CT SCANS

I know I have always been advised to stop running to get x-rays, but the latest revelations are ridiculous......read and inwardly digest the following information about the damaging effects of x-rays - you should also go to
Dr. Mercola's website to learn more especially you guys who every drum knock you are having scans of one form or another.....and for those of us who live in Jamaica , remember we don`t sue at the drop of a hat so you can tell your doctor no!

Despite clear evidence that the radiation from x-rays is damaging to your body, our current medical system continues to promote the careless and excessive use of radiation-based diagnostic scans.
This year, one in every 10 Americans will have a CT scan (computed tomography).
The amount of money spent on medical imaging doubled between 2000 and 2006 to about $14 billion a year—and that is just Medicare alone, according to a study by the Government Accountability Office. More than 70 million CT scans per year are now performed in the US, including at least 4 million on children. This is up from just 3million in 1980.
Nearly 30,000 get Cancer EVERY Year in the US from CT Scans
According to a study in the Archives of Internal Medicine last year, CT scans alone will cause nearly 30,,000 unnecessary cancer cases (about 2 percent of cancer cases), which will lead to about 14,500 deaths.
But wait, there’s more bad news.
While 30,000 cancer cases is a large number, a New England Journal of Medicine study from 2007 estimated that overuse of diagnostic CT scans may cause up to 3 million excess cancers over the next 20 to 30 years.
For those slow on math that is 1,000X more deaths over the next 25 years.
David Brenner of Columbia University, lead author of the study, told USA Today: "About one-third of all CT scans that are done right now are medically unnecessary … Virtually anyone who presents in the emergency room with pain in the belly or a chronic headache will automatically get a CT scan. Is that justified?"
Why are so many CT scans being done, when they result in so many unnecessary deaths?
There are several reasons:
* Physicians fear being sued for malpractice if they miss something.
* Some patients pressure their physicians for scans “just to be safe,” especially after hearing advertisements touting the benefits of new hi-tech tests (without disclosure of the risks).
* Physicians are more often using scans to screen “the worried well” (such as scanning former smokers for lung cancer).
* Many doctors have purchased their own imaging equipment for their practices. This adds a financial incentive into the mix and sets the stage for overuse of the technology.
* There’s a trend toward commercially advertised full-body CT scans to “find everything wrong with you.” Consumers with extra cash lying around (in excess of $1,000 in most cases) are being encouraged to undergo a full-body scan as a preventive measure.
While high-tech imaging can be beneficial in certain cases, it must be used SPARINGLY because it exposes your body to dangerous radiation—radiation that is proven to cause cancer.
And you are being exposed to more radiation from your diagnostic test than was previously thought. Studies have recently found that radiation doses from CT scans tend to be higher than the amounts generally reported.
When the diagnostic procedure causes the disease you are trying to avoid, perhaps you should reconsider the procedure!
Becoming aware of the risks of medical scans is part of becoming a smart consumer and knowing your health care options. Research suggests that a dismal seven percent of patients are informed of the risks of CT scans.
Why X-Rays are so Damaging to Your Health
There are four primary reasons that x-rays (and other diagnostic tests that rely on ionizing radiation, such as mammograms and CTs) should be minimized:
1. They cause chromosomal mutations that are often irreparable, and the effects are cumulative.
2. They cause DNA changes that are proven to lead to cancer.
3. They cause DNA damage in your arteries, which can lead to cardiovascular disease.
4. They often result in misdiagnosis and false positives, increasing the likelihood of follow up tests—further increasing your radiation exposure.
X-rays and other types of ionizing radiation have been, for decades, a proven cause of virtually all types of mutations—especially structural chromosomal mutations. X-rays are an established cause of genomic instability, which is frequently seen in the most aggressive cancers.
X-rays act like tiny little “grenades” that are far more damaging to your DNA than the metabolic free radicals, which are routinely produced by your cell’s natural metabolism. Ionizing radiation can damage the genetic material of every internal organ or cell lying within the path of an x-ray beam. Within an organ, even a single high-speed high-energy electron, set into motion by an x-ray photon, has a chance of inducing the types of damage that defy repair.
That is why there is no safe dose of x-rays.
And when such mutations are not lethal to the cell, they persist and accumulate with each additional exposure to x-rays or other ionizing radiation.
On top of the DNA mutation effects, there is the issue of arterial damage and increased risk of blood clots.
How can radiation move you closer to a heart attack?
Radiation damages the DNA in your arteries, which in turn causes the cells lining your arteries to multiply abnormally, decreasing the size of the arterial lumen and effectively “narrowing” your arteries. This radiation-induced tissue inside your arteries is similar to scar tissue, decreasing vessel elasticity and increasing your risk for arterial blockage.
According to John Gofman, M.D., Ph.D., evidence indicates that more than 50 percent of deaths from cancer and more than 60 percent of deaths from ischemic heart disease may be x-ray-induced.

