Doctors Recommended Cigarette Smoking
In 1949 Doctors recommended smoking cigarettes. Today they recommend taking osteoporosis drugs…
Click the triangle play button below to watch this shocking video footage from an actual 1949 RJ Reynolds advertising campaign.
Here's another print ad. Notice that the image of the doctor along with the message at the bottom of the ad implies that doctors believe that Lucky Strike Cigarettes are “Your throat protection against irritation, against cough.”
Shocking isn’t it! This TV advertisement proves that doctors were recommending smoking cigarettes, while completely ignoring available research (that started in the 1930s) linking cigarette smoking to lung disease.
Now What Does This Have to do With You and Your Bone Health?
Think about this. Doctor’s today are widely prescribing drugs for osteoporosis and osteopenia, completely ignoring the many studies that prove their dangerous side-effects.
According to an article by Consumer Affairs (February 2007), Merck, the maker of Fosamax, has put aside $48 million to set up a defense fund for lawsuits related to the debilitating side-effects of Fosamax. Does Merck know something that the general public doesn’t?
But you’re not like the majority of people who continue to blindly believe television advertisements. You know better.
As a teenage girl, I would like to say that I find this post brilliant! And as for the “double standard” of the photos, I am inclined to disagree. There is a difference in the demeanor and intention of these from the ones described in your article. This is a lesson that should be taught to many teenagers, but unfortunately is not instilled upon them by their parents. All I see in your photos is a family having fun together. Like I said, this article is absolutely wonderful! Goodnight and God bless:)
Thanks so much for your feedback, Dom! And I couldn’t agree more. Young people need to be taught the truth about smoking!
Hello , Doctor , so I have a question “If I don’t take screws from my shoulder, what happen ?, and how long can I keep it ? “.
I know it may wrong from the top pic please apologize about that.
I hope see good result from you
Thanks in full of respect
I HAVE ordered your info but there still remains a connection to bone cancer.
multiple myeloma to be exact. Will proper nutrition reverse it???
i tried taking Actonel, for the last 4 months. effects… stomach cramps
diarrea, afraid to eat out , incase…..
told my doctor, had stool tests,[not sure, but 1 of these tests showed
blood].
doctor still advising i take the monthly actonel.
have a colonospy arranged.
no matter the outcome of the tests, i have arranged to see a naturalist,
who will look at what my blood lacks, and treat me,from her ananlysis.
it seems to me, that doctors give the same amount of dosage to all.
i am a small person, and would think a smaller metablism would require
less dosage. i am not taking this drug again.
IS COW MILK THAT REALLY BAD FOR YOUR BONES,EVEN IF YOU DO MIX IT UP.
Hi, I am interested in the food list; however I can’t afford your book. I am on SS and not enough to cover my needs. I hope you can kindly point me to where I can find a good FOOD LIST for bone building. I would be forever ingratiated to you.
Thank you
Charlotte
Charlotte, I encourage you to click on the smiley face in the upper right-hand corner of the website. That’s customer service, and we’d be glad to help you in any way we can.
This is my reply to Pete of Nottinham U.K.I don’t think Vivian is trying to get rich overnight. She means well and please remember that she too has to survive like the rest of us, and you need money to survive. I admire Vivian’s extraordinary courage in defying the medical establishment and create such a wonderful product. Can you follow her footsteps? Try going against the current for a week only and see what happens. Please leave Vivian alone.
Wonderful! I have been looking for this information , thanks for posting, low potassium diet.
I thought this might interest you. It has helped me.
Treatment with Potassium Bicarbonate Lowers Calcium Excretion and Bone Resorption in Older Men and Women
Bess Dawson-Hughes, Susan S. Harris, Nancy J. Palermo, Carmen Castaneda-Sceppa, Helen M. Rasmussen and Gerard E. Dallal
– Author Affiliations
Jean Mayer United States Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University (B.D.-H., S.S.H., N.J.P., H.M.R., G.E.D.), Boston, Massachusetts 02111; and Bouve College of Health Sciences (C.C.-S.), Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Address all correspondence to: Bess Dawson-Hughes, Jean Mayer United States Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts 02111. E-mail: Be****************@***ts.edu.
