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Lorie Johnson of CBN interviews Dr. Stephen Sinatra, a veteran cardiologist, who reveals that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease. "Cholesterol is your friend" he states, and has many benefits. He believes processed sugar and carbohydrates are the problem, and advocates eating healthy fats, including coconut oil. The dangers of statin drugs are also discussed.
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Olean General Hospital is mailing 1,915 patients who received insulin between November 2009 and last week and advising them to have a blood test, although the risk of infection of HIV or hepatitis B and C is very low, a hospital official told AP.
Staff at Olean General said they ordered the action after a review carried out at a nearby veteran's hospital in Buffalo found that more than 700 patients may have been exposed to the same trio of deadly diseases over a two year period when they also may have used multiuse insulin pens on more than one person, though only intended for use on a single patient.
Olean General had not identified any specific patients who had been infected, but were not taking any chances.
Pastured butter—the best brain food.
We are seeing an epidemic of mental illness and poor mental functioning that may be without parallel in human history. The frequency of many mental illnesses is expanding an alarming rate. A huge and constantly increasing percentage of children are being diagnosed with learning disabilities. The psychiatric profession claims that the increase is due to "better diagnosis," and that the problems were always there, but I disagree.
When I was a child, learning disabilities were pretty much unknown. So what is the cause of the vast increase in mental illness and learning disabilities?
In my opinion, it is malnutrition. To be more specific, it is the lack of enough good fat in most diets. Because the very saturated fats that our brains need to develop and function properly have been demonized and removed from the diets of so many people, especially children.
JAMA Pediatrics published a new study today looking at vaccination rates. The results of that study are making headlines throughout the "mainstream" media outlets, but none of them have headlines like ours. Yet, ours is probably the most factual headline representing the true facts of what this study found.
The title of the study is: A Population-Based Cohort Study of Undervaccination in 8 Managed Care Organizations Across the United States - You can read the abstract here. Rather than rely upon the press releases of the study which for the most part were bemoaning the fact that children were not following the national vaccine schedule and therefore representing a threat to the existence of the human race, I decided to spend the $30.00 and download the article to read for myself.
First of all, let's look at the objective to the study as stated in the abstract:
To examine patterns and trends of undervaccination in children aged 2 to 24 months and to compare health care utilization rates between undervaccinated and age-appropriately vaccinated children.So why study "patterns and trends of undervaccination" in children? The introduction to the study gives us a clue:
Immunization is one of the most significant public health achievements of the past 100 years. However, an increasing number of parents have expressed concerns about immunizations, and survey data1-5 have shown that more than 10% of parents report delaying or refusing certain vaccinations for their children. These concerned parents often request alternative vaccination schedules that either increase the time between vaccinations or reduce the number of vaccinations in a single well-child visit. Despite their concerns, however, the safety of alternative vaccination schedules is not known.Hmm... Any chance of bias in this study? Is "Immunization is one of the most significant public health achievements of the past 100 years" a scientific statement that can be proven by facts and figures? Is there a chance that this study was conducted because the medical institutions represented by the authors of this study do not like the fact that parents are not bringing in their children to be vaccinated enough according to the government vaccine schedule?
A new strain of norovirus is causing intestinal illness outbreaks across the country, the CDC confirmed today.
Norovirus is often to blame when large numbers of people get sick on cruise ships or in schools, nursing homes, and other places where people live, work, or play in close quarters.
CDC officials also reported a rise in outbreaks of sickness caused by drinking raw milk.The findings appear in the Jan. 25 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
New Norovirus Spread Quickly
The new norovirus strain was first identified in Australia in March of last year, and it had spread across the United States by year's end.
Of the 266 norovirus outbreaks reported during the last four months of 2012, 141 involved the Australian strain. During this time, outbreaks caused by it rose from 19% to 58%.
Sickness from norovirus is often called "food poisoning," but the highly contagious virus can also be spread by water, person-to-person contact, or simply by touching an infected object.
Outbreaks can happen anytime, but they are most common in the winter months.
The research was unable to uncover any single cause or "rallying point for action." Instead, it calls for more research to "ferret out the effects of our current policies."
C'mon! You've got to be kidding me.
Considering the fact that human health tends to be primarily affected by a) nutrition, b) exercise, and c) toxic exposures, do they seriously believe that we can improve public health while ignoring these three basic areas?
Mercury fillings cause teeth to crack. Says Dr. Markus, "there is a reason mercury is used in thermometers - it expands at slight changes in temperature. So when you thermocycle a material that doesn't come close to the thermal properties of a tooth (say you're drinking coffee with your ice cream, or iced tea with your baked potato), is it any wonder these fillings can cause teeth to crack, like a full bottle of water left in the freezer?"
As kids, our parents took us to the dentist without a second thought to the composition of our fillings. The dentist said you had a cavity and it had to be filled. Mercury amalgam was the filling of choice, so case closed. Imported from Germany to the US in the 1850s, amalgam is a combination of liquid mercury, powdered silver, tin and copper. Back then, the term 'silver filling' was deliberately misleading because the compound was more than 50% mercury, an element used by milliners (aka hatters). The hatters worked in confined areas and their exposure to the mercury fumes for extended periods caused irrational behavior, which became known as Mad Hatter disease. To this day, when used to fill a person's tooth, its vapor is released into the lungs, the brain - in fact, every organ system in the body - for a long, long time.
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The Sydney-2012 norovirus strain was identified in Australia last year, and is a combination of two strains that originated in Holland and Japan in about 2007.
It is a new, highly infectious strain that can cause epidemics.
It has health officials around the world concerned and in December last year 17 outbreaks of the new strain had been identified in New Zealand, including one death in Northland.
There were 87 cases of norovirus in October and November last year, compared with 14 in 2011 and 23 in 2010, ESR senior scientist Joanne Hewitt said.
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The study confirms warnings that so-called swine flu was highly contagious. It also estimates that the flu's lethality - as previously reported - was low.
Between 20 and 27 percent of people were infected by the virus, the investigators reported in a specialist journal, Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses.
Children aged five to 19 had the highest rates of infection, accounting for 47 percent of the total. Older people aged 65 and above accounted for 11 percent.
The probe aims to give the most complete picture of the pandemic to help future preparations for flu outbreaks.
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The mutations, detected in a part of the cancer genome that controls genes but not in the genes themselves, could aid understanding and lead to treatment of one of the world's most lethal cancers or stop its progression.
It "represents an initial foray into the 'dark matter' of the cancer genome," said Dr. Levi Garraway, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
