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 Tobacco is a mood-altering, addictive drug that kills 500,000 Americans a year (200 million worldwide)
Costs $400 billion each year, according to "Smoking and Health Review," (1992). 

The American Lung Association says tobacco contains more than 4,000 chemicals, 60 of which causes cancer. 
Some of the 'killers' are radioactivity, arsenic, ammonia, lead, formaldehyde, nitrogen dioxide, cadmium, phenol, benzene and hydrogen cyanide (the 'gas chamber' gas that poisons the respiratory enzymes) 

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If you don't hear from me for a while think nothing of it... I will be lost in change... My Windows 98SE became so unstable after all these years I had to make some upgrades, but I am tired of having all the extra CD's around that I decided to go cold turkey and start fresh with Windows XP, which calls for changing my other software so my computer geek is wiping everything out today and redoing my hard drive. That also means I have to put everything back into my computer, therefore I will be quite busy for the next few days getting use to things. Hopefully no glitches occur but if they do I may be lost in it all... You will hear from me at some point and hopefully tomorrow will be that point if nothing goes wrong... Got prayers going up for things to go smoothly...

Today's Something To Think About column puts the light on prevention versus medical treatments... Prevention is possible in staying healthy and some of the traditonal medical world is aware of it and trying to make the changes. The problem is, they don't have the information or training to do that in the areas of a person's life to show them... Hopefully they will learn and work it into the traditonal medicine. A dream I have had for years...

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Something To Think About

Focus on 'Prevention' Divides Cancer Experts
By GINA KOLATA

Published: January 11, 2004


he 2,000 people, the worried well, who come each year to Memorial Sloan-Kettering's cancer prevention center will learn that many cancers can, in fact, be prevented, and that it is up to them to have the appropriate medical tests and to live right.

For their $2,000 fee, most of which is paid by health insurance, they may be steered to smoking cessation sessions, or watch a cooking demonstration and hear a talk by a nutritionist. They will learn the early signs and symptoms of cancer and they almost certainly will have a cancer screening test.

"There is a lot that can be done to prevent cancer and detect it early," said Dr. Moshe Shike, the center's director. "We could probably cut cancer mortality by 50 percent."

Stopping smoking can prevent many forms of cancer, and changes in diet and weight loss also may have a marked effect. And while screening may find only cancer that is already present, it can save lives by catching it early.

Cancer prevention has become a buzzword these days, with some medical centers, like M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, planning entire buildings just for prevention. Its center will open in about a year, big as eight and a half football fields. 

But even cancer experts who are participating in the new prevention efforts are divided on what really can be done to prevent cancer, other than stopping smoking. Looking at the same data on prevention, some experts say that for now most efforts involve research that may or may not lead to clinical advances.

That is a problem emblematic of the fiercely competitive world of cancer medicine, doctors say. Medical centers need to attract patients and federal research money. And that means they need to be on the cutting edge of the field. The National Institutes of Health requires medical centers that are designated comprehensive cancer centers, and eligible for its grants and contracts, to have a prevention component. The institute devoted $500 million, or 12 percent of its budget, to cancer prevention and control. 

But, some ask, how can an honest message be communicated to the public about what can be done?

"I am concerned," said Dr. Donald Berry, a statistician at M. D. Anderson. "Most of what this is about is research. I think we're really early on in the cancer prevention area. Knowing what to do, knowing what the risk factors are and knowing when to intervene and how to intervene — we're not there yet."

He and others worry that many people greatly exaggerate their cancer risk and have inflated expectations of what science can do to protect them. 

"We created the fear that everything is carcinogenic," said Dr. Michael Gallo, associate director for cancer prevention and control at the Cancer Institute at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. At the same time, he added, medical researchers "have convinced people that there is a magic bullet for everything." The result, he said, "is self-defeating."

At M. D. Anderson, for example, more than 80 percent of the cancer prevention center's budget is for research, which can range from basic laboratory work to epidemiology to clinical trials testing ideas of how to prevent cancer, said the center's director, Dr. Bernard Levin. Most people who come looking for ways to protect themselves against cancer are steered to the center's smoking cessation programs if they are smokers: a third of cancer patients there have smoking-related cancers. They are also offered screening tests. 

