Reuters News Wire, November 16th, 2007
Fat Nap Link
Eating just a few meals loaded with fat could be enough to throw off the body’s internal clock, starting a vicious cycle that could lead to obesity and diabetes, Northwestern University researchers said yesterday.
They reported in the journal Cell Metabolism that mice fed high-fat foods showed marked changes in their diet and sleep patterns, sleeping longer and eating when they should be sleeping.
Reuters, News Wire November 16th, 2007
Fat Health Woes at 7
Children who are on the path toward obesity have some worrisome cardiovascular disease risk factors as young as age 7, according to researchers.
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center researchers measured the body mass index of 308 kids every four months after age 3. They then examined several cardiovascular characteristics of the children at age 7.
A key element of the study was the “BMI rebound.”
Between birth and around age 4, tots become taller and leaner. Usually between ages 4 and 7, children start putting on weight in a way that increases their BMI.
The study showed that children who reached this BMI rebound early-experienced cardiovascular red flags by age 7.
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The amazing fact facing America is that few obese people really gives a damn about being fat. I meet and talk with plenty of fat people and they do not think they are fat. That’s right. They also think a bowl of Hagan Daz at 10PM is just fine. Last, but not least, these people think fried rice and general Tzo’s chicken will give children all the nutrition they need and a Diet Coke will certainly trim a few unnecessary calories.
The simple reason 6 of 10 fat people think this way is because they are toxic. Their children are toxic. Just what is toxic? Toxic is when the body retains chemicals in its cell walls including fat cells. The toxic chemicals are from meat, McDonald’, Popeye’s Chicken, Applebee’s and 80% of what is found in our supermarkets. Especially the frozen food sections.
Our general source of food is loaded with chemical additives that when consumed on a regular basis actually leaves the body craving more of the same. Like a drug addict, the body needs its daily dose of toxic food.
Infinite Health Resources is associated with an organization called Isagenix. Isagenix has taken the idea of cleansing the body to the total body cleanses. The cell cleanse.
Almost 3 years ago I discovered a natural colon cleanse, unlike the Isagenix total body cleanse, which allowed me to become less toxic. It was a three-week program. By the end of the second week I saw fat melt away. However, I really did not see major weight loss. Although the weight did finally come off and it has stayed off. I did make major changes in my eating habits, which leave me missing nothing. More on that later.
Back to the melting fat. The fat melted away because I was ridding my body of all the chemicals that acted like a layer of insulation over my 35 pounds of fat. I might add that 10 pounds of the 35 pounds were easily locked up inside my colon. Pretty disgusting. During the 3-week cleanse, I laid off the meat, chicken, cold cuts and ate veggies with pasta and tomato sauce in a garlic and virgin olive oil base. Just incredible.
The Isagenix Cleanse for Life system is used by professional athletes, Olympic athletes and, you guessed it, obese folk. What makes Isagenix so incredible is the level and quality of research and physician participation is its use as an alternative to drug treatments and diet fads.
Incredibly, I consumed, and still do today, complex carbohydrates and stay slim. I have never avoided carbohydrates and no one should. The New York Post, November 7th, 2007 published a released study by the University of Maryland that clearly shows the danger of low carbohydrate high protein dieting.
There really is no such thing as a diet. Eating is a lifestyle. Either you eat to live or you eat to die.
The Isagenix Total Body Cleanse is helping thousands. The level and quality of testimonials are breathtaking.
Visit www.infinitehealthresources.isagenix.com to see for yourself.
The Isagenix product line is complete with skin care as well. Remember, what you put on your body is as important as what you put in your body.
I own and operate www.infinitehealthresources.com and we offer thousands of non-toxic and organic products including environmentally friendly products. However, I am convinced that a cellular cleanse or a colon cleanse is the place to kick start anyone’s life into a path to good health and weight loss. Please note, a lean body does not guarantee a toxic free body. Click on recipes at www.infinitehealthresources.com and continue eating toxic-free once your Isagenix Total Body Cleanse is complete.
Every Isagenix Total Body Cleanse comes with a real life coach who has been successful with the Isagenix Total Body Cleanse For Life.
E-mail us at info@infinitehealthresources.com to arrange to speak with someone.
Visit www.infinitehealthresources.isagenix.com for the kick start we all need to live the healthy lifestyle.
Sincerely,
Thomas Affatato
Infinite Health Resources
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Saturday, November 17, 2007
The New York Post Editorial Page, November 15th, 2007, Thomas Sowell touched a subject that is fast becoming a national epidemic. Autism.
Striking mostly white, middle class and up. This terrible heart breaking disease is no more understood today than it was 20 years ago.
Now, thanks in large part to our drug dealing pharmaceutical industry, testing and screening has been widely recommended often leading to tragic results.
Read Mr. Sowell’s editorial.
