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Breastfeeding benefits mom, baby and the environment: Formula's environmental impact

Dr. Tulsie N. Patel
ABC News
Mon, 14 Oct 2019 05:04 UTC
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Breastfeeding is not only good for mothers and their babies, but it also protects the environment according to an editorial in the British Medical Journal.

"It benefits all of society," Natalie Shenker, Ph.D., a research fellow at Imperial College, who was involved with the study, told ABC News.

"Breastfeeding does not require the energy needed to make and use formula. It doesn't create waste or air pollution," said Dr. Laura Teisch, a pediatrician from Las Vegas.

Formula produces significant waste during its production, distribution and use. "As with all products, infant formula has an environmental footprint," says Andrea Riepe, a representative for Reckitt Benckiser Group which has infant formula Enfamil in its product portfolio. The company works to minimize the waste associated with Enfamil, she added.

It's known that breastfeeding protects both women and children. However, recent studies have highlighted that breastfeeding is also good for the Earth. Supporting mothers to breastfeed more would reduce the same amount of carbon emissions as removing nearly 77,500 cars from the UK's roads each year, asserts the editorial's authors.
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Pensioners taking anti-depressants doubles in two decades, amid warnings they 'may not need them'

Lizzie Roberts
The Telegraph
Mon, 07 Oct 2019 06:14 UTC
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© Joe Giddens /PANumber of over-65s taking anti-depressants has doubled between the early 1990s and lates 2000s.
The number of over-65s taking anti-depressants has doubled in two decades, amid warnings the elderly are being given pills they don't need.

Charities have called the rise "alarming", and raised concerns that pills are frequently "doled out" when other "extremely effective" treatments are not being offered.

The increase is even more prominent among care home residents, with the number taking the medication four times higher over the period.

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Citizen researchers: fighting for truth about treatments

Jerome Burne
Health Insight UK
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:01 UTC
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Rufus Greenbaum, a retired electronics engineer, has what many might consider, a highly quixotic hobby. Every few months for the last 10 years he has been attending the semi-public meeting of the two big UK government organisations whose job it is to advise official bodies on such public health issues such as how much fat or carbohydrates we should be eating or what are the best treatments for conditions as varied as cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and macular degeneration.

He had made himself an expert on two nutritional supplements - omega 3 oil and vitamin D - since he considered that "adequate levels of both could help most people live 10 years longer in better health". Then once he had signed up as a stakeholder, he followed the standard procedure for getting advice changed when there is good, new evidence. The two organisations were SACN (Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition) and NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence). Since the UK government spends taxpayer money on the National Health Service, their findings are used to determine the sort of lifestyle treatment that clinicians can recommend across the UK.

So far, however, he has had no success at all. In 2008 when he started the recommended daily amount of vitamin D was 10mcgs or 400 IUs. It's still is. But he doesn't believe it has been a waste of time. He has become convinced by his experience that both of these organisations have such a biased and limited understanding of non-drug treatments and what they can contribute to our health, that they are "not fit for purpose" and he is planning to publicise how they work and to campaign for urgent reform.

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Slow walking at 45 'a sign of faster aging'

Philippa Roxby
BBC News
Sat, 12 Oct 2019 00:01 UTC
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© Getty ImagesSlow walkers have 'older' brains and bodies, the study found.
How fast people walk in their 40s is a sign of how much their brains, as well as their bodies, are ageing, scientists have suggested.

Using a simple test of gait speed, researchers were able to measure the ageing process.

Not only were slower walkers' bodies ageing more quickly - their faces looked older and they had smaller brains.

The international team said the findings were an "amazing surprise".

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Global pandemics: Do we escape to some island - or prepare right where we are

Sandra D. Lane
The Organic Prepper
Fri, 04 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
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Ever wonder, if your town or state was slammed with an epidemic, what you would do? Where you would go if you could even get out? What if the whole planet was affected by a global pandemic?

Remember that an epidemic affects, or tends to affect, a disproportionately large number of individuals within a population, community, or region at the same time, while a global pandemic is an epidemic of disease that's spread worldwide. I've personally noticed a lot of reports and articles lately on the likelihood of a very real possibility of a coming global pandemic. I take that to mean it's either just a new focus to the 'fad' of prepping or that more people are paying attention; hopefully the latter. In either case, it appears to be a very real, and close, threat.

Are there any safe places to go during a global pandemic?

In a recent article written by Matt Boyd and Nick Wilson and posted in Risk Analysis, the official journal for the Society of Risk Analysis, right up front you read that it's "suggested to rank island nations as potential refuges for ensuring long-term human survival in the face of catastrophic pandemics" or other possible threats. In fact, in the introduction of the article is the suggestion that the risk of human extinction is most likely rising and could be driven by factors like weapons of mass destruction, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology. Of course, we knew this already.

Comment: Perhaps just as important (if not more so) in mitigating the effects of any kind of pandemic would be to detoxify one's self of toxins and heavy metals, fortifying one's natural ability to fight pathogens by enhancing one's diet, getting enough sleep, getting vital nutrients, vitamins and minerals through supplementation, and avoiding vaccinations that quite usually lower our body's natural defenses.

