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Charles Weber
Hendersonville, NC
I have a BS in chemistry, and an MS in soil science. I have supported myself largely as a contractor in electric wiring and excavating. I was an AOMT3C in navel aviation ordinance in World War II.
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Charles commented on the article |
Dear Mark;
There are , indeed, many deficiencies in a purely vegetarian diet. Vitamin B-12, iodine, methionine, lysine, vitamin D (in the absence of sunshine), and even copper (in some animals at least) come to mind. The only real chance anyone has is a very varied diet with no processed food and with certain key supplements.
In so far as that last is concerned, I feel a sales tax should be levied on any food that has known poisons added such as aluminum, aspartame, fluoride (see http://charles_w.tripod.com/fluoride.html ), sulfite, and etc. or essential nutrients subtracted. It should be effective even at the municipality level and certainly the state. I am certain this would cause an improvement in our country's health when processors corrected the situation or, if not, when less of it was purchased. If a tax were placed on food that has had essential nutrients removed the improvement in health would be dramatic. A fringe benefit would be to enable the heavy Medicare tax to be reduced or eliminated. If everyone is getting good food most diseases would disappear and we could then devote our research to the few remaining. Perhaps you can use your influence to get such a law passed in your town.
We talk endlessly about better health insurance. Insurance is a marvelous invention, but there is no excellent substitute for not getting sick in the first place. In any case, if everyone is healthy, the insurance premiums will go a way down as a side effect no matter how they are instituted. With the extra money we could then start to pay down that miserable national debt and with the extra time, enjoy ourselves (say with a shorter work day).
In the mean time, you can at least see ways that you or some one you love who has rheumatoid arthritis, heart disease, or high blood pressure can counter the loss of potassium from current junk food in this article and its links http://charles_w.tripod.com/arthritis9.html . This would have a much more advantageous affect on high blood pressure than reducing sodium. Indeed it is not the sodium that is causing the high blood pressure anyway, but the chloride associated with it, since potassium chloride increases blood pressure and sodium bicarbonate does not.
Sincerely, Charles Weber
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Charles commented on the article |
It is true that fluoride applied topically, as in tooth paste, has some what of a protective affect. In drinking water the affect is virtually zero. There are better ways of protecting teeth than either. A nutritious diet coupled with vitamin D supplements is a major step in that direction. I currently do not even use any tooth paste, but rely on hydrogen peroxide once a day. I have not had any cavities since doing this. On rare occasions I start to get a tooth abscess, perhaps from bacteria slipping in past fillings of my youth. Luckily on each of the 2 or 3 occasions, raw cashew nuts solved the problem (see http://charles_w.tripod.com/tooth.html ). But for sure do not allow small children use fluoridated tooth paste. It will make them ruinously sick if they eat the whole tube's contents.
This site decries poor farming practices. Food is extremely important, so well they should. However, that is not where the main action is. What difference does it make if a farmer comes up with some ingenious scheme that reduces essential nutrients 20% in his beets, say, if he then sells them to a sugar processing plant where they proceed to remove 100% of the nutrients? Even if he puts poison in other food he grows, it will be insignificant compared that disaster. -
Charles commented on the article |
Fluoride in water is recommended for tooth protection. Fluoride in water no longer provides this protection, probably because of increasing fluoride in food from fluoride insecticides and tooth paste. However even if it did, it would not be worth it because it is more poisonous than lead and only marginally less so than arsenic. Once in the environment, it has an infinite life. If you know how long it takes to reach the groundwater, please let me know.
It inhibits thyroid (http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/thyroid/steyn-1955.html ), synergistically with aluminum causes a disease similar to Alzheimer's disease http://jech.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/50/4/401 (Masters) , causes bone degeneration [Reddy] [Susheela and Mohan] for fluoride interferes with the hydroxylation of proline to hydroxyproline. And fluoride exposure disrupts the synthesis of collagen and leads to the breakdown of collagen in bone, tendon, muscle, skin, cartilage, lungs, kidney, trachea and arteries. [Susheela and Sharma] [Sharma] [Susheela and Mukerjee] [Marian Drozdz et al].
It decreases intelligence in children (Lu). These side effects are far more serious than tooth caries especially since caries can be prevented with a diet adequate in calcium, magnesium, copper, vitamin D, and phosphate. Also they can be cured with anacardic acids in cashew plants and nuts (see http://charles_w.tripod.com/tooth.html ).
