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found no evidence that the flu vaccine is more effective than placebo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491020350479909468-5839848761818803866?l=foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/5839848761818803866'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/5839848761818803866'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com/2009/08/httpping.html' title=''/><author><name>Andrew</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10971741697424709996</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14211582441115459761'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491020350479909468.post-6537980645127002731</id><published>2009-08-18T11:36:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-18T11:36:26.191-07:00</updated><title type='text'>MS patient credits orthomolecular medicine for ending painful attacks</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.canada.com/health/patient+credits+orthomolecular+medicine+ending+painful+attacks/1901458/story.html"&gt;http://www.canada.com/health/patient+credits+orthomolecular+medicine+ending+painful+attacks/1901458/story.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p /&gt; &lt;h1&gt;MS patient credits orthomolecular medicine for ending painful attacks&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since he was a teenager, Peter Leeds has suffered painful attacks that render his hands and feet crippled and numb.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He had no idea he has multiple sclerosis, a debilitating disease that plagues the central nervous system, leading to physical and cognitive disabilities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I&amp;#39;d wake up and my toes and fingers would be numb,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;The numbness would creep up my legs, creep up my arms, until it took me over, making me numb from the neck down.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suffering attacks at least once a year, it wasn&amp;#39;t until four years ago, when Leeds was 31 years old, that he was diagnosed with MS.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shortly after, as Leeds lay sobbing on the floor, his wife asked him if he was going to die.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He couldn&amp;#39;t answer. He didn&amp;#39;t know anything about the prognosis or treatments.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Leeds, a Toronto resident, has benign relapse-remitting MS, which is characterized by unpredictable, yet clear, attacks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Symptoms can begin to appear over a few hours or days, and last for days or months. Between attacks, the body can recover almost completely.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Though there is no known cause or cure for MS, there are five federally approved therapies that have been proven to diminish the frequency and severity of attacks, according to Stewart Wong, national senior manager at the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;They have huge benefits,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;Some slow down the progression, others reduce the number of brain lesions. They really improve your quality of life.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With all the benefits, however, come a number of adverse side-effects — mood changes, digestive problems or hepatitis in very rare circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leeds, then a father of one, said he was also told the treatments might make him unable to father any more children.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It wasn&amp;#39;t worth it,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;All the side-effects were too frightening.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Not wanting to suffer through adverse side-effects, yet not wanting to continue living with constant fatigue, bowel problems and loss of sensation brought on by his MS, Leeds found himself at a dead end.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But a close friend suggested an alternative approach.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On the advice of the friend, Leeds travelled to Victoria to meet with Dr. Abram Hoffer, an orthomolecular practitioner, who died in May.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hoffer was a Canadian psychiatrist best known for treating psychological disorders through orthomolecular medicine — a science-based approach to healing and preventing disease.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Treatments use nutrients naturally found in the body — essential fatty acids, amino acids, vitamins and minerals.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scared, and skeptical, Leeds walked into Hoffer&amp;#39;s office, and told the doctor he had MS.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;He looked at me,&amp;quot; Leeds said. &amp;quot;And he says, &amp;#39;so what?&amp;#39; &amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Orthomolecular practitioners believe many illnesses result from an imbalance of nutrients.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hoffer gave Leeds a list of supplements; within the month, the numbness in Leeds&amp;#39; limbs was going away.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In four years, Leeds says he hasn&amp;#39;t had a single attack.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A neurologist who has followed Leeds since the diagnosis, told him she wouldn&amp;#39;t have known he had MS were it not for the old scans.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jonathan Prousky, chief naturopathic medical officer at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, said there isn&amp;#39;t one treatment for every patient.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But, he said, there&amp;#39;s an opportunity for people suffering from anything — cardiovascular disease, depression, PMS or even cancer — to be treated with orthomolecular medicine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Our goal is to alleviate suffering,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I never tell anybody I can cure them, but that their quality of life can be vastly improved.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Prousky acknowledged some patients must take pharmaceuticals. &amp;quot;And no credible orthomolecular practitioner would advise an asthmatic, for example, to stop using an inhaler,&amp;quot; he said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;But the two methods can work together,&amp;quot; he said, noting that chemo patients can use supplements to help curb decreased appetites that result from mouth and throat sores associated with the treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leeds&amp;#39; regimen includes mega doses of vitamins C and D, salmon oil, niacin, folic acid, zinc and semi-weekly shots of vitamin B-12. He also avoids all caffeine and dairy products.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because every patient follows a different regimen, it is hard to put a price tag on the treatment. Steven Carter, managing editor of the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, said a patient shouldn&amp;#39;t pay more that $150 per month, or about $2,000 per year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Federally approved treatments can cost $20,000 to $40,000 per year, but some will be reimbursed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wong from the MS Society said the amount returned to the patient varies by province and insurance company, but in most cases government assistance is available.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Though the cost of supplements might act as a deterrent to orthomolecular medicine, Prousky said patients should consider more than just what comes out of the wallet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Pharmaceuticals can cost a lot more in the long run,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;Sometimes a patient can&amp;#39;t work, or their family life crumbles. . . . They&amp;#39;re not the person they were before.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leeds can&amp;#39;t imagine his life without orthomolecular medicine. He went from fearing death to having two more children with his wife of 11 years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But he didn&amp;#39;t hear about this option from his physician, nor was it listed as one of Health Canada&amp;#39;s approved treatments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wong said what&amp;#39;s important is having options.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Talk with your family, physician and neurologist,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;Choose the treatment you&amp;#39;re most comfortable with.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://posterous.com"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;  from &lt;a href="http://gangaroots.posterous.com/ms-patient-credits-orthomolecular-medicine-fo"&gt;Natural Health News Feed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;   &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491020350479909468-6537980645127002731?l=foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/6537980645127002731'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/6537980645127002731'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com/2009/08/ms-patient-credits-orthomolecular.html' title='MS patient credits orthomolecular medicine for ending painful attacks'/><author><name>Andrew</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10971741697424709996</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14211582441115459761'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491020350479909468.post-4658449759252637237</id><published>2009-08-18T10:40:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-18T10:40:42.476-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Michael Scmidt and Raw Milk</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://hartkeisonline.com/2009/08/17/us-cow-boarding-pioneer-speaks-out-on-michael-schmidt/"&gt;http://hartkeisonline.com/2009/08/17/us-cow-boarding-pioneer-speaks-out-on-michael-schmidt/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p /&gt;&lt;h1&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 102);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael Schmidt, a Wake Up Alarm for Freedom&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;p&gt;by Tim Wightman, Interim President, &lt;a href="http://farmtoconsumerfoundation.org/"&gt;Farm-to-Consumer Foundation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;When was the last time it happened to you?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Your alarm goes off and some how you reach over without reaching over, hit snooze or even turn it off. And you lay there, not awake, but aware of what’s going on.  Nothing seems pressing you to get up, even though there may be…&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Maybe a job awaits you, tasks and people depending on you to get up…to be responsible. But you just lie there in the void between the comfortable unconscious and conscious.