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Decayed Meat Treated With Carbon Monoxide To Make It Look Fresh At The Grocery


Prevent Disease
Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:22 UTC
Most meat eaters may be unaware that more than 70% of all beef and chicken in the United States, Canada and other countries is being treated with poisonous carbon monoxide gas. It can make seriously decayed meat look fresh for weeks. The meat industry continues to allow this toxic gas injection into many of the meat products people consume on a daily basis. The question is, how many people have become ill by this chemically altered meat that is being sold to families all over the world?


Carbon monoxide (often referred to as CO) is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas, one measly oxygen molecule away from the carbon dioxide we all exhale. But that one molecule makes a big difference in that it does very, very bad things to the human body at very, very low concentrations.

CO is toxic because it sticks to hemoglobin, a molecule in blood that usually carries oxygen, even better than oxygen can. When people are exposed to higher levels of CO, the gas takes the place of oxygen in the bloodstream and wreaks havoc. Milder exposures mean headaches, confusion, and tiredness. Higher exposures mean unconsciousness and death, and even those who survive CO poisoning can suffer serious long-term neurological consequences.
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Mild Dehydration Hurts Mood


Pill Advised
Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:54 UTC
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Cranky or sluggish today? Even mild dehydration can alter our moods and energy.

Most people only think about drinking water when they are thirsty; but by then it may already be too late, according to two studies recently conducted at the University of Connecticut's Human Performance Laboratory. Mild dehydration is defined as an approximately 1.5 percent loss in normal water volume in the body.

The test results affirm the importance of staying properly hydrated at all times and not just during exercise, extreme heat, or exertion, says Lawrence E. Armstrong, one of the studies' lead scientists and a professor of physiology in UConn's Neag School of Education.

"Our thirst sensation doesn't really appear until we are 1 percent or 2 percent dehydrated. By then dehydration is already setting in and starting to impact how our mind and body perform," says Armstrong, an international expert on hydration who has conducted research in the field for more than 20 years. "Dehydration affects all people, and staying properly hydrated is just as important for those who work all day at a computer as it is for marathon runners, who can lose up to 8 percent of their body weight as water when they compete."
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10 Signs You May Be in an Emotionally Abusive Relationship

Merely Me
Health Central
Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:22 UTC
No matter how attractive, old or smart a person is, he or she can be a victim of emotional abuse. Here are some signs of an abusive partner or spouse.

1.Isolates You from Friends and Family: Emotionally abusive spouses want you all to themselves and make an effort to have it that way. They do not understand that you have a life outside of the relationship - one that includes family and friends. It is healthy and normal for you to hang out with other people as well, so if your partner prevents you from doing so, this may be a sign of an emotionally abusive relationship.

2.Is Verbally Abusive: If someone calls you derogatory names, even if they say they are joking, they mean to hurt you and keep you in line. Abusers sometimes cover themselves by blaming you, saying that you need to lighten up or that you are too sensitive. You are not too sensitive; you are feeling in your gut that this is not the way you should be treated. Abusers have a way of making you think that this is normal behavior and that it is you who has the problem.

3.Blames Others for His or Her Problems: If your significant other always blames everything on someone else, namely you, this may be a bad sign. If he or she throws a tantrum or attacks you verbally, he or she will say it was because of you. It is not a sign of a healthy relationship if your partner never takes responsibility and never admits to being at fault.

Comment: If you feel you may be the victim of emotional abuse,try to keep your support lines open by talking with a trusted friend. There are many books to help educate yourself, such as Women Who Love Too Much, and How to Spot a Dangerous Man plus many support groups available in which to turn. To help stay calm and clear-headed there is the Éiriú Eolas Stress Control, Healing and Rejuvenation Program.

Proven benefits of the Éiriú Eolas Program include:
  • instantly control stress in high energy situations
  • detox your body resulting in pain relief
  • relax and gently work through past emotional and psychological trauma
  • regenerate and rejuvenate your body/mind.


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FDA Says Walnuts Are a "New Drug"

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:53 UTC
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As unbelievable as it sounds, current law makes it illegal for food producers to share certain types of scientific information with you.

