Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby's Total Health Newsletter #17. Week ending Sep 13th, 2009
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1. Scrawny isn't good, now skinny isn't good
2. Mercury Accumulating
3. Sorry, Obama has TOTALLY lost it
4. Well, That's Interesting (Pharma Fraud)
5. It's All In The Words (Lies And Fudging)
6. Gotta Love Viagra - For The Sake Of The Tigers
7. What's In A Word?
8. This Week's Quote

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1. Scrawny Isn't Good, Now Skinny Isn't Good

People who are underweight do not live as long as those who are somewhat overweight. Normal or correct weight is best. But to be a bit overweight is healthier than being skinny.

This might seem paradoxical. But Nature is always different from arrogant, cocky science!

A new Scandinavian study (Denmark) indicates that even THIGHS can be measured to give a prediction of longevity and thin thighs are bad. Supermodels beware! If you don't die of cocaine and AIDS, you will probably die young anyway!

Not that FAT thighs are good. But thin thighs are also a risk factor. After studying nearly 3,000 men and women for over 12 years, researchers conclude that a thigh circumference of 24 inches (60 centimeters) is ideal.

The report, by researchers at Copenhagen University Hospital, was published in the Sept. 4 issue of BMJ.

This new measurement is an addition to using BMI (body-mass index) which related weight to height or the newer and better hip-to-waist ratio. Raised BMI or hip-to-wasit is bad news for health and longevity. It seems odd as to why a thin thigh may predict heart disease. However, it could represent that fat and muscle is not being deposited in the right place where it is needed, and certainly we know that fat in the wrong places, such as skeletal muscle and liver and pancreas, is associated with diabetes and may increase mortality.

So the problem here may not be with the thin thighs, but where else the bulk is going.

My tip? Don't eat to change it; just exercize. You can fatten up your thigh muscles and that would inevitably help fitness and survival. Scrawny legs are OUT. Kate Moss and Victoria ("stringy") Beckham please take note.

SOURCES: Sept. 4, 2009, British Medical Journal

2. Mercury Accumulating (we've been telling them since the 1970s)

A study involving more than 6,000 American women suggests that blood levels of mercury are accumulating over time, with a big rise noted over the past decade.

Using data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a researcher from the University of California, Los Angeles, found that while in the 1999-2000 survey, inorganic mercury was detected in the blood of 2% of childbearing women, that level rose to 30% by 2005-2006.

This is not exactly news and we've been telling them in a loud voice since the early 80s. Moreover, the seminal 1989 Hahn and Vimy research study in Calgary, Canada, showed clearly that maternal mercury was transferred without hindrance to the fetus-in-utero (sheep).

So what do governments do? Offer women free dental treatment while they are pregnant, to up the baby's mercury load by several 1,000%!

It's mind-boggling.

Even this new study has not yet extrapolated to wondering what happens to the offspring of these extra 28% of women.

But at least the researcher has cottoned on to the accumulation problem: "My study found compelling evidence that inorganic mercury deposition within the human body is a cumulative process, increasing with age and overall in the population over time," said study author and neuroscience researcher Dan R. Laks.

Laks also found a connection between levels of the pituitary hormone lutropin and chronic mercury exposure, which he said might help explain mercury's link to neurodegenerative disease. Inorganic mercury can also accumulate in the brain and stay there for years, according to the news release.

"My findings also suggest a rise in risks for disease associated with mercury over time," Laks added.

Duh! I should think so!

Still, he's done well to punch through into a largely no-go zone with this. Didn't hear him interviewed on CNN and the other news media pantomimes, did anyone else? Such truly SHOCKING news deserves wide airing.

Don't hold your breath!

[SOURCE: Aug. 24, 2009, news release, University of California, Los Angeles]

3. Sorry, Obama has totally LOST it!

Whatever cred President Obama may have had as a people's champion has vanished with a sell out.

He's appointed Monsanto's ex- chief lobbyist, Michael Taylor, to fight for food safety! Ha! It's like getting Al Capone to run the IRS!

Michael R. Taylor, J.D., described by the FDA website as "a nationally recognized food safety expert and research professor at George Washington University’s School of Public Health and Health Services", is returning to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to serve as senior advisor.

Taylor is expected to work closely and collaboratively with the management of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Center for Veterinary Medicine, the Office of Regulatory Affairs, Congress, and with members of the Obama Administration.

How very cosy. However, it leaves thinking people dazed and shivering with cold. This guy was head honcho for blazing the perverted course of science for one of the most evil empires on Earth. Monsanto is a MONSTER and will destroy us all if their agribusiness takeover succeeds (why wouldn't it, now with Taylor neatly in place?)

Look, I don't care how much money Monsanto makes. But they have consistently LIED to the people, to Congress and to the scientific community about what they are doing, safety issues, fake science and cover ups and now their international business campaign to tie up every farmer on the planet to be beholden to their ridiculous and dangerous products and methods.

I have said over and over that their blind policy of spreading only their own seeds, creating a monoclonal species harvest stock, puts us at risk of worldwide famine and decimation (see my "End Of World" scenario in Letter From Serendipity, issue 13)

One last word: Taylor is a JD, not an MD. How can he POSSIBLY be an expert in food safety?

Sorry Mr. O, you're goosed.