Count the Casualties Before You Crusade
Autism is a devastating condition, both for those who have it and for their parents. At this point, its causes are unknown – and if there is any cure, that is unknown as well.There are many ways of coping with tragedies. One of the less promises, and often dangerous, ways is to launch a crusade.Crusades may be emotionally satisfying, politically popular and welcomed by the media. But crusaders are not known for caution, for weighing evidence or for counting the costs, which may extend well beyond the cost in money.The crusade against autism has already led to many casualties – and there may be far more if recent recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics are carried out to have every child tested for autism twice by age 2.Think about: How many people are qualified to diagnose autism? Enough to test every child in America? Not bloody likely.Professor Stephen Camarata of Vanderbilt University has tested and treated children with autism for more than 20 years. “While it is relatively easy to identify a 5-year-old as autistic,” he says, “it’s much more difficult to reliably diagnose a preschooler or toddler.”The word “reliably” is crucial. Anyone can unreliably diagnose autism, just as anybody can unreliably predict the weather or the stock market.The consequences of unreliable diagnoses of autism can be traumatic for parents and children alike.I’ve written books about late-talking children and their parents (the latest being “The Einstein Syndrome”). As a result I’ve encountered more than a hundred parents with stories of emotional devastation after their children were diagnosed as autistic – diagnoses that the passing years have shown to be false more often than not.Camarata has a far larger group of parents of late talking children, since he specializes in studying and treating speech disorders, and he has likewise found numerous cases of false diagnoses of autism among children who are late in beginning to talk.It’s not just the needless emotional stresses on the parents. Many of the treatments inflicted on children diagnosed as autistic, would be called child abuse if they weren’t done as medical procedures – and they can set back or distort a child’s development.The “autistic” label can follow a child into schools and beyond, causing him or her to be treated differently by teachers, nurses and others.Too many people refuse to reconsider any evidence contrary to the label, however blatant that evidence becomes or however much that evidence increases over the years.The initial evidence on which a diagnosis of autism was based may be nothing more than a checklist of characteristics of autistic children – often administered by someone with nothing more to go on than that checklist.But many items on such a checklist can apply to many children who are not autistic. A study of gifted children, for example, found many of them showing the kinds of characteristics found on checklists for autism.Says Camarata, “Because there are no reliable biomedical makers for autism, diagnosis must rely on subjective rating scales – making it difficult if not impossible to conduct accurate screening in toddlers or preschoolers.”But it is precisely the checklist approach that is being urged by those who are crusading for every child to be diagnosed for autism before age 2. Like most crusaders, they seem unwillingly to consider the possibility of errors, much less the consequences.The very definition of autism has been expanded in recent years to include what is called “the autism spectrum.” Among other things, this means there is now more wiggle room for those whose diagnoses have proved to be wrong, who refuse to admit it, and who are now even more unaccountable than ever.
End
New York’s Nassau and Suffolk counties are on a speech therapy crusade that has turned into a multi million business. Thousands of children, 4, 5 and 6 years olds are in speech therapy. Could it be possible, that one of the most educated and affluent location in the U.S. be giving birth to children requiring speech therapy? If so, something is terribly amiss.
Listen folks, at www.infinitehealthresources.com we have spent 2 years writing about the effects of out toxic food system, toxic watersheds and just loony dieting. Both for the obese and athletic. Incredibly and as usual, this country will diagnose and treat with big pharmaceutical company drugs rather than find the cause and cure.
Let me take you back 10-15 years. ADHA, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, diagnosis’s by the thousands being recognized as incorrectly diagnosed. Further more, a recent SUNY Buffalo Study that tracked 600 kids since the early 1990s concluded that drugs like Ritalin and Concerta worked for a while but not after 3years. The co-author of the report, Dr. William Pelham said he believes the earlier beneficial impact if the medication were grossly exaggerated.
The pharmaceutical industry saw a drug patient for life. Many of these children are now 18-22 year olds and continue on not one, but several drugs. A financial bonanza. For the pharmaceutical industry and a multi-million dollar drain on our health care system.
Dr. Pelham went on to say, “We had though that children medicated longer would have better outcomes. That didn’t happen to be the case.”Instead, he said, the kids “had a substantial decrease in their rate of growth so they weren’t growing as much as other kids, both in terms of their height and in terms of their weight. “In the short run, [medication] will help the child behave better, in the long run it won’t. And that information should be made very clear to parents,” he said.
So what are we to expect with early testing and treatment for autism? The health establishment in the U.S. is completely focused on diagnosis and treatment. Not the cure. Ladies and Gentlemen, Parents and Grandparents, please wake up to the fact that something is clearly very wrong, and it may not be with our children. Our environment and health system may be the problem.
At www.infinitehealthresources.com we continue to present fact upon fact how proper nutrition throughout a person’s whole life can and will prevent many of today’s illnesses and life threatening diseases. That’s right, prevent. Prevention can be the cure.
What you put on you body is as important as what you put into your body. Non-toxic shampoos, lotions, nail polish, nail polish removers and filtered shower water and drinking water are essential to healthy living.
Are new and expecting mothers depriving their bodies and then the bodies of their unborn of the essential nutrients for proper brain development? Could the thousands of diets that we all try and fail at, coupled with fast food, be causing our level of nutrition to fail our offspring and us?I certainly do not have these answers. Isn’t it about time some serious discussion begin about autism, ADHD, breast cancer and so many modern disorders that are destroying lives, creating heart ache and pain and the premature death of our loved ones and friends.
