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Cancer, It’s not just in your Government

Thursday, May 20th, 2010
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Cancer Update from John’s Hopkins :

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do
not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few
billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more
cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests
are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached
the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person’s lifetime.

3. When the person’s immune system is strong the cancer cells will be
destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has nutritional
deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, but also to
environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet
to eat more adequately and healthy, 4-5 times/day and by including
supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells
and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow,
gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver,
kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and
damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce
tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not
result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from
Chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or
destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections
and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and
become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause
cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by
not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

*CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

A. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made
with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be
Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small amounts. Table salt
has a chemical added to make it white in
Color Better alternative is Bragg’s aminos or sea salt.

B. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the
gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk
and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being
starved.

C. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is
acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little other meat, like
chicken. Meat also contains livestock
Antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all
Harmful, especially to people with cancer.

D. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds,
nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline
environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh
vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and
reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance
growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy
cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most
Vegetables including be an sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3
times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F
(40 degrees C).

E. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high
Caffeine Green tea is a better alternative e and has cancer fighting
properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid
known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic,
avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of
digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes
putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining
from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein
walls of cancer cells and allows the body’s killer cells to destroy
the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system
(IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs
etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells..
Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or
programmed cell death, the body’s normal method of disposing of
damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit.
A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a
survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a
stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving
spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated
environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more
oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means
employed to destroy cancer cells.

1. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3. No plastic wrap in microwave..

John s Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This
information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as
well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins
are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don’t freeze your
plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the
plastic. Recently, Dr Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at
Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard.
He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we
should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic
containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said
that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin
into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he
recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic
containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without
the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups,
etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something
else. Paper isn’t bad but you don’t know what is in the paper. It’s
just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us
that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the
foam containers to paper The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as
dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the
food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt
out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a
paper towel instead.

This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life.

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Deep Thoughts on Health Care Reform

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

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Let me get this straight……we’re trying to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose chairman says he  doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it but exempts themselves from it. To be signed by a president that also hasn’t read it and who smokes, and the funding will be administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that’s broke.

What the hell could possibly go wrong?

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Chinese Health Care System?

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

In China, too, a health-care system in disarray

Despite recent reforms, 300 million lack insurance — and gaps in care quality grow

Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, October 29, 2009

BEIJING — Shen Baohou, 72, who once worked for a hydropower station in Sichuan province, has a serious heart problem, and he — and his children — are paying for it dearly.

Doctors have operated twice on Shen to implant stents at a cost of more than $15,000, about five times China’s per capita income. Under China’s health-care system, the government pays 60 percent of his hospital expenses and virtually nothing for the medications and oxygen he has needed since. “I am retired and have little pension every month. So I cannot afford the treatment fee at all,” he said, adding that, luckily, his children could afford to help him out. “Without them, I don’t think I could have had the operation.” China’s health-care system is in disarray, a side effect of the market reforms that have spurred private enterprise and rapid growth since 1980. Before then, state-owned companies offered cradle-to-grave care, part of a system based on danwei, or work units, that provided health, education, pensions and other benefits. But as the economy has grown more diverse, an increasing number of Chinese have had to fend for themselves, with only a porous government insurance program to help. As U.S. lawmakers engage in a tense debate over health-care reform, Chinese authorities, too, are attempting to fix their system. Over the past five years, the government has tried to provide coverage to more of its 1.4 billion people. But even people covered by a minimal health insurance program are often left with big hospital bills and must pay for most outpatient services and medication. More than 300 million people do not have any health insurance.
In a country once committed to erasing class differences, the gap in the quality of care has been steadily growing, too. Peking University People’s Hospital, for example, has computerized charts, GE scanners, top-flight doctors and a deluxe ward where the wealthy can pay extra for private suites. But community clinics in most cities or rural areas tend to be understaffed and poorly equipped.

“We go to clinics for colds, but we don’t trust the doctors because they are all being paid by the drug companies and so they over-prescribe,” said Helen Ye, a Beijing resident who works for a U.S. company. “So most Chinese people, if they don’t feel really sick, do home treatment and try to cure themselves.”

China’s State Council is eager to improve the situation but can’t decide how. The government currently fixes the prices of all medical services, and doctors are treated — and paid — like public officials. But that has contributed to a shortage of doctors as many talented Chinese choose better-paid professions.

Some experts say more private spending and investment would improve the system. Gordon G. Liu, a professor of economics at Beijing University’s Guanghua School of Management, said he would let people with means spend more money on care, which he said would increase the availability of care by giving doctors incentives to work harder and by luring more Chinese into the medical profession.

