Nicotine Found to Prevent Some Diseases

fox ^ | 3/23/04

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SLASH YOUR RISK OF ALZHEIMER'S OVERNIGHT

It's really easy. Starting tomorrow, drink no tap water. Not because of industrial pollution, but because of chemicals that "health authorities" are adding to your water. For example...

People who warned against FLUORIDATION used to be ridiculed, but guess what? In Scandinavia, in fact all of Europe, and nearly every other medically advanced nation, they have now banned the practice.

Know why? Because fluoride makes your body absorb extra aluminum. And where does the aluminum go? Your brain. And what metal shows up alarmingly in the brains of Alzheimer's victims? You guessed it. (Hmm... Maybe our health authorities have been drinking too much water?)

[Lancey Howard]

I thought I read some years ago that a survey of centenarians (people who live to be 100 or older) showed that a surprisingly high percentage were smokers.

[Ophiucus]

Starting tomorrow, drink no tap water

Yeah...ok....and it interferes with the protective properties of your tin foil hat.

[tiki]

I always say that I self-medicaqte by smoking. All the people I know who quit have literally fallen apart . I always tell people they can sing new words to the George Jones song when I die, "She stopped smokin' today..."

[Killborn]

Wow. who da thought...

[VadeRetro]

Great! I could always console myself that at least I never smoked enough to learn to inhale. So now I learn that that's probably what's the matter with my memory and my attention span. I have trouble remembering even what I came into a room to

[FlyVet]

Heck yeah. Tour de France. Check out this photo at

http://www.sportsposterwarehouse.com/warehouse/toursmokersart.htm

Way back in the day, the bike racers smoked. They thought it opened up their lungs and allowed them to breathe better. Lance doesn't smoke, what's wrong with him?

[KC_for_Freedom]

Soon it will be published that it is ok to smoke, 'as long as one does it in moderation!' You heard it here first kiddies!

Its like eggs, shrimp, and real butter. Each had its time on the "bad" list, but now is thought to be OK in moderation. The truth about smoking is one must be able to take it or leave it, for it not to be the master.

[Socratic]

Interesting; I'd never thought about that one before. It's instructive how certain things attract one's attention.

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Tell that to Dr. W. Douglass, that's from his many discoveries:

NO OTHER DOCTOR OF OUR TIME has crusaded harder, traveled further and sacrificed more to advance the science of alternative medicine than William Campbell Douglass II, MD. Today, many of the breakthroughs he fought so hard to establish have been adopted by thousands of doctors. But many battles came first and his real life story is more fascinating than any television "doctor drama."

Always combative in just causes, Dr. Douglass went straight from the University of Miami Medical School into the U.S. Navy, where he earned his wings as a Flight Surgeon. He then earned fame in the field of Emergency Medicine, where his innovations continue to save lives today.

But it was Dr. Douglass' pioneering work in natural medicine for which Americans may thank him most. He braved attacks from former colleagues. At one point he was even hounded out of his state's medical society, all for insisting on life-saving treatments that have finally gained widespread acceptance.

Then, while other doctors cashed in on lucrative practices, Dr. Douglass flew to Africa and set up a clinic in one of the world's poorest nations, Uganda. Here, his inexpensive natural treatments healed patients with far greater effectiveness than costly drugs that were in chronically short supply.

But Dr. Douglass' healing quest was far from over. Accepting an invitation from Russia's legendary physician Dr. Nikolai Chiaka, he traveled to St. Petersburg to work at the renowned Pasteur Institute. He then spent years in Finland, Turkey and Spain before finally returning to his beloved home in Georgia, U.S.A. All the while, he was adding to his vast knowledge of alternative medicine, and he is hailed today as an authority second to none.

Among his associates, "Bill" Douglass is famed both for his feisty spirit and his sense of humor. Challenged once to explain himself before a U.S. Senate Subcommittee, he flew into Washington on a plane that nearly crash-landed. Unperturbed, he sped straight to the Capitol and proceeded to disarm his adversaries with such aplomb that Senators and press alike were soon laughing and applauding.

As Editor of Dr. Douglass' Real Health Breakthroughs, he continues to deflate myths, champion today's most important new breakthroughs and make real health a blessed reality for his thousands of readers.

[Ophiucus]

Tell that to Dr. W. Douglass, that's from his many discoveries:

I will...after I sell you a bridge in New York City.