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Some people are pretty good at it..so good that the practice tends to be carried out in their daily life.&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Admit it, we all have…and we all know those whom have perfected it, being noncommittal, walking a very narrow path of directives, rules and complacency. A comfortable void….nothing seems pressing, you’re warm, you’re safe, it can wait.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Then there are those few who hear an alarm, recognize it for what it is.. throw back the covers and take that first step.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;They’re cold, alone, unsure of where they are exactly, they know the room, but may misjudge things for what they are but keep moving and eventually do find the way through the door and out of the void.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Alarms are not always obvious, some are loud and intrusive, most are slow insidious attempts on our way of life, our choices, our health….geared to keep us on the straight and narrow…the perception of safety.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Michael realized 20 years ago, that the slumber we came to accept as healthy, normal and safe was in fact a detriment to our ability to achieve the vibrant life we all are told we are free to pursue and enjoy.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;As ones who stood up to the loss of that freedom, Michael and his family were the ones who faced the dark alone, cold and unsure of the world they had uncovered.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;But we have now seen society’s rules forced upon them, we have learned what our society really feels about pioneers like Schmidt and his cowboarding patrons. He is perceived as an outlaw, and his patrons as too small a subset of society to be allowed free choice.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;There is an old saying, “you are not free unless you try the lock.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Michael and his family tried that lock, and even if one has never thought of drinking milk fresh from the farm, has never stepped foot on a farm, or even, never met  a farmer, the Schmidts did us a great favor. They have helped us realize that our government is not what it seems and we are not as free as we think we are.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Michael has uncovered the way business is done in our modern times, how money rules our government decisions. Our money pays for the choices we have in the market place, and used against us to keep us in the straight and narrow of government permitted food choices.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;So the next time you feel warm and safe, no need to get to those nagging reminders of responsibility, choice, freedom…. get up, grab a glass of milk and ask where it came from, who controls your choices, is it as good as it can be, or just above the minimum.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;If you want more control of your life than deciding which pretty container to buy, walk into the cold, stand with Michael and the thousands of others.  For us, choice and personal responsibility is a way of life.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Or..roll over..let someone else do it…the life, the freedoms you think you have..they will always be there..it can wait.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="wp-caption alignleft" style=""&gt;&lt;a href="http://hartkeisonline.com/wp-content/uploads/fc_wightman.jpg"&gt;&lt;img title="fc_wightman" class="size-full wp-image-3100" src="http://hartkeisonline.com/wp-content/uploads/fc_wightman.jpg" height="150" alt="Tim Wightman" width="100" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class="wp-caption-text"&gt; Tim Wightman&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tim Wightman is a founder and board member of the &lt;a href="http://ftcldf.org/"&gt;Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund&lt;/a&gt; and its education and charitable arm, the &lt;a href="http://farmtoconsumerfoundation.org/"&gt;Farm-to-Consumer Foundation&lt;/a&gt;. He is the author of the Raw Milk Handbook, a handy resource guide for farmers interested in producing quality raw milk, and who wish to implement testing and safety standards.  A lifelong farmer, Tim is on the forefront of our nation’s transition back to a local farm economy. Over the last two decades, Tim has launched CSA’s, organic cooperatives, farmers’ markets, and was the owner operator of a major organic farm &amp;amp; store, bakery and in-town restaurant. Currently a consultant for Midwestern Bio-Ag for Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, Tim works with other farmers on ecological ways to grow profitability. In this role, he helps clients to mineralize their pastures, increase soil fertility, and improve herd health. Tim now lives in Western Ohio and is currently the owner and operator of Yore Farm, a small raw milk dairy.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Tim was recently profiled in a Huffington Post article by Julie Moulden, &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julia-moulden/how-small-farmers-are-sav_b_260242.html"&gt;How Small Farmers are Saving the World&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Farm-to-Consumer Foundation is &lt;a href="https://www.farmtoconsumer.net/EducationalDVD-CD.asp"&gt;selling a DVD about Michael Schmidt&lt;/a&gt;, all proceeds go to support Michael Schmidt.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://posterous.com"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;  from &lt;a href="http://gangaroots.posterous.com/michael-scmidt-and-raw-milk"&gt;Natural Health News Feed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;   &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491020350479909468-4658449759252637237?l=foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/4658449759252637237'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/4658449759252637237'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com/2009/08/michael-scmidt-and-raw-milk.html' title='Michael Scmidt and Raw Milk'/><author><name>Andrew</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10971741697424709996</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14211582441115459761'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491020350479909468.post-9109325461890000508</id><published>2009-08-17T12:52:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-17T12:52:17.573-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Swine Flu Czar needed for Canada... increased legislative powers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ping.fm/e6CUR"&gt;http://ping.fm/e6CUR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491020350479909468-9109325461890000508?l=foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/9109325461890000508'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/9109325461890000508'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com/2009/08/swine-flu-czar-needed-for-canada_17.html' title=''/><author><name>Andrew</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10971741697424709996</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14211582441115459761'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491020350479909468.post-884404034339570546</id><published>2009-08-17T12:41:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-17T12:41:50.031-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Swine Flu Czar needed for Canada?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;The Swine Flu has been&lt;a href="http://www.foodsarenotdrugs.com/cold-and-flu/googe-maps-swine-flu-mashup.php" title="Swine Flu Map" target="_self"&gt; steadily spreading worldwide&lt;/a&gt; and has followed a similar pattern to the seasonal flu. The Canadian Medical Association Journal editor-in-chief, Dr. Paul Hebert, is suggesting Canada needs a national swine flu czar with greater legislative powers than Canada’s Chief Health officer.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I don’t know what legislative powers he is referring to, but it raises the question of whether or not we will have mandatory H1N1 vaccinations in Canada.  So far, the Swine Flu has not been any more dangerous than the seasonal flu but experts are worried that the H1N1 virus will mutate  into a much more virulent and deadly form. The development of H1N1 Vaccines has been fast tracked and will be brought to market without adequate human testing for safety and efficacy.  In addition, the pharmaceutical industry has been granted legal immunity from any damages resulting from the H1N1 Vaccines which are reported to contain adjuvants like squalene, live attenuated virus and heavy metals such as mercury and aluminum.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In my opinion, educating the the public about &lt;a href="http://www.foodsarenotdrugs.com/cold-and-flu/natural-swine-flu-remedy.php" title="Natural Flu Prevention " target="_self"&gt;natural ways&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href="http://www.foodsarenotdrugs.com/cold-and-flu/swine-flu-protection.php" title="Swine Flu Prevention" target="_self"&gt;prevent and deal with flu&lt;/a&gt; is a superior policy than recommending (or requiring) the population to be inoculated with an unproven, untested and possibly dangerous vaccine.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;… In an editorial in this week’s journal, the editor-in-chief Dr. Paul Hebert says the country needs a national champion with the necessary legislative powers to be able to facilitate the response across provincial and territorial boundaries.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Hebert says the health czar for flu should convene a summit to link public health officials, critical care staff, first responders and other decision makers and community planners to ensure actions taken will work in practice.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Hebert says Canada has done a lot of pandemic planning, but there are holes in the plan that need to be fixed before flu activity picks up again in the fall or winter.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;He says the czar he envisages would have more powers than Canada’s chief public health officer, a post held by Dr. David Butler-Jones…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://posterous.com"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;  from &lt;a href="http://gangaroots.posterous.com/swine-flu-czar-needed-for-canada"&gt;Natural Health News Feed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;   &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491020350479909468-884404034339570546?l=foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/884404034339570546'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/884404034339570546'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com/2009/08/swine-flu-czar-needed-for-canada.html' title='Swine Flu Czar needed for Canada?'