The Health Plus Letter
February 2, 2010 Vol. 8, No. 3
By Larry Trivieri, Jr. – founder & publisher
Table Of Contents
Quote of the Day
Fast Fact
Protect Your Heart and Reduce Inflammation with Serrapeptase
Self-Care Tips for Preventing and Reducing High Blood Pressure
Vitamins and Teenagers: A Personal Statement by Stephen H. Brown, PhD
President Obama and the Congress Must Take Action on Cancer Prevention by Samuel S. Epstein, MD
Recommendations
Medical Freedom
Contact Information
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Quote Of The Day
“For every complicated problem there is a solution that is simple, direct, understandable and wrong.”
-- H.L. Mencken
Fast Fact
After the age of 50 (when 90 percent of all heart attacks occur), lower cholesterol levels are clearly associated with a shorter life expectancy.
Source: The Framingham Heart Study
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Protect Your Heart and Reduce Inflammation with Serrapeptase
Could the lowly silkworm hold one of the keys to protecting you from heart disease?
According to a growing body of research, the answer is a resounding yes.
That’s because silkworms produce a substance inside their intestines called serrapeptase, which is derived from healthy bacteria within the silkworm’s intestines known as Serratia E15. Serratia E15 is the substance that is responsible for the transformation of the lowly silkworm into a moth. As you probably know, moths, like butterflies, emerge from cocoons. If the cocoon does not dissolve when it is time for moths and butterflies to emerge, this miraculous transformation cannot occur. In the case of the silkworm, Serratia E15 is the necessary ingredient that enables the moth to emerge. It does this by literally eating away the cocoon once it is time for the moth to emerge.
Serrapeptase acts in a similar way in the human body. And because it does so, according to more than 40 scientific studies, it holds great promise for a wide range of health conditions, including heart disease
To fully understand Serrapeptase’s health properties, you first need to know that it belongs to a special class of healing agents known as enzymes. Enzymes are proteins that are responsible for literally thousands of processes in your body. In fact, without enzymes not a single one of the multitudes of chemical actions and reactions that take place in your body on a daily basis could occur.
The vast majority of enzymes in your body are classified as proteolytic enzymes. Proteolytic enzymes govern all of your body’s metabolic functions and regulate the functioning of your’ body’s various other proteins. Your body manufactures its own supply of proteolytic enzymes. Unfortunately, today many people are deficient in this special class of enzymes because of poor diet and unhealthy eating habits. One of the primary reasons for this deficiency is the so-called standard American diet, which contains large amounts of cooked and processed foods.
Your body is unable to properly digest and assimilate such foods without assistance from proteolytic enzymes. But as it calls upon its stores of these enzymes, it diminishes the amount of these enzymes that are available to oversee the many metabolic functions for which proteolytic enzymes are responsible. This, in turn, can over time result in numerous unhealthy consequences in your body. These include:
The development of chronic, low-grade inflammation, which scientists and physicians now know is one of the primary causes of all degenerative disease.
The accumulation of waste and debris in the blood and lymphatic system.
Diminished immune function.
Increased risk of blood clots.
Increased risk of infection due to bacteria, viruses, molds, and fungi.
Increased risk of developing autoimmune diseases.
Clearly, an adequate supply of proteolytic enzymes is essential for maintaining good health.
What is also becoming clear to physicians and health researchers is that daily supplementation with serrapeptase acts as a potent form of self-care “health insurance” because of how this remarkable enzyme provides the same health benefits as those supplied by your body’s own supply of proteolytic enzymes. For this reason, for the past 25 years nutritionally-oriented physicians throughout Europe and Asia have been recommending serrapeptase supplements to many of their patients, both to prevent illness and to help to reverse disease that is already present.
How Serrapeptase Works
As mentioned above, Serratia E15 is a harmless type of bacteria from which serrapeptase is derived, and is what makes it possible for silkworms to turn into moths. Research shows that Serratia E15 has powerful anti-inflammatory properties. It also has an affinity for non-living tissues (known as avital tissue) inside the silkworm’s intestines. Whenever it comes into contact with such tissues, it secretes enzymes to dissolve and destroy them, helping to keep the silkworm healthy. Despite the enzymes’ strong dissolving properties, additional research has found that healthy living tissues inside the silkworm are not harmed when the enzymes are secreted.
