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Dallas, Texas ends over 50 years of water fluoridation

Arjun Walia
Collective Evolution
Wed, 07 May 2014 05:45 UTC
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Anti water fluoridation advocates have been successful in the removal of fluoride from the water supply in Dallas, Texas. The ban comes after five decades of water fluoridation, but more and more people around the world have been gathering to put a stop to the practice over the last few years.

"We don't need it and we'd just save a million dollars that we can use for something else. We're looking into seeing what we can do immediately so we can get those funds up from now." - Sheffie Kadane, Dallas City Council Member

"Yeah, this is major big. I knew we would prevail. It only makes sense. We're spending too much money on an ineffective program." - Scott Griggs, Dallas City Council Member

The decision was made after activists continually showed up to city council meetings, providing evidence and warning them regarding the risks involved with water fluoridation. As a result, the city could save over $1 million a year that is spent on the industrial chemical, that's right, an industrial chemical.
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Health

Resilient health care for a world in flux

Dmitry Orlov
Club Orlov
Thu, 08 May 2014 04:21 UTC
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When I asked people to contribute content to the book on Communities that Abide, which is now nearing publication (with two chapters already at the proofreading stage), I didn't know quite to expect. The results went far beyond my expectations. This week I will highlight the chapter by James Truong, MD, who practices emergency and family medicine in rural Canada. His chapter, "Appropriate Health Care for a World In Flux: A Strategy," is a must-read for anyone thinking about founding or joining a resilient community. It is an in-depth guide to health care in a world where the Health Care System that currently exists in the developed nations of the world is inaccessible, unaffordable, or nonexistent. His subtitle reads: "Monday: feed the family. Tuesday: don't get sick." But what if you do? Dr. Truong explains the options.

Dr. Truong carefully teases apart the overwhelmingly complex subject of "health care" into elements that anyone can, and should, understand. First, he teaches us to think about health conditions, by putting them into categories: each condition is either acute or chronic, and either benign or dangerous. Each combination of these requires a different approach: acute-benign better get treated at home, acute-dangerous may require expert intervention from the community's designated health care provider(s) (whoever they may be), but with no guarantee of a positive outcome. Chronic-benign conditions (lifestyle diseases, boutique diseases such as cosmetics or gender identity) are, in this context, not handled as medical issues at all. Chronic-dangerous conditions (obesity, heart disease, hypertension, diabetes) will, to make a long story short, result in shorter lives.
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Beaker

Ebola: New or old?

Carl Zimmer
National Geographic
Tue, 06 May 2014 13:51 UTC
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As viruses go, Ebola has a grim star power. When a new outbreak hits, Ebola kills a high fraction of its victims, causing horrific bleeding along the way. The latest outbreak started in March in Guinea. As of today, the World Health Organization reported 231 cases and 155 deaths.

In order to better treat Ebola, Pardis Sabeti of Harvard and her colleagues have been analyzing the virus's evolution. It turns out that Ebola is not some freakish new plague, but rather old. If that seems puzzling, a research scientist in Sabeti's lab, Stephen Gire, has created this animation, which I've embedded below, to explain it.


Comment: Excellent! But they forgot to add in the cosmos factor into the equation: New Light on the Black Death: The Viral and Cosmic Connection.

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Health

Going organic for one week cuts pesticides in urine by 90%


RMIT University
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 02:38 UTC
Eating a mainly organic diet for just seven days can reduce pesticide exposure in adults by almost 90 per cent, a world-first RMIT University study has found.
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Urinary levels of six metabolites of organophosphate pesticides (known as dialkylphosphates or DAPs) were analysed on the eighth day of each phase. The mean level of total DAP metabolites after eating a diet of at least 80% organic food was 89 per cent lower than the levels after eating conventional food. .
The research is the first to compare the differences in pesticide residues in adults who consume organic and conventional food.

Published over the weekend in the journal Environmental Research, the small-scale trial found that one week of eating mostly organic food reduced organophosphate pesticide levels in urine by 89 per cent.