Even poorer people would benefit because there would be more care overall, Liu said. He also proposed opening the way for foreign investment from companies such as Kaiser Permanente in building hospitals in China.

But other experts say that approach would be unfair to the poor, who might be neglected by doctors seeking rich patients. They say inequality in China is bad enough these days, as scores of millions of people live on a couple of dollars a day while tens of millions of wealthier Chinese buy luxury cars, Louis Vuitton bags and nifty electronic goods.

The State Council has asked health-care experts to run pilot projects in cities and report back in three years.

Some will free up hospital doctors to work at community or for-profit clinics without losing their jobs. Some will stick more closely to the government-run model, in which doctors’ salaries and fees are fixed.

“It’s very interesting to see politics in China. Sometimes they are very old-fashioned and sometimes so liberal, even more than in the U.S.,” said Liu, who has taught at the University of North Carolina. “This time it said, ‘Since you guys are debating, let’s do an experiment and see which way works better.’ I tell my colleagues that what you’re doing is very consistent with your ’scientific development philosophy’ rather than being like a dictator telling us what to do, like in the past.”

Out-of-pocket costs

With the end of civil war and the Communist victory in 1949, life expectancy in China increased — except during Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward, a disastrous economic plan that resulted in the starvation of millions from 1959 to 1962. Between 1963 and 1980, life expectancy at birth increased by an average of one year every year, from 50 to 67.

Until the economic reforms, Chinese workers received health care from their work units, which funded the care out of operating income. The Chinese National Petroleum Corp., for example, once had more than 50 hospitals for its 1.5 million workers. But many state-owned companies suffered financial problems as their workforces aged and retired and as younger, healthier workers increasingly went to work for private enterprises.

In 1994, the State Council overhauled the failing system by putting urban workers in citywide insurance pools, which now include about 200 million people. Hospitals were severed from industrial enterprises. Instead, employers contributed 6 percent of wages and employees 2 percent to cover hospital, clinic and pharmaceutical costs.

Nonetheless, according to Health Ministry statistics, out-of-pocket expenses dramatically outpaced increases in per capita income and national health expenditures. According to the World Bank, 71 percent of Chinese had access to state health facilities in 1981; 12 years later, the figure was 21 percent. In 2005, individuals’ out-of-pocket expenses for health care were more than 100 times what they were in 1980.

In 2003, the government gave more money to rural medical cooperatives and offered farmers a subsidy of $12 a year for insurance if they chipped in $3. The voluntary program covers 25 to 30 percent of hospital costs and little outpatient care, but Liu said 850 million people have enrolled in it. Over the next three years, the government plans to increase its contribution by about half.

In 2007, the government extended coverage to urban workers’ families, which had been without public coverage since the 1994 collapse of the work-unit system. Children, the elderly and the unemployed all qualified for the same $12 government subsidy, but because health costs are higher in cities than in rural areas, they must contribute more than $30 a year. About 120 million people have signed up.

Some cities and provinces provide additional subsidies, and companies and individuals can buy private insurance policies.

But the government’s programs for city dwellers are still based on residency, and experts say greater flexibility is needed for China’s increasingly mobile population.

A case in point

Zhang Honghong, a 34-year-old editor at a Beijing publishing house, is an example of the system’s successes and shortcomings.

In addition to the government program, Zhang is covered by a commercial health insurance policy that her employer bought. For treatment of a recent bout of pneumonia, she had to pay the first $300 in costs, and insurance covered 90 percent of the next $750.

Zhang wants her aging father to move to Beijing to live with her, but the insurance program in his city won’t cover expenses incurred elsewhere. “So, my father dares not to stay in Beijing long,” she said.

Zhang has a 3-year-old son, who has had several colds this year. He wasn’t sick enough to be hospitalized, which would have been covered by the government plan. Instead, he ran up a $200 bill last month. That brought his medical costs for the year to about $600.

“Thank God I only have one child so I can afford his medical bill,” Zhang said. “I feel it’s a little bit expensive for us. But what can we do about it? I bargain everywhere but in the hospital.”

Researcher Zhang Jie contributed to this report.

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The Daily Beck December 8th 2009

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

The prison plan? Health Care plan is likened to a prison plan as if you don’t carry one of these health care plans you will go to prison. What’s with media priority?

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The Daily Beck November, 23rd 2009

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Behind the Times?

The buying and selling of America, (and it’s politicians). The NY Times is finally understanding…Thank You! Is it too late? It’s time to cut some big programs, and I’m not talking about defense. Let’s get control of these politicians, NOW! Plan for the next elections NOW! Hold on till next fall if you can…

Get more information at http://www.glenbeck.com, Let’s all stand up for accountability.

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