Sunday, 9 July 2006
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| STRAND's Religious Agenda (Continued) Guest 17:14:31 |
| | From "What Your Doctor [blah blah}," page 144:
"I do not have a fear of dying because of my faith in Christ: To be
absent from the body is to be present in the Lord."
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Just what you want to hear your doctor say: "You need to buy more of
these vitamins. If they don't work, don't worry: I do not have a fear
of your dying.'
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| Re: "A Hole Lot Bigger" Jeff and Mary Berk 17:09:30 |
| | i couldn't believe it. i bet he did. hey, he operates from "in the hole",
down under, you know...lolol!
jeff
<nonavailable@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1152283362.857903.198380@s53g2000cws.googlegroups.com...>> the other list will be a hole lot bigger  >
A "Hole" lot bigger?! Did you really just write that?>
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| Ken Ward: NEW FAQ! v2.4 Guest 17:08:01 |
| | Now updated to include:
--Ken's line of "beauty products" (hand lotion, basically)
--Ray Strand's religious agenda
--More dangers of Ken's supplements for folks with IBD.
KEN WARD FAQ v2.4
WHO IS KEN WARD?
Ken WARD is a poster who claims to have Crohn's disease and to have
controlled it by stopping all medications and instead taking
supplements made by a corporation called USANA. Ken moonlights as a
salesman for that corporation.
(It's a sideline job; Ken's main job is working in a warehouse,
carrying boxes back and forth. This gives you some idea of Ken's
scientific background.)
USANA has been called by some a "pyramid scheme." In a pyramid scheme,
the success of the company depends mostly on recruiting more and more
salesmen, rather than on actually selling the corporation's
merchandise.
USANA itself admits that ***85 percent *** of its merchandise sales are
between one salesman and another.
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WHAT IS KEN'S SALES GIMMICK?
As part of Ken's campaign to sell USANA merchandise, he frequently
tries to encourage people in the newsgroup to stop taking medications
and instead substitute his products. A few sample posts of his
[spelling, punctuation, and capitalization are, sadly, Ken's]:
"Instead of sticking with the meds i took the recommendation out there
to supplement my nourishment that will help me generate healthy cells
and to help keep them healthy. It has worked wonders for me!"
"If one can do with out them [medications], the better off he is in the
long run."
"The meds we are using for IBD are not going to cure us....Why not try
somethin that is much much safer?"
"My having not had to take any med's for the last 10 years for my
crohn's disease speaks oodles."
"I went against the doctors advice when i did the nutrition
route...cause i was going to be building up my immune system instead of
suppressing it.That immune system theory of suppressing it is old
medicine."
"Drugs are bad whether they are prescribed, bought over the counter, or
from the local pusher on the street."
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KEN'S PYRAMID SCHEME IS CALLED USANA "HEALTH SCIENCES." IS IT A
"SCIENTIFIC" COMPANY?
No. Ken is basically a hand-lotion salesman who also pushes
supplements.
Some of the products that USANA sells under its hilariously named
"SensГ©" line (and that Ken is too embarrassed to talk about) are:
Gentle Daily Cleanser
Hydrating Toner
Daytime Protective Emulsion
Night Renewal
Rice Bran Polisher
Perfecting Essence
Serum Intensive
Eye Nourisher
SensГ© Splash
Energizing Shower Gel
Revitalizing Shampoo
Nourishing Conditioner
Firming Body Nourisher
Intensive Hand Therapy
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CAN I USE KEN'S MERCHANDISE AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR MEDICATION, AS HE
RECOMMENDS?
Ken's merchandise is not appropriate for many people with IBD. For
instance:
His products provide vitamins A, D, and E in FAT-soluble form. But
people with small-bowel Crohn's (e.g., Crohn's in the terminal ileum)
often have trouble digesting fat. In these people, fats--along with
those fat-associated vitamins--end up UNabsorbed and in the toilet.
People with small-intestinal Crohn's should therefore find a product in
which vitamins A, D, and E are present in WATER-soluble forms (also
sometimes called water-MISCIBLE). These products are not hard to find.
As for the USANA fiber supplement that Ken sells (called "Fibergy"):
USANA brags that this product contains INSOLUBLE fiber. This is fiber
that cannot dissolve in water. Such fiber can be very rough on raw,
ulcerated, bleeding gut tissue. It can also have a very hard time
getting through a narrow intestinal stricture.
Too much insoluble fiber is a common cause of the bowel obstructions
that occur in people with Crohn's strictures.
If you have IBD, NEVER use USANA multivitamins ("Essentials") or USANA
calcium supplements. Both have way too much magnesium, which functions
as a laxative.
For example, people with IBD often have bone thinning, and so are
advised to take around 1,500 mg. of calcium a day to compensate. If you
used USANA's calcium supplement to get this amount, you'd also take in
a whopping 800 mg. of magnesium a day.
