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British study: Sleep deprivation leads to shrinking of the brain

Jane Brown
zoomerradio.ca
Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:27 UTC
Getting enough sleep just might decrease your risk of memory problems and dementia.

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A new British study suggests sleep loss may lead to a faster rate of decline in the brain, actually causing it to shrink.

Lead author and Oxford researcher Claire Sexton says, "it's a really important finding because scientists are trying to find out what the purpose of sleep is and why it is important that we get sleep."

To conduct the study, researchers studied 147 adults of various ages over several years. The participants had MRI brain scans 3 and a half years apart, in addition to completing a questionnaire about their sleep habits.

Comment: For more information on the importance of healthy sleeping habits check out the Cassiopaea forum thread :Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival

Also see:
Take control of your sleep, before it takes control of you
Missing sleep may hurt your memory
A bad night's sleep could age your brain by five YEARS
Your lack of sleep makes your brain more vulnerable to toxins

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Bacon n Eggs

Diet wars: Low-carb wins another battle

Jason Best
Take Part
Tue, 02 Sep 2014 15:58 UTC
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In the quest to tell us what we should be eating to live longer and healthier, nutrition science is either doing a bang-up job lately or causing mass confusion, depending on your point of view.

No doubt this isn't the only article you're likely to come across in the next day or so trumpeting the results of what's being hailed as a major new study that finds people who stuck to a low-carb diet for a year lost more weight and were generally healthier than those who followed a low-fat diet.

Yep, that's right: After years of health professionals tsk-tsking about the possible ill effects of forswearing carbs in favor of a return to steak and eggs for breakfast, it turns out ole Dr. Atkins might have been onto something after all.

Comment: More articles about the benefits of a low-carb diet detailed below:

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Smoking

Scientists are developing a drug derived from tobacco plants, while Ebola is marching on in West Africa

Victoria Craw
News.com.au
Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:59 UTC
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The potentially life-saving properties of tobacco during a plague
Infected items are burnt, bodies are buried, schools are closed and flights are empty.

The deadly Ebola epidemic raging across Africa shows no signs of abating, with 3000 cases reported and 1500 deaths across five countries.

The World Health Organisation predicts there will be 20,000 cases and another six months before it is brought under control.

So far, the outbreak has hit Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria with the first case reported in Senegal this week. A suspected case in Sweden was negative.

Yesterday nurses at Liberia's biggest hospital - the epicentre for the epidemic - went on strike to demand better pay and equipment.

The decision is in response to the fact one tenth of those who have died from the disease are health workers who haven't been given proper protective clothing.
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Attention

Ebola virus accelerating: Experts have "never seen anything like it"

Elizabeth Barber
TIME
Thu, 04 Sep 2014 07:53 UTC
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An aerial view of the oil hub city Port Harcourt in Nigeria's Delta region May 16, 2012.
Three cases of Ebola have been identified in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, the World Health Organization (WHO) says, confirming that the disease has spread outside the capital Lagos, where five people have died.

Officials in Port Harcourt - a teeming city of 1.4 million in the Niger delta - are now monitoring over 200 people, 60 of whom are considered at high risk of having contracted the disease. It is a worrying expansion of an epidemic that has now killed 1,900 in West Africa and defied the attempts of under-staffed and under-funded aid teams to halt it.

WHO officials warn that the virus is not just expanding geographically but also accelerating. Ebola has now sickened upwards of 3,500 people and in the past week alone almost 400 people have died of the virus, said Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the WHO at a press conference in Washington D.C. on Wednesday.

Comment: Don't wait for WHO to help you! Do it yourself and check out this life-saving information:

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Health

The clinical impact of vitamin C: Personal experience from a physician

Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service
Wed, 03 Sep 2014 08:57 UTC
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My ongoing relationship with vitamin C now spans a full 20 years, when I first met Dr. Hal Huggins, a pioneering dentist who opened my eyes to a wide array of clinical approaches to different diseases with hitherto unheard-of clinical results at his clinic in Colorado Springs. I can honestly say that my first visit to his clinic began the most meaningful part of my medical education. Nothing has been the same since. My office where I practiced adult cardiology ended up being shuttered shortly after that first visit. And I have never looked back.

While there are many things I learned from Dr. Huggins, and there were many areas I then ended up exploring because of what he taught me, the single most important thing I learned from him was the incredible ability of vitamin C to improve or heal so many conditions. Without exception, seriously ill patients, often with such diseases as Parkinson's, ALS, Alzheimer's, MS, and atherosclerosis, almost always had extensive dental toxicity in the form of root canal-treated teeth, infected dental implants, mercury amalgams, extensive cavitational osteonecrosis, and/or advanced periodontal disease. Each of these individuals had anywhere from three to five sessions of extensive dental work, typically involving a great deal of dental surgery along with the inevitable exposure to the toxins associated with anaerobic dental infections and the inescapable assimilation of some mercury vapor if amalgams were being removed. However, all of these patients received 50-gram (50,000 mg) infusions of vitamin C administered continuously before, during, and following the dental sessions. In patients with diseases that I had been led to believe could not really be improved upon, dramatic clinical improvement was routinely apparent immediately following the dental sessions.

Comment: Don't miss Vitamin C - A cure for Ebola for more crucial information.

