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War Against Alternative Health Care & Nutrition

Our Rights Are Under Attack!
Historically speaking, the citizens of Texas have long enjoyed a health care environment which has allowed a vigorous and effective complementary and alternative medicine(CAM) health care community to flourish in this state. The 2005 legislative session convincingly demonstrated that this environment has forever changed. Unless the citizens of Texas band together to codify their freedom to access the health care modalities of their choice, progressively more onerous restrictions on health care choice will be imposed by economically motivated special interest groups and their allies in the legislature. The time has come to act.

Radhia Gleis is a Certified Clinical Nutritionist, C.C.N. She is also a Certified BioNutritional Analyst. She has a Ph.D. in pastoral counseling and a M.Ed. in nutrition. She is a professional member of the International and American Association of Clinical Nutritionists, (I.A.A.C.N), and the American Naturopathic Medical Association (A.N.M.A.).

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Determining levels of prevention?
analyze the scenarios and describe the level of prevention is primary prevention,secondary prevention, or tertiary prevention. Do you think the prevention strategy used in the scenario was effective? If not what would you do differently?

Scenario 1: Violence Prevention in a High Risk Community

Karyn, a social services worker, is confronted daily with issues such as homicide, suicide, child and elder abuse, battered women, sexual assault, and domestic violence in the community agency in which she works. Her job responsibilities are to build community and agency coalitions to help meet the needs of the community.

One day, an enraged young man stormed into the agency demanding to know the whereabouts of his wife, whom he had ordered not to leave the house. The wife was cowering in Karyn’s office after being referred by her physician for suspicious bruises.

The agency has a procedure for handling potentially violent situations such as this one, in addition to providing a panic button. Someone pushed the panic button behind the receptionist’s desk, which brought the police within minutes.

The wife was later transported to a shelter for battered women. The shelter provides classes in self-esteem, parenting, and job training and placement. It also assists clients with access to eligible welfare benefits and housing.

Scenario 2: Closure of a Planned Parenthood Clinic

You are a social worker in your community’s county public health office. Of the 60,000 people living in your county, 12,000 are women of childbearing age. The teen pregnancy rate is above the national average. Twenty-five to 30 percent of the county’s births are unintended. With an annual per capita income of just over $13,000, most of the population lives below the poverty level.

At your weekly team meeting, your manager announces that the Planned Parenthood Clinic in the county is closing due to lack of funding. Other county family-planning providers have waiting lists and cannot take new patients. Team consensus is that lack of accessible and affordable family planning services will lead to more unintended pregnancies, child abuse, and poverty.

You organize a group of other health and human service providers in the county to solve the issue. After much discussion, the public health office decides to offer limited family planning services.

Scenario 3: Homeless Health Care

You are a case manager in a community mental health center. Many of your clients are homeless and have either mental disorders or substance abuse and health problems.

Health problems in the homeless are exacerbated by their homeless status. Exposure to extreme temperatures and a lack of sanitary facilities, nutritious food, restful sleep, and support networks worsen infections and chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. The homeless are less likely to take their medications for their mental and other physical diseases. Most homeless do not seek health care until they are so sick or injured that they have to be transported to the emergency room by ambulance.

Although there is a community health center in the county, it is not accessible financially or geographically to the homeless. After determining the needs of the homeless population in your case load, you meet with the leaders of all the agencies that provide services to the homeless, including the health center. You learn that there are three shelters, one food bank, and two faith-based initiatives providing services to the homeless.

A collaborative decision is made to provide basic health services in the shelters. The health center will supply the clinical providers, supplies, and equipment; the shelters will provide the space, furniture, and utilities; and the mental health center will provide on-site case management that includes counseling and support groups.

Each scenario used the resources available to meet the needs, even if the result was less than ideal.

The best direct service was the homeless program, who brought medical care directly to the client rather than making them travel, which is a barrier.

The best use of a plan was the frst scenario, which had a highly usable plan for a very real situation, and their main priority was protecting the survivor of violence.

The second scenario is very realistic and, while definately not ideal, at least responded to the solution.

In the 2nd and 3rd cases you will not be able to detect effectiveness until the programs have a track record to review. In the 1st case the safety planning worked like it should, meaning it worked quite well to protect everyone involved.

The Family Table; A message from the Rockland County School of Health and Wellness Coalition presented with simple recipes at the Tappan Library (Tappan, NY) by Michelle Kleinman, RD, CD/N, public health nutritionist with the County Department of Health.

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Erie Health Care Coalition Rally March 20, 2010 @ Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper’s office.

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Thompson has made a large thud; Guilani and Romney look like governing liberals that talk the talk, now, of being conservative, but, never walked the walk of "conservatism" while governing.

More generally tax cuts have proven to stimulate the economy all right, but, in turn, balloon the deficit to dizzying heights, our troops are bogged down in two different nations with no end in sight, and even the American Mediacal Association are recognizing that our health system has serious fractures…

Our we looking at a new era in Politics?

Well in truth there are none left from the Reagan administration young enough to hold anything but an advisers position.

The debt is not the fault of the tax cuts it is the result too much spending and little or no change in our economy even though we are at war on two fronts. Our citizens are not shifting to war manufacture and there is no draft.

You can hardly complain of the governments incompetence and in the same breath state that you want them to enter into the medical care business and hold any credibility.

You speak of debt and want to add trillions to it with a single payer medical program. If we do this we would need taxes of thirty percent on those already in poverty, forty percent on those above the poverty mark and upwards of sixty on the rich. This would kill the economy and unemployment would soar as business after business closes.

