Aspirin and Swine flu update

Stop the one-a-day nonsense

There have been some grossly incorrect health views pushed by the misinformed medical establishment over the last 20 years such as; Butter is bad - Margarine is good, or Low-fat and No fat diets are healthier, or Vitamin and Nutrient supplements are a waste of money, or that Cholesterol causes heart disease to name a few. All of these are false and are now being reversed and proven to have been terrible mistakes that have damaged countless people over the years.

This is why it is so important to do your own research and find out the truth before blindly following what the mainstream media and pharmaceutical industry funded medical establishment tells us we should do. Or you can read my blog and I will tell you what the truth is and you can make your choices from a much more informed understanding of what is hype and what is real.

One more medical myth continues to live on. That is the belief that aspirin taken every day will extend your life and prevent heart disease.

Every doctor worth his salt has debunked this myth and in recent years nearly every study on the matter has shown exactly what they said it would. The latest study printed in the journal Aspirin for Asymptomatic Atherosclerosis just adds more fuel to the fire.

The researchers found that aspirin does no better than a placebo when it comes to protecting patients from artery and heart disease. In fact, the only thing healthy people who take an aspirin every day get is an increased risk of internal bleeding.

The people at Bayer are going to have a hard time poking holes in this new study. The researchers involved in it didn't use lab rats, and they didn't limit their study to a few dozen or even a few hundred patients. They followed 3,350 patients for the better part of a decade, an average of 8.2 years. If people understood the true risks of aspirin, they would be much more careful about how and when they used it.

In addition to internal bleeding and a host of stomach problems, regular aspirin use has been linked to an increased risk of heart attack and stroke, cataracts and macular degeneration. As with any other painkiller, aspirin is a powerful medication. Take it only when you really need to and hopefully never on a daily basis.


Swine flu update

This information was originally presented by Dr. Joseph Mercola

“Top health officials are engaging in a major public relations effort to divert attention away from whether the swine flu vaccine is effective and safe by focusing attention on whether there is enough of it to go around. And the media is cooperating fully.

Increasing numbers of scientists and doctors are issuing harsh criticisms of the government’s plan to vaccinate the U.S. population with a poorly tested vaccine that is not only ineffective against swine flu, but could cripple and even kill many more people than it helps.

The CDC’s public relations campaign has been running “scare” ads that portray swine flu as a full-blown “pandemic” responsible for snuffing out countless lives. But scientists and health officials throughout the world have called the governments claims unjustified and deliberately misleading.”

The article above, written by Richard Gale, a former Senior Research Analyst in the biotechnology and genomic industries, and Dr. Gary Null, author of Vaccine Nation, highlights one of the latest propaganda techniques used to frighten you into action, namely “scarcity of H1N1 vaccines.”

We’ve seen this tactic used before, with great effect, as people rush to the nearest vaccination facility to make sure they don’t miss the opportunity to be the one to get this rare life sustaining elixir.

It amazes me that despite all the evidence to the contrary, health officials and mass media are still saying the swine flu could kill some 90,000 Americans – if we don’t all get vaccinated.

There is simply NO evidence to support this outlandish projection. The evidence actually points to the exact opposite, that this season will have LESS deaths from flu than last year. The Swine flu pandemic is neither a pandemic nor is it killing large amounts of Americans.

The data is very clear that it’s a milder than normal virus, only a few percent of all cases with the designation “swine flu” are actually the H1N1 virus.

The Government's Claims Are Unjustified and Deliberately Misleading

Gale and Null mention two distinguished health experts who have gone on the record to rebut government scare tactics.

“Dr. Anthony Morris, a distinguished virologist and former Chief of Vaccine Office at the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA), states that “There is no evidence that any influenza vaccine thus far developed is effective in preventing or mitigating any attack of influenza” and that “The producers of these vaccines know they are worthless, but they go on selling them anyway.”

And in November 2007, the UK newspaper The Scotsman, made public warnings by the inventor of the “flu jab,” Dr. Graeme Laver. Dr. Laver was a major Australian scientist involved in the invention of a flu vaccine, in addition to playing a leading scientific role in the discovery of anti-flu drugs. He went on record as saying the vaccine he helped to create was ineffective and [that] natural infection with the flu was safer. “I have never been impressed with its efficacy,” said Dr. Laver.”

Why are our health officials ignoring all the experts who have direct involvement with vaccines and claim to know they are neither as safe, nor as effective, as the drug industry insists they are? I can think of a few reasons, but I’ll leave that answer up to you. You can be sure of one thing though, it isn’t based solely on their deep concern for your health.

CBS News, after conducting a three-month investigation into the swine flu statistics, uncovered a number of very sobering facts that clearly show this swine flu pandemic for the cruel hoax it really is. To be more precise, it was Sharyl Attkisson, an investigative correspondent for CBS News, who single-handedly uncovered this.

Before beginning their investigation, Sharyl Attkisson asked the CDC for state-by-state test results prior to their halting of testing and tracking. The CDC did not initially respond, so she went to all 50 states directly, asking for their statistics on state lab-confirmed H1N1 prior to the halt of individual testing and counting in July.

What did they find? Sharyl reported:

"The results reveal a pattern that surprised a number of health care professionals we consulted. The vast majority of cases were negative for H1N1 as well as seasonal flu, despite the fact that many states were specifically testing patients deemed to be most likely to have H1N1 flu, based on symptoms and risk factors, such as travel to Mexico."

Simply looking through the CDC’s own website with a critical eye and a rational mind, you can discover the truth for yourself. According to their own data, far fewer people have died from H1N1 than any seasonal flu in the past, world-wide!

For the US, this graph from the CDC, showing the "Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality for 122 US Cities" also shows that, so far, this year's flu mortality is FAR below that of 2008.

So, were you panicking last year when the death rates were much higher than this year? If not, why should you panic now when the risks are at a near all-time LOW?

My view

The bottom line is that unless something changes and the H1N1 virus becomes much more virulent and serious than it is now, there is no justification for the wild claims and scare tactics being used by the media and US government. There is significant risk in taking the current vaccine in its present form that I don’t believe is warranted given the evidence we have on how mild the H1N1 flu really is for normal healthy people and the lack of any real flu pandemic.

I strongly recommend that you strengthen your immune system with natural nutrition and “real” vitamins like those found in the Standard Process Labs supplements. This is the best possible way to avoid most of the health dangers that lurk in our everyday lives. I will continue providing you with the right information, but it is up to you to do something with it. You know what they say about leading a horse to water…….

Until next time, stay healthy and happy.

JD Roma