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Mumps vaccine proves ineffective


Alliance for Natural Health
Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:09 UTC
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But instead of acknowledging the vaccine's problems, the CDC and mainstream media blame people who don't vaccinate.

Mumps is a nasty virus - it can cause fever, headache, and painfully swollen glands. In serious cases, it can cause meningitis, deafness, and even testicular inflammation. Mumps is also easily spread through mucus: if an infected person sneezes, coughs, or even talks, they can pass it on.

For these and other reasons, most Americans are vaccinated against mumps through the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) shot, which is also one of the more dangerous vaccinations. But in the early 2000s, researchers began to notice an alarming pattern: those vaccinated against mumps were still becoming ill with it - at alarming rates.

This worrisome trend is accelerating: in April 2014, the New Jersey Department of Health warned of an outbreak of mumps at the Stevens Institute of Technology. Eight cases of mumps were confirmed - yet all of those infected had been fully vaccinated with two documented doses of the MMR shot.

Comment: The worrisome mumps trend has been accelerating for some time, even among the vaccinated:

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Agricultural pesticides linked to Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 13:41 UTC
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The United States uses about 1.1 billion pounds of pesticides each year.1, 2Worldwide pesticide use amounts to approximately 5.2 billion pounds annually. There's little doubt that the current pesticide load is taking a toll, as mounting research has linked pesticides to an array of serious health problems.

Processed foods form the basis of nearly everyone's diet, as 95 percent of the food Americans buy is processed. If this is you, then you can consider yourself in the highest risk category, as such fare tends to contain the greatest amounts of hidden genetically engineered (GE) ingredients, and hence the highest pesticide load.

Avoiding pesticide exposure - around your home, in your community, and via the food you eat - is important for reducing your risk for a number of chronic and devastating diseases, including Parkinson's and DNA damage indicative of early-stage cancer.3, 4

Now, with the publication of a new meta-analysis,5 the evidence linking pesticides to cancer is stronger than ever. The analysis, which included 44 papers exploring the impacts of pesticide exposure on non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, concluded there appears to be a strong link between the two.

The study, which was done by a team at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in France, covering nearly three decades' worth of epidemiologic research, will likely be taken seriously worldwide.
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As usual! Medical schools get a failing grade in nutrition


Gluten Free Society
Tue, 10 Dec 2013 08:37 UTC
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The sad part is this – most people follow the nutritional advice of their doctors without question – despite their potential severe lack of knowledge.
Gluten is a nutritional problem

One of the biggest problems facing those with gluten related issues is doctors. For years, doctors have dismissed gluten sensitivity and other food allergies as a potential health problem for those suffering with disease. It is the proverbial 8,000 pound gorilla in the room. Everyone knows it, many ignore it. Choosing to ignore it doesn't make it go away. You are what you eat. The wrong food can impact your health in a detrimental way.

Why are medical doctors part of the problem? They simply don't understand nutrition well enough. Now before any of you start getting upset, remember that this is not a blanket statement that encompasses all doctors. There are many doctors that study nutrition and have a wonderful knowledge of the science. Problem is, they are few and far between. For example, let's look at gluten. This nutritional disease was originally identified as a food based problem in 1952. 61 years later, we have come to accept it as a society (kind of). You see, despite the massive quantity of research that has been conducted, many doctors continue to blatantly ignore gluten and its associated diseases (beyond Celiac). The question is why?

How much nutritional knowledge does your doctor have?

The truth is, unless they seek a post graduate education on the topic, not much at all. The last few studies investigating nutrition taught in medical schools had this to say...
...data suggest that medical students' perception of the importance of clinical nutrition can decrease during medical school.
Source: Curr Gastroenterol Rep. 2011 Aug;13(4):376-9

Comment: Doctors don't need five letters after their names to certificate what is now common knowledge among certain people. An open mind and willingness to research and learn for the sake of their patients will do. For more information, see our forum discussion "Life Without Bread".

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Aspartame in diet soda linked with premature death in women

Christina Snider
Healthy Life
Sun, 08 Jun 2014 08:01 UTC
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Killer soda.
Over the course of a decade, 60,000 women were studied to confirm the effects of aspartame on their system. Drinking diet soda that has been sweetened with aspartame has been linked with a 50 percent rise in death and a 30 percent rise in heart attacks. Sounds to me like drinking diet soda isn't so good for your health after all. Just because it has less calories, that doesn't mean it is actually good for you.

What are they doing about these findings?

In reality, the findings have already been hidden by giving the public a false explanation as to why diet drinks aren't really the cause of these risks. They claim that the drinks are simply correlated with all of the risks. One article on CNBC claimed that women who were drinking too many diet sodas were only trying to make up for all of their other unhealthy habits. Regardless of what they said, there wasn't any evidence that substantiated their claim.

Remember, any synthetic vitamin that correlates with an increase in your mortality is automatically deemed as causing the death. Correlation should only be constituted as the cause when scientists have said that it is.
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Addictive unhealthy engineered foods

Martha Rosenberg
Alternet
Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:36 UTC
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Food scientists use dangerous chemicals to make you eat - and buy - more junk food.