Eating badly on vacation

Then to another 'aha' moment - I don`t know how many of these moments I need to have till I quit being amazed at how food contributes to our health. While I was away, I again fell into the trap and used all the excuses in the book to fall off the wagon - steak, chicken you name it, I had it - still eating my fruit but less vegetables and adding meat with great glee....... about 5 days into this change of diet I awoke in the morning not as I usually do, bounding out of bed, instead I felt every day of my accumulated years, feet aching and barely moving, the bags under my eyes turning into suitcases and I said to myself "wow, it never fails does it?"
Immediately on landing , I rushed home heading straight to my kitchen yelling out to my live food chef son Peter - "green juice and keep it coming" and I'm now feeling myself again. This time I must say only the Outback steak thrilled me........nothing else, so I craved nothing going back on my raw food diet and I feel so revived - I really need to stop joking around....the reason I do it is the excuses you all use......too much trouble to eat different from everybody else so I ate what everybody else was eating, too difficult to fix something just for me, any excuse I could give I gave myself, really I was just too lazy to fix my food and as I watched everyone around me having a great time eating their way to various illnesses, I joined in laughing all the way, knowing I have a death sentence over my head. It's amazing how we all have a death wish and love playing with fire......I write this to let you know that you are not alone in your struggles even those of us who know better, struggle....... difference is after my vacation I came back to my proper regime and even now while I write this I'm having my almond milk - freshly made - not out of a box so I know how lucky I am, thing is those of you who don`t need to keep as rigid a diet as mine need the support of family and those around you,even covering up the barbeque - not good for you and a reminder to all of you who have aches and pains and look older than your years - a tossed salad with your barbeque chicken/steak/burger - does not mean eating 80% raw. At least I could sense that my family and friends felt guilty enjoying eating those things around me - all except my eldest son who is so happy eating badly I truly hope and pray he has his father's genes......

PRINCESS NAIYAH

Hi folks for all of you who've been wondering what happened to me, I'm fine - I just came back from 10 days with my granddaughter and eldest son in Orlando, city of the future - what a transformation the Amway centre, a technological marvel, has made to this sleepy-eye town .....I thought I was in New York.....and then wow ! Disney is still organized to a T and a wonderful experience and the 3 o'clock parade is still a delight to kids of all ages. It's wonderful when you see something that has maintained throughout the years.
Space mountain was a revelation though. My son who turned 33 on September 8th and who never met a roller coaster he didn`t love warned me repeatedly that people who had bad hearts or high blood pressure should not go on this ride. I reminded him that absolutely nothing was wrong with my heart or my blood pressure and because I had cancer 3 times in the past and 23 surgeries was no reason for me not going on this ride. Well off I went with him ....he sat behind me and I could hear him whoooing strangely as the ride progressed. When we came out I excitedly thought we would be going back only to hear 'never again' he said 'Mommy do you realize what would happen to us if anything went wrong on that ride they would pick us up in pieces!' My boy now knows his mortality ..... fatherhood will do that everytime, yes hon that's what life is risks and chances......at my age I can go in pieces or one piece, matters not to me, fun is the name of my game and fun I had.
Just looking at Naiyah transform into Cinderella was another precious moment She didn't go back to being Naiyah for 3 days, she ate breakfast went to the supermarket, everything was done in her crown, gown and glass slippers and only succumbed to the hair coming down because she likes swimming more than being a princess.
What an absolute treat!

OUR DIRTY LIVERS

Recently a lot of people been asking me how can they clean their livers - guess they're not feeling so good and the doctors tell them their liver is in trouble but as usual they do not tell you what you can do to clean your liver as there is no capsule to do so. Every day your liver is on the attack from the following :

* Prescription drugs — EVERY prescribed medication and over-the-counter drug you take must be filtered by your liver! FROM TYLENOL TO YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE MEDICATION

* Alcohol use — More than 18 million Americans abuse alcohol making it the #1 cause of liver disease in America!

* Environmental pollution — From cigarette smoke... automobile exhausts... smog... and thousands of dangerous toxins you breathe, touch and ingest!

