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		<title>90 Second Tool for Calming Emotions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t science wonderful?! 
Did you know the chemicals that make up our emotional feelings only stay in our blood for 90 seconds? 90 Seconds!  We all have the power to cycle out of worry, anger or fear&#8230;here&#8217;s how.  Feel how your &#8220;mood&#8221; or &#8220;attitude&#8221; or &#8220;feeling&#8221; actually feels in your body.  Are you calm?  Peaceful?  Happy?  [...]]]></description>
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<p>Did you know the chemicals that make up our emotional feelings only stay in our blood for 90 seconds? 90 Seconds!  We all have the power to cycle out of worry, anger or fear&#8230;here&#8217;s how.  Feel how your &#8220;mood&#8221; or &#8220;attitude&#8221; or &#8220;feeling&#8221; actually feels in your body.  Are you calm?  Peaceful?  Happy?  Is life feeling pleasant right now?  If not, then REST, put yourself on PAUSE for 90 seconds.  STOP whatever you are doing.  Breathe.  Breathe again.  Breathe once more.  Then shift your thoughts to anything or anyone you love and allow your chest to relax: music, sunsets, mountains, oceans, dogs &#8211; and keep picturing and thinking and breathing for 90 seconds.  This isn&#8217;t a game, this is physiology.  You must be truly engaged with your emotions for this to work&#8230;and it does work!  You are the conductor of your internal chemical orchestra.   </p>
<p>Karen Lamark Wilson<br />
<a href="http://www.heartofcourage.com/">www.HeartofCourage.com</a></p>
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		<title>Integrative Medicine-Natural &amp; Conventional!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8220;A natural approach to cancer is based on making your body healthier. To strengthen a depleted, worn out, under energized immune system that is not capable of killing cancer cells as fast as they are multiplying. &#8220;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="style8"><span style="color: black"> <em>&#8220;<span style="color: black">A natural approach to cancer is based on making your body healthier. To strengthen a depleted, worn out, under energized immune system that is not capable of killing cancer cells as fast as they are multiplying. &#8220;</span></em></span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">This is an article written by a friend of mine that I wanted to share.  As I continue my <a title="cancer support" href="http://www.sheilaulrich.com/blog/survive-cancer.htm">cancer support</a>, I want to share this view.  This is information <strong><em>I just knew early</em></strong> on in my <a title="cancer survivor" href="http://www.sheilaulrich.com/blog">cancer survivor </a>journey.  Read my <a title="blog post yesterday" href="http://sheilaulrich.com/blog/what-is-truth.htm">blog post yesterday </a>on truth!!!</span></span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">Use this information in your journey to health.  If conventional treatment is right for you&#8230;great&#8230;!!  Also consider other ways to heal.</span></span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">For more information and details on options, resources, products and pratitioners go here <a href="http://sheilaulrich.com/blog/be-a-cancer-survivor-main/" target="_blank">Be A Cancer Survivor: A Process to Wellness</a></span></span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">Also enter your name and email and join my community to get the latest expert news on health of <a href="http://www.sheilaulrich.com/blog/Integrative-medicine.htm" target="_blank">body mind and spirit</a>.</span></span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black"><a title="integrative medicine" href="http://www.sheilaulrich.com/blog/integrative-medicine.htm">Integrative medicine </a>is the way to go when you are dealing with cancer or any chronic disease. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">Because of this stress and the overload of toxins, you end up with a malfunctioning immune system, and a body that is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">not</span> capable of destroying the excessive numbers of cancerous cells that develop. Some, sooner or later, survive and multiply. And then you have cancer. Of course, our diets loaded with sugar and refined carbohydrates don&#8217;t help. Refined carbohydrates digest so fast they act like sugar, and cancer cells love sugar. They have about 15 times more receptor cells for capturing sugar than healthy cells. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">Overcoming cancer is a process of <strong>reversing</strong> the conditions that allowed the cancer to develop, and going after and killing cancerous cells. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">The exact causes don&#8217;t have to be known, though certainly the more varied the approaches taken to correct those conditions, the more likely you are going to hit on what works best in a particular case. What you need to do is to <strong>strongly and dramatically interrupt and reverse</strong> the cancer-causing conditions in your body so that it becomes healthier, and stops breeding cancer. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">The more cancer there is, the more serious the condition, meaning much more has to be done &#8212; fast. It may be too late, or it may not. No one knows where that cutoff point is as some people given only a few days to live have pulled through and conquered cancer when they applied these strategies. </span></p>
<p class="style8">There was a woman whose daughter was in the advanced stages of brain cancer.  She asked her oncologist if it was ok to give her daughter a superfood called blue green algae. Her doctor told her that it was no problem, that in fact a number of his patients had used that supplement with success in fighting cancer.</p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">Naturally she wondered why he didn&#8217;t tell her about this product a year before when they came to him.</span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">Unfortunately, he couldn&#8217;t tell her about this or any &#8220;natural or alternative health therapies&#8221; and stay employed.  <strong>Insurance regulations</strong> <strong>would preclude such suggestions</strong>.  And he could get into administrative trouble by recommending natural, non-drug treatments for cancer.  </span></p>
<p class="style8">His advice is controlled by a large medical industry that makes mega money off expensive cancer fighting drugs and treatments.  An industry that doesn&#8217;t look favorably on natural supplements or other cancer treatments as they cannot patent them to make high profits.</p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">Fifty years from now, the current conventional cancer treatments used by doctors will on the whole be viewed in the same light that we view the old medical practice of using <strong>leeches</strong> to cure illnesses. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">Chemotherapy and other treatments <em>damage cells</em> and tear down and weaken the immune system. But the problem in the first place is that your immune system is already weak, and that your cells are already damaged. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">Even if tumors do go into remission, these treatments will have damaged other cells, which are more likely to turn cancerous. The immune system, unless it is supported by supplements and diet to help it recover, will be in <strong>worse</strong> shape then ever. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">While it may have taken decades for cancer to develop the first time around, the second time usually takes a year or two. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">Another reason why doctors ignore sensible, safe and healthy treatments for cancer, and recommend costly and illogical treatments instead &#8212; is human nature. They advise and prescribe what they know. Just what we all do. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">You go to them and you get what they know. You assume they will do the best they can for you, while in fact they only do what the system teaches them, promotes and allows them to do. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #003300"><strong>A Doctor&#8217;s Shocking Closed-Door Confession  &#8230;</strong></span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">In a survey of 79 oncologists from McGill University Cancer Center in Canada, 64 said they would <em>not</em> consent to treatment with Cisplatin, a common chemotherapy drug, while <strong>58 oncologists</strong> said they would reject <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">all</span></strong> the current trials being carried out by their establishment. Why? &#8220;The ineffectiveness of chemotherapy and its unacceptable degree of toxicity.