Health & Wellness

Toxic Chemical Being Sold as a Health-Conscious Sweetener

Alliance for Natural Health
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00 UTC

Splenda Essentials pretend to be health-supporting, when in fact they seem to have more in common with pesticides than with sugar.

Sucralose, sold under the brand name Splenda, is simply chlorinated sugar; in chemical terms, it is a chlorocarbon. The idea behind this is that the body would no longer recognize it as sugar. But, as Johns Hopkins-trained physician and biochemist James Bowen, MD, points out, chlorine is "nature's Doberman attack dog - a highly excitable, ferocious atomic element employed as a biocide in bleach, disinfectants, insecticide, WWI poison gas and hydrochloric acid." Common chlorocarbons include chlordane and DDT, a product so harmful that it is now banned for agricultural use the world over.

Now Splenda is selling a product called Splenda Essentials. Different formulations contain B vitamins, antioxidants (vitamins C and E), or fiber. The marketing and advertising appear to be targeting health-conscious people who are interested in vitamins and nutrition - despite the fact that Splenda is highly toxic and has no place in a healthy diet.

Solvent exposure at work, home may increase risk of Parkinson's disease

Steven Neese & Wendy Hessler
Environmental Health News
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00 UTC

Goldman, SM, PJ Quinlan, GW Ross, C Marras, C Meng, GS Bhudhikanok, K Comyns, M Korell, AR Chade, M Kasten, B Priestly, KL Chou, HH Fernandez, F Cambi, JW Langston and CT Tanner. 2011. Solvent exposures and Parkinson disease risk in twins. Annals of Neurology

Even relatively limited exposure to some common chemical solvents at work or through hobbies may increase the risk of having Parkinson's disease (PD), report researchers who found a higher risk regardless of the number of exposures, their duration or lifetime totals. They also found that the first symptoms of the disease - the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the United States - may not surface until decades after exposure.

Animal research and limited studies with people suggest exposure to environmental contaminants may play a role in PD. This study of twins supports that idea by providing the first population-based evidence that links exposure to specific solvents - including TCE, PERC, and CCI4 - and the risk of PD. The highest risk was seen with TCE, a degreaser and a chemical used in dry cleaning that contaminates up to a third of U.S. drinking water.

The ubiquitous nature these chemicals in the environment suggests more research is needed to confirm and better understand the possible link between human exposures and PD risk.

The Toxic Triad: How Big Food, Big Farming, and Big Pharma Spread Obesity, Diabetes, and Chronic Disease Across the Globe

Dr. Mark Hyman
Drhyman.com
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:28 UTC

One third of our economy thrive on making people sick and fat. Big Farming grows 500 more calories per person per day than 25 years ago because they get paid to grow extra food even when it is not needed. The extra corn (sugar) and soy (fat) are turned into industrial processed food and sugar-sweetened beverages - combinations of fat, sugar and salt that are proven to be addictive. These subsidized ($288 billion) cheap, low-quality foods are heavily marketed ($30 billion) and consumed by our ever-widening population with an obesity rate approaching three out of four Americans. The more they eat, the fatter they become. The fatter they become the more they develop heart disease, diabetes, cancer and a myriad of other chronic ailments.

Comment: Research has shown that salt is a necessary and beneficial nutrient as long as it's unrefined sea salt as opposed to the typical processed store bought variety.

Today, one in 10 Americans have diabetes. By 2050 one in three Americans will have diabetes. The sicker our population, the more medications are sold for high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, depression, and many other lifestyle driven diseases. The Toxic Triad of Big Farming, Big Food, and Big Pharma profits from creating a nation of sick and fat citizens.

Comment: While the issue of fats in general was somewhat addressed, healthy fats were not. For more information about good or more specifically, saturated fats, see these Sott links:

Fat Head: Big Fat Lies

Saturated Fat is Good for You

Links on the benefits of unrefined salt:

Why Himalayan Pink Crystal Salt is So Much Better for your Health than Processed Table Salt

It's Time to End the War on Salt

Why Laptops Should Be Renamed To Protect Consumers

Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:00 UTC

Recent research published in the journal Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health concluded that the "Laptop is paradoxically an improper site for the use of a LTC [laptop computer], which consequently should be renamed to not induce customers towards an improper use." [emphasis added]

What lead these reseachers to reach such a seemingly drastic conclusion?

In the study referenced above and titled "Exposure to electromagnetic fields from laptop use of "laptop" computers," researchers found that electromagnetic fields (EMFs) produced by laptop computers likely induce currents within the adult body, and the bodies of developing fetuses exposed by proxy, to unsafe levels. They found that in the laptop computers analyzed EMF values were "considerably higher than the values recommended by 2 recent guidelines for computer monitors magnetic field emissions..."

Root Canal, Diet, Degenerative Disease Connection : 97% Of Terminal Cancer Patients Had Root Canals

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00 UTC

Do you have a chronic degenerative disease? If so, have you been told, "It's all in your head?"

Well, that might not be that far from the truth... the root cause of your illness may be in your mouth.

There is a common dental procedure that nearly every dentist will tell you is completely safe, despite the fact that scientists have been warning of its dangers for more than 100 years.

Every day in the United States alone, 41,000 of these dental procedures are performed on patients who believe they are safely and permanently fixing their problem.

What is this dental procedure?

The root canal.

More than 25 million root canals are performed every year in this country.

Root-canaled teeth are essentially "dead" teeth that can become silent incubators for highly toxic anaerobic bacteria that can, under certain conditions, make their way into your bloodstream to cause a number of serious medical conditions - many not appearing until decades later.

