Polio-like illness & diet

http://www.whale.to/vaccine/polio4.html#4.%20Diet:

"The milling of wheat destroys 40% of the chromium, 86% of the cobalt, 68%
of the copper, 78% of the zinc, and 48% of the molybdenum. By the time it
is completely refined it has lost most of its phosphorus, iron and
riboflavin, as well most fiber. Wheat flour has been plundered of most of
its vitamin E, important oils and amino acids. White bread also turns to
glucose as quick as white sugar (This is the staple diet of the majority).

Enriched and vitamin fortified foods are an outlandish rip-off...after
enrichment white flour has less than half the calcium, a third the
phosphorous and potassium. In one experiment 2/3rds of the rats kept on a
90 day diet of enriched bread died before the experiment was finished!. The
8 vitamins sprayed on most "fortified" breakfast cereals represent only a
small portion of the nutrients originally present---not to mention fibre
which has been removed almost entirely".---Paul Stitt (food scientist).

Stephen Cooter found that the description of an acute polio virus infection
is almost identical to vitamin B1 deficiency caused damage, Beri Beri. This
is commonly caused by dextrose and alcohol as well as eating white rice.
Polioencephalomalacia, thiamine deficiency, or PEM
http://www.whale.to/a/polioencephalmalacia.html

Dr McCormick pointed out that the first case of polio was reported in
Vienna one year after roller-mill white flour was first sold there. He
calls polio the form of beri-beri that follows the use of degerminated flour.

Cerebral-cortical Necrosis (CCN) or POLIOENCEPHALMALACIA:
Polioencephalomalacia, thiamine deficiency, or PEM is a neurological
problem seen in ruminants that is due to a lack of thiamine (B1) to the
brain resulting in brain swelling and pressure necrosis of brain tissue.
Caused most often by diet changes that alter gut flora populations so that
the new gut bugs produce a thiaminase that deactivates the dietary
thiamine. Thiamine is indispensable for the vital functioning of the
brain...if thiamine is unavailable or its required level is decreased, the
brain cortex degenerates. http://www.saanendoah.com/basicme3.html

Copper Deficiency A Possible Cause of Polioencephalomalacia In Young Goats
S. Copeland
Prairie Diagnostic Services - Canada

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Klenner, Southern Medicine & Surgery, April, 1951
"... review[ing] the findings of McCormick in 50 confirmed cases of
poliomyelitis in and around Toronto, Canada, during the epidemic of 1949...
families eating brown bread who came down with poliomyelitis did not
develop paralysis; whereas in those families eating white bread many of the
children having poliomyelitis did develop paralysis. The point here is that
brown bread has 28 times more vitamin B1 than does white bread. Obviously,
then, the paralysis which complicates acute poliomyelitis appears to be due
to a B1 avitaminosis." http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/

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"Intensive research during the past twelve years on the relationship
between diet and susceptibility to infection, not only in polio but also in
common respiratory infections and tuberculosis, has convinced me that the
human organism can protect itself against infection virtually completely by
proper nutrition."--Dr Sandler 1952 http://www.whale.to/v/sandler.html
DIET PREVENTS POLIO, Benjamin P. Sandler, M.D., 1951, The Lee Foundation,
for Nutritional Research
Dr Sandler in 1949 warned the residents of North Carolina to decrease
consumption of ice cream, soda pop, and artificially sweetened products in
hot weather. The incidence of polio dropped by 90%

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http://www.whale.to/vaccine/polio2.html

SIMILARITY OF POLIO TO PELLAGRA, BERIBERI AND OTHER DEFICIENCY DISEASES
Eleanor McBean

Ralf R. Scobey, M.D., president of the Poliomyelitis Research Institute.
Inc. Syracuse, New York (in the Archives of Pediatrics, Sept. 1950) lists
170 diseases of polio-like symptoms and effects but with different names
such as: epidemic cholera, cholera morbus, spinal meningitis, spinal
apoplexy, inhibitory palsy, intermittent fever, famine fever, worm fever,
bilious remittent fever, ergotism, etc. There are also such common
nutritional deficiency diseases as beriberi, scurvy, Asiatic plague,
pellagra, prison edema, acidosis etc. No drugs, medicines or medical
treatments have ever been able to cure any of these diseases and no germs
have been isolated as the cause. But they all respond to fasting,
cleansing, proper diet and improved circulation. The similarity of these
diseases to polio is too obvious to go unnoticed. They are, in reality, all
one disease with varying stages of intensity and different names. It is
ridiculous to assume that polio is caused by a virus and the rest of them
are caused by nutritional deficiency. Dr. Scobey senses this fact when he
states: "Inasmuch as nerve cells react in much the same way to various
poisons, further research will probably show that in these cases polio
micro-organisms are not always present, but intoxication (poisoning) may be
produced through faulty metabolism or by the absorption of poisons from
without."