&#8221; Philip Day, <em>Cancer: Why We&#8217;re Still Dying to Know the Truth</em></span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">This information is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">shocking</span> to say the least.  But consider this &#8230;</span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">Doctors today are not very different than they were 150 or 200 years ago. Back then the common practice was for interns and doctors working on cadavers to walk down the hall to deliver a baby <em>without</em> washing their hands. Many women died from the subsequent infections. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">Finally a doctor in charge of a clinic figured out what was happening, and had them wash their hands. The infections stopped. When he published his results, <strong>the medical profession was</strong> <strong>outraged</strong>. Good doctors could not be the cause of something like this. The doctor was ostracized and fired. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">He went elsewhere and repeated the experiment. Again, deaths dropped. Again he announced the results, and again the medical profession rose up against him. The end of the story was, he lost everything, went insane from the tragedy of it all, and eventually killed himself. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">Bottom line:  Don&#8217;t expect a doctor working inside the system to buck the system. The risks are too great. </span></p>
<p>According to the National Cancer Institute, about 500,000 people will be diagnosed with some form of cancer this year. You may not know it, but cancer &#8212; NOT heart disease &#8212; is the number one risk of death for most everyone.</p>
<p>Chemotherapy works by killing all cells &#8212; throughout your body &#8212; that multiply and divide rapidly. This would include cancer cells, and other rapidly multiplying and dividing cells, that we need, such as:</p>
<blockquote><p>Bone marrow, which produces blood<br />
Digestive system<br />
Reproductive system<br />
Hair follicles</p></blockquote>
<p>This overkill approach is one of the causes of an astounding overall failure rate of chemotherapy, as you&#8217;ll see below.</p>
<p>In 2004, the Journal of Clinical Oncology published a study about chemotherapy’s success rates when looking at how many cancer patients were still alive after 5 years. It states:</p>
<p>RESULTS: The overall contribution of curative and adjuvant cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adults was estimated to be 2.3% in Australia and 2.1% in the USA.</p>
<p>CONCLUSION: As the 5-year relative survival rate for cancer in Australia is now over 60%, it is clear that cytotoxic chemotherapy only makes a minor contribution to cancer survival. To justify the continued funding and availability of drugs used in cytotoxic chemotherapy, a rigorous evaluation of the cost-effectiveness and impact on quality of life is urgently required.</p>
<p>You’d be hard pressed to find anything still being touted as your best shot at a cure with an average success rate of just over 2 percent, which chemotherapy has, if it wasn’t for the fact that big profits were driving the recommendation. For stage 4 cancers the rate is less than half of one percent.</p>
<p>Fundamentally, chemotherapy rarely works. Worse, some drug treatments also promote the spread of cancer. But somehow the rationale to avoid these agents because they might promote cancer does not apply when it comes to drugs.</p>
<p>– A Cancer Journal for the Clinician article concludes by stating:</p>
<p>“Pending the publication of suitable trials, clinicians must be guided by existing data in the context of a fundamental principle of medicine, &#8220;Primum non nocere.&#8221; (First do no harm.)</p>
<p>And yet, conventional cancer treatments can in no way, shape or form ever be considered harmless.</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230;as a chemist trained to interpret data, it is incomprehensible to me that physicians can ignore the clear evidence that chemotherapy does much, much more harm than good.&#8221;<br />
Alan C Nixon, PhD, former president of the American Chemical Society</p>
<p class="style8"><span class="style44">It is not all gloom and doom with chemotherapy. For two decades Dr. Perez Garcia has been using a treatment he calls Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT). It consists of giving a patient a dose of insulin followed by a tiny dose of chemotherapy. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span class="style44">Cancer cells have 15 times more insulin receptors than normal cells. The insulin dose helps to target chemotherapy into cancer cells because they have so many more insulin receptors. So small doses of chemotherapy can be used that cause little harm to normal cells. With Stage 1 or 2 cancer, IPT is, I read, about 80% successful, mixed results for more serious cancers. So after two decades of use, how many doctors were using IPT in the USA? 29. Hard to believe isn&#8217;t it. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span class="style44">Many oncologists make much of their income from the markup they make on chemotherapy drugs, and small doses don&#8217;t make big money. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span class="Section1">You don&#8217;t have to avoid chemotherapy or radiation therapy to receive benefits from natural products and supplements. <span class="Section1"><span>In fact, nutritional supplements are quite useful when used in conjunction with chemotherapy, radiation therapy and surgery. </span></span>The best ones work to support the body so that radiation and chemo will actually work better. In addition, the immune system will be stronger, and better able to keep cancer from developing again. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">It makes sense, doesn&#8217;t it, to supplement your chemotherapy or radiation treatments with other options that support your body and actually help it be much more effective in fighting cancer.</span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">Many people <em>only</em> do chemotherapy and radiation therapy, and do not also support their body&#8217;s fight against cancer in other ways. All too often, the cancer is not destroyed, or comes back a short while later. And no wonder&#8230;</span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">If the immune system has been wiped out by chemotherapy or radiation, cancer is bound to overrun the body even faster than before. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">Seeking other options <em>after</em> the doctors throw in the towel and say there is nothing else they can do, is necessary. It makes more sense to correct the underlying causes of cancer early on when the odds are much better. Especially with natural supplelments that can do no harm. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">Natural supplements won&#8217;t hurt you. They can only help. <em>They won&#8217;t make chemotherapy or radiation therapy less effective.</em>  Instead they <span style="text-decoration: underline;">amplify</span> the power of whatever cancer treatments you may be doing by attacking cancer in other ways, or supporting the health of the body and immune system.  For example, research studies have shown that when you oxygenate cancer cells, radiation therapy is more effective at killing those cells. And beta glucan, when used in conjunction with some types of chemotherapy, produced marked improvement over chemotherapy alone. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span class="style44">Certainly some people beat cancer using chemotherapy or radiation therapy. But look at the number of deaths from cancer, and you see that to many people <span style="text-decoration: underline;">don&#8217;t</span>. Not using natural supplements to fight cancer is like being in a life and death struggle, and choosing to fight with one hand tied behind your back.</span></p>
<p class="style8" align="center"><span class="style44">Hit cancer hard. This is one fight you don&#8217;t want to lose. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">The more support you give your body, the better you will be at handling any possible side effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy, and the better your body will be at fighting cancer. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">A natural approach to cancer is based on making your body <em>healthier</em>. To strengthen a depleted, worn out, under energized immune system that is not capable of killing cancer cells as fast as they are multiplying. </span></p>
<p class="style8"><span style="color: black">Use safe, natural supplements to change the body&#8217;s internal environment to one that does <em>not</em> support the growth of cancer, and to directly kill cancer cells. </span></p>
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Again use what feels right to you in choosing your treatment plan.  I am here to offer cancer support and as a cancer survivor speaker, I am here to speak to you on all topics related to cancer survival. 
