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The Daily Diet That Has Up to 46 Teaspoons of Sugar

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© Murray SandersMany adults don't realise the amount of sugar in food such as cereals.
A worrying number of adults are consuming the equivalent of 46 teaspoons of sugar a day, health experts warn.

Many of them do not even realise how much they are eating because a vast range of processed food and drink, including many ready meals and cereals, are laden with sugar.

Researchers claim food companies in the U.S. have been consistently hiking the sugar content of their products to make them more enticing.

British manufacturers, however, insist they have been reducing sugar levels as part of a drive to improve the health of processed foods.

The U.S. study was the first of its kind to examine the association between the consumption of added sugars and its impact on cholesterol, the dangerous blood fats that clog the arteries.

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Propaganda Alert: Video Games "Do Not" Alter Sleep Pattern

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Despite the general belief, a new study suggests that playing a video game before bed has a subtle influence on the time a male teenager falls asleep.

Many experts urge individuals to avoid any screen activity, regardless of being computer, video games or television, before bed.

Previous studies had similarly reported that playing video games at night has negative effects on sleep as the stimulation keeps one awake even after the game has ceased.

According to the study published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, it took teenagers who played violent video games before bedtime only marginally longer time to fall asleep compared to those who watched a relaxing nature documentary.

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Vitamin A Supplements May Negate Benefits of Vitamin D

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Most of you are well aware that vitamin D has a legion of health benefits crucial to every one of us. What is alarming is the latest research in the British Medical Journal, which appears to confirm: that a form of vitamin A in surprisingly small doses may negate many of the beneficial health effects of vitamin D. This is the largest study to date showing vitamin A blocks vitamin D's effect.

Dr. William Grant, Ph.D., an internationally recognized research scientist and vitamin D expert, found that about 30 percent of cancer deaths could be prevented each year with higher levels of vitamin D. Given that cancer, heart disease and diabetes are three of the top causes of death in the United States, getting enough of this vitamin should be a top priority. Unfortunately most of us are vitamin D deficient. It is clearly important to avoid anything that might hamper your vitamin D production. Surprisingly, it appears vitamin A supplementation may indeed have this effect.

In a recent article, Dr. John Jacob Cannell, MD, executive director of The Vitamin D Council, discussed the British Medical Journal report. He says:
"The crux of the problem is that a form of vitamin A, retinoic acid weakly activates the vitamin D response element on the gene and perhaps blocks vitamin D's more robust activation." In fact, the authors of a 1993 study state, "there is a profound inhibition of vitamin D-activated...gene expression by retinoic acid."
The distinction is between various forms of vitamin A. It is the retinoic acid (retinol) form of vitamin A that is problematic. Not beta carotene.

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Puberty in Girls Hastened by Harmful Chemicals

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© CorbiaHarmful chemicals may be triggering early puberty in girls.
Multiple studies have found that chemicals found in such products as food cans, toys, shower curtains, and water bottles may be to blame for causing an early onset of puberty in girls.

Furthermore, the studies found that the chemicals also put them at a greater risk of diabetes and cancer. The three chemical classes studied were phthalates, phenols and phytoestrogens. One such hormone-mimicking chemical is Bisphenol A, which was recently found in eighteen out of twenty popular food cans.

The average age that girls begin puberty currently stands at ten years and three months. This average has fallen by more than a year within a single generation. Studies indicated that chemicals like Bisphenol A could be to blame. While Bisphenol A appears to speed up puberty in girls, health experts say other factors must also be considered. Doctors say that obesity could be the largest factor in delaying puberty in girls.

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Radiation from CT Scans Causes 29,000 Cancers a Year, Kills 14,500 Americans

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Computerized tomography (CT) medical scans cause at least 29,000 cases of cancer and 14,500 deaths in the United States every year, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Shocking as this figure is, a second study published in the same issue and conducted by researchers from the University of California-San Francisco suggests that the reality may actually be much worse.

CT scans are diagnostic tests in which radiation is used to take a cross-sectional picture of a patient's organs. They have become far more common in the United States over the past 30 years, increasing in frequency from 3 million per year in 1980 to the current rate of 70 million per year.