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[and I would suggest this one may be due to the DDT spraying of cows and
calves and their feed, contaminating their milk........Sheri]

Another factor is the protection provided by human milk. Vaccination could
not be successfully admintered to breast fed babies.

Dr George Starr claimed that "every case of infantile paralysis he had been
able to check up on had been the victim of denatured (pasteurised) milk",
and his observation that, "a child has never been known to have infantile
paralysis if the nursing mother took fruit juice in the place of milk and
that, similarly, no child was ever known to have infantile paralysis if fed
on fruit juice instead of milk".

Dr Melvin Page D.D.S. found that when he was able to get patients to
achieve a calcium level 2 1/2 times that of phosphorus, degenerative
diseases disappeared. The prime agents to cause an imbalance in the
phosphorus calcium ratio are animal products (meat has a 20-1 ratio) sugar
and soft drinks. (The average yearly sugar intake is 110 lbs. Average soft
drink intake in the USA is 1-2 cans. Soft drinks are highly acidic, about
2.5 pH. It would take 32 glasses of alkaline water of pH 10 to neutralise
one glass of cola.)

Dr Hal Higgins D.D.S states that pasteurised milk will rot your teeth at
twice the rate of sugar.

"Pasturised milk is dangerous and destructive. It causes disease. It has
not one redeeming quality. All it does is mask spoiled milk so that big
business can make big money".---H. Diamond, nutritionist.

Dr Gordon Stewart, Prof of Epidemiology and Pathology, states that polio
and other viruses can be carried for months, even years with no effect.
According to Dr Dennis Geffen, of every 100 people who contract polio
virus, 90% remain symptomless; 9% only develop slight signs of the illness
such as a stiff neck or sore throat, whilst only 1% develop definite
paralysis.

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http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/polio3.htm


Stephan Cooter, Ph.D (taken from Beating Chronic Illness): Beriberi or
Aseptic Spinal Meningitis? Getting shots is only one player in producing
what I believe are the true causes behind Chronic illness. There are many.
Under THIAMINE (VITAMIN B-i) DEFICIENCY, The Merck Manual (1992), you will
find that Bi deficiency is commonly caused by dextrose and alcohol as well
as eating white rice. You will also find that Harvey Wiley, MD, in The
History of a Crime Against the Food Law (1929), warned the food industry
against using dextrose, or corn sugar, in any of its forms as a sweetener
and preservative in processed food because he found that it encouraged
generalized "debility" in the young men who ate canned food with dextrose
used as sugar. In digestion, any refined sugar can be converted into
alcohol, then acetaldehyde, by the GI tract's intestinal flora. Although
Dr. Wiley didn't know that mechanism, the Merck Manual's description of
vitamin B1 pathology should give everyone cause to worry: "The most
advanced neural changes occur in the peripheral nerves, particularly of the
legs. The distal segments are characteristically affected earliest and most
severely. Degeneration of the medullary sheath has been demonstrated in all
tracts of the cord, especially in the anterior horn and posterior ganglion
cells. Lesions of hemorrhagic polioencephalitis occur in the brain when
deficiency is severe" (page 969). This is also a precise description of an
acute polio virus infection, and yet it is a description of B1 vitamin
deficiency caused damage. why hasn't anyone noticed this strange
coincidence? As you will read, Dr. Richard Bruno, Ph.D., found brain
lesions in the hypothalamus of people who had had polio diagnosed and who
died in the 1950s. He believed, and he still believes, that polio virus
caused the lesions and that they were worsened by overwork and emotional
stress as diagnosed polio survivors aged. However, the most obvious cause
of known brain lesions is not a virus at all, but a sugar-alcohol induced
B1 vitamin deficiency that used to be known as beriberi. Here the Merck
Manual identifies the ominous consequence of people who may not have been
damaged by a virus at all, but by an industrialized diet leading to B 1
deficiency. The normal industrialized diet of white bread, white rice, and
sugar may be the major player in setting up early signs of beriberi
characterized by "fatigue, irritation, poor memory, sleep disturbances,...
pain, anorexia, abdominal discomfort, and constipa-tion (a Merck beriberi
description)" that have been incorrectly associated with a virus infection.

