Health Alert: Antibiotic-Resistant Disease Killing Humans and Swine in Denmark

The antibiotic-resistant bacteria Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase [ESBL] is killing both people and swine in Denmark.

The bacteria has been implicated in the deaths of a number of cancer and liver disease patients. The number of infected patients jumped 50 percent last year.

Health officials said the bacteria is being transmitted to humans through pigs. How? The increased use of antibiotics in agriculture may be behind the spread of the resistant strain.

What are ESBLs?
Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamases [ESBLs] are actually enzymes produced by certain types of bacteria, which renders the bacteria resistant to the antibiotics commonly used to treat them.

ESBLs were first discovered in the mid-1980s. At the time, they were mostly found in the Klebsiella species of bacteria, in hospitals' intensive care units. Until recently, few people were affected by these mutated bacteria, and it didn't appear to be a major growing concern.

That has changed, however. According to the British Health Protection Agency [HPA], a new class of ESBL -- called CTX-M enzymes -- has emerged, and are now being widely detected among E.Coli bacteria. These ESBL-producing E. Coli are resistant to penicillins and cephalosporins, and are becoming more frequent in urinary tract infections.

Other species of bacteria that can now produce ESBLs include:
* K. pneumoniae
* K. oxytoca
* Salmonella
* Proteus mirabilis
* Pseudomonas aeruginosa

The Problem is Worse Than You Think!
According to a study published October 2007 in the Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA], there were close to 100,000 cases of invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus [MRSA] infections in the United States in 2005 -- which lead to more than 18,600 deaths.

To put that number into perspective, HIV/AIDS killed 17,000 people that year.

Antibiotic-resistant disease IS a major man-made problem.

This was the study that propelled MRSA into the news last year, combined with a number of school outbreaks that took place around the same time. Discussions focused largely on reducing medical over-use of antibiotics, and proper hygiene -- such as washing your hands with soap and water to reduce the spread of infectious disease.

But little has been said about the rampant over-use of antibiotics in agriculture -- which is a MAJOR source of human antibiotic consumption -- and, hence, increased antibiotic resistance.

Agriculture as a Source of Antibiotic Resistance
Both MRSA and ESBL are being traced back to animals raised for food production -- especially, pigs.

These animals are often fed antibiotics at low doses for disease prevention and growth promotion. Animals receiving antibiotics in their feed gain 4 to 5 percent more body weight than animals that do not receive antibiotics. But the price is high for you, the end consumer, because this practice also creates the perfect conditions for antibiotic resistance to flourish.

Denmark's health officials claim they're unsure of how farmers and vegetarians -- who have not consumed infected meat -- are becoming infected. However, according to research cited on Johns Hopkins' website, the main reservoir of these organisms is in the lower digestive tract, and they can persist within the gastrointestinal tract for months.

So, perhaps the answer doesn't have to be all that complicated. The meat industry's practice of using antibiotics is, indeed, a driving force behind the development of antibiotic resistance in a now wide variety of bacteria that cause human disease.

The long stalemate on this issue constitutes a struggle between strong science and bad politics. In August 2007, he FDA finally banned the use of fluoroquinolones, a widely used class of antimicrobials, from agricultural use -- but not without the Bayer Corporation kicking and screaming in vehement opposition. After all, antibiotics for livestock use is big business; it constitutes about 70 percent of ALL antibiotic use! They couldn't replace that market with human consumers even if they tried.

Other Agricultural Sources of Antibiotics
Another heavily tainted meat product you should stay away from is conventionally raised chicken. A 2006 study, published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, found that bacteria from conventional chicken, and from people who ate the chicken, became resistant to Synercid, a strong antibiotic used to treat antibiotic-resistant bacteria. In essence, it can cause resistance to the last lines of defense currently available in the modern medicine cabinet.

It also found that it was rare to find resistant bacteria among antibiotic-free chicken, while the majority of bacterial isolates from conventional poultry were resistant.