This is a stand we must take together, we must unite. Our politicians would never rise to the task. They are owned by the pharmaceutical and processed food industries with billions in political action committees.
Wake up America and take a stand on your families’ health.
Visit www.infinitehealthresources.com and learn more on nutrition, disease, recipes and healthy products. Read the newsletters from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, The Cancer Project and The Organic Consumers Association.
Learn the truth about living a healthy lifestyle.
Visit www.infinitehealthresources.com
Sincerely,
Thomas Affatato
Striking mostly white, middle class and up. This terrible heart breaking disease is no more understood today than it was 20 years ago.
Now, thanks in large part to our drug dealing pharmaceutical industry, testing and screening has been widely recommended often leading to tragic results.
Read Mr. Sowell’s editorial.
Count the Casualties Before You Crusade
Autism is a devastating condition, both for those who have it and for their parents. At this point, its causes are unknown – and if there is any cure, that is unknown as well.There are many ways of coping with tragedies. One of the less promises, and often dangerous, ways is to launch a crusade.Crusades may be emotionally satisfying, politically popular and welcomed by the media. But crusaders are not known for caution, for weighing evidence or for counting the costs, which may extend well beyond the cost in money.The crusade against autism has already led to many casualties – and there may be far more if recent recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics are carried out to have every child tested for autism twice by age 2.Think about: How many people are qualified to diagnose autism? Enough to test every child in America? Not bloody likely.Professor Stephen Camarata of Vanderbilt University has tested and treated children with autism for more than 20 years. “While it is relatively easy to identify a 5-year-old as autistic,” he says, “it’s much more difficult to reliably diagnose a preschooler or toddler.”The word “reliably” is crucial. Anyone can unreliably diagnose autism, just as anybody can unreliably predict the weather or the stock market.The consequences of unreliable diagnoses of autism can be traumatic for parents and children alike.I’ve written books about late-talking children and their parents (the latest being “The Einstein Syndrome”). As a result I’ve encountered more than a hundred parents with stories of emotional devastation after their children were diagnosed as autistic – diagnoses that the passing years have shown to be false more often than not.Camarata has a far larger group of parents of late talking children, since he specializes in studying and treating speech disorders, and he has likewise found numerous cases of false diagnoses of autism among children who are late in beginning to talk.It’s not just the needless emotional stresses on the parents. Many of the treatments inflicted on children diagnosed as autistic, would be called child abuse if they weren’t done as medical procedures – and they can set back or distort a child’s development.The “autistic” label can follow a child into schools and beyond, causing him or her to be treated differently by teachers, nurses and others.Too many people refuse to reconsider any evidence contrary to the label, however blatant that evidence becomes or however much that evidence increases over the years.The initial evidence on which a diagnosis of autism was based may be nothing more than a checklist of characteristics of autistic children – often administered by someone with nothing more to go on than that checklist.But many items on such a checklist can apply to many children who are not autistic. A study of gifted children, for example, found many of them showing the kinds of characteristics found on checklists for autism.Says Camarata, “Because there are no reliable biomedical makers for autism, diagnosis must rely on subjective rating scales – making it difficult if not impossible to conduct accurate screening in toddlers or preschoolers.”But it is precisely the checklist approach that is being urged by those who are crusading for every child to be diagnosed for autism before age 2. Like most crusaders, they seem unwillingly to consider the possibility of errors, much less the consequences.The very definition of autism has been expanded in recent years to include what is called “the autism spectrum.” Among other things, this means there is now more wiggle room for those whose diagnoses have proved to be wrong, who refuse to admit it, and who are now even more unaccountable than ever.
End
New York’s Nassau and Suffolk counties are on a speech therapy crusade that has turned into a multi million business. Thousands of children, 4, 5 and 6 years olds are in speech therapy. Could it be possible, that one of the most educated and affluent location in the U.S. be giving birth to children requiring speech therapy? If so, something is terribly amiss.
Listen folks, at www.infinitehealthresources.com we have spent 2 years writing about the effects of out toxic food system, toxic watersheds and just loony dieting. Both for the obese and athletic. Incredibly and as usual, this country will diagnose and treat with big pharmaceutical company drugs rather than find the cause and cure.
Let me take you back 10-15 years. ADHA, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, diagnosis’s by the thousands being recognized as incorrectly diagnosed. Further more, a recent SUNY Buffalo Study that tracked 600 kids since the early 1990s concluded that drugs like Ritalin and Concerta worked for a while but not after 3years. The co-author of the report, Dr. William Pelham said he believes the earlier beneficial impact if the medication were grossly exaggerated.
The pharmaceutical industry saw a drug patient for life. Many of these children are now 18-22 year olds and continue on not one, but several drugs. A financial bonanza. For the pharmaceutical industry and a multi-million dollar drain on our health care system.
Dr. Pelham went on to say, “We had though that children medicated longer would have better outcomes. That didn’t happen to be the case.”Instead, he said, the kids “had a substantial decrease in their rate of growth so they weren’t growing as much as other kids, both in terms of their height and in terms of their weight. “In the short run, [medication] will help the child behave better, in the long run it won’t. And that information should be made very clear to parents,” he said.
