1 IN 3 U.S. ADULTS NOW HAS HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

From: Dr. Jai Maharaj (usenet_at_mantra.com)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 05:25:50 GMT

1 IN 3 U.S. ADULTS NOW HAS HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

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[ Subject: One in 3 U.S. adults now have high blood pressure
[ From: Fidyl <fidyl@yahoo.com>
[ Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005

One in 3 U.S. adults now have high blood pressure; up 30% over the
past decade

By Mike Adams
Tuesday, January 4, 2005

http://www.newstarget.com/002711.html

New health statistics from the government reveal that high blood
pressure has climbed 30% over the past decade. The report says that
Americans are getting older and fatter and that's causing the number
of adults with high blood pressure to rise.

I love the intelligence of researchers who make such obvious
statements as, 'Americans are getting older.' Of course Americans are
getting older. Are there people from any other countries who are
getting younger? Of course, what the researchers are really talking
about is the age wave in America. They're saying that the demographic
curve (the baby boomers "hump") is shifting towards old age, so
there's a greater percentage of the population older today than 10
years ago.

But that doesn't account for high blood pressure. There's nothing
pre-programmed in the human genome that says as people get old they
automatically get fat and have high blood pressure. To say that
Americans are being diagnosed with high blood pressure simply because
they are chronologically aging is truly junk science. They're getting
high blood pressure because their diets are getting worse and they're
avoiding physical exercise. It's happening because people are eating
more processed foods and they're being dosed up with more
prescription drugs that actually cause destructive side effects in
their bodies.

Of course, it is true that Americans are getting fatter, and it's no
secret why. The average American purchases apparent weight loss
products like SlimFast, which has more sugar in it than the
circulating blood of a 14-year-old ADHD child. When people go out and
buy so-called diet products that have table sugar as their primary
ingredient, and when these products somehow manage to achieve
priority placement on the shelves of grocery stores and retailers
like Walgreen's, it's downright amazing that the whole country isn't
overweight. We're not far from it, actually: 66% of the adult
population has already reached that status.

But finally, we get some sanity on this from Dr. Daniel Jones, Dean
of the School of Medicine for the University of Mississippi Medical
Center who says, "The big message to the American public is that we
need to pay attention to our lifestyle, and those that are overweight
need to get slimmer." He may have borrowed that quote, by the way,
from the football coach at the University of Mississippi who once
said, "We need to move the ball down the field..." -- obviously
highly complex football strategy.

Well of course we all need to get slimmer. But the real issue is that
we all need to stop talking in circular logic here. We need people in
the medical community to start addressing the real cause of chronic
disease, which almost always comes down to diet and physical
exercise. It's basically just food, exercise and whether or not you
can manage to avoid environmental toxins. But yet, in the medical
community, you almost never hear diseases described in such terms.
Rather, they're busy announcing the latest finding of what gene has a
1% influence on the risks for heart disease or obesity or diabetes.

And besides, did it really take a government-funded research project
to realize that the people in our nation are getting fatter and have
higher blood pressure? I figured this out one day just by walking
through the Denver Airport. All you have to do is basically look at
the people walking around and you can reach the same conclusion the
government did without spending $5 million on federally funded
research.

So now that 1 in 3 American adults have blood pressure, what are the
other two doing? One of those two is busy filling out paperwork for
the Medicare drug discount card which reportedly requires 500 pages,
and the other person is working sixteen-hour days to generate enough
tax revenues to pay for the overpriced healthcare of the first
person.

This, friends, is called, "The best health care in the world!" Only
by naive Americans, of course. Everybody else knows the U.S. health
care system is the laughing stock of the international community.

End of forwarded message from Fidyl <fidyl@yahoo.com>

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