The author of this article, and a few other articles hosted on Sott.net, Samantha Chang, recently demanded that Sott.net stop republishing her articles (all of which are on the Ketogenic diet), on pain of "bad things happening" to us (see email below).

Like a good authoritarian follower, Ms. Chang backed up her 'threat' with a symbol of the totalitarian state under which she exists - an image of a United States Dept. of Justice wallet (see below), which seems to suggest that she has perhaps internalized the fascistic ideology of the police state that is the US of A.

Many writers have published information on the benefits of a Ketogenic diet, including research conducted by Sott.net that was made freely available to all. Ms. Chang, however, obviously does not subscribe to the idea of the free flow of vitally important information in an age of massive information control and subversion.

Given that Ms. Chang is obviously more interested in personal profit rather than the dissemination of information that could help many people, we will no longer be carrying her articles. In chasing after self-aggrandizement at the expense of helping others, she has clearly aligned herself with the fundamentals of our pathologically narcissistic global society.

Name: Samantha Chang
E-mail: schang@theimproper.com

Hello,

Please stop copyright infringement violations of my Examiner.com ketogenic diet/cancer articles on SOTT.

I see you've removed my byline from all my past articles after my previous complaint (while keeping in the ENTIRE content of my original pieces). This is blatant copyright infringement and unethical theft. You can use the first graph or two, but then please include a link back to my original article, saying "read more here."

http://www.examiner.com/article/ketogenic-diet-aids-weight-loss-alzheimer-s-ms-and-starves-cancer-say-experts

Please remove today's article (Oct. 12):

http://www.sott.net/article/287169-Ketogenic-diet-helps-weight-loss-epilepsy-MS-Alzheimers-and-starves-cancer

I worked hard on writing piece, which used information I compiled from exclusive interviews with scientists and from other sources. How do you sleep at night? If you choose to ignore this, I can promise bad things will happen to you, if they haven't already.

Samantha Chang - tries to intimidate people with images of DOJ wallets.

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Name: Samantha Chang
E-mail: schang@theimproper.com

Hi,

Thank you for your reply earlier. Please do the same for these other infringing articles (use the first paragraph and add a link with "read more here").

I think there are others, but these 4 bother me the most b/c they are exclusive interviews I spent a lot of time working on:

http://www.sott.net/article/280733-Ketogenic-diet-beats-chemotherapy-for-almost-all-cancers-says-Dr-Thomas-Seyfried

http://www.sott.net/article/277668-Low-carb-ketogenic-diet-can-combat-cancer-because-cancer-is-a-metabolic-disease

http://www.sott.net/article/280646-Texas-man-battles-deadly-lung-cancer-without-chemo-using-ketogenic-diet

http://www.sott.net/article/280615-Low-carb-ketogenic-diet-can-combat-brain-cancer-says-scientist-Adrienne-Scheck

Please do not copy my articles again in the future. For now, I will refrain from reporting SOTT to Google (which I was in the middle of doing when I received your reply).

Google will completely shut down your site immediately if they find these violations. I know this from past experience.

Thank you,
Samantha Chang, Esq.

The author of this article, and a few other articles hosted on Sott.net, Samantha Chang, recently demanded that Sott.net stop republishing her articles (all of which are on the Ketogenic diet), on pain of "bad things happening" to us (see email below).

Like a good authoritarian follower, Ms. Chang backed up her 'threat' with a symbol of the totalitarian state under which she exists - an image of a United States Dept. of Justice wallet (see below), which seems to suggest that she has perhaps internalized the fascistic ideology of the police state that is the US of A.

Many researchers have published information on the benefits of a Ketogenic diet that has included research conducted by Sott.net that was made freely available to all. Ms. Change obviously does not subscribe to the idea of the free flow of vitally important information in an age of massive information control and subversion.

Given that Ms. Chang is obviously more interested in personal profit rather than the dissemination of information that could help many people, we will no longer be carrying her articles. In chasing after self-aggrandizement at the expense of helping others, she has clearly aligned herself with the fundamentals of our pathologically narcissistic global society.

We're teaming up with Consumer Reports for an ongoing series that will look at a wide array of food-labeling concerns.

We ask a lot of our food. We want it to be delicious, to be healthy, to conform to our worldview - a worldview in which we aren't the ones who are damaging the environment or subjugating poor people around the world to grow and harvest and prepare the things we eat. As complicated as the global supply chain that makes sure food shows up on our plates is, the system we rely on to say whether or not this or that product can do all of those things or offer any benefit at all isn't necessarily up to the task. Food labels are supposed to help us decipher those things: This product is natural; that product is organic. But what those words mean in practice can differ wildly from how consumers interpret them.

Research from Tehran University of Medical Sciences has concluded that cumin extract can significantly reduce symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome - also referred to as IBS and sometimes referred as inflammatory bowel disease.

Up to 20% of Americans have been diagnosed with IBS at some point. Irritable bowel syndrome is an increasingly prevalent worldwide disorder, and there are no known drugs that will resolve the condition.

The study followed 50 patients who had been diagnosed with IBS using the ROME II criteria. The patients had symptoms including watery and irregular stools, painful elimination, abdominal pain, nausea and other symptoms. The doctors also ruled out other disorders that could have been producing the symptoms. They also excluded patients that had known food allergies.

Fillings and the dentist's drill could soon become just an unpleasant memory now that scientists have developed a technique to rebuild teeth using tiny electrical pulses that could be available within three years.
Tooth decay is normally removed by drilling and the cavity is filled with amalgam or composite resin. The new treatment encourages the tooth to repair itself by speeding up the natural movement of calcium and phosphate minerals into the damaged tooth.

