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The state of American children's health? Chronic illness

Focus for Health
The Vaccine Reaction
Sat, 29 Oct 2016 16:05 UTC
children's health
© The vaccine reactionChronic illnesses are also responsible for 7 in 10 American deaths—twice as many deaths as all infectious/communicable diseases, including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, combined—and they account for 78 cents of every health care dollar spent.
A nation is only as healthy as its children. - Harry Truman (1946)

Approximately 27 percent of U.S. children live with chronic health conditions that can affect their daily lives and normal activities. These maladies often contribute greatly to school absenteeism and require continual medical attention.

Many studies suggest chronic health problems, along with learning and developmental disorders, appear to be on the rise. These rising childhood illnesses include, but are not limited to:
  • Attention-Deficit Disorder (ADHD)
  • Arthritis
  • Asthma
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
  • Auto-immune disorders
  • Developmental/Learning Disorders
  • Cancer
  • Cardiovascular problems
  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Diabetes
  • Epilepsy
  • Food allergies
  • Obesity
  • Respiratory allergies
  • Sickle cell anemia
  • Spina bifida
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SOTT Focus: The Health & Wellness Show: Public schools: Where creativity, freedom and critical thinking go to die


Sott.net
Fri, 04 Nov 2016 14:00 UTC
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Most experts would agree that the public schooling system -- at least in the US -- is in dire straits. High dropout rates, failing test scores and pupil apathy and truancy are frequently blamed on lack of funding or poorly trained and unmotivated teachers. What if this isn't the case? What if the very existence of compulsory education is the problem? The founders of the public schooling system did not set out to create highly skilled, creative and competent individuals. They set out to create obedient workers who won't question their plight. Seen in this light, the public school system is a great success.

Join us on this episode of The Health and Wellness Show as we explore the topic of public education, its history and detriments as well as alternatives to keep your child and yourself -- if you're a product of the public school system -- from becoming a brainwashed zombie.

Stay tuned, as always, for Zoya's Pet Health segment where the topic will be natural sedatives for travelling pets.

Referenced links:
The Underground History of American Education - John Taylor Gatto
The Ultimate History Lesson - Interview with John Taylor Gatto
John Taylor Gatto's personal website
Teacher slams French education in suicide note
'Why Don't Students Like School?' Well, Duhhhh...
The ugly truth about the American school system

Running Time: 01:46:49

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Syringe

CDC won't allow its own whistleblower to testify in vaccine-damage case

Jon Rappoport
John Rappoport Blog
Wed, 02 Nov 2016 01:14 UTC
Dr. william Thomson
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Here are the bones of the story. For the first time in 30 years, a vaccine-damage case has gone before a court judge. Lawyers for a 16-year-old autistic boy are suing a medical clinic for administering vaccines that brought about the autism. The CDC, of course, denies any connection between vaccines and autism. But one of its own long-time researchers, William Thompson, has publicly confessed to fraud in that area. Thompson states that he and his colleagues concealed research data that would have shown the MMR vaccine and mercury-laden vaccines do cause autism. The lawyers for the 16-year-old boy want to bring in Thompson to testify about what he knows. The CDC has said NO. The head of the CDC, Thomas Frieden, states, "Dr. William Thompson's deposition testimony would not substantially promote the objectives of CDC or HHS [the Department of Health and Human Services]."

Well, he's right, because the CDC is the PR arm of the vaccine industry. The CDC is a major purchaser of vaccines for the US federal government. If this boy won his case, other cases would follow. The potential monetary exposure in judgments? A trillion dollars or more.

Comment: See also:

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Health

Could mast cell activation disorder be the root cause of your histamine intolerance?

Chris Kresser
ChrisKresser.com
Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
mast cells, histamine
Do you have trouble with histamine? Have you struggled to get a diagnosis? In Mast Cell Activation Disorder (MCAD), part of the innate immune system becomes hyperactive, releasing histamine and other chemicals that affect every organ system in the body. Read on to learn more about MCAD, and how you can address the root cause.

Histamine intolerance has become a popular term in the natural health community. Characterized by symptoms that appear to worsen with the intake of foods that are high in histamine or that stimulate the release of histamine, histamine intolerance is not really a diagnosis as much as it is a description of symptoms.

Most clinicians, including myself, now believe that Mast Cell Activation Disorder is a more accurate description of what patients with so-called "histamine intolerance" are suffering from. There are a number of factors that can contribute to, or cause, histamine intolerance, including excess histamine production, diamine oxidase (DAO) enzyme deficiency, HMNT mutation, and poor methylation in the liver; however, my experience has been that MCAD is responsible for a large number of cases of histamine intolerance. This article will serve as an introduction to MCAD - what it is, what causes it, and how to treat it.

Comment: For more information on histamine intolerance, see:

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Beaker

When psychiatric medications cause psychiatric symptoms

Akansha Vaswani
Mad in America
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:29 UTC
Big Pharma
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Dr. Yolanda Lucidre, a psychiatrist from Australia, recently published a paper about the iatrogenic effects of psychiatric drugs. Iatrogenic effects refer to those negative consequences which result directly from the provision of medical care. She highlights how these effects have been rising, and have led to increased numbers of disability claims, health care costs, and deaths, and how they are connected to the increase in the diagnosis of mental illness.

