The Health Plus Letter
March 16, 2004, Vol. 2, No. 10
By Larry Trivieri, Jr. – founder & publisher,
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Table Of Contents
What’s New
Quote of the Day
Fast Facts
Medical Freedom Alert
Health News and Commentary
AIDS in Africa: Treating Poverty With Toxic Drugs (Part 2) by Liam Scheff
Self-Care Tips for Preventing and Managing Hemorrhoids
Recommendations (A Resource for People with Candida)
Reader Feedback
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What’s New
I will be traveling for the remainder of this month, so The Health Plus Letter will be on hiatus until April. This issue concludes the multi-part series by investigative journalist Liam Scheff on the subject of AIDS and HIV that calls into question the widely accepted hypothesis that HIV=AIDS. In this installment, Liam continues his documentation of how the so-called AIDS crisis in Africa is actually due to very bad science and extreme poverty, both of which are being ignored for the sake of profit.
Also in this issue is information on treating and preventing hemorrhoids.
Finally, if you suffer from candida (systemic yeast overgrowth), be sure to read about the website featured in this week’s Recommendations section.
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Quote Of The Day
“Trade in your certainty for bewilderment.”
-- Rumi
Fast Fact
Over one hundred million Americans suffer from a chronic health ailment.
Source: The Self-Care Guide to Holistic Medicine by Robert Ivker, Robert Anderson and Larry Trivieri, Jr.
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Medical Freedom Alert
Please do your part to ensure that the misleadingly named “Dietary Safety Supplement” Act (S. 722) is defeated. To become informed about S. 722 and to take action to help defeat its passage, please visit: http://capwiz.com/nnfa/S722.html
To stay informed of other developments related to medical freedom, please visit http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org the website of Dr. Mattias Rath, a leading crusader for medical freedom.
To see to what depraved lengths people will go to persecute practitioners of alternative medicine in the U.S., please read the following report by noted medical freedom advocate Tim Bolen at http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/Suster2.htm
Health News and Commentary
Study Finds Americans Are “Eating Themselves to Death.”
A newly released study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that more than 16 percent of all deaths in the U.S. are due to unhealthy eating habits including obesity and physical inactivity, making it the 2nd leading cause of preventable death, slightly behind smo/king. According to the study, in 2000, approximately 400,000 Americans died as a direct result of unhealthy eating habits, while smo/king killed approximately 435,000 that same year. According to CDC director Dr. Julie Gerberding, co-author of the study, unhealthy eating habits are poised to soon overtake smo/king as the number one preventable cause of death.
For more on this study, see “Study: We’re Eating Ourselves to Death” by Lindsay Tanner, The Associated Press, March 9, 2004.
[Comment: Much as one can argue that many of our nation’s health problems are due to a collusion of special interests which continue to discharge environmental pollutants, insist upon a drug-based, symptom-care model of medicine, and belittle viable alternative medical methods in the media, it’s an inescapable fact that health is first and foremost a matter of individual responsibility. Proper eating and exercise have been emphasized by health professionals for decades as being essential to health. To knowingly ignore such advice is to me both foolish and inexcusable.]
Antidepressants Shown to Significantly Increase Risk of Internal Bleeding
Researchers in the UK have found that SSRI (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor) antidepressants pose a significant risk for gastrointestinal bleeding, especially among the elderly (who comprise a third of all SSRI users in the UK) and those already predisposed towards the disorder. In a study of 12,000 people who suffered from intestinal bleeding, the researchers found that those who took SSRIs during the previous 30 days had an increased risk of 300 percent, compared to non-SSRI users. The risk was increased by as much as 700 percent among SSRI users who also took aspirin. Based on the study, the researchers said SSRIs should not be prescribed for such at-risk groups.
Source: “Antidepressants cause ‘Internal Bleeding”” by Rob Winder, BBC News, March 3, 2004.
[Comment: This study simply adds more dire news concerning SSRIs, a class of drugs which evidence has already shown to be dangerous for many patients who use them.]
