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Big Food companies tell dieticians conference: GMOs are safe and gluten intolerance is a fad


Alliance for Natural Health
Wed, 21 May 2014 10:20 UTC
Meanwhile, there are fresh victories (and challenges) in the battle to stop AND from monopolizing nutrition advice.
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McDonald's sponsored the annual conference of the California branch of the nutritionists' professional organization.
Picture yourself at a continuing education conference for professionals. In the morning, you grab a Hershey's chocolate milk and head to a panel - sponsored by the Wheat Council - on how gluten intolerance is just a "fad." After a lunch provided by McDonalds, you listen in on a discussion (hosted by the Big Food front group International Food Information Council) about how GMOs are perfectly safe and environmentally friendly.

Was this a continuing ed conference for Big Food propagandists? Nope - Registered Dieticians! This was Mother Jones reporter Kiera Butler's actual experience at the annual conference of the California Dietetic Association.

Frankly, we'd expect nothing less from the Coca-Cola, Abbott Nutrition, Pepsi, General Mills, and Kellogg's-funded Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND). After all, corporate contributions are the AND's largest source of income. In fact, the AND's mission has become so skewed that its own members have formed an organization - Dieticians for Professional Integrity - to protest its hijacking by corporate interests.

Why are the AND's doings of concern to the natural health community? Because, as we've previously reported, the AND uses its financial clout to bar other highly qualified professionals from the field of nutritional therapy, to the lasting detriment of consumer choice.
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Attention

The Food Industry-- Your every day poison delivery source

Rob Kall
OpedNews
Mon, 19 May 2014 09:00 UTC
Pesticide Warning Sign
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Pesticide Warning Sign -- Don't walk there, but eat the food!

Pick Your Poisoned Food

Is it possible to eat food that is not poisoned today?

If you buy 98% of the items in a grocery store they are processed foods with all kinds of preservatives and other chemicals added.

Even if you buy food labeled organic, there's a possibility that a percentage of the food is problematic.

Buy produce and most likely it is saturated in insecticides or weed killers, especially the GMO food brought to us by Monsanto and friends. The whole idea of GMO is to breed plants that are not killed when sprayed with insecticides and weed killers.

Well, you could find a local organic farm and join its CSA (community supported agriculture) but you can't be sure that the groundwater isn't polluted from local fracking. Frackers don't have to say what's in the fluids they pump into the ground-- fluids which pollute the local aquifer.

You can be pretty sure that if you are buying food packaged by any of the big food companies that it's been processed, and even if it isn't, there's a really good chance the company has donated to GMO labeling campaigns. I'm using the Buycott app on my phone so I can scan products to make sure I'm not giving business to the Koch brothers or companies that have funded anti GMO campaigns.

If you go to a restaurant you can be almost certain that the food is not organic, that it's loaded with chemical preservatives, or worse, poisons from pesticides and weed killers.

A huge percentage of foods and drinks use corn syrup to sweeten them. Almost all corn is GMO. GMO food is made so it tolerates more pesticides and weed killers. Sweeteners are used to addict us to foods.
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Health

Virus experiments risk unleashing global pandemic, study warns

Ian Sample
The Guardian
Tue, 20 May 2014 00:00 UTC
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Scientists examine specimens of the 1918 pandemic influenza virus in the US.
Public health experts have warned that controversial experiments on mutant viruses could put human lives in danger by unleashing an accidental pandemic.

Several groups of scientists around the world are creating and altering viruses to understand how natural strains might evolve into more lethal forms that spread easily among humans.

But in a report published on Tuesday, researchers at Harvard and Yale universities in the US argue that the benefits of the work are outweighed by the risk of pathogenic strains escaping from laboratories and spreading around the world.
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Pills

Heavily Medicated: ​One in three in France on psychotropic medication


RT.com
Tue, 20 May 2014 20:55 UTC
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Street Legal
A study by France's National Drug Safety Agency (ANSM) found that one third of French people were taking and at times misusing antidepressants, mood stabilizers and other psychotropic drugs, prompting fresh warnings by health experts.

The report by ANSM, carried by Le Parisien Tuesday, found that 32 percent of French citizens were using psychotropic medication, such as antipsychotics, antidepressants, ADHD drugs, anti-anxiety medications and mood stabilizers.

Comment: The pharmaceutical industry seems to be doing well...

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Health

Sleep apnea tied to hearing loss in large study


ScienceDaily
Tue, 20 May 2014 15:05 UTC
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Patients with sleep apnea are at increased risk for a number of comorbidities, including heart disease and diabetes.
Both high and low frequency hearing impairment have been linked with sleep apnea in a new study of nearly 14,000 individuals.

"In our population-based study of 13,967 subjects from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos, we found that sleep apnea was independently associated with hearing impairment at both high and low frequencies after adjustment for other possible causes of hearing loss," said lead author Amit Chopra, MD, currently at the Albany Medical Center in New York.

The study was presented at the 2014 American Thoracic Society International Conference.

All subjects underwent successful in-home sleep apnea studies and on-site audiometric testing at baseline. Sleep apnea was assessed with the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), which indicates sleep apnea severity based on the number of apnea (complete cessation of airflow) and hypopneas (partial cessation of airflow) per hour of sleep. Sleep apnea was defined as an AHI ≥ 15 events/hour. High frequency hearing impairment was defined as having a mean hearing threshold of greater than 25 decibels in either ear at 2000, 3000, 4000, 6000 and 8000 Hz, and low frequency hearing impairment was defined as having a mean hearing threshold of greater than 25 decibels in either ear at 500 Hz and 1000 Hz.

Comment: Those who suffer from sleep apnea might want to take a look at this article:

Breathe in: Exercises may help sleep apnea

Also if you haven't tried any breathing techniques, you can check out the Éiriú Eolas breathing program here.