So what are we to expect with early testing and treatment for autism? The health establishment in the U.S. is completely focused on diagnosis and treatment. Not the cure. Ladies and Gentlemen, Parents and Grandparents, please wake up to the fact that something is clearly very wrong, and it may not be with our children. Our environment and health system may be the problem.
At www.infinitehealthresources.com we continue to present fact upon fact how proper nutrition throughout a person’s whole life can and will prevent many of today’s illnesses and life threatening diseases. That’s right, prevent. Prevention can be the cure.
What you put on you body is as important as what you put into your body. Non-toxic shampoos, lotions, nail polish, nail polish removers and filtered shower water and drinking water are essential to healthy living.
Are new and expecting mothers depriving their bodies and then the bodies of their unborn of the essential nutrients for proper brain development? Could the thousands of diets that we all try and fail at, coupled with fast food, be causing our level of nutrition to fail our offspring and us?I certainly do not have these answers. Isn’t it about time some serious discussion begin about autism, ADHD, breast cancer and so many modern disorders that are destroying lives, creating heart ache and pain and the premature death of our loved ones and friends.
This is a stand we must take together, we must unite. Our politicians would never rise to the task. They are owned by the pharmaceutical and processed food industries with billions in political action committees.
Wake up America and take a stand on your families’ health.
Visit www.infinitehealthresources.com and learn more on nutrition, disease, recipes and healthy products. Read the newsletters from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, The Cancer Project and The Organic Consumers Association.
Learn the truth about living a healthy lifestyle.
Visit www.infinitehealthresources.com
Sincerely,
Thomas Affatato
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Superbug and Your Food
Superbug and Your Food
All week, every major news outlet talked up a storm about the infections killing teens and others. The antibiotic resistant infections are long overdue and very little can be done to stop them.
The food chain in the U.S. is contaminated and loaded with antibiotics. These foods are beef, chicken and pork. The second tier of foods are eggs, milk, cheese and coldcuts, from the same source.
Our cattle are fed other cattle. Mainly none edible parts such as heart, stomach, intestines and other organs. Our cattle, therefore, are fed huge amounts of antibiotics to kill any infection caused by this cannibalism. Chicken, one very dirty and nasty piece of meat, ubiquitous in every New York deli, in no less than 10 different recipe preparations, is also loaded to the max with antibiotics.
Pork, long considered swine and the filthiest of creatures by many of the world’s population, such as Jews and Muslims, see they do have things in common, may be the least harmful as far as antibiotic use goes. They have been genetically altered to be more lean and grow faster and smaller. That will pass on a whole new series of human health issues soon to be uncovered.
American people are toxic, constipated, obese and yes, antibiotic resistant. There is no end in sight. I will attempt to lay out a little guidance that over time, I am not sure how much time, years possibly, to bring the body back to normal and become non-toxic.
For starters, stop eating any meat that is not organic. What does that mean? Organic simply means no antibiotics, pesticides, insecticides or animal parts were used in the raising of any animal slaughtered for human consumption.
The U.S. beef and poultry industry monitored under the FDA and USDA require all animals, several days before slaughter, to be removed from antibiotic use so the level of these drugs falls within limits set up of course by none other than the FDA and USDA. I do not know what the acceptable limits are for us humans to consume in our daily diet of McDonald’s, Burger King and KFC.
Only 5% of the U.S consumes organic produce, meat, fruits and liquids. I suggest to most parents, eat your organic veggies and organic beans to get a good dose of protein. Cut all meat consumption to once or twice per week. Eat organic meats only.
Now, to be fair to the U.S. meat industry, I will point to another industry that abuses the dispensing of antibiotics. Doctors!
Ear infections are quite common among toddlers. Their cause and cure is a lengthy subject to be covered another day. I remember my oldest son from the ages of 4-6 was on and off antibiotics for two years. I admit I knew little of what I know today, however, I learned quickly he was the only child ever to go through such a long period of antibiotic drug use of my four children. This is just one example of the abuse our health system perpetrates daily, starting at such a young age.
Yes diet and alternative methods of dealing with ear infections helped me with my other three children.
We are bombarded all year by several of the largest industries in America with contaminated food and a drug dealing health industry.
Wake up America! Aids, car accidents, DWI, breast cancer and many other causes of death will become three times less a cause of death. Our food chain and daily diet is becoming the number 1 cause of disability, diabetes II, stroke and obesity. Now death to superbugs.
America shouldn’t fear global warming, at least not yet. America should fear the big corporations who feed us, provide health care for us and the governmental agencies that monitor those corporations. Wake up America!
Learn more about the healthy lifestyle. Concerning hundreds of health topics. Non-meat recipes and more.
Visit www.infinitehealthresources.com.
All week, every major news outlet talked up a storm about the infections killing teens and others. The antibiotic resistant infections are long overdue and very little can be done to stop them.
The food chain in the U.S. is contaminated and loaded with antibiotics. These foods are beef, chicken and pork. The second tier of foods are eggs, milk, cheese and coldcuts, from the same source.
