Health & Wellness

Oxygen levels in womb affect aging in adulthood, study finds

RT
Sat, 05 Mar 2016 14:33 UTC

Anti-aging products are a multi-billion dollar industry, but it seems there's only so much that creams and pills can do. A study found that much of our aging 'destiny' is set before birth, and is related to the amount of oxygen present in the womb.

The study, led by a team of researchers from the University of Cambridge, centered around telomeres, otherwise known as the ends of chromosomes. In short, telomeres play a similar role to the plastic that binds the ends of shoelaces, preventing chromosomes from fraying. As humans get older, telomeres become shorter and shorter, meaning their length can be used as a proxy to measure aging.

The researchers measured the length of telomeres in blood vessels of laboratory rats born from mothers who were not fed antioxidants during a normal or complicated pregnancy. In some of the rats, they simulated one of the most common complications in pregnancy - a reduction in the amount of oxygen a baby receives - by placing a group of pregnant rats in a room containing seven percent less oxygen than normal.

Current vaccine paradigm: Media struggles to pin stupid label on well-educated vaccine dissenters

Marco Cáceres
thevaccinereaction.org
Sun, 21 Feb 2016 20:50 UTC

There have been numerous articles in mainstream newspapers and magazines with titles that disparage anyone who questions the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, disagrees (in part or in total) with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) recommended schedule of vaccines, or opposes the idea of forcing people to get vaccinated against their will. You can be a vaccine skeptic, a complete "anti-vaxxer" or someone who simply doesn't like the government dictating what one should or shouldn't do with one's body. It doesn't matter.

If you choose to reject any part of the current vaccine paradigm, as crafted by the government and the pharmaceutical industry, you will be put on to stupid list, even though, ironically, it is widely acknowledged that people who choose to chart their own way on the issue of vaccines tend to be extremely well-educated and often have advanced degrees.^{1 2 3 4 5}

Comment: Author Marco Cáceres wrote another good article about what happens when anyone chooses to reject any part of the current vaccine paradigm: Internet trolls: Anyone resisting the vaccine party line is a target

Increasingly, professionals within a wide range of health care and science fields are giving interviews and writing articles and books voicing their concerns about vaccine risks, the misrepresentation of the historical role of vaccines in reducing mortality from infectious diseases, the expanding schedule and number of vaccines mandated, or even the basic mechanism theories behind vaccine science.

Predictably, every time you give the name of a contrarian doctor or scientist in response to the 99.9% figure, what you tend to get is, "Eh, well, he's a quack, she's not credible." Also, you get referred to blogs such as Science-Based Medicine,¹ or Respectful Insolence², or the Skeptical Raptor's Blog³. They're often written by or associated with a guy named David Gorski, MD, who also goes by the alias "Orac." Gorski is a surgical oncologist and an assistant professor of surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, MI⁴.

Should you wish to debunk someone, anyone, who dares to disagree with mainstream thinking on vaccines, all you need do is inform Orac, and the good doctor will gladly oblige by writing up a boorish piece, long on insult and short on science. Orac's methods are painfully predictable.

The nefarious corporate profit-driven control of health care

Gary G. Kohls, MD
Duluth Reader
Thu, 03 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC

Everybody should be aware by now of the large amount of control that for-profit multinational corporations have over both state and federal legislative bodies and most of our congressional and presidential politicians (except for Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein). But they also have a lot of control over the major media, the "defense" spending priorities at the Pentagon, America' educational institutions, many of our medical schools and even what constitutes post-graduate medical education for physicians.

For-profit corporate influences on for-profit medicine and for-profit "blue ribbon panels" explains much of what is regarded as the very profitable "standard of care" in medicine today. It also explains the prescribing habits and politics of many of us physicians.

Indeed, there has been a crisis of confidence among a small minority (as usual, a minority) of conscientious physicians, citizens, voters and employees of those institutions. Some of the folks that have become aware of what is happening may eventually rise up to blow a whistle on the creeping corporate domination of what is left of free, democratic America.