All of these chronic fatigue symptoms are the usual symptoms of chronic
illness: FM, PPS, MS, CFS, not to mention alcoholism, cerebral beriberi,
Creutzfeldt-Jakob, Kuru, and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. Full blown dry
beriberi involves not only burning feet, gum problems, calf pains, leg
pains, but extreme weakness of the legs that may extend to other parts of
the body. In wet beriberi, heart problems arise leading to heart failure.
Why hasn't anyone noticed that heart disease and neurological problems are
related? All of this is brought on by a demineralized, devitaminized diet,
and may have been the basic dietary cause that led to acute paralysis and
even death in many people diagnosed with acute polio infection. In fact,
the virus may have been attracted by sites of pre-existing injury in the
brain and spinal cord. Polio viral infection, I believe is a secondary
cause of nerve damage, not a primary cause. But there are many causes. As I
wrote Beating Chronic Illness, I was convinced that childhood illnesses and
vaccines played another major role. Under Merck's "Poliomyelitis," you will
not find any confirmation of that theory. But if you discovered as Tedd
Koren, D.C., did, that polio infection was recorded only if you had a
terribly acute case lasting more than two weeks alter 1953, and only if you
had not been vaccinated, and then, it wasn't recorded as polio at all. It
was recorded as Acute viral Encephalitis or Aseptic Meningitis, from 1953
to the present. Vaccine special interests must have had very powerful
effects on the popular media and the medical sources of information. Under
meningitis headings, I found unexpected support for my theories of causes:
On page 1473, Merck Manual, under the heading Infectious causes, I read:
Viral causes: Mumps, echovirus, poliovirus, coxsackievirus, herpes simplex
(cold sores), other herpes viruses, horse viruses, hepatitis, mono
nucleosis [Epstein-Barr virus, also known as a herpes virus], and, [believe
it or not,] HIV. Did you know that the aIDS virus is a causative agent in
polio? Did you know that common childhood diseases are common causes of
what used to be called polio?

Postinfectious causes: Measles [known to cause paralysis in sheep as well
as other damage], rubella, varicella [a fancy word for chickenpox],
smallpox, and cowpox. It is not unrealistic to think there is a direct
connection between childhood illnesses and vaccination and what I call
chronic illness. We might wonder why Multiple Sclerosis is listed as a
non-infectious cause of meningitis formerly known as polio. They are both
demyelinating conditions involving loss of the myelin sheath. They are both
linked with vitamin and mineral deficiencies as you will see. Also listed
under non-infectious causes are iatrogenic causes: chemo-therapeutic
agents, antibiotics, dyes, lead.
Under the quiet heading vaccine reactions, you can read "MANY"[my caps],
including rabies, pertussis, and smallpox. This translates: vaccines are
known causes of meningitis-polio. Do you suppose your family physician has
noticed this? Do you suppose anyone in the research field has noticed? I
wrote one dozen international names in research to find out, but not one
answered my letter.

The one Merck classification that makes a lot of sense is many drugs,
including all over-the-counter non-narcotic painkillers, like aspirin and
ibuprofen. And all we were told in the mass media is that aspirin was good
for preventing heart disease and cancer. According to the 1993 Winter FDA
Consumer report, British studies were not able to confirm the aspirin
claim, and in fact found that aspirin seemed to worsen our chances of both
cancer and heart disease. We might wonder how much is news report and how
much on national TV is advertising that looks like news. There are many
unfortunate established causes of chronic illness, and it wouldn't hurt to
know enough to help remedy the situation by eating brown rice for the
natural B1 "rice polish" that cures beriberi, not synthetic B1, and all the
major minerals and trace minerals we may have been deprived of most of our
lives that have been missing in sugar and white bread. Chronic illness is a
deficiency disease, worsened by childhood illnesses, vaccination, and many
other toxic agents. Web site:http://www.mall-net.com/cooter/

Now this I find useful...
Altho I don't see the logic of some of the earlier arguments (that
viruses are irrelevant etc.), this approach of seeing what *range* of
issues can give rise to the symptoms (e.g. of polio) seems to me like a
really excellent one. That gives opportunity for a multi-faceted
"attack" and/or investigation, and gives a real chance at understanding
the issues. And a *real* chance of finding better, and possibly MUCH
better approaches than vaccination, antivirals, etc.!

The similarity with B1 deficiency is really interesting. We've seen
that polio can be effectively treated with IV vitamin C (and does the
cause of the symptom picture matter, or not?) It would be interesting
to see what effect high supplementation of B1 has? (In cases where the
cause is a toxin, perhaps that would be palliative rather than
curative; in cases where the cause is or might be viral, vitamin C
could be curative as well as palliative, because of its role in immune
function)
Shannon

On May 18, 2006, at 10:37 AM, Sheri Nakken wrote:

> Polio-like illness & diet
>
> http://www.whale.to/vaccine/polio4.html#4.%20Diet:
>
> "The milling of wheat destroys 40% of the chromium, 86% of the cobalt,
> 68%
> of the copper, 78% of the zinc, and 48% of the molybdenum. By the time
> it
> is completely refined it has lost most of its phosphorus, iron and
> riboflavin, as well most fiber. Wheat flour has been plundered of most
> of
> its vitamin E, important oils and amino acids. White bread also turns
> to
> glucose as quick as white sugar (This is the staple diet of the
> majority).
>
> Enriched and vitamin fortified foods are an outlandish rip-off...after
> enrichment white flour has less than half the calcium, a third the
> phosphorous and potassium. In one experiment 2/3rds of the rats kept
> on a
> 90 day diet of enriched bread died before the experiment was
> finished!. The
> 8 vitamins sprayed on most "fortified" breakfast cereals