Activia yogourt was originally like any other yogourt - made of milk, a thickening agent, fruit, and some "good" intestinal bacteria, but it advertised itself as "regulating your digestive system" and the probiotic bacteria did not do enough of a good job. So some very clever company person remembered that carrageenan (from seaweed) damps down bacterial and fungal growth. Initially, everything works well, but over a long period of time - several years - this carrageenan finds its way into intestinal cells where it causes damage: lysosomes that ingest food particles and carrageenan cannot break carrageenan down. But they release their digestive enzymes causing ulceration.
The people who eat Activia are going to be in for a rough surprise when this happens - especially as Activia seemed to work so well for them earlier on. So these people will eat more and more Activia and more and more carrageenan thus damaging themselves even further.
The Activia ads are manipulative: "Activia makes you feel good inside... will regulate your digestive system - until several years down the line when you will start to feel very, very bad indeed.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Dr. Malcolm Hooper, Emeritus Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
If you want to read an excellent rebuttal of the latest pro-exercise PACE theory, then go to CFS or the British-named myalgic encephalomyelitis UK web site and look for The Gilbert Report supported by the above-named professor at the University of Sunderland in the north of England.
Dr. Hooper lays out most, if not all of the problems that CFS patients have and shows how this information totally disproves the latest wrinkle: that exercise and pyschology is the key to treating CFS/M.E. patients.
The doctors at the heart of the exercise theory are all psychology based; the doctor in charge, Dr. W-, is partly financed by a Swiss medical insurance company whose prime motivation is to deny disability payments to anyone with this disease. Furthermore, all scientific research has to have a control group to make such research valid - and this latest PACE group research does not. And down in the small print is the admission that such excercise gains are limited and could cause damage to people.
Dr. Hooper lays out most, if not all of the problems that CFS patients have and shows how this information totally disproves the latest wrinkle: that exercise and pyschology is the key to treating CFS/M.E. patients.
The doctors at the heart of the exercise theory are all psychology based; the doctor in charge, Dr. W-, is partly financed by a Swiss medical insurance company whose prime motivation is to deny disability payments to anyone with this disease. Furthermore, all scientific research has to have a control group to make such research valid - and this latest PACE group research does not. And down in the small print is the admission that such excercise gains are limited and could cause damage to people.
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