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Harmful medical care

(NaturalNews) It is the position of Big Pharma that pharmaceuticals make people healthier. That’s the whole point of taking them, of course — to enhance your health in some way that the human body apparently cannot achieve on its own (if you believe the drug ads, anyway). The drug industry’s direct-to-consumer advertisements further imply this cause / effect relationship between pharmaceuticals and health by portraying drug consumers to be happy, healthy and fit. Taking medications, these ads imply, will make you happy, healthy and fit!

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By Katherine Hobson

Your doctor may secretly think you’re making too many office visits and getting too many drugs and tests.

A survey of primary-care doctors conducted in 2009 finds that 42% of the 627 respondents believed the patients in their own practice were getting too much care. Just 6% of doctors believed their patients were getting too little care. (The rest thought the level of care was just right.)

And 28% of the doctors thought they themselves were practicing more aggressively than they would prefer to.

The survey, the results of which were published in the latest Archives of Internal Medicine, found 76% of doctors blamed malpractice worries for their over-aggressive care. The impact of defensive medicine has been debated, but “it is certainly the most widely endorsed external factor cited by physicians,” says Brenda

Sirovich, an author of the study and a staff physician and research associate in the Outcomes Group at the VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT.

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2011/09/26/many-physicians-feel-theyre-delivering-too-much-care/

And Sirovich notes that “as a profession and as a society, it’s good for us to think about doing a better job of educating patients and the public that more care isn’t necessarily better,” she says. “There’s such a thing as too much.”

More doctors going the alternative route

While doctors are schooled in traditional Western medicine, a growing number are turning to complementary and alternative medicine to stay healthy, then integrating the techniques into their medical practices. Alternative therapy includes herb therapy, deep breathing, massage and yoga. Complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM, combines the methods with traditional medicine.

Doctors use it but not their patients.

A study published in the online version of Health Services Research in August found that 76 percent of health care workers and 83 percent of doctors and nurses used CAM, compared with 63 percent of the general population.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-12-14/health/ct-x-1214-alternative-care-doctors-20111214_1_alternative-medicine-western-medicine-family-medicine

Good example of too much care is prostate cancer

WASHINGTON — No major medical group recommends routine PSA blood tests to check men for prostate cancer, and now a government panel is saying they do more harm than good and healthy men should no longer receive the tests as part of routine cancer screening.

Prostate cancer tends to develop in men over the age of fifty and although it is one of the most prevalent types of cancer in men, many never have symptoms, undergo no therapy, and eventually die of other causes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate_cancer

My advise: more tests, more medications are not always better. Prevention is the key. Healthy life style and healthy food(but not too much ). Eat in moderation(a glass of wine is OK). A cup of coffee is fine. And most of all enjoy life-family, friends, vacations, hobbies-things you love to do.

inseparable

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.”

- Steve Jobs

Chicago tribune health

Earlier this year, a pair of influential bioethicists argued in an essay in The New Republic that the amount of money the country spends on Medicare is unsustainable. With senior citizens the fastest-growing age group in the country, they say, the only way to control the ballooning costs is to try to bring the entire population up to a life expectancy of 80 and stop using most expensive technologies and medicines to extend life beyond that, even if some people will die.

“If you want to save all lives, you’re in trouble,” said Callahan, co-founder of The Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute in New York, and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, in an interview. “And if you want to save all lives at any cost, you’re really in trouble.”

Medicare was signed into law in 1965, a time when life expectancy was 67 for men and 73 for women, and half of people 65 and older had no health insurance. In 2007, life expectancy had grown to 75 for men and 80 for women, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In contrast, in 1900, life expectancy was 46 and 48, respectively.

“Doctors can keep you alive until you are 105, but that may not be a particularly good aim of the health care system,” Callahan said. Senior citizens should receive good basic health care, but the main resources should go to children and the adult population, he believes.

So what is the solution? Who decides who lives and who dies? There is simply not enough money in the system to do everything for everybody. And the first time in history of this country the post baby boomers generation will have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

There is no short term solution other than to educate the aging parents and their adult kids on how to make the sensible decision on when is it time to go.

In the mean time we need to learn how to maintain a healthy life style so we stay healthy and die gracefully.

Is this life?

