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The newest chapter in the bizarre world of statin drug dangers

Don’t Overthink It

They REALLY don’t want you to think too much about this one.

Both Reuters Health and HealthDay News ran nearly identical lead paragraphs in their reporting about a new study of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs.

The finding: Statin use increases risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

And along with that message, of course, they had to report that this risk is really a very small thing, hardly worth mentioning in light of the magnificence of the life-saving properties of the wonder drug…the Great Statin.

It’s as if they’re delivering bad news to a grouchy king who LOVES statins and is likely to have a lowly reporter beheaded if he even suggests that the adored heart drug is less than perfect.

Here’s the Reuters headline: “Cholesterol Drugs Raise Diabetes Risk, Just a Bit.”

Do they have any idea how hilarious that is? You can imagine a Reuters reporter holding his thumb and forefinger really close together, up near his eyeball, and squinting when he says in a high squeaky voice, “Just a bit.”

Just a teeny weenie bit, Your Highness.

HealthDay went one better, adding this quote from a news release about the study: “In view of the overwhelming benefit of statins for reduction of cardiovascular events…”

Yes, the benefits are OVERWHELMING! Why, a reporter might swoon under a spell of the vapors just thinking about the wonderfully overwhelming benefits of statins.

So? Ready to be overwhelmed?

Collateral damage, damage, and more damage

University of Glasgow researchers examined the results of 13 large statin trials that included more than 91,000 subjects.

Results showed that for every 255 patients treated with statins for four years, one would develop type 2 diabetes.

Well that doesn’t sound so bad. Just one little old diabetic for every 255 statin users? Since the benefits are grossly exaggerated (I’m sorry…I meant to say “overwhelming”) what difference do a few extra diabetics make?

A huge difference.

About 20 million people take statins in the U.S. So, one case of type 2 diabetes for every 255 patients comes to well over 78,000 people who will develop or already have developed diabetes as a statin side effect. (You can forget about the “four years” business because statin users are users-for-life.)

But if you’re convinced statins are life-saving wonder drugs, then I guess thousands upon thousands of cases of diabetes are acceptable. Not to mention the untold cases of muscle damage, kidney damage, liver damage, and cognition damage.

One of the Glasgow researchers told Reuters Health that the results of their study should put a stop to statin overuse, and the drug will be given “when appropriate for the right reasons.”

Aw, that’s adorable! He must have missed the news that the FDA recently OK’d the use of the statin Crestor for people who don’t have high cholesterol. And that approval came in spite of a Crestor study that showed a link to — yep — increased risk of type 2 diabetes.

The world of statins is a world gone mad (and not just a bit!).

To Your Good Health,

Jenny Thompson

Sources:
“Statins and Risk of Incident Diabetes: A Collaborative Meta-Analysis of Randomised Statin Trials” The Lancet, Published online ahead of print, 2/17/10, thelancet.com
“Cholesterol Drugs Raise Diabetes Risk, Just a Bit” Ben Hirschler, Reuters Health, 2/17/10, reutershealth.com
“Small Increase in Diabetes Risk Noted in Statin Patients” HealthDay News, 2/16/10, healthday.com

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Flu vaccines revealed as the greatest quackery ever pushed in the history of medicine

People continue to ask me, "Dr. Troy Dreiling what do you think about the Flu Shot?"

I think this article by Mike Adams will help enlighten you.

Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) Prepare to have your world rocked. What you're about to read here will leave you astonished, inspired and outraged all at the same time. You're about to be treated to some little-known information demonstrating why seasonal flu vaccines are utterly worthless and why their continued promotion is based entirely on fabricated studies and medical mythology.

If the whole world knew what you're about to read here, the vaccine industry would collapse overnight.

This information comes to you courtesy of a brilliant article published in The Atlantic (November 2009). The article, written by Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer, isn't just brilliant; in my opinion it stands as the best article on flu vaccines that has ever been published in the popular press. Entitled Does the vaccine matter?, it presents some of the most eye-opening information you've probably ever read about the failure of flu vaccines. You can read the full article here: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/2009...

Perhaps its impressive narrative shouldn't be too surprising, though, since writer Shannon Brownlee is also the celebrated author of a phenomenal book on modern medicine entitled Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (http://www.amazon.com/Overtreated-M...) (http://www.naturalpedia.com/book_Ov...).

While I've never done this before, I'm going to summarize this article point by point (along with some comments) so that you get the full force of what's finally been put into print.

This information is so important that I encourage you to share the following summary I've put together. Email it to family, friends and coworkers. Or post it on your blog or website (with a link and proper credit to both NaturalNews and The Atlantic, please). Get this information out to the world. People need to know this, and so far the mainstream media has utterly failed to make this information known.

(The really good information begins after around a dozen bullet points, so be sure to keep reading...)

Does the vaccine matter?

What follows is my point-by-point summary of this groundbreaking article by Shannon Brownlee, originally published in The Atlantic. My opinion statements are shown in brackets and italics.

• Vaccination is the core strategy of the U.S. government's plan to combat the swine flu.

• The U.S. government has spent roughly $3 billion stockpiling vaccines and anti-viral drugs.

• The CDC is recommending that 159 million Americans receive a swine flu vaccine injection (as soon as possible).

• What if vaccines don't work? More and more researchers are skeptical about whether they do.

• Seasonal flu (that's the regular flu) currently kills an estimated 36,000 people each year in the United States. [But most people who die are already suffering from existing diseases such as asthma.]

• Most "colds" aren't really caused by the flu virus. As few as 7 or 8 percent (and at most, 50 percent) of colds have an influenza origin. There are more than 200 viruses and pathogens that can cause "influenza-like" illnesses (and therefore be easily mistaken for the flu).

• Viruses mutate with amazing speed, meaning that each year's circulating influenza is genetically different from the previous year.

• The vaccine for each upcoming flu season is formulated by health experts taking a guess [a wild guess, at times] about what strain of influenza might be most likely to circulate in the future.

