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Study: Compound in dark chocolate and red wine could help rejuvenate cells 'like magic'

Rosie Hosie
Indy
Fri, 10 Nov 2017 12:00 UTC
Study: Compound in dark chocolate and red wine could help rejuvenate cells
A compound in dark chocolate and red wine could help rejuvenate cells, according to a scientific breakthrough.
Researchers from the Universities of Exeter and Brighton have made the sizeable breakthrough on ageing and discovered a way to rejuvenate inactive senescent cells.

They found that they could make the cells both look and behave like younger cells.

The researchers applied compounds called reversatrol analogues, which are chemicals based on a substance naturally found in red wine, dark chocolate, red grapes and blueberries, to cells in culture.

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Beaker

Even one drink per day can increase your risk of cancer, study warns


The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sun, 12 Nov 2017 13:32 UTC
Alcohol
Do you enjoy the occasional cocktail? Beware, because even moderate consumption of alcohol can increase your risk of cancer, according to a new report.

Researchers from the American Society of Clinical Oncology recently conducted an experiment, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, to determine the link between drinking and the disease.

Comment: It is something of a 'no brainer' that alcohol would have a negative impact on human health, given that alcohol is, officially, a poison.

Readers might also like to consider reducing their sugar intake, which is well known to have a negative effect on human health and feed cancer cells.

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Family

Poor Social Skills A Danger To One's Physical, Mental Health, Study Finds

Daniel Steingold
Studyfinds.org
Sun, 12 Nov 2017 12:20 UTC
Lonliness
For some, feeling a growing mass of stress weighing on their shoulders may actually be the result of poor social skills, a new study finds.

Comment: Such findings are hardly a surprise in our modern technology-obsessed, emotionally dysfunctional and pathocratic global society. Human beings are social animals and hard-wired for cooperation. 'Virtual friends' and virtual social validation via 'likes' is not a substitute for real world emotionally and intellectually stimulating interactions with other human beings. But many today opt for the former because they have not been taught the skills necessary to successfully navigate real relationships.

Particularly in the USA and Western Europe, rampant capitalism and and its encouragement of instant gratification, focus on the self and promotion of the delusional 'American dream', has produced tens of millions of emotionally-retarded narcissists who prefer to watch porn and play video games than face into the difficulties of life and develop meaningful relationships that would help them overcome those difficulties.

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Pills

Herbal colon cleansers: are they safe?

Dr. Edward Group
Dr. Eddy Bettermann MD
Sun, 23 Jul 2017 00:01 UTC
colon cancer
Herbal colon cleansers are increasingly popular and many people believe botanical herbs are both harmless and extremely beneficial to support colon health conditions. In some cases, this is absolutely correct. Many herbs are healthful to the body. Unfortunately, some herbs are not. The National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine has reported a number of dangerous, life threatening consequences that have resulted from taking laxatives containing herbal ingredients. Three common herbal colon cleanser and laxative ingredients in particular, psyllium, cascara sagrada, and senna, may present very serious health risks and major medical complications such as hepatitis and liver failure.

Comment: While the above could cynically be looked at as an advertisement for Oxy-Powder, the essential information is correct. The general principles behind herbal colon cleansing are based on outdated models that prescribe forcing bulking agents through the digestive tract with laxative herbs. This can be extremely irritating to the digestive tract, especially if one has a condition such as IBS or IBD.

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Attention

New Delhi declares health emergency as smog chokes city

Hillary Orinde
The Standard
Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:02 UTC
New Delhi smog
© Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty ImagesVisitors walk through the courtyard of Jama Masjid amid heavy smog in the old quarters of New Delhi.
The Indian capital, New Delhi has declared a medical emergency as smog continue to blanket the densely populated city. Since Tuesday, India has recorded air quality readings in excess of 960. This is as World Health Organization (WHO) caps air purity at 25 with any reading beyond it considered unsafe.

A situation that has cut off many necessary daily activities to the 18 million plus residents as visibility and breathing in the heavily polluted air is hard. According to a report by Cable news network (CNN), a government minister in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Mahesh Sharma has blamed the unusually high pollution levels on a lack of wind and change in humidity levels.

Against a backdrop of online criticism on the slow pace of reaction, the government has introduced a host of measures to un-choke the city. It began will a closure of all schools, ban of crop burning in Delhi and surrounding states, vehicle emissions limited to only public transport and now a total on the entry of trucks and construction activities.

American news outlet, New York times in an article 'In India, Air So Dirty Your Head Hurts' says, most people feel nauseated all day, like from a never-ending case of car sickness. It further adds that the air tastes smoky and irritates the throat, and in some neighborhoods, it smells like paint.

Comment: Citing toxic smog that one official said has turned India's capital city into a "gas chamber," United Airlines has canceled flights to New Delhi until the air gets better and more than 6,000 schools have been closed for nearly a week.

Many New Delhi residents are complaining of respiratory problems and headaches. The low visibility has delayed flights, trains and caused highway pileups.

The Air Quality Index (AQI) was over 999 in some parts of the capital -- that's almost 30 times the safe limits set by the World Health Organization and 10 times more polluted than Beijing, the city infamous for air pollution.

A recent report found more than 5.5 million people die prematurely each year as a result of household and outdoor air pollution, with more than half of these deaths occurring in China and India, two of the world's fastest-growing economies.

