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How to Avoid Health Hazards of Lighting

Paul Fassa
NaturalNews
Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00 UTC
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As the federally mandated phasing out of incandescent light bulbs approaches, you need to know about your new lighting choices. There are three options, of which one is no good if you value your health and don't enjoy eerie dim lighting. The options are CFLs (compact fluorescent lights/lamps), halogen bulbs, and LEDs (low energy diodes).

They are all energy efficient according to EISA (Energy Independence and Security Act) imposed standards. They cost more than incandescent bulbs, but last longer.

Heavily Promoted CFLs are the Most Unhealthy

Their light quality has improved, but is still not as good as all the other bulbs. The price range is from two dollars U.S to eight dollars. They last longer than incandescent bulbs, but before they expire completely, they begin to fade.

They are filled with mercury, which when broken will fill a room with more toxic vapors than you can safely tolerate. Most of you know that. And the mercury laden CFLs present land fill environmental problems, which means it's a hassle to get rid of them when they do expire. Most of you know that too.
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Millions Drink Toxic Water in the USA, But It's EPA-Approved!

David Gutierrez
NaturalNews
Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00 UTC
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It has been so long since the federal law regulating tap water has been updated that since 2004, more than one-fifth of the U.S. population has consumed tap water that the government classifies as toxic, but still approves for human consumption.

"People don't understand that just because water is technically legal, it can still present health risks," said Pankaj Parekh, director of water quality for the City of Los Angeles.

Even though more than 60,000 chemicals are used in the United States each year and most have never been tested for human safety, the Safe Water Drinking Act regulates only 91 different toxins. Many of these are regulations have not been updated since the 1980s or even since the law was first passed in 1974. The law does not take into account newer findings that certain chemicals can be more toxic in combination than separately. To top it off, not a single chemical has been added to the law since 2000.

Science has passed the law by, as researchers have identified hundreds of new chemicals that can cause cancer or other diseases if consumed in tap water. Many of these chemicals are even regulated by some federal agencies, yet are still allowed in tap water.
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3D TV May Be Bad for You

Kerrin Binnie
ABC News
Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:00 UTC
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© IMDB.com3D is the latest craze thanks to blockbusters like James Cameron's Avatar.
Hollywood blockbusters Avatar and Clash Of The Titans have thrust the world of three-dimensional movies upon consumers.

Electronics companies have been keen to see the technology in living rooms, but experts are already warning of a potential for adverse effects on our health.

It seems manufacturers too have their own concerns, warning viewers about dizziness, convulsions and disorientation.

Three-dimensional televisions create their images by flashing up to 60 frames a second onto the screen.

Those pictures are then converted into three dimensions by battery-powered glasses linked wirelessly to the TV.

Associate Professor Alan Brichta, who studies brain chemistry and balance at the University of Newcastle, says people who suffer sea sickness or car sickness are most likely to have problems.
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Potentially Deadly Fungus Spreading in U.S. and Canada


Reuters
Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:22 UTC
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Washington - A potentially deadly strain of fungus is spreading among animals and people in the northwestern United States and the Canadian province of British Columbia, researchers reported on Thursday.

The airborne fungus, called Cryptococcus gattii, usually only infects transplant and AIDS patients and people with otherwise compromised immune systems, but the new strain is genetically different, the researchers said.

"This novel fungus is worrisome because it appears to be a threat to otherwise healthy people," said Edmond Byrnes of Duke University in North Carolina, who led the study.

"The findings presented here document that the outbreak of C. gattii in Western North America is continuing to expand throughout this temperate region," the researchers said in their report, published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Pathogens.

"Our findings suggest further expansion into neighboring regions is likely to occur and aim to increase disease awareness in the region."
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Flu shots suspended after kids hospitalized


American Broadcasting Company
Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:52 UTC
The Western Australian Government has suspended all flu vaccinations for children under five while it investigates a spike in admissions to Princess Margaret Hospital in Perth.

The Health Minister, Kim Hames, says 45 children have been taken to hospital suffering high temperatures and febrile convulsions after receiving the vaccination.

Dr Hames says the program will be suspended until the department finishes its investigation.

He says parents who have had their children vaccinated should take precautions.

"If it's longer than 12 hours ago then there is no risk," he said.

"But if it's in the last 12 hours they should make sure that they give their child paracetamol and then take every effort to make sure that the temperature of their child is settled."

Dr Hames says parents can call Health Direct for more information on 1800 022 222.

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Best of the Web: Electromagnetic radiation and its effect on the brain: an insider speaks out

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702.co.za
Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:31 UTC
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Jenny Crwys Williams interviews Barrie Trower, retired British military intelligence scientist in microwave and stealth warfare.

Listen to interview here

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Jenny Crwys-Williams:Now we're speaking to Barrie Trower, and it is Trower isn't it?

