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The Addictive Opioids in Wheat and Dairy Foods.

Brad Weeks, MD
Weeks MD
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:51 UTC
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¿Ya tomaste tu dosis diaria?
In Short ;

Wheat- and dairy products contain opioid peptides influencing endorphin receptors in the brain. These peptides are physically addictive, causing dependence, asthma, obesity, apathy, ignorance and numbness. The same goes for beta-carbolines from prepared food.

To be sharp and investigative, you ought to consume neither dairy- nor wheat-products. You don't need those 'foods' at all. (see site4 and 13/plants)

To obtain all required nutrients and to remain sharp and investigative; consume as much fruits (there are about 6000 different fruits), and some fresh raw animal food regularly (like sashimi or egg yolk). And for munch-food; only consume what you really, really love to eat (and not because they say it's healthy), containing little protein, but much fat and / or sugar, satisfying your cravings for munch-food.
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Bad Guys

Monsanto Roundup Linked to Birth Defects in New Study

Aaron Turpen
NaturalNews
Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00 UTC
Everybody's favorite genetically modified seed and biotech company, Monsanto, has yet again proven their lovability. The world's poster child for corporate manipulation and deceit [1] was the focus of a new study looking at their top-selling product, Roundup herbicides.

The study was conducted by Professor Andres Carrasco and an international team of scientists and researchers at the Laboratorio de Embriolagia Molecular at the University of Buenos Aires and was published by the American Chemical Society in August.[2] It focused on glyphosate, the prime ingredient of Roundup and the most widely-used broad spectrum herbicide in use worldwide. Glyphosate-based herbicides (GBH) are also the focus of most of Monsanto's herbicide-tolerant (HT-ready) genetically modified seeds (GM or GMO).

The Argentinian study looked at how GBH affects vertebrate embryos in development. Treated during incubation with a dilute 1/5,000 GBH, the embryos showed several abnormalities in bone development, particularly in the skull and vertebrae. The animal embryos used were frogs and chickens.
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Sherlock

New Theory Links Depression to Chronic Brain Inflammation


ScienceDaily
Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00 UTC
Chronic depression is an adaptive, reparative neurobiological process gone wrong, say two University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers, positing in a new theory that the debilitating mental state originates from more ancient mechanisms used by the body to deal with physical injury, such as pain, tissue repair and convalescent behavior.

In a paper published in the September online edition of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Athina Markou, PhD, professor of psychiatry, and Karen Wager-Smith, a post-doctoral researcher, integrate evidence from diverse clinical, biological and behavioral studies to create a novel theory they hope will lead to a shift in thinking about depression.

"In contrast to other biological theories of depression, we started with a slightly different question," said Wager-Smith. "Other theories address the question: 'What is malfunctioning in depression?' We took a step back and asked the question: 'What is the biology of the proper function of the depressive response?' Once we had a theoretical model for the biology of a well-functioning depressive response, it helped make sense of all the myriad differences between depressed and non-depressed subjects that the biomedical approach has painstakingly amassed."
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11-Year-Old Boy Uncovers What's Wrong with America's Food System

Sarah Parsons
Food.Change.org
Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:30 UTC
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American consumers, farmers, Big Ag, and the federal government may want to take advice from an 11-year-old kid. A little schoolboy just dropped some serious knowledge on what's wrong with the country's food system.

Birke Baehr, an 11-year-old kid from Asheville, N.C., recently gave a five-minute speech at the "TEDx: Next Generation Asheville" event. When I first saw the link for this YouTube video, I was admittedly skeptical - this kid couldn't possibly describe the ins and outs of America's crippled food system in little more than five minutes. Heck, famed foodies and top dogs at the Department of Agriculture can't accomplish that feat. Plus, kids acting like adults seriously creep me out (I'm looking at you, Dakota Fanning).

But then Baehr began. "It seems to me like corporations are always trying to get kids like me to get their parents to buy stuff that really isn't good for us or the planet," Baehr said at the beginning of his presentation. A solid point that's lost on many youth (which is the whole point of deceptive marketing tactics that lure kids into wanting junk food). I was admittedly intrigued by where the tyke was headed with all this. (Watch Baehr's speech after the break).
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Fructose Intolerance Common in Children With Functional Abdominal Pain


Science Daily
Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:23 UTC
Fructose intolerance, or fructose malabsorption, is common in children with recurrent or functional abdominal pain, but the condition can be effectively managed with a low‐fructose diet, according to the results of a new study unveiled at the American College of Gastroenterology's (ACG) 75th Annual Scientific meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
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Lectins and Auto Immune Disease

Denis Van Loan D.D.S.
wegohealth
Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:03 UTC
What are lectins? Lectins are proteins that adhere to components of a plant's immune system. Lectins are natural plant guardians that help fight molds, parasites and disease agents. Most of these invaders have a sugar molecule component. The lectin attaches to this and this compound blocks the foreign invader's activity and the metabolism of the sugar molecule.