But, the ramifications of using antibiotics in agriculture don't end there. Antibiotics filter down through the food chain in sometimes unsuspecting ways.

Antibiotics are also being transferred, via manure, into your food supply.

A 2007 study in the Journal of Environmental Quality looked at whether food crops will accumulate antibiotics from soil covered with antibiotic-containing manure. In a greenhouse setting, corn, lettuce and potatoes were grown on soil that contained hog manure, with a commonly used veterinary antibiotic added.

The antibiotics were absorbed by all three crops, into both their leaves and tissue. Meanwhile, the antibiotics also transferred to the potato tubers, suggesting that root crops -- like carrots, radishes and potatoes -- may be particularly at risk for antibiotic accumulation.

Unfortunately, these findings also have implications for organic farmers, who often use manure as their main source of fertilizer. And, as it stands, manure that contains antibiotics is still allowed under the organic label.

How to Avoid Excessive Antibiotic Exposure
So, how can you ensure that the food you feed to yourself and your family is pure and healthy?

Apart from growing it yourself, your best option is to get to know a local farmer near you -- one who uses non-toxic farming methods. If you live in an urban area, there are increasing numbers of Community Supported Agriculture [CSA] programs available that give you access to healthy, locally grown foods -- even if you live in the heart of the city.

If you are looking for a safer alternative to commercially raised beef, please be sure to check out grass-fed beef. Grass-fed cattle are not routinely fed antibiotics. They may occasionally receive them for an infection, but that would be the rare exception -- and even then, they are only used for a few days.

In a nutshell: "Natural" is best, and organic is superior.

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SOURCES: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, MayoClinic.com, Salubris Inc. [photo], U.S. Department of Agriculture, WebMD
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Lose 45 Pounds in Just 30 Days -- Easily!

Editor's note: During Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, we're showcasing methods to help you prevent and heal yourself from colon cancer. Establishing and maintaining a healthy body weight is just one means of doing that, so as to avoid developing deadly obesity -- one of colorectal cancer's leading lifestyle-related risk factors, according to the American Cancer Society. Read on to learn about Dr. Suzanne Gudakunst's revolutionary "TOP SECRET Fat Loss Secret".

Dr. Suzanne Gudakunst has just released what many are calling the end of the need for potentially harmful weight-loss drugs and designer foods made to help you lose weight. Her discovery allows anyone -- regardless of their particular diet -- to do "just one simple thing" and instantly start shedding anywhere from 15 lbs. to as much as 200 lbs. of unwanted and dangerous fat!

Typical results average 45 lbs. in just the first 30 days alone for most people just starting out using her new secret. The reason this is so, is because her secret [aptly titled: "TOP SECRET Fat Loss Secret"] operates on an entirely different approach in the battle against the ever-increasing "bulge."

Dr. Suzanne discovered that harmful, crusty "plaque" builds up over the years in all of us -- and which is the direct result of harmful chemicals, preservatives, pesticides, etc., deliberately placed in perhaps every food on the market [much of which is now suspected as being carefully and intentionally done, so that people will continue to get fatter and, thus, sicker, and in order to make the food and drug companies richer!].

The result: This harmful plaque is responsible for your weight gain because it BLOCKS your body's natural ability to absorb proper nutrition -- and which causes two [2] chief things to occur:

* Your body starves, no matter how much you eat. So, by not feeling satisfied, you continue to stuff your face and get very, very fat -- and, eventually, at the permanent cost of your health!

* Your body thinks it's starving, so your hypothalamus adjusts your metabolism to burn food much, much slower in an effort to store food -- thus making you even more and more fatter than even before!

So, it makes sense that if and when you REMOVE this unwanted "garbage" from lacing your "insides," you will naturally start dissolving the fat and "stored chunks of lard" that disfigure an otherwise more attractive and healthier frame and sexier body.

As if this "plaque" goop weren't enough, Dr. Suzanne identified multitudes of specific species of "parasites" [i.e., little worm-like "critters" -- some which have "fangs" but no eyes] living inside nearly 99.964% of all people's small and large intestines in the United States alone, and about 92.36% of people, on average, worldwide.