Cancer Drugs Make Tumors Grow 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Here is new research you must read on drugs used for treating cancer! </strong></p>
<p>Again use what feels right to you in choosing your treatment plan.  I am here to offer <a title="cancer support" href="http://www.sheilaulrich.com/blog/get-rid-of-the-junk.htm">cancer support</a> and as a <a title="cancer survivor speaker" href="http://www.sheilaulrich.com/blog">cancer survivor speaker</a>, I am here to speak to you on all topics related to cancer survival.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p>Cancer Drugs Make Tumors Grow </p>
<p>Drugs like Avastin that are used to treat some cancers are supposed to work by blocking a vessel growth-promoting protein called vascular endothelial growth factor, or VEGF. With VEGF held in check, researchers have assumed tumors wouldn&#8217;t generate blood vessels and that should keep malignancies from growing. In a sense, the cancerous growths would be &#8220;starved&#8221;. But new research just published in the journal <em>Nature</em> shows this isn&#8217;t true. Instead of weakening blood vessels so they won&#8217;t &#8220;feed&#8221; malignant tumors, these cancer treatments, known as anti-angiogenesis drugs, actually normalize and strengthen blood vessels &#8212; and that means they can spur tumors to grow larger.</p>
<p><strong><em>&#8220;I used shark cartlege, a natural approach in my cancer journey and to survive cancer.  The concept makes sense and worked for me.&#8221;  (sheila)<br />
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For their study, researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla, replicated the action of anti-angiogenesis drugs by genetically decreasing VEGF levels in mouse tumors and inflammatory cells in several types of cancers, including pancreatic cancer. The research team, headed by David Cheresh, Ph.D., professor and vice chair of pathology at UCSD, also used drugs to inhibit VEGF receptor activity. The results? <em><strong>In every single instance, blood vessels were not weakened but, instead, were made normal again. And in some cases, tumors increased in size.</strong></em>.</p>
<p>In a prepared statement for the press, Dr. Cherish said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve discovered that when anti-angiogenesis drugs are used to lower the level of VEGF within a tumor, it&#8217;s not so much a reduction in the endothelial cells and losing blood vessels as it is an activation of the tumor blood vessels supporting cells. It appears that the drugs, in shutting down VEGF activity, are actively maturing blood vessels, causing them to become stable and more normal, as opposed to reducing blood vessels.&#8221;</p>
<p>Although the findings of this study might sound like a death knell for drugs like Avastin, Dr. Cheresh claims the fact anti-angiogenesis drugs can increase tumor size and give them stronger blood vessels could be a good thing. According to his press statement, he suggests chemotherapy drugs may be able to get to cancer tumors more directly through the stronger blood vessels created by the anti-angiogenesis drugs. &#8220;We have to test available regimens and perhaps restructure the way that we give drugs,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We may be giving the right drugs, but we may not be giving them in the right order. We&#8217;re just beginning to understand how it works.&#8221;</p>
<p>That could be seen a huge understatement. After all, Dr. Cheresh&#8217;s own research shows the <em><strong>supposedly cancer fighting anti-angiogenesis drugs appear to do exactly the opposite of what scientists thought they did.</strong></em></p>
<p>Dr. Cheresh also points out in his media statement that the results of the <em>Nature</em> study demonstrate how a specific host&#8217;s response to cancer is critical in terms of susceptibility to therapy. &#8220;It&#8217;s not just about the therapy, but also what the host does in response to the cancer that makes a difference whether a tumor lives or dies, and if it&#8217;s susceptible to a drug or not. We can change the host response to the cancer,&#8221; he stated.</p>
<p>While Dr. Cheresh is talking about using drugs to influence how the host responds to cancer, <a title="natural cancer treatment" href="http://www.sheilaulrich.com/blog/integrative-medicine.htm">natural health treatment </a>advocates have pointed out for decades that strengthening the body&#8217;s own defense system and avoiding cancer-promoting and potentially health-weakening toxins, foods and behaviors can help keep cancer at bay. Mainstream medicine appears to be recognizing the efficacy of this strategy more and more, too.</p>
<p>For example, a new review sponsored by the American Cancer Society just published in <em>CA: Cancer Journal for Clinicians</em> studied potential pharmaceutical, dietary, surgical, and other approaches to reducing the risk of breast cancer . The conclusions show that risk reduction strategies should focus primarily on lifestyle factors &#8212; specifically, eating a healthy diet, drinking alcohol moderately or not at all, and maintaining a healthy weight. In other words, natural, common sense healthy living that strengthen the &#8220;host&#8221; appear to be the best ways to prevent cancer in the first placby Sherry Baker</p>
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Did you know the chemicals that make up our emotional feelings only stay in our blood for 90 seconds? 90 Seconds!
We all have the power to cycle out of worry, anger or fear&#8230;here&#8217;s how.
Feel how your &#8220;mood&#8221; or &#8220;attitude&#8221; or &#8220;feeling&#8221; actually feels in your body.
  Are you calm? Peaceful? Happy?  Is life [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Isn&#8217;t science wonderful?!</p>
<p>Did you know the chemicals that make up our emotional feelings only stay in our blood for 90 seconds? 90 Seconds!</p>
<p>We all have the power to cycle out of worry, anger or fear&#8230;here&#8217;s how.</p>
<p>Feel how your &#8220;mood&#8221; or &#8220;attitude&#8221; or &#8220;feeling&#8221; actually feels in your body.</p>
<p>  Are you calm? Peaceful? Happy?  Is life feeling pleasant right now? </p>
<p>If not, then REST, put yourself on PAUSE for 90 seconds. STOP whatever you are doing.</p>
<p>Breathe. Breathe again. Breathe once more.</p>
<p>Then shift your thoughts to anything or anyone you love and allow your chest to relax: music, sunsets, mountains, oceans, dogs &#8211; and keep picturing and thinking and breathing for 90 seconds.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t a game, this is physiology. You must be truly engaged with your emotions for this to work&#8230;and it does work!</p>
<p>You are the conductor of your internal chemical orchestra.</p>
<p>Karen Lamark Wilson www.HeartofCourage.com</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We all know something is working with our medical systems today. Costs are rising for health care and insurance.  More and more people don&#8217;t have health insurance and can&#8217;t get the care they need.  Something has to change.</p>
<p>Through all my experiences as I travel the medical hallways with <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sheilaulrich.com/blog/Detoxification-with-coffee-Enemas.htm" title="cancer">cancer</a>, I realized the system in the west is to treat the symptoms.  If they got rid of the symptoms, they believed they were successful.  But what about the cause??  Who was treating the cause or looking for the cause so we could heal our bodies.  I was so discouraged that I couldn&#8217;t find anyone to help me <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sheilaulrich.com/blog/cancer-support.htm" title="heal from cancer">heal from cancer </a>in the medical industry.  How could that be?</p>
<p>So what if they got rid of the tumor, if the environment where the tumor grew didn&#8217;t change.  Its a pretty good bet I would grow more cancer cells! </p>
<p>The same is true with asthma, skin rashes, herpes, etc.  You can get rid of the symptom, the breathing difficulty or rash, etc. but what did we do to heal the processes of the body so the symptoms never come back.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.sheilaulrich.com/blog/Integrative-medicine.htm" title="how can we heal">HOW CAN WE HEAL</a>??  That is the question every doctor on the planet should be asking!!</p>
<p>Intuitively I knew I had to find the reason my body was making cancer cells.  What was going wrong in my cells or processess that I was so messed up.  I have been searching and learning and growing and healing for years.  WhoooHOO!</p>
<p>I am still alive to be still on this journey!!</p>
<p>Didn&#8217;t God tell us we were created to heal our bodies??  How the heck are we suppose to do that?</p>
<p>I am so grateful more and more is being said about healthy lifestyle and prevention.  I am so grateful that there is scientific evidence linking stress to disease.  I am so grateful that more and more doctors are stepping out to share how and why our bodies are breaking down and what we can do to heal.</p>
<p>If we give our bodies what they need, we can heal.  I am a walking, breathing example.  I know there are certain vitamins and minerals that will help my body heal.  Email <a href="mailto:sheila@sheilaulrich.com">sheila@sheilaulrich.com</a> for <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sheilaulrich.com/blog/" title="cancer support">cancer support</a>.</p>
<p>It is not just a pill you can pop which will heal you, it is much more than that.  You must heal all aspects of YOU!  <a target="_blank" href="http://sheilaulrich.com/blog/health-words-of-wisdom/" title="body mind and spirit">Heal body mind and spirit!</a></p>
<p>We now know that our thoughts and our emotions have a lot to do with the physiology of our bodies.  We now know our spiritual awareness has a link to healing our bodies.  There is more and more research being done in these fields which will increase awareness.  People still need proof it is true.  Don&#8217;t forget you are more than your physical body.  Even though we can&#8217;t see something, doesn&#8217;t mean it doesn&#8217;t exist.</p>
