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Tooth Decay and Gluten Sensitivity - Is There a Connection?


Greenmedinfo.com
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:44 UTC
New Study Finds That Patients with Gluten Sensitivity Have Tooth Enamel Issues

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...antibodies against gliadin generated in patients with CD (celiac disease) can react in vitro with a major enamel protein. The involvement of anti-gliadin serum in the pathogenesis of enamel defects in children with untreated CD can be hypothesized on the basis of these novel results.
Research Source:

Eur J Oral Sci. 2012 Apr ;120(2):104-12.

In this research study, it was confirmed that gluten causes the body to produce an immune reaction against one of the main proteins responsible for producing enamel on the teeth. Lack of enamel leads to a variety of oral health problems including excessive cavities, excessive tooth ware and tear, and eventually the premature destruction or loss of teeth. It is no mystery that gluten proteins can negatively impact the health of the oral cavity. Even dentists are starting to take an active role in recognizing this problem.

Comment: For more information about the evils of gluten, see these Sott articles:

Gluten: What You Don't Know Might Kill You

Is gluten from grains making you sick?

Science Finally Confirms Gluten Sensitivity

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'Greedy gene' that makes you eat more even when you are full is uncovered by scientists

Tamara Cohen
The Daily Mail
Sun, 18 Mar 2012 07:08 UTC
The secret to staying slim may be all in your genes.

Scientists believe they have found the 'gluttony gene' which fails to tell your brain when you are full.

In tests on mice, they showed that a mutation on a single gene broke down communication in the body and led to non-stop eating and rapid weight gain.

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Gut buster: Scientists believe they have uncovered a gene which makes you eat even when are full because it breaks down communication between the body and the brain
But the good news is, they hope identifying the gene could help with treatments for obesity which affects nearly one in four adults in the UK.

Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Centre in the U.S. studied variations in the Bdnf gene in mice.
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Internal Toxins: We're Each Carrying Our Own Special Concoction

Denis Thoet
Common Dreams
Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:25 UTC
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Dinosaurs: small brains, big bodies. Extinct.

Humans: Large brains, small bodies. Not extinct. Not yet, anyway.

Our large brains, however, have created a world bathed in chemicals, engineered foods, plastic environments with poisons that surround us and invade all parts of the natural world -- and our own bodies.

We are bringing in those poisons through our mouths (food and contaminated liquids), our noses ("fragrances" and polluted air) and our skin (cosmetics, scented shampoos and moisturizers).

It took a meteor strike 65 million years ago to wipe out the dinosaurs, after they had a pretty successful run for about 250 million years. Humans, on the other hand, have been around for only 4 million to 5 million years, and our meager evolutionary run is now meeting a big obstacle: We are not able to metabolize the last 100-plus years of petroleum-based chemical pollution of the earth and of ourselves:
  • Nitrates, chemical fertilizers and herbicides used in industrial farming overflow into our waterways and oceans.
  • Oil-based chemicals saturate our food, the containers that hold that food, our furniture and carpeting, our cleaning agents, our "lawn care" products, our kids' toys, our cooking utensils and pans.
  • Manufacturing, particularly paper making, pours millions of toxics into the air and water yearly.
  • Unused medicines get dumped into our waterways and reappear in our drinking water.
Dinosaurs didn't have the luxury of observing their demise. We do.
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Soy Diet Prompts Prisoners' Lawsuit

Andrea Billups
Washington Times
Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:16 UTC
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My loved one is in prison, and the soy diet is killing him
Prison grub never had a high culinary reputation, but now some inmates say it's not just the taste they don't like.

Illinois convicts have gone to court, claiming that too much soy in their diets has left them with severe health problems, including heart issues and thyroid damage, along with allergic reactions and gastrointestinal distress.

Eddie Martinez, 50, was released in September after 4 1/2 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections, where he says his claims of gastric distress - belching, pain, cramps and constipation - and his fear that they were connected to his soy-rich diet there, were not taken seriously. He continues to see doctors for problems that he says will not go away, though he takes many medications.

"At my age, my health is a concern," says Mr. Martinez, a native of Puerto Rico who came to the U.S. when he was 8. "I keep reading about cancer risks, and obviously this is upsetting."

Now, Illinois is the target of a lawsuit filed by attorneys for the Washington, D.C.-based Weston A. Price Foundation on behalf of several Illinois inmates.
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FDA's Huge Conflicts of Interest with Big Pharma


Alliance for Natural Health
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:08 UTC
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Tragically, the drug they endorsed is killing the women who take it. Why is FDA doing this?

The birth control pills Yaz and Yasmin, which were endorsed by an FDA advisory committee last December, contain a drug called drospirenone. Women who take it are nearly seven times more likely to develop thromboembolism (obstruction of a blood vessel by a blood clot, which can cause deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, stroke, heart attack, and death) compared to women who do not take any contraceptive pill, and twice the risk of women who take a contraceptive pill containing levonorgestrel. Thousands of women have filed a lawsuit against Bayer, saying they were injured by Yaz or Yasmin.

