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Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury


Washington Post
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:44 UTC
High Fructose Corn Syrup
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High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)
Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or second-highest labeled ingredient, according to two new U.S. studies.

HFCS has replaced sugar as the sweetener in many beverages and foods such as breads, cereals, breakfast bars, lunch meats, yogurts, soups and condiments. On average, Americans consume about 12 teaspoons per day of HFCS, but teens and other high consumers can take in 80 percent more HFCS than average.
"Mercury is toxic in all its forms. Given how much high-fructose corn syrup is consumed by children, it could be a significant additional source of mercury never before considered. We are calling for immediate changes by industry and the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] to help stop this avoidable mercury contamination of the food supply,"
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's Dr. David Wallinga, a co-author of both studies, said in a prepared statement.
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Frankenplants in the service of Big Pharma: Scientists develop GMO plant that produces pharmaceutical drugs

Ethan A. Huff
Natural News
Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:46 UTC
GMO plant
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Splicing and dicing natural plant compounds and patenting them for profit may be a thing of the past for drug companies, at least in terms of them having to do it manually in a laboratory. It might seem like something out of a science fiction movie, but a team of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has actually developed a way to genetically engineer plants that are programmed to create pharmaceutical drugs instead of their natural healing compounds.

You read that right. Sarah O'Connor and her colleagues from MIT added bacterial genes to periwinkle plants that altered their natural alkaloid production system, causing them to accept external chemical additions. Chemists then added halogens like chlorine and bromine to the plants' biosynthetic mechanisms, which altered the composition of the final alkaloids. So instead of producing their natural alkaloids, the altered periwinkles literally started producing synthetic pharmaceutical drug versions of those alkaloids instead.
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70% of World's Raw Chocolate Soon To Be Genetically Modified


Prevent Disease
Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:07 UTC
With the intention of flooding 70% of the global cocoa supply with genetically modified (GMO) cocoa tree hybrids, a collaboration involving Mars, USDA and IBM is accelerating this process.

With primary funding from US chocolate producer Mars, the partnership includes scientists based at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the US Department of Agriculture and Science as well as researchers working at IBM's Thomas J Watson Research Center.

The scientists are determined to finalize gene sequencing of the cocoa genome which they say will "benefit" the chocolate industry and cocoa growers in West Africa where 70 percent of the world's cocoa is produced, and in other tropical zones.
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Syringe

Does Having RH-negative blood Make you more susceptible to Mercury Toxicity in Vaccines?

Starfire
RH Negative blood, fact and theory
Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:27 UTC
Last week I was studying legal cases relating to the RhoGam brand of Anti-D. I stumbled upon an interesting case and read the full text of of the proceedings. Here is the name of the case I read.
John and Jane DOE 2, Individually, and as Guardians ad Litem, of Minor Child Doe 2, Plaintiffs,
v. ORTHO-CLINICAL DIAGNOSTICS, INC., Defendant.
No. 1:03CV00669.
United States District Court, M.D. North Carolina.
While reading this case, I found that one of the expert witnesses was a geneticist named Dr. Mark Geier. During the course of the proceedings I found that Dr. Geier mentioned studies specifically talking about RH negative mothers having a higher incidence of children with Autism, and Autism Spectrum Disorders, learning disabilities etc. So, I went looking for his research. This is what I found.

Comment: SOTT urges all of those who are dealing with Mercury toxicity issues to check out the works of Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Sherry Rogers, Dr. Sydney MacDonald Baker, and others spearheading the field of detoxing the body. There are detox programs for children as well as adults that are demonstrating remarkable results.

Also, for body detox assistance, please check the Éiriú Eolas where you can learn about this remarkable stress-control, healing, detoxing and rejuvenation program. Scientific studies show that stimulation of the vagus nerve assists the body in detoxing and boosts the immune system. And those are just two of the benefits of learning and regularly practicing this program!

Finally, scientific studies have shown a relationship between gluten and casein sensitivity and mercury toxicity. See the work of Dr. Peter Osborne for details. Individuals with type O blood, both positive and negative, appear to be particularly sensitive to gluten and casein. There are many articles and studies in the SOTT Health and Wellness database on this topic.

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Kids of Deployed Soldiers May Face More Mental Health Woes

Maureen Salamon
Health Day News
Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:08 UTC
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Mental and behavioral problems cause children of U.S. soldiers deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and other war zones to need considerably more outpatient medical visits than those with non-deployed parents, a new study suggests.

Researchers examined the medical records of more than 640,000 military children between the ages of 3 and 8, and found that those separated from deployed parents sought treatment 11 percent more often for cases of mood, anxiety and adjustment disorders. Visits for conditions such as autism and attention-deficit disorder, whose causes are not linked to deployment, also increased.

The study, reported online Nov. 8 and in the December issue of the journal Pediatrics, also revealed larger increases in mental and behavioral visits among older children, children with military fathers and children of married military parents.
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Red Flag

When Big Ag Attacks: Government-Sponsored Pesticide Propaganda

Barry Estabrook
The Atlantic
Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:19 UTC
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The White House garden may be green and unsullied by agricultural chemicals, but Obama's United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) just forked over $180,000 to fund an agribusiness-backed smear campaign against the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) "Shopper's Guide to Pesticides," which includes the "Dirty Dozen," a list of the foods most commonly found to have pesticide residue.

In July, a website called SafeFruitsandVeggies.com was launched with the sole purpose of debunking the EWG's guide. The website, with the headline, "The Real Dangers of the Dirty Dozen List," was started by the Alliance for Food and Farming, a California-based group that bills itself as a non-profit organization made up of farmers and farm groups who want to "communicate their commitment to food safety and care for the land."