That's essentially a laxative dose.
If you have IBD, the last thing you need is to lose that much water.
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THE BOOKS KEN RECOMMENDS--ARE THEY CONNECTED TO USANA?
Ken often recommends a book entitled "What Your Doctor Doesn't Know
About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You."
The author of this book, Ray Strand, is a paid promoter of USANA
merchandise (the corporation prefers the term "member of the USANA
medical advisory board").
Strand is a family practitioner with no advanced training in nutrition.
In his entire career, he has never published a single paper--on
anytopic--in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
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DOES RAY STRAND HAVE A RELIGIOUS AGENDA?
One of the sources Strand cites in his book, "What Your Doctor Doesn't
Know...," is:
"Taking Up Your Cross: The Unspeakable Joy of Following Jesus" by
Tricia Rhodes
The book also includes these Strand statements, among others:
"I do not have a fear of dying because of my faith in Christ."
"I have no doubt that God is our True Healer."
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DOES STRAND OPENLY HYPE THE MERCHANDISE OF HIS EMPLOYER, USANA?
First, you should know that Strand claims that Crohn's disease is one
of over 70 chronic
degenerative diseases that are caused by oxidative stress. One blurb of
his book says:
"[reading his book you will] learn...more about the 'root' cause of
over 70 chronic degenerative diseases--oxidative stress--you too will
realize that humanity's best safeguard against developing coronary
artery disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, hypertension, Alzheimer's
dementia, Parkinson's disease, lupus, MS, Crohn's disease, macular
degeneration, asthma, arthritis, etc, is not found in pharmacology, but
is found within our own bodies."
To counteract this oxidative stress, USANA promoter Strand
recommends--naturally--USANA merchandise. In his words:
"Why I recommend USANA Products"
"I personally believe USANA Health Sciences has developed and produced
the most complete and balanced nutritional products on the market
today. In fact, all the clinical case study results documented in my
new book, "What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May
Be Killing You," were achieved by using products developed and
manufactured by USANA."
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Ken also likes to quote from and cite something called "The Comparative
Guide to Nutritional Supplements" by Lyle MacWilliams.
Lyle MacWilliams admits that he is an "independent associate"
(translation: salesman) of USANA.
Purely as a coincidence, his book, "The Comparative Guide," ranks USANA
merchandise as "Number 1."
The "Comparative Guide" is self-published. The "publisher" has never
put out another book.
These are the "experts" who ranked the vitamins in the "Comparative
Guide":
1. PHYLLIS BALCHER. Holds no academic position whatsoever. Only
credential: member of something called the "American Association of
Nutritional Consultants." The group accepts anyone willing to pay the
$150 entrance fee. This organization has accepted a poodle, a cat, and
a hamster as members.
2. MICHAEL COLGAN. Has published one (1) scientific paper in his entire
career. Holds no academic position. Sells his own vitamins, tapes,
DVDs, books, newsletters, etc., at his traveling "seminars."
Some of Colgan's fees:
"Power Program Camp": $S1,225
"Anti-Aging Intensive": $1,095
"Power Program Certification Course":
Stage 1: $525
Stage 2: $650
Stage 3: $775
3. EARL MINDELL: A "professor" at something calling itself "Pacific
Western University." Address for this school: 1650 Westwood Blvd.,
Suite 205. (Must be a TINY university.) Federal investigators at the
U.S. General Accounting Office have labeled this school a "diploma
mill"--an operation that essentially just prints up diplomas and sells
them to whoever is willing to pay.
4. MICHAEL MURRAY. A "professor" at something called "Bastryr
University," which does not even have its own campus; it has to rent
one from the local Catholic diocese.
Bastryr awards degrees in "natural healing," among other fields of
"expertise."
5. RICHARD PASSWATER: A "professor" at "Bernadean University." Address
for this school: 21757 Devonshire, Suite 16 (apparently another tiny
university). Passwater received his "Ph.D." from Bernadean--an
operation that is not accredited by any group recognized by the U.S.
Secretary of Education.
6. RAY STRAND: Paid USANA promoter. What a coincidence: The "book" he
contributes his opinions to just happens to rates his company #1!
7. JULIAN WHITTAKER: Has created "a formula that has 17 ingredients
that help the eyes. It's called 'Vission Essentials,' and you can call
1-800..."]
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KEN SAYS HIS MERCHANDISE IS "PHARMACEUTICAL GRADE." WHAT IS THAT? IS HE
TELLING THE TRUTH?
Ken likes to claim that his merchandise is "pharmaceutical grade"--made
in accordance with the same manufacturing standards use to produce
prescription drugs. This claim cannot be verified.
For a company to legitimately call its supplements "pharmaceutical
grade," it must allow its production facilities and its products to be
examined/inspected by a non-profit organization called the U.S.
