I liked your article about vending machines in schools, Luanne Traud, & I have some answers for you on this page. I was real thin as a child til I reached about 7 years old {1958} then I blew up like a fat balloon. I trimmed down in Breckinridge Jr. High for a few years but then the balloon started coming back. I've been doing a very determined search for reasons as to what & why these things befell me. I had climbed aboard the "fat roller coaster"; Why?!

 

My thyroid was discovered to be lifetime malfunctioned in 1990. The doctor said it was a rare condition but when I look around, I'm beginning to think all the worldwide nuclear radiation & air-/water-borne crude oil pollution has caused thyroid disease to skyrocket. But you see, mine wasn't discovered til I had a really bad misjudgement on the job & nearly got killed. So Luanne, I'm afraid the reason why this condition is considered rare is because the people who have it are getting killed from it while still un-diagnosed, just as almost happened with me in 1986, again in 1989.

 

My thyroid as Dr. Roller put it, was making hormone that my body was unable to use. Thyroid {thyroxin} is like gasoline is to a car. So I was running without gasoline therefor low metabolism. Even now with med replacement my body temperature runs 96.2 most the time. Losing weight for me is impossible. I have literally starved myself for days. When I worked at Dunkin' Donuts in Richmond 1978, I went for 2-3 weeks working so much & barely eating. I lost maybe one lb.that summer, in a heated kitchen. My stomach got stressed, I got sick, & the doctor had to give me phenobarbital to stop the stress from cramping my stomach acids like gangbusters. {I was digesting my own stomach.}

 

I went thru all that for ONE POUND? hahahaha Eventually I figured out that when I was frying the donuts and in the kitchen, I was breathing grease fumes in... absorbing calories through nasal cells and capillarie blood vessels. Since my thyroid wasn't fueling my metabolism, I was running on adrenalin. I ran all my life on it; I may die from having done that. Overworking the adrenal glands & adrenalin flooding is a poor idea.

Since my thyroxin was incompatible with my body, it was poison to me, yet EVERY cell in my body was sending signals into my brain screaming WE NEED MORE THYROXIN. That is why it is considered rare. Well, as you can well understand, my body was screaming the thyroid was cranking and all it was doing was poisoning me more.

rare thyroid symptoms
over-active & under-active thyroid symptoms both at the same time
causing mental confusion & physical exhaustion
serious accidents 

You're tackling a weighty issue but I do have a few answers for you. One is called "insulin resistance", a link is below at the bottom. When I was 7YO Mom started giving me a great chocolate cupcake dessert after Supper. It became a habit. It triggered my body into becoming insulin resistant so later the fat cells became super damaged. They were converting sugars into fat {cleaning my bloodstream of excess fats} but the reverse stopped happening. I wasn't getting the fat conversion back into energy.

Of course some of this is tied into the thyroid thing, which is just another reason why I suspect many millions of Americans QUITE SIMPLY have never been diagnosed correctly or completely. So when US Surgeon General Richard Carmona decries the obesity situation as being more a threat to Americans than terrorists/terrorism/Al Quaeda etc., what he first needs to do is drop back & assess this situation for what it is. The American Healthcare System has completely fumbled & dropped the ball. That's why we are losing the struggle with obesity.

The average American is getting a sheet of diet tips shoved in their face by their doctor instead of a biochemical/hormonal & mineral analysis such as you might expect from the greatest/richest nation on Earth. Sure, vending machines in school is a really bad idea BUT if the American child is being fed poorly OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL then their body has been brought into this condition of insulin resistance just as mine was in the 1950's. 

It isn't that they want the vending machines; they need them. Their body isn't giving them energy. If they don't get treated properly their metabolism just winds down and schoolchildren sleep in classrooms across America, saving what energy they have for walking in the halls to their next class. Or for Gym Class/PhysEd. If they aren't physically falling asleep in class as I did in 11th Grade Biology, their Mind is in such an energy-less stupor they still will not benefit from the teacher.

