The FDA is Gonna Save us All!

Glory, glory halluelujah! Lawsey, lawsey me, Mr. Bones. The FDA is protecting us all. They say Vioxx, Celebrex, Aleve, the drugs that were wiping out thousands are now O.K. if given by a knowledgeable and reputable doctor. For God's sake, identify the doctors that aren't knowledgeable and reputable. Can the FDA identify them? Give us an even break. The idea is that even considering the dangers of the drugs, the arthritis pain that it relieves will make it worth the death risk.

Either way, the pain is gone. Aren't there less expensive products out there that would relieve us of life and pain at the same time...like rat poison...bleach...or Mexican peppers.

The shame is that now the drug companies have no incentive to develop a safe product. They can keep harvesting the dollars from their dangerous product, the health of the nation go hang.

It would be nice to know how many of the FDA decision makers have a history with drug companies. Also, might be good to look into Congressional votes cast vs. Congressmen's drug company contributions.

Oh, well, nothing can be done about it. We all talk and write and do nothing.

Thanks for reading. I am just venting.

Hoodia Think Will Lose Weight...Youdia Will!

That new plant out of Africa that looks like a cactus may the salvation for us all if it reduces those Walmart butts that take up the entire aisle. The thought of losing weight from a plant that tells the brain that the stomach is full, or at least tells the brain it is not hungry, is not appetizing. (Pun intended, but true.) My belief is shared with many that our food supply has lost a large portion of its nutrients. This is due to not rotating the vegetable crops and giving the soil a chance to rejuvenate itself. The rotation of legumes, tubers and peanuts and other soil enriching crops restores the land thereby providing the proper nutrients to the food.

To lose weight by reducing the amount of food one takes in is one thing. The other thing is we may find that the body will suffer from lack of nutrients.

Which brings me back to quoting myself, "We need natural healthy food supplements to keep our bodies well nourished so we may ward off disease and afflictions. In other words, we need a stronger immune system."

This is not being done at our current rate of travel. The best supplement is the outer hull of the rice kernel. Here you find 106 anti-oxyidants, the natural A, B, C, D and E vitamins along with a host of minerals. The vitamin E in the Rice outer hull is 6000 stronger than any man made vitamin E.

One problem with pure Rice Bran is that it will not dissolve in liquid. This make it mean to take. However, there has been a break through and now some vegetable enzymes have been added to pre-digest the powder and make it soluble. Also, it tastes slightly like almonds and can be eaten by itself, but does best with juices, milk or water.

This life soluble product is now available in the form of a product called "Risotriene". Risotriene is available from a company called Integris Global by way of its distributors. For more information call 1-800-253-9517.

Why Can Some so Fearlessly Defy Fat?

By Harold Mounce

In Walnut Springs Texas, my hometown, there resides a fearless group of mature citizens, some of whom have matured all the way into their 90s.

I say they are fearless because they have no regard for, respect for or even notice of their cholesterol intake. In fact, they bite the heads off the little boogers and swallow them whole, yet they seem to age in relatively good health.

My wife, the former Lois Jean Callaway and one-time Walnut Springs High School Halloween Queen, and I both have relatives who are living long, healthy lives without fear of a cholesterol getting loose in their bodies.

It's a mystery to me that suddenly redeye gravy and cat-head biscuits made with pure hog lard are going to kill us all. Are these mouth-watering, cholesterol-laden morsels really threats to our health?

It doesn't seem fair that the people born in the early 1900s weren't plagued with the threat of fat . . . were they? If they could eat all that fatty stuff why can't we'?

Lois' father is 90. Her mother is 84. I dearly love to visit them because I know I am going to be served a meal of which not one consideration will be made as to how much fat, grease, sugar, white flour or anything else is present in any of the various courses.

Ha! Various courses, indeed. What an understatement. There are usually nine courses or more, which include potatoes fixed three different ways, green beans fixed two different ways, sweet potatoes candied and baked straight up in their skins, and two, maybe three, meats. Then comes the dessert.