4. Well, That's Interesting? (Pharma Fraud)

In what it calls the largest health-care fraud settlement in U.S. history, the Justice Department said Wednesday that pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and a subsidiary have agreed to pay a $2.3 billion penalty for illegally promoting certain drugs.

In each case, the Justice Department accused Pfizer of deliberately marketing the drugs for uses other than those approved by the U.S. FDA, a practice called "off-label" use.

The Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act stipulates that a company must "specify the intended uses of a product in its new drug application to FDA. Once approved, the drug may not be marketed or promoted for so-called 'off-label' uses."

Big Pharma considers itself above the law, of course and ignored these controls.

Just for once it caught up with them. Maybe the despised FDA wanted to at least pretend to be doing its job and Pfizer took the fall?

The Pfizer statement issued did not contain a shred of remorse of apology. Just an arrogant: "This gives us a very important opportunity to put final closure on the universe of material open items involving our U.S.-based operations," as if the lawsuit was nothing more than a nuisance to them.

5. It's All In The Words (Lies and Fudging)

There are NO safe levels of lead. A new analysis conducted by the FDA finds lead levels in many lipsticks are even higher than those reported in 2007 (by the consumer advocacy group Campaign for Safe Cosmetics).

But- guess what? - the FDA says it's quite safe. Too bad they don't read any science. Everywhere in the world scientists and MDs are agreed that there are no safe lead levels, the safety limit is ZERO.

But apparently you can wipe it around your mouth and swallow that - it doesn't count. So say the FDA investigators.

Listen, we all have WAY too much lead as it is. Any more at all is too much.

There is no known reason for putting lead into lipstick. It's a health hazard.

"Lipstick is a product intended for topical use, and is only ingested incidentally and in very small quantities," said FDA an spokeswoman. What nonsense: what happens to the lipstick during the course of a day? Ask any woman: it gets licked off and swallowed. So puts more on. Then more...

Take your lipstick and watch it go down. Why? Because you ate it!

The real story is that lead is very bad indeed for babies and kids; they are 100 times more susceptible to neuro damage from lead than adults.

So you might say (but couldn't) that women who never intend to get pregnant could use lipstick, maybe. But most lipstick users are capable of getting pregnant, quite likely to, and the consequences for the fetus would be bad. Plus there is the issue of build up.

This is all known, documented, there is no dispute. Just the FDA won't acknowledge and talks in fudgy language.

According to the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, the average level of lead found in the lipsticks -- 1.7 parts per million -- is more than 10 times higher than the standard imposed on candy.

L'Oreal, Cover Girl, Christian Dior and Maybelline were among the brands found to have high lead levels. For example, L'Oreal Colour Riche True Red had a lead content of 0.65 parts per million, L'Oreal Colour Riche Classic Wine had 0.58 parts per million and Cover Girl's IncrediFull Lipcolor Maximum Red had 0.56 parts per million.

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics called on the FDA to "immediately set standards to require manufacturers to minimize lead in lipstick to the lowest achievable levels."

FDA does have authority to regulate color additives in cosmetics, but not other ingredients.

So if the FDA can't stop it, what do you do? Don't buy the muck. Switch brands and get something better.

[Source: July/August 2009 Journal of Cosmetic Science]

6. Gotta Love Viagra - For The Sake Of The Tigers

Time was when the magnificent Bengal tiger was slaughtered for for the sake of Chinese men with diddly dongs (small penises). Their stupid and craven ego crap cost the lives of countless thousands of this magnificent beast. Even today, TRUCKLOADS of illegal poachings, bones and other parts, leave India and get sent to the pharmacies of China, to be made into potentizers for male inadequacies. All for fools to get a hard on.

The tragedy really is they only use a tiny fraction of the corpse, usually the penis. Various wonderful animals on this earth, such as tigers, rhinos, and bears are going extinct because Chinese men want to eat various parts of their bodies in order to achieve an erection.

Such is the insecurity of many Chinese men that they enthusiastically chase after these "cures". Medical studies have been done again and again that show no difference between ingesting these animal parts and taking a placebo. But to no avail.

The price of soup made from the supposed aphrodisiac, tiger penises, can reach $350 a bowl. A lot of people, i.e., women, might not consider the money well spent – according to reports, tiger copulation lasts only 15 seconds!!

Then came Viagra. It hasn't stopped the cruel extinction of these beautiful animals. But it has slowed it down dramatically. Now the feeble Chinese males can feel inadequate for many hours at a time!

Let's finish with God's beauteous creation, one of the most stunning animals on this Earth:

What's In A Word?

I was going to go for a serious word. But the previous section got me thinking about "penis words". There are very many. Here's a few:

baby-maker, bell on a pole, beef whistle, bratwurst, chopper, cock, dagger, dick, dong, fire hose, groin ferret, heat-seeking moisture missile, Jimmy, John, John Thomas (dated), joystick, knob, lingam, love muscle, meat popsicle, meat stick, member, old man, one-eyed trouser-snake (Australia, UK), pecker, peter, piss weasel, prick, rod of pleasure, short arm, third leg, wang, yogurt gun

Smile! You're on Candid Camera!

This Week's Quote:

The best thing you can give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself. respect; to all men, charity.

--Arthur James Balfour

(he meant to say "to all men and women", of course)

So, that's all for this week!

Be well; find the sacred in all you do, otherwise don't do it!

Prof.

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