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1. The Calcium Supplement Problem
2.  40% of US Prescription Drugs Made Overseas
3.  Denture Cream Poisoning Alert
4.  How Niacin Lowers Cholesterol   

 

The Calcium Supplement Problem: As Serious As a Heart Attack by Dr. Mercola

  • Taking elemental calcium supplements (with or without vitamin D) in amounts of 500 mg or more may actually increase your relative risk of heart attack by up to 27 percent, and may even increase your risk of stroke
  • Taking the wrong type of calcium and in isolation, without complementary nutrients like magnesium, vitamin D and vitamin K, which help keep your body in balance, can have adverse effects, such as calcium building up in coronary arteries and causing heart attacks
  • Osteoporosis, as defined by DXA bone screenings using the T-score, are highly misleading, because they compare your bone density to a 25-year old (and not your age group) as the standard of normality. Bone density and bone strength are two different things, and having highly dense bones may increase your risk of breast cancer as a woman by 300% or more.
  • Evidence that supplementing with calcium safely prevents fractures is lacking, but plentiful research suggests calcium deposits are major contributors and even causative factors in many health conditions
  • In order for calcium to do your body good, it must be in a biologically appropriate form and balanced out with vitamins D and K and other important trace minerals, as part of a total nutritional plan
Calcium is one of the most popular dietary supplements on the market, largely because of the widely circulated mantra that mega-doses of this mineral are essential for building and maintaining healthy bones.

As a result, many people believe that taking a calcium supplement is a simple way to prevent bone fractures associated with osteoporosis.

What they have not been told is that while you can force increased bone mineral density with calcium supplements, you cannot be sure that this will result in greater bone strength.

For full story Calcium Supplements

 

40% of US Prescription Drugs Made Overseas

Prescription drugs are a mixed bag at best in regard to what’s safe, and what’s not. Those who support big pharmaceutical companies often tout that the FDA regulates everything so strictly in order to ensure and increase the safety of every day consumers like you and I. This a classic case of “good in theory, poor in execution” as it sounds good to say that there’s an organization like the FDA to protect our safety. However, you’d be surprised by a new report that suggests exactly the opposite – unregulated ingredients and uninspected production facilities.

According to a new report by the US Government Accountability Office up to 40% of the pharmaceuticals sold in the US are actually manufactured abroad. In fact, a 2007 report listed over 1,000 facilities throughout Canada, India, and China. The real problem here is tat the FDA has only listed 368 official inspections, which means that over 600 of these facilities have never been inspected at all. It’s actually shocking to know that such a large percentage of drugs; both prescription and OTC are produced overseas. Example, aspirin is produced nearly exclusively in China. 

We should have seen it coming, as major pharmaceutical companies have been shutting down factories in the US and moving abroad. Each year the number of people who are killed or severely hurt by prescription drugs continues to grow. Likely in part to these tainted pills. The New York Times reported back in 2009 that a majority of ingredients for important medication like those for allergies, diabetes, high blood pressure, and antibiotics are almost completely procured in China or India. Checks and balances are important, but when it comes to your health who regulates the regulators? 

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Denture Cream Poisoning Alert: AttorneyOne.com provides advice and solutions for the ongoing threat of Zinc Poisoning and Neuropathy from Denture Cream  

A suit filed in the Mississippi Southern District Court 3:2011cv00611 shows that J.D. Jackson, a denture wearer, revealed signs of neuropathy that caused pain and misery every day. Later on, the University of Texas published a groundbreaking study that created the connection between the development of nerve damage and the use of denture creams. Now, AttorneyOne.com, a recognized authority on law, provides helpful, proven advice and simple solutions so anyone can easily and inexpensively deal with what happened to J.D.Jackson.

Full Story

For more information in handling this nerve damage from Dental Cream go to Neuropathy

 

How Niacin Lowers Cholesterol   

It has been known for years that increased levels of niacin in the blood stream is a very effective way of reducing cholesterol levels without the need of additional drugs. Numerous medical and university studies have shown that niacin lowers overall cholesterol levels.

These studies show that niacin reduces the bad cholesterol (LDL) by 10-20%, reduces triglycerides (fat in the blood) by 20-50% and raises the good cholesterol (HDL) by 15 to 35%. 

Niacin accomplishes these changes naturally in the following ways:

1)      It reduces the breakdown of fat from fat cells which is the source of raw material used by the liver to create excess triglyceriedes.

2)      It inhibits the liver from converting sugar to triglycerides.

3)      It inhibits the liver from creating the building blocks of the bad cholesterol (VLDL) and thus as a result the bad cholesterol drops naturally.

4)      Virtually every study done on niacin has shown it to increase good cholesterol and which then picks up the excess bad cholesterol in your blood and takes it back to your liver for disposal.   The higher the good cholesterol, the less bad cholesterol you’ll have in your blood.

In a study called the “Coronary Drug Project” which ran for 6 years and included 3908 patients to study the effects of niacin besides lowering both triglycerides and cholesterol levels there were other astonishing results:

The study found that the use of niacin led to a 14% reduction in non fatal heart attack, a 26% reduction in damage to blood vessels in the brain (stroke or blockage) and a 47% reduction in the need for coronary artery bypass surgery.

Unfortunately, the use of niacin to bring down cholesterol levels never became popular due to the high amounts of niacin needed, which created side effects due to “niacin flush”. (Niacin cannot be confused with niacinaide or nictoinamide which does not cause flushing and does not lower cholesterol levels).

For more information about Cholesterol

 

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