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Flashback 11-Year-Old Boy Uncovers What's Wrong with America's Food System

Sarah Parsons
Food.Change.org
Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:30 UTC
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© histman via Flickr
American consumers, farmers, Big Ag, and the federal government may want to take advice from an 11-year-old kid. A little schoolboy just dropped some serious knowledge on what's wrong with the country's food system.

Birke Baehr, an 11-year-old kid from Asheville, N.C., recently gave a five-minute speech at the "TEDx: Next Generation Asheville" event. When I first saw the link for this YouTube video, I was admittedly skeptical - this kid couldn't possibly describe the ins and outs of America's crippled food system in little more than five minutes. Heck, famed foodies and top dogs at the Department of Agriculture can't accomplish that feat. Plus, kids acting like adults seriously creep me out (I'm looking at you, Dakota Fanning).

But then Baehr began. "It seems to me like corporations are always trying to get kids like me to get their parents to buy stuff that really isn't good for us or the planet," Baehr said at the beginning of his presentation. A solid point that's lost on many youth (which is the whole point of deceptive marketing tactics that lure kids into wanting junk food). I was admittedly intrigued by where the tyke was headed with all this. (Watch Baehr's speech after the break).
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Fructose Intolerance Common in Children With Functional Abdominal Pain


Science Daily
Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:23 UTC
Fructose intolerance, or fructose malabsorption, is common in children with recurrent or functional abdominal pain, but the condition can be effectively managed with a low‐fructose diet, according to the results of a new study unveiled at the American College of Gastroenterology's (ACG) 75th Annual Scientific meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
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Lectins and Auto Immune Disease

Denis Van Loan D.D.S.
wegohealth
Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:03 UTC
What are lectins? Lectins are proteins that adhere to components of a plant's immune system. Lectins are natural plant guardians that help fight molds, parasites and disease agents. Most of these invaders have a sugar molecule component. The lectin attaches to this and this compound blocks the foreign invader's activity and the metabolism of the sugar molecule.

Michael Cutler, M.D. is a board certified family physician who has a special interest in digestive disorders and degenerative diseases. He himself was a victim of digestive problems that caused him to lose part of his intestine. He is a source of much of the following information.

Most plant foods that we eat have lectins in them. These lectins are tenacious and highly resistant to breakdown. For instance the heat of baking or cooking does not easily destroy them.

Lectins do their damage when they hook up with sugar molecules found in your intestine or in the blood. When bound to the sugar molecule they render it inactive and useless. Even worse, since they are designed for plants, they easily become foreign invaders in your body. The union of the lectin with the sugar molecule compromises the human immune system; because the lectin compound is perceived as a foreigner.

This unrecognized alien now becomes an enemy to launch attack against. This causes an immune response to a false enemy. The human immune system attacks this lectin compound and in the process causes chronic inflammation.
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Genetic Test Could Pinpoint When Women Will Go Through the Menopause

Richard Alleyne
The Telegraph, UK
Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:01 UTC
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© AlamyThe test will eventually be able to predict within five years when women will go through menopause
Women could soon be able to take a genetic test in their twenties which will predict how long they can delay having children, a new study suggests.

Researchers have found a group of genes that are linked to when women go through the menopause and so the age when they will stop being fertile.

It is hoped the test, which will cost around £50, will be available within a decade and be eventually able to predict within five years when women will go through the change.

"The ultimate goal is one day be able to predict when someone is going through the menopause," said the study leader Dr Anna Murray from the University of Exeter Peninsula Medical School.

"It is estimated that a woman's ability to conceive decreases on average 10 years before she starts the menopause.
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Alarm Clock

Moisturising Creams "Can Thin Skin and Make Eczema Worse"

Jenny Hope
Daily Mail, UK
Tue, 19 Oct 2010 03:32 UTC
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© Press AssociationManda Tsang demonstrates the research process using a probe on the skin while Professor Richard Guy looks on. They found some ointments thin the skin
Using moisturising cream to treat eczema could actually make the condition worse, scientists claimed today.

Research from Bath University claims well-known high street branded creams can aid skin irritation.

Instead, sufferers of the painful skin condition should use oil-based treatments, the scientists said.

The university study found ointments such as aqueous cream BP reduces the thickness of healthy skin over a period of four weeks.

Originally used as a wash product, the cream is currently the most widely prescribed moisturiser for the treatment of dry skin conditions.

It is used to moisturise the skin, improving flexibility and preventing cracking in the protective outer layer, called the stratum corneum.

However, the cream contains a detergent, called sodium lauryl sulphate (SLS), which can increase the permeability of the skin barrier and cause irritation.

The study found that when healthy volunteers applied the cream to their forearms daily for a period of four weeks, the thickness of the stratum corneum was reduced by more than 10 per cent.
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Alarm Clock

The Miracle Mineral Solution cure that could make you very sick

Andrew Penman
Mirror.co.uk
Thu, 14 Oct 2010 04:46 UTC
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© UnknownJim Humble
Meet Jim Humble, a "bishop" who reckons that he can cure the sick - by getting them to drink bleach.