• The 1918 Spanish Flu infected roughly one-third of the world population and killed at least 40 million.

• In the U.S., the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology predicted that H1N1 influenza could infect up to one-half of the U.S. population and kill 90,000 Americans.

[Keep reading, the good part is coming...]

• Of those who have died from the Swine Flu in the U.S., roughly 70 percent were already diseased with some serious underlying condition such as asthma or AIDS.

• Public health officials consider vaccines to be their first and best weapon against influenza. Vaccines helped eradicate smallpox and polio. [I don't agree with that assessment. Vaccines did relatively little compared to improvements in public sanitation.]

• Each year, 100 million Americans get vaccinated, and vaccines remain "a staple" of public health policy in the United States.

Why the research is bogus

• Because researchers can't exactly pin down who has influenza and who doesn't, the research conducted on the effectiveness of vaccines simply calculates the death rate from all causes among those who take the vaccine vs. those who don't. [This includes deaths from accidents, heart attacks, medications, car wrecks and everything.]

• These studies show a "dramatic difference" between the death rates of those who get the vaccines vs. those who don't. People who get vaccinated have significantly lower death rates [from ALL causes, and herein lies the problem...].

• Flu shot propaganda cites these studies, telling people that if they get their flu shots every year, they will have a significantly reduced chance of dying. But this is extremely misleading...

• Critics question the logic of these studies: As it turns out, compared to the number of deaths from all causes, the number of people killed by influenza is quite small. According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, deaths from influenza account for -- at most -- 10 percent of the total deaths during the flu season (and this includes all indirect deaths aggravated by the flu).

• This brings up a hugely important dilemma: If influenza only accounts for roughly 10 percent of all deaths during the flu season, how could an influenza vaccine reduce total deaths by 50 percent? (As is claimed by the vaccine manufacturers.) [It doesn't add up. Even if the vaccines were 100% effective, they should only reduce the total death rates by 10%, given that only 10% of the total deaths are caused by influenza.]

• Here's a direct quote from the story: Tom Jefferson, a physician based in Rome and the head of the Vaccines Field at the Cochrane Collaboration, a highly respected international network of researchers who appraise medical evidence, says: "For a vaccine to reduce mortality by 50 percent and up to 90 percent in some studies means it has to prevent deaths not just from influenza, but also from falls, fires, heart disease, strokes, and car accidents. That's not a vaccine, that's a miracle." [Emphasis added.]

The failure of cohort studies

• So how do the vaccine companies come up with this "50% reduction in death rate" statistic? Through cohort studies.

• Cohort studies compare the death rates of large groups of people who received the vaccine to large groups of people who did NOT receive the vaccine. But there's a fatal flaw in this approach: People self-select for vaccinations. And what kind of people? As it turns out: People who take more precautions with their health!

• [Thus, you automatically have a situation where the more health-cautious people are getting the vaccines because they THINK it's good for them. Meanwhile all the masses of people who don't give a darn about their health tend to skip the seasonal flu vaccines. And these people tend to not take very good of their health in lots of other ways. In other words, in terms of the masses, people who get vaccines are more likely to avoid junk food and live a more health-cautious lifestyle. This explains the differences in the death rates between the two groups! It has nothing to do with the vaccine...]

• There is extreme "cult-like" peer pressure put on doctors and researchers to swallow the vaccine mythology without question. Quoted from the story: Lisa Jackson, a physician and senior investigator with the Group Health Research Center, in Seattle, began wondering aloud to colleagues if maybe something was amiss with the estimate of 50 percent mortality reduction for people who get flu vaccine, the response she got sounded more like doctrine than science. "People told me, 'No good can come of [asking] this,'" she says. "'Potentially a lot of bad could happen' for me professionally by raising any criticism that might dissuade people from getting vaccinated, because of course, 'We know that vaccine works.' This was the prevailing wisdom." [In other words, don't dare question the vaccine, and don't ask tough scientific questions because the vaccine industry runs on dogma, not science... and if you ask any questions, you might find yourself out of a job...].

[Here's where the really good part begins...]

• Lisa Jackson was not deterred. She and three other researchers began to study the widely-quoted vaccine statistics in an attempt to identify this "healthy user effect," if any. They looked through eight years of medical data covering 72,000 people aged 65 or older and recorded who received flu shots and who didn't. Then they compared the death rates for all causes outside the flu season.

The vaccine made no difference in mortality

• What she found blows a hole right through the vaccination industry: She found that even outside the flu season, the death rate was 60 percent higher among those who did not get vaccines than among those who do. [In other words, even when you take the flu season completely out of the equation, elderly people who don't get vaccines have other lifestyle factors that makes them far more likely to die from lots of other causes.]

• She also found that this so-called "healthy user effect" explains the entire apparent benefit that continues to be attributed to vaccines. This finding demonstrates that the flu vaccine may not have any beneficial effect whatsoever in reducing mortality.

• How well done were these particular studies? Quoted from the story: Jackson's papers "are beautiful," says Lone Simonsen, who is a professor of global health at George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., and an internationally recognized expert in influenza and vaccine epidemiology. "They are classic studies in epidemiology, they are so carefully done."

• Many pro-vaccine experts simply refused to believe the results of this study [because it conflicts with their existing belief in vaccine mythology]. The Journal of the American Medical Association refused to publish her research, even stating, "To accept these results would be to say that the earth is flat!" [Which just goes to show you how deeply ingrained the current vaccine mythology is in the minds of conventional medical practitioners. They simply cannot imagine that vaccines don't work, so they dismiss any evidence -- even GOOD evidence -- demonstrating that fact. This is what makes the vaccine industry a CULT rather than a science.]

• Jackson's papers were finally published in 2006, in the International Journal of Epidemiology.

[And here's the really, really juicy part you can't miss...]

