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Coronavirus thread to the entire world, sez WHO - Current Case Fatality Rate: 49%


Investment Watch Blog
Wed, 29 May 2013 14:57 UTC
New SARS-like virus is spreading

Of the 49 known infections with the MERS-CoV virus, 27 have resulted in death, the organization said.

The latest deaths were reported in Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi health ministry said Wednesday that three people died from their infections in the country's eastern region.

WHO tracks new coronavirus to Middle East The virus is "a threat to the entire world," the WHO's general director said Monday.
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Soy sauce overdose sends man into coma

Tia Ghose
LiveScience
Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:30 UTC
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A young man who drank a quart of soy sauce went into a coma and nearly died from an excess of salt in his body, according to a recent case report.

The 19-year-old, who drank the soy sauce after being dared by friends, is the first person known to have deliberately overdosed on such a high amount of salt and survived with no lasting neurological problems, according to the doctors in Virginia who reported his case. The case report was published online June 4 in the Journal of Emergency Medicine.

Too much salt in the blood, a condition called hypernatremia, is usually seen in people with psychiatric conditions who develop a strong appetite for the condiment, said Dr. David J. Carlberg, who treated the young man and works as an emergency medicine physician at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Hypernatremia is dangerous because it causes the brain to lose water. When there is too much salt in the bloodstream, water moves out of the body tissues and into the blood by the process of osmosis, to try to equalize the salt concentration between the two. As water the leaves the brain, the organ can shrink and bleed, Carlberg said.

After the man drank the soy sauce, he began twitching and having seizures, and the friends took him to an emergency room. That hospital administered anti-seizure medication, and he was already in a coma when he was taken to the hospital where Carlberg was working, the University of Virginia Medical Center, nearly four hours after the event.
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Gut biota never recover from antibiotics: Damages future generations

Heidi Stevenson
Activist Post
Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:07 UTC
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The misuse of antibiotics is not only causing new, never-before known diseases like E. coli and MRSA, the flesh-eating bacteria, it's also destroying the gut biome with devastating effects on our ability to deal with infections and destroying our ability to absorb nutrients from food.

Emerging research shows that the harmful effects of antibiotics go much further than the development of drug resistant diseases. The beneficial bacteria lost to antibiotics, along with disease-inducing bacteria, do not fully recover. Worse, flora lost by a mother is also lost to her babies. The missing beneficial gut bacteria are likely a major factor behind much of the chronic disease experienced today. The continuous use of antibiotics is resulting in each generation experiencing worse health than their parents.

Martin Blaser, the author of a report in the prestigious journal Nature writes:
Antibiotics kill the bacteria we do want, as well as those we don't. These long-term changes to the beneficial bacteria within people's bodies may even increase our susceptibility to infections and disease.Overuse of antibiotics could be fuelling the dramatic increase in conditions such as obesity, type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, allergies and asthma, which have more than doubled in many populations.
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Ayurvedic herbs treat brain and lung cancers: Some with 90% success rate

Christina Sarich
Natural Society
Mon, 27 May 2013 20:10 UTC
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With cancer cures seeping into mainstream media from natural health practitioners almost weekly now, it makes one wonder why anyone would subject themselves to chemotherapy and radiation, since there is growing evidence that it poisons the body and simply causes the cancer cells to become temporarily dormant only to return later in fuller force. While these treatments are often used unnecessarily to 'treat' cancer patients, there are other, less invasive cures being used by Ayurvedic clinics all over India and in other parts of the world - some solutions having as much as a 90% success rate.

In several clinics, lung and brain cancers have been treated with an over 90% success rate, and in almost every single case, the cancer was lessened. According to a clinical research test conducted in one Ayurvedic Clinic, lung cancers were minimized so effectively that only .09% of the participants in one 500-plus-person study still remained 'uncured'.

Comment: Learn more about the benefits of Ayurvedic herbs:

Holy Basil for Stress Relief
Why You Should Get To Know Neem
Cloves Are the Best Antioxidant, Says New Study
Embracing Health and Happiness through Ayurvedic Eating
Ancient herb proven to be a potential cure for Alzheimer's
Turmeric is the Anti-Aging, Anti-Oxidant, Anti-Inflammatory Super Spice

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What is Candida?

Pat Robinson
Greenmedinfo.com
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:46 UTC
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Candida (Yeast) is a late sign of impaired gut health.
Candida is associated with craving simple carbs (white foods -pasta, bread, rice, and all sugars) which feed the yeast. Candida develops for many reasons. Basically, it is a 'helper' attempting to create balance in the gut, generally due to antibiotics, preservatives, heavy metal toxins and sterile foods.

We can make candida obsolete and unnecessary by rebalancing gut microbials. Antibiotics for mother or baby during pregnancy and birth (intrapartum antibiotics) are the most common sources of microbial imbalance leading to candida in children (and mother). The mother's exposures to mercury through (silver) amalgam fillings and vaccinations herself, and HER mother's mercury toxin exposures are other variables leading to candida overgrowth.

