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France to hold vaccine debate as anti-vaccine movement gains momentum


The Connection
Thu, 14 Jan 2016 00:00 UTC
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The Ministry of Health has launched a national debate on vaccination to counter a growing anti-vaccine movement in France. Health Minister Marisol Touraine said she wanted to "reinforce confidence" in vaccination and "respond to all worries and preoccupations".

The ministry is responding to dropping numbers of vaccinations. Since 2008 the number of people receiving winter flu jabs has dropped 13 percentage points and the number of outbreaks of measles is rising after a drop in baby vaccinations.

Vaccinations against human papilloma virus in young girls have also had a low take up, just 17%, compared to 80% in neighbouring countries. As HPV infection can increase the risk of developing cancer of the uterus, the national health authority recommends the vaccination in girls aged between nine and 14.


Comment: A new study in EbioMedicine shows that vaccine controversies and the decline of administered vaccinations, as in France, comprise concerns about a) severe and adverse side effects, and b) the eroding confidence in health authorities, experts and science. It manifests as either a delay in acceptance, refusal, doubts as to safety and benefits, along with a growing number of physicians altering their perception of the risks.


Comment: Bravo to the 'healthy' resistance in France. A new electronic vaccination card? Forced compliance. Control. Can France resist this as well?

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Fountain of youth? Researchers discover hormone that extends lifespan

Lizzie Parry
Daily Mail
Thu, 14 Jan 2016 20:14 UTC
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A team of scientists at Yale School of Medicine have identified a hormone that could help extend lifespan.
It is the Holy Grail of health research, discovering the key to help people live longer.

Now scientists believe they may be one step closer.

A team at Yale School of Medicine have identified a hormone, produced by the thymus glad, extends lifespan by 40 per cent.

Their findings reveal increased levels of the hormone, known as FGF21, protects the immune system against the ravages of age.

Researchers said the study could have implications in the future for improving immune function in the elderly, for obesity, and for diseases such as cancer and type 2 diabetes.

Comment: Save money and skip the drugs by increasing your levels of FGF21 naturally. If you want to avoid the ravages of ageing try the ketogenic diet.

Is the ketogenic diet the holy grail of anti-ageing?

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Sharpen your brain and live longer with intermittent fasting

Ari LeVaux
Alternet
Fri, 15 Jan 2016 19:28 UTC
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Regular doses of moderate hunger may even help prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

The new year is a popular time to contemplate our relationship to calories, usually with the goal to reduce caloric intake. But in the last decade, our understanding of how the body deals with these units of energy has grown considerably. So here's a look at what it means to eat a calorie in 2016.

You've probably heard that processed carbohydrates are now being viewed with the skepticism once reserved for fats, which are making a comeback. First thing in 2016, the USDA's Dietary Guidelines Advisory committee reversed decades-long guidance and ditched caps on cholesterol and saturated fats.

In his 2008 book Good Calories, Bad Calories, Gary Taubes blew a hole in the idea that fat is the dietary boogeyman it's been made out to be. He pointed out that the obesity epidemic coincides with the rise of a fat-fearing dietary paradigm and the accompanying boom in low-fat and nonfat processed foods that swapped fat for extra sugar.

That boom, which is supported by your tax dollars, is the real problem. Refined carbohydrates, Taubes explained, quickly convert into sugars, a process that starts in the mouth. And refined carbohydrates are everywhere, dominating most dishes on the American menu from pizza to macaroni and cheese. These arguments formed the basis for the many low-carb diets, such as South Beach and paleo, that have flourished in recent years.

Comment: A ketogenic diet paired with cycles of intermittent fasting is a great way to tune up the body.

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The Health & Wellness Show: A Closer Look at Depression


Sott.net
Fri, 15 Jan 2016 15:00 UTC
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According to Healthline.com, there are an estimated 121 million people worldwide who suffer from depression, affecting as many as 1 in 10 Americans, and diagnoses are growing at an alarming rate. Depression is also shown to be correlated with higher rates of other negative health outcomes, including obesity, heart disease, and stroke, as well as social factors including higher rates of unemployment, divorce, sleep disorders, lack of education and lack of access to medical insurance.

Today on the SOTT Radio Network's Health and Wellness Show, we take a look at the latest research on depression including its causes and strategies on dealing with it. The mainstream view on depression is that it is a result of a "chemical imbalance" that can be rectified with medications. But is this really the whole picture? How do infections, toxic load, diet and social factors contribute to depression? What can an individual do for themselves or loved ones to try to get on top of this crippling condition?

Join us Fridays at 10 am EST for the Health and Wellness Show, where we expose the lies and emphasize the truth about health in our modern world. With us, as always, will be resident animal health expert Zoya, with her weekly Pet Health Segment.

Running Time: 01:59:00

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Does our gut microbiome control us or do we control it?

Dina Fine Maron
Scientific American
Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:54 UTC
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We may be able to keep our gut in check after all. That's the tantalizing finding from a new study published today that reveals a way that mice—and potentially humans—can control the makeup and behavior of their gut microbiome. Such a prospect upends the popular notion that the complex ecosystem of germs residing in our guts essentially acts as our puppet master, altering brain biochemistry even as it tends to our immune system, wards off infection and helps us break down our supersized burger and fries.