Vaccine shortage proves it never worked in the first place

• The history of the flu vaccine reveals some huge gaps in current vaccination mythology, essentially proving they don't work:

• For example: In 2004, vaccine production was low and there was a shortage in vaccines (a 40 percent reduction in vaccinations). And yet mortality rates did not rise during the flu season. [Clearly, if vaccines actually worked, then a year when the vaccine wasn't even administered to 40% of the people who normally get it should have resulted in a huge and statistically significant increase in mortality. It should have spiked the death rates and filled the morgues... but it didn't. You know why? Because flu vaccines don't work in the first place.]

• In the history of flu vaccines, there were two years in which the formulated flu vaccine was a total mismatch to the widely-circulating influenza that made people sick. These years were 1968 and 1997. In both of these years, the vaccine was a completely mismatch for the circulating virus. In effect, nobody was vaccinated! [Knowing this, if the vaccine itself was effective at reducing death rates, then we should have once again seen a huge spike in the death rates during these two years, right? Seriously, if the vaccine reduces death rates by 50% as is claimed by vaccine manufacturers, then these two years in which the vaccine completely missed the mark should have seen huge spikes in the winter death rates, right? But what really happened was... nothing. Not a blip. Not a spike. Nothing. The death rates didn't rise at all.]

• If vaccines really worked to save lives, then the more people you vaccinate, the lower death rates you should see, right? But that's not the case. Back in 1989, only 15 percent of over-65 people got vaccinated against the flu. But today, thanks to the big vaccine push, over 65 percent are vaccinated. And yet, amazingly, death rates among the elderly have not gone down during the flu season. In fact, they've gone up!

• When vaccine promoters (and CDC officials) are challenged about the "50 percent mortality reduction" myth, they invoke dogmatic language and attack the messenger. They are simply not willing to consider the possibility that flu vaccines simply don't work.

• Scientists who question the vaccine mythology are routinely shunned by the medical establishment. Tom Jefferson from the Cochrane Collaboration is an epidemiologist who questions the claimed benefits of flu vaccines. "The reaction [against Jefferson] has been so dogmatic and even hysterical that you'd think he was advocating stealing babies" said a colleague (Majumdar).

• Jefferson is one of the world's best-informed researchers on the flu vaccine. He leads a team of researchers who have examined hundreds of vaccine studies. To quote directly from the article: The vast majority of the studies were deeply flawed, says Jefferson. "Rubbish is not a scientific term, but I think it's the term that applies [to these studies]."

[And here's the real kicker that demonstrates why flu vaccines are useless...]

Flu vaccines only "work" on people who don't need them

• Vaccines supposedly "work" by introducing a weakened viral strain that causes the immune system to respond by building influenza antibodies. However, as Jefferson points out, only healthy people produce a good antibody response to the vaccine. And yet it is precisely the unhealthy people -- the ones who have a poor immune response to the vaccine -- who are most at risk of being harmed or killed by influenza. But the vaccines don't work in them!

• [In other words -- get this -- flu vaccines only "work" in people who don't need them!]

• [At the same time, it's also accurate to say that vaccines don't work at all in the very people who theoretically could benefit from them. They only produce antibodies in people who already have such a strong immune response that they don't need the vaccine in the first place.]

• Jefferson has called for randomized, placebo-controlled studies of the vaccines. But vaccine pushers are resisting these clinical trials! They call the trials "unethical" [but, in reality, they know that a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled study would reveal the complete failure of flu vaccines, and they will do anything to prevent such a trial from happening. Don't you find it amazing that drug pushers and vaccine advocates claim they have "science" on their side, but they won't submit their vaccines to any real science at all?]

• [No placebo-controlled studies have ever been conducted on flu vaccines because the industry says they would be "unethical." So where do these people get off claiming their vaccines work at all? The whole industry is based on fabricated statistics that are provably false... and the injections continue, year after year, with absolutely no benefit to public health whatsoever...]

Why anti-viral drugs don't work either

• On the anti-viral drug front, hospitals are urged to hand out prescriptions for Tamiflu and Relenza to almost anyone who is symptomatic, whether they actually have swine flu or not. Concern is growing about the emergence of drug-resistant strains of swine flu. " Flu can become resistant to Tamiflu in a matter of days..." says one researcher.

• In 2005, the U.S. government spent $1.8 billion to stockpile antiviral drugs for the military. This decision was made during the time when Donald Rumsfeld was Defense Secretary. Rumsfeld also held millions of dollars worth of stock in Gilead Sciences, the company that holds the patent on Tamiflu. That company saw its stock price rise 50 percent following the government's stockpiling purchase of Tamiflu.

• The evidence supporting Tamiflu's anti-viral benefits is flimsy at best. Even worse, as many as one in five children taking Tamiflu experience neuropsychiatric side effects including hallucinations and suicidal behavior. [In other words, your kid might be "tripping out" on some bad Tamiflu...]

• Tamiflu is already linked to 50 deaths of children in Japan.

• The evidence supporting Tamiflu is based on cohort studies, just like the vaccines, which may distort or exaggerate the apparent benefits of the drug.

• Even supporters of Tamiflu admit it's never been proven to help. A CDC official says that randomized trials to determine the effectiveness of Tamiflu would be "unethical."

• In all, neither vaccines nor anti-viral drugs have any reliable evidence that they work against influenza at all. Both are being promoted based entirely on pure wishful thinking, not hard science.

• The history of pharmaceutical medicine is littered with other examples of drugs that doctors "knew worked" but which later turned out to harm or kill patients. [All along, the proper scientific studies were avoided because, hey, if you already know everything, why bother conducting any actual science to prove anything?]

• The hype about vaccines provides a false sense of security, taking away attention from other things that really do work to prevent influenza deaths. That's why, except for "hand washing," virtually no advice has been offered to the public on preventing influenza beyond vaccines and anti-viral drugs.

• Concluding quote from the author: "By being afraid to do the proper studies now, we may be condemning ourselves to using treatments based on illusion and faith rather than sound science."

