SHORTLY BEFORE the election I did a column on AIDS that featured the findings of Dr. Lorraine Day, a chief of orthopedic surgery at San Francisco General Hospital who quit her job because she was afraid she would get the disease from patients. She also declared that govern- ments are not telling us the truth about AIDS. It is her view — and mine — that the idiocies of today’s human rights programs should take se- cond place to medical facts. To protect society as a whole, we should discriminate against people who have AIDS, just as we had to discriminate in the past against those with other diseases for which there was no cure. The column produced a chorus of rage from the usual quarters and from the medicai establish- ment, which keeps telling us not to worry about getting AIDS from casual contac? (but what is casu- al?) and that ‘‘safe sex’’ is the an- swer. A letter to this newspaper from Christopher Koth of something called the Man to Man program in Vancouver (the title is self~ex- pianatory) asked whether I had lost control of my senses. There was the expected spate of buzz-words like “‘bigot’’ from others, and a North Vancouver grandmother who carries the HIV virus that leads to AIDS wrote privately that I had done some- thing evil. Dr. Martin T. Schechter of the UBC Faculty of Medicine took pen in hand to accuse Dr. Day of peddiing partial truths and “anecdotal evidence.”’ He was also opposed to “fear-mongering.”’ Well, so am I. But if facts cause fear, so be it. Fear can be good for you. I was not impressed by Dr. Schechter’s statement that of the 100,000 AIDS cases reported in I FACTORY " DIRECT, SEWING MACHINE WAREHOUSE SALE — This unique sale affords you an opportunity serger you have always wanted — during this nearly half-a-million doilar [ stock reduction sale. Doug Collins ON THE OTHER HAND North America to date, none has occurred in the family of an AIDS patient that could not be expiain- ed on the basis of other estab- lished risk factors. “Other established risk factors’’ sounds pretty vague to me. What isn’t vague is that Dr. Day had good reason to quit her job. According to Instauration mag- azine, 1,358 American nurses have caught AIDS since the plague began in the early 1980s. So have 1,101 health aides, 941 techni- cians, 703 physicians, 116 para- medics, 319 therapists, 171 den- tists and hygienists, 47 surgeons, and 1,680 other health workers. Some critics seized on Dr. Day's suggestion that the homosexual dentist in the U.S. who gave three patients AIDS may have breathed the virus into the girl who is dying of the disease. But the operative word was ‘“‘may,”’ even though Dr. Day made a strong case for the possi- bility. In any case, would those same critics knowingly be treated by a dentist who had AIDS? From the start, medical associa- tions and politicians have been in- fluenced by the homosexual lob- by, which pretends that it has no more responsibility for the disease than anyone else. “‘AIDS doesn’t discriminate,” has been the silly saying. ‘‘We are all in this together.”’ By the time our daft do-gooders have had their way that may well be true. But so far the figures show that the vast majority of those in North America who have AIDS are homosexuals. Which is noi? to say that others can’t catch it from bisexuals, needles, or biood transfusions. The grandmother mentioned above got the virus from a blood transfusion, poor lady. But the chance of that happening today is remote. The ways of liberaldom are beyond logic. Syphilis must be reported to the authorities, but not AIDS, which is a hundred times more deadly. Immigrants flooding in from the AIDS- wracked Third World are not screened for it, but are screened for TB. Visitors with AIDS may come in with as much freedom as if they oniy had colds. They are not a threat to public health, says Ot- tawa — this even though homosexuals are promiscuous in the extreme, In Ontario, a human rights commission tells an insurance company it is discriminating by not insuring an HIV-positive per- son. As the company pointed out, that’s like saying fire insurance must be given to someone whose house is on fire. te get the sewing machine ISAVE! SAVE! SAVE! An sewing machines offered are new, in original cartons. These machines § are MADE WITH METAL PARTS and are INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH. Sew denim, canvas, upholstery, nyion stretch, vinyl, silk, EVEN SEWS ON & LEATHER. These machines are new with a 25-year warranty. 