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Monsanto's mysterious mouse tumor study resurfaces 34 years later

Carey Gillam
EcoWatch
Fri, 09 Jun 2017 17:14 UTC
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Tissue slides from long-dead lab mice could play a pivotal role in hearings against Monsanto. Jan
Call it the case of the mysterious mouse tumor.

It's been 34 years since Monsanto Co. presented U.S. regulators with a seemingly routine study analyzing the effects the company's best-selling herbicide might have on rodents. Now, that study is once again under the microscope, emerging as a potentially pivotal piece of evidence in litigation brought by hundreds of people who claim Monsanto's weed killer gave them cancer.

This week, tissue slides from long-dead mice in that long-ago research study are being scrutinized by fresh eyes as an expert pathologist employed by lawyers for cancer victims looks for evidence the lawyers hope will help prove a cover-up of the dangers of the weed killer called glyphosate.

Glyphosate, which is the active ingredient in Monsanto's branded Roundup products, is the most widely used herbicide in the world, and is applied broadly in the production of more than 100 food crops, including wheat, corn and soy, as well as on residential lawns, golf courses and school yards.
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Study: Millions of Americans think chocolate milk comes from brown cows

Amanda Froelich
True Activist
Sat, 17 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
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A chocolate cow
The fact that some people — 16.4 million, to be precise — believe chocolate milk comes directly from a cow's teat is a problem.

Because consumers have the option of picking and choosing from a plethora of goods when they visit the supermarket, few actually consider where their food comes from. This is a conundrum, one that is leading to ignorance pertaining to food cultivation and its use. And, a new survey commissioned by the Innovation Center for US Dairy confirms this.
Reportedly, an astonishing 7 percent of American citizens believe chocolate milk comes directly from a brown cow. In fact, the question "Does chocolate milk come from brown cows?" is the most frequently asked question on the Center's website. Fortunately, a polite response is offered: "Actually, chocolate milk - or any flavored milk for that matter - is white cow's milk with added flavoring and sweeteners," reads the website.
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The awful truth about white flour

Organic and Healthy
Natural Blaze
Sat, 17 Jun 2017 16:57 UTC
white flour
The Federal District Court of Missouri deemed that bleached white flour was unfit for human consumption, in 1910.

Shockingly, the 1st chief of the Food and Drug Administration at the time, H. W. Wiley, said that the law was "halted through the political influence of the flour millers" and "no notice of violations has since been made by the FDA."

Mr. Wiley's book "The History of a Crime Against the Pure Food Law" goes over the case:
These days flour is made from wheat that's exposed to harmful pesticides, insecticides, and fungicides from the minute they are seeded and stored away. Since this time, around 60 various chemicals have been approved by the FDA to bleach white flour.
5 Secrets About White Flour That will Shock You

1. Bleached Flour contains nearly NO nutrients.

White Flour manufacturer's start by removing bran from wheat seed, its 6 outer layers, and the germ that has 76% of minerals and vitamins. 97 percent of the dietary fiber is also gone. This process strips all iron, magnesium, B vitamins, vitamin E, 70% phosphorus and 50% of calcium.

Comment: The Little-Known Secrets about Bleached Flour...

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Mainstream Tea Bags Contain Illegal Amounts of Deadly Pesticides


Healthy Food House
Thu, 15 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
Pesticides in tea
We are living in a world where pesticides are common and surround us. Unfortunately, the exposure to these dangerous substances cannot be avoided completely, as we consume foods sprayed with them, use products which contain them, and the soil and air are rich in them.

A recent study has also found that pesticides are also found in some of the most popular tea brands in the world, such as Lipton, Tetley, and Twinings.

Comment: See also:
  • The Japanese tea ceremony: Chado, "the way of tea"
  • Medicinal benefits of tea

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Mountain Dew mouth and the U.S.'s insane approach to dental care

Anna Sanford
Alternet
Thu, 15 Jun 2017 16:17 UTC
Mountain Dew
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Mountain Dew, the carbonated fluorescent-green soda that Willy the Hillbilly declared "will tickle your innards" in a 1966 commercial, has long been a staple of Appalachia. It was officially developed in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the mid-1900s, but it has ties to the wheat and rye distilled by Irish immigrants who settled in the region as coal miners during the previous century. Today, coal has left Appalachia, as have a host of other industries that brought economic opportunity. Mountain Dew, however, remains culturally significant. Sarah Baird, a writer who grew up in Eastern Kentucky, recently wrote about the importance of the drink to her sense of identity, saying, "It's not just a beverage—it's a portable sense of home."