Our foods have "preservatives", which means chemicals that retard microbial and bacterial growth in the food product. Live foods have enzymes and microbials and spoil. If a food doesn't spoil at room temperature within a week, it has preservatives, essentially.
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USDA Inspector General: Food safety and humane slaughter laws ignored with impunity

Bruce Friedrich
Alternet
Wed, 29 May 2013 13:33 UTC
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Chinese workers process chicken meat at a Beijing meat production line in 2007. The United States announced Thursday it was asking the World Trade Organization to settle a dispute with China over Beijing's duties on US chicken imports
Repeat food safety violations are just the tip of the iceberg.

Two weeks ago, the USDA's Office of the Inspector General released a report that, once again, proves that our food system is broken: First, the Food Safety and Inspection Service doesn't meaningfully attempt to stop repeat violations of food safety laws. Second, it has allowed a 15-year-old pilot program with faster slaughter and fewer inspectors to proceed without review. Third, it all but ignores its humane slaughter mandate. Remarkably, unless you read Food Safety News or the agricultural media, you will have missed this extremely damning report.
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The bitter truth about Splenda


realpharmacy.com
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:24 UTC
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If you were told to ingest a biologically alien synthetic chemical whose presence on this planet did not predate 1976,and whose structure is only a few atoms away from the deadly pesticide DDT, and you knew that not only were there no long term human safety studies performed on it, but that it had been already proven in tests to have following adverse health effects:
  • Shrunken thymus glands (up to 40% shrinkage)
  • Enlarged liver and kidneys.
  • Abnormal histopathological changes in spleen and thymus
  • Increased cecal weight
  • Reduced growth rate
  • DNA Damage
  • Adverse changes to gastrointestinal bacteria
  • Abnormal Pelvic Mineralization
  • Decreased red blood cell count
  • Hyperplasia of the pelvis
  • Aborted pregnancy (Maternal & Fetal Toxicity)
  • Decreased fetal body weights and placental weights
  • Bowel inflammation/Crohn's Disease
  • Triggering migraine
  • Increase glycosylation of hemoglobin (HbA1c) for diabetics

    ...would you still consume it?
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Victory for Connecticut GMO labeling - other states, take note!


Alliance for Natural Health USA
Tue, 04 Jun 2013 10:11 UTC
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Yesterday, Connecticut passed a law requiring foods with genetically engineered ingredients to be labeled - and it's all thanks to your grassroots activism!

Connecticut has taken a first important step. The House version of its Label GMO bill (which ANH-USA helped draft) passed the Connecticut Senate unanimously on Saturday, and passed the legislature 134 to 3 on Monday. Our hope is that this bill will inspire neighboring states to take similar action so the trigger can come into effect as quickly as possible.
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Childhood stomach aches linked with adult depression and anxiety

Anne Angelone, L.Ac.
Primal Docs
Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:02 UTC
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The gut has its own nervous system—similar to that of the brain—and is hardwired to the brain by the vagus nerve, a nerve that runs from the brain to the internal organs. As a result of signals transferred back and forth, disturbances in the gut can impact the brain.
Many dismiss childhood stomach aches as a normal part of growing up. However research shows that chronic childhood stomach aches could result in anxiety and depression later in life.

A Stanford University researcher found that gastric irritation early in life could pave the way for lifelong psychological problems. Of course, not all childhood stomach aches will lead to adult depression and anxiety; genetic makeup and when the stomach aches occur developmentally are also important factors.

Researcher Pankaj Pasricha, MD, notes that 15 to 20 percent of people experience chronic pain in the upper abdomen, and are more likely to suffer from anxiety or depression than their peers.

Gut and brain hardwired together

Dr. Pasricha points to the connection between the gut and brain as an explanation for psychological issues related to childhood stomach aches. The gut has its own nervous system - similar to that of the brain - and is hardwired to the brain by the vagus nerve, a nerve that runs from the brain to the internal organs. As a result of signals transferred back and forth, disturbances in the gut can impact the brain.

To test whether chronic childhood gut problems could lead to adult anxiety and depression, researchers performed experiments on baby rats, irritating their stomachs for six days.

Comment: In order to re-balance your brain-gut neural network, check out the Éiriú Eolas program which stimulates the vagus nerve in a natural way to achieve homeostasis in brain chemistry and digestion. It is precisely for these reasons (among other things) that the program is so effective for depression and anxiety.

For more information on an anti-inflammatory diet, see Primal Body, Primal Mind by Nora Gedgaudas.

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Email 'raises stress levels'

Nick Collins
The Telegraph, UK
Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:22 UTC
Email is supposed to make modern life easier, but it is making workers more stressed than ever as they struggle to stay on top of hundreds of messages per day, according to researchers.
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© ALAMYResearchers believe that emails can add to stress levels.
Reading and sending emails prompts telltale signs of stress including elevated blood pressure, heart rate and levels of the hormone cortisol, a study found.

Researchers who followed a group of 30 government employees found that 83 per cent became more stressed while using email, rising to 92 per cent when speaking on the phone and using email at the same time.

Although receiving a single message was no more stressful than answering one phone call or talking to someone face-to-face, emails had a stronger effect overall because people received so many each day.

Stress levels, analysed by saliva samples as well as heart rate and blood pressure monitors over a 24-hour period, peaked at points in the day when people's inboxes were fullest, the study found.

Emails which were irrelevant, which interrupted work or demanded an immediate response were particularly taxing, while those which arrived in response to completed work had a calming effect.
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