Couple of sites: From: http://www.cureamerica.net/medical_freedom.html#9 MORE ON VITAMIN A
When was the last time that you ate polar bear liver ? Americans should be told about vitamin-A and it's ridiculously low RDA of 5000 I.U.. A person eating a modest meal of carrots and liver consumes at least 100,000 I.U. of vitamin-A, and he does it without a doctor's prescription, and each spoonful is in violation of the RDA's. Spinach, sweet peas, potatoes, red peppers and dried apricots would also be disallowed from the doctor's prescription if the FDA ever is allowed to enforce the RDAs. In February 2001, UNICEF reported that a program that began in 1988 giving high-dose capsules of vitamin-A to strengthen the body's immune system has averted one million child deaths. If vitamin-A is so abundant in common food then how could the medical authorities convince the doctors to warn the public about the dangers of taking too much and that it could be poisonous ? The answer most frequently cited is that eating polar bear livers, which contain as much as 8,000,000 I.U. of vitamin-A, was fatal for the early arctic explorers. My God ! When was the last time that you ate polar bear liver ? The tragedy behind this ridiculous stance is that it is based on misinformation. To begin with, the early explorers did not die from eating the polar bear liver which was so delicious that they devoured large amounts at each meal, but rather became sick, suffering from dermatitis and defoliation. Then, ironically, in the late 1980's, a team of Swedish scientists discovered that polar bear liver adsorbs large amounts of cadmium metal found in the arctic water. The symptoms of cadmium metal poisoning are dermatitis and defoliation. Thus, the ailments of the early explorers were caused by the cadmium in the polar bear liver, and not the large amount of vitamin-A. The tragedy is that despite the scientific evidence, "too much" vitamin-A still remains "toxic" in the doctors minds. And from: http://www.westonaprice.org/healthissues/supplements.html The warnings against vitamin A usually include mention of Arctic explorers who died from vitamin A overdose because they consumed polar bear livers. Actually, the early explorers did not die from eating polar bear liver. They did suffer from exfoliative dermatitis and hair loss. In 1988, a team of Swedish scientists discovered that polar bear and seal livers tend to accumulate the metal cadmium. The symptoms for cadmium poisoning are exfoliative dermatitis and hair loss, but don't expect to hear about this on the evening news. Rather, expect continuing stories about the alleged dangers of vitamins A and D. The media and the medical establishment work together to vilify the very substances that can prevent suffering and disease. Chuck Success didn't spoil me--I've always been insufferable On 10/10/2005 1:31:33 PM, Marshall Dudley ([email protected]) wrote: > Vitamin A in Polar Bear Livers can kill: > > http://members.tripod.com/~Prof_Anil_Aggrawal/poiso032.html > http://www.itk.ca/environment/wildlife-polar-bear.php > http://www.hww.ca/hww2.asp?id=99 > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinol > > Vitamin A overdose > > Too much Vitamin A can be harmful or fatal. The body converts the > dimerized > form, carotene, into vitamin A as it is needed, therefore high > levels of > carotene are not toxic compared to the ester (animal) forms. The livers > of > certain animals, especially those adapted to polar environments, often > -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
