Yesterday the outstanding Senator from my State of Vermont spoke for 8 hours in the U. S. Senate on behalf of We the People. Senator Bernie Sanders pointed out the efforts to increase the incomes of people so wealthy and so few it is unlikely any average citizen will ever see one in person ever in our lives other than in the media. Please listen and watch Senator Sanders on your computer. The super wealthy are people who acquired fortunes that never would have been possible were they not citizens of our country. These super rich should appreciate their country to the extent that half of the money they own when alive should, after their deaths go to their country. I call it patriotism. Some of us go to war and are killed for patriotism but never the super rich. Some of the super rich have made fortunes from profits from war efforts.
Have you heard of any of the wealthy requesting tax brakes? Of course not. Can you imagine Bill Gates asking for tax brakes? Who then are asking for tax brakes for the wealthy? It is the sucklings of the super rich, conservative Republicans. Fat cat Republicans who have made it in wealth themselves who don't give a dam for either their country or the people in it. Unfortunately the people voted against bad times in the last election and no way did they vote in favor of the no, no, no leaches. It appears that among the lobbyists must be included most Republicans bought and paid for by those who want corporations to run our government and not our government. When they say, "get the government off our backs" they are saying clear the way for profit making corporations to run everything. It was Abraham Lincoln who said so many years ago, "With the advent of the corporation will be the end of the Republic."
I believe a wise man who sees the problems has been chosen by we the people to attempt to do something about it. We must all back President Obama and his efforts or the final struggles of our great Democracy will be ended. We should consider the fact that there are over one hundred thousand hired guns, armed and employed by our army to do what the army should be doing who are available to those who can pay for their services. We are at a cross roads and the choices are limited but the road taken soon will determine the life of the Republic. Get mad and get active or bury your head in the sand.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
Another View of Major Medical Problems
Please do not be turned off by the seemingly unimportant nature of the first paragraph but read on. This is perhaps an important observation concerning health for you to have heard articulated here for the first time. The story goes something like this. King Arthur was in his castle dining with all his Knights when the sound of horses' hoves was heard outside the castle. He announced to his Knights that if in the future they ever heard the sound like they had just heard they should think of horses and not Zebras.
My computer tells me that yearly over a billion dollsrs is spent on Autism research with no light at the end of the tunnel. I have to ask, is the research being invested on a zebra hunt here in the U,S? My Mother had Alzheimer's when she died and huge funds are spent to attempt unraveling the cause or causes. Are the scientists looking for Zebras? Go down the list of Autism, Parkinson's, Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy, ALS, late appearing diabetis and other problems with so far, unknown causes all because each is considered a zebra problem?
For me as a scientist who has been involved in research it seems of primary importance to examine the most obvious possibilities of causes of the above before looking for zebras. When I realized that Greyhounds did not have the dread dysplasia of all other breeds and recognized that the running exercise of the pregnant bitches when pregnant was a sound reason I concluded the Greyhoounds' exercise eliminaated the toxin(s) that caused the problem it was logical to suspect diet as the cause. Researchers looked for the genomme for the answer not thinking that that was a zebra hunt.
Granted one or more of the unsolved problems above may have predated the food
additive(s) that cause others but it seems almost crininal that food additives and combinations have not been thourghly investigated and that brings up some reasons why.
We live in a fire department culture in which we tend to treat problems as emergencies with heroic effort but if a problem takes long periods of time between cause and effect the answers may be lacking. In the case of the weed or flower in our gardens, lupine eaten at just a short period in the gestation period of a cow her calf will be born defective. If a pregnant woman takes the drug, Thalidimide her baby will often be defective for its life.
With the current situation it was in 1933 that Autism was first reported in humans and in 1935, Hip Dysplasia in dogs. The first food additive that was added in great quantity to both human and dog foods happens to be citric acid. Hundreds of thousands of metric tons each year most of which goes into food. Doesn't it seem like common sense to do long time research if only observational research? As a start have that one item removed from the diets of pregnant woman in one group of volunteers.
