Consumerism & the Affect of Big Pharma on it

Hello Everyone,

I recently had to write a paper for a college class on consumerism, community & my opinions on 7 different sources from which I pulled info. I've been struggling with some of my papers this semester but this one I felt like I was in my "groove" on this paper & it came very easily.

I was so happy with it that I decided to share it with my readers.

Enjoy!!

Lori

P.S. If you are coming across this article while doing research for a college paper, you may use any part of this article. Just be sure you cite where it came from. Thank you. :)





Consumerism – we see this in greater quantity this time of year. People buying gifts that will only be used for a week or two and then will not see the light of day for a long time. Has consumerism affected our health? How has big pharma affected our consumerism towards the health of our children? Colin Beavan, Annie Leonard, Pico Iyer the cluster New Ethics of Consumption and Brenda Watson all talk about how our lives today affect our health.

The World English Dictionary defines consumerism(1) as “Advocacy of a high rate of consumption and spending as a basis for a sound economy. The U.S. pays the highest amount when it comes to medical costs but yet we are the sickest nation in the world. The income from vaccines alone for big pharma is $34 billion a year. Parents of children are the consumers of big pharma. They blindly line for these drugs without doing their homework first. The ingredients that are in these vaccines haven't been tested for short or long term health affects. Annie Leonard (2) states in her story of stuff “There are over 100,000 chemicals that are used in the production of materials today. And tests have only been done on a fraction of those chemicals.”

Big pharma is going to do anything and everything they can to protect their income. This is why you see so much advertising on TV today for drugs and for viewers to “talk to their doctors” about this drug. With over 140 vaccines coming down the pipeline over the next 20 years, big pharma won't make money if we are healthy only if we are kept sick. Many ingredients in vaccines haven't been tested for short term or long term safety. The affects of SV-40 from the Polio vaccine in the sixties is only now becoming apparent with brain cancer being the common denominator in these patients.

Colin Beavan (3) talks about kids that live in the big city have more cases of asthma because of all the diesel pollutants in the air from trucks that deliver goods for stores and other places. (203)

This is another area that big pharma doesn't want you to know about. Vitamin D3 taken daily can reduce or eliminate asthma attacks all together. I've had asthma since I was seven and haven't had a major attack in years. I contribute this to my high daily intake of Vitamin D3. Big pharma is trying outlaw supplements because they bite into their income, they can't regulate them. If Codex Alimentarius is pushed thru, then supplements will only be allowed thru prescriptions.

During Mr. Beaven's (4) visit, he talked about his daughter getting really sick during their trip to Italy. It was contributed to febrile seizures that the doctors said she would outgrow in time. What
aren't we being told about this episode? What medications or vaccines did Isabella receive prior to this visit?

I looked at the CDC website to see what vaccines are required for travel to Italy. No special vaccines are required but they do recommend the flu shot, chicken pox vaccine, Polio, MMR and the DPT shots. The flu shot alone has been known to cause reactions that are neurological in nature, including seizures. The MMR shot has been linked to autism. A good question for Mr. Beavan would be what vaccines did she prior to this trip?

Pico Iyer (5) talks about taking trips that are thousands of miles without a second thought. You are traveling with dozens if not a hundred other passengers. You are breathing the same recirculated air they are. Most of the time passengers get sick after traveling on air craft. Sometimes this can happen within a few days or sometimes it happens within a few weeks.

Our reliance on big pharma as part of our consumerism is one of the reasons we are chronically sick as a nation. We are the vaccinated country in the world. But yet our kids are the sickest in the world and we pay higher medical costs than other countries. Why are more people traveling when they are sick than they were thirty years ago? Many travel out of necessity for work but how many are traveling for leisure? When I flew on an airplane for travel during the late 70s and early 80s, you had
to be well in order to get on a plane. Currently they only worry if there is a big outbreak of a communicable disease.

In Ethics of Consumption (6) cluster, there is a section on “Our Thirst for Bottled Water”. The chart on page 567 shows some liquids that are consumed by the gallons per year by the average U.S. Citizen. Soft drinks are at the top of the chart followed by tap water, coffee, beer & milk. Bottled water is on the way up. Part of this trend is being fed by the fashion that its fashionable to carry bottled water around.

Depending on the plastic that is used, bottled water can leach chemicals into the water that is toxic to the human body. Styrofoam coffee cups leach styrene into the human body, this has been known to disrupt the endocrine system which is also linked to our hormones. All of this leads to stress on the body which lead to a breakdown overtime. This is one of the reasons why chronic illness is so prevalent today.

