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Today's cosmetics can do more than just make you look good.
According to a Finnish study, there are hidden ingredients that could be dangerous.

The Consumer Agency and Ombudsman for Product Safety in Helsinki measured the levels of poisons in 25 brands of eye shadow, in 88 colors. They were looking for evidence of lead, arsenic, chromium, cobalt and nickel.

According to a report in the journal Contact Dermatitis, they did find these metals present as impurities in eye shadow. But they were present in extremely small amounts..

On the other hand, people who have been sensitized to any of the impurities might have a skin reaction after contact with these tiny amounts. And because the metals are impurities, they aren't listed as ingredients. They may even be present in some batches, and not in others.

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GALL BLADDER PAIN- SURGERY OR NOT?

Conventional medical wisdom in the United States is convinced that gall bladder attacks are caused by the presence of stones in the gall bladder and that when fatty foods are eaten the gall bladder contracts producing the typical right upper abdominal pain. This concept is completely refuted by research performed by Dr. James C. Breneman in the 1960s and 70s. Dr. Breneman was chairman of the Food Allergy Committee of the American College of Allergists now called the American College of Allergy and Immunology.

What Dr. Breneman learned was that painful gall bladder attacks are actually caused by allergies to foods and medicines. In 1968 Dr. Breneman placed 69 patients havng typical painful gall bladder attacks on an elimination diet to determine what foods the patient was allergic to. Six of the 69 were still having attacks of gall bladder pain despite surgical removal of the gall bladder (post cholectectomy syndrome). Dr. Breneman discovered that all 69 patients were completely free of painful attacks when they avoided the offending foods and other allergies (medicines). Their pain recurred when they ate the allergic foods or took the problem medicines. The primary foods producing the painful attacks were eggs (92.8 percent), pork (63.8 percent), onions (52.2 percent), chicken and turkey (34.8 percent), milk (24.6 percent), coffee (21.7 percent), and oranges (18.8 percent). Corn, beans, nuts, apples, tomatoes, peas, cabbage, spices, peanuts, fish, and rye accounted for between 14. 5 percent and 1 percent of gall bladder attacks. Fourteen of the 69 patients were found to have gall bladder pain caused by allergy to pharmaceutical drugs.

Unnecessary gall bladder removal is generally the recommended course of action for persons with recurring painful gall bladder attacks. The gall bladder stores large amounts of bile produced by the liver. Removal of the gall bladder can produce problems with the absorption of the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E and K as well as the essential fatty acids. Normal persons respond to a fat containing meal with the secretion of the appropriate amount of the hormone cholecystokinin to cause the gall bladder to release the correct amount of bile into the small intestine which results in complete absorption of the fat. Persons lacking a gall bladder have slow steady release of bile which is not adequate to allow complete absorption of all the ingested fat if a fatty meal is eaten This leads to suboptimal delivery of bile to the intestines with impaired fat absorption. The liver continues to produce large amounts of bile but this bile is no longer stored in the gall bladder for proper delivery to the intestine.

Most surgeons and primary care physicians do not instruct the patient who has had a cholecystectomy in the therapy needed after gall bladder removal. Provision of bile salts (tablets or capsules of bile) taking one to three after a meal depending on the quantity of fat eaten will correct the impaired reabsorption of fat. This generally permits absorption of enough essential fatty acids and fat soluble vitamins so there are no nutritional problems. Two good formulations are Cholacol from Standard Process Laboratories and Bile Salt Factors from Jarrow Laboratories. These bile salts can be found in natural food stores and are sold by Tehama Clinic 1-425-264-0059.

There is a strong possibility that nearly all cholectstectomies are unnecessary. Avoiding this surgery by learning what allergies are causing your pain can save about $30,000 and avoid the risk of abdominal surgery. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine had shown that the risk of gall bladder surgery (cholecystectomy) for gall stones that were causing no symptoms was greater than risk of the infrequent operation to remove stones that had escaped from the gall bladder and impacted in the tube draining the liver (common bile duct). The article concluded that gall stones that were not causing symptoms should be left alone.

