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 In other words, the risk is cut in half from a relative point of view.
The headlines promoting this drug, therefore, will always talk about the relative risk -- "A whopping 50 percent reduction in risk!" -- and these headlines will be parroted by the mainstream press, medical journals, the FDA, doctors and drug marketing reps who are always pushing and exaggerating the supposed benefits of their drugs while minimizing their risks. Because, you see, even though this drug may help one out of 100 people, its side effects create increased risks to all 100 people. |
| One that reduces your risk of cancer by 50 percent, or another drug that only eliminates cancer in one out of 100 people? Most people would choose the drug that reduces their risk of cancer by 50 percent, but the fact is, both of these numbers refer to the same drug. They’re just two different ways of looking at the same statistic. One way is called relative risk; the other way is absolute risk. |
| The headlines promoting this drug, therefore, will always talk about the relative risk -- "A whopping 50 percent reduction in risk!" -- and these headlines will be parroted by the mainstream press, medical journals, the FDA, doctors and drug marketing reps who are always pushing and exaggerating the supposed benefits of their drugs while minimizing their risks. Because, you see, even though this drug may help one out of 100 people, its side effects create increased risks to all 100 people. |
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 June 8 -- Most Americans and others are not taking enough vitamin D, a fact that may put them at significant risk for developing cancer, according to a landmark study conducted by Creighton University School of Medicine.
The four-year, randomized study followed 1,179 healthy, postmenopausal women from rural eastern Nebraska.* Participants taking calcium, as well as a quantity of vitamin D3 nearly three times the U.S. government's Recommended Daily Amount (RDA) for middle-age adults, showed a dramatic 60 percent or greater reduction in cancer risk than women who did not get the vitamin. |
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 REPPED: A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows a doubling of the risk of colon cancer for people who are heavy consumers of red meat. More specifically, it shows that the risk doubles compared to those who consume smaller quantities of red meat. But how does this compare to people who consume no red meat at all?
This is conjecture, but I'm willing to bet that heavy consumers of red meat probably have quadruple the risk (or more) of colon cancer compared to vegetarians or people who consume no red meat. |
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| If taking green tea supplements reduce the risk of cancer by that same 50 percent, eliminating cancer in one out of 100 patients, the news about that supplement would be something like this: "Green tea doesn’t work. Only helps one out of 100 patients."
In fact, a study comparing some anti-cancer drug with green tea might report: "New breakthrough drug reduces cancer risk by 50 percent! Green tea only helps one out of 100."
It’s the old joke about an Olympic race between the United States and the old Soviet Union. In the race, there were only two participants. |
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 Research conducted over the last several years by psychiatrists working for the National Institutes of Health initially found evidence of the drug stunting growth of children, yet nevertheless concluded that Ritalin carries "no long-term growth risk" to children. (Those researchers, by the way, failed to disclose their financial conflicts of interest with drug companies. |
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 REPPED: A chemical added to processed meat products is responsible for a 67% increased risk in pancreatic cancer, says author and nutritionist Mike Adams. The conclusions are based in part on research conducted at the University of Hawaii that reveals a 67% increased risk of pancreatic cancer in people who consume large quantities of hot dogs, sausage and other processed meats, versus those who consume little or no processed meat. The study was led by Dr. Ute Nothlings and was announced at the annual gathering of the American Association for Cancer Research. |
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 According to Steinbrecher and Latham, "This understanding was largely responsible for the omission of [horizontal gene transfer] from risk assessment of GM plants and foods."6 They did not explore the possibility that transgenes might transfer into gut bacteria or human DNA. In the mid-1990s, scientists used much more sensitive detection techniques (hybridization methods and polymerase chain reaction) and discovered that a significant percentage of DNA can survive the digestive system. |
| Biophysicist and geneticist Mae-Wan Ho points out another risk of transgene insertion near transposons. She says that the transgene may become mobile with the transposon and deposit additional copies of itself in other locations in the DNA, also resulting in further genome scrambling.
[Some advocates of GM crops argue that transgene insertions act just like transposons in the DNA, and therefore GM technology is nothing new or special. According to Freese and Schubert, "This natural process, however, is very distinct from GE gene insertion. |
| A significant risk of inserting a transgene into a genome is that the new promoter (or its enhancers) might unintentionally either switch on inactive genes or increase the expression of already active genes present in the host DNA. If this happens, then the natural genes are no longer under the cells' control, but are forced to overproduce proteins without a break.
A tragic example of this mechanism occurred in the treatment of boys with Severe Combined Immune Deficiency type X, known as X-SCID. Scientists inserted the gene that was missing in the boys' DNA. |
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 According to lead study author Ute Nothlings, people who consumed the most processed meats (hot dogs and sausage) showed a 67% increased risk of pancreatic cancer over those who consumed little or no meat products.
But researchers failed to accurately identify the culprit responsible for this increased risk of pancreatic cancer, says one author. |
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| Most offspring of rats fed Roundup Ready soy died within three weeks need rigorous, independent and long-term studies to evaluate if these foods put the population at risk."
