream media. Pretty soon it will be on all the talk shows, and all the TV "Doctors" shows. I found this article about a month ago and wrote about it. (GMO Bad). It is a very technical article done by actual scientists that did not take ANY money from Monsanto or any other GeneTech company to do pseudoresearch and give results showing how wonderful the world is with GM foods in it now. Basically if you look at the article and skim thru it, you will get the same conclusions I am going to cut and paste for you here --
"evaluations of toxicity and pathogenicity of microbiological control agents such as Bt toxins, given that little is known about their toxicological potential in non-target organisms, including humans.
While Bacillus Thurigensis spore-crystals have been used since the late 1960's in agriculture as a foliar insecticide, it was only after the advent of recombinant DNA biotechnology that these toxin-producing genes (known as delta endotoxins) were first inserted into the plants themselves and released into commercial production in the mid-90's, making their presence in the US food supply and the bodies of exposed populations ubiquitous.
What the new study revealed is that various binary combinations and doses of Bt toxins are capable of targeting mammalian cells, particularly the erythroid (red blood cell) lineage, resulting in red blood cell changes indicative of significant damage, such as anemia. In addition, the study found that Bt toxins suppressed bone marrow proliferation creating abnormal lymphocyte patterns consistent with some types of leukemia."
Yes sir, bad information indeed. If we also look at the Princeton study that found that genes inserted into Soy and Corn that was then fed to human being test subject volunteers, were subsequently found to have transferred all on their own, into the genetic makeup of the bacteria that live inside the intestinal tracts of the subjects. What that means, is that our own bodies become Bt Toxin factories, pumping ever more quantities of Bt toxin into our systems every minute of every hour, every hour of every day, and every day of every year for as long as ye shall live. And now we have more research showing the harmful effects of consuming GM foods.
This is not the first study to show the link between GM foods as a causative agent in degenerative diseases. This is just the first to be taken seriously by mainstream media. Most magazines, TV stations, news businesses, radio station conglomerates, newspapers or any kind of news or business that reports the news has not EVER said one bad thing about Monsanto, GM foods, or any of the toxic chemicals that our food supply harbors. EVER. The reason is simple, they exist because of advertising revenue, and most of the advertisers use GM products. The mandate at news medias everywhere is simple, don't bite, or report on, the hand that feeds you. Well, there are a huge number of real scientific studies that have been done reporting the same information. I don't know why this one has hit the wires, but maybe, just maybe, it will start an avalanche of info getting out to the population.
The question is, will it be enough to cause a backlash of support for ridding the marketplace of GM foods? I hope so. That would mean that a large enough number of people in this country have begun to be cognizant of what they ingest. Yeah, a lot of us already are, but look on every major corner in AmeriKa and see the fast food fat inducing dispensers of degenerative disease places selling slow death wrapped in paper. When people really start to recognize how important nutrition is, most all of those joints will go bankrupt. Or alternatively, the smart ones will prepare and serve real food devoid of toxic additives and HFCS.
Good luck to everyone, remember I didn't make this up, but you are what you eat.
"evaluations of toxicity and pathogenicity of microbiological control agents such as Bt toxins, given that little is known about their toxicological potential in non-target organisms, including humans.
While Bacillus Thurigensis spore-crystals have been used since the late 1960's in agriculture as a foliar insecticide, it was only after the advent of recombinant DNA biotechnology that these toxin-producing genes (known as delta endotoxins) were first inserted into the plants themselves and released into commercial production in the mid-90's, making their presence in the US food supply and the bodies of exposed populations ubiquitous.
What the new study revealed is that various binary combinations and doses of Bt toxins are capable of targeting mammalian cells, particularly the erythroid (red blood cell) lineage, resulting in red blood cell changes indicative of significant damage, such as anemia. In addition, the study found that Bt toxins suppressed bone marrow proliferation creating abnormal lymphocyte patterns consistent with some types of leukemia."
Yes sir, bad information indeed. If we also look at the Princeton study that found that genes inserted into Soy and Corn that was then fed to human being test subject volunteers, were subsequently found to have transferred all on their own, into the genetic makeup of the bacteria that live inside the intestinal tracts of the subjects. What that means, is that our own bodies become Bt Toxin factories, pumping ever more quantities of Bt toxin into our systems every minute of every hour, every hour of every day, and every day of every year for as long as ye shall live. And now we have more research showing the harmful effects of consuming GM foods.
