Note: Dr. Mercola will be on Dr. Oz's show tomorrow, Tuesday...
Here's the link for the Trailer:
http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/tuesday-dr-oz-show
I blended a bit of research and experience in a comment I left this morning on Dr. Mercola's Comment Section under his article on what to eat for good skin....
Please bear with the condensed attempt to tie fungus/Candida together with several health issues, as there is a space limit in comment sections. As I've read more about aluminum poisoning and realize the correlations with Candida, I am amazed and appalled at the complexity of choosing non-aluminum foods and personal care products, (staying away from beverages in tin cans), etc. Salts and baking powder and baking soda and the bakery foods and processed and restaurant foods with aluminum in them are so widespread, that not only do I want to grow and buy organic, staying away from hormones and antibiotics, but I now need to go one more level deep in awareness to avoid the many problems of aluminum poisoning.
Here's a link for you that will put you in another dimension of awareness. This writer had aluminum poisoning, and shares her story and others, how cheating works, what happened when an Alzheimer's patient stopped eating, drinking and taking his meds, etc. Absolutely fascinating and critical to know....
http://home.earthlink.net/~joannefstruve/_wsn/page2.html
This will address Autism, ADD, ADHD, Candida, Aluminum Poisoning, Gluten problems, etc., if just briefly. Feedback welcome.
We are a gluten-based society, with wheat as a staple. When people get a Candida overgrowth, and it goes into the fungal stage, going through the intestinal wall, allowing bits of our diet...to enter the body and be treated like an allergen, we have problems. I am suspecting that if the Candida problem is not addressed, the new seeds and grains we use will end up in the same way, as allergens. Aluminum poisoning through vaccines and deodorants, etc. (breast cancer had a high incidence of the upper, outer margin near underarms) causes Candida to flourish. Heavy metals shelter Candida and make it harder to get rid of. Cilantro used with Chlorella to eliminate heavy metals may be helpful to detox. If you do a SEARCH on Youtube on Chemtrails, you'll hear about aluminum being dumped on us,-proven with testing-along with other toxic metals. Flouride is a toxic byproduct of aluminum manufacture. I read where Prozac is 20% flouride, and the drugs being pushed on us have heavy metals. There is a correlation with psoriasis and heavy metals and parasites. If fungus flourishes with heavy metals, perhaps a detox is the answer. I've seen it work, but somehow the chemtrails and flouride dumping HAVE TO BE ADDRESSED. Did you know the FDA has NO safety guidelines on the amount of aluminum in vaccines our little ones are getting, especially important as they now get 17 vaccines in a short period of time, setting them up for autism, ADD and ADHD. Aluminum hijacks the iron carrier system, inhibits mercury excretion and crosses the blood brain barrier. Males are more vulnerable. PROTECT OUR CHILDREN...SPEAK OUT. There is no long term study testing safety of the number of vaccines pushed on our young. Drugs, steroids, antibiotics, sugar, meat and dairy, and stress all create acidic environments that fungus (Candida), cancer, virus, bacteria and parasites love. Dr. Mercola has a great list with sun, exercise (oxygen) etc. skin care products, etc. for health and balance.
Caution with the number of vaccines allowed, insistence on SAFE vaccines or NO vaccines, prevention with diet and exercise and nutritional food supplements, juicing, etc. is recommended.
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Monday, January 17, 2011
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Medical School Scorecard on Pharma Conflicts of Interest
Here is a press release from AMSA, the American Medical Student Association, where we still have hope for changes in the corruption of the medical field, directly affecting our health and longevity.
Thought you would be interested in the scorecard of universities teaching the new docs on the block...
MAJORITY OF U.S. MEDICAL SCHOOLS HAVE STRONG PHARMACEUTICAL CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST POLICIES; MEDICAL STUDENT SURVEY FINDS
Reston, Va. and Washington, D.C. — The majority of U.S. medical schools have implemented strong conflict-of-interest policies this year, according to the 2010 American Medical Student Association (AMSA) PharmFree Scorecard, released today. The Scorecard, developed by AMSA and the Pew Prescription Project, finds that 79 of 152 medical schools (52%) now receive a grade of A or B for their policies governing pharmaceutical industry interaction with medical school faculty and students, compared with 45 last year.
