Health & Wellness
Women who slept with a light or even the TV on were 17% more likely to have gained 11 pounds over the course of five years, according to the study, the results of which were published Monday in the medical journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
Light coming in from outside the room was associated with more modest weight gain, researchers found.
The study is the first to find an association between exposure to artificial light at night while sleeping and weight gain in women, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which funded the study.
Organic. All natural. High protein. Such tantalizing words seem to adorn every package at the grocery store. Even Lucky Charms, a cereal that's largely dyed candy, promises that it has "whole grains" and is "gluten free" right beside the sugary sparkle "now with magical unicorn marshmallows!"
Those healthy-feeling words are there for a reason: They work! According to a new series of studies done by Rotterdam School of Management and Vanderbilt University, the promises we see on cereal boxes-and likely most other packages at the grocery store-often make us perceive the product as healthier, even if there's no correlation between these claims and a food's actual nutritional value.
Comment: More on 'health washing' Another way to mislead the U.S. consumer
What's a consumer to do today? Between cause - and patently false-marketing, looking beneath the surface appearances of product packaging and advertising becomes a necessity, lest we harm ourselves or the environment unknowingly, or support industries that don't have our best interests in mind.
You may already know about green-washing, pink-washing and so-called gene-washing (i.e. 'natural' labeled products containing GMOs), but prepare yourself for the next level of @%@#!% with "organic-washing." ...
With the USDA organic logo increasingly being slapped onto products that don't represent the ethos or quality of organic, sustainable farming, either the USDA certification process needs to undergo reform, or we need another type of certification altogether. Better yet, grow your own high-quality, truly organic food, or work with local growers and producers that are doing just this. After all, we can see through recent GMO labeling initiative defeats that when it comes to enacting reform, we are going to have to do it from both top down and the bottom up, i.e. you can vote and enact immediate change with your dollar and your fork!
Prescription drugs kill nearly fifteen times as many Americans per year than the casualty toll of domestic terrorist attacks from over thirteen years combined, but still natural alternatives are suppressed and maligned despite a growing body of evidence supporting their far greater safety and efficacy.
Since 1997, when the United States became one of only two developed nations that allows direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising, addiction to prescription drugs and prescription drug overdoses have quadrupled (Real Leaders, 2016). In fact, last year, deaths due to prescription drug overdoses surpassed 50,000 per year, dwarfing the number of deaths due to motor vehicle accidents (37,757) and to gun violence (36,252) (Chicago Tribune, 2016).
Opiate receptor researchers at the National Institutes of Health originally coined the term "gluteomorphin" nearly 40 years ago when it was determined that the gliadin protein of wheat undergoes partial digestion (since humans lack the digestive enzymes to fully digest proline-rich amino acid sequences in proteins from seeds of grasses) to yield peptides that are 4- to 5-amino acids long. Some of these peptides were found to bind to the opiate receptors of the brain, thereby exerting opiate-like, or opioid, effects, thus the term gluteomorphin (also sometimes called gliadorphin).
This research was performed in response to several observations made in people with paranoid schizophrenia who, upon removal of all gluten sources (that contain gliadin) experienced a reduction of paranoid thinking and auditory hallucinations.
Dr. F. Curtis Dohan, while participating in field research in New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Micronesia, also made the observation that non-grain consuming natives of these islands developed an explosive level of schizophrenia when allowed to consume Western foods containing grains.
Comment: For more on the science behind the evils of wheat consumption, see:
- Interview with 'Wheat Belly' Author Dr. William Davis
- Gluten: What You Don't Know Might Kill You
- The Dark Side of Wheat - New Perspectives on Celiac Disease and Wheat Intolerance
- Opening Pandora's Bread Box: The Critical Role of Wheat Lectin in Human Disease

U.S. Navy and Philippine Coast Guard divers conduct search-and-rescue operation for the sunken passenger ferry, MV Princess of the Stars, off Sibuyan Island in central Philippines on Wednesday, June 25, 2008.
Top Pentagon officials say research has shown that human bodies in ketosis - the goal of the popular and controversial ketogenic diet - can stay underwater for longer periods, making the fat- and protein-heavy eating plan a potential benefit to military divers. It is one example of a rapidly growing trend as military researchers zero in on how nutrition and certain drugs can enhance how fighting men and women perform in battle.
But U.S. defense officials say they lack the legal authorities to dictate to soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines what they can and cannot eat. Critics of the entire concept warn that the military is entering a danger-filled world if it begins ordering diets and drug protocols solely to build more lethal warriors.
Comment: While it may be a little disturbing to see a military body eyeing a healing and beneficial diet for the purpose of turning their soldiers into more effective killing machines (one hopes Jeff Volek isn't making a deal with the devil), the bright side is that the military will, at the very least, do studies that cut through the politically correct landscape to get to the bottom line - does it work?
