Innate Healer

A new book,  High Society: How substance abuse revages America and what to do about it, authored by Joseph Califano revealed the problem of substance abuse in the United States.  Any one day, about one hundred million Americans are consumers of legal or illegal mind-altering drugs, alcohol and tobacco. Substance abuse is public enemy number one in America.  Most violent crimes and accidents are committed under the influence of chemicals.  He spelled out what we can do about this problem especially in preventing young people from using these chemicals early in life.  Substance abuse is the number one disease that deserves attention.  With 4% of the population in the world, Americans consumed 50% of all the illegal drugs as well as psychoactive prescriptions.

In fact, malnutrition predispose a person to addiction.  Kids are experimenting with drugs at a younger and younger age these days.  They are also getting sicker younger. Read Children sicker now report to learn more.  Adrenal weakness and Adrenal Fatigue also result from malnutrition.  We know that sweet cravings is a sign of adrenal weakness.  There is a link of sugar addiction to subsequent substance addiction.  Adrenal weakness predisposes a person to both chemical and behavioral addictions.  

Charlie Rose interviewed Mr. Califano in a recent program.  The following link direct you to the interview. It is from minute 26th to 42nd. 

Charlie Rose Interveiw with Joseph Califano

Bloomberg.com, June 26 2007 

Adrenal Fatigue

The Environmental Working Group release their study of sunscreen.  The group concluded that most sunscreen contained toxic ingredients, or are not effective. 

Sun’s ray is important for health, it helps our skin to produce vitamin D which is found to be strongly anti-cancer.  It is essential to health.  In order not to over expose to the sun, gradually increase your daily exposure, so your skin will produce its own sunscreen, melanin, a pigment that shade skin cells.  Incrementally increase your sun exposure to avoid sunburn so you don’t need any toxic sunscreen.  Applying coconut oil on the skin is also an effective mean to protect your skin from being sunburned as long as you don’t stay in the sun too long the first time after being indoors all winter.

Toxic Sunscreens

Don’t just take your doctor’s word for it; they often do not know many of the side effects of prescription drugs.  Many doctors rely on drug salesmen for their drug education.  Salesmen may not have the full detail of the negative side effects of drugs. Neither do your doctors. 

Before you fill the prescription you got from an allopathic professional, aka, MD or DO, check out the number of lawsuits that are against that drug.  Many drugs are being sued for severe side effects.  Google for the common side effects of the drug you are prescribed to. 

If these side effects don’t deter you, do another step. Simply Google your drug’s name with the word lawsuit, for example, “aspirin lawsuit,” if a drug has excessive lawsuits, may you reconsider if you really need it given the existence of many natural and safe alternatives? 

Drugs can be life-saving, but too many drugs that have severe side effects are being prescribed  without full disclosure.  I hope you will not volunteer yourselves to be guineapigs for the drug companies.

Drug Lawsuits video

The Town of Allopath

Popular clear, plastic baby bottles leach a toxic hormone-disrupting chemical, bisphenol A into the liquid in the bottle, they are not safe to give to your baby, according to a report released by the Environment California Research and Policy Center .

The researchers found that all five popular brands (Avent, Dr. Brown’s, Evenflo, Gerber, and Playtex),  leached bisphenol A at levels that caused harm in animal studies, upon analyzing five of the most popular brands of baby bottles on the market.

Even very small doses of bisphenol A have been linked to cancers, impaired immune function, early onset of puberty, obesity, diabetes, and hyperactivity, among other problems.

To protect your baby from bisphenol A and other endocrine disrupting chemicals found in plastic, parents should use glass bottle instead of plastic ones.  

Toxic Baby Bottles, Environment California June 19, 2007

This is a great talk on how moral evolution is the way out of the current glogal mess we are mired in.  I truely enjoyed this talk and it gives me hope that we can overcome our selfishness and learned from our mistake.  Eventually, we will reach a higher level of happiness that all the peoples in the world will share.

Google video : Robert Wright Talk on Non-zero Sumness

Major differences exist between the professions of dietetics and clinic nutrition science. Hopefully, by clarifying the differences, confusion and conflict between the two can be avoided.

DIETETICS

Dietetics, as the name indicates, is primarily the study of human diet.  It is a practical and applied field of study that is used extensively in the food service industry, and in the school and hospital food services.  The field includes such areas as caloric analysis of diet, meal planning, special diets for the sick, basic nutritional science, serving sizes, and analysis by food grouping.  Dietitians are not usually primary care providers.

Dietitians are trained in four-year programs, where they receive a degree in dietetics.  They can then be registered with the American Dietetics Association.  ‘Dietitian’ is a recognized legal term for a person who has graduated from standardized, accredited program in dietetics which includes an internship program.  Dietitians are recognized as an allied healing art that is closely associated with the allopathic medical profession.  Dietitians work under medical doctors in many in-patient facilities.  Dietitians are also often employed by food service companies in product development and other areas.

NUTRITION SCIENCE

Nutrition is sum total of the metabolic process involved in metabolism.  It is most closely related to the sciences of physiology or organ function, and biochemistry, the chemistry of living systems.  Nutrition science is the study of the chemical components of foods and their effects upon body tissues. 

