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Your liver may be 'eating' your brain

Christopher Wanjek
Live Science
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:17 UTC
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Your liver could be "eating" your brain, new research suggests.

People with extra abdominal fat are three times more likely than lean individuals to develop memory loss and dementia later in life, and now scientists say they may know why.

It seems that the liver and the hippocampus (the memory center in the brain), share a craving for a certain protein called PPARalpha. The liver uses PPARalpha to burn belly fat; the hippocampus uses PPARalpha to process memory.

In people with a large amount of belly fat, the liver needs to work overtime to metabolize the fat, and uses up all the PPARalpha - first depleting local stores and then raiding the rest of the body, including the brain, according to the new study.

Comment: Otherwise known as "wheat belly", is one among a huge list of unhealthy symptoms that develop with the consumption of grains. For information on how to transition to the healthier Paleo diet, read this forum thread.

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23 Studies on Low-Carb and Low-Fat Diets - Time to retire the fad

Kris Gunnars
Authority Nutrition
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:51 UTC
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Keep in mind that all of these studies are randomized controlled trials, the gold standard of science. All are published in respected, peer-reviewed medical journals. These studies are scientific evidence, as good as it gets, that low-carb is much more effective than the low-fat diet that is still being recommended all over the world. It is time to retire the low-fat fad!
Few things have been debated as much as "carbohydrates vs fat."

Some believe that increased fat in the diet is a leading cause of all kinds of health problems, especially heart disease.

This is the position maintained by most mainstream health organizations.

These organizations generally recommend that people restrict dietary fat to less than 30% of total calories (a low-fat diet).

However... in the past 11 years, an increasing number of studies have been challenging the low-fat dietary approach.

Many health professionals now believe that a low-carb diet (higher in fat and protein) is a much better option to treat obesity and other chronic, Western diseases.

In this article, I have analyzed the data from 23 of these studies comparing low-carb and low-fat diets.

All of the studies are randomized controlled trials, the gold standard of science. All are published in respected, peer-reviewed journals.

The Studies

Most of the studies are being conducted on people with health problems, including overweight/obesity, type II diabetes and metabolic syndrome.

Keep in mind that these are the biggest health problems in the world.

The main outcomes measured are usually weight loss, as well as common risk factors like Total Cholesterol, LDL Cholesterol, HDL Cholesterol, Triglycerides and Blood Sugar levels.
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Cheeseburger

Hamburger chef Jamie Oliver proves McDonald's burgers "Unfit for human consumption"


EndAllDisease
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:25 UTC
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Hamburger chef Jamie Oliver has won his long-fought battle against one of the largest fast food chains in the world - McDonalds. After Oliver showed how McDonald's hamburgers are made, the franchise finally announced that it will change its recipe, and yet there was barely a peep about this in the mainstream, corporate media.

Oliver repeatedly explained to the public, over several years - in documentaries, television shows and interviews - that the fatty parts of beef are "washed" in ammonium hydroxide and used in the filling of the burger. Before this process, according to the presenter, the food is deemed unfit for human consumption. According to the chef and hamburger enthusiast, Jamie Oliver, who has undertaken a war against the fast food industry, "Basically, we're taking a product that would be sold in the cheapest way for dogs, and after this process, is being given to human beings."

Besides the low quality of the meat, the ammonium hydroxide is harmful to health. Oliver famously coined this the "the pink slime process."
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Pet dog Charlie 'can predict toddler's epileptic fit'


BBC
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:18 UTC
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An Irish family has said their pet dog is helping to protect their three-year-old daughter by warning them when she is about to have an epileptic seizure.

The Lynch family, from County Clare, believe their Great Dane, Charlie, can sense changes in their child up to 20 minutes before she has a fit.

Brianna Lynch has epilepsy since birth.

Her family said Charlie will alert them by walking in circles around Brianna. He also gently pins her against a wall to stop her from falling during a fit.

