Sunday, November 30, 2008

Varicella Outbreak Followed by Forced Vaccination

The only time I ever witnessed a severe reaction to chicken pox was in the 1970s while working in ICU at a hospital in Philadelphia. The wife of one of our GI doctors contracted chicken pox while pregnant. Sadly she died, but the baby survived. Her husband was devastated.I had chicken pox as a child as did my children. Starch baths helped with the itching as I recall. We had no untoward effects, except that I experienced a shingles outbreak after my father died. But you can be sure I'm not heading out for the shingles vaccine. Shingles is the same virus as chicken pox. The very painful patches can be treated naturally with valerian root and black walnut tincture. Additionally using St. John's Wort tincture acts as an anti-viral. This recent event in Washington state shows how its health department...

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

38 Cheap, Healthy Recipes for Thanksgiving Leftovers

Cheap Healthy Good will resume posting on Monday. Happy Thanksgiving!Every year, I suspend my healthy diet for one heralded November day. No, not Election Day, during which I’m usually too queasy to eat – but that most glorious of bird-based holidays, Thanksgiving.Then, 24 hours later, I enter an equally magical shame spiral, since I’ve just consumed enough calories to keep me alive for eight years without ever having to eat again.This year, I’m going to desperately try to avoid all that, hopefully by using at least 25 of the following 38 inexpensive, frugal leftover recipes. (Well … okay, 24.) I found them via a thorough, highly scientific search-and-paste process, not unlike previous Beef, Party Food, and Salad Dressing searches. In this case, here’s what determined a dish’s appearance on...

Inhaled Steroids Bring Greater Risk of Pneumonia

Steroid inhalers may raise pneumonia risksNov. 26, 2008 BALTIMORE, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Steroid inhalers, commonly prescribed for people with pulmonary disease, can increase the risk of pneumonia, U.S. researchers said.The Johns Hopkins University study also found that while inhalers helped, they did not extend a patient's life after a year of use, The Baltimore Sun reported Wednesday.While medical experts have known for years that inhalers are effective in treating wheezing and breathlessness brought on by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, doctors raised questions about steroid inhalers' side effects and whether they extended a patient's life, said the study's lead author, M. Bradley Drummond, a pulmonologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.In the study, investigators examined 11...

Politics, HIV/AIDS and GMO Drugs

The AIDS epidemic has been a world wide environmental and public health issue wince the concept was thrown out in the Nixon Administration by Henry Kissinger. It was Kissinger that led the Department of defense to a plan for bio warfare contaminants that have brought about HIV/AIDS issues.This has been a boon to Big Pharma with an avenue for creating a profit stream with genetically engineered pharmaceuticals. It has become a political issue too as many reports address the difficulty some groups and nations have in obtaining the drugs.In some way the drugs have helped, in others the drugs have harmed. This is similar to the interferon use that has been problematic for people with Hep C, MS and correlated "auto-immune" disorders.For some time we have tried to get funding for an approach to...

SSRI Drugs in Pregnancy Linked to Heart Abnormalities

Prozac use has shown that women who took the SSRI (and fluoride based) antidepressant during the first three months of pregnancy gave birth to four times as many babies with heart problems as women who did not. The levels were three times higher in women taking paroxetine(Paxil, also containing fluoride).Two Antidepressants Taken During Pregnancy Linked To Heart Anomalies In BabiesScienceDaily (2008-11-26) -- Women who took the antidepressant fluoxetine during the first three months of pregnancy gave birth to four times as many babies with heart problems as women who did not and the levels were three times higher in women taking paroxetine. ... > read full articleOnce again, if you regularly follow the topics of discussion on Natural Health News you will recall that we posted these two...

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Exercise to Stay Healthy? Why of Course

Some years ago I was part owner in a Seattle business and was searching for a person to do our bookkeeping. My first stop on that search was the local senior center. And I lucked out!I found a 76 year old retired banker who came to the office and we quickly started on a sound relationship. He did in two afternoons a week what it might have taken someone else five days.And, even though he lived 17 blocks north and eight blocks east of the office he walked most of the way, only relying on the bus for a short part of the trip, both ways.He told me one day that when he was younger the doctor told him that walking was the best thing he could do for his health, so he did it.It is too bad that these researchers didn't know this fellow, but I'll vouch for the benefits. Fitness and the Brain: Can a...

Tuesday Megalinks

Lots of hypothetical questions today, along with a few extra Thanksgiving posts and a staggering four articles from Wise Bread. Really, it’s all a warmup to tomorrow’s piece, "Cheap Healthy Leftovers." But in the meantime…Advertising Age: NIH - Banning Fast Food Ads Will Make Kids Less FatThe National Institutes of Health is claiming that a “ban on fast-food advertising to children would cut the national obesity rate by as much as 18%.” EIGHTEEN PERCENT. Yeah, I think this needs to happen. But will cereal/candy/junk food companies comply?Being Frugal: Reusing Storage BagsI try to re-use these whenever possible (for vacations, makeup, etc.), unless...

Aspartame: Sweet, Sweet Poison

This is an article you most likely will never see in the US mainstream press.You should however because aspartame is a toxic substance first developed as an insecticide, as was sucralose.The article just might cause you to switch and lay off this chemical stuff that damages your mitochondrial DNA, leading to diseases of many kinds.Just another way of covertly creating a cadre of lab rats, as I see it.By Carlos H. CondeDuring the past several weeks, an advertisement has been appearing in the Philippines’s major newspapers that extols aspartame, the artificial sweetener that goes by the brands Equal, Nutrasweet, to name two. The ad, about half a page in size, makes the assertion that aspartame is safe and that the food-and-drug regulatory agencies of the Philippines and of the United States,...

