Posted by
luputtenan1 on Wednesday, March 28, 2012
"It is regrettable that the world moves so slowly in accepting truth." -Le Grand Richards
I know that diet and lifestyle choices are a key role in determining our level of health and fitness. But with all the conflicting information on the internet, books, media, etc., it is easy to get confused about what we should and should not eat, drink, think or how to live.
But, the overwhelming evidence from my research and others shows a clear path to extraordinary health, energy, vitality, longevity and fitness.
The story on protein has been made deliberately so confused by commercial propaganda that it's always the first question that is asked about the pH Miracle Lifestyle and Diet that includes NO animal flesh or dairy! Where do you get your protein from a NO or low protein diet?
It is surprising for most people to learn that our protein needs are actually very small.
The over-consumption of animal protein presents a far greater threat to ones health than completely eliminating the ingestion of ALL protein.
In fact, a major culprit in many human degenerative disease is an animal protein overdose.
According to T. Collin Campbell, Ph.D., who wrote the book, The China Study, stated, "even small intakes of animal foods - meat, eggs, and milk - are associated with significant increases of chronic degenerative diseases." After fourty years of research on the impact of nutrition on human health, T. Collin Campbell concluded, "people who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease. People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease."
Walter Willett, Chair of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, maintains that a diet rich in vegetables and fruit plays a key role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death.
Think about this. Every 35 seconds, 24 hours a day, someone dies from heart disease, and its treatment has become a huge business in the United States. Operations cost thousands of dollars, while people are taking more and more acidic drugs every day for the joy of the immensely profitable drug companies. Meanwhile, study after study, after study has shown that a plant-based alkaline diet, rich in green vegetables and fruit can stop and even reverse heart disease!
I have consistently proven and demonstrated that heart disease can easily be reversed with a simple alkaline lifestyle and diet - and without medicines or surgery. The pH Miracle Lifestyle and Diet is the first scientifically proven system to reverse heart disease, diabetes and even cancers. It combines a green plant-based diet, moderate aerobic exercise, body and blood cleansing, blood building, hyperperfusion of alkalinity into the blood and tissues and stress management.
Eating animal flesh is not only linked to heart disease, but is is also strongly linked to the risk of developing cancer.
Sadly, people just are NOT informed about the POWER of an alkaline lifestyle and diet, I call the pH Miracle Lifestyle and Diet.
Simply put, the countries with the highest consumption of animal flesh have the highest rates of prostate, colon and breast cancer, while those countries that consume the lowest amount of animal flesh has the lowest rates of prostate, colon and breast cancer.
The Journal of the American Medical Association found in a 2005 study that those who ate the most animal flesh had twice the risk of colon cancer as those who at the least amount of animal flesh.
The American Cancer Societly makes two fundamental recommendations for preventing cancer through diet and here they are:
1) Eat more plant-based foods, and
2) Eat fewer animal-based foods.
It is that simple to prevent sickness and disease. You are what you eat, drink and think.
All cancers can be prevented simply by eating a healthy alkaline green plant-based diet, avoiding ALL processed foods, and staying committed to a smoke-free and physically active lifestyle.
The problem is that animal flesh protein is impossible to breakdown or digest and requires alot of chewing to liquify and that takes alot of energy from the body. Undigested animal flesh remaining in the gut putrifies - which means it creates acidic poisons that destroy human health leading to more toxic build-up. The acids from undigested animal flesh and dairy products, such as nitric, uric, sulphuric, phosphuric and lactic acid are the CAUSE of CANCER!
In other words, you cannot ingest animal flesh or dairy products without causing serious damage to the human body leading to heart disease, diabetes or cancer.
Also, animal flesh and dairy products contain acidic antibiotics such as penicillin and tetracycline (used to prevent disease in farm animals), growth hormones, fertilizers, tranquillers, anti-parasite drugs and many other poisonous medicines. These drugs are passed directly onto the consumers of their dairy or meat, which contribute to animal flesh related diseases like conronary heart disease, high blood pressure, intravasular coagulation, diabetes and cancer.
Our true protein needs can be easily determined quite definitively by examining the protein content of human mother's milk.
Sure! The protein content of human mother's milk!
Use your common sense!
When in life are your protein needs the greatest?
The time in our lives when we are growing the most and therefore need our highest level of protein is in the first six months of life. Yes, when we are infants we grow faster than at any other time in our lives, consequently our protein needs are the greatest. However, mother's milk contains less than 2% protein!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By the way, green vegetables contain roughly the same amount.
The reality about protein is that you needn't concern yourself at all with getting enough daily protein. Over 70% of your protein needs are created within your own body. In other words, your body reuses and recycles your body proteins from recycled blood and body cells!!!!!!!!! The more efficient your body is the less protein it needs!!!!!!!!!
All the proteins you need are found in green fruit, vegetables, sprouts and grasses. If you eat a variety of green fruit, vegetables, sprouts, and grasses you will get more than enough protein. For example, spinach is made up of 49% protein and broccoli is 48% protein.
The strongest animals in the world - horses, gorillas, rhinos, and elephants all eat green plant food. And they sure do not ingest steak or protein shakes for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
A Few Important Points On Ecology
* The world's livestock consume increasing quantities of land, energy, and water.
* While it takes 25 gallons of water to produce one pound of wheat, it requires an astonishing 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of meat!
* If Americans reduced animal flesh consumption by just 10%, it would free 12 million tons of grain annually for human consumption - an amount that would entirely feed the 60 million people who will starve to death this year.
* A child dies of starvation every 3 seconds.
Paul McCartney stated, "if anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do."
My own research has shown again and again that an alkaline green plant-based diet free of all dairy and animal flesh is the best diet for sustainable health, energy, vitality, longevity and fitness. I call this lifestyle and diet a diet and lifestyle without pain, sickness or disease.