A recap of these astonishing points

Let's recap what we just learned here (because it's just mind-boggling):

• There have been no placebo-controlled studies on flu vaccines because the vaccine pushers say such clinical trials would be "unethical." Thus, there is actually no hard scientific evidence that they work at all.

• The "50 percent reduction in mortality" statistic that's tossed around by vaccine pushers is a total fabrication based on "rubbish" studies ("cohort" studies).

• Scrutinizing the existing studies that claim to support vaccines reveals that flu vaccines simply don't work. And when vaccines aren't available or the formulation is wrong, there's no spike in death rates, indicating quite conclusively that these vaccines offer no reduction in mortality.

• Flu vaccines only produce antibodies in people who don't need vaccines. At the same time, they fail to produce antibodies in people who are most vulnerable to flu. Thus, vaccines only work in people who don't need them.

• The entire flu vaccine industry is run like a cult, with dogma ruling over science. Anyone who asks tough, scientific questions is immediately branded a heretic. No one is allowed to question the status quo. (So much for "evidence-based medicine," huh?)

As you can see from all this, the flu vaccine is pure quackery. Those who administer vaccines are, by inference, QUACKS. They claim to have scientific minds, and yet they are the most gullible of all: They will believe almost anything if it's published in a medical journal, even if it's complete quackery.

Today, countless doctors, nurses and pharmacists across North America and around the world are pushing a medically worthless, scientifically-fabricated chemical injection that offers absolutely no benefit to public health... and yet they're convinced it's highly effective! It just goes to show you how easy it is to brainwash people in the field of conventional medicine.

They've abandoned real science long ago, you know. Now the whole industry is just run on the momentum of dogmatic arrogance and the illusion of authority. From the CDC and FDA on down to the local pharmacist at the corner store, the American medical system is run by some seemingly smart people who have been brainwashed into become full-fledged members of the Cult of Pharmacology where vaccine mythology overrules real science.

The vaccine industry is perhaps the greatest medical scam ever pulled off in the history of the world. Don't fall for it.

And don't forget to read the full article in The Atlantic by Shannon Brownlee: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/2009...

Why people get vaccinated: Superstition

Reading everything you've read here, you might wonder: Why do people get vaccinated at all?

The reason is because no one knows whether they work or not, so people keep on taking them "just in case." It's exactly the kind of superstitious ritual that "science-minded skeptics" rail against on a regular basis... unless, of course, it involves their vaccines, in which case superstition is all okay.

People take vaccines for the same reason they rub a rabbit's foot. It's a good luck ritual that may or may not work, but no one really knows. And besides, what's the harm in it? (They think...)

Personally, I'd rather get some vitamin D and have a healthy, functioning immune system. But for those who prefer to play the lotto, gamble in Vegas or bet their lives on medical superstitions, flu vaccines are readily available.

So what are you waiting for? Shoot up a few flu vaccines, rub your lucky rabbit's foot, then spin around clockwise seven times and you, too, may be able to generate enough luck to avoid the flu this winter.

Cooking

Preparation of food  on a daily basis can be challenging.  At our house, we try to have a variety of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and  protein in our diet.  And because we are raising children, it is important that we stay as healthy as possible; after all, energy is the "key" to keeping up with our vigorous  children.  When I am not eating well, I notice my energy levels dwindle. 

Lately, I have been using "Google" to find new recipes.  It is a great source of information and it has more recipes than you can ever use in a lifetime.   My daughter is enjoying all the fresh fruits and vegetables that the summer months offer and incorporating the fresh summer bounty into recipes is appreciated by my entire family.  One way to keep the food costs down is go to "pick your own" on some of the rural farms in Washington and Oregon.  Sauvie's Island is an excellent area for that.  

A Childs First Subluxation

HOW LONG DO YOU WANT TO WAIT TO GET YOUR CHILD CHECKED FOR SUBLUXATION? "Loss of cervical curve stretches the spinal cord 5 to 7 cm and produces pathological tension, putting the body in a state of disease."  - Alfred Breig,  MD

 The study, published in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, says that out of 1250 infants chosen at random, 211 of them suffered from nervousness, vomiting, muscular abnormalities, tremors and insomnia. 95% (200) of those children had abnormal cervical (neck) muscle strain indicating vertebral subluxation. When the subluxation was adjusted and the muscle strain removed an immediate calming often resulted, the children's crying stopped, the muscles relaxed and the children fell asleep. The authors noted that an unhealthy spine causes "many clinical features from central motor impairment to lower resistance to infections -- especially ear, nose and throat infections."

 Dr. Gotfried Guttman, M.D. found that childhood SUBLUXATIONS had received "... far too little attention" and that due to the frequent occurrence of such problems (especially surrounding the birth process), he recommended that a chiropractic spinal checkup should be performed as soon as possible after birth. "Mechanical injury to the upper cervical spinal structures is indicated as a causal mechanism in cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome." Department of Pathology, Boston University School

Latent Spinal Cord and Brain Stem Injury in New Born Infants, Develop, Med., Child Neurol, 1969, II, 54-78 Dr. Towbin points out that seven of the eight of the SIDS infant cadavers he performed autopsy on, died from spinal injury with neurovascular damage. Dr. Towbin describes various clinical neonatal spinal cord and brain stem injury groups. In the first group, death of the neonate occurs during the course of labor or soon after birth. The second group, is composed of newborns with cord or brainstem damage who survive for days. The third group are infants who survive for long periods, often for years. Under this group, Dr. Towbin describes a subgroup, or the fourth group. "...there must exist a large number of instances with mild injury, with minimal neurologic symptoms, going unnoticed clinically, or being relegated to the category of cerebral palsy."

