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What do pesticides, herbicides and antibiotics have in common?

Case Adams
Greenmedinfo
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:40 UTC
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There are three natural catastrophes occurring within nature in slow motion at the moment and they are our fault. All three catastrophes stem from the same kind of mistake made by human science and corporate greed. What are they and what are we doing wrong?

The slow-motion catastrophes are: What do these three have in common?

All three are the result of the application of synthetic toxicity within nature in an attempt to work outside nature's normal processes. The application of toxins meant to inhibit certain organisms produces resistance, because living organisms by nature seek to survive, and will adapt to toxicity in order to continue their survival.

This ability to adapt has been studied for many years by scientists and is well known among biology and evolution science. It is one of the foundations of biology taught at the most fundamental levels of instruction for any beginning scientist.

Yet the scientific community has failed to understand how this most fundamental part of nature will interact with the toxicity that we have introduced over the past century. Did the scientists who developed these synthetic toxins really believe those toxins would provide a permanent solution?

We obviously ignored this most fundamental understanding that living organisms will adapt to toxins. We forgot that organisms will develop defense mechanisms that will override deterrent toxins - producing a stronger organism in the process.
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Strong support for labeling modified foods

Allison Kopicki
New York Times
Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:58 UTC
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Americans overwhelmingly support labeling foods that have been genetically modified or engineered, according to a New York Times poll conducted this year, with 93 percent of respondents saying that foods containing such ingredients should be identified.

Three-quarters of Americans expressed concern about genetically modified organisms in their food, with most of them worried about the effects on people's health.

Thirty-seven percent of those worried about G.M.O.'s said they feared that such foods cause cancer or allergies, although scientific studies continue to show that there is no added risk.


Comment: Scientific Studies continue to show there is no added risk? GMO's are worrisome and there is scientific studies and research that address the fears of consumers when it comes to eating GMO foods. Read the following articles for a more informed perspective on this issue:

Latest GMO Research: Decreased Fertility, Immunological Alterations and Allergies
GMO Scandal: The Long Term Effects of Genetically Modified Food in Humans
Is Monsanto trying to kill us with GMO frankenfoods?
GMO Foods Pose Higher Risks for Children
GMOs and Health: The scientific basis for serious concern and immediate action
How to Win a GMO Debate: 10 Facts Why Genetically Modified Food is Bad
How Biotech Corporations and GMO Crops are Threatening the Environment and Humankind Alike
New York Times editors ignore GMO health dangers

Think the Anti-GMO movement is unscientific? Think again
"Anyone that says, 'Oh, we know that this is perfectly safe,' I say is either unbelievably stupid, or deliberately lying. The reality is, we don't know. The experiments simply haven't been done, and now we have become the guinea pigs." ~ David Suzuki, geneticist

Now that the mainstream media is catching on to the public sentiment against GMO food, or at least against unlabeled GMO food, to the tune of millions of Americans who made it a point to drag themselves out of their homes to protest Monsanto last month (as well as at least 40 additional countries), inevitably the indictment will be made: "the anti-GMO movement is "unscientific."" Is that really so?

What we do know is that the unintended consequences of the recombinant DNA process employed to create genetically engineering organisms are beyond the ability of present-day science to comprehend. This is largely due to the post-Human Genome Project revelation that the holy grail of molecular biology, the overly-simplified 'one gene > one trait' model, is absolutely false...

The problem, of course, is that the burden of proving safety or toxicity falls on the exposed populations (Suzuki's "guinea pigs"), which only after many years of chronic exposure reveal the harms in their diseases, and then only vaguely in hard-to-prove post-marketing surveillance and epidemiological associations and linkages.

So, with this in mind, let's bring up one dimension of the toxicity of GM foods and agriculture that cannot be thrown out as 'unscientific,' because it is clearly proven to be a health problem in the peer-reviewed and published literature: Roundup herbicide.

Among those with concerns, 26 percent said these foods are not safe to eat, or are toxic, while 13 percent were worried about environmental problems that they fear might be caused by genetic engineering.
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Bug

Noises in British tourist's head were from flesh-eating maggots


Reuters
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:04 UTC
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The screw-worm larva like eating human flesh
A British woman returned from a holiday in Peru hearing scratching noises inside her head to be told she was being attacked by flesh-eating maggots living inside her ear.

