posted 09-24-2003 02:12 AM            

Bea

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Excerpt from Indymedia article on chemtrails: http://hamilton.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=1793#chemcontents
1. Aluminum and Global Cooling
It is now an undisputed scientific fact that global warming is a man-made reality, that it is accelerating, and that it poses a major threat to our planet. The urgency to reduce global warming, for the short term, is one possible explanation for chemtrails. The details are clearly outlined in U.S. Patent #5,003,186, Stratospheric Welsbach seeding for reduction of global warming, issued to the Hughes Aircraft Company (a conglomerate now called Hughes Electronics defense operations which is wholly owned by General Motors). As described in the introduction "One proposed solution to the problem of global warming involves the seeding of the atmosphere with metallic particles." The patent explains how tiny particles of aluminum oxide and other reflective materials would be added to the fuel of jet airliners and emitted from the jet exhaust. Other aluminum oxide chemtrails can be formed using a powder contrail generation device [to view patent click on “images” – requires QuickTime] originally developed for the U.S. Navy in 1975.

While greenhouse gases accumulate and get trapped in the atmosphere, the Welsbach materials and heavy metals released reflect one to two per cent of incoming sunlight by converting "blackbody radiation emitted by the earth [into] heat energy that may be reradiated out into space”. Simultaneously, a small percentage of incoming solar radiation is reflected away from the earth’s surface “thereby reducing global warming.”

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Rickets on the rise in Canadian babies, doctors warn parents
Vitamin d deficiency: Bone-crippling disease considered a 'Medical curiosity'

Sharon Kirkey
CanWest News Service

Thursday, September 18, 2003
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OTTAWA - Rickets, a bone-crippling disease that leaves a baby's legs so bowed they waddle when they walk, appears to be on the rise in Canada, according to doctors who are tracking the disease across the country.

"We're seeing a lot of [rickets] in our clinical practice," says Leanne Ward, a pediatric endocrinologist at Ottawa's Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario who has treated seven children with rickets in the past two years alone.

"You become very concerned when you see that a preventable disease is on the rise when it should be stopped in its tracks before it even starts."

No one has hard numbers. But doctors in Hamilton also report they are seeing more children with rickets, a disease once so rare it was considered a "medical curiosity" three decades ago. Montreal's Shriners Hospital is seeing half a dozen cases of rickets a year, and rickets has been reported in Winnipeg and Toronto.

"It certainly is our sense that the number of children [in Canada] presenting with rickets is higher than it was the last couple of years," says Stanley Zlotkin of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

More than 2,300 pediatricians across Canada are now being asked to report each month every newly diagnosed case of vitamin D deficiency rickets. The survey is part of a nationwide surveillance to track for the first time the true incidence of rickets in Canada.

Rickets results when bones do not form properly, leaving them soft, frayed and weak. Nutritional rickets is caused by too little calcium or vitamin D. Children need vitamin D to absorb calcium to keep bones and the growth plate -- the end of the bones where bones grow -- healthy.

Symptoms include pain, fractures, delayed walking, delayed "dentition," meaning teeth do not come in when they should, bowed legs and even seizures in severe cases.

"The babies are irritable, they look unwell, they're not gaining weight, not growing in length and their legs aren't straight," Dr. Ward said.

Dr. Ward is heading a two-year study -- which is being partly funded by the Dairy Farmers of Canada -- to determine the incidence of rickets in Canada.

Rickets was once considered an "old disease" often seen in the 19th century, when children were malnourished or forced to work in dark mines and factories. Now, several countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, are reporting a resurgence of rickets.

Caught early, the condition is easily treatable with high doses of vitamin D. But if left untreated, children can be left with permanently deformed limbs and stunted height.

In Canada, the most common cause of rickets is a lack of vitamin D supplementation in a breast-feeding infant and too little sun exposure, making children in Canada vulnerable because of our long winters.

The greatest risk is in medium and dark-skinned children whose skin pigment further blocks the ultraviolet B rays that produce vitamin D in the skin.

The Canadian Paediatric Society recommends breast-fed babies receive a supplement of 400 international units of vitamin D daily. But Ward says not all doctors and parents may be aware that breast-feeding babies need supplements.

"There's no question that breast-feeding is the preferred fluid source for infants, and it should be encouraged. But breast-fed infants need to receive appropriate supplementation with vitamin D, and our study suggests that many in Canada do not."

Doctors are seeing rickets in infants from cultural groups where breast-feeding mothers are often shrouded or veiled, reducing their own sun exposure and further limiting how much vitamin D their babies may be getting from their breast milk, says Moyez Ladhani, a consulting pediatrician at McMaster Children's Hospital in Hamilton.

