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Take 2

It's official: Americans lose faith in the CDC

Jeffery Jaxon
Collective Evolution
Mon, 02 Feb 2015 18:33 UTC
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As 2014 came to a close, the mainstream media and CDC desperately hoped that a last resort media blackout tactic would put to rest their well-deserved negative attention. Yet today, with 750,000,000 (on the way to one billion) #CDCwhistleblower Twitter impressions, it begs the question why this major story has not been investigated and given proper attention by mainstream media, enforcement agencies and worldwide medical oversight boards.

The fact remains that in 2004, top CDC researchers saw a major statistically significant link to increased autism caused in their MMR vaccines trials and they blatantly covered it up.

Due to the now infamous CDC whistle blower Dr. William Thompson's press release admitting purposeful neglect, what started as a bump in the night has now grown into a vicious monster with teeth under the beds of complicit CDC officials and a purposefully silent media. Angry parents are still angry and children are still being vaccine injured.

Comment: Read more about CDC whistleblower William Thompson's confession and why American's have lost faith in the CDC:

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Cutting grains is not just about your waistline

Trish Bentley
The Purple Fig
Wed, 04 Feb 2015 18:17 UTC
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So the holidays are well and gone but the lasting impression of food and drink on our bellies is not. You may be a 'January joiner' busy sweating away all those dinner rolls and apple pies right now in your local gym.

You may be one of those people who have a plan, oh yes a plan, and you are going to follow a diet that restricts everything from dairy to carbs. You will have a flat tummy by spring and you won't have to stuff yourself into those skinny jeans that you love and adore - you will slip into them with ease.

Or maybe you're the type of person who has to scream, "Check please!" right after consuming Eggs Benedict and a few cups of coffee. You've got a sensitive little diva gastric system, but the mind of a food lover.

There are also those who suffer from migraine headaches, arthritis, and such things as heart disease, diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis. As it turns out, according to Dr. William Davis, all of these people have something in common. They eat grains, and their bodies are not happy about it.

I got a chance to speak with Davis, bestselling author, cardiologist, and health crusader, about why he is so committed to a grain-free life and the undeniable results that have led him on this journey.

Comment: Makes complete sense! For more information, see:

Opening Pandora's Bread Box: The Critical Role of Wheat Lectin in Human Disease

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US stores sell mislabeled herbal supplements

Emily Lenihan
WIVB4.com
Tue, 03 Feb 2015 08:45 UTC
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Buffalo, New York - New York State wants certain herbal supplements pulled from store shelves. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said four major retailers sell supplements that have contaminants not identified on ingredient labels.

Schneiderman's office said mislabeled consumer products are posing unacceptable health hazards. They are calling on GNC, Target, Walgreens and Walmart to make some changes.

DNA tests revealed, overall, 21 percent of the test results from store brand herbal supplements verified DNA from the plants listed on the products labeled.

Walmart had the poorest showing for DNA matching the products listed with only four percent, according to Schneiderman.

Details from Schneiderman below:

GNC:

- Six "Herbal Plus" brand herbal supplements per store were purchased and analyzed: Gingko Biloba, St. John's Wort, Ginseng, Garlic, Echinacea, and Saw Palmetto. Purchased from four locations with representative stores in Binghamton, Harlem, Plattsburgh & Suffolk.

- Only one supplement consistently tested for its labeled contents: Garlic. One bottle of Saw Palmetto tested positive for containing DNA from the saw palmetto plant, while three others did not. The remaining four supplement types yielded mixed results, but none revealed DNA from the labeled herb.

- Of 120 DNA tests run on 24 bottles of the herbal products purchased, DNA matched label identification 22% of the time.

- Contaminants identified included asparagus, rice, primrose, alfalfa/clover, spruce, ranuncula, houseplant, allium, legume, saw palmetto, and Echinacea.
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Health

How cell phone radiation exposure affects the blood


Weston A. Price Foundation
Fri, 16 Jan 2015 22:28 UTC
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Blood is the essence of life. It is useful to examine the blood under a microscope to look for any changes in reaction to a stressor. In this exploratory study, ten human subjects were exposed to a cell phone radiation stressor. Their blood was examined under a dark-field microscope to look for changes, if any, from the cell phone microwave frequency. We also investigated whether there might be a protective effect on the blood from consuming the recommended Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) diet.