So when Diamond Food relayed health information about the omega-3 fats in walnuts on product packaging and also on their Web site, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) attacked.

Even though the information was entirely true, and backed by peer-reviewed scientific research.

If a Food Can Prevent a Disease, it Must be a Drug

This is the backward thinking that goes on at the FDA, where regulations currently prohibit manufacturers of dietary supplements or producers of food from referring to any scientific study documenting the potential effect of the substance on a health condition, punishable by large fines and even jail.

Disclosure about the benefits of a dietary supplement or food, no matter how credible, places the food in the category of an "unapproved drug."

In other words, if a product makes a medical claim, it's automatically classified as a drug.

This is how the FDA got away with sending Diamond Food a warning letter[1], stating:
"... we have determined that your walnut products are promoted for conditions that cause them to be drugs because these products are intended for use in the prevention, mitigation, and treatment of disease.

The following are examples of the claims made on your firm's website under the heading of a web page stating "OMEGA-3s... Every time you munch a few walnuts, you're doing your body a big favor ... "
These claims are backed by science[2], but it doesn't matter under FDA rules, which are so counter to rationality and logic that it boggles the mind. The FDA letter goes on to list several health claims made by Diamond Foods regarding omega-3 fats, claims such as:
  • "Studies indicate that the omega-3 fatty acids found in walnuts may help lower cholesterol; protect against heart disease, stroke and some cancers; ease arthritis and other inflammatory diseases; and even fight depression and other mental illnesses."
  • "[O]mega-3 fatty acids inhibit the tumor growth that is promoted by the acids found in other fats... "
  • "[I]n treating major depression, for example, omega-3s seem to work by making it easier for brain cell receptors to process mood-related signals from neighboring neurons."
    "The omega-3s found in fish oil are thought to be responsible for the significantly lower incidence of breast cancer in Japanese women as compared to women in the United States."
Walnuts are "New Drugs"

Because Diamond Food dared to let consumers know that natural substances in a natural food may offer some health benefits and protections, the FDA views this as a new drug. In their eyes, only FDA-approved drugs are capable of offering such protections ...
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Rheumatoid arthritis linked to irregular heartbeat and stroke


Hindustan Times
Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:24 UTC
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Arthritis sufferers have 40 percent higher risk of developing erratic heartbeat which can trigger heart attacks and death, warn researchers. The researchers believe the inflammation of joints in arthritis may cause irregular heartbeat, known as atrial fibrillation, besides formation of blood clots and stroke.

Rheumatoid arthritis tends to strike between the ages of 40 and 70 years and is more common amongst women than men. It is the result of the immune system attacking cells lining the joints, making them swollen, stiff and very painful, reported online journal BMJ.com.

Copenhagen University scientists studied more than four million people of whom 18,250 had rheumatoid arthritis over a period of five years, and found those afflicted were 40 percent at higher risk of atrial fibrillation and 30 percent higher risk of strokes than the general public.

Comment: SOTT recommends a high-fat, animal-based Paleo diet to heal arthritis, inflammation and other autoimmune diseases. Also, see the following articles for more information:

You've Been Living A Lie: The Story Of Saturated Fat And Cholesterol

The Big Lie: "Saturated Fats Are Bad For You"

Wrongly Convicted? The Case for Saturated Fat

Higher saturated fat intakes found to be associated with a reduced risk of dying from cardiovascular disease

Saturated Fat is Good for You

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Pain Killers Carry Risks For Veterans With Post-Traumatic Stress

James Dao
New York Times
Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:36 UTC
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Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder are more likely to be prescribed opioid pain killers than other veterans with pain problems and more likely to use the opioids in risky ways, according to a study published Wednesday by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, also found that veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who were prescribed opioids for pain - and particularly those with post-traumatic stress disorder - had a higher prevalence of "adverse clinical outcomes," like overdoses, self-inflicted injuries and injuries caused by accidents or fighting.