As a veterinarian I am confident some enterprising dog food manufacturer could actually produce a citric acid free diet and advertise it as just that, a diet to determine if their diet would be effective in the prevention of that canine problem. Even charging twice the usual cost of dog food there will be enough breeders who would be not only willing but anxious to try it on their pregnant bitches and thus to make it a financial success.
So often members of the Veterinary Medical profession have led the way for progress in the Human Medical profession as with a Dr. Salmon in salmonella and in solving the gastric ulcer problem in humans that was considered a psychiatric problem and a bacterial problem of hogs. We were right there, too. The veterinarians who proved that insects can carry and spread disease to others and orthopedic surgery are all veterinary contributions.
If the most obvious possibility is found lacking then go to the next most obvious and then come the combination's but all should be suspect before the zebras.
My computer tells me that yearly over a billion dollsrs is spent on Autism research with no light at the end of the tunnel. I have to ask, is the research being invested on a zebra hunt here in the U,S? My Mother had Alzheimer's when she died and huge funds are spent to attempt unraveling the cause or causes. Are the scientists looking for Zebras? Go down the list of Autism, Parkinson's, Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy, ALS, late appearing diabetis and other problems with so far, unknown causes all because each is considered a zebra problem?
For me as a scientist who has been involved in research it seems of primary importance to examine the most obvious possibilities of causes of the above before looking for zebras. When I realized that Greyhounds did not have the dread dysplasia of all other breeds and recognized that the running exercise of the pregnant bitches when pregnant was a sound reason I concluded the Greyhoounds' exercise eliminaated the toxin(s) that caused the problem it was logical to suspect diet as the cause. Researchers looked for the genomme for the answer not thinking that that was a zebra hunt.
Granted one or more of the unsolved problems above may have predated the food
additive(s) that cause others but it seems almost crininal that food additives and combinations have not been thourghly investigated and that brings up some reasons why.
We live in a fire department culture in which we tend to treat problems as emergencies with heroic effort but if a problem takes long periods of time between cause and effect the answers may be lacking. In the case of the weed or flower in our gardens, lupine eaten at just a short period in the gestation period of a cow her calf will be born defective. If a pregnant woman takes the drug, Thalidimide her baby will often be defective for its life.
With the current situation it was in 1933 that Autism was first reported in humans and in 1935, Hip Dysplasia in dogs. The first food additive that was added in great quantity to both human and dog foods happens to be citric acid. Hundreds of thousands of metric tons each year most of which goes into food. Doesn't it seem like common sense to do long time research if only observational research? As a start have that one item removed from the diets of pregnant woman in one group of volunteers.
As a veterinarian I am confident some enterprising dog food manufacturer could actually produce a citric acid free diet and advertise it as just that, a diet to determine if their diet would be effective in the prevention of that canine problem. Even charging twice the usual cost of dog food there will be enough breeders who would be not only willing but anxious to try it on their pregnant bitches and thus to make it a financial success.
So often members of the Veterinary Medical profession have led the way for progress in the Human Medical profession as with a Dr. Salmon in salmonella and in solving the gastric ulcer problem in humans that was considered a psychiatric problem and a bacterial problem of hogs. We were right there, too. The veterinarians who proved that insects can carry and spread disease to others and orthopedic surgery are all veterinary contributions.
If the most obvious possibility is found lacking then go to the next most obvious and then come the combination's but all should be suspect before the zebras.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Clues in the Cause of Autism and Hip Dysplasia
It seems to me that all medical trained professionals have to be good detectives to be effective be they in human or veterinary medicine. In veterinary medicine the patient cannot offer many clues via the voice box so it may be we are better suited to arrive at the correct evaluation of important clues. I asked one of Vermont's excellent Senators for help in pursuing my ideas as to the cause of Autism and right from the podium he offered a clue to add to my conclusion as to a possible and likely cause. Senator Saunders proclaimed that huge financial funds have been and are being spent at the present time to find an answer with poor results so far. I shall mention why Senator's remarks amounted to an important clue.
