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Smoking

Signs of Desperation, Catapulting the Propaganda: Third-Hand Smoke Exposure As Deadly As Smoking

Benjamin Fearnow
CBS Atlanta
Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:31 UTC
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Exposure to surfaces and objects that have been saturated in cigarette smoke, labeled as "third-hand smoke," is just as deadly as smoking the cigarette itself.

A new study from the University of California, Riverside finds that the third-hand smoke that has soaked into the surfaces, objects and environment around people becomes increasingly toxic over time. Third-hand smoke is defined as the second-hand smoke that is allowed to settle on objects in any environment. Non-smoking children, co-workers, spouses and friends of smokers breathe in such carcinogens left in rooms exposed to smokers.

Comment: Smokers' lungs used in half of transplants: Improves Survival Rate!
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Smoking Does Not Cause Lung Cancer (According to WHO/CDC Data)
Air pollution causes lung cancer in non-smokers (erm, can't it cause it in smokers too then?)
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5 Health Benefits of Smoking
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Donut

Excess sugar doubles the risk of heart disease

Nicole Ostrow
Bloomberg
Tue, 04 Feb 2014 23:40 UTC
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© Luke Sharrett/BloombergPeople whose sugar intake is about a quarter or more of their total daily calories had twice the risk of dying from heart disease than those who whose intake was 7 percent, according to the research today in JAMA Internal Medicine
High sugar consumption may double the chance of dying from heart disease, according to a study that adds to evidence that high levels of the sweetener in processed foods and drink is bad for a person's health.

People whose sugar intake is about a quarter or more of their total daily calories had twice the risk of dying from heart disease than those who whose intake was 7 percent, according to the research today in JAMA Internal Medicine. For those whose intake of added sugar was about 19 percent, their risk of dying from heart disease was about 38 percent higher.

Today's study is the first to link on a national level the amount of sugar American adults eat to their risk of dying from heart disease after taking into account weight, age, health, exercise and diet, said lead study author Quanhe Yang, an epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Research has already linked sugar consumption to diabetes, weight gain and obesity.

"Too much sugar can make you fat; it can also make you sick, sick from diseases like cardiovascular disease, which is the No. 1 killer in America," said Laura Schmidt, a school of medicine professor at the University of California at San Francisco, in a telephone interview. "Small amounts of sugar are fine. It's consuming massive amounts of sugar that's a growing problem in America."


Comment: Actually, sugar is toxic, period.

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146 reasons why sugar destroys your health
A Spoon Full of Sugar.... Is Toxic?
Sugar Should Be Regulated As Toxin, Researchers Say
Cancer Cells Feed on Sugar and Sugar Free Products Alike


Comment: "Scientists don't have a clear understanding why sugar may raise the risk of dying from heart disease". Actually, they do have a pretty good idea! Hopefully everyone else will catch up too including the authors of this study.

Food Politics and Power: The Men Who Made Us Fat.
The surprising truth about wheat, carbs, and sugar - Your brain's silent killers
It's official - Time to drop hazardous low fat guidelines
Swedish Expert Committee: A Low-Carb Diet most effective for weight loss
Saturated fat heart disease 'myth': UK cardiologist calls for change in public health advice on saturated fat
Everything you've been told about how to eat is wrong
The Obesity Epidemic, Courtesy of the Agricultural Industry
The food industry's self-regulation is a spectacular failure
Food Industry Is Now Calling Junk Food 'Healthy' - Why Could That Be?

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Cupcake Pink

"Gluten sensitivity" may be a misnomer for distinct illnesses to various wheat proteins

Roxanne Khamsi
Scientific American
Sat, 01 Feb 2014 23:10 UTC
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Gluten makes people sick
Two years ago, at the recommendation of a nutritionist, I stopped eating wheat and a few other grains. Within a matter of days the disabling headaches and fatigue that I had been suffering for months vanished. Initially my gastroenterologist interpreted this resolution of my symptoms as a sign that I perhaps suffered from celiac disease, a peculiar disorder in which the immune system attacks a bundle of proteins found in wheat, barley and rye that are collectively referred to as gluten. The misdirected assault ravages and inflames the small intestine, interfering with the absorption of vital nutrients and thereby causing bloating, diarrhea, headaches, tiredness and, in rare cases, death. Yet several tests for celiac disease had come back negative. Rather my doctors concluded that I had nonceliac "gluten sensitivity," a relatively new diagnosis. The prevalence of gluten sensitivity is not yet clear, but some data suggest it may afflict as many as 6 percent of Americans, six times the number of people with celiac disease.

Although gluten sensitivity and celiac disease share many symptoms, the former is generally less severe. Compared with individuals with celiac disease, people with gluten sensitivity are more likely to report nondigestive symptoms such as headaches and do not usually suffer acute intestinal damage and inflammation. Lately, however, some researchers are wondering if they were too quick to pin all the blame for these problems on gluten. A handful of new studies suggest that in many cases gluten sensitivity might not be about gluten at all. Rather it may be a misnomer for a range of different illnesses triggered by distinct molecules in wheat and other grains.

