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Intelligent parents are right to refuse vaccinations

Dr Sircus
drsircus.com
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 18:27 UTC
vaccine fear
Live Science is reporting that more parents are refusing to vaccinate their children now than a decade ago because they simply do not see a need for vaccination. Researchers have found that in 2013, 87 percent of pediatricians surveyed said they encountered vaccine refusals from parents of their patients, up from 75 percent of pediatricians who said the same in 2006.

Intelligent parents who refused to vaccinate their kids understand how unnecessary and dangerous vaccines are and such parents see the payoff, their kids tend to remain healthier with less colds and infections. Vaccine-preventable diseases are rare these days and many of them started to disappear before vaccines where created for each specific disease.

Live Science is biased when it comes to vaccines so it is not surprising that they say that many parents delay vaccination out of the mistaken belief that vaccines may burden children's immune systems. There is no mistake about it. Vaccines do reduce natural immunity and can clobber the immune system causing death or many chronic diseases.
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"Like it's been nuked": South Carolina sprays insecticide to fight Zika, but the poison kills millions of bees

Ben Guarino
Washington Post
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 17:33 UTC
dead bees zika
© Flowertown Bee Farm and Supplies
On Sunday morning, the South Carolina honey bees began to die in massive numbers.

Death came suddenly to Dorchester County, S.C. Stressed insects tried to flee their nests, only to surrender in little clumps at hive entrances. The dead worker bees littering the farms suggested that colony collapse disorder was not the culprit — in that odd phenomenon, workers vanish as though raptured, leaving a living queen and young bees behind.

Instead, the dead heaps signaled the killer was less mysterious, but no less devastating. The pattern matched acute pesticide poisoning. By one estimate, at a single apiary — Flowertown Bee Farm and Supply, in Summerville — 46 hives died on the spot, totaling about 2.5 million bees.

Walking through the farm, one Summerville woman wrote on Facebook, was "like visiting a cemetery, pure sadness."

A Clemson University scientist collected soil samples from Flowertown on Tuesday, according to WCBD-TV, to further investigate the cause of death. But to the bee farmers, the reason is already clear. Their bees had been poisoned by Dorchester's own insecticide efforts, casualties in the war on disease-carrying mosquitoes.
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Brain

Blame the brain: Scientists think they've discovered brain 'switch' responsible for binge drinking - in mice


RT
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 17:14 UTC
drunk mouse
People who struggle with enjoying just one alcoholic drink may be able to blame binging on their brain's wiring: Scientists say they discovered a mechanism which determines both how much alcohol a person drinks, and how much they're able to tolerate.

Researchers from Washington State University (WSU), Oregon Health and Science University, and the US Veterans Administration Portland Health Care System made their discovery while studying two mice named D2 and B6.

Mouse D2 was the responsible kind of mouse who knew his limits and could stop at just one or two drinks. After that, he had trouble staying on a rotating cylinder.

"He won't drink much," David Rossi, a WSU assistant professor of neuroscience, said in a statement. "At most he'll have one or two drinks."

Comment: Will power in the form of a pill. Scientists getting mice drunk in the name of science. A world where people feel the need to binge drink to get any satisfaction out of life. What a great world we live in...

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Syringe

Interview: Dr. Andrew Wakefield discusses his discredited study on the vaccine-autism link

Derrick Broze
Activist Post
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:09 UTC
vaccine
On August 30, Activist Post reporter Derrick Broze attended a screening of Vaxxed: From Controversy to Cover-Up. Broze was able to speak with the film's director, Dr. Andrew Wakefield. Wakefield was an author on one of the first studies to associate autism with vaccinations. Wakefield's study was later said to be discredited.

Comment: More on Dr. Wakefield:

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Alarm Clock

Why sleeping in your birthday suit is good for you

Christina Sarich
Underground Reporter
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 17:02 UTC
naked sleeper
You probably already know, without reading extensive scientific studies, that sleep is essential for your health. All it takes is a few turbulent nights of tossing and turning in the land of insomniacs to realize just how devastating sleeplessness can be to your concentration levels and overall mood.

What if you could get better sleep, though, just by sleeping naked?

Without good sleep we know that toxic proteins stay in our brains, since they usually are ushered to our organs of elimination when we sleep, causing us to age faster and have, well, a lowered IQ; but good sleep, which apparently accompanies being in the nude, not only improves your intellectual health, but your emotional health as well — your EQ.

Firstly, sleeping naked reduces your body temperature. Researchers in Amsterdam found that a lowered body temperature reduces the number of times you wake at night — contributing to more sound sleep.
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Stop

Scourge of the plastic microbead: Polluting oceans and damaging eyes, teeth and skin

Tanith Carey
Daily Mail
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 19:30 UTC
plastic microbeads
© 5Gyres, courtesy of Oregon State University
plastic microbeads
For more than 20 years, microbeads have been in facial scrubs, face washes, toothpastes and shower gels and sold with the promise of making us feel cleaner and more beautiful.

But when these minuscule plastic balls are washed down the plughole into the oceans, they don't just harm sea life.

The tragic irony is that these abrasive particles may also be damaging our looks. Here, we reveal just how bad they can be for you...

Scratched Eyes

Microbeads can injure the cornea, the eye's clear outer covering.

Consultant eye surgeon Ali Mearza, of London's Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, said: 'Occasionally when people wash their faces, microbeads get stuck in the eye. Usually these get blinked away, but sometimes granules can be lodged under the eyelid.