Flu Vaccine Makes Call on U.S. Government to Increase Demand
Last month, executives for the three leading vaccine manufacturers for the U.S. market told members of Congress that they “can not guar/antee future supplies of flu vaccine unless the government can help ensure profitability.” They called on Congress to raise demand and expand the market for the vaccines.
For more on this story, see “Flu Vaccine Makers Say Gov’t Must Expand Demand” by Susan Heavey, Reuters, February 12, 2004.
[Comment: As this story shows, you can’t beat Big Pharma when it comes to greed and corporate welfare. Not content with the monopoly they already have on our health care system – not to mention the favorable treatment they routinely receive from the government agencies which are supposed to regulate them – n/o/w they actually want Congress to guar/antee their prof/its! So much for f/r/e/e enterprise! Who needs sound business practices and products when you can have Uncle Sam do your dirty work for you? Speaking of which …]
Bush Administration Paid to Create Fake Video News Pieces Touting New Medicare Bill
According to the New York Times, the Bush administration paid people to pose as journalists for the creation of fake video news pieces aimed at favorably covering the recent Medicare bill, which critics claim will result in a windfall of between $400 billion to $1 trillion for the pharmaceutical industry. In the videos, which are intended for use by local news programs, the fake journalists praise the benefits of the bill, reading from a scr/ipt written by the government. According to the Times, “The government also prepared scripts that can be used as news anchors introducing what the [Bush] administration describes as a made-for-television ‘story package.’
“In one scr/ipt, the administration suggests that anchors use this language: ‘In December, President Bush signed into law the first-ever prescription drug benefit for people with Medicare. Since then, there have been a lot of ques/tions about how the law will help older Americans and people with disabilities. Reporter Karen Ryan helps sort through the details.”
But Karen Ryan is not reporting anything; she is simply reading from a scr/ipt written and paid for by the Bush administration.
For more on this story, see: “US Videos, for TV News, Praise Medicare Law,” by Robert Pear, NY Times, March 14, 2004
[Comment: Shocking as this story is, it’s only the latest evidence of how low the Bush administration will stoop to manipulate public opinion to its favor. But at least they’re learning from the experts. In the same article, the Times reports that Big Pharma has successfully employed this exact same tactic for more than a decade and “have done particularly well with them.” Two more reasons why I don’t rely on TV and cable for my news.]
AIDS In Africa: Treating Poverty with Toxic Drugs (Part 2) by Liam Scheff
[Note: This article, part one of which was reprinted in last week’s issue of The Health Plus Letter, was originally published June, 2003, in Boston’s Weekly Dig. I feel the information in this article is very important, showcasing as it does how an entire continent has been conned into thinking it is facing an AIDS crisis when in fact the problems are due to poverty and the conditions that result from it. I have long been aware of and accept the basic premise expressed by the scientists Liam interviews below and wish to help share it with a wider audience. I also urge you to read Liam’s most recent reporting from the AIDS front, which can be found at http://www.altheal.org/toxicity/house.htm and http://www.altheal.org/toxicity/nurse.htm. I wish to thank Liam for his excellent journalism and for his willingness to allow me to reprint his material here.]
We’re told that there are nearly 30 million African AIDS patients. This is an enormous
number of people. How are these cases counted?
Fiala:The United Nations AIDS organization (UNAIDS) and the WHO use various computer modeling programs to come up with their numbers.
Rodney Richards: When you read about the mill/ions of HIV-infected in Africa, you may notice that the word “estimated” precedes the number in the official publications.
What does “estimated” mean?
Richards: All WHO/UNAIDS reports of HIV-infection in Africa are "estimates" based on HIV tests performed on blood samples taken at pregnancy clinics. These global reports are created jointly by the WHO and UNAIDS.
Why is blood taken from pregnancy clinics?