The AMSA PharmFree Scorecard (www.amsascorecard.org), now in its fourth year, offers a comprehensive national overview, as well as an in-depth, school-by-school analysis in 11 areas, including gifts and meals from industry to doctors, paid promotional speaking for industry, acceptance of free drug samples, interaction with sales representatives and industry-funded education.
Of the 152 U.S. medical schools, 19 receive As (13%), 60 Bs (39%), 24 Cs (16%), 18 Ds (12%) and 26 Fs (17%). Schools that declined to submit policies and schools that did not respond to repeated requests for policies received an automatic ‘F’ (12 schools). Five respondents received a grade of “In Process” because their policies are currently under review or revision.
Highlights of the survey include:
• The University of South Dakota, Des Moines College of Osteopathic Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine have increased from ‘D’ policies to ‘A’ policies this year. Tufts is now the highest scoring medical school in Massachusetts.
• The University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, increased its grade from a ‘F’ to a ‘C’.
• The University of Central Florida College of Medicine, which only opened its doors in 2009, received a ‘B’.
• There are only two medical schools that received a perfect score for limiting access of sales representatives – the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine and Florida State University College of Medicine.
• Nearly one-third of medical schools now teach medical students to understand institutional conflict of interest policies, to recognize how industry promotion and marketing can influence clinical judgment and to consider the ethics around conflict of interest.
The other top-ranked, (‘A’) schools in the 2010 report include: Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York), University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Mayo Medical School, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, and the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.
“As conflict-of-interest policies become part of mainstream medical education, this is an exciting time for future physicians and the health care industry as a whole,” says John Brockman, AMSA national president and fourth year medical student at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. “With all of the compelling data about how marketing influences even the best-intentioned physicians, it is gratifying to see that medical schools are taking the necessary steps toward practicing evidence-based medicine, which translates into better patient care.” Case Western increased its grade this year from a ‘D’ to a ‘B’.
AMSA developed the rigorous scorecard methodology with the Pew Prescription Project, which works to promote consumer safety through reforms in the approval, manufacture and marketing of prescription drugs.
“Conflict of interest policies ensure appropriate relationships between caregivers and drug and medical device companies,” said Allan Coukell, director of medical safety for the Pew Health Group, which supports AMSA’s work. “The 2010 scorecard shows that medical schools are moving towards stronger conflict-of-interest standards and that the Scorecard is an increasingly accepted assessment tool.”
Virtual News Conference
On Wednesday, December 15th at 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST, AMSA will host a virtual news conference to review the results of the 2010 AMSA PharmFree Scorecard:
Call-In Number:
(661) 673-8600
Participant Passcode:
914227#
For more information or to schedule an interview with AMSA, Pew or a local medical student, please contact: press(at)amsascorecard(dot)
About the American Medical Student Association
Celebrating its 60th Anniversary, AMSA is the oldest and largest independent association of physicians-in-training in the United States. Founded in 1950, AMSA is a student-governed, non-profit organization committed to representing the concerns of physicians-in-training. To learn more about AMSA, our strategic priorities, or joining the organization, please visit us online atwww.amsa.org/.
AMSA’s PharmFree Campaign, which began in 2001, guides medical students in organizing to advocate for evidence-based rather than marketing-based prescribing practices, the removal of conflicts of interest and global access to essential medicines. AMSA provides toolkits, talks and training institutes to help medical students advance these goals. For more information, please visitwww.pharmfree.org.
About the Pew Health Group
The Pew Health Group is the health and consumer-product safety arm of The Pew Charitable Trusts, a nonprofit organization that applies a rigorous, analytical approach to improve public policy, inform the public and stimulate civic life. For more information, please visitwww.prescriptionproject.
