Why Vegetarians and Vegans Are On The Wrong Train

Back in another lifetime, when I was in medical school, the country was awash with the dawn of a new age. There were all kinds of ideas afloat, political, social, and cultural. One of the big ideas, which really wasn’t new, was vegetarianism.

There were various versions of this phenomenon, and one of the things I took an immediate dislike to was that it was a sort of puritanical cult. The vegetarians didn’t miss a chance to tell you all about the evils of meat, poultry, and seafood, all the while looking somewhat akin to war camp survivors.

This hasn’t changed much over the years. Recently, a friend took me to a restaurant, where they served both sides of the fence, and we sampled a number of meat and non-meat dishes, that were all quite good. While we were there, we witnessed what I think was a fairly common comical situation.

A vegetarian was raking the waiter over the coals about the most infinitesimal details of the preparation and cooking processes. As far as I’m concerned, anybody who has this many concerns about how the food is being handled should stay at home. Or, as my friend put it quite succinctly, “They should be force fed with lard!”

The waiter was extremely patient, and he answered every question with a smile, but you could tell she was getting on his last nerve. Finally, she asked to speak to the chef. This was in the middle of lunch, which would be like asking to talk to a surgeon in the middle of an operation.

A minute or two later, the chef arrived table side, and she started with him. He answered quite a few questions, and then told her he had to get back to work. She then asked for the manager, who turned out to be a quite stunning looking woman.

She listened, answered a few questions, and then said, “Are you ready to place your order now?”

The woman said she has a few more questions. The manager then reached onto the table and started clearing it. Off went the china, glassware, and silverware. She looked at the woman and said, “We have spent well over thirty minutes, answering all of your questions, and now, it’s time for you to take your act on the road. Good day!”

The vegetarian left in a huff, but the manager got quite a number of “Bravo’s” from the other patrons.

When leaving, my friend asked the manager if the incident was a common occurrence. She smiled and said it happened a couple of times a week, and usually ended in the same scenario. “They’re Puritans, and this type of behavior is a test. It took me a while to figure this out, and now I know exactly how to deal with them.”

And then she added with a laugh, “She sure did look like she could use a spot of beef, didn’t she?” (She turned out to be an Aussie.)

I’ve heard all the vegetarian horror stories:

Meat stays in your gut and rots, getting infected with bacteria.

I don’t want to put anything dead into my body.

I want to live in a more natural way.

Farming is not viable. We could feed the whole world, if we became vegetarian.

I don’t want to finance death.

Farming animals is cruel.

It’s all a wagon full of manure. There is no credible scientific data that being a vegetarian is a healthful lifestyle. It’s a political lifestyle, or a cultural lifestyle, and one that I believe is not healthy, at all.

Spend a little time around a vegetarian, or in a vegan restaurant, look at the people, make some observations. One of your observations will be that there are a lot of very unhealthy people around.

I could list the diseases, but I won’t.

But the simple fact is that they are out of balance. Their bodies are out of balance, and as a result, the old brain is off, too.

You need to eat a balanced diet that includes meat. One of the leading nutritionists in Southern California, whose clientele includes some of Hollywood’s biggest names, told me that one of the biggest problems he faces is with vegetarians.

“They come in sick, emaciated, they have skin problems, body odor problems, problems I don’t even want to talk about. They want to know why, and I tell them, “You need meat!”

“Some of them are aghast, they throw tantrums, they tell me how screwed up I am. But once they start eating meat again, all the problems go away. It’s like magic.”

Eat a good balanced diet. Have a good exercise program, and take the right supplements, like my Powerhouse Omega Formula, and my Heart Charging Formula.

And if you want to cure a vegetarian, keep a lot of bacon around.

Believe me, it works.

