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City Cyclists Breathe In More Black Soot

Remy Melina
MyHealthNewsDaily
Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:47 UTC
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© Alexandru Marinescu | DreamstimeCyclists were found to have 2.3 times more black carbon in their lungs than pedestrians, according to the study.

Biking to work is usually seen as a healthy choice, but a new study shows that it may have a downside. City dwellers who cycle to work had higher levels of black carbon in their lungs.

Created by the combustion of fossil fuels, black carbon is present in car exhaust fumes. Pedestrians breathe in these miniscule particles of soot, but bikers inhale even more because they are closer to the fumes and take deeper breaths, according to the study.

Previous research has shown that black carbon is associated with a wide range of health effects, including reduced lung function and a higher risk of respiratory diseases and heart attacks.

Researchers from the University of London collected lung cell samples from 10 urban commuters - five who walked to work and five who cycled. All the participants were healthy nonsmokers between the ages of 18 and 40.
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Get Saturated: Four Reasons Saturated Fat is Healthy

Elizabeth Walling
Natural News
Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:06 UTC
Today we are caught between two philosophies: one says saturated fat is killing us; the other says these fats are necessary for true vitality. There is a heated back-and-forth, a constant tug-of-war scenario, with society caught in the middle like a child caught between two parents in a nasty divorce.

But fortunately, we are adults who can take a step back from the madness and look at the facts - all of the facts - before coming to our own conclusions. The trouble is finding anything but propaganda regarding saturated fats. Corporate food industry and government agencies are quick to demonize these fats, but in traditional cultures saturated fat was revered and even coveted as a source of vital energy.

Mankind has survived for century upon century thanks to saturated fats, depending on these fats to nourish our bodies and support the health of future generations. Only in recent decades have we turned away from natural fats and toward manufactured vegetable oils. And only in recent decades have we seen an explosion of degenerative conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Here are four important reasons saturated fat should have its place at the table.

Comment: To learn more about WHY Saturated Fat is Good for You read the following articles:

Enjoy Saturated Fats, They're Good for You!
Why Humans Crave Fat
Wrongly Convicted? The Case for Saturated Fat
Latest Research Debunks The Saturated Fat Diet Myths
You've Been Living A Lie: The Story Of Saturated Fat And Cholesterol
A Big Fat Mistake

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10 Reasons Why I Love Butter


livingthenourishedlife.com
Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:45 UTC
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How do I love thee, butter? Oh, let me count the ways...

1. Butter is real.

I love food that doesn't need an ingredient list. And butter is as simple as it comes: cream. That's it. No hydrogenation necessary, no flavor additives, no preservatives. Just my style.

2. It's delicious.

When it comes down to it, healthy food should taste amazing. And butter definitely fits that bill. Who doesn't like butter? Granted, I'm sure there are some folks out there who don't... but I've yet to meet one personally. Not only does real butter taste a million times better than any "buttery" spread out there, it also makes other food taste great too!

My number one cooking tip? Use real butter. Everything you make will taste better.
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The Invisible Illness

Julie Beun
Vancouver Sun
Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:31 UTC
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© Wayne Cuddington, Ottawa CitizenShelley Schellin suffers from myalgic encephalomyelitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME), which is so severe that it literally takes a day to recover from an hour of grocery shopping.
For 18 hours a day, Shelley Schellin waits.

She waits to have enough energy to get out of bed. She waits for her body to stop aching enough to get dressed. She waits for friends to stop by and keep her company during her long, lonely days. But mostly, she waits to restart the life that was stolen from her nine years ago.

But after nearly a decade of suffering from myalgic encephalomyelitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME), so severe that it literally takes a day to recover from an hour of grocery shopping, the life of the strong, vibrant woman who was preparing for a career in natural medicine is now a stone-cold memory.

"It was a busy, hopeful life," recalls Schellin, 42. "I had a small, close circle of friends. I worked, traveled, did normal activities. I loved going to craft shows and taking evening courses. I would go out for dinner with friends and visit my family outside of the city. Now, life is dramatically different. My dreams and goals are gone."
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Fruits, Vegetables, Biomarkers, and Just How Sneaky Can Plants Be...

Jamie Scott
thatpaleoguy.blogspot.com
Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:53 UTC
In the conventional nutrition world, the answer to seemingly every nutritional ill is to eat more fruitsandvegatables (written as one word as they are communicated as effectively being the same thing and having the same health properties), whilst decreasing your intake of red meat and its associated animal fat (which if you have too much of it, will rot your gut, give you diabetes, block your arteries, and before all that takes place, you'll grow horns and be insatiably randy...). It was only recently that one of New Zealand's most vociferous obesity campaigners, Robin Toomath, was lamenting the losing battle she has been fighting and claimed reduced taxes and/or subsidies on fruits and vegetables (alongside fat taxes) were part of the answer.

