The Health Plus Letter
June 22, 2004, Vol. 2, No. 20
By Larry Trivieri, Jr. – founder & publisher,
http://www.1healthyworld.com
Table Of Contents
What’s New – Important Health Action Alert by Dr. Julian Whitaker
Quote of the Day
Fast Fact
Medical Freedom Alert
Health News and Commentary
Facts and Factoids: An Information Sheet for Patients by Abram Hoffer, MD PhD FRCP(C) (Part Three)
Reader Feedback
Recommendations
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What’s New-An Important Health Action Alert by Dr. Julian Whitaker
I’m beginning this week’s issue with a very important message by leading holistic physician, Dr. Julian Whitaker regarding the increasingly underhanded attempts by Senator Dan Durbin and his co-horts to severely restrict our access to nutritional supplements. Durbin is determined to place the supplement industry under the yoke of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by hook or by crook, to the point where he is currently attempting to attach legislation for doing so in an appropriations bill related to the Department of Defense. That’s right, he wants to bury the measure out of public sight by attaching it as a rider to a bill that has nothing whatsoever to do with supplements! (This is a common measure used by members of Congress to pass questionable legislation outside of the scrutiny of their constituents.) I urge all of my readers in the US to take the action Dr. Whitaker recommends to help prevent the loss of our medical freedom. Please do so as soon as you finish reading what he has to say.
“Dear Fellow Health Consumer,
We need to take action, and we need to take action now. Once again, there's a movement in Congress to restrict your freedom to use nutritional supplements. The only way to stop it is for us to flood our elected representatives with so many e-mails and faxes that they will be forced to say no to the powerful interests that are behind this movement.
Because this may come up to a vote as early as Monday, the time to take action is now!
Over the next few days, the Sen/ate will be considering amendments to a Department of Defense funding bill, S. 2400. Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) - whose continued campaign against nutritional supplements in the name of "safety" threatens your future access to supplements, your freedom and your health - has introduced an amendment to this bill that will restrict access to certain dietary supplements on military bases and place reporting requirements on manufacturers that are even stricter than those for over-the-counter drugs.
I oppose this amendment and ask that you tell your Senators to oppose it, too.
Durbin's amendment requires that manufacturers of dietary supplements who sell to the military implement a system where serious adverse events are reported to the FDA for all products containing stimulant ingredients, with exception of caffeine. Just one complaint of a serious adverse reaction attributed to a dietary supplement would give the FDA license to remove entire classes of supplements (hundreds of products) from the market, even if that product was used against manufacturer's instructions. This nefarious bill is singling out "stimulants"- a sure step towards banning such supplements altogether.
But mark my words, virtually all nutritional supplements are at risk.
This amendment is likely to be introduced and voted on as early as Monday and could come up at any time.
Remember, you can make a difference.
Don't underestimate the power of such a grassroots movement. Ten years ago, Health & Healing [Dr. Whitaker’s newsletter] readers were instrumental in rallying the passing of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). Mil/lions of letters were written to our Congressmen and Senators in support of this legislation - it generated more letters than any other issue in US history. Because of DSHEA, which reduced the FDA's power to block the production, sale, and use of natural substances, we have free access to herbs, amino acids, vitamins, hormones, minerals, and other nutritional supplements.
Time is of the essence. This amendment to S. 2400 could come to a vote as early as Monday.
What can you do? E-mail your senators today and ask them to vote against this amendment. If you've already done so, do it again. (You may also send a fax, but I don't recommend sending letters. Anthrax screening has slowed mail delivery to a crawl.)
Forward this message to your friends and get them to contact their Senators. If each one of you could commit to generating four e-mails, over a million messages would descend upon Washington. You may not realize how powerful a grassroots campaign like this can be, but our elected officials cannot ignore something of this magnitude.
To take immediate action, learn more, and to contact your senators, please go to http://www.saveoursupplements.org now.
To your health and freedom,
Julian Whitaker, M.D.
P.S. This isn't the first threat to health freedom we've seen lurking on the horizon, and you can bet it won't be the last. I'll keep you informed on all these issues, but for now, let's send a strong message that we're not going to take this lying down. Voice your opinion about the amendment to S. 2400 by e-mailing your Senators today.”