This is not the first study to show the link between GM foods as a causative agent in degenerative diseases. This is just the first to be taken seriously by mainstream media. Most magazines, TV stations, news businesses, radio station conglomerates, newspapers or any kind of news or business that reports the news has not EVER said one bad thing about Monsanto, GM foods, or any of the toxic chemicals that our food supply harbors. EVER. The reason is simple, they exist because of advertising revenue, and most of the advertisers use GM products. The mandate at news medias everywhere is simple, don't bite, or report on, the hand that feeds you. Well, there are a huge number of real scientific studies that have been done reporting the same information. I don't know why this one has hit the wires, but maybe, just maybe, it will start an avalanche of info getting out to the population.
The question is, will it be enough to cause a backlash of support for ridding the marketplace of GM foods? I hope so. That would mean that a large enough number of people in this country have begun to be cognizant of what they ingest. Yeah, a lot of us already are, but look on every major corner in AmeriKa and see the fast food fat inducing dispensers of degenerative disease places selling slow death wrapped in paper. When people really start to recognize how important nutrition is, most all of those joints will go bankrupt. Or alternatively, the smart ones will prepare and serve real food devoid of toxic additives and HFCS.
Good luck to everyone, remember I didn't make this up, but you are what you eat.
Monday, May 20, 2013
"Now Play fair", was the admonishment from mom
My mom, probably every body's mom, would always warn us with that bit of advice. The big kids need to watch out for the smaller ones, don't let them get hurt, don't let them run off and get lost, don't smash them in the face when they say things that are true about their lack of intelligence and need to hurt others. Yeah, that's why my nose points to the left. I was six, and a lot more cognizant of the world around me than most. Even today, I see things, and tell the truth about what I see. So far, I haven't gotten smashed in the face again, but then I believe that those out there that are of similar personality as those buffoons of yesteryear are desperately doing whatever they have to do to avoid getting caught with their pants down, so to speak. And the truth is that people like me, and there are becoming more of us all the time, are morphing into a force to be feared by those that lead the businesses that have no qualms about making money with the absolute knowledge that AmeriKan Consumers for the most part don't give a crap about what they stick into their mouths. Yeah yeah yeah, not talking about the juniors on the pep squad in high school, I'm talking about the majority of AmeriKans. Most people just don't care about the food they eat. Look at the proliferation of fast food places, certainly the most obvious example. I really don't believe that anyone out there thinks that fast food is healthy food. It's more than the movie "Super Size Me"; it's the entire concept of make money by making products as cheaply as possible and the path to that IDEAL involves using as many toxic and/or artificial ingredients and as much High Fructose Corn Syrup and other addictive ingredients as they legally can. Those guys are not playing fair. Not any more it seems, and others may put it differently, but you can't argue with the fact that many many many of us that got our faces smashed in as kids are looking toward those that feel superior to us lowly peons and have begun to speak out and attempt to get the masses to look at themselves, and the food they eat. And we give them someone to blame for their problems, their poor health, their inability to conceive children, the degeneration of their systems, and the preponderance of cancers amongst themselves and their friends and families.
Yeah, those guys aren't playing fair at all. And they haven't for some time now. Ever since some one some where figured out that by giving money to a politician, that politico would then pretty much do whatever you wanted. Is that fair? The abstract view of that question comes down to whether we believe that the person that has the money to do such a thing and to alter existence in favor of his or hers desire or needs may in fact have the right to do so based on the fact that whatever they did to acquire the funds to purchase the favors of politicos gives them more rights than persons that don't have such funds. Oooh, such a concept, if we live in a free society based on free enterprise and where one individual is able to through his own efforts and actions, accumulate great wealth, then does not the very basis of that free enterprising society allow for that person to spend his acquired wealth as they see fit to and if that choice involves the purchasing of political favoritism, then that should be construed by all as a just means and ultimate expression of the basics of society? Whew, basically that means who decides what is fair?
I'd like to.
I think that soon, every voter in the country will get to decide what is fair. Having figured out that attempting to get anything done on a federal level is just not possible, that we, the little people, the ones that got our faces smashed in as kids, just don't have the monetary means to purchase fairness in the same arena with big businesses. But we can do it on a state level. There are five states with mandatory GM labeling laws being debated at the state level. Forty-five to go. And with the grass roots efforts of people like me, people that want FAIR, we just may get them. Yeah, we caught some of them with their pants down, and because they don't want to, and have never had to play fair, some of them are blasting out money like crazy to every Senator that will take it and they are trying to get a rider added to the Farm Bill that will disallow ANY state's rights to pass local legislation that will mandate GM labeling. That is actually unconstitutional. However they don't see it that way. They are not playing fair now are they.
