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FDA's own analysis says animal feed antibiotics 'high risk' to humans - has not revoked any approvals of same

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Based on the US Food and Drug Administration's own safety analyses, 30 antibiotic feed additives formerly approved for "nontherapeutic use" on food animals would not meet current agency health standards if submitted for approval today, a new report shows.

Previously undisclosed FDA documents reveal that 30 penicillin and tetracycline antibiotic feed additives reviewed by the agency from 2001 to 2010 would likely fail to meet modern safety requirements for nontherapeutic livestock use if they were proposed as new products, according to a report by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

Nontherapeutic use of antibiotics means they are not used to treat diseases, but are rather used for growth promotion in animals or to counteract disease amid crowded or unsanitary conditions for livestock and poultry in industrial farming.

The FDA documents - obtained by the NRDC through a public information request and litigation - show that 18 of the 30 additives were found to be "high risk" for "exposing humans to antibiotic-resistant bacteria through the food supply," NRDC writes. The other 12 were not supported with enough evidence from the drugs' manufacturers for the FDA to definitively determine their safety. In fact, 26 of the products did not even meet the FDA's own safety standards from 1973.

Further, the FDA has not revoked any of the antibiotic additive approvals or required any drug manufacturer to resubmit a product for a new safety assessment following the agency's reviews, though two were voluntarily withdrawn by their makers.

Smoking

Worldwide cancer cases (in particular lung cancer) expected to soar by 70% over next 20 years

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Is the Sun setting on the human species?
Cancer cases worldwide are predicted to increase by 70% over the next two decades, from 14m in 2012 to 25m new cases a year, according to the World Health Organisation.

The latest World Cancer Report says it is implausible to think we can treat our way out of the disease and that the focus must now be on preventing new cases. Even the richest countries will struggle to cope with the spiralling costs of treatment and care for patients, and the lower income countries, where numbers are expected to be highest, are ill-equipped for the burden to come.

The incidence of cancer globally has increased in just four years from 12.7m in 2008 to 14.1m new cases in 2012, when there were 8.2m deaths. Over the next 20 years, it is expected to hit 25m a year - a 70% increase.

The biggest burden will be in low- and middle-income countries. They are hit by two types of cancers - those triggered by infections, such as cervical cancers, which are still very prevalent in poorer countries that don't have screening, let alone the HPV vaccine, and increasingly cancers associated with more affluent lifestyles "with increasing use of tobacco, consumption of alcohol and highly processed foods and lack of physical activity", writes the World Health Organisation director general, Margaret Chan, in an introduction to the report.

Lung cancer is the most commonly diagnosed among men (16.7% of cases) and the biggest killer (23.6% of deaths). Breast cancer is the most common diagnosis in women (25.2%) and caused 14.7% of deaths, which is a drop and only just exceeds lung cancer deaths in women (13.8%). Bowel, prostate and stomach cancer are the other most common diagnoses.

Comment: Note the disconnect. The number of people smoking has been reducing for the past 10 years, yet these 'scientists' claim that in the next 20 year the incidence of cancer, of which lung cancer is the most prevalent, will increase by 70%.

Apparently, the anti-smoking propaganda is so effective that even scientists can't draw simple conclusions from simple data.


Syringe

Children are being vaccinated with toxic levels of aluminium causing neurological damage and autism

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© flash_nerd/flickrSurely, we owe it to our children to at least be fully aware of the possible dangers of vaccinations, before subjecting our children to as many as 39 vaccines between the ages of zero to six which are known to be loaded with aluminum, mercury, formaldehyde and many other potentially lethal ingredients.
A recent study conducted by Canadian scientists Professor Christopher Shaw and Dr. Lucija Tomljenovic revealed that the more vaccines that children receive containing the adjuvant aluminum, the greater their chance is of developing autism, autoimmune diseases and neurological problems in the future.

In 2013, in their paper, published by Springer Science+Business Media, titled Aluminum in the Central Nervous System: Toxicity in Humans and Animals, Vaccine Adjuvants, and Autoimmunity, they revealed that during a 17-year period, the rates of autism had increased significantly in countries that had the most vaccinations containing the adjuvant aluminum.

