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Reaffirmed: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Should Be Standard Treatment for Veterans


Alliance for Natural Health
Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:00 UTC
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So why does the government keep blocking its use?

Research from health pioneer (and former ANH-USA board member) Dr. Paul G. Harch published in the Journal of Neurotrauma indicates that hyperbaric oxygen therapy, or HBOT, is able to dramatically help veterans with post-concussion syndrome (a form of traumatic brain injury) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Dr. Harch is an associate clinical professor of medicine at Louisiana State University in New Orleans.

Since January 2007, ANH-USA has been bringing attention to a project to have veterans treated with HBOT. In HBOT, the patient is put in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, which saturates the tissues with twelve times more oxygen than can be absorbed by breathing. This greatly enhances the body's own healing process.

Under normal circumstances, oxygen is transported throughout the body only by red blood cells. With HBOT, oxygen is dissolved into all of the body's fluids, the plasma, the central nervous system fluids, the lymph, and the bone, and can be carried to areas where circulation is diminished or blocked. In this way, extra oxygen can reach all of the damaged tissues and the body can support its own healing process. The increased oxygen greatly enhances the ability of white blood cells to kill bacteria, reduces swelling, and allows new blood vessels to grow more rapidly into the affected areas. It is a simple, non-invasive, and painless treatment.
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US: FDA Violates Federal Law


Alliance for Natural Health
Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:29 UTC
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Bolstered by a massive outpouring of support from you, we are asking the agency to withdraw its New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) draft guidance completely!

The period for comments to the FDA on the draft guidance on NDI notifications closed on December 2. Along with the hundreds of thousands of messages you sent and the 20,000 phone calls you made to FDA and Congress, ANH-USA also submitted formal comments.

The problem with the FDA's draft guidance on New Dietary Ingredients is that it allows FDA to arbitrarily deny the sale of any supplement created (or modified) in the past seventeen years. If you're a supplement manufacturer or distributor or possibly even a health food store, and you don't file a NDI "notification" (actually a request for approval) for each ingredient in each product developed since 1994 in just the way prescribed by the FDA, and the court later decides the FDA is right, then you are guilty of product "adulteration," which is punishable by prison. With your favorite supplements off the market, it also would allow the drug industry to adapt and patent them, and sell them back to you - by doctor's prescription only - for 10 or 100 (or even more) times what you're paying now.

Our comments, drafted by acclaimed attorney Jonathan Emord on our behalf, show that the FDA is engaged in substantive new rulemaking, in violation of the federal Administrative Procedure Act (APA). "The APA says if an agency's action is legislative in nature, that's rulemaking," explained Emord. "The guidance distorts the plain language of the laws that govern supplements. FDA needs to comply with the APA's formal rulemaking requirements, not issue unilateral guidance as a deceptive means of creating new rules."

Comment: With all Big Pharma is capable of getting away with in their pushing of Chemicals onto the public, you'd think they (Big Pharma) would have to "show at least "25 years of widespread use" in order it to meet the "history of safety" standard in NDI (New Dietary Ingredient) notification." Instead as many as 100,000+ jobs could be lost or put at risk while Big Pharma gets to do as it pleases (drug tests that have major adverse effects). Shouldn't Dietary companies and Pharmaceutical companies be regulated in the same way?

Is there a connection between Government, the FDA and Big Pharmaceutical Companies? Perhaps an answer can be found here (@ 4:40):



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Health

Gluten Sensitivity and Rheumatoid Arthritis - Is There A Connection?

DR. Peter Osborne
Gluten Free Society
Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:07 UTC
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Does Celiac Disease Mimic RA?

A recent study finds a strong correlation between rheumatoid arthritis and celiac disease. The findings of the research state that patients with a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis may be misdiagnosed and may actually have a form of polyarthritis caused by gluten. The authors of the research paper state:
CONCLUSIONS:

It is possible that CD may be the correct diagnosis in a patient with polyarthritis, even if the patient meets the ACR criteria for RA. In other words, CD should be considered among the differential diagnoses in a patient with poly-arthritis.
Research Source:

Reumatol Clin. 2011 Jan-Feb;7(1):27-9. Epub 2010 Jun 23.
[Anti-transglutaminase, antigladin and ultra purified anti-gladin antibodies in patients with a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis].
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Pills

Canada: Two kinds of the pill raise blood clot risk more than others

Helen Branswell
The Canadian Press
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00 UTC
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Health Canada has asked drug giant Bayer to change the labels on two popular brands of birth control pills after it concluded use of the medications is linked to higher rates of blood clots than seen with older brands of the pill.

The move comes as the drugs are about to undergo scrutiny from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration because of studies that suggest the drugs are associated with higher rates of blood clots among users.

The drugs - sold as Yasmin and Yaz - were heavily promoted as having fewer side-effects than older birth control brands as well as for their ability to clear up acne and other hormonal concerns.

Health Canada began the review earlier in the year after the British medical journal BMJ published studies that raised safety concerns about birth control formulations that contain the drug drospirenone. Yasmin and Yaz are the only oral contraceptives containing drospirenone that are sold in Canada.
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Question

Could Your Hair Dye Kill You?

Sali Hughes
The Guardian, UK
Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:30 UTC
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Recent severe reactions to hair colouring have prompted the question: why is the likely culprit - PPD - still being used, when it's banned in makeup

A 38-year-old woman from Keighley, West Yorkshire was in a coma last week following a suspected allergic reaction to a home hair dye. Doctors have given Julie McCabe, who coloured her hair with L'Oréal Preference colourant three weeks ago, an 8% chance of survival with little chance of a full recovery.