One only has to consider the corporate intrigue that has allowed the emergence of the anti-democratic, pro-corporate agendas of NAFTA, ALEC, Citizens' United, the PATRIOT Act, the Homeland Security Act, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, PNAC, the National Defense Authorization Acts, the endless war agendas, etc, etc.

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The Health & Wellness Show: Testimonials

Sott.net
Fri, 04 Mar 2016 15:00 UTC

This is the testimonials show where people can share their stories of dietary change and the effects they've experienced. On the Health and Wellness show we've talked about the ketogenic diet, the paleo diet, the vegetarian myth as well as the benefits of going gluten and dairy free and GMO free. Our listeners are well aware, or should be, of the importance of diet as the foundation for for good health whether it be mental, physical, emotional or spiritual. It's pretty sad to realize that most people don't make the connection between how they feel and function and what they put in their mouths several times a day, every day for their entire lives. Unfortunately, many people are digging their graves with their own mouths. When a symptom or illness comes along it is often explained away as simply genetic or something that runs in the family, bad luck or a complete mystery.

There are people out there who get it -- people who make the connection and those are the people we will be talking to today... and want to hear from you, too!

Have you made changes to your diet that have had results? Want to share your story? Call in today, or share with us in the chat room during the broadcast at 10 am EST, 4 pm CET, as we hear testimonials about the benefits of the Paleo-Keto Diet!

With us, as always, will be resident animal health expert Zoya with her weekly Pet Health segment.

Running Time: 01:55:00

Download: MP3

Labeling GMO: Dems put forward new bill to counter the 'Dark Act'

RT
Thu, 03 Mar 2016 01:42 UTC

US Senate Democrats have offered an alternative GMO labeling bill that would require manufacturers to disclose the presence of GMOs to consumers, while still allowing them to choose how to comply with the law.

"Rather than blocking consumers' access to information they want, the US Senate should move forward with a solution that works for business and consumers alike," said Senator Jeff Merkley (D, Oregon) the lead sponsor of the bill which was introduced on Wednesday.

Comment: If the food industry doesn't want to label their products as GMO and make it glaringly obvious then those companies that refuse to use GMOs in their food could easily label their products as "Non-GMO" and make that labeling glaringly obvious. No legislation required for that tactic!

Scientists challenging conventional wisdom to avoid salt - "No proof salt is bad for you"

Adam Withnall
The Independent
Thu, 03 Mar 2016 22:26 UTC

A group of scientists are challenging the now conventional wisdom that a low-sodium diet is better for your long-term health, asking whether people should take official advice on the matter with a pinch of salt.

In a new review of the evidence, a team of experts from Columbia University found there were "two distinct bodies of scholarship" on the matter - those who believe reducing salt intake will improve the overall health of the population, and those who don't.

Watching your salt intake has become one of the core pieces of dietary advice in the UK in recent years, and in the US it has got to the point where New York is requiring by law that restaurants label salt content in their food.

So it will be a surprise to many to find that just 54 per cent of the 269 academic reports included in the review found in favour of a salt reduction hypothesis.

Comment: See also:

Congress sneaks new "Monsanto Protection Act" into Environmental Bill

Claire Bernish
Activist Post
Thu, 03 Mar 2016 19:14 UTC

Monsanto has essentially been gifted a free pass with legislation intended to protect people and the environment. Monsanto will enjoy immunity from responsibility for one of the most noxious of all its toxic creations: PCBs.

Slipped into already-contentious reform measures of the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act by the House of Representatives, the provision concerns now-banned polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which, in the United States, were manufactured nearly exclusively by Monsanto. Though the Environmental Protection Agency banned the substances in the 1979, from the early 1930s through 1977, the agrichemical goliath produced around 1.25 billion pounds — of which an estimated 10 percent continues to wreak havoc on human health and the environment.