We just need to get some labeling laws in every state, then we can begin to work on state legislation limiting the use of glyphosate and other toxins that are destroying the environment, and killing us slowly. It is a hope, a dream, a way to force those that don't want to and have never had to, to play fair.
Yeah, those guys aren't playing fair at all. And they haven't for some time now. Ever since some one some where figured out that by giving money to a politician, that politico would then pretty much do whatever you wanted. Is that fair? The abstract view of that question comes down to whether we believe that the person that has the money to do such a thing and to alter existence in favor of his or hers desire or needs may in fact have the right to do so based on the fact that whatever they did to acquire the funds to purchase the favors of politicos gives them more rights than persons that don't have such funds. Oooh, such a concept, if we live in a free society based on free enterprise and where one individual is able to through his own efforts and actions, accumulate great wealth, then does not the very basis of that free enterprising society allow for that person to spend his acquired wealth as they see fit to and if that choice involves the purchasing of political favoritism, then that should be construed by all as a just means and ultimate expression of the basics of society? Whew, basically that means who decides what is fair?
I'd like to.
I think that soon, every voter in the country will get to decide what is fair. Having figured out that attempting to get anything done on a federal level is just not possible, that we, the little people, the ones that got our faces smashed in as kids, just don't have the monetary means to purchase fairness in the same arena with big businesses. But we can do it on a state level. There are five states with mandatory GM labeling laws being debated at the state level. Forty-five to go. And with the grass roots efforts of people like me, people that want FAIR, we just may get them. Yeah, we caught some of them with their pants down, and because they don't want to, and have never had to play fair, some of them are blasting out money like crazy to every Senator that will take it and they are trying to get a rider added to the Farm Bill that will disallow ANY state's rights to pass local legislation that will mandate GM labeling. That is actually unconstitutional. However they don't see it that way. They are not playing fair now are they.
We just need to get some labeling laws in every state, then we can begin to work on state legislation limiting the use of glyphosate and other toxins that are destroying the environment, and killing us slowly. It is a hope, a dream, a way to force those that don't want to and have never had to, to play fair.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
The World of SWEET
New products on the market coming out all the time. The beverage industry is becoming more sophisticated all the time, they need to be, it is an industry worth billions and billions. And this comes to us from the industry magazine, Food Business News. "... formulators are working with a variety of sweeteners in an effort to better pair flavor with perceived health attributes." PERCEIVED is the key word here, not that there is any health attributes to 10 calorie soda at all, but with the pictures of fruit on the can, the fancy ads, the hype, the insistence that the chemically produced "NATURAL" high potency sweeteners are good for you, then you may perceive that the can of 10 calorie 7up is healthy. Especially when at the local convenience market the price of bottled water is 50% more than soda. It's Healthy!
If you have read my blog before, you know I love stevia. (Stevia) It is a miracle, a sweet plant that has no known harmful properties. It is 150 to 200 times sweeter than sugar. Sometimes, it does have a sort of licorice or anise type aftertaste. To me, I don't mind it, it is way better than sucking down sugar all day. The thing is though the great and all powerful FDA for decades would not allow the use of stevia to be an ingredient in food or beverages. It was not approved. It was cheap, sweet and easy to use. The sugar guys were scared, so were the aspartame makers. So it was outlawed. Potassium Bromate and 700 other CLASS II CARCINOGENS were approved for use in our food, but stevia was not allowed. Well, that is up until big business decided that they could play god and make stevia better. By the addition of chemical solvents and harsh alkaloids, Coke made stevia "BETTER". And so the FDA approved it. (Stevia) Again, look at that bit of info. The thing is, if you look at the GRAS list from the FDA, there are about 28 different stevia compounds on it that are approved for use in food and beverages. But the FDA still does not allow plain old common unadulterated stevia, it's not on the GRAS. Gee, haven't I talked about how business makes the decisions for our government entities based on business needs and not consumer needs? Yeah, I think I have.
