by Charles on October 30, 2009
As if the overwhelming influence of BIG PHARMA on physicians in this country wasn’t bad enough, it seems a certain medical association has gone to bed with the worlds biggest soft drink company. It’s enough to make one sick.
It certainly made a few doctors angry, twenty in all, so much so they resigned from the American Academy of Family Physicians. Good for them! We would like to hear more from these doctors who obviously understand that soft drinks and medicine are opposites. Medicine, for all its problems, seeks to heal; soft drinks impart ill health, plain and simple.
In their resignation, the doctors sent a letter. You may read it here. In part, the letter states “As you undoubtedly know, Coca-Cola is the country’s and the world’s largest producer of the only food or beverage that has been demonstrated to promote overweight and obesity. Because of the kinds of products it markets, Coca-Cola Co. is desperate to burnish its soiled reputation…”
A news story on the resignations states: “The mass resignation was sparked by the AAFP’s decision to accept a “six-figure sum” from the beverage giant three weeks ago, which the organization said would help fund nutritional education content on its website.” Who, in their right mind, believes a soft drink company is interested in promoting nutrition? Absurd. The whole story is here. Read more...
by Charles on October 23, 2009
by Charles on October 20, 2009
Vitamin D deficiency (and the negative health consequences of such deficiency) has been much in the news lately. Indeed, Vitamin D itself has been the most talked about nutrient of the past year. Increasingly, the scientific/nutritional/medical communities are recognizing the ill effects of deficiency and the therapeutic/healing effects of correcting that deficiency. Since Vitamin D deficiency is common, the standard American diet is low in Vitamin D, and most people avoid the sun, supplementation can be crucial. An upcoming seminar will address these issues and the details are below.
From the announcement:
Dear Colleague:
What public health action could you take today that could possibly stop breast cancer and colon cancer, prevent type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis, and reduce the incidence of infectious diseases? What would be the economic impact of this action?
A group of physicians and researchers in the vitamin D field are presenting information at this conference to look at the current research and practice with vitamin D to enable everyone to take action today based on what’s known to solve the deficiency epidemic, and, to start the prevention of many diseases.
Find out whether testing is necessary, why, what to do about the levels and learn more about how vitamin D works for our health.
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by Charles on October 4, 2009
Real health and all it entails — including strong immunity, vibrant energy, good sleep, a positive, happy countenance and so much more — begins in your gut. What you eat affects the health and functioning of your digestive tract. In turn, gut health affects your ability to digest and assimilate what you eat, i.e. the process of transforming food into energy, blood, hormones, tissues and muscles. You literally are what you eat. But for too many people, what you eat is “eating” you, causing all manor of distress and disease. Today, we explain how and why this is as we explore the drama that takes place inside you as you eat! The first step on the road to real health is understanding the critical role digestion plays.
People blessed with robust health typically have good digestion. In fact, it seems they can eat almost anything and still be fairly healthy. Most of the rest of us must eat with care and even then face digestive problems. And as we get older our digestion just gets worse. This was illustrated by a clever and humorous cartoon I saw recently showing the three stages of a man’s life: as a baby and child his biggest need and desire is food; at adolescence and into adulthood this morphs into food and sex; at the end of his life his biggest need is a good bowel movement. Clever and cute, but the latter is sadly all too true (and can often be true at any age). Read more...