Pharmaceutical Grade Fish Oil and Depression

Everybody in New York seems to be down after the Yankee’s got slobberknocked by the Red Sox over the weekend. But over the last few years the Yankees have always started slowly. The ugly mood might just be exacerbated by the new price of tickets at the new Yankee Stadium. To say the ticket prices are high would be an understatement, and you are left to wonder if the average Joe will ever see a game, except on his television set.

With the economic crisis, and job layoffs, the media is focusing on a growing problem of mental depression. My dad used to say that real men don’t have time for feeling sorry for themselves, and part of me agrees with that. There is way too much focus on fashionable depression, like how Jennifer Aniston feels, after being dumped again.

That’s just da dumb.

But thousands of women will feel it’s okay to visit the doctor and ask for anti-depressants, after watching or reading a story like that. And doctors will give them a prescription, to get them out of the office, so they can take care of those who are really in need of treatment.

Most of the time, these women have no serious mental depression issues. What they have is an omega-3 fat deficiency, which causes what I would term a “letdown,” as opposed to serious depression. This is easily remedied by taking an ultra pure pharmaceutical grade fish oil, such as my own Dr. Bill’s Powerhouse Omega Formula.

Many women have letdowns when pregnant, or after. Physicians often give them anti-depressants, which really can compound the problem, and it often makes it impossible to shed weight gained in pregnancy, which can really become a problem.

Fish oil helps balance out the way your body functions, and gets the much needed omega-3 fat DHA to the brain, so it can function properly, assisting in eliminating depression.

Here’s something to remember:  Depression, more often than not, has nutritional roots. That means that it is closely related to your diet, and the physical state of your body. The better your diet, the better physical shape you’re in, the lesser the chance is you’ll have a letdown.

I’m not going to say that there are not cases of real depression, that need to be treated with drugs, because there are. But they are not the norm. Psychotherapy has its place, and this therapy is often quite successful. But the majority of people can be treated without drugs, using fish oil, diet, and exercise.

The best solutions are often the most simple.

They Should Put Fish Oil In The Water

Just as the heat finally gets to Long Island, I’m getting ready to go to business meeting in Florida…so maybe I won’t experience the hot/cold shock I usually get when I make these trips. It looks like the weather is going to be almost the same in both places, which is a rare thing indeed.

In the land down under, (Australia), a study has just been released at the annual meeting of The Thoracic Society of New Zealand and Australia. (What I woulldn’t give for some photos of that group!)

Professor Bob Adams from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s Health Observatory Unit staunchly backs the use of fish oil supplements…but he’s just joking about putting it in the water.

Fatty acids from fish oil supplements have been linked to better heart health, more rapid weight loss, and other health benefits.

Now, his study has found that asthmatics taking fish oil cope better. Fish oil has been found to have many benefits, particularly with regard to inflammation, which I wrote about last week. Asthma is an inflammation of the airways.

Preliminary studies found people with asthma taking fish oil had fewer visits to the doctor, fewer sick days, and fewer hospital visits. This points to a larger role for alternative medicine in asthma control.

Fish oil can also help arthritis sufferers.

Over the past few days I have listed any number of maladies that fish oil may help alleviate.

Dr. Bill’s Powerhouse Omega Formula won’t fix everything that ails you, but it sure will help prevent you getting things that become serious problems later on.

Give it a try, and I guarantee you’ll see what I mean.

Why Choose Dr. Bill’s Powerhouse Omega Formula

A full moon must be on the horizon, because I have received some rather odd emails in the old inbox. I don’t keep track of the moon and its cycles, so someone  will have to confirm this to me, but I suspect it.

The first one I got told me that the product just didn’t work. And he had me going, until he admitted (down in paragraph six) that he didn’t take the product regularly, because he found following a routine annoying.

That just doesn’t work, for fish oil, or any other form of medication, so that one got shredded.

The next one dealt with an athlete who took the formula every day, but had doubled his workout routine and wondered why he was sore.

Fish oil is not a steroid, and if you double your routine and expect fish oil to make up the difference, you are sadly mistaken.

