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Congratulations!! I also took the “Chinese rat poison”
and am also cured!! I was on a waiting list at the Hospital here in Bendigo for around 16 months just to get an appointment at the liver clinic! Cancelled myself off the waiting list a short while ago. I agree that the PBS promise is not all it’s been portrayed to be. I really hope those who desperately need treatment get it through the PBS but I fear that may not happen.
This article called “Time for a better capitalism” makes interesting reading:
http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/time-better-capitalism-henry-blodget
Over the past few decades, the US economy has undergone a profound change.
This change has helped rich Americans get richer. But it has also contributed to growing income inequality and the decline of the middle class. And, in so doing, it has fueled populist anger across the political spectrum and slowed the growth of the economy as a whole.
What is this change?
The complete embrace of the idea that the only mission of companies is to maximize profit for their shareholders.
Talk to people in the money management business, and they’ll proclaim this as a law of capitalism. They’ll also cite others, including the idea that employees are “costs” and competent managers should minimize these costs by paying employees as little as possible.
These practices may help boost stock prices, at least temporarily. But they aren’t actually laws of capitalism.
They’re choices.
Not long ago, America’s corporate owners and managers made different choices—choices that were better for average Americans and the economy. They also had a profoundly different understanding of their responsibilities.
“The job of management,” proclaimed Frank Abrams, chairman of Standard Oil of New Jersey, in 1951, “is to maintain an equitable and working balance among of the claims of the various directly interested groups… stockholders, employees, customers, and the public at large.”
By paying good wages, investing in future products, and generating reasonable (not “maximized”) profits, American companies in the 1950s and 1960s created value for all of their constituencies, not just one. As a result, the country and economy boomed.
Over more recent decades, however, this balance has radically shifted.
Hi Doctor James
Does it matter what kind of alcohol you drink? Beer? White wine? Red wine? Spirits?These studies are for alcohol in the general case so mostly no, but…..
Wine, and probably red wine in particular contains “stuff” that seems to be beneficial. Some people say the “stuff” in wine is resvertrol and its impact on telomere shortening but the jury is still out on that. Here’s a link: http://www.resveratrolnews.com/the-end-of-aging-should-longevity-seekers-begin-taking-telomere-lengthening-pills/191/
See this article about the “French Paradox” to learn more….
http://winefolly.com/update/french-paradox-diet/
What a heartfelt post Nevil. So glad you found James Freeman and this forum. Sounds like you also are cured.
The wonderful people on this forum are by far some of the most knowledgeable, bravest, nicest, funniest people I have had the pleasure of knowing and although I am now cured I hope to be able to stay in touch into the future.
Cheers Lynne