Two, maybe three pies; one, maybe two, four-layer cakes with a choice of or combination of whip cream, ice cream, peaches or pears. One more thing (problem?). I am badgered until I load my plate and scolded until I empty it. I have literally hurt getting up from the table as an attempt was made to refill my iced-tea glass and bring me a cup of coffee at the same time.

Cholesterol, somebody said? Yes, we had a dump-truck-load of cholesterol. I thought I saw cholesterol swimming in the gravy doing the backstroke. I had to be careful not to squash it as I dunked my yeast roll in the greasy puddles that formed in lowlands of the huge chunks of fat that bordered the roast. Cholesterol played and frolicked in the 100-percent, double throw-down, genuine real, whipped cream.

It was a Cholesterol community at work: and play. I saw Clyde and Cleo Cholesterol and their twin boys, Cletus and Clayton. I imagined that they were waiting, bags packed and standing at the ready. They' were all holding hands so as not to become separated when I swallowed that big hunk of fatty roast on which they stood. 1 then suspected that after changing trains several times, they would end up attached to a vital artery wall, where they would desperately hang on and become firmly attached. And from there, as their friends came swimming by, they would reach out and grab them and thereby populate their little colony.

Suspecting all of this, I still could not stop eating. Well, I did stop; but only to order my first course of dessert.

The problem has to be something more than the fat we eat. I think it may be that something from outer space is coming in through all of those holes our rockets have punched in the atmosphere.

Well, if it is the fat, how do you explain my long-living kinfolk who will probably carry my casket?

On top of all that fat intake those old people work like mules.

Work? Could it be work that keeps them healthy? Naw! Never. I'm going with the "alien invasion" theory. Work? No way. Couldn't be. If work is the answer, then the question is ' "how long have I got?"

Eating For Your Heart

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Vioxx, Celebrex, Aleve-Killer Drugs?

The US Food and Drug Administration denied charges it tried to suppress a safety official's findings that painkiller Vioxx, which was pulled from the market last week, raised heart attack risks.

Dr. David Graham's study on the Merck & Co Inc. arthritis drug was sent through the "standard review process" before being made public in August, the FDA said in a statement released late Thursday.

Graham told Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley on Thursday that FDA officials pressured him to keep quiet or water down his conclusions about Vioxx, according to Grassley.

Conversations between Graham and his supervisor were part of the "open discussion and frank exchange about scientific and medical issues" that are part of the process for reviewing staff research presentations, the FDA said.

"After that discussion, it was Dr. Graham's decision to revise the abstract," or a summary of his findings, the FDA said.

Graham, associate director for science in the FDA's Office of Drug Safety, concluded that patients taking Vioxx were more likely to suffer heart attacks than others who took rival medicine Celebrex, made by Pfizer Inc.

Graham's findings were presented at a medical conference in France on Aug. 25.

Grassley, an Iowa Republican, is investigating how the FDA handles safety concerns about medicines.
The US Food and Drug Administration denied charges it tried to suppress a safety official's findings that painkiller Vioxx, which was pulled from the market last week, raised heart attack risks.

Dr. David Graham's study on the Merck & Co Inc. arthritis drug was sent through the "standard review process" before being made public in August, the FDA said in a statement released late Thursday.

Graham told Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley on Thursday that FDA officials pressured him to keep quiet or water down his conclusions about Vioxx, according to Grassley.

Conversations between Graham and his supervisor were part of the "open discussion and frank exchange about scientific and medical issues" that are part of the process for reviewing staff research presentations, the FDA said.

"After that discussion, it was Dr. Graham's decision to revise the abstract," or a summary of his findings, the FDA said.

Graham, associate director for science in the FDA's Office of Drug Safety, concluded that patients taking Vioxx were more likely to suffer heart attacks than others who took rival medicine Celebrex, made by Pfizer Inc.

Graham's findings were presented at a medical conference in France on Aug. 25.

Grassley, an Iowa Republican, is investigating how the FDA handles safety concerns about medicines.

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