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Corn derivatives lurk in many surprising places

Sarah Zhang
The Atlantic
Fri, 18 Jan 2019 15:01 UTC
Corn
© Pete Ryan
Corn is ubiquitous in supermarket goods.
When Christine Robinson was first diagnosed with a corn allergy 17 years ago, she remembers thinking, "No more popcorn, no more tacos. I can do this."

Then she tried to put salt on her tomatoes. (Table salt has dextrose, a sugar derived from corn.) She tried drinking bottled iced tea. (It contains citric acid, which often comes from mold grown in corn-derived sugar.) She tried bottled water. (Added minerals in some brands can be processed with a corn derivative.) She ultimately gave up on supermarket meat (sprayed with lactic acid from fermented corn sugars), bagged salads (citric acid, again), fish (dipped in cornstarch or syrup before freezing), grains (cross-contaminated in processing facilities), fruits like apples and citrus (waxed with corn-derived chemicals), tomatoes (ripened with ethylene gas from corn), milk (added vitamins processed with corn derivatives). And that's not even getting to all the processed foods made with high-fructose corn syrup, modified food starch, xanthan gum, artificial flavorings, corn alcohol, maltodextrin-all of which are or contain derivatives of corn.

"It's such a useful plant," Robinson says of corn. "It can be made into so very, very many things that are, from my perspective, trying to kill me."

Comment: Corn: What you may not know about this ancient grain

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Marijuana

New study on Cannabis and Autism supports parents' longtime claims


Leafy
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 14:03 UTC
cannabis
Parents of some autistic children have long reported that their kids calm down with cannabinoids, are better able to communicate, and can do more tasks by themselves. But because of the restrictions on cannabis research in the United States, there have been precious few real-world studies to confirm those anecdotal reports.

A recent study out of Israel, which approved cannabis research in 2007, gives parents new evidence to back up those claims. Published Jan 17. in the journal Nature, the study found that yes, cannabis can relieve some of the symptoms suffered by many autistic people, including seizures, restlessness, and rage attacks.

Comment: Study finds cannabis oil could be miracle treatment for autism

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Attention

WHO, Pharma, Gates & Government: Who's calling the shots?

Barbara Loe Fisher
nvic.org
Sun, 27 Jan 2019 13:28 UTC
vaccines
On Jan. 16, 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a report ranking "vaccine hesitancy" as one of the top "Ten Threats to Global Health in 2019", alongside air pollution and climate change; noncommunicable diseases; global influenza pandemic; antimicrobial resistance; and infectious diseases such as ebola, dengue fever and HIV.1 Throughout history, the greatest contributors to disease and early death in human populations have been poverty, poor sanitation and poor nutrition, 2,3,4 yet infectious diseases with pharmaceutical solutions dominated this list. And there was no mention of the major opioid addiction crisis crippling and killing tens of thousands of people in the U.S. and Europe, 5,6 or the iatrogenic medical error epidemic that every year claims more than 750,000 lives in Europe 7 and 250,000 lives in the U.S., where it is the third leading cause of death. 8

The immediate mainstream media response to the WHO's announcement was to focus on "vaccine hesitancy." On Jan. 19, the Editorial Board of the New York Times declared that "anti-vaxxers" are "the enemy" and called on the U.S. government to "get tough" by waging a "bold and aggressive" pro-vaccine campaign that includes "tightening restrictions around how much leeway states can grant families that want to skip essential vaccines." 9 By Jan. 23, The Hill announced that Washington state had declared a state of emergency because of 23 cases of measles reported in an "anti-vaccination community" near Portland, Oregon,10 and there was a public call in the UK for social media platforms to "clamp down on fake news" and censor "misleading information and negative messaging around vaccination." 11,12
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Red Flag

Pink slime just reclassified as 'ground beef' by the USDA

Elias Marat
Collective Evolution
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:12 UTC
pink slime
Remember the dreaded "pink slime" video from 2012? There it was, some indescribable pink paste extruding through a machine - was it strawberry ice cream? A new type of Play-Doh?

Nope, pink slime was basically the meat industry equivalent of the trimmings or scraps that are normally swept up and tossed in the trash, or into pet food - a collection of bits collected from the meat production process that is transformed into a filmy, translucent substance using a centrifuge, which is then treated with ammonia hydroxide gas and added to commercial ground beef, usually in fast food or school cafeterias.

The brief video caused mass revulsion from U.S. consumers and a PR disaster for the meat industry: celebrity chefs were up in arms, McDonald's dropped the filler from its products, and an Iowa state senator even accused viewers of being duped by a vegetarian plot to put meat industry employees out of work.

But wait - what if we were wrong? What if that wasn't actually pink slime, or even the preferred industrial euphemism, "lean finely-textured beef" (LTFI)?

Comment: 'Pink slime' is also used in cheese, reveals meat industry under fire for using caustic cleaning chemical

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Question

Deprescribing: Are you better off medication free?

Dr. Kelly Brogan
kellybroganmd.com
Fri, 15 Jun 2018 13:27 UTC
deprescribing
I know that strategic medication tapering can be a ticket to an authentic experience of yourself. I get feedback like this, every week:

prescribing

Comment: Kelly Brogan: Why I put down my prescription pad

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Cadets create indoor 'organic farm' inside shipping containers

Jennifer Albert and Dalia Martinez
Mother Earth News
Sat, 16 Feb 2019 00:00 UTC
Cadets gain hands-on experience
© Citadel
The project helps cadets gain hands-on experience in business, chemistry, engineering, and growing food.
Inside three shipping containers on the campus of The Citadel, a military college in South Carolina, cadets are learning how to grow lettuce crops in a controlled indoor "farm" setting, producing organic produce in an environment that can withstand unpredictable weather conditions and disease. The cadets' hands-on education comes from The Citadel Sustainability Project, in which the first shipping container functions as a hydroponic cultivation system for lettuce crops, the second container is a testing ground for various growing systems, and the third container will be outfitted by cadets who design and build the growing equipment as part of a corresponding independent study.