Please follow my reasoning and fault it as favor to me. The first clue comes from an evaluation of a problem you have heard of in our dogs, Hip Dysplasia. Long after retiring and moving to Brattleboro in my bachelor pad and wondering of all things why had that problem effected all breeds of dogs other than Greyhounds. Imagine that was clue one. In the first place my profession has considered Hip Dysplasia to be a genetic defect as some have claimed Autism in humans is. First reported in 1935 and never having existed in nature, at least never reported before that time. Genetic defects do occur in our dogs such as a few puppies born without much hair and were selectively bred to create a new breed of dog, Mexican Hairless. Such a condition does not spread to all breeds of dogs. What else might have caused it? Clue two: some environmental problem. I believe the most obvious cause had to be dietary. What ingredient had been introduced so widely that all breeds of dogs were involved? An ingredient in diets is clue three about which I will comment eventually.
It was that time I began to wonder if some dietary condition affected all of dogdome might it be something that might affect man's best friend? After all dog food is the same as human food only in dehydrated form so that if something was added to a food such as to wheat flour it would be in all dog food as well as most human food such as pastries including breads and pastas.
I began to explore serious human illnesses that had not been reported until the cause of the dog problem and clew four: Autism was first reported in humans in 1933. The next clue came of all places from the fact that Greyhounds, for years appeared never to have been affected by Hip Dysplasia and that involved my own new hobby of running. Studying running I was surprised to find many areas of health in man that resulted in runners being the healthiest part of our population. My detective work in that field resulted in deciding that with running the blood flows through internal organs much more rapidly in runners than in couch potatoes and that seems to clear the system of toxins in runners.There was c;ue five. So what has that to do with Greyhounds? The Greyhound breed was well and growing because the breeders were people who bread and raised them for being fast runners. Those breeders thought that by running pregnant bitches their puppies would be faster at racing. So that concluded the reason for Greyhounds to be free of Hip dysplasia. Racing the pregnant bitches resulted in the elimination of wastes that caused the problem in non-exercising dogs. That was clue five, the food was the problem and if so it may be the problem in the higher animal.
Next comes an answer as to the very material added to food massively at the time the dread problem of crippled dogs appeared. Experiments with vitamins reported on and as information became available they were added to foods and preservatives were important life savers in many cases. Except for biochemists many of the small print chemicals on food labels are unknown as to why they are included.
One additive interested me on a personal level. In my new hobby of running the ads were voluminous in advising athletes to drink athletic formula sports drinks. I found I had to get up mights to urinate and that I had never done before. I wondered about the words citric acid in all sports drinks and asked the head chemist of the Conn Agricultural Experiment Station about it. She informed me that citric acid is a diuretic and incidently is GRAS standing for, "Generally Regarded As Safe."There was clue five.
Studying citric acid on my computer I found there are two strains of it. One strain is found in nature in limes and lemons and the second strain is produced in metric tons by the fermentation of the fungus, Aspirgilla nigri with sucrose. What is citric acid used for? First it is classed as a pesticide. When I was young my mother used to have to strain the flour to get the bugs out of it. With citric acid the bugs are killed so its an insecticide. It is listed in some places as a preservative and a fungicide. I find it has been used in a 16% solution to kill frogs in an outbreak of frogs in Hawaii and is presently used as an insecticide for at least 5 agricultural crops in California. With citric acid there is no need for my late mother to strain the flour.
Clue six: if it is so versatile and so effective, how come it is listed as gras and as gras not mentioned on many labels on foods? So it was Senator Sanders with his statement of how much effort has been spent on investigating the cause that if so many avenues of investigation have been explored and found to be wanting, perhaps my food additive theory is valid. Senator's statement was clue seven.
Let me make it clear that I cannot accuse citric acid of being involved with the human disease or the canine problem but from the above do you think the evidence is at east valid enough to urge more investigation of the strain of citric acid that may have and therefore perhaps is causing one or both of the problems mentioned?
Finally I lie in bed nights wondering if I am correct and it being known, lives could be spared or at least problems could be prevented and I further think of the many human problems with unknown causes that may come under one umbrella.
