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China Faces New Health Scare Over "Bad Vaccines"


Breitbart
Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:36 UTC
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A Chinese school boy receives a A(H1N1) swine flu vaccine injection at a school in Beijing in October.
Four years ago, Qiang Qiang was a healthy boy. Now, he is epileptic and has trouble keeping up at school -- problems that emerged after a vaccination against Japanese encephalitis.

The seven-year-old is one of dozens of youngsters in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi whose parents believe their children may have suffered serious side effects from vaccines in the country's latest public health scare.

"His teacher at school tells us he is dumb, that he has short memory and cannot follow classes," his father Gao Changhong told AFP.

"We have spent nearly 60,000 yuan ($8,800) to try to cure him, and we really hope the government will take this situation seriously."

A Chinese state media report last month said four children had died and more than 70 others in Shanxi fell ill after they received shots against illnesses such as hepatitis B and rabies between 2006 and 2008.

The China Economic Times report blamed vaccines that had been exposed to excessive heat and should have been destroyed.
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Transplanted Organs Impart Memories Onto Recipients

Ethan A. Huff
NaturalNews
Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00 UTC
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Becoming an organ donor is a great way to help out a person in the event of one's death. A study has shown, however, that sometimes donor recipients take on certain characteristics or personality traits from the donor, a phenomenon that researchers are having a difficult time explaining.

Paul Pearsall, a neuropsychologist, wrote about this interesting topic in his book, The Heart's Code: Tapping the Wisdom and Power of Our Heart Energy. In it, he provides insight into his belief that the physical heart contains within it memories belonging to its person. Part of Pearsall's research for the book included tracking several real life cases of heart transplant recipients who mysteriously inherited some of their donors' traits.

In one case, a Spanish-speaking man began using words that he had not used prior to his transplant. He received his heart from a man named David who had died in a car accident. David's wife, Glenda, when meeting the recipient of her husband's heart for the first time, used the word "copacetic" to describe the situation. The recipient's mother quickly replied that her son had begun using that word for the first time and that it did not even have a Spanish equivalent, indicating that he had adopted the word from David.
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Battle Depression and Anxiety with This Inexpensive Amino Acid

Danna Norek
NaturalNews
Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00 UTC
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Billions of dollars are spent yearly on the costs associated with depression and anxiety disorders. It's no surprise when you consider the statistic that about ten percent of the US population suffers from depression. Most Americans are not aware that a simple, inexpensive amino acid called 5-HTP can help relieve many mood issues that revolve around anxiety and depression.

Much of the significant profit made by pharmaceutical companies is made through sales of various antidepressants, anti anxiety, and mood related drugs. That's pretty amazing considering that the average patient must try at least 3 different antidepressants before they find one that actually works for them.

Most antidepressants on the market have side effects so unsavory that the symptom may be better than the treatment. That doesn't exactly make a great case for treating depression with these hard core meds.
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Bisphenol A Has Not Gone Away

Aaron Turpen
NaturalNews
Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00 UTC
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Most readers of NaturalNews are well aware of the health concerns around bisphenol A (BPA). Most parents know that everything their baby comes in contact with should be BPA-free. BPA has been linked to heart disease, sexual dysfunction, and more.[1] Yet despite all of this, as well as concerns from the FDA, the chemical can be found everywhere - usually in places you don't suspect.

Even with all of the reasons to be worried about what BPA could be (or is known to be) doing to us, however, it is still all over the food supply world-wide, including here in the U.S. This is evidenced by the recent study which was also highlighted here at NaturalNews where 90% of cord blood from babies was found to contain BPA.[2]

What most people are unaware of is that BPA is still widely used in the food industry. If you consume anything in a can (soda, canned foods, etc.) or anything in polycarbonate plastic containers (not labeled as BPA-free), or if you regularly microwave those plastic containers, put them in the dishwasher at high temperatures, or put hot foods directly into them after cooking,... you are being exposed to BPA.
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Protect Your Pet: Common Pet Poisons in People Food and Plants

Aaron Turpen
NaturalNews
Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00 UTC
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We all love our pets, whether they are cats, dogs, birds, or all of the above. There are foods that might be considered fine for you and your family, but are definitely not for your four-legged friends. Many of these are commonly understood to be bad, but some are not so obvious. Let's look at human foods that might be all right for you to eat, but definitely aren't good for the critters in your household.[1]

Chocolate

Chocolate and foods related to the cacao bean, such as coffee, contain what's called methylxanthines. These are part of the "caffeine kick" that these foods provide, but they can cause severe digestive and diuretic problems for your pets.

