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Chelation therapy
By Jun Velasco
“Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.”—Plutarch
A CHANCE meeting with former Councilor Michael Fernandez should give us an idea of the kind of leader — or public servant — he and his pretty wife, Number One Councilor Maybelyn dela Cruz-Fernandez, are.
Never to be carried away by a prevailing public mood, the duo are circumspect, mindful of various webs of relationships — which means they’d would weigh all options and exercise great care in expressing the sense of their advocacy “in the name of fairness.”
Obviously, while this practice is admirable, it could make a leader misunderstood since there are occasions when time is of the essence, and indecision ala Shakespeare’s Hamlet, could do one in.
Since Maybelyn is not easy to locate, Michael was asked why the wife did not affix her signature on a charge sheet signed by her colleagues in the Sangguniang Panlungsod accusing Mayor Benjie Lim of violating the law when his office distributed calamity funds without the city being declared under a state of calamity. Maybelyn, we were told, earned her colleagues’ dismay for that.
We learned that Maybelyn’s hesitation was due to a local government code that would make her acting vice mayor in the event Mayor Benjie Lim was replaced by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez on account of the Calamity Fund case.
We are not saying Maybelyn, if she has this mindset, is too far off futuristic. But one can’t help admiring her gargantuan care against violating ethical issues. She wants to be like King Arthur’s wife that when one is public service — he must be beyond suspicion.
No doubt Maybelyn is easily the most popular SP member, being a movie and television star. But her sensitivity to public and moral issues ranks her among the more mature local legislators in the region.
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In the health and wellness world, we single out the growing popularity of chelation as a solution to our health [problems.
Two dreadful images are most likely conjured whenever a patient is told, “you need a bypass.”
The first is that of a complicated and dangerous surgery, which up to now claims a significant rate of mortality. The other is that of a family desperately scrounging around for money to pay the runaway cost of a bypass operation.
Both scenarios bespeak of the unchanging horror still attached to bypass even at this stage, but which often leaves a suffering patient no choice at all, especially when confronted with the verdict: “Get bypassed today or you might be dead tomorrow.”
A recent study indicated that in the United States alone, some 40 million people suffer from degenerative diseases, or at least suffer symptoms indicating plaque-clogged arteries. Out of this number, an average of 250,000 agree to surgery or bypass operation.
This is quite surprising in this day and age, which more and more is characterized by exploding interest in alternative medicine.
In their book, “Forty-Something Forever,” Harold and Arline Brecher noted that “trail-blazing investigators are scouring the jungles of Africa, reviewing ancient Far Eastern medicines and looking into remedies developed by maverich physicians who dare challenge orthodoxy.
The report was a preface to their dumbfounding discovery that a safe, no-pain and cheap medical treatment which is a better alternative to bypass has actually been available and developed since 1960, doing “miracle cures” to a large number of sufferers of atherosclerosis and related disorders.
The process is called Chelation Therapy, a simple office procedure using ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA), reverses and slows progression of atheorosclerotic heart disease, hardening of the arteries and other age-related and degenerative diseases.
A leading chelation therapy specialist, Dr. Irene Bataoil-Taburnal, since setting up her clinic in Dagupan City five years ago, has been administering chelation therapy in lieu of bypass or angioplasty to a fast-growing number of happy patients, who have found great relief if not total cure from a variety of ailments such as coronary artery disease, cerebral vascular disease, brain disorders, generalized hardening of arteries, asthma, arthritis and accelerated physical decline.
“Chelation therapy is relatively unheard of in this country, but it is fast gaining ground, especially among patients who are scared to death to be cut up, such as what bypass does,” says Dr. Irene Bataoil-Taburnal.
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