Known as Electrically Accelerated and Enhanced Remineralisation (EAER), the process developed by scientists uses a tiny electric current to push minerals into the damaged area.

The tooth is repaired without the need for drilling, injections or filling.

Prof Nigel Pitts, from King's College London Dental Institute, said: "The way we treat teeth today is not ideal. When we repair a tooth by putting in a filling, that tooth enters a cycle of drilling and refilling as, ultimately, each 'repair' fails.

Be careful in seeking a second opinion about your child in a hospital. The hospital (through the government) may all too easily remove you as legal custodian.

Imagine your child is deathly ill. Doctors have a diagnosis and treatment plan. You, naturally, want a second opinion. When you mention the idea of moving your child to another facility, custody of your child is permanently revoked and handed to the state. You lose the ability to decide what drugs, surgeries, and treatments your son or daughter will receive.

This nightmare has become painfully real for parents across the country. Increasingly, hospitals are accusing caretakers of medical child abuse, also known as Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, in order to seize control of a child's medical fate.

Medical child abuse, a very real and serious (although extremely rare) condition, is when a parent either fabricates or induces illness in their child in order to gain attention, or fails to obtain needed medical care. The abuse is considered most dangerous when it results in "needless medical intervention." (Based on these criteria, however, it seems that many hospitals and doctors could rightfully be accused of medical child abuse!)

Perhaps the best-publicized accusation of medical child abuse is the case of Connecticut teen Justina Pelletier. To date, Justina has been in the custody of the state of Massachusetts - separated from her family and friends - for the past sixteen months.

Longtime readers of Natural News know that, because of massive over-prescribing by the modern healthcare industry, today's crop of antibiotics are becoming less and less effective. Another culprit: The increased use of antibiotics in factory-farm animals.

"It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them," warned Alexander Fleming, the creator of the first antibiotic, penicillin, back in 1945 when he received his Nobel Prize for medicine. "There is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant."

And while bacteria have been a part of "life" on Earth for humans since the dawn of time, constant exposure to antibiotics -- which kill even "good" bacteria -- is responsible for the rise of superbugs that are resistant to an increasing number antibiotic drugs.

With that in mind, and before you find yourself in dire need of something that will kill the superbugs, here are 10 herbs and foods that will do the job naturally:

In the face of an increasingly inadequate system of conventional medicine, a growing number of people are turning to holistic medicine to address their needs. Many individuals are now realizing the effectiveness of the holistic medicine's approach to health which blends body and mind, science and experience, and traditional and cross cultural methods of diagnosis and treatment. These same individuals are also discovering the limitations of conventional medicine and its myopic view of the body, which focuses on compartmentalizing the body and prescribing synthetic treatments to address the physical symptoms. This is just the beginning of the differences between holistic medicine and conventional medicine,so let's dive into more detail to better understand these two methods of health care.

The origin and philosophy of holistic medicine

The underlying concepts of holistic medicine are older than those of conventional or allopathic medicine, and have actually had various healing traditions around the world since the dawn of recorded history. As early as 5000 B.C., "physician-sages" formulating the healing traditions of both traditional and Chinese medicine (TCM) and Ayurvedic medicine recognized that human beings were comprised of mind, body, and spirit and their health was dependent on the balance of all three factors.

Previously in this series, the benefits of sunlight in the form of vitamin D production were discussed along with the ramifications of vitamin D deficiency. Along with vitamin D deficiency, another crucial benefit of sunlight (control of circadian rhythms) has been introduced. To top it all off, here's another: sunlight on human skin increases nitric oxide in the bloodstream, which is important in regulating blood pressure and reducing risk of heart attack and stroke. Sunlight is essential to health.

The last post also introduced how UV-B radiation, which produces vitamin D, also leads to sunburn which many people believe leads to skin cancer. Three types of skin cancer and their accompanying statistics were reviewed, where it was posited that greater than 99% of all skin cancer cases are not fatal. 75% of melanoma cases, the most fatal of the three types of skin cancer, were shown to be present on parts of the body that are relatively unexposed to UV-B radiation (trunk and thighs as opposed to face and hands). Also, it was shown that melanoma rates have been increasing at an alarming rate over the past 30+ years, while UV radiation exposure rates have, on average, decreased for inhabitants of developed countries. The case was made that UV radiation alone cannot explain the massive increase in skin cancer. Something else must be at play.

It is illogical that a natural source of life-giving radiation (the sun), that we as human animals have been exposed to since the dawn of our species is now most commonly implicated as the source of a disease (skin cancer) that has only recently become proportionally common, while exposure to this radiation source has, on average, been decreasing.

A survey released today by the Commonwealth Fund ranks the United States dead last in the quality of its healthcare system compared to ten other developed nations. At the same time, it's also the most expensive in the world.

Frustratingly, the new report (pdf) shows that the U.S. is not improving; it ranks last, just like it did in the 2010, 2007, 2006, and 2004 editions of the survey. Call it a ten-year losing streak.

Other nations evaluated in the survey included Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The U.K., which spends just $3,405 per person on health care, ranked first overall among the 11 nations. Compare that to the United States' $8,508 per person.

"Most troubling, the U.S. fails to achieve better health outcomes than the other countries, and as shown in the earlier editions, the U.S. is last or near last on dimensions of access, efficiency, and equity," write the authors in the report's executive summary.