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'Devastating' implications of drug-resistant superbugs now a reality


RT
Wed, 30 Apr 2014 01:29 UTC
Deadly antibiotic-resistant superbugs are a 'serious threat' to world health and no longer merely a prediction for the future, according to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO). Previously treatable illnesses can now once again kill.
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"The world is headed for a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and minor injuries which have been treatable for decades can once again kill," said Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's assistant director-general for health security.

The new resistance has the capacity to strike anyone, of any age, on a global scale according to the WHO report, entitled 'Antimicrobial resistance: global report on surveillance', released on Wednesday. It's the organization's first ever global report on antibiotic resistance.

"The implications will be devastating," stated Fukuda.

Data spanning 114 different countries was utilized in the study and superbug resistance was found in all regions of the world. The infections were even resistant to a class of antibiotic which fall into a category known as carbapenems - a broad-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotic considered one of the last resorts in the treatment of infectious bacterial diseases.
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Bad Guys

GMO plants, GMO people, and cancer

Jon Rappoport
Nomorefakenews.com
Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:32 UTC
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There is an extraordinary parallel between what biotech corporations are doing with food plants, and what cancer researchers are trying to do with humans.

The comparison is not only instructive, it reveals what the future holds.

The war against cancer has painted a picture of hope: genetic solutions, genetic modifications.

This, despite the fact that there are no successful genetic treatments for any form of human cancer.

The focus on genes is a diversion from obvious causes of cancer in the environment: industrial chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, food additives, and even pharmaceuticals.
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Coffee

Caffeine use disorder

Roseanne Tellez
CBS Chicago
Mon, 28 Apr 2014 18:24 UTC
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You want to cut back on caffeine, but you can't - even if your doctor says you have to.

Now, new research is saying that dependence on caffeine is not just a physical issue. As CBS 2's Roseanne Tellez reports, it could be affecting us psychologically.

Jessica Hayes starts her day with a jolt of java and often refuels throughout the day.

"I feel like it helps me be more productive," she says.

The problem is Jessica has acid reflux, and her doctor has been telling her to cut back on caffeine. She knows it's not good for her, but she can't stop going back to her coffee.

"It's definitely something that I fight with myself all the time," she says.

A caffeine researcher, Professor Laura Juliano, says that may be because for some people the need for caffeine could be a psychological problem. It's being called Caffeine Use Disorder.

Comment: Obviously one can have an unhealthy relation with caffeine products, but the DSM manual and reasoning behind it proves to be vastly more unhealthy, i.e: The greed of BigPharma and an uncritical stance towards a growing totalitarian mindset :

"Oppositional defiant disorder": Psychiatrists in aid of totalitarian rule with fictional mental illnesses

Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill

Religious fundamentalism could soon be treated as mental illness

Meet the DSM: Big Pharma's Psychiatric Bible

Hoarding, skin picking and temper tantrums now classified as mental disorders in controversial revision of 'psychiatric bible', DSM-5

Scientists: Creativity part of 'mental illness'

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Popcorn

Are GMOs promoting autism, anti-social and cannibalistic behaviors?

Jeffrey M. Smith
Institute for Responsible Technology
Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:38 UTC
"It appears there is a direct correlation between GMOs and autism." --Arden Anderson, MD, PhD, MPH
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Jeffrey Smith summarizes research that will make you avoid GMOs like the plague!
Physician Jennifer Armstrong admits, "Twenty years ago, I didn't even know what the word autism meant. It was rare." But then something shifted. Whether it was the food, medicine, environment, or some combination, by 2008, an astounding 1 in 54 boys suffered from autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the US [1]. What is it that is damaging the health and well-being of so many of our children? Don Huber, PhD, professor emeritus from Purdue University, has an idea.

In October 2011, Dr. Huber gave a talk in Germany about the physiological, neurological, and behavioral symptoms of pigs, cows, and rats fed genetically modified (GM) feed. After his lecture, a physician and autism specialist approached him and said, "The symptoms you describe are exactly what we are finding in our autistic children."

The animals in those studies were fed the same GM soy and corn eaten by children and adults in the US. Both crops are outfitted with bacterial genes that allow them to survive being sprayed with herbicide, which kills plants. As a result, higher residues of toxic weed killer end up inside our food. In addition, some GM corn varieties have an even more unsettling characteristic: their inserted genes produce an insect-killing poison called Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin in every cell - and in every bite. Although the biotech seed companies like Monsanto claim that their genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are harmless, that's not what the independent scientists are finding.

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Newspaper

10 principles of primal living that are (finally) getting mainstream media coverage

Mark Sisson
Mark's Daily Apple
Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:47 UTC
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We don't take credit for everything, of course, but the fact remains that the Primal/ancestral health community has been championing principles that directly oppose the conventional wisdom for nearly a decade. And while serious researchers have been paying attention to and studying these issues individually for years, no one had really synthesized them under the evolutionary umbrella. Now that our movement is becoming more popular and the scientific case for its principles more solid than ever, denying that a bit of sun might be good for you or that sitting is killing you slowly or that eggs aren't deadly after all is no longer tenable.

Yes, Primal health principles and positions are getting mainstream recognition. Let's take a look at some of the major ones.

That sitting is bad and exercise might not be enough.

Everyone knows that being sedentary is a poor health choice. But most people figured the solution was to set aside regular times each week to exercise. Formal exercise was the answer, and movement was segregated from "normal" life. As long as you hit the gym every other day, you could do nothing for the remainder of your time and be perfectly healthy.

