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SOTT Exclusive: Robert DeNiro on VAXXED, 'There's something there people aren't addressing'

Brently Kopopolous
Sott.net
Wed, 13 Apr 2016 16:22 UTC
vaxxed
The mainstream media is doing a thorough smear-job on Robert De Niro's recent performance on the Today Show, so I thought I would add some perspective for the sake of balance. Mr. DeNiro discusses the movie in the clip below:

Over the weekend, I went to see VAXXED down at the Angelika Film Center here in New York City. What I saw when watching VAXXED was not some anti-vaccine propaganda, rather a well-constructed display of corruption at the CDC. The film follows Dr. Brian Hooker as he gets access to original CDC data via a whistleblower from inside the organization, Dr. William Thompson. Dr. Thompson alleges a conspiracy of incredible proportions; destruction of documents, obstruction of justice, and grievous harm inflicted upon children are just a few of the crimes this film suggests occurred. When you see it for yourself, and compare the evidence to the testimony of parents who have autistic kids, you just can't help but ask yourself, 'are we being lied to?'

Comment: Further reading is available here: VAXXED was also discussed on SOTT Radio: The Health & Wellness Show: Connecting the don'ts, and what you can actually do

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Using recycled city water can contaminate your garden with pharmaceuticals

Steven Maxwell
Activist Post
Wed, 13 Apr 2016 14:33 UTC
water hose
Do you water your vegetable garden with recycled city water? If so, you may be eating pharmaceutical contaminants that accumulate in your food.

A recent study by the American Chemical Society published by Chemistry and Engineering News shows that "eating vegetables grown using reclaimed water boosts urine levels of carbamazepine, an anti-epileptic drug commonly detected in wastewater" meaning that anyone who consumes this produce is exposed to the carbamazepine drug in detectable dosages.

The drug can enter waterways in a multitude of ways, from drain disposal of unused medication, excretion through the urinary tract of those who consume it, and even water that is disposed of by facilities that produce drugs. Since the carbamazepine drug is transmittable through the waterway, this has sparked the attention of agricultural workers who utilize large amounts of water for their crop irrigation systems.

Comment: Unfortunately, with many states making the collection of rainwater illegal, options are limited.

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Heart

Pass the butter: Replacing butter with vegetable oils does not reduce heart disease risk or overall mortality


Science Daily
Tue, 12 Apr 2016 13:15 UTC
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New research of old data suggests that using vegetable oils high in linoleic acid failed to reduce heart disease and overall mortality even though the intervention reduced cholesterol levels. And researchers found that consuming vegetable oils might actually be worse for heart health than eating butter.

A research team led by scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health has unearthed more evidence that casts doubt on the traditional "heart healthy" practice of replacing butter and other saturated fats with corn oil and other vegetable oils high in linoleic acid.

The findings, reported today in the British Medical Journal, suggest that using vegetable oils high in linoleic acid might be worse than using butter when it comes to preventing heart disease, though more research needs to be done on that front. This latest evidence comes from an analysis of previously unpublished data of a large controlled trial conducted in Minnesota nearly 50 years ago, as well as a broader analysis of published data from all similar trials of this dietary intervention.

The analyses show that interventions using linoleic acid-rich oils failed to reduce heart disease and overall mortality even though the intervention reduced cholesterol levels. In the Minnesota study, participants who had greater reduction in serum cholesterol had higher rather than lower risk of death.

"Altogether, this research leads us to conclude that incomplete publication of important data has contributed to the overestimation of benefits -- and the underestimation of potential risks -- of replacing saturated fat with vegetable oils rich in linoleic acid," said co-first author Daisy Zamora, PhD, a researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at the UNC School of Medicine.

Along with corn oil, linoleic acid-rich oils include safflower oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, and cottonseed oil.

Comment: See also:

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Sugar addiction has similar symptoms as drug addiction

Nicola Harley
The Telegraph
Wed, 13 Apr 2016 01:24 UTC
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Sugar addiction should be treated like drug abuse, new research has revealed.

