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Obama Health Care Reform?
March 26th, 2010 | 
Author: I’ve posted on the Obama Health Care plan in the past and what we have going on now and comments being made about it really just enforces what I said previously I think. The only Real Health Care Reform requires a totally new paradigm. What I mean is the money making aspect would need a totally new approach. Using the current system of healthcare in the US, I mean the way medicine in general is practiced would need to change and that would involve a totally different mindset with the American people. I have to say they actually perpetuate the problem. They are improving but the idea of what too many Americans consider good eating and lifestyle habits is the first step. This new paradigm I refer to would mostly put the pharmaceutical companies out of business as well as the medical equipment companies, probably hospitals as well. Doctors and other medical personnel would need to be totally retrained. Nothing that could be done in one or two presidential terms.
Here is a discussion that was on the Diane Rehm Show, Thursday, March 25, 2010 on NPR. By the way NPR is my favorite news source because it is not influenced by commercial interests.
This link is to a page with a podcast of the Diane Rehm show on NPR.
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-03-25/whats-health-care-bill
It includes the comments I refer to above.
As a person who believes in a holistic approach to good health; eating as natural as possible to include as little processing and artificial ingredients as possible, maintaining the body physically with regular exercise and feeding oneself spiritually are key to preventing disease and illness. The spirituality aspect is one I’ve come to learn and appreciate more in the last few months. In reading my blog if your just seeing it, I talk of many aspects of diet, medical procedures and other environmental issues that effect our health and give a heads up to readers who may appreciate a different perspective on information they’ve already heard or read.
I’ll likely be following up on the healthcare reform issue as I get more from my nutrition and health resources.
Thanks for reading:) Always want your feedback. Especially the raving comments:):)
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Mammograms or Thermography for safe, accurate Breast Cancer Screening?
This I grabbed from Dr. Mercola’s Blog. I was informed in the last few years that the radiation from mammogram machines was much less than I read about 20 years ago, as I mentioned in one of my previous blog posts. However Dr. Mercola seems to be saying otherwise here. Something women should be aware of. With healthcare reform being in the spotlight these days, it’s unfortunate that the changes that really need to be made aren’t being given proper attention.
Here is a link to his video about it.
http://www.viddler.com/explore/mercola/videos/209/
Here is his blog poston the subject:
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among women, who have a one in eight chance of developing this disease during their lifetime. It is the most common cancer among American women but fortunately, the death rate is gradually decreasing due to modern early detection and intervention technology.
Many doctors recommend that women over the age of 40 should have a mammogram once a year to diagnose and screen for breast cancer. Dr. Joseph Mercola, however, believes that mammograms expose women to radiation that’s almost 1,000 times greater than that from a chest x-ray, which may further increase the risk of radiation-induced cancer.
A mammogram also tightly, and often painfully, compresses the breasts, which may dangerously hasten the growth of any existing malignant cells.
There is also no solid evidence proving that mammograms help save women’s lives, Dr. Mercola points out. Studies show that having an annual mammogram along with the physical examination of your breasts does not lead to an improved survival rate compared to physical examination alone.
If this is the case, what can you do to lower your breast cancer risk?
Thermography can increase your chances of detecting breast cancer in its earliest stages by locating irregular patterns in the breast – conditions that occur before a noticeable lump is formed.
Thermal imaging looks at vascular changes in the breast and detects blood flow patterns, inflammation and asymmetries. Mammograms, on the other hand, focus on anatomical changes, like masses or lumps in the breast tissue.
Dr. Mercola highly recommends thermograms because they benefit all women, are quick and non-invasive, make no contact with the body, and provides more financial savings than conventional diagnostic tools.
Aside from breast cancer, thermography screenings can also help detect many other conditions, including heart disease, arthritis, neck and back pain, sinus issues, dental issues, immune dysfunction, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, carpal tunnel syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, diverticulitis, Crohn’s disease, etc.
If you are in the South Florida area, you can call or visit Florida Natural Healthcare Center, one of their services is Thermography http://floridanaturalhealthcare.com/thermography.html
Call them and let them know I referred you.
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H1N1 Overestimate of danger & Immune System reality
This video is from the Dr. Mercola website. Highly recommend you subscribe to his mailing list. Often has great info on the realities of medical practices and nutrition.
This is actually a series of 3 videos where Dr. Mercola interviews Barbara Loe Fisher, founder of the National Vaccine Information Center. (see her website for a video regarding vaccines)She is the Go-To person with regard to valid vaccination information. She is no Anti-Vaccine as I am but she does shed light on the realities of the pros and cons of them. She warns against the H1N1 for a number of reasons. In section two of this she points out the concerns of the medical community, or more accurately the drug companies aim to make us dependent on vaccines vs. what our immune system will do more effectively.
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Posted in Medical Care, Obama Health Care Reform?, Swine flu vaccine, healthy lifestyle, innoculation hazard |
Tags: boosting the immune system, disease fighting, Immune System, innoculation, Swine flu vaccine, swine flu vaccine dangers, swine flue vaccine, vaccination, vaccine dangers |
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Mammogram and Prevention Health Care
This posting is to help spead the word on this article from Dr. Wang on Green Health Spot http://www.greenhealthspot.com/2009/10/rethinking-cancer-screening.html
The administration’s health care reform talks of prevention health care. In the same sentence it also talks of using early detection screening processes as a part of that scenario. This makes it confusing because prevention and early detection are NOT the same thing. The real purpose of early detection is to get you to start spending money on treatment, drugs, radiation or surgery early thus beginning their cash flow process. The late Dr. Robert Mendelson wrote in his book “Confessions of a Medical Heretic” and published in his newsletter some 22 years ago that mammograms actually succumbed each breast to the same amount of radiation in one screening, that the entire body gets exposed to in a year. The conclusion? Not only are mammograms questionable but have a good chance of increasing your risk of the disease you’re there to be alerted to. Though I was informed a few years ago by a radiation oncologist that the radiation used now is much less, this article reveals that the danger is still there. Also note that near the end of this article it mentions Thermography. “Breast thermography which is FDA approved as an adjunct to mammograms can tell years before an actual tumor forms that there are problems in the breast.”
Hopefully this will help your understanding, and if you have FaceBook, you’ll become a fan of Dr. Wang’s postings.
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Prevent or Cure Type 1 Diabetes?
There is information now that supports the possibility that avoiding innoculations and dairy, may be able to prevent and possibly cure Type 1 Diabetes.
Look at this article
http://www.cancertutor.com/Diabetes/Diabetes_Type_I.htm
Some good info here also on diabetes and cancer to avoid Dairy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHYFOJBU434&feature=related
