Turn
on any news show and you'll hear about the swine flu pandemic. On April 29,
2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised its pandemic
alert to a five--the second highest level on its alert scale. While initial
outbreaks spread quickly from Mexico to the United States and then to Europe
and Canada, the media went into a frenzy predicting high death tolls and the possibility of mandatory
vaccinations. Some nations have set travel bans. Some areas closed
schools. But what can we really expect?
As
they throw around the term "pandemic" it is important to know that
this word actually refers to an epidemic that is widespread across the world.
The media is quick to compare the swine flu to the Spanish
flu of 1918 that killed 20 million people across the globe. As the
pharmaceutical companies scramble to create a vaccine for the swine flu, we
must think back to the vaccine that was promoted for the swine flu back in
1976. Time magazine published an
article on April 27, 2009, that described how dozens of people died and
hundreds were harmed by the vaccine for the 1976 swine flu. At the same time,
the article brings up the idea that public officials "may soon have to
consider whether to institute draconian measures
to combat the disease."
For years, women have been encouraged to undergo an annual mammogram. Women listened to this advice, and dutifully subjected their breasts to being flattened and irradiated in the hopes of finding that they were cancer free, or at least to catch any sign of cancer before it was too late. But women have not been told the entire story about mammography.
It is true that mammograms can detect signs of cancer; however, cancers that are large enough to be detected during a mammogram are not early enough in their development to be easily cured. By the time your mammogram detects an abnormality, that little cancerous growth has likely been growing for around eight years. They say that active cancer cells double their number every 90 days. After eight years, the cancerous cells have doubled 32 times. When the cancer cells have doubled 40 times, it is considered lethal and too late to attempt a cure.
Nonagenarian physician Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara explains how he was stayed energetic and youthful nearly a century into life. Learn how to increase your longevity from a world-renowned healthy living expert and world-renowned healer.
At the age of 97 years and 4 months, Shigeaki Hinohara is one of the world's longest-serving physicians and educators. Hinohara's magic touch is legendary: Since 1941 he has been healing patients at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo and teaching at St. Luke's College of Nursing. After World War II, he envisioned a world-class hospital and college springing from the ruins of Tokyo; thanks to his pioneering spirit and business savvy, the doctor turned these institutions into the nation's top medical facility and nursing school.
Today Dr. Hinohara serves as chairman of the board of trustees at both organizations. Always willing to try new things, he has published around 150 books since his 75th birthday, including one "Living Long, Living Good" that has sold more than 1.2 million copies. As the founder of the New Elderly Movement, Hinohara encourages others to live a long and happy life, a quest in which no role model is better than the doctor himself.
Gardasil, the vaccine seen on commercials with the sales pitch "one less," gets one more big hit today as Katie Couric addresses serious concerns about the drug.
Katie educates Americans about numerous injuries reported by young girls who trusted that the vaccine was safe and would prevent serious illness, rather than cause it. What makes this new information even more compelling is that just last week, Spain actually withdrew 75, 000 doses of the vaccine from their market after two teens were hospitalized for serious side effects.
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) has compared Gardasil's adverse events to the meningitis vaccine Menactra, which is the only other vaccine mandated for teens in several states. The NVIC reports that Gardasil injections resulted in three times the number of emergency room visits, causing injury to more than 5,000 young girls. Reports of side effects were up to 30 times higher with Gardasil, than Menactra. Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder of the NVIC, said, "Now we know from this report that there are more reactions and deaths associated with Gardasil than with another vaccine given in the same age group. It's irresponsible not to take action."
Turn
on any news show and you'll hear about the swine flu pandemic. On April 29,
2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised its pandemic
alert to a five--the second highest level on its alert scale. While initial
outbreaks spread quickly from Mexico to the United States and then to Europe
and Canada, the media went into a frenzy predicting high death tolls and the possibility of mandatory
vaccinations. Some nations have set travel bans. Some areas closed
schools. But what can we really expect?