Such strategies are hardly revolutionary, Dr. Gallo said. "It's what we've been doing for years. But it's sexy to be called the center for cancer prevention."

Dr. Otis Brawley, associate director for cancer control at the Winship Cancer Center at Emory University, shared Dr. Gallo's view. "To be politically correct as a cancer center you have to be interested in prevention," he said. The government expects it and so do patients, he added. "It is like a lot of things in medicine where we have implied success where actually there is very little."

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LENA'S NOTE: First -Their success is limited because they believe it will be limited and not successful. Second - Their success is limited because they fail to educate people to prevention strong enough!

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"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it 
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~ Lucille Ball (1911-1989) 

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SAN DIEGO (UPI) -- New studies suggest some people may suffer amnesia and other problems after taking statins -- a widely prescribed new class of cholesterol-lowering drugs. Beatrice Golomb at the University of California-San Diego, is studying the effects of statins on cognition and mood. New Scientist magazine says she has documented at least 100 cases of memory problems possibly caused by statins. Included are 30 cases of transient amnesia.

Although rather rare, with tens of millions of people taking the drugs worldwide, such problems could affect thousands of patients. New Scientist said one reason Golomb believes statins are to blame is that in more than half the amnesia cases, people suffered a second episode -- a far higher relapse rate than normal. A team from Duke University also found approximately 60 accounts of memory problems associated with statins. In some cases the patients' memory problems returned only when they resumed taking statins.

Researchers said although statins are generally considered very safe, it would not be surprising if they affect neural function. The drugs block the synthesis of cholesterol, a key ingredient in cell membranes. Statins are prescribed under the brand names Lipitor, Zocor, Pravachol, Lescol, and Mevacor.

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A Harper's Weekly cartoon of January 1868 warns of the deadly consequences of smoking tobacco. 

It may seem surprising, but nearly a century before the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General declared that tobacco may cause cancer, an anti-tobacco movement was already in existence, putting forward most of the arguments used today against such products. In 1867, Harper's Weekly editor George William Curtis, who had himself stopped smoking in the 1850's, pleaded with his tobacco-smoking readers to ask themselves whether their habit was conducive to good health. Among several points, he mentioned that tobacco products contain ingredients which are poisonous to the human body, and how those who quit smoking undergo an improvement in their health. 

Harper's Weekly carried advertisements for many tobacco products, but it also published notices for a "tobacco antidote" which "removes forever all desire for tobacco" and for a "nicotine-free" smoking tobacco. Yet, in the absence of definitive scientific evidence at the time, opinions on tobacco use were diverse and contradictory. A news item in an 1865 issue of Harper's Weekly contended that moderate smoking did no harm, and dismissed as "utterly groundless" claims that linked tobacco use to cancer. This 1868 cartoon, however, takes an unambiguous stance that smoking tobacco is a deadly habit. 

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From Dr. Janet Starr Hull's Health Newsletter, http://www.sweetpoison.com/ December 2003

The following interview was conducted with Dr. Janet Starr Hull on the safety of sucralose found in Splenda.

**Q: What exactly is Splenda?

A: In a simple sentence, you would just as soon have a pesticide in your food as sucralose because sucralose (Splenda) is a chlorocarbon. The chlorocarbons have long been known for causing organ, genetic, and reproductive damage. It should be no surprise, therefore, that the testing of sucralose reveals that it can cause up to 40 percent shrinkage of the thymus: a gland that is the very foundation of our immune system. Sucralose also causes swelling of the liver and kidneys, and CALCIFICATION of the kidney. Note: if you experience kidney pain, cramping, or an irritated bladder after using sucralose in Splenda, stop use immediately.


**Q: So sucralose is not found as a natural compound in nature, like real sugar?

A: Absolutely not. No sugar molecule is compounded with chlorine anywhere in nature.


**Q: Do you know how it is made in the laboratory?

A: I found this information from a statement from the manufacturer, actually. 'Sucralose is made from sugar, but is derived from sucrose (sugar) through a process that selectively substitutes three atoms of chlorine for three hydrogen-oxygen groups on the sucrose molecule. No artificial sweetener made in the laboratory is going to be neither natural to the body nor safer than unprocessed sugar', they claim. 