Rochelle Harris, 27, said she remembered dislodging a fly from her ear while in Peru but thought nothing more of it until she started getting headaches and pains down one side of her face and woke up in Britain one morning with liquid on her pillow.

Thinking she had a routine ear infection caused by a mosquito bite, she sought medical treatment at the Royal Derby Hospital in northern England, where a consultant noticed maggots in a small hole in her ear-canal.
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17-year-old girl with 'stone man syndrome' is growing a SECOND skeleton and could turn into a living statue

Lewis Panther
The Mirror, UK
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 05:03 UTC
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Seanie Nammock
Seanie Nammock suffers from a crippling genetic condition so rare that it affects only 45 people in the UK

Fashion-mad Seanie Nammock is spending the summer hanging out with friends and shopping for clothes on a well-earned break from her A-levels.

She never goes out without putting on her full make-up and dressing up to look her best. So to most observers she appears like any other attractive sixth-form girl.

But Seanie, 17, is suffering from a crippling genetic condition so rare that it affects only 45 people in the UK. Cruelly - it is slowly turning her into a living statue.

For five years she has been battling fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, known as FOP or stone man syndrome. It turns muscles, ligaments and tendons into solid bone. This forms a second skeleton on top of the original one, and each section of her body affected becomes solid like a statue.

Comment: From the Wikipedia page on this condition:
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), sometimes referred to as Stone Man Syndrome, is an extremely rare disease of the connective tissue. A mutation of the body's repair mechanism causes fibrous tissue (including muscle, tendon, and ligament) to be ossified when damaged. In many cases, injuries can cause joints to become permanently frozen in place. Surgical removal of the extra bone growths has been shown to cause the body to "repair" the affected area with more bone.


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Nasty pesticide in wheat degraded by probiotic used in culturing food

Sayer Ji
Greenmedinfo.com
Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:53 UTC
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A new study published in Letters in Applied Microbiologyshows that a commonly used food probiotic known as Lactobacillus plantarum is capable of degrading dangerous pesticide residues in wheat (pirimiphos-methyl), confirming the traditional fermentation-based food-processing technique known as culturing can significantly improve the safety of conventional food.

The researchers found that Lactobacillus plantarum enhanced the degradation of the pesticide from 15-34%, a close to 81% enhancement. The significance and impact of the study was described as follows:
Pesticide residues are an unavoidable part of the environment due to their extensive applications in agriculture. As wheat is a major cultivated cereal, the presence of pesticide residues in wheat is a real concern to human health. Reduction in pesticide residues during fermentation has been studied, but there is a lack of data regarding pesticide residues dissipation during cereal fermentation. Present work investigates the dissipation of pirimiphos-methyl during wheat fermentation by L. plantarum. Results are confirmation that food-processing techniques can significantly reduce the pesticide residues in food, offering a suitable means to tackle the current scenario of unsafe food.
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Health

Mysterious stomach bug hits Illinois


CBS Local
Fri, 26 Jul 2013 18:43 UTC
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The mysterious stomach bug that has sickened hundreds in about a dozen states has local health officials on watch.

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported one case in Central Illinois confirmed in a person who traveled to Iowa, where many of the cyclospora infection cases have been reported.

There are no confirmed cases in Missouri, where Ryan Hobart is a spokesman for the Missouri Health Department.

"We recommend that Missourians who feel they may be ill or have some of the symptoms, they should contact their health care provider to be examined," Hobart says.
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Attention

Thousands of unexplained and unexpected deaths among elderly revealed in leaked Government analysis

Adam Withnall and Charlie Cooper
The Independent
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:40 UTC
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A leaked report has revealed that thousands more elderly people died in the past year than the Government had expected, particularly in poorer areas of the country.

Labour called for an "urgent investigation" into the findings, and said the Coalition needs to "be honest" about whether cuts to social care budgets over the past three years have contributed to the spike in mortality rates.