Can the Vertebral Subluxation Complex be caused at birth ? Yes. Can the Vertebral Subluxation Complex cause an early death in some of these cases? Yes. Abraham Towbin, MD. Neuropathologist, Harvard Medical School

Chiropractic Care of a 3-Year-Old Male with Sleep Disordered Breathing Syndrome.Joel Alcantara, DC (1) and Julie Desilets,DC (2) Rosemary Oman, DC (3)  Intervention and Outcome: The patient received chiropractic care based on the correction of the vertebral subluxation complex (VSC). Contact-specific, high-velocity, low-amplitude (HVLA) type thrusts were applied to sites of vertebral subluxations along with craniosacral therapy. Following 5 visits, the patient's sleep was significantly improved. Conclusion: This case study may demonstrate a link between sleep disorders and its amelioration through chiropractic care. We advocate for more research in this field.

 Prospective cohort of ADHD patients under chiropractic care
Joel Alcantara, DC, (1), Jim Davis, DC (2)  Conclusions: The results of this study suggest that patients with ADHD may benefit from chiropractic care utilizing a combination of full spine spinal manipulative therapy and nutritional supplementation. Additionally, this study provides information vital for higher-level research designs investigating the effectiveness and safety of chiropractic care in patients with ADHD.

References: 1. Szatmari P: The epidemiology of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 1992;1:361-372. 2. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. 4th ed. Washington (DC). American Psychiatric Association; 2000. p. 86-102.
3. Bennett FC, Brown RT, Craver J, et al: Stimulant medication for the child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Pediatr Clin N Am 1999; 46:929-944. 4. Giesen JM, Center DB, Leach RA. An evaluation of chiropractic manipulation as a treatment of hyperactivity in children. J Manipulative Physiol Ther 1989;12(5):353-363 5. Bastecki AV, Harrison DE, Haas JW. Cervical kyphosis is a possible link to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. J Manipul Physiol Ther 2004;27:525e1-e5.

Improvement in visual acuity and strabismus following pediatric chiropractic care: a case report. Joel Alcantara, DC (1) and David Spear, PhD, DCResearch Director, International Chiropractic Pediatric Association, Media, PA and Private Practice of Chiropractic, San Jose, CA.
This case report provides corroborating evidence to the possibility that visual function may improve with chiropractic care that may be characterized as high velocity amplitude thrusts to sites of cervical subluxations. Higher level designed studies should be implemented to further investigate this phenomenon. 

Blocked Atlantal Nerve Syndrome in Babies and Infants Gutmann, reports that blocked nerve impulses develop a clinical picture that ranges from central motor impairment and development, as well as, lowered resistance to infections, especially to ear, nose, and throat infections. Gutmann reports the examination and adjustment of more than 1000 infants with Atlas blockage. The results are amazing and generally swift. From his and other German medical studies, Gutmann concludes that approximately 80% of all children are not in autonomic balance and that many have Atlas blockage.   G. Gutmann, Manuelle Medizin, 25:5-10, 1987

2008 Health Quotes and brief outline of this years Advanced Class, “The Talk”

 

Serevent and Foradil

An expert panel said benefits of two inhaler drugs are not worth the risks and should no longer be used to treat asthma.

Panel strongly urged the FDA to tell doctors not to prescribe the drugs to children or adults as a standalone asthma treatment.

Drugs have also been associated with significant increase in the risk of hospitalization and death from asthma. WebMD Health News 2008

 

The High Price of Cheap Eats

Dollar “value meals” not so cheap when you look at the potential health costs.

menu items are packed with fat, salt, cholesterol and processed meat

The Cancer Project, a nonprofit cancer prevention organization. The group has produced a list of what it says are the five unhealthiest items sold at the nation’s largest fast food chains.

1. Jack in the Box’s junior bacon cheeseburger topped the list as the worst offender. The burger costs just one dollar but is packed with 23 grams of fat, including 8 grams of saturated fat, 55 milligrams of cholesterol and 860 milligrams of sodium and just one gram of fiber.

2. The 89-cent Taco Bell cheesy double beef burrito, with 460 calories, 20 grams of fat and a whopping 1,620 milligrams of sodium.

3. One-dollar Burger King breakfast sausage biscuit, with 27 grams of fat, including 15 grams of saturated fat and over 1,000 milligrams of sodium.

4. O-dollar McDonald’s McDouble, which contains 19 grams of fat and 65 milligrams of cholesterol.

5. Wendy’s junior bacon cheeseburger, for $1.53, with 310 calories and 16 grams of fat.

“It would be nice if they decided it was better for their budget to start preparing food at home more often," she said.

American Values Blamed For U.S. Health Care Crisis

2008 issue of the Science Daily. "To heal our ailing health care system, we need to stop thinking like Americans".

The U.S. government is projecting that we will spend $4 trillion on health care by 2015 which will represent 20 percent of the nation's gross domestic product.

[Yet we are 37th according to WHO…]

The Science Daily article also reported that in his paper, Dr. Nuwer, explained that 31 percent of

U.S. health care expenditures go toward administration.

2008 Star Tribune in Minneapolis

listed "5 Misconceptions About Health Care" that helped clarify this issue.

1. America has the best health care in the world. We have the most expensive system, but by most international measures we are far down the list on actual health care delivery.

2. Somebody else is paying for your health insurance. This is not true as we pay for health care either in taxes or as a deduction from salary.

 

3. We would save a lot if we could cut the administrative waste of private insurance. This point is debatable as some say that this cost is needed while others compare this with other countries that have considerably less administrative costs.

 

4. Health-care reform is going to cost a bundle - the bottom line is that we are already paying for a wasteful system that leaves out a large portion of our population.

 

5. If the rest of the world can offer health care at a fraction of the cost, why can't we?

Americans aren't ready for a major overhaul of the health-care system."

New England Journal of Medicine

1. 7 percent of Americans rate our health-care system excellent.
2. 40 percent consider it poor
3. 70 percent believe it needs major changes, if not a complete overhaul." This pretty much says it all.  We are ready!

