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DIABETES/CHOLESTEROL

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:09:06 -0500

By Ralph Rewes

A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. DIABETES-HEART ATTACKS AND CHOLESTEROL VICTIMS. GET UPDATED.

A patient speaks: Reviewing and removing cholesterol and sugar level fairy tales that may kill you.

I have been saying it for over 29 years. The sugar and cholesterol levels in the blood as seen by statistics doctors are wrong and force on patients are wrong. Every individual is different. In fact, if you are diabetic as I am forcing to lower your levels under 100 may be dangerously, especially if you have a heart conditions — same as with cholesterol. Not only statin medication can kill you, they can kill you painfully.

Some studies performed in a small town in Italy two years ago showed that no one in that town suffered a heart attack in their lives, yet their cholesterol level in many was almost a whooping 400! Common sense tells you that if cholesterol helps repair the damage in body organs, if you cholesterol level is high it is because there is something wrong in your body. If at that moment you lowered your cholesterol, you consequently stop the repairs, causing more permanent damage in your body. Your heart needs sugar to function properly. You may create sugar insufficiency that can damage your heart.

Recent studies have shown that although a tight control is advisable for type I diabetics, this control should be carefully tailored for type II patients, especially if they have other medical conditions. Already previous studies have shown little or no benefit from an exaggerated control. In fact, there has been an increase in the danger of a heart disease. One such study, reported earlier this year, found a 10 percent increased risk of death associated with intense efforts to reduce blood sugar levels in diabetics treated in hospital intensive care units.

CHOLESTEROL
For quite a while, the idea of dominant cholesterol are being challenged by a number of researches. Recently, a team of researchers investigating cholesterol and lipid transport performed experiments that cast serious doubt on the dominant hypothesis of how the body rids its cells of "bad" cholesterol (LDL) and increases "good" cholesterol (HDL). Cholesterol metabolism is an area of intense inquiry and put about half of all Americans at significant risk of heart disease.

A protein called ABCA1 is critical for producing "good" cholesterol: patients who lack the gene for this protein produce no HDL, and suffer from heart attacks at an early age. The ABCA1 enzyme plays a major role in the transfer of a phospholipid called phosphatidylserine (PS) from the inside of the cell -- where it is normally concentrated -- across the cell membrane to the outer surface of the cell. In plain language, the main problem is genetic, and they studying a way to work this out. But as of yet, messing around with your cholesterol level my be dangerous to your health.

My father, who lived to be up to 105 years old with no illness, decease or ailment, was always concerned with food as the best way to keep yourself healthy, as he did. “Food should be varied and main course were not to be repeated in one week,” he used to say when setting our weekly menu. Then, he continued, “When you reach forty, you must start reducing the amount of food you take, but keeping the variety of it.” It works. Unless you get genetic complications, as I got from my mother’s side. Yet my mother lived 92 years old with type II diabetic and never had a related complications.

It is no surprise to me that new researches reveal that blueberries provide an effective way to lower cholesterol without the horrible dangers of statin drugs. This does not mean that you must have a pound of blueberry everyday, or that you need to ear them every day. If you have a varied diet, health benefits comes along, since to must have something different every day, broccoli, string beans, salads, raisin, plums, everything in small quantity. I see those people who pig out on a huge bowl of salad, and I remember my grandmother saying, “too much grass is indigestive and bad for your stomach.” Don’t be a pill popper, use nature’s bounty. Vitamins and mineral supplements are fine, but nothing in excess. What your body cannot digest, it accumulates somewhere in your body and may cause tumors or other reactions.

We don’t need healing super foods, we need balance. As the second commandment in Apollo’s temple in Delfós read: “NOTHING IN EXCESS” — not even water.

The cholesterol campaign was started in Sweden In the late eighties. Anything in the scientific literature in support of it. Criticism was ignored yet ignore criticism maintains false ideas. Ridicule and slander have been used as well, as a means to muffle critics, especially Dr. Uffe Ravnskov, who warned against statin treatment in Dutch television. Dutch researchers described him as a crackpot. Yet, he was right. His views on statins?

