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- LASSA RATS and EBOLA BATS – Victims
or Villains? By CeliaPenny
- Cholesterol is a good guy any day.
- Fruit and vegetables aren't only good for a healthy body – they protect your mind too.
LASSA RATS and EBOLA BATS – Victims or Villains? By CeliaPenny
http://www.lagherald.com/lassa-rats-ebola-bats-victims-villains-celiapenny-moses-nagbiku/
In the wake of the recent outbreak of Lassa fever epidemic in Nigeria, it has become necessary to really look into the real cause of deaths. In the end we may choose to either vilify the bats and rats or learn from them and thank God for having chosen the ‘foolish things’ of this world to confound the wise.
Viral haemorrhagic fevers from Ebola or Lassa share some clinical features e.g. bleeding. Both viral infections cause death. According to Dr. Rath ( 2014), a viral hemorrhagic fever means that the virus is affecting the vascular system in a way that causes leakages, leading gradually to, and ultimately massive blood loss and death.
In both the Ebola and Lassa, not all infected animals die. The fruit bats don’t die nor do the rats in the case of Lassa. In the Ebola case, there are other infected animals that don’t die from it, these include antelopes and porcupines. WHO call these, ‘protected’ hosts. They are ‘protected’ because though they are carriers they cannot be affected by the virus. WHY?
The simple reason according to research findings is that most animals synthesize large amounts of their own vitamin C in their bodies. Humans do not synthesize vitamin C and must have it through the diet. Vitamin C is known to be among the most powerful antiviral agents in nature and is able to prevent the terrible aftermath of the Ebola virus. Like humans the fruit bat does not synthesize vitamin C but, it feeds predominantly on fruits.
Rats and mice, including the LASSA rat synthesise vitamin C. It should not be surprising therefore that the rats, like the fruit bats can carry the Lassa virus for years and never be affected by it. The significance of this explanation is that the Ebola and Lassa disease are much like the sailors disease, scurvy. In scurvy, the effect of vitamin C and other micronutrients played a big part in strengthening and improving the immune system and lives were saved.
Every year about this season in Nigeria, the rats invade and spread the virus. The virus kills people whose immune system may have been weakened by malnutrition over time. With the level of poverty in the country it is not surprising that more deaths are recorded now than in the previous outbreaks. Preventing an outbreak through rat extinction is highly unlikely. To prevent death in another outbreak we should focus on preventing malnutrition in Nigeria.
These rats and bats are survivors who have become victims of medical opinion. They are not villains. They are creatures going about their business, eating what their creator programmed them to eat to resist disease. Remember bats eat fruits, rats eat our yam peels and other foods we throw out. They eat sugar carton and other cartons. Do they they eat the cornflakes or the sugar or flour or the anemic looking bread? Not really. We should therefore learn from them and eat nutrient dense foods that will boost our immune system.
Eating healthy, nutrient dense foods may require a bit of creativity. Forget the numbers behind the calories for once and focus on the colours. Add more greens, yellows, pinks and browns to your breakfast, lunch, dinner and all snacks. Garri is better than cornflakes or white bread any day. Drink water not soft drinks.
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Cholesterol is a good guy any day
Cholesterol has never been a problem.
The pharma industry tries to frighten you into taking statin drugs.
Your body makes 80% of its cholesterol (fat) needs. God made it so.
You need it to look and feel good.
You also have lecithin (fat) which is the vehicle to transport the cholesterol through the blood.
Blood is an aqueous solution.
Fat does not dissolve in water. Lecithin enables cholesterol to mix in the blood (watery solution).
Take the egg yolk for instance.
It has the highest concentration of cholesterol (fat). Does it float as fat when mixed in water?
No.
Why?
Because it also has a high concentration of Lecithin (fat) that enables cholesterol to mix in the water.
The problem we have is that our choice of food is devoid of micronutrient that helps us build lecithin but high in Foods that make us accumulate cholesterol.
So we end up with enough cholesterol, but more than the vehicle needed to adequately transport it.
Secondly, we do not nourish our blood vessels with enough micro-nutrients to repair itself when there is a wound.
So, cholesterol comes to mend the wound in the blood vessels and ends up clogging it.
Cholesterol is a good guy
Fruit and vegetables aren't only good for a healthy body – they protect your mind too
As the scientific concept of Cellular medicine describes, deficiencies of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and other micronutrients are the primary cause of today’s most common chronic diseases.
Based on this knowledge, Cellular Medicine defines an optimum daily intake of specific micronutrients as a basic preventative measure for maintaining health. The scientific principles underlying this approach should form the basis of a new global healthcare system.
Each and every day that its implementation is delayed, countless thousands of patients worldwide continue to suffer and die from preventable diseases that are not actually real “diseases” but simply the consequences of a long-term deficiency of essential micronutrients.
Date:September 16, 2015Source:BioMed Central
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150916215535.htm
New study suggests medication errors and adverse drug events are commonpl............
A new study measuring the incidence of medication errors and adverse drug events during the perioperative period – immediately before, during or right after a surgical procedure – suggests that mistakes or adverse events occur in around 50 percent of operations and in 5 percent of drug administrations. Examining 277 randomly selected operations conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital in the United States, the study, which will appear in Anesthesiology, the official medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, found that a third of the errors uncovered resulted in adverse drug events or harm to patients.
