Health & Wellness

Oil is more toxic than previously thought, study finds

Dean Kuipers
The Los Angeles Times
Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:00 UTC

© Dr. Carol Vines, UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory
Photos from a UC Davis / NOAA study show the effects of phototoxicity in Pacific herring embryos. Embryos on the left are unexposed to oil; those on the right have been in oil and then exposed to sunlight and show cells destroyed.

Bad news for the Gulf of Mexico: a study released this week sheds new light on the toxicity of oil in aquatic environments, and shows that environmental impact studies currently in use may be inadequate. The report is to be published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The study, spearheaded by the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory in collaboration with NOAA, looked into the aftermath of the 2007 Cusco Busan spill, when that tanker hit the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and spilled 54,000 gallons of bunker fuel into the bay.

The key finding involved the embryos of Pacific herring that spawn in the bay. The fish embryos absorbed the oil and then, when exposed to UV rays in sunlight, physically disintegrated. This is called phototoxicity, and has not previously been taken into account when talking about oil spills.

Is the FDA Trying to Take Away Your Vitamins?

Deirdre Imus
FoxNews.com
Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:28 UTC

What began as a murmur last year about a possible ban on thousands of dietary supplements in the U.S. has reached cacophonous levels over the last few months, as the Food and Drug Administration indicated its intent to regulate "new dietary ingredients" in current and future products.

What does this mean? And, more importantly, how might it affect you and your health?

This past summer, the FDA issued a draft of guidelines for complying with the New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) notification protocols. Translation: Any company or individual wishing to sell or develop a supplement containing new ingredients would have to notify the FDA of their intent. A "new" ingredient is defined as one added after 1994, when Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). If the FDA deems a new ingredient unsafe or unscientific, the entire supplement can be removed from the market.

Just. Like. That.

To Achieve Optimal Health, Eat 50-70% of This Frequently Demonized Food

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:02 UTC

Comment: To learn more about the benefits of a diet high in saturated fats and why Saturated Fat is Good for You read the following articles:

Get Saturated: Four Reasons Saturated Fat is Healthy
Enjoy Saturated Fats, They're Good for You!
Wrongly Convicted? The Case for Saturated Fat
The Big Lie: "Saturated Fats Are Bad For You"
You've Been Living A Lie: The Story Of Saturated Fat And Cholesterol
The Forbidden Food You Should Never Stop Eating

Preventive care: It's free, except when it's not

Carla K. Johnson
The Sacramento Bee
Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:18 UTC

Chicago - Bill Dunphy thought his colonoscopy would be free.

© Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo
In this photo taken Dec. 2, 2011, Bill Dunphy poses for a photo in Phoenix. Dunphy, a 61-year-old small business owner, thought his colonoscopy would be free under the nation's year-old health care law.

His insurance company told him it would be covered 100 percent, with no copayment from him and no charge against his deductible. The nation's 1-year-old health law requires most insurance plans to cover all costs for preventive care including colon cancer screening. So Dunphy had the procedure in April.

Then the bill arrived: $1,100.

Dunphy, a 61-year-old Phoenix small business owner, angrily paid it out of his own pocket because of what some prevention advocates call a loophole. His doctor removed two noncancerous polyps during the colonoscopy. So while Dunphy was sedated, his preventive screening turned into a diagnostic procedure. That allowed his insurance company to bill him.

Like many Americans, Dunphy has a high-deductible insurance plan. He hadn't spent his deductible yet. So, on top of his $400 monthly premium, he had to pay the bill.

The Danger of CT Scans: The Leading Cause of Breast Cancer?

John LaForge
Counterpunch
Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:40 UTC

Profiteers in the medical CT scan business took a big hit last week from a major new government report on the causes of breast cancer.

Published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, the exhaustive analysis found that medical radiation, particularly the large radiation dose delivered by CT scans, is the foremost identifiable cause of breast cancer.[1]

Almost 230,480 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed this year in the United States, and about 40,000 women will die of the disease, roughly one out of every 3,875 women.

The new Institute of Medicine report probably doesn't sit well with the industry, hospitals and clinics that make so many millions of dollars selling and over-using CT machines. The authors suggest that women avoid "unnecessary" or "inappropriate" medical radiation, a thinly veiled criticism of the industry that will give you a CT scan for a tooth ache if you don't object to it.

Health Canada Admits Studies on Cell Phones Convincing Enough To Promote Limited Use

Marco Torres
PreventDisease
Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:51 UTC

Ignorance may or may not be bliss, but one thing is certain -- it is very profitable. At least that's what cell phone companies count on to increase their bottom line. Health Canada may not be the most reputable agency when it comes to protecting the health of Canadians, but a promising initiative from the regulating body is proposing to adopt a precautionary approach and guidelines for limited cellphone use.

Canadians are encouraged to limit cellphone call length and to text message or use a hands-free device whenever possible (to increase the distance between the cellphone and the user's head). Those under 18 should be especially careful to limit all cellphone use. Children are still growing and are therefore much more sensitive to external agents such as radiation.
In May, mobile phone owners were urged to limit their use after the World Health Organisation admitted they may cause cancer. The UN's health agency were the first international governing agency to advise 'pragmatic' measures to reduce exposure, such as using hands-free kits and texting instead of calling.

Despite decades of evidence, the disturbing report from the WHO marked the first time a link was admitted between mobiles and cancer, and follows earlier research linking just half an hour's use a day with up to 40 per cent higher odds of brain cancer.