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Quenelle - Golden

Pharmaceutical nightmare: 30 million Americans on antidepressants and 21 other facts

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge.com
Thu, 04 Sep 2014 07:46 UTC
Pharmaceutical addiction culture
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Has there ever been a nation more hooked on drugs than the United States? And I am not just talking about illegal drugs - the truth is that the number of Americans addicted to legal drugs is far greater than the number of Americans addicted to illegal drugs. As you will read about below, more than 30 million Americans are currently on antidepressants and doctors in the U.S. wrote more than 250 million prescriptions for painkillers last year. Sadly, most people got hooked on these drugs very innocently. They trusted that their doctors would never prescribe something for them that would be harmful, and they trusted that the federal government would never approve any drugs that were not safe. And once the drug companies get you hooked, they often have you for life.

You see, the reality of the matter is that some of these "legal drugs" are actually some of the most addictive substances on the entire planet. And when they start raising the prices on those drugs, there isn't much that the addicts can do about it. It is a brutally efficient business model, and the pharmaceutical industry guards their territory fiercely. Very powerful people will often do some really crazy things when there are hundreds of billions of dollars at stake. The following are 22 facts about America's endless pharmaceutical nightmare that everyone should know...

#1 According to the New York Times, more than 30 million Americans are currently taking antidepressants.

#2 The rate of antidepressant use among middle aged women is far higher than for the population as a whole. At this point, one out of every four women in their 40s and 50s is taking an antidepressant medication.

#3 Americans account for about five percent of the global population, but we buy more than 50 percent of the pharmaceutical drugs.

#4 Americans also consume a whopping 80 percent of all prescription painkillers.

Comment: It is no wonder that America is the most drugged country in the world. How else to explain why people are not aware and up in arms about the fascist psychopathic regime that is running the country and has forced the people to swallow one lie after another. The empire is killing the very soul of its people and is stunting the normal human development, with the imposition of the values of the psychopathic mind as being the new norm. Only a people that are asleep would ever call it the American dream, when most people on the outside of America can see that it is a nightmare.

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Donut

New research shows that sugar doesn't just feed cancer -- it causes it

Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo
Sat, 30 Aug 2014 14:08 UTC
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The average American consumes their body weight annually in this cancer-causing substance, and yet hospitals freely feed it to their cancer patients, oblivious to the harm it does.

Hospitals feed cancer patients sugar and high carbohydrate diets for a reason: they are abysmally ignorant of the role of nutrition in health and disease -- hence their burgeoning growth and packed rooms.

Even though the science itself shows - at least since the mid-20's with Otto Warburg's cancer hypothesis -- that tumors prefer to utilize sugar fermentation to produce energy rather than the much more efficient oxygen-based phosphorylation* - hospitals have actually invited corporations like McDonald's to move into their facilities to 'enhance' their patient's gustatory experience, presumably to provide comfort and take the edge off of the painful surgery, radiation and chemo treatments erroneously proffered to them as the only reasonable 'standard of care.'

But the times are changing, with new research requiring these medical institutions to reform their dietary strategies, at least if they wish to claim that their interventions are in fact 'evidence-based' ...

Comment: For more on the healing properties of the ketogenic diet see:
The Ketogenic Diet - An Overview

Low-carb ketogenic diet can combat brain cancer, says scientist Adrienne Scheck

Texas man battles deadly lung cancer without chemo using ketogenic diet

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Arrow Down

Double mastectomy for breast cancer 'does not boost survival chances'

Denis Campbell
The Guardian
Wed, 03 Sep 2014 15:38 UTC
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'A breast cancer patient who has bilateral mastectomy will have no better survival than a patient who has lumpectomy plus radiation.'
Women with breast cancer who opt for a double mastectomy to beat the disease do not increase their chances of survival, according to new research.

Having both breasts removed did not extend patients' lives any more than having cancerous lumps removed, followed by radiotherapy. The findings are based on a study of 189,734 women in California with the disease.

"We can now say that the average breast cancer patient who has bilateral mastectomy will have no better survival than the average patient who has lumpectomy plus radiation," said Dr Allison Kurian from Stanford University, the lead scientist for the project.

Ten years after having both breasts removed, 18.8% of women had died, compared with 16.8% of those who had a lumpectomy, then radiation. The paper was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Red Flag

Hillary Clinton: Cheerleader for GMOs

Nick Meyer
althealthworks.com
Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:02 UTC
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Thanks to the tireless work of millions of activists, journalists and movements like the worldwide March Against Monsanto, the term "GMO" has become a word imbued with all sorts of negative connotations, one synonymous with the deception, health, and environmental risks of this dangerously under-tested technology.

But Monsanto and the Biotech industry in general are working to undo their years of hard work by "rebranding" GMOs, genetically modified food, and other industry terms that have become the target of activists everywhere.
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Red Flag

Ebola outbreak "spiraling out of control" sez CDC Director


CBS Atlanta
Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:27 UTC
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Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tom Frieden testifies during a hearing before the Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Aug. 7, 2014 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
The director for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says that the Ebola outbreak is going to get worse.

Speaking to "CBS This Morning" following his trip to the West African countries dealing with the outbreak, Dr. Tom Frieden explained that they have to act now to try to get Ebola under control.

"It is the world's first Ebola epidemic and it is spiraling out of control. It's bad now and it's going to get worse in the very near future," Frieden told CBS News. "There is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down, but that window is closing. We really have to act now."

Frieden, who visited Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, will tell Washington tomorrow that the Ebola outbreak is "spiraling upward." The CDC director explained that these countries still need help to deal with the deadly outbreak.

"We need to support countries with resources, with technical experts and with cooperation. Too many places are sealing off these countries," Frieden told CBS News. "If we do that, paradoxically, it's going to reduce safety everywhere else. Whether we like it or not, we're all connected and it's in our interest to help them tamp this down and control it."
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