"Gill Passman" wrote in message
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Ok, this is way off topic but I kind of wonder how many of those cancers
allegedly to be caused by HRT in fact were (and I am not saying that some
weren't and have not been illustrated to have been so - Oh and by what -
research I believe...it is a risk factor on cancer assessment these
days)...and if there was a control study done to quantify how many women
not on HRT also fell foul of the same disease and if these statistics
actually match....

Sometimes getting the whole story where research is concerned is difficult.
My NP is now discouraging the use of HRT. Not only did the research show
the HRT was of no benefit (negating earlier research) to bones and nor
helped prevent heart disease but the breast cancer rate was so much higher
they stopped the study altogether. Anyone with the patience can find the
details online. What happened with the FIRST research? How did the
researches miss this? We're talking some serious issues here and with human
beings - not fish or dogs.

and indeed how much the press in all of our
respective countries jumped on the bandwagon to vilify a valid treatment
for a lot of women going through the menapause with a scare tactic that
"incidents of cancer are higher in those taking this drug" - thing is more
women take HRT than ever happened before...women still get cancer...more
women take the drug so by definition you get a higher percentage of those
taking the drug that now get cancer than you would do if fewer women took
HRT...Statistics, statistics and more damn lies masked as statistics...

There you go! So who the hell do we trust? Too much research is backed by
those with an agenda, those who will benefit in some way by certain results.

..looking at statistical research is one thing -
and I am not saying an invalid form of research but needs backing up by
science as well....Breast cancer is on the increase, consumption of HRT
meds are on the increase ergo HRT is the problem and the research is
flawed....

A lot of research is flawed I learned on another NG.

a little bit of "research" would actually show that the
increase in breast cancer cases is within the "pre-menopausal" group of
women....who haven't even sniffed an HRT tab let alone taken one....and
then lets look at the whole factors in an increase in pre-menopausal
breast cancer and I believe that "research" although not giving a
definitive answer is suggesting that the stress of modern living plays a
big part in all of this - might explain the increase in young as well as
old....

A few years ago there was a connection between obesity and breast cancers.
Whoopsie.... that research seems to have gone out the window now. I
recently read in the Tennessean there's a connection between underweight
women and BC. What next? A connection between owning a cat and BC?
Wearing leather shoes and BC?


Research gives us a chance of understanding such things....the survival
rate of a breast cancer patient is now infinitely higher than it was 10
years ago and unimaginable 20 years ago....and how did this happen....oh,
forgive me, it was research....well on a personal level long may research
continue.....Just a few years ago, without the research, every woman with
breast cancer was condemned to death....now there is hope....why...I
believe it is down to research and developing stuff they find out and more
research....and then treating people to give them true hope of getting
through this disease....and those they can't help giving them a few more
years to see their children grow up to an age when they can actually
remember who Mummy was....

Research into CURES I'll put more faith in. Research and studies as to what
causes most BC - I'll back off on.

Now to pull this whole thing back on topic - which technically is
off-topic for the subject line but on topic for rec.ponds - no commercial
company producing fish food is about to produce bogus research claiming
that their feed is better than dog or cat food for feeding fish....they
will spend millions perfecting a good diet specifically aimed at promoting
the growth, health and well-being of the fish it is sold to feed....if
they didn't they would be straight down in the dung heap.....people can go
out and "research" what food is best...

What's best under one set of circumstances may not be under another. Would
you or I consider the Eskimo diet of blubber and high protein the healthiest
diet there is for a human? What about that African tribe that exists on the
blood of cattle (they bleed them with a sharp reed) and greens? What would
they think of our American or the UK diet? Could they thrive on it? Could
we thrive on blubber, dried caribou, fish and a few berries in the summer?
Yet these people are healthy, reproducing and many live to a ripe old age
mostly free of the diseases of the Industrialized Nations.

but I'm sorry I have no issues in stating that food designed for
a specific animal is designed just with that animal in mind....if any
animal food provider was proven to just adapt their feedstuff by one or
two minerals/vitamins rather than fundementally providing a nutritional
balance for the creature in question they would go out of business quicker
than their b*tts could touch the ground - especially in the US where it
would almost get sued quicker than they could say the word "b*tt"....

Fish food for fish, Cat food for cats, dog food for dogs....mcd*n*lds for
those that occassionally enjoy a treat but not as a staple diet....

Treats! There you go! A small high-protein part of the diet and they loved
it. ;-)


Gill

PS Apologies all but this is a subject I feel strongly about even if it is
sort of "off-topic"

So do I as I bought the BS about HRT and trans-fats for years............ I
never suspected research or studies could come to such wrong conclusions on
such life and death matters. As for the fish foods. I may feed the older
fish a mix with some expensive foods but as for the fry..... these koi are
8 moths old and most are only 2" to 2 1/2" long.

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rec.ponder since late 1996.
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