[Note: Soon after this issue of The Health Plus Letter appeared, Durbin withdrew his proposal, due to a deluge of letters, faxes, and emails by people across the U.S. opposed to what he's trying to achieve in limiting our health freedoms. But he hasn't given up his attempts, so stay tuned to The Health Plus Letter for further developments. - Larry]
This issue also concludes Dr. Abram Hoffer’s article on facts vs. factoids. Dr. Hoffer is one of the giants in the field of orthomolecular medicine (the therapeutic use of nutrients to treat disease). To find out more about him and his work, please visit his website: http://www.islandnet.com/~hoffer. You can also read an informative interview with him at http://snipurl.com/6xpz. To learn more about orthomolecular medicine, visit http://www.orthomed.org.
Please continue to send me your comments and suggestions. And please spread the word about The Health Plus Letter by passing it along to your friends and inviting them to subscribe.
Quote Of The Day
“If you split an atom, you will find a little sun, and planets that revolve.”
-- Jalaluddin Rumi, 13th century
Fast Fact
Though thought to have been first discovered in 1997, Lyme disease was actually first identified in 1883 in the town of Breslau, Germany.
Source: Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia & Lyme Disease by Burton Goldberg and Larry Trivieri, Jr.
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Medical Freedom Alert
Our health freedom is again under siege. Please support the following organizations, which are at the forefront of those working to protect our rights:
Citizens for Health - http://www.citizens.org (Sing their online petition to safeguard health supplements.)
Institute for Health Freedom – http://www.ForHealthFreedom.org
Health Lobby (Monica Miller) – http://www.healthlobby.com
Also, please do your part to ensure that the misleadingly named “Dietary Safety Supplement” Act (S. 722) is defeated. To become informed about S. 722 and to take action to help defeat its passage, please visit: http://capwiz.com/nnfa/S722.html
To stay informed of other developments related to medical freedom, please visit http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org the website of Dr. Mattias Rath, a leading crusader for medical freedom.
To see to what depraved lengths people will go to persecute practitioners of alternative medicine in the U.S., please read the following report by noted medical freedom advocate Tim Bolen at http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/Suster2.htm
And to learn how corrupt and extensive Big Pharma’s monopoly is, visit http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/online/research/index.html the website for the Campaign Against Fraudulent Medical Research. In particular, read their in-depth report The Pharmaceutical Drug Racket that you will find there.
Health News and Commentary
FDA Panel Recommends Surgical Implants for Chronic Depression
Last week, an advisory panel of the Food and Drug Administration recommended that approval be given for a surgically implanted device that stimulates the brain so that it can be used to treat cases of chronic depression. The device employs a technique known as vagus nerve stimulation via electrodes “implanted in the neck to activate brain regions that are believed to regulate mood.” The approval was made despite conflicting scientific opinions regarding the adequacy of the data submitted by the device’s manufacturer. A number of FDA scientists and members of the advisory panel argued that the data was “not convincing.”
To read more on this story, see “FDA Panel Backs Implant To Counter Depression But Questions Linger About Manufacturer Data,” by Shankar Vedantam. The Washington Post, Wednesday, June 16, 2004; Page A03.
[Comment: If this device is allowed to come to market, as it likely will be – the FDA rarely chooses to not heed the advice of its advisory panels – I can just see the long-term ramifications it will lead to. Anyone want to bet how soon it will be before the manufacturers of Viagra and Cialis are facing competition from The Happy Man Electrode Love Plug as a treatment for erectile dysfunction? Shades of George Orwell meets The Bionic Woman!
All joking aside, let’s examine two statements in the above report. The first has to do with the fact that the approval was given despite serious concerns about the manufacturer’s data. On the surface, this might seem shocking, but in actuality, it’s par for the course for the FDA, which after all has already approved all sorts of drugs that kill and seriously harm mil/lions of Americans each and every year when they are prescribed according to the FDA’s own guidelines. So it’s no surprise to me that the approval was given.
More telling, to me, was the phrase about brain regions believed to regulate mood. In other words, “We’re not really sure these regions actually do in fact regulate mood, but we’re going to activate them anyway, never mind the doubts raised by the data we submitted.” This, too me, goes to the heart of the shoddy science that the FDA relies upon all too often in its approval process.]
British Veterans Launch “Gulf War Syndrome” Inquiry
Last week, British veterans of the first Gulf War, dissatisfied with previous investigations by the British and US governments regarding the occurrence of various debilitating symptoms suffered after serving in that conflict, announced that they had commissioned an independent inquiry to be headed by a retired judge, that would be charged with determining whether or not “Gulf War Syndrome” is due to the cocktail of vaccines the soldiers received prior to their service. Both British and US officials deny that any link between the vaccinations and the illness exist, and have resisted demands for a public examination of the issue. One of every six British veterans of the first Gulf War suffers from “Gulf War Syndrome.”