McCabe's case is the latest in a series of recent news reports linking the use of hair colourant to serious anaphylactic reactions. Anaphalactic reactions can be fatal. Less than a month ago, teenager Tabatha McCourt collapsed and died following what is believed to be an extreme reaction to a home hair dye kit she'd used just 20 minutes before.

The chemical culprit is widely believed to be p-Phenylenediamine (PPD), an organic compound used in over 99% of all permanent hair dyes, as well as in a variety of other applications, such as permanent makeup, black clothing and even newsprint (it is illegal in all other cosmetic products, so black eyeliners, mascaras and so on, are always PPD free). A known irritant, PPD allergies have the potential to affect 1.5% of the population.
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Chess

Case Study in Corporatocracy: Monsanto, Big Pharma, and the FDA Used Key Players to Approve rBGH

Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:31 UTC
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In several past articles, I have discussed the production of rBGH, its dangers to human health, and its direct relation to animal cruelty. In addition, the process by which rBGH came to be approved deserves some discussion as well. However, it is first important to name some of the major players involved in the approval process and, in particular, their blatant conflicts of interest.

The approval of rBGH by the United States was yet another prime example of the revolving door between Monsanto, Big Pharma, and the FDA. In fact, the obvious conflict of interest among many of the FDA's employees who were involved in the approval process actually prompted a GAO investigation in 1994.

One of the employees, Michael Taylor, began his career in 1976 with the FDA as an attorney. In 1981, he left the agency and took up a position with the law firm King & Spalding where one of his clients was Monsanto.[1]
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Evil Rays

TSA Attempts to Cover Up Cancer Threat From Its Airport X-ray Machines


Alliance for Natural Health
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:18 UTC
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Forget the embarrassment of your private parts being seen by strangers. The scanners can cause cance r- and TSA is trying to keep you from knowing about it.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) uses two types of body scanners. The backscatter machines are of particular concern because these X-ray scanners emit low levels of radiation and can cause cancer. The European Union has even put a moratorium on the scanners in light of the cancer threats - member states have been told not to install scanners until scientific assessment of risks has been carried out, and they will be banned completely in April if experts find them dangerous - but the US has so far swept the safety issues under the carpet.

According to a ProPublica/PBS NewsHour investigation, up to 100 US airplane passengers could get cancer from the machines each year. As reported by Natural News over a year ago, some noted scientists think that the risk is actually far higher than this because of the particular way that these machines operate, and they wrote TSA with their concerns. They described how the majority of the machine's energy is delivered to the skin and the underlying tissue - not distributed throughout the volume of the entire body - so the dose to the skin may be dangerously high. This means that the ionizing radiation from the naked body scanners may pose a much higher risk of cancer than one might be assumed from the total radiation emissions, an observation that has so far been totally ignored.
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Pills

Flashback Medical Prostitution: How Corrupted Drug Companies Deceive and Manipulate Your Doctor

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00 UTC

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Health

Why Eating Animals Makes Everything Easier

Mark Sisson
Mark's Daily Apple
Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:46 UTC
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Last time, I broke down the faulty Carb Paradigm we live in.

In case you need one, here's a quick refresher:

Overweight people with faulty carbohydrate metabolisms are told (by doctors, by government officials, by dietitians) to eat more carbohydrates and less fat.

They do it (carb consumption as a percentage of total caloric intake has increased in line with the obesity epidemic, moreso than either fat or protein). They eat carbs and reduce fat intake.

Because their insulin-resistant bodies can't handle carbs well, they produce lots of insulin to get over the hump. Only problem? Those carbs aren't sequestered into insulin-sensitive muscle glycogen stores as energy, because the muscle is insulin-resistant. Meanwhile, the excessive insulin prevents the burning of fat, and any extra fat and carbs from the meal are instead sequestered into fat cells. People get fatter.

Since the food isn't being used and is instead being stored away for later use, the body thinks it's starving and gets hungrier as a result. People eat more carbs.

The cycle continues uninterrupted.

But no more. It stops here. I think it's time we shift toward a new paradigm. It's actually a rather old, classic paradigm that's been forgotten - but it's still as valid as ever.
It's time for the Fat Paradigm. It's time to start burning fat as fuel. It's time to move away from sugar burning.
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Evil Rays

Radiation From Cell Phones and WiFi Are Making People Sick -- Are We All at Risk?

Christopher Ketcham
AlterNet
Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:32 UTC
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We are now exposed to electromagnetic radio frequencies 24 hours a day. Welcome to the largest human experiment ever.

Consider this story: It's January 1990, during the pioneer build-out of mobile phone service. A cell tower goes up 800 feet from the house of Alison Rall, in Mansfield, Ohio, where she and her husband run a 160-acre dairy farm. The first thing the Rall family notices is that the ducks on their land lay eggs that don't hatch. That spring there are no ducklings.

By the fall of 1990, the cattle herd that pastures near the tower is sick. The animals are thin, their ribs are showing, their coats growing rough, and their behavior is weird -- they're agitated, nervous. Soon the cows are miscarrying, and so are the goats. Many of the animals that gestate are born deformed. There are goats with webbed necks, goats with front legs shorter than their rear legs. One calf in the womb has a tumor the size of a basketball, another carries a tumor three feet in diameter, big enough that he won't pass through the birth canal. Rall and the local veterinarian finally cut open the mother to get the creature out alive. The vet records the nightmare in her log: "I've never seen anything like this in my entire practice... All of [this] I feel was a result of the cellular tower."
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