The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense have for years been trying to reduce the use of opioid pain therapy among active duty troops and veterans amid reports of over-medication, addiction, rampant drug abuse and accidental deaths caused by overdoses or toxic mixing of medications.
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Solar flare: The sun touches our psyche

Jacqueline Marshall
Washington Times Online
Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:48 UTC
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Washington: Maybe it is time to wear tin foil on our heads. With high electromagnetic activity from the sun coming this way, our human electromagnetic fields may start glowing.

Even if we do not begin incandescing, scientists have noticed correlations between solar flares and moods.

Solar Effects

From 1948 to 1997, the Institute of North Industrial Ecology Problems in Russia found that geomagnetic activity showed three seasonal peaks each of those years (March to May, in July, and in October). Every peak matched an increased incidence of anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and suicide in the city Kirovsk.

One explanation for the correlation is that solar storms desynchronize our circadian rhythm (biological clock). The pineal gland in our brain is affected by the electromagnetic activity.

This causes the gland to produce excess melatonin, and melatonin is the brain's built in "downer" that helps us sleep.

"The circadian regulatory system depends on repeated environmental cues to [synchronize] internal clocks," says psychiatrist Kelly Posner, Columbia University. "Magnetic fields may be one of these environmental cues."
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Avoid Any Products Containing Aborted Fetal Cells

Dave Mihalovic
Prevent Disease
Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:41 UTC
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Many opposing viewpoints have been raised on the morality of using consumer products which are cultivated on aborted fetal cell lines. Regardless of your position on abortion, the fact that there is an entire industry around the manufacture of foods, beverages and medical products which routinely utilize aborted fetal tissue should be a cause for great concern.

There has always been a great deal of excitement within the medical community regarding the use of fetal tissue for transplantation and for the manufacture of vaccines.

Fetal tissue technology has evolved tremendously in the two decades especially in the area of treating various neural and endocrinal diseases.

However, serious ethical questions are being raised as to the source and procurement of the necessary tissue. While some experts in the medical community forecast unlimited potential for fetal tissue technology, others have expressed deep concern as to the limits to the ethical and moral dynamics of the issue. Where is the line drawn?
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Drug-Induced Birth Linked To C-Sections & Fetal Harm

Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo
Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:00 UTC
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A new study in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Gynaecology confirms what many who have undergone a hospital birth already know: the use of the labor-inducing drug pitocin (synthetic oxytocin) leads to great pain and suffering, including serious adverse, unintended health effects to both mother and infant.

The study looked at trends in oxytocin use for women in New South Wales noting an overall increase of oxytocin use from 10,291 (36.5%) of births in 1998 to 14,440 (45.4%) in 2008, and which was linked to the following outcomes:
  • Increased use of regional analgesia (65 vs. 22% control group*)
  • Increased use of instruments for delivery (21 to 18% control group*)
  • Increased use of Cesarean section (29 to 14% control group*)
    • *control group did not receive oxytocin
The researchers concluded that synthetic oxytocin use increased "severe" maternal and neonatal morbidity.
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The Dangerous Myths of Fukushima: Exposing the "No Harm" Mantra

Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman
Counterpunch
Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:06 UTC
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The myth that Fukushima radiation levels were too low to harm humans persists, a year after the meltdown. A March 2, 2012 New York Times article quoted Vanderbilt University professor John Boice: "there's no opportunity for conducting epidemiological studies that have any chance for success - the doses are just too low." Wolfgang Weiss of the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation also recently said doses observed in screening of Japanese people "are very low."

Views like these are political, not scientific, virtually identical to what the nuclear industry cheerleaders claim. Nuclear Energy Institute spokesperson Tony Pietrangelo issued a statement in June that "no health effects are expected among the Japanese people as a result of the events at Fukushima."

In their haste to choke off all consideration of harm from Fukushima radiation, nuclear plant owners and their willing dupes in the scientific community built a castle against invaders - those open-minded researchers who would first conduct objective research BEFORE rushing to judgment. The pro-nuclear chants of "no harm" and "no studies needed" are intended to be permanent, as part of damage control created by a dangerous technology that has produced yet another catastrophe.

But just one year after Fukushima, the "no harm" mantra is now being crowded by evidence - evidence to the contrary.
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