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Propaganda

Media propaganda over study linking animal protein to risk of death and cancer in mice

Michael R. Eades
Protein Power
Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:15 UTC
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I have a great friend who was a Pulitzer Prize nominated Wall Street Journal investigative reporter for over a dozen years. Based on his experience there, he occasionally gives two-day seminars on how to deal with the press. He always starts out on day one by asking the question, What is news?

What is news? Think about it and try to come up with your own answer before reading on.
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Neurological Effects of Gluten

Beverly Meyer
Celiac Handbook
Sat, 08 Mar 2014 00:00 UTC
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Whether you have true Celiac Disease, or whether you "only" have lesser gluten antibodies and intolerances, gluten can cause multiple neurological issues. Depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, and a wide variety of Neuromuscular Disorders can have their roots in gluten antibody side effects.

I have seen improvements in ALS, MS, CIPD, Tourette's, seizures, and other complicated illnesses when the client goes strictly grain-free. Testing from Cyrex Labs is helpful in any Neurological or health disorder, as their tests for gluten cross-reactivity will pick up antibodies to dairy, quinoa, rice, oats and many others. (They have several other tests I run on myself and clients too).

Comment: Gluten Sensitivity Spectrum - Not Just a Celiac Issue
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Gluten: What You Don't Know Might Kill You

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Heart

'Love hormone' may treat anorexia


BBC.co.uk
Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:07 UTC
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Young women are the most likely group to be affected by anorexia.
A hormone released during childbirth and sex could be used as a treatment for the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, scientists suggest.

Small studies by UK and Korean scientists indicated patients were less likely to fixate on food and body image after a dose of oxytocin.

About one in every 150 teenage girls in the UK are affected by the condition.

The eating disorders charity Beat said the finding was a long way from becoming a useable treatment.
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Bacon n Eggs

Woman with brain cancer uses high fat, low carb ketogenic diet to battle deadly ailment

Joanne Eglash
The Examiner
Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:29 UTC
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When Alix Hayden was diagnosed with brain cancer, she focused on learning about all possible options for treatment. Among the therapies that Alix chose: A high fat low carb ketogenic weight loss diet based on the theory that cancer cells generate energy for growth using sugar, reported News Talk 650 on March 10.

"For me, it wasn't really about alternative therapies, it was coming back to what I already knew which is that diet and lifestyle and your metabolism and your biochemistry really does influence your health," Hayden explained.

Ironically, her career has helped to fuel her knowledge of her treatment options. She works in cancer research at Phenomenome Discoveries in Saskatoon.

"I do work in cancer research and so that was a little bit of an irony for me and it was something that it took me a while to come back to and think about from an intellectual perspective."
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Smoking

University of Pennsylvania neuroscientists: Quitting smoking weakens brain network connectivity

Jessica McDonald
newsworks.org
Thu, 13 Mar 2014 06:27 UTC
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"Oh yeh? Tell me somethin' I don't already know."
Less than a third of smokers are able to go a full year without a cigarette, even when they're getting help from a nicotine patch or gum. But why is giving up the habit so tough?

Research published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry by neuroscientists at the University of Pennsylvania suggests that it has to do with how well certain brain networks interact during withdrawal.

"The brain is very active at rest, and so we were able to look at changes in that activity at rest in the brain and, importantly, the connections between large-scale brain networks and how those connections become stronger or weaker when people quit smoking," said Caryn Lerman, director of the Brain and Behavior Change Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Lead author of the latest study, she used functional magnetic resonance imaging to detect brain activity in daily smokers.

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So, let's see if we've got this straight.

They're telling people to quit smoking, then instructing them to engage in cognitive exercises to try and restore the neural connectivity levels they lost because they quit smoking.
HEL-LO, is there anybody home?!
Obviously, the 'withdrawal' phase with concomitant breakdown of previously stronger brain networks is trying to tell these scientists something!

Can anyone guess what that something might be?...

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Meet the controversial MIT scientist who claims she discovered a cause of gluten intolerance

Ari LeVaux
Alternet
Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:07 UTC
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Does she finally have the answer?

