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The top ten reasons why the U.S. needs more pharmaceutical companies
by Mike Adams

1. Cures: We need drug companies to keep finding cures for major diseases. Look at all the cures they've found so far like... well... okay, they haven't actually found any cures yet. But maybe they can at least cure all the bogus diseases they made up like "social anxiety disorder" and "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder."

2. National Security: U.S. drug companies are crucial for protecting our national security by banning prescription drugs from untrustworthy countries like Canada -- which we all know is just a rabble of war-mongering nitwits who invade third world countries for sport (and then lie about why they did).

3. The Economy: never mind that most pharmaceutical companies sell useless products at ridiculous prices. All that money changing hands is great for the economy. You may be diseased, but think on the bright side: your Big Pharma stocks are soaring! (With all that money, you might even be able to afford health insurance...)

4. Doctors: Without the pharmaceutical companies, what would all the doctors do for work? After all, most so-called "medicine" involves little more than scribbling out a prescription for the latest mass-advertised drug. Without drugs, doctors might actually have to TALK to patients. Horrors!

5. Ethics: With Enron gone, we need a new, national example of strong ethics that properly communicate the essence of American corporate greed. Pharmaceutical companies could make Enron look like the Girl Scouts.

6. Political Fundraising: We need drug companies to support the re-election efforts of honest national leaders like President Bush who, as we all know, is crucial for protecting our civil liberties.

7. Publishers: Without drug company advertising, who would support all the newspaper and magazine publishers in this country? After all, many print publications are now little more than pro-drug infomercial rags dressed up to look like credible news magazines.

8. Patient Responsibility: Without drug companies shifting health responsibility away from patients, the people would actually have to think for themselves and take control of their own health. That's simply too much to ask from a dumbed-down population where no child was left behind (except for the ones who were).

9. The Environment: Drug companies set an excellent example of fair and balanced environmental policy, which is why antidepressant drugs are now showing up in the water supply. Their new environmental slogan? "You take it, you flush it, we fuggedaboutit!"

10. The Elderly: Everybody agrees we need honest U.S. businesses to look out for the interests of our elders. Pharmaceutical companies handle this with finesse by taking over the full monthly incomes of most retired folks. It's a genuine public service.

List created on 10/29/2004 by Mike Adams, health columnist, NewsTarget.com. May be freely republished and shared, with proper credit. Find more health humor and health commentary at http://www.NewsTarget.com

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A new study by Harvard researchers found men who consume high amounts of dairy products increase their risk of prostate cancer.

There were 20,885 American male doctors who tracked their health status over an 11-year period and they found 1,012 of the men developed prostate cancer.

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Panel Wants Tougher Supplement Standards
Jan 12, 2005
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

WASHINGTON (AP) - With nearly one-fifth of Americans taking dietary supplements, the Institute of Medicine on Wednesday called for tougher regulations to make sure the products are safe and do what they claim. The institute expressed concern about the quality of dietary supplements, saying "there is little product reliability."

This makes it difficult for health professionals to guide patients in use of supplements, the report said. The panel urged that Congress take steps to require improved quality control of supplements and to provide incentives to study the efficacy of the products.

"Reliable and standardized products are needed," Dr. Stuart Bondurant, chairman of the committee that prepared the report, said at a briefing Wednesday.

In a 327-page report, the institute also urged that complimentary and alternative medical procedures, such as herbal remedies and acupuncture, be required to meet the same standards of effectiveness as conventional medical treatments.

Dr. Stephen E. Straus, director of the government's National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine, said requiring the same research standards "will further the scientific investigation of this new field, increase its legitimacy as a research area and ultimately improve public health."

Unlike drugs, which must be proven safe before they can be sold, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act allows sale of supplements unless the Food and Drug Administration can prove them harmful. The law also does not require manufacturers to report adverse reactions, as drug companies must.

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, who has pressed for more FDA attention to supplements, believes that manufacturers should be required to report adverse events and continues to urge action against false or misleading claims, according to spokeswoman Allison Dobson.

The Institute of Medicine report said 18.9 percent of Americans reported in 2004 that they had taken a dietary supplement in the past year. The industry was responsible for $18.7 billion in sales in 2002.