Please follow my reasoning and fault it as favor to me. The first clue comes from an evaluation of a problem you have heard of in our dogs, Hip Dysplasia. Long after retiring and moving to Brattleboro in my bachelor pad and wondering of all things why had that problem effected all breeds of dogs other than Greyhounds. Imagine that was clue one. In the first place my profession has considered Hip Dysplasia to be a genetic defect as some have claimed Autism in humans is. First reported in 1935 and never having existed in nature, at least never reported before that time. Genetic defects do occur in our dogs such as a few puppies born without much hair and were selectively bred to create a new breed of dog, Mexican Hairless. Such a condition does not spread to all breeds of dogs. What else might have caused it? Clue two: some environmental problem. I believe the most obvious cause had to be dietary. What ingredient had been introduced so widely that all breeds of dogs were involved? An ingredient in diets is clue three about which I will comment eventually.
It was that time I began to wonder if some dietary condition affected all of dogdome might it be something that might affect man's best friend? After all dog food is the same as human food only in dehydrated form so that if something was added to a food such as to wheat flour it would be in all dog food as well as most human food such as pastries including breads and pastas.
I began to explore serious human illnesses that had not been reported until the cause of the dog problem and clew four: Autism was first reported in humans in 1933. The next clue came of all places from the fact that Greyhounds, for years appeared never to have been affected by Hip Dysplasia and that involved my own new hobby of running. Studying running I was surprised to find many areas of health in man that resulted in runners being the healthiest part of our population. My detective work in that field resulted in deciding that with running the blood flows through internal organs much more rapidly in runners than in couch potatoes and that seems to clear the system of toxins in runners.There was c;ue five. So what has that to do with Greyhounds? The Greyhound breed was well and growing because the breeders were people who bread and raised them for being fast runners. Those breeders thought that by running pregnant bitches their puppies would be faster at racing. So that concluded the reason for Greyhounds to be free of Hip dysplasia. Racing the pregnant bitches resulted in the elimination of wastes that caused the problem in non-exercising dogs. That was clue five, the food was the problem and if so it may be the problem in the higher animal.
Next comes an answer as to the very material added to food massively at the time the dread problem of crippled dogs appeared. Experiments with vitamins reported on and as information became available they were added to foods and preservatives were important life savers in many cases. Except for biochemists many of the small print chemicals on food labels are unknown as to why they are included.
One additive interested me on a personal level. In my new hobby of running the ads were voluminous in advising athletes to drink athletic formula sports drinks. I found I had to get up mights to urinate and that I had never done before. I wondered about the words citric acid in all sports drinks and asked the head chemist of the Conn Agricultural Experiment Station about it. She informed me that citric acid is a diuretic and incidently is GRAS standing for, "Generally Regarded As Safe."There was clue five.
Studying citric acid on my computer I found there are two strains of it. One strain is found in nature in limes and lemons and the second strain is produced in metric tons by the fermentation of the fungus, Aspirgilla nigri with sucrose. What is citric acid used for? First it is classed as a pesticide. When I was young my mother used to have to strain the flour to get the bugs out of it. With citric acid the bugs are killed so its an insecticide. It is listed in some places as a preservative and a fungicide. I find it has been used in a 16% solution to kill frogs in an outbreak of frogs in Hawaii and is presently used as an insecticide for at least 5 agricultural crops in California. With citric acid there is no need for my late mother to strain the flour.
Clue six: if it is so versatile and so effective, how come it is listed as gras and as gras not mentioned on many labels on foods? So it was Senator Sanders with his statement of how much effort has been spent on investigating the cause that if so many avenues of investigation have been explored and found to be wanting, perhaps my food additive theory is valid. Senator's statement was clue seven.
Let me make it clear that I cannot accuse citric acid of being involved with the human disease or the canine problem but from the above do you think the evidence is at east valid enough to urge more investigation of the strain of citric acid that may have and therefore perhaps is causing one or both of the problems mentioned?