/><author><name>Andrew</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10971741697424709996</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14211582441115459761'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491020350479909468.post-2069031020701126298</id><published>2009-08-15T17:06:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-15T17:06:08.939-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Podcasting Patented - Could affect twitter and facebook!!!!</title><content type='html'>  &lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://budurl.com/tqnh"&gt;http://budurl.com/tqnh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;h2&gt;Podcasting Patented - “Episodic Media” now controlled by one company!&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;div class="entry"&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I was reading my emails this morning when I came across some troubling news. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I have set up google alerts for a number of terms or phrases that I like to follow so that I am always up to date on the latest news that is of interest to me. One of the keywords I follow is “podcasting”. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;“As consumers recognize the convenience of automatic downloads for episodic media, podcasting has gone mainstream with major media companies and more than 37 million U.S. consumers engaged. This automatic downloading of episodic media closely resembles how one-third of U.S. households are using a DVR to watch television today. This patent recognizes our technical leadership in setting the trend for a broad-based movement towards downloading episodic television shows and making them portable,” said Murgesh Navar, founder of VoloMedia.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;Yesterday the US Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent for “episodic media” to VoloMedia, a California based company that offers services to podcasters and media companies. VoloMedia’s products deliver advertising and reporting solutions for portable media, which extends the reach and monetization of video and audio podcasts. They apparently filed for the patent in 2003, before podcasting became a popular method of media distribution. The patent doesn’t only cover podcasting, which is the distribution of media over the internet via RSS feeds but covers any technology which would accomplish the same result.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="us07568213-20090728-d00000" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-76" src="http://www.andrewmcgivern.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/us07568213-20090728-d00000.gif" height="400" alt="us07568213-20090728-d00000" width="404" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The US Patent number 7568213 can be viewed at the &lt;a href="http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/week30/OG/html/1344-4/US07568213-20090728.html"&gt;United States Patent and Trademark Office Website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Volomedia founder, Murgesh Navar, wrote a &lt;a href="http://www.volomedia.com/blog/"&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; responding to the initial reaction to the patent. He states that the company is not interested in interfering with podcasters and has the industries best interest at heart. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;… sometimes, patents end up in the hands of entities that have neither products nor technologies, but just obtain and hold patents to pursue infringing behavior through litigation. VoloMedia is not one of these. We are a real business, a founding member of the ADM, and an engaged participant in the episodic media download ecosystem with marquee publisher customers such as ABC News, MSNBC, Fox News, Washington Post and PRI, to name a few.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;VoloMedia may be a real company, firmly entrenched in the podcasting and new media industry. They may be motivated to improve distribution of podcasts, increasing exposure and bringing podcasts into mainstream consumption. Nevertheless, I find this development extremely disturbing.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Companies can be bought and sold, or taken over. Intellectual Property can be sold or transferred to other entities. In the short run VoloMedia and their patent may have a positive effect on the industry but in the long run I don’t think so. Having one corporate entity controlling the distribution of “episodic media” can not be a good thing. I am a big proponent of the open source movement and believe that the distribution of episodic media should not be owned by anyone. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;…specifically to VoloMedia’s motivation: The episodic media download “technology” ecosystem needs to become more seamless, more standardized, and more interconnected before it can become a mass medium. There are a few ways such seamlessness can be achieved: (1) A standards body is created with all the constituent technology providers (e.g., directories, media players, devices, analytics, advertising, etc.) participating and agreeing to common standards, (2) a large company with a lot of market influence and momentum creates a de facto standard, and everyone else follows or (3) a company uses its intellectual property to help drive a standard, using its IP to help define and improve the ecosystem for the benefit of all participants. VoloMedia’s motivations are primarily driven by the desire and need to make the episodic download ecosystem work, so consumers have a real choice in how they consume any media that is available on the Internet - whether in a web browser at an aggregation site like Hulu, or on a downloaded and portable basis using Apple’s iTunes and iPhone or Microsoft’s Zune. We will use our products, technologies, and patents towards this goal…We are intent on helping accelerate the growth and viability of downloadable, episodic media - much of its potential lies in the future.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;The future of podcasting now lies in the hands of one company. Podcasting enables anyone to create content and share their passions with the world. At no other point in history has the individual had the ability to distribute their message to the masses like they can using Podcasting and Social Media. I sincerely hope that “episodic media” continues to be freely distributed and open to the public.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://posterous.com"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;  from &lt;a href="http://gangaroots.posterous.com/podcasting-patented-could-affect-twitter-and"&gt;Natural Health News Feed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;   &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491020350479909468-2069031020701126298?l=foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/2069031020701126298'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/2069031020701126298'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com/2009/08/podcasting-patented-could-affect.html' title='Podcasting Patented - Could affect twitter and facebook!!!!'/><author><name>Andrew</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10971741697424709996</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14211582441115459761'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491020350479909468.post-5708047197621179043</id><published>2009-08-15T15:42:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-15T15:42:38.549-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='podcastpatent'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Podcasting Patented! US Patent granted for "episodic media"  podcastpatent&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ping.fm/RCexa"&gt;http://ping.fm/RCexa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491020350479909468-5708047197621179043?l=foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/5708047197621179043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/5708047197621179043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com/2009/08/podcasting-patented-us-patent-granted.html' title=''/><author><name>Andrew</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10971741697424709996</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14211582441115459761'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491020350479909468.post-2456184025623013736</id><published>2009-08-11T18:09:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-11T18:09:08.636-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Life and Death - Oxygen and Cancer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="gmail_quote"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border="0" align="center" width="650"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td height="142"&gt;&lt;img src="http://winningcancer.com/arquivos/newsletter3/topo.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: right; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trouble Reading This?&lt;/b&gt;- &lt;a href="http://imva.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25b08cc8b5ebaf472984d04d0&amp;amp;id=94a38d769d&amp;amp;e=7158415368" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;i&gt;See It In Your Browser&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;h1 style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Life and Death&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Oxygen and Cancer&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://imva.info/news/img/news38-clip_image002.jpg" height="166" alt="image" width="221" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;     We can live a long time without food, a couple of days without drinking, but life without breath is measured in minutes. Something so essential deserves our full attention but rarely gets it unless you are a yoga practitioner. Breath is the most important of all the bodily functions and without it we simply are dead. In reality we take O2 for granted and with it our breathing, which most of us do quite badly. And now we even have a huge federal government wanting to make oxygen’s twin into public enemy number one&lt;a href="#123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__edn1" name="123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__ednref1" title=""&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; and that is a sin.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Researchers found that an increase of 1.2 metabolic&lt;br /&gt; units (oxygen consumption) was related to a decreased risk&lt;br /&gt;  of cancer death, especially in lung and gastrointestinal cancers.&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="#123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__edn2" name="123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__ednref2" title=""&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="#123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__edn2" name="123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__ednref2" title=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;     The makeup of the human body is largely composed of the element oxygen. Oxygen (O2) physiology takes us down to the foundation of life and it is there where we meet up with some other structural substances like water (H2O), carbon, bicarbonate and CO2 (Oxygen’s necessary twin gas), magnesium, sulfur and then a host of other important substances like iodine and selenium and all the basic amino acids and on and on. We need all the basic building blocks of life and even the absence of one vitamin can make us deadly sick. But we need carbon and oxygen every moment of everyday or we will die. We humans are kind of like blow torches or blazing rockets, the flame of our lives are fed second to second from the twin gases of O2 and CO2.