These parasites [see picture] excrete -- meaning they take a CRAP inside YOU! -- a jelly-like "SLUDGE" that coats your insides, and which is very, very harmful and extremely TOXIC! Additionally, much like the plaque, they often steal your nutrition -- which, in turn again, causes your body to believe it's starving -- and, as a defense, you continue to just get FATTER and FATTER!

These parasites usually end up dying -- but not before laying millions of eggs! Once they die, they fossilize, forming a coral-like barrier preventing you even further from absorbing the correct amounts of proper nutrition.

When these parasites are FLUSHED from your guts, you end up magically losing tons of fat and extra weight -- and even WITHOUT making one slight change to your diet or how much you eat!

SHOCKINGLY, these same "little critters" [as Dr. Suzanne calls them] actually release chemical "messengers" that make you crave foods that you are not even supposed to eat at all! People who get rid of the parasites, therefore, suddenly find that they no longer even desire the Cheetos, pork rinds, jelly-filled treats, and 10,000's of other equally deadly so-called "foods."

In the past six [6] years alone, Dr. Suzanne has tested her amazing new discovery and "TOP SECRET Fat Loss Secret" privately with a select group of volunteers, and seen results that fall nothing short of the truly FANTASTIC!

For instance, a Chicago woman who weighed, until recently, a whopping 587 lbs. and had even been visited by a living-legend diet and fitness guru [name withheld by request], but who, after much direct assistance from him [the guru], was not able to shed even one [1] lb., suddenly dropped 449 lbs. from her body weight in under five [5] months using Dr. Suzanne's SECRET! Oh, and she didn't change or reduce one thing she regularly ate in her diet!

Now, the woman weighs just 138 lbs., and looks like a completely different woman altogether. And, as if that weren't enough, she became a swimsuit model for a well-known company! But, most importantly, this woman added who knows how many years to her life as a direct result of using Dr. Suzanne's "TOP SECRET Fat Loss Secret!"]

Another equally tearful/joyous account was of a woman named Lisa Stephens, from Ohio, who was told her diabetes could "never" be cured or reversed -- and this by countless doctors. After shedding over 156 lbs. in just 91 days of having used this same amazing revolutionary breakthrough secret discovered by Dr. Suzanne, her diabetes is gone completely and she no longer depends on insulin just to be able to survive!

These kinds of results are flooding Dr. Suzanne's e-mail each and every day from all over the world -- not just from North America, which has, by far, the fattest population as a group.

And, even though you, like me, recognize these results as both newsworthy and for the common good of humanity as a whole, there are some who are literally out to get the good doctor.

Recently, for instance, investigators began carefully keeping an extra-protective eye on Dr. Suzanne after she received death threats from "individuals" purportedly connected to the vast drug empires and weight-loss food manufacturing companies.

On the face of it, it would appear that Dr. Suzanne's "TOP SECRET Fat Loss Secret" must really work -- because if it didn't, no one would care to bring her harm. [This would be akin to an inventor discovering how to make a car that runs on water instead of gas being assassinated by the major auto manufacturers!]

Investigators insist that the reason she received threats is largely because what she is doing may actually make people healthier, leaner, sexier and trimmer -- as well as make them live longer, fuller lives. As a result, they stand to lose lots of money ... possibly, BILLIONS of dollars!!

The BEST part of her secret is that it's nothing difficult to do, and it doesn't require a major change in either your lifestyle or diet. In fact, "Nature's actually on our side," according to Dr. Suzanne, as her solution to the arduous ills of fat and obesity is simply the ingestion of Nature's own "protections" against both the harmful death-causing/obesity-causing plaque, as well as the nasty little critters living in your bowels!

Anyone with anywhere from just a few extra pounds to those 100 lbs. or more overweight must, as a rule, now secure for themselves Dr. Suzanne's "TOP SECRET Fat Loss Secret" -- and before someone tries to lobby against you ever discovering what's truly in it!