* Chemical food additives — Many are known to cause abnormal cell growth—that’s why your liver must be on high alert!

* Water chlorination — Including fluoride, chlorine and heavy metals—all must be neutralized by your liver before they cause you harm! HOW MANY OF US DRINK 6-8 GLASSES OF CLEAN PURIFIED WATER EACH DAY?

* Household chemicals — Aerosol sprays... cosmetics... ammonia... hair dyes... disinfectants—all are loaded with toxins your liver must quickly neutralize and eliminate!

* Pesticides — For lawn care... bug repellents... critter control—can easily get absorbed into your body!

* Overuse of animal protein — If you’re a meat eater, you better believe your liver is working overtime!

THAT'S WHY SO MANY OF US "LIVE FOOD" PEOPLE DON`T SUFFER FROM THESE PROBLEMS IF WE ARE BIG TEA DRINKERS AS WE DRINK MILK THISTLE AND DANDELION ROOT and THINGS LIKE THAT ALL DAY AND WE DON`T TAKE ANYTHING FOR HEADACHES AS WE KNOW THAT'S TOXINS COMING OUT AND WE DON`T EAT MEAT.......
HERE IS A LIST OF THINGS YOU CAN DRINK AND PUT ON YOUR FOOD TO HELP CLEAN YOUR LIVER AND IN TURN YOUR KIDNEYS AS THEY ARE BOTH BEING OVERWORKED TO DEATH :

- N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine (NAC) — A Godsend for kidney stones! NAC helps eliminate painful kidney stones. NAC also helps protect your liver from harmful exposure to toxic chemicals!
- Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) — Critical if you’re taking prescription drugs! ALA helps your liver quickly neutralize the damaging effects of over-the-counter and prescription medicines by elevating levels of the liver-supportive enzyme called glutathione. What’s more, ALA can help lower liver enzymes that can lead to serious liver problems!
- Trimethylglycine (TMG) — Helps Improve liver function! In an Italian study, patients taking TMG experienced improved liver function, reduced fat in the liver and diminished abdominal pain. What’s more, several clinical trials show TMG can help repair liver damage caused by alcohol use!
- Dandelion Root — A natural body balancer! This age-old herb helps filter toxins from your liver and kidneys without overstraining or tiring out these organs. Dandelion is a natural diuretic that can increase urine production by promoting the excretion of salts and water from the kidneys. Plus, it helps keep optimal water balance in your kidneys... encourages healthy electrolyte balance in the blood... and helps keep liver and pancreas enzymes in balance. Dandelion is also a rich source of potassium!
- Olive Leaf — A natural infection fighter! Scientists have identified a powerful infection-fighting compound in olive leaf called “oleuropein.” When enzymes in the body metabolize oleuropein, you get a force field of protection from viruses, bacteria and fungi. This is especially important for your liver and kidneys since they are constantly under assault from toxins!
- Milk Thistle — The ultimate liver lover! Your liver helps process some of the 850 million pounds of toxic chemicals released into the environment every year. An overload of these toxins can easily wear out your liver—and leave you prone to developing a host of health problems!
- Turmeric Root — The toxin terminator! This popular spice has been traditionally used to help remove dangerous toxins from the liver and stimulate the production of bile. According to the book, Herb Bible, turmeric can also help reduce liver inflammation!
- Burdock - Purges poisons to purify blood! Noted health expert Varro E. Tyler, Ph.D., in The Honest Herbal recommends burdock as a blood purifier. Why? Because this remarkable herb has the uncanny ability to help neutralize most poisons that enter the liver. What’s more, it can soothe irritated kidneys and enhance urine flow!
SO NO EXCUSE GET TO CLEANING YOUR LIVER AND ENJOY FEELING GOOD!!!!!!!

Media can harm or help

I`m learning so much about how the media contributes to our bad eating habits .... watching local TV this morning I learnt that Tastee cheese is having cheese month....They explained in great detail how their #1 cheese was their processed cheese and the person doing the interview asked what's the difference between processed and natural cheese and the marketing manager proudly replied 'It's the additives for example the colouring'. She went on to describe all the cheesy things that they will be showcasing all month "cheesy fried dumplings and cheesy vienna sausages" ...wow... as if their processed cheese can melt!! I shudder when I think of all the people that are going to enjoy this "cheesy" experience because they just don`t know better.
On the other hand there are many ways the media can help to educate us as in the following article from Dr. Mercola's website entitled The Medical Scandal that’s Robbing Cancer Patients of Their Right to Life. Dr.Mercola tells us about how doctors are drugging us to death using as an example a story taken from the Dallas News that helps bring home a real life illustration of what is going on with cancer in the USA.

