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Biohazard

Toxic chemicals are causing epidemic levels of damage and death

smoke stack pollution
You are likely aware that air pollution may affect your lungs, but did you know it has a significant effect on your brain and your cognitive functioning? These changes affect not just adults, but have also been linked to lower IQ testing, development of ADHD in children1 and an increased risk of death.

Toxins from the environment, both inside and outside, are almost impossible to avoid. Moreover, the traditional view of toxin exposure is outdated, so you'll need to consider different factors if you're attempting to reduce your exposure and susceptibility to disease and illness triggered by toxic chemicals.

Today toxins can be inhaled, applied to your skin, injected or eaten with your food. The Environmental Working Group reports the average person has 91 toxic chemicals in their body.2

Unfortunately, while exposure to some chemicals are studied, researchers have no idea how this combined toxic soup and chemical interactions affect your health.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 25 percent of all deaths worldwide are attributable to poor environmental conditions, including air pollution. Dr. Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General, commented:3
"A healthy environment underpins a healthy population. If countries do not take actions to make environments where people live and work healthy, millions will continue to become ill and die too young."

Black Magic

Evil scoundrels in modern medicine

medical evil
Evil can be defined as profound immorality and malevolence. Today, one of the most evil persons to ever practice medicine is fortunately behind bars, serving 45 years in a federal prison for dosing adults and children who did not even have cancer to death with chemotherapy.

If it were not for a brave colleague who blew the whistle and turned in Dr. Farid Fata to the FBI, Fata would still be silently killing innocents today, all in the name of money and notoriety. Fata was responsible for many deaths and thousands of injuries that could last a lifetime. Though Fata is no longer practicing medicine, he has everything to do with some other evil doctors who are still engaged in medical fraudulence and malfeasance, but just haven't been caught and prosecuted - yet. Fata is a gleaming example of how many doctors literally get away with murder for years on end.


Evil Rays

The hidden health impacts of wireless communication

cell tower
Imagine you arrive home after work to discover a new microwave antenna tower stationed at the edge of your backyard fence? How would you respond?
  1. If you'd had non-existent mobile phone reception for years prior (or if you were a techie 'hooked on faster downloads') then you might find reason to celebrate!
  2. You might respond as an ambivalent disempowered citizen, "I really wonder about those things but there isn't much I can do about this anyway."
  3. You may be in the growing group of empowered action-takers. You've either experienced microwave radiation sickness attributable to exposure or you've read books and articles on the topic which resonate with your own truth.
Out of Sight Does Not Equal Out of Mind

Now forget the antennas in the backyard. Rather, that same day you arrived home from work telcos had erected a microwave antenna tower 300 metres from your residence. They paid someone rent to place it in a stealth location, a church steeple, behind a shop rooftop façade or on a water tower tucked out of public view behind parkland. Or it might have been located entirely visible, say next to a highway. We are already seeing so many of these towers that they no longer register. Our innate sensibility has often numbed to them in the same way we can numb to catastrophe or violence through a constant diet of Hollywood and TV news.

Health

For the first time the federal government is referring to marijuana as medicine

medical cannabis
A profound shift in the federal government's stance on cannabis was marked by subtle changes made this month to one webpage. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, now has a webpage titled Marijuana as Medicine. Prior to March 2017, it was titled Is Marijuana Medicine?

Apparently, they feel the question has been answered. The timing of NIDA's update is very curious, as there are signs from the Trump administration that a crackdown may be coming on states' cannabis legalization progress made over the last few years.

The Department of Justice is now headed by rabid prohibitionist Jeff Sessions, who cites falsehoods and Reefer Madness propaganda when discussing cannabis. Only a few days ago, Sessions said cannabis "is slightly less awful" than heroin - a mind-boggling display of ignorance. Trump chose to keep Chuck Rosenberg as head of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), who said medical cannabis is "a joke" and oversaw the department's decision to keep the plant as a Schedule 1 drug with "no medicinal use."

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Cheeseburger

Impossible Food's 'hemeburger': Meet the veggie burger that bleeds

Impossible Foods bleeding burger
With a brown exterior and juicy pink inside, this burger looks like it is anything but plant-based.

But the Impossible Burger is 100 per cent meat free, despite the fact that it 'bleeds' like a beef patty.

Impossible Foods, the firm behind the burger, has announced that is is moving into a huge new factory that will soon be capable of producing one million pounds of the burgers every month.

Impossible Foods is backed by several big names, including Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, and an arm of Google.

The main ingredients in its vegetarian burger are wheat protein, coconut oil and potatoes. But the key magic addition is heme, which has been described as 'plant blood'. The iron-rich compound is abundant in real meat, but can also be grown from soya.