For more information on the pH Miracle Lifestyle and Diet, read The pH Miracle Revised and Updated, 2010, book. To order go to:
Jamaica Election 2012: The Second Worst Election Campaign I have ever seen
Whoever is in charge of Andrew Holness’s Public Relations and Election campaigns should be fired. Mr. Holness is fast becoming a mediocre politician after bursting on to the scene with so much promise and hope. Only his diehard supporters still believe in him, with the same level of faith a religious nut believes in Religion. To me Andrew Holness was suppose to be the idealistic 21st Century Leader, young, vibrant and innovative the kind of person that would kick open the old ancient doors of Jamaican politics and let some fresh air and light into that frowzy halls of power, the Mark Zuckerberg of Jamaican politics but instead I keep hearing same old, same old. If I close my eyes and listen to Mr. Holness, I would think Mrs. Portia Simpson-Miller or Bruce Golding or PJ Patterson was speaking, yes people, nothing new here, nothing to see, move along, the old guard is alive and well in Mr. Holness who has failed to redefine Jamaican Politics and Politicians.
Don’t get me wrong, Andrew Holness will be Prime Minister again, if his party does not get rid of him first, he will be Prime Minister not because of his message but because it is the nature of Jamaican Politics, for the people to get fed up with whoever is in power and replaces them at some point. He will also be elected Prime Minister because of the future failures of the current PNP Government, Holness will be selected by default, then unselected at some point and reselected again, which is how things run in Jamaica. The people want true leadership, they want a leader to deliver hope and a change they can believe in but both the PNP and the JLP are incapable of delivering this, both are unwilling to break the old party mold and deliver something new and why should they? The old ways have been working for the political class for quite some time now and Jamaicans are not a proactive people, we are incapable of engaging the political class on any level, social and political activism is not our strong point that part of us died when we became independent, we are failures in the Nation Building Process.
Better things to do than vote and Protest
By far the stupidest excuse for losing an election is low voter turnout…. I do not know who came up with that rubbish, but anyone who use it sound like an idiot. The fact that the people who voted favored one party over the other means the democratic process worked, since no one prevented the people who did not vote from exercising their democratic rights, they just had things that was more important to them to do. Lots of countries have low voter turnout but I have not heard them use this excuse to console the loser, as if to say well if more people voted we would have won, what complete and utter rubbish, maybe you would have lost by a bigger margin.
Jamaicans only go out to vote if their backs are against the wall, they only vote when they are in trouble, so Jamaica clearly does not have any problems, well no problems serious enough that require voting, as per the people, by their actions. The clubs are open, there are dancehall events every night, fashion show are a plenty, jazz festival, wine and cheese tasting and skeet shooting have all gone on as scheduled. If the Government had wanted Jamaicans to vote they would have kept a dance at every polling station or in every town square and hand out free rice from the back of a truck or try to ban the dancehall, lock clubs and restrict merriment, then they would rise up.
Police Killings and a call for mass Protest
Since the start of the year 2012, 50 people have been shot and killed by the police, nearly 30 of them was killed in March alone. As a result Jamaicans from all walks of life, from various geographic locations took to the internet to register their total and utter disgust. Well to tell the truth, the outrage was based on which political party you supported it was in a sense a pretend outrage since police shootings is not new to Jamaica.
In 2011 about 213 people were reportedly killed by the police and 382 reportedly killed in 2010, 73 of which was killed in 2 days, in 2009 saw a 58% increase in in the first 5 months of that year over 2008 in which a total of 224 people was killed by the police but there was no outrage then, no call for protest, at that time the Police it was said was being "Tough On Crime". Between years 2000 and 2010 there was 2,220 fatal shootings by police but only 2 police officers have ever been charged.
I do not have a problem with “Jamaican for Justice” call for protest against police brutality; in fact I support it since police brutality and extortion (drinks money or ticket money) is a problem and warrants our attention... However I refuse to play politics with regards to this matter, if you are against police killings and corruption then which political party is in power should NOT change your position on this, it should be a matter of Principle over Politics. However looking at the murder rate in Jamaica for the past decade it is clear that we have a bigger more deadly problem facing us with over 1000 murders per year and these murders are getting more gruesome as the criminal gangs unite, expand and become more depraved.
The Rally Against Crime and Criminals: A mass Island wide rally against gangs, criminals and murderers is required to send a strong message to the terrorist criminal elements among us. A message that we are sick of it, we are tired of it and we are not taking it any more, to show them that our Resolve is Strong, we want our country back, we are ready to take it back and we support the police and the military to do what is required to eliminate them. SO where is the general outrage, where is the uptown outrage, where is the downtown outrage, where is the overseas outrage, we get nothing but lip service.
It is also said that "Jamaican for Justice" is an affiliate of the opposition Jamaica Labour Party, since they were very active in the run up to the 2007 elections and became very quiet after that party came to power even though the amount of police killings and corruption was sky high. I hope this is not true, since this group is in the perfect position to bring about change if they are in fact non-aligned because if they are aligned to a political party then their words means nothing, they become part of the failed political class, talking out of both sides of their mouths, trying to score political points. Social Advocacy groups must detach themselves from the political parties and embrace the people, they can only have true power if it comes from the people. Jamaica would not have achieved Workers Rights and Universal Adult Suffrage if the leaders and the groups of that time did not draw their support and power from the people.
So in light of the current police killings "Jamaicans for Justice" called for a mass protest, which was held in front of the Ministry of National Security, as an outlet for all the rage against the police. The aim of the protest should not be to bring down and demoralize the security forces nor is it supposed to be a partisan political movement design to score political points for the JLP but should be done in the best interest of Jamaica. You cannot support police brutality when your party is in power calling it “being tough on crime” but denounce them as soon as your party is out of power. I am however worried that we are very quick to organize against the police but do nothing but pay lip service against the Gangs of Jamaica.
