Please remember to share with food banks
Please remember to share with food banks
The hurricane season came and left leaving home unscathed. ‘Tis the season to share, too. Many food pantries would be grateful to receive your hurricane closet if you can spare it.
Mele Kalikimaka & Happy Holidays.
Jennifer Lovelett, Kapahi
Increase mental health services
The Garden Island’s editorial supporting Senator Schatz’s “federal interventions” on amphetamine “misuse” was well-meaning. After all, 10,000 amphetamine deaths in 2017 is a lot.
In contrast, 1,600 people die yearly from ibuprofen. There are 88,000 deaths from alcohol every year. 400,000 die from cigarettes each year. Senator Schatz is a big supporter of US military intervention.
I sure hope he doesn’t want military-like escalation of the ludicrously failed “war on drugs.” The criminal justice system has become America’s default for all its social problems. Amphetamines are used primarily by people who self treat their clinical depression. Same with opiates and alcohol.
The medicines we doctors use are not very effective, so people tend to self medicate. If the federal government feels they need to step in, hopefully, they will increase mental health services and decrease treating patients with drug and alcohol addictions as criminals.
Gordon LaBedz, MD, Kekaha
This is not a Short Attention Span Comment: We noticed Sen Schatz’s misuse of the term “misuse” which is a bit startling, as it indicates there is a proper use of Meth, which we doubt as it pertains to the field of health. Clearly the proper word is abuse of drugs of every variety street to medical. Health can be measured in Active Happy Healthy Longevity on average that should be about 100+ years, by proof by those who do that. There is no room for medicinal drugs outside of crisis emergency care, injury or other wise.
This very good article letter by Dr. Lebedz shares with us some of the huge fatalities of disease and their treatments…you would think in this modern era, so far, that we as a society deserve better. It was shocking to hear the common use of Ibuprofen kills many.
The tried and failed use of pills for ills has become an oxymoron, like an ox leading a moron in medical care. It’s also a time for a change in the care of,our Health..land not by a pill for every ill. We need to find, discover, unfold the causes of Diseases and sickness…and prevent injuries.
80% of Americans take at least 1 prescription medicine a day, and 55% take 4 or more prescription medicines a day, and that can include 15 or more pills a day for the dosage prescribed.
Doctors as sales people for pills made from petroleum oil, oil is a cancer causing chemical, aptly named petrochemicals, and pills are not the highest and best use method for sickness, much less actual Health.
With 80% (go ahead Google it) of our citizens on prescription drugs, then 80% of Americans are sick. Of the 20% not on prescription drugs it is apparent many of those are on street drugs (heroin, cocaine, meth, ecstasy, etc) and or mild to mind boggling marijuana. Some of the 20% though are actually healthy.
Therefore America is a 80% certified sick nation. The current medical DISEASE CARE SYSTEM is not working. Who is watching out for our nation’s health…politicians? That’s stupid…! The people making $Trillions of dollars off of Disease Care…no motive there for improvement or change for the better. Same old rut we are in.
The problem is, we are on a Golden Train racing down a Platinum Track, except it is going in the wrong direction.
Instead, HEALTH CARE is a personal daily effort that can only be done by each person for themselves and of course for their children. But the further problem is, while Disease Care requires a medical education, Health Care requires a personal Health Education starting in beginning elementary school. Human anatomy, human functions called physiology or body systems like cardiovascular, or heart and blood vessels, respiratory like our breathing lungs exchanging oxygen from the clean air for excretion of CO2 as a waste product (hmmm? CO2 ? A waste product excreted from our bodies via the lungs?…and many drink CO2 daily in their beer and sodas? Is that an oxymoron. And CO2 dissolves the minerals in our teeth resulting in cavities…heh?
Health education is so wonderful and vast and there are new discoveries every day. And besides, our organ anatomy, and function of the cells themselves are contained with Trillions of reactions all the time, actions that keep us healthy if we keep them healthy…the food or garbage some call food go into our cells. Let’s hope garbage fuel is not put in our cars truck and planes. Eat live natural pure food.