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of&lt;br /&gt; oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;     Oxygen levels are sensitive to a myriad of influences. Toxicity, emotional stress, physical trauma, infections, reduction of atmospheric oxygen, nutritional status, lack of exercise and especially improper breathing will affect the oxygen levels in our bodies. &lt;b&gt;Any element that threatens the oxygen carrying capacity of the human body will promote cancer growth.&lt;/b&gt; Likewise any therapy that improves the oxygen function can be expected to enhance the body&amp;#39;s defenses against cancer. In order for cancer to &amp;#39;establish&amp;#39; a foothold in the body it has to be deprived of oxygen and become acidic. &lt;i&gt;If these two conditions can be reversed cancer can, not only be slowed down, but it can actually be overturned.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Oxygen is the source of health.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt; Oxygen is essential to &lt;br /&gt;the human body, extending effects beyond breathing.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;     Dr. D. F. Treacher and Dr. R. M. Leach write, “Mammalian life and the bioenergetic processes that maintain cellular integrity depend on a continuous supply of oxygen to sustain aerobic metabolism. Reduced oxygen delivery and failure of cellular use of oxygen occur in various circumstances and if not recognized result in organ dysfunction and death. &lt;b&gt;Prevention, early identification, and correction of tissue hypoxia are essential skills. &lt;/b&gt;An understanding of the key steps in oxygen transport within the body is essential to avoid tissue hypoxia. Although oxygen is the substrate that cells use in the greatest quantity and on which aerobic metabolism and cell integrity depend, the tissues have no storage system for oxygen. They rely on a continuous supply at a rate that precisely matches changing metabolic requirements. If this supply fails, even for a few minutes, tissue hypoxaemia may develop resulting in anaerobic metabolism and production of lactate.”&lt;a href="#123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__edn3" name="123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__ednref3" title=""&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;a href="#123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__edn3" name="123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__ednref3" title=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Not enough oxygen to the brain is the main cause of&lt;br /&gt; memory loss, inability to find the right words, getting &lt;br /&gt; words mixed up and not being able to speak in sentences.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;     In the 1920s Dr Otto Warburg carried out a great deal of work on cancer&amp;#39;s basic mechanism and was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1932. Warburg&amp;#39;s work clearly demonstrated that &lt;b&gt;cancer is, fundamentally, a relatively simple disease where cell oxygen levels fall to a level sufficiently low enough for the cell to change in nature.&lt;/b&gt; Without a dependable supply of oxygen, the cells in our bodies cannot function properly. Nutrients in our diets must have oxygen present to convert their potential energy into usable energy. In order for new cells to be formed, hundreds of amino acids must link together using oxygen as the source of their energy.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;All normal body cells meet their energy needs&lt;br /&gt; by respiration of oxygen, whereas cancer cells meet&lt;br /&gt;  their energy needs in great part by fermentation.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;     Poor oxygenation comes from a buildup of carcinogens and other toxins within and around cells, which blocks and then damages the cellular oxygen respiration mechanism. As more acid wastes back up, and the body slowly stews in its poisonous wastes, a chronically over acidic body pH corrodes body tissue, slowly eating into the 60,000 miles of our veins and arteries like acid eating into marble. Clumping up of red blood cells slows down the bloodstream, and restricts flow of O2 into capillaries, which just adds to the worsening conditions. Even lack of the proper building blocks for cell walls, essential fatty acids and magnesium, restricts oxygen exchange.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;     Cancer needs anaerobic - airless - conditions to grow and spread. What orthodox oncologists don’t see clearly is that cancer is not only human cells, which have changed their nature, but infectious entities that are thriving under these low O2 conditions. Doctors need to consider both the altered cells and the infectious pathogens thriving off these cells as the combined enemy we call cancer.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;     In 1966, after his efforts had been ignored by the cancer industry for over thirty years, Warburg addressed a group of fellow Nobel Laureates, reiterating his views and concluded, &amp;quot;Nobody today can say that one does not know what cancer and its prime cause be. On the contrary, there is no disease whose prime cause is better known.” Dr Warburg&amp;#39;s work has never been refuted but it certainly has been avoided by orthodox oncology.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;     So its no surprise on the first day of August 2009 that we find published in the journal Cancer Today&lt;b&gt; a ground-breaking study revealing that&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;injecting oxygen into cancerous tumors significantly boosts the chances of recovery.&lt;/b&gt; Scientists at Oxford University found slightly increasing the supply strengthened blood vessels in cancer cells, making chemotherapy more effective. &lt;a href="#123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__edn4" name="123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__ednref4" title=""&gt;4&lt;/a&gt; Scientists had previously tried to starve tumors of oxygen, believing a more stable blood supply would only help the cancer spread.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;In all serious disease states we find a concomitant low &lt;br /&gt; oxygen state. Low oxygen in the body tissues&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;is a sure&lt;br /&gt;  indicator for disease. Hypoxia, or lack of oxygen in the&lt;br /&gt;  tissues, is the fundamental cause&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;for all degenerative disease.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;i&gt;                                                               Dr. Stephen Levine&lt;/i&gt;   Molecular Biologist&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;     Medical scientists are excited to have uncovered what they thought was a brand new approach to cancer treatment. Because they never paid Warburg any attention they thought that by increasing an oxygen supply to tumor cells they would help them grow. But actually by oxygenating the cell they found the opposite and were able to do a better job of killing them. They even found in patients with pancreatic cancer, which is notoriously difficult to treat, that the results were also positive.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A CO2 deficit caused by deep breathing &lt;br /&gt; leads to oxygen starvation in the cells of &lt;br /&gt; the body. This state is known as hypoxia.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;     The response of a tumor to chemotherapy or radiation is directly related to the level of tumor hypoxia (low O2) so these researchers from England got excited because they saw their radiation and chemo protocols effectiveness increase. &lt;b&gt;More hypoxia corresponds with greater resistance to treatment as well as increased tendency to metastasize.&lt;/b&gt; It is all laid out in front of us now; there is a growing consensus about this universal constant of cancer. Cancer thrives in low oxygen high acid conditions so we are practicing good medicine (appropriate oncology) when we increase total tissue O2 levels.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A healthy cell breathes oxygen for energy. &lt;br /&gt; A cancer cell shuns oxygen and ferments&lt;br /&gt;  sugar instead for its energy requirements.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://imva.info/news/img/news38-clip_image004.jpg" height="230" alt="Breast cancer cells" width="312" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Because of this difference between healthy&lt;br /&gt;  cells and cancer cells, Warburg argued, cancer &lt;br /&gt; should be interpreted as a type of &lt;b&gt;mitochondrial disease&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="#123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__edn5" name="123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__ednref5" title=""&gt;5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                              Science Daily&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;     Hypoxemia or what might be called &amp;quot;blocked oxidation,&amp;quot; is followed by fermentation of sugar in cells, which then leads to &lt;b&gt;the primary condition upon which cancer, infectious and inflammatory processes feed.&lt;/b&gt; Viruses are &amp;quot;anaerobic&amp;quot; creatures which thrive in the absence of oxygen. Yeast, mold and fungus live in an anaerobic environment. Most strains of harmful bacteria (and cancer cells) are anaerobic and are not comfortable in the presence of higher oxygen levels so doctors will find cancer cells easier to kill when oxygen levels are increased. What they did not guess at is that O2 levels can be dramatically increased by the simple administration of sodium bicarbonate. Increasing Co2 levels through the use of sodium bicarbonate is good in cancer treatment because bicarbonate drives up CO2 levels in the blood, which &lt;b&gt;increases oxygenation to the cells&lt;/b&gt;. This is discussed fully in the chapter on carbon dioxide.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;     There are many homeostatic adaptation responses that fight to maintain pH balance but the principle one is using high pH bodily fluids such as &lt;b&gt;water&lt;/b&gt; as a solvent to neutralize acid residues. The second greatest resistance the body puts up against dropping pH is pulling &lt;b&gt;bicarbonate&lt;/b&gt; from the pancreas and kidneys into the blood as an alkalizing agent. Bicarbonate ions are generated from carbon dioxide and diffuse into the plasma. Then there are other levels of protection but when they are all overwhelmed the end result is &lt;b&gt;accumulated acid residues at the cellular level that drown out oxygen.