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Tuesday October 27, 2009
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ASK LENA HEALTH Q & A
EDITION!
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Today's question is one that I really welcomed when it
came in this week and today's answer is one
that may surprise you if you doubt what I've been
telling you, all these years, about who runs
conventional medicine and why! The
answer I intended to publish today will publish
next week as
I wanted you to have the information that today's
questioner has provided an opportunity for!
The answers
to questions submitted to me each week come from my 20+ years as a Medical Office Nurse along
with many years and ongoing education in nutritional and alternative
treatment modes. Add that to
many years of friendship with Dr. Wayne Garland,
a very knowledgeable naturopath and herbologist, who
many years ago, beat his cancer death sentence given by
the traditional medical world, has helped along the
alternatives
path and
hopefully help to give hope to those who need it... Also
receiving a lot of study reports and try to ascertain
if they are good or bad then report them to you, which
has increased my knowledge along the way and I pass them on to you to
use or not...
I am not a doctor or dentist and you should not think of
me as one!!
My years observing life and health of the many
people/patients around me and the contradictions of the
traditional medical world's idea of treating -
prescription domino effect - while watching and also was
taught those same
schooled methods that aren't relieving illness but
creating far more health problems than they help. Those same medical
professionals aren't telling people how to get healthy
or how to prevent illness, which led me to look for
something to change that premise for myself and those
around me who ask. In looking outside the Westernized medical
profession I found and continue to find alternatives
that really work to create health and longevity - when
adhered to - beyond anything the traditional medical
world can do...
Ask Lena Health Questions and Answers is for your
information and education only and in some instances to
give you a different perspective on a particular
problem! My wish for you, in the use of the information
gained here, is that you will apply it in a smart and
safe manner in order to enhance your life and not harm
it! Not to be used in place of your judgment but in
addition to... Even though I daily watch people become
healthy with the information imparted here nothing works
100% of the time for 100% of people...
I have always felt that I had to know all sides to a
problem and then make a decision for myself and I hope
that will be your attitude as well!
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=> IN THIS ISSUE!
> QUESTION OF THE WEEK<
> THOUGHT FOR THE DAY<
> MOTIVATOR STEVE GOODIER<
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QUESTION:
You
have printed several articles on reasons not to get
Swine flu vaccine but do you have any real numbers that
would give me comfort should I choose to not get the
vaccine. I do love your newsletter and have found your
answers to be simple yet smart and healthy.
Thanks you for being there for people like me who are
nervous and worry.
Joe
ANSWER:
Your question is really timely Joe!
Some
information I am about to give you came to me last week
that you may find very interesting and should
comfortably answer
your question. The things I have suspected and have
written about for years yet had no
documentation for is answered with your answer and bears proof
positive that my suspicions were accurate and correct
even more than I thought! I kept wondering where
all the statistics of H1N1 flu was coming from since the
CDC stopped checking all but hospitalized and death
suspected cases from July on! I suspected that the numbers
being reported to us of H1N1 flu was being grossly
exaggerated, little did I know how much!
I
would like to say before you read the following that the
CBS report I am quoting came from CBS headquarters and
if your local CBS TV station is like our you most likely
never saw more than a small blurb lost in other jargon.
Our Local CBS TV station continues to pass on the
erroneous stats given them by the CDC as yours may be
doing as well... It seems the report was largely cast
aside as the day to day news passed on to them about all
the supposed cases of H1N1 flu would not be as exciting!
If you didn’t see
the
CBS report on the H1N1 and regular flu adulterated
statistics being fed us by the news media. Sadly, the
majority of news media only reports what the drug companies
or CDC gives
them. The following will knock your socks off if you
didn't see it and since you asked your question I am
assuming you didn't.
Headline was:
Swine Flu Cases Overestimated?
CBS News Exclusive: Study Of State Results Finds H1N1
Not As Prevalent As Feared!
