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Best of the Web: Chemotherapy Negatively Impacts Genetic Coding for Future Generations

Andre Evans
Natural Society
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:02 UTC
DNA
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Chemotherapy is an accepted method by the mainstream medical establishment as a means to fight against cancer, but its effectiveness and reliability is highly in question. Now, research even brings into question the effect chemotherapy has on your entire hereditary line, with researchers linking chemotherapy drug usage with DNA mutations that extend to your offspring.

You probably know somebody who has undergone some cancer treatment at one point or another. The effects of chemotherapy on the body are highly destructive, and often leave the cancer patient in a worse state than they were in before.

Unfortunately, using an unnatural chemical substance to effectively blast the cancer cells has the same effect on the healthy functioning cells as well. As a result, most chemotherapy patients are highly damaged by the process and sometimes sustain injuries that are irrevocable.

Three common drugs used for chemotherapy have been found to cause DNA mutations within the users. This is already highly dangerous, but according to new research, this damage may have the ability to pass into future generations. These findings shed light on the long term negative effects pharmaceuticals are having on our bodies. If the bodily effects were not enough to cope with, the use of these treatments may actually have a long term effect on the health of those to come afterward.
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Jeff Green Talks about Toxic Fluoride Sources in Food and Water

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:42 UTC
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Why You May Be Drinking Soda That Contains a Dangerous Flame Retardant Banned in Europe and Japan

Brett Israel
Alternet
Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:00 UTC
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Some soda drinkers may be getting a dose of a synthetic chemical called brominated vegetable oil, or BVO.

It's Monday night at the Battle & Brew, a gamer hangout in this Atlanta suburb. The crowd is slumping in chairs, ears entombed in headphones, eyes locked on flat-screen monitors and minds lost in tonight's video game of choice: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

To help stay alert all night, each man has an open can of "gamer fuel" inches from his keyboard. "I've seen some of these dudes plow through six sodas in six hours," said Brian Smawley, a regular at the gamer bar.

Gamers say they chug their fuel for the sugar and caffeine, but drinkers of Mountain Dew and some other citrus-flavored drinks are also getting a dose of a synthetic chemical called brominated vegetable oil, or BVO.

Patented by chemical companies as a flame retardant, and banned in food throughout Europe and Japan, BVO has been added to sodas for decades in North America. Now some scientists have a renewed interest in this little-known ingredient, found in 10 percent of sodas in the United States.
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Syringe

CDC Now Pushes Gardasil HPV Shot on All Boys 11 to 12

Anthony Gucciardi
Activist Post
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:00 UTC
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Will hundreds of more websites soon be popping up telling the tragic tales of young men whose lives were riddled with adverse effects after receiving the Gardasil vaccine? Based on the devastating history of the HPV shot Gardasil, the answer is most likely an unfortunate 'yes'.

Following the advice of an advisory panel who failed to examine the high number of adverse reactions and deaths associated with Gardasil use, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is now recommending that all boys between the ages of 11 and 12-years-old receive the Gardasil shot.

The advisory panel and the CDC both fail to mention that Gardasil was linked to 3,589 harmful reactions and 16 deaths between May 2009 and September 2010 alone, which could be of major concern to parents considering injecting their children with the shot. Permanent disability was the result of 213 cases; 25 resulted in the diagnosis of Guillain-Barre Syndrome; and there were 789 other "serious" reports according to FDA documents.

Comment: Additional information about the ongoing safety issues associated with the HPV/ Gardasil vaccine:

New Worries About Gardasil Safety

Time for the Truth about Gardasil
Merck only studied the Gardasil vaccine in fewer than 1,200 girls under 16 prior to it being released to the market under the fast-tracked road to licensure. To date, most of the serious side effects, including deaths, that occurred during the pre-licensure clinical trials and post marketing surveillance have been written off as a "coincidence" by Merck researchers and government health officials.

But it is becoming clear that these reactions are more than just coincidence; this vaccine appears to be one of the most dangerous on the market.
Gardasil HPV Vaccines Found Contaminated with Recombinant DNA

8 more deaths connected to HPV vaccine: Adverse reactions from Gardasil number in thousands
There also have been another 1,824 adverse reactions to the drug, bringing the "known total" of such problems to 3,461, according to the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption.

"In light of this information, it is disturbing that state and local governments might mandate in any way this vaccine for young girls," said Tom Fitton, the group's president. "These adverse reactions reports suggest the vaccine not only causes serious side effects, but might even be fatal."


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Schoolgirls' Mystery Illness: Mass Hysteria or Environmental Toxin?

Benjamin Radford
Life's Little Mysteries
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:30 UTC
Mystery Illness
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A bizarre illness has affected about a dozen students at a western New York high school and is making national news. During the first few months of the school year, the students - all girls except one, and mostly friends - began experiencing involuntary jerks and tics. Sometimes their limbs, neck or face would suddenly spasm; other times they would twitch, grunt or shout. It was strange and troubling behavior, made all the more scary because it had no clear cause.

