The Healthy Should Not Take Aspirin to Avoid Heart Attack
March 3, 2010
telegraph.co.uk
By Rebecca Smith
Millions of people take a low dose of aspirin daily, as it is known to reduce the risk of having a heart attack or stroke in people who have already had one attack.
It is seen as a ‘just in case’ measure and, because aspirin has been available for around 100 years, it is considered safe by the majority of people.
However, aspirin increases the likelihood of major bleeding, in the brain, stomach or elsewhere in the body, and experts warned that the beneficial effects must be weighed against the risk of harm.
Aspirin, which thins the blood, has been hailed as a wonder drug because it is wide range of uses including reducing the risk of a second heart attack or stroke, increasing evidence that it may prevent some cancers and may have an affect on dementia.
Research carried out in Scotland and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that aspirin taken by people who have no outward symptoms of heart disease did not reduce the risk of a heart attack when compared to those on a dummy pill.
Those on aspirin were at almost twice the risk of suffering a bleed, although the overall risk was small, the study found.
Professor Peter Weissberg, Medical Director of the British Heart Foundation, said: “We know that a small daily dose of aspirin can reduce the risk of a heart attack in people with angina and in those who’ve had a heart attack. In these cases, this potential benefit outweighs the risk of internal bleeding, which is a side effect of aspirin.
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Tylenol Recalled by Johnson & Johnson
January 16, 2010
By Marley Seaman
Johnson & Johnson issued a massive recall Friday of over-the-counter drugs including Tylenol, Motrin and St. Joseph’s aspirin because of a moldy smell that has made people sick. It was the second such recall in less than a month because of the smell, which regulators said was first reported to McNeil in 2008. Federal regulators criticized the company, saying it didn’t respond to the complaints quickly enough, wasn’t thorough in how it handled the problem and didn’t inform the Food and Drug Administration quickly.
The recall includes some batches of regular and extra-strength Tylenol, children’s Tylenol, eight-hour Tylenol, Tylenol arthritis, Tylenol PM, children’s Motrin, Motrin IB, Benadryl Rolaids, Simply Sleep, and St. Joseph’s aspirin.
The FDA and Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare Products said they did not know the number of bottles recalled. It included caplet and geltab products sold in the Americas, the United Arab Emirates, and Fiji.
The FDA said about 70 people have been either sickened by the odor — including nausea, stomach pain, vomiting and diarrhea — or noticed it.
The smell is caused by small amounts of a chemical associated with the treatment of wooden pallets, Johnson & Johnson said. The FDA said the chemical can leach into the air, and traced it to a facility in Las Piedras, Puerto Rico.
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A Cup of Brazilian Mint Tea Relieves Pain as Well as Aspirin
November 30, 2009
Natural News
By Mike Adams
Researchers from Newcastle University have scientifically proven that Hyptis crenata, also known as Brazilian mint, is a powerful pain reliever that works just as well as Indometacin, a synthetic drug similar to aspirin. A traditional remedy for treating the flu, stomach problems, high fevers, and headaches, Brazilian mint was found to be extremely powerful and safe.
The team, led by Graciela Rocha, set out to perform the study using the traditional preparation of the herb. Surveys were conducted in Brazil to figure out exactly how this was done and how much should be consumed in order to achieve beneficial results. The preparation the team ended up using consisted of the herb’s dried leaves being steeped in boiling water for 30 minutes. Once cool, the tea was consumed in the same way as any other brewed tea would be. The results indicated efficacy in a wide range of ailments.
Graciela emphasized the fact that more than 50,000 plants worldwide are used for some type of medicinal purpose and that researchers should focus on identifying these types of plants and testing their efficacy. Since more than half of all prescription drugs are derived from plant compounds, it is a worthy effort to study plant medicines in their natural, safe forms.
Findings were put forward at the 2nd International Symposium on Medicinal and Nutraceutical Plants in New Delhi, India and are set to be published in the society’s journal Acta Horticulturae. Clinical trials are the next step for the group who hopes to discover not only the various effective dose levels for various pains and illnesses but also the specific characteristics of the herb that make it so advantageous.
Comments by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Living in South America, I find myself surrounded by abundant natural medicine. I can’t walk fifty feet out my front door without discovering medicinal plants.
South America is an undiscovered medicine chest that continues to remain largely ignored by western nations. Ecuador, for example, offers seemingly countless medicinal plants that have yet to be properly studied and understood. Brazil, meanwhile, is a huge, incredibly biodiverse nation with a rich collection of undiscovered medicinal plants that very quite literally save the western world from chronic disease.
