The best medicine cannot overcome a bad diet -- Good Nutrition Trumps All

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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, June 14, 2011

Commentary by Andrew W. Saul and Jagan N. Vaman, M.D.

(OMNS, June 14, 2011) Over a twenty-seven year period, vitamin supplements have been alleged to have caused the deaths of a total of eleven people in the United States. A new analysis of US poison control center annual report data indicates that there have, in fact, been no deaths whatsoever from vitamins . . . none at all, in the 27 years that such reports have been available.

The American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) attributes annual deaths to vitamins as:
2009: zero
2008: zero
2007: zero
2006: one
2005: zero
2004: two
2003: two
2002: one
2001: zero 2000: zero
1999: zero
1998: zero
1997: zero
1996: zero
1995: zero
1994: zero
1993: one
1992: zero 1991: two
1990: one
1989: zero
1988: zero
1987: one
1986: zero
1985: zero
1984: zero
1983: zero

Even if these figures are taken as correct, and even if they include intentional and accidental misuse, the number of alleged vitamin fatalities is strikingly low, averaging less than one death per year for over two and a half decades. In 19 of those 27 years, AAPCC reports that there was not one single death due to vitamins. [1]  Read more...

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Study shows heart disease is absent in coconut eating population.

Go ahead and eat your coconuts! Good news for those of you who love coconuts and bad news for the rest of you who insist that coconuts have “dangerous” saturated fat and therefore “cause” heart disease. Here’s the story:

“A study published in the medical journal Tropical and Geographical Medicine found that coronary heart disease, the world’s number one cause of death, is virtually unknown in a coconut eating population of Sri Lanka.”

“At the beginning of the 20^th century there were still many Vedda communities in the South Eastern jungles of Sri Lanka, existing as they have for thousands of years, living in huts constructed of mud bricks and eating wild fruit, yams, and coconut, and hunting for game using bows and arrows. Over time, the Vedda communities gradually adapted the modern culture of the expanding Sinhalese population. By the 1980s there were only two traditional Vedda communities remaining, isolated from the general population deep in the jungle.”

“The coconut palm is very important to the Veddas…The coconut palm, however, produces coconuts year round, providing them with an unending supply of food. The majority of dietary fat in the traditional Vedda population comes from coconut and wild game, both high in saturated fat. Researchers at the University of Sri Lanka department of medicine were interested in how their high-fat diet affected their health, particularly their cardiovascular health.”  Read more...

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The Wall Street Journal has the story.” And it’s about how our kids are being drugged beyond belief instead of learning to live and eat for real health. And these kids wouldn’t be getting these drugs if doctors weren’t prescribing them. Why don’t doctors teach our children how to achieve real health? What happened to the Hippocratic Oath?:

“I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion. But I will preserve the purity of my life and my arts.” Let’s get on with today’s news:

“Gage Martindale, who is 8 years old, has been taking a blood-pressure drug since he was a toddler. “I want to be healthy, and I don’t want things in my heart to go wrong,” he says. And, of course, his mom is always there to check Gage’s blood pressure regularly with a home monitor, and to make sure the second-grader doesn’t skip a dose of his once-a-day enalapril.  Read more...

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Los Angeles Times “Fat was once the devil. Now more nutritionists are pointing accusingly at sugar and refined grains.”

We wrote last year about a new enthusiasm among nutritionists for eating robust amounts of healthy fats in Fat 3.0: Healthy, Nutritious and Oh-So Satisfying! Now, the idea that fat can acutally be GOOD but most refined carbs are BAD and indeed are the real dietary culprit in diseae – IS GOING MAINSTREAM!. The Los Angeles Times has a front page story about it in today’s edition:

“…a growing number of top nutritional scientists blame excessive carbohydrates — not fat — for America’s ills. They say cutting carbohydrates is the key to reversing obesity, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and hypertension.

“Fat is not the problem,” says Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. “If Americans could eliminate sugary beverages, potatoes, white bread, pasta, white rice and sugary snacks, we would wipe out almost all the problems we have with weight and diabetes and other metabolic diseases.”

Read the whole story here.

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It has only been a couple of months since a private raw food outlet in Los Angeles was raided by what is coming to be known as the “real food police” — a generic term with frightening implications. David E. Gumpert wrote about that situation on his blog in this piece: Aajonus Vonderplanitz: “They Have Come to My Backyard Los Angeles to Cut Off the Legs” of Food Rights Movement.

But as we now learn, resistance to such “crackdowns” is growing even as crackdowns grow in frequency and intensity. Here is what YOU need to know in a new piece by David E. Gumpert from Grist.org entitled Six Things You Should Know Before Defying The Real Food Police.

Raw deal: Are you ready to go to jail for distributing unpasteurized milk? Photo courtesy of eqqman via Flickr

“Resistance has a glorified history in this country, beginning with the founding fathers, and extending to the labor and civil rights movements last century. We honor one of the resisters, Dr. Martin Luther King, with a national holiday.

The ranks of food resisters are now expanding rapidly. Driven by increasingly harsh crackdowns by local and federal agencies on small producers and distributors of unpasteurized (raw) milk and other nutrient-dense foods, growing numbers of individuals involved in this part of the food chain are publicly refusing to abide by government edicts and shutdown orders.  Read more...

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