Dow's New GM Corn: The Return of Agent Orange

Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo
Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:20 UTC

Whether you are aware of it or not, your food, air and water are the battle ground upon which a titanic struggle between the multinational biotech corporations Monsanto and Dow AgroScience is now playing out. As a result, your health and environment (and that of all future generations) are at risk of being irreparably harmed.

Dow AgroSciences (a subsidiary of Dow Chemicals) recently announced their development of genetically-engineered corn, soybean, and cotton plants metabolically resistant to the herbicide 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), a major ingredient in Agent Orange. What this means for our future is that, if approved for use, vast regions of our country will soon be sprayed with a chemical that has been linked to over 400,000 birth defects in Vietnam.

How did we end up here?

History is repeating itself before our eyes. Dow Chemicals and Monsanto, joined at the karmic hip, both manufactured Agent Orange for use in Vietnam, and both are notorious for minimizing the adverse health effects associated with exposure to the agent. Neither corporation learned from its mistakes, largely because the US government underwrote the risk of using the chemical, and therefore shielded them from the bulk of the legal and financial fallout. But this lack of culpability has now set up the conditions for a reliving of the horrors of systemic herbicide exposure, only this time on American soil, with Monsanto choosing glyphosate (also a birth-defect causing chemical), and Dow sticking with its old time favorite.

America's Deadly Pill Crisis: What Are the 10 Most Dangerous Meds?

Kevin Gray
Alternet
Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:25 UTC

More Americans now die from prescription pills than car accidents. The nation's response to the trend will define an era, but corporate influence threatens reform.

For the first time in nearly a century, automobile accidents are no longer the nation's leading cause of accidental deaths, according to a major report released Tuesday by the National Center for Health Statistics. The new number one killer is drugs - not smack, crystal meth or any other stepped-on menace sold in urban alleyways or trailer parks, but bright, shiny pills prescribed by doctors, approved by the government, manufactured by pharmaceutical companies and sold to the consumer as "medicine." Yet of the billions of legit pills Americans pop every year for medical conditions serious and otherwise, the vast majority of lives are claimed by only a select few classes - painkillers, sedatives and stimulants - that all share a common characteristic: they promote abuse, dependence and addiction.

"This is just the tip of the iceberg of the prescription drug abuse problem," says Dr. Margaret Warner, the federal report's lead author. "The take-home here is, this should be a wake-up call." Some 41,000 Americans died from what the report refers to as "poisonings" in 2008, compared with 38,000 traffic deaths. That tally marks a 90 percent increase in poisonings and a 15 percent decrease in car accidents since 1999.

Multidrug-resistant Meat Contaminations Spoil Holiday Meals; Prompt Recalls

Rady Ananda
foodfreedom.wordpress.com
Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:05 UTC

Tyson recalls 41,000 pounds of ground beef; Hannaford nearly all

Per the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service, on Dec. 20, Tyson Meats, Inc. recalled 41,000 pounds of its ground beef from 16 states, suspecting an E. coli O157:H7 contamination. Last week, Hannaford Stores, a Scarborough, Maine-based grocery chain, recalled an unspecified amount of fresh ground beef products that may be contaminated with a multidrug resistant strain of Salmonella Typhimurium.

The Tyson products may be packaged under different brand names, per FSIS. Full list here [PDF]. Tyson's products subject to recall have a "BEST BEFORE OR FREEZE BY" date of "11/13/11″ and "EST. 245C" on the box label. The products were shipped to institutions and distributors in Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Hannaford's various ground beef packages bear sell-by or freeze-by dates of Dec. 17, 2011 or earlier and were sold at Hannaford stores throughout Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont.

Why Many Vitamin Studies are Absolutely Worthless

Anthony Gucciardi
Natural Society
Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:26 UTC

Does vitamin E naturally help protect against the effects of aging, or does it lead to liver damage and complications associated with lung cancer? Well, it depends on what the study authors want to tell you. The synthetic version of vitamin E is a petrochemically derived analogue of natural vitamin E that is capable of disrupting the endocrine system, whereas the natural form of vitamin E is effective against aging, oxidative stress, and hundreds of other conditions. The truth of the matter is that many - if not most - of vitamin studies are completely worthless, as they use isolated synthetic vitamins or low quality multivitamin supplements loaded with toxic fillers and synthetic ingredients.

Study authors could use high quality food-based multivitamins without any fillers or harmful ingredients, but they generally do not. Whether this is due to nutritional ignorance regarding the true nature of the pharmaceutical company-dominated supplement industry (think highly-popular Centrum, which we will soon discuss) or the fact that these researchers truly think that essential nutrients are damaging to your health, the fact of the matter is that very few studies utilize the right form of vitamins.

Hahaha, another in the long line of idiot children getting high paying jobs.

Michael L

The indoctrination must continue - they will never be good slaves unless they are totally brainwashed whilst still children

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Health & Wellness

Oil is more toxic than previously thought, study finds

Is the FDA Trying to Take Away Your Vitamins?

To Achieve Optimal Health, Eat 50-70% of This Frequently Demonized Food

Preventive care: It's free, except when it's not

The Danger of CT Scans: The Leading Cause of Breast Cancer?

Health Canada Admits Studies on Cell Phones Convincing Enough To Promote Limited Use

Dow's New GM Corn: The Return of Agent Orange

America's Deadly Pill Crisis: What Are the 10 Most Dangerous Meds?

Multidrug-resistant Meat Contaminations Spoil Holiday Meals; Prompt Recalls

Why Many Vitamin Studies are Absolutely Worthless

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