In a region long undergoing a cultural and economic crisis, Appalachia's thirst for Mountain Dew is perhaps the lesser of many evils. Opioid addiction, smoking, chewing tobacco, lack of access to municipal water systems, and the necessary preoccupation with getting food on the table over worrying about nutritional value are also having an enormous effect on people's teeth. The soda is ruining teeth, in an epidemic known as "Mountain Dew-mouth." The acid causes erosion and the sugar abets decay.
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Recovering from burnout: How to rebalance your life

Dr. Mercola
Mercola. com
Sun, 18 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
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Burnout is becoming a more common problem in the United States and around the world. How can you avoid it or recover from it if you've already hit the proverbial wall? Dr. Joseph Maroon, a professor of neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, has written a book that addresses these very questions.

"Square One: A Simple Guide to a Balanced Life" grew out of his own struggles with burnout, setbacks and depression after he'd become a world-class neurosurgeon before the age of 40.
"I've had rather impressive success [and] cataclysmic failure personally," Maroon says. "I was intent on becoming the very best that I could in terms of my profession, neurosurgery. I worked extremely diligently. It became an all-encompassing pursuit for me in my life ... with success, societal approval, writing papers, going to national meetings ...
Soon after becoming chief of neurosurgery at a major university hospital, I [cracked]. My father died, my wife and children left me, I had to quit my profession as a neurosurgeon due to the overwhelming stress ... all within one week ... The next week, I [was] helping my mother run a rather dilapidated truck stop left to her by my father in Wheeling, West Virginia, living on a farm.
One day I was doing brain surgery and [the next] literally filling up 18-wheelers and flipping hamburgers in a rundown truck stop. It was a great fall. It was kind of like an Icarian metaphor of flying too near the sun. I got scorched and I plummeted into the sea — a sea of depression."

Comment: See also: Burnout: How to recover your emotional and physical vitality

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Cold water just as effective as hot in handwashing

Dr. Mercola
mercola.com
Sat, 17 Jun 2017 15:39 UTC
handwashing
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If you've ever been in a place or circumstance where hot running water wasn't available for some reason, perhaps you had a vague sense when washing your hands in the only water available — cold — that they weren't really getting clean. That's probably because most of us learned in kindergarten that washing with hot, soapy water is imperative to kill germs. The belief is so ingrained that it's been written in government regulations (at least in the U.S.) for years.

Even using soap with cold water may seem as if using hot water would do a better job, but is there any actual scientific evidence this is true? Here's your answer: New research shows that if the water you're using to wash your hands is lukewarm or even cold, it does just as well as hot to remove bacteria. It's the length of time and the method that make all the difference.

The study, conducted at Rutgers University and published in the Journal of Food Protection,1 involved 21 participants and ended with an interesting conclusion: Whether they washed their hands in 60-, 79- or 100-degree (Fahrenheit) water, there was no difference in the "clean" they attained when they lathered their hands and washed them for 10 seconds.

But here's the kicker: Every one of those individuals had high levels of E. coli bacteria "applied" to their hands. Although the scientists in charge used a "nonpathogenic" strain of the bacteria, each subject was asked to wash their hands using several different water temperatures and for varying lengths of washing time.

They used cold, warm or hot water, between half a milliliter and 2 milliliters (ml) of soap and washed for anywhere from five to 40 seconds. They repeated the experiment 20 times over a six-month period. Time added:
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Syrian children get Polio from oral Polio vaccine


The Vaccine Reaction
Sun, 18 Jun 2017 13:20 UTC
polio

Syrian authorities conducted polio vaccination campaigns in Deir-Ez-Zor in March and April 2017 using “bivalent oral polio vaccine.”
Three children in the Deir-Ez-Zor eastern region of Syria have contracted polio during the past three months. The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on June 8, 2017 that a polio virus strain designated as vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was found in a healthy Syrian child and two other children diagnosed with Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP)—an acute form of paralysis. The children with AFP experienced the onset of paralysis on March 5 and May 6.1, 2