A highly significant correlation

The researchers compared the number of vaccines recommend by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the period from 1991 - 2008 and the changes in the autism rates during the same period. They wrote:
"The data sets, graphed against each other, show a pronounced and statistically highly significant correlation between the number vaccines with aluminum and the changes in autism rates. Further data showed that a significant correlation exists between the amounts of aluminum given to preschool children and the current rates of autism in seven Western countries. Those countries with the highest level of aluminum-adjuvanted vaccines had the highest autism rates." [1] (own emphasis)

Pills

Soviet psychiatric drug for dissidents given to US patients

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1974 ad from Archives of General Psychiatry
It's called Haldol. The generic name is haloperidol.

It's classified as an "anti-psychotic."

You'll read that Haldol is being phased out in the US, but PM: The Essential Resource for Pharma Marketers reports that Haldol accounts for 5% of anti-psychotic prescriptions handed out between 2010 and 201l.

That's 2.7 million prescriptions for Haldol. In one year, in the US.

The major and frequent adverse effects of the drug? Akathisia (the irresistible and painful impulse to keep moving, the inability to sit still), dystonia (severe muscle contractions that twist the body grotesquely), and Parkinsonism.

In short, torture.

All three of these effects can indicate motor brain damage.

Magic Wand

Studies find new links between sleep duration and depression

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Sub-optimal sleep may activate depressive genes, increase risk for major depression.

A genetic study of adult twins and a community-based study of adolescents both report novel links between sleep duration and depression. The studies are published in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal Sleep.

"Healthy sleep is a necessity for physical, mental and emotional well-being," said American Academy of Sleep Medicine President Dr. M. Safwan Badr. "This new research emphasizes that we can make an investment in our health by prioritizing sleep."

A study of 1,788 adult twins is the first to demonstrate a gene by environment interaction between self-reported habitual sleep duration and depressive symptoms. Results suggest that sleep durations outside the normal range increase the genetic risk for depressive symptoms. Among twins with a normal sleep duration of seven to 8.9 hours per night, the total heritability of depressive symptoms was 27 percent. However, the genetic influence on depressive symptoms increased to 53 percent among twins with a short sleep duration of five hours per night and 49 percent among those who reported sleeping 10 hours per night.

"We were surprised that the heritability of depressive symptoms in twins with very short sleep was nearly twice the heritability in twins sleeping normal amounts of time," said principal investigator Dr. Nathaniel Watson, associate professor of neurology and co-director of the University of Washington Medicine Sleep Center in Seattle, Wash. "Both short and excessively long sleep durations appear to activate genes related to depressive symptoms," added Watson, who also serves on the board of directors of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

Cupcake Choco

Addiction to junk food: More than meets the eye

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When it comes to processed food, excessive amounts of sugar and hydrogenated fats is the rule rather than the exception. It is no secret anymore that there is a very distinct thread linking the increased consumption of such foods, coupled with relentless advertising campaigns and the epidemic proportions of diabetes and obesity in all age groups on a global scale. In fact, if current trends continue, it is estimated that by 2030, more than 86% of Americans will be either overweight or obese. For some people, this picture looks dreadful enough already, but the truth is that it barely scratches the surface of the problem.

Neurobiology research has shown that food can cause serious addiction, the kind that addictive drugs do. Dr Nicole Avena and her colleagues from the department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, report that the consumption of sugar not only alters brain function and behavior, but it also elicits the same type of withdrawal symptoms like opiate drugs do. In other words, sugar affects the opioid receptors in the brain, which are recognized by natural (endogenous or not) opioid substances. On the other hand, foods rich in fat seem to affect the brain in a different way, although they cause withdrawal-type symptoms as well. Many studies show that there is a unique relationship between emotional balance and fatty acids.

Comment: Not convinced that Junk food addiction is real? Read the following articles to learn more:

Junk Food Junkies: Dying For a Fix
Junk Food Nearly as Addictive as Heroin
Maternal diet sets up junk food addiction in babies
Brain Activity Linked with Junk Food Cravings
Junk Food Found to Deteriorate Pleasure Center of Brain
Junk Food-Addicted Rats Chose to Starve Themselves Rather than Eat Healthy Food
Food Addiction And Drug Addiction: Brain Activity Shows Similarities, Study Finds


Smoking

More anti-smoking propaganda: U.S. government encourages smokers to get annual lung screenings

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Many smokers and former smokers should get annual lung cancer screenings with low-dose computed tomography imagining, local doctors say.