The company claims that the heme makes the company's burgers 'smell, sizzle, bleed, and taste gloriously meaty'.


Comment: Vegetarianism is quite simply destroying the planet and the brains of the people on it.


Health

Illinois school district closes two elementary schools after 8-year-old dies of mysterious illness

Northview Elementary School
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Northview Elementary School
An Illinois elementary school district closed Wednesday after a student mysteriously died at a hospital this week.

Officials with Peru Elementary School District 124 said both Northview and Parkside elementary schools would be closed after a student at one of the schools died at a hospital Monday.

According to officials, the child became ill Friday evening and was transported to Rockford Mercy Health where she passed away a few days later.

An official cause of death had not been released as of Wednesday, but the district's superintendent, Mark Cross, posted in a Facebook note to parents that schools were closed Wednesday "as a precautionary measure to ensure the health and safety of our students and staff."

"Tuesday evening, the child's parents informed us that they were contacted and the child may have died from another illness than what they initially thought," Cross wrote. "This immediately caused us to seek information and we have been in contact with various health agencies since that time. Since we could not verify with absolute certainty that there were no concerns, we decided it was best to cancel school for today."

Brain

Better learning through zinc?

Zinc regulates the storage and release of neurotransmitters

Zinc
Zinc is a vital micronutrient involved in many cellular processes: For example, in learning and memory processes, it plays a role that is not yet understood. By using nanoelectrochemical measurements, Swedish researchers have made progress toward understanding by demonstrating that zinc influences the release of messenger molecules. As reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, zinc changes the number of messenger molecules stored in vesicles and the dynamics of their release from the cell.

When signals are transmitted by synapses, messenger molecules (neurotransmitters) are released from storage chambers (synaptic vesicles) into the synaptic cleft, where they are "recognized" by neighboring nerve cells. This release is based on exocytosis: The vesicle docks at the cell membrane, opens at the point of contact, releases part of its contents to the outside, closes, and separates from the plasma membrane so it can be refilled.

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Pills

Psychologist speaks out: Psychiatry is misleading public about mental disorders

Human brain diagram
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Dr. Toby Watson, a clinical psychologist is the former Chief Psychologist for the State of Wisconsin Department of Corrections, and the past International Executive Director of the International Society of Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry (ISEPP).

He is an outspoken critic of psychiatric industry's claim that mental disorders are biological or medical conditions despite the fact there are no scientific or medical tests to back up this claim.

He has submitted written testimony and research to the FDA on the dangers of SSRI antidepressants and Electroshock; he has testified before the Congress of Mexico against psychotropic drugging of children and for 15 years has educated the courts and people about the harmful outcomes of psychiatric treatment, including how psychotropic drugs can cause violent and suicidal behavior.


Pills

18,000 men and boys sue Johnson & Johnson over popular antipsychotic drug giving them breasts

Risperdal gynecomastia
Lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson have markedly increased in 2017, more than 100,000, due to cases of considerable breast enlargement in male patients after taking a potent antipsychotic medicine manufactured by the pharmaceutical giant.

The medicine rooted in these lawsuits is Risperdal, which is an antipsychotic drug most often prescribed for schizophrenia. Since 1994, Risperdal has also been prescribed for issues including bipolar disorder, ADHD and irritability related to autism; the drug was periodically prescribed for children as well.

The list of side effects of Risperdal is extensive, and the most common include vision problems, restlessness, sinus infections, and symptoms of Parkinsons, among others. Less common but more severe effects include high blood sugar, low blood pressure, blood clots, weight gain, and diabetes. One side effect in particular, and the core of these lawsuits against J&J, is enlarged breasts, or gynecomastia.

Butterfly

European study confirms that access to nature reduces depression and obesity

woodlands
© Rebecca Cole/Alamy
Hardcastle Crags, West Yorkshire. The study cites research that 26% of England’s black and minority ethnic populations visit natural environments less than three times a year.
Trees and green spaces are unrecognised healers offering benefits from increases in mental wellbeing to allergy reductions, says report

People living close to trees and green spaces are less likely to be obese, inactive, or dependent on anti-depressants, according to a new report.

Middle-aged Scottish men with homes in deprived but verdant areas were found to have a death rate 16% lower than their more urban counterparts. Pregnant women also received a health boost from a greener environment, recording lower blood pressures and giving birth to larger babies, research in Bradford found.

Overall, nature is an under-recognised healer, the paper says, offering multiple health benefits from allergy reductions to increases in self-esteem and mental wellbeing.

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