Scientists have discovered drugs used to treat nicotine addiction could be used to treat sugar addiction.

In the study carried out by Australia's Queensland University (QUT), it compared the effects of sugar to those of cocaine and likened the symptoms of coming off it to going 'cold turkey'.

"Like other drugs of abuse, withdrawal from chronic sucrose exposure can result in an imbalance in dopamine levels and be as difficult as going 'cold turkey' from them." Masroor Shariff

Neuroscientist Professor Selena Bartlett from QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation said the study, which has just been published by international research journal PLOS ONE, shows drugs used to treat nicotine addiction could be used to treat sugar addiction in animals.

"The latest World Health Organisation figures tell us 1.9 billion people worldwide are overweight, with 600 million considered obese," she said.

"Excess sugar consumption has been proven to contribute directly to weight gain. It has also been shown to repeatedly elevate dopamine levels which control the brain's reward and pleasure centres in a way that is similar to many drugs of abuse including tobacco, cocaine and morphine.

"After long-term consumption, this leads to the opposite, a reduction in dopamine levels. This leads to higher consumption of sugar to get the same level of reward.

Comment: People don't need a novel treatment strategy for obesity and sugar addiction that will make pharmaceutical companies lots of money. They just need to cut back on the carbs, and eat more fat. See also:

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Attention

Lowering cholesterol increases the risk of death

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick Org
Wed, 13 Apr 2016 23:47 UTC
statins
Sorry to get distracted from my series on what causes heart disease, yet again. However, I felt the need to blog about this article published in the BMJ on the 12th April 2016.

A group of researchers went back through the data from the Minnesota Coronary Experiment run between 1966 and 1973 in the US - on many thousands of participants. They were, in part stimulated to do this because they had previously looked at the Sydney Diet Heart Study 1966 - 73. In their own words:
'Our recovery and 2013 publication of previously unpublished data from the Sydney Diet Heart Study (SDHS, 1966-73) belatedly showed that replacement of saturated fat with vegetable oil rich in linoleic acid (a polyunsaturated fat) significantly increased the risks of death from coronary heart disease and all causes, despite lowering serum cholesterol. Our recovery of unpublished documents and raw data from another diet-heart trial, the Minnesota Coronary Experiment, provided us with an opportunity to further evaluate this issue.'1
To make this clear. The Sydney Diet Heart Study (SDHS) was set up to show that replacing saturated fat with unsaturated fat would reduce the risk of heart disease The original researchers who set up and ran the SDHS did not fully publish their data at the time (one can only speculate as to why this may be so).

When this current group of researchers finally managed to get hold of the full data from the SHDS, it was found that replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat did lower cholesterol, however:

REPLACEMENT OF SATURATED FAT SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED THE RISK OF DEATH FROM CORONARY HEART DISEASE AND ALL CAUSES.

I am not normally a great fan of capitalisation, and using bold, but I think this statement needed that treatment.
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Info

Magnesium helps control how cells adapt to the rhythms of night and day


Phys.org
Wed, 13 Apr 2016 23:16 UTC
magnesium
An essential mineral in our diets has an unexpected role in helping living things remain adapted to the rhythms of night and day, scientists have found.

Magnesium - a nutrient found in many foods - helps control how cells keep their own form of time to cope with the natural environmental cycle of day and night.

The discovery in cells is expected to be linked to whole body clocks which influence daily cycles - or circadian rhythms - of sleeping and waking, hormone release, body temperature and other important bodily functions in people.

The surprising discovery may aid the development of chronotherapy - treatment scheduled according to time of day - in people, and the development of new crop varieties with increased yields or adjustable harvesting seasons.

Experiments in three major types of biological organisms - human cells, algae, and fungi - found in each case that levels of magnesium in cells rise and fall in a daily cycle.

