Vitamins For Macular Degeneration/Eye Health -- Offers Big Savings
Categories..."Besides offering protection against age-related macular degeneration, antioxidants have been found to reduce the risk of cataracts, cancer, diabetes and heart disease."...
Imagine how many drugs could make that claim. Of course they will not cover vitamins in health care plans as this should set a very unprofitable precedent and will upset their pharma cronies to no end. Is it any wonder that it did not take a second for the government to tax all and restrict some of our Vitamins and Minerals even when they are safer than foods.
A similar vitamin cocktail as mentioned below but including Lutein as a primary ingredient is not only preventing macular degeneration but literally curing it in India. But none of that matters as according to the Medical Mafiosi no one has any nutrient deficiencies. We get all we need from foods and if we take them then we will just make expensive urine and may even harm ourselves hence the CODEX initiative. Implying that we do have deficiency of toxic drugs that are actually killing so many us - and they call this science based medicine. What a joke!
As an example Aspirin*, besides causing so many deaths, is also implicated eye problems. Yet the stronger version of such drugs are not only expensive but covered under many insurance schemes... and many (including some doctors) with macular degeneration will continue taking it totally oblivious of the side effects of this and other drugs. Then they wonder why people turn to far more efficacious and cost effective nutritional solutions. Any fool knows that "you are what you eat" except the self serving Medical Mafiosi...See also:
An Open Challenge To The Ridiculous Dietary Allowance (RDA)
Chris Gupta
*..."New England Journal of Medicine (318:1126, 1988) points out, the slowing of blood clotting results in much greater blood loss due to macular degeneration, which could be disastrous.
In macular degeneration, certain arteries of the retina (light-sensing layer at the back of the eye) become abnormal and leak blood which disrupts the delicate visual tissues. Since aspirin can accentuate such bleeding and make matters worse, those who have any macular degeneration should consult their eye doctors before deciding to take it."
Extracted from: Aspirin and the aging eye
--------------------------------Vitamins To Treat Blindness Offers Big Savings
JOHN MINER, Free Press Health Reporter 2005-02-22 02:49:40
Thousands of Ontario residents who are going blind could be treated with a vitamin mixture that would save the province more than $400 million, a study by University of Western Ontario medical researchers concludes. But the Ontario government will have to change its position that vitamins shouldn't be paid for under Ontario's Drug Benefit Plan.
"It would be good if the government could reconsider," John Trevithick, a biochemistry professor and a lead researcher in Western's study, said yesterday.
The team of researchers at Western's Schulich School of Medicine looked at studies that have found antioxidant vitamins will reduce the risk of progression of age-related macular degeneration, a major cause of blindness in Canada.
The standard treatment in Ontario for the disease -- which hits more than 20 per cent of people over 75 years of age -- is known as Visudyne.
The treatment costs $17,000 for each patient and costs Ontario $1.7 billion.
The antioxidant vitamin mixture, which contains vitamin E, vitamin C, beta-carotene, zinc and copper, costs $182 a person.
The Western researchers have calculated Ontario's net savings at $431 million. Nationally, the savings would total $5.6 billion.
Trevithick said some people would still have to receive Visudyne to stop the growth of blood vessels in the eye.
But the vitamin treatment will prevent the disease from progressing in 38 per cent of people.
Copies of the study are being forwarded to area MPPs in hopes the government will consider adding antioxidant vitamins to the drug benefit plan. The vitamins would have to be prescribed to patients, Trevithick said.
Besides offering protection against age-related macular degeneration, antioxidants have been found to reduce the risk of cataracts, cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
The Western study was recently published in the journal Ophthalmic Epidemiology.
Besides Trevithick, the research team included David Massel and James Robertson of Western's school of medicine; Sandy Tomany of the Center for the Advancement of Urban Children, Medical College of Wisconsin; and Ronald Wall of the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
Copyright © The London Free Press
posted by Chris Gupta on Thursday February 24 2005
updated on Saturday September 24 2005URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2005/02/24/vitamins_for_macular_degenerationeye_health_offers_big_savings.htm
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