And what about the guy who says that fluoride cuts up the enzymes that re-enamalize teeth?

Healthy teeth are made of calcium and phosphate, according to Gerard Judd's old site (gerardjudd.com iirc - check archive.org)... Cavities are caused by acids which dissolve tooth enamel - these are either in foods (soda, etc), or produced by bacteria. Instead of dumping a highly reactive molecule in the water, one that contributes to osteoporosis in old women, wouldn't it be better to give kids the proper supplements in their school lunches?

Incidentally, I am totally disillusioned about oral hygiene products. Plain baking soda and salt works better for me than almost every brand of toothpaste I've ever purchased, except for one. Gerard Judd recommended bar soap on his site, and that was generally okay, but I'd have to double-brush (soap followed with baking soda) to get rid of the taste.

... Things like butter and bacon.

Poor people eat imitation foods (usually made with "vegetable" oil), not because it's healthy, but because fake foods are the only possible way for Wall Street to get its share of all the money people spend on food.

Soda is immitation food too, but vegetable oil is much more fattening than sugar, or even mercury-contaminated hfcs.

salt kills bitternes, eh? That's a nice tip. Glad I came back to check this comment... :)

This was the first book I've read in quite some time, and I really liked it. It's not a deep book, just sorta biographical. He (well, 'they' - it was cowritten with the guy who co-wrote Gabrielle Gifford's book, Zaslow or something like that) cover all the experiences that prepared him to make those immediate decisions after they'd hit the flock of birds.

***** (5 stars)

I saw a copy at a charity book sale in February, so you might check Goodwill. AbeBooks.com has copies for $1 + shipping...

Captain Sullenburg is the pilot who successfully ditched his Airbus in the Hudson river in 2009. I found a copy of his book, Highest Duty, in a discount book bin a few months ago.

The interesting thing about "Sully" is that he'd spent his entire career studying aviation accidents, and thinking about what he, as a pilot, could have done to make the accident turn out better.

In China, the government owns the banking system.
In the U.S., the banking system owns the government.

The Chinese government gives basically interest-free loans, through the state's bank, to the industrial sectors of their economy. The U.S. government guaranteed Solyndra's loans, meaning the government was on the hook for the interest payments to Wall Street when Solyndra couldn't make enough off their solar panels to both cover the costs of manufacturing and their interest-heavy loan payments.

If Solyndra's guarantee had been properly structured, the U.S. Government would now own a fully-functional photovoltaic factory. The government's factory should be cranking out as many watt-hours of "solar tubes" as possible, and installing these on government buildings in sunny locations. They'd get the solar tubes for cost (as the new owners of the plant), decrease energy prices for everyone, and save a ton of money.

Oh well.

Ellen Brown has a nice take on the difference in China's economic strategy.

The underlying medical problem is frequently hypothyroidism, which is partially caused by replacing traditional saturated fats like butter and lard with seed oils (canola, soybean, linseed/flaxseed, etc).

I talked to a 60-something woman who used to have extreme fibromyalgia problems last weekend. Estrogen came up, and she said her doctors had put her on it years ago. She was in the hospital within a week.

There's a PDF floating about the Estrogen Scam... Let's see... Ah, here it is:
The Rise and Fall of Estrogen Therapy: The History of HRT

This was written by a harvard law student, and basically finds that the estrogen hucksters are criminally negligent.

My most recent blog post is the start of a series about problems with chemical birth control pills. I thought it'd be good to start out with why they're so expensive, but I've since realized that staying baby-free is much more important to most women than the cost, or the side effects...

... but it also prevents new bone from growing. Progesterone - the natural kind (progesterone USP), NOT the kind in birth control (Provera) that was studied in the Women's Health Initiative - is what helps new bone get laid down.

Progesterone is good on all counts. It's a hormone on its own, and the body converts it into other hormones, like testosterone and cortisol. This is why birth control takes away women's libido - fake progesterone ("progestins") CANNOT be converted into other hormones, which leads to a testosterone deficiency and low libido.