The Citadel STEM Center of Excellence initiated the project in 2016 as an interdisciplinary collaboration. Of the 20 or so students who are members of the Sustainability Club, several are STEM Scholars. We also have electrical engineers who are completing a design project on hydroponics. We've had students from almost every campus department - engineering, biology, business - who have worked with the project.

Prior to their graduation, Alex Richardson, who studied engineering, and Cameron Brown, who studied business, managed the growing container with the help of other students motivated by a passion for the environment.

"Cadets are excited about The Citadel Sustainability Project because it incorporates biology, chemistry, computer science, business, engineering, and community outreach. It gives us the opportunity to collaborate with students outside of our own programs on a project focused on global population needs," Richardson says. "And seeing people on campus eat and enjoy our crops is gratifying."
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Beer

Drinking two or more diet beverages a day linked to high risk of stroke, heart attacks

Sandee LaMotte
CNN
Sat, 16 Feb 2019 07:51 UTC
diet soda
More bad news for diet soda lovers: Drinking two or more of any kind of artificially sweetened drinks a day is linked to an increased risk of clot-based strokes, heart attacks and early death in women over 50, according to a new study by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association.

The risks were highest for women with no history of heart disease or diabetes and women who were obese or African-American.

Previous research has shown a link between diet beverages and stroke,dementia, Type 2 diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome, which can lead to heart disease and diabetes.

Comment: The take-away: If you're a woman, only drink one toxic diet soda per day. If you're a man, drink as much as you like.

How many warning signs need to come to light before regulatory agencies actually take these things off the market? The onus of responsibility should be on the soda companies to prove their beverages do no harm, not on independent agencies to prove they are. Artificial sweeteners have been on the market for decades. How much harm to the public has been done in that time?

See also:

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Syringe

Do vaccines really prevent 2.5 million children from dying each year?

Marco Cáceres
The Vaccine Reaction
Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:56 UTC
vaccination
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that vaccination prevents between 2-3 million deaths worldwide each year and that an additional 1.5 million deaths could be avoided if vaccination coverage improved. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) qualifies this estimate by specifying that vaccines "prevent an estimated 2.5 million deaths among children younger than age 5 every year."1, 2, 3, 4, 5

This 2.5 million estimate has been cited by public health organizations for at least 10 years now and can be traced back to the 2009 WHO report State of the world's vaccines and immunization.4,6 That report, written primarily by freelance public health and science writer John Maurice, whose clients included vaccine supplier Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and vaccine manufacturer Novartis,7 claimed: "Every year immunization averts an estimated 2.5 million deaths among children under five years old."4
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Pharmaceuticals drive magnesium levels lower

Dr. Mark Sircus
drsircus.com
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:20 UTC
magnesium
Because magnesium deficiency causes all kinds of havoc with our cell physiology and worsens as we age, appropriate magnesium supplementation will not only help ensure we don't age so fast but it also will prevent many of the major diseases we are facing today. Research published in the American Journal of Epidemiology in 2002 showed that when the diets of 2,566 children ages 11-19 were studied, less than 14% of boys and 12% of girls had adequate intakes of magnesium.

When magnesium is deficient, things begin to die, but when our body's magnesium levels are topped off, our body physiology tends to hum along like a racecar yielding higher performance along many physiological parameters. Most doctors do not want to acknowledge that magnesium deficiency can lead directly to cancer, thus to a significantly shorter life. Same goes for diabetes and heart disease-magnesium deficiency brings on these diseases.

Comment: Read more from Dr. Sircus:

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Question

Quality Supplements: Is this the beginning of the end?


Alliance for Natural Health
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:08 UTC
supplements
Just a few days ago, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb released a wide-ranging statement about the FDA's regulatory approach to dietary supplements. The statement was short on details, and without more explanation we see some potential causes for concern. Consumers who care about supplement access must be on alert and stay engaged in this process, given the agency's demonstrated hostility towards the natural products industry.

Commissioner Gottlieb starts out by saying that he has personally benefitted from supplements, and as a physician recognizes the benefit of supplements for patients. So far, so good: we'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he means what he says.

Commissioner Gottlieb goes on to discuss the prospect of "modernizing" the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA). Since the FDA cannot unilaterally change legislation, presumably he means working with Congress to change DSHEA. DSHEA set up the current framework for the regulation of supplements. Importantly, it said that supplements are food and would be regulated as such-not like drugs. This is crucial. If supplements were regulated like drugs, we would lose widespread access: supplements, being natural products, generally cannot be patented the same way drugs can and therefore, without that protection, they cannot afford to go through the expensive FDA approval. We've also been telling you about the back-channel at the FDA that allows Big Pharma to turn nutrients into drugs.

Comment: FDA is using 'draconian proposals' to ban vitamin supplements read the following:
The FDA has issued a proposed mandate that represents the greatest threat to dietary supplements since 1994. Back in the early 1990s, consumers were so alarmed by FDA bullying that they staged a massive revolt. The result was that Congress passed a law prohibiting the FDA from banning popular nutrients (as the agency had threatened to do).

There was, however, a loophole in the 1994 law. The FDA was given authority to regulate ingredients introduced after October 15, 1994.

It has been 17 years, but the FDA just issued draconian proposals as to how it intends to regulate what it now calls "new dietary ingredients". You can find the FDA Draft Guidance on New Dietary Ingredients (NDI's) here. If implemented, some of the most effective nutrients you are taking will be removed from the market. This includes many fish oil formulas and natural plant extracts. A detailed analysis of the FDA Draft Guidance is available here.


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