March 3,2014
The Health of all of us in the hands of the F.D.A, Big Pharmaceuticals, and Agribusiness/Food Industry. Do you feel safe?
If you or your love ones experience pain, difficulty breathing or moving, memory loss (forgetfulness) anything out of your ordinary look at what you have been eating,drinking,or both along with seeking your health care provider's evaluation. The F.D.A (Food and Drug Administration) is not the watchdog it has been touted to be but rather a rubber stamp for big pharmaceutical and food industries leaving the consumer to fend for themselves and clueless. The approval of this super opioid that is stronger than Vicodin over it's own review board's opposition is evidence enough for me. Drug companies should not be allow to do their own testing and research of a new drug or product there need to be independent testers who have no invested interest or profit to gain. The New Yorker.com gives a very good informative blog as to what happened around this very dangerous drug being released in to the market. Look at the article for yourself http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/12/zohydro-why-did-the-fda-approve-a-new-pain-drug.html
There seems to be an outright attack on food, supplements, and medicines just to note a few. Case in point the past several weeks I sent my husband to get some vitamins for me and I requested "Nature Made Women's Pack" which had proved to be very effective in helping me in the past with major bouts of illness. Well they have ceased to make them and what they do have now is so watered down it is not as effective. One of the major changes is the trace minerals and elements are out that have shown to be essential in cellular health and overall health of the whole person. When I called the young person with the Valley Girl accent said one should get the trace minerals and elements from food, but it was cheaper to buy the individual bottles of minerals ($16.00 for a thirty day supply that includes all in the now discontinued Women's pack or ten or more individual bottles average price $5.00 each. Math was not her strong point). I tried to tell her that was not realistic because many do not have access to all those foods and the foods may have been grown in soils depleted in the needed nutrients and/ or processed so bad they have no real nutritional value.
The use of artificial sweeteners in virtually everything even if it is sweeten with sugar is another case. I read the label on "Swiss Miss Classic Milk Chocolate" and they have listed Acesulfame Potassium, Sucralose as an ingredient. I called ConAgra who is the producer, the lady was nice but she was not fully aware of the problems these ingredients could cause (for me they cause cardiac arrhythmia). She was nice and sought to find products that did not have sugar and corn syrup (probably high fructose corn syrup) with artificial sweetener kick.
There has been a large jump in chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, and new inflammatory conditions unknown from times past. Read the postings of Dr. Mercola ( www.mercola.com/) and Food Democracy (www.fooddemocracynow.org/), just to name a few sources of many.
Now many would say "but the research says that all this is okay" (Genetically Modified Origin foods/products, new drugs, and use of artificial sweeteners just to name a few). Well I tell you now note who is doing the research and what do they have to gain and who paid the bill for the research. That will tell you a lot. Many times we the consumers are the test subjects with out our permission and we pay (product recall is the end of experiment, too many test subjects have succumbed to side effects under estimated) when these products received F.D.A approval and are released to the market.
These very wealthy companies do not have our best health at heart, only their big profits. I for one do not feel safe at all! It will benefit us all to be informed and take nothing at face value or the government agency approved as validation of safety.
Monday, March 3, 2014
Saturday, February 15, 2014
The Other Side of The Rail.
The title of this blog is a term familiar to most health care professionals, so for the sake of those who do not know a definition will be provided. The term means that the caregiver is now the client, the patient, in other words the one being cared for. This flip can be most eye opening as to the state of health care in one's community. It can also show one how short you have fallen personally in caring for others and being who you are can be used against you when you are the patient.
2005 was a year that was full of ups and terrible lows in that I celebrated getting an associate degree in Culinary but I also was let go from my job because of a physical disability that was job acquired over the years. This was a real attack but I knew it was coming with the climate changes in the work place. I was blessed because many people died (literally). The hospital was laying off people without notice to prepare, you come to work only to be told to get your things and be escorted out by security like a criminal. The remaining like the Hebrew Children in the Bible had to continue to work with less yet production expectation is the same. Nurses had to adapt to forced overtime and increased work loads with job security gone. What you had to do for family or self was not in the cards. You was (and still is according to those on the inside) a production unit, none human, and an object to be replaced. And if one had a disability seen or unseen you were and still is a target.
The same held true for the community college I attended and the chef I had my externship under. One working with a cane was really not allowed even though it was voiced no problem at the beginning. Truth is never welcomed (I spared no one not even my self in my summation of the experience) in any arena.
However one becomes disable (seen or unseen) the focus should not be the disability but the ability of the person. It is cheaper to keep them in the work place than to let them go because the training of a new worker takes at lest two costly years before they can be functionally productive. How can one justify replacing twenty plus years of experience with a person with no experience to less than five Who is going to teach the new people and be a resource for them? The seasoned people are being pushed out. Personally saw a nursing unit with over 300 years of nursing experience be reduced to less than 50 within a two year period. Now the blind lead the blind and the mortality rate grows needlessly.
It makes no difference the type of work place a hospital or commercial kitchen and all points in between, the worker you let go because of a disability that can be accommodated is not a liability in the long run. The employer has to just be willing to invest in them by accommodations and further education to enable them to capitalize on their ability, not their disability.
When the worker capitalize the work place as a whole capitalize and in the final analysis the Nation. Think about it!
2005 was a year that was full of ups and terrible lows in that I celebrated getting an associate degree in Culinary but I also was let go from my job because of a physical disability that was job acquired over the years. This was a real attack but I knew it was coming with the climate changes in the work place. I was blessed because many people died (literally). The hospital was laying off people without notice to prepare, you come to work only to be told to get your things and be escorted out by security like a criminal. The remaining like the Hebrew Children in the Bible had to continue to work with less yet production expectation is the same. Nurses had to adapt to forced overtime and increased work loads with job security gone. What you had to do for family or self was not in the cards. You was (and still is according to those on the inside) a production unit, none human, and an object to be replaced. And if one had a disability seen or unseen you were and still is a target.
The same held true for the community college I attended and the chef I had my externship under. One working with a cane was really not allowed even though it was voiced no problem at the beginning. Truth is never welcomed (I spared no one not even my self in my summation of the experience) in any arena.
However one becomes disable (seen or unseen) the focus should not be the disability but the ability of the person. It is cheaper to keep them in the work place than to let them go because the training of a new worker takes at lest two costly years before they can be functionally productive. How can one justify replacing twenty plus years of experience with a person with no experience to less than five Who is going to teach the new people and be a resource for them? The seasoned people are being pushed out. Personally saw a nursing unit with over 300 years of nursing experience be reduced to less than 50 within a two year period. Now the blind lead the blind and the mortality rate grows needlessly.
It makes no difference the type of work place a hospital or commercial kitchen and all points in between, the worker you let go because of a disability that can be accommodated is not a liability in the long run. The employer has to just be willing to invest in them by accommodations and further education to enable them to capitalize on their ability, not their disability.
When the worker capitalize the work place as a whole capitalize and in the final analysis the Nation. Think about it!
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