In any case after weeks of outrage and online protest only 60 people managed to turn up on the day of the gathering, I am not just disappointed with the turn out, I am completely disgusted by it. I have always said that nothing is too important to Jamaican people except merriment. In Jamaica If you want a lot of people to support your cause then keep a dance in the middle of the street and hand out free rice. The same reason why they do not turn up to vote is the same reason they will not join any protest.
The clubs are open, there are dancehall events every night, fashion show are a plenty, jazz festival, wine and cheese tasting and skeet shooting have all gone on as scheduled. Not to mention it is car show season and the new 2012 Mercedes Benz ML-250 is on show for all to see, apparently..."an evening of elegance at the South Camp Road office of Silver Star Motors", with a starting price of just $9.15 million Jamaican dollars($105,066.33 USD), you too can drive around in a car that is valued as much as a Condo in Florida ... So what’s the problem? Yard Nice!
New York nice but ina di summer time
Canada nice but ina di summer time
London nice but ina di summer time
Jamaica nice all di time.
Police Statistic 2007-2012 Number of persons murdered in Jamaica by gunmen - 5,829 Number of persons shot and injured by criminals - 8,574 Number of major crimes committed by persons using guns - 25,448 Number of illegal firearms seized by the security forces - 3,102 Number of rounds of ammunition seized from criminals - 48,868 Number of civilians killed during police-criminal clashes - 1,260 Number of police personnel killed on duty - 62 Number of police personnel shot and injured by criminals – 127
Number of Jamaicans Murdered By year 1998 - 953 1999 - 849 2000 - 887 2001 - Page not found on JCF, the BBC says estimated 1,100 2002 – 1045 2003 – 975 2004 – 1471 2005 – 1674 2006 – 1340 2007 – 1583 2008 – 1618 2009 – 1683: Jamaica records highest ever murder rate in 2009 2010 - 1442 2011 - 1124
"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by the right names." -Chinese Proverb
The root cause. That is where it all begins.
Remember: Your 'dis-ease' is a symptom of something very fundamental happening within you.
Drugs deal with the short-term effect, the surface cause of your discomfort, the symtom.
Make no mistake, the real source of the health challenge or dis-ease is the way you live your life.
It is a sad fact, but 99% of people in the world are completely asleep.
Ignorant. Oblivious to what is really going on with their body and how to keep it healthy.
Have you seen the movie "The Matrix"? Millions of human beings that THINK they are experiencing reality, when in fact are living an illusion whilst locked up, 'harvested', and 'explioted'.
So, I am about to give you the red pill, blue pill choice.
"This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. If you take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. If you take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." - Morpheus, in 'The Matrix'
Conventional medicine (also known as Orthodox or Allopathic medicine) utilizes poisonous substances (drugs) in non-lethal dosages in order to suppress symptoms. This approach neither addresses the cause of the disease condition, nor is it responsible for healing the patient. Rather, the use of pharmacuetical drugs will temporaily mask the manifestations of the so-called disease, while at the same time, drive the disease deeper into the body . . . only to reappear at a later date, as a more serious, and chronic health threat.
Do not assume that the only difference between Allopathic and Alternative medicine, however, is an honest difference of option in the philosophies on the origin of disease states. Hardly! There is, in truth, a concerted agenda organized by the international pharmaceutical companies to suppress any and every alternative, non-drug therapy that WORKS!
WHY?
Because they want people to keep on coming back for more treatments and more toxic and aicidic drugs.
A cured patient is a lost source of income (cures KILL profits!) A sick patient who is marginally 'improved' is a manageable patient.
Managing patients means routine office visits and renewing of drup prescriptions.
Therefore, a manageable patient is a continuing source of income, a cash cow if you will. Multiply that by a few hundred million people and you get an idea why this deceit is being put upon you. The profits from ths so-called 'health-care', 'sick-care" industry are staggering!
The thrust of the orthodox pharmaceutical agenda is to provide temporary relief, while never addressing the cause of the disease. This agenda insures regular visits to the doctor's office and requires the patient to routinely return to the pharmacy to refill his/her prescriptions.
This is what the game is all about folks, plain and simple.
There are a number of alternative approaches, like the pH Miracle Lifestyle and Diet as outlined in The pH Miracle Revised and Updated book (published 2010), that flat out works so well and costs so little (compared to conventional treatment), that the Medical Industry, the Food and Drup Administration, and the Pharmaceutical Industry, (the 'Big Three') are fighting tooth and nail to keep the pH Miracle life-changing, life saving lifestyle and diet suppressed. The reason is obvious. The pH Miracle Lifestyle and Diet flat out works, is non-toxic and represents a potential loss of billions of dollars to the medical and drug companies.
"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspriacy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." - J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director
Through continuous marketing and advertising the public has been brainwashed into equating MEDICAL CARE with HEALTH CARE, where in fact exactly the opposite applies: modern medicine has become the principal cause of disease today! (Hans Ruesch)
Once again, so-called 'health care' is in reality 'sickness care'.
What a person really needs is education NOT more medication - True 'health care' NOT 'sickness care'. We do NOT need a so-called Health Insurance Plan (ObamaCare) but an education on wellness and health that empowers each individual with the knowledge of how to take care of their body. Like a manual on how to take care of your car. People take better care of their cars then their bodies. Why? Because there is NO true health and wellness education just sickness and disease education. And who is doing the educating on keeping us sick, tired and fat? The 'Big Pharma' and 'Big Money'.
Once again, people NEED education NOT medication. We do NOT need another so-called wonder drug. There is NO SUCH THING. Each of us needs to understand that the cure for ALL sickness and disease will be found in prevention NOT treatment.
I believe we need to understand that doctors prescribed drugs of which they know little, for the human or animal body of which they know less, for diseases for which they know NOTHING at all!
