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Bush Administration Promotes Alli,
Senior Citizen Sickness Follows
Washington, DC – President George W. Bush has clearly
crossed the line into the sickness business judging from
recent decisions of the Federal Drug Administration (FDA),
an agency which is now firmly run by his appointees.
Even President Bush’s closest advisors come exclusively from
Big Business and that, of course, is something to be
expected during a Republican administration but in the case
of health, his most recent appointment paints a brilliant
picture of Bush paying homage to his liege lord – Big
Pharma. As a result our health is at risk!
Bush appointed Ed Gillespie Wednesday, J une
13, 2007, as the newest White House counselor. Gillespie was
previously a partner in Quinn Gillespie & Associates LLC, a
lobbying firm whose clients include: Sirius Satellite Radio,
which needs antitrust approval to acquire a rival; Qualcomm,
which wants Bush to veto a federal agency's ban on imported
cell phones made with its chips; and the Pharmaceutical
Research and Manufacturers of America, a trade group trying
to limit drug industry regulation.
Did you read that correctly? Bush hired Gillespie while he
was working as a lobbyist for a Big Pharma trade group that
had as its goal the deregulation of Big Pharma? This, in
light of Vioxx, thalidomide, fen-phen and – most recently -
GlaxoSmithKline's "Avandia" diabetes drug (aka,
rosiglitazone) that a well-researched study found raises the
risk of a heart attack and heart death by as much as 64%. It
doesn’t take an alternative health advocate to realize that
there are no longer necessary controls in place.
Answer: Yes! This Gillespie is now advising the ruler of the
most powerful nation in the world how to protect the
American consuming public from the very persons now paying
Gillespie’s retirement benefits.
An example of the efforts of this unholy triad of Big
Pharma, the FDA and the White House is the new diet delight
code-named Alli (pronounced “ally” according to its maker,
GlaxoSmithKline (remember, this is the company that brought
us Avandia).
Is Alli your ally? Think not! Read on to understand why.
First, it is necessary to understand a few basic health
concepts of how our Maker decided we should take in
vitamins, minerals and handle our nourishment. The basic
building blocks to accomplish all of this advanced chemistry
– so advanced that the late, beloved Mr. Wizard couldn’t
even begin to explain – are vitamins. While this article is
not intended as a primer for vitamins, it is necessary to
show how a few, vital vitamins are delivered to us.
B1 (thiamin) supports energy metabolism and nerve function
and is found in seeds, pork and soy products. B2
(riboflavin) supports energy metabolism, normal vision and
skin health and is in eggs, milk, and liver. B3 (niacin)
boosts energy metabolism, skin health, the nervous system
and the digestive system and is present in beef, chicken,
tuna, liver and shrimp. B12 is used in new cell synthesis,
helps break down fatty acids and amino acids, supports nerve
cell maintenance and is prevalent in meats, poultry, fish,
shellfish, milk, eggs. Vitamin D promotes bone
mineralization and is self-synthesized via sunlight. For
those not often in the sun, it can be found in milk, egg
yolks, liver and fatty fish such as salmon and halibut.
Vitamin E is an antioxidant and supports cell membrane
stabilization and can be found in polyunsaturated plant oils
(soybean, corn and canola oils), wheat germ, sunflower
seeds, tofu, avocado, sweet potatoes, shrimp and cod. The
mineral zinc is a part of many enzymes and is involved in
production of genetic material and proteins. Zinc transports
vitamin A and promotes taste perception, wound healing,
sperm production and the normal development of the fetus.
This mineral is in spinach, broccoli, green peas, green
beans, tomato juice, lentils, oysters, shrimp, crab, dark
turkey meat, pork, beef, yogurt, various cheeses and soy
by-products such as tofu. Selenium is an antioxidant that
works with vitamin E to protect the body from oxidation and
can be found in seafood, meats and grains. Finally,
chromium, which is associated with insulin, is required for
the release of energy from glucose. Vegetable oils, liver,
brewer's yeast, whole grains, cheese and nuts all contain
chromium.
If you are overweight, or are fighting to stay slim, you owe
it to yourself to read the paragraph, above, over again! If
you do, please pay closest attention to what sorts of foods
these vitally-important vitamins and minerals are found in.