Of the small % of our people not on medical or street drugs, which are all just different configuration of chemical compounds, the few remaining people are vegens, or is it vegans, and have no need to take prescription or over the counter drugs or medicines.
Ask yourself, are you taking any drug of any kind, even as Dr. Lebedz says, even ibuprofen kills, well if you are on drugs you are not well, you are not whole, you are not self sufficient, YOU ARE SICK…!
We are a SICK NATION, made up of more than 80% of our people on drugs. And we are trying to tell the rest of the world how to live, how to eat, how to get along?
We Quid pro quo, this for that, if you want weapons you must buy the chemicals we make or sell.
We use chemical poisons on our crops, we add toxic chemicals to our food (read the labels), every single food has chemicals and sugar added. Sugar is a Plant Based Drug/stimulant and addicts people via certain brain center reactions.
Health is like a Bank Savings Account to financially protect you later when you are
older. Open your Health account early in life (study health every day at school from kindergarten to high school graduation, and you’ll know more than a doctor about how to stay healthy and stay away from drug dispensing doctors and pharmacies selling drugs made for only the cost of pennies and sold for dollars, hundreds of billions actually, an enormous capitalist business.
There are a few primary basis of life requirements that all humans must involves themselves in daily or over time. They are an achronym, letters that represent words, and SWARE is one achronym…We all need the proper amount of clean pure unpolluted, no chemicals added SUN, WATER, AIR, REST, AND EXERCISE.
Did you know dark people need more sunlight to manufacture Vitamin “D” in their skin. Or that Kauai, according to the respected EWG, Environmental Work Group, claims that Kauai drinking water in some heavily populated areas has cancer causing chemicals in the water we drink. Are they left over from chemical saturation from the pineapple and sugar plantations and new seed plantation corporations? That’s ghastly. Are there no filters for this. Apparently kitchen counter top water filters cannot remove deadly chemicals that take decades to reveal Cancer growth.
Can reverse osmosis filter them out? We need to know. Our local government needs to look into this.
Besides SWARE, our foods need to come from all natural sources; and no chemicals or additives, like sugar, put into them, nor our food grown with or sprayed or coated with chemicals. Our food should have the same DNA that God, and Mother Nature provided, and not laboratory food that has has Genetic Modification or alteration…GMO’s. READ THE LABELS of all food you eat. Switch to non chemical loaded food. Educate yourself, Education about your body and what you put into it is PERSONAL HEALTH CARE, the only real Health Care there is.
And the primary cause of normal health function of your entire body: cells, tissues, organs, and functions (our cells make everything like tissues, tissues make organs, organs need systems to work…all of this at every moment of life, Trillions of actions and reactions in your body occurring every second…IS ALL PERFORMED BY, COORDINATED BY, CONTROLLED BY, ADAPTING YOUR INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT TO THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT…every sense of touch smell hearing vision and balance and talking etc., and so much more is done by you NERVOUS SYSTEM, your Brain, Brain Stem, and Spinal Cord…all protected by your bone helmet or skull, and 24 bone vertebrae.
Unfortunately you can upset your nervous system, disturb it’s ability to make your body 100% Healthy, and yet not be aware of it. Football+@; cause a few concussions but head and neck and spine slight injuries can lessen your nervous system function.
The science of the neuro spine is in its infancy and because it is self functioning by inner intelligence it needs no help in building your body to adult size from the 2 parent cells at conception and the appearance of the nervous system a few days later; but your nervous system must have no interference or else you will have failure of some part somewhere in your body, and mistakenly think you need a drug in this epidemic of medicines, when all you need is the basics of Health and restoring of your nervous system to full function of which much scientific study needs to be done especially with all the money wasted in drug research which only serves to produce more profit for the Capitalistic system of Disease Care.
Let’s put our money and effort into Personal Health Care of SWARE, Natural Food, and a 100% functioning Nervous System…while any improvement to Health beats the misuse abuse of medical and street drugs…there is no excuse for ignoring your Personal Health Care.
In this article Dr. Levedz does a good job of explain the situation. We should heed his warnings.