Abstract
Context: Bicarbonate has been implicated in bone health in older subjects on acid-producing diets in short-term studies.
Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the effects of potassium bicarbonate and its components on changes in bone resorption and calcium excretion over 3 months in older men and women.
Design, Participants, and Intervention: In this double-blind, controlled trial, 171 men and women age 50 and older were randomized to receive placebo or 67.5 mmol/d of potassium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate, or potassium chloride for 3 months. All subjects received calcium (600 mg of calcium as triphosphate) and 525 IU of vitamin D3 daily.
Main Outcome Measures: Twenty-four-hour urinary N-telopeptide and calcium were measured at entry and after 3 months. Changes in these measures were compared across treatment groups in the 162 participants included in the analyses.
Results: Bicarbonate affected the study outcomes, whereas potassium did not; the two bicarbonate groups and the two no bicarbonate groups were therefore combined. Subjects taking bicarbonate had significant reductions in urinary N-telopeptide and calcium excretion, when compared with subjects taking no bicarbonate (both before and after adjustment for baseline laboratory value, sex, and changes in urinary sodium and potassium; P = 0.001 for both, adjusted). Potassium supplementation did not significantly affect N-telopeptide or calcium excretion.
Conclusions: Bicarbonate, but not potassium, had a favorable effect on bone resorption and calcium excretion. This suggests that increasing the alkali content of the diet may attenuate bone loss in healthy older adults.
Received July 30, 2008.
Accepted October 15, 2008.
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I would like to know if Vivian recommends this. Thanks
Me too! Your website told me that my card info was incorrect so I gave up!
Hi Vivian,Thanks so much for all the valuable information,you give us.I have taken a lot of the bone density meds and have been off them, for over 1 or 2 years.Just had a recent bone test and was recommended to take Prolia injections, twice a year and it would improve my bone density in 6 months.It is another drug, that takes away, the old bone. I am afraid of this and do not want to take it.What is your opinion on this? Thanks again, Vivian.
Catherine Smith
I am currently on Letrozole which is an estrogen inhibitor, for breast cancer. This drug will slowly deplete my bones, so I am very interested in anything that will avoid this.
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After how many years using Osteofos weekly, I have to stop it and how should I do it?
Please advice me ASAP, because I am really worry about it.
Thank you very mush indeed.
Safa Pursharif
I just watched the video from the 40’s about doctors promoting smoking. In those days advertisers could make any comment or claim they wanted. I doubt anyone of those people were real doctors. I am almost 70 and I have never heard a doctor say smoking is good for you. This is why advertisers now have very strick laws on who they say is promoting their products. This is, also why you see comments like “spokesman is a paid actor” or “this person is a paid spokesperson” for what ever. I do not think this shows any correlation between smoking and bone loss. I know you believe doctors are deceiving us, but it is more they do no have all the facts. AND the drug companys push these drugs big time. Have you found medical journals to backup your claims that doctors really know a better way to take care of bone loss, but they are deceiving us by just pushing drugs?
Although healthy skepticism is certainly warranted about most things these days, I can attest to the fact that when my husband went to see his family doctor in the late 40’s/early 50’s in a large city’s metropolitan clinic, that MD smoked throughout the appointment. No one in my husband’s family had ever smoked so this was one of those first impressions that became indelible since even then, to them, it seemed so out of place or unhealthy for both professional and patient.
So, did the MD ever verbally suggest to his patient that cigarettes were a healthy affectation? No. But, especially for a child, the mere observation of another person’s actions can speak far louder than words. And that’s what these advertisements were designed to do: Visually impress and prompt new curiosity in the viewer to make them motivated enough to experiment on their own, unbelievably in this case, for false reason of health and fresh breath.