Our cattle are fed other cattle. Mainly none edible parts such as heart, stomach, intestines and other organs. Our cattle, therefore, are fed huge amounts of antibiotics to kill any infection caused by this cannibalism. Chicken, one very dirty and nasty piece of meat, ubiquitous in every New York deli, in no less than 10 different recipe preparations, is also loaded to the max with antibiotics.
Pork, long considered swine and the filthiest of creatures by many of the world’s population, such as Jews and Muslims, see they do have things in common, may be the least harmful as far as antibiotic use goes. They have been genetically altered to be more lean and grow faster and smaller. That will pass on a whole new series of human health issues soon to be uncovered.
American people are toxic, constipated, obese and yes, antibiotic resistant. There is no end in sight. I will attempt to lay out a little guidance that over time, I am not sure how much time, years possibly, to bring the body back to normal and become non-toxic.
For starters, stop eating any meat that is not organic. What does that mean? Organic simply means no antibiotics, pesticides, insecticides or animal parts were used in the raising of any animal slaughtered for human consumption.
The U.S. beef and poultry industry monitored under the FDA and USDA require all animals, several days before slaughter, to be removed from antibiotic use so the level of these drugs falls within limits set up of course by none other than the FDA and USDA. I do not know what the acceptable limits are for us humans to consume in our daily diet of McDonald’s, Burger King and KFC.
Only 5% of the U.S consumes organic produce, meat, fruits and liquids. I suggest to most parents, eat your organic veggies and organic beans to get a good dose of protein. Cut all meat consumption to once or twice per week. Eat organic meats only.
Now, to be fair to the U.S. meat industry, I will point to another industry that abuses the dispensing of antibiotics. Doctors!
Ear infections are quite common among toddlers. Their cause and cure is a lengthy subject to be covered another day. I remember my oldest son from the ages of 4-6 was on and off antibiotics for two years. I admit I knew little of what I know today, however, I learned quickly he was the only child ever to go through such a long period of antibiotic drug use of my four children. This is just one example of the abuse our health system perpetrates daily, starting at such a young age.
Yes diet and alternative methods of dealing with ear infections helped me with my other three children.
We are bombarded all year by several of the largest industries in America with contaminated food and a drug dealing health industry.
Wake up America! Aids, car accidents, DWI, breast cancer and many other causes of death will become three times less a cause of death. Our food chain and daily diet is becoming the number 1 cause of disability, diabetes II, stroke and obesity. Now death to superbugs.
America shouldn’t fear global warming, at least not yet. America should fear the big corporations who feed us, provide health care for us and the governmental agencies that monitor those corporations. Wake up America!
Learn more about the healthy lifestyle. Concerning hundreds of health topics. Non-meat recipes and more.
Visit www.infinitehealthresources.com.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
FDA Approves Anti-Psychotic Drug for Teens
FDA Approves Anti-Psychotic Drug for Teens
The Food and Drug Administration approved expanding use of Johnson & Johnson’s anti-psychotic drug Risperdal to include adolescents suffering from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, a move likely to heighten the already-fierce debate over pediatric prescriptions of such of such powerful drugs.Some doctors are concerned about the safety of treating children whose bodies are still growing with Risperdal and similar medications. They point out that the FDA’s decision is based on short-term studies. Risperdal and competing drugs have previously been tied to serious side effects including increased blood sugar, a potential precursor to diabetes.“ We definitely need to have longer-term follow-up to learn the full extent of the side-effect liabilities,” said Jeffrey Lieberman, chairman of the psychiatry department at Columbia University in New York gets research funding from drug companies.The FDA approval, which is limited to schizophrenic youngsters 13 –17 years old and short-term treatment of bipolar patients who are 10 – 17, also comes as experts continue to disagree over what symptoms justify prescribing anti-psychotics to teens and children.Risperdal is the first of the newer-generation anti-psychotic drugs known as “atypical” to win FDA approval for those conditions in young people. It was already sanctioned for irritability in pediatric patients with autism.Doctors are allowed to prescribe marketed drugs for any use they wish, even if it isn’t specifically approved by the FDA, and the use of anti-psychotics in young people is already growing rapidly. Overall, the drugs have roughly $15 billion in yearly sales, with Risperdal ringing up $4.18 billion last year. The number of doctor visits by patients 20 years and younger that included an anti-psychotic prescription grew to an estimated 1.2 million in 2002, from about 201,000 in 1993.
Here is where I must stop and ask, what happened between 1993 and 2002 that caused bipolar disorder and schizophrenia to increase in teens?
Was it Bill Clinton’s Monica Lewinsky affair? Was it the tech bubble of 200? Or was it September 11th, 2001?
Here is what I think. Perhaps it was because of the disconnection between parent and child. Let’s face it. No 13-year-old is going to get a prescription for such a dangerous drug without the parent or parent’s consent.
Are these the same 5-7-year-old children, who were prescribed Ritalin for ADD? Wow, what a pharmaceutical company dream come true!
A drug addict for life. Once this child is of the legal age, 18 in most states and 21 in others, well, they can now ask for any psychotic drug they want. In addition to five other or so drugs to counter all the side effects from the childhood years of drug abuse. Well, is it really drug abuse if I allow my doctor to prescribe a drug for my child that will allow him or her to be a more attentive student, be more sociable with others while I am working 12 hours a day, golfing, doing yoga and pilates, or is it child abuse?