For around £10 you can buy a bottle of Miracle Mineral Solution online. According to Humble's website, it has helped treat everything from malaria to cancer, HIV, baldness, Parkinson's disease, arthritis, tape worms and allergic reactions to cats.

There's just one snag, as the Food Standards Agency warns: "Miracle Mineral Solution is a 28% sodium chlorite solution which is equivalent to industrial-strength bleach."

The watchdog says it can cause severe nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea and if the solution is diluted less than instructed, it could cause damage to the gut and red blood cells, potentially resulting in respiratory failure.

That warning came about after a campaign by a remarkable 15-year-old from Cardiff.
Rhys Morgan suffers from Crohn's disease, which attacks the gut, and found the "miracle" cure being plugged on a Crohn's disease online forum.

It was, he says, "pseudo-scientific nonsense" and authorities in other countries including the USA were urging sufferers to throw it away.
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We put some of Jim Humble's claims about MMS to two of Wales' leading health experts

Clare Hutchinson
Walesonline.co.uk
Mon, 18 Oct 2010 04:39 UTC
CLAIM: MMS cures HIV. Jim Humble claims it cured "96- 97%" of a test group of 500 people with HIV in Malawi.

VERDICT: Hefin Davies of the Food Standards Agency: "We are not aware of any research that shows MMS is effective in treating HIV, or in fact in any other condition it is claimed to cure."

CLAIM: The claim that MMS cures HIV cannot be proved to be right or wrong because "you can't prove that a person has no HIV virus in their body".

VERDICT: Catherine Moore, a virologist at Public Health Wales: "This is not true because people with HIV can be and routinely are tested for the virus using molecular tests that show evidence of viral genes in the blood."

Comment: For more information concerning Jim Humble and MMS claims, see this Sott link:

The Debate between HealthWyze.org and Jim Humble about whether M.M.S. is a Fraud

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Bleachgate: How boy's campaign against Miracle Mineral Solution went worldwide

Clare Hutchinson
Walesonline.co.uk
Mon, 18 Oct 2010 04:27 UTC
When a Welsh schoolboy tweeted a warning about a so-called 'miracle drug' that was in fact industrial bleach, he had little idea his message would be taken worldwide. Clare Hutchinson reports

When schoolboy Rhys Morgan was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, a chronic condition that causes inflammation of the digestive tract, he turned to the one place he knew for help.

The 15-year-old computer obsessive switched on his laptop and began browsing the internet.

Like many others who are given such life-changing news, Rhys was desperate for answers and to find the right medication that might make his condition bearable.

That was when he found out about MMS, also known as Miracle Mineral Solution.

"I was on the Crohn's forum, which is a site for people with Crohn's to talk to each other, and saw mention of this substance MMS," said Rhys, as he sat on his sofa at home in Cyncoed, Cardiff, with his mum Dawn by his side.

"It was being discussed on the forum and someone was saying they had a sore throat since taking it. Someone else, who was often pushing it on the site, kept saying 'keep taking it, you will get better'.

"A few days later the original person came back and said 'look, I can hardly swallow my spit now, it is that sore' and, once again, the guy just said to take more.

"I was thinking 'this can't be right'."

Comment: For more information regarding MMS, see this Sott link:

FDA Warns Consumers of Serious Harm from Drinking Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS)

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Professional Perspectives on Water Fluoridation (VIDEO)


Fluoride Action Network
Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:06 UTC
This professionally-produced 28-minute documentary presents a powerful indictment of the fluoridation program and features a Nobel Laureate in medicine, three scientists from the National Research Council's landmark review on fluoride, practicing dentists, medical doctors, as well as leading researchers in the field. If fluoride is so roundly condemned, why is it added to water supplies the world over?


Comment: For further information on the dangers of fluoride, readers may want to read the following articles:

Poisoned Water

Fluorine Compounds Make you Stupid - Why is the Government not merely allowing, but promoting them?

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Homes 'filled with toxins that make us sick'

Alys Francis
ninemsn
Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:49 UTC
Our homes and the products we fill them with are making us chronically sick, according to an Australian expert in natural medicine and building biology.

Household cleaning products, plastic food containers and baby bottles are causing a rise in maladies such as infertility, diabetes and obesity, says Nicole Bijlsma, founder of the Australian College of Environmental Studies.

Ms Bijlsma is calling for the offending products to be stripped from supermarket shelves - although this view puts her at odds with toxicology experts.

Ms Bijlsma warns our houses themselves are also to blame, with mould, toxic-laden dust and electro-magnetic fields also leading to chronic illnesses such as reoccurring colds and flues and even leukemia, she claims.

She said that in her 21 years working as a naturopath she has treated numerous patients suffering ailments such as the flu, insomnia and weight gain - and often found that the patient's house was the cause.
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