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“I am a Doctor. A.B... M.A... PH.D... ABMAPHID! Abmaphid has been variously described as a wasting disease of the frontal lobes, and as a wonder drug. It is actually both.” - Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
“Principles of mental health cannot be successfully furthered in any society unless there is progressive acceptance of the concept of world citizenship." - The International Congress on Mental Health, 1948
Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
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Excerpts by Gary G. Kohls, MD, From Robert Whitaker‚s long essay at
http://psychrights.org/index.htm
"There is an outside agent fueling this epidemic of mental illness, only it is to be found in the medicine cabinet. Psychiatric drugs perturb normal neurotransmitter function, and while that perturbation may curb symptoms over a short term, over the long run it increases the likelihood that a person will become chronically ill, or ill with new or more severe symptoms. A review of the scientific literature shows quite clearly that it is our drug-based paradigm of care that is fueling this modern-day plague."
PDF (2.4 MB) Anatomy of an Epidemic: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
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NOTE: Robert Whitaker wrote the ground-breaking book, Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill, a book that should be required reading for everybody,
(check out www.madinamerica.com).
The purpose of the Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter (PPEN) is to disseminate critical information that concerns mental health, especially that which pertains to the root causes of mental ill health and its prevention, information that is often not readily available in the mainstream media. Most of the items that I pass on via the PPEN are derived from other sources, which I believe to be accurate, but cannot guarantee, and I do not accept responsibility for any errors or omissions. I strive to provide references so that the reader can independently evaluate the validity of the information in each issue.
Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter Editor - Gary G. Kohls, MD, Duluth, MN
Email Gary Kohls, gkohls@cpinternet.com, with "Subscribe" in the subject line.
“I am a Doctor. A.B... M.A... PH.D... ABMAPHID! Abmaphid has been variously described as a wasting disease of the frontal lobes, and as a wonder drug. It is actually both.” - Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Trans Fat Ban: What does it mean?
The short story is that Artificial Lard replacements are worse than natural animal fat.
Before the invention of trans fatty acids, we cooked food with lard, palm oil or butter etc which are high in saturated fat. Researchers found that saturated fat increases LDL cholesterol (the Bad cholesterol) which may increase the risk of heart disease.
Therefore, manufacturers started to use the healthier vegetable oils in their food production. As liquid vegetable oils are not stable to heat and can go rancid easily, scientists began to "hydrogenate" liquid oils so that they can withstand better in food production process and provide a better shelf life. As a result of hydrogenation, trans fatty acids are formed.
Similar to saturated fatty acids, trans fatty acids also increase LDL cholesterol (the Bad cholesterol) and lower HDL cholesterol (the Good cholesterol) therefore increasing the risk of heart disease. Some studies also showed that a diet high in trans fatty acids may be linked to a greater risk of Type 2 Diabetes.Trans Fat 101 - what and where?
Trans fat (which means trans fatty acids) is the worst kind of fat, far worse than saturated fat.
What not to eat: Six rules to avoid eating bad fats (and don't be deceived by "cholesterol free" products)
When we compare the biological effects of the trans fatty acids versus the saturated fatty acids, we see that
- saturated fatty acids raise HDL cholesterol, the so-called good cholesterol, whereas the trans fatty acids lower HDL cholesterol;
- saturated fatty acids lower the blood levels of the atherogenic lipoprotein [a], whereas trans fatty acids raise the blood levels of lipoprotein [a];
- saturated fatty acids conserve the good omega-3 fatty acids, whereas trans fatty acids cause the tissues to lose these omega-3 fatty acids;
- saturated fatty acids do not inhibit insulin binding, whereas trans fatty acids do inhibit insulin binding (see our page on diabetes);
- saturated fatty acids do not increase C-reactive protein, but trans fatty acids do increase C-reactive protein causing arterial inflammation;
- saturated fatty acids are the normal fatty acids made by the body, and they do not interfere with enzyme functions such as the delta-6-desaturase, whereas trans fatty acids are not made by the body, and they interfere with many enzyme functions such as delta-6-desaturase; and
- some saturated fatty acids are used by the body to fight viruses, bacteria, and protozoa, and they support the immune system, whereas trans fatty acids interfere with the function of the immune system.
~ Trans fat versus Saturated fat
Who is BanTransFats.com?
To MSM about 'bird flu'--SHUT UP!
An “influenza” is a viral infection that has a relatively short lifespan and causes problems for its victim in the form of several minor effects (chills, high fever, aches and pains, headaches, sore throat, mucosal irritation). These actual “flu” conditions may make someone feel like they want to die, but the influenza virus generally does not kill a person—nor an animal. — 
Will our good sense ever overcome our gullibility? by Thomas Smith
The average bright third grader would have little difficulty in understanding how our tax-free foundations stay in business, year after year, without ever finding a cure for their proprietary disease. The immense amounts of money they swindle from the public on a regular yearly schedule will, very predictably, never produce a cure for anything. In fact the cure word has been legally banned by the FDA. Few physicians even allow it to be used in their presence. However, adult Americans, who have been trained to regard lying as merely another sales technique, remain completely blind to this business reality.
