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Toxic Candy: GMO's & Petrochemicals

Melissa Melton
nutritionalanarchy.com
Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:00 UTC
I'll try to make this quick, but I can't promise anything. I have something to say about this picture:
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I've seen it all over Facebook. PETA is sharing a picture of candy that illustrates exactly where the gelatin in much of it comes from - and person after person after person in the comments is talking about how "amazing" all these processed candies are and how they don't really care at all where their "food" comes from.

PETA is right on this, for the record. Not only is that exactly where non-vegetarian gelatin comes from (the majority in America is said to come from pig skins, but it can also come from other animals including cows and fish), but due to the nature of the way the leftovers are collected, the production of gelatin has been known to be somewhat...inconsistent, to say the very least.

But that's not even the point. People were clamoring over themselves to talk about how they "don't care" what's in candy, they just love it. I don't know how many comments I read with the words "don't care" and some quip about how they were going to run out and get some candy right now.
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Ambulance

How Monsanto annihilated paradise and turned it into an island of sickness

John Martino
Collective Evolution
Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:42 UTC
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A beautiful island in Hawaii called Molokai has been subject to biotech giant Monsanto for some time now and the results of Monsanto's actions on the island is beginning to show very dark conclusions. The residents of the island of Molokai seem to be getting sicker and sicker as Monsanto continually carries out their actions near villages on the island. Some are suggesting the island has become a laboratory and the islanders are the lab rats being tested. Although not enough study has been done to find out why the rates of illness, cancer, asthma and diabetes are suddenly rising greatly on the island, many believe the evidence is anecdotal and seen when you observe the people.

Monsanto leased 1850 acres of land on the island of Molokai to grow their Bt corn crops. The very fact they are merely leasing the land already raises the question as to whether or not they know the land will become of low quality once they are finished with it. The Bt toxin Monsanto uses is engineered into corn to allow farmers easy control over pests without spraying as much pesticides. Only there seems to be growing evidence that this Bt toxin is a threat to human health.

Although The State Health Department has stated they feel the farming practices are safe, nearby residents are not happy about what's going on and strongly feel Monsanto's practices are causing harm and illness to those especially close to where Monsanto is spraying. Many in the area are beginning to do the research and are connecting the dots that the recent rise in illnesses is directly related to what Monsanto's Bt toxin and Glyphosate has been known to cause.
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Attention

Why soy formula (even organic) is so dangerous for babies

Sarah
TheHealthyHomeEconomist
Thu, 14 Mar 2013 05:22 UTC
Today's generation of children could aptly be called Generation A where the "A" stands for allergies.

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Food intolerances of all kinds are rampant with the very first frequently becoming apparent when a formula fed infant demonstrates an allergy to commercial milk based formula.

The typical recommendation by a conventional doctor in this case is to put the baby on a soy based formula such as Isomil or ProSobee. About 25% of American babies are fed soy infant formula according to the website of Dr. Sears.

Elemental infant formula might also be suggested, but these are usually reserved for preterm infants and those with specific medical problems such as severe allergies to both milk and soy. Elemental formulas also tend to be foul tasting compared with milk or soy based formula and babies tend to reject them for this reason.

Many parents make the switch to soy formula in haste hoping to ease the digestive discomfort their child is experiencing on milk formulas not realizing the full implications of their decision.

In some cases, parents may never even try a dairy formula at all if a milk allergy already runs in the family. There is no evidence that using soy formula reduces the risk of a dairy allergy later, however. For this reason, the Committee on Nutrition of the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends against the use of soy formula in infants who are potentially allergic to cow's milk. Milk based formula should still be the first choice even in those situations.
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Attention

Dental mercury's toxic journey into the environment


Mercury Exposure
Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:57 UTC
"Dental Mercury's Toxic Journey Into The Environment" was narrated by Robert Lamarck and produced as a collaborative effort between The International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, the website Mercury Exposure and the film You Put What In My Mouth? a documentary about the devastating effects of dental mercury on patients, staff and the environment. Original music score composed by Joshua Myers