Then, somebody out West said my last email wasn’t up to my usual standards.

That’s the trouble with being brilliant–some days, it just doesn’t translate.

He apparently is not a fan of Disney, or pirates, so let’s talk turkey today.

The biggest selling point for my Dr. Bill’s Powerhouse Omega Formula is the purity. You can search all you want, but you won’t find a formula as pure as mine.

Each serving, which is one soft gel, packs a whopping 780 mg of Omega-3’s, which is nearly quadruple what most fish oil contains. 4 soft gels, which is the recommended daily dose, contains 3120 mg of omega-3 fatty acids. You get the best stuff and virtually nothing else.

Then, there is the enteric coating, which insures that the soft gel travels deep into your intestinal tract, before it’s released, which eliminates fish burps or aftertaste.

Not only does the fish oil softgel have an enteric coating, it also has a soft lemon scent, which eliminates any residual fishy smell, or odor. In fact, the soft gels smell so good that you might just keep your nose over the bottle for quite some time.

There isn’t a better natural inflammatory on the market.

But you have to take the Powerhouse Omega Formula on a regular schedule for it to be effective. You can’t skip days and expect it to work. If you miss one dosage you can double up, but try to stay in a routine.

I have several friends in the fitness business, and they’ll tell you about being out of sorts when they ran out, or failed to take it on a trip. Minor aches and pains, that they never felt while using on a regular basis, reoccurred after a few days of not using. They don’t run out anymore, and they make sure to pack it when traveling.

One thing people say to me all the time is: “Hey…I’m not sore anymore.”

For anybody who has been bothered by aches and pains, including myself, that’s a great thing to be able to say.

Navy SEALs Now Stationed At Disney

This story was forwarded to me this afternoon and it made me laugh out loud. It came without any attribution, so I don’t know who to thank.

In an attempt to keep Disneyland’s famous “Pirates of the Caribbean” ride hip and up to date, Walt Disney CEO, Robert Iger, has enlisted the help of the U.S. Navy and stationed three Navy SEAL snipers inside the treacherous ride.

“We want our visitors to feel totally safe,” Iger said. “That’s why I have authorized the snipers to shoot any pirate threatening the lives of our guests.”

“A 5 x 7 photograph of the incident will be available upon exiting the ride for just $9.99,” he added.

Disney prides itself on promoting a family friendly atmosphere, which is why it includes such heart warming displays of terrorism…like drowning a man in a well, or looting a town and then, burning it to the ground, while…pirates get drunk and sing songs about pirates getting drunk.

On the ride, the Navy snipers will be stationed at a point just after the pirates in jail lure a dog with a bone…but before the fat guy gets drunk with a pig in the mud. Only one incident has been reported so far: Goofy tackled a 7 year old guest and stole his cotton candy.

“One shot…Blackjack,” said the sniper, who then disappeared into a mound of mud.

The actor who played Goofy will be buried inside Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride on Tuesday.

Now remember, the story isn’t true.

But it is funny.

Luckily you don’t need a sniper team in order to acquire my newest creation, Dr. Bill’s Heart Charging Formula.

The Heart Charging Formula will put a little skip in your giddyup. That’s something one of my old mentors used to say back when I was a fledgling surgeon. When he saw me finishing a 48 hour shift, he would smile and say, “Billy boy…you look like you could use a little skip in your giddyup.” My laugh always eased the pain in my legs, from all that standing.

If you feel like you’ve lost a step, my Heart Charging Formula is just what you need to get back on track.

What’s The Best Anti-Inflammatory On The Market

The last couple of days here have been miserable, with rain, cold, and then more of the same. The forecast calls for a beautiful weekend with high temperatures, so I have that to look forward to.

If you go in any drugstore you will find a whole wall of NSAID’s, such as Advil, Motrin, Nuprin, Aleve, and there have to be at least a dozen others, including the house brand. People use these to combat arthitis pain, headaches, joint aches, and so on and such forth. These pain relievers amount to billions of dollars of sales every year.