Pharmacopeia.
The USP operates a purely voluntary inspection/verification program
just for supplements. USANA will not participate in it. Because USANA
won't let the USP perform inspections, we have NO idea what is in USANA
merchandise, let alone whether it is "pharmaceutical grade" or
"hog-feed grade."
For more on the USP's program, and for a list of companies that DO
allow USP inspections, go to:
http://www.usp.org/USPVerified/dietarySupplements/
Another source that tests supplements independently:
Consumerlab.com
http://www.consumerlab.com
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USEFUL LINKS
For more on pyramid schemes, check out:
http://www.mlmwatch.org/
http://www.quackwatch.org/
For information on USANA's Mexican "clinic," which treats desperate
cancer patients with wheatgrass enemas, colored-light "therapy," and
magnet "therapy," go to:
www.sanoviv.com
[NOTE: The Sanoviv website recently moved all mention of these
embarrassing "therapies."]
From the Deseret News (lots of pyramid schemes are centered in Utah):
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600140269,00.html
An accountant analyzes the ways pyramid schemes really make money:
http://www.mlm-thetruth.com/UtahTaxStudy.htm
See what USANA salesfolk are REALLY interested in:
http://cosmo_and_judy.usana.com/mystory_en.cfm
***END***
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| Glyconutrient Videos Ralph 00:26:09 |
| | here is a very very interesting site. Lots of videos and audios on
glyconutrients. Highly recommended.
http://www.the-wellness-channel.org
Enjoy!
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Saturday, 8 July 2006
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| Acidophilus pills Violet Tigress 21:49:20 |
| | Does anyone recommend a particular brand?
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| Re: Feeling sick Sdores 14:50:14 |
| | Yes, very much esp. when I stay home a lot. Now that I am working with my
son and get out a lot more I find it's not as bad. Maybe finding a way to
get out with family or friends will help. I go out with mine often and it
really has helped me out. UM MOM Susan
"Paul Hinman" <paul.hinman@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:hr0rg.127611$IK3.70210@pd7tw1no...
With Crohn's disease there are many different problems that we must cope
with. The bid "D", and the pain are the ones that we seem to complain
about the most.
The general feeling of being sick is one that I have been having a real
problem with. The weakness and general malaise are driving me nuts. I
enjoy sleeping because then I feel nothing and I am disappointed when I wake
up. I am sleeping my life away and that is neither healthy or productive.
Has anyone else had this problem and if so, what have you been able to do
about it:
Thanx - Paul
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Paul S. Hinman - VE6LDS
long West 113 deg 27 min 20 sec
lat North 53 deg 27 min 3 sec
Maidenhead Locator DO33gk
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| Walking helps my colitis Guest 08:31:11 |
| | I feel a lot better when I walk at least 1 hour a day. Bending over
while standing up effects my colitis with in 24 hours.
Stan
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| OT Research: (mouse) UCLA study finds same genes act differently in males and females Guest 05:34:57 |
| | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-07/uoc--usf070506.php
UCLA study finds same genes act differently in males and females
Discovery may explain gender gap in disease risk, drug response
Scientists may have revealed the origin of the battle of the sexes -
in our genes.
UCLA researchers report that thousands of genes behave differently in
the same organs of males and females - something never detected to
this degree. Published in the August issue of Genome Research, the
study sheds light on why the same disease often strikes males and
females differently, and why the genders may respond differently to the
same drug.
"We previously had no good understanding of why the sexes vary in their
relationship to different diseases," explained Xia Yang, Ph.D., first
author and postdoctoral fellow in cardiology at the David Geffen School
of Medicine at UCLA. "Our study discovered a genetic disparity that may
explain why males and females diverge in terms of disease risk, rate
and severity."
"This research holds important implications for understanding disorders
such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity, and identifies targets for
the development of gender-specific therapies," said Jake Lusis, Ph.D.,
co-investigator and UCLA professor of human genetics.
The UCLA team examined brain, liver, fat and muscle tissue from mice
with the goal of finding genetic clues related to mental illnesses,
diabetes, obesity and atherosclerosis. Humans and mice share 99 percent
of their genes.
The scientists focused on gene expression -- the process by which a
gene's DNA sequence is converted into cellular proteins. With the help
of Rosetta Informatics, the team scrutinized more than 23,000 genes to
measure their expression level in male and female tissue.
What they found surprised them. While each gene functioned the same in
both sexes, the scientists found a direct correlation between gender
and the amount of gene expressed.
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--
Luke
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Friday, 7 July 2006
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| Origin of HIV (But I am really a google bombing, spamming low-life) Omjaroo 21:38:09 |
| | I don't think for a moment you have the substance or motivation to
answer me.