The IAOMT has sent a distinguished panel of experts to attend the International Negotiating Committee (INC5) meeting being held in Geneva by the United Nations Environmental Programme. The INC5 is writing a Globally Binding Treaty that will eliminate the use and trade of mercury and mercury containing products. Dental Mercury accounts for 10% of the annual global emissions and therefore is considered a significant contributor. The IAOMT group of experts will represent our position that mercury amalgam is a risk to the environment, dental workers and the general public, and whose use should be discontinued as there are many suitable alternatives available.
Mercury Filings
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Arrow Up

Ketogenic diet rules! Study compares American Diabetes Association low-fat diet to high-fat ketogenic diet for diabetes


Health Impact News
Sat, 26 Apr 2014 11:19 UTC
A new study published this month (April 2014) compared two diets with overweight diabetic people.
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One group ate the standard recommended diet by the American Diabetes Association, which was a low-fat, high carbohydrate, restricted calorie diet, as per the USDA dietary guidelines for a "healthy" diet. This group was assigned a "registered dietician with several years of diabetes education experience." The group was encouraged to eat a diet that was 45-50% carbohydrates, while restricting calories and fats. As per the study: "the diet includes high-fiber foods (such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and legumes), low-fat dairy products, fresh fish, and foods low in saturated fat."

The other group, almost in direct contrast to the ADA diet, was encouraged to eat a a very low carbohydrate, high fat, non calorie-restricted ketogenic diet. Their goal was to reach a state of "ketosis," defined as a blood beta-hydroxybutyrate level between 0.5 and 3 mM, as measured twice a week at home using blood ketone test strips.

So what results did this study find comparing these two contrasting diets?

Comment: The Ketogenic diet rules!

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Syringe

Whooping cough evolving in the world thanks to the vaccine


University of New South Wales
Tue, 15 Apr 2014 04:37 UTC
The bacterium that causes whooping cough, Bordetella pertussis, has changed in Australia -- most likely in response to the vaccine used to prevent the disease -- with a possible reduced effectiveness of the vaccine as a result, a new study shows.
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The bacterium that causes whooping cough, Bordetella pertussis, has changed in Australia -- most likely in response to the vaccine used to prevent the disease.
A UNSW-led team of researchers analyzed strains of Bordetella pertussis from across Australia and found that many strains no longer produce a key surface protein called pertactin.

Comment: This is completely mind boggling: Despite the fact that vaccination made things only worse, the cognitive dissonance is such that they still recommend the vaccine.

Check out FDA document reports autism link after tetanus, pertussis & diptheria vaccine for a collection of scientific studies that should be brought to a court of justice.

Deaths from Pertussis
In the United States from 2012 to 2013 there were over 72,508 reported cases including 9 reported deaths (all infants under 3 months old.) Of the reported cases of pertussis only 635 victims were confirmed as unvaccinated. In England and Wales about 5 deaths per year are recorded.
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Pertussis Vaccine Reactions
According to the US VAERS, as of the 1st of April, 2012, there were 130,448 reactions reported to a vaccine containing either diphtheria, tetanus or pertussis toxin (pertussis vaccine is usually delivered as a DPT or other multi-vaccine injection) 2,464 of these involved life-threatening reactions of which 2,333 of the children or adults died. 11,498 of those who were reported as reacting to this vaccine had not recovered at the time of the report and may have had life-long-disabilities as a result. VAERS uses a 'passive' adverse reaction reporting system which means that they admit to only collecting between 1 and 10% of all reactions. Therefore, the figures above are likely to represent only a small percentage of the actual damage caused by these vaccines.
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[I don't know about everyone else but I will take my chance with the Pertussis illness and not the vaccine.]