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Science is verifying what many overeaters have suspected for a long time: sugar can be addictive. The sweetener seems to prompt the same chemical changes in the brain seen in people who abuse drugs such as cocaine and heroin.

American College of Neuropsychopharmacology's

"Drinking large amounts of sugar water when hungry can cause behavioral changes and even neurochemical changes in the brain which resemble changes that are produced when animals or people take substances of abuse.

"A "sugar addiction" may even act as a "gateway" to later abuse of drugs such as alcohol, Hoebel said. "The same thing is true of eating," he added. "Fattening food has an impact on the regulating mechanism that breaks down your sense of fullness, makes you feel an urge to go back and get that blast of sugar and this creates the vicious cycle of weight gain that we're going through.

 

Cancer to be world's top killer by 2010, WHO says

ATLANTA - Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world's top killer by 2010, part of a trend that should more than double global cancer cases and deaths by 2030.

Poor Families Pressed Into Vaccine Trials by Drug Companies; 12 Babies Die

(NaturalNews) Major pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline has been accused of pressuring poor Third World parents into enrolling their children in experimental drug trials that have led to the deaths of at least 12 infants.

Antibiotics: Single Largest Class Of Drugs Causing Liver Injury

ScienceDaily (Dec. 8, 2008) — Antibiotics are the single largest class of agents that cause idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is the most common cause of death from acute liver failure and accounts for approximately 13 percent of cases of acute liver failure in the U.S.

America's Health Checkup -

Time

How do you take the temperature of a population that sprawls across nine time zones, 50 states and a global rainbow of cultures and communities?

Look at yourself.

67% of Americans, you're currently overweight or obese.

27%, your blood pressure is too high.

96% of the population, can’t recall the last time you had a salad

40% of us who get no exercise

You may be passing your health habits to your children

This Generation of American kids will be the first ever to have a shorter life span than their parents.

Research on mice links fast food to Alzheimer's

Mice fed junk food for nine months showed signs of developing the abnormal brain tangles strongly associated with Alzheimer's disease,\ a Swedish researcher said on Friday. 

A diet rich in fat, sugar and cholesterol could increase the risk of the most common type of dementia.

Journal of the American Medical Association’s 2008 startling conclusion.

The start of screening mammography programs throughout Europe has been associated with increased incidence of breast cancer.

Did the x-rays and/or the sometimes torturous compression of breasts during mammography actually spur cancer to develop? Or does this just look like an increase in the disease rate because mammography is simply identifying more cases of breast cancer?

Bottom line: the scientists conclude this indicates that some of the cancers detected by mammography would have spontaneously regressed if they had never been discovered on a mammogram and treated, usually with chemotherapy and radiation. Simply put, it appears that some invasive breast cancers simply go away on their own, healed by the body’s own immune system.

THE CURE FOR CANCER HAS BEEN DISCOVERED

 Harvard Health Publications revealed that the American Institute for Cancer Research

(AICR) found the cure for cancer.  It's not what you think Harvard would report – it's not a drug, surgery, or medical anything.  It's how you're body is functioning and the lifestyle that effects function.

There were 8 very, very clear findings that showed where cancer

comes from.  All of these findings in some way shape or form are FULLY

related to the 5 Essentials of Maximized Living

 

THE STUDY SHOWED THAT VERY FEW PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD THE CANCER –

MAXIMIZED LIVING CONNECTION:

1. 50% of Americans think that preventing cancer is either impossible

or highly unlikely.

2. Only 49% were aware that diets low in fruits and vegetables increase cancer

risk.

3. Only 46% cited obesity as a risk factor for cancer.

4. Only 37% knew of alcohol's link to cancer.

5. Only 36% were aware of the link between diets high in processed meat — and cancer.

6. one third of cancers worldwide could be avoided through diet and activity. 

Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of

Cancer: A Global Perspective took five years to complete and was

Based on more than 7,000 scientific studies. It is the most

comprehensive review ever published of the science linking cancer risk

to function, diet, physical activity and weight.

 

These are all quotes from the sources noted.

Posted by Dr. Troy Dreiling

Absolute Life Chiropractic

 

Take Charge of Your Health

Take care of the Family with Chiropractic care or Chiropractic Care Translates to Preventative Medicine

By: Jodi KerrSouth Seas

What’s your first thought when you or your children have the sniffles, ear infection or another worrisome symptom? You think your Family Doctor, right?  When you are concerned with preventive care or want to strengthen the immune system, considering your options, a chiropractor specializing in family care isn’t a bad idea.

Dr. Troy Dreiling of Absolute Life Chiropractic, in Vancouver, believes that a healthy spine is the highway to health. Troysays that the nerve system is the master system to the body. “It controls all function and all healing,” Troy said. “For the heart to work properly, for the lungs to breath in and out, the legs to run, and so on and so on. The brain needs to communicate over the nerves without any blockage or scrambling of life source messages.”

With today’s stressed out lifestyle and nutrition challenged foods no one is immune to a malfunctioning spine and nerve system. Modern medical birth techniques, learning to walk, prolonged sitting, back packs, cell phones, computers, Gameboys, and the like, cause constant bombardment with overwhelming stress to the spine and nerve system. “This leads to a society that develops sicknesses and diseases like we have never seen before,” Dr. Troy said.

Long gone are the days when you only visit a chiropractor for a sore back, or disk out of place.  Maximized Living trained Chiropractors now deal with a whole spectrum of health, and can keep patients feeling great, avoiding pain and sickness and improve quality of life.

Ages and stages:

Even babies need to get off to a straight start:

Many times the modern birth process is responsible for setting the stage for malfunction in the spine, damage to the brain stem and spinal cord. Dr. Abraham Towbin, a medical researcher found that over 90 percent of children who died from SIDS had damage to the brain stem and upper neck area caused by modern birth.