“Their benefit is trivial, and has been seen only in male patients who already have heart disease.”

Worse: many adverse effects are ignored or cleverly belittled by the trial directors. Independent researchers have found many more and in much higher numbers. Statin trials have shown that low cholesterol predisposes to cancer. The widespread use of statin treatment probably explains why the decrease of the smoking habit that has been going on in many countries hasn’t been followed by a decrease of cancer mortality.

Lipitor is pushed at the highest dosage, 80 mg, most powerful for lowering cholesterol, but it also causes more adverse effects. What are his thoughts about this?

Dr. Ravnskov says, “Cholesterol plummeted and remained at about 50 percent below the initial value during the whole SEAS trial, but it did not change mortality, it increased the number of cancer with statistical significance.”

Well, as a friend of mine clearly stated, “I rather die of a heart attack then of a horribly painful liver cancer.”

A Stolen Celebration

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:31:21 -0500

Stolen from the celebration of the myth of Apollo's Birthday to celebrate the myth of birth of Chrestus, the freedom of choosing your own god became the imposition of one god that admitted no dissent. A multitude of celebrations were held hostages. The rebirth of the Sun God in a shrewd political move became Christmas and it was covered with the most beautiful music, to wipe out the trails of blood left by the thousands and thousands of priests and followers of the ancient religions killed by Christians in the Colosseum and other Colisseus in the new empire after the new totalitarian religion took over the minds of the citizens , a triumphal holocaust that almost obliterated free thinking from the Earth.

When I hear a Xmas song, I offered it as a memorial to those victims of intolerance all over the world. From the Christian martyrs in the hand of the Roman empire to the victims of Christianity and those of the new Totalitarian perversion of our recent past like Nazism, Islam and Communism. No wonder Christian music produces a strange mixture of joy and sadness. It comes to mind with the beauty of its works, many other things it covers and the yet to be fulfilled hopes for future understanding.

Yes, one must enjoy Xmas songs, etc. But never forgetting the victims, the Christians, the pagans, the witches burned, impalements of dissidents and those shot in our modern world, the Jewish and Cambodian holocausts. I remembered those things every time I hear a pretentious martinet of a local radio station that compares humanity with a bog and depicts Christians bathing in Christ's blood.

Irate Response to “Old Age Sex”

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:15:14 -0500

I think the micturition comes from your brain, and, most sadly, it happens because you let it, not because you can't help it.

Look, my life is thankfully filled with useful thoughts and actions, and I have wasted time reading this mierda only because you are my dear friend and I love you. I guess I didn't really have to, but I did. I am also wasting time writing this, but, being such close friends, I owe you and you owe me.

Let's suppose that your detailed description of your own vision of old age sex is true... Why in the world would I want to fill my mind with grotesque descriptions of something that I am not even interested in judging or thinking about?

Why would I want to look at the ugly side of humanity when ugliness or beauty is in the eyes and senses of the beholder, and there is so much aesthetics and caring and understanding and needed closeness and acceptanceof each other when we are young and inexperienced as well as old with much deeper feelings and need of intimacy beyond the physical body?

I am not angry at this intended description of the worse in the physical state of a human being. Or at this sad attempt to establish any philosophical theory. I am just amazed that someone as intelligent, deep, caring, knowledgeable and educated would dedicate half a second to something so negative, unnecessary, uncaring, contemptous... almost accusatory, almost in hatred of humanity and growing old. Well, shit happens and you do the best you can with it.

And beyond devoting precious time thinking about it and writing it, even go to the length of sending it to good friends... what in the world for?