I remember debates from the early 2000's over whether the common 5+ serves of fruits and vegetables per day were enough. Perhaps it needed to be seven... or nine? And food companies, in their propaganda marketing like to suggest that you can consume whatever brand of syrup they are pedaling as long as you a) do plenty of exercise and b) eat plenty of fruitsandvegetables, thereby making the syrup part of your balanced lifestyle.
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UK: Cancer drug trial halted for being too successful

Edward Malnick
Telegraph.co.uk
Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:59 UTC
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A London hospital's trial of a prostate cancer drug has been stopped early because it was so successful doctors felt it would be "unethical" to deny the treatment to other patients.

Medics halted tests of the life-extending drug because it would have been "unethical" not to offer the treatment to all 922 cancer sufferers taking part in the trial.

Patients who were given the drug found that it eased pain and caused only minor side effects.

The new drug accurately targets tumours using alpha radiation, which doctors conducting the study said is the most effective form of radiation to eliminate cancer because it limits damage to surrounding tissue.

Dr Chris Parker, lead researcher on the project at the Royal Marsden Hospital, said: "It's more damaging. It takes one, two, three hits to kill a cancer cell compared with thousands of hits for beta particles."
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Almost 10,000 people infected with dengue fever in Pakistan


RIA Novosti
Sun, 25 Sep 2011 03:40 UTC
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© AFP/ Arif AliAlmost 10,000 people infected with dengue fever in Pakistan
A team of World Health Organization (WHO) is arriving on Sunday in Pakistan to help cope with dengue fever that has affected almost 10,000 people in the country, the Pakistani news agency INN reported, referring to official sources.

In recent weeks, dengue fever has rapidly spread across Pakistan but the country's north-eastern Punjab province has been the worst hit by the virus, with over 8,700 infections registered in the provincial capital Lahore.

Dengue fever has already claimed 104 lives in Pakistan.

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© AFP/ Arif AliAlmost 10,000 people infected with dengue fever in Pakistan
The WHO team will give suggestions to contain and eradicate the outbreak of dengue fever and will also provide health tips to medical practitioners for the treatment of the dengue virus. The experts will also visit the affected areas, INN reported.
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Surgeons Won't Have to Make Sure a Heart has Stopped Beating Before Harvesting Organs


The Daily Mail
Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:57 UTC
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Rush for organs: Surgeons would not have to wait to see if a donor's heart starts beating again before harvesting organs if new proposals go ahead
Surgeons retrieving organs to be transplanted just after a patient's heart has stopped beating will no longer have to wait to make sure it doesn't start up again if new proposals are adopted.

At present when doctors are retrieving organs they have to wait at least two minutes to ensure it doesn't spontaneously start again.

Critics now fear seriously ill patients could be viewed more like tissue banks than sick people if the plans to change rules about organ donation go ahead.
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California, US: Mysterious Rash Cause Eludes Officials

Stacie Chan
Redwood City Patch
Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:22 UTC
The district has been following health procedures; Clifford Elementary parents want more communication.

After doctors' reports, entomologist visits, specialized dogs sniffing for bedbugs and a thorough cleaning and disinfection of Clifford Elementary School, district officials still cannot identify the cause of what sent home dozens of kindergartners a week ago with a rash that highly resembled multiple bug bites.

Last Wednesday on Sept. 14, school officials called the district with reports of eight children with bug bites, and the number escalated to 30-35 the following day, according to district spokeswoman Naomi Hunter.

"It looked like my son rolled around in a flea's nest," said kindergarten parent Niki Kolokithas of the dozens of bites that covered her son's torso and arms.

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© Redwood City School District Students met with "Curly" the bedbug sniffing dog and learned how he performed his duties.
"We've never seen anything like this," said Don Diaz of the Redwood City School District's Facilities and Maintenance Department. "We've always been able to identify the bug and do the proper protocol."
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New Vaccine Revelation - The Neurotoxin Far Worse than Mercury..Aluminum

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:32 UTC

When it comes to vaccine safety, much of the talk about toxic ingredients focuses on thimerosal (contains mercury) that is added to killed (inactivated) vaccines as a preservative. But vaccines also contain adjuvants -- agents that stimulate your immune system to greatly increase immunologic response to the vaccine - and one of the most toxic is aluminum. Aluminum is a known neurotoxin that is contained in a number of common childhood and adult vaccines and may even exceed the toxicity of mercury in the human body.

According to a new study published in Current Medical Chemistry, children up to 6 months of age receive 14.7 to 49 times more aluminum from vaccines than the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) safety limits allow.
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