The education to prevent ALL sickness and disease is found in The pH Miracle Revised and Updated book, published 2010, Hachett Publishing/Grand Central Publishing. To order go to: www.phmiracle.com
"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by the right names." -Chinese Proverb
The root cause. That is where it all begins.
Remember: Your 'dis-ease' is a symptom of something very fundamental happening within you.
Drugs deal with the short-term effect, the surface cause of your discomfort, the symtom.
Make no mistake, the real source of the health challenge or dis-ease is the way you live your life.
It is a sad fact, but 99% of people in the world are completely asleep.
Ignorant. Oblivious to what is really going on with their body and how to keep it healthy.
Have you seen the movie "The Matrix"? Millions of human beings that THINK they are experiencing reality, when in fact are living an illusion whilst locked up, 'harvested', and 'explioted'.
So, I am about to give you the red pill, blue pill choice.
"This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. If you take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. If you take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." - Morpheus, in 'The Matrix'
Conventional medicine (also known as Orthodox or Allopathic medicine) utilizes poisonous substances (drugs) in non-lethal dosages in order to suppress symptoms. This approach neither addresses the cause of the disease condition, nor is it responsible for healing the patient. Rather, the use of pharmacuetical drugs will temporaily mask the manifestations of the so-called disease, while at the same time, drive the disease deeper into the body . . . only to reappear at a later date, as a more serious, and chronic health threat.
Do not assume that the only difference between Allopathic and Alternative medicine, however, is an honest difference of option in the philosophies on the origin of disease states. Hardly! There is, in truth, a concerted agenda organized by the international pharmaceutical companies to suppress any and every alternative, non-drug therapy that WORKS!
WHY?
Because they want people to keep on coming back for more treatments and more toxic and aicidic drugs.
A cured patient is a lost source of income (cures KILL profits!) A sick patient who is marginally 'improved' is a manageable patient.
Managing patients means routine office visits and renewing of drup prescriptions.
Therefore, a manageable patient is a continuing source of income, a cash cow if you will. Multiply that by a few hundred million people and you get an idea why this deceit is being put upon you. The profits from ths so-called 'health-care', 'sick-care" industry are staggering!
The thrust of the orthodox pharmaceutical agenda is to provide temporary relief, while never addressing the cause of the disease. This agenda insures regular visits to the doctor's office and requires the patient to routinely return to the pharmacy to refill his/her prescriptions.
This is what the game is all about folks, plain and simple.
There are a number of alternative approaches, like the pH Miracle Lifestyle and Diet as outlined in The pH Miracle Revised and Updated book (published 2010), that flat out works so well and costs so little (compared to conventional treatment), that the Medical Industry, the Food and Drup Administration, and the Pharmaceutical Industry, (the 'Big Three') are fighting tooth and nail to keep the pH Miracle life-changing, life saving lifestyle and diet suppressed. The reason is obvious. The pH Miracle Lifestyle and Diet flat out works, is non-toxic and represents a potential loss of billions of dollars to the medical and drug companies.
"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspriacy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." - J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director
Through continuous marketing and advertising the public has been brainwashed into equating MEDICAL CARE with HEALTH CARE, where in fact exactly the opposite applies: modern medicine has become the principal cause of disease today! (Hans Ruesch)
Once again, so-called 'health care' is in reality 'sickness care'.
What a person really needs is education NOT more medication - True 'health care' NOT 'sickness care'. We do NOT need a so-called Health Insurance Plan (ObamaCare) but an education on wellness and health that empowers each individual with the knowledge of how to take care of the their body. Like a manual on how to take care of your car. People take better care of their cars then their bodies. Why? Because there is NO true health and wellness education just sickness and disease education. And who is doing the educating on keeping us sick, tired and fat? The 'Big Pharma' and 'Big Money'.
Once again, people NEED education NOT medication. We do NOT need another so-called wonder drug. There is NO SUCH THING. Each us needs to understand that the cure for ALL sickness and disease will be found in prevention NOT treatment.
When we understand that doctors prescribed drugs of which they know little, for the human or animal body of which they know less, for diseases for which they know NOTHING at all!
The education to prevent ALL sickness and disease is found in The pH Miracle Revised and Updated book, published 2010, Hachett Publishing/Grand Central Publishing. To order go to: www.phmiracle.com
Neutrality does not mean docile, or that you should not have an opinion, it is the opposite really, it means you can have any opinion your want, you can come out of the corner swinging left right and center, you have no allegiance to anyone, any group or any party. It is freedom from the shackles of conformity, from those who are fighting you to conform,to live life on their terms. Because one declares one shelf to be Politically Neutral does not mean that one have given up ones rights to be a Political and Social Activist, it just means I am Free, to be the Political and Social activist on my terms.
"Peoples Hernandez: You're not a cop anymore.
John Shaft: Do you think that makes me less dangerous, or more dangerous?"
Given the choice between parties who are equally bad, I means really bad, with politicians who are just bold face dirty, liars and thieves, I mean nasty piece of work, how can people who claim to be educated and have common sense chose between them and support them? Unless the people who support them are idiots or have some personal interest, I am not saying I would never support a party the problem is I see none that fits into my view of the world and worthy of my support.
While I do follow Jamaican politics, I am beginning to believe that we are in fact a doomed people simply because we believe that everything in our society has a political cause and a political solution. I grow tired of partisan politics and the entrenched minds of the diehards who support them. They have no understanding of neutrality, they cannot comprehend it and to them you must fit into a partisan bucket. Neutrality is the ability to say what you want, when you want to and how you want to, neutrality frees me from the constraints of the party and the party supporters or the beliefs of any other groups or persons. I do not have to fit into any pre-conceived mold, it is not about what you think of me, it is about what I think of myself and I feel better for it.
