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Ocala, FL 34474

Health News

 The page is to meant to inform our readers of different health news in the community. Some will be from e-mails we receive from readers, other will be from members of the medical community. This page is meant to be informative

    November is Lung Cancer Awareness month!

                                  

   

                                     LUNG CANCER

 

 

 Lung cancer is a disease where the internal lining (epithelial tissue) in the lungs grow out of control. Lung cancer is responsible for 1.3 million deaths per year worldwide. It is the leading cause of death in men and the second leading cause of death in women..

 

Risk factors include:

 

 

 

 

  •  Smoking
  • Second hand smoke
  • Family history
  • Carcinogens in the home or work place: asbestos, radon, arsenic, etc
  • High cholesterol
  • Heavy alcohol intake

 

Symptoms include:

  • A persistent heavy cough
  • A change in a chronic cough
  • Shortness of breath
  • Coughing up sputum with signs of blood in it
  • Loss of  appetite
  • Weight loss    
  • Chest pain when breathing or coughing
  • Difficulty in swallowing

 

The number one way to prevent lung cancer….Quit smoking, avoid being around smokers, avoid smog! There are many ways to effective quit smoking, such as; cessation classes/groups, medications, hypnosis and acupuncture. In most case insurance will pay a portion of the cost! 

 

 

             Colon Cancer

 

Most colon cancers occur in men and women who are 50 OR OLDER. So if you are in that age group, you can be at risk or have the disease and not even know it – even if you have no family history of colon cancer. YOU NEED TO BE TESTED.

 

                     Colon Cancer Risk Assessment

Step 1: Complete this assessment.
Step 2: Cut and paste onto a word document for your records.                         

Step 3: Print document to give to your Primary Care Physician.   
Step 4: Discuss information with your Primary Care Physician.
Step 5: GET TESTED!

 


1.


Age over 50?


Yes    No


2.


Have you ever had polyps or cancer of the colon or rectum?


Yes    No


3.


Do you have any close family members (parents, children, brothers, sisters) who have had polyps or cancer of the
colon or rectum?


Yes    No


4.


Have you ever been told that you have inflammatory bowel disease?


Yes    No


5.


Have you had any recent changes stools (bloody or black stools)?


Yes    No

6.

Is your diet high in fat and cholesterol?

Yes     No


7.


Have you noticed any change in your bowel movements (constipation/ diarrhea)?


Yes    No

 

Ask your doctor

If your doctor does not mention getting tested for colon cancer, you should ask about it. Most people should begin testing at age 50, although people with certain risk factors should be tested earlier or more often. You and your doctor should discuss the various options and choose the most appropriate for you.

 

 

 

A woman had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around.

Walking was a major chore.

It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain. 

With a year  she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications.

The doctors could not determine what was wrong with her.
She was in so much pain, and so sick she just knew she was dying.

She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest daughter's name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of.

She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to

Florida

(basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd.

On March 19, I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she said they didn't find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS.
I recalled an article a friend of mine e-mailed to me and I asked my sister if she drank diet soda?

She told me that she did.
As a matter of fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that moment.

I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda!
I e-mailed her article my friend, a lawyer, had sent.

She  called me within a day and a half after our phone conversation and told me she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk!  
The muscle spasms went away. She said she didn't feel 100% but, she sure felt a lot better.

 

She told me she was going to her doctor with this article and would call me when she got home.

Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed!
He is going to call all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweeteners of any kind.

In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet soda...and literally dying a slow and miserable death.

When she got to

Florida

March 22, all she had to take was one pill, and that was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning!

She is well on her way to a complete recovery.

And she is walking!
No wheelchair!

This article saved her life.

If it says 'SUGAR FREE' on the label;

DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!
I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on 'ASPARTAME,' marketed as nutra sweet, equal and spoonful
In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the

United States

in 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus.
It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this to be rampant.
I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.
I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous:
When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants.
The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus.

Many people were being diagnosed in error.
Although multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity is!

Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers.

The victim usually does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit.
He or she continues its use; irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become a life-threatening condition.
We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas.
In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the symptoms disappear. We've seen many cases where vision loss re turned and hearing loss improved markedly.
This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia.
During a lecture, I said,
'If you are using ASPARTAME (Nutra Sweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting, pains, numbness in your legs, Cramps, Vertigo, Dizziness, Headaches, Tinnitus, Joint pain,
Unexplainable depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss you probably have ASPARTAME poisoning!'
People were jumping up during the lecture saying,
'I have some of these symptoms.
Is it reversible?'
Yes! Yes! Yes! STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on food labels!
Many products are fortified with it!
This is a serious problem.
Dr. Espart (one of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice; a nurse stated that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence!
Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you crave carbohydrates.
It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight! These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs.
Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin and is used primarily to preserve 'tissue specimens.'
Many products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our body!  once free of the 'diet products' and with no significant increase in exercise; his patients lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period.
Aspartame is especiallydangerousfordiabetics.
We found that some physicians, who believed that they had a patient with retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms caused by Aspartame.
The Aspartame drives the blood sugar out of control.
Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance.
Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE.
Especially with diabetics, the Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrier and it then deteriorates the neurons of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage, Seizures,Depression, Manic depression, Panicattacks, Uncontrollable anger and rage.
Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics as well.
Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands of children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have had complete turnarounds in their behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their diet.

