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Saturday, July 24, 2004
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WHAT YOUR DOCTOR FORGOT TO TELL YOU....
Bypass Surgery May Raise Risk for Alzheimer's
Stress, Low Oxygen, Plaques in Arteries May Increase Risk for Alzheimer's Disease
July 20, 2004 (Philadelphia) -- Bypass surgery is effective in relieving symptoms of coronary artery disease, but it can
result in difficulties in brain function, especially memory loss. A new study suggests that people undergoing the surgery
may have a greater risk of dementia from Alzheimer's disease, which presents as gradual memory loss.
People with coronary artery disease who undergo heart bypass surgery have a significantly higher risk for developing
Alzheimer's disease within five years than patients who have angioplasty, but "most patients will do very well and will
not develop Alzheimer's disease" says Benjamin Wolozin, MD, professor of pharmacology at Boston University School
of Medicine. His study shows that the risk for Alzheimer's disease is 70% higher in people with heart disease who
undergo bypass surgery than in heart patients who undergo angioplasty.
http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/91/100942.htm
9:44:24 PM 
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Don't Buy the 'Fat Gene' Myth
If there's one thing worse than the awesome American obesity epidemic, it's saying that nothing can be done about it. Sadly, this has become a cottage industry in our country. It ranges from books with titles like Your Fat Is not Your Fault, to Big Is Beautiful! magazine covers, to fat activist groups, to newspaper articles like the recent Post one, "Battle Your Biology? Fat Chance" (New York Post, July 11).
True, telling people what they need to hear as opposed to what they want to hear is not the route to fame, fortune and the best-seller list. But here goes:
Big is not beautiful; it cripples and kills. Studies have repeatedly found that overweight people (not huge; just overweight) suffer higher rates of heart disease, stroke, many types of cancer, arthritis and an incredible array of other diseases.
About 300,000 Americans die prematurely each year from being overweight. Only cigarette smoking causes more lifestyle-related deaths. Obesity in the U.S. is epidemic in every sense of the word. Last October, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that 55% of U.S. women and 63% of men are overweight or obese. The federal government's statistics are similar. The JAMA study also found the obesity rate among adults jumped almost 70% just from 1991 to 1998. This incredible growth of the national girth belies everyone's favorite excuse, genes. Gene pools don't change within a single generation. Blaming genes for one's own obesity is also a red herring. Yes, a few such genes affecting metabolism have been found, but they count for almost nothing. One, for example, has been shown to reduce a person's calorie-burning by the equivalent of a butterscotch disk a day.
Why is the nation getting fatter? No surprise here. We're eating more and exerting less, whether in formal exercise or simple day-to-day activities. Why are individuals getting fatter? Simply put - they're eating too much. Every one of the multitude of studies in which people's caloric intake and output are measured, as opposed to the studies that simply ask subjects what they eat and how much exercise they get, verifies just what mama told you. Eat too much, don't get enough exercise, and you balloon. This is bad news if you're looking to scapegoat your metabolism, but good news if you like the idea of controlling your weight fate. More good news is that another obesity myth is that our bodies, like ratchet-wrenches, readily put pack on the pounds but thereafter refuse jealously to let go of them. In reality, what goes up can come down.
But the first step in dealing with any problem is recognizing that it IS a problem and can be helped. Meanwhile, the worst food you can consume is the baloney produced by those who tell you to just eat, drink, and be merry, for nothing can be done.
There is no better way to start dumping excess pounds than by cleaning out the gunk in your digestive tract and colon. Here's why: a clogged digestive system defeats nutritional intake - no matter how much yu eat, your cells are literally 'starved' for the nutrition they need to energize daily activity and to make up for this, you eat, eat, eat - far more than you would ordinarily need to kep moving. Clea p your colon and watch your appetite decrease and the fat melt away.
Learn more here: http://www.healthsavers.info/heart-New.htm#COLOSAN
9:10:21 PM
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ENOUGH DEPRESSING NEWS - TIME FOR A LAUGH.
HERE'S A NEW DISEASE YOU CAN ACTUALLY ENJOY: A.A.A.D.D.
Do You Have A.A.A.D.D. ?
Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is how it manifests:
I decide to wash my car.
As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the hall table.
I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.
I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the trash can under the table, and notice that the trash can is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the trash first.
But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the trash anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.
I take my checkbook off the table, and see that there is only one check left
My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go to my desk where I find the can of Coke that I had been drinking.
I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.
I see that the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.
As I head toward the kitchen with the coke a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need to be watered.
I set the Coke down on the counter, and I discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning.
I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers.
I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote.
Someone left it on the kitchen table.
I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I will be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.
I splash some water on the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor.
So, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill.
Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.
At the end of the day: the car isn't washed, the bills aren't paid, there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter, the flowers aren't watered, there is still only one check in my checkbook, I can't find the remote, I can't
find my glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.
Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really tired.
I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.
Do me a favor, will you? Forward this message to everyone you know,
because I don't remember to whom it has been sent.
Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!
GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY.
GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL
LAUGHING AT YOURSELF IS THERAPEUTIC!
2:15:54 PM
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FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL!
CHOLESTEROL-LOWERING DRUGS ARE HEALTHIER FOR YOUR
FINANCIAL HEALTH THAN YOUR PHYSICAL HEALTH.
AstraZeneca's Net Rises 25%,
Boosted by Crestor's Strength
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
July 22, 2004 10:01 a.m.
LONDON -- AstraZeneca PLC Thursday posted a 25% rise in second-quarter net profit on strong sales of Crestor, its new anticholesterol drug. The United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical company said its net profit increased to $833 million, or 50 cents a share, in the second quarter, from $666 million, or 39 cents a share, in the same quarter last year. Pretax profit rose 24% to $1.14 billion. Revenue rose 19% to $5.29 billion. The company said it is on track to deliver per-share earnings for the full year of $2 to $2.15. AstraZeneca said cholesterol-busting Crestor, one of its newer drugs, is on track to become a blockbuster drug with sales of more than $1 billion a year. During the laster quarter, the drug saw sales of $207 million.
2:06:33 PM
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WHAT YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TOLD ABOUT STATIN DRUGS!
All cholesterol-lowering medication is a danger to your health - read on..
Hypercholesterolemia is the health issue of the 21st century. It is actually an invented disease, a “problem” that emerged when health professionals learned how to measure cholesterol levels in the blood. High cholesterol exhibits no outward signs—unlike other conditions of the blood, such as diabetes or anemia, diseases that manifest telltale symptoms like thirst or weakness—hypercholesterolemia requires the services of a physician to detect its presence. Many people who feel perfectly healthy suffer from high cholesterol—in fact, feeling good is actually a symptom of high cholesterol!
http://www.westonaprice.org/moderndiseases/statin.html
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Arline Brecher.
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