195,000 Die Annually From Hospital Mistakes

Written by David Lear


It just seemed too absurd to be true, but there it was inrepparttar August 2, 2004 edition of Newsweek I picked uprepparttar 137850 other day: "According to HealthGrades,repparttar 137851 health-care-rating organization that conductedrepparttar 137852 study, needless deaths averaged 195,000 a year in 2000, 2001, and 2002. 'That'srepparttar 137853 equivalent of 390 jumbo jets full of people dying each year,' says Dr. Samantha Collier, vice president of medical affairs."

My mind struggled feebly to conjure up 390 jumbo jets going up in flames - it imploded hopelessly on crash number 8.

I started to wonder what it all meant. How could so many “needless” deaths be happening when we're so advanced technologically? Why is this carnage allowed to continue unabated and whorepparttar 137854 hell's responsible, anyway?

I came torepparttar 137855 conclusion that there weren't any good answers for any of it. The people who work in hospitals are fallible, just like you and me. The difference is, when you or I make a mistake, someone's life isn't hanging inrepparttar 137856 balance.

Still - 390 jumbo jets full of innocent people - what a tragedy. Most people checking intorepparttar 137857 hospital expect to be checking out in a few days - not checking out permanently. Andrepparttar 137858 statistics just keep getting worse.

So what can a person do? Most people feel pretty powerless when it comes to protecting their health. If they get sick, they rely on existing healthcare and submit themselves to conventional medical treatment. But that's not health care. That's sickness care.

Real health care is about building health fromrepparttar 137859 ground up. Sickness care is about cutting, radiating, poisoning and taking toxic prescription drugs.

So,repparttar 137860 way I see it, there are two main options. Be good little medical consumers and go along withrepparttar 137861 healthcare program that we've all been taught to buy in to - or start thinking outsiderepparttar 137862 healthcare box.

Personally, my advice is to be pro-active. For many, that's a scary option but it doesn't have to be. There are some great, emerging nutritional technologies that are proving very effective in warding off a wide variety of physical ailments. For instance, forrepparttar 137863 past two years, I've been researching a new form of supplement called glyconutrition. This technology is a spin off of recent Nobel Prize winning scientific breakthroughs inrepparttar 137864 field of glycobiology.

Is Green Tea Good for Me?

Written by Jake Mayer


Health Benefits of Green Tea by Jake Mayer, www.tea-dojo.com

Scientific studies continue to show that green tea is good for you.

Tea began its illustrious history as a Chinese medicinal drink, and only gradually did it becomerepparttar popular beverage that it is today. In traditional Chinese medicine, tea is considered good for you to clearrepparttar 137837 eyes and head, resolve excess phlegm, promote urination, relieve toxins, aidrepparttar 137838 digestion, and quench thirst. As with so many foods and medicines,repparttar 137839 traditional Chinese medicinal thoughts are being proven scientifically in modern times. Today, there is ample evidence to recommend tea as a daily tonic inrepparttar 137840 interest of preventing or treating a wide range of maladies, including: cancer, hypertension (high blood pressure), high cholesterol, premature aging, food poisoning, dental decay and bad breath, and even arthritis.

Tea is rich in catechin polyphenols, particularly epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). EGCG is a powerful anti-oxidant: besides inhibitingrepparttar 137841 growth of cancer cells, it kills cancer cells without harming healthy tissue. It has also been effective in lowering LDL cholesterol levels, and inhibitingrepparttar 137842 abnormal formation of blood clots.  The latter takes on added importance when you consider that thrombosis (the formation of abnormal blood clots) isrepparttar 137843 leading cause of heart attacks and stroke.

• Green tea may help dieters.   In November, 1999,repparttar 137844 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition publishedrepparttar 137845 results of a study atrepparttar 137846 University of Geneva in Switzerland.  Researchers found that men who were given a combination of caffeine and green tea extract burned more calories than those given only caffeine or a placebo.

• A Japanese report found that men who drank ten cups of green tea per day stayed cancer-free for three years longer than men who drank less than three cups a day (there are approximately 240 - 320 mg of polyphenols in three cups of green tea). Meanwhile, a study by Cleveland's Western Reserve University concluded that drinking four or more cups of green tea per day could help prevent rheumatoid arthritis, or reduce symptoms in individuals already suffering fromrepparttar 137847 disease.  

• Scientists atrepparttar 137848 Saitama Cancer Research Institute discovered that there were fewer recurrances of breast cancer, andrepparttar 137849 disease spread less quickly, in women with a history of drinking five cups or more of green tea daily.

• Scientists also discovered that EGCG from green tea can help to prevent metastasis, orrepparttar 137850 movement and spreading of cancer cells from one organ or tissue torepparttar 137851 other by bloodstream or lymph. Cancer cells secrete special enzymes in order to enter and colonize tissues. Research shows that EGCG stopsrepparttar 137852 secretion of these special enzymes.

• A case study that was done in China, reports that those women who drank green tea regularly had a 50% lower risk of developing esophageal cancer. Men showed less risk as well, but not as significant as women.

• Researchers from Sweden reported that green tea blockedrepparttar 137853 development of new blood vessels inrepparttar 137854 lungs. By blockingrepparttar 137855 development of new blood vessels inrepparttar 137856 lungs, tumors are less likely to grow and metastasize. Scientists believe that EGCG plays a significant rule in blockingrepparttar 137857 development of tumors. Similar results were achieved in breast cancer, colon cancer and melanoma studies. It is believed that drinking green tea for an extended period of time will help to prevent and might cure cancer naturally.

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