A study by researchers at Harvard Medical School, also being released Wednesday, found that about 35 percent of Americans have used some form of alternative medicine

Dr. Hilary Tindle, lead author of that report, said such widespread use shows the necessity of studying the safety, efficacy and cost-effectiveness of these approaches.

The biggest change was an increase in use of herbal supplements over the five years, the study said. The practice of yoga also increased.

The Harvard report, published in the journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, said use of therapies such as acupuncture, biofeedback, energy healing and hypnosis remained essentially unchanged between 1997 and 2002, while the use of homeopathy, high-dose vitamins, chiropractic and massage therapy declined slightly.

Both the Harvard and IOM reports cited a failure of a majority of consumers using supplements to tell their doctors.

"This is especially critical as more becomes known about the adverse effects associated with individual dietary supplements as well as their interactions with prescription drugs," said Harvard's Tindle.

The Federal Trade Commission has reported a flurry of unfounded or exaggerated claims for supplements, the IOM report notes. It calls on Congress and federal agencies to set standards for manufacturing quality.

The Institute of Medicine is a part of the National Academy of Science, an independent organization chartered by Congress to advise the government on scientific matters. The National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine, which requested the IOM study, is part of the National Institutes of Health.

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LENA'S COMMENT: Just like the FDA makes sure prescription and OTC medication is healthy and won't kill you? Sure that's the reason!!! You and I both know that's not true... Supplements that don't work don't last long on the market unless they are manufactured by Big Pharma, who can afford losing money on a few products to keep the killer ones going... Only one guess as to who is behind this push? Since the Drug industry educates the doctors and puts so much money into the hospitals and influences the FTC with their advertising dollars and CEO's big free trips to the Caribbean and other plush vacation spots, and NCCAM is set up by the government, which is in the pocket of the drug industry, that makes for any easy answer to, Who's behind this push?... Big Pharma cannot make money on other company's supplements and herbals, so do away with them in an indirect manor that doesn't appear to come from them... They think we are idiots and can't figure it out ourselves... Do I sound paranoid? Not paranoid, just worked in the field for 20 years and watched how they work...

TODAY ONLY NEW DIETARY GUIDELINES SET UP BY HHS.

New Versus Old Dietary Guidelines

Here are key differences between updated dietary guidelines and those issued in 2000. The Health and Human Services and Agriculture departments on Wednesday unveiled the new guidelines, which are updated every five years and will be incorporated into an updated food pyramid.

CALORIES

New guidelines: Balance calories between the amount you eat and the amount of energy you burn. For moderately active people between the ages of 31 and 50, recommended calories would be 2,000 per day for women and 2,400 to 2,600 for men.

Old guidelines: Aim for a healthy weight, based on Body Mass Index.

EXERCISE

New guidelines: Thirty minutes of exercise is the minimum. Exercise for 60 minutes to maintain weight and prevent weight gain. If you've lost weight, exercise for 60 to 90 minutes daily.

Old guidelines: Be physically active every day, accumulating about 30 minutes of exercise daily.

NUTRITION

New guidelines: Eat a variety of foods that are high in nutrients and low in saturated and trans fat, cholesterol, added sugars and salt. Follow government recommendations such as the food guide pyramid.

Old guidelines: Let the pyramid guide your food choices and pick a variety of grains, especially whole grains, and fruits and vegetables.

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

New guidelines: Eat at least 4 1/2 cups of fruits and vegetables a day if you have a 2,000-calorie diet. Eat more or less depending on the calorie level.

Old guidelines: Eat 3-4 servings of vegetables and 2-4 servings of fruit a day. (serving was 1/2 cup so notice the difference here!)

CARBOHYDRATES

New guidelines: Eat fiber-rich whole fruits and vegetables and whole grains often. Eat and drink little added sugar or caloric sweeteners.

Old guidelines: Choose a variety of grains, especially whole grains, and a variety of fruits and vegetables daily. Choose food and drinks to moderate sugar intake.

FAT

New guidelines: Keep trans fat as low as possible. Get no more than 10 percent of your calories from saturated fat and no more than 300 milligrams of cholesterol daily.

Old guidelines: Keep your diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol and moderate in total fat.