Comment: The author of this article would benefit from learning more information about gluten sensitivity and its addictive properties:

Wheat is a Drug Like Morphine that is why Opiate Blockers Act as Diet Suppressors
What is gluten intolerance?
The Hidden Link Between Gluten Intolerance and PMS, Infertility and Miscarriage
Facts you might not know about gluten
Sensitivity To Gluten May Result In Neurological Dysfunction; Independent Of Symptoms
Gluten Intolerance Tied to Schizophrenia
Wheat gluten newly confirmed to promote weight gain
Three Hidden Ways Wheat Makes You Fat
Gluten: What You Don't Know Might Kill You
How Gluten Damages the Brain With Dr. Parker
Does eating gluten lead to less manly men?
The Many Heads of Gluten Sensitivity
Leaky Gut - Leaky Brain - Gluten is an Equal Opportunity Destroyer
Gluten Sensitivity Spectrum - Not Just a Celiac Issue
Six signs you're gluten intolerant - and don't even know it
Heart Disease and Gluten Sensitivity
Food Cravings, Obesity and Gluten Consumption
Sugar, Sugar - A Poison By Any Other Name Would Be As Toxic
A gluten for punishment: The whole grain assault on health
Hippies Weren't the Only Ones Tripping in the Sixties
Opening Pandora's Bread Box: The Critical Role of Wheat Lectin in Human Disease
Beyond Gluten-Free: The Critical Role of Chitin-Binding Lectins in Human Disease

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Book 2

Toast was toast, or how Wheat Belly and its author changed my diet

Jane Macdougall
National Post
Sun, 19 Jan 2014 16:08 UTC
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Are modern wheat varieties to blame for a laundry list of ailments as suggested by the bestseller Wheat Belly? Jane Macdougall went off bread to investigate the thesis.
It began, as many misadventures do, innocently enough.

I had baked a loaf of bread. A simple, honest bread made from the best of simple, honest ingredients. Nonetheless, several dinner guests declined the bread. My friends, it turned out, were boycotting gluten. Hadn't I heard? Gluten was the new great Satan. It was as if I were offering cocktails of Red Dye No. 2 served with asbestos straws in leaded crystal tumblers.

I had misguidedly thought that homemade bread had placed me in the vanguard of healthy living. Apparently I was wrong. I'd inadvertently played into the hands of the industrial baking complex and their evil agenda.

This led me to an inquiry into the gluten gripe, that led to poking about the subject of commercial baking, that led to examining the GMO debacle that deposited me on a sofa opposite Dr. William Davis, author of the massively bestselling book, Wheat Belly, and now the Wheat Belly Cookbook.

The simple loaf of bread quickly became a can of worms. Food, it turns out, is really complicated these days.

Comment: Read more about Dr. Davis and his excellent book Wheat belly:

Interview with 'Wheat Belly' Author Dr. William Davis
Modern wheat is the 'perfect chronic poison' says expert
The Long Knives Are Out For 'Wheat Belly' - bring out the "Cult" accusation!
Doctor Says Whole Wheat Packs on Belly Fat - And Has a Lot in Common with Opiate Drugs

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Beaker

Monsanto's Roundup: New deadly scam exposed

Jon Rappoport
nomorefakenews.com
Sun, 02 Feb 2014 17:04 UTC
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Roundup is the Monsanto herbicide that is touted as the cornerstone of GMO food crops. Monsanto claims these crops are genetically engineered to withstand heavy spraying of Roundup.

Therefore, the crops live and the weeds die. Breakthrough.

There are several key lies associated with these claims - but a new one has surfaced.

A study to be published this month indicts Roundup and, in fact, the general class of insecticides and herbicides. On what grounds? When they're tested for safety, only the so-called "active ingredients" are examined.

The untested ingredients are called "adjuvants," and they are said to be inert and irrelevant. But the new study concludes this is far from true. The adjuvants are actually there to INCREASE the killing power of the active ingredient in the herbicide or insecticide.

Safety tests don't take this into account. "Active ingredients" are already toxic, but the adjuvants ramp up their poisonous nature even higher.
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Cheesecake

What does cancer eat? Sugar, mostly, and other lessons from my dinner with a professor of pathology

Jane Macdougall
National Post
Sat, 01 Feb 2014 08:00 UTC
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What got my attention was his remark about celery.

You know: the dieters' wishful thinking on whether eating celery is a sum negative activity, or not.

He was certainly entitled to speak. His name is Dr. Gerald Krystal and he's a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at University of British Columbia, as well as Distinguished Scientist at the Terry Fox Laboratory at the BC Cancer Agency.

We were perched like vultures over a buffet table, commenting on the many ways to die. Fats, salts, sugars, alcohol: pick your delicious poison. I like 'em all.

The dietary folklore related to celery hardly registers in Dr. Krystal's purview. He started his career as molecular biochemist working on cell signalling, which is to say the ways cells communicate with each other. Delightfully, he describes it as a molecular square dance, with cells reacting to specific instructions that we're still just beginning to comprehend.

Comment: For more on the ketogenic diet (high fat, moderate protein and low carb) and cancer see:

The Ketogenic Diet - An Overview

Can a High-Fat Diet Beat Cancer?

Diet for cancer cure: Starving cancer ketogenic diet a key to recovery

Sugar makes cancer light-up in MRI scanners

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Cow Skull

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


RT
Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:51 UTC
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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.
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Smoking

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


UK Guardian
Mon, 03 Feb 2014 08:41 UTC
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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.

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Syringe

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

Christina England
Vactruth.com
Mon, 03 Feb 2014 07:22 UTC
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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)
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Pills

Soviet psychiatric drug for dissidents given to US patients

Jon Rappoport
nomorefakenews.com
Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:34 UTC
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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.
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