When researchers discovered the role that Serratia E15 plays both within the silkworm’s intestines and in dissolving the chrysalis, they began to study whether or not Serratia E15 might act as a health agent in humans. In order to begin their research, they first had to synthesize the active ingredients in the Serratia E15 enzymes. In doing so, they developed serrapeptase through a process of fermentation. Further clinical studies then revealed that serrapeptase not only acted in the same way that Serratia E15 enzymes do, but that the anti-inflammatory benefits that serrapeptase can provide to humans is superior to those provided by other proteolytic enzymes.
Serrapeptase is able to provide these benefits due to its ability to dissolve and digest non-living tissue in the body while simultaneously reversing all forms of chronic inflammation. This discovery resulted in serrapeptase becoming one of the most commonly prescribed natural healing agents for preventing and reversing inflammation in numerous Asian and European countries. In the United States, however, few people are aware of the many health benefits serrapeptase can provide.
The Dangers of Chronic Inflammation
After years of research, most physicians today realize protecting against chronic inflammation is vitally important to ensure good health. While inflammation is a natural healing mechanism that your body uses to heal wounds and to protect itself against invading, unhealthy microorganisms, when inflammation becomes chronic, it can set the stage for a wide variety of health problems to occur.
Left unchecked, chronic inflammation can cause damage to the bones, joints, cartilage and connective tissue of the body. The range of diseases linked to chronic inflammation runs the gamut from allergies, arthritis, and certain respiratory conditions such as bronchitis and sinusitis, to skin conditions such as eczema and psoriasis, to digestive disorders such as colitis and gastritis, and even heart disease, certain types of cancer, and multiple sclerosis.
In addition, chronic inflammation can cause poor circulation of the blood due to what as known as “sticky blood.” This is a condition in which blood becomes thicker than normal and blood cells known as platelets clump together. When blood becomes thick and “sticky,” the supply of oxygen and essential nutrients needed by your body’s cells, tissues, and organs is diminished. This can lead to ongoing fatigue and cellular dysfunctions. Moreover, as platelets start to clump together, they have the potential to form clots, which can cause heart attacks and stroke. Therefore, preventing and reversing unhealthy inflammation is obviously of great importance to health. That’s where serrapeptase comes in.
Serrapeptase To The Rescue
Research shows that serrapeptase works to reverse chronic inflammation in three ways. First, it reduces inflammation by thinning the fluids in the body that accumulate around injured tissues in the body. These fluids are one of the reasons that pain and swelling occurs. By thinning these fluids, serrapeptase makes it easier for the body to drain them away. This, in turn, speeds the process of tissue repair.
Serrapeptase also helps to reduce and eliminate pain caused by inflammation in another way. During the inflammatory process, chemical substances called bradykinin are released. Bradykinin cause pain in the body. Research has shown that serrapeptase inhibits the release of bradykinin.
Finally, just as Serratia E15 digests and dissolves avital tissues inside of the silkworm, serrapeptase is able to digest and dissolve dead and damaged tissues related to inflammation, as well as waste by-products that are created as part of the inflammatory process, all without harming healthy, living tissues. Best of all, serrapeptase performs all of these functions without causing any of the side effects associated with pain-relieving and anti-inflammatory drugs.
Because of its safe and potent anti-inflammatory properties, ongoing research shows that serrapeptase can help to relieve the symptoms of many conditions caused or exacerbated by chronic inflammation. These include:
Arthritis (both osteo- and rheumatoid arthritis)
Back and neck problems caused by inflammation
Breast engorgement caused by inflammation
Bronchial asthma
Bronchitis
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Chronic ear infections
Cystitis joints or muscles
Cystic fibrosis
Ear, nose and throat problems
Emphysema
Eye problems caused by inflammation
Fibromyalgia
Fibrocystic breast disease
Headaches and migraines caused by inflammation
Inflammatory bowel diseases (ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s, IBS)
Lupus
Multiple sclerosis (MS)
Rhinitis
Sinusitis
Trauma related issues, such as sports injuries, post operative and traumatic swelling, and post operative scars and lesions.