I recognize a great thing when I see one -- and THIS SECRET is definitely the most amazing thing I've ever seen. We all know that people of all ages are just getting fatter and fatter, and more and more UNHEALTHY. So this is a secret whose time is long overdue.

While many people may tell you to just stick to your diet, exercise to the point of exhaustion, etc., the naysayers will definitely be disappointed when they find out that Dr. Suzanne's cure to obesity is completely NATURAL!

If you want the good doctor's secret for yourself, and so that no one can ever take it away from you or steal it out of your hands, then all you need to do is grab your own PDF copy here:

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But, I have to warn you of two [2] things:

1. Pay processors are already struggling to keep up with orders, as this SECRET is now one of the most sought-after things anywhere online! [So, if you put it off, don't be surprised to find you can't even place your order -- and may not receive notice as to when order-taking may resume.]

2. Dr. Suzanne, in an effort to get people to get off their butts and to take action for their own good, is making it available at nearly HALF OFF just for people getting over there TODAY through the next 48 hours only. After that, the low price now nearly DOUBLES! [So you'd best beat the crowds over there NOW!]

The upshot: If you're wise and want to grab her secret before something unforeseen forever prevents you from doing so, then you'd best do what I did and go secure it now at:

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How many times have you seen sudden "breakthroughs" of such great controversy potentially come along and cause a doctor to actually get death threats for her secret "know-how?" You're right: Very, very few. So, don't overlook this post, as it may very well prove to be one of the most influential, important and life-changing ones you've ever read...

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Get Rid of Fat and Still Eat Like a Pig!

There's a "new gal" in town, and her name is Dr. Suzanne! And she's done something no one has ever done before: She's found the REAL way to LOSE FAT, be HEALTHY and, yet, still EAT whatever you want! In fact, she's even had "death threats" aimed against her, because what she's done has really ticked off the powers-that-be -- including drug companies and weight-loss food manufacturers.

Here's how her new "Top Secret Fat Loss Secret" works...

Dr. Suzanne discovered something that a small group of other doctors are just now catching on to -- namely, that ALL sicknesses and diseases [including obesity] start in the intestines [your colon]. This happens because of "toxic build-up" due to your body being unable to get rid of a small amount of what you eat in every single meal or snack you take in. And, over time, this little "leftover bit" starts to add up -- and BIGTIME!

It works basically like this: You eat, say, 100 "units" of toxins in every meal or snack. You "poop-out" most of it -- i.e., about 99 units. Subtracting means you have 100 - 99 = 1 leftover "toxic" unit. Over 1,000 such snacks or meals, you end up having 1,000 "toxic" units in "build-up."

Although each small meal or snack may seem meaningless to you, these built-up "stores" of toxins cause your body to equally build up FAT. Why? To "protect" you from the poisonous "toxins."

That's right! The extra pounds are your body's way of putting a big "rubber tire" of insulation between YOU and the "bad junk." And, once you have BOTH extra "fat stores" and "toxins," you're in BIG, BIG TROUBLE!

What then happens is, you fall vulnerable to every kind of "sickness" and "disease." And this pattern is what's been happening now for the better part of 50 years -- moreso in the United States than perhaps anywhere else on earth!

Before 1954, in fact, people ate much fattier foods -- full of greasy cholesterol and oils -- yet the number of people who suffered diabetes, cancers, strokes and just about everything else, pales compared to today! So, the "guilty party" had little to nothing to do with all the so-called "bad foods" -- and pretty much went completely unnoticed.

"Unnoticed" until Dr. Suzanne began studying the problem. You see, Dr. Suzanne comes from a family of "chunky" people. Yet, despite this, she is very lean and even sexy! People who meet her think she's some kind of "aerobics trainer" or someone who starves themselves half to death.

But that's NOT the case at all! Dr. Suzanne doesn't really exercise that much, and she even "eats like a pig" [according to one close friend and "insider"].