But let me tell you, I think you are the lowest form of life (well
under bacteria) on this planet. Are you listening Puma? I am talking
about what I presume is a human being. Want to defend bacteria?
Take the most important and serious issue facing the human race and try
to run up your position on goggle's search engine... You low-life piece
of sh*t. I swear to God you don't ever want to run into me, you f*cking
puke!
Jared
o
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| USTANKA: Can't Even Win at Merchandising Guest 19:42:02 |
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Doc wrote:> "Ken.W" <phosgate@telus.net> wrote in> news:ADirg.43627$B91.35968@edtnps82:>
Hey NA...you didn't happen to hear that USANA HEalth Sciences got> > another BEST OF STATE award the actual Best In State for Merchandising was Ken Garff Automotive> Group.> TRANSLATION: Ken lied. Again.
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| Ken and Strand's Brave Stance: "We're AGAINST Alzheimer's!" Guest 18:50:40 |
| | the subject was about alzhiemers. Dieing don't scare him but> being stuck inside your body and in a stupor for 10 years not remembering> even your closest loved ones is what scares him.
Wow! Strand is AGAINST Alzheimer's?! How courageous!
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| St. Strand, Translated by Ken Guest 18:46:47 |
| | Dieing don't scare him
"Dieing don't scare him"--Your posts just get better and better, Ken.
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| Ken: "A Hole Lot Bigger" Guest 18:42:42 |
| | the other list will be a hole lot bigger
A "Hole" lot bigger?! Did you really just write that?
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| KEN: Hand Lotion Salesman Guest 18:35:53 |
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Ken.W wrote:> Hey NA...you didn't happen to hear that USANA Hair Gel and Cuticle Cream [blah blah blah]
TRANSLATION: "You can trust me on health advice! After all, I don't
just sell vitamins, I also sell hand lotion!"
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| The Medical Mafia ? Caesarjbsquitti 10:03:42 |
| | The Medical Mafia ?
(suffer from Crohns'...look up herbal treatments for parasties...)
The book, "The Medical Mafia", written by French-Canadian medical
doctor, entrepreneur, and mother Dr. Guylaine Lanctot (pronounced
"Ghee-Lane Lank-Toe") is a book with a correct title, that exposes how
'the medical system' prevents known cures from being integrated into
the health system to prevent many diseases and feeds, in fact profits
from disease.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0964412608/104-1369271-9447920?v=glance&n=283155
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This stunning, easy-to-read book, by French-Canadian medical doctor,
entrepreneur, and mother Dr. Guylaine Lanctot (pronounced "Ghee-Lane
Lank-Toe") answers many questions such as:
(1) Why are certain illnesses untreatable?
(2) Why do some people always become ill and others never?
(3) Why do some people die from an illness and others recover?
(4) Why do medical costs continue to skyrocket? Who profits from this?
(5) Why are some doctors or therapists barred from practicing and
others not?
(6) Why is treatment remunerated and not prevention?
(7) Why are people still dying of cancer after fifty years of intensive
research at astronomical cost?
(8) Why is the public not properly informed about alternative
medicines?
(9) Why is everyone so unhappy with the existing medical and hospital
system?
(10) Why are there so many medical organizations and government medical
agencies? Whose interest are they protecting?
The main chapters of this book answer not only these questions, but
other questions as well. These chapters are divided into four parts:
(1) The Problem. (5 chapters.)
In a nutshell, the author tells us we have "a medicine of sickness."
She goes on to say that "[t]his is true for the United States, as it is
for Canada, France, or, for that matter, for all countries whatever
their health system may be."
(2) The Solution (to the problem). (7 chapters.)
Here, the obvious answer is "a medicine of health." The author tells us
that this solution "treats the cause of illnesses and prevents them
from occurring." However, this obvious solution is prevented due to ...
(3) The Obstacle. (8 chapters.)
What exactly is the obstacle? It is "the medical mafia." The author
explains: "Officially, we are told that the system is at the service of
the patient. But, in practice, the system is at the service
of...industry [that] pulls the strings and maintains a system [or a
medicine] of sickness for its own profit. That is the MEDICAL MAFIA."
(4) The Realization (of what should be done). (10 chapters.)
The author calls this "self-health." She explains: "The only one who
has the ultimate power to change the system is the patient, the very
reason for being of the system. The patients will take back their power
over health and exercise their sovereignty. The doctors recognize the
sovereignty of the patients and help them to exercise it. That is
self-health."
Each part ends with a very brief conclusion. I found these insightful.
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Having known people who have suffered from IBS, AND CROHNS, for
decades, a disease that common sense would suggest is caused by some
type of 'parasites'...I have seen first hand how the system makes
'billion's'' in testing, referrals, and ignoring the obvious
truths...a simple bacterial infection.