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Health

10 month old Mexican baby weighing 28 kilos baffles doctors

Jennifer Gonzalez Covarrubias (AFP)
Digital Journal
Sat, 11 Nov 2017 20:12 UTC
Isabel Pantoja and Luis
© Pedro Pardo/AFPIsabel Pantoja, 24, is said to be exhausted from carrying her big baby boy, who cannot walk or crawl.
Like any other 10-month-old, Luis Manuel Gonzales babbles and touches anything within reach. But he stands out in a stunning and perhaps life-threatening way: he weighs 28 kilos (62 pounds).

He might need medical treatment costing a fortune, but his father earns a little over $200 a month. And doctors do not yet know why young Luis Manuel is so huge.

Mexico leads the world in childhood obesity and diabetes, and Gonzales is an extreme example of this unwelcome distinction.

At birth he weighed 3.5 kilos, about the same as his brother Mario, who is almost three but is now dwarfed by his baby brother.

At two months of age, Luis weighed 10 kilos. Over the next eight months he gained a staggering 18 kilos.

"I thought it was because I had good breast milk," said his mother, 24-year-old Isabel Pantoja, speaking in the unpainted cement home where the family lives in Tecoman, in the Pacific coast state of Colima.

His parents created a Facebook page and opened a bank account for people to donate money for Luis Manuel's medical care.

They take turns pushing him to the hospital in a decrepit stroller for daily blood tests.

It hurts to watch the nurses search among the rolls of fat on his arms for a vein, said his father, Mario Gonzales.
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Biohazard

California regulators ban use of some farming pesticides near schools

Jocelyn Gecker
AP
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 13:16 UTC
crop dusting plane
© AP Photo/Gary KazanjianIn this Sept. 25, 2001 file photo, a crop dusting plane from Blair Air Service dusts cotton crops in Lemoore, Calif. California regulators have announced a new rule that bans farmers from using certain pesticides near schools and day care centers. The state's Department of Pesticide Regulation announced the new rule Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017. The department says the new regulation is among the strictest pesticide in the U.S.
California has banned farmers from using certain pesticides near schools and day care centers under a new rule announced Tuesday that regulators said is among the toughest in the U.S.

Under the new rule, California farmers will be prohibited from spraying pesticides within a quarter mile (0.4 kilometers) of public K-12 schools and licensed daycare centers from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. during the school week, the state Department of Pesticide Regulation said in a statement.

The new regulations take effect Jan. 1 and apply to crop dusters flying over fields, air blasters spraying orchards and fumigants along with most dust and powder pesticides that could be blown onto school grounds by the wind.
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Syringe

New York Times admits 'vaccinated children spreading mumps': Is the real cause of outbreaks in America vaccinated children?

Mike Adams
Natural News
Mon, 06 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
Vaccines
The New York Times is now confirming that Natural News has been right all along about the real cause of mumps outbreaks in America. In a bombshell article entitled, "Mumps Makes a Comeback, Even Among the Vaccinated," the NYT admits that vaccinated children are spreading mumps.

Most of the recent cases occurred in outbreaks, including a large one in Arkansas, rather than as a sporadic here-a-case, there-a-case disease. And most of the outbreaks were among people 18 to 22 years old, most of whom had had the requisite two doses of mumps vaccine in childhood. "We are seeing it in a young and highly vaccinated population," Dr. Routh said.

Comment: See also: Researchers double down on mumps vaccine recommendations even when faced with proof of obvious failures

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Health

Malawi on alert as pneumonic plague outbreak continues to spread

Charlotte Ikonen
Daily Star
Fri, 10 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
Malawi Secretary Ministry Health, Dr Dan Namarika
Malawi's Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Dr Dan Namarika has confirmed the country is ready for any outbreaks amid concerns over the African nation’s “porous borders”.
At least 143 people have died and 2,000 have been infected since the outbreak began in early August.

Nine surrounding African countries were previously told to brace for the disease.

They include South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania Kenya, Ethiopia, Comoros, the Seychelles, Mauritius and Reunion.

Comment: Good news is that while the outbreak is spreading, the rate of new infections seems to be slowing.

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Health

The head to toe benefits of intermittent fasting

Mary Grace Taylor
Prevention
Sat, 11 Nov 2017 16:21 UTC
empty plate clock intermittent fasting
If you've been toying with the idea of intermittent fasting, there are plenty of good reasons to give it a try.

The diet, which involves alternating long periods of fasting with regular eating, has a proven track record for weight loss. But that's not all. More and more, research is showing that intermittent fasting can have positive effects throughout the body.

How exactly does it work? There are a few different types of fasting diets out there. Time-restricted eating involves fasting for a period of 12 to 16 hours each day, like stopping eating completely at 6 PM and not eating again until 10 AM the next morning. (Here's what happened when one woman tried this intermittent fasting method for a week.) The other, 5:2 fasting, involves eating 500 calories for two non-consecutive days of the week and eating normally for the rest of the week.

Experts can't say for sure which style of intermittent fasting yields the biggest benefits. So if you're considering giving it a try, pick the fasting type that seems like it would work best for your lifestyle. Then, get ready to reap the rewards-from your head to your toes.

Comment: Here is one woman's experience with intermittent fasting for seven days:
The scale didn't take a nosedive, but that's okay.

I'd love to say I lost 10 pounds in a week, but my body doesn't really work that way. And besides, I only fasted 7 days. I'm definitely eating less food and weirdly feeling less hungry, which over time will result in fat loss. But we all know that if you're only following an eating plan because of weight loss, you're bound to fail. That's because, when the scale gets stuck, and it will, we're quick to throw in the towel. It's intermittent fasting's built-in intrinsic motivation that keeps me going. My energy, focus, and motivation have all skyrocketed, and I've learned how to tell my hunger pangs who's boss. Love handles, you're next!
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