Leah Siegel fought hard against cancer, enduring blood transfusions and chemical burns and painful sores. She was haunted by the idea that her children would grow up without any memory of her.
From the moment doctors told her she had stage four breast cancer in 2008, she worried most about leaving her children. "I just need 10 years," she told her oncologist. But the cancer had already had spread to her liver and bones. Doctors gave her two to three years.
According to the Dallas News:"Leah told doctors she would try any treatment, no matter the side effects ... doctors seemed to be jumping from drug to drug. 'There wasn't a real plan anymore,' said Leah's husband, Eric ...
Leah agreed to try a powerful drug cocktail that caused the most painful side effects yet. Flaming blisters appeared on her hands and ... The drugs burned sores in her mouth and throat. For weeks, she couldn't eat. She began to worry that she would starve to death".
No one should have to go through this type of pain and sorrow and leave young children behind when their mother dies decades prematurely because of a fatally flawed medical system. Unfortunately, cancer rates are on the rise and the disease is expected to kill more than 13 million people a year by 2030, almost double the number who died from the disease in 2008.
Even with the latest technology and "advances" in medicine, cancer continues to devastate families and kill people far before their time. And through it all the current medical paradigm has remained essentially clueless about the underlying causes of cancer, along with how to effectively treat them.
Most conventional cancer treatments actually add insult to injury by doing more harm than good -- a fact that has been largely swept under the rug by the medical industry.
Are Toxic Drugs Really Helping Cancer Patients?
Drugs, surgery and radiation are typically the only solutions offered by conventional physicians to treat cancer, and upon receiving a cancer diagnosis most people are willing to do just about anything to get better. This includes taking outrageously expensive and dangerous medications that offer little, if any, benefit.
Take Avastin, the best-selling cancer drug in the world, which is used to treat advanced breast cancer in the United States. This drug, which brings in $855 million in revenues each year, costs $8,000 a month even though it has not been proven to improve quality of life or help patients live longer.
Further, the side effects of the drug can in and of themselves be deadly. Potentially fatal risks of the drug include gastrointestinal perforation, hemorrhage, slow wound healing, stroke, severe hypertension, severe kidney malfunction, and the list goes on. Now the FDA is even considering revoking its approval for this toxic drug, citing new studies that show the benefits just do not outweigh the risks.
Unfortunately, this is often the way it works with cancer drugs. The benefits are sparse while the side effects can often kill.
Cancer Drugs Can Actually Cause Cancer, Illness, Death
The drugs conventional physicians use to treat cancer can actually cause cancer in healthy people who are only exposed to small amounts of them, as is often the case among the health care workers who make their livings making, mixing and administering these toxic agents.
Even when used correctly these toxic drugs may end up killing you prematurely or cause other cancers down the line, as they impair your immune system and are capable of causing genetic damage.
The biggest drawback to chemotherapy is the fact that it destroys healthy cells throughout your body right along with cancer cells. So a typical, and potentially deadly, side effect of chemo is the destruction of the rapidly multiplying and dividing cells found in your:
•Bone marrow, which produces blood
•Digestive system
•Reproductive system
•Hair follicles
Despite its reputation as the gold-standard cancer treatment, chemotherapy has an average 5-year survival success rate of just over 2 percent for all cancers, according to a study published in the journal Clinical Oncology in December 2004.
Another study, The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD), found that more than four in 10 patients who received chemotherapy toward the end of life experienced potentially fatal effects.
And after reviewing data from over 600 cancer patients who died within 30 days of receiving treatment, it was found that chemotherapy hastened or caused death in 27 percent of cases.
Chemotherapy drugs are, by their very nature, extremely toxic and typically do not work with your body to modulate and normalize its response to allow the cancer to resolve normally. Natural approaches simply do not have the types of fatal side effects common with cancer drugs because they work by optimizing your body's own natural healing capacities.
Tips for Fighting, and Preventing, Cancer
If you are facing cancer, I strongly recommend you seek the help of a knowledgeable natural health care practitioner experienced in cancer care who can help you use nutrition, emotional healing, and other alternative treatments to help you get well.
This should include a reliable screening of your vitamin D levels.
Calcitriol, the most potent steroid hormone in your body, is produced in large amounts in your tissues when you have sufficient amounts of vitamin D. However, most cancer patients are vitamin D deficient.