See also:
- New military study: "Remarkable" results among soldiers on a ketogenic diet
- Fat-Burning Runners: Study shows benefits of keto-adaptation in athletes' performance
- 'Atkins on steroids': One woman's experience with the ketogenic diet
- Food for thought: The ketogenic diet improves thinking and behavior
- The clinical uses of a high-fat ketogenic diet
"My clinic is already assessing patients from across Ontario who are sensitive to microwave radiation from their wireless devices including cell phones, Wi-Fi, and an increasing number of smart appliances," said Dr. Riina Bray, Medical Director of the Environmental Health Clinic at Women's College Hospital in Toronto. "We expect wireless 5G to add to this burden."
Scientists from 42 countries are now warning their governments about the emerging health problems associated wireless radiation. The initial 5G infrastructure is planned to begin in the Toronto to Montreal corridor. Daily human exposure to microwave radiation is already more than a trillion times higher than it was before cell phones.
Comment: Doctors are on the front lines of health and wellness, so when they foresee a problem, one can be sure that it deserves another look. While most doctors are probably entirely unaware of the dangers of wireless technology, the fact that some honest doctors are concerned is encouraging. It is doubtful, however, that Canadian or any other governments will heed these warnings.
See also:
- Objective:Health #15 - The Dangers of 5G & WiFi - With Scott Ogrin of Scottie's Tech.Info
- 5G danger: Hundreds of respected scientists sound alarm about health effects of 5G networks going up nationwide
- 5G technology is the "stupidest idea in the history of the world" says Washington State science prof
- 5G technology and the coming health crisis
- Beware 5G technology
- 5G Wireless: The 'massive health experiment' that could cause cancer and global catastrophe
- Why we must stop the 5G wireless network
It's not at all surprising, considering the Impossible patty is made mostly of genetically engineered (GE) soy protein, and in the U.S. about 94 percent of soybean acres are planted with such GE seeds, which are designed to tolerate glyphosate, i.e., Roundup herbicides.2
This alone pokes holes in their attempts to greenwash an otherwise highly processed fake food, but the company's response to MAA's findings is even more disconcerting.
Comment: See also:
- The Meat-Guilt Industry: The Quest For The Perfect Veggie Burger Can't Remove The Taste of Lies
- Impossible foods: The lab-grown meat industry just got the regulatory oversight it's been begging for
- Programming complete: Fake meat company Beyond Meat tops $100/shr - KFC said to plan vegan 'fried chicken'
- GMO-derived Impossible Burger uses deceptive marketing to promote it's product at the world's largest 'natural food' trade show
- The Impossible Burger: Vegan GMO burger that 'bleeds' hits hundreds of fast food locations including 'Organic' ones
- Vegetarian propaganda working?: Americans consuming more fake meat & dairy than ever
- Impossible Food's 'hemeburger': Meet the veggie burger that bleeds
If you listen to these aggressive mainstream critics, you would never know that homeopathy was originally a well-accepted medical practice taught in medical schools, which conferred degrees in the specialty. There were even homeopathic hospitals and the practice was supported by governments and influential leaders.
Homeopathy was developed by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), a German physician to the royal family, who was appalled at the traditional medical practices of his day, such as bloodletting and the administration of mercury and arsenic that did more harm than good.
Comment: It is unfortunate that homeopathy, a truly effective medical treatment, is so maligned by mainstream medicine. Many are kept from effective treatments for serious conditions due to this bias. Hopefully, 'Just One Drop' will have an effect in turning at least some people on to this amazing healing modality.
See also:
- Water Science: Evidence for Homeopathy
- Slaying Americans' freedom of health choices and homeopathy
- FDA's regulatory overreach reflects a poor understanding of Homeopathy
- Canadian college forced to scrap homeopathy program due to '3yrs of pseudoscience nonsense'
- NHS 'blacklists' homeopathy on prescription because of mistaken belief that it doesn't work
- Homeopathy can reverse the effects of lead poisoning and other environmental toxins
- The Federal Trade Commission's war on homeopathy
- John Horgan: Dear 'skeptics' - Bash homeopathy & bigfoot less, mammograms & war more
Clearly problematic also is disproportionate focus on human concerns. The worst threat by far is to the ecosystem, which 4G wireless is now collapsing. Even though environment is acknowledged in warnings, emphasis remains on humans. This backwards priority suggests a dangerous disregard for, or lack of, complete understanding.
I won't say the misguided cautionary campaign, including the opposition to 5G per se, is ALL deliberate controlled opposition, but wittingly or not, these entities flirt with terminal disaster by perpetuating the threat. They suggest we can dance with the devil (a reined-in 4G), but 'OMG,' 5G must go! Well, the principles of physics are not forgiving. 2G-4G is a quite sufficiently terminal nightmare.
Wireless technology obviously exists within the context of technology per se. One thing is certain about most of that, regardless of benefit: It's toxic. Somewhere along the line from the mining of hard resources (extractivism), to manufacture, use, and disposal, it's chemically/energetically toxic to planet/biosphere. Wireless encompasses that entire line. Of ecosystem, smaller species, such as insects, already massively declining, are most susceptible to the radiation. Of humans, fetuses and kids. Tacit: we agree to poison the kids for money, convenience and comfort.














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