The Medical Device That Causes 30,000 Cancer Cases Each Year. Have You Been Exposed?
Submitted by Annie White

There is no doubt that the use of computed tomography (CT or CAT) scans has many benefits. They help doctors detect everything from kidney stones to tumors. That’s partly because CT scans yield much higher resolution images than conventional medical x-rays. The downside is that they also expose the patient to sometimes thousands of times the amount of radiation of a medical regular x-ray.

Many experts recognize that this is a big problem.

There’s been an explosion in unnecessary CT scans over the past 10 years which means hundreds of thousands of Americans are facing unnecessary, horrible deaths from CT scan induced cancers.

What should you do if your doctor orders CT scan for you or your child?

Researchers say you should think twice. The extremely large doses of radiation from these scans are not innocuous. Many patients are prescribed multiple, unnecessary CT scans which often stems from a lack of communication between physicians. Having the same scan done twice simply because one doctor “didn’t get the memo” is simply ridiculous. Actually, it’s tragic when you consider it’s a mistake that could double the chance of developing cancer from the procedure.

Developing radiation-induced cancer is at higher risk for children. The reason is children are much more sensitive to radiation because of the way their cells divide. Their DNA is much more susceptible to damage. While the risk of an adult developing cancer from a CT scan is about 1 in 2000, for a child the risk goes up to 1 in 500.

In some cases a CT scan is a necessity. To diagnose severe head trauma or internal injuries, to diagnose an existing cancer, or acute abdominal pain, an ultrasound or MRI will not do the job. But that doesn’t make the fact that nearly 30,000 people in the US alone get cancer every year from CT scans any less alarming.

Why are so many CT scans prescribed in the first place?

There’s a long list of reasons but here are a few:

Doctors are worried they’ll be sued for malpractice if they don’t cover all the bases.
Full body CT scans are advertised as a way to find everything that could be wrong with you. Many peoples see a full body scan as a proactive measure.
Some patients request a scan because they’re worried there may be a hidden problem that simply hasn’t shown up yet – former smokers fit into this category.

Why CT scans are hazardous to your health.

The radiation from CT scans causes:

DNA changes that lead to cancer
Chromosomal mutations that lead to aggressive cancers.
Misdiagnosis and false positives

How to protect yourself.

Whenever possible, simply avoid x-rays. Keep in mind that sometimes a CT scan is necessary. But always ask your doctor if an MRI or an ultrasound can be performed instead. They have fewer harmful side effects and many times can do the job just as well. Don’t put you or your child at risk for the perceived benefit of high tech scanning.

By: Sylvia Anderson

The 1918 influenza pandemic has been labeled in history as one of the most devastating outbreaks in the history of the world with deaths estimated at between 20 and 40 million people.  Over 675,000 American citizens lost their lives due to this awful epidemic.  Why are we talking about this?

The 1918 flu crisis has been labeled in the Chiropractic profession as the reason for our success and proliferation as an occupation. Why? Because we were offering a solution to millions of people to naturally boost their immunity and allow their body to defend and heal itself from invading pathogens. Chiropractic adjustments are not just "popping bones".

The primary purpose for an adjustment is to remove any irritation or interference to the nerves, they are the information highway from the brain to the body.

When this information highway gets congested, the life flow (innate) that runs through the nerves, telling the brain and body what is going on inside, cannot flow efficiently which results in a number of symptoms and diseases. Chiropractors allow the body to function as it was designed to do and, in turn, patient's struck with the Flu were able to regain their health – without vaccines and drugs.

In Davenport, Iowa, 50 medical doctors cared for 4,953 cases, with 274 deaths. In the same city, 150 chiropractors including students and faculty of the Palmer School of Chiropractic treated 1,635 cases with only one death.

In the same state, Iowa, medical doctors treated 93,590 patients, with 6,116 deaths - a loss of one patient out of every 15. In the same state, excluding Davenport, 4,735 patients were treated by chiropractors with a loss of only 6 cases - a loss of one patient out of every 789.

