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Illinois governor signs bill banning smoking in cars with minors


WAND
Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:03 UTC
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Smoking will no longer be allowed in cars with anyone under 18 years old in a new Illinois law.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed House Bill 2276 on Friday. Its sponsors include State Sen. Julie Morrison and State Rep. Jonathan Carroll.

The American Lung Association sent a statement in response to the bill passing. It said the law, which takes effect on Jan. 1, 2020, will "make a significant impact" on the health of minors.

"This new law will protect the health of our children. Breathing secondhand smoke causes several health issues in children, like sudden infant death syndrome, asthma, and ear infections, as well as wheezing, coughing, and getting sick more often," said Kathy Drea of the ALA. "It is essential to avoid smoking near children, especially in a small enclosed spaces like cars."

Comment: See also: The epidemic of junk science in tobacco smoking research

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Landmark UN report emphasizes crucial role of regenerative farming practices to address climate & food emergencies

Juliette Majot
Common Dreams
Fri, 09 Aug 2019 19:48 UTC
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Globally, industrialized agriculture now emits extraordinarily high levels of GHG emissions as a sector.
This week, the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a long-awaited report on land, climate change and agriculture.* The report's findings confirm that the agriculture and food systems on which we now depend are no longer viable.

Individual consumer choices in the global north, about what to eat, won't be enough to get rid of a bad system, nor will they be enough to build a just transition to a better one.

While much of the media coverage of the new IPCC report on land and agriculture focus on diet, the report needs to be understood as saying this: we (in protein-rich countries, at the very least), must replace our current large-scale industrialized systems of agriculture and food production with those based on agroecological and regenerative practices. Food security and agricultural resilience, in the face of a changing climate, depends on this.

Comment: Objective:Health: #22 - Poisoned Agriculture, Poisoned World

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Sore muscles? Essential oils for post-workout recovery

Amandine Peter
aromaticstudies
Fri, 23 Aug 2019 14:05 UTC
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Do you fear "leg day", or worse, the day after leg day? Do you struggle to hold your toothbrush the morning after a workout, or even walk down the stairs?
I feel you!

Although muscle soreness is completely normal 24 to 48 hours after working out, it can still be quite a bummer and make your day more difficult than it needs to be.

To be able to prevent and relieve muscle soreness, it helps to know where it comes from. When we perform muscle contractions in a higher intensity than our normal activity, it creates microscopic tears in the muscle tissue1. This process is actually a good thing for your body; your muscles are going to be repaired with stronger and tougher fibers, resulting in creating bigger muscles - like the coveted six pack!

Comment: Botanicals: The benefits of plant-based ingredients

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Eating less gluten could lower a child's risk of celiac

Sara Chodosh
Popular Science
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 00:01 UTC
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Let her eat cake.
It might seem like there's an epidemic of celiac disease going on lately. And in some ways, there is. Prevalence rates in America have increased more than four times in the last 50-odd years, Europe as a whole has seen similarly significant rises, and Sweden had such striking rates of celiac diagnoses from 1984 to 1996 as to warrant a national investigation.

There are a variety of theories as to why, and though it's almost certainly in part due to a rise in awareness about the disease (and gluten-free diets generally), there's another important potential factor that often gets misinterpreted: we're eating more gluten.

Plenty of health bloggers and pseudo-scientists will tell you that the problem, really, is all this processed wheat we eat. They'll say something about how in Europe they've got wheat with much less gluten (bonus points if they tell you celiac folks can eat this gluten-deficient bread), or perhaps just stick to the argument that bread products have gotten more refined and therefore worse for us, and that's why celiac and gluten intolerances have become such a huge deal.

Comment: Despite the dismissive tone to the article above, the question of why some people develop celiac disease remains a mystery, as the author points out. But the idea that one should keep feeding their children gluten, even if they are genetically predisposed to celiac disease holds no merit. The idea that you could miss out on crucial nutrients is absurd - grains are some of the lowest nutrient density foods in the human diet. And since one doesn't need to be celiac to suffer from gluten sensitivity, it seems like a win-win to simply avoid it to see if you benefit.

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Objective:Health - ITN: Fluoride Makes You Stupid | RFK JR Hits Back | Tech Censorship


Sott.net
Sat, 24 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC
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In The News: A new study out of Canada that finds pregnant women consuming fluoridated water leads to children with lower IQ; Big Tech makes changes that censor alternative health websites; Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fights back against pro-vaxxer smears and the corrupt EPA steps in to stop California from labelling RoundUp as carcinogenic.

Join us on this episode of Objective:Health, as we take a closer look at the latest stories making headlines in the world of health.

And have you ever wondered whether your dog is right or left handed? Stay tuned for Zoya's Pet Health Segment, as she tells us about the handedness of our pets.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s excellent rebuttal


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Running Time: 00:58:34

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How exercise treats depression, with Rhonda Patrick

Dr. Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
Thu, 22 Aug 2019 00:01 UTC
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In this short video, Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D., a biomedical scientist and researcher with the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in La Jolla, California, discusses the science behind the mood-lifting effects of exercise.1 Indeed, many experts agree that exercise is one of the most powerful tools available for the prevention and management of depression.