In addition to protecting against all of the above conditions, serrapeptase has also been shown to provide significant benefits as a safeguard against heart disease.
Healthy Heart Insurance
One of the original leading proponents of serrapeptase was the late Dr. Hans A. Nieper of Hanover, Germany. Dr. Nieper was internationally renowned for his expertise as an integrative physician and was considered one of the world's most famous specialists in the fields of heart disease, cancer and multiple sclerosis. Because of his expertise, Dr. Nieper's patients included many well-known celebrities and politicians, including Anthony Quinn, John Wayne, President Ronald Reagan and Princess Caroline of Monaco.
One of the areas in which Dr. Nieper felt serrapeptase offered great promise was as a natural healing to protect against heart disease. Dr. Nieper devoted much of his time researching the effectiveness of serrapeptase for reversing the buildup of plaque in the arteries. Based on his research, he dubbed serrapeptase “the miracle enzyme.” One area of particular interest to Dr. Nieper was the value serrapeptase had in protecting against heart attack and stroke. His research showed that serrapeptase had the ability to both protect against and reverse artherosclerosis, which is caused by the buildup of plaque in the arteries and is a major cause of heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure, and other types of heart disease.
In his experiments, Dr. Nieper discovered that serrapeptase was capable of dissolving and digesting the substances that cause plaque formation on the arterial walls, such as cholesterol, cellular wastes, calcium, various fats, and fibrin, a clotting agent. Just as importantly, Dr. Nieper found that serrapeptase did this without causing harm to the cells and tissues lining the arterial walls.
In recent years, a growing number of scientists and physicians have come to realize that one of the primary causes for the deposits of harmful, plaque-forming substances inside arterial walls is chronic, low-grade inflammation. This means that serrapeptase packs a one-two punch against the main causes of heart disease.
As we have already discussed, this amazing enzyme acts to safely and effectively reverse chronic inflammation. Because of Dr. Nieper’s work, we also know that it goes right to work to dissolve and digest the harmful substances that cause plaque buildup. In addition, unlike cholesterol-blocking drugs, serrapeptase is able to clean away dead tissue and harmful substances from the arteries without interfering with the body’s natural synthesis of cholesterol. This is important, since a certain amount of cholesterol is actually necessary for the proper functioning of many ongoing processes in the body. Serrapeptase also does not cause any of the many dangerous side effects that have been linked to conventional heart and blood pressure medications.
According to Dr. Nieper, serrapeptase was especially effective in clearing away plaque-forming debris in the carotid arteries. The carotid arteries run along both sides of the neck and transport blood and oxygen from the heart to the brain. In his biography, The Curious Man, Dr. Nieper pointed out the difficulties involved in dealing with carotid arteries that narrow due to plaque buildup. “Very often,” he explained, surgeons are reluctant or unable to open partially closed carotid arteries…They fear that resulting debris [caused by surgery] could be pushed further into the smaller connecting arteries and result in stroke and possibly death.”
Dr. Nieper found that serrapeptase offered a safe and effective alternative to such risky surgical procedures. “In cases of severe arterial narrowing,” he reported, “I have used serrapeptase with excellent, even life-saving results. Only three tablets a day over a period of twelve to eighteen months are adequate to produce results. Many of my patients have shown significantly improved blood flow through their previously constricted areteries, as confirmed by ultrasound examination.”
Based on such results, Dr. Nieper also stated that serrapeptase acted more quickly to remove arterial plaque than EDTA chelation therapy, a procedure commonly used by many alternative physicians to remove plaque and restore overall cardiovascular function.
Dr. Napier also discovered that serrapeptase is able to dissolve dangerous blood clots, and to restore the overall health of the body’s arteries and veins. He even reported that it could help to shrink varicose veins.
Conclusion
Based on the above information, you may wish to add serrapeptase to your daily health regimen. If you choose to do so, here are some guidelines for its use:
Although a daily value for serrapeptase has currently not been established, 10 mg (equivalent to 20,000 IU) of serrapeptase, taken once a day on an empty stomach, is recommended by most physicians familiar with serrapeptase for preventive purposes.