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Whistle

Bribery, fraud and corruption charges against big pharma

Catherine J. Frompovich
Activist Post
Fri, 16 May 2014 11:39 UTC
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What happens when the 'Average Joe' gets caught committing a crime? He or she usually gets the book thrown at them, most often spending time in the slammer. However, what happens when "corporations too big to fail" get caught with "their hands in the cookie jar," so to speak? Not very many folks pay the time, but the corporate treasury pays the fine. Why? Apparently, large sums of money can "absolve corporate sins" time after time after time. One industry that has had enormous fines levied against it is the pharmaceutical industry, also known as Big Pharma.

It is the opinion of this writer that Big Pharma's corporate largess is too tempting to resist by federal government agencies, and fines work nicely. Pharma's lobbyists spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year contributing to congressional campaign coffers, which should be outlawed because it is nothing short of bribery - plain and simple. Obviously, a member of Congress will champion a cause - or is 'morally' obligated to do so - for the money Pharma's lobbyists freely hand out. [3]
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Syringe

No benefit to Gardasil vaccine

Jeannie Stokowski-Bisanti
Digital Journal
Wed, 14 May 2014 00:43 UTC
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The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is given to prevent the risk of cancer associated with HPV and is typically administered between the ages of eight and 26. Opponents argue that not only is the vaccine risky, but it is of no value.

The HPV vaccine effects are said to last for only about five years.

In a Health Impact News Daily Post dated today, Dr. Mark Flannery states that, "The problem with this vaccine is this: Even though it's estimated 60 percent of women have the HPV virus, only 1-2 percent of the total population gets cervical cancer, and most of those women get the cancer in their 50s. If the vaccine only works for five years, is administered up to age 26, and yet most cases of cervical cancer happen to women in their 50s, the benefits of the Gardasil vaccine are questionable given the severe consequences it can cause."

In Dr. Flannery's practice, he has worked with a number of people injured by the Gardasil vaccine for HPV and, according to SaneVax, Inc., as of 2013 more than 32,000 people have reported adverse affects to the Gardasil vaccine, more than 145 have died, over 1,000 are permanently disabled, and more than 6,400 have yet to recover. Dr. Flannery writes, "The evidence shows HPV rarely proceeds to cancer and that very few women with HPV develop cervical cancer, as other risk factors are involved."

Comment: In short: Gardasil: Medical torture and child abuse by Big Pharma. See also Vaccine's safety: A crime against humanity.

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Bullseye

More spin than science: The latest efforts to take down organics

Kari Hamerschlag
Civil Eats
Thu, 08 May 2014 19:36 UTC
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Several weeks ago, a group called Academics Review published a report harshly attacking the organic industry and its nonprofit allies for what they called "deceptive marketing practices," designed to instill "false and misleading consumer health and safety perceptions about competing conventional foods." The study also implicates the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a willing partner that allows companies to use their sanctioned organic label to deliver fear-mongering messages about the dangers of industrial food.

And while most coverage of the study appeared in small and agriculture-focused publications, some other sources, like the New York Post and Food Safety News, picked up the story without much in-depth research about its source. The headlines "Report: Organic Industry Achieved 25 Years of Fast Growth Through Fear and Deception" and "The Organic Industry Has Been Fibbing All Along" were especially alarming.

Comment: More evidence on WHY consumers care about pesticides, antibiotics, hormones or GMOs in our food:
Other Key Health Benefits of Organic Food
Paying for Health: The Cost of Organic Food Versus Conventional
Going organic for one week cuts pesticides in urine by 90%
The Obvious Advantage of Organic Food Over Conventional
New Study Confirms: Organic Food is Far Healthier Than Conventional
More propaganda: organic food has no added nutritional benefit, says Food Standards Agency
Organic vs. Conventional: Pundits are welcome to their own opinion, but not their own facts
New 'Study' Based on Crops No Longer Grown, Twists Its Own Results, and Fails to Analyze Thinking Outside the Processed Foods Box: Health and Safety Advantages of Organic Food

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Health

Preventable factors cause majority of US deaths

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Wed, 14 May 2014 08:48 UTC
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As recently reported by CNN Health1 and Time Magazine,2 five things account for nearly two-thirds of all deaths in the US, or about 900,000 each year:
  • Heart disease
  • Cancer
  • Lung disease
  • Stroke
  • Unintentional injuries, including medication overdoses and car accidents
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Arrow Up

Russian lawmakers want to impose criminal penalties on those conducting GMO business

Christina Sarich
Natural Society
Mon, 19 May 2014 14:01 UTC
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In an act of lucidity and light that our own country should somewhat imitate, Russian lawmakers are considering equating GMO-related activities to a terrorist act or death threat, a criminal act that Russia says deserves the punishment which killers and creators of mass ecological and human genocide deserve.

A Russian newspaper, Izvestia, writes that criminal liability will be imposed on any act that involves producing, selling, or transporting genetically modified organisms, if Russian lawmakers get their way.

A bill supporting this ideaology was submitted to the Russian State Duma lower parliament house by the Duma agrarian committee as well as the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) (who claimed the parliament's bill was too mild.)

Those initiating the bill suggest that criminal responsibility should be applicable to companies and government officials, but not to farmers who were convinced that GMOs were safe to grow. They believe individuals should only undergo disciplinary action, and not criminal charges.

The bill would also heavily fine companies for distorting or concealing information about the environmental impacts of GMOs. If this bill were to pass in the US, I'm sure Monsanto would go broke paying all the fines they would be subject to. They've paid off scientists and entire institutions, as well as our own FDA and EPA to conceal evidence about both health and environmental damage that GMOs cause.
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