In Brenda Watson's youtube video (7) “Brenda Watson's Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps – Personal and Household Products, Watson talks about how many chemicals are in the average home for personal use and for use around the home. She also talks about how 89% of them haven't been tested for safety. “Even toothpaste comes with a poison control warning label.”

Everyday when we are watching TV, looking at a magazine ornewspaper we are bombarded by ads for cleaning products for our homes. The inactive ingredients are 99% of the product but these inactive ingredients haven't been tested for safety. We as consumers need to be more proactive by telling the producers of these products that we want to know what is in these cleaning products.

Its time that us as consumers stand up for what it right. We have a right to know what our food is being treated with. We have a right to know all of the dangers of the medicine we are being prescribed, not just the parts they want us to know about. We have a right to know about the dangers of the products being used in the making of furniture, carpets and other household goods. Its time the government stop taking the sides of big corporations and stand up for the people.


Works Cited Page

1. "Consumerism | Define Consumerism at Dictionary.com." Dictionary.com | Find the Meanings and Definitions of Words at Dictionary.com. Web. 21 Nov. 2011. .


2"Story of Stuff, Full Version; How Things Work, About Stuff - YouTube." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 21 Nov. 2011. .

3. Beavan, Colin. No Impact Man: the Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes about Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. Print.

4. "Colin Beavan." DMACC, Boone. 04 Nov. 2011. Lecture.

5. Iyer, Pico. "Nowhere Man." Convergences: Themes, Texts, and Images for Composition. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2009. 327+. Print.

6. Sandage, Tom. "Our Thirst For Bottled Water." Convergences: Themes, Texts, and Images for Composition. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2009. 564+. Print.

7. Watson, Brenda. "Brenda Watson's Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps - Personal and Household Products - YouTube." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 21 Nov. 2011. .

Redirecting for awhile

Greetings everyone,

I'm going to be redirecting my focus for a few weeks to maybe a month or so.

I only have 6 weeks left of the semester & I want to finish strong. I also have some personal issues that I need to take care of.

I will be updating you with the refocusing as soon as I know more.

Have a great week & a GREAT Thanksgiving!

Lori

Vaccine Awareness Week

Hello everyone,

Vaccine Awareness weeks starts on Sunday, Oct. 30th. This weeks kicks off after a month of Vaccine Injury Awareness.

Tell everyone you know about the dangers of vaccines. Tell them about the safer alternatives & teach them about the ingredients.

Here is a link to the website about this event.

http://www.vaccineawarenessweek.com/

Until next time, have a good week.

Lori

National Vaccine Information Center Calls New CA Vaccine Law A "Violation of Parental Informed Consent Rights and Federal Law"

Greetings everyone,

This is a sad day in America. A bill has passed in California that allows children as young as the age of 12 to get vaccinated without a parents consent.

A child needs a parents consent to get their ears pierced, to get a tattoo or to get a tan but yet they can get a vaccine that could be potentially deadly without a parent knowing.

Imagine your child coming home from school & then collapsing or dying during the night for no apparent reason that you know of. WHO is going to be responsible for this? Who is going to take on the liability?

Read the full story here -

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/national-vaccine-information-center-calls-new-ca-vaccine-law-a-violation-of-parental-informed-consent-rights-and-federal-law-2011-10-10

Until next time.......

Lori

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

We see pink apparel start appearing around the end of September. Pink t-shirts, pink hats, pink bracelets and just about anything else that can appear pink. So what is all this pink really about?

Pink is associated with girls. When a newborn girl is brought home from the hospital, she is showered with pink things. We see breast cancer awareness shirts saying “Fight Like a Girl” usually in pink on a black shirt.

One in eight women will get breast cancer at some point in their lives.

I traveled to Urbandale last week to a Thermography Center to interview a specialist in detecting breast cancer using this method that you rarely hear about. I only expected to be there for twenty to thirty minutes. The co-owners of the center and compounding pharmacy spent about an hour and half with me. They gave me a tour of the facility, showed me the room where the thermography scans take place and the camera. What follows is an overview of this interview.

You hear about mammograms detecting breast cancer. But there is another method to detect cancer eight to ten years before a mammogram can detect them. This method is called a Thermogram or Therm. It uses body heat to detect where a tumor might be growing. Tumors need a vascular blood supply in order to grow. As blood vessels build and blood starts flowing, heat is generated around this mass that is growing. The coolest color on the spectrum for this scan is black with white being the hottest. There are 3,000 colors in between.

