Not to sound arrogant, but they’re finally getting there. I can’t believe that it’s taken this long for researchers to actually separate real meat from the processed and cured meats.

Now the challenge is (and I don’t know the answer) whether it’s actually the meat that causes diabetes or that every hot dog, sausage, salami, pastrami is eaten on WHITE BREAD or with (white flour based) PASTA. Can the researchers separate these out? Let’s look at people who eat the processed meat WITH the bleached flour and compare to those who eat it without? That study will probably come down the pipe in another 30 years. Course, then the next study will look at the difference with meats from grass fed beef compared to grain/corn fed penned up cattle.

If you read the article, you will also see that they have been believing the “meat is evil” argument so long, that they backtrack and warn people against eating a steak every night. I have been saying this for years, meat is not the evil it was made out to be. High fructose corn syrup, refined white sugar, white flour, and even pasteurized milk are the culprits for most of the diseases in the US. We should be eating meat, veggies, fruit, nuts, seeds, and legumes. We eat WAY WAY WAY too many grains.

But it’s going to take a while before we see that. It will mess up our pyramid and mess up our country’s farming industry.

The following clips were from the article from www.webmd.com entitled:
Processed Meat Linked to Heart, Diabetes Risks

    A new study shows eating processed red meat — such as hot dogs, bacon, sausage, and cold cuts — is linked to increased risks of heart disease and diabetes.

    But the study, published in Circulation, shows no such link for unprocessed red meat.

    Eating unprocessed beef, pork, or lamb was not linked to a higher risk for heart disease and diabetes.

    Eating one serving a day of processed meat — or the equivalent of a single hot dog or two slices of salami — was associated with a 42% increased risk for heart disease and a 19% increased risk for diabetes in the study, conducted by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health.
    Read more at www.webmd.com

Now, if this was a vitamin company or supplement or herb, the FDA would ban it. A single inquiry and it would be over. Why? The FDA and Big Pharma are linked at the hip and they work together. What is also mentioned in this article is: “Since the April 30 recall, the FDA has received hundreds of reports of complications with J&J products, including seven deaths…”

Motrin doesn’t save lives, however, I guess it does kill people.

If a single person kills 7 people, he or she is serial killer. If it’s a company, that’s just Big Pharma doing the business of “saving lives.”

Right…

Cut from:  www.msnbc.msn.com
-FDA docs: J&J knew of problems with Motrin in 2008
-Johnson & Johnson learned of potential problems with its Motrin formula in 2008, but instead of issuing a recall, hired an outside contractor which began buying up the products
-Some of the medicines recalled contained tiny particles of metal
-Sharfstein laid out J&J’s repeated violations of quality and manufacturing procedures, which have resulted in three recalls in the last eight months.

Functional medicine doctors and nutritionists have been telling patients this for years. Why? We knew that the body needs stomach acid in order to properly absorb minerals and break down proteins. It’s why TUMS is a very bad form of calcium, because it neutralizes stomach acid thereby reducing the likelihood of being absorbed. For this same reason, anemia is quite common because iron is one of those minerals that needs stomach acid to be absorbed.

The terrible part of this news story is that they reveal that patients should not be on an acid reducing medication for longer than three 14 day bouts per year. That amounts to 42 days of these drugs for a 365 day year (about 15%). We all know people that “HAVE” to take these medications every day. It’s a dilemma.

My approach is always very simple, figure out what is causing the stomach’s sensitivity to acid and then take care of that. There’s that old doctor joke that says “doctor doctor it hurts when i raise my arm” and the doctor responds with “stop raising your arm.” Prilosec, Nexium, Prevacid, and Aciphex all function the same way. Doctor, doctor… it hurts when I secrete stomach acid. Only to have the doctor reply, “here take this and you won’t secrete stomach acid any more.” Inherently, the mind goes to that place: wasn’t I secreting that stomach acid for a reason?

Hmmm.

Amplify’d clips below were from www.news.yahoo.com
FDA Warns of Fracture Risk With Popular Heartburn Drugs
heartburn medications such as Prevacid, Prilosec and Nexium will now carry a warning on their labels linking the drugs to a heightened risk for fractures
associated with an increased risk of fractures of the hip, wrist and spine
Nexium
Prilosec
Prevacid
Protonix
Aciphex
medicines are used to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), stomach and small intestine ulcers and inflammation of the esophagus. Over-the-counter versions of Prevacid, Prilosec and Zegerid also fall into this class of drugs.
The highest risk was seen in people taking higher doses of PPIs, or among those who took them for a year or more
Under no circumstances should over-the-counter PPIs be taken for more than three 14-day periods in a year
Read more at news.yahoo.com

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I have posted this before, but I strongly believe that if we cut out sugar, corn syrup and bleached & unbleached white flour out of diets, 10’s to 100’s of billions of dollars will be saved that are normally spent on health care in this country. Course, I assume that means a great number of hospitals will close and medicine related jobs will be lost, but we will be a healthier country.

The following was amplified from 

BP Drops when Sugary Drinks Are Reduced
Cutting down on sugar-sweetened soft drinks was associated with a drop in blood pressure, researchers found.
American adults consume 28 fluid ounces a day of sugar-sweetened beverages, or some 2.3 servings, Chen and colleagues noted. But whether long-term consumption of such beverages affects blood pressure has not been investigated.
Read more at www.medpagetoday.com

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