re: New Federal Guidelines Ignore Dangers of Mammography

Beccadog — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:30:35 GMT

I agree, with Austin, Texas.

The same thing has occurred with pesticide poisoning...having been there. Fortunately, to a limited extent, a physician who treated me at the time of my second exposure to chemicals in a consumer floor stripper, which contained petroleum distillates, many of which are also used in insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides, knew the symptoms (which I had) and whether or not they could be treated based on his knowledge of Toxicology.

"Pesticide poisoning is a commonly under-diagnosed illness in America today. Despite recommendations by the Institute of Medicine and others urging the integration of environmental medicine into medical education, health care providers generally receive very limited amount of training in occupational and environmental health, and in pesticide-related illnesses, in particular..."

"There is general agreement that PREVENTION of pesticide poisoning remains a much surer path to safety and health than reliance of treatment. In addition to the inherent toxicity of pesticides, none of the medical procedures or drugs used in treating poisonings is risk-free. In fact, many antidotes are toxic in their own right..." [My emphasis.]

Mammograms are not a preventive measure. There is big money in mammograms for the companies that make the technology and equipment. This administration has ignored science, dismantled scientific libraries, and in its place is using industry "science" which is not peer reviewed to promote its policies.

Source: www.peer.org/.../index.php

Regulations of coal-fired power plants and nuclear power plants do not reflect public health considerations and this is echoed in other industries.

Chapter 1: Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings.

www.epa.gov/.../Chap01.pdf

re: New Federal Guidelines Ignore Dangers of Mammography

Austin Texas — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:45:42 GMT

There are so many Breast Cancer Awareness Groups that push you and the Government to send attention to getting mammograms to prevent breast cancer in particular versus other cancers. All this attention on "breast cancer" sends the wrong message to the government that is ill advised by drug companies and inadequate western medicine practices. Mammograms are the only prevention they "know" so that is what they push. If they understood good nutrition and health practices they would not need to recommend all the drugs they do and unhealthy x-rays, etc. The majority of our country still believes that a pill can cure anything, hence the massive addiction widespread on sleeping, anti-depressant and pain pills. It's not until you try Homeopathy and it works that you are sold on it and realize the synthetic medicine you've been using all your life is what is making you sick. My life has been saved by western medicine more than once but it has kept me sick also. We need a happy medium with the two if medical school would just teach our doctors the basics on nutrition and molecular bio-physiology it would help. Most doctors I've encountered don't know much about the molecules in our bodies, just how to write a prescription for a symptom. It's pathetic when you have to tell your doctor what is wrong with yourself and see the look on their face that you the layman has figured it out on your own because they thought their simple blood test was normal which means you are normal and your illness is all in your head...