Conformity
I will express any concepts, any ideas I feel is right and if what I expressed resembles the views of any party, then that is just coincidental, since I do not consider the party but my own Principles and Policies, which is all I have to go by, to live by and will never compromise who I am and what I am for anyone. I consider it demeaning, pathetic and shallow if I derive my Principles and Policies from a party or any other group, it means I have lost control of the ability to define me. They fit themselves to me, I do not fit to them, they must conform to my views I will not conform to theirs, they must sing my song, I will not sing theirs. If person A in party B says X and I agree with it, it is not because person A said it or it came from Party B, it is because Person A and Party B said something that I already believe in, something that is already a part of my core belief, they said something that fits into my view of the world.
Which is not how the diehard views the world, if person A in the party the diehard supports, party B says “X”, he will agree with it and defend it to the very end but if person A in the opposing party C says “X” he will oppose “X” to the very end, “X” is no good even when he was a defender of “X” the night before the election.I do not understand blind allegiance to any group or party or persons, it is a concept that is totally foreign to me, where did we get this blind religious like faith in the party from, this may explain the fact that I also do not understand the blind allegiance/faith to a Religion, I am just not wired that way.
I think Jamaicans for the most part are blind partisans and tribal and will never see our way out of any situation because of this. Partisan Politics is use to pass on the Nation Building responsibilities, away from ourselves, it is not me but them, yes those people, that party is the problem. We are not a pro-active society, we are not an organized society and we are for the most part a greedy shellfish one dimensional society, we stand up for nothing but our own self interest.
Partisan Diehards see Jamaica’s progress as depending on a party, I see Jamaica’s progress as depending on the Jamaican People regardless of Party. Even if the Party you support is not in power you are suppose to be guided by a bigger principle, a bigger force, that is the nationalist, patriotic Nation Building force, you should give 100% to Jamaica and nothing to the Party.
Cancer is a group of dis-eases characterized by the uncontrolled fermentation and degeneration of body cells. Over 10 million Americans today are cancer survivors, and about 1.4 million Americans are expected to be diagnosed each year.1
"Diet plays an important role in the prevention and treatment of ALL cancerous conditions, and soy protein is one of the leading anti-acid or alkalizing and therefore anti-carcinogenic foods being studied," stated Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of Research at the pH Miracle Living Center.
SOY FOODS & CANCER
There has been much focus during the past 15 years on the anticancer effects of soy foods.2There are several presumed chemopreventive agents in the soy bean,6 but the isoflavones have received the most attention.3 A particular interest lies in the role of soy foods and isoflavones in reducing the risk of breast and prostate cancer.2
SOY & BREAST CANCER
Data modestly supports the hypothesis that soy food intake may reduce the incidence of breast cancer. A recently published analysis found the relative risk for breast cancer was 95 percent when comparing high- vs. low-soy consumers.5 However, many of the case-control and prospective studies included in this analysis were of poor quality.6
Rodent studies have generally shown that isoflavones, or soy protein, inhibit chemically induced mammary tumors when given prior to tumor initiation7-9, although there are a number of exceptions.10-12 Interestingly, the chemopreventive effects of isoflavones appear to be affected by the background dietary choices.
When the isoflavone genistein was added to the semi-purified diet, chemically induced rodent mammary tumors were not inhibited, but when added to the regular chow diet, tumor development was suppressed by approximately 50 percent.13 This suggests that animal research, which most commonly uses semi-purified diets, may actually underestimate the potential anticarcinogenic effects of soy and other foods.
Soy & Markers of Breast Cancer
In contrast to the animal and epidemiologic data, there is little clinical evidence that soy or isoflavones favorably affect markers of breast cancer risk including breast tissue density,14, 15serum estrogen levels,16, 17 and breast cell proliferation.18 There is limited evidence that estrogen metabolism is favorably affected19 and that menstrual cycle length is increased (which decreases cancer risk).16
Nevertheless, there remains considerable enthusiasm for the possibility that soy food intake contributes to the low breast cancer rate in Japan.
Early Intake of Soy May Reduce Breast Risk
There is both epidemiologic 20-22 and animal 23, 24 data in support of the hypothesis that early soy intake reduces later risk of developing breast cancer. This hypothesis is consistent with mounting evidence that early life influences — parity, lactation, age at menses, birth weight, etc. — impact risk of developing breast cancer.25-36 Studies of migrants suggest that the first 20 years of life have an especially profound impact on risk.36-38 The epidemiologic data suggest just one to two servings of soy foods is protective.
Breaking News - Soy Breast Cancer Study
Soy Breast Cancer Study Holds Promise, But Calls for Further Research
For more than 15 years, soy foods have been actively investigated for their possible role in reducing breast cancer risk. Initial enthusiasm about this hypothesis was based on several observations. These include the low breast cancer rates in Japan, early animal research indicating that soy beans in rodent diets reduced mammary tumor development and evidence suggesting that the isoflavones (phytoestrogens) in soy foods may exert anti-estrogenic effects.
However, establishing a relationship between cancer risk and diet – especially specific foods – is much more difficult than establishing such links in the case of other chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease. This is because there are few well-established non-invasive indicators of cancer risk, and studies are very rarely conducted for long enough to measure actual differences in tumor incidence. Consequently, it is difficult to claim with confidence whether a particular intervention increases or decreases the chances of developing cancer.
Epidemiologic research is a useful mode of investigation for exploring a relationship between diet and cancer. Epidemiology is the study of the patterns, causes, and control of disease in groups of people. There are two primary types of epidemiologic studies, case-control and prospective studies. In case-control studies, scientists compare people with cancer to those without in hopes of identifying characteristics such as lifestyle or diet that are more common to one group than the other. In prospective studies, scientists first evaluate the characteristics of a large group of healthy people, then follow those subjects for many years in hopes of identifying whether certain factors are more common to those who develop cancer than to those who don't. Generally, prospective studies are considered more credible than case-control studies. It is important to recognize, however, that epidemiologic studies cannot establish cause and effect relationships. Only clinical trials can do that. But epidemiologic studies are often used as a basis for clinical research.
