Media makes money out of advertising. Right?
Once they can't advertise tobacco products they have a vested interest in seeking to prevent people spending their money on those and thus on something else they can advertise. They then use the power of the image they control to effect that result and if they tell lies,as they have, then that is what fascist regimes do with their TV images. Radio and newspapers in the case of Dr Goebells.
Quote:From The TimesMay 15, 2007
Lung disease halved by right dietDavid Rose
A traditional Mediterranean diet rich in fruit, vegetables, whole grains and fish can cut the risk of developing serious lung disease by half, researchers say. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an umbrella term for conditions such as emphysema and bronchitis. It leads to damaged air-ways, making it harder for people to breathe.
Smoking is the most important risk factor for getting COPD, which experts predict will become the third leading cause of death worldwide by 2020.
Not all smokers develop the disease, which has led researchers to examine how genetic and environmental factors, such as diet, play a role.
A study released before it is published today in the journal Thorax, found that eating a Mediterranean diet cut the risk of developing COPD in half.
Meanwhile, people who ate a Western-style diet, with a high intake of refined grains, cured and red meats, desserts and French fries, were more than four times as likely to develop COPD. The research, led by Dr Raphaëlle Varraso, from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, followed the health of 42,917 men taking part in the US Health Professionals Follow-Up Study.
All were asked about their medical history, diet and life-style, including how much they smoked and exercised.
Between 1986 and 1998, 111 self-reported cases of newly diagnosed COPD were identified among the men.
Even after adjusting for age, smoking and other risks, those men who ate a Mediterranean diet were found to have a far reduced risk of developing COPD.
The more closely the diet was followed, the lower the risk of developing COPD over the 12-year study period.
The researchers concluded: "In men, a diet rich in fruits, vegetables and fish may reduce the risk of COPD, whereas a diet rich in refined grains, cured and red meats, desserts and French fries may increase the risk of COPD."
It is not the first time that the Meditteranean diet has been hailed for helping to prevent medical conditions.
Last month researchers from Britain's National Heart and Lung Institute, the University of Crete, Venezelio General Hospital in Crete and the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology in Barce-lona found that a Mediterranean diet helped to prevent children developing asthma and respiratory allergies. And last year US researchers found that eating a Mediterranean diet could reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Other researchers have shown that people live longer if they follow the diet.
For example- Media advertises the Western-style diet as you no doubt are aware. Even when children are viewing. And a very great deal. They often, also, try to associate the items in a Western-style diet with healthy images such as idyllic rural bliss or sexual potency as they also do with products deriving from sources which are the polar opposite of rural bliss such as factory farms where animals live in misery and are pumped up with fast growth chemicals which the customers then eat. Often all the time.
I eat a particularly extreme Mediterranean diet.
I saw an old lady today, she looked at least 80, sat at a bus stop smoking a fag. Sprightly little dear she looked too. I'd bet she had been smoking since she was 16.
What did Roy Castle eat? Did he excercise?
Who cares eh?
They have to get smoking when some bloke is spending, paying a lot of tax actually ( what would dried cabbage leaves cost ?) £60 a week when he could be buying a Bernard Mathews turkey or the lovely, yummy burgers and sticky puddings.
And there's plenty of other stuff relating to traffic pollution, dust both at work and at home, chemicals in various preservative and disinfecting products and heredity. And plenty of other lung diseases besides "cancer" which cost billions in lost working time and treatment. And plenty of secondary cancers originating in other parts of the body which kill faster when they spread to the lung, which they do.
Passive smoking my arse.