In Ecuador, I recently took a weekend trip and harvested fresh Sangre de Drago from the trees found in the local rainforests. We also harvested tres filos herb from the local hillsides, and we even found some amazing guayusa herb leaves that we harvested to make some invigorating tea. In these three herbs alone, thousands of medicinal compounds exist. Most are entirely unknown by western science, but they were well understood in function by the South American Indians who inhabited regions throughout South American which now include Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia and several others.
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Aspirin – More Dangerous Than Swine Flu
November 20, 2009
Natural News
By Mike Adams
The CDC now reports that nearly 4,000 Americans have been killed by H1N1 swine flu. This number is supposed to sound big and scary, motivating millions of people to go out and pay good money to be injected with untested, unproven H1N1 vaccines. But let’s put the number in perspective: Did you know that more than four times as many people are killed each year by common NSAID painkillers like aspirin?
The July 1998 issue of The American Journal of Medicine explains it as follows:
“Conservative calculations estimate that approximately 107,000 patients are hospitalized annually for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)-related gastrointestinal (GI) complications and at least 16,500 NSAID-related deaths occur each year among arthritis patients alone.” (Singh Gurkirpal, MD, “Recent Considerations in Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Gastropathy”, The American Journal of Medicine, July 27, 1998, p. 31S)
So for every person the CDC claims was killed by H1N1 swine flu this year, common painkillers like aspirin have killed four! Yet you don’t see the CDC, FDA, WHO or mainstream media running around screaming about the extreme dangers of aspirin, do you? All those deaths apparently don’t matter. Only swine flu deaths lead to hysteria.
Understanding risk
According to death statistics tables available on the ‘net, you are ten times more likely to die in a car accident this year than be killed by swine flu.
Nearly 100,000 Americans die every year from adverse reactions to FDA-approved prescription drugs. That’s twenty-five times the number of people killed by H1N1 swine flu (even if you believe the CDC’s numbers). So where’s the big warning about the dangers of prescription drugs? Why isn’t the CDC warning Americans about an “epidemic of dangerous drugs” that poses a far greater threat to your health?
The answer, of course, is that health authorities want to push people to buy vaccines that are about to become worthless (they’re only good before swine flu fizzles out). And the only way to sell more vaccines to people who don’t need them is to hype up a bunch of scare stories by citing bold statistics that make H1N1 swine flu seem really, really dangerous.
But the flu is no more dangerous than aspirin. In fact, H1N1 swine flu may be safer than aspirin.
Here’s another quote from the New England Journal of Medicine:
“It has been estimated conservatively that 16,500 NSAID-related deaths occur among patients with rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis every year in the United States. This figure is similar to the number of deaths from the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and considerably greater than the number of deaths from multiple myeloma, asthma, cervical cancer, or Hodgkin’s disease. If deaths from gastrointestinal toxic effects from NSAIDs were tabulated separately in the National Vital Statistics reports, these effects would constitute the 15th most common cause of death in the United States. Yet these toxic effects remain mainly a “silent epidemic,” with many physicians and most patients unaware of the magnitude of the problem. Furthermore the mortality statistics do not include deaths ascribed to the use of over-the-counter NSAIDS.” (Wolfe M. MD, Lichtenstein D. MD, and Singh Gurkirpal, MD, “Gastrointestinal Toxicity of Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs”, The New England Journal of Medicine, June 17, 1999, Vol. 340, No. 24, pp. 1888-1889.)
Did you catch that? The 16,500 figure for deaths each year doesn’t even include over-the-counter painkiller drugs! If you add in those numbers, you’re probably looking at something closer to 40,000 Americans kills each year by these drugs. And that makes these drugs 1000% more deadly than swine flu (because 40,000 is ten times greater than 4,000).
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Food Inc.
Orange Juice Scam
Chocolate Better Than Aspirin for Heart Attacks
Wine Protects Skin from Radiation
Psychic Warfare
Ted Kennedy’s Confession
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Chocolate is the New Aspirin?
October 27, 2009
FoodNavigator.com
By Catherine Boal
Cocoa can function in the same way as aspirin in preventing heart attacks, according to a new study investigating its effect on blood platelets.
The research will lend further weight to the various health claims now attached to the traditional indulgence.
Dark chocolate has recently been making inroads into the health market as its beneficial antioxidant and flavanoid content becomes more widely publicised and consumers switch from milk or white chocolate to keep up with the trend.
Scientists at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine say that a few squares of chocolate a day can reduce the risk of a heart attack by almost 50 per cent in some cases.
The discovery came after volunteers for a trial on the effects of aspirin were disqualified for eating chocolate, despite being warned that this would interfere with results from the study.
Despite being barred from participating in the drug study, the chocolate-eaters blood was examined and compared with others who hadn’t indulged in order to determine what effect cocoa has on platelets.