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Alzheimer's Drugs Cause Brain Damage and Actually Worsen Memory Loss

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Big Pharma drugs that are being used on humans right now and promoted as potential treatments for Alzheimer's disease (AD) could cause the very brain damage and memory loss they are supposed to treat. That's the conclusion of University of California at San Diego (UCSD) scientists who just published their groundbreaking findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The researchers combined several high tech methods to investigate nonamyloidogenic peptides that are formed by some drugs being tested as Alzheimer's therapies. UCSD nano-biophysicist Ratnesh Lal and his colleagues combined three dimensional computer simulations with high resolution atomic force microscopy membrane protein and cell imaging, electrical recording and various cellular assays to pinpoint the function of these substances.

The results showed that the peptides created active ion channels that caused brain cells to take in very high levels of calcium ions, eventually killing the very neurons needed for memory. To make matters worse, biomedical researchers have long considered these brain cell-killing nonamyloidogenic peptides to be non-toxic and targeted them as potential Alzheimer's treatments.

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Cannot See the Forest Through the GMO Trees

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"What'll they think of next?"

That was a common awestruck question regarding scientific and technological achievements during the 1950s and '60s. It was a naive era, which was the beginning of our being poisoned by science through food and medicine. Now it should be a horrified "what's next"? Man's scientific assault on nature has added even more peril by adding trees to the list of GMOs.

As attorney/activist Andrew Kimbrell commented in the documentary Unnatural Selection, these genetic changes in food crops, fish, animals, and trees are not recallable. Once they're out, that's it for good. And they do endanger non-GMO life forms through contamination or reproduction.

Calling Dr. Frankenstein!

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U.S. Government Continues Its War on Raw Milk

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Growing awareness among the American populace about the health benefits of wholesome, raw milk has been steadily increasing over the past decade, putting many state and federal officials into a frenzy. The harsh crackdown tactics used in the past to deter farmers from selling, and consumers from buying, raw milk are giving way to a new approach that anti-raw milk fanatics hope will put an end to the sale of raw milk.

Stopping people from consuming raw milk is a top priority for federal and state officials. While millions of Americans are seriously injured by or die from pharmaceutical drugs every year, U.S. regulatory agencies are busy devising new ways to prevent family farmers from selling a natural, health-promoting food to their fellow citizens.

Despite hordes of evidence to the contrary, officials continue to repeat mindless mantras about the dangers of raw milk in an effort to steer people back to the cooked and crushed milk product sold on store shelves. When that fails, they resort to guerilla-style terrorist tactics instead.

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Counter Hair Loss Naturally with Tissue Cell Salts

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Hair thinning and hair loss is a distressing occurrence for both men and women. Although it is normal to lose some hair each day, it is different if hair is falling out in clumps. Tissue cell salts are a safe and natural way of restoring some of the mineral deficiencies in the body that can contribute to hair loss.

What are Biochemic Tissue Salts?

Biochemic tissue cell salts are made from the minerals that are found in the rocks and soil of the earth. These minerals should be present in our food and bodies for balanced health. However, due to modern agricultural practices, many vital minerals are leached from the soil. This can cause a mineral deficiency in the human body.

Tissue salts are important for maintaining and building healthy cellular activity of the body's cells. Follow the dosage recommendations that come with each bottle of tissue salts. Be sure to visit a professional homeopath for advice first regarding hair loss or if hair loss worsens.

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The Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers: An American Phenomenon

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The United States has become the psychiatric drugging capital of the world for kids with children being medicated at a younger and younger age. Medicaid records in some states show infants less than a year old on drugs for mental disorders.

The use of powerful antipsychotics with privately insured children, aged 2 through 5 in the US, doubled between 1999 and 2007, according to a study of data on more than one million children with private health insurance in the January, 2010, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

The number of children in this age group diagnosed with bipolar disorder also doubled over the last decade, Reuters reported.

Of antipsychotic-treated children in the 2007 study sample, the most common diagnoses were pervasive developmental disorder or mental retardation (28.2%), ADHD (23.7%), and disruptive behavior disorder (12.9%).