So called 'behavior modification prescription drugs' (Ritalin and others) are no longer needed.
Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the first place!
Most of these children were being 'poisoned' on a daily basis with the very foods that were 'better for them than sugar.'
It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.
Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e. mental retardation, if taken at the time of conception and during early pregnancy.
Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should NEVER be given artificial sweeteners.
There are many different case histories to relate of children suffering grand mal seizures and other neurological disturbances talking about a plague of neurological diseases di rectly caused by the use of this deadly poison.'
Herein lies the problem:
There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was included in 100 different products and strong objection was made concerning its use. Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, and still nothing has been done.
The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets.
Sadly, MONSANTO'S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED!
There are now over 5,000 products on the market that contain this deadly chemical and there will be thousands more introduced.
Everybody wants a 'piece of the Aspartame pie.'
I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is.
And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds, among others, the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association and the Conference of the American College of Physicians?
This has been recently exposed in the New York Times.
These [organizations] cannot criticize any additives or convey their link to MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and are required to endorse their products.
Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would require label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding pregnant women, children and infants.
The bill would also institute independent studies on the known dangers and the problems existing in the general population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry, neurological changes and behavioral symptoms.
The bill was killed.
It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible for this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting and uninformed public. Well, you're informed now!

YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW! 


 
Leukemia is a cancer that begins in the blood cells. These immature cells accumulate in the blood and organs. They are unable to perform normal function of blood cells.

 

They exact cause of Leukemia remains unknown. These are a few possible risk factors:

 

  • Smoking
  • Long-term exposure to chemicals; such as benzene and formaldehyde
  • Prolonged radiation exposure
  • Previous chemotherapy
  • Downs Syndrome and other genetic diseases
  • First degree family history(parent, sibling, offspring)

 

Symptoms include:

 

  • Fatigue
  • Malaise
  • Abnormal bleeding
  • Excessive bruising
  • Weakness
  • Unexplained weight loss
  • Enlarged spleen, lymph nodes and liver

 

Depending on the type of Leukemia (Acute or Chronic), it is a very treatable disease. As with all cancers, early detection and treatment are a key factor in a positive outcome.

 

For patients and family that are looking for support the following website is useful:

 

www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/all_page?item_id=4591

 

 

 

 

 New Kind of Breast Cancer                                  


 

In November, a rare kind of breast cancer was found. A lady developed a rash on her breast, similar to that of young mothers who are nursing.



Because her mammogram had been clear, the doctor treated her with antibiotics for infections. After 2 rounds, it continued to get worse, so her doctor sent her for another mammogram. This time it showed a mass. 
 


A biopsy found a fast growing malignancy. Chemo was started in order to shrink the growth; then a mastectomy was performed; then a full round of Chemo; then radiation. After about 9 months of intense treatment, she was given a clean bill of health. 

 

She had one year of living each day to its fullest. Then the cancer returned to the liver area. She took 4 treatments and decided that she wanted quality o f life, not the after effects of Chemo. She had 5 great months and she planned each detail of the final days. After a few days of needing morphine, she died. She left this message to be delivered to women everywhere:



Women, PLEASE be alert to anything that is not normal, and be persistent in getting help as soon as possible. 
 


Paget's Disease: This is a rare form of breast cancer, and is on the outside of the breast, on the nipple and aureole It appeared as a rash, which later became a lesion with a crusty outer edge I would not have ever suspected it to be breast cancer but it was. My nipple never seemed any different to me, but the rash bothered me, so I went to the doctor for that. Sometimes, it itched and was sore, but other than that it didn't bother me. It was just ugly and a nuisance, and could not be cleared up with all the creams prescribed by my doctor and dermatologist for the dermatitis on my eyes just prior to this outbreak. They seemed a little concerned but did not warn me it could be cancerous.
 



Now, I suspect not many women out there know a lesion or rash on the nipple or aureole can be breast cancer. (started out as a single red pimple on the aureole. One of the biggest problems with Paget's disease of the nipple is that the symptoms appear to be harmless. It is frequently thought to be a skin inflammation or infection, leading to unfortunate delays in detection and care.)
 



What are the symptoms?




1.A persistent redness, oozing, and crusting of your nipple causing it to itch and burn (As stated, did not itch or burn much, and had no oozing I was aware of, but it did have a crust along the outer edge on one side.)




2.A sore on your nipple that will not heal. (was on the aureole area with a whitish thick looking area in center of nipple).
 



3.Usually only one nipple is effected. How is it diagnosed? Your doctor will do a physical exam and should suggest having a mammogram of both breasts, done immediately. Even though the redness, oozing and crusting closely resemble dermatitis (inflammation of the skin), your doctor should suspect cancer if the sore is only on one breast. Your doctor should order a biopsy of your sore to confirm what is going on.
 



This message should be taken seriously and passed on to as many of your relatives and friends as possible; it could save someone's life.
 



My breast cancer has spread and metastasized to my bones after receiving mega doses of chemotherapy, 28 treatments of radiation and taking Tamaxofin. If this had been diagnosed as breast cancer in the beginning, perhaps it would not have spread... 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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butterfly hope
4233 SW 50th Circle
Ocala, FL 34474