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There are signs that sanity is creeping in. At present, the Cana- dian Medical Association does not call for compulsory HIV testing of doctors and patients. That policy is now under review. Some medical men do speak out. One is Dr. Eric Mintz, a senior Toronto consultant who wrote an article in the Globe & Mail headed Time to face the facts about AIDS. “It is unethical for public- health messages not to emphasize .. that we have sunk into a scien- tific dark age, ignoring medical principles in favor of ‘political science’ and replacing unbiased analysis with emotional responses.” Over to you, Alphonse. In the meantime, Dr. Day has written a book and I will be reporting on it. 2 ARDAGH HUNTER TURNER Barristers & Solicitors Personal Injury AFTER HOURS cn iM Ont FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION timinal Matters Only 926-3181 [986-4366 | 4366 oss 9206 #300-1401 LONSDALE, NORTH VANCOUVER, BC. ADVERTISEMENT . Preventing & Reversing OSTEOPOROSIS JAMES F. SCHEER, Concributing Writer Try to master a complex problem with a siinple solution and you may come up with juse a parcial answer. (the control group) received 10 mineral sup- plements, a second group was given calcium gluconate and the third group was given So it is with trying to prevent or reverse MCHC. osteoporosis, or honeycombed, fragile bones, by taking only additional calcium. For some bone. individuals, added calcium works (25% in one study), for others ir does not. The problem with following this simple ap- proach is that bone deterioration may con- tinue while you believe that you are stop- ping it. A better aproach is using numerous nutrients that maintain or build hetrer bones including vitamins D, K, folic acid, B6, C and the mincrals magnesium, manganese, boron, copper, siticon, stron- tium and zinc, and, of course, calcium. There is a new form of bone supplement chat includes this laundry list of vicamins and minerals has has been shown to stop osteoporosis and, often, even to reverse it. This product is cvlled microcrystalline hydroxyapatite (MCHC). Just what is it? It is raw bone concentrate from healthy animals, reduced to its original crystals. Charles HV. May, M.D., of the Foundation for the Advancement of Nutritional Awareness, said that it should not be con- fused with bone meal, although it is a whole-bone extract. “Unlike bone meal, it is not heated in the reduction process” Dir. May said. ‘Instead ic is processed at a very low, computer- controlled temperature. Nor is it washed with chemical solvents... Long bones from cattle and sheep- raised ‘for market on in- secticide and pesticide-free pastures are defarted and processed into microcrystals, retaining all the minerals they originally contained.” In a University of Florida study of 250 women with osteoporisis, one-third of them The contsol group lost a good amount of Those on calcium gluconate held their own with no bone change. However, the MCHC showed a net gain of 6.1% in bone thickness, the researchers said. Why is MCHC so powerful in preventing and even feversing osteoporisis? Dr. May said that it contains all the ingredients of healthy bone. Biochemist Stephen Fuut, Ph.D., added that is 100% better absorbed than many other forms of calcium.” In addition to offering MCHC therapy, alternative doctors often determine the pa- tients’ specific viramin and mineral defi- ciencies and supplement them from une or more nutrients from the list above starting with vitamin D, which is essential to in- testinal zhsorption of calcium. Insufficient vitarnin D, often acute in elder- ly people, particularly women who suffer osteoporosis 10 times as frequently as men, usually occurs for three reasons: not enough exposure to sunlight, insufficient vitamin D intake and declining ability to absorb this nutrient. Vitamin K, known mainly for its impor- tance tu blood clotting, also has a profound influence on bone formation and repair because it is used to synethesize osteocalcin, 2 proteins mold on whch calcium crystallizes. In one study, chicks without enough silicon, developed strangely shaped skulls and thin bones. This trace mineral seems to be need- ed for propery calcification of bones. Strontium, not to be confused with stron- tium 90, the outfall from nuclear expto- sions, apparently works like caicium in a small percentage of bone crystal sites. Osteoporosis patients are invariably defi- cient. in zinc, whic contributes appreciably to vitamin D's biochemical actions impor- tant to calcium absorption and use. 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