The room that has the camera in it is temperature controlled. There are no windows and no ventilation system circulating air through the room. There is a small portable air conditioner in the room if it gets to hot but is shut off thirty minutes prior to a scan in order to equalize out the temperature. The temperature of the room is between 18 and 21 degrees Celsius, which is 64.4 and 70.34 deg. Fahrenheit. They measure the room in Celsius because some people would see the higher temps in Fahrenheit and could get hot just seeing that temperature.

Once you are in the room, you are asked to disrobe from the waist up. You are then given fifteen minutes to acclimate to the room temperature. For ten minutes you stand with your arms at your sides and the remaining 5 minutes your arms are up by your head.

A twenty point analysis is then given to each quadrant and there are four quadrants on each breast. There is a scan that is done from the front and then a scan on the left and right sides. Then if necessary, a scan is done with a breast lift. The scan only lasts for a few minutes. The technician isn’t allowed to read the scan for liability reasons.

The scan is then sent to a doctor in California, Dr. William Amalu, for analysis and assigned a TH value. A one TH value is normal, no mass is seen and a TH value of five, we need to pay attention to this and evaluate further. The colors that the doctor is looking for are light blue to white. There are cold mass tumors meaning no blood supply but they are rare. Thermograms can also pick up hormone inbalances.

With mammograms, they miss twenty percent of all cancers. Thermograms only miss ten percent. When you get a mammogram, there is compression of the breast and radiation that is put into a very sensitive area. The radiation that is used by mammograms can be 1,000 times greater than that of a chest x-ray as told by Dr. Joseph Mercola. Each year that you get a mammogram, your chances of getting breast cancer increase by two percent according to Dr. Russell Blaylock. The compression is equal to 20- 2.2 pound bags of sugar being placed on the breast. With foot operated machines, this equivalent goes up to 58 bags of sugar as told by Lynn Mc Taggart's: What Doctors Don't Tell You: The Truth About the Dangers of Modern Medicine.

Mammograms have a hard time seeing through dense or fibrocystic breasts. Thermograms have no problem with these types of breasts as it is looking for hot areas in comparison to the rest of the breast. Whereas mammograms are looking for mass.

Thermograms can also do full body scans which helps with strokes, diabetes and cardiovascular problems detection.

Mammograms and thermograms came out at the same time. Thermograms were approved by the FDA in 1982. A thermogram doesn’t replace a mammogram, they can be used in conjunction with each other. Why expose yourself to radiation if you don’t need to?

Now that we’ve talked about thermography and breast cancer detection. Is there a way to prevent breast cancer? There are thoughts are on this and two different facilities have told me basically the same thing.

One, avoid birth control. Artificial hormones are not good for the body. The breast tissue is under developed until a woman becomes pregnant for the first time. The breast tissue develops during pregnancy in preparation for nursing. The list of side affects for birth control is longer than any other drug on the market says Dr. Mayer Eisenstein of Home First clinics near Chicago.

Two, Take Vitamin D3. The higher the level of D3 you have in your body, the less likely you are to get some types of cancers. (as seen in the chart associated with this article) Ask your doctor to test your Vitamin D3 level. Some insurance companies will cover the cost of this test, others won’t unless it is warranted with some medial conditions.

Three, cut back on your aluminum exposure. The aluminum accumulates in your brain and in your lymph nodes. The most common use for girls with aluminum is antiperspirants. Many vaccines have toxic levels of aluminum also. Many breast cancer patients who have a mastectomy also have their lymph nodes removed near the area where you put your deodorant on.

Four, Soy Milk changes breast tissue. Cut back or avoid on Soy Milk intake. Cutting it out would be a good thing since soy could have GMO products in it which opens up a whole another can of worms.

Five, avoid Mountain Dew & diet pops. These have bromide in them which is an enemy to Iodine. Bromide attaches itself to various parts of your body that are fighting for space with iodine. If you are deficient in Iodine, you have a higher risk of developing breast cancer. Think about this when you hear on the news to cut back on your salt intake but on the same token don’t overdo it.

Six, lose the extra weight. When a woman is carrying extra weight, her body is producing extra estrogen. This can cause estrogen dominance which can lead to health problems like PMS, uterine fibroids & menorrhagia (abnormally heavy menstral bleeding). As we read in the profile of Michelle Tedrow, weight loss helped her find a lump during a self exam.

It’s important to get a baseline so that doctors know when changes occur. With mammograms, this baseline is usually at the age of 35 or 40 depending on the history of your family. With thermograms, this age moves up to the age of 20. The incidence of breast cancer under the age of 40 is on the rise and it’s important to have that first finger print in place before any changes that might take place.

Let this month be the month that we take our first step in becoming healthier.