But here is something you don’t know.

In every test done with NSAID’s against fish oil…fish oil came out on top. Fish oil is more effective for inflammation than even the top three prescription drugs on the market today.

In most cases, omega-3 fatty acids were found to be safer…and less expensive.

There just shouldn’t be any doubt about it…fish oil is Nature’s most effective and potent anti-inflammatory. And some researchers attribute the documented reduction of heart attacks, seen with fish oil use, at least in part, to this same anti-inflammatory effect.

Advertising is probably the reason that Americans spend $30 billion dollars annually on the top three classes of drugs: anti-depressants, high blood pressure medication, and anti-inflammatories.

They are not particularly effective, they could have serious side effects, and often do more harm than good. Many have even been taken off the market, because they cause heart attacks and strokes (remember Vioxx?).

You really shouldn’t make medical decisions based on television commercials, because no matter how attractive they make drugs sound, they should be avoided, until other, more natural treatments have been explored.

The safe way to alleviate depression, high blood pressure, and inflammatory pain, without resorting to prescrition drugs, is with Dr. Bill’s Powerhouse Omega Formula, my ultra pure pharmaceutical grade fish oil.

Studies have shown that after starting an omega-3 fish oil supplement program, many patients were able to greatly reduce, and sometimes eliminate, their pain medication.

So why waste your hard earned money on things that barely work, or have innumerable side effects? My Powerhouse Omega Formula will give you better results, help you avoid side effects and secondary prescriptions, and save you money in the long run.

Try beating that with a stick.

Man Of God Faces Wrath Of IRS

As happens frequently to me, I was on one website looking for a medical story, but instead, I was diverted to another story, that I’m going to share with you. It reminds me of a story that a medical student told me many years ago, about his family, and one Reverend Ike, a famous black tent preacher who made a fortune at tent revival meetings. I think the infamous Reverend Ike is still alive, living out his rich and famous dream.

This story is up-to-the-moment fresh, and comes from the lovely city of Charlotte, North Carolina, home of the 2009 NCAA basketball champs.

Pastor Anthony L. Jinwright was indicted on tax evasion charges by the Feds today, on 14 counts, including failing to file a return for six years running, filing under a false name, and making false statements to agents.

The indictment alleges that he spent lavishly on luxury homes and cars, including a 2005 Bentley that leased for $42,000 a year.

The indictment claims he paid no tax on an income of $3.1 million dollars, over those years he didn’t file, and that he illegally deducted $140,000 in business expense, and took $30,000 vacations.

He had two churches, called the Greater Salem City of God in Charlotte, and Cornelius, with 2,000 members.

Well…aren’t they going to be happy campers tonight, while they sit around the table and talk about all the money they gave this charlatan.

You would think that when your local pastor starts tooling around in a Bentley, someone would notice. And maybe someone did…and turned him in. Or, it’s possible someone who was in on the scheme felt like their cut wasn’t high enough, and turned on him.

I remember reading a story years ago about a local drug kingpin that was taken down over a $100 bet he apparently welched on, by a guy in his organization who made over $400K a year doing virtually nothing, and who had been with him for over eight years (It was the priciple of the thing).

I’m betting that someone who was in on the scheme didn’t appreciate what he was doling out.

No one in this story seemed to be a clear thinker, and that’s a shame. Now I’m not saying he shouldn’t have been accused. He clearly broke a gaggle of laws on the county, state, and federal levels, and he is going to do some time. But what I am saying is that he shouldn’t have gotten in to this situation in the first place, with his muddled thought patterns.

He certainly needed my ultrapure pharmaceutical grade fish oil, which will help your brain function on a higher plane. I’m sorry it wasn’t available when he ran onto the crooked path, but there isn’t any excuse for you.