Founded in 1811, Massachusetts General Hospital is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. Observing 225 anesthesia providers – anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists, and resident physicians – during operations conducted at the hospital between November 2013 and June 2014, the researchers determined that 124 of the 277 operations examined included at least one medication error or adverse drug event. One-third of the medication errors led to an adverse drug event, and the remainder were judged to have the potential to cause an adverse event. Moreover, 20 percent of the adverse drug events recorded were not associated with a medication error, thus suggesting they may have been a direct result of drug toxicity.
From the point-of-view of patients, a particularly worryingly aspect of this study is that previous research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), one of the world’s leading medical journals, clearly supports its findings. So dangerous is the pharmaceutical approach to medicine that orthodox doctors, hospitals and their treatments have been shown in JAMA to be the third leading cause of death in the United States, exceeded only by deaths from heart disease and cancer. Similarly, a JAMA study published in 1998 estimated that in 1994 around 2,216,000 hospitalised patients in the United States had suffered a serious adverse drug reaction (ADR) and that 106,000 had suffered a fatal ADR. This suggests that prescription drugs were between the fourth and sixth leading cause of death in the USA in that year.
While part of the purpose of the Massachusetts General Hospital study was to formulate solutions to prevent adverse drug events from occurring, the fact is that this is essentially impossible to achieve. Even when supposedly prescribed and used “correctly”, there is no such thing as a safe drug. As synthetic chemical molecules that don’t exist in nature, drugs are treated by the body as foreign invaders that have to be detoxified and eliminated. When the body’s protective systems fail in this critical task, severe and deadly side-effects are the inevitable result.
Ultimately, for real health and healing to occur it is necessary to address the root cause of disease: micronutrient deficiency.
In the absence of this, any medical system that depends upon drugs,
surgery, radiation and other orthodox approaches as its primary
treatment options is only addressing the symptoms of disease. Moving
beyond the current outdated medical paradigm thus necessitates a
wholesale redesign of our healthcare systems. This includes properly
educating our doctors, who, mostly through no fault of their own, have
been reduced to playing the role of a sales force for the
pharmaceutical ‘business with disease’.
The sooner this urgently-needed transformation takes place, the sooner
injuries and deaths resulting from synthetic chemical drugs can be
brought to an end.
The reputation and credibility of the pharma industry sank to a new low this week with news that the price of Daraprim (Pyrimethamine), an anti-parasitic drug that is on the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines, had been raised from $13.50 to $750 per tablet. Marketed since the 1950s, the drug was acquired last month by Turing Pharmaceuticals, a start-up company run by Martin Shkreli, a former hedge fund manager. Astonishingly, with even the global mass media seemingly aghast at this latest case of pharma greed, Shkreli shamelessly attempted to portray the 5000% price rise as “altruistic”.
To seasoned observers it will be immediately apparent that this story provides a good illustration of why we refer to the pharma industry as the “business with disease”. Through the ownership and control of synthetic chemicals portrayed as “medicines”, drug manufacturers can arbitrarily define their profits. Functioning as corporate stakeholders feeding a ruthless and cynical investment industry that is driven by shareholder value, improving human health is not their focus. For the robber barons behind this industry, profits, not the interests of patients, are the highest priority.
Significantly, therefore, and no doubt helped by the ongoing public revelations regarding its insatiable greed, evidence is growing that patients are waking up to the shocking reality about the drug industry. In a recent report published by PatientView, a UK-based research, publishing and consultancy group, 76 patient groups assessed the reputation of some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. In a damning indictment of the “business with disease,” patients rated the overall corporate reputation of the drug industry as low, verging on abysmal. None of the groups ranked the industry as excellent. The only industry ranked lower was the for-profit insurance industry.
Moreover, with a 2013 survey finding that most people feel drug companies see cancer as a making-money opportunity, rather than as a disease to eradicate, it is clear that patients are increasingly recognizing there are serious and unsolvable conflicts of interest between the pharma industry and public health. In this situation, as viewed by pharma executives and their investors, the realization that their trillion-dollar-a-year house of cards is in danger of collapsing will doubtless be deeply terrifying.
However, towards our goal of a new global healthcare system based on scientific breakthroughs in the areas of vitamin research and cellular health, it is important to keep in mind that merely lowering the prices of pharmaceutical drugs will not in itself solve the global healthcare crisis. In this sense the story about Turing Pharmaceuticals and Martin Shkreli can in part be seen as a distraction, in that it completely ignores the deeper problem concerning the inability of pharma-oriented healthcare approaches to address and correct the root causes of diseases. The main issue with drugs, in other words, is not simply their price but their ineffectiveness.
Ultimately, it is only by spreading the life-saving benefits of nutritional and Cellular Medicine, and correcting micronutrient deficiencies, that a new, truly prevention-oriented system of healthcare can become a reality for our planet. As such, with the reputation and credibility of the pharma industry now in tatters, the time has arrived for vitamin freedom advocates everywhere to come together and make natural preventive healthcare a human right.
24 September, 2015