Lead investigator Dr Liza Oates said there had been a few studies examining how organic diets affected pesticide levels in children but no research had so far been published on adults.

"Conventional food production commonly uses organophosphate pesticides, which are neurotoxins that act on the nervous system of insects - and humans - by blocking an important enzyme," Dr Oates said.

"Recent studies have raised concerns for the health effects of these chemicals even at relatively low levels.
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Heart

How to treat diabetes naturally - an MD's perspective

Dr Antti Heikkilä
Sott.net
Tue, 06 May 2014 04:59 UTC
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Diet has been used to treat diabetes for several centuries. The Royal Artillery Regiment physician John Rollo (1749 - 1809) was able to demonstrate the presence of sugar in urine indirectly. He devised a low carbohydrate diet, which he tested successfully on overweight patients. He was able to show that a reduced carbohydrate diet eliminated all sugar in urine. He also observed that the sugar content in urine increased when his patients ate apple cake or drank beer.

Since that time, the basic principle for treating diabetes is to maintain the best possible glycemic control and to prevent organ damage caused by sugar. Excess sugar is always harmful, even to those who do not have diabetes. Sugar accelerates the aging process by forming compounds together with proteins. The term glycosylation describes this process. The more sugar that circulates in the body, the faster and more extensively glycosylation manifests itself.
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Attention

Why eating wheat and GMOs will destroy your health

Sayer Ji
Greenmedinfo.com
Mon, 05 May 2014 04:39 UTC
A new study indicates that wheat contributes to the growth of pathogenic bacteria in our gut, adding to growing concern that GMO foods are doing the same.
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A new study published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology titled, "Diversity of the cultivable human gut microbiome involved in gluten metabolism: isolation of microorganisms with potential interest for coeliac disease," has revealed something remarkable about the human gut bacteria (microbiome). Some of the extremely hard to digest proteins in wheat colloquially known as "gluten" (there are actually over 27,000 identified in the wheat proteome) were found metabolizable through a 94 strains of bacterial species isolated from the human gut (via fecal sampling).

This discovery is all the more interesting when you consider that, according to Alessio Fasano, the Medical Director for The University of Maryland's Center for Celiac Research, the human genome does not possess the ability to produce enzymes capable of breaking down gluten.
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Syringe

Facilitating mutations: On the cusp of an Ebola vaccine

Vicki Matustik
University of Texas, Austin
Mon, 05 May 2014 17:05 UTC
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Maria Croyle, professor of pharmaceutics, in her lab.
Half a world away in western Africa, the deadly virus Ebola stirs terror in the hearts of Guinea residents as more than 121 confirmed diagnosis and 74 resulting deaths have been attributed to the pathogen since January 2014.


Comment: Correction: 226 cases, 149 deaths.


The particular strain of the virus, known as Zaire Ebola, is one of the deadliest strains of the pathogen, with a fatality rate of approximately 90 percent. There is no known treatment or preventative vaccine - until now.

Maria Croyle, professor of pharmaceutics in the College of Pharmacy, is on the verge of a research advancement that promises to change the game in the fight against ebola. Her lab has developed a one-dose vaccine that has proven effective in both rodent and primate subjects.

Croyle's lab has partnered with Canadian researchers Heinz Feldmann and Gary Kobinger since 2007 to develop a non-injectable vaccine that is quick acting. The vaccine can be administered via the nasal passage.

Comment: This is wishful thinking at its best. There are several reasons why this might NOT be such a good idea:

1) If the vaccine fails - and vaccines have a solid track record of failure - those who were used as guinea pigs would be predisposed to infection.

2) A vaccine may exert selective pressure on the virus to produce "mutants" capable of being more pathogenic. See a perfect example here: Fail: Infant Hep B vaccines perform shamefully; time to end them? See also:

-Vaccine not virus responsible for Spanish flu
-Children Who Get Flu Vaccine Have Three Times Risk Of Hospitalization For Flu, Study Suggests.

