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Portland Observer Oecember 17
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Healthwatch
by Steven Bailey. N D
Il seems that every fe w m onths we hear of a new
disease a n d /o r treatm ent that will solve all our p ro ­
blems
These panaceas often awake my suspicious
and skeptical nature
Frequently my skepticisms are
lustified, yet there are occasionally those advancements
that do change how we look at and treat certain
conditions One o f these areas is in the recently for
mulated understanding o f the condition called Poly
systomic Chronic Candidiasis IPCC)
This condition IPCC) became widely publicized w ith
W G Crooks "T h e Yeast C onnection" w hich was re
leased in 1983 Since this book's release, there have
been countless articles and publications on PCC inclu
ding an excellent article in OMNI magazine. March
,985 W hat these books and articles have said is that
through our societal use of antibiotics, steroids and
BCP’s (birth control pills) we have altered our internal
floura (everpresent bacterium and m icro organisms that
live in and on our tissues) in a manner that has resulted
in a " n e w " disease of modern times The overgrowth
of a com m on intestinal yeast, Candida albicans is the
cause of PCC. w hich some researchers claim affects
30 percent o f the U S. population
There are a number o f reasons w hy PCC has only
recently been discovered
Diagnosis is made difficult
by the fact that nearly everyone has some Candida
albicans in their systems (it is only harm ful if it predomi
nates in the system or a given region). Since everyone
has the organism, you cannot |ust take a culture and
isolate the yeast as we do w ith other infections An
other d ifficu lty of diagnosis is the broad range of symp
tom s that are found w ith PCC
These may include
arthritis like pain, allergies, headaches and migraines,
mental confusion, depression, feelings of unreality,
chronic sinus congestion, recurrent vaginal yeast mfec
lions, very low energy, skin problems and a wide variety
of other sym ptom s W ith such a varied list of symp
tom s, it is easy to see how doctors might not detect
the PCC condition in their patients.
W hile diagnosis is d ifficult, there are screenings that
can help to identify the condition Many physicians in
the Portland area are now able to help you w ith this
concern
The casue of the wide variety o f symptoms is best
understood when we know h ow the yeast organism
interacts w ith the body Normally, our intestinal floura
consists of micro-organism s like andophilis w hich can
live and reproduce w ith out irritating the tissues they
contact. W hen we kill o ff these bacterium w ith anti
biotics or other substances, the tissues become prime
targets for yeast to colonize
Unlike friendly floura.
the yeast releases waste products that are highly irri
tating to human tissues These yeast colonies can in
flame the digestive tract so that *<>od intollerances de
velop as allergies, they can depress the immune system
so that other conditions are more likely to develop, and
the waste products can create a wide lange of systemic
sym ptom s that range from irritability d e p re s s io n and
insomnia to many o f the physical symptoms m entioned
earlier in this article
There are a number o f things that you can do outside
of the d o cto r’s office that can assist in m inim izing the
PCC condition Dietary consider aborts include increas
ed protein (not red meat) and decreased simple sugar
(yeast loves sugar, yet many people who fiave PCC
crave sugar because they have such a weakened diges
tive system) Small meals are preferred One form of
simple sugar that seems particularly had in PCC patients
is the canned grape and apple juices These juices < om
bine high sugar w ith a high level o f moldy fruit (some
of my patients can drink their ow n fruit jui < e made w ith
fresh fru it but cannot drink com m eri ial brands I Yo
gurt or another source of acidophilis will h e lp to replai ••
yeast w ith friendly organisms (you should use unswee
tened yogurt)
Garlic and onions are noted fo r their
anti fungal properties and can be freely idded to the
diet
In m ild cases of PCC the above recom m endations
may be sufficient to improve the condition
More
severe cases may require an anti yeast meifir abort like
nystatin to kill o ff the yeast so that the i Inphilis i an
take hold Nystatin is one of the most benign prescrip
tion medicines that we have available and seem* to
have an exclusive preference foi ye a st w h ile leaving
normal bacteria alone High Vitamin C and beta caro
tine are recommended as part of the total support pro
gram For further inform ation see I I i Yeast Connec
tio n " by Crook
Letters to the Editor
The American Prison System is by far the most brutal
and dehumanizing mechanism of oppression since the
abolishment o f slavery America's prisons have been
employed not as tools of correction but vicious tenacles
of racism; to stifle, cripple, and mangle the dreams,
hopes and aspirations of young Black men and women