Of course, you posted nothing but an infomercial for what...a book, a website, something that slices, dices, and makes Julian fries?

This is the same guy whose false attacks on immunizations were completely debunked (much based on fake research from a litigation group), the same guy who sells cruises for "motivation seminars," who sells cancer cure scams involving hydrogen peroxide (and may be under investigation), who feels that pasteurization of milk is evil, who made the laughingstock claim that the Salk vaccine was a failure, and the most polite response to his outlandish claim that WHO murdered Africa as part of deliberate genocide was that he was nothing but "shyster science."

Douglass is the fuel for conspiracy nuts from Hoagland to militant blacks claiming that the government sells crack to inner cities to kill blacks.

He is so out of touch that in his article "WHO Murdered Africa" he claims that all RNA viruses are retroviruses (false), does not know basic epidemiology, grotesquely ignorant (or lying) about disease vectors, and has been summed up as a fraudulent scientist.

The guy is part of Lyndon LaRouche's organization!!! How can you believe one word from him? He would be a joke if he weren't so dangerous. The man is a disgusting fake, a liar, a scam artist out to joyfully destroy people's health laughing to the bank.

Then with fluoridation, the ADA, the AMA, the National Academy of Sciences, NIH, and WHO have all made statements that there has been zero evidence from a respectable, peer-reviewed study that has shown one case of harm from fluoridation. Zero harm - ever. A pubmed search shows articles in JAMA, British Medical Journal, Science, et al, that fluoridation is safe, effective, and has zero adverse effects. Try reading some real science: Fluoride. Lewis CW, Milgrom P. Pediatr Rev. 2003 Oct;24(10):327-36, Health and fitness series--2. Dental decay and the case for fluoride. Mouatt B. J Fam Health Care. 2003;13(2):34-6., Current and future role of fluoride in nutrition. Warren JJ, Levy SM. Dent Clin North Am. 2003 Apr;47(2):225-43. Review., Systematic review of water fluoridation. McDonagh MS, Whiting PF, Wilson PM, Sutton AJ, Chestnutt I, Cooper J, Misso K, Bradley M, Treasure E, Kleijnen J. BMJ. 2000 Oct 7;321(7265):855-9.

Those are real science reviews based on real science by real scientists - not pathetic shams like Douglass.

Of course, you can always go back to the original 1950's opposition to fluoridation - "it's a communist plot." Or you could read more actual studies and listen less to the midnight conspiracy radio shows and sniffing the glue off of LaRouche handouts.

As for Douglass, he is a odd mixture of LaRouchie and Luddite. He obviously cares more for selling books and fueling conspiracies than he does for basic medical facts.

In closing, the reports that aluminum being associated with the neural tangles is not the case. Subsequent studies have shown that the aluminum content was due to the tissue slice slide preparation method. The Newcastle study that showed association of aluminum with silicon in the neural plaques has not been duplicated, other studies have not shown that relationship. Dialysis dementia from aluminum is dialysis solutions has a completely different mechanism than the Alzheimer's dementia - aluminum has no relation. There is no evidence that aluminum has a causal relationship with Alzheimer's. (review pdf from ADS at http://www.alzscot.org/info/aluminium.pdf) Recent research shows no direct causation but a correlated breakdown seen in many disease systems resulting in a failure to clear various elements (Metals accelerate production of the aberrant splicing isoform of the presenilin-2.Matsuzaki S, Manabe T, Katayama T, Nishikawa A, Yanagita T, Okuda H, Yasuda Y, Miyata S, Meshitsuka S, Tohyama M. J Neurochem. 2004 Mar;88(6):1345-1351., The role of metals in neurodegenerative processes: aluminum, manganese, and zinc. Zatta P, Lucchini R, van Rensburg SJ, Taylor A. Brain Res Bull. 2003 Nov 15;62(1):15-28.)

Aluminum, like the rest of the trace elements, is necessary for life - eliminate it and you'll die. Take too much and you'll get sick. "There's no such thing as a toxic substance, there's only a toxic dose," is the toxicologist's credo. To avoid risks for Alzheimer's does not require magic or special solutions. A healthy, active lifestyle helps but the main preventative from the evidence is obvious in retrospect - use it of lose it. Those that read large amounts of challenging material (not the Enquirer), and work their mind throughout life have a much lower incidence of AD than the general population. (regardless of fluoridation and aluminum cooking pots)