Drug companies kill

Pfizer (one of the biggest drug company's in the world and the one that brings you Lipitor for cholesterol lowering and Viagra to help with one of the side effects of Lipitor) and 5 of its executives are being sued for withholding information that lead to the death. Yes and they can still practice and sell drugs. Pfizer's current Vice President of Medical Affairs, will all face trial for allegedly concealing the unfavorable results of drug trials involving Celebrex and Bextra.
These companies are corrupt and we just allow it to go on believeing someone else will fix it.
All it requires for evil to thrive is that everyone stays silent (to paraphrase a quote).
We can no longer stay silent.

Vioxx® (rofecoxib) was a drug produced by Merck and Co. When it hit the market in 1999, it was very heavily advertised and pushed to all the medical professions. However, there was a problem: patients on doses higher than 25 milligrams were suffering heart attacks, strokes and arrhythmias. These were people with no prior conditions. In September 2004, the drug was removed from the market worldwide. An investigation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found that the original trials conducted by Merck in 1998 showed this elevated risk, but the company chose to hide this evidence and continued with promotion and sales worldwide. In the United States, up until 2002 (three years after release), there had been 6,400 lawsuits filed against the company costing an estimated US$3.5 billion. This sparked the FDA to review its process of how it allowed drugs to make it to market. In the U.S., Vioxx® was estimated to have contributed to more than 120,000 premature deaths before it was removed from the market. In Australia, Vioxx® was conservatively estimated to be the cause of 300 deaths but more likely the number is in the thousands. But still it was ignored. For a drug that was on the market for just over five years, it had a substantial effect on many millions of people around the world and this was a result of Merck hiding the evidence of dangerous side effects. Despite withholding the evidence that the drug was killing people, the company is still manufacturing more drugs and still claiming that supplements don’t work. Can you believe this? Can you trust them? For that matter can you trust the regulators?

Chocolate

Chocolate is known to contain a wide variety of minerals and trace elements including magnesium, phosphorous, potassium, calcium, iron, zinc, copper and manganese. It is also a rich source of antioxidants and has been identified as a potent antioxidant for LDL cholesterol. The phenalyic content of chocolate is 20 times higher than tomatoes, 3 times that of grapes, and twice the level of garlic. Dark chocolate contains more than twice the level of phenyls compared to milk chocolate while white chocolate contains no anti-oxidants. A bar of milk chocolate (45 grams) was found to contain approximately the same level of phenyls as 150 mill glass of red wine. Chocolate contains a higher concentration of phenyls than either red wine or green tea on a weight basis.

And just in time for Easter. A study out this week found, believe it or not, chocolate consumption was associated with a lower Body Mass Index (weight). Chocolate has shown favorable metabolic associations with blood pressure (BP), insulin sensitivity, and cholesterol level.

Omega oils for the brain

More fish oils for the brain. Researchers found that a diet lacking in omega-3 fatty acids may cause your brain to age faster and lose some of its memory and cognitive capabilities. This is consistent with thousands of other studies. A word of warning, you wont get omega 3 from any processed foods like cereals as they will all be oxidised.
Best sources are from a mix of plant (flax and chia) and animal (krill and cold water fish). Plant sources still have to be processed in our body to a form (EPA and DHA) to be effective. Unfortunately our conversion rate is very low, around 5% and it needs lots of coenzymes (vitamins). if you are missing the vitamins then it cant be converted.
There is a growing body of evidence linking DHA to cognitive function and various studies have reported that regular consumption of omega-3-rich food could prevent age-related cognitive decline. The studies consistently show a dose-dependent inverse association between dementia and fish consumption. That is, the more omega 3 you consume the lower the risk.

On the other hand, meat consumption was found to increase dementia risk .

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia and currently affects over 13 million people worldwide. This number is increasing and we know how to reduce it. Increase your omega 3, lower your meat and sugar.

Soft drinks and sugar kill

Another study found that just one can of soft drink a day increases your risk of heart attack by 20%. The study of 42,833 men found just one 12-ounce sugar-sweetened drink a day had a 20 percent higher risk of heart attacks. Putting this in perspective the so called benefits of taking statin drugs like lipitor and zocor is around 1%.

By eliminating sugar from our diet, this includes high GI foods as well we can dramatically reduce our risk of CVD.

The Authors of the study said "Continually subjecting our bodies to high amounts of glucose, to high blood sugar levels that trigger large secretions of insulin results in stresses that in the long run show up as high risk of heart disease and diabetes,"

We have known about this since the 1950's but the information has been pushed under the table by the cholesterol and fat lobby.

PS this does not mean you can have diet soft drinks, they are just as bad.

Sugar and heart attack

A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA. 2010;303(15):1490-1497) found a high intake of added sugar is associated with increased risk for low HDL cholesterol and high triglycerides (blood fats). The HDL cholesterol is the one that transports the cholesterol back to the liver where it is used. When the HDL is low it is associated with a higher level of heart attack and stroke risk.

Compared with adults who got less than 5% of their total energy intake from added sugars, those getting 17.5%–25% of their energy from added sugars were about twice as likely to have low HDL levels.

The message lower your sugar to lower you risk of heart attack and stroke.