To evaluate the relationship between soy intake and breast cancer risk, Bruce Trock and colleagues from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Georgetown University conducted a meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies. A meta-analysis is the statistical analysis of a large collection of results from individual studies for the purpose of integrating the findings. This particular analysis included 12 case-control studies and 6 prospective studies. The major finding of this analysis was that when all women (Asian and non-Asian, pre- and postmenopausal) were considered, soy intake was associated with a 14% reduction in breast cancer risk. That is, women consuming higher quantities of soy were 14% less likely to develop breast cancer than women who consumed relatively little soy. However, subgroup analysis revealed that soy was more protective against pre- compared to postmenopausal breast cancer, and was protective in studies involving non-Asian women but not Asian women.
The analysis by Trock and colleagues provides modest support for the notion that soy may protect against breast cancer. A 14% reduction is certainly noteworthy, but for several reasons the study results should be interpreted with caution.
First, in many studies, soy intake was not actually quantified. Rather, it was estimated based on the urinary excretion of isoflavones. Because urinary isoflavone excretion varies so much from person to person, it provides only a rough approximation of soy intake. Furthermore, although soy was found to be protective in studies involving non-Asian women, the intake of soy by the women in these studies was quite low. There is some doubt as to whether such low intakes are sufficient to exert biological effects. Since soy foods are still consumed by only a minority of people in non-Asian countries – and are often favored by especially health-conscious individuals – we must consider the possibility that the perceived cancer-protective effects of soy may result from an overall healthy lifestyle, rather than soy consumption per se. Although the researchers employed statistical techniques to try to separate the effects of soy from other factors common to people who eat soy, this is very difficult to do.
While some evidence, including the new analysis by Trock and colleagues, suggests soy foods may reduce breast cancer risk, no conclusions can be made at this time. Nevertheless, because soy foods provide excellent nutrition, they can play an important role in an overall healthy diet, regardless of their possible relationship to breast cancer protection.
SOY & PROSTATE CANCER
The soy bean isoflavone genistein inhibits the growth of both androgen-dependent39-42 and androgen-independent39, 42-45 prostate cancerous cells, depending on the level of soy doses administered. In addition, genistein inhibits the invasive capacity of prostate cancerous cells 42and enhances the ability of radiation to kill these cells.46 However, the concentration of genistein required to exert these effects is higher than the serum isoflavone levels of people who eat soy foods.47-49 Nevertheless, several observations suggest these effects are biologically relevant.39,44-49
Regional Diets Can Impact Prostate Cancer
In Japan, although many men have prostate cancer, few die of this dis-ease. This is because the small tumors often referred to as latent prostate cancer, not uncommon to Japanese men, rarely progress to the more advanced form of this disease.51, 52 Isoflavones in combination with tea extracts were shown to reduce tumor growth in mice more effectively than either agent alone.9
In Asia, and especially in Japan, where prostate cancer mortality rates are low, both soy foods and tea are important components of their diet. There are likely several factors that contribute to this clinical situation in Japanese men and according to the International Prostate Health Council, and isoflavone intake from soy foods may be one.53
There has been limited epidemiologic investigation of the relationship between soy intake and prostate cancer. These studies have produced mixed results but can be said to be consistent with the hypothesis that soy intake reduces prostate cancer risk.
A recent analysis of 10 epidemiologic studies found that soy intake was associated with a one-third reduction in prostate cancer risk.5 However, many of the epidemiologic studies involved a small number of cases54, 55 and/or did not comprehensively evaluate soy food intake. However, a recent comprehensive Japanese case-control study found that when comparing the highest with the lowest soy food intake cases, risk was reduced by nearly 50 percent.56
Soy May Help Treat Existing Prostate Cancer
Data suggests that soy foods may be useful in the treatment of existing prostate cancer, but this remains speculative. A study of 11 trials, three involving healthy subjects57-59 and eight involving prostate cancer patients,60-67 examined the effects of isoflavones on PSA levels. No benefits were noted in healthy subjects, but among the cancer patients one-half noted favorable effects.68Recent intervention data demonstrate that reducing prostate cancer risk is not dependent upon reductions in PSA levels.69
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I will never defend those worthless individuals who leave their farms, work, school, family and homes behind to walk the streets of Tourist Country, trying to sell both themselves and drugs to every Tom and Jane tourist that set foot on the island.
Both the sellers and the buyers are the reason why I have a Self-Imposed Exile in place, in my own country, I will never stay willingly in Tourist Country and try very hard not to visit it or stay longer than I have to. I do not like what goes on between some local Jamaicans and some tourists and as such I have decided to leave onto Cesar the things that are for Cesar, I will go even further to say they are a perfect match for each other.It is not really that I do not like it, it is more like I do not care what takes place between two consenting adults, the problem is when it goes wrong then the foreign media and tourist have a tendency of painting everyone in Jamaica with the same brush, they never say some Jamaicans, they say Jamaicans are, as if the entire population spends their days outside airports and piers waiting for the tourist.
Of late I have been reading various travelers review forums and media outlet and the number one complaint some of these tourist have, is that the minute they step off the plane they are confronted by harassment from local Jamaicans. Constantly they are being asked to buy drugs or offers from local men and women selling their services as “tour guides”.
I wonder what would drive local Jamaicans to behave like this, to think that selling themselves and drugs was a lucrative business, more lucrative than staying in school and getting an education, more lucrative than developing the farm, more lucrative than to stay at home and be fathers and mothers to their offspring. Could it be that the demand for their services from the type of tourist coming to the island is so great, that prostitution and drug selling is a lucrative business made profitable by the willing and eager tourist looking for sun, sand, weed and a rent-a-dread with the big bamboo? If the demand was not there to begin with then there would not be a need to supply a product no one wants, I am going to be so bold and declare that 7 out of 10 visitors to the country’s tourist hot spots are willing and eager participants in the market of drugs and rent-a-dread. Jamaica is known for some of the best weed in the world and many of our visitors come to Jamaica to enjoy this product. Some visitors to our shore have defined an authentic Jamaican vacation as one that includes smoking large quantity of weed and sex with locals.