—Jim Willoughby, past president of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, which passed a resolution asking the US National Institutes of Health to sponsor a follow-up of this rat study
1. Female rats were fed Roundup Ready soy starting before conception and continuing through pregnancy and weaning.
2. Of the offspring, 55.6% died within three weeks compared to 9% from non-GM soy controls.
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| This is conjecture, but I'm willing to bet that heavy consumers of red meat probably have quadruple the risk (or more) of colon cancer compared to vegetarians or people who consume no red meat. By the way, you don't have to be a vegetarian to boycott red meat. You can still be a consumer of other sources of animal protein (fish, seafood, etc.) while avoiding red meat.
There are plenty of health reasons to avoid eating red meat, and a higher risk of colon cancer is just one of them. The saturated animal fat found in red meat products contributes to heart disease and atherosclerosis. |
| More specifically, it shows that the risk doubles compared to those who consume smaller quantities of red meat. But how does this compare to people who consume no red meat at all?
This is conjecture, but I'm willing to bet that heavy consumers of red meat probably have quadruple the risk (or more) of colon cancer compared to vegetarians or people who consume no red meat. By the way, you don't have to be a vegetarian to boycott red meat. You can still be a consumer of other sources of animal protein (fish, seafood, etc.) while avoiding red meat. |
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| To place the growth of children at risk in order to give them a drug so powerful that it would be illegal if sold to children on the street is to engage in medical madness. There is no justification for the mass-treatment of children today with this drug other than the clever exploitation of human beings for profit.
The only medically proven use of Ritalin, it turns out, would be for parents who want their children to be short and stunted. Feed those kids enough Ritalin amphetamines, and they won't grow up to be as tall or have as much muscle mass as their peers. |
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| And again it shows the superficiality of the risk assessment studies done by the Monsanto scientists."98
GM process can boost allergencity
There are many other possible reasons why GM soy may provoke increase allergic responses. The transgenic protein, which has amino acid sequences identical to known allergens (see section 3.2), might cause a reaction. The damaged sections of its DNA may participate in creating allergens (see section 2.9). And altered levels of gene expression due to the process of genetic transformation might introduce a new allergen or increase levels of a known allergen. |
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 A person with a moderate risk of heart attack might have a ratio of around 7.1. The range for what is considered average risk is 4.4-7.1. People with low risk measure between 3.3 and 4.4. With that in mind, you might wonder if I'm in the high risk, medium risk or low risk category.
My ratio of LDL to HDL cholesterol, as verified by Sonora Quest Laboratories in Tucson, AZ, is 1.08. That is almost a one-to-one ratio of LDL to HDL cholesterol. It's the kind of number that causes doctors to drop their jaws in utter shock, simply because they've almost never seen these kinds of numbers before. |
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 Nearly 800 patients were subdivided into two groups: high risk (those who had one or more risk factors, such as diabetes, a prior heart attack, or preexisting vascular disease), and low risk (those they had no risk factors other than their present symptoms). The two groups were again divided in two. In addition to ordinary medical treatment one group in each of the two categories was to receive the prayers of five people once a week for 26 weeks. The two other groups would simply continue with standard medical treatment. |
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 What's missing from the risk factors list?
Hilariously, the ACS now says there are only four major modifiable risk factors that impact your risk of breast cancer. They are:
Weight
Alcohol use
Smoking
Exercise
Where is vitamin D on the list? It remains suspiciously absent.
Strange, don't you think? The single most powerful anti-cancer nutrient known to modern science -- one that helps halt the growth of virtually all tumors in the body while reducing breast cancer risk by 77 percent -- isn't on the American Cancer Society's list! |
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| But researchers failed to accurately identify the culprit responsible for this increased risk of pancreatic cancer, says one author. The true cause of the heightened cancer risk is the widespread use of a carcinogenic precursor ingredient known as sodium nitrite by food processing companies, says nutritionist Mike Adams, author of the just-published Grocery Warning manual at: http://www.TruthPublishing.com/GroceryWarning.html
Nearly all processed meats are made with sodium nitrite: breakfast sausage, hot dogs, jerkies, bacon, lunch meat, and even meats in canned soup products. |
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 Vitamin A, according to the reports on this study, increased mortality risk by 16 percent. But that is a relative risk number, meaning that if 1 person out of 100 normally died, then 1.16 people out of 100 would die when taking these synthetic Vitamin A supplements. In other words, it might not even be one additional person out of 100, or even out of 1000.
And yet, it is curious that when conventional medical researchers report the results of mortality risks for their prescription drugs, they always use absolute risk. |
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| REPPED: Exciting new research conducted at the Creighton University School of Medicine in Nebraska has revealed that supplementing with vitamin D and calcium can reduce your risk of cancer by an astonishing 77 percent. This includes breast cancer, colon cancer, skin cancer and other forms of cancer. This research provides strong new evidence that vitamin D is the single most effective medicine against cancer, far outpacing the benefits of any cancer drug known to modern science.
The study involved 1,179 healthy women from rural Nebraska. |
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| This is the kind of risk increase you only see with ingredient toxicity. Something in these processed meats is poisoning people, and the evidence points straight to sodium nitrite."
To learn more about Grocery Warning, visit http://www.TruthPublishing.com/GroceryWarning. |
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