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Research Reveals: Turmeric is a wellness promoting tonic in low doses

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Over the years, there has been plenty of research performed on the value of natural substances in treating human diseases, but very little has been conducted on the effects of commonly used supplements and/or food components such as spices in already healthy people to improve their well-being.

All the more reason why a study published in 2012 in the Nutrition Journal titled, "Diverse effects of a low dose supplement of lapidated curcumin in healthy middle aged people,' holds great interest among those on the fence about using dietary supplements to improve the quality and perhaps length of their lives, but for which clinical proof is lacking.

Comment: Learn more about Tumeric Health Benefits:

Turmeric, Curcumin Naturally Block Cancer Cells
'Holy Powder' Makes Your Cell Membranes Behave for Better Health
Turmeric is the Anti-Aging, Anti-Oxidant, Anti-Inflammatory Super Spice
Turmeric's Powerful Life-Promoting Properties Put Pharmaceuticals to Shame
Groundbreaking study finds turmeric extract superior to prozac for depression
Curcumin and Black Pepper Combine to Stop Breast Cancer Tumor Cells
New biological role identified for curry spice compound used in ancient medicine
Turmeric's cardiovascular benefits found to be as powerful as exercise


Ambulance

We are heading for the greatest doctor shortage in American history

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The United States already has an emerging shortage of doctors, and thanks to Obamacare that shortage is about to become much, much worse. Right now, the U.S. has close to a million doctors, and about half of them are over the age of 50. Many of them are beginning to wonder if practicing medicine is worth it anymore. In some specialties, treating Medicaid and Medicare patients pays so little that many doctors are now turning them away. Other doctors are charging their regular patients enormous amounts in order to make up for the money that they are losing on Medicaid and Medicare patients. And of course the paperwork and the red tape imposed on doctors by the health insurance companies and the federal government gets worse with each passing year. Some doctors actually spend more time filling out paperwork and dealing with red tape than they do seeing patients. On top of everything else, there is the constant and never-ending threat of being sued by predatory lawyers and losing everything. The giant malpractice insurance premiums that many doctors have to pay are an extreme financial burden on many practices. When you add it all together, it really is not surprising to learn that large numbers of doctors all over the nation are being driven into bankruptcy. Unfortunately, Obamacare is going to make all of the problems that I have just discussed even worse. This is going to result in much longer waits to see a doctor, and the level of health care in this country is going to go down substantially.

Top Secret

Mercury studies censored by industry leaders

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Efforts to stop the archaic practice of using amalgam "mercury" fillings have been gaining speed, with several significant milestones taking place in 2013.

The culmination took place in October, when a legally binding international treaty to control the use of this toxic metal was signed into action (and, victoriously, the treaty gives special attention to the use of amalgam).

A sign that the issue of mercury toxicity is becoming well established in the dental field came when two publications - Dental Tribune and Dentistry IQ - posted articles online.

The articles addressed a letter from environmental, health, social justice, and consumer groups from 40 nations calling on a leading amalgam manufacturer to cease the toxic trade in dental mercury.

The articles, which appeared in September and October, mysteriously disappeared, however, and now it's been confirmed that Dentsply was behind the disappearance of at least one of them.

Comment: Additional information about the negative health effects of dental mercury:

US: FDA Ignores Scientists, Dentists Warning of Amalgam Mercury Pandemic
Mercury Dental Fillings: What the FDA and the ADA Are Not Telling You
FDA Reluctantly Admits Mercury Fillings Have Neurotoxic Effects on Children
European Commission Report Recommendation: Phase Out Dental Amalgam
European Commission Recommends Banning Mercury Fillings
Dental Fillings - Mercury Exposure At Dangerous Levels and Alzheimer's Disease
FDA to Review Safety of Mercury Fillings


Evil Rays

"Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime", interview with Dr Peter Gotzsche

Deadly medicine and organized crime
When a co-founder of evidence-based medicine's standard-bearer, the Cochrane Collaboration, describes the pharmaceutical industry as akin to the mafia, it's time to sit up and take notice. That's precisely what Dr Peter C Gøtzsche, who is also head of the Nordic Cochrane Centre, has done with Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How big pharma has corrupted healthcare. Read our exclusive interview with Dr Gøtzsche below to learn more about his findings.

