| Vernon 2006-10-18, 4:34 pm |
| The connections are correct.
The uneducated cannot read and do not understand relational factors.
The ENTIRE article is jumping to conclusions, exactly what they are
criticizing.
"Jan Drew" <jdrew1374@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:ENtZg.886$T_1.262@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
> http://www.newstarget.com/z020716.html
> NewsTarget.com printable article
> Originally published October 11 2006
> Medical myths explained: Why health researchers mistakenly think one
> disease causes another
> Health researchers are making all sorts of discoveries about the
> correlations between various diseases. They're finding out that gum
> disease is correlated with heart disease. The problem is, they're jumping
> to the conclusion that there is a direct causal relationship between these
> two things. They're saying gum disease causes heart disease. They're
> saying diabetes causes heart disease, and now they are even saying
> diabetes causes Alzheimer's disease. Why are they jumping to these odd
> conclusions? How do they think one disease causes another disease?
> The real answer, as you'll discover here, is that one disease doesn't
> actually cause another disease; they both just have the same common
> cause -- a cause which goes unacknowledged or undiscovered by
> conventional medical science.
>
> For example, the reason diabetes is correlated with heart disease is not
> because one causes the other, it's because there is a common underlying
> cause for both diseases, and that underlying cause is poor nutrition. More
> specifically, the consumption of foods and beverages that actually deplete
> the body of its essential nutrients, and the lack of foods and beverages
> that provide good nutrition -- the vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients,
> amino acids, fiber and all the other elements that the human body needs in
> order to be healthy and free of chronic disease.
>
> Today, the conventional medical community is looking at these disease
> correlations, such as the correlation between diabetes and heart disease,
> and using that as a justification to more aggressively treat the symptoms
> of one of those diseases. They're saying, "Well, since diabetes causes
> heart disease, which can lead to other complications, then we have to
> treat diabetes very, very aggressively," which to them means pushing more
> pharmaceuticals. The "urgency" to treat these conditions by claiming they
> can cause other conditions is really just another way to push more drugs
> onto patients.
>
> Understand, the core claim here by conventional medicine is that the
> symptoms of one disease cause another disease. They say, for example, that
> high blood sugar from diabetes is a contributing factor for Alzheimer's
> disease. And thus, the thinking goes, it is crucial to "manage" the
> symptoms of diabetes (high blood sugar) with drugs in other to prevent
> Alzheimer's. The logic almost sounds reasonable, but they're actually
> jumping to the wrong conclusion.
>
>
> Multiple symptoms usually have common causes
> What they're failing to do here is notice that there is a common
> underlying cause of both diseases, and that underlying cause cannot be
> corrected with prescription drugs. In this case, in talking about type-2
> diabetes and Alzheimer's disease, what the patient usually has is a severe
> imbalance in blood sugar metabolism caused by three main factors: 1)
> Massive over-consumption of refined sugars and refined grains, 2) Lack of
> physical exercise, and 3) Lack of key nutrients such as trace minerals, B
> vitamins, essential fatty acids and others.
> Notice that none of these contributing factors are "a lack of
> pharmaceuticals?" What the patient really needs is a complete nutritional
> overhaul, which means they need to avoid all the ingredients in foods and
> beverages that promote disease, and take steps to get superfoods and
> high-density nutrition into their bodies. They need to eat more fresh
> foods, more raw fruits and vegetables. They need to eat less meat or
> eliminate saturated animal fats from their diet altogether, including
> dairy products. (Dairy products, in my view, are not healthy for long-term
> consumption by human beings.)
>
> At the same time, those people need to get nutritional supplements into
> their bodies. They need things like sea vegetables, spirulina, chlorella
> (www.IntegratedHealth.com), goji berries and whole food concentrates like
> blueberry powder or multi-fruit superfood powders. They need things like
> raw chocolate (www.NavitasNaturals.com) or super foods like chia seeds
> (www.GoodCauseWellness.com) or ancient grains like quinoa. These are the
> kinds of things that people need to put into their bodies in order to
> reverse the underlying causes of all of these diseases.
