Despite what you may have been led to believe by conventional medicine propaganda, the most common cause of symptoms of heartburn, indigestion, gas, and belching is low stomach acid, not too much (read this post for more information on how low stomach acid is jeopardizing your health). According to Jonathon Wright, MD (author of "Why Stomach Acid is Good for You"), approximately 90% of Americans produce too little stomach acid. Low stomach acid impairs digestion and leads to a wide variety of health problems that include:

• Heartburn
• GERD
• Indigestion and bloating
• Burping or gas after meals
• Excessive fullness or discomfort after meals
• Constipation and/or diarrhea
• Chronic intestinal infections
• Undigested food in stools
• Food allergies, intolerances, and sensitivities

Magnesium can be the one thing that can save someone from an instantaneous deadly heart attack. In fact, it could be the answer for an out of control arrhythmia.

Going back as far as 1990 the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that well over half of hospitalized patients were seriously low in magnesium.

Unfortunately, the reporting of these findings were not by the physicians in the hospital but by respected scientists and researchers doing the study.

The sad truth of it all is over 90% of these physicians never ordered any magnesium test.

Those having the lowest levels of magnesium had the highest risk of dying from a heart attack or a deadly arrhythmia while in the hospital.

Government studies prove the average diet provides less than a third of the magnesium you need in a day and its deficiency is a major cause of sudden death with no other obvious medical problems.

Even diabetics are at risk of developing deadly complications due to a deficiency in magnesium. A respected medical study reported that 77% of diabetics were deficient in magnesium.

Here is a fact that everyone MUST remember.

A 24-year-old man was hospitalised in Guizhou province, China, after he ate too many river-snails too frequently and turned green as a result.

According to WantChinaTimes.com, he turned green because of a parasitic infection in his liver. The Chinese Center for Disease Control reportedly confirmed that he was infected by parasitic flatworms that live in animal livers.

The parasite apparently entered his body because he was eating river snails on a daily basis, news sources from the provincial capital of Guiyang reported.

"Usually I like to eat fried river snails, especially in the past few months, where I've been eating one plate every night," he told local Chinese reporters.

He began complaining of a sharp abdominal pain about two months ago, but did not seek medical attention until he started exhibiting some very strange symptoms.

The EPA, on the other hand, allows its widespread use as a germ killer in clothing, bedding, cosmetics, electric shavers, baby bottles, and food containers.

Silver has been used as an antimicrobial for thousands of years - that's why forks, spoons, and platters were traditionally made out of silver. Nanosilver, however, sprang out of the new science of nanomaterials, which involves creating objects smaller than 100 nanometers. (A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.) For example, the period at the end of this sentence is a million nanometers wide.

Objects this small can penetrate parts of the body that larger sizes of silver cannot and thus potentially increase silver's antimicrobial effect. The new size however also poses potential risks of misuse. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed a lawsuit in January 2012 to block the EPA from allowing nanosilver on the market without the legally required data about possible harmful effects. Australian microbiologist Gregory Crocetti adds that important clinical uses of silver "will be diminished by completely hysterical and frivolous uses" such as nanosilver being used in bedding and clothing simply to prevent odors and keep linens fresher longer between washings. He implicitly acknowledges, as the FDA will not, that nanosilver has important therapeutic applications.

Silver kills all kinds of bacteria, attacking them in three distinct ways:

• Weakening the cell wall, thus causing the bacteria to collapse or burst;
• Interfering with the enzymes the bacteria need to metabolize nutrients, starving them; and
• Disrupting the ability of bacteria to replicate.

This triple-pronged attack makes it unlikely that bacteria could develop resistance to silver - although it cannot be completely ruled out. (Bacteria would have to mutate in all three ways.) For this reason, critics of using silver in clothes and similar products are right.

The agency has just issued a warning to consumers. As is so often the case, what they don't tell you is more important than what they do tell you.

The agency's warning begins, "No, hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has not been clinically proven to cure or be effective in the treatment of cancer, autism, or diabetes. But do a quick search on the Internet, and you'll see all kinds of claims for these and other diseases for which the device has not been cleared or approved by FDA."

HBOT is approved to treat thirteen conditions: decompression sickness, thermal burns, non-healing wounds, necrotizing soft tissue infections (a.k.a. flesh-eating bacterial disease), acute traumatic ischemias (e.g., crush injury, compartment syndrome), radiation tissue damage, smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning, air or gas embolism, severe blood loss anemia, refractory osteomyelitis, compromised skin grafts, and clostridial myonecrosis (gangrene).

There are, however, many other conditions that HBOT appears to treat effectively, based on solid or promising research. Licensed physicians and healthcare institutions may legally use an FDA-cleared hyperbaric chamber to treat unapproved or "off-label" diseases and conditions, though it is illegal to promote or advertise such uses. A few doctors are already using HBOT off-label, but not nearly enough of them. Here are some of the off-label applications:

• Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), both suffered most often by returning wounded veterans. Tragically, the Department of Defense refuses to use HBOT off-label for veterans, claiming that they don't prescribe off-label medications and treatments for these diagnoses, and saying they can only use HBOT after it has been approved by the FDA for this use.

This isn't even true. The DoD often uses antipsychotic drugs off-label to treat TBI and PTSD. About 20% of veterans diagnosed with PTSD - or nearly 87,000 patients - are prescribed an antipsychotic each year even though it is an off-label use.