For people suffering from chronic inflammation and/or other health problems for which serrapeptase has shown benefit, a higher dose may be more appropriate.
Serrapeptase is best taken at least 30 minutes before eating, or at least two hours after a meal.
Caution: Do not take serrapeptase more than once a day. In addition, although there is currently no evidence that serrapeptase interferes with medical drugs, be sure to inform your doctor if you are on medication and decide to try serrapeptase so that he or she can help guide you in creating a daily health regimen that best meets your health care needs.
Self-Care Tips for Preventing and Reducing High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a serious health condition that can lead to other serious problems, including heart attack and stroke. All too often, it is also undiagnosed. As a result, health officials estimate that millions of Americans have high blood pressure and don’t realize it.
Here are some simple yet powerful steps you can do to prevent high blood pressure from developing, and to reduce it if it already has developed.
See Your Doctor and Get Tested
The first step you need to take is to find out what your blood pressure level is. Ideally, to do this, consult with your doctor and have him or her measure your blood pressure level. Doing so is a quick and easy procedure. Today, you can also find blood pressure monitors at your local drug store. Most of these devices are inexpensive and reasonably accurate, allowing you to check your blood pressure level on a regular basis without the need to see your doctor. However, if you currently do not know your blood pressure level, I recommend that you initially see your doctor so that he or she can work with you to create an optimal healthy lifestyle.
If your doctor finds that your blood pressure is high, be advised that he or she may recommend blood pressure medication. In cases of dangerously high blood pressure levels, such drugs can literally be lifesavers. In most cases, they work by reducing the heart’s output of blood, lowering overall blood pressure, or, in the case of diuretic drugs, reducing fluid retentions.
However, although such medications may relieve the symptoms of high blood pressure, they do little or nothing to resolve its underlying causes. Additionally many of these drugs can cause unhealthy side effects and actually increase the risk of heart disease. Therefore, if you have high blood pressure, ask your doctor to help you determine whatever factors may be contributing to your condition. Then, if your blood pressure level isn’t at a dangerous level, take a few months implementing the following self-care measures.
Diet
A healthy diet is one of the most important factors in preventing and reducing high blood pressure. The best diet is one that is low in unhealthy fats, sugar, and salt, and rich in foods containing potassium, calcium, and magnesium. Fiber-rich foods are also important. Overall, try to eat meals that contain plentiful supplies of fresh, organic vegetables, along with free-range lean meats and poultry and wild caught fish. Try to also limit your intake of carbohydrate foods, and when you do eat such foods make sure they are in the complex-carbohydrate food group.
In at least one meal each day, be sure to also include garlic and/or onions, both of which have been shown to significantly reduce both systolic and diastolic pressure levels. And be sure to eliminate all refined and simple carbohydrate foods, processed foods, and beverages while drinking lots of pure, filtered water throughout the day. Having oatmeal a few times a week for breakfast is also a good idea.
Nutritional Supplements
There are a number of nutrients that can help keep blood pressure levels under control. Some of the most beneficial are fish oils, which are rich in vitamins B3 and B6, along with a complete B-complex supplement, vitamin C, omega-3 fatty acids, magnesium, potassium, selenium, and zinc. Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), and the amino acids cysteine, L-tryptophan, and taurine can also be helpful.
Herbal Medicine
Perhaps the best herbal remedy for preventing and reducing high blood pressure is hawthorn, which is available at most health food stores in capsule, liquid, and extract form. As I have written about previously [Barb, please create a link to my article on Hawthorn – thanks! - Larry], hawthorn is well known for its ability to strengthen and protect the cardiovascular system, so it’s not surprising that it is beneficial for helping to manage blood pressure levels too.
Lifestyle
Lifestyle is another significant factor for maintaining healthy blood pressure levels. Healthy life style choices include limiting your daily alcohol and caffeine intake, as well as not smoking and avoiding exposure to secondhand smoke. If you are overweight, seek help so that you can get to within ten pounds or less of your ideal weight, as healthy weight loss can dramatically reduce high blood pressure.
