If you are reading this you are like most everyone else...These topics get more people's minds racing than watching a Kubrick movie. And how dare I speak about these topics. You see that is exactly the issues we Americans are facing now. Nobody is "allowed" to speak their opinion about why the U.S. is in shambles. More people are without work, money, IRA's, 401K's, facing foreclosures, losing their "health"coverage..etc..yayayaya. Nobody in this country that is the land of the Free, Home of the Brave- are allowed to speak out against what is wrong or you will be chastized and labled facist,communist,socialist and even Nazi-Gestapo-ist.
I think Chris Rock said it best..."The hypocracy of our democracy".. In the above label of the U.S, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave, Chris Rock could not have described it better. If you were free to say,do and choose what you wanted, there would be no backlash. On the other hand, most of the people that live here are not brave enough to voice their opinions. Just walk down the local gathering place in your town and look at everyone's demenor. It seems as if there is the cliche 500 gorilla around everywhere these days. Yes there is and it is the weak economy,the job market and "health"care.
There is so much reistance about how President Obama is taking on such a large task as reforming the "health"care topic. The problem is that this should have never even been allowed to spiral out of control, but when companies put profits ahead of humanity, you end up with the situation we have now. Insurance companies have been allowed to rape and pillage their way through citizens of our country. So we have issues where normal upright citizens who have done nothing wrong, never committed any fraud against these mongrols, end up forfeiting all they worked hard for, house, investments somtimes family. Many people are and have been faced with the decision to either go visit a physician and take the chance of going bankrupt or living with a condition. And the best part about this is that people who are funded by all of these corporations(Rupert Murdoch) et.al, hire idiots and hot blondes to spew filth so they get people who cannot think for themselves, to believe that something that is much needed("health"care), is wrong and all that are for it, are Communists,Socialists, Nazi-ists.
When 17% of the GDP is centered around "health"care, and 1/3rd is profits that go to the insurance companies and entities like them, there is a problem. To think that a single payer system will make things worse for our economy, is like thinking that if you let the faucet drip in the bathroom, you will not face consequences- you eventually will--mold,warped floors and higher bills. However that may be, I would like to ask you who are reading this to do an experiment. Turn on the T.V, go straight to the big news channels. Now take notes, first watch FOX with its talking heads, Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity. Now go to CNN, Cooper,King and Blitzer. It is disgusting how the people who own these channels are allowed to get people distracted from the real Dog and Pony show. Be that as it may, they are doing a great job at it. Ask anyone who watches one or the other and they will give you without saying it, why they listen to that channel.
Since most of the people who are opposed to a single payer system for "health"care have or will have the best care they can get. They dont have the issues that the majority of the country does. They dont have to worry about spending half of their paycheck on a prescription they need currently. Since insurance companies are allowed to exclude people and deny coverage for whatever and whenever they want, they capitlize on obscene profits, daily. Let's say you own a business, you instill a policy that states you can pay for your product up front and we will offer you the product after a set amount of time. Now if the individual wants or needs to use that product before that set amount of time, he will not be able to take the product for his use and you keep the money he has paid you. Normally in this example, you would be charged with some fort of theft or larceny. But not if you are any type of insurance company. He who has the gold makes the rules.
Too many of us are faced with the uncomprehensable decision mentioned earlier. In my opinion, I feel like either way, the insurance companies need to be faced with the voice of the people and physicians. I feel bad for a large amount of doctors who are also faced with these decisions daily. There are some great doctors out in the field who know change is needed. But their hands are tied. Just like citizens are also. So I have placed some links for your reading and you can decide what you want to face by making your own decisions.
http://www.aarp.org/issues/dividedwefail/
http://www.healthreform.gov/
http://www.coalition4healthcare.org/
"When I was born the doctor slapped my mother"---Rodney Dangerfield
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Link for article discussing MAP in potable h2o in VA
I was presented this article that is a very interesting read that relates to my previous post. It may be a little difficult for the lay person ot navigate through, but it is still worth the time to view.