In addition to the above circumstances mildly adversely affecting health ("mildly", that is, if applied properly in minute amounts), fluoride enters the bodies of people in wildly varying amounts. Fluoride is applied largely for the purpose of protecting children. But to expect small children to apply tooth paste poison correctly without medical instruction, or for that matter even with instruction, is inane. There is also the danger that some parts of the adult population will have more than small intakes. Many municipal water supplies have fluoride added, so that people who must drink large amounts of water, such as people with damaged kidneys, or who do drink large amounts of water because of recommendations of health purists, will receive large amounts. Richmond says that fluorinating water has no perceptible affect on kidneys in children, but that fluoride in water for dialysis should be controlled [Richmond]. Another group at risk are people who eat large amounts of dried food that must be reconstituted with water such as babies and maybe soldiers. All this with no or little reduction of tooth caries from water fluoridation [Seppa]. The ADA has warned mothers not to make up formula with fluoridated water. This increased fluoride intake is also true for people who drink much tea [Gulati], since tea leaves pick up large amounts from some soils , and probably other plants do also [Xie]. Coffee has high amounts of fluoride from insecticides. Fluoride compounds are applied to plants as insecticides, especially grapes. Most of these fluorides end up in the soil, and therefore probably in many plants.
I would like to gain your support in getting poisonous fluoride and fluoride insecticides removed from United States food . It has bad side effects on the thyroid and the brain. It is especially damaging to people who drink a lot of fluoridated water such as babies drinking made up milk formula, old people with kidney problems, and perspiring people who use reconstituted fruit juice,
If you can not get fluoride removed, perhaps you can at least acquaint people about an iodide cure or antidote. You may see these concepts discussed in http://charles_w.tripod.com/fluoride.html .
Sincerely, Charles Weber, MS
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Charles commented on the article |The soldiers in our army would not have to be Americans. If the French can have a foreign legion for nefarious purposes, there is no reason why we can not have one for good purposes.
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Charles commented on the article |
Dear Holly Robertson; You are living in a dream world if you think that controlling who has guns or what “wrong hands” is can be done without guns. Our own constitution was crafted at the point of guns. As for murder ending if people had no guns, that is inane. A knife does more damage than a gun directed at most parts of the body and poison does even more damage. But the kind of murder I am concerned about is the murder committed by ruthless men when they wish to enslave a population. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, I did not join a conspiracy to commit murder because a few useless battle ships had been damaged or because I loved the people of Hawaii with a deep passionate devotion, but because I was convinced life would have been horrendous if the Samurai destroyed our constitution with its guarantee that civilians could bear arms, among other things. I had no desire to live in such a world. As for arresting Bashir or disarming the Janjaweed, are you really so naïve as to imagine that either could be done without guns? Are you really so arrogant as to imagine that we Americans are the only ones who have the right to be armed and embark on that holly crusade? Maybe the people of Darfur can’t succeed even if provided with guns up to and including aircraft, but they had damn well better try, or they will starve to death anyway, because no one else is going to fight the battles of those oil deficient wretches from this part of the world for them.
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Charles commented on the article |
The way to protect the people of Darfur is to give them the means to protect themselves. If you give every woman in Darfur a pistol and a hundred rounds of ammunition, that quaint custom, rape, will die out over night. If you give each man a rifle, they will very shortly have their farms back, and with much less bloodshed than currently. The fact that our country has one of the lowest murder rates in the world is largely because we have the right to bear arms. A country, Switzerland, in which every citizen is REQUIRED to possess a gun, has an even lower murder rate than we do, even though it has 3 different languages and two different religions. Countries in which it is illegal to own a gun or are de facto unarmed have bizarrely high murder rates. Rwanda, Cambodia, Russia, and Germany come to mind, for instance. Even worse than murder is the fate of citizens who are ground under into tyranny or enslavement by ruthless men when those citizens are unarmed. The next best thing would be for someone who has guns to defend those people. We are too lazy, stingy, and/or cowardly to do it in the foreseeable future, so the only way is to give them the means to defend themselves. Sincerely, Charles Weber, MS isoptera at mchsi.com
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Charles commented on the article |
Dear Ms. Gertz;
Our management of water is very important. There is no reason why we should allow huge volumes of water to flop down and flow unimpeded across farms down stream, destroying them, while adjacent areas shrivel up by drought. There are huge pumps that can easily prevent this.
Increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide is undoubtedly increasing climate warmth. However I suspect that also an equally great affect on warmth is the baring of soil by increase in annual crop acreage, roads, buildings, grazing, and desertification currently, especially in the tropics. You may see an article that briefly discusses this in more detail in http://charles_w.tripod.com/climate.html .
I see no reason why many climate water problems can not be much ameliorated by intelligent management of water both before and after the water reaches the soil, including pumping it into water tables through clean gravel filled deep holes.
Sincerely, Charles Weber
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