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NEW CASE OF HUMAN FORM OF 'MAD COW' DISEASE
- CNN News, August 22. 1997
A 24 year-old woman has been diagnosed with the 22nd case of the human form of 'mad cow' disease (CJD) in London, England.
Although she has been a vegetarian for the last 12 years, her infection could have occurred over 12 years ago while she was still eating beef. Prof. Richard Lacey - the first, and at the time, very 'controversial' microbiologist who warned of the transmittability of mad cow disease to humans when it was thought to be impossible - maintains the possibility that the infection could have come from milk or cheese, which she had not excluded from her nutrition.
The extremely long incubation period of CJD, before symptoms become apparent, leads many experts to believe that her case is just 'the tip of the iceberg' of an emergent major health crisis. Since it was initially believed that 'mad cow' disease is not transferrable to humans - like the related brain disease of scrapie in sheep - it is likely that many people have consumed infected beef before the authorities mandated the massive slaughter of infected cattle, and the ban of brain and other tissue in animal fodder.

At present there is no known cure for this devastating disease, and its causative agent - whether viral or prion (an abnormal protein) - remains unknown, and hotly debated.
For several good reasons, it is possible that this disease can at least be arrested - brain tissue does not regenerate, as far as presently known - by the presence of the complete natural range of the 40+ nutritional trace elements in our daily nutrition. This is pure speculation on my part, and I have no evidence whatsoever for this assumption. However, this disease fits the pattern of degenerative diseases caused by the deficiency or lack of over 30 nutritional trace elements in livestock fodder and our nutrition - as outlined in "Lifelong Freedom From Almost All Diseases" on this web site.
As far as I am concerned, the "something from the sea every day" nutritional routine is presently - and until the 40+ trace elements are fully re-established in all soils, and hence in ALL of our daily food - our only hope, however faint it may be, of trying to do something about this most devastating disease. It is worth a try, and I would not be the least bit surprised if it works.

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT STAPH BACTERIUM IN THE U.S.
- CNN News, August 22. 1997
First identified 3 months ago in Japan, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that a Michigan dialysis patient has become infected with a new version of Staphylococcus aureus. This bacterium has become almost entirely resistant to vancomycin, and only one step away from complete immunity to our most potent antibiotic.
Most at risk are the elderly, newborns, people with weak or compromised immune systems, those with chronic diseases, and hospital patients. Since this new variant of Staph is still very rare, most people by far are not at risk of being infected.
According to CDC statistics, staph infections cause 2 million infections each year, and kill 60.000 to 80.000 people per year in the U.S.
Epidemiologist Dr. William Jarvis at the CDC says that the evolution of bacterial resistance to antibiotics is inevitable.

There is little doubt, given the manifold ways bacteria swap their DNA, that we will see a marked increase of infections with this new antibiotic resistant strain. Again, and here I am 99% certain, the presence of the completel range of the 40+ nutritional trace elements in our daily nutrition will prove to be an effective immune defence against even this bacterium. Now that all manner of bacteria are becoming increasingly immune to our whole range of antibiotics, the presence of the complete natural range of the 40+ trace elements in ALL of our daily nutrition becomes even more crucial, and ever more urgent.









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ORAL POTASSIUM LOWERS BLOOD PRESSURE
- Jama Press Release, May 28. 1997
Oral intake of even small amount of potassium may delay onset of high blood pressure.
An analysis of 33 randomized controlled trials with 2,609 participants found a significant reduction in mean systolic (the first number of the blood pressure reading) and diastolic (the second number) blood pressure. Potassium intake resulted in a mean drop of 3.11 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) for the systolic reading and 1.97 mm Hg for the diastolic reading. The potassium appeared to be particularly effective in studies in which participants were concurrently exposed to a high intake of sodium. The authors conclude that even a small amount of potassium intake may play an important role in forestalling the onset of high blood pressure and that increased potassium intake should be considered as a recommendation for the prevention and treatment of high blood pressure, especially in those who are unable to reduce their sodium intake.

SKIN CANCER RATES RISING IN U.S.
- JAMA Press Release, June 25. 1997
The number of newly diagnosed cases of a common form of skin cancer among white Americans is rising faster than expected, according to an article in the June 1997 issue of the AMA's Archives of Dermatology. Researchers found that rates of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) among men increased from 125.9 per 100,000 in the mid 1980s to 155.5 per 100,000 in the early 1990s. Among women, rates more than doubled -- from 46.5 per 100,000 in the mid 1980s to 99.6 per 100,000 in the early 1990s. SCC tumors were found most often on the head and neck. Risk factors for SCC include sun exposure and advancing age. While the researchers say SCC rates are rising faster than can be explained by the aging population, they found that the increased incidence of SCC is similar to that seen in other white populations from temperate climates. (Arch. Dermatol. June 1997; 133:735-7).

This is more of an environmental (UVB) issue, but since the 40+ nutritional trace elements cure many cancers, they may be of considerable help here as well.


SELENIUM REDUCES CERTAIN CANCER RISKS
- JAMA press release, Dec. 25. 1996
As the result of a study done at the Arizona Cancer Centre, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, with the nutritional trace element selenium, investigators found that the selenium group had 63% fewer prostate cancers, 58% fewer colon and rectal cancers, and 46% per cent fewer lung cancers than the placebo group, and that there was a 50% per cent reduction of mortality.

This is extremely significant. Selenium is added only to 'fortified' chicken feed, and hence, is present only in chickens reared on this 'fortified', and more expensive chicken feed. Most farmers don't bother because most chickens are killed for market before they are 6 months old.

So, not all chicken meat is rich in nutritional selenium, and strict vegetarians will not get any selenium in their nutrition since selenium is NOT maintained in agricultural soils at all. And given the iffyness of selenium in chicken meat, our main source of nutritional selenium (or any other nutritional trace element) is red meat and seafood. The remainder comes from incidental sources - some groundwater, remaining traces in the soil here and there, imported food from other countries, etc.- that vary from region to region, from place to place, and according to dietary preferences. The spottiness of nutritional selenium sources is the reason why the selenium study has shown such dramatic results. Conversely, the wide-spread incidence of prostate, colon, rectal, and lung cancers among our population is a rather precise indicator of the selenium deficiency in the general population.



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updated September 22. 1997
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