SALT

New guidelines: Limit salt to about one level teaspoon a day.

Old guidelines: Eat and make foods with less salt.

ALCOHOL

New guidelines: If you drink alcohol, do so in moderation, about one drink per day for women and two for men.

Old guidelines: Same.

FOOD SAFETY:

New guidelines: Clean hands, food contact surfaces and fruits and vegetables. To avoid getting sick from food, separate raw, cooked and ready-to-eat foods while shopping, preparing or storing foods.

Old guidelines: Same.

LENA'S COMMENT: Not a lot of difference except in the exercise and fruits and vegetables category and more precise measurements... The salt category could have said use natural sea salt to avoid the chemicals in regular table salt, but didn't... Sadly these rules have been ignored for centuries and will continue to be ignored by the majority.

Polio Cases Rose by One-Third in 2004
Jan 12, 2005
By JONATHAN FOWLER

GENEVA (AP) - The number of polio cases last year rose by almost one-third, despite a renewed immunization campaign in Nigeria after the end of a vaccine boycott, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

The 2004 worldwide case count reached 1,185, compared with 784 in 2003, the United Nations health agency said.

Most of the cases were in Africa - largely in Nigeria, the continent's most populous nation.

A vaccine boycott there spawned a resurgence of the disease across the continent, infecting children in formerly polio-free countries and hurting WHO-led attempts to eradicate the crippling disease by Dec. 31, 2005.

"It's slowed the efforts for sure," said Sona Bari, a spokeswoman for WHO's Polio Eradication Initiative. "It's going to take months to deal with the effects."

Hardline Islamic clerics in Nigeria's northern Kano state led the immunization boycott, claiming the polio vaccine was part of a U.S.-led plot to render Nigeria's Muslims infertile or infect them with AIDS.

Vaccination programs restarted in Nigeria in July 2004 after local officials ended their 11-month boycott. WHO also boosted immunization across Africa.

Nigeria, which had 763 cases last year versus 355 the year before, is one of the six countries where polio is still considered endemic. The others are Niger (25 cases in 2004), Egypt (one case), and Afghanistan (4), India (129) and Pakistan 46.

Polio is a waterborne disease that usually infects young children, attacking the nervous system and causing paralysis, muscular atrophy, deformation and sometimes death.

When WHO launched its anti-polio campaign in 1988, the worldwide case count was more than 350,000.

Amid the vaccine boycott, the Nigerian-rooted virus spread to neighbor countries including Benin, Chad, and Cameroon. It also was exported further afield, to Botswana, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Togo and even Saudi Arabia.

Polio eradication efforts are now facing a US$100 million shortfall, largely because of the costs of responding to the Nigeria-fueled outbreak, said Bari.

However, WHO does not fear its polio campaign will lose out in the funding race because of the massive global focus on helping Asian countries hit by December's tsunami disaster. "Our donors are on board for the long haul," said Bari.

Efforts to defeat polio have also been hampered by civil war in Ivory Coast and Sudan, both hit by the Nigerian virus, said WHO. Experts are particularly worried the virus will spread from Sudan to Ethiopia and Congo - which also is in the grip of conflict.

LENA'S COMMENT: Never mind that their polio vaccine may not work and in fact can propagate polio! When a person with an impaired immune system comes in contact with a person who has had a polio immunization within the first 3 to 7 days after receiving the immunization, that immune impaired person is exposed to active polio and can very well get it if any physical contact is made with that immunized person! They can use all the platitudes and excuses they want in denying they have contributed to the increase, but if their vaccine is so successful polio should be decreasing not increasing, even if they can't reach everyone... I use to have to tell mothers whose child had just received the oral polio vaccine that they should not kiss or eat after the child for at least 72 hours and possibly longer as they could contract polio indirectly... It's written on the information that the doctor's office received with each batch of polio vaccine... But I never had a nurse tell me that when my children were given the polio vaccine, prior to my experience in medical offices I was unaware of that risk, and I've talked to hundreds of other mothers who was never told that as well, so that fact isn't passed on by a large number of physician's nurses when giving the vaccine to a person... Those countries spoken of in the above article are fraught with poor nutrition making it likely that the majority of people there have impaired immune systems, hence more polio risk...

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