Here's the bottom line. Health is full of vested interest and information can be easily selected in support of a particular point of view. We should be questioning the statements of experts and Governments. They don't always know what is best for your health, even if they are well meaning.
It is for you to the person in charge of your health. You are best placed to make decisions about your health based on your own situation. There is a trend over the past 30 years to see Governments as having the responsibility for our health. This can be seen in the calls for the Government to "do something" about problems such as obesity and smoking to cite only two.
Personally, I do not much enormous faith in the recommendations of government departments and some "experts" that they inspired. Regular readers will be familiar with my opinion on the response to the emergence of the H1N1 (swine flu) virus and how billions of dollars have been wasted and unnecessary fear has been generated. It was found that most of the experts recommends vaccination of mass of the population had financial links to the manufacturers.
There is now a push to vaccinate males against H.P.V. virus. This vaccine was approved for use in girls. While it was promoted as a vaccine against cervical cancer, it is actually a vaccine against four strains of virus, which is involved in the development of cervical cancer. The push to expand the use comes from the manufacturer (as is their commercial law), but it is easy to galvanize fear when it plays the card of cancer in a history of health. At this stage, rational assessment can get out of the window.
In this context, two circulars of the ministries of health through my Office in the same week. The first of the Ministry of health W.A. was on a plan to get women who missed their third dose of vaccine H.P.V. to do so. The dosage is zero, two to six months.
It is circular "while the optimal schedule is administering Gardasil * 0,2 and 6 months, the Chief Medical Officer Australian stated that delayed administration especially the third dose should be given at least similar and likely superior immune responses..."
Run that I again! If the dose delay gives a better answer then how the current scale be optimal? Or if the current time is optimal, then how can y hang give a better result? Go figure!
The other interesting piece of advice came the Federal Department of health. A new campaign was launched to encourage smokers to quit smoking. My Web site readers have given my article on how an extensive analysis of over 800 studies have shown that 70% of the population left without AIDS or assistance. He also noted that most of the studies compared stop AIDS smoking with each other rather than against no help and manufacturers funded many studies. Questions were raised as to why this information was promoted not more widely to encourage and empower people to quit smoking.
Yet the letter by the Chief medical officer told me "... smokers are about twice as likely to smoke with smoking cessation as the only cold Turkey drugs" and cites a study that showed it. So here we have the Government urging the use of drugs when they are at least 70% of the people that none are necessary.
Exactly why this is the case, is a mystery to me. The essential point is that the Government of the recommendations may or may not be in your best interest.
The comments from a variety of sources. Be aware that the interest may be involved. Be questioned "experts" and always take into account your own circumstances. It is for you to the person best equipped to make decisions about your health and your family.
* Gardasil is the name of the vaccine H.P.V.
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