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Kids with seizures use pot as treatment

Nicholas Riccardi
San Francisco Chronicle
Wed, 19 Feb 2014 06:19 UTC
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© Brennan Linsley, APIn this Feb. 7, 2014 photo, Matt Figi hugs and tickles his once severely-ill 7-year-old daughter Charlotte, as they wander around inside a greenhouse for a special strain of medical marijuana known as Charlotte's Web, which was named after the girl early in her treatment, in a remote spot in the mountains west of Colorado Springs, Colo.
The doctors were out of ideas to help 5-year-old Charlotte Figi.

Suffering from a rare genetic disorder, she had as many as 300 grand mal seizures a week, used a wheelchair, went into repeated cardiac arrest and could barely speak. As a last resort, her mother began calling medical marijuana shops.

Two years later, Charlotte is largely seizure-free and able to walk, talk and feed herself after taking oil infused with a special pot strain. Her recovery has inspired both a name for the strain of marijuana she takes that is bred not to make users high - Charlotte's Web - and an influx of families with seizure-stricken children to Colorado from states that ban the drug.

"She can walk, talk; she ate chili in the car," her mother, Paige Figi, said as her dark-haired daughter strolled through a cavernous greenhouse full of marijuana plants that will later be broken down into their anti-seizure components and mixed with olive oil so patients can consume them. "So I'll fight for whomever wants this."
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Nuke

Hot Pockets might have diseased animal meat in them

Gabrielle Bluestone
Gawker
Wed, 19 Feb 2014 06:08 UTC
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Sad day for anyone who hoped never to know what exactly they were eating in their Hot Pockets ® Philly Steak & Cheese sandwich - according to the USDA it might be the meat of "diseased and unsound animals."

Specifically, the Hot Pockets Philly Steak & Cheese sandwiches (full list here) may be connected with a USDA recall on Friday of meat from the Rancho Feeding Corporation, which "processed diseased and unsound animals and carried out these activities without the benefit or full benefit of federal inspection."

Giant Supermarket and Nestlé have already recalled a "limited amount" of Hot Pockets products after discovering Rancho Feeding Corp. meat was used at a facility that makes Hot Pockets. Rancho has recalled nearly 9 million pounds of meat since Friday.
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Roundup linked to global boom in Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance


Sustainable Pulse
Tue, 18 Feb 2014 21:28 UTC
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Celiac disease, gluten intolerance and irritable bowel syndrome are on the rise worldwide, and that rise has taken place in parallel with the increased use of glyphosate (Roundup) herbicide, shows a new US peer-reviewed paper from Dr. Anthony Samsel and Dr. Stephanie Seneff. The review has been published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Toxicology.

Roundup is linked in Samsel and Seneff's new review paper to a major increase in celiac disease. A recent estimate suggests that one in twenty people in North America and Western Europe now suffer from this gluten intolerant disease.

"All of the known biological effects of glyphosate - cytochrome P450 inhibition, disruption of synthesis of aromatic amino acids, chelation of transition metals, and antibacterial action - contribute to the pathology of celiac disease," Samsel and Seneff's paper states.

Monsanto's Glyphosate (Roundup) has become the number one selling herbicide worldwide, due to the increase in the planting of Roundup Ready GM Crops.

Comment: Add this latest research to the list of negative health effects associated with RoundUp:

Death by Multiple Poisoning, Glyphosate and Roundup
Is Monsanto's Herbicide Harming Male Fertility?
Research: Roundup Diluted by 450-Fold is Still Toxic to DNA
Groundbreaking Study Shows Roundup Link to Birth Defects
Monsanto's Roundup is Causing DNA and Cellular Damage
Monsanto™ Roundup Ready Crops Leading to Mental Illness, Obesity
Monsanto's Infertility-Linked Roundup Found in All Urine Samples Tested
Study shows: Lethality of Roundup 'weedkiller' extends beyond plants to humans
Monsanto's Roundup devastating gut health, contributing to overgrowth of deadly bacteria

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Flashback Video: How to improve your eyesight naturally


YouTube
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:25 UTC

Dr. Joseph Mercola, a leading natural health expert and osteopathic physician, talks about natural ways to help improve your vision naturally and why you should avoid eyeglasses, lasik surgery, and other potentially harmful eye treatments.
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Pills

The drugging of America summarized in 19 mind-altering facts

Michael Snyder
The American Dream
Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:02 UTC
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Close to 70 percent of all Americans are currently on at least one prescription drug.
The American people are the most drugged people in the history of the planet. Illegal drugs get most of the headlines, but the truth is that the number of Americans that are addicted to legal drugs is far greater than the number of Americans that are addicted to illegal drugs. As you will see below, close to 70 percent of all Americans are currently on at least one prescription drug. In addition, there are 60 million Americans that "abuse alcohol" and 22 million Americans that use illegal drugs. What that means is that almost everyone that you meet is going to be on something. That sounds absolutely crazy but it is true. We are literally being drugged out of our minds. In fact, as you will read about below, there are 70 million Americans that are taking "mind-altering drugs" right now. If it seems like most people cannot think clearly these days, it is because they can't. We love our legal drugs and it is getting worse with each passing year. And considering the fact that big corporations are making tens of billions of dollars peddling their drugs to the rest of us, don't expect things to change any time soon. The following are 19 statistics about the drugging of America that are almost too crazy to believe...

