Health & Wellness

Superbugs out of control: Hospital beds should come with warning signs

Dr. Mercola
mercola.com
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 09:41 UTC

What the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is calling a "winnable battle"¹ is currently claiming the lives of tens of thousands of Americans every year.

According to the CDC, between 5 and 10 percent of people admitted to the hospital acquire an infection while an inpatient.² In real numbers this accounts for 1.7 million infections and 99,000 deaths, incurring $20 billion in healthcare costs.

Many believe an antibiotic will cure all infections, but that is rapidly changing. In fact, according to infectious disease experts, the age of antibiotics is drawing to a close. Many bacteria are becoming drug-resistant, increasing the number of deaths from illness that, in the past, rapidly responded to medication.

This in combination with the reduction in development of new antibiotics, as the profit margin is poor, has led to the development of bacteria not just winning some battles, but poised to win the war. Experts have been warning about the upcoming diminished efficiency of antibiotics, and that time is now here.

Bacteria has found a way to resist most of the antibiotics produced, and we're now facing a time in history during which medical care may revert to the pre-antibiotic age, impacting surgical procedures, giving birth and even simple cuts and scrapes with significant casualties.

A vote for Clinton is a vote for Big Pharma & mandatory vaccination

Jeffery Jaxen
jeffereyjaxen.com
Sun, 23 Oct 2016 00:11 UTC

Hillary Clinton has made little attempt to play politics or engage in double speak on the topic of vaccinations. In the world of healthcare, medicine and parenting no other topic symbolizes the hot button nature of health freedom and medical choice vaccination represents. Amidst the bickering of fabricated issues and discussions of little or no importance to the public, the presidential debates have left out a laundry list of vital topics. The US has the developed world's highest infant mortality rates. The US has epidemic-level rates of autism spectrum disorder over the past decades. And the US maternal mortality rate has more than doubled from 2000 to 2014.

California is fighting back against Senate Bill 277 (SB277) as parents and families who want to retain their health freedom and medical choice have been left with no choices as forced vaccination is now mandatory. Unbeknownst to most of the country, a growing subsection of US people have been beating back continued, unrelenting forced vaccination legislation in many states attempting to mirror SB277. Pharmaceutical company lobbyist continually swarm US politicians in order to secure SB277-like legislation in states to secure a revenue stream on their for-profit, zero-liability vaccine products.

Comment: Hillary Clinton's evil jab: More vaccine propaganda

CDC confirms link between factory farms & superbugs

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Wed, 02 Oct 2013 18:54 UTC

According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), antibiotic resistance is a major threat to public health worldwide, and the primary cause for this man-made epidemic is the widespread misuse of antibiotics.¹

Antibiotic overuse occurs not just in medicine, but also in food production. In fact, agricultural usage accounts for about 80 percent of all antibiotic use in the US,² so it's a MAJOR source of human antibiotic consumption.

According to a 2009 report3 by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on this subject, factory farms used a whopping 29 million pounds of antibiotics that year alone.

Animals are often fed antibiotics at low doses for disease prevention and growth promotion, and those antibiotics are transferred to you via meat, and even through the animal manure that is used as crop fertilizer.

Antibiotics are also used to compensate for the crowded, unsanitary living conditions associated with large-scale confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs).

Comment: More information on Factory farms & superbugs

Uncorked: In alcohol consumption - woman are finally equal to men

RT
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 15:18 UTC

The gender gap in alcohol consumption has almost vanished, according to a new study, which says women are binge drinking nearly as much as men due to a booming 'wine o'clock' culture.

The research looks at the convergence of drinking habits between men and women over time from 1891 to 2014. It pools the results of 68 international studies published since 1980 to look at the changing ratio of male to female drinking.

It says young men born between 1991 and 2001 are just 1.1 times more likely to drink at all than women of the same age. That can be compared to men who were born between 1981 and 1910 who were 2.2 times more likely to drink than women.

The research, published in the medical journal BMJ Open, also found men born in the early 1900s were three times as likely to drink to problematic levels, and are now just 1.2 times as likely to binge drink.