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;     Sodium bicarbonate is safe when taken with appropriate caution&lt;a href="#123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__edn6" name="123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__ednref6" title=""&gt;6&lt;/a&gt; and knowledge, extremely inexpensive and effective when it comes to reducing cancer tissues. It’s an irresistible chemical, cyanide to cancer cells for it hits the cancer cells with a shock wave of alkalinity, which allows much more oxygen into the cancer cells than they can tolerate. Cancer cells do not survive well in the presence of higher levels of oxygen.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;     Oncologist Dr. Tullio Simoncini, the founder of the bicarbonate approach to cancer, believes that only several types of cancer can be approached through oral application of bicarbonate. He suggests expensive and hard to get (meaning hardly any physician will do them in any country) medical procedures (placement of catheters) and IVs to get the bicarbonate as close to the tumors as possible.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;     Dr. Simoncini never realized that when bicarbonate is taken orally the full body pH is shifted dramatically higher affecting all tissues including the brain and bones. He does not understand that oral administration is actually a superior method for all cancers because higher pH and oxygen levels can be maintained 24 hours a day constantly wearing down tumors and individual cancer cells wherever they might be. The different in costs between oral and transdermal dosing with bicarbonate and catheters and IVs is enormous with the oral weighing in at pennies a day. That alone can make the difference between life and death for millions of people who could not get and cannot afford expensive treatments. I recommend people contemplating doing the oral method to also use bicarbonate heavily transdermally and to read my book &lt;i&gt;Sodium Bicarbonate – Rich Man’s Poor Man’s Cancer Treatment&lt;/i&gt; because one needs to really understand what they are doing.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;     Just as there are many ways to skin a cat there are many important ways to approach cancer and the task of increasing O2 to all the bodies’ tissues. Other doctors have concentrated on hydrogen peroxide, ozone and hyperbaric oxygen chambers. In following sections we address exercise, proper breathing (which is very important) and magnesium supplementation, which are basic elementary approaches available, affordable and legal for all.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Oxygen Carrying Capacity and Magnesium&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;     In another chapter we will see how important magnesium is when it comes to oxygen metabolism and oxygen carrying capacity. We will see that magnesium ions regulate the stability of the red cell membrane, which is crucial. Magnesium enhances the binding of oxygen to haem proteins and abnormal magnesium deprived red blood cells lack flexibility that allows them to enter tiny capillaries. Red blood cell (RBC) deformability is an important factor in determining movement of red blood cells through the microcirculation and appropriate magnesium levels help to insure the microcirculation does not contract and calcify.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;     Diet is very important and there is nothing like green leafy vegetables (lots of magnesium and chlorophyll, which has the same chemical structure as hemoglobin) and an all round alkaline diet for bringing up the oxygen carrying capacity of the body. &lt;a href="http://imva.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25b08cc8b5ebaf472984d04d0&amp;amp;id=95660ccdf8&amp;amp;e=7158415368" target="_blank"&gt;Magnesium chloride&lt;/a&gt; and sodium bicarbonate are the perfect combination of concentrate nutritional substances helping to fire up the mitochondria’s normal energy producing functions as well as increasing overall oxygen carrying capacity. Both can be taken orally as well as applied transdermally and they both can be added to mineral or distilled water to make ones water intake into medicine.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;This is a chapter from: &lt;br /&gt; &lt;img src="http://imva.info/images/TinyCover-BreastAndProstateCancer.gif" alt="Breast-And-Prostate-Cancer-E-Book-Cover" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mark Sircus Ac., OMD&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Director International Medical Veritas Association&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="http://imva.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25b08cc8b5ebaf472984d04d0&amp;amp;id=1ee7d50e79&amp;amp;e=7158415368" target="_blank"&gt;http://publications.imva.info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="center"&gt; &lt;a href="http://imva.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25b08cc8b5ebaf472984d04d0&amp;amp;id=bfab9559cc&amp;amp;e=7158415368" title="Bookmark and Share" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border: 0pt none ;" width="125" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="http://imva.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25b08cc8b5ebaf472984d04d0&amp;amp;id=6261a4e56d&amp;amp;e=7158415368" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Follow Us On Twitter" src="http://www.twitterbuttons.com/images/lbn/twitterbutton-0108.png" height="48" alt="Img" style="border: 0pt none ;" width="142" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="http://us1.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=25b08cc8b5ebaf472984d04d0&amp;amp;id=06d4a1a314&amp;amp;e=7158415368" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Forward&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; this email to a friend&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;Click on the books for information.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://imva.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25b08cc8b5ebaf472984d04d0&amp;amp;id=7067f2e862&amp;amp;e=7158415368" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/25b08cc8b5ebaf472984d04d0/images/survival_medicine_cover_wide.jpg" alt="image" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;       &lt;a href="http://imva.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25b08cc8b5ebaf472984d04d0&amp;amp;id=b01a3d997a&amp;amp;e=7158415368" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://imva.info/images/MiniWideCover-NaturalAllopahtic.jpg" alt="image" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 15px;"&gt;_________________________________________&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;a href="#123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__ednref1" name="123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__edn1" title=""&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; The element carbon is perhaps the single most important element to life. Virtually every part of our bodies is made with large amounts of this element. The carbon atom is ideal to build big biological molecules. The carbon atom can be thought of as a basic building block. These building blocks can be attached to each other to form long chains, or they can be attached to other elements. This can be difficult to imagine at first, but it may help to think about building with Legos. You can think of carbon as a bunch of red legos attached together to form one long chain of legos. Now, you can imagine sticking yellow, blue and green legos across the tops of the red (carbon) legos. These other colors represent other elements like oxygen, nitrogen or hydrogen. As you stick more and more of these yellow, blue and green legos to the red chain, it would start to look like a skeleton of legos with a &amp;quot;spine&amp;quot; of red legos and &amp;quot;bones&amp;quot; of yellow, blue and green legos. This is a lot like the way that big molecules are made in the body. Without carbon, these big molecules could not be built. Now, &lt;b&gt;virtually every part of your body is made up of these big molecules that are based around chains of carbon atoms.&lt;/b&gt; This is the reason we are known as &amp;quot;carbon based life forms&amp;quot;. Without carbon, our bodies would just be a big pile of loose atoms with no way to be built into a person.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;a href="#123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__ednref2" name="123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__edn2" title=""&gt;2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://imva.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25b08cc8b5ebaf472984d04d0&amp;amp;id=e380d2d3f0&amp;amp;e=7158415368" target="_blank"&gt;www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/159225.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;a href="#123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__ednref3" name="123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__edn3" title=""&gt;3&lt;/a&gt; BMJ. 1998 November 7; 317(7168): 1302–1306&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;a href="#123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__ednref4" name="123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__edn4" title=""&gt;4&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://imva.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25b08cc8b5ebaf472984d04d0&amp;amp;id=16b02957d0&amp;amp;e=7158415368" target="_blank"&gt;www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1203600/Injecting-oxygen-cancerous-tumours-improves-chances-recovery.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;a href="#123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__ednref5" name="123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__edn5" title=""&gt;5&lt;/a&gt; Recent research from Boston College and the Washington School of Medicine is reigniting interest in Warburg’s work.  (“Nearly a Century Later, New Findings Support Warburg Theory of Cancer”, Science Daily, January 14, 2009)  Specifically, they examined mitochondrial lipids in a diverse group of mouse brain tumors and found a significant difference in a complex lipid known as cardiolipin.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;a href="#123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__ednref6" name="123074206d735302_123062b4dee9c3e5__edn6" title=""&gt;6&lt;/a&gt; Even something as safe as sodium bicarbonate has to be used with caution. Case in point: A 68-year-old man presented to the Emergency Department with a severe metabolic alkalosis after ingesting large quantities of baking soda to treat his dyspepsia. His underlying pulmonary disease and a progressively worsening mental status necessitated intubation for respiratory failure. Laboratory studies revealed a hyponatremic, hypochloremic, hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis. The patient was successfully treated after cessation of the oral bicarbonate, initiation of intravenous hydration, and correction of electrolyte abnormalities. Sodium bicarbonate is an extremely well-known agent that historically has been used for a variety of medical conditions. Despite the widespread use of oral bicarbonate, little documented toxicity has occurred, and the emergency medicine literature contains no reports of toxicity caused by the ingestion of baking soda. Risks of acute and chronic oral bicarbonate ingestion include metabolic alkalosis, hypernatremia, hypertension, gastric rupture, hyporeninemia, hypokalemia, hypochloremia, intravascular volume depletion, and urinary alkalinization. Abrupt cessation of chronic excessive bicarbonate ingestion may result in hyperkalemia, hypoaldosteronism, volume contraction, and disruption of calcium and phosphorus metabolism. The case of a patient with three hospital admissions in 4 months, all the result of excessive oral intake of bicarbonate for symptomatic relief of dyspepsia is reported. Evaluation and treatment of patients with acute bicarbonate ingestion is discussed. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Legal Notice:&lt;/b&gt;The Author specifically invokes the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and of the press without prejudice. 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Colorful packaging, appetizing pictures, and nutrition claims hide the truth: unhealthy chemicals are lurking in many these seemingly harmless foods. Here are some tips to help you steer clear of hidden toxins that masquerade as safe products.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;1. Stay away from processed meats&lt;/b&gt; like bacon, hot dogs, and sausage. Sodium nitrate accounts for their appetizing red hue, but this additive can also cause the formation of nitrosamines in your system, which can lead to cancer.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;2. Stick to low-mercury fish&lt;/b&gt; like &lt;a href="http://www.ecosalon.com/aquaculture_s_catch_what_s_in_that_fish_taco/" target="_blank"&gt;American-farmed tilapia&lt;/a&gt; instead of swordfish or tuna. Overexposure can cause memory problems, fatigue, and other health issues, and besides, most wild fish stocks are threatened these days. (Looking for an alternative? There’s&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/graham-hill/branzini---the-greenest-f_b_223670.html" target="_blank"&gt;branzini&lt;/a&gt;, the fish you’ve never heard of.)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;3. Reduce the amount of canned food&lt;/b&gt; you consume. Cans are commonly lined with bisphenol-A, an organic compound that, according to the Lang study, may be associated with diabetes and heart disease.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;4. Cut back on meat and dairy products.&lt;/b&gt; These animal products may contain trace amounts of harmful contaminants like polybrominated diphenyl ethers, polychlorinated biphenyl and dioxins. Although many of these toxins have been banned, they are still present in the soil. Reducing your intake of animal products is also more friendly to the environment.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;5. Skip the diet soda and &lt;a href="http://www.divinecaroline.com/22177/55699-skinny-sugar-substitutes" target="_blank"&gt;artificial sweeteners&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt; Prolonged exposure to aspartame, a neurotoxic chemical additive in these products, can lead to nerve cell damage, dizziness, and headaches. Besides, anything that gives rats brain tumors is worth avoiding in my book.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;6. Choose the farmed fish carefully.&lt;/b&gt; Studies show that farm-raised fish contain more polychlorinated biphenyl and over ten times the amount of dioxin.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;7. Opt for organic chicken.&lt;/b&gt; The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy discovered&lt;a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/foodsafety/arsenic060405.cfm" target="_blank"&gt;traces of arsenic in non-organic chickens&lt;/a&gt;. Exposure to this dangerous chemical can lead to cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Another study also found &lt;a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/foodsafety/poultryfeces121102.cfm" target="_blank"&gt;numerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria in conventional poultry&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;8. Only drink milk that says “no rBGH”&lt;/b&gt; on the carton because recombinant bovine growth hormone has been linked with breast cancer. Better yet, opt for responsibly-produced, unsweetened soy, nut or rice milk.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;9. Avoid manufactured snacks.&lt;/b&gt; Hydrogenated oils are used to lengthen the shelf life of products like crackers and cookies, but they are also associated with diabetes and heart disease. Another reason to stay away from the middle aisles: snack foods are generally loaded with salt, corn syrup and other unhealthy ingredients.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;10. Stay away from artificially-colored foods&lt;/b&gt; like candy, maraschino cherries, and gelatin. Mice and rats exposed to blue 1 and 2, red 3 and yellow 6 suffered from brain, adrenal gland, thyroid, and kidney tumors.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;11. Always buy organic produce.&lt;/b&gt; This one’s a no-brainer, but the list wouldn’t be complete without it. Lingering pesticides can lead to nervous and reproductive system damage, not to mention cancer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;12. Use &lt;a href="http://www.ecosalon.com/eco_friendly_cookware_options/" target="_blank"&gt;stainless steel&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.ecosalon.com/Le_Cr_me_de_le_Eco_Cookware_Crop/" target="_blank"&gt;cast iron cookware&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; to prepare your meals. The Teflon used to create nonstick surfaces can release noxious gases when exposed to high temperatures, which puts you at risk for heart disease.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;13. Never microwave food&lt;/b&gt; in plastic bowls, containers, or dishes. Exposure to heat causes the bisphenol-A found in plastics to break down and potentially contaminate your food. 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&lt;a href="http://ping.fm/im5sg"&gt;http://ping.fm/im5sg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491020350479909468-2229701428344098007?l=foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/2229701428344098007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/2229701428344098007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com/2009/07/check-out-my-digg-page-please-digg.html' title=''/><author><name>Andrew</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10971741697424709996</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14211582441115459761'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491020350479909468.post-7635596032372702540</id><published>2009-06-18T22:38:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-18T22:38:22.432-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Support the Charter of Health Freedom&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ping.fm/edvRI"&gt;http://ping.fm/edvRI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bill C-6 passes third reading in the House of Commons: Foods are NOT Drugs &lt;a href="http://ping.fm/gyfeS"&gt;http://ping.fm/gyfeS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491020350479909468-7635596032372702540?l=foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/7635596032372702540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/7635596032372702540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com/2009/06/support-charter-of-health-freedom.html' title=''/><author><name>Andrew</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10971741697424709996</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14211582441115459761'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491020350479909468.post-7633472295492247599</id><published>2009-05-01T17:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-01T17:25:36.015-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Googe Maps Swine Flu (Mashup)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Swine Flu incidence map&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google Maps Mashups are great! To see exactly where in the world Swine Flu infections are occurring, this cool google maps mashup is all you need. It won't tell you whether there have been any shipments of FluSTOP anti-viral spray to those areas though... someone should come up with that one!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;t=p&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=106484775090296685271.0004681a37b713f6b5950"&gt;Swine Flu Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491020350479909468-7633472295492247599?l=foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/7633472295492247599'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/7633472295492247599'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com/2009/05/googe-maps-swine-flu-mashup.html' title='Googe Maps Swine Flu (Mashup)'/><author><name>Andrew</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10971741697424709996</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14211582441115459761'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491020350479909468.post-3701620909747055335</id><published>2009-05-01T16:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-01T17:00:22.858-07:00</updated><title type='text'>FluSTOP Swine Flu (H1N1) Press Release</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Natural Anti-Viral Throat Spray Treatment Works on Swine Flu (H1N1)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A new all natural anti-viral throat spray called FluStop can inactivate the current swine flu virus. The reason is because FluStop has been clinically shown via WHO standards to inactivate the Hemagglutinin(HA) and Neuraminidase(NA) in "type A" virus which is what the swine flu virus type is. When HA and NA are inactivated the virus is unable to infect healthy cells and replicate. Trinity Healthy Living Products is ready to assist those in need via health food stores in Canada,online access or special order by phone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Richmond, BC, Canada (PRWEB) May 1, 2009&lt;/span&gt; -- Developed by a leading virologist during the SARS crisis, FluStop is a natural oral spray treatment which has been clinically proven to inactivate influenza A virus including Avian flu (H5N1), human influenza virus (H3N2) as well as B virus. The Swine Flu virus is also an influenza virus "type A" and therefore FluStop can also inactivate this new strain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FluStop has been clinically shown using WHO standards to inactivate the Hemagglutinin(HA) and Neuraminidase(NA) in "type A". When this occurs the virus is unable to infect healthy cells and replicate. People who are traveling, health workers, teachers, office workers and citizens in general can use the product for both prevention and treatment to stay protected and reduce their anxiety.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We realize the urgency of what has happened with the global pandemic situation and we are fully engaged inmaking FluStop available for those who want it," stated Greg Gerrie, CEO of Trinity Healthy Living Products Inc.  