Applied or clinical nutrition is the application of nutritional biochemistry to improve human health.  Clinical nutrition is not taught extensively at medical schools and is not formally associated with the allopathic medical profession.  It is best termed an alternative or complimentary healing art, rather one that is allied with orthodox medicine.

In most states, the word ‘nutritionist’ or ‘nutrition consultant’ does not indicate a graduate of any particular school or holder of any particular degree.  Many universities and certifying organizations offer degrees and certification in nutrition science.  However, their prerequisites, curricula, length of program and approach to nutrition vary greatly. Some programs are similar to dietetics, focusing more on diet and health.  Others focus more on minerals, vitamins, and other chemical components of foods.  Others teach drugless healing arts of Oriental healing sciences that incorporate nutrition as part of the course of study.  Still others are oriented to biochemical research, since nutritional science is a large and growing research area.

SUMMARY

Dietetics is primarily the study of human diet and food preparation.  Dietitians often work in association with allopathic physicians, where they restrict their role to food and diet preparation and analysis.  ‘Dietitian’ is a recognized legal term for a person who has graduated from a standardized program at an accredited college.

Nutrition science is an area of biochemistry that is specifically concerned with the effects of foods and food components on the human body.  Clinical nutrition is the application of this knowledge to enhance energy and improve health.  The words ‘nutritionist’ and ‘nutrition consultant’ carry no legal definition in most states.  Training and experience among nutrition consultants may vary widely because nutrition science is a broad clinical as well as research field.

Recent studies suggest that mixing sunscreen with the insect repellent DEET might increase absorption of DEET through the skin. The Food and Drug Administration estimates that approximately 20 versions of sunscreen-insect repellent combination products are currently on the market. However, these products lack oversight. While the FDA regulates sunscreen, the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) regulates insect repellents. These combo products are in limbo, not really belonging to either agency. Consumers need to beware.

Sunscreeen blocks the healthful sunlight from reaching the skin to aide the production of vitamin D. vitamin D is found to reduce cancer risk by 77%.  These products are toxic to the body and should be avoided.  to avoid sunburn, increase sun exposure incrementally to allow the skin to produce its own suncreen–melanine.  15 minutes is enough to produce a daily dose of vitamin D for light-skin folks.

In this three minute video, Dean Ornish showed that people in the world are getting the same diseases that kill Americans regularly.  The reason being their adaption of our dietary lifestyles.  Processed foods and refined products.  As a result, they are dying of obesity, heart diseases and cancers.

The Americanization of Global Food and Disease Trends

Got this email from a yahoo group that I belong to and think it is important that we act on this alert.  Personal activism might be the only way that we can retain control over the production of food at the states and local levels.  Please foreward this article to your friends and let’s exercise our contitutional rights for self-determination.  The quality of our food is going to suffer further if this repressive law is put in place.  If we think melamine in pet foods or anti-freeze in tooth paste is bad, we have not seen anything yet.

Why is it that man-made adulterated foods are offered to be sold freely, while natural wholesome foods like raw milk is illegal in most states?  If this kind of repressive law is being put in place at the Federal level, the few states that allow the sale of raw milk will likely be gone by the way side.  We have to fight against unrighteous dominience and for our freedom.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Since 1998, the biotech industry and industrial food corporations have unsuccessfully tried to take away local and states’ rights to ban or regulate genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and other controversial foods and crops. For example, OCA and other public interest groups successfully generated a mass outcry in 2006 that blocked the passage of the National Uniformity for Food Act. This highly unpopular bill would have nullified 200 food safety and food labeling laws across the U.S. Failing to suppress grassroots control over food safety laws and labels in the last session of Congress, industry has now called on their friends in the House Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry to slip a similar poison pill into an obscure section of the voluminous 2007-2012 Farm Bill. The provision would give the White House appointed Secretary of Agriculture the power to eliminate local or state food and farming laws, such as those in four California counties banning genetically engineered ”foods.” 

Tell Congress to repeal this provision before it becomes law:

http://www.organicconsumers.org/
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/oca/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=11760

See what is in the most favorite American snack cake–Twinkie.  Most of these ingredients are chemicals and additives coming from Chinese oil refinery and foreign chemical makers.  I am glad I gave up this attrocity long time ago. It may be even worse now then those I devoured in my Twinkies eating days many moons ago.  The author of the article suggested that we eat more locally produced foods.  Amen!

Recently, Chinese sentenced their former chief of the State Food and Drug Adminstration to death for taking bribes and gave out licenses to shoddy drug menufacturers that make phony drugs.  These companies’ products are not only harming Chinese in that country, their exports are causing death and damages to peoples overseas.  We can certainly recall the pet food recall recently due to contaminant from China. They also found anti-freeze post as glycerin and was used in cough syrup and tooth paste, causing death and harm to people in their destinations.

Let’s look at our own FDA and their job on protecting Americans from dangerous drugs. We have to do some of our own house cleaning.  In fact, the FDA knew about the problem with Avandia, a diabetes drug, five years ago and didn’t not do anything about it, citing “lack of evidence.”  I can just wonder when the nightmare is going to end.  If making money is all we care about, we might never wake up from it.  What nigthmare?  The hundreds of thousands of death caused by adverse drug reactions every year.

LATimes.com May 29, 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/world/asia/30china.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/washington/31fda.html?ref=health

LewRockwell.com May 16, 2007