Comment: The Environmental Working Group's suggestion, to 'reduce your (pesticide) exposures as much as possible' is based on studies showing a connection between prolonged pesticide exposure and negative health effects. Read the following articles for more information:

Wide Range of Diseases Linked to Pesticides

From the article:
The Pesticide-Induced Diseases Database, launched by Beyond Pesticides, facilitates access to epidemiologic and laboratory studies based on real world exposure scenarios that link public health effects to pesticides. The scientific literature documents elevated rates of chronic diseases among people exposed to pesticides, with increasing numbers of studies associated with both specific illnesses and a range of illnesses. With some of these diseases at very high and, perhaps, epidemic proportions, there is an urgent need for public policy at all levels -local, state, and national-to end dependency on toxic pesticides, replacing them with carefully defined green strategies.
Fruit and Vegetables Have 'Unacceptable' Levels of Pesticides
Link Between Pesticides Exposure And Suicidal Thoughts
Research Links Pesticides with ADHD in Children
Pesticide Susceptibility In Children Lasts Longer Than Expected
Pesticides Cause Parkinson's Disease
Cancer and Pesticides: Victims Fight for Justice

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Should You Be Snuggling With Your Cellphone?

Randall Stross
The New York Times
Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:00 UTC
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San Francisco officials voted to require retailers to display how much radiation each cellphone emits. A supporter of the rule wore a button at City Hall.
Warning: Holding a cellphone against your ear may be hazardous to your health. So may stuffing it in a pocket against your body.

I'm paraphrasing here. But the legal departments of cellphone manufacturers slip a warning about holding the phone against your head or body into the fine print of the little slip that you toss aside when unpacking your phone. Apple, for example, doesn't want iPhones to come closer than 5/8 of an inch; Research In Motion, BlackBerry's manufacturer, is still more cautious: keep a distance of about an inch.

The warnings may be missed by an awful lot of customers. The United States has 292 million wireless numbers in use, approaching one for every adult and child, according to C.T.I.A.-The Wireless Association, the cellphone industry's primary trade group. It says that as of June, about a quarter of domestic households were wireless-only.

If health issues arise from ordinary use of this hardware, it would affect not just many customers but also a huge industry. Our voice calls - we chat on our cellphones 2.26 trillion minutes annually, according to the C.T.I.A. - generate $109 billion for the wireless carriers.
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Attention

Kids Get Schooled at McDonald's?

Meg Barone
ctpost.com
Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:45 UTC
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© Meg Barone / Connecticut Post Freelance
Jack Kyzer, 11, of Stratford, a 6th grade student at Eli Whitney School, gets help from Maria Pagan, building his own hamburger sandwich.
Stratford, Connecticut - Since 1955, McDonald's Corp. has served fast food, earning its designation as the world's largest fast-food hamburger chain, and as with most businesses, its emphasis was on the bottom line.

With the growing epidemic of childhood obesity and an escalation in rates of related health issues, McDonald's officials have said it also was good business to serve nutritional facts to young people.

About five years ago, the company initiated nutrition workshops, bringing schoolchildren into their local McDonald's restaurant to learn about calorie counts, sodium levels, fat content and other information about the importance of eating nutritious foods.


Comment: Nutrition workshops sponsored by McDonald's? This has got to be a joke! Read on, it is amazing how a corporation like McDonald's is using the excuse that they are 'teaching school kids about the importance of eating nutritional foods' while in reality they are pushing more of their toxic food!

Sounds like the recent story carried on SOTT:

McDonald's and PepsiCo to help write UK health policy
The Department of Health is putting the fast food companies McDonald's and KFC and processed food and drink manufacturers such as PepsiCo, Kellogg's, Unilever, Mars and Diageo at the heart of writing government policy on obesity, alcohol and diet-related disease, the Guardian has learned.
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Health

How a better diet could beat the suffering of hayfever


The Daily Mail
Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:12 UTC
hayfever sneeze
© Unknown
Can you beat hayfever by changing your diet?
While the rest of us welcome the lengthening days, Britain's ten million hayfever sufferers greet spring with dread at the prospect of months of sore, itchy eyes and violent sneezing.

The bad news is that this year could be far worse than normal, with the National Pollen Research Unit forecasting pollen levels five times higher than last year and close to the highest ever pollen count, recorded in 1992.

Hayfever (seasonal allergic rhinitis or pollinosis) is an allergic reaction - usually triggered by pollen, grasses or mould spores. It accounts for around 2.5 per cent of all GP visits and more than £50 million in medication costs.

Although conventional treatments include antihistamines and steroids, there are alternatives. One of the most interesting theories suggests that what you eat could significantly affect hayfever.
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Evil Rays

GPS addict? It may be eroding your brain

Joan Raymond
MSNBC
Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:45 UTC
Jean Snyder says she isn't afraid of spiders, snakes or even dentists. But she is scared of one little thing: a GPS breakdown.

Snyder's 2005 Honda Odyssey is equipped with GPS, and for the last five years, Snyder hasn't looked at a map, noticed landmarks or even tried new routes to get from point A to point B. Instead, she relies on the disembodied voice of "Jackie," her GPS, to guide her.

"When it comes to finding my way, I've become a GPS zombie," says Snyder, a 47-year-old office manager in Highland Heights, Ohio."I'm sure I'm not doing my brain any favors."

Snyder might be on to something. Three studies by McGill University researchers presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience on Sunday show that the way we navigate the world today may indeed affect just how well our brains function as we age - particularly the hippocampus, which is linked to memory
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