I have four children. If they so much take a Tylenol over a six-month period I am upset. They all seem ok. They do well in school. They seem to follow instructions well.
I am simple man. I believe a little family participation, playing a little ball in the park, good food, sunlight and exercise can do a child a lot of good.
I am, however, a little afraid for them and myself. I am afraid that one of these abused children will forget to take his or her medication one day or two and snap. In the process, hurt someone in my family and other innocent children. Unfortunately, I do see children in our community who are troubled and are on these drugs. Frankly, I am bit more than afraid. I am terrified at the thought.
If you are one of these parents or know someone who is, get help. Learn how proper nutrition, exercise and tender care can be more powerful than any drug.
I am aware that there are truly some troubled children out there. I do not believe there are millions of troubled children out there in the U.S.
Thomas Affatato
www.infinitehealthresources.com
The Food and Drug Administration approved expanding use of Johnson & Johnson’s anti-psychotic drug Risperdal to include adolescents suffering from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, a move likely to heighten the already-fierce debate over pediatric prescriptions of such of such powerful drugs.Some doctors are concerned about the safety of treating children whose bodies are still growing with Risperdal and similar medications. They point out that the FDA’s decision is based on short-term studies. Risperdal and competing drugs have previously been tied to serious side effects including increased blood sugar, a potential precursor to diabetes.“ We definitely need to have longer-term follow-up to learn the full extent of the side-effect liabilities,” said Jeffrey Lieberman, chairman of the psychiatry department at Columbia University in New York gets research funding from drug companies.The FDA approval, which is limited to schizophrenic youngsters 13 –17 years old and short-term treatment of bipolar patients who are 10 – 17, also comes as experts continue to disagree over what symptoms justify prescribing anti-psychotics to teens and children.Risperdal is the first of the newer-generation anti-psychotic drugs known as “atypical” to win FDA approval for those conditions in young people. It was already sanctioned for irritability in pediatric patients with autism.Doctors are allowed to prescribe marketed drugs for any use they wish, even if it isn’t specifically approved by the FDA, and the use of anti-psychotics in young people is already growing rapidly. Overall, the drugs have roughly $15 billion in yearly sales, with Risperdal ringing up $4.18 billion last year. The number of doctor visits by patients 20 years and younger that included an anti-psychotic prescription grew to an estimated 1.2 million in 2002, from about 201,000 in 1993.
Here is where I must stop and ask, what happened between 1993 and 2002 that caused bipolar disorder and schizophrenia to increase in teens?
Was it Bill Clinton’s Monica Lewinsky affair? Was it the tech bubble of 200? Or was it September 11th, 2001?
Here is what I think. Perhaps it was because of the disconnection between parent and child. Let’s face it. No 13-year-old is going to get a prescription for such a dangerous drug without the parent or parent’s consent.
Are these the same 5-7-year-old children, who were prescribed Ritalin for ADD? Wow, what a pharmaceutical company dream come true!
A drug addict for life. Once this child is of the legal age, 18 in most states and 21 in others, well, they can now ask for any psychotic drug they want. In addition to five other or so drugs to counter all the side effects from the childhood years of drug abuse. Well, is it really drug abuse if I allow my doctor to prescribe a drug for my child that will allow him or her to be a more attentive student, be more sociable with others while I am working 12 hours a day, golfing, doing yoga and pilates, or is it child abuse?
I have four children. If they so much take a Tylenol over a six-month period I am upset. They all seem ok. They do well in school. They seem to follow instructions well.
I am simple man. I believe a little family participation, playing a little ball in the park, good food, sunlight and exercise can do a child a lot of good.
I am, however, a little afraid for them and myself. I am afraid that one of these abused children will forget to take his or her medication one day or two and snap. In the process, hurt someone in my family and other innocent children. Unfortunately, I do see children in our community who are troubled and are on these drugs. Frankly, I am bit more than afraid. I am terrified at the thought.
If you are one of these parents or know someone who is, get help. Learn how proper nutrition, exercise and tender care can be more powerful than any drug.
I am aware that there are truly some troubled children out there. I do not believe there are millions of troubled children out there in the U.S.
Thomas Affatato
www.infinitehealthresources.com
Monday, October 8, 2007
The Death of Environmentalism
The Death of Environmentalism
There has finally came a book that dares to actually speak the truth about global warming.
Breakthrough: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility. Authors Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger break from the Sierra Club and Al Gore mentality and really do tell the truth inconvenient truth.
The major point made in this book that Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth farce barely gave 60 seconds to, is that China and India could well be solely responsible for all Global Warming by 2050. Here’s what Shellenberger had to say.
“If China burns all the coal that is set to burn between now and 2050,” Shellenberger says, “We are super-deeply fucked.”
The fact hardly ever talked about by most hard left wing environmentalists is that China fires up a new coal burning plant every 7-10 days with no pollution control measures whatsoever. India isn’t very far behind them.
