It shows how many people are killed by different species of animal every year. The big red block at the bottom might surprise you:
The reason?
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Bill Gates posted the graphic below to his blog on April 25.
It shows how many people are killed by different species of animal every year. The big red block at the bottom might surprise you:
"The number of mosquito-caused deaths really is a mind-blowing thing. Other than humans killing humans during periods of war, most years, the mosquito wins," the Mosquito Week trailer says.
The reason?
It shows how many people are killed by different species of animal every year. The big red block at the bottom might surprise you:
The reason?
Over half a million hysterectomies are performed each year in the United States. Approximately 60% - 74% of those hysterectomies include removal of the ovaries or 'castration'. Castration (also referred to as gelding, neutering, fixing, orchiectomy and oophorectomy) is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which a male loses the functions of the testicles or a female loses the functions of the ovaries.So there you have it - ugly as it may be. The correct medical term for removal of women's ovaries is 'castration'.
Surgical castration is a form of mutilation and therefore considered to be cruel and unusual punishment and illegal, yet nearly half a million women are castrated every year in the United States alone.Most women do not know that when they agree to removal of their ovaries that they are agreeing to castration. They don't know because the term castration is never used. They are told they will be undergoing some far-and-away sounding thing called 'oophorectomy'. Women falsely believe they don't need their ovaries because their doctors tell them they don't. Women are purposely led to believe that their ovaries stop producing hormones once they've entered menopause anyway. They're also assured that hormone replacement therapy can replace their own natural hormones. The truth is that there is no artificial hormone of any kind that can replace a woman's own natural hormones. A woman's ovaries continue to produce hormones all of her life. There is never a time when a woman doesn't need her ovaries or the life-sustaining hormones they produce. No woman can give informed consent to ovary removal when she doesn't understand that she is agreeing to castration. Far too many women are misinformed, uninformed or not informed.
Surgical castration is a form of mutilation and therefore considered to be cruel and unusual punishment and illegal, yet nearly half a million women are castrated every year in the United States alone.
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We are a diurnal species, which means we are genetically programmed to do our work during the day when it's light out, and sleep when it's dark. For many thousands of generations as hunter/gathers we did just that, with the only light after dark coming from the moon, stars or firelight. With the industrial revolution and the invention of electric light, all that changed.
We went from incandescent electric light to fluorescents and neon. Now we are increasing our use of solid-state lighting, such as LEDs (light-emitting diodes).
Comment: Why we need to sleep in total darkness
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I just got an email from a reader the other day who had been to multiple doctors, both holistic and conventional, and all but one of them were telling her that plenty of soy in her diet would help her menopause symptoms.
I had another shocking conversation recently with a doctor of Internal Medicine who had no idea soy was a potent goitrogenic food and actively suppressed thyroid function.
Be careful folks. It's dangerous out there! You really need to do your research and be on your toes at all times when it comes to nutritional advice even from someone in a white coat!
For those of you who just sat down because you are so taken aback by the notion that soy is not actually the healthfood you thought it was, here are 170 scientific reasons to back up this assertion.
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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) found in 2010 that 80 percent of apples harvested in the United States are coated with diphenylamine, or DPA, a "growth regulator" that works to stave off darkening of the fruit's skin during months of cold storage.
DPA, regulated as a pesticide, has been used in the US since 1962. The USDA has reported that DPA residue is found more often and at greater concentrations that most other pesticide residues. The chemical has been detected in apple juice and applesauce, as well as pears and pear baby food. In fact, the USDA has consistently found that apples are one of the most pesticide-treated products in the American produce market.
Beginning in 2008, the EU's European Commission asked European producers of DPA to prove nitrosamines - a family of powerful carcinogens - and other harmful substances would not develop from a mixture of DPA and nitrogen, a common element in the environment. The Commission was interested in whether those formations occurred when containers of DPA sat unattended, when DPA was used to treat fruit for storage, or when DPA-doused fruit was made into juices, purees, and sauces.
It's so easy, anyone can do it!
"After a number of years of diabetes, think how much more you can contribute to the nation’s economic success when you need a heart catheterization, stents, or bypass surgery, carotid artery surgery, stents in your femoral arteries, hemodialysis, and foot amputations?"Becoming diabetic and proudly having to finger stick your way to blood sugar control is patriotic, as it builds revenues for Big Pharma. What better way to support your country than to help successful industries grow larger, increase shareholder value, and increase the salary and perks for hard working executives?
So if you want to join the growing ranks of people who are becoming diabetic, now the largest epidemic of chronic disease ever witnessed in the history of the world, here's what you do:
- Cut your fat intake - Because it leaves you unsatiated and hungry, you will be left with cravings and the loss of resolve to consume healthy foods, making those chips and cookies irresistible. Celebrate with Frito Lay and Oreos!
- Consume high-glycemic index foods - By "high," I mean any food with a greater than zero or single-digit glycemic index, such as grains and sugars. Also eat more "low-" and "moderate-" glycemic index foods, because they raise your blood sugar to high levels, too!
- Consume modern wheat - Because the gliadin protein yields opiate peptides that stimulate appetite and increase calorie intake by 400 calories per day, every day, making you want more to eat all throughout the day, paving the road to a wonderful and proud collection of visceral fat.
"After a number of years of diabetes, think how much more you can contribute to the nation’s economic success when you need a heart catheterization, stents, or bypass surgery, carotid artery surgery, stents in your femoral arteries, hemodialysis, and foot amputations?"
So if you want to join the growing ranks of people who are becoming diabetic, now the largest epidemic of chronic disease ever witnessed in the history of the world, here's what you do:
- Cut your fat intake - Because it leaves you unsatiated and hungry, you will be left with cravings and the loss of resolve to consume healthy foods, making those chips and cookies irresistible. Celebrate with Frito Lay and Oreos!