all across the land W hen one defines the objectives
of incarceration in America, tw o principles immediately
come to mind, rehabilitation for W hites and subiuga
tion for Blacks A t this point it is necessary to remem
her that prison is a reflection of society When we take
a close look at that reflection, we find a magnification
of the ills that exist in society at large
W hat do you suppose w ould happen if all the laws of
decency and com m unity wore suddenly cast aside,
w fiat if the Golden Rule became the Stolen Rule, and
men were perm itted to let their prejudices and fantasies
of superiority run rampant and unchecked Visualize a
w orld where you had no redress for acts of vandalism,
genocide, and racist bigotry, perpetuated in the name
of law and order where men lived their lives subjected
to the w him and mercy of degenerates A one w ord
description o f such a w orld is Prison
Prison is a w orld devoid of humanism a harsh cold
planet that defies the grow th of human spirit Where
hope is measured in the tw isted reality of homosexual
ity, where promise becomes a crumpled Dear John
note, where one's fear knots up inside and ulcerates
into the madness of confinem ent, where men live out
their lives in a limbo zone o f nothingness, not knowing
the promise o f the future and shackled to the chains of
their past
W hile it is im portant that society's laws are known
and respected and the rights of citizens are protected,
it is as equally im portant that the adm inistration of jus
tice in Am erica are not allowed to continue to trans
form prisons into Frankenstein Factories Nothing can
come out of these factories but monsters, and they are
released upon society W ho's to blame the monsters
or Dr Frankenstein? We must stop the production of
tw isted, mangled form s disguised in men's bodies
Oregon State Penitentiary is a human nightmare
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The recent Democratic trium ph in this year's Sena
tonal elections was largely unanticipated, and most
political experts quickly predicted a highly com bative
Congress in 1987 88 W ashington Post colum nist David
Broder suggested that the voters had "sent both parties
a warning notice that they are ready for sweeping
change
the struggle to succeed Reagan (is taking)
place." Liberal journalist Hodding Carter termed the
Democrats Senatorial victories an "explicit repudiation
of President Reagan
the biggesl presidential fail
ure since Franklin Roosevelt tried to purge the Senate
o f opponents to his Supreme Court packing scheme in
the o ff year elections of 1938 "
Superficially, there seemed to be much to celebrate
The Democrats scored a net gain of eight Senate seats
Of the twelve Senate seats captured by Republicans
m Reagan's 1980 victory, seven returned to the Demo
crats. The Democrats also added five new House seats
Although the Republicans captured eight new gover
rxjrhsips. the Democrats gained about 150 additional
seats in all state legislatures W ith 1990 approaching,
the control o f these state legislatures becomes pivotal
in directing the boundaries of Congressional lines The
Republicans currently control both legislative houses in
only nine states the D em ocrats co n tro l both chambers
in tw enty eight states
Some might even call the 1986 mid term elections
Jim m y Carter s Revenge
Three of Carter's former
Cabinet members w on election
Neil Goldschmidt as
Governor of Oregon, Brock Adams, Carter's former
transportation secretary, as Senator from W ashington,
and Cecil D Andrus as Governor of Idaho
W yche
Fowler, Jr a liberal w hite Democrat w ho had replaced
Andy Young in Congress a decade ago. defeated re
actionary incum bent GOP Senator Mack M attingly of
Georgia Civil lig h ts leader John R Lewis, w ho also
served in Cartel s adm inistiation, was easily elected to
the Congress from Georgia
Is "Liberalism" once again trium phant? Has "Rea
gamsm been purged once and for all from the nation's
jKilitics? Guess again
Look carefully at the narrow electoral margins scored
by viciuituus D em ocratic Senate candidates
Fowler
b«rat M attingly in Georgia by only 23,000 votes, out of
more than 1 2 m illion votes cast
In South Dakota,
populist four term Congressman Tom Daschle defeat
ed Reagamte Senator James Abdnor by only 10,200
votes In N orth Dakota. Democrat state tax commis
sioner Kent Conrad w on by less than 3,000 votes In
Colorado, neohberal Congressman Tim W irth defeated
his Republican opponent by barely 16,000 votes W ith
all votes totalled, the Democrats won 23.9 m illion votes
to the GOP's 23 1 m illion votes in all 34 Senate races
However, if just 81,500 strategic votes had shifted in
only eight states Alabama. Colorado. Georgia. Neva
da. North Carolina. North Dakota. South Dakota, and
W ashington the Republican Party w ould have control
led 53 Senate seats to the Democrats' 47 seats, the
identical totals for the 99th Congress By this very slen
der margin, the Democrats are claiming that they've
received a "p o w e rfu l" mandate
Control o f the Senate is im portant for at least three
reasons: the dom inant party directs m uch o f the inter