Health Lobby Still Plans to Stick with Health Reform

With Tom Daschle now selected to head HHS, don't think he won't be followed by a pack of lobbyists. Don't expect anything different in the House or Senate. The pack of thieves are circling the wagons, and guess who might just be the target...I suppose if you say reform you have to ask by whose definition and on whose standards.Daschle has been in a lobby group lately and he is for vaccines and mammogram. Surely we can't believe that his tenure in the US Senate led him to stay clear of the rafts of rubles handed out by the lobby groups, even under the cover of supposed change and reform.What happens can cgange but only if you are wililng to stand up to the status quo and fight for your health rights, level the playing field, and get the agenda to truly be people first! Health Care Reform Stays...

Breast Cancer, Natural Regression

Might this be a blow to the massive breast cancer industry if further study proves this finding.If you follow this blog (4 pages of articles) and the long standing material found at www.leaflady.org you will know we stand behind the facts of mammogram as a cause of breast cancer.We have been educating the public, and especially women, on this issue for at least 20 years. Our information has come from the 1960s HHS/FDA/CDC and other data provided to us during the years we worked in concert with the eminent researcher John Gofman, PhD, MD.While others are claiming to be first up with the data we stand on our track record.The data against mammogram has been known since the 1960s by the US government health agencies. Almost 50 years later the same campaign runs rampant.In Spokane a woman who...

It's Old News and You Aren't Getting It

This blog and material found on our original domain, www.leaflady.org, will help you find quite a bit of accurate, scientific information about viruses, cold and flu.We aren't offering sensationalistic rants as seems to be the driving factor on some other sites. We offer facts and we try to provide information that will help you face health concerns in a more informed and educated approach. We also hope to encourage your enquiring mind so you will seek other corroboration.Another medical colleague has provided some sound analysis on the current state of flu and vaccines. This doesn't surprise us because the track record for this vaccine, Tamiflu, has been abysmal if you have been tracking the data since the product got the FDA stamp to pass go in exchange for money.Tamiflu really has been...

Monday, November 24, 2008

Drug Trials Only Adverts?

An exquisite essay on just how it is!Clinical Drug Trials: See them for what they often are — advertisementsby Warren Bell, MDJust about every week, an announcement is made about research concerning some sort of new treatment. In just about every case, the treatment is a drug. This does not mean, however, that drugs are the most important or valuable type of therapy, but rather that modernday, multi-national “big pharma” drug corporations have enormous, financial clout. Due to their patent-based monopolistic profits, drug companies earn 10 times more than all other types of treatment combined. Cnsequently, they can afford to hire the best advertising and public relations experts to relentlessly promote their products in the industry and public media.So-called announcements from big pharma...

Natural Perspective on Gardasil

Sweden now will provide this vaccine free of charge. Perhaps they have over looked the facts and other risks.Gardasil is a vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) that’s manufactured by Merck & Co. and marketed as “anti-cancer.” However, Canada has one of the lowest cervical cancer rates in the world.In addition, 70 percent of women with HPV infection clear it spontaneously within one year, and 90 percent within two years.This means that even if a woman has a high-risk strain of HPV, there is a very good likelihood that her immune system will be able to resolve it naturally. The risk of any cervical disease is greatly decreased with a yearly Pap smear and safe sexual practices. There is a concern that this vaccine will give women a false sense of security and decrease yearly Paps...

Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Balsamic Vinegar, Parmesan, Pine Nuts, and Apologies to Mr. Zimmerman

(It’s two Brussels sprouts recipes for the price of one today, everybody! Over at Serious Eats, I write about Golden-Crusted Brussels Sprouts from 101 Cookbooks, and here, it’s Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Balsamic, Parmesan, and Pine Nuts from Kalyn’s Kitchen. The recipe is pasted below this stunning new song, crafted just in time for Thursday's high holiday.)It’s Time For Some Thanksgiving(to the tune of “The Times, They Are A-Changin’” by Bob Dylan)Come gather 'round familyFriends, countrymenAnd submit to the turkeyThick with tryptophanAnd accept it that soonYou'll be asleep in the den.Hurry, they’ll be nothin’Worth savin'So you better start...

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Correcting One of Those Cholesterol Myths

I notice from time to time that people are searching for information about keeping arteries clean and healthy. This may be associated with the rash of anti-cholesterol drug-dosing-on-a-rampage panic, or earnest queries.Order lecithin granules through simply4health.org to help us continue this work.I am not a fan of soy. It might be said that if I suggest a soy based supplement that I am ignoring my own best advice. My greatest concern about soy today are the facts that it is generally a GMO crop and it does have many negative health effects.On the up side, a long used supplement, especially for those who have been convinced that eggs are evil, you might find some salvation in lecithin.Lecithin is good for you in that it contains phosphatidyl choline, phosphatidyl inositol and essential fatty...

FDA Unapproved Drugs Cost Millions

Safety and Effectiveness are two keywords in the forefront at the FDA that seem to be disregarded.This is not surprising at all since the real control over drugs and their use relies more on junque science from the pharmaceutical industry rather than the supposed watch-dog agency.Certainly this is one more example of an ineffective bureaucracy that has little interest in either serving or protecting as is its mandate. This isn't surprising under the lame duck administration we've all suffered under during the past eight years. What remains to be seen is how effective the new crew is going to be at bringing about massive change needed in this agency and others, or will we have MOS...Find out about unapproved drugs - and be sure to let your members of Congress know just how you feel about this,...

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