The students at Le Roy High School, in Le Roy, a small town near Buffalo, were examined by school nurses and private doctors, officials from the Health Department, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Columbia University. None could find any biological basis for the symptoms. The school was thoroughly checked for mold, lead, carbon monoxide and other environmental contaminants; those tests also came back negative. All the experts came to the same conclusion - one that has not been well received by the afflicted students and their parents.

It has been widely described as a baffling mystery and unexplained puzzle, but for most doctors it's neither unexplained, nor mysterious. In fact, the students in the Le Roy case have all the classic symptoms of a well-known (but widely misunderstood) problem called conversion disorder, in which psychological symptoms are converted into physical conditions. Collectively it is known as mass sociogenic illness, or, more commonly, mass hysteria.
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Drug-Resistant Superbugs Found in 'Antibiotic-Free' Meat Products

Andre Evans
Activist Post
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:53 UTC
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Meat is a staple food in the diet of many across the world. Whether or not you chooses to eat meat, its widespread consumption is undeniable.

Many meat-eaters opt to purchase organic meat in order to avoid the cocktail of hormones, additives, and other unwanted ingredients that go along with conventional meat products.

Despite this, the many forms of meat products are largely contaminated and have their own host of issues - including 'antibiotic-free' meats, according to a new report.

Whether it be through the use of hormones on animals, the issue of genetically modified feed for animals, the feed itself being inferior quality, or the fact that the FDA allows the use of bacteria-eating viruses to clean meat, the global meat supply is in a dire state of contamination.
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Ambulance

Silver Bullet for Cancer: Metal can Kill Some Tumours Better than Chemotherapy with Fewer Side Effects

Anthony Bond
The Daily Mail, UK
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:00 UTC
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© AlamyGood news: Silver can kill some cancers as effectively as chemotherapy and with potentially fewer side effects, new research has claimed.
Silver can kill some cancers as effectively as chemotherapy and with potentially fewer side effects, new research claims.

Scientists say that old wives tales about the precious metal being a 'silver bullet' to beat the Big C could be true.

The metal already has a wide range of medicinal uses and is a common antiseptic, antibiotic and means of purifying water in the third world.

And British researchers now say that silver compounds are as effective at killing certain cancer cells as a leading chemotherapy drug, but with potentially far fewer side-effects.

They compared it to Cisplatin, currently used to treat a wide variety of cancers, but known to have harsh side effects including nausea, vomiting and even kidney damage.
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Alarm Clock

US: Tics and Toxins: Pesticide Ban, Rainfall Could Point to Poisonous Fungus as Factor in Student Outbreaks

Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill
Ageofautism.com
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:38 UTC
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LeRoy, New York - Last year, during the wettest spring ever recorded across large swaths of New York state, a little-noticed law took effect: As of May 18, pesticide use was banned from the grounds of every school in the state. That same month, a girl at the junior/senior high school here, and another at a high school near Albany, developed a mysterious tic disorder. The total number of cases in LeRoy has now risen to 15.

This convergence adds a new possibility to the list of suspects already being scrutinized in this picturesque Western New York village of 4,400, suspects that range from a 1970 train derailment that spewed toxic chemicals, to an autoimmune disorder called PANDAS, to leaks from gas wells on school grounds that may or may not have employed "fracking." The new possibility: Poisoning from a fungus that grows on a grass commonly planted on school grounds.

The fungus is called ergot, and it can grow when ryegrass - used on most athletic playing fields - sprouts a floweret that gets infected. That most often happens during wet spring months and on low-lying or marshy areas. (This photo was taken on school grounds last week.)
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Study: Child Abuse Affects More U.S. Kids Than SIDS

Bonnie Rochman
Time.com
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:18 UTC
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Parents are usually the perpetrators of abuse, largely because they are unprepared to deal with kids' crying. How a little education could help reverse the trend.

When it comes to child abuse, the first year of life is the most dangerous for children. Although SIDS, or sudden infant death syndrome, attracts far more attention, the rate of hospital admissions related to SIDS is actually lower than the rate of child abuse - 50 per 100,000 children under age 1 for SIDS, compared with 58.2 per 100,000 births, according to research published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

"These kids are physically vulnerable because they're small," says Dr. John M. Leventhal, lead author of the study and a professor of pediatrics at Yale Medical School. "They are challenging for some parents to take care of because they cry, it's hard to understand what they want and parents can get frustrated, exhausted and angry."
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Canada: Maple Leaf Foods Changes Misleading Product Labels


CBC News
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:13 UTC
Natural Selections line of meat contains preservative that may be linked to cancer


A number of food companies offer supposed health benefits that don't check out with nutrition and medical experts, including a product line from Maple Leaf Foods, a CBC Marketplace investigation has revealed.

Consumers are often interested in healthier alternatives - based largely on the packaging displayed in the grocery store - and are willing to pay extra for it.

Companies make reference to natural ingredients, the presence of vitamins or minerals and or the absence of substances that are linked to certain diseases.

Others suggest consumers will become smarter or healthier, including providing a nutritional or immunity boost, as a result of using the products.
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