national and dom estic policy agenda, it controls the
actual schedule in w hich legislation is considered, and
the Senate Committee chairs create prom inent forums
for their ow n pet political projects M uch of the media
has focused on the more liberal Democrats w ho will
now chair pow erful Senate panels, especially Ted Ken
nedy at Labor and Human Resources, and probable
presidential candidate Joseph Biden at Judiciary. But
overall, not m uch else will actually change As political
scientist Norm Ornstein notes: "Y o u 've got a senior
group of Democrats w ho are more conservative than
the (other) Democrats in the Senate Therefore, there
w ill not be a sharp difference from the Republican Se
nate " Many panel heads are indeed rig h t-o f center,
such as Mississippi Senator John C Stenms, w ho will
chair Appropriations; Georgia's Sam Nunn, at Armed
Services, Texas's Lloyd Bentsen at Finance; and Florida
Senator Law ton Chiles as Budget chairman. Some o f
the newly elected Democrats are equally conservative
Senator elect John B Breaux o f Louisiana and Richard
C. Shelby o f Alabama had American Security Council
ratings of 100 while serving in the House
Florida s
Bob Graham favors the death penalty and arms to the
Nicaraguan contras In short, this motley crew repre
sents "Reayanism w ith a human face "
So the Democrats have w on a tem porary and per
haps illusory victory. Unless they advance a coherent
public policy alternative to Reaganism next year, they
w ill probably lose the 1988 elections.
Letters to the Editor
S elf T ra n s fo rm a tio n
The general bankruptcy of Amerika s political, econo
mic and social systems was evident long before Mr
Reagan took Office
But most caucasoid Amenkans
chose to ignore the signs of decay and evade the neces
sity to confront the problems Amerika posed for the
Eighties Refusing to c o n e to grips w ith the Amerikan
reality is an act o f irresponsibilitiy that Blacks cannot
afford For the Black problem in Amerika is Amerika.
and it We tail to face that tiu th , We will dishonor our
past and jeopardize our future Black leaders must be
com m itted Io c u n fio n tin g the Amerikan reality in all its
dim ensions Black leaders m ust seek to co n trib u te in
some consistent way tu Black People's understanding
ot themselves and the w orld around them
W e should read the Autobiography of Malcolm X,
look closely at the Brother man, listen closely to him,
and understand w hat his manhood says to Us now and
at all times, w hat it means for us as individuals and
organizations com m itted to the creation of a new. self
determ ining Black People W hen we look and listen,
We recognize that, above all else. Malcolm was about
transform ation and new creation
He became, in his
lifetim e the quintessence of a free man He was the
"New Black M a n ," ahead of his time
And his self
development through hard choices and resolute change
pointed the way for all o f us Therefore, if W e are ser
ious about the fundam ental personal and structural
changes w hich are necessary for Black People to live,
then We cannot fail to take Malcolm as our model In
saying that, We are not focusing here on a specific
political viewpoint, but on an overriding, pow erful, per
sonal and political m ethodology for change Malcolm
is the prime example of w hat we must do if we w ant to
prepare ourselves, not only for the struggle for freedom,
but for the possibilities inherent in freedom itself
As a member o f an oppressed people, M alcolm 's
crucial decision was to refuse to accept the lim itations
imposed on him by the conditions of oppression Once
he had taken that im p o rta n t step, he then fo u n d the
way to overcome imposed conditions, and to allow his
personality to take its true form Having chosen to free
himself from the bonds of Detroit Red, he eventually
transform ed himself, under the guidance o f teachers
and fathers, living and dead, to become El Hajj Malik
El Shabazz
I'm inclined to believe Brother M alcolm 's essential
pathway to self transform ation was through self criti
cism and self education, directed tow ard his ow n na
ture at first and then tow ard that of all people. It was an
extraordinary process, carried out w ith such thorough
ness and painful rigor that every shortcom ing and con
tradiction of the past (his ow n and Black People's in
general) was exposed, every question was dissected to
its basic premises, every political reality was starkly and
profoundly revealed
Then, whenever such analysis
indicated necessary change in his life, he moved to
change
The willingness to expose one's life to the
merciless glare of truth and to make whatever changes
truth demands, so that one's individual life may enter
into the larger, gruelling struggle for new hope, new
justice, new hum anity for the people. Io do this qualifies
a man whatever his past " to speak the tru th to the
people," to inspire and organize the people for building
and struggling tow ards new Black life This is the epi
tom e of a truly religious, truly political man. This was
Malcolm, and it must be Us.
