Valerie Jarrett says that Barack Obama has talent on loan from God
Video courtesy of http://grannyjanandjihadkitty.blogspot.com/
Monday, November 8, 2010
Do you take prescription pills for your 'high' cholesterol?
Have you ever been prescribed one of these meds? I have, and my health immediately began a downward spiral. I could barely function; I felt as though I was walking through "pudding'. And the physician I was seeing at that point told me, "You will die if you don't take Lipitor!"
I researched, especially at the Mayo Clinic site, to find that RED YEAST RICE contains natural statins, and can help lower bad cholesterol. So I told my doctor (a second year student whom I hope by now has developed a "better bedside manner", that I would test the Red Yeast Rice. The next month I visited this man, my "bad" cholesterol had decreased by "59", down to 225. He told me (actually YELLED at me!) that I had to stop eating red meat, i.e. beef. I had not had beef in over 2 years at that point.
Sunday, November 07, 2010 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer
Here's the entire article:
(NaturalNews) Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs significantly increase a person's risk of cataracts, muscle weakness, liver dysfunction and kidney failure, according to a study in the British Medical Journal.
The study also confirmed that the drugs lower the risk of heart disease and esophageal cancer, but claims of other health benefits were unsupported.Researchers from Nottingham University in the United Kingdom examined data on more than 2 million patients between the ages of 30 and 84, seen at 38 different general practices, who had been prescribed the cholesterol-lowering drugs. More than 70 percent were taking simvastatin (Zocor), 22.3 percent were taking atorvastatin (Lipitor), 3.6 percent were taking pravastatin (Pravachol, Selektine), 1.9 percent were taking rosuvastatin (Crestor) and 1.4 percent were taking fluvastatin (Canef, Lescol, Lochol, Vastin).
The researchers confirmed prior data suggesting that statins increase patients' risk of cataracts, liver dysfunction, kidney failure and a form of muscle weakness known as myopathy. They found that for every 10,000 women treated with the drugs, 23 would develop acute kidney (renal) failure, 39 would develop myopathy, 74 would develop liver dysfunction and 309 would develop cataracts. Men suffered an even higher risk of myopathy, but their risks of the other three conditions were similar to those suffered by women.
Putting it in different terms, the researchers found that only 434 people would need to be treated with the drugs for five years for one case of acute renal failure to develop. It would take only 136 treated for each case of liver dysfunction and 33 for each case of cataracts. Among women, 259 would need to be treated for each case of myopathy; among men, the number was only 91.
The risk of developing all conditions was highest during the first year of treatment, but continued throughout the course of the study. Risk of liver and kidney problems increased proportionally with the dose of statins being taken.
All drugs appeared to pose a similar risk of all conditions, with the exception of fluvastatin, which increased the risk of liver dysfunction more than its competitors. Men taking fluvastatin were twice as likely to develop liver dysfunction as those not taking statins, while women's risk increased by 2.5 times.The researchers did find, however, that the risk of cataracts returned to normal within one year of stopping statin treatment, while the risk of liver and kidney problems returned to normal within one to three years. Additionally, they found no connection between statin use and the risk of dementia, osteoporotic fracture, Parkinson's disease, rheumatoid arthritis or venous thromboembolism.
Examining the purported benefits of the drugs, researchers found that they did in fact lower the risk of heart disease, averting 271 cases for every 10,000 high-risk patients treated. Put another way, 33 high-risk men or 37 high-risk women would need to be treated with the drugs to avert one case of the disease.
Although advocates of the drugs have claimed that they may also reduce the risk cancer, the researchers found almost no data supporting these claims. The study "largely confirmed other studies that reported no clear association between statins and risk of cancers," the researchers wrote.
The only cancer-fighting effect uncovered in the study was a slightly lower risk of esophageal cancer, with eight cases averted for every 10,000 high-risk women treated. In other words, 1,266 high-risk women or 1,082 high-risk men would need to be treated with the drugs to prevent one case of esophageal cancer.
Although sales of the blockbuster drugs are unlikely to be reduced as a result of the study, the researchers encouraged closer monitoring of patients for side effects and said their findings "would tend to support a policy of using lower doses of statins in people at high risk of the adverse event."
Sources for this story include: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64J7B820100520; http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Atherosclerosis/20232.
I researched, especially at the Mayo Clinic site, to find that RED YEAST RICE contains natural statins, and can help lower bad cholesterol. So I told my doctor (a second year student whom I hope by now has developed a "better bedside manner", that I would test the Red Yeast Rice. The next month I visited this man, my "bad" cholesterol had decreased by "59", down to 225. He told me (actually YELLED at me!) that I had to stop eating red meat, i.e. beef. I had not had beef in over 2 years at that point.
That's when he told me I would die if I did not take Lipitor.
And that's when I told this pompous-ass Pakistani almost-but-not-quite doctor that ALL of us die, sometime in our life.
I have to admit, I am not a very good patient; as a matter of fact, I have very little 'patience' with any of these young, foreign medical students, who are taught very early in their careers about the benefits of agreeing with what we know as BIG PHARMA--the huge pharmaceutical companies, who are greedy, and will take advantage of every slight lapse in one's health to declare it a 'new disease', and develop a Mega-million dollar drug (for them), which actually makes a person more ill than they are...or even die from taking that particular drug.