What two people do in privacy is their own business and only they can judgewhether it is good, bad or indifferent. If there is a voyeur present, real or imagined, then it's his or her good or bad fortune to love it or hate it.
I guess you hated it.
Now let me wipe my mind out of this idiocy and finally go have a nice little dinner.
A. Lobé

You are sick and evil.
I. Simundson

I was glad I did not read this crap after dinner as I was planning to. I think it is terrible, and you went too far taking the little illusion off.
I. Crawford

I will have as much sex as I can now. I will not go through this practice when it becomes so repulsive.
J. Gerd

What if 2012 is wrong?

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:02:00 -0500

By Ralph Rewes

The usual conspiracy theorists believe some government are making preparation for the year 2012. This may be another feverish fantasy or true. The question is what if they really know something is going to happen by the end of Maya cycle, and they also know that the actual date points to 2011 and not to 2012?

Such widespread “error” would give the potential survivors to pack up and leave before anything begins to hint a possible planetary catastrophe. Nobody will rush to the rescue ships, as in the film 2012. Everybody would be quietly waiting for 2012 and “Surprise!” A year before a flotilla of hidden space ships is launched from underground bases. Earthlings would watch with disbelief things going into deep space and not from outer space hitting the earth. What a conveniece mistake.

The departure would be flawless. Now speculations may fill the brains of the dreamers before everything gets screwed up — if it does, Where would the go? Mars? The moon with the intention of waiting there until everything returns to normal on earth?

They could not go to far. Terrestrial technology is not that advanced yet. But an outpost on the moon can give the survivors time. They will wait until whatever may happens on earth is over. Now there is possible that there will be plenty of survivor on the surface too. All the knowledge human beings have accumulated for centuries is already electronially preserved by and in many nations.

This is insane, consequently, it could be possible.

Old Age Sex stinks

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:45:50 -0500

By Ralph Rewes

In spite of what many sick idiots say about “one is as young as one feels” after certain age sex stinks. It really stinks and it does it with a pungent odor unavoidably coming from wrinkled crevices — a washed up smell of urine stifling the powerful pheromones that once permeated the heated air. It is a hellish sight of limp dicks and scornful deranged smile of too loose labia that produce splashing sounds like a swoosh in a slack, loose duct, once tight and silent. Even when Nature compensates by deafening the perpetuators, this swishing hurts feelings.

All this conundrum occurs in a background of sagging, soggy boobs and wrinkled dowb asses where there were firm butts years ago. Cellulite is all over, dotted with little persistent pimples, scars, warts, liver spots on a skin that mimic a papyrus loosely applied to poking bones or holding jelly-like moving greasy sweating masses of lard.

Don’t tell me that love is beautiful among elderly people. In the benign case when a couple ages together and the difference is not that noticeable, old age is a time to cuddle — anything else is revolting. However for those who lived an exciting life with different partners when they reach old age by themselves, a sexual encounter with other elders is horribly traumatic.

After forty, it is for a man like going to be with his mother, or for a woman with her father. And although you can find kinky people who enjoys such encounters, most have a turn of stomach at such thought. Yet, it gets worse. After sixty, it is like having sex with a grandmother or grandfather! What a puke-inducing picture!

It is something so wrong and weird to witness a viagra erection on a squalid male body with wobbly, almost detached balls, hanging down there, while squeezing a female body with flapping tits, like pizza slices. Man and woman or any of the numerous combinations of the above. There is a terror that tries to control the movements of the eyes, preventing them to capture the nightmarish sight of the back of naked wrinkled up old body moving away —a deflated remains of a body that once was beautiful.

Those are signs it is time to quit and stop dancing and prancing like Madamascarian lemurs at a beat that does not exist, and if it did, it is repulsively surrealistic.

Please, do not tell me that love knows no age. If you do, you are a sick, sick mind who refuses to see how the realities of the natural phenomena of physical deterioration is being forced upon us by Nature. Old age is for grandchildren, for cuddling, for caressing, for loving hugs with clothes on. It is not fun to stench up bedsheets with all kinds of questionable scents and micturition or even worse.