Reagan’s spending bought us the fall of the Soviet Union. Bush’s will buy us the death of the Islamic radical and the beginning of social reforms in the Mid-East.

The International Women’s Health Coalition honored Graça Machel with an award at our 2009 gala, but she couldn’t be there in person so we taped a video interview with her.

Graça Machel is President of the Foundation for Community Development (FDC), a not-for-profit Mozambiquan organization she founded in 1994 that makes grants to civil society organizations to strengthen communities, facilitate social and economic justice, and assist in the reconstruction and development of post-war Mozambique.

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They share the same agenda don’t they?

The Communist Party stands for the interests of the American working class and the American people. It stands for our interests in both the present and the future. Solidarity with workers of other countries is also part of our work. We work in coalition with the labor movement, the peace movement, the student movement, organizations fighting for equality and social justice, the environmental movement, immigrants rights groups and the health care for all campaign.

But to win a better life for working families, we believe that we must go further. We believe that the American people can replace capitalism with a system that puts people before profit – socialism.

We are rooted in our country’s revolutionary history and its struggles for democracy. We call for "Bill of Rights" socialism, guaranteeing full individual freedoms.

Until we win enough support to change the system, communists call for radical reforms under capitalism. We call for nationalization of the banks, railroads, and industries like steel and auto. Everyone who wants to work should be guaranteed a job or get unemployment payments until she/he can find a job. We say put the unemployed to work at union wages on massive public works programs to rebuild our cities, provide affordable housing for the homeless, build mass transit, and clean up the environment!

Our outlook is based on the social science of Marxism-Leninism. We study history, politics and economics in order to change the world.
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It’s much easier to hijack the Democrat party, that’s why. Why bother joining a party that will receive no votes. Instead, infiltrate another party that’s well-known and popular. Actually, it’s brilliant, in many ways… but it’s also beginning to backfire (much to their dismay).

Interesting article here:

COMMUNISM FOR OUR TIMES?
IT’S NO FURTHER THAN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

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Do you think that the time for reaching out to the other side of the aisle, attempting to build bridges and collaborations & coalitions is over?

Screw the Republicans. We’ve been down that route a million times, its time to carry the torch and start real change.

Natalie Mehra of the Ontario Health Coalition discusses the implications of province wide cuts to small town and rural hospitals. February 9, 2009 address to the Save Our Strathroy Hospital Town Hall.

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Your recent endorsement of Barack Obama raises some questions that I think the voters deserve to have answered:

1. Mr. Obama has repeatedly stated that he wishes to be
president so that the next four years are "not like the last eight." You
were the Secretary of State during the first three years of "the last
eight." Do you reject the value of your own efforts and work during your
time as Secretary of State?
2. Mr. Obama has largely achieved his success as an
"opponent" of American involvement in Iraq, though he was not a member of Congress at the time that Congress authorized American military action. It was you who presented the case of the Administration for the authorization. Do you now reject your own actions? Were you misinformed at the time or intentionally misinforming?
3. You claim that one of the decisions that Mr. Obama has
made wisely was the selection of Mr. Biden as his running mate. Was it
sagacious for Mr. Biden to vote against authorizing American military
action in the first Gulf War or for it in the second? What specific
policy achievements of Mr. Biden do you admire? Do you admire his
dishonesty during his 1988 presidential campaign, causing it to come to aninglorious end, or do you admire his unbridled verbosity, which often
leads to indefensible gaffes?
4. You claim that Mr. McCain’s selection of Mrs. Palin as a
running mate was a reason that you cannot support him, largely due to her "inexperience." You claim that you have only known Mr. Obama for "two years." Would you please clarify what experiences Mr. Obama has had that Mrs. Palin lacks?
5. The organized "Left" has embraced Mr. Obama as the first
"post-racial" candidate for President yet African-American leaders, such
as Congressman John Lewis have compared Mr. McCain and Mrs. Palin to the worst segregationists when they have raised legitimate questions about the ties between Mr. Obama and several rather unsavory characters, such as Tony Rezko, William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, and a host of others. Do you think the characterizations offered by Mr. Lewis and others have been helpful in healing the nation’s racial wounds?
6. If Mr. Obama is, indeed, a "post-racial" candidate should
the electorate reflect any racial divisions? Was race the primary factor
in your endorsement? If not, what other factors aided your decision?
7. You state that Mr. Obama is best suited to improve the
nation’s economy? What qualifies you to make such a judgment? What
economic expertise do you offer? What in Mr. Obama’s agenda do you see as most helpful to the economy, increasing tax rates on higher income payers, nationalization of large portions of the economy, such as health care, or something else?
8. You state that the Republican Party has become "narrower
and narrower," yet Mr. McCain is arguably the most moderate Republican to receive his party’s nomination in nearly seventy years and Mr. Obama is clearly the most liberal Democratic nominee ever. The Republican Party has nominated both African-Americans who have served as Secretary of State, including you. The Democratic Party has slowly become a coalition of academic elites and urban dwellers with almost no strength in suburban or rural areas. Please clarify how you reached your conclusions about the narrowing of the Republican Party.

Mr. Powell, you have served our country well as a military leader, and the Republican Party has served you well. If you believe that you entitled to make a public statement of your preferences, the American people are entitled to understand your reasoning.

An Indiana Voter

give us the main reason for your choice. we know what it is, but want an honest answer. politics is not the honest answer.