To answer Mari directly, I, for one, don’t think the majority of allopathic practitioners know how far astray from their own professional Oath they have been led by the chemically biased influence of big pharma funded medical schools or otherwise similar training. With more than a few elderly loved ones I have advocated for over the years, there have been too many MDs who have cast their eyes aside or moved right along in that appointment after I have tried to inspire their participation in getting their patient on fewer drugs, and better nutrition. In other words, they don’t know enough about this biochemically natural realm even to the point of saying when I have suggested a targeted supplement, ‘Well, you can try it, but I don’t think it will make a difference one way or the other.” In my book, not good enough. Since we ARE organically complex beings, we need every doctor of integrity to know and understand the interconnectedness of bodily systems more holistically.
Instead, I heard from a friend only the other day that her diabetic and often cranky 90 y/o father-in-law was on no less than 27 [!!] medications to which I exclaimed, “Now that sounds criminal, and no wonder he’s so unhappy…since not a one of us was born with even the slightest deficiency of a drug.”
Keep up your impressive work for the greatest good Vivian, and may we all be, or soon become, vigorously strong of bones, heart and fully engaged mind.
Doctor prescribed my wife injection of bonviva for almost 3 years, but the bone density is even worse than before and up to that she has a very bad necrose. Now we have tried with a basic cure, I have read that if there is to much acid in our body, the leaver compensate it taking calcium away from the bones. With basic cure she had a very good improvement and she is feeling much better than before. I believe that nature is the only way to cure our body.
Thank you so much for your very interesting articles.
We are living in switzerland therefore our english is not very perfect.
Kind regards
Rudy
Have you tried eliminating milk from your diet?
The book is too expensive in hard copy and unavailable (to date) in local libraries. The handbook downloaded from the website dribbles information but doesn’t really tell you anything which is pretty frustrating. As someone here has commented, 30 pages to print and what do you discover? That you need to buy the book !! Once you have downloaded it from the website you get bombarded with emails which are desiged to shock, scare or sell. How about attributing some intelligence to the women who are endeavouring to do something for themselves and making this information a little more accessible ?
Obviously it is good information but we should not have to complete an obstacle race to get it.
Karen
I bought the book Save our Bones Program last year. I cannot follow 100% the food/diet program but i tried 90%.iam taking Raw calcium 750mg a day from vegetable and also Calcium supplement with magnesium,total of more than 150mg of calcium a day,i take vit d,multivitamin. Doctor said i have to have 150mg calcium. I stopped drinking cow’s milk and replaced with almond milk.I had a Bone density done this month of April2012,a year I started. your program.Result of my Bone density was worse-4.8, others too has increased. Am I missing something? Thanks for any feedback.
To the person whose bone density got worse after starting the SaveOurBones Program. I am a Naturopath myself and I can only ask the question? Is your system more acidic than alkaline. A simple urine test will uncover this as from reading all the other comments, the body needs to be predominantly alkaline for optimum absorption of minerals including much needed calcium from whatever source it comes. Obviously what you’re doing needs to be looked into, but that’s my first question. Regards Lea
My second and fifth disc ‘s are herinated .Doctor’s are telling me that they are not serious enought be be operated on .I’am in severe pain twenty for hour’s a day 365 day’s of the year .And have been since i had a industeral accident in 1965 .Had a severe blow on top of my head .I received a broken ankel and bruise on my head.The doctor who attended me at the hospital xrayed my head and ankel but not my back .So it is not mentioned in the compensation report.
I’ll be on trial in May to preserve the right to healthy foods, raw milk being one of them. I will promote your info regarding milk and the bad effects of this dead food on bone health. I have your e-book. Followup is ok, but please stop “selling” this idea to those that are IN.
Dear Vivian,
Thanks for the download of the Natural Bone Building Handbook. I read it from start to end. There are some good suggestions, especially about acidity.
