Health & Wellness
The study, published by the International Journal of Epidemiology, combined the results from the largest studies around the world on the health impact of light and moderate intensity physical activity. It showed that the largest health benefits from light or moderate activity (such as walking and cycling) were in people who do hardly any physical activity at all. Although more activity is better - the benefits of even a small amount of physical activity are very large in the least physically active.
Milk from the offspring of cloned cows is secretly - and illegally - going into high street shops.
Despite deep unease among consumers, the milk is not being labeled or identified in any way, leaving shoppers in the dark about what they are drinking.
The dairy farmer involved said he wanted to remain anonymous because the British public regards cloning as so distasteful that buyers would stop taking his milk.
We've been covering the CT scan overdose scandal since it was first reported by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) last year. According to alerts issued by the agency in October and December 2009, machines involved in the botched CT scans, made by General Electric and Toshiba, had been wrongly calibrated and subjected patients who underwent brain perfusion scans following a stroke to excessive doses of radiation.
According to the FDA, at least 269 patients at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles were injured in this way. Another 37 received radiation overdoses at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, while 65 more at Alabama's Huntsville Hospital underwent botched CT scans. At the time, the FDA was also investigating 10 incidents at Glendale Adventist Medical Center in California.
Autoimmune diseases, specifically, now affect 24 million people and include rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, thyroid disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and more. These are often addressed by powerful immune suppressing medication and not by addressing the cause. That's like taking a lot of aspirin while you are standing on a tack. The treatment is not more aspirin or a strong immune suppressant, but removing the tack.

Over 1,000 girls in the first year of secondary school have been given prescriptions for the contraception pills.
More than 1,000 girls in the first year of secondary school have been given prescriptions for the pill, according to figures from GPs, while a further 200 have long-term inject-able or implanted contraceptive devices.
The disclosure prompted warnings that Britain was "facilitating the sexualisation of young people at an every younger age".
It follows the publication of guidance by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence that sex education should be introduced from the age of five.
Trevor Stammers, chairman of the Christian Medical Fellowship and a GP in south London, told The Sunday Times: "If sex education is introduced in primary schools in the way being proposed, we will see many more 11-year-old girls seeking contraception without pointing out the risks.... We are going to make matters worse."
An Iranian official says some of the most popular cigarette brands are contaminated with nuclear substances when smuggled into the country.
"Some of the most famous cigarette brands worldwide including Marlboro, which accounts for the bulk of smuggled cigarettes [into the Islamic Republic] are tainted with [hazardous] nuclear materials," Mehr News Agency quoted Mohammad-Reza Madani from the Society for Fighting Smoking as saying on Friday.
"The largest tobacco companies in the world use various tricks in order to keep their markets and increase their sales," Madani added.
He went on to add that the company responsible for the production of the tainted cigarettes is the "Philip Morris International, which is led by Zionists (Israelis)," and sells Marlboro outside the US.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to take Miracle Mineral Solution, an oral liquid solution also known as "Miracle Mineral Supplement" or "MMS." The product, when used as directed, produces an industrial bleach that can cause serious harm to health.
The FDA has received several reports of health injuries from consumers using this product, including severe nausea, vomiting, and life-threatening low blood pressure from dehydration.
Consumers who have MMS should stop using it immediately and throw it away.
MMS is distributed on Internet sites and online auctions by multiple independent distributors. Although the products share the MMS name, the look of the labeling may vary.
The product instructs consumers to mix the 28 percent sodium chlorite solution with an acid such as citrus juice. This mixture produces chlorine dioxide, a potent bleach used for stripping textiles and industrial water treatment. High oral doses of this bleach, such as those recommended in the labeling, can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and symptoms of severe dehydration.
Comment: To learn more about MMS and the background of the snake-oil salesman peddling this dangerous substance, check out the following SOTT.net articles:
Another Fraud Of Alternative Medicine: M.M.S.
Snake Oil Humbles Nexus Conference
Down the Rabbit Hole - The Assassination of JFK, Bishop Jim Humble And The Nexus Conference
You can also read our exposé on this substance, MMS: Miracle or Trojan Horse?, by getting your copy of Issue #10 of Dot Connector Magazine today!
So why is Fluoride still being added to our water? The story begins as many stories do when well-meaning folks try to mimic something in nature and it goes horribly wrong. Way back when, people recognized the positive effects of calcium fluoride in drinking water and wanted to replicate it. Thus, Grand Rapids, MI, began adding sodium fluoride - a less expensive version of calcium fluoride - to its water supply in 1945. The key difference being that calcium fluoride is naturally occurring and sodium fluoride is not. Not to mention that sodium fluoride is a synthetic waste product of the nuclear industry and often contaminated with lead, aluminum and cadmium.
Comment: For a more in depth look at the issue of Fluoride read the following articles carried on SOTT:
Fluoride: Worse than We Thought
The Price of Too Much Fluoride
The Consequences of Using Fluoride
Video: Parents Warned Against Fluoride In Water
'Second Thoughts about Fluoride,' Reports Scientific American
Information on fluoride isn't really new - A recap on the poisoning of the public
Mercury and Fluoride - The Dumbing Down Of A Population

Samm Robbins, 14, enjoys the occasional energy drink but sees it taking hold of people her age who become far to reliant on the beverage's buzz.
A critical editorial published by Canada's leading medical journal is the latest move a mounting effort to convince the federal government to crack down on the sale of caffeinated energy drinks to minors.
Energy drinks that contain high amounts of caffeine - some more than five times the amount in a can of cola, or nearly double the amount in a cup of brewed coffee - can pose serious health risks to children and adolescents and require stronger warning labels, according to the Canadian Medical Association Journal's editorial.
This warning is also responsive to a June 21 announcement by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) that "he would introduce three bills to comprehensively regulate all genetically engineered products and foods," and require that all such foods should be explicitly labeled.
Congressman Kucinich's concerns are well-based. These were detailed in a May 11, 2007 "Imminent Health Hazard" Citizens Petition submitted to Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs, by Samuel Epstein, M.D., Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition and four other leading scientific experts: Ronnie Cummins, Executive Director, Organic Consumers Association; John Kinsman, President, Family Farm Defenders; Arpad Pusztai, PhD, FRSE; and Jeffrey M. Smith, Executive Director, Institute for Responsible Technology.











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