Conemaugh Health System physicians join the U.S. Preventative Services task force in recommending CT screening for those age 55 to 80 who have at least a 30 pack-year history of smoking.

The task force calculates pack-years as the number of years smoking multiplied by the packs of cigarettes smoked each day.

Current smokers and those who quit within the past

15 years should get screenings for early diagnosis of lung cancer, the task force recommends.

"This is a great step forward in preventing deaths from lung cancer," said Dr. Ibrahim Sbeitan, medical director of the Conemaugh Cancer Care Center.

Comment: Is x-ray CT imaging safe ? The evidence says: 'No'...

X-rays linked to breast cancer risk

How X-ray mammography is accelerating the epidemic of cancer

And does smoking actually cause cancer? Again, the evidence suggests otherwise...

Does cigarette smoking really cause heart disease?

Smoking Does Not Cause Lung Cancer

Smoking Does Not Cause Emphysema

Smoking Does Not Cause Lung Cancer (According to WHO/CDC Data)

In any event, why would government leaders, who depend on corporate donations for survival, and who don't care about the poisonous GMO food, wi-fi radiation, and depleted uranium liberally spread round the world at 'multiple war theaters', care one whit about smoking being bad for the masses? You may like to read further...

Brain Researchers: Smoking increases intelligence

Why 'World No Tobacco Day'? Smoking is good for memory and concentration

Smoking restores self-control, improves motor abilities, attention and memory

5 Health Benefits of Smoking

Smoking Helps Protect Against Lung Cancer

Health Benefits of Smoking Tobacco


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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: Hidradenitis Suppurativa aka Verneuil's Disease - Interview with Dr Philippe Guillem

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This week we're talking with Dr. Philippe Guillem, top expert on Hidradenitis Suppurativa (Verneuil's Disease), a 'rare' condition that may in fact be very prevalent. Dr. Guillem has spent almost twenty years as a surgeon, and last year received special recognition, together with French non-profit organization 'Solidarité Verneuil', for the high-quality care he provides his patients.

Typically developing in stages, Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) is a chronic skin condition affecting the apocrine sweat glands, and leads to inflammation, infections, and constant pain. Often misdiagnosed and misunderstood by doctors, HS also leaves sufferers feeling shameful, in part thanks to the common misconception that lack of hygiene or obesity are to blame.

We'll also be talking about rare diseases in general, the lack of medical attention they receive, and why it's important for people to be informed and seek out the right care. If you suspect that you or a loved one might have HS, or any other condition you are afraid to speak of, then we hope you'll join us from 2-4pm EST (8-10pm CET). You are not alone.

Running Time: 01:41:00

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Bacon n Eggs

Ketogenic Diet improves insulin sensitivity and numerous aging markers

We are just beginning to understand the biological intricacies of aging. A growing body of research is challenging the belief that aging is beyond your control, prompting scientists to begin thinking about ways we can slow our aging clocks to a slow crawl.

Although this is a relatively new branch of science, there are some factors that appear to be key in controlling how quickly you age. One major factor seems to be insulin signaling and the metabolic "engines" you have running day to day, which are largely controlled by the foods you eat.

In the first featured video, Dr. Peter Attia discusses how a ketogenic diet can optimize your metabolism. But before I discuss the specifics of this, I want to tell you about a remarkable mouse study, presented in the second video. Scientists just accomplished quite a feat: extending the lifespan of mice by 20 percent just by manipulating just one single gene.

Smoking

Smokers' lungs used in half of transplants: Improves Survival Rate!

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Evidence suggests smoking natural tobacco has health benefits for humans
Almost half of lung transplant patients were given the lungs taken from heavy smokers, with one in five coming from donors who had smoked at least one packet of cigarettes a day for 20 or more years.

Despite this, new research shows that those people given the lungs of smokers were just as likely to be alive up to three years after transplantation as those who had organs from non-smokers. In some cases, they had improved survival rates.

Comment: Smoking Does Not Cause Lung Cancer (According to WHO/CDC Data)

5 Health Benefits of Smoking

Air pollution causes lung cancer in non-smokers (erm, can't it cause it in smokers too then?)

U.K. Lung Cancer Survival 'Depends on Where You Live'