3) The Black Death, which killed tens of millions of people around the world, was an Ebola-like virus: Black Death found to be Ebola-like virus and Finally catching up - Could the Black Death actually have been an Ebola-like virus?

4) Mother nature doesn't need our help with creating a deadly mutated virus: New Light on the Black Death: The Viral and Cosmic Connection.

5) Right now Ebola is transmitted directly, but with so many factors at stake here, it might just go air-borne in the near future. A nasal vaccine sounds like the kind of thing which might help in that regard.

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Attention

MERS virus hype: Have we been down this road before?

Jon Rappoport
nomorefakenews.com
Sat, 03 May 2014 09:32 UTC
MERS virus
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We are told the first MERS virus case has now arrived in the US. The CDC and the World Health Organization have a new potential pandemic to hype.

As I've documented in past articles, we've been down this road before. Swine Flu, West Nile, Bird Flu, SARS. All duds. All hyped to the sky...and then the case numbers are miniscule.

You could take all the deaths from these "epidemics" and put them in one small footnote of the assessment that, every year, between 300,000 and 500,000 people around the world die from ordinary regular seasonal flu.

Yes, seasonal flu, about which there is no hype.

But even, you see, with regular seasonal flu, there are gigantic lies.
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Cow

Vegan to carnivore: Why those on a plant-based diet are turning over a new leaf


Well + Good NYC
Mon, 21 Apr 2014 08:33 UTC
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For five years, Claire Murray was a vegetarian, confident in her belief that she needed fruit, veggies, and whole foods for nourishment - and nothing more. But 18 months ago, as she struggled with bad eczema and difficulty concentrating, the Aussie naturopath had to cop to a hard truth: meat-free living wasn't working for her.

"I was confused as to why I wasn't a beaming, radiant goddess bursting with health," says the 23-year-old. When she switched to a Paleo diet, Murray says, she felt her energy levels increase.

She's not alone. Whether you chalk it up to the popularity of the Paleo Diet and CrossFitor the availability of better, grass-fed meat choices, many wellness experts are noticing a major return-to-meat moment.

"We're in the early stages of a trend," says nutritionist Dana James, MS, founder of Food Coach. She's seen plenty of women who went plant-based to feel better in their bodies, but "as they tuned in two to three years later, they realized, 'Maybe that was more than what I needed to let go.'"
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Syringe

Straight from the horse's mouth: Vaccines can't prevent measles outbreaks

Lawrence Solomon
Financial Post
Thu, 01 May 2014 00:50 UTC
Measles in highly immunized societies occurs primarily among those previously immunized.
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Because different people have different genetic makeups, the vaccine is simply a dud in many, failing to provide the protection they think they’ve acquired.
The recent outbreaks of measles in Canada and the United States came as a shock to many public health experts but they wouldn't have to Dr. Gregory Poland, one of the world's most admired, most advanced thinkers in the field of vaccinology.

The measles vaccine has failed, he explained two years ago in a prescient paper, "The re-emergence of measles in developed countries." In that paper, he warned that due to factors that most haven't noticed, measles has come back to be a serious public health threat. Thankfully, in that paper and elsewhere he also spelled out in no-nonsense fashion what now needs to be done.

Comment: Take a look at just ONE of Poland's disclosures:
Dr. Gregory Poland wishes to disclose receiving honoraria from Merck for serving as Chair - eDMC and receiving honoraria from Avianax, Dynavax, Liquidia Technologies, Inc., Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, PaxVax Inc., and Theraclone Sciences for consulting services.
Obviously he is in deep with Big Pharma and they are having a lot of trouble keeping up the vaccine farce. See also:

-Measles: A rash of misinformation
-Vaccines Have Serious Side Effects - The Institute of Medicine Says So!
-Courts quietly confirm MMR Vaccine causes Autism
-Herd immunity: Myth or reality?
-FDA document reports autism link after tetanus, pertussis & diptheria vaccine

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