© 2004 Dr. James Howenstine, MD.

The Ultimate Sweet Plant!

I was so happy to receive a sample package of a new mouthwash that has neither alcohol nor aspartame in it. I use an herbal mouthwash so it isn't something that will change my life but a good thing for those who do... No, I'm not going to say a mouthwash is a food... But I thought this week would be a good time to hit on the ultimate sugar substitute that is plant based and healthy as the food of the week! I mention it from time to time but have never really given you the reason why it's healthier for you?

While Equal and Saccharine continue to dominate the non-caloric sweetener market, with the help of the medical world, this remarkable herb called Stevia remains relatively unknown.

Anyone who suffers from diabetic blood sugar disorder or who needs to limit their caloric intake or is addicted to sugar must be told about the remarkable health and healing properties of a great substitute that I can't say is a "sugar substitute," or the government will come down on me. Stevia can be marketed as a food supplement only.

History of Stevia

The Guarani Indians had known for centuries about the unique advantages of kaa he-he -a native term which translates as "sweet herb" - long before the invaders from the Old World were lured by the treasures of the New. These native people knew the leaves of the wild stevia shrub - a perennial indigenous to the Amambay Mountain region - to have a sweetening power unlike anything else; they commonly used the leaves to enhance the taste of bittermate (a tea-like beverage) and medicinal potions, or simply chewed them for their sweet taste. The widespread native use of stevia was chronicled by the Spaniards in historical documents preserved in the Paraguayan National Archives in Asuncion. Historians noted that indigenous peoples had been sweetening herbal teas with stevia leaves "since ancient times." By the 1800s, daily stevia consumption had become well entrenched throughout the region - not just in Paraguay - but also in neighboring Brazil and Argentina.

Like the discovery of America itself, however, credit for stevia's "discovery" to the rest of the world goes to an Italian. In this case, the explorer was a botanist whose initial unfamiliarity with the region - because of his difficulty in locating the herb - caused him to believe that he had stumbled onto a "little-known" plant.

In 1903, however Bertoni discovered the live plant, a gift from the parish priest of Villa San Pedro. The following year, as he recounted, "the appearance of the first flowers enabled me to make a complete study" that was published in December, 1905, after an interruption caused by a civil war. His findings was enough to convince him that "the sweetening power of kaa he-e is so superior to sugar and there is no need to wait for the results of analyses and cultures to affirm its economic advantage...the simplest test proves it."

An ideal alternative to other sugar or sugar substitutes, but in the U.S. we cannot say it's a sweetener. Yet this herb has proven to be safe and effective for hundreds of years without a single reported adverse reaction by anyone! No MS, or other neurological disorders as with our modern day chemical sugar substitutes or sugar derivative Splenda.

The sweetening power of Stevia is amazing as it is between 70 to 400 times sweeter than white sugar. Most amazing and remarkable about Stevia is that it is completely calorie-free, never initiates a rise in blood sugar, and does not provide an intestinal source of food for bacteria and yeasts.

The leaves of the Stevia shrub contain specific glycosides, which produce a sweet taste but have no caloric value. Stevia also contains protein, fiber, carbohydrates, phosphorus, iron, calcium, potassium, sodium, magnesium, rutin (flavonoid), zinc, vitamins C and A.

Stevia vs sugar? No comparison in the health department! Sugar is processed until it is more chemical than real and Stevia is natural and healthy!

Stevia is a small perennial shrub with green leaves that belongs to the aster or chrysanthemum family of plants. It grows primarily in the Amambay mountain range of Paraguay but over 200 species of Stevia have been found around the world.

While the herb's native locale may make it appear somewhat exotic, it has proved to be quite adaptable and capable of being cultivated in climate zones as diverse as Florida and southern Canada.

Organic gardeners in particular should find stevia an ideal addition to their garden. Though nontoxic, stevia plants have been found to have insect-repelling tendencies. Their very sweetness, in fact, may be a kind of natural defense mechanism against aphids and other bugs that find it not to their taste. Perhaps that's why crop-devouring grasshoppers have been reported to bypass stevia under cultivation.