When you get a chance to improve your health, in this case with my Dr. Bill’s Powerhouse Omega Formula, you should take it. We all come to what Robert Johnson called the “Crossroads” and we need to act accordingly. There is a time when you can improve your health and take control of it, and there comes a time when you no longer can, so you need to act now, and get something that will improve the way your body functions now.

And if you’re feeling like you don’t have enough get up and go, try my newest offering, Dr. Bill’s Heart Charging Formula, based on the absolutely best bio-available ingredients in existence.

Good health is a choice. You can be just as healthy as you want to be, and I’ll help.

Why Some Folks Can’t Lose Weight

There’s a dirty little secret you should know about, but probably don’t. It’s called pharmaceutically induced weight gain. One of the big side effects of many drugs is weight gain. Nobody is going to tell you that you may gain some weight with the cure you’ve been handed, but it’s true.

Let’s use anti-depressants as an example. You get a prescription for any number of anti-depressants, and three months later, you have gained 30 pounds. Now that’s something to be depressed about.

This scenario happens all the time. And you can work out and diet till the cows come home, the weight isn’t coming off. So what can you do?

Get off the anti-depressants, for starters.

Anti-depressants are way over prescribed, and most people don’t need them at all. What they do need is better food, more exercise, and pharmaceutical grade fish oil. Fish Oil, as in my Powerhouse Omega Formula, will help elevate your mood and help keep you upbeat.

Oh…and I guarantee it won’t put any weight on you; in fact, it may help you drop some of that excess baggage.

Many drugs interrupt the way the body is supposed to function, and anti-depressants are just some of them. They messages the brain is supposed to send about being full and satiated get lost somewhere, and the messages about burning fat for fuel get screwed up too.

Medicines for high blood pressure and diabetes do this too.

It’s a double whammy for diabetics…they’re given medication that will make them gain weight…and then told to lose weight.

A friend of mine, who is a diabetic, was on four different diabetic medications and was gaining weight every month, in spite of watching his diet very closely. Now, he is trying to control his weight and blood sugar, without the medications, and is doing better: He’s lost 10 pounds in six weeks.

I’m not telling anyone to stop taking their medication, but it’s time to have a serious talk with your doctor.

When a doctor prescribes medication for you, you want to ask about all the benefits…and the side effects.

Do a little research on the medication, because there will be plenty of information available. And you may want to check out what natural substance can be used in its place.

United Airlines Institutes The First Fat Tax

I heard this story last week and was going to write about it, but then, I got busy and it slipped my mind for a couple of days. I was looking for something else entirely on the internet, when it popped up again.

I thought I had better write about it, while it was fresh in my mind.

Almost everyone I know has an airline story about sitting next to a “Lardassian,” a turn of phrase coined by a friend of mine called The Big Kahuna. He travels quite a lot and has had a number of instances where the spillover has been quite unpleasant.

This is what it boils down to when you’re flying the friendly skies, or anywhere else for that matter. You pay for a seat, and you get stuck next to a Lardassian, who has also paid for one seat, but who takes up one and a HALF seats–namely ,half of yours. The airline doesn’t charge the Lardassian for taking up half of your seat, or give you half a refund, or even try to make you happy.

My friend The Big Kahuna avoided this problem for a long time by taking extremely early flights, that were never full, so if this problem arose, he could easily move.

Then came the recent oil crisis, and those flights just disappeared. Now, almost every flight he takes is full, and he could easily get stuck in a mighty unpleasant situation.

My friend has a hilarious story about sitting next to a woman who, in addition to being huge, had a monstrous gas attack that almost cleared the entire section of the plane.

I have joked about a fat tax before, but now it has become real. United is already implementing the policy, and six other airlines are following suit, in the near future. Can movie theatres, and Broadway, be far behind?

I don’t think so, unless someone sues, and you just know that a Lardassian is going to sue that this is discrimination.