To read more on this story, see http://snipurl.com/77mw
[Comment: In 1992, well before the first outbreaks of Gulf War Syndrome became public knowledge, I had a conversation with the late Theron Randolph, MD, father of the field of environmental medicine. Dr. Randolph, who passed away later that decade and was in his 90s, warned me then that we would soon be hearing of Gulf War vets suffering serious illnesses. When I asked him why, he told me it would be because of the side effects caused by the cocktail of vaccines the vets received. “They’re contradicted for each other,” he said, “and should never have been administered the way they were. I don’t understand why our nation’s military physicians didn’t realize that.” It now appears Dr. Randolph was right, just as he was in the 1950s when he first warned that substances in our food and environment were acting as toxins and leading to a wide range of seemingly mysterious illnesses. At the time, he faced serious ridicule, but today the scientific evidence overwhelmingly supports his findings. Adding weight to his charge is the fact that French veterans who also served in the Gulf War are the only members of the coalition of forces who did not exhibit signs of Gulf War Syndrome. They were also the only forces to not receive the cocktail of vaccines, which were rejected as unproven by France’s Ministry of Health.
Both the US and British governments maintain that Gulf War Syndrome is due to toxic chemicals employed by Saddam Hussein during the conflict. If that is the case, why is it that the French veterans, who shared in the same battles as those vets from the US, Britain, and other members of the coalition, escaped the conflict unharmed? I hope that this independent commission gets at the truth once and for all.]
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Facts And Factoids: An Information Sheet for Patients by Abram Hoffer, MD PhD FRCP(C) (Part Three)
[Note: Parts one and two of this article appeared in the last two issues and are available at http://www.1healthyworld.com/ezine/vol2no18.cfm and http://www.1healthyworld.com/ezine/vol2.no19.cfm.]
Current Factoids:
About megadoses of Vitamin C:
These factoids are based upon hypotheses. There is no clinical data to support any of them and almost all studies show that they are not true or real. They are not supported by any studies.[Emphasis added - LT.]
- causes kidney stones,
- causes kidney damage,
- causes pernicious anemia,
- decreases fertility in women,
- causes liver damage,
- causes iron overload and toxicity,
- is dangerous for diabetics by interfering with glucose tests,
- causes cancer,
- inhibits chemotherapy,
- prevents radiation from being effective
- prevented Linus Pauling from living longer
- prevents surgical scars from healing.
I should have used weasel terms - instead of "causes" by writing "may cause." Because using the word may allows the proponent of the factoid to leave the suggestion that these factoids are true but leaves an escape path in case they turn out not to be true. The author can then claim, "Well, I did not say that these factors were true. I merely suggested that they might be true." There is the usual confusion of probability and possibility. If a phenomenon occurs once out of a million tries the probability is one out of a million, but there is no value attached to the possibility. It is indeed possible. Again, the enormous sale of lottery tickets depends upon confusing the public in this way. Or looked at in another way, if the probability of winning a lottery is one in ten million if one buys one ticket, and the probability is zero if one does not buy the ticket, then one can say that dividing the ratio one in ten million by zero yields the enormous probability of infinity that one will win the lottery. Any number divided by zero yields infinitesimal large values. Critics of megavitamin therapy never give any probability values since they know they are close to zero.
About megadoses of Niacin (Vitamin B3)
The factoid niacin causes liver damage is analyzed thoroughly by William Parsons, Jr., who shows that niacin will often increase liver function tests, but that these increases do not arise from liver pathology. Since I began using megadoses of this vitamin in 1952 I have seen a few cases of obstructive-type jaundice which cleared when niacin was stopped, and in one case I had to resume the use of niacin because the patient's schizophrenia recurred. He recovered and the jaundice did not recur. I have seen so few cases of jaundice that there is little evidence that the jaundice arose from the use of the niacin. Jaundice has a natural occurrence rate and from any series of patients a few will get jaundice from other factors. In rare cases too much niacin causes nausea and vomiting, and if this persists because the niacin is not decreased or stopped the dehydration might be a factor. I have seen no [such] cases in the past fifteen years. The main danger from taking niacin is not jaundice; it is that people will live longer.