Headlines were followed by the
following statement "CBS News Finds H1N1
Tests Overwhelmingly Negative" Before
beginning their investigation, CBS News asked the CDC
for H1N1 state-by-state test results prior to their halting
of testing and tracking. The CDC and Dept. of Human
Health Services (HHS) did not initially
respond so CBS went to all 50 states health agencies directly,
asking for their statistics on state lab-confirmed H1N1
prior to the halt of individual testing and counting in
July. CBS
filed a Freedom of Information request with the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). More than
two months later, the request has not been fulfilled.
What did they find?
When you see the following report you will understand
why they could not continue to test for H1N1 as it would
kill their pocketbook! So where are the stats coming
from that states have hundreds of cases of H1N1 when the
testing was stopped July 24, 2009?
CBS reported:
"The
results reveal a pattern that surprised a number of
health care professionals we consulted. The vast
majority of cases were negative for H1N1 as well as
seasonal flu, despite the fact that many states were
specifically testing patients deemed to be
most likely to have H1N1 flu, based on symptoms and risk
factors, such as travel to
Mexico."
Graphic from CBS News Report!
As
you can see from this CBS News graphic, from the states.
This graph is only from the state
with the largest number tested 13,704 and the
states with the smallest number tested 722,
and the smallest (1%) to the largest number (17%) of
H1N1 flu testing positive to the smallest (0%) and
largest number (12%) of regular flu. Those in
between were very close to these numbers but a lot of 0$
seasonal flu and 0% of H1N1 flu. Most cases of suspected flu-like illnesses
were not H1N1, they're not even seasonal flu but more likely
some type of cold or upper respiratory infection!
Where
is the CDC Getting Their Data?
Given
CBS News' findings that most cases of flu-like illnesses
are neither H1N1 nor the flu, it begs the question: Why
is the CDC reporting that most flu in the United States
is in fact H1N1?
[The
U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states
on their main flu Web site
http://www.cdc.gov/flu that flu activity is
increasing in the United States, with most states
reporting "widespread influenza activity. "The CDC goes
on to say, "So far, most flu is 2009 H1N1 flu (sometimes
called "swine flu")."]
I simply look at the stats above and cannot justify
that statement!
Barbara Loe Fisher, founder of the National
Vaccine Information Center, was a consumer
representative on the FDA Vaccines and Related
Biological Products Advisory Committee in 2003,
and she asked the head of the influenza branch of the
CDC how much of the flu-like illness that occurs in
America every year is actually due to the flu?
According to the CBS News study, when you come down with
chills, fever, cough, runny nose, malaise and all those
other "flu-like" symptoms, the illness is likely caused
by influenza at most 17 percent of the time and as
little as 3 percent! The other 83 to 97 percent of the
time it's caused by other viruses or bacteria.
H1N1 flu can be deadly and an outbreak of 250 students
would be an especially troubling cluster. However, the
number of sick students came not from lab-confirmed
tests but from "estimates" made by counting "students
who went to the Student Health Center with flu symptoms,
students who called the H1N1 hotline or the Health
Center's doctor-on-call, and students who went to the
hospital's emergency room." Accurate? NOT!
So remember that not every illness that appears to be
the flu actually is the flu. In fact, most of the time
it's not.
Curiously? the CDC still advises those who were told
they had 2009 H1N1 (and therefore should be immune to
getting it again) to get vaccinated unless they had lab
confirmation. Does that make sense, since a person who
has had a particular flu strain is said to be immune for
life for that strain??? Seems money is involved
somewhere in that recommendation!!!
Is
the CDC Purposely Misinforming the Public to Sell More
Flu and H1N1 Vaccines? Conflicts of interest are rampant
in the vaccination infrastructure. The same people who
are regulating and promoting vaccines are also
evaluating vaccine safety.
For
instance,
Dr.
Paul Offit of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
earned at least $29 million as part of a $182-million
sale by the hospital of its worldwide royalty interest
in the Merck Rotateq vaccine. He also formerly sat on
the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
to help create the market for rotavirus vaccine
This type of conflict of interest has been going on for
some time.
In
August 1999, the Committee on Government Reform
initiated an investigation into Federal vaccine policy.