<p>One step at a time we are making progress, the industry is changing and together we can heal.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a cancer survivor, I have been through years of testing using CT and xrays.  I always laid there wondering how good this radiation could be for me.  Then I thought the cancer will kill me first so I had to do it.  I was constantly weighing the options of what is harmful and what [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sheilaulrich.com/blog/cancer-support-and-drugs.htm" title="cancer survivor ">cancer survivor, </a>I have been through years of testing using CT and xrays.  I always laid there wondering how good this radiation could be for me.  Then I thought the cancer will kill me first so I had to do it.  I was constantly weighing the options of what is harmful and what was good for my body and cells.  It is so difficult, especially since most of us going through this cancer testing are emotionally not balanced and physically not balanced.  Then we have to make life saving decisions.  WOW!</p>
<p>Tell me what you think about the data and information on radiation testing and potential damage.  Leave a comment. </p>
<p>Americans Exposed to Atomic Bomb Levels of Radiation through Medical Imaging, CT Scans, Mammograms<br />
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor</p>
<p>(NaturalNews) A new report released by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement reveals that Americans&#8217; exposure to radiation has increased more than 600 percent over the last three decades. Most of that increase has come from patients&#8217; exposure to radiation through medical imaging scans such as CT scans and mammograms.</p>
<p>Most patients have no awareness of the dangers of ionizing radiation due to medical imaging scans. Virtually no patients &#8212; and few doctors &#8212; realize that one CT scan exposes the body to the equivalent of several hundred X-rays (<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/023582.html">http://www.naturalnews.com/023582.html</a>), for example. Most women undergoing mammograms have no idea that the radiation emitted by mammography machines actually causes cancer by exposing heart and breast tissue to dangerous ionizing radiation that directly causes DNA damage.</p>
<p>Even low doses of radiation can add up to significant increases in lifelong cancer risk. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (2007) found that survivors of the 1945 atomic bombs unleashed on Japan during World War II still faced significant increases in lifetime cancer risk. And the levels of radiation to which these particular study subjects were exposed is equivalent to receiving only two or three CT scans, explains an ABC News story (<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Cancer">http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Cancer</a>&#8230;).</p>
<p>Yes, it&#8217;s true: A couple of CT scans can expose your body to as much radiation as standing a few miles from an atomic bomb explosion. This is a simple scientific fact.<br />
Is modern medicine priming the population for a wave of future cancers?<br />
Exposure to CT scans and mammograms today can lead to cancer much later in life. As ABC News reports, Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, the deputy chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, says, &#8220;Radiation exposure from these scans is not inconsequential and can lead to later cancers.&#8221;</p>
<p>Thanks to the widespread use of medical imaging scans, hospitals are also becoming a major source of nuclear waste material. See the NaturalNews report on that topic here: <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/025711.html">http://www.naturalnews.com/025711.html</a></p>
<p>This material can be seized by terrorists and used to make dirty bombs. Thus, hospitals are now a major source for potential tools for terrorists.</p>
<p>The bottom-line question in all this is simple: Are medical imaging devices causing more harm than good? And do mammograms actually create future cancer patients by causing cancer in the breast? In my view, the answers to both these questions are a resounding YES. Medical imaging does more than just detect cancer, it also causes cancer! And that&#8217;s in the financial interests of the drug companies and cancer clinics that profit from treating cancer.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what other doctors, authors and health experts have to say on the subject of CT scans, mammograms and radiation:<br />
Authors&#8217; Quotes on Radiation and CT Scans<br />
Below, you&#8217;ll find selected quotes from noted authors on the subject of Radiation and Ct Scans. Feel free to quote these in your own work provided you give proper credit to both the original author quoted here and this NaturalNews page.</p>
<p>After four years of work, it became disturbingly clear to the research team that the main cause of the rising rates of leukemia was medical radiation, in the form of diagnostic medical x-rays. The use of radiation in cancer treatment employs high-intensity x-rays. Much higher doses are involved in cancer treatment than in diagnostic x-rays, because the purpose is to kill cells, or at least cripple their ability to reproduce. While a typical diagnostic X-ray might deliver one or two rads (radiation absorbed doses) of radiation, a six-week course of radiotherapy delivers about 5,000 rads.<br />
- Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the True Source of Healing by John Robbins<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>Do you know, however, that one whole body scan may be equivalent to the radiation received during 500 chest x-rays? Any amount of radiation exposure damages cellular DNA, thereby increasing the risk of cancer and premature aging. Companies promoting these ct scans don&#8217;t mention the radiation, but members of the Life Extension Foundation were told to avoid these body scans because of the health risks posed by this excess amount of radiation.<br />
- Disease Prevention and Treatment by The Life Extension Editorial Staff<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>It is foolish to believe every person entering the cancer era of their lives, from age 50 on, should continually be subjected to screening radiation (X-rays, mammograms, CT scans) and invasive needle biopsies, in a futile attempt to detect cancer at its earliest stage. Paradoxically, all these screening methods only serve to increase the risk for cancer. Among women with detected breast cancer, 88% have not spread and 12% are invasive tumors.<br />
- You Don&#8217;t Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore by Bill Sardi<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>After searching for possible causes, he came to the conclusion that work-related radiation had done the damage. We both have had patients with non-Hodgkin&#8217;s lymphoma who received radiation in the chest and then developed coronary disease. In cardiology, we call that radiation atherosclerosis. We believe x-rays damage endothelial cells. A prime example was a patient with multiple risk factors for CVD, including diabetes and high blood pressure. In 1995, prior to beginning New Cardiology therapy, he was treated with radiation for a neck tumor.<br />
- Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It&#8217;s Too Late by Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>X-ray radiation from medical imaging and ct scans are also believed to increase the risk for cancer. A report issued by the Food &amp; Drug Administration now suggests the risk for cancer from medical x-rays may be as much as 1 in 1,000. There are over 3 billion x-ray images taken annually in the world.<br />
- You Don&#8217;t Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore by Bill Sardi<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>The minimum radiation from a routine chest X-ray is 2 mrem. X-ray radiation accumulates in the body and it is well-known that ionizing radiation used in X-ray procedures causes gene mutation. We can only obtain guesstimates as to its impact on health from this high level of radiation. Experts manage to obscure the real effects in statistical jargon such as, &#8220;The risk for lifetime fatal cancer due to radiation exposure is estimated to be 4 in one million per 1,000 mrem.&#8221;<br />
- Death by Medicine by Gary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD, Dorothy Smith PhD.<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>Should these patients be exposed to repeated radiation mammography? [Clinical Oncology Royal College Radiology 18: 257-67, 2006] Even exposure to chest x-rays, particularly before the age of 20, heightens the risk for breast cancer with BRCA mutations. [Journal Clinical Oncology 24:3361-6, 2006]<br />
Quietly, the radiation emitted during mammography was reduced as digital films were introduced. How many women have now developed breast cancer from these early screenings is unknown. Virtually every woman exposed to high-dose radiation mammography should have been placed on antioxidant therapy.<br />
- You Don&#8217;t Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore by Bill Sardi<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>We are all exposed to radiation in the form of medical x-rays. Cardiologists, for instance, are exposed to a considerable amount of radiation because of the nature of this work. We do fluoroscopy all the time, putting in pacemakers and cardiac catheterizations. Fluoroscopy uses x-rays to view parts of the body on a screen, similar to the screening your luggage undergoes when you pass through airport security.<br />
- Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It&#8217;s Too Late by Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>British physician Alice Stewart has spent much of her life investigating the connection between low-level radiation and higher cancer risks. Most doctors have stopped using fetal x-rays since Stewart&#8217;s work showed that a significant increase in leukemia was found in the children of mothers who had prenatal x-rays taken. She has said she believes that the effects of background radiation coupled with exposure to x-rays may cause most childhood cancers.<br />
- Empty Harvest by Dr Bernard Jenson and Mark Anderson<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>Another treatment, radiation, can trigger neurological symptoms, limiting the amount that can be used to treat cancer. The response of normal brain tissue to radiation often does not appear for weeks or months. So when someone with cancer receives radiation, it can be difficult to tell whether the appearance of neurological symptoms some months later stems from the cancer or from the radiation.<br />
- Keep Your Brain Young: The Complete Guide to Physical and Emotional Health and Longevity by Guy McKhann, and Marilyn Albert<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>And a Wise Woman anti-cancer lifestyle offers many ways to stay cancer-free and prevent recurrence should you decide against adjuvant radiation. If you do choose radiation, it will most likely be a six-week course of therapy, and it can only be done once. (It is considered unsafe to use radiation therapy on the same breast twice). Radiation therapy can cause DNA damage, skin injuries (burns, discoloration, and permanent texture changes), nausea, appetite loss, hair loss, exhaustion, chest pain, pneumonia, and permanent damage to the lungs, heart, and ribs (known as late-stage injuries).<br />
- Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way by Susun S. Weed<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>X-rays are another type of radiation. This is the most common type of human poisoning. Most individuals are poisoned as a result of medical x-rays, which, when performed repeatedly, result in significant tissue damage. X-ray technicians, radiologists, orthopedists, chiropractors, chiropractic assistants, cardiologists, dentists, and dental assistants are highly vulnerable to developing radiation poisoning. High tension power lines are another type of poisoning. In this case the individual is being poisoned by electromagnetic radiation. Radiation may also emanate from broadcasting centers.<br />
- Dr. Cass Ingram&#8217;s Lifesaving Cures by Dr. Cass Ingram<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>History has many examples of how radiation use is strongly linked to an increase in cancer rates. Atomic bomb survivors in Japan have increased rates of leukemia and cancers of the breast, thyroid, lung, stomach and other organs, illustrating another example of how radiation causes cancer. In general, the breast, thyroid and bone marrow are most sensitive to the effects of ionizing radiation. Avoiding unnecessary medical x-rays is one of the best ways to reduce exposure to ionizing radiation.<br />
- Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More by Allison Tannis<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>Bross&#8217;s work in a special article titled &#8220;Low-Level Radiation: Just How Bad Is It?&#8221; The report concluded that it was difficult to accurately assess the hazards posed by the radiation used in x-rays and cancer therapy because of the political nature of the radiation issue. It was hard to get clarity about the dangers, Science noted, because the matter fell within &#8220;the domain of the atomic energy establishment.&#8221; It is perhaps only from within the nuclear establishment itself that the true dangers of medical radiation can ever be told.<br />
- Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the True Source of Healing by John Robbins<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>Damage from radiation exposure accumulates over your lifetime:<br />
• Atomic bomb survivor (35 rads at epicenter): increase up to + 35<br />
• Mammogram (0.5-1 rad): increase + 1 per exposure of each breast. One mammogram can double a 35-year-old woman&#8217;s breast cancer risk.<br />
• Diagnostic x-rays for scoliosis (1.5-3 rads): increase +3 per exposure<br />
• Fluoroscopy (7.5 rads each): increase +5 for each<br />
• Radiation treatment (8,000 rads): increase +10 each<br />
The younger you are when your breasts are exposed to radiation, the greater your risk.<br />
- Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way by Susun S. Weed<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>Exposure to electromagnetic energy from electric and electronic equipment has become a factor in modern life. Radiation protection is offered by amino acids cysteine and glutathione; Vitamins A, C, and E; minerals Selenium and Zinc. Russian clinical study reveals some benefit from Ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus (ES)). RADIATION SICKNESS. Caused by overexposure to radiation such as x-rays, television screens and to an atmosphere polluted by such disasters as Chernobyl.<br />
- Bartram&#8217;s Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine: The Definitive Guide by Thomas Bartram<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>It is claimed that the irradiated foods do not themselves become radioactive and thus are not introducing radiation to the consumer. The concern with food irradiation is that it may produce by-products that are carcinogenic and increase the incidence of leukemia and other types of cancer or disease of the liver and kidneys. These health problems may not become evident for 20 to 30 years. Most of us are very skeptical about radiation in general, whether it be x-rays or even microwaves, let alone gamma radiation of our food.<br />
- Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine by Elson M. Haas, M.D.<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>If this process was safe and effective for someone who was in remission, then why didn&#8217;t they give radiation to everyone, just to make sure cancer never attacked them? Why didn&#8217;t the doctors, their wives, and their children take radiation as a preventive measure? I pictured a radiation drive-thru like a fast-food window. They literally fried my mother&#8217;s chest with what I would later discover was an enormous amount of radiation therapy. When I saw the radiation burns on my mother&#8217;s chest, I wondered if no treatment at all would have been a better bet.<br />
- The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life by Timothy Brantley<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>This &#8220;background&#8221; radiation is a small amount. Medical x-rays used at the dentist to see teeth root health, x-rays used by physicians to investigate bone health and mammograms of the breast subject the body to radiation. Uranium miners and those living in areas close to nuclear weapons tests are exposed to higher levels of radiation. Ironically, some cancer treatments include radiation therapy to help kill cancer cells. Yet the radiation itself increases the risk of cancer. Historically, radiation was used to monitor patients with tuberculosis.<br />
- Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More by Allison Tannis<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>Low-radiation mammograms are safer mammograms, but less radiation means a fuzzier picture. Standard x-rays &#8212; rarely used any more for breasts-create an easy-to-interpret high-radiation image. Xerograms use half that radiation, but are twice as hard to read. Film-screen mammography, the latest very-low-radiation exam, gives an image that&#8217;s even more difficult to interpret. More than 10 percent of all screening mammograms done at one large center in 1992 couldn&#8217;t be read and had to be redone.<br />
A 1994 study showed wide variation in the accuracy with which mammograms are interpreted.<br />
- Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way by Susun S. Weed<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>The higher frequency radiations, from x-rays to nuclear radiation, are clearly dangerous. Electromagnetic radiation can be divided into two categories. The first is ionizing radiation and includes x-rays, gamma rays, and nuclear radiation. Exposing our body to these highly reactive ions at certain levels can dramatically affect our atomic structure. Ionizing radiation can actually rip electrons from atoms and molecules and directly affect cell division and cell structure.<br />
- Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine by Elson M. Haas, M.D.<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>Screening mammograms are unsafe other ways, too: they expose sensitive breast tissues to radiation, and they increase your chances of having a biopsy and being overtreated for carcinoma in situ. Scientists agree that there is no safe dose of radiation. Cellular DNA in the breast is more easily damaged by very small doses of radiation than thyroid tissue or bone marrow; in fact, breast cells are second only to fetal tissues in sensitivity to radiation. And the younger the breast cells, the more easily their DNA is damaged by radiation.<br />
- Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way by Susun S. Weed<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>Radiation causes many undesirable internal reactions, especially in the most prolific tissues, such as the gastrointestinal tract and skin. Radiation therapy may affect the appetite, tastes, and the ability to eat. Radiation is cumulative, and many things may add to it, from color TV and microwaves to x-rays and fallout exposure. We need a good protective program! When living in areas with high background radiation, it is wise to take higher amounts of antioxidants regularly.<br />
- Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine by Elson M. Haas, M.D.<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>In the radiation oncology departments, cancer patients routinely undergo therapy with high intensity x-rays, particle beams, and other types of radiation. Although radiation therapy has been successful in treating certain types of cancers, there are many cancers that are not cured either by radiation or by a combination of radiation and other orthodox medical and surgical modalities. Doctors may have once had the key to curing cancer with energy. But something happened to that priceless knowledge.<br />
- Vibrational Medicine: The #1 Handbook of Subtle-Energy Therapies by Richard Gerber, M.D.<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>Radiation sickness can take many forms, including the exacerbation of existing disease states, and also differs in intensity depending on the degree of exposure to low or high levels of radiation. It is important to recognize that it is not just atomic explosions that create radiation hazards. Diagnostic x-rays, TV screens, and other apparently noninvasive sources need to be considered. It is beyond the scope of this book to explore the complexity of radiation sickness or the range of treatments available to treat the condition.<br />
- Health from the Seas: Freedom from Disease by John Croft<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>It is now known that radiation causes mutation of the important p53 suppressor gene. For this reason, I do not recommend postlumpectomy radiation. Even though it may decrease the risk of a local recurrence of cancer, it does not help to inhibit metastatic cancer. Recent findings show that women receiving mammograms should be cautious of overexposure to radiation emitted by equipment that is not professionally and regularly monitored. Such equipment can deliver doses of radiation far above what are assumed today to be safe levels.<br />
- Herbal Medicine, Healing and Cancer: A Comprehensive Program for Prevention and Treatment by Donald R. Yance, j r.,C.N., M.H., A.H.G., with Arlene Valentine<br />
- Available on Amazon.com<br />
Sources for this story include:<br />
• Americans&#8217; Radiation Exposure Rises 6-Fold in 29 Years<br />
- ABC News</p>
<p>• Overexposed: Imaging tests boost U.S. radiation dose<br />
Reuters</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wanted to pass along some information forwarded to me so we can all be informed.  As your <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sheilaulrich.com/blog/prevent-treat-and-reverse-cancer.htm" title="cancer survivor speaker">cancer survivor speaker </a>I will continue to share info I find or receive so we can all make informed choices for ourselves and family.  Remember to read it with an open heart and find out what is true for you.</p>
<p>There is so much we don&#8217;t know&#8230;.share it with friends.</p>
<p>I received this information from a friend whose mother recently passed away. Apparently, this was caused by a medication that is deadly. Here are the details, and I suggest you pass it on to your loved ones and others.</p>
<p>Subject: Phenylpropanolamine (PPA)</p>
<p>I would like to thank those of you who expressed condolences on the recent passing of my mother. She suffered a hemorrhagic stroke while she was driving home from my house on July 30th and passed away on August 3rd. My mother&#8217;s stroke and passing was an enormous shock to my family, because she did not have any symptoms or risk factors for a stroke. Just the week before she had gone to her doctor for a check up and received a clean bill of health.</p>
<p>She did, however, develop a cold while she was visiting me and had taken Alka Seltzer Cold Plus for 3 days. Since her passing, we have learned that Alka Seltzer is one of the many cold medicines that contains Phenylpropanolamine (PPA), which can cause hemorrhagic stokes or cerebral bleeding, even with the first use. I am forwarding a list of other medications that currently use PPA..</p>
<p>These medicines are supposedly being recalled but my mother just purchased this medication less than two weeks ago. Pharmaceutical companies have known about this danger for years, we unfortunately, did not. I urge you to review the list of medicines with PPA and avoid these medications.</p>
<p>All drugs containing PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE are dangerous.</p>
<p>You may want to try calling the 800 number listed on most drug boxes and inquire about a REFUND. Please read this CAREFULLY. Also, please pass this on to everyone you know. STOP TAKING anything containing this ingredient. It has been linked to increased hemorrhagic stroke (bleeding in brain) among women ages 18-49 in the three days after starting use of the medication. Problems were not found in men, but the FDA recommended that everyone (even children) seek alternative medicine.&#8217;</p>
<p> The following medications contain Phenylpropanolamine :-</p>
<p>1. Acutrim Diet Gum Appetite Suppressant</p>
<p> 2. Acutrim Plus Dietary Supplements</p>
<p>3 Acutrim Maximum Strength Appetite Control</p>
<p>4. Alka-Seltzer Plus Children&#8217;s Cold Medicine Effervescent</p>
<p>5. Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold medicine (Cherry or Orange )</p>
<p>6. Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold Medicine Original</p>
<p>7. Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold &amp; Cough Medicine Effervescent</p>
<p>8. Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold &amp; Flu Medicine</p>
<p>9. Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold &amp; Sinus Effervescent</p>
<p>10. Alka Seltzer Plus Night-Time Cold Medicine</p>
<p>11. BC Allergy Sinus Cold Powder</p>
<p>12. BC Sinus Cold Powder</p>
<p>13. Comtrex Flu Therapy &amp; Fever Relief</p>
<p>14. Day &amp; Night Contac 12-Hour Cold Capsules</p>
<p>15. Contac 12 Hour Caplets</p>
<p>16. Coricidin D Cold, Flu &amp; Sinus</p>
<p>17. Dexatrim Caffeine Free</p>
<p>18. Dexatrim Extended Duration</p>
<p>19. Dexatrim Gelcaps</p>
<p>20. Dexatrim Vitamin C/Caffeine Free</p>
<p> 21. Dimetapp Cold &amp; Allergy Chewable Tablets</p>
<p>22. Dimetapp Cold &amp; Cough Liqui-Gels</p>
<p>23. Dimeta pp DM Cold &amp; Cough Elixir</p>
<p>24. Dimetapp Elixir</p>
<p>25. Dimetapp 4-Hour Liquid Gels</p>
<p>26. Dimetapp 4-Hour Tablets</p>
<p>27. Dimetapp 12-Hour Extentabs Tablets</p>
<p>28. Naldecon DX Pediatric Drops</p>
<p>29. Permathene Mega-16</p>
<p>30. Robitussin CF</p>
<p>31. Tavist-D 12-Hour Relief of Sinus &amp; Nasal Congestion</p>
<p>32. Triaminic DM Cough Relief</p>
<p>33. Triaminic Expectorant Chest &amp; Head</p>
<p>34. Triaminic Sy rup Co ld &amp; ; Amp; Amp Allergy</p>
<p>35. Triaminic Triaminicol Cold &amp; Cough</p>
<p> I just found out and called the 800# on the container for Triaminic and they informed me that they are voluntarily recalling the following medicines because of a certain ingredient that is causing strokes and seizures in children:</p>
<p>1 Orange 3D Cold &amp; Allergy Cherry (Pink)</p>
<p>2. 3D Cold &amp; Cough Berry 3.</p>
<p>3D Cough Relief Yellow 3D Expectorant They are asking you to call them at 800-548-3708 with the lot number on the box so they can send you postage for you to send it back to them, and they will also issue you a refund.</p>
<p>If you know of anyone else with small children, PLEASE PASS THIS ON. THIS IS SERIOUS STUFF! DO PASS ALONG TO ALL ON YOUR MAILING LIST so people are informed. They can then pass it along to their families. To confirm these findings, please take time to check the following: http://www.fda. gov/cder/ drug/infopage/ ppa/</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How to Slash World Cancer Rates By 90 Percent: Healthy Foods, Exercise and Vitamin D<br />
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor</p>
<p>(NaturalNews) Although you won&#8217;t hear this from the cancer industry or the drug companies that profit from cancer, there&#8217;s an easy, low-cost and remarkably safe way to slash cancer rates around the world by about one-third, says the World Cancer Research Fund: Promote healthy foods and exercise! (<a href="http://www.wcrf-uk.org/">http://www.wcrf-uk.org</a>)</p>
<p>According to research just released by the WCRF, simple changes in diet and exercise can prevent nearly 40 percent of breast and pancreatic cancers, 36 percent of lung cancers, over 60 percent of mouth cancers, a quarter of kidney cancers and 45 percent of bowel cancers.</p>
<p>Remarkably, these results were achieved without any mention of vitamin D! By adding vitamin D to the mix, which by itself has been demonstrated to prevent an astonishing 77 percent of all cancers (<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/021892.html">http://www.naturalnews.com/021892.html</a>), cancer prevention rates approaching 90 percent overall can be easily achieved.</p>
<p>This report also did not mention eliminating dangerous cancer-causing chemicals from the diet, such as sodium nitrite found in processed meats (hot dogs, sausage, bacon, etc.) and artificial chemical sweeteners. It also did not take into account the health benefits of avoiding cancer-causing chemicals in personal care products such as shampoo, antibacterial soap, common fragrance products, hand lotions and so on (choose 100% natural, USDA-certified organic versions of these products to avoid the toxic chemicals).</p>
<p>Avoiding mammograms, which harm ten women for every one that it helps (<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/020829.html">http://www.naturalnews.com/020829.html</a>), also greatly reduces the risk of breast cancer. A much safer alternative is to use breast thermograms, which offer far more accurate detection without the dangerous radiation.</p>
<p>If you take all lifestyle changes into account, achieving a 90 percent reduction in overall cancer rates is quite readily achievable.<br />
Low cancer rates means low profits for the cancer industry<br />