Factoids in the Making
It is very interesting, even if frustrating, to witness the manufacture of factoids. A new one may soon be born. It is that niacin is dangerous because it increases the plasma homocysteine levels. Garg et al reported that niacin increased homocysteine levels. Apparently no other B vitamins were given. After a tough battle for acceptance, the homocysteine findings are recognized as playing a role in atherosclerotic heart disease. But the reduction in the abnormal cholesterol levels, and the increase in HDL, decreases the risk of heart disease. The Coronary Drug Study, Canner et al, showed that over a fifteen-year follow up mortality was decreased by 11% by niacin and longevity increased by two years. In this study niacin was used as a drug which lowered elevated cholesterol levels. No other vitamins were used. Garg et al are aware of this. They referred to the report by Basu et al that the niacin induced increase in homocysteine levels did not interfere with its normalizing effect on blood lipids. And they pose the question whether it would be beneficial for patients on long term niacin treatment to take other B vitamins such as folic acid.
My answer is that of course it would be beneficial, and since 1965 I have routinely given my patients one of the B-complex formulations such as B-complex 50's or 100's. These provide pyridoxine, folic acid and vitamin B-12 as well as other vitamins. Adding these vitamins inevitably will be beneficial since the other vitamins have therapeutic properties of their own in addition to keeping homocysteine levels from going too high. But even niacin alone was beneficial, not harmful. And this confirms what I have seen since 1952 when I began to used megadoses of niacin and niacinamide for schizophrenia and for other conditions, including elevated cholesterol levels and arthritis. The authors did not invent any factoid, but it is highly probable that some of the readers of that report will ignore almost the whole report except that niacin elevates homocysteine and therefore will increase the risk of heart disease. You will soon see this factoid repeated endlessly.
Niacin is a methyl acceptor and this may be the mechanism which leads to the elevation of homocysteine levels. Niacinamide is also a methyl acceptor but it has no effect on blood lipid levels. Its effect on homocysteine levels is not known but there is no evidence that it reduces life expectancy. On the contrary, it has great value in the treatment of senile states, both physical and mental, and in my series, if anything, tended to prolong life.
Kaufman had studied the use of this vitamin for the arthritides before 1950 and had published two books describing his remarkable results. Since that time this vitamin has been a very important component of the orthomolecular regimen for treating arthritis. Dr William Kaufman, my long-term friend, died a few days ago (August 2000) at age 89. His very important work remains mostly ignored even after a double blind study showed him to be correct.
But Garg's report does raise very interesting ques/tions which will have to be studied. The first is whether the elevation of homocysteine is an important factor but only in subjects who are not taking adequate levels of the other B vitamins, i.e. are not well nourished in orthomolecular terms. It is possible that in the presence of good nutrition the increase in homocysteine levels is not pathological at all and may even be beneficial.
Another potential factoid was trumped up by the press and received wide attention in all the media. The press reported that Dr. James Dwyer, University of San Diego Medical School, had found that the carotid arterial walls had been thickened by 500 milligrams of vitamin C daily. The press report cautioned against the use of vitamin C because this showed that the arteries were depositing plaque. But Professor Dwyer told Owen R. Fonorow they had used only one measure and had not used two other measures which would have shown the degree of focal plaque called the plaque index, nor the velocity ratio, to determine whether or not plaque interfered with blood flow. He did not say that plaque had developed. Dr. Robert Cathcart ,with experience on over 25,000 patients since 1969, has seen no cases of heart disease developing in patients who did not have any when first seen. He added that the thickening of the vessel walls, if true, indicates that the thinning that occurs with age is reversed. I have used vitamin C in megadoses since 1952 and have not seen any cases of heart disease develop even after decades of use.
Recently Gokce, Keaney, Frei et al gave patients either a single dose of 2000 milligrams of vitamin C and 500 milligrams daily for thirty days and measured blood flow through the arteries. Blood flow increased nearly fifty percent after the single dose and this was sustained after the monthly treatment. They concluded that ascorbic acid treatment may benefit patients with coronary artery disease. This certainly effectively does not support the conclusion of Dwyer who did not measure blood flow.
The Good News
The opposite of a factoid is a fact. The good news is that as none of these factoids are true, the opposite is true. This summary statement is based upon literally thousands of published papers in medical literature and hundreds of books that have been published in the past twenty years. I cannot provide references to these numerous clinical studies, but readers of the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine have ready access to the facts and also to the book reviews of over one hundred of these books. The Internet contains a large number of excellent discussions of vitamins and, of course, the facts and factoids which are current.