Let’s run a brief list…
Beef
Pork
Fish such as salmon, halibut and cod (remember Cod
Fish Oil?)
Fowl
Poultry
Cheese
Nuts
Seeds
Oils such as canola, flaxseed and olive oil
Fruits such as avocados
Seafood (no, not see-food as in the
"see-food" diet :-)
What is the one, single, essential thing that all of these
food types contain? Fat!
Some vitamins a nd
minerals such as B1, B3, B12, D, E and chromium have
significantly increased potency when in the presence of fats
called “essential fatty acids.” These compounds are called
this because they are – they are essential to maintaining
our health. This is particularly true of A, E and D, which
are so-called fat-soluble. In fact, D is mostly supported
through fats and without the solvent effects of fat is
pretty much useless to the human body, especially as we grow
older (as discussed, below).
What Alli does, according to GlaxoSmithKline, is “trap” up
to 25% of the fat in food, even beneficial essential fatty
acids naturally occurring in a health diet, and transports
that fat in a liquid state through the intestinal tract in a
completely unnatural process the induces anal leakage of
this fat. The other side effect of Alli is to produce
obnoxious flatus. So, between leaking oil out of one’s anus
and peppering up a room with flatus, Alli has a lot going
for it.
GlaxoSmithKline bets, however, that an obese-America will
suffer through a few soiled rumps and fart-filled rooms if
only to luxuriate in a new-found thinness. But even the
promise from GlaxoSmithKline of becoming thin is a lie
because its own test results show that, at best, Alli will
reduce the intake of just a few thousand calories a week –
less than a pound – and any lost weight will be quickly
regained once the patient (read that “victim”) will no
longer put up with sliding off their chair while passing
gas. You can lose a pound a week just by taking a 30-minute
walk every other day, or so, so why corrupt your corpus with
Alli?
Thus, Bush’s FDA has approved a pharmaceutical that (a) has
no benefits, (b) produces anal leakage of oil elsewhere
described as the sort of oil “… one finds on top a pizza…”,
(c) discolors the patient’s clothes, (d) adds to Global
Warming through production of immense amounts of methane and
other “green house” gasses, (e) produces diarrhea any time
that the patient eats, say, a steak and finishes dinner with
some ice cream, (f) and, most importantly, cuts down by 25%
the availability of vitamins B1, B3, B12, D, E and the vital
mineral chromium from a natural, healthy diet.
As a direct admission of Alli’s unhealthfulness, major
retailers such as GNC strongly advise their customers that
multiple vitamins must be taken with Alli. When you add the
typical $20.00 a month cost for multiple vitamins, to the
$60.00 a month cost of Alli, you have an expensive
proposition that demonstrably benefits only Big Pharma.
These findings are a result of a survey conducted by
Health
Freedom Publishers in light of the health threat posed
by Alli.
According to recent research published by Wake Forest
University School of Medicine, people who do not get enough
vitamin D, especially seniors – either from their diets or
exposure to the sun – are at increased risk for poor
physical performance and onset of disability. "With a
growing older population, we need to identify better ways to
reduce the risk of disability," said lead author Denise
Houston, Ph.D. "Our study showed a significant relationship
between low vitamin D levels in older adults and poorer
physical performance." Wake Forest's results were reported
in the April, 2007 issue of the Journal of Gerontology.
Additionally, the study found that twenty five percent of
seniors over the age of 60 have low vitamin D levels.
Previous research has shown that vitamin D not only plays a
role in bone health, but also in protecting against
diabetes, cancer, colds and tuberculosis. Vitamin D is
naturally produced when skin is exposed to the sun's
ultraviolet rays, and (as stated above), foods such as milk,
cheeses, fatty fish, and cereals also contain vitamin D, but
it is difficult to get enough through diet alone according
to a Wake Forest researcher. Older adults are particularly
prone to low vitamin D levels because they may get less
exposure to sunlight and because their skin is less
efficient in producing vitamin D from sun exposure compared
to younger adults. Older adults also may not get enough
vitamin D from dietary sources, the study reported. Thus,
the impact of Alli may be greatest felt in that segment of
our society least capable of caring for Alli’s “side
effects”.
Copyright © 2007 By Health Freedom
Publishers, Ltd. | Author: Charles Benninghoff
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