“We get selfish families, and it’s often easier for doctors to pull out prescription pads,Doctors need more often to say no, to say (if a patient is dying): ‘We will give you palliative care, but not give you chemotherapy. We will not give you new expensive drugs because it will not make you better.’”

“More importantly, this article ignores another reality for doctors who must make these difficult decisions: the nearly unlimited liability exposure if the family members disagree with all members of the health care team, including hospital ethics panels.

Once again, because of special interest resistance to malpractice reform, centralized government control will become the default option.

And maybe, just maybe, we need to rethink our stand on direct-to-consumer advertising of expensive medications to the populace on the Nightly News.”

By PETER SINGER

Published: July 15, 2009 

Life's wisdom

We all know that we will die eventually.

We were all born and we will all die

It is the way of nature to assure the continuation and progress of the species.

And death is just as natural as birth and life and just as necessary for the success of species.

As we age we think about life and death and quality of life as we near the end.

And it is scary. After all this is one in a lifetime experience.

We all like to have a healthy and happy life.

The true wisdom, I think, is the understanding of the beginning and the end and the knowing when the time comes to go. And to go with dignity.

And even as the primal instinct of self preservation kicks in I hope that wisdom will prevail and I will be able to make the right decision

Wisdom and happiness.

One of the reasons I am writing on this subject is the lack of understanding of life and death and the medical establishment on keeping terminally ill people alive artificially at any cost causing suffering to patient and the families and, due to limited resources denying life saving treatment to those who could be saved.

It is a complicated issue and we all should learn the wisdom of living and dying.

So enjoy life and learn how to stay healthy naturally.

Meanwhile Happy Holidays to all our readers and Happy and Healthy New Year!

Childhood world

We all remember how bright and full of wonders the world was when we were kids.

Long lazy summer days full of smells and sounds and sights and doing nothing. Just absorbing the world. The world so bright, so full of mystery and promise of wonders and adventure.

And than…we grew up. And for most of us the colors faded, the sounds changed, the daily routine replaced the promise.

The time accelerated. As if the life is just passing by, leaving us behind.

We became “adults”. Now we have important things to do.

So we are busy doing important things that adults have to do.

Time meltdown

We are in a hurry, always in a hurry. And in our daily busy routine we lost something important.

We forgot how to live. We lost not just the childhood.

We lost our true selves.

The simplicity of living. Or just living:

‘Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment.’ ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Adults miss childhood. We all miss pure joy of just being. Being an inseparable part of the World.

And we wonder-what happened?,why are colors fading? Why we don’t see the moment. Why our lives, our Time became a blur, the wonder and happiness gone?

Wonder years.

“Actually, the answer is CHILDREN LIVE IN THE MOMENT!!! Every new discovery is amazing, the world is huge and you don’t want to miss a thing….as you get older you think you know everything. A Child can’t wait til the next Moment….All Adults care about is the weekend…We can’twait til next month….time flies….We can’t wait til next year….time flies…..when we aren’t living in the moment, we aren’t creating memories. And memories is what makes out childhood seem long…”

“I was searching for my article and stumbled on this one:http://zenhabits.net/slow-down-to-enjoy-life/

The first time I was in Sweden, one of my colleagues picked me up at the hotel every morning. It was September, bit cold and snowy. We would arrive early at the company and he would park far away from the entrance (2000 employees drive their car to work). The first day, I didn’t say anything, either the second or third. One morning I asked, “Do you have a fixed parking space? I’ve noticed we park far from the entrance even when there are no other cars in the lot.” To which he replied, “Since we’re here early we’ll have time to walk, and whoever gets in late will be late and need a place closer to the door. Don’t you think? Imagine my face.

It’s not just a matter of reducing clutter or saving money … it’s a matter of slowing down to enjoy life more, of savoring life’s simple pleasures, of rejecting on some level the materialistic culture we are all caught up in and embracing fellow humans instead. It is about changing our values and priorities.

Running toward??

Many of us live our lives running behind time, but we only reach it when we die of a heart attack or in a car accident rushing to be on time. Others are so anxious of living the future that they forget to live the present, which is the only time that truly exists. We all have equal time throughout the world. No one has more or less. The difference lies in how each one of us does with our time. We need to live each moment. As John Lennon said, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”.

