A Great American Health Hoax?

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Is there a health hoax happening in the U.S.? It is according to Raymond Francis author of “Never Be Sick Again” and his latest book “The Great American Health Hoax.” He claims healthcare in America is pretending to be something it is not.

He added on POPPOFF that the definition of healthcare is the maintenance or restoration of health. But our healthcare system is not about maintaining or restoring health…it’s about managing the symptoms of disease.

This is disease-care, not healthcare. In addition to the possibility of a hoax, he claims it is threatening to bankrupt the United States with an aging population…10,000 people retiring daily and we have promised to pay for their healthcare.

There won’t be enough young people working to cover the costs. But he thinks there is a way out of this economic mess. Choose health! All the debate so far is about how to save a dime here and a dollar there, but it won’t work.

We need to change the terms of the debate to how to prevent disease. We need to teach people how to choose health…no disease, no costs. Unfortunately, health is a choice not yet chosen.

So, it is possible to choose health? Yes, says Francis. The science is there. We already know how to prevent and reverse almost all disease. We have to put to use what we already know. Raymond Francis is a chemist and MIT graduate and has spent sufficient time around chemicals.

So when plagued with a chemical sensitivity as a result of his acute chemical hepatitis, he knew he had to do something to save his life and fast!

The first step - - identify the root of the problem. It was here he discovered that these issues derive from the significant changes in lifestyle, diet, and environment that have occurred over the past hundred years.

Many advances have been made, but not all of them are beneficial to our bodies and their delicate chemistry. Harmful toxins can be found in a myriad of places besides prescription drugs like carpets, cookware, building materials, even appliances.

Now it’s all about diet, right? No, says Francis, it’s a very holistic approach to health with what he calls the Six Pathways to health and disease. You can get yourself moving toward health on all Six Pathways and you will remain biologically young, healthy and vigorous.

We do not know all of the many factors that can be affecting your health, which is why using all six at the same time is important. They are:

1) NUTRITION
2) TOXIN
3) MENTAL
4) PHYSICAL
5) GENETIC
6) MEDICAL

I don’t have enough time to tackle them all, but I was curious if there were any foods we should not eat. He said, yes. Get off processed foods. The average American diet consists mostly of processed foods, and this diet will not support healthy life…even in rats.

In his book, he lists what he calls the Bad four. These are the four most dangerous foods people eat…sugar, wheat, processed oils, and milk and dairy products. He also told me on the air no corn, no soy or tofu either. Guess it has to do with GMOs.

You can check out all the other things we do to live an unhealthy life in “The Great American HEALTH HOAX (available on Amazon)” The Surprising Truth about How Modern Medicine Keeps You Sick. You can also check out his website www.BeyondHealth.com.

Stay well!

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From the files of Mary Jane Popp at KAHI Radio in Sacramento, California
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A thousand ways to die

From the Warning Signs of Alan Caruba at Facts-not-Fantasy

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Does a day go by when we are not warned about something that might do us harm or kill us?

I recently received an email from the Surgeon General of the United States in which he said, “Yesterday, I had the opportunity to meet with President Obama, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and health care professionals to discuss climate change.

We talked about the impact of climate change on public health and the importance of prevention.”

The prevention of what? Climate change?

In the five thousand years of human civilization, there has never been, nor will ever be, a way to “prevent” climate change. This is not to say that earlier cultures didn’t try to solve drought or other weather-related problems by sacrificing the occasional virgin. We look back at that and regard it as primitive in the same way we find the notion of American Indians doing “rain dances” to induce a downpour to help the crops to grow a thing of the past.

The politicization of “climate change”, a planetary phenomenon that goes back about a billion or so years ago when the Earth took on its present atmosphere and weather patterns tells you everything you need to know about the White House and those who think they can tell outrageous lies to Americans, knowing at least half of them will believe those lives.

You’re not going to die from the "climate", but what kills Americans is well known.

The good news is that we’re living longer lives than the generations that preceded us.

