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Do You Have TRD? Does Your Child Have Schizophrenia? Pharma Hopes So

Martha Rosenberg
OpEd News
Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:26 UTC
Like Wall Street trying to replace the credit default swap/ high risk mortgage gravy train, pharma is cooking up new diseases to sell.

While the "disease" of menopause and aging filled pharma coffers for forty years--Over 35? You Might Be At Risk for Menopause!--hormone replacement therapy was found to cause not prevent the host of symptoms women feared.

Pharma tried to replace HRT dollars with a thinning bones fear campaign until its bone wonder drugs, bisphosphonates like Fosamax, Boniva and Actonal, were found to cause not prevent fractures and osteonecrosis of the jaw bone at times. Nor did it help that Boniva czar Sally Field allegedly broke a bone. Oops.
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Heart

Bowen Therapy is Holistic, Non-Invasive and Effective

Cathy Sherman
Natural News
Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:15 UTC
The therapist touches and lightly squeezes the migraine patient in a few places and then leaves the room for two minutes. He repeats this procedure for the entire 45-minute appointment. After several weeks of such sessions, the patient reports that the migraines have diminished in frequency. How could anything so simple do so much?

This technique, which isn't quite chiropractic, not quite massage, and not quite acupuncture, was introduced to the energy healing scene in the 1950's by Australian Tom Bowen. Though untrained, he had learned from watching trainers and therapists. Sensing vibrations and tension in muscles and other soft tissues, he figured out what to manipulate to help the sufferer. Bowen saw thousands of patients a year and claimed an 88% success rate.
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Taste of wine influenced by cosmic forces

Julie Henry
The Telegraph
Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:32 UTC
The taste of wine changes with the lunar calendar, according to experts at leading supermarkets.

Tesco and Marks and Spencer, which sell about a third of all wine drunk in Britain, now invite critics to taste their ranges only at times when the biodynamic calendar suggest they will be at their best.

Marks and Spencer has even gone a step further and is advising customers to avoid disappointment from the best bottles by making sure not to open them on "root" days.

The cosmic calendar has been published for the last 47 years by a gardening great-grandmother called Maria Thun, who lives in rural Germany. She categories days as "fruit", "flower", "leaf" or "root", according to the moon and stars.

Comment: Just a little note that Marks & Spencer is a company linked to Zionism.

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Health

High fructose corn syrup: How dangerous is it?

Jennifer Goldstein
Microsoft National Broadcasting
Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:05 UTC
Sweetener has been called diet enemy No. 1 - but that's not the full story

In the grand tradition of nutritional scapegoating, high fructose corn syrup has stepped into the spotlight as dietary enemy No. 1. It's an easy target. The corn-based sweetener is found throughout the American diet, in everything from sugary foods like soda and cookies to savory products like tomato sauce and salad dressing.

That's precisely the problem, say critics who blame the vast quantities we consume for the nation's soaring rates of obesity and diabetes.

But not everyone is convinced. Last June, the Corn Refiners Association launched an ad campaign telling the other side of the story - namely, that HFCS is "made from corn [and] has the same calories as sugar."

The mixed messages have left consumers looking for answers. Prevention investigated - and found little conclusive evidence to confirm the anti-HFCS crusade.
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Health

Soothing tunes may reduce stress in heart patients


The Guardian
Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:23 UTC
Listening to soothing music may ease anxiety in people with heart disease, and also lower their blood pressure and heart rate, according to a new review of studies.

What do we know already?

If you have coronary heart disease, the arteries that carry blood to your heart are narrowed with fatty deposits. This is a serious condition that can lead to a heart attack if your heart doesn't get enough blood. Coronary heart disease is the most common cause of death in the UK, with around 1 in 5 men and 1 in 7 women dying from the disease.

However, there are good treatments, which can help people to feel better and live longer. Even so, many people are understandably anxious about their disease, and worry about their future. If their stress is severe, this can actually worsen their condition by raising their heart rate and blood pressure, as well as their heart's demand for oxygen.
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Britain's gloomy weather boosts the brain, claim Australian scientists

Richard Alleyne
The Telegraph
Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:57 UTC
Cheer up - Britain's gloomy weather may not be good for the soul but it's great for the mind, claim scientists in sunny Australia.

Psychologists have discovered that people performed better in memory tests when the weather was bad and they were feeling grumpy.

The research discovered that the worse the weather and the more depressed the individual, the sharper their brain.
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When Farm Sprays Go Astray

Leigh Dayton and Matthew Denholm
The Australian
Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:54 UTC
When fisheries veterinarian Matthew Landos got his first look at the double-headed fish embryos in a Queensland hatchery, he had no idea he would soon team up with a Tasmanian doctor worried that the widespread use of agricultural and forestry chemicals was making her patients sick.
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Poor Diabetes Control Increases Dementia Risk

Neomi Heroux
HealthNews.com
Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:44 UTC
Diabetics face the daily issue of controlling their insulin levels to avoid extreme high and low blood sugar, which is known to be detrimental to overall health. Medical data clearly links type 2 diabetes with the possibility of heart attack and stroke, and a study published in the April 15 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association connects the disease to increased risk of dementia.
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People

Affirmations help narrow achievement gap: study

Julie Steenhuysen
Reuters
Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:32 UTC
Short writing assignments in which students discuss their most cherished value may be a powerful new tool to help struggling black youths reduce stress and boost their grades, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

Twelve- and 13-year-old black students who did a series of 15-minute writing exercises saw their grades improve significantly over the course a year, and the benefit has persisted two years after the exercises stopped, they said.

"The effects were primarily among low-achieving African-American students," Geoffrey Cohen of the University of Colorado at Boulder, whose study appears in the journal Science, said in an audio interview on the Science website.
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People

University study finds Facebook may be linked to lower grades

Vanessa Schutt
The Pacific Index
Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:28 UTC
Is your Facebook time affecting your grades here at Pacific? According to a pilot study from Ohio State University, there may be a relationship between the amount of time a student spends on the social networking site and their grade point average.

The study found that college students who use the site spend less time studying and have lower grade point averages than those students who do not use Facebook.

"We can't say that the use of Facebook leads to lower grades and less studying," said Aryn Karpinski, one of the study's authors. "But we did find a relationship there."
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