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Los Angeles Times Reports on Patients Eliminating Diabetes Medication Through Diet and Exercise

David Gutierrez
Natural News
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00 UTC
The Los Angeles Times has run an article highlighting the cases of five people, including television star Larry Hagman of Dallas, who have successfully cut out the use of insulin and other diabetes drugs through improvements in their diet and exercise habits.

"Don't underestimate the body's potential to heal on its own," said John Burgess. One of the featured patients, Burgess originally was able to control his diabetes with just diet and exercise, but eventually resorted to drugs. The medication caused him to gain more than 50 pounds in three months, and eventually he found himself taking five daily injections of the strongest insulin on the market.
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Organic: What it means on different products

Julie Deardorff
Los Angeles Times
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:00 UTC
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You see the word more and more, but what does it say about what it's on? Here are tips for fruits and vegetables, dairy and meat, cosmetics, processed foods and cotton and coffee.

Some consumers are more than willing to pay higher prices for organically grown food and other products. But is the extra dollar worth it? The answer may depend upon personal priorities.

By definition, organically grown foods are produced without most conventional pesticides, fertilizers made with synthetic ingredients or sewage sludge. Livestock aren't given antibiotics or growth hormones. And organic farmers emphasize renewable resources and conservation of soil and water.
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Junk food addiction may be clue to obesity: study

JoAnne Allen
Reuters
Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:41 UTC
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Bingeing on high-calorie foods may be as addictive as cocaine or nicotine, and could cause compulsive eating and obesity, according to a study published on Sunday.

The findings in a study of animals cannot be directly applied to human obesity, but may help in understanding the condition and in developing therapies to treat it, researchers wrote in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

The study, involving rats, found that overconsumption of high-calorie food can trigger addiction-like responses in the brain and that high-calorie food can turn rats into compulsive eaters in a laboratory setting, the article said.
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Healing Your Gastrointestinal Tract


Psychology Today
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:24 UTC
Inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are on the rise in United States as well as in other developed nations. What we know is that two of the most profound influences on gut integrity are poor diet, and the increased use of antibiotics.

Antibiotics do a very good job of wiping out bad bacteria, but also wipe out the beneficial bacteria critical to the health and functioning of the GI tract. A poor diet full of antinutrients such as sugars, empty calories, trans fats, and food toxins such as pesticides, herbicides, artificial ingredients, additives and allergens contribute to the disease process.

Comment: For more information about the importance of detoxing and creating better health and wellness read the following threads on the forum:

Important threads for Diet and Health

Detoxification: Heavy Metals, Mercury and how to get rid of them

Anti-Candida, Inflammation, Heavy Metals Detox and Diet

Detoxify or Die Cookbook

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Researchers Discover Papaya is Effective Against Breast, Pancreas and Other Cancers

S. L. Baker
NaturalNews
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00 UTC
Originally native to southern Mexico and now cultivated in many tropical countries (including Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Vietnam and Sri Lanka), the papaya plant has been touted by traditional healers for centuries as a source of powerful medicine. Not only is papaya fruit delicious and loaded with vitamins and phytochemicals, but other parts of the plant have been used historically to treat health problems, too.

Now, University of Florida (UF) researcher Dr. Nam Dang and his colleagues in Japan have announced new evidence that the papaya fights cancer cells. In fact, they discovered that an extract made from dried papaya leaves produced a dramatic anti-cancer effect against a broad range of tumors grown in the laboratory -- including cancers of the cervix, breast, liver, lung and pancreas.

The study, recently published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, not only showed that papaya has a direct anti-tumor effect on a variety of malignancies, but it also documented for the first time that papaya leaf extract increases the production of key signaling molecules called Th1-type cytokines. That's important because this regulation of the immune system raises the strong possibility that the use of papaya could help the body's own immune system to overcome cancers. In addition, it suggests papaya could be helpful in treating or preventing other health problems such as inflammation and autoimmune diseases.
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Vitamin B3 Beats Big Pharma's Zetia Cholesterol Drug

Mike Adams
NaturalNews
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00 UTC
The utter worthlessness of Big Pharma's cholesterol drugs was demonstrated recently by a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine which showed that niacin (a low-cost B vitamin) out-performs Merck's drug Zetia for preventing the build-up of arterial plaque, a symptom of cardiovascular disease.

As the study reveals, Zetia failed miserably. Patients taking niacin showed a "significant shrinkage" in artery wall thickness, while those on Zetia showed no such improvement. At the same time, the rate of "cardiovascular events" in the niacin group was only one-fifth that in the Zetia group, demonstrating that niacin is far more effective at preventing heart attacks and other similar events than Zetia.

But curiously, as soon as niacin started to show a real benefit over Zetia, researchers canceled the study. The premature ending of the clinical trial stopped the process by which even more useful information about the benefits of niacin might have been learned.
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Pharma Planning to Dump Experimental and Controversial Vaccines in Public Schools

Jeffry John Aufderheide
Natural News
Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:14 UTC
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The golden calf of public health was smashed in this recent flu season as many in the United States outright rejected the H1N1 vaccine. Pharmaceutical companies are now holding the bag, as millions of doses of the vaccine are rotting on shelves or being discarded as hazardous waste. Or are they? The manufacturer may find it more cost effective to dump them into the arms of our public school systems.

Parents would revolt if they knew that the pharmaceutical industry, the Department of Health and Human Services, and Centers for Disease Control have allocated millions of dollars in funding to establish vaccine clinics in the public schools. Pumping children with experimental vaccines in public school is about to be pursued as a matter of policy.
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New Law May Slow Cell Phone Cancer Epidemic


Dr. Mercola
Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:40 UTC
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Supporters of a Maine bill which would require cell phone manufacturers to put warning labels on mobile phones say that ignoring the health risks of heavy cell phone use invites a cancer epidemic.

David Carpenter, director of the Institute for Health and Environment at the University of Albany, argued, "We can do nothing and wait for the body count."

The bill would make Maine the first state to mandate warnings that cell phones can cause brain cancer, especially among children.

Sources:

Google News March 3, 2010
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Our Obsession With Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities and Our Health

Annie Leonard
Alternet
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:50 UTC
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A new book questioning our consumerism says we spend more on shoes and jewelry than higher education; more on ocean cruises than providing drinking water for all.

The following is an excerpt from The Story Of Stuff: How Our Obsession With Stuff Is Trashing The Planet, Our Communities, And Our Health - And A Vision For Change by Annie Leonard. (Excerpted with permission by Free Press, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Copyright © 2010 by Annie Leonard.)
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Wi-Fi Anxiety: Man Sues Neighbor to Shut Off Electronics

Michael Haederle
The Los Angeles Times
Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:00 UTC
Santa Fe, New Mexico - The Santa Fe plaintiff claims to suffer from 'electromagnetic sensitivities' set off by cellphones, routers and other electronic devices.

Arthur Firstenberg, who says he is hypersensitive to certain frequencies of electromagnetic radiation, saw the house at the end of a narrow lane as a refuge from physical and neurological symptoms that have plagued him for three decades.

"It's been difficult because of my electromagnetic sensitivities," he said. "I had a lot of difficulty finding a house that I could be comfortable in."

So in September 2008, he bought the home on Barela Street, a few blocks from the newly redeveloped downtown rail yard here.

Comment: This is not "psychological in origin":

Warning: Your Cell Phone and Wi-Fi Are Hazardous to Your Health

Electro-sensitivity, EMF and WIFI - one woman's saga

Is 'Electrosmog' Harming Our Health?

Just because you don't feel the effects of microwave radiation, doesn't mean you're not being fried!

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