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Can being toxic make you fat?

Mark Hyman, MD
drhyman.com
Mon, 14 Mar 2016 17:40 UTC
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"Dr. Hyman, I've been reading about the role of environmental toxins in our health," writes this week's house call. "What is the best way to get rid of these toxins, and are things like household cleaners and skincare products really that harmful?"

The short answer is yes. We know that environmental toxins, such as BPA and other chemicals known as persistent organic pollutants (or POPs), can increase the risk of weight gain and even type 2 diabetes independent of calorie intake. I had one patient, who I treated years ago, come up to me at my recent book party. I didn't even recognize her because she lost 40 pounds after I helped her detoxify from mercury. Before we removed the mercury, no amount of eating right or exercising helped her lose weight.

Comment: A No-Nonsense Look at Toxins and How Your Body Deals with Them

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The benefits of bare feet

Erin Elizabeth
Health Nut News
Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:30 UTC
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If you live in the southern part of the U.S. like I do, then you've probably already had your shoes off a couple of times. If you haven't you might fall into the category of people who think it's unwise to go barefoot. And you wouldn't be alone. Many parents and adults feel that going barefoot outside can cause injury or that you could pick up a disease or illness that you would later track into your home. Now, don't walk barefoot on glass, be smart. The truth is that being barefoot outside is incredibly good for you.

While shoes do protect your feet, they can also create the perfect environment for bacteria and fungus, as well as prevent proper toe spread (which interferes with the foot's ability to function properly), and prevent proper movement development (which can make children more susceptible to foot and lower leg injury). This isn't to say we should all just chuck off our shoes and never wear them again but we should look at what happens to us when we DON'T wear shoes.

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Take that Monsanto! U.S. Senate rejects the Dark Act

Nadia Prupis
Common Dreams
Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:20 UTC
GMO protest
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Opponents warn that the DARK Act would do nothing to support consumers and favors corporations over people.
Update:

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected a controversial bill that would have made labeling genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food products voluntary. The bill needed 60 votes to pass and only received 44. Opponents of the bill have referred to it as the Deny Americans the Right to Know (DARK) Act and warned that it would favor corporations over consumers, who widely support labeling GMOs.

"Today, the Senate did the right thing," said Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch. "People want to know if the food they buy contains GMO ingredients. It's time for Congress to create a mandatory on-package labeling requirement so people can decide for themselves whether they want to eat a food that has been produced using genetic engineering."
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Antibiotics may become basis of a new herbicide

Erin Elizabeth
Health Nut News
Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:10 UTC
antibiotics
As if the antibiotic run off from factory farms isn't bad enough, it appears West Australian scientists are, "exploring the possibilities for an antibiotic to be used as a new herbicide".

The drug Ciprofloxacin (Cipro) is currently used to kill gangrene, cholecystitis, chlamydia and a host of other bacterial infections. " It kills plants in a very similar fashion to the way it kills microbes, by binding and interfering with an enzyme called gyrase, which helps the DNA unwind as it's being replicated", reports ABC.

According to Dr. Josh Mylne, senior lecturer at the University of Western Australia in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the way in which ciprofloxacin works is different than existing herbicides, "The machinery that ciprofloxacin affects is not currently targeted by known herbicides, making this an untried mode of action to focus on," Dr. Mylne told ABC.

Comment: The Truth About Deadly 'Superbugs'

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What all women need to know about tampons & maxipads


Collective Evolution
Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:50 UTC
pads
What is something that every woman has to endure in her lifetime? You got it, a menstruation cycle. On average a woman will have her period once a month, for about 5 days, for around 40 years of her life! During this time, we need to use various products to stay clean and fresh. There has got to be a market in there!

The tampon and pad industry is a $718 million dollar market, yet these items are necessities. This really got me questioning the production and ethical value behind these products. They are mass-produced, heavily marketed, and cheaply made - out of bleached rayon and plastics. Why is it that we never see ads for the much safer alternatives such as cotton products, reusable washable pads, and menstruation cups? All of these options are much more economical and are about a million times safer for the environment. Up until a few months ago, I didn't even know that there were alternative products, much less think that there was any potential risk involved with using generic menstruation products.

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Paleo Diet 1.0: Neanderthals ate 80% meat, 20% vegetables


RT
Wed, 16 Mar 2016 23:29 UTC
paleo
© Nikola Solic
Followers of the paleo cult have been redeemed, kind of, thanks to a new study of the Neanderthal diet which found that 80 percent of their food intake was meat.

However, instead of picking up steaks at the local Whole Foods or delivered from Omaha, the hairy humanoids had to hunt and prepare their dinner, which included species such as mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses, before all three were made extinct by the feared homosapiens.