Nick
www.gutpathogens.com/content/1/1/17
Nick
www.gutpathogens.com/content/1/1/17
Saturday, October 17, 2009
First things first
To start, I was advised by a very smart person a little while ago to start this. I have not really been one to follow suit with everyone else, but every chance I have to advise people of new findings on some of the issues we face as consumers, I will try to take advantage of it. This blog was made and will consist mostly of issues with food safety, modern health conditions that may be able to be prevented, and without getting to involved in the political side of it, current "health care". I guess I must say that I am not a licensed medical physician. Nor do I intend on presenting myself in that manner. The information contained here is based upon devout research through institutions of higher learning, current and past publications and personal experience. So let the games begin.
I will give a brief synopsis on why I am presenting this to the public. You see, around 7 years ago my family was introduced to a few health conditions we never heard of, never even knew how to pronounce, but would become overly informed with what we thought was reasonable information. Around the beginning of the new millennium, my younger brother was not feeling great and went to the doctors office to find out why, like millions of Americans do everyday. Turns out he needed to have some tests run and would later find out he had Ulcerative Colitis. Hmmm. That was the first exact thing I said to myself when I heard this. The next thing I thought was what the hell is that, what will he have to do.etc. He would need to take a few prescriptions and he went on to finish his last year in high school. He seemed to do quite well as he finished top of his class and went on to a big school in the same state. I thought nothing of it and made sure he was ok by asking him periodically. Fast forward to next year. I was working regularly, going to college, exercising quite often, and doing what most people in their twenties do. By the end of that year, I started becoming pretty tired. Not the kind of tired what I was used to after working, studying,exercising and being lazy. This was new to me. I would only feel like working then watching some tv. Then I did not really feel like working so much but made myself anyway. Finally I had similar symptoms that my brother had.Long story short I went through the same rounds of tests and would end up on the same prescriptions. The final word was never really determined, first there was no clear diagnosis, next I would be advised I had Colitis, then Crohn's disease then back to Colitis. After going to 4 different offices, I finally was advised I had a blend called Crohn's-Colitis. These two conditions are very similar but have differences also. I never heard of any of these prior to this. After much research on my own, I decided I was not going to just take the conventional expertise I was just given. I read that I would take this and this for a long time or I may need surgery or I will do this or that. I have never been the type to take everything I heard and trust everything. I was the "think for yourself, question authority" type about everything. I would find out many famous people had this, many political leaders, many people I worked with even. Hmmm.
I decided to go on with my life and take care of myself better, watch what I ate better, don't drink so much, try to rest more. I did that for a while and with some coaxing from my peers, still stayed out late and took in the young single life style. In the middle of all that, I still took as best care of myself as I could. A few years went by and I did what I wanted to. I then began to have some problems. I came down with an infection that kept me in the hospital for one holiday and my birthday. I decided to look even further into what and why these conditions happen to people, mainly young people, even children. I found a few things by an author that presumed it was due to all of the processed and the synthetics used on natural foods like vegetables and fish, poultry and meats. Basically, the theory was that too much boxed foods,and too much conventional "healthy" foods. So essentially, if it was not organic, it could have contributed to these conditions and more. Now, I think there is a lot of truth in that but it still had some things missing for my stubborn mind.
I later would find a few articles that were pretty interesting by a physician on the west coast would had been dealing with a pretty tough bout of Crohn's. I would then contact her and she gave me some doctors that were out of the country that were writing these articles going against conventional approaches to these two problems. I found another article and website constructed by a young tennis player in Seattle that gave me the same information as the doctor I emailed previously. I kept finding more of these articles that were never presented to me, never brought up by any doctor I saw, never really talked about. The main thing that drew me to these articles, was the fact that most of the studies and research done involved brief but compelling stats.