That's just intermittent sedentism, though, and it doesn't work. Frequent low level movement throughout the day punctuated by intermittent bouts of intense exercise is what I've prescribed for years, and the mainstream is beginning to get the hint. Articles lamenting the prevalence of sitting, its scary effect on our health, and how exercising isn't enough to counter it come out on a regular basis now.
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Health

New study links Roundup herbicide to cancer of the lymph tissue

Sayer Ji
Green Med Info
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 15:27 UTC
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A new review on the relationship between pesticide exposure and the risk of blood cancers in the lymph glands (lymphomas) has confirmed the existence of a link with the world's most popular herbicide glyphosate (aka Roundup).

Published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and titled, "Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and Occupational Exposure to Agricultural Pesticide Chemical Groups and Active Ingredients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis," the paper focused on systematic reviews and a series of meta-analysis of almost 30 years worth of epidemiological research on the relationship between non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) and occupational exposure to 80 agricultural pesticide active ingredients and 21 chemical groups. The review focused on 44 papers, all of which reported results from studies performed in high-income countries.
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Pills

Statins make you fat!

Dr. Murray
DoctorMurray.com
Wed, 30 Apr 2014 07:39 UTC
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As statins promotes insulin resistance, it should not come as a surprise that people on statins put on weight, making it a useless drug to prevent chronic diseases such as heart disease.
A new study highlights the false hope that consumers place in statin drugs to lower cholesterol levels. Results of the 10-year analysis showed that individuals prescribed statins for high cholesterol levels had a larger increase in body-mass index (BMI) than those who weren't taking the drugs. These results once again call into question the wisdom of relying on statins to both reduce heart attack risk and extend life.

About 75% of the prescriptions for statins are written for people with no clinical evidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Statins have not been shown to increase life expectancy in these patients.

The list of statin drugs include:
  • Altoprev (lovastatin extended-release)
  • Crestor (rosuvastatin)
  • Lescol (fluvastatin)
  • Lipitor (atorvastatin)
  • Livalo (pitavastatin)
  • Mevacor (lovastatin)
  • Pravachol (pravastatin)
  • Zocor (simvastatin).
The easy conclusion is that the majority of people on statin drugs are achieving no real benefit from them. In fact, by not focusing on effectively reducing heart disease risk through diet, lifestyle, and proper nutritional supplementation the reliance is costing many people their lives.

Comment: Fat has no fattening effect. It is carbohydrates through the stimulation of the fattening hormone - insulin - that promotes obesity and fat storage. This is a fact: Why we get fat - Gary Taubes

As statins promotes insulin resistance, it should not come as a surprise that people on statins put on weight, making it a useless drug to prevent chronic diseases such as heart disease.

Vascular surgeon: Why I've ditched statins for good

Vascular surgeons write a damning report about lowering cholesterol drugs
The statin industry is the utmost medical tragedy of all times.


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Why we get fat - Gary Taubes

Talks at Google
Youtube
Wed, 04 May 2011 07:27 UTC
Gary Taubes spoke to Googlers in Mountain View on May 2, 2011 about his book Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It.
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Gary Taubes
An eye-opening, myth-shattering examination of what makes us fat, from acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes.

Building upon this critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories, Taubes revisits the urgent question of what's making us fat and how we can change in this exciting book. Persuasive, straightforward, and practical, Why We Get Fat makes Taubes crucial argument newly accessible to a wider audience.

Taubes reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century, none more damaging or misguided than the calories-in, calories-out model of why we get fat, and the good science that has been ignored, especially regarding insulins regulation of our fat tissue. He also answers the most persistent questions: Why are some people thin and others fat? What roles do exercise and genetics play in our weight? What foods should we eat, and what foods should we avoid?

Packed with essential information and concluding with an easy-to-follow diet, Why We Get Fat is an invaluable key in our understanding of an international epidemic and a guide to what each of us can do about it.

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Syringe

Your children to be used as guinea pigs for new GMO vaccine


Vactruth
Wed, 30 Apr 2014 02:41 UTC
A US vaccine company has applied for permission to infect up to one thousand individuals, including children, with genetically modified live bacteria contained in an oral vaccine. PaxVax recently submitted their application for permission to begin the first of three international clinical trials for the new oral cholera vaccine "via oral ingestion of the GMOs". [1]
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PaxVax claims to have several safeguards in place to "restrict the spread and persistence of the GMOs and their introduced genetic material" during this clinical trial. That precaution itself should lead any parent to question the wisdom of administering genetically modified live bacteria to their child.

The problems with GMOs

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have earned a great deal of media attention in recent years, and rightfully so.

In a two-year research study in 2010, hamsters were fed GM soy. Most of the third-generation hamsters had lost their ability to have babies. Other disturbing findings from the study included the discovery of hair inside the hamsters' mouths, slower growth, and a higher mortality rate among offspring. [2]

Numerous other research studies have shown that GMOs pose serious health and environmental risks, including reproductive disorders, immune system disorders, accelerated aging, organ damage, gastrointestinal problems, and cholesterol and insulin problems. [3] The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) recommends that "physicians advise all patients to avoid GM food." [4]
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Health

Butter is better: Researchers urge a return to butter

Heather Callaghan
Activist Post
Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:48 UTC
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Have you ever suspected that the tired 'artery clogging fats' line and 'fats are bad' pieces were based on a bunch of bologna?

Well, you would be correct. Not only are many doctors trying to bust the fat myths, but new research says the old info that guided health policy and major food system changes all these years just doesn't add up.

Researchers are urging a return to butter and whole milk.

Check out the new research on saturated fat myths and heart health below. This writer and Weston A. Price support whole food, organic, unpasteurized and grassfed dairy products.

Want grassfed butter from the store? Look for Kerrygold butter and cheese. Want to look for a local farm source for fresh milk and other products? I've mapped over 20 online places to locate yours today.

PS - The papers and articles about the origin of the saturated-fat-clogs-your-arteries myth are vast. If you want an entertaining expose, I highly recommend the documentary Fat Head.
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