# # #
Media Contact:
Kim Cunningham
American Medical Student Association
Phone: (781) 223-4042
Email: pr@amsa.org
**Happy Holidays
See the last few posts for a Cookie Exchange Party.
Also: FREE SHAKLEE MEMBERSHIP -A $19.95 Value FOR 15% off ALL Shaklee Products FROM NOW ON. OFFER GOOD through December for ordering $70 of product, MN Member Price.
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Thought you would be interested in the scorecard of universities teaching the new docs on the block...
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MAJORITY OF U.S. MEDICAL SCHOOLS HAVE STRONG PHARMACEUTICAL CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST POLICIES; MEDICAL STUDENT SURVEY FINDS
Reston, Va. and Washington, D.C. — The majority of U.S. medical schools have implemented strong conflict-of-interest policies this year, according to the 2010 American Medical Student Association (AMSA) PharmFree Scorecard, released today. The Scorecard, developed by AMSA and the Pew Prescription Project, finds that 79 of 152 medical schools (52%) now receive a grade of A or B for their policies governing pharmaceutical industry interaction with medical school faculty and students, compared with 45 last year.
The AMSA PharmFree Scorecard (www.amsascorecard.org), now in its fourth year, offers a comprehensive national overview, as well as an in-depth, school-by-school analysis in 11 areas, including gifts and meals from industry to doctors, paid promotional speaking for industry, acceptance of free drug samples, interaction with sales representatives and industry-funded education.
Of the 152 U.S. medical schools, 19 receive As (13%), 60 Bs (39%), 24 Cs (16%), 18 Ds (12%) and 26 Fs (17%). Schools that declined to submit policies and schools that did not respond to repeated requests for policies received an automatic ‘F’ (12 schools). Five respondents received a grade of “In Process” because their policies are currently under review or revision.
Highlights of the survey include:
• The University of South Dakota, Des Moines College of Osteopathic Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine have increased from ‘D’ policies to ‘A’ policies this year. Tufts is now the highest scoring medical school in Massachusetts.
• The University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, increased its grade from a ‘F’ to a ‘C’.
• The University of Central Florida College of Medicine, which only opened its doors in 2009, received a ‘B’.
• There are only two medical schools that received a perfect score for limiting access of sales representatives – the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine and Florida State University College of Medicine.
• Nearly one-third of medical schools now teach medical students to understand institutional conflict of interest policies, to recognize how industry promotion and marketing can influence clinical judgment and to consider the ethics around conflict of interest.
The other top-ranked, (‘A’) schools in the 2010 report include: Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York), University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Mayo Medical School, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, and the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.
“As conflict-of-interest policies become part of mainstream medical education, this is an exciting time for future physicians and the health care industry as a whole,” says John Brockman, AMSA national president and fourth year medical student at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. “With all of the compelling data about how marketing influences even the best-intentioned physicians, it is gratifying to see that medical schools are taking the necessary steps toward practicing evidence-based medicine, which translates into better patient care.” Case Western increased its grade this year from a ‘D’ to a ‘B’.
AMSA developed the rigorous scorecard methodology with the Pew Prescription Project, which works to promote consumer safety through reforms in the approval, manufacture and marketing of prescription drugs.
“Conflict of interest policies ensure appropriate relationships between caregivers and drug and medical device companies,” said Allan Coukell, director of medical safety for the Pew Health Group, which supports AMSA’s work. “The 2010 scorecard shows that medical schools are moving towards stronger conflict-of-interest standards and that the Scorecard is an increasingly accepted assessment tool.”
Virtual News Conference
On Wednesday, December 15th at 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST, AMSA will host a virtual news conference to review the results of the 2010 AMSA PharmFree Scorecard:
Call-In Number:
(661) 673-8600
Participant Passcode:
914227#
For more information or to schedule an interview with AMSA, Pew or a local medical student, please contact: press(at)amsascorecard(dot)
About the American Medical Student Association
Celebrating its 60th Anniversary, AMSA is the oldest and largest independent association of physicians-in-training in the United States. Founded in 1950, AMSA is a student-governed, non-profit organization committed to representing the concerns of physicians-in-training. To learn more about AMSA, our strategic priorities, or joining the organization, please visit us online atwww.amsa.org/.