But there has to be a way to compensate the people who are being made uncomfortable by the Lardassian spillover. Would it hurt the airline to give away some free tickets to those who have had to endure the suffocating heat of being pressed up against a whale walker for hours?

I think if we taxed those who obviously violate basic health standards, we could probably come up with a huge amount of money for health care. You smoke, you pay triple the going rate; you take drugs, you pay quadruple. I’m just undecided about how much to tax fat people.

But the fact is, if you’re seriously overweight, you are going to to seriously tax the health system. And if we look around, some of the fattest people are the ones not paying any taxes at all. Under Obama, they’ll probably become a protected class, and just get even bigger.

What they need is my pharmaceutical grade fish oil, but they won’t pay for it, because it’s more important to buy potato chips, soda, and cookies than to get serious and admit they have a problem.

Fish oil can help these folks shed unwanted pounds. It isn’t a weight loss or diet pill, but it does balance out the body and mind, which is necessary to start losing weight. A number of studies have shown that groups taking fish oil have lost more weight than those who don’t. Repeatedly.

But there is so much noise about diet programs that claim to take 11 pounds off you in 9 days, you barely hear about it. It’s like the old turtle and hare story. The hare is all the “amazing weight loss” stories, and the Powerhouse Omega Formula is the turtle, steadily plodding along, losing a pound or so every week, but getting better results in the end.

98 percent of all those on “amazing weight loss” formulas fail, and fail repeatedly. It’s important to get on the right program, and stay there.

Lay a good foundation. Get your mind and body balanced, and then take the slow steady approach. It’s what works.

Supplement Therapy Goes Mainstream

Up there…just a ways north…we have Canada, and Canadians, who we don’t often hear much about, unless it’s hockey season and there is a good Canadian team, which there hasn’t been for some time.

But one thing is certain, up there in the frigid cold: Canadians take a whole lot of vitamin supplements to improve their health.

Here is a telling sign of the times.

So many millions of Canadians are using supplements that medical students are now learning about them in school.

Dr. David Rayner, associate dean of undergraduate medical education at the University of Alberta (think Calgary) says that “a big proportion of our patients…33 to 50 percent…are using complimentary and alternative therapies outside the mainstream of medicine. There’s no way that’s we’re going to change that, so we take the standpoint that medical students have to know about complementary therapies and they have to know something about the interface between regular biomedical theory and the complementary and alternative approaches.”

What that means is that they are moving, ever so slowly, to teach that prevention and supplementation might be a good thing, even though their patients are way ahead of them.

The old joke in medicine is that no changes occur until one generation of doctors is dead and buried, but the public can force changes, as is going on here.

And the other thing to consider is this: If mainstream medicine was working so well…why is there such a demand for alternative therapies?

One reason is that the public is less and less willing to use medicines that have so many side effects, and which need other drugs to accompany the first. Or drugs that cost a lot of money, but have very marginal success rates. Like statins, for instance.

Fish oil and CoQ10 do a much better job for your heart than statins, but under the hurricane of drug company advertising, you would never know it.

And that hurricane starts in medical school, where almost every possible event is sponsored by a drug company. There really is no such thing as an independent drug study. They are all sponsored (bought and paid for) by big pharma. The recent scanalous debacle at Harvard is an example.

An extremely influential doctor had sold his soul to a drug company, and published documents for a dozen years that supported all of that companies drugs, and it turned out that the work was completely falsified.

But it all bore the Harvard Medical School impramatur, or seal.

We don’t have that problem. All of our ingredients are natural, and they don’t have any significant side effects. Your stomach isn’t going to become gassy, you won’t have any digestion problems, your bones aren’t going to ache, and you aren’t going to get slow and be in a drug-induced fog.

Quite the opposite. It should be much like taking your car in for a tuneup, getting it back, and going “WOW! I should have done this earlier.”

Give them a try. Soon, you’ll have a favorite food, a favorite drink, a favorite place, and a favorite formula.