Stress Management
In addition to being one of the primary causes of high blood pressure, stress is also a principal cause of nearly all other chronic health conditions. Therefore, learning how to manage stress is vitally important for your good health. Effective stress management methods include meditation, relaxation techniques, deep breathing exercises, Tai chi, and yoga. Meditation can be particularly effective, so much so in fact that in 1984 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recommended meditation over prescription drugs as a treatment for mild cases of high blood pressure.
Exercise
Regular exercise can not only lower high blood pressure, but is also excellent for reducing stress. Ideally, you should find a way to devote at least 45 to 60 minutes each day engaged in some form of exercise or other types of physical activity. Some of the best forms of exercise for managing blood pressure levels are walking, swimming, rebounding (jumping on a mini-trampoline) and other non-strenuous types of aerobic exercise.
Caution: Before undertaking any type of exercise program for the first time consult your physician.
Social Health
In addition to the above steps, be honest with yourself and evaluate your relationships, both at work and at home. Our social interactions can dramatically affect our health for good or bad, depending on their nature. Try to avoid spending time with people who are habitually negative or who cause you stress in other ways. In addition, if you need help with your personal relationships, consider counseling or receiving some other type of guidance.
Just as importantly, try not to spend too much time alone. Numerous scientific studies show that people with strong and supportive social ties on average are healthier and usually live longer than people who tend to be “loners.”
Vitamins and Teenagers: A Personal Statement by Stephen H. Brown, PhD
(Orthomolecular Medicine New Service, Jan 26, 2010) In our house, vitamin supplements sit on the counter in open bowls like nuts, dried fruits, or jelly beans.
Colds, respiratory illnesses, intestinal viruses, mono, and other infectious diseases are constantly present in American schools. In response, my teenage kids have placed four bowls on the kitchen counter - a large one in the middle full of vitamin C surrounded by three smaller bowls of niacin, vitamin D, and thiamine tablets. They help themselves to the vitamins when they feel the need, and many of their friends have adopted the idea as well. Regularly, the kids report that the vitamins actually work. The most frequent comments are, “Wow, I can breath through my nose again!” and “I was sure I was getting sick yesterday but I feel fine today.”
How did this start? My father introduced me to vitamin C as a teenager and I was further inspired by Linus Pauling's How to Live Longer and Feel Better. (1) In order to safely raise my kids on extra vitamins with maximum effectiveness, I started actively researching orthomolecular medicine. As a result, I advised my teenage children to focus on responsive dosing of four vitamins that are underrepresented in modern diets. I provided the following suggested daily doses as a starting point:
6000 mg of vitamin C
4000 IU of vitamin D
200 mg of thiamine
250 mg of time-release niacin
There is an obvious association between vitamin intake and poor health. Teenagers can understand this. Some might think that it is not good parenting to let teens have unfettered access to nutrients. We need to constantly remember that these and other vitamins are non-prescription for a reason. (2) As previous Orthomolecular Medicine News Service articles have pointed out (3), vitamins are remarkably safe. They are far better then sugary candy, fast foods loaded with sodium and fat, or caffeine-laced soft drinks.
Vitamin supplements have been widely available for only a few decades. For the first time, families have the ability to independently control intakes of essential nutrients. A very large amount of research has repeatedly shown that proactively controlling micro-nutrients is necessary to optimize health.
Easy access, peer acceptance, and occasional obvious usefulness, in that order, appear to me to be important motivators for teenagers. I am hopeful that my kids are more sensitive to their own health and the health of their friends, and are looking for an association between supplement use and improved health.
The kids know I'm the family “expert” on vitamins and I have occasional in depth conversations with them. I rarely maintain their interest. Vitamins have not, in my opinion, taken health care's center stage because this theory is not particularly exciting. But you can prove it works by giving it a fair trial.
The vitamin revolution is about behavior. I don't care why the kids take vitamins B1, B3, C, and D. I just care that they take them, and stay well as a result. Watching my children and their friends independently control their vitamin intake has been a turning point for me. I believe that my kids are ordinary kids and that most kids will respond similarly.