The increase in deaths has been most striking amongst women aged 85 and over, and that rise is the driving force behind alarming statistics which suggest around 600 more people than expected are dying every week, the analysis revealed.

The document, made public by the Health Service Journal, reveals that number-crunchers at Public Health England have been "tracking the mortality summaries to determine if last year's unwelcome increase in mortality in older age may be continuing."
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Evil Rays

Sensitive riders want a safe place away from B.C. Ferries Wi-Fi

Ben Ingram
TimesColonist
Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:42 UTC
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Louise Campbell says sensitivity to wireless electronic devices makes it difficult to endure things as simple as a two-hour ferry ride.
While debate rages on over the effects of wireless technology on human health, those who claim a hypersensitivity to electromagnetism have called on B.C. Ferries to provide options to limit their exposure.

Louise Campbell of Nanoose Bay says her sensitivity to wireless devices can make a ferry ride to the Mainland a nightmare.

"For me, my day is thinking about how long I can spend in the mall, because there's Wi-Fi in the mall. If I'm going to a friend's house, I have to ask them to turn the Wi-Fi off," she said.

Campbell claims her condition causes her to become lightheaded when exposed to wireless devices.

A two-hour trip into the city can leave her fatigued for the rest of the day. Campbell avoids restaurants, coffee shops, movie theatres and anywhere she expects exposure.

The situation impelled Campbell to call on B.C. Ferries to provide a way to limit exposure to the ship's wireless technology while on voyages to the Mainland.

She is not the first to make the request, said B.C. Ferries spokeswoman Deborah Marshall. Marshall advised people like Campbell to reach out to the customer care department.

"There are some areas on the ship that the signals are quite weak . . . for example, the car decks," she said.
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People

Bipolar disorder takes different path in patients who binge eat, study suggests


MayoClinic
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:53 UTC
Additional psychiatric issues more likely, including suicidal thoughts, anxiety.

Bipolar disorder evolves differently in patients who also binge eat, a study by Mayo Clinic, the Lindner Center of HOPE and the University of Minnesota found. Binge eating and obesity often are present among bipolar patients, but the mood disorder appears to take a different path in those who binge eat than it does in obese bipolar patients who do not, the researchers discovered. The findings are published online in the Journal of Affective Disorders.

Up to 4 percent of Americans have some form of bipolar illness, and of those, just under 10 percent also have binge eating disorder - a higher rate of binge eating than seen in the general population, says co-author Mark Frye, M.D., a psychiatrist and chair of the Department of Psychiatry/Psychology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) update released this spring recognizes binge eating disorder as a distinct condition, he noted.
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Fish oil: miracle cure or passing fad?

Mike Hart, MD
Primal Docs
Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:46 UTC
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Fish oil has been touted as the latest breakthrough supplement that contributes to latitude of health benefits. It has gained popularity among cardiologists, athletes and the everyday person. There are varying degrees of evidence to back up the many claims made about fish oil and while the jury is still out on some of the claims, there are many benefits to supplementing with fish oil.

It is important to understand how fish oil produces its effects. The main benefit is the high omega-3 content derived from the fish oil. More specifically, Docosa Hexanoic Acid (DHA) and Eicosa Pentanoic Acid (EPA) are two key omega-3 fatty acids that produce anti-inflammatory effects in our bodies, while omega 6 fatty acids produce pro-inflammatory effects (19). The reason omega-3 supplementation may be effective is the high content of omega-6 in the Standard North American Diet (19). The ideal ratio is approximately 1:1 and 1:3 of omega 3-to omega-6, whilst the average North American has a ratio closer to 1:21! (19). One mistake many people make is supplementing with flaxseeds. Flaxseeds have a high content of omega 3 fatty acids; unfortunately only about 5% of the omega 3 fatty acids in flaxseeds get converted to the usable form of DHA and EPA (18).

Inflammation has recently been suspected to be a culprit in the current rise of chronic diseases and dysfunctions such as CVD, diabetes, Alzheimer's and obesity. Reducing inflammation to appropriate levels is essential to maintain optimal health; the omega-3 fatty acids in fish oil may be a key factor in reducing inflammation.
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