Alcohol

While many might enjoy a glass of vino occasionally, almost all alcoholic beverages are not good for your pets. All the symptoms of a Saturday night frat party will appear in your pet, but aren't funny at all. In fact, they can be deadly.
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New Hope for Multiple Sclerosis Patients from UV Light from the Sun (Beyond Vitamin D)

S. L. Baker
NaturalNews
Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00 UTC
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It's not a new idea that multiple sclerosis (MS) is somehow tied to sunlight -- or, rather, the lack of adequate exposure to sunlight. For more than three decades, researchers have noted that MS is much more common in higher latitudes than in the tropics. So, because bright sunlight is more abundant near the equator and sunlight exposure results in the body producing vitamin D, some scientists have reasoned that increased vitamin D levels may lower the risk of MS.

In fact, for those who already have MS, a neurological disease marked by a deterioration in nerves' electrical conduction, vitamin D may reduce their symptoms, according to Hector DeLuca, the Steenbock Research Professor of Biochemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison. However, in a study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), DeLuca and fellow researcher Bryan Becklund conclude the ultraviolet (UV) portion of sunlight could play an even more important role than vitamin D in preventing and/or controlling the MS.

"Since the 1970s, a lot of people have believed that sunlight worked through vitamin D to reduce MS," DeLuca, one of the world's top vitamin D researchers, said in a statement to the media. "It's true that large doses of the active form of vitamin D can block the disease in the animal model. That causes an unacceptably high level of calcium in the blood, but we know that people at the equator don't have this high blood calcium, even though they have a low incidence of MS. So it seems that something other than vitamin D could explain this geographic relationship."
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Nanotechnology - the new threat to food

Georgia Miller
Friends of the Earth Nanotechnology Project
Tue, 08 May 2007 06:59 UTC
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Following on from genetic engineering, nanotechnology represents the latest high technology attempt to infiltrate our food supply. Senior scientists have warned that nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the scale of atoms and molecules, introduces serious new risks to human and environmental health. Yet in the absence of public debate, or oversight from regulators, unlabelled foods manufactured using nanotechnology have begun to appear on our supermarket shelves.

Around the world there is an increase in interest in our food, health and environment. Where are products produced, how, why, by whom, how far have they travelled, how long have they been stored etc. The organic and local food movements have emerged as an intuitive and practical response to the increasing use of chemicals in food production, and to the growing alienation of industrial agribusiness from holistic agricultural systems. People have chosen to eat organic foods because they care about the health of their families and the health of the environment. Organic agriculture also enables people to support integrated, environmentally friendly agriculture, and appropriate technology, rather than chemical-intensive factory farming.
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Seasonal Flu Vaccines Increase Risk of Pandemic H1N1 Flu, Stunned Scientists Discover

Mike Adams
NaturalNews
Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00 UTC
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I remember the H1N1 "swine flu" season of 2009 very well. People were rushing out to get vaccinated, scared half to death by the mainstream media which was pushing false reports that the swine flu would kill tens of millions of people and that only a vaccine could save you. The CDC and health authorities were pushing a double-barreled vaccine strategy that demanded people get both a seasonal flu shot as well as an H1N1 pandemic flu shot. Those who questioned the sensibility of vaccines for fighting the flu were attacked as "baby killers" for not kow-towing to the vaccine mythology that drives Big Pharma's profits to record profits nearly every flu season.

I specifically remember writing an article here on NaturalNews, warning people that taking a seasonal flu shot actually weakened your immune system and made you more susceptible to H1N1 swine flu.

This suggestion earned me a highly accusatory email from a CDC employee who suggested that warning people to avoid the swine flu vaccine shot was equivalent to "an act of terrorism" and that all those who questioned vaccines should be arrested and stopped from writing anything on the internet ever again.

(Hilarious, isn't it, how deeply the vaccine mythology drives these vaccine-pushing nut jobs?)
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Mouth Breathing Can Cause Major Health Problems


PRNewswire
Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:55 UTC
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Dentists May Be First to Diagnose Patients Who Mouth Breathe

For some, the phrase "spring is in the air" is quite literal. When the winter snow melts and flowers bloom, pollen and other materials can wreak havoc on those suffering from seasonal allergies, usually causing a habit called "mouth breathing." The physical, medical and social problems associated with mouth breathing are not recognized by most health care professionals, according to a study published in the January/February 2010 issue of General Dentistry, the peer-reviewed clinical journal of the Academy of General Dentistry (AGD). Dentists typically request that their patients return every six months, which means that some people see their dentist more frequently than they see their physician. As a result, dentists may be the first to identify the symptoms of mouth breathing. And, because dentists understand the problems associated with mouth breathing, they can help prevent the adverse effects.
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People Power! US: Pay now, eat later. More consumers are investing in shares of produce from central Ohio fields

Robin Davis
The Columbus Dispatch
Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:52 UTC
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The hottest shares these days aren't associated with the stock market, and they don't promise cash returns. Instead, people are investing in farms that participate in "community-supported agriculture" -- with the payback in produce. Locavores and farm-market aficionados are flocking to buy memberships, or shares, in return for weekly deliveries.

For farmers and consumers, the situation is win-win but not without risks.
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