But I think it is really only written for people like you, who have or had osteoporoses and no other disease. My husband for instance has some trouble with his kidneys and his doctor suggests he does not eat much fruits because of the Vitamin K which is harmful to the kidneys. Now when you suggest to take extra Vitamin K, it seems to me that you should mention that people with kidney problems first consult their doctor. The same goes for other diseases. What may be good to fight osteoporoses may harm some other part of the body.
So please do take that into account.
Thanks for your effort to help. I appreciate it
All the best and greetings
Ruth hanna
If you get your K from real food, you will not likely harm your bones. I recommend westonaprice.org for real food info. This news about confinement milk being harmful does not surprise me even though I grew up on a dairy farm. Only healthy animals can provide health-giving food and confinement cows are not that. Add processing, extraction and supplementation with questionable quality ingredients and you have a recipe for population control.
All this information in the programme is way too much. We only need the basic details about what to do. I think mostt of the information in the programme is available free on other sites.
I’d like to buy the book, hard copy, not a download. Downloading uses up a whole ink cartridge , a lot of paper and is time consuming. I’d like to buy the book and pay for it online and have it shipped hard copy to my house in Canada, we don’t all live in the US
I was recommended this website by my cousin.I’m not sure whether this post is written by him as no one else know such detailed about my problem.You are amazing! Thanks!Best Regards Lawrence
tengo osteosporis y no quiero continuar con fosamax porque he leido los problemas que trae quiero saber como me curo naturalmente sin medicina. gracias
I started out on Actonel for a couple of years due to results from bone density tests. After awhile I started to get severe hand cramping and problems with my jaw.We reduced the dose in half, the pain subsided and then we changed to fosamax 70. Due to the expense we have been on the generic form (osteofos 70)for about 4-5 years now. I currently am 60 yrs old with no bone fractures to date thank God. For about 2-3 months I started getting severe shoulder pain when sleeping. Then pain in my fingers and hands. Now the pain has gone through out my whole body almost like a flu symptom that usually subsides around 2pm after taking advil multiple times a day. I stopped the fosamax around 2-3 weeks ago and am hoping that this pain also starts to leave my body as it tends to make you completely helpless to do almost anything. Any advise or info would be greatly appreciated.
Please see a rheumatologist and check for PMR (polymyalgiarheumatica) disease which produces pain like you describe.
I look forward to this program. I am halfway through the manual now wand can hardly wait to learn how to eat!
I just received my Save our Bones book. It is clearly written; however, the change in diet seems so radical, although I realize it will hopefully help. Last year 2011 I had a Bone density test, which showed osteopenia, was not put on meds; however in one year I fractured two ribs. one in 2010 and one in 2011., a few weeks ago. I am now going to have another bone density test, and today i have tried to start the new eating habits 80% alkaline, 20% acidity. I would like some feedback on this diet, and is there a number I can call to reach someone for some guidance andsupport around this new way of life.
please reply to my comment I just posted it, however I do not see a reply to my question Joan Gilbert
Vivian: please reply to my question written on Thursday, July 21st 2011 thank you
Hi Joan,
If you have questions about following The Osteoporosis Reversal Program, just send an email to in**@**********es.com or click the big yellow Customer Support link at the top of any of our web pages (there’s a little picture of a life preserver next to it). Using either of those methods, your question/issue will go directly to customer support where we can assist you. 🙂
I am 78 years old and just three months ago suffered an upper femur break. Dr. says textbook case of Fosamax victim. I have purchased your Save our Bones plan but would like some ressurance I have a good chance of helping myself…. or is it too late??? Thanks.
Why does this information lead-in have to be so loooooooooooong? I am interested but just don’t have time to read over 30 pages on-line. Just get to the point!!