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Press Releasefrom Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum.
Sudden cardiac Death : The Role of Aspartame. MSG and Other Excitotoxins
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Breaking News: E-mail From Dr. Betty Martini
The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF has patents on aspartame from 6 nations as an
analgesic for headaches and other discomforts! Aspartame is supposedly a diet sweetener, keeps you slim. OMRF has
patented it for appetite enhancement. It keeps you thin by making you
crave carbohydrates, as we explained 12 years ago:
If you want to be fat,
NutraSweet is where its at!
Every step in the human fertility cycle is destroyed by aspartame...
It liberates free methyl alcohol. Damages the cardiac conduction system causing sudden death.
This neurotoxic drug triggers birth
defects, learning problems, and behavioral problems. It interacts with all
antidepressants, insulin, all cardiac Rx, anti-seizure Rx, hormones and
L-dopa, for starters. As a chemical hypersensitization agent it even
interacts with vaccines and other toxins. It has an additive and
synergistic effect with MSG.
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The AMA promotes Monsanto's aspartame
Once again, the Journal of the American Medical Association promotes Monsanto's aspartame product marketed as "Nutri-Sweet". Every liar depends on the truth in order to persuade you to believe. In this case, as in many before it, They use the convenient fact that too much sugar is unhealthy as the core truth. The subtle hint toward the end is almost subliminal, but the message is clear. The reason they want you to reduce your sugar intake, is to promote increased consumption of toxic aspartame (Nutri-Sweet) in diet drinks. The important fact which they omit is that the symptoms they attribute to sugar are more likely caused by the aspartame contained in all low sugar food and drink products. If the truth were told, all studies on obesety and related health problems coincide with the widespread use of low fat, low sugar food and drinks, NOT refined sugar. See articles below.
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E-mail Reply to "What Chronic Disease Have You Been Labeled With?"
I received the following E-mail from Dr. Betty Martini, Founder of Mission Possible Intl. with important information on the widespread use of Aspartame and it's harmful, often fatal effects.
Editors Note: I hesitate to call these side effects, because there is much clear evidence to support the theory that aspartame, mono-sodium glutamate and many other chemical substances are in our food supply by design to acheive whatever is being achevied. See my article "Understanding One-Worldism Through the Principles of Reverse Engineering" for an example.
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Our Deadly Diabetes Deception
Thomas Smith of healingmatters.com/ presents a convincing well documented argument that contrary to what you have heard from your doctor, diabetes is curable, but many of the symptoms are genuine killers. He writes, "The first step to curing diabetes is to stop believing the lie that the disease is incurable". According to Smith, some of the deadly symptoms of diabetes include strokes, heart failure, obesity, elevated blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, liver failure, and "...many more of today’s disgraceful epidemic disorders".
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Other articles by Thomas Smith
Ignorance as a Leading Cause of Death
by Christopher T. Carey
Illich managed, through the facilities of Antioch University (that wonderful, quirky "touchie-feelie" institute of higher learning), to help strip away all the layers of my own naive ignorance of functional health care systems and reveal the modern medical establishment for what it actually is: simply another consumer arena in which human illness and suffering is capitalised upon by powerful private and corporate interests.
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IATROGENY IATROGENOCIDE?
by Alan R. Yurko
The Journal of Degenerative Disease
225,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes, placing iatrogeny as the third leading cause of death in the US, second only to heart disease and cancer. The scary part is that this does not include disabilities and disorders, just deaths in hospitalized patients.
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MSG
November 13, 2002 -- In the United States, incidence and severity of human adverse reactions following ingestion of processed free glutamic acid (MSG) is increasing at an alarming rate. Yet both the United States government and many in the medical community have: 1) ignored the literature that reports adverse reactions following ingestion of processed free glutamic acid (MSG), 2) ignored consumer reports of adverse reactions filed with the FDA, 3) ignored incontrovertible evidence that glutamic acid kills brain cells and causes neuroendocrine disorders in laboratory animals, and 4) ignored a growing body of evidence that suggests a relationship between elevated brain glutamate levels and neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer's disease and ALS
— vaccinetruth.org
Obesity
http://www.truthinlabeling.org/Obesity.html
If MSG isn't harmful, why is it hidden?
In 1969, Olney (143) found hypothalamic lesions, and described stunted
skeletal development, obesity, and female sterility, as well as a spate
of observed pathological changes found in several brain regions associated
with endocrine function in maturing mice which had been given monosodium
glutamic acid as neonates. Longitudinal studies, including feeding
studies, in which neonatal/infant animals were given doses of monosodium
glutamate and then observed over a period of months or years before being
sacrificed for brain examination, repeatedly supported Olney's early findings.