 

It's all like dominoes Luanne. When the doctor falls, everyone else falls, bang bang bang. This thing of comparing American children to overseas children is a mistake. No one will succeed in shaming children for their ongoing biochemical mess that was brought upon them by someone else. No sense pointing fingers at their Mom. Point fingers at TV commercials that push garbage. Point them at the food industry. Point fingers at the Food and Drug Administration that allowed trans fatty acids into foods.

American citizens didn't poison themselves.

Lack of understanding & knowledge is the culprit.

Nuclear & Crude Oil molecules damaged their thyroid.

Thyroid disease then has dominoed into nuclear waistlines.

Throwing all these many things into the face of children is Child Abuse.

Blaming American citizens for doctors who threw in the towel is Adult Abuse.

Let's sum it up this way Luanne. You simply must improve American's health

first then their body will self-adjust and find it's own correct weight.

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Sincerely,

Woodrow Riley

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May 04 2006 an update worthy of mention > I ran out of thyroid replacement medicine last week, decided to wait til the government-supplied Rx-America prescription drug coverage begins this month. So for the past 6 days I have been without -other than 1 Unithroid I found 4 days ago & took- cold turkey. So without the laboratory-made thyroid supplement I have had a very interesting development. My blood pressure has dropped to Normal for the first time in TWO YEARS. The swelling {edema} in my legs is now gone. My appetite is reduced to where it should be for my age.

Conclusion? It would appear my body has not much cared for the thyroid-replacement made in a laboratory any more than it cared for the Lithium Carbonate. It seems my Immune System may have also been fighting the thyroid pill's contents just as it fought with Lithium control of my nerve centers & motor control brain areas & systems.

My doctor increased my dosage from 150 mcg to 175 mcg last month. It appears just as I had speculated about 6-8 months ago, that the thyroid pill has cranked up my problems along with cranking up the metabolism, except I don't think it ever did that. I must have developed a resistance to the thyroid pill and it was unable to increase my activity level as it should have, MEANING another reason why I've been unable to lose extra weight.

Medical Science has a LONG WAYS TO GO toward fixing the human body, and for those of us who trust them to do so, we simply remain pharmaceutical lab rats helping them. If we also help ourselves, we may be the exception rather than the rule.

And even though I did cure my Meniere's Syndrome by megadosing vitamin-mineral horse pills, I have since learned that too much can lead to an increased rate of cancer from too much fats in the body, the bloodstream. So far, by May 2006, my overall conclusion has to be this, that taking pills and medicines should still be done only for temporary periods and not extended periods of time. There is a point of effectiveness, after which many times the Immune System begins to react, sometimes lessening and sometimes over-reacting.

My current doctor is a good fellow yet sometimes I wonder if any of us stands a snowball's chance. Certainly one's health & lifespan is still a totally individual matter. Medical Science isn't ready to do what it claims it can do. I have decided to follow the thyroid abstinence route for a while and see where it leads me. My body reacts strongly to lab meds and the reaction is lowering my quality of life overmuch to justify paying for it or using it.

And it is true that I am being harsh on "Medical Science" when, in reality, it may not be that it is "so bad" but that the doctors out here "in the field" are having one slow implementation rate for new knowledges.

All I know is, it sure is nice that my blood pressure has receded to Normal and it sure is nice the leg swelling has gone away. I'm elated but I am also wondering why it took me so long to apply the Lithium experience to the thyroid medicine. They were both either #1) poisoning me #2) taxing down my energy because the immune system was in an active rejection of them or #3) BOTH.

To my credit, I did try doing without once. For some reason I quit the experiment. This time I will not. My doctors diagnosed me to have a genetic inherited & abnormal narrowing of all body arteries & vessels. Even that is suspect now. It looks like I was reacting to the thyroid.

Being poisoned by prescription medicine masquerades as "bad genes".

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