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Raeven's syndrome

     Raeven's syndrome manifests itself in obesity, increased lipid, including cholesterol, concentration in blood serum, hypercoagulability and/or high uric acid. Nowadays, a dozen or so per cent of the Western world population have symptoms of the syndrome according to the criteria of WHO.
     Such a situation is mainly caused by poor diets, a sedentary way of life, possibly by chemicals added to food and/or environmental pollution. All this leads in turn to an epidemic of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes which has been spreading in the Western world.
     Doctors raise the alarm because even schoolchildren have symptoms of the syndrome. Obese teenagers and younger children have been diagnosed with lesions in arteries.
     The world is facing a situation in which newly born children's lifespan will be shorter than that of their parents or grandparents. Thus a tendency that children live longer than their parents may be reversed. A demographic disaster is imminent. Some countries have already taken action, e.g. Latvia was the first country to ban selling fast food in school cafeterias.
     The Polish Ministry of Health should undertake similar actions by starting a widespread media campaign promoting healthy diets. Children who are very responsive to evocative commercials should be discouraged from buying some foodstuffs. Only health food should be sold at school cafeterias. Additionally, adults and children should enrich their diets with natural preparations which eliminate free radicals and reduce the level of cholesterol.
     Father Grzegorz's Phytotherapy Centre has been promoting healthy or natural diets with additions of herbs for many years. Antiarteriosclerotic herbs are safe and may be used to no detriment of health. The Phytotherapy Centre usually suggests Lipobon (1 capsule 2 to 3 times a day) and Chitobon (2 to 4 capsules before a meal containing animal fat and/or pork). Sometimes Apibon (1 to 2 capsules a day) is added in advanced sclerosis.
     However, no drugs or preparations can replace a diet and an active way of life. An appeal for changing the way of life is not a truism anymore as it may be the last chance before the last rites.