By the early 1980s, evidence of monosodium glutamate induced brain lesions
was so well established that researchers interested in brain function and/or
development of drugs with which to treat disease conditions in which glutamic
acid played a role began to use monosodium glutamate as an ablative tool
with which to kill selected brain cells. emphasis added
Today, Americans are expressing great concern about one of the pathological
changes that follow brain lesions caused by ingestion of monosodium glutamate,
i.e., concern about gross obesity. Overeating, inadequate diet, junk food,
lack of exercise, psychological problems, genetics, and bad parenting have
all been offered as reasons underlying gross obesity. But never mentioned
are the glutamic acid in monosodium glutamate and the aspartic acid found
in aspartame that are known to cause gross obesity in laboratory animals.
Glutamic acid and aspartic acid are structural analogs which load on the
same receptors in the brain and cause identical brain lesions and neuroendocrine
disorders. They also have been know to act in an additive fashion.
There can be no question that processed free glutamic acid (MSG) causes
brain damage and subsequent neuroendocrine disorders, including obesity
in laboratory animals. Studies have demonstrated that free glutamic acid
(including processed free glutamic acid [MSG]) can cross the placenta during
pregnancy,(A-B) can cross the blood brain barrier in an unregulated manner
during development, and can pass through the five circumventricular organs,
which are "leaky" at best at any stage of life.(C-E) Moreover, the
blood brain barrier is easily damaged by fever, stroke, trauma to the head,
seizures, ingestion of processed free glutamic acid, and the normal process
of aging.(E-F) It is generally accepted that, given the greater permeability
of their blood-brain barriers, the young are particularly at risk from
ingestion of MSG.
There can be no question that in the United States, children in utero,
newborns, infants, and children are exposed to ever increasing amounts
of MSG.
In utero children receive MSG through their mothers' diets.(A-B)
As neonates they receive MSG through their mothers' milk if mother is
consuming MSG (which can hardly be avoided if mother is eating processed
foods) or through their infant formula which all has MSG in it. The
greatest amounts of MSG in infant formula will be found in hypoallergenic
formulas.
Cantani, A; Micera, M.Immunogenicity of hydrolysate formulas
in children
(part 1). Analysis of 202 reactions.
Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology, 2000
Sep-Oct,
10(5):261-76.
Abstract: Cow's milk protein hydrolyzed formulas appeared in the 1940s
with
the aim of decreasing or eliminating the allergenicity of cow's milk
proteins,
in addition to reducing the risk of sensitization. In recent years,
the
so-called "hypoallergenic" formulas have been developed. The use of
such
hydrolyzed formulas is based on the premise that predigested proteins,
when
fed as amino acids and peptides, provide nutrients in a nonantigenic
form.
Thus, protein hydrolyzed formulas have been classified as hypoallergenic.
These formulas are processed by heat and enzymatic hydrolysis, and
the
conformational and sequential structures are more or less changed.
The
formulas contain peptides of lower molecular weight than the native
protein
source, which are thought to be less immunogenic. Hydrolyzed formulas
appear
to be nutritionally adequate and infants generally gain weight until
they
refuse the formula because of its bad taste. However, caution should
be taken
when such formulas are given for prolonged periods since no data are
available
on nutritional assessment of infants exclusively fed hydrolyzed formulas
for
several months. In this paper we report and discuss more than 202 reactions
to
different hydrolyzed formulas, including cases of anaphylactic shock
and
apparent life-threatening events. The cross-reactivity between different
hydrolyzed formulas and cow's milk proteins, and the potential immunogenicity
of such formulas are discussed. We conclude that none of the hydrolyzed
formulas are nonallergenic, both for allergic children and for high-risk
babies. Moreover, we suggest that double-blind placebo-controlled food
challenge studies in larger cohorts of babies evaluated with well-defined
and
well-validated diagnostic methods may establish a more reliable prevalence
of
allergy to hydrolyzed formulas.
As neonates, children are also introduced to the MSG through vaccines.
All live virus vaccines, and some, if not all of the others, contain MSG.
The MSG in vaccines will typically be contained in one or more of the ingredients
that give no clue that they contain MSG.
Until 1978, children were treated to MSG in those little bottles of
food called "baby food." After 10 years of pressure from concerned
scientists and parents, the MSG was "voluntarily" removed from "baby
food" by its manufacturers. But on January 7, 1998, the EPA approved
using processed free glutamic acid (MSG) in pesticide products and plant
growth enhancers--and fruits, grains, nuts, seeds, and vegetables treated
with those products can now be used in baby food without disclosing that
they have been treated with a product that contains MSG.
Many fast foods, low-fat and no-fat foods, and processed foods contain
processed free glutamic acid (MSG). Canned soups sold by large corporations
and things like canned spaghetti or noodles are generally loaded with MSG,
too. The things our children get in their school lunches are highly
questionable -- possibly with more MSG in them if lunches are supplied
by the schools.
REFERENCES: Go to PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine and enter the search terms; "Obesity, Monosodium, Glutamate"
The Use Of Processed Free Glutamic Acid (MSG) In Vaccines.
Obesity Articles and News -- FindHealthNews.com
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