Media scare stories aside, the overwhelming scientific evidence is that we are living in a time of epidemic vitamin deficiency. Supplements correct that when food groups eating does not or can not. Deficiency of just these four vitamins is often responsible for the multitude of disorders that qualify children for special education and asthma medication. Later in life, inadequate vitamin intake clearly contributes to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, excessive dental cavities, anorexia, depression, dementia, and sleep disorders. Persons wishing to confirm or question this statement are encouraged to look at the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service archive, freely accessible at http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/index.shtml.
With the stakes so high, all methods of increasing consumption of these four vitamins are worth consideration. My kids have definitely benefited from supplemental vitamins. I'm hopeful that other parents will find this simple option equally useful.
(Stephen H. Brown received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Yale. He has worked for industry in the field of heterogeneous catalysis since 1988 and has 80 patents. Dr. Brown has been blogging at www.cforyourself.comsince 2006, and contributing to the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service since 2007.)
References:
(1) Reviewed at http://www.doctoryourself.com/livelonger.html .
(2) Bronstein AC, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, Green JL, Rumack BH, Giffin SL. 2008 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System (NPDS): 26th Annual Report. Clinical Toxicology (2009). 47, 911-1084. The full text article is available for free download at http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2008annualreport.pdf . Vitamins statistics are found in Table 22B, journal pages 1052-3. Minerals, herbs, amino acids and other supplements are in the same table, pages 1047-8.
(3) More than 75 OMNS news releases are available at http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/index.shtml
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President Obama and the Congress Must Take Action on Cancer Prevention by Samuel S. Epstein, MD
President Obama has pledged to reform the national health care system. Central to this, as the President has stressed, is containing the spiraling costs of health care -- costs which are soaring at about six percent each year. Most experts agree that this is not possible without any plan to prevent Americans from getting cancer in the first place. This year, 1.5 million people will be diagnosed with cancer. Of them, 562,000 people, over 1,500 every day, will die.
The cancer epidemic now strikes as many as one in three Americans and takes the life of one in four. After nearly 40 years of losing the war against cancer, a war that President Nixon declared in December 1971, we are taking grossly inadequate action to protect us from this menace.
Based on recent estimates by the National Institutes of Health, the total costs of cancer are $219 billion a year. The annual costs to taxpayers of diagnosis and treatment amount to $89 billion; the annual costs of premature death are conservatively estimated at $112 billion; and the annual costs due to lost productivity are conservatively estimated at $18 billion. And these are the quantifiable, inflationary costs. The human costs surely are of far greater magnitude.
The connection between our losing the cancer war and the need to control its costs through prevention is clear. Cancer is not only one of the most costly and sometimes deadly diseases in America, it is also one of the most avoidable.
To be sure, smoking remains the best-known and single largest cause of cancer, particularly lung cancer. While incidence rates of lung cancer in men have declined by 20 percent over the past three decades, rates in women increased by 111 percent. But more importantly, non-smoking cancers -- due to known chemical and physical carcinogens -- have increased substantially since 1975. Some of the more startling realities in the failure to prevent cancer are illustrated by their soaring rates. These include:
Malignant melanoma of the skin in adults has increased by 170 percent, mainly due to the use of sunscreens in childhood that fail to block long wave ultraviolet light.
Thyroid cancer has increased by 116 percent due in large part to ionizing radiation.
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma has increased by 80 percent due mostly to phenoxy herbicides, and phenylenediamine black hair dyes.
Testicular cancer has increased by 60 percent due to pesticides, hormonal ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products; and estrogen residues in meat.
Childhood leukemia has increased by 55 percent due to ionizing radiation; domestic pesticides; nitrite preservatives in meats, particularly hot dogs; and parental exposures to occupational carcinogens.
Ovary cancer (mortality) for women over the age of 65 has increased by 47 percent in African American women, and by 13 percent in Caucasian women due to genital use of talc powder.
Breast cancer has increased by 17 percent due to a wide range of causes. These include: birth control pills, estrogen replacement therapy, toxic hormonal ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products, diagnostic radiation and routine premenopausal mammography, with a cumulative breast dose exposure of up to about five rads over 10 years.