People need to stop searching for excuses to eat all the junk food they want without penalty. In the long run, no one benefits from this product but the corporations.


**Q: The corporate researchers claim that the chlorine atoms are so tightly bound; they create a molecular structure that is exceptionally stable under extreme pH and temperature conditions. Do you agree?

A: They are testing these conditions in lab rats, and these types of corporate studies have forced and 'selective' results, in my opinion. Aspartame research is the proof of this! 

Test these chemicals on a child and see how stable it is--but that would be cruel. So, why then do we buy it and give it to our children? I don't buy into manufacturers' claims when it comes to human beings using ANY man-made chemical. Plus, I have learned over the past 25 years of aspartame research to value independent research above that which is funded by corporations.


**Q: The corporations say sucralose is safe.

A: They said the same thing about aspartame, and look at the rampant disease and obesity taking over America since aspartame was put into the food supply over 20 years ago.


**Q: Can sucralose cause cancer?

A: Any animal that eats chlorine (especially on a regular basis) is at risk of cancer. The Merk Manuel and OSHA 40 SARA 120 Hazardous Waste Handbook states that chlorine is a carcinogen and emergency procedures should be taken when exposed via swallowing, inhaling, or through the skin.

It all depends upon how much you use and how often, your present and past health status, and the degree of other toxins you are putting inside your body. Good luck with this one … 


** Q: Sucralose has been thoroughly tested, they claim. Actually they have stated that sucralose is the most tested food additive in history. I quote, " … more than 100 studies on the safety of sucralose designed to meet the highest scientific standards have been conducted and evaluated over the course of 20 years. "

A: I don't believe that for a second. They stated verbatim the same thing about aspartame. We are looking at the same scenario in so many ways. As with NutraSweet, no human studies, corporate payrolled researchers, selective result reporting, government involvement and personal financial interests and controlled media. I will say that sucralose is not as dangerous as aspartame.



** Q: Splenda is approximately 600 times sweeter than sugar. How can that be?

A: As I stated before, the product is a forced product, not a natural sugar the body uses for fuel. People forget that sweetness is a by-product of foods--a bonus so to say. Forced sweetness, revved-up sweetness, and artificial sweetness--all altered foods that are a trap for people to get addicted to the sweeter tastes. People with eating disorders, children who are just learning about food, and people with illnesses are all being 'sold a bill of rubbish' in my opinion. 



**Q: The manufacturer claims sucralose doesn't react with other substances in the body and is not broken down in the body. 

A: They claimed the same thing about saccharin, even though I feel saccharin is the only artificial sweetener with true merit. To answer your question, if the body is digesting properly, anything you put into the body will be assimilated. If it happens to be rancid, the stomach will throw it out immediately by vomiting or diarrhea. It is totally out of the realm of biological science to think the body will not immediately attack a toxic chemical. Henceforth, migraines from aspartame and diarrhea from Splenda.

Now, to add a note to this: if the body is fed an indigestible product such as plastic (like in margarine) that it is incapable of dissolving through normal digestion, it will pass through undigested (if it doesn't get stuck in the gall bladder, that is.) So, if sucralose is indigestible due to its laboratory compounding, then we have yet another serious health problem to consider, don't you think?

Technology is great, but we sure don't need to be eating it!


**Q: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and government food authority committees and the Health Ministries in countries such as Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Argentina, and Brazil have confirmed the safety of sucralose. So have the countries of Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Uruguay, Romania, Lebanon, Qatar, Bahrain, Pakistan, Tajikistan, China, South Africa, and Tanzania. What do you think of all these countries confirming Splenda's safety?

A: The history of aspartame has unfortunately proven that individuals within government agencies cannot and should not be trusted to make such empowering public decisions behind closed doors. 

Now, re-read this list of countries … Mexico, Jamaica, Tajikistan and Tanzania? These are the countries in which Splenda is now marketed? (See the final question.) As an international geographer, I can comfortably say that these countries are not nations with the same technology and mass marketing strategies to be compared with the United States. These countries are more concerned with birth control, food staples, hostile take-overs, and drought--not diet sweeteners. Compare apples to apples.