The information basically was stating that most of the conventional practices done for these conditions may be incorrect. The conventional practices basically state that these stem from an unknown origin,have no definite cure,and may come from an environmental source with a genetic alteration. The new information I found stated that these both may come from an infection of a strain of bacteria not publicly spoken about. The strain of bacteria is named paratuberculosis or for the scientists, Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis. This is commonly referred to by many involved in studying this as MAP. Basically this bacteria is found in dairy herds of cattle and beef livestock and has shown to be an infection in farms and is called Johne's disease(say YO-NEEZ). This also has been detected in deer, elk,bison and many other ruminants like goats. This bacteria has also been cultured and detected in municipal water supplies. After reading the last sentence, you may find it interesting how it gets into the water. Ok it works like this, cattle are infected by spreading it to each other by shedding the bacteria in excretion(a typical cow may shed billions of bacteria in one day). Or they can transfer it by birth to the calf. However, the calf may not show signs of infection until it reaches maturity. Now comes the good part. These cattle are mainly kept in small quarters, rarely far enough away from each other to not get each others fecal excretions on each other. Now if the cows udders have this excretion on them guess what it goes into. Right. Milk. The same milk you just had at breakfast, the same milk you just poured in your latte while reading this. The same milk that you just gave a nice tall glass to your child. Yes and it keeps getting better. You see there is controversy as to if this is a zoonotic agent. For those of you who have killed the majority of your brain cells, zoonotic means passing the species barrier. Studies have shown that this strain has been found in retail dairy products after they have been pasteurized. The strain has been shown to survive the current methods of standards to protect the consumer from agents like these. I will take it one step further and advise how it gets into retail beef. Most times if a farmer finds he has an infected cow, he can try to test by regular farm methods, and send off to labs. He can allow the cow to continue to produce milk. He can cull (euthanize)the animal. Or he can make a profit by sending the cow to a slaughterhouse and get a return on a cow that may not be able to produce milk anymore. To get graphic, when a cow is slaughtered, its lymph nodes are ground up and are contained in almost all ground beef. If you know anything about how lymph nodes work, they contain any type of infection in mammals. Now how does it survive and get into water supplies? This strain of bacteria can survive pretty much any environment for years. So after soil contains the bacteria, if near supply stations, erosion and other natural processes carry it into the water plant. Now pasteurization does not kill it, which they do not do to conventional water supplies, mainly they only apply chlorine and sodium fluoride.
So the next big question is how does this apply to Colitis and Crohn's. MAP has been found in patients lab work tests. It has been shown in tissue samples from digestive tract. It has even been shown in breast milk. The FDA does not have any standards against these strains and nor does the USDA. The 2 agencies named control the standards for dairy and retail beef supplies.Now of the above mentioned we have several ways that this bacteria can reach a consumer. Does it mean that everyone will develop problems from that bacteria, no. But does it mean that everyone should not be protected from H1N1, TB,HPV,E coli,Salmonella, Measles.etc..because they may or may not have problems from those?
That would bring in the precautionary principle. I have placed the link here for reference and explanation from better sources than me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle
Understand that site published on is public and contains information from the public. Read it and make your own decisions. If you would like to read further, click on one of the over 2 million results from any search engine.
I will give a brief synopsis on why I am presenting this to the public. You see, around 7 years ago my family was introduced to a few health conditions we never heard of, never even knew how to pronounce, but would become overly informed with what we thought was reasonable information. Around the beginning of the new millennium, my younger brother was not feeling great and went to the doctors office to find out why, like millions of Americans do everyday. Turns out he needed to have some tests run and would later find out he had Ulcerative Colitis. Hmmm. That was the first exact thing I said to myself when I heard this. The next thing I thought was what the hell is that, what will he have to do.etc. He would need to take a few prescriptions and he went on to finish his last year in high school. He seemed to do quite well as he finished top of his class and went on to a big school in the same state. I thought nothing of it and made sure he was ok by asking him periodically. Fast forward to next year. I was working regularly, going to college, exercising quite often, and doing what most people in their twenties do. By the end of that year, I started becoming pretty tired. Not the kind of tired what I was used to after working, studying,exercising and being lazy. This was new to me. I would only feel like working then watching some tv. Then I did not really feel like working so much but made myself anyway. Finally I had similar symptoms that my brother had.Long story short I went through the same rounds of tests and would end up on the same prescriptions. The final word was never really determined, first there was no clear diagnosis, next I would be advised I had Colitis, then Crohn's disease then back to Colitis. After going to 4 different offices, I finally was advised I had a blend called Crohn's-Colitis. These two conditions are very similar but have differences also. I never heard of any of these prior to this. After much research on my own, I decided I was not going to just take the conventional expertise I was just given. I read that I would take this and this for a long time or I may need surgery or I will do this or that. I have never been the type to take everything I heard and trust everything. I was the "think for yourself, question authority" type about everything. I would find out many famous people had this, many political leaders, many people I worked with even. Hmmm.