Comment: Magnesium is one of the most essential nutrients for all living organisms. It is critical for metabolic processes, cell growth and reproduction and is involved in hundreds of enzyme processes affecting every aspect of life. It is not only essential for maintaining good health, but also for detoxification and the treatment of numerous diseases. Unfortunately, nearly everyone is deficient but many don't realize it. Anything that makes you tense and tight could potentially be due to magnesium deficiency and many health problems can be tied back to this crucial mineral. Most people with any chronic disease benefit greatly from magnesium supplementation therapy.

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Syringe

Robert de Niro says autistic son changed 'overnight' after MMR jab, regrets pulling VAXXED documentary from Tribeca

Ryan Reed
Rolling Stone
Wed, 13 Apr 2016 21:35 UTC
Robert de Niro
© The Today Show
Robert De Niro defended the controversial anti-vaccine documentary Vaxxed: From Cover-Up To Catastrophe - which he pulled from the Tribeca Film Festival - in an emotional Today Show interview alongside Tribeca co-founder Jane Rosenthal. "I think the movie is something that people should see," the actor said Wednesday. "There's a lot of things that are not said. I, as a parent of a child who has autism, am concerned. And I want to know the truth. I'm not anti-vaccine, but I want safe vaccines."

Vaxxed was originally set to screen Sunday, April 24th at the 15th annual Tribeca Film Festival, but De Niro and company removed the project last month after other filmmakers threatened to leave the fest. "I was shooting a movie. I was in the middle of a lot of stuff," De Niro said of learning about the controversy. "There was a backlash, which I haven't fully explored, and I will. But I didn't want it to start affecting the festival in ways I couldn't see." Rosenthal added, "There weren't sponsors or donors threatening to pull out of the film festival; it was our filmmakers. And we're known for having amazing documentary films."


Comment: See also: Should Robert DeNiro be hailed as a hero in the VAXXED documentary controversy?

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Rose

More proof of the superiority of organic foods

Phillip Schneider
Waking Times
Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:34 UTC
dirt
To a world raised on conventional foods and thinking, scientists and consumers alike have been touting the nutritional value and overall healthfulness of organics. And as a new study reveals more insight into the value of organics, those who before avoided the truth are once again forced to as the question: Is organic food really inherently healthier than conventionally grown?

Yes. Here's how.

Higher Omega-3's In Organics

After reviewing over 150 papers on organic vs. non-organic meat and dairy products, a group of 25 scientists published their findings in the British Journal of Nutrition on the very clear differences between the two.
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Sun

Don't believe your dermatologist -- sunlight prevents cancer

Marco Torres
Prevent Disease
Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:15 UTC
The widespread use of sunscreens promoted by dermatologists and the Cancer Industry, may lead to a significant decrease in solar-induced previtamin D3 in the skin, now correlated with a higher risk of cancer according to researchers.
sunlight

Why Do Dermatologists Promote Sunscreen?

Quite simply because they like repeat business. Exposure to ultraviolet B radiation in sunlight provides the mechanism for more than 90% of the vitamin D production in most individuals and they know it. Our interaction with the sun is the one thing that may prevent cancer more than anything else.

Comment: Get some sun this summer, just don't let yourself burn.

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Info

Inflammation: The good & the bad

Rishma Parpia
thevaccinereaction.org
Wed, 23 Mar 2016 13:17 UTC
inflammation
© precisionnutrition.com
Inflammation is becoming a hot topic of discussion among health care professionals looking at nutritional and other therapies to address chronic diseases. Although a lot of people are talking about it, how much is known about the role that acute and chronic inflammation plays in human health and why can unresolved inflammation pose a threat to good health?

What is Inflammation?

Inflammation is a normal and protective response by your body's immune system to deal with injury, irritation and stress from diet and lifestyle choices or toxic environmental exposure. The ability of the body to produce acute inflammation is a primary component of the immune system and part of innate (cellular) immunity that infants naturally acquire in the womb to protect them after birth.1

Adaptive or "learned" (humoral) immunity is produced after the innate immune has identified a challenge from, for example, a pathogenic virus or bacteria, and the immune system's inflammatory response produces specific antibodies to target and "remember" how to make a quicker, more effective response in the future if challenged again.2

Comment: The Hidden Time Bomb Within You: Inflammation

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