**Q: Is sucralose safe for children?

A: The manufacturer actually made this statement for disclosure: "One should note, however, that foods made with low-calorie sweeteners are not normally a recommended part of a child's diet, since calories are important to a growing child's body."

Pay attention … Children should not be encouraged to grow up on fake foods. But just like cigarettes and alcohol, do what I say and not what I do? And we wonder why the younger generation is angry, ill, and ridden with ADD/ADHD and diabetes?? How many kids do you see taking a sip of mom or brother's diet cola?


**Q: Who manufactures and markets sucralose?

A: McNeil Specialty Products Company (MSPC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, along with Tate & Lyle PLC, a world leader in sweeteners and starches, all share responsibility for developing and manufacturing sucralose for commercial use. Sucralose is the first product from McNeil Specialty, whose mission is to develop and market innovative food ingredients that help consumers control, maintain and improve their health. Internationally, McNeil Specialty markets sucralose in the United States, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, and the Middle East; Tate & Lyle markets sucralose in Africa, Asia, Europe and Canada. Internationally, McNeil Specialty markets sucralose under the name SPLENDAR Brand Sweetener. SPLENDAR is a registered trademark of McNeil Specialty Products Company. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT
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Tiny particles 'threaten brain'
By Alex Kirby 
BBC News Online environment correspondent 


Microscopic pollutant particles given off by traffic and industry can enter the bloodstream and the brain after being inhaled, scientists have found. 
The particles are known to cause lung damage in susceptible patients, and are implicated in cardiovascular disease. 

Experiments on rats and humans have now discovered they can penetrate further into the body, with unknown results. 

UK scientists are calling for vigilance over the finding, and over the possible effects of a new group of particles. 

These objects are being created in the burgeoning field of nanotechnology, in which atoms and molecules in materials are manipulated to exploit novel and sometimes unusual properties. 

Mindful of the potential health impact of such particles, the UK Government has asked the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering to review the current status of the science and assess if there is a need for new regulation. 

Subtle infiltrators 

Many of us are routinely exposed to particles from diesel vehicle fumes (these are normally known as PM10, from their size), which penetrate buildings and are ubiquitous in cities. 

Some cooking stoves emit high levels of particles as well. 

There is also occupational exposure for people making products like sunblock cream, inks, photocopier toners, and working with welding equipment. 

Ken Donaldson, Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, UK, said these sorts of particle were known to cause damage at the point of entry to the human body. 

What was new, he said, was the discovery by researchers in Europe and the US that they "can get to areas that bigger particles cannot reach". 

Patients who inhaled radioactive ultrafine carbon particles displayed traces of it in their bloodstream not long afterwards. 

Experimental rats which inhaled similar particles showed a marked decline in particulate level in their lungs after six or seven days. 

Unknown hazard 

In the olfactory bulb and other parts of the brain, though, levels (although lower than in the lungs) remained relatively stable over the same period. 

These very small pieces of matter are called nanoparticles, defined as anything smaller than 100 nanometres in size. A nanometre is one-billionth of a metre, 80,000 times smaller than a human hair. 

Professor Donaldson said: "We are already exposed to nanoparticles of different kinds. We already recognise that there is some ill-health associated with these exposures. 

"But they may also translocate away from their point of entry into the blood or the brain. We are not sure what the consequences of this are yet. 

"The nanotechnology revolution may design particles that are very different chemically from the ones we are exposed to, and they might have very different properties that made them more harmful. We should be vigilant." 

He told BBC News Online: "I think there could be an increased future risk for all of us, and also a higher risk for people exposed at present to nanoparticles at work, though it's impossible to say how much bigger their risk is. 

"These particles are not things you can trap with a filter. But they do disperse rapidly, unlike asbestos." 

Nanotechnology involves building working devices, systems and materials molecule by molecule, and exploiting the unique and powerful electrical, physical and chemical properties found at that scale. 

It has developed from advances in microscopy, materials science, molecular-level manipulation, and the relationship between classical and quantum physics. 

The UK's Royal Microcopical Society and the Institute of Physics are holding a conference on the health implications of nanoparticles on 13 and 14 January at the Daresbury Laboratories in northern England. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3379759.stm 

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