During the investigation the Committee extensively
reviewed financial disclosure forms and related
documents
and interviewed key officials from the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) and the CDC.
It
was revealed that many individuals on two key advisory
committees had financial ties to pharmaceutical
companies that manufacture vaccines. These individuals
were even granted waivers allowing them to fully
participate in discussions about vaccine licensing and
recommendations for children, despite the fact that
federal law states members of advisory committees are
required to disclose such ties and recues themselves
from such discussions and decisions.
Further, the CBS investigation revealed that the FDA's
and CDC's conflict of interest rules were not strongly
enforced while the rules themselves were weak. Specific
problems noted by the Committee included:
•The CDC routinely granted waivers from conflict of
interest rules to many members of its advisory
committee.
•Those CDC advisory committee members who were not
allowed to vote on certain recommendations due to
financial conflicts of interest were still allowed to
actively participate in committee deliberations and
advocate specific positions.
•The Chairman of the CDC's advisory committee owned 600
shares of stock in Merck, a pharmaceutical company with
an active vaccine division.
•Members of the CDC's advisory committee often left key
details out of their financial disclosure statements,
and were not required to provide the missing information
by CDC ethics officials.
And, when the FDA and CDC approved the controversial
rotavirus vaccine in 1998 and 1999, the Committee's
report said:
•3 out of the 5 FDA advisory committee members who voted
to approve the rotavirus vaccine in December 1997 had
financial ties to the pharmaceutical companies that were
developing different versions of the vaccine.
•4 out of the 8 CDC advisory committee members who voted
to approve guidelines for the rotavirus vaccine in June
1998 had financial ties to pharmaceutical companies that
were developing different versions of the vaccine.
The
rotavirus vaccine was pulled from the market one year
after approval, after it was found to cause severe bowel
obstructions.
Given their sordid history, can the CDC really be
trusted, even today? Do you think that much has changed
in just one decade?
Is
the H1N1 Vaccine Really Safe as the CDC Says it Is?
CDC
officials are screaming that H1N1 is so different from
the seasonal influenza strains that have circulated in
the past few decades that a national alarm must be
sounded and everyone needs to be so afraid that we all
should get vaccinated to prevent a deadly pandemic.
Yet,
they say the new H1N1 vaccine is safe based on vaccines
for that very same flu strain from which it is so
different. They write on their Web site "the 2009
H1N1 influenza vaccines are expected to have similar
safety profiles as seasonal flu vaccines ..."
While
symptoms of H1N1 flu and seasonal flu are virtually
identical, the H1N1 vaccine is showing signs of being
quite different from the seasonal flu shot.
Although both are produced using antiquated 50-year-old
technology that involves injecting the virus into eggs
and allowing it to grow, yet the virus being used to
produce the swine flu vaccine has been found to
reproduce much more slowly in eggs than the ordinary flu
virus.
And
according to a separate CBS News report, the U.S.
government is now funding newer unprecedented
technologies to speed up vaccine production, including
one that involves growing the virus inside animal cells
and another that involves flu proteins grown inside
insect cells.
The
risks of these, and the current fast-tracked swine flu
vaccine, are truly unknown at this time.
There is NO Incentive for the CDC or Vaccine
Manufacturers to Care About Safety
You
may think that the CDC and the vaccine manufacturers
must be concerned about safety, as if they released a
dangerous vaccine and promoted it to the American
public, imagine the lawsuits they would face.
This
is actually no longer reality as the U.S. government has
granted vaccine makers total legal immunity from any
lawsuits that result from the new swine flu vaccine.
In
fact, drug manufacturers got a major boost in protection
and were granted unprecedented powers to experiment on
the population with the passing of the 2006 Public
Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (the
PREP Act).
This
law allows the DHHS Secretary to invoke almost complete
immunity from liability for manufacturers of vaccines
and drugs used to combat a declared public health
emergency, which the "swine flu pandemic" qualifies as.
The
PREP Act removes your right to a trial jury unless you
can provide clear evidence of willful misconduct that
resulted in death or serious physical injury. But that's
not all. First you must apply for and be granted
permission to sue by the DHHS Secretary.
