According to an article by ScienceNews, it seems many scientific studies that paint cancer drugs in a negative light are not published. And, studies sponsored by the drug companies themselves have the worst bias. This, to me, is just plain wrong. The scientific community needs to know how drugs interact and to know how well they work. With not publishing the information, doctors are never given a chance to review the information, and so they happily prescribe medication without knowing the recourses.
This is why I really don’t like taking medication. This is also why I’m a vegan as similar things go on the dietary world. Lobbies from the animal product companies including the dairy and meat industries push the government into saying their products are healthy even though there have been quite a few studies, which are given little attention, that show animal protein is not healthy. Yes, our bodies can suffice living on meat and dairy, but it has been shown that animal protein can promote the growth of cancer and just plain age us faster. The book, written by T. Colin Campbell, called The China Study, demonstrates this clearly. It is what prompted me to go full vegan diet after living a vegeterian diet for the previous year to lose weight. It is truly an eye opening read.
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That’s it really. My whole digestive tract has been messed up today. I hope I can finally get the surgery to remove my gallbladder setup one day. If only I didn’t have the slow heart rate problem, everything would have been done by now.
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This has not been a fun night. While working on the chain link fence, I had a major round of skipped heart beats (well, actually they’re extra heart beats). It was about as bad as the episode I had in February that caused me to go to the hospital which prompted all the doctor visits from that point forward. I can definitely say I’m a bit shaken at this point. Hopefully, it won’t get worse as I already have a cardiologist appointment tomorrow to make sure everything is good before I go into surgery to remove my gallbladder.
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As you have probably read in past posts, you know I’m a fairly strict vegan. I got started eating vegeterian over a year and a half ago before switching to vegan about six months or so ago. I did this primarily to lose all my, well, ‘sitting in front of a computer all day’ weight. Over this time, I lost about 90lb and can finally say I look thin for probably the second time of my life (first being when I was really young). And really, I quite well enjoy eating the way I do as it’s another step to making myself different from everyone else, which has been something I’ve done all my life.
So anyway, besides fitting into the ‘standard’ vegan profile of not eating any animal products, I also tend to avoid most heavily processed foods and prefer that the food is certified organic. I still eat some stuff that comes in a box, but I make sure the ingredient list is as small as possible which will tend to let you know how processed the food is. So while shopping at the local health food store, I stumbled across a really nice snack. It’s a small package of dried organic mulberries made by Kopali. I’ve never had a mulberry before, but I must say they’re quite tasty. And they’re packed full of nutrients compared to your standard raisin. They even make the list of the 15 most healthy berries. So go out there and try some dried mulberries, even if you’re a cheese pizza loving geek. It may help you later on.
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