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Fluoridation is the Ultimate Deception

Hesh Goldstein
NaturalNews
Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:38 UTC
The following article is, in essence, my testimony delivered to the Hawaii Senate Health Committee in 2008. It contains facts that anyone can use to oppose water flouridation wherever you live. The good news is that once again we have been successful in keeping fluoride out of our water supply.

Here we go again. Let's take our pure and tasty drinking water, put a medication (fluoride) in it, make the people accept it and make believe we have Freedom of Choice in this country.

I would like to pose some hypothetical questions:

What would you do if you suddenly found out that fluoride was not "safe and effective" at all, but was actually a carcinogenic industrial waste?

What would you do if you learned that the sugar lobby's answer to cavity reduction is more fluoride rather than less sugar in the diet?
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Sleepless Brains Work Harder to Function As Well As Normal Ones

Paula Moyer
MedPage Today
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:30 UTC
In order to function as well as healthy sleepers given memory tests, people with insomnia need to fire up more neurons, researchers here said.

They compared working memory in 12 adults with chronic insomnia to working memory in nine healthy controls and found little difference in responses, except that functional MRI revealed a higher level of brain activation in the patients with insomnia, said Henry Orff, M.S., a doctoral student in psychology at the University of California San Diego, who reported the findings at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.

"On most high-order tasks, we're not seeing much difference," he said, noting that most studies simply measure whether the subject can perform the task, not how hard it was to perform the task. Studying brain activation can help show that difficulty, he said. "We find that it takes more neurophysiological effort to perform the same task."
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Eczema's Link to Asthma Uncovered


BBC News
Sun, 24 May 2009 23:39 UTC
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Eczema causes red itchy patches on the skin
Scientists believe they have found what triggers many children with eczema to go on to develop asthma.

The Public Library of Science Biology study points to a way to stop what is known as the "atopic march".

The US team at the Washington University School of Medicine showed that a substance made by the damaged skin triggered asthma symptoms in mice.

The same substance, thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP), is also produced in the lungs of asthma patients.
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The Perfect Pantomime

Aimee Liu
Ms. Magazine
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:11 UTC
What is our body telling us when we have an eating disorder?

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Let's say you cannot speak. You don't dare ask for help, but you can't resolve your problems alone. What do you do?

One strategy might be to act out your distress. You might go hungry, shaping your figure like an empty spoon, as hollow and lifeless as you feel. You might secretly stuff your body with food the way you've stuffed down fear and shame, and then violently purge, as if to get rid of those unspeakable emotions. Or you might just keep on eating more and more until the outside world seems to shrink by comparison, each new binge mimicking the onslaught of feelings too huge to contain within the mold of acceptable expectations.
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Flashback Hibiscus Tea May Cut Blood Pressure

Charlene Laino
WebMD
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:57 UTC
If you're worried about your blood pressure, you may want to follow the British custom of regularly "sipping a cuppa" -- tea, that is.

In a new study, drinking three cups of herbal tea containing hibiscus each day lowered blood pressure.
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Get Lean with Glutamine

Sylvia Anderson
Alternative Health Journal
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:49 UTC
Glutamine or L-Glutamine is an important amino acid produced naturally in your body. The most important function of glutamine is providing energy to your immune cells. In the absence of glutamine or when its levels drop, your immune system is the first to take a hit. Since it is important for your immune system, it plays an important role in recovery from stress, trauma and injury. Certain functions of glutamine make it especially important for athletes and body builders. Glutamine is essential for protein synthesis and fat loss. In the former case, it promotes anabolism (muscle building) and in the later it reduces the fat content of your body thus promoting lean muscle growth. Keep reading to find out the scientific benefits of glutamine.
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Pua Aloalo (Hibiscus) Health Benefits

Dan Sevigny
Alternative Health Journal
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:36 UTC
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The beautiful Hawaiian Hibiscus flower, Pua Aloalo has long been revered by the Hawaiian people.
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Dreams And Sleep Have Meaning

Tiffany Sharples
Time
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:24 UTC
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Dreams may not be the secret window into the frustrated desires of the unconscious that Sigmund Freud first posited in 1899, but growing evidence suggests that dreams - and, more so, sleep - are powerfully connected to the processing of human emotion.

According to new research presented last week at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies in Seattle, adequate sleep may underpin our ability to understand complex emotions properly in waking life. "Sleep essentially is resetting the magnetic north of your emotional compass," says Matthew Walker, director of the Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab at the University of California, Berkeley.

A recent study by Walker and his colleagues examined how rest - specifically, rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep - influences our ability to read emotions in other people's faces. In the small analysis of 36 adults, volunteers were asked to interpret the facial expressions of people in photographs, either following a 60- or 90-minute nap during the day or with no nap. Participants who had reached REM sleep (when dreaming most frequently occurs) during their nap were better able to identify expressions of positive emotions such as happiness in other people, compared with participants who did not achieve REM sleep or did not nap at all. Those volunteers were more sensitive to negative expressions, including anger and fear.
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Neutralising the toxicity of vaccines

Jagannath Chatterjee
The New Nation
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:30 UTC
I have been corresponding with the Union Health Minister and his department on this subject since 2006. Neither the Minister nor the Ministry have any answer to these points.. Even when Dr Abdul Kalam, then President, raised the subject based on my inputs there was no sincere attempt to clarify the position. I have since then continuously educated the doctors on the subject. I have also written to the current President, Vice President, PM, Sonia, the NHRC, NCPCR, CM's of various states, MP's of various political parties and all the medical institutions I can think of. I have also written to the WHO, GAVI, UNICEF & PATH, premier institutions that promote this highly controversial medical intervention . You will agree that there should be a public debate on vaccines, otherwise the unfortunate children do not stand a chance.
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Flashback Arsenic in Contaminated Water Increases Susceptibility to H1N1 Influenza

S. L. Baker
Natural News
Thu, 21 May 2009 13:00 UTC
Not everyone who is exposed to an infectious disease, even the widely-feared new "swine" flu (H1N1), gets sick. And many people who do come down with the flu or another illness get over it without much trouble. While a lot of factors can be at work, from good nutrition to physical fitness, a new study suggests an all-too-common toxin in the water you drink could play a role in whether an H1N1 infection makes you seriously ill.

According to scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and Dartmouth Medical School, the ability to mount an immune response to H1NI infection, a form of influenza A, can be significantly compromised by even low levels of arsenic exposure that commonly occur through drinking contaminated well water.

Respiratory infections with influenza A virus are a worldwide health problem and kill about 36,000 people each year according to the CDC. The recent outbreak of a type of influenza A known as H1N1, or "swine flu", has killed over 70 Mexicans so far and at least six Americans. The fact that Mexico has large areas of very high arsenic in well water -- and these include the locations where H1N1 first appeared -- intrigued the MBL and Dartmouth research team.
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