>
>
> Nutritional deficiencies diagnosed as physical defects
> It is absolutely amazing how frequently nutritional deficiencies are
> diagnosed as physical diseases or disorders. Let me give you an example.
> There's a common heart disorder called mitral valve prolapse. This is the
> diagnosis you're given when you have a heart valve that doesn't maintain
> the correct shape. They'll tell you it's a congenital defect. They'll say
> it's something you were born with and, unless the valve is repaired
> through surgery, your heart will never beat correctly and you'll have
> heart problems for the rest of your life. What they won't tell you is that
> this is almost exclusively a nutritional problem. The heart valve isn't
> misshapen due to a congenital defect; it is misshapen because the heart is
> a giant muscle that's sagging out of shape due to a lack of nutritional
> support.
> When you don't have B vitamins and the proper amount of magnesium, zinc
> and calcium in your body, guess what happens to all the muscles in your
> body? They all start to sag. The muscles lose their proper shape. This
> includes the muscles in your heart, biceps, hamstrings, and chest. When
> the heart valve is misshapen, even in a minor way, things can start to go
> wrong in your circulatory system. If you were to take nutritional
> supplements, or get nutrition through whole food concentrates, then your
> heart would begin to literally "shape up." It would become more firm and
> the posture of your heart would rapidly improve, thereby eliminating the
> symptoms that were previously called "mitral valve prolapse."
>
> The answer to mitral valve prolapse is almost always nutrition, but you
> won't hear that from surgeons. First of all, they don't know this
> information. Second of all, if they were to send people home with
> vitamins, how would they stay in business performing surgical procedures
> that generate tens of thousands of dollars in revenues? There's no money
> in telling people how to prevent these diseases. There's only money in
> promoting drugs, surgical procedures and fictitious diseases.
>
>
> The medical industry sensationalizes diseases because they're profitable
> There's a direct correlation between the marketing and popularity of a
> so-called disease condition and the size of profits generated by that
> disease for the pharmaceutical industry and conventional medicine in
> general. The reason you hear about attention deficit hyperactivity
> disorder (ADHD) all the time is not because it's a legitimate
> physiological disorder (it isn't). The reason you hear about it is because
> it's very profitable to treat. There are lots of drugs to sell to children
> for this disease or condition.
> Similarly, the reason you have heard so much propaganda about
> hormone-replacement therapy over the past 20 years is not because women
> actually need synthetic hormones, the reason is the incredible
> profitability of HRT drugs. You hear about these diseases because they are
> generating money for the companies that manufacture the so-called
> solutions to these conditions. Those solutions are simply prescription
> drugs and surgical procedures that don't solve the underlying problem in
> the first place. All they do is mask the symptoms of disease.
>
>
> The real reason why disease symptoms appears together
> Every time I see another headline about how research scientists have
> discovered another correlation among various chronic diseases, I just have
> to sort of laugh about it. Of course, diabetes and heart disease are going
> to emerge together. Of course, gum disease and heart disease go
> hand-in-hand, because they all have the same underlying causes.
> A deficiency in a single nutrient can lead to numerous diseases that all
> get diagnosed and treated as if they had separate causes. Take vitamin D,
> for example. A lack of vitamin D renders the body unable to absorb
> calcium. Without adequate calcium, the heart has trouble functioning
> correctly, and the nervous system may also suffer. A person deficient in
> vitamin D may experience heart disease, prostate cancer, breast cancer,
> osteoporosis, pancreatic cancer, gum disease, schizophrenia and many other
> conditions all stemming from a lack of this single nutrient. Scientists
> then come along and discover numerous correlations among these diseases.
> They actually seem astounded, too, because they have no concept of the
> true underlying causes of disease.
>
> The real causes, of course, are all the same: lack of nutrition, inability
> to eliminate metabolic waste products, exposure to toxic chemicals,
> excessive stress and a lack of circulation and energy. These core causes
> can express themselves in a myriad of different ways, and conventional
> medicine has made a habit of attaching a different disease name to each of
> these expressions. But underneath all the complicated medical jargon,
> there are really only a few fundamental causes of disease, and by
> correcting those, all the various measurable symptoms disappear on their
> own as the body comes back into a state of balance.
>
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