The
most problematic aspect of the PREP Act is that it
removes all financial incentive to make a safe product.
In
fact, vaccine makers now have a negative incentive to
test it for safety, because if they are aware of
problems, then they could potentially be held liable for
willful misconduct!
As
long as they can prove they "didn't know" of any
problem, they will not be liable for damages. Hence it's
in their best interest to know as little as possible
about the adverse reactions it might cause.
It
seems unimaginable, but you and your children are now
being enlisted as an unpaid human trial subjects for
experimental, fast-tracked vaccines like the swine flu
vaccine.
From
the CBS study and all the other conflict of interest
reports and to answer your question, I would say the chances of you getting Swine
(H1N1 flu) is very low to most likely not. I will
preface that by saying 'if you have a
strong immune system, good healthy diet filled with lots
of fruits, vegetables, legumes and whole grains along
with getting lots of
sunlight (vitamin D) and walk or climb stairs when you
the opportunity arises!' You are far less likely to
contract flu of any kind!
Just remember if you didn’t keep your immune system strong and
you come down with ANY VIRUS OR BACTERIA - Treat
naturally as well as helping build the immune system up with the
ultimate antibiotic, antivirus, antifungal fighter,
immune builder "Ionic
Silver Water. But that is only one step! Then add a
probiotic with
digestive enzymes to strengthen the largest part of
your immune system - stomach and intestinal tract - also
help remove the invading germ/virus and keep it from
really attaching to you...
Lena
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Thought for the Day
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According to a Finnish study, there are hidden
ingredients that could be dangerous.
The
Consumer Agency and Ombudsman for Product Safety in
Helsinki measured the levels of poisons in 25 brands of
eye shadow, in 88 colors. They were looking for evidence
of lead, arsenic, chromium, cobalt and nickel.
According to a report in the journal Contact
Dermatitis, they did find these metals present as
impurities in eye shadow. But they were present in
extremely small amounts..
On the
other hand, people who have been sensitized to any of
the impurities might have a skin reaction after contact
with these tiny amounts. And because the metals are
impurities, they aren't listed as ingredients. They may
even be present in some batches, and not in others.
So if
you have a reaction to your cosmetics, change brands.
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MOTIVATOR
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DOING SOMETHING GREAT
When was the last
time you were challenged to do something really...
well... great?
President Abraham Lincoln helped me to understand that
there is a bit of greatness within all of us. It is said
that he often slipped out of the White House on
Wednesday evenings to listen to the sermons of Dr.
Phineas Gurley at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
He generally preferred to come and go unnoticed, so when
Dr. Gurley knew the president was coming, he left his
study door open. On one of those occasions, the
president quietly entered through a side door of the
church, took his seat in the minister's study, located
just off the sanctuary, and propped the door open just
wide enough to hear the preacher.
During the walk home one Wednesday evening, an aide
asked Mr. Lincoln his appraisal of the sermon. The
president thoughtfully replied, "The content was
excellent... he delivered with eloquence... he had put
work into the message.."
"Then you thought it was an excellent sermon?"
questioned the aide.
"No," Lincoln answered.
"But you said that the content was excellent, it was
delivered with eloquence and it showed much work," the
aide pressed.
"That's true," Lincoln said. "But Dr. Gurley forgot the
most important ingredient. He forgot to ask us to do
something great."
There is nothing wrong with average lives and average
accomplishments. Most of the good of the world is built
on the accumulated efforts of everyday people. But, as
Lincoln seemed to know, a life should strive for some
greatness.
Are you part of a relationship that, if given more
effort, could be outstanding? Or do you volunteer for an
organization which is truly doing something excellent?
Have you joined a cause that is attempting something
great? Or have you ever said to yourself concerning a
beautiful dream, "I could never do that," while knowing
that if you were to attempt it and succeed, you just
might accomplish something significant?
If Abraham Lincoln is right, then every life should
strive to reach a little further today than it did
yesterday, for there is some greatness in each of us.
....................
Steve Goodier
Publisher@LifeSupportSystem.com is a professional speaker,
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