The billions of dollars made within the pharmaceutical industry, brings
with it the power to conceal the many negative sides to the 'pill'
business, that we were made aware of in Vioxx that was causing strokes
and deaths. Little has been heard about PPA, or phyelprophamine, a
common ingredient of many over the counter drugs that caused
psychiatric symptoms.
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Psychotic Symptoms
Psychotic symptoms can be the consequence of medical conditions,
psychological conditions, use and abuse of controlled substances, and
prescription drug side effects. A patient's particular condition will
often determine the psychotic symptoms that a person may experience.
Generally speaking, psychotic symptoms include hallucinations,
delusions, disorganized and/or bizarre behavior, and disorganized
speech.
Hallucinations are false perceptions: a person may feel, hear, or see
something that does not exist. For example, a person with psychotic
symptoms may hear voices, see objects, patterns or lights, or feel like
bugs are crawling on them, though in actuality none of these things are
occurring. Delusions are false beliefs or gross misinterpretations of
experiences or perceptions. For example, a person with psychotic
symptoms might believe that people want to hurt them, they are someone
they are not, or that others can read their mind. Disorganized or
bizarre behavior might include childlike silliness, unprovoked
agitation, and inappropriate appearance, hygiene, and/or conduct.
Psychotic symptoms are characteristic of a number of mental health
disorders. Schizophrenia and similar conditions like schizophreniform,
schizotypical personality disorder, and brief psychotic disorder, cause
hallucinations, delusions, abnormal thinking, flattened affect (range
of emotion), and more. Schizoaffective disorder produces similar
psychotic symptoms and mood symptoms like mania and depression. Some
serious medical conditions can also cause a person to develop psychotic
symptoms including: brain tumor, thyroid disease, epilepsy, kidney
failure, and vitamin deficiencies.
There are hundreds of drugs- legal and illegal- which can also cause a
person to develop psychotic symptoms. Some studies have suggested that
marijuana use can double a person's risk of developing a mental health
disorder and can prompt psychotic symptoms. There are a number of
prescription medications and over the counter drugs that may cause
psychotic symptoms. Drug induced psychotic symptoms are so widespread
that Public Citizen, a reputable consumer advocate group, released a
two part publication about the many families of drugs which are known
to cause psychotic symptoms. The group's findings were based on a July
2002 issue of The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics , a highly
respected reference guide for doctors and pharmacists.
The following drug families were just some of those listed as
medications known to cause psychotic symptoms: amphetamine-like drugs,
anabolic steroids, ACE inhibitors, atropine, antidepressants,
antiepileptics, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, beta blockers, calcium
channel blockers, some antibiotics, estrogens, antihistamines, MAO
Inhibitors, NSAIDs, opioids, salicylates, SSRIs, statins, and some
herbal dietary supplements such as those containing ephedra.
Public Citizen recommends that people who develop any new symptom,
including psychotic symptoms, after beginning a new drug treatment
should consult with their medical professional as soon as possible. It
is important not to stop or change any prescribed treatment regiment
without first speaking with a health care professional.
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Canada's "health system" and that in the USA is all about making money
through illness, a paradoxical business. We should be healthy and
buying FORD and GMC products not illness.
Caesar J. B. Squitti
The Jesus Christ Code. (c)
http://www.jesuschristcode.com
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| should of been OT!!! Re: Jesus, Myth of history or Son of God ? Jeff and Mary Berk 08:06:22 |
| | sooooooooooooo why was this not labeled as off topic "ot"????
jeff
<booktwo@lorenzocrescini.it> wrote in message
news:1152180707.090446.324900@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...> My name is Lorenzo Crescini. I am a Captain of the merchant Navy now> on retirement.> When I was a secular missionary in an African leprosary, I wrote some> Flashes on the Holy Gospels which helped a lot of people by giving> them new trust and hope. You will find them in web site>
Here are the first three Flashes as an example> 1. There is the historical proof the myth could not invent the Cross .> If the Cross roused a "social orror" by the heathens ,it caused a> shocking religious dismay by the Jews. It is not a case that the first> christians in order to avoid that the preaching might be> jeopardised.,represented the Cross by an anchor ,a plough, a mast, a> man praying with open arms.How can we think that this way of dying was> put in the myth by the christians themselves ?> 2. Should somebody tell us of having seen a dead person on the cross> resuscitated, nobody would believe him. But if the same person stating> that could also make miracles, then we would believe him. That happened> to the Apostles who got the power of making miracles in order to be> believed. Without that power, Christianity couldn't have been born.> 3. Jesus says on the Cross: "My God ,My God ,why did You abandon me ?> Such words might even shock the reader. Why should they have been> written if they weren't true,then ?>
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| KEN WARD: Shower-Gel Salesman Guest 07:51:42 |
| | It don't take long to understand why its so> popular among athletes.> So are anabolic steroids.> Does that mean they are good?> WARNING: Do not take scientific or medical advice from Ken Ward, who
sells the following products (under the brand "SensГ©") for a pyramid
scheme:
Gentle Daily Cleanser
Hydrating Toner
Daytime Protective Emulsion
Night Renewal
Rice Bran Polisher
Perfecting Essence
Serum Intensive
Eye Nourisher
SensГ© Splash
Energizing Shower Gel
Revitalizing Shampoo
Nourishing Conditioner
Firming Body Nourisher
Intensive Hand Therapy
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| The Pyramid Scheme Mafia Guest 05:44:52 |
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caesarjbsquitti wrote:> The Medical Mafia ?>
(suffer from Crohns'...look up [blah blah blah]
from www.mlm-thetruth.com
LIST OF MLMs [PYRAMID SCHEMES] shut down by LAW ENFORCEMENT:
2Extreme Performance
Bestline
Boston Finney
Club Atlanta Travel
Culture Farms
Destiny Telecom
Equinox
Five Star Auto Club
Fortuna Alliance
Fortune in Motion
Global Prosperity Group
Globion, Inc.