Here is a fact made evident in the book, Breakthrough. Even if every American SUV owner were to buy a hybrid tomorrow, that wouldn’t come close to offsetting the environmental change being perpetrated around the globe. In fact all the standards, cap and trade limits, and emission reduction standards that environmentalists have been pushing for may slow, but will never reverse global warming. That is Shellenberger and Nordhaus’ inconvenient truth.
Hollywood and Al Gore have put together a convenient lie at making the U.S. the bad guy, again, for the world’s global woes.
Consider this. Evidence shows, since the Kyoto agreement, many of the 36 industrialized countries that committed to reducing emissions from many of the 36 nations have gone up not down.
These two men have realized a new way of thinking about global warming has come. For the past 10 years, Nordhaus and Shellenberger toiled in the green movement as political strategists and consultants, each wanting to have an impact on society.
Breakthrough takes accurate aim at the environmental movement’s biggest leaders, like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Al Gore. “If this book doesn’t piss off a lot of Liberals, we’ve failed,” Nordhaus says.
I, Thomas Affatato, am personally against big government and higher taxes. However, I do believe global warming is real. The proof for me came two years ago when I was introduced to chemtrails in the sky. Those ubiquitous long plumes that criss-cross each other and expand into a hazy cloud cover. The Discovery Channel had a segment on it this year. I realized then, that this concerted effort by the world’s industrialized nations to filter the sun’s rays is possibly a last minute effort to save the plant. This is quite alarming. There are hundreds of thousands of health issues, although unproven at this time, related to the chemicals dispersed by these high flying unmarked tankers.
I do not believe that the meteoric rise of asthma in children over the last decade is the result of food allergies and peanuts.
Breakthrough contends it is the government’s responsibility to fund in an unprecedented way, to find the technology needed to eliminate carbon emissions. They call for a $300 billion investment that could lead to another $200 billion investment by private enterprise.
Nordhaus and Shellenberger contend this is the next revolution in technology. They call it the $300 billion Manhattan Project.
Nordhaus and Shellenberger make a good point. Intel and Google wouldn’t exist today if it weren’t massive federal spending on Computer Science for the military and many tech firms like them figured a way to take this technological revolution to the masses.
For Christ’s Sake! We have spent this money on Iraq to date. Sad to say, it may well be a $300 billion mistake and waste. More importantly are the thousands of young men and women who have been killed and mamed in the process. For what?
To protect the fuel source every air conditioned, lighted home, restaurant, factory, airline, office building and car owner throughout the world, so deeply depends. You do not see the U.S., Nato or Russia in Africa with the same zeal. Because frankly, in the world’s scheme of things. Africa does not matter.
Breakthrough will stop terrorism in its tracks. The day the Middle East and places like Venezuela are not needed we will have literally cut the head off the industrialized world’s enemies. In the process, the next technological revolution will lift billions of people out of poverty, pollution and misery.
Let’s all listen to the inconvenient truth in the new book, Breakthrough: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility. By Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger.
Thomas Affatato
For more on the environment and the healthy lifestyle visit www.infinitehealthresources.com
There has finally came a book that dares to actually speak the truth about global warming.
Breakthrough: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility. Authors Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger break from the Sierra Club and Al Gore mentality and really do tell the truth inconvenient truth.
The major point made in this book that Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth farce barely gave 60 seconds to, is that China and India could well be solely responsible for all Global Warming by 2050. Here’s what Shellenberger had to say.
“If China burns all the coal that is set to burn between now and 2050,” Shellenberger says, “We are super-deeply fucked.”
The fact hardly ever talked about by most hard left wing environmentalists is that China fires up a new coal burning plant every 7-10 days with no pollution control measures whatsoever. India isn’t very far behind them.
Here is a fact made evident in the book, Breakthrough. Even if every American SUV owner were to buy a hybrid tomorrow, that wouldn’t come close to offsetting the environmental change being perpetrated around the globe. In fact all the standards, cap and trade limits, and emission reduction standards that environmentalists have been pushing for may slow, but will never reverse global warming. That is Shellenberger and Nordhaus’ inconvenient truth.
Hollywood and Al Gore have put together a convenient lie at making the U.S. the bad guy, again, for the world’s global woes.
Consider this. Evidence shows, since the Kyoto agreement, many of the 36 industrialized countries that committed to reducing emissions from many of the 36 nations have gone up not down.
These two men have realized a new way of thinking about global warming has come. For the past 10 years, Nordhaus and Shellenberger toiled in the green movement as political strategists and consultants, each wanting to have an impact on society.
Breakthrough takes accurate aim at the environmental movement’s biggest leaders, like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Al Gore. “If this book doesn’t piss off a lot of Liberals, we’ve failed,” Nordhaus says.
I, Thomas Affatato, am personally against big government and higher taxes. However, I do believe global warming is real. The proof for me came two years ago when I was introduced to chemtrails in the sky. Those ubiquitous long plumes that criss-cross each other and expand into a hazy cloud cover. The Discovery Channel had a segment on it this year. I realized then, that this concerted effort by the world’s industrialized nations to filter the sun’s rays is possibly a last minute effort to save the plant. This is quite alarming. There are hundreds of thousands of health issues, although unproven at this time, related to the chemicals dispersed by these high flying unmarked tankers.
