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Martha,

There's a new book out that answers your question about Premarin and the
research around it called "The Greatest Experiment Ever Carried Out on
Women" by Barbara Seaman. It's worth reading if you want to see how drug
companies spin things.

The bottom line on Premarin seems to be that after 50 years of ignoring a
bunch of data about Premarin and cancer the company ended up believing it's
own hype.

-- Jenny

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"Martha Gallagher" wrote in message
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Dawn Taylor wrote:

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:50:28 -0400, "Jenny"
announced in front of God and everybody:

Dawn,

Since 99% of the medical research being funded today is funded by drug
and
food companies, you can forget ever seeing anyone fund clinical trials
to
disprove the claims of these companies about their products.

Remember how fructose was touted as "better than sugar" for diabetics
for
decades? The replacement of sugar by fructose (product of the same
companies
that make sugar alcohols since both are byproducts of corn) is a major
reason for the current obesity epidemic since fructose juices the
liver's
production of bad fats and weight gain, though you can game a
glucometer
with it.
Very recently there's been a quite spate of articles suggesting that
fructose is bad for you but you certainly never see them reported in
the
mainstream press and "diabetic" foods are still full of it.


So how did the study which found that Hormone Replacement Therapy did more
harm than good get funded. And how come the premarin people weren't able
to keep the news out the papers?

That's all well and good. But it has nothing to do with what I was
talking about.


Ah, I love the smell of thread drift in the afternoon.

Martha



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Begin where you are - but don't end there.

Our favorite (low carb) restaurant choice is Red Lobster. You just have to
tell them not to bring the cheddar bay biscuits, and make sure the potato is
replaced by broccoli. Unlimited crab isn't on special so I've been getting
the broiled combo: broiled lobster tail, scampi, crab legs (and substitute
more scampi instead of the fried shrimp).

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:16:58 -0400, Martha Gallagher
announced in front of God and everybody:

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Dawn Taylor wrote:


That's all well and good. But it has nothing to do with what I was
talking about.


Ah, I love the smell of thread drift in the afternoon.


Hey, I'm all in favor of thread drift -- drift happens. :-)

But lengthy lectures that are designed to look like they're addressing
something I've said, yet really just go off on an almost entirely
unrelated tangent ... well, that just makes my forehead ache.

Dawn