#1 An astounding 70 million Americans are taking legal mind-altering drugs right now.

#2 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, doctors wrote more than 250 million prescriptions for antidepressants during 2010.

#3 According to a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, nearly 70 percent of all Americans are on at least one prescription drug. An astounding 20 percent of all Americans are on at least five prescription drugs.

#4 Americans spent more than 280 billion dollars on prescription drugs during 2013.

#5 According to the CDC, approximately 9 out of every 10 Americans that are at least 60 years old say that they have taken at least one prescription drug within the last month.
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Health

'Bizarre' cluster of severe birth defects haunts health experts

Jonel Aleccia
NBC News
Mon, 17 Feb 2014 08:45 UTC
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A mysterious cluster of severe birth defects in rural Washington state is confounding health experts, who say they can find no cause, even as reports of new cases continue to climb.

Federal and state officials won't say how many women in a three-county area near Yakima, Wash., have had babies with anencephaly, a heart-breaking condition in which they're born missing parts of the brain or skull. And they admit they haven't interviewed any of the women in question, or told the mothers there's a potentially widespread problem.

But as of January 2013, officials with the Washington state health department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had counted nearly two dozen cases in three years, a rate four times the national average.

Since then, one local genetic counselor, Susie Ball of the Central Washington Genetics Program at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital, says she has reported "eight or nine" additional cases of anencephaly and spina bifida, another birth defect in which the neural tube, which forms the brain and spine, fails to close properly.
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Syringe

Unvaccinated Children Healthier


ViewBix
Mon, 03 Feb 2014 01:00 UTC
In 1992 lAS conducted a survey on the health and vaccination status of New Zealand children. The questionnaires were distributed through lAS members, and member's friends and associates.

Such studies normally have inherent biases. In this study almost all the children were breastfed and babies were generally breastfed for longer than the majority of New Zealand babies. Many of the families surveyed included both vaccinated and unvaccinated children, suggesting that the parents developed an awareness of vaccination issues over time. However, many of the respondents were not members of lAS and the split between vaccinated and unvaccinated children was remarkably even.

Comment: Vaccination lies and other tales
Solutions for Forced Vaccinations
Government Vaccination Agenda: Parents Fighting Back
How Safe Are Vaccines?

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11 Charts to show what's wrong with the modern diet

Kriss Gunnars
Business Insider
Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:56 UTC
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The modern diet is the main reason why people all over the world are fatter and sicker than ever before. Everywhere modern processed foods go, chronic diseases like obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease soon follow.

The studies are clear on this... when people abandon their traditional foods in favor of modern processed foods high in sugar, refined flour and vegetable oils, they get sick (1, 2, 3). Of course, there are many things that can contribute to these health problems, but changes in the diet are the most important factor.

Here are 11 graphs that show everything that is wrong with the modern diet.
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Cancer drug maker wants 4000% Spanish price hike

Steve Tallantyre
The Local, Spain
Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:17 UTC
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© Jean-Pierre Muller/AFPPrice-fixing negotiations between the manufacturer and Spain's government are said to be in critical condition.

Drug manufacturer Aspen Pharmacare has reportedly threatened to stop selling its leukaemia and ovarian cancer treatments in Spain if Health Minister Ana Mato refuses to raise fixed purchase prices by up to 4,000 percent.

According to online daily El Confidencial Digital, the habitual bargaining between Aspen and the Ministry of Health has taken a turn for the worse.

The South African manufacturer of generic medicines is currently undergoing a rapid expansion in international markets.

The company is allegedly insisting on massive price increases for a number of drugs but the Ministry has flatly refused.

Sources close to the negotiations reportedly told El Confidencial that the company might refuse to continue supplying the Spanish market in the next few weeks because of lack of profitability.

Spanish law, however, states that companies must continue to supply pharmacies or run the risk of incurring penalties.

Prices for medicines in Spain are usually set after a deal is struck between the government and pharmaceutical manufacturers.
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Alarm Clock

Doctors unsure what's behind dramatic increase in birth defects in rural Washington State


RT
Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:12 UTC
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As state and federal officials document the alarming rise of deadly birth defects in rural Washington, health experts are at a loss when it comes to pinpointing the source of the problem.

In the three years prior to January 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found there had been 23 cases of anencephaly - a birth defect in which a child is born without parts of their brain or skull - reported in three Washington counties: Benton, Franklin and Yakima. This rate of 8.4 cases per 10,000 live births quickly attracted the attention of health officials, especially since it's four times the national average

Anencephaly wasn't the only severe birth defect confirmed by the CDC, however. Three cases of spina bifida were also uncovered, a condition that involves the failure of a baby's spine and brain to develop properly.

Since the publication of the report last year, another eight or nine cases of anencephaly and spina bifida have been reported by Susie Ball, a counselor at the Central Washington Genetics Program.

The most worrisome aspect of the whole situation isn't simply the increased rate of the defects, but the fact that no one is quite sure what's causing the problem. According to a report by NBC News, the CDC inspected the medical records of hundreds of individuals, looking for disparities between mothers whose children suffered birth defects and those whose children were fine.
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