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Nina Teicholz: The latest flip-flop on red meat uses best science in place of best guesses

Nina Teicholz
Los Angeles Times
Wed, 09 Oct 2019 04:00 UTC
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© William Thomas CainA review of red meat research published last week concluded that “low- or very-low certainty” evidence exists to link red meat consumption to any kind of disease. A file photo of a grocery store butcher’s case is pictured.
Eggs are bad; eggs are good. Fat is bad; fat is good. Meat is bad; meat is... OK?

That last food flip-flop made big headlines last week. It was a "remarkable turnabout," "jarring," "stunning." How, it was asked, could seemingly bedrock nutrition advice turn on a dime?

The answer is that many of the nation's official nutrition recommendations — including the idea that red meat is a killer — have been based on a type of weak science that experts have unfortunately become accustomed to relying upon. Now that iffy science is being questioned. At stake are deeply entrenched ideas about healthy eating and trustworthy nutrition guidelines, and with many scientists invested professionally, and even financially, in the status quo, the fight over the science won't be pretty.

Comment: Considering the dietary guidelines are built on lies (it's far too lenient to give them "best guesses") it's little wonder that actual science causes such an uproar. The truth hurts, especially when one is financially benefiting from lies.

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Inflammation may be main driver of autism, find scientists

Mary Kekatos
Daily Mail
Wed, 09 Oct 2019 05:08 UTC
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A new study led by Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts, has found that high numbers of an inflammatory protein are found in the brains of children with autism spectrum disorder.
Inflammation may be main driver behind autism, a new study suggests.

Researchers compared the brains of eight children with the developmental disorder and eight children without it.

They found the parts of the autistic children's brains that are crucial to working memory and attention - areas that are impaired in people who have autism - had unusually high levels of a molecule known to trigger inflammation.

Comment: Immune dysfunction and brain inflammation... now what could cause something like that in children?

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Woman who used laptop on lap gets tumor in leg - coincidence or toxic electromagnetic radiation?

B.N. Frank
Activist Post
Mon, 07 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
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The Telecom Industry has been warning their investors about liability from their devices and transmitters for many years - but not the public. This still seems to be okay with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) (see 1, 2, 3, 4), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and many elected officials despite the peer-reviewed and published research confirming that exposure to all sources of Electromagnetic Radiation or "Electrosmog" is harmful.

Some research says that exposure increases cancer risk. Some says that it definitely causes cancer. Some says that it can cause all kinds of other undesirable, disabling, and sometimes fatal health conditions.

Despite this - it's more common to see adults and children carrying, holding, or wearing (see 1, 2) electronic and wireless devices directly against their bodies. The media as well as advertising campaigns depict these devices against bodies as normal too - even for kids. Unfortunately "common" or "normal" doesn't mean safe. Many doctors are not taking this into consideration when diagnosing and treating patients despite exposure warnings from the American Academy of Pediatrics and other health experts (see 1, 2).

Many people also aren't aware that there are instructions in the "fine print" of manuals not to carry, hold, or wear wireless devices against the body. They usually are NOT easy to find. That's why the City of Berkley, CA fought for an ordinance for simple printed warnings to be provided with the sale of cell phones. Seems reasonable, doesn't it?
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Food is freedom: How Washington's food subsidies have skewed diet recommendations - and helped make Americans fat and sick


Ammo.com
Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
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Farm subsidies are perhaps the ultimate, but secret, third rail of American politics. While entitlements are discussed out in the open, farm subsidies are rarely talked about - even though they are the most expensive subsidy Washington doles out.

All told, the U.S. government spends $20 billion annually on farm subsidies, with approximately 39 percent of all farms receiving some sort of subsidy. For comparison, the oil industry gets about $4.6 billion annually and annual housing subsidies total another $15 billion. A significant portion of this $20 billion goes not to your local family farm, but to Big Aggie.

(Note that this $20 billion annual farm subsidy figure doesn't take into account the 30+ years of ethanol subsidies to the corn industry nor export subsidies to U.S. farmers issued by the USDA.)

The government never properly explains why this is. Certainly small farmers are growing their crops at enormous risk. However, it's not clear that agriculture is any different than other high-risk industries - especially because the United States is blessed with some of the most fertile farmland in the world, and a highly skilled labor force.

Subsidies don't just cost taxpayers, an expense that might properly be justified by showing a return on investment. Subsidies also provide powerful disincentives against innovation, as well as cost effectiveness and diversification of land use.
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SOTT Focus: Objective:Health #33 - Society Is Degenerating


Sott.net
Sun, 06 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
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de·​gen·​er·​ate - to sink into a low intellectual or moral state.

Witnessing the current state of society and comparing it to even a decade ago, one can't help but notice a clear degenerative path, seemingly toward disintegration. Things that would seem deplorable in the past now seem to be becoming more and more acceptable, even normal.

Aborted fetuses sold off organ by organ like car parts, sick and twisted sexual fetishes being collectively celebrated, cannibalism suggested as a solution to climate change, girls as young a eleven legally allowed to go topless in Colorado - it seems there's no end to this collective slide into perversion and depravity.

Join us for this episode of Objective:Health, where we talk about degeneracy - humanity's increasingly low intellectual and moral state.


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