I decided to go on with my life and take care of myself better, watch what I ate better, don't drink so much, try to rest more. I did that for a while and with some coaxing from my peers, still stayed out late and took in the young single life style. In the middle of all that, I still took as best care of myself as I could. A few years went by and I did what I wanted to. I then began to have some problems. I came down with an infection that kept me in the hospital for one holiday and my birthday. I decided to look even further into what and why these conditions happen to people, mainly young people, even children. I found a few things by an author that presumed it was due to all of the processed and the synthetics used on natural foods like vegetables and fish, poultry and meats. Basically, the theory was that too much boxed foods,and too much conventional "healthy" foods. So essentially, if it was not organic, it could have contributed to these conditions and more. Now, I think there is a lot of truth in that but it still had some things missing for my stubborn mind.
I later would find a few articles that were pretty interesting by a physician on the west coast would had been dealing with a pretty tough bout of Crohn's. I would then contact her and she gave me some doctors that were out of the country that were writing these articles going against conventional approaches to these two problems. I found another article and website constructed by a young tennis player in Seattle that gave me the same information as the doctor I emailed previously. I kept finding more of these articles that were never presented to me, never brought up by any doctor I saw, never really talked about. The main thing that drew me to these articles, was the fact that most of the studies and research done involved brief but compelling stats.
The information basically was stating that most of the conventional practices done for these conditions may be incorrect. The conventional practices basically state that these stem from an unknown origin,have no definite cure,and may come from an environmental source with a genetic alteration. The new information I found stated that these both may come from an infection of a strain of bacteria not publicly spoken about. The strain of bacteria is named paratuberculosis or for the scientists, Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis. This is commonly referred to by many involved in studying this as MAP. Basically this bacteria is found in dairy herds of cattle and beef livestock and has shown to be an infection in farms and is called Johne's disease(say YO-NEEZ). This also has been detected in deer, elk,bison and many other ruminants like goats. This bacteria has also been cultured and detected in municipal water supplies. After reading the last sentence, you may find it interesting how it gets into the water. Ok it works like this, cattle are infected by spreading it to each other by shedding the bacteria in excretion(a typical cow may shed billions of bacteria in one day). Or they can transfer it by birth to the calf. However, the calf may not show signs of infection until it reaches maturity. Now comes the good part. These cattle are mainly kept in small quarters, rarely far enough away from each other to not get each others fecal excretions on each other. Now if the cows udders have this excretion on them guess what it goes into. Right. Milk. The same milk you just had at breakfast, the same milk you just poured in your latte while reading this. The same milk that you just gave a nice tall glass to your child. Yes and it keeps getting better. You see there is controversy as to if this is a zoonotic agent. For those of you who have killed the majority of your brain cells, zoonotic means passing the species barrier. Studies have shown that this strain has been found in retail dairy products after they have been pasteurized. The strain has been shown to survive the current methods of standards to protect the consumer from agents like these. I will take it one step further and advise how it gets into retail beef. Most times if a farmer finds he has an infected cow, he can try to test by regular farm methods, and send off to labs. He can allow the cow to continue to produce milk. He can cull (euthanize)the animal. Or he can make a profit by sending the cow to a slaughterhouse and get a return on a cow that may not be able to produce milk anymore. To get graphic, when a cow is slaughtered, its lymph nodes are ground up and are contained in almost all ground beef. If you know anything about how lymph nodes work, they contain any type of infection in mammals. Now how does it survive and get into water supplies? This strain of bacteria can survive pretty much any environment for years. So after soil contains the bacteria, if near supply stations, erosion and other natural processes carry it into the water plant. Now pasteurization does not kill it, which they do not do to conventional water supplies, mainly they only apply chlorine and sodium fluoride.
So the next big question is how does this apply to Colitis and Crohn's. MAP has been found in patients lab work tests. It has been shown in tissue samples from digestive tract. It has even been shown in breast milk. The FDA does not have any standards against these strains and nor does the USDA. The 2 agencies named control the standards for dairy and retail beef supplies.Now of the above mentioned we have several ways that this bacteria can reach a consumer. Does it mean that everyone will develop problems from that bacteria, no. But does it mean that everyone should not be protected from H1N1, TB,HPV,E coli,Salmonella, Measles.etc..because they may or may not have problems from those?
That would bring in the precautionary principle. I have placed the link here for reference and explanation from better sources than me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle
Understand that site published on is public and contains information from the public. Read it and make your own decisions. If you would like to read further, click on one of the over 2 million results from any search engine.
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