We can determine what we eat and how much. Some of us thrive on exercise and others do well by ensuring they get a good night’s sleep. There are behaviors we should avoid, but their harm can be traced from a lack of moderation. People who opt for genuinely bad behavior such as drug addictions or alcoholism are simply ruining their own lives and those who care about them.

The obstacles to a long, healthy life often involve factors over which we have no control. These include family histories of illness, genetically passed on from generation to generation.

There are some fifteen most common causes of death in America and they range from diseases of the heart (28.5%) down to homicide (0.7%). That’s right. Even though our media is filled with news of homicides and popular culture features murder, the likelihood of suffering death that way is very small.

Disease of the heart (28.5%) and malignant tumors (22.8%) are responsible for more than 50% of the annual death toll. Other leading causes drop off dramatically by comparison. They include cerebrovascular diseases (6.7%), chronic lower respiratory disease (5.1%), and accidents (4.4%).

On my Facebook page I asked my friends to list some of the things they have been warned about over the years. The list included salt, bacon, processed meats, eggs, soft drinks, saccharin, sugar substitutes, margarine, and chocolate. I have no doubt you can think of other things you’ve been told to avoid.

Now, not including things like gluten or peanuts that activate allergic reactions in some people, these and comparable things are not likely to kill you. My rule of thumb has always been to eat the real, the natural food product like butter and avoid the substitutes.

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I have no doubt that people have died from smoking. Cigarettes have long been called “coffin nails” in acknowledgment of the way too much smoking can affect one’s lungs. That said, I have smoked for some fifty years and a good cigar is daily pleasure.

My Father smoked a pipe for just as long and lived into his 90s. My Mother who taught the art of gourmet cooking, complete with every delicious sauce and method of preparation you can imagine, lived until age 98. An international authority on wine, she would remind her students that you can find it mentioned frequently in the Bible. It is a healthy addition to your diet.

While we are constantly being warned against everything as a potential cause of death, you might find it of interest to learn that the American Medical Association conducted several research studies in the last decade, concluding that approximately 225,000 Americans died from their medical treatments!

Unnecessary surgeries caused 12,000 deaths and hospital medication errors killed 7,000. The odds of dying from an infection you pick up in the hospital is impressive; some 80,000 deaths were attributed to that, but the largest number of deaths, 106,000, were attributed to “negative effects of drugs.” To put it another way, “doctor-induced deaths are the third leading cause of death in the U.S. after heart disease and cancer.”

While we live daily with warnings about everything from the air we breathe to the water we drink (both quite clean), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collects data on mortality, including suicide. In 2013, suicide was the tenth leading cause of death in America. Someone committed suicide every 12.8 minutes.

From 1986 to 2000, suicide rates had dropped from 12.5 to 10.4 deaths per 100,000 people. It is back up to 12.6, mostly involving people 45 to 64 years old, as well as those over 85 and older. The rate among men is four times higher than women and whites killed themselves (14.2) far more often than blacks (5.4) and Hispanics (5.7).

While the White House is adding to our stressful lives with utter nonsense about “climate change”, claiming it is affecting our health, there’s another group, those in charge of the United nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UFCC), whose greatest concern is the fact that there are some seven billion of us on planet Earth whom they blame for eating too much and using too much of its energy resources.

“Obviously less people would exert less pressure on the natural resources,” said Christiana Fiqueres, the Executive Secretary of the UNFCC. You can translate to mean that there are those at the United Nations who wouldn’t mind if a new plague came along to kill off thousands or if famine did the same thing.

You will live a lot longer if you figure out how to reduce the levels of stress in your life; if you eat well, but moderately; and if you avoid overdoing anything you know can harm you.

Don’t listen to the fear-mongers. In the words of Mr. Spock, live long and prosper.