Richards: In countries with little infrastructure, medical care is very limited, and is generally reserved for the most vulnerable segment of the population, such as infants and pregnant women. Even in the poorest countries, there are pregnancy clinics serving expectant mothers and women who’ve just given birth.
Pregnant women regularly line up at these clinics for a check-up that includes a blood screening for syphilis. Syphilis infection is common in many African countries, and must be treated before a baby’s birth, or the child could die or be severely damaged.
Once a year, UNAIDS researchers collect leftover blood samples from these clinics, and test them with a single HIV-antibody test called the Elisa. The resulting number of HIV-positive results is fed into an epidemiological computer modeling program (Epi-model) at the WHO headquarters in Geneva. The Epi-model program then extrapolates the HIV-positive test results onto the entire population – you/ng and old; men, women and children. When we hear about the number of people infected with HIV, it's this number that's being reported.
How do reported numbers of HIV-infection correspond to actual number of people tested?
Richards: The WHO/UNAIDS tells us that there are currently 30 million HIV-positive Africans, yet less than one in a thousand of these people have ever been tested. In South Africa, the WHO/UNAIDS reports 5 million people are infected with HIV, but this number is based on only 4,000 actual HIV-positive test results from pregnant women.
But even these positive test results are hardly indicative of HIV-infection. The HIV-antibody tests used in these surveys are known to come up positive based on cross-reactions with antibodies produced from malaria, TB and parasitic infection – all common conditions in Africa. The test manufacturers themselves warn that pregnancy is a known cause of false positives.
Fiala: Testing pregnant women for HIV-infection is a self-fulfilling prophecy, but pregnant women are the only people regularly tested for HIV-infection in sub-Saharan Africa.
We're told that 28 million people worldwide and 22 million Africans have died of AIDS.
How are AIDS deaths counted in Africa?
Richards:AIDS deaths are also estimates. The number of deaths is projected from the Epi-model estimate of HIV-infections. It is assumed that if a certain number of people are HIV-infected, then a certain number will die of AIDS. This assumption is based on what researchers know historically about disease progression in AIDS patients, primarily from studies done on HIV-positive IV drug abusers and male homosexuals in the US and Europe.
Are these numbers accurate?
Richards: No, the numbers have been greatly inflated. For example, the WHO/UNAIDS says that there has been 2.2 million AIDS deaths in Uganda so far, but the Ugandan Ministry of Health records a cumulative total of only 56,000 AIDS deaths since the beginning of the epidemic. The WHO’s report is 33 times higher than the actual number of recorded, verified deaths.
As of the end of 2001, official government bodies in the developing world have managed to account for only 7 percent of the cumulative AIDS deaths that the WHO/UNAIDS claim have occurred. The Russian Federation can only account for only 3 percent of the UNAIDS estimate of AIDS deaths. India has 2 percent of the UNAIDS estimate. China has only 1 percent.
If I understand correctly, the number of people we’re told have HIV and AIDS in Africa is actually an inaccurate computer extrapolation based on test results from non-specific, cross-reacting antibody tests given to pregnant women?
Fiala: That's correct.
And the number of AIDS deaths in Africa is a projection based on the previous estimation, and is also greatly inflated?
Richards: That is also correct.
What does an AIDS diagnosis mean for an African with TB or malaria?
Fiala: In many African clinics, basic medical supplies like antibiotics are extremely limited. A clinic may only have 10 bottles of antibiotics. AIDS patients are frequently refused antibiotic treatment, because it’s assumed that they’ll die, no matter what. Western doctors have made it clear that AIDS is a fatal disease. Helping them is considered a waste of scarce resources.
What’s the main AIDS organization in Uganda?
Fiala: TASO – The AIDS Support Organisation. They claim to be independent, but they’re heavily funded by the pharmaceutical industry. They’re currently constructing buildings to prepare the ground for massive HIV testing, with this non-specific, cross-reacting test, and to distribute toxic AIDS drugs.