AMSA’s PharmFree Campaign, which began in 2001, guides medical students in organizing to advocate for evidence-based rather than marketing-based prescribing practices, the removal of conflicts of interest and global access to essential medicines. AMSA provides toolkits, talks and training institutes to help medical students advance these goals. For more information, please visitwww.pharmfree.org.
About the Pew Health Group
The Pew Health Group is the health and consumer-product safety arm of The Pew Charitable Trusts, a nonprofit organization that applies a rigorous, analytical approach to improve public policy, inform the public and stimulate civic life. For more information, please visitwww.prescriptionproject.
# # #
Media Contact:
Kim Cunningham
American Medical Student Association
Phone: (781) 223-4042
Email: pr@amsa.org
**Happy Holidays
See the last few posts for a Cookie Exchange Party.
Also: FREE SHAKLEE MEMBERSHIP -A $19.95 Value FOR 15% off ALL Shaklee Products FROM NOW ON. OFFER GOOD through December for ordering $70 of product, MN Member Price.
$70 MN ORDER=FREE $19.95 MEMBERSHIP...
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Sunday, December 12, 2010
RP2012 - 2012 Predictions with Gerald Celente on Fox News 7-5-09 [HD]
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Saturday, December 11, 2010
Gift Ideas...Cookie Exchange Holiday Party
Christmas and Holiday Times can be difficult if we have lost family and friends-for any reason- or are in a tough financial spot. One of the best ways I've found over the years to soothe the sadness that I feel most during the holidays is to make food and surprise neighbors and friends. This year I will have a 'Cookie Exchange' party to make good memories.
I thought I'd serve a light supper around 6pm, and have some soup, rolls or homemade bread (with honey butter perhaps), and a great organic green salad with a homemade honey mustard dressing. (It's good I visited the Scoggins Valley Apiary and have a gallon of pure honey in the shelf). I have one guest who is allergic to onions, and that will be a huge challenge as far as soups are concerned. I'll have to put my 'thinking cap' on, as my mother used to say. I have a recipe for a Senagalese Peanut Chicken Soup that uses butternut squash and is very comforting and tasty. I can send the recipe if anyone is interested. Just put Soup Recipe in the subject line.
For dessert everyone will have a plate of cookies they have made, or will bring at least a box of chocolates or some holiday treat if they don't bake, and we'll make up variety plates to take home.
Last year I created baskets to give away. This year I have some good grapefruit that were 3/$1 and some wonderful Hood River Apples. Making cookies is therapeutic for me. I picture making some baskets with good cookies and fruit, and little surprises tucked in.
Our expectations and losses seem to distill on family-oriented times of the year. I find the best way to beat the blues during the Holidays is to make other people's lives happier and better in some way. Being part of creating surprise and happiness cannot help but make our own holidays brighter. So, if you want to glow like those Christmas lights, roll up your sleeves and roll out the dough for gingerbread boys, drop Russian teacakes on the cookie sheet, or make those nutty little Thumbprints with a chocolate kiss or a bit of homemade raspberry jam in the middle.
Please send pictures of your Christmas Elf creations for others-baskets, cookies, etc.
Merry Christmas!
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Thursday, December 9, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
GMO Sugarbeets Coming here? Uncontrollable Contamination...
The message below was sent in response to notification that GMO sugarbeets are being pushed on us now. Contamination of organic or natural crops is unpreventable.
Underlined is my direct input...
To:
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Underlined is my direct input...
To:
President Barack Obama
Tom Vilsack, Secy. Of Agriculture
Cindy Smith DVM, MBA, Administrator
This message is meant to document yet another proposed violation of human rights, and request a cease and desist of allowing ANY corporate/government /organization liaison to overlook or allow basic food contamination.