The world has rapidly changed over the past few decades with the advent of cell phones. Almost seven billion cell phones are now used worldwide, of which over five billion are in developing countries. As of January 2014, 90 percent of American adults possessed cell phones, and 58 percent of the users had smart phones.1 Due to increasing affordability along with the many useful functions that cell phones provide, the explosion in cell phone usage is not surprising. Indeed, they have become the leading technology in the brave new wireless world of communications.

THE SAFETY CONTROVERSY

Are cell phones completely safe? There is no consensus on how to address this question with its various complex, multifaceted issues. There are many factors to consider, such as the duration of exposure, a person's age, whether the radiation dose is cumulative or not, the long-term use over a person's lifetime, pregnancy, and how cell phones are being used - and stored - on the body.

Cell phones and smart phones are powered by microwaves, part of the electromagnetic spectrum, which range from 300 to 3,000 megahertz (MHz). The key frequencies used in cell phone communications worldwide are 850, 900, 1,800, and 1,900 MHz (1.9 gigaHz). (A microwave oven, which heats water and the water in food, works on 2450 MHz.)

Cell phones and smart phones both receive and emit these frequencies, smart phones emitting far more than the old clam-shell type of cell phone. The radiation they receive comes from cell phone towers, which is ambient, meaning that it is everywhere, and we are all receiving it, all the time. The radiation coming out of the smart phone is of much higher intensity than that coming from cell phone towers, unless one happens to be located very close to a tower.
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Added fructose identified as major driver of type 2 diabetes and obesity 'epidemics'

James McIntosh
Medical News Today
Mon, 02 Feb 2015 18:18 UTC
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A new report published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings advises people to replace processed foods containing high levels of added sugars and fructose with whole foods such as fruit and vegetables.

Present guidelines from the Institute of Medicine allow for up to 25% of total daily calories to come from added sugars. However, added sugars such as sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup have been associated with the development of diabetes and other metabolic disorders that can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.

In the US, 1 in 11 people has type 2 diabetes - a total of around 29 million adults. Worldwide, the number of individuals diagnosed with the condition has more than doubled in recent times, from 153 million people in 1980 to 347 million in 2008.

Another 86 million Americans have prediabetes - also referred to as "borderline" diabetes - whereby their blood sugar levels are higher than they should be.

"Approximately 40% of US adults already have some degree of insulin resistance with projections that nearly the same percentage will eventually develop frank diabetes," says lead author James DiNicolantonio of Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, MO.

Comment: There is no biological need for carbohydrates in the diet. So if governmental dietary recommendations do not call for any restriction of carbohydrates, especially for those who are extremely sensitive such as diabetics, it tells us that those recommendations are not based on healthy science but on corporate greed. Take a stand against corruption, put down the apple a day and pass the bacon!

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Syringe

Glaxo Smith Kline buried report linking vaccine to sudden deaths

Jonathan Benson
Natural News
Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:12 UTC
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An Italian court has unearthed a formerly classified document that proves vaccines cause death, and that vaccine companies don't want you to know this. As published on the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) website, a 1,271-page report by British drug firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) reveals that certain combination vaccines administered to children are known to cause sudden death, but the company chose to obscure and conceal this in official safety reports.

The document deals specifically with the Infanrix Hexa vaccine (combined diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis, hepatitis B, inactivated poliomyelitis and haemophilus influenza type B) made by GSK, as well as the Prevenar 13 vaccine by Pfizer and several other vaccines. It explains that, contrary to the skewed data presented by GSK suggesting that dozens of sudden death cases following vaccination were not linked to Infanrix Hexa, the same data broken down by time of occurrence reveals that the vaccine was, in fact, directly linked to the deaths.
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Health

DNA clock predicts speed of aging


Science Daily
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 01:51 UTC
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Scientists have identified a biological clock that provides vital clues about how long a person is likely to live.

