Re: 1 IN 3 U.S. ADULTS NOW HAS HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
From: Anth (anon_at_anon.com)
Date: 01/08/05
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Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 17:31:46 -0000
Doesn't this reflect the fact that 1 in 2 people end up with heart disease
to some degree or another?
Anth
"Dr. Jai Maharaj" <usenet@mantra.com> wrote in message
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>1 IN 3 U.S. ADULTS NOW HAS HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
>
> Forwarded message from Fidyl <fidyl@yahoo.com>
>
> [ 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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