In Africa, 50 percent of the population has no access to clean drinking water and the vast majority lack even basic medical care. And the response from multimillion dollar AIDS
organization is to promote HIV testing, give out condoms and to implement treatment with deadly AIDS drugs. These drugs are similar or identical to chemotherapy drugs used in cancer treatment. They work by stopping cell growth. They kill your body from the inside out.
Which AIDS drugs are being used in Africa?
Fiala: Boehringer, a pharmaceutical company, has been doing studies in Uganda with a drug called Nevirapine. The FDA refused approval of Nevirapine in the US for so-called mother to child transmission because it’s ineffective and has deadly side effects, but this is exactly how the drug is being used in Africa – on pregnant women and unborn children.
In one drug trial, 17 percent of patients taking Nevirapine developed liver problems. A US health care worker taking Nevirapine had to have a liver transplant to save his life as a result of drug toxicity. Five women in South Africa died and dozens developed severe liver problems in a combination AIDS drug trial that included Nevirapine.
The manufacturer’s warning label for Nevirapine itself states that patients taking the drug have experienced: “Severe, life-threatening and in some cases fatal hepatotoxicity [liver damage],“ and “severe, life-threatening skin reactions, including fatal cases.”
These are the most toxic drugs known to medicine, and they’re being applied to the most
vulnerable part of the population – pregnant mothers, unborn children and newborns – all based on a faulty test, or no test at all, while their actual food, shelter and water needs continue to be ignored.
What would actually help Africans is infrastructure development: proper sanitation, safe water, basic medical care and plentiful, nutritive food. This is simple, clear and logical. What’s astounding is that the UN is recommending just the opposite.
In 1999 the UNAIDS commission gave its official recommendations to a meeting of finance ministers representing various African countries. The UN’s exact recommendations to African nations: to redirect billions of dollars from health, infrastructure and rural development into AIDS – condoms, safe s/e/x lectures and deadly pharmaceuticals. This is not what these already suffering people need to be healthy and successful. This is exactly how to propagate death, disease and poverty.
Afterword:
If the AIDS story in Africa feels like a parody of a bureaucratic blunder, take note: In April, 2003, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced a new HIV testing strategy for the United States. Rather than relying on voluntary HIV-testing, federal officials are urging the testing of all pregnant women in the US, and are implementing measures to make HIV-testing a routine part of hospital visits. The CDC is promoting a rapid HIV-test for use in all federally funded clinics, as well as homeless shelters, prisons and substance abuse treatment centers.
The HIV-antibody tests are known to cross-react with antibodies produced during pregnancy, drug abuse and nearly 70 other common conditions, and no HIV test is FDA approved to diagnose HIV infection. The standard medical treatment for HIV infection is a combination of the most toxic drugs ever manufactured.
“The AIDS Debate” series has explored the scientific and sociological process that formed HIV theory, and the ramifications of a speculative theory enforced upon a trusting, uninformed public.
We must ask ourselves, are we doing the best we can for sick people? Is the best we can offer impoverished Africans AZT and Nevirapine? Is the best we can do for drug-addicted mothers to force more drugs into their systems? And what about people unlucky enough to register HIV positive on these scientifically unvalidated tests. Do they deserve to be told that they have a fatal illness?
For more information on Africa and other AIDS-related topics go to: www.virusmyth.net, www.aliveandwell.org, and www.healaids.com
Copyright © 2003 by Liam Scheff. All rights reserved.
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Self-Care Tips for Preventing and Managing Hemorrhoids
Hemorrhoids refers to a condition in which the veins in the lining of the anus have become
distended. Internal hemorrhoids are near the beginning of the anus and external hemorrhoids are
at the opening of the anus; when they protrude outside the anus they are called prolapsing hemorrhoids.
Symptoms: Bleeding (usually bright red fresh blood that shows up on the toilet paper after wiping), protrusion of tissues, sometimes itching, mucus, discomfort and pain upon evacuating fecal material and sometimes even sitting. Any bleeding should be checked to rule out other more serious conditions. Proctoscopy (examination of the rectum through a tube) is needed to rule out cancer or polyps (small growths).