The research on iatrogenic effects has implications for patient safety, the provision of a genuine informed consent process and patients' legal rights. Lucire also documents how the psychiatric and pharmaceutical industries and regulatory agencies which are meant to protect the public interest have been complicit in the pushing of a dangerous pro-drug agenda in New Zealand and Australia.

Youth suicide, she reports, began to rise in the 1980s in Australia as stimulant medication began to be prescribed, and this trend continued as antidepressants were prescribed to young people, who in previous generations may have been identified as going through normal developmental transitions.

Comment: In a nutshell, people are being drugged into insanity. For more information, check out:

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Health

German toxicologist accuses EU authorities of scientific fraud to enable the conclusion that glyphosate is not to be considered a carcinogen


GMWatch
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 14:55 UTC
Dr Peter Clausing
Dr Peter Clausing at the Monsanto Tribunal
The German toxicologist Dr Peter Clausing has accused the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) of committing scientific fraud by twisting scientific facts and distorting the truth, with the aim of concluding that glyphosate is not a carcinogen. EFSA and BfR thereby accepted and reinforced the conclusion proposed by the Monsanto-led Glyphosate Task Force (GTF).

Clausing made this accusation in front of five judges at the Monsanto Tribunal, held in The Hague from 14 - 16 October.

The background to this latest allegation of foul play by the EU authorities over glyphosate is the high-level dispute over whether or not the pesticide causes cancer.

Comment: A classical example in corruption of science. Kudos to Dr. Peter Clausing for speaking up!

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Monkey Wrench

Controversial new 'anti-famine' GMO potato strains approved


RT
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 12:58 UTC
GMO potatoes
© Reuters
The US Department of Agriculture has given its seal of approval to two new strains of genetically engineered potatoes. By using double stranded RNA, the potatoes have been engineered to resist the pathogen responsible for the Irish potato famine.

There could be two new potatoes hitting the soil next spring after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) signed off on two more genetically modified potatoes from Simplot, an agribusiness based in Idaho, on Monday.

The only obstacle for the new potatoes becoming available on the market is a voluntary review process from the FDA, much to the chagrin of GMO skeptics.

Jeffrey Smith, founder of the Institute for Responsible Technology, expressed concern for not only the FDA's voluntary testing program but for the genetic modifying process the potatoes have undergone, in an interview with RT.

Comment: Two more frakenfoods which have been 'approved' in the last year, using controversial genetic modification to prevent browning:

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Autism spectrum disorder linked to mutations in mitochondrial DNA


PLOS
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 10:39 UTC
Children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have greater numbers of harmful mutations in their mitochondrial DNA than family members, researchers report.
autism
© Comugnero Silvana / FotoliaTo see if a genetic link exists between mitochondrial malfunction and ASD, scientists analyzed mitochondrial DNA sequences from 903 children with ASD, along with their unaffected siblings and mothers.
Children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have greater numbers of harmful mutations in their mitochondrial DNA than family members, report Zhenglong Gu of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and colleagues, in a study published October 28th, 2016 in PLOS Genetics.

Comment: Instead of narrowing the focus of autism and neurodevelopmental disorders, this research on mitochondrial dysfunction should open our eyes to the environmental assault that we are subjecting our children on a daily basis: Inflammation damages mitochondria. The loss of function or death of mitochondria is present in pretty much every disease. Dietary and environmental factors lead to oxidative stress and thus to mitochondrial injury as the final common pathway of diseases or illnesses, including autism.

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Ambulance

D.C. City Council approves physician-assisted suicide

Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D.
Washington Times
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 18:01 UTC
patient and doctor
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Earlier today, the D.C. City Council voted to allow physician-assisted suicide. But the debate isn't over. The Washington Post reports that "the council must still hold a final vote on the bill, possibly as early as Nov. 15," and that the mayor, Muriel Bowser, must decide if she'll sign or veto the bill.

The mayor should veto the bill. Physician-assisted suicide will change us all, for the worse—as I explain in a Heritage Foundation report, "Always Care, Never Kill: How Physician-Assisted Suicide Endangers the Weak, Corrupts Medicine, Compromises the Family, and Violates Human Dignity and Equality."

Too many people view physician-assisted suicide as a purely private matter between an autonomous adult who desires to die, and another autonomous adult who can provide medical assistance in death.

Comment: Assisted suicide and the slippery slope towards eugenics

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Syringe

Big Pharma profits from forced medication in prisons

Cassius Kamarampi
Era of Wisdom
Wed, 02 Nov 2016 15:18 UTC
forced injection
© mind freedom
In 2008, a man named Michael Heston hung himself in incarceration at Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota, after being forced to endure injections of psych meds involuntarily on a regular basis.

He wrote to a medical freedom advocacy group called Mind Freedom begging for help, saying "I live in mortal fear," and "The needle has me terrified, they just keep sticking me every two weeks and I feel like death."

Although the good people at Mind Freedom sent out a public request for help to assist him, the pain of this strange drug would eventually drive him to suicide, as certain psych meds including SSRI anti-depressants have been known to do.

This video explains the situation of forced psychiatric medication in prison, or you could read the rest of this article below.
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