If you have puffy veins when you stand and raise your hands 30-degrees from your legs, or have varicose veins in your legs, you're probably progesterone-deficient... There are lots of symptoms that respond nicely to progesterone therapy.

Oooh.. Nice explanation.

It would be more helpful to point out that our debt-based currency allows wealth to be concentrated in our financiers' bank accounts (the Federal Reserve is mostly owned by "Wall Street"), instead of more broadly among people who work for a living.

One of the reasons bodies make LDL cholesterol is to make pregnenolone. Pregnenolone gets turned into Progesterone or DHEA. Progesterone becomes Cortisol; DHEA becomes Testosterone, which gets turned into estrogen. Wikipedia has a nice flow chart somewhere... Progestogens, I think.

If the cholesterol -> pregnenolone conversion isn't working very well (because of hypothyroidism, or a lack of required vitamins), the liver pumps out more "base material" [LDL cholesterol] with the hope that more of the needed hormones will be produced.

Cloudy eyes has to do with a loss of order in the lens' proteins, possibly due to low energy (hypothyroidism). It's sorta like how a clear egg white turns white when it's cooked - the proteins lose order with the application of heat.

Two asides: Knee-capping the body's hormone system via Lipitor/Crestor is a crime against physiology. My father refuses to take Lipitor because he sees what it does to his patients. Mom goes along with what her doctor says, and figures her lack of energy is just "normal aging".

Chemical birth control (the ones that use prescription hormone disruptors) also interferes with the progesterone -> cortisol pathway, but doesn't much touch the DHEA->Testosterone->Estrogen pathway. Which leads to women having too much testosterone and estrogen in their bodies. The transformation takes a couple decades. My first post in that series isn't quite finished. Soon, though. :^)

The bank tellers like me, because I take them out of their drawers, and they don't have to count them at the end of the day.

The thing is that dollar bills are borrowed from Wall Street, while dollar coins are government-issued money. I don't think JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America should be trusted to make the economy's money supply, so I try to always carry a few government-issued dollars with me.

Doctors have a tendency to recommend things that only they can recommend: prescription drugs, surgery, etc. They figure if you could do it yourself you'd have already done it.

But there's an ancient treatment for sinus problems that works really well: nasal irrigation. Basically, you add 1/2 tsp salt to a cup of water, and flush that through your nasal cavity.

Wall Street's media was overjoyed when someone with parasites in their water supply recently died after they used their neti pot. So boil your water first if that's a problem where you live, mkay? (This is covered on the link above...)

Archer Daniel Midland was founded as a linseed-crushing business. Linseed oil and most of the seed industry's other products were used by the paint industry.

Then the paint industry figured out how to make their products from petroleum, and ADM became obsolete.

Around the same time, agribusiness was experimenting with thyroid poisons, to make their animals fatter with less feed. These were carcinogenic to the animals, and to the people who ate them too. But they found that corn and soybeans served essentially the same purpose, and that's how the meat industry switched to seeds. This is according to one of Ray Peat's articles...

Gary Johnson 2012. Mr. Johnson tried for the republican nomination, but the powers that be decided to exclude him from a bunch of debates, and his republican candidacy didn't get off the ground.

He was governor of New Mexico for... 8 years, and the libertarian party is organized enough to get him on all 50 states' ballots.

I think if he'd pick up some of those "reality sticks" lying around, his campaign would really beat the crap out of Obama and Romney (Wall Street's anointed candidate). I'd have him start with pointing out how our entire money supply is "borrowed from Wall Street". Then he could move on to point out how Wall Street rigs the health care industry to make it as expensive and ineffective as possible (Ex: Lipitor. Business Week had a story about 4 years ago about how no one actually benefits from knee-capping their body's cholesterol-generating mechanism...)

Drug laws are a big one too...