In newborns the birth process itself can lead to colic, digestive disturbances, ear infections, and breathing problems. Many chiropractors specialize in infant care and can be available to check your child right from birth. (Dr. Troy’s newborn daughter was adjusted at just 1 minute old)

Toddlers, make sure everything falls into place:

This is one of the most traumatic times in a child’s life because this is where the falls, bumps, bruises and many other spinal injuries can develop and do occur. “All of this jarring can cause the spine and nerve system to malfunction and create a lifetime of weakness to the developing child. Conditions such as bedwetting, asthma, chronic ear infection, ADHD, scoliosis, depression and even migraine type headaches can arise during this developmental stage,” Dr. Troy said.

 ABC’s and 123’s, make sure the pathway to learning is clear:

This is one of the most important times for a child’s spine to be functioning properly and free of damage. “Usually this is the time where a majority of growth and development occur. Prolonged sitting, backpacks, homework, posture and sports injuries are a main cause of malfunction in the spine and nerve system.  “Keep in mind, what you put in your child’s mouth is going to make a difference in health and homework results,” Troy

said. “This stage puts a tremendous strain on the body and sets the stage for continued developmental issues and healing challenges,” Troysaid.

High School, changing bodies need care:

High school years can be very stressful for teenagers especially if they have had any previous health issues or challenges. Chronic health issues tend to surface more during this time. Depression, mood swings, aggressive behavior, ADD and ADHD are all issues that can arise. Adding food with preservatives and a sedentary life style contribute to teen health challenges. A properly working spine and nerve system is critical for supporting proper healing potential in the body.

Something to consider:

A study in which blocked Atlanta Nerve Syndrome was corrected with chiropractic care showed that 40 out of 43 children studied, who were suffering from ear infections, improved with chiropractic care alone within two weeks of being adjusted.

A study by J.E  Upledger showed a definite and significant relationship between restrictions in movement of the upper neck area of the spine and children with learning disabilities.

 Visiting the Chiropractor before you “give up” on an illness or consider medications for children isn’t a bad idea.   “We have found that families that use chiropractic care enjoy better health. Their kids have fewer visits to medical providers or in some cases even none. They use almost no medications, have a healthier diet, understand the value of exercise and apply simple movement principals to help eliminate stress and toxins from their body. Families under chiropractic care spend less on insurance and doctor visits, have stronger immune systems and seem not to get the sicknesses that are common to the average American family.”

Have some questions? Ready for some help?

Dr. Troy can be contacted at Absolute Life Chiropractic, (360)260-6903.

Jodi Kerr is a freelance writer and lives in Turner with her husband, three children and four dogs.

 

Pediatrician believes ADHD does not exist

By Jimmy Tomlin

HIGH POINT - (

North Carolina)

If there's such a thing as an "ADHD Establishment," Dr. Bose Ravenel stands firmly in the anti-establishment camp. And that badge - he refers to himself as "a rebel with a cause" - is one the 70-year-old High Point pediatrician wears proudly.

"I don't relish it," he says, "but it doesn't bother me because I'm convinced about what we're doing." Ravenel, who has practiced in High Pointsince 1988, has co-authored  a new book - with noted family psychologist John Rosemond - that likely will make him a lightning rod for criticism from the aforementioned ADHD Establishment.

In the book, "The Diseasing of America's Children: Exposing the ADHD Fiasco and Empowering Parents To Take Back Control" (Thomas Nelson, $24.99), the authors not only hold the ADHD Establishment's feet to the fire - they toss the establishment into the fire, using such pointed phrases as "a travesty of science," "flimsy evidence," "a scandal waiting to erupt," and "an effort that has resulted in the manufacture of diseases that do not exist."

Specifically, the authors contend that those "diseases that do not exist" - namely, ADD (attention-deficit disorder), ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder) and ODD (oppositional defiant disorder) - are based on bad science, most likely do not derive from a genetic brain disorder, and therefore do not require potentially harmful medications for treatment.

They further contend that the classic ADHD symptoms such as inattention, forgetfulness, inability to focus, hyperactivity and impulsivity can be addressed through a behavioral treatment model rather than resorting to drugs.

"We believe the professional literature is skewed in the direction of overstating the effect of medications on these children and understating the potential harmful effects," Ravenel explains.

Ironically, Ravenel admits he's a former member of the ADHD Establishment.

"That's why I don't blame them, because I was there with them," he says. "I never knew any different. As a busy doctor, you tend to read the journals that are published by authors who have heavy pharmaceutical company ties, so you're not aware of this whole alternative perspective."

About seven or eight years ago, though, Ravenel says he began to question the alarming rate at which children were being diagnosed with ADHD, particularly considering the absence of the disease in previous generations.

"That got me to begin looking seriously at those rare individuals who would write articles suggesting that ADHD is not real - I looked at why they said that," Ravenel recalls.

His conclusion? ADHD is B-O-G-U-S.

Ravenel and Rosemond argue in their book that in the 30-plus years since ADHD was recognized as a behavior disorder, no objective diagnostic criteria have been developed; no ADHD gene has been discovered; and no ADHD biochemical imbalance has been quantified.

"We don't believe there's any evidence to support (ADHD's existence), and there's a compelling amount of evidence to support what we're proposing," Ravenel says. "We think everybody ought to be trying this alternative first."

Ravenel's primary concern, he says, is the longterm impact of ADHD medications such as Ritalin, Concerta and Adderall.

"Even establishment members would agree that no one knows what the effects of longterm exposure to these psychotropic drugs would be," he says.

The authors recommend a four-prong behavioral approach in lieu of medication:

• Reframe the child's self-image from that of a person with a disabled brain to one with great potential. That can be done, they say, through an old-fashioned parenting approach that combines "powerful love and powerful discipline."

• Eliminate or restrict the child's exposure to electronic media such as TV, video games and computers. "Children get addicted to these electronic stimuli," Ravenel says.

• Change the child's diet from the typical American diet of fast food, processed carbohydrates and sugars to more healthy foods. Also, fish oil supplements have been shown to benefit learning and behavior, Ravenel says.