Brianna's condition was picked up when she was three months old.

It can lead to traumatic seizures, some of which cause her to go into a trance-like state, while others cause violent convulsions during which she is at risk of falling and hitting her head.

Brianna's mother, Arabella Scanlan, said Charlie is not a trained "seizure alert dog" but was just a normal, family pet who appears to have developed some kind of special skill through his own instincts.

They first noticed it some time ago when the huge Great Dane began to get agitated and walk in circles around Brianna. Minutes later the toddler had an epileptic fit.

"If you see a child having a seizure, it's pretty horrific, it's frightening, it's terrible, it's gut-wrenching," Ms Scanlan said.

"Charlie will know about 15 to 20 minutes before she's going into seizure. He'll get ever so panicky and giddy, almost as if you'd think 'this stupid dog is going to knock her over'."

In fact, at first the family thought they might have to find another home for their clumsy Great Dane, amid concerns that he would knock the toddler down as a result of his agitation.
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Syringe

Flashback 30 years of secret official transcripts show UK government experts cover up vaccine hazards to sell more vaccines and harm your kids


Child Health Safety
Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:26 UTC
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An extraordinary new paper published by a courageous doctor and investigative medical researcher has dug the dirt on 30 years of secret official transcripts of meetings of UK government vaccine committees and the supposedly independent medical "experts" sitting on them with their drug industry connections.

If you want to get an idea of who is responsible for your child's condition resulting from a vaccine adverse reaction then this is the paper to read. What you have to ask yourself is if the people on these committees are honest and honourable and acting in the best interests of British children, how is it this has been going on for at least 30 years?

This is what everyone has always known but could never prove before now. Pass this information on to others so they can see what goes on in Government health committees behind locked doors.

We quote here from the author's summary and the paper:
Deliberately concealing information from parents for the sole purpose of getting them to comply with an "official" vaccination schedule could be considered as a form of ethical violation or misconduct. Official documents obtained from the UK Department of Health (DH) and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) reveal that the British health authorities have been engaging in such practice for the last 30 years, apparently for the sole purpose of protecting the national vaccination program.
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Arrow Down

Natural products often mislabelled in Canada

Helen Branswell
The Canadian Press
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:44 UTC
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© Luis Acosta/AFP/Getty Image file photo In an Ontario study of 44 different herbal products. nearly 60 per cent of the contained DNA from at least one plant species that wasn’t listed on the product label.
"It says Ginkgo biloba and we didn't find any ginkgo DNA at all in the bottle," said an Ontario researcher studying the real contents of herbal products including St. John's wort.

DNA doesn't lie.

And when scientists from the University of Guelph scoured the DNA in a number of herbal products, they found that many times the labels on the merchandise didn't accurately reflect what was in the container.

Some products contained fillers like wheat or rice that were not listed on the label. Some were contaminated with other plant species that could have caused toxicity or triggered allergic reactions. And still others contained no trace of the substance the bottle purported to contain.

"It says ginkgo biloba . . . and we didn't find any ginkgo DNA at all in the bottle," said Steve Newmaster, an integrative biology professor at the university who was the first author on the paper.

In fact, about a third of the 44 products Newmaster and his co-authors tested were instances of what he called product substitution - alfalfa sold as ginkgo, for example. He said those two substances in powder form would be indistinguishable without testing.

People buying herbal products need to know they may not be getting what they are paying for - and they may be ingesting something they aren't expecting, said Newmaster, who is also the botanical director of the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, which is the home of the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding.
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Chess

Co-exist with Monsanto or destroy it? Follow the organic money

Jon Rappoport
Activist Post
Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:28 UTC
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Let's stop screwing around and go to the heart of the matter. Whether the public campaign against Monsanto takes the form of GMO-labeling or putting millions of people in the street protesting against an evil corporation...

Depends on who has the money and what they're willing to use it for.

I'm talking about the billion-dollar natural health industry.