We have the science to prove that this product really works plus many testimonies across Canada and the USA testifying to its effectiveness." Gerrie has been working with the inventor for three years to bring the product to market and it has been on Canadian shelves for over a year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Melissa Carr of Active Life Health Clinic in Vancouver states, "I have found Flu-Stop to be an easy solution and have had great feedback from my patients." The product benefits are immediate access and safe self-administration making it not only a great solution to the swine flu strain but also protection from other&lt;br /&gt;debilitating flus and colds. Vaccines and pharmaceutical anti-virals have age limitations and side effects. FluStop is safe for children three years and up and when used as directed can eradicate flu symptoms within 8 to 72 hours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;About Trinity Healthy Living Products Inc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trinity is based in Richmond-BC Canada and has been providing healthy alternatives to flu vaccines since 2006. Trinity is also bringing to market products for Autism, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, ALS and MS. To see a video and other significant information including how to order go to http://www.flustop.ca.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contact Greg Gerrie, CEO can be reached at 604 729 6999 to book a radio or TV interview or to obtain direct quotes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491020350479909468-3701620909747055335?l=foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/3701620909747055335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/3701620909747055335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com/2009/05/flustop-swine-flu-h1n1-press-release.html' title='FluSTOP Swine Flu (H1N1) Press Release'/><author><name>Andrew</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10971741697424709996</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14211582441115459761'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491020350479909468.post-1358012133968458279</id><published>2009-05-01T16:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-01T16:50:28.118-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Natural Swine Flu Remedy</title><content type='html'>The Swine Flu hysteria is sweeping North America and around the world, much like it did several years ago with the Avian Flu. Almost all media sources are focusing on this story and many people are concerned. Watching the news can increase anxiety even without an impending pandemic added to the mix. But is it really a pandemic or has it been blown out of proportion? Keep reading and learn about a natural remedy that can protect you against the Flu or the Common Cold.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Flu Virus:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;The flu (Influenza) is a contagious disease caused by viruses that affect birds and mammals. The common symptoms of the disease include chills, fever, sore throat, muscle pains, severe headache, coughing, weakness and general discomfort. Fever and coughs are the most typical of these. In serious cases the flu causes pneumonia which is more dangerous, especially for the very young and very old.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;The Flu may cause vomiting and nausea but is much more common in gastroenteritis which is unrelated to the flu virus but is commonly referred to as The Stomach Flu. The Flu is often confused with the less dangerous illness, the common cold, which is caused by a different type of virus.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;The Flu can be spread through the air by coughs or sneezes. Bird droppings, saliva, nasal fluid, feces and blood can also spread the disease. Contact with these substances or contaminated objects such as door handles, counter tops or writing utensils can spread the flu.  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Composition of the Swine Flu:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Contains DNA of Bird Flu, Human Flu and two different strains of Swine Flu. The genetic code in the virus is for the most part made up of human flu and therefore is unlikely to be transmitted between animals. Because of the complexity of the origins of the swine flu some websites and conspiracy theorists are claiming that The Swine Flu is not natural and has been manufactured in a laboratory. This is an entertaining idea and would make a great movie but until there is proof lets leave it that for now.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"&gt;The Swine Flu seems to have low mortality rates compared to the Avian Flu which is approximately 90%. With the Swine Flu we appear to have less than a 6% mortality rate. If there is going to be a pandemic it won't be as devastating as  an Avian Flu outbreak.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"&gt;What is a pandemic? The term brings images of bodies piled up in school gymnasiums but this isn't the case. A pandemic is simply an infectious disease that is spreading throughout the world. It doesn't have any meaning associated with a certain level of damage caused by the virus.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"&gt;So far the virus has claimed one life out of 141 confirmed cases in the United States and the majority of the cases have been mild. In Mexico, there were initial reports of 150 deaths from the Swine Flu but the Mexican Health Minister could only confirm 12 verified deaths from the Swine Flu as of April 29&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Drugs or Vaccines for the Swine Flu?&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"&gt;As of yet there is no vaccine against the Swine Flu.  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Tamiflu  and Relenza are anti-viral drugs that prevent viral replication. They are available by prescription and this class of drug is  the only pharmaceutical defense against the Swine Flu.  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"&gt;As a result of the Avian Flu scare, governments  purchased billions of dollars worth of Tamiflu three years ago.  Unfortunately, the tamiflu expires after three years so the current stockpile is expired or about to expire.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The 1976 Swine Flu&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"&gt;The last Swine Flu scare was in 1976 and health officials rushed through the process of developing a vaccine. The anti viral for this Swine Flu resulted in 1 out of 100,000 vaccinated Americans developing Guillain-Barre paralysis. The US government paid out $93 million in compensation. Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius announced at a press conference that the swine flu vaccine development is in full gear, “The process is more speedy than it's ever been before”.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"&gt;She stated that although they are working quickly they are keeping safety their top priority. She acknowledged the fears of the 1976 swine flu scare and the increased rates of Guillain-Barre syndrome.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Prevention:  &lt;/b&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Washing  your hands with soap and water, or using an alcohol-based hand gel  if soap is not available. A Nano-Silver Gel is highly effective at  killing viruses and bacteria as well.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Avoiding  close contact with sick people. &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Not  touching your eyes, nose, or mouth. &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Staying  home if you are ill. &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Covering  your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze and  throwing the tissue in the trash afterward, then washing your hands.  &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Treatment:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"&gt;In addition to the prescription anti-viral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, there are a number of natural treatments for influenza infection.  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"&gt;One natural flu remedy that I have personally used is the Flu Stop. A Vancouver area company, Trinity Healthy Living Products is the manufacturer of this proprietary herbal blend. The Flu STOP formula was discovered by a virologist in China during the SARS epidemic. His formula effectively killed the SARS virus and also effectively deactivates the flu and certain types of Cold Viruses (Rhino Virus).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"&gt;FluSTOP has been clinically proven via WHO standards to inactivate the Hemagglutinin (HA) and Neuraminidase (NA) in "type A" viruses. The Swine Flu is of this type. When HA and NA are inactivated the virus is unable to infect healthy cells and replicate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"&gt;The Flu STOP product comes packaged in a spray bottle with an easy to use applicator. It is very important to spray the FluSTOP directly to the back of the throat because this is where the Flu virus replicates. The sooner you begin using the FluSTOP the better. As soon as symptoms appear the protocol is five sprays to the back of the throat and one to each nostril, five times per day. After spraying do not eat or drink tea or coffee for at least half an hour to ensure exposure of the virus to the formula.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"&gt;I have used this product for two years now and when flu symptoms start, I immediately start  using FluSTOP. Usually, the symptoms fade away quickly and I don't get sick. And if I do get a flu it is much milder than it would have been and certainly less potent than other people I know here in Vancouver who didn't want to try the FluSTOP for whatever reason.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491020350479909468-1358012133968458279?l=foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/1358012133968458279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/1358012133968458279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com/2009/05/natural-swine-flu-remedy.html' title='Natural Swine Flu Remedy'/><author><name>Andrew</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10971741697424709996</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14211582441115459761'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491020350479909468.post-5738992407231779827</id><published>2009-03-17T18:31:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-17T18:32:38.336-07:00</updated><title type='text'>It is still Flu Season... be prepared with the  Flu-STOP</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vwSiXsMBzdI&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vwSiXsMBzdI&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491020350479909468-5738992407231779827?l=foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/5738992407231779827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/5738992407231779827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com/2009/03/it-is-still-flu-season-be-prepared-with.html' title='It is still Flu Season... be prepared with the  Flu-STOP'/><author><name>Andrew</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10971741697424709996</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14211582441115459761'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491020350479909468.post-3639596248912406652</id><published>2009-02-04T20:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-04T21:40:33.833-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Liposuction vrs LipoLaser</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Liposuction &lt;/b&gt; is a cosmetic medical procedure where a hollow stainless steel tube called a cannula is utilized to remove fat from deposits under the skin with the help of a powerful vacuum. The procedure can be performed on many body areas including the abdomen, thighs, buttocks, neck, back, arms and legs. A &lt;b&gt;liposuction&lt;/b&gt; procedure can be performed with local anesthesia, general anesthesia or with heavy IV sedation.  &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Is Lipo Suction Safe?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;To ensure best results, the patient should be as physically fit as possible prior to surgery and should have quit smoking for a few months. Over the years, &lt;b&gt;liposuction &lt;/b&gt;has become a much safer and common procedure than in the past. However, General Anesthesia or Heavy IV sedation can be dangerous. Local Anesthesia is a safer option with less risk of potential pharmacological complications.  Removing too much volume of fat or too many areas treated at once can cause surgical trauma. Excessive surgical trauma can make recovery troublesome and increases the risk of long term complications. Performing unrelated surgical procedures on the same day can be unsafe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;There are some potential side effects of &lt;b&gt;liposuction&lt;/b&gt;, which are typically minor, but there can also be some more serious complications which can be long term or permanent.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Side effects:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Bruising    &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Swelling   &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Scars   &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Pain   &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Numbness&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Limited mobility   &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Liposuction&lt;/b&gt; can cause bruising and associated pain. This pain should subside in a few weeks. The swelling associated with the surgery typically goes away after one or two months. Scars vary in size depending on the procedure and should fade in a few weeks to one year after surgery. Numbness can persist for a few weeks and a patient may have limited mobility as a result of needing a compression garment, having to keep the head elevated or due to the swelling and pain.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Every surgery carries certain risks above and beyond regular and minor side effects.  In the 90's there were some &lt;b&gt;deaths due to liposuction&lt;/b&gt; as well as very high rates of complication but these adverse results have been declining.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Complications: &lt;/b&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Infection caused by bacteria  entering the body through incisions or puncture wounds&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Damage to skin caused by the  procedure&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Damage to tissues beneath the skin  causing spotted or lumpy apearance&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Skin necrosis or dead skin.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Puncture of an internal organ. For  example: The intestines or other organ.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Contour irregularities like lumpy  skin, poor skin elasticity or spotty appearance.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Thromboembolism and fat   embolisation   &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Burns caused by friction to skin  and nerves&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Lidocaine toxicity which can cause  tingling, numbness, seizures, unconsciousness and/or respiratory or  cardiac arrest&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Fluid imbalance&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Superficial irregularities of the  skin&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Visible and disfiguring scars&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Seromas or hematomas&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Nerve injury&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Blood clots in the leg or lung&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Excessive blood loss&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Excessive loss of body heat  (hypothermia)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Aspiration pneumonia&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Depression caused by disfiguring  skin abnormalities   &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Allergic reaction to anesthesia,  other medication or materials during surgery&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Brain damage due to lack of oxygen  under general anesthesia&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Some of these complications can be considered minor, however others can be quite serious. Another potential risk is &lt;b&gt;post-liposuction&lt;/b&gt; syncope (fainting). The morning following the surgery, especially after urinating it is not uncommon for the patient to faint.  This can be serious if the patient falls and experiences a head or neck injury. Complications can arise if patients use drugs such as aspirin, ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil), and warfarin (Coumadin) which increase bleeding. Vitamin E, Red wine and some herbal remedies can have the same affect.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With obesity reaching epidemic levels, there is increasing demand for liposuction as a perceived solution to ones battle with the bulge. At&lt;b&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.vancouverlipolaser.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Vancouver Lipo Laser&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;, we believe that the heart of an effective and long term weight loss program is a permanent lifestyle change including exercise, a healthy diet and nutritional supplements where needed. In fact, we do not consider &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;liposuction&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; to be a weight loss method at all. It is a type of body contouring which involves some potential risks and complications. These risks range from unnatural looking skin, lumpiness or dents to possible disability or even death. &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vancouver Lipo Laser&lt;/b&gt; offers a non-invasive alternative to liposuction. However, if you are still considering liposuction a good resource is &lt;a href="http://www.liposuction.com/"&gt;www.liposuction.com&lt;/a&gt; which provides a wealth of information on liposuction and an assessment of the risks and possible complications associated with the procedure.&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Liposuction as an art&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some people regard &lt;b&gt;liposuction&lt;/b&gt; as an art form where a practitioner utilizes skill and scientific knowledge to produce a beautiful result. The practitioner uses a skillful hand with a perfected technique developed through years of clinical experience. The practitioners ultimate satisfaction is making his clients happy when they see themselves in the mirror.  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Intimidating Procedure&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Liposuction appears to be a relatively safe procedure compared to other surgeries or personal choices one can make. But regardless of the perceived safety or risk the procedure, for many people, it is extremely intimidating. The list of side effects and potential complications is scary to say the least. . And some more nasty complications are always a possibility. Nevertheless, many people choose liposuction as a way to achieve the body contour that they desire.   &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;What if there was a way to accomplish your body contour goals without the side effects?&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;And without the risk of potential devastating complications?&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;If you had a choice between liposuction and a non-invasive, safe method to accomplish the same objective would you take it?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;You now have that choice thanks to the LipoLaser!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;The &lt;b&gt;LipoLaser&lt;/b&gt; is a &lt;u&gt;non-invasive alternative &lt;/u&gt;to &lt;b&gt;liposuction&lt;/b&gt;. It safely melts away fat and contours your body by eliminating trouble spots without surgery, scaring, bleeding, bruising, pain or fear of complications.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Not only is it safe and effective. &lt;b&gt;LipoLaser&lt;/b&gt; treatments are comparatively less costly than &lt;b&gt;liposuction&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;The cost of &lt;b&gt;Liposuction&lt;/b&gt; is between $1500 to $7500 depending on the body area treated and the experience and reputation of the surgeon. &lt;b&gt;LipoLaser&lt;/b&gt; therapy packages range from $780 to $3000 without the risk of side effects and complications.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"&gt;The &lt;b&gt;LipoLaser&lt;/b&gt; is not for everyone. Find out if you are a good candidate for &lt;b&gt;LipoLaser&lt;/b&gt; therapy by requesting information  from the link below. You may also try an introductory session at special reduced price to experience the technology for yourself.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vancouverlipolaser.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Vancouver Lipo Laser&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491020350479909468-3639596248912406652?l=foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com/feeds/3639596248912406652/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491020350479909468&amp;postID=3639596248912406652' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/3639596248912406652'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491020350479909468/posts/default/3639596248912406652'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foodsarenotdrugs.blogspot.com/2009/02/liposuction-vrs-lipolaser.html' title='Liposuction vrs LipoLaser'/><author><name>Andrew</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10971741697424709996</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14211582441115459761'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry></feed>