Obviously, I am still alive, two years later, though still disabled by osteoarthritis with an added fibromyalgia diagnosis...oh yes, some days (and even nights) are horrid, I feel...but I am pleased, quite, to be able to post this for you.
Sunday, November 07, 2010 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer
Here's the entire article:
(NaturalNews) Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs significantly increase a person's risk of cataracts, muscle weakness, liver dysfunction and kidney failure, according to a study in the British Medical Journal.
The study also confirmed that the drugs lower the risk of heart disease and esophageal cancer, but claims of other health benefits were unsupported.Researchers from Nottingham University in the United Kingdom examined data on more than 2 million patients between the ages of 30 and 84, seen at 38 different general practices, who had been prescribed the cholesterol-lowering drugs. More than 70 percent were taking simvastatin (Zocor), 22.3 percent were taking atorvastatin (Lipitor), 3.6 percent were taking pravastatin (Pravachol, Selektine), 1.9 percent were taking rosuvastatin (Crestor) and 1.4 percent were taking fluvastatin (Canef, Lescol, Lochol, Vastin).
The researchers confirmed prior data suggesting that statins increase patients' risk of cataracts, liver dysfunction, kidney failure and a form of muscle weakness known as myopathy. They found that for every 10,000 women treated with the drugs, 23 would develop acute kidney (renal) failure, 39 would develop myopathy, 74 would develop liver dysfunction and 309 would develop cataracts. Men suffered an even higher risk of myopathy, but their risks of the other three conditions were similar to those suffered by women.
Putting it in different terms, the researchers found that only 434 people would need to be treated with the drugs for five years for one case of acute renal failure to develop. It would take only 136 treated for each case of liver dysfunction and 33 for each case of cataracts. Among women, 259 would need to be treated for each case of myopathy; among men, the number was only 91.
The risk of developing all conditions was highest during the first year of treatment, but continued throughout the course of the study. Risk of liver and kidney problems increased proportionally with the dose of statins being taken.
All drugs appeared to pose a similar risk of all conditions, with the exception of fluvastatin, which increased the risk of liver dysfunction more than its competitors. Men taking fluvastatin were twice as likely to develop liver dysfunction as those not taking statins, while women's risk increased by 2.5 times.The researchers did find, however, that the risk of cataracts returned to normal within one year of stopping statin treatment, while the risk of liver and kidney problems returned to normal within one to three years. Additionally, they found no connection between statin use and the risk of dementia, osteoporotic fracture, Parkinson's disease, rheumatoid arthritis or venous thromboembolism.
Examining the purported benefits of the drugs, researchers found that they did in fact lower the risk of heart disease, averting 271 cases for every 10,000 high-risk patients treated. Put another way, 33 high-risk men or 37 high-risk women would need to be treated with the drugs to avert one case of the disease.
Although advocates of the drugs have claimed that they may also reduce the risk cancer, the researchers found almost no data supporting these claims. The study "largely confirmed other studies that reported no clear association between statins and risk of cancers," the researchers wrote.
The only cancer-fighting effect uncovered in the study was a slightly lower risk of esophageal cancer, with eight cases averted for every 10,000 high-risk women treated. In other words, 1,266 high-risk women or 1,082 high-risk men would need to be treated with the drugs to prevent one case of esophageal cancer.
Although sales of the blockbuster drugs are unlikely to be reduced as a result of the study, the researchers encouraged closer monitoring of patients for side effects and said their findings "would tend to support a policy of using lower doses of statins in people at high risk of the adverse event."
Sources for this story include: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64J7B820100520; http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Atherosclerosis/20232.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
What Obama has to look forward to...
...if he even makes it as far as South Korea.
South Koreans protest against G20 policies
Though ash from the Indonesian volcano may or may not cancel Obama's PAYCAY, not vacay (because we citizens of the US are PAYING his way, aren't we?), to Asia, the South Koreans seem to be not quite assured by his visit to their nation.
OR...will he try to dance in both these nations too?
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Tonight's the Night!
Remember...tonight's the night
to turn your clock BACK ONE HOUR!
to turn your clock BACK ONE HOUR!
Just don't try to do it this way, OK!
Jill Clayburgh (1944-2010)
Sadly, Jill Clayburgh passed yesterday at the age of 66.
Here's a scene from An Unmarried Woman (1978)
Jill Clayburgh was a beautiful actress who also performed this delightful dance, one of the film's most memorable scenes.
Rest now, Jill...you fought long and hard!
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Meanwhile...in India...
Mumbai neutralises falling coconut threat to Obama
The municipal authorities in Mumbai (BOMBAY) have removed coconuts from trees around the city's Gandhi museum in case any of them fall on US President Barack Obama when he visits, an official said Wednesday.
"The coconuts were falling off, so we requested the local authorities here to remove the remainder," the executive secretary of Mani Bhavan, Meghshyam Ajgaonkar, told AFP.