Platelets from those who had eaten chocolate clotted more slowly than those who had not – taking an average of 130 seconds to clump together compared to 123.
Professor Diane Becker said: “What these chocolate ‘offenders’ taught us is that the chemical in cocoa beans has a biochemical effect similar to aspirin in reducing platelet clumping, which can be fatal if a clot forms and blocks a blood vessel, causing a heart attack.”
She continued: “Eating a little bit of chocolate or having a drink of hot cocoa as part of a regular diet is probably good for personal health, so long as people don’t eat too much of it, and too much of the kind with lots of butter and sugar.”
The full results of the study were presented to the American Heart Association’s annual Scientific Sessions in Chicago yesterday.
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Routine Consumption of Aspirin to Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes “A Big Lie”
September 14, 2009
Natural News
By David Gutierrez
Taking an aspirin a day appears to increase a person’s risk of dangerous gastric bleeding as much as it decreases their risk of heart attack or stroke, researchers have found.
“We don’t have good evidence that, for healthy people, the benefits of long-term aspirin exceed the risks by an appropriate margin,” said lead researcher Colin Baigent, of the Clinical Trial Service Unit at Oxford University.
Health experts have been recommending for more than a decade that people considered at increased risk of cardiovascular disease (due to high blood pressure or cholesterol, obesity, advanced age or other risk factors) take one aspirin pill per day, as the medicine has been clinically shown to reduce the risk of serious vascular events in those people. This strategy — treating people with no symptoms of heart disease — is known as “primary prevention.”
A serious vascular event is a heart attack, stroke or cardiovascular death.
Many health agencies have shied away from issuing official recommendations, however, such as the United Kingdom’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
“There is no definitive guidance,” said Steve Field, chair of the Royal College of
General Practitioners, “and it makes it bewildering when you have a series of papers which then hint it would be beneficial to take aspirin.”
According to Field, many patients are attracted to aspirin as a way to stave off heart attacks because the over-the-counter pills are very inexpensive.
But the findings of the newest study, published in The Lancet, suggest that the risks of aspirin match the benefits in cases of primary prevention. Only in patients who have already had a heart attack or stroke does the benefit appear to outweigh the risk.
“This important study does suggest people shouldn’t take aspirin unless indicated by disease,” Field said.
While primary prevention recommendations have been based on estimated risks and benefits of aspirin treatments, the current study actually analyzed the effects of the treatment in 22 studies involving more than 100,000 participants. Six of the studies involved 95,000 people with a low to average risk of heart attack or stroke — the typical primary prevention population — and the other 16 involved 17,000 people who had already experienced at least one heart attack or stroke.
In both groups, taking an aspirin a day decreased the risk of a serious vascular event by about 20 percent in both men and women. It also increased the risk of gastric bleeding by about 33 percent.
In the lower-risk group, this came out to five fewer serious vascular events each year per 10,000 people taking a daily aspirin. It also meant three extra cases of gastric bleeding, however, and one extra stroke caused by internal bleeding. This led the researchers to conclude that the risks and benefits of the treatment were equivalent.
The results might be explained by the fact that people at increased risk of cardiovascular disease also tend to be at higher risk of gastric bleeding.
Because people who had already experienced a heart attack or stroke had such a heightened risk of further vascular events, however, the benefits exceeded the risks in that group — roughly 150 serious vascular events prevented per year for every 10,000 people treated, with the same three extra gastric bleeds and one stroke from bleeding.
“Aspirin is of clear benefit for people who already have cardiovascular disease, but the latest research does not seem to justify general guidelines advocating the routine use of aspirin in all healthy individuals above a moderate level of risk for coronary heart disease,” the researchers concluded.
“It is better for doctors to weigh up the benefit and risk of prescribing aspirin on an individual basis, rather than develop a blanket guideline suggesting everyone at risk of heart disease is routinely given aspirin,” said Ellen Mason of the British Heart Foundation.
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Long-Term Aspirin Use Can Cause Internal Bleeding
September 8, 2009
Natural News
By Mike Adams
Although taking pain relievers like aspirin or ibuprofen over a period of at least 10 years can reduce the risk of colorectal cancer, it can also significantly increase the risk for stomach or intestinal bleeding, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
- Taking aspirin, ibuprofen or similar pain relievers for at least 10 years significantly reduces the risk of colorectal cancer but also greatly increases the risk of serious bleeding in the stomach or intestines, a new study shows.
- The pain relievers offer no significant protection to patients who take them for less than a decade, says Andrew Chan, a gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and lead author of the article, published in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association.
- Based on the study’s results, Chan says, taking more than 14 aspirin a week might prevent one or two cases of colorectal cancer in a community of 10,000 people over a year.
- Women who took two regular, 325-milligram aspirin lowered their risk of colon cancer but only after taking the tablets for more than a decade, Chan says.