Many companies making stevia extracts use a host of solvents to extract the main sweetening constituent of stevia, rebaudioside A (Reb A). Everyone's favorite beverage bandidos Coca cola in fact has over 35 patents on the process. (Coke) Take 5 hours like I did and read through the patents, it is scary. They use a lot of toxic chemicals to make their stevia "better". (small list of processors) Wisdom Naturals, from right here in Arizona, uses water to extract the Reb A. It seems a lot better process, more costly to be sure, but proof that there are people out there that try to do the right thing. (Wisdom Naturals) To go to their site, I'm not an affiliate of anything, I don't make money if you click on the link, but I highly recommend that if you want stevia extract then go with a company that has integrity, and not the crap in the grocery store like Truvia, which is packed with very little chemically processed stevia and instead has mostly erythritol.
Let's go back to the mega giant coke. According to News, the biggest beverage bandido in the world introduced over 500 new products in 2012. Five Hundred NEW Products. Water, and sugar, and now chemically treated stevia are pretty much the basis for their empire. Well, the truth is, marketing is the backbone of the empire.
I see people everyday carrying around their PLASTIC bottles of flavored waters in a rainbow of flavors and listen to them complain about how crappy they feel and how hard it is to get old. And how they have no money anymore. A buck for water. In plastic.
My friends at the cigar store like to make fun of me all the time because I bring in a mason jar with my mint tea in it. Filtered water, mint, real plain old stevia leaves. And a glass jar that has no BPA or BPB or any other toxic stuff in it. It won't find its way into the environment and litter the roadsides, or wash out to sea and become part of the floating pile of plastic garbage in the Pacific Ocean that is larger than the state of Texas. I wash it, refill it, head over to the cigar store, smoke my cigar, (thanks Mark and Grady for the very nice cigars you have given me) and feel good. I wish the whole world did the same.
If you have read my blog before, you know I love stevia. (Stevia) It is a miracle, a sweet plant that has no known harmful properties. It is 150 to 200 times sweeter than sugar. Sometimes, it does have a sort of licorice or anise type aftertaste. To me, I don't mind it, it is way better than sucking down sugar all day. The thing is though the great and all powerful FDA for decades would not allow the use of stevia to be an ingredient in food or beverages. It was not approved. It was cheap, sweet and easy to use. The sugar guys were scared, so were the aspartame makers. So it was outlawed. Potassium Bromate and 700 other CLASS II CARCINOGENS were approved for use in our food, but stevia was not allowed. Well, that is up until big business decided that they could play god and make stevia better. By the addition of chemical solvents and harsh alkaloids, Coke made stevia "BETTER". And so the FDA approved it. (Stevia) Again, look at that bit of info. The thing is, if you look at the GRAS list from the FDA, there are about 28 different stevia compounds on it that are approved for use in food and beverages. But the FDA still does not allow plain old common unadulterated stevia, it's not on the GRAS. Gee, haven't I talked about how business makes the decisions for our government entities based on business needs and not consumer needs? Yeah, I think I have.
Many companies making stevia extracts use a host of solvents to extract the main sweetening constituent of stevia, rebaudioside A (Reb A). Everyone's favorite beverage bandidos Coca cola in fact has over 35 patents on the process. (Coke) Take 5 hours like I did and read through the patents, it is scary. They use a lot of toxic chemicals to make their stevia "better". (small list of processors) Wisdom Naturals, from right here in Arizona, uses water to extract the Reb A. It seems a lot better process, more costly to be sure, but proof that there are people out there that try to do the right thing. (Wisdom Naturals) To go to their site, I'm not an affiliate of anything, I don't make money if you click on the link, but I highly recommend that if you want stevia extract then go with a company that has integrity, and not the crap in the grocery store like Truvia, which is packed with very little chemically processed stevia and instead has mostly erythritol.
Let's go back to the mega giant coke. According to News, the biggest beverage bandido in the world introduced over 500 new products in 2012. Five Hundred NEW Products. Water, and sugar, and now chemically treated stevia are pretty much the basis for their empire. Well, the truth is, marketing is the backbone of the empire.
My friends at the cigar store like to make fun of me all the time because I bring in a mason jar with my mint tea in it. Filtered water, mint, real plain old stevia leaves. And a glass jar that has no BPA or BPB or any other toxic stuff in it. It won't find its way into the environment and litter the roadsides, or wash out to sea and become part of the floating pile of plastic garbage in the Pacific Ocean that is larger than the state of Texas. I wash it, refill it, head over to the cigar store, smoke my cigar, (thanks Mark and Grady for the very nice cigars you have given me) and feel good. I wish the whole world did the same.
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