Finally I lie in bed nights wondering if I am correct and it being known, lives could be spared or at least problems could be prevented and I further think of the many human problems with unknown causes that may come under one umbrella.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Control Corporations
When Abraham Lincoln stated that with the advent of the corporations will be the end of the Republic, it would seem he was right on the mark and that was in the 1860s. It is obvious that more than half of our legislators in Washington have been bought and paid for by corporations. Even knowing that the boards of directors of most corporations know that they are bleeding the Republic to death they will continue their nefarious activities. I am no political scientist but it seems to me there could be an out not only for the Republic but for the corporations, too. I urge others to take up the results of passing legislation permitting boards of directors of all corporations to be able to be sued for "corporate" miss deeds. Thus if a board member in authority hires a dishonest person who, for example fudges scientific reports to have a drug approved that is found to cause deaths of innocent people, the board should be responsible. When, more than a few years ago a chap named Socrates asked his friend, "If you knew that you would never be found out would you cheat?" His friend said he would have to think about it and gave no answer. We all must admit that perhaps most and maybe all humans are guilty of cheating if circumstances suggest the chance of being discovered is in their favor. Most of our laws are necessary to keep people honest. There are males who will tell a female she is pretty even if she looks like a truck. To one who says, "Get the government off our backs." We should say, "You bastard, you get off our backs. It's my government you are talking about." Corporations have to be controlled. Board members of corporations pay lobbyists to do what the board member would never do himself. It seems imperative that we somehow get the corporations off our governments back.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Why Runers Run, Why Non-runners Don't Run
After reading about why runners run and after asking countless runners that question I have at last surmised the actual answer. The usual answer after moments of considering the question is usually either, "because it makes me feel so great" or "To keep in shape" or all sorts of variations including thoughts such as, "It gets me out of my house." Considering the hesitancy in answering and the variety of answers I think even runners do not know the answer. I'll get to the answer shortly. With the obvious fact that all strains of humans and in all cultures are hard wired to run and must have required running for survival before leaving the African Savannah to populate the earth perhaps hundreds of thousands of years ago. Aside from the interesting question as to why all have the ability, developed or not, it is inherited as are such things as fear, pain, the ability to bond, to think, to walk upright, for better health as well as longer life are reasons to name a few.
Science does not seem to accept the obvious fact of inherited running perhaps because even scientists may not like the idea of the necessity of exercise for the healthy human so they may not like the idea that all humans also inherit the desire to run. It was estimated by the USATF that in 2007 there were at least 30 million runners in our country who run at least once a week. If they have inherited the desire to run why not all those who do not run? The answer lies in the fact that we are inundated by work saving devices and work has acquired a bad name. "It sounds like work to me" is common and the labor saving devices that save time and are an important part of the good lives we lead all form a barrier to the exercise that running is.
Sigmund Freud suggested the sub conscience ability of our brains and it is my thesis that the sub conscience desire to run is also inherited. That would answer why 30 million run in spite of the fact that running is one of the most intense exercise we humans can indulge in. In spite of the electric tooth brush culture we live in, the over 30 million do run for good reason. Please, friends and all others, tell me how my reasoning is faulty since it is a new idea. With love, George
Science does not seem to accept the obvious fact of inherited running perhaps because even scientists may not like the idea of the necessity of exercise for the healthy human so they may not like the idea that all humans also inherit the desire to run. It was estimated by the USATF that in 2007 there were at least 30 million runners in our country who run at least once a week. If they have inherited the desire to run why not all those who do not run? The answer lies in the fact that we are inundated by work saving devices and work has acquired a bad name. "It sounds like work to me" is common and the labor saving devices that save time and are an important part of the good lives we lead all form a barrier to the exercise that running is.
Sigmund Freud suggested the sub conscience ability of our brains and it is my thesis that the sub conscience desire to run is also inherited. That would answer why 30 million run in spite of the fact that running is one of the most intense exercise we humans can indulge in. In spite of the electric tooth brush culture we live in, the over 30 million do run for good reason. Please, friends and all others, tell me how my reasoning is faulty since it is a new idea. With love, George
Monday, July 5, 2010
Almost Any Normal Human Can Learn to Run
Having been running and investigating running for over 10 years I have come to realize that all normal people of virtually any age can learn to run just as we can learn to reason and to talk. It may take a bit more effort to get started when old but not as much effort as with an infant that has not learned to walk and granted, a senior past the ability is an exception. Age has little to do with the capability. I had run a little as a youngster and if your memory is even partially intact you recall that as a youngster you too ran if only a little.