I found a cool site called Slow Down Nowthat offers some tips for slowing down, including:

1. Have a cup of tea, put your feet up and stare out of the window. Warning: don’t try this while driving.
2. Spend some quality time in the bathtub.
3. Write down these words and place them where you can see them, “Multitasking is a Moral Weakness.”
4. Try to do only one thing at a time.

Just sit down. Just breathe. Think about what do you really want? Imagine you live the life you really want. Does thinking about it, imagining it makes you feel good, makes you happy?

Does Time slows? So you got your answer.

http://youtu.be/D_SESCy4tcw

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What fits your busy schedule better, exercising one hour a day or being dead 24 hours a day?

Sometimes a good sweat session is just what the doctor ordered: Exercise has been shown to help ease menstrual cramps, joint pain, headaches, stress and depression, for starters. But if you’re not feeling up to your workout, your body might be trying to tell you that it needs a break. Here are five science-backed reasons to throw in the towel (for today).
Something hurts. There’s the good, normal kind of postworkout pain—the achy soreness you feel for a day or two after you’ve pushed your muscles a little harder than usual or tried something new—and the bad kind that feels like more of an ouch and lingers, explains SELF contributing expert Lisa Callahan, M.D., codirector of the Women’s Sports Medicine Center at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. If a pain persists longer than 72 hours, causes swelling at the site, keeps you up at night or hurts more when you exercise, it’s time to sit on the sidelines and call your doc.
You’re sleep-deprived. Insufficient zzz’s could be as devastating to your well-being as lack of exercise, says James B. Maas, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. “Your body uses sleep to restore itself both physically and mentally, yet people continue to put it off as if it’s optional,” says Maas. If you’ve been falling short of the seven to eight hours of nightly shut-eye experts recommend and feel downright exhausted when your alarm goes off in the morning, hit snooze and leave your workout for another day. Bonus: The extra rest will give you more energy to punch through that last mile or set of reps when you do hit the gym again.
You feel dizzy, thirsty or clammy. These are signs of warm weather injuries like heatstroke and exhaustion, cases of which are up 133 percent in the past decade, a study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine warns. Heatstroke can happen even on mild days, so always keep water handy, and if you start to feel the above symptoms, rest, drink up and call it quits for the day. Better safe than sorry!
Your stomach’s been feeling queasy. A little bit of indigestion is no biggie, but if you’re throwing up or experiencing severe diarrhea, you’re already on your way to dehydration and exercise will only make it worse. A 12-hour bug causes most upset stomachs, so you should be fine after a day in bed (or in the bathroom). Just be sure to drink plenty of clear fluids in the meantime.
You have a fever. If the thermometer reads above 100 and you feel exhausted or achy all over, you could have the flu, so trade your gym clothes for your PJ’s and get thee to bed! You’ll likely be too zonked to work up a non-fever-induced sweat anyway. Plus, you’re contagious a full day before you have any symptoms and for the first few days after symptoms strike, and I’m betting your fellow gymgoers don’t want the flu any more than you do. So rest up, drink plenty of fluids and don’t even think about those sneakers until your fever breaks and you’re feeling normal again.

Get off your butt!

My advise: stop looking for excuses and get your butt off the couch! Make it a habit to exercise at least 3 time a week. We are creatures of habit-in a few month you will feel that something is missing if you don’t work out.

Gym is much cheaper than a doctor. And good supplements will help.

By Steve Mitchell

Just today don't worry

How many times have you heard this or said it?  Do you really believe it?  To worry is to fear the outcome or result of a situation.  It consists of negative energy.  If we fear something we are sending negative energy to it.  Most things strive on energy and can’t tell whether it is negative or positive energy that is being sent its way.  But do we want this situation, whatever it may be, to strive and grow on the energy we are sending its way?  So, we need to stop sending negative energy out.  Focus on the positive.  The current economic situation we are in has some silver linings.  Less houses,  strip malls, and buildings are being built, this is, to my way of thinking, taking a step in saving our planet, someday we may need those 1.2 million acres of farm ground per year that we are turning into parking lots.  Fewer things are being bought, so there is less pollution being produced.

And we are importing less goods from countries that don’t have our best interest in mind when they send food products and toys laced with toxins.  And so on.  We are expending a lot of our individual energy by worrying

Relax!

about this or any situation.  There may be bad things happening to some of folks, but worrying about it doesn’t help, you have to be positive, look on the bright side, see what there is good about it.