The factoids about vitamins, used in optimum doses when needed, are not true, are not based upon clinical evidence, do not have any studies including double blind controlled clinical data to support them, and are used primarily to attack the new paradigm, the vitamins-as-treatment paradigm. Be wary of factoids whether they are in print, on the Internet, in the news media, on radio or on television.
The unfortunate result of these lies is that patients are made fearful. Some will stop taking their vitamins, medical costs will increase since patients want to see their doctor again to discuss these matters, and more patients will relapse. The harm done by these factoids is immeasurable, but fortunately is slowly decreasing as the population becomes more knowledgeable and sophisticated about nutrition and nutrients. In the same way that drug companies are not allowed to make false therapeutic claims about their products, we need a system which will neutralize the factoids as they are proposed. And above all we need the public media to become much more intelligent and less subservient to major papers like the New York Times.
References
The Oxford International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged. Leland Publishing Company LTD, Toronto, 1957.
Mailer Norman: New York Times, January 9, 2000.
Pirsig R: Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance. Quoted in Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 16, 2000, in Social Studies by M. Kesterton.
Hoffer A: A theoretical examination of double-blind design. Can Med Ass J 97:123-127, 1967.
Hoffer A & Pauling L: Hardin Jones biostatistical analysis of mortality data for cohorts of cancer patients with a large fraction surviving at the termination of the study and a comparison of survival times of cancer patients receiving large regular oral doses of vitamin C and other nutrients with similar patients not receiving those doses. J. Orthomolecular Medicine 5:143-154, 1990. Reprinted in, Cancer and Vitamin C, E. Cameron and L. Pauling, Camino Books, Inc. P.O. Box 59026, Phil. PA, 19102, 1993.
Hoffer A & Pauling L: Hardin Jones biostatistical analysis of mortality data for a second set of cohorts of cancer patients with a large fraction surviving at the termination of the study and a comparison of survival times of cancer patients receiving large regular oral doses of vitamin C and other nutrients with similar patients not receiving these doses. J of Orthomolecular Medicine, 8:157-167,1993.
Hoffer A: Orthomolecular Oncology. In, Adjuvant Nutrition in Cancer Treatment, Ed. P Quillin & RM Williams. 1992 Symposium Proceedings, Sponsored by Cancer Treatment Research Foundation and American College of Nutrition. Cancer Treatment Research Foundation, 3455 Salt Creek Lane, Suite 200, Arlington Heights, IL 60005-1090, 331-362, 1994.
Hoffer A: One Patient's Recovery From Lymphoma. Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients #160, 50-51, 1996.
Prasad KN, Kumar A, Kochupillai V & Cole WC. High Doses of Multiple Antioxidant Vitamins: Essential Ingredients in Improving the Efficacy of Standard Cancer Therapy. Journal American College of Nutrition, 18:13-25, 1999.
Simone CB, Simone NL & Simone CB: Nutrients and Cancer Treatment. International Journal of Integrative Medicine 1:20-24, 1999.
Labriola D & Livingston R: Possible Interactions Between Dietary Antioxidants and Chemotherapy. Oncology 13:1003-1008, 1999, and Editorial to Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, November 1999.
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Gignac MA: Antioxidants and Chemotherapy. What You Need to Know Before Following Dr. Labriola's Advice. Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients Feb/March 2000, 88-89.
Lamson DW & Brignall MS: Antioxidants and Cancer Therapy II: Quick Reference Guide. Alternative Medicine Review, 5:152-163, 2000.
Moss RW: Questioning Chemotherapy. Equinox Press, Brooklyn, New York.
Moss RW: Antioxidants Against Cancer. Equinox Presss Inc. Brooklyn NY, 2000.
Hoffer A: Vitamin C and Cancer. Quarry Press, Kingston ON, 2000.
Herbert, Victor, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National TV News. Shortly after Dr Pauling died. He also said that if God wanted us to take vitamin C tablets they would be growing on trees.
Parsons WB Jr: Cholesterol Control Without Diet: The Niacin Solution. Lilac Press, Scotsdale, Arizona 1998. Reviewed in Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Volume 14, 1999, 3rd quarter.
Garg R, Malinow MR, Pettinger M, Upson B & Hunninghake D: Niacin Treatment Increases Plasma Homocysteine. Am Heart Journal, 138:1082-1087, 1999.