When reading feedback on various travel sites you will always find several post on tourist harassment and various reports of women claiming they were taken advantage of, how they were promised love but all that these rent-a-dread wanted was money. Jamaican men are being described in some publications as predators, on the prowl looking for sweet innocent white women to take advantage of, stripping them of money and breaking their poor little hearts. Surely you cannot be that naive, that stupid to think you are going to enter the market place of rent-a-dread and drugs and come away with a lifelong loving partner, are you mad? Some of the woman or man who hangout outside the hotels and bars that tourist frequent offering themselves as “tour guides” are there to sell themselves to any fool who would have them and willing to pay for it. There are loads of legitimate travel grievances that I would agree with, from rude hotel staffs, to hotels not to your liking, terrible service, being asked over and over to buy the same stuff, to valuables stolen but having your heart crushed by an ambition-less Rent-a-Dread is not one of them.
When will you take responsibilities for your actions, my grandmother had a saying “Water finds it own level” and that is exactly what is happening here, you are no different from these worthless men, both pathetic in your own way, does the sun and sea have such an effect on your brain, Suppressing the part that controls good decision making? You are not the innocent party in this transaction, you are the willing party but you like to portray yourselves as the innocent, poor little girl who was used and taken advantage of by those wicked disgusting natives, talking about he said he loved me …What!!. “Hahahaha I laugh in your face”… yes you and everyone stupid enough to believe a man who sleeps with tourists for money. Trust me these men and women while at the airport departure lounge will put on an Oscar performance wiping tears from their eyes, looking up to the heavens then the minute you are out of sight they walk over to arrivals for the next willing partner/buyer.
With such a high rate of demand for love, sex and drugs it is then understandable why locals cannot tell the difference between a tourist looking for drugs and sex and those who just want to be left alone to enjoy their vacation in peace. If lets say 7 out of 10 times they get a positive response and are financially rewarded then the odds are in their favour.
Spring Break is upon us again and those innocent young people from first world countries are not afraid to get naked, get drunk and perform public sex acts in front of minors at the drop of a hat. Spring Break and the Jamaican dancehall are two of the most disgusting things to take over Jamaica in recent times. It says more about us as Jamaicans, how low we will go to earn a dollar. The demand for Jamaican weed and the Rent-A-Dread will be at its highest during this period, sellers from other slow tourist locations with flock to the big tourist country areas as they fight to keep up with demand from the spring breakers and make the almighty Yankee dollar, as drunken vomiting spring breakers try to make this the Spring Break to remember. What upsets me is that they come away from the experience with their reputation intact as it is not the buyer who gets negatively stigmatized, they get a pat on the back, wicked vacation but it is the locals who come away looking dirty in the eyes of the world, with the world thinking those people will do almost anything for a dollar.
Falmouth was once a wonderful quaint little town until the pier, cruise ship and tourist arrived then like locus the hustlers descended on the town. Like roving band of bandits they turn up at various piers on the day the cruise ship arrive, trying to sell everything including themselves, the kitchen sink and their mothers.
There is a reason why countries like Jamaica only measure and report on Gross Earnings of the tourism sector or the number of stop over visitors and that is because it is embarrassing to measure Net Earnings and tourism contribution to the development of Jamaica. Having large Stop Over numbers mean nothing if the money generated is air lifted aka repatriated right back to the home country of the resort owners, not to mention most of these large hotel chains pay little or no taxes, they exist in a tax free world. When it comes to tourism or foreign investments in general we enter into deals with the idea that a little something is better than nothing, every “mickle mek a muckle”. Former Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett recently said that “many tourism destinations are retaining as low as seven cents of every dollar tourists spend”, noting that much of the tourist dollar "goes back to where it came from".
He also pointed out that research has shown that only about three per cent of the produce from the agricultural sector currently goes into tourism. Not only is profit from tourism being taken out of the country but the sector is also not supporting the other sectors such as agriculture. Normally when I travel to some other country I do not want to consume the things I am used to back home preferring instead to immerse myself in the culture of the country I am visiting, eating what they eat, where they eat but not so for the people coming to Jamaica they want to leave their home land and arrive at their home land, hotels must import and serve the food they are use to. Americans want what they normally eat at home and the British are notorious for making a beeline for little Britain the minute they land, bring on the Full English Breakfast served in a pub run by a Brit, give me the sun, sand and sea but keep your food. In Jamaica we import the food and the chef to cook it, in an attempt to recreate the dishes our visitors are use to. The average vacation is just over a week so I do not understand why they cannot do without the food they have been eating all their lives and enjoy a change, something different are they that shallow?
Before I start jumping through hoops in order to service the tourist, I would first like factual information regarding real contribution of tourism to the Jamaican Economy and people. It is also because of the above fact “seven cents of every dollar” why I only vacation in “Jamaican owned hotels” and refuse to give my hard earn money to foreign entities that are making super profit at Jamaica’s expense and doing nothing to build this country of mine.
With regard to foreign investments, in order to attract these foreign corporations, governments are forced to provide economic perks such as; a tax-free existence, the free movement of all profits back to the home countries and the removal of the trade union and worker rights from employment agreements, in most cases companies are released from all environmental responsibilities, such is the desperation of Jamaica and other poorer countries.