Holiday Magic
Infinity2
International Heritage
Jewelway
Koscot Interplanetary
National Safety Associates
NexGen3000
Omnitrition
Rennaissance - the
Tax People (See MLM
Numbers page.)
Skybiz
Tele-Card International
Trek Alliance
Unimax
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| Warning: Sales Troll Guest 01:25:56 |
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Ken.W wrote:> I would listen to your doctor...it wouldn't be the first time Remicade has> been linked to Ken's attempt to sell pyramid-scheme vitamins as a substitute for medication.
KEN WARD FAQ 2.3
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WHO IS KEN WARD?
Ken WARD is a poster who claims to have Crohn's disease and to have
controlled it by stopping all medications and instead taking
supplements made by a corporation called USANA. Ken moonlights as a
salesman for that corporation.
(It's a sideline job; Ken's main job is working in a warehouse,
carrying boxes back and forth. That gives you some idea of his IQ.)
USANA has been called by some a "pyramid scheme." In a pyramid scheme,
the success of the company depends mostly on recruiting more and more
salesmen, rather than on actually selling the corporation's
merchandise.
USANA itself admits that ***85 percent *** of its merchandise sales are
between one salesman and another.
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WHAT IS KEN'S SALES GIMMICK?
As part of Ken's campaign to sell USANA merchandise, he frequently
tries to encourage people in the newsgroup to stop taking medications
and instead substitute his products. A few sample posts of his
[spelling, punctuation, and capitalization are, sadly, Ken's]:
"Instead of sticking with the meds i took the recommendation out there
to supplement my nourishment that will help me generate healthy cells
and to help keep them healthy. It has worked wonders for me!"
"If one can do with out them [medications], the better off he is in the
long run."
"The meds we are using for IBD are not going to cure us....Why not try
somethin that is much much safer?"
"My having not had to take any med's for the last 10 years for my
crohn's disease speaks oodles."
"I went against the doctors advice when i did the nutrition
route...cause i was going to be building up my immune system instead of
suppressing it.That immune system theory of suppressing it is old
medicine."
"Drugs are bad whether they are prescribed, bought over the counter, or
from the local pusher on the street."
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CAN I USE KEN'S MERCHANDISE AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR MEDICATION, AS HE
RECOMMENDS?
Ken's merchandise is not appropriate for many people with IBD. For
instance:
His products provide vitamins A, D, and E in FAT-soluble form. But
people with small-bowel Crohn's (e.g., Crohn's in the terminal ileum)
often have trouble digesting fat. In these people, fats--along with
those fat-associated vitamins--end up UNabsorbed and in the toilet.
People with small-intestinal Crohn's should therefore find a product in
which vitamins A, D, and E are present in WATER-soluble forms (also
sometimes called water-MISCIBLE). These products are not hard to find.
As for the USANA fiber supplement that Ken sells (called "Fibergy"):
USANA brags that this product contains INSOLUBLE fiber. This is fiber
that cannot dissolve in water. Such fiber can be very rough on raw,
ulcerated, bleeding gut tissue. It can also have a very hard time
getting through a narrow intestinal stricture.
Too much insoluble fiber is a common cause of the bowel obstructions
that occur in people with Crohn's strictures.
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THE BOOKS KEN RECOMMENDS--ARE THEY CONNECTED TO USANA?
Ken often recommends a book entitled "What Your Doctor Doesn't Know
About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You."
The author of this book, Ray Strand, is a paid promoter of USANA
merchandise (the corporation prefers the term "member of the USANA
medical advisory board").
Strand is a family practitioner with no advanced training in nutrition.