Canner PL, Berge KG, Wenger NK, Stamler J, Friedman L, Prineas RJ &
Friedewald W: Fifteen year mortality in coronary drug project patients: Long term benefit with niacin. J. Amer College of Cardiology 8:1245-1255, 1986.
Basu TK & Mann S: Vitamin B-6 Normalizes the Altered Sulfur Acid Status of Rats Fed Diets Containing Pharmacological Levels of Niacin Without Reducing Niacin's Hypolipidemic Effects. J Nutrition 127:117-121, 1997.
Kaufman W: Common Forms of Niacinamide Deficiency Disease: Aniacin Amidosis. Yale Univ/ersity Press, New Haven CT, 1943.
Kaufman W: The Common Form of Joint Dysfunction: Its Incidence and Treatment. E.L. Hildreth and Co. Brattelboro, VT, 1949.
Hoffer A: Orthomolecular Medicine For Physicians, Keats Publishing, New Canaan CT, 1989.
Fonorow, O.R. www.vitaminCfoundation.org
Cathart, R. Report to Fonorow www.vitaminCfoundation.org
Gokce N, Keaney JF Jr, Frei B et al: Long-term ascorbic acid administration reverses endothelial vasomotor dysfunction in patients with coronary artery disease. Circulation 99:3234-3240, 1999.
Copyright © 2000 by Dr. Abram Hoffer. All rights reserved.
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Reader Feedback
Lorraine A. writes:
“Larry- Once again a gem. Always something to gain by taking time to read your newsletter. Had kind of put out of my mind the things I've been eating due to hot weather. Always good to have a reminder and something to draw me back into the nutritious fold, so to speak. My intake of yeasty breads, etc. is not a good thing and I will modify it again now. Thanks.”
You’re welcome, Lorraine. I appreciate your kind words. I recently chose to eliminate all wheat products from my diet, as well. Not an easy task for an Italian boy who loves pasta, but I’m enjoying the benefits that came from doing so.
Glenn C. writes:
“Why aren't doctors and dentists red flagging patients with mercury fillings? It should be the first thing they look for when people enter their office, since it seems to be causing almost every type of illness I have heard of. Why would they want to ignore this and not inform their patients. I don't see any gain to anyone by not doing it. I am curious if you have covered this topic in any of your books or ezine?”
I have indeed discussed the dangers of dental amalgam fillings that contain mercury in various of my books, Glenn, especially in Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide. As you correctly point out, mercury poses serious health risks, but many dentists choose to ignore this either because they are uninformed or because they are parroting the party line of their dental associations, which often refuse to acknowledge the overwhelming evidence that mercury fillings are dangerous (which is why they have been banned in a number of European countries).
Amalgam fillings are not the only source of mercury poisoning, however. People who eat a lot of seafood often have mercury toxicity, as well, and factory emissions in both the U.S. and Canada add enormously to this burden. Despite this fact, the Bush administration is seeking to rollback controls on such emissions as part of its overall poor record on environmental issues. Hardly surprising, given the ties he and his cabinet have to Big Industry, not to mention his abysmal environmental record as governor of Texas.
In a future issue of The Health Plus Letter, I will be sharing tips on what we all can do to safeguard ourselves from environmental toxins and reduce the toxic load we already carry in our bodies. In the meantime, readers interested in this subject are encouraged to visit the recommended website below.
Recommendations
Website
http://www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden/usertest/index.php - Part of the online home for the Environmental Working Group, this questionnaire provides a good indication of how many toxic chemicals you are exposed to in your daily life, as well as more detailed information on how widespread and dangerous this problem is.
Books
The Good Men by Charmaine Craig. This novel, based on true events that occurred in Southern France in the first quarter of the 14th century, is a wise and compassionate account of what evils can happen when men and women allow religious intermediaries to dictate to them their actions and spiritual beliefs. It is also a sobering account of the first Church sanctioned inquisition, which occurred more than 150 years prior to the Spanish Inquisition.
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 by David Ray Griffin. Griffin has been Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Claremont School of Theology for over 30 years, and is anything but a conspiracy theorist. In this book, he raises very serious and disturbing ques/tions about 9/11 and the events preceding and following that day. In doing so, he exposes the many glaring contradictions between what actually occurred and the “official story” that the Bush White House has retreated behind, and raises serious doubt over whether the official story merits belief. The questions that arise from his expose demand answers that are far more comprehensive and investigative than those recently provided by the 9/11 Commission.
Health and Blessings!
Larry Trivieri, Jr. (larry@1healthyworld.com)
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