Barrie Trower: Yes ma'am.

JCW: And Barrie you are a retired British military intelligence scientist, and for years and years and years you worked in microwave and stealth warfare. What does that actually mean?

BT: During the 1950s...and may I say good afternoon ma'am...

JCW: ~Laughs~ Good afternoon.

BT: During the 1950s and 1960s during the Cold War, it was realised both by accident that microwaves could be used as stealth weapons against the Russians beamed the American embassy during the Cold War and it gave everybody working in the embassy cancer, breast cancers, leukemias whatever, and it was realised then that low level microwaves were the perfect stealth weapon to be used on dissident groups around the world, because you could make dissident groups sick, give them cancer, change their mental outlook on life without them even knowing they were being radiated, and one of my particular tasks...I spent eleven years questioning captured spies...one of my particular tasks was to learn the particular frequencies of microwaves that they used on which particular victims, if I may use that word, and what the outcome was, and I built up a dossier...I'm probably the only person in the world with the complete list...I built up a dossier of what pulse frequencies of microwaves will cause what psychological or physiological damage to a person.

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Best of the Web: The BioInitiative Report - The Dangerous Health Impacts of Microwave Radiation

eon3
YouTube
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:52 UTC
Cindy Sage, environmental consultant, talks about The BioInitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-based Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF), which she edited with a team of international scientists.

They document serious scientific concerns about current limits regulating how much EMF is allowable from power lines, cell phones, and many other sources of EMF exposure in daily life.

The report concludes the existing standards for public safety are inadequate to protect public health.


Find out more at bioinitiative.org
Download the full BioInitiative Report (pdf).
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Susan G. Komen for the Cure Makes Mockery of Self with KFC Pinkwashing Campaign

Mike Adams
NaturalNews
Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00 UTC
Susan G. Komen for the Cure has now crossed the line into asinine idiocy thanks to its new alliance with Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), where pink buckets of fried chicken are sold under the slogan, "Buckets for the Cure." I'm not making this up. See the ad image yourself:

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This idea that buying fried chicken is actually going to cure cancer is one of the most utterly idiotic health ideas yet witnessed in American pop culture. Komen for the Cure is so far gone from reality that the organization apparently doesn't even think twice about suggesting such an absurd idea. Eat more fried chicken, folks, and then what? Loading up on that kind of a diet is more likely to cause you to kick the bucket than to find a cure for cancer.

Does fried chicken actually promote cancer?

Fried chicken, you see, is coated in starches. The recipe for the KFC chicken batter is basically flour, sugar, salt, black pepper and monosodium glutamate (MSG). All by itself, this is a recipe for chronic degenerative disease because the flour and sugar are highly processed, and the MSG is an excitotoxin that Dr. Russell Blaylock links to obesity, cancer and neurological disorders. And the chicken meat itself? That's another cruel story on top of that (read more below).
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Big Brother Doctors Say Patients Don't Need to See Their Imaging Test Results

S. L. Baker
NaturalNews
Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00 UTC
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If you are an American, you probably assume that this is a free country. So if you agree to undergo imaging tests -- which cost you or your insurance company hundreds and even thousands of dollars and may subject you to radiation -- you have every right to see the results.

After all, it's your body, your test, your money and your health involved right?

According to a new report just published in the April issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology, most doctors surveyed don't think the answer is "yes". In fact, they don't want patients to have direct access to their imaging test results because "it could lead to increased patient anxiety and unrealistic demands on physician time".

You read that right: physicians with a "Big Brother" mindset apparently think people having imaging tests are incapable of dealing with the outcomes without suffering from so much anxiety they must be protected from seeing the results. And, bottom line, these docs just don't want to spend the time answering questions about the imaging test results, anyway.
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Most Prostate Cancers Detected by Screening Aren't Dangerous in the First Place

David Gutierrez
NaturalNews
Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00 UTC
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Only about one in 10 prostate cancers detected by screening actually poses a threat to a man's life, according to a new analysis conducted by researchers from the University if Cambridge.

The findings come from a preliminary analysis of data from the ongoing Prostate Testing for Cancer and Treatment trial (ProtecT), funded by the United Kingdom's Department of Health. Under ProtecT, approximately 250,000 men between the ages of 50 and 69 are undergoing prostate cancer screening and analysis. Only 10 percent of the men being screened had elevated levels of the prostate specific antigen (PSA), which is considered a marker of cancer risk.

ProtecT comes as the United Kingdom considers implementing a nationwide prostate cancer screening program. Yet because the majority of prostate cancers are slow-growing and may never pose a threat to a man's life, growing numbers of medical professionals are questioning this plan.

Prostate cancer treatment can carry severe side effects, including impotence and incontinence.
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