Daily Nutrition

I was recently introduced to a book titled "What your doctor does not know about nutritional medicine may be killing you"! The author ( a medical doctor) dwells on the diseases that invade our bodies by virtue of the fact that we ignore to take basic butrition by way of multivitamins and minerals. Yes, a balanced diet works but in todays world do we have time to allow ourselves the luxury of cooking "balanced" meals? It is an established medical fact that these "micro-nutrients" are absolutely essential for us to combat the ravages of "oxygen radicals" that latch on to myriad other compounds and cause an imbalance in our bodies. More important, many of these "free radicals" (a term known to those of you that studied science) cause "mutations" inside the cells of our body and give rise to cancer.

The book discusses at length the different conditions that afflict us today; namely, osteoporosis, arthritis, heart diseases, diabetes etc. BTW, cholesterol is not as good an indicator for your risk of getting a heart attack as compared to "homocysteine" levels. This is a well known medical fact today but a researcher was hounded in the US about 25 years back and lost his job; merely because the pharma companies at the time wanted to make a killing getting people to buy drugs for reducing cholesterol. They apologised to him now but the damage was done and the researcher rued that he had already lost 25 years of his life as an outcast in the medical community which could not be restored with such an apology.

I believe the above has a parallel in the suppression of medical fact and research on radiation from cell-phones and their deleterious effect on the brain (they say you "micro-wave" your brain in the long run). However, the cell-phone companies have down-played this matter. The same holds true for those of you that allow a cell-phone provider' tower to be placed atop your building. Beware, the radiation could be killing all of you slowly!!

Well, enough of my "dooms day" banter for now. I will probably receive some "hate mail" from the cell-phone companies now:-)