Occurrence: The frequency of hemorrhoid occurrences in both children and adults leads some doctors to consider them normal. Regular toilet habits of sitting at the same time each day to try to evacuate bowels and to avoid straining is very helpful.
Self-Care:
Diet: Whole foods diet with emphasis on high-fiber foods, citrus fruits (including the inner whitish rind), drinking plenty of fluids. Especially good are whole grains such as buckwheat and millet. One tablespoon of cold-processed vegetable oil a day, on food or taken alone. For bleeding hemorrhoids, eat foods rich in vitamin K: alfalfa, kale, dark green leafy vegetables.
Nutritional Therapy: Vitamin C with bioflavonoids (3-6 g daily of each) and rutin (1 g daily); vitamin A (10,000-25,000 IU daily); fFolic acid (400-800 mcg daily); vitamin B complex (two times daily); essential fatty acids (three to four on empty stomach on rising and before bed); magnesium; potassium; zinc, beta carotene, and linseed oil to soften stools.
Consider a bowel cleanse and rejuvenation program, as the anus is the last portion of the intestinal tract and, like the mouth, acts as a barometer of inner health.
Ayurveda: Drink 1/2 cup of aloe vera juice three times daily until condition has cleared. The Ayurvedic compound triphala is also recommended for hemorrhoids. A confection of one part sesame seeds (black seeds if possible), 1/2 part shatavari (if available); add ginger and raw sugar to taste can also be used. Take one ounce daily. Triphala guggulu (200 mg), generally taken
twice a day after lunch and dinner. Local application of castor oil for vata type, tikta ghee for pitta type.
Flower Essences: Rescue Remedy® for accompanying stress. Rescue Remedy Cream for external hemorrhoids at least 4 times a day.
Herbs: In Europe, hemmorhoids are treated with the aptly named pilewort. The North American equivalent is collinsonia. Combine the tinctures of collinsonia, cranesbill, and ginkgo in equal parts and take one teaspoon of this mixture three times a day. A topical application is used to alleviate the symptoms and compliment the internal treatment. Mix 10 ml of collinsonia tincture with 80 ml of distilled witch hazel and apply this combination after every bowel motion and as needed. Salves may also be used containing herbs such as calendula, St. John’s wort, aloe, or plantain. Other useful herbs include bilberry, buckthorn bark, butcher’s broom, comfrey root (poultice), gotu kola, horsechestnut (topical), parsley, passionflower, and stone root.
Homeopathy: Aloe, Hamamelis, Nux vom., Berberis, Acidum fluor., Thuja.
Hydrotherapy: Warm sitz ba/th applied daily, follow with a short cold bath.
Juice Therapy: The following juices can help provide relief - Carrot, parsley; Carrot, spinach; Carrot, spinach, celery, parsley; Carrot, watercress; Beets.
Topical Treatment: Epsom salts packs. Apply a combination of zinc oxide, vitamin E, and aloe vera gel or olive oil to affected area. Apply witch hazel frequently to hemorrhoids to shrink blood vessels. Calendula ointment for pain and itching .
Professional Care:
The following therapies should only be provided by a qualified health professional - Acupuncture, Applied Kinesiology, Light Therapy, Magnetic Field Therapy, Naturopathic Medicine, Osteopathy, Prolotherapy. Detoxification Therapy may also be indicated, as hemorrhoids are usually caused by a congestive disorder—constipation, liver problems, etc.
Note: The information above was adapted from Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition, co-authored and edited by Larry Trivieri, Jr. (Celestial Arts, 2002).
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Reader Feedback
I wish to thank everyone who emailed me in the past few weeks, thanking me for sharing my sister Andrea’s story. Your messages were very much appreciated, and I will reprint some of them in future issues.
Health and Blessings!
Larry Trivieri, Jr. (larry@1healthyworld.com)
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