- For example, women who took more than 14 aspirin a week for at least 10 years had a 53% lower risk of colorectal cancer.
- Chan says his findings confirm the results of the Women’s Health Study, published in the same journal last month.
- In that 10-year study of nearly 40,000 women, scientists also found that taking low doses of aspirin, or 100 milligrams every other day, did not lower the risk of colon cancer.
- Ernest Hawk, a prevention expert at the National Cancer Institute, notes that previous studies have found that smaller doses of aspirin reduced the risk of colon polyps in only one to three years.
- Those earlier studies, in which doctors randomly assigned patients to take either aspirins or placebos, allow doctors to spot smaller changes in less time.
- Institute researchers are studying ways to make aspirin safer, such as by combining it with drugs that protect the stomach or with other drugs that seem to combat cancer growth, Hawk says.
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My Favorite Natural Healing Juices…
September 2, 2009 by KT
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Folks, you’ve heard me say it before, stay away from drugs! Stay away from all the garbage and all the crap. There are natural cures out there! The drug companies don’t want you do know this because they’ll lose money if you find a natural way to cure yourself.
Here are just a few of my favorite natural healing juices…
Celery Juice:
High blood pressure medication is so damaging to the body. If you’re on high blood pressure medication, you don’t need to be. Get a juicer and start making your own celery juice. It’s loaded with magnesium and magnesium deficiency is the number one cause of high blood pressure. There are a whole bunch of other nutrients in celery that relax and soothe muscle cells in the arterial walls. This allows the arteries to dilate, lowering the blood pressure. It will also calm you down. One of the physicians at the Whitaker Wellness Center decided to put this to the test. Every day for a month, she and her father would drink one bunch of celery, mixed with a little orange juice for flavor. In just 30 days, her father’s blood pressure went from 148 to 128 and hers went from 120 to 105. That’s without dangerous, prescription drugs.
Cabbage Juice:
Two thousand years ago, in ancient documents, cabbage was said to surpass all other vegetables as a digestive aid. One of the reasons is that it’s very high in glutamine, which is an amino acid that serves as fuel for the rapidly dividing cells in certain parts of the body. Multiple studies support cabbage’s reputation as a therapy for gastro-intestinal disorders, especially ulcers, heart burn, and GERD. Cabbage juice actually can heal peptic ulcers. One study showed that it healed peptic ulcers 92% of the time. Do you realize that’s better and more effective than any drug known to man? There’s one person I know who swears by cabbage juice. She was plagued with inflammation of the stomach lining and had severe acid reflux. Her regular MD doctor tried all of the usual drugs, but nothing alleviated her pain or reduced the frequency of her episodes. She then learned about cabbage. Whenever she had a flair-up, she would drink the juice of half a head of cabbage, which is about 4 ounces. She did this 5 times a day for about 3 days and also drank a lot for pure water. She was then problem free for 9 months. If she would have just taken a little bit on a regular basis, it would have been even more miraculous.
Cherry Juice:
Cherries have been discovered to contain very powerful, natural anti-inflammatory compounds. They work better than Aspirin, Advil or any other pain medication. Researchers at Michigan State University found that just 10 tart cherries packed the same pain relieving punch as 2 Aspirin, plus the fact they have all the anti-oxidants for anti-aging and good heart health! You can’t get that from any drug! Cherries have also been shown to reduce or eliminate gout, which is caused by a build-up of uric acid. As you know, this can cause pain and stiffness, specifically in the big toe. A study at the University of California found that eating 8 oz of tart cherries reduced levels of uric acid. Cherries are an amazing and healthy food. If you have pain or inflammation, this is a wonderful natural cure.
Cranberry Juice:
Now a lot of people have known this for years, but in recent years, no one is talking about it since the FDA passed a rule that only a drug can be used to treat, cure or prevent a disease. For years, doctors used to treat urinary tract infections with cranberry juice. Back then when you went to the store and bought cranberry juice, the cranberries were not genetically modified and weren’t loaded with toxins. It was real cranberry juice. Today, it’s hard to get real cranberry juice, unless you go to a whole foods type store where you can get 100% organic cranberry juice. Read the labels. No high-fructose corn syrup allowed. You can also get cranberries and juice them yourself in a juice machine. Make sure, if they have the pits in them, you take them out. The juice of cranberries can absolutely, 100% cure and prevent urinary tract infections.
Melon Juice:
Cantaloupe and honeydew are very good natural remedies for weight loss. I personally drink, in season, organic watermelon juice. It is the first thing I drink in the morning. Sometimes I drink other types of juice in the morning, but generally melon. It’s great for clearing out the intestines and livening up the whole digestive tract!