Researchers studied chemical changes to DNA that take place over a lifetime, and can help them predict an individual's age. By comparing individuals' actual ages with their predicted biological clock age, scientists saw a pattern emerging.

People whose biological age was greater than their true age were more likely to die sooner than those whose biological and actual ages were the same.

Four independent studies tracked the lives of almost 5,000 older people for up to 14 years. Each person's biological age was measured from a blood sample at the outset, and participants were followed up throughout the study.

Researchers found that the link between having a faster-running biological clock and early death held true even after accounting for other factors such as smoking, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
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Hawaiian ahi tuna showing rising levels of mercury concentration


Phys Org
Mon, 02 Feb 2015 23:22 UTC
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Mercury concentrations in Hawaiian yellowfin tuna are increasing at a rate of 3.8 percent or more per year, according to a new University of Michigan-led study that suggests rising atmospheric levels of the toxin are to blame.

Mercury is a potent toxin that can accumulate to high concentrations in fish, posing a health risk to people who eat large, predatory marine fish such as swordfish and tuna. In the open ocean, the principal source of mercury is atmospheric deposition from human activities, especially emissions from coal-fired power plants and artisanal gold mining.

For decades, scientists have expected to see mercury levels in open-ocean fish increase in response to rising atmospheric concentrations, but evidence for that hypothesis has been hard to find. In fact, some studies have suggested that there has been no change in mercury concentration in ocean fish.

By compiling and re-analyzing three previously published reports on yellowfin tuna caught near Hawaii, U-M's Paul Drevnick and two colleagues found that the concentration of mercury in that species increased at least 3.8 percent per year from 1998 to 2008.

A paper about the study is scheduled for online publication in the journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry on Feb. 2. The other authors are Carl Lamborg of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, now at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and Martin Horgan.

Comment: This information, on top of concerns related to the Fukushima meltdown, should cause any person considering eating ocean fish to think twice.

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Dollars

Sitting down on the job finally pays, donating stool samples

Jordan Davidson
Everyday Health
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:00 UTC
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Earning a little money on the side may now be as easy as having a bowel movement, thanks to Open Biome - a nonprofit organization that harvests stool.

Why harvest stool? For fecal transplants.

Fecal microbiota transplantation is used to treat a condition called Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, infections of the gut. In a healthy person, helpful gut bacteria force C. diff bacteria out of the digestive system via a bowel movement. C. diff infections happen when healthy gut bacteria has been wiped out, most commonly by prolonged antibiotic use. Because the healthy gut bacteria can't do its job, C. diff grows uncontrolled, causing intestinal inflammation and diarrhea.

Fecal transplants are 90 percent successful in treating C. diff infections, which, according to Open Biome, are linked to 14,000 to 30,000 U.S. deaths annually, and add $1 billion to U.S. healthcare costs each year.

Comment: Also see Fecal transplants for treating bacterial infection and Fecal transplant cure of the future.

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Electronic devices are detrimental to the health and social-emotional development of children

Rick Nauert PhD
Phys.org
Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:00 UTC
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Many very young children use mobile devices these days, and little is known about their effects.

In a commentary in the journal Pediatrics, researchers review the many types of interactive media available today and raise important questions regarding their use as educational tools.

The experts acknowledge that the way in which the early use of media may impact the development and behavior of children is still relatively unknown. They warn that early use of media may be potentially detrimental as the development of important tools for self-regulation may be stunted.

While there are many research studies that have found children under the age of 30 months cannot learn from television and videos as well as they can from real-life interactions, there are fewer studies investigating whether this is the case with interactive applications.

Early research suggests that interactive media, such as electronic books and learn-to-read applications can be useful in teaching vocabulary and reading comprehension, but only in children preschool-age or older.

Comment: The accessibility of these devices and their excessive use by very young children has been found to have numerous negative consequences including: Impaired learning, increased impulsivity and aggression, delayed development and addiction. Their use in bedrooms has been found to negatively affect sleep. In addition, research has shown that the radio frequency exposure from cell phones and other wireless devices is particularly harmful for children as their brains and immune systems are still developing.

10 Reasons why handheld devices should be banned for children under the age of 12

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