In his entire career, he has never published a single paper--on
anytopic--in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
Strand claims that Crohn's disease is one of over 70 chronic
degenerative diseases that are caused by oxidative stress. One blurb of
his book says:
"[reading his book you will] learn...more about the 'root' cause of
over 70 chronic degenerative diseases--oxidative stress--you too will
realize that humanity's best safeguard against developing coronary
artery disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, hypertension, Alzheimer's
dementia, Parkinson's disease, lupus, MS, Crohn's disease, macular
degeneration, asthma, arthritis, etc, is not found in pharmacology, but
is found within our own bodies."
To counteract this oxidative stress, USANA promoter Strand
recommends--naturally--USANA merchandise. In his words:
"Why I recommend USANA Products"
"I personally believe USANA Health Sciences has developed and produced
the most complete and balanced nutritional products on the market
today. In fact, all the clinical case study results documented in my
new book, "What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May
Be Killing You," were achieved by using products developed and
manufactured by USANA."
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Ken also likes to quote from and cite something called "The Comparative
Guide to Nutritional Supplements" by Lyle MacWilliams.
Lyle MacWilliams admits that he is an "independent associate"
(translation: salesman) of USANA.
Purely as a coincidence, his book, "The Comparative Guide," ranks USANA
merchandise as "Number 1."
The "Comparative Guide" is self-published. The "publisher" has never
put out another book.
These are the "experts" who ranked the vitamins in the "Comparative
Guide":
1. PHYLLIS BALCHER. Holds no academic position whatsoever. Only
credential: member of something called the "American Association of
Nutritional Consultants." The group accepts anyone willing to pay the
$150 entrance fee. This organization has accepted a poodle, a cat, and
a hamster as members.
2. MICHAEL COLGAN. Has published one (1) scientific paper in his entire
career. Holds no academic position. Sells his own vitamins, tapes,
DVDs, books, newsletters, etc., at his traveling "seminars."
Some of Colgan's fees:
"Power Program Camp": $S1,225
"Anti-Aging Intensive": $1,095
"Power Program Certification Course":
Stage 1: $525
Stage 2: $650
Stage 3: $775
3. EARL MINDELL: A "professor" at something calling itself "Pacific
Western University." Address for this school: 1650 Westwood Blvd.,
Suite 205. (Must be a TINY university.) Federal investigators at the
U.S. General Accounting Office have labeled this school a "diploma
mill"--an operation that essentially just prints up diplomas and sells
them to whoever is willing to pay.
4. MICHAEL MURRAY. A "professor" at something called "Bastryr
University," which does not even have its own campus; it has to rent
one from the local Catholic diocese.
Bastryr awards degrees in "natural healing," among other fields of
"expertise."
5. RICHARD PASSWATER: A "professor" at "Bernadean University." Address
for this school: 21757 Devonshire, Suite 16 (apparently another tiny
university). Passwater received his "Ph.D." from Bernadean--an
operation that is not accredited by any group recognized by the U.S.
Secretary of Education.
6. RAY STRAND: Paid USANA promoter. What a coincidence: The "book" he
contributes his opinions to just happens to rates his company #1!
7. JULIAN WHITTAKER: Has created "a formula that has 17 ingredients
that help the eyes. It's called 'Vission Essentials,' and you can call
1-800..."]
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KEN SAYS HIS MERCHANDISE IS "PHARMACEUTICAL GRADE." WHAT IS THAT? IS HE
TELLING THE TRUTH?
Ken likes to claim that his merchandise is "pharmaceutical grade"--made
in accordance with the same manufacturing standards use to produce
prescription drugs. This claim cannot be verified.
For a company to legitimately call its supplements "pharmaceutical
grade," it must allow its production facilities and its products to be
examined/inspected by a non-profit organization called the U.S.
Pharmacopeia.
The USP operates a purely voluntary inspection/verification program
just for supplements. USANA will not participate in it. Because USANA
won't let the USP perform inspections, we have NO idea what is in USANA
merchandise, let alone whether it is "pharmaceutical grade" or
"hog-feed grade."
For more on the USP's program, and for a list of companies that DO
allow USP inspections, go to:
http://www.usp.org/USPVerified/dietarySupplements/
Another source that tests supplements independently:
Consumerlab.com
http://www.consumerlab.com
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USEFUL LINKS
For more on pyramid schemes, check out:
http://www.mlmwatch.org/
http://www.quackwatch.org/
For information on USANA's Mexican "clinic," which treats desperate
cancer patients with wheatgrass enemas, colored-light "therapy," and
magnet "therapy," go to:
www.sanoviv.com
From the Deseret News (lots of pyramid schemes are centered in Utah): http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600140269,00.html
An accountant analyzes the ways pyramid schemes really make money:
http://www.mlm-thetruth.com/UtahTaxStudy.htm
See what USANA salesfolk are REALLY interested in:
http://cosmo_and_judy.usana.com/mystory_en.cfm
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| Ken's True Healer Guest 00:21:55 |
| | Ken.W wrote:> If you haven't added Coenzyme Q10 to your nutritional supplement regimen yet you might want to consider it.