Comment: America has a drinking problem - studies indicate it is only getting worse

It's women, by the way, who have largely driven these increases. In the years between 2005 and 2012, binge drinking increased just 4.9 percent among men, but jumped 17.5 percent among women. The reason for such a significant rise is likely due to changing social mores, according to Tom Greenfield, scientific director at the Alcohol Research Group, who spoke withKaiser Health News. Men still drink more than women do, but women have narrowed the gap in recent years.

Healthy guts are swarming with bugs, so what do they do?

Robert Moore
The Conversation
Tue, 11 Oct 2016 06:03 UTC

The healthy human body is swarming with microorganisms. They inhabit every nook and cranny on the surfaces of our body. But by far the largest collection of microorganisms reside in our gastrointestinal tract - our gut.

These tiny organisms, which can only be seen with the aid of a microscope, make up our microbiota. The combination of microbiota, the products it makes, and the environment it lives within, is called the microbiome.

Great advances in DNA sequencing technologies have enabled us to study the gut microbiota in intricate detail. We can now take a census of all the microorganisms that are in the microbiota to help us understand what they are doing.

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Research check: Can drinking coffee reduce your dementia risk?

Henry Brodaty
The Conversation
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 17:12 UTC

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Many reasons that weren’t explored may account for the findings that women who drank coffee decreased their risk of dementia.

Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, is a growing problem worldwide. There are 350,000 people with dementia in Australia and this is set to rise to 900,000 by 2050. There is no cure for Alzheimer's disease.

So if "coffee really can help to prevent dementia", as a headline by the Daily Mail last week suggested, that would be amazing. This is why the study on which the headline was based received so much interest.

It was reported on by publications such as the the Independent and websites dedicated to anti-ageing research.

According to the Daily Mail, the study showed:

Women over the age of 65 who had a normal caffeine intake were 36% less likely to develop a cognitive impairment.

Unfortunately there are many reasons not to get excited. The study was observational: a look back through data collected over many years. This means many reasons that weren't explored may account for the findings that women who drank coffee decreased their risk of dementia.

Comment: An interesting look at the flaws associated with observational studies, based on self assessment via questionnaires. As the author points out, this has lead to questionable results. It is worth noting that virtually ALL the research supposedly proving that smoking is harmful is also based on theses same observational studies and self assessment via questionnaires - which should, to the unbiased observer, lead to similar questions regarding the veracity of the results that have been published. That is not politically correct, so it does not happen.

Researchers make breakthrough discovery for male birth control pill

Himanshu Goenka
International Business Times
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 10:20 UTC

After decades of research, experiments and failure, scientists may have finally made the breakthrough needed to create a non-barrier contraception for men that doesn't require surgery. Yes, the birth control pill for men may finally become a reality.

Researchers at the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom have come up with a new approach that may make men temporarily infertile. It uses a peptide — a short chain of amino acids — that inhibits the ability of the sperm to swim, making it impossible for it to fertilize the egg. In collaboration with scientists from Aveiro University in Portugal, the U.K. researchers created a cell-penetrating peptide that turns off the protein that allows the sperm to swim.

If the compound can be made into a successful contraceptive, its benefits could be significant. It would do away with much of the hormonal side effects that women who are on the pill face. It would also allow men to be more in control of their own fertility without having to go through a vasectomy, which even though reversible, is still a surgery.

Comment: We'll believe it when we see it. Here's a different version of a male birth control pill which is also looming on the horizon.

The evils of industry lobbying: Profits before health?

Rishma Parpia
The Vaccine Reaction
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 23:24 UTC

Most of the money that flows through the political system in America originates from special interest groups. Corporations, industry groups, labor unions and single-issue organizations spend billions of dollars each year on campaign contributions and lobbying to gain access to the government policy and law-making process with the ultimate goal of increasing their bottom line. This notion of "buying" influence has resulted in policies that may not be in the best interest of the public. This is particularly true with respect to health and vaccine policy.

