It’s Flu Season, or Is It? This is the time of year that the pharmaceutical-medical-government triad revs up their fear-based campaign about the flu. Flyers from the CDC (Center for Disease Control) exhort the public to get the flu shot. And now, some states are mandating them. The flyers claim; ‘200,000 are hospitalized with the...
An Open Letter…..”An Awakening” to the personal responsibility of health Doc, 10-22-2008 I’ve been thinking about the conversation we had the other week. You gave me an article that you wrote about the importance (and unwillingness of Americans) of practicing preventative health. You also spoke to me about how the idea of health has been...
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No sooner had I published my entry (10-13-2008), “The Rectification of Names,” I read an article in the NYTimes: “Campaign Myth: Prevention as Cure-All.” In short, its author, H.Gilbert Walsh, MD says: Why is it that in a presidential campaign “both candidates champion one of medical care’s most pervasive myths? The myth is that like...
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Getting the Words Right : or, “Through the Looking Glass” As acclaimed author Michael Pollan recently wrote, “the corruption of society begins with the corruption of words. Therefore, any attempt to fix what is wrong in the world had best start with the rectification of names.” Clearly, the corruption of language to serve ulterior motives...
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Look around at any group of 100 adults (age 20 or over). How many of them do you think are healthy? How many of them think they are healthy? We can assume that our group of 100 is consistent with national statistics. Therefore: 66 are overweight or obese, 11 have diabetes, 27 have cardiovascular disease,...
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An interesting article recently appeared in the NYTimes (09-15-2008): A Dissenting Voice as the Genome Is Sifted to Fight Disease; A Scientist at Work by Nicholas Wade Highlights: 1. Common disease/common variant hypothesis: “decoding the human genome would enable the discovery of the variant genes that predispose people to common diseases like cancer and...
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The statue of David is returned to Italy after two years in the United States * Thanks to P.C. for forwarding the above and to the visual artist who created it: not to mention Michelangelo.
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How much is your health (specifically, improving and then maintaining it) worth to you? How much time are you willing to spend to do what it takes? How much of an effort are you willing to make? How much of your money would you invest to improve your health and live a healthy life? Sadly,...
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Please see my post of the 08-20-2008, NYTimes article: “Drug Makers’ Push Leads to Cancer Vaccine’s Rise” The following is an article that I wrote that was published in The North Adams Transcript, 03-05 2007: “Who Guards Against Gardasil?” ________________________________________________________________________ Who Guards Against Gardasil? Peter D. May, DC The North Adams Transcript: 03-05-2007 Recently the...
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This article is an important read for many reasons. While it only touches the surface, it does give a basic understanding of how (award winning marketing and highly financed political and medical lobbying by Big Pharma) and why (blockbuster profits) largely untested, unnecessary and thereby dangerous drugs, are not only sold, but in this case,...
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