The cVDPV2 strain is a "mutated version of the [polio]virus in some vaccines rather than a wild polio strain." This vaccine-derived poliovirus is caused by the oral polio vaccine (OPV), which uses an attenuated (weakened but still alive) form of the poliovirus.2

AFP, also known as Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) or non-polio AFP (NPAFP), has been reported by the media since 2014 as a "mysterious polio-like illness"3 and some researchers believe it is caused by enterovirus-68 (EV68)3,4 A recent animal study found that the EV-D68 strain associated with a nationwide outbreak of enterovirus respiratory disease in 2014 can cause paralysis in mice.5

Comment: Are Polio Vaccines Increasing The Rate of Polio Paralysis?
Polio underscores the need for a change in the way we look at so-called "vaccine preventable" diseases as a whole. In most people with a healthy immune system, a poliovirus infection does not even generate symptoms. Only rarely does the infection produce minor symptoms, e.g. sore throat, fever, gastrointestinal disturbances, and influenza-like illness. In only 3% of infections does virus gain entry to the central nervous system, and then, in only 1-5 in 1000 cases does the infection progress to paralytic disease.

Due to the fact that polio spreads through the fecal-oral route (i.e. the virus is transmitted from the stool of an infected person to the mouth of another person through a contaminated object, e.g. utensil) focusing on hygiene, sanitation and proper nutrition (to support innate immunity) is a logical way to prevent transmission in the first place, as well as reducing morbidity associated with an infection when it does occur.

Instead, a large portion of the world's vaccines are given to the third world as "charity," when the underlying conditions of economic impoverishment, poor nutrition, chemical exposures, and socio-political unrest are never addressed. You simply can't vaccinate people out of these conditions, and as India's new epidemic of vaccine-induced polio cases clearly demonstrates, the "cure" may be far worse than the disease itself.


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The parallels between synthetic opiates and high fructose corn syrup

Kristen McGuiness
The Fix
Mon, 12 Jun 2017 13:27 UTC
opiates

High Fructose Corn Syrup and synthetic opiates have many similarities in metabolism, marketing, and impact on the epidemics of obesity and addiction.
Like corn syrup, is the structure of synthetic opioids as much to blame for their consequences as the large-scale promotions behind them?

Over the last three decades, two health crises have simultaneously overwhelmed modern America: obesity and addiction. The rise of both and a driving factor of each - opioids for addiction, and sugar for obesity - can be traced to two similar inventions, the creation and proliferation of synthetic opiates, and the promulgation of high fructose corn syrup. However, these two products are not only similar in how they have been marketed to consumers, but in how their chemical architecture metabolizes in the human body.

Additionally, much of modern medicine is saying the same thing about both, but the message is a bit misleading. Many experts now argue that there are no health differences between corn syrup and table sugar. Similarly, most addiction researchers also claim that there are no health differences between natural and synthetic opiates. The one truth all agree on are that sugar and opium can be dangerous for your health, no matter whether they are found in nature or manufactured in a lab. However, the synthetic substances were both developed to decrease costs and to increase customer satisfaction. The only flaw in both of these goals was that they simply work too well.
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Cannabinoids can kill leukemia cells, says new research

Brandon Turbeville
Natural Blaze
Sat, 17 Jun 2017 16:09 UTC
leukemia cells

Leukemia cells
A new study has confirmed yet another positive use for cannabis. A new study has revealed that cannabinoids can successfully kill leukemia cells.

Cannabis has long been known as having the ability to kill cancer, but the new revelation regarding leukemia is important because the disease is a cancer of bone marrow and other blood forming organs.

The study which was led by Dr. Wailiu at St. George's University of London in the UK. The team studied cancer cells and tested a variety of combinations of chemotherapy drugs and cannabinoids in order to find the most effective grouping.

The test was designed to discover not only the effect of cannabinoids on leukemia, but whether or not the order that the chemicals were given would result in any difference of results or success rates.

What they found was that cannabidiol and THC killed leukemia cells when they were used alone. Even more so when used together, their potency was significantly improved.
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