"W h e n I discovered philosophy, I tried to touch all
the landmarks o f philosophical developm ent," Malcolm
says in his Autobiography Further along he says, "Y o u
w ill never catch me w ith a free fifteen m inutes in w hich
I'm not studying som ething I feel m ight be able to help
the Black m a n ." Embodied in these remarks are three
other essentials of M alcolm 's method he studied con
stantly, he read everything he could, and he put every
thing in the context of the needs of the Black Commu
nity He did not restrict his reading to books and papers
of one or another political persuasion he studied radi
cal and conservative publications But he always knew
w hy he was reading, w ho he was reading for. Malcolm
the student became, therefore, Malcolm the teacher of
hi* people. He chided Black People, pointing out to us
our ow n follies, fears, and individualistic pursuits He
exposed, for instance, the contradictions between the
willingness of m any Black People to go to war against
form idable odds if ordered to by the man w ho calls him
self our Uncle Sam, and their willingness to fig h t at
lesser odds w hen the cause was racial justice and Black
self determ ination
Malcolm de mythologized political
opponents by the same process, revealing the nature of
the enemy as not at all superhuman, but only pow erful
through cowardice and hypocrisy
Dr Jam il Cherovee
Portland Observer
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Put
It reeks the foulness of dispaii of r.n ism a n d of d e a th
It defies any reasonable definition and for Bla< k in
mates it is nothing more than a plantation that fosters
the superiority of W hites It is the end o l the line for
many of Oregon’s young Blai k men and women and it
is time that they w eie at least givei an opportunity to
end the vicious cycle, w hich is som ething that will not
happen in the present scheme of things W ith all dial,
in mind. Black inmates staged a non violent protest
against the inequality o f the prison system Their ac
tions exhibited the level of frustration their existence
has come to. but, more im portantly, it displays their
willingness to change w hat they are destined tor if
things d o n 't change soon
A list of grievances has been compiled f> adn nistra
tion consideiation Am ong them aie a omptehensive
Black Studies Program to instill pndt «nd return Bro
thers to their culture and heritage a Commie ty A d v i
sory Board to the Paiole Board to com bat the d.si anty
in prison terms set between Blai ks and Whites, a long
term Drug and Alcohol Program w ithin the in s titu tio n
to address the problem of substances abuse among
Blacks, and a racial sensitivity class tor all employees
The things Black inmates aie requesting are life
saving issues
They affect Blacks in maximum and
m inim um security confinem ent
It is the Black corn
m unity that w ill suffer if these issues are not addressed
It will be Black children w ho will emulate our patterns
who w ill someday be faced w ith the h o u o is of prison
if these issues are not dealt w ith properly There is a cell
reserved at the Oregon State Penitentiary and it might
have your child's or loved one's name on it We can not
continue on this course mired in the mut k of gradual
ism, complacency is death for all Blacks we are bound
by the embylical of color and we have been held hos
tage because o f that factor
Reach out join hands
w ith us in this struggle help us save our lives we
need YOU DESPERATELY
Please address replies or offers o f support to Uhuru
Sa Sa Central Committee Chairman George (babel
Gaines. 2605 State S t., Salem, Or 97310
Asmar Seifullah
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