Why would the FDA approve such a dangerous drug? An investigation by the Washington Monthly and the British medical journal BMJ found that at least four members of the advisory committee have either done work for the drugs' manufacturers or licensees or received research funding from them. The members reported their industry ties to FDA, but FDA decided it didn't matter and didn't make the disclosures public.

Each of those four panelists who received money from the pill's manufacturer voted in favor of the pill. Interestingly, the committee's ruling that the drug's benefit outweighs the risks was decided by a four-vote margin.
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LOW Cholesterol: The Risks, Dangers & The Reality

Michael McEvoy
Metabolihealing.com
Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:08 UTC
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Epidemiological data complied from 164 countries by the World Health Organization (WHO) and from BHF Heart Stats reveal something quite stunning: people with the lowest total cholesterol levels have the HIGHEST levels of mortality from all causes. Conversely, total cholesterol levels between 200-240 is associated with the LOWEST levels of mortality from all causes. People with the LOWEST total cholesterol also have the highest levels of infectious and parasitic diseases. Those with total cholesterol greater than 200 have very low levels of infection.

The epidemiological data also reveals that cardiovascular disease occurs with people who have low, normal and high total cholesterol. The implication from this is that total cholesterol is a very poor marker for the assessment of cardiovascular risk.
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"Metalloestrogens": A New Class Of Cancer-Causing Estrogens

Sayer Ji
Greenmedinfo.com
Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:31 UTC
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Metals like aluminum have been linked to breast cancer for some time, but new research is confirming the existence of an entirely new class of cancer-causing estrogens known as "metalloestrogens," and which are in thousands of consumer products -- some which are even used in supplements and foods as "nutrients"...

A new study published in journal Cancer Research reveals that dietary cadmium exposure increases the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer, confirming earlier research that a broad range of metals we are now being increasingly exposed to represent an emerging class of "metalloestrogens" with the potential to add to the estrogenic burden of the human breast.

In a 2006 report published in the Journal of Applied Toxicology, researchers found that the following metals were capable of binding to cellular estrogen receptors and then mimicking the actions of physiological estrogens: "aluminium, antimony, arsenite, barium, cadmium, chromium (Cr(II)), cobalt, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, selenite, tin and vanadate."
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Are We On The Road To The End Of Modern Medicine?


redOrbit
Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:11 UTC
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Bacteria could soon become so resistant to antibiotics that common injuries or illnesses could eventually become life-threatening, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned during a conference of infectious disease experts on Friday.

According to NewsCore reports, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan told those attending the meeting, which was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, that even ailments as simple as a scratched knee or a sore throat could someday become fatal.

Furthermore, Daily Mail reporter Mario Ledwith writes that Chan believes that the Earth was quickly approaching what she referred to as the "post-antibiotic era."

As these disease-causing microbes become more and more resistant to the drugs meant to treat the conditions they cause, those injuries and illnesses will become increasingly harder to treat, thus making some "remedies more expensive, and some conditions... untreatable," Ledwith added. If this so-called post-antibiotic era does, in fact, happen, Chan said that it would result in the "end to modern medicine as we know it."

This "post-antibiotic era" would "include many of the breakthrough drugs developed to treat tuberculosis, malaria, bacterial infections and HIV/AIDS, as well as simple treatments for cuts," says Hannah Furness of The Telegraph. Any medicines that would replace existing treatments would not only become more costly, but would also take longer in order to have similar affects as today's antibiotics.
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USDA Caves to Action Groups, Drops 'Pink Slime' From School Lunches

Anthony Gucciardi
Activist Post
Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:55 UTC
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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) says that school lunch programs can now drop the famous 'pink slime' filler in cafeteria meals served to children.

Treated with toxic ammonium hydroxide and fed to unknowing consumers in schools and restaurants alike, the pink slime has gained significant attention as action groups and health advocates across the globe have been calling attention to the presence of the hazardous filler.

The news comes after fast food giant McDonald's was forced to stop using the substance in their burgers amid public outcry.
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Will Eating Red Meat Kill You?


marksdailyapple.com
Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:52 UTC
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This is another special guest post from our favorite study-dismantler, Denise Minger. Read all of her previous Mark's Daily Apple articles here, here, here and here, pay her website a visit, and stay tuned for her upcoming book Death by Food Pyramid due out later this year.

We're already 74 days into the new year, which can only mean one thing: it's high time for our latest episode of Science Says Meat Will Kill You, complete with a brand new study and commercial-free viral media coverage! Have a seat and tune in (or at least set your DVR for later viewing).

If you haven't had at least one family member, coworker, or soon-to-be-unfriended Facebook acquaintance send you this study as a reminder that you're killing yourself, you're either really lucky or your inbox is broken. Thanks to an observational study called Red Meat Consumption and Mortality freshly pressed in the Archives of Internal Medicine, a slew of bold headlines exploded across every conceivable media outlet this week:
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