Researchers - and a growing Paleo sector - have long debated the truth about early ancestor diets, but this study from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen in Germany is the first to nail down precise percentages.

Comment: The paleo diet explained

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Dr. Kelly Brogan: A Psychiatrists perspective on antidepressants

Kelly Brogan, MD
Youtube
Sat, 05 Mar 2016 19:24 UTC
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We have been told that depression is always caused by a chemical imbalance and cured by a chemical fix—a prescription. More than 30 million Americans take antidepressants, including one in seven women, and one in four women of reproductive age. Millions more are tempted to try them to end chronic, unyielding distress, irritability, and emotional "offness"—trapped by an exhausting inner agitation they can't shake.

Leaders in the field are beginning to accept that this is not the whole story. Science is leading us to explore the way the human body interacts with our intellect. Your body reacts to certain things positively and certain things negatively. These are "symptoms" of great causes.

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Drugging our children: Study suggests millions of children misdiagnosed with ADHD because of their age

Justin Gardner
Free Thought Project
Tue, 15 Mar 2016 14:51 UTC
child take pills
It's common knowledge that the U.S. has an unusual dependency on prescription medication, highlighted by the current epidemic of opioid overdoses in adults. Children, too, have experienced an astronomical rise in a particular kind of medication—that used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

The pharmaceutical industry found a gold mine in developing drugs to modify behavior in children. According to the documentary, The Drugging of Our Children, between 1995 and 2000, the number of psychotropic drugs prescribed to kids doubled. Each morning, more than 6 million children are given prescription medication before going to school, such as Ritalin or other amphetamines.


The diagnosis for ADHD is notoriously subjective, and has in many cases become a tool for teachers and school authorities to drug a child into "proper" behavior.

The most powerful symptom of ADHD in the psychiatric handbook, ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioral Disorders, is when a child "often fidgets with hands and feet or squirms in seat."

Comment: Now that the pharmaceutical cartel has pushed its tentacles into the schools, children are no longer allowed to act in ways that would otherwise be considered normal behavior. They are being medicated with drugs that cause a wide variety of harmful side-effects and that have been shown to have negative consequences on their development. It's a perfect set-up to create a dumbed-down and complacent population.

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Sleep problems come from the day not the night; breaking the cycle of insomnia

Dawn Walton
Wake Up World
Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC
Sleep problems
Many people struggle with sleep. Some struggle to get to sleep, some wake up multiple times through the night and others don't get a very long sleep. Some people have all of these problems.

When most people try to address insomnia, they focus on the symptoms and not the cause. Countless remedies (medicinal and non-medicinal) are out there to help address sleep problems.

In my experience as a cognitive hypnotherapist, to address sleep problems effectively and permanently, you need to address the cause, not the symptoms; and the cause comes from the daytime.

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Inconvenient truths are ignored as GMO labeling vote looms

Carey Gillam
Huffington Post
Mon, 14 Mar 2016 17:08 UTC
GMO label
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Senator Pat Roberts
The U.S. Senate looks poised to vote this week on the contentious national debate over GMO labeling, but as the potentially landmark vote looms, facts that should be at the heart of the discussion are being lost.

And in that void, the issue has become highly divisive, pitting many Democrats who want mandatory labeling of foods made with genetically engineered crops against Republicans who favor a measure from Sen. Pat Roberts that would block mandatory labeling, including state laws like one in Vermont set to take effect July 1. A similar measure to block mandatory labeling passed the House of Representatives last July.

Compromise measures are being drafted by both sides, and some close to the talks say Vermont's law and other state labeling measures will likely be sacrificed for such compromise. Food industry players remain resolved against labels that would easily identify a food product as containing GMOs, saying they would needlessly scare consumers away. Meanwhile, clear labeling is precisely what consumer groups demand.

Comment: Scientist Says Flawed Science of GMOs Jeopardizing Future Generations
The introduction of GM crops, Huber said, was a "betrayal of the public trust by a failure to address potential risks. The irresponsible and premature widespread use is based on flawed and unsound scientific assumptions."

Huber said glyphosate and GM crops are likely harming human health. He cited significant increases in inflammatory bowel syndrome, Crohn's disease, and certain types of cancers. Other diseases such as food allergies, autism, endometriosis, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's may also be linked to glyphosate and GM crops, he said.

"Glyphosate has totally changed the environment; it has impacted humans, vegetables, grains, fruits, plants, feeds, and animals," Huber said.

In conclusion Huber said that our basic responsibility in agriculture is providing safe and nutritious food. Instead, with current GMO-based agricultural practices,
"we are willing to sacrifice our children and jeopardize future generations based on failed promises and flawed science just to benefit the 'bottom line' of a commercial enterprise."


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