Stephanie Seneff is a senior research scientist at MIT. Based in the university's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Seneff's focus is, according to her web page, "the intersection of biology and computation." She is also, according to many in the science community, a "quack," meaning a poseur at the business of science, and a practitioner of pseudoscience.

Since she began publishing papers on biology, in journals considered fringe by the mainstream scientific establishment, Seneff has posited explanations for a host of disorders, and drawn heated objections from experts in most every field she's delved into. She is, in short, a controversial figure in the scientific community, which is an unusual position to occupy for someone with three degrees from MIT.

In recent months, Seneff co-authored two papers proposing a connection between the herbicide glyphosate and gluten sensitivity. I spoke with Seneff by phone about this hypothesis, her transition from computer science into biology, and her reputation in the scientific community.
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Bulb

The surprising reason Americans might be obese, anxious and depressed

Martha Rosenberg
Alternet
Wed, 05 Mar 2014 14:38 UTC
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Could the answer to a number of modern ailments be in our gut?

Do you remember the "hygiene hypothesis" of the late 1990s? It theorized that humans had so over-sanitized their environment with disinfectants and hand cleansers, our immune systems were no longer doing their jobs. So many consumer products like toothpaste, hand and dish soap, laundry detergents and even clothes now include antibiotics, said the theory, we seldom encounter the "bad" germs our immune systems are supposed to recognize and fight.

Since the hygiene hypothesis surfaced, there is growing evidence of its truth. In fact the theory that certain medical conditions, especially autoimmune ones, may be caused by a changing or declining bacterial environment in the human gut is gaining momentum and now called the "disappearing microbiota hypothesis."

The bacteria in our gut, collectively called our microbiome, is a huge, ever-changing universe of billions of microbes. Each person's intestinal ecosystem is so individualized and such a reflection of his unique inner and outer environments, "gut microbiota may even be considered as another vital human organ," says one scientific paper. The microbiome has also been called a second genome and even a second brain.

Comment: Go with your gut: How bacteria may affect mental health:

Mind-Altering Bugs
Love me, Love my microbiome
Tending the body's microbial garden
Some of my best friends are germs
In Good Health? Thank Your 100 Trillion Bacteria
Our Microbes Are Under Threat - And The Enemy Is Us

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Rainbow

12 most mind-blowing mental delusions and syndromes

Dr Jeremy Dean
Spring.org.uk
Wed, 12 Mar 2014 10:34 UTC
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© Image credit: Elena KalisAlice-in-Wonderland syndrome, thought insertion, clinical lycanthropy, Paris syndrome and more…
Delusions come in all shapes and sizes; from transient episodes to full-blown and incurable mental illnesses.

But they all have one thing in common: being detached from reality. Delusions do not listen to reason and they do not bow to facts.

Here are twelve of the strangest delusional beliefs...
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Popcorn

Obama administration hooks up 'global warming' agenda to healthy eating guidelines

Jeff Stier
Washington Examiner
Sun, 09 Mar 2014 16:00 UTC
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When "Big Food" and "Big Food Police" congratulate each other for coming together with the White House, as they did when new food nutrition labels were unveiled last week, consumers and small businesses should be very nervous.

But the controversial new labels are small potatoes compared to what the Obama administration is now cooking up. At a closed-door meeting Friday, administration officials and their advisers will plot to insert the global warming agenda into dietary guidelines mandated by Congress.

The Agriculture and Health and Human Services departments are updating the guidelines for publication next year.
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Food police coming: Obama administration to insert global warming activism into dietary guidelines mandated by Congress

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That?
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:46 UTC
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Aaargh! Forget nutrition and medical guidelines, carbon footprint is the new diet selector.

Climate Change Activists to Meet Food Police at Closed-Door Meeting March 14

New York, NY / Washington DC - At a closed-door meeting to take place March 14, the Obama Administration's Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services plan to update the nation's "dietary guidelines" - a document with significant repercussions for food stamps, military and school meals programs - to include anti-global warming activism.

In an article, "Obama administration pollutes guidelines for healthy eating with unhealthy ideologies," published Sunday by the Washington Examiner, National Center Senior Fellow and Risk Analysis Division Director Jeff Stier says environmental activists within the U.S. government plan to change the nation's dietary guidelines to promote foods that they believe have "a smaller carbon footprint."
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