So how is this possible? Luck? Hardly! Dr. Suzanne discovered that if you simply get rid of the same amount of toxins and JUNK going in, you never end up getting the "toxic build-up" in the first place. And NO toxic build-up means absolutely NO disease, and NO extra "pudge" around the middle, butt or love handles, nor near the armpits and backs of the legs.

Going back to our little equation above, we get: 1,000 "toxic" units - 1,000 "toxic" units = 0 "toxic" units. And, when you have 0 "toxic" units, you have 0 "toxic" build-up. And, of course, when you have 0 "toxic" build-up, you have 0 "disease" and 0 "extra fat!"

But what is more surprising than this discovery is the fact that, even though she [and a growing number of other newly enlightened doctors] has mountains of evidence supporting this, the "mainstream" medical establishment is out to get her -- just like prosecutors in the notorious "Salem Witch Trials!"

Short of trying to burn her at the stake, other doctors would rather keep selling you "toxic" drugs -- that, although eliminating one symptom, cause who only knows how many "other" very damaging, and even dangerous, conditions?

Also, not surprisingly, weight-loss food companies would equally like some "evil" to befall the lovely Dr. Suzanne.

"I guess it's just a matter of economics," suggests Dr. Suzanne. "After all, if people follow my advice, they will never get sick in the first place; they will never get fat; and, therefore, they will have little need or dependency on either other doctors or special diet foods."

And this means a major loss in income to doctors and food manufacturers -- in terms of BILLIONS of dollars lost to them! So serious this has become, that Dr. Suzanne recently suffered death threats -- believed by at least one federal law enforcement agency to have originated from high up in the world of big business from the drug empires. [And I don't mean the illegal drug dealers, either, but the "legal" drug dealers; AKA Big Pharma.]

"Officials" won't say yet who their chief suspects are -- and, most likely, the whole matter will become "hushed up" all too soon. Hushed up because: 1] The "powerful drug companies" are certainly rich enough to pay someone to close any investigation; and 2] The more threats she gets, the more people everywhere will "KNOW" she's telling the truth. After all, if she weren't challenging these "powerful bigwigs," they wouldn't be so upset!

Dr. Suzanne's "Top Secret Fat Loss Secret" works on getting your body to get rid of the toxins -- NOT on trying to get you to make major changes in your lifestyle -- which, by the way, few people can really muster.

I mean, think about it: 99% of everyone you know who says they are doing a "new diet" only end up failing anyway. The woman we all know who said, five years ago, that she was on some new diet to "LOSE 25 pounds" now weighs 50 pounds more. [Ha! Horrible ... yet a tad funny, too!]

Or, how about the guy who joins the gym to "get back into shape," then a year later looks even worse?

These are the people YOU and I both know. They're all around us, and are clear "PROOF" that diets and exercise DON'T really work -- and not because those things aren't good for you and me, but because something else is standing in their way! And that "something else" is none other than "toxins!" Get rid of "them," and get rid of "everything else!" It's just that simple.

But you MUST know what you're doing, or else you may make a big mistake! And that's precisely what's inside Dr. Suzanne's "Top Secret Fat Loss Secret!"

Now, at this point, I would like you to strongly consider everything I've said here. I hope you will even get her "Top Secret Fat Loss Secret" for yourself.

Ordinarily, I'd say do whatever you want, as I would never try to twist anyone's arm. However, in this particular case, I must press you. You see, because Dr. Suzanne has been the target of death threats, and because she's now taking so much heat from the so-called "good guys" out to sell you every "legal" drug under the sun, she may be forced to remove her "Top Secret Fat Loss Secret" out of YOUR reach very, very soon!

And if that happens, YOU, at least, may never find out the TRUTH, and not be able to use it for yourself -- or those you love and want to protect!

That's the real reason I'm writing you today: So that you have the chance to be armed with something that, if you act right away, no one can ever take away from you!

So, rather than write a single sentence more, I'll just give you the link, so you can get it right now -- before it's too late:

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That's it. Please, do what you think -- right now -- is BEST...

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