Valuable opinions

Dr Gøtzsche's is the latest in a lengthening procession of books exposing the murky underbelly of the pharmaceutical industry. Most recently, we've had Ben Goldacre's Bad Pharma, along with other notable examples by Marcia Angell and Richard Smith, former editors of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and the British Medical Journal (BMJ), respectively.

But this is the first time such a broadside has been launched by someone so intimately acquainted with the published medical literature. Dr Gøtzsche's current tally runs to forty meta-analyses and systematic reviews published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews alone: the fruits of many years' forensic examination of medical data. Dr Gøtzsche knows what he is talking about, and his opinions carry significant weight.

Popcorn

In the face of Monsanto's minions: Researcher refuses to retract GM maize tumor study

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The journal Food and Chemical Toxicology (FCT) wants to withdraw the article by Professor Seralini on rats fed GM maize NK603, which was published in September 2012. The researcher counters: why not retract the article by Monsanto in 2004 on the same subject?
The Associate Editor of the FCT is now Richard E. Goodman, a former Monsanto scientist and an affiliate of the GMO industry-funded group, the International Life Sciences Institute.
ARM WRESTLING. He has mustered his scientific and political supporters ... A symbol. Surrounded notably by Paul Deheuvels, statistician of the Academy of Sciences and Corinne Lepage, Member of the European Parliament on November 28, at a press conference in Brussels, Professor Gilles Eric Séralini of the University Caen will defend his sensational article on GMOs, released last year, which is now threatened with retraction.

Comment: See also :
Scientist: Many pro-GMO corporate biologists own GMO patents, in bed with Monsanto


Bug

Unexplained increase in tick-borne diseases in Florida puzzles experts

Florida is exceptional for countless reasons - sunshine, beaches, theme parks - but a new distinction is cause for growing concern among health experts and tourism officials alike: a rapid and unexplained increase in the number of cases of tick-borne diseases.

A problem for decades in the Northeast, Lyme disease cases in Florida are still relatively small by comparison - fewer than 100 per year. But the rate of growth of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases - as much as 150 percent in the last 10 years - has put Florida among the top 20 states for the number of cases reported annually.

Possible explanations range from the influx of infected people traveling to Florida from other areas, to problems with diagnosis, the Sunshine State's unique flora and fauna, climate change - or even newly emergent pathogenic microorganisms. However, the real answer remains elusive.

The mystery has experts scrambling.

Arrow Down

GMO rat study retracted..by new journal editor from (Surprise!) Monsanto

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Remember the Seralini study, with those gruesome images of GMO-fed rats that were engulfed by horrific tumors? Well, great news! You can grab yourself some GMO corn and chow down now because the journal that published the study has retracted it. Silly us, there was absolutely nothing to worry about!

The new editor over at the journal, Food and Chemical Toxicology, says so - you know, Richard E. Goodman, the editor that used to work in the hallowed halls of Monsanto.

Wait....what????????????????????

I guess it wasn't enough for Monsanto to infiltrate the government at every level - now they have to install staff to keep their GMO death crops from being negatively reviewed at respected scientific journals.

Rady Ananda, of Food Freedom News and Activist Post, reports:

Comment: Update : In the face of Monsanto's minions: Researcher refuses to retract GM maize tumor study


Health

Family flees US to evade State-Enforced Chemotherapy on their 10 year old child

Back in October, The Daily Sheeple reported that a court of appeals was going to force a 10-year-old Amish girl from Ohio to take chemotherapy treatments for her leukemia after her family opted to seek alternative treatments.