Ken, Your Idol, Ray Strand, says that Coenzyme Q10 doesn't deserve the
credit for your miraculous recovery. Mr. Strand says: "I have no doubt
that God is our True Healer." (p. 35, "What Your Doctor Doesn't Know
[etc.]")
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| Supplement studies Dash Hopes Mgbio 23:14:51 |
| | I read the article below in my local paper. I couldn't find it online on my local paper's website, but I did find it in posted as a reprint from the Washington Post. Something we should all read.
mgbio
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/living/health/14932480.htm
Supplement studies dash hopes
JANUARY W. PAYNE
The Washington Post
Millions of Americans who regularly take vitamins and other popular dietary supplements have had their faith in those products challenged in the past year as the substances fared poorly in several large clinical trials and a federal panel's scientific review.
The supplements tested are widely used but few had previously been put to large-scale, well-designed clinical trials. The findings showed that some of Americans' most trusted supplements - including some, such as multivitamins and calcium, that doctors have recommended for decades - failed to show the benefits they were believed to offer.
Among products with unexpectedly poor showings were those used to relieve knee pain, prevent heart attack and stroke, boost bone health and prevent hip fractures, ward off chronic diseases such as cancer, treat an enlarged prostate and fight the common cold. (For a summary of some of the most surprising findings, see the accompanying box.)
"The recent studies on many dietary supplements have been very disappointing, in that the hopes were high and many of the studies have been decidedly negative," said Andrew Avins, co-author of a study on saw palmetto. (His research, published in February in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that the herb didn't affect prostate size, quality of life or other measures of prostate health.) "Many people in the research world have concerns about the future research agenda in this area ... but I'm not entirely pessimistic, " said Avins, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco. More study is needed to confirm recent trial results, he added.
Loose regulation of dietary supplements by the Food and Drug Administration, noted in the federal panel's May report on multivitamins, complicates the testing of products. Even if researchers know what constitutes an effective dose, formulas can vary from brand to brand, and even batch to batch, and what's on the label isn't always what's in the bottle, tests have shown.
The multivitamin panel supported the recommendation of a 2005 Institute of Medicine committee, urging the FDA to more closely monitor the safety of dietary supplements. The panel said the FDA should educate consumers and health professionals about the upper limits that can safely be consumed for various supplements and institute a "formal, mandatory, adverse-event reporting system for dietary supplements."
Recent findings about supplements underscore the importance of healthy eating, experts said.
"There is a very big difference between eating a healthy diet and eating components of that diet (through supplements) that we think are the healthy players," said Thomas G. Sherman, an associate professor in physiology and biophysics at the Georgetown University Medical Center. "By taking specific supplements we aren't mimicking what's going on with a good, healthy diet," because interactions occur with vitamins and minerals in food that aren't replicated by taking supplements.
The year's negative findings probably have had little impact on people's habits or doctors' recommendations, said Avins. Even he doesn't advise people to stop taking the supplements in question. He urged patients to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of supplements with their doctors.
The Council for Responsible Nutrition, a trade group that represents dietary supplement makers, was critical of several of the studies and said the trials left unanswered questions that should be looked at in future research.
"Each one of those studies, for some reason, has been interpreted as the final word - when in fact it shouldn't be," said Andrew Shao, the council's vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs. "That simply isn't the case."
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| Pyramid Schemes: The Religious Agenda Guest 21:44:01 |
| | Caesar J. B. Squitti>
Ah, I see you must be a follower of "Ray Strand," whose bible, "What
Your Doctor Doesn't Know...," cites the following book as a source of
expert "nutritional" information:
"Taking Up Your Cross: The Unspeakable Joy of Following Jesus"
by Tricia Rhodes
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| Glycerine Violet Tigress 14:14:05 |
| | This has been an ongoing battle. I've posted about my battle with yeast
here before.
The other day I was doing some readding & found out that glycerin can
cause yeast infections. I didn't know. The lube I was using (mostly just
to prevent chafing) has glycerin in it. I'm so depressed. So I checked
my Summer's Eve anti- itcch gel, sure enough glycerin is a main
ingredient. At the store today I saw that Vagisil contains glycerin.
Monistat also contains glycerin. Is that not counter productive? I take
it only some women are sensitive to it?No wonder I'd get another
infection within 2 weeks of using the stuff. I also had to go shopping
for glycerine free lube. Finding water based lubes that are glycerine
free was very difficult.
Glycerin is also called Glycerol. I guess that'd make it a sugar
alcohol. So would eating it be just as bad as eating Sorbitol?
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