Calcitrol -- the activated form of vitamin D -- has been shown to protect against cancer by inducing cell differentiation and controlling cell proliferation. People with a low vitamin D level are less able to make activated vitamin D in an amount sufficient to exert the controls over cell proliferation that are needed to reduce cancer.
Optimized vitamin D levels will work synergistically with virtually every other cancer treatment. There are over 830 peer-reviewed scientific studies showing its effectiveness in the treatment of cancer!
You'll want to elevate your levels of vitamin D to about 80-90 ng/ml, and continue to have them monitored throughout your treatment.
However, even better than a safe treatment is preventing cancer in the first place, and I believe you can virtually eliminate your cancer risk if you follow risk reduction strategies that have not been formally "proven" yet by conservative researchers.
You can help save yourself and your family from a cancer diagnosis by following the lifestyle changes below.
Many of the preventive strategies I'm about to share with you are not only important to prevent cancer, they're also incredibly important to use as part of your cancer treatment strategy if you already have the illness.
11 Top Strategies for Preventing and Fighting Cancer Naturally
1. Optimize your vitamin D levels. It's virtually impossible to discuss cancer prevention and treatment today without discussing vitamin D, as the scientific evidence of its anti-cancerous benefits is truly impressive.
Theories linking vitamin D to certain cancers have been tested and confirmed in more than 200 epidemiological studies, and understanding of its physiological basis stems from more than 2,500 laboratory studies, according to epidemiologist Cedric Garland, DrPH, professor of family and preventive medicine at the UC San Diego School of Medicine.
Dr. Garland is widely regarded as the leading epidemiologist on vitamin D and its relation to health. He led one of the latest studies on vitamin D for cancer prevention and proposed a new model of cancer development -- dubbed DINOMIT-- that is centered on a loss of cancer cells' ability to stick together.
The model is a departure from the older model of cancer development, which centers on genetic mutations as the earliest driving forces behind cancer.
To find out the appropriate levels of vitamin D for cancer prevention and treatment, please watch my free one-hour vitamin D lecture.
2. Control your insulin levels by limiting your intake of processed foods and sugars as much as possible.
3. Get appropriate amounts of animal-based omega-3 fats, especially those from krill oil.
4. Exercise. One of the primary reasons exercise works is that it drives your insulin levels down. Controlling insulin levels is one of the most powerful ways to reduce your cancer risks.
Exercise is also an important part of cancer treatment, as Harvard Medical School researchers found patients who exercise moderately -- 3-5 hours a week -- reduce their odds of dying from breast cancer by about half as compared to sedentary women.
In fact, any amount of weekly exercise increased a patient's odds of surviving breast cancer. This benefit also remained constant regardless of whether women were diagnosed early on or after their cancer had spread.
5. Have a tool to permanently erase the neurological short-circuiting that can activate cancer genes. Even the CDC states that 85 percent of disease is caused by emotions. It is likely that this factor may be more important than all the other physical ones listed here, so make sure this is addressed. My particular favorite tool for this purpose, as you may know, is the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT).
6. Only about 24 percent of people eat enough vegetables, so by all means eat as many vegetables as you are comfortable with. Ideally, they should be fresh and organic. However, please understand that, frequently, fresh conventionally grown vegetables are healthier than organic ones that are older and wilted in the grocery store. They are certainly better than no vegetables at all, so don't use that as an excuse. If you are a carb nutritional type you may need up to 300 percent more vegetables than a protein nutritional type.
7. Eating according to your nutritional type has potent anti-cancer effects. When we treat cancer patients in our clinic, this is in fact one of the most powerful anti-cancer strategies we have.
8. Maintain an ideal body weight.
9. Get enough high-quality sleep.
10. Reduce your exposure to environmental toxins like pesticides, household chemical cleaners, synthetic air fresheners and air pollution.
11. Boil, poach or steam your foods, rather than frying or charbroiling them. Better yet eat as many of your foods raw as you can.
The sooner you implement these natural strategies, the better, as they will provide your body with the basic foundational elements necessary for health, healing and wellness

Why do so many of us choose to live an inferior quality of life before death? If somebody is diagnosed with cancer and chooses to not go the chemo-radiation route they are looked on as stupid and the family usually drops into deep prayer for them to come around.
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE BUT WHY NOT DIE ENJOYING LIFE WHY DIE IN AND OUT OF HOSPITALS EVERYDAY IN HORRIFIC PAIN BARELY KNOWING THOSE AROUND YOU....I will say it again - because we wont prevent we are all going to repent!