National figures show that 1,142 chiropractors treated 46,394 patients for influenza during 1918, with a loss of 54 patients - one out of every 859.The medical profession was seeing a majority of the worst of the worst; however, one of the greatest statistics backing chiropractic care comes from the state of Oklahoma.  In addition to chiropractors treating 3,490 cases of influenza with only 7 deaths, chiropractors were called in to treat 233 cases where medical doctors had cared for the patients and pronounced them as "lost" or beyond hope … Chiropractors took care of all 233 with only 25 deaths.

In the same epidemic, New York health authorities (who kept records of flu as a reportable disease) showed that under chiropractic care, only 25 patients died of influenza out of every 10,000 cases; and only 100 patients died of pneumonia out of every 10,000 cases.

Chiropractic’s journey into health care took a huge leap forward thanks to its incredible effect on the thousands of Americans during the flu crisis.  What we need to gain from this is to understand the incredible results of the chiropractic adjustment.  When you receive an adjustment there is an increase in immune function, among many other consequences (Journal of Neurophysiology, February 2007).

An adjustment often stimulates the immune system to better fight off any challenge, including influenza.”

The 'Middle Wife' by an Anonymous 2nd grade teacher :

I've been teaching now for about fifteen years. I have two kids myself, but the best birth story I know is the one I saw in my own second grade classroom a few years back.
When I was a kid, I loved show-and-tell. So I always have a few sessions with my students.. It helps them get over shyness and usually, show-and-tell is pretty tame. Kids bring in pet turtles, model airplanes, pictures of fish they catch, stuff like that. And I never, ever place any boundaries or limitations on them. If they want to lug it in to school and talk about it, they're welcome.
Well, one day this little girl, Erica, a very bright, very outgoing kid, takes her turn and waddles up to the front of the class with a pillow stuffed under her sweater.
She holds up a snapshot of an infant. 'This is Luke, my baby brother, and I'm going to tell you about his birthday.'
'First, Mom and Dad made him as a symbol of their love, and then Dad put a seed in my Mom's stomach, and Luke grew in there. He ate for nine months through an umbrella cord.'
She's standing there with her hands on the pillow, and I'm trying not to laugh and wishing I had my camcorder with me. The kids are watching her in amazement.
'Then, about two Saturdays ago, my Mom starts saying and going, 'Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh!' Erica puts a hand behind her back and groans. 'She walked around the house for, like an hour, 'Oh, oh, oh!' (Now this kid is doing a hysterical duck walk and groaning.)
'My Dad called the middle wife. She delivers babies, but she doesn't have a sign on the car like the Domino's man. They got my Mom to lie down in bed like this.' (Then Erica lies down with her back against the wall)
'And then, pop! My Mom had this bag of water she kept in there in case he got thirsty, and it just blew up and spilled all over the bed, like psshhheew!' (This kid has her legs spread with her little hands miming water flowing away. It was too much!)
'Then the middle wife starts saying 'push, push,' and 'breathe, breathe. They started counting, but never even got past ten. Then, all of a sudden, out comes my brother.. He was covered in yucky stuff that they all said it was from Mom's play-center, (placenta) so there must be a lot of toys inside there. When he got out, the middle wife spanked him for crawling up in there.'
Then Erica stood up, took a big theatrical bow and returned to her seat I'm sure I applauded the loudest. Ever since then, when it's show-and-tell day, I bring my camcorder, just in case another 'Middle Wife' comes along.

I was under the impression that the only way to get flouride out of drinking was distillation. I apparently was wrong. According to about.com reverse osmosis will also remove flouride.

In the same article I found out that black and red tea come from two different types of plants, but both leaves naturally contain high amounts of fluorine.

The drinking water flouridation issue is still unsettled. I would enjoy entertaining your comments and queries on this issue.

Article Link: http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistryhowtoguide/a/removefluoride.htm