I do not believe that the meteoric rise of asthma in children over the last decade is the result of food allergies and peanuts.
Breakthrough contends it is the government’s responsibility to fund in an unprecedented way, to find the technology needed to eliminate carbon emissions. They call for a $300 billion investment that could lead to another $200 billion investment by private enterprise.
Nordhaus and Shellenberger contend this is the next revolution in technology. They call it the $300 billion Manhattan Project.
Nordhaus and Shellenberger make a good point. Intel and Google wouldn’t exist today if it weren’t massive federal spending on Computer Science for the military and many tech firms like them figured a way to take this technological revolution to the masses.
For Christ’s Sake! We have spent this money on Iraq to date. Sad to say, it may well be a $300 billion mistake and waste. More importantly are the thousands of young men and women who have been killed and mamed in the process. For what?
To protect the fuel source every air conditioned, lighted home, restaurant, factory, airline, office building and car owner throughout the world, so deeply depends. You do not see the U.S., Nato or Russia in Africa with the same zeal. Because frankly, in the world’s scheme of things. Africa does not matter.
Breakthrough will stop terrorism in its tracks. The day the Middle East and places like Venezuela are not needed we will have literally cut the head off the industrialized world’s enemies. In the process, the next technological revolution will lift billions of people out of poverty, pollution and misery.
Let’s all listen to the inconvenient truth in the new book, Breakthrough: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility. By Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger.
Thomas Affatato
For more on the environment and the healthy lifestyle visit www.infinitehealthresources.com
Bush Signs FDA Drug Safety Bill
Bush Signs FDA Drug Safety Bill
President Bush signs a measure that gives the Food and Drug Administration more power and money to police dangerous side effects from prescription drugs after they reach the market. The signing averts the possibility of massive layoffs at the FDA by extending and increasing industry fees that help pay agency staff salaries. The money had been set to run out on September 30.
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The key point here is the sentence, “. The signing averts the possibility of massive layoffs at the FDA by extending and increasing industry fees that help pay agency staff salaries.”
The mere fact that we have one government agency the oversees Food and Drugs, when one has nothing to do with the other is mind-boggling.
I guess if you and your family eat in McDonald’s and KFC several times a week, then you and possibly a few family members may be on Diabetes Type II drugs and Lipitor for high cholesterol.
McDonald’s and KFC have serious side effects just like drugs. So I guess the FDA, Food and Drug Administration makes sense.
Here’s a little food for thought. The pharmaceutical companies and many food companies contribute as much as $500,000,000.00 annually to the operation of the FDA. Visit the U.S. Office of Management and Budget to see how our government agencies get funded.
Now, if I ran a public corporation the way the government runs the FDA, funded by the same corporations is what set up to oversee. I would be sent to jail.
So it is no surprise that we are deluged with Drug commercials and Fast Food commercials. Otherwise, how will these major corporations get the $500,000,000.00 annually required to fund the state sponsored FDA, Food and Drug Administration.
Just Mind-Boggling!
Visit www.infinitehealthresources.com for more information on living the healthy lifestyle for you and your family.
President Bush signs a measure that gives the Food and Drug Administration more power and money to police dangerous side effects from prescription drugs after they reach the market. The signing averts the possibility of massive layoffs at the FDA by extending and increasing industry fees that help pay agency staff salaries. The money had been set to run out on September 30.
~End~
The key point here is the sentence, “. The signing averts the possibility of massive layoffs at the FDA by extending and increasing industry fees that help pay agency staff salaries.”
The mere fact that we have one government agency the oversees Food and Drugs, when one has nothing to do with the other is mind-boggling.
I guess if you and your family eat in McDonald’s and KFC several times a week, then you and possibly a few family members may be on Diabetes Type II drugs and Lipitor for high cholesterol.
McDonald’s and KFC have serious side effects just like drugs. So I guess the FDA, Food and Drug Administration makes sense.
Here’s a little food for thought. The pharmaceutical companies and many food companies contribute as much as $500,000,000.00 annually to the operation of the FDA. Visit the U.S. Office of Management and Budget to see how our government agencies get funded.
Now, if I ran a public corporation the way the government runs the FDA, funded by the same corporations is what set up to oversee. I would be sent to jail.
So it is no surprise that we are deluged with Drug commercials and Fast Food commercials. Otherwise, how will these major corporations get the $500,000,000.00 annually required to fund the state sponsored FDA, Food and Drug Administration.
Just Mind-Boggling!
Visit www.infinitehealthresources.com for more information on living the healthy lifestyle for you and your family.
Emergency Radios
I recently came across an Ad by the American Red Cross. They are selling Emergency Radios, American Red Cross Radios by Eton. These radios are a light source, cell phone charger, radio and renewable energy source. A tool in the event of emergencies like tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, blackouts, earthquakes, wild fires and terrorist attacks. Prices start at $50.00 and I am sure the American Red Cross is receiving some donations from the proceeds.
You can also download your Free Preparedness Guide at www.etoncorp.com.
Courtesy of www.infinitehealthresources.com
You can also download your Free Preparedness Guide at www.etoncorp.com.
Courtesy of www.infinitehealthresources.com
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