This is terrible news for the cancer industry, which preys on cancer patients and exploits them for profit. As of today, the cancer industry still refuses to teach women about vitamin D. This includes all the pink ribbon cancer non-profit groups, by the way, who simultaneously claim to be searching for &#8220;the cure&#8221; even while insisting there is no such thing as a cure. Prevention of cancer isn&#8217;t even on their radar. After all, if 9 out of 10 women never even got breast cancer, these groups would lose their power (and their jobs).</p>
<p>The success of the cancer industry depends entirely on the population remaining ignorant about cancer prevention strategies that are cheap, safe and remarkably effective.</p>
<p>Mammogram and chemotherapy pushers want women to believe cancer is inevitable &#8212; a genetic defect they have no control over. What they refuse to admit (publicly, at least) is that the expression of so-called &#8220;cancer genes&#8221; is almost entirely controlled by lifestyle choices. Thus, even a woman whose mother and grandmother had breast cancer can reduce her risk of breast cancer to near zero by simply changing her lifestyle choices, starting with dietary choices and healthy sunlight exposure (for vitamin D).</p>
<p>Anti-cancer superfoods are available everywhere. Some of the best, in my opinion, are Pure Synergy (<a href="http://www.thesynergycompany.com/">www.TheSynergyCompany.com</a>) and Vitamineral Green (<a href="http://www.healthforce.com/">www.HealthForce.com</a>). These contain potent, anti-cancer plant-based nutrients, and I believe that every human being should be drinking at least one heaping tablespoon of these nutrients each day. Cancer simply cannot replicate in an environment containing the right superfood nutrients.</p>
<p>Even the dreaded BRCA1 gene, which has women running scared and surrendering to double mastectomies as a &#8220;prevention&#8221; surgery for cancer (insane!), can be completely nullified through diet, exercise and vitamin D.<br />
Authors&#8217; Quotes on Cancer and Lifestyle<br />
Below, you&#8217;ll find selected quotes from noted authors on the subject of Cancer and Lifestyle. Feel free to quote these in your own work provided you give proper credit to both the original author quoted here and this NaturalNews page.</p>
<p>The lifetime risk for developing cancer is a startling 45 percent for men and 39 percent for women, according to the National cancer Institute. The most frequent form of cancer is lung cancer, followed by prostate cancer for men and breast cancer for women. Colorectal cancer is the third most common form of cancer in both sexes. Throughout the world, industrialized countries have the highest cancer death rates. Studies show that when people from Third World countries adopt Western lifestyles, certain types of cancers &#8212; especially colon, breast, and prostate &#8212; increase.<br />
- Healing Moves: How To Cure, Relieve, And Prevent Common Ailments With Exercise by Carol Krucoff and Mitchell Krucoff, M.D.<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>Myth: cancer runs in families. Only about 8% of cancers are genetically linked. These usually are cancers that occur in younger patients, such as sarcoma or early-onset colon cancer. The vast majority of cancers occur without a known cause or are related to lifestyle.<br />
- Bottom Line&#8217;s Health Breakthroughs 2007 by Bottom Line Health<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>Now is the time to do some serious thinking about our approach to cancer and disease. It is time we looked directly at the prevention and elimination of cancer, not just the remission or a prescription for cancer. In recent times, some prescription drugs have cured some forms of cancer. However, there is still a lot of cancer killing many people. Data from various agencies such as the National cancer Institute and others show that up to 90% of all cancers are products of our lifestyle, a lack of exercise, exposure to toxic chemicals, and what we choose to eat and drink.<br />
- Defeat Cancer by Gregory, A. Gore<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>Because some cancers have a genetic link, if you have a family member who battled cancer, you may feel that there&#8217;s a time bomb ticking inside you. Actually, it&#8217;s estimated that only 5 to 10 percent of all cancers might be attributed to a genetic predisposition. However, lifestyle remains a significant factor. According to the American Institute for cancer Research (AICR), 60 to 70 percent of cancers can be collectively attributed to lifestyle choices, including smoking, unhealthy diets, lack of physical activity, and excessive weight.<br />
- Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well by Elaine Magee<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>Putting the two together, she avoided all milk products; her tumors eventually disappeared, and for 13 years now she has been free of cancer. As Chinese have &#8220;normal&#8221; rates of other cancers, there must be a special factor that causes their low breast cancer rates. Also the largely milk-free Japanese have low breast cancer rates, but when Chinese or Japanese women adopt a Western lifestyle, their breast cancer rates start to climb, approaching the level in Western countries. Studies now link milk consumption to breast and prostate cancer.<br />
- The Natural Way to Heal: 65 Ways to Create Superior Health by Walter Last<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>Most cancers are primarily the result of changes that humans have made to the total chemical environment &#8212; what we eat, drink, and breathe. According<br />
275 to one of Britain&#8217;s top medical scientists, Sir Richard Doll, 90 percent of all cancers are caused by such environmental factors. At least 75 percent of cancers are associated with environmental and lifestyle factors, say even the most conservative cancer experts. medical drugs industrial products food additives alcohol<br />
What causes cancer?<br />
- The New Optimum Nutrition Bible by Patrick Holford<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>The good news is that you can change your statistics by changing your lifestyle. The everyday choices that you make about what you do with your time, what you eat, and even what you decide to smear on your body affects your long-term health. Both heart disease and cancer are largely environmental, and by improving your lifestyle, you will reduce your risk of getting heart disease or cancer.<br />
- The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow by Phuli Cohan<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>Regular mammograms of women with fibrocystic breast disease are as likely to initiate cancer as find it. An anti-cancer lifestyle and regular breast self-massage or self-exam, on the other hand, can actively prevent cancer, as well as providing early detection. Although sclerosing adenosis, apocrine metaplasia, duct ectasia, lipoma, fat necrosis, and mastitis are scary sounding, they aren&#8217;t serious and do not increase risk of breast cancer. Having a biopsy does not increase your risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer. Almost all biopsies (90 percent) are negative for cancer.<br />
- Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way by Susun S. Weed<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>Analysis of 156 studies linking diet and cancer found extraordinarily consistent evidence that some foods actively protect cells from undergoing cancerous changes, especially breast, cervical, ovarian, and prostate cells. While these foods don&#8217;t guarantee freedom from cancer, they are vital elements of an anti-cancer lifestyle. The United States National Research Council states that 35-70 percent of all U.S. Cancer deaths are related to diet and that 60 percent of the cancer incidence in women is related to diet.<br />
- Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way by Susun S. Weed<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>Might it be possible that cancer is largely due to environmental/ lifestyle factors, and not genetics? A few prominent scientists had already reached that conclusion. The authors of a major review on diet and cancer, prepared for the U.S. Congress in 1981, estimated that genetics only determines about 2-3% of the total cancer risk. The data behind the China cancer atlas were profound. The counties with the highest rates of some cancers were more than 100 times greater than counties with the lowest rates of these cancers. These are truly remarkable figures.<br />
- The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health by T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>Family history of prostate cancer is a strong predictor of which men are at greatest risk for this form of cancer. [European Urology 47: 761-68, 2005] But this is a very misleading statement. Frequently men hear they are at greater risk for prostate cancer because their grandfathers died of prostate cancer. But disease that follows along family lines may be due to controllable factors (iron intake, smoking, sun exposure and vitamin D production, infection, etc.). Men can make alterations in their lifestyles and negate the risk for prostate cancer.<br />
- You Don&#8217;t Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore by Bill Sardi<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>Although there is debate regarding the specifics of diet and this cancer, let&#8217;s start with some very safe assumptions that have long been accepted in the research community:<br />
• Prostate cancer rates vary widely between different countries, even more than breast cancer.<br />
• High prostate cancer rates primarily exist in societies with &#8220;Western&#8221; diets and lifestyles.<br />
• In developing countries, men who adopt Western eating practices or move to Western countries suffer more prostate cancer.<br />
These disease patterns are similar to those of other diseases of affluence.<br />
- The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health by T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