• De-emphasize the current educational trend that requires kindergartners to learn what once wasn't learned until first grade, because that trend causes more children to struggle and fail.

This approach has made believers out of numerous parents who have brought their children to Ravenel's practice at Cornerstone Pediatrics, he says.

"If you talk to parents whose children were faced with the prospect of their child being on medication for the rest of their life, and then within just a few weeks or months the problem is solved, they get really passionate," Ravenel says. "And they can't believe other parents are not being exposed to the same idea."

Link to story:   http://hpe.southernheadlines.com/index.cfm?section=8&story=5371

 

"The truth will continue to come out about ADHD. Many sources link the symptoms back to the quality of the food you put in a childs mouth." Dr. Troy Dreiling 

 

Maximized Living is essential.

Does autism therapy heal children?

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - Autism hits one in every 150 children. It's the fastest growing developmental disability in the country and the numbers are even higher in Utah. According to a University of Utah study, one in ever 133 births, a child is diagnosed with autism.

It can be devastating, frustrating and expensive for the nearly 7,000 Utah families that are raising a child with autism. A Draper family went outside conventional wisdom of medical doctors to try some alternative therapy.

Four-year-old Colton Smith loves to play with his big sister, Briton but it hasn't always been that way. Colton

has been on a dark journey that took him away from his family. “He would just be off, said Colton’s Mother, Shawnee Smith, “like he didn't know I was his mom holding him.” The smiths say Colton was a happy baby, always smiling, started talking at nine months, and didn't bother to crawl on his way to walking. At 18 months, however, they say everything changed after he received immunization shots.

“About three weeks after, I started noticing not responding to me calling him,” said Shawnee. Coltonstopped talking and no longer made eye contact recalled Colton’s father Mike. “He would play for hours, in his room, door shut, by himself.” Testing showed C

oltonhad severe autism. Doctors told the Smiths Colton might never speak again, they should prepare for a life of constant care but hardest to accept; “You don't know, does he know we're even here? Does he even recognize who Ii am, does he see me?” said Mike.

Among Colton’s symptoms: Sensory over-load in crowds, around loud noises, with textures that kept him from eating, and a compulsion to lick strange surfaces. “We took him to our gym going swimming and there was this drain with some brown water in it and I turned around and he was down licking this brown water,” said Shawnee, I thought, ‘AHHH! He’s going to die!’ He was just sent down here with an incredible immune system.”

He was given traditional methods of treatment such as early intervention schooling at Jordan

School District where he learned behavior skills but he remained locked away in his own little world. A friend of the Smiths recommended an alternative treatment, combining holistic medicine with chiropractic.

Mike was skeptical. “I thought it was crap and there would be no way we're going down there and there would be no way you are going to be adjusting my son's spine!

Dr Troy Frazier prescribed homeopathic remedies to get rid of toxins and to build up to Colton's nutrition. He cut sugar, preservatives and additives from Colton's diet. “Just getting the offenders out is good but then you have to put the good stuff back in,” said Dr. Frazier.

After six months, the Smiths saw major improvement and a glimmer of Colton coming back. “He would come and sit on your lap and look at you. It was huge because he hadn't been doing that at all,” recalled

Shawnee. They agreed to get chiropractic treatment. Dr. Frazier said his focus was getting Colton’s neurological functions restored and concentrated on adjusting his crania, neck, back, spine, and hips.

After the first week of adjustments, the Smiths say more of Colton returned to them. “He was starting to chase after his sister's friends. It was just like it woke him up,” said Shawnee. And then came a day etched in Shawnee's memory. “I think the best day of my life was when he said, 'Momma' after a year and a half of silence.”

The Smiths say another unique therapy has virtually stopped Colton's sensory issues with crowds and textures. “I noticed a big change the first time he rode,” said horseback riding therapist, Tamera Tanner.

Tanner developed a method of therapeutic horseback riding after realizing her horse’s walking pattern is the same as an infant’s crawl. “I you don’t crawl correctly,” Tanner said, “Your brain doesn’t get mapped correctly.” Remember, Colton bypassed crawling as an infant, which is common with children with autism. “Some doctors consider autism… a brain injury and so you have to re pattern the brain.” Tanner, who has a medical background, says in brain injury patients one side of the brain is used more.

Only a small portion of the Missouri Fox Trotter breed has the natural gate needed for Tanner’s therapy. Tanner says that’s because the horse’s motion stimulates the two sides of Colton’s brain to work as one, a process called; Cross Hemispheric Integration.

Also emerging from therapy, something often difficult for children of autism to comprehend, a sense of humor. After his ride Colton teased Tanner by throwing some dirt at her. Now most parents might want to scold but for the Smiths, it’s another break through moment. “Him throwing dirt at Tammy is, ‘Whoohooo! That’s very new for us,” said Shawnee, “for him to tell knock-knock jokes and get it… he started doing that on the horse.”

Mike says, although, skeptical at first, he can't argue with the results. “It doesn't matter if you believe or not. You have to look at facts for facts and look where he is today.” It is a place that seems far distant from the bleak prognosis two and a half years ago. “It's been wonderful to see this has worked for us and hopefully it can work for someone else,” said Shawnee.

Colton now speaks in complete sentences and has a vocabulary of 300 words. The Smiths admit their son's progress is not all miracles, they say it is a constant process they caught early which has made a big difference. If treatments stop, Colton digresses.

Those treatments are not covered by insurance. Dr Frazier is working to create a non profit organization that would help to fund treatment for special needs children. Tamera Tanner is also in the process of getting scholarships for her horseback riding therapy.

 

This story helps show that Autism can reverse if you do the right things. One of the best suggestions would be to not introduce the toxins into the body. You need to be aware of the dangers of vaccination. WAVEis a great organization that can help your understanding on this topic.

Dr. Troy M. Dreiling, A Maximized Living Provider