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Health

Rise in the number of MERS virus cases causes concern at the CDC and WHO

Jason Beaubien
NPR
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:16 UTC
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Fearful of catching the MERS virus, workers wear masks during a soccer match on April 22 at King Fahad stadium in Riyadh
The latest medical acronym to fear is MERS: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. The virus has killed 83 people in the Arabian Gulf since first emerging in 2012 and now looks as if it could pose a global threat.

This week, the number of new cases rose at a rate that causes concern, the World Health Organization said in a .

There have been only about 300 cases detected worldwide in the past two years. But Saudi Arabia has reported more than 50 in just four days. Cases also turned up in Greece, the Philippines, Malaysia and Jordan. All of the patients were exposed to the virus in the Gulf.

There's no treatment or vaccine for , which kills about 30 percent of those who are infected.

The disease hits like a severe flu. Symptoms include fever, coughing and shortness of breath. Most people who die have another medical condition. It's also possible for someone to become infected but show no symptoms.
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Health

Primal bugs: The hunter gatherer microbiome

Kelly Brogan
Primal Docs
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:36 UTC
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"We barely know what we are doing when it comes to probiotic supplementation," I admitted to my patient, "but we do know that we are on the verge of the most sophisticated understanding of human health and disease since the dawn of medicine, and it comes down to our symbiotic relationship to our body's microbes."

The abuses we have brought upon our gut flora are largely obvious - we have been eating loads of sugar, processed vegetable oils, pesticides, genetically modified foods, and living in a bath of and industrial chemicals.

But what should our microbiome look like?

It turns out that the answer to this question is unlikely to derive from a randomized placebo controlled trial of the latest probiotic on the market. Because we can only guess what the Paleolithic diet actually looked like, the most valuable nutrition data, to my mind, comes from naturalistic surveys such as the invaluable contributions of Weston A. Price who traveled the world assessing the dietary patterns of those traditional societies who were free from the scourge of modern chronic diseases, seemingly brought about by the adoption of Western sweetened, canned, and processed foods. In this way, he was able to identify a through line connecting diverse dietary practices, which included consumption of animal foods, natural fats, and associated minerals and fat-soluble vitamins. These traditional cultures, however, are coming more and more under the influence of industrialized food products and modern medical "care".
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Top Secret

How our regulatory system misjudges pesticides and risks our health

Trip Van Noppen
Huffington Post
Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:20 UTC

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"A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones - we had better know something about their nature and their power." - Rachel Carson, Silent Spring 1962
There is a reason why our springs still have bald eagles, screeching falcons and wave-skimming pelicans on this Earth Day. The reason is Rachel Carson, who died 50 years ago this month - just two years after her book Silent Spring alerted the world to how pesticides like DDT had infiltrated and were poisoning the very building blocks of life.

Today, DDT is banned in the U.S. and many of the creatures it had nearly extinguished have rebounded, but the plague of pesticides Carson warned about continues to infiltrate our lands, our air, our water, and many of Earth's creatures, among them ourselves. It's a plague hard to fight and hard to protect ourselves against - in part because our regulatory system treats the chemicals as if they had rights; safe until proven guilty.
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7 Things you had no idea gut bacteria could do


Mark's Daily Apple
Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:30 UTC
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If you're a regular Mark's Daily Apple reader, you probably have at least a generally accurate if somewhat vague notion of the important functions performed by our gut bacteria. They're a "big part" of our immune systems. They "improve digestion" and "eat the fibers and resistant starches" that our host enzymes cannot digest. Yeah, gut bacteria are hot right now. Everyone's talking about them. And, since our host cells are famously outnumbered by our gut bacteria, 10 to 1, we need to be apprised of all that they do.

We don't know everything yet - and we probably never will - but here are some of the most interesting and unexpected functions of our gut bacteria:

They learn from each other.

Bacteria are simple, straightforward organisms. They don't have all the hangups that we mammals do, all the middle men and physiological bureaucracy between "us" and outside information. Bacteria can directly exchange genetic material - defense mechanisms, enzymatic functions, and other characteristics - from other bacteria they come into contact with in the gut. They're very quick learners operating on an entirely different time scale.
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