Michael Cutler, M.D. is a board certified family physician who has a special interest in digestive disorders and degenerative diseases. He himself was a victim of digestive problems that caused him to lose part of his intestine. He is a source of much of the following information.

Most plant foods that we eat have lectins in them. These lectins are tenacious and highly resistant to breakdown. For instance the heat of baking or cooking does not easily destroy them.

Lectins do their damage when they hook up with sugar molecules found in your intestine or in the blood. When bound to the sugar molecule they render it inactive and useless. Even worse, since they are designed for plants, they easily become foreign invaders in your body. The union of the lectin with the sugar molecule compromises the human immune system; because the lectin compound is perceived as a foreigner.

This unrecognized alien now becomes an enemy to launch attack against. This causes an immune response to a false enemy. The human immune system attacks this lectin compound and in the process causes chronic inflammation.
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Hourglass

Genetic Test Could Pinpoint When Women Will Go Through the Menopause

Richard Alleyne
The Telegraph, UK
Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:01 UTC
several, women
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The test will eventually be able to predict within five years when women will go through menopause
Women could soon be able to take a genetic test in their twenties which will predict how long they can delay having children, a new study suggests.

Researchers have found a group of genes that are linked to when women go through the menopause and so the age when they will stop being fertile.

It is hoped the test, which will cost around £50, will be available within a decade and be eventually able to predict within five years when women will go through the change.

"The ultimate goal is one day be able to predict when someone is going through the menopause," said the study leader Dr Anna Murray from the University of Exeter Peninsula Medical School.

"It is estimated that a woman's ability to conceive decreases on average 10 years before she starts the menopause.
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Alarm Clock

Moisturising Creams "Can Thin Skin and Make Eczema Worse"

Jenny Hope
Daily Mail, UK
Tue, 19 Oct 2010 03:32 UTC
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Manda Tsang demonstrates the research process using a probe on the skin while Professor Richard Guy looks on. They found some ointments thin the skin
Using moisturising cream to treat eczema could actually make the condition worse, scientists claimed today.

Research from Bath University claims well-known high street branded creams can aid skin irritation.

Instead, sufferers of the painful skin condition should use oil-based treatments, the scientists said.

The university study found ointments such as aqueous cream BP reduces the thickness of healthy skin over a period of four weeks.

Originally used as a wash product, the cream is currently the most widely prescribed moisturiser for the treatment of dry skin conditions.

It is used to moisturise the skin, improving flexibility and preventing cracking in the protective outer layer, called the stratum corneum.

However, the cream contains a detergent, called sodium lauryl sulphate (SLS), which can increase the permeability of the skin barrier and cause irritation.

The study found that when healthy volunteers applied the cream to their forearms daily for a period of four weeks, the thickness of the stratum corneum was reduced by more than 10 per cent.
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Alarm Clock

The Miracle Mineral Solution cure that could make you very sick

Andrew Penman
Mirror.co.uk
Thu, 14 Oct 2010 04:46 UTC
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Jim Humble
Meet Jim Humble, a "bishop" who reckons that he can cure the sick - by getting them to drink bleach.

For around £10 you can buy a bottle of Miracle Mineral Solution online. According to Humble's website, it has helped treat everything from malaria to cancer, HIV, baldness, Parkinson's disease, arthritis, tape worms and allergic reactions to cats.

There's just one snag, as the Food Standards Agency warns: "Miracle Mineral Solution is a 28% sodium chlorite solution which is equivalent to industrial-strength bleach."

The watchdog says it can cause severe nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea and if the solution is diluted less than instructed, it could cause damage to the gut and red blood cells, potentially resulting in respiratory failure.

That warning came about after a campaign by a remarkable 15-year-old from Cardiff.
Rhys Morgan suffers from Crohn's disease, which attacks the gut, and found the "miracle" cure being plugged on a Crohn's disease online forum.

It was, he says, "pseudo-scientific nonsense" and authorities in other countries including the USA were urging sufferers to throw it away.
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Alarm Clock

We put some of Jim Humble's claims about MMS to two of Wales' leading health experts

Clare Hutchinson
Walesonline.co.uk
Mon, 18 Oct 2010 04:39 UTC
CLAIM: MMS cures HIV. Jim Humble claims it cured "96- 97%" of a test group of 500 people with HIV in Malawi.

VERDICT: Hefin Davies of the Food Standards Agency: "We are not aware of any research that shows MMS is effective in treating HIV, or in fact in any other condition it is claimed to cure."

CLAIM: The claim that MMS cures HIV cannot be proved to be right or wrong because "you can't prove that a person has no HIV virus in their body".

VERDICT: Catherine Moore, a virologist at Public Health Wales: "This is not true because people with HIV can be and routinely are tested for the virus using molecular tests that show evidence of viral genes in the blood."

Comment: For more information concerning Jim Humble and MMS claims, see this Sott link:

The Debate between HealthWyze.org and Jim Humble about whether M.M.S. is a Fraud

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