Mani Bhavan, where the father of the Indian independence movement Mahatma Gandhi stayed during his visits to the city between 1917 and 1934, is in south Mumbai on Laburnum Grove, which is lined with coconut trees.
Ajgaonkar said the precaution was taken as local and US officials undertook security sweeps of the museum and library before Obama's visit on Saturday.
Obama has often cited Gandhi as a major inspiration. He name-checked him in his Nobel peace prize speech and had a portrait of him in his US Senate office.
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The municipal authorities in Mumbai (BOMBAY) have removed coconuts from trees around the city's Gandhi museum in case any of them fall on US President Barack Obama when he visits, an official said Wednesday."The coconuts were falling off, so we requested the local authorities here to remove the remainder," the executive secretary of Mani Bhavan, Meghshyam Ajgaonkar, told AFP.
Mani Bhavan, where the father of the Indian independence movement Mahatma Gandhi stayed during his visits to the city between 1917 and 1934, is in south Mumbai on Laburnum Grove, which is lined with coconut trees.
Ajgaonkar said the precaution was taken as local and US officials undertook security sweeps of the museum and library before Obama's visit on Saturday.
Obama has often cited Gandhi as a major inspiration. He name-checked him in his Nobel peace prize speech and had a portrait of him in his US Senate office.
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If Gandhi ever noticed the falling coconuts...?
Barky Obama is "escaping" the US...and will be spending, apparently, $200 million of YOUR dollars per day while he tries, stupidly, to "go back home".
--and to my TROLL, Mikey Giovanelli: Why don't YOU leave West Ridge? Why not go back into Misericordia HOSPITAL--where I am certain you have been before and were a "MODEL" patient? Is that when you "counseled" David Axelrod's mentally-deficient daughter--perhaps contributing to her deficiencies?
Do you request MEDS, or are they FORCED UPON YOU?
IMHO, that is what should happen.
Your comments are poor, Mikey, both in judgment and grammar. Why don't you just get down on your knees...and be thankful to the Creator of us all...that you are still alive?
Well, isn't this just nice...
...everything is FIXED now in Illinois.
Click to make readable
Would you like to ask me how desperate I am to move away from this drek, this abyssmal state we call Illinois???
Thanks so much, Barky!
BTW, your wife reminds me I need to check again for 'Roach Infestation', a nornal occurrence here in Chicago!
Click to make readableWould you like to ask me how desperate I am to move away from this drek, this abyssmal state we call Illinois???
Thanks so much, Barky!
BTW, your wife reminds me I need to check again for 'Roach Infestation', a nornal occurrence here in Chicago!
Phil Collins - I Don't Care Anymore
Just something to get me through a lot of memories of a wonderful past!
I have always admired Phil, and when I met and saw him way back when, he was gracious.
I've seen him lately, and he still is, though he cannot drum any longer.
And, just because Bill Morton and his goofy-freakin' Rogers Park Chamber of Commerce seems to think they cannot repay me my monies I used to start them off on their gay escapade, just let it be known:
Bill Morton is Sleaze #1: He owes me $1,425 for rent I paid for him to continue to live at 1205 W. Sherwin Avenue, Apt. 803, here in Rogers Park, 60626.
In addition, Rogers Park Chamber of Commerce is Sleaze #2: They continue to owe $1,032 plus change in 'start-up' costs, and they missed their, as the Bee-shop phrased it, JUNE 31st, 2010 installment of $500.00.
The Bee-shop, by the Way, is a Cook County Clerk employee known as James Alan Wilkowski,who is also a self-appointed Bee-shop of a fake church. It seems he has a 'costume fetish', and that's why he dresses for services. That, in and of its own, should tell you a lot.
Soooo, if you listen closely to Phil's lyrics, you will here my pleas to these complete a$$holes!
I GOT SOME STUFF TO DO YET, BEFORE I DIE, AND YOU STUPID A$$ES, GET THE EFF OUTTA MY WAY!
I have always admired Phil, and when I met and saw him way back when, he was gracious.
I've seen him lately, and he still is, though he cannot drum any longer.
And, just because Bill Morton and his goofy-freakin' Rogers Park Chamber of Commerce seems to think they cannot repay me my monies I used to start them off on their gay escapade, just let it be known:
Bill Morton is Sleaze #1: He owes me $1,425 for rent I paid for him to continue to live at 1205 W. Sherwin Avenue, Apt. 803, here in Rogers Park, 60626.
In addition, Rogers Park Chamber of Commerce is Sleaze #2: They continue to owe $1,032 plus change in 'start-up' costs, and they missed their, as the Bee-shop phrased it, JUNE 31st, 2010 installment of $500.00.
The Bee-shop, by the Way, is a Cook County Clerk employee known as James Alan Wilkowski,who is also a self-appointed Bee-shop of a fake church. It seems he has a 'costume fetish', and that's why he dresses for services. That, in and of its own, should tell you a lot.
Soooo, if you listen closely to Phil's lyrics, you will here my pleas to these complete a$$holes!
I GOT SOME STUFF TO DO YET, BEFORE I DIE, AND YOU STUPID A$$ES, GET THE EFF OUTTA MY WAY!
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