Now that family has taken the girl and fled the country.
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Good for them! Common-sense family saves their child from psychopathically-enforced chemotherapy by leaving the country.
The parents initially fought the treatments because they were making their little girl, Sarah Hershberger, severely ill, but the hospital decided to take the parents to court over their decision to look for natural cancer cures outside the Big Pharma model. Even though a juvenile judge twice ruled to uphold the parents' rights, Akron Children's Hospital took the case to an appeals court which overturned the previous rulings.

Comment: See:
Is Mandatory Pediatric Chemo Institutionalized Child Abuse?
Woops! Study Accidentally Finds Chemotherapy Makes Cancer Far Worse
The Quackery of Chemotherapy, Gunpoint Medicine and the Disturbing Fate of 13-Year-Old Daniel Hauser


Syringe

The current vaccine reality: Disinformed consent

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We are living in the age of disinformed consent. Parents assume their doctors and their public health authorities are providing them with all relevant vaccine information, and nothing could be further from the truth.

Obviously, if vaccines can kill and cause serious and debilitating lifelong damage - which they can, and do - the vaccine administrator must provide that information to the client, in unambiguous fashion, regardless of the estimated size of the risk. It's an ethical mandate that must be fulfilled, but it never is. There is a fundamental reason: medical schools don't teach the history and nature of vaccine damage and death; nor do nursing and pharmacy schools. Yet doctors, nurses, and, these days, pharmacists, are the very ones who administer vaccines, and upon whom we rely for full information. Somewhere there is made a conscious decision to exclude the reality of serious vaccine damage from the curricula.

Most of the many doctors who have witnessed vaccine damage - thankfully, not all - lack the professional integrity to follow up with curiosity, let alone research. This is the most troubling of the array of vaccine contradictions; trained to observe, they nevertheless appear blind to even the possibility of causal relation.

Comment: As the author states; 'Conscious denial of critical information is disinformation.' Read more critical information about the serious concerns regarding vaccines:


Family

The difficult emotion of shame

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Shame is a universal emotion that almost every person experiences at one or more points in life. It is often accompanied by physical sensations such as heat waves, nausea, or blushing. Shame, in itself, is not a mental health disorder, but research has shown that it hugely impacts mental health problems as well as social relationships and decision-making.

Shame has been found to be more prevalent in mental health clients than anger, grief, or anxiety. Many mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse or eating disorders, are influenced and exacerbated by shame. Also, mental health - the absence of severe emotional or behavioral problems - is almost impossible to fully achieve if a person has a high degree of shame.

Shame often surfaces when a person experiences rejection or ridicule. This triggers feelings of being exposed, deeply flawed, and completely alone. At the base of shame is often the strongly held belief that we are the only person with this problem, which, of course, makes it even harder to reach out and ask for help.

Shame and guilt are often used interchangeably but they are different things. Guilt is what people feel when they do something they think is wrong. Shame is what people feel when they are convinced something is wrong with them.

For example, a woman who tries to lose weight can feel guilty about indulging in greasy food but still feel OK about herself as a person. A woman who feels shame about her body will not feel good, even if she manages to stick to her diet. Guilt generally motivates a person to change things because he or she wants to feel better. Shame makes people focus on hiding who they are, instead of changing. Very rarely does shame lead a person to open up and seek help.

For women, shame in our society is generally centered on issues such as body image, weight, or being a good mother. For men, it is often more about success and virility, but it is also increasingly about body issues. Other common issues that may lead to feelings of shame for both genders are suicide, addiction, sexual abuse, sexuality and mental health. Problems with any of these topics interfere with feeling "normal" and make it more difficult to be accepted but easy to feel judged. People who experience shame around these issues feel disconnected from others because they are afraid to open up and instead try to hide what's "wrong" with them.

The less people are aware of their shame and shame triggers, the more it influences their lives. The fear of being seen as deeply flawed leads to defensive strategies such as blaming, lashing out, or judging.