Aware & Safe

Rape - this word strikes fear in the heart of many women. 1 in 6 women will be raped in their lifetime. 1 in 3 will be sexually assaulted. Rape is the most violent form of crime that occurs on college campuses today. 25% of college students will be raped before college graduation.

When many female students go to college, it is their first time away from home. They set their own curfews, go to parties that go late or all night. Many students have classes that go well after sunset.

There are some ways to protect yourself at night & at parties to help you to avoid becoming a victim of a rape or sexual assault.

1. Use a buddy system. Don't go out alone at night. Whether you are leaving your dorm or apartment for a walk or a run to the convenience store, ask a room mate or friend to go with you. If you are leaving a class after dark, walk out with a classmate or have your professor walk out with you if you are the last one to leave the classroom.

2. Use your car key as a weapon. Put your car key between your index finger & middle finger. If you are attacked, you can use this key to poke, scratch or gouge at your attacker to inflict enough injury to get away to a safe location.

3. If you go a party, keep your drink in your sight at all time. 90% of all rapes occur while a person is under the influence of alcohol. Rohypnol can be slipped into a drink & you won't even know it's there. It is tasteless, odorless & doesn't cloud a clear drink. There are signs that you have been drugged with Rohypnol, they are - It creates a sleepy, relaxed, and drunk feeling that lasts 2 to 8 hours. Other effects may include blackouts, with a compete loss of memory, dizziness and disorientation, nausea, difficulty with motor movements and speaking.

If you've been the victim of a sexual assault then you need to seek medical treatment as soon as possible. Rohypnol can detected in a urine test up to 60 hours after being ingested by a victim. If you take a shower, all of the evidence will be washed away. Its best to get a rape kit done sooner rather than later. A rape kit will be done to check for fluids on the skin & in or around the vaginal area, to look for skin under the fingernails, pubic hair from your attacker & any other injuries that might have been inflicted during the attack. Rape kits for minors are mandatory for some states but optional in other states.

You will then give a statement to the police. As embarassing as it might be, it's necessary to be done as soon as possible after the attack since the memory of the attack will be fresh in your mind. Some departments have female officers that work with rape victims, ask if there is one available.
After giving your statement, the county attorney will decide if there is enough evidence to procede to a trial or if there is insufficient evidence. Sometimes, if your assailant says they did nothing wrong & there is very little evidence to go on, the case be will closed.

The anniversary date of your assault may bring up memories. If your attacker dies, this can bring up powerful memories, sometimes of relief that you don't have to worry about that person anymore if they weren't convicted. It can also bring about feelings of anger if the evidence collected wasn't enough to go to trial.

There are resources out there to help a victim get thru their attack & move on. THERE IS life after a rape or sexual assault.

Lets stay Aware & Safe this semester.

Sources -

http://www.bu.edu/police/prevention/rohypnol_fact_sheet.htm

http://www.drugfree.org/drug-guide/rohypnol

http://www.turningpointservices.org/sexualassault.htm

http://www.crisisconnectioninc.org/sexualassault/college_campuses_and_rape.htm

SANE Vax to FDA: Recombinant HPV DNA found in multiple samples of Gardasil

Greetings friends,

As things finally calm down a bit around the home front, a new development has appeared in the fight against Gardisil. This will be sent to all media outlets worldwide over the next 2 days, hopefully they will do something with it.

The Honorable Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., Commissioner
U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
10903 New Hampshire Ave.
Silver Spring MD 20993-0002August 29, 2011
Dear Dr. Hamburg:

At the request of medical consumers concerned about HPV vaccine safety and efficacy, SANE Vax Inc. has retained a private laboratory to test a number of samples of HPV 4 Gardasil™ (Merck) for possible contamination by human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA in the vaccine lots distributed to physicians.

The laboratory has informed SANE Vax Inc. that one hundred percent of thirteen (13) samples of Gardasil™ taken from lots #1437Z, #1511Z, # 0553AA, #NL35360, #NP23400, #NN33070, #NL01490, #NM25110, #NL39620, #NK16180, #NK00140, #NM08120 and #NL13560, currently being marketed in the U.S.A., Australia, New Zealand, Spain, France, and Poland have been found to be positive for HPV DNA.

One of the HPV DNA fragments detected in the vaccine is part of a synthetic construct (GenBank Locus SCU55993) for HPV11 major capsid protein L1 gene, a recombinant DNA genetically engineered specifically for manufacturing of the Gardasil vaccine. Its unique sequence is copied below for your reference.


more at link


http://sanevax.org/sane-vax-to-fda-recombinant-hpv-dna-found-in-multiple-samples-of-gardasil/

Have a good week!

Lori