For example, a meta-analysis2 published in 2016, which looked at 23 randomized controlled trials in which exercise was used as treatment for unipolar depression, found that, compared to no intervention, exercise "yielded a large and significant effect size," which led them to conclude, "Physical exercise is an effective intervention for depression."

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Google is taking censorship of health websites to the next level

Joe Cohen
Greenmedinfo.com
Mon, 12 Aug 2019 20:37 UTC
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Something interesting happened in the health world recently, and I haven't seen any news stories about it.

Google is deliberately censoring all "non-mainstream" health websites that have gained any kind of serious traction, without exception.

They're not showing information that users want to see, or respecting what they're searching for. Instead, Google is taking it on themselves to decide what health information you're allowed to see, and changing your search results from behind the scenes.

I know what you're probably thinking: this sounds like a conspiracy theory.
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Have we found the true cause of diabetes, stroke and Alzheimer's?

Debora MacKenzie
New Scientist
Wed, 07 Aug 2019 00:01 UTC
Porphyromonas gingivalis microbe
© Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library
Does this one microbe cause heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer's, diabetes, Parkinson's, pre-term birth, pancreatic cancer and kidney disease... and does that mean we can beat them?
For decades, health experts have been lecturing us about our bad habits, blaming them for the surge in "lifestyle diseases". These often come on as we age and include heart disease, Alzheimer's, type 2 diabetes and some cancers. Worldwide, 70 per cent of all deaths are now attributed to these conditions. In the UK, it is a whopping 90 per cent.

Too much red meat, too little fruit and veg, smoking, drinking, obesity and not enough exercise appear to make all these diseases more likely - and having any of them makes getting the others more likely. But no one really knows why, and we still haven't worked out what causes any of them. Alzheimer's is now one of the UK's biggest killers, yet the main hypothesis for how it originates imploded this year after drugs based on it repeatedly failed. High blood cholesterol is blamed for heart attacks, except most people who have heart attacks don't have it.

What we do know is that these conditions usually start causing symptoms later in life, and their prevalence is skyrocketing as we live longer. They all turn inflammation, the method our immune system uses to kill invaders, against us. And, by definition, these diseases aren't communicable. They are down to bad habits and unlucky genes, not germs. Right?
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Lifting weights as you age cuts your risk of early death by 46%


Fitness & Power
Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:01 UTC
weight training seniors
Great news, fellow lifters. Your training will not only improve your overall health and provide you with incredible strength and mass gains - it will give you a longer lifetime to enjoy those benefits as well!

In the modern society, most of the people tend to lack the skills of aging well - the unhappy mix of bad food choices, sedentary office jobs and piles of mismanaged emotional stress comes with an awful price that is usually felt a lot stronger in the later decades of life. A general life dissatisfaction and a number of painful chronic conditions are just the tip of the iceberg. What about the risk of developing life-threatening diseases that are known to lurk around unhealthy lifestyles, year by year, day by day? If you spend a lifetime treating your body poorly, don't be surprised when it stabs you in the back at old age. Actually, you should thank it for not giving up on you a lot earlier.

A new longitudinal study from Penn State College of Medicine informs us that strength training can increase your longevity, especially if you keep continually practising it as you age. The researchers examined people in their 60's about their exercise habits and preferences and then tracked them for the next 15 years - thus losing nearly a third of the original number of participants, who died in that period of time. That being said, the almost 10 percent of subjects who did strenght training were 46% less likely to die during the study. Additionally, this study has shown that strength training can reduce the risk of death by 19% even among a population of subjects with common health risk factors like drinking and smoking, and suffering from chronic conditions such as hypertension.

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Broccoli is dying. Corn is toxic. Long live microbiomes!

Louise Elizabeth Maher-Johnson and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Scientific American
Tue, 20 Aug 2019 00:01 UTC
regenerative skyhill farm
© Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Regenerative farmer Louise Maher-Johnson at her Skyhill Farm, with free-range heritage chickens and microbiomes.
Let's move past the green and gene revolutions to a microbiome renaissance

As food writer Mark Bittman recently remarked, since food is defined as "a substance that provides nutrition and promotes growth" and poison is "a substance that promotes illness," then "much of what is produced by industrial agriculture is, quite literally, not food but poison." Of course, it doesn't have to be this way. Eliminating pesticides and transitioning to organic regenerative farming can get us back on track to nutritious food, restore microbiomes and protect our health. Let's break all this down, and then talk solutions.

"You would have to eat twice as much broccoli today to get the same nutrients as a generation ago." That is according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, from 1975 to 2010, as reported by Planetary Health/Amberwaves. So much chewing! And in fact, the situation may be even more dire. Data going back to 1940, as reported by Eco Farming Daily, shows: "The level of every nutrient in almost every kind of food has fallen between 10 and 100 percent. An individual today would need to consume twice as much meat, three times as much fruit, and four to five times as many vegetables to obtain the same amount of minerals and trace elements available in those same foods in 1940." Thank goodness for multivitamins, but we've also got to fix this.

Comment: It's encouraging to see a mainstream publication like Scientific American actually getting it. Despite the acceptance of the 'carbon effects climate' propaganda, the authors illustrate the dire need for us to move away from the dead paradigm of chemical agriculture to regenerative agriculture. Whether it be for our own microbiomes or the microbiomes of the soil, we need to embrace this new (or very old) system - our future depends on it.

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