In total, including prescriptions outside the military, nearly 280,000 individuals received antipsychotic medications in 2007. Yet over 60% of them had no record of a diagnosis for which these drugs are approved. Antipsychotic drugs were prescribed off-label for PTSD (42% of the patients), minor depression (40%), major depression (23%), and anxiety disorder (20%) - with about 20% having more than one condition.

The Department of Agriculture (USDA) is planning to roll out a meat inspection program nationwide that will allow pork plants to use their own inspectors, but it has a history of producing contaminated meat at American and foreign plants.

The Washington Post reported on Monday that documents and interviews showed that a plan to allow hog plants to replace federal USDA inspectors with their own private employees had produced "serious lapses that included failing to remove fecal matter from meat" in three of the five plants that had participated in a pilot program for more than a decade.

And plants using the same procedure in Australia and Canada also ran into problems. In one case, a Canadian company had to recall 8.8 million pounds of beef products for E. coli contamination.

If you think flat Earthism is gone, you're wrong. Some people still believe the earth is flat. The Flat Earth Society even has it own website. The society's roots may be traced back to the 1800′s. However, the members don't use scientific evidence to support their view. According to an interview with the society's president in The Guardian three years ago, they believe the earth is flat because it appears flat. The sun and moon are spherical, but much smaller than mainstream science says, and they rotate around a plane of the Earth because they appear to do so.

Most public health authorities still recommend that total fat consumption does not exceed 30 percent of total calories and that saturated fats be no greater than 10 percent. The British, National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) stated in a document in 2010 that in order to better prevent coronary heart disease (CHD) at a population level, the reduction of dietary saturated fat is crucial. They estimated that halving the average intake of saturated fat (from 14 to 7 percent) might prevent 30.000 deaths annually in the UK.

The public health recommendations are very surprising, considering the large amount of data indicating that reducing total fat consumption or the amount of saturated fats in our diet will not reduce mortality or affect the risk of dying from CHD.

Do you really need to filter your tap water, or is that just a marketing gimmick to sell water filters? Modern water treatment systems protect us from serious waterborne diseases such as Cryptosporidium and Giardia, parasites that cause illness. But while disinfecting municipal water supplies keeps us safe from parasites, we're instead faced with the added toxic burden of the chemicals used for treatment, as well as the hundreds of pollutants that make their way into our water supplies.

Different chemicals are used to treat water, most notably chlorine and chloramine. Chlorine is used in most water supplies and has a long track record whereas chloramine, which has not been studied as extensively as chlorine, is in about one quarter of households. Chloramine is a combination of chlorine and ammonia and is used because, unlike chlorine, it stays in the water longer and cannot be removed through boiling, distilling, or letting water sit uncovered. Although both kill waterborne pathogens, they are somewhat toxic in themselves. Chloramine is corrosive to pipes and increases exposure to lead in drinking water in older homes. Chloramine-treated water also should not be used in fish tanks, hydroponics, home brewing, or for dialysis.

It couldn't happen, but suppose it did? It's straight out of an episode of Homeland; terrorists hack an implanted medical device and use it to administer a lethal shock to the patient carrying it inside them. As it turns out, hacking implants like pacemakers and insulin pumps is definitely possible, and device manufacturers have known about it for years. It's taken a small cadre of computer hackers to show the public what companies like Medtronic dismissed as very remote possibilities - large scale device tampering leading to thousands of injuries and deaths. Are they playing a dangerous game of chicken by dragging their feet all this time?

Medical Devices are Open Doors

As several professional hackers, including the late Barnaby Jack, pointed out, medical device manufacturers didn't pay much attention to digital security when constructing their implantable components. Adding additional security features would weigh the devices down, shorten battery life, and make them bulkier. For an insulin pump that's only about the size of a pager, adding additional weight can make a lot of difference in terms of how much the device costs. Shelling out extra cash won't make those items popular with insurance companies, and they basically control what devices their policyholders have access to because they make the coverage decisions. In choosing to forego added security options, Medtronic and other manufacturers left their products dangerously vulnerable to 'interrogation'; a technical term for transmitting a signal to an electronic device to interact with it. Without any encryption, an insulin pump doesn't even involve the hacker equivalent of opening a door. All they need to do is stroll on in.

The second part of the problem is the increasing dependence on wireless communication for these medical devices to manage patient vital signs and know when to dispense medications. Ever jump onto an open Wi-Fi signal at a coffee shop? No password required. Just log in and surf the web. That's basically the same principle when a hacker gains control of a device that's using an unprotected wireless network. Modern pacemakers and insulin pumps - among other implantables - are no different than PCs or Macs when it comes to vulnerabilities. According to Jack, who was working for MacAfee at the time, the lack of security in implanted devices is "really quite shocking."

Britain is becoming a nation of prescription drug addicts with painkillers killing more people than cocaine and heroin

Nearly 1.5 million patients are hooked on benzodiazepine tranquillisers, it is believed.

And new figures from the Office for National Statistics revealed that last year 807 people died after taking tranquillisers and painkillers, compared with 718 who fell victim to heroin and cocaine.

Cathryn Kemp, author of Painkiller Addict: From Wreckage To Redemption, said: "We are a medicated nation.".