<p>It is wonderful to have the opportunity to help men with prostate cancer by using herbs, supplements, and dietary and lifestyle guidelines as their primary treatment strategy; to see them get well, thrive, and show no apparent signs of cancer is even better. I have found that many prostate cancers, even some of the more aggressive forms (high PSA, high Gleason score, even a palpable tumor or evidence of metastasis) respond beautifully to natural healing modalities.<br />
- Herbal Medicine, Healing and Cancer: A Comprehensive Program for Prevention and Treatment by Donald R. Yance, j r.,C.N., M.H., A.H.G., with Arlene Valentine<br />
- Available on Amazon.com</p>
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		<title>Cancer Causing Product</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Common Mouthwash Products Boost Risk of Oral Cancer by 900 Percent
by David Gutierrer
The use of mouthwashes that contain alcohol as an ingredient can drastically increase a person&#8217;s risk of cancers of the mouth, head and neck, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Australia&#8217;s University of Melbourne and University of Queensland School of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Common Mouthwash Products Boost Risk of Oral Cancer by 900 Percent<br />
by David Gutierrer</p>
<p>The use of mouthwashes that contain alcohol as an ingredient can drastically increase a person&#8217;s risk of cancers of the mouth, head and neck, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Australia&#8217;s University of Melbourne and University of Queensland School of Dentistry.</p>
<p>Researchers studied use of mouthwash among 3,210 people and compared it with rates of mouth, head and neck cancers.</p>
<p>&#8220;We see people with oral cancer who have no other risk factors than the use of [mouthwash containing alcohol], so what we&#8217;ve done is review all the evidence,&#8221; said lead researcher Michael McCullough, chair of the Australian Dental Association&#8217;s therapeutics committee,</p>
<p>The researchers found that all participants who used an alcohol-containing mouthwash at least once per day had a significantly increased risk of cancer, independent of other risk factors such as smoking or drinking alcoholic beverages. Among those who both used alcohol-containing mouthwash and regularly drank alcoholic beverages, the risk of cancers of the larynx, pharynx or oral cavity was five times that of people who drank but did not use mouthwash. The risk of cancer in people who smoked and used alcohol-containing mouthwashes was an astonishing nine times that of non-mouthwash-using smokers.</p>
<p>&#8220;Since this article, further evidence has come out,&#8221; McCullough said. &#8220;We believe there should be warnings. If it was a facial cream that had the effect of reducing acne but had a four to fivefold increased risk of skin cancer, no one would be recommending it.&#8221;</p>
<p>The body breaks down alcohol, also known as ethanol, into a carcinogenic compound called acetaldehyde. The researchers note that due to the way that mouthwash is swished around, acetaldehyde may thereby accumulate in the oral cavity.</p>
<p>In addition, the researchers believe that alcohol makes mucus membranes more permeable to other chemicals, allowing nicotine and other carcinogens increased access to the body&#8217;s tissues.</p>
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Hormone Replacement Therapy is near to my heart because the doctors pretty much made me take it before they would let me out of the hospital.  I was 36 years old.  Cancer Survivor speaker Sheila Ulrich, told them a day would come when HRT was found to be harmful.  Are we at that day? 
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<p>Hormone Replacement Therapy is near to my heart because the doctors pretty much made me take it before they would let me out of the hospital.  I was 36 years old.  <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sheilaulrich.com/" title="Sheila Ulrich">Cancer Survivor speaker Sheila Ulrich</a>, told them a day would come when HRT was found to be harmful.  Are we at that day? </p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t know anything about HRT at the time, but something was nagging deep within to be cautious&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..</p>
<p>Now here we are in 2009&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.and what are we suspecting about HRT???  It is quite a controversy.</p>
<p>Tell me what you think.<font size="3"> </font></p>
<p>Hormone Replacement Therapy Doubles Risk of Breast Cancer, Women Warne to Stop HRT Drugs</p>
<p>by Mike Adams Natural News Editor</p>
<p>Drug companies can no longer deny the science: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sheilaulrich.com/blog/" title="breast cancer">Breast cancer </a>risk is doubled for women who take conventional Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) drugs.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the conclusion of a new study conducted at Georgetown University&#8217;s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. There, researchers discovered that even though HRT drugs double a woman&#8217;s risk of breast cancer, that risk drops rapidly once she stops using the HRT drugs.</p>
<p>Notably, these increased cancer risk findings only apply to synthetic HRT drugs produced by Big Pharma. They do not apply to <em>bio-identical hormones</em> offered by compounding pharmacies and naturopathic physicians.</p>
<p>But bio-identical hormones are under assault by the FDA, which recently tried to outlaw them by threatening compounding pharmacies that were selling them as an alternative to conventional HRT drugs. Care to guess who was behind the FDA&#8217;s effort to crush the alternative hormones market? Wyeth, of course: The maker of Prempro, the conventional HRT drug. Wyeth petitioned the FDA to go after bio-identical hormones, and the FDA quickly obliged.</p>
<p>Read about the FDA&#8217;s threatening letter to compounding pharmacies here: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.naturalnews.com/023860.html">http://www.naturalnews.com/023860.html</a></p>
<p>But it gets even more interesting: Wyeth was also recently caught directing the ghostwriting of medical journal articles even while refusing to disclose its own role in creating those articles. An investigation by Sen. Charles Grassley&#8217;s office revealed damning documentation showing the drug company was engaged in highly unethical and deceptive practices regarding medical journal articles. Read the details on that here: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000614_Wyeth_medical_journals_ghostwriting.html">http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000614_&#8230;</a></p>
<p>Can you guess what drug those ghost-written medical journal articles were promoting? Prempro, of course, the HRT drug!</p>
<h1>The HRT conspiracy unveiled</h1>
<p>So let&#8217;s put the pieces of this puzzle together. We have a drug company, Wyeth, that sells a synthetic HRT drug known to double the risk of breast cancer. But instead of pulling the drug off the market, Wyeth files a petition with the FDA to eliminate the competition (bio-identical hormones).</p>
<p>At the same time, Wyeth organizes a campaign of ghost-written articles to be submitted to medical journals, touting the many benefits of HRT drugs and ignoring the 2002 research showing them to be correlated with higher risks of breast cancer. To deceive the scientific community, Wyeth purposely withholds any information about its own role in those papers, making readers believe they were authored by independent academics.</p>
<p>Are you starting to get the picture here?</p>
<p>My question is simple: <strong>How many women have died of breast cancer because of the actions of Wyeth?</strong> How many more women will suffer the ravages of chemotherapy or radiation therapy as a result of a disease that may have been accelerated by Big Pharma&#8217;s HRT drugs? And how long will this nation continue to tolerate the fraud of Big Pharma before cracking down on the corruption and crime taking place in this industry right now?</p>
<p>Women should be up in arms over this. They were lied to by yet another drug company, and the very government agency that was supposed to protect them (the FDA) sold them out and actually took aggressive action to eliminate natural alternatives, thereby contributing to the needless deaths of women from breast cancer.</p>
<p>These are not innocent administrative mistakes, folks: In my opinion, these are well-planned conspiracies between Big Pharma and the FDA that seek to maximize corporate profits at the expense of human lives. These are crimes against women, committed by some of the most powerful and insidious white-collar criminals this world has ever seen. And unlike Wall Street criminals who may cost you your savings, these Big Pharma / FDA criminals engage in actions that may cost you your life!</p>
<p>Why does the FDA continue to allow these HRT drugs to be sold if they double the risk of cancer? Can you imagine the outcry if a nutritional supplement were found to double the risk of cancer? It would be immediately banned, and the FDA would announce how it was outlawing the herb in order to &#8220;protect consumers.&#8221; But when it&#8217;s a drug that doubles cancer risk, the FDA does nothing.</p>
<p>Why do medical criminals go free while Wall Street criminals go to jail? Why has Big Pharma been allowed to operate with such deceptions for so long?</p>
<p>Because it makes so much easy money, that&#8217;s why. The drug companies have proven again and again that <strong>ethics will never stand in the way of profits.</strong></p>
<p>NaturalNews is once again warning women to get off all synthetic HRT drugs. Always do so under the supervision of a naturopathic physician, of course, and if necessary, consider bio-identical hormones as a replacement. Do not subject yourself to the increased cancer risk of conventional HRT drugs. If you do, you may literally pay for it with your life.</p>
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