It is as if the populations of these countries are sold as slaves to the foreign investor, for them to do with as they wish or the government of the poorer countries is acting as pimps for their own people. In most cases the impact of this foreign investment on the local economy is minimal. Foreign companies don’t have to invest in the health care of the local workers, they don’t have to invest in the education of the local workers nor do they help these workers to provide for their retirement as they do in their home countries. For most of these companies all levels of managerial staff are imported thus leaving the manual, more mundane, lower paid tasks to the local workforce. Most of these foreign investors have adopted a here today gone tomorrow mentality, since competition between countries is so high it is not uncommon for these companies to be lured away at a moment’s notice, by competitors who are willing to offer more perks and even less restrictions.
Let me make it extra clear that not all tourists come to Jamaica to smoke weed and engage in sex with locals, there are those who truly come to Jamaica for a nice relaxing vacation, they work hard and need some downtime and they do not want every Tom, Dick and Jane bugging them every minute of the of the day to buy rubbish, to them I say a quick stern “no thank you” and walk away normally works and to local Jamaicans harassing these people I say, leave the people alone and let them relax and enjoy their vacation, stop acting like warts on the backside of humanity, the authorities need to do more to rid the streets of this infestation.
Let me also make it extra clear that not all Jamaicans exist to service you, most of us do not sell drugs or sex, we are self respecting people going about our business, trying to take care of our families and are offended when you approach us to ask for drugs. We are always willing to offer help when you need it, direction and advice but treat us with respect and we will do the same to you. We hear a lot about Tourist Harassment by locals but we never hear anything about Local Harassment from the Tourist. Stopping any Jamaicans you see asking about drugs or where you can score some action is not on and part of the reason I have exiled myself from tourist country, between you and the selling locals I do not know which one is worst and it seems both are guilty of stereotyping. Some locals assume every tourist wants drugs and sex and some tourist assumes that every Jamaican sell drugs, sex and wants to rob them. These sets of people are making it very hard for those of us locals and visitors who make no such assumptions and would just like to be left alone.
There are three types of foreigners who come to Jamaica, first there is the tourist (1), the kind that wants to be picked up from the airport in a coach bus and taken directly to their all-inclusive resort and care nothing about leaving the resort, they are also the type that complains on messaging boards if they see any local Jamaicans at the resort where they stay, the only local they want to see is the one serving them the drinks. And at the end of the vacation they want to be taken directly to the airport departure lounge where they can make their escape. The only problem I have with this type of tourist is when they have an opinion about the wider Jamaican society which is almost always negative. They can have all the opinions they want about the condition of the bus use to transport them to and from the resort and about the resort but how can you have an opinion about a country and its people just by looking out your bus window.
Then there is the visitor types (2), they may or may not stay at an all-inclusive resort but will venture out into the society. They want to enjoy their vacation but also want to know more about the country they are visiting.
Then there is the third type, the travelers (3) my favorite type, they adapt to any country they visit like a fish to water, eat local foods, and only rent locally owned and operated hotels. They not only come to the country for vacation but sometimes try to help the wider society, helping out at local schools, join various environmental groups for beach cleaning anything they enjoy or they can do nothing but wonder the country interacting with its people, they have street and travel smarts and will always make the right decisions. When they are ready to give their opinion I listen because in almost all cases their opinion is both open and objective never malicious.
A person intent on vacationing in Jamaica must do some research, you must know what type of person you are and what area of the island fits your personality. Montego Bay, Negril and Ocho Rios are well known worldwide and for good reason. For the most part they offer the generic brand of tourism that appeal to both low, mid and high end tourism in a generic type of way, whatever you want and can afford they will provide, sun, sand, sea, weed and sex but these types of locations attract certain types of locals and certain types of tourist that may not fit your conservative personality and may spoil your vacation experience. If you are offended by public nudity, public sex acts, public drunkenness and weed buying, selling and smoking then maybe this location is not for you. We have loads of different locations which offers different experiences just do some research, ask around.
Assumption is the Mother of all Fk-ups!!! Long ago, I met some Black Americans after their visit to Jamaica, they complained that they never get the same treatment as white tourist, well after further discussion I realized what they were really saying, which is that Jamaicans do not make the same “initial” assumption about Black Americans tourist as they do about white tourist. The determination as to whether they are tourist or not is only made after speech, they are assumed to be Jamaicans until they say something in an American accent, after which for the most part they are treated like an American tourist but the “initial assumption” can make or break an entire experience.
I had a discussion with some friends of mine and one said it is not possible for a Jamaican to be a tourist, or treated like a tourist in a predominantly white developed country. The general consensus was that Black Jamaicans are never viewed or given the tourist treatment regardless of which country they are in, the assumption is that Jamaicans are assumed to be either impoverished refugees or emigrants who could never afford a vacation. I stated in another blog that the same assumption is made of a black person in a store or supermarket on the upper east side of Manhattan; they never assume you are a fellow shopper but a worker, always asking where is this item or do you have this in Blue. One friend said heck! It is not possible for Jamaicans to be treated like tourist in our own country much less some other country.
A friend of a friend who lives in North America decided to treat his white girlfriend to a vacation in Jamaica, he booked both flight and hotel then decided to surprise her with the grand vacation. They arrived in Jamaica and checked into their hotel, all was well until the next morning when the happy couple went out to enjoy what tourist country had to offer. On their return to the hotel his girlfriend walked past the guard at the gate and she was greeted warmly, followed by her Jamaican boyfriend bringing up the rear with the days shopping. He was promptly stopped at the gate by the guard who refused him access, the guard called back his girlfriend to ask her if this man was in fact with her. The basic assumption by the guard is that this man is not vacationing at the resort and was a rent-a-dread of some sort, his assumption also was that the girlfriend was in fact a valid guess just because she was white. This caused the mother of all confrontation as he was not having any of it.
Hotels need to develop and implement a sterile, standardize way of dealing with everyone regardless of colour, gender, local or foreigner etc. Only when this is done will we avoid making stupid ridiculous superficial assumptions.
"It is regrettable that the world moves so slowly in accepting truth." -Le Grand Richards