Then, too, raising stevia yourself, whether in your back yard or on your balcony, is another positive way you can personally - and legally - protest the wrongheaded government policies that have for so long deprived the American people of its benefits -- a contemporary Victory Garden.

Stevia enjoyed some popularity in the U.S. during the 1980s as a natural sweetener and was found in a variety of consumer products. However, in 1986, the FDA stopped the sale as a sweetener and in 1991 said it was not suitable as a food additive. Advocates for Stevia say that this happened because the herb is a natural, inexpensive and non-patentable sweetener, and poses a threat to pharmaceutical sweeteners. As of now, Stevia has received approval by the FDA to be sold only as a dietary supplement, not as a sweetening agent. So use it as an additive. Isn't that what sugar or sugar substitutes are anyway? Cook, bake or sweeten your tea additive!

Conversion rates for Stevia are :

* 1 tsp. granulated sugar = 1/8 tsp. whole stevia leaf powder or slight dusting white stevia extract (powder)
*1 tbsp. granulated sugar = 3/8 tsp. whole stevia leaf powder or 1/2 pinch white stevia extract (powder)
*1/4 c. granulated sugar = 1 1/2 tsp. whole stevia leaf powder or 1 pinch white stevia extract (powder)
*1/2 c. granulated sugar = 1 tbsp. whole stevia leaf powder or 1/8 tsp. white stevia extract (powder)
*1 c. granulated sugar = 2 tbsp. whole stevia leaf powder or 1/4 tsp. white stevia extract (powder)

Enjoy your sweet healthy plant food!
Lena

How A Diagnosis and Medication Gets To Market!
By Lena Sanchez

What the average person does not comprehend is how drug companies quietly and very subtly start to lobby and familiarize the medical community and the world with a disease before they push a drug to counteract an illness/disease!

Example; In November 2001 a California firm offering "business intelligence" announced, "43% of all women over 18 experience sexual dysfunction . . . Greater public awareness and acceptance of SD [sexual dysfunction] as a common and treatable disease will heavily influence market growth, predominantly for women." In August 2002 a company advertising trials of a new drug for "female sexual arousal disorder" prominently cited the figure in its press release. That release quoted a Dr Sweeney saying that 40% of women have the dysfunction in one form or another, "but not all have the most severe form of the disease." Ever heard of SD as a disease prior to that?

One of the milestones in the making of the latest disorder was a JAMA article in February 1999 titled "Sexual dysfunction in the United States: prevalence and predictors." Two of the authors of that article, later admitted to close ties to Pfizer Pharmaceuticals (Business Intelligence), said that for women aged 18-59, the "total prevalence of sexual dysfunction" was 43%, a figure picked up by the medical community and now widely cited in both scientific and lay media as gospel truth. ¹,²

First let's see how 43% came to be!

A University of Chicago sociology professor Ed Laumann and colleagues reanalyzed a slice of data from a 1992 survey and came up with serious questions about the 43% figure so aptly bantered about these days. That figure came from a study of around 1500 women who were asked to answer yes or no to whether they had experienced any of seven problems, for two months or more, during the previous year, including a lack of desire for sex, anxiety about sexual performance, and difficulties with lubrication. If the women answered yes to just one of the seven questions, they were included in a group characterized as having SD (sexual dysfunction). No mention of what time of the month or what circumstances led up to their answer.

The JAMA article stated that its data was "not equivalent to clinical diagnosis,"¹ yet this caveat is now regularly overlooked, and some leading sex researchers have raised serious concerns about the figure's constant misuse.³.

One of those concerned is Dr Sandra Leiblum, professor of psychiatry at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a clinical psychologist. She believes real dysfunction is much less prevalent than 43%, and that the figure has contributed to an overmedicalization of women's sexuality, where changes in sexual desire, from time to time, is the norm. "I think there is dissatisfaction and perhaps disinterest among a lot of women, but that doesn't mean they have a disease," she said during an interview at a New York educational workshop.