'When the eyelid closes, this can scratch the cornea. This can make the eye very red and sore, so that it can't open. This can require a visit to casualty, where we invert the eyelid and flick the particle out with a cotton bud.' While the cosmetics industry says that the instructions tell consumers to avoid the eye area, more people on internet forums are reporting corneal scratches. Some in the U.S. have sought legal advice.

Although the cornea heals fast (if scratches don't get infected, most heal in three or four days) the injuries can be very painful.

'The cornea is the most sensitive part of the body,' says Dr Mearza. 'It has 50,000 nerve endings, so even if you get a small scratch, it can feel as if you have a big, rough object in your eye.'

Damaged Teeth

Laura Percival bought whitening toothpaste, thinking it would guarantee her a bright smile.

After two months, however, the 27-year-old sales manager noticed that she had lost about 2 mm from the gums surrounding her two lower front teeth.

Comment: Microbeads are highly potent concentrators of toxins, carrying deadly toxins into the animals that ingest them. Studies have shown that persistent organic pollutants, among them fat-soluble chemicals such as DDT and PCBs, stick to polyethylene microbeads, where they become super-concentrated. Tiny marine creatures often mistake them for food, and when these creatures are eaten by other fish the chemicals then bio-magnify up the food chain.

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Health

Why you should never eat after 7pm: Late night meals keep blood pressure elevated increasing risk of heart attacks and stroke

Ben Spencer
Daily Mail
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:57 UTC
eating late night, snacking

Millions of people are putting themselves at higher risk of a heart attack or stroke by eating after 7pm, researchers have warned
Eating late at night is putting millions of people in danger of heart attacks and strokes, experts warn.

A late-night meal keeps the body on 'high alert' when it should be winding down, researchers found.

Heart experts last night advised that adults should never eat within two hours of bedtime - and ideally nothing after 7pm.

In a healthy person, blood pressure drops by at least 10 per cent when they go to sleep.

But the results of a study of more than 700 people with high blood pressure found that eating within two hours of bedtime meant their levels stayed high.

Experts think this is because eating releases a rush of stress hormones when the body should be starting to relax.

People who do not see their blood pressure fall at night are known as 'non-dippers' - and have a much higher rate of heart-related death.

Late eaters were nearly three times more likely to be non-dippers, the Turkish researchers found.

Researcher Dr Ebru Özpelit, presenting her results at the speaking at the European Society of Cardiology congress in Rome, said: 'If we eat late at night, the body essentially remains on high alert as during the day, rather than relaxing for sleep.

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Syringe

'Vaccines cause autism': Stunning interview with fearless San Antonio district attorney and his wife

Jon Rappoport
Jon Rappoport's Blog
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:04 UTC
Nico and Davida LaHood
© Vaxxed
Nico and Davida LaHood
The Vaxxed team does it again.

Here is a stunning new interview with fearless San Antonio prosecutor, Nico LaHood, and his wife, Davida. Watch it. Share it.

Polly Tommey of the Vaxxed team handles the interview. Nico LaHood lays it all out. He rips away the curtain and exposes the truth. Vaccines cause autism.

As La Hood talks, the vaccine criminals and liars crumble into dust.


Comment: San Antonio district attorney states 'Vaccines cause autism'

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Health

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy could relieve symptoms of opiate withdrawal


Science Daily
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:00 UTC
hyperbaric oxygen
Washington State University researchers have found that treatments of pure oxygen in a high-pressure chamber can relieve the symptoms of opiate withdrawal.

Ray Quock -- a pharmacologist and Washington State University psychology professor -- gave morphine-addicted mice pure pressurized oxygen before they began withdrawal from the drug. The mice had far less severe withdrawal symptoms than addicted mice that did not receive the treatment.

Outwardly, said Quock, the treated mice appeared "much calmer. You can tell the difference."

Writing this month in the journal Brain Research, Quock and his colleagues say implications of the discovery are of "profound importance." While current therapies for treating heroin addiction can provide relief from withdrawal, they themselves can be addictive. Moreover, the finding comes amid a national heroin epidemic in which use of the drug has doubled among young adults over the past decade, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

Meanwhile, withdrawal symptoms can be so severe that some addicts will continue taking the drug to avoid the process, said Quock.

But while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved using hyperbaric oxygen therapy for 14 specific indications -- including carbon monoxide poisoning, decompression sickness and wound healing -- it is not approved for drug withdrawal. A physician could administer the therapy for such an off-label use, said Quock, but it would not be covered by medical insurance.

Comment: Read more about the benefits of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT): The Most Overlooked, Effective Prescription Drug

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Pirates

Pepsi agrees to monitor the amount of carcinogen in its soda, but don't worry, it's still safe to drink

Alex Pietrowski
Waking Times
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:23 UTC
pepsi cancer
In 2013, The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) went public with test results and allegations that PepsiCo was intentionally covering up the fact that their uber-popular soft drinks contain elevated levels of 4-Methylimidazole (4-MeI), a known carcinogen formed in the manufacturing process of caramel coloring.

PepsiCo, of course, denied these allegations, claiming at first that 4-MeI is safe to drink and that they had furthermore removed this chemical from their products, and has since been fighting to avoid having to put a cancer warning label on their popular Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, and Pepsi One products in California.
"Pepsi claims that the 4-Mel chemical is safe, noting that the FDA and other regulatory agencies have not deemed the chemical unsafe.

According to USA Today, the Food and Drug Administration says a consumer would have to drink more than 1,000 cans of soda a day to reach the doses administered that have shown links to cancer in rodents. But, after a study on mice and rats linked the coloring chemical to cancer, California added 4-Mel to its list of carcinogens." [Source]

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