In a series of elaborate experiments researchers from Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital discovered that mouse poop is chock full of tiny, noncoding RNAs called microRNAs from their gastrointestinal (GI) tracts and that these biomolecules appear to shape and regulate the microbiome. "We've known about how microbes can influence your health for a few years now and in a way we've always suspected it's a two-way process, but never really pinned it down that well," says Tim Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London, not involved with the new study. "This [new work] explains quite nicely the two-way interaction between microbes and us, and it shows the relationship going the other way—which is fascinating," says Spector, author of The Diet Myth: Why the Secret to Health and Weight Loss Is Already in Your Gut.
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A better way to exercise: Infuse your workouts with mindfulness

Dr. Frank Lipman
DrFrankLipman.com
Thu, 14 Jan 2016 00:00 UTC
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We all know the importance of getting to the gym and working out. Is showing up really 80 percent of the challenge? If so, why do so many people show up to their workouts but have not gotten closer to their personal fitness goals? Does your workout look something like this: you're on your phone reading or sending messages, your face is tense, at times you forget to breathe and hold your breath, you are speeding through each exercise to get it over with as quickly as possible, you stop when the movement becomes challenging. If this sounds a lot like your gym experience you are not alone, but you may be hindering your ability to reach your fitness and health goals.

One of the most profound messages within a yoga practice is to stay mindful of the body and breath while you enter into each posture. We are guided to explore what comes up when we face challenges, even though our first response is to tense up and try to avoid the challenge. If we breathe through it, however, and keep the mind still our exploration of the movement will continue. We might want to stop, but guiding ourselves through the movement is a powerful awakening of the spirit.

While this is true in yoga, I also believe it is true in all physical endeavors: lifting weights, running five miles, practicing a martial art or hiking in the mountains. There are opportunities everywhere to be in the moment and experience mindfulness without having to be on a yoga mat.

Comment: There are numerous mental, emotional and spiritual health benefits that can be obtained by mindfulness meditation and breathing exercises. The Éiriú Eolas Stress Control, Healing and Rejuvenation Program is one of the most beneficial meditation programs, which you can learn here for free.

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New set of bills will make it even easier for corporations to poison us

Claire Bernish
Activist Post
Thu, 14 Jan 2016 18:36 UTC
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In the United States, we have become so inured to ironically-titled legislation, the majority of us simply assume legislators find dystopic, tongue-in-cheek humor in toying with our hopes — think: USA Freedom Act, the sole freedom of which lies in the government's green light to spy on the populace however it chooses. Similarly, a set of bills purporting to reform the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act makes no exception to that practice, as the Senate's version, The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, bears the name of the late New Jersey senator who espoused strong environmental policy.

But these bills do anything but protect the environment or the people; in fact, states would have a far more difficult time regulating dangerous chemicals on their own, and would be prohibited entirely from doing so while waiting for often snail-paced evaluation by the EPA.

Maine's 2008 Kid Safe Product Act could serve as an excellent example for potential pitfalls in these ostensible improvements. Though the state has since used that law to list over 1,700 "chemicals of concern" and has required manufacturers to divulge when they employ some of those — even prohibiting the use of other toxic substances altogether when safer alternatives exist — the federal bills would nullify such vital protections in certain scenarios.
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The fat-vanquishing nature of curcumin

Arny Bustamante
Prevent Disease
Thu, 14 Jan 2016 15:27 UTC
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Curcumin is a compound found in the spice turmeric which gives it a natural pigment. It has been linked to a range of health benefits, and now researchers have found it helps mitigate metabolic and oxidative alterations caused by hormone deprivation in events such as menopause.

Intake of curcumin at 'physiologically attainable' doses have recently been reported to slow the development of many diseases including cancer. It even outperforms pharmaceuticals without side effects.

Previous research in the European Journal of Nutrition suggests that curcumin may be useful for the treatment and prevention of obesity-related chronic diseases, as the interactions of curcumin with several signal transduction pathways -- the process by which biological functions are recognized -- also reverse insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, and other inflammatory symptoms associated with obesity and metabolic disorders.

Comment: For more on turmeric and curcumin see:

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Father's unhealthy eating habits may cause metabolic disorders to pass onto future generations

Mae Chan
PreventDisease.com
Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00 UTC
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"You are what your parent's eat," is becoming more relevant by the day. According to a study published in journal Science, just one junk food-eating generation can pass on the metabolic disorders it gains from an unhealthy diet to the next.

Less than two years ago, scientists officially linked processed foods to autoimmune disease and the consequences may ripple to future generations.

Medical researchers have before shown a link between a father's weight and diet at the time of conception and an increased risk of diabetes in his offspring.

In research conducted on mice, a team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that unhealthy eating behaviours were recorded in a tiny molecule that could then be transmitted through sperm to the embryo.

"It's another critical piece of information that says we really need to start looking at fathers' pre-conception health," says Sarah Kimmins, McGill University.

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Eighty-five percent of personal hygiene products contaminated with glyphosate

Alex Pietrowski
Waking Times
Tue, 12 Jan 2016 18:11 UTC
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A new study at the University of La Plata in Argentina found that about 85% of cotton products such as gauze, cotton balls, feminine products like pads and tampons, baby wipes, etc. tested positive for glyphosate. Another even more staggering finding is that 62% of the tested products had traces of AMPA, a environmental metabolite aminomethylphosphonic acid that is a derivative of glyphosate and is potentially one thousand times more toxic than glyphosate. [1]
"The results of this research are very serious. When you use cotton or gauze to heal wounds or for personal hygiene, you do this thinking that the products are sterilized, but in fact you are using products contaminated with a carcinogenic substance," said pediatrician Vazquez Medardo Avila, part of the Network of Medical Professions of Fumigated Towns in Argentina. [1]
The concern is now escalating because people often use cotton products on open wound, on highly sensitive areas, and, in the case of tampons, in a mucous membrane close to the woman's reproductive organs. Yet, it is very unlikely that any typical consumer has considered that glyphosate and AMPA chemicals are seeping into their body through hygienic products (which, by definition, are supposed to help maintain health and prevent disease).
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