But some say the new emphasis on using sunblocks in babies older than six months and fears about skin cancer may be contributing to the problem. Sunscreens not only block the UV rays that cause sunburn, they block the rays that convert a form of cholesterol under the surface of the skin to vitamin D.

Others are worried decreased consumption of milk, which is fortified with vitamin D in Canada, may be putting older children at risk for rickets.

Francis Glorieux has seen rickets in eight, nine- and 10-year-olds. "They present with fatigue, slight deformities, loss of energy. When you look at their vitamin D levels you find they have active rickets," says the professor of surgery and pediatrics at McGill University in Montreal and director of research at the Shriners Hospital.

In addition, more parents are giving their children milk substitutes because of allergies or "because the parents believe in natural foods of all kinds" and don't want to give their children cow's milk, Mr. Glorieux says.

"So they give all kinds of replacements which are not milk and are not enriched with vitamin D." He once saw a large family who lived in a wooded area in northern Quebec that wasn't drinking milk. All four children had bone abnormalities and growth retardation "that were classic for rickets."

U.S. researchers speculated this week that decreased milk consumption and rising soft drink consumption, along with more injury prone sports such as rollerblading, may be behind a steep jump in the number of forearm fractures in teen boys and girls over the past 30 years.

Mr. Glorieux recommends orange juice enriched with calcium as a replacement for those who don't want to drink milk. Soy and rice milks should also be fortified.

© Copyright 2003 National Post

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NEW REPORT REVEALS A RESURGENCE OF RICKETS IN THE U.S
http://www.nationaldairycouncil.org/lvl04/newsres/releases/press_releases8G6K46.asp

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http://www.mercola.com/2000/june/3/vit_d_sunlight.htm

RDA for Vitamin D Too Low for Those with Little Sunlight Exposure

Many people who are not exposed to adequate amounts of sunlight are suffering from significant vitamin D deficiencies, especially if their diets are also low in it. Therefore, the authors of this study are recommending that the RDA (recommended daily allowance) for adults be raised to 1000 IU.

Sunlight exposure of the skin is known to be the most important source of vitamin D. This study looked at the vitamin D status of sunlight-deprived individuals compared with those with normal sunlight exposure. This Danish study used veiled Arab women and veiled ethnic Danish Moslem women (Caucasian) and compared them the Danish population (controls). Diet analysis of each group was also performed.

Serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D were used as estimates of vitamin D status. Parathyroid hormone (PTH) was also measured to control for secondary hyperparathyroidism. Oral intake of vitamin D and calcium were estimated through a historical food intake interview performed by a trained clinical dietician.

Veiled Arab women displayed extremely low values of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, less than one-sixth that of the controls. The veiled Danish women had levels less than one-half that of the controls. PTH was found to be greatly increased amongst veiled Arab women, whose values were nearly 6 times higher than controls. The veiled Danish women had levels almost 3 times higher than controls.

Compounding the lack of sunlight problem was the fact that the veiled Arab women had very low dietary vitamin D intake (including supplementation), about 13 times lower than Danish Moslems and 7 times lower than the controls.

The authors conclude that severe vitamin D deficiency is prevalent amongst sunlight-deprived individuals. This deficiency may be the result of a combination of limitations in sunlight exposure and a low oral intake of vitamin D. Since the oral intake amongst veiled ethnic Danish Moslems was approximately 600 IU, but they were still vitamin D-deficient, they propose that 600 IU is insufficient to maintain proper vitamin D status when sunlight exposure is limited. Therefore, they propose that a minimum RDA of 1000 IU per day should be adopted.

J Intern Med 2000; 247: 260-268

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DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:

Sunlight provides many benefits. Last week's newsletter reviewed a study showing that sunlight reduce deaths from multiple sclerosis, and here we see another important benefit, and possibly an illustration of the reason for the MS improvement as well. However, be careful of too much sun exposure if taking St. John's Wort.

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posted 09-25-2003 09:24 PM            

Just the effect of one's own loose teeth wobbling in their sockets should be a tell-tale that something unusual is happening.

Could it be more than simple blockage of sun rays? How about a synergistic effect? Loose teeth, vacant minds trying to remember the tasks laid out before them only seconds before, sore and aching joints, shortness of breath on mild exertion (as if at high altitude) are all tip-offs.

The paralyzing effect that fluoride and its reactants have on all life may also be a huge part. Remember, it was not that long ago we sang the praises of "better living through chemistry" as a society.