I have written a book that has not been published yet that I hope will start a fad of running for seniors 65 years of age and up. It becomes obvious that it will be necessary to convince seniors of the fact that they have the ability to learn to run for the fun of it as well as for the good of it. Once even a few accept the idea and pursue the exercise necessary to relearn and actually do it, others will emulate the early learners and in trying appreciate the sense of well being that running accomplishes. No book has been written by a 91 year old who started when 80 years of age. The working title is, "Come Run with Me." Think for a moment of the significance of seniors learning to run in large numbers as I predict will happen.
Runners have lower blood pressure than non-runners and so no medicine. Runners usually have only an excess of good cholesterol and so no medicine. Runners rarely have sleepless nights and so no medicine. Runners have stronger bones and so rarely break bones requiring surgery and so less medication and less hospitalization and so less cost. An insurance estimate of 750,000 elderly people are admitted to hospitals yearly in our country due to injuries around homes. For those of us who have personally experienced a loved ones with Alzheimer's, discovering that runners have a much lower incidence of Alzheimer's than non runners is significant. The list of improvements and preventions goes on but the frosting on the cake is that runners live an additional 2 or more years than non-runners. There are unexpected results along the way of running for seniors such as a reason for living and less boredom that is often foisted on seniors resulting in better well being and happiness. How about you joining me in starting the fad. If I am correct in my thinking imagine the changes resulting if only in the happiness resulting with better health and the savings in expenditures. Finally by joining the action you will do more of what we all should do more of and that is to help others.
I have written a book that has not been published yet that I hope will start a fad of running for seniors 65 years of age and up. It becomes obvious that it will be necessary to convince seniors of the fact that they have the ability to learn to run for the fun of it as well as for the good of it. Once even a few accept the idea and pursue the exercise necessary to relearn and actually do it, others will emulate the early learners and in trying appreciate the sense of well being that running accomplishes. No book has been written by a 91 year old who started when 80 years of age. The working title is, "Come Run with Me." Think for a moment of the significance of seniors learning to run in large numbers as I predict will happen.
Runners have lower blood pressure than non-runners and so no medicine. Runners usually have only an excess of good cholesterol and so no medicine. Runners rarely have sleepless nights and so no medicine. Runners have stronger bones and so rarely break bones requiring surgery and so less medication and less hospitalization and so less cost. An insurance estimate of 750,000 elderly people are admitted to hospitals yearly in our country due to injuries around homes. For those of us who have personally experienced a loved ones with Alzheimer's, discovering that runners have a much lower incidence of Alzheimer's than non runners is significant. The list of improvements and preventions goes on but the frosting on the cake is that runners live an additional 2 or more years than non-runners. There are unexpected results along the way of running for seniors such as a reason for living and less boredom that is often foisted on seniors resulting in better well being and happiness. How about you joining me in starting the fad. If I am correct in my thinking imagine the changes resulting if only in the happiness resulting with better health and the savings in expenditures. Finally by joining the action you will do more of what we all should do more of and that is to help others.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
wind energy for the average citizen
Perhaps it is our location on a hill that wind is often noticeable. Is wind in the news only to sell large wind generators? When I have tire trouble I note the wrenches used to remove the lugs on the wheel are powered by air pressure. Could our wasted wind be of use in pumping air pressure to be stored until needed? Here is another "What if" consideration. Could air pressure be used to power the tools in a home machine shop and to operate the compressor in my refrigerator? or a central vacuum? I do know that it takes little pressure to pump up a tire- even a car tire that I have hand pumped in days gone by so the question is presented, would it be possible to use a residential wind turbine to pump up the air in a tank or tanks to be used at a later date? It makes sense to me. The tank or tanks needed for the energy required could be figured and a device with blades that the wind turns might be a foot and a half in diameter and placed on a garage or house roof. If the cars of the future are electric or even partially electric, couldn't the wind charge batteries? Even trickle charging that requires longer periods of charging would be acceptable for reserved batteries. One major problem is the storage of energy for future use and the wind should not be over looked as a source not only for a major source with huge wind machines but also for small machines for small amounts for comparatively small needs. Of course that stationary bicycle in the basement could be wired to a battery charger, too.
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