I am 64 years old and just started hormone replacement therapy for osteopenia. The only other medication that I take is Levthroyxine that has increased since I started hormone therapy. I am having side effects but have been reassured that it is only temporary. Is this a treatment that you would recommend?
6 years ago my wife asked if she should stop taking hormone replacement pills due to the articles she had read about cancer. She was told the studies were flawed, and the benifits far outweighed the risks.
% years ago she was diagnosed with stage 4 uterian cancer. Thanks Doc.
y bone desity tests reveal -3’s..My dortor wants me to take 50,000 units of vitamin D weekly plus I now take a 1500 calicum with vitamin D. I feel this is too much. I get a Reclast infusion yearly ( have recently had my third one. I have never broken a bone and was diagnos 10 years ago. At this point I am confessed. I don’t want to break a hip (75 years old), very active and have no pain. What should I do. I think doctors are perscription happy. Thanks Catherine
Keep up your studies on the internet. A veterinary in Georgia has valuable info on DOGTORJ.COM. A few Doctors have broken away from the Med/Pharma combine and relate some useful information. Here are a few:
Dr. Douglas, Dr. Mercola, Dr. Blaylock. Even they are a little slow in getting on board against the gluten and A1 Beta Casein problems. No one needs to succumb to cancer, diabetes, Parkinsons or a litany of other problems anymore since we no longer have to rely on the medical profession for cures.
I am 77 years old & been following Great Taste No Pain for over a year (after a diverticulitus attack). I lost 26 lbs when I had the attack & have kept the weight off. My question is, I shouldn’t have milk with your program. Sherry Bresia’s plan doesn’t omit milk & I’m a bit confused. I have had to change my eating habits quite a bit with her plan & your plan would make even more changes. I do have osteopenia but worse yet, I have a lot of bulging discs on my back & lately they are causing great pain. I’ve gone to chiropractors for years but they don’t seem to help my pain any more. I hesitate going to my primary doctor because he would want me to take prescription drugs or see a specialist which I’m almost positive he would say surgery. I am very perplexed as to what I should do. I need your opinion. Thanks so much! Jeannie
I had a hip pain on the right side when I walked. The Orthopedic Dr. X-rayed me & said my spine was closing in places, & that’s why I was 1-2″ shorter than I use to be. He sent me to Therapy & after 3 weeks the pain started to go away.I used a machine that they strapped my legs down, & my arms pulled me over to stretch my spine. I was sitting in a special chair to do this.
On Sherrie Brescia’s web page,(GREAT TASTE NO PAIN) there was info about “NUBAX’, & I ORDERED ONE OF THEIR MACHINES. It took about 6-7 weeks, using this machine, which was similiar to the one I used in therapy. On this “NUBAX” machine, you are on your knees, & holding on to handles, & moving, stretching forward. Its adjustable, & very sturdy. You only use it 2 Minutes in the a.m., & 2 minutes in p.m. Then the pain was gone. I had already made an appointment with the Dr. , of course it was several weeks before I could get in to see him , & by now the pain was gone again. He X-rayed my back again, & said spaces were back & that’s why the pain was gone, because they wern’t pressing on the nerves. He said if it works, keep doing it.
Otherwise, I’d have to have a back operation in 3 places to correct the condition. What I have is called “Spinal Fractures”. He would have to do a “Balloon Kyphoplasty”.
For now the pain is gone, & 4 minutes a day is not hard to do. It would take me longer to drive to therapy. Thanks to the NUBAX machine, I don’t need surgery anymore for now. You can see a video of how this works on the Internet.
Thanks, NUBAX
Hi
How do I order this machine?
I’ve used the Nubax Trio and have been helped greatly. The program also gives you exercises that can help build your muscles to relieve the pain of herniated discs.
Check out losethebackpan.com. My son-in-law got great relief learning how to balance the muscles supporting his spine. Perhaps it will be a benefit to you too.
I would like the book and live in South Africa.
Is it available here as I dont want to pay in
dollars. The conversion is too high.