If you are intentionally or negligently allowing agricultural warfare in yet another crop, then please just announce that America is under siege through the very government agencies we pay to protect us. When did any government agency have a right to sanction or allow biological contamination of major food crops? Please play God and shorten life span or depopulate a country on some other planet.
Should you allow this corporate invasion of our primary right to choose what we eat, or have something safe to eat, you not only will be seen as criminals in the history books, but you and yours will most likely succumb from the same GMO greed and ignorance that you have helped promulgate.
Would you please just do your job, and help heal the world and leave it a better place, starting with your own obligations and responsibilities in the position this country's citizens have entrusted you (or at least hoped for).
I am writing to strongly oppose the USDA's proposal to allow the commercial planting and sale of of genetically engineered, "Roundup Ready" sugar beets before the agency has completed the court-ordered review of that crop's impacts (Docket No. APHIS-2010-0047).
The USDA's proposal violates environmental laws that are meant to ensure that agencies analyze potential environmental and socioeconomic impacts before they take action, not allow those activities to continue under another name while they undertake that analysis. The proposal also violates the law because it allows commercialization under provisions meant only for research, making an end-run around actually making a commercial approval decision.
As a consumer I am harmed by the loss of my right to choose non-GE foods. The harm to me happens because the sugar made from biotech beets is made by a production system that I know is harmful to the environment and farmers, regardless of the differences between biotech-derived sugar and other sugars. These harms include the risk of transgenic contamination of organic and non-GE crops, the creation of resistant "super weeds" from the overuse of Roundup, and the impacts of Roundup on biodiversity and protected species. Allowing commercialization to continue will not only eliminate my choice to choose non-GE food, but it will prejudge the agency's forgone conclusion to eventually commercialize again.
The USDA has proposed an unprecedented scheme with measures it claims will ensure harm such as transgenic contamination won't happen. But those measures have never been analyzed by our government for any biotech crop. They are the same measures that the Federal Court refused to adopt in August of this year. These measures should not be adopted now, at least not without a full Environmental Impact Statement analyzing their efficacy.
Additionally, the USDA's track record at overseeing biotech crops in field trials is abysmal, as numerous government reports have concluded (GAO 2008, USDA IG 2005). The failings of the USDA's field trial oversight have led to dozens of contamination episodes and billions of dollars in lost markets and businesses, such as with genetically engineered rice and corn. The USDA's actions belie its rhetoric of concern for non-GE crop growers, and continue to undermine its credibility. The USDA refused to disclose to the public a major contamination episode that came to light just a few weeks ago when GE bentgrass was discovered to have contaminated at least 20 square miles in eastern Oregon. GE bentgrass is not commercially approved and the contamination is believed to have spread from a field trial that ended more than five years ago. Congress even required USDA to improve its oversight of field trials in the 2008 farm bill, an order USDA has ignored. Now the USDA is claiming that its system of field trials is sufficient to contain an entire industry across the country. The measures should not be adopted at least without a full EIS.
The companies claiming economic harm from the failure to plant biotech beets in 2011 - Monsanto, Syngenta, and other agro-chemical giants - have not disclosed what conventional seed stock they have to plant if they cannot plant biotech beets. Any claims of economic harm to them are speculative and a result of their own gambling, since these companies have known since 2008 that they should plan to revert to conventional beets since it was likely biotech beets would again be illegal. Biotech beets are illegal and they threaten the environment through transgenic contamination and weed resistance, and consumers by inhibiting the fundamental right to choose.
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Gulf Coast BP Oil Spill Truth
Watch this short video for:
More government and corporate lies at our expense. How many will die from the oil and chemical sprays and residues? Is seafood safe to eat at all? Does the package say where it's coming from, and which government agency can you trust to protect you and your family? You decide...
The Consequence of Oil from Global Access Media on Vimeo.
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More government and corporate lies at our expense. How many will die from the oil and chemical sprays and residues? Is seafood safe to eat at all? Does the package say where it's coming from, and which government agency can you trust to protect you and your family? You decide...
The Consequence of Oil from Global Access Media on Vimeo.
Questions? Contact us at leangreencafe@yahoo.com
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