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Ebola in the U.S.: A test case for self-interest

The Ebola crisis is a test case for enlightened self-interest from the files of Armstrong Williams at the Washington Times

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There is always a lesson in a crisis if you’re humble enough to look for it. As the Ebola crisis spreads throughout West Africa, both the on-the-ground struggles and the international response have been enlightening to say the least.

First, the U.S. military is the best in the world at leading and mobilizing resources in response to a humanitarian crisis. The president’s plan to send 3,000 American troops to Liberia and Sierra Leone to build hospitals and provide logistics and supplies for on-the-ground relief workers demonstrates a capability of U.S. international power that has rarely been displayed in recent years. Our adventures in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, on the other hand, were seen by many citizens as primarily self-serving.

Second, helping other nations recover from natural disasters and plagues helps bolster American power. If you don’t know it already, Africa is the next development frontier. As a continent, Africa’s gross domestic product has sustained over 7 percent growth for the past decade, the fastest real GDP growth of any economic bloc in the world. This trend is predicted to continue through the middle of the century.

As African societies become increasingly wealthy, the U.S. needs to be poised to engage with Africa on a constructive basis. Whereas Europe (because of colonial ties) and Asia (due to rapid trade expansion in recent times) have built a strong presence in African trade and business, the U.S. has been slow to catch up.

The U.S. presence in Africa has until now largely centered on food aid, HIV/AIDS relief, famine and other humanitarian issues. We have yet to fully capitalize on the good will we have engendered in Africa and the humanitarian infrastructure we have built in various African nations.

Third, a humanitarian crisis overseas is not just something that affects others. The U.S. started out as a nation in “splendid isolation” from the turbulence in Europe and Asia. However, World Wars I and II put a rest to the belief that America could just swim along aloof from the problems of the rest of the world. Today, global interconnectedness is an absolute fact.

This latest outbreak of Ebola became real to many of us when American doctors were struck with the disease and had to be evacuated from Africa to U.S. hospitals for treatment. For those of us who are thinking ahead, we understand that medical doctors aren’t the only people who could get on a plane with Ebola and come to the United States.

Unless the U.S. is prepared to screen every visitor for Ebola, there is no stopping it from entering the country. So, in addition to a moral imperative to help our African neighbors, it is in our direct self-interest to stop the disease from spreading further.

Fourth, we need to focus as a country on doing much more in the way of prevention and less in the way of crisis management. Although the U.S. military is plainly the world’s best fighting organization, it is ill-suited to deal with thorny political and sectarian issues.

To put it in the words of a U.S. fighter pilot in the early days of the Iraq War, the new wars do not really present a target-rich environment. The work that needs to be done is primarily nation-building. That means building robust state institutions of governance and service so that people feel they have a say in how they are governed, and in turn increasing the capacity of weakened governments to provide essential goods and services to their people.

Fifth, do not romanticize or fetishize the trauma of others. The reaction in the U.S. media has revealed some curious attitudes about the disease, ranging from grotesque fascination to bemused romanticism about a time when European exploration of the tropics in the late 18th century exposed them to cholera and other tropical viruses.

In an article headlined “The Most Feared People in Liberia,” Time magazine tracks the emergency Red Cross Body Management Team as it goes around and collects dead bodies. Along the way, we learn that almost all deaths caused by illness in the country are presumed to be Ebola-related, and in many cases loved ones are no longer allowed to bury their dead relatives for fear of contracting the virus themselves.

Another article appeared in The Washington Post recently, “Love in the Time of Ebola,” a vapid chronicle of the long-distance love affair between two American humanitarian workers whose lives and careers were upset when the organizations they worked for closed shop and left the disease-ravaged region.

We are a human race. The notion that nationality, race, religion and ethnicity should be real divisions stands in stark contrast to the reality of the global challenges we are facing. The principle of helping thy neighbor exists not just for your neighbor’s sake, but for your own. A healthy neighbor is often the only thing standing between us and certain disaster.

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Armstrong Williams is sole owner/manager of Howard Stirk Holdings and executive editor of American CurrentSee Online Magazine. 

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