If companies like Whole Foods, Stonyfield, Dr. Bronner's, Lundberg, and the big-time nutritional-supplement outfits want to bankroll a popular and very visible uprising against Monsanto, they have the dollars to do it. And they have the PR people to ignite it.

If they decide they don't really want to co-exist with Monsanto and GMOs, they could start funding something a lot hotter and more effective than GMO-labeling ballot measures.
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Life Preserver

Protein linked to endurance exercise promotes brain health

Tamarra Kemsley
Nature World News
Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:48 UTC
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© ReutersResearchers have identified a protein tied to endurance exercise that appears to promote brain health even in the absence of exercise.
Researchers have identified a protein tied to endurance exercise that appears to promote brain health even in the absence of exercise.

Called FNDC5, the protein was first reported in a previous study by the team of scientists led by Bruce Spiegelman of Harvard Medical School.

Writing in the journal Cell Metabolism, the researchers report the protein increased brain health and triggered the growth of new nerves in learning and memory when given to non-exercising mice. The results clearly outline why endurance exercise improves cognitive function, especially in the elderly.

"What is exciting is that a natural substance can be given in the bloodstream that can mimic some of the effects of endurance exercise on the brain," Spiegelman said in a statement. According to the team, if the protein can be made in a stable form, it could possibly be used to produce a drug to help stave off cognitive decline and even slow the effects of diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

In the past, the group found that the protein is produced by muscular exertion and released into the bloodstream as a variant called irisin. In the new study, the researchers found that endurance exercise in mice led to an increase in FNDC5, which boosted the expression of the brain-health protein BDNF in the hippocampus, a part of the brain involved in learning and memory.

Comment: But Big Pharma would never replace the healthy and natural alternative - exercise:

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Researchers link behavioral problems in children to irregular bedtimes

James A. Foley
Nature World News
Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:43 UTC
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© REUTERS/Lucy NicholsonChildren who go to sleep at inconsistent times of day are more likely to have behavioral problems, according to new research published in the journal Pediatrics.
Children who go to sleep at inconsistent times of day are more likely to have behavioral problems, according to new research published in the journal Pediatrics.

Based on data collected from more than 10,000 children in the UK Millennium Cohort Study, researchers from University College London found that irregular bedtimes in three, five and seven-year-old children can disrupt the body's natural rhythm, which can cause sleep deprivation detrimental to brain maturation and certain behavioral regulations.

Among the three-year-old children included in the study, one in five had an inconsistent bedtime. The researchers also found that children who's bedtime was irregular or who went to bed after 9:00 at night most often came from socially disadvantaged backgrounds, a fact the researchers took into account during the study.

"Not having fixed bedtimes, accompanied by a constant sense of flux, induces a state of body and mind akin to jet lag and this matters for healthy development and daily functioning," said Yvonne Kelly, a professor of epidemiology and public health at UCL.

"We know that early child development has profound influences on health and well-being across the life course. It follows that disruptions to sleep, especially if they occur at key times in development, could have important lifelong impacts on health."
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Do these chemicals make me look fat?

David Epstein
ProPublica
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:03 UTC
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© Trisnadi/AP PhotoAn international team of scientists published findings in 2010 that two dozen animal populations have been rapidly packing on the pounds in recent decades. In captivity, orangutans have developed physiques of spreading batter.
Everyone knows Americans are fat and getting fatter, and everyone thinks they know why: more eating and less moving.

But the "big two" factors may not be the whole story. Consider this: Animals have been getting fatter too. The National Pet Obesity Survey recently reported that more than 50 percent of cats and dogs - that's more than 80 million pets - are overweight or obese. Pets have gotten so plump that there's now a National Pet Obesity Awareness Day. (It was Wednesday.) Lap dogs and comatose cats aren't alone in the fat animal kingdom. Animals in strictly controlled research laboratories that have enforced the same diet and lifestyle for decades are also ballooning.
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