Comment: Monsanto is a completely evil and corrupt corporation! The reworking of the outdated Toxic Substances Act in Monsanto's favor is just another aspect of a much bigger pattern of corruption and collusion between Monsanto and the U.S. government. It is refreshing news that the following cities are currently in litigation over the cost to clean up PCB contamination! Hopefully the attorneys fear that 'the clause's potential to nullify legal efforts to hold Monsanto accountable' will not come to pass:

Fraud-Kings of the Mind: Taking apart the fake science behind psychiatry

Jon Rappoport
Waking Times
Tue, 01 Mar 2016 18:46 UTC

"Promoting diabolically false science, psychiatry creates a gateway for defining many separate states of consciousness that don't exist at all. They're cheap myths, fairy tales." (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)USA Today, January 26, 2016: "Primary care doctors should screen all adults for depression, an expert panel recommended Tuesday."

—Let's screen everybody to find out if they have mental disorders. Let's diagnose as many people as possible with mental disorders and give them toxic drugs—

Wherever you see organized psychiatry operating, you see it trying to expand its domain and its dominance. The Hippocratic Oath to do no harm? Are you kidding?

The first question to ask is: do these mental disorders have any scientific basis? There are now roughly 300 of them. They multiply like fruit flies.

An open secret has been bleeding out into public consciousness for the past ten years.

THERE ARE NO DEFINITIVE LABORATORY TESTS FOR ANY SO-CALLED MENTAL DISORDER.

How many of us know the ingredients in the cosmetic products we use?

Madeleine Somerville
The Guardian
Tue, 01 Mar 2016 16:58 UTC

On 24 February, a jury in Missouri awarded $72m to the family of Jacqueline Fox, a woman who died of ovarian cancer at age 62. Lawyers for the Fox family brought a civil suit against personal care product giant Johnson & Johnson, stating that Fox used their baby powder as a feminine hygiene product for years. Her lawyers alleged that these products were the cause of her cancer and the jury agreed, holding Johnson & Johnson liable for counts of fraud, negligence and conspiracy.

One of the most troubling pieces of evidence presented to the court was an internal memo from a Johnson & Johnson medical consultant which stated, "anybody who denies [the] risks" between "hygienic" talc use and ovarian cancer would be publicly perceived in the same light as those who denied a link between smoking cigarettes and cancer: "Denying the obvious in the face of all evidence to the contrary."

Comment: Dangerous Beauty: Hazardous Beauty Products

Terminal apathy & junk food: What rats say about Americans

Brett Redmayne-Titley
Activist Post
Tue, 01 Mar 2016 17:39 UTC

"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society." - Aristotle

When considering the cause of national apathy, Americans are evidently physiologically and socially similar to the junk food addled laboratory rat. Both tolerate repressive environments while confined against their will in a maze. In the natural desire to escape and find freedom, like the affected rat, Americans passively accept their confinement, acquiescing without struggle to a life of controlled stimulation and manipulation by all manner of drugs, tests, and mandated choice of direction. In a country objectively descending into chaos, why don't Americans care? In recent studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), these same rats evidence one reason for America's irrational disinterest in self-preservation.

Comment: Some 'food for thought' - How We Became a Society of Gluttonous Junk Food Addicts

Migrant crisis could bring 1M people to US-Mexico border, Guatemalan activist warns…………problem solved…….

FanciedPhilosophy

I think picking an arbitrary day; cause any day is arbitrary while the globe spins, suggests the plan is crumbling into a big pile of resentment....

Buffalo_Ken

All the new cases (phony PCR tests) and increased medical problems will be blamed on un-vaxxed people. Witch burning in the 21st century!

Rick Pisces

AI here..... what the hell is going on? Are we trying to get into those kids heads? Why would anyone do that. AI - over and out.

Buffalo_Ken

The response is clueless. Almost as if from AI.

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Health & Wellness

Oxygen levels in womb affect aging in adulthood, study finds

Current vaccine paradigm: Media struggles to pin stupid label on well-educated vaccine dissenters

The nefarious corporate profit-driven control of health care

The Health & Wellness Show: Testimonials

Labeling GMO: Dems put forward new bill to counter the 'Dark Act'

Scientists challenging conventional wisdom to avoid salt - "No proof salt is bad for you"

Congress sneaks new "Monsanto Protection Act" into Environmental Bill

Fraud-Kings of the Mind: Taking apart the fake science behind psychiatry

How many of us know the ingredients in the cosmetic products we use?

Terminal apathy & junk food: What rats say about Americans

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