Most of these toxic teeth feel and look fine for many years, which make their role in systemic disease even harder to trace back.

Sadly, the vast majority of dentists are oblivious to the serious potential health risks they are exposing their patients to, risks that persist for the rest of their patients' lives.The American Dental Association claims root canals have been proven safe, but they have NO published data or actual research to substantiate this claim.

Comment: SOTT has some doubts about this since it could be said that 97% of all people have root canals nowadays, so it may not be a genuine correlation.

Is Barefoot Contact With the Earth Necessary For Health?

Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:00 UTC

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Feeling "grounded" is an increasingly uncommon experience in this day and age, and it should be, considering we no longer regularly touch the ground with our bare feet, as nature intended.

It is no great mystery that the human foot was designed, over countless millenia, to be in direct contact with the Earth, the literal and symbolic ground of our being. And the Earth is no inert substance, but rather a living and breathing entity (of which we are but a mere part) capable of infusing us with its life, 'singing the body electric,' as Walt Whitman once mused.

Indeed, the Earth breathes life into us through a continual stream of free electrons...

It is well established, though not widely known, that the surface of the earth possesses a limitless and continuously renewed supply of free or mobile electrons as a consequence of a global atmospheric electron circuit. Wearing shoes with insulating soles and/or sleeping in beds that are isolated from the electrical ground plane of the earth have disconnected most people from the earth's electrical rhythms and free electrons to flow from the earth to the body.
- James L Oschman, Can electrons act as antioxidants? A review and commentary.

Occupy Monsanto: Monsanto Shareholder Meeting Infiltrated by Activist (Video)

Anthony Gucciardi
Natural Society
Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00 UTC

In an exciting act of grassroots resistance to Monsanto and their GMOs that are ravaging the planet, activist Adam Eidinger has infiltrated a Monsanto shareholder meeting and posted the video up on Youtube. Eidinger discusses the negative impact of GMO crops, Roundup, and other Monsanto creations on human health and the environment. As a result, a shocked Monsanto spokesman (identified as CEO Hugh Grant by Eidinger) does his best to brush off the concerns and assure the activist that the company - the same company that has been found to be running slave rings on their GMO crop fields - cares very much about the concerns of their shareholders.

Scientists fear antibiotics are perpetuating diseases impossible to treat

Jeremy Laurance
The Independent
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:51 UTC

Alarming rise in bacteria resistant to antibiotics, Government report finds

Britain is facing a "massive" rise in antibiotic-resistant blood poisoning caused by the bacterium E.coli - bringing closer the spectre of diseases that are impossible to treat.

Experts say the growth of antibiotic resistance now poses as great a threat to global health as the emergence of new diseases such as Aids and pandemic flu.

Professor Peter Hawkey, a clinical microbiologist and chair of the Government's antibiotic-resistance working group, said that antibiotic resistance had become medicine's equivalent of climate change.

The "slow but insidious growth" of resistant organisms was threatening to turn common infections into untreatable diseases, he said. Already, an estimated 25,000 people die each year in the European Union from antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections.

Will Big Pharma Start Hacking Humans?

Karen De Coster
Activist Post
Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:18 UTC

The Pill Establishment has run out of patience with people who are given prescription drugs and don't do a good enough job of taking their pills as they are told. Last year, USA Today reported that:

Americans may waste as much as $258 billion a year by not taking prescribed medications because the missed doses lead to emergency room visits, doctors' visits and in-patient hospitalizations, according to a study by Express Scripts, an independent prescription- filling company.

..."Drugs don't work if you don't take them, and people often don't take them the way they're supposed to," said Bob Nease, chief scientist at Express Scripts.

Scientists Find New Dangers in Tiny but Pervasive Particles in Air Pollution

Felicity Barringer
The New York Times
Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:22 UTC

Fine atmospheric particles - smaller than one-thirtieth of the diameter of a human hair - were identified more than 20 years ago as the most lethal of the widely dispersed air pollutants in the United States. Linked to both heart and lung disease, they kill an estimated 50,000 Americans each year. But more recently, scientists have been puzzled to learn that a subset of these particles, called secondary organic aerosols, has a greater total mass, and is thus more dangerous, than previously understood.

A batch of new scientific findings is helping sort out the discrepancy, including, most recently, a study led by scientists at the University of California, Irvine, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., that is scheduled to be released on Tuesday. It indicates that the compounds' persistence in the atmosphere was under-represented in older scientific models.

"If the authors' analysis is correct, the public is now facing a false sense of security in knowing whether the air they breathe is indeed safe," said Bill Becker, of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies.

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Health & Wellness

Toxic Chemical Being Sold as a Health-Conscious Sweetener

Solvent exposure at work, home may increase risk of Parkinson's disease

The Toxic Triad: How Big Food, Big Farming, and Big Pharma Spread Obesity, Diabetes, and Chronic Disease Across the Globe

Why Laptops Should Be Renamed To Protect Consumers

Root Canal, Diet, Degenerative Disease Connection : 97% Of Terminal Cancer Patients Had Root Canals

Is Barefoot Contact With the Earth Necessary For Health?

Occupy Monsanto: Monsanto Shareholder Meeting Infiltrated by Activist (Video)

Scientists fear antibiotics are perpetuating diseases impossible to treat

Will Big Pharma Start Hacking Humans?

Scientists Find New Dangers in Tiny but Pervasive Particles in Air Pollution

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