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 "TC"  wrote: 
  
 "> Lie #4: Vitamins give you "expensive urine." 
 "> 
 "> Truth #4: The most expensive urine in the world is created by taking 
 "> multiple overpriced prescription drugs, not vitamins. With more than 40% 
 o 
 "> the U.S. population now on prescription drugs, the drug content in human 
 "> urine is now so high that trace amounts of antidepressant drugs can be 
 fou 
 "> in public water supplies. Compared to drugs, vitamins are cheap 
 prevention 
  
 You're far better off altering your diet to include the proper 
 vitamin-containing foods, as the foods contain the vitamins AND the 
 necessary 
 enzymes to catalyze them properly to your body's healthful use. 
  
 "> Lie #5: The sun will give you cancer. 
 "> 
 "> Truth #5: The sun will prevent cancer due to the creation of vitamin D by 
 "> the skin. Most Americans (and Canadians and Europeans, for that matter) 
 ar 
 "> deficient in vitamin D. As a result, tumor cell growth in the breast and 
 "> prostate is unregulated. Sensible exposure to natural sunlight generates 
 "> cancer-preventing vitamin D... at no charge! Sunburns are actually caused 
 "> nutritional deficiencies (lack of antioxidants in the skin), not by 
 sensib 
 "> exposure to sunlight. 
  
 Why did they once think that the Birth Control Pill caused/increased risk 
 for 
 skin cancer? 
  
 Because the studies showed that women who are taking the BCP have a higher 
 average incidence of skin cancer -- turns out that the REAL cause of that 
 higher incidence was that the female demographic that took the BCP were 
 also, 
 for the most part, participants in the bikini & sun-bathing lifestyle, so 
 they 
 had far more skin exposure to the sun than most. . . 
  
 "> Lie #6: CT scans (CAT scans) are perfectly safe. 
 "> 
 "> Truth #6: CT scans expose patients to 1000 times the radiation of chest 
 "> X-rays. Repeated exposure to CT scans raises a patient's cumulative 
 "> radiation to levels experienced by many hydrogen bomb victims in 
 Hiroshima 
 "> In addition, rigorous studies have concluded that CT scans offer no 
 medica 
 "> benefit whatsoever. 
  
 No medical benefit, only if you're using that phrase as if a CT scan were a 
 form of TREATMENT -- they certainly provide an important(at times critical) 
 look into the body -- especially WRT a brain aneurysm -- the CT, with 
 radioactive dye, will highlight the damaged blood vessel(s) giving the 
 neurosurgeon critical information for the life & death surgery the patient 
 needs! 
  
 So say that there's no benefit to myself, and anyone else who's had a 
 serious 
 CVA, and lives to tell about it! 
  
 And, further, tell me & others with kidney stones that are too soft to show 
 up 
 on standard X-Rays, that the CT scan isn't of benefit! 
  
 "> Lie #8: All surgical procedures have been proven safe and effective. 
 "> 
 "> Truth #8: There is currently NO requirement whatsoever that surgical 
 "> procedures must be either safe or effective in order to be practiced. 
 "> Hundreds of thousands of medically unnecessary surgical procedures are 
 "> performed each year in the U.S. alone, including hysterectomies and 
 prosta 
 "> cancer surgeries. 
  
 Looks like a strawman to me -- I've never seen any claim that all(or ANY, 
 for 
 that matter!) surgical procedure is safe or effective! 
  
 That's why there's always a waiver & informed consent to be signed before 
 surgery! 
  
 "> Lie #9: You can get all the nutrition you need from three balanced meals 
 a 
 "> day. 
 "> 
 "> Truth #9: Today's foods are nutrient depleted, and they come from 
 depleted 
 "> soils. Processed and manufactured foods would have to be eaten at the 
 rate 
 "> of 10,000 calories a day just to meet minimum RDA requirements for basic 
 "> nutrition (see related ebook on nutrition). The only way to get adequate 
 "> nutrition is to supplement with superfoods or whole food concentrates 
 "> (vitamins, whole food powders, supplement capsules, etc.) along with 
 eatin 
 "> healthy meals. Organizations like the AHA, however, insist that nutrient 
 "> supplementation is actually bad for your health. 
  
 Your article is rather behind the times, for content, eh? 
 Dieticians are currently suggesting 4-5 small meals a day, containing the 
 RDA 
 of vitamins, etc. 
  
 Because I care, 
  
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