It is now beyond scientific dispute that environmental and occupational exposures to carcinogens are the primary cause of non-smoking related cancers. An October 2007 publication on environmental and occupational causes of cancer by Dr. Richard Clapp further emphasized that the increasing incidence of cancer is due to preventable exposures to carcinogens in workplace and environment.
This publication summarizes extensive scientific evidence on cancers resulting from environmental exposures to formaldehyde, chlorinated organic pesticides, and organic solvents. It also details evidence attributing the increasing incidence of lung cancers to preventable occupational exposures to a wide range of carcinogens. These include asbestos, formaldehyde, methylene chloride, benzene, and ethylene oxide.
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is the primary federal agency devoted exclusively to fighting cancer. Paradoxically, the escalating incidence of cancer over the last 30 years parallels its sharply escalating annual budget -- from $690 million in 1975 to $6 billion this year. Of this a mere $131 million, 2.2 percent, is allocated to NCI's mission on Prevention and Early Detection. However, in spite of well-documented evidence relating the escalating incidence of cancer to a wide range of avoidable carcinogenic exposures, the NCI remains "asleep at the wheel," and has stubbornly refused to devote significant resources or even attention to prevention.
Major policy changes in the NCI are overdue. These include the appointment of a new Deputy Director for Cancer Prevention, and the allocation of at least 4 percent of the NCI budget to prevention programs for fiscal year 2011.
Furthermore, the NCI has touted the imminent success of new cancer treatments promises that have seldom borne out, and which have been widely questioned by the independent scientific community. For instance, in 2004, Nobelist Leland Hartwell, President of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Control Center, warned that Congress and the public are paying NCI $4.7 billion a year, most of which is spent on "promoting ineffective drugs" for terminal disease. In fact, the costs of these new biotech drugs has increased over 100-fold over the last decade without any evidence supporting their effectiveness in improving survival rates.
Congress now has an epochal opportunity to reform our health care system and prevent diseases, particularly cancer, from occurring in the first place. By taking some simple steps, Congress should enact prompt and aggressive reforms to prevent cancer.
As members of the independent scientific community, we welcome the Obama Administration's goal of health care reform. But while the Administration has put forward a cancer plan, mistakenly it focuses exclusively on the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, rather than on its prevention. In the past, Congress has also misdirected its attention to cancer relief. The simple truth is that the more cancer is prevented, the less there is to treat. That will also save lives and money.
Copyright © 2010 by Samuel S. Epstein, MD. All rights reserved.
Dr. Epstein is Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition (www.preventcancer.com), and Professor Emeritus Environmental & Occupational Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health.
Recommendations
Website Links
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7357629140536485998#- This link will take you to a feature-length documentary about Dr. Max Gerson and Gerson Therapy, one of the most reputable alternative cancer (and many other disease) treatments in the world. I strongly encourage you to watch it in its entirety. It’s a very important story.
http://tinyurl.com/ybtxchr - This link will take you to a story that accuses pharmaceutical companies of manipulating the World Health Organization (WHO) into declaring Swine Flue (H1N1) a pandemic so that Big Pharma could reap billions of dollars in revenues (which they did). Naturally WHO denies the claim and they are probably right. More likely, WHO wasn’t manipulated; it colluded with Big Pharma readily.
http://tinyurl.com/yc8pbfp - Further evidence that the global warming/climate change alarmists knowingly perpetuated a scam. Happily, their claims are all starting to unravel.
Medical Freedom
Please contact and support the following organizations dedicated to protecting our health freedoms.
Citizens for Health - http://www.citizens.org
American Association for Health Freedom – http://www.healthfreedom.net
Alliance for Natural Health – http://www.alliance-natural-health.org (The leading organization fighting to preserve health freedom in England and the EU.)
Institute for Health Freedom – http://www.ForHealthFreedom.org
International Advocates for Health Freedom (IAHF) – http://www.iahf.com
And to learn how corrupt and extensive Big Pharma’s monopoly is, visit http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/online/research/index.html the website for the Campaign Against Fraudulent Medical Research. In particular, read their in-depth report The Pharmaceutical Drug Racket that you will find there.
That’s all for this week.
Health and Blessings!
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
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