Posted on 12/04/2017 5:38:05 AM PST by C19fan
No one on this thread has said a thing aobut the fact that 60% of us USAns are TOO FAT, won’t lose it, won’t exercise, do not know how to lose weight and don’t take care of themselves.
No one seems to know what a lo glycemic index diet is nor do they seem to understand that oil of any kind has, oz for oz, 3 times the calories of protein or carbohydrates.
And worst of all please find out how horribly unhealthy High Fructose Corn Syrup is...people drinking pop with HFCS are just committing suicide.
And then there is carageenan...we really need to watch that as an initiator of inflammatory processes in people...it’s as bad a Freund’s Adjuvant. Has nobody looked at how frequently RA, IBS, MS etc are increasing in the UScompared to the numbers of foods with carageenan added to them?
We just aren’t paying attention...and really nice sugary serum from our high sugar diets are an invitation to all kinds of little killers!
Ah...I did find one study with stats from 1925 to 2005 but illegal abortion stats before 1970 were not found reliable. Even this study cannot include the fertilized eggs not able to attach to the womb due to contraceptives. Only God knows how many people should be alive today.
https://www.scribd.com/document/203414710/Life-Expectancy-at-Conception
I think Drug resistance is caused not by overuse of antibiotics but under use. By not killing the organisms in the first place, multiply their chances to grow resistant.
UK life expectation has dropped because of the importation of Asians that don’t practice a healthy life style. The statistical asian important factor skews a lot of statistics in a detrimental fashion
One of my mother’s cousins worked as a QC expert for one of the Big 4 accounting firms, and she was very involved with QC at pharmaceutical companies. She told me that the generics have to meet the same standards as the original drugs. Many are made in the same factories as the originals, many are made in Israel, Canada, Japan or the UK (hardly Turd World $hitholes that know or care nothing for quality or morality). The problems that may occur are as a result of cheap Chinese or Indian knock-offs...and those are generally not sold in reputable pharmacies (Walgreen’s, CVS, Walmart/Sam’s Club, Costco, etc.). That stuff is mostly sold online...which is buyer beware for anything that is a “screaming bargain” - because there’s usually a not-so-palatable reason why the product is so cheap.
Less so today than before. The real issue is the overuse of antibiotics by non-doctors. In many countries they are sold over the counter without a prescription. Essentially the mother goes to the pharmacy and tells the pharmacist her son has a cold and the pharmacy sells her antibiotics. I visit Mexico frequently and this was the practice there until a few years ago. It's still the practice in many third-world countries.
“I call BS.”
You’re right on...
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—I feel better now, don’t need to take all these darn pills...
Antibiotics don’t enhance growth and are not given for that purpose. That’s just pure ignorance and Internet rumor.
“Antibiotics don’t enhance growth and are not given for that purpose. That’s just pure ignorance and Internet rumor.”
https://www.google.com/search?q=antibiotic+growth+promoters&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
If you are talking about the 3rd world typhoid and cholera issues, those superbugs wouldn’t have happened if people chlorinated the drinking water as opposed to just giving them antibiotics for repeated typhoid infections. Chlorine can kill most waterborne germs, especially typhoid, especially cholera.
Kill all the lawyers 1st. If the docs weren’t so over-zealous w/ prescribing everything but the kitchen sink, so as not to be sued for every hang-nail\scrape, we might be so worried, so quickly, on A.B. resistance (over-use).
This is the United Kingdom, just trying to kill the folks off earlier to save money for their new inhabitants.
Ummm… in the last year I got both a mammogram, my second and a colonoscopy, my first which were both 100% covered under the preventative screening provision of the ACA – no co-pay, no-co-insurance, nothing out of pocket for me.
Now had either of those tests found anything, like if my colonoscopy had found any polpys, which fortunately there weren’t any, it would have become diagnostic instead of preventative and I would have been on the hook for the deductible.
The doc who did my colonoscopy did get a bit of a laugh. I think I was still a bit punchy from having been put under, and after the procedure when he told me that everything looked good, no polyps and in fact my colon looked “beautiful” I said, “Beautiful colon? Well the Dali Lama once told me I’d also receive total consciousness. So I’ve got two things goin' for me, which is nice.”
You gotta be kidding:
The term “antibiotic growth promoter” is used to describe any medicine that destroys or inhibits bacteria and is administered at a low, subtherapeutic dose. The use of antibiotics for growth promotion has arisen with the intensification of livestock farming.
www.fao.org/docrep/ARTICLE/AGRIPPA/555_EN.HTM
If one Googles this subject there are as many who believe it as not....it’s convenient you post the one that agrees with you!!!
Thanks C19fan. It's BS of course -- there's an ongoing campaign to stop the availability of antibiotics, because there are brain-dead idiots who don't take the entire prescription when they start to feel better, or in the case of their brain-dead mommies, because they want to "save them for next time". That should haven't any impact on my getting antibiotics when I need them. The real problem is that they need to be as cheap as ibuprofen, and there's not one reason that they can't be, apart from the need for a prescription and unnecessary barriers to getting one.
Could be all the illegals who are bringing in diseases we had gotten rid of decades ago.
Don’t confuse growth hormones with antibiotics.
I’m not up on the diet facts.
My sugar got a little high and my doctor told me to cut out sweets, eat more fiber and exercise.
He mentioned that I cut out artificially sweetened beverages. I asked him about tea and he said to use cane sugar and avoid using too much.
I took his advice, adjusted my diet and started to exercise.
I lost 10 pounds and my sugar level dropped. He told me to keep eating as I was and exercise more.
I know my weight problem is due to not enough physical work.
I’m working on it.
Life expectancy in GB has dropped because of poor medical care, and floods of immigrants.
Not having traveled outside the US I didn’t know about pharmacists selling antibiotics without a prescription.
I can see where that would be a problem.
I can remember doctors here prescribing antibiotics for every little sniffle mommies little darling might have.
I am glad to know that has changed.
I never had that problem because I don’t go to a doctor for every little ache or pain.
When my doctor sees me other than my annual check up he knows I am SICK.
He knows I tough it out until I’m over it or am one step away from needing a hospital bed.
He said he wishes more patients were like me.
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