There are three reasons Americans' love affair with snacks is growing-- along with their waistlines: the ubiquity of junk food, the ubiquity of junk food advertising, and stealth food technology. People who polish off a whole bag of chips or cookies at one sitting (usually in front of TV) are often doing exactly what the product was designed to do - be addictive.

Have you noticed the overpowering something-in-the-oven smell that wafts up when you walk past a Subway? Mark Christiano, Subway's Global Baking Technologist, insists the aroma is not pumped outside to entice passers-by and adds that the bread recipe is "proprietary." But in the war for your food dollar, all tactics are clearly on the table including the way a food smells, looks, and feels in the mouth. Nothing is left up to chance.


Comment: Oh yum! Obviously Subway's Global Baking Technologist did want to mention a secret little baking ingredient, talk about an unhealthy engineered food
Subway's proprietary bread recipe includes azodicarbonamide - a chemical used in yoga mats and shoe rubber.

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Saying no to vaccines appears on The Daily Show

Heather Callaghan
Activist Post
Fri, 06 Jun 2014 09:22 UTC
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Weston A. Price Chapter leader and popular blogger Sarah Pope of Healthy Home Economist has left people on both sides of the vaccine issue in awe after her appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Her segment is actually with Samantha Bee, and her pro-vaccine opponent is the ubiquitous propagandist Dr. Paul Offit. Four-and-a-half hours of interview were carefully chiseled into a few minutes of carefully selected phrases.

It took guts for Sarah to agree to share why she doesn't vaccinate. While there was a risk in being edited, national viewers were finally exposed to someone stating that "herd immunity" through vaccination is a myth. There was a clear bent against people who don't vaccinate, but in the end both sides were ridiculed.


Comment: Herd immunity: Myth or reality?
The medical establishment got it all in reverse: it is not vaccine-exempt children who endanger us all, it is the effects of prolonged mass-vaccination campaigns that have done so. When will the medical establishment (and the media) start paying attention to the long-term consequences of mass-vaccination measures instead of hastily and unjustifiably blaming every outbreak on the unvaccinated?
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Beaker

Additive nightmare: Non-dairy milk

Michelle Toole
healthy-holistic-living.com
Wed, 04 Jun 2014 08:07 UTC
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Did you know that in your efforts to be healthy you just might be consuming more chemicals than you think? Yup, non-dairy milk may not be all it's cracked up to be. Let's look a little closer at some of the additives in non-dairy milk, and why they are best avoided - at least the store bought non-diary milk.
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GMO derived erythritol, the main ingredient in Truvia, found to be a potent insecticide

Mike Adams
Natural News
Thu, 05 Jun 2014 10:28 UTC
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Truvia sweetener is made from about 99.5% erythritol (a sugar alcohol), and 0.5% rebiana, an extract from the stevia plant (but not at all the same thing as stevia). A shocking new study published in the journal PLOS ONE (1) has found that Truvia, an alternative sweetener manufactured by food giant Cargill, is a potent insecticide that kills fruit flies which consume it.

The study is titled, Erythritol, a Non-Nutritive Sugar Alcohol Sweetener and the Main Component of Truvia, Is a Palatable Ingested Insecticide.

The study found that while fruit flies normally live between 39 and 51 days, those that ate the Truvia ingredient erythritol died in less than a week.
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Rate of strokes among younger people on the rise

Carly Weeks
The Globe and Mail
Thu, 05 Jun 2014 16:39 UTC
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The number of younger people suffering strokes across Canada is rising at an alarming rate and is expected to increase more in the coming decade, posing a significant challenge to the health-care system, reveals a new report by the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

The report, published Thursday, found that in the past decade the rate of strokes among people in their 50s has increased by 24 per cent, and by 13 per cent for people in their 60s. It also notes that international studies are predicting stroke rates among those aged 24-64 will double in the coming 15 years.

Data from the Public Health Agency of Canada suggest the costs associated with strokes, which includes doctor visits and lost productivity, total $3.6-billion every year.

The report warns this number will climb even higher, to difficult-to-sustain levels, if the number of strokes in Canada increases at predicted rates.

Although factors such as poor diet and excess weight are a major part of the problem, it's not just the overweight and obese who have to worry. People who are at a normal weight but are physically inactive also face a heightened risk of stroke, according to the foundation.

Comment: One likely culprit for the sudden rise in strokes in young adults is diet, specifically the consumption of sugar and carbohydrates:

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Water

Fasting for two days can regenerate the body

Jo Willey
Daily Express, UK
Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:04 UTC
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© GETTYFasting for two days can regenerate the immune system
Fasting for at least two days regenerates immune systems damaged by ageing or cancer treatment, research has shown.

The finding has dramatic implications for health, say scientists.

It shows for the first time that natural intervention can trigger repair of vital systems in the body.

Lead scientist Professor Valter Longo, director of the University of Southern California's Longevity Institute, said: "We could not predict that prolonged fasting would have such a remarkable effect in promoting stem cell-based regeneration.

"When you starve, the system tries to save energy and one of the things it can do to save energy is to recycle a lot of the immune cells that are not needed, especially those that may be damaged."

Experiments showed that fasting flipped a switch in bone marrow stem cells which caused them to begin regenerating themselves.
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