Contaminated Food – Message from Dr. Gordon
By Linda on Jul 28, 2010 in Food | comments(0)
How many illnesses you are seeing are related to food poisoning? Many more than you might suspect. So many people have low stomach acid and yet believe that they have excess acid and might be on Nexium to increase their likelihood of succumbing to tainted food with acute or chronic GI related symptoms.
This article suggests many more than we may suspect are suffering from contaminated food. This is a quote from this very informative article and granted Congress will not “get it right” when it comes to correcting this additional source of toxins in our patients. It will require my FIGHT program to recovery.
I know that probiotics help us overcome a toxic meal and that many need to carry something with them as a first response to symptoms of food poisoning. I suggest ACS silver but sometimes it is the ENDOTOXINS being released that tend to harm the patient so having lots of zeolite around either as ACZ and/or ZEOGOLD makes sense too. However, if we look at the epidemic of clostridia related illnesses today, please look at the 1200 references about the proven life-saving power of oral and/or IV Vitamin C in the book Curing the Incurable by Thomas Levy. Always this is dose related so that is why everyone needs some well tolerated and well absorbed vitamin C on hand at all times. BIOEN’R-G’Y C has the research to prove it does more gram for gram than any competing form of oral vitamin C you can obtain at any price anywhere.
If you are stuck and have no access to those products think garlic, as the liquid KYOLIC also is shown to decimate most pathogens.
This article makes it clear that YOU NEED TO BE PREPARED AT ALL TIMES!!
“families that were devastated by a food-borne illness. A great deal of harm, inflicted on some of the weakest members of society, can be avoided with a few simple reforms. Nobody should lose a child because the Senate lacks the will and the leadership to act.”
Eric Schlosser is the author of “Fast Food Nation” and a co-producer of the documentary “Food, Inc.”
Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com
Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/opinion/25schlosser.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
Excerpt:
EVERY day, about 200,000 Americans are sickened by contaminated food. Every year, about 325,000 are hospitalized by a food-borne illness. And the number who are killed annually by something they ate is roughly the same as the number of Americans who’ve been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003.
Those estimates, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suggest the scale of the problem. But they fail to convey the human toll. The elderly and people with compromised immune systems face an elevated risk from food-borne pathogens like listeria, campylobacter and salmonella. By far the most vulnerable group, however, are children under the age of 4. Our food will never be perfectly safe — and yet if the Senate fails to pass the food safety legislation now awaiting a vote, tens of thousands of American children will become needlessly and sometimes fatally ill.
Almost one year ago, the House of Representatives passed the Food Safety Enhancement Act with bipartisan support. A similar bill, the F.D.A. Food Safety Modernization Act, was unanimously approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in November. This legislation would grant the Food and Drug Administration, which has oversight over 80 percent of the nation’s food, the authority to test widely for dangerous pathogens and improve the agency’s ability to trace outbreaks back to their source. Most important, it would finally give the agency the power to order the recall of contaminated foods — and to punish companies that knowingly sell them.