- Consume high-glycemic index foods - By "high," I mean any food with a greater than zero or single-digit glycemic index, such as grains and sugars. Also eat more "low-" and "moderate-" glycemic index foods, because they raise your blood sugar to high levels, too!
- Consume modern wheat - Because the gliadin protein yields opiate peptides that stimulate appetite and increase calorie intake by 400 calories per day, every day, making you want more to eat all throughout the day, paving the road to a wonderful and proud collection of visceral fat.
Comment: This is how you reverse or prevent diabetes:
Ketogenic diet rules! Study compares American Diabetes Association low-fat diet to high-fat ketogenic diet for diabetes
I was healthy, fit and enjoying life. I was working in retail and there was talk of promotion and management training. My long term plans included a career change so I was training at the gym regularly to get my fitness level up. I passed a thorough preliminary medical examination in early May.
A delayed reaction to Gardasil?
In mid-May, I broke out in a rash. Originally I thought it might have been bed bugs or a reaction to laundry powder but it persisted and the doctor thought it was an allergy of some sort. I was put on antihistamines but the rash continued. One day my eyelid was swollen. Another day my lip swelled up. It seemed random and puzzling.
In June, I had my third Gardasil shot and then things really started to rev up with the symptoms escalating in frequency and severity.
Comment: For more horrifying stories, see Gardasil: Medical torture and child abuse by Big Pharma
And a good start to heal from this nightmare:
The Ketogenic Diet - An Overview
Regular exercise may keep Alzheimer's at bay - even in those whose genes put them in the dementia danger zone.
A study of men and women in their 60s, 70s and 80s found that being active at least three times a week stopped the brain from shrinking.
Strikingly, even those with a common gene called APOE-e4 were protected by brisk walking, jogging, swimming and cycling. Strenuous household chores also helped.
The brain normally shrinks with age, and the hippocampus, the brain's memory hub is particularly vulnerable in those at genetic risk of dementia.
Kirk Erickson, an expert in the ageing brain, said: 'This is the first study look at how physical activity might impact the loss of hippocampal volume in people at genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease.
'There are no other treatments shown to preserve hippocampal volume in those that may develop Alzheimer's disease.
'This study has tremendous implications for how we might intervene, prior to the development of any dementia symptoms, in older adults who are at increased genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease.
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A study of men and women in their 60s, 70s and 80s found that being active at least three times a week stopped the brain from shrinking potentially helping keep Alzheimer's at bay (posed by model)
A study of men and women in their 60s, 70s and 80s found that being active at least three times a week stopped the brain from shrinking potentially helping keep Alzheimer's at bay (posed by model)
Strikingly, even those with a common gene called APOE-e4 were protected by brisk walking, jogging, swimming and cycling. Strenuous household chores also helped.
The brain normally shrinks with age, and the hippocampus, the brain's memory hub is particularly vulnerable in those at genetic risk of dementia.
Kirk Erickson, an expert in the ageing brain, said: 'This is the first study look at how physical activity might impact the loss of hippocampal volume in people at genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease.
'There are no other treatments shown to preserve hippocampal volume in those that may develop Alzheimer's disease.
'This study has tremendous implications for how we might intervene, prior to the development of any dementia symptoms, in older adults who are at increased genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease.
Comment: An extremely high-fat (ketogenic) diet has been found to improve cognitive ability in Alzheimer's patients. For more info, see:
- Alzheimer's, low fat diets and lowering cholesterol drugs
- Ketogenic Diet Reduces Symptoms of Alzheimer's
- The Ketogenic Diet - An Overview
To prove his point, Millhiser directs readers to the phenomenon known as "motivated reasoning" [2] studied in cognitive science and social psychology. In his article Millhiser states, that "A recent study adds to the growing evidence that our brains reject information that rebuts our strongly held beliefs." That is the "jumping off point" for me, since I contend that motivated reasoning is a deliberate byproduct of social programming accomplished through the media, advertising, and most emphatically, by what's called "branding," i.e., when you successfully establish your product, services, or beliefs as those that satisfy the general public's preferences, needs, and wants. [3] Or, here's another facet:
Opponents successfully rebrand their opposition to discount them as inferior in every capacity so as to neutralize them thereby leaving the opposition damaged - or as a pariah - in the public's opinion, as currently is being done when there is legitimate disagreement.
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Although Salmonella infections decreased by 9 percent in 2013, illnesses caused by other foodborne bacteria rose by as much as 32 percent.
Each year, the most common foodborne illness - Salmonella - sickens about 1.2 million people in the U.S. and results in 450 deaths, according to the CDC. Recent efforts to lower that number seem to be working, but illnesses caused by contaminated food are still too common, say the report's authors.
"Progress in preventing foodborne illnesses has been limited in recent years," said senior author Olga L. Henao of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the CDC in Atlanta. "More can be done."
Comment: Well, if Bill Gates says it "is so" it must be taken as "God's truth."
Stop, wait, hey there, isn't the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation responsible for the development of a new breed of GMO mosquito that's going to save us all from dengue and malaria? "Quantity might also be a problem. "You are going to need to produce billions of these mosquitoes if this is ever going to work," Lines said."
Hmmm, I smell money (biomedical R&D grants/contracts,) do you?
It's estimated that medical errors kill roughly 200,000 patients in the U.S. each year (I'm guessing this is a conservative estimate, too.) That does not even include deaths from pharmaceutical drug/vaccination allergies/reactions. Ponder that and decide where the focus and funds need to be directed...