The director of the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, Dr John Bancroft, believes the term "dysfunction" is highly misleading, and he is one of several researchers critical of the corporate sponsored 1998 definition. 4 He argues that an inhibition of sexual desire is in many situations a healthy and functional response for women faced with stress, tiredness, or threatening patterns of behavior from their partners.³ "The danger of portraying sexual difficulties as a dysfunction is that it is likely to encourage doctors to prescribe drugs to change sexual function when the attention should be paid to other aspects of the woman's life. It's also likely to make women think they have a malfunction when they do not," he said during a telephone interview with RFW. In response, Laumann defends his use of the term "dysfunction" but concedes that many women among his 43% are "perfectly normal" and that a lot of their problems "arise out of perfectly reasonable responses of the human organism to challenges and stress."

New York University's clinical associate professor of psychiatry, Dr Leonore Tiefer, contends that the medical model itself is severely limited for dealing with problems of sexuality because of its mind-body split, biological reductionism, focus on diseases rather than people, and reliance on norms.5. She claims pharmacological research oversimplifyies the sexual difficulties of both men and women because it "promotes genital function as the centerpiece of sexuality and ignores everything else" 6

Could this all be another ploy by the pharmaceutical company to come up with a disease to fit a drug they are working on and about to release? Exactly what it is! This happened with Viagra before it was released, it happened with other drugs in the past and will continue to happen as the drug companies come up with more drugs. Vioxx was removed but immediately thereafter a small blurb (8Oct. 14, 2004 Arcoxia) appeared in newspapers and on some TV news that a Merck had new arthritis medication was in the works. So watch for Arcoxia soon! Do I believe it will be better than Vioxx? NO!

Remember the commercials of premenstrual gals in the department store dressing rooms trying on clothes and the bloating they were experiencing and then it moved to the nasty oubursts and the term PMDD (Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder)? The adds for Serafem for PMDD. Serafem being nothing more than the very dangerous antidepressant drug Prozac repackaged in lavender pink, marketed to women for PMDD. I like the late Nicholas Regush, a health investigative reporter's question in regards to the FDA approving Serafem. Were members of its advisory committee suffering emotionally from Pre-BS Affliction (PBSA) when they approved Sarafem/Prozac for PMDD? I would like to add that they are still suffering from PBSA. You know the term BS, right?

As early as two to five years prior to release, the occurrence of "informational" meetings and speeches spouting the latest diagnoses begin for the medical world. All set up to get a new classified disease and their drug paid for by insurance companies and recognized by the medical community. These meetings are published as "informational" by the news media. Informational? Like a fox in a chicken house...

Those meetings are all a forerunner of a new disease that will shortly have a HCFA number for billing insurances. I've seen it happen over and over and even attended a workshop or two paid for by the pharmaceutical company working on a new medication and a coined disease/illness!

There are always a few people who see through their smoke screens but usually lose in the attempt to thwart the pharmaceutical industry's goal of billions of dollars in their pockets! Those thwarted are labeled as cracked or some such name

Pay close attention to what is prescribed for your problem.
Lena

References:

1) Laumann E, Paik A, Rosen R. Sexual dysfunction in the United States: prevalence and predictors [published erratum appears in JAMA 1999;281:1174]. JAMA 1999; 281: 537-544[ISI][Medline].
2) Berman J, Berman L, Goldstein I. Female sexual dysfunction: incidence, pathophysiology, evaluation, and treatment options. Urology 1999; 54: 385-391[ISI][Medline].
3) Cooke R. There's gold in them there pills. Observer 2002 October 27.
4) Bancroft J. The medicalization of female sexual dysfunction: the need for caution. Arch Sex Behavr 2002; 31: 451-455.
5) Segraves R, ed. Historical and international context of nosology of female sexual disorders. J Sex Marital Therapy 2001; 27(2): 81-245[ISI].
6) Tiefer L. The medicalization of sexuality: conceptual, normative, and professional issues. Annu Rev Sex Res 1996; 7: 252-282.
7) Tiefer L. Sexology and the pharmaceutical industry: the threat of co-optation. J Sex Res 2000; 37: 273-283[ISI].
8) nytimes/merk

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