The Sugar Industry's Influence in Skewing U.S. Public Health Policy

If you have been to any grocery store lately, you have noticed that the aisles are stocked with processed foods. If you go a step further and inspect the nutrition facts label on packaged foods, you will see that almost all products contain sugar. This is by no means an accident.

The sugar industry has a strong history of shaping nutrition policy in the U.S.¹ Historically sugar producers have enjoyed federal support and protection in return for their significant lobbying and campaign contributions in Congress.² For example, in the Farm Bill of 2008 that was ferociously lobbied by the sugar industry, Congress increased price supports for sugar producers while decreasing support for producers for all other crops.² In fact, Congress guaranteed a price per pound for raw and refined sugar that they would pay to the sugar producers if they were unable to make a profit at market prices.²

The truth about mammograms: False positives, over-diagnosis, over-treatment and radiation-induced cancer

Vandita
AnonHQ
Sun, 23 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC

In 2016, an estimated 246,660 new cases of invasive breast cancer, 61,000 new cases of non-invasive breast cancer, and 40,450 breast cancer deaths are expected to be recorded in the United States alone. With the rising rates of breast cancer, mammography has gained popularity globally as the most effective screening technique to detect the most common cancer among women.

I believe that if you did have a tumor, the last thing you would want to do is crush that tumor between two plates, because that would spread it. — Dr. Sarah Mybill, General Practitioner

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention insists mammograms are the best way to find breast cancer early, when it is easier to treat and before it is big enough to feel or cause symptoms. Having regular mammograms can lower the risk of dying from breast cancer, claims the leading national public health institute of the United States.

I think if a woman from the age of 50 has a mammogram every year, or every two years, she's going to get breast cancer as a direct result from that. — Dr. Patrick Kingsley, Clinical Ecologist

This, despite the fact that the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) recently excluded mammography for women under 50 - based on scientific evidence of limited efficacy in reducing breast cancer mortality for women between 40 and 49 - the IARC working group further noted that early detection of breast cancer through mammography screening have important harmful outcomes such as false positive results, over-diagnosis, over-treatment and radiation-induced cancer.

Comment: Mammography screening boosts the profits of the medical cartel by providing them more patients as breast cancer screenings result in an increase in breast cancer mortality and accelerate the epidemic of cancer.

Light therapy device for SAD sufferers invented by creative high schoolers

Jake Van Der Borne
Natural Blaze
Sun, 23 Oct 2016 23:37 UTC

An inventive team of high school students has created a new light therapy device that may provide relief for the millions of people who suffer from a seasonal form of depression.

As the days shorten and fall gives in to winter, bouts of the "winter blues" aren't uncommon. But a more serious form of winter depression known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) can make the colder, darker months a long period of misery for many.

What is SAD?

When the seasons change and the length of daylight hours varies, there is a shift in our circadian rhythms. This can cause our "biological clocks" to be out of sync with our daily schedules, and can have dramatic effects on our overall wellness. The most difficult months for SAD sufferers in the Northern Hemisphere are January and February, and younger people and women tend to be at higher risk.

Comment: Tips to beat the winter blues

Bill Gates is going to be the one with the uncertain future,,, * New Lt. Governor of Virginia Winsome Sears: "We're going to have safer...

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The more we hear about adverse affects the more we will merely shrug. It's a catch 22. Is that an asteroid trail in the photo?

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Welcome to the new normal. The more sensory exposure we have about such things, the less it is an issue.

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Robert F. Kennedy talks about what is in his book about Fauci: [Link]

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Health & Wellness

Superbugs out of control: Hospital beds should come with warning signs

A vote for Clinton is a vote for Big Pharma & mandatory vaccination

CDC confirms link between factory farms & superbugs

Uncorked: In alcohol consumption - woman are finally equal to men

Healthy guts are swarming with bugs, so what do they do?

Research check: Can drinking coffee reduce your dementia risk?

Researchers make breakthrough discovery for male birth control pill

The evils of industry lobbying: Profits before health?

The truth about mammograms: False positives, over-diagnosis, over-treatment and radiation-induced cancer

Light therapy device for SAD sufferers invented by creative high schoolers

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