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August 28, 2003
Profiting from school children
by
vtmnldy
on Thu 28 Aug 2003 04:29 PM CDT
August 27, 2003
Eat and stay slim
by
vtmnldy
on Wed 27 Aug 2003 04:30 PM CDT
Posted Aug 27th
| It's much too simple - it would never catch on here! How do the French stay slim in the face of their rich sauces, their high fat cheeses, their daily wine, their goose liver pates, their irresistible pastries?
Wait for it: they eat less of everything.
Often when I go to a restaurant I ask them PLEASE to bring me less than the full serving: seeing all that food on my plate purely takes my appetite away.
Read the full report here. Eat smaller portions, and stay slim. |
August 25, 2003
HRT - follow the money
by
vtmnldy
on Mon 25 Aug 2003 04:31 PM CDT
Posted August 25th
| It seems the big HRT pharmaceutical companies are fighting back - that's a lot of money to lose! $3.8 billion world wide, to be precise.
One of the major losers is Wyeth - which, incidentally, actually paid for Dr. Wilson's popular book "Forever Feminine", the first representation of HRT as the Fountain of Eternal Youth for (!) dull and unattractive ageing women, making them "more pleasant to live with"!.
Remember the Celebrity Gala last year to celebrate women's "Coming of Age"? Given by the Society for Women's Health Research, a group which declares their sole mission is to improve women's health through research? Journalist Alicia Mundy reports that a few days later, Wyeth gifted the group with a quarter million dollars. More here.
How are they going to build their sales back up again in the face of the incontrovertible evidence of the dangers? They are going to make it a quality of life issue - in other words, they will be presenting to women the argument that if it makes them feel good right now, the risks down the road are worth the relief.
I do most sincerely hope that few women will be taken in - but we all know, money talks. As an example, the North American Menopause Society in 2000 actually commissioned a Gallup poll asking women simply how HRT affected their quality of Life. Read the results here.
Remember - menopause is not a disease, but a life passage. More here. |
August 14, 2003
The AMAS test for cancer
by
vtmnldy
on Thu 14 Aug 2003 04:32 PM CDT
Posted Aug.14th
| Ladies, if you are scheduled for an operation or hospital examination, PLEASE read this in detail - it should be required reading in my opinion for any woman, because you never know when you may be in this situation.
Don't let them invade you, squeeze you, cut you - there's a new way to check for cancer.The AMAS test.
"The AMAS test can be used to detect all types of cancer. A positive reading indicates that there are cancerous cells in your body, but it cannot specify the type or the location. But as with the infrared imaging procedure I wrote about yesterday, it offers a good alternative for routine screening. With such high accuracy rates, a negative AMAS reading means that a mammogram or other screening procedure is not necessary. And a positive reading would be followed by additional tests anyway - so its lack of specificity doesn't pose any real obstacles." Quote from The Natural Progesterone Advisory Network |
August 12, 2003
The British study of HRT
by
vtmnldy
on Tue 12 Aug 2003 04:41 PM CDT
| No-one could possibly argue with the results of a study that was 1 million five hundred thousand strong! A British study of that number of women is unequivocal on the connection between long term synthetic hormone therapy (over one year) and breast cancer.
Read the story here
What strikes me as strange about a number of these reports, is that they do not mention, nor give references for, the safer natural alternatives that are available to women. Ah well! That day will come. In the meantime, there are networks that serve us well. Try this one, for example. |
August 10, 2003
Sick or Not Sick?
by
vtmnldy
on Sun 10 Aug 2003 04:42 PM CDT
| You're not sick until they say you're sick - or are you?
The debate about advertising medical drugs on television is divided between those who fear that it allows the drug companies to turn normal human conditions into disease states, and those who suggest that it allows people to recognize that their symptoms may be a sign of serious health problems ... read the pros and cons, and see what you think! |
August 06, 2003
A Cure for Shopping!
by
vtmnldy
on Wed 06 Aug 2003 04:44 PM CDT
| There really is a pill for everything. Now you can take anti-depressants to control the irresistible urge to shop, shop, shop till you drop.
Now all we have to figure out is how to budget for the anti-depressant .... Story here.
Guest commentary by Nicholas Regush of Red Flags WeeklyThis is a WebMD Medical News story found at AOL.COM. It refers to a study of 24 people and how the antidepressant Celexa helped battle a shopping compulsion.
Aside from the fact that a fuss was made by AOL and WebMd about such a pithy study, we’re also very curious to know how "the study shows that the disorder [shopping compulsive disorder"] affects between 2% and 8% of the U.S. population." Sure, some people may go right over the bend, but can we please have some qualification here and some social perspective? It is this kind of health journalism that makes a mockery of science. And overall, this is yet another example of how modern psychiatry can no longer be taken seriously, as practically everything produced by the culture can be labeled a disorder.
For example, how about compulsive advertising syndrome?
And compulsive PR syndrome?
And compulsive hype medical journalism syndrome?
And compulsive let’s-help-the-drug-industry syndrome?
WebMd and AOL should be ashamed of peddling this shopping disorder nonsense.
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